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Each year in April, Long Beach lets the world's top drivers ignore city speed limits during America's longest-running street race. For more than four decades, the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach has attracted racers to three days of competition. This year's race is on April 13–15. Here are 12 tips to help your viewing experience:
1. Take the Blue Line. Parking near the race course can be expensive, so save money by parking for free at a station and riding to a block away from the race circuit.
2. Wear earplugs. Race cars are loud, so bring along ear protection or get one from booths at the race.
3. Watch out for the sun. Bring sunscreen and a hat. Shade is limited.
4. Find a corner. Some of the best places to watch the race are sections where the cars are likely to pass each other or are forced to slow down. Turns 1, 8, 10, and the hairpin at 11 are great viewing spots.
5. Set your DVR. The race is exciting to watch trackside, but it's often easier to follow the action on TV. NBC Sports plans to cover Indycar qualifying on Saturday, April 14, and the final race on Sunday, April 15. Check local listings for times.
6. Buy an Indycar paddock access pass. You can get an up-close look at the Indycars, talk to some of the crews, and maybe get a glimpse of your favorite driver. Don't have a paddock pass? Several other paddocks are open to all ticketed race fans, including ones for drift cars, sports cars, and historic Trans Am muscle cars.
7. Rent a racing radio headset. You can listen in as drivers report problems with their cars or get instructions on when to pit. They sometimes talk in code, however, because rival crews can hear all this, too.
8. Visit the Auto Club booth at the Lifestyle Expo. You can view an Auto Club race car and two rare Bosley sports cars on loan from the Petersen Automotive Museum. We will also have prize giveaways.
9. Meet your favorite driver. An autograph session is scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m. at the Indycar paddock. No paddock pass is required.
10. For variety, go on Saturday. The day's attractions include historic Trans Am muscle cars, sports cars, GT cars, super trucks, Indycars, drift racers, and a 6 p.m. concert by The Cult.
11. Don't just sit there. You may get assigned a seat in the grandstands, but arrive early and explore the entire venue.
12. Bring the kids. The Family Fun Zone features video games, an electric cart track for kids ages 3–6, padded Bubble Rollers, and a K1 Speed Kart Track for older kids and adults.
Bonus tip: After the race, drive it yourself in May. After they take down the stands and open the streets, average Joes can drive on the race route. Look for the red stripe on the ground that marks the course. Of course, you'll need to strictly obey all speed limits.
Auto Club members get discounts on tickets to the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Get more info here.
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With palm trees swaying, ocean dancing, and breeze blowing, the scene was set for Heather and Matt's special day. The gorgeous pair exchanged their vows and made promises before the turquoise sea while loved ones watched nearby. It was a perfect day that our team was thrilled to be a part of. The always brilliant Baldwin Beach was true to form offering breathtaking views of the West Maui Mountains, white sand, and quintessential Hawaiian beach landscape. We absolutely adored this couple and couldn't have asked for a more stunning and fun couple. Thank you, Heather and Matt, for letting our team capture your Maui Wedding Photography. We hope to see you both back again soon and wish you all the best in your new life together. Congratulations & Warm Aloha!!!
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Palermo are showing an interest in striker Maxi Lopez of Sicilian Serie A rivals Catania, according to reports.
Lopez will be sold by the Rosanero this month, but his destination is unclear after Milan – who had done a deal for him – pulled out of the move.
"Maxi Lopez will leave and we'll see what happens in the next few days," stated Catania director Pietro Lo Monaco recently.
Numerous clubs in Italy and beyond are keen, with the Rosanero the latest outfit to show an interest in the Argentine.
According to whispers on Monday, Palermo have begun to make tentative enquiries about the possibility of signing him this month.
However, it is understood that Catania's valuation of €10m is too high for a club such as the Stadio Barbera outfit.
Fiorentina are also tracking the former Barcelona player seeing as they have agreed to sell Alberto Gilardino to Genoa.
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I'll be doing this program, from Bodybuilding.com.
It breaks down to this:
Monday: Back, Rear Delts, Abs
This workout I can pretty much do at home, so I'll do it in the morning, and run at the gym in the afternoon.
The only thing I'll have to modify is anything using a stability ball. My stability ball currently has a sad:
|Can you tell in this picture how deflated it is? There's a leak somewhere..
Tuesday: Legs/Calves
This one will need to be done at the gym to be effective. It's got some pretty heavy weight/low reps, and some machine work (leg curls, etc). If I have time, I'll add cardio.
Day 3: Rest
Well, rest from weights. I'll be running 3 miles.
Day 4: Shoulders/Rear Delts, Abs
I'll be doing this workout at home as well. If there's time, I'll add a 20 or 25 minute Hiit.
Day 5: Chest/Arms/Calves
This will be at the gym.
Day 6: Rest
Well, again, it says rest but I'll be doing my "long" run. Aiming for 6 miles.
Day 7: This will be the true rest.
I've also planned out most of my meals for this week. I am determined to be as on track as possible.
This is going to be a great week.
Do you have a plan?
(P.S. Just for a little extra happiness/motivation/something, here's this:)
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Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Centre on the imposition of President's Rule in the state after the Congress party and the Assembly Speaker Nabam Rebia sought the apex court's intervention in the matter. The SC also directed the Centre to respond to its notice by 29 January, or next Friday.
The next hearing is on 1 February.
Earlier, in a dramatic move, the apex court asked the office of the Arunachal Pradesh Governor Jyoti Prasad Rajkhowa to submit its report within 15 minutes on the basis of which the President's Rule was imposed on the state dismissing the Nabam Tuki-led Congress government in the state.
The apex court bench headed by Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar which is hearing the matter asked the counsel for Arunachal Pradesh Governor to furnish immediately his report that led to imposition of President's rule in the state. The SC also wanted to know as to why it was not apprised about the latest development.
Meanwhile The Hindu reported that Justice JS Khehar, one of the judges on the bench, noted that there were several defects in the Congress's plea including a shortfall of Rs 800 in the court fee paid to the Supreme Court Registry.
The report also quoted Khehar as saying, "they (Registry) have also objected to the font used.... what font have you used here..."
The fresh plea was mentioned for urgent hearing by senior advocates Fali S Nariman and Kapil Sibal.
The bench, meanwhile, asked the lawyer to remove the defects, pointed to by the apex court registry, as early as possible.
The petition has been filed by the state Congress chief whip Rajesh Tacho.
In the petition, there has been a challenge to the report and the recommendation of the Union cabinet for promulgation of President's Rule in the state.
The fresh plea assumes significance as the five-judge bench is examining constitutional provisions on the scope of discretionary powers of the Governor, amid continuing month-long impasse over Tuki's government in Arunachal Pradesh.
In an earlier plea filed by Nabam Rebia, who was allegedly removed from the post of Speaker by rebel Congress and BJP MLAs in an assembly session held at a community hall in Itanagar on 16 December, has listed out legal questions, including the Governor's power to convene the assembly session without the aid and advice of the government for adjudication by the apex court.
It was also alleged that the Governor had advanced the assembly sitting from 14 January to 16 December without the aid and advice of the Chief Minister and his council of ministers.
Congress, which has 47 MLAs seats in the 60-member assembly, suffered a jolt when 21 of them rebelled. Eleven BJP MLAs backed the rebels in the bid to upstage the Nabam Tuki government. Later, 14 rebel Congress MLAs were disqualified.
The Governor then called assembly session on December 16 in which Deputy Speaker revoked disqualification of 14 rebel Congress MLAs and removed Rebia from the post of Speaker. This sitting was held in a community hall in Itanagar.
Various decisions of the Governor and the Deputy Speaker were challenged by Rebia in Gauhati High Court which passed an interim order keeping in abeyance these decisions till February one.
With inputs from PTI
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Last Friday I spent a few hours transforming a closet that my client stated was "a hopeless cause" into her Arts & Crafts closet. She was so excited when the project was complete that she couldn't stop talking about it! Her granddaughter is coming to spend the week with her and now she will be able to have lots of time doing arts and crafts with everything organized and at her fingertips! This is why I do what I do!
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PALO ALTO, Calif., April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) today announced that TIBCO BusinessEvents(TM), a complex event processing (CEP) offering that enables organizations to identify meaningful patterns among the countless events that occur across their business, has been named a Gold Award winner for General Purpose Event Processing platforms by Bloor Research in their 2006 Event Processing Solutions report.
