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I think it's important to offer out a promise to the reader, Sutton says. It's a kind of quintessentially American thing. What distinguishes crossovers like Begley is the level of scientific detail behind the promise. The guru has given way to the data setas explicated by journalists eager to break the constraints of a shrinking medium by pitching their discoveries directly to the masses. And where yesterday's healers had their Esalen Institute and Hazelden, journalists and scientist-writers have lecture circuits. TED, says Sutton, is sort of like the new Oprah.
An increasing segment of the market wants to read about the synthesis of different modalities, says Loewenthal. What she means to say, probably, is that we are in a new era of mass self-help, wherein the laboratory and the writer work together to teach us how to change ourselves, rather than our world. Take the latest subgenre, Positive Psychology. Like so many movements of the past, it began as the province of professionals pursuing greater knowledge or maybe better policyuntil it was brought down to Earth by an enterprising hand-holder. Her name is Gretchen Rubin, and she's also on Amazon's self-help best-seller list, with her 2009 book, The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun. It's full of data, but chummily narrated within the framework of a memoir. It bears all the hallmarks of contemporary self-help, including its shyness about the label. (Rubin's first book was actually a parody of self-help.) But for all its modern pretensions, it focuses, like all the enduring best sellers, on a chronic and incurable American flaw: unhappiness.


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Wonderful news!
If you are on Twitter or Instagram or Tumblr, you have already been bombarded by me with this news. But I'm going to announce it yet again. Just in time for gift giving, HarperCollins UK has brought out a lovely 20th anniversary edition of Assassin's Quest, the third book in the Farseer Trilogy. Handsomely bound and printed on good quality paper, it features interior art by John Howe. You can enter to win a copy via Instagram. Or you can refuse to play the odds, and simply purchase one here at the Harper Collins UK site.
But wait, there's more!
This has previously only been available as a hardback. Soon to be released is a paperback edition, still featuring the incredible illustrations by Jackie Morris. The process by which Jackie came to do cover art for the UK books is a tale full of serendipity; you can read it here! The Wilful Princess and the Piebald Prince recounts a lost bit of Buck and Six Duchies history. How is it that the royal bloodline occasionally produces a child with an affinity for the Wit? And how did such a useful magic come to be so despised?
This paperback is now available for pre-order.

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This week, Jamie Foxx, movie star and recording artist, will mentor the American Idol Season 9 Top 4 as they take on the Songs of the Cinema. If you'll recall, Foxx mentored the Top 5 last year for Rat Pack week.
On the Wednesday night results show, Daughtry will perform their new single, "September." Bon Jovi is also set to perform
Each of the four – Crystal Bowersox, Lee DeWyze, Casey James and Michael Lynche will sing a solo. But, the 4 contestants will also pair up to sing a duet.
Duets for tonight! Crystal Bowersox/Lee Dewyze and Casey James/Mike Lynche! What do you think of that?
Another development: The list of songs have been expanded from 34 to 50. And man, the list is full of re-treads! Yikes. Not liking this list so much… Why are there so many bad 80's songs on it?
New songs on the list include Prince's "Purple Rain", which is notable, because Prince rarely clears his songs for Idol. (He allowed fellow Minnesotan, Paris Bennett, to sing "Kiss" back in Season 5.) And there are songs nobody wants covered on Idol again, like "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Falling Slowly".
The sixteen additional songs don't improve the original list, that's heavy on cinema cheese and total WTF? Should be an amusing night.
So, what do you think the Idols should sing? Check out the list and leave your comments below!
* (Everything I Do) I Do It For You – Bryan Adams
* (I've Had) The Time of My Life – Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
* A Whole New World – Brad Kane & Lea Salonga
* Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In – The 5th Dimension
* Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do) – Christopher Cross
* Beauty and the Beast – Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson
* Bohemian Rhapsody – Queen
* Can I Have This Dance – Vanessa Hudgens, Zac Efron & the Cast of HS Musical
* Can You Feel the Love Tonight – Elton John & London Community Gospel Choir
* Can't Fight the Moonlight – LeAnn Rimes
* Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins
* Don't You Forget About Me – Simple Minds
* Endless Love – Lionel Richie & Diana Ross
* Evergreen – Barbra Streisand
* Eye of the Tiger – Survivor
* Falling Slowly – Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova
* Flashdance (What a Feeling) – Irene Cara
* Footloose – Kenny Loggins
* Gangsta's Paradise – Coolio
* Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr.
* Gonna Fly Now (Theme From Rocky) – Bill Conti
* Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman – Bryan Adams
* I Believe I Can Fl – R. Kelly
* I Don't Want to Miss a Thing – Aerosmith
* I Will Always Love You – Whitney Houston
* I'm Alright (Theme from Caddyshack) – Kenny Loggins
* Into the West – Howard Shore and Annie Lennox
* Iris – Goo Goo Dolls
* It Might Be You (from Tootsie) – Stephen Bishop
* Jai Ho – A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah et al
* Jailhouse Rock – Elvis Presley
* Kiss From a Rose – Seal
* Let the Riverrun – Carly Simon
* Live and Let Die – Wings
* Lose Yourself – Eminem
* Moon River (from Moon River) – Audrey Hepburn & Henry Mancini
* Mrs Robinson – Simon & Garfunkle
* My Heart Will Go On – Celine Dion
* One Night Only – Jennifer Hudson, Deena Jones & The Dreams
* Over the Rainbow – Judy Garland
* Purple Rain – Prince & the Revolution
* Separate Lives – Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
* Stayin' Alive – Bee Gees
* Summertime – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
* Superfly – Curtis Mayfield
* Take My Breath Away (Love Theme from Top Gun) – Berlin
* Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
* We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome) – Tina Turner
* Will You Be There – Michael Jackson
* You'll Be in My Heart – Glenn Close & Phil Collins
This week, Idol hopefuls salute the golden hits of the silver screen, making their selections from the magical movie songs on the above playlist. Click the "Songs From the Movies" box below to download these great songs as singles, or download all - with just one click - as a special American Idol "Songs from the Movies" album.
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Eebster the Great wrote:Yeah, my "want" vowel varies from "wand" to "font" depending on context.
I use the same vowel in "wand" and "font", /ɑ/. my "want" rhymes with "punt" and "hunt" rather than "font" or "taunt". the rare word "wont" I would pronounce to rhyme with "font" and "taunt", /wɑnt/.


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6. Thin and Light - thinner and lighter cameras are nice because they can fit into your pocket and you will be more likely to bring the camera and snap that great picture.
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8. Internal Zoom vs. External Mechanical - Some cameras use a special zoom lens that does not have external moving parts and are less prone to damage. You will see the lens is sealed behind protective glass instead of protruding out when zooming.
9. Watch out for DIGITAL ZOOM - if you see a camera that says something like 3x optical zoom and 20x digital zoom, do not get too excited. The digital zoom worsens the quality significantly and in most cases cannot be used to create a decent picture.
10. Shutter Lag and Startup Time - Some cameras (especially older ones) can suffer from a problem called shutter lag, which is the time it takes from when you press the shutter release button to when the camera actually snaps a picture. This can become extremely annoying if you miss your shot and is why Digital SLR cameras are becoming more popular because they shoot almost instantly. (to avoid shutter lag, hold the button half way to focus, then way you press all the way it will shoot more rapidly). Startup times vary among cameras and should be tested since this can mean getting your shot or NOT. Review sites like www.imaging-resource.com post detailed information like this on their reviews and is a great resource.
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text: Head Girl Georgie reports on today's assembly and this year's RAG day: 'As hopefully many of you are aware, this year's RAG day run by the Prefects is themed 'Alice in Neverland', a mixture of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan. The Prefects want to put more emphasis on the charity aspect this year, as RAG stands for 'raising and giving'. Therefore we arranged for Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) to come into our assembly today and give a talk about the amazing work this charity does. As the rights of Peter Pan were given to GOSH in 1927 by J.M. Barrie, this will be the main charity we are supporting this coming RAG day.'


