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Advertisers are intently focused on maximizing their social presence which is why Havas Worldwide Chicago wants native social media experts for their summer internship program.
Indeed, the office is hiring all of its summer interns via Instagram with their "Havas Chi Intern Draft."
"It's based on the simple idea that kids understand these platforms," says Jason Peterson, President, Havas Chicago. "If you want to hire someone to do social media, hire the people who know how to do it best."
Last year, Havas Chicago launched its first social media outreach by seeking interns via Twitter. That initiative eventually resulted in employment for eight of the 15 interns.
Still, social media platforms evolve so this year the focus has shifted from Twitter to Instagram. "Every conversation we have with clients involves Instagram," say Peterson. "They have moved off of Facebook and Twitter."
The concept's tagline "I am here to take your job" seeks applicants with suggestions on what Havas Chicago can do better and what they are doing wrong. Applicants must directly challenge one of twelve key Havas Chicago executives who are showcased in this campaign. Each executive lists his or her strengths and weakness, all in a humorous manner. Peterson, for instance, lists his weakness at crying at the movies "Rudy" and "Hoosiers."
The search is divided into three rounds. The initial round closed April 4 with 135 applicants. "One kid had 40 posts which showed ambition," says Peterson. "A couple definitely failed because you could see they set up new accounts just to enter."
The Chicago-based app Popular Pays, which allows users to trade their social media influence for goods and services, was responsible for three applicants. "We had a post that you would get an Havas [Chicago] internship in exchange for 50,000 Instagram followers," says Peterson. Two girls, with 100,000 and 200,000 followers respectively, submitted applications, as well as one boy with 600,000 followers.
There are a few early favorites, says Peterson. "I like it when social media becomes physical because it shows they understand the channel." To that end, on Friday, three applicants joined forces to throw a "good bye party" in Havas Chicago building's lobby to celebrate that these girls will soon take over their jobs.
Next, shortlist candidates will be notified by April 14 with final offers sent via direct message on April 18. Interns will work in Havas Chicago from June 9 to August 15. The full social media campaign reaches across Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Havas Chicago homepage.
Although this campaign is only for interns, it undermines the importance of social media within the agency. All staffers are required to spend 20% of their time managing their personal social media pages. "To me, it's necessary business to be active in all channels," says Peterson. Havas Chicago has hired executives via social media channels, and one focus of this year's intern campaign is to jump-start the agency's Instagram following.
"This is going to be an ongoing feed with regular conversations," says Peterson.
While it's too soon to predict how the agency will recruit next year's interns, Peterson says one emerging social media channel catching his interest is Secret.
"All staffers are required to spend 20% of their time managing their personal social media pages"...would love to see a real timesheet from these "kids" at Havas,,,,


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MISSION invites us to understand the history and importance of our Jesuit heritage and Ignatian spirituality. Mission focuses on the centrality of academic excellence, grounded in a Catholic faith tradition.
REFLECTION invites us to pause and consider the world around us and our place within it.
DISCERNMENT invites us to be open to God's spirit as we consider our feelings and rational thought in order to make decisions and take action that will contribute good to our lives and the world around us.
SOLIDARITY and KINSHIP invites us to walk alongside and learn from our companions, both local and afar, as we journey through life.
SERVICE ROOTED IN JUSTICE AND LOVE invites us to invest our lives into the well-being of our neighbors, particularly those who suffer injustice.

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No matter how much I set the
HISTSIZE environment variable to be larger than 5000, when printing the history list with the
history builtin, it prints only the last 5000 commands.
I need that because I often have a large
.bash_history which exceeds 5000 lines, and sometimes one needs to address an early command by pressing Ctrl-R, but if that command is more than 5000 commands earlier, I can't access it using that mechanism. I know I can use
grep on the
.bash_history, but I think the Ctrl-R mechanism would be much more faster (and convenient). I use gnu bash version 4.1.
That is the full content of my .bashrc file:
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# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files (in the package bash-doc)
# for examples
# If not running interactively, don't do anything
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return
# don't put duplicate lines in the history. See bash(1) for more options
# ... or force ignoredups and ignorespace
# append to the history file, don't overwrite it
shopt -s histappend
# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
# check the window size after each command and, if necessary,
# update the values of LINES and COLUMNS.
shopt -s checkwinsize
# make less more friendly for non-text input files, see lesspipe(1)
[ -x /usr/bin/lesspipe ] && eval "$(SHELL=/bin/sh lesspipe)"
# set variable identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below)
if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then
debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot)
# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color) color_prompt=yes;;
# uncomment for a colored prompt, if the terminal has the capability; turned
# off by default to not distract the user: the focus in a terminal window
# should be on the output of commands, not on the prompt
if [ -n "$force_color_prompt" ]; then
if [ -x /usr/bin/tput ] && tput setaf 1 >&/dev/null; then
# We have color support; assume it's compliant with Ecma-48
# (ISO/IEC-6429). (Lack of such support is extremely rare, and such
# a case would tend to support setf rather than setaf.)
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\ [\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '
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if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
alias ls='ls --color=auto'
#alias dir='dir --color=auto'
#alias vdir='vdir --color=auto'
alias grep='grep --color=auto'
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alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
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alias l='ls -CF'
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# See /usr/share/doc/bash-doc/examples in the bash-doc package.
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I can't quite settle with the fact that 2015 will not be summed up concisely in ink to be stored in one place forever for all the world to read and understand. I feel I've broken a promise to myself by not doing so, but mostly I feel cheated; I both want and need to remember the year, and really, it's not so complicated.
The 100K.
Why do I feel the need to hold on to and remember this process? Not the race, because that came and went in a day, but the training.
Because it consumed me. For 6 months Twisted Branch was me. I was Twisted Branch. I can think of only one other thing that ever pushed me to this state of being. When I think back I am filled with awe and disgust, appreciation and frustration. I put this one thing above all other things in my life. For 6 months. And I cannot explain why. You can listen to my attempt at doing so here (my portion starts about 34 minutes in), or read about it here, but still I believe there was more to it. I found something out there on the trails, with nothing but my pack and a Timex watch, for hours. I found more than just miles, hills, and wilderness. I was becoming something, and even in the hours that hurt, I loved who I was. I was focused and free. I was intentional and frivolous. Playful and determined. Reverent and wild. I was all the things I want to be on a daily basis but am not. The woods, the trails, the air, the sun, the rush and the struggle, they stripped me down and let me be me. And there I was, raw... and so deeply contented.
That's a hard thing to explain to someone when what they saw was the choice I made to spend 15-20 hours a week running. They saw intense fatigue, ailments from over and misuse, debilitating hunger and plummeting glucose levels, unnecessary focus and stress to stay on schedule.
They saw the time I wasn't spending with them.
When I crossed the finish line, almost to-the-minute of the time I had hoped for and predicted, I had to take a moment to swallow hard and let the realization that it was over flood through me. 6 months of relentlessly pushing my body, my mind, and the boundaries of each day so that I might find myself in this exact moment - in one piece on the other side of the finish line, happy. What I felt: relief. And sadness. Because despite how much I loved it and that I can't think of anything I'd rather do for 13 hours, I knew I wouldn't be doing it again.
I want to see this world by foot. I need to bare my soul in the forest with endless trail in front of me and the rest of my life waiting patiently for my return. I need to separate from the world so I can see and feel and hear my self... or nothing at all.
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So this took me a year to paint. I'm finally done. Finally . . . done . . . The full thing doesn't show here.
I'm getting it printed. It's 53 inches high and 15 inches wide.
Link to full thing.
