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City of the Living Dead: Special Edition (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits one of Lucio Fulci's most disgusting films in remastered hi-def...
Following two decades of hard work with little reward, Italian mad man Lucio Fulci final struck box office gold with his Dawn of the Dead cash-in Zombie (aka: Zombi 2 and Zombie Flesheaters). The success led Italian producers to ask for more of the same, and allowed Fulci to experiment with a nearly plotless succession of horrific images he liked to call 'pure cinema'. Horror fans didn't care as long as the maestro continued dabbling in taboo crushing gore effects. He did. Most of Fulci's most fervent fans consider City of the Living Dead a wind-up for The Beyond (aka: E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà and Seven Doors of Death), a true tour-de-force of bizarre, nightmare imagery, and also tend to overlook it in favour of the director's more restrained and plot heavy Giallo efforts (like Perversion Story, Lizard in a Woman's Skin, Don't Torture a Duckling and Seven Notes in Black). I'm usually content to agree with the consensus (these are all among my favourite films), but City of the Living Dead made an indelible imprint on me at a relatively young age in the form of a Gates of Hell VHS release, and the Anchor Bay DVD (which is identical to the previous Blue Underground DVD) finds its way into my player more often than any of the director's other films.
The, heh, 'plot-line' is psudo-Lovecraftian (in some countries it was sold as H.P. Lovecraft's City of the Living Dead), involving a damned priest whose pre-credit suicide opens one of the seven Gates of Hell (the film's US release title) in the imaginary town of Dunwitch (that's pretty much where the Lovecraft ends). When Mary Woodhouse (played by British actress Catriona MacColl, one of the constants in the loose trilogy of City of the Living Dead, The Beyond and House by the Cemetery) witnesses the suicide via psychic séance, she screams, foams at the mouth, and drops dead. Reporter Peter Bell (played by B-movie icon Christopher George) takes special interest in Mary's death, and happens to be on hand when she comes back to life minutes before being buried alive. Peter frees Mary from her tomb, and our heroes journey to Dunwitch (which is inordinately hard to find) to stop the evil undead priest, and save the world.
City of the Living Dead makes zero sense, and its dialogue and character interactions are usually as wooden as Pinocchio's scalp (despite a few genuinely solid performances from MacColl and George), but Fulci's nightmare vision, enacted with fastidious production design, special effects, and cinematography, is undeniably ominous. The town of Dunwitch is perpetually covered in soupy fog and blowing dirt. It's impossible to see further than a couple dozen yards in any direction, leading to fair assumptions that there might not be a world beyond one's line of sight. The people of Dunwitch, apparently the descendants of Salem witch burners, seem normal enough, but are quick to assume the local social misfit Bob (Italian gore cinema's favourite whipping boy Giovanni Lombardo Radice) must somehow be behind the town's clearly supernatural murder spree. This ignorant malevolence, though expressed through broad, clumsily expositional dialogue, coupled with the town's eerie image creates a genuine sense of dread, which leads nicely into the hallucinatory latter half. The constant menace doesn't make the story compute, but the audacity of maggot showers, deafening cat noises, wall cracking earthquakes, shattering windows and bleeding walls should eventually wear down even the most logical viewer's defences.
Fulci is still to this day most famous for impaling Olga Karloto's eye on a wooden splinter in Zombie (arguably the most iconic image in Italian splatter history), but the 'Godfather of Gore' really outdid himself when he made this follow-up. City of the Living Dead features two of the most stomach churning sequences special effects sequences in Italian splatter history. In the first instance the demonic priest performs a bit of coitus interruptus on a pair of unsuspecting teenagers, played by Fulci fave Daniela Doria, and Italian master director in the making Michele Soavi ( The Church, Cemetery Man). The priest 'hypnotizes' Doria (the meaning of this power is unimportant) causing her to enter a trance state where she cries bloody tears. While Soavi helplessly tries to open the car door Doria manages to slowly regurgitate her entire intestinal track. Later, town miscreant and murder suspect Bob is cornered by an angry father who slowly presses Bob's head into a power drill as he screams bloody murder. There's also an abundance of supernaturally endowed zombies, all with particularly goopy faces, and a penchant for squeezing the brains out of the back of their victim's heads. Only Joe D'Amato's Buio Omega (aka: Beyond the Darkness and Buried Alive) features more revolting special gore effects, though for sheer pain quotient I'd say the chain beating at the centre of Don't Torture a Duckling, and the nipple and eyeball razorblade dissections of New York Ripper see Fulci at his most barbaric.
Blue Underground once again waves their magic wand, and produces another impossibly good looking transfer from less than ideal source material. City of the Living Dead is, coincidentally, an oddity among Fulci's supernatural horror films in that it was filmed non-anamorphically, and framed at 1.85:1 instead of 2.35:1 (as was the super-excessive gangster flick, Contraband, which was made the same year). The first thing I notice when comparing images from this new 1080p transfer, and the old SD transfer is the extra image on all sides, especially the right. Both releases feature the same 1.85:1 aspect ratio, but the DVD was apparently zoomed. The better framing would be reason enough for obsessive fans like myself to update (DVD consumers take notice), but wait, there's more.
The new remastered transfer's details are so sharp fans will finally be able to discern what's happening during some of the film's darkest sequences. Besides finally knowing for certain that Bob sees a dead baby covered in worms (pervious transfers revealed only a black and pink blur), the coffin scene is no longer a mix of utter blackness and Christopher George's ECU, daylight face. Now we can actually see Catriona MacColl's face and the blood on her hands as she scratches the inside of the coffin. Complete clarity does not remain a constant throughout the entire film, but there isn't a single shot that appears less impressive than any previous release. The bigger surprise, sadly enough, is the use of colour. The scene where Emily visit Bob at his 'house' now reveal pink and blue key lights, similar to those used by Argento in Suspiria and Inferno. Older releases were browner overall, and only very specific articles of clothing and props really popped colourfully. On the slightly negative end of things the overall image is still quite grainy, which is understandable considering the film's age. During wider and lighter shots the grain turns into the same fine, Gaussian-patterned noise that was featured on the New York Ripper transfer. I'm not sure what causes this effect, but I'm assuming it's similar to digital noise reduction, only clearly less annoying. Blacks absorb some of the colours around them early in the film, but by the last act when night falls dark spots are perfectly rich and sharp against the now discernable highlights.
I review this transfer coming off of years of a very crummy Paragon VHS copy, so my utter amazement is perhaps a little untrustworthy, but I don't think anyone realistic would disagree with my overall assessment. This is an upgrade over the Anchor Bay/Blue Underground DVD in pretty much every possible sense. Perhaps all this cleanliness robs the compositions of some of their utter creepiness, but things haven't been artificially lightened, like they were for the ill-fated Zombie re-release transfer. The Dunwitch streets are still mysteriously foggy, dusty, and dark, but some of the special effects appliances are a little too apparent when presented this clearly (specifically Emily's zombie face is a bit too obviously just covered in goop, though that drilled head still really stands up). I can only assume this is the closest the film has looked to its initial release, and that's reason alone to celebrate.
Back in the early days of Anchor Bay's Bill Lustig run Italian horror DVD releases a company named Chance Digital remixed the release audio to 5.1 Dolby Digital. For the most part theses were successful, but awkward attempts. City of the Living Dead was, to my ears, Chance's best work. The track utilized the original material to create an immersive effect, instead of using additional effects elements to fill out the rear channels. It surely helped matters that City of the Living Dead is more dependent on supernatural sound effects than any of Fulci's other films. This new 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track seems to use the Chance track as a base, or at least follows similar lines.
