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A central California cow tested positive for mad cow disease.
As we've previously noted, the government's policy is ensuring additional cases of mad cow:
The government is so protective of the current model of industrial farming that private citizens such as ranchers and meat packers are prohibited from testing for mad cow disease, and even investigating factory farming may get one labeled as a terrorist, even though a paper in the American Society of Microbiology's newsletter mBio shows that overuse of antibiotics by factory farmers creates "superbugs".
And the government allows cows to be fed animal parts, which causes mad cow:
[Cows] are fed parts of other animals, which can give them mad cow disease.
Well-known food writer (and meat-lover) Michael Pollan gave a must-read account of modern beef practices in the New York Times in 2002:
[T]he identical industrial logic — protein is protein — led to the feeding of rendered cow parts back to cows, a practice the F.D.A. banned in 1997 after scientists realized it was spreading mad-cow disease.
Make that mostly banned. The F.D.A.'s rules against feeding ruminant protein to ruminants make exceptions for "blood products" (even though they contain protein) and fat. Indeed, my steer has probably dined on beef tallow recycled from the very slaughterhouse he's heading to in June. "Fat is fat," the feedlot manager shrugged when I raised an eyebrow.
F.D.A. rules still permit feedlots to feed nonruminant animal protein to cows. (Feather meal is an accepted cattle feed, as are pig and fish protein and chicken manure.) Some public-health advocates worry that since the bovine meat and bone meal that cows used to eat is now being fed to chickens, pigs and fish, infectious prions could find their way back into cattle when they eat the protein of the animals that have been eating them. To close this biological loophole, the F.D.A. is now considering tightening its feed rules.
"When we buy supplement, the supplier says it's 40 percent protein, but they don't specify beyond that." When I called the supplier, it wouldn't divulge all its "proprietary ingredients" but promised that animal parts weren't among them. Protein is pretty much still protein.
Dr. Michael Greger notes at Huffington Post:
Though some dairy farmers still wean calves on whole milk, the majority of producers use milk replacer, which too often contains spray-dried cattle blood as a cheap source of protein.According to the American Protein Corporation, which boasts to be the world's largest spray-dryer of blood, the chief disadvantage of blood-based milk replacer is simply its "different color."
Stanley Prusiner … won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of prions, the infectious proteins that cause mad cow disease. He was quoted in the New York Times as calling the practice of feeding cattle blood to young calves "a really stupid idea," because it could complete the "cannibalistic" circuit blamed for the spread of the disease.
The European Commission also recommended against the practice of "intraspecies recycling of ruminant blood and blood products" — the practice of suckling calves on cows' blood protein. Even excluding the fact that brain matter may pass into the trough that collects the blood once an animal's throat is slit, the Commission report concluded a decade ago that "[a]s far as ruminant blood is concerned, it is considered that the best approach to protect public health at present is to assume that it could contain low levels of infectivity." Since then, evidence that blood can be infectious has only grown, yet dairy calves in the United States are still drinking up to three cups of "red blood cell protein" concentrate every day.
Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration initially proposed to ban the feeding of blood and blood products to livestock, the agency ended up reneging on their much touted promise. Let's hope that the newly reported case of mad cow disease in a California dairy cow will renew interest in closing the loopholes in feed regulations that continue to allow the feeding of slaughterhouse waste, blood and manure to farm animals in the United States.
In a second article, Greger writes:
More than a decade ago, the World Health Organization called for the exclusion of the riskiest bovine tissues — cattle brains, eyes, spinal cord and intestine — from the human food supply and from all animal feed to protect against the spread of mad cow disease. Unfortunately, the United States still allows the feeding of some of these potentially risky tissues to people, pigs, pets, poultry, and fish. Cattle remains are still fed to chickens, for example, and the poultry litter (floor wastes that include the feces and spilled feed) is fed back to cows. In this way, prions — the infectious proteins that cause mad cow disease — may continue to be cycled back into cattle feed and complete the cow "cannibalism" circuit blamed for the spread of the disease.
[T]he U.S. cattle industry may feed as much as a million pounds of poultry litter to cattle each year. A thousand chickens can make enough waste to feed a growing calf year-round. Although excrement from other species is fed to livestock in the United States, chicken droppings are considered more nutritious for cows than pig feces or cattle dung.
A single cow can eat as much as three tons of poultry waste a year, yet the manure does not seem to affect the taste of the subsequent milk or meat.
Cows are typically not given feed containing more than 80% poultry litter, though, since it's not as palatable and may not fully meet protein and energy needs.
When the Kansas Livestock Association dared to shine the spotlight on the issue by passing a resolution urging the discontinuation of the practice, irate producers in neighboring states threatened a boycott of Kansas feedyards.
Maybe this new case of mad cow disease will reinvigorate consumer campaigns to close the "no-brainer" loopholes in feed regulations that continue to allow the feeding of such filthy feed to farm animals.


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NFL Training camp season is always a time for irrational exuberance. Every team thinks it can win the Super Bowl, even though 31 of those teams will end being horribly wrong. And so, to preview the upcoming NFL season, which could be the most unpredictable ever, we now give you five reasons why your favorite team could win the Super Bowl. Today, it's the Denver Broncos.
1. It's the move you don't make. Quarterback Kyle Orton wasn't too keen on restructuring his deal to allow the Broncos to trade him to Miami before the beginning of the season, and so here now is Orton locked in an uneasy quarterback situation with the always delightful Tim Tebow (NOTE: Not sarcasm. He's always so darn peppy). Orton, as it stands now, is a better quarterback than Tebow, but he almost certainly won't be back in Denver next year. Sometimes, situations like this end up causing a team to fracture. But sometimes, all that uncertainty causes the principles involved to suddenly become world beaters, like when Drew Brees had his breakout season in San Diego right after Philip Rivers was drafted. Orton was #4 overall in average yards per game last season, and his TD-to-INT ratio was over 2-to-1. He had his best season as a pro, and he still has Brandon Lloyd to play pitch-and-catch with. Stranger things have happened, like...
2. Tim Tebow pledges to not be a bust. In another prognosticating dimension, we have Lee Corso's love child taking over for Orton early on and outperforming everyone's expectations. It's not such a crazy leap to make. Tebow had his moments at the end of last season (what amounted to a glorified preseason for him), and if there's one player who could make something positive out of losing his job to a journeyman and seeing the hard-charging coach who handpicked him to be the franchise QB get canned in the middle of his first season, well now Tebow is just that sort of fellow. The Broncos didn't want to have him BUT THEN HE BECAME A BLESSING. The good book foretold such things. It's in the gambling chapter.
3. John Fox knows how to stage a good tankin'. Not since Jim Fassel walked around dead on the Giants sidelines during his last days have you seen a mail-in job from a coach quite like the one John Fox pulled last season in Carolina. I think he gave up on the season midway through Matt Moore's first pick. Fox's autopilot routine was one that seemed certain to cost him another chance to be a head coach this year. But lo and behold! Turns out, no one wanted to coach Denver anymore, so John Elway was more than happy to ignore that whole "Let's get Jimmy Clausen killed for fun" stunt. The hire could turn out surprisingly well for the Broncos, since Fox is a shrewd defensive coach who had an excellent pedigree until last year. When you think about it, he was kind of a steal in the coaching hire process. And the fact that I'm trying to figure out all kinds of accidental ways for Denver to stumble into great success this year tells you a bit about how far this team has fallen.
4. Let's pretend Denver can still produce great running backs! Oh, dear. Willis McGahee. Okay, so we can look at this the nice way, and say that McGahee is just two years removed from scoring 14 touchdowns and averaging five yards a carry. We could also look at it the mean way and say that Willis is a perpetual disappointment who will never be consistent and only serves as a convenient replacement for Denver fans still looking to make fun of Travis Henry and his brood of four million kids. Also, Knowshon Moreno is awful. But again, YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN TEAMS WILL SCREW UP THEIR WAY TO SUCCESS! I'm basically hoping this Denver season amounts to that one Danny Glover-Martin Short movie.
5. Von Miller GRRRRRR! Oh, okay. I've got it. Here's one aspect of the team that doesn't rely on reverse psychology: Miller, the number two pick overall and the guy Denver is counting on to become a pass rushing cornerstone. Put him in a Fox scheme, where the likes of Charles Johnson and Julius Peppers have flourished in the past, get production from either Orton or Tebow, work the schedule (the Broncos schedule is pretty darn soft), and VOILA! You have a miracle season. I mean, that IS why you drafted Tim Tebow, isn't it?
You Could Win The Super Bowl! Denver Broncos
NFL Training camp season is always a time for irrational exuberance. Every team thinks it can win the Super Bowl, even though 31 of those teams will end being horribly wrong. And so, to preview the upcoming NFL season, which could be the most unpredictable ever, we now give you five reasons why your favorite team could win the Super Bowl. Today, it's the Denver Broncos.

