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Call of Duty: Black Ops II is now out on the Wii U. It's just not being played online that much. Too many people still at work or in school? Console too new? People drawn to other Wii U games? Everyone distracted by the surprisingly terrific Miiverse?
It's early days, so these stats will be interesting to watch. Expect them to grow.
For comparison's sake, the Xbox 360 version of Black Ops II had 800,000 people playing online on launch day.
Call of Duty never sold as well on Wii as it did on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, but it still sold well. We'll see how popular this one gets on Nintendo's new console.
Nintendo's brand new online social network Miiverse has had its ups and downs since it went live on Saturday night. And by that I mean it's actually been up and down, online and offline, since then.
When Miiverse is down it's still just about as good as Nintendo's previous online efforts for its consoles. When it's up, it just might be the beginning of something terrific.
In the video here, I'll walk you through it and show you some pretty cool stuff.
As with all things Nintendo, don't expect something that apes what the competition is doing. You'll see bits of Steam in what they're doing, but Nintendo has not re-created Xbox Live or PlayStation Network. They've not made a network that groups players together for party chat, and they've neglected to create system-wide Achievements. Instead, they've put their effort into what at first appears to just be some presumably-hospitable console-based message boards but could ultimately become a system that connects gamers in some extraordinarily useful ways.
This is a service that lets you pause a difficult game, screencap what was happening on your TV or GamePad controller, hop to a game-specific message board, post the image, type or scribble a question about how to get past a part of the game, go back to playing, and then get helpful replies from people who have played the same game. Not only is this a good idea, but it could give Nintendo license to make a Zelda game that is as packed full of esoteric screenshots.
Give this tour of Miiverse a look. Nintendo's on to something here. As long as they can keep the service online.
UPDATE: Just in case you weren't sure of the Miiverse's awesome potential...
Wach this. (There may or may not be an ACIII spoiler in the video; if I told you, you'd know if it was a spoiler or not. So watch at your own risk. Spoilers are supposed to be blocked on the service by users who post them. Those who break the rules can be reported to Miiverse moderators.)
Or just look at this...
Thankfully the user includes a screenshot...
One person was going on about Tupac, but this person has a different role model...
And meet this kind-hearted member of the community...
OK, we love Miiverse.
UPDATE 2: We can't resist. We're sharing one more. This is one of the most popular entries in the Miiverse community for New Super Mario Bros. U
When Final Fantasy XIV relaunches as Final Fantasy XIV:
Let's Pretend This Game Didn't Happen A Realm Reborn in the near future, the people behind it plan to add a whole bunch of new features.
One of those features, to be added in a future patch, is marriage. The traditional version, with men and women and paladins and cat-people. No same-sex marriage allowed, at least for the time being. Here's an explanation from the folks at Square Enix:
We previously released a screenshot of a sanctum in the woods.
So when the era came to an end, something happened that led to the sanctum being rediscovered. So what is this place for? Well, in creating a world, we wanted put anything in it that is close to reality. Marriage is one of those things. That's why we built the sanctum—so that characters and players can get married. The system for weddings—proper services and such—might not be available right from the beginning. It'll most likely be added in a patch. However, we've already prepared a place for it.
As for same-sex marriage, this is an extremely controversial topic that has been under discussion in the MMO world for the past few years. First we would like to start out with opposite-sex marriage, and then consider the feedback from our players in order to make a careful decision. I can't say whether or not it will be possible at this point in time. I'd like to keep dialog open with our players as we deliberate the matter.
I don't see what's so controversial about allowing people to get married, but hey, if you let men marry men, what's next? Men marrying moogles? Women mating with chocobos? Tradition is very important in the world of Hydaelyn.
Letter from the Producer LIVE Part IV & Q&A Summary [Square Enix via Siliconera]
One of the most fascinating things about the Fallout franchise is the history of the vaults. Before United States was destroyed via atomic bombs, the government ordered the Vault-Tec corporation to build a number of underground safehouses. To the public, these vaults were supposed to help ensure the survival of the American populace after nuclear annihilation.
They didn't build nearly enough of them. Not to justify what Vault-Tec did, but in a way, building enough vaults to house an entire country is kind of crazy. So instead they only built 122 vaults—which, okay, still better than nothing. The issue is that the true purpose of the vaults is a nefarious one.
You know how most of the social experiments we hear about show that humanity is kind of screwed up? There's the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, for instance, where normal everyday men pretended to run a prison. Half of them became guards, half became prisoners. They didn't leave any detail out—prisoners got "arrested," the guards were given batons, and so on. It didn't take long before they all forgot it wasn't real, and the results were disturbing. The guards hazed and abused the prisoners, and the prisoners would have breakdowns. The experiment was canceled before it ran its course out of fear of what would happen otherwise.
There are other social experiments like it, in that they are testaments to our humanity—from how far we'd go to hurt others, to how long it takes us to go to someone's aid (if at all).
Many would argue that social experiments are inherently immoral and wrong. At the very least, if someone does something "as a social experiment" to get away with amoral behavior, we'd likely think that person is an ass.
While the war ramped up in Fallout, Vault-Tec became very powerful—practically another branch of the government. As cliche as it might be, that power corrupted them. They'd go on to research how to evolve humans with the FEV virus, along with a slew of other questionable weaponry and tech.
So it should come as no surprise that the vaults themselves weren't meant to help people. Actually, they were large-scale social experiments. Each vault tested certain conditions, often absurd and ridiculous, sometimes completely disturbing. Most of the vault-dwellers would never know this, save for the overseer, who had to make sure that everything in the experiment went according to plan. The purpose of these experiments was to test out how the population would react to certain conditions, and then to judge how the subjects go about repopulating the country.
In Fallout 1, we saw an issue with Vault 13 that was actually common amongst a good number of the vaults: the water chip was defective, and that's the reason your vault sends you on a quest. Nothing too crazy. Other vaults would have ludicrous conditions like "all women and only a single male." In Fallout 3, the infamous Tranquility Lane is a part of Vault 112, where residents are trapped in a virtual simulation that was maintained by the creator of the GECK.
