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Guide to the James Angus Jenkins Papers, 1930-1965
Guide to the James Angus Jenkins Papers, 1930-1965
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Relate to his teaching career at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Genetics and to his researches, particularly on the origin and evolution of the tomato plant.
Key to Arrangement
Dept. of Genetics; College of Agriculture; University of California; Academic Senate; Grants
Dept. of Genetics
Group major in Letters and Science
Genetics Library
History of the department
Genetics departments at other universities - rating sheet
National Institutes of Health training grants
Department Capital Improvements Needs
Genetics Research Unit - capital improvements
Department resources
Departmental Expectations, Five and Ten Year Plan, Dept. of Statistics, Jan. 4, 1956
Graduate admissions
Program for the Ph.D. degree in Genetics
Graduate Students in Genetics, 1959-1965
Graduate Students - space (room assignments)
Misc.: correspondence and announcements, 1963-1961
Research and Teaching Assistantships
Graduate Fellowships and Scholarships: misc. information re awards, and some rating sheets of prospective applicants in the department of Genetics
John Belling Prize
Misc.: 2 folders, one containing budget estimates, etc.
College of Agriculture
Dean - memoranda, etc., mainly from K. A. Ryerson
Chairmen and Vice Chairmen, Conferences
Curriculum (2 folders)
Special committee on curricula, 1962
Agricultural Experiment Station
Publication report to the Dean
Faculty and Staff
Executive Committee: minutes of meetings, 1952
Educational Committee: report, 1950-1951
Agricultural Buildings Space Committee, 1958-1959
Agricultural Sciences Conference, Asilomar, 1961
University of California
Statewide University (newsletter): Feb. 1954, Jan. 1955, Mar. 1956
University Press
Academic Plan for the Berkeley Campus, 1957
Berkeley Campus: guides, map, etc.
All-Faculty Conference, Davis, 1961
Lectureships (Hitchcock and Faculty Lectureships): misc. programs
Graduate Division - Northern Section
Graduate Group in Botany: announcements, meetings, etc., 1955-1959
College of Letters and Science: misc. meetings, 1951-1957 (2 folders)
Faculty Committee on Financial Assistance, 1951-1957
Committee on Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships; list of nominees and alternates, 1965-1966 -[N. B. CONFIDENTIAL PERMISSION OF DIRECTOR NECESSARY FOR USE]
Academic Senate
Meetings, notices, etc.
Berkeley Division: misc., 1958-1965
Davis Division, 1957-1958
Misc.: petitions, form letters, list of members of Berkeley Division, 1964-1965, etc.
See also: Committees, Carton 3
Cancer Research Coordinating Committee, 1960-1964 (4 folders): contains application for grant and renewal applications by Jenkins
National Institutes of Health, 1963-1969 (2 folders): applications for grants (in 3 year periods)
National Science Foundation, 1963-1966: contains A Morphogenetic Study of Leaf Shape Mutation in the Tomato, by Jenkins
Rockefeller Foundation Rice Research Proposal, 1956
Grants: notes, 1963
Grants: misc. notices of available grants, etc.
Current files; Committees; Meetings; Students; Genetics Group; Societies and Journals
Current files
Books: misc. book lists
Books ordered: orders and invoices, 1965
Library: two announcements, 1964-1965
Courses in the department: misc. announcements of courses
Registration, Calendars, etc., 1963-1965
Committees (current): misc. committee lists
American Institute of Biological Sciences: misc. pamphlets and envelopes
California. University. Academic Senate. Committee on Educational Policy, Northern Section, 1956-1958
Agriculture, College of, and the University of Concepción (Chile:)
Business Administration
Ceramic Arts (Dept. of Decorative Arts)
Comparative Literature
Compulsory Military Service (ROTC)
Criminology and Social Welfare
Fybate Notes
Governmental Research, Bureau of
Higher Education, Institute of
Human Biology, Dept. of
Human Development, Institute of
Institute of Child Welfare
International Studies, Institute of
Center for Japanese Studies
Center for Modern China Studies
Center for Slavic Studies - Teacher Training Program
Center for South Asian Studies
Insitute of Slavic Studies
See: International Studies, Institute of
La Jolla Campus Expansion
Minerals Research
Naval Architecture
Nuclear Research
Nursing, Undergraduate Curriculum
Organized Research Units, Policy on
Physical Education Requirements
Policy on Institutes, Bureaus and Other Organized Research Units
See: Organized Research Units
Prose Improvement
Psychology - UCLA
Radio Astronomy Laboratory
San Francisco Campus
Santa Barbara Campus
Size of Classes
Social Sciences, Insitute of
Social Welfare
See: Criminology and Social Welfare
Social Welfare Centers
Subject A as entrance requirement
Summer Session Abroad
Teacher Credential Requirements
University Extension
Vocational Education
California. University. Academic Senate. Committee on Membership, 1964
California. University. Academic Senate. Committee on Research, 1955
California. University. Academic Senate. Library Committee. Subcommittee on Biology Library, 1951-53
California. University, Berkeley. Buildings and Campus Development Committee
Agriculture Land and Facilities Committee, 1963-1965
Subcommittee on Public Service Factors Conditioning Space Needs
California. University, Berkeley. Dept. of Agricultural Economics. Natural Resources Committee
California. University, Berkeley. Faculty Administrative Committee on the Scientific Photographic Laboratory, 1952-1958
American Association of University Professors. Berkeley Chapter, 1964
American Institute of Biological Sciences. Genetics Society Annual Meeting, 1964
Biosystematics, 1955-1965
Kosmos Club, 1964
Congresses and Symposia: misc. announcements, programs, etc., 1960-1965
Berlowitz, Laurence Jack
Caruso, John
Church, Kathleen Kay
Eldredge, Colleen
Franklin, Edward Carlyle
Franklin, Ian
Gupta, Shri Bhagawan
Imber, Dorot
Mertes, David Hugh
Murphy, Collin Grisseau
Ota, Asher Kenhachiro
Toschi, Catherine Ann
Whissell, Dorothy Yvonne Eugenie
Wick, Alan
Wills, Christopher
Genetics Group
Current: misc. meetings, announcements, 1959-1964
Dissertation: mis. re dissertations, 1961
Regulations, 1958-1959
Societies and Journals
Academic Freedom Fund
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pacific Division
American Genetics Association
American Institute for Biological Sciences. National Register of Scientific and Technical Personnel
American Institute for Biological Sciences. Quarterly Review of Biology
American Men of Science
American Society of Human Genetics
American Society of Naturalists
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communicatlons
Biological Abstracts
Biometric Society
Botanical Society of America
Botanical Society of America. Developmental Section
Brookhaven Symposium in Biology
Chronica Botanica
Gamma Alpha
Genetics Colloquium
Genetics, Inc.
Genetics Society of America
Handbook of Genetics
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
International Congress of Genetics
Kimber Genetics Award
National Science Foundation - Grants
Northern California Association of Scientists
The Nucleus
Phi Beta Kappa
Physiological Genetics Discussion Group
Scientific American
Sigmi Xi
Society for Economic Botany
Society for the Study of Evolution
Symposium on Quantitative Biology
Tomato Genetics Cooperative
University of California Cancer Research Coordinating Committee
University of California Faculty Club (Berkeley)
University of California Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
University of Saskatchewan Alumni Association
Western Society of Naturalists
Misc.: misc. announcements, etc., 1959-1964
Binders: College of Agriculture; Agriculture Land and Facilities; Genetics Research Unit; Staff Meetings; Genetics Group
Report of the Committee to Consider the Place of the College of Agriculture on the Berkeley Campus, 1956
Agriculture Land and Facilities
Subcommittee on Agriculture Land and Facilities (Buildings and Campus Development Committee): meetings, reports, etc., 1953-1958 (2 binders)
Genetics Research Unit misc. re present and proposed Research Units, 1952-1961
Staff Meetings, Dept. of Genetics, 1948-1959
Genetics Group: meetings, announcements, etc., 1952-1958
Lecture Binders: Gen. 100
Genetics 100: 12 binders including some marked outline, physical basis (of heredity), chromosome theory, mutation, the gene, gene function, gene mutation, human genetics, and misc.
Lecture Binders: Gen. 100 (contd.), 100C, 102
Genetics 100: 2 binders marked quiz and exams
Genetics 100C: 3 binders and portfolio
Genetics 102: 4 binders
Lecture Binders: Gen. 102 (contd.)
Genetics 102: 10 binders, some marked laboratory, lab exercises, exams, biometrical genetics
Lecture Binders: Gen. 103, 201, 206, 280
Genetics 103: 1 binder, tentative course outline for Population Genetics, Spring, 1940
Genetics 201: 1 binder, re quantitative inheritance, apomixis, mutations, cytogenetics of species hybrids
Genetics 206: 3 binders and portfolio, proposed course in developmental genetics to have started Sept. 1965
Genetics 280: 2 binders, on history of genetics
Teaching notes: Gen. 100
Teaching (general)
Prose improvement
San Diego State College: joint Ph.D. program with Berkeley in Genetics
Biology Council: misc. recommendations, reports, 1965
Contemporary Natural Science: recommendations concerning a proposed unified course in natural science
Teaching aids
Teaching misc.: misc. reprints, articles, etc.
Genetics 100
Babcock (E. B.) questionnaire re course, 1920
Recommendations of students
Class slides
1958-1964 (4 folders)
Lecture topics for 1963
Organization (misc. notes)
1958-1965 (7 folders); misc. class lists, lab assignments, etc.
