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InterView USB includes QuickTime with full support, including MPEG-4 streaming via QuickTime Broadcaster, according to Daystar. It provides real-time 320-x-240, internet ready, USB video capture.
Combining technologies from XLR8, iRez, ArcSoft and EchoFX, Daystar has expanded InterView for multiple device support, and Windows XP compatibility. For ease of use, Daystar has added the ArcSoft VideoImpression editing and capture application.
Daystar claims that XLR8 InterView 3.0 includes all the hardware and software needed to grab video/audio from any normal camera, recorder or deck. The bundle costs $89 (around £50).
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The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today applauded the announcement by FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski that the FCC will be kicking off a government-wide effort to increase Wi-Fi speeds and alleviate Wi-Fi congestion at major hubs, such as airports, convention centers and large conference gatherings. Chairman Genachowski made the announcement in his one-on-one session with CEA president and CEO Gary Shapiro on the second day of the 2013 International CES, the world's largest annual innovation event, owned and produced by CEA.
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"CEA enthusiastically applauds Chairman Genachowski and the FCC for committing to free up spectrum, expediting ultra high-speed, high-capacity Wi-Fi in support of the U.S. innovation economy. The International CES show floor with more than 3,000 exhibitors illustrates how products increasingly rely on Wi-Fi. We need additional spectrum to provide the services Americans need and want.
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A Wake Forest School of Medicine team believes it has found biomarkers for lupus that also may play a role in causing the disease. The biomarkers are micro-ribonucleic acids (micro-RNAs), said Nilamadhab Mishra, M.D. He and colleagues reported at the American College of Rheumatology meeting in Washington that they had found profound differences in the expression of micro-RNAs between five lupus patients and six healthy control patients who did not have lupus.
"We are the first to show that these micro-RNAs are a problem in human lupus," said Mishra, an assistant professor of rheumatology.
Mishra said microRNAs are a class of small chains of ribonucleic acid that have important regulatory functions in the body, particularly in suppressing genes. (RNA serves as the template for translation of genes into proteins.) The research is part of Mishra's broader focus on histones, the tiny spools in the nuclei of cells around which DNA winds and compacts when it is not in the process of copying in cell division. Changes in these histones, called epigentic changes, can alter gene expression and the proteins these genes produce without altering the underlying DNA.
In thIS study, the researchers found 40 microRNAs in which the difference in expression between the lupus patients and the controls was more than 1.5 times, and focused on five micro-RNAs where the lupus patients had more than three times the amount of the microRNAs as healthy controls, and one, called miR 95 where the lupus patients had just one third of the gene expression of the microRNA of the controls.
The team reported the lesser amount of miR 95 "results in aberrant gene expression in lupus patients."
Furthermore, Mishra said, the microRNAs are associated with enzymes called histone deacetylases which provide "further rationale for the use of histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDIs) for the treatment of lupus." Mishra has shown that HDIs reset the histone modifications. He and his colleagues are investigating two HDIs – TSA (Trichostatin A) and SAHA (suberoylanilide hydroxamic acid ) – in lupus patients and have reported positive results against a number of lupus symptoms and conditions.
Coauthors with Mishra on this study are Kerri Keiger, Ph.D., and Emmanuel Labourier, Ph.D., of Ambion Inc. in Austin, Texas, which makes RNA-based research products for the life sciences markets.
In a second presentation, Mishra discussed his hypothesis that environmental factors trigger histone modifications that activate a type of white blood cell called the B cell and turn these cells into self-destructive attackers, a key element in lupus, an autoimmune disorder.
Mishra said removing these activated B cells is one current treatment for lupus. "The lupus patients have activated B cells that cause antibody production and kidney disease, but we don't know why," he said.
But he is continuing to pursue resetting part of the epigenetic code as a way to improve lupus treatment. "We demonstrated that the response to bacterial and viral byproducts induce B-cell activation through the epigenetic mechanism," he said. These changes lead to activation of the histone deacetylase enzymes. The HDIs stop this activation.
Working with Mishra on this project is Isaac Snowhite, Ph.D., of Wake Forest.
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April 19, 2008
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NORTHFIELD, N.J. - After two rounds of the Ivy League Championship, Yale is sitting in fifth place behind Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and Penn. Yale shot a 48-over to finish with a score of 624. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, they are 39 shots behind Harvard (585), which finished the day with a team score of only nine-over par. Princeton was ten shots behind the Crimson with a score of 595, and rounding out the top three was last year's Ivy League Champions, Columbia, with a score of 596.
Yale finished the day with three players in the top 20. Senior Lindsay Hong and freshman Harriet Owers-Bradley finished tied for 17th with scores of 156. One shot behind them was senior Ellen Brophy (157) in a tie for 20th. Junior Natasha Spackey finished tied for 22nd with a score of 159, and sophomore Taylor Lee shot a 165 to round out Yale's five person team.
Harvard is playing well though, with four of its five players in the top 10. Emily Balmert and Claire Sheldon were two of only three players to finish under-par with scores of -4 and -2, respectively. The leader after two rounds is Susannah Aboff of Princeton, who shot an Ivy League record with her first round score of 65. She finished the day nine-under par.
The Bulldogs will have their work cut out for them Sunday. Their closest opponent, Penn, is only nine shots ahead of the Bulldogs, but even the Quakers are 30 shots off of Harvard.
Yale will tee off at 8:00 a.m.
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DRACUT -- Superintendent of Schools Steven Stone presented the School Committee on Monday night with his proposed fiscal 2015 budget that, if approved by Town Meeting in June, would increase last year's budget by 4.83 percent to pay for what he called 11 "critical-need" staff positions and transportation expenses.
The proposed staffing increases, which Stone said would restore some crucial positions that were eliminated in 2012, include: three elementary-school specialists in physical education, art and music; a special-education teacher; a technology-integration specialist; a "transitional readiness," or vocational job counselor; a paraprofessional; two part-time technology assistant; and two full-time custodians.
Adding two custodians would restore the district-wide staff to 20, just in time to the handle another 65,000 square feet of school space that will come with completion of the new Dracut High School in September, the superintendent said.
"The superintendent's request can be characterized as a level-service budget with critical-need increases in staffing and expenses," Stone wrote in his summary. "The budget continues the modest increases proposed and approved in Fiscal Year 2014."
Last spring, Stone proposed a level-service budget of $29,677,282 that included a request for a 4.9 percent increase. Similarly, this year's proposed budget of $30.8 million includes a request for a 4.83 percent increase, or $1.1 million.
The School Committee voted unanimously, 4-0, to accept Stone's proposed budget as a "working document" to comb through at future workshops, board members said.
"I thank Superintendent Stone for the great detail that he has provided the committee in this budget," Chairman Michael McNamara said. "Each of the five of us now need to do our due diligence in going through it, and ask the questions that need to be asked, and get satisfactory answers to those."
School Committee member Matt Sheehan noted it was the first time a superintendent had provided the board with a helpful "executive summary" on top of stark pages of numbers in the line-item budget.
"Mr. Stone and his staff did a lot of hard work on this, and it is a very workable, stabilized budget in my eyes," said Sheehan. "Is there an increase? Yes, but it's a working document, and I'm sure there will be tweaks, changes and several hurdles that it has to go through before it gets to Town Meeting."