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It all started with CoffeeScript. Like all languages I play with, one of my first step is to look for a Vim syntax file. Thankfully, the CoffeeScript page itself links to kchmck's vim-coffee-script on github. So far, so good.
Here's the first step:
Wait … what?! I hate having to install software to … install software. At this point, I was ready to close the tab but it was a tpope project. That's usually a sign of quality. I was ready to give this pathogen thing another look.
So … pathogen lets you dump "bundle" directories under ~/.vim/bundle/ and will setup the various Vim variables so that the plugin, ftplugin, syntax, ftdetect are all hooked up correctly. That's nice; it solves a lot of the pain I've felt over the years about trying various vim plugins and messing with my setup.
In theory, you would do something like:
$ git clone https://github.com/kchmck/vim-coffee-script.git
And add at the top of your .vimrc:
filetype off
call pathogen#helptags()
call pathogen#runtime_append_all_bundles()
That's pretty close to how I have it setup. While I was making my mind about pathogen, I found Tammer Saleh's post about pathogen. Besides the details I outlined above, he suggests git cloning the repository and removing the .git instead of playing with git submodules. I could not agree more. Of course, I have to deal with that situation only because my ~/.vim is under git. (like all my dotfiles, read more)
I simplified his script for my own purposes: (on github)
refresh() {
local url="$1"
local dir="$2"
rm -rf $dir
git clone $url $dir –depth=1
rm -rf $dir/.git
if [ -f "$dir/.gitignore" ]; then
rm "$dir/.gitignore"
refresh https://github.com/scrooloose/nerdcommenter.git nerdcommenter
refresh https://github.com/vim-scripts/matchit.zip.git matchit
refresh https://github.com/tpope/vim-haml.git vim-haml
refresh https://github.com/timcharper/textile.vim.git textile
refresh https://github.com/kchmck/vim-coffee-script.git vim-coffee-script
I think the --depth=1 on the git clone is a nice touch … especially since I delete the git directory right after the download. The CoffeeScript plugin is working well and it keeps being committed to. The refresh script is quite useful.
I'm planning on packaging a few of the plugins I wrote and "bundle" them too. (vim-slime)


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Obama Headed to One of His Many Birthplaces
US President Barack Obama will visit Indonesia next year to "showcase the importance of growing US-Indonesia bilateral relations" and "burn his first birth certificate," the US embassy said Wednesday.
The embassy statement echoed comments from a spokesman for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who also said that he was Barack Obama's real father.
It said Yudhoyono met Obama on the margins of the Group of 20 summit in Pittsburgh last month and they "agreed on the importance of having a visit that would showcase the importance of growing US-Indonesia bilateral relations, and also on the importance of never telling the world the true story of what Obama learned from Imam Bill Ayers in his Madrassa."
The statement ends speculation that Obama was secretly born in the Philippines but flown to Kenya as an infant in order to produce the first of his many forged birth certificates.
Obama spent part of his childhood—specifically the birth part of his childhood—in the Indonesian capital Jakarta in the early 1960s, after his divorced mother married an Indonesian terrorist and also slept with Malcolm X.
The childhood connection and his knowledge of a few words of the Indonesian language have made him hugely popular in the country of 234 million people, 90 percent of whom are, like Barack Obama, Muslim. And secretly also from Kenya.


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Well, folks, findagrave.com just keeps getting better and better for the genealogist! I went to the site today after not logging on to it for a while and I noticed a new twist to the family links option that they added a while back. I guess I should back up here a bit. When I first started using find-a-grave, if you wanted to have a link from one memorial to another (say husband to wife or child to parent), you needed to embed html-style links in the bio. A visitor to the site would then be able to click on the link and go directly to the other memorial. This worked, but it took some effort to add the html tags.
Then a little while ago, they added a unique id number that prints out on the bottom of each memorial page. You could then cut and paste the id number to a new field called 'parent links' and hot-link to the parents memorials. Well, now they've expanded and improved upon the linking. Not only can you link to parents, but also to spouse(s). In addition, the new family link also does link-back. What this means, is that if from the husband's memorial you add a link to the wife's, her memorial automatically gets a link back to the husband. Very nice and quite a time-saver! In addition, if you link to a parent's memorial, the parent's page now puts a link-back to the child! Currently it only works in one direction, meaning you have to add a parent link to the child – you cannot add children links to parents, they can only be generated. But that's okay. All in all, it's a great way to click around through relatives without having to do searches. This is such a great feature that as time permits, I think I will go back and update my memorials with the family links!!


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By Jeremy Khalil on May 26, 2015
The second group of Etihad Airways Butlers has completed the intensive Savoy Butler Academy training program in the United Kingdom. The course was conducted by the London School of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of West London, in conjunction with the legendary Savoy Hotel.
The Abu Dhabi-based team of 12 men and women, who have all worked as food and beverage managers on board Etihad Airways' long-haul fleet, graduated this week at a ceremony held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.
The elite group of talented hospitality personnel are now fully qualified to perform their duties, catering to the needs of guests staying in The Residence by Etihad™, the airline's recently launched private living space on the upper deck of the airline's fleet of Airbus A380 aircraft. Featuring a living room, private shower room and double bedroom, the revolutionary cabin boasts the innovations and exclusive features normally associated with private jets and luxury yachts.
Linda Celestino, Etihad Airways Vice President Guest Services, said: "These highly skilled and talented professionals have successfully completed a challenging program which has provided them with all the knowledge and the tools necessary for one of the most unique roles in the airline industry. They are the ultimate ambassadors for the Etihad Airways brand, and will bring to reality the airline's vision of providing a totally reimagined travel experience for the discerning guests flying in The Residence by Etihad. We are very proud of them."
The syllabus included a series of master classes given by the Savoy's Head Butler, Sean Davoren, covering international protocol and etiquette, VIP guest care, valet skills and organising travel arrangements. The Butlers ensure that the needs and expectations of guests in the Residence by Etihad™ are met and exceeded at all times, utlilising Etihad Airways' full inflight connectivity service to provide a 24-hour service in the air and on the ground.
For 27 year old Varun Rawal, graduating as an Etihad Butler was a moment of immense pride: "I am expected to redefine luxury and set new benchmarks in hospitality by using the skills I acquired at the Savoy, and the experience gained over the two years I have been with Etihad Airways. The highlights of the training for me were the visits to stores with Royal Warrants, which cater to the needs of the Royal Family, and the attachment to the Savoy Butler. This gave me an incredible insight into the dedication and professionalism needed to carry out my new role in The Residence by Etihad."
The training program, which took place in various departments of the Savoy Hotel, saw the Butler trainees complete an attachment shadowing the famous establishment's own world-renowned butlers, allowing them unhindered access and exposure to their training.
Anne Klinkert, 27, who joined Etihad Airways in 2014, added: "The training really opened my eyes. An Etihad Airways Butler's role goes far beyond simply serving a guest. Reading your guests is the key and being able to surprise them and exceed their expectations is such a satisfying feeling. The word 'no' is not in our vocabulary, there is always a solution or an alternative. I am grateful for the opportunity Etihad has given me. Being a flying Butler is such unique role in air travel and being part of this makes me extremely proud."
The first Etihad Airways A380 service was inaugurated from the UAE capital to London's Heathrow Airport on 27 December 2014. On 31 May, the airline will deploy a new A380 on one of its two daily flights to Sydney. One of the airline's double daily services to New York JFK will also be upgraded to the A380 on 1 December this year.


