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Waterloo Police and Fire Officials Investigate Suspected Arson Fire
On Tuesday, November 25, 2008 around 1:10 a.m. Waterloo Police officers and Waterloo Fire Rescue firefighters were called to the 2000 block of Commercial Street on the report of several vehicles on fire. When officers arrived they found four vehicles were on fire inside a fenced in lot, which belongs to Ray Mount Wrecker Service. Firefighters were able to quickly extinguish the burning vehicles and no injuries were sustained in this incident.
Police and Fire officials believe the fire started in a white 1995 Chevrolet Monte Carlo and then spread to three other nearby vehicles. Officials suspect the fire may have been intentionally set and the investigation into this incident continues.
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Geographer finds her way on list of state's top scientists
MANHATTAN -- A geographer who turns to the past to determine what is happening in the present has earned a top spot in Kansas scientific history.
Kendra McLauchlan, assistant professor of geography at Kansas State University and director of the university's Paleoenvironmental Laboratory, was named by the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative as one of the top 150 scientists ever to work in Kansas throughout its 150 years of statehood.
For her research McLauchlan reconstructs ecosystems of the past and their functions in order to provide context for the modern changes to Earth's environments. Additionally, she also looks at human-environment interactions.
One of her largest studies looks at the nitrogen availability in forest and grassland ecosystems from 10,000 years ago. By reconstructing and evaluating past changes in nitrogen cycles, McLauchlan can see how vegetation, climate and other disturbances affect biochemical changes over time. Doing so can also formalize techniques for scientists to determine whether humans are increasing or decreasing nitrogen availability.
In 2010, McLauchlan received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. It is one of the nation's most prestigious awards, and recognizes young faculty who have high potential of becoming future leaders in their field.
"This question about changes to nutrient cycling seems simple, but it has been surprisingly hard to answer," McLauchlan said. "It is exciting to know that we now have the tools to answer it. Pieces of the puzzle are already coming together."
Throughout 2011, Ad Astra spotlighted 150 Kansas researchers, scientists, inventors and engineers from the past to the present who have advanced the scientific field in Kansas' 150 years of statehood. The initiative's project, "Science in Kansas: 150 Years and Counting," celebrates the state's sesquicentennial and emphasizes the importance of science and the career possibilities in research and innovation to K-12 students.McLauchlan is the one of the 21 active faculty researchers at K-State to be named among Kansas' top 150 scientists. She joins other historically noted state researchers on the list like George Washington Carver, Charles H. Sternberg, Clyde Cessna and Hall Livingstone Hibbard.


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James Franco in talks for Gertrude Bell biopic
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James Franco is in talks to replace Jude Law in Gertrude Bell biopic 'Queen of the Desert'
James Franco is in talks to star in 'Queen of the Desert'.
The 'Oz the Great and Powerful' actor may replace Jude Law in Werner Herzog's biopic on the life of Gertrude Bell after the 'Anna Karenina' star dropped out of his role, reports Deadline.
Franco would star alongside 'The Impossible' actress Naomi Watts - who is set to play the historic writer and archaeologist - and 'Twilight' actor Robert Pattinson, who have long been attached to the project.
The film would follow the life of Gertrude Bell, a writer, explorer, and political attache for the British empire, who was considered a trailblazer at the turn of the 20th century.
Franco would play the historical figure's lover Henry Cadogan, who she was with until his untimely death.
The in-demand actor has numerous projects in various stages of development following his star role in Disney's blockbuster family movie 'Oz the Great and Powerful' earlier this year, as well as a role in the buzzworthy 'Spring Breakers'.
He will next be seen in raunchy comedy 'This is the End' and recently signed on to star alongside Kate Hudson in crime thriller 'Good People'.


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- Protect yourself with collision insurance. Imagine if you drive off the lot and are hit by another vehicle or object like a shopping cart software? Collision insurance protects your car. That's why lienholders require that you carry it: the car remains the asset of the lienholder, says Gusner.
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Series 1 Papers
Female Experience: Victorian Heritage, Part II – class file 1979 spring
Female Experience: Victorian Heritage, Part II – course reader
Lectures on women's position in "simpler" societies 1975-1977
Book reviews 1976-1980
Articles on Ilongot speech
Magic and Medicine: a Problem in Cultural Analysis, conference paper 1973
Metaphors and Folk Classification, Southwestern Journal of Anthropology, Vol. 28 1972
Moral/Analytic Dilemmas Posed by the Intersection of Feminism and Social Science, conference paper 1980
The Shame of Headhunters and the Autonomy of Self, published and unpublished versions 1980-1983
Towards an Anthropology of Self and Feeling, published and unpublished versions 1981
The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-cultural Understanding, Signs 1980 spring
Accession ARCH-2006-166 Additional Papers
Mostly unsorted class materials with some correspondence and 1 bound notebook 1970s
Ling 50/Anth 180 1977
Anth 142 1973
Anthro 252 hostage parade article
Symbolic 1981 winter
Anth 152 1978
Anth 252 1976
Victorian Heritage II 1978-1979
Anth 244 1973
Correspondence 1974-1976
Royalty statements, letters of reference
MZR tenure
Faculty records, course evaluations
Official correspondence and recommendations
Correspondence 1978-1979
Women's bibliography
Rosaldo/Collier work – correspondence 1976
Rosaldo/Collier work – text
Rosaldo/Collier work – outlines, lectures, notes
Rosaldo/Collier work – research
Anth 230 1978
Anth 163 1973
Ilongot research
Soil test forms, Kasibu, Nueva Viscaya 1969
Notes on Ilongot songs
Notes on Ilongot spells
Notes on Ilongot spells
Notes on Ilongot magic
Metaphors and Hypotheses (re Ilongot genres)
Ilongot myth
"Phonology: Kakidugon Bugkalut," typescript paper
Ilongot phonology
Miscellaneous notes on Ilongot
Topo maps of Luzon
Correspondence (3 folders) 1972-1973
Envelope of correspondence
"Shelly's current correspondence" (1 folder)
Women's Book [Women, Culture and Society] correspondence (2 envelopes, 2 folders)
Correspondence (2 envelopes)
Correspondence, unorganized and not in folders
Field notes, 1963, and photographs and postcards that accompanied them
Z notes field notes and interviews?) 1966
Other notebooks and loose notes (many not written in English)
Typescript papers (her own undergraduate) 1960s
2 Notebooks (Spanish class?)
Class evaluations from her anthropology class 1977
Box of condolence letters to Renato Rosaldo after her death 1981
Other materials relating to her death and memorial fund, including audiocassette of memorial service
Her reprints, typescript papers, book reviews, panel commentary, and correspondence 1965-1981
Class materials – syllabi, lecture outlines, bibliographies, exam questions 1970s
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A hearing on a special permit application for Ancient Oak Gun Club in Lakewood Ranch will be reopened 1 p.m. Feb. 25.
Manatee County Hearing Officer Lori Dorman reopened the hearing out of concern about noise from gunfire.
The hearing will be held at Manatee County Commission Chambers, 1112 Manatee Ave. W.
The announcement continues a tumultuous approval process for Schroeder-Manatee Ranch's Ancient Oak Gun Club, a proposed 24-station sporting clay course to be built on 78 acres south of State Road 64 East, off Uihlein Road.
On Jan. 8, Dorman issued a notice of intent to approve a special permit application for the club.
During a Dec. 19 public hearing, officials and parents from the Center for Montessori School and officials from Bayside Community Church, both neighboring residents to the proposed site, had expressed reservations about the gun club's proximity to their facilities.
After Dorman issued the notice of intent — in which she declared the club compatible with the area and not a danger to public safety — those who spoke out against it in December had until Jan. 16 to respond to the county.
Dorman would have issued the Final Order by Jan. 24.
Instead, after considering feedback from the concerned parties, Dorman said noise from the proposed gun club might be too loud.
