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Missoula is the Destination for Social Media
We Missoulians all love this beautiful city we feel lucky enough to call home. We know we are unique and we are proud of it. From being one of the top five greenest places to live, to being just a few short miles away from four ski resorts, to being known as a city for inspiring entrepreneurs, Missoula has it.
What if Missoula had the chance to have one more thing to make it unique? Missoula has the chance to host the Social Media Tourism Symposium or SoMeT. Hosting this symposium would not only let us show others how great Missoula is, but would also help boost the local economy. The previous year's symposium brought 232 people from all over the world and these people shared their impressions of that city via social media, which led to 10.7 million views of their experience. (In the business of social media, impressions is a term for the number of people who view something online.)
The best part is that Missoula has a pretty good chance of winning. Our fair city is running against 12 other cities, like Eugene, Oregon, Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Tampa, Florida just to name a few. This might be some stiff competition, but I think we can beat them. Want to know how?
It's simple. All you have to do is vote, but you have to do it soon and fast. The window to vote for Missoula is small. Voting is only open from 10 a.m., March 13 until 10 a.m., March 15. All you have to do is go to www.facebook.com/SoMeTourism?sk=app_303561899745219&app_data=from-3355zy and vote for Missoula.
Let everyone see why we love Missoula so much - get out there and vote!
Joy Larson is a mother of four boys, graduate of The University of Montana, animal lover and writer.


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Virgo supports the deployment of various types of artifacts. Standard artifact types are:
- bundle - an OSGi bundle
- configuration - a properties file which is mapped to a Configuration Admin dictionary
- plan - an XML file which refers to arbitrary other artifacts in the Virgo repository. Plans may be scoped or unscoped, as described below, and atomic or non-atomic in terms of whether the lifecycle of the plan is tied to the lifecycle of the plans contents.
- PAR - a Plan ARchive which contains a collection of artifacts and is equivalent to a scoped, atomic plan referencing those artifacts (except the artifacts need not be placed in the Virgo repository).
In addition, it is possible to add user defined artifact types.
The Virgo kernel is the core runtime which may be used on its own or to deploy one or more server types and applications for those server types. The kernel houses the deployment pipeline, described below, as well as support for common artifact types (bundle, configuration, plan, and PAR), regions, scoping, and other core Virgo features.
Currently, for example, the Virgo web server packaging build uses the kernel to deploy a web server plan which includes the Gemini web container and the Virgo web bundle (which integrates Gemini web into Virgo).
The startup scripts launch the kernel which then installs, and optionally starts, each of a configurable collection of bundles to provide kernel function. The kernel bundles are located in lib/kernel and are referenced by the launcher.bundles property in the configuration file lib/org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.launch.properties. This property specifies a list of bundles, which is transitively closed with respect to dependencies, and specifies which of these bundles are started after all the bundles in the list are installed.
The kernel uses the nested framework support in Equinox to isolate the kernel from application artifacts, including artifacts which implement servers. The Equinox support is being standardised, with some changes, in OSGi. As shown in the figure below, the kernel starts in a normal OSGi framework, known as the kernel region, and then creates a nested framework known as the user region.
Region support was added to enable applications to run with a different version of Spring than that used by the kernel. A minimal set of Spring bundles is installed into the kernel region with very few optional dependencies which keeps the kernel footprint and startup time low. In principle, Spring could be entirely removed from the kernel region if the kernel was modified not to depend on Spring (most of these dependencies are because the kernel uses Spring DM to publish and find kernel services).
Certain packages and services are imported from the kernel region into the user region and certain services, but no packages, are exported from the user region to the kernel region. This isolates the kernel region from interference due to types and package wirings in the user region. The configuration file config/org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.userregion.properties controls the importing of packages and services into and the exporting of services out of the user region.
The content of the kernel region is controlled by the configuration file lib/org.eclipse.virgo.kernel.launch.properties.
So, apart from the basic principle that no packages are exported from the user region to the kernel region, there is a lot of flexibility for changing the contents of both kernel and user regions and for specifying which packages and services are shared between the regions.
In future, Virgo could be extended to support multiple user regions in order to isolate applications from each other.
Virgo adds the concept of scoping to OSGi. The main use case for scoping is where a group of bundles form an application which needs to avoid clashing with other applications and which needs reliable behaviour when it calls third party bundles which use thread context class loading. Clashes can occur because of bundles, packages, or services conflicting in some way.
Metadata Rewriting
Virgo rewrites the metadata of bundles in a scope to prefix the bundle symbolic names with a scope-specific prefix and to add a mandatory matching attribute, with a scope-specific value, to packages exported by bundles in the scope.
Virgo also uses the standard OSGi service registry hooks to limit the visibility of services published by bundles in a scope.
However, a bundle in a scope may access bundles, packages, and services not provided in the scope but which are available outside the scope, that is from unscoped bundles. So a scope acts similarly to a programming language scope such as Java's curly braces:
int x; // b is not visible here { int b; // both b and x are visible here }
Synthetic Context Generation
To ensure reliable thread context class loading when third party bundles are called from a scope, Virgo generates a synthetic context bundle in the scope. The class loader of the synthetic context bundle is used as the thread context class loader when bundles in the scope make calls outside the scope. The synthetic bundle imports each of the other bundles in the scope using the Virgo import-bundle header. This is semantically equivalent to importing all the exported packages of the other bundles in the scope. So to make a package of a scoped application available for thread context class loading, it is simply necessary to export the package.
Example of Scoping
The figure below shows a scoped plan referring to two bundles A and B being deployed. The result is a scope containing the bundles A and B as well as the synthetic context bundle. Note that bundles inside the scope can access bundles, such as X, outside the scope. Also, bundles outside the scope, such as Y, cannot access bundles inside the scope.
Artifacts are deployed into Virgo using a deployment pipeline consisting of several pipeline stages some of which have pipelines nested inside them as shown in the figure below.
The pipeline, and each pipeline stage, accepts a tree of install artifacts as input and outputs a possibly modified.
There are two distinct strategies for handling exceptions thrown during a pipeline stage. In general, unexpected exceptions are allowed to percolate upward and are thrown by the deployer subcomponent of the kernel. However, certain expected exceptions, such as failure to resolve the dependencies of the install artifact tree, need to be handled gracefully. In these cases, a compensating pipeline stage is define which drives a compensation stage if an exception is thrown, which can then process the exception gracefully.
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Nokia may be once again creating some exclusive phones for regional carriers and this time it's reportedly the Lumia 505.
The phone first popped up on the questionable Facebook page of Guerrero Móvil, where not much info was provided besides the image and it being exclusive to Telcel. At the time, that wasn't enough for us to run with the story as there was no other confirmation of that device (and to be honest, anyone could throw together that carrier mockup).
But now over at WinP.cn, they have evidently come across Wi-Fi certification information for this phone, which certainly seems to confirm that this low-end device exists.
The Lumia 505 (RM-923) reportedly features an 8MP rear camera and is most likely Windows Phone 7.x device (there's no evidence that it is a Windows Phone 8 phone). The Lumia 505 is thought to be the sister device of the Lumia 510, which also features Windows Phone 7.x and has the "old" Windows flag for the logo. In other words, that's not a mistake but on purpose. Overall, this looks to be a similar approach to the Lumia 810 on T-Mobile versus the Lumia 820 released worldwide.
Not much else is known about the Lumia 505, but presumably it will have a single core 1GHz CPU, 800x480 4" TFT display, 4GB of storage, 256MB of RAM with a 1300mAh battery.
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It was four weeks yesterday that I had the miscarriage, and it's a milestone that's whapped me upside the head. I'm not doing so well, folks. Who knew? I thought by now I'd be moving on, and instead I'm right back where I started. I'm hoping that with therapy and time and some helpful pharmaceuticals, I will regain the ability to move through the day and its many challenges without crying or unleashing my rage at some unwitting bystander (oh, my poor husband). If posting is somewhat light over the next couple of weeks, you won't stop coming here, will you? Of course you won't. Stop nodding like that.