There's a bit too much discrepancy between the volume levels of the centre and stereo speakers, but the stereo and surround elements are reasonably subtle, and pretty natural when needed. The New York street scenes are particularly impressive in terms of basic ambient noise, and outdoor Dunwitch scenes feature a lot of bassy, aggressive wind. The more abstract sounds of impeding evil, or whatever, are especially loud now, without the high end distortion present on the Dolby Digital release. The directional representation of these effects is also slightly bettered with the extra rear channel augmentation, even for folks like me who only have 5.1 capabilities. The scene where Sandra's dead grandmother tears around her house are fine representations of the track's surround abilities. Vocal performances are a little inconsistent in terms of volume levels within a particular scene, but there's a warm reality that was never part of the older tracks, especially in MacColl's voice, which is so clear it almost sounds re-recorded at times. Lip-sync is all over the place, but this is, as per the usual, expected from a post-dubbed Italian production with a multi-lingual cast.
This brings us to Fabio Frizzi's score. Though his work is often thinner and more simplified than the more celebrated work of more celebrated Italian composers like Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani or Goblin, Frizzi's ear is still vastly underrated. Frizzi's evolution from Zombie to The Beyond would make a great lesson plan for would-be composers. His scores broadened in scope, and perhaps more importantly in budget. City of the Living Dead came right dab in the middle of the entirely synthesized Zombie score, and the symphonically enhanced Beyond score. Most of the music is still produced by electronic keyboards, but there are some guitar and bass additions, and one string quartet piece. The main theme features one of Frizzi's patented off kilter drum beats, which will drive some viewers insane, but the descending guitar and piano motif is one of the most genuinely unnerving musical pieces in B-horror history. The music isn't edited into the film particularly well, which is an unfortunately common element in Fulci's films, but this is not the fault of the disc's producers, who seem to have entirely remixed the score from source elements. The music is presented almost exclusively in the stereo channels, with punchy LFE support. On occasion the score is mixed a little too low, at least lower than it has been on previous releases, but the more important representations (specifically during the fiery climax) sound great.
Unlike most of Blue Underground's DVD to Blu-ray reissues this disc actually features a collection of new extras (there were none on the original DVD, besides the trailer). These don't quite add up to the upcoming Arrow UK release, but are entertaining and informative, especially for newcomers.
'The Making of City of the Living Dead' (32:00, SD, also available on the DVD reissue) features interviews with filmmaker/actor Michelle Soavi, star Cationa MacColl, production designer Massimo Antonello Geleng, assistant make-up effects artist Rosario Prestopino, special effects maestro Gino de Rossi, cinematographer Sergio Salvati and camera operator Roberto Forges Davanzati (some of which appear to have been taken from the Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered: Vol. 1 interview collection). The featurette covers working with Fulci, location shooting, adding fog and dust to the outdoor scenes, production design, casting, photography, special effects, and the filming of the notorious coffin, gut puking and head drilling scenes. Most of this stuff won't be news to fans, who probably read the great Fangoria article on Fulci back when The Beyond was re-released by Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures, but this is still a solid featurette (it's very cool to see the original prosthetics), that could've been great with a little more content (the story behind the film's oddly enigmatic ending would be a nice addition).
This Blu-ray also features a collection of exclusive interviews, starting with 'Acting Among the Living Dead' (10:30, HD), a sweet discussion with Cationa MacColl, who talks about her casting, her issues with violence (which are minimal), working with Fulci, working with maggots, working in a coffin, working with the other actors, and fan reactions. 'Entering the Gates of Hell' (09:50, HD) features a very laid back Giovanni Lombardo Radice, who is his usual honest self (his Cannibal Ferox commentary is a must listen). Radice discusses his reaction to the film's silly script, his genuine interest in his character, his reactions to Fulci (who he mostly got along with), and working with special effects. 'Memories of the Maestro' (21:00, SD) is made up of cast and crew interviews from the Paura DVD release, all specifically pertaining to City of the Living Dead. Good stuff for those that don't already have a copy of that disc. The extras are completed with an extensive 'Marketing of the Living Dead' (13:10, HD) scrolling artwork slideshow set to the film's soundtrack, the English trailer (03:00, HD), the Italian trailer (03:00, HD), and a selection of radio spots set to stills (SD).
Minus its terrible tarantula attack scene, The Beyond is still the more impressive film, but it was largely made in response to other horror films than City of the Living Dead, which is arguably Fulci's purest vision. Surely the zombie scenes recall Zombie, and the more expressly gothic sequences recall Mario Bava's work, but Fulci doesn't specifically mimic Argento at any point in the film, unlike The Beyond, which features obvious references to Suspiria and Inferno.
City of the Living Dead is not for the faint at heart, or the incurably logical, but fans of graphic violence and nightmarish landscapes should probably give the film a look. Fulci's fans, who no doubt already adore the film, blood-caked warts and all, will likely find themselves grinning when they witness the utter beauty of this new high definition transfer. Blue Underground have really outdone themselves, and this time around they've even included a decent collection of new extras, including some wonderful cast interviews, and interview footage from Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered: Vol. 1. Add the perfectly decent 7.1 DTS-HD remix, and you've got a highly recommended Blu-ray disc on your hands.
*Thanks to Troy at Andersonvision.com for the screen-caps, which have been taken from the Blu-ray and resized for the page. The DVD caps were taken from the Anchor Bay 'Lucio Fulci Collection' release, which is the same transfer as the first Blue Underground release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Our favourite line from City of the Living Dead has to be from the Detective (who can be seen in the first screengrab), spoken whilst investigating the sudden apparent death at a sceance...
"What were you on? Coke...? Grasss? WHERE'S THE STASH? DOWN THE TAH-LIT?"
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"What were you on? Coke...? Grasss? WHERE'S THE STASH? DOWN THE TAH-LIT?"
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I became a real fan of Zombie films after seeing Romero's movies. I watched Zombi and enjoyed it. I guess it's time to watch this as well, but based on the introduction to this review, I think I will watch The Beyond first!
i've never seen this but heard about it a lot...i missed out on many gorefests from the 80s so thank the lord for netflix-ish companies. i've had this one on my queue for a while now.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 25th May 2010
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 English, Dolby Digital EX 5.1 English, Dolby Digital Mono English
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: The Making of City of the Living Dead, Acting Among the Living Dead, Entering the Gates of Hell, Memories of the Maestro, Marketing of the Living Dead, Theatrical Trailers, Radio Spots/Still Gallery
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Genre: Horror
Length: 93 minutes
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E. Paul Kelly, 79, of Frontier Road, died December 5, 2011 at Rhode Island Hospital. He was the beloved husband of the late Jacqueline E. (Babin) Kelly, to whom he was married for 34 years.
Born in Providence, he was son of the late Capt. Edward H. Kelly, PPD and Florence I. (King) Kelly. He was the stepson of the late Helen B. (McCauley) Meanerhan-Kelly. Mr. Kelly was a dedicated and well-respected member of the Providence Fire Department for 36 years retiring in 1990 with the rank of Battalion Chief.
Paul graduated from LaSalle Academy in 1949 and attended Providence College before enlisting in the United States Marine Corps. A veteran of the Korean Conflict, he was awarded the Korean Service Medal with three battle stars, a U.N. Service Medal and the National Service Defense Medal. He was a member of the Providence Police and Firefighters Retirement Association, the American Legion Shields Post #43, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #4651, and was a gold card member of the Pawtuxet Athletic Club.
He leaves a son, Michael E. Kelly, with whom he made his home, and a stepsister, Barbara Mooney of Cranston. He was the father of the late Timothy P. and Steven L. Kelly and brother of the late Florence I. Kelley, Delores H. Stimson and Dennis G. Kelly.
His funeral will be held Dec. 9 at 9 a.m. from Frank P. Trainor & Sons Funeral Home, 982 Warwick Ave., Warwick, with a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Benedict Church, Beach Ave., Warwick at 10 a.m. Calling hours are Dec. 8 from 5-8 p.m. Burial with military honors will be in St. Ann Cemetery, Cranston. For condolences visit www.trainorfh.com.