Fallout: New Vegas, like all Fallout games before it, has vaults in it. Two are of particular note: Vault 21 and Vault 11. If you thought that a vault built in Las Vegas absolutely had to be themed around gambling, you'd be right—that's exactly what Vault 21 is, the gambling vault.
When you enter the strip, Vault 21 is nothing but a glorified gift shop maintained by Mr. House. But if you delve into its history, you find out that it was originally inhabited by only gambling addicts. The idea was to make the vault as "equal" as possible, and this meant that everything in the vault was left up to games of chance. The vault would be emptied by Mr. House after winning a bet against the residents of Vault 21, but you can't be too sad for them or anything. They left the vault for another gambling nirvana, New Vegas itself.
Vault 21 has one of the more amusing premises for a vault in New Vegas; Vault 11, meanwhile, is one of the more disturbing vaults. Here, the vault residents are told that they have to sacrifice a person from the population every year or else everyone will die. What they don't know: they're supposed to defy the decree, and if they do, the vault would tell them that they did good. Guess what: they don't figure it out until it's too late, and almost everyone is dead.
The story leading up to the downfall of Vault 11 is a tragic one. After the first batch of vault dwellers find out that the overseer knew about the twisted purpose of the vault, they elect the overseer as the sacrifice. The vault then adopts this as tradition, where all of its overseers are sacrificed after their term ends. It's funny, in a twisted way, to think that elections are typically characterized by a candidate's desire to be elected—but you'd imagine that in this case, people would campaign so that someone other than themselves would be given the overseer title, regardless of what power came with it.
Eventually a woman named Katherine Stone is told that if she doesn't have sex with a certain group of people, they'll elect her husband as overseer. She complies, only to find out that they intend to elect her husband anyway. She then starts killing those people off, supposing that at best they lose their majority and her husband is safe, or at worst she is elected overseer instead of her husband. She is right, and her first act as overseer is to abolish the election and to have the sacrifice be determined at random.
Naturally this upsets people, notably those who think that Stone's actions will destabilize the already-established power relations in the vault. This, in turn, catalyzes a war that leaves only a handful of people alive. Fate is cruel, and the last remaining vault dwellers find out the truth about the vault. They are so aghast with what they learn that they kill themselves... though even these final moments are filled with tension over what should be done. The only remaining evidence about these events are the audiologs that you find when you explore the vault years later.
You get the feeling that these social experiments were done because the government wasn't really interested in saving anyone that wasn't "important," (i.e., themselves) and this is reinforced by how the Enclave treats everyone on the wasteland as something other than human in almost all the games. Regardless, it's difficult to point fingers and be judgmental about it all, because this vault plot twist is exactly what makes them so fascinating. I know that whenever I play a new Fallout, I'm excited to see what new vaults the designers have thought up. My hope is that the Fallout in question features a good mix of funny vaults alongside upsetting ones.
Maybe we're just all awful human beings—that's what all these social experiments say, anyway. Consider this though: the Enclave might be the ones that set up the experiments, but we're the ones practically eating popcorn while we read the results.
People unlike the folks working at Burger King, where I've attempted to purchase a seasonal Gingerbread Cookie Shake and failed on three separate occasions.
I don't know what I did to piss off Burger King. Perhaps the company is upset that I've featured McDonald's so many times in my regular Snacktaku features. Maybe they don't enjoy my constant criticism of the three BK-themed Xbox 360 games that were released years ago and still languish in the used section of every GameStop, worthless and hilariously overpriced. Have they instituted a company-wide missive advising against providing me with adequate service out of fear that their food might not be up to my exacting standards?
All I know is I want a damn milkshake, and they won't give it to me.
Attempt One
My family and I pulled into the drive through of a Burger King off Highway 92 on our way to visit some family in Woodstock, Georgia. We were tight on time but there was no one else there, so we figured we'd grab a quick couple of shakes and run.
I pulled up to the speaker and was asked to hold. Five minutes passed. By the time the people working inside the store completed whatever Lovecraftian rituals were required to type my order into the mystical cash register it was too late to wait on shakes. We grabbed a couple of cones and sped away.
I realize that this was completely my fault. Had I allotted a more realistic amount of time for sitting idle in my car while the Burger King employees inside the restaurant ritualistically slaughtered livestock, I would be telling you about how delicious that shake was right now. My bad.
Attempt Two
Undaunted, we decided to try again in the evening on the way home from our engagement. As we pulled up to another of Highway 92's many fine bastions of burger royalty the clock read 9:30PM, an hour and a half before the location closed. We declared our intent to purchase the seasonal shakes into the magical microphone box.
"Sorry, we already shut down the machine for the night."
This is the most infuriating thing a person trapped inside a tiny metal prison can possibly say to me. Having worked many food service jobs, I can understand wanting to get the more involved work knocked out early in order to make closing go faster. As a consumer however, I cannot fathom why a location dedicated to feeding people things for money would cripple its ability to do so with an hour and a half left in their day.
I politely sighed heavily, shouted a word that rhymes with "fuck" and drove off into the night.
Attempt Three
It wasn't until a week later that I found the courage to try again, this time at the Burger King near North Point Mall on Mansell Road. I specifically mention this location not to get the people there in trouble, but to ensure that people—okay I am lying, I'd really love to see them get in trouble. This was three days ago and I am still furious.
Again, no one else in the drive through, I pull up and order one of those desirable Ginger Bread Cookie shakes. A completely disinterested voice from the box gave me my total, at which point I informed her that the "and a" I added after mentioning the ice cream drink indicated there was more to the order. This may have angered her.
I pulled up to the window, credit card in hand, and sat there. No one acknowledged I was there. There was a man in a white shirt and tie working the counter inside, but he never met my eyes. The woman that had taken our order was nowhere to be seen.