Bibliographies for students, 1939-1963
Reserve book lists
Misc.: misc. lists and notes
Discarded lecture notes (2 folders)
History of Genetics
Mendelian Inheritance (Segregation)
Testing Hypotheses (Chi square)
Independent Assortment
The Cytological School
General cytology
Chromosomes cycles
Gene Action
The Genetic Material
Metabolism (3 folder, one of reprints)
Gene-character relationships
Development (2 folders)
Protein Synthesis (2 folders reprints)
Chromosome theory
Sex-linked inheritance
Crossing over
Mapping of chromosomes
Chromosome mutation
Gene mutation
Reprints (2 folders)
Biometrical Genetics
Biometry (misc. mimeographed notes)
Continuous variability
Multiple genes
Discarded lecture notes
Extranuclear inheritance
Transfer of DNA
Genetic Systems
Notes (discarded)
Population Genetics
Evolution: notes
Notes (discarded)
Nature of the Gene
Lecture notes
Plant and animal breeding
Improving and developing plants
Human genetics
Mimeographed sheets (handouts)
The Mendelian School
The Physical Basis of Heredity
I - Mitosis
II - Meiosis
III - Life cycles
I- Probability
II - Testing Hypotheses
III - Continuous variability
Problem sets; 1949, 1951, 1965 (3 folders)
Problem sets: misc.
Problems: notes
Answers to selected problems in Srb and Owen, General Genetics, 1952
Lecture notes: Gen. 100 (contd.) 100C, 10, 199, 201, 206, 280, Seminars
Genetics 100
Examination dates, regulations, etc., (2 folders)
Answer book to The Principles of Heredity, by Snyder and David (5th ed.)
Quizzes: misc. quizzes, 1962-1963
Review I: 1947-1948
Review II: 1948-1950
Midterm I: 1939-1963
Midterm II
Midterm II, 1937-1963
Midterm IIa, 1951 and 1958
Final Exam 1941-1964
Special exams
Examinations bibliography
Examinations - other courses
Misc. past exams
Genetics 100C
Mendelian Method
Physical Basis of Heredity
I - Mitosis
II - Meiosis
III - Life cycles
I - Probability
II - Testing hypotheses
III - Continuous variability
Misc. mimeographed sheets (handouts)
Evaluations: comments by students
Pool Microscopes: requisition and servicing
Lab schedule sheets
Drosophila data sheets
Walters, James: Lab exercises for genetics course given at University of California, Santa Barbara, 1962
Misc. notes etc.
Misc. discarded notes
Lab syllabus, 1955, 1963-1964
Lab exercises
1 - monohybrid segregation
2 - mitosis
3 - sex-linked inheritance
4 - meiosis
5 - megasporagenesis
6 - tetrad analysis
7 - three point linkage
9 - dihybrid ratios (8 is missing)
10 - sex-linked lethai
11 - chromosome mutation
12 - genetic equilibrium
12(?) - selection
13 - translocation
14 - quantitative inheritance
1 - testing homogeneity
2 - backcross
3 - attached-X crosses
4 - locating a lethal
5 - locating a mutant
1 - drosophila
3 - writing papers (2 is missing)
Drosophila melanogaster
Previous labs: misc. notes, tentative schedules, etc.
Misc. notes, experiments, etc.
Genetics 10
Schedules, reading lists, exams, descriptions of slides, and misc. lecture notes (1 folder only)
Genetics 199
Drosophila methods: course outline
Genetics 201
Graduate seminar: course outline, 1940-1941, and study outline, n.d.
Genetics 202: Origin of cultivated plants, 1953
Beginnings of agriculture
De Candolle, Alphonse
Cytogenetic analysis
Centers of origin
Dispersals (migration)
Genetics 202: Quantitative character, 1941, 1949-1950
Notes and bibliography, 1941 (complete course)
[N. B. The rest of the folders in this section are for 1949-1950 course]
List of topics
Selected bibliography
Pleiotropy and linkage
Means and variances of generations
Number of segregating loci
Dominance - Effects on means, variance and symmetry of different generations
Environmental contribution to variability
Consequences of inbreeding
Heterosis - dominance hypothesis and physiological factors
Epistatic interaction - metrical bias
Genetics 202B: 1950
Abstract of discussions on Biometrical Genetics by K. Mather
Genetics 206
Seminar in developmental genetics request for approval of new course
Bibliography: leaflets on related books
Botany Society of America. Developmental section. Newsletter, Spring 1964
Genetics 280
Class list only, 1961-1962
Staff seminars, 1961-1965 (3 folders)
Staff seminars, notices
Staff seminars, correspondence, 1962-1963
Seminars, miscellany
Teaching notes; Notes
Genetics 102 [N. B. Each subject group usually contains folders on notes, lab exercises and answers]
Elementary biometry
Normal distribution
Poisson distribution
Binominal distribution
Estimation and reliability
Moments and cumulants
Probability and statistical reliability
Permutations and combinations
Tests of significance
Significance of a difference
Analysis of a variance
I - Randomized plot
II - Randomized block
III - Latin square
Chi square
Finger length exercise (lab)
Hand size exercise (lab)
Misc., including final exam, 1957, and symbols
Genetics 105
Population genetics: notes, exams, etc. (1 folder only)
Mitosis and Meiosis
Chromosome pairing as criterion on genetic homology
Crossing over and linkage
Chromosomes: matrix and sheath
Heteroploidy and polyploidy
Segregation: color inheritance
Sex: apomixis (2 folders)
Cytogenetics of natural populations: evolutionary consequences of particulate inheritance
Cytological techniques
Microscope and equipment
Care of microscope
Standard error
Genetic application
Linkage calculations (2 folders)
Jenkins, J. A., The Cytogenetic Relationships of Four Species of Crepis, 1939, typescript
Jenkins, J. A., Karyotype Evolution of Crepis, 1942, typescript
Chromosome measurements
Chromosome morphology
Morphological analysis of American Species
Root tip color
Hybrids, 1937
Crosses, 1940, summary
Reprints of papers of J. A. Jenkins (in binder)
Neyman, Jerzy, First Course in Probability and Statistics, 1948 (2 binders)
Tomato notes
Experimental Station Reports, 1956-1964 (6 folders)
Leaf shape
Leaf shape differences in the tomato, 1963
Lanceolate: Mathan (D. S.) reports, 1955-1963 (2 folders)
Mathan, D. S. and Cole, R. D., Comparative Biochemical Study of Two Allelic Forms of a Gene Affecting Leaf Shape In the Tomato, 196[?]
Stettler, R. F., Dosage effects of the lanceolate gene in tomatoes, 1963
Leaf shape: potato leaf
Mathan and Jenkins, A Morphogenetic study of lanceolate, a leaf shape mutant in the tomato, 1961
Lanceolate, discarded tables, 1961
Mathan and Jenkins, A Chemically induced phenocopy of a tomato mutant, 1959
Leaf shape misc.
Tomato nomenclature: mainly correspondence with Tomato Genetics Cooperative (q. v.)
Size and Shape
Locule number testers 1, 2, and 3 (3 folders)
Locule number genes
Locule number determinations
Jenkins and Bergh (B. O.), Inheritance of fruit size and shape in the tomato, 1958
Bergh, B. O., Thesis excerpts
Large Pale Yellow
Blue sheets, not planted: misc. data sheets
Graft hybrids
Lycopersicum (2 folder)
Species hybrids
Species misc.
Varieties: Mexican
Varieties: Misc.
Haploid Pimpinellifolium
Crosses: 4 folders of data sheets
Crosses to be made
Crosses, misc.
Backcross, 170, 181, 232, 233, 234, 378
Backcross, misc.
Records, 1945-1952 (8 folders)
Field plans of plantings, 1948-1950
Blank field plans
Tomato culture (3 folders)
Calendar and notes
Studies on the Origin of the Tomato: notes, etc.
Reports: mainly reports re his Studies on the Origin of the Tomato (in binder)
Misc. material from field books
Tomato binders
Tomato taxonomy and morphology
Tomato in America
Tomato names
Origin of the Tomato - seminars
Tomato of Latin America
Tomato of Mexico
Mexican geography
Green house book
Early hybrids - summary
19 notebooks, diaries, etc., mainly of data gathered in Central and South America
Genetics in relation to agriculture, binders.
Additional Note
8 binders, including four marked outline and bibliography
Genetics in Relation to Agriculture, notes; Misc. notes
Genetics in Relation to Agriculture
Development of Plant breeding
Beginnings of plant breeding
Development of modern methods
The science of plant breeding
Methods - modern breeding
Genetic Analysis of variability in crop plants
Genetic variability (mutation)
Plant introduction
Mutations (general)
Gene mutations
Chromosome mutations
Somatic segregation
Induced mutations
General outline
Choice of parents
Direct use of first generation hybrids
Selection within hybrid progenies
Interspecific hybridization
Inbreeding and heterosis
Superior varieties
Misc. illustrations and data
Miscellaneous notes
Preparation of manuscript for experiment station publication, 1934
Notes on German papers for Biological Abstracts
Entomology notes taken by Jenkins (Ent. 130)
Statistics notes taken by Jenkins (folder marked Hygiene 103)
Taxonomy (2 folders)
Zhukovsky, P. M., A Critical Systematic Survey of the Specie of the Genus Aegilops L.
Delphinium accessions list
Pelargonium - a study by H. W. Siegelman
Vicia faba - data on seed size (by J. L. Collins?)
Calculating machines, instructions for use
Slide rule instructions
Jane Ulrich: misc. report marked with her name
Kushner affair: re bringing H. F. Kushner, a Russian scientist, to the University of California as a visiting professor
Theses and texts
Bergh, Berthold Orphie, The Inheritance of Fruit-size Differences in a Tomato Hybrid, 1956
Ahuja, Yog Raj, Genetic Analysis Locule Number in the Tomato by Means of Diallel X Crosses, 1959 [N. B. These two theses are in one binder]
El-Sahrigy, Mohamed Ahmed, A Morphogenetic Study of Jointless Mutations in Tomato, n.d.
