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How Apple Can Spin Its E-Book Ruling
A judge found Apple guilty of price-fixing in the e-book market. How can the company get out of a public-relations mess? Michael Robinson, executive vice president at Levick, a crisis-communications firm, joins digits.
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Apple gets bitten today by the government which says its guilty of price fixing in the e book market ... that is the iconic company Dow that he aam s when Robinson executive vice president at polemic ... a crisis communications from Jon's of joins us now to discuss this full lap ... thank you bring them for being now Mike ... this audit it's great to be witty appreciated ... so Apple has come and said no we didn't ... we didn't price but we didn't we didn't conspired to do with mass ... what ... what else can they do is I cannot make any any difference to anyone ... no really is to ... you'd expect them to say that to really isn't much more they can stay in the moment ... the challenge for Apple was to ... demonstrate to all of the people that need talk all their constituencies ... that what they did was above board that they didn't result in people paying more ... remember there is a direct consumer issues here and that is why pay more than I otherwise would have needed to to read ... X Y or Z ... diluted dealing with consumers to deal with overcharging ... as a direct impact on their wall and pocketbook ... arguably one of most important issues in two thousand and thirteen ... now ... this is violating anti trust law ... his lack of big deal ... you know the interest was the United States are one of the nation's oldest most important series of wall supply it is in the open secret in Washington that the Obama administration in the holder Department of Justice ... has been very aggressive and a trust in force ... so this is ... this signifies a number of things going for one ... the Department justice is gonna be very very focused on in the trust issues into ... we're actually seeing the food being made here were actually seen the coalition of ... revenue generation online Indian trust in force this is uncharted territory ... so it's kind of beer watching for everybody who is moving online whether small bowl whether it's pain and ... what happens to be ... this is could be a precedent setting case ... not one of the problems with with Prising electronic books as that of the cost of each additional book to the company is arrow ... and from an economist on Potsdam one is very hard to know how to price it right I mean if you've got a physical book show and the price at least as much ... as that the cost of making a I'm you call me ... but that isn't a cost to a new copy of a need for ... the full what's the ferry was the basis ... for which she say what it should be priced ... you are going to write some unique in this is for a undo the wall has never been designed to deal with just that issue ... he knows the difference between fundraisers unreasonable a try to buy a razor wants to keep buying the razor blade is ... how do you compensate someone for their intellectual property the offer ... without having to worry about how much paper took or how much ... to tok ... to print that ball ... um so this is bringing a brand new area of wall and I think it's can be very interesting to see how this plays out ... this will have implications of cos all commerce not only in the U S but around the world ... now what about competitors of a selloff people II Apple was this a sign to be toppled ... from its perch as a ... as a great company they wanted it bad that ... I love the competition as a safe and devout ... capitalist ... tell us how you think if if I am ... you know ... I think for competitors this was a teen those states thrown from the pack to one hundred over it's why they're going to be a lot of people lining up ... trying to take advantage of this opportunity ... make no mistake this was a bruising day for Apple us not to say they won't come back ... we know they will appeal we know that courts will adjudicate this over time but in the interim ... Whittier out whether years on Amazon or Samsung are the body else ... didn't you if you take Apple down a peg or two ... the moment is to add to that because ... largely this place in the much broader narrative ... that Apple would no longer untouchable ... it's hard to bowl on Wall Street has taught for them before consumers ... that's a ... big difference to me remember what to do was just about a year ago where was trading ... at our astronomical levels ... so there's a lot that's happened Apple last twelve months ... then what should Apple do ... Susan again you don't get its reputation back to be ... you know Christine what how would you advise them ... what they need to store with a focus on consumers has always been there for spring is to say ... people loathe to appreciate our products so much that the willingness weed out for ... doing to pay a little bit more money for ... so they have to really begin with a focus on consumers and help those consumers understand that ... you didn't really pay more for a bull here than if you bought it somewhere else ... as consumers feel that they have been taken advantage of ... that is the quickest way to lose the luster from your brain ... you know one of the yawning on if they like the stock that they are thank you Brian much Michael Robinson ... from eleven a crisis communications from we appreciate time so ...


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Cue your local locust swarm and saddle up the proverbial four horses, American Idol fans: The end times are definitely nigh!
How else to explain Zoanette Johnson being named by the show's rebooted judges' panel as one of the 10 most promising unsigned female singers in the country? Yes, Zoanette Johnson, the same chick whose tattered, Season 12 audition cover of "The Star Spangled Banner" caused Keith Urban to literally fall out of his chair — and was punctuated by an alarming booty drop.
Honestly, is it time to put down the remote control and pick up the Book of Revelations? Or could one of the following theories explain the judges' thinking:
A) Nigel Lythgoe made sure the microprint in Keith, Nicki and Mariah's contracts allowed him to override their common sense and good taste at least three times per season. (He is, after all, producing a TV show.)
B) By virtue of his 11 previous seasons on the panel, Randy's vote counts for double — allowing him carte blanche approval on various contestants, no matter how aggressively Nicki throws her side-eye (see accompanying screengrab, captured at the exact moment when Randy tried to justify cutting Candice Glover in the Season 11 Vegas round). (Let's hear it for the girl, girl, girl!)
C) The judges deliberately chose to advance a few cannon-fodder contestants into next week's Top 20, thereby ensuring speed-dialing Idol voters will advance their true chosen pets.
D) At the end of Thursday's telecast, the judges will give a reprieve to all five women who got axed tonight, send five additional male contestants to the guillotine, and give us a gender-imbalanced, 15-chica/5-niño semifinal round. (MAKE THIS HAPPEN, @DizzyFeet!)
E) Zoanette was put here on this Earth to disprove the old adage that you never get a second chance to make a first impression.
F) Somebody spiked the Coke cups.
Me? I'm going with some combination of A, C, F, and E — no, Zoanette wasn't good in a note-hitting kind of way, but she definitely made me feel…something (though by morning I could just attribute it to indigestion).
Anyhow, let's cut to the set list for the second "sudden death" episode of Idol's 12th season — along with my letter grades for every performance:
Melinda Ademi: Jessie J's "Nobody's Perfect" | Melinda showed tons of promise in Hollywood Week solo, but much like the ill-advised bottom half of her outfit tonight (black booty shorts over purple tights, with black knee-high boots!?), her "Nobody's Perfect" was a bit of a mess — perhaps, as Mariah pointed out, due to nervousness that put a peculiar "waver" in her voice. The good news is that Vegas-week ejectees can still come back for Season 13 (a fact I confirmed with Fox publicists), which means the 19-year-old might be able to take another crack at getting her vocals to match her outsized charisma and appealing stage presence. (Conspiracy theory side-note: Anyone else find it funny that Nicki complained about Melinda having covered Jessie J more than once this year, while failing to call out the same habit in Angela Miller, who also sang "Nobody's Perfect" last week, as well as two additional Jessie J. songs for her initial audition and her Hollywood Week a capella solo?) Grade: C+
Candice Glover: Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" | From the restrained opening verse that showcased her bell-clear tone to the sensuality (and "come to mama" hand gestures) that informed the "ooh, baby what ya done to me" bridge to the outsized runs that ended the set, Candice's vocal was an undeniable triumph. (Bonus points for the steel in Ms. Glover's eyes as she's performing, too.) Perhaps more than any contestant this season, in fact, Candice brings a sense of authority to the stage that makes me feel at ease with wherever she wants to take a song's melody. I'd be lying, though, if I didn't admit just a slight bit of ennui with the expectedness of Candice's song choice. Girlfriend needs to bear in mind that, since she doesn't have a ton of room to grow vocally (I mean, how much better can her voice actually get?), she'll have to compensate by growing artistically — and not fall into a pattern of using her No. 2 pencil to fill in her standardized test of big-voiced soul divas like Aretha, Alicia, Mariah and Whitney. Grade: B+
