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Last Rumble L.A. Party of '09 Tomorrow Night!
Come join us and our friends at Future Sounds, Stranded in Stereo and BMI tomorrow night at 3 Clubs for the December Rumble L.A. Party! It's the last one of the year and it boasts a seriously solid lineup… San Diego's Tape Deck Mountain, who has been getting plenty o' blog love lately, will be making the trek up Highway 5 along with fellow Chargers fans The Drowning Men. Representing L.A., the enamoring All Wrong & the Plans Change will be playing as well as RCRD LBL favorite Evan Voytas. What a way to close out 2009! It's been a great experience having a hand in presenting the Rumble L.A. parties this past year. We've had a lot of fun (sometimes a little too much), witnessed some great performances from artists on the rise and made a lot of new friends. Okay, enough schmaltz, see you tomorrow night!
Rumble L.A. – Thursday, December 10th – 9:00PM – FREE!!!
3 Clubs
1123 Vine St.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
New LINKS EP & December Residency
We always love getting early gifts in our stocking, so when we got a copy of the new LINKS EP Echo Dogs we couldn't help but spread some holiday rock-cheer. The 5-song EP was recorded with writer/producers, and former members of Blind Melon, Christopher Thorn and Brad Smith (Anna Nalick, Under the Influence of Giants) and it will be available early next year. The band also has a Monday night residency at the Silverlake Lounge in December… For more info head to: www.myspace.com/linksband
Checkout some footage from the making of Echo Dogs HERE and grab a download of the new song "Canopy" HERE
SXSW 2010: First 200 Artists Announced
A list of the first 200+ artists who are confirmed for SXSW 2010 showcases was released yesterday, representing only a small fraction of the total number of artists who will play next year's festival. Scanning through, the mix is varied and as expected shows a strong international presence. Any early contenders for possible buzz band status on the list? Our clairvoyant tells us to keep an eye on chi-town's I Fight Dragons, L.A.'s Warpaint and Auckland's Kingston.
Checkout the full list HERE.
RM64 Artists Record
We're excited to give you a first-look at RM64 Artists Record, a project created in partnership with Propellerhead, makers of the highly-popular music software Reason. Now with the release of Record, their latest innovative recording product, the company has teamed up with RM 64 to launch a campaign promoting their new software with new talent.
The idea was simple; put together a group of hand-picked emerging artists, provide them with the necessary tools, including Propellerhead software and gear from sponsors KRK, Rode, Line 6 and Novation, and document their recording journey in pictures, videos and words. The campaign imparts a unique and raw perspective following the creative processes of a group of talented individuals from different locations, musical backgrounds, styles and aspirations. We look forward to bringing you special updates and exclusives along the way. You can follow all the action at www.rm64artistsrecord.com.
Misty Mountain Hop
With names perfect for the makings of a Zeppelin song, a new group of bands come off the heels of CMJ causing a bustle of label action. Leading the pack are Seattle's Lonely Forest and Brooklyn's Freelance Whales who both have majors and big indies prime to make a move… More pubco's join the hunt for Texas' Scorpion Child, whose brand of blues-riffed rock ala the aforementioned ZOSO gods has had labels taking aim as well. And a name you won't forget and will be hearing a lot more of soon is Portland's Baby Monster. The electronic-edged duo received recent nods in NME and just released their new single "Ultra Violence and Beethoven" on London's rapidly rising 50 Bones label (Little Boots, We Have Band, Rogues)… Finally, tonight in L.A. catch Lindsey Ray, who you'll recognize as the voice behind "Brand New Day," the Tim Myers-penned tune used in the recent massive Target campaign. Lindsey performs tonight at the Hotel Café at 9:00PM.
Take Notice: Oh Darling
Nice Nice may be the title of Oh Darling's previous full-length release, but it certainly must also be how the L.A. indie-pop quartet is feeling lately. With music recently featured on CW's One Tree Hill, USA's Royal Pains and a national Macy's radio campaign, the band heads into the release of their new album with a lot of steam. Produced by Gregg Williams (Blitzen Trapper, Dandy Warhols) the self-titled release comes out next week (11/17) via their label Creative Works/Oh Darling Music. With all that it's a wonder they still have time to maintain their vintage wardrobe and provide world records-esque useless trivia to fans.
Oh Darling will play a private show at Swinghouse in Hollywood tomorrow night (11/11) from 7:30-9:00PM. Expect to jockey for position at the complimentary wine bar with more than a few of your closest label friends and assorted industry denizens (fyi, we'll be in back packin' a box of Franzia).
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Said Gonna Be A Revival…
The 2nd annual Revival Tour rolls into the El Rey Theatre this Saturday, November 7th. Keeping with its unique genre-defying design, the tour features a diverse group of musicians representing various styles and backgrounds for a night of performances in true revival fashion. This year's tour includes Chuck Ragan (of Hot Water Music), Jim Ward (of Sparta, Sleepercar), Frank Turner, Joey Cape (of Lagwagon), Jenny Owen Youngs, Audra Mae and many others…
For more details and the full lineup head to www.therevivaltour.com
p.s. – Keep an eye out for alien life forms in the crowd (um also known as agents) to catch tour newbie and SideoneDummy Records artist Audra Mae who continues to win over fans, artists and industry alike. Just recently she was in the studio with the legendary Burt Bacharach and we hear there are more big things on the horizon.
Audra's new EP Haunt was just released digitally and you can check out her Revival tour blog HERE
Rumble L.A. Party Thursday Night!
That's right, tomorrow is the first Thursday of the month, which means The Rumble party hits L.A. at 3 Clubs! The night features a great lineup of SoCal bands, including San Diego's Apes of Wrath, whose new single "Deathtrain" hits iTunes today via Future Sounds Records. Check it out HERE. Also playing is Parade of Lights, who for those keeping score used to go under the name Polus. Along with the new name, they have a revised lineup and a whole bunch of impressive new songs. Closing out the night is Prayer, who has been turning heads on both coasts, you'll want to keep an eye on this one. We'll see you there…
Thursday, November 5th – 9:00PM
3 Clubs
1123 Vine St
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Halloween Hangover
Hope everyone still has their candy-buzz going, cause you're going to need it to catch all the great music happening this week. First up, the next 48 hours… Tonight A&R Knights, which has a new home at On the Rox (that's above The Roxy), features Austin Gibbs and Samuel Stewart. Same recession-proof rules apply, $5 or FREE with biz card. Those in-the-know will know why you need to be at this show… S1 Songs (NYC) artist Trances Arc plays Molly Malone's tomorrow night (11/04) at 8:00PM. Trances Arc hails from Athens, GA and is another impressive band to emerge from this region so seemingly fertile with quality indie/alt-rock. They recently toured with fellow peach-staters The Whigs and Dead Confederate, and just released their new EP Radians last week. Check it out: www.myspace.com/trancesarc
For Trances Arc list hook-up email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Up next the Rumble L.A. party and Revival Tour, stay tuned…


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How is consciousness the bedrock of personal development? What are the key steps toward regaining consciousness of our lives?
