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SAN DIEGO, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardium Therapeutics (NYSE MKT: CXM) today announced the presentation of two Excellagen® poster presentations at the Desert Foot 2012 High Risk Diabetic Foot Conference being held November 14-16, 2012, in Phoenix, AZ. Arthur J. Tallis, DPM, President and Medical Director of Associated Foot & Ankle Specialists in Phoenix, AZ, will display the results of three Excellagen case studies including a venous leg ulcer, neuropathic diabetic foot ulcer and dehisced surgical wound. In addition, Howard M. Kimmel, DPM, MBA, FACFAS, Senior Clinical Instructor, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, OH, will display two case studies involving non-healing diabetic foot ulcers. The majority of the patients' wounds were classified as chronic and non-healing despite having undergone prior treatments, including Dermagraft. Drs. Tallis and Kimmel's poster presentations can be viewed at http://www.excellagen.com/meetings-and-publications.html and additional Excellagen case studies are available at http://www.excellagen.com/surgical-wounds.html.
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The Company also announced the publication of the Profiles in Excellence 2012 article, "Excellagen – Advanced Wound Care Made Simple", in the October issue of Podiatry Management. The article outlines Excellagen's ease of use, how easily it fits into existing wound care practices, saving physicians time and promoting patient compliance compared to other treatments requiring daily dressing changes and frequent product applications and physician visits. The article can be viewed at http://www.excellagen.com/pdf/ExcellagenProfile1012.pdf.
About Excellagen
Excellagen is a syringe-based, professional-use, pharmaceutically-formulated 2.6% fibrillar Type I bovine collagen gel that functions as an acellular biological modulator designed to accelerate the growth of granulation tissue and to activate the wound healing process. Excellagen is FDA-cleared for the treatment of neuropathic and diabetic foot ulcers, pressure ulcers, venous ulcers, surgical wounds, and other dermal wounds, and is intended for professional use following standard debridement procedures in the presence of blood cells and platelets, which are involved with the release of endogenous growth factors. Excellagen's unique high-molecular weight fibrillar Type I bovine collagen gel formulation is topically applied through easy-to-control, pre-filled, sterile, single-use syringes and its viscosity-optimized gel formulation is designed for application at one-week intervals. Already-established standard CPT® procedure reimbursement codes may apply when Excellagen is used with surgical debridement procedures. As a new FDA-cleared product, Cardium is advancing forward with the reimbursement process for Excellagen with Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and private insurance providers.
Cardium's market research indicates that physicians seek easy-to-use products to reduce preparation time and facilitate product application - and Excellagen's unique, ready-to-use syringe-based collagen gel requires no thawing or mixing. Excellagen's flowable formulation allows for the effective delivery to wounds of varying shapes and surface contours. To learn more about Excellagen and for product ordering information, please visit http://www.excellagen.com and view the information video, "Excellagen: A New Wound Care Pathway for Diabetic Foot Ulcers", at http://www.excellagen.com/excellagen-video.html.
About Cardium
Cardium is an asset-based health sciences and regenerative medicine company focused on the acquisition and strategic development of innovative products and businesses with the potential to address significant unmet medical needs and having definable pathways to commercialization, partnering or other economic monetizations. Cardium's current portfolio includes the Tissue Repair Company, Cardium Biologics, and the Company's newly-acquired To Go Brands® nutraceutical business. The Company's lead commercial product, Excellagen® topical gel for wound care management, has received FDA clearance for marketing and sale in the United States. Cardium's lead clinical development product candidate Generx® is a DNA-based angiogenic biologic intended for the treatment of patients with myocardial ischemia due to coronary artery disease. To Go Brands® develops, markets and sells dietary supplements through established regional and national retailers. In addition, consistent with its capital-efficient business model, Cardium continues to actively evaluate new technologies and business opportunities. News from Cardium is located at www.cardiumthx.com.
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I have a 17 yr old and 6 yr old DD, so I feel the better part of my adult years have been spent at kids parties! The way the invites go around here is, if they are sending the invites to school they either invite all the boys, all the girls or the whole class. But there was one mom who somehow snuck the invites out at school and invited the whole class except for 3 kids (and it was obvious why she did it)*. It hurt because they knew, and other kids started asking why they weren't invited (the kids all loved each other) and it caused some real hard feelings. People are allowed to invite who they want, but when you exclude just a few, it is obvious there is going to be some reprecussions as far as friendships and feelings. *I had rsvp'd yes until I found out what she had done and I called back and said something came up and my DD could not make it. I wish I would have stood up to her and said how I really felt but I wimped.
Birthday parties are a Very Big Deal in my DD's preschool class this year. Her class has 18 kids, half of whom (including my DD) have been together in the center since the infant room, and half of whom started there last fall. On Saturday DD attended her best friend Christa's 4th birthday party. It was held at Christa's home and was visited by a "Bear Bus" in which each child made a stuffed animal. (Everything was covered by the hosts and parents didn't have to pay for upgrades or extras.) The party itself was great, but I'm wondering about the etiquette of the invitations.This was the first of DD's classmates' birthday parties I've seen in which the entire class wasn't invited. Christa's parents invited all of the kids who've been at the center for multiple years, but out of the "new" kids only the girls were invited. So 14 of the 18 kids were invited. (I know this because it was done by evite.) I assume they chose to limit the numbers because of the Bear Bus (space and/or cost). However, it made things awkward. Birthday parties are the highlights of the kids' lives right now and an upcoming party is the main topic of discussion in class as soon as the invitations go out. Those 4 uninvited little boys are very aware of the party and that they were excluded. One of them, Sean, is very good friends with DD and we could not get her to understand that she shouldn't talk to him about the party or ask him why he didn't come. I felt really bad for him. Obviously parents can invite whomever they want to their child's party, and I realize little Sean won't be traumatized for life. I know limiting the guest list is an etiquette-approved way to "host the party you can afford" without passing on costs to the guests. It just seems iffy to me to invite more than half of a preschool class without inviting everyone. What do you all think?
I'll admit up front that I'm over 50 and I've not had children so my opinion is coming from that perspective. I personally think its ridiculous to require the entire class or all the boys or all the girls be invited to any birthday party. The same way I think it was ridiculous when the "everyone must win a trophy/no one ever loses" was going on. My personal belief is that things like that teach kids to feel entitled and then, when things don't work that way in the real world, and they don't, it hits them so much harder than if they'd grown up realizing they don't go to every party and there are winners and losers when you play a game. (Not that winning/losing should be stressed. It should be acknowledged but doing your personal best is what should be stressed.)The one exception to that would be a situation like the OP posted. It would be very hurtful to invite almost the entire class and leave out just 3-4 kids. No, if you're going to invite so many classmates then, in that particular instance, the whole class should have been invited. Either that or cut the invitations back so that it's not just a few who weren't invited.
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by Mark Jagord, sports information assistant
LILBURN, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball team has received votes for the past five weeks nationally in the USA TODAY Sports Division II Top-25 Coaches' Poll. The Bobcats dropped a pair of overtime games last week, including one against a nationally-ranked opponent, to fall from the top-25 for the first time in two weeks.
The Bobcats, who were ranked No. 24 in the previous week's poll, received 49 votes in the Week Eight Poll released today. Georgia College was just 10 votes shy of tying the current No. 25 slot held by Minnesota State University-Mankato.
The University of North Georgia is the lone Peach Belt Conference (PBC) team remaining in the poll at No. 19, and one of the two teams the Bobcats lost to in overtime last week. In that game, Georgia College only trailed for nine seconds during regulation play.
The USA TODAY Sports board of coaches is made up of 33 head coaches at Division II institutions and they are all members of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA).
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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WYNNEWOOD, OK - The family of one of the men killed in the Wynnewood refinery accident spoke with us about that tragic day.
Billy Smith's family says they remember it just like it was yesterday. Billy's mother said, "I kept calling them and asking what happened and I asked where it was it was where billy worked so I knew as a mother."
Smith was one of two men who died as a result of the September 28 explosion at the Wynnewood refinery.
Garvin County Sheriff Larry Rhodes says the second victim, Russell Mann of Davis, died from his injuries two weeks later at an Oklahoma City hospital.
Smith's wife and mother had only kind words about Smith's character,
calling him a great family man and a hard worker. Billy's mom said, "It was a community wide tragedy, as well as a tragedy for our family. Billy was loved."
Although they know it won't bring Smith back, they still hope for answers.
In a statement released shortly after the explosion the company said they, along with the Occupational Safety Health Administration, would be investigating the cause.
This is not the first incident at the Wynnewood Refinery. There was an explosion in December 2010, a fire in April of 2008, and in 2007 lightning stuck tens of thousands barrels of oils causing flames that could be seen 60 miles away. No one was injured in these accidents, but OSHA did fine the refinery $91,000 in 2008 for safety and health violations.


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Residents of Skidaway Island were supposed to be driving over a new arched bridge to get home by now, but they will have to wait at least another three months.