Juliana Chahayed: Demi Lovato's "Skyscraper" | Every year of Idol, there's at least one major early-season injustice that stings so badly I end up referencing it in my recaps for the next five (or 10) seasons. And I'm displeased to report that the victim of Season 12's felony larceny was this soft-spoken high school sophomore who reimagined Demi Lovato's booming radio ballad with a glorious tissue-paper delicacy. Sure, as Nicki noted, Juliana's lilting upper register and acoustic tendencies meant she had the potential to be swallowed up by the massive audience and Idol house band during voting rounds, but she might've also had the potential to provide welcome relief from the melisma and vocal gymnastics that are certain to dominate the show from now until late May. (Oh, and I couldn't disagree more with Keith's aside about Juliana "struggling with pitch.") Maybe Fox was contractually obligated to axe Juliana after she publicly dissed X Factor judge Demi by saying she'd picked "Skyscraper" after her vocal coach told her to play around with a song she didn't actually like (hilarious, BTW), but I'm going to try to comfort myself with an optimistic outlook: Julia's too-early exit just means we've already got something to look forward to in Season 13. Grade: A-
Jett Hermano: Rihanna's "Only Girl (In The World)" | Keith was right that by virtue of turning it into a slowed-down piano jam, Jett brought out a heretofore unheard sexiness in Rihanna's upbeat radio smash. Unfortunately, the arrangement was also in a key that stretched Jett's voice into unpleasant territory for at least half the song. And since this isn't Song Arrangement Idol, I can't really fault the judges for giving the old heave-ho to the pretty legal assistant. Grade: B-
Cristabel Clack: Alicia Keys's "No One" | It takes more than talent to win American Idol, it also takes
a penis the innate ability to choose interesting songs that bring out the best in your voice. And alas, while there's no arguing the beauty of Cristabel's signature rasp, it's equally true that — like a Price Is Right contestant who gets the "wah-wah wah-wahhh waaahhh" fail horn, Cristabel made altogether too many wrong choices: The rote pick of done-to-death-on-Idol Alicia Keys, the momentum-busting revelation to Ryan Seacrest that she almost dropped out of the competition because of insecurity, the unfortunate sweater adorned with images of little black bows. Cristabel's biggest misfire, though, was essentially following the advice Randy Jackson gave to Jett: "Wear it out vocally." Indeed, Cristabel packed so many runs into the opening verse alone and stretched her range to such shrieking extremes on the bridge that the entire performance began to crumble like a box of crackers under the weight of a Diet Coke 12-pack. (Sigh…will grocery-store baggers never learn?) Naturally, though, Cristabel's subpar effort had Randy leaping to his feet in celebration. (Maybe he lost count of which contestants Uncle Nigel told him were supposed to get Standing O's?) Grade: B-
Aubrey Cleland: Beyoncé's "Sweet Dreams" | I can't lie: I love it when contestants who've received the cannon-fodder edit achieve almost total pitch perfection and force the judges to reconsider their pre-conceived pecking order. Aubrey certainly did that with a cover of "Sweet Dreams" so clean and shiny, I could almost smell a hint of Lemon Pledge on it. Was the whole performance maybe just a tiny bit too sterile? Yeah — and especially compared to Jessica Sanchez's rendition from Season 11. Would it have been nice if Nicki hadn't focused so much on Aubrey's looks (complete with leering cameraman's pan from her shoes all the way up her legs and to her face)? Absolutely — because if I wanted to watch a show like that, I'd still be DVR-ing Top Model. But I'd also put Aubrey as the night's fourth or fifth best vocal, so you won't hear me complaining about her forward march to the semifinals. Grade: B
Rachel Hale: Grace Potter And The Nocturnals' "Nothing But The Water" | Mariah had a good point that Grace Potter's rockin' blues jam might not have been the best showcase for Rachel's ethereal tone — as Keith noted, there were moments the song got on top of her, and not the other way around — but it was interesting to see the perpetually smiling Arkansas native bring some fire and aggression on a typically ballad-heavy night. Who knows, had Rachel not performed the entire song with a "pre-K teacher greeting her students in the morning" smile, she might have forced the judges to give her the night's fifth and final pass to the semifinals over the more-hyped Janelle. Here's at least hoping she gives the Idol thing another try in Season 13, yes? Grade: B
Breanna Steer: Jazmine Sullivan's "Bust Your Windows" | Like Aubrey, Breanna might as well have begun the Vegas rounds wearing white robes and chained to a rock, waiting for the Kraken to devour her in three or four gory bites. And frankly, after hearing a brief snippet of her torturing "Be My Baby" during Hollywood Week group rounds, I thought I'd be okay with the Louisiana native suffering that kind of fate. Imagine my surprise, then, when Breanna made a brilliant strategic song choice and left me snapping along with Nicki Minaj's overheated critique: "Miss Little Lady Bug, work, work, work!" Okay, yeah, if I'm being honest, I heard an occasional wobble in pitch on some of the trickier notes of "Bust Your Windows," but there's a huge difference between giving the night's most spotless vocal performance and giving the night's most enjoyable vocal performance. And for my money, Breanna's ability to paint vivid pictures with her voice — and her willingness to choose something with a little bit of tempo! — was far more important than the fact that there were three or four wonky notes in the mix. Here's hoping Vegas is the start of Breanna's comeback story, and not just a one-week blip before she's subsumed by the pageant-queen Borg Collective. Grade: A-
Janelle Arthur: Lady Antebellum's "Just a Kiss" | Keith gave an incredibly astute critique (damn he's got a good ear — even underneath so much hair!) when he noted that Janelle kept trying to up the stakes of Lady Antebellum's not-exactly-range-y melody, and unfortunately for her, the strain of her effort was evident in a vocal that felt slightly under the melody from start to finish. It was jarring indeed to hear the much-hyped front-runner collapsing beneath the weight of early expectations — though, to be honest, her final Hollywood solo on "I Told You So" had its share of problems, too — leaving me wondering if she's on the sort of Baylie Brown/Kristy Lee Cook trajectory where the big-stage performances don't live up to the intimacy of the small-room auditions. I wasn't outraged that the judges gave their early favorite one more chance and let her through to the voting rounds, but if I'd been in one of those four chairs, I'd have given the slot to Rachel (who was more vocally on point) or Jett (who showed more creativity). Grade: B-
Zoanette Johnson: Elton John's "Circle Of Life" | I don't think words are entirely appropriate to critique Zoanette's crazy-awful-awesome-astonishing-peculiar interpretation of "Circle of Life." I mean, if you compare it to, say, Jennifer Hudson's revelatory Season 3 rendition, Zoanette's cover borders on comical. And yet while it would be easy to take Nicki's feedback — "you're the person we're going to remember tonight" — and add a "because you were so ridiculous" to the end of it, I'm not sure that would be entirely fair, either. There was something undeniably stirring about hearing Zoanette's completely earnest tale of her family's escape from Liberia paired with a full Lion King-Zulu language intro that found Zoanette with knees bent, spinning around and inviting the entire audience into her world, as the background singers grinned coyly and Nicki raised a Gospel hand and began to tear up. Sure, the melody train derailed repeatedly once Zoanette settled into the regular English portion of the song, pounding out notes flatter than your average tortilla. But…I don't know. I…uh…didn't not enjoy it? Maybe I just need to use an emoticon here to get my point across. (o.O) Grade: C+
Did that make any sense? I have no idea. Which means it's probably a good time for me to turn things over to you. What did you think of the third Vegas round of American Idol Season 12? What did you think of the judges' decisions? Who was your favorite? Did Juliana get robbed? Did Zoanette commit a crime against music? Or are you warming to her particular brand of cray-cray? Take our poll below, then sound off in the comments, and for all my Idol-related news, recaps, interviews and videos, follow me on Twitter @MichaelSlezakTV!


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Small Ohio town shocked by 4 deaths in 2 days
BUCYRUS, Ohio — Police investigating the deaths of four men in two days believe all are connected.
The bodies of two men were discovered Monday and two additional men were found dead Tuesday, said Bucyrus Police Chief David Koepke.
Police are interviewing a person of interest believed to be involved in the deaths, and Koepke said formal charges could be filed "later this week." Capt. Joe Greathouse confirmed police believe the four deaths are related.
Koepke said blunt force trauma was used on all four victims.
"That leads us to believe foul play was the cause of the deaths," he said.
Preliminary autopsy reports should be available Thursday. Neither a link among victims nor a motive has been established, but according to family members the four men were acquaintances.
"As we start to retrace the steps of the victims we may have other leads to pursue," Greathouse said.
Police have identified the victims as Billy Jack Chatman, 55; Freelin Hensley, 68; Darrell E. Lewis, 65, and Jerry Smith, 65.
The beaten body of Chatman was found Monday in his home in the northern end of Bucyrus. Hensley's body was also found Monday in his home, just south of Bucyrus. The two calls came in 28 minutes apart on Labor Day.
Early Tuesday , after interviewing a male suspect in the earlier two deaths, bodies were discovered at two different locations, one south of bucyrus and one near downtown. Those victims were Lewis and Smith.
The Crawford County Coroner, Bucyrus Police and the state Bureau of Criminal Investigation, with the assistance of the Crawford County Sheriff's Office, are working together to evaluate the circumstances of the suspicious deaths.
Macy Chatman called her father "a good person."
"If somebody needed something, he would have given it to them," she said. "I just don't get why they did this to him.