Manatee County's noise ordinance says noise cannot exceed 60 decibels.
In an interview with the East County Observer in January, Wayne Evans, brought on by SMR to run the project last June, said the low-brass, low-ammunition ringing from the club's shotguns would be quieter than the 60-decibel limit.
See a previous story on the gun club here.
A hearing on a special permit application for Ancient Oak Gun Club in Lakewood Ranch will be reopened 1 p.m. Feb. 25.


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Yahoo's new severance/retention plan is the envy of every employee on earth (details here). So how much will it cost an acquirer? At least $1 billion and possibly as much as $3 billion.
The most expensive aspects of the severance plan are the full salary and benefits for up to two years and the acceleration of stock and option vesting. Let's take them each individually:
Stock and options:
At the end of 2006 (last figures available), Yahoo had 190 million stock options outstanding--approximately 15% of the overall share base--with an average exercise price of $29 a share. Of these, approximately 100 million were "in the money."
The company estimated the value of these options (to the employees who owned them) at $730 million. From an acquirers' perspective, however, they are far more expensive, as they represent immediate dilution if they become exercisable upon the close of the deal. If 100 million options are in the money and immediately exercisable, this would represent 7% dilution. At $30 a share, these 100 million new shares would add an additional $1-$2 billion to the company's price tag.
(The exact amount would depend on the average exercise price of the in-the-money options. The out-of-the-money options would also likely have some value).
Yahoo also had 12 million unvested shares of restricted stock outstanding at December 31, 2006, which would represent additional dilution.
Cash Severance:
The 24-month full salary + benefits deal applies only to senior executives. Let's assume, however, that the average severance period will be 1 year. Let's further assume that about 1/2 of Yahoo's $6 billion annual cost base is compensation ($3 billion) and that Microsoft will fire 1/4 of Yahoo's staff. This would result in a one-time cash severance payment of about $750 million.
Add the stock and cash charges together, and you're looking at additional cost of $1-$3 billion. Much of this will disappear in a one-time charge, of course, so Wall Street will ignore it, but it's real money--even for Microsoft.
See Also:
Yahoo Pads Employees' Pockets at Microsoft's Future Expense
Will Microsoft Get Jerry Fired?


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Seventeen Seventy (known as The Town of 1770) is a picturesque seaside village surrounded on three sides by the Coral Sea and Bustard Bay.
Enjoy stand up paddle boarding, fishing and swimming at the calm waters adjacent to 1770 Foreshore, with extensive boardwalk, grassed picnic areas, barbecues and children's playground.
Historic as the second landing site of James Cook and the crew of the Endeavour in May 1770, the area is rich in wildlife and natural beauty and offers scenic vistas in every direction. The Joseph Banks Environmental Park preserves much of the peninsula with fauna and flora indicative of the area. Rugged granite rocky outcrops, both an outer surf and inner stillwater beach, and holiday accommodation in houses, apartments and two caravan and camping parks cater for visitors.
You will find restaurants, a general store and small marina in 1770 with the Agnes Water township and beach only a short eight kilometres south which has further eateries and amenities.
Seventeen Seventy is also a departure point for reef cruises and fishing charters to the Southern Great Barrier Reef. Day tours and wilderness camping transfers operate to nearby Lady Musgrave Island. Day tours also operate to the historic Bustard Heads lighthouse. For the camping enthusiast, four National Parks including Deepwater, Eurimbula, Mount Colosseum and Round Hill offer wilderness camping and hiking.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Conservation and Environment in Peru: Monthly Updates
Monthly Update - September 2007
The time has come for the latest from the Peruvian Amazon and as ever I have plenty to report. September has seen us finish the mist netting surveys; receive new residents in the animal release program, the completion of the first phases of the new dining room construction and much more.
Many of you will recall the initial mist netting surveys of 2005/2006 and the rings that we attached to the birds we caught. These rings enable us to identify individuals should they be caught again in the nets and so track their movements around the reserve. Hence this follow-up study was designed to investigate these local migrations in the area. September saw us finish the last two transects on Roxanne trail and then finally near the Anaconda mammal colpa at the southern limit of the reserve. We were fortunate enough to capture many ringed individuals and now I have to process the data to follow their movements through the reserve. Apart from these ringed birds we managed to find two new species for our list, buff-breasted wren (Thyrothorus leucotis) and white-necked thrush (Turdus albicollis); and capture many species that we had been unable to photograph before, such as an undulated tinamou (Cryptorellius undulatus). The final transect saw us capture a total of 77 birds in just three days keeping us very busy recording species and measurements. It was almost enough to distract us from the heat, humidity and continual buzz of the ever-present insects and I must thank all the volunteers involved who put up with these uncomfortable conditions around the campsite. Once again their dedication never ceases to amaze me.
Back at the centre we welcomed some new residents to the release program and bid farewell to another. This month we received a red and green macaw (Ara chloroptera), a baby brown agouti (Dasyprocta variegata) and a tiny collared peccary (Tayassu tajacu). The completion of the juvenile enclosures in August meant that we have been able to quarantine the macaw and agouti in comfortable conditions whilst the very young peccary is still in the nursery. It has been a challenge to look after the peccary as it has to be force fed milk due to its very young age. Still she seems to be growing and the prospects look good for the youngster. Elsewhere we did some relocating of our existing residents due the release of the pale-winged trumpeters (Psophia leucoptera) last month. The trumpeters' cage is now home to our two Spix's guans (Penelope jacquacu) and the guans' cage is being used to house our four yellow-crowned parrots (Amazon ochrocephala). These large Amazon parrots have been with us for a while and so their flight feathers are starting to regenerate.
The extra space has enabled the birds to exercise more and daily they appear to be more active and their flight muscles stronger. It will still be a while before we can release them but their recovery will definitely be swifter with their new found space. The baby toucans (Rhamphastos cuvieri) were also becoming too big for their enclosure and so we took out the adjoining wall and expanded their cage as it now leads into the adjacent one which was empty. The toucans are also enjoying the extra space and as their feathers were never cut we just need to wait for them to grow a bit more before we can open the door and release them back into the wild. Still we were able to release one of our residents as we said goodbye to our only current reptilian resident, the red-tailed boa constrictor (Boa constrictor). We took the two and a half metre snake to the depressions near the canopy walkway and recorded its biometry (body measurements) before letting it go. The animal was in excellent health and no doubt has found a territory of its own by now. I am also happy to report the excellent progress of our second jaguar in the program. Many of you will remember the photos of the little jaguar cub that arrived earlier this year- as you will see from the photo she is no longer so little and is growing fast with her well-balanced diet. Her coat has a wonderful sheen and she is as playful and boisterous as ever.
For anyone who has visited a tropical rainforest one thing that always sticks in the mind is the constant humidity and this is responsible for the accelerated rates of rotting and decay in the jungle. After four years our next victim was the kitchen and dining room which is truly on its last legs as the conditions take their toll. Nonetheless we have started the construction of a bigger and better kitchen/dining room with a view over the river. The wood has all been protected and the roof is painted corrugated iron so this will have a longer lifespan and I am sure I will be reporting its completion in next month's update.
The farm project continues to flourish and this month we built a new nursery for an experiment with mahogany cuttings. We want to investigate whether mahogany plants that have shown resistance to the Hypsipyla moth (a parasite of young plants that stunts their growth) can be successfully cultivated from branch cuttings. If this proves successful then it will eliminate the necessity to search for seeds as wild trees are harder and harder to find as loggers take their toll on the forest. The added bonus is the trees will have a natural resistance to the parasitic moth that has been attacking our cultivated mahogany plants for years. Elsewhere the guinea pigs that we gave our neighbour Pedro Guevarra have started to reproduce. As with the goats, the guinea pigs were brought from the mountains to provide an alternative meat source for the locals. These quick reproducers will eliminate the necessity to hunt and improve the farmer's quality of life. Pedro's success with the sheep/goats has led him to try this project also and the first offspring bode well for yet another success.