TIBCO BusinessEvents received the award based on strong results across the evaluation criteria, placing in the Champion sector in four out of seven evaluation areas. Companies in the champion sector are categorized as being well-known and well-established in the market, held in high regard by users and exhibiting continual innovation. In addition, TIBCO received the highest placement in the Champion sector on The Landscape Diagram, which represents the total scores for the various products evaluated in the report.
"TIBCO BusinessEvents is highly functional and is a market leading product. The fact that it is offered by a company with a worldwide presence (with services to match) is a significant benefit," said Philip Howard, research director – Data, Bloor Research. "TIBCO has also taken a leadership position in the standards community, proposing the establishment of a functional reference architecture for event processing," added Howard.
One of the world's leading IT research, analysis and consultancy organizations, UK-based Bloor Research evaluated 18 different suppliers in October 2006 to explore how generally available event processing products, and the companies themselves, performed against a pre-set selection criteria. Criteria included: stability and risk, ease of use (including implementation), fitness for purpose, scalability and performance, architecture, support and (geographic) coverage, and value for money.
"TIBCO BusinessEvents continues to gain positive recognition in the marketplace, as evidenced by Bloor Research's recent evaluation of our CEP solution," said Ram Menon, executive vice president, Worldwide Marketing, TIBCO. "We are committed to upholding this distinction through a continued focus on standards compliance and customer-driven innovation."
About Bloor Research
Founded in 1989, Bloor Research is one of the world's leading IT research, analysis and consultancy organizations — distributing research and analysis to IT user and vendor organizations throughout the world via online subscriptions, tailored research services and consultancy projects. Bloor Research's research and analysis have been acknowledged by the world's press, other industry analysts and commentators as some of the most authoritative work ever produced on computing and business issues. The accuracy and integrity of our research and its impartial conclusions have earned Bloor Research international acclaim.
About TIBCO
TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq: TIBX) provides enterprise software that helps companies achieve service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) success. With over 3,000 customers, TIBCO has given leading organizations around the world better awareness and agility — what TIBCO calls The Power of Now(R). To learn more, contact TIBCO at +1 650-846-1000 or on the Web at http://www.tibco.com.
TIBCO, The Power of Now, TIBCO BusinessEvents and TIBCO Software are trademarks or registered trademarks of TIBCO Software Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. All other product and company names and marks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners and are mentioned for identification purposes only.
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text: Jeremy Geddes is on the cover of this months Juxtapoz magazine. Geddes is a Melbourne based artist. I think his painting technique is incredible, his paintings are photo realistic, portraying extremes in emotion. He's been published in several books and magazines, picking up a Spectrum Gold Award for his comic cover Doomed.


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Pop-noir band led by Finn Andrews, son of XTC's Barry Andrews, sounds more like the Bad Seeds or the Gun Club than his father's group.
The Veils is, of course, a veil-- one for frontman Finn Andrews to lurk behind. Not only is he the lead singer/songwriter for this pop-noir outfit, he's also the only person to appear on both albums that bear the band's name, after a split with the London-based line-up that recorded 2004's The Runaway Found sent Andrew retreating to his childhood home of New Zealand to start the band anew for Nux Vomica. But if the Veils are a band in name only, Andrews has a good enough reason to use the alias: His father Barry is a founding member of XTC, and the younger Andrews has probably read too many Rufus Wainwright or Sean Lennon reviews that can't separate the prodigal son's work from that of their famous fathers.
Unlike those mentioned above, the Veils' parentage really is an irrelevant footnote-- though if you told me Finn's father was Nick Cave or Jeffrey Lee Pierce, then we'd have a more thorough discussion of heredity on our hands. To be completely reductive, Nux Vomica is the new Bad Seeds record that Cave has forsaken in favor of Grinderman, or the first Gun Club album to crack the UK top 20. It's a development that wasn't entirely anticipated by The Runaway Found, whose lush balladry posited the Veils as arch dramatists in the tradition of Dog Man Star-era Suede, post-Richey Manics and post-fame Pulp-- hearts firmly on sleeves, but with the spilled blood all cleaned up. Nux Vomica retains its predecessor's flair for the grandiose, but repositions the Veils as purveyors of a gothic Americana, inhabiting desert-stormy vistas that are just expansive enough to house the band's most valuable asset: Andrews' magnetic, outsize persona.
The parallels to Cave run from the superficial (the way both men enunciate the word "loooord") to the substantial, as Andrews shares Cave's preoccupation with crises of faith. But even at their most depraved, Cave's songs still portray moral redemption as an end to be, if not always achieved, then at least valued. Andrews speaks in more obvious metaphors-- "There's an angel at my table/ And a devil up my sleeve"-- but is more ambivalent about his belief in god, or even love; as the Celtic jaunt "Calliope!" argues, when unrequited romance turns requited, "what's there left to believe in?" For Andrews, this pervasive ennui is all the more reason for him to camp and vamp it up-- and so the domestic doldrums of "Advice For Young Mothers To Be" get dressed up in a deceptively cheery ska-disco; by contrast "Jesus for the Jugular" mocks organized religion using the theatrics of the pulpit, its taunting blues riff and thundering bass-drum lurch goading the singer into Black Francis hysterics. But instead of simply positing a god/devil dichotomy, Andrews deviously emphasizes their co-dependency, asking, "would the fox be as quick if he hadn't his hound?"
Such proselytizing is always more convincing when it's punctuated with big bangs, and the reconstituted Veils deliver them with such startling proficiency-- the spaghetti-western cavalry charge of "Not Yet", the lightning-crash clamor of "Pan", the horse-whipped guitar/organ shocks of the title track-- that they make more stately romantique turns like "A Birthday Present" and "One Night on Earth" sound like the work of a different, more typical Britpop band. But then Nux Vomica is so focused on the big picture, it never gets undermined by the small stuff.


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OUTREACHCommunity ministries
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Helpful LinksCatholic Resources
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Job Description:
Coordinator of Elementary Religious Education, RCIA Coordinator, Annulment Minister.
What year you started working at SMG:
What you like best about SMG:
The warmth and love of this wonderful faith filled parish. I am blessed to part of a community that truly imitates the love of Christ. It is home!
Elementary Faith FormationClick here to view our 2014 video for a glimpse of the SMG Catechesis of the Good Shepherd and Youth Ministry Programs.
Preschool thru 5th Grade
Children learn in a special environment where they work with child-size objects and materials designed to help them build a loving and trusting relationship with Jesus. Classes are held September thru May and class times vary throughout the week. Please call for a schedule.
Catechists are trained extensively for each level of catechesis and are diocesan certified. Sacramental Preparation is also provided for this age group.
Liturgy of the Word for Children is a worship experience geared toward children. It provides children the opportunity to hear the Sunday Scriptures in words they understand and share their understanding of God's word.
We offer CLOW during the 11AM Mass on Sundays during the school year. This does not take the place of Religious instruction but is a supplement to it. It is open to all children ages 4-12 who come to the 11:00 a.m. Mass. The children are dismissed from Mass before the readings to gather in Goretti Center True Vine Atrium for the readings, a short discussion and creed, and prayers of the faithful. They listen to the same readings as their parents are hearing in church but from a Children's Lectionary. They return to the church to sit with their parents. Our CLOW catechists are volunteer adults who take turns leading the children in and out of the church and leading the readings, etc. A second adult must accompany the group. If you would be interested in helping with this ministry please call Cindy Troiano at ext. 21.
2018-2019 CGS Calendar
Individual photography is not allowed in the church during the Confirmation Mass. A professional photographer will be taking pictures of all the children which will be available on CD. Details will be made available a few weeks prior to the Mass.
Individual photography is not allowed in the church during the Confirmation Mass. A professional photographer will be taking pictures of all the children which will be available on CD. Details will be made available a few weeks prior to the Mass.
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- n. A collection of resource materials, such as pamphlets, clippings from periodicals, and mounted photographs, arranged for ready reference, as in a library or an archive.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday she was disappointed by the Scottish parliament's decision to refuse consent for the flagship legislation which will end Britain's membership of the European Union.
Scotland's parliament refused on Tuesday to give its consent for the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, pushing Britain into constitutionally uncharted territory as London presses ahead with the bill regardless.
