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Real Progress, But We're Not Done
Americans shouldn't surrender to the same philosophy that hurt middle-class families for so long.
By BARACK OBAMA
Source: WSJ, 11-2-12
For the past few days, we've all been properly focused on one of the worst storms of our lifetimes. We mourn those who were lost. And we pledge to stand with those whose lives have been turned upside down for as long as it takes to recover and rebuild—better than before.
Because when hardship hits, America is at its best. The petty differences that consume us in normal times fade away. There are no Democrats or Republicans during a storm—only fellow Americans. That is how we get through the most trying times: together.
In 2008, we were mired in two wars and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Together, we've battled our way back. Our businesses have created over five million new jobs in the past two and a half years. Home values are on the rise. Manufacturing is growing at the fastest pace in 15 years. The American auto industry is back. Thanks to the service and sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform, the war in Iraq is over. And Osama bin Laden is dead.
Ken Fallin
We've made real progress. But we're not done yet. On Tuesday, you get to choose between two fundamentally different visions of America—one where we return to the top-down policies that crashed our economy four years ago, and one built on a strong, growing middle class.
Our free market is the engine of America's progress, driven by risk-takers, innovators and dreamers. Our people succeed when they have the chance to get a good education and learn new skills—and so do the businesses that hire them, or the companies they start. We believe that when we support research into scientific and medical breakthroughs, new industries will start here and stay here. We grow faster when our tax code rewards hard work and companies that create jobs in America, and when quality health care and a dignified retirement aren't just achievable goals but a measure of our values as a nation.
For eight years, we had a president who shared these beliefs. Bill Clinton asked the wealthiest to pay a little more so we could reduce the deficit and still make these investments. By the end of his second term, America had created 23 million new jobs. Incomes were up. Poverty was down. Deficits became surpluses. And Wall Street did very well.
In the eight years after, we followed a different path. Bigger tax cuts for the wealthy we couldn't afford. Encouraging companies to ship jobs and profits overseas. Fewer rules for big banks and insurers. The result of this top-down economics? Falling incomes, record deficits, the slowest job growth in half a century, and an economic crisis we've been cleaning up for the past four years.
Gov. Mitt Romney has offered—under the guise of "real change"—these very same policies that failed our country so badly. But we know better.
We shouldn't end college tax credits to pay for millionaires' tax cuts; we should make college more affordable for everyone who's willing to work for it. We should recruit 100,000 math and science teachers so that high-tech, high-wage jobs aren't created in China but in America. And we should equip another two million Americans at community colleges with skills that businesses are looking for right now.
Change is an America that is home to the next generation of manufacturing and innovation. I'm proud I bet on the American auto industry. I refuse to cede the future of manufacturing to other countries. We need a tax code that stops rewarding companies that ship jobs overseas and starts rewarding companies that create jobs here; one that stops subsidizing oil-company profits and keeps supporting new energy jobs and new technology that will cut our oil imports in half.
Change is an America that turns the page on a decade of war to do some nation-building here at home. So long as I'm commander in chief, we'll pursue our enemies with the strongest military in the world. But it is time to use the savings from ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to pay down our debt and rebuild American roads, bridges, schools and broadband.
Change is an America where we reduce our deficit by cutting where we can and asking the wealthiest to go back to the income-tax rates they paid under President Clinton. I've worked with Republicans to cut a trillion dollars of spending, and I'll do more. I'll work with anyone of any party to move this country forward. But I won't eliminate health insurance for millions of poor, elderly or disabled on Medicaid, and I won't turn Medicare into a voucher to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. That is surrender to the same philosophy that hurt middle-class families for too long.
I'm fighting for the Americans whose letters I read at night, whom I meet on the trail every day. The laid-off furniture worker who's retraining at age 55 for a career in biotechnology. The owner of a small restaurant who needs a loan to expand after the bank turned him down. The autoworker who's back on the job filled with the pride of building a great car.
When these Americans do well, America does well. That is the change we need right now. Now's the time to keep pushing forward to make sure that no matter who you are, where you come from or how you started out, you can work to achieve your American dream.
That is the America within our reach. That is why I'm asking for your vote this Tuesday.
Mr. Obama, a Democrat, is seeking re-election as president of the United States.


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EPA grant to Baltimore City Health Department supports education programs to reduce indoor air pollution
Release Date: 12/19/2012
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PHILADELPHIA (December 19, 2012) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a $120,000 grant to the Baltimore City Health Department to support indoor air quality projects including a program to educate about 460 nursing students from the University of Maryland about environmental asthma management.
The funding will also support a training workshop for about 32 medical professionals on how to work with families in neighborhoods where there is a high risk for indoor air pollution issues.
"Reducing the environmental health risks of indoor air contaminants such as asthma triggers can benefit people's health," said EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin. "This funding supports efforts to improve indoor air quality, which will better protect the health of children and families in the Baltimore area."
Indoor air pollutants in homes, buildings, and schools can negatively impact the health of occupants. Some pollutants cause health problems such as eye irritation, burning in the nose and throat, headaches or fatigue. Others can worsen allergies, respiratory illnesses (such as asthma) or even cause cancer (from radon gas). Exposure to unhealthy indoor air pollutants in homes, buildings, and schools can be reduced through better design, construction, operational and maintenance practices; personal choices; and mitigation of indoor air quality problems.
The grant to the Baltimore City Health Department is one of 32 EPA grants nationwide to improve indoor air quality, better protecting the health of Americans in classrooms, communities and homes across the country.
For more information about EPA's Indoor Air Assistance Agreements, visit: https://www.epa.gov/iaq/regional_funding.html .
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FLOW Conference 2008
October 9-11, 2008
The University of Texas at Austin
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 15, 2008
Flow Conference 2008 is the 2nd biannual conference for FlowTV.org, a University of Texas at Austin graduate student-run, online academic journal focusing on television and media culture.
Flow Conference 2008 will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: There will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a compelling question. Respondents are asked to submit a 150-word abstract addressing one of the roundtable questions as listed on our conference Web
site: http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335
Some roundtable topics include:
New Formations of Stardom in Contemporary Media Culture
Viral Videos and Political Participation
Online and Offline Fan Communities
TV and the Question of "The Mainstream"
Televised Religion
Music Fans and Copy Protection
The DTV Conversion
Media Policy, Media Reform, and Media Criticism
Game Studies in The Academy
Electronic Waste and Media Studies
Global Television Flow
Digital Aura and Web 2.0
Feminisms & Feminists in the Public Sphere
Talent-Based Reality Shows and The American Dream
Visit the conference Web site for a complete list of roundtable questions in full detail.
We especially encourage responses that address issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability, as well as international perspectives.
Please e-mail email@example.com with a 150-word abstract and the title of the roundtable you are responding to in the subject of the email by June 15, 2008. Please respond to only one roundtable topic. Include your full name, e-mail address, and affiliation in your e-mail.
We will inform participants of acceptance via e-mail by July 15, 2008.
Upon acceptance, respondents will be asked to expand their abstract to a 600-800 word position paper, due by September 15, 2008.
In an effort to include a wide range of participants (i.e., scholars, fans, critics, activists, policymakers, industry professionals, etc.), we encourage wide distribution of this call.
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail us at email@example.com
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
FLOW Conference 2008 Call For Responses
FLOW Conference 2008
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League of Worlds Conference
Call for Papers League of Worlds Conference
The International Conference on Exploring Virtuality
5th Annual Colloquium on Online Simulations, Role-playing, and Virtual Worlds
October 13-17, 2008
Hong Kong University
Hong Kong, China
Future worlds: Virtual worlds today and tomorrow
Call for Papers
About the League of Worlds
The League of Worlds (LoW) annual colloquium brings together people engaged in the creation of virtual worlds and real-time simulations for educational and training purposes. Our mission is (1) to stimulate and disseminate research and analysis regarding the theoretical, technical, and curricular developments in; and (2) to contribute towards the development of coherent frameworks for the advancement, application and assessment of educational and social uses of role-playing, simulations, and virtual worlds. Our primary areas of interest include:
° Theoretical analysis
° The development of practical applications
° The documentation of framework projects and case studies.
"Future worlds: Virtual worlds today and tomorrow."