That wraps it up for this month and I shall be back with more information as October will see the first of our baby turtles hatching, the completion of the new dining room and plenty more as usual.
Stuart Timson
26th September, 2007
Conservation Director,
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Guy Divorces Wife Over Ugly Baby
There is no such thing as an ugly baby. Kidding. There are and one guy divorced his wife for having an ugly baby.
Up until recently, Jian Feng and wife were living a happy life over in China. He loved her, she loved him, and all that crap led to Mrs. Feng getting knocked up. At that point in a relationship, it's standard to know basically everything about your spouse, but it seems like the wife left out a small tidbit of information; before they met, she underwent about $100,000 worth of plastic surgery so she looked a little different in the past. Perky boobs + tighter butt = should-be-happy Feng. Apparently, this caused a slight issue with their offspring.
When his wife gave birth to their daughter, the guy was horrified by how ugly the baby came out. We repeat: Feng was horrified that his own daughter was so ugly. That's not even the worst part; after learning his wife wasn't always so hot, Feng decided to divorce her, claiming they married under "false pretense."
Ready for kicker number three? The case was taken to court, and Feng won $120,000.
Hopefully this massive jerk is at least putting the money to good use, like for a penis enhancement and a sports car. He's gonna need them.


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Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband who is truly an incredible father and an example to our boys of how to be a man. I love you Chito!
Sunday, June 20, 2010
I love this man..............
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- Sumo @ Sumo's Sweet Stuff said...
Dad really is the best! (Aside from the other men folk in our family!) I told him that even though everyone thinks they have the best dad, we're the only ones who are right when we say it. :)
- June 20, 2010 at 2:32 PM
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Women Who Count
The Language and Power of Wealth Management for the Female Executive
You likely already know that women own and control 51.3% of the personal wealth in the United States and 40% of all privately held US firms. Women comprise the majority of college graduates and the majority of newly minted doctors and lawyers. Women make or influence most of the household investment and purchasing decisions. In fact, in many households today, women commonly outearn their male counterparts. So… we've made it! Right? Women are right up there with the men in terms of our financial savvy and decision making abilities, aren't we?
Not even close. As a 30-year veteran financial advisor to individuals and companies around the country, I know firsthand that most women's financial knowledge, confidence and sophistication still lag far behind our male counterparts. I also know that for reasons that we can only speculate, women still have yet to take the same truly active and powerful decision-making role in the financial world as do men.
While women often are 'involved' in the decision-making role, we find that they often take a more passive role to their male partner. We also find that they lack the same language tools that men do.
For example, if you are woman reading this right now, ask yourself, "When was the last time I discussed the earnings reports of companies that I follow with one of my friends?" OR "When was the last time I got together with a friend for drinks and talked about how we and some friends could get some capital together to buy up some apartment buildings (or start a venture capital pool or maybe an investment opportunity your advisor recommended)?" OR "Do I know how to use balance sheet financing to leverage your personal net worth?" OR (If you work for a public company) "Do I know how my company stock plan works?"
Have you have worried about becoming a bag lady? Many women often worry about this. Men never do.
I know this not only because I am a woman working with men in the financial services world, but because I am a woman who has made some of the same mistakes that many women make. I assumed that I did not need to be proactively 'aggressive' about managing my financial affairs. I somehow thought that if I just saved aggressively (thankfully), that somehow I would be 'okay'.
I rarely, if ever, talked with my women friends about money. It's not 'nice'. I try to downplay any successes I've had. I worried that, first, I wouldn't attract a and people wouldn't like me if I was too successful.
Men have no such qualms. Men enjoy talking about financial matters. They compete over successes. They want to talk about business opportunities. They start early. They start competing in middle and high school and keep going from there. They know they will be admired for their successes Women know they may not be admired for those same successes and that they may end up with no mate at all if they are 'too successful'.
All these subtle and not so subtle social and cultural cues have stood in the way of women truly gaining the financial savvy that their male peers take for granted. This is true even though studies show that knowledgeable women investors are generally better long-term investors than men!
It's time to learn the language, start the conversation, and get talking—with your partner, with your peers, with your financial advisor, and with your friends. It's time to take control of your financial future. Join us and learn more about Women Who Count.


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It's a Thursday afternoon in a studio in Los Angeles, and Tom Cruise, dressed in jeans and an untucked white button-down shirt, is belting out "Paradise City." He's performing the Guns N' Roses song—which he sings during the opening credits of his new movie, Rock of Ages—in character, as Stacee Jaxx, a fading rock god from the eighties. Sitting in front of the glass-enclosed recording booth are Cruise's music advisers, including Ron Anderson, formerly a vocal coach for Axl Rose, whose trademark screech Cruise has perfected. When Cruise started this project more than a year ago, he didn't know whether he could really sing. "Adam Shankman, the director, asked me if I could carry a tune," Cruise tells me later. "I said, 'We'll see, won't we? This is either going to work or it's going to be dreadful.' "
Throughout his career, Cruise has assessed roles by their degree of difficulty. He loves a challenge—especially if it involves mastering some new skill. Cruise has tossed bottles (Cocktail), flown fighter jets (Top Gun), hustled pool (The Color of Money), learned to live life as a Nazi with one arm and an eye patch (Valkyrie), raced cars (Days of Thunder), and, most recently, rappelled down the face of the tallest building in the world (Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol). He always works from the outside in: Even in his serious, Academy Award–nominated roles for Born on the Fourth of July (in which he was wheelchair-bound) and Magnolia (where he played a sex guru), his way into a character is through the physical. With Stacee Jaxx, he began with the mundane rock-star requirements—honing his newly discovered four-octave range and learning to play the guitar—but the physical soon gave way to the emotional. While everyone else in Rock of Ages is either ridiculous or playing their part with a wink (Alec Baldwin in a wig!), Cruise seems to actually be living in Stacee's leather pants. He is alone inside another, much more interesting movie; there is a melancholic undertow to Stacee Jaxx—he's only truly alive when he's onstage, and he knows that his time there is nearly over.
Cruise's personal sense of character complication may have something to do with timing: Though the actor looks easily 15 years younger, he will be 50 in July. When he signed on to Rock of Ages, he was at a career crossroads—the rambling, not-fun Knight and Day, a big action movie, had not scored at the box office, and negative rumors had plagued MI4. True to his nature, Cruise concentrated on the work—specifically, the jump off the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai. "I look at cities and architecture and I'm always thinking, I want to jump off that building," Cruise says. "I'm inspired by Harold Lloyd or Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin. I think, We're going to get this on camera, and it's going to be in IMAX—that will be something for an audience."
The jump worked: Last Christmas, MI4 was an enormous hit, making $693 million and putting Cruise back on top. "We were finishing Mission," he recalls. "I'd go down the front of the building and then get on the phone with Adam Shankman and say, 'What's the voice of Stacee Jaxx?' This movie was, for me, like training for anything: You have to learn how to use your muscles. And then you start thinking, What story do I want to tell?"
When W photographed Cruise in the penthouse of the Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach several months before our meeting in Los Angeles, he was completely immersed in Stacee's story. Rock of Ages was filming in Miami, and Cruise was sporting long hair extensions and tattoos. Playing the character took some courage: If he didn't approach the role with sincerity and intensity, Cruise could easily look like a joke. "Stacee Jaxx had to be real," he said during the shoot. "I didn't want to imitate all these other rock stars. He had to be unique. If the audience doesn't immediately buy into his absolute greatness, there's no movie journey. Without that, you have nothing."
Back in the studio, Cruise lets out a pitch-perfect scream. "My throat is gone," he says, sounding hoarse. "That's all I've got." Cruise says his goodbyes to the Rock of Ages crew and leaves the room. I follow him into another recording studio to talk. "After four hours of singing," Cruise begins, "I sound like Donald Duck. No more rock star."