Material re Bergh theses, 3 binders
Wright notes: binder of notes taken by Jenkins from a text by S. Wright
Lush, Jay L., The Genetics of Population, 1948 (2 binders)
Cornstock, Ralph E., Statistical Concepts in Genetics, 1946
Miscellany (in binders)
Taxonomic indexes
Bibliography general
Misc. notes
Card files
Bibliography of Lycopersicum
Notes, species
Duplicates (journal and author index)
Card files
Gene action
History 111 (?)
Courses 100, 100C, 206
Card files
Biometry (2 boxes)
Genetics in Relation to Agriculture (2 boxes)
Partial List of Correspondents
A - tomato
Adelberg, Edward A.
Letter, Mar. 24, 1952
Alvarez-Luna, Eduardo
3 letters, 1953-1961
Anderson, Edgar
9 letters, 2 postcards, 1943-1949. Also included are some photographs.
B - tomato
Bohn, G. W.
Letter, Mar. 21, 1951
Babcock, Ernest Brown, 1877-1954
11 letters, 1945-1954. Also included: notes believed to be in Babcock's handwriting.
Barton, Donald W.
5 letters, 1949-1950
Boswell, Victor R.
3 letters, 1945-1959
Brown, Spencer W.
11 letters, 1952-1958. (2 undated)
C - tomato
Casseres, Ernest H.
2 letters, 1953
Clausen, Roy Elwood, 1891-1956
Letter, Jan. 15, 1932. Also included: a separate folder containing a biography written by Jenkins and misc. notes re Clausen.
Collins, Lloyd
Letter, Apr. 26, 1961
Currence, T. M.
3 letters, 1950-1958
Cutler, Hugh C.
2 letters, 1949-1955
Dempster, Everett R.
13 letters, 1946-1960. (1 undated)
E - tomato
Essig E. O.
Letter, July 31, 1946
Edwardson, John R.
2 letters, 1961
F - general
Forbes, Oliver Clifford
Letter, Apr. 15, 1960
G - general
Grashoff, Jerold
Letter, May 1, 1964
G - tomato
Grant, Ulysses J.
2 letters, 1954
Galleghy, M. E.
Letter, Aug. 6, 1953
Gattoni, Louis A.
9 letters, 1953
Gerstel, Dan[iel?] U.
5 letters, 1945-1959. (1 undated)
Goodspeed, T. H.
2 letters, 1949
Green, Melvin M.
10 letters, 1952-1965
H - tomato
Hardin, M.
3 letters, 1952-1955
Haase, Ynez
Letter, Mar. 21, 1958
Harte, Cornelia
9 letters and card, 1956-1960
Hernandez Xolocotzi, Efraím
6 letters, 1946-1952
J - general
Johansen, Donald A.
Letter, Feb. 11, 1963
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
28 letters, 1943-1963, written by Henry Allen Moe, Josephine Leighton, James F. Mathias, Gordon N. Roy. Also included: many form letters, Jenkin's application for fellowship, bulletins, etc.
Jund, Ernest
3 letters, 1946
Kelly, Isabel
16 letters, 1943-1959. (1 undated)
L - general
Ledingham, George F.
3 letters, 1960-1965
Landauer, Walter
Letter, Jan. 4, 1960
Langham, D. G.
4 letters, 1946-1947
Lerner, I. Michael
13 letters, 2 cards, 1945-1960 (5 undated)
Lesley, J. W.
2 cards and letter, 1943-1948
Love, R. Merton
Letter and card, 1940-1945
MacArthur, John W.
2 letters, 1943-1946
McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc.
18 letters, 1940-1962, by C. G. Benjamin, K. B. Demaree, G. K Tolles, H. W. Hansfield, S. C. Dorman, H. P. Graves, and J. W. Taylor
Mainland, G. B.
3 letters, 1950-1951
Mehiquist, Gustav A. L.
7 letters, 1940-1946. (2 undated)
Meyer, James R.
6 letters, 1944
Moe, Henry Allen
See John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
N - general
Neyman, J[erzy?]
Letter, Jan. 23, 1953
National Academy of Sciences
5 letters, 1956-1964. Written by H. L. Dryden, Home Secretary
Nilan, R. A.
2 letters, 1957
Olmo, Harold P.
19 letters, 1941-1950. 2 originally sent to R. E. Clausen.
Porter, John W.
4 letters, 1951-1955
Reynaud, George G.
Letter and card, 1944
Rick, Charles M.
46 letters and 2 cards, 1946-1960. Second folder contains miscellaneous notes on tomatoes.
See also: Tomato Genetics Cooperative
Sauer, Carl
4 letters, 1945
Stebbins, G. Ledyard
4 letters, 1952-1960
Tomato Genetics Cooperative
Miscellaneous correspondence and some reviews
Tomes, Mark L.
6 letters, 1954-1961
Torrey, John G.
6 letters, 1963-1965. Also included: correspondence with Lee M. Parker, research assistant for Torrey.
Went, F. W.
6 letters, 1943-1945
Whitaker, Thomas W.
7 letters, 1948-1959
Zielinski, Quentin
6 letters, 1943-1950
X file
Miscellaneous correspondence (unanswered), notices, etc.
Mailing list
Miscellaneous requests to be put on Jenkins mailing list


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I also loved how the guys didn't want to compare their current progress to the BlackComb hype from 8 years ago and Cairo before that.
"Why waste good vaporware without a target to sink with it?"
It's Microsoft, they take a very long time to do anything right (or do anything at all). Just look at Internet Explorer, they have been working on it since 1994. 15 years later, we are still YET to receive a browser from Microsoft that is at least more than 20% web compliant..
Microsoft does have the technical resources to make IE score 100% on the Acid3 test. However, it is not in their best interests to do so. Here is a quote from Bill Gates (taken from wikiquotes) which demonstrates Microsoft's business strategy.
One thing we have got to change in our strategy - allowing Office documents to be rendered very well by other peoples browsers is one of the most destructive things we could do to the company. We have to stop putting any effort into this and make sure that Office documents very well depends on PROPRIETARY IE capabilities.
This is the attitude that Microsoft is developing software with. Just look at the number of businesses that are stuck with IE6 because of some legacy ActiveX application. Microsoft's strategy is working very well for them and I don't see them ever changing.
Microsoft has a monopoly, they don't need to cater to users.
Users have to adapt to Microsoft. Haven't you noticed?
Well not really. The sudden concern for netbook users was caused by the possibility that people might switch to linux. When the original linux powered Asus EEE PC was released, it was so popular, it pushed Microsoft into third place behind Apple and Xandros for OS shipments that month. I imagine that would give monkey-boy a bit of a fright.
Oh, that may well turn out to be a major decision: if OEMs and end users now expect to get their (netbook) operating systems for ~$20, how can Microsoft raise the price to $100?
That is a _major_ price hike for devices that now cost $200-$400 total...
When the original linux powered Asus EEE PC was released, it was so popular, it pushed Microsoft into third place behind Apple and Xandros for OS shipments that month. I imagine that would give monkey-boy a bit of a fright.
Monkey-boy has the instincts and habits of a winner.*
When the Atom netbook entered the market - typically with a larger screen, better keyboard, and twice the RAM and storage space of the competition - the Linux netbook was drop-kicked into the dumpsters behind your local WalMart.
For the
> When the Atom netbook entered the market - typically with a larger screen, better keyboard,
> and twice the RAM and storage space of the competition - the Linux netbook was drop-kicked
> into the dumpsters behind your local WalMart.
Yes... much beefier hardware. It bears little resemblance to the original EEE 900 really.
It bears repeating that Dell still sells a lot of Linux netbooks. They actually load
Linux on the newer hardware. They didn't just abandon Linux outright as if their use
of it was all
When the Atom Netbook came out, Asus' Linux netbooks were still better specced for the same price, and it would be a few months before Acer and Dell would cut options off Linux books, HP still has the fully powered linux option outside the American continent (which is admittedly better than the HP VIA netbook did) and only MSI had fudded because they were too moronic to do as a corporation what a few million users easily had done on their own.
Absolutely. Intel looked like they were going to start producing "decent" integrated graphics when, in 2004, they announced the GMA 900. It looked to Microsoft like the world's largest GPU maker would finally have something capable of desktop compositing, so they figured they could finally add this capability to Windows without a huge performance hit.
Then, in 2006 Intel announced the GMA X3000, but couldn't produce drivers to enable the advanced features like Vertex Shaders (this took eighteen months). I
Remember MS has never concerned themselves with consumers; for the most part consumers are not their customers. Companies were their customers for businesses. On the consumer side, OEMs are their customers. Either way, MS never dealt as much with direct consumer support and interaction. If there were support issues, companies' IT departments took care of their business users and OEMs handled the consumers. With Vista, this came back to hurt them as OEMs could simply blame MS on the whole fiasco especially when consumers could downgrade to XP and see a significant performance and stability improvements.
MS also gambled that minimum hardware would advance more than their new OS would bog it down. With every release, MS would redefine what "minimum" hardware requirements meant. With Win95 and 98, minimum meant Windows may be slower if the user was doing processor intensive. More memory would definitely fix it. With XP, "minimum" meant that Windows would be slower especially if the user was doing processor intensive. More memory would fix most things. By the time of Vista, minimum meant you could load Windows onto the machine. Good luck on actually running anything but the OS. More memory might fix it, but CPU and video card upgrades were more likely necessary which meant it would be cheaper for the user to buy a new computer or downgrade to XP rather than upgrade their computer to actually use Vista.
