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Interview with Grace Kook Anderson
Through October 4, the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach is presenting "WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon", an exhibition that considers the fantasy environment of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft and its broader cultural impact. It includes works by gaming-conscious artists like Tale of Tales and Radical Software Group as well as pieces produced by staff at the company that develops WoW, Blizzard Entertainment. Curator Grace Kook Anderson answered a few questions about the show.
What aspects of World of Warcraft as an emergent media phenomenon do you find most interesting as a curator?
WoW has been a rich subject. What I find compelling in this game is that the narrative lineage passing through J.R.R. Tolkien and Dungeons and Dragons sets the framework of the game, but the players add that extra narrative layer. Another aspect that is remarkable is the democratic nature of cultural production that a game like WoW stimulates, such as the enormous volume of fan art and machinima to artists working in different media. And as an MMORPG, WoW is also a network and a community for so many people. It is amazing how game culture and reality interact.
Could you discuss a few of the artworks you selected and how they expand on these aspects of gaming in general and massively multiplayer gaming in particular?
In the case of quite a few of the artists, WoW imagery or content is used to point to greater issues, such as questioning the idea of networking and community or looking at the implications of globalization and the threat of terrorism. Aram Bartholl led a workshop and performance takes an aspect from the ...!--more-->
Looking At "Looking At Music: Side 2&"
A year ago the Museum of Modern Art's media galleries hosted "Looking at Music," an exhibition of process-based work from the 1960s and 1970s that included music videos by pop icons like David Bowie and The Beatles (as well as cult favorites Captain Beefheart and Devo) amid works by Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, and other avant-garde heroes. Caitlin Jones expanded on the inclusions and their mutual connections in a review on Rhizome; I also wrote about how it traced two paths in process art, which were exemplified by the music of John Cage and Steve Reich. Whatever a viewer brought to the show, it's safe to say that everyone felt a thrill from the incongruity of watching Bowie's Space Oddity in MoMA's white boxes. The approach helped tear Cage, Paik, and their cohorts out of the textbook, and demonstrated that while ideas germinated in strongholds of the creative intellect like Darmstadt or E.A.T.'s "9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering," art did not exist in a vacuum. With "Looking at Music," curator Barbara London set an agenda continued in an essay published in the March 2009 issue of Artforum, making a case for the study of music video in terms of process art in the late twentieth century.
Now "Looking at Music: Side 2," on view through November 30, offers the flip side as it takes the exploration of the topic into the late 1970s and early '80s. If art-world favorites set the tone in last year's exhibition, "Side 2" is dominated by album covers and concert posters. A sprawling mural of work by rock'n'roll photographer Bob Gruen overlooks a monitor showing a grainy video ...
Random Butler on YouTube
I don't remember exactly how I first came across Random Butler's YouTube channel, besides seeing a video from it in the "Related Videos" sidebar when I was watching something else, and while I can't say I know much about YouTube's algorithm for selecting "Related Videos" I suspect the sheer number of videos on the channel helped it get in my window. Since creating his YouTube account on April 24, 2006, Butler has uploaded 1,219 videos—an average of about one a day. And while there are many YouTube users who maintain frequently updated vlogs, Butler's is the only one I've encountered that shifts the video diary's role from an emotional outlet to a creative one. Instead of focusing on the user's persona, it presents a direct record of what he sees and what goes on in his inner world. Butler has pointed his web cam at the television as he wins Zelda, and uploaded several "multimedia messages" that show views of a computer screen or out a car window, taken on a Nokia 6102. In recent months, he has been uploading fewer web cam and cell phone videos and spending more time on experiments that distort clips from games and cartoons. A favorite source has been King of the Hill. Like any diary, Butler's YouTube channel is composed of incremental fragments and best considered as a whole, but nonetheless, I'll offer a few highlights here.
Sound Design
Michael Guidetti recently released the fifth edition of Skeleton Sweep, a collaborative podcast collage of field recordings and found sound. The project's poetic title accommodates an array of meanings, from the artist's embrace of the fleshless quality of sound on an mp3 to the wide-ranging breadth of the material's origins. Volume 5 includes recordings as diverse as a mother's affectionate voicemail message, wind chimes, percussive music made with knives, and black boxes of crashed planes.