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From The National Director
The Hofmeyr Hall in Stellenbosch, where we hold our annual Western Cape function, stands as a monument for a man and his work. Prof NJ Hofmeyr, founder of the Christian Youth Society in 1874, is remembered as "a friend of the youth." My thoughts on StudyTrust as a monument were kindled by the Flemish philosopher Rudi Visker who recently introduced his new book at Café Riche on Church Square in Pretoria. Visker, whose book is entitled Ode to Visibility, argues that there is a dearth of visible symbols in the public space in South Africa in which people from different backgrounds and experiences can recognise each other. That means recognising yourself and the other in the same symbol or monument. According to Visker the health of public space can be measured by the extent to which the common interests of the different members of a society are recognisably expressed in common public symbols like monuments. He specifically said he does not only refer to monuments of stone and steel, but of organisations and institutions, too. That got me thinking: StudyTrust as monument?
Of what could StudyTrust be a monument? My choice is the concept solidarity. The call of the French Revolution was for Liberty, Equality and Fraternity (or Solidarity), but in the West little came of solidarity. It is very much each person for him or herself. Solidarity is problematic, for one thing on account of the legacy of the French word for state. The concept of state goes hand and hand with universality. People from different family backgrounds are equal before the law and enjoy the same universal rights. But what then about friendship?
Past and Future
People with a negative idea of solidarity criticise exclusionary forms of solidarity that are backward-looking. The members of my tribe and family should, according to them, enjoy no preferential treatment from me in the public space. All have equal rights.
But should the baby be thrown out with the bathwater? The champions of solidarity argue for a forward-looking kind of solidarity. People could for instance work together to reach a common ideal in a project aimed at changing the world, and experience a solidarity that transcends patterns of origin.
The defenders of solidarity also point out that there are goods that do not diminish through use. This goes against the doctrine of scarcity, the dominant principle of the economy. A teacher who teaches a learner a skill loses nothing, and yet there is a return. When a person turns to someone in need out of empathy, there is an increase in his or her humanity, and not a decrease.
Giving in South Africa
A study on philanthropy in South Africa recently published by the HSRC (Giving and Solidarity) found that 90% of South Africans regularly give money and time in support of those in need. The average amount of money given per person per month is R27, and just under 2 hours of time is given per person per month.
This means that R921 million is given for charity every month in South Africa. That only represents 2.2% of the R43 billion that is earned in a month, but it still says something about our society.
The three causes to which people give the most are children and youth (22%), HIV/AIDS (21%) and the poor (20%). The reasons why people give are interesting: 93% of those interviewed give for the sake of building the new South Africa. 57% expressed the self-interest principle that always plays a role: they give now rather than lose everything in the end. 61% believe it is their civil duty and 68% characterised their giving as an expression of their solidarity with those in need and those who suffer.
In these statistics we see something of the other with whom we share the public space in South Africa and of ourselves. The state looks after the universal, and remains by far the most significant player in combating poverty. But within the public space we find forms of solidarity that are not divisive and that allow new friendships to spring up.
StudyTrust—a circle of friends
With regard to StudyTrust I find the word friendship an apt description of our mutual relationship. That is what I tell our students during campus visits: I represent a community of friends from all sectors of society, people who are interested in them. At this important stage of their lives they may know that we are there for them, not only with our financial contributions, but also with time and advice. We realise that poverty often goes hand in hand with lack of attention. We pay attention. It is unbelievable what positive reaction we receive to this message. The proffered hand is taken. We receive letters containing overwhelming gratitude. And our students' success rate over the years averages at 90%! We always remind our student friends of their present role in this relationship—to grab the opportunity and make a success of their studies.
Here is a definition of friendship that fits StudyTrust:
Friendship is a distinctively personal relationship that is grounded in a concern on the part of each friend for the welfare of the other, for the other's sake, and that involves some degree of intimacy.
The last part in particular describes the StudyTrust approach well: we visit each student on campus and regularly send letters and email messages to encourage them and let them know that we care. That we do on behalf of our donors.
In our newsletters to donors we regularly introduce some of our student friends, so that friends can gain insight into their respective experiences.


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Name: Arden
Location: South End — Boston, Massachusetts
I live on the top floor of a Boston brownstone that was built in 1890 (and turned into 4 separate condo units 100 years later). The 680 square foot space has an unusual layout — other than the bathroom, there are no doors. The front room is a kitchen/living room/dining room, and has a sleeping loft tucked away in the peak of the ceiling which has acquired a number of nicknames over the years, including "the cabin" and "the bed of death."
The entire place is very light-filled. There are 3 skylights, and a bay window in the front room. I, however, do not like light, so I have used a lot of darker shades of paint inside, and chosen dark curtains for the front room, and when I re-did my kitchen last year, against the advice of everyone, I chose black appliances, black granite, and black cabinets.
But even would-be vampires need some light, so the backroom is a very bright contrast to the front — there are custom-painted Italian landscape murals on either wall, and the ceiling and ladder to the roof deck are painted the palest shade of blue found in the mural's sky.
I do not have a decorating aesthetic, but rather follow the wise words of my Danish step-mother: "If there is room in your heart, there is room in your home." Everything inside is there b/c I found it (most often at an antique store), fell in love, and later figured out where to put it.
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WASHINGTON -- Consumers spent more in March even as their income rose less than analysts had projected, a mixed economic message to start a week that will end with the latest government unemployment report.
Consumer spending was up 0.2% last month, down from February's 0.7% rise, the Commerce Department said Monday.
But spending still was up, an unexpected improvement. The median estimate of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was that spending would be flat.
The March increase in spending came despite personal income's rising just 0.2%., less than the 0.4% estimated by economists.
Consumers increased their spending without raiding their savings. The savings rate was 2.7% in March, the same as the previous month.
The new data provide a mixed picture before Friday's report on April employment. The larger-than-expected rise in spending is good news, but the lower-than-expected rise in personal income is not.
Amid fears of another spring slowdown, economists expect the government to report the economy added 150,000 net new jobs this month.
Such a figure would indicate a moderately growing labor market and would be a major improvement over the disappointing 88,000 net new jobs added in March.
Personal income had shot up 1.1% in February, helping offset a steep 3.6% decline in January.
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SALEM, Ore. – Defending national champions and No. 2-ranked Oklahoma Christian maintained the clubhouse lead heading into the final round of the 61st annual NAIA Men's Golf National Championships presented by FORE! Salem at Creekside Golf Club.
The Eagles posted a third-round score of 4-over 292, but hold a three-stroke lead over Our Lady of the Lake (Texas) and a four-stroke advantage over No. 1-ranked Oklahoma City. Oklahoma Christian (297-288-292=877) is 13-over par as a team, while Our Lady of the Lake (307-284-289=880) and Oklahoma City (297-298-286=881) are part of the four-team dog-fight at the top of the leader board that includes Johnson & Wales (Fla.) at 18-over 882 (298-294-290) with one round remaining.
"We could have gone out today and put the tournament away or given ourselves a really good chance, and we didn't do that," said David Lynn, Oklahoma Christian head coach. "But I'll tell you what – if you had told me at the beginning of the week that we were either going to be in the lead by three shots or behind by three shots, I would have taken it."
Oklahoma Christian leads a field of 17 teams that will via for this year's title in tomorrow's fourth and final round, as the Eagles will be hunting for the third championship in program history.
"We fight for the opportunity to have a chance on the last day and that looks like it's going to be the case, so we're really excited," said Lynn. "I'm just proud of the way the guys finished today. They finished like champs."
