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Genomic Health Announces Results from Two Studies Demonstrating Innovations in Next Generation Sequencing From Paraffin Tissue, Enhancing Understanding of Tumor Biology
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) today announced the results of two studies demonstrating that DNA strand-of-origin information can help further refine the identification of prognostic biomarkers, and that tumor specific gene mutations can be effectively examined using archival fixed paraffin embedded tumor (FPET) tissue, enabling an improved and more practical process of tumor analysis. These new findings were presented at the 14th Annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting in Marco Island, Fla.
"Our continued research efforts demonstrate the biological and technical capabilities of our advanced next generation sequencing (NGS) methods for biomarker discovery and validation," said Steven Shak, M.D., chief medical officer and executive vice president for research and development at Genomic Health. "These findings will accelerate the development of future tests based on our ongoing clinical research that combines both whole transcriptome profiling and mutation analysis."
Novel Next Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatics Methods Enhance Biomarker Discovery
- Building on study results published in PLoS One — where Genomic Health scientists carried out whole transcriptome RNA-Seq on FPET RNA from a cohort of 136 breast cancer patients — this analysis evaluated the impact of DNA strand-of-origin information on the identification of prognostic biomarkers.
During DNA transcription, only one of the two double-stranded DNA molecules is used as a template for an RNA transcript and protein production. Analytic approaches that do not consider the strand-of-origin of RNA sequencing data can be limited in their accuracy in assigning reads to human genes. Therefore, to perform this study, Genomic Health scientists developed a proprietary NGS and bioinformatics approach to produce a more definite specification of the strand-of-origin of the RNA transcript. The application of this method enabled more precise detection of expressed genes that were significantly associated with breast cancer recurrence, and permitted the identification of 228 additional candidate genes associated recurrence risk in breast cancer.
Enabling Detection of Tumor Specific Mutations Using FPET to Improve Precision of Cancer Diagnosis
- Reliable differentiation between inherited variations in DNA (germline mutations) and tumor specific variations in DNA (somatic mutations) plays a key role in determining the accuracy and precision of cancer genome sequencing. However, optimally, determination of germline mutations requires the presence of the blood samples in addition to the FPET specimen. This new study showed that by utilizing Genomic Health's proprietary NGS methods to analyze archival FPET specimens, the company can now reliably detect germline variants and tumor specific mutations when the patient's blood sample is not available.
As part of this study, 190 frequently mutated cancer genes were sequenced using the Illumina HiSeq™ 2000 System from FPET blocks, analyzing both the patient's tumor tissue and adjacent non-tumor tissue. Similar sequence analysis was performed on patient-matched blood samples. Readily-available adjacent non-tumor tissue in the FPET specimen was a sufficient alternate source of germline variants to enable the accurate detection of cancer-specific somatic mutations in the tumor.
"Individual patients have an abundance of unique somatic mutations which underscores the heterogeneity of cancer and the importance of gaining better understanding of individual tumor biology for more accurate diagnosis," said Samuel Levy, Ph.D., Genomic Health's chief scientific officer. "By applying this technique to work with patients' archival FPET tissue to identify and account for germline variants, we can learn more from the FPET tumor tissue saved from landmark clinical studies when matched blood samples are not available."
About Genomic Health
Genomic Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: GHDX) is a global healthcare company that provides actionable genomic information to personalize cancer treatment decisions. The company's lead product, the Oncotype DX® breast cancer test, has been shown to predict the likelihood of chemotherapy benefit as well as recurrence in invasive breast cancer and has been shown to predict the likelihood of recurrence in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). In addition to this widely adopted test, Genomic Health provides the Oncotype DX colon cancer test, the first multi-gene expression test developed for the assessment of risk of recurrence in patients with stage II and stage III disease. As of December 31, 2012, more than 10,000 physicians in over 65 countries had ordered approximately 335,000 Oncotype DX tests. Genomic Health has a robust pipeline focused on developing tests to optimize the treatment of prostate and renal cell cancers, as well as additional treatment decisions in breast and colon cancers. The company is based in Redwood City, California with European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. For more information, please visit, www.GenomicHealth.com. To learn more about Oncotype DX tests, visit: www.OncotypeDX.com and www.mybreastcancertreatment.org.
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to our ability to generate similar results in further studies, the clinical utility of our next generation sequencing capabilities; our ability to develop whole transcriptome and/or genome expression analysis for routine clinical study; the belief that whole genome expression may accelerate clinical or biomarker discovery; our ability to develop, validate or commercialize advanced diagnostics based upon such genome expression data; the timing of such studies and results; the company's ability to accelerate its research and development efforts to move whole genome expression technology into clinical studies and; the company's ability to obtain intellectual property protection for such discoveries. Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the risks and uncertainties associated with the regulation of our tests; the applicability of clinical study results to actual outcomes; the risks and potential delays associated with such studies; and the other risks set forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the risks set forth in the company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof. Genomic Health disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements
NOTE: The Genomic Health logo, Oncotype, Oncotype DX, Recurrence Score, and DCIS Score are trademarks or registered trademarks of Genomic Health, Inc. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners.


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Moneghetti embraces 'bigger and better' Federation University
An ambassador for the new Federation University Australia says regional students will benefit from the new institution.
The University of Ballarat has taken over the Monash Gippsland campus and changed its name to create the new regionally-focused university.
It was officially launched in Melbourne yesterday.
Former University of Ballarat student and Olympian Steve Moneghetti says the new institution will help provide better support to regional students.
"I think there's just extra challenges ... lots of people will want to come to the big cities so in regional areas you've got to provide extra services sometimes," he said.
"The community and the housing situation's a little bit different so I think we really need to make an extra effort to support regional universities for that reason."
Mr Moneghetti says the new institution will provide better opportunities for regional education.
"Some people hang onto tradition or some people can move on and say bigger and better for universities to be able to take this step," he said.
"It certainly will be better for Ballarat Uni to become Federation University."