Skeleton Sweep grew out of Guidetti's longtime interest in field recordings. Before compiling Volume 1 in March 2007, he mailed a micro-recorder back and forth with a friend living in Japan, to share the sounds of their surroundings. As a serious hobbyist, Guidetti uses high-quality equipment for his own recordings—a Sony DAT walkman with an Audio-Technica stereo mic—but relishes juxtapositions of various qualities of sound. Skeleton Sweep welcomes unsolicited submissions from amateurs but also includes the work of experts, so a volume might take sound off lo-fi cassettes and cell phones as well as pieces by Chris Watson or Toshiya Tsunoda; Volume 4 even has excerpts of compositions by David Tudor and Robert Ashley. Contributors are given credit on the Skeleton Sweep site in a list labeled "Info," though the term is a bit of an exaggeration, as the barebones descriptions of content on the list often generate more questions than they answer. In any case, when a chorus of witch cackles, a blanket of crickets, and chirping ringtones succeed each other in an early stretch of Volume 5, the connections an active listener draws between those noises—and the nuanced differences of each file's silence—matter more than the relationship between a sound and ...
Printed Pages
From its beginnings ten years ago, e-flux has been an unconventional media model, one that aggregates and distributes announcements for contemporary art exhibitions and events for a fee and uses its profits to fund artist-directed projects. Last November e-flux introduced an online journal with essays by artists and critics. The advertisement-free publication filled a position similar to that of ads in magazines—an appendage that subscribers to the e-flux brand may or may not find useful. To increase the journal's autonomy from the announcement service—and also to get it off the internet, which is not a favorable environment for long and complex theoretical essays—e-flux announced its plans for a "print-on-demand" feature in February (noted on Rhizome). To get the word out about this new service, e-flux put excerpts of essays from its fourth issue in the summer issues of Parkett, Artforum, Bidoun, Cabinet, Texte Zur Kunst, Afterall, Flash Art, and Frieze. Besides addressing the obstacles an online journal faces in specialized art media, where print still holds a privileged position, the use of editorial as advertising in e-flux's summer campaign anticipates the shift that will accompany the launch of their print on-demand service this fall, when the journal's readers can also become its publishers.


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Let's be real here. We ALL hear voices in our head. They tell us all kinds of things – that that we should try harder, how we can be "safe" and sometimes, if we're lucky, they tell us we did a great job. But often these voices trigger a negative spiral, taking one minor thing and fabricating an entire story that makes us feel bad about ourselves.
Today we'll be discussing some tactics for quieting those voices (or at least minimizing their impact!).
Be a detective
First take time to listen in on what you are saying to yourself. Sometimes our thought patterns turn so quickly with our negative emotions, that we don't even realize we're causing the downward spiral ourselves. Next time you find yourself becoming demotivated, nervous or sad, listen in to those thoughts carefully. What are you saying to yourself?
For example, last week I didn't even start a project that I'd planned on finishing, and I noticed I was feeling stressed and down on myself. So, I listened in to the flood of thoughts that was quietly going on in the background… "I never stay on schedule. I let myself get distracted too easily. I ALWAYS take so much more time to do things than I should. I just have to face that I'm lazy and unfocused. I'm never going to get this new project launched. I may as well not even try."
Put it in neutral
Research shows that we do our best self-assessment when our brains are set to neutral or positive; when we're in a negative space, we do a poor job accurately assessing a situation. I had to break that grip of rumination (link) with a healthy distraction, so I accelerated my planned lunchtime walk. When I got back, I felt better and ready to tackle my negative self-talk.
Externalize that voice and ARGUE with it
Imagine an actual person is saying those things to you. Would you let a work colleague talk to you like that? Would you just sit and take it if your neighbor started in with those statements?
Heck. No.
You'd stand up for yourself and counter each of their arguments. So don't let the voices in your head get away with speaking to you in that tone or saying those outrageous things. Fight back.
It took me over 30 years to realize that not every thought that went through my head was true or worthy of believing. Sometimes, my mind can be mean-spirited and aggressive. So when the voices in your head are taking you down a path you don't want to go, turn and fight those assertions. Dispute those thoughts like a good lawyer by using the following:
Use the real facts
What's true about your situation and what is conjecture? For me, I missed my deadline. That's true. But the idea that I never meet my deadlines? Completely false. As soon as I start to look for evidence to the contrary, I find it. When I bring up the fact that I've posted my newsletter on time EVERY WEEK for the past 6 months, the idea that I can't meet deadlines is laughable.