Top to bottom: Yue Jin, Yu Jin, Xu Huang, Zhang He, and Zhang Liao.
It was my mom's idea.


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The Ultimate Happiness Prescription was the thinnest book on the stack so it bumped the 400, 500 and 900+ page monsters aside. Deepak Chopra rides to the rescue on a day hijacked by too much real life. Good message for the frazzled, in any case. The book explores spiritual and neurological dispositions toward emotional equanimity and follows each of seven keys (Deepak Chopra likes to write self-help books in lists of seven) with some simple steps to move your happiness set point up on the scale.
It's quite sensible, not very woo-woo at all. Body awareness provides clues to how you really feel about events, circumstances and decisions. Chopra examines the interrelatedness of matter, the energy field consisting of the entire universe and you in it, as he tells you to pay attention to what you feel and where in the body you feel it. Stress affects certain areas, anger and fear others—by bringing awareness to physical feelings you can mitigate and even heal what might be making you unhappy, or unwell.
There's a very good section on being present in the moment. Nothing new about the teaching—it is thousands of years old—but it is a powerful catalyst for change. The point is that happiness can only exist in the moment because the past is over and the future does not yet exist. That seems obvious but we cart around so much baggage that we seldom devote full awareness and appreciation to the present. Chopra recommends a mindfulness practice to increase present-moment awareness. He emphasizes the benefits of meditation as well.
I tend to like Chopra's audio and video lectures more than his books. Those events seem to treat subjects in greater depth than the slim, nicely laid-out books. But The Ultimate Happiness Prescription is worth the relatively short amount of time it takes to read it and probably worth a few re-reads, too. The activities Chopra suggests and the points he makes apply to every type of self-improvement effort. In the end, he delivers an introduction to the quest for enlightenment—not some exalted mystical state but a better, saner, more intelligent and, well, happier way to live in this world.
The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment Deepak Chopra | Harmony Books 2009


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French artist Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius to his fans, died today.
His work had a profound influence on a huge number of filmmakers and comic book artists. Moebius did the set and costume design for Tron, and though he didn't work on Blade Runner directly, his work had a great influence on that film as well. His short story comic The Long Tomorrow — a film noir set in the future, written by Dan O'Bannon and illustrated by Moebius in 1975 — quite obviously had an impact on Ridley Scott's Blade Runner.
BBC Four produced a documentary about Moebius in 2007 titled In Search of Moebius. It's presented in three parts below.
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Pearl's garden is open to visitors Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 4pm, year-round.
The garden was designed to be attractive in all seasons. Most of the plants are ever-green, meaning they do not lose their leaves in autumn. Pearl likes the garden best in winter, when the brown grass and new pine straw set off the green topiary. However, the most popular time for visitors is during the May through September months when the topiary are most lush. Spring bulbs bloom in March while the dogwoods reach their peak in April. Other flowers bloom off-and-on throughout the summer season.
Temperatures average over 90F from May through August. Temperatures in January in Bishopville average 55F, but it is often much colder in the garden. Please check local weather listings before you arrive and come prepared.


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Annual Physics Fair You are invited to attend the Annual Physics Fair held each February. This is an open house in which members of the public can come to learn about the research and teaching that are a part of our department. The Physics Fair includes laboratory tours, hands-on demonstrations, activities for kids and families, and informal conversations with scientists. We have exhibits representing research groups in the department as well as displays on more general physics topics. Additionally, the Ingersoll Physics Museum will be open and the Annual Wonders of Physics public presentations will take place. (Read More)
The Wonders of Physics The Wonders of Physics inspires interest in physics among people of all ages and backgrounds. The heart of the program is a fast-paced presentation of physics demonstrations carefully chosen to be entertaining as well as educational. For more information, performance schedule, and tickets visit: Wonders of Physics Home Page. For information on The Wonders of Physics Traveling Shows, please click here.
L. R. Ingersoll Museum The L.R. Ingersoll Museum of Physics, located in Chamberlin Hall, provides many opportunities to interact with interesting physics demonstrations. For all ages. For more information, visit the museum's Web site: Ingersoll Museum Home Page
Expanding Your Horizons Program Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) is a one-day conference held annually at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for approximately 400 middle school-aged (6th-8th grades) girls from south-central Wisconsin. As part of a small group, each girl attends three career sessions as well as the opening session and closing activity. Expanding Your Horizons Home Page
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Jennifer Mastroianni: I've never been a huge Peeps fan. Even as a kid, I'd con my little sister into trading me her malted eggs for my squishy marshmallow chicks.
But now, count me in as a fan. That's because the fine folks at Just Born Candy have added an irresistible element: chocolate. It just goes to prove that everything, including squishy marshmallow chicks, is better with chocolate. Even better, however, are Just Born's new Peepsters, little nuggets of quality chocolate with a smidgen of mallow creme at the center.
Dan Kane: If the thought of those fluorescent yellow and pink marshmallow Peeps makes you cringe, think again, especially if you are a chocolate fiend.
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Having seen the league title go West last year around, the Dublin sides were looking to bring the League of Ireland Premier Division title back to the Capital in 2013. Seemingly leading the line in this quest was Shamrock Rovers, who made a number of huge signings over the winter, including a new manager. Trevor Croly was instated as Rovers' third manager in 12 months and brought in the likes of league heavyweights Jason McGuinness, Richard Brush and Mark Quigley from reigning champions Sligo Rovers, as well as James Chambers and Derek Foran from Saint Patrick's Athletic and Dundalk respectively.
|Mark Quigley would be Shamrock Rovers' biggest signing
Source: RTÉ
Having just about survived relegation the season previous following a playoff win over Waterford United, Dundalk's manager Stephen Kenny set about making wholesale changes at the Co. Louth club, despite rumours of financial constraints. Only four players were re-signed from the season previous while Stephen O'Donnell was brought in on a free and instated as captain. John Dillon was another to leave Sligo and join another LOI team, and Richie Towell (on a free) and Pat Hoban (Mervue United) were other shrewd acquisitions, though the later having never been tested beyond First Division level, despite having spent a season at Bristol City.
Sligo showed the league why they were favourites to retain their title by racing into the league with a eight game winning streak. Eventually they were undone by Drogheda Untied in the Setanta Cup and dropped seven points in their following three games. Their expected rivals Shamrock Rovers were having a frustrating start to the season, they drew six of their first seven games, before taking out their frustration on an unfortunate Bray Wanderers side 7-0.
At the other end Shelbourne, with manager Alan Matthews, were really struggling. By the time they got their first win of the season (10 games and two months later against UCD 2-0) they had been well cast adrift at the bottom and sinking further into the abyss of the First Division, with Shels faithful calling for the head of the former Longford Town manager. Down there too were Bohemians, who despite beating Shelbourne were sitting only four points clear of the bottom.
|The Billy Dennehy free-kick which broke City hearts
Source: MSN Ireland
Cork City, who finished sixth in 2012, were suffering greatly from last minute goals. Having been denied 6 points in three consecutive games against Shamrock Rovers Drogheda United and Shelbourne through last minute strikes, the Leesiders saw a Setanta Cup final berth slip through their fingers via a late free-kick by ex-City player Billy Dennehy (Playing against his brother Darren) once again for the Hoops, to see Trevor Croly's men through to the show-piece event.
Halfway through the season it looked to be between Dundalk and St Patrick's Athletic for the league title, though Sligo were a constant threat despite spending most of the season six points off the top. Meanwhile in the first Division it was Longford leading the way ahead of Athlone and surprise package Mervue United. Title favourites Waterford were nowhere near the pace of the leaders, but secured themselves silverware in the shape of the Munster Senior Cup against Avondale United.