We sat there for seven minutes. I know this because Dave Matthews' Band's "Last Stop"—a seven minute long song—came on my wife's iPod as we drove up, and as I angrily drove away it had ended and the next song was starting.
So not only did I not get a shake, I had to listen to "Last Stop".
And so there is no review of the Burger King Gingerbread Cookie Shake, because Burger King obviously does not want me to have one. It might be the best thing ever created. I read someone on Tumblr describe it as "an orgasm in my mouth." If Burger King doesn't want to orgasm in my mouth I have to respect that decision.
Sent to us by reader Chris, this timely twofer combines the joy of milking a potential Christmas Wii U shortage with the chance that Hostess will close its doors forever and we'll have to wait until the company that buys Twinkies gets production up to speed.
It was funnier before the bankruptcy judge forced Hostess and the Baker's Union into mediation, but who knows—this could still be a pretty valuable combo. Just not this valuable.
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Earlier this month, Activision announced that it would let people who pre-ordered the publisher's latest FPS mega-hit play on a re-imagined version of the popular Nuketown multiplayer map. That part of the promotion turned out to be true. But that access to the special battleground appears to have been suddenly revoked. The sudden bad news was confirmed via tweet from Treyarch game design director David Vonderhaar:
The expectation was that players would be able to play on Nuketown 2025 whenever they wanted. As you'd expect, fans are up in arms over the fact that the map has gone AWOL. Kotaku has reached out to Activision for comments and will update this post if they respond.
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Even if my distaste for Myspace is so great that I've blocked all access to it at my house I have to admit they doing something good. Zdnet has the rest of the details here. Basically after a phishing scheme that compromised thousands of accounts, a clown that goes by the name 'Spam King' used those accounts to post spam to Myspace bulletins. So Myspace is now suing the 'Kings' pants off. This comes after Microsoft already sued the same guy for $7 million dollars for the same thing. This makes me think if he can afford a lawsuit like that and still go about business, no wonder some many people are sending spam because it's so profitable.
It just wouldn't be so profitable if everyone and their grandma set up a hotmail or yahoo account and then slung their address all over the internet. Then they think that this is a wonderful offer for Ma13 3nhanc3m3nt$ and that some prince in Nigeria would actually contact them for help, so lets send them our money. I guess that some blame has to be given to Mail admins who don't have the resources to filter out all the crap that come through their servers. But with spammers taking over thousands of PC's and using those to spam, which effectively makes most RBL just a waste of bandwidth. But I guess it's just something that everyone will have to deal with whether we like it or not.
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Tea is an important morning ritual for me, but I've learned to be flexible when on the road. I don't bring my own tea unless my hotel room or suite has a kitchenette with stove. If you can't control the water temperature, there's no point in wasting your own tea.
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Writing leads to better health, social interaction, professor says
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By Kathleen Thurber
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People who come down with the flu frequently, have trouble with social interactions or can't quite get past the bitterness of being fired might find some respite in writing, said the University of Texas' Psychology Department chair at a fundraiser Tuesday.
"Is there something magical about it (writing)?" said James Pennebaker, a Midland native and chair and professor at UT's psychology department. "Of course there isn't."
But, he said, the task of writing about traumatic experiences or even life stressors forces people to organize their thoughts and has shown in studies conducted since the late 1970s to improve overall health and allow people to connect better socially, among other things.
In the first experiment he conducted, Pennebaker asked students to come in four days in a row and write freely for 15 minutes about a traumatic experience and any thoughts associated with the event, including feelings about relationships, childhood or their current situation.
Another group was asked to write for the same period of time but was told to focus on something superficial like their shoes, the color of the room or, the most inconsequential of them all, time management - a thing Pennebaker described as teetering the line between worthless and evil.
Of the two groups, those that wrote about traumatic experiences later visited the campus health center half as often as those that wrote about something else. Other studies have shown that this method of writing can improve immune function, healing rates and social interaction.
When writing, he said, it's important to write for the full 15 minutes without worrying about grammar, spelling or other fundamentals. It's not the same as journaling, according to his research summaries, in that it doesn't ask people to dwell on the topic and doesn't require them to keep the thoughts or to ever look at them again.
Pennebaker once studied a group of engineers who had been laid off after working at a company 20 to 30 years. Half the group wrote about time management and half about their feelings in relation to being fired. Both groups sent out an equal number of resumes and went on an equal number of interviews, he said, but the group who had written about losing their job found new jobs much faster.
"I've never dealt with such a nasty hostile group of guys in my life," he said.
The only other time he encountered such hostility, he said, was when he debunked the report that women speak about 13,000 more words a day then men.
"Men and women say exactly the same amount of words every day," he said. But, the release of his studies, which conflicted with earlier reports from others, brought him accusatory e-mails and phone calls from husbands all over who felt they needed to point out his findings obviously didn't pertain to their wives.
"We're just now starting to look at real people," he said, explaining his studies analyzed only college students. "Possible when a guy gets to 30 he runs out of things to say."
Pennebaker spoke to Midland's Texas Exes chapter who gathered to raise money for scholarships that will be given to local students enrolling at UT, said its president Matt Catalan.
The event was the first in what they hope will become an ongoing "Great Professors of The University" series. Last year local UT alumni were able to give ,10,000 in scholarship money and through money raised at Tuesday's event aim to distribute at least that much next year, Catalan said.
Pennebaker and his wife both graduated from Midland High in 1964 and Pennebaker earned his Ph.D. from UT in 1977.
"It's just a thrill to be back in Midland," Pennebaker said.
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According to the rumour-mill Rovers are set to sign three Shefield United players.
Jonathan Forte, Kevin Hurst and Simon Francis all of whom spent time on loan at League One clubs are rumoured to be signing this week.
Rovers fans know all about Forte, who spent three months at loan last season. The striker also had a loan spell with Rotherham.
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"The number one issue is lack of training to support healthy lifestyles [for individuals with MR] across the lifespan."