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We're a week away from Black Friday and the task of holiday shopping. For many, this means gearing up for the chaos of early morning sales (and for them, we have a fine selection of safety gear to wear to the occasion). For an increasing number of people (up to 47% in latest surveys, higher than any type of retail store), online shopping is the primary way to buy gifts. If you're doing your holiday shopping online, why wait until next week? The sales have already begun and there's no reason not to get started.
Our holiday doorbusters are in full swing, with 30 items to make people of all ages happy, at a price to make your wallet even happier. All of them are worth a look, but there are a few that should be big hits, including an NFL Post-ItDispenser for just $6.99.
Other popular stocking stuffers will include a 4 GB flash drive for $4.99 and an LED flashlight for $5.99. Heck, order this cross stitch kit and you can make the stocking yourself! It's one of many crafting supplies now available, as is this jewelry tool kit. It won't fit in a stocking, but this mesh chair is both comfortable and functional, and priced at under $100. Movie fans around the office will also appreciate a red Swingline stapler.
Finally, a present for the whole office will be an OfficePRO Keurig coffee machine and a set of K-Cups. The deals run through December, but are available now, so get your shopping started!


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FORT SMITH, Ark. - Eyesore, no more. The existing steel structure at the Mercy River Valley campus is coming down and in approximately two years a $42 million, 24-bed orthopedic hospital will stand in its place.
Previous owners halted construction in May 2009 on the current structure at 3501 W.E. Knight Drive. Mercy acquired the campus in February 2011 and announced plans last August to do initial planning and design work on the site. This work led Mercy to the decision to start from scratch.
"It's been three years since this project stopped, and we need to start fresh to incorporate design elements important to our patients, community and Mercy. We only have one shot at this, and we want to get it right," said Ryan Bader, Mercy planning, design and construction manager. "It will also give us the opportunity to create additional shell space, allowing for future growth to serve the community for years to come."
It will take two to three months to tear down the existing steel and reset the foundation. During this time, Mercy will work with physicians, clinical staff and a community advisory group to finalize the plans for the new hospital. The focus will be on taking care of adults who need joint replacement surgery but are otherwise healthy. From pre-surgical consultation to post-surgical rehab, patients will get streamlined service to help them return to their busy lives as soon as possible.
"This hospital is the final piece of the puzzle at the Mercy River Valley musculoskeletal campus," said Dr. Keith Bolyard, Mercy medical director of orthopedic services. "We can already take care of kids, injuries, work-related accidents and recreational athletes at this location. Now, we can serve baby boomers in need of inpatient procedures like knee, hip and shoulder replacements. A facility of this caliber will also help us attract more top-notch orthopedic surgeons who will continue to take care of our community as it ages."
Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, are an estimated 76 million strong – about 26 percent of the population. As these Americans age and enjoy longer life spans, the need for orthopedic services is projected to increase dramatically. Health care think tank Sg2 estimates the number of inpatient orthopedic procedures done in Arkansas alone will increase 22 percent by 2019.
"We are creating a destination for the kind of orthopedic care that will be in demand in the near future," said Ryan Gehrig, president of Mercy Hospital Fort Smith. "There will also be a clear economic impact on the community. We estimate the new hospital will employ 100 to 125 people when it's complete, and that's not including the construction work over the next two years."
Mercy Orthopedic Hospital is part of Mercy's $192 million community master plan. The plan is designed to recruit and retain doctors, build infrastructure and upgrade technology over the next seven years. The goal is to ensure patients can stay close to home for medical care instead of having to travel out of the community for services.
Mercy Fort Smith includes the 373-bed Mercy Hospital as well as critical access hospitals in Paris, Waldron and Ozark. It also includes Mercy Clinic with more than 90 providers in 19 specialties across the region. Mercy Fort Smith is part of Mercy – the nation's sixth largest Catholic health care system.