The state and the contractor are debating who is at fault as officials try to correct the problems that brought work to a halt in early August, according to documents obtained through an open records request by the Savannah Morning News.
The new Diamond Causeway bridge was expected to be opened to traffic by Oct. 30 - a month ahead of the deadline called for in the contract - but now the structure's completion is not expected until at least February. Demolition work on the existing drawbridge was supposed to begin this month, but that cannot occur until the new bridge is opened.
Work on the main span was stopped more than three months ago after it was discovered that some girders put in place did not meet requirements.
The Georgia Department of Transportation now is reviewing a proposed solution that must be approved before work proceeds.
The contractor for the project, United Contractors, is facing a fine of $1,000 per day, starting Dec. 1, until the bridge is completed.
United's project manager Donald Anderson said they intend to file a request to extend the bridge's completion date on Monday.
The contractor claims the transportation department is to blame for the delay. Department officials insisted that the haunch girders, which are placed on top of concrete piers, be installed flat, Anderson said. The requirement did not account for the shifting that would occur when the other segments of the bridge are put in place, Anderson said. United reluctantly agreed after state officials said they would not provide any more payments for the $22.5 million project unless their instructions were followed, Anderson said.
As a result of the department's order, the weight of the other segments caused one end of the girders to tip up and encroach about 2 inches into the deck slab of the bridge, Anderson said.
The transportation department does not agree with the contractor's allegation, spokesperson Jill Nagel said in an email on Wednesday.
Department officials said the contract required the girders be installed flat, which United denies. Only after the other segments were installed were the girders supposed to be level, Anderson said.
By reducing the width of the deck in the areas of encroachment, the bridge's lifespan could be impacted. So, the contractor and design partner, The LPA Group, have been trying to develop a solution. The transportation department rejected 10 out of 11 alternative plans, after insisting they meet certain specifications such as the planned design speed. The design speed is supposed to provide enough distance for drivers going 55 miles per hour to safely stop if there is a stalled vehicle ahead, beyond the bridge's arch.
To meet the design speed requirements and counteract the deck intrusion, the new proposal calls for raising the bridge's profile in the center. In addition, each end of the bridge's concrete deck's surface will have to be torn up and built back up higher, like a wedge, so drivers will have a clear view over the bridge's horizon.
The proposed solution appears to meet the project's design criteria, according to a department letter to Anderson on Oct. 19.
Anderson said Thursday he is hoping to get approval soon enough to open the bridge in February. They would start the demolition process immediately afterward to complete the work by mid-March. That time period would provide the best window, before the water gets too warm, for avoiding marine species, such as sea turtles and manatees, that could be in the area, Anderson said.
Meanwhile, Anderson said about 25 percent of the project's workforce has been concentrating on finishing miscellaneous work. The remaining workers have either been kept idle, performing "busy work" or transferred to other projects, Anderson said. Equipment, which still has to be paid for, has gone unused.
There is still a question as to who will be responsible for cost overruns.
"If they don't agree that we were doing what we were told, then we are going to be on the hook," Anderson said.
If the department receives an extension request, it would be reviewed, Nagel said. For an extension to be granted, there would have to be unforeseen delays at no fault of the contractor, she said.
The high-level bridge is being built to replace the 40-year-old Diamond Causeway drawbridge, which breaks down and is difficult to repair. Proponents say the new bridge is needed to provide a reliable way off the island. The design calls for a clearance of 65 feet, allowing boat traffic to pass freely under its span and a smooth flow of traffic on and off the island for the area's 10,000 residents.


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In 2008, the road to 4G has cleared a bit, with Ultra-mobile Broadband (UMB) left publicly by the roadside. However, the two remaining "4G" technologies, LTE and WiMAX, still present much speculation and confusion, InStat reported.
Generally, "4G" technologies are considered those which are expected to meet the ITU's IMT-Advanced's requirements, i.e. LTE and IEEE 802.16m WiMAX. Both of these are based on OFDM and offer the potential for download speeds of 100 Mbps and upload speeds of 50 Mbps. Both 4G technologies, talking from the perspective of 100 Mbps technologies, are far from being commercially deployed.
However, 802.16e Mobile WiMAX (802.16m's slower predecessor) is starting to come on the scene, with Clearwire expected to launch its network in September 2008. For this reason, LTE proponents have jumped up their efforts to speed up development.
Several factors are expected to affect the rate of adoption of LTE and WiMAX over the next three to five years:
- All of the world is watching the Sprint-backed Clearwire Mobile WiMAX network roll-out. The success of this roll-out is expected to have a huge effect on whether large worldwide carriers will roll out Mobile WiMAX. Launch is scheduled for 4Q08.
- Verizon Wireless has chosen LTE as its 4G technology of choice instead of WiMAX. Verizon Wireless, like Sprint, had been a strong candidate for WiMAX adoption, due to its core CDMA network. Its decision puts a damper on the assumption that carriers with CDMA networks will choose WiMAX; on the contrary, now the assumption is that most will choose LTE. The company is also targeting an aggressive roll-out of LTE in 2010.
- HSPA may turn into 802.16e WiMAX's true competitor, as HSPA roll-outs increase worldwide, and carriers look to HSPA Evolution to push network throughputs to 20 Mbps and beyond.
- Edge Evolved may come on the scene in regions where WCDMA has not yet been deployed by GSM operators, offering a fairly inexpensive and easy upgrade with promising throughput gains. Carriers' decisions to adopt Edge Evolved may delay these carriers' upgrade to WCDMA/HSPA, and furthermore, LTE.
- Carriers that have rolled out HSPA are more inclined to roll out HSPA Evolution, which offers high throughputs of up to 40 Mbps. This is expected to delay the beginning of commercial LTE roll-outs until the 2012-2013 timeframe.


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by Randy Ray
East L.A. Fadeaway with Los Lobos' Steve Berlin
Los Lobos recently released their first studio album of new material in four years with the live-sounding, vigorous, and deceptively diverse Tin Can Trust. Ostensibly just a collection of tunes crafted in the Lobos normal manner of coming in the studio with only abstract ideas and no songs whatsoever, the band, again, miraculously pulled 11 tracks from their generous muse's bag of audio tricks, and crafted another fine document. Indeed, the album, with basic tracks and other elements recorded mainly in East L.A., has a rich, wizened flavor to it, while also signaling a return to the band's cultural roots—both geographically, and with its longstanding tradition of getting a song's essence, its true spirit, down on tape after only a few takes.
Jambands.com caught up with keyboardist/saxophonist Steve Berlin, while the band was on tour with John Hiatt. Collaborations ensued on the road as Berlin, along with Lobos guitarists David Hidalgo and Cesar Rosas, often joined Hiatt to play on a Little Feat song in tribute to their fallen compadre, the late drummer Richie Hayward. Live, Los Lobos is still a formidable force with a large catalogue of songs which resonate. What is most intriguing is Tin Can Trust allows the band much more freedom to explore even more sonic terrain on stage with the added problem of having many choices to make when one sits down and writes a setlist. Berlin is an honest, witty and engaging gent who has now played with the band for 27 years after a stint in the L.A.-based Blasters, and co-producing the 1983 Lobos EP, …And a Time to Dance with T-Bone Burnett. The musician discusses the construction of the band's new album with warm and detailed candor. He also displays an astute mind about how the band's music has always appeared to weave an interesting spell around audiences without ever trapping the band in their own collective identity. In the end, Los Lobos has remained a defiantly independent music force, outside the mainstream, because they know no other way.
RR: Why did Los Lobos decide to go back to basics, and return to their East L.A. studio roots to record Tin Can Trust?
SB: The story goes that basically what it was was that we had spent the better part of a decade recording at Cesar's [Rosas] house where we had set up a studio. It wasn't optimum, but it worked fine for us. He moved. He sold that house, and moved away. His new place was not going to work for the way we record; a little bit too small, and the configuration was a little too bizarre to try and record the way we record these days. We knew we had to go some place, and our engineer [Shane Smith], a guy I had worked with before, had recommended this place in East L.A. He said, "It's really special, we like it, just bear with it. Don't go by your first impression because it looks like shit. (laughter)
And he was right. There's nowhere to sit. We had to actually bring in a couch to have somewhere to sit, other than a couple of folding chairs. It's basically a punk rock studio that has this really cool sound [Manny's Estudio]. But once you get around the fact that it doesn't really look like much, it really sounds great, and that was the main thing. Then,
we realized that the salient feature was going to be the fact that we could set up and play live, which we never do at Cesar's house. It was just a little bit too small. We started that way, and pretty much tried to address every song that way. We adapted [to the studio], and it was great. I'd go back there in a second. I think part of it, too, was that the guys were going back to the old neighborhood every day, and, in some way, that definitely informed the record. I know the vibe was there, and there was a lot of reflection going on.
RR: How did that atmosphere inform the material and the way the band played?
