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Clara Rockmore
In Claras Home Her Last Years, and the Summer of 1997
Steve J. Sherman
March 26, 2007
Steve J. Sherman
is Clara Rockmore's great-nephew and Nadia Reisenberg's grandson (his father Bob Sherman is Nadia's younger son), and a photographer in the musical performing arts (www.stevejsherman.com).
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The following essay was written by Steve J. Sherman, Clara Rockmore's great-nephew and Nadia Reisenberg's grandson. As the title suggests, it provides us with an in-depth account of Clara Rockmores life during her last decade, up until her death in 1998, and includes a detailed chapter devoted to the controversial summer of 1997 and the events that brought an end to the friendship between Clara Rockmore and Reid Welch, the theremin engineer and aficionado.
Thereminvox.com does not take sides in this dispute, but we hope that the publication of this document, originally intended only for the members of the Levnet mailing list, will promote a dialogue between all those involved and, hopefully, further allow for closure.
This is my own personal recollection of Claras last years, up to her death in May of 1998. As the title suggests, I will also specifically detail the summer of 1997 when the controversy surrounding Reid Welch, our family and Steve Martin took place. And while in any other essay about Clara, I would have relegated the entire Welch saga to maybe a paragraph, if even that, for this particular essay it will be dealt with in depth, as promised to Levnet members. My hope is to finally provide authoritative closure to this episode.
I am motivated in part by the amount of misinformation and disinformation Ive discovered across the internet and indeed the published spectrum, masquerading as fact yet wrongly representing Claras life and story. The dispute between Reid Welch, our family and Steve Martin became a source for much of this speculation and false information; when it went public over the Levnet in 1997, it revealed many private details without proper context or explanation or in some cases, without basis in reality. Reid continues to discuss his own version of events on various Internet forums to this day, and I truly believe that the resulting distortion of her story would have bothered Clara as much as it does me. I want the record set straight, for it is a record of pride, courage and dignity, and the rumors and false innuendo have no rightful place in this story.
By definition, I cant very well discuss these last years without revealing certain details of the medical issues and personal tribulations Clara was dealing with during her last three years. A public figure for almost all of her life, Clara was really a very private person who kept details of her personal life close to her and her family. While she confided easily to those she most trusted, she fully expected we would honor her and maintain discretion. During her last few years, Clara chose to isolate herself from much of the public, and even some close friends and relatives she was very clear that she wanted people to remember her as she had been for her first 84 years, not as she was for the final three. Also, her illness forced her to do things that she was not able to understand, or control. So how to honestly relate what was going on inside her home, mind and life without revealing details she would consider private? This is my greatest quandary in writing this piece.
My primary authority here is that I was there. Of the many nieces and nephews in Claras family, I ended up perhaps closest to Clara in her very last years; while ALL of us enjoyed a rich and deep relationship with her throughout our lives, during those last many months, I was one of the few who spent a great deal of time with her and as she became ill, physically cared for her, often daily. My role here was partly due to proximity (my office was 4 blocks from her home, and my home a 15 minute bike ride away) and partly due to our shared professions in the music world. But most of all, we were always close and had a special personal relationship; for Clara, I was The Little Character, a nickname bestowed upon me by Claras husband Bob when I was a toddler, and one which she lovingly called me ever after.
On Levnet, responding to Howard (Uncle Howie) Mossmans direct question to me of what really happened between Reid and Steve, many people had strong reactions -- some requested that I not reopen old wounds while others were thrilled that I would finally set the record straight. Personally, I do not think those old wounds ever closed (I know they have not for Reid and Steve), and therefore do not believe I can re-ignite what is still smoldering. I accept that for some people, I am destined to hurt and offend nonetheless, simply by telling the truth as I witnessed and lived it.
This is the second quandary I face in writing this piece -- how to tell this part of the story honestly, candidly and accurately while remaining fair to all involved, and still somehow provide a measure of closure instead of fanning the flames and unnecessarily adding to the hurt and anger. Is this even possible, or necessary?
My loyalty is unabashedly to Clara, and I will adamantly represent her side of this story, and thus our familys side. I am aware that I am not a neutral outsider, or a perfect being I was deeply involved and deeply upset by the events as they unfolded, and try as I will to temper my own personal biases, inevitably something may leak through. Finally, I am also very aware that I am telling this story to Levnet, of whom Reid has been a long time friend and respected member. You have all heard his version of events many times over; for some its become woven and inculcated into the accepted history. How will you assimilate and integrate my version where it inevitably veers from what youve long been told, and believed?
I can only hope you will hear me out with the same fairness and openness that I am trying to bring to this essay. And I think we will all agree that I am neither judge nor jury I am a witness, one man who saw what he saw and felt what he felt, yet unable to see into another mans heart or mind to truly know his inner intent.
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Reid Welch
26.08.2007 23:13
Ammendment. I took a dose of Pepto and read what I just posted.
The IPAM has had nine years now to catalog whatever papers they got.
I won't give the stuff to -you-. No, the better plan is to let the IPAM have the lot of it, and let them sift and collate and see what they did
-not- get of Clara's archives. I suppose they did not get the Lev letters, nor the schematics, nor a fat envelope of her personal photographs.
They can make arrangements to pick up these boxes from me at their convenience.
There's no rush.
But one addition will be made: Copies of these postings, to go with the record,
and so, a balance, a weighing of inept and avaricious humans can be added to her record.
Third entry
Reid Welch
27.08.2007 00:27
first was "Dialog" (well, that's a mis-title in retrospect)
second entry, "Ammendment"
now, for this third entry, at this writing I've finished reading the balance of page one.
It is so distorted, and seems to try to sew up a story, the making of which result (the destruction of Clara's peace of mind) you yourself were the number two instigator.
I note that you do not relate that you were an outcast from her life,
along with the entire family. Only three people had ready access to Clara: Betty, me, Steve and perhaps Dalit's mother; I don't know her.
I do know that by mediating with Clara to let you in,
you speedily aided Martin in kicking me out.
And towards the end, SHE DID take my calls, and we did have several good-toned conversations, weepy and sincere and we
both made our peace.
And never did I speak to her a bad word about you or about Steve Martin.
I was a gentle as a broken feather can touch.
I did touch her again. But, by then it was too late.
Thanks for nothing, Sherman. Thanks for airing in excruciating detail your evident 'care' for Martin's rep, by reopening a long fading
set of memories on all sides.
Bottom line: I never made things up. I never lie. My name is know on the 'net as a writer, poet, and enemy of public bullies.
Butter won't melt in your mouth. In my hands, it melts and is gone, as it should be, I suppose.
I'm sorry to have to call out the truth. What did I ever gain?
I got to know and love Clara in a kinship you never had.
Reid Welch
26.08.2007 23:00
Steve, greetings. Long time, no talk.
I have read only part of the first page of your side of the story. Of course, I'm upset, still, and old wounds are reopened here. I hurt.
I withdrew from the hobby, and from contact with theremin people in the years after Clara's death.
I knew in the months leading to that last visit in the summer of '97, that both her physical self and her mental state were fading.
Periods, then moments, of lucidity. The old Clara would come through. But, more and more, she would speak to me by phone with evident paranoia---her fear that she was being ignored, or mentally abused. Somehow, she always trusted me.
Even at that time, that spring and summer, when even YOU were not allowed to see her. No-one in your family could see her, she would see me.
In fact, she demanded, by phone (I did not record the date), probably in the late spring of that year. It rang.
First, let me say that as a piano technician and also as a theremin-tone expert and electronics technician, and also because I'm known as pretty sweet guy, she trusted and admired my mix of personal qualities. Her instinct for adjudging people, she thought was without fail. Of course, that was not true.