The most bizarre result of the season came in the Setanta Cup final between Shamrock Rovers and Drogheda at the Tallaght Stadium. Having beaten the home side last year in the League Cup final, Mick Cooke's Drogheda would have been feeling confident going into the final. In front of over 4,000 in Tallaght Rovers tore apart their Leinster counterparts. Ronan Finn and Billy Dennehy both got braces as the home side annihilated the Drogs 7-1. Beginning a slide for the Co. Louth team towards the bottom end of the table as the month turned to June.
|David Cassidy challenging for Drogheda against Malmo
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Summer always brings European football to Irish shores and there were big hopes in Sligo Rovers and St. Patrick's Athletic to carry the Irish flag. As it turned out, Drogheda would be the league's best representative abroad, drawing 0-0 at home to Swedish side Malmo FF at home, but bravely losing the away leg 2-0. Sligo continued their atrocious record in Europe by crashing out against out-of-form Norwegian team Molde. Pats were most certainly the most disappointing of the lot though, losing out 4-3 on aggregate to Lithuanian side Zalgiris Vilnius, after losing the home leg 2-1. That marked the end of the most unsuccessfull European campaign by Irish sides in almost 15 years, possibly showing how the league has gone backward compared to others around Europe.
Despite the poor European performance, St Patrick's Athletic were flying in the league. They beat Shamrock Rovers 4-0 away, and despite being knocked out of both cups by Rovers, were top of the table heading into the final series of games. Not far behind them were Dundalk, completely unrecognisable from last year's team Kenny's men had the likes of Pat Hoban, Richie Towell, Stephen O'Donnell and Peter Cherrie in flying form, and beat Shamrock and Sligo Rovers in quick succession to announce themselves at Pats' main title rivals.
In the first division things were really hotting up, Waterford were getting back into the race for the promotion playoff places, and despite it looking like Roddy Collins' Athlone Town would coast to the league title, there was still plenty to play for. Mervue United, Longford Town and Waterford United all wanted the two places for a chance of reaching the Premier, and something was going to have to give.
|Roddy Collins was doing a brilliant job with Athlone Town
Source: Athlone Town Club Website
The second piece of silverware for the season went to Shamrock Rovers again. It was a case of déja vu (though admittedly not quite as bad) when the 2011 champions scored two goals either side of half-time to coast to a 2-0 victory over Drogheda at the Tallaght Stadium. That was a poor consolation to the fact that it looked like Rovers would miss out on a European place for consecutive years, and following a 2-0 defeat to Limerick the pressure was mounting on Croly.
At the top Dundalk and St Pats, tied on points at the top, faced off at Richmond Park in what looked like being the title decider. A cagey opening saw the teams scoreless at half time. Chris Forrester opened the scoring for the Saints just after half time, and the score was doubled only a few minutes later. When Stephen O'Donnell was sent off for an off-the-ball incident with Pats' Ger O'Brien, the game was Pats'. They now had the points and the momentum heading into the last 6 games.
|Ciarán Kilduff scoring his fourth against Shelbourne
Source: RTÉ
The game of the season brought Cork City and Shelbourne together in front of the TV cameras. City, who had a frustrating season, had finally found some form following the sacking of former manager Tommy Dunne, and were top of the form table. Anything but a win for Shels meanwhile would leave escaping some sort of relegation battle virtually impossible, and automatic relegation very difficult. Two teams treated the crowd and the watching TV audience to a goalfest. Despite Shels' good work going forward they were totally exposed and the five goals shipped owed nothing to their 'keeper Lee Murphy. 5-3 it eventually finished, four to loan signing Ciarán Kilduff (Underlining his importance to Cork City) and it looked like Shelbourne's short stint in the Premier Division was over.
The First Division came to a close with the question remaining as to who would grab those two playoff places. Anyone of the previously mentioned three could get themselves in. Waterford had arguably the easiest task against league re-comers Cobh Ramblers, who despite thumping Wexford Youths 5-0 in their first game were second from the bottom. The Cork side took the lead though, and then doubled it after half time, and despite a Ben Ryan goal on the hour mark the Blues couldn't get the points they required. This left the door open for Mervue, who comfortably beat Wexford 4-1 to advance, while Longford beat local rivals Athlone to secure their place.
The FAI Cup semi-finals pitted the two Rovers' against each other, while it was a Louth derby in the other game between Dundalk and Drogheda. Two ridiculous red card decisions by referee Anthony Buttemer saw Dundalk reduced to nine men in the first half and 1-0 down from the resulting penalty. Despite a fantastic effort from Kenny's men against a very uncomfortable Drogheda (Despite the two man advantage) the Claret and Blues managed to hold off their rivals and triumph 1-0. The following game saw a very comfortable 3-0 win for Sligo, in a game in which the Hoops' Conor McCormack saw red for a professional foul.
St Patrick's Athletic were crowned champions in a rather fitting manner the following week: A fantastic strike from Greg Bolger and one almost from the following kickoff by Anto Flood saw the new champions take their crown from the old guard Sligo Rovers 2-0. Meanwhile Bray beat Limerick which meant things would be very interesting at the bottom for who would be the unfortunate Premier Division representative to the promotion/relegation playoff.
|Killian Brennan with the league trophy
Source: INPHO/thescore.ie
So the final day arrived and it was down to Bohemians, UCD and Bray Wanderers to get the win which would hopefully see them clear of the relegation playoff. Bohs had the ball in their own court, while UCD's superior goal difference over Bray Wanderers meant all they had to do was match the Seagulls result to survive. The Gypsies lost their game to Drogheda, meaning a Bray win would put one of Ireland's most successful clubs in the playoff, with UCD beating Shelbourne. Despite Bray's bravery, Dundalk proved to be too good, and Pat Devlin's men were playing great escape once again.
Elsewhere Munster rivals Limerick and Cork City were fighting for sixth position, which could potentially earn them a Setanta Cup spot. Limerick faced the long trip to Derry, while Cork City took on newly crowned champions St Patrick's Athletic, knowing a win would see them safe. At half time in Turners Cross the Rebel Army led 3-0 (Kilduff bringing his tally to eleven in fourteen games with the Leesiders). Meanwhile, in Derry, the score was 1-0 to the home side, but only a minor miracle would see Pats get anything out of Turners Cross. The Supersaints thought they had found it through Ger O'Brien's spectacular 35 yard thunderbolt which smashed into the top right hand corner of the net. That saw the score to 3-2 and City on the ropes, could they lose 6th place? The answer to that was a resounding no. The Candystripes woke up in the second half and fired a further five into the Limerick net, finishing off the season with a resounding 6-0 win, while back in Cork Danny Morrissey wrapped up an excellent 4-2 win after some great work by Neal Horgan down the right hand side in a late cameo.
Elsewhere on the night, Mervue and Longford played the second leg of their Playoff game to decide who would face off against Bray Wanderers. With Mervue leading from the first game, Longford managed to turn things around and were leading by a goal in extra time before a Paul Sinnott goal in the 122nd minute forced the game to penalties. The Galway side couldn't re-create that moment in either of their first two penalties, and Ryan Connolly slotted home the decisive spot-kick for De Town, seeing them through to the Promotion/relegation playoff the Wanderers.