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09 Sept 2007
Joslyn Park
Meeting called to order @ 4:09 by Ted W.
Board members
In attendance:
Ted Winterer
Mary Hubbell
Dana Ehrlich
Joel Brand
Dennis Allard
Jeff Jarow
Jan Ludwinski
Pauline Bohannon
Lori Nafshun
Bob Taylor
Susan Lewis
Jacob Samuel
Mary Marlow
Arlene Hopkins
Secretary's note: There was no August 2007 meeting due to lack of quorum. A presentation re: The Village was made by Sarah LeJeune on 12 August.
Pre-business meeting presentations
Kate Mottola and Corey Russell of the American Red Cross of Santa Monica made a presentation about disaster preparedness.
Officers from the SMPD's Homeless Liaison Program (HLP) made a presentation about their efforts to combat vagrancy and homelessness.
1) Introduction to OPA
2) New items
There is a desire to agendize board attendance.
ACTION: Jan L. will generate attendance records
Glow, first night art event (Mary H)
Agendize discussion of Joslyn park mural
Agendize discussion of hospitality status
Agendize calendar discussion
3) Brief Announcements
9 Nov @ SMASH the SMMUSD Supervisor
Alt car expo
Procedure clarification: If someone wants to have an email blast about an issue then it is incumbent on them to draft the email and submit it to the President or the Website committee chair who will then issue it
4) Prior Meeting Minutes
Approved with one correction
5) Board Actions Since Last Regular Board Meeting
Letter sent to CC expressing concern re: airport runway safety
6) Information Items
7) Previous Actions
Ted to follow-up with Jan
8) Membership
Unclear that all memberships are being logged promptly.
ACTION: Jeff J., as Membership Chair, must determine a procedure for how all the memberships will be logged, including those memberships that come via US mail, PayPal, or directly to a board member.
9) Annual Beach Clean-up
Looking for volunteers
Motion to allocate $200 for HTB clean-up on Saturday, passed unanimously
10) ZJ's mural
No additional information form Bob T. or Jacob S.
11) Livability of OP- Committee reports
OP Blvd: Will be meeting with Eileen Fogarty. Need also to keep pushing the OP Blvd petition
Main Street: No report. Jacob has not been able to attend last three meetings.
Traffic and Parking: No report
Lincoln Blvd: Inactive
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General Plan- next meeting end of July. Mary needs more committee members.
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Nominating Committee: Nominations close next Friday
ACTION: Ted to email membership to solicit nominations
ACTION: Jan to verify who's up for re-election
Annual meeting scheduling: weekend before Thanksgiving?
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The question, once again, was
I don't think fantasy and reality are diametric opposites; any fantasy has some elements of reality; and, often enough, some reality has elements of fantasy. Dreams use real places, places and people you know; just as well, during the 9–11 attacks I was working on Manhattan, and at around noon I began walking up 5th Avenue — right up the center of the street — which is usually packed with cars but had become a pedestrian zone, more or less. The entire mid-town area resembled a movie set. Talk about fantasy meeting reality and taking over!
Otherwise, as a novelist, I am so steeped in "the make believe" on a daily basis that, quite frankly and with no apologies, except for the reality time I spend with my wife, I don't care if the building I've just left falls down behind me; in the grand scheme of time and dis-obligation, it and me and "we all" simply don't matter. But literature and its characters live on.
My newest novel is MAX, THE BLIND GUY and is available at Amazon and your neighborhood bookstore chain. A story rife with modern perils – too much time, too much money, just enough libido, secrets revealed – Max and Greta Ruth don't wait for what the future may bring.
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The wedding date has been set! The marriage of the royal couple is on April 29 2011, start time 11:00 am, Westminster Abbey. In this post, Jamie looks at the horoscope for the wedding ceremony and the aspects to William and Kate's Charts, then Marina looks at the synastry between the royal couple.
The Sun trine Pluto is favorable indicating the power of this couple, obviously they have a magnetically attractive quality. The Moon is tightly square the Lunar Nodes so relationships between families may be a cause of tension, especially among the women.
Communication in the marriage is ruled by Mercury, and this is opposite Saturn so there is some difficulty here in fully expressing what's on their minds. An inability to be totally open and honest about their concerns could lead to arguments or periods of annoying silence.
Venus is love and she is not too happy in this chart. Like Mercury, she is opposite Saturn so there may be restriction in expressing love and affection in the marriage. Venus is also square Pluto bringing the possibility of these restricted affections causing a major problem. These square and oppositions will force the issue, something to be continually worked on. Pluto is about evolution, and trine the Sun suggests they will work on this issue and the relationship will grow.
Mars is desire and sex, and conjunct Jupiter is mighty fine, they have lucked out here! This is the ultimate in success aspects, very fortunate. A sexy and successful couple. I will update this interpretation once the ceremony has taken place.
Update 29 April 2011: Pronounced man and wife at 11:20 am.
Royal Wedding Horoscope
Aspects to Prince William's Horoscope
The January Solar Eclipse is conjunct his South Node, a past life love? The December Lunar Eclipse is conjunct his Descendant, the marriage partner, perfect! North Node conjunct his Neptune sounds like a dream relationship.
The dreamy and romantic theme spirals into outer space now, Neptune is trine his Sun and Jupiter, making a grand trine with his natal Sun trine Jupiter. Venus is opposite his Mars which will spice up the romance, may add some tension in the bedroom but this won't hurt things too much given the Mars Jupiter conjunction in the wedding chart.
Mercury is square his lunar Nodes which reinforces the communication difficulties for him from the wedding chart, especially with family relationships. The Moon is sextile his Venus Chiron conjunction on Algol. This is most important because this conjunction is the apex of the Yod in his chart. He will get emotional support from this marriage for that deep wound in his soul.
Aspects to Kate Middleton's Horoscope
The April Full Moon is conjunct her Pluto, an intense, powerful and life-changing experience. The Quarter Moon a few days before the wedding in conjunct her Mercury, busy busy!, Won't be able to sit still, so much running around and communications, very nervous. This does put a focus on how she expresses herself in the relationship, reinforcing the importance of this that was shown in the wedding chart. It seems it is Kate who has to work on being as open as she can to William about how she feels.
Like William, the North Node is also on her Neptune, how romantic, a spiritual union. Pluto sextile her Jupiter means this relationships gives large-scale success, material and spiritual growth and happiness.
Saturn is on her Mars, controlling her desires. Hard work and patience, may have some difficulty getting what she wants. Some frustration and not getting her way all the time. Mars and Jupiter are opposite her Saturn, so this really does reinforces this frustration of desires, and the inhibition in expressing what see wants and needs. Venus conjunct her Mars would sound sexy on it's own, great for passion. However because Saturn is opposite her Mars this may be a hindrance. This is definitely a major issue for Kate to work on in this relationship.
The Sun is square her Venus and opposite her Jupiter, another challenge to her happiness and ability to have her desires for love and affection fulfilled. Fortunately the Moon is trine her Pluto, and given that the Full Moon was conjunct her Pluto, this does suggest that like William, she will also get very strong emotional support from this relationship.
William and Kate Synastry
So let's look at their compatibility using synastry techniques. Do the Royals tick the astrological boxes? The first thing I usually consider in a synastry reading is a couples shared karma by looking at the double-aspects or double whammys. Eg. A's Sun trine B's Moon and B's Sun Opposed A's Moon. The more double whammy's the more likely they have had many past lives together. The more lives, the more karma has been built up and the more powerful the attraction for good or ill.
I have found none at all! I do use tight orbs and only the Ptolemaic aspects plus the quincunx, but I usually find at least 4 or 5. Of course we are missing the angles, vertex and part of fortune for Kate, but still…None! Maybe they just don't have any karmic baggage and this is a brand new relationship for them both.
Then I look at what I consider to be great relationship aspects. We don't get many here either, but they are good ones:
Kate's Venus trine William's Mars.
Kate's Moon conjunct William's North Node
William's Moon trine Kate's Jupiter
William's Venus sextile Kate's North Node
There are no classic Sun and Moon aspects but could have two aspects to make up for if. If Kates time is between 9am and 3pm, then her Moon is within orb of being on Williams North Node. So it is the future that is pulling them together! She is his destiny. Their union is about creating shiny new karma. Her Moon would also be trine Williams Part of Fortune. The POF is the souls happiness and is made up of the Sun, Moon and AC. One person's luminaries harmoniously in tune with another's AC is good news. This is all speculation however, without these connections, the next ones could be extremely problematic..
Williams Venus is sextile Kates North Node gives her soul development loving support, BUT his Pluto is squaring her Nodes at the same time. Unless her Moon really is conjunct his North Node, William would have way too much of the power in this relationship and it would take a very strong woman to hold her own. The Venus/Mars is what all couples want and it's a trine, thank God for that! Her love calms down their flammable Mars conjunct Mars.
Synastry Venus Yod
Wooo! This is the doozy, Williams Venus on Algol, is quincunx both Kate's Pluto and Neptune. Making a very tight spellbinding Yod. This is very potent, but it could go very wrong. It's either going to be totally magical or potentially extremely toxic.
One bit at a time. Venus quincunx Neptune in synastry is total fairytale, soulmate dream-love. It's fantastically euphoric, but sometimes this love does not fare too well in the real world. When grim domesticity shatters the rose-tinted mirage of Neptune the disappointment may be too great to bear. The couple can resort to taking drink or drugs in order to maintain the state of bliss.
The other quincunx is to Pluto, a compelling sexual attraction. This has also obsessive overtones, especially with the quincunx which has that electric type of energy. It's enormously creative with Neptune and magically mysterious. Occult love. Now William of course has this Yod in his own chart, so he is going to share this aspect with a lot of his classmates. But not all their Moons are going to fall on his North Node. If hers indeed does.
For Kate however the Yod is enough by itself. Not many men are going to Yodify her Neptune Pluto sextile in this way and certainly not many with Venus on Algol. For her she could get addicted to the glamorous lifestyle this brings. Neptune/Venus is definitely beautiful fashion photographs, so I expect her to outdo Diana in this regard.
Long term
Williams's Saturn is square both Kate's Sun and Moon which is a tad too co-dependant for my liking. He could get far too cold and stern with her over time. But on the plus side, this is pretty good relationship glue despite the square. Maybe this is the realism they need to balance out that yod.
We can also see how Kate experiences William through the overlay of her planets on his house wheel. Her Moon in his 8th using whole sign houses. This works like a Hades Moon, so he is transforming and an intense lover for her. Quite overpowering for her at times. Emotionally this is really heavy going. With his Pluto squaring her nodes too and the Pluto quincunx Venus, she really needs to be a real Warrior Queen. This would be an Eris type woman who would relish in the drama and get-off on the adrenalin-rush this kind of relationship can bring.
UPDATE! I wrote this back when we didn't know Kate's time.