Individually, Johnson & Wales' Brandon Meltzer continued to hold his lead after firing a third round score of 1-under 71 to bring his tournament total to 7-under 209 (73-65-71). Two other players – Oklahoma Christian's Vilhelm Bogstand and Texas Wesleyan's Nathan Anderson – are also under par for the tournament, as Bogstrand sits in second place with a combined 54-hole score of 4-under 212 (71-71-70) and Anderson is at 3-under 213 (70-74-69).
Rounding out the top five individuals are Our Lady of the Lake's Aaron Flores (76-71-68=215), William Woods' (Mo.) Julian Taylor (76-73-68=217), Victoria's (B.C.) Carson Kallis (74-71-72=217), and Cumberlands' (Ky.) Alastair Tidcombe (75-70-72=217).
Along with the 17 teams that advanced to tomorrow's final round, eight individuals also made the cut and will be vying for the right to take home the O.D. Bounds Individual Medalist trophy. The fourth and final round will be played Friday beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Hole No. 1 and 7:40 a.m. on Hole No. 10. The leading groups will begin their rounds at 9:20 a.m. on the front nine with the final group scheduled to finish at approximately 2:45 p.m.
"It will be one day for a national championship," said Lynn. "It's hard to think of it that way, but it really is. We're going to go out and enjoy it. I will be happy with whatever happens, especially if we continue to grind and try like we have been. It's been fun to watch."


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Subject: Systems | September 27, 2011 - 05:17 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: htpc, wireless hdmi, wireless video
The ASUS WAVI is wireless HDMI extender kit that will allow you to stream audio and video from the transmitter to receiver as though there was an HDMI cord between the two devices. Legit Reviews had fun testing it out, the latency when you are within range is low enough that you can game over this device. However they could not get their USB mouse and keyboard to work though the device which does limit the usefulness in some cases. If you get too far away you will lose some fidelity, but as long as you are in range this is a great way to avoid wires running all over your living room.
"ASUS has launched and released what they are calling the world's first wireless HDMI extender kit. What this is designed to do is take an existing audio video signal from your PC computer, and play on your HDMI-powered big-screen TV… Wirelessly. The Wireless Audio Video Interaction system – or WAVI – is designed not only to play your audio video content remotely, but via a two-way wireless USB, the WAVI will allow you to sit in your living room and control your PC as you pick the best video to show the family..."
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Malcolm Arthur McKenzie Papers
Forest pathologist and arboriculturist Malcolm Arthur McKenzie was born in Providence, Rhode Island in April 1903. After attending Brown University (PhD Forest Pathology, 1935), he worked successively as a field assistant for the United States Forest Service forest products lab, as an instructor at the University of North Carolina, and finally with the University of Massachusetts Shade Tree Laboratory. He conducted important research on the diseases of shade trees, including Dutch elm disease, wood decay, and tree pests, as well as related issues in tree hazards in public utility work and municipal tree maintenance.
The McKenzie Papers document McKenzie's association with the UMass Shade Tree Lab, along with some professional correspondence, research notes and publications, and McKenzie's dissertation on willows.
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- University of Massachusetts Amherst--Faculty
- University of Massachusetts Amherst. Botany Department
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- McKenzie, Malcolm Arthur, 1903-


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This morning I stopped. For three minutes I actually stopped. Stopped the running, the stress, the frustration. I stopped the madness that has become my life, for three minutes I stopped. She had asked me to read it to her before. I've always said "We can do it later."
I had just unbuckled her seat belt. Holding up the book and waving it back and forth, she asked "Mommy can we read this?"
She was getting out of the truck. We were at daycare. I was already running late. She wanted me to read her a book now? She wanted me to read her a book.
So I stopped. I sat on the tailgate and put her on my lap.
I stopped and I read the book to her.
I put aside the frenzy that would be today.
The craziness could/would wait.
The meetings the phone calls.
The mountain of paperwork.
I let the boys fuss while she and I had a moment.
I let the cars go by, the kids stare and the minutes pass....hell, they were only minutes.
After the last page I closed the book and paused. In that moment I strained to remember the last time I had done that.
Taken a moment.
Let things sink in.
I tried to soak in her energy, her optimism, her "being". Of course she didn't quite get the moment. Perplexed she turned her head to look at me and said "Mommy, what are you doing? Are you crazy?"
Her honesty shocked me....as it usually does. She's not one to mince words. Clearly she can see right through me.
So today (because I can't guarantee that it will happen tomorrow) I will try to stop. Even if only for a second.
Labels: frustration, lesson learned, reading a book, stress, working mother
3 comments:
- dani jane said...
Are you crazy? I love it! So intuitive these little creatures are.....We feel so complicated and yet, to them, at times, we are so transparent! A gem...a true gem. Both of you...all of us!
- October 20, 2010 at 9:13 AM
- Andrea C Lagourgue said...
It's so true. And I am amazed at the fact that through our years we loose that intuition. Maybe there is a magic pill to get it back :)
- October 20, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- Joann Mannix said...
So absolutely gorgeous. We all need to stop more and breathe in those moments. What a beautiful thing to keep in your heart forever.
- October 26, 2010 at 6:31 PM
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Eyewitness to Disasters: Graduate Student Reports from Guatemala
By Jennifer Donovan | Published
Guatemala has been the scene of two consecutive disasters: the eruption of the Pacaya Volcano followed by tropical storm Agatha. Brianna Hetland, a Michigan Tech Peace Corps Master's International student, is stationed in Guatemala; her account of the events, first via email, then by phone, follows.
Sunday, May 30
I just wanted to let you all know that I am safe and to send you a quick run-down of what is going on down here. Peace Corps pulled me out of San Vicente yesterday so I am now stuck in Antigua . . . It is raining pretty heavily here, and I think it will be for the next few days, . . . I am not sure how it is affecting the aldeas [villages] or the rescue efforts for the people that are still in them. I am in constant contact with CONRED [national coordinating agency for disaster reduction], and I have heard that everything is more or less tranquilo as far as the volcano is concerned. They are now trying to coordinate food and water for the people that have been evacuated.
The eruption
I stepped out of my front door because I heard a loud rumbling . . . when it lasted for over 30 seconds I realized it was something else, and there was lava spouting out of the crater to an altitude of about 500 meters. It was raining and cloudy and dark, so I wasn't able to see anything except for the lava that was coming out of the crater (along with the normal daily flows on the southern flank). The eruption lasted for about 15 minutes or so. Rocks began to fall in San Vicente after only a few minutes . . . I went to the muni building and stayed there while the rocks were falling in town (I collected a few of the largest ones I could find, about fist-sized, but mostly they were pebble sized) until it was safe to leave . . . I went with CONRED personnel to San Francisco de Sales to help with the evacuation efforts . . . there were about eight inches of rocks blanketing the ground that were mainly marble-sized. We evacuated as many people as we could with trucks . . . While we were there, ash began to fall and continued to do so until I left.
Due to the heavy cloud cover, I was not able to see the ash cloud for very long, but the one glimpse I did get was of a large, very brown cloud spreading to the north around 1:30 p.m.
In the villages, the lamina roofs were destroyed for the most part either having collapsed or been run through by the rocks. Most of the holes in the roofs were the size of bowling balls. I heard that six houses burned, but I don't know if this is true . . . Calderas and San Francisco received most of the ash fall. I heard ash fell in Coban as well, specifically I spoke with a fellow volunteer in Samac, Alta Verapaz and he said his whole aldea was blanketed with ash.
I know that the main efforts right now are to keep the people in San Vicente safe and fed and with water. The president [of Guatemala] came yesterday and he declared a mandatory evacuation . . . I have heard there are now two lava flows, one to the south/southwest and one on the other side of the volcano . . . The whole country is on stand-fast right now for the rain, and Gustavo told me there are problems with lahars [lava flows] at Fuego and Santiagito.