So take a good look at that negative self-talk and seek out the evidence to refute those statements. You will often find that your mind isn't playing fair. It's your job to show it the big picture.
Alternative interpretations
Most events have many causes. What are the other possible explanations for why an event happened?
Did I click over to CNN or Facebook when I should have been working this week? Sure. But it was also our first week back after vacation and I had ALL of my clients scheduled on the same week. I also lost a whole work day because the kids were off school on Friday. I didn't get that project started because I had a lot less time than usual, not because I am lazy or too easily distracted.
Remember that it won't be as bad as you think
Our minds are great at taking a few real facts and leading us down dark paths. Yes, I missed a deadline, but does that mean I should quit the whole project? Or, as I think in some of my darker times, that I should quit this whole happiness thing and go back to the comfortable money of my old career? No way. Yet when our brains are set to negative, potential catastrophes can seem reasonable. Once out of the fog, ask yourself the likelihood that the worst case scenario will actually come true.
Even if the worst case happens, will it be as bad as we imagine? Here, the research is very clear. Work from Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, shows that we are terrible at estimating how bad we are going to feel. When a relationship ends or we don't get that promotion, we feel bad, yes, but not nearly as bad or for as long as we imagined.
Thousands of years of evolution have made us really good at adapting to even the most extreme circumstances. Often knowing that you'll be able to adapt to the worst case scenario takes away some of its power to produce fear and anxiety.
Your task this week: Listen in a little more closely to those voices. Evaluate those statements as if they are coming from someone external. Then explore how reasonable they are and practice some of the tools above. These are some of most powerful ways to fight gratuitous negativity (link) and they will get stronger with practice!
Check in next week as we explore some more ways to counter those voices.Eric Karpinski The Happiness Coach

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So, we're coming up on 2013, dragging many of the issues that dogged 2012 right along with us. My theory is that many of the following are likely to linger through next year as well, though maybe I'm being too cynical.
Here's my list of ongoing EMR issues that don't seem to be going away:
* Usability problems: While there are scattered efforts to improve the entire EMR usability model, none rules the industry. So as things stand, clinicians generally dislike (or, let's admit it, in many cases loathe ) enterprise EMRs hospitals have mortgaged their future to buy.
* Interoperability: With proprietary Epic software ruling a growing percentage of U.S. hospitals, getting true interoperability that fuels HIE growth seems a mere dream at the moment. And even if Epic and it's "ours is best" philosophy didn't rule the waves of late, connecting other hospital EMR vendors is at a primitive stage at best.
* Poor compatibility with popular mobile devices: Far too few vendors offer a mobile-native client for their EMR, instead forcing clinicians to cope with the limitations of Citrix compatibility. This state of affairs is terrible for the growth of mHealth, which I think we can agree is a Bad Thing.
* Extremely high cost for enterprise EMR systems: When you're talking about enterprise software, you're generally talking about a large price tag. But am I the only one who thinks that vendors are padding the heck out of their prices because Meaningful Use has hospitals under the gun?
* Lack of documented ROI and clinical improvement generated by EMRs: Other than collecting an incentive check, most hospitals don't seem to know how their EMR will generate money, much less savings or return on investment. And as for a body of well-documented research demonstrating that EMRs can generate better clinical results, we just aren't there yet.
What other problems do we face this year that are going to remain tough to fix next year? Are any of these problems on the verge of being solved?


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Rick Santorum had a reason for endorsing Mitt Romney late at night, in the 13th paragraph of an e-mail to supporters.
"We decided to put it out late at night so it would be sort of the first thing people would see in the morning," the ex-presidential candidate told Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" Tuesday night. The endorsement had gone out at 11 o'clock the night before.
Besides, Mr. Santorum joked, it wasn't really all that late. "We have seven kids so we don't sleep," laughed the former Pennsylvania senator, wearing his trademark sweater vest. (He gave Mr. Leno one, too.)
Why was the endorsement "kind of buried," as Leno put it, in the e-mail to supporters? Because, in essence, the message was about him, not Mr. Romney.
"This was a letter to my supporters – who were for me – to say, 'Well, here's now why I think we should rally around Mitt Romney and support him,' " Santorum said.