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Asking home prices rose 0.3% quarter-over-quarter in January, illustrating the ongoing strength of the housing recovery, Trulia (TRLA) said in a new report.
Prices rose 2.2% quarter-over-quarter on a seasonally adjusted basis and 0.9% month-over-month from December, reflecting the highest gain since the price recovery began. Year-over-year, home prices saw a 0.9% bump overall and a 6.5% increase when excluding foreclosures.
"In many local markets today, dramatic price gains can mask serious red flags," said Jed Kolko, Trulia's chief economist. "Strong job growth, low vacancy rate, and low foreclosure inventory–not huge price gains–are signs of a healthy housing market. Without strong underlying market fundamentals, price rebounds might be here today, but gone tomorrow."
Conversely, markets like Chicago continue to struggle without strong market fundamentals and relatively low price gains.
Rent gains dropped below asking price increases at the national level for the first time since the price recovery began last spring.
Rents rose 4.1% in January year-over-year, slowing somewhat from 4.7% in July 2012. On a more minor scale, rent gains cooled the most in San Francisco, which only saw a 2.4% increases versus 11.5% in July 2012.
"Rent gains are slowing down because of more supply, not less demand," explained Jed Kolko, Trulia's chief economist. "Many of the multi-unit buildings that have been under construction over the past two years are now coming onto the market. Renters in San Francisco, Seattle and Denver are starting to get a touch of relief, even though rising prices might put homeownership out of their reach."
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Loom boom: the fad that refuses to fade
This summer, children will be trailing elastic circles everywhere they go – just look down at the ground. What's going on?
They come in waves: collectible doohickeys that fixate schoolchildren, vex teachers and keep corner shops in business. From figurines to trading cards, a play craze operates in rough biannual cycles, and the best you can hope for is not to invest too late and wind up with a dozen souped-up spinning tops that nobody wants any more.
I knew we were peaking in April when my daughter Lucille's teacher announced that Rainbow Looms were banned from the classroom.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, look down. See any tiny, broken rubber bands in Day-Glo pink or glitter green? If not, you must be in an adult venue, because this summer's children leave trails of elastic circles everywhere they go. They lodge in floorboards, fill vacuum-cleaner bags and colonise washing machines.
The bands – which look like the ones children used to wear in their mouths before orthodontics got classy – are used to weave bracelets in a variety of patterns using a small plastic loom or, more often, nimble little fingers.
Made in Detroit
They were invented in 2010 in a Detroit basement by a Malaysian immigrant, Cheong-Choon Ng (see panel below), who convinced his wife to gamble their daughters' college fund on a prototype. In the intervening years he has sold millions of looms and billions of bands.
So what's the attraction? In my house, it started with my seven-year-old fiddling about with rubber bands she had brought home from school. She was grimly determined to make something of them, and I couldn't help. Pressure to buy a loom kit mounted. Several emptyings of the dishwasher later, I finally agreed to buy her a starter kit, by which time they were all sold out. Cue tiny rage.
It took a couple of weeks for the shops to catch up with demand. In that time Lucille had learned to produce quite sophisticated bracelets using only her fingers. She was absorbed.
My girl is no slacker but I have never seen her apply this level of concentration to anything before. She can spend hours watching looming tutorials online and trying to copy them. One particular pattern evaded her many times, but she kept going back and trying again. At one point I tried to help, but this is fidgety fingerwork of the sort that fills the swear jar. I left her at it.
Boys join the fray
It turns out that this fad is gender-neutral, however; after months of mock-indifference, my son grudgingly asked for a demo. Now he's looming away, in colours to reflect World Cup teams mostly. He says some of his friends have managed to loom animal shapes and pencil grips. One lad is reportedly attempting a quilt.
I thought that when school finished the looming would peter out, but now I'm not so sure. A week into the holidays and she is still going through bands like a whale through plankton. Just this week I took her on yet another trip to the bargain shop to spend more of her birthday money on bags of bands. I couldn't believe my eyes. What was once a small rack of loom bands had grown to a whole section. I did a rough tot: in this one Dublin shop they must have had 250,000 individual bands in stock.
They come in neon, in camouflage, in metallics and sparkles. They are themed for TV shows such as Twilight and football teams such as Manchester United. Hurry on, Ryanair, you're missing a trick.
There's a pile of rubber bracelets mounting by my bedside, and each morning brings a new variation, loomed at who knows what hour of the night.
The right to not-bare arms
Lucille's arms seethe with dozens of bracelets in a pasty white undergrowth of latex-dependent bacteria. That's just our house. Who can imagine how many billions of little bands are clogging up the dumps and drains of the world?
That will be the next story: the environmental fallout. How long before we see the first baby seahorse strangled by a tiny pink rubber band?
By then the kids will be ready to move on to the next thing, and I will have to find room for this rubber mountain in our graveyard of Silly Bands, Moshi Monsters, Bakugans and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. If only I could be the next Cheong-Choon Ng and build an empire from my basement with my kids' college fund. But that would require a basement, and a college fund, and in my case both are consumed by the last big thing rather than the next.
Around this time last year, Cheong-Choon Ng finally secured the patent for his craft sensation, the Rainbow Loom. The story of Ng, a Malaysian immigrant who moved to the US in the 1990s to raise and educate himself and his family, is a classic tale in the land-of-opportunity tradition.
Ng created the first loom in his Detroit basement using a wooden board, thumb tacks and dental hooks. He got the idea from watching his two daughters craft bracelets from rubber bands using their hands. He thought they could create more intricate jewellery with a multilayered loom, and he was right.
The family had $10,000 put by for their daughters' college fund, but they decided to spend the money on the production of a prototype and the first run of plastic Rainbow Looms.
Using Ng's little plastic loom and hook, "loominaires" can create bracelets, rings and anklets from tiny rubber bands. The loom was not an overnight success; at first Ng had problems explaining it to retailers and potential users. Then Youtube became part of the story. Ng couldn't make his idea take off until his daughter began posting videos demonstrating how the loom worked. A quick search today turns up hundreds of loom demos, some with 20 million hits. More than three million of Ng's looms have sold around the world. David Beckham, Harry Styles and Kate Middleton have all been photographed wearing loom bracelets.
Countless knock-offs are circulating : last August, Ng sued rival Zenacon LLC, claiming it copied the Rainbow Loom's C-Clip, which is used to fasten bracelets together.
Rubber bands are harder to patent, and the looms are often cast aside as children learn to loom with their fingers. The Rainbow Loom set costs €17-€20. However, you can pick up knock-off versions in bargain shops for €2-€10. Bags of bands with C-Clips and hooks can be purchased for as little as 99 cent.
Ng has said in interview that he initially wanted to manufacture the product in the US, but it would have cost $12,000 to get the first run of looms made in Detroit, and he only had $10,000, so he tracked down a facility in China where Rainbow Looms are now manufactured in their millions.