SB: This wasn't the first time we've shown up with nothing, really. At this point, it's sort of become our stock-in-trade, I guess. (laughter) There were no real songs, per se, so David [Hidalgo] would start with an idea, which would turn into a song, and Cesar would start with an idea, which would turn into a song, so, I guess, we just filled it out from whatever there is. In a weird way, that's like the only way we know how to start now. Once that gets going, then an idea turns into a song, and that turns into another idea, and that turns into a song, and once you get through the first two or three days of it, that's not so bad. But, initially, at least, the first couple days are terrifying because there feels like there is no point to it. We're out of ideas; we might as well go home, call it quits, and never bother to record again. But, somehow or another, a muse always shows up and shows us the way.
RR: Let's discuss the new album by starting off with the ethereal closing track, "27 Spanishes"—it is tough, confident, and fragile. I love the whole vibe, especially the organ sound which creates a certain atmosphere inside the track.
SB: That one was a demo of Dave's so he's actually playing everything on that—keyboards, drums, and the guitar. A couple of songs from this record were done that way; not all of them were done live. That was one that just had a cool flavor to it, and it was the last one to get finished. It just took a while to figure out what it was. The demo itself needed some editing, so we sort of had to cut it up so it made coherent sense, but those sounds are just Dave's wacky crap he has in his house. He's got a great demo process. He doesn't let any of us observe it, but I know there's lots of pedals involved, and I know there's an 8-track tape recorder involved because that is how he has to play it back.
Let me think about that. Actually…there's an organ and there's a…the sound you might be referencing, believe it or not, is me playing a clarinet sample. Yeah. There's an organ and I forgot about the clarinet sample. I don't know what the hell it is—probably a Mellotron, a clavinet, or something like that, through an amplifier. There are a couple of layers of percussion, too. If I'm not mistaken, there are a couple of things where we said, "Cougar, do something," and he just did stuff. (laughter) And then it was sung, and then it was done. The solo, the guitar, the drums—all that stuff—is all Dave. That's him playing at the end there, and then dropping the sticks. We just thought it was a cool way to end the whole record (laughs)—just bizarre, suddenly getting up from the drum kit and walking away.
RR: Yes, and then there is the almost polar opposite on "Jupiter or the Moon"—ambient, impressionistic, and quite moving, it's a song that sounds like it was always out there like many classic tunes.
SB: Thank you. Yeah, it's one of my favorites. That was probably the second song that we did. The first couple of days Cesar had a song which may have been the very first one, and then Dave sat down and started playing ["Jupiter or the Moon"]. That could be the first take so that could be why it has that flavor. He kind of said, "Follow me," and it was done with the standup bass and the drums, and I think it was all in one room, too. The piano was on it, too, and, yes, it was all basically in the same room. As the record enfolded, we ended up moving it to a different room, but I think the first couple days, we had it all in the same room so I think that's why it might have some of that flavor to it.
We got lucky on a couple of those. "Tin Can Trust" was first take, "West L.A. Fadeaway" was first take. I guess when you do it for this long somehow or another you just develop telepathy of pulling that off. (laughs) That's all I can figure because we didn't know the songs. We had never rehearsed them. We just had an extremely vague idea of how they went.


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April 12, 2012
China's March corn exports hit 2,334 tonnes
According to data published on April 10th by the General Administration of Customs, China exported 2,334 tonnes of corn in March.
The figure reflected a drop from the 9,050 tonnes in March 2011 and a rise from the 401 tonnes in February of this year.
In the first three months the country's corn export volume declined 51% on-year to 5,045 tonnes.
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I've been asked for a list of prices I pay for high-nutrition items you will want to buy regularly if you're maximizing fresh produce and whole plant foods in your diet. These are my "staples" that you'll notice are rather different from what's in most pantries (or long-term food storage).
Buying agave or coconut oil in little 16 oz. quantities is a way to break the bank. You may not buy everything, the first time, the cheapest way possible. But as your GreenSmoothieGirl ways become a lifestyle rather than a "health kick," you'll want to find more and more ways to find the kinds of prices I pay by buying in bulk, buying from Azure Standard or other co-ops. This list is by no means comprehensive, but it will give you an idea.
Everything they grow themselves is organic. Some of these are book list prices that you find have gone up—up to 50%—when you order, because printing can't keep up with rising food costs! Note that I pay 10% on top of these prices for shipping/handling.
$55 for 50 lbs. organic quinoa
$28 for 50 lbs. organic buckwheat
$35 for 50 lbs. organic millet
$27 for 50 lbs. organic popcorn
$20 for 50 lbs. organic oat groats
$31 for 25 lbs. organic spelt
$27 for 25 lbs. organic sweet brown rice (my favorite kind)
$43 for 30 lbs. Thompson raisins
$6 for 1 gal. blackstrap molasses
$47 for 1 gal. Grade B maple syrup
$14 for 16 oz. Spoonable Stevia
$13 for 5 lbs. of cashews, small pieces
$33 for 5 lbs. of pecans
$31 for 5 lbs. of walnuts
$5.50/quart of Bragg's Liquid Aminos
$5/gallon raw apple cider vinegar, or $8.50 organic (nutrition best of all vinegars)
$4 for 1 lb. cayenne
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on 2/19/2012 5:03:00 PM
Age: 19-24
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Love this bag, i use it all the time. Got it as a gift with purchase. Hold plenty of stuff like all my makeup for traveling. Cute design on front, cleanable inside.
on 8/27/2011 12:28:00 PM
Age: 18 & Under
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Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium
Eyes: Brown
I do like this bag a lot.
No, it's not the biggest, but I use it to hold all my Eyeshadows, (velvet, creaseless, etc) Eye primers, Eyeliners and a couple of my very small make brushes (as they get lost in my cup brush holder!)
And I love it, it looks glam and has a nice protective cover for your brushes.
I highly reccommend this to any beneaddict! :D xxx
on 4/18/2011 5:48:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool
Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium
Eyes: Blue
The colour and mannequin on the front are adorable but liking the look of this bag just isn't enough for me.
I have quite alot of benefit items which i'd like to keep in my make up bag but it simply cant accommodate them.
The depth of the bag is very shallow and quite disappointing as the brush compartment is very handy.
I've just ordered a pink Lana bag and cant wait for it to arrive :)
on 10/12/2009 2:37:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium, Warm
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I used to have a Gabbi bag but i moved up to Lana! The Gabbi bag was really good. You could carry brushes and size was good..but it was for me more of a travel size bag! The picture is really cute! I am a big fan of the cute Benefit mannequins.I give it 4 lippies only because the size didnt house all of my makeup that is why i had to move up to lana! But i have been thinking about buying another Gabbi for travel purposes!
on 2/13/2008 11:55:00 AM
Age: 36-43
Skin: Normal, Fair-Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Other, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I am a organization freak and i was searching for a perfect makeup bag and i found it ! This is it !
The look is so femmenine and chic, i carry my 5 basic Brushes (Mac 217 long, Bare Escentuals Heavenly Face, Heavenly Blush and Eye Buki, Lancome retractable lip brush) well organized and well covered on the brush holder size, and on the other size i carry my Dior Forever Compact, Nars Blush, Benefit Powder Pop, Diorshow Eye Mascara, Lancome L'Stylo Eyeliner Retractable Pencil, Lola Eyeshadow, Estee Lauder Lucidity Metal Case Especial Edition Face Compact and a Jumbo Kabubi Style Estee Lauder Especial Edition buffing brush. All of that fit perfectly inside the bag, handly, organized, just AMAZING !
The only thing i can not get inside the Makeup Bag is my Nars Botan Kabubi Brush because is HUGE !
on 2/5/2008 2:09:00 PM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Normal, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brunette, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
I actually fell in love when I saw this bag and had to have it. It is just so cute and I finally have a quality makeup bag that actually fits everything in it. It is simply fabulous and I love it. It is expensive, but I don't care.
on 12/29/2007 8:32:00 AM
Age: 19-24
Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Not Sure
Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Green
Ok...seeing as I had some extra money for xmas, I decided a treat was definatly in order and this is a treat indeed!!After getting over the price of �21.50 (for a bag!!) I must say I really love it. I had to buy one after seeing them all around the benefit counter, and how lovely they looked!!Not only because it has a really retro and Kitsch look, but it is designed for lots of benefit products. I can fit my eyeshadows, pocket benetint, Moon Beam, bad gal mascara and eyeliner...it also has a plastic flap which keeps all your brushes safe. I personally keep my eyeliner and silky lipsticks in there instead. I was also plesantly surprised by the size of the bag as it was bigger than it looked on the website :-)
Personally I think this is too big for people hoping to carry this around in their bags, unless you have an oversized bag for it...but as make up bags go this is certainly one for benefit fans like me!!
on 11/19/2007 11:45:00 PM
Age: 30-35
Skin: Combination, Medium, Not Sure
Hair: Blond, Other, Other
Eyes: Hazel
Someone else was right, I smile every single time I go to use this. I love most of the Benefit bags ( the Gabbi, Lana, Simone & Betty - not so much the other ones , the misfit ? series)
Suprisingly handy, it fits alot. I wish the flap covered my brushes better, but I manage to keep on . Great for travel or everyday use. Awsome gift for your stylishy quirky pal.