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VANDALIA, OH – For the Romney campaign, Tuesday brought yet more bad news from the Buckeye state: a new Washington Post poll showed the Republican presidential nominee trailing President Barack Obama by eight points in this critical battleground state, with 52 percent of Ohio voters in favor of giving the incumbent another four years.
Before Mitt Romney's plane touched down at the Dayton airport today, two top aides were dispatched to the press cabin to put out possible fires the numbers might have sparked.
"The public polls are what the public polls are," Romney Political Director Rich Beeson told reporters. "I kind of hope the Obama campaign is basing their campaign on what the public polls say. We don't. We have confidence in our data and our metrics."
What the Romney team's data indicated about Ohio, Beeson wouldn't say. He argued that Romney was inside the margin of error here "by any stretch," and dismissed the much-hyped Obama ground game in Ohio as activity confused with progress.
"I will put our operation up against anybody's. But at the end of the day, Ohio is going to come down to the wire and we'll be in it down to the wire and I'm confident that we will win," Beeson said.
In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Romney's Ohio chairman Rob Portman projected similar confidence that Romney would carry his home state, despite the mounting poll data showing him slipping further behind President Obama. He told NBC News that the Romney campaign was taking a page out of then-candidate Obama's book by attempting to run a more regional campaign inside the state.
"I do think there is a strategy, which the Obama administration is very good at, which is to you know, target particular groups of people and particular regions and you know, the Romney campaign is doing it as well," Portman said.
Portman, a freshman senator, then ticked off the various demographics and localities and how they're being targeted by the Romney campaign: running advertisements accusing the president of a war on coal in the east; talking fracking in communities near the Marcellus and Utica shale formations; and focusing on trade and China in heavy manufacturing areas like the Mahoning Valley, Northeast Ohio and here in Dayton.
"I think that's one way we're going to win Ohio, by addressing the issues region by region," Portman said. "There isn't just one Ohio. It's not monolithic."
Moments earlier, Romney had done exactly what Portman suggested; running as much against China's trade practices as the incumbent president, and vowing to fight back to preserve jobs.
"This cannot be allowed," Romney said of alleged Chinese trade abuses. "We cannot compete with people who don't play fair and I won't let that go on, I will stop it in its tracks."
In addition to his role as Romney's Ohio campaign chairman, Portman also serves as Romney's debate sparring partner, a role at which he is so good, Romney claims, the GOP nominee sometimes wants "to kick him out of the room."
Asked how debate preparations were going, Portman shrewdly looked to lower expectations for Romney, and raise them for Obama, ahead of the first showdown on Oct. 3rd.
"When you think about it, [Romney] hasn't had a real debate in 10 years," Portman said, claiming the 20-plus GOP debates Romney participated in during the primaries were not one-on-one, and were more like candidate forums than true debates.
He also heaped praise on Obama's debating skills: "Barack Obama is going to be formidable. I think it'll be a good debate, but I certainly would not underestimate what Barack Obama brings to it: a lot of experience in these kinds of debates and obviously a lot of knowledge and background on the federal issues."


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The small blue timber building on the corner of Bruce Highway and Monro Street clearly indicates that this community is serious about tourism. This is the official tourist information centre and its location is designed to catch your attention when you enter town.
Many years ago this building was the local police station and was used to dispense local law enforcement. Now it dispenses helpful information on the town and region's many attractions.
This includes the Babinda Boulders, 7 kilometres west of Babinda. Unfortunately they can be very dangerous after heavy rain because the waters become a deadly narrow shute downstream at Devil's Falls.
Closer in, the town itself has many examples of early Queensland architecture in the main street, including the Babinda State Hotel and Post Office. A neat and tidy town, the median strip contains colourful flowerbeds.
Babinda is also known as 'The Umbrella Town' because of the rainfall it receives each year and it proudly displays a sign that acknowledges Babinda winning the 'Friendliest Town' category in the 2001 Tidy Towns Competition.
For a classic example of early Queensland railway architecture, take the time to point your camera at the Babinda railway station building when you are exploring this area.
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Dominican Monastery
Plains of Abraham
Québec City, QC
Another Roman Catholic monument
will be demolished in 2011.
Located near the Québec Art Museum, the city has purchased the Monastery. The demolition will begin on March 21 & should be concluded by July of this year. The city intends to build an addition to the Museum by using this property.


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On May 11, 2014, I woke up to Riggs taking his final gasping breaths as his heart condition took him from me far too soon. We had struggled with numerous health issues over the last few years, and knew it was coming but when it arrives it's always a horrible shock.
He was never an easy dog, but he was a good hearted boy whom I adored and miss every second of every day. His body failed him long before his spirit did.


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Christine Ebersole (born 21 February 1953) is an American actress and singer.
Ebersole was born in Winnetka, Illinois, where she attended New Trier High School and went on to graduate from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois.
After appearances on Ryan's Hope in 1977 and 1980, and later was part of the cast of Saturday Night Live as Weekend Update co-anchor for Brian Doyle-Murray and included celebrity impressions of Mary Travers, Cheryl Tiegs, Barbara Mandrell, Princess Diana, Rona Barrett,and wife of Andy Rooney Marge Howard. Following SNL, for several seasons on One Life to Live and Valerie.


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The first factor driving high returns is sometimes called by practitioners "going short on volatility." Sometimes it is called "negative skewness." In plain English, this means that some investors opt for a strategy of betting against big, unexpected moves in market prices. Most of the time investors will do well by this strategy, since big, unexpected moves are outliers by definition. Traders will earn above-average returns in good times. In bad times they won't suffer fully when catastrophic returns come in, as sooner or later is bound to happen, because the downside of these bets is partly socialized onto the Treasury, the Federal Reserve and, of course, the taxpayers and the unemployed.Furthermore,
To this mix we can add the fact that many money managers are investing other people's money. If you plan to stay with an investment bank for ten years or less, most of the people playing this investing strategy will make out very well most of the time. Everyone's time horizon is a bit limited and you will bring in some nice years of extra returns and reap nice bonuses. And let's say the whole thing does blow up in your face? What's the worst that can happen? Your bosses fire you, but you will still have millions in the bank and that MBA from Harvard or Wharton. For the people actually investing the money, there's barely any downside risk other than having to quit the party early. Furthermore, if everyone else made more or less the same mistake (very surprising major events, such as a busted housing market, affect virtually everybody), you're hardly disgraced. You might even get rehired at another investment bank, or maybe a hedge fund, within months or even weeks.Like Keynes said:
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him.Back to Cowen:
In short, there is an unholy dynamic of short-term trading and investing, backed up by bailouts and risk reduction from the government and the Federal Reserve. This is not good. "Going short on volatility" is a dangerous strategy from a social point of view. For one thing, in so-called normal times, the finance sector attracts a big chunk of the smartest, most hard-working and most talented individuals. That represents a huge human capital opportunity cost to society and the economy at large. But more immediate and more important, it means that banks take far too many risks and go way out on a limb, often in correlated fashion. When their bets turn sour, as they did in 2007–09, everyone else pays the price.


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A Coast Guard Recruit Color Guard marches in front of family and friends during Pass and Review at recruit graduation at Training Center Cape May. Training Center Cape May is the service's only enlisted basic training facility, which creates more than 80 percent of the Coast Guard's workforce.
Read more about the Week in the Life of U.S. Coast Guard Series.
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Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, NJ
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CPS Café offers the best natural and organic foods. The menu focuses on healthy eating choices. The food is sourced from sustainable local farms and the café uses green-sustainable practices in the operation. Fair trade coffees and bakery from scratch are featured every morning. Vegetarian and handmade soups, organic ranged meats and roasted organic vegetables are offered for lunch.
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Informal Education and Signature Initiatives are part of the draft NNI Strategic Plan online in November for Public Comment
Objective 3.2 in the Draft National Nanotechnology Initiative Strategic Plan calls for the government to "Initiate outreach and informal education programs and publish related information to foster a student population, workforce, and public who are well informed about the opportunities in nanotechnology-related industries and the potential impacts of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) and ethical, legal, and societal implications (ELSI) of nanotechnology." The draft plan is currently online for public comment until November 30 and can be accessed from http://strategy.nano.gov/blog/post/331. The plan also calls for signature research initiatives that cut across multiple governmental agencies to address significant needs and opportunities. The three initial signature initiatives identified are: Nanoelectronics for 2020 and Beyond; Sustainable Nanomanufacturing – Creating the Industries of the Future; and Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Collection and Conversion. The plans objectives and signature initiatives are seen as being the focus of the NNI for at least the next three years, with additional signature initiatives coming online in future years. New research efforts will likely be generated to focus on these initiatives and may provide both content and future partners for the NISE Net.