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The company's interim artistic director, Alexandra Damiani, explained post-show yesterday why the New York-based Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has such an interesting name. It's a long story and they don't rehearse next to a lake. But now ten years old, the company has gained an impressive reputation and sense of style. "Let's go to the lake," say audience members in reference to their performances.
Their latest triple bill, at Sadler's Wells this evening and then touring across the UK, shows a diversity of both choreographic styles and of new and existing works. Opening the programme is Jiří Kylián's Indigo Rose. Originally created in 1998 for Nederlands Dans Theater, it has four sections – two of which are vibrant and pulsating, with the others lingering and more intimate. It is in the former that the choreography really shines and dancers show off their remarkable technique – playing with the music and seeming only to stop momentarily when suspended mid-air during jumps. Ending with the performers ceasing to move and extended black and white video of close-ups, the final moments are anticlimactic, but the unrelenting energy of earlier in the work lingers in the mind as the curtain closes.
Crystal Pite's Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue conveys some interesting ideas and character relationships but failed to maintain our engagement throughout. Most captivating was the image of a Zen-like woman slowly walking forward while a man running behind struggled frantically to catch up.
The final work by Norwegian choreographer Jo Strømgren was undoubtedly the highlight and finishes the evening on a high note. Necessity, Again begins with washing lines, with numerous pieces of paper pegged to them, being pulled across the stage. Papers were then thrown around the performing area, on top of which the cast suddenly leapt into action, dancing jubilantly to an upbeat 1960s French song.
With further dance sections to more exuberant tunes interspersed with serious voiceovers discussing necessity, the piece conveyed exactly that joyous Friday feeling that you get after a tough week in the office. "Necessity is the drive," says the voiceover as the dancers shake their hips and fly through the air. Indeed, the necessity to buy tickets to performances such as this is why we go to work and it's definitely worth a 'trip to the lake' if you've got some time off this weekend.
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is at Sadler's Wells 28 September only, 7.30pm. Tickets priced £12-£27. Londonist received a complimentary ticket to review this performance.
Pictured: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in Indigo Rose / Photo by Jane Hobson


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Correction Appended
Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut has apologized for remarks he made praising Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia as a leader for any time, even the Civil War, despite Mr. Byrd's past membership in the Ku Klux Klan and his efforts to derail the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Mr. Dodd, in comments Wednesday to The Associated Press and The Hartford Courant, said he had not carefully chosen his remarks, which came in a bipartisan tribute on April 1 to Mr. Byrd, a fellow Democrat, on the casting of his 17,000th vote in the Senate.
When senator after senator -- including Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Bill Frist of Tennessee, the Republican majority leader -- praised Mr. Byrd as a national treasure, Mr. Dodd said, ''I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great senator at any moment.''
He added: ''He would have been right at the founding of this country. He would have been in the leadership crafting this Constitution. He would have been right during the great conflict of Civil War in this nation. He would have been right at the great moments of international threat we faced in the 20th century.''
Mr. Dodd, 59, who is serving his fourth term, told The A.P. on Wednesday that ''if in any way, in my referencing the Civil War, I offended anyone, I apologize.''Continue reading the main story
Mr. Dodd said he was trying to say Mr. Byrd was a good senator and had not thought of his membership in the Klan or his stance on the 1964 Civil Rights bill.
Mr. Dodd's office did not make him available for an interview yesterday but released this statement: ''Senator Dodd has enormous respect for the African-American community and that is why yesterday he apologized both privately and publicly for his poor choice of words. His apology was heartfelt and there is really nothing more to add.''
Mr. Byrd, 86, has said he joined the Klan in 1942, when he was 24 years old, and resigned the next year. He has called his association with the group a mistake and has said his opposition to the civil rights bill was one of his biggest regrets in his 45-year Senate career.
A spokesman for Mr. Byrd said the senator had no comment on the matter.
''They are friends and will remain friends for many years to come,'' said Tom Gavin, the spokesman.
Conservative commentators have seized on Mr. Dodd's remarks in the last two weeks, putting pressure on the senator to offer a response. In news releases, on radio and television programs and on the Internet, some commentators compared Mr. Dodd's Civil War comments to those of Senator Trent Lott, who lost his position as majority leader in 2002 after making what many considered racially insensitive remarks at a party celebrating former Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday.
Mr. Lott, a Republican from Mississippi, said the country would have been better off if Mr. Thurmond, a South Carolina Republican who campaigned on a segregationist platform, had won the presidency in 1948. Mr. Thurmond died last June 26.
Project 21, a coalition of African-American conservatives, called on Mr. Dodd to resign. The group had also urged Mr. Lott to step down from his leadership post.
David W. Almasi, the director of Project 21, said Mr. Dodd's apology was a step in the right direction ''but not something he would have accepted from Trent Lott.''
But there were no signs that Democratic or Republican leaders see the same parallel, as they have been quiet on the matter in the two weeks since Mr. Dodd made the statements. Civil rights leaders in Washington and Connecticut also have not criticized Mr. Dodd, who has called several of them to explain his remarks.
Hilary Shelton, the N.A.A.C.P.'s chief lobbyist in Washington, said Mr. Dodd had called him to apologize ''but I didn't think it was necessary quite frankly.'' He said Mr. Byrd and Mr. Dodd have consistently supported the group's goals, while Mr. Lott and Mr. Thurmond had not.
Correction: April 20, 2004, Tuesday An article on Friday about a controversy over remarks by Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut praising Senator Robert Byrd, a onetime opponent of civil rights, referred incorrectly to the 1948 presidential campaign of Strom Thurmond, who was at the center of a similar controversy in 2002 that cost Senator Trent Lott his post as majority leader. Mr. Thurmond was the candidate of the States' Rights Party in 1948; he was not yet a Republican.Continue reading the main story


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Explore 2018 Scion XB, performance and technology features. See models and pricing, as well as photos and videos. We reviews the 2018 Scion XB where consumers can find detailed information on specs, fuel economy, transmission and safety.
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Launched recently in Latin America, published on important blogs and newspaper around the region and growing around the world since its release, Eliademy launches its service in Portuguese. This development adds one more to the already extended list of languages available on the platform to reduce limitations to adopting the learning system and make education accessible for all.
Eliademy is a free online classroom service that supports educators and students, allowing them to create, share and manage course. Why is it different from the rest of the platforms? Eliademy brings to the course management and online education an intersection of good design and engineering that engages students and motivates instructors to teach
This tool can be used as a learning environment for universities, schools and organizations, where both parts can establish a participatory communication through the web; thanks to options like image sharing, multiple files on different formats, news feed, notifications and calendar events anytime and anywhere. With these features, teachers can motivate their students in a practical and interactive way that changes the way we learn.
Considering facts like the constant need for better education, innovation coupled with high population and low numbers of teachers in Brazil, Eliademy enables instructors to reach more and more students. A good sign is also that learning through digital technology has received high reception in Brazil.
Aiming to democratize education with technology, and supported by CBTec, a Finnish company founded by ex Nokia-Meego team and developed with top universities, organizations and Finnish students, we now arrive to Brazil and Portuguese speaking countries sharing a common goal: to accomplish constant and advanced improvements to education; being this "the only profession that creates other professions" and thereby, a better society.
Special thanks from the Eliademy team to Francisco Salerno Neto and Romina Correia Scarso, for their valuable contribution and translation of the whole website to Portuguese language, from the words of the great Henry ford: "Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success".


