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Spotlight on Research 2012
July 2012 (historical)
Scientists Find Many Common Genetic Variations Play a Role in Common Diseases
Scientists have long known that genetic variations play a role in the development of many common medical conditions. What they haven't known is whether a small number of variants have a large effect on their development, or whether a large number have a small effect. New research supported by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) and reported in Nature Genetics suggests that the cause of four common diseases — rheumatoid arthritis, celiac disease, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes — is multiple variants with small effects.
Starting with rheumatoid arthritis, the researchers developed a new statistical method to estimate the genetic component of these diseases that are explained by common differences throughout the genome. Development of the method involved putting existing genetic data from 5,500 patients with rheumatoid arthritis, and 20,000 people without the disease, into the model and looking for areas where there was a greater occurrence of a genetic variation than would be expected by chance alone.
Using computer simulations, they were able to demonstrate that the underlying risk in rheumatoid arthritis is largely due to many common variations, rather than a few rare ones.
From there, they went on to apply that statistical method to the three other diseases. For each disease, they found that there are hundreds of small variations that are common in the general population, each with a small effect on the risk of disease. This finding, says lead author Robert Plenge, M.D., Ph.D., represents one of the most predominant components of the genetic architecture that has yet to be explained. There are probably hundreds more variations with a small effect that remain to be discovered. The research suggested there were probably a smaller number of rare variations that contribute, as well.
Dr. Plenge says although most of the variations are common in the general population, it is getting the right — or wrong — combination of them, along with environmental factors, that will lead to rheumatoid arthritis. Getting a different combination of genetic factors and environmental factors could lead to celiac disease, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, or other diseases.
The finding has implications for better understanding of these diseases — and potentially others for which there is a genetic component — and their treatment, says Dr. Plenge, director of Genetics and Genomics in the Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH). It results from a multidisciplinary collaboration of geneticists, clinicians, and computer scientists, led by Dr. Plenge and BWH colleagues Eli Stahl, Ph.D., and Soumya Raychaudhuri, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Plenge says the findings will help direct researchers to the next wave of genetic studies that could lead to the discovery of common variations that affect disease risk. A better understanding of the genetic variations, and how strongly they affect disease risk, could eventually lead to better and more precise strategies for treating these diseases.
The mission of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to support research into the causes, treatment, and prevention of arthritis and musculoskeletal and skin diseases; the training of basic and clinical scientists to carry out this research; and the dissemination of information on research progress in these diseases. For more information about the NIAMS, call the information clearinghouse at (301) 495-4484 or (877) 22-NIAMS (free call) or visit the NIAMS website at https://www.niams.nih.gov.
Stahl EA, Wegmann D, Trynka G, Gutierrez-Achury J, Do R, Voight BF, Kraft P, Chen R, Kallberg HJ, Kurreeman FA; Diabetes Genetics Replication and Meta-analysis Consortium; Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, Kathiresan S, Wijmenga C, Gregersen PK, Alfredsson L, Siminovitch KA, Worthington J, de Bakker PI, Raychaudhuri S, Plenge RM. Bayesian inference analyses of the polygenic architecture of rheumatoid arthritis. Nat Genet. 2012 Mar 25;44(5):483-9. doi: 10.1038/ng.2232.
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As many of you may have noticed MTR is sporting the pink throughout the site but we are not the only ones doing some redecorating in the spirit of breast cancer awareness month. Marvel is joining the party not only by partnering with our friends at Susan G. Komen but by using their heroes as part of the campaign. If you are a comic fan and are interested in helping out here's a look at the issues being released in partnership with Komen For The Cure.
Marvel Entertainment & Susan G. Komen For The Cure Debut New Art For National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
New York, NY—October 1, 2012—Marvel Entertainment and Susan G. Komen for the Cure® are proud to reveal the complete lineup of all-new covers and the original advertorial that will be released in October to commemorate National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Throughout the month of October, the world's most popular super heroes—Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow, Wolverine and more—will be featured on all-new variant covers with special pink-colored costumes available exclusively at comic shops*.
Additionally, Marvel is proud to unveil a special one page advertorial running throughout its super hero comics in October to raise awareness of breast cancer in men. This advertorial will also be featured on www.marvel.com and distributed via social media channels.
"It's rewarding to see the partnership between Marvel and Susan G. Komen For The Cure produce such exciting art to raise awareness about the risk of breast cancer to both women and men," said Dan Buckley, Publisher & President of the Print, Animation & Digital Divisions, Marvel Worldwide, Inc. "We hope that all our fans take a moment this month to educate themselves on the ways to fight—and reduce– this risk of this disease by checking out the free resources Komen has to offer."
The following comic books, on-sale in October, will feature special Susan G. Komen variant covers:
- AVENGERS #31 KOMEN VARIANT by Pasqual Ferry & Chris Sotomayor [on sale 10/10]
- CAPTAIN AMERICA #18 KOMEN VARIANT by Dale Keown & Frank D'Armata [on sale 10/10]
- CAPTAIN MARVEL #5 KOMEN VARIANT by Joe Quiñones [on sale 10/107]
- FANTASTIC FOUR #611 KOMEN VARIANT by John Tyler Christopher [on sale 10/10]
- INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #526 KOMEN VARIANT by Paul Renaud [on sale 10/10]
- THE MIGHTY THOR #21 KOMEN VARIANT by Mike Perkins & Sonia Oback [on sale 10/17]
- UNCANNY X-MEN #20 KOMEN VARIANT by David Marquez & Chris Sotomayor [on sale 10/17]
- WOLVERINE #315 KOMEN VARIANT by Ben Ang & Edgar Delgado [on sale 10/24]
"Komen is thrilled to partner with Marvel Entertainment in the fight against breast cancer this October," said Dorothy Jones, VP, Marketing at Komen. "This partnership will allow us to share critical information with this important audience, empowering them to take positive action for their breast health and for the women they love."
Stay tuned to Marvel.com for more news on this initiative from Marvel Entertainment
To learn more about the fight against breast cancer and how you can support Komen, please visit Komen.org

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Yokahu Tower is the more consistent of the two towers when it comes to weather. The other tower is Mount Britton Tower, which is located at a much higher elevation and usually has cloud cover that interferes with the views. The other major benefit to Yokahu Tower is the ease of access. The tower is maybe thirty feet away from the parking lot with no elevation change until you start to climb the tower. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Mt. Britton Tower requires a good amount of exertion to hike a trail which ascends rapidly through the forest before reaching the tower.
In addition to the wonderful views and ease of access that Yokahu Tower affords you, there are also many informational signs around the tower. We have included a few of those signs in the pictures below.
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With A Beaker On The Burner & An Otter In The Oven
- Artist: Alvarius B.