I'd say what really bit them in the ass with Vista was the whole "Vista capable" fiasco. I am sitting here staring at a Compaq Presario that I got for a whole $50 because the customer absolutely HATED Vista and wanted that box taken out of his sight. Those Worst Buy Vista capable machines really were a very bad joke.
We are talking a 1.8GHz Sempron, a measly 512Mb of RAM, and an ultra cheapo SiS IGP, anybody who has ever run Vista knows there is NO WAY in hell that thing will EVER run Vista at an acceptable speed, instead the customers would quickly get frustrated as the machine thrashed away (this particular box was even given a 250Gb hard drive upgrade from Compaq because it thrashed the original drive to death) and would quickly either dump the machine for a new XP box or bring it to somebody like me and say "get this Vista POS off and put XP on!"
So if MSFT wants to know who is to blame for folks hating Vista like the second coming of WinME, they just need to look in the mirror. Sure on a dual core with 2Gb+ of RAM it'll run decently, but the "Best Buy Specials" being sold at the time of the Vista release were single core Sempron and Celeron with 512Mb of RAM and really lousy Intel or SiS IGPs. Those machines should have NEVER had Vista come within a 1000 yards of it, yet MSFT let manufacturers put "Vista capable" on them along with that piece of trash Vista Basic and customers felt like they were scammed, which of course they were. I have many customers now with new XP duals and Quads and they are not looking at Windows 7 until 2012, if at all. Too many got burnt thanks to Vista Capable and are just gonna set out Windows 7.
|| So if MSFT wants to know who is to blame for folks hating Vista like the second coming of WinME, they just need to look in the mirror. Sure on a dual core with 2Gb+ of RAM it'll run decently, but the "Best Buy Specials" being sold at the time of the Vista release were single core Sempron and Celeron with 512Mb of RAM and really lousy Intel or SiS IGPs. Those machines should have NEVER had Vista come within a 1000 yards of it, yet MSFT let manufacturers put "Vista capable" on them along with that piece of
Oh I agree that MSFT deserves the blame, as it is their OS and they wrote the minimum system requirements, which lets be honest here-while MSFT minimum system requirements have always been "off" the ones they put for Vista were so wrong I don't see how it could be labeled as anything but bold faced lies designed to push their new OS (which of course cost more than XP to the OEMs) onto machines that could NEVER run it.
Now I have actually had to use machines with XP that were slightly over the minimum specs [wikipedia.org] C
This is like a wife of 30 years, bringing up stuff you did in high school!
I'm guessing you're not married.
Actually, the crashes weren't all bad. Back when I was using W95 at work, I took coffee breaks every time it crashed in the morning. Of course I paid for it; I was in the bathroom during its afternoon crashes.
We took all the feedback.
Printed it.
Made bricks with the printed feedback and some glue.
Built a piramid with the bricks.
Painted it green and brown.
Called it Mount Feedji.
Burned it down in a massive party.
Then, still drunk from the party, we designed W7.
Ok, that was a lie. We didn't actually paint it. But we considered that suggestion for quite a long while.
I wanted to start a farm on Feedji, you insensitive clod!
Please say they at least hit the Balmer Peak after the party.
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Windows 7 plain rocks. Seems like Windows 2000 just got reincarnated and polished.
I've been running it for a while now and have no issues.
I'm actually not sure how this got to +4 funny. Maybe +5 interesting? I digress. I've been a fan of Win2k for a long time, I used it for just about everything from gaming to my work up until XP64 and had a stable driver set. Does Win7 have that nifty feel of Win2k? Yes actually it does. Even on lower end hardware it's decently snappy, and runs well.
Issues? The biggest I've found is it's ability to lose connection to the internet on reboots. Meaning you need to disable and reenable your network card which fixes it. Sadly no new drivers for my card, but otherwise works fine. I consider that a 2 on my 1-10(10 being worst) scale of crap. Otherwise, I'm quite happy. My XP64 machine has been up and running for a bit more than 460 days now without a reboot. I expect that Win7 will beat that easily.
If you have gone 460 days without a reboot, it's because you haven't been applying security updates. Your system is highly vulnerable, and you are a joke as a system administrator.
Turn in your geek card NOW.
Why do I have to re-learn everything because microsoft wants to try to sell more copies of an OS?
What did you have to re-learn?
The thing most amazing to me about Windows is how similar every version is, and yet how many people claim there's this massive amount of retraining needed. Retraining for what!? The UI is almost identical to XP, except looking slightly different. The differences are so trivial that if you have Vista in "Classic" mode, and compared it to XP in "Classic" mode, you can't even tell the
What did people expect. It's not a new iteration, it's an enhancement. Just because they brand it as a new OS does not make it so.
MS (Steven Sinofsky to be precise) has officially claimed that the kernel version number of 6.1 is only for compatibility reasons, for apps only looking at the major OS version number, and that it otherwise would have been an "NT 7.0". I can't be bothered to find the article now, but some careful Googling on the "Engineering Windows 7" blog would do the trick.
7 truly is Vista SP3.
The line is always fuzzy and subjective. Was XP a "service pack for 2000"? Is the difference between pre-SP XP and 2000 really that much bigger than that between 7 and Vista?
Its a pretty useless article. You don't get any more info out of the article then you get from the title.
That's why they call it astroturf.
Windows 7 is another proof that enough marketing can make something good.
Windows 7, Windows 7, Windows 7,
I yet have to find someone who can show me what it brings me, over XP, that is worth paying 100+ EUR for.
Continued support?
Honestly as a home user you get ipv6 (which you may not really benefit from if you're behind an ipv4 router), self-healing NTFS, DirectX 11, a new taskbar (which is admittedly pretty neat) and not a whole lot more.
You get continued security updates for a longer period of time.
Is it worth paying to upgrade?
Probably not. I bought a copy for DirectX 11 because the only reason I keep Windows around for is gaming. I also got the upgrade when it was $50 (USD) so it was a much easier pill to swallow. Your mileage
I recently switched my HP Mini netbook from XP to the 7 RC.
I have found that some things are just more stable. Hibernate, for example, seems to work a lot better and works faster. It's much improved over XP. It's definitely been more stable and it's a number of little things I notice that are improvements, besides the improved task bar.
Memory wise, Windows 7 Ultimate it doesn't seem to use much more than what I was using with XP Home. If anything, the memory management feels like its improved quite a bit.
I get the impression that the Windows 7 launch is a lot like seeing an old girlfriend suddenly show up on your doorstep wanting to get back together. She's had some work done, apparently: stomach stapling to take off some of the weight, breast augmentation, and a radical nosejob to make her look as much like your current girlfriend as medical science will allow.
She's pretty, of course, almost too pretty. She still wears far too much makeup and carries that desperate look in her eyes. The fragrant haze around her is the perfume she overuses to mask the scent of failure.
But standing there in that low-cut top, you'd almost forget for a moment what a psycho she was- how she used to shut down in the middle of a date and forget everything you were talking about and how she was only happy when you were buying her things. You'd almost forget about carrying around her legacy baggage or those nights when, for seemingly no reason at all, she would simply stop speaking to you and when you asked what was wrong she'd just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to figure it out.
You complained about her for years before finally deciding to get rid of her, and here she is again. Though, somehow she seems like a completely different person now.
"I'm up here," she says when she catches you staring at her chest.
Tempted though you may be, you know that over time she'll get bored and slow down on you just like she always does. And then you'll be right back where you started: trapped. She keeps you by convincing you that you don't have a choice. You're just not smart enough for one option or rich enough to afford the other.
"But I'm different now," she says, batting her eyes innocently. "I've changed."
Indeed she has. Apparently, she's really into Cabala now or something like that. It's helped her discover loads of untapped potential in herself. But it also means that you'll have to buy all new furniture to fit with her understanding of feng shui. That's not the only change she has in store for you. The minute you let her move in, she'll have a new alarm system put in that succeeds only in preventing your friends from coming over on poker night.
She doesn't love you, but she doesn't hate you, either. The truth is that she couldn't care less one way or the other. She's here because she doesn't want to be alone. Like all human beings, especially those well past their prime, she wants to feel wanted and, after a string of lost jobs and bad investments, she needs a place to stay.
But all in all, she's OK. She's a seven. She'll do, I guess.
You'd almost forget about carrying around her legacy baggage or those nights when, for seemingly no reason at all, she would simply stop speaking to you and when you asked what was wrong she'd just spit a string of hex code at you and expect you to figure it out.
Seems like a lot of
Too bad this brilliant little piece of prose is already rated at +5, Funny. In reality it should be +5, Insightful. It is both funny and insightful. So close to the truth as far as most people's relationship with Windows goes that it actually hurts! Best comment I think I've ever read on slashdot. Bravo.
Lets continue the analogy:
Your OSX Girlfriend shows up on your doorstep telling you to buy her a new Snow Leopard coat. Oh, and you are going to need to get her some updated pants and shoes too to match. Of course, she won't step inside your door until you've gone and bought one of those new Apple brand "iMansions" that, really, is just the same as the Intel Houses that everyone has, but comes with fancy aluminum siding and costs twice as much. You could TRY to put aluminum siding on any old Intel house, but you hear those contractors are getting sued out of business.
So, you finally get the new mansion and invite her in and you realize that she's really just like every other girl you've been with. But, all your friends like her, so you might as well go along with it. She's arty, but very serious too, and won't play any games with you. After a while, after buying her all her iAccessories you realize you really aren't getting any more out of her than your other girlfriends.
