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Dell's 'Love Letter' to Linux: Now You See It, Now You Don't?
Jun 28, 2010 5:00 AM PT
Well, it's been an emotional rollercoaster ride here in the Linux blogosphere in recent days, thanks to Dell's proclamation -- and then apparent retraction -- of its love for Linux.
"Ubuntu is safer than Microsoft Windows" read item No. 6 on Dell's "Top 10 list of things you should know about Ubuntu" as recently the middle of this month. "The vast majority of viruses and spyware written by hackers are not designed to target and attack Linux," it added.
"Hoorah!" one might say. "At long last!"
Dell's uplifting words of endearment caused considerable joy and jubilation among Linux aficionados far and wide, including The VAR Guy, Network World and the rowdy crowd over at Digg, among many others.
Too bad it didn't last.
'Ubuntu Is Secure'
Sometime between the June 16 and 21, apparently, Dell thought better of its little public display of affection and carefully reworded that particular item.
The new wording: "Ubuntu is secure," item No. 6 now reads. "According to industry reports, Ubuntu is unaffected by the vast majority of viruses and spyware."
Bloggers everywhere could be heard expressing sentiments to that effect when the news broke, and Linux Girl was no exception.
"Boo!" was the word choice of Computerworld's Steven Vaughan Nichols, for example.
Redmond at Work?
"Comical" was Foogazi blogger Adam Kane's reaction.
Many others, not surprisingly, were unsuitable for publication.
It wasn't long, however, before all eyes -- and suspicions -- turned to Redmond.
To wit: "Did Microsoft Make Dell Take Back Love Letter to Linux?" was the question asked by The Consumerist, and that thought was echoed on countless other forums.
Linux Girl hastily picked herself up off the floor down at the blogosphere's seedy Broken Windows Lounge, where she had fallen off her bar stool upon hearing the news. Before long, a riot threatened to break out.
'I Doubt We'll Ever Know'
"I definitely think Dell's statement was retracted to protect their partnership with Microsoft," Foogazi's Kane opined.
"What I don't know, and would love to find out, is if Dell changed their tune due to pressure directly from Microsoft, or if one of the bigwigs at Dell noticed that it probably wasn't a good idea to make such a bold, albeit true, statement," he said.
"I doubt we'll ever know, though," Kane added.
'An Extraordinarily Bad Idea'
"To be honest, I'm surprised that Dell had that up as long as they did," Slashdot blogger Mhall119 told Linux Girl. "It's not that Microsoft would take objection to their saying nice things about Linux -- Dell is still saying nice things about Linux, after all -- it's that they were undermining the promotion of a competing product that they also sell."
The original wording, in fact, "was an extraordinarily bad idea from a business perspective, and somebody at Dell dropped the copy-editing ball by allowing it to be posted," he asserted.
'Dell Couldn't Survive Without Windows'
"Imagine if Wal-Mart ran an ad campaign for a sale on Pepsi products that listed one of the advantages as 'Pepsi tastes better than Coca-Cola!'" he pointed out. "I'm sure Coca-Cola would be pretty upset too."
In short, "as a business, you don't ever bad-mouth or undermine your suppliers or their products," Mhall119 concluded. "Especially when that supplier and those products are essential to the existence of your business.
"Wal-Mart could survive losing the right to sell Coke, but Dell couldn't survive without selling Windows," he asserted.
'There's a Certain Amount of Fear'
"My mid-level source inside Dell's sales division -- high up in a part of it that handles a form of Linux -- says that Microsoft gives them so much money that selling machines with Ubuntu isn't really worth the hassle," Slashdot blogger Daengbo offered. "He also says there's a certain amount of fear of 'upsetting the apple cart' and 'waking the sleeping giant.'"
Indeed, "M$ has sworn all its partners never to compare anything to their OS just as they forbid benchmarks in their EULA," blogger Robert Pogson agreed. "Thus, the page had to omit reference to that other OS.
"I think Dell should drop all references to that other OS, starting where they recommend it," Pogson added.
'Not Sure Why This Is a Big Deal'
On the other hand, "I'm really not sure why this is a big deal," Montreal consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack told Linux Girl. "Secure is such a nebulous word these days, and Microsoft could probably find some way their OS is more secure."
For Dell, "changing the statement means not having to face a lawsuit or price hike from Microsoft," Mack added.
"There is also the simple fact that if they advertise something as 'secure,' people will turn their brains off when using it and just assume they can run anything they download without obvious malware consequences," he added. "It may be much harder to write a Linux virus, but writing malware is still only as hard as getting someone to install it."
'It Was FUD'
To Slashdot blogger hairyfeet, Dell's original proclamation "wasn't a love letter, it was FUD," he told Linux Girl.
Ubuntu may be safer, "but you have to have a CS degree to run it," he explained. "If I lock a Windows box in concrete and bury it, the box will be pretty safe too, but not very usable. Same here."
Not everyone agreed, however.
"Linux is easier to secure and easier to use securely," Slashdot blogger David Masover asserted. "It's also cheaper to secure -- no antivirus, and upgrades are free forever, while Microsoft does eventually phase out support for old OSes.
"As long as Dell isn't saying something like, 'Windows is more secure than Linux' or 'Linux is not secure,' and as long as they're actually providing models they certify for Ubuntu, I'll definitely check dell.com/ubuntu before purchasing a computer," Masover added.
The Truth, on Video
Slashdot blogger Barbara Hudson, who goes by "Tom" on the site, took a similarly optimistic view.
In fact, she noted that in the embedded "Linux 101" video on Dell's Ubuntu page, at around the two-minute mark, Dell actually continues to assert Ubuntu's superior safety.
"There's a lot of reasons consumers like Linux," the video asserts. "No. 1: it's a powerful operating system. It can do lots of things very fast.
"It's extremely stable," the speaker adds. "It's very rare for the system to lock up or freeze -- there's no Blue Screens."
'Targeted to Attack Microsoft Windows'
Even more to the point: "It's safe and secure. Over 95 percent of viruses, spyware and other types of malware are designed and targeted to attack Microsoft Windows," the video asserts. "So, by definition, if you're not running Microsoft Windows and if you're running Linux, you just don't have to worry about malware and viruses and spyware."
Those are hardly the words of "a 'Dear John' breakup letter from Dell," Hudson pointed out. "Maybe someone decided to tweak the text on the Web page a bit so that the video doesn't sound like it's just regurgitating the ad copy, or vice versa?"
That may or may not be the story behind the change, but if nothing else, the fact that the video is still up should come as at least some comfort to friends of FOSS, Linux Girl would suggest. Dell's heart may no longer be right out there on its proverbial sleeve, but its love for Linux does appear to continue to burn bright.


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Sherry West cried as she told the court what happened as she walked home from the Brunswick post office March 21 with her 13-month-old son Antonio Santiago. Two teenagers approached her, and the older one demanded money, West testified.
"I told him I have a baby and I have expenses and I didn't have it," West said.
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"I tried to stop him," she said. "I put my arms over my baby, but he still shot him."
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West screamed for help and both teens ran off, she said.
Asked by prosecutor Andrew Eknomou if the shooter was in the courtroom, West said he was. She pointed at De'Marquise Elkins, 18, who sat at the defense table with his lawyers and showed no emotion.
Prosecutors say Elkins and an accomplice, 15-year-old Dominique Lang, stopped West, and the older teen pointed a small .22-caliber revolver at her and demanded money and eventually shot the baby when West wouldn't surrender her purse.
The killing in the port city of Brunswick drew national attention, and the trial was moved to the Atlanta suburb of Marietta owing to extensive publicity. Elkins faces life in prison if convicted of murder. At the time of the shooting he was 17, too young to face the death penalty if convicted under Georgia law. Lang is to be tried at a later date.