In this article, I attempt to answer these important but often difficult questions. I then share 5 fundamentals on Regaining Consciousness, as laid out by psychology blogger Sam Spurlin. These fundamentals aim to cultivate a higher state of awareness toward key areas of our life, such as our values, health, work, thinking, and relationships.
Consciousness is the bedrock of your personal development.
Consciousness is more than just a passing thought, feeling, memory, or imagination, but the underlying awareness that permeates every experience you'll ever have.
In order to define consciousness, it helps to first think of it as a spectrum of awareness.
On one end of the spectrum, there are lower levels of consciousness, including being distracted, lazy or bored. Usually in these states, we maintain some awareness of our environment, but not very much. We can probably get a lot of tedious chores done while being distracted or bored, but this isn't the optimal state you want to be in when trying to achieve a big or meaningful goal.
The very lowest levels of consciousness are states like drug intoxication, sleep, or a coma, where we actually aren't conscious at all – but unconscious. Most of the time we don't get anything productive or creative done in these states (mostly because "you" aren't actually around when you're unconscious).
And on the opposite end of the spectrum, there are very high states of consciousness, like mindfulness and flow. These are states of mind where an individual is highly attentive and engaged with their environment, often interacting with it in very skillful and sophisticated ways (like a painter working on their masterpiece, a baseball player pitching a perfect game, or a life-long businessman pitching a big sale).
Unlike lower levels of consciousness, higher levels of consciousness are very optimal for goal-achieving and success in virtually any domain of life. This is because higher levels of consciousness always include supreme focus and discipline.
What I want you to understand is that, ultimately, the level of consciousness we cultivate throughout our day is the most fundamental components to our well-being and success. Personal development without conscious living is simply impossible – the more aware we are of ourselves and our environment, the more power and control we have to change it.
5 Steps Toward Regaining Consciousness
Sam Spurlin writes about Regaining Consciousness in his insightful e-book. The lessons covered are intuitive and thought-provoking, but also widely applicable to cultivating consciousness toward different (and often underestimated) areas in our life.
It reminds me of a more "contemporary" version of the popular Mindfulness in Plain English, because it's primary focus is how to practice healthy consciousness throughout our daily activities (even with common things like eating and exercise) – not just during meditation.
Sam understands that cultivating consciousness is not just for Zen monks camping out in some cave, but something that can also be applied to the "American way" of living too. This means we can work on regaining consciousness even with a 9-5 job, bills to pay, and a family to take care of.
In the book there are 5 crucial steps laid out that anyone can follow to facilitate conscious living. I'm going to summarize each step here, but if you really want to read more about each one, I recommend you check out his book for yourself. I honestly couldn't put it down when I first started it.
Find your values.
Going through life without a clear sense of our values and goals is a sure-fire way to not find happiness. Many people live their lives aimlessly and unconsciously (like a puppet on strings), without ever introspecting and asking themselves, "What do I really want in life? What direction do I want to go in?" To cultivate more consciousness toward our values in life, Sam suggests:
- Make a list of core values and narrow it down to your top 3-5. Imagine what your life would be like if you acted in accordance with these values.
- Don't chase other people's dreams – question the values you learn from authority figures, the media, TV, and pop culture.
- Listen to your heart and mind above all else. Do what you honestly think is right.
- Have priorities. Sure, you may value playing video games, but is it more important than taking care of your family or studying for school or doing something more creative like writing a song? It's up to you.
Take control of your health.
Consciousness toward our health is absolutely crucial for physical and mental well-being. Everyday we make decisions that have to do with our bodies: what we choose to consume, and what kind of physical activities we choose to partake in. The more aware we are of what we eat and how much exercise we get, the better off our health will be. Sam suggests we:
- Make small and deliberate decisions to be healthier. Start by cutting down soda intake and replacing it with water. Or try just going for a short walk every morning. Start with little things and build from there.
- Be a conscious eater. When you eat, don't distract yourself by reading the paper or surfing the internet. Instead, pay very close attention to how the food tastes and how your body is reacting to it.
- Tune into your body during physical exercise. For example, while running pay close attention to the mechanics of your legs/body, the motions of your breathing, and any other pain/aches/sensations in your body that you may be experiencing. Think of any physical activity as a way of meditating – and your body is the object of your meditation.
- Learn from the wisdom of your body. Our body is always sending us signals on it's condition (like when you are hungry, when you need to use the restroom, when you tore a muscle, etc.) The more we are aware of these signals, the better we can respond to our body's needs. You'd probably be surprised on just how much you can learn from your body if you listen to it.
Doing work that matters.
Next to our health, one of the biggest factors in achieving happiness is doing meaningful work with our lives. A dead-end job that doesn't align with our values can feel like a curse. Instead of inspiring us and motivating us, it drains us of our energy and leaves us feeling empty inside. On the other hand, a meaningful job that actually matters to us is drastically more fulfilling. Here's what Sam recommends we do:
- Re-evaluate your current job. What do you like about it (if anything)? What purpose do you fulfill? Does it align with your values?
- If you aren't happy with your job, begin searching for alternative career paths that you find more fulfilling. In the book, Sam mentions how he used to be a teacher (and he liked his job), but becoming self-employed aligned with more of his values and interests, so he made the switch.
- Pay attention to activities that put you into a state of engagement and flow. Very often these passions of yours can point you in the right direction when choosing a job or career.
- A big goal in my personal life is to find work that I love but also serves an important function in improving society.
Master your mind with conscious thinking.
A big part of Regaining Consciousness is taking more control over our education, thoughts, beliefs, and perspective. Throughout the guide, Sam asks us to challenge our old assumptions and beliefs, accept our ignorance about certain topics, and willingly seek to improve our knowledge and attitude about the world. He recommends you:
- Acknowledge that you have a limited perspective. You don't know everything, so don't be stubborn and act like you do.
- Try to look beyond any biases or prejudices you may have by looking at new information as neutrally as possible.
- Become an active learner. Choose a topic that has always fascinated you, go to the library, and then take out a few books on it. Read up on it and share what you learned with others.
- Go "Wikipedia surfing." Go to an article, read through, it and click on any links that interest you. Keep continuing the process until you feel you have learned something new and interesting that you didn't know before.
- Always maintain a healthy curiosity and willingness to learn. We don't stop being students after we graduate high school or college.
- Listen to everyone's views. Respect that other people may have different experiences, knowledge, and beliefs than you do. Ignore the trap of having to label everything "right" or "wrong."