I get that these bags are pricey, but in the end, I couldn't care less.
Also on sale at the Benefit site as we speak.....
on 11/10/2007 9:52:00 PM
Age: 19-24
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Hair: Brown, Other, Other
Eyes: Brown
I just bought this makeup bag to carry around in my handbag and I love it, it's small enough not to take over your whole bag (my bags are pretty big though) but big enough to carry everything you need on a daily basis. I cant even tell you all the things I have in it, theres too much! It's such a cute bag and it really keeps things organized, I reccommend it to anyone who searches through there bag endlessely to find what they're looking for.
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I love this bag! I received it as a gift and it's cute - fits everything I need...or did, at least. Someone stole it a couple months ago - I was mad, too! I can't seem to find this anywhere.
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Highlights of the week ahead in sports, both here and afar:
Tennis: ATP Farmers Classic, UCLA Tennis Center, first round matches, noon and 7 p.m.:
The plan is that Saturday's John McEnroe-Andre Agassi exhibition won't be what this event is remembered for months from now. Thousand Oaks favorite Sam Querrey, with his "Sam's Club" fans, can't afford to miss this one — he's the defending champ, and winner of three ATP events this season, including the Wimbledon tuneup at Queen's Club when he beat good friend Mardy Fish. This year's field includes a new No. 1 seed, Andy Murray, who replaces Novak Djokovic. Querrey is seeded second, with Fish (who won the ATP event in Atlanta on Sunday), James Blake, Robby Ginepri and Marcos Baghdatis in the field. At tonight's opening night, Jim Courier will be introduced as tournament honoree. We've seen him play. He can still bring it. Even by courier.
MLB: Angels vs. Boston, Angel Stadium, 7 p.m., FSW:
The Red Sox's only visit to Anaheim this year. Bummar. There are conflicting reports that the Angels may start newly-acquired Dan Haren in this game.
MLB: Dodgers at San Diego, 7 p.m., Channel 9:
Let's revisit the NL West for a moment: The Padres haven't collapsed yet, and the Dodgers haven't made enough of an effort to overtake them. Thus, a standoff, and seven of their next 10 games will be against each other. Maybe the Dodgers can actually climb into second place by the time the series ends.
MLB: Angels vs. Boston, Angel Stadium, 7 p.m., FSW:
John Lackey returns to the hill in Anaheim for the first time since leaving to throw against Jeff Weaver. Lackey, who beat the Angels back in Boston, 3-1, on May 5, took a no-hitter into the eighth inning of Thursday's start at Seattle before having it broken up with a two-out single. Then he got a no decision.
Soccer: Galaxy vs. Puerto Rico, CONCACAF, Home Depot Center, 7 p.m.:
You think the Galaxy are happy about playing this one so close to the MLS All Star game less than 24 hours after this one ends, in Houston? Read below.
Soccer: MLS All Stars vs. Manchester United, at Houston's Reliant Stadium, 5 p.m., ESPN2:
Bruce Arena, the Galaxy coach in charge of the MLS All Star team that will include his own shooting stars Landon Donovan and Edson Buddle, defender Omar Gonzalez and goalie Donovan Ricketts, isn't all the pleased this game is scheduled in the middle of the CONCACAF Champions League, which disallows players from Seattle (who are playing in it today), while both the Galaxy and Toronto FC played the previous night. "We have five players playing on Tuesday, and we don't know the outcome of the games Tuesday on the players, physically," Arena told MLSSoccer.com "Therefore, they'd be an unknown Wednesday in trying to piece together at the last minute the First XI and also the roles of the reserves … At the end of the day, the bottom line is we want to win this game." Case closed. And any other cliche you may want to add.
MLB: Angels vs. Boston, Angel Stadium, 12:35 p.m., FSW:
The Red Sox's Josh Beckett may make it to this one, but considering his start last Friday at Seattle (98 pitches, 5 2/3 innings, 1 ER, 3 BBs, 5 Ks in a 2-1 victory, where he got no decision) was his first since May 18, and he's been on the DL with a bad back, there could be an alternation to those plans. Against the Angels since 2007, he's just 1-3 with a 4.46 ERA, and 0-2 in Anaheim with a 5.14 ERA. If Dan Haren doesn't pitch in Monday's opener, his first appearance for the Angels could be here. Haren, who started the 2007 All-Star Game for the American League in San Francisco when he was Oakland's ace, was 7-8 with a 4.60 ERA in 141 innings with Arizona.
MLB: Dodgers at San Diego, 7 p.m., Prime:
Until tonight, the Dodgers haven't seen 6-foot-5, 240-pound Padres lefthander Clayton Richard, who had won three in a row before losing 8-0 to Atlanta on Thursday. His ERA in the month of June is north of 7.00. Too bad the Dodgers don't have Clayton Kershaw on call to pitch against him here.
The 16th Summer X Games, Coliseum and L.A. Live, 11 a.m. and 5 p.m., ESPN:
The Moto X freestyle and Skateboard Big Air final cracks open the opener of the four-day festivities, asking the Coliseum to stay relevant with the kids who'll see a massive ramp built inside where skaters can decide if they want to launch themselves over a gap of 50 or 70 feet to get over to the 27-food quarterpipe. At the event deck at L.A. Live, there's more BMX and skateboarding. ESPN also debuts the latest "30 for 30" documentary project called "Birth of Big Air," which chronicles BMX legend Mat Hoffman and his quest to conquer do what other kids only dream about on his giant quarterpipe in a remote field in Oklahoma City nearly 20 years ago. Tony Hawk and Evel Knievel also make appearances. In the movie, not the X Games.
MLB: Dodgers at San Diego, 3:30 p.m., Channel 9:
They close this important series, with the trade deadline nearing, by roasting in the afternoon sun and seeking some off-track wagering information from Del Mar. Vicente Padilla is scheduled to face Kevin Correia.
MLB: Dodgers at San Francisco, 7:15 p.m., Prime:
Now what do you think of this Gerald "Buster" Demp Posey III as a vital part of the Giants regular nine? Since he was installed as the starting catcher on June 30 in a game against the Dodgers — the Giants traded Bengie Molina to Texas — Posey has hardly been a poser. He extended a 12-game hitting streak to 15 by going 4-for-13 in a three-game series at Dodger Stadium last week. He extended the streak to 18 in the Giants' four-game sweep over Arizona last weekend, going 4-for-5 with an RBI in Sunday's finale. He's hitting .371 this season (66 hits in 48 games, with 8 HRs and 33 RBIs and a .986 OPS). The Giants start Tim Lincecum in the three-game series opener today, while the Dodgers, unless they made a trade for a starting pitcher, may have to throw Carlos Monasterios again. Get ready, Kenley Jansen.
MLB: Angels vs. Texas, Angel Stadium, 7 p.m., FSW:
After sweating out a four-game series against each other last week, where the Rangers won three of four and extended their AL West lead, the two have three more to finish here. So in a round-about way, they keep the rivalry fresh.
The 16th Summer X Games, Staples Center and Nokia Theatre, 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., ESPN:
Staples Center clears out any references to the Lakers, Kings or Sparks by hosting something called the Moto X Best Whip and Best Trick final. The stage at the Nokia Theatre, where they now hold the Academy Awards and the ESPYS, will be transformed into a platform for the Skate Vert Final and Skateboard Vert Best Trick. How tricky.
WNBA: Sparks at New York, 4:30 p.m.:
Some of the latest stats to come out of the NBA's league office on WNBA matters: Through 10 games on ESPN2, the league has upped its ratings by 20 percent. That's a 0.24 mark versus 0.20 a year ago. And they've got four times as many Facebook fans and 15 times more Twitter followers than last year.
The 16th Summer X Games, Coliseum and L.A. Live, 11 a.m. and 4 p.m., ESPN:
Ever want to drive your car up the peristyle entrance at the Coliseum? Watch it happen as the Rally Car SuperRally returns for a trip. More skateboarding and BMX stuff at the L.A. Live event deck.
MLB: Angels vs. Texas, Angel Stadium, 6 p.m., FSW:
Four words: Rally Monkey Soap Dispenser. But only given away to kids 18 and under. Dang. And we still are looking for our Angels Garden Gnome. It's trading deadline day: Can we swap a clean monkey for a dirty gnome?
MLB: Dodgers at San Francisco, 1 p.m., Channel 11:
Barry Zito, whose team gave him nothing to work with when he faced the Dodgers last week at Dodger Stadium, has a 109-6 record when his team has given him four or more runs to work with in his career with Oakland and San Francisco. That's just one run every other inning, guys. Too much to ask? Clayton Kershaw, coming off his eight shutout innings against the Mets, returns for the Dodgers.