The challenges and rewards of treating individuals with MR are rarely addressed in the training of physicians and other health care professionals. However, anecdotal evidence and limited data indicate that opportunities for clinical experiences with these patients, early in medical and other health professions training, increase the capacity of providers to value and accept these patients into their practices.
Potential strategies: Evaluate existing health professions training curricula that address health and MR and disseminate those found to be efficacious. Partner with families and individuals with MR to develop and implement training modules. Use providers experienced in the care of individuals with MR and family members to mentor health professions students, residents, and fellows in the care of this population. Develop and implement criteria for accreditation and certification of health professions schools and training programs, based on inclusion of mental retardation in their curricula.
Potential curriculum topics: Dual diagnosis; health risks and expression, in people with MR, of age-related conditions found in other populations; direct interactions with these patients, such as history-taking, including cultural practices, diagnosis, treatment, and counseling and supporting individuals in wellness and in adherence to treatment regimens; appropriate use of medications and alternative behavior management techniques; working with individuals and their families to develop and update goal-oriented health care plans, including lifetime plans and plans for transition points; and use of augmentative communications devices and other specialized equipment.
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UCLA and USC don't play for another two months, but Bruins wide receiver Shaquelle Evans already has fanned the flames of the heated Los Angeles rivalry.
Appearing on ESPN radio 710 Wednesday, the senior didn't mince any words about his feelings for the Trojans, who have dominated the series lately. UCLA's defeat of USC last year was just its second since 1998. (Here's the interview: comments come at 4:30 mark)
"Beating them last year and knowing that we're going to beat them again this year - especially two years ago when they beat us 50-0 - we owe them a little bit when we go to the Coliseum because last time we were there they embarrassed us," Evans said. "So this year, we're going to try to embarrass them, honestly.
The recent difficulties of the Trojans and heat on coach Lane Kiffin after a loss to Washington State two weeks ago is something Evans clearly relishes.
"It's so much fun just seeing them struggling and how we used to struggle and now they're struggling it's just awesome to see that," Evans said. "I hate them. So I'm just loving it."
Evans, who has nine catches for 178 yards and two scores in two games, also wasn't shy about his own ability. He declared himself the best college receiver in Los Angeles ahead of Trojans standout Marqise Lee.
That confidence will be needed on Nov. 30 when the teams meet. His words will likely have a prominent place in USC's locker room that week.
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I have already written Fandango up ages ago, but the draft disappeared after I moved to WordPress. I'm half annoyed, but also half thankful that this post was the only 'casualty', although you could say that my flagging spirit towards blogging could be another 'casualty'. Computers are so powerful these days, they can rule your feelings!! Either way, I won't strive to remember what I'd written previously, let's brief it up instead!
Piccolo $3.30
This brunch happened on a Wednesday, late last year… *koff*. I was with Allan and Ashley, and yes, it was another meet-up of #fakephotographicsociety members. You know… having a meet-up at a brunch spot to take photos of food for 'the sake of photography'… although I'm quite certain that everyone can see right through our ruse. :D
Chai loose leaf tea $4.30
Loved the cafe's retro fitout. Even the teapots has knitted tea cosies.
Even when it's so close to the city, some parts of North Melbourne still holds a tranquility to it. Even this short stretch of Errol St, so close to the main area, gave me a sense of quiet. And the cafe's warm feel helped too.
Beetroot eggs $15.50
poached eggs w beetroot and fetta relish served w spinach on toasted sourdough
Both Ashley and I knew instantly that we wanted this dish. But I let her have it in the end while I tried something else. All the components here are ingredients that I know I'd love having in a brunch dish. And from the sample taste I had, they were marvellously done here. Will have to come back to eat this next time!
Pesto scrambled eggs $15.50
w oven roasted tomato on toasted sourdough
Looks like Allan's brunch dish also did not disappoint..
Avocado and tomato $19.50
w basil pesto, cracked pepper, poached eggs and bacon on toasted sourdough
This was what I had. Nicely cooked and generously portioned. It was good!
And just so that we could each have a taste of each others' dishes, we carved out sample bits of our brunches onto little plates for each of us to try. Love our instinctual sharing concept. And love how we do it because we know, as food bloggers, we want to have a little taste of everything!
Pancakes $15.0
stack of three pancakes topped with fruit compote, strawberries, honeyed cream cheese and maple syrup
We now call this "Allan-style" brunching… where we each have our own savoury brunch dish, and then collectively choose a sweet option to share amongst us. I've heard previously that the pancakes here are wonderful, so I was glad we got to try it. I found it (as usual) just sweeeet, but I think my companions really enjoyed it!
I liked Fandango's homely feel. Their brunch offerings are classic, generous with portions and done very well. While Auction Rooms serves better coffees and has a more interesting menu, the good thing about Fandango is how it doesn't have that 'hipstertentious' vibe. So depending on mood, I'm equally likely to visit either cafe!


