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This section provides definitions for many of the major terms used in
this report and in the scientific literature reviewed during the preparation of
the report. We have attempted to use definitions that have been generally
accepted in the scientific literature and in major reports and recommendations
for physical activity and public health. As scientists, educators, and
practitioners continue to strive to better understand new concepts and explore
the numerous characteristics of physical activity and their relations to
various aspects of health and physical fitness, new terminology is introduced
and existing definitions are modified. As new measurement tools are developed
and new health outcomes are identified, accepted terminology will continue to
evolve as part of the science of physical activity and health.
Included in this section are a number of the terms that pertain to
physical activity, physical fitness, and study design. Definitions for disease
or condition-specific terms are defined within individual chapters in
Part G: The Science
Base. Additional discussion of the terminology used in the
presentation of research results or the development of physical activity and
public health guidelines can be found in the following publications: Public
Health Aspects of Physical Activity and Exercise (1),
Toward Active Living (2), Physical Activity
and Health: A Report of the Surgeon General (3),
Dose-Response Issues Concerning Physical Activity and Health: An
Evidence-Based Symposium (4), American College of
Sports Medicine's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription (5), and Advancing Physical Activity and Guidelines in
Canada (6).
Two terms are widely used to describe human movement: physical
activity and exercise. Although they are often used
interchangeably, their definitions differ.
Physical activity is any bodily movement produced by
the contraction of skeletal muscle that increases energy expenditure above a
basal level. Among the ways physical activity can be categorized is according
to mode, intensity, and purpose (3). Mode and intensity are defined below.
With regard to classification by "purpose," physical activity frequently is
categorized by the context in which it is performed. Commonly used categories
include occupational, leisure-time or recreational, household, self-care, and
transportation or commuting activities. In some studies, sports participation
or "exercise training" is assessed and analyzed separately from other
leisure-time activities.
Exercise is a subcategory of physical activity that is
"planned, structured, and repetitive and purposive in the sense that the
improvement or maintenance of one or more components of physical fitness is the
objective" (7). Exercise and exercise
training frequently are used interchangeably and generally refer to
physical activity performed during leisure time with the primary purpose of
improving or maintaining physical fitness, physical performance, or health.
Other terms that describe additional types of physical activity or
exercise are defined here:
Activities of daily living. Activities required for
everyday living, including eating, bathing, toileting, dressing, getting into
or out of a bed or chair, and basic mobility.
Aerobic exercise (training). Exercise that primarily
uses the aerobic energy-producing systems, can improve the capacity and
efficiency of these systems, and is effective for improving cardiorespiratory
Anaerobic exercise (training). Exercise that uses the
anaerobic energy-producing systems and can improve the capacity of these
systems and increase the tolerance of acid-base imbalance during high-intensity
Balance training. Static and dynamic exercises that are
designed to improve individuals' ability to withstand challenges from postural
sway or destabilizing stimulus caused by self-motion, the environment, or other
Endurance exercise (endurance training). Exercises that
are repetitive and produce dynamic contractions of large muscle groups for an
extended period of time (e.g., walking, running, cycling, swimming).
Flexibility exercise. Exercises that enhance the
ability of a joint to move through its full range of motion.
Instrumental activities of daily living. Activities
related to independent living, including preparing meals, managing money,
shopping for groceries or personal items, performing housework, and using a
Leisure-time physical activity. Physical activities
performed by a person that are not required as essential activities of daily
living and are performed at the discretion of the person. These activities
include sports participation, exercise conditioning or training, and
recreational activities such as going for a walk, dancing, and gardening.
Lifestyle activities. This term is frequently used to
encompass activities that one carries out in the course of one's daily life,
that can contribute to sizeable energy expenditure, e.g., taking the stairs
instead of using the elevator, walking to do errands instead of driving,
getting off one bus stop earlier, or parking further away than usual to walk to
a destination.
Resistance training (strength training, muscle-strengthening
activities, or muscular strength and endurance exercises). Exercise
training primarily designed to increase skeletal muscle strength, power,
endurance, and mass.
Terms related to patterns
of physical activity or exercise are defined here:
Accumulation. The concept of meeting a specific
physical activity dose or goal by performing activity in short bouts, then
adding together the time spent during each of these bouts. For example, a
30-minute per day goal could be met by performing 3 bouts of 10 minutes each
throughout the day.
Dose. In the field of physical activity, dose refers to
the amount of physical activity performed by the subject or participants. The
total dose or amount is determined by the three components of activity:
frequency, duration, and intensity. Frequency is commonly recorded as sessions,
episodes, or bouts per day or per week. Duration is the length of time for each
bout of any specific activity. Intensity is the rate of energy expenditure
necessary to perform the activity to accomplish the desired function (aerobic
activity) or the magnitude of the force exerted during resistance exercise.
Dose response. The relation between the dose of
physical activity and the health or fitness outcome of interest is considered
the dose response. The dose can be measured in terms of a single component of
activity (e.g., frequency, duration, intensity) or as the total amount. This
concept is similar to the prescription of a medication where the expected
response will vary as the dose of the medication is changed. The dose-response
relation can be linear, exponential, or hyperbolic, and the dose-response
relation is likely to vary depending on the primary measure of interest. For
example, improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, bone health, or adiposity
are common dose-response measures of interest. A dose of physical activity may
exist below which no effect has been detected as well as a dose above which no
effect has been detected. These seemingly lowest and highest doses of activity
may be called "thresholds," but the term should be used cautiously as these
apparent limits may be more related to limitations of measurement than to true
biological limits.
Duration. The length of time in which an activity or
exercise is performed. Duration is generally expressed in minutes.
Frequency. The number of times an exercise or activity
is performed. Frequency is generally expressed in sessions, episodes, or bouts
per week.
Intensity. Intensity refers to
how much work is being performed or the magnitude of the effort required to
perform an activity or exercise. Intensity can be expressed either in
absolute or relative terms.
MET. MET refers to metabolic equivalent and 1
MET is the rate of energy expenditure while sitting at rest. It is taken by
convention to be an oxygen uptake of 3.5 milliliters per kilogram of body
weight per minute. Physical activities frequently are classified by their
intensity, using the MET as a reference (see
Table D.3 in Part D: Background).
Mode. The type of activity or
exercise that is being performed. Biking, walking, rowing, and weight lifting
are all examples of different modes of activity.
Progression. The process of increasing the intensity,
duration, frequency, or amount of activity or exercise as the body adapts to a
given activity pattern.