But your Linux girlfriend, she is awesome. She'll do whatever you want, whenever you want, rarely complains and will stay in pretty much any house or mobile home you have. Sadly, she's also a robot who gets delivered to your house in a box, and you have to assemble her up the way you want. You have to turn to your friends and the internet to find out why the heck she won't talk with you, or why her feet are on backwards. She's very secure in your relationship, so much that she won't do anything unless you really PROVE you are her boyfriend. She plays a few games, but you're getting sick of chess, solitaire and downhill sledding penguins. And then every few weeks you have to shut her down to replace her heart and lungs. You are so damn tired keeping her running and happy all the time who has time for sex?
To top it off, everyone has seen her naked. She's put it all over the Internet for everyone to see and fiddle with her naughty bits. She claims it makes her a better woman, but since you have to keep patching her up, you aren't so sure. What's worse, she keeps comparing you to some guy she met in Finland and talks about how much he "got inside her."
I notice in TFA that the photo is of, what looks to be, a fifth grade classroom. Is this the target audience for Windows 7? I mean the commercials - er commercial - seems to be of that seven-year-old girl making a pink-pony presentation.
I'm confused. Is Windows 7 and Office 2007 -- which I hate, by the way (shakes fist) curse you "ribbon"! -- suppose to be so simple a seven-year-old can use it, or so simple that only
"...we had the pleasure of talking with...members of the Windows 7 product development and planning team:
He must coordinate the product launches with Houston.
I don't want to sound like a broken record here, but one of the things I truly love about OSS development is how transparent development is. I can easily contact the developers. I can submit bugs.
I have tons of usability gripes with Windows. I've never felt like I could submit feedback to Microsoft that might be seen and looked at.
I wonder if the vista engineers got my suggestion and stabbed themselve in the face.
...that came from this feedback, that makes businesses using XP want to switch? We all know why NOBODY switched to Vista, so why would anyone switch to win7?
Please, I'm not asking why should NOT switch, we all know that answer. But someone please explain why we SHOULD move to win7 !
This was something I noticed when Vista came out...
To make application I have written have the Vista Aero look I had to recompile. But I noticed that my old version of Microsoft Excel (2003) has the new look. So there must be some code in in Vista that handles Microsoft projects nicer. Which doesn't seem fair.
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How dirty is your public pool?
What are the odds that we'll actually get sick by going swimming in a pool?
By Caitlin Boyle
My son loves to splash in our community pool. And I love to watch him explore the water. What I don't love is when he opens his little mouth and sucks in a big gulp of pool water. I can't help but look around at the hundreds of other kids and adults diving, swimming and splashing and think, "Okay, who's peeing in the pool?"
Last summer, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) collected water samples from 161 public and private pools around Atlanta. E. coli, a bacterium found in the lower intestine, was discovered in most of them. In community pools like ours, 70 percent of the filters contained E. coli. More than 65 percent of samples from water parks and nearly 50 percent of samples from private pools were contaminated. There are many different strains of E. coli; symptoms of infection range from diarrhea, urinary tract infection and pneumonia. Luckily, E. coli 0157, one of the most serious and deadly strains of the disease, was not found in any of the samples.
How did E. coli get from the intestine to the pool filters? The CDC concluded that everyone brings 0.14 grams of fecal matter into the pool -- just because we don't wipe as well as we should after using the toilet. Plus, most of us don't thoroughly shower before entering the pool. And all of those cute babies and toddlers in swim diapers don't help matters, either.
"Swimmers have the power and responsibility to decrease the risk for illness by practicing good hygiene," the CDC authors write in their report. "In addition to minimizing the amount of fecal material introduced into recreational water, good swimmer hygiene, through bathroom breaks every 60 minutes and taking a pre-swim shower, minimizes the amount of urine and sweat introduced into the water."
Yes, the pools are packed with germs. And yes, we should all be wiping our rear ends a bit more thoroughly. And yes, we should take the time to shower off before diving into the pool. But what are the odds that we'll actually get sick by going swimming in a pool? Is a waterborne illness something we should really worry about? Realistically speaking, not really.
The CDC notes that, if a pool is properly chlorinated, most dangerous bacteria should be 'neutralized' rather quickly. E. coli is killed within a minute if the pool's pH levels are adequate. Hepatitis A is killed in 16 minutes, and the Giardia parasite, which causes a diarrheal illness, is killed after 45 minutes. Some germs last longer -- Crypto, which is responsible for the diarrheal disease cryptosporidiosis, can survive for several days, even in a properly chlorinated pool.
The problem is that not all pools are properly chlorinated; a 2010 study found that 1 in 8 public pools had serious safety violations, including improper chlorine levels. Low levels of chlorine means the germs can live longer, increasing your risk for disease.
However, while the number of pool-related outbreaks of certain diseases have been on the rise, the total number of reported diarrhea-related illness is still relatively low. Last summer in Atlanta, when the CDC did their pool filter sampling, there were no pool-related diseases reported in the city, despite all those contaminated filters. And in 2010, there were 10,500 cases of Crypto (the germ that can live for days in pools). While 10,500 cases sounds like a lot, that's a relatively low number if you consider how many people swim every single day in America.
In fact, you're more likely to get swimmer's ear than E. coli by swimming in a public pool. Each year, swimmer's ear is responsible for over 2.4 million health care visits. You can prevent swimmer's ear by keeping your ears dry (using a cap or ear plugs) and drying your ears thoroughly after swimming. Proper chlorine levels are important for preventing swimmer's ear, too, so be sure to check with your pool's maintenance staff to ensure they are monitoring the chlorine levels. The CDC recommends checking the levels twice a day.
Caitlin Boyle is a professional blogger, motivational speaker, and author of the book Healthy Tipping Point: A Powerful Program for a Stronger, Happier You. She helps her husband run a holistic health clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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With the economy still in a slump, many people are resolving to start 2012 by getting their budgets in order. To break down the basics, host Michel Martin speaks with Natalie McNeal, author of The Frugalista Files. McNeal dug herself out of a $20 thousand debt in just two years.
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|2006-06-26, 05:46
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Your first Gundam experience
In this thread, we discuss the first Gundam-related thing you saw. I'm not necessarily asking for the first Gundam show you've ever watched. It can be a picture, an ad, a toy, anything.
For example, the first Gundam I've ever seen in my life was the Gundam Mk II back in '94. I saw it when my mom and I were shopping for school supplies. A certain pencil case caught my eye and I was amazed by the cool-looking robot printed on its front, which was different from what I was accustomed to (Voltes V and Daimos). I think I even saw a Victory pencil case a few months later. Needless to say, I bought the Mk II pencil case. But it was only after four years that Gundam would make an impact on me, when a local TV station aired Gundam Wing.
So what's your story?
|2006-06-26, 06:05
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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The first Gundam experience I can actually remember was watching an episode of V Gundam way back in 1993, while visiting my family in Japan. I had no idea what the heck a Gundam was, but I watched the episode and loved it. Back then though I wasn't even an actual anime fan and was a complete and total newbie, and had no idea how to find more of the show I had watched. I later saw some V Gundam toys in a store that same trip to Japan, but did not have the money to buy it.
My next experience was the Gundam Wing model magazine a few years after my encounter with V Gundam. The magazine was a present from my Japanese family, and I was fascinated by the mecha depicted in it.
Sometime after that, I got the 1/144 scale Wing Zero model from the Sakuracon. I still had no actual idea what the show was. At that same Sakuracon event though, I saw the last 5-10 minutes of the Endless Waltz movie version.
Then finally, several years later again, I rented Gundam Wing VHS Volume 1 edited version from a Hollywood Video store. I was immediately hooked, and bought the unedited version from a Suncoast Video.
Thus were my first couple encounters with Gundam leading to my addiction. Sometime later again on another trip to Japan, one of my cousins lent me the Gundam 0079 movies to watch, after they saw I was addicted to Gundam from my model-buying spree.
|2006-06-26, 07:47
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Mine had been watching Gundam Wing shown a YTV (a Canadian channel) and at first, I really wasn't into it. Sure, the action scenes somewhat appealed me. But at tht time that I started to watch Wing, which I was about 13 years old, I wanted more gory and blood. (After I watched the D-Day landing scene in Saving Private Ryan, that just spoiled me and grew my desire for more violence).
I had never thought about getting any models back then, but I'd love it if I had a 1/100 HG model of Freedom at least.
|2006-06-26, 07:50
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If there were any experiences I had before 2000, I cannot remember. However, what is clear is that what led me down this path was seeing a GS MV to Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit" and deciding to give it a go.
|2006-06-26, 10:16
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You are Dominated!
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Earth
Age: 29
I saw a lot of Gundam toys since I was a kid. I only remembered that those robots are cool but never get to watch the series or know more about them. Until few years ago I started downloading Seed and then started to watch other Gundam series as well
|2006-06-26, 11:20
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Canada
Age: 34
Chronologically not sure but from memory...
-Mobile Suit Gundam Laser Discs in 1990
-Bought SD Zeta/Musha, Hyaku Shiki, Nu Gundam, Sazabi, Char's Zaku II dress up toys in Hong Kong in the same year in HK.
-Bought lotsa SD Musha series between 91-94, sd gundams were cheaper than the scaled models for some reason...
Gundam Fandom grew after 1994 where I had some friends from Japan who recorded some episodes of Victory Gundam, I got to watch it. Also watched F91 and Char's Counter Attack durring that year.
Lots and lots of gundam models, finally watched most of the Gundam series and OAV.