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On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 11:29:04AM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: > Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: >>On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Tom Hart wrote: >> Maybe I should describe what I know of the ACL's implemented on top >> of Unix then: I had some experience with a Solaris system, and I >> heard that the (since withdrawn) POSIX ACL draft was very close to >> this. >> Does this "version" of ACL's calm your fears of ACL's being >> "unintuitive"? > Ah, yes, this seems more intuitive, and more Unixy. That would be a Good > Thing. > I think the non-intuitiveness of NT ACLs comes mainly from their > order-dependent nature, coupled with ACE inheritance. > The one thing about NT's approach that I think is good is the > presence of Deny ACEs. I feel like one can't have Deny ACEs without order dependency. And that is a bad thing, except maybe with explicit priority (each AC entry has an explicit priority number and they are applied in that order). While ACE is an additional feature, I think trying to avoid creeping featurism is a good thing, too. And I can't come up with a sensible scenario where Deny ACEs make sense, where they really make things better for the user, or the administrator or ... You think you can: > And I suspect that there are many situations in which it would be > more convenient to add a Deny ACE to a file than to have to make a > new group that excludes the person to whom you'd like to deny > access. I'm curious to hear about such a scenario. With all examples that pop-up in my head, using Deny ACEs actually would be an example of bad administration, or rules that won't hold the passage of time. It all revolves around "why do you want to exclude this one person"? I don't see any reason that would apply to one person and NEVER to a new member of the group. If you give access to group G, and user U is in G, but you don't want to give access to group G, then either: - G is not the right group you want to give access to. E.g. you confuse staff members (administrators) and staff members being formed (learning the system) (so you don't want to give them the power to wreak havoc in the system, but the power to do small administrations tasks). Maybe in *your* organisation, those two groups differ by only one person, but conceptually, they are *not* the same. - U does not belong in G. Fix _that_. You understand what I mean? E.g., if you are member of the board of the Big A Corp., and you are plotting to throw the chairman out. You don't want the chairman to be able to read your plans, OK. But then giving access to board member, and a Deny ACE for the chairman is not the right answer: You want that only plotters access the plans. If a new board members is accepted, you don't want him to automatically have access to the plans: he might be the chairman's pawn. In school, student Q already has stolen your work before, so you want to deny him access to your working drafts. Again, this new kid in school can become a friend of Q, so you won't want him to have automatic access either. So 'all students access, except Q' isn't quite right either. In a different direction, it has just struck me that on a GNU/Hurd system, I don't need to whole filesystem to support ACL's to have fine-grained control over who access my files: Just write my own translator :) Hmm... This would be a nice toy project to get some experience with the system... -- Lionel
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'Almost "everyone knows" that Aloe vera soothes and heals minor burns and peptic ulcer attacks. But out of 240 species of Aloe, only three or four of them contain the powerful synergistic medicinal properties that have demonstrably cured AIDS and cancer.
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Whole leaf Aloe arborescence juice is what Franciscan Friar Romano Zago used to cure cancers in his Brazilian diocese.'
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5 Jobs that Do Not Require Sitting at a Desk
Not everyone is made to sit behind a desk and work a corporate job. There are people out there who actually hate those kinds of jobs and no matter how hard they try, can never seem to be able to make them last. If you are one of those people…Read More


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June 4, 2012
1:00 pm
At first glance, Glomper seems like just another app in a long line of mobile apps that hope to solve the problem associated with planning events. According to CEO Alexander Borodich, that problem is that current methods – from texting to Foursquare to Facebook – are too focused on the past and the present.
"When you see a check-in in your timeline, it is too late to join," Borodich told me.
Borodich, who has an executive MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics, bills the company as "a reinvented mobile calendar that lets you know what your Facebook friends are up to tonight."
Glomper has tight Facebook integration displayed in a beautiful interface, allowing users to populate status updates with actions and descriptions such as "coffee," "work," "doing nothing," and "shopping." Users can then share their updates directly to Facebook and even filter streams by how close by or popular events are. A recent update to the app lets users post directly to Twitter, as well. Like many of its competitors, Glomper believes that leaning heavily on social media is key to winning the hypercompetitive events category.
And Glomper plans to make sure everyone can participate, with a website and apps for iPhone and Android (still in open beta).
Glomper landed seed money from the IMI.VC fund in April 2011. To monetize, Borodich has plans for selling tickets within the app, as well as offering specials and coupons for particular events.
And where does the name come from? "We found out that 'to glomp' means to lovingly attack your friend with a hug," Borodich told me. "And that's actually what we are doing."
Glomper was a showcased startup at the Tech Cocktail San Francisco event.
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October 10, 2011 – Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown has vetoed legislation that would have made it illegal for police to search a suspect's portable electronic devices during an arrest unless they had a court-issued warrant for the search. Since he didn't sign that bill into law, California police remain clear to search…[For full story: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/warrant-cellphone-tablet.html ]
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Rapid City Rush Fan Breaks The Glass With His Hands (Video)
When the glass shatters during a hockey game, 99% of the time the impact causing it to crack comes from within the playing surface, whether it be via a 100-plus m.p.h. slapshot, or a bone-crushing body check. As for the other 1%, that would account for the odd instance when a fan's excitement allows him, […]
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Published on June 23rd, 2008 | by Michael J Smith4
Martin To Replace Mears In No. 5?
ESPN is reporting that Casey Mears may be out of Hendrick Motorsports' No. 5 Chevy at the end of this season, despite having one more year left on his contract.
ESPN also reported that Mark Martin would be leaving the Dale Earnhardt Inc.'s No. 8 Chevy, which he currently shares with Aric Almirola. The plan is to have Almirola in the car full time next year.
ESPN says that it has learned that Martin will replace Mears in the No. 5 car to make one last run at a championship.
When asked about returning to Hendrick, Mears said:
I don't know yet. Obviously, we haven't had a good season. I think anything could happen. Right now, I don't really have anything good to talk about.
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I dunno … I can see Mark driving for Hendrick in a driver/mentor program with Brad Keselowski, but I don't see him coming back full-time. If he was gonna make another run for the Cup, then he should've done it last year when he got off to such a great start.
Well said!
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Staffat Channel Five spent Wednesday night at a London nightclub celebrating the end of its successful reality show The Farm. But the man who commissioned it, director of programmes Dan Chambers, wasn't among the guests. 'I'm tucked up in bed by 11pm normally so it was too late for me, but all the guys I spoke to said "My God, I knew Rebecca Loos was attractive but I had absolutely no sense of just how gorgeous she was until I saw her in real life".'
The sight of Loos, one of The Farm's celebrity contestants, pleasuring a pig on live television is already one of this year's seminal TV moments. It prompted an explosion of righteous tabloid outrage ('Dispigable', the Sun; 'Loos Behaviour', News of the World), a regular occurrence during the channel's pioneering days under one of Chamber's predecessors, Dawn Airey, who famously characterised Five's output as 'films, fucking and football'.
Airey's approach got Five noticed by the nation's couch potatoes, many of whom had to retune their videos in order to receive it. Even now, 10 per cent of the country is out of reach, yet Five has a 7 per cent audience share. The challenge for Chambers is to increase it on a limited budget.