Hundreds of virtual worlds exist to serve youth, educational, and corporate markets, yet few offer anything more than a glimpse of how technological innovations such as virtual worlds may lead to new forms, methods, and modes of communication, collaboration, and creation. We are experiencing unprecedented growth in the funding and development of virtual worlds, but toward what purpose?
This year, we will consider the opportunities and challenges the proliferation of virtual worlds offer today, and contemplate what they hold for tomorrow. In many ways, the future of virtual worlds depends on how early adopters decide to use them to advance and to extend their organizational mission. But what factors will influence which platforms and worlds survive and which ones do not?
About the colloquium
The League of Worlds colloquium is not an ordinary conference.
The League of Worlds brings together creators of virtual worlds and real-time simulations for educational, artistic, and creative purposes. Participants share a passionate interest in advancing theory and praxis in creative, educational, and cultural contexts. The League of Worlds is committed to exploring complex, networked social spaces, such as Second Life, Croquet, Metaverse, Fablusi, Active Worlds and other simulation and/or role-playing platforms, as they relate to questions of virtuality vs. reality, identity construction in new media technologies, and other key questions. In particular, we invite research into framework projects and case studies and strongly encourage exploration with pedagogical or other practical applications. Both creative and technical studies are welcome.
Participants are expected to challenge one another to take a fresh look at the questions that arise when people meet in virtual territories to play, to learn, and to share. Participation is purposely limited and there will be no concurrent sessions. Instead, participants will engage in an ongoing dialogue about virtual environments, integrating their own perspectives and expertise into the conversation.
Proposal categories
The League of Worlds colloquium is designed to support sharing and meaningful reflection. Participants should allow one another the opportunity to share experiences, to demonstrate technologies, and to think critically. To facilitate these activities, the colloquium review committee is interested in submissions on the following topics:
° Technologies used to create and manage virtual environments (tools, hardware, software)
° Vision for what virtual environments could be (architecture, metaphors)
° Teaching and Learning in virtual environments:
°° Role playing and simulations
°° Social constructivism
°° Communication and collaboration
°° Serendipitous interactions and learning
° Community formation in virtual environments (interaction, presentation of self, presence)
° Culture (development of, artefacts)
° Administrative/technical support issues in virtual environments
° Change (Advocacy for, dissemination and sharing of research, how change takes place)
° Resources (to create and/or support any of the above themes)
° Research (on virtual env of what you are doing with virtual environments and how it relates to one of the above themes (including description of practice and relevant research)
° Explanation of how this summary can contribute to the dialogue theme planned for the colloquium.
Paper submissions are double blind peer-reviewed. All accepted papers, the colloquium program, and a list of attendees will be published on the colloquium website. Papers should be between 2500-5000 words (4-8 pages).
Important Dates
Contact information for each
° Affiliated institution(s)
° Job title(s)
° Brief description of experience with virtual worlds, simulations, and/or role playing technology
° Submit all proposals in Word, RTF, PDF or HTML format to:
° Dr. Stephen Bronack at firstname.lastname@example.com
Please refer to the League of Worlds website for information regarding fees, facilities, and accommodations: http://www.leagueofworlds.com
Paper submission - summary and explanation: July 20, 2008
Registration Deadline: September 5, 2008
Final Draft Due: September 5, 2008
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Learning and Research in Second Life Oct. 15 Copenhagen @ IR 9.0
Call for Papers/Participation: Learning and Research in Second Life
Please join us in a workshop on learning and research in Second Life(R) on October 16, 2008 in Copenhagen at Internet Research 9.0
Paper Deadline June 15th.
Second Life is a 3d virtual environment created by Linden Lab (R) which has captured the attention of researchers and teachers from around the world from a variety of disciplines.
This workshop aims to improve the understanding of Second Life as a Learning and Research environment. It will bring 35 researchers together to collaborate, discuss and workshop diverse topics related to research and learning in Second Life. We will pursue a full-day schedule in which participants will discuss their work and interests on four different topics: learning in Second Life, integrated learning, the contributions of research to the community and ethical
research methods. How can we better enable learning in this sphere? How can we better enable research?
Our honored keynote will be Pathfinder Linden
Researchers are requested to submit papers and short biography to firstname.lastname@example.com, which will be selected and distributed amongst participants before the workshop. First invitations will be offered to those who provide full papers for consideration.
These papers have two purposes: first is to provide a common platform for understanding our research and teaching and second submitted papers may be considered for publication in an edited volume being produced in relation to the workshop, or possibly in peer reviewed
publication derived from the workshop (these are currently under discussion).
Subsequent invitations will be made based upon research/teaching statement and biography with priority given to people submitting full papers. If you are interested in participating, please send an email containing your information to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Decisions will be made by August 1st, barring incident. There is a limit of 35 participants at the physical meeting; the event will be simulcast into Second Life which will be organized by Jason Nolan.
We welcome professionals, faculty and graduate students to participate.
This workshop is sponsored by Linden Lab, creators of Second Life, and is organized by Jeremy Hunsinger, Rochelle Mazar, Aleks Krotoski and Jason Nolan. Lunch, coffee breaks and the room is included in participation. (And you'll probably get a t-shirt!)
*We are also seeking additional sponsors, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like to sponsor this workshop.
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Hispanic-Americans Are Heaviest Media Users
In February 2008 the average Hispanic-American over the age of 11 spent more time online than watching television, according to the Terra Networks-sponsored "Hispanic Syndicated Study," conducted by comScore Media Metrix.
"In general, online Hispanics—independent of their language preferences and acculturation levels—are heavily engaged in technology," wrote the report's authors.
Every day, more than half (56%) of Hispanic-Americans surveyed said they spent at least an hour online, which was slightly more than the 50% who spent an hour or more watching TV.
On a weekly basis, Terra reported that more Hispanic-American Internet users spent 13 or more hours online (30%) than watched TV for the same amount of time (23%).
Hispanic-Americans ages 12 to 34 were on the Internet more than those 35 and older, who tended to spend more time watching TV than online.
Three-quarters of respondents multitasked, saying they always or very frequently used the Internet and TV together. Of those, 44% e-mailed or instant messaged about the shows they were watching and 40% researched products being advertised on TV. More than one-third went to the Web site for the show being watched.
The Terra study results agree with other studies of Hispanic-American media consumption. A Burson-Marsteller study conducted by MSI International revealed influential online Hispanic-American adults consumed more media across the board than the general population of influential Internet users. Hispanic-American influentials also spent an average of about five hours more online per week than online influentials in general.
The trend has held true in recent years. Hispanic-Americans consumed more media than the general population in a Yahoo! Telemundo study conducted by Experian Simmons in November through December 2006.
Although Hispanic-American Internet usage is greater than that of the general US population, the group is still under-represented online, especially in broadband access. Only American Indians and Alaska Natives have a smaller proportion of households with broadband access, according to the US Census Bureau.
[for the full article with graphs and stats click here]
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New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century
New Radical Subjectivities: Re-thinking Agency for the 21st Century
The University of Nottingham, UK
Friday, September 19th, 2008
Keynote Speaker – Professor Peter Hallward (Middlesex University)
This one day conference for postgraduate students and early career researchers explores recent articulations of subjectivity and political agency in critical theory and cultural studies. The
continued ascent of neo-liberalism and economic globalisation, along with postmodern and poststructuralist theorising around subjectivity, potentially sets a dangerously de-politicised subject against the expanding forces and inequalities of contemporary capitalism.
Over the last twenty-five years, theoretical writings on the left have stressed the need to locate subject positions beyond the reductionism of an orthodox Marxism, and the disabling extremes of liberal anti-essentialism. Concepts which continue to posit some form of subjective agency have attempted to respond to the human issues at stake in contemporary political formations without compromising a theoretical commitment to a discursively produced subject.
From Gayatri Spivak's 'strategic essentialism' and Laclau and Mouffe's 'radical democracy' to more recent articulations such as Hardt and Negri's 'multitude' and the Lacanian and post-Lacanian thought of Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, these writers all stress the continuing
importance of leftist theories of the subject that can provide a theoretical antidote to the excesses of relativist pluralism and identity politics.
Such thinkers as Fredric Jameson and Susan Buck-Morss therefore stress the importance of posing agency at a trans-individual and collective level. These positions emphasise the importance of opposition and agonism in any radical politics, rather than consensual or 'third way' liberalism. Collective identities therefore continue to offer a crucial grounding for Leftist (re)considerations of subjectivity as a necessary form of agency for radical change, even if these groupings prove to be only ever strategic or temporary.