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text: Have you tried measuring the AC power with a Kill-A-Watt type device (or from your power distribution unit).. That's a lot easier than trying to measure the DC power going to the processor, and might tell you something useful, diagnostics wise. If the offending unit shows a different AC power consumption before hiccupping, for instance. Jim Lux -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Bill Wichser Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 9:20 AM To: Mark Hahn Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Problems with Dell M620 and CPU power throttling On 08/30/2013 12:00 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> Of course we have done system tuning. > > sorry for the unintentional condescenscion - what I actually meant was > "tuning of knobs located in /sys" :) > >> Instrumenting temperature probes on individual CPUs has not been >> performed. When we look at temperatures from both the chassis and >> ipmitool, we see no drastic peaks. Maybe we are getting a 60C peak >> that we don't detect and that is the cause. But I doubt it. > > could you try "modprobe coretemp", and see whether interesting things > appear under: > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/thermal_throttle/core_throttle_count > > afaik, reading the coretemp*/temp*_input values would let you do > higher-resolution monitoring to see whether you're getting spikes. We have these already loaded and see values: [root at r2c3n4 thermal_throttle]# ls core_power_limit_count core_throttle_count package_power_limit_count package_throttle_count [root at r2c3n4 thermal_throttle]# cat * 18781048 0 18781097 0 This was what led us to how the chassis was limiting power. We had been using redundancy and switched to non-redundant to try and eliminate. We believe that we see these messages when the CPU is throttling up in power. From the google oracle, these messages are benign. Perhaps that isn't so... > >> power consumption is around 80W. That tells me that the system is >> cool enough. Should I not believe those values? i have no reason to >> from past experience. > > I'm not casting aspersions, just that chassis temps don't tell the > whole story. is your exact model of CPU actually rated for higher power? > we've got some ProLiant SL230s Gen8 with E5-2680's - rated for 130, > and don't seem to be throttling. These are E5-2670 0 @ 2.60GHz. Two per node. > >> Input air is about 22C. For our data center, you'd have a better >> chance of getting this adjusted to 15C than I would! As for fans, >> these don't have > > yes, well, it is nice to have one's own datacenter ;) but seriously, I > find it sometimes makes a difference to open front and back doors of > the rack (if any), do some manual sampling of air flow and > temperatures (wave hand around)... > >> For heat sink thermal grease problems, I'd expect this to be visible >> using the ipmitools but maybe that is not where the temperatures are >> being measured. I don't know about that issue. I'd expect that a >> bad thermal grease issue would manifest itself by showing up on a per >> socket level and not on both sockets. It seems odd that every node >> exhibiting this problem would have both sockets having the same issue. > > well, if both sockets have poor thermal contact with heatsinks... > I'm not trying to FUD up any particular vendor(s), but mistakes do happen. > I was imagining, for instance, that an assembly line might be set up > with HS and thermal compound tuned for E5-2637 systems (80W/socket), > but was pressed into service for some E5-2690 nodes (135W). I'd expect to see the bad nodes be bad nodes consistently. They have been mostly moving targets at this point, randomly distributed. > >> Again, the magnitude of the problem is about 5-10% at any time. >> Given >> 600 > > if I understand you, the prevalence is only 5-10%, but the magnitude > (effect) > is much larger, right? Right. We have many jobs which use 32 nodes or more. Anytime a node goes bad, the whole job starts to crawl along thus tying up resources for days instead of hours. Bill > > regards, mark. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Forums : MFLS Central Forum Thread : ADPR
[thread started by Arrows SC on Tue 3/10 9:18 ET]
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from Arrows SC
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For those managers new to MFLS, ADPR is the Alpine Division Power Rating. It was created by former MFLS manager Alpine Dream to measure the strength of each division. The formula may be found on the home page, which is still up:
My week one fantasy results yield the following:
Division | ADPR
All American Premier League 25
Bobo Liga 18
Brew City FA 18
USA vs World 17
Division of Great Significance 12
The prediction results are:
Division | ADPR
La Armada Invencible 22
U S National Team 19
All American Premier League 19
Brew City FA 14
USA vs World 14
I haven't done a lot of validation on the divisions so this may not be one hundred percent correct. I'll continue to go through it this week and try to get a graphic up as I did last year.
Last year, Brew City FA took top honors in both fantasy and prediction.
from Arrows SC
on Tue 4/14 7:57 ET
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I've posted on the Brew City web site two graphs showing the ADPR results over time for the first six weeks of this season.
from Seattle SC
on Tue 4/14 15:52 ET
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Thanks, Dan. from Castle Hill Comets
on Wed 4/15 19:45 ET
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BCFA is the fireball throwing closer of MFLS. Starter, not so
much ...
from Mohawks
on Sun 5/10 10:07 ET
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Is this the year for UvW? I'm in 7th there despite being 17th
overall. I would be in 4th in both Brew City and AAPL.
Hopefully UvW can keep it up!
from Stormin Union
on Sun 5/10 17:45 ET
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I'll do my part Todd, starting to get in the higher weekly
rankings lately
from Arrows SC
on Sun 5/10 21:25 ET
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I'll update the ADPR numbers this week and share them with the group. I update them every week for the weekly Brew City results post.
from giggitty
on Sun 5/10 22:49 ET
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ADPR by its' very acronym is of a different time and a different place. At that time there were easily over a thousand managers competing, closer to two thousand. Points were awarded to a division if they had a manger in the top 100.
Great idea, great thread, great banter, great formula when mfls carried aforementioned number of teams.
As this is being posted mfls is at 440 managers.
Division shouldn't get any recognition just because you have a manager in the top 25 percent. That means absolutely nothing today. Factor in your ghost teams etcetera one could argue the active managers are likely around 300.
Want a real power rating per division? With all due respect to Alpine will post this thread under DPR. Like I wrote the ADPR was from a different time.
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Here are updated ADPR graphs for both fantasy and prediction points through week ten. The top eight teams are listed in terms of their combined scores. I�ve synchronized the colors of the division between the graphs.
Giggity makes a good case for updating Alpine Dream�s model. We have only about one tenth of the teams that we had when the power rating was first established. The APDR look at teams that are ranked in the top one hundred and assigns points accordingly.
The argument is that given the reduction in teams, that we should only consider teams in the top twenty-five. While acknowledging the validity of that measurement, I believe the ADPR formula remains a better measurement for two reasons: (1) Limiting the teams to only the top twenty-five makes the division rating rather shallow. A division need have only a small number of strong teams to receive a high score. The spirit of the measurement looks at a much broader number of teams in the division to judge its strength. (2) While the number of teams in MFLS is much less than in years past, the number of active managers and active division has really not changed that much. The loss of the SBI division was significant, but otherwise I don�t feel that the number of actively participating managers is that much different, especially among those teams in the well-established divisions. (I would love to do a study of zombie teams one day.) For those reasons I feel the division strength should be measured beyond the top twenty-five.