Reporting by Elizabeth Piper, writing by William James


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Reviews of recent and upcoming science fiction, fantasy, horror and other genre related books. Sometimes I'll add something I think will be of interest.
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Latest VA News
A Letter from the Network Director
As you know, the VA is in the midst of great change as we make rapid and definitive changes to ensure integrity in managing Veterans' access to timely, quality health care. To accomplish this, in June, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), of which we are a part, launched the Leading Access and Scheduling Initiative – or LASI.
LASI is a near term plan that is in full swing now and is expected to be fully implemented by the end of September. It is comprised of the following actions:
• Accelerate Care for Veterans Currently Waiting for Care Assess Care Delivery Capacity vs. Health Care Demand to Ensure Resource Levels
• Remove 14-Day Performance Goal from Performance Contracts
• Revise and/or Rescind Scheduling Directive
• Suspend VHA Executive Performance Awards for FY14
• Face-to-Face Engagement with Medical Support Assistants, Clinic Managers and Other Critical Front-line Staff
• Communicate VA Values' Applicability to Day-to-Day Performance
• Review and Modify Performance Plans for Wait Time Accountabilities
• Modify Management Dashboards Designed for Organizational and Operational Levels
• Enhance Patient Satisfaction Monitoring to Assess Satisfaction with Access and Experience
• Implement Medical Center Access Audits, Ongoing Monitoring, Elevation Triggers, and Clear Line Accountability Including Specific Requirements for Regular Inspection and Reporting
• Enhance VHA National Program with Focus on Access to Care
• Implement VHA-Wide Site Inspection Process
• Cross-Organization Surveying of Scheduling and Access Best Practices
• Review Medical Support Assistant Classification to Ensure Correct Grading
• Revise, Enhance and Deploy Scheduling Training
• Assess Position Management Practices and Staffing Required to Fully Support VA Medical Centers
• Establish Wait-Time Based Guidance for Non-VA Care Referral
• Assess Implementation of System-Wide Contracts for Primary Care
Under the direction of the VA's Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Operations and Management, this initiative is being led nationally by VA Project Managers/Business Leads in seven distinct work groups that support the work and move it forward. The work groups include the following: Accelerating Care and Capacity Assessments; Policies, Directives and Procedures; Performance Management; Program Oversight and Integrity; People and Training; Integrate Non-VA Care; and Organizational Health.
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This recipe is for 2 cups of chocolate tea.
Cocoa powder --- 2 tea sp
Tea powder -- -- 1&1/2 tea sp or 6 tea bags
Sugar --- 3 tab sp or sugar free or you can have with out sugar
Milk -- 1&1/2 cup
Water -- 1/2 cup
Mocha syrup or chocolate syrup --- 1 tea sp (optional)
1. Prepare tea by boiling water with tea powder strain and dissolve cocoa powder, mocha or chocolate syrup, sugar (if using).
2. In same time boil milk, bring to a full boil and add this hot milk to tea and chocolate mixture mix well.
Pour this flavor full chocolate tea into serving cups and serve hot.
This is my entry for Valli s chocolate Mela


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Louis Stathis
Lou Stathis (1952- May 4, 1997) was an American author, critic and editor, mainly in the areas of fantasy and science fiction. During the last three years of his life he was an editor for DC Comics' Vertigo line, including Preacher, Doom Patrol, Industrial Gothic, The System and Dhampire.
Stathis was a columnist and editor for Heavy Metal, and he also did a column for Ted White's Fantastic magazine. He worked as an editor for Ace Books, High Times and Reflex magazine.
In 1989, Stathis wrote The Venus Interface (Heavy Metal), a graphic novel with a cover by Olivia De Berardinis and interior art by Jim Fletcher, Rick Geary, Peter Kuper, Mark Pacella, Kenneth Smith, Arthur Suydam and Michael Uman. Stathis also collaborated with Matt Howarth on Das Loot, published by Aeon in 1994.
In writing and editing, Stathis took a prismatic approach, noting popular culture linkages: "I see connections between all vital forms of popular art. It's all in the mix, and to erect barriers between, say, comics and music -- to ignore the noise from any part of the system -- is counterproductive and just plain stupid. Most of the artists and writers I know listen to and take inspiration from music while they work; most of the musicians I know read comics and get off on the imagery. There's an intense, crosscultural/media conversation going on, and all you have to do to hear it is stop listening selectively."
While he was an editor at DC Comics, Stathis began having headaches which kept him from working. He died of respiratory failure ten months after being diagnosed with a brain tumor. In June 1997 he received a special award from the International Horror Guild.
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After the Wall
Peter Pulzer
- Die Mauer: Monument of the Century by Wolfgang Georg Fischer and Fritz von der Schulenburg
Ernst and Sohn, 208 pp, £22.50, November 1990, ISBN 3 433 02327 1
The other wall, the mote famous and aesthetically more distinguished one, the one designed to protect China from the barbarians, inspired Kafka to one of his most profound reflections: 'Try with all your might to comprehend the decrees of the high command, but only up to a certain point; then avoid further meditation.' I do not suppose the rulers of the German Democratic Republic studied Kafka. They were merely nature imitating art. For a time they managed to inhibit meditation among their subjects, though without inducing comprehension. When meditation resumed, so did comprehension, for reasons Kafka would have been the first to grasp. The rest we know.
Die Mauer was published on the first anniversary of the breach in the Berlin Wall, the act that signalled more clearly than any other that comprehension had reached a fatal level. The bilingual text which includes a long interview with Willy Brandt is by Dr Fischer, the superb photographs of the Wall that take up most of the book are by Count Schulenburg. It is dedicated to Dr Fischer's uncle, murdered in Auschwitz, to Count Schulenburg's father, executed for his part in the plot against Hitler, and to the victims of the GDR regime, especially those who died trying to escape.
It is a problematic dedication, because it raises, without answering, the old question of whether, and how, the great tyrannies of the 20th century can be equated with each other. Those who commemorate the uniqueness of the Holocaust should certainly not ignore other genocides. Those for whom the Soviet Union was the evil empire need to remember other evil empires. All the same, the GDR was not the Third Reich all over again. Unlike the Soviet Union, Hungary and Romania at various stages, it was a prison, an exceedingly repulsive prison, but not a charnel house.
Those who know about these things tell us that being released from prison can be as great a trauma as being sent there, that the prison walls can remain real even when they have been left behind. The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, had two purposes. Short-term, it was to save the economy of East Germany by putting an end to the mass exodus of the population; in the first 12 years of the state's existence over two million people had left. Long-term, it was to turn a state into a nation – not merely to reconcile the population to the regime through modest economic recovery.
That required an ideological turnabout. In the Fifties the proclaimed aim of the Communist regime had been to bring about German unity. They were the true patriots, the West German political class the traitors to the nation. Was it not Ludwig Erhard who, at American instigation, introduced a new currency, Konrad Adenauer who put liberal capitalism above unity, the Western allies who rejected Stalin's offer of a neutral united Germany in 1952? Once the Wall was up, this changed. The 1968 Constitution still described the GDR as 'a Socialist state of the German nation'; the 1974 Constitution described it as 'a Socialist state of workers and peasants'. No further mention of its German character, instead only of its 'permanent and irrevocable' alliance with the USSR. The GDR's national anthem, with its reference to Deutschland einig Vater-land, continued to be played, but not sung.
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Anaesthesiologists participate in the decision-making around the biological death; © panthermedia.net/Tyler Olson
The criteria used to diagnose both circulatory and brain death in a patient are subject to variability and as such can be controversial. Anaesthesiologists play an important role in procedures related to the determination of death. So experts will call for international consensus.
"Before the technological advances of the last century, death was diagnosed by presence of coma, apnoea, and lack of a pulse. The failure of the cardiovascular or respiratory systems inevitably led to a person dying," says presenter Ricard Valero of the University of Barcelona, Spain.
However, the establishment of the criteria determining neurological (brain) death during the 20th century represented a significant change regarding the traditional method to define death and still is a challenge from the ethical and scientific point of view. "For this diagnosis, it is essential to demonstrate irreversible coma, absence of response to stimuli and absence of brainstem reflexes (including the capacity to breathe), once the situations that could interfere with the diagnosis have been discarded," says Valero. "However, several studies have demonstrated that there is no global consensus on what are the detailed diagnostic criteria for this determination in clinical practice, such as the number of physicians needed to agree on the diagnosis, how many and which reflexes need to be examined, length of observation periods, and use of additional tests to confirm death."