We invite papers from researchers working in critical theory, cultural studies, literature, film, the visual arts, history, politics and the social sciences which explore, but are not limited to, the following questions:
o Is the subject still the locus for a radical left politics?
o What forms of radical or oppositional agency are now emerging?
o What roles can class, gender and ethnicity play for new subjectivities?
o Does the left need to go beyond opposition and resistance towards the construction of new 'subjective' political spaces?
o What aesthetic or cultural forms are currently engaging with and creating new subjective or collective agencies?
o What contributions can Lacanian and post-Lacanian thought make to contemporary political subjectivity?
o Are theories of subjectivity currently responding adequately to developments in a globalized resistance, such as the anti-globalization movement, the resurgence of the left in Latin America, and religious fundamentalisms?
o Do changes in social production initiated by economic and cultural globalization offer a new potential for collective emancipation, or are they only ever complicit with a hegemonic global capitalism?
o Do digital technologies offer new ways for rethinking agency?
o What is the role of Utopia in new political formations?
Abstracts of 200-250 words should be submitted by e-mail as a Word attachment to firstname.lastname@example.com by 30th May 2008 and should include name, affiliation, e-mail address, title of paper and 4 keywords.
Peter Hallward is the author of Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing between the Singular and the Specific (Manchester, 2001), Badiou: A Subject to Truth (Minnesota, 2003), Out of this World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation (Verso, 2006), and most recently, Damming the
Flood: Haiti, Aristide, and the Politics of Containment (Verso, 2007).
New Radical Subjectivities Organisational Collective
Alexander Dunst, Caroline Edwards and Matthew Mead
The Centre for Critical Theory
Department of Cultural Studies
The University of Nottingham, UK.
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Rosemary Cashew Brittle
There are a few sweets that I crave…some are seasonal and this brittle happens to be one of them. It's sweet, complex, crunchy and herbal.
Rosemary cashew brittle is one of my favorite things to make during the holidays and give away in small boxes tied with ribbon…however, candy making is fickle. Many attempts later…I've learned to not bother trying when the humidity is high…and if the humidity is high in Southern California…then generally, it is pouring rain outside…and generally, when it is pouring rain outside, it is December or January…so making brittle in December of January is hit or miss.
This years batch wasn't made until just after New Year's…when we finally caught a few solid days of sun and dry weather. If you are going to make candy…do it when it is dry out…or you'll end up with a sticky mess.
I'm not sure I can part with the recipe yet…it's one of the few secrets I keep. But enjoy the photos for now…and let me know next holiday season if you want to try it…I'll send some your way.
Cashews and Rosemary as far as the eye can see. Til' next year…


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TARRYTOWN, N.Y., May 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: REGN) and Bayer HealthCare today announced that Bayer's Japanese subsidiary, Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd. ("Bayer Yakuhin"), and Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.("Santen")entered into a co-promotion agreement for EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection in Japan. As previously announced, Bayer Yakuhin has submitted an application for marketing authorization to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) for EYLEA for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
"With this agreement and upon marketing authorization, a newly formed Bayer Yakuhin ophthalmology field force and Santen, the leading ophthalmology company in Japan, will promote EYLEA," said Sebastian Guth, President & CEO of Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd. "We expect that the combined resources of the two companies will allow EYLEA to achieve a broader and faster reach into the Japanese ophthalmology community and potentially benefit a greater number of patients."
Bayer and Regeneron have also amended their existing global license and collaboration agreement for EYLEA to convert the 50/50 profit share for Japan into a royalty arrangement that approximates the economics of the profit split. In certain specified circumstances, the royalty may revert to a profit share arrangement.
EYLEA is approved for sale in the United States for the treatment of wet AMD and marketing approval has also been granted in Australia. Bayer HealthCare has submitted applications in Europe and other countries and has initiated a Phase 3 clinical study for wet AMD in China. Beyond the wet AMD indication, EYLEA is in Phase 3 clinical studies for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME), myopic choroidal neovascularization (mCNV), and branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO). Regeneron has filed an sBLA for EYLEA in central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) in the United States, and has been granted a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) date of September 23, 2012.
Bayer HealthCare and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. are collaborating on the global development of EYLEA®. EYLEA was approved in the United States for the treatment of wet AMD in November 2011. Regeneron maintains exclusive rights to EYLEA in the United States. Bayer HealthCare owns the exclusive marketing rights outside the United States, where the companies will share equally the profits from any future sales of EYLEA, except for Japan where Regeneron will receive a royalty on net sales.
About EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection For Intravitreal Injection
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) is a naturally occurring protein in the body. Its normal role in a healthy organism is to trigger formation of new blood vessels (angiogenesis) supporting the growth of the body's tissues and organs. However, in certain diseases, such as wet age-related macular degeneration, it is also associated with the growth of abnormal new blood vessels in the eye, which exhibit abnormal increased permeability that leads to edema. Scarring and loss of fine-resolution central vision often results.
EYLEA (aflibercept) Injection, known in the scientific literature as VEGF Trap-Eye, is a recombinant fusion protein, consisting of portions of human VEGF receptors 1 and 2 extracellular domains fused to the Fc portion of human IgG1 and formulated as an iso-osmotic solution for intravitreal administration. EYLEA acts as a soluble decoy receptor that binds VEGF-A and placental growth factor (PlGF) and thereby can inhibit the binding and activation of these cognate VEGF receptors.
In the United States, EYLEA is indicated for the treatment of patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
The recommended dose for EYLEA is 2 mg administered by intravitreal injection every four weeks (monthly) for the first 12 weeks (3 months), followed by 2 mg once every eight weeks (2 months). Although EYLEA may be dosed as frequently as 2 mg every four weeks (monthly), additional efficacy was not demonstrated when EYLEA was dosed every four weeks compared to every eight weeks.
EYLEA is contraindicated in patients with ocular or periocular infections, active intraocular inflammation, or known hypersensitivity to aflibercept or to any of the excipients in EYLEA.
Intravitreal injections, including those with EYLEA, have been associated with endophthalmitis and retinal detachments. Proper aseptic injection technique must always be used when administering EYLEA. Patients should be instructed to report any symptoms suggestive of endophthalmitis or retinal detachment without delay and should be managed appropriately.
Acute increases in intraocular pressure have been seen within 60 minutes of intravitreal injection, including with EYLEA. Sustained increases in intraocular pressure have also been reported after repeated intravitreal dosing with VEGF inhibitors. Intraocular pressure and the perfusion of the optic nerve head should be monitored and managed appropriately.
There is a potential risk of arterial thromboembolic events (ATEs) following use of intravitreal VEGF inhibitors, including EYLEA, defined as nonfatal stroke, nonfatal myocardial infarction, or vascular death (including deaths of unknown cause). The incidence of ATEs with EYLEA® in clinical trials was 1.8% during the first year.
The most common adverse reactions (greater than or equal to 5%) reported in patients receiving EYLEA (aflibercept) Injection were conjunctival hemorrhage, eye pain, cataract, vitreous detachment, vitreous floaters, and increased intraocular pressure.
Serious adverse reactions related to the injection procedure have occurred in less than 0.1% of intravitreal injections with EYLEA including endophthalmitis, traumatic cataract, and increased intraocular pressure.
Please see the full Prescribing Information for EYLEA, available online at www.regeneron.com/EYLEA-fpi.pdf.
About Wet AMD
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of acquired blindness. Macular degeneration is diagnosed as either dry (non-exudative) or wet (exudative). In wet AMD, new blood vessels grow beneath the retina and leak blood and fluid. This leakage causes disruption and dysfunction of the retina creating blind spots in central vision, and it can account for blindness in wet AMD patients. Wet AMD is the leading cause of blindness for people over the age of 65 in the U.S. and Europe.
About Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Regeneron is a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of serious medical conditions. Regeneron markets two products in the United States, ARCALYST® (rilonacept) Injection For Subcutaneous Use and EYLEA® (aflibercept) Injection, and has filed regulatory applications with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for second indications for each of these products. A regulatory application has also been submitted to the FDA for the product candidate ZALTRAP® (aflibercept) Concentrate for Intravenous Infusion. Phase 3 studies are in progress with EYLEA® in a third indication, and with product candidate sarilumab. Earlier-stage clinical programs are underway with nine additional monoclonal antibodies. Regeneron has active research and development programs in many disease areas, including ophthalmology, inflammation, cancer, and hypercholesterolemia. Additional information and recent news releases are available on the Regeneron web site at www.regeneron.com.