As Halloween approached it looked like Jason Byrne would be Longford's executioner. In the first leg he fired a quick brace to put Bray 2-0 up at half time. Tony Cousins' men rallied though and two goals after the half hour mark restored parity heading into the deciding matchup in the Midlands. There were a further five goals and two sendings off in the return decider, Longford restored parity a further two times having seen Bray take the lead, but eventually it took a Kevin O'Connor goal five minutes from time to see Bray safe in the Premier for another season before an off-the-ball altercation saw a man from both side sent off.
|Kevin O'Connor's late goal retained Bray's status
Source: RTÉ
So with everything decided in the league, the focus now switched to the Blue-Riband event of the season. The Aviva Stadium once again hosted the FAI Ford Cup final, and for the fourth time in five years Sligo Rovers were featuring. This time Drogheda United stood in their way, hoping that third time would indeed be lucky having already lost two cup finals in 2013. After a cagey opening, Drogheda took the lead. Paul O'Connor finishing off a fast counter-attack. Sligo were really struggling and looked more like the side who were making their first trip to the Aviva Stadium. The introduction of Danny North in the 70th minute, last year's second highest scorer in the league, changed Sligo's setup, and the game as a whole.
Eight minutes after his introduction he was wheeling away in delight from scoring the equaliser. Then, after referee Paul Tuite (reffing his final match) controversially allowed play to go on from a quick free kick having previously told the Sligo players to wait on the whistle, North capitalized on a cheeky Joseph Ndo scoop to smash the ball into the net. Drogheda captain Derek Prendergast was then sent-off for a second yellow card following his protestations and it looked like the game was all but over. But eight minutes of added time were announced and two into them Ryan Brennan was fed by Shane Grimes and powered the Drogs level.
It was always North who was going to have the last laugh though, and his magical shoulder set Anthony Elding up to turn and hit an unstoppable volley into the top left hand corner. Fitting too, that Elding, the man that blitzed the league early on (Scoring 6 goals in the first 6 games and winning the player of the month award) would be the one to bring it to a close, in the 94th minute of an incredible final. It was a frantic final fitting of a strange season, and with uncertainty even over the structure of the league next season, it promises to be just as crazy when we start it all again on the 7th March 2014!
|Another year, another trophy for Sligo!
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Imagine That. It's 2013!
Jan 6 2013
Happy New Year! From what I've observed at this point in my life, it seems to me that there really is no telling what awaits around the corner with regards to jobs, kids, health, love, or whatever, so I've given up on resolutions for the time being. We are living in interesting times, and I have been fortunate/unfortunate enough to experience many things…some of my choosing and most not of my choosing. Maybe I will live long enough and happen upon the right muse(s) along the way to enable me to write more about it…
So in 2013 I'll just do my best to breathe deep, laugh with my kids, and spend time with people who support/love me & my kids (i.e., no fair weather friends or family). I'll continue to do my best at whatever I'm attempting to do and support others even if I find myself in less than ideal circumstances or around negative people, which seems to be happening less and less. I also will continue to come to grips with the reality of my busy life (e.g., it took me close to 5 days to actually finish writing this short post because of work,
facebook, watching TV, words with friends, going to the movies, spending time with real offline friends, downtime, and kid stuff!). 🙂
May you experience the most peace, love, and joy possible in 2013!Author: Aruni | Filed under: blogging, holiday, working mom, working mother | Tags: breathing deep, facebook, happy new year, offline friends, words with friends | 4 Comments »


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The Veronicas
The Veronicas hail from Brisbane, Australia, where twin sisters Jess and Lisa Origliasso began working in show business at the age of five. Born on Christmas Day in 1984, Jess and Lisa first performed as the Origliasso Twins, and their appearances at awards shows and sporting events drew the attention of agents and talent agencies. As teenagers, the twins released three teen pop albums under the name Lisa & Jessica, and they began making forays into TV after landing recurring roles in the Australian children's series Cybergirl. After Jessreceived a guitar as a birthday present in 2002, though, the girls started devoting more time to songwriting, gradually transforming their sound from pop to alternative rock in the process. With the help of two friends, the Origliasso twins formed a band, Teal, and released "Baby It's Over," a hooky single that made the twins sought-after songwriters. After honing their chops by working with several different collaborators, the Origliassos signed a publishing deal and began contributing songs to a number of performers, including Australian Idolwinner Casey Donovan, Japanese pop singer Miz, and the Russian group Tatu. The girls were now focused on becoming internationally successful in their own right, and they moved to Los Angeles to try their hand in America. After changing their name to the Veronicas and turning 20 years old, they landed a deal withSire, an offshot of Warner Bros. Records. Sire released the Veronicas' full-length debut, The Secret Life Of..., in 2005. Although an international release followed in early 2006, the album fared best in Australia, where it generated three Top Ten singles and eventually went quadruple platinum. Hook Me Upfollowed in 2007, featuring a new wave-inspired sound and, once again, going multi-platinum in Australia. The girls toured in support of both albums and documented one of their jaunts with a live album, Revenge Is Sweeter Tour, in early 2010. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi


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The Vampire Diaries Round Table: "The Departed"TV Fanatic Staff at .
The Vampire Diaries concluded season three with one shocker after another: Klaus is still alive... in Tyler's body?!? Alaric is dead and gone... for real this time? Elena is... gulp, a vampire?!?
Oh, yes, there's a lot for our weekly Round Table panel to discuss from "The Departed."
In this edition, regular TV Fanatic staff writers Matt Richenthal, Steve Marsi, Eric Hochberger and Dan Forcella are joined by Ruthie from Vampire Diaries Online. Let's do this!
What was your favorite scene from the finale?
Matt: Caroline crying. Only because the pain it caused me made it clear just how much more invested I am in Forwood than either Stelena or Delena. I predict a problem or two dozen between C-Diddy and Bon-Bon when the former discovers the latter replaced her boyfriend with a murderous Original.
Steve: The heart-stopping final few minutes overall. It was compelling, shocking and above all else, poignant. Apologies for OD'ing on adjectives there, but it's true. Simply amazing filming and soundtrack. Even if the producers clearly watched the end of Breaking Dawn and adapted it for TV, with the final shot of Elena waking up as the screen faded to black, it was extremely well done. I mean, I heard it was similar.
Eric: Alaric coming back to say goodbye to Jeremy. No clue why the Ric (yes, unlike Damon I can call him that) became my favorite character, but last night was a big loss for me. Both Jeremy and I needed to say goodbye to the real Ric after the awesome but evil Alaric has been dominating our screen. RIP, buddy. You will be missed.
Dan: My favorite had to be Damon and Elena on the bridge. It was such a special moment between the two, and it was so sad to realize that he DID meet her first. He COULD have been the one that came into her life at just the right moment. Damon would have been the love that consumed her from now until the end of days.
Ruthie: Favorite scene from the flashback: Matty and Elena kissed!! I know, I'm such a sap... and he said "love ya." Sigh. Favorite scene from the present: The entire drowning scene was done beautifully. I found myself out of my seat, standing two feet away from the television, bawling my eyes out.
Biggest shocker: Klaus taking over Tyler, Alaric dying or Elena turning?
Matt: Going by my initial reaction to it (i.e. yelping like a wounded animal), I've gotta go with Klaus. Most of us foresaw Alaric biting it and no way was Elena actually dying, so some twist had to be coming there. But when Bonnie referred to Tyler as "Klaus." Shiver.
Steve: Klaus taking over Tyler. In a word ... wow. Is Klaus' claim to have originated the Salvatores' bloodline even true? If he is ever removed from Tyler, does he die for real then? Is Klaus more or less inclined to mack on Caroline from the body of his romantic rival? Does Dan Forcella's man-crush escalate or dissipate now that Klaus is embodied by Michael Trevino instead of Joseph Morgan? So many unanswered questions.