"Biological death is not an event, but a process," concludes Valero. "Anaesthesiologists participate in the decision-making around this process, and we have to establish clear and unequivocal criteria for the diagnosis of death, knowing the emerging ethical implications."
Valero says that, while every doctor should be involved in the debate in general terms, that it is most relevant to anaesthesiologists, intensive care doctors, neurologists and neurosurgeons, since they are the specialties most commonly involved in determining death in the clinical setting.
In another part of the session Doctor Alex Manara, Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine & Regional Clinical Lead in Organ Donation for the United Kingdom, will discuss the circulatory criteria to confirm death and argue that with 600,000 deaths in the UK each year and 56 million deaths worldwide, "we should know all there is to know about death." Yet unlike brain death there has been virtually no guidance until recently to standardise the circulatory-respiratory criteria.
He will say "there needs to be consensus around a practical and concrete definition of death that describes the state of human death based on measurable and observable biomedical standards". He will call for "a research agenda to address outstanding knowledge gaps in this complex field."
MEDICA.de; Source: ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology)


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Back to the themes I wanted to elaborate upon from my last post in the near future. In the meantime, here are some links via Slashdot with appropriate commentary, to keep the RSS Ping monster satisfied...
- A Business Week article on "Digital Mudslinging" and politics on the Internet reminds me of McLuhan's notion that "the medium is the message". These days, it seems more likely that elections are decided by the impulse of the electorate - whoever manages to lodge themselves in the goldfish-like memories of the fickle masses wins. One can imagine quite easily this leading to an eBay-style "attention sniping" race, to see who can "inject" the final, viral piece of mockery into the population at the latest moment. Maybe Flashverts can help here...
- An interview with Berners-Lee regarding a new initiative called "Web Science". This is, in effect, an attempt to define a new field of study - an attempt which is intriguing, as I can't work out if this is either an attempt to construct a new space, or just the naming of an emergent space - I would guess the latter, though. Anyway, there are some very interesting ideas in here that I need to return to - the idea of fractal society (or, rather, a fractal technosociety - society itself has always been fractal).
Particularly thought-provoking for me is the distinction between "web" sociality and "non-web" sociality. Defining disciplines is always problematic in terms of ignoring the links between a discipline and its surroundings. The article mentions that "they want to bring together lots of different disciplines", but it makes it sound like this is just as a way of understanding, or modelling web sociality.
- Finally, while I don't particularly wish to focus here so much on electronic voting, an article on Diebold attacking an HBO programme is kind of interesting. I'm not in America, obviously, but I get the impression that public discussion over the transparency, security and reliability of electronic voting really hasn't taken place as much as it could have done. (Same with, for example, postal voting in the UK...)
The question here, then, is whether TV programmes that bring more of said discussion to the table should be encouraged - even if potentially subject to the hype that TV often entails - in order to get the issue raised more, or whether the issue should be treated with censorship and legal pressures.
Personally, I suspect it's currently a no-win situation. Neither clamping down nor hyped TV programmes particularly encourage further, non-"celebritised" debate. Diebold, following business interests, would probably prefer a quieter scene as, just like everyone else, they're ultimately acting in their own (financial) interest.


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New sounds and new gear pave the way for new music, and Reason 10 is here with a rackload of new synths, instruments, samples and more. Grain and Europa: two massive, brand new synthesizers. Klang Tuned Percussion, Pangea World Instruments, Humana Vocal Ensemble: three new live-sounding organic instrument devices. Radical Piano: a top-notch acoustic piano. Synchronous: creative modulation device. Loop Supplyand Drum Supply: a multi-gigabyte infusion of cutting-edge drum loops and samples. What music will you create?
Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
Europa was created for huge, epic sounds and oh boy, does it deliver… From big stacks of buzzing sawtooths to shimmering, glitched-up sonic explorations, Europa has you covered. To call it a wavetable synth wouldn't be wrong, but it's so much more than that. Apply a wide range of modulation to the waveform itself, to start with. Add advanced spectral filtering, harmonics processing and even draw your custom waveforms. And the best part: despite it's deep synthesis powers, it's still surprisingly easy to use.
Grain Sample Manipulator
Get granular with your samples! The Grain synthesizer opens up the world of granular synthesis for your creative use. Drop any sample into Grain and explore the endless sonic variations you can create with Grain's selection of playback algorithms, ultra-flexible modulation, routing and effects. With immense sonic power and an inviting interface, Grain is the easy-to-use sonic lab that turns your samples into grains and your grains into music.
Reason 10 puts three brand new organic instrument collections in your Reason rack. Expertly crafted in cooperation with sampling experts Soundiron, these new devices offer a wealth of inspiring and natural-sounding instruments to your music making.
Klang Tuned Percussion: A collection of tuned percussion instruments
Glockenspiel, Music Box, Wineglasses and a whole lot more. Tuned percussion sounds are great for creating melody lines or adding an organic dimension to an electronic production.
Pangea World Instruments: The sounds of planet Earth
Add more colors to your sonic palette with this collection of instruments full of character from all corners of the world. Plucked, pumped, blown or strummed, these instruments will add a new dimension to any style of music.
Humana Vocal Ensemble: Choir and vocal instrument
Give your music a human touch with the sound of Humana's selection of choirs and solo voices. Perfect for soundtracks or epic pop ballads, these singers will add depth and harmony to your music.
More sounds, more inspiration
Loop Supply & Drum Supply: A huge cache of inspiration
Update your sound with this multi-gigabyte injection of cutting-edge loops and drum samples made to deliver up-to-date pop. electronic and hip hop sounds for Reason. Get creative with a huge selection of patches for Reason's Kong drum machine and Dr Octo Rex loop player.
Radical Piano: Advanced Acoustic Piano
The premise is simple. The results are stunning. Three basic pianos paired with the technology to make an infinite number of your own. Based on a custom blend between sampling technology and physical modeling algorithms, Radical Piano affords songwriters, producers, and sound designers an unprecedented level of control to craft a realistic piano that is 100% unique.
Synchronous Effects Modulator: Timed Effects Modulator
Bring your music to life with Synchronous' modulation effects. Create quick sidechain effects or draw your own LFO curves to control filter, delay, reverb, distortion and level. Make your sound evolve, change and loop over time.
Instruments Realize your musical ideas with Reason's arsenal of instruments. Add, play, tweak, combine and mix as many of each as you can possibly want.
- Europa Shapeshifting Synthesizer
From stacks of buzzing sawtooths to shimmering sonic explorations, Reason's new monster synth has you covered.
- Grain Sample Manipulator
Drop any sample into Grain and explore the expressive and abstract sound of granular synthesis.
- Thor Polysonic Synthesizer
Semi-modular instrument with God-like synthesis power. Build your sounds from 50 years of collected synth history.
- Malström Graintable Synthesizer
Fusing the best parts of granular and wavetable synthesis, it has a sound like nothing else.
- Subtractor Analog Synthesizer
Warm, straightforward and easy to use. Subtractor is most Reason users go-to synthesizer.
Beats and loops
For many, beats isn't just a part of their music. The beat is the music! And Reason has the machines to build the beat you want.
- Kong Drum Designer
16 pads of complete inspiration. Use samples, synthesis, physical modeling and effects to build the drum machine of your dreams
- Redrum Drum Computer
Reason's drum machine. If you like the classic pattern based machines from the 80s, then this one is for you.
- Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player
Versatile and flexible loop player that turns static loops into playable musical instruments.
Creative playing
The Player devices adds scale-awareness, chord memory, arpeggios and more to the other Reason instruments. Try them out for instant inspiration.
- Scales & Chords: Use it to stay always in key, or use its one-finger chords to explore rich harmonic options that you might not have thought about.
- Dual Arpeggio: Create flowing arpeggio lines with these two powerful polyphonic, pattern based arpeggiators.
- Note Echo: This unit can create interesting effects with pitch and time: Strumming, glissandos, chord stabs and much more
Samples for playing and tweaking
- Klang Tuned Percussion
Glockenspiel, Music Box, Wineglasses and a whole lot more. Great for adding an organic touch to your productions.
- Pangea World Instrument
Plucked, pumped, blown or strummed, these instruments from around the world will add a new dimension to any style of music.