"He was harmless. He was everybody's friend. I want this person found because it's not right."
Macy, who also lives in Bucyrus, last saw her father Saturday.
"The last words I said was 'I love you.' I'm glad that's what it was because (sometimes) we argued."
Smith's niece, Valerie Smith Malone, will miss her uncle, Jerry Smith.
"He was a good man; very loving, quiet," Malone said. "I'm his favorite niece and he was my favorite uncle. He spoiled me growing up."
With the news of four confirmed suspicious deaths spreading through the city, residents are on high alert.
"I have a 4-month-old and an elderly father, I don't want this to happen to us," said Rikki Eggelston, who lives near one of the crime scenes. I hope all this just goes away. I live right across the alley from the guy on Mansfield Street, and waking up seeing this was terrifying. It makes me not want to sleep at night."
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My oldest daughter just told me she applied for the Peace Corps and wants to do medical work in Africa. I'm sure it will be a wonderful experience for her but I still worry given what I know about Africa (not too much, I admit) for her physical health and safety. I think she wants to work in the clinics in Burkina Faso. If anyone here has children who've done the Peace Corps, I'd love to have some piece of mind over sending mine there. Another thing is daughter doesn't want to arrive there with things that are worth more than everything in most of the citizens' homes. I think she plans on keeping her camera but everything including her cell phone, comp and ipod are going to her sister or staying with us. I'm sorry if I sound like a bumpkin but I just don't know these things. Are there Internet cafes anywhere in Burkina Faso? How should I get ahold of her if she has no phone?
RPCV (adsl-69-154-11-213.dsl.austtx.swbell.net - 22.214.171.124)
Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 10:46 am:
Jessamyn - Start with these web sites, as they may be helpful to you:
Friends of Burkina Faso (association of former PCVs)
Peace Corps Agency's Family Page for staying in touch
Anonymous (adsl-71-131-240-159.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net - 22.214.171.124)
Posted on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 7:08 pm:
Oldest son went to Ghana as a PCV, youngest daughter has considered doing the program when she finishes college. Although it can be a scary prospect the PC is an excellent organization and does its best to keep the volunteers protected from physical harm and aware of any issues that compromise their safety. Main thing to do is make sure your daughter has all the necessary VACCINATIONS and goes through all the necessary examinations and doctor visits. I'm not sure about internet cafes in that country but my guess is that your daughter will not have a lot of time to spend at them if there are any. She may end up stationed pretty far from a town. We had our son call us with a Onesuite phone card when he was in Ghana. They also encourage sending care packages but there's a list of restrictions. You should look at the Family and Friends section on the Peace Corps website to get a better idea.
brooke nagle (ctb-cache5-vif1.saix.net - 220.127.116.11)
Posted on Tuesday, July 18, 2006 - 6:12 am:
I am currently serving in the Peace Corps in South Africa, working with an HIV/AIDS organisation. South Africa has a lot of crime but the Peace Corps is very careful about our safety and security as are all the volunteers serving here. There have been a few minor incidents but we are instructed not go out at night, be alert and do not go to unfamiliar areas. I am 50 serving with my husband who is 57. We are having an amazing experience and I have no qualms about applying and serving in the Peace Corps. I wanted also to comment about the person who wrote that the applicant should have all necessary vaccines before applying. The Peace Corps gives you every vaccine you need, a probably alot more beside, so do not worry about vaccinations before your daughter leaves. Let the Peace Corps foot the bill for the shots. I'm sure she will have a life-changing experience.
deborah bainton (184.108.40.206)
Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 - 1:49 pm:
my daughter just received her assignment to Malawi..she leaves 5/28.......I have high anxiety and am looking for the answer to many of the parental questions posed here.......I too feel like a pumkin as to what she should bring and not bring in terms of computers and cell phones....do international cell phones work??? are they not cool to have there???.....does anyone want to start a parents group online with me???.I'm a social worker so always need to process everything endlessly .......but feel totally clueless as to protocals for PC......my doughter is only a little less confused than I...can anyone help???...just with simple questions as to bring bug spray??? ect...looking for any feedback.thanks in advance Deb Bainton
RPCV (adsl-70-135-75-135.dsl.austtx.sbcglobal.net - 220.127.116.11)
Posted on Thursday, February 01, 2007 - 12:13 pm:
You can start with these folks, most of whom are returned PCVs who served in Malawi:
Also, your daughter should have received an information packet if she has already accepted the assignment. Plus these days new PCVs tend to network with current and former PCVs via country specific discussion groups found on Yahoo, etc.
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Items where Research Group is "Centre for Mathematical Biology" and Year is 2004
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Alarcon, T. and Byrne, H. M. and Maini, P. K. (2004) Towards whole-organ modelling of tumour growth. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 85 (2-3). pp. 451-472.
Alarcon, T. and Byrne, H. M. and Maini, P. K. (2004) A mathematical model of the effects of hypoxia on the cell-cycle of normal and cancer cells. Journal of theoretical Biology, 229 (3). pp. 395-411.
Bampfylde, C. J. and Brown, N. D. and Gavaghan, D. J. and Maini, P. K. (2004) The role of small-scale spatial interactions on the coexistence of rain forest species: using neighbourhood techniques and simulation models. Journal of Agricultural Science Camb, 142 (2). p. 245.
Korobeinikov, A. and Maini, P. K. (2004) A Lyapunov function and global properties for SIR and SEIR epidemiological models with nonlinear incidence. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 1 (1). pp. 57-60.
Maini, P. K. (2004) Using mathematical models to help understand biological pattern formation. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 327 (3). pp. 225-234.
Maini, P. K. (2004) The impact of Turing's work on pattern formation in biology. Mathematics Today, 40 (4). pp. 140-141.
Maini, P. K. and McElwain, S. and Leavesley, D. (2004) Travelling waves in a wound healing assay. Applied Maths Letters, 17 (5). pp. 575-580.
Maini, P. K. and McElwain, S. and Leavesley, D. (2004) A travelling wave model to interpret a wound healing migration assay for human peritoneal mesothelial cells. Tissue Engineering, 10 (3/4). pp. 475-482.
Maini, P. K. and Schnell, S. and Jolliffe, S. (2004) Bulletin of Mathematical Biology - facts, figures and comparisons. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 66 (4). pp. 595-603.
McInerney, D. and Schnell, S. and Baker, Ruth E. and Maini, P. K. (2004) A mathematical formulation for the cell-cycle model in somitogenesis: analysis, parameter constraints and numerical solutions. Mathematical Medicine & Biology, 21 (2). pp. 85-113.
Miura, T. and Maini, P. K. (2004) Periodic pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems -an introduction for numerical simulation. Anatomical Science International, 79 (3). pp. 112-123.
Miura, T. and Maini, P. K. (2004) Speed of pattern appearance in reaction-diffusion models: Implications in the pattern formation of limb bud mesenchyme cells. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 66 (4). pp. 627-649.
Plaza, R. and Sánchez-Garduño, F. and Padilla, P. and Barrio, R. A. and Maini, P. K. (2004) The effect of growth and curvature on pattern formation. Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations, 16 (4). pp. 1093-1121.
Ribba, B. and Alarcon, T. and Marron, K. and Maini, P. K. and Agur, Z. (2004) The use of hybrid cellular automaton models for improving cancer therapy, In Proceedings, Cellular Automata: 6th International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and Industry, ACRI 2004, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, eds P.M.A. Sloot, B. Chopard, A.G. Hoekstra. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3305 . pp. 444-453.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 8th Aug 2012 22:29 UTC
The future of GNOME - an interesting subject. GNOME 3 has been out and about for a while, and it hasn't exactly been a smashing success. One of the efforts to take GNOME to the next level is what the team refers to as GNOME OS - but in reality, it's a set of improvements to GNOME that are just as interesting to GNOME-the-desktop-environment.
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RE[2]: Build it, and they will come
by Delgarde on Thu 9th Aug 2012 00:30 UTC in reply to "RE: Build it, and they will come"
RE[3]: Build it, and they will come
by orestes on Thu 9th Aug 2012 02:58 in reply to "RE[2]: Build it, and they will come"
Indeed. I'm quite happy with where Gnome-shell is at the moment compared to it's predecessors at similar points in their respective lifecycles. The handful of niggles that do still bug me are easy enough to fix with extensions or a little custom scripting.
What I'm less amused with is the preoccupation some devs in Gnome and the other prominent projects have with building tablet UIs at the expense of desktop. Yeah, yeah, the bobbleheaded pundits have been blathering on about the post PC era and moving to tablets forever but really I wish they'd sit down, shut up, and focus on *this* reality until the pipe dreams come to pass.