Leno reminded Santorum that he had once called Romney "the worst Republican" to take on President Obama. Santorum said he was referring specifically to "Obamacare," the health-care reform based on Romney's fix of the Massachusetts system when he was governor. Leno defended "Romneycare," saying people in his native state seemed happy with it – and asked Santorum how he'd feel if all the states put in place similar reforms, given conservative support for states' rights.
Santorum: "Can you imagine what 'The Tonight Show' would look like if the government ran 'The Tonight Show'?"
Leno: "I see what it looks like with NBC running it!"
Leno also asked why Republicans, known for promoting strong defense and fiscal policy, now focus so much on cultural issues, which he called "diversions."
"It's the culture, it's not the economy," Santorum said. "The culture matters. Look at every great civilization. They don't fail because a foreign power overtakes them. Oh, ultimately a foreign power destroys them, but they were all destroyed before the foreign power took them over. They were falling, they were failing as a culture."
"The economy – yeah, it's important," he added. "But the culture is what holds people together."
Perhaps this was a hint at Santorum's next step? In his e-mail to supporters, he had promised a "big announcement" soon – one that will involve asking them "to once again join forces with me to keep up the fight, together."
Santorum is best known as a culture warrior. The socially liberal Leno peppered him with questions about gay adoption and teen contraception. Santorum happily stood his ground. But he made clear he doesn't think the government should ban all things he personally believes are wrong, such as contraception and smoking.
"So a gay couple smoking with a contraceptive would be the worst thing," Leno quipped.


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10/22 Most Expensive Car on eBay.
Vehicle: 1967 Chevy Corvette Coupe 427 # 300479937620
Buy it Now Price: $1,967,000
Owner Says: "This ORIGINAL(L68) 427-400HP MOTOR? …is in "YOUR" car!"
My Thoughts: "It's in MY CAR?!!! Dammmmn! How come I never noticed a 427 hiding in my car? Where is it? Can you show me? Ok seriously, could this listing be any more confusing? I don't know if there is a car for sale here, or if he is offering to buy the mysterious engine that I don't have for 1.9 Million bucks. We are still in reality right? Where am I?"
10/22 Least Expensive Car on eBay.
Vehicle: 1983 Subaru Hatchback # 330486558512
Buy it Now Price: $300
Owner Says: "Head gasket is blown. Interior trashed. Bought it as a little beater for the kids to drive til it dies. Well… It still starts and runs, but I can tell it's done."
My Thoughts: "The lack of rust makes me think that maybe this car is not done. Since imaginary engines apparently exist today, let's all imagine this fine automobile with a WRX engine and awd drivetrain swap. mmmmm. Now who's going step up and make it happen?"


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This pack of 30pcs model trees are perfect for adding a touch of realism to the sides of your track, enhance the appearance of your model landscape with a touch of greenery.
- Material: Plastic
- Scale: 1:100 (TT)
- Approx. Height: 2.8inch (7.0cm)
- Approx. Width: 1.8inch (4.5cm)
- Quantity: 30pcs(10pcs for one color)
- Three Colors: Green with red flowers; Green with yellow flowers; Green with rose flowers
Package Includes:
- 30 x model trees
Note: Please be reminded that due to lighting effects and monitor's brightness/contrast settings etc, the color tone of the website's photo and the actual item could be slightly different.


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Padre::Plugin::PAR - PAR generation from Padre
This is an experimental version of the plugin using the experimental plugin interface of Padre 0.24.
After installation there should be a menu item Padre - PAR - Stand Alone
Clicking on that menu item while a .pl file is in view will generate a stand alone executable with .exe extension next to the .pl file.
If you are currently editing an unsaved buffer, it will be saved to a temporary file for you.
You can install this module like any other Perl module and it will become available in your Padre editor. However, you can also choose to install it into your user's Padre configuration directory only. The necessary steps are outlined in the
README file in this distribution. Essentially, you do
perl Build.PL and
./Build installplugin.
(c) 2008 Gabor Szabo http://www.szabgab.com/
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl 5 itself.
There is no warranty whatsoever. If you lose data or your hair because of this program, that's your problem.


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Unusually chilly for us Texans at the moment. Yeah, I know it's November and all. We're around freezing temps tonight. The temperature drop was very dramatic as the cold front blew in. At least it's not raining. We southerners are ill-equiped for icy conditions.