I've tried to respond to all the amazing emails I've received, but some have slipped through the cracks. And I'm realizing that taking care of myself might mean not spending hours giving back to everyone who was kind enough to open up to me. So if you don't get a response, please know that your email (and/or comment) was read and appreciated, and that I would write a response if I weren't so busy watching "What Not to Wear" episodes and staring at my hands. I lead a rich, full existence.
But did you know? I actually managed to compose my Alphamom column for last week, somehow. And that's not all! As you may have noticed over on the right-hand column, over there, I'm in the anthology "Sleep is for the Weak," (the best title ever in the history of anthologies, if you ask me) edited by the infinitely capable Rita Arens. I'm proud to be in such excellent company, and so glad that Rita persevered in her quest to get this book out. I can't wait to read it.


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Last night I had a last minute swap from a Ward to the ICU for my night shift. Granted the patients I nursed were what we term "ward ready", awaiting transfer to a Ward and so, essentially they were stable. Not being trained for the ICU I found that I was fretting at first when I entered the ICU for my shift. I do, on the odd occasion, go to the ICU to pick up medications for my patients, or buy a drink for $1 from their fundraising vending machine. I have worked there twice in nine years, to nurse non-tubed patients. My guess is that I ought not have worried so much.
The staff were very supportive, orientating me to their paper work, the layout of where essential items were kept and the routine of the night shift. Bloods after midnight, ECG for every patient early morning, hourly Vitals and hourly fluid balances. Then hourly blood sugars on my person newly diagnosed with Diabetes Type1.
The shift went by so fast because I had two patients that were a few cubicles apart, and because I enjoyed myself. When I was about to leave the Nurse in charge thanked me very much for being their savior, haha, it made me blush. It is not often that this happens to me. :)
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A Message from the Chancellor
"The secret of success is consistency of purpose."
Dear Students,
College of the Canyons has been a story of success since its beginnings more than four decades ago. The community at that time recognized the need for a quality community college that would provide education and training in the arts, technology and academic areas. With that in mind and with a very focused "consistency of purpose," faculty was hired, facilities were built, programs were developed, students achieved their goals and the College's legacy of outstanding performance was formed.
What Makes Us Different?
College of the Canyons is truly a one-of-a-kind resource for the Santa Clarita Valley. It has distinguished itself as one of the premier community colleges in California, was recently named the fastest-growing community college in the nation, and is recognized for its leadership in correlating education with economic development, job retention and job creation. The college is appreciated and admired by the communities it serves for its high quality academics, excellent facilities, forward thinking faculty and staff, outstanding support systems and effective management of resources.
Innovative programs involving partnerships with businesses and local government, alliances with community members and other educational institutions combined with a high-energy, on-campus environment have positioned the college as the model that other colleges emulate.
Ready, Set, Grow!
From the very beginning, the college and the community knew they would both grow -- a symbiotic relationship that required matching steps forward. Projections for the future are that community growth will continue along with requirements for the college to serve a wider range of purposes. Current realities are that the student population surpassed the 18,000 mark in 2006, several years earlier than population projections predicted. This unprecedented growth resulted in community support for a $82.1 million general obligation bond measure (Measure C) being passed in 2001 and another $160 million measure (Measure M) receiving overwhelming support from local voters in 2006. Funds from these bonds have been matched by millions of dollars in state resources. Together they will be used for capital improvements within the Santa Clarita Community College District which includes the College of the Canyons
Valencia campus and, now thanks to these bonds, its new Canyon Country campus. The aim is simply to have enough classrooms, labs and other facilities to meet the educational needs of Santa Clarita Valley communities, now and in the future to provide exciting places for students to learn and pursue their dreams.
As we embrace our future, we will continue to intensify the resolve that has placed us in such good stead throughout our history. Peter Drucker said, "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans." As a premier educational institution, we have committed ourselves to moving forward by:
Surpassing our expectations;
Offering more of everything;
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Continuing to excel and rise to the top;
Helping our students develop knowledge and a belief in themselves;
Inspiring passion, vision and determination in our students.
Meeting our community's needs with a "can-do" spirit, positive attitude, and spirit of innovation, flexibility, responsiveness, and courage.
Many of COC's students will already have advanced degrees. Others will attend classes to learn, for the first time, about technology that will enhance their careers and their lives! Others will decide that "now is the time, and this is the college" to get serious about a college education. Still others will enroll because they want and need the quality teaching, the extra care that COC instructors and staff provide, and the chance to prove themselves.
We'll see more high school students interested in getting a "jump start" on their college educations by signing up for the on-campus Middle College, Academy of the Canyons. We'll find more students who realize that the cost of a bachelor's degree can be significantly reduced by completing the first two years at a community college. The reasons to attend College of the Canyons will be as varied as the students themselves which range across a huge spectrum of educational interests and cultural backgrounds.
With more companies locating in the area, the college will welcome them and ask, "
hat can we do to help?" Through the Employee Training Institute and the Center for Applied Competitive Technologies, the college has provided indispensable workforce development and technical assistance to manufacturers in the region. The Small Business Development Center has had a huge impact locally by helping existing businesses and providing assistance to entrepreneurs who wish to start new businesses locally.
When new technologies are developed, the college will master them and offer training to whoever needs those skills. In addition to programs such as computer networking; graphics and multi-media design and computer information technology; the college has added a biotechnology program and is providing training in nanotechnology fields. Other programs recently added due to public demand include construction technology, plumbing technology, and alternative energy. Community members are signing up to attend these classes as fast and as often as we can offer them. That trend is unlikely to change in the future.
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Each day we are planning to accommodate the needs and wants of current and future students. As we build out the Valencia campus and expand the new Canyon Country campus, we are constantly verifying the focus on our mission. Preparation for the future means planning and acting today.
We recently completed expansions in Valencia to Mentry Hall, our media and fine arts building. An expansion of the Library is currently under construction. A new Student Services/Administration Building has been approved for state funding. And plans are being and developed and funds are being raised to build a Culinary Arts facility. At the Canyon Country Campus we recently opened the Applied Technology Education Center, the first permanent building on that campus. Of course, all of this expansion means more opportunities to provide the training and classes that the community tells us it wants.
My vision and my hope is that this college, businesses, governments, private groups -- virtually anyone and everyone who cares about our collective future -- will continue to work together and guarantee that this exciting and nurturing "learning environment" will thrive. I know -- all of us at COC know -- that what we provide the community is priceless. We are providing our future leaders with the very best tools to be successful and we are providing them with a solid example of how to succeed. As Anatole France said, "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
With "consistency of purpose," those who pass through these doors and take advantage of this wonderful community resource will succeed and College of the Canyons will continue to be the college of "first choice" for the people of Santa Clarita.
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GMDs, which result in distortions to the earths magnetic field, may cause severe problems with grid reliability, including blackouts as well as damage to critical or vulnerable equipment. Although strong disturbances are infrequent, current mandatory reliability standards do not adequately address vulnerabilities.
To address this reliability gap, recently Notice of Proposed Rulemaking NOPR proposes to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corporation NERC, the FERC-approved Electric Reliability Organization, to develop and submit new GMD standards in a two-stage process.
First, within 90 days of the effective date of a final rule in the proceeding, NERC would file one or more standards requiring owners and operators of the bulk power system to develop and implement operational procedures to mitigate GMD effects. That such procedures already are in place in some areas should allow for faster development and implementation of these standards, the NOPR says.
In the second stage, FERC proposes that NERC file, within six months of a final rule, standards that require grid owners and operators to conduct initial and continuing assessments of the potential impacts of GMDs and, based on those assessments, implement strategies to protect the bulk power system, including automatic blocking of geomagnetically induced currents, instituting specification requirements for new equipment, inventory management, or isolating certain equipment that is not cost effective to retrofit.
Stage two would be implemented in phases, focusing first on the most critical and vulnerable assets.