Nurturing conscious relationships.
One of the most important steps toward conscious living is becoming more aware of the relationships that make up our world. For some of us, we may cling onto toxic relationships that end up hurting both ourselves and the other person. For others, we may have trouble cultivating meaningful relationships. In both cases, cultivating higher consciousness is crucial. Some of Sam's suggestions include:
- Recognize the "vampires" in your life. These are people who are always being negative and sucking the energy out of you. They are the buzz-kill to every party and the rain to every parade. Stay far away from them. They are miserable – and they expect you to be miserable too.
- Associate with "vampire slayers." Vampire slayers are people who crush negativity in their lives. Instead of draining you of energy, they empower and motivate you. They encourage you to pursue your values and goals, and they are always around to lend a helping hand when you need it.
- The essential rule of cultivating conscious relationships is to invest positive energy into the relationships that are valuable to us, and let the one's that aren't valuable fizzle out. Although it may be painful to get rid of old friends, it is sometimes the necessary thing to do.
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AdvaMed 2012
Via RAVI PARIKH October 9th, 2012.
I spent last Wednesday at AdvaMed 2012, the annual global medtech conference, speaking to individual entrepreneurs and country representatives. It was a nice contrast to the large-scale roundtables and panels, as it gave me a chance to see what specific companies have in the pipeline and what services they offer. This post will focus on the company representatives I spoke to, while my next post will focus on interviews with foreign country reps.
I first spoke with Larry Gerrans, CEO of Sanovas, a Sausalito, CA-based company launched in 2010. Sanovas is developing an innovative micro-surgical platform for diagnosing and treating lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases. According to Larry, 96 million people have or at risk for developing pulmonary disease, most notably lung cancer. However, diagnosis often occurs when the disease has already metastasized throughout the lungs and/or body. Larry and colleagues had an idea in 2001 to advance the miniaturization of lung-based diagnostics, as the lung was a traditionally difficult area to visualize non-operatively. Utilizing the world's smallest surgical camera, Sanovas' technology allows surgeons to access, visualize and deliver treatments to areas of the anatomy that were previously inaccessible with lower risks of bleeding that other devices due to a non-thermal recannulation methods. In addition to the camera, Sanovas is working on technologies in both diagnostics and targeted delivery therapeutics. For example, Larry showed me an internal video of a balloon-based catheter that allows for targeted resection of lung disease. Such a procedure, among other benefits, could transform what would normally be a 1-week postoperative stay for an open lung biopsy to a 23-hour stay after an outpatient procedure.
Check out a video of Larry speaking as part of a segment on lung cancer on the TV show "Profiles with Terry Bradshaw".


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Investment Funds Yee Must Die / stele c12
Investment Funds Yee Must Die
when investment funds are dead and gone
what's your money doing?
Mutual Funds Yee Must Die
when investment funds are dead and gone
so elk, tree, dolphin can yet thrive / hedge
Sponsor this song for a $2 or more to get it properly recorded and out there for the people and the critters. Own part of the copyright and get your name on the by line if you go big. More info below.
We need a song to help outlaw mutual funds, hedge funds, investment funds, index funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and other collective investment schemes.
Investment Funds Yee Must Die / by stele ely
Imagine a world where in people know which companies and countries their savings, retirement money or 401ks are invested in. Imagine each person using their savings or retirement money to support their country, state, town, local schools and/or a small number of ethical and sustainable companies.
Every person deserves and should know what their savings and investments are working for. People should get to choose whether their money is in US treasury bills, municipal bonds from their home state or town, local school bonds, a company that they know something about, or whether or not to invest in other regional or global choices out there.
The mutual investment fund companies are getting people to throw their savings blindly into evil money pits where almost anything goes in terms of corporate greed and operations that are solely profit focused.
If every retirement saver and investor were obliged to choose exactly where their money was being used, far more of these savers and investors would be using their money to support their country, states, schools, and companies that are aligned with their moral and environmental values.
Yes, of course there will be a bunch of savers and investors who will invest based solely on the return on their investment. But if even 20% of the people increase their ethical investing by 50%, the world will see a massive positive change.
Right now, other countries are investing in our countries t-bills and debt, while many of us here at home have been tricked to gamble our money in funds that support the very companies that we are protesting and occupying against. These investment pyramid schemes have got to stop.
"Collective investment scheme" is Wikipedia's 1/24/12 name for several forms of mutual investment.
Let's get this anti Collective-investment-scheme song written and recorded and out there to do some good. So either sponsor us with your dollars to write this song, help us write the songs if you are a musician or help us produce the videos if you are an artist.
We also need help getting this anti Collective Investment Fund law rolling through congress. The official petition has not yet been written, so we need help with that too.
There are a bunch of notes and references below to help us write the song and get the petition stuff going.
For all the life, Stele Ely
ps: We also need songs and laws to outlaw the market makers, shorts, market specialists, naked shorts and other atrocious people and planet torture tools. By the way folks, I think using one's money to bet on the failure of companies is bad form.
Occupy Wall Street? No, divest from it.
Bank divestment groups are forming to pressure US universities to shift their money from large banks to smaller, community focused alternatives.
On one November day, some 40,000 Americans joined a credit union, mostly to protest actions by big corporate banks and to nurture small banks. That protest, dubbed "bank transfer day," is part of a larger movement.
Market Maker
Most stock exchanges operate on a "matched bargain" or "order driven" basis. In such a system there are no designated or official market makers, but market makers nevertheless exist. When a buyer's bid price meets a seller's offer price or vice versa, the stock exchange's matching system decides that a deal has been executed.
Exchange-traded fund
Only so-called authorized participants (typically, large institutional investors) actually buy or sell shares of an ETF directly from or to the fund manager, and then only in creation units, large blocks of tens of thousands of ETF shares, which are usually exchanged in-kind with baskets of the underlying securities. Authorized participants may wish to invest in the ETF shares for the long-term, but usually act as market makers on the open market, using their ability to exchange creation units with their underlying securities to provide liquidity of the ETF shares and help ensure that their intraday market price approximates to the net asset value of the underlying assets.[4] Other investors, such as individuals using a retail broker, trade ETF shares on this secondary market.
An ETF combines the valuation feature of a mutual fund or unit investment trust, which can be bought or sold at the end of each trading day for its net asset value, with the tradability feature of a closed-end fund, which trades throughout the trading day at prices that may be more or less than its net asset value. Closed-end funds are not considered to be "ETFs", even though they are funds and are traded on an exchange. ETFs traditionally have been index funds, but in 2008 the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began to authorize the creation of actively managed ETFs.[4]
Hedge fund
Hedge funds are typically open-ended, meaning that investors can invest and withdraw money at regular, specified intervals. The value of an investment in a hedge fund is calculated as a share of the fund's net asset value, meaning that increases and decreases in the value of the fund's assets (and fund expenses) are directly reflected in the amount an investor can later withdraw.