During the 20th century, physical fitness has been
defined in a variety of ways, but a generally accepted definition is "the
ability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and alertness, without undue
fatigue and with ample energy to enjoy leisure-time pursuits and meet
unforeseen emergencies" (3, p.20). It has been defined by
the World Health Organization as "the ability to perform muscular work
satisfactorily" (9, p.6). Physical fitness includes a
number of components consisting of cardiorespiratory endurance (aerobic power),
skeletal muscle endurance, skeletal muscle strength, skeletal muscle power,
flexibility, balance, speed of movement, reaction time, and body composition.
Because these attributes differ in their importance to athletic performance
versus health, a distinction has been made between performance-related
fitness and health-related fitness (7).
Performance-related fitness includes those attributes that significantly
contribute to athletic performance and places emphasis on aerobic endurance or
power, muscle strength and power, speed of movement, and reaction time.
Health-related fitness includes cardiorespiratory fitness, muscular strength
and endurance, body composition, flexibility, and balance. The relative
importance of any one attribute depends on the specific performance or health
The following terms relate
to specific aspects of physical fitness.
Adaptation. The body's response to exercise or
activity. Some of the body's structures and functions favorably adjust to the
increase in demands placed on them whenever physical activity of a greater
amount or higher intensity is performed than what is usual for the individual.
It is these adaptations that are the basis for much of the improved health and
fitness associated with increases in physical activity.
Agility. A performance-related component of physical
fitness that is the ability to change position of the entire body in space with
speed and accuracy.
Balance. A performance-related component of physical
fitness that involves the maintenance of the body's equilibrium while
stationary or moving.
Body composition. A health-related component of
physical fitness that applies to body weight and the relative amounts of
muscle, fat, bone, and other vital tissues of the body. Most often, the
components are limited to fat and lean body mass (or fat-free mass).
Cardiorespiratory fitness (endurance). A health-related
component of physical fitness that is the ability of the circulatory and
respiratory systems to supply oxygen during sustained physical activity.
Usually expressed as measured or estimated maximal oxygen uptake
Coordination. A performance-related component of
physical fitness that is the ability to use the senses, such as sight and
hearing together with body parts in carrying out motor tasks smoothly and
Flexibility. A health and performance-related component
of physical fitness that is the range of motion possible at a joint.
Flexibility is specific to each joint and depends on a number of specific
variables, including but not limited to the tightness of specific ligaments and
Maximal oxygen uptake (VO2max). The body's
capacity to transport and use oxygen during a maximal exertion involving
dynamic contraction of large muscle groups, such as during running or cycling.
It is also known as maximal aerobic power and cardiorespiratory endurance
capacity. Peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) is the highest rate of
oxygen consumption observed during an exhaustive exercise test.
Power. A performance-related component of physical
fitness that describes the rate (or speed) at which work can be applied.
Speed. A performance-related component of physical
fitness that is the ability to perform movements rapidly or within a short
period of time.
Strength. A health and performance-component of
physical fitness that is the ability of a muscle or muscle group to exert
Numerous definitions of health exist and, in this
report, we have adopted the following: "Health is a human condition with
physical, social and psychological dimensions, each characterized on a
continuum with positive and negative poles. Positive health is associated with
a capacity to enjoy life and to withstand challenges; it is not merely the
absence of disease. Negative health is associated with morbidity, and in the
extreme, with premature mortality" (10, p.100).
Health-related quality of life is an individual's
overall sense of well being and includes such factors as pain, mood, energy
level, family and social interactions, sexual function, ability to work, and
ability to keep up with routine daily activities.
Absolute risk. The percentage of subjects in a group
that experiences a discrete negative outcome, such as death or hospital
Case-control study. A type of epidemiologic study
design in which subjects are selected based on the presence or absence of a
specific outcome of interest, such as cancer or diabetes. The individual's past
physical activity practices are assessed, and the association between past
physical activity and presence of the outcome is determined.
Case report. This includes single case reports of
individual patients and published case series.
Confidence interval. When
relative risk (see definition below) is calculated, one
can also calculate a confidence interval, or a band of uncertainty, around the
estimate of the relative risk. Typically, 95% confidence intervals are used in
epidemiologic studies. For example, if the estimated relative risk for colon
cancer associated with physical activity, compared with inactivity, is 0.5 with
a 95% confidence interval of 0.3 to 0.8, this means that we are 95% certain
that the true estimate of the relative risk lies between 0.3 and 0.8.
Cross-sectional study. Studies that compare and
evaluate specific groups or populations at a single point in time.
Observational studies. Studies in which outcomes are
measured but no attempt is made to change the outcome. The two most commonly
used designs for observational studies are case-control studies and prospective
cohort studies.
Odds ratio. A measure of probability used in
epidemiologic studies. It measures the chances of an event (or disease)
occurring in one group of people as compared to another group with different
characteristics. For example, an odds ratio of 0.5 for high blood pressure in
people who participate in physical activity, compared with people who are
inactive, indicates that active persons are 0.5 times (50%) less likely to have
high blood pressure, compared with those who are inactive (see also confidence interval).
Prospective cohort study. A type of epidemiologic study
in which the physical activity practices of the enrolled subjects are
determined and the subjects are followed (or observed) for the development of
selected outcomes. It differs from clinical trials in that the exposure, in
this case physical activity, is not assigned by the researchers.
Randomized controlled trial (also known as a randomized clinical
trial). A type of study design in which participants are grouped on
the basis of an investigator-assigned exposure of interest, such as physical
activity. For example, among a group of eligible participants, investigators
may randomly assign them to exercise at three levels: no activity, moderate
activity, and vigorous activity. These participants are then followed over time
to assess the outcome of interest, such as change in abdominal fat. Randomized
controlled trials are often considered the "gold standard" of human
intervention study designs. However, because of the cost and issues regarding
compliance with an assigned activity level, it may not always be feasible, or
even desirable, to conduct this type of trial.
Relative risk. A measure of
association used in epidemiologic studies. It measures the magnitude of
association between the exposure (such as physical activity) and the disease
(such as colon cancer). A relative risk of 0.5 for colon cancer associated with
physical activity, compared with inactivity, indicates that active persons have
0.5 times (or 50%) the risk of developing colon cancer compared to inactive
Retrospective study. A study in which the outcomes have
occurred before the study has begun.