The NOPR does not propose specific requirements, but offers guidance regarding the assessments of the grids vulnerability to GMDs, the mechanisms for protecting critical or vulnerable components and an implementation schedule. FERC seeks comments on all aspects of the proposal.
In a separate NOPR on vegetation management, FERC proposes to approve revisions submitted by NERC that would:
-- Expand the applicability of the standard to include lines operated below 200 kilovolts that are part of an Interconnection Reliability Operating Limit or a Major Western Electricity Coordinating Council Transfer Path
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My sweet lovely Ellie Belli has taken to growling at times which I dont really understand. She tends to growl recently at people in the distance when she sees them. Is that normal? It started the other day when we were at home together. She was sitting in my lap and Paul came home from grocery shopping and when he walked by the room she growled. Then she seemed to remember who he was and ran over for kisses so I didnt think much of it. I figured she was confused thats all. Now whenever we go on walks she seems to growl at people we see in the distance. last night someone was walking from their car to their condo a good 20 ft away and she began to growl. This morning we walked by the kids at the bus stop about 20 ft away and she growled. When she growls I say no and usually walk away from what she is growling at. Paul says she doesnt growl when he walks her. We have taken her to Petsmart twice now to get some extra stuff and she has been fine there. No growls and at times she gets shy and runs behind us and peaks out but overall she has been a doll. She didnt growl at my mother's or at Paul's sister when she came by. Is this just a phase? I spoke to her breeder and she said that she thinks she might be feeling insecure as she has endured so many changes in such a short time. She says she might also sense me being nervous and is trying to alert and protect me. She says I ought to try to approach whatever she is growling at while talking to her positively and showing her there is no need to be afraid. I did this tonight and no growls but we didnt see any people either so I dont know if that has anything to do with it. Any thoughts?


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Margaret and her Dancing with the Stars partner, Louis van Amstel, will be on The View tomorrow, October 7th to do a final dance! Margaret will talk about Dancing with the Stars, fighting to end to anti-gay bullying in schools, and her new tour, Cho Dependent. Don't miss it!
One thought on "Margaret on The View!"
Margaret, I really hope you have learned to accept ALL people if you want all people to accept you. The cutting remark you made about Sarah Palin "I think she is the worst think that has ever happened to this country since 9/11" is so totally sickening to me..that I was appalled and outraged. Just because you don't agree with someone's agenda, does not mean you BULLY them, cyber or not. WORDS hurt. Here, you want us to give you the love, the support and compassion of being gay/bi and whatever, but you have the harshest words for people. How did it feel to be on DWTS with Bristol? I wonder how she felt – knowing you attacked her mother?
Think about your words, my friend, and use them wisely. We all want love and acceptance in this world, and being cruel just because we don't agree with someone is not nice at all. Just like so many gays have gone through?
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If I were to say to someone who was new to Japanese make up, what is a brand that has beautiful quality products that is the most consistent, I would say
One of the more grown up brands in the Shiseido stable, MAQUillage has been the most consistent of brands that I own. I haven't bought much from the range lately but then I did a little haul (from adambeauty.com and facial-shop.com. I have been avoiding Ichibankao because its just too expensive).
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3D Face Creator in no. 22. This has 5 shades in one and a nice brush.
No 22 is a orange/brown based palette – I considered the pink palette but it seemed too light for my NC35 skintone. Theres the white and cream for highlighting, the warm peach, the nude beige and a very browny shade – great for contouring.
MAQUillage Eyes Creator Palette – now I didn't realise that all the shades here are cream shadows! This is a limited palette SV832 (Limited Edition). The normal sets have one cream shadow, one cream liner then 3 powder colors. I love cream shadows but I was a bit disappointed that they were all cream. Super sparkly!:
Maquillage Moisture Rouge Sheer Type in RD358:
The best way to describe this lipstick is Dorothy's-ruby-slippers. Imagine them crushed into a lipstick and this is it! Super sparkly, sheer red – gorgeous colour! It looks like a light glittery lipstick.
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Scott wrote here about the insurgent campaign on behalf of Michael Horowitz ('64L) for the next election of an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation. As Scott explained, Horowitz is an extraordinary American whose accomplishments include distinguished service in academia, where he was a powerful force for civil rights reform at the University of Mississippi, and in the Reagan adminsitration, where he was General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget. The campaign on behalf of Horowitz represents an effort to enhance Yale's financial viability and its intellectual and political diversity.
Tomorrow, October 1, is the deadline by which Horowitz must gather 3,808 signatures in support of his candidacy . To support Horowitz, Yale alums need to send a one-sentence e-mail with their name, Yale school, and class year to [email protected] with this simple declaration of support: "I support the Alumni Fellow petition candidacy of Michael Horowitz."
To find out more, visit the Michael Horowitz for Alumni Fellow website.
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Leland Stanford — the richest man west of the Mississippi, the Croesus who would inspire Frank Norris's anti-monopoly novel "The Octopus" — invited San Francisco's elite to his Nob Hill mansion on Jan. 16, 1880. What his guests saw was something the public had never seen before; it shocked and thrilled them — and later the world. For Edward Muybridge's moving pictures of a horse in motion displayed on a screen would usher in not only the movies but what author Edward Ball views as the age of visual media.
Photographer Muybridge and railroad tycoon Stanford, a bohemian artist and a straitlaced patron, partnered in a revolution that neither had foreseen. It all began with a simple question: Did a galloping horse ever lift all four hooves off the ground at once? Yes, a blurry Muybridge photograph first demonstrated, followed by the more sensational evidence of his movie prototype a few years later.
In "The Inventor and the Tycoon," Ball, author of the National Book Award-winning "Slaves in the Family," has brilliantly fused the stories of these two larger-than-life figures into a single glittering object: part social-cultural history, part melodrama, part chronicle of American self-invention.
That Muybridge profited little from his genius, that Stanford's curiosity grew out of his fascination with horses and indifference to Muybridge's notoriety makes their story all the more intriguing. The photographer became notorious in 1876 after shooting and killing his wife's lover in cold blood.
In part, the vigor of Ball's narration is due to tease. Early on, for instance, he offers a chapter on the murder, without revealing a motive. Only after several chapters on other topics, do we witness the trial. And only many pages after that do we learn the verdict. But these cliffhangers, which really do make us pant for more, are only part of the author's sleight-of-hand.
Part one slides backwards in time from 1880 to the 1860s, tracing the period when Stanford builds his fortune and Muybridge establishes himself, in fits and starts, as a photographer. Part two skips around from the 1870s to the 1830s (to Stanford's youth), to the trial in 1876, back again to the 1830s (to Muybridge's early years), before landing securely in the 1850s and 1860s. The more buttoned-down part three follows a straightforward path from the 1870s to Muybridge's death in 1904.
Ball, who seems to sense that all this is a bit dizzying for the reader, is forced to repeat key facts he's already mentioned. Jumbled chronology may have had no more ardent champion since Kurt Vonnegut or Quentin Tarantino. However "cinematic" — appropriately so for the father of the movies — the technique in this context often feels over the top and needlessly confusing.
Still, one gallops through this book with undiminished ardor, primarily because Muybridge was such an odd duck. While sporting an English accent — in fact, he hailed from a village outside London — he dressed like a hobo and smoked a corncob pipe. He changed the spelling of his first and last names five times, for a while calling himself simply Helios, the Greek name for the sun god. He married Flora Downs, a woman less than half his age. Before emerging as San Francisco's best and most flamboyant photographer, he had failed at bookselling, inventing, and banking.
By contrast, Stanford's career is already part of our historical consciousness. He headed the company, fueled by government largesse and plenty of bribes, that built the western half of the transcontinental railroad, and served as California's governor and a US senator. Yet not many are aware of his roots as the son of an upstate New York tavern keeper, or his California beginnings as a Gold-Rush town grocer.
Inventor and tycoon met when the latter sought a photographer to record the majesty of his first mansion in Sacramento. What sealed their bond, however, was a passion for gadgets and horses. Stanford bought a 7,000-acre farm south of San Francisco, calling it Palo Alto ("tall tree," in Spanish) for his trotters. A stud farm and training ground for racing, it would also become Muybridge's laboratory (and future home of Stanford University).