Prosecutors have said information from Elkins' mother and sister led investigators to a pond where they found a revolver. Karimah Elkins is standing trial alongside her son on charges of evidence tampering and lying to police. Elkins' sister also was charged with evidence tampering.
Ekonomou asked West if she had taken out a life insurance policy on her young son's life. West said her son had been sick just after he was born and someone at the hospital mentioned the idea to her. She took out a $5,000 policy from Gerber Life Insurance Co., she said.
She paid a premium of $3.18 each month, and when her son was killed she cashed in the policy, she said. She used $2,000 for funeral costs for Antonio and used the balance to pay her moving expenses, she said.
Lang took the stand last week and testified that Elkins twice counted down from five and threatened the baby before the deadly shot was fired. Lang saw Elkins fire one shot at the ground and another at West's leg, and he heard a third shot but didn't see Elkins shoot the baby, he testified.
Defense attorneys challenged Lang's credibility, going through a transcript of what Lang told police the day after the shooting, pointing out some inconsistencies and getting the teen to admit to lying more than a dozen times.
Lang, who also has been charged with murder, is set to be tried at a later date.
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Afterword: Black Eagle Child
|Stella Young Bear
Meskwaki Bandolier Bag
Minneapolis Institute of Art
In the spring of 1970, during a smoggy, oily-aired evening in Southern California, I jotted down what was perhaps the first outline of this book. It was a simple one and in some respects no different from the drafts to poems I later published. The one aspect, however, which made this outline stand out for many years was the intriguing set of chapter titles and synopses.
Today this outline and the accompanying notes are held permanently between the cold pages of a spiral-backed
tablet in storage. They have always been a few feet away, but their sensitive memories have kept me at arm's
length-until today. To have gently lifted these words from the light green pages by breathing a heart's pulse into
them is a startling juxtaposition to the computer monitor which now records these final entries.
The poetic journey in the making of Black Eagle Child has been a most comprehensive project in terms of message, content, and stylistic approach. There has also been divergence. Considering that the poetic forms I have adopted and adapted (from English, a second language) have little significance in the tribal realm, wordcollecting was met early on with varying degrees of apprehension. Whenever I entertained the prospect of sitting down at the desk, getting beyond serious, and holding these thoughts long enough to boldly arrange their sequences in order, I discovered forthright our shadows change imperceptibly in accordance with the sun's ascension and descension. As a result, there was work which never materialized. Because of the differences of the bilingual/bicultural worlds I live in, it sometimes seems as if what is actually published turns out to be a minute and insignificant fraction of one's perpetual metamorphosis.
Putting stories to page has been a task and a half, for the characters and their situations are taken from both autobiographical experiences and imagination. In the delicate ritual of weighing what can and cannot be shared, a greater portion of my work is not based on spontaneity. And a large segment of what is presented for public dissemination is not so much an act of revealing elements that are close to me as it is an exercise in creative detachment. The most interesting facet in all of this has been the artistic interlacing of ethereality, past and present. As such there are considerations of visions, traditional healing, supernaturalism, and hallucinogen-based sacraments interposed with centuries-old philosophies and customs. Since these verities are still a prevalent part of modern tribal society, the divisions between dream and myth are never clear-cut.
The creation of Black Eagle Child was equivalent to a collage done over a lifetime via the tedious layering upon layering of images by an artist who didn't believe in endings, for the sweeping visions he wanted to capture were constant and forever changing. It was therefore essential to depict these visuals in increments, to keep these enigmatic stories afloat in the dark until dust-filled veils of light inadvertently revealed their luminescent shapes.
My literary perspectives were often subject to bouts of overconcern and grave underestimation of self. Given the number of season-long debates that were held to determine whether the material presented was unnecessary or sacrilegious, there's no doubt an entire book could have been written. One winter, with space becoming more precious, I was forced to incinerate boxes of reasons-pro and con. While I remained enamored with writing and the meticulous rituals one goes through in bringing thought to page, the relationship of the creator and the created worked best behind the iron borders of this word-collector consciousness.
In most tightly knit societies, one must be keenly aware of social responsibility. For the Mesquakie-People of
the Red Earth-it is no different. Circumspection is the paradigm of harmony. But as with everything modern and
"civilized," there are often casualties among the ignorant, deprived, and unknowing. I, for one among many, plead
guilty to the preceding statement. In extreme cases, one's forgetfulness and insincerity arc not effronteries; they are
irreversible, unending truths which began in 1492.
Long ago when I first started to publish my work locally, I was apprised by my grandmother to not ever be "dissuaded by anyone" and to continue with only good intentions in mind. While she obviously realized I was too young and naive to know of Importance, she nevertheless taught there were things I could not write about. For years I truly thought I possessed valuable knowledge. The fact was, I didn't know anything. Yes, I may have heard, seen, and experienced firsthand extraordinary occurrences of reality "gone astray," of steps taken into transmutable dimensions, but they could only be seen and understood from one angle: in retrospect.
Reviewing my work with scrutiny and keeping distant from transgression of certain codes and precepts have become inherent parts of the storywriting regimen, the premise being that words have an innate sense of power. With early word-collectors (or informants) and their personal disasters as examples, my grandmother also forewarned commentary was destructive when untethered, for it had the capacity to either inflict or self-inflict harm. As much as has been permissible, I have attempted to hold on to this tenet.
Remarkably, now that my destination is within sight, whatever energy I am able to conjure can only be a semblance of elation. For that I am grateful. There was a time when it could have been worse: I once read of an ancestor who was so exhausted from a military sponsored interview that he lay still for hours in his parents' lodge. For a person whose world had been mystically laid down by a Creator with a fundamental set of understandings and spiritual teachings, I imagine there had never been a structured and compartmentalized perception of Mesquakie ideology as that shown by the white-skinned people, wa be ski na me ska tti kit.
Whether or not the account is authentic, I can commiserate with this exhausted character, for there have been occasions when I thought the best recourse was to reconsider direction, questioning what purpose the narratives served-until the state of vexation passed.
The philosophy that espouses cosmic insignificance, a belief that humans are but a minute part of world order,
has shaped my words. My expectations are simply to express myself as only an accomplished instrumentalist can,
to arrange in melodic and tragic tones the common chords of one's abraded existence. Yet there exists a ceaseless
feeling that more needs to be said than what was offered in the space and time given.
The Black Eagle Child Settlement is a fictitious counterpart of the central Iowa sanctuary where I am an enrolled, lifelong resident. The character Edgar Bearchild mirrors in part my own laborious Journey of Words. He finds himself in a unique but precarious "little earth" where writing becomes the sole means of salvation.
Encouraged early on by close relatives, Bearchild accepts the medium but he is somewhat late in doing so. As a result, he wants to unfold the mysteries that transported him to the pinnacle of poetry writing. In the process he discovers concrete answers, like windfish, are elusive. Bearchild merely intends to finish out the whizzing star's cataclysmic course, to be (as Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout of England writes and sings) the "Fred Astaire of words."
Ted Facepaint, on the other hand, is a composite of a dozen people met, known, and lost in the last forty years. He's a jigsaw puzzle, an imbrication of humanity, whose pieces belong to everyone. Despite Facepaint's gallant efforts to rid the future of physical and social impediments, there is never a guarantee the passage will go unhindered. His spiritual beliefs and convictions surpass most, but he alone does not think so, for he comes from an unfamiliar place where radiant people freely give away the gift of introspection. Meeting him along the way toward his sky-answering quest, people held out their cupped hands and saw vividly the cascading plainness of their lives. It frightened those who lacked the maturity to grasp the bitter world, while those experienced saw past the technological clutter, seeking signs of validation.
Facepaint is a rare personality who is intrinsically attuned to the night sky, and he keeps an ever-present watch for
any change, any subtle repositioning of the Orion constellation.