About Santen
Founded in 1890, Santen is a global company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Santen researches, develops and markets ophthalmic products for physicians worldwide. Among prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals, Santen holds the top share within the Japanese market and is one of the leading ophthalmic companies worldwide. For more information, visit www.santen.com.
About Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd.
Bayer Yakuhin Ltd., headquartered in Osaka, is a healthcare company which combines business activities of Pharmaceuticals, Radiology & Interventional and Animal Health (companion and food animal products). Pharmaceuticals business is focused on the following areas: Cardiovascular & Neurology, Oncology & Hematology, Women's Health & Dermatology and Ophthalmology. Bayer Yakuhin aims to be one of leading pharmaceutical companies, which responds to Japanese patients' unmet medical needs, with the spirit of Bayer's corporate slogan "Science For A Better Life".
Bayer Yakuhin homepage: http://www.bayer.co.jp/byl
About Bayer HealthCare
The Bayer Group is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, nutrition and high-tech materials. Bayer HealthCare, a subgroup of Bayer AG with annual sales of EUR 17.2 billion (2011), is one of the world's leading, innovative companies in the healthcare and medical products industry and is based in Leverkusen, Germany. The company combines the global activities of the Animal Health, Consumer Care, Medical Care and Pharmaceuticals divisions. Bayer HealthCare's aim is to discover, develop, manufacture and market products that will improve human and animal health worldwide. Bayer HealthCare has a global workforce of 55,700 employees (Dec 31, 2011) and is represented in more than 100 countries. Find more information at www.bayerhealthcare.com.
To learn more about age-related macular degeneration (AMD), please visit: www.bayerpharma.de/en/AMD
Regeneron Forward-Looking Statements
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Wyoming coach Dave Christensen issued an apology Sunday to the school's fans, the Mountain West and college football for his actions after Saturday's emotional 28-27 loss to the Air Force Academy in Laramie.
However, Christensen's apology didn't mention the Air Force team or coach Troy Calhoun, who took the brunt of Christensen's outburst.
"I let my emotions, my passion for our football program and the frustration of the first half of the season get the best of me, and my actions reflected negatively on our program," Christensen said in the statement.
His team fell to 1-5, 0-2 MW.
"I have always tried to teach the young men in our program the importance of sportsmanship in our game, and with that said, I believe it is important to let them know that when you do make a mistake, you need to stand up and take responsibility for your actions. That is what I am doing with this apology."
In the statement, Wyoming athletic director Tom Burman said, "The postgame actions and comments made by Coach Christensen do not represent Wyoming Cowboy football in the manner we expect, but I respect Dave for issuing this apology."
Officials in the Mountain West office are reviewing Saturday's game tape as standard procedure, but a conference spokesperson said the review is being conducted with awareness of the altercation between the coaches.
The exchange occurred when Calhoun approached Christensen at the north end of the field and attempted to congratulate him.
Christensen wanted no part of it and fired back some red-hot comments.
Calhoun said Sunday that Christensen was exercising his "First Amendment rights."
Christensen was irate at what he thought was a fake injury by Air Force quarterback Connor Dietz before the deciding play in the game. Dietz was on the ground for several minutes after his helmet came off when being tackled, and he was attended to by the Air Force medical staff.
Christensen said in a story published in the Laramie Boomerang: "I learned a new trick. If you want to save time, what you do is you have a guy walk across the field and then — 10 yards across the field — tell him to fall down and then lay there for three minutes so you don't have to use a timeout and can get everything ready for your next play. Even if it looks like he's dying, you can get him to stand back up and go back in on the next play. That's a pretty good trick. I really question ethics when people do that stuff."
Air Force sophomore quarterback Kale Pearson entered the game, ran a bootleg to the right from the 5-yard line and scored a touchdown.
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Lots and lots of bugs and sleepless nights and no paid work later. Here is the next version of WPAU. I have fixed almost all of the bugs you have reported which I heartily thank each and every one of you for. Here is the NextG version of the plugin which works on most of the servers that have different users for FTP and web.Here is what I mean by that
On some shared servers the webserver (Apache) is the same for multiple user and in those cases the Apache user was not allowed to access files uploaded using a FTP client. To overcome the situation I added a preliminary check where it checks if the plugin is able to update the site or not.
If the error is due to FTP user and webuser being different you will be asked for your FTP credentials. We do not save any of this information with us and the information will be discarded at the end of the upgrade.
This is necessary if you need to run a automatic upgrade on your server, without this the information the plugin will not run.
What do we do with the FTP information?
With the FTP information you provide WPAU will change file permissions so that WPAU can write the files to your server. Once the upgrade is over WPAU will automatically change the permissions back to read only.
This step has been added so that you do not have to do the permission change manually. Only in certain rare cases will it fail to upgrade permission's and ask you to do so manually.
Here are some of the bug fixes for the latest version.
- Runs a premilinary check to see if your server is compatible so that WPAU can run
- Advices to clear backups from past upgrades
- Fixed errors for virtually hosted sites
- Automatically change permissions for upgrade after asking FTP credentials
- Fixed bug where DB error was reported when WPAU used to fail
- Fixed bug where you could not see log when the WPAU used to fail
- Updated FAQ to add the new questions
- Fixed issues to only backup and upgrade core WP files (This was a issue when WP was hosted in root directory)
- Fixed a issue where wp_redirect was not working due to header file already being included in the plugin
- Cleaned up the code to make it better
That's it folks, all your bugs and abuses are welcome since it helps me make this plugin better. I hope you will in future use this plugin to upgrade your wordpress installation without any errors and headaches.
Also with so much love and people reporting bugs I am so glad that I have been able to fix most of
Frequently Asked Questions
What is WordPress Automatic Upgrade?
WordPress Automatic Upgrade (WPAU) is a plugin that automatically upgrades your wordpress version to the latest files provided by wordpress.org.
Should I interfere with the WordPress Automatic Plugin Process?
No never, If the plugin fails it fails for a reason please do not interfere with any process that fails.
Do I need to change permissions on files?
No WPAU will ask you for your FTP credentials and do it automatically.
Why does WPAU run the preliminary checks?
WPAU runs the preliminary checks to determine in conditions in which it can feasibly update your site to the latest version provided by WordPress.
Why does WPAU ask me to clean up files?
When you run the plugin once we create backup files at the end of the process you need to delete these. If you missed deleting these files then WPAU will ask you to run cleanup before continuing.
Why use this plugin?
WordPress releases regular updates and security fixes to the software and after sometime makes it mandatory. Every time you have to manually upgrade your WordPress installation. This plugin helps
you to upgrade your installation without any efforts. We also ensure you will always download the latest version.
Which version of the WordPress does it upgrade to?
It upgrades to the latest version that WordPress has made available for download.
What is the lowest version from which I can upgrade?
The lowest version of WordPress I have tested this to work is with WordPress 1.5.
What files do you upgrade
This plugin only upgrades the files that are essential which includes the file in wp-includes, wp-admin and the root directory
I made some modification in the themes, will that be affected?
No, we do not touch those files at all. We only upgrade files in the root directory and wp-includes and wp-admin directory.
I modified the plugin files to play around and something went wrong, will you provide support for that?
No, this plugin is intended to run as it is. Support is free except when u modify it.
My site is in maintenance mode and the plugin did not complete. What do I do now?
Only under some rare condition will this happen. To get your site back online you need to do these things.
- Login to your site using FTP.
- Delete the index.php file.
- Rename the index.php.wpau.bak file to index.php
Performing these steps should remove the maintenance mode message.
Why does the plugin say that it cannot upgrade my site?
We run preliminary checks to see if the plugin can run well with your site. Only in certain cases it will tell you that it cannot upgrade your site because the functionality of the plugin depends on it.
Why I am asked for my FTP credentials?
Initially we try to check whether your WordPress installation is writable or not. If we find that its not writable we ask you for you FTP credentials so that we can do the necessary things to make it
What do you do when you get my FTP credentials?
First of all for security reasons we do not store your FTP Credentials. We only use it to change the file permission so that the plugin can run normally.
Once we run the appropriate steps to check that everything is alright only then will the plugin continue the further steps.