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Weekly Release Spotlight: Foxygen
We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic
Foxygen's new album is a freewheeling journey through a modernized 1970s. The album's title—We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic—is only the beginning of the nostalgic, psychedelic era. This is the band's second studio-released album following their 2011 release of Take the Kids Off Broadway.
The young band members, Sam France and Jonathan Rado, use a variety of instruments, tempo changes, and key changes throughout the album's nine songs. The album starts off with the ear-catching and mellow tunes of "In the Darkness" and "No Destruction." Just imagine watching Forrest Gump, and this album would fit perfectly as the soundtrack with its fun and sentimental sound. By the fourth track, Foxygen sings a catchy, swaying melody about San Francisco where we hear female vocals for the first time. The album adds a bit of funk with songs like "Shuggie" and "Oh Yeah" while still carrying the Beatle-esque electric guitar riffs and piano jams. Peace & Magic closes with a rock ballad that creatively ties together their use of instruments and expansive sound.
Foxygen's newest compilation brings you back the good ol' days of love and experimental music. Strong singles such as "Shuggie," "San Francisco," and "On the Mountain" are sure to leave a reminiscent impression. The two band members reside from New York and will soon begin a tour through Europe. We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic was released on January 22, 2013.
Written by Meagan Nouis, Radio K volunteer.
Tags: Foxygen We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic Weekly Release Spotlight


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Joe Belford was selected for the 2012 Devils Lake Basin Water Stewardship Award at the 49th annual Joint North Dakota Water Convention and Irrigation Expo on Thursday, Dec. 6 during the convention's awards banquet.
Joe Belford was selected for the 2012 Devils Lake Basin Water Stewardship Award at the 49th annual Joint North Dakota Water Convention and Irrigation Expo on Thursday, Dec. 6 during the convention's awards banquet.
The award is presented to an individual, group or organization who have contributed to assisting with the implementation of the board's mission statement: "Development of a comprehensive, coordinated water management plan for the Devils Lake Basin that will protect the economic and biological values of the Devils Lake Basin while providing optimum benefits for agriculture, wildlife, and fisheries, recreation and economic development for its citizens."
Nominees must have demonstrated a commitment to improving the quality of life for the Devils Lake Basin community through their efforts to improve land and water stewardship in the basin.
Previous award winners were Dry Lake-Grand Harbor Watershed Management project ('04), Ernie Hagen and the Minnewaukan School 'OWLS' project ('05), Nikolaisen WPA project ('06), the Greater Ramsey Water District ('07), Russell L. Dushinske ('08) and Co-Winners Mike Connor and Curt Hofstad ('09), New City – Zion Township Creek Restoration Project ('10) and Lynn Schlueter of the N.D. Game & Fish Department for the Loma Carp Barrier Project ('11).
"For the better part of the past four decades Joe has spent a great deal of his life ensuring that Devils Lake, Ramsey County and, through multi-jurisdictional boards, the entire region is a better place to live for all. As an elected public official many times you are faced with difficult decisions to make knowing full well you are not going to be able to please everyone. And as an elected public official you have personal sacrifices and choices you have to make on how to spend your time. Even though this recipient had health issues, was a dedicated family man, a private business owner and had personal tragedies along the way his dedication to his constituents and the region that he loves never wavered.
His time serving the public started with a stint on the Devils Lake City Commission in 1972 during that time he saw many changes within the community and certainly with the lake itself as there were new high elevations that hadn't been seen since the 1800s. In 1984 after serving the city for 12 years he decided to serve the entire county as a commissioner for Ramsey County a position he held until just a few days ago. During that time he saw the lake go from adequate water levels in the mid 80s to worrying about a possible fish kill due to low water levels in the early 90s. With that threat being very real he along with a few others jumped into action forming the Lake Preservation Committee, well, Joe likes to joke that they did their job too well as in early 1993 just when they were having meetings with high level officials on how to save the lake and its fishery it began to rain and the lake started rising. Well, prevent a fish kill they did as the lake has been on the rise ever since. With that rising water came a rising amount of problems and being one to never back down Joe took on that challenge with a determination of a pit bull. Ramsey County and the entire region couldn't have asked for a better advocate as Joe became a flood fighting 'Super Hero' appearing before the legislature, the water commission and anyone else that would listen as well as making several trips to Washington DC testifying before Congressional panels ensuring that needs were being met back home.
If you add up all of the time just attending regularly scheduled commission meetings over that 36 year career that is 864 meetings. Add those together with the meetings that go along with all of the committee appointments associated with being a city or county commissioner and then add in all of the flood related meetings and it is easy to see how Joe chose to spend a lot of the seconds allotted to him in his life, he chose to serve his fellow man and try to make Devils Lake, Ramsey County and the entire region a better place to live. And it is because of that dedication that the Devils Lake Basin Joint Water Resource Board is very honored to present the 2012 Devils Lake Basin Water Stewardship Award to Mr. Joe Belford for his 36 years of public service," reads the transcript from the award ceremony.


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Inodes are associated with precisely one directory entry at a time. However, with hard links it is possible to associate multiple directory entries with a single inode. To create a hard link use ln command as follows:
# ln /root/file1 /root/file2
# ls -l
Above commands create a link to file1. Symbolic links refer to:
A symbolic path indicating the abstract location of another file.
Hard links refer to:
The specific location of physical data.
Hard link vs. Soft link in Linux or UNIX
- Hard links cannot link directories.
- Cannot cross file system boundaries.
Soft or symbolic links are just like hard links. It allows to associate multiple filenames with a single file. However, symbolic links allows:
- To create links between directories.
- Can cross file system boundaries.
These links behave differently when the source of the link is moved or removed.
- Symbolic links are not updated.
- Hard links always refer to the source, even if moved or removed.
How do I create symbolic link?
You can create symbolic link with ln command:
$ ln -s /path/to/file1.txt /path/to/file2.txt
$ ls -ali
Above command will create a symbolic link to file1.txt.
Task: Symbolic link creation and deletion
Let us create a directory called foo, enter:
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
Copy /etc/resolv.conf file, enter:
$ cp /etc/resolv.conf .
View inode number, enter:
$ ls -ali
Sample output:
total 152 1048600 drwxr-xr-x 2 vivek vivek 4096 2008-12-09 20:19 . 1015809 drwxrwxrwt 220 root root 143360 2008-12-09 20:19 .. 1048601 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vivek vivek 129 2008-12-09 20:19 resolv.conf
Now create soft link to resolv.conf, enter:
$ ln -s resolv.conf alink.conf
$ ls -ali
Sample output:
total 152 1048600 drwxr-xr-x 2 vivek vivek 4096 2008-12-09 20:24 . 1015809 drwxrwxrwt 220 root root 143360 2008-12-09 20:19 .. 1048602 lrwxrwxrwx 1 vivek vivek 11 2008-12-09 20:24 alink.conf -> resolv.conf 1048601 -rwxr-xr-x 1 vivek vivek 129 2008-12-09 20:19 resolv.conf
The reference count of the directory has not changed (total 152). Our symbolic (soft) link is stored in a different inode than the text file (1048602). The information stored in resolv.conf is accessible through the alink.conf file. If we delete the text file resolv.conf, alink.conf becomes a broken link and our data is lost:
$ rm resolv.conf
$ ls -ali
If alink.conf was a hard link, our data would still be accessible through alink.conf. Also, if you delete the soft link itself, the data would still be there. Read man page of ln for more information.
Continue reading rest of the Understanding Linux file system series (this is part VI):
- Part I – Understanding Linux superblock
- Part II – Understanding Linux superblock
- Part III – An example of Surviving a Linux Filesystem Failures
- Part IV – Understanding filesystem Inodes
- Part V – Understanding filesystem directories
- Part VI – Understanding UNIX/Linux symbolic (soft) and hard links
- Part VII – Why isn't it possible to create hard links across file system boundaries?


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Alternate Names
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy - discharge; Shock wave lithotripsy - discharge; Laser lithotripsy - discharge; Percutaneous lithotripsy - discharge; Endoscopic lithotripsy - discharge; ESWL - discharge
When You Were in the Hospital
You had lithotripsy, a medical procedure that uses shock waves to break up stones in your kidney, bladder, or ureter (tube that carries urine from your kidneys to your bladder). The waves break the stones into tiny pieces.
What to Expect at Home
It is normal to have a small amount of blood in your urine for a few days to a few weeks after this procedure.
You may have pain and nausea when the stone pieces pass. This can happen soon after treatment and may last for 4 to 8 weeks.
Have someone drive you home from the hospital. Rest when you get home. Most people can resume their regular daily activities 1 or 2 days after this procedure.