Most hedge fund investment strategies aim to achieve a positive return on investment whether markets are rising or falling. Hedge fund managers typically invest their own money in the fund they manage, which serves to align their interests with investors in the fund.[1][2] A hedge fund typically pays its investment manager a management fee, which is a percentage of the assets of the fund, and a performance fee if the fund's net asset value increases during the year. Some hedge funds have a net asset value of several billions dollars. As of 2009[update], hedge funds represented 1.1% of the total funds and assets held by financial institutions.[3] The estimated size of the global hedge fund industry is US$1.9 trillion.[4]
Because hedge funds are not sold to the public or retail investors, the funds and their managers have historically not been subject to the same restrictions that govern other funds and investment fund managers with regard to how the fund may be structured and how strategies and techniques are employed. Regulations passed in the United States and Europe after the 2008 credit crisis are intended to increase government oversight of hedge funds and eliminate certain regulatory gaps.[5]
Mutual fund
A mutual fund is a professionally managed type of collective investment scheme that pools money from many investors to buy stocks, bonds, short-term money market instruments, and/or other securities.[1]
In the United States, a mutual fund is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and is overseen by a board of directors (if organized as a corporation) or board of trustees (if organized as a trust). The board is charged with ensuring that the fund is managed in the best interests of the fund's investors and with hiring the fund manager and other service providers to the fund. The fund manager, also known as the fund sponsor or fund management company, trades (buys and sells) the fund's investments in accordance with the fund's investment objective. A fund manager must be a registered investment advisor. Funds that are managed by the same fund manager and that have the same brand name are known as a "fund family" or "fund complex".
The Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act) established three types of registered investment companies or RICs in the United States: open-end funds, unit investment trusts (UITs); and closed-end funds. Recently, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which are open-end funds or unit investment trusts that trade on an exchange, have gained in popularity. While the term "mutual fund" may refer to all three types of registered investment companies, it is more commonly used to refer exclusively to the open-end type.
Hedge funds are not considered a type of mutual fund. While they are another type of commingled investment scheme, they are not governed by the Investment Company Act of 1940 and are not required to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (though many hedge fund managers now must register as investment advisors).
Mutual funds are not taxed on their income as long as they comply with certain requirements established in the Internal Revenue Code. Specifically, they must diversify their investments, limit ownership of voting securities, distribute most of their income to their investors annually, and earn most of the income by investing in securities and currencies.[2] Mutual funds pass taxable income on to their investors. The type of income they earn is unchanged as it passes through to the shareholders. For example, mutual fund distributions of dividend income are reported as dividend income by the investor. There is an exception: net losses incurred by a mutual fund are not distributed or passed through to fund investors.
Outside of the United States, mutual fund is used as a generic term for various types of collective investment vehicles available to the general public, such as unit trusts, open-ended investment companies, unitized insurance funds, Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities, and SICAVs.
Sovereign investment funds must die too.
Sovereign investment fund
Those funds might buy foreign assets, and among them company's stocks, which creates some political controversies in the "recipient" countries. They could be considered as an evolution of ordinary Sovereign wealth funds, which invest state budget surpluses in national assets and, in the case of foreign holdings, liquid assets and treasury securities.
Resources for sovereign funds are commonly obtained by profits from exports of commodities, but can also be gotten though other means, such as investing in international capital markets. The United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Norway, and Russia all have funds devoted to investing in oil and natural gas exports. Other countries with investment funds are as varied as China, Singapore, Chile, and the Pacific island nation of Kiribati.[1]
There has been some concern recently about sovereign investment funds becoming the "new hedge funds" with a lack of transparency and hence an increase in risk to the financial system.[2]
Occupy Wall Street fuels growing bank divestment movement
Across the country, resolutions are being introduced into city councils to stop doing business with such banks. San Francisco and Los Angeles are just two of the many cities considering such measures. Bloomberg News reports, "The Los Angeles City Council on Oct. 12 accelerated plans to issue report cards on lenders that may lead the nation's second-most populous city to withdraw funds from those that score poorly on criteria such as home-loan modifications. New York City may make a similar change in bank-selection rules."
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Luiz Gustavo to replace Sami Khedira at Real Madrid
With Germany international Sami Khedira destined to leave to Bernabeu this summer, the Spanish giants have identified Brazilian midfielder Luiz Gustavo as a possible replacement, according to Spanish publication El Confidencial.
After flatly refusing to extend a contract with Real Madrid that runs out next summer, Sami Khedira's future has become the subject of increasing speculation, with both Arsenal and Chelsea linked with a £25 million deal.
The Spanish source has suggested that Los Blancos have already made a tentative enquiry to Wolfsburg about the possibility of signing Brazil international Luiz Gustavo as Khedira's replacement.
Gustavo will not come cheap, however. A hefty release clause of €33m has so far been enough to put Manchester United off the former Bayern Munich enforcer this summer.


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Two N.Y. men, local woman answer to trafficking chargeBy Brent Curtis
Staff Writer | March 04,2014The day after Vermont State Police say they seized a large amount of heroin during a traffic stop in West Rutland, the three people arrested in the vehicle denied trafficking charges on Monday.
Daquan A. Lawrence, Frank Jenkins Jr., both of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Maria D. Ieremias, of Fair Haven, each face up to 30 years in jail if convicted of drug trafficking — Vermont's most serious drug offense.
Lawrence, 20, Jenkins, 20 and Ierimas, 16, each pleaded innocent to a single count of heroin trafficking and a misdemeanor charge of narcotics possession.
Judge Theresa DiMauro set bail at $150,000 for Jenkins, whose lawyer did not argue against the prosecution's bail request, but she lowered the amount for Lawrence to $100,000 after his defense attorney pointed out that the only prior charge brought against him was for failing to pay a transportation fare.
No bail was set for Ieremias, who was released into her parents' custody. The judge set a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week curfew for the teenager with exceptions to allow her to go to school and medical appointments. She can also leave her Main Street home while accompanied by her parents or sister, the judge said.
The three were arrested Sunday afternoon following a traffic stop on Route 4 in West Rutland.
Vermont State Police Trooper Lewis Hatch wrote in an affidavit that he stopped the 2004 Audi A4 that Ieremias was driving after he clocked the eastbound vehicle travelling at 75 mph in a 65 mph zone.
During the stop, Hatch said he observed suspicious things such as an air freshener hanging from the driver's side door and nervousness on the part of the driver.
While interviewing the teenager, Hatch said she admitted to the presence of drugs and a firearm in the vehicle.