But she called, and I can only paraphrase closely as memory allows:
"Reid! This is Clara. WHEN can you come to New York? I need you! I have here the schematics for my instrument. I want you to copy them. It's vital that you come as soon as you can come. They are right here in a drawer. YOU can make the sound. YOU can make more instruments like mine. Come!
And so, that was Clara, with a new obsession: get the plans to Reid.
So, the theremin convention was, by coincidence, scheduled.
I was to attend. I had decided to drive, make a road trip, and see Clara on the way up, and then spend time with her when I swung back through New York.
She agreed, was delighted, when I offered, "I'll come up on June, I'm going to the convention. You know, it would be grand if you would speak a few words of introduction to my tape recorder, for the benefit of the opening session of the convention in Portland.
Clara was thrilled at that opportunity, "But of course!'"
Steve Martin was there. Bob Moog, when he heard the short address, which we played through a theremin stand-speaker,
Bob exclaimed, ear-to-ear grin, "My GOD, man! How did you do that? How did you convince her to give you her voice? Why, she hasn't even returned any of my calls or letters for years now."
She did this for me because she trusted me. In her shrinking opinion of the good-vs-bad world, all of you were rats, to be shunned. Senile dementia, definitely.
Here's where and when I fell afoul with Martin. That night, out of doors to have a smoke, I came across Steve Martin. We were alone. Paraphrased, small talk: "Damn sun. Eats my face." (skin cancer trouble for Steve. And then, and this is not paraphrased, he said to me (quite surely concerned that I was an interloper and a threat),
"You know, Reid, you should know, that I own Clara Rockmore."
That was it. I bid him goodnight. I now knew I was in for some shit to come. I knew that when I went back to NYC, and was slated to stay for a week, that I'd be interviewing Clara for the last time.
I got that recording. It was pitiful, touching, and showed only the essence of the real Clara: the Clara who would give her very life, if only that would save her instrument from obscurity.
I knew, already, from the first swing-through on the way to Portland, that Clara was confused. "Where are the schematics?"
"Over there, in the drawer", she waved from her seat at the table.
I looked for half an hour. Drawers and drawers and shelves full of entirely mixed-up memorabilia, records, clippings. NO schematic.
I realized that on the way back I'd need a week to be safe, to sift through every paper I might find. And that I did. And as I begain, I found fascinating documents from the start.
Across the street, just right across the street, was a self-service copy place. I decided, with Clara's clear permission (though she would forget things instantly, if we explained what-and-why, she fully understood)
"I would like to make photostats of everything I find here of interest, to ensure there is back-up for everything."
"Of course, fine." All of it was to go to the IPAM. I knew the IPAM. I even met the director and the founder on my drive up from Miami. I had a formal meeting with those two men, one of which is named Gregor Benko (founder). I forget at this time the Director's name.
Because Clara had assured me time and again, "All of my papers are going to the IPAM." And your instrument? "It's going there with all of my papers. It's all going to the IPAM."
I related all this to the two principles of the IPAM.
I was upbeat, happy to know that Clara's unique instrument would not be lost from public view.
I'd done so much to help her with that instrument, buying and mailing to her home, boxes of spare tubes of the type that it used.
I collated through boxes of taken-out "junk" (but original components) and centralized all that stuff, along with the tubes,
and so it would all be together with the instrument, not lost nor discarded as trash.
The IPAM officials were beaming by the time I left.
It wasn't until I spoke to you in NYC, Steve, after I finagled and wrangled Clara to even let you and your bride set foot in her doorway, that I learned the truth: Her instrument was not slated to go to the IPAM. Clara had never updated her will. The instrument would go to Dalit Warshaw, daughter of Clara's friend.
I knew, by the time of the Martin meeting in Portland Maine, that I was marked for excision from Clara by Steve. If ever there were a modern Rasputin, he is or was that Steven Martin I knew then.
I knew Steve from late '94 onward. I had been, one time in his apartment, along with my mate, and he was gracious to us.
And he had lots of Clara memorabilia, including the gift he gave to us: a spare, original copy of her Town Hall performance broadside.
So, that is the only original Clara Rockmore archive document I hold today.
I also hold a tiny contact-print snapshot of Clara in 'thirties street dress; saucy hat, glamorous look. She presented that to me herself, "THIS is for you to have, and for no-one else. This is how I want you to think of me. "
But I should share it, alright? "NO! There are hundreds and hundreds of other pictures of me. Share all of them as you like, but this one is for you."
You know, Steve, I never lie. Sometimes I'll fail to recall correctly,
but, here you say:
"Unfortunately, we dont think that today. While Reid returned most (although almost certainly not all) of the original documents,"
ON WHAT BASIS, on what authority, on what "fact" can you say that I did not return every scrap that I trotted across the street and back, in dozens of trips to copy all that stuff? Your statement terms me to be a thief.
And why did I feel the need to copy it all?"
Because! Steve Martin was about to excise me from her life.
And oh! Yeah, now I recall (this is written in real time, I'm not proofing or editing).
==Back to Portland, June, the convention, my conversation with Steve.
Me: "She called me, insisting that I have a good copy of her theremin schematic. I spent an hour looking through drawers on my visit to her the other day, but no schematic was to be found."
Steve: "Oh, don't worry. I have that at my place."
And it went on from there. Steve was most worried, apparently, that I was going to supplant him in Clara's affections.
All that I ever wanted was to comfort, calm her failing peace of mind; to settle her down, to know that I would carry on after her, technical explorations, and share all that I learned from her instrument.
But, I was about to be axed.
Two people insured this would happen.
Steven Martin, after I'd left with my boxes of -her- memorabila in photostat form,
Steve Martin conferenced with Clara, and told her to this effect,
"You know, people are not what they seem to be. Reid has raided your archive and stolen your papers and now he is selling them on the internet."
And you, Steve Sherman, did nothing to disabuse Clara of that filthy lie.
And you, Steve, you would'nt have gotten your foot in the door, to meet me in Clara's home, had I not worked so hard toward that end.
You, know, you remember how I spoke to you on the phone, to your father, too, and that I pledged to break the ice in her mind,
and get your family back into Clara's life.
The trip I made across the park, to bear a note from Clara to Newta. I met Newta. I recall her like yesterday, tears in her eyes,
because even Newta was being shunned from seeing Clara.
And I did my damndest to get all of you back into her life.
I made some repairs in that direction, for I got you back inside.
You did not take me to lunch, but, perhaps I forget.
I only know today, that I left a big envelope with all of her loose photos with you, you promising to copy them and share them with me so we could put them online. You were humoring me.
I was your fool.
I kissed Clara a last goodbye that summer. A month later, less, I was poison, so far as she was concerned.
You participated by inaction, in a character assassination.
You exploited the situation, let Steve Martin, the crook and liar, destroy Clara's trust in me.
And today, I have all those boxes of archive photostats, untouched, even by myself. I can't bear to look through the data.
I'm a sensitive person. Read that again: I'm a sensitive person.
Clara said so, and noted, that's why she had me in her life.
I could not tell her that Martin was "borrowing" from her archives.
All I could do, in the days that I had, was to copy every last damn bit of it that I could handle.
I did not find the main schemantic. I only found the power supply schematic. I told that fact to Steve, before his "I own Clara Rockmore" statement in Portland. Steve, interested, said,
"Really? I've never seen the power supply drawing. Now just which drawer is that in."
Reid as the grrreat Predicto (I need fun, even during diatribes):
Prediction: Your family, in bundling Clara's papers, never came across her instrument's power supply drawing. Now you know why.
And you never found the main schematic.
And you didn't find a half-dozen or so original letters of Lev's, in Russian, to Clara (I have photostats, so does Glinsky).
You never found a lot of things because you know, Steve always had fingers that clutch better than they let go.
If you would like the entire 1000 plus pages (all numbered) that I have in photostat form here, you're welcome to them.