The bottom line is that both measurements are valid, just different.
from Mohawks
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Thanks,Dan. Tight battle at the top. UvW fell a little just this
last week
from Stormin Union
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I agree Dan, both measurements are valid and both give
different perspectives and overall "big picture" gained from
looking at the combination of the top 25 as well as those in the
top 100 (who hope to make it into the top 25 in the near
from Arrows SC
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I've updated the ADPR standings through week 20. I've also made it a permanent page in the Brew City FA web site.
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Updated through week 21:
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NASCAR Embraces Rucker as He Goes Country
Darius Rucker has made the successful transition from rock star to country music star. Rucker, who performed a concert and the national anthem before the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, answers this week's six questions.
1. How many times have you performed at NASCAR events now?
Rucker: By myself with the country thing, this is the fourth event I've done with NASCAR. It's just so easy. You've really got to hand it to NASCAR. The crowd is just built-in; it's like my constituency. You can come play for 45 minutes and either stay to watch the race or go home, and you know the fans and the folks from NASCAR are going to treat you well.
I'm still shocked by how well this country thing has gone for me. I was going to do this in my basement with my buddies. ... I didn't expect this. I expected to make my [country] record and be forgotten.
2. Did you go to any NASCAR races before performing at them?
Rucker: Oh, sure. I've been to Darlington a couple times back before I got famous. I had to pay to sit all the way up in the nose-bleed seats. I love NASCAR.
Michael Waltrip and I got to be good buddies about 15 years ago, and now Jimmie [Johnson] and I have become good friends. Now I'm always pulling for a number and also pulling for a good friend, and that's pretty cool.
3. How did you become friends with Jimmie?
Rucker: He came to Charleston and wanted to play golf with some buddies, who called me up. We started hanging out together, and it was fun. He's a great guy.
4. And you performed at one of his Jimmie Jams, too, right?
Rucker: I did. I try to do that for friends who have charity foundations like he does. It's so easy for me to pull my crew in and do a show to help raise funds for good causes like that, so it's something I like to try to do for friends.
5. You're in the middle of being on the road for basically a month straight. What does that do to your golf game?
Rucker: It's good. I've got more time to play. I definitely win when I play Jimmie. He's getting better, but I definitely can handle playing him.
I play five days a week, and my handicap is about a 7. I wish I could play every day. And Jimmie? Uh, he's probably a 12 or a 13, but he's getting it. But he hasn't been playing as long as I have. Those boys he plays with are out there having a good time. They really know how to do that. We just have a blast. They're all really cool dudes.
6. What's it like going solo in country after playing in the successful rock band Hootie and the Blowfish?
Rucker (laughing): Not having to split the check up is a real good thing. It's cool being able to make all the decisions. Hootie and the Blowfish is a band, and the four of us always vote -- so if you vote one way and the other three vote the other way, you're out of luck. So it's pretty cool being able to make all the decisions yourself.
But, oh yeah, Hootie and the Blowfish will play again. We've been talking about it. It's not going to be next year because I have a [country music] record coming out and I'm going to go on a record tour. But we'll get together at some point to go out and play together again.


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It's 6pm. It's Friday and that can only mean one thing. Yep, that's right - it's peanut butter jelly time. But before that it's time for the final App of The Day for this week.....
Lets face it. Wikipedia is old news, however you want to repackage it and Geometry, even in game form is pretty dull. Photos on the other hand, well, photos are cool. So for today's App of the Day, we're going to focus on a new photo based app that has just popped up in the App Store.
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iStockphoto is the brand spanking new app offering from the Getty Images owned micropayment website of the same name.
The service provides royalty free stock photography as well as illustrations, audio files and videos. It's member generated and if you sign up to the service you can sell your files as well as buying stuff too.
The iPhone app brings the images and audio to your handset and lets you find exactly what you're looking for, from wherever you are.
You can also view data about the file that you are interested in such as who uploaded the file and when and how many times it has been viewed or downloaded.
Obviously, the app syncs with your desktop account so you can view or edit files in your 'lightbox', email them to your contacts, and you can also view your account details and see how much money you've made (or spent - not so good).
It's a free app, and if you're already an iStockphoto user then you'd be silly not to download it. If you're not on iStockphoto yet, you can still search and browse images (with an iStockphoto watermark) so if you're interested in photography then give it a go.


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There are some pretty famous sporting fraternities out there. The Lampards, the Mannings and the Charltons are just a few that spring to mind.
Now it seems however that there is a new family on the metaphorical block, the Messi's.
There's barely a person on earth who hasn't heard about what dear old Lionel has been up to in recent years, winning four Ballon d'Ors, helping Barcelona win the Champions League three times and generally being one of the greatest players that has ever lived.
Well move over Lionel, because your 28-year-old cousin Maxi Biancucchi, whose nickname is, rather obviously El primo de Messi or Messi's cousin, has outdone all that by scoring a really, really good goal.
Emanuel BiancucchiIndependiente,Playing for Brazilian outfit Vitoria, Biancucchi, whose brother and another of Messi's cousins plays for pounces on a loose ball and lofts his shot sublimely into the back of the net in a convincing 5-1 win over Bahia.
Now all we need is little Thiago to slam home a volley in the back garden and we will have a proper dynasty on our hands. I wonder if Cristiano Ronaldo has an uncle who is still playing.....
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Investing in hurricanes and floods is a tricky subject, and in my experience don't usually pan out. But the size of this storm make a couple plays a little more feasible.
Think of companies that provide material for industries that will be needed for the rebuilding effort:
1) Roofing repair and waterproofing. I mentioned Friday that Beacon Roofing Supply and Owens Corning had been mentioned by traders. We have the possibility of very significant damage across a wide area, and relatively constrained capacity that could bring the price for roof repairs up significantly.
(Read more: Hurricane Sandy: Lots of Talk, Not Stock Trading)
2) Utility services. Hubbell manufacturers the hardware that is used on the pole lines maintained by utilities.
3) Rental cars. There may be damage to a lot of cars from downed trees and flooding, which could increase car rentals that would be covered under insurance policies. Hertz is the obvious player.
4) Insurance claim services. Crawford provides claim services to the major insurers. Hurricanes produce a concentrated mass of claims which should benefit them.
5) Generators. Generac Holding makes power generators and recently preannounced very strong results on heavy demand for portable and home standby generators. Last year sales were up significantly in the second half of the year on Hurricane Irene and Midwest floods. In front of storms and floods, the company typically sees an increase in sales of its portable generators, but then later also sees increased sales of its flagship product, the home standby generator.