Like nomads who surface and resurface in our lifetimes, there are unassuming and effusive characters like Rose and Brook Grassleggings, Claude Youthman, Patty Jo and her "Hyena," Junior Pipestar, and Pat "D." Red Hat who themselves are composites of other people. They would almost have to be, for the comic and tragic situations they experience border extraordinary and "non ordinary,' reality. There is, however, a deliberate intent to portray their situations as being no different from those faced by anyone else caught up in this diverse but prismatic sea of humanity. There are bound to be successes in the storm of adversity, just as there are disconcertion, loss, and resolve. And permeated throughout arc experiences endemic in tribal society. While a few possess an uncanny ability to detect watery voices rising from the lakes and rivers, the rest of us are convinced the sound is the garbled music of inexperienced vocalists pounding on a rusted truck hood upshore. While these few will always appear despondent and unpredictable, it is frequently their doting powers of healing that work and come through when modern medicines fail.
Throughout the twenty years I have been involved with writing, I have attempted to maintain a delicate equilibrium with my tribal homeland's history and geographic surroundings and the world that changes its face along the borders. Represented in the whirlwind of mystical themes and modern symbols, of characters normal or bizarre and their eventual resolve, the word-collecting process is an admixture of time present and past, of direction found and then lost, of actuality and dream.
Having had the good fortune to study, teach, and contribute to contemporary American Indian literature, I have taken this long awaited opportunity to capture personal and historical fragments of a midwestern tribal community called Black Eagle Child. The geographically and culturally isolated society consists of progressives and conservatives who revolve around the hierarchy of clan names. Historically, there was equality in the First-Named systems, but materialism and greed spawned novel methods by which to manipulate others. The day divine leadership was deemed unimportant was when the sacred myths began to crumble under the wheels of suzerainty.
In the ancient bloodways there obviously remains what is perhaps a disjointed facet of the Mesquakie storytelling tradition, which has inevitably been infused with dynamic trends. Surprisingly, these voices and personas have been at odds more than they have been synchronous. Both, however, resound wholly with imagery, thought, and profound messages for humanity.
This type of rendering has been an artistic process for me, the creative emulation of thought through extraordinary, tragic, and comedic stories of an imagined midwestern tribal existence. It has never sought to be more than that.
© 1992 Ray A. Young Bear
Reprinted from Witness, XI(2), 137-8, 1997.


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October 1, 2012
Changing Global Test Guidelines for Chemicals and Drugs
HSI is a founding member of ICAPO and ICAPPP umbrella associations through which animal protection organisations interact with global chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturers and regulators.
July 30, 2012
Ricky Gervais Raps Cosmetics Companies for Testing on Animals and Abandoning Ethics to Sell Products in China
Actor and comedian Ricky Gervais lashed out against cosmetics companies that put profit before compassion and test on animals to sell their products in China, where the practice often is required by law.
July 10, 2012
Britain's Animal Experiments Rise to 3.79 million in 2011
HSI/UK was extremely disappointed by the Home Office's announcement that experiments on animals in Britain had increased yet again, reaching 3.79 million in 2011.
July 9, 2012
Sir Paul McCartney Supports HSI's Be Cruelty-Free Campaign
Sir Paul McCartney gave his backing to HSI's Be Cruelty-Free campaign, the largest-ever global effort to end animal testing for cosmetics worldwide.
July 6, 2012
HSI and The HSUS Issue Statement Following Urban Decay Decision to Abandon China Sales
HSI applauded an announcement by cosmetics giant Urban Decay that it would cancel plans to market its products in China, a country that requires animal testing for cosmetics.
June 22, 2012
HSI To EU Commissioner Dalli – Don't Mislead Consumers With False Pledge on 2013 Animal-Tested Cosmetics Ban
HSI had a private meeting with John Dalli, Commissioner for Health & Consumer Policy, regarding a possible derogation of a ban that would allow companies to continue selling cosmetics in Europe that have been tested on animals abroad.
June 20, 2012
"White Rabbits" Deliver Petition To European Commissioner John Dalli to Urge EU-Wide Sales Ban on Animal-Tested Cosmetics
Twenty-seven "white rabbits" descended on Brussels to deliver a 350,000-signature petition to John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy, to help end the suffering of animals used to test cosmetics sold in the European Union.
May 22, 2012
HSI and The HSUS Welcome Reductions in Pesticide Animal Testing Requirements by U.S. EPA
Scientists from Humane Society International, The Humane Society of the United States and other animal welfare groups were pleased that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it will reduce animal testing requirements for pesticides.
May 14, 2012
Rock Legend Chrissie Hynde Pens 200,000th Signature on HSI Petition To End Animal Testing for Cosmetics
Chrissie Hynde added her name to HSI's Cruelty-Free2013 campaign to end the sale of animal-tested cosmetics in Europe.
May 7, 2012
Mouse Urges India's Minister To Prohibit Cosmetics Testing on Animals
A "mouse" travelled to Delhi with a very important message for the Ministry of Environment and Forests: "Ban cosmetic testing on animals."
April 23, 2012
Humane Society International Launches Worldwide 'Be Cruelty-Free' Campaign To End Cosmetics Testing on Animals
Humane Society International launched Be Cruelty-Free, a global campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics.
April 20, 2012
Humane Society International and The Humane Society of the United States Applaud Major Reduction in Animal Experimentation in India
Humane Society International applauds India's decision to require the use of non-animal tools in place of dissections and live animal experiments for research.
April 17, 2012
Lush Cosmetics and Humane Society International Launch Global Campaign To End Cosmetics Testing on Animals
The largest-ever global campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics, launched simultaneously in 48 countries by HSI and Lush Cosmetics, came to India.
April 17, 2012
Lush Cosmetics and HSI/Australia Launch Global Campaign to End Cosmetics Testing on Animals
HSI/Australia, Choose Cruelty-Free, Humane Research Australia and Lush Cosmetics launched the Australian arm of the largest-ever global campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics.
April 13, 2012
Shop Cruelty-Free
Leave animal-testing on the shelf and fill your shopping basket with compassionate cosmetics, personal care and household products.
April 12, 2012
Testes em Animais no Brasil: Guia de Perguntas Frequentes
Entenda o problema dos testes em animais para cosméticos em nosso guia de perguntas frequentes.
April 12, 2012
Q&A: Cosmetic Testing
Raw ingredients in cosmetic and consumer products may be subject to the same sorts of tests as any other chemicals, including skin and eye irritation tests, studies in chemically-poisoned animals and their offspring, and even the widely condemned "lethal dose" tests, in which animals are forced to swallow or inhale massive amounts of a test substance to determine the dose that causes death.


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See Cory Monteith's Final Video… And for a Fan
A flight attendant kindly asked the late 'Glee' actor Cory Monteith to film a video for her boyfriend's young daughter. This video represents the last time Monteith was captured on camera.
The 15-second clip of the actor, who passed away last Saturday, July 13, finds him offering advice to the fan, named Mallory, as he is seated on an airplane. He was reportedly on his way back to his native Vancouver, Canada from Japan.
"I wanted to record this video for you guys just to let you know to stay out of trouble and stay in school," Monteith says, calling Sheila, the flight attendant, his friend, as well.
It's very sweet and accommodating. Clearly, Monteith loved his fans and always made time for them.


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Lab research suggests experimental drug could target neuroblastoma
A new class of drugs that have shown promise for the treatment of infant leukaemia may also work against another childhood cancer called neuroblastoma, according to laboratory research.
US researchers have shown that the drugs, known as BET bromodomain inhibitors, could be used to treat patients who's neuroblastoma is caused by a particular genetic defect.
BET bromodomain inhibitors (BET inhibitors) are an example of a new wave of experimental treatments called 'epigenetic' drugs.
They work by mimicking chemical 'tags' on the structures around DNA. These tags - called epigenetic markers - affect the activity levels of specific genes.