It has been ten years. No sale of any Clara document has ever shown up, has it? So, so much for that lie you let Martin put into Clara's head,
that damnable lie which you chose to perpetuate in your March essay above.
I was in error. She was right to have kicked all you Shermans from her life. She was mentally feeble, but by god, she was not crazy after all.
I'm upset, Steve. You can tell, I guess?
Reid Welch
3901 Hardie Ave
Miami Florida 33133
The strong rule after all. One,thug in particular, did a fine job of hastening Clara Rockmore's death.
"He betrayed you Clara. He only did that so he can sell your stuff on the internet."
And you, Steve Sherman, reinforce the lie.
What unmitigated gall.
unproofed draft, composed in composition box, surely rife with typos, rambles, rancor.
I do not have the stomach to go through all this again.
and ultimately returned the tape recorder and tape, to this day he has never returned a single photocopied document. In an April 2006 Theremin World post, Reid admitted, It was very small but exciting consolation to have boxes of fresh Xeroxes of her career's memorabilia. Those boxes remain undisturbed here today.
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Reid Welch
27.08.2007 00:50
Steven, you quoted me out of context from this page:
I ask readers to read that page, and see also the sentimental poem
(I don't call the poem "good", I call it genuine)
And let anyone, please, who would like to believe your version of the picture, do as they like.
I think, though, that from the first day I spoke to her,
I think that I was honest with her. It was her life,
her memoribilia, her aim to share it freely, so long as
no-one made a buck from it. She said so in her final interview,
and I think, in the poem, that the essence comes through,
that she only wanted what was best for her legacy,
and best was to be open, share, disseminate.
I followed her wishes. The practice tape, of which you feign caused "injury", could hurt nothing. It was presented in context,
and gave a rare chance for thereminists to -just try- to learn to play,
as if Nadia were there in the next room, and Clara, even closer.
The poem again, but see the page for the context.
(apologies for filling up this page with so much of "me". It's for Clara)
with only very small blurs owing to poetic paraphrase
Reid Welch
27.08.2007 00:57
Self introduction to Clara Rockmore, 1994=
I met Clara Rockmore by playing intuition
like she phrased the theremin,
by changing phases in the air.
High priestess of that instrument,
"It's not for schpooky music!"
she took little contact with a world
old age, suspicion, shut her in.
When I'd learned that Clara
was still alive (though barely),
a dozen roses
to her New York City home
from an anonymous admirer in Miami.
She was piqued. She could not phone.
The florist called instead, "A nag
is pushing for your name and address."
I looked up Clara, always listed;
telephoned her then and heard
her music--myself as her muse.
"Oh! You're the one who sent these roses?
They're so lovely, lasting well.
How did you know red is my color?
Red roses are my favorite flowers."
Honesty declaimed "I guessed".
"Professor Termin courted me;
he sent red roses every week.
That was many years ago.
Now you send me rosesso
I must ask, I need to know
"Nothing, Mrs. Rockmore, nothing but to say
your music makes my mornings last the entire day.
I listen to your album
put down years ago.
I think you are immortal
but none of us are so
so blessed to have your soul
and the taste you evidence.
So I sent some roses as
reminders of the lives you touch."
And nearly every-after month
I'd send a fresh red dozen.
But, Clara couldn't love
foreverlost in May of '98.
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Pittsburgh for supremacy in the AFC Central.
Meanwhile, Buffalo,
coached by Lou Saban, was 5-3. The Bills had won their first four games but
lost three of the previous four coming into the contest at Cincinnati.
There was a capacity crowd on hand at Riverfront Stadium. The Bengals scored the first time they had the ball, driving 90 yards.
Anderson completed a five-yard
touchdown pass to HB Lenvil Elliott to cap the series, although the extra point
attempt failed. The Bills responded with a 28-yard John Leypoldt field goal to
make the score 6-3 after one quarter.
In the second quarter, HB Stan Fritts extended
Cincinnati's lead with a
one-yard TD carry, this time followed by a successful PAT. Simpson, who had 154
yards in the first half that included runs of 59 and 44 yards, kept the Bills
in the game. He contributed a two-yard scoring carry to narrow the tally to 13-10.
But Anderson, consistently finding the
weaknesses in Buffalo's
pass defense, threw to WR Charlie Joiner for a 20-yard touchdown and the
Bengals carried a 20-10 lead into halftime.
Simpson again scored a touchdown for
Buffalo in the third quarter, this time from
a yard out, to again make it a three-point contest. Dave Green was successful
on a 28-yard field goal attempt later in the period, but the Bengals lost star WR
Isaac Curtis with a twisted ankle midway through the third quarter.
Another one-yard scoring carry by Fritts extended Cincinnati's lead in the fourth quarter, but Buffalo fought back and closed the margin to six points with eight minutes remaining in the contest when QB Joe Ferguson connected with WR J.D. Hill for a ten-yard TD. The Bengals came back with a 79-yard drive that concluded with a Green field goal of 18 yards and, with 1:57 remaining to play, and that sealed it.
Cincinnati came away the winner by a final
tally of 33-24.
The Bengals generated significantly more total yards (553 to 335) and first downs (34 to 20) – this despite Buffalo compiling 242 rushing yards. The Bengals never punted although Dave Green kicked two field goals in three attempts. There were just three turnovers, with the Bills accounting for two of them.
Ken Anderson completed 30 of 46 passes for a career-high 447 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions, breaking his own club record of 352 passing yards against the Oilers in 1974 with his precision throwing. Isaac Curtis had 7 catches for 139 yards before having to leave the contest and WR Chip Myers added 7 receptions for 108 yards. FB Boobie Clark paced the ground game with 60 yards on 16 carries and also pulled in 6 passes for 64 yards.
For the Bills, O.J. Simpson (pictured below) had an outstanding performance with 197 yards on just 17 rushes that included two short TDs. Most of his productivity came in the first half. FB Jim Braxton added 40 yards on 10 attempts. Joe Ferguson was successful on 9 of 18 throws for 106 yards and a touchdown with no interceptions. J.D. Hill was the top receiver with three catches for 33 yards and a score.
"We knew what we had to do," said Ken Anderson. "We had to put some points up on the board against them, because there was no way we could control them all night."
was superb," summed up Paul Brown. "The game went the way we were afraid it
would go – we couldn't stop them and they couldn't stop us. In the past, it's
been the defense that has done the job for us. This time, it was the offense."
The win put the Bengals in a first-place tie with
Pittsburgh atop the AFC Central, but they lost at Cleveland the next week
and once more in the Week 13 showdown against the Steelers to end up second at
11-3. In the Divisional playoff round, Cincinnati
was eliminated by the Oakland Raiders. Buffalo,
continuing to suffer from defensive lapses, finished third in the AFC East with
an 8-6 record.
Ken Anderson led the NFL in passing for the second straight year (93.9 rating) and also topped the league in yards (3169) and yards per attempt (8.4). The 26-year-old in his fifth year ranked second in attempts (377), completions (228), and completion percentage (60.5) and was selected for the Pro Bowl.
O.J. Simpson was ahead of his record-breaking 1973 pace following the game against the Bengals but came up short, although by a league-leading 1817 yards on 329 carries (5.5 avg.). Altogether, he scored 23 touchdowns, at the time a single-season NFL record.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) – Captain Ryan Getzlaf had a goal and two assists, and Teemu Selanne scored his 673rd career goal in the Anaheim Ducks' 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night.
Viktor Fasth made 23 saves and Radek Dvorak scored his first goal for Anaheim in the second of three straight meetings in five days between the Pacific Division-leading Ducks and the last-place Stars, who lost 4-0 in Dallas on Monday.