Since then:
Hetland provided an update, including this email, translated from Spanish, from a friend in Pacaya:
Friends, it is sad to see how nature strikes us as humans, and the only thing we can do is pray for all those people who have lost their lives and their belongings.
"This is the situation of my town of San Vicente Pacaya, specifically the villages
of El Cedro, San Francisco, El Bejucal and Boilers. The lagoon is about to disappear.
After tons of earth were launched from the Pacaya Volcano, the storm swept across
the sand into the village, and the lagoon is almost buried.
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Hetland says:
"I'm back home and safe. I was evacuated to Antigua, and there were a few more eruptions, but the other bad event, of course was tropical storm Agatha," which reportedly has caused at least 150 deaths in Guatemala.
"One of the shelters in Pacaya, with 800-plus people, had to be evacuated because of the water, and there have been other evacuations, too."
It has been cloudy since her return, so she can't view the volcano, she says, but she has heard reports that it is splitting in two.
Pacaya has been erupting steadily since the early 1960s, Hetland says, and major eruptions have occurred in 1989 and 2000.
It's been a rough introduction to her Peace Corps Master's International duties.
"I was really just trying to integrate into the community, which routinely takes from three to nine months," Hetland says. "I was working on my Spanish, getting my face known so I wasn't just some gringo who has data sheets."
She had just done an environmental education conference in town and planned another on hazard preparedness.
"Then Pacaya started erupting that Wednesday, sending an ash column some 250 meters in the air, and everyone started preparing for something big," she says.
Now, as a result of the volcano and the storm, there have been many structures that have collapsed, and the streets are full of water and mud.
"And it's like the mountain has just slumped down 10 feet," Hetland says. "There is no running water, and, although the weekly water trucks can still get to the village, there is no water for bathing, dishes, clothing. People are saving rainwater."
The local tourist industry—some 300 to 400 a day would come to view the volcano—is gone since the nearby San Francisco visitor center was destroyed. And, although the volcano has "settled down to normal level of activity and not erupting," it is still impressive.
"The south and north lava flows are 2.5 kilometers [1.55 miles] long," she says.
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1 Creating Elements
Elements can be created through the tag object using attribute access, for example:
>>> from genshi.builder import tag >>> doc = tag.p('Some text and ', tag.a('a link', href='http://example.org/'), '.') >>> doc <Element "p">
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In a 3-2 vote Wednesday, the Rollin Township Board voted to rescind a weed ordinance it passed 3-1 at the September meeting.
The ordinance passed last month aligned itself with state requirements that noxious and general weeds be cut if they reach a height of 10 inches. The new stipulation is that all weeds and grass must be cut a minimum of 165 feet from the property line along a road.
Trustee Ray McGrath, who was out of state during the September meeting, asked that the ordinance be rescinded because he did not approve of some of the language.
"I'm sorry, but I disagree with the parameters of the ordinance," McGrath said. He said the language from the ordinance passed was different than what he saw prior to leaving the area.
Additionally, McGrath said, residents he has spoken to were opposed to the ordinance. A survey sent out earlier in the year showed a 50 percent split between those for and against the civil infractions to be imposed against noncompliant property owners through the ordinance.
"All the people I'm talking to are not in favor of it," McGrath said. "I'm not in favor of it either."
Treasurer Marcia Willett and township supervisor John Jenkins cast the two "no" votes against rescinding the ordinance.
At the September meeting, trustee Jerry Wilson said he was concerned the new requirement would pose problems for those who live in agricultural areas within the township.
Jenkins said the ordinance would largely pertain to homesteads in residential districts.
At the same meeting, resident Olis Burch called the ordinance's new mandate "excessive" and echoed Wilson's sentiment about how the policy would affect
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Jenkins said the township had the option of requiring a longer setback, but it cannot go less than 165 feet. Failure to maintain properties would result in civil fines in the amount of no less than $50 for the first offense. Violators would be notified in person, then by mail to correct the problem, then cited if need be.
The township's policy prior to the passage of the ordinance followed the same notification procedure but with no firm setback requirement. In the event of noncompliance, the property would be mowed and the cost placed on the owner's tax roll.
Clerk Sharon Gust, who voted against passing the ordinance in September, and who voted Wednesday to rescind it, said the major problem with the ordinance as presented is that it cannot be enforced as written.
"Without a civil infractions ordinance in place, we technically can't do anything," she said. The board is in the process of developing a proposed civil infractions ordinance.
The board's vote will put the former policies back into place while the language is re-examined and brought back to a future meeting for consideration.
Rollin Township Board rescinds recently enacted weed ordinance
In a 3-2 vote Wednesday, the Rollin Township Board voted to rescind a weed ordinance it passed 3-1 at the September meeting.


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ETSU jumped out to an early lead as they claimed the doubles point, sweeping all three matches. In the No. 1 position the 56-th ranked duo of Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) and Olya Batsula (Minsk, Belarus) breezed by Paula Takara and Mercedes Cobos, 8-0 while Tara Byrne (Johnson City, Tenn.) and Tara Sheets (Gate City, Va.) dropped Karan Ammann and Lindsay Dillon in the third position, 8-2. Elena Volobueva (
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"It was good to pick up a win today and start the conference season with a victory. Today was the first time we've played outside at home this season and that was a bit of an adjustment. But overall I felt that the girls played well and we look forward to having another great season in the Atlantic Sun," said head coach Steve Brooks.
The Lady Bucs will hit the courts again tomorrow, March 1 as they take on conference opponent Mercer. The match is slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. For all Lady Bucs tennis action visit www.ETSUBucs.com.
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The colors of yellow gold and green are indicative of the great agricultural state of North Dakota and has particular reference to ripening grain and the abundant grazing areas. The Indian arrowhead forms the shield of the coat of arms and symbolizes the "Sioux State". The three stars denote the trinity of government; legislative, executive, and judicial. Each star in the bend is given the heraldic value of thirteen which signifies the thirteen original colonies of the United States, and the cumulative numerical value of the three stars indicates that North Dakota was the thirty-ninth state admitted to the Union. The stars also allude to the history of the territory under three foreign flags. Three stars are borne upon the coat of arms of Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition and also on the coat of arms of Lord Selkirk, head of the first permanent settlement in this state. The fleur-de-lis alludes to laVerendrye, a French explorer who was the first known white man to visit the territory of this state. The blue and gold wreath in the crest reflects the history of the territory as part of the Louisiana purchase. The crest which shall constitute the military crest of the state of North Dakota is a motif taken from the state seal and to the Sioux Indian tribes signifies mighty warriors.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) – A man identified by prosecutors as an operative for Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel was charged with building two major cross-border drug tunnels, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday.
Jose Sanchez Villalobos is accused of building, financing and overseeing the secret passages, which have proliferated along the U.S.-Mexico border in recent years as heightened enforcement on land has pushed smugglers underground. Previous prosecutions in connection with the tunnels have named low-ranking truckers and their supervisors who pick up loads of marijuana at warehouses in the United States after they already crossed the border.
Sanchez Villalobos, 49, was arrested by the Mexican army in January in the central state of Jalisco in connection with the seizure of $15.3 million two months earlier in Tijuana, Mexico. At the time, Mexico's defense secretary called him an operative for the Sinaloa cartel in Jalisco and Baja California states, which includes Tijuana.
The U.S. attorney's office in San Diego says he is alleged to be the highest-ranking member of a drug trafficking organization responsible for building cross-border tunnels, saying he supervised construction of the passages and oversaw movement of marijuana to the border. U.S. authorities have asked Mexico to extradite him.
The indictment, which was handed down in February, accuses Sanchez Villalobos of masterminding two of the most significant border tunnels ever found, both from Tijuana to San Diego.
On Thanksgiving Day of 2010, authorities found a roughly 700-yard passage equipped with rail tracks that extended from the kitchen of a Tijuana home to two San Diego warehouses, netting about 22 tons of marijuana on both sides of the border.