MLB: Dodgers at San Francisco, 5 p.m., ESPN:
Chad Billingsley, who threw the complete-game shutout against the Giants last week, gets a national stage for his re-appearance.
The 16th Summer X Games, Staples Center and L.A. Live, 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., ESPN2:
The Moto X Speed & Style final returns to the X Games, and it'll be indoors at Staples Center. A crazy way to end this thing.
MLB: Angels vs. Texas, Angel Stadium, 12:35 p.m., FSW:
They still have seven more games against each other, during the last two weeks of the regular season — including the final four at Texas. This isn't over yet. Right?
Tennis: ATP Farmers Classic, UCLA Tennis Center, doubles final, noon; singles final, 2 p.m., ESPN2:
Five-time tournament doubles champion Mike and Bob Bryan are tied for the Open Era record with 61 titles. You could see history made today. And then the musically-minded Camarillo twins, who last Sunday played at a benefit in Venice and were scheduled to play at Molly Malones in L.A. on Monday, could break out in song afterward.


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My husband and I worked on this project for one year. We did the work ourselves, including hand picking 60 tons of rock out of a field! My husband also did all the pavestone work. It truely is our "Touch of Paradise"!
Back Yard Garden Hardscape Large (5,000 - 10,000 sq ft.) Pond Step by Step Project Stone / Rock Water Feature Water-Wise Waterfall
8 of 22: We lost track of how many trips we made to NE Missouri to pick up rocks. Heidi shows you how big some of them were!
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You should submit this in the Lawn Wars TV Show contest. Go to the Yard Contests tab to get started. It is exactly what the show is looking for. Good Luck!
Hey Watergarden Girl my second visit your Pond takes my breath away. Question: was your liner big enough? or did you have to splice it and if so how did you do it?? Hey guys Ya'll did an outstanding project hands down. Take care
Gorgous, absolutely breathtaking. Thanks for sharing the images of the steps in the process of construction. After seeing these, I'm afraid my small little pond is in for an expansion this spring!
Off da hook man!!!!!!!!!!
It's perfect and I like the fact you did it your self. You get a 100 from me great job. nCheck out our garden pond (Ron & Eydies garden pond) it's not as large as yours and we don't have snow down here in New Orleans,but let us know what you think. Take care
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I like the view from you deck. A great place for family and friend to hang out. The waterfall is so pretty. You sure did do alot of rock hauling. The brick walkways and patio add alot of character. Where are you located? The snow picture is really pretty. What are some of the water plants you have?
That is stunning. What a beautiful yard you created. what kind of decking is that? It looks like trex. I hope to add pavers next year to my yard and I hope it looks as great as yours does. Good job.
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Was it a Dan Marino performance? No.
Was it a performance that proves Chad Henne is Miami's franchise quarterback? No.
Was it a good outing for Miami's starting quarterback? Absolutely.
As I wrote in my column today, Henne was more a solution than a problem in Saturday's 17-13 loss to Tampa Bay. He completed 10 of 13 passes and showed good command in the face of an angry rush. He found Brandon Marshall. He showed trust in Marshall. He got to the middle of the field with Anthony Fasano. He was accurate.
But there is more that must be done. Henne knows this. The Patriots are coming to town. They are going to watch the job the Miami offensive line did last night and believe themselves capable of getting after Henne. And they are going to attack the Miami defense and force Henne to keep up.
As I told you last week, the Dolphins need to turn up the tempo. Last night, Henne talked about, guess what, turning up the tempo. He also discussed his ability to audible. Last year he had a chance to audible at the line on 'check with me plays," meaning he could pick from one play or another.
Now he can pick just about any play.
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While I agree to some extent that the program was getting stale, I think you're overdoing things a bit. I don't agree about Ball State 2006 an indicator of decline for the program. For one thing, we've had a number of games like that against lesser opponents over the years. (And so has OSU; in their 2002 championship season, they barely escaped past Cincinnati, which was then in Conference USA.) And besides, if we hadn't prematurely cleared our bench (presumably to avoid injury with OSU coming up) we almost certainly would have won by 20+. If anything, I think that game was an indicator that BSU was starting to turn the corner under Hoke; they've had two winning seasons since then.
Also, let's keep in mind that one of our BCS "beatdowns" was a last-second loss to Texas. The other two were to USC, which has been unreal in bowl games since 2002. Aside from the Vince Young Texas team, no one has stayed close to them.
I do not believe that App State was inevitable. We wouldn't have lost that game if Henne had been his usual self. For some reason, he was way off-target for much of the day. And then Hart sat out about half the game with a thigh injury. Our D certainly stunk in the first half, but with Henne/Hart healthy and in form, we'd have won by like, 42-28 and the game would have gone unnoticed by everyone outside of Ann Arbor.


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A Los Angeles Times account of a London mural by Bansky somehow ending up in a catalog of Fine Art Auctions Miami (where it is valued at $500,000 to $700,000) links to a story in London's Daily Mail that calls Banksy "the Scarlet Pimpernel" of the art world. Which, astonishingly, is not the best thing to be found in its profile of the elusive artist.
Here's a passage about Camilla Stacey, a curator at Here Gallery in Bristol, who in 2000 bought a place where the man rumored to be Banksy had lived. She knew the house had been inhabited by Banksy because of the artwork left there.
"I bought the house that he used to live in," she told us. "He had rented out a room but I think there had been problems with the tenants and the landlord had to sort of repossess it or whatever, so he was just selling it.
"When I moved in, the place had been covered in graffiti and stuff like that. I threw things in the [trash] bin.
"At that point Banksy was just someone putting up stuff around Bristol. He was just another artist who had graffitied around Bristol. It keeps me awake at night sometimes thinking about it."
Hit the link for the Los Angeles Times story on Banksy's missing mural.
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March 4, 2010 - Combined Afghan and international patrols discovered several drug caches in Afghanistan's Nimroz province over the past two days.
Yesterday, a combined patrol discovered 60 pounds of poppy, 892 pounds of white soda ash used in the production of heroin, 300 pounds of ammonium chloride, 3 pounds of ammonium nitrate and various drug- processing equipment, including precision scales and grinders.
A patrol found a cache March 2 containing 55 pounds of wet opium, 100 gallons of liquid morphine, 30 gallons of chemical precursors, 220 pounds of heroin and 110 pounds of heroin waste products.
In separate find March 2, a patrol discovered a cache containing 88 pounds of opium gum, 88 pounds of morphine base, 88 pounds of precursor chemicals for opium processing, and various drug-processing equipment.
In another operation, a patrol found a drug cache containing 4 pounds of amphetamines, a pound of opium and 5 gallons of acid.
"All of these finds were within [four miles] of each other and point to the success of operating jointly and with the support of the local population," said Navy Capt. Jane Campbell, International Security Assistance Force Joint Command spokeswoman.
In other operations:
-- A security force searched a rural compound and detained two suspected insurgents in Helmand province today after intelligence information indicated militant activity.
-- An Afghan and international team captured a Taliban commander during a joint operation in Helmand province yesterday. He is known to have planned and coordinated attacks leading to the deaths of civilians and Afghan forces. Two other suspected insurgents were detained during the operation.
-- Afghan soldiers on patrol with international forces in Kabul province found a significant weapons cache March 2. The combined force found six machine guns, 30 homemade bombs and more than 1,000 explosive fuses.
(Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command news releases.)
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Forces Discover Drug Caches in Afghanistan
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The shooting occurred at around 2 a.m. in the 500 block of South First Avenue.
Investigators are still determining the motive. No arrests have been made as of Friday.
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CONWAY, SC (RNN) – Senior guard Marshall Henderson's return to the court went well for the Ole Miss Rebels as they traveled to Coastal Carolina, winning 72-70 on Saturday.
Henderson, who served the first part of his three-game team suspension, scored 19 points with four rebounds and four steals off the bench in his season debut. Henderson showed some initial rust in the first half, only going 1-of-7 from the field.
Guard Jarvis summers scored 14 points with five assists for the Rebels.
In a back and forth game against the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers (1-2), Ole Miss (2-0) only led by as many as nine points, and the game included numerous lead changes. The Rebels were glad to see Henderson back, leading by two points with 4:03 left in the second half, he hit a crucial 3-pointer and was back to his flamboyant ways.
Junior guard Josh Cameron scored 16 points as the Coastal Carolina's leading scorer Saturday.
Ole Miss will take on the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils in Oxford on Friday.
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My opinion was always if the taxpayers pay for it, the taxpayers own it. Research, patents and discoveries and even software.
Why not the oil that's pumped out of public lands? Instead, we subsidize the exploration and pay through the nose for the gasoline.
Do you realize that gasoline prices in the US are among the lowest in the _world_ (except for countries with subsidized gasoline)?
A whopping $.50 a gallon, which more or less covers what we spend on roads.
While the fuel tax may not work as cars advance, today it's a logical way to fund these projects, it's effectively a user fee.
precisely so.