Lane MacDermid scored his first NHL goal in his Dallas debut, and Kari Lehtonen stopped 22 shots in the Stars' first game since trading Jaromir Jagr to Boston and Derek Roy to Vancouver. Erik Cole also scored for the Stars.
Kyle Palmieri snapped a 13-game goal drought and Andrew Cogliano scored an empty-net goal as the Pacific Division-leading Ducks improved the NHL's third-best record to 25-7-5.
Anaheim also closed within two points of the NHL-leading Chicago Blackhawks.
With the departures of Jagr and Roy, Alex Chiasson made his NHL debut for Dallas and center Ryan Garbutt returned from a nine-game absence with an injured wrist. High-scoring left wing Loui Eriksson also played center for the Stars, who have lost three straight.
Fasth, who shut out Dallas earlier this week, blanked Dallas through the first 42 minutes Wednesday before Cole scored. MacDermid, acquired from the Bruins in the Jagr deal, got his first NHL goal with 1:24 to play.
Getzlaf had the fourth three-point game in his outstanding season for Anaheim, which is 3-0-1 since a four-game losing streak last month. The Ducks have a comfortable lead atop the Pacific with 11 games to play, closing in on just their second division title in two decades of existence.
After adding veterans Dvorak and David Steckel last month, the Ducks made only two moves at the trade deadline, acquiring center Matthew Lombardi from Phoenix and shipping out third-string goalie Jeff Deslauriers in separate deals.
Anaheim showed little fatigue in its 22nd game in 39 days, controlling early play and going ahead during a delayed penalty midway through the first period when Getzlaf zipped a pinpoint cross-ice pass from the far boards to Dvorak for a one-timer.
Dvorak, a 17-year NHL veteran who signed with Anaheim on March 24, had been playing in Switzerland this winter after scoring 21 points in 73 games for Dallas last season.
Selanne scored his 251st power-play goal in the second period when a drop pass by Getzlaf deflected to him for a nasty wrist shot. Selanne endured a nine-game goal drought in March, but the 42-year-old Finnish Flash has scored at least 10 goals for the 20th consecutive season.
Palmieri added his added his eighth goal of the season five minutes later, easily moving past stationary defenseman Aaron Rome. The Ducks' promising scorer hadn't found the net in his last 13 games since getting a hat trick Feb. 27 against Nashville.
Getzlaf got his 13th goal in the third period, beating Lehtonen with an expertly placed backhand.
NOTES: The 6-foot-4 Chiasson was a second-round pick in 2009 before playing three seasons at Boston University. Chiasson hit Anaheim's Matt Beleskey squarely in the face with his stick blade early in the third period, but wasn't penalized while Beleskey went to the dressing room. … The Ducks traded C Brandon McMillan to Phoenix for Lombardi, who wasn't in town to face Dallas. McMillan never solidified a spot in the Ducks' lineup over the past three years despite numerous chances to stick in Anaheim. He played in six games with Anaheim this season, spending most of the last two years in the AHL. … Getzlaf's right leg bent awkwardly when he got tied up with Jamie Benn in the opening minute of the third period. He skated slowly off the ice and hobbled to the dressing room, but returned a few minutes later.


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Imagine waking up in the morning to find that the world sounds utterly different and music is suddenly unrecognisable. All the songs you loved and all the songs you've yet to discover are suddenly out of reach.
Could you find a way to get music back again… and could music find you?
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Under the leadership of their King Amonasro, the Ethiopians are again threatening the kingdom of Egypt. At the advice of the goddess Isis, Radames is to be placed in command of the Egyptian army raised against the Ethiopians (introduction). Radames dreams of honour and fame and of Aida, an Ethiopian slave to Amneris, the Pharaohs daughter. A deep but secret love binds Radames to Aida (Radames romanza). However, Amneris is also passionately in love with the bold young warrior (duet: Amneris-Radames). Sudden suspicion is kindled in her breast when she notices the looks that the lovers exchange (trio: Aida, Amneris and Radames). With much rejoicing and ceremony, Radames is appointed commander of the army by the Pharaoh (scene and ensemble). Aida is despondent: her beloved Radames is about to fight against her own people, and (nobody at the Egyptian court knows this) against her father Amonasro (scene and romanza of Aida). The priests and priestesses call on the god Ptàh to support the Egyptians in their struggle against the Ethiopians. Radames receives the holy sword of victory from Ramfis, the high priest (temple scene and Act 1 finale).
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The Egyptian army has defeated the enemy. Amneris is being dressed by her slaves for the celebration to mark the victory. Longingly she awaits Radames, whom she so loves (introduction). But suddenly she is again tormented by doubt. Is Aida really her rival for his love? She must know for certain. She tricks Aida into revealing her love for Radames (scene and duet Aida- Amneris). The victorious Radames is given a triumphant welcome. Aida sees her father in the procession of Ethiopian captives. However, Amonasro does not reveal his identity, saying that the Ethiopian king has been slain in battle and begging for mercy for his fellow captives. Radames supports his request in spite of Ramfis warning. The captives are released. Only Aida and her father are to remain as hostages at the Egyptian court. In gratitude for his courageous efforts for the fatherland, the Pharaoh offers Radames the hand of his daughter Amneris in marriage and the succession to the throne. The people rejoice, and the rapturous Amneris is convinced that her dreams have come true (Act 2 finale).
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Ramfis leads Amneris into the temple of Isis to spend the night in prayer prior to her marriage to Radames (introduction and prayer). Aida awaits Radames (Aidas romanza). Amonasro, who has noticed his daughters affection for the Egyptian commander, has followed her. Conjuring up visions of the suffering of her people, he persuades Aida to induce Radames to reveal the Egyptians plans for attacking the Ethiopian army, which has now received reinforcements. In despair, Aida agrees to comply with his wish. Amonasro goes into hiding (duet Aida-Amonasro). Aida manages to persuade Radames to flee with her and to tell her a path that will be safe from the Egyptian army (duet Aida-Radames). However, by doing so Radames reveals the Egyptian plan of deployment for the forthcoming battle. Triumphant, Amonasro emerges from his hiding-place and discloses his identity as king of the Ethiopians. Radames, realizing the extent of his folly, gives himself up to the guards. Amonasro and Aida flee (scene and Act 3 finale). Radames is accused of high treason and is to be condemned to death. Amneris still loves him, and tries to save him from the fate that awaits him by persuading him to renounce his love for Aida. However, life has no meaning for Radames without Aida. He rejects Amneris proposition (scene and duet: Amneris-Radames) and accepts the priests judgement in silence: he is to be buried alive (judgement scene). Radames awaits the end in an underground vault. Suddenly he becomes aware that he is not alone. Aida has managed to steal in unnoticed to die with her beloved Radames. The couples love is perpetuated in death. Amneris prays for eternal peace for Radames (scene, duet Aida-Radames, finale).
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Over the last 8 or so years I have started to dream less. When I do dream, I very rarely remember them in the morning. However, the circumstances all line up and I do dream and I do remember the basic plot line, they usually revolve around a desperate need for a toilet or missing a plane. Dream sequence #1 is fairly self explanatory, however a recent dream involving me missing a flight to Spain with my cousins Sophie and Marieke resulted in me turning to Google to gather some insight. I do not currently have real-life plans to go to Spain with those two anytime soon, so what could this all mean? What was my brain trying to tell me?
Obviously typing "What do dreams about missing flights mean?" was going to deliver the most reliable results, and PsychicLibrary.com delivered. Apparently dreams that include missing or being late for something is your brain trying to process having too much to deal with. If it involves missing flights/busses/trains it implies that you are overworked and have anxieties about deadlines. The description was rounded off with the positive note that my brain believes that no matter how hard I work, there will never be enough time to get everything done. Great!