In other business, acting on a recommendation by School Policy Subcommittee members Betsy Murphy and Dan O'Connell, the board voted 4-0 to ban electronic cigarettes from the Dracut schools, adding "e-cigs" to the language of the district's existing policy that already bans tobacco use on school property.
Member Joe Wilkie was absent from the meeting, having attended the funeral of his father, Joe Wilkie Sr., on Monday. On behalf of the School Committee, McNamara sent heartfelt condolences to the Wilkie family, including to Joe Sr.'s wife, Maureen Wilkie, who was a longtime secretary in the Dracut School District.
In response to a request made by McNamara for a presentation on what is being done at Lakeview Junior High School to improve lagging math scores in advance of the next MCAS testing in May, the board heard a presentation from the district's Curriculum Director David Hill. Hill informed the board that 45 of 52 students who were identified as needing help were receiving special tutoring in smaller groups of 3 or 4 students, using Title I funding that had become newly available. Seven of the students identified as needing math assistance opted not to partake in the program, Hill reported.
Hill said the district is anticipating a boost in future math scores at the middle-school level through the planned implementation of the newly purchased "Big Ideas: Middle School Math" program that is currently being taught successfully to grades 6 to 8 in the Peabody and Chelmsford Public Schools, among others.
At the start of the meeting, the School Committee gave special recognition to Harvard University-bound, Dracut High Valedictorian Brittany Petros, who described to the board how she won the Boston Brain Bee, a regional neuroscience-quiz competition, on Feb 1.
"There were probably about 35 students all together. The first half of the competition consisted of a 75-question, multiple choice test with the top 10 scores advancing to the live question-and-answer round," said Petros, who answered all 75 questions correctly. "After several live rounds, there was one left standing, which happened to be me."
McNamara declared Petros to be one of "Dracut's finest."
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Someone has prepared two envelopes containing money. One contains twice as much money as the other. You have decided to pick one envelope, but then the following argument occurs to you: Suppose my chosen envelope contains $X, then the other envelope either contains $X/2 or $2X. Both cases are equally likely, so my expectation if I take the other envelope is .5 * $X/2 + .5 * $2X = $1.25X, which is higher than my current $X, so I should change my mind and take the other envelope. But then I can apply the argument all over again. Something is wrong here! Where did I go wrong? In a variant of this problem, you are allowed to peek into the envelope you chose before finally settling on it. Suppose that when you peek you see $100. Should you switch now?Would you become so intrigued that you would ask to join the conversation?
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Whitko H.S. hands out Class of 2013 awards
Whitko High School seniors that earned scholarships through Kosciusko County Community Foundation included Chelsee Christoffel, Becca Thomson, Jamie Wall, Natasha Anderson, Aaron Horn and Holly Frantz. Scholarships were presented by KCCF's Amy Cannon.See Page A5 of the May 20 issue for more photos and a complete list of award recipients.


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"The Heat" director Paul Feig said he is setting up a Boston screening -- for the city's first-responders -- of the Sandra Bullock-Melissa McCarthy FBI comedy.
The special preview for members of law-enforcement in Boston has not yet been scheduled. The announcement about it was made three days after two bombs were set off at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170.
"The movie is such a love letter to Boston," Feig told CNN. "A lot of our cast are Boston people, either born or raised. So we really would like to support that city. I love that city."
"It's been an amazing tight-knit community before this happened, and it just bonded a community even more," Bullock said. "I don't think a screening would ever be enough, feel like it's enough to do for them."
"It's a remarkable place, an amazing city that's obviously going through a really tough situation," McCarthy said. "I have a sweet spot for it now."
Bullock, who is also a film producer, also starred in "Two Weeks Notice," the first major movie production shot in New York City following the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack on the World Trade Center.


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In 1996, Colorado was one of 19 mostly Southern and Western states to back underdog Republican Bob Dole in his overwhelming electoral loss to incumbent President Bill Clinton.
On Tuesday, for the first time since supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for a second term in 1936, the same state joined Democrats in the rust belt, northeast and far west to back a Democratic incumbent for re-election.
How did Colorado go from the reddest of red to consecutively blue so quickly?
The answer may lie partly in the state's changing demography.
Colorado's Latino population has grown 42 percent in 12 years, helping to transform once-reliable Republican areas into swing counties now leaning toward Democrats.
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Those same demographic shifts in GOP strongholds such as El Paso County, have helped Democrats narrow their defeat margins in counties they can't win, while forcing Republicans to defend places once considered a sure thing.
"Demographics are destiny. It's true for Colorado," said Jill Hanauer, president of Project New America, a Denver-based Democratic research firm.
In Arapahoe County, the Latino population increased 82 percent from 2000 to 2010, according to the Colorado Department of Local Affairs. The county that backed Republican George W. Bush by 15,154 votes 12 years ago, on Tuesday supported Barack Obama over Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney by 21,201 votes.
In other words, Democrats saw a 36,355-vote shift to their presidential candidate.
These trends from 2000 to 2012 are exhibited in other key Colorado counties:
• Jefferson County, where the Latino population has increased 46 percent, Democrats saw a 32,277-vote shift to their candidate
• Larimer County had a 52 percent increase in Latinos, and Democrats saw a 25,874-vote shift
• Adams County saw a 63 percent increase in Latino residents, and Democrats had a 17,741-vote shift
Democrats clearly took advantage of these shifting demographics: Obama staffers say they registered 71,000 new Latinos since 2008 and another 24,400 African-Americans.
The Obama campaign's early ground game in Colorado homed in on getting new people registered to vote. After all those new people were registered, canvassers and volunteers circled back to neighborhoods all over the state that traditionally had low voter turnout and knocked on doors.
"It was among the most sophisticated efforts in the history of presidential elections," said Colorado Obama spokesman Michael Amodeo.
In Colorado, as in Florida and Nevada, Latino political participation continues to swell.
From 2004 to 2012, Latinos have jumped from 8 to 14 percent of the electorate in Colorado, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
Although every pollster and advocacy expert notes that large voting groups are not single-issue voters, Lorena Garcia, executive director of the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights, said Obama's messaging on affordable health care and accessibility moved Latino voters.
"They understood that Obama wanted to make health insurance more accessible for low-income people," she said. "When the Latino community heard this, they were able to make their decision on a candidate who can best promote that."
Also, the president's directive to allow young illegal immigrants to apply for "deferred" deportation and work permits helped spark enthusiasm in the Latino community, Garcia said.
In conservative El Paso County, whose Latino population increased 60 percent from 2000 to 2010, Republicans are still in control, but votes for the Democratic presidential candidate have shifted by 7,665 votes.
Douglas County, also a GOP stronghold, saw a 140 percent jump in its Latino population. But Democrats there have not made any inroads yet.
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The day after the Presidential Election, Missouri's Secretary of State's office published a list indicating how many voters came out to the polls. The list gives numbers all the way down to a county level, and statewide, it estimates voter turnout at 65.7%. That statewide figure is calculated based on the number of registered voters and votes cast. John Petrocik is a professor at MU. He says that method of counting voters doesn't accurately record the percentage of the total population that votes.
"When you report a turnout rate just based on the registered voters, you've artificially inflated the proportion of us who are voting – because you've deleted the 20 percent who don't register," Petrocik said.
Petrocik says problems with using the lists of registered voters can creep in when people move, or die — and then they're not taken off the list of registered voters.