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Shades author EL James has strongly repudiated Trump in the most unambiguous terms.
From Entertainment:
Joe Walsh ✔ @WalshFreedom
If women are so outraged by Trump's dirty talk, then who the hell bought the 80 million copies of "Fifty Shades Of Grey?"Grow up.
E L James ✔ @E_L_James
The word "pussy" does not appear in Fifty Shades of Grey. And it's fiction. You know. FICTION. #LearnTheDifference and #GrowUp @WalshFreedom
In other news, the sexploitation table has been turned on Trump with the publication of a work of erotic fiction featuring the (alleged) sexual predator turned nominee. Apparently it is, ahem, YUUUUGE,
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the success of the story that is. This is not entirely new ground; in the 2008 election cycle, following rumors of a Sarah Palin sex tape, there were xxx rated porn parodies.
Once again, and never more so than 2016, fact is stranger than really strange fiction.
From the Telegraph, UK comes this gem from January of this year, possibly the funniest tangent of the 2016 election cycle:
I can't resist this temptation. Perhaps now is time to revive the earlier photo trend, cat Trump look a likes:
Gay-erotic novel about Donald Trump becomes overnight hit
Comedian's tongue-in-cheek online work dedicated to marijuana and alcohol wins unanimous praise from readersDonald Trump's buccaneering US presidential campaign has cast him in several outlandish guises but none stranger than the one that has become an overnight sensation on Amazon - as the main character of a gay-erotic novel set in one of his own hotels.The billionaire property magnate and Republican front-runner is described with unusual intimacy in Trump Temptations: The Billionaire & The Bellboy, a 10-page novel by Elijah Daniel, a 22-year-old comedian from Los Angeles, that imagines a relationship between Mr Trump and an employee at his hotel in Hong KongTHE NEW 50 SHADES OF GREY! Trump Temptation: The Billionaire & The Bellboy by Elijah Daniel https://t.co/Q4uB8avI2z via @amazon— steviebadd (@steviebadd) January 25, 2016The book was produced in rapid-quick time after Daniel posted a pledge on his Twitter account, @aguywithnolife, which has 95,000 followers.Thereafter, Mr Trump's appeal is described in glowing terms that might not necessarily chime with the feelings of the many supporters who have attended his campaign rallies.i'm going to get drunk tonight and write an entire donald trump sex novel like 50 shades of grey & put it on amazon tomorrow i swear to god.— Elijah Daniel (@aguywithnolife) January 21, 2016
"My loins trembled as the scent of toupee adhesive and spray tan swept through my nasal cavity," the smitten narrator recounts. "It was him. It was Donald! He stood there in front of me, like a tall stallion. With his oily orange skin glistening in the sunlight as if he were a soggy cheeto [sic], his hair unkept and messy, like a gorgeous rat's nest. He was beautiful."It remains to be seen whether the novel is to Mr Trump's taste but it has been given unanimous five-star reviews by 181 customers on Amazon.com's website.
... "After reading this sensual and tawdry account of Mr Trump's escapades in Hong Kong, I'm convinced he can make America great again one bellboy at a time," one reviewer wrote, referring to Mr Trump's own recent book, Crippled America: Make America Great Again.


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By Mike Wise
Thursday, September 30, 2004; Page D13
On the night before baseball came back, Harmon Killebrew eyed the grainy, black-and-white photograph on his den wall. The picture was of him and Ike, taken at old Griffith Stadium on a humid summer afternoon 45 years ago.
"President Eisenhower called me over to his box seats and asked me to autograph a baseball for his grandson David," Killebrew, 68, said Tuesday night from his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. "I asked him to autograph one for me."
Killebrew saw David many years later and asked the grown man if he kept that ball. "You bet I still have it," Ike's grandson said.
In June 1959, eBay was not around to auction off sentimental value, and the nuances and subtleties of the grand old game did not include arbitration and Andro. Back then, Washington had a baseball team. The Senators wore itchy wool and featured a young slugger nicknamed "The Killer," who hit 73 home runs his last two seasons here and never understood why he had to move to Minnesota in 1961.
"I always felt bad when we left," Killebrew said. "We were just starting to become a good ballclub."
About a decade later, Frank Howard felt the same pang. He was Killebrew's cleanup successor for the expansion Senators, a Ruthian figure who stood 6 feet 7 and weighed 255 pounds. In the upper deck of RFK Stadium he dented seats, which had to be repainted. Howard estimates he hit 20 baseballs 500 feet or more -- a pre-supplement Mark McGwire. He and the Senators moved to Texas after the 1971 season.
"I didn't want to go; I had my best years there," Howard said from his Northern Virginia home. "I knew the city and everybody in it. I knew every bar, every restaurant owner and every saloon keeper. And they knew me because I was thrown out of all of them."
Jim Hannan was a right-hander with a hard sinker and nasty slider for those Senators. Today he is a downtown Morgan Stanley stockbroker, carrying around two keepsakes from the past three decades: sappy baseball memories and a torch. At a 5 p.m. City Museum news conference yesterday, Hannan essentially got his girl back.
"I feel like a player again," said Hannan, 64. "It's like getting reactivated. You know, 'Put me in coach, I go the full nine.' "
You talk to the ones who stayed, the ones who left and the ones traded away like Hannan, who came back to live, work and put on free clinics for inner-city children last year at RFK with former Senators Chuck Hinton, Fred Valentine and Jim Coates.
You talk to enough of the old-timers, and you realize a major league team died in Washington 33 years ago. But it was survived by Killebrew, Howard, Hannan and others, men who kept believing the game would return.
"It's the national pastime; it belongs in the nation's capital," said Bob Wolff, 83, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who was the voice of the Senators from 1947 to '60.
Two, three years down the road, when the minor leaguers don't blossom and the great winter free agent still goes to the Yankees, you can get as jaded and cynical as you want. When you see a dilapidated D.C. neighborhood and public schoolchildren more in need of a new library than a $400 million monolith on a waterfront, it should be open season on city officials, everyone who chose image and identity over what truly ailed their town.
But today, when there is no going back on a deal to bring the Montreal Expos to Washington, the old ballplayers get their say.
"I don't know what they're going to call the new team, but I'd like to see them call 'em the Senators," Killebrew said. "It'd seem right."
Or maybe the "Singing Senators." Wolff, who strummed a ukulele on long train rides, coaxed some of the team into harmonizing one night. Roy Sievers, Jim Lemon and other Senators actually appeared on the "Today" show in 1958, crooning for a full 45 minutes. Ballplayers in a barbershop quartet on NBC. Honest.
You ask Wolff if he is interested in play-by-play work again, given that he still works part-time for a cable station on Long Island, the Madison Square Garden network, and is going on his eighth decade in the business.
"No, when my daughter started calling airplanes 'bye-bye Daddies,' I knew I needed to stop traveling," he said. However, Wolff said he will reprise the Singing Senators, but only if Jose Vidro and Livan Hernandez can sing or need spare cash. "Oh, I'm ready to come back with my ukulele."
On the day baseball returned, you also remember when it embarked on a three-decade hibernation.
The beginning of the end came in the fall of 1970, when Hannan was traded to the Detroit Tigers with Eddie Brinkman and Aurelio Rodriguez, the heart of the Senators' infield, and Joe Coleman, a good young starting pitcher. The Senators got four players in return, with Denny McLain as the linchpin. But McLain had nothing left by then. He lost a lot of games and the franchise became a lame duck long before Nixon.
Owner Bob Short, hung in effigy at the last game in 1971, was already positioning to go to Texas. His cash flow was so low, the Tigers gave him a $1 million interest-free loan.
"Ted Williams was managing us and we were turning it around, becoming a semi-contender," Hannan said. "But Short decided he could make more money leaving." The players knew the team was gone when they played an exhibition in Arlington, Tex., the day before their home opener in 1970.
"I thought five, maybe 10 years it would come back," Hannan said. "You'd hear about San Diego and Houston moving here. But every time, nothing. For a while, we believed. Then the belief just became hope.
"Having lived through these 33 years and this on-again, off-again deal, you just can't believe it. All of a sudden, we got a team. We're back."
You talk to enough of the old-time Senators, you realize baseball never left.