Cochrane Collaboration. An internationally organized
effort to bring existing clinical studies into systematic reviews to facilitate
the process of bringing clinical evidence to bear on decisionmaking in patient
Meta-analysis. A review of a focused question that
follows rigorous methodological criteria and uses statistical techniques to
combine data from studies on that question.
Systematic review. A review of a clearly defined
question that uses systematic and explicit methods to identify, select, and
critically evaluate relevant research, and to collect and analyze data from the
studies to include in the review.
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By her own admission, Jackie Lightfield is guided by a thought-process that often begins by asking the question, "Wouldn't it be cool if ... ?"
These days, as the executive director of the Stamford Partnership, a longtime civic alliance group, her hypotheticals are mostly directed at the ways the city could become more affordable, transit-oriented, tech-savvy and, in general, more "people-centric," to borrow one of her favorite phrases.
"To have more people in the streets, on the sidewalks, and just outside and hanging out would be a fabulous legacy," she said.
The 48-year-old tech entrepreneur, who runs a travel guide publishing business in Norwalk called Pocket Tour Guide, was tapped last summer to lead the Stamford Partnership. The nonprofit organization has a 35-year history as a public-private collaborative that seeks to foster conversations between government and the nonprofit and business communities. It has been described as a catalyst for redevelopment projects and urban policies. During the 1990s, the organization led the effort to relocate the University of Connecticut-Stamford campus from North Stamford to its location in the downtown. More recently, in 2009, it partnered with the Urban Redevelopment Commission to spearhead "Reinventing Stamford," a series of public discussions about the city's future.
But in recent years, the Partnership has fallen somewhat off the radar. Kathleen Walsh, its head since 2004 stepped down in 2011. Her successor, Thomas Gissen, served less than two years.
In terms of nonprofit executives, Lightfield is an unlikely figure. She originally gained notice for her work as a civic activist in Norwalk, where she resides. Between 2005 and 2010, she served as a member and later chairwoman of the city's zoning board, an unusual position given her age. "I'm pretty sure I was the youngest chair ever," she said.
Though it was new to her, learning the process of zoning and regulating development felt intuitive. She knew the life of cities. Growing up, her family moved frequently -- she has lived in Chicago, Montreal, Dallas and Cleveland, to name a few. In college, she majored in archeology at Boston University. She said that as a result, she is well-attuned to architecture and questions like "what makes a good plaza." As someone who is part French, she also believes that all cities should try to emulate Paris, the "ultimate city that was always designed for its inhabitants."
At the same time that she served on the zoning board, she was involved in promoting a local arts scene as the chairwoman of Norwalk's arts commission.
Then in 2010, with those two experiences under her belt, she decided to start Norwalk 2.0, a nonprofit civic organization that came about from her desire to "make Norwalk cool." The group's projects have included pop-up art galleries in South Norwalk, concert series in the park, and a currently ongoing exhibit known as Freese Park Artist Village, which features crowd-sourced art installations.
Despite her strong ties to Norwalk, when she was approached with the idea of working for the Stamford Partnership, she was immediately intrigued. It was an opportunity, she said, to bring that same "creative, soulful, exciting and energetic vibe" to a new city.
In some ways, the timing for Lightfield, who started in September 2013, couldn't be more opportune. The city has a new mayor along with a new administration, the effort to update the master plan is underway, and more than ever, there is an interest in how technology and the digital age can be used to shape and run cities.
As her first assignment, Lightfield went about getting the Partnership involved in the city's master plan process. She said she attended all but one of the seven workshops held across the city.
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Punters keen to have a flutter at Flemington racecourse in Melbourne will be able to bet online and watch the race in HD on their smartphone within the arena when a Wi-Fi service is introduced by the Victorian Racing Club (VRC) next year.
The Cisco Connected Stadium Wi-Fi offering, which is set to go live in time for Melbourne Cup 2013, will allow punters to access the Internet using their smart phones. According to VRC, members and guests can use the service to place bets, order food/beverages and watch races in HD video.
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According to VRC corporate finance and strategic initiatives executive general manager Simon Love, the Wi-Fi network will also help to free up mobile networks, allowing fans to SMS and call throughout race day.
"Real-time Wi-Fi access on our busiest race days will not only help visitors interact and share their race experiences with friends and families via social media, text and video during the event, it also allows us to expand the ways in which our guests can engage with the venue," he said in a statement.
For example, VRC will be providing its VIP members with seat directions, traffic/weather updates and exclusive video content using another Cisco offering called StadiumVision, a video and digital content distribution system.
While Flemington is understood to be the first racecourse in Australia to roll out Connected Stadium, the system is also being used at Eden Park stadium in New Zealand and Wembley Stadium in London.
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Scientists use storm-chasing weather radar to track bat populations
Storm chasers have become bat watchers. A scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma, is using mobile storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as they emerge from their caves each night to forage on insects.
The radar images of bats appear as distinct "blooms" of radar reflectivity and give scientists clues to their behavior, said Winifred F. Frick, a post doctoral researcher in environmental studies at UC Santa Cruz. Frick, a bat expert, is working with professor Thomas H. Kunz, of Boston University, Phillip B. Chilson, associate professor of meteorology, at the University of Oklahoma and Kenneth Howard at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Severe Storms Laboratory.
Friday, February 18, 2011, the team will give a press briefing in Washington, D.C. in advance of a presentation the next day at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The presentation is titled "Aeroecology: Transcending Boundaries Among Ecology, Meteorology, and Physics."
Kunz coined the term "aeroecology" two years ago to describe the interactions of organisms birds, bats, and insects in the lower atmosphere. Aeroecology can be recognized as a stand-alone discipline just as marine biology is recognized as a stand-alone discipline concerning life in the oceans, Frick said.
"It's very interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary in the sense that it involves bird biologists and bat ecologists, entomologists, radar scientists and meteorologists," she said.
Frick received a National Science Foundation fellowship in bioinformatics to use current radar technologies to estimate densities of bat populations in the atmosphere. A year ago, she and Kunz, with whom she has worked for years, met with atmospheric and radar scientists at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Okla. to collaborate using weather data collected by radars to study bat populations.
In addition to truck-mounted mobile radars, Frick and her colleagues use data from 160 fixed NEXRAD weather radars around the country. Familiar as "doppler radar" from TV weather reports, these radars have recorded and archived atmospheric data every five minutes for the past 20 years.
Scientists at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman collect NEXRAD radar data to predict weather patterns but first they must filter out "bioscatter" -- birds, bats, and insects -- to focus on weather patterns, Frick said. "They want to get rid of this bioscatter clutter to make accurate storm predictions," she said.