Series I haven't watched are ZZ, Turn A and G-Gundam.
|2006-06-26, 11:21
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Oddly enough, Evangelion introduced me to the world of mechs. I even have a model of the Eva 01. That made me appreciate mechs even more because it could do so many cool poses. Then it was after Evangelion that I saw Wing. Then my life was never the same again.
|2006-06-26, 12:38
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I've heard of the name of gundam when I was a kid but I never knew what it was. Then in fall of 2004 I moved in to the dorm as a college freshman and one of my roommates had the Endless Waltz DVD. One day during the year he was showing it to my other roommate and I was just sitting in my bed and I ended up watching it.
|2006-06-26, 12:54
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the first contact i had with gundam was (like 90% of the members here) gundam wing, they kept showing previews of it on ytv before it aired that i had to wach it,
then several years later they show gundam seed and i go wtf there is another gundam serie beside wing and endless waltz, i then started watching destiny
i found out about this forum(i dont remember how thoug ) and i was again like wtf the gundam i watched are not the "original/true" gundam and there are others(lots of others)
I recently aquired the original msg and victory gundam and i'm planning to wach all the gundam i can get my hands on
(maybe not g-gundam, i dont quite like the idea of a "super robot" show where the power of love can defeat some other mecha(well i am curious about it though but only for what i heard about master asia on this forum)
|2006-06-26, 13:31
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The first Gundam experience I ever remember was after watching episodes of Robotech and Macross and such quite a few years back and I did a search on the internet for similar topics (giant robots, transforming robots and such) and came upon Gundam. After that I bought videos online for them (DVDs weren't that huge back then, mind you, lol) and got hooked and kept looking up all the info I could find.
By the time Gundam Wing aired on Toonami in the US, I was pretty much a diehard UC fan so that's why I didn't really like Gundam Wing, Gundam SEED and Gundam SEED Destiny too much in terms of characters, story and such. Mainly because of the cool-looking Gundams and all, lol.
|2006-06-26, 15:58
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Brussels
I first discovered Gundam Wing when I was in the USA, it was shown on Toonami, but didn't really like it back then. Then I watched it again on Ka2 when I came back to Belgium, got addicted to the Gundam world.
|2006-06-26, 17:10
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|2006-06-26, 17:34
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Location: SoCal
Bandai's Battle Dodge Ball was my first experience. Gundams were cool there too!
But my real first experience was with Victory. I knew what Gundam was before I watched it, and although I thought the designs were cool, I thought I grew out of giant robots so I never wanted to watch a Gundam series (I was in 4~5 th grade at the time). Randomly watched V Gundam and I was blown away by the grittiness of warfare. I was vastly taken by the enemies pt of view and the reasons why they fought. Then G Gundam came out... and I was disgusted as it was nothing like the Gundam I saw.
Later, my friend was watching 0083 and my faith return to the series. Gundam X was airing at the time when he showed me this and I love the that series. Too bad it was ended abruptly. But it had tough competition that year
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The annual Estherville Farm and Home Show is nearing. Held March 1-2, 2013 at the Regional Wellness Center, the event features more than 50 vendors who show visitors what's new for their land, home or business.
The Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce is now accepting registrations from 2012 vendors, who get first dibs on returning for the 2013 show. The early bird deadline is Friday, Feb. 1, and after that date booth rates increase and vendors on a waiting list will be able to get a booth.
Any business interested in being put on a waiting list or that has questions is encouraged to contact the Chamber on 712 362 3541.
"Last year the Farm and Home Show had 1,000 attendees," said Stephanie Neppl, Executive Director of the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce. "It's a great way to expose your business or product to a large number of people. We're excited to organize the event for another year and hope to have a great variety of businesses present."
Hours for the Farm and Home Show are Friday, March 1 from 4-8 p.m. and Saturday, March 2 from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Admission is free.
Alongside the Farm and Home Show, the Estherville Area Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a Legislative Town Meeting on Saturday, March 2. Those attending will be Representative Ted Gassman, Senator Dennis Guth and Congressman Steve King. The meeting will take place at 10 a.m. at the Regional Wellness Center.


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Design Inspiration: Nely Galán's Home In Venice, CA
L.A.'s Venice neighborhood is known for being home to eternal hippies and leathery boardwalk rollerbladers. A few blocks away from the beach, though, a lesser-known attraction resides — a cluster of canals, that were built as an homage to the area's namesake in Italy. They're shiny and gorgeous, as are the houses that surround them, and yes, it's stupid expensive to live near them.
Even so, there's a lot of inspiration to be gleaned from houses like the one pictured above, which was featured in a recent photo essay in the LA Times (see the entire gallery here). The home is owned by Nely Galán, a TV producer and executive, and speaking as someone who just moved into a new apartment and is staring at a bunch of blank walls, the bright colors of Galán's exterior make me want to run to the closest purveyor of Benjamin Moore and scoop up everything primary.
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The win was only the Bearkats' third in 25-games against NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) teams since Sam Houston moved up to the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) in 1986. The Kats also defeated Louisiana-Monroe in 2000 and Louisiana-Lafayette in 2001.
The overtime win marked the second victory in seven extra time games.
"What can I say about that one," said head coach Willie Fritz. "It was a back and forth game there at the end and we were able to come out on top. To be able to battle like that on the road against an FBS opponent is big for our program."
Flanders rushed 30 times for a career high 194 yards. The performance was the 11th highest rushing total by a Bearkat running back. Sam Houston gained 373 yards on the ground, the sixth highest team total ever and the most for the Kat offense since 1991.
"Most importantly we were able to win the game," Flanders said after learing of the school record. "We just kept having to go out there and put points on the board and we never lost faith."
Richard Sincere carried 11 times for 72 yards and quarterback Brian Bell ran for 55 yards and completed 10 of 18 passes for 174 yards and two touchdowns. Torrance Williams and Flanders each caught three passes, Williams gaining 66 yards and Flanders 44.
Quarterback B.R. Holbrook came off the bench to pass for 289 yards and two touchdowns and Deon Long caught nine passes for 209 yards and three touchdowns to lead New Mexico (0-4).
The two teams combined for 93 points and 1,075 totals yards in the contest.
While the Bearkat defense allowed 528 yards, they came up big in overtime, stopping a Lobo attack that had rallied for 21 fourth quarter points at the the SHSU four-yard line and limiting UMN to a field goal.
Sam Houston took just four plays to score the winning touchdown. Bell ran for gains of 10 and six yards before Flanders rushed for a five-yard gain and then the winning touchdown.
Long put together a highlight reel of big plays to score all three Lobo touchdowns in the first half. Long took only 14 seconds to put UNM up 7-0 by returning the opening kickoff 98 yards for a touchdown.
Later, he caught touchdown passes for 25 and 60-yards to tie the game 14-14 with 8:57 in the second quarter and 21-21 just 4:14 before intermission.
The Bearkats opened their scoring on their second possession of the game as Bell found Brian Closner for a 44-yard touchdown pass to complete a four-play, 54-yard drive to tie the contest 7-7 with 10:22 to play in the first quarter.
Flanders broke 61 through a hole opened by Travis Watson and Chris Crockett to give Sam Houston a 14-7 lead with 6:35 to go in the first. The run was a career long for the sophomore, eclipsing his 54-yard run against Gardner-Webb last year.
Following a 34-yard kickoff return by Closner and a 36-yard gain on a reverse by Torrance Williams, the Bearkats owned a first-and-goal situation. Bell kept, fumbling at the goal line. The ball was recovered in the end zone by Flanders for his second touchdown of the day. The Kats were back up 21-14 with 4:54 to play before intermission.
Despite the tie score at halftime, the Bearkats outgained the Lobos 296 total yards to 180 in the first two periods.
Will Henry's fumble recovery at the New Mexico 44-yard line gave Sam Houston the opportunity to take the lead again. Bell's five yard touchdown pass to Keith Blanton completed a 10-play drive to put Sam Houston 28-21 with 6:03 remaining in the third quarter.
The Bearkats opened the fourth quarter with a seven-play, 80-yard scoring drive to go up 35-21 with 12:03 to play. Flanders' two-yard scoring run was set up by a 51-yard catch by Williams.
Flanders broke for a 53-yard touchdown to put Sam Houston up 42-28 with 7:33 to play.
Holbrook engineered three 80-yard touchdown drives in the fourth quarter to force overtime after regulation play ended in a 42-42 tie. Holbrook hit Mike Scarlett for a 19-yard score at the 9:33 mark. Crusoe Gongbay cut the margin to seven points with a one-yard run with 5:56 remaining. Holbrook found Long open again for a 20-yard touchdown with 27 seconds left.
Sam Houston State returns to Elliott T. Bowers Stadium next Saturday to host UTSA's inaugural football team at 6 p.m. Tickets for all Bearkat home games are available now online at www.gobearkats.com/tickets or at the SHSU ticket office located in the Ron Mafrige Field House at Bowers Stadium.


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The head bone's connected to the...leg bone? While that's not exactly how the children's song "Dem Bones" goes, surgeons at CAMC are repairing "head bones" with leg bones - as in reconstructing a patient's jaw from part of their own leg bone after a severe head injury.
While this kind of surgery isn't new at CAMC, what is new is how surgeons are doing it: using 3D virtual planning technology, which makes delicate craniomaxillofacial surgery (of the head, neck, face and jaws) faster and more accurate.
"The more precise you can be when repairing damaged facial bones, teeth, soft tissue and skin, the better the outcome," said David Wise, MD, DDS, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon with CAMC Physicians Group - Facial Surgery at General Hospital. "Planning facial reconstruction in a computer environment allows us to more accurately predict complex bony movements, repositioning and blood flow before we ever make the first incision."