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Tickets are available for purchase on the online Summit registration site. Tickets will go fast, so buy early to sit next to your PNWER friends, both old and new!
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Guests staying at The Hyatt Regency Calgary who plan on attending The Calgary Stampede can hop onto one of the C-trains (map here) from the C-train platform located conveniently along the north side of the hotel and just two stops away from the Stampede Grounds. Tickets can be purchased from ticketing machines right at the platform. The cost is $3.15 for adults (18 years +), $2.10 for youth (6 – 17 years) and Free for children 5 years of age and under. The Redline – Somerset-Bridlewood C-Train (South) takes passengers to Victoria Park/Stampede Station, which is located right at the Stampede Grounds. To return to the hotel, Guests can take the Redline – Tuscany C-Train (North) right up to 1st Street SE Station (located across the street from the Hyatt). During Stampede, the C-trains arrive every 5-8 minutes from 6:00am to 12:45am and every 30 mins from 12:45am-5:00am daily. Taxis are also available outside the Hyatt Regency Calgary but are limited in availability at the Stampede Grounds. The walk to the grounds is approximately 20 minutes.
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Feminizing genitoplasty in adult transsexuals: early and
long-term surgical results
Jonathan C. Goddard, Richard M. Vickery, Assad Qureshi, Duncan J. Summerton,
Deenesh Khoosal* and Tim R. Terry
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To examine the early and late surgical outcomes of feminizing genitoplasty (FG) in adult transsexuals in a UK single surgeon practice over a 10-year period.
Computerized and manual databases were searched over the period 1994–2004 to identify patients who had undergone male to female FG. Case-notes were retrieved and analysed to identify epidemiological data, the number and type of perioperative problems, early results at outpatient review, late occurring problems and patient satisfaction. A telephone questionnaire was then conducted targeting all FG patients in our series.
The questions were directed at identifying surgical complications, outcome and patient satisfaction.
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Citation: Departments of Urology and *Psychiatry, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK


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Rehabilitation according to Kozjavkin method makes the difference for Anna's perspective which has changed from lifetime dependence on a wheelchair to walking without aids independently. After 4 courses in 15 months she's capable of standing up and walking up to 15 steps without any support or walking aids.
Walking with her quad canes she improved her abilities from less then 50 meters to over 150 meters in 6 minutes as measured before the 1-st and the 4-th treatment course by her PT.
We are very gratefull to Dr. Kozjavkin and the medical staff for the treatment for changing our daughter's perspective hugely. Also worth mentiowing are the efforts of the non medical staft who make the stay at the clinic for both patients and company as pleasant and comfortable as possible.


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Things I learned over the 5 days I was in Parmy for Michael and Melissa weeding.
-Weddings are very auspicious occasions.
- If your grooving to music in a car, and you to at traffic lights, you might get spotted and luaghed at.
- Tanks are awesome.
- When asked questions by a radio station, "Jesus" can work as an answer.
- Everyone in Parmy has a dog.
- Macdonald's is a great place for grooms to hang out before weddings.
- Ash likes play ultimate frizbe, huarb gardening, jelly westing and country music.
- Jasmine like poking her friends on Facebook, huarb gardening, kite surfing, wide pig hunting and playing doctors and Norse's.
- I have a illustrious male modelling career.
- manual cars really are a lot harder to drive than automatics.
- Michael likes whispering sweet nothings into Melissa ear.
- Auspicious is a cool word.
- Weeding photos are a lot of fun.
- Karen Lau is an great peoet.
- Fi can't remember that much about 1st year cell group, bar that Al had the wrong number of toes.
- Kate and Chris monkey love the IRD.
- Smoking can be dangerous for your health.
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marriage is like a wombat.


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Cats in Savoy test positive for 'rabbit fever'
CHAMPAIGN — Three cats from two households in Savoy have tested positive for tularemia, or "rabbit fever," an infectious disease that has been relatively rare in Illinois.
The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District said the cats were diagnosed in July and September at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine.
The three cases could indicate an increased concern for the disease in the area, health officials warned.
Tularemia is caused by a bacteria found in animals, especially rodents, rabbits and hares, and cats may become infected by preying on those animals or through tick exposure, according to the health district.
Infected cats may have a high fever, mouth ulcers, depression, enlarged lymph nodes and behavioral changes that include not wanting to eat. Cats that have been outdoors and are showing these symptoms need veterinary care.
People can become infected by handling pets or wild animals with tularemia, or by being bitten by ticks or inhaling the organism, health officials said. Symptoms of the disease in people include sudden fever, chills, diarrhea, joint pain, muscle aches, cough and weakness. If you have those symptoms, see your doctor for treatment.
Tips to avoid tularemia from the health district:
— Don't allow your cat to hunt outdoors.
— Make sure your cat is protected from tick bites.
— Report any large die-offs of rodents or rabbits to local animal control officials.
— Wear tick protection outdoors.
— Don't handle or mow over sick or dead animals.
— Cook wild game meat thoroughly before eating it and use gloves when handling it beforehand.


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Libraries in The Digital Age (LIDA). Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, And Inclusion
Libraries in the Digital Age (LIDA) addresses the changing and challenging environment for libraries and information systems and services in the digital world. LIDA is an international biennial conference that brings together researchers, educators, practitioners, and developers from all over the world in a forum for personal exchanges, discussions, and learning, made easier by being held in memorable environs. This year's theme is "Social Justice, Community Engagement and Information Institutions: Access, Diversity, and Inclusion". We welcome papers that address critical and theoretical examination of the theme; present current research and evidence, as well as examination of best practices from the field, and practitioner perspectives and applications.
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- Solid internal aluminum core to ensure maximum structural stability to withstand strong windy conditions.
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Interview with Korg's Hironori FukudaJuly 27, 2012
With Google I/O 2012 a few weeks in the past we finally had time to catch up with Korg's Hironori Fukuda and talk to him about his work at Korg, the Polysix application and his experience working with Miselu.
Please introduce yourself and tell us what it is you do at Korg.
My name is Hironori Fukuda and I have been working in the software development team, which I currently manage, since I started working at Korg. The very first product that I developed was "KORG Legacy Collection", a software plug-in package includes M1, WAVESTATION, MS-20, Polysix, Mono/Poly and MDE-X. I have also co-developed some guitar amp/fx modeling software with VOX Amplification called JamVOX. For several years I have been involved in all the Korg's iPad/iPhone apps such as iELECTRIBE, iMS-20 and iKaossilator.
What intrigued Korg to work with Miselu?
When I first met with the Miselu guys, I was really impressed with their enthusiasm to show the neiro at Google I/O 2012. They seemed really motivated to create a new movement in the music app world and I have to say, I was very interested. A few days later, I received a prototype of the neiro. After spending some time becoming familiar with the neiro, it was really a no-brainer. We decided that it would offer a great opportunity to develop a synthesizer app with a totally new user experience.
How would you describe the experience of porting the application to the Miselu platform?
Looking back, everything went smoothly. The Miselu platform has already been perfectly customized for synthesizer use with low latency audio playback based on their great MusicSDK. Also, I felt that the display size really works well music apps. For example, it behaves just like the top panel of hardware so designing the user interface was very straightforward. It ended up being a much easier port than I had expected.
Korg has been very active on all kinds of platforms in the past. How is the Miselu platform different?
It ended up being somewhat similar to other platforms I've worked on and that's great because for audio developers it means that they can start working on this new platform with their current skills and find that they have a very short development time. The development of Polysix for neiro actually had a very similar approach to how we develop for iOS.
Why did you pick the Polysix as the first application to bring to the Miselu platform?
As it turns out, just when we started working with Miselu, another development team at Korg was developing "Polysix for Reason." It was good timing for us.
What would you like to see from Miselu in the future? What would really excite you?
I really like that neiro is such a software developer-friendly platform and I think that the platform will end up growing far beyond my expectations. It really excites me! I hope that Miselu and Korg will have the opportunity for more interesting collaborations in the future!