So it doesn't take a genius or a dream interpretation specialist to work out that this is my brain dealing with my dissertation deadline, but last night I had ANOTHER dream about missing a flight and this time it was to Australia. My now fully-conscious self is finding it highly amusing that my dream self was disappointed about missing the plane but was more concerned about the fact that is was an EXPENSIVE flight. Basically, if I stuff up my dissertation, I am wasting a truck load of money.
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The Patent Reform Act cleared the House of Representatives last week on a vote of 220-175. Despite the win, and despite the fact that plenty of changes were made to the bill in committee to address complaints, the Act still faces opposition as it heads to a vote in the Senate.
The AFL-CIO, for instance, made its worries about the bill clear last week in a letter sent to legislators (PDF). Although they believe the bill to be much improved, it is still "far from perfect." Labor groups do not want any "legislation that weakens patent protections for American manufacturers or undermines their ability to protect their innovations from either domestic or foreign infringement."
Debate about the bill concerns many complex (and occasionally arcane) issues, but the story being spun out for the public is much simpler: big technology companies like Microsoft and Google want patent reform in order to benefit their own businesses, and they're willing to make a host of changes that could decimate other intellectual property owners. The worry among labor unions is that weaker patent protections could lead to less US innovation, and that could lead to less jobs.
Companies that make significant revenues from their patent portfolios also worry about some aspects of the bill. The Innovation Alliance, which includes Qualcomm, Immersion Corp., and Digimarc among its members, said in July that the Act would "erode, not strengthen, patent protections, thereby dampening innovation and stifling entrepreneurship."
Biotech groups also oppose the measure. BIO, which represents the industry, expressed its disappointment with the House vote and said that it looks forward "to working with the Senate to improve upon this legislation, particularly with respect to provisions relating to damages, inequitable conduct reform, post-grant review proceedings and PTO rulemaking authority."
A recent InfoWorld article highlights a few other sources of opposition as well.
Still, the big high-tech firms have deployed their lobbyists in force on this one, fed up with patent legislation and massive claims for damages. We'll know soon enough if they can successfully take on both big labor and biotech.


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The U.S. Postal Service owns more than 213,000 vehicles, the largest civilian fleet in the world. Many of these vehicles are reaching the end of their operational lives, prompting the Postal Service to wrestle with how best to address its long-term vehicle needs. A recent Government Accountability Office report noted that the organization's current financial situation poses a significant barrier to vehicle replacement or refurbishment.
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Attention has primarily been given to the Postal Service's delivery fleet of left-hand drive trucks and minivans, which make up almost 85 percent of its entire fleet. However, the Postal Service also operates a large fleet of tractor trailers to haul mail from one processing facility to another or to stations and branches. Many of these trucks have exceeded their usage expectancy. The Postal Service has about 1,800 tractors and almost 3,900 trailers. The trailers come in various sizes to accommodate different-sized docks and to navigate various locations. Some locations, such as New York City, cannot accommodate the larger 53-foot trailers.
It would cost roughly $135,000 to replace each tractor and another $45,000 to replace a standard-sized trailer. Trailer specifications are unique to the Postal Service, making "off the shelf" purchases impossible. In addition, the Postal Service needs to refurbish the tractors to meet the emissions standards in each state. These standards and the deadlines for achieving them vary by state. The cost to retrofit the existing fleet would vary depending on the standards needing to be met.
With its current cash crunch, the Postal Service lacks the capital to invest immediately in upgrading its fleet. Yet an overhaul of the fleet of some kind is needed. Are there alternatives to replacing the fleet of tractor trailers? Could the Postal Service hire contractors to perform the work now done by its own fleet? Contracting out is the most common way the Postal Service acquires transportation. The Postal Service already contracts with 15,000 highway contract route (HCR) suppliers to cover more than 1.2 billion miles of mostly long-haul mail transportation. Or is contracting out not feasible given the Postal Service's unique and varied needs for its tractor trailer fleet?
Should the Postal Service lease new trailers and have Postal Service Vehicle drivers perform the work? Or, could the Postal Service consider new financing arrangements, such as taking a bank loan like a private transport company does, which would allow it to purchase trailers over time? Or does replacing the fleet all at once through a competitive bidding process provide the Postal Service with the strongest purchasing power? If so, how should the Postal Service pay for this replacement?


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You must fight boss after boss after boss earning Yoshi coins for each successful victory. You begin with 30 coins and can purchase items at the item shop before fighting. I highly recommend getting at least a mushroom because some of the bosses are HARD! Dracula for example takes ~8 hits to kill. Do not get frustrated, just keep trying and you will win eventually. If you want to start over, you will have to clear your history/cache because the game saves your progress.
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Super Mario Star Scramble
Each stage will require you to solve puzzles in order to collect all of the stars as Mario scrambles through 10 very fun levels
Super Mario Mini
Mario returns to a familiar world to go on a mini adventure in this well made fan remake of Super Mario World
Super Merio Rampage
A wild and crazy remix of the original Super Mario Bros game that is very addicting
Mario Motocross Mania
A great racing game where you can upgrade your motobike as you scream towards the finish line in style.
Marios Adventure
In Marios Adventure, you must find the green '?' in order to complete each map. If you die even once though, it's game over!
Super Mario Flash 4
A great side scrolling platform game in the mold of the original Super Mario Bros
Donkey Kong
Mario is facing his old foe Donkey Kong from the classic arcade game. Can he save his one true love from the hairy ape?
Paper Mario World
Paper Mario World features a sledge hammer wielding baby mario who can mash his enemies into smithereens
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Recruit all of your favorite Mario characters like: Luigi, Toad, Princess, and of course Mario to defend your castle from the baddies
Mario Fly
Blast Goombas out of the sky with your fireball attack and collect coinage as you fly through the night sky as Raccoon Mario
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Mario must jump his way up, up, up to see how far he can make it before he falls or runs out of health.
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Bowser has stolen many valuable pieces of art work. There is only one plumber who can save the day.
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Killer zombies are rampaging after Mario! Hold back the undead mob with an arsenal of weaponry
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Classic platform Mario flash game where you must clear 3 worlds of 4 levels each and of course rescue the Princess
Mario Mushrooms
Mario must shoot the little mushrooms into the bigger mushroom in order to complete each level
Super Mario Rampage
Mario has gone berzerk! He's got his gun and he's on a rampage shooting up koopa troopas and goombas and even Bowser!
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Mario must ride his motobike through 7 levels while collecting coins but he has to be careful not to tip over or he'll crash
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Mario Pipe Panic features Mario & Luigi sliding their way through pipes to collect coins just like Pacman!
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Launch Mario out of the cannon and try to hit Luigi to beat the level. 16 total levels to play.
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Collect items, destroy enemies, and make your way to exit all while saving the Princess so you can elope
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Sunshine, happiness and Josh Roenicke
So join us, won't you, as we celebrate the triumphant return of Josh Roenicke.
Roenicke is on his way back to Toronto (and bringing with him lefty Las Vegas closer Rommie Lewis) after The Manager had finally had enough of looking at Jeremy Accardo's stupid face after another hit surrendered (2.25 WHIP!) and Merkin Valdez's erratic Merkin Balls. But you already knew that.
Roenicke got off to a stellar start in Vegas, giving up ZERO runs in 8.2 innings, striking out 8 and walking one. And that, friends, is what we like to see in a reliever's stat line.
As for Lewis, his numbers are okay and if you care about saves, he's got five of them. He's also rocking a 1.70 WHIP and has given up 10 hits in his 7.2 innings of work, which makes us wonder what his stuff will look like being pounded into the alleys by the Yankees.
We came into the season figuring that one of the Jays' strengths would be the bullpen. But as the Sausage King and Scott Downs get off to disturbing starts, and as we begin to find ourselves endorsing a call to the pen to get Shawn Camp, we don't mind seeing the team use some of its pitching depth to shore up the middle innings. The bullpen might be mighty yet.