Drink a lot of water in the weeks after treatment. This helps pass any pieces of stone that still have not passed.
Learn how to prevent your kidney stones from coming back. See also:
Take the pain medicine your doctor told you to take and drink a lot of water if you have pain. You may need to take antibiotics and anti-inflammatory medicines for a few days.
You will probably be asked to strain your urine at home to look for stones. Your doctor or nurse will tell you how to do this. Any stones you find can be sent to a medical lab to be examined.
You will be asked to visit your doctor for a follow-up appointment in the weeks after your lithotripsy.
You may have a nephrostomy drainage tube and will need to take care of it. See also:
When to Call the Doctor
Call your doctor if you have:
- Very bad pain in your back or side that will not go away
- Blood in your urine
- Fever and chills
- Vomiting
- Urine that smells bad or looks cloudy
- A burning feeling when you urinate
Matlaga BR, Lingeman JE. Surgical management of upper urinary tract calculi. In: Wein AJ, ed. Campbell-Walsh Urology. 10th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders; 2011:chap 48.
Curhan GC. Nephrolithiasis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 128.
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Reviewed By:
Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington; and Louis S. Liou, MD, PhD, Chief of Urology, Cambridge Health Alliance, Visiting Assistant Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – In their second home dual of the week, the King University men's wrestling team squared off against Anderson University in the Student Center Complex on Saturday. The dual ended in a 27-27 tie, and Anderson won the tiebreaker to take the dual 28-27.
King won on a pair of forfeits at 197 and heavyweight to start the dual before Anderson's Cory Monteforte pinned Reed Jacks as the first period buzzer sounded at 125 to make the score 12-6 in favor of King. Cullen King stretch King's lead to 15-6 after earning an 8-5 win over Keenan Simmons at 133 pounds.
After the Trojans took a forfeit win at 141 pounds, Anderson's Sean Turner pinned Frank Yattoni IV at 149 pounds in 2:55 to give the Trojans an 18-15 lead. Zane Newton stretch Anderson's lead to 21-15 with a narrow 5-2 win over Chance Smith at 157 pounds.
However, JA Jones pulled King even at 21 when he pinned Stephen Wylie in 2:07 at 165 pounds. Nevertheless, Ian Harper, of Anderson came right back with a pin at 174 to give the Trojans a commanding 27-21 lead with one bout left. At 184 pounds, Blaike Henry brought the Tornado back, however, pinning Eric DeAngelis in 2:36 to even the dual at 27-27. With the score tied, the tie was broken by the fourth tiebreaker, first takedown of the first match, giving Anderson the 28-27 win.
King will be in action again on Saturday when they travel to the Super Region II Duals hosted by Newberry College in Newberry, S.C.


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Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 [Oops, I forgot to add links to what I was referring to in the in the previous email. Please use this version]Cliff, Thanks for the detailed response and analysis! I'll address some of your comments. >Does it support captioning? While the annotations could be used to manually input captions, EmbedPlus serves as an extension of the YouTube player, which inherently supports captioning. I suspect you already know this though. The main goal of the annotations feature was to provide a means for third-parties to embed a video on their websites or blogs, and explicitly add their own timed text without having to be the YouTube user owning the video. >Does it support video description? You mentioned the idea of opening a script document for those users that cannot see. I suppose you propose that idea so that a screen reader could be applied on said document. What do you think about the idea of overlaying audio clips instead? That is, just like there is timed text (annotations), one could have audio clips that are played at given times when needed to describe what's going on? The video playback could be paused during these audio clips in order to prevent mixing with the video sound. >Tabs You make a very good point about tabs and we will explore this. Along these lines, we have instead played with the idea of hot keys for a version of the player that we built for a free application found to be quite ripe for the player. It's a video-based pronunciation dictionary and word usage API we are developing that leverages the features offered by the player; check out: "How do you pronounce and use." ( http://www.embedplus.com/dictionary/how-to-pronounce-words-and-use-them.aspx ) You can read details on the page if you want, but in short, a few users had asked if they could just push the left and right arrow keys for PREV and NEXT respectively. We implemented this general idea for the left side navigation buttons on the version of the player used by the application. You can try it out on a couple common examples and see what I mean. - How do you pronounce and use gyro (in video) - http://www.embedplus.com/dictionary/how-to-pronounce-gyro-and-use-it - How do you pronounce and use salmon (in video) - http://www.embedplus.com/dictionary/how-to-pronounce-salmon-and-use-it Beyond PREV and NEXT, hitting the 'P' key plays the video, 'S' starts slow motion and 'R' invokes replay. It would be nice to hear your thoughts on hot keys versus tabs. I figure they achieve similar things, but hot keys provide the added benefit of direct access - i.e., no need to go in order of tabs. Thanks again, -Tay ---------------------------------------- From: "Cliff Tyllick" <email@example.com> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 10:52 AM To: "EmbedPlus" <email@example.com> Subject: Re: Web video accessibility Tay, the link works for me in Mac OS X (10.5.8) and Firefox 5.0.1. I turned off my ad and pop-up blockers before starting this test. Off the top of my head, I can think of these main issues for accessibility of a video player:Does it support captioning? (If I cannot hear, is it possible to display the text of the script or transcript as it is being said? It appears that EmbedPlus does support captioning, although the information in the captions includes very little of what is in the sound track, and the sound track does not include everything that is in the captions.)Does it support video description? (If I cannot see, can I open a document that, interwoven into the script or transcript, gives me a rich description of what is going on?)If I have no mouse, or if I cannot operate the mouse - and especially if I am blind - can I still get to and operate the controls? (Will the tab key take me from one control to the next, and can I operate each of them with the space bar?)Assuming I can get to and operate the controls from the keyboard, can I tell which control I am on at any one time and what I can expect it to do? (Are form controls labeled in a way that allows my my screen reader to announce the labels to me and allows me to recognize their function?)Assuming I can get to, recognize, and operate the form controls, is the tab order correct? (Does the sequence of controls I encounter when I hit the tab key match the order in which these controls appear? As shown below, it does not.)When I get to this page, nothing seems to happen when I hit the tab key. To jumpstart my review of your viewer itself, I used the mouse to start the video on the right (the plus view, not the standard). When I did, the captioning window opened by default. From there, here is what happened with each successive pressing of the tab key. When I indicate a function - for example, Next - that means that the function's control was highlighted by a yellow box. In this list, I've also indicated whether the control was operable with the space bar when highlighted: nothingnothingNext (not operable)nothingPrevious (operable)nothingSlow (operable)nothingReplay (operable, but does same thing as "Previous")nothingnothingnothingGet (operable - opens in a new window, but nothing in the new window is highlighted and the first time I press tab clears the contents from both "Code" fields)nothingFull Screen (operable, but then Tab no longer works)More (operable, but there is no focus indicator on the new screen. And would I understand where you have taken me - what am I expected to be able to do here?)nothingZoom (operable, but I have no control over the area zoomed in on. I can't select the area to zoom in on, and I can't pan the shot once I have zoomed in)nothingRead (operable, but where am I?)nothingnothingClose Caption window (not operable)nothing (but cycle is restarting; note that the next three actions are same as first three)nothingnothingNext I could not get out of this particular set of controls except by one irreproducible event that led to a highlighted progress slider. When I got to the slider, I couldn't operate it. And if I ever got to the other controls in that top row - Start/Stop, Sound, CC (which, apparently, will produce a transcript?), 360p, and Watch Later - I couldn't tell that I had. So your viewer looks promising, but it also seems to me that you have more work to do to make it accessible. Cliff ---------------------------------------- From: "firstname.lastname@example.com" <email@example.com> To: EmbedPlus <firstname.lastname@example.com> Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Monday, August 15, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: Web video accessibility the test view was linux Ubuntu 8.4 and the browser was lynx and the propaganda was all the stuff saying how great Embed was. actually I didn't expect it to work, how do you get a basically video format to work in an audio/text system of viewing. Bob On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, EmbedPlus wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:58:55 -0400 > From: EmbedPlus <email@example.com> > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: Web video accessibility > > Bob, > > We have zero have any ads on the page, so I'm not sure if you are looking > at the right page. Not sure about the "propaganda" thing as well -- given > my understanding of the word. > > What could really help is if you could you give me some info on your chosen > browser on linux. Information about the linux distribution would also > help. > > -Tay > > ---------------------------------------- > From: firstname.lastname@example.com > Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 11:01 PM > To: "EmbedPlus" <email@example.com> > Subject: Re: Web video accessibility > > "does not recognize your browser" > > get lots of advertising and propaganda > but no action > > Bob > > On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, EmbedPlus wrote: > >> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:52:13 -0400 >> From: EmbedPlus >> To: email@example.com, Karen Lewellen >> Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com >> Subject: Re: Web video accessibility >> Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 02:52:57 +0000 >> Resent-From: email@example.com >> >> Which link? >> Here http://www.embedplus.com/ ? I haven't seen any problems on my >> side. >> >> ---------------------------------------- >> From: email@example.com >> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 9:34 PM >> To: "Karen Lewellen" >> Subject: Re: Web video accessibility >> >> got pretty much the same error and I'm running linux >> >> Bob >> >> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> >>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:21:26 -0400 (EDT) >>> From: Karen Lewellen >>> To: EmbedPlus >>> Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com >>> Subject: Re: Web video accessibility >>> Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:21:53 +0000 >>> Resent-From: email@example.com >>> >>> I just checked on this, do you realize the link here produces an unable >> to >>> connect to remote host error? >>> Karen >>> >>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, EmbedPlus wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Normal >>>> 0 >>>> >>>> >>>> false >>>> false >>>> false >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I'm the co-developer a YouTube third-party tool called >>>> EmbedPlus. It enhances the standard >>>> YouTube player with many features that aren't inherently supported. >> We've >>>> been getting lots of feedback regarding >>>> the accessibility benefits of some of these features like movable > zoom, >> >>>> slow >>>> motion, and even third-party annotations. >>>> As the tool continues to grow in popularity, the importance of its >>>> accessibility rises. I decided to do some research and found the WAI >>>> Interest >>>> group to be a major proponent of accessibility on the web. If anyone >> has >>>> time to take a look at >>>> EmbedPlus and share feedback that could help improve the tool, please >> do. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Here's the link: http://www.embedplus.com/ >>>> . If needed, I can provide further details. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Thank you in advance, >>>> >>>> Tay >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> > > >Received on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 04:09:47 UTC
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Quotations for Creative Thinking: Search 50,000 Famous Quotes
A Brief History of Creative Quotations
I'm Frank, the creator and webmaster for CreativeQuotations.com. I'd like to briefly explain how this website, and all the websites in the bemorecreative.com family, evolved from my personal interest in quotations.