It's all relative: I've heard it said that 80 degrees F is a heat wave for New Yorkers; down here, they'd call it a cool front.
I wouldn't be too surprised if it's around 80 degrees F here again come Christmas.
Not much blogging because not much is going on. Usual humdrum of going to work, coming home and doing the daily thing, then sleep. I'm definitely not complaining, though.
I've been making it to daily noon mass, though sometimes I'm pretty much asleep through it. One day I dozed during the intercessions (we were standing) and jerked back awake as I was starting to lose my balance. That's goofy to be drowsy while standing at the foot of the cross at Calvary at our Lord's crucifixion, and again at His resurrection. But Lord, I do try; physiology just gets the better of me sometimes.
During the "Holy, holy" one day, when we got to the "Heaven and Earth are full of your glory," it occurred to me that earth was also full of His mercy.
Mass is followed by gobbling of a sanwich as I drive back. It's just two pieces of bread, mayo and two slices of luncheon meat. I don't understand the appeal of deli-thin sliced meat -- it just means that I would now need 5 slices instead of 2. I should try to remember to buy some cucumbers. I like cucumbers in sanwiches.
Pretty dang near had an accident one day. When I see cars at the intersection turning left, my logic says I can turn right. However, it wasn't that they had a dedicated left turn signal, but rather they judged the timing to be suitable for the left turn. So they were turning left and I was turning right, except that the cars plowing down the street could've hit me as the left turning cars cleared. Thanks be to God that there was room for the other cars to manuever to avoid hitting me.
Friday tomorrow. Looking forward to the weekend. Saturday we will be attending some sort of presentation at the Dominican's place. It's probably going to be way over my head, but what the heck, I haven't anything to lose. This Sunday I am free from both volunteer gigs at my parish. That means that I will be free to visit a different parish if I so choose.


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Senior right hander Nick Neumann pitched seven innings without allowing an earned run to pick up his sixth win of the season as the Central Connecticut baseball team topped third-seed Sacred Heart 4-3 on Thursday night in Norwich, CT. The Blue Devils advance to the winner's bracket game vs. top seed Bryant at 4:15 p.m. on Friday afternoon. Sacred Heart will face Wagner in an elimination game at 12 noon.
Neumann struck out eight before giving way to freshman Matt Blandino in the eighth and ninth innings. Blandino earned his second save of the season pitching the final two innings.
Blandino allowed a single run in the ninth on a wild final play of the game. With runners on second and third, with two outs, the Pioneers hit a chopper over the mound. The throw to first was late getting the batter, the runner on third scored but the trailing runner also tried to score on the play and was thrown out at the plate by junior first baseman Dominic Severino. The game ended with the 4-3 score.
Central is now 27-20 overall on the season. SHU falls to 27-27 overall with the loss.
Central struck first with four runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. With men on first and second freshman Franklin Jennings singled to the shortstop and junior Bryan Rivera scored on a throwing error on the play. Two more runs scored in the inning when senior Josh Ingham bunted with two outs and the Pioneers threw the ball away on the play. Senior J.P. Sportman scored from third and Jennings scored from first. A single from junior Dom Severino scored Ingham and the lead was 4-0.
Sacred Heart scored twice in the top of the seventh inning on a pair of Central fielding errors. Both runs were unearned and Neumann forced a ground out to end the threat in the inning.
Neumann allowed just five hits and two unearned runs to move to 6-3 overall on the season.
Central advances to Friday's winner's bracket game and will play top seed Bryant at 4:15 p.m. Bryant defeated Wagner 5-2 in the opening game on Thursday. SHU will face #4 Wagner in the first elimination game of the tournament on Friday at 12 p.m.


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Chill. I'm not saying engagement and pregnancy make me sad. Of course it's a wonderful time in Alicia Keys's life. Just wish there wasn't a torn family cloud hanging over the news. Because, well, I believe Mashonda. Read Mashonda's story here. And since I do believe Mashonda's story, I don't love Alicia like I used to anymore. But it's an active conscious retreat. I have to work at it. Which makes a sucky situation even suckier. Duana said this song took on another level after finding out about Swizz and Mashonda.
Alicia and Swizz Beatz were in London last night for the Keep A Child Alive Benefit. Chris Martin was there too. Don't see any photos of Gwyneth because going to a charity benefit with your wife and running the risk of getting photographed in the crowd together would be totally offside.