"Now, it's not a social catastrophe," Petrocik said.
Petrocik says he's not that concerned with making sure the count of registered voters is accurate because he thinks there are better ways to measure voter turnout. He favors using the "Voting Eligible Population." That figure's calculated by taking the population of Missourians who are old enough to vote, and then adjusting it for people who can't vote. For example: non-citizens, or ineligible felons, depending on state law. It doesn't have anything to do with who registers to vote.
And Petrocik says, from an academic point of view it makes sense. But says it would take a significant amount of effort to actually run calculations like that.
"The government doesn't seem to be too interested in it — and from an academic's point of view, we know what the numbers are, but no one's going to act on it even if we figure out what it is. So, there's no particular incentive to figure out what the real turnout rate is," Petrocik said.
Petrocik says the amount of over-estimation created with the "registered voter" participation count can vary depending on the type of election. But he says it's possible the actual percentage of Missourians who voted this year could be anywhere from fifteen to twenty percent lower than what the Secretary of State's office reported. And that could mean less than half of eligible Missourians went out to the polls this election.


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- In a large heavy saucepan, cook butter over medium heat for 4-6 minutes or until golden brown. Stir in sugar and corn syrup; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Remove from the heat; gradually stir in cream.
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Tom Morello says watching vintage clips of Rage Against the Machine elicits bittersweet emotions. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the veteran guitarist says he wishes the band could have produced more material. "It's like, the very singular and combustible chemistry that made Rage Against the Machine the force of nature that it was, was the same thing that kept us from producing more," explains Morello. "If it were up to me, I would've made two records a year. As it is, we have just three records of original material over 20 years. It's a testament to the strength of that material and to the mythos of the Rage live shows that there is an interest 20 years later in people looking at it."
XX, a 20th anniversary box set that includes Rage Against the Machine's remastered debut album, original demos and filmed live performances, was released in November. Morello views the set as a gift to the group's fans, adding that prospects for a Rage reunion don't look promising. "I don't know that there's much direction to go," he says. "There's no plans, no current direction of anything …. It was my great hope that we'd celebrate the 20th anniversary with a five-continent world tour. But short of that, this box set that celebrates the 20-year span of Rage Against the Machine is something that will hopefully be very satisfying for longtime Rage Against the Machine fans as well as turn on new fans to what the band is all about."


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Yesterday we released an updated version of Collections Online, or at least the beginnings of it. There are a few tweaks to do here and there that we will work on over the next while, and of course more features we will be adding in the future.
I won't go into too much detail now as we'll discuss it more over the coming weeks, highlighting the different bits and pieces we find exiting (and challenging). However in summary, our aim to make relationships between collection objects and specimens, people, places and topics more explicit, and more meaningful; to make it easier to browse the collections and Te Papa's related knowledge; to make it a richer browsing experience; and to link out to other collections and institutions. Take a look at these samples to get a taste:
- Dunedin (place)
- Crowds (category)
- Samurai suit (Collection object)
- History Collection (Topic)
- Mother Mary Aubert (Person)
A lot of people across Te Papa have put a lot of work into getting this out there, and we look forward continuing to expand the content and tools. Bear with us while we iron out the kinks, but do let us know what you think of these early stages, what you find useful, or maybe what you'd like to see as future developments. Have a play, you might be surprised at what you find!
PS. Remember to keep an eye on the blog, where we will be giving you a bit more of a tour through the new features soon.


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Each of the 24 volumes offered in this study series is a comprehensive verse-by-verse, book-by-book exploration of the Bible using a three-dimensional approach that guides students to ask three questions:
Each volume contains 13 sessions using the NIV Bible translation. Order a Student Book for each class member and leader.
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"The Conservative Party has forgotten the qualities of loyalty, pragmatism, duty, patriotism, humility and service"
Peter Oborne in the Telegraph has written one of the most perceptive analyses of the contemporary Conservative Party in a very long time. But it's a bit rich of him (and the Telegraph) to blame B-rate backbenchers for handing the next general election to Ed Miliband when he (and they) are constantly carping and criticising. It may indeed be that David Cameron hates his party and much of his party loathes him, but it is journalists like Oborne and newspapers like the Telegraph which fan the discontent.
The most perceptive comments are on the nature and character of old and new Tory MPs, and how this transation has shifted the expression of Conservatism:
...The truth is that the character of Tory MPs has mutated in the course of little more than a generation. For almost all of the 20th century, Conservatives were guided by the essential Christian insight that their personal needs, ambitions and egos were the things which mattered least of all. Their lives only had meaning and purpose within the context of the great institutions of church and state.Which brings us to the illustration His Grace has selected for today's post. The people (and Her Majesty) want authentic and intelligent representatives who understand and appreciate those qualities of loyalty, pragmatism, duty, patriotism, humility and service. Previous generations of Conservatives were indeed guided by the essential Christian insight that their personal needs, ambitions and egos were the things which mattered least of all. Yet cast adrift in a sea of relativism and promoted beyond their capabilities, many of the new generation see politics as the fulfilment of personal ambition rather than as a dutiful public service. And it is noteworthy that this shift in perceptions is contiguous with changing attitudes toward the great institutions of church and state, the meaning, purpose and functions of which are simply no longer widely understood by many Conservative MPs.
...Second, the Conservative Party, as traditionally constituted, always understood that the national interest was more important than party advantage. This was an intuition that confounded and baffled Labour, whose political analysis was founded on class antagonism.
Thus traditional Tories always welcomed coalition government as a fine expression of patriotism in response to a common emergency – think of the way that Bonar Law took second place to Lloyd George, or Stanley Baldwin stood aside for Ramsay MacDonald. The modern Tory party, in sharp contrast, views coalition with churlish and blinkered resentment. This is because its MPs think too much of partisan advantage and sectional interest.
Third, the Conservative Party used to be the stupid party, on the whole a positive thing. Many allegedly stupid Conservatives, with Willie Whitelaw the classic example, were intelligent but not intellectual (another distinction that Labour and its allies in the liberal media found hard to comprehend). Tories like Whitelaw, who had lived through the 1930s and served as a tank commander in the Second World War, knew at first hand the damage that abstract ideas could do.
In a linked insight, they also understood that the vast bulk of government was not about changing the world, but about compromise and pragmatism. Over the past 12 months, by contrast, the Tories have developed an enthusiasm for ideological purity that recalls the Labour Party of the late 1970s. Last week, a Tory MP named Brian Binley published an "open letter" to the Prime Minister, a moment of preposterous self-importance that was nevertheless taken seriously by many people who ought to have known better.
To sum up, the Conservative Party has forgotten the qualities of loyalty, pragmatism, duty, patriotism, humility and service that served it so well over the past two centuries. It has lost its sense of history, and lives in a perpetual present characterised by frantic manoeuvring for immediate political gain. Many of its MPs, though of high intellect, unfortunately are of low character. This is a state of affairs which does not merely threaten its chances of winning the next election, but throws its long-term survival into serious doubt.
David Cameron, as party leader, must take some of the responsibility for this. He threw his personal weight behind some of the MPs who have inflicted the worst damage, such as Louise Mensch and Zac Goldsmith, the insubstantial and foppish member for Richmond. More seriously, the Prime Minister and his ally George Osborne have failed to provide moral leadership.