Study author Professor Kimberly Stegmaier, from Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center, said that many researchers have been hoping that BET bromodomain inhibitors could lead to new ways to treat certain cancers.
But the problem so far has been identifying which patients are most likely to respond to the drugs, she explained.
Professor Stegmaier and her colleagues looked at more than 600 types of cancer cells grown in the lab to see which might be sensitive to BET inhibitors.
Their findings, published in the journal Cancer Discovery, showed that neuroblastoma cells with extra copies of a gene called MYCN were sensitive to the drugs.
Professor Stegmaier explained that although extra copies of MYCN have been found in samples from a significant proportion of neuroblastoma patients, it has proven to be an "elusive drug target".
The researchers then looked at the effects of BET inhibitors on lab-grown neuroblastoma cells with extra MYCN, and in a mouse model of neuroblastoma that is resistant to many standard treatments.
They discovered that the drug reduced MYCN protein levels in lab-grown neuroblastoma cells, slowing down their growth and causing cell death.
The drug also shrunk tumours and prolonged survival in mice.
Dr Kat Arney, science information manager at Cancer Research UK, said: "We urgently need more effective treatments for children with neuroblastoma, and this research opens up an exciting new avenue.
"Cancer Research UK scientists have already shown that BET inhibitors might be effective against some types of leukaemia, and these results add another potential use of these promising drugs."
"But they are very new and have so far only been tested in the lab, so more work needs to be done to show whether they might help patients in the future."
Copyright Press Association 2013
- Puissant A. et al. Targeting MYCN in Neuroblastoma by BET Bromodomain Inhibition, Cancer Discovery, DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-12-0418


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St Martins Vineyard,
the most south-westerly vineyard in England.
Val and Graham
Thomas began the project in 1996 as a holiday hobby.
plantings of the grape varieties Reichenstiner and Madeleine Angevine
were begun in 1996 on the gently sloping, southerly facing slopes
of the small holding traditionally farmed for narcissi and daffodils
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The streak is finally over for the Clippers after a franchise-record 17 consecutive victories. The Clippers will try to avoid making it back-to-back losses when they visit the surging Golden State Warriors on Wednesday. Los Angeles shot 38.5 percent in a 92-78 setback at Denver on Tuesday, snapping not only the winning streak but a stretch of five straight games with 100 or more points. The Warriors have won three straight and beat the Clippers earlier this season.
The streak had to end at some point, and after a close call in its last road game, Los Angeles finally let one slip away while failing to reach even 20 points in three of the four quarters against the Nuggets. A constant during the streak was the team defense, which still was on display Tuesday even without the offense around to provide the spark. That defense will get another test from Golden State, which will force Blake Griffin to be more active in guarding David Lee while Chris Paul chases Stephen Curry around the perimeter.
TV: 10:30 p.m. ET, Prime Ticket (Los Angeles), CSN Bay Area (Golden State)
ABOUT THE CLIPPERS (25-7): Nobody scored more than 12 points in the loss to the Nuggets, and Los Angeles went 5-for-29 from 3-point range and just 13-for-29 from the free-throw line. The 78 points marked a season low for the Clippers, who dropped to 10-4 on the road. Los Angeles displayed a remarkable balance during its winning streak, leaning on the bench for scoring at times and getting things done on both ends of the floor. The Clippers held 14 of their opponents under the century mark during the streak. Los Angeles dropped a 114-110 decision at home to the Warriors on Nov. 3. Paul scored 27 points in a hotly contested matchup that saw seven different players get called for technical fouls.
ABOUT THE WARRIORS (21-10): With all the success the Clippers have had early and the constant circus surrounding the Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State's hot start in the Pacific Division has not gotten the attention it deserves. The Warriors have won three straight and are coming off a dominating performance against the Boston Celtics on Saturday. Curry led the way with 22 points and Lee had 20 as Golden State shot 52.1 percent. What may have been more impressive was the defense, which limited the Celtics to 36 percent shooting in the 101-83 triumph. The Warriors have held each of their last three opponents under 90 points and have surrendered less than 100 in eight of their last nine wins.
1. Golden State finished December with a 12-4 mark to reach 20 wins before Jan. 1 for the first time since 1980.
2. Curry and Carl Landry each scored 23 points to lead the Warriors in the Nov. 3 meeting. Golden State has taken three of the last four in the all-time series.
3. Los Angeles was the 15 th team in NBA history to record a perfect month by going 16-0 in December.
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With few attractive sheller contracts in the lineup this year, peanut producers may want to implement another game plan if they choose to play the market before harvest. Still, the reason behind the absence of contracts seems to differ among researchers and some shellers.
"The market is slow to respond this year because of the large volume of peanuts out there," says Tim Hewitt, Extension economist and professor at the University of Florida. "Producers have been watching the market with guarded optimism, hoping to see some type of price premiums offered by shellers. Very few of those have been offered this year, and this will remain the case until we get the supply under control."
Hewitt attributes the current supply situation to the tremendous amount of planted peanut acreage from last year and good yields in those production areas. "We just have more peanuts than the market needed. Our supply far exceeded our typical demand."
The abundant harvest from last year continues to fill the warehouses across the Southeast, giving shellers no reason to offer incentives, Hewitt says. "Shellers have all the peanuts they need, and they only offer incentives when they need more."
Some shellers, such as Anderson's Peanuts of south Alabama, have halted business altogether until the marketing situation improves.
Dennis Finch, general manager of Anderson's Peanuts, says the reason for the large volume of peanuts on the market is not an oversupply problem but a failure of the USDA to move the peanuts through the appropriate channels. "The USDA is not complying with the statute Congress passed in the 2002 farm bill with regards to the peanut Subtitle C. The criteria for setting the national posted price have not been followed."
While part of that criteria is to minimize potential loan forfeitures, Finch says those forfeitures have increased from about 100,000 tons forfeited from the 2004 crop to about 800,000 tons from 2005 crop. "There is simply not enough warehouse space to house the new peanut crop if the old peanut crop is still being housed."
Finch also says that peanuts are not moving because they are not being marketed competitively. "Another part of the criteria for setting the posted price is to market peanuts domestically and internationally, and that hasn't been done well enough."
While Hewitt says farmers should not expect contracts before the end of June, he does advise farmers to stay abreast of the market situation and take advantage of any movements. "If marketing incentives do come about, growers should consider them because they will probably be at the mercy of the program price as the year goes on."
Growers do have other marketing options, according to Marshall Lamb, research director of the USDA-ARS National Peanut Research Laboratory in Dawson, Ga. "Farmers can see what offers are being made at harvest or simply put the peanuts in a loan now."
Lamb encourages farmers to utilize the loan if suitable contracts are not offered. "Don't sell out too cheap. The purpose of the loan is to give farmers the time and patience to market their crop after harvest season."
While the nine-month loan will buy farmers some time to play the marketing game, growers should be aware of any costs that could incur from this marketing option, says Nathan Smith, assistant professor of agriculture and applied economics at the University of Georgia. "One big concern producers should also be aware of is how the warehouse handles shrink. At 3 percent, shrink could cost up to $20 per ton, depending on the grade and the shrink charge. Also ask questions about storing charges because you don't want to accrue unnecessary charges for storage time not covered under the loan. These costs could cause producers to end up with something less than the program price."
In the meantime, Hewitt urges growers to make their production practices more efficient by utilizing methods that cut costs without sacrificing yield. "Producers should look for ways to cut fertilizer and fuel costs and consider alternate tillage methods and rotation schemes. They should also do the best job they can of preventing tomato spotted wilt virus by using the risk index."
Hewitt also cautions new growers to be fully aware of the effects of rotation on peanuts. "Growers should not get a false sense of security from having good yields on new land. They need to fully understand rotational significance for peanut production and know that first-year, record yields may not be the case every year."