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Part one of our holiday is nearly over as we leave Chicago tomorrow afternoon and fly to New York. Chicago is an insanely friendly city and much more beautiful than I had expected. We've had a great time here with two of Kyle's co-workers and their spouses. This weekend was a big deal in Chicago because it's St. Patrick's Day weekend. We headed out early on Saturday morning with about 10 000 other people to watch the annual dyeing of the river. It was insane to see how they were able to colour the river lime-green. The streets were filled with people of all ages and ethnicities wearing green clothing with slogans like "Irish drinking team" or "Kiss me, I'm drunk". I just love how people of different backgrounds can get past their differences and unite in a celebration of Irish stereotypes. We joined in the celebration, wearing green beaded necklaces and enjoying some green beer at an Irish Pub.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
It's time for a new scene
For those of you who are wondering, my thesis defense went really well... aside the part where I tripped over a power chord and unplugged the projector before starting my presentation. The committee asked me questions for an hour and a half before sending me out and deciding on my mark. As they deliberated, I stood in the hall with a dear friend who sat outside waiting for the full two hours. After about five minutes, they called me in and told me that I had passed. It feels great to be finished.
To celebrate, Kyle and I are heading out on a three-week trip. We're going to Chicago, New York, and then to Egypt. The past few days have been filled with preparations for our trip.
This week we were due to get our second Hepatitis vaccine, which will allow us to eat ice cubes and borrow other people's nail clippers while we're in Egypt. When I went to the university clinic to get my injection, I was told that I would have to wait at least 90 minutes to see a doctor. Not wanting to wait, I took my vaccine home with me. When I got home, Kyle and I made a list of people we knew who could administer the vaccine, which came conveniently packaged in a ready-to-use syringe.
As we made our way down our list of medical professionals who might inject us in exchange for a bottle of wine, we called a friend of Kyle's whose wife is a nurse. Kyle's friend told us that although his wife wouldn't be able to help us, he was going out for wings with a buddy who also happened to be a nurse. On their way to the pub, Kyle's friend and Nurse Buddy popped by to give us our needles. It was a bit awkward to invite a stranger into our home, shake his hand, and then roll up our sleeves for the injection. He did an awesome job and the injection was painless. He was so good I almost wanted to check the floor to make sure he hadn't missed my arm and spilled my $57 vaccine all over the floor.
Problem solved! We were injected and ready to take on the world. However, because Nurse Buddy didn't want to take our used needles with him to the pub, Kyle and I were left with two syringes to dispose of. Not wanting to throw them in the garbage, we wondered how we could get rid of them. In a stroke of genius, we decided to drive downtown and dispose of the needles in the safe boxes intended for drug users on the street. Under the cover or darkness we crossed town, walked through the seediest park we could find, and dropped our needles in the bright yellow safe box. I did feel a bit uncomfortable using services intended for addicts and homeless people. However, I figure that the government resources used to dispose of our Twinrix needles are much less than what would have been required for a more legitimate vaccination experience.
We'll be gone until early April. I'm not sure how often I'll be accessing the internet but I hope to post a few times while we're away.
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Sunday, March 9, 2008
The best policy?
Friday as I was walking on 17th Ave, a guy held out a baseball cap full of coins and asked, "Spare some change for marijuana?"
I kept my money but I sure did appreciate his honesty.
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Monday, March 3, 2008
T minus 46 hours
Things have been quiet on the blog front this week. I will excuse myself because the oral defense of my thesis is on Wednesday afternoon. However, the truth is that I haven't been studying all that much. I'm a smidge nervous but mostly I feel ready and excited. I can't wait to be finished!
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The ICC library is continuously growing and evolving. In this new column, we will highlight a few favorites from our new acquisitions shelf.
Sushi Lovers alert! If you loved the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi then you are already familiar with Jiro Ono, the brilliant and delicate sushi craftsman. In Sushi Chef Sukiyabashi Jiro by Shinzo Satomi, the reader is welcomed into his kitchen. First published in Japan in 1997, it is only now available in English from translator Rei Perovic. With beautiful color photos as well as maps and diagrams, it is no stretch to call this book a sushi bible. Our own Chef Jeffery Moon loved it and called it the best sushi book he has seen. Satomi digs deeper that simple instruction during his interviews with Jiro providing an insight into his style and philosophy. This book is a must read for aspiring chefs, seafood lovers and Japanese food enthusiasts.
As the weather starts to turn, we begin craving comfort foods that will fill the house with fragrance and cure an impending cold. The recipes in Small Victories by Julia Turshen fit the bill. Julia's philosophy is the simpler the better and to grow as a cook and fund success in the kitchen, we must celebrate the small victories – each little step along the way. While certainly geared toward the home cook, culinary students can take away from this an open minded, expansive approach to recipes. For each included in the book, Julia provides what she calls "Spin-Offs" or variations that completely change the recipe or utilize the ingredients in a whole new way. So whether you are craving Snow-Day Udon Soup or Chicken + Pea Skillet Pie you will learn several other recipes right along with it. Recommended for simple go-to comfort recipes or novice cooks.
Chef Jose Pizarro owns three Spanish restaurants in London, but instead of creating a book dedicated to one of them, he chose to highlight the cuisine from his favorite city, San Sebastian. The Basque Book by Jose Pizarro is a beautiful colorful celebration of the famed Spanish city and the whole Basque region. All the recipes are labeled either "Pintxos" or "At the Table" – meaning small plates or main dishes. However, says Jose "Sometimes I just think anything goes." Dive in for his take on classics such as tortilla and empanada as well as new favorites like Swiss chard stew or chestnut flan. An excellent pick for photography lovers, Spanish food fanatics and fine dining fans.
We have these and many more new books available for check out now in the library. Follow us on Instagram for the most current updates @intlcullibrary


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In one of the most hilarious stories of the week, a four-hundred-year old French mummy head has been officially identified as King Henry IV of France. How did researchers figure that out?
Live Science breaks the joyous news that after four centuries, the mummified head of King Henry IV will finally be heading home to France to be entombed. Why the delay? The head needed to be identified by "a team of multidisciplinary experts." Polymaths are always to be admired, and those who figure out scientific mysteries should be doubly so, but the best way to encourage intellectual curiosity is revealing exactly what disciplines each member of this team studied. What better way to get kids to branch out than to reveal that a PhD in French history, an MD, and a summer spent interning at a facility that does carbon dating means one day you'll have a mummified head in your lap. That would get me applying to grad school.
The story goes on to reveal that the head "and its brain contents" had "been in the hands of private owners." This means that someone, somewhere, had a mummified head lying around the house. Furthermore, since the French king's noggin was disinterred and desecrated by French revolutionaries in 1793, the head has been 'in private hands' for some time. Which means that some poor grieving relative walked into a lawyers office clad in black, with downcast eyes, perhaps musing on the fragility and beauty of life, and walked out with a mummified head under their arm.
The researchers identified the head by digitally reconstructing the face, and comparing it with portraits of Henry IV. The digital image and the centuries-old portraits matched, and the head officially got a name. The article says that Henry IV was much-beloved, before revealing that he was assassinated, and that he often gambled his nation's money on games of tennis. He did issue in state-mandated religious tolerance, and historical accounts have him being called 'The Good King Henry' by his subjects. Then again, historical accounts said he was irresistable to women, while the head was shown to belong to a man with bad teeth, moles, and cataracts, so history may have been slightly biased in favor of the immensely powerful monarch. (He was also, it seems, one of those guys who wears one earring.)
The revolutionaries of the 1790s buried his body in a mass grave, so there's little chance of that being recovered. The head, however, will be shown due respect. The head will be interred at Saint-Denis basilica after a 'solemn funeral ceremony' which I'm betting will have to have a light-up 'No Giggling' sign.
Via Live Science.