While we don't want to heap too many expectations on young Mr. Roenicke, we're optimistic that he can work his way through an inning without looking like a poor excuse for a tee. Or causing us losing our will to live. Which would be an improvement.
Josh Roenicke has a website, but apparently, no webmaster
Turn down your speakers if you're at work or just don't like crappy filler synthy Action News theme songs. Then head on over to www.joshroenicke.com for all of your Roenicke-related info needs. Just be prepared to enjoy lots of Cincinnati Reds content, as someone hasn't quite kept up with the updating of said website.
(Apparently, it is DMS Elite Sport Management who are supposed to be looking after this stuff, but considering that their site has a "Under Construction" page and nothing else, we wouldn't recommend holding out for much Jays related news.)
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- Navin Vaswani (@eyebleaf) said...
Roenicke will fix everything.
- April 27, 2010 at 11:58 AM
In other news, Brian Dopirak hit a pinch hit walk off grand slam yeasterday for the 51s to win 14-11.
- April 27, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Ty said...
Jarrett Hoffpauir also hit for the cycle in that game. PCL Playoffs!!!
- April 27, 2010 at 3:07 PM
- SP said...
And Wallace hit his 8th jyack and JPA has a .362 OBP. They feel like wrapped presents on Christmas Eve right now.
- April 27, 2010 at 5:30 PM
- Leaker19 said...
I gotta quit watching this shit for a while. By the end of these two Boston games, I have a screaming headache and want to strangle someone. Doing just enough to lose.
- April 27, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Tao, you still loving your pet jarhead? That's your boy with runners on base, brah. If you didn't know before, well, now you do!
- April 28, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Ty said...
Arencibia has upped his OBP to .387... he has 7 walks in 15 games so far. If he can live up to his potential, this lineup is going to be, like, crazy good next year.
- April 28, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- William J. Tasker said...
The Jays bullpen has been a big surprise and disappointment. The starters are doing so well too. It's a shame. Hopefully the new recruits will help.
Going through bullpen meltdowns is about the worst a fan can endure.
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CaCO3, a salt.
Calcium carbonate occurs in nature in two mineral forms with differing crystalline structures: aragonite and the widely distributed calcite. Calcium carbonate decomposes when heated above 900°C: CaCO3 = CaO + CO2 (a means of obtaining lime). It is sparingly soluble in water (14 mg calcite per liter at 18°C) and readily soluble in acids. Natural calcium carbonate (limestone, marble) is used as a construction material; chalk (powdered calcium carbonate) serves as a filler for rubber stock, paper, and linoleum. A softer and finer product, called precipitated calcium carbonate (obtained through the reaction of CaCl2 and Na2CO3), is used in the manufacture of tooth powderand cosmetics.
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Bugs Bunny first peeked out of his rabbit hole 75 years ago today.
The first 'official' Looney Tunes cartoon featuring the wascally wabbit is called A Wild Hare and it was released on July 27, 1940.
Many of the long lasting traits, typical in the character, were there from the start of A Wild Hare. The carrot, "What's up, doc?" and the swagger can all be seen from the beginning.
Go ahead and watch it again, even though you've probably seen it many, many times.
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A Wild Hare would end up getting nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons, but it lost to a cartoon entitled The Milky Way.


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Friday, January 28, 2011
"Days of Wonder"
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- Gary said...
Yes, you are, Boss Blog, which is probably a little too close to The Dukes of Hazard. Want to ask you a MTM-related question. When Hot in Cleveland had its 2nd season premier, MTM was a guest star. I really don't think the show was funny in the 3 or 4 episodes I sat through during their first season, but having MTM reunite with Betty White, I thought the 2nd season might at least start better. It didn't. However, Mary used a line straight from the premier episode of her own show. It was the "you've got spunk"..."I hate spunk!"...bit. When someone takes as little as 2 lines, do they have to get permission from the original show's owner? I assume that Mary has the rights to her shows, tho that is an assumption. It was, of course, the best part of the show. However, having Mary in jail just didn't fly. No matter what they name her in Cleveland, she's Mary Richards, and she would not be in jail. Rhoda, maybe, but not Mary. (I didn't watch the whole show, so I did not see the end credits which might have told me the answer to my question.)
- January 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM
- Max Clarke said...
Thanks for the memory.
I don't care for gloomy, and I almost never read rants. This was good.
I've had days of wonder like that, and even decades later, there is something magical about the feeling.
- January 28, 2011 at 8:57 PM


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Before 6 a.m. on Saturday, I found myself on the cold, dark front steps of Bangor City Hall, banging on the doors. Next to me were several women who had tried to open them and found them locked. Together we got attention from someone inside who was there to participate in or witness this historic day.
Weddings always make me tear up (at least), as I see the couple look into each other's eyes. When I took my own marriage vows nearly 25 years ago, all the tension around wedding plans melted away, and it felt like it was just my beloved and I standing there, tying together our fates.
And while I did not know anyone who married last Saturday, I could sense that their feelings were like mine on my wedding day. They gleamed.
One couple included some of the women who had stood with me on the steps outside before we got help opening the door that took them to the city clerk's window. Together more than a decade, their mothers beside them, they held hands as they were pronounced "wife and wife."
Also there were two men, together for 21 years, both with beards, jeans and black and white flannel shirts. After a Bangor High School student sang "Over the Rainbow," these men stood with smiles and evident love and were legally wed.
Marriage equality has come to Maine, as loving gay and lesbian couples can now marry. It's been clear that this day would arrive eventually simply because young people are so much more supportive than older folks.
Ending Don't Ask-Don't Tell military policy also mattered. As the publication Stars and Stripes recently reported, "After the 'don't ask, don't tell' law was formally repealed in 2011, critics predicted irreversible damage to the military, division and distrust among units and a mass exodus of chaplains and conservative servicemembers. None of that happened." When feverish predictions fail, and more people saw gay men and lesbians in military service, attitudes shifted.
This was a door unlocked by years of effort by many people. It took years to get here, even decades. Straight and gay people worked to make change.
In Maine in 2009, it was no small political risk for the Maine Legislature to pass and Gov. John Baldacci to sign a marriage bill, later overturned at the polls. Back then, Gallup found only 40 percent support for marriage equality nationally, compared to 53 percent now.
When the decision was made to take the bold step of putting a referendum on the ballot for marriage equality, something never done before in any state, there were skeptics among the goal's supporters. How much change could occur in three years?
It turned out to be a remarkable campaign, a model that will be emulated in other marriage equality efforts, and one that holds out hope for our democratic processes.
What happened in Maine was, in essence, so very simple and so powerful. People talked to people one-to-one, sharing insights from their own relationships. In doing so, they connected with their fellow citizens, hearing why they believed what they believed and how they felt about the gay and lesbian people they knew. Reflecting on a lesbian niece or a gay co-worker, sometimes people, talking on the doorsteps or in their living rooms, changed their minds.
So much of our politics involves what's wrong. We hear of problems, of what's bad about candidates.
And so much of our politics involves pushing people into ideological boxes. Recently someone told me liberals don't believe in competition and don't support giving trophies to the best. Another claimed Democrats want Soviet Marxism, a system in which the government runs all production and there is no private enterprise. How absurd, as if the only people who own and invest in businesses, compete, coach, cheer and give out awards are conservative Republicans.
I'm no Polyanna, and I know politics ain't beanbag, but it seems to me that this sort of polarization and misunderstanding of our fellow citizens just isn't necessary.
After all, Mainers just had honest, authentic and respectful conversations. That listening and talking opened the door to the happiness of married life for our gay and lesbian neighbors.


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A Philadelphia baby, born in May, is the first child in the world conceived using a new in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique, which screens embryos for chromosomal disorders and abnormalities before implantation.