(Read more: Here's Why Sandy Is Such a Monster Storm)
Quick points about the two "obvious" sectors — retail and insurance:
1) Retail. The Home Depot and Lowe's. One important point: HD's quarter has just ended on Sunday. Lowe's quarter does not end until this Friday, so Lowe's may have a more important impact.
2) Insurance companies. Significant exposure for Chubb, Travelers, Allstate, AIG and Tower Group . Not surprisingly, these stocks have been under some pressure last week, and likely will be until the size of the losses are known.
But remember, it's not necessarily the size of the losses that is the main issue; it's how much they can raise rates immediately after. Insurance stocks dropped only briefly during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but quickly recovered. Put differently, the issue is, will the losses be big enough for the insurance companies to aggressively raise rates?
(Read more: The Destruction — and Benefits — in Sandy's Wake)
We still don't know. Historically, Category I hurricanes are not major insurance events; however, this is not a typical Category 1 storm.
Two companies to keep an eye on: Caesars's Entertainment, which owns four casinos in Atlantic City, three of them on the boardwalk (Caesar's, Bally's and the Showboat), and Boyd Gaming, which owns half of the Borgata in the Marina section. The Borgata is about 14% of Boyd's EBITDA, according to Merrill Lynch. The casinos in Atlantic City are about 12 percent of Caesar's EBIDTA.
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On the eve of Oscar Grant triggerman Johannes Mehserle's trial in LA, the first time a Cali cop has ever been tried for an on-duty murder, Rebel Diaz from NYC and Oakland's own Beeda Weeda are headlining 'The Black and Brown Get Down for Oscar Grant' benefit concert Wednesday, June 9, 9 p.m., at the Rockit Room. Meet Rod Starz of Rebel Diaz, some powerful allies, musically and politically! Pre-sale tickets – $15 at http://beedaweedarebeldiazsf.eventbrite.com/ – are going fast.


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For residents looking for a wide selection of shopping opportunities, Orlando's infinite assortment of malls, outlets and shopping centers is enough to satisfy the most discerning buyer. From name brand outlet stores to designer label boutiques, shoppers are sure to find what they are looking for in and around the area.
The Mall at Millenia offers upscale shopping with designer label stores and popular eateries. Shoppers looking for outlet stores and bargain prices may find what they want at Orlando Premium Outlets or Prime Outlets. For those that want a more traditional shopping experience with an Orlando twist, try the shops and entertainment at Festival Bay Mall. With 1.9 million sq. ft. of shopping encompassing 260 shops and 30 restaurants, shop-a-holics will find that the Florida Mall is not your average mall.


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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Barry University women's basketball team beat Palm Beach Atlantic, 63-57, Wednesday, to snap a three-game skid. Barry improved to 12-9.
The Buccaneers will return home for the next three games, beginning with Saturday's 2 p.m. tip-off against Sunshine State Conference foe Eckerd in the Health & Sports Center.
"This was a big win for us," Barry senior guard Colette Eule said after scoring in double figures for the second straight game since sitting out the Florida Southern overtime loss. "It was a messy game, but we had people come together in the end and step up, and we got it done."
Eule, who finished with 16 points, hit a 3-pointer, and Kaylia Richardson and Ines Kerin scored – all within a 1:18 span as the Buccaneers built a 44-29 lead with a little over 15:00 to play. Tyler Hardy's lay-in on a pretty find from Kerin kept the Buccaneers up by 15 less than two minutes later.
PBA's Kristie Mason scored to pull the Sailfish within nine, Eule buried her fourth triple of the game to push the Bucs' lead back to 12. Palm Beach Atlantic's Kimmie McIntosh went coast-to-coast for a layup to cut it to seven, but Hardy raced down on the ensuing possession and responded with a bucket of her own.
Richardson scored on a driving off-glass burst to the basket to put Barry up, 60-49, but PBA's Kasie Parker hit a free throw as part of an 8-0 run with 42 seconds left to trim the Bucs' lead to three. Barry's Nyjah Porcher sank three of four free throws inside the final 24.8 seconds to seal it for the Bucs.
Hardy finished with 17 points, 11 rebounds and three steals, recording her seventh double-double of the season. Porcher had nine points and seven boards, and Kerin five assists, five rebounds as the Buccaneers shot 52 percent from the floor.
"Hopefully we build off this and play a little neater towards the end of the game," Eule said.
Barry took an 18-11 lead on Eule's 3-pointer with 9:48 remaining in the first half. The Sailfish cut it to three on Jaz Green's basket at the 5:00 mark. But the Bucs went on a 10-0 run, touched off by Porcher's layup inside a minute to give Barry a 13-point lead.
The Buccaneers led 32-23 at the half.
TIP-INS: Barry's Senior Day on Feb. 22 versus Rollins will culminate the three-game homestand. Barry University will hold a special Make-A-Wish Foundation event following the women's game on Feb. 22. Barry is an active participant in the NCAA Division II fundraising initiative to grant wishes to area kids with severe medical issues. To donate to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and Barry University's cause, call 305-899-4823.
HARDY, Tyler 7-12 3-6 17; EULE, Colette 6-12 0-1 16; PORCHER, Nyjah 3-5 3-4
9; RICHARDSON, Kaylia 4-5 0-0 8; SCHAHCZINSKI, Emily 1-1 3-4 5; JENKINS,
Alesha 1-2 2-2 4; KERIN, Ines 2-7 0-0 4; PISCONERI, Danika 0-2 0-0 0;
RICHARDSON, Lynae 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 24-46 11-17 63.
GREEN, Jaz 8-20 3-3 21; MASON, Kristie 6-10 1-2 14; PARKER, Kasie 4-17 4-6
12; MCINTOSH, Kimmie 2-9 0-0 4; BUCHANAN, Taylor 1-3 0-0 2; GIBBS, Alecha
1-5 0-0 2; MEERBEEK, Becki 1-3 0-0 2; HOLMES, Ayanna 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 23-70
8-11 57.
Barry University.............. 32 31 - 63
Palm Beach Atl................ 23 34 - 57
3-point goals--Barry University 4-9 (EULE, Colette 4-6; KERIN, Ines 0-3),
Palm Beach Atl. 3-18 (GREEN, Jaz 2-5; MASON, Kristie 1-5; MCINTOSH, Kimmie
0-1; BUCHANAN, Taylor 0-1; PARKER, Kasie 0-6). Fouled out--Barry
University-None, Palm Beach Atl.-GREEN, Jaz. Rebounds--Barry University 39
(HARDY, Tyler 11), Palm Beach Atl. 37 (GREEN, Jaz 10). Assists--Barry
University 12 (KERIN, Ines 5), Palm Beach Atl. 12 (MCINTOSH, Kimmie 6).