But most of the time the simple view is exactly that...too simple...and unbelievably shortsighted. The fact is that the government is not paying for all the research. It's being subsidized by the institutions, oftentimes more than half of the expense of the research.
I do NIH-funded research, and much of the funding comes from internal sources. If you, the taxpayer, give me $100,000 and I spend $100,000 of my own money and develop a new method or device, does that mean you own it? At most, in my mind I w
Nice try, and excellent vocabulary, but no dissembling going on. Indirect costs are generally on the order of 25% and have nothing to do with my bottom line. They pay for infrastructure support, but have nothing to do with whether NIH funds cover my bills. I don't see any of it, hence why it is "indirect".
I can make a lot more money for my institution doing clinical work than I can doing research. I mean a LOT more. And with significantly less effort. NIH pays salary support roughly fifty cents on the
So you get a $100,000 government loan on something too risky to get enough private funding and then want to pay it back X years later so you retain all rights?
In other words, you want a risky zero interest loan for R & D for X years? The X being variable and the payback possibly never happening? Or additional money will be sunk in until something fruitful comes out of it.
I'm just using your example and fairly phrasing it; I'm not saying government shouldn't ever give out risky zero interest loans or gr
FULLY agree. They don't like it, go get their grants elsewhere.
"What are the best mechanisms to ensure compliance?"
Hey, who runs the copyright office, eh? They don't comply, cancel their copyright. Bidda boom, bidda bing.
We're still screwed, if it takes no less than a president to enact something as commonsensical as this.
Still, though, go for it big O!
Just mandate that all Federally funded research papers be submitted to Arxiv.org. In many fields (e.g., astrophysics), that happens routinely. In others (e.g., geophysics), it is rare. I see no harm arising in the fields where this is routine, and making it universal would mean that the entire scientific world would gain access to all of our scientific research.
Yes, but the arxiv is filled with all sorts of gibberish submissions as well. It is a wonderful and very useful repository, but just assuring that a paper is placed there doesn't mean that those wanting to access those papers will be able to dig through the mess to find it.
Yes, but the arxiv is filled with all sorts of gibberish submissions as well.
So ? Cosmology, for example, is an arxiv.org field, and it attracts all sorts of strange people with poorly thought out ideas, some of which even make it into refereed journals, much less arxiv.org. Doesn't seem to hurt the field much.
As a astronomy and CS student I can see the differences.
Astronomy: everything is openly available & searchable in absabs or arxiv
CS: 3-5 important journals, you have to be in a paying university to get access.
Actually, when I do CS literature research, I skip papers I can't get easily access to.
I wish it was as natural for CS papers to be available openly, as it is for physics. I think it is way worse in biology/chemistry/medicine.
Here's the way things work right now in my field, astrophysics: a scientist has an idea. He writes a grant proposal to the NSF and receives money. He uses the money to (hire a grad student, travel to telescope, build an instrument, etc.). He writes a paper on the results. In order to have the paper published in one of the big journals -- which is necessary to gain credit for tenure, promotion, reputation among peers -- he PAYS THE JOURNAL ~$110 PER PAGE. The journal makes the information available only to subscribers, who pay around $50-$100 for individuals or $1500-$3000 for institutions.
If you don't publish in the big peer-reviewed journals, you don't get recognition.
So, suppose that the government changes things: now the journals must make government-funded research available to the public without charge. The journals will lose money from their subscriber base; after all, who would bother to pay for the articles when they are free? Where do the journals make up the money? My guess: they increase the page charges. Now it might cost $200 or $250 per page to publish an article in a journal. Whence comes that extra money? From the government grant.
Result: the scientific papers are now available freely to the public, but scientists must ask for more money from the NSF in order to pay the higher page charges.
but scientists must ask for more money from the NSF in order to pay the higher page charges.
That theory only holds for as long as scientific reputation in a field is something you buy. It's entirely up to the scientists in the field to cite, credit or ignore the pay-for/for-pay journals.
Of course, when reputation in a field is built upon what paper you pay to publish your research rather than the quality of the research itself that says a bit about the field...
But the argument indicates that perhaps one sho
Ahh, the "government as charitable organization angle." It's clever, really. Tugs at the heartstrings.
Let me ask you though: If you're not willing to be charitable with your own money, what gives you the right to simply vote to be charitable with someone else's? People vote with their dollars as much as their signatures. Moreso, when you think about it, as your dollars give you a personal stake in the game. "charity government" is little more than a naked admission that many people care about the poor,
Or... everyone realises that perhaps journals are not the best way of gaining recognition in the field? We've had the internet for a while now, I'd hope we can think up a better way of peer-reviewing and distributing scientific findings than paper publication.
As a professor myself, I hope that the unintended consequence will be that we move away from the restrictive, expensive, academic journal publishers like Elsevier and toward an open model of academic publication where your recognition and peer review come from broad, open, dissemination.
I, for one, would like to see a peer review system where articles are posted on-line and evaluations (i.e. referee reports) are also posted in an open, strongly authenticated, way. I don't know about you, but one thing that really annoys me is to receive a referee report on a paper where it is obvious that the referee hasn't even read past the introduction. I believe that forcing the evaluations to be open, and strongly-authenticated (so that everyone knows exactly who is writing it) would improve the quality and credibility of research.
I suspect that some people would claim that if referee reports aren't anonymous, then they won't be honest. But, a referee report should not be about opinions, it should be a straight forward analysis of the results reported in the paper. If it's really science, then it should be completely objective, thus opinion and personality should have nothing to do with it. Hence, there should be no need for anonymity. When I grade my students' papers, it certainly isn't anonymous, but it doesn't need to be because I am giving them objective feedback (e.g. "this is wrong because you said cos(x+h) = cos(x) + cos(h) which is not true.").
Using an open system would allow articles to receive recognition and ranking based upon the open discussion of their merits. Individuals doing the ranking could also receive recognition for the quality of their work, which is important because it can sometimes take weeks of work to thoroughly understand a new result. That work should receive more acknowledgment in the academic system than it currently does. (I suspect it's the current lack of acknowledgment for refereeing which makes many people into lazy referees. After all, why bother putting much effort into that referee report when it won't count toward promotion. You are better off spending that time writing your own papers.)
Finally, using an open system gives the public greater credibility in the system. When people want to know why paper A is considered correct and paper B isn't, the analysis and discussion will be available, too.
You'd need to implement something like that in a hierarchical manner, not unlike slashdot. The number of submissions would dramatically increase due to its free nature while the quality would surely decline, and nobody wants to sit there and read a large percentage of questionable work to determine if it's valid and if so if the results are correct. New submissions could be subject to quick reviews for validity testing (with moderation of course, people who troll by negatively reviewing and voting down new papers without actually reading them or considering their results, or for any bias should be barred from such reviews), and once a paper has been verified it can move on to a stage where people who don't want to sift through garbage to find the gold can really scrutinize them and see if they stand up.
Why not make such a website?
Yes, the description you're providing is very similar to what I have in mind. I would love to create such a website, but it will have to wait until after I have tenure... and I'll need some sizable grants to get it up and running to begin with. I wonder if NSF would fund the development of such a system:-)
I mostly agree with an open review system, but there are a few issues. Reviews probably need to remain anonymous in some fields to prevent the scientific equivalent of "log rolling" : providing good review to people who gave you favourable reviews. Some fields are small enough that the pool of available reviewers is tiny.
I am very much in favor of making government funded scientific research available to the public but again there are a few problems: In many fields your career depends on publishing papers.
But, a referee report should not be about opinions, it should be a straight forward analysis of the results reported in the paper. If it's really science, then it should be completely objective, thus opinion and personality should have nothing to do with it. Hence, there should be no need for anonymity. When I grade my students' papers, it certainly isn't anonymous, but it doesn't need to be because I am giving them objective feedback (e.g. "this is wrong because you said cos(x+h) = cos(x) + cos(h) which is not true.").
Your idea is interesting, but I guess opinion matters more than you think it does. I recently recommended rejection or major revision on a paper about "Economic forecasting". I think the math was all fine and dandy. In your view, I should have recommended publication. But I simply could not stand the way terms like prediction or forecasting were used. I asked the author to use terms like "data extrapolation". If economic prediction were possible, why publish? The function of economic forecasting is t
I mostly agree with an open review system, but there are a few issues. Reviews probably need to remain anonymous in some fields to prevent the scientific equivalent of "log rolling" : providing good review to people who gave you favourable reviews. Some fields are small enough that the pool of available reviewers is tiny.
My point is, something could be totally right inside the little confines of a model, while the premises of the model become a matter of opinion and philosophy. So I don't see how you can actually separate the two; what's opinion and what's objective, so cleanly like that.
Yes, these are certainly valid objections. Perhaps the review system needs multiple mechanisms for assessing articles.