Under Airey's successor Kevin Lygo (now at Channel 4), Five moved upmarket, but some in the industry question where Five goes next. 'It feels like a channel that has run out of road,' says one senior executive. Chambers, who took over last year, is trying to prove otherwise by wooing a younger audience while retaining some of the quality programming Lygo championed.
'Advertisers want 16-34s and ABC1s,' says Chambers. 'It is a mantra that is repeated over and over again but it doesn't go away. That is the groups they want. Our history, arts and science programming delivers those ABC1s, but 16-34s are harder to get.'
Hence The Farm, which formed the centrepiece of a prime-time schedule aimed squarely at the youth audience. Five's acquisition of Friends spin-off Joey will serve a similar purpose on a Friday night, sandwiched between another two American sitcoms, Two and a Half Men and Crazy For You, for which Chambers has high hopes. The affable Oxford-educated 36-year-old says there will also be a second series of The Farm.
'It's not easy to shift the audience profile overnight, but young people came to The Farm in large numbers and stayed,' says Chambers. Five is also attracting younger audiences by screening salacious documentaries like The World's Strongest Boy, alongside high-brow content designed to keep affluent viewers watching.
Somewhat incongrously, Five has just signed a deal to sponsor the TS Eliot poetry prize, an arrangement that would have been unthinkable at the time of its birth. 'Five years ago it was Keith Chegwin taking his clothes off and running around with his willy flapping everywhere,' Chambers says. 'Five was a screaming child doing everything it could to get noticed but with no quality or consistency. That changed abruptly when Kevin Lygo took over. But then the entertainment was small and quirky and in the margins of the schedule. The big change I've made is to say we haven't got that much money to do entertainment shows but when we do them, they should be right at the heart of the schedule and they should be big and marketed heavily.'
The grotesque Cosmetic Surgery Live and Back to Reality are earlier products of this approach, although neither proved a huge hit. With The Farm, Chambers has come closer to striking the jackpot (it won an 8 per cent market share but 12 per cent of 16-34s) and achieving his aim of broadcasting 'more big loud things that will get noticed'. Five may no longer be a screaming child, but there are moments when it resembles an attention-seeking adolescent.
They are some grown-up issues to consider, however, including how best to tackle the strategic dilemmas posed by the growth of digital television. As more homes receive cable and satellite, the proportion of people watching the main terrestrial channels is shrinking.
Ultimately, the terrestrial signal will be switched off, although that is unlikely to happen until 2012 at the earliest. Five is the only terrestrial broadcaster yet to launch a portfolio of digital channels in order to hold on to overall audience share in a fragmenting market.
'We need a multi-channel strategy,' concedes Chambers, who sits on the board. 'Everyone is eager to move to the next stage of the channel's life. Something has to happen.'
Five's controlling shareholder, the German media group Bertelsmann, has been candid about the need to do a deal, and talks have taken place with potential partners, including Flextech (which owns UKTV jointly with the BBC) and Channel 4.
'The sooner the better, really, but equally a deal is more binding than a marriage so you've got to get it right. Jane [Lighting, Five's chief executive] is running all these discussions but everyone feels that if we can't do it through an acquisition or merger with another business then we should do it ourselves,' Chambers says, a comment that suggests Five may be struggling to do a deal.
'It doesn't cost that much [to launch a channel] and we have so much product. We own a lot more rights than, as a single channel, we are able to use.'
Other changes are afoot at Five, including an overhaul of its news output. From next year, Sky will provide Five's news output in place of ITN, although Kirsty Young will continue to present it. 'They are going to be mounting lots of their own investigations. We might change the duration of some of the shows but they will stay in the same time slots,' says Chambers.
Then there is the second series of The Farm. 'I don't think anyone would say there was any entertainment at the animals' expense,' says Chambers. 'There weren't many complaints, considering how vocal the animal rights groups are. I'm looking to do more 10 o'clock reality shows, or 11 o'clock reality shows, or even 9 o'clock reality shows.'
So the death of the format is some way off? 'I'd give them a few more years,' he says, ruminating on viewers' strange desire to 'watch people do stuff' live and all but unedited. 'It's so unmediated now I don't know how you can get any closer, short of living with them.'
Don't say you haven't been warned.
1968 Born in north London. Educated at William Ellis school, Highgate, London
1991 Graduates from Brasenose College, Oxford
1999-2001 Editor science programming at Channel 4. Commissioned series including Scrapheap Challenge and Secrets of the Dead . Jointly responsible for first series of Big Brother .