My wife and I began our married life working for seven years as volunteers in Zaire (now DR Congo) with Mennonite Central Committee – she as a nurse and I, first as a teacher, and later as a public health manager. By 1981 I had completed a Masters in Tropical Diseases at Johns Hopkins and a Doctorate in International Health at Tulane Universities. I was then hired by USAID to manage a large health-systems development project based in Kinshasa. The SANRU Basic Rural Health project which I helped to manage developed 100 decentralized health zones to provide primary health care for more than 10,000,000 people. That is, however, another story told better at http://SANRU.org.
In 1986 I wanted to make a calendar Christmas gift for my wife using Print Shop and my trusty Apple //GS computer. I decided to make a weekly calendar with a motherly/homey quotation at the top of each page. Browsing through a copy of The Shorter Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, I found the quotes that I was looking for, but, in the process, also became hooked on quotations about creativity. I began collecting quotations relating to creativity and soon had enough to make a page-a-day calendar featuring creative-related quotations.
Within the following months I amassed several thousand quotations, and began reading more about the creative process. I was intrigued by books like "A Whack on the Side of The Head: How to Unlock Your Mind for Innovation" by Roger Von Oech. However, it was in reading his sequel, "A Kick in the Seat of the Pants," that I made a creative connection that my collection of quotations could be used to illustrate components of the creativity process. After more research, including "Pathfinders" by Gail Sheehy I ended up adopting a five-step creative process, called Creative Quotations, -- Foraging, Reflecting, Adopting, Nurturing, and Knuckling Down. Those five terms, while admittedly a bit out of the ordinary, spell out the word "FRANK," and become my way of personalizing the creative process.
I credit my ten years of "survival" as a project manager in Africa in part to this personalization of the creative process, and its application to creative project management. I also found that I could logically link almost any of my collected quotations with one of those five components. I also found that given a dozen or so quotations from a famous person that I could usually create a meaningful set of Creative Quotations by that person which illustrated, directly or indirectly, their thoughts on the creative process – from "Foraging" to "Knuckling Down," e.g., Creative Quotations from Abraham Lincoln.
Creative Quotations from Abraham Lincoln
In 1991 our family was evacuated from Zaire due to political and economic instability. At that time I began working as a freelance consultant in International Health. I also began looking for opportunities to share Creative Quotations to a larger audience that might appreciate insights from famous creative people -- "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved in quotations. (Isaac D'Israeli). CreativeQuotations.com came to be as a result of that effort, and is intended to challenge people readers to think creatively by looking for connections between quotations and the creative process -- "Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected (William Plomer).
The Internet has provided me with the medium to not only share my quotation collection as "CreativeQuotations.com", but also to expand to a broader platform of "BeMoreCreative.com." That eventually led to numerous other Creative Quotational websites. I've thematically combined quotations on a selected topic with online links to products related to that topic. The CreativeHardwareStore.com, for example, was inspired by the quotation that "Anyone can look for history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store" --Robert Wieder.
I invite you to browse CreativeQuotations.com (or any BeMoreCreative.com websites) while "thinking, working and living more creatively." And keep on the lookout for connections along the way that may inspire your personal creativity!
Creative Quotations is the leading member of the bemorecreative.com family.
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Calvin Donald Bayles of La Crescenta, CA, son of Grant and Helen Bayles, formerly of Blanding, passed away peacefully on August 4, 2013, in the presence of his wife, children and their spouses.
Calvin was born on July 22, 1948, in Monticello. Calvin spent most of his adult life in La Crescenta, but returns to San Juan County to be buried in Blanding for his love of the country and the call of his ancestors.
He loved his youth in Blanding with his loving parents and six younger brothers and sisters. He graduated from San Juan High School in 1966.
The lives of his forefathers were often on his mind throughout his life, and he discussed their remarkable faith-filled lives with his family often, including many fireside chats about Jens Nielsen, one of the handcart pioneers.
Calvin was a modern pioneer in his own immediate family, effectively balance a successful professional life with the demands of a large family.
The four cornerstones on which he balanced his life were Scouting, faith, education and hard work.
He earned the rank of Eagle Scout (Scoutmaster Leonard Hurst '61, formerly of Blanding, and one of Calvin's heroes) and Calvin attended the National Jamboree (Valley Forge '64) and the LDS International Explorer Conference (Provo, UT '65).
As for faith, he often declared before both family and strangers his abiding conviction that a loving Heavenly Father watches over us and that Jesus Christ is God's only begotten Son and the Savior of the World.
Accordingly, he served an honorable mission (Brazil, '69), and fulfilled every calling and assignment he ever received in the Church, including Elders Quorum President, Seminary Teacher, High Councilor, High Priest Group Leader, Bishop, and two terms as Scoutmaster.
As for education, he loved his college years at BYU, where he earned an undergraduate degree in History, with a minor in Political Science (B.S. '72). He was also a pioneer at BYU, earning a law degree in the first class ever to graduate from the J. Reuben Clark Law School (J.D. '76).
As a father of seven and grandfather of 25, his emphasis was coaching sports, attending games and recitals, and leading family discussions about Heavenly Father's plan for the happiness of His children. All these he did with Marilyn by his side.
He is survived by Marilyn, his devoted wife of 43 years and 38 descendants, including three beautiful daughters-in-law and three stalwart sons-in-law.
The names of the children and their spouses are David and Lonna Bayles, David and Dena Blood, Brock and Mary Bayles, Rebekah and Aaron Peterson, Stacy and Grant Clark, Scot and Brittany Bayles, and Michael Bayles.
One daughter-in-law predeceased Calvin – David's wife Jennifer Young Bayles, the daughter of Wayne ("Sandy") and Louise Young, of Gilroy, CA, and granddaughter of Darroll and Leda Young, formerly of Monticello.
Most of Calvin's immediate family, all former Blanding residents, survive him including three brothers and their wives, Kelly and Vicky Bayles of Green River, UT, Matt and Lynette Bayles of Mesa, AZ and Jerry and Ardawn Bayles of St. George, UT, and three sisters and their husbands, Robyn and Richard Robins of Cedar Hills, UT, Shauna and Lyle Black of Pleasant Grove, UT, and David and Katherine Pinkston of American Fork, UT.
One brother, Clark Bayles, predeceased Calvin as an infant.
Calvin also has 40 living adoring nieces and nephews.
Everyone who knew Calvin best knows that he loved Marilyn with all his heart and that he believed she was the crown jewel of his life.
Crippen Mortuary is handling the arrangements for the family. There will be visitation and a funeral on August 17, 2013, at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., respectively, at the LDS Chapel in La Crescenta, CA.