- Humana Vocal Ensemble
Give your music a human touch with the sound of Humana's selection of choirs and solo voices.
- Radical Piano
The premise is simple. The results are stunning. We'll give you three basic pianos paired with the technology to make an infinite number of your own.
- NN-XT Advanced Sampler
Play gigabytes of rich and complex, multi-layered instruments from the Reason sound bank. Or sample and build your own!
- NN-19 Sampler
Quick and easy sampler with an intuitive workflow and plenty of real-time modulation capabilities.
- ID-8 Instrument Device
A songwriter's best friend. When all you need is quick access to your most used instruments, ID 8 is there for you.
Extending your instrument rack
Want even more instruments? With the Rack Extension technology the Reason rack opens up to third party developers too. Propellerhead and leading third party developers offers a great selection of instruments as add-ons to your Reason rack. Have a look in the Propellerhead Shopto see what's on display.
- Rack Extensions
Add-on instruments and effects from Propellerhead and third party developers.
All your other synths too!
Include your MIDI synths in your music making. Reason's External MIDI Instrument will play all your MIDI synths, beatboxes and whatnot from Reason's sequencer and control your external MIDI gear with the full automation that Reason users have come to expect.
- External MIDI Instrument : Bringing your MIDI equipment to your Reason tracks.
Creative Control
Reason's rack is an extremely flexible environment to create just the sound your music needs. Here are more ways to combine and evolve sounds.
- Combinator
Combine, layer and mix instruments and effects to create rich, production-ready and performance-friendly sounds that can be loaded up in an instant.
A classic, monophonic arpeggiator with some creative twists to create arpeggiated melody lines from the chords you are playing.
Time and space
Say effect unit and most would think of reverb and delay, so of course Reason is equipped with world-class units for all kinds of echo and reverberation duties.
- RV7000 MkII
Very easy and straightforward to use, yet sophisticated with multiple reverb models, including an advanced Impulse Response reverb.
- The Echo
A multi-talented echo effect mixing the perfection of digital delay with the warmth and character of vintage tape echo units.
Sonic destruction
Edge, life, sparkle, noise - call it what you want. Distorting and squashing a sound is a very effective way of adding that special something to your sound.
- Scream 4 Sound Destruction Unit
A multimode sound mangling effect that will do anything from gentle tape compression to full-on sonic mayhem.
- Pulveriser Demolition
Combining compression, distortion and filter and modulation, the Pulveriser is a beast of a processor that makes just about anything sound… better.
Sound sculpting
Nailing just the sound you're after in Reason is a fun and rewarding audio exploration endeavor. For fearless adventures in sound design, three devices stand out agains the rest.
- Synchronous Effects Modulator
Create quick sidechain effects or draw your own LFO curves to control filter, delay, reverb, distortion and level. Make your sound evolve, change and loop over time.
- Alligator Triple Filtered Gate
Applying pattern control to gating, filtering and envelope shaping, the Alligator will happily chew any audio passing through its jaws into a completely new, albeit interesting, sound.
- Pulsar Dual LFO
A CV modulation effect that uses its two LFOs to control parameters in Reason's other instruments and effects.
- BV512 Vocoder
Capable of far more than just robotic voices, a vocoder is a great tool when you want to modulate one sound with another.
- Audiomatic Retro Transformer
Apply your desired flavor of yesterday to your music. VHS, Vinyl, Tape and many more - take your pick!
Singer's delight
Reason offers two methods for cleaning up a vocal performance. The Pitch Edit function in the sequencer, or for more creative mangling efforts, Neptune.
- Neptune Pitch Adjustor
Gently nudge your vocalist's into key, or go all T-pain on your vocals. Neptune is also a powerful real-time vocal synth.
Putting the Twang in Reason
When recording guitar, you want access to tools expertly tailored for your instrument. Reason comes with amp models from renowned modeling experts Softube.
- Softube Amp
Oozing with attitude and featuring a fistful of amp and cabinet models, this is one amp that will never let your down.
- Softube Bass Amp
Clean solid lows? Nasal presence? Wildly distorted? Whatever sound you're after, Bass Amp can deliver.
The final touch
Polishing your sound to perfection requires the best tools available, and that's why the MClass professional mastering units can be found in the Reason rack. Use them on individual instruments or run your whole mix through them.
- MClass Compressor
Designed to add punch and definition to your Reason tracks, this single-band compressor sounds simply amazing.
- MClass Equalizer
A 4-band, professional level mastering EQ with a transparent sound and precise sound sculpting features.
- MClass Stereo Imager
No mastering suite is complete without a tool for controlling the stereo image to allow individual treatment of high and low bands.
- MClass Maximizer
An advanced tool designed to maximize the volume of your Reason tracks, without crushing them or introducing other unwanted artifacts.
The rest
Reason's rack never seems to end. Apart from the effects mentioned and linked above, Reason also comes with these straight-forward but effective half-rack effects:
- RV-7 Digital Reverb
- DDL-1 Digital Delay Line
- D-11 Foldback Distortion
- ECF-42 Envelope Controlled Filter
- CF-101 Chorus/Flanger
- PH-90 Phaser
- UN-16 Unison
- COMP-01 Compressor/Limiter
- PEQ-2 Two Band Parametric EQ
- Spider Audio Merger & Splitter
- Spider CV Merger & Splitter
Reason is designed to act and feel like a musical instrument. What you see is really what you get. No hidden screens, sub-menus or dialogs to flip through.
Find all the sounds, samples, loops and patches you need in your songs with Reason's always open, always available browser.
Drag 'n' drop
Drag and drop anything and anywhere. Drag a synth lead to the rack to create a new instrument. Drag a vocal recording to the sequencer to create a new audio track. Drag samples and loops to the pads in the Kong Drum Designer to load them instantly.
Twist knobs, push buttons, move faders – Reason's interface looks and feels like an instrument and integrate well with your favorite hardware controller.
Launch Reason and everything is ready to go. The sequencer and instruments are designed by the same people, which means everything is totally integrated. No configuration or connections are needed they are part of the same package and all the parts work seamlessly with each other.
Build your rack as you work on your song. Create instruments and effects and route them any way you want to. Add, delete, replace and tweak. Your rack is what you want it to be.
Flip the rack over to access the backside with all the cables and connectors. Here you can manually route anything to anything, just like in a real studio. Or simply leave it to Reason to automatically connect all your instruments and effects, unlike a real studio.
Easy 'n' deep
Easy to get started with and as deep as you want it to be – many devices have macro controls for ease of use. If you want, open them up and explore and tweak all the components within.
Dive in the deep end for deep exploration or happy experimentation, if you feel like it. Reason's devices all have Control Voltage connectors so you can connect almost anything to anything!
Live sampling in Reason
Sample any sound source into any of Reason's samplers. Just hook up a sound source to the rack's sampling input and you are ready to start sampling. Use a mic, a turntable, an instrument or the entire Reason mix.
Sampling in Reason is simple and straightforward – all part of the creative process of making music. Hit the sample button and Reason starts sampling. Reason will detect the sample start automatically. You can sample when Reason is running too if you like – no need to stop the music.
If needed, bring up the built-in sample editor to set start and end points, loop points and more. This works for all loaded samples, too – not only the ones you have sampled.
Live sampling together with pitch detection of root key and automatic zone mapping makes it dead easy to sample an instrument and map the samples across the keyboard. You'll create your own multi-sampled instruments for NN-XTand NN-19 in an instant.
Mixing: With its million-dollar mixing console, Reason comes with all the tools you need to
Reason comes with all the tools you need to give your tracks that big studio sound right out of your computer. Walk into any recording studio and the large format mixer is the creative centerpiece of the production environment. Reason is no different. A musical tool in itself, the mixer is where you bring all the elements of your production together and shape them for your final release.
Reason's mixer comes complete with flexible routing, full dynamics, EQ, advanced effects handling, full automation, groups and parallel channels, and the famous master-bus compression. The spectrum analyzer window with visual EQ control makes it easy to fine-tune the sound of your tracks from anywhere in the program.
Groups and parallel channels
When you have several tracks that you want to process together, like a multitrack drum recording, or a big layered synth lead, Reason's mixer bus channels come to the rescue. Group channels give you access to the same processing tools as on individual channels, including sends and inserts, and make it easy to balance the levels of all your instruments.
Create parallel channels with a single click for separate processing for quick New York-style parallel compression and other tricks used by leading mix engineers today.