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Tate Modern's oil tanks to fuel live art performances
Tate Modern's underground oil tanks are to become the world's first permanent museum galleries dedicated to live art.
The giant chambers will launch with a 15-week arts festival from 18 July, as part of the London 2012 Festival .
"This is an exciting moment for the Tate," said its director Nicholas Serota.
"The Tanks will be the first spaces dedicated permanently to live art installation and performance in any museum building anywhere in the world."
Tate bosses say the work in the Tanks will reflect a greater public appetite to engage with art and artists.
The Tanks are the first phase of a £215 million extension project that will increase Tate Modern's size by 60% by adding 21,000 square metres of new space.
Serota said that 75% of funding - more than £162 million - had been had been raised and he hoped building work would be complete before December 2016.
The project has received £50 million of government money, £7 million from the Greater London Authority and the remainder from private donors who "wish to remain anonymous".
The South and East Tanks originally contained oil that fuelled the power station - now occupied by Tate Modern - and have been unused since it was decommissioned in 1981.
Each one is some 30 metres across and seven metres high.
The giant subterranean spaces will now host live art and film programmes, which have previously been presented in diverse spaces around Tate Modern.
"We will see many more works which involve the spectator," said Tate Modern director Chris Dircon. "There is an incredible appetite for participation."
The opening programme in the East Tank includes a major new commission by South Korean artist Sung Hwan Kimn "which sees him interweave Korean culture, folklore and history, his own personal experiences and fantasy".
The South Tank will host a rolling series of projects including one by Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, who will rework and perform a version of her early work, 1982's Fase: Four Movements to the music of Steve Reich.
London-born artist Eddie Peake, whose previous work includes a choreographed a football game for nude players, will create a new commission that "explores sexuality and voyeurism".
There will also be a 10-day young people's festival called Undercurrent, and families will be invited to take part in a film-making project that will see their works projected onto the circular walls of the Tanks.
The Transformer Galleries, the raw concrete spaces next to the Tanks, will showcase installations of recent major acquisitions of film and performance. These will include Suzanne Lacy's Crystal Quilt 1987, an exploration of the visibility of older women in the media.
"Over the last 10 years we have been responding to the way art and artists have evolved in their thinking," said Serota at Monday's launch.
"The public wishes to engage with these works in a very different way from simply going into a gallery and observing a work on a wall."
The inaugural festival inside the Tanks runs from 18 July to 28 October 2012. Afterwards, the Tanks will be closed during some periods to enable building work on the new galleries above.


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WKND was founded in 1988 after Radio Animal wanted to start a shortwave station and was trying to think of a name and saw a Pittsburgh hotel advertising "WKND Rates!" for the weekend. Since the station would run mostly on the weekends, Animal decided to use 'WKND, Weekend Radio' as a slogan. After some confusion with a Scottish pirate station called Weekend Music Radio, Eddie Egghead Johnson from Voice of Stench came up with 'We're Kanine Dog', and that became the station's forever slogan.WKND had its inaugural broadcast on November 1st 1988 with a 4 hour show that included the musical version of War of the Worlds with Richard Burton, spooky music and IDs, all in a Halloween theme. This was on 1621 KHz, above the mediumwave broadcast band at the time, and reached listeners in the Northeastern US with 60 watts of power from a home made transmitter.In 1989 the station added a shortwave frequency, 6240 to reach more listeners, and this ran 25 watts from a modified Heathkit transmitter. There was a pretty heavy broadcast schedule of several nights a week, and agents from the FCC lucked out and busted the station when they were in town, early 1990.All of this enthusiasm for electronics needed an outlet, and so Animal started to help out other stations technically, and moved to Texas to work on ideas with another radio head, Wild Steve, who had lots of imagination about the possibilities of local FM radio. With Animal's assistance he started a 1/10th watt FM station, WOLF-FM 91.1, which despite covering only one small neighborhood, was discovered by the media and featured on the local TV station and newspaper.With all of that, Texas was a breeding ground for technical knowledge and innovation, and one of Animal's side projects was this self-contained AM transmitter, built to add an AM frequency to WOLF's FM. It had to be small and simple like the FM, just a box to plug in and connect the antenna and audio, making it a radio station.After some experimentation, Animal found that a similar circuit could be used in the shortwave bands too. That's where the prototype of the Grenade transmitter was born, and when Animal moved back to Pennsylvania in 1993, the design was further enhanced and improved into a workable unit.The Grenade's output was 10 watts of carrier in AM, and it's patterned after the way the large AM broadcast transmitters like your favorite talk station are built, with a goal of maximum efficiency and simplicity, clean audio and a small size for portable use. Up until the Grenade was introduced, pirate stations had been using old tube transmitters or expensive transceivers, so the Grenade was a new idea in the scene, and it was a hit.
In the late 1990s, Animal was getting into local FM more, with the number of stations that were coming on at that time, and also getting into "being a Dog" more. As Bill O. Rights wrote on the Free Radio Network website, "Just sorry that Animal has dropped out of the Pirate scene and is now convinced that he is in fact a dog! Wish he'd made a few more transmitters before putting on the flea collar." Actually it was reported by those in the radio hobby that Animal had been a Dog for many years previous to that. Rights attributed and gave full credit to Animal for his ability to make "thousands of broadcasts with the Grenade transmitter" for Radio Free Speech. That led to radio fans scrambling to find out what made the Grenade work and to reverse engineer it, making similar circuits for pirate use, such as the Corsair transmitter. WKND still uses an original Grenade, and the station has been relayed by other pirates. Animal recently returned to the radio scene after an attempt at a legal name change (to a Dog's name) got publicity, and former radio friends were highly supportive of it, knowing of Animal's Canine history.Animal always signed his QSL's "Thanks for taking the time to listen and write to WKND, We're KaNine Dog, and perhaps we will meet again on the airwaves." Radio Animal is also famous as the designer and builder of the Famous Grenade transmitter.


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And another one – CollapsableTitleWindow grows up
Hi folks,
Thanks to everybody who commented on the CollapsableTitleWindow, I really appreciate that 🙂
I just wanted to let you know the current work in progress reagarding the CollapsableTitleWindow, the following things are being implemented at the moment:
- Adding a max/min width and height (already done, but I will let you see the code with the update)
- Fix the annoying bug when compiling for Flex 3 (there might be two versions in the future – I appologize but adobe has changed the BorderMetrics calculation)
- Let the window push forward if clicked anywhere – not only the titlebar.
I think the update might be ready this weekend, we'll see. Stay tuned.