People who use this technique will avoid implanting chromosomally abnormal embryos that would result in either not becoming pregnant, or in miscarriage.
The cost-saving implications are huge, but the implications don't end there. The process can screen the entire human genome and pinpoint not only common genetic problems in embryos, but trait such as hair color, eye color and potential height.
The process, called Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), raises ethical questions.
Dr. Michael Glassner, of Main Line Health in Pennsylvania, partnered with researchers at Oxford to assist in baby Connor Levy's conception.
He says the team used a "low resolution" version of the technique.
"On low resolution, we're not getting any other information than we've been getting for years," he said. "But the capability is there, if you do the testing on a high resolution, to detect thousands of different genetic sequencing."
The high resolution testing can tell, "which embryos have a disease, which embryos are carriers and which embryos are unaffected," Glassner said. "But the question is, where is your break point? At what point do you say, 'Alright, there is no other information that is going to be channeled to the couple.'"
Glassner says while the technology is capable of identifying traits such as hair color, eye color and height, that's not where doctors are focusing their energy.
"Advances in medicine move ahead of the ethical controversies that may be the storm that follows," he said. "These are obviously uncharted waters. The concept of a designer child is not what most doctors are interested in being part of."
- Michael Glassner, fertility doctor with Main Line Health in Philadelphia.
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At 11 weeks old, Connor Levy had no idea that he's made medical history. But the Philadelphia infant born in May is the first child in the world conceived using a new kind of in vitro fertilization that screens embryos for chromosomal abnormalities before implanting them. The screening increases the chances of pregnancy by about half and reduces the risk of miscarriage by about the same. But the technique raises ethical questions because the process can also sequence the entire genome, revealing not just abnormalities that would prevent pregnancy but which embryos have blond hair or a predisposition for higher cholesterol.
Dr. Michael Glassner of Main Line Life Health Systems in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, partnered with researchers with Oxford to assist in Connor Levy's conception. Dr. Glassner, this new screening procedure was obviously very important to you. Why?
MICHAEL GLASSNER: As a clinician, when you look at a day-five embryo, you can't tell whether it's chromosomally normal or not. And the statistics are staggering. If you are 36, more than 60 percent of beautiful-appearing blastocysts will be chromosomally abnormal. And if you're 42, more than 95 percent are going to be abnormal. So in the past, we're putting embryos in that unbeknownst to us and to the patients were not able to implant and the patient would go through the emotional, physical and financial cost and come out with a negative result.
This new technique, what is done to the embryo is the same process that we've been doing for a number of years, but the difference, as you said in the introduction, is that we're able to sequence the entire genome. So we are checking for thousands of individual genes. What is revolutionary is that it will make the testing of embryos much more affordable. We're looking at instead of $6,000 cost, probably $500. We're entering clinical trials this fall where we're actually offering free genetic testing of the embryos.
Because of the laboratory technique do miss Next Generation Sequencing, this NGS, it will be much more affordable so that those tremendous advantages that you discuss; the higher pregnancy rates, the lower miscarriage rates, less frozen embryos because you'll know which embryos are viable and which ones are not, all of these information will be available ahead of time. And again, because of the lower cost, it will be much more widespread in its use.
YOUNG: Well, how much do you use of this genetic information that you find? One can understand genetic information that might tell you that an embryo wouldn't be viable. In other words, for some reason, it would not implant.
GLASSNER: Correct.
YOUNG: But one step away from that is a generic disorder such as Down syndrome. Would that be then an ethical question to the parent? We see that this has Down syndrome. Do you want us to automatically not use that?
GLASSNER: Correct. Right now, with the Next Generation Sequencing, the NGS, all we're doing is on the low resolution. But even on that low resolution, we will be able to say, all right, these embryos are non-viable. They won't implant. This one has Down syndrome. This one has Turner syndrome. These two has normal. And the patients then elect which embryo to transfer. And even just in a single embryo transfer, you can run a 60 percent pregnancy rate with just one embryo.
As to the other embryos, most of the patients elect to freeze the embryos and mainly addressing that moral or ethical dilemma that you're describing as to, you know, what do you consider viability? What do you consider a pregnancy that should be frozen for future consideration?
YOUNG: Right. So there are those questions. But then it's even more of a slippery slope because you will know what color the eyes, the predisposition to be a good athlete. We're reading in Medical Daily that, for instance, in Britain, currently, doctors are banned from choosing embryos, excepting cases of serious medical necessity. But do you worry about guidance here in the United States, as to how far this might go, how much patients might want to design their embryos.
GLASSNER: Right, and that's where this is such a potentially controversial test. On low resolution, we're not getting any other information than we've been getting for years, but the capability is there if you do the testing on a high resolution to detect thousands of different genetic sequences. Right now, we do genetic testing. And if you have a family history of Tay Sachs or cystic fibrosis, Huntington's Chorea, Duchenne muscular dystrophy - thousands of diseases we can test for - the BRCA genes for breast or ovarian cancer.
So at this point, there - the testing is available through a different type of sequencing where we can tell you which embryos have a disease, which embryos are carriers and which embryos are unaffected. But the question is, where is your breakpoint? At what point is there - there's no other information that's going to be channeled to the couple in terms of the specifics that you're alluding to height, eye color, hair color.
YOUNG: And as you say, right now, you're just doing the low-resolution screening. This is for major chromosomal abnormalities. But it sounds as if you're saying this has been left up to you. Are there any legal restrictions on you giving more information?
GLASSNER: None of the cells, none of testing is going to go to the level of high resolution. It's not uncommon that medicine and advances in medicine move ahead of the ethical controversy that (technical difficulty) that follows. And so these are obviously unchartered waters. The concept of a designer child is not at all what I think that most doctors are interested in being part of.
YOUNG: Yeah. So you're choosing to restrict yourself for those reasons that you just listed. What do you think happens when this gets into mainstream medicine? And how soon do you think that might be?
GLASSNER: I do believe that it will become state-of-the-art within the next several years, especially if we get the cost to $500. Fortunately, even though as a clinician, there may be some flexibility that an individual doctor might have. These are done by laboratories. And as of this point, there's two laboratories in the United States doing this testing and will be partnering with this clinical trial. So at this point, none of the laboratories are talking about high resolution. So hopefully, we'll have multiple stop gates so that the possibility of the controversy behind high resolution Next Generation Sequencing won't upset the progress that this will offer IVF and the patients.
YOUNG: Dr. Michael Glassner, by the way, so you are sort of part of the village that brought Connor Levy into the world?
GLASSNER: Yes, yes. It was - that was a remarkable opportunity, and we were very fortunate that we had this chance to do this. And obviously, for Marybeth and David, Connor's parents, it was a little miracle that this had happened. He was one of three normal embryos, so he does have two normal sibling embryos in the freezer. And the couple assure me that they'll be back to finish out their family.
YOUNG: That's Dr. Michael Glassner, division's head of Infertility for Main Line Life Health Systems in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. By the way, this story came to our attention through HERE AND NOW contributing network station WHYY in Philadelphia and reporter Zack Seward. Michael, thank you.
GLASSNER: Thank you. Have a great day.
YOUNG: So your thoughts. Would this be a blessing for you? Maybe you're trying to conceive, or do you think it's a slippery slope? Let us know, hereandnow.org. You're listening to HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The PowerShot G10 steps up to the enthusiast end of digital camera plate with more than just a few tweaks over its predecessor, the popular PowerShot G9. As you might expect, the G10 is the recipient of a new, higher resolution sensor, with a 14.7 million pixels on a 1/1.7-inch CCD.
The new camera is designed as a professional snapper's back-up or for enthusiasts requiring DSLR features and usability within a more compact package. To that end the camera fits the bill well. Headline features include a new 5x optical zoom lens, which while it lacks the 6x zoom reach of the G9, has, on balance, a better focal range, with a wider 28mm end to its zoom and a 140mm full zoom: good enough for most snapping tasks.