A search of the car turned up 9.4 grams of heroin and a bottle containing morphine sulfate pills tucked in a drawer under the driver's-side seat and a .44-caliber handgun inside a bag in the trunk.
No drugs or weapons were found on the passengers, but Hatch said Lawrence was carrying several small zip lock bags, which he said are often used to package illegal drugs, and $350 while Jenkins was carrying $2,330 in cash.
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Honeywell Gets Brownfield status to clean up their mess by Mitch E. Perry
The Honeywell corporation, responsible for a chemical spill that has never been completely cleaned up in 24 years in northwest Tampa, today came before the Hillsborough County Commission to ask for a ââ¬Åbrownfieldââ¬? designation for the contaminated site at the corner of Himes & Waters.
Such a label would allow the company to seek tax breaks if the property is cleaned up under the supervision of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.
But not everybody at todayââ¬â¢s Land Use Meeting was enthusiastic for such a labeling.
Elizabeth Juress lives 4 blocks from the site in questionââ¬Â¦She said Honeywell should try to qualify for another type of tax credit (roll tape#1 o.q.ââ¬? proud to see thatââ¬?)
In 1982, 3,000 gallons of methylene chloride, a cancer causing chemical, spilled from a burst pipe and contaminated groundwater and some nearby wells.
Honeywell and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection entered into an agreement to clean the property, but both sides argued for 20 years over how to satisfy the requirements of the agreement
A breakthrough came earlier this year, when the Joseph Simon Trust, which owned the property, sold it back to Honeywellââ¬Â¦Which then requested the brownfield designation.
Tim Barr is from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. He said that there is a contamination plume that has drifted off site (roll tape#2 o.q.â� Dioxaneâ�)
Barr emphasized that was not to be confused with the chemical Dioxin ââ¬â but is still a potential carcinogen.
Commissioner Kathy Castor asked how long it would take to clean the whole property up.
An official with the state DEP could not give a firm answer.
Honeywellââ¬â¢s attorney, Laurel Lockett, says that only 2 months after reacquiring the property, she has already heard from potential developers for the site (roll tape#3 o.q. ââ¬Åand office along Himesââ¬?)
Commissioner Ronda Storms said that the brownfield designation was an important tool in motivating Honeywell to clean up the property and asked the Countyââ¬â¢s EPC staff (roll tape#4 o.q.ââ¬?can see the end in sightââ¬?)
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An Upland woman accused of killing her husband with a sword last year must stand trial on murder and other charges, a West Valley Superior Court judge has ruled.
Prosecutors accuse Naomi Valdivia, 34, of stabbing 34-year-old Jose Luis Gonzalez to death following an argument in the couple's apartment in the 800 block of West Orchid Court.
Judge Elia V. Pirozzi ruled Friday at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing that Valdivia must stand trial on three felony charges: murder, assault with a deadly weapon, and inflicting corporal injury on a spouse.
Valdivia's family members have said Valdivia was acting in self-defense the day her husband was killed.
"She was beaten that night," Lydia Arias, Valdivia's sister, said in January. "He brandished a weapon, his own personal weapon in the house that night, came at her with it and assaulted her with it first."
Valdivia rejected a plea offer for 13 years, 4 months in prison in January, and now faces 26 years to life if convicted of murder and related charges.
Two Upland police detectives testified on Friday, the third day of testimony in Valdivia's preliminary hearing.
Upland police officers testified at the two previous hearing dates, said Deputy District Attorney Theodore J. Smith, III.
Valerie Young, Valdivia's defense attorney, has not returned a call seeking comment.
Valdivia is next due in court for an arraignment hearing March 26. She remained in custody Monday at West Valley Detention Center in lieu of $1 million bail.
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On the third day of the trial in substance against Leon Mugesera, the defendant argued that his infamous speech in Kabaya (then Gisenyi prefecture) in November 1992 has been misinterpreted and many phrases have been taken out of context.
The speech is one of the main incriminating elements in the prosecution's case, and part of the basis for the accusations against Mugesera of inciting the masses to partake in genocide, planning and preparing the genocide, conspiracy in the crime of genocide, torture as a crime against mankind, and inciting hatred among people.
"I would like to correct what people keep taking out of context and misinterpreting in the speech. It is generally obvious that words and events are related to their immediate context," Mugesera said.
While presenting his objection he accused the prosecution to have quoted his famous speech out of context. "In law what is not always fully appreciated is the need to consider the whole background to the immediate context, not to pick one point in the introduction of the speech and also another one in the middle of the speech, this distorted the meaning and context," the defendant argued.
Mugesera said that picking parts of his speech from different areas is like creating a new speech which distorts the meaning behind the original. He also told the court that the speech alone cannot prove responsibility for genocide. The academician, who was deported from Canada last year, said that he does not understand how the speech played a role to the genocide since he delivered it two years earlier.
"There is nothing that links me to the actual killings," he pointed out.
He also refuted the prosecution's allegation that he was linked to the famous Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM). "The accusations are baseless since the radio was created when I had already left Rwanda," Mugesera explained.


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Fairhope Public Library
Fairhope Public Library was the result of Ernest B. Gaston, who lived from 1861 to 1937. He stated once that Fairhope and the Single Tax Colony concept was a poor man's effort. The town of Fairhope right from the start, had attracted many who were considered high on the spiritual and intellectual and character ladder. Since those early beginnings, the town of fairhope has nurtured democracy and equality for all.
Single Tax families started to create homesteads in the harsh environment (at that time) and before six months had gone by, George B. Lang donated his collection of books, which formed the basis of the Fairhope Free Library. It's been around a good long time and is much visited by residents and passersby alike. Even that basic book collection brought relaxation and pleasure for the early settlers after they had been working hard all day, as well as when the weather was bad.
Fairhope has had a library of informative books available to its residents from the beginning, and counts itself very fortunate to have done so. A Utopian Colony called the Mexican Utopia was put to words and history in a book called Cat's Paw Utopia, from writer Ray Reynolds. Edward Howland, quite ill when he left New Jersey, survived for only 2 years after joining this bleak location in Sinaloa, Mexico. He died on Christmas Eve in 1890 and his wife, Marie Howland, stayed there and edited the small newspaper. She set up a library and used Howland's collection as a core.
The idea of a Utopian Mexican colony failed right after the colony itself did, and the widow Howland returned to the U.S., along with her book collection. She'd heard of the Single Tax Colony idea proposed by Henry George, as it had been established at Fairhope. She sent letters to her friends in the U.S., along with the first settlers of Fairhope. In 1899 and full of hope herself, she arrived in Fairhope and set up her household.