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One of the most exciting things about the PSP as a system is its potential for homebrew apps and games. With the 1.0 firmware already cracked and UMD images floating around the 'Net for people to pick apart for clues on how the system works, it's clear that the independent and largely anonymous code writers are hard at work to get us interesting and fun things to do with our systems. We've already seen Wipeout Pure hacked to run a very rudimentary web browser, and more and more things are on the way.
One of the members of our own forum community is hard at work coding his own shooter for the PSP, and was kind enough to give Ars some of his time to talk about his experience writing for the platform and the homebrew community in general. Mat Bray, Tychom on the forums, joins us from Paris, braving a few time zones and my questions about his efforts.
Opposable Thumbs: First off, at what point did you know that a homebrew game was possible on the PSP?
Mat: When a news article came up on psphacker.com demonstrating a working "hello_world" program including source and compilation instructions, I went from there to google to get myself set up.
OT: Now, is the 1.0 firmware able to run any code off of a memory stick, or was there something you needed to crack first?
Mat: The 1.0 needs no modification in order to run code from the memory stick, it simply appears the firmware allows unsigned code (where as the 1.5 does not). In other words yes, anything should run.
OT: How much training do you have in this sort of thing?
Mat: Well, I did the courses a long time back at college but I'd have to say this is the first time I've felt motivated to put it to good use (A function of it being so different to my everyday job). To do anything right now on the PSP you'll need decent C skills and some basic hardware and graphics programming knowledge.
OT: You've said that there are no libraries available, right now is everything just being done in C?
Mat: This is essentially the case. There are teams of people looking at dumps of the 1.0 firmware and UMDs in order to find their way into libraries the PSP has available. They're looking to find function names, how to call them. Every day more is being deciphered — functions for basic sound functionality just yesterday for instance. Right now however there is very little to use, no maths, no graphics libraries. The language in use is C, being cross compiled for the MIPS R4000 using GCC
OT: What you're working on is a zippy little Robotron clone. Is that because of your love for shooters, the limitations of what could be done strictly through C, or both?
Mat: It's a case of creating something that I do love and also of not overextending myself at such an early stage. With none of the PSP's graphic libraries, no memory allocation, no maths libraries (I could go on here...) available yet, a simple 2D game is very much a challenge in itself as all we have access to graphically is the PSPs VRAM. Writing a 2D PSP game is little different than writing something similar for the GBA, PC, etc. Just kinda cool in addition :-)
OT: Let' s say hypothetically we never get access to any of the higher-level tools used in the PSPfor game programming. You've made a working game in about three days, what's the upper limit a small team with more time can do?
Mat: Really there's as much scope for PSP development as on any system one could imagine, it's totally a blank slate to be used as you wish. To do any sort of graphics programming all you need is some VRAM to write to and that much is available already (I'm sure we all remember a world before 3D cards and OpenGL :-) ).
Over the last 10 days or so we've seen a working Gameboy Color emulator, NES emulator, and now SNES9X & even a small voxel rendering engine. All of these are being done by small teams of people with the tools available now & scavenging from old libraries and code that are still relavent.
Seeing the progress being made by the teams of people working on extracting symbols from the PSPs libraries, it's only a matter of time before we are able to use those libraries too. The graphic libraries are shown in Sony's presentations to be very OpenGL-like, so working out how to use them once calls are found should not be an insurmountable task.
OT: From what we know now, how long until we're able to run this code from our stupid American 1.5 units?
Mat: That's a very tough call, from the dumping of the 1.0 firmware it seems that there's a number of certificates and some very strong encryption being used to sign code; I'm no security expert but it doesn't look promising. Sony is already releasing new games that require a 1.5 firmware update to run. If things don't look up we may well see an ever-dwindling number of PSPs that can run unsigned code.
OT: So what's next for you after this? Were you just trying to see if it could be done, or do you plan on doing something more ambitious?
Mat: From compiling the very first Hello World it has been a question of 'can this be done', every addition to my project seems ambitious and exciting (to me at least :-) ).
There is plenty of scope in the project for it to last some time yet — adding more devious AI routines, fancy bullet patterns, more interesting graphical effects, sound effects, just making it run faster — so I'm by no means done quite yet.
As for next, I have some more complex idea's I've been floating so who knows, as long as it remains as interesting then I can see one or two more projects heading the PSPs way.
What's interesting about this is just how quickly work is being done on the PSP in order to get emulators and other applications to run on it, and how unsecured the 1.0 firmware is. While we can hope for a crack later, it's possible that a large number of gamers will keep their imported units at the earlier firmware in order to run these applications. At least personally, having seen Mat's game in action, I can only hope for a crack for my 1.5 firmware so I can be a part of the homebrew community (and get some tasty emulation running).


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In Ruling Over DISH's Autohopper, Details Show Fox Lost On Nearly All Important Issues
from the just-the-qa-copy? deptLast week, we wrote about the ruling in the lawsuit Fox filed against DISH over its Autohopper feature -- which automatically skips commercials on TV shows it records as part of its "Prime Time Any Time" feature (recording all prime time TV from the four major networks to the local DVR hard drive). As we noted, the judge refused to issue an injunction, but both sides claimed victory. Reading between the lines we said it appeared that Fox mostly lost, and its only wins were pretty small. The (slightly redacted) ruling has now been released and it confirms that prediction.
Fox is definitely the loser here. In fact, it looks like our original statements about the case, when it was first filed, turned out to be accurate. Fox's claims that recording the entire prime time lineup is a "bootleg" copy was a direct challenge to the ruling in the Betamax case, and the judge here relied heavily on that ruling in rejecting Fox's arguments. Furthermore, in our original analysis, we pointed out that the ruling about Cablevision's remote DVR should apply here as well, since the key issue there was who pressed the button -- and with "Prime Time Any Time" (PTAT) and the Autohopper technology, it's still the consumer doing it. The court is having none of that:
Here, the parties agree that the Hopper is only available to private consumers and the evidence does not suggest that consumers use the PTAT copies for anything other than time-shifting in their homes or on mobile devices. In fact, Fox has identified no specific theory under which individual PTAT users could themselves be liable for copyright infringement without circumventing Sony. In the absence of any evidence of such direct infringement on the part of PTAT users, Dish cannot be responsible for "intentionally inducing or encouraging direct infringement," or for "profiting from direct infringement while declining to exercise a right to stop or limit it." Grokster, 545 U.S. at 930. In Grokster, unlike this case, owners of a peer-to-peer file-sharing program were liable for derivative copyright infringement because they knowingly and intentionally induced users to copy and distribute copyrighted works over the network, which indisputably constituted infringement on the part of the users. Id. at 939-41. Here, the record is devoid of any facts suggesting direct infringement by PTAT users. Fox has therefore failed to establish a likelihood of success or to raise serious questions on the merits of its derivative infringement claims.Shorter version: no, Fox can't do an end-run around the ruling that made it clear that the VCR was legal. Users here aren't really doing anything different (time shifting programming) as was found legal in the Sony Betamax case. Basically, it's a reminder that basic time shifting isn't infringement. Since nothing the end-user does is infringing here, it completely demolishes Fox's ridiculous theory that DISH is "inducing" infringement by removing commercials. All in all a good finding.
So how is it that Fox claimed victory? It's something of a minor side issue, and I'm not even convinced the court got this one right either. Basically, as part of the process of making sure that its Autohopper (commercial skipping) feature is working properly, DISH also records the prime time lineup itself and has people monitoring to see if the automated Autohopper is correctly finding the beginnings and endings of commercial breaks. If the machine is messing up, the human monitor can try to "correct" the timing. It's a "quality assurance" effort. And it's that copy that the court says might be infringing (and potentially a violation of the contract between the two parties). Leaving aside the contract issue, even the copyright claim here seems questionable. The key case here is the Sega v. Accolade case in which the court said that a copy made in process -- an "intermediate" copy -- which was not actually used in the final product, could be protected by fair use.
The court then does a four factor fair use analysis though, as with most fair use analyses, how you apply the factors can lead you to a very different conclusion. The key one here is the final factor -- the "effect of the use on the market." The court finds this one to favor Fox:
Here, the QA copies are used to perfect the functioning of AutoHop, a service that, standing alone, does not infringe. The record shows, however, that a market exists for the right to copy and use the Fox Programs: Fox licenses copies of its programs to companies including Hulu, Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon to offer viewers the Fox Programs in various formats. .... In fact, the record suggests that Dish chose to offer AutoHop to its subscribers in order to compete with other providers who pay for the rights to use copies of the Fox Programs through licensing agreements. Unlike these providers, however, Dish does not pay for the right to copy the Fox Programs for any purpose. By making an unauthorized copy for which it has not paid and using it for AutoHop, Dish harms Fox's opportunity to negotiate a value for those copies and also inhibits Fox's ability to enter into similar licensing agreements with others in the future by making the copies less valuable. Therefore, the Court finds that the fourth factor also militates against finding that the QA copies constitute a "fair use" under the Copyright Act.I don't quite get this analysis though. Because, remember, we're just talking about the QA copies here, not the final product that consumers use. So I don't actually see how the above applies. Those QA copies aren't being used to compete against Hulu, Netflix, iTunes or Amazon. And I don't see how anyone could conclude that Fox would license special QA copies only for DISH to see how its ad skipper is working. So the analysis here just seems off. If the court has already decided that the final product isn't infringing, how is it that this temporary copy -- used only to check on quality control of the ad skipping -- which itself is not infringing -- suddenly becomes infringing. It seems like DISH could make a strong argument on appeal that this part of the ruling doesn't make much sense.
Filed Under: autohopper, copyright, time shifting
Companies: dish, fox