Mr Osborne, in particular, gives the damaging impression that politics is a game which belongs to a tiny coterie of clever, devious and extremely rich people. Both Mr Cameron and Mr Osborne – they are so close personally and politically that they deserve the joint appellation of Camborne – show far too little appreciation of the importance of institutions in British public life, less still of the historical foundations of the Conservative Party.
They remain transfixed by the electoral success of Tony Blair, and regard The Unfinished Revolution, the shallow masterpiece written by Mr Blair's late pollster Philip Gould, as a rule book for how politics should be conducted, rather than what it really is: a nightmarish warning. The controversial gay marriage initiative may well be an attempt to emulate Tony Blair's famous "Clause Four" moment, when he asserted his own authority at the expense of the Labour Party.


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One of the primary objectives of Grand Challenges Explorations is to involve scientists around the world who do not typically work in global health.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced yesterday that it is now accepting grant proposals for Round 2 of Grand Challenges Explorations, a five-year US$100 million initiative to encourage bold and unconventional research on new global health solutions.
Proposals for six topics will be accepted online at www.gcgh.org/explorations through November 2, 2008.
Round 2 follows on the heels of the initiative's first funding round, which closed in May of this year, and generated nearly 4,000 applications from scientists in more than 100 countries. Two new topics are being introduced in Round 2 along with the initial four topics from Round 1.
One of the primary objectives of Grand Challenges Explorations is to involve scientists around the world who do not typically work in global health. This includes those with innovative ideas in Africa, Asia, and other parts of the developing world; people working in the private sector; and young investigators.
The initiative uses an agile, accelerated grantmaking process. Applications are two pages, and preliminary data about the proposed research are not required. In addition, the online application process has been streamlined for Round 2.
The topic areas for which proposals will be accepted in Round 2 are: create new vaccines for diarrhea, HIV, malaria, pneumonia, and TB; create new tools to accelerate the eradication of malaria; create new ways to protect against infectious diseases, including alternatives to traditional vaccination; create new drugs and delivery systems to limit the emergence of resistance in the disease-causing agent; create new ways to prevent or cure HIV infection that fall outside current research on vaccines and other biomedical and behavior-change strategies; and, explore the basis for latency in TB, with the goal of discovering new ways to identify and eliminate latent infection.
The foundation and an independent group of reviewers will select the most innovative proposals, and grants will be awarded within approximately three months from the proposal submission deadline. Initial grants will be $100,000 each. Projects showing success will have the opportunity to receive additional funding of $1 million or more. Round 1 grants are expected to be announced in October.
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3D movies that you see and hear about these days aren't actually a new fad; in fact, the earliest 3D movies were the horror flicks of the 1950s. Of course techniques used then to bring about the 3D movie effect back then were primitive - basically projected images had dual color layers that were superimposed and offset. The problem was the eye strain when viewing the projection through a pair of anaglyphic glasses (those red and blue glasses). Plus the quality was nothing to shout about. Thus the novelty wore off soon after and 3D movies haven't had the fanfare ever again up until Chicken Little (2005) and more accurately, Monster House (2006).
We managed to catch a tech session with Arthur Shek, Software Manager of Walt Disney Animation Studios who presented the audience with this clip on the making of the 3D version of Cloudy with a Chance of Meat Balls, an animation which is currently playing in theatres at the time of writing this article and has managed to clinch top spot at the Box Office for two weeks straight:-
3D movies are making a come back now because of a combination of digital cinemas, modern digital cinematography and that of computers playing an extremely pivotal role all through the production and post production process enabling 3D and other special effects with much better quality and ease. Chicken Little was the first ever digital 3D movie and the uptake and interest is getting better with each successive 3D movie. With about 5000 digital theaters worldwide that are ready for 3D movies, it's not surprising at all and this number will certainly explode further. Furthermore, 3D movies command a premium and the box office takings for certain titles like those shown in the slide below garnered far more revenue for the 3D screenings are proof that digital 3D movies are probably here to stay.
So far we talked about why and 3D movies are becoming more prevalent, but DIGIDIA who specializes in products and services related to broadcast and transmission of media, came down to the GPU Tech Conference to share with the audience on areas where the GPU's untapped shader processors can help to improve the viewing quality of 3D movies. It's understood that GPU clusters are employed for rendering these movies, but what we're touching upon are improving how a 3D movie is presented such as convergence accommodation, eliminating ghosting, and avoiding left-to-right image conflicts from the sides. We'll let the following slides point these out:-
And other areas in post production are incorporating automated tools for gradual depth changes through fading, and of course how not to forget about converting plain old 2D movies to look 3D which requires a lot of processing power to analyze each frame and scene (the process is also known as dimensionalization):-
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I'm not sure what the listeners thought but last night's episode of POTG Radio was one of the more fun shows that we have done. We had Launy "The" Schwartz from Hockey54.com, "The Face of the Game" and Ryan Miller from Admiral's Short Shifts as our guests.
Launy is one of the most enthusiastic hockey guys you will ever meet and will bring a smile to you face as you listen to him talk about his new site, Hockey54.com, as well as the other wide range of topics that we covered.
Likewise, with Ryan Miller from Admiral's Short Shifts, you could feel his excitement for what is going on with all the future Predators as they start the season in Milwaukee. His in depth analysis of all the Ad's players is a must for serious Predator fans.
There was plenty of bonus coverage after the live portion of last night's POTG Radio Show as the full podcast runs longer than 90 minutes. Kick back and give it a listen.
Poll Results...
As we promised, we have the final results from last week's poll on the Predator's goal song. It is really a non-issue as the Pred's staff listened to the fans and assured everyone that Tim McGraw will reign after every Predator goal.
The whole thing got started at the last preseason game when the game operations staff played Pennywise's Bro Hymn after the two Predator goals. We ran a poll for a week and had 93 voters to chime in with their vote.
Tim McGraw got 66% of the vote, Pennywise got 20% and Other got 14%. The general consensus from comments and emails was that the McGraw song had become somewhat of a tradition that would be hard to break. A minority opinion was that it may be time for something a little different. One drawback to Bro Hymn that was mentioned was that the Ducks and Flyers were already using it.
This week's poll, located on the right, gives you a chance to express which Central Division rival that you love to hate. While you are here, cast a vote.
In Pred Nation...
There is a lot going on for Pred fans with the Meet the Team event for Season Ticket Holders tonight and the Social Media Club with several Pred bloggers and officials on Wednesday. If that isn't enough from @predsradio: "Join us at Blackstone on Wednesday night from 6-8 pm for our Preds Season kick off show!"
Jim Diamond had good news from practice on Monday that J. P. Dumont was a possible for Thursday and that Joel Ward and Colin Wilson were making progress. Jordin Tootoo's return appears further off.
John Glennon has a story about Marcel Goc and what he brings to the Predators.
Hopefully, the Preds will not be distracted by the Olympics this year. David Boclair talks about a few players thinking about playing for their national teams.
Forechecker has his annual projections for individual players this season. The Preds should be in the playoffs if his numbers are correct. Forty-five wins for the goalies would yield 95-100 points when OTLs are added in. You can also vote for your play of the week at OnTheForecheck.
Dan Hamhuis has joined John Glennon blogging at Inside Predators. Here is his first post.