She became an editorial assistant to Earnest B. Gaston, who had The Fairhope Courier — a newspaper circulated around the world. Howland contributed open letters to the paper, addressed to her fiends across the globe, and she spoke about her life and what experiences she had had, as well as the Single Tax Colony in Fairhope.
Howland spoke about her trees, plants, and roses in her letters, after she had settled into her cottage amongst the Fairhope pines. She loved her friends and working in her garden. Discussion groups pleased her and she was influential amongst the global readers of the newspaper she contributed to. A reader of her letters wondered about Fairhope and thought that it must be a dull, cultureless place, because it was small.
Howland replied that there was not enough time to see and do everything available to a person in Fairhope. This still rings true today. This woman wanted to establish a small library in the town so she had her collection of books shipped to her from Kansas. Her friends across the country and the world also sent her some of their own books for the library and collection. Neighbors made bookshelves to accommodate the burgeoning collection. She even had bookshelves on her covered porch.
Around 1900 was when the inhabitants of Fairhope started to use their fledgling library. Howland got so busy keeping track of the lending library that others chipped in to help. Part of the money to keep the library going was contributed by the Fairhope Single Tax Corporation. Because Howland was personally in charge, and her system worked smoothly. She was personally acquainted with every volume in the library. She loved to stack the small books with others of their "kind" and so on with the larger books.
A wealthy soap maker had given $1,000 towards a library building but after a hurricane in 1906 destroyed a school building, the money went towards that. In 1908, Howland donated her entire collection to the Single Taxpayer's Corp. to hold in trust as well as run the library. Howland continued on for 9 more years and school children loved to help her. As she started to get sick, she was unable to keep the library open for as long as she wanted to, but with help and funds did manage to at least keep it open and available for two days of the week.
A simple funeral service was held for this pioneering woman as she died in 1921, and it was inside of the library building so dear to her heart. Ernest B. Gaston and Reverend Wood presided over the service and her body now lies in the colony cemetery at the corner of Oak and Section streets. The Fairhope Public Library got a larger room and a front porch in 1919, the result of a gift from a Mr. Fels.


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The Women and Health Initiative is led by Dr. Ana Langer, a physician specializing in pediatrics and neonatology, and a reproductive health expert. She joined the Harvard School of Public Health in July 2010 as a Professor of the Practice of Public Health in the Department of Global Health and Population. Dr. Langer is respected worldwide as a leader in using research findings to influence policy and improve the overall quality of health care for women and families. For the past 25 years, she has been a leading researcher, programmer and advocate for the improvement of women's health.
Dr. Langer has conducted and published extensively on maternal mortality; psychosocial support during pregnancy, labor, delivery and the post-partum period; quality of maternal health care, unsafe abortion, emergency contraception; the introduction of evidence-based practices in maternal health services; and strategies to reinforce the reproductive health component in health sector reform programs in developing countries.
Before joining the Harvard School of Public Health, Dr. Langer was the President and CEO of EngenderHealth from 2005-2010. During her tenure, EngenderHealth experienced significant growth and expanded its programmatic portfolio that now includes maternal health and unsafe abortion, in addition to family planning, gender and HIV/AIDS. Before joining EngenderHealth, Dr. Langer served as the Population Council's Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) from 1994-2005 as well as Acting Director of the Population Council's Global Reproductive Health Program from January 2003 to September 2004. Previously, she was the chair of the Department of Research in Women and Children's Health at the National Institute of Public Health, Mexico where – in addition to leading several clinical trials and other research projects – she established and directed the Master's Program in Reproductive Health supported by the WHO.
For more than 25 years, Dr. Langer has been a leading advocate for the improvement of women's health through the introduction of evidence-based practices. She has conducted extensive research on maternal mortality, the psychosocial factors that affect pregnancy, delivery and postpartum outcomes, the quality of maternal health care, emergency contraception and unsafe abortion. She sits on a number of editorial boards such as The Lancet International Advisory Board, the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and the WHO Reproductive Health Library. Dr. Langer is respected worldwide as a leader in the application of research findings to influence policy and clinical norms for the improvement of maternal health care and the overall quality of women's and family health.


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Jon Daniels admits he missed the boat on the Adrian Gonzalez trade
Apr 2, 2011, 2:15 PM EDT
It's easy to forget, but at one point the Rangers had Adrian Gonzalez and Mark Teixeira in the same lineup.
Of course, not many thought that Gonzalez would develop into one of the best power hitters in the sport, but the December 2005 trade that sent him to the Padres along with Chris Young and Terrmel Sledge for Adam Eaton and Akinori Otsuka was a natural topic of conversation as the Rangers played the Red Sox yesterday.
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels told Alex Speier of WEEI.com that he missed the boat on the trade.
"I know that at the time, when Mark Teixeira was here, it led to a lot of clubs making an assumption that we would trade him, that we wouldn't be able to keep both of them. We did get some inquiries on him [prior to the San Diego trade," said Daniels. "We didn't obviously project him to be the superstar that he's become. Clearly, had we known that, we would have found a way to make it work. But we thought he was going to be a good player. At a young age, he was always a guy we thought would hit. The question was how much power. He's matured into one of the better power hitters in the game, clearly."
His regret about the deal isn't specifically about Gonzalez, though. Daniels, who became the youngest general manager in baseball history less than three months prior to the trade, confirmed that he miscalculated the Rangers' chances to contend in the short-term.
"Our error in that was not so much our evaluation of Adrian," said Daniels. "Our biggest miss in that situation was really our evaluation of our club, where we were competitively and in the division. We thought that there was a window there in '05-'06 to really push. We won 89 games [in 2004], were a .500 club in '05, hadn't made too many changes. Our [front office] group came in in '05. We probably tried to step on the gas before we were ready. Not probably – we did."
The Rangers finished the 2006 season in third place at 80-82, 13 games behind the first-place Athletics.
Daniels has had several hits and misses during his tenure as general manager, but that's the nature of the job, really. He acquired Nelson Cruz from the Brewers before the deadline in 2006, Neftali Feliz and Elvis Andrus from the Braves in the Mark Teixeira deal in 2007, took a chance with Josh Hamilton before the 2008 season and stunned the baseball world with the Cliff Lee deal last season, a move which led to the franchise's first ever World Series appearance. All in all, things have worked out pretty well.
- Brian Murphy - Apr 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM
It's pretty cool to hear a GM be so frank about screwing up.
- txrangers90 - Apr 2, 2011 at 3:54 PM
JD is the man, as rangers fans know made his fair share of mistakes when he first took the job, but the last few years hes been pretty much money with his moves
- gt929 - Apr 2, 2011 at 4:14 PM
There are many armchair GMs in DFW that never miss a chance to bring that deal up, along with the Brandon McCarthy/John Danks trade, but if you consider the other trades mentioned in the article, and the Eric Gagne for David Murphy trade, looks to me like JD has a lot more hits than misses.