Neurosurgeons at CAMC have used virtual surgical planning for brain surgeries for many years using the BrainLab navigation system. It proved to be such a valuable tool that the hospital recently added software to expand BrainLab's capabilities to include craniomaxillofacial applications.
"BrainLab technology allows us to check and confirm positioning of bones and hardware with pinpoint accuracy," Dr. Wise said. "It's particularly helpful with trauma patients because it allows us to virtually duplicate the 'good' or unaffected side of a person's head to the injured or deformed side."
Craniofacial surgeries are complex because the skull contains irregular bones that could impact delicate brain and head structures when reshaped or moved. Computed tomography (CT) scans are imported directly into computer systems to create 3D models that show all the bones in a patient's face and skull that could be affected in surgery. Surgeons can ask "What if?" and explore multiple options instantly for correcting facial injuries or defects from the convenience of their computers well ahead of surgery. And when surgical guides are needed to allow proper instrument positioning, they can be designed digitally - more quickly and precisely.
"We send our virtual plan to a medical device manufacturer to make models of a patient's skull and special surgical templates like cutting guides, which are essentially patterns for where to make bone cuts and how to reposition bones," Dr. Wise said. "Then we transfer the virtual plan to surgery using the custom plan that perfectly matches each patient's measurements."
"This technology allows us to be more efficient by saving time and potentially alleviating complications (injuring the blood supply) of shaping a bone flap," said Jason Prigozen, MD, a plastic surgeon with CAMC Physicians Group - Plastic Surgery. "We can know the exact shape and dimensions of a defect that the flap needs to fit and are thus able to shape it while it is still attached in the leg. This means two teams of surgeons can work at the same time to speed the patient's reconstruction."
Patients who could benefit from the new virtual surgical planning application range from those involved in accidents to children born with craniofacial malformities, such as cleft lip and palate.
"We are continually striving for ways to improve patient care," said Mike Williams, vice president/administrator of CAMC General Hospital. "This technology will enable physicians to work more effectively in planning better outcomes."


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And following the capture, President Obama spoke at the White House. He praised the people of Boston, and thanked law-enforcement agencies for their work. And then he posed key questions that need, now, to be answered.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Why did young men who grew up and studied here, as part of our communities and our country, resort to such violence? How did they plan and carry out these attacks, and did they receive any help? The families of those killed so senselessly, deserve answers. The wounded, some of whom now have to learn how to stand and walk and live again, deserve answers.
SIMON: Joining us now is NPR's Tom Gjelten. Tom, thanks very much for being with us.
TOM GJELTEN, BYLINE: You bet, Scott.
SIMON: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, as we know, is in the hospital. How do they intend to get him to talk?
GJELTEN: Well, first, he has to recover. He was in no shape last night to answer any questions. But as soon as he can, he will be interrogated. You know, the big issue here, Scott, is his so-called Miranda rights; that he can remain silent, that anything he says can be held against him, that he has the right to a lawyer. And normally, he'd have to be informed of those rights right way. But there is what's called a public-safety exception. Police facing situations that create a danger to themselves, or others, may ask questions designed to neutralize that threat without giving that warning first. That's from the Supreme Court's ruling.
And our Justice Department correspondent, Carrie Johnson, has confirmed the administration will invoke that exception in order to question Dzhokhar about other, potential bombs or accomplices, and gain critical intelligence.
SIMON: But I wonder - on the one hand, you have local authorities who are saying there's no danger to the populace. How can you, then - how can the federal government, in the other direction, say, but we can't have him invoke Miranda rights...
GJELTEN: ...because there are other, potential bombs.
SIMON: Exactly.
GJELTEN: It's an interesting question. The only way to square it is, that declaration of safety was very limited; that the threat raised by the Tsarnaev brothers had been taken care of. More broadly, it's hard to see how they can make that assurance. They don't know, for sure, whether there might be some kind of terrorist network behind these guys.
SIMON: If the bombings wind up being treated as a case of terrorism, legally, what kind of issues get raised?
GJELTEN: This is the issue we've been fighting since 9/11. What's the difference between crime and terrorism? You know, Republican senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham last night put out a statement. They think Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be held and tried as an enemy combatant, not as a normal defendant. But the Obama administration has already signaled it does not intend to follow that route. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz last night said the U.S. will file formal charges against Tsarnaev. That means he'll be tried in a civilian court under civilian rules.
SIMON: And does that possibility present any kind of limitation to intelligence gathering?
GJELTEN: Conceivably. Now, intelligence gathering and prosecution normally would be on two tracks, especially to the extent that intelligence around a case like this is gathered overseas. It's really quite separate from the prosecution. Domestically, it possibly could be more challenging and, of course, Dzhokhar can't be forced to provide information against his will. Even if it would be useful for intelligence, he can't be tortured.
SIMON: Yeah. NPR's Tom Gjelten, thanks very much for being with us.
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Friday, March 23, 2012
Appointments announced
MGH names new chiefs for Department of Neurology, Department of Urology
THE MGH WILL WELCOME new chiefs for the Department of Neurology and the Department of Urology later this spring.
Merit Cudkowicz, MD, MSc, current director of the MGH Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Clinic and the Julianne Dorn Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, has been named chief of the Department of Neurology, effective May 1. Cudkowicz will succeed Anne Young, MD, PhD, who has led the department since 1991.
"It is a tremendous honor to be asked to take over as the next chief of this outstanding Neurology Department at MGH, following in the footsteps of so many great leaders," Cudkowicz says. "Under Anne Young's leadership, our clinical and research enterprise has grown tremendously over the last 20 years. Our residents and training program are superb. The MGH Neurology Department is one of the best in the nation. Now is an enormously exciting time for neurology, with rapid-pace growth in basic science and new potential for developing treatments."
Cudkowicz came to the MGH as a resident in 1991 and joined the faculty in 1995. She is an internationally respected expert on the treatment of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. In addition to her role as director of the ALS Clinic, she serves as co-director of the Neuromuscular Division and director of the Neurology Clinical Trials Unit at the MGH. Cudkowicz also has been involved in significant work related to Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. Young, who was the first woman chief of a clinical service at the MGH and who, among her many contributions, established the MassGeneral Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease in 2001, will remain active clinically.
"On behalf of the entire Neurology Service, I'd like to recognize Anne Young's extraordinary leadership over these past 20 plus years," says Lee Schwamm, MD, vice chair of Neurology. "Over these two decades, she oversaw a major expansion of the department, revolutionized neuroscience research and championed the growth of neurocritical care. No single figure has had a bigger impact on the field of neuroscience during her tenure. She has left the department in a wonderful position, poised for a new decade of opportunity and innovation under the new leadership of Dr. Cudkowicz. We look forward to working closely with Anne for many years to come, as we continue to rely on her insights, expertise and commitment to the success of the department."
In addition to the change in Neurology leadership, Michael Blute, MD, who is currently director of the Cancer Center of Excellence at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, has been named chief of the MGH Department of Urology, effective April 2. Blute will succeed Scott McDougal, MD, who has led the department since 1991. "I enthusiastically look forward to working with faculty and directing clinical services, education and research for the MGH Department of Urology," Blute says. "It will be an honor to continue the legacy of MGH Urology that has been so ably led by Dr. Scott McDougal. In his tenure, MGH Urology and its faculty have gained national and international recognition, and it will be a privilege for me to lead as chief."
In addition to his leadership of the UMass Cancer Center, Blute has served as interim chief of the UMass Division of Urology in the Department of Surgery and also held the Mary C. DeFeudis Chair in Cancer Care and Research at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Prior to joining UMass, Blute spent more than two decades at the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center in Rochester, Minn., where he served as chair of the Department of Urology from 1999 to 2006 and from 2006 to 2009 served on the Board of Governors, a group responsible for meeting quality outcomes and the financial and educational goals of the Mayo Clinic Strategic Plan. He also was the Dr. Anson L. Clark Professor of Urology at the Mayo Clinic.
McDougal will remain clinically active at both the main MGH campus and at the Mass General/North Shore Center for Outpatient Care in Danvers. Under his leadership, the department has become nationally recognized as a top urology program and significantly increased patient volume – with outpatient visits increasing from 14,000 to more than 30,000 annually and office procedures increasing from 2,000 to more than 6,000.
"I am delighted that the department will be led by Dr. Blute, who I regard as one of the most accomplished individuals in the field," McDougal says.
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July 22: NAPWA and the NAMES Project Foundation Host Quilt Opening Ceremony
July 30, 2012
We were honored to share a stage on the National Mall with The Names Project Foundation, co-hosting the Opening Ceremony for the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
It was still cool -- a welcome surprise in D.C. at this time of year -- and the Quilt couldn't be rolled out for display until the grass dried. But at 9:00 sharp, Bishop Oliver Allen spoke an invocation, and then NAMES Project President Julie Rhoad and NAPWA President Frank Oldham, Jr. welcomed guests and a small horde of young adults waiting to roll the Quilt out on the Mall.
The Quilt, Frank told us, is the most sacred symbol of this country's three decade struggle to respond to the new disease that had been with us longer but first became news in 1981.
The Quilt reminds us of where we have been, where we are, and where we need to go.
Where we've been: former D.C. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly spoke about the challenges of dealing with the epidemic in the District in the early years.
Where we are: current Mayor Vince Gray spoke about the District's cutting-edge response today to one of this country's most concentrated HIV epidemic: aggressive HIV awareness and testing programs, immediate linkage to treatment for all who test positive, and, possibly most important of all, nearly universal health insurance coverage for District residents. NAPWA gave the Mayor a Positive Leadership Award, NAPWA's highest honor, for what his administration has accomplished. We gave another to Whitman-Walker Health, originally one of the country's pioneer HIV clinics, and today a national leader in providing comprehensive health care to lower-income, uninsured populations with high HIV incidence.