What do you do when I give you my FTP credentials?
When you provide us with your FTP credentials we log into your site using FTP and change the permissions on files and directories such that it can be written by a file running on your server.
Is changing the permission on my site essential?
If you are asking in regards to WPAU absolutely. In order to complete the automatic upgrade we need write permissions to your site.
When will be asked for my FTP credentials and why?
You will only be asked for your FTP credentials when we cannot write to your server.
Some shared servers run different the webserver and apache as different users which is for security reason. In that case when we using the webserver cannot modify the files you have uploaded using a
FTP client.
In such a case we could ask you to do the steps required manually, but in the sense of automatic we want to make sure your upgrade is really automatic. When you provide us with those details we do
not store it (though we may ask you for this everytime we determine your server is unaccesible for us) we maintain a security level which no other plugins can exploit over and above the one
WordPress provides.
We are very much that this plugin should be automatic and only if our preliminary checks fail initially we will ask you for the FTP credentials. You will never be asked for that when the plugin can run
without the credentials.
If I am running on a server where FTP user and webserver user are different will I be able to overwrite / delete files using FTP
Yes absolutely. The plugin makes sure that whichever files it writes can be deleted by the user without having to contact the system administrator.
Why don't you provide a option for me to upload the version I want?
Couple of things here. a. You should always upgrade to the latest version provided by WordPress. b. I do not want users to upload files that requires me to do multiple validations. The WordPress files that this plugin downloads is the best one I could use.
Will it remember the plugins that were active?
Yes it will remember the plugins that were active before upgradation and only activate those plugins.
How much bandwidth does the plugin use?
The plugin using about 2-3MB of your bandwidth to download files. You will use more than that in a regular upgrade process.
How long will my files and db backups be available?
This plugin is to be used for a continious process till completion, it provides you with backups which you should download before moving to the next step. If you do not download the backups, at the
end of the process you will be given an option to download it. Clicking clean up will delete those backup files.
Where are the files and db backup stored?
The files are db backups are stored in a folder called wpau-backup in the root folder of your site.
Does WordPress automatic upgrade provide a rollback?
No it does not, the function of WPAU is to seamlessly upgrade your versions. Rollback features will be added in future versions.
he bugs in this plugin. Though this plugin is still in infancy and all your bugs will help in bettering it and making it a real good plugin.
I sincerely thank everyone for using this plugin and telling me the bugs and hopefully this will be a real good way people would trust to upgrade their WordPress installation without battling a eye lid.
To do a new installation of the plugin, please follow these steps
- Download the wordpress-automatic-upgrade.zip file to your local machine.
- Unzip the file
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- Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
If you have already installed the plugin
- De-activate the plugin
- Download the latest files
- Follow the new installation steps
- Version 0.1 released Tuesday, July 17th 2007
- Version 0.4 released Thursday, July 26th 2007
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The Country Club 4-H group will meet at 7 p.m. March 12 in the Fayette High School cafeteria for its first meeting of the year.
Paperwork will be distributed and new information will be given. There will be no Cloverbud meeting that night.
4-H members must be at least nine years old or in third grade. The Cloverbuds group is for younger siblings from kindergarten through second grade age.
Enrollment paperwork is due at the following meeting March 26.
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Sometimes I sit at my desk and wonder when it's my turn to be sent out to the glue factory, what could I do for a next career? In just such a moment of weakness, Ted Bravos, chief executive of International Tour Management Institute, called me to tout his $3,350 training course in San Francisco. He had hardly begun to speak when I imagined myself directing a tour up the Nile (I have never been to Egypt, begging the question of why I would get the tour guide gig). But I asked Bravos to send in a writeup, which I pass on, somewhat edited, for those with similarly active imaginations. Tom Abate
If you've ever watched the classic television series "The Love Boat," you might have wanted cruise director Julie McCoy's job: making sure that guests enjoy themselves. You may even have asked yourself how someone could qualify for a job on a cruise ship. The answer is simple: by graduating from the tour director certification program offered by San Francisco-based International Tour Management Institute (ITMI) www.itmisf.com.
Since 1976, over 6,000 students from across the globe have become ITMI certified tour directors, cruise directors and tour guides. Seniors and baby boomers seeking new adventures often find great fulfillment as tour directors, cruise ship hosts or tour guides. People skills like effective communication and problem solving must be second nature. Tour directors must be confident of their organizational and leadership skills and be able to work with minimal supervision. Applicants should also possess a healthy dose of patience and a sense of humor when things don't go as planned.
Professional tour directors earn an average of $250 per day plus all expense paid trips. Tour directors can determine how many days each year they wish to work and which areas of the world they wish to experience. The flexibility is also terrific for teachers and college students seeking summer employment. To learn more about tour directing, view the videos on this link: http://www.itmitourtraining.com/about/media/index.shtml.
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Did you see the 2011 Israeli film "Rabies"? Me either but some guys I know did and they liked it so that's pretty much an Oscar win in my book. Well the film's creators, Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, has set "Big Bad Wolves" as their next project with a 2013 release in mind. The film follows three men who are linked by a series of terrible murders. Kind of like a fun club or something. But without the fun. And no one wants to be in the club.
"The Last Exorcism Part II" may or may not turn out to be hot dookie but that doesn't mean that the folks behind the film can't come up with some pretty entertaining ways to promote the flick. Case in point, a pretty dandy prank they played on a number of beauty shop goers. Is it funny? Yes it is. Is there a chance any of these people will come back to the shop? No. No there isn't.
I think Hot Topic ruined "The Crow" for all of us so I don't think anyone is really excited about the remake that's been kicking around for some time now. But what if I were to tell you that James McAvoy is being tossed around as a possible lead for the film? Would that change your mind? He was good in "Wanted" right? No, you're right. This still sounds awful.
Kodi Smit-Mcphee, the annoying kid from "The Road" is going to be in "Rise of the Planet of the Apes". He may or may not play a monkey. Alright fine, he won't.


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Antistreptolysin O (ASO) titer is a blood test to measure antibodies against streptolysin O, a substance produced by group A Streptococcus bacteria.
A blood sample is needed. For information on how this is done, see: Venipuncture
You should not eat for 6 hours before the test.
When the needle is inserted to draw blood, you may feel moderate pain, or only a prick or stinging sensation. Afterward, there may be some throbbing.
This test is done if you have symptoms of a previous infection by group A Streptococcus. Some illnesses caused by this bacteria are:
The ASO antibody may be found in the blood weeks or months after the strep infection has gone away.
A negative test result means you have likely not had a recent strep infection. The healthcare provider may repeat the test again in 2 - 4 weeks. Sometimes a test that was first negative will come back positive.
Normal value ranges may vary slightly among different laboratories. Talk to your doctor about the meaning of your specific test results.
An abnormal or positive test means you recently had a strep infection, even if you had no symptoms. The ASO test may stay positive (sometimes called detectable) for 2 to 4 months afterward you are first infected.
Veins and arteries vary in size from one patient to another and from one side of the body to the other. Obtaining a blood sample from some people may be more difficult than from others.
Other risks associated with having blood drawn are slight but may include:
Bisno AL, Stevens DL. Streptococcus pyogenes. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 198.
Bisno AL. Nonsuppurative poststreptococcal sequelae: Rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis. In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Churchill Livingstone; 2009:chap 199.
Nussenbaum B, Bradford CR. Pharyngitis in adults. In: Flint PW, Haughey BH, Lund LJ, et al, eds. Cummings Otolaryngology: Head & Neck Surgery. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2010:chap 13.
Comeau D, Heaton K, Gordon A. Rheumatology and musculoskeletal problems. In: Rakel RE, ed. Textbook of Family Medicine. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 32.
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The Blue Grapes and Chicory wedding program compliments weddings in the wine country or events with a wine or vineyard theme. Explore all of our fruit and grapes illustrations which feature grape graphics and fruit of all kinds.
Program Covers will only have the cover printed. You will be responsible for designing and printing the interior yourself
Card Style programs are a flat card with space to print on both sides
Programs with Interior (cover + 3 service pages) have a fold on the left edge and open up a bit like a book, with a cover and a maximum of three service pages that usually consist of the wedding party, the order of service, and a thank you note/in memory of
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Mitt Romney's energy plan is devoted almost exclusively to increasing consumption of fossil fuels — completely ignoring dire warnings from scientists and energy experts that the "door is closing" on our ability to avoid irreversible, catastrophic climate change.