And here's Evan Rachel Wood in New York yesterday, very beautiful, on the set of Mildred Pierce (starring Kate Winslet). Evan of course is engaged to Marilyn Manson, went right back to him after successfully splitting from him for a stretch before getting disappointed by Alexander Skarsgard. At distance analysis of the situation points to classic low self esteem, a fertile playground for people like Manson. She's still young though. And she left him once, she could do it again.
Photos from Ian Lawrence/Jose Perez/Splashnewsonline.com and Dave Hogan/Neil Mockford/Splashnewsonline.com


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| Heather Hughes, left, and Summer Ross compete in Mexico on June 8.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 8, 2013) – Three U.S. beach volleyball teams have advanced to Sundays semifinals of the NORCECA Beach Circuit event in Toluca, Mexico.
In the women's bracket, the U.S. team of Summer Ross (San Diego, Calif.) and Heather Hughes (Fallbrook, Calif.) will have to play compatriots Emily Day (Torrance, Calif.) and Whitney Pavlik (Laguna Beach, Calif.) in Sunday's semifinals. The other semifinal will see Mexico's Marta Ravuelta and Bibiana Candelas take on their Mexico teammates, Vanessa Virgen and Stephanie Burnside.
On the men's side, the U.S. team of Stafford Slick (Andover, Minn.) and Casey Jennings (Las Vegas, Nev.) advanced to the semifinals, where it will play Puerto Rico's Roberto Rodriguez and Hector Soto. In the other men's semifinal, Mexico's Juan Virgen and Lombardo Ontiveros will play Canada's Grant O'Gorman and Samuel Pedlow.
On Saturday, Ross and Hughes completed pool play and won their pool with a 3-0 record by defeating El Salvador's Diana Romero and Marcela Avalos (21-11, 21-8 in 25 minutes). The U.S. pair went on the quarterfinals, where they beat Curacao's Christine Anthony and Samira Lewis (21-10, 21-11 in 29 minutes).
Day and Pavlik went 1-1 in pool play on Friday and finished second in the pool Saturday after winning their final pool play match over Canada's Alexandra Wooley and Sophie Bukovec (21-13, 21-9 in 28 minutes). In the quarterfinals, Day and Pavlik beat Mexico's Olivia Meza and Zaira Orellana (21-13, 21-4 in 28 minutes).
Slick and Jennings also went 1-1 in pool play on Friday and finished second after winning their final pool match on Saturday (21-13, 21-11 in 38 minutes) over Aruba's Mitchel Daniel and Earganell De Cuba. They advanced to the quarterfinals, where they defeated Cuba's Karell Pina and Sergio Gonzalez (21-14, 21-17 in 41 minutes).
The U.S. men's team of Brad Keenan (Westminster, Calif.) and John Mayer (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) was eliminated on Saturday after losing in the quarterfinals to O'Gorman and Pedlow (21-17, 21-12 in 34 minutes).


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"When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."
This adage has long been a rallying cry for defenders of the Second Amendment, which many conservatives believe is under heavy attack from the left.
Four bills, among them more stringent background checks and limits on the sizes of magazines, have narrowly passed the Democrat-dominated State House.
They now move on to the State Senate, which is less dominated by the Democrats.
State Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, is hopeful that he and fellow Republicans can convince a few Democrats to side with them and shoot down the bills.
Admittedly, Brophy has a dog in the fight — he runs a farm and told folks at this week's Lincoln Day dinner that he and relatives like to go out and do some target shooting.
He claims that if the background check bill becomes law, people who loan a rifle to relatives for family target shooting without conducting a background check would be in violation of the law.
It has also been pointed out that a firearms accessories manufacturing firm is threatening to pull up stakes and leave Colorado if a restrictive magazine limit becomes law. That would result in the loss of several hundred direct and indirect jobs.
Backers of gun control claim law enforcement is on their side. Apparently they have not talked to very many of the folks in rural agencies, many of whom are staunch supporters of the Second Amendment.
Admittedly, some of these folks have a dog in the fight, too. Some of them are hauling in pretty good money teaching classes that are required for folks wanting concealed carry permits.
Such classes, by the way, are drawing big numbers and often have waiting lists.
And target shooters will tell you that ammunition is hard to come by lately.