An open refereeing system could establish correctness (or, in less rigorous disciplines, could judge how likely it is that the presented data and arguments support conclusions). This part would not impart value judgments (such as how significant the results are).
A "significance" mechanism for determining the value of a work could begin with a slashdot/digg style rating scheme that raises w
The trouble with most moderation systems is that they tend to be based on the fundamentally flawed idea of objective values on subjective criteria. Correctness is one thing, but one persons significant might not be another persons significant. As fields grow and diverge you'll end up with significance for the divergent branches being subjective and depending on which branch you are pursuing. Eventually you end up with either too much significant material, too heavy culling, patchwork meta-fixes or being for
How is this different from now ? At least in the areas of astrophysics I am interested in, pretty much everything gets put into Arxiv.org.
I think the thing you are not considering is that we are currently paying both ways: researchers pay page fees to publish, and their institutions pay subscription fees so the researchers, grad students, etc. can access the journals. Both of these payments come mainly from the same place: research grants from major government science agencies. The researchers get grants and include publishing costs. The researchers' institution taxes the grants ("overhead fees") which generally gets distributed to the lib
The current system of journals is antiquated. It's buggywhippery. The editors and referees for journal papers are not paid. The authors are not paid, But the subscription prices are stratospheric.
This leads to two possible conclusions. Conclusion 1: Someone is making a great heap of money at taxpayer expense. The taxpayer funds the research, then pays page charges to journals to publish it, and then has to pay gobs of money to gain access to it. Conclusion 2: The system of diffusing information via
"If you don't publish in the big peer-reviewed journals, you don't get recognition."
If everything is open, since when would you not get recognition? The reality is you would get more recognition if everything is released immediately since there would be more peer review from a larger community than just only the journal reviewers. Increasing innovation by getting the information out the the public as quickly as possible. You'll be better known and move up, if promotion is all you care about. Peer-reviewed j
You know what? Frankly... FUCK recognition!
If you do it for the recognition, you're no real scientist anyway, but a needy loser who tries to suck up on those who dominate him.
Better poor and unknown, than a recognition whore.
Here's a nice quote that makes it clear what I don't want to be and don't are:
Jake Green: "There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists, until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning. The only reason you suffer the shitty job, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. Fear or revere me, but please, think I'm special. We share an addiction. We're approval junkies. We're all in it for the slap on the back and the gold watch. The hip-hip-hoo-fuckin' rah. Look at the clever boy with the badge, polishing his trophy. Shine on you crazy diamond, because we're just monkeys wrapped in suits, begging for the approval of others."
— Revolver (2005, Guy Richie)
...what arguments Springer-Verlag, Elzevier and the like will find to fight this. Since in my (humble, but competent) opinion there can be no honest reason to oppose this, they will need to be very creative. And yes, as a scientific researcher, I have very often been hampered in my search for references by the unjustifiable monopoly held by those vultures, and the hefty subscription prices that go with it. Heck, they even made me transfer the copyrights on my own publications to them. I may not even cite my
If so, I'm not holding out much hope...
'It's very encouraging to see the Obama Administration focus on ensuring public access to the results of taxpayer-funded research [reg. required] as a key way to maximize our collective investment in science,' says Heather Joseph
Ms. Joseph should thank the Bush administration for starting the ball rolling by opening up the NIH. Going forward, as long as the government applies the same peer review and quality standards to publishing the results that reputable journals do, the policy makes sense. But what happens if the researcher's peers don't like the quality of the work? Today it's quietly buried, will the government still publish it but with some kind of a caveat/stigma?
It's my understanding that people in congress have considered before the question of expanding open access requirements to other disciplines. Obviously publishers will oppose such a move because it cuts into their bottom line. How far it eats into the bottom line depends on the reasons people subscribe and just how the opening of access works: You can make new papers closed and older papers open, or you can do the reverse. Additionally, you can make papers totally open or you can institute some half-way measure, like something similar to Google Books or Amazon book previews, which are designed with the aim that you can read the content but not easily save a copy of it.
In Physics, the APS (the professional organization for physicists) publishes the Physical Review journals, which are some of the most influential in the field besides Nature and Science. Apparently the APS relies on subscription fees from the journals in part to subsidize many of their other (worthwhile) activities, e.g. scientific conferences. As a result, it's my understanding that they opposed open access requirements (though they might have been willing to accept them in some form). This is especially interesting because the Physical Review journals have relatively friendly policies that allow one to post a pre-print to the ArXiv [arxiv.org] (which physicists generally do) and host a copy of the paper on your own website, so most of the papers they publish (at least more recently) are already available for free one way or another.
I generally have a very favorable opinion of the APS, but I would very much like to see more openness in scientific journals, at the least for taxpayer funded research. If this means that the APS will have to raise dues and conference fees to more accurately reflect the cost of their activities, I think that's something we'll just have to accept.
...if the government decides to create a new, open journal will be developing a 'prestige factor' for it. If it isn't impressive to publish in it, the best works simply won't be published there.
Since there's little chance of this potential journal assailing Nature or Science, we may end up with free average quality papers and expensive (to both publish and consume) high-impact ones. That is, unless there's a scientific culture change, and academia starts to value open-access and transparency. Maybe if a
Some provision should also be made for making data available as well. For controversial and issues of practical importance, the benefit is obvious. There could also be unexpected benefits for esoteric subjects. The experiment I worked on for my physics dissertation cost around $10^7, and the data is sitting on shelves at three universities, if it hasn't been chucked yet. Admittedly, in my case the only people who would concievably care are the hundred or so people in the subfield, and they probably care
Two related items I've written on this:
"An Open Letter to All Grantmakers and Donors On Copyright And Patent Policy In a Post-Scarcity Society "
http://www.pdfernhout.net/open-letter-to-grantmakers-and-donors-on-copyright-policy.html [pdfernhout.net]
"On Funding Digital Public Works "
http://www.pdfernhout.net/on-funding-digital-public-works.html [pdfernhout.net]
The executive summary from the first (the second is a longer version of the first):
Foundations, other grantmaking agencies handling public tax-exempt dollars, and charitable donors
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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Francis has urged princes, presidents, sheikhs and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass to protect God's creation, the weakest and the poorest of the world.
He is officially beginning his ministry as the 266th pope with a clear focus of his priorities.
Francis was interrupted by applause several times during his homily Tuesday, including when he spoke of the need to protect the environment and serve one another with love and tenderness and not allow "omens of destruction," hatred, envy and pride to "defile our lives."
Francis said the pope "must open his arms to protect all of God's people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important."


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In 1877, French obstetrician Etienne Tanier (1828-1897) introduced the most important innovation in obstetrical forceps during the 1800s. It consisted of an attachment to the blades. This allowed traction to be applied in the axis of the birth canal. The birth canal is the path taken by the foetus during its passage through the pelvic cavity. This example of Tanier's innovation was made by instrument maker Collin of Paris.
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Baldwinsville The tax forms aren't here yet, but the season will soon be underway. Start collecting your information for this year's filing and preparing to make future filings easier by taking advantage of some of the library's free hands-on courses both in person and online.
Quick Books
Improving your finances starts with keeping track of them. Master your accounting software before tax season with a full day class on QuickBooks 2012 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16.
Learn something new
Learn how to make the most of technology with the help of our hands-on courses. Held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesdays, class seating is limited to 10 and registration is required (sign up online, bville.lib.ny.us or call 635-5631 to register). This month's classes are as follows: ereaders and eBooks Jan. 16; email Basics Jan. 23; and Finding Answers on the Web Jan. 30.
Intro to genealogy
At 6:30 p.m. Jan. 16, Louise Creighton will offer a special session for beginners. These hands-on classes are free but registration is required (sign up online, bville.lib.ny.us or call 635-5631 to register).
Clean out your projects
Clean out your old projects in congenial company. We have morning and evening options for all you guilty procrastinators. Pulling Threads meets from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, and In Stitches convenes from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23.
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Struggling with providing care to a loved one with Alzheimers or other dementias? Join us for this three-part series and hear caregivers and professionals discuss helpful strategies to provide safe, effective and comfortable care at this three-part workshop presented from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays, Jan.16, 23 and 30 by the Alzheimer's Association, CNY Chapter.
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Borough sees more high-grass violations
PUNXSUTAWNEY — If it seems there are more people who own property in Punxsutawney who aren't keeping up with mowing the grass this year, members of borough council would agree with you.
Code Enforcement Officer Mary McHenry said there appears to be more high-grass violations than in other years.
McHenry said in the beginning of the lawn mowing season, she was lenient due to the heavy rainfall this spring.
When people would complain about the neighbors' grass, she would say that she wanted to make sure the person in violation had enough time to cut it, she said.
Whether it was due to the rain or for other reasons, there were a lot of high grass notices sent in, McHenry said, adding that it is difficult to track down who actually owns a property at an empty house.
McHenry said she keeps up with most of the history of the properties that she oversees in the borough.