Despite such thin profit margins this year, Smith is optimistic that the market will improve and urges growers to keep one eye on the market and the other on expenses. "Following the market well enough could be the difference in having a successful or unsuccessful year for growers. One good thing is that demand is still there for peanuts. The market's just waiting to see what production will show."


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"Lonesome Traveler" had plenty of company Saturday at the Laguna Playhouse gala opening.
The Rubicon Theatre Co.'s ode to American folk music had the sold-out audience spontaneously singing along and the enthusiasm didn't end when the curtain came down.
"This was so fun," said Kathy Conway, as first-nighters mingled with the cast and toasted them with champagne.
Conway said she knew every word of the songs performed by the nine-member cast in their roles inspired by folk music immortals such as Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Lead Belly and others.
"I knew a lot of the music, but especially the spirituals," said Councilwoman Elizabeth Pearson, whose family still lives in North Carolina.
Singalongs were encouraged by Justin Flagg in the role of the narrator, the "Lonesome Traveler," aka Pete Seeger. Well-known songs included "This Land is Your Land, "Blowin' in the Wind," "Goodnight, Irene," "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Mr. Tambourine Man."
"Folk music is very much about participation, not observation," said show designer Tom Giamario.
Even the set was familiar to many — those who spent time in the 1960s in San Francisco recognized the nod to the iconic "Hungry i," the lowercase "i" intended but never fully explained. The club presented folk singers such as Glen Yarborough and the Kingston Trio, as well as boosted the careers of young comedian Bill Cosby and satirist Mort Sahl.
"Lonesome Traveler" was written and directed by Rubicon Theatre's artistic director, James O'Neil. Performances continue through Feb. 5.
"This is the third year we have worked with the Rubicon," said Karen Wood, Playhouse executive director.
Last year, Rubicon and the Playhouse were among the consortium of six theaters that staged the premiere of "Daddy Long Legs."
"They produced 'Lonesome Traveler' at their theater and now here," Wood said of Rubicon. "We are already looking at what are going to do this year."
"Lonesome Traveler" is a stroll through American folk music, although "folk music" is said to be an English term that originated in the 19th century. In America, its roots include the church music of the country's black population.
How fitting that "Lonesome Traveler" concludes with "This Little Light of Mine" and includes "We Shall Overcome," music of the Civil Rights Movement.
Folk music exploded in the Beat Generation's coffeehouses of the 1960s, and its genre was well represented in the show.
"My relationship with this music goes back to when I was six or seven years old," O'Neil said. "My father was a child of the Great Depression. He grew up in Oklahoma and came to California during the Dust Bowl.
"As I was growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, our house was filled with the sounds of the folk revival."
The title came from the notion that life is a solitary journey, but music can offer solace and bring folks together, O'Neil said.
"Jim O'Neil has brought together a remarkable and uniquely talented cast of performers who take us on a memorable journey through decades of American folk music," said Ann Wareham, the Playhouse's artistic director.
The cast is better and younger looking offstage. Petite Jennifer Leigh Warren, who first appears as a spiritual singing old woman, bent of knee and back, is a pocket venus, with a list of Broadway, film and recording credits.
Peter Fournier, one of the Laguna Concert Band's conductors, gave kudos to the production.
"The cast was more than professional," Fournier said. "The lighting and the sets were wonderful, the variety of selection (of music) excellent."
Carol Reynolds, a founder of the band, called the show "pure sound."
"It was wonderful," Reynolds said.
A group of about 30 band members and spouses attended the gala, which included recognition of the band's association with the Playhouse.
"The 70-piece orchestra uses this stage like it has never been used before," Band President Matt Wood said.
Tickets are available for "America the Tubaful," which will be performed on Feb. 19 at the Playhouse. It is one of 20 concerts scheduled this year. Visit http://www.lccband.org.
Wood, no relation to the Playhouse executive director except for a love of the arts, thanked the city and community organizations for their financial support.
The evening began with hors d'oeuvres served on the patio and concluded with champagne and dessert.
In between: a large serving of enjoyment.
Gala guests included Councilwoman Toni Iseman and Steve Miller, Arts Commissioner Pat Kollenda, Visitors Bureau and Sister Cities Assn. President Karyn Philippsen, Arts Alliance President Wayne Baglin, Laguna College of Art & Design President Jonathan Burke, Friends of the Library and Laguna Beach Taxpayers Assn. President Martha Lydick, and Chamber of Commerce Interim Executive Director Kristine Thalman.
Also: Carolyn and Dr. Thomas Bent, director of the Laguna Beach Community Clinic; Lynn and Tim Carlyle, former school board member; Mary and Matt Lawson, chair of the Design Review Task Force; Heidi Miller, owner of Tight Assets; Mark Christie, owner of Hobie Sports and Tuvulu; Dr. Gary and school board member Betsy Jenkins, who were recently named "Citizens of the Year" for the 2012 Patriots Day Parade; and Jim and Karen McBride, who appeared at the Playhouse in the award-winning "Quilters."
And more: Steve Dotoratos and Dave Sanford, Doctor's Ambulance representative; Sandi and Richard Schwarstein, legal advisor to the Sister Cities Assn.; Ellen and Ron Harris, Laguna Beach Live! board member; Gary and Nancy Beverage, LCAD trustee; Don Haudenschild, concert band board member; Susan Davis, Festival of Arts special events coordinator; Jane and Joe Hanauer, owners of the Old Potter Place; Nadine Ashby, a member of the Playhouse's 90th-anniversary celebration and fundraiser for the Animal Crackers Foundation; and Rita Rudner, who is set to open April 24 at the Playhouse in the world premiere of "Tickled Pink," which she wrote.
OUR LAGUNA is a regular feature of the Laguna Beach Coastline Pilot. Contributions are welcomed. Call (949) 302-1469 or email email@example.com with Attn. Barbara Diamond in the subject line.


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MBL, WOODS HOLE, MA—Dr. Bruce J. Peterson, a senior scholar at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) has been selected by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) to receive the 2013 Alfred C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award. The award honors the career achievements of an aquatic scientist whose work is recognized for its importance and long-term influence. Dr. Peterson is being honored for "innovative and transformative studies of carbon, nutrient, and water cycles at process, ecosystem, and global scales." He will receive the award at the ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting in New Orleans on February 17.
Dr. Peterson has made seminal contributions in fields ranging from oceanography to limnology, biogeochemistry, ecology, and hydrology. Among these are his use of new methods of analysis, his excellence as a synthesizer, and numerous scientific publications.
"I'm surprised and very excited," said Dr. Peterson, who began his career at the MBL nearly 40 years ago. "This honor puts a capstone on my career and gives me an opportunity to reflect and put things in context, which is something I never would have done unless I received this award."
"This is the premier ASLO award and it could have not been presented to a finer scientist," said ASLO President John Downing.
Throughout his career, Dr. Peterson has studied the cycles that influence ecosystem behavior. His work is relevant to the management and prediction of ecosystem properties in Arctic streams and rivers, nitrogen cycling in headwater streams and estuaries, and the impacts of climate change on the freshwater cycle of the Arctic.
Much of Dr. Peterson's research has been based at Alaska's Toolik Field Station, where, for the last 30 years, he and his colleagues have conducted a nutrient enrichment experiment in the Kuparuk River. The experiment has revealed a general principle of how streams respond to disturbance and is being used as a prototype in the National Ecological Observatory Network, a National Science Foundation-funded observation system that will gather ecological and climate data over the next 30 years at more than 60 terrestrial and aquatic observatory sites across the U.S.
"Bruce has been, from the beginning, a wonderfully creative thinker about how ecosystems work," said Christopher Neill, Director of the MBL Ecosystems Center. "He thinks big and then engages others to think big with him. He's demonstrated that over and over again in his career."