Where we need to go: Congresswoman Barbara Lee spoke about the real possibility of ending the epidemic, and the courage, commitment, and determination that will take. Days before the Conference, she introduced a policy and funding bill, H.R. 6138. The Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Act of 2012, she told us, increases and targets federal resources to maximize impact of HIV efforts, expands efforts to end stigma and discrimination, repeals and reforms laws that violate human rights and undermine the positive impact of resources, and maximizes federal coordinating efforts to drive greater efficiency and improved results in all HIV and related programs.
Our thanks to the many other distinuished leaders who spoke. Doctors Mohammad Akhter and Gregory Pappas of the D.C. Department of Health. Jonathon Mermin and Rashad Burgess of the CDC. OraSure President and member of the President's Advisory Council on HIV and AIDS (PACHA) Doug Michel and Bill Collier, head of ViiV's North American operations. Brian Hujdich, Executive Director of HealthHIV, and Whitman-Walker's David Chelfand. PhRMA President John Castellani by video link.
Then NAPWA Board Chair Tyler TerMeer introduced NAPWA's Margot Kirkland-Isaac and Mimi Minier to begin the powerful but painful business of reading the names memorialized on the Quilt -- 680,000 Americans no longer with us, every one of them someone's son or daughter, or parent, or lover, or friend.
This article was provided by National Association of People With AIDS. It is a part of the publication Positive Voice.
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- Leaking, clogged or slow draining sinks or toilets
- Burned out light fixtures or non-functioning electrical outlets
- Air conditioner or heating unit issues
- Door lock issues
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- Damaged university-owned furniture
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How do I submit a work order?
There are a variety of ways to submit work orders to allow for optimal convenience for residents.
- Work orders can be submitted 24 hours a day by calling Facilities, Planning and Operations directly at 660-543-4331. You can also check the status of your work request by calling this number.
- Another way to submit work orders it to contact the front desk of the building you are in or the CA. The hall staff member will then contact the on-call staff member to respond to the situation. Contacting the front desk or hall staff is the best approach to submit an emergency request after regular business hours.
- You can also submit online via MyCentral on the left side Student Services page.
You do not have to be in your room to have the work done. When you submit a work request, you authorize facilities staff to enter your room or apartment to complete the work task. Maintenance staff will leave a notice alerting you of entry to perform the work requested.
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When the final award of the evening is handed out at the Grammys on Sunday, one thing is certain: Whoever wins for album of the year was at least worthy of the honor.
That hasn't always been the case when the Recording Academy presents the annual ceremony. It has a dubious history when it comes to celebrating the previous year's most deserving album. (Christopher Cross's self-titled debut over Pink Floyd's "The Wall"? Really? Really.)
This year's field, though, is the strongest and most competitive in recent memory. It's free of surprises and veteran performers — and, rather glaringly, of female artists — but every nominated album was a juggernaut in its respective genre: Frank Ocean's "Channel Orange" (R&B), the Black Keys' "El Camino" and Jack White's "Blunderbuss" (blues-tinged indie rock), Mumford & Sons' "Babel" (Americana), and Fun.'s "Some Nights" (pop).
Even then, I would be very surprised if Ocean didn't take it in a cakewalk. It's not the album everyone knows or loves, nor did it produce a big hit like "I Will Wait" from Mumford & Sons' "Babel," but "Channel Orange" was arguably the most-discussed album last year.
And rightly so. It had all the trappings for the road to Grammy domination: an incredible backstory (Ocean posted an open letter describing how some of it was inspired by falling in love with a man who didn't feel the same way), forward-thinking production, and songs that were emotionally resonant and approachable to mainstream Grammy voters.
Don't discount the power of Mumford & Sons' exuberant folk-pop, or the broad appeal of the Black Keys, who make classic jams that father and son and mother and daughter can all get behind. For the sake of familiarity, White, at 37, could be considered the old-timer in this category, having won and been nominated previously for his work with the White Stripes, the Raconteurs, and Loretta Lynn. The nomination alone is the reward for Fun.
Genre distinctions seem to matter in the album category; when Herbie Hancock's "River: The Joni Letters" was the unlikely victor in 2008, it was a major victory for the jazz world. The same went for the Americana community when the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack won in 2002.
R&B is long overdue. Unless your definition is loose enough to include OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below," which won in 2004, R&B hasn't taken the top honor since Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" in 1977. (Take that, "Frampton Comes Alive!")
The academy also loves a dark horse, as if to mess with our expectations and provide that moment that gets us worked up on social media for a few hours. When Arcade Fire, a popular indie-rock band, won the award in 2011 — besting boldface artists such as Eminem and Lady Gaga — even frontman Win Butler seemed incredulous: "What the hell?" he said as he stepped up to the podium.
An immediate backlash ensued — including the flimsy criticism that the academy should honor mega-selling acts that bring money into the industry — but Arcade Fire's upset win paved the way for this year's nominees. It took the Black Keys more than a decade to break through to the Grammys, winning three of them in 2011 for "Brothers." This year they cracked the top categories, including album of the year, record of the year, best rock performance, best rock song, and best rock album.
Even when the award goes to a questionable choice, sometimes the academy doesn't even nominate a deserving candidate. I maintain that Kanye West's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" was robbed last year and should have bumped Rihanna's "Loud" from the category.
You can't get it right every year. Let's look back at 1985 when Lionel Richie's "Can't Slow Down" triumphed over more deserving heavyweights: "Purple Rain" (Prince & the Revolution), "Born in the U.S.A." (Bruce Springsteen), "She's So Unusual" (Cyndi Lauper), and "Private Dancer" (Tina Turner).
Then again, the academy hasn't exactly been ahead of the curve when it comes to recognizing trailblazers. In 1964, the year the British Invasion forever changed pop music, the best-album nominees the next year included Barbra Streisand, Henry Mancini, the cast recording for "Funny Girl," Al Hirt, and winners Stan Getz and João Gilberto. In other words, it was your parents' idea of album of the year. (The Beatles scored their first album nomination in 1966 for "Help!" – and lost to Frank Sinatra's "September of My Years.")
It's remarkable, then, that more than four decades later, the same category is dominated by artists pushing forward in their respective fields. No matter who wins, none of us should be able to say what Arcade Fire's Butler once uttered: "What the hell?"James Reed can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeJamesReed.


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text: The day after the Boston Marathon bombings, a moribund Mark Wahlberg returned to LA. The actor had been in New York Monday, where he reluctantly attended the premiere of his new movie, "Pain and Gain," just hours after the explosions that killed three and badly wounded dozens of others. "I really didn't even want to come tonight. I hadn't really heard much — I spoke to my mom, and most of my family seems to be OK," the Dorchester native told reporters on the red carpet. "[The Marathon] is such a big event, there's so many people there. It's horrible man. It's [expletive] disgusting, man. I just — I'm very upset." Wahlberg, who has four children with wife Rhea Durham, said he relies on his faith to get him through. "You try to put everything in God's hands and whatever happens here is out of our control and there's a bigger picture," he said. "But it's still obviously upsetting." On Sept. 11, 2001, you'll recall, the actor was booked on Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, but changed his ticket at the last minute to attend the Toronto Film Festival. The flight was the first to hit the World Trade Center.


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Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant has vowed to return to full fitness as he steps up his return from injury, joking that he needs to "get my fat a** in shape".
35-year-old Bryant, who has been with the franchise since they famously traded for his draft rights in 1996, suffered a particularly nasty achilles injury that forced him to undergo surgery in April.
The two-time Olympic gold medalist now faces a race to prove his fitness prior to the start of the 2013/14 campaign, which begins at Staples Center against local rivals LA Clippers on October 29.
Ahead of any possible return, versatile shooting guard Bryant, who is also a two-time NBA Finals MVP, admitted that he needs to increase his conditioning work.
"I've got to get my fat ass in shape. Six months of eating whatever the hell I wanted to eat and not running, stuff like that. I've got to get in shape," Bryant was quoted by Sports Illustrated.
While he asserted his desire to return to optimum physical condition, the 15-time All-Star would not be drawn on an exact return date.
"I'm just keeping it all open right now. I don't know why you guys are so hellbent on timelines. It's like the most ridiculous thing to me, it's entertaining. When I'm ready, I'm ready," he added.
The Lakers, who endured a season of considerable struggle last year as a succession of injuries led them to only just make the playoffs, got their preseason campaign off to a satisfying start on Wednesday evening with a tense 90-88 win over the Denver Nuggets.
Mike D'Antoni's charges return to action on Thursday evening against the Sacramento Kings in Las Vegas.


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Teamlist Tuesday is here with #NRL Teamlists and officials for Round 12 confirmed.
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Brisbane are sweating on the fitness of representative fullback Karmichael Hunt, who is in doubt for Friday night's Queensland derby with the Cowboys.
Hunt, who escaped a careless high tackle charge at the judiciary on Wednesday night, may still miss the clash with a knee injury.
He failed to train again on Thursday and will be reassessed before kick-off Friday.
Broncos assistant coach Ivan Henjak said Hunt was close to being able to play.
If Hunt fails to come up to scratch Darius Boyd will shift to fullback, where he played as an Australian schoolboy, and speed machine Denan Kemp will go to the wing.
Brisbane have enjoyed a perfect start to the season while the Cowboys enter the clash under extreme pressure having lost their opening two games to the Titans and Wests Tigers.
Brisbane will welcome back hooker Michael Ennis, who will start off the bench behind in-form PJ Marsh.