Now, the storm scientists are reversing the filter to instead focus on bioscatter. That offers the potential of looking back two decades to see population changes among bats, insects, and migrating birds.
They've developed a website called Surveillance of Aeroecology using weather Radars, or SOAR, that will be a "bioscatter portal," Frick said. There researchers can look at patterns of bat emergences from colonies, bird migrations, and even Monarch butterfly migrations.
Last July, the team positioned a mobile, storm-chasing radar from NOAA outside a cave in Texas to focus on swarms of Mexican free-tail bats. Using calculations of the amount of radar backscatter from a single bat in the laboratory, the group is developing the first means to calculate aerial densities of bats as they travel on the wing.
In August, Frick and Kunz published findings suggesting the possible extinction of the little brown bat in the northeast United States because of a fungus that disrupts the bats' hibernation cycles.
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Prosecutor may seek death penalty for Cleveland kidnap, rape suspect Ariel Castro
CLEVELAND An Ohio prosecutor says he may seek the death penalty against the man accused of imprisoning three women at his home for about a decade for forcing them to suffer miscarriages.
Cuyahoga County prosecutor Thomas McGinty says Ohio law calls for the death penalty for the "most depraved criminals who commit aggravated murder during the course of a kidnapping." He says aggravated murder charges could be filed related to pregnancies terminated by force.
Ariel Castro is being held on $8 million bail. The 52-year-old former school bus driver was under a suicide watch in jail, where he was being held on kidnapping and rape charges for holding three women - Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight - inside his home for about a decade.
Knight, who still hasn't been since in public, is said to be recovering in a hospital and has turned away visitors, CBS News correspondent Dean Reynolds reports from Cleveland.
"She was severely beaten," said Knight's grandmother, Debora Knight. "He had beat so badly in the face, she has to have facial reconstruction, and she's lost hearing in one ear."
McGinty suggests the charges could number in the hundreds, if not thousands.
In his first court appearance Thursday, Castro looked down at the ground for almost the entire proceeding, biting his collar and signing documents with his handcuffed hands. He didn't speak.
The women found alive after years in captivity endured lonely, dark lives inside a dingy home where they were raped and allowed outside only a handful of times in disguises while walking to a garage steps away, investigators say.
Assistant county prosecutor Brian Murphy said the women were beaten repeatedly and sexually assaulted. He said Castro used the women "in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit."
While many questions remain about how Castro maintained such tight control over the women for so many years before one of them made a daring escape Monday, the horrors they suffered are beginning to come to light.
Castro lured the women into his vehicle, according to court documents filed Thursday.
Police say the women were apparently bound by ropes and chains at times and were kept in different rooms. They suffered prolonged sexual and psychological abuse and had miscarriages, according to a police report obtained Wednesday by CBS News, which corroborated information received earlier from a law enforcement source. Knight told police she suffered five miscarriages.
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Castro has been charged with four counts of kidnapping - covering the captives and the daughter born to one of them - and three counts of rape, against all three women.
Years before his arrest Monday, Castro apparently contemplated committing suicide, CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton reports.
In a lengthy, handwritten note from 2004 discovered in his house by FBI agents, Castro allegedly confessed to taking the three women and said that he was abused as a child and raped by an uncle, according to a law enforcement source.
Reynolds also reports that Castro called himself a "sexual predator" and provided details about taking each of his victims. He blamed the women for their own kidnappings, but he asks for whatever money he has to be donated to his victims after his death.
Kathleen DeMetz, a public defender who represented Castro in court, said he would be transferred from a city jail medical unit where defendants charged with sex crimes or are considered a suicide risk are normally held.
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine told CNN Thursday night that his office received DNA profiles of Castro and will start trying to determine if he is involved in other crimes.
Earlier Thursday in court, Castro did not have a chance to talk to his two brothers, who were arrested and cleared without charges, DeMetz said.
The women and Castro have given lengthy statements to police that have helped build their case, said Deputy Police Chief Ed Tomba.
None of the women, though, gave them any indication that Castro's two brothers, who had been in custody since Monday, were involved, Tomba said. Prosecutors brought no charges against the brothers, citing a lack of evidence. The brothers appeared in court before Castro, on unrelated charges, and were in the process of being released.
Pedro Castro, 54, pleaded no contest to an open container charge while two charges against Onil Castro, 50, were dismissed.
"Ariel kept everyone at a distance," Tomba said.
The women, now in their 20s and 30s, vanished separately between 2002 and 2004. At the time, they were 14, 16 and 20 years old.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 71 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
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08-16-96 Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, NY
1: Chalk Dust Torture, Bathtub Gin, Ya Mar, AC/DC Bag, Esther, The Divided Sky, Halley's Comet, David Bowie
2: Split Open and Melt, Sparkle, Free, The Squirming Coil, Waste**, Talk**, Train Song**, Strange Design**, Hello My Baby, Mike's Song-> Simple-> Contact-> Weekapaug Groove
3: Makisupa Policeman, Also Sprach Zarathustra-> Down With Disease, NICU, Life on Mars, Harry Hood#
E: Amazing Grace
The Clifford Ball (Day One). **Acoustic mini-stage. #With fireworks.
08-17-96 Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, NY
1: The Old Home Place, Punch You in the Eye, Reba, Cars Trucks Buses, Lizards, Sample in a Jar, Taste, Fee, Maze, Suzy Greenberg
2: The Curtain, Runaway Jim, It's Ice, Brother*, Fluffhead, Run Like an Antelope, Golgi Apparatus, Slave to the Traffic Light
3: Wilson, Frankenstein, Scent of a Mule**, Tweezer, A Day in the Life, Possum, Tweezer Reprise
E: Harpua#
The Clifford Ball (Day Two). *With Ben & Jerry singing a verse. **With a Fishman solo instead of the typical Page/Trey duel. #Without the "Ooom Pah Pah" opening and cut short before finishing.