Dr. Peterson also pioneered the tracer approach to investigation of the nitrogen cycle of streams. The technique, first developed for an experiment in the Kuparuk River, has transformed the study of streams and is now used worldwide. "That one experiment has led to many experiments around the world that use this approach," says Dr. Peterson. "I've been really fortunate in that regard, some of the experiments that I have developed with MBL colleagues and others have spawned whole networks of research—it's a real joy."
According to Dr. Peterson, a particularly rewarding part of his career has been working with Russian collaborators to study the freshwater cycle of the Arctic. "I lived during the Cold War and drills at school had us preparing for a nuclear attack," said Dr. Peterson, "My dad was an expert in anti-submarine warfare and spent his career tracking Russian submarines. So, it was particularly gratifying to travel to the great rivers of northern Russia and find that Russian scientists were willing to share information and help us understand global change in the Arctic." Now known as the Arctic Great Rivers Observatory, the NSF-funded project has made fundamental advances in the understanding of land-ocean interactions in the Arctic and has set the baseline against which to judge future changes in the Arctic.
Dr. Peterson received a Bachelor's Degree in Biology from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and a Ph.D. from Cornell University. He performed postdoctoral research on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study and at North Carolina State University. He joined the MBL's Ecosystems Center in 1976, rising up the ranks from postdoctoral associate to senior scientist. Dr. Peterson is a member of the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Estuarine Research Federation, and the MBL Corporation. In 2008, Dr. Peterson shared ASLO's John Martin Award with Richard Eppley of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is dedicated to scientific discovery and improving the human condition through research and education in biology, biomedicine, and environmental science. Founded in 1888 in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, the MBL is an independent, nonprofit corporation.


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#1 Arthur Godfrey08-31-2012, 10:22 PM
Arthur Godfrey ranks as one of the important on-air stars of the first decade of American television. Indeed prior to 1959 there was no bigger TV luminary than this freckled faced, ukelele playing, host/pitchman. Through most of the decade of the 1950s Godfrey hosted a daily radio program and appeared in two top-ten prime time television shows, all for CBS. As the new medium was invading American households, there was something about Godfrey's wide grin, his infectious chuckle, his unruly shock of red hair that made millions tune in not once, but twice a week.
To industry insiders, Godfrey was television's first great master of advertising. His deep, microphone-loving voice delivery earned Arthur Godfrey a million dollars a year, making him one of the highest paid persons in the United States at the time. He blended a Southern folksiness with enough sophistication to charm a national audience measured in the millions through the 1950s. For CBS-TV in particular, Godfrey was one of network television's most valuable stars, generating millions of dollars in advertising billings each year, with no ostensible talent save being the most congenial of hosts.
After more than a decade on radio, Godfrey ventured onto primetime TV in December 1948 by simply permitting the televising of his radio hit Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. The formula for Talent Scouts was simple enough. "Scouts" presented their "discoveries" to perform live before a national radio and television audience. Most of these discoveries were in fact struggling professionals looking for a break, and the quality of the talent was quite high. The winner, chosen by a fabled audience applause meter, often joined Godfrey on his radio show and on Arthur Godfrey and His Friends for some period thereafter.
Through the late 1940s and 1950s Godfrey significantly assisted the careers of Pat Boone, Tony Bennett, Eddie Fisher, Connie Francis, and Patsy Cline. An institution on Monday nights at 8:30 P.M., Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts always functioned as Godfrey's best showcase and through the early 1950s was a consistent top-ten hit.
A month after the December 1948 television debut of Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts came the premiere of Arthur Godfrey and His Friends. Here Godfrey employed a resident cast which at times included Julius La Rosa, Frank Parker, Lu Ann Simms, and the Cordettes. Tony Marvin was both the announcer and Godfrey's "second banana," as he was on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. The appeal of Arthur Godfrey and His Friends varied depending on the popularity of the assembled company of singers, all clean cut young people lifted by Godfrey from obscurity. Godfrey played host and impresario, sometimes singing off key and strumming his ukulele, but most often leaving the vocals to others.
As he had done on radio, Godfrey frequently kidded his sponsors, but always "sold from the heart," only hawking products he had actually tried and/or regularly used. No television viewer during the 1950s doubted that Godfrey really did love Lipton Tea and drank it every day. He delighted in tossing aside prepared scripts and telling his audience: "Aw, who wrote this stuff? Everybody knows Lipton's is the best tea you can buy. So why get fancy about it? Getcha some Lipton's, hot the pot with plain hot water for a few minutes, then put fresh hot water on the tea and let it just sit there."
Godfrey perfected the art of seeming to speak intimately to each and every one of his viewers, to sound as if he was confiding in "you and you alone." Despite all his irreverent kidding, then, advertisers loved him. Here was no snake oil salesman hawking an uneeded item, merchandise not worth its price. Here was a friend recommending the product. This personal style drove CBS efficiency experts crazy. Godfrey refused to simply read his advertising copy in the allocated 60 seconds. Instead he talked--for as long as he felt it necessary to convince his viewers of his message, frequently running over his allotted commercial time.
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Definitely Need a ChargePod
Fellow MVP Sven Johannsen pointed me to the Callpod Chargepod (Amazon affiliate page) multi-device charger (manufacturer page). I'm traveling to Seattle to attend the Microsoft MVP Global Summit and wish I had known about this thing earlier. The sad thing, though, is that charging six devices at once is not quite enough 🙂 But, it sure would help!


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Guess who loves their new iPad? Also, guess who started poking around and saw a significant decrease in performance in his new iPad mere hours after booting it up?
Yeah – that's me. See, by default the iPad will keep apps open in the background – and while this is a boon to productivity ( or bane, depending on how you look at it ), eventually stuff starts getting a little… laggy.
So, here's how you close some of those apps running in the background.
Simply click the home button twice to bring up the program bar.
Once it pops up, press and hold your finger on an app until the icons start to wiggle. Now click the red minus sign next to each program you want to close.
It's that easy!See you later!


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When you try to unmount a device sometimes you get this error:
/media/sdxy: device is busy when you need to unmount a CD drive or to remove an external drive or anything else.The ideal situation is when your Linux is telling you what is keeping the device busy, but is not happening.
This is how to properly use
umount command:
When you get this error,
# umount /media/sdxy
umount: /media/
sdxy: device is busy
umount: /media/
sdxy: device is busy
1. First thing you'll probably do is to use
fuser to find out what process is keeping your device busy. You can do it like this:
# fuser -m /dev/sdxy
/dev/sdxy: 230452
# ps -aux | grep 230452
root 230452 0.2 0.0 20756 3764 pts/0 Ss 22:35 0:00 -bash
You need to kill the
230452 process then umount the drive.
2. The second way to umount your drive is to use the
-l argument from
umount command. This is short for Continue Reading…


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Radio K & Jenn Wasner of Dungeonesse
Jenn Wasner of Dungeonesse
By: Jerod Greenisen
Jenn Wasner talks to Radio K about bold claims, salvation through pop music, and her new album.
Radio K - Where did Dungeonesse come from?
Jenn Wasner - I was on tour for Wye Oak for quite a while; after a while on tour things can tend to seem quite monotonous. Dungeoness was kind of a recording project that i undertook with a friend of mine [Jon Ehrens of Art Department and White Life]. During that period of time it was kind of a pen-pal sort of project. He would send me tracks and while I was on the road I would find some quiet time to listen, write songs, and record. Which was really helpful on tour -it helped me keep myself sane and feel creative and challenge myself while performing the same thing over and over again.
K - You signed to Secretly Canadian, how did this project end up on a record label?
JW - It was a surprise! I ran into Chris Swanson at a show, actually one of my other projects, Flock of Dimes. We were opening for my good friend friend Sharon Van Etten who was there with a bunch of people from Jagjaguwar and Secretly Canadian. And I got to having a conversation with Chris, after about two drinks, I was feeling a little emboldened and I was like; I make pop music! So the next day I showed him the record and I was like, Ha I do that! and he hit me back and was like, "I really want it, it's great, let's put it out". So it really was one of those happenstance things that are tough to come by today.