In November 2011, authorities found a 600-yard tunnel that resulted in seizures of 32 tons of marijuana on both sides of the border, with 26 tons found on the U.S. side accounting for one of the largest pot busts in U.S. history. The tunnel was equipped with electric rail cars, lighting and ventilation. Wooden planks lined the floor.
Sanchez Villalobos is charged with nine counts of conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, each carrying a minimum sentence of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life. He is also charged with several counts of building, financing or using tunnels, which carry maximum penalties of life in prison.
Federal investigators began tracking him in April 2010, while following leads on the tunnel discovered seven months later, said Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They concluded that Sanchez was storing large amounts of drugs in Tijuana.
The Tijuana-San Diego smuggling corridor was long controlled by the Arellano Felix family, which began to lose its grip in 2002 when its leader was arrested in Mexico and a brother was killed. In the last two years, the Sinaloa cartel _ led by Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman _ has gained an upper hand in the area.
More than 70 passages have been found on the border since October 2008, surpassing the number of discoveries in the previous six years.
The tunnels are concentrated along the border in California and Arizona. San Diego is popular because its clay-like soil is easy to dig. In Nogales, Ariz., smugglers tap into vast underground drainage canals.
San Diego's Otay Mesa area has the added draw of plenty of nondescript warehouses on both sides of the border to conceal trucks being loaded with drugs.
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text: Tomislav Maric wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've finally gathered all the hardware I need for my home beowulf. I'm > thinking of setting up RAID 5 for the /home partition (that's where my > simulation data will be and RAID 1 for the system / partitions without > the /boot. > > 1) Does this sound reasonable? Hello, Tomislav. So far so good, but RAID5 trades capacity for perfomance... > 2) I want to put the /home at the beginning of the disks go get faster > write/seek speeds, if the partitions are the same, software RAID doesn't > care where they are? Actually, it does - Read about the 'stride' of an ext3 filesystem: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Disk_Optimization You also need to be aware that RAID5 is not so good when writing to the disk, because parity has to be calculated and written to the disk. In fact this performance penalty has lead to a campaign against RAID5: http://www.baarf.com/ > 3) I'll leave the /boot partition on one of the 3 disks and it will NOT > be included in the RAID array, is this ok? I think you'd be better off putting your system one one of your three disks, and making a RAID1 for /home from the other two. This will give you a perfomance gain because RAID1 writes do not involve generating parity, and you will decouple disk access between 'system' and /home. You can backup your system disk to the RAID1, or reinstall if it fails. > 4) I've read about setting up parallel swaping via priority given to > swap partitions in fstab, but also how it would be ok to create RAID 1 > array of swap partitions for the HA of the cluster. What should I choose? You're going to have to decide between perfomance and HA: Sorry, you can't have both with only three disks. I've built systems with four SATA disks each with five partitions: /boot on ext2, swap on RAID1, / and /home on RAID5, /backup on RAID5 for much the same reasons you are considering doing it too. It works, and you do get HA, but performance is not good. I'm now simplifying and upgrading the systems by fitting a 3ware 8006-2 hardware RAID1 controller and two extra disks for /, swap and /backups. I'm using the original four disks with a single partition now as a software RAID5 for an ext3 /home filesystem using appropriate 'stride' and directory indexing. > I've gone through all the software raid how-tos, FAQs and similar, but > they are not quite new (date at least 3 years) and there's no reference > to clusters. Any pointers regarding this? One thing you need to bear in mind in relation to HA is that software RAID does not support hot-swap - That's why I chose the 3ware 8006-2, which is not very expensive. It doesn't automatically detect new disks and rebuild the RAID, but it does support hot-swap and has a web GUI: http://www.3ware.com/products/serial_ata8000.asp Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.travis at abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt


text: I agree with all the other posters--don't worry about baby getting enough playtime or stimulation for now. Being held, in your arms, hearing your voice, nursing--that is what baby needs at 7 weeks. I noticed you said your baby seems to have less 'quite alert' time than other babies and that you're struggling with his weight gain due to poor milk transfer issues. The only thing I would say is, regardless of how you go about it, it is very important during this time to make sure baby is getting enough to eat. Sometimes overly sleepy babies are babies who are not getting enough food. Sometimes, they are just sleepy babies. However, if his weight gain isn't good, then that combined with his lack of much happy alert time could be concerning. You should talk to your pediatrician and figure out if your son's weight gain is adequate and if not, how to fix that. If that means you need to supplement in addition to nursing, either with pumped breast milk or formula, then so be it. Getting enough to eat is crucial to his brain development right now. HOWEVER, breastfeeding itself is in no way harmful to your LO's development and is only helpful as long as he is getting enough milk. There are multiple studies that show breastfed babies tend to have a slightly higher IQ than formula fed babies. Whether this is a real effect or has to do with other factors, such as more educated moms being more likely to breastfeed, isn't entirely clear but it appears that if anything, breastfeeding is BENEFICIAL for babies' cognitive development.


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Reese Witherspoon Arrested After Jim Toth's DUI Incident
Reese Witherspoon and her husband Jim Toth were both reportedly arrested in the early morning hours of Friday (April 19) in Atlanta, Ga.
According to Variety, the couple was pulled over under suspicion of driving while intoxicated, after Jim switched into the wrong lane.
He is facing a DUI charge after blowing a .139 on a breathalyzer test, while the 37-year-old actress was arrested due to disorderly conduct. She reportedly disobeyed the officer who told her to stay inside the car.
Reese and Jim were briefly jailed and released on bond at 3:30AM ET. She is currently in Atlanta shooting her upcoming indie drama The Good Lie.
Click inside to read more details from the arrest…
"Mrs. Witherspoon began to hang out the window and say that she did not believe that I was a real police officer," the police report read. "I told Mrs. Witherspoon to sit on her butt and be quiet."
It continues, "Mrs. Witherspoon asked, 'Do you know my name?' I answered, 'No, I don't need to know your name.' I then added, 'right now.' Mrs. Witherspoon stated, 'You're about to find out who I am.'"
A court appearance is scheduled for Monday at 8AM.


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Surprising results in the treatment of secondary spine tumour surgery
Chirurgische Therapie sekundärer spinaler Tumore: Überraschende Ergebnisse
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Objective: Treatment of secondary spinal tumours is a challenging problem in spine surgery from at least two aspects: First: Surgery due to spine tumours may be technically demanding. Next, we must consider which patient may profit from which kind of surgery. The objective of our study was to investigate 1. neurological outcome, 2. survival time, 3. complication rate in our patient population between 01/ 2004 and 07/ 2006.
Methods: This is a retrospective study on 40 patients suffering from either metastatic disease in at least one vertebra or manifestation of a lymphoma in the spine. They were all operated by one single surgeon. A score according to Tokuhashi was used to predict life expectancy. Using this score value as a predictor, surgical treatment was performed as extensive decompression and sufficient fixation (short time survivors), or en bloc spondylectomy (long time survivors).
Results: 21 male, 19 female patients were included. Mean age at the time of diagnosis was 63 yrs. The primary tumour site was the lung (20%), the prostate (20%) and the breast (8%). We saw spinal manifestation of a lymphoma in another 20 %. Due to wide spread tumour disease, predicting limited life expectancy, partial tumour removal and stabilization was the surgical strategy in 95%. In only 2 patients (5%) was radical tumour excision possible. Neurological outcome was improved in 20%, unchanged in 70%, worse in 10% of our patient sample. We found the Tokuhashi's score to be useful for predicting life expectancy. There was a strong correlation between this score and patients' survival time (R2=0.4848). 5% of the patients died within the first 5 months after surgery. Complications were seen in 25% of the patients including a postoperative mortality of 10%.