Total fouls--Barry University 13, Palm Beach Atl. 19. Technical fouls--Barry
University-None, Palm Beach Atl.-None. A-561


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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Volume IV. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton.
Robert Burton, John Barclay and John Owen
§ 1. Robert Burton.
IT has been rightly observed that the first half of the seventeenth century may be reckoned eminently the learned age, and the authors who form the subject of the present chapter carry, each in his own way, this mark of the period. Two of these, the epigrammatist Owen and Barclay the writer of satire and romance, delivered themselves in Latin, one producing the best known body of Latin epigrams since Martial, the other the most famous work in Latin prose fiction since Apuleius. From Burton, we have his own confession that it was not his original intention to prostitute his muse in English, but, could a printer have been found, to publish his huge medical and moral treatise in Latin. Yet, while the frame of the book is in his native English, Latin is never far away. We find it in phrases interwoven with the text, in formal citation on page or margent, visible through the paraphrase of the sources from which he drew. Composition in Latin, at a time when that language was still international, was, in itself, no special sign of learning, but Barclay and Owen give proof of wide and apt knowledge, and possess an individual style and flavour. In their day, they are remarkable instances of men of real literary inspiration, who chose to speak in a past tongue. For width of reading, rather than precise scholarship, Burton may count among the most learned of English men of letters. The study of all three was Man. To a modern mind, the way in which tradition and direct experience often lie side by side unblended in seventeenth century literature is strange. An eager interest in human character and activity consorted with something that is hard to distinguish from pedantry. But the impulse of the classics was then stronger if less delicate, and the relation between life and books has been variously apprehended at various epochs.
The three differ in their lives, literary performance and subsequent fate. Owen, a Welshman, educated at Winchester and Oxford, showed, while devoid of the higher qualities of a poet, a surprising readiness and dexterity in sallies of verbal wit. Barclay, courtier and cosmopolitan, born in Lorraine of a Scottish father, spending his manhood in London and Rome, after writing a satirical fiction in his youth, combined, later, in a romance of elevated and serious tone, imaginative power with an acute judgment in the treatment of political questions. Burton the Englishman, an Oxford resident and priest in the Anglican church, by profession a divine, by inclination a physician, devoted his large leisure to the elaboration of a work which, while technical in its immediate aim, became, because of its authors vast reading, a storehouse of multifarious learning; because of his disposition, a book of satirical though kindly humour; and, because of the subject itself, a panorama and criticism of human life.
The success achieved by each was remarkable. Owens first volume was reprinted within the month. Six editions of Burtons voluminous treatise appeared within thirty years. Barclays chief work, which was posthumous, was reissued on an average once a year during the half century that followed the authors death. The sphere and period of their popularity were not the same. Owen and Barclay, composing in Latin, quickly attained a continental reputation, and were translated into the principal languages of Europe; Burton, writing in English, was practically unknown across the Channel. The fame of all suffered eclipse, at one time, through changes of literary fashion. Owen, though his production is less bulky and his merit more on the surface, is still strangely neglected. Barclay, since 1674, has been the subject of many learned monographs.
The Anatomy of Melancholy,
revived by men of genius in the early years of the nineteenth century, the haunt of the literary, rather than the province of professed students, alone continues to be reprinted. It is Burton, beyond doubt, who, of the three, has best preserved his vitality.
Robert Burton is often spoken of as though his personality were quite exceptional, his book an unparalleled piece of eccentricity. But much which might seem peculiar to him is, in reality, shared with other writers of his time. It is no paradox to assert that Burton is representative of the nation and period to which he belongs. He was of English ancestry in the fullest sense, a native of that midland district which has given us his great contemporary, Shakespeare. His family had been settled there for many generations, and an ancestor in the fifth degree had borne king Henry VIs standard in France. Burtons own career was normal and uneventful. He was a permanent resident in Oxford at a time when the number of students at our English universities bore a higher proportion to the population of the country than at any subsequent period.
In his large interest in life, his humorous, halfironical sympathy with his fellow men and his shrewd commonsense, he was a typical Englishman; English, also, in his tendency to overflow the channels of his thought, in his want of that delicate sense of measure more commonly associated with the Latin races.
Before entering Oxford, Burton had acquired the usual grammar school training of his day, which did not include a belief in a rigid canon of Latin authors. While ability to read and write Latin was a chief aim of school education, the classics were regarded as sources of wisdom and not merely as models of literary form, and writers of the renascence were even admitted to a place beside those of the Roman republic and empire.
As a student of Christ Church and keeper of his college library, enjoying, too, the advantages of the newly founded Bodleian, Burton had ample opportunity for study. He held some small ecclesiastical preferments, and there are indications that he would have been glad to obtain more substantial promotion. Anecdotes about him must be received with caution. His book became so much better known than himself that there was probably a tendency to draw inferences from his work to his person, and to emphasise such details of his life as seemed most in keeping with his character as an author. The whisper of suicide which Anthony à Wood mentions was, presumably, based on the last lines of the Abstract of Melancholy prefixed to the third and later editions of
The Anatomy,
or on a phrase on his monument in Christ Church. Burton, who was by profession a divine, declared that he might, had he chosen, have published sermons, but he had ever been desirous to suppress his labours in this kind. The nature of his sermons may fairly be inferred from the section on Religious Melancholy. His extant minor works consist of his academic Latin play
and occasional Latin verseelegies, epithalamia and the likescattered through university collections. His Latin comedy, the theme of which is the trickery and exposure of pretenders to learning in a Spanish university, the arch-villain being a Jesuit, is ingenious and diverting and of special interest as containing, in many places, thoughts and expressions that can be paralleled in
The Anatomy.
The lyrics, few but effective, are in rime. The metre of the dialogue, even after allowance has been made for inevitable ignorance of Plautine and Terentian prosody, is rough.
Note 1
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Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College,
vol. 1, pp. xx, xxi.
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HP Envy Sleekbook hands-on - design and build
The Envy is available in two sizes – 14in and 15.6in. Underneath, it's finished in a rather fetching red, while on top both versions sport a sexy brushed-aluminium lid, which looks particularly good on the black model seen here. That finish continues onto the keyboard surround, framing the chiclet keyboard (which features optional backlighting) and a multitouch trackpad.