Along with the environmental limitations of continuing our reliance on carbon-based resources, the Romney energy plan falsely claims the U.S. can become energy independent and lower prices simply through increased production of fossil fuels, mostly oil — an impossible goal in a global market.
Calling such goals a "pipe dream," Michael Levi, a leading energy expert with the Council on Foreign Relations said, "the Romney plan overpromises on results while ignoring many of the biggest energy problems the United States faces."
And now, one of Romney's big selling points from his energy plan — turning over federal lands to the states for fossil fuel production — is being challenged by an international trade group of drillers as unfeasible and possibly bad for business.
Here's what E&E News' Greenwire reported on the industry group's reaction:
The International Association of Drilling Contractors, which includes rig owners and oil field service companies, said Romney's plan is politically improbable and would be opposed by many operators concerned about the potential for a hodgepodge of state regulations.
"You might find yourself — the operators — tearing their hair out," said Brian Petty, the group's executive vice president of government affairs, based in Washington, D.C. "I think it's a little bit of populist raw meat thrown out."
Petty said some operators could find themselves unable to drill in California, for example, even though they are able to operate in Montana. "If you have a one-size-fits-all, you have only one licensing agency," he said.
By turning over public lands to states more likely to push fossil fuel production, Romney hopes to accelerate oil and gas drilling. As the New York Times explained:
"the purposes [of federal public lands], under established law, are various: recreation, preservation, resource development. States, as a rule, tend to be interested mainly in resource development. In the energy future envisioned by Mr. Romney, that is precisely what would prevail."
In addition, all state regulations would supersede federal laws for permitting and environmental regulation under Romney's plan.
This sounds like a paradise for oil and gas drillers. But the International Association of Drilling Contractors believes the policy could cause more headaches than it's worth: "The proposal to transfer control of management of onshore federal lands resource extraction to the States will never fly. Even many producers would balk at that, left to a patchwork of State regulations instead of a common federal template," wrote IADC's Petty in Drilling Contractor magazine.
Even Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, a fierce Tea Partier, vetoed a bill that allow her state to take over federal lands because she was "concerned about the lack of certainty this legislation could create for individuals holding existing leases on federal lands."
Romney's position on encouraging resource extraction in national parks is still unclear. His plan says that "lands specifically designated off-limits" would not be handed over to the states. However, this could mean spaces currently protected, or it could mean spaces designated specifically by a Romney-Ryan Administration. More detail is needed from the campaign on this issue.
But Romney has made one thing perfectly clear: his plan would open up as much of America up to oil and gas drilling as possible — environmental consequences be damned.


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Bounte: Maximal
Bounte returns with more intricate, groove-infused electronica in Maximal. With this 4-track set, Bounte shifts focus to danceable instrumentals dominated by glitchy, thundering beats. From the hard and grinding low-end of "D575" to the energized snarework of "Sextuple X," Maximal is fuel for the dance floor.
The Atomica Project: Grayscale
Grayscale, the highly anticipated sophomore release from The Atomica Project, embodies in itself the struggle of its execution. Taking nearly 3 years to complete, Grayscale is filled with elaborate narratives of failure and recovery. Loosely based on the dramatic climate of Lauren Cheatham and Wade Alin's adopted home of Chicago, many of the tracks draw parallels between the cinematic storms of the Midwest and the turmoil of interpersonal relationships.
the most dangerous race: ARC
Thematically, ARC represents the basic chapters of a man's life, at least as far as it has been lived so far by it's narrator. The third EP in a four part series, ARC is the truest embodiment of theMDR's identity thus far. A dramatic blend of emotive songs, visceral live performances and late 70's influenced electronica, this ep actually attemps to trace the arc of life in a mere 6 songs.
Micronaut: Callisto
Callisto marks Chris Randall's fifth genre-spanning sojourn in to the back streets of electronic music under the Micronaut banner. Mostly up-tempo, partially eccentric, and definitely danceable, Callisto is a distilled history of Micronaut in one album.
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Greg has presented work at venues and institutions including EYEO Festival (Minneapolis), the Western Front (Vancouver), DIY Citizenship (Toronto), Medialab-Prado (Madrid) and Postopolis! LA. He is an adjunct instructor in the CCIT program (University of Toronto/Sheridan College) and has taught courses for CSMM (McMaster University) and OCAD University.
Greg has presented work at venues and institutions including EYEO Festival (Minneapolis), the Western Front (Vancouver), DIY Citizenship (Toronto), Medialab-Prado (Madrid) and Postopolis! LA. He is an adjunct instructor in the CCIT program (University of Toronto/Sheridan College) and has taught courses for CSMM (McMaster University) and OCAD University.
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Greg J. Smith is a Toronto-based designer with an active interest in the intersection of space and media. He is co-editor of the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and blogs at Serial Consign.
Five 2009 projects that deal with the translation of online experience into environments, events, artifacts and performance.
► World Series of
'Tubing - Jeff Crouse & Aaron Meyers
The everyday action of "favoriting" online media is expanded into a participatory game show (video above). A pair of contestants square off by selecting viral videos from YouTube and this media is "played" in an augmented reality card game where a live audience determines the victor. (see Paddy Johnson's adventures as a contestant)
► What my
friends are doing on Facebook - Lee Walton
The ubiquitous status update is used to inspire an ongoing series of charming short videos. Banal announcements, everyday routine and the inhabitation of domestic space make for surprisingly entertaining vignettes. (see Walton's vimeo channel to access the entire series and Marisa Olson's writeup from February)
PoD - Cati Vaucelle, Steve Shada and Marisa Jahn
An architectural testament to the "shut in" tendencies within MMORPG culture, this project creates a playspace that addresses the needs of the player and their avatar. A built in toilet, cookware and food dispensers are hardwired into the World of Warcraft interface underscoring the dedication/obsession demanded by these types of online communities. (See the video documentation of the piece)
► Bicycle
Built For 2,000 - Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey
Updating the 1962 experiment in speech synthesis by John Kelly, Max Mathews and Carol Lockbaum, this project employs the Amazon Mechanical Turk webservice to outsource the production of molecular elements of the song Daisy Bell. The resulting 2,088 voice recordings are reassembled into a strange, bumbling chorus - is this what the future of labor sounds like? (see Peter Kirn's analysis)
► Are you
human? - Aram Bartholl
Riffing on the scrambled aesthetics of the CAPTCHA challenge-response test, this project creates real world artifacts out of online protocol. These text objects are deployed in the gallery, as identity document business cards and (most interestingly) on the street amongst the "urban markup" of tagged surfaces.(see photographs of the sculptural objects in the gallery and out in the wild)
Notes on Going Under
But the whole discourse of noise-as-threat is bankrupt, positively inimical to the remnants of power that still cling to noise. Forget subversion. The point is self-subversion, overthrowing the power structure in your own head. The enemy is the mind's tendency to systematize, sew up experience, place a distance between itself and immediacy... The goal is OBLIVION. - Simon Reynolds, "Noise"
Replace the word OBLIVION with DE-EVOLUTION and you have encapsulated the essence of the strangest art-music project that ever emerged from Akron, Ohio. While a quintet of jerky ectomorphs in hazmat suits (seemingly) singing about sadomasochism breaching the Billboard Top 20 in 1980 seemed unlikely, the legacy of DEVO is fraught with such contradiction. Formed in 1973, DEVO began as a polemical performance project, became a major buzz band and then crumbled under the weight of the attention they had cultivated. Outside of influencing a generation of musicians and artists, a surface reading would suggest the band only registered a few blips on the broader pop culture radar—"Whip It", their pioneering music video work and a legendary Saturday Night Live performance—but tracing the dramatic arc of DEVO reveals a fascinating back story. While the group might be most easily read in relation to their 1970s Ohio peers Pere Ubu, The Dead Boys or Chi-Pig, more enduring points of reference may be found in the deadpan, dour and decidedly humorless synthpop of Telex, Gary Numan and Kraftwerk. Comparisons notwithstanding, DEVO defied categorization and their creative exploration of emerging technology, hermetic logic and contentious relationship with the mass market make them quite relevant to new media artists—they're just the band you want!