As a kid, did you sing around the house?
You know what? I did the scene from Risky Business around the house. I would sing Bob Seger—my mother worked, my sisters were out, and I'd turn the music up. I learned how to dance watching Soul Train. I noticed that if a guy could dance, he'd get a lot of attention and girls would want to dance with him. I worked very hard at imitating those moves.
Were you ever in a school musical?
In my senior year I was in Guys and Dolls. I was Nathan Detroit—the Sinatra part. I wish I'd had Ron Anderson back then. He would have made a big difference.
Why did you want to do a musical now?
Kate [Holmes, Cruise's wife] loves musicals. She sings and dances, and we kind of went through the history of musicals together. And Suri loved Hairspray. With kids, you watch everything over and over; I watched Hairspray 15 times with Suri. I thought Adam Shankman did a great job directing the movie, so I arranged to meet him and said, "Where's our musical?" He came back and said, "Rock of Ages." We went and saw it in L.A., and for me…I didn't know how to play the character like that. I had to find my own Stacee Jaxx.
You began training.
I needed to find out if I could really sing! Ron came in and worked with me. And then I had to learn how to play guitar. I'm very good at air guitar—and air drums—but I had never played an actual guitar. After working for weeks on Stacee's technical skills, I was thinking about the character, and I said, "You know what? I need a monkey." Adam said, "What the fuck are you talking about?" And I said, "I'm serious—I need a monkey" [laughs]. When Stacee's not onstage, he's kind of sad. And I thought, This guy has to have a monkey that's his best friend. Adam found this baboon. He sent me the baboon's audition tape, and I said, "The baboon's name has to be Hey Man" [laughs]. Stacee Jaxx doesn't work without Hey Man.
There are a lot of sexy scenes in this movie: At one point you're climbing a stripper pole; in another scene, you're grinding up against a Rolling Stone reporter, played by Malin Akerman.
I knew we had to push the sexuality because of the nature of the character and the songs. He's singing, "I Want to Know What Love Is." Adam has a sweetness with this stuff, so you can push things pretty hard. With Malin, I thought of Susan Sarandon in The Rocky Horror Picture Show—incredibly sexy and very sweet.
It's hard to get that balance.
When you read a lot of rock biographies, you find that when these musicians are doing their work and it's going well, that's when they're really alive. It's all the other stuff—the noise and complications—that gets them into devilish behavior. Stacee is kind of floating until he comes onstage. That's where he's at home. Everything else is kind of a mess.
Was your goal to show something intimate?
Yes. It's a little uncomfortable at times. But funny. Uncomfortable and funny: That was the goal.
Cruise: Hair by Michael White; makeup and tattoo design: Michele Burke. Models: Hair by Recine; makeup by Aaron de Mey at Art Partner; manicures by Champagne Satayakul. Models: Abbey Lee Kershaw at Next; Edita Vilkeviciute at DNA New York. Production by Select Services. Special thanks to the Raleigh Hotel. Digital technician: Xanny Handfield. Photography assistants: Lars Beaulieu, Johnny Vicari, Javier Villegas. Fashion assistants: Katy Younger-Hadwiger, Megan Kelley.


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Because it all began with YouTube, and to have (the video) reach one billion views
South Korean rapper PSY is ending 2012 on another career high - his viral video for GANGNAM Style has hit one billion views on YouTube.com.
The catchy song's promo, featuring his crazy horse-style dance routine, was uploaded on the video streaming website on 15 July (12) and it soon became the most-watched clip ever, surpassing the previous record held by Justin Bieber's Baby.
On Friday (21Dec12) the track reached another major milestone, becoming the first video in history to reach the one billion mark.
The shocked 34 year old tells MTV.com, "I can't compare it to anything else! In 2012, I experienced so many things; it's been a tremendous year, but to accomplish this, it's really something that stands out. Because it all began with YouTube, and to have (the video) reach one billion views... I don't think even I can break that record!"
It certainly has been quite a year for Psy - he was signed to Scooter Braun's Schoolboy Records as Bieber's label mate and asked to perform for U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House earlier this month (Dec12), while Gangnam Style was recently named the second highest-trending search of 2012 by bosses at Google.
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Also: Live Video from Daley Plaza | Photos: Chicago's Bid
Note: Video feed will switch between Copenhagen's Bella Center and scenes in Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and Tokyo.
12:27: Here are the vote totals:
11:53 a.m. Rio de Janeiro wins vote to host 2016 Summer Olympics.
11:30 a.m. IOC presentation begins. Announcement of host city just before noon.
Tokyo also eliminated.
10:23: First round of voting closes. Chicago eliminated.
10:10 a.m. Voting has begun. Review: How the Voting Process Works
8:54 a.m. IOC's evaluation commission delivers final report. Madrid's press conference will begin shortly. A test vote will be held in about an hour.
8:38 a.m. Madrid concludes presentation. Q&A begins.
8:34 a.m. "A vote for Madrid is a vote that would foster Olympic values throughout the world. A vote, that through sport, would bring in our lives more understanding, more solidarity, and more friedship. Believe me, a vote for Madrid is a vote for the success of these Olympic and paralympic games," said King Juan Carlos I.
8:08 a.m. Madrid offers "vibrant cosmopolitan character" in a compact package.
7:52 a.m. Former IOC President Juan-Antonio-Samaranch says the Madrid bid focuses on the "human touch."
7:49 a.m. Madrid begins its presentation.
7:38 a.m. Rio is holding their press conference now. Madrid's bid presentation is scheduled to begin soon.
7:16 a.m. Madrid's Olympic presentation is expected to begin in less than 30 minutes.
6:40 a.m. IOC voters are currently taking a break from hearing presentations. A press conference for Rio bid committee is expected to begin at 7:45 a.m.
6:05 a.m. Rio is wrapping up its presentation with a question and answer session with IOC voters. | Watch Rio's Presentation
5:15 a.m. Officials from Rio de Janeiro went heavy on their perceived advantage, that the Olympics have never come to South America.
Rio 2016 bid leader Carlos Nuzman used a visual aid to make his point that Latin America deserves a shot at the Olympic Games. He pointed to a map which showed the locations of games in Europe, North America and Asia and none in Africa or South America and listed each continent's histroy. Europe, 5 in Asia, 2 in Oceania, and 12 in North America, including 8 in the United States, he said.
"Now we want to bring the games to South America for first time and open the door to a new continent, one that stands ready to take the Olympic movement forward," Nuzman said.
4:50 a.m. The Japanese press conference has ended.
"Many people say you must show more passion at the presentation," said Dr. Ichiro Kono, who said that he believed Japan had done so during their presentation. He said he felt "very warm feeling" from the IOC members.
4:23 a.m. Tokyo, largely considered an underdog in the host city competition, has completed its presentation. Tokyo's delegation concentrated largely on the perils of climate change, the exclusion of people around the world, and sports doping. | Watch Tokyo's Presentation
"Sports is my life. Your vote is my final Olympic wish," said Gov. Ishihara.
A brief Q&A focused on the technical details of Tokyo's proposed Olympic facilities. The Q&A has now concluded.
3:45 a.m. Chicago has completed its presentation to the International Olympic Committee.
In a stirring and eloquent speech, President Obama urged the assembled members to "choose Chicago ... choose America."
President Obama described himself as "a passionate supporter" of the Olympic and Paralympic Games and said he looked forward to welcoming the world to the shores of Lake Michigan in 2016.
"It's a place where our unity is on colorful display."
2:30 a.m. Michelle Obama, who appeared slightly apprehensive at the beginning of her speech, slowly warmed up and gave a heartfelt speech to the assembled members.
The First Lady spoke of her roots on Chicago's South Side and her love of sports, which she shared with her father. She also returned to her theme of empowering children.