Spectrum analyzer
For increased control of your mixes Reason has a built‑in spectrum analyzer window, giving you instant visual feedback on the selected channel or group or your final mix. The Spectrum EQ window combines a powerful spectrum analyzer with a graphic EQ overlay controlling the mixer's renowned EQ. Easily adjust the EQ on your tracks from anywhere in the program.
Radio ready
Known for its radio-ready sound, the SSL master bus compressor has long been famous for its ability to glue mixes together and give all tracks a sense of cohesion. It's not about brick wall limiting. It's about warm compression that you've been hearing on mixes for the past 30 years. By applying this analog magic to your master mix bus, your drums will gain punch, your bass more warmth, and your sound more intangible sparkle. Sounds too good to be true? Hearing is believing. We've recreated the sound of this bus compressor to exacting standards, so all you need to do is turn it on.
Recording & Sequencing Capture your ideas with a minimum of mouse clicks. Immediate and intuitive, Reason's rock solid audio and MIDI sequencer gives you total control.
Record, edit, arrange. Capture MIDI performances and automation, record and overdub audio, or draw in notes with the mouse. Whatever suits your workflow, Reason's sequencer is fast, flexible and fun. Any mistakes can easily be corrected, adjusted or quickly spliced together from multiple takes. Keeping with Reason's famous ease of use, Reason's sequencer still comes with all the editing features you need. If your playing is too tight use the ReGroove Groove Mixer to add more human feel.
All sequencer data notes, automation, the works are housed in clips; musical building blocks that can be opened, sliced or moved. When a clip is moved to a new location, all its internal data follows right along with it, always ending up exactly where you intended it to. Safe, speedy sequencing. In sync with your flow. Forever adapting to you and your working methods. Reason's sequencer simply gets you there faster.
Pitch Edit
Sometimes a singer will completely nail the emotion and energy in a performance, but slip on a few notes. And other times singers will need more general help with staying in key. Reason's Pitch Edit can quickly correct the pitch in a vocal recording and gives you detailed control over pitch, time and articulations in the performance. Pitch Edit is of course also a creative tool. Beyond just using it for correcting pitch, you can also use it to build harmonies, doubling up the vocals or create completely new performances. And the best of all: It sounds good. Really really good!
Every thinkable knob, button or fader can be automated with ease, and then edited and fine tuned in the sequencer. Simply draw in your automation volume curves, filter sweeps, whatever you want–or press record and every button click, fader move and knob tweak in the rack will be recorded in the sequencer in separate clips.
Sequence your songs using a pattern-based approach. With Blocks, the segments of your song become puzzle pieces, ready to be laid out in your arrangement, looped and rearranged.
Start by creating the discrete parts of your song in blocks mode. When you start building your song, switch to song mode and draw in what blocks should play when in the dedicated pattern lane. Use one block for the verse and one for the chorus or build your song around a single 8-bar loop.
Blocks provide a very fast way of creating a musical structure for your song. But the options don't end there. With the basic arrangement laid out, you can see the contents of the blocks and create variations and mute individual parts, or add further musical elements on top.
Comp editor
As a perfect performance may be less than perfect from scratch, Reason features a swift and easy to use comp editor. Record multiple takes in loop mode then build the perfect track from the best parts. It's as simple as selecting the parts that work and muting the ones that don't. Exit the comp editor and listen to the results; a perfect take containing only the good parts.
Time Stretch
With our now legendary non-destructive time stretch, you can actually record first and pick your tempo later. Reason has a unique twist on the concept of time and tempo. Change the song tempo on the fly and all your audio tracks will follow right along without any need for pre-processing of any kind. Need to slow your song down to nail a tricky passage? No problem. Just reduce the tempo, record your performance and bring the tempo back up. The audio quality? Amazing.
Reason automatically slices recordings and imported audio into single notes or hits. Quantize an audio take. Tweak your timing to perfection, or to drastically change the recording. The sliced up audio can also be converted to REX files for playback and further sound designing treatment in Reason's Dr. Octo Rex Loop Player, Reason's samplers, or the Kong Drum Designer.
Sequence in the rack
If you are into 70's style modular synths, or if you simply like to play around with a analog style sequencer that can control virtually anything in the rack, take a close look at the Matrix Pattern Sequencer. Matrix is an analog style sequencer useful for anything from monophonic melodies and arpeggios to modulation of your instruments and effects and advanced rhythmical gating. Hook up the Matrix to a Subtractor and draw some notes for quick, acid-style synth basslines. Connect the Matrix's Curve output to the Subtractor filter and you've got predictable, looped automation synced with the tempo of your song. Easy, fast and lots of fun.
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Running to Stand Still
If 2008 was the year of the four-bet shove light, it should be no surprise that 2009 became the year of the light call of the four-bet shove. Such is the nature of competition. Today's clever new trick is yesterday's cliché.
In business it's assumed that if you do not go out there and secure more customers, your turnover will decrease. There's a kind of entropy in the competitive world which means that if you stand still, everyone else's striving for progress means that you actually go backwards. By extension, in order to stay where you are, you actually have to try to move forward.
In Evolutionary Theory, this phenomenon is known as an "arms race". As foxes' eyes get keener, so their prey's camouflage gets better. As the trees on the Savannah plains get taller, so the giraffe's neck gets longer. Each punch is met by a counterpunch. Each stratagem outwitted by counter-stratagem.
Does this continue ad infinitum? In the natural world, there are limits to how far things can go. Giraffe necks can only grow so long before the pressure required to pump blood up to the brain causes too many other complications. A peacock's tail can only grow so showy and long before it becomes more of a hindrance than a help. This is referred to as hitting the wall – or reaching the limit of "progress" in a certain direction. Take for example the 100m Sprint world record. Sure, it keeps being broken as the years pass, but there is a notional limit to how low it can go. As we get nearer to that "wall" – just like a spaceship approaching light speed – the more and more effort put in will have lesser and lesser effect.
With some things in poker, the wall is easy to see. As four bet shoves become lighter, so some bright spark will actually find a situation – and a tournament deep enough – to perfect the correct time for a five-bet shove light. But take this particular stratagem to its logical conclusion and what do you have? In essence, it would be a glorified turbo tournament, with players just shoving all their chips in, turning over their cards, and seeing who's winning.
In fact, I had a taste of that science fiction-like scenario in my most recent live tournament. I found myself playing on a table with a bunch of internet-honed young aggressors. Regardless of what stage of the tournament we were at, they three-bet the hell out of each other preflop. I found myself thinking "For God's sake, can't we see a flop? Can't we play some poker?"
It cannot keep on getting more aggressive forever. Although as a general rule aggression is good for one's style in poker, it does not follow that as poker evolves, the most successful styles will get ever more aggressive. If that were really true of poker, then sooner or later we would hit the wall: there would just be lots of hyper-aggressive players shoving their chips in and only the house would make money from the game.
No, the saving grace here is that different styles can be successful, and moreover, the success of each style is contingent on the mix of styles it finds itself up against. We see this in its barest form when we try to crunch some numbers in an ICM calculator. Most people know that if you're up against a bunch of rocks towards the bubble of a tournament, it pays to become more aggressive. But by the same token, if you're up against a bunch of hyper-aggressive opponents, it might be wiser to fold a few more hands and see if they take each other out. So the same is true in the parlance of game theory: a hawk does well in a population of doves, but so too does a dove do well in a population of hawks.
What does this mean for the future of poker? I've always felt that the best players of the game will be those that can adapt their styles more easily and fluently. It's as if phase 1 of the evolution of poker was everyone learning that being aggressive is better than being passive. Phase 2 begins as the extent of that lesson reaches its logical conclusion and everyone learns that flexibility and variation of style is the most important skill. Think Roger Federer: good serve, good return, skilled at playing on the base line but also at the net.
In an environment where there are lots of skilled "phase 2" players, the hope is that there will always be enough play in tournaments that less skilful opponents can be outmanoeuvred. It may be my imagination, but I'm seeing a split in the tournaments being shown on TV and offered in casinos. On the one hand – and this is most welcome – we are getting deeper and deeper stacked tournaments with slower and better blind structures. In such tournaments, good players have plenty of opportunities to make their skills tell. On the other hand, it seems that certain TV tournaments are almost revelling in their crapshoot-ness.