It appears that another new Predators blog has been spawned. Rick Gillespie (aka Drunken Gator) appears at Nashville is Smashville. His site features a countdown to 100 points for the Preds this season. He is also cross-posting at Bleacher Report, giving the Preds a presence there. Go to the Predators Aggregator and you may really be surprised how many folks are blogging about the Preds this year.
I'm not completely in the loop on this but the Preds are sponsoring the Smashville Dodgeball Challenge this weekend.
The Milwaukee Admirals rolled out the second part of their web upgrade on Monday. From @JonAdmirals: "Phase 2 of Milwaukeeadmirals.com launched today. AdsTV, photo gallery, new game, mobile application. Great job Charlie and Tech By Design!"
The Milwaukee Admirals Center Ice show that normally is on Mondays was pushed back to tonight this week so not to conflict with the Packers-Minnesota game last night.
Around the NHL...
Ryan at the RedLightDistrict has his first Power Rankings of the year along with a bunch of other stuff.
Stay Classy has an early pick for the Calder Trophy.
Psycho Puck Lady is on the road again, this time to a haunted hotel in Pittsburgh.
Probably not a surprise to many, but of the four major sports, hockey is the most "high brow" with visitors to the league's website having the highest income of all the sports so says the Wall Street Journal.
From @DarrenDreger: "NHLPA agrees to negotiate settlement with Paul Kelly and intends on settling a lawsuit filed by former players and PA lawyer, Stu Grimson."
Chris Botta has a story on Kate Murray's opponent Kristen McElroy who is clearly pro Lighthouse Project.
Newsday has Queens as the suitor of the day for Charles Wang and the Islanders.
From Puck The Media comes the weekend's winners and losers on TV.
The hottest thing going in Canada (other than hockey) is the CBC series Battle of the Blades where pro figure skaters are paired up with hockey players in a competition. In the following video Bob Probert is paired with Kristina Lenko on the ice at Maple Leaf Gardens. MotherPucker has the results of the first night.
You never know who is reading or listening. We got a email from a reader Sjoberg Pontus in Sweden who wanted us to give his site a shout out. Therefore, we direct everyone to EuroNHL where Pontus give a view of the NHL from Europe. They even have a link for our site there. We are going to keep an eye on his site and see what the NHL looks like from afar.
Finally, this from @CCSeed: The Best Psychic Joke In The World, Ever!
More Later...
Buddy Oakes for PredsOnTheGlass
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Tuesday Tidbits and POTG Podcast
2 comments:
- Drunken Gator said...
Hey Buddy, thanks for the mention in your article. I really enjoyed the podcast last night. I hope i can provided another voice for the Preds.
Thanks again,
Rick Gillispie
- October 6, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- PredsOnTheGlass said...
Rick, Welcome to the world of Pred Bloggers. One of our goals has been to encourage others so we are thrilled to death to see you involved. Anything we can ever do, let us know.
- October 7, 2009 at 9:32 AM
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Nature is all around us, so it is easy to forget about the benefits. The air, the plants, and the animals all have benefits to our health! Play with nature and discover how getting a little bit of dirt under your nails can make a big difference. May 12th we will be joined by Raquel Silva, a scientist who studies the health benefits of time spent in nature.
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When director Ralph Myers sat down to read J. M. Barrie's original play, he found something far stranger, far wilder and far more brilliant than Disney ever let us believe. Award-winning playwright Tommy Murphy has transposed the classic story of the boy who wouldn't grow up into 1980s suburbia. Think pirates playing Pictionary, Twister with Tinkerbell and lost boys in leg warmers. Rising star of Australian theatre Meyne Wyatt (named best newcomer at the 2012 Sydney Theatre Awards) plays the mischievous title character. The charming Geraldine Hakewill (Les Liaison Dangereuses, Sydney Theatre Company) plays Wendy, and the rakish Charlie Garber (As You Like It) is the fearsome Captain Hook. Until February 10, various times, Belvoir Theatre, 25 Belvoir Street, Surry Hills, adults $65, concessions $45, student rush $29, family $130, 9699 3444, belvoir.com.au.
This high-voltage international dance spectacular comes direct from London's West End and features some of the world's best dancers and DJs, including Demi Sorono of So You Think You Can Dance fame. The choreographer of Sister Act and Mamma Mia! is bringing raw street dance to the Opera House this month. Blaze has become an international phenomenon, receiving sweeping critical acclaim after playing to sell-out crowds in London, Paris, Berlin and Bangkok. You'll be bopping along in your seat to tunes from Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and more. Until January 16, various times, Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House, $49-$119, 9250 7777, sydneyoperahouse.com.
Today would have been Elvis Presley's 78th birthday, and what better way to celebrate than with an Elvis song-fest? The Vanguard's favourite female performers will interpret his music, along with a full backing band and specially designed sets and costumes. The show stars Mojo Juju, Kira Puru, Cash Savage, Stella Angelico, Holiday Sidewinder and Twincest. Meal-and-show packages available. Tonight, 6.30pm, The Vanguard, 42 King Street, Newtown, from $38.80, 9557 9409, thevanguard.com.au. ALEXANDER THE GREAT
History buffs travel from all over the world to visit the famous State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. Now they're making the journey to Sydney, where the largest collection of treasures to come to Australia from the Hermitage is on display at the Australian Museum. The blockbuster exhibition includes signature pieces such as the Gonzaga Cameo and the polished black basalt statue of Cleopatra VII. See more than 400 objects from classical antiquity through to the modern age, spanning almost 2500 years. Until April 28, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, city, 9320 6000, australianmuseum.net.au, to book call 13 61 00 or visit ticketmaster.com.au.


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The Fairfax Library Foundation has announced that 13 Fairfax County Public Library employees and volunteers have each been awarded continuing education scholarships to foster the professional development of the Fairfax County Public Library team.
Beth Anderson Lee, Young Adult librarian at Pohick Regional Library, will participate in the "What's New in Young Adult Literature" seminar offered by the Bureau of Education & Research.
Nancy Bronez, youth services manager at Thomas Jefferson Library, is to participate in the "Book as iPad App. Multimedia" seminar sponsored by the American Library Association.
Sondra Eklund, youth services manager for the City of Fairfax Regional Library, will attend "ALA Midwinter Meeting & William Morris Invitational Seminar" sponsored by the American Library Association and Association for Library Service to Children.
Jill Johnson, Sunday manager at Centreville Regional Library, David Mercer, computer technician at Sherwood Regional Library and Lorton Library, and Emily Riley, librarian at Thomas Jefferson Library, will attend the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference: "Libraries: Adding Value to Our Communities" sponsored by the Virginia Library Association.
Nancy Klein, youth services manager at Burke Centre Library, is to take part in the Virginia Master Naturalist Program sponsored by the Virginia Department of Forestry.
Matthew Moffett, assistant branch manager at Burke Centre Library, and Kimberly Ventrella, youth services manager at Patrick Henry Library, will attend the American Library Association's Annual Midwinter Conference sponsored by the American Library Association.
Shari Randall, youth services information assistant at Kingstowne Library, will attend the Malice Domestic Conference sponsored by Malice Domestic, Ltd.
Susanne Johnson, information and youth services assistant at Pohick Regional Library, and Delia Ullberg, youth services manager at Oakton Library, are to attend the "What's New in Children's Literature and How to Use it in Your Program" seminar offered by the Bureau of Education & Research.
Laura S. Wickstead, Virginia Room librarian at City of Fairfax Regional Library, will attend National Institute on Genealogical Research sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration, National Genealogical Society, Federation of Genealogical Society, and others.