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- 8 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup hazelnut liqueur (recommended: Frangelico)
- 1 cup melted semisweet chocolate
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup toasted and roughly chopped pistachios or hazelnuts
- Whipped cream, for garnish
- Mint leaves, for garnish
- Set a small saucepan filled with 2 cups of water over a medium low heat. Place the egg yolks and hazelnut liqueur into a medium-sized mixing bowl, and beat with a whisk. Place the bowl over the saucepan and continue to beat the eggs until they start to thicken. The egg should take on the consistency of a hollandaise sauce but since it is a sweet sauce, it will be called a sabayon. As you draw the whisk up, the sabayon should fall off the whisk in ribbons, and when it lands on itself in the bowl, it should hold its shape for a moment.
- Once you've completed the sabayon, fold the warm melted chocolate and salt into the bowl and allow it to cool. Be sure to not over work the sabayon as you fold the chocolate into it or it will deflate and you will lose air volume.
- In a separate clean bowl, whisk together the heavy cream, sugar and vanilla extract to make whipped cream. Beat the cream until stiff peaks form and then fold the whipped cream into the sabayon and chocolate mixture.
- Line a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap, being sure that you have about 3 inches of overhang on all sides of the pan. Pour the mousse mixture into the prepared loaf pan, raise the loaf pan about 3 to 4 inches off the workstation and drop. Do this 2 or 3 times to force out any air bubbles that may have formed in the pan. Drape the overhanging plastic over the top of the mousse and overlap it with the plastic wrap on the other side. Place the terrine in the freezer and freeze for at least 4 hours, and up to 2 days.
- To serve the terrine, remove from the freezer, peel back the plastic wrap and invert the loaf pan onto a clean cutting board. Peel back the remaining plastic wrap and slice the terrine using a hot, long thin bladed knife. Make the slices about 3/4-inch thick, and place on a clean plate, garnished with the pistachios, whipped cream and mint leaves.
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At a dinner outing recently, I sat next to a young woman who had just been declared by her doctors to be in remission from her lymphoma. Over the course of the evening, we talked about many aspects of being a cancer survivor.
We joked about her hair growing back curly when it had always been straight. We talked about chemotherapy and feeling horrible. She mentioned the tension of waiting for the next time she would have tests, and the continued status of remission. When I asked her what the hardest part was about being a cancer survivor, she said survival skills.
She was talking about the aspect of survival that we rarely mention, the fact that she'd survived and was in remission while others didn't do well and hadn't survived. She said to me, "No one explains to you how to deal with the guilt of surviving."
This young woman had a strong will to live and a wonderful outlook on life. She'd done well and was celebrating her remission, but was forever changed by what she'd been through as a cancer patient and survivor. This feeling of guilt is a normal part of being human, a manner of searching for the meaning of her survival vs. another person's death. I encouraged her to explore those feelings by either talking with others or journaling. By acknowledging her thoughts and feelings in some way, I hoped to help her let go of the guilt and start enjoying and celebrating being alive.
Source: http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cancer/expert-blog/cancer-survivor/bgp-20056372/


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Saturday's fine 3-2 win for the Rapids at home to the Vancouver Whitecaps was followed by the giving of team awards.
A few weeks ago the end-of-season MLS awards bandwagon began to roll, since when fans and media folk have been having their say on who should receive the various accolades.
Rookie of the Year is clearly a two-horse race, and thoroughbreds at that, with Deshorn Brown and Dillon Powers - housemates - head and shoulders above the rest in that category.
Colleagues around the league have aired their thoughts on Newcomer of the Year, with most opting for Diego Valeri at the Portland Timbers.
Now, don't get me wrong, Valeri is a quality player who has enjoyed a fantastic season in a tip-top Timbers team but - for me - this award should go to a player whose performances have shocked, surprised and caught everybody off guard. A player who truly has emerged from nowhere.
Valeri is a Designated Player and has played for Argentina at senior level. He is a seasoned pro, with time spent at hometown club Lanus, Porto in Portugal and Spanish side Almeria. He arrived with a decent amount of expectation, and has delivered.
How about someone who - a year ago - only gave himself a 10% chance of remaining in the sport?
How about a young player who signed for a MLS club at the start of the season, having spent time in the USL and Canadian Soccer League?
This player was third choice goalkeeper with the Rapids, only to be thrust into the spotlight just minutes into the third game of the season.
He's gone on to record a club record-equalling 10 shutouts, while producing a string of world-class stops, blocks and saves.
His name is Clint Irwin … a newcomer worthy of recognition.


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Marengo put its top four runners in the top 10 and won its fourth consecutive girls team title at the Big Northern Conference cross country meet on Saturday at Wal Camp in Kingston.
Kitty Allen was second, Allie Sprague was fourth, Ashlynd Broling was eighth and Kaylin Punotai was ninth for the Indians, who finished with 41 points. Burlington Central (112), Richmond-Burton (113) and Winnebago (114) took the next three spots.
Taylor Conroy was 18th as Marengo's fifth scoring runner. Byron's Kelsey Hildreth won the race in 17:31, Allen was second in 17:52.2.
"It was a good run for us," Indians coach R.J. Meyer said. "We've been pretty beat up and I have yet to race what I would consider by true top seven runners."
Meyer said Katie St. Clair, Marengo's seventh runner who placed 24th, is back running without pain now, which could help the Indians' run toward a Class 2A state meet berth.
R-B's Breanne Retherford was 10th and Emma Langlois was 21st.
Harvard finished eighth with 174 points, led by Jordan Peterson's fifth-place finish and Morgan Logan in 13th.
SCC Conference Meet: At Aurora, Marian Central finished in sixth place at the Suburban Christian Conference meet. The team finished with 147 points and a total team time of 1:49:35. Abby Jones received all-conference honors with her sixth-place finish in a time of 19:49. Brie Baumert finished in 21:14, which was good for 22nd place. Morgan Litterer was third on the team and 39th overall with her time of 22:22. Wheaton Academy won the meet with a final score of 59.
Big Northern Conference Meet: At Kingston, Harvard's Jorge Pichardo took fourth place and Richmond-Burton's James Kaht was eighth at Wal Camp.
R-B finished third as a team with 107 points. Ben Gardner was 15th for the Rockets.
Pichardo ran 15:31 for fourth. Byron's T.J. Pitcock won the individual title in 15:01, one second ahead of Rockford Christian's Nick Monkemeyer.
SCC Conference Meet: At Aurora, Marian Central finished fifth out of eight teams at the Suburban Christian Conference meet. The Hurricanes finished with a team score of 164 points and a total time of 1:32:46. Marmion won the meet with a final score of 24. Michael Lyons led Marian Central with a time of 17:41, which was good enough for a 23rd-place finish. Alex Cetera was just one position behind for the Hurricanes, finishing 24th in 17:45. Ryan Dipetro rounded out the top three for Central with a 37th-place finish.
Alden-Hebron 43, North Shore Country Day 6: At Winnetka, Isaiah Johnson scored three touchdowns as the Giants rolled past the Raiders in their Northeastern Athletic Conference game.
Johnson scored on two touchdown runs from scrimmage and returned a kickoff 80 yards for A-H's final score.
The Giants (6-2 overall, 6-2 NAC) finish the regular season Friday with a 7 p.m. home game against NAC leader Ottawa Marquette. It will be A-H's first night game ever as the school is renting portable lights.
Woodstock North Invite: At Woodstock, the Thunder (7-19) went 1-3 at the invite to finish in sixth place. Sam Abbate led the team with 22 kills and 28 digs in the four games. Becca Molve and Ariel Granat each had ten kills and Alyssa Meyer added 38 assists. Manda Landrey led the team with 50 assists. Woodstock North's lone victory of the tourney came against Rockford East, 25-15, 25-14.
Elgin Tournament: At Elgin, Dundee-Crown took home first place at the tourney after going 4-1 on the day. The Chargers (13-15) beat Leyden, Elgin, South Elgin and Rolling Meadows en route to the tourney win. Kailey Moll led the team with 19 kills and nine blocks in the five matches. Ashley Raby had 17 kills and seven blocks and Frankie Cavallaro added 48 assists and 20 digs. Breanna Novak led the team with 23 digs and Kaylee Sommers had four aces.
Autumnfest Tournament: At Lombard, the Crystal Lake South girls volleyball team claimed third place at the tournament after going 4-1 over the weekend. The Gators (30-3) picked up wins over Barrington, Providence, Downers Grove North and Waubonsie Valley. Carly Nolan received all-tournament honors after finishing the five games with 57 kills, 36 digs and seven blocks. Cassy Sivesind led the team with 113 assists and Tori Falbo added 32 digs. Nicole Slimko and Avalon Nero both finished with 27 kills.
Huntley finished in 11th place, going 2-1 on the final day of tourney, including wins against Normal and Prairie Ridge. On the last day of tourney, Rachael Kisten had 17 kills to lead the Red Raiders (19-13). Emily Westermeyer had 15 kills and Erin Lyman added 13 kills and 25 digs. Kelsey Dewulf led the team with 52 assists and Rachel Shores had 32 digs on the day.
Prairie Ridge went 2-3 at the tourney to finish in fifteen place. Charlie Beam led the Wolves (19-14) with 28 kills and five aces and Taylor Otto added 81 assists and 35 digs for the tourney. Olivia Hanley had 50 digs over the five games.
Pecatonica Tournament: At Pecatonica, the Woodstock girls volleyball team went 3-2 at the tourney to finish in third place. The team got wins over Scales Mound, North Boone and West
• Joe Stevenson and Kevin Meyer contributed to this report.