K - Could you elaborate on the artistic differences between your new project Dungeonesse and your other projects?
JW - I think that aesthetically and stylistically they are different but at the heart of them they are my songwriting and my same process, it brought a lot of joy and newness where I needed it- an overwhelming and intense time of my life. It makes sense to me that Dungeonesse came up to save me during that time
"It makes sense to me that Dungeonesse came up to save me during that time"
I tend to think that i have a limited attention span. and because the Wye Oak album was doing so well, and seemingly all these opportunities popping up for us- and we felt we had to say yes to everything. No matter how much you love something, when it starts to consume everything about your life- you need an escape. Pop music is just that.
K - What was it like working with John Ehrens?
JW - John and I have a really nice working relationship; we share the same love for pop music. Mostly, it works so well because he is a fantastic producer and I enjoy songwriting so much. I know what's best for my own voice and the singer's perspective. It was really fun to collaborate with the mindset that we were making the most accessible and catchy pop songs that we were able; transporting those classic pop songs. There were not really many limitations. On top of that we did not think that anyone else would really hear our work- we were just having fun and we had no idea that it was going to be released. It's exciting that people are able to hear it, but we had no idea.
K - Is Dungeonesse more of a side project?
JW - I don't really consider anything that i do to be really a main project or a side project. Although we are not really looking to be pop stars [laughs] with all the dance moves and the costume changes. We are really interested in experimenting and creating new things for ourselves and others. And so that's what appeals to us, the behind the scenes sort of aspect to songwriting and producing. I was also able to take away some good experience during this project; I learned a lot about what my voice can do. Yea, we are more of a production duo.
K - How was recording, for yourself - on a personal level?
JW - it was super fun! I really wanted to do something else while I was on tour, I really got to focus on writing the most catchy songs; so I really got to play a role. I was so concerned about what was right for the song that I got to lose myself in the process. I really got to learn about my voice and I felt like I was doing something right.
K - Right for yourself and pop music?!
JW - Yea! I know [laughs] I really lucked out, it was crazy! I'm so happy he [Chris] took a chance on it [Dungeonesse] and made it happen, because as much as it was for myself and John it is really cool to have people hear something and enjoy it.
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Friday, Aug. 30: Lobos vs. UMKC, 12 p.m. MT - Live Stats | Lobos @ Arkansas, 6 p.m. MT - Live Streaming; Live Stats
Saturday, Aug. 31: Lobos vs. Northwestern State, 3 p.m. MT - Live Stats
Buck Rejoins Program as Director of Operations
New Mexico Volleyball Weekly Release - Aug. 29
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Jeff Nelson's 2013 Lobo squad opens its season on the road at the University of Arkansas Invitational in Fayetteville, Ark., Friday and Saturday.
New Mexico, who was picked to finish fifth in the Mountain West preseason poll, plays three matches in its opening weekend, starting with UMKC at 12 p.m. MT before taking on the Razorbacks at 6 p.m. MT on Friday. The Lobos play Northwestern State at 3 p.m. MT on Saturday to close out the weekend.
"We play three teams that had great seasons last year," Nelson said. "Our feature match there is the Arkansas match. They are a really good volleyball team that is led by a senior setter who sets for the Puerto Rican National team and does a great job. We'll have our hands full."
The Lobos historically do well on opening day. Since 1980, New Mexico has a 28-17 opening day record. Since Nelson took over in 2007, the Lobos are 6-1.
UMKC returns nine letterwinners from its 2012 squad that went 17-13 last year and made it to the Summitt League Championships. Of the nine returners, five starters plus the Libero were regular starters. The Kangaroos welcome five newcomers.
Arkansas went 22-10 overall last season and made it to the first round of the NCAA Tournament before dropping a 3-2 decision to Wichita State. The Razorbacks return nine letterwinners, including two starters plus their Libero and welcome seven newcomers.
Northwestern State (Natchitoches, La.) went 20-6 last season. The Lady Demons return nine letterwinners -- five of which were starters-- and welcome five newcomers.
"All three matches will be good. It's a good start for us out there," Nelson said. "We'll play in front of a big crowd and learn to work through that and all the things we need to to get better for conference play."
Final 2012 Record: 20-13
2012 MW Record: 7-9
2013 Preseason MW Poll: Fifth
Opening day record (since 1980): 28-17
Opening day record under Nelson: 6-1
All-time record vs. UMKC: First meeting
All-time record vs. Arkansas: First meeting
All-time record vs. Northwestern State: First meeting
LOBO RETURNERS - New Mexico returns seven letterwinners from the 2012 campaign with five of the seven, plus the libero, being regular starters last season. Redshirt junior Chantale Riddle is the top returner. The Roswell, N.M., native led the Lobos at the net and had a record-setting season en route to earning numerous accolades: All-Mountain West, first team All-District, honorable mention All-America and second team All-National (COBRA magazine). Redshirt sophomore Hannah Johnson is UNM's top returning setter. The Longview, Wash., native led the Lobos and was 10th in the MW in assists with 646. Defensively, the Lobos will lean on senior libero Miquella Lovato, who despite missing three MW contests last season, led the league with 4.17 digs/set in conference play and was named MW Designated Libero.
LOBO NEWCOMERS - The Lobos welcome six newcomers: Cassie House (Rio Rancho, N.M./Cleveland HS), Maddie Mayfield (Albuquerque, N.M./La Cueva HS), Danielle Ortiz (Los Alamos, N.M./Los Alamos HS), Lise Rugland (Tananger, Norway/Sauda Vidergaende Skole, dept. ToppVolley Norway), Devanne Sours (Tatum, N.M./Tatum HS) and Julia Warren (Albuquerque, N.M./Hope Christian). The handful of newcomers will give the Lobos several lineup options.
Junior Chantale Riddle and senior Miquella Lovato were named to the 2013 Preseason All-MW Team as announced by the conference on Aug. 20. Riddle, a right-side hitter, and Lovato, UNM's Libero, were both 2012 All-MW honorees who led the conference in their respective areas. Riddle was also named All-District first team and All-America honorable mention last season. New Mexico and San Diego State were the only schools to have more than one player named to the Preseason All-MW list, landing two apiece. It's the first time since 2011 the Lobos have had a student-athlete earn preseason accolades.
While the Lobos' second match of the season will be the first meeting between New Mexico and Arkansas, three times since 1980 the Lobos' opening weekend has either happened in the state of Arkansas or featured a match against an Arkansas institution. The most recent Arkansas opening-weekend encounter was in 2008 when Central Arkansas was the Lobos' season-opening match as part of the MCM Elegante Lobo Classic held in the Johnson Center. UNM downed the Sugar Bears, 3-0. In 1999, New Mexico opened its season with a tournament hosted by Arkansas State. The Lobos went 3-2 in the tourney, with one of their two losses coming at the hands of the Red Wolves, 0-3. The Lobos opened against Arkansas State in 1996 and took the match, 3-0.
It was the younger team of Lobos who were victorious in the annual Lobo volleyball alumnae match on Aug. 24 in the Johnson Center. The current Lobos topped the former Lobos in three-straight sets, 25-12, 25-14 and 25-23, and added a fourth-set win, 25-13, just for good measure. All 14 Lobos saw time on the court. Head coach Jeff Nelson used a variety of lineups and each time, the current Lobos were able to prevail. Chantale Riddle recorded a match-high 20 kills in only three sets played. The redshirt junior nearly had a double-double as she also tallied nine digs and five block assists. Riddle was backed by freshmen Cassie House and Julia Warren who had seven and six kills, respectively. Warren added ten digs while House two block assists. Redshirt sophomore setter Hannah Johnson dished out 45 assists while senior Libero Miquella Lovato had 16 digs. Skye Gullatt was a force on defense, recording a match-high seven total blocks in three sets played.