- Genre: Rock
- Release Date: 11/3/2017
Alvarius B. on With a Beaker on the Burner and an Otter in the Oven - Vol. 1 Natural Wonder: "Volume One of three new LPs I am releasing simultaneously called Natural Wonder, this is the more melodic, savvy one and you might like it. Maybe I'm lying and it's the innocent, straight record so maybe you should get Vol 3 (ABDT 059C-LP) instead if you're in a darker mood. But that's not really true either. Or maybe it's one of those records that grows on you the more you continue playing it... like a cancer. The musicians who played on all three albums don't deserve to be involved in these kamikaze promotional descriptions so don't blame them for any of this.... The modern world of record making has become so f***ing dull and obedient that someone has to ram a poison dagger up your asses and since you're all under hypnosis, I promise you won't feel a thing. I could pay Dougie Jones to write this piece to match your intellect or hire a publicity company to promote it but who really gives a f***?... By deciding to write my own album promos, I can perform some market research. For example, this album description text will undoubtedly be copy/pasted by most online retailers onto their respective sites because they don't write their own new album reviews or get too excited about music, they simply want to create the illusion that they're in business to sell records. So I could put something like: F*** all website retailers that copy/paste this description onto their site because they are too f***ing cheap, lazy or chicken shit to have an opinion to write individual album reviews - and they probably wouldn't even notice while doing it. Anyway, back to my new album. These songs are pretty good, most likely way better than your songs, and I don't even have time to be a real songwriter, so what does that say about you? It says that you suck. And most of you do. But you should buy my new three album set because it's probably as good or better than any other LPs that will be released this year. But if you aren't ready to go all-in with confidence, then forget it." One-time pressing; Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics and credits.
Title: | With A Beaker On The Burner & An Otter In The Oven |
Genre: | Rock |
Artist(s): | Alvarius B. |
Label: | Abduction Records |
Release Date: | 11/3/2017 |
Product Type: | LP |
Item #: | 1949928X |
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life is sweet
Within the opening paragraph of The Tao of Pooh is the story of The Vinegar Tasters.
"We see three men standing around a vat of vinegar. Each has dipped a finger into the vinegar and tasted it. The expression on each man's face shows his individual reaction. Since the painting is allegorical, we understand that these are no ordinary vinegar tasters. They are representatives of the "Three Teachings" of China. The vinegar they are sampling represents the Essence of Life. The three masters are K'ung Fu-tse (Confucius), Buddha, and Lao-tse, author of the oldest existing book of Taoism. The first has a sour look on his face. The second wears a bitter expression. The third man is smiling.
To K'ung Fu-tse and the Confucianists life is sour. They believe that the present is out of step with the past, and that the government of man on earth is out of harmony with the Way of Heaven, the government of the universe. Therefore, they emphasize reverence for the Ancestors, as well as for the ancient rituals and ceremonies in which the emperor, as the Son of Heaven, acts as intermediary between limitless heaven and limited earth. Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions and phrases all add up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time. A saying was recorded about K'ung Fu-tse: "If the mat was not straight, the Master would not sit."
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth is bitter, filled with attachments and desires that lead to suffering. Through Buddhism, the whole world is seen as a setter of traps, a generator of illusions, a revolving wheel of pain for all creatures. In order to find peace, the Buddhist consider it necessary to transcend "the world of dust" and reach Nirvana, a state of "no wind." Although the essentially optimistic attitude of the Chinese altered Buddhism considerably after it was brought in from native India, devout Buddhist often see the way to Nirvana interrupted all the same by the bitter wind of everyday existence.
To Lao-tse, the harmony that naturally exists between heaven and earth from the very beginning can be found by anyone at anytime, but not by following the rules of the Confucianists. As he states in the Tao Te Ching, the "Tao Virtue Book," earth is in essence a reflection of heaven, run by the same laws—not by the laws of men. These laws affect not only the spinning of distant planets, but also the activities of the birds of the forest and the fish in the sea. According to Lao-tse, the more men interfer with the natural balance produced and governed by the natural laws, the further away the harmony retreats into the distance. The more forcing, the more trouble. Whether heavy or light, wet or dry, fast or slow, everything has its own nature already within it, which can not be violated without causing difficulties. When abstract and arbitrary rules are imposed from the outside, struggle is inevitable. Only then does life become sour.
To Taoists, the world is not a setter of traps. It is a teacher of valuable lessons. Its lessons must be learned, just as its laws must be followed; then all will go well. Rather than turn away from "the world of dust," we encourage y'all to "join the dust and dirt of the world." What we see operating behind everything in heaven and earth we call the Tao, "the Way." A basic principle of Lao-tse's teaching is that the Way of the Universe can not be adequately described in words, and it is insulting both to its unlimited power and to the intelligent human mind to attempt to do so. Still, its nature can be understood, and those who care for it, and the life from which it is inseparable, understand it best.
Over the centuries Lao-tse's classic teachings have been developed and divided into philosophical, monastic, and folk religious forms. All of these are included under the general heading of Taoism. The basic Taoism that we are working with here is simply the way of appreciating, learning from and understanding everything that happens in everyday life.
From the Taoist perspective, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness. Happy serenity is the most noticeable characteristic of the Taoist personality, and a subtle sense of humor is apparent in the most profound Taoist writings, such as the twenty-five-hundred-year-old Tao Te Ching. In the writing's of Taoism's second major writer, Chuang-tse, quiet laughter bubbles up like water in a fountain.
"But what does that have to do with vinegar?"asked Pooh.
"I thought I had explained that," I said.
"I don't think, so," said Pooh.
"Well, then, I'll explain it now."
"That's good," said Pooh.
In the painting, why is Lao-tse smiling?
Through working in harmony with life's circumstances, Taoist understanding changes what others perceive as negative into something positive. From the Taoist point of view, sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters."
—Benjamin Hoff
Tao'n to The Beatles—Get Back
6 comments
- 1 Anne B. { 10.16.10 at 12:52 pm }
Well written! First read the Tao of Pooh in 1994….re-visit it often…really enjoy the tie in to southern sweet!
- 2 Mom { 10.18.10 at 6:13 pm }
Hey Bud, Excellent writing by the way.
- 3 dido { 05.10.11 at 5:15 pm }
the teacher of valuable lessons…. life i even more than that it is a path full of lessons leads you to a specific goal! unity with nature!
dido´s last [type] ..exercises for scoliosis – my home work - 4 H.S { 05.13.11 at 2:30 am }
I loved this book, this article has touched my heart,
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Chance the Rapper tries his hand as a TV weatherman
CHICAGO - He can win Grammy Awards, host Saturday Night Live and raise money for Chicago Public Schools - but can Chance the Rapper forecast the weather?!
The Chicago native had the "chance" to try his hand as a WGN-TV weatherman Friday during the 15th annual WGN Morning News Toy Drive. All toys collected will benefit Chance the Rapper's youth empowerment charity SocialWorks.
Veteran WGN Morning News weatherman Paul Konrad gave Chance some advice: "I've been doing this for 20 years. All you have to do is really just smile, be relatively sexy, just read some numbers and you're good to go!"
And Chance definitely heeded that advice! He talked about Chicago's cold temps, cracked some jokes and even put on a "cloak of invisibility" that briefly blended him into the weather chromakey green screen.