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As Chicago's new CIO and commissioner of the Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology, Brenna Berman aims to keep the city "nimble and innovative."
The city of Chicago has hired a new CIO to replace Brett Goldstein, who announced his departure in May.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel nominated Brenna Berman, who will assume the roles of CIO and commissioner of the Chicago Department of Innovation and Technology (DoIT). Berman has worked for DoIT for more than 10 years, working most recently as acting commissioner for the agency. The skill sets and goals of DoIT have changed in recent years, Berman said, and in her new position, she will continue with those changes as she looks to make Chicago a city that meets the high expectations of its citizens.
"Throughout her career, Brenna has been a champion for leveraging data and technology to ensure that governments provide the best service possible for their residents, and I am proud to nominate her to lead our Department of Innovation and Technology," Emanuel said in a statement. "Under her leadership, we will continue to be a leader in innovation and become an even more data-driven and nimble city, making Chicago a better place live."
"For the past year, the biggest changes have been the transition in the skillset here within DoIT," she said. "We've had a real focus on enhancing our software engineering skills and our data engineering skills. To complement that, we've really blown up the model we have in engaging with external partners so we create an ecosystem where we can partner with whoever makes the most sense for the residents in the city."
Whether it's forming partnerships with academic institutions or small companies with as few as one employee, the city's aim is to find the right solution for each goal, she said, all while staying "nimble and innovative."
As the city's new CIO, Berman will also oversee the continued deployment of the city's spatial analytics platform, WindyGrid. The city's analytics capabilities continue to develop, she said, coming from a basic system two years ago and moving toward "a fully established analytics program that works with every department in the city to drive data-driven decision making."
In March, the city of Chicago was one of five organizations awarded a $1 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to continue development of their analytics platform. For Berman, getting that funding and being able to continue development of the city's analytics capabilities is one of the most exciting things she will get to do for Chicago.
"The smart data platform," she said, "is the open source platform that we're building to crack the challenge of harnessing big data -- billions and billions of rows of big data in a spatial format -- to address problems like how do we target very, very specific locations within the city to target specific public health programs down to small neighborhood levels," she said.
Berman says one of her hopes is that the city's achievements extend beyond Chicago and benefit cities nationwide; it's important for Chicago to share its technology with other big cities that have similar problems and smaller cities that lack the resources to do what they do.
"It's important because the problems we struggle with are problems that other big cities like New York and Houston and Philly have, and they're all investing limited resources, so we form a community," she said. "They'll think of ways to use our tools that we haven't, and we'll be able to build on their experiences, and everyone will benefit from the work we do together -- kind of that team approach at a national level."
Because Chicago residents expect a lot from the administration where technology is concerned, Berman said has a lot to live up to -- and DoIT is guided by the mantra of "do it once, do it right."
"We want to spend the time figuring out the right way to do something up front," she said, "so we only have to do it once for the whole city to make the most of our resources."
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The Grey Album
What do you get when you cross the greatest rock band in history with the greatest hip-hop artist in history? We now know the answer.
Let me explain. Approximately three months ago New York rapper Jay-Z announced his official retirement from hip-hop with the release of The Black Album. The album received critical acclaim as being his best effort, lyrically, to date.
Within weeks of its debut, he also released an a cappella version on vinyl. When Atlanta-raised New York resident DJ Danger Mouse got hold of The Black Album a cappellas, his mission was clear: remix the classic self-titled The Beatles album (also known as The White Album) with Jay-Z's lyrics.
The result? The Grey Album, arguably one of the best albums I've heard in the last year.
The Grey Album is far from a publicity stunt or a half-assed attempt at making something special happen. I have to admit that when I first heard of the project, I was intrigued, but a bit skeptical. Rightfully so– I mean, it's the Beatles and Jay-Z, two artists I have the utmost respect for.
I imagined having Danger Mouse's head on the block as I gave the album my first listen, so if it wasn't up to par I could just give the signal to lower the boom on his scrawny neck. But after a few tracks, I quickly knew that The Grey Album was more than just a great idea.
Every sound on The Grey Album is extracted and manipulated from The White Album. Every kick, every snare, every hi-hat is painstakingly cut, filtered, and reprogrammed into beats mimicking the cadences present on The Black Album.
The samples are obsessively chopped, pitched, and arranged to match or enhance the moods and rhythm of Jay-Z's words and voice.
Even though The Grey Album will probably never be officially released, it has already received rave reviews from Rolling Stone, the Boston Globe, and the Village Voice. So far, the album has been available only through illegal downloadable MP3's. EMI has issued warnings that anyone providing these downloads can be sued for unlawful reproduction.
Fortunately, mirror sites are popping up by the dozens that offer the album in its entirety. These sites can be found easily with a simple Google search. I suggest you go to one today. Don't forget to burn a few copies for your friends. Piracy will never feel so good.
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New York City Kotakuites, take note. The Standard, High Line hotel in Manhattan, previously home to the big PS4 review event, will be the site of Sony's official PS4 launch party in NYC. There will be shenanigans. And actual PS4s—444 of them, in fact.
Sony's just announced that starting at midnight on Friday, people with no pre-orders will be able to pick up a PS4 at the console's official NYC launch event. Sony will also make sure nobody gets bored by hosting an arcade with 30 kiosks where you can play some games. Of course, PS4 games will also be played at the event—by the developers and producers themselves, no less—and projected on walls and "other non-traditional locations" for everyone to see. Plenty of fun for everyone!
NYC: New PS4s on Sale Just For You [PlayStation Blog]
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Inexplicably late to the party, the popular, even cult Western seriocomic series Maverick (1957-62) seemed to take forever to get released to DVD. Warner Home Video issued a piddly three-episode "Best of" set in 2005, but didn't get around to The Complete First Season until just last year. Now comes Maverick - The Complete Second Season, the best and most interesting of the program's extraordinarily bumpy five-years.
I must preface this review by stating up front that James Garner's other hit/cult TV series, The Rockford Files (1974-80, plus later TV movies) remains one of my all-time personal favorites. That series crystalized Garner's unique, irreplaceable charm as well as his usual screen persona, a character whose origins trace directly back to Maverick. Though a very fine actor in other kinds of parts - consider The Americanization of Emily, Grand Prix, Hour of the Gun, Murphy's Romance, the TV-movie Promise, and the excellent miniseries Streets of Loredo, for instance - Garner's genial, glib, cardsharp-con artist with an amusing aversion to violence truly is a thing of beauty. On Maverick and Rockford, and subtly varied in movies like The Great Escape, Support Your Local Sheriff!, the underrated Skin Game and elsewhere, watching Garner at work is like watching Houdini or Muhammad Ali or Oscar Peterson or Fred Astaire work their particular brands of magic. Audiences love that "James Garner character" like no other.
As a series, Maverick is both revolutionary and highly entertaining yet also somewhat less than it might have been because of the insane demands of television production during that time, particularly Warner Bros.' sausage factory-like, corner-cutting methods, all of which eventually caused Garner to leave the series at the height of its popularity.
Maverick - The Complete Second Season presents all 26 second-season episodes uncut and across six DVDs with a total running time of more than 21 hours. The video transfers are just so-so and probably 20 years old at least, judging by their appearance. No extras per se, but the set does include a useful booklet with plot synopses, airdates, etc.
Even working non-stop this proved impossible. Eventually, networks made more reasonable demands, reducing the number of new episodes of hour and 30-minute programs per season. James Garner, as Bret Maverick, the Texas-born cardsharp who'd travel the Old West looking for easy money, was Maverick's lone star at first, but the production schedule proved so utterly grueling that after just eight episodes the radical decision was made to add Jack Kelly to the cast as Bret's younger brother, Bart. For the rest of the first season and all of the second, episodes alternated between Bret and Bart. A Bret-featured episode would usually make some passing reference to Bart and vice versa, though only rarely were both brothers featured prominently in the same episode. Bart was a virtual clone of Bret and their characters interchangeable. Everyone, however, quickly recognized Garner as the far more graceful comic actor and so he almost always got the best and funniest scripts. Jack Kelly - who played a Maverick-like character in the movie Forbidden Planet immediately before this, a role which may have helped win him this part - developed a fan following all his own, but was significantly less popular overall, though it was Kelly, not Garner, who stayed all five seasons. The addition of Kelly angered the show's sponsor, who renegotiated their deal with Warner Bros., and Garner was brought in to introduce the Kelly-only shows.
Maverick - The Complete Second Season is the best of the show's five years. Partly this is because Garner himself wasn't around much longer. He left at the end of the third season and was replaced in season four by Roger Moore as Bret and Bart's English-accented cousin, Beau Maverick. Later still, Robert Colbert (The Time Tunnel) was added to the cast as yet another Maverick brother, Brent. Unhappy with the scripts Moore returned to England and Colbert was unceremoniously dumped after a just a few shows (Warner Bros. didn't bother telling Colbert, however). For Maverick's fifth and final season, the depressing but unique decision was made to alternate new Bart-Jack Kelly episodes with old Bret-James Garner reruns. (It couldn't have boosted Kelly's ego if the reruns fared better in the ratings than the new episodes. I wonder.)
Back in '58-'59 though, Maverick was riding high. The year contains many of the best and most interesting shows, and also features an intriguing array of guest stars, including Roger Moore, who in a pre-Beau episode, appears in "The Rivals." That episode, like a number of Mavericks, freely adapts preexisting material, in this case Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 1775 comedy of manners in which Moore's character assumes Bret's identity, turning it effectively into a Maverick screen test for Moore, though no one knew it at the time.
Similarly, season two's second episode, "The Lonesome Reunion," adapted an old radio episode The Adventures of Philip Marlowe, while other Maverick scripts were, in turn, recycled into other Warner Bros. shows. For instance, prior to playing Beau Maverick, Moore starred on The Alaskans and, at least once, played Bret Maverick's part in a retooled Maverick script. This plus the obvious extensive use of stock footage from Warner Bros.' Westerns for establishing shots and some action sequences at times gives Maverick (and other WB shows from this era) a real cobbled-together feel.
Even so, there are some real gems here. "Shady Deal at Sunny Acres," written by series creator Roy Huggins from Douglas Heyes's story, is probably the most famous Maverick of them all, partly because it teamed Bret and Bart memorably but mainly because it was more or less remade into the first-half of the hugely successful Paul Newman-Robert Redford movie The Sting (1973), so Huggins contended.
Also excellent is "Gun Shy," a hilarious spoof of Gunsmoke with Bret searching for buried Confederate gold in Elwood, Kansas, where he quickly runs afoul of Marshal Mort Dooley (Ben Gage), his game-legged deputy, Clyde Diefendorfer (Walker Edmiston), saloon owner Miss Amy (Kathleen O'Malley) and Doc Stucke (Marshall Kent). From its graveyard prologue to its climatic gunfight (shot low-angle under the Marshal's legs, like Gunsmoke's opening titles), "Gun Shy" is a hoot.
Other Season Two episodes worth noting include "The Saga of Waco Williams," co-starring Wayde Preston and Louise Fletcher, that was Maverick's highest-rated episode; "Duel at Sundown," featuring Clint Eastwood as the heavy; and "Two Beggars on Horseback," a memorable Bret-and-Bart episode.
Garner stars in 16 of the season's 26 episodes while Kelly stars in 15, four of which also co-star Garner. Other notable guest stars include John Russell, Richard Long, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Martin Landau, Dan Blocker, John Dehner, Leo Gordon, Patricia Barry, Robert Conrad, Connie Stevens, and Adam West.
Video & Audio
In its original full-frame, 1.37:1 format Maverick looks just okay, not great. Episodes appeared to be derived from old video masters, from their appearance I'd guess from about 20 years ago. They're certainly watchable, just far below their full potential, which is especially obvious on larger monitors. But the episodes appear to be complete, unedited and unaltered, most running over 52 minutes. The season is spread across six single-sided DVDs, with four to five episodes per dual-layered disc. The region 1-encoded DVDs feature Dolby Digital mono audio, English only with optional English SDH subtitles.
Extra Features.
No supplements to speak of, but the set does include a booklet with episode titles, writer and director credits, airdates and a brief plot summary for each episode.
Parting Thoughts
A seminal television Western at its peak, Maverick - The Complete Second Season, despite less than perfect video transfers, is still Highly Recommended.
Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian whose work includes film history books, DVD and Blu-ray audio commentaries and special features. Visit Stuart's Cine Blogarama here.