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Ongoing Olympic talks impact NHL schedule releaseby Dan Rosen / NHL.com
The timing for when the National Hockey League releases the 2013-14 regular-season schedule is dependent on an agreement that is currently being worked on to send NHL players to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Thursday that the schedule will not be released until the agreement between the NHL, National Hockey League Players' Association, International Olympic Committee and International Ice Hockey Federation is completed.
"There has been no final agreement on the terms of Olympic participation at this point," Daly told NHL.com. "And unless, or until, there is, the release of the 2013-14 regular-season schedule would be premature. Having said that, we hope that a final resolution on both matters can be achieved in the very near future."
If the sides come together on an Olympic agreement, the NHL would have to suspend the 2013-14 schedule for at least two weeks in February for players to participate in Sochi. NHL players have participated in the past four Olympics, beginning with the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan.


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5th Annual Jewish Food and Culture Festival
Free Admission and Good Eats at the Maltz Museum
Since 2005, the Maltz Museum has upheld its mission to build bridges of tolerance and understanding by sharing Jewish heritage through the lens of the American experience. On Sunday, August 12 the Museum would like to share a bowl of matzo ball soup with you at its Jewish Food and Culture Festival.
Now in its fifth year, this annual event brings to life the many tastes of Jewish living yesterday and today. Join the Maltz Museum for a fun-filled day of treats, live music courtesy of The Workmen's Circle and Park Synagogue Children's klezmer bands, a film screening of the documentary Old Jews Telling Jokes and the Marx Brothers classic Room Service, and fun & games for the whole family!
Enjoy delicious homemade treats and food donated by Mr. Brisket, Orlando Baking Company, Marc's, Aladdin's Eatery/Cleveland Heights, Whole Foods, and Corky & Lenny's. New this year, is a "Kosher Korner" featuring items from Green Road Catering and Lax & Mandel. Raffle items include celebrity signed mustard bottles and Cleveland Indians tickets. Food tickets available for 50 cents each (advance sales strongly encouraged). Free Admission to all Museum galleries and special entertainment.
11am – 5pm Museum open; kids' activities on the lawn; tours of An American Story
11 – 11:45am Park Synagogue Children's Klezmer Band performing live
11am – 2pm Food available…while supplies last
12 – 1:30pm The Workmen's Circle Klezmer Orchestra performing live
1:30 – 3pm Room Service starring The Marx Brothers – a comedy classic
3 – 4pm Old Jews Telling Jokes…adults only screening of this hilarious documentary
The Maltz Museum receives public support with local tax dollars from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture, to preserve and enrich our region's artistic and cultural heritage.


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For the most part, 'General Hospital' showed off what makes soaps a great genre this week.
Action, emotion, snappy dialogue? It was all on firm display.
I know a lot of fans don't like baby switches, but GH handled this Tea and Sam baby switch with aplomb. I also know it was supposed to last longer – but Steve Burton's departure forced a resolution before the writers were ready.
Still, the story line didn't feel forced and things seemed to come to a natural head this week.
Not only do we have the tragedy of Tea finding out that the baby isn't really hers looming – but we also have whatever antics Todd is going to go through to squirm out of this. The good news is, he can rat on Johnny now.


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Competition for attacking places at Old Trafford is so fierce that Macheda has found himself a long way down the pecking order this season, with the likes of Robin van Persie, Wayne Rooney, Javier Hernandez and Danny Welbeck blocking his route to the first team. He has been loaned out to Sampdoria and Queens Park Rangers at the halfway point of the previous two seasons, and agent Giovanni Bia admits he will probably move on once again this January. Bia told tuttomercatoweb.com:
"Federico at this time is not finding space, and so it is clear that in January he will go away.
"But I don't think he'll be back again in Italy because usually in January clubs are looking for players that are already ready, unless there are teams with a quiet standing which want to do long-term projects with him."
Macheda has been at Manchester United since making the move to England as a 16-year-old in 2007.
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HIGH SCHOOL: Began his prep career at San Fernando High School in San Jose, joining the soccer team as a sophomore … finished his prep career at South High School in Bakersfield … was team captain for both squads … played for the North Valley Hot Spurs club program.
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- 03-25-2012
- By Thomas James Weaver
When Jon Kilik returns to Vermont to speak with students, as he does every few years, he says one of his goals is to "demystify" his profession. The Class of 1978 alumnus has built a long and successful career as a film producer, making his way in that world of silver screen mystique. But as Kilik talks, soft-spoken and unassuming, his focus is on hard work, meticulous craft, and substantive storytelling, not bright lights and red carpets.
As much as Kilik is drawn to meet today's UVM students and current faculty, he also returns to reconnect to his own undergraduate years. More than three decades ago, Professor Frank Manchel's classes sparked his love of film and drive to pursue it as a career.
From a first job as a production assistant, Kilik worked his way into the New York film world in the early 1980s. His career took flight when he connected with director Spike Lee for Do the Right Thing, beginning a long collaboration and friendship. Over the years, Kilik has earned nearly forty producer or executive producer credits on films that have received twenty-seven Oscar nominations, working with many of the industry's top directors such as Oliver Stone, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, and Robert Altman.
Kilik's latest visit to campus came the opening weekend of the 2012 blockbuster, The Hunger Games. It was an adaptation project Kilik took on before the book by Suzanne Collins or its two sequels had graced bestseller lists. No one expected the movie would have the third largest opening in North American box office history, earning an estimated $155 million. After traveling to premieres in Los Angeles, Paris, London and Berlin, Kilik spent Sunday evening at a Williston, Vt. theater screening the film and taking questions from the audience. On Monday, he visited classes and participated in another Q&A that evening on campus.
Kilik had last traveled to Burlington in 2011 with Miral, a smaller film than The Hunger Games, for sure, but one that also addresses political and social issues, a hallmark of his projects. As with the 2012 visit, Kilik's schedule included screenings, discussions, and informal talks with film students. He also made time for an interview/conversation for Vermont Quarterly magazine with Professor Emeritus Frank Manchel and Hilary Neroni, professor of film and television studies.
In that discussion, Neroni asked the producer about the extensive research he puts into his projects and the role his educational background plays in that work.
"It's funny, because really all of the films force you to draw from all of your skills," Kilik replied. "When I went to college, I was in the liberal arts because I wanted to be. I didn't really want to specialize in one thing; that wasn't for me. I wasn't interested in being an engineer or being a doctor. I loved the idea of a liberal arts education — where you learn about history, poly sci, music, arts, religion, economics, English — and I enjoyed that very much during my first two years.
"And when I found film, I found that it really was a combination of all of these things. And that has continued from the first class with Frank to my most recent film. Each time I step on a set or read a new script, I'm immediately plugging into my skills, and they're not completely honed yet for whatever that new project is. And, as you say, I have to do more research on it — more reading, more understanding of photography references, architectural references, costume references, music references.
This is what I love about being a producer, it's not a specialty in just one facet — I've got to interact with every single department. So when I talk to a production designer, I'm looking at blueprints, I'm understanding what his needs are to build a set. And when I talk to the music composer, I've got to understand how he is going to create an emotional experience through the music. And the photography, setting up the lighting, I draw on my early days in photography class here at UVM."