He did so well that WGN has already offered him a full-time job! Watch his forecast in the player above.


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Poland wants new shale law enacted by 2013:
Poland wants its new shale gas law to go into force next year, Piotr Wozniak, the deputy environment minister responsible for the draft law said on Wednesday, but added that it would be best if a shale gas tax waited until at least 2016, according to a report.
Poland, which aims to be Europe's shale gas pioneer, has postponed publication of its legal framework for the development of the potentially lucrative energy resource several times in the past few months.
Discussions over a shale gas tax were causing the delays, Wozniak told state-owned press agency PAP in an interview, according to Reuters.
The new law is being prepared together by the Environment Ministry and the Finance Ministry.
"The bill can be applicable as of 2013. If we publish the draft this or next month, oil and gas companies will have a chance to prepare their business plans for next year based on transparent rules," the news wire quoted Wozniak as saying.
"Our tax regime must be competitive with Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, German, French or Italian tax rates …That is why we want new taxation on extraction to start being applicable no sooner than at the beginning of 2016."
Wozniak added that accelerating exploration is a key goal for Poland as this could hasten commercial production of shale gas, helping reduce Poland's dependence on gas imports from Russia's Gazprom.
Poland's eastern neighbour supplies a quarter of the gas used by the EU.
Poland granted 111 shale exploration licences to ExxonMobil, Chevron and other firms, even as other countries, including France and Bulgaria, halted shale exploration pending further environmental studies.
Poland, a member of the EU, had high hopes for shale after a study by the US Energy Information Association in 2011 estimated Polish reserves at 5.3 trillion cubic metres, enough to cover domestic demand for some 300 years.
But estimated reserves were slashed to about a tenth of that in a government report published in March.
ExxonMobil in June decided to drop its Polish exploration projects. Earlier this week, Polish-shale leader 3Legs Resources said its partner ConocoPhillips had passed on an option to take over as operator on three concessions currently operated by 3Legs.


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(Reuters) - The body of radio personality Casey Kasem, who even before his June death was at the center of a tug-of-war between his wife and his children from a prior marriage, has been flown to Canada from a Washington state funeral home, his longtime former agent said on Wednesday.
Kasem, the former host of the syndicated program "American Top 40," was moved to Canada by his wife, his agent Don Pitts said, after being kept at the Gaffney Funeral Home in Tacoma, Washington. He died on June 15 at age 82.
Candace Corkum, administrative manager for the funeral home, confirmed on Friday that Kasem's body was no longer at the facility. When reached by phone on Wednesday, someone speaking for the home declined further comment.
Kasem had been the focus of a dispute between his three children from his first marriage - Kerri, Julie and Mike - and his second wife, Jean Kasem.
The children said she prevented them from visiting him as he suffered from Lewy body dementia, an illness with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease. Casey Kasem had wanted to be buried at Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale, California, said Danny Deraney, a spokesman for the siblings.
Deraney said that while Kasem's wife has the legal right to move the remains without notifying anyone, she should let his friends and family know.
"Right now, she's not divulging that location. For what reasons, I don't know," Deraney said.
A Washington state judge on July 16 forbade movement of the body from the funeral home based on a request by Kerri Kasem to have an autopsy conducted to investigate suspicions of elder abuse, Deraney said.
The order was delivered to the home a day after Kasem's body was moved, CNN reported.
A spokesman for the Santa Monica Police Department said there was an open and ongoing probe into allegations of elder abuse, but declined to provide further detail.
An attorney for Jean Kasem, who married Casey Kasem in 1980, was out of the country and did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Casey Kasem at the peak of his career on "American Top 40" was heard on more than 1,000 stations in 50 countries. He was famed for his tenor voice, and also played the voice of Shaggy, the mystery-solving human pal of a Great Dane in the TV cartoon series "Scooby Doo, Where Are You!"
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Former Irish President Mary McAleese has demanded more influence for women in the Catholic Church.
The well-known politician and now a theologian told a Cambridge University gathering that women, the laity and the Bishops must be given more power by the Vatican church leaders.
McAleese said bishops should not be yes men for those who run the Church from Rome, the Irish Times reports.
She said: "Bishops should be encouraged not to be yes men but leaders who can speak freely, who consult with rank-and-file Catholics and then make decisions along with the pope.
"Senior church leaders have until now believed the church could only survive through unquestioning obedience to the exclusively top-down teaching magisterium.
"That tight-grip approach has had very damaging consequences for the church in the modern world."
Speaking on the topic of church governance to the Van Hugel Institute in Cambridge, McAleese urged Pope Francis to give a synod of bishops decision-making powers.
She added: "He should do this even though no pope has ever done so and Pope Benedict is on record as being against doing so.
"Yet this is by far the most straightforward way of creating at least an embryonic form of collegial Episcopal decision-making in the Catholic Church.
"The most exciting way of bringing about reform would be to give a direct voice to each bishop, where issues would be decided by a majority canvassed by post or email."
The former President of Ireland repeated her beliefs that rank and file Catholics deserve a greater role in church governance.
She added: "The absence of laity and in particular women from ecclesial decision-making and high- level spheres of influence is a line that cannot hold; in fact it is a line that is rapidly leaching trust and credibility.
"Pope Francis has openly acknowledged the problem that exists, but he has not yet put forward any practical solutions.
"Bishops have already displayed an appetite for change and the noisy, messy, argumentative church envisaged by Pope John XXIII in the Vatican Council in the 1960s.
"Such a healthy, vibrant debate would see a Catholic Church engaged in active listening and talking top-down, sideways and bottom-up, unafraid of bad news, unafraid of healthy debate."
Now studying canon law in Dublin and Rome, McAleese added: "Pope Francis arrived from Argentina with a blowtorch in his suitcase but it was difficult to know if the charismatic and popular Francis has time on his side.
"His refreshing approach seems to have slowed the tide of cynicism, but whether he can turn the tide remains to be seen."


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New French system rates products' health and eco-credentials
Consumers can either use the Noteo app or visit the company's website to see which chemicals and ingredients are present in 45,000 different products, including personal care, food and drink, and household products.
The system employs independent experts to rate products based on about 400 different variables, the company says, allowing it to provide ratings for social, environmental, health and budgetary factors. These four factors are then combined to provide an overall average score, although there is also the option to personalise these factors to better reflect an individual's specific concerns.
A full list of experts employed to conduct product assessments – which includes dieticians, social responsibility and environmental experts and toxicologists – is available on its website.
The Institut Noteo was founded by Baptiste Marty in 2008, who had had the idea of developing a ranking system for commonly consumed products a couple of years earlier. It took another five years of research and consultation with experts to develop the database, to which the company hopes to add another 45,000 products in the near future.
According to the company, the idea was to give power back to consumers, while also providing an incentive to manufacturers to make their production processes greener.
The database is just the latest independently developed rating system for French shoppers. Last month, three French dads launched www.mesgouts.fr, which rates products based on seven factors: quality, nutrition, origin, environment, ethics/social, price, and ratings from other users. Like Noteo, it also includes the option to personalise preferences.