Racing the Beam: The Atari VCS as Platform
Considering the evolution of video game consoles (seven generations and counting), the cultural significance of the Atari VCS alone would justify another book-length appraisal. However, Nick Montfort and Ian Bogost's collaborative text Racing the Beam, published this past spring by MIT Press, was developed with a broader mandate in mind. The book is the first in a new series dedicated to a "platform-focused" approach to media scholarship. A cultural reading of the Atari VCS would address aesthetics or "reception" to the console and Bogost and Montfort argue that it is possible to drill down from that strata of analysis to interface, then form/function (narratology) through to code. The scholars acknowledge that while code has become a nexus within media scholarship in recent years, it is possible to dig deeper still to platform - "the basic hardware and software systems upon which programming takes place... the foundation for computational expression." The subsequent analysis of the Atari VCS is firmly grounded in the technical capabilities of the system. Under this scrutiny the figure of the console melts away. Racing the Beam surveys six seminal cartridges in relation to key components which include the MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor, the Peripheral Interface Adaptor chip (PIA), memory and the pivotal Television Interface Adaptor (TIA) - the operation of which inspired the moniker of the book. This sounds dry (and at times it is) but the duo do a remarkable job of providing a close, nuanced reading of the design decisions, play and game space of the titles in relation to the assemblage of electronics that underpins the system.
Variable Frame Rate: Multimedia Performance at MUTEK 2009
It is understandable that we sometimes overlook the surge of innovation and experimentation that has taken place within live musical performance over the last decade. A culture obsessed with emerging channels of distribution and incremental software upgrades is almost predisposed to overlook the virtuosity (or lack thereof) that drives live performance. A pertinent frame of reference in considering evolving paradigms in musical performance is the MUTEK festival, a progressive electronic music summit that takes place in Montreal each spring. Launched in 2000, and having just celebrated their tenth anniversary this past week, MUTEK has consistently programmed dynamic lineups of luminaries representing various facets of global house, techno and experimental music communities. The festival has cultivated an idiosyncratic identity that references the pulse and dense revelry of the after hours scene while also showcasing more amorphous, adventurous multimedia and gallery-oriented projects. In addition to positioning Montreal as a key node within international electronic music networks, MUTEK has developed into a platform for showcasing integrated audio-visual performance.
Means of Production: Fabbing and Digital Art
Several years ago, while making the lecture circuit rounds, American architect William Massie described a key goal within his practice as moving towards a more direct translation between bits and atoms. Architecture has always thrived on the tension between representation and material assemblages and what he was addressing with this comment was the dawning of an era characterized by a new proximity between digital models and physical output. In selected contexts, artists, architects, and designers have been exploring these accelerated development cycles for a decade but the involved technologies are descending in price so quickly that, for example, 3D printers are now cheaper than laser printers were in 1985. A key question: how does the looming ubiquity of these tools and workflows apply to the production and display of new media art? This article will explore digital fabrication (aka fabbing) at a variety of scales which include the curatorial questions raised by these new hybrid industrial design/sculpture objects as well as the implications on the practice of individual artists. Before delving into either of these milieus it would be useful to acknowledge some common language and terminology associated with fabrication and recognize some important precedents.


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TITUSVILLE, Fla. – A Titusville woman was arrested on child neglect and retail theft charges, police say, after she left her 6-year-old in the car while she shoplifted Valentine's items from Target.
26-year-old Patricia Waddell made her first court appearance Tuesday afternoon at the Brevard County Jail.
Target employees say they saw the boy in the car around 5:30 p.m. Monday with the windows rolled up and the car turned off.
At first, police said they thought Waddell was shopping inside the Target. But after officers arrested her on child neglect charges, they searched her belongings and found $15 worth of stolen Valentine's Day merchandise.
Arrest documents show Waddell is currently on probation and was supposed to appear in court Wednesday on another retail theft allegation, but because she was arrested Monday, it was canceled.
The judge told Waddell on Tuesday she isn't allowed to have unsupervised contact with the 6-year-old and is banned from all Targets in Brevard County.
The child wasn't hurt and is staying with his grandmother.
The Department of Children and Families is investigating.


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David Bates
- February 11, 2014 7:00 PM
February 11 – This special Tuesday Evenings presentation features artist David Bates in conversation with Tyler Green for a live-audience taping of an episode of the Modern Art Notes Podcast.
David Bates is the renowned Dallas-based artist whose work is the subject of David Bates, a two-part exhibition presented jointly by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. Early in his career, Bates attended the Whitney Museum of American Art's Independent Study Program before completing a Masters of Fine Art at Southern Methodist University and returning to Texas to make his work and build his career. Almost a decade after his return to this region, Bates was included in the prestigious 1987 Whitney Biennial for his renowned ability to capture the essence of his subjects and transport his viewers, qualities still evident in the artist's materially conscious paintings, drawings, reliefs, and sculptures.
Modern Art Notes is a production of and wholly owned by Modern Art Notes Media and is enabled by advertising from over a dozen art museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. The Modern Art Notes Podcast, which is released each Thursday at noon ET, is available on Modern Art Notes, MANPodcast.com, iTunes, SoundCloud, and wherever podcasts are downloaded.
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern
This popular series of lectures and presentations by artists, architects, historians, and critics is free and open to the public each Tuesday from February 4 through April 8. Lectures begin at 7 pm in the Museum's auditorium. Seating begins at 6:30 pm and is limited to 250; a live broadcast of the presentations is shown in Café Modern for any additional guests. Free admission tickets (limit two) are available at the Modern's information desk beginning at 5 pm on the day of the lecture. The Museum galleries remain open until 7 pm on Tuesday evenings during the series.
Café Modern serves cocktails, salads, and appetizers on Tuesday nights during the lecture series.
Podcasts of these lectures are available here, two weeks after presentation date.


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SAN JOSE — A longtime San Jose firefighter was arrested at the station where he worked Thursday afternoon and is facing drug and sex crime charges involving children, according to the state Department of Justice.
Mario Enrique Cuestas, who has worked with the department for decades, is being charged with the sale and possession of methamphetamine as well as sex assault and oral copulation with minors, according to DOJ spokeswoman Michelle Gregory.
"We believe he was providing drugs to minors, and soliciting them through websites," Gregory said.
Cuestas, 53, was booked into Santa Clara County Jail after being arrested without incident at his workplace, Gregory said. No bail was set as of late Thursday.
Gregory did not know the number of possible victims or how long the crimes may have been going on, but said "there could be more that come up. It's an ongoing investigation."
"We just don't know yet," she said. "We need to go through everything to see if there's more there than we know about."
She said the matter came to light through a tip.
"I don't believe it came from a minor," she said. But when officers in a DOJ task force took up the case, "we were able to find out more about what he was doing."
Gregory said computers and records were seized at the fire station where Cuestas works and at his home, which is listed as being in San Lorenzo. According to his Facebook page, Cuestas has been with the San Jose Fire Department since 1994 and also worked for the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose since 2012 as a church singer.
A fire official reached late Thursday said they are aware of the arrest but did not have any immediate comment.
Contact Eric Kurhi at 408-920-5852. Follow him at Twitter.com/erickurhi.


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Burmester has announced the launch of its 2016 Classic Vintage Port, a challenging year that ended up producing exceptional wines. In keeping with the brand's identity and the profile established throughout its history, Burmester is launching a Vintage Port loaded with character and enormous ageing potential, translating secure values.
It was a particularly challenging year. We really had to make use of our profound knowledge of the grapes and vines, as each variety and each plot of vineyard developed at a different pace. Being patient and waiting for the right time was worth it, as demonstrated by the exceptional results we achieved with our various wines, explained Carlos Alves, Port winemaker at Sogevinus.
Generally speaking, the 2016 Vintage Ports are brimming with colour and full of structure, with a profile that is more concentrated, robust and intense when compared to the 2015 Vintages. A classic style for a Vintage.
Burmester Vintage Port 2016 is elegant, lighter and more fragrant, with a touch of balsamic. Firm structure, aromas of ripe fruit and excellent acidity, with a very long finish.
Harvest report
November and December 2015 were dry months, but the remaining Winter saw high levels of rainfall, especially during January and February 2016. Temperatures in December and January were above the average of the last 30 years.
Spring came with lots of rain and cold, which delayed the vine growth cycle. With higher temperatures and humidity in late Spring, it was necessary to increase the maintenance and care of the vineyards, acting at precisely the right time. Summer was very hot and dry, with thunder and hale occurring in July, which resulted in substantial yield losses in some specific locations.