"I am dreaming of an Olympic and Paralympic Games in Chicago that will light up lives in neighborhoods all across America and all across the world; that will expose all our neighborhoods to new sports and new role models; that will show every child that regardless of wealth, or gender, or race, or physical ability, there is a sport and a place for them, too."
3:00 a.m. Chicago's presentation has ended. | Watch Chicago's Presentation
12:00 a.m. President Obama is scheduled to touch down in Copenhagen this morning, carrying the now-elevated hopes of Chicago -- and the increased scrutiny of the nation -- with him.
Upon his arrival Obama, along with late-add Sen. Dick Durbin, will join the First Lady, Oprah Winfrey, Mayor Daley and the rest of the Chicago delegation and travel to Copenhagen's Bella Center, where he's scheduled to present Chicago's bid at 3:50 a.m. Chicago local time.
To say the eyes of the world are upon him would be an understatement.
Also: How the Voting Process Works
Friday's Planned Schedule (all times local to Chicago):
7:45 a.m. Madrid presentation
9:00 a.m. IOC evaluation committee report
10:10 a.m. Voting begins
11:30 a.m. Announcement ceremony
11:55 a.m. IOC President Jacques Rogge announces host city for 2016 Summer Olympic Games
Full Coverage: Chicago's 2016 Olympic Bid


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Pros: Captures writing, drawings and signatures digitally with easy-to-use ball point pen and special format paperCons: Limited to using a color printer that meets certain requirements.Performance: A-Features: B+Ease of use: AValue: CPrice: $499
I always seem to want what I can't have. What I really want in a digital pen is something that works as a regular pen, but that can also record input digitally. The Anoto penDocuments system comes as close as anything available to doing this, but I felt a bit hamstrung by the product's requirements.
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Anoto penDocuments comes with a slightly jumbo-sized ball-point pen that also has Bluetooth capabilities and an infrared camera that can digitally record whatever you write or draw. This is a real ball-point pen that writes with real ink, plus it comes with four ink refills.
The other piece of the system is the Anoto template, which prints a subtle pattern of black dots that can be read by the digital pen but are almost invisible to the eye. The pen reads the pattern and registers the coordinates of what and where the user writes. Whatever you write or draw with the pen on the Anoto-dot patterned paper is saved in the pen's memory until you download it to a docking station, where it's transferred via Bluetooth to your desktop or laptop PC or smart phone.
The tricky part is that the dots only work when you print them out on a color printer that meets certain requirements. Try it on a regular monochrome laser printer, like I did at first, and you'll get an error message. For best quality, Anoto recommends eight OKI color printer models: C5450, C5900, C5950, C6150, C6100, C8800, C9600 and C9650. If you have one of these printers, you're all set. Anoto says you can also use another make of color printer as long as it's a color toner laser printer with an output resolution of 600 dpi or more, such as 1,200, 1,800 or 2400, and has a PostScript 3 driver or PS3 emulation. But if you do use a non-OKI printer, the print quality isn't guaranteed.
You charge the docking station and pen by connecting it to your laptop via a USB connection. It took about two and a half hours to charge the battery for the first time.
Anoto also limits how many pages you can print with the Anoto pattern. The initial package lets you print 1,280 pages with the pattern, and then you must buy refills for a license to print an additional 6,144 pages.
And it works only with Adobe PDF documents. So documents in Word or PowerPoint will have to be saved as PDFs to work with the Anoto system.
The Anoto pen system would be useful if you need to collect a lot of signatures in both ink and digital formats, such as in a government office that processes forms. What I really want is a digital pen system that would work like a pen and save my data digitally from any kind of paper, no color printer or special license for templates required. Until that low-maintenance digital pen of my dreams is invented, Anoto penDocuments will have to suffice.
Anoto, 866-552-6686, www.anoto.com
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The highly anticipated 2013 BET awards took place Sunday June 30. The annual ceremony honored talented artists by featuring exciting performances by influentials in the music industry. Kendrick Lamar, Justin Timberlake, 2 Chainz and Ciara were few of the many talented performers who took the stage. Without a doubt, the highlight performance went to Chris Brown, who entertained the audiance with, "Fine China," "Don't Think They Know," and lastly, a duet, "Love More," with Nicki Minaj. Chris also won the coveted BET FANdemonium Award. To celebrate his flawless performance and recognized musical talent, Chris celebrated at the Belasco theater in downtown LA for the "Party After" the BET Awards.
This event was presented by ZING vodka and hosted by Chris Brown and Nick Cannon. Tyga, Tyson Beckford and Bai Ling were few of many celebrities who joined in on the post-BET action. The event was crowded, but with much security surrounding the celebs so they could enjoy themselves.
Chocolate cupcakes, watermelon cupcakes, and ironically enough, "Chicken and waffel cupcakes," were served to hungry party-goers.
Like any other party, there was certainly some drama that transpired when model Karrueche Tran was spotted cuddling up to Chris Brown. The couple left the event together and rumors are floating around that the on again off again duo are officially back together. His guests were given gift bags with the Vicious hats, hair oils and body lotions and of course, hip hop cd's. One thing is for certain, Chris Brown certainly knows how to perform, and host a party.


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Import PP prices see fresh drops in China: trader
The trader reported receiving PP raffia and injection offers for Indian origins at $1200/ton on a CIF China, 30 days deferred payment basis. For PP block copolymer, they were offered Thai origins at $1240/ton and West European origins at $1270/ton, both on a CIF, 90 days deferred payment basis.
"We are not in a hurry to replenish our stocks as demand is limited ahead of the holiday. Plus, we feel that PPBC offers are still high," the trader commented.
In China, import PP prices currently stand at $1194-1265/ton for raffia, at $1194-1270/ton for injection and at $1222-1415/ton for PP block copolymer, all on a CIF China, cash equivalent basis.
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The Pentateuch (Greek for "five books") designates the first five books of the Jewish and Christian Bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy). Jewish tradition calls the five books Torah (Teaching, Law) because of the centrality of the Sinai covenant and legislation mediated through Moses.
The unity of the Pentateuch comes from the single story it tells. God creates the world and destines human beings for the blessings of progeny and land possession (Gn 1–3). As the human race expands, its evil conduct provokes God to send the flood to wipe out all but righteous Noah's family. After the flood, the world is repopulated from his three sons, Ham, Shem, and Japheth (Gn 4–9). From them are descended the seventy nations of the civilized world whose offense this time (building a city rather than taking their assigned lands, Gn 10–11) provokes God to elect one family from the rest. Abraham and his wife, Sarah, landless and childless, are promised a child and the land of Canaan. Amid trials and fresh promises, a son (Isaac) is born to them and Abraham takes title to a sliver of Canaanite land, a kind of down payment for later possession (Gn 12–25). Gn 25–36 tells how their descendant Jacob becomes the father of twelve sons (because of which he is called "Israel"), and Gn 37–50 tells how the rejected brother Joseph saves the family from famine and brings them to Egypt.
In Egypt, a pharaoh who knew not Joseph subjects "the seventy sons of Jacob" ("the Hebrews") to hard labor, keeping them from their land and destroying their male progeny (Ex 1). Moses is commissioned to lead the people out of Egypt to their own land (Ex 2–6). In ten plagues, the Lord defeats Pharaoh. Free at last, the Hebrews leave Egypt and journey to Mount Sinai (Ex 7–18), where they enter into a covenant to be the people of the Lord and be shaped by the Ten Commandments and other laws (Ex 19–24). Though the people commit apostasy when Moses goes back to the mountain for the plans of the dwelling (tabernacle), Moses' intercession prevents the abrogation of the covenant by God (Ex 32–34). A principle has been established, however: even the people's apostasy need not end their relationship with God. The book ends with the cloud and the glory taking possession of the tent of meeting (Ex 36:34–38). "The sons of Israel" in Ex 1:1 are the actual sons of Jacob/Israel the patriarch, but at the end of the book they are the nation Israel, for all the elements of nationhood in antiquity have been granted: a god (and temple), a leader, a land, and an authoritative tradition.