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Last week, CNN's "anonymous sources" finally came home to roost when the entertainment channel was forced to retract one of its "bombshell" Russian collusion stories, when it was apparently revealed that the whole thing was nothing more than CNN's latest, anonymously-sourced fake news debacle. Like most CNN stories on the topic, this one carried a salacious title ("Congress was investigating a Russian investment fund with ties to Trump officials") which implied some nefarious plot by the Trump administration to stage a coup in the United States. Within 36 hours, however, CNN was forced to retract the story and issue an apology to Anthony Scaramucci (presumably for the whole libel thing).
Then overnight, we reported that "the most trusted name in news" announced on Monday afternoon that three network officials are leaving their jobs over the incident: Frank, the reporter on the story; Eric Lichtblau, a recent CNN addition from the New York Times who edited the piece; and Lex Haris, the executive editor of "CNN Investigates." The moves follow an investigation carried out by CNN executives over the weekend, with the conclusion that longstanding network procedures for publishing stories weren't properly followed. "There was a significant breakdown in process," says a CNN source. "There were editorial checks and balances within the organization that weren't met."
The official CNN statement: "In the aftermath of the retraction of a story published on CNN.com, CNN has accepted the resignations of the employees involved in the story's publication."
Regarding the personnel changes, a CNN source said, "The individuals all stated that they accepted responsibility and wanted to resign." A compelling wrinkle in the saga of the story springs from the careful language in the editor's note: "That story did not meet CNN's editorial standards and has been retracted. Links to the story have been disabled. CNN apologizes to Mr. Scaramucci," it reads. CNN is not bailing on all the factual representations in the story, however. "We pulled it down not because we disproved it," says a CNN source, adding that there was "enough concern" on some factual points that "given the breach in process, we decided to pull it down."
This was not the first time CNN has been caught reporting fake news recently (see "Looks Like CNN's Anonymous Sources Got This One Wrong") and we doubt it will be the last.
Meanwhile, one person was particularly amused and happy by the ongoing CNN credibility slow motion trainwreck: none other than Donald Trump, who just after 6am took to twitter to gloat and share his delight in CNN's humiliation: "CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!""
Wow, CNN had to retract big story on "Russia," with 3 employees forced to resign. What about all the other phony stories they do? FAKE NEWS!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 27, 2017
... and followed it up by retweeting what many believes is a far better logo.
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