Harvesting began around 10 days later than in 2015, a consequence of the delay in the vine growth cycle – a cold early Spring followed by a very hot Summer. Most of the grape bunches were smaller than normal, but that was offset by a good pulp/skin ratio and by a richer and more complex fruit.
Different ripening paces in different vineyard plots made it necessary to plan the harvest meticulously, something our viticulture team, lead by Márcio Nóbrega, did to perfection. The picking was done according to the optimum ripening point of each variety, plot by plot. The harvest of the white Port wine varieties began on September 12th and the red Port wine varieties a day later, with grapes from the Douro Superior.
The best performing variety was Touriga Franca, followed very closely by Touriga Nacional.
Tasting Notes
by the winemaker Carlos Alves
Burmester Vintage Port 2016
Grape Varieties: Touriga Nacional (50%) and Touriga Franca (50%), from vines more than 25 years old from Quinta do Arnozelo, Douro Superior.
Ruby colour. Exuberant aromas of red fruit, black currants, rock-rose and light peppermint notes. Extremely elegant and delicate, keeping with the profile of the house, it has firm structure, excellent flavours of ripe fruit and excellent acidity. A long and harmonious finish.
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I'm delighted to say that for those either attending or helping at the b.f.t., Sogevinus will be pouring their 2016 Burmester for tasting.
Top Ports in 2019: Niepoort VV (1960s bottling) and Quinta do Noval Nacional 2017
Top Ports in 2020 (so far): Croft 1945 and Niepoort VV (1960s bottling)
Top Ports in 2020 (so far): Croft 1945 and Niepoort VV (1960s bottling)
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Celebrate New Year's Eve Montana Style With Cold Hard Cash
It was strange to think that we were even going to see 2013 with the supposed "Mayan Apocalypse" scheduled to happen recently. Now, we look ahead at a new year, and this year we Missoulians are going to party "Montana Style" with LIVE music from The Cold Hard Cash Show.
What better way to celebrate the end of a hectic year, then with amazing food and Johnny Cash tunes.
The Cold Hard Cash Show is a local group that does an amazing job covering "The Man in Black." Every time I have seen them perform live, I swore that if I was squinted my eyes,I could see Johnny Cash himself on stage. They put on an amazing performance, so much so that they landed themselves a featured spot on the "Late Show With David Letterman" back in 2008.
For those who have never seen The Cold Hard Cash Show , here is a sneak peek with their appearance on "The Late Show."
Don't miss out on seeing Cold Hard Cash LIVE this New Year's Eve at the Hilton Garden Inn in Missoula.


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By Tia Mitchell
Gov. Rick Scott quietly signed legislation over the weekend that allows students who are undocumented immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition at Florida colleges and universities.
House Bill 851 was a priority of House Republicans, including Speaker Will Weatherford, who overcame opposition from Senate conservatives to achieve passage in the final days of the 2014 session. Yet Scott didn't provide an opportunity for them to take a victory lap since he chose not to hold a formal bill signing like he has for other priorities.
The governor has focused on the tuition-control portions of the legislation to contrast with the policies of his expected opponent for reelection, former Gov. Charlie Crist. Scott will tour the state all week -- he started in Fort Myers Monday and has stops planned in Miami, Boca Raton, Orlando and Pensacola -- discussing higher education and tuition and campaigning against Crist.
"We're going to talk about legislation I signed this weekend to stop Charlie Crist's 15 percent annual tuition increases," Scott said during a morning appearance on WINK-TV in Fort Myers.
Only after tweaking Crist did Scott reference immigrant students, widely known as "dreamers.''
"Students that grew up in our state are going to get the same in-state tuition as their peers, which is what's fair," he said.
The immigrant tuition bill passed the House 84-32 but was stalled in the Senate until Scott enlisted the help of two former Republican governors, Jeb Bush and Bob Martinez, who both called on the Senate to take action. "Dreamer" students, dressed in orange mortar boards, were a frequent presence in the Capitol Rotunda this spring as they rallied support for the measure.
Scott, who initially opposed in-state tuition for undocumented immigrants, was careful to express his support for the bill during session only because it also freezes tuition at current rates. Crafty legislators tied the tuition freeze to the more controversial dreamer provision.
Republican Sen. Jack Latvala of Clearwater maneuvered the legislation to a successful floor vote, and while Senate President Don Gaetz personally opposed the bill, he did not stop it from being considered.
Latvala said he doesn't fault Scott for signing the bill privately then hitting the campaign trail. "I think that they just made a conscious decision that they don't really want to do bill signings and mix them up with campaign things," Latvala said.
Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, expressed similar sentiments.
"I feel like the celebration will be when these students go up to sign up for school and can afford it," he said. "I don't need anyone to pat me on the back."
Democrats and the Legislature's Hispanic caucus had long supported granting in-state tuition for dreamers, but it wasn't until House Republicans signed on and agreed to tie in the broader tuition issues that the legislation gained traction. At least 17 other states already have similar laws on the books for undocumented immigrants.
Scott's support of the bill drew criticism from both the right and the left. Senate Democratic Leader Chris Smith issued a statement calling Scott's position a "remarkable turn-around" with dubious timing.
"While it's unfortunate that it took his bid for reelection to finally come around, on behalf of working families and children seeking a better future, we welcome his decision to join us," said Smith of Fort Lauderdale.
The group Floridians for Immigration Enforcement had urged Scott to veto the measure by reminding him of his own statements on immigration. Legislative director Jack Oliver said he believes Scott purposely misled voters in 2010 when he indicated support for Arizona-style reforms that never came to fruition.
Now that HB 851 is law, only the University of Florida and Florida State University have the flexibility to impose tuition increases outside of the Legislature's approval. And the bill lowers the maximum hike from 15 percent to 6 percent, based on each school's ability to meet certain requirements.
Scott's campaign launched a television ad last week criticizing Crist for signing legislation that allowed colleges to raise tuition. The ad did not mention that the GOP-controlled Legislature, including Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, pushed the tuition hike and got Crist to go along with it.
News of Florida's tuition bill being signed into law comes on the same day President Barack Obama announced he was taking additional actions to make student loans more affordable.
(c)2014 The Miami Herald


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Exactly how stupid does Jim Webb think we Virginians are? Does he actually believe that we have not followed his voting record and the fact that he has been nothing but a lap dog of the Obama Democrats? Check out the chutzpuh he sent with his latest re-election email. It is an exceept from the RealClearPolitics website on Monday, November 8, 2010:
|Jim Webb went to the White House last September. The Virginia senator was meeting with the president to discuss Guantanamo detainees. The conversation soon shifted to healthcare. "I told him this was going to be a disaster," Webb recalls. "The president believed it was all going to work out."
And Jim Webb must have believed it too, otherwise he would not have cast a "Yea" vote for cloiture and for passage of the bill. And now, Webb is saying it was a bad thing? Six months too late, Jimmy boy!
And check this out:
|"I've been warning them," Webb says, sighing, resting his chin on his hand. "I've been having discussions with our leadership ever since I've been up here. I decided to run as a Democrat because I happen to strongly believe in Jacksonian democracy. There needs to be one party that very clearly represents the interests of working people … I'm very concerned about the transactional nature of the Democratic Party. Its evolved too strongly into interest groups rather than representing working people, including small business people."
Uh-huh. This is why Jimmy voted for the bailouts and the failed stimulus package that served to do nothing except reward unions and government workers who voted Democrats into office.
Webb's comments and his emails are nothing less than insulting. I know what he has been doing over the past four years and it does not at all reflect his comments of late.
I'll say it point blank: Jim Webb is a liar. He is lying about his record because he knews that in two years, the Commonwealth of Virginia is going to work very hard to toss him back out and put in a new Senator who will actually respresent Virginia rather than be a rubber stamp for a political party. He was very happy to vote the way the Democrats told him to vote (even when it went against the wishes of Vorginia) and now he sees how wrong he was to do so. But instead of admitting his own culpability, he is making an early effort to distance himself from it by telling outright lies to people.
Supporters of Webb and his staff are especially welcome to respond to this post. I'll be very happy to compare the liar Webb's current statements with his voting record. He can lie all he wants, but his record will always tell the truth about what he really believes.
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