Israel remains at the holy mountain for almost a year. The entire block of material from Ex 19:1 to Nm 10:11 is situated at Sinai. The rituals of Leviticus and Numbers are delivered to Moses at the holy mountain, showing that Israel's worship was instituted by God and part of the very fabric of the people's life. Priestly material in the Book of Exodus (chaps. 25–31, 35–40) describes the basic institutions of Israelite worship (the tabernacle, its furniture, and priestly vestments). Leviticus, aptly called in rabbinic tradition the Priests' Manual, lays down the role of priests to teach Israel the distinction between clean and unclean and to see to their holiness. In Nm 10:11–22:1, the journey is resumed, this time from Sinai through the wilderness to Transjordan; Nm 22:2–36:13 tells of events and laws in the plains of Moab.
The final book of the Pentateuch, Deuteronomy, consists of four speeches by Moses to the people who have arrived at the plains of Moab, ready to conquer the land: 1:1–4:43; 4:44–28:68; 29:1–32:52; 33:1–34:12. Each speech is introduced by the formula "This is the law/words/blessing."
The Priestly editor used literary formulas. The formula "These are the generations (the wording can vary) of…" occurs five times in the primordial history (Gn 2:4a; 5:1; 6:9; 10:1; 11:10) and five times in the ancestral history (11:27; 25:12; 25:19; 36:1 [v. 9 is secondary]; 37:2). In Exodus and Numbers the formula (with slight variations) "They departed from (place name) and encamped at (place name)" occurs in two groups of six: A. Ex 12:37a; 13:20; 14:1–2; 15:22a; 16:1; 17:1a; and B. 19:2; Nm 10:12; 20:1a; 20:22; 21:10–11; 22:1.
Who wrote the Pentateuch, and when? Up to the seventeenth century, the virtually unanimous answer of Jews and Christians was "Moses." Moses wrote the Pentateuch as David wrote the Psalter and Solomon wrote the wisdom literature. Though scholars had noted inconsistencies (compare Ishmael's age in Gn 16:16 and 21:5, 14) and duplications (Gn 12, 20, and 26), they assumed Mosaic authorship because of the prevalent theory of inspiration: God inspired authors while they wrote. With the rise of historical criticism, scholars began to use the doublets and inconsistencies as clues to different authors and traditions.
By the late nineteenth century, one theory of the sources of the Pentateuch had been worked out that proved acceptable in its main lines to the majority of scholars (apart from Christian and Jewish conservatives) then and now. It can be quickly sketched. In the premonarchic period of the Judges (ca. 1220–1020 B.C.), the twelve tribes had an oral form of their story from creation to the taking of the land. With the beginnings of monarchy in the late eleventh and tenth centuries, the oral material was written down, being known as the Yahwist account (from its use of the divine name Yhwh). Its abbreviation, "J," comes from the German spelling of the divine name. In the following century, another account took shape in the Northern Kingdom (called E after its use of Elohim as a divine name); some believe the E source is simply a supplement to J. After the fall of the Northern Kingdom in 722/721 B.C., the E version was taken to Jerusalem where it was combined with the J version to produce J-E. During the exile (conventionally dated 587–539 B.C.) or thereafter, an editor recast J-E to make it relevant for the exiled population. This editor is conventionally known as P (= Priestly) because of the chronological and ritual interests apparent in the work. P can also designate archival material and chronological notices. The audience for the Priestly edition no longer lived in the land and was deeply concerned about its survival and its claim on the land.
Deuteronomy (= D) stands alone in style, genre (preaching rather than narrative), and content. How did it come to be the fifth book of the Pentateuch? The J-E narrative actually ends in Numbers, when Israel arrives at the plains of Moab. Many scholars believe that Deuteronomy was secondarily attached to Numbers by moving the account of Moses' death from its original place in the J-E version in Numbers to the end of Deuteronomy (chap. 34). Deuteronomy was attached to Genesis–Numbers to link it to another great work, the Deuteronomistic History (Joshua to Kings). Deuteronomy is now the fifth book of the Pentateuch and the first book of the Deuteronomistic History.
In the last three decades, the above consensus on the composition of the Pentateuch has come under attack. Some critics are extremely skeptical about the historical value of the so-called early traditions, and a few doubt there ever was a preexilic monarchy of any substance. For such scholars, the Pentateuch is a retrojection from the fourth or third centuries B.C. Other scholars postulate a different sequence of sources, or understand the sources differently.
How should a modern religiously minded person read the Pentateuch? First, readers have before them the most significant thing, the text of the Pentateuch. It is accurately preserved, reasonably well understood, and capable of touching audiences of every age. Take and read! Second, the controversies are about the sources of the Pentateuch, especially their antiquity and character. Many details will never be known, for the evidence is scanty. Indeed, the origin of many great literary works is obscure.
The Pentateuch witnesses to a coherent story that begins with the creation of the world and ends with Israel taking its land. The same story is in the historical Ps 44, 77, 78, 80, 105, 114, and 149, and in the confessions Dt 26:5–9, Jos 24:2–13, and 1 Sm 12:7–13. Though the narrative enthralls and entertains, as all great literature does, it is well to remember that it is a theopolitical charter as well, meant to establish how and why descendants of the patriarchs are a uniquely holy people among the world's nations.
The destruction of the Jerusalem Temple and deportation of Israelites in the sixth century B.C. seemed to invalidate the charter, for Israel no longer possessed its land in any real sense. The last chapter of the ancient narrative—Israel dwelling securely in its land—no longer held true. The story had to be reinterpreted, and the Priestly editor is often credited with doing so. A preface (Gn 1) was added, emphasizing God's intent that human beings continue in existence through their progeny and possess their own land. Good news, surely, to a devastated people wondering whether they would survive and repossess their ancestral land. The ending of the old story was changed to depict Israel at the threshold of the promised land (the plains of Moab) rather than in it. Henceforth, Israel would be a people oriented toward the land rather than possessing it. The revised ending could not be more suitable for Jews and Christians alike. Both peoples can imagine themselves on the threshold of the promised land, listening to the word of God in order to be able to enter it in the future. For Christians particularly, the Pentateuch portrays the pilgrim people waiting for the full realization of the kingdom of God.
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TEMPase Hot Start DNA Polymerase Glycerol Free is a glycerol free formulation of our regular TEMPase Hot Start DNA Polymerase and is well suited for automated high throughput testing, freeze drying or where accurate pipetting of small volumes are crucial
FEATURES Convenient reaction set up at room temperature Automated high throughput testing Freeze drying dUTP incorporation possible Increased sensitivity, specificity and product yield
DESCRIPTION TEMPase Hot Start DNA Polymerase Glycerol Free is a chemically modified version of Ampliqon Taq DNA Polymerase and is activated by heat treatment. A chemical moiety is attached to the enzyme at the active site, which renders the TEMPase Hot Start enzyme inactive at room temperature. During set up and the first ramp of thermal cycling, the enzyme is not active and misprimed primers are not extended. Once the PCR reaction reaches the optimal activation temperature, the chemical moiety is cleaved releasing the active TEMPase Hot Start DNA Polymerase, resulting in higher specificity, sensitivity and yield compared to standard Ampliqon Taq DNA polymerase. Glycerol is normally a major part of the storage buffer of enzymes and acts as a cryoprotectant. Glycerol disrupts the water structure and makes the buffer more cell like, hence stabilising the polymerase. Glycerol is a highly viscous liquid and is therefore difficult and time-consuming to pipet accurately, especially in smaller volumes. As a consequence, pipetting glycerol in fast, robot-aided automation processes is almost an unsolvable challenge. Furthermore, the presence of glycerol in the enzyme buffer makes freeze drying impossible.