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Puddle of Mudd Frontman's Wife Attempts to Throw Out Prenup During Divorce Proceedings
Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin has recently been going through divorce proceedings with his wife Jessica Nicole Scantlin, but the soon-to-be ex-wife has taken the divorce to the next level. Despite having signed a prenuptial agreement, Jessica Scantlin is attempting to get the prenup thrown out.
We reported on Wes Scantlin's filing of divorce papers in November of last year at the L.A. County Superior Court. Having been married for four years, Scantlin's wife served as Wes' muse for many years, providing the inspiration for many Puddle of Mudd songs. Jessica just filed the legal documents in an attempt to acquire half of the money that the Puddle of Mudd frontman accrued during their marriage.
Additionally, the future ex-wife "will seek for the premarital agreement to either be set aside on the grounds that it is either unenforceable or she was coerced into executing it." She will ask the court to grant her one-half interest of all past, present and future revenues generated from the music Wes composed during their courtship.
Wes Scantlin has found himself in a mess of problems recently, including reportedly owing $60,000 in back taxes and being arrested for possession of "pills and powder" of some kind.


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Are there any known vulnerabilities to Ubuntu's full disk encryption feature?
I have some storage devices (thumbdrive and a few external hard drives used for backups) that I use with full disk encryption, so that if they're lost or stolen, my data can't be retrieved. Is this a false sense of security?
If someone were to obtain an encrypted drive, would it be possible for them to break the encryption, and if so, how long would it take?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm only asking about non-bootable drives. I'm aware of vulnerabilities to encrypted drives that are still used to boot the OS.


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Mark Brown
Mark Brown is an American astronaut who was born on November 18, 1951 in Indiana. Before he became an astronaut, Brown was a pilot for the Air Force.
Brown began working for NASA as an aerospace engineer in 1980. In 1985, he became an astronaut. He has logged 249 hours in space from two spaceflights.
In 1989, Brown flew aboard STS-28 in a Department of Defense mission. In 1991, Brown helped deploy the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite aboard shuttle Discovery.


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iRunFar fans, friends, and family, on Wednesday I arrived safe and sound (and, more importantly, with all my gear) in Morocco. In the past three days, I've had enough adventures to satisfy me for quite awhile and we're not even started yet. There was Wednesday's impromptu tour de cafes in Casablanca with Meghan, four fellow MdSers we'd just met, and an artist from Salida, CO. Thursday was a day of wandering about Ouarzazate (OZZ) and pack assembly/ disassembly. Today, we left OZZ in a drizzle and ended up stranded three hours away when a flooded road crossing blocked our path. I'm drafting this on my phone, so I apologize for the post's brevity. (It is, however, good preparation as I my posts from the bivouac will be held to a strict character limit.) Keep reading for a bit more.
I can't wait to share my adventures in Casablanca at a later time. It was unlike any other city I've ever visited. It was, at the same time, both the most frenzied and relaxed city in my experience. Lazy cafe goers spending hours smoking, drinking, and watching unyielding streams of cars and people. I enjoyed some cafe time myself with new friends Dan, Darren, Becky, and Ryan – the first 3 being fellow MdSers. We saw beautiful market wares and the second largest religious building in the world. What had been a dreaded 15 hour layover was a day to cherish with 5 punch drunk, travel weary wanderers.
Thursday was much calmer. After sleeping in a bit, there was a pack briefing from our group's MdS-guru, Jay Batchen if the Dreamchasers. Following the briefing, a small group of MdSers wandered down to the market. We picked up some items, including mandatory lighters, before a pleasant lunch featuring tagine vegeterienne. Tagine is a Moroccan clay cooking vessel that gives rise to its own cuisine. I'm a fan.
Thursday afternoon was MdS oriented. I repacked most if my food to save weight and bulk. I also spent time culling items from my pack. Once I knew everything would fit inside the pack, I started trimming the pack itself. I managed to cut off pockets, loops, and cords that totalled 142 grams! In total, all my non-food gear totalled 2.6 kg and my pack with food is right at 18 pounds. That may change…
I sit here in a hotel rather than the bivouac. This morning's sprinkled turned into downpours with some occasional lightening. The desert is flooded. Halfway through our bus ride from OZZ to the bivouac we came to a wash the was impassible. Only after waiting 3 hours did we make the far-too-risky attempt to cross the still raging steam. (The bus ahead of us fishtailed while crossing!) Another couple hours later (11 hours total bus time), we arrived at Erfoud, the town closest to the bivouac, where our caravan paused. Not long thereafter we saw the early buses to the bivouac headed in our direction. The race director had decided that the bivouac was uninhabitable, so we are all in hotels tonight. We ate well (tagine for all) and will sneak in a unexpected shower before the race.
Perhaps the most unexpected news is the weather forecast. Through the race forecast highs now rand from 60-70 F (16-21 C) with one night forecast to hit 44 F. There's a decent chance for more rain tomorrow (it's raining now) and a slight chance through Tuesday. There's also a decent chance of cloud cover, which I'm excited about. This change in weather may have me adding more clothing and a heavier sleeping bag to my pack.
Of course, we don't know if the race may have to be modified. Parts of the course are routed down normally dry river beds and crosses many washes. If these do not run off quickly, the course may need to be rerouted or the start delayed. I haven't read the "road book" (course description and maps), but I hear that Stage 2 will feature the big dunes, Stage 4 will be a full 50 miles (80k), Stage 6 will be very short, and the entire course will run just about 250 km.
Tomorrow is "Admin Day"… I say bring on the race!


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This page serves as the definitive World-Wide Web location to find the informational documents I maintain about contemporary Warner Bros. cartoons, plus links to other exceptional info sites. Many sites on the web are flashier and win awards, but lack in content unless they're linking to this site or one of the sites linked from here. By going to this site, and to the sites linked from here, you have come to the source of the most commonly requested compilations and documents, and can be assured that they truly are the most up-to-date and complete files of their type. Anyone can put up pictures and sound files; it takes real members of the Please Please Please Get-A-Life Foundation to make dynamic info sites like this one and the ones linked from here. Narf!
3 September 2007
I have added to a few pages. The foreign lyrics page now includes
Tiny Toon Adventures lyrics in Spanish, German and corrected
Japanese, plus English translations for those and for the Russian
lyrics. I have added a late Kids' WB promo song to the Animaniacs
Mega Lyrics File. A picture of a background error that had been
corrected after first broadcast has been added to the LACTOSE files.
Plus some items in the news section below.
1 March 2007
The old Voxware files section has had two of its links changed to
play MP3s. So, finally you'll be able to hear those two at least!
25 July 2006
I finally have added a working link to the
IV video on the page about
IV. I still haven't added a bunch of further Animania
events to the History of Animania Events page, though. But
hey, at least the video link works now (provided you have
Flash installed, but who doesn't these days?).