Conclusions: In most of the patients (70%), signs of spinal compression will not be changed. 35% of the patients die within 5 months after surgery. Life expectancy may be predicted by scoring these patients according to Tokuhashi's suggestions. Surgery of metastases or lymphomas of the spine has a very high complication rate (25%), including a mortality rate of 10%. These are important and somewhat surprising results. Facing these facts, proper patient selection for spinal surgery seems to be the most important step in treatment.


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As most of you are probably aware of, there's a bit of a codec war going on with the HTML5 video tag. The struggle is between the patented and proprietary h264 codec and the open and free Ogg Theora. While I'm still not entirely sure about which one is better from a pure quality standpoint (a lot of contradicting reports on that one, and I'm not skilled enough to perform my own tests). Theora has the benefit because it's open and free, whereas h264 has the advantage of having better hardware support.
The big disadvantage with h264 is that you need to pay lots and lots of money for a license to be able to ship and have your users use it. You need a license for encoding, distributing, and even decoding - which is obviously quite problematic for open source projects. Apple and Google have both paid for the license, and as such, both Safari and Chrome support h264; however, since the license does not extend downstream, Linux distributors cannot ship Google Chrome. Chromium, the non-Google variant of the browser, does not have h264 support either. Both Mozilla and Opera refuse to pay for the h264 license.
Thanks to Trelane, we now have the word straight from the horse's mouth with regards to the downstream possibilities (or, better put, lack thereof) of h264. He contacted the MPEG-LA and asked them if Free and open source developers and products need to pay for the license as well, since he couldn't find said information in the FAQ. The answers were clear.
"In response to your specific question, under the Licenses royalties are paid on all MPEG-4 Visual/AVC products of like functionality, and the Licenses do not make any distinction for products offered for free (whether open source or otherwise)," explains Allen Harkness, MPEG-LA's Director of Global Licensing, "But, I do note that the Licenses addresses this issue by including annual minimum thresholds below which no royalties are payable in order to encourage adoption and minimize the impact on lower volume users."
In other words, h264 is simply not an option for Free and open source software. It is not compatible with "Free", and the licensing costs are prohibitive for most Free and open source software projects. This means that if the web were to standardise on this encumbered codec, we'd be falling into the same trap as we did with Flash, GIF, and Internet Explorer 6.
The MPEG-LA further reiterated that individual users are just as liable as distributors or companies. "I would also like to mention that while our Licenses are not concluded by End Users, anyone in the product chain has liability if an end product is unlicensed," Harkness explains, "Therefore, a royalty paid for an end product by the end product supplier would render the product licensed in the hands of the End User, but where a royalty has not been paid, such a product remains unlicensed and any downstream users/distributors would have liability."
I'm not sure how this would extend towards countries outside of the United States, since software patents aren't a sure thing all around the world. This perceived unencumberedness of h264 is actually a threat, though, according to Christopher Blizzard.
"[...] These heavily patented formats gain much of the same advantage as free formats - lots of free tools and tons of ad-hoc support from free software people - but with the ability to still enforce and monetize in parts of the world where patents are enforced," Blizzard warns, "It's actually a brilliant strategy, even though the outcome is that the true costs of patents are hidden from the view of most people."
I'll be blunt and direct, and this most likely won't be appreciated by everyone, but I don't care: using h264 for HTML5 video is short-sighted, ignorant, and simply plain stupid. Every web developer choosing to use h264 has learned nothing from GIF, Flash, and Internet Explorer 6. I find it almost delightfully hypocritical that someone like John Gruber, who rails and rails against Flash, finds h264 totally acceptable, telling Mozilla to "get with the program". A cynical me would say this is somehow related to Apple hating Flash but loving h264, but I'm not in a cynical mood today.
Despite all this talk about h264 vs. Theora, the fact of the matter is that the latter is the best supported HTML5 video tag codec. All browser makers who have implemented HTML5 video have included support for Theora - Chrome, Firefox, and Opera all support it - except for Apple. In other words, the most compatible choice right now for HTML5 video is Theora - not h264.
Yes, h264 has the better hardware support, and yes, it is claimed its quality is higher than Theora's - but is the short term really all you care about? Are web developers really that ignorant? History suggests yes - Flash, IE6 - but I had hoped we would've learned from all this by now. I'd rather face some technological difficulties now that we can actually overcome (hardware, quality) than face a patent and lock-in mess down the road.
Web developers, the choice is yours. Are you ignorant and short-sighted, or are you willing to make a stand for keeping the web open, and finally breaking video loose from its proprietary shackles?


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GH6653, Reviewed September 2001
Time is a unique resource in that everyone is given an equal amount — a gift of 24 hours each day. How you invest that gift is a major factor in how you feel about your life.
Think of time as one of the tools that you have available to reach your goals. As with many tools, if you want to use time effectively, it may require some training (or retraining), determination and practice.
Even though the term "time management" is used a great deal, there really is no such thing as time management. Using time effectively is actually a matter of your own personal management.
Time goes by at the same rate no matter what you do. You can't speed it up or slow it down. Unlike the other resources that you manage, there is no way to control time.
The best you can do is take charge of yourself in the framework of time, investing yourself in those things that matter most in your life.
Do not confuse efficiency with effectiveness when it comes to developing your time use skills. Efficiency relates to doing a job right in as little time and with as little effort as possible. Effectiveness, on the other hand, relates to doing the "right" job right. Being effective with your time means you are investing your time on the most important tasks. Efficiency implies that you are able to accomplish a great quantity of work. You evaluate efficiency by how much you have gotten done. Effectiveness, on the other hand, implies that you know how to set priorities and are able to focus your efforts on what really needs your attention. You evaluate your effectiveness by whether what you got done was what really needed doing.
Setting priorities is a matter of deciding what is really important. In this case "important" means important to you. What activities and roles give your life meaning? These are the parts of your life where you most want to succeed.
Everything in your life cannot be a priority. Lots of important things will compete for attention over your lifetime, but there are not enough hours in anyone's lifetime to give attention to everything that is good and worthwhile.
Deciding on your basic priorities is a key exercise in moving toward more effective use of your time. Your basic priorities provide a means for making time choices, helping you decide where it is important to invest yourself and where you can let go.
On a daily basis you also have to learn to set task priorities. Prioritizing tasks includes two steps:
How do you decide what work needs to be done? For the most part, it relates back to your basic priorities. To be effective in your time use, you have to weed out the work that does not fit with your basic priorities.
Learn to say "no" to tasks that look interesting and may even provide a strong sense of achievement but do not fit with your basic priorities.
You also have to be able to separate out the tasks that need doing from the busywork that tends to eat away at your time. Many tasks that fill your day may not really need doing at all or could be done less frequently.
Take note of the difference between tasks you need to do and those you want to do. Deciding the order in which to do tasks means you start with the "needs" list first and then move to the "wants" list.
Task prioritizing means working on the most important tasks first no matter how tempted you are to get a lot of less essential tasks out of the way.
You need to be one of the priorities you set for yourself. This can feel unnatural for many women who are used to thinking of the needs of others. Think of meeting your own personal needs as taking care of a valuable piece of equipment.
You need routine maintenance — the care and attention you often direct at others also needs to be directed toward yourself. Think of taking time for yourself as comparable to changing the oil in an automobile. Over the long haul it is an important investment.
Insisting on time to relax and pursue some of your own personal interests is not selfish. Rather it is like changing the filters on your furnace. It will keep you operating more effectively in the other areas of your life. One of the resources you bring to your life is attitude.
The right attitude can make any task much easier, any problem more solvable. It is difficult to have a positive attitude when you never seem to have time to do things you enjoy. Investing some time in yourself is like refilling the ice trays — there will be something there the next time you need it.