For the latter of these two formats, eventually we will hit the wall. That doesn't mean that these tournaments will stop existing. Some players like the gamble and evidently they still make good TV – perhaps for the less experienced poker player.
As for the first format, dare we ask for more? In evolutionary theoretical terms we have another arms race: on the players' side, deeper tournaments will become more popular as players' standards increase; on the casino's side, deeper tournaments cost more money for them to host, being that they last longer, so the casinos will have to get more runners to ensure more profit. On both sides, striving for progress is ever necessary, even if it is only to stand still.


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The U.S. fertility rate fell to a record low in 2017, the National Center for Health Statistics reported Thursday, down 3 percent from the year before. Birth rates declined sharply after the Great Recession that began in 2008, but researchers are surprised that the rate hasn't bounced back since the economy recovered. Last year there were just 60.2 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age. The drop from 2016 to 2017 constitutes the largest single-year decline since the recession. There is a growing number of women of childbearing age, but researchers think they are postponing pregnancy to focus on career advancements and achieving financial stability.
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'Your Own Place equips young people with the skills, confidence and knowledge to live safely and securely. We achieve this by continually developing innovative and entrepreneurial solutions as well as collaborating for the benefit of our young people. By working restoratively and delivering high quality interventions we create a culture of empowered and independent young people.'
We are a social enterprise – a place where social impact and commercial realism collide. To succeed and have most impact on our young people we need to get both right. This means we operate across sectors, are open to new ideas and keen to learn from others. We believe these are positive behaviours to model not just across our organisation, but the sector and the young people we work with.


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The problem with recording an event without the old-fashioned Vu-Meters. Even funnier than the idea that somebody screwed up the recording is that somebody posted it over at 9-11 Flogger without listening to it. Although I can sympathize; after all who wants to hear Gage and his inane "experts" drone on.
The bad news is that after about 15 minutes of the sounds of silence, somebody apparently figures out that they aren't being recorded.


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Survey of the work of L.A. based artists before 1980. Edited by Lyn Kienholz with contributing editors Elizabeta Betinski and Corinne Nelson. Includes appendix. "'L.A. Rising SoCal Artists Before 1980' is the first comprehensive pictorial showcase of the diverse universe of artists working in the Los Angeles area during the formative period of Los Angeles' art history. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held November 17 - December 30, 2010. Introduction by Kimberly Davis. Essay by Howard N. Fox. Chronology by Bonnie Earls-Solari and John Brice. [details]
Large-scale examination of the conceptual art network in it's years of inception, 1967, though to the time at which it had become highly formalized, 1977. An exacting examination by Sophie Richard, edited by Lynda Morris after Richard's unfortunate death. ... [details]
Issue edited by Tim Griffin. Essays "Editor's Letter: Mirror Image," by Tim Griffin; "Letters: Michel Houellebecq on Alain Robbe-Grillet," by Michel Houellebecq; "Passages: Ann Temkin on Anne d'Harnoncourt," by Ann Temkin; "Books: Richard Deming on P. ... [details]
Yearly journal edited by artists Brice Brown and Trevor Winkfield. Includes contributions by Brown, Winkfield, Sarah Plimpton, Mark Wagner, Scott Zieher, Paul Verlaine, Francis M. Naumann, Karen Swenson, François Caradec, Christophe, Raphael Rubinstein, Luigi Ferrari, David Gray, Simon Cutts, Christian Hawkey, Lanie Goodman, Guillaume Apollinaire, Richard Hennessy, Carter Ratcliff, Naomi Savage, John Goodrich, Guy Maddin, Bill Zavatsky, Richard Griffin, André de Bouchet, Ron Padgett, Susan Unterberg, Robert Desnos, Richard Deming, Don Joint, Nancy Kuhl, Duncan Hannah, David Carbone, William Corbett, Albert York, Alexi Worth, Jasper Johns, James Meetze, James Schuyler, Terry R. ... [details]
Reference catalogue of the collection at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Text by John B. Ravenal. Artists include Magdalena Abakanowicz, Ansel Adams, Ivan Albright, Robert Arneson, Richard Artschwager, Jennifer Bartlett, Lee Bontecou, Iona Rozeal Brown, Deborah Butterfield, John Cage, Alexander Calder, Patrick Caulfield, Vija Celmins, John Chamberlain, Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, Willie Cole, Salvador Dali, Allan D'Arcangelo, Willem de Kooning, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, William Eggleston, Inka Essenhigh, Richard Estes, Rafael Ferrer, Barry Flanagan, Helen Frankenthaler, Gilbert & George, Gregory Gillespie, Adolph Gottlieb, Emmett Gowin, Nancy Grossman, Philip Guston, Ann Hamilton, Duane Hanson, Julie Heffernan, Bryan Hunt, Jörg Immendorff, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, Ray Johnson, Donald Judd, Alex Katz, Ellsworth Kelly, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Elizabeth King, Franz Kline, Nicholas Krushenick, Norman Lewis, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Winston O. ... [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held October 19 - December 9, 2006. Essay by Robert Storr. Artists include Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, Frank Stella, William S. Rubin, Robert Mangold, Donald Judd, Jo Baer, Piero Manzoni, John McCracken, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Irwin, Eva Hesse, Mel Bochner, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Olivier Mosset, Tony Smith, Larry Bell, James Lee Byars, Barnett Newman, Richard Serra, and Sol LeWitt. ... [details]
An impressive book in which Seth Siegelaub reconnects with artists he engaged with in the late 1960s within the exhibition March 1969 as well as within the exhibitions Op Losse Schroeven, Live in Your Head, When Attitudes Become Form, Konzeption Conception, and Prospekt 69. ... [details]
Photographs of artists at work. Essay by Constance W. Glenn, text by the artist. [details]
Exhibition catalogue published in conjunction with show held January 12-March 30, 1986. Contributions by Sam Hunter, James D. Robinson, Elliot B. Barnett, George Bolge, Harry F. Gaugh, Robert C. Morgan, Richard Sarnoff, Malcolm Daniel, Karen Koehler and Kim Levin. ... [details]


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Donald Trump Wears a Lot of Hats, Literally
Usually when someone says that President Trump wears a lot of hats, they mean he has a lot of jobs. After all, he ultimately runs every aspect of our country.
But some deep digging has revealed that Trump has always worn a lot of hats — literally speaking. Despite a luscious coif of blond locks that already seem hatlike to some, Trump's interest in headwear extends back decades — and includes a range of looks beyond the ubiquitous "Make America Great Again" cap.
The "Made in America" Stetson
On July 17, Trump donned a customized Stetson to celebrate the White House's recent "Made in America" initiative.
The gold construction cap
Gotta protect that hair somehow, right? For a real estate tycoon and a lover of all things gaudy, of course Donald Trump would rock a gold hard hat. The special number was given to him by construction workers at the Trump Palace in 1990.
The blonde wig
Trump's natural hair can often seem wiglike, but in 2007 he rocked a terrific look for Woody Johnson's Wig Out party.
The Sia
Yes, a wig is not technically a hat, but when singer Sia is involved, it's on a whole new level. Trump wore the voluminous piece while hosting SNL in 2015.
The yacht captain cap
Overflowing in preppy pastels (cream jacket, blue pants, pink polo), Trump's yachting cap really ties the whole look together. Also featured, ex-wife Marla Maples.
The Olympian
For the 2004 Athens Games, Trump was one of the celebrities to carry the Olympic torch through New York City.
The party hat
It might not be his best look (don't they have party caps in bigger sizes?), but it was for a good cause. Trump appeared at a 2002 benefit event for the Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
The full-on farmer hat
These days, it's rare to find Donald Trump not in a suit. But in 2005 at the Emmys, some charming producer persuaded him to wear not only denim overalls but also a straw hat. What followed was a truly unique rendition of the Green Acres theme song alongside Megan Mullally. Trump ended by pecking the Will & Grace star on her cheek.
The miner hat
While he was only a presidential candidate, Trump put on a miner's hard hat (and two thumbs up) to show his support for those in the coal industry.
The yarmulke
Trump wore a yarmulke during his recent visit to Israel. Here he is visiting the Western Wall in May.