phish.net wrote:FRIDAY 01/13/2017
BARCELó MAYA BEACH
Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico
SET 1: Free, Yarmouth Road, Sand, Theme From the Bottom > Funky Bitch, Undermind > NICU > Horn, Wolfman's Brother
SET 2: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing > The Wedge > Fuego > Prince Caspian -> Twist -> Seven Below > Golgi Apparatus > Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Contact, Bug
phish.net wrote:PHISH, SATURDAY 01/14/2017
BARCELó MAYA BEACH
Riviera Maya, Quintana Roo, Mexico
SET 1: The Curtain With, AC/DC Bag > Breath and Burning, Poor Heart, Halfway to the Moon, The Line, Waking Up Dead, Tube > Fast Enough for You, Ocelot > Chalk Dust Torture
SET 2: Crosseyed and Painless > Blaze On > Meatstick > Winterqueen, Mercury > Light > Wading in the Velvet Sea
ENCORE: Drowned, Rocky Top
This show was webcast via Live Phish. Crosseyed was teased in Meatstick, Mercury, Light, and Rocky Top and teased and quoted in Drowned.
willbreathes wrote:Phish: Fri, Aug 07, 2015
Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Soundcheck: It's Ice, Mound, The Lizards, Jam
Set 1: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, My Sweet One > Wilson > Timber (Jerry), Roses Are Free, Rift, The Moma Dance, Ginseng Sullivan, Wingsuit, It's Ice > Bathtub Gin
Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] -> Tweezer > The Lizards, Makisupa Policeman > Ghost > Harry Hood > Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Good Times Bad Times
Harpua wrote:willbreathes wrote:Phish: Fri, Aug 07, 2015
Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Soundcheck: It's Ice, Mound, The Lizards, Jam
Set 1: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing, My Sweet One > Wilson > Timber (Jerry), Roses Are Free, Rift, The Moma Dance, Ginseng Sullivan, Wingsuit, It's Ice > Bathtub Gin
Set 2: Chalk Dust Torture[1] -> Tweezer > The Lizards, Makisupa Policeman > Ghost > Harry Hood > Tweezer Reprise
Encore: Good Times Bad Times
I listened to set one yesterday, and I'll fire up set two on my way home from work today. This show is a killer show. Definitely one of the best I have seen.
ghost wrote:On Phish.net if you click on Shows and Phish Setlists and Setlist Options you get this:
(I'm pretty sure it would be more than two sets.)
The Moon, Luna
Soundcheck: Space Oddity, Moonchild, Rocket Man, Destiny Unbound
SET 1: AC/DC Bag, No Men In No Man's Land, Backwards Down the Number Line > Carini [1], My Mind's Got a Mind of its Own -> McGrupp and the Watchful Hosemasters, Wall of the Cave > Golgi Apparatus
SET 2: Piper > Twist > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday > Avenu Malkenu > The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, 2001 -> Boogie On Reggae Woman, 46 Days > Tweezer[2] -> Harry Hood
ENCORE: Life on Mars, Tweezer Reprise
[1] Lyrics changed to "Martini in a Frumpy Bed"
[2] Fish on Marimba Lumina
This show was webcast via Live Phish, albeit with horrible interplanetary lag. At least four people were sucked into a passing event horizon during 2001. Tweezer Reprise cut short due to space dust hail.
phish.net wrote:PHISH, SATURDAY 12/30/2017
New York, NY
SET 1: Mike's Song > I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Tweezer > Ass Handed, Kill Devil Falls > Bathtub Gin, Brother, More
SET 2: Down with Disease[1] -> Steam > Light > Farmhouse, Run Like an Antelope
ENCORE: Sleeping Monkey > Tweezer Reprise
[1] Unfinished
This show was webcast via Live Phish. Brother was last played June 17, 2012 (216 shows). Down With Disease was unfinished. Trey teased No Woman, No Cry in Farmhouse.
TanasRoot wrote:anyone interested in torrenting Baker's Dozen HD webcast vids w/ Charlie Miller matrix AUD? i got the links from .net ... the files are huge like 10 GB per show but they look and sound incredible. http://forum.phish.net/forum/show/1377773971#page=1
Watching PHISH 7/21/17 Coconut for the first time since being there, really great
SET 1: Shake Your Coconuts[1], Martian Monster, Timber Ho! > 555, Pigtail, Halfway to the Moon, Reba[2], Moonage Daydream, Walls of the Cave
SET 2: Tweezer > Seven Below > Billy Breathes > Sparkle, Everything's Right > Slave to the Traffic Light > Suzy Greenberg, Coconut[3]
ENCORE: The Mango Song > Good Times Bad Times
[1] Phish debut. Lyrics changed to reference the Baker's Dozen.
[2] No whistling.
[3] Phish debut.
Phish.net wrote:PHISH, SUNDAY 08/09/2015
ALPINE VALLEY MUSIC THEATRE East Troy, WI
SET 1: The Very Long Fuse, Colonel Forbin's Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird, Brian and Robert, Saw It Again, Esther, Weigh, The Sloth, Sanity > Split Open and Melt
SET 2: Run Like an Antelope > Carini > Waves -> Tweezer > Dirt > Mike's Song > Blaze On > Weekapaug Groove > Tweezer Reprise
ENCORE: Contact, Frankenstein[1]
[1] Page on keytar.
Mockingbird featured narration about Trey walking around Alpine Valley and having a bird shit on him, inspiring him to play the song that night. He also acknowledged that this was the band's 17th show at Alpine and that the following day would be the 19th anniversary of their first appearance (August 10, 1996). The Very Long Fuse was quoted in Sanity. Frankenstein featured Page on keytar.
hosemasterflex wrote:I'm finally making my way thru the last Chicago '17 show ... I don't know if it's these boomy AUDs or what, but it's taking me forever.
Pretty fun shows though, strong Stash right there. Just doubled back though, to relisten to Tube cuz I wasn't listening.
Long Live Phish.
7-16 Northerly Island, Chicago, IL
SET 1: Possum, 555, Tube, Ocelot, Lawn Boy, Stash, The Line, Birds of a Feather, Funky Bitch, Run Like an Antelope
SET 2: Carini > Twenty Years Later > Piper > Thread[1], Bathtub Gin > Also Sprach Zarathustra > Cavern
ENCORE: Wilson, Character Zero
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One of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell's most loyal top staffers took the stand Monday in the public corruption trial against McDonnell and his wife, Maureen.
Former Secretary of the Commonwealth Janet Kelly said she loved working for the then-governor, but described Maureen McDonnell's behavior as "challenging."
Prosecutors say the McDonnells accepted more than $165,000 in gifts and loans from former Star Scientific Inc. CEO Jonnie Williams in exchange for promoting his company's dietary supplements. Williams received immunity for his cooperation with the government.
On the stand, Kelly explained the priorities of the McDonnell administration and provided detail about her workaholic boss. She also began to discuss her relationship with Maureen McDonnell, with whom she worked closely during Bob McDonnell's 2009 campaign.