2001 Joined Five as controller of factual
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The following summarizes today's initial SFT con-call. Logistics ========= Meeting Date 07/10/2002 Meeting Time 09:00-10:00 PDT (US Pacific Day-light Time) Location Dial-in Number: 613-765-0160 passcode: 3935229 # Duration 1 Hour Chair Joseph Hui Scribe Darran Rolls Present ======= (AB) Abbie Barbir, Nortel Networks (JH) Joe Hui, Exodus (HL) Hal Lockhart, Entegrity Solutions (SM) Steven Monetti, ATnT (KS) Krishna Sankar, Cisco (DR) Darran Rolls, Waveset Agenda Item: Set-up & Context ============================= (JH) After the WSA-WG F2F2, there was consensus for the urgent formation of the STF. Obvious concern about how to balance time to market and starting this activity whilst the general architecture is not defined. (JH) Security requirements have moved from draft status [1][2]. (JH) Formation of task force has three goals: 1 scope requirements for new groups charter. 2 recommend technologies for investigation (harvesting). 3 develop use cases and subsequent scenarios for security, extending from work of USTF. Consensus that security UC's should be harvested, extended where necessary and includes as an extension of the USTF work. (DR) to champion how this would be structured. Agenda Item: Resolve all Qs arising from the briefing ===================================================== (JH) Question on privacy. Is in or out of the STF scope? Hugo is championing privacy (not on this call) will have to further consult with him. (KS) It should be included in STF. (HL) +1. (JH) Note consensus of this group that it's going to be very hard to separate privacy from security. This will need to be reviewed by the wider WG. (AB) Propose holding a workshop on security to better help set the charter requirements. Solicit input from app dev, equipment manufacturers and general WS community. (KS) +1. (JH) To raise this question at WSA telecon tomorrow. Planning ======== (JH) Deliverables for STF phased/prioritized based on a proposed layering model. The model comprises, in descending priority: 1) Confidentiality, (Data) Integrity, Authentication; 2) Authorization; 3) Non-repudiation; 4) Accessibility 5) The remainder of the WSAWG sec requirements, including Auditing. (HL) Don't see it's possible to separate AuthN from AuthZ in this context. (JH) Need to consider this on list. (KS) This is our chance to get this right. (DR) Need to understand how WSS@OASIS effects timing/planning. (KS) Job of this group to help work this out. (AB) This model needs to be discussion in the proposed workshop. (JH) Consensus that STF would try and get the three deliverables ready for 7/29/2002. Action Items ============ - (STF) Clarify levels of security model in glossary. - (JH) Discuss an STF workshop prior to next F2F #3. - (DR) Notify/liaise with USTF to establish structure for security use cases/scenarios as part of general USTF docs. - (JH) Send an updated "security onion" model to the WSA list References ========== [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20020429#AC006 [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-wsa-reqs-20020429#AC020Received on Wednesday, 10 July 2002 18:29:10 UTC
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Summer vacation is upon us; time to relax, sleep-in, go on vacation, and, yes, begin training for fall sports! Here is som great advice from Dr. Amelia Wiggins, an orthopaedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Mercy Health who treats a variety of athletic injuries:
A break from sports is vital, because it allows your body to recover from nagging injuries; however, you should not ignore your fitness and training all summer long. Staying active during the off-season ensures you are prepared to participate in fall sports and remain injury free. Many injuries I see as a sports surgeon can be prevented with regular conditioning before the sports season starts. Injuries often occur when athletes suddenly increase the duration, intensity, or frequency of their activity.
To avoid injury, I recommend a balanced fitness program that incorporates aerobic exercise, strength training, and flexibility during the off-season. Ask your coach or athletic trainer for a program that will help you be better prepared for the fall season.
Don't lose all your hard-earned fitness and start from the bottom when September comes. Start the fall sports season with a well-developed skill and fitness level!
Summer training tips to stay strong and healthy:
- Warm up and stretch. Always take time to warm up and stretch, especially your hips, knees, thighs and calves. Research studies have shown that cold muscles are more prone to injury. Warm up with jumping jacks, running, or walking in place for 3 to 5 minutes. Then slowly and gently stretch, holding each stretch for 30 seconds.
- Cool down and stretch. Stretching at the end of a training session is often neglected because of busy schedules. Take advantage of the lighter summer load and stretch to help reduce your risk for injury.
- Hydrate. Dehydration happens fast in the summer heat and can be dangerous. General recommendations include: 24 ounces of non-caffeinated fluid 2 hours before exercise, an additional 8 ounces of water or sports drink right before exercise, and break for an 8 oz. cup of water every 20 minutes.


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April 1
Bobby Parnell was diagnosed with an incomplete tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow on Tuesday, the Mets announced.
After an MRI & clinical evaluation at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, he received a Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) injection and has been prescribed complete rest for approximately two weeks.
Looks like Jose Valverde is now the new Mets closer and that Vic Black may be called back up to the team.
Sounds like Parnell will be out for a while even if he doesn't need surgery. The Mets say two weeks, I say double that…
I knew something was amiss…
Last night I wondered why he wasn't held back to pitch in extended spring training rather than having him with start the season with the team when he was clearly not ready yet.
Hate it when I'm right about stuff like this, but I've been watching this team forty years. You kind of develop a sixth sense for these kinds of things…
So here's your Mets Bullpen now:
Jose Valverde, Jeurys Familia, Scott Rice, John Lannan, Carlos Torres, Vic Black, Gonzalez Germen.
It could be worse… At least we saw Valverde come up big on Opening Day, first getting out of a bases loaded jam in the seventh, and then pitching a scoreless eighth that ended with him doing his signature leaping fist pump.
Glad we picked him up…
March 31
It was a rough Opening Day for closer Bobby Parnell who blew his first save opportunity of the season when he allowed the Nationals to tie the game with a ninth inning run.
Parnell was sitting mostly between 89-91 mph with his fastball, but did touch 92 twice among his 25 pitches thrown. His decreased velocity is a far departure from the 96-100 mph fastballs we've come to expect from him before he underwent neck surgery.
Also problematic was the fact that his fastballs were all flat with no movement at all. additionally, I don't believe he threw his signature knuckle-curve once, which I thought was very odd as well.
I don't understand why Parnell was allowed to start the season if he wasn't close to his usual self on the mound.
I thought the whole point of signing Jose Valverde was in case Parnell wasn't ready to start the season?
It's apparent to me that Parnell probably could have used one or two more weeks in extended spring training to continue building his arm strength, and with that a probable return to the velocity we're accustomed to seeing from him. There's clearly something not right with him.
And if you were going to say the hell with it and take Parnell north knowing he was still weeks away from his usual effectiveness, why not let him pitch in low-pressure situations and let Valverde close until he was ready to resume the stopper role?
No movement on a low-nineties fastball in the ninth inning doesn't sound like a recipe for success for the Mets and today it wasn't.
The bullpen was awful as a whole in their first test of the season, so the 9-7 loss to the Nats wasn't all on Parnell.
But considering where he is right now in terms of his effectiveness, I question the wisdom of having him close games when his arsenal is nowhere near where it should be right now.


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I am a regular Facebook reader mainly because I keep up with my busy family and the grandkids that way. When I found this recipe as a link on Facebook, I knew that I wanted to try it. It is from one of my favorite blogs – Fat Free Vegan Kitchen.