Eric: Yet another body switch this season? Yawn. Alaric's death? See: Cult announcement. Now Elena turning? Holy crap! How long have Julie Plec and the other producers claimed they'd never follow the books and turn Elena? Now she has an eternity to play with the Salvatore heart strings and bore CW viewers everywhere. Yay.
Dan: To answer Steve, only time will tell which way my Klaus love turns now that he has taken control of Tyler. Klaus was awesome inside of Ric way back when, but that's probably because Matt Davis is also completely awesome. For the question at hand, Elena turning was the most shocking to me. It's a huge move for Plec and co. to make, which is why I really thought that Elena might actually die. I'm probably really dumb for thinking that they might kill of their leading lady, but in the moment, it seemed more plausible that turning Elena. Shocking.
Ruthie: Definitely Klaus taking over Tyler. Did NOT see that coming at all. And at first didn't understand it, until I watched the episode again. I'm still a little confused actually. Does this mean that Klaus' body is dead? And I'm assuming Tyler is still "in there" somewhere, like when he took over Alaric's body? And Esther with Rebekah? I have a feeling that the stake wasn't left in there long enough, and then just closing the casket put the fire out.
Did Elena make the right choice?
Matt: I'm sorry, but I don't care and I don't think it will matter because the new Elena will remember various things about Damon on season four and go back to wavering between the brothers. And that car scene - should I turn back to Stefan or drive on to Damon? - was SOOOO clunky and contrived. The more intriguing question: Did Elena choose to become a vampire? Did she know that blood was in her system?
Steve: You mean having Stefan save Matty? Definitely. If there's any character the show can't live without, it's the O.G. Mac (Only Grill mac and cheese server).
Eric: Tea over vodka for your final drink? Terrible choice. I know I'm going drunk.
Dan: Breaking up with Matty back in the day? Absolutely, that dude is a loser compared to the Salvatore bros.
Ruthie: I think she did, and her logic was dead on and completely honest. She fell for Stefan instantly and she hasn't fallen out of love with him. Makes sense to me.
Most extreme action: Bonnie spelling Klaus, Rebekah causing the accident or Elena's chipper morning mood?
Matt: If it were me acting that way in the morning, my wife would say it was harder to believe than the Grill giving Matty a day off. But, sure, whatever, Elena was a cheerleader back then. They're always happy, right? It's hard to go with Rebekah, either, because she has always been about self-preservation. This fit in to that theme. I say Bonnie casting that spell because it has such direct repercussions on so many she cares about it.
Steve: Rebekah standing in the middle of the street to send Elena and Matt plunging to their watery graves. She's badass and certifiably insane ... with payback coming her way after vampire Elena builds up some strength.
Eric: At 6:45 in the morning? There's not nearly enough caffeine you could give me intravenously overnight to cause me to wake up dancing.
Dan: It has to be Rebekah, mostly because she did it just by standing in the middle of the road. There was no vicious action that needed to be taken. She was like, 'I'm so bad ass that I can stand here and kill you two.'
Ruthie: Bonnie spelling Klaus was a pretty extreme action, but I still have so many questions about this! When Tyler and Caroline had their heart-wrenching moment in the cellar, was that Klaus or Tyler?
Give this season a grade.
Matt: C. On a very relative scale. This remains one of the best dramas on network television, but the first two seasons set such a high bar. I found the back half especially meandering, I fear death has lost all meaning on the show and I'm sick of the love triangle.
Steve: I'm going with a B+. It might be closer to B- or B by Vampire Diaries standards, but that's the thing ... even with somewhat uneven, haphazard installments like we've seen lately, there's still so much more right than wrong with the show.
Eric: B-. The season of the Originals hardly felt like it brought resolve to its chief baddy. Now when Alaric took over as Monsieur Bad Guy? Things were A material. Getting the town on his side and killing vampires? Now that was a scary threat... that was shortened to two episodes. While Dan's man crush was allowed to run around for a season wooing my Caroline with horse pictures only to find his way into someone's body by season end? What kind of TVD villain arc is that?
Dan: I will agree with you, Eric, that they didn't find enough things to do with the fantastic Joseph Morgan, but I still go with an A- for the season. If I'm grading on a TVD curve, it would be down in the B range, but this is still one of my favorite shows on TV, and that is A level work in my book.
Ruthie: A-. Aside from too many spoiler-y interviews, promos and episode stills, I think this was a pretty kick-ass season. I know, I love good Vampire Diaries spoilers as much as anyone, but I really think they need to tighten it up a bit next season. Several episodes lacked the punch due to the fact that too much information was revealed.


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Our DNA is under constant attack from many sources: Radiation, ultraviolet light, and contaminants in our food and in our environment can all wreak havoc on our genetic material, potentially leading to cancer and other diseases. Analyzing DNA damage is critical to understanding those diseases, as well as seeking new treatments, but current tools for detecting DNA damage make for tedious and time-consuming work.
Now a team of MIT bioengineers has devised a new way to rapidly reveal DNA damage under a variety of conditions, promising to make such analysis a routine aspect of applications such as drug screening and epidemiological studies of the effects of environmental agents.
The new technique is based on a 30-year-old test known as the "comet assay" — named for the comet-shaped smear that the damaged DNA forms during the test. However, the new technology can analyze a much greater number of cells, at a much faster rate, than the traditional comet assay.
The technology, the result of a collaboration between researchers in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and MIT's Department of Biological Engineering, could offer a new approach for epidemiologists to detect dangerous environmental exposures long before they cause cancer, for clinicians to provide better cancer treatment and for researchers in the pharmaceutical industry to identify new drugs and screen out hazardous drugs.
"We expect this could enable studies on a scale that hasn't been possible before," says David Wood, a postdoctoral fellow in HST who is lead author of a paper being published in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that describes the new technique. Wood worked closely on the project with David Weingeist, graduate student in the Department of Biological Engineering.
"A critical feature of our technology is that it can be used to detect genotoxic [mutation-causing] agents in the environment, even if only very basic research equipment is available," says Bevin Engelward, associate professor of biological engineering and co-senior author of the paper with Sangeeta Bhatia, professor of HST and electrical engineering and computer science and member of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "Enabling the prevention of genotoxic exposures in developing nations could ultimately improve the health of millions," she added.
Chasing comets
The comet assay is based on gel electrophoresis, a commonly used lab test in which an electric field is applied to DNA placed on a slab of polymer gel, forcing the DNA to move across the gel. During electrophoresis, damaged DNA travels farther than undamaged DNA, producing a comet-shaped smear. (The damaged DNA forms the "tail" of the comet.)
This test is generally considered very sensitive, but is also quite laborious. Each experimental condition (for example, a test of how a particular drug affects DNA) requires its own microscope slide, and each slide (containing hundreds of cells) must be visually inspected by the researcher. This limits the number of experimental conditions that can be studied.
To create the new test platform, the researchers from the Bhatia and Engelward laboratories developed the concept of microwells printed into the electrophoresis gel. Using a micropatterning technique developed by Wood and Bhatia, a grid of thousands of tiny indentations is created on the gel. Each cell is placed in its own indentation, giving it an "address" that stays constant throughout the process. Furthermore, each gel can be subdivided into distinct environments by placing a 96-well plate over the gel. Each well confines about a thousand cells, allowing the researchers to add different drugs or other chemicals to each well to compare their effects on DNA damage and repair.
This setup allows dozens of experimental conditions to be tested on just one slide, and it enables slides to be automatically analyzed using custom-designed imaging software.