"When I became secretary of the commonwealth, it was a strange time in our relationship," Kelly testified. "The campaign was the first time I saw on a frequent basis the challenging behavior I'm sure the jury has heard about."
"I told the governor flat out when he offered me the secretary of the commonwealth job [that] I couldn't work with Maureen," said Kelly, who had also managed McDonnell's campaign for attorney general in 2005.
Kelly said when she was installed in the cabinet, she asked for a separate point of contact with Maureen.
"My relationship with the first lady had deteriorated past the point of common sense," Kelly said.
Asked to elaborate on the first lady's behavior, Kelly began to cry, saying she didn't want to "pile on" before describing Maureen McDonnell as "very difficult, very demanding, very diva-ish."
She testified that she was at first concerned about working for the governor because of the first lady's behavior.
"She didn't grow into that role [of first lady] easily and it showed," Kelly said. "She didn't handle stress well. She would freak out at little things and take it out on people when she got upset."
In contrast, Kelly described Bob McDonnell as a demanding but gracious boss, seeking the "best and brightest" as she made recommendations to help him fill the administration's 4,000 board and commission positions.
"On a professional level, he was very driven; he was very clear in what he wanted us to do," Kelly testified.
His "Bobs for Jobs" campaign promise was the number one priority and it governed many of McDonnell's decisions, Kelly said.
"He was a good tough [boss], and I loved working for him," she said. "It was an honor to work for him. ...There was never a time when I questioned his motives."
Kelly described McDonnell as "one of the most honest people I know."
"If they had to elect the Boy Scout of the year, Mr. Honest, it would be him," she said.
Kelly also described how she observed the relationship between the McDonnells, and the relationship between Maureen McDonnell and Williams. She testified the McDonnells seemed more affectionate publicly than they did otherwise. But she said she does believe he loves her.
Kelly said she flew to an event for presidential candidate Mitt Romney with Williams and Maureen McDonnell and said they were obviously fond of each other.
"It was kind of flirty," she said.
On the flight back, without Maureen, Williams tried to sell Star Scientific stock to Kelly.
"I went home that night and prayed about it, but I just didn't have a good feeling," she testified.
Another encounter between Kelly and Williams occurred at an event where he asked to be seated next to Dr. William Hazel, Virginia's secretary of Health and Human Services. Kelly asked Hazel about it.
"He said, probably with profanity, 'No'," Kelly said.
Hazel testified previously in the trial that he once asked not to be seated next to Williams at a reception because, "Frankly, I thought it would be a very long evening," and that he didn't have much regard for the Star Scientific dietary supplement Anatabloc.
She also testified McDonnell never asked her to appoint or hire anyone affiliated with Williams to any board or position.
The defense introduced into evidence a letter signed by most of the governor's mansion staff, characterizing it as a possible mass resignation. Kelly testified the grievances in the letter were accurate and fair.
Before Maureen McDonnell's lawyer questioned Kelly, he motioned again for the couple to be tried separately but was denied.
Three members of Bob McDonnell's cabinet testified Monday afternoon that he never had them act to benefit Star Scientific, Jonnie Williams or Anatabloc.
While James Cheng, McDonnell's secretary of commerce, described several ways in which the government could help businesses, he said McDonnell never used them for the benefit of Star Scientific or Williams.
On cross examination, the government asked Cheng that if McDonnell asked him to meet with a businessman, would Cheng want to know about $120,000 in personal loans from the businessman to McDonnell. Cheng said they would not care about that and would remain focused on the best interests of the state. Earlier he testified that the administration pursued business growth and creation of jobs from a bipartisan standpoint.
Former Secretary of Education Laura Fornash testified that at no time did McDonnell ask for advocating for Star Scientific or Jonnie Williams to state universities. Secretary of Finance Richard Brown said McDonnell never asked for or discussed allocating money for Star Scientific, Williams or a dietary supplement.
Neal Noyes, retired director of the tobacco commission, also testified that McDonnell did not lobby for a grant to study Anatabloc.
The defense begins
Brenda Chamberlain, bookkeeper for MoBo Realty, was the first witness to take the stand Monday, as the defense began presenting its case.
The defense tried to show no attempt to hide $70,000 in loans to MoBo, as Chamberlain testified she was given full access to the accounts and could see the loans.
But during cross-examination, the government showed Williams wasn't named, only his Starwood Trust, which made the loans to MoBo. Chamberlain testified she never spoke to anyone with Starwood.
Chamberlain also testified that in March 2013 -- after Maureen McDonnell was questioned by investigators about Williams -- Bob McDonnell asked Chamberlain to send him her rates and a confidentiality agreement. Chamberlain sent him a formal letter of agreement, but said she didn't have a standard confidentiality agreement as she had never before been asked to sign one.
The trial entered its fourth week in U.S. District Court in Richmond on Monday. The week began with the loss of a juror due to a family emergency, leaving only one alternate juror.
Forty-five witnesses testified for the prosecution. Among them was Williams.
Defense attorneys have said Bob McDonnell will testify at some point. They indicated in court papers that Maureen McDonnell probably will not testify.
Motion to Dismiss Charges Denied Friday
Friday, Bob and Maureen McDonnell's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss the 14 corruption charges against the couple, saying the prosecution had failed to prove the couple had violated any laws. But Judge James R. Spencer denied them.
The defense's arguments Friday were similar to those of its past unsuccessful court motions. Specifically, lawyers argued that McDonnell had done nothing to provide Williams with anything of real value other than set up meetings and attend events.
Defense attorney Ryan Newman said prosecutors are interpreting the law too broadly, in a way that could criminalize routine political courtesies and put other politicians at risk for prosecution.
Bob McDonnell said Friday morning that being involved in the case was "crushing."
"All I can say is I've had 38 years of public service [and] public life," he said. "I've given my entire professional adult life to serving the people of the United States, in the Army, serving the people of Virginia in many different jobs, so obviously this is crushing to be a defendant in in a criminal case. I know in my heart what the truth is and we'll look forward now to having our case."
Some legal analysts and courtroom observers say in the end it may come down to who the jury believes: star prosecution witness and gift-giver Jonnie Williams, or Bob McDonnell.
The McDonnells could face decades in prison if convicted.


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The White House on Friday released a small list of visitors to the White House since President Barack Obama took office in January, including lobbyists, business executives, activists and celebrities.