8 September 2003
September 13 will mark the 10th anniversary of the debut of Animaniacs.
The show had a profound impact on many lives. I know three married couples who
never would have met if not for Animaniacs. My fiancée and I will become
a fourth eventually. I received email recently from a young woman about to embark
on a dream job overseas, and she said she got the motivation to follow her dreams
after receiving a phone call from Jess Harnell (voice of Wakko) when she was a
teenager, in response to a letter she had written. There's even a thread on the
ToonZone forums for people reminiscing about how this show touched their lives.
So, what could I do with my web space to commemorate the 10th anniversary?
I decided to throw together a little page which reminds us that, for those who
made the show, it has been a lot more than 10 years! Hopefully there will be
more to the page in the future, but for now here it is:
Animaniacs: In The Beginning.
27 June 2003
Cleaning out my hard drive, I discovered a recording I was sent in 1996 of a
Pinky & The Brain intro from Israel, along a text file I received
in 1998 of the Hebrew lyrics from the first season of the Pinky & The Brain
series (Romanized -- not in a Hebrew font). So now, considerably late, I present
these items for your enjoyment!
The sound recording was made by holding a microphone up to a TV speaker, so
it's not great. If you can provide something better (the theme to the actual
series would be terrific), please let me know! Likewise, if you have recordings
or lyrics from other countries not yet represented, I'd love to hear and read them,
and add them to the collection. Select any of the Lyrics Files from the menu
below, then click on the Other Languages link within.
4 April 2003
A few updates today: I added a new entry to the LACTOSE files, demonstrating
a change in dialog from the original and later broadcasts of TV or Not TV.
Also, I've added some things to the foreign lyrics/recordings pages! One of the
Pinky & The Brain intros from Poland; both Pinky & The Brain intros
and the series theme from France plus an MP3 of the series theme; one of the
Pinky & The Brain intros from Japan plus an MP3 of it; an MP3 of the Pinky
& The Brain theme from Germany; and I've added an MP3 of the Season 3
Animaniacs theme from Brazil, though don't have the lyrics yet (or can't find
them 'cause I've been sitting on some of this stuff for so long). Anyway, enjoy!
Choose any lyrics file link from the menu and you'll find a further link to the
foreign-language dubs! Oh yes, and I finally made the correction to the lyrics
for Bones in the Body in the AMLF.
OK, so this site has gotten some awards over the years, despite (or maybe
because of) my ugly Unix-friendly web design:
9 May 1999
The Animaniacs Mega Lyrics File has been chosen as a
"Key Resource" at links2go.com!
30 January 1999
This site has been chosen as a "cool site" in the
Netscape Open Directory! Thanks, Mozilla!
16 January 1998
These pages have been included in some internet yellow pages books
published recently! Faboo!
The Animaniacs Mega Lyrics File has been chosen as an Entertainment "Cool Link" Surfers' Choice at Yahoo!.
The foreign lyrics page (linked to from any lyrics file menu) is listed in the March 1, 1997 issue of NetGuide Magazine as among the best "1,003 free things on the web."
3 September 2007
The new CBS series Sushi Pack featuring writing
by Tom Ruegger, Nicholas Hollander and
Gordon Bressack will debut on November 3. Ruegger
and Hollander were pulled out of producer status and
will be listed as script editors, though corporate-appointed
editors produced the final drafts of all scripts after
concerns about setting a good example for children.
21 May 2007
Former Animaniacs writers are involved in new two
shows coming out this fall. Tom Ruegger is
script editor and producer of a new CGI comedy series based on the
picture book Animalia by Graeme Base. The entire writing
staff consists of Ruegger, John P. McCann,
Deanna Oliver, Sherri Stoner and
Nicholas Hollander. The series will broadcast on
Network Ten in Australia, and in the U.S. on a yet-to-be-launched
digital cable channel, PBS Kids Go!.
In addition, Ruegger and Hollander are writing for a new cartoon called Sushi Pack that will be part of an American Greetings block on CBS.
1 March 2007
The Volume 3 DVD sets of Animaniacs and
Pinky & The Brain are expected to be
released on June 19th of this year.
27 July 2006
The Volume 2 DVD sets of Animaniacs and
Pinky & The Brain are expected to be
released in December. The bonus features this time
around are interviews with many of the writers,
including (but not limited to) Earl Kress, Gordon
Bressack, Charles M. Howell IV and Tom Minton.
25 July 2006
Volume 1 DVD sets of Animaniacs and Pinky &
The Brain were released today!
The Animaniacs set
is five discs and includes the first 25 episodes (numerical
order), complete and unedited. It also features a bonus
interview segment hosted by Maurice LaMarche (voice of The
Brain), with Rob
Paulsen, Tress MacNeille and Jess Harnell (voices of the
Warners) in one segment, Sherri Stoner (creator, writer and
voice of Slappy) in another segment, Steve & Julie
Bernstein (music composers and orchestrators) in another,
and finally Andrea Romano (voice director).
The Pinky
& The Brain set is four discs, and features the first 22
episodes of the
spinoff series, plus an interview segment with Rob Paulsen
(Pinky), Maurice LaMarche (The Brain) and Andrea Romano
(voice director), and additional comments by producers
Tom Ruegger and Peter Hastings. The story of the genesis of
Pinky & The Brain is not included, though, thanks to the
WB lawyers. The real story, as I've heard it, is that one day
at a meeting, Tom Ruegger leaned over to Peter Hastings and
said, "Can you imagine if Eddie (Fitzgerald) and (Tom)
Minton tried to take over the world?" The idea stuck.
Caricatures of the two men were
turned into mice, and their personalities infused into the
characters, creating our favorite genetically altered duo.
Each DVD set has both 5.1 English and stereo Brazilian Portuguese
audio, and subtitles in Spanish, French and Brazilian Portuguese.
They are Region 1 encoded.
28 December 2005
You've probably heard the rumors by now: Animaniacs
and Pinky & The Brain are coming to DVD. They
won't just be episodes slapped on a disc and sold, either;
they will have bonus features! The Animaniacs DVD is due
in July 2006, and will include interviews with the voice
talent for the Warners and Slappy (of course, Sherri Stoner
also wrote most of Slappy's episodes), and Steve &
Julie Bernstein, who wrote and orchestrated much of the
music for the show. Tom Ruegger himself also will appear,
and the host for the extras is the Brain himself, Maurice
LaMarche. The Pinky & The Brain DVD is hosted by both
the stars, Rob Paulsen and LaMarche. Producers Peter Hastings
and Ruegger also will appear. These are only partial lists
of the people who will turn up on the bonus features.
I don't yet know if a solid release date has been set for
the latter DVD. It is believed at this time that they will
not be highlight compilations, but actually present the
episodes in numerical order. Pinky & The Brain also
will be showing up on a new free streaming video service,
In2TV, along with Freakazoid! and Histeria!.
Peter Hastings is back in a production role, primarily as voice director, but also doing some story editing on a new NickToon called Catscratch produced by Doug TenNapel. Rob Paulsen and Maurice LaMarche are among the cast. We may soon be seeing Tom Ruegger credits back on screen also; he has several projects in the works for various companies.