Those against restrictive gun control will tell you that regulations will only affect the law-abiding and that criminals will ignore the laws.
They have a point. When the Columbine killings took place, an assault weapons ban was in place. The Oklahoma City bombings were carried out with explosives, not firearms. And the Sandy Hook shootings were perpetrated with stolen weapons.
Those determined to carry out evil acts will find a way to do so regardless of what laws are in place. And overly restrictive gun control could leave the law-abiding with little or no means of defense.
Just some food for thought.
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YouTube continues to grow, doubling its subscription rate year after year. Even more mind-boggling is the fact that 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. In other words, that is almost 2 hours of video every second! With over 6 billion hours of video being watched each month it becomes apparent that YouTube is stronger than ever. On the developer side we continue to see YouTube as a focal point. This week we will take a look at recent mashups utilizing the YouTube API. Read below for more details.
MvBanana – MvBanana is a radio website that plays music videos along with the corresponding song. However, it takes an interesting approach to video viewing. Users who enter the site aren't given the option of searching for a song or video. Instead the only option users have is to skip the current video they are watching in hopes of stumbling upon a better one. The idea is that users will come across a song they haven't heard in a while and then appreciate the video even more. As we all know, an old favorite that comes on the radio brings back a lot of memories. MvBanana wants the video to bring back memories as well. APIs used include Lyricsfly, MusixMatch and YouTube. More at our MvBanana profile.
Psykoo – Psykoo is a service dedicated to those who are more visual. Under the premise that our brains process images much faster then text, Psykoo set out to create a visual search engine experience. Instead of searching a site for information Psykoo actually provides users with a visual preview of the site before they choose to visit it. Underneath the visual preview is a description of the site and its contents. Each search result provides the top few sites related to the search input the same way Google or Yahoo would. APIs used include 500px, Bing, Google Ajax Search, Instagram, Tumblr and YouTube. More at our Psykoo profile.


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Firefighters' funerals to draw thousands
Streets cordoned off: Firefighters' funerals, Vibes to draw thousands to Bridgeport
BRIDGEPORT -- Police and fire officials on Wednesday were finalizing plans meant to avoid gridlock on city streets and Interstate 95 Friday with thousands of people expected to descend upon the city for the funerals of two fallen firefighters, as well as the annual Gathering of the Vibes.
As many as 10,000 firefighters from across the nation and Canada are expected to attend funeral services for Lt. Steven Velasquez, 40, and firefighter Michel Baik, 49, who died while battling a house fire on Saturday.
Velasquez's service will begin at 10 a.m. Friday morning at St. Augustine Cathedral, 359 Washington Ave., while Baik's funeral will be held at 2 p.m. at St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Church, 5458 Park Ave.
According to Scott Appleby, director of the city's Emergency Operations Center, in order to avoid congestion in the city's downtown and South End because of the thousands expected to attend the Vibes in Seaside Park, out-of-state firefighters are being instructed to take Exit 28 northbound and Exit 29 southbound off I-95, park their vehicles at Steelpointe and take school buses to the church services.
Vibes festivalgoers, as well as those planning to attend the firefighter funerals, are also being instructed to use Metro-North trains and the Bridgeport & Port Jefferson ferry whenever possible. Shuttle buses to both the funerals and the Vibes will be available from the city train station on Water Street.
Washington Avenue, between Coleman and James Street, will be closed to all traffic from 8 a.m. to noon, as well as several side streets that will only be accessible to residents. Later in the day, from 1 to 4 p.m., Park Avenue, from Eckart Street north to the Merritt Parkway, will be closed to traffic.
City officials said State Police will block off Exit 47 off the Merritt Parkway from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Waterbury, New York and Boston fire departments will also be on hand Friday to help Bridgeport coordinate activities at both funeral services.
Bridgeport Assistant Fire Chief Dominick Carfi said coordinating the processions, shuttle times and funeral services has been a difficult task. "We have to make sure we have the dignity and respect for both families," he said. "We can't speed one up or cut one short. We are trying to minimize the effect and stress for both families."
City and fire unions have also begun disseminating information, through e-mails and Facebook, about vacancies at area hotels, many of which are already entirely booked due to the Vibes.
Some hotels with openings, like the Courtyard by Marriott and the Hilton Garden Inn, both in Shelton, are offering special rates to firefighters attending the funeral services.