Documents on White House visitor logs
- Judicial Watch lawsuit for visitor logs
- Secret Service denial of msnbc.com appeal
- White House reply to msnbc.com on visitor logs
- White House disclosure policy
- White House settlement letter to CREW
- White House limited release of information
- CREW request for health industry visitor logs
- CREW request for coal industry visitor logs
- CREW request for injunction
- Request by msnbc.com for all visitors
- Request by CREW for coal industry execs
- Secret Service denial letter on coal industry
- First opinion by Judge Royce Lamberth
- Second opinion by Judge Lamberth
- Obama administration response
- Amicus brief by National Security Archive
- Amicus brief by Judicial Watch
- CREW annual tax return
- Judicial Watch annual tax return
No previous administration has released such a list, though the information out so far is incomplete. Only about 110 names —and 481 visits —out of the hundreds of thousands who have visited the Obama White House were made public. Like the Bush administration before it, Obama is arguing that any release is voluntary, not required by law, despite two federal court rulings to the contrary.
Under the Obama White House's policy, most names of visitors from Inauguration Day in January through the end of September will never be released. The White House says it plans to release most of the names of visitors from October on, and that release is due near the end of the year. There are limitations there as well, including potential Supreme Court nominees, personal guests of the First Family, and certain security officials.
The names released Friday include business leaders and lobbyists with a lot to gain or lose from Obama policies. They include Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates (whose foundation is pushing for changes in teacher pay), former AIG chairman Maurice Greenberg, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson, Chevron CEO David O'Reilly, Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, JP Morgan's James Dimon, Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis, John Stumpf of Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley's John Mack, State Street bank's Ron Logue, BNY Mellon's Robert Kelly, labor leader Andrew Stern of the Service Employees International Union (22 visits), American Bankers Association CEO Ed Yingling, community bankers president Camden Fine, and lobbyists Heather and Anthony Podesta, whose brother John Podesta led Obama's transition team.
Besides Gates, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt are also on the list. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC. One of NBC's parents is GE.)
Advocates and nonprofit leaders include National Organization for Women President Kim Gandy, and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which is interested in health policy.
Democratic donor and businessman George Soros visited with White House aides twice.
Political figures include former Sen. Thomas Daschle, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, former Gov. Howard Dean, Sen. Al Franken, former Vice President Al Gore, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, and Democratic strategist Steve Elmendorf.
Celebrities at the White House include Oprah Winfrey, actors Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Denzel Washington, and tennis star Serena Williams. Journalists include Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner in economics.
Religious and civil rights figures Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson also visited. (Correction: An earlier version of this article listed conservative religious leader Gary Bauer among the visitors, but the middle initials don't match. The famous Bauer's middle initial is L., but the visitor's initial is W.)
Msnbc.com has put the full list in a handy PDF file, and also in an Excel file for those who like to sort.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
Not that Bill Ayers
The White House warns that many names that may appear familiar — and controversial — do not in fact refer to the most famous people to carry those names. Jeremiah Wright is on the list, but it's not the president's former pastor. This Michael Jordan is not the basketball player. This Michael Moore is not a filmmaker. The William Ayers who took a group tour of the White House isn't the former radical from Chicago who figured so prominently in the 2008 campaign. And the Angela Davis on the list has a different middle initial than the activist and former fugitive.
The White House could have avoided some of that sort of confusion by providing more information on the visitors, such as an employer name and the city they hail from. For example, is the Shawn Carter who attended a poetry reading the same one who goes by Jay-Z and had campaigned for Obama?
"This unprecedented level of transparency can sometimes be confusing rather than providing clear information," a White House special counsel, Norm Eisen, wrote on the White House blog.
If you spot a name on the list that bears investigating, please drop us a note.
Limited release
Despite the accompanying White House claim of "transparency like you've never seen before," the Obama White House continues to take the same legal position as the Bush White House, arguing that the records are not public records subject to the Freedom of Information Act. Only limited "voluntary releases" are being made to settle a lawsuit filed by an advocacy group, though a federal judge has twice ruled that all the visitor logs are public.
Yet there are severe limitations to the transparency:
Most of the visitors from Inauguration Day to September will never be released by the White House under this voluntary disclosure — unless the public can guess their names. The White House policy doesn't allow members of the public or press to ask for "everyone who visited health czar Nancy-Ann DeParle," or everyone who visited on May 4, or everyone from the American Medical Association. Only individual names can be checked.
The list released at 4:30 p.m. Friday includes just about 110 names with 481 visits. Those names were among those requested by members of the public so far, for visits during the period from Inauguration Day through July. (That's why we know of visits by the wrong Bill Ayers, the wrong Angela Davis, etc., but we don't know of visits by countless unnamed lobbyists.) Members of the public who used the White House online form to check names did not receive a personal reply indicating whether or not the request was received, or whether the name appeared on the list, so the system provides no feedback. Does the absence of Bill Clinton's name on the list mean that he has not been to the White House, or that the request wasn't received by the White House online system?
A request for the complete records of all visitors from the first months of the administration , filed by msnbc.com, was rejected by the White House, and an appeal is pending. The news organization requested the names of all visitors to the Obama White House beginning with Inauguration Day. Msnbc.com has filed an administrative appeal with the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service.
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- How long will it take for someone to work on my eligibility issue?
- Eligibility issues are assigned on a first come first serve basis. We try to make initial contact with everyone regarding their eligibility issue within 21 days. You may be contacted in a variety of ways: a telephone call, a letter to complete and return or a scheduled interview notice.
- Can I just come to the office in person and explain what happened?
- No, all of our investigations are conducted by telephone, telephone typewriter devices (TTD), or letter.
- I heard that if you quit you can't collect, but if you're fired you can. Is that right?
- While it is "generally" true that if you quit your last job, you're the cause of your unemployment and you may not be eligible, there are many exceptions which would allow benefits. For example, if you quit rather than relocate out of the labor market with the employer, or you develop a disability which the employer cannot accommodate, or you quit because your payroll checks are bouncing, you may be eligible. But remember that since you caused the separation the burden will be on you to establish that your reason for quitting meets the criteria to allow benefits. While it is "often" true that you are eligible if the employer fires you, we must investigate the separation. Since the employer caused the separation the burden will be on them to establish to our satisfaction that you were fired for misconduct or substantial fault. If we conclude so, you will be disqualified. Misconduct may include chronic tardiness, theft, falsification of employer documents, insubordination or various other actions. Substantial fault may include other violations of your employer's requirements that do not rise to the level of misconduct.