Lens distortion is commendably low at both ends of the zoom with only slight barrel distortion at the wide zoom to spoil the party; otherwise the lens is crisp as fresh frost on a bowling green. The aperture range still does not meet the F/2 "speeds" available from the earlier G-series models, such as the G6 (or earlier), but the largest F/2.8 aperture gives you a modicum of control over of depth of field, there's a fastest F/4.5 aperture at full zoom.
Cosmetically, the G10 looks very similar to the G9, but there are some very neat and important control changes to the camera's handling and ergonomics that make it much nicer to use. For a start, the G9's large mode dial has been replaced with a combined mode and ISO dial the former piggy backed onto the ISO dial. This is a neat configuration that takes up no more room than the G9's old mode dial, but allows space over the other side of the top plate and flash hot shoe, for a dedicated exposure compensation dial sat where the G9's ISO control used to be.
All dials have very positive click stops, offering a reassuring feel in use. This mirrors the camera's excellent build quality, something that is characteristic of all the "Gs"; the new, more deeply sculpted and rubberised gripping surfaces providing a confident feel to the handling.
As with the G9, image Stabilisation helps keep things steadier in low light or at longer zoom ratios and provides around two stops of extra handhold-ability, so nothing to be sniffed at, and a real bonus since it means you don't need to tread the waters of higher ISO settings and possible problems with image noise.
Having written that, it's worth pointing out that the G10 has a sensitivity range of 100 to 1600 (3200 in scene modes) with Canon's newest version of its image-processing engine, DIGIC 4 at the apex of the image processing system.
DIGIC 4 gives faster processing, better noise reduction and overall improved image performance; DIGIC 4 also powers several new, so called "intelligent" features: i-Contrast is one of note that increases the dynamic range in images to reveal better detail in shadows but crucially, without loosing detail in lighter areas. It works well too and nicely remedies some of the G9's issues regarding loss of shadow detail.
However, an unfortunate downside is it also highlights any noise within shadows so use with care at higher ISOs. Interestingly, i-Contrast can be left off or simply set to auto mode, so why we cannot have a more precise way of controlling this, particularly in order to address the noise in shadows issues, is a mystery. But you cannot have everything I suppose but given the G10's near £500 price tag, I feel it's a valid question.
Another of the G10's main changes, over the G9, is a new 3-inch LCD, this provides an enhanced 460,000-dot resolution, a vast improvement over the G9's 230,000-dot screen and a useful example of its benefit is when making focus assessment - particularly in the manual focus mode - it's now a much easier affair as it provides easier and faster assessment of sharpness.
In terms of control, the aforementioned top plate controls are a joy, the raised mode dial allowing fast changes of shooting mode (manual, aperture priority or full auto to name a few) to swift ISO changes. Ditto the exposure compensation, which can be quickly applied if you suddenly encounter difficult lighting situations.
The shutter release is encompassed within the lens' zoom control and while on the small side, the lever is very usable, while the shutter release's dual pressures are well weighted, though the first pressure, to get the camera focusing and metering, is a little too spongy for my liking.
A little bit of ostentation has crept in too; the ISO and exposure compensation index's have been given their own funky-looking yellow LEDs while the on/off button also has its own green LED, all of which light up attractively, though more importantly, rather usefully in low light, whenever the camera's switched on.
The back plate is dominated by that new screen but also houses the meat of the camera's other controls. A very nice optical viewfinder sits centrally above the screen, it's eyepoint (the distance from the finder's aperture where you can still see the entire view) is sufficient for viewing while wearing spectacles (something I'm now lumbered with) but has a dioptre adjustment for tweaks if you want to use it without.
The playback and shortcut buttons (I used the latter for fast access to the white balance settings; disappointingly this is one critical feature without a hard button on the body) sit atop the screen either side of the optical viewfinder, the top right corner houses the extremely useful AE/FE lock button, something that when combined with the improved exposure compensation control makes the G10 very responsive to varying lighting conditions indeed.
The AF point control is one of four buttons that surround the camera's four-way jog control and the rotating control dial that encompasses it. The latter makes swift menu or image scrolling a reality while the former (and more common) control provides similar control features plus access to other setting such as the superb 1cm macro mode, flash settings, manual focus activation and drive modes.
The AF set up is a superb mix of Face Detection AF/AE/FE/WB, a natty Face Select & Track mode and a Face Self-Timer setting that monitors multiple faces in a scene, an improved set of similar focusing options behave much better here than in the parallel-tested IXUS 980IS, which also sports them. The Face detection system in particular performs well on faces in profile and the Face Select & Track is remarkably accurate.
But what's even better, with Face select on and you half press the shutter button, a magnified view of the detected face appears so that you can quickly check sharpness. A very nice touch indeed. Alternatively, you can leave it up to the camera and even with larger groups where you can watch as the G10's face detect system selects multiple faces, it seems to work rather well.
Canon's AiAF focus system is also on hand, but as I've found on other recent Canon compact tests, it seems to be a bit too hit and miss, not always able to select the correct or intended area of the scene to be sharp. You can switch focusing across to manually select an AF zone and stick with it though, so this helps circumvent such issues.
The ability to shoot RAW and JPEG files is once again included and this provides even more scope for tinkering and getting shadow or highlight detail out of images later on PC; there's around two stops of headroom on the RAWs in both the shadow and highlight areas.
Shooting RAW helps if i-Contrast doesn't cut the mustard; you can more sensitively process the RAWs to pull shadow and highlight detail out and control noise problems more accurately, the downside here of course, is the necessity to post process the images, so it's another level of workflow added to your photo mill. All the same, it is a fundamental feature for the more enthusiast or pro photographer so great to have on board.
And those images are captured and stored on a single SD or SDHC card stowed under a flap on the G10's base alongside a blocky-looking NB-7L, 1050-mAh Li-ion battery that provides power and on one change, the cell is still going strong after around 200-shots.
The metering and white balance (WB) are excellent, the metering dealing well with most subjects, although I found it struggled somewhat when dealing with some of the very grey days I had for this test. It seemed to be falling between two stalls unable to decide on metering for the shadows (what shadows?) or highlights. However, centre-weighted and spot metering provides more flexibility if required and helped me overcome such problems.
White balance control is pretty good too but, as is typical with most Canon compacts I've reviewed recently, the auto white balance tends to struggle with mixed lighting; switch to the correct WB setting for the lighting and things improve dramatically and I have no complaints once set up properly. And for the even more difficult situation, setting custom white balance settings is very fast too and so you do have complete control at your fingertips.
We feel the G10 has received a set of valuable upgrades over the G9, particularly controls on the top plate and there are distinct performance improvements too. Images are very good with very slight softness by default but the lens is a cracker. Although not a fan of ever-increasing pixel counts, here Canon has carried off the G10's resolution boost well helping to produce a camera that is sure to appeal. Looked at as a whole, the G10 is a worthy addition to the G-series lineage able to produce great images and provide excellent performance.
There is however, a caveat in that I'm not convinced by the price tag. At a quid short of £500, the G10 falls into the price threshold of budget DSLRs and as such it may seem a steep price to pay given the other benefits afforded by a lens interchangeable DSLR.
Okay, so it's pricey but it is a feature rich, responsive and capable of superb results and it is a distinct improvement over the G9. Canon has just about got the balance right and as such this camera is sure to be a real winner.


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I always have Clairvoyance ready when I'm traveling across the map. But it seems that if I have magic ready, the other characters in the game remark that I need to be careful, I need to take my magic elsewhere, etc.
Does having magic or a weapon at the ready cause the other characters to he less hospitable towards me?


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