1 February 2004
Perhaps the largest collection of writing and acting alumni
from Animaniacs since the end of what is now called
"The Silver Age of WB Animation" appears to have
been assembled in the production of Dave the Barbarian,
a new animated series on Disney Channel. The first four episodes
have featured scripts by Tom Minton, John P. McCann
and Kevin Hopps. The regular cast includes the voice
talents of Tress MacNeille as Fang, Jeff Glen Bennett
as the announcer and Twinkles the Wonder Horse (using his Christopher
Walken impression), Frank Welker as Faffy the lightning-breathing
dragon, and Paul Rugg as the Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy.
The series is produced by Doug Langdale, who also produced the popular
Earthworm Jim series for Universal, which had rounded off the
Kids' WB! lineup in 1995 and '96.
This series has been canceled. Look for the re-runs, though!
22 July 2002
There may not be any more shows or comic books, but there
still are games in development for both Tiny Toon
Adventures and Animaniacs (which includes
Pinky and the Brain). Obviously, there have been
a lot of Tiny Toons games released over the past couple
of years which I have overlooked. But here we go with
what's new out there: Swing! Entertainment Media AG in
Germany has the rights, and has some pretty well-known
game developers writing this stuff. From Warthog,
Treasure Inc. and Conspiracy Games just released in
Europe are
Tiny Toon Adventures: Wacky Stackers, while Tiny
Toon Adventures: Scary Dreams (called Buster's Bad
Dream in some markets -- I've seen covers for each title,
but I'm not sure which will be the U.S. version) is due for
release any day now. Coming soon for
Playstation2 and GameCube is Tiny Toon Adventures:
Defenders of the Universe, which features all-new
voiceovers by surviving cast members. Planned for later this
year from the same crew is, for Playstation2 and GameCube,
Animaniacs: Hollywood Hijinx and, for GameBoy
Advance, both Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action
and Pinky and the Brain: The Master Plan. Information,
pictures and movies from these titles can be had from the
Flash-infested web site, http://www.conspiracygames.com
(only broadband recommended). The Animaniacs deal,
cut in July 2001, called for four games based on the
license, so there should be one other title coming.
The German publisher's web site also has information
on the games, at http://www.swing-games.com
Look now also for Animaniacs: The Great Edgar Hunt
on popular game consoles. It features the voices of the
original cast (not taken from the show, but all-new
recording sessions).
17 July 2001
The first live-action movie from former WBA producer
Peter Hastings wrapped up shooting last month.
The Country Bears is inspired from the DisneyWorld
attraction, and tells the story of a young bear whose
human parents tell him that he's actually adopted, so
he goes in search of his biological family in Tennessee.
There, he tries to get the old musical family together
to save the old town music hall which is in danger of
being torn down. The human baddie, who wants to tear
down the building, is played by Christopher Walken,
whom you'll recall was frequently poked fun of in later
episodes of Animaniacs and Pinky, Elmyra and
The Brain for his reputation of playing bad guys and
his intimidating face. Hastings told Daily Variety
that Walken was a perfect choice for the movie role not
only for that reason, but because he has a great sense
of humor as well. Haley Joel Osment, Charles S. Dutton
John Hiatt provide voices for the costume-and-animatronic
bears. Hiatt also wrote songs for the movie. The other
primary human roles are played by Diedrich Bader and
Daryl Mitchell. The screenplay was written by Mark Perez.
The movie should be released in 2002.
20 March 2001
I learned today that on March 9, Richard Stone passed
away from pancreatic cancer. Stone was an integral part
of the WB cartoon revival of the 1990s, coming in as a
composer during the run of Taz-Mania and Tiny
Toon Adventures, and
quickly establishing himself as a person who had
a total love and dedication to making cartoon scores.
He composed the themes and scored episodes of
Animaniacs, Pinky & the Brain,
Freakazoid!, and Histeria! among
others. Without his musical
genius, these shows would not have been the
same. He came closest to the style established by
the great Carl Stalling than perhaps anyone ever has,
throwing in recognizeable musical "cues" for
particular on-screen actions (and some
not-so-recognizeable, such as a "windshield
cue" I asked him about which he explained was
an in-joke between himself and Steve Bernstein). During
Animania IV, as the group was leaving Studio 1
following the scoring session for the Animaniacs
cartoon Bingo, I stayed behind to speak to Stone
(he also conducted the orchestra), and tell him how much
I, as a composer myself, admired what he did for the shows.
At the time, Vol. 2 of The Carl Stalling Project
just had been released, in the liner notes of
which Stone was quoted. I suggested to him that
perhaps one day someone would be compelled to
make a CD of his best cartoon scores.
If that ever happens, it sadly also will be done
posthumously. Richard Stone, who won seven Emmy
awards for his work on WB cartoons, was 47 years old.
5 December 2000
This has nothing to do with WBA today, but hey, what does
anymore? Peter Hastings, former WBA producer and creator
of Pinky & The Brain, is finishing off the
writing and casting for a new live-action comedy movie
(with talking bears) he will produce for Disney. Paul Rugg,
creator and voice of Freakazoid! while at WB,
is assisting in the writing. The film has no definite
working title yet. The two most likely are The Country
Bears and The Bears Checkin' Out. Peter says,
"It's sort of a twisted take on the Country Bears
at Disneyland who are these burnt-out faded rock stars
who have to get it back together for a benefit show."
5 August 2000
The most recent project by Sylvester & Tweety
Mysteries producer Tom Minton is due out in September.
It is a direct-to-video movie, called Tweety's
High-Flying Adventure. The movie is the WBA team's
first all-digital production (i.e., not using traditional
cel animation).
16 February 2000
Today, the final issue of the Animaniacs comic book
was published. In its place, look for a new Powerpuff
Girls comic book series to begin next month. The first
issue (and more to follow) was written by Sean Carolan and
Jennifer Moore, the authors responsible for some of the
most popular Animaniacs comic book stories.
What, like all these documents I maintain doesn't say something about my obsession with providing information to people? (I'm a journalist by profession, so I guess it's in my nature.) I am probably one of the most recognized names and faces in contemporary WBA cartoon fandom. When I go to voice tours, the actors always know my name. I've even met the production crew, when they invited some internet fans to meet them in 1995, in a nationally publicized event which we called Animania IV. Many of them -- fans and crew alike -- are active online, as readers and/or participants of the alt.tv.animaniacs newsgroup.
Surprisingly, when a friend mentioned to Rob Paulsen and Jess Harnell that he knew some of the people who were on the Animania IV trip, the first words out of Rob's mouth were, "Oh yeah, Keeper and..." -- he wasn't even there!
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Annual DOE Summer School Makes Computing Fun for Students
What students think about the summer school.
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"I'm having fun here," said Gbenga Oyedepo, one of 20 students attending the 2008 DOE Summer School in Multiscale Mathematics and High Performance Computing. This year's workshop was held on the campus of Washington State University Tri-Cities and broadcast over the internet.