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Integrated Marketing Communications major, Lauren Ryan has been selected as a Park Scholar Rising Junior.
Integrated Marketing Communications major, Lauren Ryan has been selected as a Park Scholar Rising Junior.
The Park Scholar Rising Junior Award, are two-year awards (for a student's junior and senior years) that will cover the full cost of attendance. In addition, Park Scholars receive grant opportunities to fund service and research initiatives, and Scholars have access to some of the most renowned professionals in the communications industry.
For the Class of 2016 this highly competitive scholarship was awarded to four Rising Juniors who demonstrated a dynamic combination of academic excellence, dedication to community service, strong leadership skills, extracurricular participation, and commitment to the field of communications.
The Park Scholar Program is more than a scholarship program; it creates a dynamic learning community and develops future communications leaders who engage critically, act globally, and perform ethically. Through a mixture of academic and service programming, scholars are challenged to take action and give back to their communities, and to use the power of mass communication to make a positive impact on the world.
This past spring semester Ms. Ryan studied abroad at the Ithaca College London Center. This summer Ms. Ryan is working at Alloy Entertainment writing social media posts for Alloy's Television shows including Pretty Little Liars, The 100 and The Vampire Diaries.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Bonds to retire, apparently baseball no longer fun now that he can't cheat
Apparently Bonds discovered the game was much harder, and thus less fun, when he had to start playing by the rules like everybody else. For years Bonds has been dogged by rumors of alleged steroid use. But, as these pictures show, such allegations couldn't possibly be true.
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- Wholesome Goodness said...
LOL, I love those two pictures. I need to get a poster of those on my wall so I can still have dreams of going to U of M post-graduate and playing as a linebacker vs. the punter form I'm currently maintaining.
- February 21, 2006 11:38 AM
- Jeremie said...
Sorry WG, I don't know too many specialists (except maybe for UM's place kicker) that can do a pregnant-belly impression quite as well as you. Good lukc on that steroid thing though, just make sure you don't put a Katzenmoyer barbed-wire tatoo around your soon-to-be-bulging biceps now, ya hear?
- February 21, 2006 5:40 PM
- Wholesome Goodness said...
Jerk! How dare you mock my illegitimate child!
- February 22, 2006 9:37 AM
- Kyle King said...
I grew up a baseball fan (I was going to Braves games years before I was going to Bulldog games), but I was one of the fans who didn't come back after the 1994 strike, for which I still have not forgiven M.L.B.
If Barry Bonds breaks Hank Aaron's record, the entire baseball record book needs to be blotted out by the biggest asterisk in history.
The instant Bonds's 756th home run clears the wall, baseball officially ceases to be the national pastime and any American who continues to follow the sport ought to be ashamed of himself.
- February 22, 2006 4:22 PM
- Yost said...
Couldn't agree more, K2.
- February 22, 2006 4:33 PM
- Benny Friedman said...
Kyle, I was a huge baseball fan in the late '70s and through the '80s. But now it's a joke. Even if Bonds doesn't get to 755, the records of the recent HR hitters should be tossed out. McGwire, Sosa, Bonds - they're all imposters. MLB had to know what was going on, but they ignored it since it was drawing fans. And the media never said a peep.
Sorry Yost for turning this into MLBZone. I know how you love baseball.
- February 22, 2006 5:19 PM
- Yost said...
Love it. It's right up there w/ curling in my book.
- February 22, 2006 5:38 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
Yeah, Barry, those aches and pains take a lot longer to go away when you're not on the juice. Just hope you don't end up with bitch-tits like Bob.
- February 23, 2006 11:16 AM


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The Returned
What if zombies could be cured to live among us, as long as they took their anti-zombie medicine? What if the medicine started to run out?
That's the conundrum of The Returned (not to be confused with the TV series of the same name), a horror film that looks at ethical issues rather than neck munching.
There aren't any zombies in The Returned — well, one, but he's quickly dispatched — which kind of removes a lot of the tension you might expect.
What you get instead is yards of exposition, and metaphors by the needleful.
There's action, too, but most of it happens off-screen, or just seconds before we get there: Look, the end of a fight!
Not that you need the grey-skinned undead lurching through every scene to provide the appropriate thrills, but The Returned's compensation — the horror of that old bugaboo, human nature — isn't up to much.
It takes place in the aftermath (oops! Just missed it) of an apocalypse that killed millions.
It was perpetrated by a kind of zombies that don't rise from the dead — you can kill them permanently — but still hunger for human meat. It's flesh-eating disease in reverse.
However, a serum has been found to control the disease, which is good news for Alex (a believable Kris Holden-Ried), a music teacher who got a nasty bite a few years ago and is now one of "the Returned," a recovered zombie.
Fortunately for him, he's married to Kate (Emily Hampshire, also strong), a doctor who knows where to buy his medication on the black market.
That's necessary because the serum is starting to run out, and mobs of activists are demanding that the Returned be sent to camps outside the cities, far away from children ("These people are time bombs," says one panicky guy.)
Masked killers invade hospitals to wipe out patients in the Returned ward.
It's chaos, at least in the slick, low-budget way of a film that forgoes much of the baroque violence of the genre — the lurching, the gobbling up, the gore — for a more clinical style of sickly green light and long tracking shots down hospital corridors.
You may see a parallel with other viral panics, such as the AIDS crisis, in Hatem Khraiche's screenplay.
In some ways, The Returned is Dallas Buyers Club with zombies, and dressed up with many unpersuasive newscasts about the coming crisis, people waving anti-Returned signs, and one alarmist newspaper headline ("Military uses force on citizens.") that frankly is kind of underplayed and over-punctuated, speaking as an old copy editor myself.
Director Manuel Carballo seems to be trying for the psychological unease of Blindness, or perhaps of something by Cronenberg, but it's never more than artificial terror wrapped in bland social commentary. What some real Returned horror? Come back on Boxing Day.
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Steve Menzies signed today a new one year contract with Catalans Dragons.
Arrived at the club this season, Menzies is one of the players who has played the most NRL games with an amazing total of 349 games, but he is best known as the highest try scoring forward in rugby league with 180 tries.
Named man of the match last Saturday against his fomer club Bradford, he has scored 6 tries in 16 appearances with Catalans.
The legendary Australian forward, who was 35 when he first came to England to play for Bradford Bulls, will become Super League's oldest ever player if he is still going strong next June.
Another Australian, Brad Davis, currently holds the record after making his comeback for Castleford Tigers in 2006 and he was 38 years six months when he finally hung up his boots at the end of that season.
Menzies, who won the first of his 15 caps for the Kangaroos in 1994, spent 16 seasons with Manly Sea Eagles in a stellar career in the Australia's National Rugby League before coming to Super League in 2009.


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Do you know how some assistants in swanky hair salons can baaarely contain their condescension and boredom as they give their clients instructions and attention?
A murmured "five minutes" as the assistant sweeps away from the sink in which your wet head is slathered with some freezing cold potion-y lotion translates as: "We'll leave this substance on for five minutes; it's meant to set the color and bring shine to your hair."
Does a client really have to abruptly move her head 90 degrees in order to assuage the burning that comes from a blow dryer concentrated too long on one spot?
But when it's time to check out, I'm always amazed how "gorgeous" and "beautiful" my hair becomes, as if the assistants simply can't bear to part with the vision of my loveliness.