One of the biggest problems enforcing the high grass ordinance is when a property is for sale, she said. When a property is foreclosed on, it's difficult to get the former owner to keep the grass mowed when the property is now owned by the bank.
"Until there's a legal name change on the deed at the courthouse, they are legally responsible to cut the grass at that property," McHenry said. "I've gotten a few that have come back and cut the grass. It used to be that most mortgages were held by a local bank, and there was someone to talk to so the grass could get mowed."
Now mortgages are written from all over the country, and she might be dealing with Wells Fargo in California, McHenry said. That's when she begins her telephone search of who actually owns the property.
"I can spend days to determine the owner of a single property, or sometimes the mortgage holder will say it will send somebody out and get an estimate on doing the work, and then maybe by August I'll get it cut," she said.
Many people say the borough should just mow the grass so it gets done.
"We don't have an abundance of our own guys to go around and start doing yard work for everyone," McHenry said. "Another problem with the borough mowing is we have to file a lien on the property, and if it's going to be foreclosed on, we'll never recoup the money for mowing it."
McHenry said that's why she does everything she can to make someone cut it instead of filing with the magistrate.
"If I file with the magistrate, basically I've stopped enforcement, and now, I have to wait for my hearing, which could be several weeks off," she said.
McHenry said if she can't get a hearing scheduled for six weeks, the grass continues to grow anyway.
"If I'm filing against an out-of-state bank or finance company, there's no point because a representative from the lender won't show up anyway," she said. "I end up just spinning my wheels."
Some of the chronic violators from last year seem to be more cooperative, as some of them are mowing their grass this year, she said.
If found guilty, a property owner can be fined between $25 and $300 plus court costs and is still responsible to cut the grass.
McHenry said property maintenance is another area where there can be a lot of violations involving property maintenance.
In 2008, council adopted a revised property maintenance ordinance, which is more specific about what constitutes a violation.
McHenry said one of the reasons for the change was to include the outdoor placement of furniture, which is designated for indoor use.
This covers old couches and recliners that may be found on some porches in town, McHenry said, adding that includes old washers, dryers and stoves that may be sitting on back porches.
Other code violations include junk vehicles, garbage collection/recycling, overhanging trees and shrubs, yard sales, building permits, swimming pools, house numbers and open burning.
To obtain more information on borough ordinances, go to the Web site at www.generalcode.com online eCode 360-Library Pennsylvania Punxsutawney Borough.
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Date: Jan 17, 2013 11:56 AM Author: Richard Hake Subject: Barriers to Better K-12 Math Education: Poverty and the<br> Inadequate Undergraduate Education of Prospective K-12 Teachers Some subscribers to Math-Teach might be interested in a recent post
"Barriers to Better K-12 Math Education: Poverty and the Inadequate
Undergraduate Education of Prospective K-12 Teachers" [Hake (2013)].
The abstract reads:
ABSTRACT: In response to my post "Do We Learn All the Math We Need
For Ordinary Life Before 5th Grade?" [Hake (2013)] at
<http://bit.ly/10sYmKl>, Ed Wall on Math-Learn at
<http://yhoo.it/W6fn5y> bemoaned the "dumbed down elementary school
mathematics education curriculum." [Non-subscribers can access
Wall's post by taking a minute to "Join this List" at the Math-Learn
archives <http://yhoo.it/fF6D9w>].
I argue that the dumbing down of elementary school mathematics in the
U.S. is not due to Math Education Researcher's preoccupation with the
secondary years, as implied by Wall, but primarily because of "The
Overriding Influence of Poverty on Children's Educational
Achievement" [Hake (2011b)] at <http://bit.ly/tUU65W>; and
secondarily because U.S. Mathematics Education Researchers (MER's)
have not devoted enough attention to the POSTsecondary years, as
dramatized by an excerpt from a Galilean dialogue in "Re: Math
Education Research" [Hake (2003)] at <http://bit.ly/LKpg4G>.
To access the complete 16 kB post please click on <http://bit.ly/V6azOZ>.
Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
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". . .I will look primarily at our traditions and practices of early
schooling through the age of twelve or so. There is little to come
after, whether of joys or miseries, that is not prefigured in these
- David Hawkins in "The Roots of Literacy" p. 3.
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Hake, R.R. 2013. "Barriers to Better K-12 Math Education: Poverty and
the Inadequate Undergraduate Education of Prospective K-12 Teachers,"
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of 16 Jan 2013 15:40:33 -0800 to AERA-L and Net-Gold. The abstract
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discussion lists and are also on my blog "Hake'sEdStuff" at
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Boom Goes the Dynamite: Regional Semifinals Day TwoPosted by nvr1983 on March 27th, 2009
We'll be doing a full BGtD today so you won't have any interruptions in coverage tonight. Honestly, last night's games were kind of disappointing. Pittsburgh–Xavier was entertaining, but that was the only game that I would say was memorable from a pure basketball standpoint. Now the other games did have their own interesting subplots. UConn rolled over Purdue in a game that was close at points in the 2nd half, but I never really got the sense that the Huskies were in any danger of losing. I was particularly impressed with how the Huskies played despite the media circus that is going on around them. Missouri's victory over Memphis was entertaining although for me it was marred a little by the atrocious free throw shooting. As we mentioned last night, I really wonder what John Calipari does, if he does anything, for his team's free throw shooting. At this point, I'm convinced J.J. Redick would have shot 70% from the free throw line if he had gone to Memphis. Also, what happened to vaunted Memphis defense. Missouri has a good offense, but they shouldn't be able to hit triple digits in regulation against a team that went into the game with the #1 defense according to the Pomeroy numbers. I'm sure some of you took great pleasure in watching Villanova pick apart Duke leading to another early March exit for Coach K, but the game wasn't exactly exciting if you didn't have a rooting interest for (or in most people's case against) a team.
The line-up for tonight should give us a couple of interesting games:
- 7:07 PM: #12 Arizona vs. #1 Louisville
- 7:27 PM: #3 Syracuse vs. #2 Oklahoma
- 9:37 PM: #3 Kansas vs. #2 Michigan State
- 9:57 PM: #4 Gonzaga vs. #1 UNC
We'll be back around 7 for the start of tonight's action. Leave your comments/questions and we'll respond to them as soon as we start.
6:55 PM: A couple quick pieces of news to pass along in the midst of this Billy Gillispie madness and these somewhat important games tonight. Clemson's star forward Trevor Booker will return for his senior year. The news out of Iowa isn't as good after Jake Kelly, Jeff Peterson, and David Palmer announced that they are transfering, which means that Todd Lickliter will need to replace 2 starting guards and a reserve forward.
7:10 PM: Chase Budinger makes a great play to temper Louisville's great start. He's going to need to have a great game tonight. If both teams use the press tonight, we're going to get a blowout (and I think it will end up going in Louisville's favor).
7:12 PM: I should warn you that I'm a big Chase Budinger fan so you've been warned. I haven't seen a lot of him this year (stupid west coast starts), but I think he has the makings of a very solid NBA player.
7:14 PM: That's not a good stat for Arizona. Only 6 Wildcats have scored in the NCAA tournament.
7:19 PM: Great play by Edgar Sosa feeding it to Preston Knowles. This pressure is going to kill Arizona if they only go 6 deep.
7:28 PM: I don't think it will matter tonight, but I hope you paid attention to that FT statistic. Louisville shoots 63.8% as a team (307th out of 334 teams). That will come back to bite them. Just ask John Calipari. Actually he probably wouldn't admit it because his team was just as bad last night. . .
7:30 PM: I think that any Blue Devil who mentions that they made the 1994 title game should put an asterisk by it on their resume saying that they rode Grant Hill's coattails there. If you don't agree with me, see what happened the next year even if Coach K missed the last 2/3 of the season.
7:31 PM: It looks dead in Memphis. What do you guys think? I'm guessing it's only 20% full. UNC fans must have bought up most of the stadium.


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Dave Grohl's Sound City documentary and Cameron Crowe's Pearl Jam Twenty are headed to VH1's Rock Docs series, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Sound City, directed by the Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer, tells the story of the beloved studio near Los Angeles where Nirvana recorded their 1991 classic Nevermind. The movie also features artists including Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Weezer's Rivers Cuomo and Trent Reznor, who have all recorded at the now defunct analog studio.
Pearl Jam Twenty traces the band's early years as the musicians first come together, deals with their fast-rising fame and decision to step away from it. Almost Famous director Crowe also packs in more than 1,200 hours of rare and never-before-seen footage of Pearl Jam.
Sound City will air on VH1 August 17. Pearl Jam Twenty will air on October 12.
Pearl Jam's next album, Lightning Bolt, will be out October 15. Grohl's Foo Fighters are currently working on a new album.


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Did those a-holes at the Alumni Association mail their package tickets yet?
(In case you can't tell, I'm still bitter about the Notre Dame tickets selling out before any out-of-staters even had a shot at them. PLUS, I sent a complaint letter to them and the a-holes never even bother to respond. WTF!?)