The new technique is "a major achievement in the development of the comet assay, more than 30 years after its creation," says Jean Cadet, a DNA researcher at the Center for Atomic Energy in Grenoble, France, who was not involved in the research. Cadet says he anticipates that the new test will become widespread, particularly for epidemiological studies.
The technology was designed to be compatible with basic laboratory equipment, so virtually any laboratory can use it.
To demonstrate the potential usefulness of the new system, the researchers evaluated three compounds that have been proposed as potential inhibitors of DNA repair. Such compounds could be used to boost the effectiveness of chemotherapy agents by preventing cancer cells from repairing the DNA damage caused by chemotherapy. Their study supported earlier predictions that two of the compounds, known as myricetin and DOPA, appear to halt DNA repair, while a third, called NCA, has little effect.
The MIT team is now working with researchers in Thailand to study the effects of air pollutants on DNA in the cells of people who live in highly polluted regions, compared to inhabitants of cleaner areas. In a related study, they are teaming up with researchers at Boston University Medical School to compare cells from smokers and nonsmokers. They also hope to correlate the DNA-repair abilities of individual cells with the genes expressed in those cells.
This work was supported by the MIT Center for Environmental Health Sciences, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Program in Gene-Environment Interactions), and the National Institutes of Health.


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To date (September 2008) 500 people have participated in the training program. As a result, they have access to improved solar cooker stoves and grain solar dryers. The stoves save fuel and decrease women's exposure to the noxious effects of smoke. The improved grain dryers based on solar and wind energy protect the grains from animals, rain, etc. The use of these devices that conserve fuel or utilize alternative sources of energy, decreases the necessity for travelling long distances in search of fuel wood. It also prevents deforestation, which causes so much of income-generating opportunities for participants, who may eventually earn income by constructing and selling these new devices to other women.
In addition in Quito, Ecuador, at the equator, the centre of the world, in South America, IECAIM initiated the project on technology, construction and commercialization of solar cookers that is benefiting 400 women and their families. They construct and sell the solar cookers.
- September 2008: Fabiola Cuvi reports: "Our Institute was founded in 1986, and it has been working with solar cookers since 1992. We have carried out 135 courses on "Methodology Construction and Use of the Solar Cookers". Five hundred women have benefited from this technology. On the last course we performed in our Institute, we had 21 students, both women and men. It was a successful event. Everybody was happy and admired the efficiency of the solar cooker. This solar cooker cooked all the foods that we put to cook. I was the Director, and Rodrigo Carpio was the teacher who taught how to build a solar cooker."
- July 2007: Dr. Fabiola Cuvi, Director of the Instituto Ecuatoriano de Investigaciones y Capacitacion de la Mujer, reports that the institute continues to expand its solar program. In July, IECAIM held its 49th training course on the methodology, construction and use of solar cookers. Dr. Cuvi says that the students were very happy and surprised that inexpensive, cardboard box-type solar cookers work so well. The course ended with a solar feast of fish, potatoes, bananas and broccoli.
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- July 2006: Audio interview in Spanish with Fabiola Cuvi
See alsoEdit
- La cocina solar del IECAIM una alternativa ecologica del futuro
- A paper presented by Fabiola Cuvi at the 2006 Granada solar cooking conference
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Donald Driver Promises A Lot Of Fun For Week 8 On Dancing With The Stars
The LA Times has a new interview up with Donald Driver today. He takes us through his busy daily schedule currently with his family and Dancing With The Stars. He also talks of costuming and who's tougher, Dancing With The Stars judge, Len Goodman or Green Bay Packer coach, Mike McCarthy?
Q: Take us through a typical dance practice day. What time do you get up, get started with Peta, get back home, etc.?
I usually will get up around 7 to spend some time with my family, eat a little breakfast and get a football workout in before heading to the studio for practice at 10. Most days we're scheduled to practice for 6 hours, but we usually go longer than that to make sure we have the dances down perfect. We'll have some lunch delivered to the studio so we don't miss out on too much practice time. Some days after practice I'll have a costume fitting or an interview for Monday's show. It can definitely get crazy, but I always make sure I'm home for dinner with my beautiful family!
Q: Nice jacket you wore Monday night. How much input do you get into what you will wear on the show?
I have lots of input. I told Peta at the beginning of the season that I wasn't going to wear any of those see-through lace shirts or anything like that…and there's only a few weeks left in the show and I haven't worn one yet. Ultimately we have to be comfortable, otherwise we won't perform well.
Q: Who's tougher to please, Len Goodman or Mike McCarthy?
That's a tough one! I'm going to have to plead the Fifth! I have a lot of respect for both of them, they're at the top of their professions for good reason.
You can read the full interview here. Donald has also penned a new blog at JS Online where he speaks a little of he and Peta's next dances…
Believe it or not, there are only three performance shows left in the entire competition. We're definitely coming down to the wire.
We have two more dances next week. The first one will be like normal, just Peta and me. For our second dance, we're teaming up with another one of the talented dance pros to bring you all something really special. If you haven't watched the show yet, make sure you tune in next week because it's going to be a lot of fun.
Lastly, don't miss a whole slew of new "behind the scenes" photos at Dancing With The Stars Make-up of these two and the cast from Week 7. Below is a picture of our beautiful Miss Peta. They get my best vote for "Best Costuming" this season. What do you think?


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The Efavirenz (EFV) Central Nervous System Exposure Sub-study of Encore1 (ENCORE1-CNS)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01451333
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : October 13, 2011
Last Update Posted : May 13, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infection
|Drug: Efavirenz
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|32 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Investigator)
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|Official Title:
|The EFV Central Nervous System Exposure Sub-study of Encore1: A Randomised, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Clinical Trial to Compare the Safety and Efficacy of Reduced Dose Efavirenz (EFV) With Standard Dose EFV Plus Two Nucleotide Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (N(t)RTI) in Antiretroviral-naïve HIV-infected Individuals Over 96 Weeks
|Study Start Date :
|September 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2012
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|February 2013
Experimental: Reduced dose Efavirenz arm
Patient's on main study that was randomised to receive TDF (300mg qd)/FTC (200mg qd) + EFV (400mg qd; 2 x 200mg + 1 x 200mg placebo qd).
Drug: Efavirenz
400mg qd; 2 x 200mg
Active Comparator: Normal Efavirenz dose arm
Patient's on main study randomised to receive tenofovir (TDF) (300mg qd)/emtricitabine (FTC) (200mg qd) + EFV (600mg qd; 3 x 200mg qd)
Drug: Efavirenz
600mg qd; 3 x 200mg qd
- comparison of mean CSF concentration of EFV from both doses after week 24. [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]measure the CSF exposure of EFV when dosed at 400mg and 600mg daily. Efavirenz plasma and CSF concentrations will be analysed and CSF:plasma ratios will be compared. Associations between plasma and CSF concentrations and relationship to study clinical parameters will be assessed.
- CSF EFV exposure and plasma exposure (CSF:plasma ratio) using statistical analysis [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]The relationship between CSF EFV exposure and plasma exposure (CSF:plasma ratio), both for protein bound and free plasma EFV exposure.
- The relationship between CSF EFV exposure and neuropsychiatric side effects using questionnaires and medical assessments [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- The relationship between CSF EFV exposure and other study parameters such as race and sex. [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- The number of subjects with EFV CSF exposure greater than the postulated CSF IC50 for wild type virus (0.51ng/mL) [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- CSF HIV RNA measurement after 12 - 24 weeks of study therapy [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- Relationship between plasma HIV RNA and CSF HIV RNA [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- CSF biomarker analysis after 12 - 24 weeks of study therapy [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
- comparison between magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy findings and CSF HIV RNA and EFV concentration [ Time Frame: 24 weeks ]
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Seattle police to return drone aircraft
Remote-control vehicles subject of public backlash
The remote-control drones purchased by Seattle police will not be used "so that SPD can focus its resources on public safety and the community building work that is the department's priority," Mayor Mike McGinn said Thursday.