Like Belinda in Pope's Rape of the Lock, the client feels adorned with tiny sylphs that swoop around her, whispering bon mots in her ear, never leaving her side until she pays her bill, distributes her tips, and makes a run for the elevator.
I cultivate a healthy vanity, I admit; it's lovely to hear from a stranger that you are looking attractive, but I do wish that the sudden fawning attention weren't so blatant.
Rather, I'd like a little more consistency in attitude. To rewrite Emerson, "foolish inconsistency is the hobgoblin of swanky hair salons."
**For the heroic couplet version of this post, see the previous entry.
Image by Aubrey Beardsley,
a sylph attending Belinda in Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
In Which the Author Takes a Snip or Two; or, Belinda's Revenge
Posted by Miss Cavendish at 6:50 PM
3 comments:
- enc said...
This is an interesting take on the salon experience. I always feel weirdly vulnerable at the salon, and I realized I don't really like it; partly because the comments from the stylists feel inauthentic to me. I like how I come out, but the process is something I could do without. Kind of like going to the dentist for me.
- March 25, 2008 at 9:07 PM
- bronwyn said...
Hehe:) Enjoyed this post, so absolutely true...and a global phenomenon, salon assistants are just the same in South Africa.
- March 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM
- riz said...
Now who's the 'academic'?? ;)
- March 26, 2008 at 5:00 PM
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Brian McDermott revealed the Leeds team he had prepared on Friday for the match with Huddersfield was changed overnight following his apparent dismissal.
McDermott, who returned to training on Monday and now appears to have been reinstated as manager, tried to shed some light on a bizarre few days at the club at a lunchtime press conference.
McDermott ran through the timeline of events, which started with him receiving a phone call from a lawyer acting for prospective new owner Massimo Cellino on Friday night saying he was being sacked.
He then followed Saturday's 5-1 win over Huddersfield on television before reading about his reinstatement on his iPad.
He said: "The only thing I was thinking on Friday night was to get a result. I set the team up on Friday, it was changed overnight, (assistant) Nigel Gibbs changed the team back."
It was not immediately clear who made the changes to McDermott's team on Friday night. Even more mysterious was the new player at training on Monday morning, whom McDermott said arrived on transfer deadline day without his knowledge.
"We have an Italian player," McDermott added.
"I'm not sure the deal has been ratified (by the Football League). I don't know the player, he came on transfer deadline day. If the player has been ratified he will get the utmost respect and opportunity if we feel he can help us."
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4G: The results are in
The prize was, in theory, extremely valuable - the spectrum needed to bring fast new mobile phone services to customers across the UK. But at the end of a complex bidding process, the 4G auction has raised £2.34bn - about a 10th of the price paid at the 3G sale 13 years ago at the height of the dotcom bubble. It's also more than £1bn short of what the chancellor estimated in his autumn statement.
Ofcom is, however, congratulating itself on a smooth auction process, with no leaks during the secret bidding rounds over the past month. The regulator says it was not its job to extract the maximum price for the Treasury, but to secure the best possible outcome for consumers.
So Ed Richards is pleased that along with the four existing operators - Vodafone, O2, EE and Three - the winners include a new player, Niche. You may not have heard of this company, but you'll know its owner BT.
Britain's biggest telecoms provider got out of mobile phones a decade ago when it sold off Cellnet, which became O2. Now it is back with a healthy chunk of the 2.6Mhz spectrum which is best suited to handling high data traffic in cities. BT is stressing that it is not planning to operate a national mobile network, but will be using its spectrum to boost its fixed and wi-fi networks for businesses and consumers.
Why was the bidding so low?
Perhaps because the bidders had watched the experience of EE, which was allowed to launch its 4G network early. Despite a very high profile advertising campaign, results yesterday appeared to show that its customers had only a limited appetite for the new service. (I speed-tested the 4G network last October.)
Even if the Treasury is disappointed, the auction may be good news for the 4G rollout. We can now expect plenty of competition to offer fast new mobile services across the UK. But those people in 3G "notspots" will be hoping that this time they will not be left out of the faster future.


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HARRISONBURG, Va. – The University of Delaware women's basketball team suffered the largest margin of defeat since 2008 Sunday afternoon as James Madison University stifled the Blue Hens, 87-51, at the Convocation Center.
The Hens previously suffered a 39-point setback to former CAA foe Old Dominion University in a 76-37 loss on Jan. 27, 2008.
The loss also marks the first for Delaware in CAA regular season and tournament action since the 2010-11 season when the Dukes defeated the Blue Hens, 67-61, in the championship final of the CAA Tournament.
Delaware (10-4, 2-1 CAA) held its own throughout the first half as the Blue Hens were down just three at halftime at 27-24, but JMU (11-4, 1-0 CAA) proved to be too much in the second half as the Hens were outscored, 60-27, in the final stanza.
With just over 13 minutes remaining in the game, UD was within nine points at 42-33 before the Dukes went on a 19-6 run to take a 61-39 advantage. JMU held the Blue Hens to just two points in the final 3:47 while scoring 13 points of its own.
Freshman Erika Brown (at bottom left; Haledon, N.J.) led Delaware with 12 points and a career-high nine rebounds in addition to two assists.
Senior Kelsey Buchanan (at top right; South Riding, Va.) added 10 points and eight rebounds for the Blue Hens, who outrebounded the Dukes, 44-39, in the game.
James Madison senior Kirby Burkholder paced the way for the Dukes with a career-best 33 points on a career-high-tying seven three-pointers. Nikki Newman contributed eight points and game highs of 11 rebounds and seven assists for JMU.
Head Coach Tina Martin – "We missed shots early in the second half and then Kirby [Burkholder] went on a run. We hung our heads and came back to the offensive end and missed several layups. We missed 13 free throws and a bunch on the front end of a 1-and-1 situation. You can't do that on someone else's court and expect to win, especially on this court and against a Top-40 team in the county. We quit once we were down by 20 and that's an immaturity on our player's parts that we are going to have to correct. This just wasn't our day."
Senior Tri-Captain Kelsey Buchanan – "In the second half, it was our defense that let it get away and then things snowballed. We were communicating, but we just weren't making and finishing plays. There were times that we lost her [Burkholder] in transition and I totally take the blame for that."
Freshman Guard Erika Brown – "As the point guard of the team, the biggest learning experience I take out of this is that I have to make sure that as a team we don't give up. If there's time left in the game, we can make a comeback. I need to motivate my teammates more when we're not hitting shots and we have to make stops on the defensive end."
· Delaware has had at least two players score in double figures in all 14 games this season.
· UD and JMU are now tied at 13-13 in the all-time series, which began during the 1997-98 season.
· The Hens had a three-game winning streak against the Dukes snapped. JMU's last victory at home against UD came on Feb. 18, 2010.
· Today's game marked the largest loss ever against James Madison.
· The two teams will match up again this season with a Feb. 20 meeting at the Bob Carpenter Center.
· Kelsey Buchanan has scored double figures in all 14 games this season.
· Friday, Jan. 17 – UNCW at Delaware* - 7 p.m. – Bob Carpenter Center (Newark, Del.)
· Sunday, Jan. 19 – Drexel at Delaware* - 2 p.m. – Bob Carpenter Center (Newark, Del.)
· Sunday, Jan. 26 – Delaware at College of Charleston* - 2 p.m. – TD Arena (Charleston, S.C.)