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mouse_waitforupdate - wait for an mouse update
#include <vgamouse.h> void mouse_waitforupdate(void);
This reads in mouse events from the mouse buffer and updates the internal svgalib variables which store the current mouse position and button states. If there are no events the function does not return until one occurs.
svgalib(7), vgagl(7), libvga.config(5), eventtest(6), mouse_close(3), mouse_init(3), mouse_getposition_6d(3), mouse_setposition(3), mouse_setscale(3), mouse_setwrap(3), mouse_setxrange(3), mouse_getx(3), mouse_waitforupdate(3), vga_setmousesupport(3), mouse_seteventhandler(3), vga_waitevent(3)
This manual page was edited by Michael Weller <firstname.lastname@example.com>. The exact source of the referenced function as well as of the original documentation is unknown. It is very likely that both are at least to some extent are due to Harm Hanemaayer <email@example.com>. Occasionally this might be wrong. I hereby asked to be excused by the original author and will happily accept any additions or corrections to this first version of the svgalib manual.


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The Associated Press and 28 news organizations, including The New York Times Co. and The Washington Post Co., are launching a company that will measure the unpaid online use of their original reporting and seek to convert unauthorized websites, blogs and other newsgathering services into paying customers.
The company, called NewsRight, brings together efforts started by the AP and its partners in October 2010 to track the use of stories on websites, blogs and other Internet forums through what it calls the News Registry.
The company said today that it is open for business. The organization is led by former ABC News president David Westin.
NewsRight encodes original stories with hidden data that includes the writer's name and when it was published. The encoded stories send back reports to the registry that describe where a story is being used and who is reading it. The technology can even locate stories that have been cut and pasted in whole or in part.
"More news is available more ways than ever in history. But if reliable information is to continue to flourish, the companies investing in creating content need efficient ways to license it as broadly as possible," Westin said in a statement. "NewsRight's mission is to make sure consumers continue to benefit from the all the original news reporting they want while ensuring those who republish content do so with integrity. "
NewsRight spun off from the AP in July and took on other investors and members including newspaper publishers such as The McClatchy Co., Hearst Newspapers and Media General Inc. The group does not include such large media groups as News Corp., the publisher of The Wall Street Journal, or Gannett Co., publisher of USA Today.
The company will initially seek customers among media monitoring services that compile stories online for governments and companies, said Westin. These companies charge fees for aggregating the news, but do not compensate news organizations for the use of their content.
Such services may want to begin paying for a more comprehensive offering of stories than they currently get, using their current method of searching the Internet. They would also obtain data detailing how news is being consumed, Westin said. A business deal with NewsRight will also allow customers to avoid infringing on copyrights, he said.
"Our goal is to resolve that (legal) question through a mutually beneficial business arrangement," Westin said.
NewsRight employs six people in San Francisco and five in New York. Westin did not disclose how much investors have put in, but said some investors contributed goods and services rather than money and all are minority shareholders.
Newspaper analyst Ken Doctor said the first year of operation for NewsRight will test how much of a market there is for the service. A key selling point is the data on story usage, which could help advertisers measure the audience they want to reach more effectively, he said.
"The data is hugely important and it could be that News Registry and NewsRight has a unique asset, but the market has to be tested," he said.
Doctor added that some newspaper publishers have been reluctant to join NewsRight because they were concerned its activities could affect other licensing deals they have online.
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Here's your first clip from The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, the movie they couldn't just call The Haunting in Georgia for some reason. Two things are clear from this scene: 1) That dog is probably not going to make it to the end of the movie. 2) This film is really committing to the idea of using the horrors of slavery as the basis for its ghost story. Which is a great idea, except that it can easily go horribly wrong — you can see how in this clip, in fact.
Still, maybe in the wake of Django Unchained, it's the perfect time for more over-the-top, pulpy pop culture that plays with one of the most festering wounds in our national memory.


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Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dave Keller—Sleepless in Los Alamos
It's 2 o'clock in the morning and pitch black. While most Laboratory employees are getting a good night's sleep, wildlife biologist Dave Keller and a colleague are up and about, stopping by the Environmental Protection Division's office in White Rock to pick up a four-wheel-drive government vehicle and head out to look for Mexican Spotted Owls, a federally listed threatened species living on Laboratory property.
By the time Keller and his travel partner reach the first of 10 survey locations for the night either by car or part way by foot, it's about 3 a.m. Keller plays a recording of a Mexican Spotted Owl's call, a high-pitched hooting sound of four spaced notes—hup, hoo-hoo, hooo—with the two middle notes closest together. The owls have established territories and hearing what seems like another owl prompts them to respond,
letting the visitor know that the space is already occupied.
From the end of March into early May, near the beginning of the Mexican Spotted Owl's nesting season, Keller and the Laboratory's other wildlife biologists complete four nighttime surveys for each Lab area, separated by a week. The biologists monitor the owl's population size and locations and record noteworthy changes.
Keller repeats playing his owl recording at 15-minute intervals and carefully listens into the night in‑between. Neither he nor his colleague speak in the deep dark, but they periodically take a sip of hot tea to stay warm. Sometimes the partners are lucky and hear a response from either a lone owl or from a female and male near their nest.
After a while Keller and his companion drive to the next location and continue their mission until dawn.
What wild creatures need
- To learn more about Mexican Spotted Owls, go to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Spotted Owl website. You can hear the owl's call by clicking on Cornell Lab's "Sound" tab.
- To see live owls close up, try YouTube's Mexican Spotted Owls preening video.
A few hours after the nocturnal owl survey, Keller is back in his office in White Rock, catching up on paperwork or reviewing Lab project proposals from a wildlife biologist's viewpoint. To protect the Mexican Spotted Owl or other threatened or endangered species during nesting season Keller, for example, may recommend postponing the start of a project until the wild animals' young are ready to strike out on their own or moving the project to a location farther from sensitive habitat.
Keller thinks a lot about the needs of the wildlife who call the Lab grounds home, and he tries to look at the land from the creatures' perspective. "Does the habitat have all that the animals need?," he wonders, for instance. "Do the wild animals have an undisturbed place to live, do they have enough water and food, does the area have an adequate number of potential mates?"
In many ways Keller considers the Laboratory's holdings an ideal home for wildlife since large tracks of land have been protected from commercial development. "The Lab is almost like a pristine national park," Keller suggests. "Our Mexican Spotted Owls at least seem to think so."
Dave Keller works for the Environmental Protection Division's Environmental Stewardship group.
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in the Employee Spotlight articles are solely those of the featured employees and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Los Alamos National Laboratory.


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Talk:Vlad the Impaler
The Blessed Great-Martyr St. Vlad III ?!?!?!?!? WHAT???
This is stupid!!! i'm from Romania and this men is not seen like a 'Blessed Great-Martyr'. He is just a simple Voivode, not a hero. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Maraamu (talk • contribs) .
- It should be a fairly simple matter to check a Romanian ecclesiastical source to see if he's listed among the saints. Any takers? —Fr. Andrew talk contribs (THINK!) 21:10, July 26, 2009 (UTC)
- I looked on the "When Is My Nameday" site, maintained by a Cypriot Orthodox priest I believe, a site I have found to be very comprehensive in past searches, and there was no mention of Vlad III.
- Secondly, I looked on the extensive Wikipedia article on Vlad III the Impaler, and there is no mention of him there either as a martyr or saint; on his death, it reads: "Vlad Dracula was killed in battle against the Turks near the capital city of Bucharest on December 14, 1476. He was decapitated by the Turks and his head sent to Istanbul where the Sultan had it displayed on a stake as proof that the Impaler was finally dead."