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Nathaniel Adams Coles was born in Montgomery, Alabama in 1919. His mother was a church choir director, and his father was a Baptist pastor. When he was four years old, Cole and his family moved to Chicago. Around the same time, Cole learned how to play piano. He then began formal piano training when he was in his teens. He was inspired by the piano playing of Earl Hines, and when he was 15, he dropped out of school to become a full-time jazz piano player.
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Cole continued to score hits with such songs as 1948's "Nature Boy" and 1950's "Mona Lisa." The following year, Cole hit Number One with the song "Too Young." That same year he had another hit with "Unforgettable." During this period, Cole also worked as a session musician, recording with such artists as Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald.
In 1956 Cole made television history when he became the first African-American host of a variety television series. The Nat King Cole Show, which remained on the air until December 1957, featured performances by such artists as Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Sammy Davis Jr. and Peggy Lee.
The Fifties and Sixties found Cole recording with various orchestras, including Nelson Riddle's and Billy May's. While his work from this period shared little with the rock and roll revolution that was under way, Cole's broader influence on the idiom as a musical pioneer and as a popular star is undeniable. In 1962 he scored a Number Two pop hit with "Ramblin' Rose," and the following year he scored another big hit with "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer," which reached Number Six on the charts.
Cole's final chart hits came in 1964 with the songs "I Don't Want to Hurt Anymore" and "I Don't Want to See Tomorrow."
Over the course of his career, Cole appeared on numerous television shows and in several feature films. In 1958 he played the role of W.C. Handy in the film St. Louis Blues, and in 1965 he appeared alongside Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou.
In December 1964 Cole was diagnosed with lung cancer. That same month, he released his last album, L-O-V-E, which reached Number Four on the charts. Nat "King" Cole died on February 15, 1965. He was 45 years old.
In 1991 Mosaic Records released an eighteen-CD box set, The Complete Capitol Recordings of the Nat King Cole Trio. It included three hundred forty-nine songs. That same year, Cole's daughter, Natalie Cole, scored a hit after she recorded a duet with her father, adding her vocals to his song "Unforgettable." The father-daughter duet won seven Grammy awards.
Nat Cole received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1990.
Inductee: Nat "King" Cole (vocals, piano; born March 17, 1919, died February 15, 1965)


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Fonts still screwed up on Facebook and some other sites. Looks like trying to read a blurry newspaper. Does not happen with Chromium with the same settings. No settings change will fix it. Only bad on Ubuntu 13.10, but not on Windows. Cannot use Chrome this way, have tried uninstalling, deleting the chrome folders, and reinstalling, no good. This started about 4 versions ago. Stuck with Chromium until this gets fixed. Any suggestions?
Found a big Bug .
I am having a strange problem with this last update.
All my inputs (type range) are not sending values when moving the slider anymore however, the value is updated just when the mousebutton is realised.
here a simple example of a slider used to update the frequency value of an oscillator.
It was working fine 5 hours ago as all my other apps. I did not changed anything and in Safari it works just fine.
I am using a simple jquery change function to update the value.
$('#slider').change(function () {
console.log ($("#slider").val());
oscillator.frequency.value = $("#slider").val();
document.getElementById('freq').value = $("#slider").val();
Is it something I have to worry about and change all my projects, or is just because Chrome team is updating the servers or libraries??
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We are sorry, but the new version of Chrome (34) break many extensions! To learn about it, read here: http://goo.gl/JHDOQX
Chromecast still seems broken; crashes when loading...ever since a few updates ago.
Scrollbar Arrows are not appearing at Google News and Gmail.
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> Scrollbar Arrows are not appearing at Google News and Gmail.
It's not bug. Google News and Gmail use custom scrollbars styled by CSS.
Hi Daniel,
So what part of the "spirit of the priority of constituencies" applied when the an option requiring OSCP was removed from Chrome? :-)
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"Unprefixed Web Audio"
Obviously someone forgot to flip the switch for this one.
window.AudioContext doesn't exist, only window.webkitAudioContext does.
Friends.. I am getting a 403 forbidden when I click in bug details like https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=354123
Any ideas?
Hey! I'm having the same 403 here!
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"Medium CVE-2014-1726: Local cross-origin bypass. Credit to Jann Horn."
No, that's not just local, as comment #1 in the bug says.
This updates breaks the Cordys/OpenText framework, we're using.
My company is in the same situation as Leroux and the Cordys/OpenText software is unusable with Chrome.
Looks like "timeline" for memory profiling is broken.
The link to the google blog does not contain any information about these changes. I was really interested to know what "responsive images" means but your blog has no information about any of this.
Yeah, me too. What the heck does "responsive images" even mean in the context of the browser itself?
All of the techniques I know of for creating responsive images are browser independent.
There is nothing on the Chrome Blog that explains what this means here. I call hype.
First google search hit?
I have a web page with a couple of forms that has the following action element:
These forms are not working in chrome anymore, but are still working in safari.
Does chrome not support this anymore?
Error 403 in https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=354123
it is because my Gmail Account has no access to view those issues. How can I read more about them???
This version of chrome breaks may sites using web workers. Example http://lnkit.com
OMG! Who decided that ignoring autocomplete="off" attribute is an improvement? We provide SAAS Lead Management System, I have clients calling in with complaints that "editing is broken" and they "can't save changes". All because Chrome now puts stuff in random and wrong places like email address in the zip code input. And the data they work with in not repetitive so there's no benefit in autocompletion at all. I have disabled it for a reason!
"Doesn't affect non-password fields"? Did you test it? Take a look http://snag.gy/x8Rkq.jpg
I'm having the same problem as Sergei. It's breaking a "new user" form by autocompleting fields that are (a) optional or (b) need to be completed the user and *not* autocompleted.
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For the last 2 days my chrome has been unresponsive, with the webpages not loading. Internet explorer works fine, never had this problem before and tried some troubleshooting to no avail. Any suggestions? Re-install chrome perhaps?
For me, V34 has terrible responsiveness when loading multiple new tabs, like when your opening multiple articles from a single news site.
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It appears that this update has broken some of the SVG rendering. I have a raphael based application that used to work correctly until this update. Also it still works ok on Firefox and Safari.
The symptoms are that some of the graphical artifacts are not drawn anymore. They do exist in the DOM though.
I second the issues with SVG. jBPM is no longer able to draw SVG objects correctly after the update.
I can confirm SVG is no longer rendering correctly.
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Came here looking for answers as to why my SVG based app is rendering really weird in chrome. Nice to have some confirmation that I'm not alone.
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