Oyedepo, a graduate student from the University of North Texas, particularly enjoyed the way that one of the speakers presented his talk on an area that he didn't intend to study, but "it got me thinking and makes me want to do more research in that area," he said. Sponsored by DOE's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and organized by the Northwest Consortium of Multiscale Mathematics and Applications, the Summer School is helping to spur continuing advances in multiscale mathematics and high-performance computing, areas that are critical to helping solve complex problems in environment, energy, and national security.
The annual workshop seeks to develop and equip early career researchers in advancing the understanding of the mathematics of complex physical processes that occur on a wide range of interacting length and time scales. Aimed at graduate and post-doctoral students in mathematics, scientific computing, materials sciences, geophysics, computational physics, and mechanical engineering, this year's event focused on research talks given by faculty from PNNL, Washington State University, Oregon State University, Princeton University, Interactive Supercomputing, and Galois, Inc. The talks included:
- Evolution of Computational Approaches in NWChem
- Multithreaded Systems for Emerging High-Performance Applications
- Overview of the Global Arrays Parallel Software Development Toolkit
- Specialising Generators for High-Performance Monte-Carlo Simulation ... in Haskell
- Knowledge Discovery with Star-P
- Hybrid Particle Simulations: An approach to the spatial multiscale problem
- Coarse-grained projective schemes for particle filters.
- Graph-based Pattern Learning
- Homogenization of Multiscale Problems
- Computational multiscale methods for coupled phenomena in subsurface
"The summer school is invaluable in exposing students to current and advanced topics in research done at PNNL, such as the leading-edge multiscale mathematics and multithreading systems for high-performance computing work our researchers are conducting," says PNNL researcher Daniel Chavarria, an instructor for this year's event. "I would have liked to attend a school like this when I was a student."
This is the third year for the Summer School. The first workshop was held in 2006 in Tacoma, WA, followed by a second Summer School at Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR in 2007.


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One of the most treasured circumstances for an alternative health care doctor is to find a story of transformation from a medical trained doctor to natural health systems. Ernest Schweninger (1850-1924) is an example.
Schweninger began medical studies at 16 years old and became a physician. He gained extensive experience in surgery at military hospitals during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. He began his practice in pathology and saw the failures of surgeries and drug medicine. He became convinced that any cure was dependent on the healing power of nature. His interest in medical history led him to Hippocrates, Paracelsus, and Hufeland. He arrived at his system of nature cure through his evaluation of the process of disease and cure.
The system that Schweninger developed included:
o Elimination of medical drugs
o No disease diagnosis
o No internal investigations to search for disease
o Increased fluid intake
o Vigorous exercise
o Sweat producing baths
o Sun Baths
o Small frequent meals
o Separation of solid and liquid food
o Increasing arterial blood pressure through a stay at a high altitude spa
Schweninger's most famous cure was German Chancellor Otto Von Bismark. He was seriously sick. The overworked and overfed 250 lb Bismark was exhausted and paralyzed from a painful liver disease. The famous medical doctor Professor Frerichs diagnosed Bismark with stomach and liver cancer and announced that he might live one year.
Schweninger was called in and immediately restricted Bismarck's food portions and limited his intake of liquids, especially wines and champagnes, and did away with pain-killers and narcotics. He substituted hot compresses, gentle massage, rest and exercises. The result was that Bismark lived 16 more years with Schweninger as his only medical advisor.
The success Schweninger had with Bismark was taken as an insult to the medical field that did their best to keep Schweninger from the University staff after his appointment by Bismark. He went on to build a hospital that delivered natural health with access to open air, gardens, air baths and a gymnasium. The hospital created an atmosphere where people could heal themselves with natural cure methods.
Schweninger's last work The Physician was a powerful indictment of the physician as a soulless specialist who has lost sight of his true mission. He believed "a good physician could do more good with a damp cloth than a poor one can with an entire pharmacy."


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Google on Thursday unveiled the highly anticipated Nexus 5, its flagship smartphone running the new KitKat release of the Android operating system.
The Nexus 5, manufactured by LG, has a 5-inch 1080p display. At 4.59 oz., it is lighter and thinner than its Nexus predecessor. It's also faster — it runs on the speedy Snapdragon 800 processor.
It comes with an 8 MP rear camera and a 1.3 MP front-facing camera. It has an optical image stabilization feature, designed to help users take crisper photos even with a shaky hand.
The Nexus 5 is available in for AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile customers. The 16-GB version is US$349 without a contract, and the 32-GB version goes for $399. It comes in black or white.
"The Nexus 5 continues the trend towards big, bold devices designed to capture the moments of our lives," John Feland, CEO and founder of Argus Insights, told TechNewsWorld.
"It is also a chance for Google to apologize for the poor imaging performance on the Moto X," he noted. "Combined with new auto image processing on KitKat and Google+, Google is shifting the conversation with consumers from just storage and backup to remixing your content to tell new stories."
Big Plans for KitKat
The Nexus 5 is powered by KitKat, the latest version of the Android operating system.
KitKat makes it easier for users to search using voice, allowing for more complex requests in a natural conversational style. For instance, a user might say, "Text Mike," and the phone might ask "Which Mike?" It also makes it easier for users to search for misidentified voice terms, for instance, "Boston pitchers" instead of "Boston pictures."
KitKat is better equipped to predict what users might want to do. For instance, it might prompt someone who searches for a nearby lunch spot to make a reservation. Someone searching for a national park might be shown what time a park attraction begins.
SMS and Hangout messages are housed in the same place, making it easier for users to view chat, video call or text conversations to find the info they need.
One OS for All
KitKat promises better memory management, which "could help Google address the fragmentation problems that continue to plague Android, and it could also help Google extend its dominance in the booming market of lower-end smartphones." GigaOm Pro analyst Colin Gibbs told TechNewsWorld.
The first step in extending that dominance and snagging the next billion mobile OS users will be convincing vendors to get on board, noted Ben Bajarin, director and founder of Creative Strategies.
"There are some interesting new features but nothing major — and nothing that I'd say is the killer app for Android to get new users," he told TechNewsWorld. "The key question for KitKat will be how long it takes for Google's partners to roll it out to their devices."


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John Evelyn Barlas (1860–1914), pseudonym Evelyn Douglas, was an English poet and political activist of the late 19th century. He was a member of the decadent movement in literature, as well as a revolutionary socialist in politics.
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Love Sonnets (1889)[edit]
- Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds
This gospel to me since I learned to list
Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist.
What thought presumes to set now any bounds
To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?- XXIII."Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds"
- As I go musing through this mournful land
Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony,
Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me.