The drones – about the size of a large model airplane with mounted cameras – were especially unpopular when displayed at public meetings and drew complaints from the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups. An ACLU spokesman said Thursday he was pleased.
McGinn said the aircraft would be returned to the vendor. Seattle police was given an $82,000 federal grant for the program, and one of the two aircraft was to go to the King County Sheriff's Office, according to the Mayor's Office. Police did not have number of how much personnel time or money had gone into the program.
The unmanned planes, which have received FAA approval, could fly for 10 minutes - usually enough time for an investigation, police said. The camera was a Lumix brand on the front that also could record video and infrared images.
The unmanned planes could not fire any weapons.
Assistant Chief Paul McDonagh said late last year that the images recorded would be kept only for evidence and that data gathered by the drones would be available through public disclosure requests.
Seattle was one of 50 organizations with federal approval for the aircraft.
Police had planned for the drones to be used to aid the arson/bomb squad or SWAT members in barricaded situations. McDonagh insisted the drones would not be used to record protests.
However, at one October meeting at the Garfield Community Center, several people yelled that the drones would be used to unlawfully target demonstrators. Protesters launched complaints about invasions of privacy, yelled that the drones were tools of capitalism and political suppression, called officers murderers and demanded charges be brought against them.
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Tonight while watching Channel 4 News, my suspicions were raised by yet another staged News report from Syria. This time, it wasn't CNN's fake Syrian Activist, Danny Abdul-Dayem, otherwise known as Syria Danny, now exposed as a fraud pretending to report from inside Syria.
This time the UK's Channel 4 News insulted our intelligence with this, another alleged Syrian activist, called Abu-Ram. The voice is obviously fake, using voice morphing software. I've even used similar software myself and it sounds very similar, or you could just check, Microsoft Sam, the speech program that comes with most new computers. Listen, and decide for yourself:


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DR. HOOK- Parkinson's: Fox helps fight a grim affliction
Michael J. Fox and I have some similarities! Okay, besides the fact that we are both short, we were both born in Canada! Yes, I was practically born in a little igloo in Canada before we moved to the US.
Let's face it, we all love Canadians. As far as I know, there isn't any controversy about Canada, except when you get a Canadian dime and the vending machine won't take it. (But then again, everything is so expensive now that the dime is the new penny, and everything requires at least a quarter.)
Fox also skated– in fact, he dreamed of playing in the National Hockey League. I skate the Fox Trot on ice; he trotted into hockey players with his shoulder pads and hockey stick. Oh, the similarities won't end!
As we all know, Michael J. Fox became a huge star on Family Ties and in great movies like Back to the Future. He even won three Emmy Awards for his role in Ties, and similarly I have won… well, okay, here the similarities end.
Unfortunately for Fox, he was diagnosed with young-onset Parkinson's Disease in 1991, and has become a huge proponent for the treatment and cure of Parkinson's Disease (PD). What has Parkinson's done to people?
PD is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain that affects the basal ganglia– cells in the midbrain that help control movement. Millions of people have PD, but unlike Fox, it's pretty rare before the age of 40. About one percent of people over the age of 65 and 2.5 percent over age of 80 have PD. It's twice a common in men as in women.
We don't know what causes PD. It might be genetic and possibly associated with exposures to pesticides and heavy metals. In PD, the basal ganglia die off, which leads to a lack of a chemical called dopamine. (Yes, I know dopamine sounds like an illegal drug or a former dictator of Uganda.) So movement problems develop, such as a resting tremor, called a "pill rolling" tremor, in which the thumb and index finger move to mimic rolling a pill or marble. So holding a razor can be iffy, but with the movement of shaving, the tremor goes away.
Rigidity occurs; in particular a "cogwheeling" rigidity can be felt on examination. So if I try to straighten out the arm, it feels like a rusty joint that gives and takes, gives and takes (like my stiff hips when I salsa dance). Because of "stiff" muscles movements, a person who used to have beautiful calligraphy skills can start writing poorly… well, like a doctor.
Slow movements can result to the point that even the face becomes "masked" or expressionless like people we see on C-SPAN. There's a kind of inertia– remember Sir Isaac Newton's 1st Law of Motion? So a person with PD doesn't move much when still, but when movement begins, it can be hard to stop. So walking can become a nightmare– such as turning around. Also a "shuffling gait" (like a Geisha's tiny footsteps) is a hallmark of PD.
In some cases of PD, other brain pathology occurs that can cause dementia, depression, fatigue, incontinence, drop in blood pressure, sexual problems, and a slow GI system. In fact, Parkinson's Disease dementia affects 0.2-0.5 percent of people over the age of 65.
Currently, there is no cure. Treatment is pretty dismal because the medicines have side effects, and they tend to fail after about five years. That's why Michael J. Fox is really pushing hard for advancements in medicine to stop the progression of PD. For all people with Parkinson's Disease, it is a race against time. For more information, check out michaeljfox.org.


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Prolific, engaged in every genre, and restlessly exploring ideas and collaborations - that's composer Philip Glass. Choosing one concert's worth of music to celebrate his 80th birthday was no easy task.
"We tried to pick a program that would be representative of Phil, and something that he would like to hear," says Gil Rose.
Rose's Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the area's foremost explorers on Boston's terrific new music scene, joins many organizations internationally in recognizing this milestone birthday (Jan. 31). The concert Rose chose, taking place this Saturday in Jordan Hall, includes Glass' Symphony No. 2, his "Tirol Concerto" for piano, and a work by the winner of BMOP's annual composition competition, New England Conservatory student Benjamin Park's "The Dwarf Planets."
Choosing selections from the Glass catalog must be exhausting. His Symphony No. 11 was just premiered last month. He has many other orchestral works—song cycle symphonies, soloist symphonies, symphonies based on poems.
His concertos are equally wide-ranging: symphonic works for harpsichord, timpani, violin, cello, saxophone quartet, piano (and two pianos). Operatic scores are everywhere, centered around the riveting "Einstein on the Beach." Film scores, and music for theater. We haven't even discussed the chamber music.
"The Second was the symphony I wanted," Rose admits. "I was drawn to picking it, I guess because it's the least stereotypical of the symphonies. It definitely doesn't have what you'd expect; it's more nutty and gnarly, more connected to the American symphonic tradition than the others."
Programming the "Tirol Concerto" certainly fights stereotypes of Glass' music as well. Composed during a stay in the Tyrol, a section of western Austria, with inspiration taken from local folk music, "Tyrol Concerto" was premiered in 2000. It abandons the usual perception—one that Glass himself disdains—that the composer relies on minimalist techniques entirely for expression.
Anton Batagov, the piano soloist for the "Tirol Concerto," comes to Boston with an enormous reputation—mainly in his native Russia. A composer as well as a pianist, Batagov has more than 30 recordings, numerous film scores, and has made many cross-genre collaborations.
"Phil's really high on this pianist," Rose says of Batagov, who has championed not only Glass' work but that of composers as diverse as John Cage, Morton Feldman and Bach.
Benjamin Park's new work, "The Dwarf Planets," is a kind of "flip the premise" composition akin to Holst's "The Planets." Taking its impetus after Pluto was recategorized as a "dwarf planet" (there are others), Park weaves quotes from Holst into his own larger work.