- So that if there is any truth to the claim made in this article it is very obscure; it would definitwely require a Romanian ecclesiastical source to verify, as Fr. Andrew has suggested. Although I have my doubts. Cheers, Angellight 888 17:43, July 27, 2009 (UTC)
- I concur! In addition to the Wikipedia article there are a number of other history type articles on the web that only speak of "Vlad" in a secular manner. Nothing significantly religious, let alone Orthodox. Frankly, I look at this article as a cleaver vandalism. Unless someone knowledgeable out of the blue, I recommend deleting the article. Wsk 23:49, July 27, 2009 (UTC)
- By all means, check with the Romanians. I've seen icons of him, but this could easily be a fringe thing (like the similar ones of St. Nikolai Rasputin). Although it brings up an interesting problem: in case of disagreement between two Orthodox groups, one of them perhaps much smaller than the other, what is the policy?
- If he was Orthodox, and if he died in battle against the Turks, then "Great-Martyr" would be appropriate, no? But I admit that all this is far from my area of knowledge.Zla'od 01:47, July 28, 2009 (UTC)
- Hello. Here is a list of romanian saints, but in romanian. Here is another list of romanian saints, in romanian language. You can check by name, it is not difficul. Here is a list of saints from a ROCOR church. You will not find him, because he is not a saint. This article is a vandalism. Maraamu 06:59, July 28, 2009 (UTC)


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Introduction: Scott Phillips is a genealogical historian and owner of Onward To Our Past® genealogy services. In this guest blog post, Scott researches old newspaper articles to discover that what was new in genealogy 100 or more years ago is still new today.
"There is nothing new except that which has been forgotten."
~ Marie Antoinette
This is certainly true in genealogy in a variety of ways. Naturally, we as genealogists spend a great deal of time and effort looking for that which has been forgotten or almost forgotten. We strive to discover, or rediscover actually, family history information every day.
On the other hand, I find it interesting when I hear some of the genealogy "pundits" trumpet all the newest "discoveries" in genealogy, often claiming that they are a harbinger of the end of genealogy as we know it. Some of these latest proclamations had me wondering, so I decided to see what was new (and old, which might have been forgotten) in genealogy through the historical newspapers in the database of GenealogyBank.com.
After a few quick searches, I encountered some terrific genealogy headlines and articles. Every one of them brought home the point that not all that much has changed in the world of genealogy! See if you can place the date of each of the following newspaper articles. Were these historical stories from yesteryear or news articles from today's newspapers?
- "Genealogy Study Rapidly Growing." How often have we heard this? I especially appreciated this newspaper article's subheadings: "In Recent Years Americans Have Been Making Great Study of the Family Tree" and "Genealogists Working Along New Lines and Startling Results Follow." Sounds just like something I'd read in the news today.
This newspaper article was published in 1912!
- "Forum on computers, genealogy scheduled." This one really could be from today, the type of article found in just about every genealogy society newsletter and newspaper column on "local happenings." It is interesting to see the name of Genealogical Computing magazine in this article, and it is fun to see how far we have come in such a short time.
While this sounds like today's genealogy news, this newspaper article was published in 1984!
- "Of the New Genealogy, Its Enlarged Field of Study. How Genealogy as a Science May Help Us to Help Ourselves." I wondered if this article might be discussing the role of DNA testing in genealogy today, but not quite… I enjoyed this article especially since it was on a topic near-and-dear to me: that of the needed link between genealogy and the academic world. Plus, this article is about an address given at the 60th anniversary of the New England Historic Genealogist Society by Charles K. Bolton.
This newspaper article was published in 1909!
- "Genealogy business booming national one." With the business of genealogy booming, it seems to offer good career opportunities. This article was from an advice column and the author seemed to have a pretty decent grasp of genealogy, which was fun to see.
While this would be good career advice for genealogists today, this newspaper article was actually published in 1981!
- "Who Was Your Grandfather?" I thought perhaps this was an article for the newest television spinoff of Who Do You Think You Are?
While this headline seems right out of today's news, it's actually about finding an heir for the deceased Jennings—and the newspaper article was published in 1851!
- "Old Tombstone Wanted." Once again, this headline could be from practically any newspaper today; as I read the article I can almost feel the angst of the writer as he pleaded for anyone in the local community who may have known anything at all about the tombstone he was searching for.
While this newspaper article refers to "a genealogical chain" and "the genealogist and all his vagaries," it was actually published in 1900!
- "Cousin George's Decision" The subtitle of this article "He Thought His New Found Relatives Were a Very Shoddy Lot" made me think that this story's moral is as valid today as when the article was written.
However, this newspaper article was published in 1900!
- "Genealogy of Slang." This article earned its way to being copied and placed on my bulletin board. After all who knows when it might come in handy for me to use the word "Gellibagger"?
While using slang in genealogy might seem like a modern topic, this newspaper article was published in 1890!
Thanks to this trip through the past using historical newspapers, we can see that: 1) genealogy has been in the news a long time; and 2) what was new then is sometimes new today. Truly, "Nothing in Genealogy is as new as that which has been forgotten." The past is often one of the best places to look for clues to the future.


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Jurassic Park: The Game was kept from the press until a few days after the game's release—rarely a good sign. The game did have a number of user reviews on Metacritic, though, and they were universally positive. These reviews gave the game perfect scores and showered praise upon the title. GameSpot grew a little suspicious at this odd turn of events and investigated; turns out that the user names attached to the reviews led to employees working at Telltale Games, which developed Jurassic Park.
Sure, this looks bad, but we wouldn't go so far as to say that the user review section of Metacritic has been uniquely abused. Regular users are doing a pretty stellar job of abusing the reviews section already.
Telltale Games responded to the controversy with a reasonable-sounding explanation. "Telltale Games do not censor or muzzle its employees in what they post on the Internet," the company said in a statement. "However, it is being communicated internally that anyone who posts in an industry forum will acknowledge that they are a Telltale employee. In this instance, two people who were proud of the game they worked on posted positively on Metacritic under recognizable online forum and XBLA account names."
Still, as those employees no doubt knew, the power of Metacritic averages for both professional and user reviews lies in the numbers, not the words. It doesn't matter if an employee stated that he works for Telltale Games in his review; what matters is that the employee was able to influence the final numerical average. The employees weren't really reviewing the product or trying to give unbiased buying advice; they were promoting a product they worked on.
While Telltale games does not "muzzle" employees from planting reviews of its own products around the Internet, many developers have explicit policies that block employees from reviewing their own games online. "What's tempting is fighting back against user reviews that don't feel fair," one industry professional told me on the condition of anonymity. "You can get a bad review for doing anything, or an imagined slight against gamers. We have strict rules against posting any feedback on our games through non-official channels. If you're found out, or even if you're upfront about it, the result is usually more negative user reviews."
Telltale is finding that one out the hard way. The user review average for Jurassic Park on the 360 now sits at 2.9.
User reviews exist to be gamed
The problem isn't that one developer was caught trying to game the user reviews—that's not a new trick—but that everyone games the system. User reviews are used to air grudges, attack franchises, and punish companies. The gulf between the critical score and the user review average for a game like Modern Warfare 3 is huge, and the negative reviews have more to do with the size of Activision and the game's popularity than with its quality. One user review even stated that the game wasn't bad, it was merely more of the same. The game's rating from that review: zero.
Metacritic has had to ban users in the past who "bombed" games with zero ratings in large groups to lower the game's score. Gamers have used user reviews as a way of punishing writers who said inflammatory things about video games. One of the most famous examples of user reviews used as offense happened when Spore was released with restrictive DRM.
I conducted an informal Twitter poll about developers hyping their own games with user reviews. To my surprise, most people didn't seem to care. The main reason cited was that user reviews have always been used to make a point or to attack or defend a game, not to actually review the product.
The whole system has few safeguards in place, so eventually people just assume that every review is dirty, or at the very least suspect. Telltale wasn't gaming the system, merely participating in the systemic game. What can the community do about it? That's a more difficult question.