That trackpad features a spun finish that proved nearly impossible to capture on camera, but looks pretty cool in the flesh. We got our hands on the larger 15.6in Envy, which, at a quoted 1.81kg, is a little heftier than the 14in Envy's starting weight of 1.7kg. At 19.8mm thick, it's still reasonably svelte.
HP Envy Sleekbook hands-on - Beats Audio
Like the HP Spectre XT, the Envy sports that tell-tale little red logo that means you're getting a bass-heavy dose of Beats Audio. In the Envy's case, that means dual speakers and a subwoofer for some extra grunt. A brief clip of some audio sounded pretty good for a laptop, though it's hard to judge accurately in the noisy environs of a conference centre, surrounded by baying tech journos.
HP Envy Sleekbook hands-on - specs
Variety is the spice of life – and the Envy is very spicy indeed, coming in Intel Ultrabook and AMD Sleekbook flavours. The 15.6in Sleekbook model we saw packed in AMD's second generation Mainstream APU - and while the exact specs are under wraps for the time being, we'll be giving it a full review in due course to see how it stacks up against its Intel rival. HP claims a battery life of nine hours for the AMD model versus eight hours for the Intel Ultrabook version.
It comes with 4GB RAM as standard, though the model we handled packed in a whopping 8GB. It was also spinning a 500GB HDD, though the Envy Sleekbook is available in different configurations starting at 320GB.
Round the side, the Envy Sleekbook sports two USB 3.0 ports, along with a single USB 2.0 port, a gigabit ethernet port and SD card slot and HDMI port – all fairly standard stuff.
Like the Spectre XT, the Envy Sleekbook's screen clocks in at a resolution of 1366x768, though it comes in 14in and 15in flavours. Sitting pretty above it is a TrueVision HD webcam, to ensure that your every wrinkle and blemish is rendered in high definition on Skype.
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|The latest news from the World of Government Contracting.
In March 2009, Nick Sanders' article "Surviving Government Audits: Have the Rules of Engagement Changed?" was published in Government Contract Costs, Pricing & Accounting Reports (4 No. 2 GCCPAR P. 11). Apogee Consulting, Inc. is proud to announce that Mr. Sanders' article was selected for reprint and publication in Thomson West's The New Landscape of Government Contracting. Mr. Sanders, Apogee Consulting's Principal Consultant, joins such distinguished contributors as Professors Steven Schooner and Christopher Yukins, Luis Victorino and John Chierachella, Joseph West and Karen Manos, Joseph Barsalona and Philip Koos and Richard Meene, and several others. The text covers a lot of ground, ranging from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to Business Ethics and Corporate Compliance, and includes several articles on the False Claim Act and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In addition, the text includes the full text of many statutory and regulatory matters affecting Government contract compliance.
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text: Ok, here is the scenario....We live in Fort Worth, TX where we experience some temperature extremes. Our home is 3900 sq. ft., two story, built in '99. We currently have two Carrier units...one for downstairs, one for upstairs. We are ready to upgrade to more efficient units and need some input as to what manufacturers we need to consider. I have found, reading various threads, that the install is of utmost importance, but for our area/scenario, would you help us 'narrow the field'? In the winter, the current system requires that we throw on the heat strips if the outside temps dip below 30 which really sends the electric meter smoking! Is this something that we should expect with any heat pump? One other factor that needs to be considered is that we will be selling this home in approximately 3-5 yrs. Thanks in advance!


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Sometimes spelled "Pole Pot," and also known as "Candle Can" or "Sodomised," the name was granted to a half-human, half-maggot cambodian leader who started the Khmer Rouge and killed off 2-3 million of his own people. The name derives from the fact that Pol Pot is currently in Hell, being continuously anally raped by demons.
If there is a Hell beyond Hell, Pol Pot is experiencing it.
by kevhanel August 05, 2006
Cambodian political leader whose Khmer Rouge movement overthrew the Cambodian government in 1975. Under his regime executions and famine killed an estimated three million people. He fled the capital in 1979 when Vietnamese forces overthrew his government.
Pol Pot was a bad person!!
by delux May 25, 2004
Pol Pot is the very example of political leader under Chinese Communist Party influence.
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A name used to describe one who is particularly vicious and dictatorial whilst playing drinking games. A "Pol" will never be granted the authority to be Chairman of a drinking game but will assume all power and dominate with the sentencing of 'digits' to any who stand in his/her way.
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How do you keep one step ahead of your students? When they are used to living in a multimedia rich world, are you finding it increasingly difficult to grab them and engage them? I know that I find my own children don't want to sit through a 300 photograph slide show any more….but I've found a way to fool them. Read on…
First there was the holiday snapshot, and then my parents bought a slide projector. Well, it all went downhill from there for a while. But then things brightened up with video cameras. For a little while things seemed to get better. And then I started to get tired of some of the boring holiday videos (How much 'BuffetCam' can you stand?)
So here's a way to get students to (a) watch a 300 photo slideshow and (b) become immersed in creating their own.
It's Photosynth – something I've written about before – which allows you to build a 3D model of a place or object from static photographs. I've found I can while away half an hour easily, exploring somebody else's model of St Marks Square, Stonehenge or even a Ferrari 575 Superamerica.
While writing this, I discovered that the website had fallen over, simply through getting too much traffic, so if the same happens again, then watch this video of Blaise Aguera demonstrating it whilst you're waiting for service to be resumed!
And now Photosynth has been fully released, it gets better. You can use Photosynth to turn regular digital photos into a three-dimensional, 360-degree model. And you can then share your synth with others – who can walk in your shoes through the same place. The technology does the hard work – reconstructing the scene or object from your flat photos – by looking for similarities between images, and using it to estimate the shape of the space/object, and work out the original camera position.
To create your own synth sign in to http://photosynth.com, download the synther application and viewer. And start building.
Which must be what Rick did – he's obviously proud of his shed, as he's built a complete model of the outside, and you can walk into the inside and look around. Take a look at the Rick's Shed synth to see what I mean!
And so, here's my challenge
I know that many of you will have been busy changing things in your IT systems this summer, and some of you will be the proud owners of new servers, networks and equipment. I've also been busy over the summer – building up my stocks of goodies. And I'm prepared to give away a bag of goodies – including a handful of 4GB memory sticks and a little pile of software boxes, for the best synth of either your server room or your school atrium*. Grab your cameras, build the synth, and then post the URL as a comment (and email me too).
You can even embed a Photosynth object onto a web page – so you could introduce potential students to your school on your website.