"In this competition I'm always looking for someone who knows inherently how to write for orchestra," Rose says. "Park seems to be all over it. It's a nice piece; he's really talented. It's much more than just borrowed ideas. He written his own music, and it's up to us to bring it to life."
Glass himself might just make an appearance at Saturday evening's performance.
"That's the plan right now," Rose says. "He's a busy guy this year though—incredibly busy during this birthday year."
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Jimmy Webb discusses his May 3rd tribute to Glen Campbell, a fundraising concert to benefit Alzheimer's organizations. He also shares his deep grief over how Alzheimer's disease has affected Glen.
As much as Glen and his family fought back, I personally feel a huge sense of loss. Alzheimer's has inflicted a tragic loss of talent and energy and potential. The disease hit Glen at a point when he knew more than he would ever know and when he still had so much to contribute within the music community. Alzheimer's snuck in the back door and took the records Glen would've made and all he still had to share with his family, friends and his audiences. To me, that was a personal tragedy that is still very difficult for me to deal with. - Jimmy Webb
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I think it is correct to say that Western Civilization has collapsed; its creative, liberating, and humanizing foundations destroyed by the collective forces of institutionalized violence. American and European countries – long the seats of Western culture – are at the end of an entropic decline. At the same time, however, I have long suspected that we are in the early stages of a transformation in thinking that is producing major changes in how we live and work with one another in society. The vertically-structured systems of centralized authority are being replaced by horizontal networks that interconnect in decentralized, voluntary ways. The Internet – which has expanded the liberating and creative capacities inhering in Gutenberg's invention – is the most visible expression of what I think of as the "unfolding civilization."
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Originating as a haulage business, the Dudman Group of Companies has grown and adapted with the industry into a large, independent group that is an owner / operator of quarries, wharves, recycling centres and a large truck operator supplying and serving the construction industry in the South of England.
Working across the South coast with a haulage fleet of 40 vehicles including rigid & artic tippers, concrete mixers and road sweepers; the company operates out of depots across Sussex and Hampshire. The Dudman Group of Companies prides itself on being an independent aggregate producer, concrete supplier and bulk haulier that offers the widest range of products possible, catering for any development or construction venture.
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In addition to the ability to install third party apps on the PRO 8275 driver terminal, it comes equipped with a truck specific map, ensuring all routes are HGV suitable. TomTom Traffic data means drivers can avoid traffic delays and increase productivity. The device is ruggedised for use in harsh conditions.
The third party software chose is supplied by AllOnMobile (AOM) which allows for the reduction of paper based processes through development of online forms and includes daily vehicle checks, job scheduling and signature capture. Loading times at all company sites are less, allowing the driver to leave once checked and there is no longer the need to wait for a paper ticket to be produced.
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VENONA: What my father didn't know
By Alan Caruba
My Father was a subscriber to I.F. Stone's famed newsletter in the 1950s and 60s. Stone was a highly regarded "independent" journalist and his newsletter was always exposing things about Sen. Joseph McCarthy and others who warned against Communist spies and agents of influence. The problem was that I.F. Stone was a Soviet agent of influence, financed by the Kremlin. My Father didn't know that and probably wouldn't have believed it.
He wouldn't have believed that Alger Hiss, a highly placed State Department officer and the first, interim Secretary General of the United Nations, was also a Soviet agent or that Harry Hopkins, one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's top advisors, was also an agent. He probably believed the Rosenbergs who helped the Soviets get our A-bomb secrets weren't guilty, but they were. J. Robert Oppenheimer who directed the Manhattan Project that developed the A-bomb gave aid and assistance to the Soviet Union, but he was so revered after the end of the war the government merely took away his security clearance.
The fact is Joe McCarthy was right, but by now his name has been turned into a dirty word by the same liberal, leftist propaganda machine that today is trying to convince Americans the President "lied" to them about Iraq. They had to wait until after the FBI's first director, J. Edgar Hoover, was dead before they dared to slander his reputation.
How do we know this? The answer is "VENONA", the top secret name given to a program to break Soviet codes and read intercepted communications between Moscow and its intelligence stations in the West. The program began in February 1943 by the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service, the forerunner of the National Security Agency. The cables that a small cadre of very young deciphers worked on were initially dispatched between 1940 and 1948, but the effort continued apace from 1947 through 1952, and continued to crack the cable codes right up to 1980.
By the end of VENONA, 2,900 Soviet messages had been translated and the yield in intelligence regarding the way the Communist Party USA, directed entirely by the Kremlin, sought to uncover our secrets and to influence government policies is breathtakingly astonishing. In 1995, VENONA was declassified
We can be grateful to Herbert Romerstein and the late Eric Breindel for making the huge effort to tell the story of this extraordinary cipher-breaking program in their book, The VENONA Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America's Traitors (Regnery Publishing, $19.95, softcover, 608 pages). This book, in part, documents the revelations in Ann Coulter's current bestseller, Treason. It is based both on the declassified VENONA information and on the archives of the Communist International that were kept in Moscow, as well as the files of other Communist parties in Eastern and Central Europe. They became available to researchers after the fall of the Soviet Union.
So why don't more Americans know about the VENONA project? Ask that question of the liberal mainstream press that, to this day, still slanders the reputation of those brave men who dared to suggest that the Communist Party USA was a threat to this nation and that "McCarthyism" is still the real threat. The truth is, ignoring your real enemies---as we learned on 9-11---is the real threat.
VENONA revealed that US policies were influenced or thwarted because of Americans who were Soviet agents and served high up in our government or were in positions to secure essential wartime information and information that affected our nation's policies during the course of the Cold War. They were quite different from spies who sold out the US for money; they were the true believers in Communism.
Frankly, I doubt my Father fully comprehended the threat of the Soviet Union and the Cold War. I was sure, however, that he bought into every Leftist lie of his day because his day began with The New York Times and included reading The New Republic and even Foreign Affairs, the quarterly of the Council on Foreign Relations. His was a steady diet of propaganda designed to make the dictatorship of the proletariat look like a noble aspiration, a great goal, instead of the enslavement it represented for millions behind the Iron Curtain or subject to it in Red China, North Korea and Cuba.
You shall know the truth and it shall set you free. The truth is, in the 1940s and the decades that followed, the State Department, the US Treasury, the CIO until it expelled some of its unions, and even the US Army, was thoroughly infiltrated by Americans whose loyalty was to the Soviet Union, a nation bent on the destruction of capitalism and the democracy upon which it was based. Ironically, you can thank the Soviet Union for Social Security and for the failure of our present educational system. Both were implemented by Leftists, the latter being based on the former Soviet model.
Hollywood won't tell you that. Instead, you can rent "The Majestic" starring Jim Carrey that includes scenes of a film writer being ruined by the "Red scare" of the 50s. The members of the "Progressive Caucus" in Congress won't tell you that, but they are as Red as they come. The New York Times won't tell you that, but the newspaper's long history of lies is now becoming more widely known.
The VENONA Secrets, however, spells it out and documents it. My father died in 1993. VENONA was declassified two years later. He was a good man, an intelligent, well-read man, but he was wrong about a lot of things. He didn't grasp what vast numbers of ordinary, working Americans instinctively understood. The threat was and the threat still is Communism. And now, add to that enemy, the new one, Islam. Not surprisingly, both use terrorism as their primary tool of conquest and control.
Alan Caruba is the author of "Warning Signs", recently published by Merril Press. His column of the same name is posted weekly on www.anxietycenter.com, the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center. © Alan Caruba 2003
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