The union of Stanford's money, Muybridge's inventiveness, and their canny attention to public relations made "motion pictures" an international sensation. But Stanford paid only Muybridge's expenses. For income, he was obliged to ramp up the showmanship, touring the United States and Europe to sell his wares. In the end, he was betrayed by both his patron and a deceitful Thomas Edison, who, the author notes, "had a habit of borrowing the work of others and not returning it."
Ball carefully sculpts prose of bright exuberance. When the evidence warrants, he creates novelistic scenes: After learning of his wife's infidelity, Muybridge "spent an hour weeping. He took out his Smith & Wesson # 2 six-shooter, loaded a little bag with it and a short statement of his last wishes, and walked to 429 Montgomery, the Bradley and Rulofson gallery." More often, he turns to pungent aphorism: "To own a gun in California was more common than owning a horse."
What adds immeasurably to this book's many pleasures are the dozens of photographs illustrating Muybridge's evolving art — Yosemite's waterfalls, Alaska's Tlingit tribesmen, San Francisco's cityscapes, Stanford's railroad, and, yes, horse after horse, walking, trotting, galloping, unmistakably bearing the banner of the future.Dan Cryer is author of "Being Alive and Having to Die: The Spiritual Odyssey of Forrest Church." He can be reached at www.dancryer.org.


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Steve Leo Beleck scored a hat-trick as a Watford XI beat Stevenage 4-3 in a behind-closed-doors friendly.
The Hornets named a strong side which included six summer signings and regulars from last season, such as Sean Murray and Carl Dickinson.
Stevenage had former Watford goalkeeper Chris Day in between the sticks but the veteran was unable to save Cristian Battocchio's strike, following build-up play by Dickinson, Alex Geijo and Beleck.
A goal soon after meant it was 2-0 to the Hornets heading into the break. A Murray half-volley was directly goalwards by Beleck.
Goals from a trialist and former Harrow Borough star Robin Shroot levelled the score just after the hour mark.
There were still more goals to come though. Substitute Almen Abdi created Beleck's second as the on-loan striker coolly beat Day.
Stevenage's trialist netted his second to level but Beleck secured his hat-trick and the winner following good work down the left by Anya.
Watford: Bonham; Thompson, Neuton, Dickinson; Bia (Smith HT), Battocchio (Abdi HT), McGinn, (Mensah 60), Murray, Fanchone (Anya HT); Geijo (Buaben HT), Beleck.


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The difference between genre and literary fiction is easy to define. Great literary fiction can be great for a number of reasons, but every work of great genre fiction is great for one: a killer story. Dabbling in genre fiction is a dangerous thing for a writer to do. This is not a judgment about it in either direction; it's simply an observation that those best at it tend not to be dabblers. When a novelist like Colson Whitehead tries on genre fiction for size, he knows exactly what he is getting into. He knows that he must, among other things, spin a gripping yarn.
"Zone One'' is a zombie novel set over the course of three days in a dystopian Manhattan. A plague has swept the world and extinguished nearly all life from the island; only pockets of soldiers and the odd survivor remain. Those infected turn into one of two kinds of monster: catatonic souls ("stragglers'') who drift about in stages of advanced rot but pose no threat to humans, and traditional gore-oozing, flesh-eating zombies. At the center of the mess is Mark Spitz, an oddly named individual of "unrivaled mediocrity'' whose exposure to the plague begins when he walks in on his mother gnawing her husband's intestines. Spitz's state of fuzzy passivity might be attributable to the after-effects of such a memory if Whitehead didn't assure us, to the contrary, that his character has always been an unexceptional, passionless type of person - a guy "constitutionally unaccustomed to enthusiasm.''
Post-apocalyptic novels require a lot of lean, quick exposition - or, at minimum, the promise of it - in order to answer the many questions a reader will be justified in asking: What sort of disaster has happened here? What year is it? Who are the bad guys? Who are the good guys? What are the ground rules? Whitehead is quick to inform us that Spitz performs the role of a "sweeper,'' patrolling desolate streets and mowing down zombies. Apart from his assigned duties, Spitz is a free-floating entity who exists in a netherworld stripped of fear and yearning. By around page 40, the closest thing we have to an animating desire is the knowledge that Spitz wouldn't mind a new pair of socks. It's a strangely passive character around which to organize a story, and it is with Spitz that the book's trouble originates.
For a novel concerned with bone-crunching hellions, "Zone One'' is a curiously slow read. It is tricky to pull off long set pieces and intricate descriptions of weather in any book, even if they are executed with the elegance and skill of a writer like Whitehead. Readers of Whitehead's "The Colossus of New York'' won't be surprised by the pleasures of his language. His sentences are uncommonly perfect, his similes startling and delightful: new buildings "shak[e] off the past like immigrants''; a klatch of zombies descend upon a man "like ants who received a chemical telegram about a lollipop on the sidewalk.'' No lazy word or pat description finds its way into the pages. Still, a funny conundrum arises in "Zone One'' as we are presented with words that are fantastic and motionless at the same time. A 2 1/2-page dream sequence is a fine thing if the dreams contain a scent of forward momentum, but Spitz's are both mundane and pointlessly lyrical. "The only unsettling thing about the dream,'' that section concludes, "was that he'd never taken a yoga class in his life.'' The banal dreams of other people are tedious enough to entertain in real life - why replicate the experience in a novel?
Spitz is the problem. Spitz, whose grayscale personality has the effect of making his situation seem dreadfully low-stakes, throws a damper on the book's potential energy. Gore-spouting corpses and narrow escapes are only exciting if something is on the line, and our main character - whose reactions tend toward variations on "huh?'' - is a man sunk in traumatized resignation. The situation (zombie invasion) may be high stakes, but the events themselves (poking around a chain restaurant, waiting for the rain to let up, shooting different kinds of zombies) are not. "He missed shame and guilt and a time when something higher than dumb instinct directed his actions,'' Whitehead writes. It is beautifully stated, yes, but a character left only - or mostly - with dumb instincts is not a character well-poised to trap a reader's heart. Or, indeed, her attention.
"Zone One'' is a frustrating book to spend time with. Its strengths (the sentences) and weaknesses (the underseasoned Spitz) are equally conspicuous. Whitehead writes with all the brilliance and daredevilry of a natural - of somebody who grew up addicted to reading and discovered, one day, that he could perform the same magic as the authors he loved. But good writing needs good storytelling, and good genre fiction needs a sharp plot. Without these things, it just feels like people-watching.


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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police are looking for an armed man who robbed the Marble Works Pharmacy of an undisclosed amount of prescription drugs at around 5:50 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24.
Police said the white male they are looking for is around 5 feet, 11 inches tall, probably in his 20s, and was wearing a green hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head. He was also sporting a baseball-style cap and dark glasses in a further effort to mask his identity. The man displayed a handgun at his waist and demanded prescription drugs from pharmacy employees, according to police. He left the store with an undisclosed amount of drugs and was last seen running south on the railroad tacks that run adjacent to the Marble Works shopping complex, police said.
The suspect was also wearing sneakers and khaki-colored pants. He was clean-shaven and was carrying a backpack, according to police.
A preliminary investigation shows no increased risk to the public of further violence, police said.
Officers searched along the railroad tracks and into Middlebury neighborhoods after the incident but did not find the assailant.
Anyone with information about the incident and/or the suspect should call the Middlebury Police Department as soon as possible at 388-3191, or Det. Kris Bowdish.by e-mail at [email protected].


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Global Digital Pathology Market, 2017 Companies-To-Action
It is estimated that more than 19,000 pathologists would be needed to serve the US healthcare needs. However, the actual number is expected to be approximately 40% lesser. Similar trends are foreseen globally driven by aging population and widening application in areas such as cancer diagnostics, drug development, clinical trials, biomarker discovery, and companion diagnostics. Digital pathology can improve efficiency of pathologists by 10–15%, thereby helping the healthcare providers in filling such gaps. This factor is a key driver for the rapid growth in adoption of digital pathology solutions globally. In April 2017, FDA approved the IntelliSite Pathology Solution from Royal Philips. This was the first digital pathology product for which any US manufacturer received approval for primary diagnostics purpose. An expected increase in regulatory approval for digital pathology systems for primary diagnostics will support the growth in demand for these systems. To cater to the growing demand for digital pathology solutions, the industry has observed numerous partnerships, collaborations, and M&As. These strategies have been undertaken to expand product portfolio and deepen solution expertise while catering to changing customer demands. Research Scope: The key objectives of the companies-to-action for digital pathology study are to highlight current market dynamics, key market participants, customer segments, and evolving business opportunities. The study aims to identify both established enterprises and start-ups, which are capable of shaping the future through best practices implementation, visionary leadership, and innovation in business models. Further, the study provides an analysis of companies segregated by hardware, software, services and storage. It covers business profile, key solution offerings, target customer segments, service differentiators, and future growth strategies. The study also highlights growth opportunities, case study of notable market developments, key trends, mergers and acquisitions, for investment and collaboration opportunities. Companies mentioned in the study are Agfa Healthcare, Corista, Definiens, Fimmic Oy, GE (Omnyx), Hamamatsu, Huron Digital Pathology, Indica Labs, Inspirata, Leica Biosystems, OptraSCAN, Pathcore, Philips, Proscia, Sectra, Sunquest, Visiopharm, Ventana Medical Systems, Roche, and 3D Histech. Key questions this study will answer: • How are digital pathology companies creating extraordinary value for stakeholders? • Which are some unique companies that are introducing new and innovative solutions in the market? • How do these companies intend to transform healthcare industry paradigms in the future? What is the impact of the external industry environment on this market? • What is their action plan and potential for growth? • What are the current growth opportunities in digital pathology? • What are some key success factors in the digital pathology market? • Which are the companies with whom partnerships can be forged?
1. Executive Summary
2. Companies-To-Action Overview
3. Digital Pathology Market Overview
4. Companies-To-Action Profiles
- Value Chain Analysis
- Benchmarking of Top Companies-To-Action
- Corista
- Corista (continued)
- Definiens
- Definiens (continued)
- Hamamatsu
- Hamamatsu (continued)
- Indica Labs
- Indica Labs (continued)
- Inspirata
- Inspirata (continued)
- Leica Biosystems
- Leica Biosystems (continued)
- OptraSCAN
- OptraSCAN (continued)
- Pathcore
- Pathcore (continued)
- Sectra
- Sectra (continued)
- Ventana Medical Systems—Roche
- Ventana Medical Systems—Roche (continued)
- 3DHISTECH Ltd.
- 3DHISTECH Ltd. (continued)
- Short Profiles of Digital Pathology Companies (1 of 2)
- Short Profiles of Digital Pathology Companies (2 of 2)
5. Competitive Playbook
6. Growth Opportunities and Companies-to-Action
7. The Last Word
8. Appendix
9. The Frost & Sullivan Story
Features of this research
- Healthcare, Industry Research, Global
- Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Drug Discovery Technologies, Industry Research, Global
- Digital Health, Industry Research, Global
- Medical Imaging & Informatics, Industry Research, Global
- Clinical Diagnostics & Research Tools, Industry Research, Global
- Advanced Medical Technologies, Industry Research, Global
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I'm quite the noob, but my nose is growing daily (not literally, thank you very much) and I wanted to use this space to pass along results of some comparison tests I've been working on. Why don't I post in the BN forums? So much of what's there is asking and responding to questions, and an unsolicited post by a neophyte on "what makes the 'aquatic/fresh category' so asphyxiating, er, enticing" might not be all that welcome. The reviews? They're not set up to
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Damaged Mentality
Damaged Mentality a zine written, created & self published by Synthia Nicole, which touches on mental and physical issues of the author post injury.
Issue #1 was produced in 2009 and was subtitled "5 Year Itch Bitch Venture". In this publication the author talks about the difficulties faced post-injury as she struggles with relationships and recovery. Issue #2 ... Issue #3 subtitled "Sugar Imbalance & an Addictive Personality". This is the last zine I wrote before I decided being an alcoholic in recovery would be a good path for me. Issue #4 wheelchair express issue. includes a tofu-carrot cacciatore recipe. Issue #5 contains an ode to my dog, BenAli & other honest, intimate admissions. Issue #6 includes a 'Gado Gado'(Vegetables and Tempeh with Peanut and Coconut)recipe along with a humiliating experience in an attempt to obtain a Dr.'s signature. Issue #7 short & sweet. is also being re-written & will be Damaged Mentality #7.5
Between 2009 and 2014 there have been 7 issues created & self pulished.
The zine is available from Fluxxii distro. Boneshaker Books in Minneapolis, Quimby's Bookstore in Chicago.
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- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Damaged-Mentality-Zine/191380414251281
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Thanks to all who came through the opening of Edible Complex featuring work from Kelly Tunstall & Ferris Plock last Friday @FFDG. We'll be adding photos of the show and opening either later today or tomorrow. Playing a bit of catch up after taking a couple days off for a lil' R&R.
Photos from Friday's opening by Damien Maloney
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Wolfgang Bauer
Wolfgang Bauer is best known in his native Austria as a playwright and director, and as the author of a single, oft-reprinted novel: The Feverhead, written in 1966.
The Feverhead is written in the form of letters between a couple of not-all-that-bright Austrians. Their correspondence is doomed to failure, nearly every letter crosses in the post and yet they succeed in their quest: the search for a perfect thermometer (and a serial murderer). In fact they both independently discover the secret of the universe in a remote spot thousands of miles from their intended (and different) destinations.Bauer's comedy of errors is ennacted by an unusual cast that includes microscopic schoolgirls, ambigously sexed nuns, incompetent detectives, two ultimately bad poets, living steam engines and a venerable three-eyed sea-captain whose two bodies remain exactly 3.5 metres apart, not to mention: ULF.
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Samsung Galaxy S II update to Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread via KIES, started rolling almost a month ago in a few select countries. The update is still unavailable today for many countries.
That is why I decide to make a little list with the countries where the update is available to download through KIES.
Samsung Galaxy S II list of countries where Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread is rolling already
Germany => Available
Poland => Update available
Brazil => Update available
France +> Update available
Sweden => Update available
Russia => Update available
China => Update available
Chile => Update available
Spain (Orange) => Update available
Venezuela => Update available
Singapore => Update available
Romania (Orange) => Update available
Peru => Update available
Korea => Update available
Hong Kong => Update available
Samsung Galaxy S II list of countries where Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread reported unavailable yet.
Turkey (Turkcell) => Pending (Updated to latest 2.3.3)
UK (Vodafone) => Pending
UK (T-Mobile) => Pending (Updated to latest 2.3.3)
UK (O2) => Pending/Unavailable
UK (Three carrier) => Pending/Unavailable
Italy => Pending
Brazil (ZTO) = Pending/Unavailable
Malaysia => Pending (Updated to latest 2.3.3)
Netherlands => Pending (Updated to latest 2.3.3)
New Zealand => Pending
Philippines => Pending
Australia => Pending
Ireland => Pending
Japan => Pending
Indonesia => Pending
Bangladesh => Pending
Belgium => Pending
Norway => Pending
Taiwan => Pending
Finland => Pending
Argentina => Pending
India => Pending
USA => Pending
Canada => Pending
Sweden => Pending
Israel => Pending
South-Africa => Pending
Lithuania => Pending
South America => Pending
Libya (Three carriers) => Pending
*Rest of Europe => Pending
**Egypt => Pending (2.3.3 Arabic Version Available)
**UAE => Pending (2.3.3 Arabic Version Available)
**Middle-East => Pending (2.3.3 Arabic Version Available)
Pending => the update is not available for this region
Update available => Android 2.3.4 update is available through KIES to download
*Any country in Europe that is not on the list above.
**These countries get the same build version of Android with Arabic language enabled
If your country didn't make it on the list yet or you need/want to report a succesful installation in your country via KIES please comment down below with the following [Country (mention carrier too) => Pending/Update available] and we will update the list. Thanks
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The aSPIRE Team takes pride in and is rewarded by our ethical and honest contributions to the college community through guidance, communication, and transparency in a challenging and continuously learning environment.
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Goaltender Jonas Hiller admitted he wasn't very good Tuesday night. What else could he do but own up to his lackluster play after the Ducks' 3-2 loss to the Winnipeg Jets ended their 22-game point streak at the Honda Center?
"I didn't feel like I was into the game," Hiller said. "It wasn't a very good effort on my part. It's too bad I couldn't turn it around. I never really felt into the game. I just wasn't able to cut out all the distractions with the Olympics and the outdoor game and whatever.
"Those things happen, but it's bad it happened in this situation. I really wanted to keep that streak going. Just some days you feel better and some days you don't feel that good. The only problem is as a goalie you see right away if you don't feel that good. You can't hide."
Hiller seemed to be in the middle of everything that went wrong for the Ducks, which actually wasn't all that much when you get right down to it. The Ducks' power-play clicked early in the game. They outshot the Jets 42-21. They had plenty of chances to tie the score late, too.
The NHL-leading Ducks (37-10-5) didn't get the goaltending they needed to extend their 10-game home winning streak, what with Hiller giving up dubious goals to Blake Wheeler and Andrew Ladd in the first period and a short-hander to Evander Kane in the second.
"When they scored the first goal, I said, 'Geez, he was off on that one,'" Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said of Wheeler's shot from the perimeter, on the Jets' first shot 5 minutes, 19 seconds into the game. "The second goal, he wasn't controlling his rebounds, which is a telltale sign for him.
"That's why I knew if they scored one early in the second, he was coming out."
Actually, Kane's goal gave Winnipeg a 3-1 lead at 15:43 of the second period. Boudreau made his move, though, replacing Hiller with Frederik Andersen, who blanked the Jets the rest of the way. Hiller gave up three goals on 11 shots before Boudreau pulled him.
"You hate to lose," Boudreau said. "You want this thing to go on forever. That's the biggest thing. We threw 94 shots at the net. Ninety-four shots. That doesn't happen too often. We missed an awful lot of chances at the end. (But) we did a lot of good things."
Cam Fowler (power play) and Nick Bonino were the only Ducks to beat Winnipeg goalie Ondrej Pavelec, however. Patrick Maroon had several quality scoring chances and earned a promotion to the Ducks' top line, playing with Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry in the final period.
The Ducks' furious third-period rally came up short, though.
Vatanen sent down
The Ducks sent defenseman Sami Vatanen to their American Hockey League affiliate in Norfolk, Va. Vatanen had 14 points, including six goals, in 39 games with the Ducks, but was caught in a numbers crunch with defenseman Luca Sbisa set to return to the lineup from a hand injury.


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Former LAPD officer on rampage in So Cal
(CNN) -- A former Los Angeles police officer who police say has violently threatened his former colleagues shot at least two officers early Thursday, killing one, sparking a huge manhunt in Southern California, according to authorities.
Christopher Jordan Dorner, 33, is also wanted in a double slaying Sunday in Irvine, California.
The California Highway Patrol issued an alert Thursday morning urging officers in several Southern California counties to be on the lookout for Dorner after the overnight shootings.
Two officers in Riverside were shot, one fatally, police there confirmed to CNN. CNN affiliate KTLA reported another officer was shot in Corona, California.
Irvine police identified Dorner on Wednesday as the suspect in the February 3 deaths of Keith Lawrence and Monica Quan in Irvine.
Dorner also has made violent threats against other Los Angeles police officers, the agency said Wednesday.
"I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty," Dorner allegedly wrote in a lengthy letter promising retribution against the department, where he worked from 2005 until 2008. An LAPD source provided the document to CNN.
The letter writer claimed he was terminated for reporting excessive force by a fellow officer, and said his attacks were retribution for his termination, as well as a culture of racism and violence he says continues within the department.
He called the attacks against police "a necessary evil that I do not enjoy but must partake and complete for substantial change to occur within the LAPD and reclaim my name."
Los Angeles police warned people who encounter Dorner not to approach him, saying he is likely "armed and extremely dangerous."
"Our department is implementing all measures possible to ensure the safety of our LAPD personnel, their families and the Los Angeles community, and will continue to do so until Dorner is apprehended and all threats have been abated," police said in a statement.
CNN's Mallory Simon and Deanna Hackney contributed to this report.
should I conceal to work today?
I saw an Amber Alert on the freeway this morning to call 911 if you saw a gray Nissan pickup. Wonder if its related...
Yes, he is reportedly driving a Nissan Titan (gray, I think).
yeah it is I think I just heard that on the radio. cops found his badge down here and there was an attempted boat jacking in loma last night by him or some shit lol or I might of heard two different stories on the radio just a bit ago
They might have to pull Jack Bauer out of retirement for this one. Check out this quote from the guy:
"I will bring unconventional and asymmetrical warfare to those in LAPD uniform whether on or off duty."
Dude is huge. I doubt they'll have a problem of people approaching him, armed or not...
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Everyone is going crazy these days.
It must be the flu shots.
Guns don't kill people.
Cops kill people.
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WTF is going on?
Disarm the police.
skippin work to go cop huntin'
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Wu-Tang Clan Join Bodog Music To Create 8 Diagrams
- 2007-07-26 09:55:17
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- 2007-07-26
"I think the time is perfect right now," says Gary "Genius/GZA" Grice. "Hip hop is missin' somethin' important - it's missin' a main element. And Wu-Tang is the one to bring that element."
It's been 14 years since the
Wu-Tang Clan
took hip hop by the scruff of the neck and kicked new life into a stagnating genre. They arrived just as the first flush of gangsta superstars had helped shift rap's center of gravity from its New York birthplace to the barbeques, swap-meets and low rider cars of sun-kissed Los Angeles, a whole continent distant, and temperamentally half a world away.
Today, the rap game is poised on the cusp of a similarly uncertain future. People agonise about rap, integrity and belief, but record sales are down, panic is setting in, and the audience is confused. Who can you turn to? Who can bring some light to chase away the darkness?
Well, how about a rap group who changed everything so completely that the record industry had to tear up its playbook and rethink the way it operated; a nine-strong, hydra-headed flurry of sparring egos, clashing styles and ever-increasing self-belief; a band who wrote their own mythology and came with a phalanx of acolytes and a plethora of alter-egos. The
Wu-Tang Clan
were a rap band of superheroes. Who else could resuscitate a genre some feel is breathing its last?
It's 1992:
and his cousin, Robert "
" Diggs, return to their Staten Island home, licking their wounds after a couple of record deals gone sour. Their choices were stark: give up the dream and go back to the business of day-to-day getting by, or use those experiences to come up with something new. There was no decision to make.
began work on his five-year master plan.
Recruiting from their army of friends and relatives, they assembled a rap supergroup: Clifford "
Method Man
" Smith, Russell "
Ol' Dirty Bastard
" Jones, Corey "
" Woods, Dennis "
Ghostface Killah
" Coles, Jason "
Inspectah Deck
" Hunter, "Lamont "
" Hawkins, Elgin "
Masta Killa
" Turner". They were nine emcees, each with a distinctive style and flow. They would record first as a group, which would announce each as an individual. Their personalities established, each would release their own records, play their own shows, carve their own niche in the pop culture edifice. Then, by the second group album, they'd have conquered the hip hop-speaking world.
Understanding both how rap audiences thought and how music was marketed,
knew they needed something other than skills and rhymes to succeed. So he turned to the legends and sagas the group members grew up on [kung fu films, superhero comic books, New York street lore] and mythologized an alternative reality the group would inhabit. The nine became the
Wu-Tang Clan
, named after a group of renegade monks with unparalleled skills in martial arts that made them so dangerous to society they had to swear never to teach their styles. Only this latter-day Clan would battle not with nunchucks or Shaolin swords, but razor-sharp wit and densely packed lyrical metaphors. Their music would deliberately sound raw, a carefully considered contrast to the sleek production sheen hip hop had acquired, to remind rap fans of the grit and the roughness that attracted them to hip hop in the first place, and which, by 1993, the music was beginning to lose.
's plan worked almost to the letter. Five years after they released their debut single, the independently recorded, funded and distributed Protect Ya Neck, the
Wu-Tang Clan
's second album, Wu-Tang Forever, crash-landed at Number One in both the US and UK pop charts. The Wu revolution seemed complete.
The next five years brought a slew of solo albums from the Clan which saw their members regularly grace the upper reaches of most rap fans' all-time-greatest lists. There were also two more albums - The W and Iron Flag. The W gave the Clan their biggest UK hit single with Gravel Pit. By 2001, things had changed. "Suddenly, you're dealing with nine generals,"
recalls, deploying an apt military metaphor, "and generals are hard to control. Plus, everyone had they own manager - trying to get everyone on the same page got harder."
"I'm a person that comes from a teaching of: we don't deal with leaders, but we deal with leadership"
says. "That means each man got to carry his own bucket, and somebody's gonna always be the one amongst you who leaves the footprints. In the beginning stages I took that upon me to make sure that I was dealing with leadership. And, being the most knowledgeable, basically, whatever I said, everybody agreed with it; or, if they didn't agree, they still submitted to it. But around the time we were making Forever, it went from dictatorship to democracy, basically. And when I went to that democracy, yo, that, to me, was the decline." "What you heard on 36 Chambers was the hunger and the thirst,"
analyses. "Wu-Tang Forever was quenching that thirst - like, 'Aaah, that water and food tasted so good!' I would say The W was on some, 'Let's eat again, I'm kinda hungry again.' But Iron Flag was probably like, 'Man, I don't wanna eat that right now, I'm kinda full."
Cut to 2007, freshly signed to Bodog Music in Europe; the eight emcees have got a rumble in their collective belly once again.
is back in charge: "I'm in year three of my new five-year plan," he grins, and the Clan are back in the studio. Where recording for The W and Iron Flag was a piecemeal affair, members dropping in as and when solo and external commitments permitted, for The Eight Diagrams,
is laying down the law once again. "When we started this, I tried to get them to think of it like a job," he explains. "To turn up at the same time every day and put in the work. Not everybody has as good attendance as everybody else but we needed to go back to that way of workin'."
The W saw the Clan invite outsiders into the vocal booth for the first time, but for The Eight Diagrams,
has extended that to include producers. Once again, in clear contrast to the way the hip hop blockbusters of the day are made - with most hit rap albums compiled from ready-made beats supplied by a selection of outside producers - everything here has to subsume to the will of the Abbot. "I was on a mission this time to work with outside producers," he confirms. "But these aren't people making beats for us, they're production collaborations: they're in the studio with me."
"There's a lot of stuff goin' on in the studio,"
continues. "It's kind of like a party. Though some people don't adapt to that so well." "I can't really focus or concentrate like that,"
admits. "But it's always good to work together, because you can feed off each other and get input. What I've heard so far, that vibe and energy is strong. It's like we're doodling right now,the pen is flowing, and whatever it makes, it makes. But it's authentic, strong hip hop, lyrically and musically."
"As much as he is enthused by the collaborations and the production,
, with his unique overview and in his leader's role, is as excited by what he sees as his fellow Clansmen all bringing their A game to the sessions. "The album is still a work in progress and there is a lot more studio work to be done.
But before
can start slicing up the tracks and editing the fifth WU album, there's the small matter of European and American tour dates. British fans, in particular, may have a right to be skeptical: the number of times shows have been announced as featuring "the whole
Wu-Tang Clan
," with only a few members to show up on stage, is legion. But this time, it's going to be different. "A lot of that was promoters makin' money off our names,"
grumbles. "But we're all comin'! Don't expect pyros, or us flyin' through the air: it's not that type o' show. There'll probably just be a backdrop and no props. The fans know what to expect - the Clansmen on stage, swarmin' back and forth for two fuckin' hours, with song after song after song."
Like they said a couple of times before, watch out: the WU is back.
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The Doha Declaration on Quality Education In The Arab World: Data on Teachers
The new buzz words in the World Bank are Open Data. Here, in our blog, we have been championing the cause of Open Data (see New Open Data Initiative Emphasizes Importance of Education Stats) and what it does for knowledge sharing and looking at development solutions for Education systems.
You may know that the President Bob Zoellick (also known as RBZ) recently delivered a pretty inspiring speech at Georgetown University at the end of September. He was advocating for a new perspective for the Bank: "Beyond the Ivory Tower to a New Research Model: Open Data, Open Knowledge, Open Solutions."


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With December 2010 cotton futures around 78 cents in mid-May, producers should be looking closely at pricing 50 percent or more of their new crop cotton, said market analysts speaking at the Ag Market Network's May 13 teleconference.
"This is a really good area to have a percentage of your crop done," said Mike Stevens, Swiss Financial Services. "We're at the highest levels on some of the contracts in 12 years in the north Delta. You need to be taking advantage of prices around 78 cents."
"Prices usually don't stay up here very long," said Texas A&M Extension economist John Robinson. "You have to put a pencil to your cost structure, but 78 cents is probably a profitable level, and producers should be taking advantage of it, instead of holding off thinking it's going to get better."
Longer-term, Stevens believes that December 2010 futures "are within 2 cents of the top. As a matter of fact, for futures to get above 78-80 cents, it's going to take something unusual happening. I'm looking at a downside of 73 cents."
Texas Extension economist Carl Anderson sees December 2010 futures ranging from 75 cents to 78 cents. "At 75 cents you have a pretty good floor, but it could drop to as low as 72 cents. These are times when we all get surprises. I encourage producers to implement a pricing system to protect themselves on at least 50 percent of their expected production, and I wouldn't have a problem going up to 75 percent."
Robinson sees a top of 80 cents "but until we see how much cotton is planted in the world, I'm a little more pessimistic on the low end. We could go down to 70 cents or below if they've planted a world of cotton out there and we have some decent weather."
While USDA pegged the U.S. cotton crop at 16 million bales, "there are some guesses out there that put it at between 17 million and 18 million bales," Stevens said.
Stevens noted that export sales of U.S. cotton remain strong, with a total of 377,000 bales sold the first week of May. "The figure includes 261,000 bales of current crop, which runs through July, and 116,000 bales of new crop. To reach our 12 million bales of projected export shipments, we don't have to sell but 100,000 bales a week."
Stevens reported that Chinese domestic cotton prices spiked in early May, which is probably why the government is allocating a 1.1 million ton import quota, which is roughly equivalent to 5 million bales. "This is a welcome situation. They have to get those import quotas in place before they can buy much of anything."
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text: We recently tested 48 port gigabit switches from Extreme (summit-48t) and Force10 (s50). We found the Extreme networks switch performed better than the Force10 when all 48 ports were active. The s50 appeared to "choke" at certain message sizes, leading to erratic rates and overall reduced performance. The summit was much smoother with very little variation in throughput. For example a bidirectional edge exchange had a max throughput of 1540Mbps under LAM (using the Broadcom NIC) while 16 pairs (32 nodes) had a max throughput of 1520Mbps per pair; the optimum message size was about 250KBytes. We also tested 2 switches connected by a 10G stacking cable. We could connect 12 pairs of ports (12 on each switch) and run at essentially the same speed (around 1500Mbps per pair) through the stacking cable. There are a lot of hidden gotchas in switch technology so "wire speed" means next to nothing. For example the Force 10 switch (which is a good edge switch) has 4 12 port ASIC's. Ports on the same ASIC really do communicate at wire speed, but between ASIC's the max bandwidth is 10Gbps, so the max throughput is only 83% of what you would expect. By contrast the Extreme switch is supposedly "flat", with full bandwidth under all port configurations. The Broadcom NICS could not push data fast enough to really stress the Extreme switch (only about 1500Mbps max per pair) but with MPIGAMMA I can get over 1800MBps between pairs which will up the load on the switch. These switches are not cheap; they list for $6000-8000 but they outperform the cheaper switches by a considerable margin. We have not been able to get close to the theoretical bandwidth from our cheap GigE switches (HP 2724 3Com SS3). I have recently run netpipe with MPI/GAMMA (http://www.disi.unige.it/project/gamma/mpigamma/) using two Intel PRO1000 NIC's (82545GM) wired back-to-back. The nodes are Dell PE850 with 3.0Ghz P4D (dual core). MPI latency was 8.6 microsecs one way and 8.8 microsecs for bidirectional messages. The max throughput was 983Mbps one way and 1856Mbps bidirectional. The half throughput message size is about 4KBytes. These are consistent with pingpong tests reported on the MPIGAMMA website. The higher throughput will enable a better test of switch performance We have just installed a stacked array of 4 X summit-48t's. I will post benchmarks soon. Tony ------------------------------- Tony Ladd Professor, Chemical Engineering University of Florida PO Box 116005 Gainesville, FL 32611-6005 Tel: 352-392-6509 FAX: 352-392-9513 Email: tladd at che.ufl.edu Web: http://ladd.che.ufl.edu


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Districts Grapple With Glitches as Some Say Devices Can Supplement Lessons
As schools rush to embrace computer tablets as teaching tools, glitches have officials in a few districts rethinking the usefulness and even security of the latest technology trend.
The highest-profile snafu came in Los Angeles, where a $1 billion program—funded by voter-approved bonds—to provide Apple Inc. iPads for K-12 students came under fire after some students sidestepped the security system and accessed social media, online games and other content that was supposed to be blocked.
The Los Angeles Unified School District temporarily took back thousands of tablets from students at three high schools and required the devices to remain on-campus in all 30 schools where the effort had been rolled out. School board officials called a special meeting for Oct. 29 to assess the $50 million first phase of the program ahead of votes to fund the second and third phases.
Los Angeles school board member Bennett Kayser said the district's initiative was "hastily planned" and several "red flags" were overlooked, such as the potential expense of lost or stolen devices and questions about the completeness of the installed curriculum software. Plus, he added, "There is no silver bullet or Superman here; technology is a tool, not an end unto itself."
The fitful Los Angeles rollout comes as K-12 schools nationwide are expected to spend $9.7 billion on technology in 2013, up from $6 billion in 2003, according to the Center for Digital Education, a national research and advisory institute specializing in education technology trends and policy. Districts in Maryland, Kansas, North Dakota and elsewhere have rolled out tablet to thousands of students this year. And experts say the pace of technology spending is rapidly growing as schools try to become more tech-savvy.
Advocates say new technology may allow teachers to better target students' individual academic levels and learning styles, and engage students who often are bored by the more traditional style of teaching. For example, teachers can watch students writing essays in real time and shoot one a note if she failed to write a proper introduction and another a separate note if she used improper punctuation. Moreover, they say, students need technological skills to compete in today's economy.
Leslie Wilson, of the Michigan-based One-to-One Institute, a nonprofit that helps districts implement programs that assign a digital device to every student, said students must learn to be "creators and producers, not regurgitators and consumers" of information, and technology can hasten those skills. She said laptops, tablets and other such devices can benefit students if they are chosen with student achievement in mind, rather than on the "glitziness" of the product.
Skeptics say schools are racing into the digital promise with little forethought and, in some cases, expecting computer tools to boost academic outcomes even though the research on the issue is inconclusive. Researchers from the University of Southern Maine, for example, found that a program that provided laptops to middle-school students boosted writing scores, while a study by the Texas Center for Educational Research found no difference in test scores between middle-school students who got laptops and those who didn't.
The Los Angeles program, the first phase of which was approved in February, aims to provide by the end of 2014 every student with a tablet employing digital, interactive curricula designed to meet Common Core math and reading standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia. Under its contract with Apple, the school district pays $678 a tablet; Apple didn't return a call for comment.
Parents and residents questioned the high price tag and speedy rollout of the devices. Some students and parents said they didn't understand their personal liability if an iPad was broken or misplaced. Now, some school-board members are calling for a clearer plan for the costs of maintaining and updating the technology.
Still, district officials say they are pleased with the results so far. The devices allow for instruction to be tailored to each student's level and teachers have gotten creative with their assignments, such as having students work with slide shows on the tablet. Superintendent John Deasy called the initiative "stunningly successful," and added: "It's pretty amazing watching students who've never had access [to tablet technology] and now have it."
Meanwhile, officials in Fort Bend Independent School District in suburban Houston scrapped a $16 million iPad initiative after an audit this month found, among other things, teachers complaining the curricula on the tablets were incomplete and didn't align with the district's instructional goals. The district had given out about 6,000 tablets with an interactive science curriculum to fourth- through eighth-graders as part of an effort to boost science test scores.
Jim Rice, president of the school district board of trustees, said schools are "seeing a sea change in how children learn and schools need to keep up with that," but, he added, "the devil is in the details and districts should understand all the moving parts before they jump into technology."
Officials in Guilford County Schools in Greensboro, N.C., suspended a $30 million effort that gave 15,000 middle-school students Amplify tablets after students or school staff broke about 10% of the screens either by dropping them or placing them in backpacks or purses, and some of the cables that connect the devices to keyboards broke.
Officials with Amplify—the education subsidiary of News Corp, which owns The Wall Street Journal—and the school district say they are working to fix the problems. District officials said they were satisfied with the academic content on the tablet and said teachers had been using them to provide quality instruction. Superintendent Maurice Green said the suspension was "extremely disappointing" and said the district "remains committed to personalizing learning and to the one-to-one initiative."
Many districts around the country are rolling out tablets without a hitch. About 850 students at Neil Armstrong Middle School in suburban Portland, Ore., got digital tablets this year after a smaller pilot program at the school last year showed students were more engaged and less likely to misbehave during class.
Nichole Carter, an eighth-grade English teacher who was part of the tablet pilot program last year, said the devices dramatically cut down on paper costs, allow her to track student work in real time and let children work together through a protected social media-like platform.
"A tablet is a tool that can enhance a lesson and engage kids," she said. "But you really have to know your content and understand how to teach for it to be effective in helping children learn."
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Raising the bar
Dave McNair's September 16, 2004, cover story, "Celebrity, Suicide and the Etiquette of Envy" raised the writing standards locally to Pulitzer levels. Insightful, deliberate, poignant, and brutally honest, this kind of writing makes me proud to have been published by the same folks. [The author won this year's Fiction Contest.–editor]
The title foretold it all and made me want to turn the pages. The article taught me something about the music industry I didn't know– in a non-judgmental way– and gave us all something to ponder. Kudos to The Hook.
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ASHRAE recently announced the publication of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135.1-2013, Method of Test for Conformance to BACnet.
Standard 135.1 provides a comprehensive set of procedures for verifying the implementation of capabilities, including BACnet services (as initiators, executors, or both), BACnet object types (including required properties and optional properties), the BACnet network-layer protocol, data-link options, and all special functionalities, in accordance with ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135, BACnet – A Data Communication Protocol for Building Automation and Control Networks.
The newly published standard includes tests for new extensions to the BACnet standard and numerous test improvements developed in cooperation with BACnet Testing Laboratories. Also, it references the latest version of Standard 135, published in 2012.
"The new tests are significant and wide-sweeping across the standard," Carl Neilson, chair of the Standard 135 and Standard 135.1 committees, said. "The new tests cover new functionality that has been added to the BACnet standard over the past six to 10 years."
The cost of ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 135.1-2013 is $101 for ASHRAE members and $119 for non-members. Copies can be ordered by phone at 1-800-527-4723 (United States and Canada) or 404-636-8400, by fax at 678-539-2129, or online at www.ashrae.org/bookstore.