Another thing that really gets on my nerves is when said armchair GMs assert that JD has never made a good trade on his own, that it's Nolan Ryan pulling the strings. The FACT is that all of those trades mentioned here were made before Feb of 2008 when Ryan was named president of the Rangers. But, the a-GMs don't let facts get in the way of their JD criticism.
- Kevin S. - Apr 2, 2011 at 4:36 PM
I think it's actually a credit to Jon Daniels that he's recovered so well from such a disastrous start to his GM tenure. I like what he's doing down there.
- schlom - Apr 2, 2011 at 6:03 PM
The reason this was such a horrible trade wasn't because Daniels "miscalculated the Rangers' chances to contend in the short-term" but because he traded a younger, better and cheaper pitcher (Chris Young) for an older, worse and more expensive one (Adam Eaton). Since he's not acknowledging this I'm not exactly sure what this statement is.
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Watertown, New York ----- The Samaritan Medical Center Foundation of Northern New York has launched a new resource guide to help visitors and summer residents in the North Country find the healthcare services they may need – for themselves or their family.
"There are few things worse than getting sick or injured when away from home and familiar surroundings," explains Beth Fipps, Vice President Foundation & Community Services at Samaritan. "While we hope that visitors or summer residents don't need medical care while they're in our area, it's always better to be prepared. Your Guide to Healthcare in Northern New York makes sure the necessary information is readily available should they need it."
Your Guide to Healthcare in Northern New York is available at no cost to print or download at nnyhealthguide.com. This essential resource includes information about what to do in a medical emergency; emergency medical services; non-emergency healthcare services such as primary care, dental care, drug stores, veterinary care and more; non-emergency transportation; other useful area contacts; and a handy map to help visitors identify the services that are closest to their location.
The information provided is not limited to Samaritan facilities, but also includes other North Country hospitals and medical practices.
"We're depending on our community members to help spread the word about this new resource," adds Ms. Fipps. "If you own a cottage or camp that you rent to visitors, or if you have family or friends who come to stay, please tell them about Your Guide to Healthcare in Northern New York."
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To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Otto Klemperer s death, EMI Classics pays tribute to the incomparable conductor with the release of an extensive edition of 11 luxurious yet affordably-priced boxsets. The second edition of three is available this January. The great symphonies of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are considered to be the last nine together with Nos. 25 and 29. Klemperer s first recordings of these were Nos. 29 and 41 in 1954 followed by Nos. 25, 36, 38, 40 and 41 two years later together with the Seranata Notturna, Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the Adagio & Fugue. He revisited Nos. 29, 38, 39, 40 and 41and Eine kleine Nachtmusik in the 1960 s as well as completing all the other recordings in this 8-CD collection entitled Klemperer Edition: Mozart. Like the duplications in the series of Beethoven symphonies it is interesting to see how Klemperer s view of the works developed; however, unlike the Beethoven, these duplications are rarer on CD as those 1954 recordings of Symphony Nos. 29 and 41 are making their first appearance on EMI, that for the 1956 recording of Symphony No 38 is making its very first appearance in Stereo.
MusicWeb International, 25th July 2013
This Mozart box seems to contain about the same proportion of great performances, near misses and damp squibs as all the other Klemperer boxes in this series. It certainly shows that his style was not inimical to Mozart. His finest Mozart performances are a match for any, and actually stand up better today than some that were more fOted in their own time.
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DPRK, Syrian Cities Establish Friendship Relations
| Pyongyang, July 2 (KCNA) -- Kaesong City of the DPRK and Quneitra City of Syria established friendship relations on June 23.
An agreement on it was signed in Quneitra.
The DPRK ambassador to Syria and the governor of the Quneitra Province signed the agreement.
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Ten years after its fringe debut, this show's still got legs — and fangs.
Winnipeg writer-composer Joseph Aragon's first musical comedy rises again in an ambitious anniversary production directed by iconic fringer Leith Clark.
When greedy corporate suits make a high-stakes play to open a Dracula-Land theme park in Transylvania, they encounter a sinister ally named Vlad (Ray Padua) and his vampy sidekick Natasha (Mallory James).
Madcap mischief ensues as corporate climber Mary (Lisa Tjaden) falls under Vlad's spell, forcing her smitten co-worker Bill (Kenneth Jackson) to save her soul — with help from a trio of avenging angels. Standout performances and dead-on sight gags make it a batty blast from the past.
— Pat St. Germain
Director: Leith Clark
Cast: David Fox, Kenneth Jackson, Kelly Jenken, Heather Madill, Gian Navarro, Gio Navarro, Gino Navarro, Ray Padua, Mallory Schellenberg, Lisa Tjaden, Teela Tomassetti
Vampires! Dancing nuns! Economic growth! Celebrate 10 years of musical madness with the hit show that started it all!
Three American theme park developers visit Transylvania to negotiate plans for "Dracula Land" with a mysterious landowner named Vlad. But amid the protests and warnings, they uncover a larger diabolical plot that threatens every soul on Earth. Will the world succumb to an undead uprising? Or will love and capitalism conquer all?
**** – Winnipeg Free Press
Directed by Leith Clark.
Audience Classification: General
Length: 75 mins.
Tickets: $10
Warnings: None
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There is little exact information regarding the origin of ancient Greek comedy. According to Aristotle, writing a century and a half later, it first took shape in Megara and Sicyon, and Susarion, the earliest Athenian comic poet, is himself supposed to have come from Megara. Aristotle also connects the origin of Comedy with popular phallic processions, and claims that it received official recognition (and thus state support) in Athens somewhat later than tragedy did. The Suda, supplemented by some inscriptional evidence, suggests that the earliest dramatic competitions in Athens took place at the City Dionysia festival in the early 480s B.C., and that a second competition was added at the Lenaeafestival around 450. But comedies of some sort written by Epicharmus were performed already in the 490s in the Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily, and the origins of the genre cannot in fact be determined with any precision. The name itself apparently comes from the Greek words komos, which means reveling band, and the verb aeido, to sing.
Comedies were performed in Athens in formal competitions at two major festivals in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and now of theater. Each festival seems to have featured five comic poets staging a single play apiece, although it is possible that programs were reduced to three poets for a period due to the financial pressures of the Peloponnesian War. Poets applied to the archon in charge of the relevant festival for the right to participate in it. If chosen, they were awarded a choregos, i.e. a wealthy man who funded the performance as a form of taxation.
Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that Comedy is a representation of laughable people and involves some kind of blunder or ugliness which does not cause pain or disaster.
The earliest Athenian comedy, from the 480s to 440s BC, is almost entirely lost. The most important poets of the period were Magnes, whose work survives only in a few fragments of dubious authenticity, and Cratinus, who took the prize at the City Dionysia probably sometime around 450 BC. Although no complete plays by Cratinus are preserved, they are known through hundreds of fragments.