Certain skills help in using time effectively. Most of these skills are mental. While it is not necessary to develop all of the skills, each makes a contribution to your ability to direct time usage.
Time sense is the skill of estimating how long a task will take to accomplish. A good sense of time will help you be more realistic in planning your activities. It helps prevent the frustration of never having quite enough time to accomplish tasks.
To increase your time sense, begin by making mental notes of how long it actually takes to do certain routine tasks like getting ready in the morning, running a load of laundry or delivering your child across town to baseball practice.
Goal setting is the skill of deciding where you want to be at the end of a specific time period. Goal setting gives direction to your morning, your day, your week and your lifetime. The exercise on deciding your lifetime priorities is a form of goal setting. Learn to write down your goals.
If you are like most people, goals are just wishes until you write them down. Keep your goals specific, as in "weed the flower beds in front of the house" rather than "work on the yard." Keep your goals realistic or you will continually be frustrated by a sense of failure.
Standard shifting is adjusting your standards as circumstances change. Your standards are what you use to judge whether something is good enough, clean enough, pretty enough, done well enough.
Perfectionists have very high, rigid standards, and they have trouble adjusting to the changing demands or circumstances of their life. Develop the ability to shift standards so you can be satisfied with less than perfect when your time demands are high, instead of feeling as if you are somehow falling short.
Time planning is outlining ahead of time the work you need to get done in a specific time frame. Sometimes time planning is as simple as writing out a "To Do" list to ease your mind from holding on to too much detail.
At particularly stressful times the "to-do" list may expand to include a more specific calendar of when tasks will be done. While a detailed time schedule can be too confining to use all of the time, it is a good way to take the pressure off at exceptionally demanding times.
Recognizing procrastination is a skill in itself because procrastinators can do an incredible job of hiding their procrastination from themselves. Procrastination is needlessly postponing decisions or actions.
You might disguise the procrastination response with an excuse like waiting for inspiration, or needing a large block of time to concentrate with your full attention, or needing more information before tackling a project.
It takes skill to differentiate between procrastination excuses and legitimate reasons for delaying a decision or action. Without the ability to recognize when you are procrastinating there is little chance of overcoming this immobilizing habit.
Strategies for effective time use
Each of these methods can assist you in getting closer to your goal of becoming more effective with your time:
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The Mike Mo Corduroy pants are made out of 99% cotton and 1% spandex materials. They have a relaxed fit, a regular rise in the waist, and straight legs that open up around the ankles at 15.5 inches wide.
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Life in Pine River in the Summer of 1894 was filled with many activities such as the coming of the railroad, George Barclay's travels to Brainerd and beyond, the GAR celebrations, and the 4th of July celebration in Pine River.
While all this was going on, George A. Barclay had time to plan and recruit a contractor to build his new hotel, store and saloon.
"George Barclay has let the contract for the building of a new saloon to White & White of Brainerd. It promises to be a fine structure, having a glass front and being two stories high. Guess George intends starting the boom himself.
Source: The Brainerd Tribune Local Pine River news, July 7, 1894, Minnesota Historical Society Newspaper Collection.
Another source gives this detail about the contract for the hotel:
On June 29, 1894, George Barclay contracts with I.U. White of Brainerd to build a hotel, store and saloon all in the same building. The Hotel Barclay or Barclay House was also known as the "White Elephant." It burned in December, 1915, in a fire that threatened all of Pine River.
Source: Cass County Heritage 1897-1997, pg. 55, Cass County Historical Society, Walker, MN
George Barclay is shipping up lumber to build his new saloon and store.
George Barclay went to Brainerd last Monday night.
Source: Brainerd Tribune, Local Pine River news July 14, 1894. (Monday in 1894 is the 9th of July)
George Barclay returned from Brainerd last Monday night accompanied by Miss Barclay.
George Barclay intends to commence building his new building next Monday.
Source: The Brainerd Tribune, Local Pine River news, July 21, 1894. (Monday in 1894 would be the 23rd).
If I have calculated this correctly, George started building his new hotel about July 23, 1894. On a visit in 2007 to Pine River, I went to the town hall and inquired if they might have old Barclay Hotel building plans but was told "no." The hotel did burn down in 1915 and I will post about that in the future. I am sure a lot documentation was destroyed when the hotel burned. I also tried to find I.U. White of White & White who was the contractor but so far I have not been successful.
NOTE: I obtained permission of the town of Pine River to post this photo of the Barclay Hotel as found in their book about the history of Pine River: "Logsleds to Snowmobiles 1973."
"The years 1893 and 1894 saw the building of the railroad through here, at that time called the "Brainerd Northern." The same year brought the first frame building of any importance, the Barclay Hotel. This was a large building, painted white and by some with less vision than Mr. Barclay, it was known as the "White Elephant." However, the years following proved that his judgment was good as this stopping place enjoyed a wonderful patronage for many years.
Mr. Barclay also built a large store building on the corner where the Fraser building or Locker Plant now stands, where they conducted a general store until he was shot and killed while sitting in his office smoking a cigar in October 1898."
Source: Early History of Pine River, pg. 2-3, 1973, Bicentennial Issue, Pine River Journal, Pine River, Cass Co., MN.


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SDIX to Report Third Quarter 2012 Results on November 12, 2012
SDIX (Nasdaq: SDIX) - a leading provider of biotechnology-based products and services for a broad range of life science, biotechnology and diagnostic applications - expects to release its third quarter 2012 results at approximately 4 p.m. ET on Monday, November 12, 2012. The Company has scheduled an investor conference call for 4:30 p.m. ET on the same day.
The dial-in number for the live conference call will be 877-407-8035 (201-689-8035 outside the U.S.). A live webcast of the conference call will be available on the Company's website, www.sdix.com, as well as www.investorcalendar.com. For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, an audio replay of the call will be available on each of these websites for 90 days. Telephone replays of the call will be available from 7:30 p.m. ET on November 12, 2012 through 11:59 p.m. ET on November 26, 2012. To listen to the telephone replay, dial 877-660-6853 (201-612-7415 outside the U.S.) and enter account number 286 and conference ID 403556.
About SDIX (www.sdix.com)
SDIX is a biotechnology company with a core expertise in creating better antigens, better antibodies and better assays for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets. For over 20 years, SDIX has been a leading immuno-solutions company, developing results-oriented and innovative antibody-based solutions that enable customers to meet high performance research, diagnostic and commercialization objectives.
SDIX's technology and capabilities are being used to help discover disease mechanisms, facilitate development of new drugs and provide antibodies and assays for the diagnosis of disease.
This news release may contain forward-looking statements reflecting SDIX's current expectations. When used in this press release, words like "anticipate", "could", "enable", "estimate", "intend", "expect", "believe", "potential", "will", "should", "project", "plan" and similar expressions as they relate to SDIX are intended to identify said forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause actual results to differ from those anticipated by SDIX at this time. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, changes in demand for products, the application of our technologies to various uses, delays in product development, delays in market acceptance of new products, retention of customers and employees, adequate supply of raw materials, inability to obtain or delays in obtaining fourth party or required government approvals, the ability to meet increased market demand, competition, protection of intellectual property, non-infringement of intellectual property, seasonality, and other factors more fully described in SDIX's public filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Kevin Bratton
Chief Financial Officer


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Artful dining at the museum
Artful dining at the museum
Diners at the Water Cafe at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
Fish tacos at the ICA's Water Cafe.
Diners at Bravo at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Seared New Bedford scallops, buttered leek puree, endive and blood orange salad at Bravo.
Diners get a view of Dale Chihuly's "Lime Green Icicle Tower" at New American Cafe at the Museum of Fine Arts.
Atlantic salmon, parmesan and leek risotto, kalamata olives pancetta, and pickled shallots at New American Cafe.
Atrium Cafe at the Peabody Essex Museum Cafe in Salem.