A memorial service and visitation will be at the Blanding LDS Stake Center, 88 West 800 North, on August 24 beginning at 11:30 a.m., with the service in the chapel at 1 p.m. Burial at the Blanding City Cemetery following the services.
We love you Dad. See you soon.


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Through Feb. 2: CWS Gallery Feature Art of Russ Duerksen
Event Details
Date: December 9 - February 1, 2013
Times: Gallery Reception: 4:30-6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12 (gallery talk begins at 5:30 p.m.).
Location: Center for Western Studies
Ticket Info: Free and open to the public.
The Center for Western Studies' newest exhibit features works by wildlife artist and South Dakota native Russ Duerksen.
"The Art of Russ Duerksen" will be on display from Monday, Dec. 10, through Saturday, Feb. 2.The gallery reception on Wednesday, Dec. 12, included a gallery talk.
Duerksen grew up in eastern South Dakota where he spent most of his youth on his grandparent's farm and exploring the outdoors. His love for nature gave him inspiration to sketch the wildlife that he saw. This led Russ to a commercial art career and then to his dream of becoming a full-time professional artist.
He gathers reference material for his paintings through hunting and photo trips. Duerksen enjoys entering art contests and has received many awards including:
- 2010 Fifth Place Federal Duck Stamp
- 2008 Oklahoma Waterfowl Stamp
- 2003 Nominated for the Sioux Falls Mayor's Award for Excellence in Visual Arts
- 2001 Pheasants Forever National Package, "Along The Creek"
- 2000 & 1999 South Dakota Migratory Bird Certification Stamp
- 1999 Delaware Migratory Waterfowl Stamp
- 1996, '95 & '91 South Dakota State Waterfowl Restoration Stamps
- 1997 South Dakota State Habitat Stamp
The exhibit is located in the Madsen/Nelson/Elmen Galleries of the Fantle Building at the Center for Western Studies, 2121 South Summit Ave. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Admission is free.


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There is no doubt that every, any player, that spends time on the top line in Vancouver with the Sedins will benefit. However, no player has done more with their time with that opportunity than Alex Burrows. The Quebec native set career highs in goals, assists, points and many other categories. He scored himself a new $2m/yr contract last year as well. Not bad for a guy who went undrafted and was playing in the ECHL 5 years ago.
But Alex Burrows starts the year injured, recovering from off-season shoulder surgery. So upon his return, what does Burrows do for an encore to his career year? Does he match it? Better it? And does it depend entirely on the Sedins?
As mentioned, Alex Burrows went undrafted to start his professional career. He bounced around the ECHL, playing in Greenville, Baton Rouge and Columbia before signing with the Manitoba Moose. He played 1.5 seasons in Manitoba before getting called up by the Canucks in 2005-06, where he played out the year in Vancouver. Since then, Burrows has been a full-time Canuck. In those 4 years, he has missed only one game (playoff and regular season), and that was in his first full year in Vancouver. He was becoming the Canucks' iron man and his stats had steadily increased every year in the NHL. However, he will not continue those streaks as he recovers from shoulder surgery. He'll miss at least the first month of the regular season and will need to get into mid-season form quickly if he intends to make an impact this year.
Counting Stats: 35g-32a-67pts
Shooting Pct.: 16.7% (2nd VAN, 15th NHL)
Penalties Taken over 60 mns: 2.0 (Worst VAN, 3rd worst on NHL, min 30 GP)
Going Forward
Alex Burrows can simultaneously hurt and help his team. He's a sniper, he sees the ice well, he goes to the "dirty areas", and he has unarguable chemistry with the Sedins. But he takes penalties and lots of them. For Alex Burrows to take his game up another level, he is going to have to keep his discipline in check. For someone who skirts that fine line between agitator and finesse player, it is difficult. But Burrows has to do better about picking his spots. He already has a reputation around the league as being a diver and a bit of a rat. His ridiculous episode with referee Stephane Auger brought all of this to the forefront. So for Burrows to continue to improve, he needs to put that reputation aside and play some more discipline hockey. I'm certainly not suggesting that Burrows should never take a penalty again. That's not his game. He plays a bit on the edge. He likes to muck it up and he's terrific at it. It's how he is able to draw so many calls against the other team. But Burrows needs to cut down on the unnecessary calls, the calls that don't agitate, the calls that don't get the opposition riled up.
As he spends the first month (if not longer) in the press box healing, he'll get an even better sense of how the Sedins play, as he'll see their game at a higher level, literally. If he can use this time wisely and learn even more about how Daniel and Henrik use the ice, he'll be able to step in and make an immediate impact. Given that he will be out for at least a month to start the season, his total stats won't be as good as last year. But if he can continue to increase his per-game stats, he'll be seen as the unsung hero that he his.
Where Burrows really needs to step up is in the playoffs, where his stats show that he has had a real tough time. It's time for Burrows to show that he can play when it really counts. If he succeeds in the playoffs, so will the Canucks.


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The publication of German Nobel Prize Laureate Gunter Grass's poem, "Was gesagt werden muss" (What Must Be Said), has triggered a predictable avalanche of outrage, from Benjamin Netanyahu's vitriolic condemnation of the poem to accusations by the Israeli Embassy to Germany and former Israeli prison guard Jeffrey Goldberg (the two are virtually indistinguishable these days) that Grass is guilty of a "blood libel." Last weekend, the campaign against Grass reached its crescendo when Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai designated him "persona non grata," thus ranking the octogenarian scribe right behind Arab babies as one of the greatest existential threats to the Jewish state.
Grass's service at age 17 in the Nazi regime's Waffen SS has provided an easy line of attack for those seeking to dull the impact of his poem. New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief Ethan Bronner quoted Israeli columnist Anshel Pfeffer's claim that Grass's service in the Nazi regime's Waffen SS "disqualified him from criticizing the descendants of those Jews for developing a weapon of last resort that is the insurance policy against someone finishing the job his organization began." Pfeffer, by the way, is the same writer who boldly declared almost a year ago that "Israel must stop overplaying the Holocaust card."
Like the rest of Grass's assailants, Pfeffer omitted the fact that Grass was forcibly conscripted into the German military in 1944 (just as Pfeffer was drafted into the IDF, an occupying army to which Bronner's son volunteered), serving as a Panzer tank gunner during the last stages of the war. Grass may be no more of a Nazi than Pope Benedict XVI, who was conscripted against his will into the Hitler Youth, but when have Zionists ever let historical nuance get in the way of a campaign to muzzle critics of Israeli policy?
Like Jimmy Carter and Desmond Tutu before him, Grass stands to suffer serious damage to his legacy for daring to say what must be said. But his poem will endure simply because he has opened up a debate of unprecedented scale on the perverse special relationship between Germany and Israel. Grass wrote:
my own country,
guilty of primal and unequalled crimes,
for which time and again it must be tasked —
once again in pure commerce,
though with quick lips we declare it
reparations, wants to send
Israel another submarine —
one whose specialty is to deliver
warheads capable of ending all life
where the existence of even one
nuclear weapon remains unproven…
Here Grass referred to Germany's sale of a Dolphin class submarine to Israel at a deep discount subsidized by German taxpayers. As I wrote at Al Akhbar English, Israel requested that Germany widen the torpedo tubes of its submarines to accomodate the launching of tactical nuclear missiles at Iran's nuclear facilities. So Grass was essentially correct: German citizens were corralled into providing Israel with a mobile delivery platform for its massive nuclear weapons arsenal, which it maintains without any international supervision. And they were compelled to do so out of Holocaust guilt — as Reuters' Israel correspondent Dan Williams wrote, "as part of Berlin's commitment to shoring up a Jewish state founded in the wake of the Holocaust."
If Grass got anything wrong, it was the difference between tactical nuclear missiles, which are designed to deliver a massive blow to a concentrated area, and the kind of nuclear bombs that killed hundreds of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Tactical nuclear weapons may not be "capable of ending all life," as Grass wrote, but they would represent the first deployment of nuclear missiles since World War II. On the other hand, as the Center for Strategic and International Studies noted in a study on the consequences of an Israeli strike on Iran, "Any strike on [Iran's] Bushehr Nuclear Reactor will cause the immediate death of thousands of people living in or adjacent to the site, and thousands of subsequent cancer deaths or even up to hundreds of thousands depending on the population density along the contamination plume."