For modern readers, the most important Old Comic dramatist is Aristophanes, whose works, with their pungent political satire and abundance of sexual and scatological innuendo, effectively define the genre today. Aristophanes lampooned the most important personalities and institutions of his day, as can be seen, for example, in his buffoonish portrayal of Socrates in The Clouds, and in sexual and political farce Lysistrata. It is nonetheless important to realize that he was only one of a large number of comic poets working in Athens in the late 5th century, his most important contemporary rival being Eupolis.
The Old Comedy subsequently influenced later European writers such as Rabelais, Cervantes, Swift, and Voltaire. In particular, they copied the technique of disguising a political attack as buffoonery. The legacy of Old Comedy can be seen today in political satires such as Dr. Strangelove and in the televised buffoonery of Monty Python and Saturday Night Live.
Old Comedy has been called one of the "sports" of literature in that it is so fantastic and unbridled.
The line between Old and Middle Comedy is not clearly marked chronologically, Aristophanes and others of the latest writers of the Old Comedy being sometimes regarded as the earliest Middle Comic poets. For ancient scholars, the term may have meant little more than "later than Aristophanes and his contemporaries, but earlier than Menander". Middle Comedy is generally seen as differing from Old Comedy in three essential particulars: it had no chorus, public characters were not impersonated or personified onstage, and the objects of ridicule were general rather than personal, literary rather than political. For at least a time, mythological parody was popular among the Middle Comic poets. Stock characters of all sorts also emerge: courtesans, parasites, revelers, philosophers, boastful soldiers, and especially the self-conceited cook with his parade of culinary science
Because no complete Middle Comic plays have been preserved, it is impossible to offer any real assessment of their literary value or "genius". But many Middle Comic plays appear to have been revived in Sicily and Magna Graecia in this period, suggesting that they had considerable widespread literary and social appeal.
The new comedy lasted throughout the reign of the Macedonian rulers, ending about 260 BC.
Substantial fragments of New Comedy have survived, but no complete plays. The most substantially preserved text is the Dyskolos ("Difficult Man, Grouch") by Menander, discovered on a papyrus in 1958. The so-called "Cairo Codex" (found in 1907) also preserves long sections of plays as Epitrepontes ("Men at Arbitration"), The Girl from Samos, and Perikeiromene ("The Girl who had her Hair Shorn"). Much of the rest of our knowledge of New Comedy is derived from the Latin adaptations by Plautus and Terence.
For the first time love became a principal element in the drama. The New Comedy relied on stock characters such as the senex iratus, or "angry old man," the domineering parent who tries to thwart his son or daughter from achieving wedded happiness, and who is often led into the same vices and follies for which he has reproved his children, and the bragging soldier newly returned from war with a noisy tongue, a full purse and an empty head. The new comedy depicted Athenian society and the social morality of the period, presenting it in attractive colors but making no attempt to criticize or improve it.
The New Comedy influenced much of Western European literature, in particular the comic drama of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Congreve and Wycherley.
Much of contemporary romantic and situational comedy descends from the New Comedy sensibility, in particular generational comedies such as All in the Family and Meet the Parents.


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The area got its name from the lake (which is part of Karachi mangrove forests) which has been a favorite boating place. Later on as the city got bigger the lake clear waters have changed to the today brown waters and the boating has ceased to be. The restaurants have been originally built to serve those who came for boating.
Today the street is thriving with dozens of restaurants, out of which some are open non-stop. It is the most frequent eat-out place of Karachi for the middle-class. The prime time is between 10 pm and 1 am.
There are several ethnic groups including Muhajirs, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras Ismailis, etc. Over 99% of the population is Muslim.


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Planning a barbeque or a casual, rustic wedding? Bench seating is the perfect way to achieve that rustic yet eccentric look. Try mixing and matching bench seating with chairs to give guests a truly unique party experience. Toss a nice quilt or fabric that matches your décor on top of the benches to add a fun and whimsical touch!


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Miami Heat LeBron James on the ball at the 2012 London Olympics
On a roster featuring All-Star point guards Chris Paul and Deron Williams, it was LeBron James who led the United States in assists in Sunday's Olympic opener.
Expected to often be featured in a power role on a USA Basketball roster that counts only Tyson Chandler as a true center, James instead thrived on the perimeter, closing with a team-high eight assists in Sunday's 98-71 victory over medal-hopeful France in London.
The eight assists by the Miami Heat forward were only two fewer than the entire roster of France, which featured former Heat players Ronny Turiaf and Yakhouba Diawara.
James finished with nine points, eight assists and five rebounds in playing 25 minutes of the 40-minute game.
Next closest in assists for the United States was Williams, with six. Paul had five.
"We just want to continue our ball movement," James told the pool reporter following the victory. "That's always number one. We want to continue to defend at a high level and also rebounding. If we do those three things, we give ourselves a great chance to win every game."
Included in James' effort were several spectacular assists.
"It was a good game for us," he said. "The best thing about it is we moved the ball. We had a lot of assists and we moved the ball and we rebounded. When we rebound, we're a really good team because we can get out in the open floor and make some plays happen."
U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski said it should not come as a surprise that someone other than a point guard led his team in assists, with scorers such as James and Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant also able to serve as playmakers.
"I don't see us being a non-point guard offense," Krzyzewski said in defense of Paul and Williams. "LeBron and Kobe are guys that need to create. It takes a little bit away from Chris and Deron's game and we want them to assert themselves even a little bit more."
James had only two fouls, but other teammates came closer to the international limit of five.
"We fouled a little bit too much for our liking so if we can cut that down, we'll be better," he said.
The next game for James and the U.S. Olympic team is Tuesday against Tunisia.


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Cancer Drugs Fund Application and Approval Rates Continue to Rise
The Rarer Cancers Foundation (RCF) has published the latest quarterly briefings on the operation of the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF) at strategic health authority (SHA) level for July to September 2011.
These follow the first set of briefings produced for the period for April to June 2011 and build on our report Funding Cancer Drugs: An evaluation of the impact of policies to improve access to cancer treatments published in June 2011.
Key findings for July to September are:
The provision of timely and accurate data on use of the CDF is important in enabling SHAs to manage the allocation of funding, demonstrate that the funding is being used in line with regional arrangements and improve the evidence on how these drugs perform in real-world clinical practice.
The RCF is committed to ensuring that healthcare professionals, patients and the public are able to access information about how the CDF is being used in each SHA and we will, therefore, be publishing these SHA level bulletins on a quarterly basis, data permitting.
Please find details on the use of the CDF in your local area below: