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Apparently the NBA recently instituted a ban on whining (could they come to my house?) It seems to include not just verbal kvetching but even such actions as eye rolling or waving your arms in disgust (I'd like to get them involved with some adolescents I know!) While this is certainly a step forward for the NBA, I'm much more concerned about the prevalence of whining in the general population. In fact, I didn't even know that basketball players had such a problem with whining until I read about the new rule.
However, in society at large it is a serious issue. And I'm concerned about it for a number of reasons – some clearly selfish and some less so. In the self-interest category, I have to state that it is just really unpleasant to spend any significant time with people who whine (Am I at risk of being one of those people right now?) It's certainly a test of my patience. I like to think it's not because I'm lacking in compassion (although there's always room for growth) but rather because I believe in engaging in productive activity. If something isn't working, do what you can to change it. If there is nothing practical to do, ask the Almighty for help. If the Almighty seems disinclined to do so, then we need to accept the situation as presented. Self-pity is destructive to its subject and painful to the listener.
Everyone's life has challenges. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by them. Sometime we need to share our struggles with a friend. We need sympathy, empathy, or perhaps advice. This is not the same as whining.
What sets whiners apart seems to be the fact that they ALWAYS have something to complain about (at the restaurant the service is awful, at home the kids aren't behaving, their friend's husband makes more money, the cleaning lady doesn't work as hard as she should – you've met them, right?), they frequently adopt a particularly grating tone when they do so and they seem uniquely resistant to actually taking action to try to improve their situation.
By listening to whiners we become their enablers (Whiners Anonymous, anyone?). We permit and give legitimacy to their constant complaints. We foster the belief that their life really is rough, their wife is unusually difficult, their boss is definitely abusive, their children poorly behaved. The whiner is encouraged to feel sorry for him or herself, wallowing in self-pity instead of working towards a solution. The whiner also clings to the position that he or she is the aggrieved party – everyone else is always wrong; the whiner is always right.
This argues against any growth on the part of the whiner, against any self-reflection or introspection. It is not a kindness on our part to indulge this self-destructive behavior and listen to the whiner. It just encourages them on this negative path.
We also want to nip in the bud their constant litany of complaints against their spouses or children. It is not healthy for their family life. They need to be shown a positive way of looking at their situation; they need a reframe. They need to work on a rosier outlook and stop blaming others for their problems. Above all, whining is the avoidance of responsibility; whiners need to turn this around by stepping up to the plate and taking responsibility for their lives and choices.
Basketball now has obvious penalties for whining. It has referees to catch the players and enforce the new rules. We, on the other hand, must manage on our own. And yet we need to be on a higher alert since the personal consequences are so much greater.


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Winner of the Man Booker prize in 2011, this deceptively small novel is really rather large in impact. Although it is quite readable in a casual style, the themes do build in intensity and at the end it actually begs to be reread. Barnes is a skillful writer, totally deserving of the Booker. Beautifully written and compelling, it's quite possible to finish it in one or two sittings.
The story is about a man with a mutable past. The book's first section is about the main character and his friends when they were at school. The second half of the book is much later when Tony is middle aged and he looks back to try to make sense of his life. His memories of events differ from others who were also there. In many ways it is a meditation on the uncertainty of memory as we age. How reliable are our memories? Do we reconstruct the past to suit the needs of the present? Is our memory selective? A lawyer's letter and an unusual bequest become the catalyst for Tony to investigate and seek the truth.
If you read this book and don't quite get the surprise ending, you will not be alone. Some members of our book club didn't get it either, including myself. It may be necessary to read the ending a couple of times but no matter, it is a short book and if you need help, I'm happy to fill you in. 🙂
Here's an interesting little youtube on how the cover for the book was designed.

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"Pimping" is a longstanding tradition on teaching rounds. An attending physician routinely grills residents and medical students, partially to make them squirm and partially to teach them. The questions can be about medicines, diseases, conditions, or totally random ("the song that's playing in the elevator, what year is it from, and who was the group's lead singer?" I'M NOT MAKING THAT UP!).
In the mid-90's I'd graduated from medical school and was in residency training to become a neurologist. In the time-honored tradition of wayward children, I'd gone to my parents' house to do laundry. I was folding it in the family room, while mom watched a medical show.
On TV a bunch of white-coated figures were on rounds. Suddenly a senior physician looked at a medical student and asked "He's an alcoholic. Why do we give him thiamine, and not just glucose?"
Without thinking, I answered the question aloud (you get conditioned to do that). A few seconds later, a guy on TV said the exact same thing I just had.
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The first anniversary is the Bobblehead Anniversary, right?
I've always been a plan-ahead kind of girl. I keep lists on my Google drive of potential gifts for all of my closest friends, so that when a birthday or holiday comes up, I am never caught without the perfect present.
When we were planning our wedding, Nick forwarded me a website he found that did custom bobblehead cake-toppers. Now because it's nearly impossible to find an Indian-styled wedding cake topper (a bride in a white wedding dress was not exactly appropriate on top of our cake!), it was a tempting proposition to get a custom one of a bride in a red sari. However, I was already overwhelmed by all of the many little details that had to be taken into account, and I didn't want to spend an extra $300 on a cake-topper, especially one that might well disappear in the bustle of a crowded wedding reception and a quick cleaning crew. So I opted for some chocolate-covered strawberries to top off the cake, and I filed away the bobblehead idea for later.
About a month and a half before our first anniversary, I pulled up my file of potential presents for Nick and there it was: the custom bobblehead. Even though it wasn't the traditional "paper" gift, I knew it would be perfect.
I ordered it from www.custombobbleheads.com. There's a lot of options for bobbleheads online, but I went with this site because it let me customize the entire bobblehead -- head to toe. Other sites I saw only let you customize the face, but that didn't address my desire to have a bobblehead in full-on Indian wedding garb. (Yes, I paid $10 extra each for the hats!)
The proof-and-tweak process was a bit time-consuming, but for a creative type like me, it was also fun. To start, I had to upload photos of the two of us from many different angles, including front, back, side, and three-quarters face. Plus, I had to upload a photo of the pose and of the clothes. Then the sculptors do their first draft of the heads. The likeness between Nick and his bobblehead is impressive!
Each step of the way -- heads, bodies, and coloring -- the sculptors e-mailed me proofs. I'd mark them up -- as you can see, I decided my eyes needed to be bigger in this version -- then give them the OK to move on to the next step. The entire process took a little over a month from order to receipt (I'd give yourself two months to be safe) and cost just under $300.
It was so worth it. Nick's a huge Los Angeles Dodgers fan, so we have several Dodgers bobbleheads on our fireplace mantle. Now, Bobblehead Nick and Bobblehead Sree are hanging out with the likes of Bobblehead Matt Kemp and Bobblehead Manny Ramirez. And I have to say, this is the only time Nick and I will ever get more attention than the Dodgers -- guests always stop and exclaim when they see our likenesses on the fireplace.


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Back before the November 2017 election, several robocalls and campaign hit pieces against Robert Holden were circulated among Republican District 30 voters by Michael Ricatto, who splits his time between Kew Gardens and Florida. Why someone living well outside the district would care about a council race in which no registered Republican was running is a good question. Ricatto spent $23,000 on the ads and the Campaign Finance Board fined him $4,380 for failing to report the expenditures. CFB documents reveal that Ricatto was put up to this by Brooklyn State Sen. Martin Golden's advisor, James McClelland, who is such a loyal Republican that he had no problem working as Communications Director for Democrat Melinda Katz for 6 years. Both Ricatto and McClelland are good friends of former Republican Council Members Dennis Gallagher and Anthony Como, who waged war against Holden and the Juniper Park Civic Association during their tenures and also tried to influence the outcome of the most recent election. Como and Gallagher moved out of the district years ago yet still feel the need to be involved in local politics? This ingenious plan not only cost their buddy more than $27,000 but the guy they hate ended up winning anyway.
Originally published in the March 2018 Juniper Berry Magazine
Things That Are Dumb: A fool and his money are soon parted
Christina Wilkinson
March 2018 Table of Contents
- Yesterday & Today: Grand Avenue at Flushing Avenue, looking east, 1945
- Let it snow!
- Berry Bits: Illegal truck parking halted
- Berry Bits: DHS says Glendale shelter is no longer in the works
- Berry Bits: Maspeth HS graduate fighting cancer
- Berry Bits: Middle Village woman wins the lottery
- Berry Bits: Glendale Kiwanis gifts Sacred Heart pantry with new refrigerator
- Berry Bits: JPCA has new president
- Berry Bits: Georgia Diner to be demolished
- Berry Bits: Recent reports about freight rail operations raise concerns
- Berry Bits: Happy Retirement!
- Berry Bits: 80th Street fix is 2 years away
- Berry Bits: Don't block the box!
- Berry Bits: Free legal clinic coming to Middle Village
- A message from the president
- The Queensboro Bridge Railway: Last Trolley Standing
- Short Story: Seeing the Light
- Hope Hornets are diocesan champs
- Things That Are Dumb: The Woodhaven Blvd ticket trap
- Things That Are Dumb: Brace yourself for a deluge of dumping
- Things That Are Dumb: Sign switch by summer
- Things That Are Dumb: A fool and his money are soon parted
- Berry Bits: Hit-and-run alert system coming
- Things That Are Dumb: Never-beginning bridge project now a never-ending one
- Things That Are Dumb: Light rail plan dead on arrival
- Things That Are Dumb: Maspeth's trashy triangle
- Things That Are Dumb: Flushing Avenue underpass a Vision Zero nightmare
- Things That Are Dumb: Strange traffic light location
- Letters to the editor, March 2018
- St. Margaret's Boy Scout Troop #119
- How mutual funds can positively affect your life
- Zone Pricing (AKA all-at-once unsustainable, unfair, inequitable & regressive toll-tax scheme that also fails to ease congestion)
- Our Lady of Hope welcomes Rev. Noel Daduya
- Amazing Stories: Hollywood to Make Film of Ex-GI's Tune
- The New York City Feral Cat Initiative
- From Kaiser's Farm to Ridgewood Terrace
- Berry Bits: LIE diamond grinding delayed
- Berry Bits: ACC intake center moving to Middle Village
- Things That Are Dumb: DOE issues refunds that amount to pennies
- Things That Are Dumb: Elmhurst couple faces 7 years in prison for illegal conversion
- Things That Are Dumb: DOT thinks Woodhaven Blvd traffic not affected by new design
- Things That Are Dumb: Rikers closure plan announced
- Things That Are Dumb: Postal service drops the ball
- Op-Ed: The Parkland Shooting Needs to Be a Bellwether for Change
- The Vander Ende-Onderdonk House
- The true meaning of Maspeth's ancient name
- Why Rikers Island must remain open
- Berry Scenes: March 2018
- Short Story: Change Happens
- Our legislative priorities in Albany
- Killy's Korner, March 2018
- Community Spotlight: Phyllis Taiano
- Grandma's Easter Meat Pie
- Neighborhood Hall of Shame March 2018
- 104th Precinct Report, March 2018
- The life of John Metzner
- Op-Ed: The United States Constitution vs. Bill de Blasio
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Holy crap, it's the motherlode.
After an extended summer's worth of half-length Roundups necessitated by a virtual dearth of releases, this month has swung straight to the opposite end of the pendulum, with more stuff to cover than readers have seen since quite early in the year.
Even to the moment I'm writing these very words, new releases are positively pouring in from one label or individual band contact after another, leading to further and further revisions and extensions to this rather spooky seasonal roundup. As it is, I already have a fair sized batch of releases earmarked for the November iteration thereof…
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text: Share email 12 novembre 2018 | SAN DIEGO, California Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the industry's only pervasive data intelligence company, today announced that it has been awarded a "2018 Top Workplaces" honor by the San Diego Union-Tribune. The Union-Tribune, San Diego's largest media company, produces the annual list of the best places to work in the region based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by research partner Energage. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution and connection. In addition to being added to the list of San Diego's top workplaces, Teradata was also honored with a "Spotlight Award for Professional Development," which was based on positive employee feedback about providing the training they need to be successful in their jobs. "Teradata's legacy and its continuing success is built on the power of its people, who help us rise as one to create innovative products and services that help uncover answers to the biggest business problems in the world," said Laura Nyquist, Teradata's general counsel and chief human resource officer. "We are incredibly proud and thankful that our employees voted us one of the best large employers to work for in San Diego. We look forward to expanding our presence in the region as we work to attract world-class talent to our organization and transform how businesses work and people live through the power of data." Teradata was founded almost 40 years ago inside a Brentwood, Calif. garage in 1979. Today, it has grown to serve the largest and most visionary enterprises in the world. The company is made up of a community of more than 10,000 people worldwide who believe in the power of data to change the world and are ready to challenge the complexity and inadequacy of conventional approaches in pursuit of better answers. In early October, Teradata announced that it had completed the relocation of its global corporate headquarters from Ohio to San Diego, where it owns a four-building, 460,000-square-foot campus. Recently completed renovations to 65,000 square feet of office space within the Teradata campus added workstations and employee comforts. Teradata has hired more than 300 new employees in San Diego so far this year, with another 200 jobs expected to be filled by early 2019. The new headquarters includes world-class amenities that are designed to help attract and retain top talent in the highly competitive high-tech industry, including: • Paid time off to volunteer in the community • Competitive pay and benefits • On-site dining options including a grill, café and juice bar • Basketball courts • Free fresh-ground coffee machines • Games and activities throughout the campus • Eight weeks paid paternity leave (beginning in 2019) • A full, state-of-the-art fitness center • An on-site employee wellness center, including medical staff • A yoga room • Indoor and outdoor collaboration and work spaces • The ability to participate in "Inventathons" and a patent award program About Teradata Teradata transforms how businesses work and people live through the power of data. Teradata leverages all of the data, all of the time, so you can analyze anything, deploy anywhere, and deliver analytics that matter most to your business. And we do it on-premises, in the cloud, or anywhere in between. We call this pervasive data intelligence, powered by the cloud. It's the answer to the complexity, cost and inadequacy of today's approach to analytics. Get the answer at teradata.com.


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Bisons bats silent in Scranton
Yankees' top prospect Jesus Montero launched a pair of home runs and drove in four as Scranton/Wilkes-Barre clinched the IL North division with a 5-1 victory over the Bisons. Yanks' starter D.J. Mitchell allowed just one hit in seven innings in his first win of the season.
Buffalo had just two hits, while Montero had the game's two biggest knocks. The catcher launched a three-run homer in the first inning and a solo shot in the third to stake the Yankees to an early lead.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre held the 5-0 advantage into the top of the ninth. Buffalo had just one hit prior to the final frame, but started to rally with a lead-off single by Andy Green. Lucas Duda and Nick Evans followed with walks to load the bases with no outs.
The Yankees quickly turned to IL-saves leader Jonathan Albaladejo, but the Bisons still got on the board with a Russ Adams' sacrifice fly. After a second out, Albaladejo hit Kirk Nieuwenhuis in the foot to load the bases and bring the game-tying run to the plate.
However, it wasn't meant to be for the Bisons on Sunday as Mike Cervenak flew out to centerfield to end the game.
Southpaw Michael Antonini (1-3) took the loss for Buffalo. He allowed all five runs in six innings as he was also touched for a Colin Curtis home run in the bottom of the sixth.
The Bisons will now return to Coca-Cola Field for the start of a five-game in four-day series against the Chiefs and then the Yanks. Mets' top prospect Jenrry Mejia is expected to pitch against Syracuse on Monday.
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Apple served with search warrant in Sutherland Springs shooting
Texas Rangers investigating the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs have served a search warrant on Silicon Valley giant Apple Inc. and are seeking digital photos, messages, documents and other types of data that might have been stored by gunman Devin Patrick Kelley, who was found with an iPhone after he killed himself.
Court records obtained by the San Antonio Express-News show Texas Ranger Kevin Wright obtained search warrants on Nov. 9 for files stored on Kelley's iPhone, a second mobile phone found near his body and for files stored in Kelley's iCloud account — Apple's digital archive that can sync iPhone files.
The iCloud feature is an optional service. Obtaining such records, if they exist, directly from Apple could aid authorities investigating the worst mass shooting in modern Texas history.
Apple's policy regarding iCloud content states that material may be provided to law enforcement agencies if they obtain search warrants.
For iPhones, Apple has clashed with the FBI in the past to protect the privacy of its customers.
In the case of the San Bernardino, California, mass shooting in 2015, which killed 14 people, the FBI tried to force Apple to create software that would unlock an iPhone owned by one of the attackers. The court dispute was finally resolved when the FBI announced it found a way to access the phone.
An Apple spokesman said the company does not comment on law enforcement matters. The court records don't show whether authorities have obtained the files from Kelley's phones.
Christopher Combs, the FBI special agent in charge in San Antonio whose office is helping Texas Rangers, complained last week that the FBI was unable to access the files on Kelley's phone. Combs declined to say at the time what kind of mobile phone Kelley was carrying.
"I'm not going to describe what phone it is, because I don't want to tell every bad guy out there what phone to buy," Combs said.
Court records show Kelley was found with an iPhone SE, and he also had a second phone that has gone unmentioned by authorities — a low-tech LG 328BG.
A photo included in the application for the search warrant shows Kelley's silver and white iPhone was spattered with blood. Investigators want access to Kelley's phone and iCloud account to dig into his messages, calls, social media applications passwords, address books, photos, videos and data since Jan. 1, 2016.
Four email addresses belonging to Kelley have been discovered: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dressed in black tactical gear and body armor, Kelley was armed with a Ruger AR-556 military-style rifle when he opened fire on the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs. During the Nov. 5 rampage, he killed 26 people and injured 20 others — many of them children.
A neighbor and former gun instructor for the National Rifle Association, Stephen Willeford, heard the gunfire, grabbed his AR-15 rifle and raced to the church. Kelley, armed with a handgun when he saw Willeford, exchanged gunfire and was shot twice — once in the torso and once in the leg.
Kelley drove away in a Ford Expedition. Willeford flagged down motorist Johnnie Langendorff and the pair chased the gunman.
Authorities believe Kelley killed himself during the high-speed pursuit.
According to the court records obtained Thursday, authorities found Kelley's body lying outside the driver door of his Ford Expedition, with his head in the dirt.
A bullet had entered Kelley's head above his right ear and exited through the back left side of his head. At least one pistol magazine was found in a holder on Kelley's belt and his black body armor looked partly stripped off. A medication prescribed to Kelley was found in the Exhibition's console.
Investigators discovered a pistol under his feet, and his silver and white iPhone SE was sitting on the vehicle's front floorboard. Two days after the shooting, a second phone, the black LG model, was found in a pocket in the driver's side door, and officials want access to the device to forensically search for evidence of capital murder.


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This charming town is home to Australia's only Pumpkin Festival, which is held annually on the last weekend in May and features the exciting 'Great Australian Pumpkin Roll'. The Festival draws thousands of people from all over south-east Queensland.
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Demons and Illness: Theory and Practice from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
Call for Papers
Centre for Medical History: University of Exeter
22 – 24th April 2013
In many near eastern traditions, demons appear as a cause of illness: most famously in the stories of possessed people cured by Christ. These traditions influenced perceptions of illness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in later centuries but the ways in which these cultures viewed demons and illness have received comparatively little attention. For example, who were these demons? How did they cause illness? Why did they want to? How did demons fit into other explanations for illness? How could demonic illnesses be cured and how did this relate to other kinds of cure? How far did medical or philosophical theory affect how people responded to demonic illnesses in practice?
This conference will take a comparative approach, taking a wide geographical and chronological sweep but confining itself to this relatively specific set of questions. Because Jewish, Christian and Islamic ideas about demons and illness drew on a similar heritage of ancient religious texts from New Testament times to the early modern period there is real scope to draw meaningful comparisons between the different periods and cultures. What were the common assumptions made by different societies? When and why did they differ? What was the relationship between theory and practice? We would welcome papers which address these issues for any period between antiquity and the early modern period, and which discuss Christian, Jewish or Islamic traditions.
The conference is hosted by the Centre for Medical History at the University of Exeter, on April 22nd-24th, 2013.
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The Boston Marathon bombing brought international attention back to the devastating effects of terrorism.
There were numerous victims with severe injuries that needed immediate attention. A novel study in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal published by Wiley on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), presents cases from Boston-area hospitals where victims were treated, examining the medical response and imaging technologies used to save lives and limbs.
On April 15, 2013, at approximately 2:49 p.m. two pressure-cooker bombs exploded one after the other at the Boston Marathon finish line. As a result of the bombings, there were three fatalities and 264 casualties, with the most severe injuries involving lower extremities of those located closest to the blasts. Shrapnel disbursed by the bombs included pieces of metal, nails and ball bearings. Injuries resulting from the Marathon bombing are relevant to the fields of rheumatology, rehabilitation, orthopedics and musculoskeletal imaging.
"In an era of terrorism, even clinicians serving non-military patients need to understand the spectrum of injuries caused by bomb explosions," explains lead author Dr. Ali Guermazi, Professor of Radiology at Boston University School of Medicine and one of the many specialists treating bombing victims at Boston Medical Center. "Critically ill bomb-blast patients needed quick assessments of their injuries, which had the most devastating effects to the lower limbs."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bombing survivors have the highest incidence of injury to soft tissue and musculoskeletal systems with the most extreme injury being traumatic amputation, which is reported in up to 3% of cases. The CDC defines primary blast injuries as those caused by the blast wave—extremely compressed air moving away from the explosion—that can damage the lungs, bowel and ears. As the wave moves from the site of the explosion it creates a vacuum, which pulls materials and debris back toward the source of the bomb blast—the refilling of this void is known as the blast wind.
Victims from the Boston Marathon bombing were subject to blast waves and blast wind resulting in soft tissue damage (1), limb fractures (1), and amputations. The study demonstrates the systematic need to exam each extremity for musculoskeletal, neurological and vascular damage. In accordance with previous evidence, radiography (X-ray) and computed tomography (CT-scan) should be used liberally to detect foreign objects, to define basic penetration patterns, and assess bony and soft tissue injuries.
Dr. Guermazi concludes, "While blast injuries within civilian populations are rare in the U.S., when they do occur it challenges the medical community to rapidly respond to concurrent evaluation and treatment of many victims. We suggest that in urgent situations, like the Boston Marathon bombing, radiology resources be used liberally to save the lives and limbs of patients."


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CDC: Report on flu deaths in kids suggests vaccines, antivirals underused
An overview of 115 pediatric influenza deaths that occurred during the United States' 2010-11 flu season suggests that many of them could have been prevented with vaccines and antiviral drugs, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today. The findings, which appeared today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), cover from September 2010 through August 2011. Despite a recommendation that all children age 6 months and older be vaccinated, only 23% (17) of the 74 children with a known immunization history had been fully vaccinated against influenza last season, the CDC reported. Of 94 kids who died in emergency departments or hospitals, only half had received antiviral treatment. Lyn Finelli, MD, chief of the CDC's surveillance and outbreak response team, said in a press release that although the flu vaccine isn't 100% effective, especially in youngsters with underlying conditions, it's important that the two tools are fully utilized. "Vaccinate first; then use influenza antiviral drugs as a second line of defense against the flu," she added. The CDC's analysis also found that 49% of children who died from flu had no underlying medical conditions that put them at risk for complications. Previously healthy kids also had a shorter interval between illness onset and death, were more likely to die at home or in the emergency department, and were more likely to have a positive bacterial culture from a sterile site.
Sep 16 MMWR report
Sep 15 CDC press release
Study: 1918 pandemic lowered birth rates in spring of 1919
Birth rates in the United States and Scandinavia declined about 6 months after the peak of the 1918 influenza pandemic, suggesting that the pandemic caused an increase in first-trimester miscarriages, according to a study published by an international team in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. The team examined birth rates in the United States, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway from 1911 to 1930 to identify periods of unusually low or high birth rates and looked at the timing of the pandemic peaks in the four countries. They also identified pregnancy stages at which women are at highest risk for flu-related miscarriage. They found that birth rates declined by an average of 2.2 births per 1,000 population, signaling a 5% to 15% drop from baseline levels. The declines were greatest between 6.1 and 6.8 months after the pandemic peak in the fall of 1918. This suggests that the pandemic caused first-trimester miscarriages in about 1 in 10 women, they concluded, adding, "Pandemic-related mortality was insufficient to explain observed patterns." In an accompanying editorial, W. Paul Glezen of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston writes that the study adds to a growing body of evidence about the risk that maternal influenza poses for the fetus and underscores the importance of flu vaccination for pregnant women.
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CDC reports 8 more Salmonella cases in ground turkey outbreak
The number of cases linked to a nationwide Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak linked to Cargill ground turkey has risen to 119 people from 32 states, the CDC said yesterday. The total reflects an increase of 8 more cases and 1 more state since the CDC's last report on Aug 18. The number of deaths remained at 1. The outbreak has been linked to ground turkey from a Cargill Meat Solutions plant in Springdale, Ark., which recalled nearly 36 million pounds of the product on Aug 3, and then expanded the recall on Sep 11 by 185,000 pounds after tests on a product sample suggested further contamination with the same strain. Outbreak illnesses were caused by two closely related pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of Salmonella Heidelberg, which were found in ground turkey collected from the home of an Ohio patient and in a retail sample during surveillance. Though samples from ground turkey and patients show that the outbreak strain is resistant to several antibiotics, the human isolates are sensitive to several common ones.
Sep 14 CDC outbreak update
CDC reports normal summertime flu activity locally, globally
Influenza activity both in the United States and worldwide remained at normal levels over the summer, according to a report published today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). From May 22 through Sep 3, US labs tested 20,868 specimens for influenza, and 122 (0.6%) tested positive—71% influenza A and 29% influenza B. Of the 87 influenza A viruses tested, 39 (45%) were subtyped: 24 (62%) were H3N2 and 15 (38%) were 2009 H1N1. The southeastern United States had the highest percentage of positive findings. Throughout the period outpatient visits for flu-like illness remained below baseline. The report also said the Southern Hemisphere saw typical seasonal flu activity and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere flu activity mirrored the US experience. The CDC also reported identifying 154 oseltamivir (Tamiflu)-resistant isolates: 61 2009 H1N1, 53 H3N2, and 30 influenza B. All but 10 resistant viruses were from outside the country.
Sep 16 MMWR report
Study: H1N1-H5N1 recombinant as virulent as H5N1 virus
A pandemic 2009 H1N1 flu (pH1N1) virus combined with an H5N1 avian flu strain produced a hybrid as virulent as the H5N1 parent, according to researchers at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. In their study, published in the Journal of Virology, they used reverse genetics to create several pH1N1 (A/California/04/2009) viruses expressing individual genes from an H5N1 strain (A/Hong Kong/483/1997) and observed increased replication in one recombinant that expressed the hemagglutinin gene of HK/483. Greater replication also corresponded to increased virulence in mice, similar to that of the parent H5N1 strain. The team also observed that serial passage of the hybrid virus through human lung epithelial cells "resulted in increased pathogenicity, suggesting that these viruses may easily adapt to humans and become more virulent." When the parent H5N1 strain was passed sequentially through these cells, in contrast, it grew weaker.
Sep 14 J Virol abstract
Students contracted triple-reassortant swine flu virus at livestock event
After identifying a triple-reassortant swine flu virus infection in a college student months before the 2009 H1N1 pandemic began, investigators found serologic evidence of infection in 40% of other students who were exposed to pigs at the same event as the index case, but there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Researchers from South Dakota, Iowa, and the CDC identified the reassortant strain as an H1N1 swine flu virus that was similar to others that have circulated in US pigs in recent years and was distinct from the 2009 pandemic virus. They then contacted 99 students who had been exposed to pigs at the livestock event. Of the 42 who provided serum samples, 17 (40%) were seropositive and 5 (12%) met case criteria. Of 9 students exposed to other pigs, 2 (22%) were seropositive. This compares with no seropositive cases among 8 students who were exposed to the index case and among 10 who had no exposures. The researchers conclude that rapid detection of animal flu outbreaks among humans "remains critical to the timely recognition of novel influenza viruses with pandemic potential."
Oct 15 J Infect Dis abstract
Scientists say they have found mechanism of flu-triggered cytokine storm
Scientists at the Scripps Research Institute say they have identified the mechanism that governs the immune system overreaction to influenza known as the cytokine storm, possibly opening the way for drugs to prevent it. Cytokine storm causes severe illness by filling the lungs with fluid and immune cells. The study is published in the Sep 16 issue of Cell. The research team sought to determine the role of a receptor molecule called Sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P1, using chemical and genetic approaches the permit the tracking and modulation of receptor function in real time, according to a Scripps press release. The previous assumption was that cytokines were released from virus-infected cells or other cells lining the lungs, but the researchers were surprised to find that manipulating the S1P1 receptors in the endothelial cells of lung blood vessels affected cytokine release. The team then used this finding to try to limit cytokine storm in mice infected with the pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus. Using a molecule that bound to the S1P1 receptor, they managed to reduce the immune overreaction, thereby improving the mice's survival, according to the release. Hugh Rosen, MD, PhD, co-leader of the study, predicted that the findings could lead to an oral drug that would prevent cytokine storm if given early in the illness. James M. Andreason, MD, PhD, of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study, said the results have "greatly increased our understanding of the biological basis of cytokine storm, opening the door to development of new treatments for this potentially fatal immune reaction."
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Dec. 13, 2007) - The ETSU women's soccer team made history in 2007 earning an 11-6-3 overall record and earning its first ever postseason victory. The Bucs finished the Atlantic Sun Conference with a 6-4-1 record, while earning a fourth-place finish, tying their highest ever conference finish.
Individually, eight players contributed to the offensive effort that was led by sophomore Jordan Monty (Mesquite, Texas) and freshman Terri Miller (Cape Coral, Fla.). Monty led the team with 29 points, 61 shots, 11 goals and seven assists. Miller started her career on a high note with 26 points, 31 shots 11 goals and four assists as well as recording a hat-trick against Radford. Junior Katie Green (Knoxville, Tenn.) also set a new single season record for assists dishing out 11.
ETSU also took home two tournament titles this season. The Bucs won two matches to take home the Gamecock Soccer Classic and Katie Green, Terri Miller and Jordan Monty were all named to the Gamecock Soccer Classic All-Tournament Team, while Monty was also named the Tournament Offensive MVP after recording two goals and one assist during the tournament. ETSU also collected the inaugural ETSU Invitational crown as they tied Tennessee Tech and defeated
The Bucs garnered several individual A-Sun Conference awards this season as well. A trio of freshmen were honored for their play as Terri Miller and Kelly Brinkman were named A-Sun Offensive Player of the Week and Rachel Van Horn (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) was named A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week during the season. Brinkman received the honor twice. The Bucs also had three members of the squad placed on the Atlantic Sun All-Conference Second Team: Jordan Monty, Katie Green and Kelly Brinkman. Brinkman was all named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshmen Team. At the conclusion of the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship Jordan Monty was also honored with a position on the All-Tournament Team.
As a team, the Bucs broke two records and tied another. The Bucs dished out 34 assists on the season smashing the previous record of 27 set in 2000. They also broke the season record in points accumulating 110 on the year. ETSU also tied a school record recording six shutouts on the season.
At the close of the 2007 season, the team had to say a fond farewell to the winningest senior class in ETSU history: Hannah Johnson (Soddy-Daisy, Tenn.), Katie O'Bryan (Hampton, Va.) and Aubree Snyder (Reading, Pa.). Johnson, a versatile player who rose to the occasion every time she was called on including dishing out an assist on the game-winning goal against Stetson that clinched a spot in the Atlantic Sun Championships for the Bucs. O'Bryan leaves the Bucs tied for fourth in career matches played with 72. Her great work rate in every game she played in helped create many scoring opportunities. Snyder leaves ETSU as a true competitor with the calmness to create and has been one of the most dominating forces in the air to ever wear a Buccaneer uniform. This class played a large role in helping grow the program and their leadership will be missed.


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TUESDAY, Aug. 27 (HealthDay News) -- Vaccinating babies against rotavirus also protects older children and adults against infection with the stomach bug, a new study shows.
Since 2008, the vaccine has prevented up to 50,000 hospitalizations for rotavirus each year among children under the age of 5, according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Before the vaccine was introduced [in 2006], about 60,000 to 70,000 children were hospitalized every year, and between 20 and 60 died," said report co-author Ben Lopman, an epidemiologist in the division of viral diseases at the CDC. "This study also shows that hospitalizations for rotavirus have also gone down in older children and adults who have not been vaccinated. In other words, there is an indirect effect that we call 'herd immunity,'" Lopman explained.
"By vaccinating infants, you prevent them from getting infected, but you also prevent them from infecting others," he said. The CDC now recommends that all children be vaccinated against rotavirus, starting at 2 months of age.
The report was published in the Aug. 28 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"Rotavirus is very infectious, and is the most common cause of severe diarrhea," Lopman said. In addition, there can be fever, stomach cramps and vomiting that can continue for up to a week. "The real risk is that children can become dehydrated," he explained.
One expert said since rotavirus vaccinations began, cases of the stomach bug have become exceedingly rare.
"A resident trained now would say rotavirus was a disease that doesn't exist," said Dr. Marcelo Laufer, a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at Miami Children's Hospital. "That's the influence of the vaccine."
Laufer said it is important that infants be vaccinated against rotavirus. "The vaccine is safe and effective, and it does reduce the risk of rotavirus infections and hospitalizations," he noted.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a co-developer of the rotavirus vaccine, was surprised to hear that the vaccine has triggered a herd immunity to the disease.
"It surprises me, pleasantly, but it surprises me," Offit said. That's because even if one had the disease one could be re-infected with it, he explained.
At the time, Offit didn't think the vaccine would really change the amount of circulating virus in the community. "But that isn't true," he said.
"With vaccination, it looks like you are significantly decreasing the amount of circulating virus in the community, so you are getting a herd effect," Offit said.
For the study, the CDC researchers looked at hospitalizations for rotavirus before and after the vaccine was available.
The investigators found that, compared with the years before the vaccine was available, there were substantial reductions in hospitalizations of children under age 5 by 2008.
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Salaamu Alaikum Beauties.
I pray you all had a BLESSED Ramadan.
There were NO entries for the Ramadan give away. Although Hijabee donated some LOVELY hijabs and they were disseminated on EID, masha~allah.
There are no pics from the brunch because no one showed.
We've decided to take a break....from blogging. Working on some colaborations, more reviews and pics will be comming in November.
Insha~allah we'll return in time for the EID.
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Salaams and Saluations Beauties,
Here are are in the last 10 days of Ramadan. I pray that you are fulfilling your goals and working hard in the ibada department!!
Well its time for another BU Brunch..this time for Converts in the Washington, DC area.
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Down below you'll find the tiny painting I made last weekend. It's Clematis 'Jan Fopma'.
The beautiful border of pots and containers at the entrance of the nursery:
The plants for sale, ordered by colour. It's nice to see plants of the same colour all together, easy to combine and it looks wonderful too.
This is at the greenhouse where I was painting. Part of the greenhouse was made into a tearoom, the other part was for a jewellery maker, a book store selling old and antique gardening books and me. On Sunday also Gert Tabak and Ton ter Linden joined us with their cards and books.
There were quite a few bulb sellers. The biggest of all was Hein Meeuwissen. Unfortunately I didn't have time to get some bulbs myself but I will order some. The displays of all the sellers was so mouthwatering....
Some of the plants that caught my eye at the nursery....
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|Aster 'Vasterival'
|Clematis 'Dark Eyes'
|Clematis 'Princess Kate'
|Clematis viticella 'Maria Cornelia'
|Echinacea 'Maui Sunshine'
|Kosteletzkya virginica
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text: Before GW decided to grace us with the presence of Dark Heresy the cosest thing most of us games and 40K fans ever got to playing a game that feels close to it was in my opinion Mutant Chronicles. ( Though Fading Suns was also hella awesome. ) Now with the release of Dark Heresy I am torn, I obviously love the fluff of 40K I am a die had fan of it to the point where one might say I a bit obsessed. However the more I play the game and the more I get into the system more and more do my memories of MC come forth and just how much I miss that damn game, to the point where I thought the over all system was superior to the one used by Dark Heresy. What are your opinion folks?


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Ray City began 1934 on an optimistic note. A "booster" story from the Nashville Herald praised the farming, education, churches, municipal government, roads and businesses of Ray City.
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Excellent Community of Berrien County and South Georgia – Fine Farming Section
In writing about different communities of Berrien County it is next to impossible to neglect the city of Ray City and the large farming territory surrounding it. The Ray City section constitutes the southern portion of Berrien County, where extensive farm operations are carried on during every month of the year in all lines of endeavor.
The trading point is the city of Ray City, just ten miles south of Nashville, the county seat. It has a population of around 500 people, all of whom are industrious and hospitable, with fine schools, churches and live wire merchants. There is no better place in south Georgia to live than Ray City.
The farming population surrounding Ray City constitute an industrious and progressive people. To a certain measure they are prosperous, because everything to be raised on a farm can be grown on their fertile lands, and each year their products find ready markets, returning to them cash in abundance. The section is noted for its fine tobacco and cotton lands and is a hog and cattle raising territory of excellent possibilities.
The city of Ray City affords every convenience and comfort for the citizens of the community. There is a fine school system, which is under the capable and efficient supervision of Prof. P. M. Shultz. Prof. Ulmer Crosby is principal, and the other teachers are: Mrs. P. M. Shultz, Miss Jessie Aycock, Mrs. A.B. Baskins, Miss Lillian Ford and Mrs. Eulalie Dickson.
The school has nine grades, with an enrollment of a few over the two hundred mark. A number of fine students complete the school each year, advancing to higher institutions of learning. The school system in Ray City is really a big asset, (illegible) a higher type of citizenry.
The school board is composed of the following gentlemen who handle their duties in a most admirable manner and of benefit to patrons and students combined. H.A. Swindle, chairman, M.A. Studstill, sec.-treasl., C.H. Vickers, J.M. Studstill and W.M. Creech, members.
Ray City is not short either along the spiritual line, having four active churches as follows: Baptist, Rev. Walter Branch, pastor; Methodist, Rev. F.A. Ratcliffe, pastor; Primitive Baptist, Elder C.H. Vickers, pastor; Christian, supply pastor. The Baptist and Methodist churches conduct Sunday Schools, and young people's organizations.
The affairs of the city of Ray City are in the hands of men who apparently have the united support of the people, as the entire body was recently re-elected to office. J. H. Swindle is mayor, and the councilmen are: G.V. Hardie, Y.F. Carter, H.P. Clements and W.M. Creech.
The standing committees for the year 1934 are: Water and lights, G.V. Hardie and Y.F. Carter; Street, W.M. Creech and H.P. Clements; Sanitary, entire city council.
In questioning the mayor, Mr. J. H. Swindle, he stated that the city enjoyed a very good administration the past year, and that 1934 was begun with the city in much better financial condition than a year ago.
Ray City is soon to enjoy one of the best highway outlets of any small city in south Georgia. It is located on Route No. 11, the short route into Florida from Atlanta. This highway has been recently graded for paving and at some future date this work will be a reality. Other good roads lead out in all directions as well. It is located on the Georgia and Florida railroad, and is one of the railroad's most important shipping points. Mr. T.W. Thompson is the G. & F. Agent, having served in that capacity for a long number of years.
The postmistress is Mrs. J. F. Fountain, and the rural mail carriers are James Grissett and L.A. McDonald.
There are also several industries which add to the progressiveness of the town and community.
The Ray City Ice & Storage Company, of which Mr. D.T. Sharpe is manager, serves a wide territory. At present this concern has on storage over 100,000 pounds of meat being cured for farmers.
The Y.F. Carter Naval Stores concern is the largest firm in the community, where approximately fifty men are given employment. This firm operates over ten crops of boxes, the leases affording additional revenue for landowners. It has been in operation for about eighteen years.
The J.H. Swindle Gins and Warehouse is another concern of benefit to the entire section. Plants are located at Ray City and Barrett, being among the most up to date in south Georgia. Mr. Swindle buys cotton and cotton seed, corn, peanuts, hay and other country produce. Besides gin and warehouse activities he operates a twelve horse farm.
The Peoples Banking Company, a private institution, is owned by Mr. J. H. Swindle, with Mr. E. J. Patten as cashier. This bank was organized several years ago by Mr. Swindle when Ray City lost its regular bank, so as to carry on the business operations locally and without interruptions.
Mrs. R.N. Warr is owner of old Ray Pond, famous for its fishing for the past hundred years. Mrs. Warr acquired the pond about two years ago, and since has created a good income out of the sale of minnows, pond plants, frogs, and tadpoles. The pond covers an area of approximately 4,000 acres.
Among Ray City's most enterprising merchants are: Swindle & Clements, B. Ridgell Jones Drug Store, Purvis Grocery Store, Weeks Grocery Store, Hardie Filling Station, South Georgia Oil Company, Bradford Barber Shop, Putnell Barber Shop, Swain Garage, Woodward Blacksmith Shop, Griner Corn Mill and others.
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Playa Los Frailes
Some 10km north of Puerto López, a signed dirt track branches west from the coast road, just south of the run-down village of Machalilla, to Playa Los Frailes, one of the most beautiful beaches on the Ecuadorian coast, with dramatic cliffs and forested hills framing its virgin white sands. Despite its popularity, the beach still feels like a wild, unspoiled place, particularly if you arrive in the early morning, when you're almost guaranteed to have it all to yourself. To get there, hop on any of the buses heading north from Puerto López and ask to be dropped at the turn-off to the beach, about fifteen minutes out of town. Just off the road at the national park kiosk, show your ticket or buy one if you haven't already paid your entrance fee.
From here a footpath leads directly to Los Frailes in thirty minutes (the left fork), or you can follow a four kilometre circular trail (the right fork) via the tiny black-sand cove known as La Playita, followed by Playa La Tortuguita, where spiky rocks rise from the turquoise waters. From La Tortuguita continue on the main footpath to Los Frailes, or follow the fork leading through dry forest dotted with fragrant palo santo trees up to a wooden mirador (lookout) giving spectacular views of the coast. This longer approach, via La Playita, La Tortuguita and the mirador, is by far the more rewarding and takes several hours to complete. About 3km north of the turning for Los Frailes, you'll see signs for the Sendero El Rocío, an enjoyable two-kilometre trail beginning in the cultivated land of traditional coastal subsistence farms; it leads up to a viewpoint and into dry palo santo forest, emerging at an attractive beach. Locals act as guides for visitors; ask at the farms around the trailhead.
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I am currently working on my PhD dissertation on the behavioral ecology and conservation of the endangered mountain gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda. My special interest and a major goal in behavioral ecology is to understand the relationship between ecology, sociality and space use behavior. Variation in ecological, social and demographic factors across habitats and populations may lead to intraspecific variation in space use patterns. Gorillas are an interesting species for investigating variation in space use patterns as they are non-territorial and hence have overlapping home ranges and face variation in both food resources and their social environment.
In my dissertation, I am trying to understand the relative importance of ecological and social factors on gorillas' space use behavior and home range partitioning of neighboring gorilla groups on different scales. Additionally, I am investigating the ecological factors influencing gorillas' ranging outside the protected area and crop raiding behavior in order to help in guiding management strategies for this critically endangered species.
During the data collection period, I was working with Ugandan research and field assistants. This project provided capacity building as well as income for local people around the park, which is, in my opinion, a crucial component to the conservation efforts of the endangered mountain gorilla.
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Richard Hewison worked as project manager and games tester during the 8-bit and 16-bit era's on machines such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore Amiga.
With a vast library of titles under his belt including classic games such as Beneath a Steel Sky, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Stunt Car Racer and Speedball II he has project managed and play tested some of the most recognisable games to grace best 16-bits in history.
Richard was more thank kind enough to take me through his days working in the gaming sector on the Commodore Amiga...
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1: Hi Richard. First of all how did you get into the games industry - and when did you make your first foray into this area?
Short version - I happened to know someone who managed to get a job at TelecomSoft and just a month or two later he called me to let me know there was a tester's position that had become available. I went for the interview and got the job!
Long version - I was writing a regular Adventure helpline column and computer game reviews for the computing section on BBC2's teletext service CEEFAX in the mid-1980s.
The section was called NEXT and was edited by a guy called Martin Cooper.
I started by posting the mode 7 teletext pages on 5.25" floppy disks to the editor at BBC Television Centre every couple of weeks, and I then started subscribing to Prestel & Micronet so I could upload the pages via a 1200 baud modem connected to our BBC Micro. Heady stuff!
Anyway, I made friends with a number of other subscribers on Micronet and Prestel who were adventure game fans. I was a full time student by then, doing Business Studies and specialising in Business Computing (as it was back in the mid-80s!).
I saw an advert in Popular Computing Weekly in early 1987 for a job at Rainbird Software in central London. I applied, got as far as an interview, but was ultimately unsuccessful. Fast forward six months or so and I was now an unemployed student but busy trying to get a job in 'the industry'.
I got interviewed for a job at EMAP in London (writing for Computer & Video Games magazine) but didn't get that job either. I did get a few reviews published though as some kind of compensation.
It was shortly afterwards that one of my Micronet & Prestel buddies managed to get a job working at TelecomSoft. I was of course very envious having failed to get a job at the same company the previous year, so I told him to let me know if any jobs came up.
A few months later and I'd only just started a new job when my friend phoned up out-of-the-blue and told me that a game testers job had just been suddenly vacated and I should get in there before they have the chance to advertise the post.
I did this the very next day and was interviewed in London the following week. They called my home to offer me the job before I'd even got back. Oddly, it turned out that I knew the previous post holder (who had been sacked). Sometimes it's a small world!
You could say this was all pre-ordained though, as I had done some early games testing for Kevin Toms' Addictive Games back in 1983/84.
I was constantly pestering him by letter to do a BBC version of Football Manager, so in the end I like to think he caved in and did one, then phoned me up and asked me to play-test it. This I did and was rewarded with a free copy when the game was finished.
2: Did you spend much time working in the 8-bit scene? If so - which games did you playtest or project manage and on which machines?
Ignoring my brief games testing stint in 1983/84, I was joining the industry when 8-bit was on its last legs in early 1988. I had been a BBC user, then bought a Spectrum and then persuaded a friend to sell me his Commodore 64 in 1986.
I considered myself a naturalised Speccy user (owning both a rubber-keyed 48k model and the souped-up Sinclair 128k+ when that came out in Feb '86) so once that became known at TelecomSoft, I got to critique and test the 8-bit conversions of the 16-bit games like Starglider 2, Virus, Carrier Command and so on because I still cared enough about those platforms to try and make the conversions worth doing.
I even got to contribute some artwork into Carrier Command (one or two of the icons in the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC versions are mine) and I contributed the stars and the space clouds on the Starglider 2 Spectrum loading screen! Ahem... I'll get my coat!
I was involved in lots of 8-bit stuff in general. The very first game I ever professionally tested at TelecomSoft on my very first day was Graftgold's highly underrated 'Intensity' which was published by Firebird.
I also play-tested classic games such as; Soldier of Fortune, Dynamic Duo, Savage, Virus, Starglider 2, Carrier Command, Corruption, Fish!, 3D Pool, P47, Mr Heli, Action Fighter, Exploding Fist +, G.I. Hero, Rainbow Islands, Betrayal, Stuntcar Racer, Rick Dangerous, Samurai Warrior, and Star Trek: The Rebel Universe (which Commodore User magazine amusingly credited me as being the programmer when I wrote their two-page players guide in an early '89 issue).
At Mirrorsoft, I managed the 8-bit and conversions of Bloodwych, Predator 2 and Robozone for C64, CPC and Spectrum.
3: When did you move into the 16-bit market?
I didn't 'move' into 16-bit; it was already there when I arrived in early 1988! I had bought myself an Atari 520STFM about six months earlier and was busy playing Magnetic Scrolls adventures and Dungeon Master on it before I started working in the industry.
4: What was best - the Amiga or the Atari ST?
Well, at first I would definitely say the Atari because you could actually do useful stuff with TOS and Gem without the need for a hard drive or two floppy drives. Trying to do anything useful on an Amiga A500 via Workbench 1.3 with just one floppy drive was almost impossible!
However, the Amiga was technically superior and although the ST had the early advantage, I think the Amiga took over within a few years.
Certainly the A1200 with an internal hard drive and a second floppy became a very useful machine in the early 90s once the ST/STE/Falcon had pretty much died a death. It wasn't until near the end of my stint that ST conversions of games were not being considered.
5: Can you tell us some of the titles you worked on during the Commodore Amiga years?
As a tester - Starglider 2, Virus, Savage, Corruption, Fish!, Verminator, 3D Pool, Action Fighter, Rick Dangerous, Druid II: Enlightenment (Pete Molyneux's first ever game!), Oriental Games, Elite, Whirligig, Flying Shark, Mr Heli, P47, Quartz, Rainbow Islands, The Sentinel, Tower of Babel.
As a Project Manager - Predator 2, Robozone, Blade Warrior, The Final Battle, Sensible Soccer (before and after it went to Renegade), Cannon Fodder (before it went to Virgin), Legend (before and after it went to Mindscape and I also wrote the manual and the Adventurer's Handbook), Lure of the Temptress (before and after it went to Virgin) and some unpublished titles including Duster, Terrarium, Drop Soldier.
I also tested Reach for the Skies (before and after it went to Virgin), did rudimentary testing on a slew of Cinemaware titles including Wings, It Came from the Desert (the pre-prod disks came from the duplicators labelled as 'It Came from the Dessert' which made us laugh!), Ant Heads, TV Sports Boxing and a little bit of Roller Babes I seem to recall too.
Also got to do some testing on Cadaver, Speedball 2, Flipit & Magnose, Back to the Future II and III, The Killing Cloud, Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles, Overlord, Dino Dini's Goal! (I wrote the manual as well), Battletoads, Beneath a Steel Sky, Liberation: Captive 2 (I also wrote the manual), Dune II, Elf Mania, Frontier: Elite II, KGB (I'm listed as a KGB agent in the end credits!), Worlds of Legend: Son of the Empire (I also wrote the manual), Rise of the Robots... which I probably shouldn't be admitting too!... and probably a few more besides that I've blotted from my memory!
6: Which titles give you fond memories and why?
Quite a few - on 8-bit I loved Intensity. Starglider 2 and Virus because they were pretty cutting edge back then on 16-bit. Rainbow Islands was just a terrific conversion and it was so hard to see us do all the work and then Ocean snatch the publishing and the glory afterwards.
Legend was a terrific little RPG with a wonderful magic spell casting system. Sensible Soccer and Dini Dini's Goal! were both terrific footie games (but I actually prefer Goal! out of the two). Dune II was special although the Amiga conversion was really only playable on an A1200.
Frontier was almost great but suffered from trying to do too much on hardware that wasn't quite up to it.
7: Conversely which titles give you less than fond memories and why?
Quite a few of these too! Where do I start?
On 8-bit Dynamic Duo was a mess and should have been a budget release not a full price Firebird title, G.I. Hero was just awful and had no real game in it at all (and I got lumbered with testing it because nobody else could face doing it!). Robozone was a great idea that got watered down so much as development went on that in the end it was a huge disappointment.
I had a much better idea for the Predator 2 game design but it was all decided before the project was given to me and shoot 'em ups were never my thing. There's a reason why Terrarium was cancelled - it was terrible - and the list could go on and on but I'll stop there and try and be a little diplomatic.
8: Can you tell me any coders you watched working and just thought 'wow'?
Well, I didn't do too much 'watching' because I was based in the publisher's office and we didn't have many/any in-house programmers. I'd say that the guys who impressed me with their work were Geoff Crammond, Sensible Software, Ross Goodley, Dino Dini and the guys at FTL.
9: Do you play any the games you tested or project managed these days?
Yes, thanks to the wonders of emulation and my web sites I get to revisit the good/bad old days on a regular basis. I don't get much time to play games at all due to work and family, but when I do I nearly always go back to the 8-bit and 16-bit games rather than boot up modern PC, Wii or PS3 stuff.
At the time you can't wait to see the back of most games once they're finished, but now with years between the pain and the game I actually quite like playing most of them to varying degrees!
10: Can you tell us what you have been up to since the Amiga scene faded in the mid 1990s?
I went freelance for a while (Virgin, Domark, Mindscape, Renegade, Abbey Road etc), then worked for Sony CEE for a while on the new Sony PSX console (this was back in mid-1994 the year before it's launch) then got out of the games industry all together.
I then decided to set up my Bird Sanctuary web site all about TelecomSoft and I'm planning to do one all about Mirrorsoft too. I also get to write on a semi-regular basis for Retro Gamer magazine and have done articles about TelecomSoft, Beyond, Virgin, The Electronic Pencil Company, Hewson, Mirrorsoft and a whole load of other publishers and developers over the last 6 or 7 years.
It's a great excuse to get back in touch with some of the people I used to work with and it gives me an excuse to research the period of computer gaming (the 1980s and early 90s) which I honestly believe were the most innovative and exciting in the UK.
Once again many thanks to Richard for taking the time to talk to me about his Amiga days.
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