Today is the 64th anniversary of the massacre carried out in Deir Yassin by the Stern Gang/Irgun militias led by future Israeli Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir. Since a theme of this post is Zionist exploitation of the Jewish genocide in Europe, here is a little known fact: According to Shimon Tzabar, a journalist, artist, and leading figure in the anti-Zionist Israeli group Matzpen, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Aharanoth claimed Nazi troops were present in the Palestinian village at the time. "In Deir-Yassin there were soldiers of regular foreign armies, including Nazis with swastika emblems," Yedioth Aharanoth reporter Eliahu Amikam wrote in August 1960. "Among the corpses there were Iraqis, Syrians and Yugoslavs lying in their military uniform. Swastika ribbons were torn off their sleeves."
This was originally published at Al Akhbar English.


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How the Messy Cliff Deal Came Together
WSJ Washington Bureau Chief Jerry Seib joins Lunch Break with insights into the back-room negotiations that led to a last-minute deal to avert the fiscal cliff.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... the deal is done but Americans wondering why was it so hard to get their Jerry side he's in Washington with as he writes the capital Journal ... Common he is good but now watching this deal ... to the final moment Jerry ... why would it come down to that final hour everybody's morning was a system of politics as usual with Amy Li arguing the de tails until that last moment ... well look it was hard because everything's part in Washington right now I think that the backdrop of this I understand that most people and look at this situation it does make any sense at all why does everything have to be so hard when does everything go to the area and well ... I think they're couple of structural reasons that you know what is is the basic polarization Washington not just Washington the country is well ... you know you've got red states they're much more red or blue states are but a blue than they use to be ... aam and you have a situation right now which the two parties are in a strange position ... Davies of each other they're very evenly divided in power across the country ... but very far apart ideologically and that makes ... Washington a very hard place to govern under any circumstances ... in this case the pain was particularly hard because both sides knew that in this ... fiscal cliff deficit cutting deal ... some important precedents for being set you know if the Republicans agreed as they did ... to increase at least some any tax rates than they were changing the conversation from whether tax rate should be increased ... to which tax rates and how many should be increasing that's a big president ... and for the Democrats they knew that if they get in on entitlements if present Obama said as he did so more along the way that he was willing to see benefits reduced the for Sosa Security recipients over time ... and they were making setting a precedent to you in which they would be saying yes we can cut entitlement ... spending not just by reducing the costs of the programs ... are reducing what beneficiaries receive and those are really important precedents tensions flaring in the final days and hours leading up to this Jerry and there is in a reportedly I House Speaker John painter had some ... some choice words for Senate majority ... leader Harry Reid outside the Oval office can you ... shed some light on that for us ... well you know that appeared that the of the conversations were breaking down on all fronts announce another reason why this was the all parties present such a cliffhanger because ... you know that the house basically couldn't resolve the debate within its own ranks about what to do here ... that left it to the sentence he had to ... get him Harry Reid the Democratic leader Mitch McConnell the Republican leader trying to get something gone tensions between them ... I got very high over the last forty eight hours that sort of broke down the only reason when you visit came together and it appears was that Mitch McConnell the Republican leader the Senate ... and Joe Biden his former ... Senate colleague and the current vice president obviously a Democrat ... came together in a back channel and figured out how to put together a deal so you know the normal channels broke down it's another sign of this dysfunction ... and the polarization Washington but it was the McConnell Biden Axes that see this ... and Jerry when you see sort of that kind of thing delaying would reportedly be news is that par for the course or do you think that that was unique ... for this particular negotiation ... well you know ... it it does rely tempers are short on sleep was that was scarce around here the last two or you were but ... we are we were suffering that year so ... I'd I think it's like it I think it's comparable to win a big business deals coming together there's a lot of tension ... I don't think it's all that unusual I don't think the the your elected leaders in Washington or PR and using the occasional four letter word so ... that's not normal but it's not that it's not really the right yes it was do you think there were any missed opportunities for either party Jerry ... well look I on the one hand I kinda think this was the best deal though this Washington could muster right now so beyond that level I suppose that was the best either side can hope for ... I the Democrats certainly think they'll awesome opportunities here there certainly is a feeling the Democratic party that President ... Obama by getting in ... on tax rates now that she wanted a rocky one or raise taxes for everybody making over two and fifty thousand dollars year in the end he let that go up to four to fifty thousand dollars year ... I think a lot of Democrats think he gave away too much and doing that they had more leverage to the stock to his guns ... on Harry Reid for example I think with an unhappy just go over the cliff to make the point that he didn't have to give in when a core principle but he did ... I think from the Republican point of view ... there's a lot of unhappiness because people think well look weak data on taxes we get nothing back in the way of spending cuts except the promise that next year this year twenty thirteen ... will get back to that subject so ... I think it in the view of partisans on both sides there were some missed opportunities during very quickly any jockey new saw in the boats in terms of implications for ... twenty sixteen and and possible runs for the top of the presidential ... election then you see PA Paul Ryan who was Mitt Romney's running mate ... he voted yes on the billion saw Marco Rubio another name being banded about he voted no can shed little light on that ... well I think you are using are very interesting thing you know I think the calculations are already started for twenty sixteen matches most people probably don't even wanna think about that that's the reality here ... and it is the US Navy had two guys are gonna be a net twenty sixteen conversation go is you say opposites Rex is a marker Rubio is ... up twenty view was ... up this doesn't do enough to reduce spending on to make a point here I know it's been a pass the Senate when ... his boat into account that since he could make a political statement ... I think Paul Ryan was in a different position Paul Ryan was being watched very closely because people suspected he might try to undermine his leader in the house I John painter who was supporting in the end voting for this deal and it did in fact vote for ... the Paul Ryan wanted this appeared to his ... Republican compatriots in the house to still be a good soldier not have gotten too big for its britches if you well and so he wanted to stay in line with his leader and he did that and I suspect what he can say I think the level of Republicans can say is look ... I bought it for a deal that was in great but it's a ninety eight for ninety nine percent of the Bush tax cuts from two thousand and one so that's a success but I think they're activations because one was in the Senate ... and one is in the house were different ... write your inside thanks to you and I everyone in Washington for being a soldier sells N ... C


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First came First Lady Michelle Obama's "mid-life crisis bangs." Today, we're getting the first glimpse at her second-term official White House portrait, shot by Chuck Kennedy, featuring those much-discussed locks. It was only a matter of, well, minutes before we were tweeting/Facebooking/blogging about how she looks.
Because ... that's what we do in America. The country that's supposedly so advanced, except that we can't treat women in power with the respect they deserve. We can't resist an opportunity to regress to the superficial, and reduce a brilliant woman like Michelle Obama -- a Harvard-trained lawyer who is currently using her platform as FLOTUS to drive initiatives related to our nation's health and veterans -- to her hairdo and lipstick. What is this, the '50s? It's pathetic.
Here, a few of the ridiculous remarks already made about the FLOTUS's portrait, which of course have absolutely nothing to do with what Michelle Obama does and represents as First Lady ...
- "That center part makes her head look a tad butt-like. It's cool, though. We like butts. ... Her lipstick is pretty, but those eyebrows -- yikes." -New York Mag, which at least acknowledged they were offering a "purely superficial breakdown" of the portrait.
- "The bare-arm look of 2012 is a thing of the past -- but hopefully not a message from the halls of power that women need to start wearing sleeves in professional environments again, because we just got used to the whole 'Michelle Obama does it, so I can too' thing." -The Root. Wow. Are we really worried about bare arms in the workplace? Is that really our biggest fish to fry, ladies? Might I remind you: We don't get equal pay for equal work! AHH!
- "This time around Michelle covered up her infamous arms." -Glam.com. Enough about the arms!
- "Wedding ring, glossy pink lipstick, neutral nails: I am practically falling asleep but still, this is one for the literal history books." -TheFashionSpot.com, which gets a bit of a pass, because they blog about fashion and want to cover the news, but still ... it has me cringing about the history books being concerned only with Mrs. Obama's "neutral nails!"
- "It does not show her bangin' arms, for one thing, and she is maybe a little overly made up and does not look as relaxed and happy as usual." -Wonkette.com, which also is built on tongue-in-cheek commentary, but ugh, we really do cluck our tongues when she doesn't look "relaxed and happy." Or when she reacts like a human being and not a Stepford wife. And that's just gotta stop.
More from The Stir: Kate Middleton's Portrait Artist Should Have Expected Harsh Criticism Over His Work (VIDEO)
Are you also fed up with the constant focus on our FLOTUS's looks?
Image via The White House/Flickr


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Note: This item is included with five others in the Game Success & Failure Ident Pack. Further information about each item can be found in the links listed on that page.
"8-bit Level Cleared" is a retro sound effect useful for game or game-themed projects looking for a quick and positive musical identifier to be triggered when a user completes a stage, unlocks an achievement or otherwise progresses.Thanks for listening.