* Atrium – yes, I know, only the shiny new schools have them, but every time I see a plan for a new school it has an atrium on the plans, so if you've got one, flaunt it! Oh, I bet there should be some small print here about the rules. So here goes. I decide. I send the goody bag. Humour gets bonus points. Unlike with my kids, my decision is final.


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So hard, because these little creatures DO give us unmistakeable love. And it is so hard to lose someone (I include cats as "ones" not "things") that you love. My heart is with you. :-(
Checking in on you Ruth! I'm here for you if you need me for anything.
And now, I have TWO cats that won't eat, and are getting bone thin. I'm consulting with the vet about both of them, and she can't figure out what's wrong, although it could be inflammation (high white cell count), or it could be lymphoma -- just a coincidence that they both are having similar symptoms, but I'm feeling rotten. These 2 are best friends, and very affectionate with me, too. So I'm spending a fortune to find out whether it's treatable or not, and keep telling myself that it's only money, and I don't have anyone else to spend it on, anyway.
Sorry to hijack your thread, but I know you'll understand.
Well, we figured it out, sort of with one of them, and it was not good news. Tule, my tall, handsome Chausie (1/8 wild Jungle Cat blood), turned out to have either a severe infection of the digestive system or lymphoma, so the vet decided to treat it as an infection -- if it went away, then no reason to test for lymphoma. It seemed to be working for a couple of weeks, but then he stopped eating again, and I took him in, and it turned out one of his kidneys was full of stones, and massively infected. The vet would have recommended surgery to remove the kidney in a healthy cat, but Tule also had a congenital hole in his heart, and 2 days after we discovered the kidney stones, he went into heart failure. If there had been no heart problems, we could have dealt with the kidney, and if there had been no kidney problems, we could have dealt with the heart failure, but it was a double whammy, even if the intestinal stuff HAD been merely an infection (never did the lymphoma test), and there was really no choice, so I had the doc give him meds (which his kidneys couldn't eliminate) to relieve his labored breathing so I could spend a little comfortable time with him, and then let him go. It was a miserably hard time for me -- you can guess that I cried my eyes out (still do), because he was my best friend for 10 years -- you rarely see such a laid-back, gentle, companionable and affectionate cat. But I know I spared him suffering -- he must have been in a lot of pain from the kidney, and heart failure is very uncomfortable too. I wish we could do for terminally suffering humans what we can do for animals.
As far as the other cat, Sammy, he's still hanging in there. I'm pilling him twice a day, and he hates it, but forgives me readily enough. We still don't know if it's lymphoma or an infection, but he's eating well enough. Still bony thin, but acting fairly normally for a 12 1/2 year old cat. Going to see the vet on the 23rd, to decide whether to do another sonogram, or whether to start tapering down on the meds to see if he'll recover. It's still up in the air, and I have to resign myself to the fact that I may lose him, too.
Meanwhile, a friend had a kitten who needed a home, and I took him in. He's about 10 months old, a chocolate Siamese household pet. He came from an "oops" litter in a home where the cats are being neglected -- my friend, who doesn't have a penny to her name, goes to the house to feed and water the cats and change the litter boxes, but they belong to someone in California who said she was going to move here but hasn't come in over 2 years. Meanwhile none of them are spayed or neutered, my friend can't afford to do it, nor does she have permission, and one of the males got out, and this kitten was the result. She asked me to take him, rather than leave him in that home that isn't a home, so I did. He's rambunctious, adorable, mischievous, and everything else you'd expect in a kitten, and Sammy has taken to "mothering" him, which is a good thing. I'm pretty sure Sammy misses Tule, so it's good for him to have another cat to bond to. And the kitten, Mongkut, shows every sign of growing up into an affectionate, sweet cat.
And I thank you and everyone here for being a cat-friendly support group. None of this Rainbow Bridge stuff, which, no matter how well-intentioned, is NOT comforting -- just the plain, honest acknowledgment that we care about our animals. THAT means a lot more to me!
We did take her to the vet. Thanks. Misty died before the sun rose on Jan 1st. She's buried in the forest behind our house now. We look forward to adopting a pair, 5 and 3 year old females, who need a new home. We have a 2 1/2 hour drive each way to pick them up, Saturday. When they are relaxed here, I'll post photos.
Sorryto hear that, Ruth. Poor Misty.
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Mix equal parts fantasy and talent, a heaping spoonful of artistic vision and what do you get? Sean Wainsteim.
The Toronto-based writer and director recently won a Much Music Video Award (MMVA) for Best Director for Canadian rock band You Say Party's video Lonely's Lunch. While thrilled with the win, he's now looking to branch out from short-form film to concentrate on directing feature films.
Wainsteim, who will be 36 on Aug. 22, is the grandson of Holocaust survivors and highlighted his grandparents' in a short film called Esther and Leib, which is up for an award for the RBC Emerging Filmmakers Competition as part of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in September.
The four-minute short film was both an artistic homage to his grandparents and a directorial challenge, since Wainsteim and his competitors were all required to record their projects using portable high-definition cameras and then edit their work on a minimal budget.
He said his grandparents are like many survivors who came to Canada post-Holocaust. "They jumped borders, took a slow boat to Montreal, and from there came to Toronto."
Working on their story caused him to rethink his methods about how he makes films, he said. Creating "honest" material that resonates both for him and for filmgoers is now his focus.
"I just wanted to do something that felt true and honest to me and shoot and edit the movie as raw and as natural as possible," Wainsteim said. "That's not to say that a movie like Die Hard isn't honest, it totally is. But I hope that the love comes across" in Esther and Leib.
He said that growing up in a close-knit family with survivor grandparents also played a role in shaping his directorial style.
"I grew up listening to horrible stories that kids probably shouldn't hear. But I'm grateful for all my grandparents' dark and true stories. It's probably why I was drawn to the darker fairy tales in my youth," he said. "As a kid I'd sometimes go to bed thinking Nazi storm troopers would come bayonet me in my bed at night. It was terror."
Wainsteim's family is an eclectic mix of nationalities. His mother is French and his father is Brazilian.
"They met in Israel on a kibbutz. So I'm a French-Brazilian Jew," he said, laughing.
He's always known he wanted to create and his experience attending the Ontario College of Art and Design helped solidify his directorial impulses.
Some of the early influences that sparked his imagination include reading J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy of books, listening to Grimm's fairy tales, Alice in Wonderland and the stories of Maurice Sendak.
"I see some of the illustrations in those books now, and it all comes flooding back," Wainsteim said.