I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand
And talk of things I dimly understand,
That thy dear spirit set to mine may be
As to an intricate lock the simple key.- XXXII. "As I go musing through this mournful land"
- I saw thee in a vision of the night
Transfigured; for it seemed that on thy brows
The heavens did rest with all their stars, like boughs
Laden with blossoms; round thy feet the bright
Green waves, like grass, ran rippling, strewn with white
Star-fragments of rent petals: wasted vows,
And ruined prayers I thought them, such as house
In hearts that love and are not loved aright.- XLVI. "I saw thee in a vision of the night"


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Gas station owners are required to develop and maintain an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) plan. These can be as simple as a checklist showing when inspections for gasoline leaks from hoses and nozzles are completed and any corrective action (repair) taken. The O&M plan should include a simple statement of how the station will complete the required tests in a timely manner. Some stations set a regular testing schedule (e.g., every December and June).
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Jai Ho ! A R Rehman wins Two Oscars as Slumdog Millionaire sweeps the Oscars with Eight Awards
Jai Ho !
Saw the 81st Oscar Presentation Awards Ceremonies beamed out Live on Star Movies this morning from the Kodak Theatre in LA,USA
Oscar Recognition of a Genius finally came with Two Oscars for our Music Maestro, A R Rehman for Original Score and Original Song 'Jai Ho' ( Lyrics by Gulzar) for Slumdog Millionaire (SM)
Rehman warmed the audience when he remarked in lighter vein,on winning the Oscar for Best Original Score for SM, that he was excited and terrified as he stood there…a feeling he last experienced at the time of his marriage !…SM is about Optimism and Hope.
Today is Monday here in India and is a Holiday on account of 'Maha Shiv Ratri"…celebration of Lord Shiva…so it was truly apt that Rehman concluded one of his acceptance speech with a Tamil Saying that meant 'God is Great'…he also told the audience that all his life he had a choice between 'Love' and 'Hate' and he chose 'Love' and that's why he was at the Oscars !…Hmmm!…He also got a bit sentimental about his Mom's presence commenting in true 'filmy' style " Mere Paas Maa Hai !"
Resul Pookutty also won an Oscar for Sound Mixing in SM…he spoke on behalf of his two other co winners…he was initially overwhelmed on stage and took some time to get his breath back !…he dedicated the award to India,which has given the world the chant of 'OM'…preceded and followed by the Power of Silence …Pookutty,who grew up in the Village of Vilakkupara,80 kms from Thiruvananthapuram,in the State of Kerala, will inspire thousands ,if not millions,of Indians who reside in Villages that they too can achieve big in Life
SM swept the Oscar Scene by winning Eight Oscars Today,taking the coveted Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director ( Danny Boyle) too
Boyle was simply overjoyed and overboard too when he, in all humility and grace, acknowledged that all people in Mumbai simply "Dwarf this Guy !"…the Dwarf Guy was the Oscar Statuette he held in his hand !….and it was terrific to see over Twenty People,cast and crew of SM…including kids flown in from Mumbai specially for this occasion !,come on Stage to accept the Best Picture Oscar !
Freida Pinto,the SM Star also was bestowed the honour of co-presenting one of the Awards at the Oscar Presentation Ceremony
Another heartwarming feeling was that 'Smile Pinky' also won the Oscar in the Short Documentary Category.It's a 39 minute film made by Megan Mylan on a six year old rural Girl Pinky,from Dabai Village in the State of Uttar Pradesh in India…becasue of a cleft lip deformity she is an outcast…Dr Subodh Kumar Singh,who too was in the audience,perfomed corrective surgery on Pinky for free and enables her to get a normal life…In her acceptance speech,Mylan was gratitude and humility personified in praising and acknowledging the work of Dr Subodh Kumar Singh and the many Indians who helped her create this Documentary


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Worried about another pay freeze next year? Thinking about retiring to get a cost of living adjustment? Timing is everything, and for some people its already to...
For some raise-starved feds, timing is everything. And retirement is looking better all the time. Especially if a $25,000 buyout is part of the deal.
Federal pay has been frozen for two years. Workers may or may not get the 0.5 percent pay increase the President has proposed for January 2013.
Federal retirees got a 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment last month. But it was the first retiree COLA in two years. It it is too early to tell if retirees will get another COLA in 2013 and, if so, for how much.
The fact that oil prices are climbing (and may go much higher thanks to tensions in the Middle East) has some long-time workers thinking maybe its time to retire. This is especially true for feds in the 11 agencies that are currently offering buyouts and early-outs. If inflation spikes this summer and fall, it could easily produce a 2013 COLA larger than any pay raise feds may get. So what to do?
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Based on talks with some long-time feds, many say they are leaning toward retirement. Retirement applications last year jumped 24 percent — an indication that the "tsunami" first predicted in the late 1990s is on the way, if not here already. Retirement applications at OPM are back-logged because of the surge in retirees and the U.S. Postal Service's buyout program.
Some retirement-eligible feds have indicated they will wait until later in the year. They want to see the pace of inflation (which will determine the size of any January COLA) and whether their agencies offer buyouts. But waiting has its price tag.
Every year, some retirement-bound workers say they will wait until the end of the year, then leave for the COLA. But it doesn't work like that. COLA's are prorated. In order to get the full amount of any January 2013 COLA, (assuming there is one) people would have had to retire in December 2011 to get it. Each month they delay retiring reduces their first COLA by one twelfth. So if the COLA was 3.6 percent, as it was this January, somebody retiring this month under the CSRS system would get 3.0 percent (FERS would get 2.2 percent). Those retiring in June would get 1.8 percent under CSRS and 1.3 percent under FERS. Those who waited until November (assuming the COLA was 3.6 percent) would get 0.3 percent under CSRS and 0.2 percent under FERS.
Why the difference between the CSRS and FERS amounts? Thank Congress.
When Congress created FERS, to replace CSRS, it put new FERS hires on a diet-COLA system. The formula works like this, OPM says: If the inflation-triggered COLA is 2 percent or less, the COLA for both FERS and CSRS is the same. But if the COLA ranges between 2 and 3 percent, FERS retirees get a diet-COLA of 2 percent. If the raise is 3 percent or more CSRS retirees get the full amount while FERS retirees get one percent less.
So whether you are hoping for a pay raise or betting on a bigger, better COLA, timing is everything.
By Jack Moore
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The vampire bat has a horrible reputation, what with nocturnally sucking the blood from poor little animals. But actually vampire bats are "deeply altruistic," according to an article in The New Yorker (by way of Wired). Without fresh blood, the bats starve quickly, so successful hunters help out their ineffectual bat colleagues by regurgitating their meals.
GOP lawmakers question fairness of DoD pay and benefit cuts DoD leaders got battered on both sides of the Capitol Tuesday, hearing complaints from Republican lawmakers in both the House and Senate that the military personnel proposals in President Obama's 2013 budget unfairly target the uniformed military, while leaving civilians, both inside and outside of DoD, relatively unscathed.
Lack of movement in SES ranks hurting agencies The Senior Executive Service was created to produce strong federal managers and leaders who would move within and across agencies, to help better meet the nation's needs. But three decades after the creation of the SES, nearly half of the more than 7,700 current members have stayed in the same position throughout their SES careers, according to a new report.
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