The Old Faithful
In other entertainment news, Mark Hamill read some Trump tweets in his Joker voice:
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|Formula De - Singapore track, ten players in five teams. It rained throughout the race, and we only had eight finishers.
|Slaughterloo - can you see a stand of chickens beside the artillery? Apparently they're battery hens...
|General Quarters rules...
|...and some very small ships.
|Saga: the new boards being tested.
|Johnny Reb III
|I knew I should have written down the name of the rules being used here...
|It looked very nice, though.
|A Fistful of TOWs with WW2 micro-armour
|And the infamous club painting comp.


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It squirms. It wiggles.
Is it alive?
For good measure, the Bears stomped on it, mercifully putting the Green Bay Packers` offense out of its misery Thursday night.
Holding Green Bay to a paltry 138 total yards, the Bears wrested the home-field advantage by turning the cheers of 58,435 Lambeau Field onlookers into boos in a 10-0 Bears victory.
When the Bears defense wasn`t busy intimidating the Packers, the offense was re-establishing its running game, helped by a couple of crucial officials` calls.
''I`m glad to have a win,'' said coach Mike Ditka. ''I don`t care what it looks like. I ain`t apologizing and I`m not giving it back. It`s fun; it`s great. Our offense isn`t scoring, so we`re going to have to shut out a lot of people.
''We`ve played three Central Division teams (Tampa Bay, Minnesota and Green Bay) and have won three games. I can`t emphasize how important it is to control your division.''
Improving to 5-2, the Bears ended their two-game skid and remained on the heels of the front-running Detroit Lions (5-1) in the NFC Central race.
The Packers fell to 1-6, losing their fourth straight. Coach Lindy Infante said he wanted to ''apologize'' for his team`s performance and put the blame on himself.
''It was an all-time low,'' Infante said. ''We certainly bottomed out. Maybe it was a reflection of me in some way, shape or form.''
Still, the Bears trailed the National League champion Atlanta Braves in scoring for most of the first half.
But an 8-yard touchdown pass from Jim Harbaugh to tight end James Thornton with 1:44 left in the half provided a 7-0 lead at intermission.
It was Harbaugh`s first touchdown pass to a tight end in his NFL career.
''Thornton was the third guy I was going to,'' said Harbaugh. ''He just kind of worked off his man (Chuck Cecil) and was wide open.''
Harbaugh wound up completing 18 of 29 passes for 142 yards and a touchdown. He was also intercepted once and scrambled effectively for 29 yards on six carries.
''It was a nice game for the offensive line because there were some holes out there tonight,'' he said. ''That was probably the best run-blocking I`ve seen this year. We ran the ball better than I thought we would, because they`re so good against the run (fourth).''
The Packers, who entered the game ranked last in the National Football Conference with a minus-9 turnover ratio, benefitted from two Bears turnovers in the first quarter.
Receiver Tom Waddle fumbled after a 6-yard reception on the Bears` first possession. Mark Murphy caused the fumble and linebacker Johnny Holland made the recovery at the Packers` 34.
The Bears also lost the ball when Harbaugh`s deep pass intended for Wendell Davis was picked off by Cecil with 6:55 left in the opening period.
''As you could see, it wasn`t pretty,'' Ditka said. ''But they`re trying. Our defense played pretty good. I really believe that it was more what our defense was doing and less of what their offense was doing.''
Packers quarterback Don Majkowski connected on only 3 of 16 passes for 32 yards. He was 0 for 6 in the second half before former Bear Mike Tomczak took over. Tomczak was 4 of 9 for 36 yards and one interception.
''He (Majkowski) scares the heck out of me,'' said Ditka. ''I didn`t see anything negative. He looked awfully quick. The only thing, I think, in the past he probably would have run on a couple of those (incomplete passes). But I don`t blame him. I would get rid of it, too.''
Asked how he felt about facing Tomczak, Ditka replied: ''It didn`t feel good. I like Mike a lot. I don`t like to play against people I like.''
Green Bay converted only one first down in the first half and five for the game.
''I had a long talk with Mike Singletary this week and his observations were interesting,'' said Ditka of his defense`s first shutout of the season.
''He really felt that the defense was on the verge of being a fine unit.''
Veteran Shaun Gayle, in his first extended play since returning two games ago from a leg stress fracture, was credited with six tackles and a pass defended.
''It feels good,'' Gayle said. ''(Friday) is what I`m concerned about. That`s when I`ll feel the aches and pains, because it has been a long time since I hit somebody.''
Linebacker John Roper, rookie defensive lineman James Williams and cornerback John Mangum earned sacks.
Neal Anderson, courageously playing with a tender left hamstring, picked up 81 yards on 16 carries for a 5.1-yard average.
''I tried to spell Neal as much as I could,'' said running backs coach Johnny Roland.
Fullback Brad Muster had 30 yards on nine carries. He also caught three passes for 24 yards and blocked effectively.
''The running game is not there yet, but it`s getting a little better,''
said Ditka. ''We have got to throw the ball a little better off those slants. We didn`t set any records out there, but I just think it`s important to have Brad Muster out on the field. He gives you so much of a weapon, not only as a runner, but as a blocker and also a receiver.
''You have just got to be a little hard-headed to keep calling (running plays). It`s hard for me to get (offensive coordinator) Greg (Landry) to do that. In the old days, I could do that all the time.''
The Bears were on the receiving end of a Packers turnover late in the third quarter. Majkowski fumbled a snap from center in the shotgun formation and Richard Dent recovered with 30 seconds to go in the period.
''I don`t think we can win all our games this way, but it`s a start,''
said Dent.
The drive concluded with a 22-yard Butler field goal and a 10-0 lead with 13:48 to go in the game.
Tomczak replaced Majkowski with 13:38 left.
After that drive stalled, Paul McJulien punted to the Bears` Johnny Bailey, who fumbled into the arms of the Packers` Charles Wilson. But the officials ruled that the whistle had blown, nullifying the fumble.
''Johnny is a thrill a moment,'' said Ditka.


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Discipleship is the process of growing up in Christ in all things, in all areas of character and life.
According to Scripture, being a disciple of Christ involves personal growth characterized by an intimate relationship with Jesus. Through our relationship with Christ we partner with Him in His mission. The Great Commission outlines 3 main steps for making disciples: Go and tell them, baptize them, and teach them, plus the reminder that Jesus is always with us.
At Metro, we're committed to following Jesus' model for discipleship and, like Him, we believe that discipleship happens in community. It begins with our own immediate family and then flows to our Christian family. But, it doesn't stop there, we are also called to take time to connect with people in our neighborhood and in our sphere of influence. All Christians are called to disciple because there will always be someone in our life that is less mature in their faith or not a believer at all (yet).
Basically, as Christians we are called to replicate ourselves (like a cell that is splitting continuously) at all levels, from disciples who make disciples to churches that plant churches.


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The 2nd in the series.
From right to left: grape pudding, milk chocolate, chocolate cake and strawberry pudding.
Yet to make the box for this kind of cards though.
I'm in the mood for white cards recently. Simple, and straight to the point. :)
... And dessert always made me hungry. Hm.


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"Cooking Light with Cranberries" Recipe Contest Winners Announced
"Cooking Light with Cranberries" proved to be a popular recipe contest! We had many delectable entries to choose from – so many amazing recipes, in fact, that we had to pick FOUR winners instead of our usual three. This is most definitely a win/win situation for those that submitted recipes and for you, dear reader.
Our contest participants were asked for recipes that were considered "light" – 500 calories or less per serving for the purposes of this quarter's theme. Of course, the finished product needed to use cranberries and be DELICIOUS despite their "light" status. Congratulations to all four of our winners for tickling the tummies of our test kitchen tasters and thank you to everyone who took the time to submit a recipe. And please, keep the recipes coming in our current recipe contest! You continue to delight us with your creativity and general yumminess.
In a tie for first place are:
- Donna Beck of Bonney Lake, WA for her "Spicy Fresh & Dried Cranberry Curried Chicken" and
- Penny Langer of Camp Douglas, WI for her "FetaCran Turkey Wrap"
In second place is: Lily Kayte of Gainesville, FL for her "Wilted Carrot Cranberry Slaw"
And in third place is: Jayne Hanna of Mekoryuk, AK for her "Good for You Granola."
All four of the winners will receive special prizes from the Wisconsin Cranberry Discovery Center. All the winning recipes can be viewed in full by clicking here: 2013 2nd Quarter Recipe Contest Winners
If you would like to enter our current recipe contest, click here for all the details!