I have been reading Susan Voisin's blog for years and trust that her recipes are always going to be delicoius. She adapted this dish from a recipe from Neelam Batra's The Indian Vegetarian. The recipe looked so good that I ordered the cookbook from Amazon, used because new it cost $65! I can't wait to get the book and look through it. This recipe is called Rasedar Rajma or Kidney Beans in Curry Sauce. It is delicious and I will definitely serve it again.
Susan made some changes to the original recipe and I changed it again. It called for 1/4 cup of yogurt for the sauce. She changed it to soy yogurt but I never have that in the house so for the creaminess factor, I substituted 1 tablespoon tahini and for the tart factor, I added 1 tablespoon lemon juice. It blended very nicely with the spices.
We served the beans with brown basmati rice and a sliced avocado that was deliciously ripe and creamy.
- 2 cups dried kidney beans
- 6 cups water
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tablespoon ginger root
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 onion,minced
- 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
- 1/2 teaspoon ajwain seeds
- 2 cups tomatoes, finely diced (I used roma tomatoes)
- 1 tablespoon tahini
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon ground fenugreek
- 3/4 teaspoon turmeric
- 1 teaspoon garam masala
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne (more to taste)
- chopped cilantro (optional garnish)
Rinse the kidney beans and put them in a large pot with 6 cups water. Bring to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Remove from heat and allow the beans to rest, covered, for at least 1 hour. Drain the liquid, add 6 cups vegetable broth, and bring to a boil. Add the ginger root, and the salt. Simmer until beans are tender, about an hour. When the beans are done, leave them in their cooking liquid while you make the sauce. As you are cooking the beans, you may need to add more broth or water.
Add olive oil and heat on medium-high. Add the minced onion, and cook until it's beginning to brown, stirring constantly. Add the garlic and ajwain and stir for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and cook until their liquid has evaporated, about 5 minutes. Stir in the tahini, lemon juice, and the coriander, fenugreek, turmeric, garam masala, and cayenne pepper.
Drain and reserve the liquid from the beans. Stir 1 cup of it into the sauce. Add the sauce to the beans and stir. If the sauce is too thick or dry, add some or all of the reserved bean cooking liquid. Simmer over low heat, stirring occasionally, for at least 20 minutes, until the sauce has thickened and flavors have blended. Check seasonings and add salt to taste. Transfer to a serving dish, garnish with cilantro if you like, and serve with basmati rice.


text: Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed https://www.eclipse.org/forums/ Eclipse Community Forums Multi-Population Disease Model for Download https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/174473/555701/#msg_555701 The download is at http://www.eclipse.org/stem/download_sample.php?file=MultiPo pulationExample.zip The documentation is at http://wiki.eclipse.org/Sample_Projects_available_for_Downlo ad#Multi-Population_Example]]> Judy Douglas 2010-08-27T17:28:41-00:00 Re: Multi-Population Disease Model for Download https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/174473/556549/#msg_556549 following me on Twitter ! (not sure, if he'd be equally interested in the Zombies, but after the Lego Robot competition at EclipseCon, I see absolutely no reason why this would put STEM or Eclipse in a dodgy light ;-) Werner]]> Werner Keil 2010-09-01T17:43:20-00:00 Re: Multi-Population Disease Model for Download https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/174473/556554/#msg_556554 we need to be very careful advertising this model. The real purpose was to demonstrate how to organize a scenario using multiple populations in STEM. The demo has very little to do with actual modeling of Malaria, we are still working on STEM models for zoonotic diseases. Regards, / Stefan ]]> Stefan Edlund 2010-09-01T18:08:21-00:00 Re: Multi-Population Disease Model for Download https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/174473/557154/#msg_557154 that can't hurt and has drawn others to STEM before. Many of those Malaria programs aim at timespans as far away as 2015, 2020 or beyond. So we may keep models that have the potential to be used in this areas under wraps until then, or stick with "fictionous diseases" for public announcements. Or we can say what's there now, not claiming it's a full model of it yet and see, if other people wish to adapt or extend it. Regards, Werner]]> Werner Keil 2010-09-05T13:43:25-00:00


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What an honor to have my Flying Caballos Ranch Wedding styled shoot published on Style Me Pretty! A few of my brides were also kind enough to share their support and leave some love under the post. Their kind words really made my day, and reminded me of how lucky I am that I wake… Read more »
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The Grey Collective | San Luis Obispo
I'm thrilled to announce that Mirelle Carmichael Photography has been hand-picked to be a part of The Grey Collective, the exclusive vendor list for one of the biggest wedding blogs, Grey Likes Weddings! I have the honor of being on a recommended photographer list alongside some of my most favorite photographers, including Elizabeth Messina and… Read more »
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Flying Caballos Guest Ranch
This Flying Caballos Guest Ranch Wedding inspiration shoot was so much fun. I coordinated with a group of artists and an incredible couple from the Central Coast to bring this shoot together and am beyond thrilled with the results! Hair & Makeup: Jessi Skipton Campbell | Letterpress: Alissa Bell Press | Floral Design: Sprigs Floral Designs, Erin McClellan | Cake, Cupcakes,… Read more »
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San Luis Obispo Wedding Photographer | Flying Caballos
Last week Cheryl and I had the pleasure of photographing a styled shoot with some of the most wonderful industry professionals at one of my favorite places, Flying Caballos Ranch in San Luis Obispo. Here is a LITTLE sneak peek of the shoot! Hair & Makeup: Jessi Skipton Campbell | Letterpress: Alissa Bell Press | Floral Design: Sprigs Floral… Read more »


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WJAS with "Chilly Billie" made radio today from the DePaul Institute in Shadyside and interviewed my sweetheart, Catherine. He jagged with her on the air calling her "Sweet Catherine" and the Neil Diamond song, Sweet Caroline, was in the playlist,
I'll post the sound files of the interview some day, I hope.
Monday, November 15, 2004
Sweet Catherine to WJAS
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