He added: "Growing as a kid in the 1980s, man, it all had an impact. From watching The Goonies to Robocop to Return of the Jedi."
While his parents weren't initially thrilled with his career choice, they've since come to understand he can make a living at it and that it makes him happy, he said.
"They'll be reading this in The CJN," he said, laughing. "It took them awhile to 'get it,' and they still wonder what I'm gonna do when I'm older. But for me, if I'm not creating, I'm done. That's it. So I'm happy to keep going."
Wainsteim said he was never drawn to pursue a career where he knew how his professional path would turn out.
"Kind of like the philosophy of [French artist] Marcel Duchamp, who said that if he could visualize something and knew how it would turn out, why bother doing it? Likewise, I was in high school and realized that I could go to university, become a lawyer and know I could do that, but I didn't know if I could be an artist. So I went to art school," he said.
He joked that for the first few years of art school he dreamed of building robots "that would chase people" around art galleries.
But after four years, he realized he'd been doing a lot of filmmaking and knew he was now an artist.
The theme to most of his work was always "nostalgic fairy-tale stuff" and inspired by memories of having frequented libraries as a child "and poring through books of illustrations from around the world." He also cites memories of attending puppet shows and children's theatre shows. That is where the "magic" in his work is rooted, Wainsteim said.
Over the years, Wainsteim has worked on numerous projects for many people and won many awards. He eventually started his own boutique animation, effects and design company with some friends.
After co-running that company for a few years, he felt the need to branch out yet again as his life was becoming predictable again. That's when he decided he needed to make a serious attempt at being a filmmaker to test his limits and create his own films, not just "client-driven" videos and projects.
"So I took off to Asia for three months, because it was cheaper than therapy," he quipped. "I didn't know whether I'd end up buying a small restaurant in Thailand or what. But I knew I needed a creative recharge, some time to think… to figure out my path."
Now that he's won his MMVA Best Director Award and has received the accolades and attention that come with it, Wainsteim is eager to try and capitalize on this moment.
"I've surrounded myself with likeminded people… who believe in the stuff we're creating without cutting corners, who believe in the process. I want to be making films."
Wainsteim said he hopes to have one or two feature films "under my belt" within the next five years.
He said his first film could be any one of four or five projects currently on the burner.
"It could be anything from a horror-comedy to a kid's fantasy film. I just have to see which one is ready to eat first."
TIFF recently accepted Wainsteim into its Telefilm Canada-sponsored 2011 PitchTHIS! initiative. It's a competition where participants attempt to sell their movie ideas to a jury of industry professionals. The winner gets a $10,000 prize to help develop their film concept as a feature film.
"I'll be pitching the feature version of my fantasy short film Lost for Words," Wainsteim confirmed.
Lost For Words is his "love letter to a time I spent in the library as a child… that led to a lifelong fascination with storytelling and storytellers."
To view the trailer or for more information on Wainsteim, visit www.seanwainsteim.com.


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Preliminary hearing in murder case continued until October
There will be a two-month delay between testimony in the preliminary hearing of accused murderer Elvis Aaron Thacker. Thacker, 25, and his brother, Johnathen Don James Edward Thacker, 24, are charged with first degree murder in the death of Briana Jane Ault, 22, whose body was found in a pond near Pocola on Sept. 13, 2010.On Thursday, criminal proceedings began at 9 a.m. with a brief delay in regard to a motion to suppress requested by Gretchen Mosley, Thacker's defense attorney. Mosley also told the court her assistant was preparing the paperwork for a continuance after she learned none of the Arkansas officers would be at court. Mosley said the Sebastian County Prosecuting Attorney notified her before court he felt the supeona service had not been done correctly and he had advised the officers not to appear at court. Special Judge Jeff Singer ruled the hearing would proceed under Mosley's recognized objection. Testimony was heard from Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation Agent Shawn Ward and Fort Smith Emergency Medical Services Medic Veronica Harris.After hours of testimony Singer called the day to a halt at about 4 p.m. and ordered testimony be resumed on Oct. 23.


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Ankur Sinha
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I am Ankur studying at Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal as a Computer Science student.
- Email : ankursinha AT fedoraproject DOT org
- Phone number : +919986290960
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- Blog Post: http://dodoincfedora.wordpress.com
- IRC : #fedora-tour, #fedora, #fedora-devel, #fedora-india, #fedora-mktg, #fedora-design, #fedora-ambassadors.
Want Fedora??
If you cannot download Fedora
- folks in India can buy the latest release of Fedora from sites such as "ebay India"[1] for a nominal price (From INR 50 to INR 200 + shipping costs)
- please refer to the wiki page for requesting media from Ambassadors to get media from Fedora Ambassadors.
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Tattooed Beauty Queens
Yesterday, the Miss America pageant crowned its first beauty queen of Indian descent, which led to an onslaught of racist tweets by those who take beauty pageants seriously. "America's Choice," as decided by an online vote, was not the winner, but instead, a pretty blonde from Kansas who represented "American Values": she's a sergeant in the National Guard, she's a hunter who can skin a deer herself, and she's tattooed.
Miss Kansas, Theresa Vail strutted across the stage with a large-scale rib tattoo of the serenity prayer, which she says she used to recite when bullied as a child. Her tattoos were a big part of her platform, which centered around "empowering women to overcome stereotypes and break barriers." She told ABC News:
"What I really want is just to inspire people by showing my tattoos," she said. "That's a bold move! And it's risky, it could very well cost me the crown. And if it does, I just want people to see that you can step outside of the box, you can be yourself. And I can only hope that it inspires them to do the same."She didn't win the crown, but she won a lot media attention for being the first Miss America contestant to openly display her tattoos. Or at least that what the headlines touted.
But Teresa Vail was not the first tattooed beauty queen. It was Betty Broadbent, shown above on the cover of the first edition of Margo Mifflin's "Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women & Tattoo" (a must-have book). This cover photo captures the iconic circus attraction as she made history competing in the first televised beauty pageant at the 1937 World's Fair. As Margot Mifflin notes, "She knew that as a tattooed contestant she didn't stand a chance of winning, but she gladly reaped the free publicity." The same could be said for Miss Kansas.
I'm not a fan of beauty contests. Despite the fact that Miss Kansas has a degree in chemistry and speaks Chinese, she still had to put on stilettos and a bikini to put forth her "empowerment" platform. But I am a fan of those working in some way to stir a little trouble, to change up beauty ideals. So good on Miss Kansas for following in Betty Broadbent's high heels.
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