Former Lobo standout Allison Buck was hired as the interim director of operations for Lobo volleyball on Aug. 29. Buck, a native of Camas, Wash., was a standout defensive specialist and Libero on the Lobo volleyball team from 2008-11, earning a number of accolades her junior and senior season, including AVCA All-America honorable mention honors in 2011. She was also a First Team All-West Region in 2011, two-time Mountain West Volleyball All-Conference honoree in 2010 and 2011, and set New Mexico's single-season record for digs with 561 (in 2011) as well as the program record for career digs with 1,630. She served as a team captain her senior year. Buck excelled in the classroom and was a four-time MW Academic All-Conference award recipient. She graduated in May 2012 with a bachelor of science degree in elementary education with a focus in social studies. Buck served as the facility coordinator for New Mexico Juniors Volleyball Club from October 2012 to August 2013. As the volleyball director of operations, she will oversee and coordinate administrative functions as well as support the day-to-day operation of the team and program. Buck assists with student-athlete volunteering and development activities, fiscal and budgetary management, facilities and resources management, NCAA compliance requirements and other special projects as assigned.
Miquella Lovato, Lexi Ross and Lena Skipper embark on their senior season. The veteran players will anchor a team that is half newcomers and half returners. Lovato had an award-winning season last year as she was named the 2012 MW Designated Libero. Ross played in every match last season and made 29 starts, playing mostly as a middle blocker, but also as an outside hitter and serving as the libero for one match. Ross led the team and was seventh in the league in ace serves, tallying 30. Skipper joined New Mexico in 2012, played in all 33 matches and made 31 starts. She was second on the team in kills with 233 and recorded six double-doubles.
Three of the 15 Lobos on this year's roster have earned All-America honors. Chantale Riddle earned AVCA All-America honorable mention as a redshirt sophomore last season while freshmen Devanne Sours and Julia Warren earned national accolades as seniors in high school. Both earned All-America distinction by MaxPreps.com while Warren was named to the Under Armour Girls' High School All-America second team.
Eight of the 15 student-athletes on the 2013-14 Lobo volleyball roster hail from New Mexico. It's a testament to the youth, club and high school volleyball in the state. Four players are from the Albuquerque/Rio Rancho area: Cassie House, Maddie Mayfield, Julia Warren and Sara Stelzer while Devanne Sours (Tatum), Miquella Lovato (Pojoaque) and Danielle Ortiz (Los Alamos) represent smaller New Mexican communities.
JJ Glavan joined New Mexico volleyball as an assistant coach on Aug. 5. Prior to coming to UNM, Glavan served as an assistant coach at University of Colorado Colorado Springs for three seasons. While with the Mountain Lions, he was in charge of training all positional players, scouting opponents and developing game strategies and recruiting. UCCS posted winning records both fall seasons that Glavan was on staff, going 16-12 in 2011 and 18-11 in 2012. The program also had a number of individuals receive conference, regional and national accolades over the last two seasons. Other coaching stops for Glavan include Colorado Junior Volleyball Club (2007-13) and Rampart High School (2009-11). He has also served as a summer camp instructor for a number of organizations including USA Volleyball, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, UCCS and Colorado Juniors. Outside of coaching, Glavan worked full time as a humanities teacher at Mountain Ridge Middle School in Colorado Springs from Fall 2006 to Summer 2013. He graduated from Western State College in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts in history before earning his Colorado Secondary Education Certification in 2011.
Thank you for choosing to donate to University of New Mexico Athletics! We encourage you to contribute $50 or more to become a Lobo Club member. If you have ever made a donation to the Lobo Club online, over the phone, or in person, it is very likely that you already have an account for our Online Donation Center and do not need to create a new one. If you are unsure or don't remember your login information, please contact the Lobo Club at 505-925-CLUB (2582) and we will check our system. As always, thank you for your support of the Lobo Club, the Gateway to Giving for University of New Mexico Athletics.
Thank you for choosing to donate to University of New Mexico Athletics! We encourage you to contribute $50 or more to become a Lobo Club member.
If you have ever made a donation to the Lobo Club online, over the phone, or in person, it is very likely that you already have an account for our Online Donation Center and do not need to create a new one. If you are unsure or don't remember your login information, please contact the Lobo Club at 505-925-CLUB (2582) and we will check our system.
As always, thank you for your support of the Lobo Club, the Gateway to Giving for University of New Mexico Athletics.
Questions? Please call: 505-925-CLUB (2582)


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Bake Up A Treat For Holiday Meals
Entertaining is a large part of the holiday season. No matter what religious or cultural holiday is celebrated, gathering, reminiscing ... and eating are often part of the festivities.
With the influx of people dropping by and meals to be served this time of year, the wise host or hostess should collect recipes to have on hand that will help feed the crowds or just make an intimate meal together more memorable.
As an alternative to storemade breads or canned rolls and biscuits, why not try your hand at a tasty and relatively easy to make homemade bread? This herbed loaf will complement a wide range of meals and there probably won't be a crumb left over. Italian Herbed Bread (Serves 6 to 8) 21/2cups bread flour 1 cup hot tap water 3 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 teaspoon white sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 package fast-acting dry yeast* (see note below about yeast) Dried Italian seasonings, to taste Dried rosemary, to taste 1 teaspoon olive oil reserved for after baking Sprinkle of Kosher salt reserved for after baking
In a mixing bowl, combine fast-acting yeast and hot water. Let yeast and water sit for 5 minutes. Add sugar, salt, olive oil, herbs and flour. Mix until ingredients are well incorporated. (For those with bread machines, follow the directions for the machine for mixing the dough). Then turn out onto a floured board. With hands dusted in flour, knead bread for 5 minutes until dough is soft and no longer very tacky. *If using fast-acting yeast, follow the instructions for rising. Many brands require the dough to simply sit aside for 10 minutes, which will replace the first rise with traditional yeast recipes. If using traditional yeast, follow the instructions on the packet for rising and punching down dough.
When dough has sat or undergone the first rise, transfer it to a loaf pan that has been lightly oiled. Set the pan in a warm spot of the home. Let the dough rise in the loaf pan until doubled in size, roughly 2 to 3 hours.
Bake risen dough in an oven preheated to 400 F for 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove bread and use a pastry brush to brush olive oil on top and then sprinkle with Kosher salt. Serve warm.


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Fulham boss Martin Jol confirms defender Zdenek Grygera has retired from football
Fulham defender Zdenek Grygera has retired from football, manager Martin Jol has confirmed.
Last Updated: 06/12/12 12:22pm
Grygera, who joined Fulham in 2011, did not have his contract renewed at the end of the season after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament.
The 32-year-old, who has earned 65 international caps for the Czech Republic, continued his rehabilitation in the hope of earning a new deal but has now called time on his playing career.
"Grygera told me that he will quit," said Jol.
"He will stay with us until the December 15. He is retiring as it is now as he first wants to be healthy, sound and get back to his fitness because he has a few problems with his hip and knee.
"He was probably never 100%, not even 90%, but he is an unbelievable character.
"He started two weeks ago then after 10 minutes had to quit so he made the decision to call it a day for now.
"If he feels fine in the summer, maybe he could start somewhere in Austria or in his country, the Czech Republic.
"It is a shame and it was hard for him, but he was very realistic and of course he was not under contract here because he never played games.
"I feel for him because I think there was another two or three years in him but it was his decision.
"He's retiring from Fulham and England. He wants to be fit and not end up in a wheelchair. That is actually what he said and I know what he means."
Don't miss any live and exclusive football coverage this festive season. Click here to visit Sky Sports' Festive Calendar


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