The entire Bridgeport Fire Department will be attending both funeral services on Friday, as well as a congregation of firefighters Friday night at the Arena at Harbor Yard.
In their absence, firefighters from Stamford, Fairfield, Norwalk, West Haven, Milford, Westport, Stratford, Waterbury, New Haven and Danbury will offer mutual aid in Bridgeport. Fairfield will receive mutual aid from Greenwich, Norwalk and Wilton while they are covering Bridgeport.
Fairfield Assistant Fire Chief Christopher Tracy said fire departments across the country consider themselves a "brotherhood." He noted that the week before their deaths, Velasquez and Baik, who will be transported to their funeral services via firetruck instead of hearses, had covered for Fairfield Station 2 firefighters while they fought a blaze in their town.
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You can count the number of electric vehicle and plug-in hybrid models being sold to consumers today on two hands--and have several fingers left over.
But that's about to change. Competitors are lining up to take on the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Roadster, Chevrolet Volt and other pioneering vehicles.
Most major automakers will bring out at least one battery-powered EV or plug-in hybrid in the next three years. A few start-ups also plan retail sales.
That probably won't translate to big sales during this decade. Paul Haelterman, managing director of automotive consulting at IHS Global Insight, says plug-ins and EVs will account for just 1 to 2 percent of North American sales through 2015.
"For the next five years, they're niche vehicles, pure and simple," he says.
The main reason: For the average driver, the payback period for the added cost of such vehicles will be about 15 years, Haelterman says. Also, the recharging infrastructure is lacking.
But, he adds, rising petroleum prices and the declining cost of EV technology should make the vehicles less pricey by 2020. Add tougher fuel economy and emissions rules, and automakers have little choice. They have to get in the electrified-propulsion game, if only to be prepared in case consumer tastes shift quickly.
Here's an overview of coming EVs and plug-ins, based on what the companies and industry sources are saying.
This Oceanside, Calif., startup seeks a federal loan to start production of the 2e, a three-wheel EV. Aptera wants to follow that with more mainstream vehicles. Timing is uncertain.
Audi plans a range of high-priced electric cars starting with the limited-edition battery-powered e-tron version of the R8 in 2012. A plug-in hybrid is scheduled to follow in 2014. Audi will test electric variants of the A1 minicar this summer in Germany.
BMW's Megacity vehicle project is scheduled to produce an electric city car in 2013. To cut weight, BMW will make extensive use of carbon fiber and aluminum.
The first stage of the project was the Mini E test fleet. BMW moves into stage two this year with a U.S. test fleet of the BMW ActiveE, an EV based on the 1-series subcompact. BMW unveiled the ActiveE at the Geneva auto show.
Chinese automaker BYD Co., which had planned to launch U.S. retail sales of the e6 electric crossover in 2011, pushed back the scheduled U.S. launch of its EV and F3DM plug-in hybrid to spring 2012. BYD has leased 10 F3DMs to the city of Los Angeles. It also plans to lease the e6 to governmental fleets.
Coda Automotive, a Santa Monica, Calif., startup, plans to launch its battery-powered sedan in the second half of this year, delayed from last December.
EnVision Motor Co. of Ames, Iowa, has begun assembling EVs. It installs electric powertrains and other equipment in partially assembled vehicles bought from Renault/Dacia. EnVision plans to sell a seven-passenger wagon, pickup and cargo van.
The Fiat 500 EV, an electric version of the Fiat 500, is scheduled to arrive in the United States next year.
The Karma plug-in hybrid luxury sedan is scheduled for a March launch at the Valmet plant in Finland. The Karma is the first of six models Fisker plans through 2016. The others:
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-- Second Karma-based derivative
-- Small sedan to be built in Delaware starting in 2012; now known as the Nina, but the name could change
-- Possible coupe and crossover, based on the Nina sedan; Fisker executives have not confirmed these, but in announcing the company's acquisition of General Motors' Wilmington, Del., plant in 2009, Vice President Joe Biden mentioned them.
Ford Motor Co. expects to deliver the first electric Focus compact car in the United States late this year. An electric version of the Transit Connect van is in production. Other planned EVs include a plug-in hybrid version of the C-Max small minivan for the 2013 model year.
CEO Dan Akerson has said he wants "several different variants" of plug-in hybrid Volt-technology vehicles in the next few years. In January, Akerson said a plug-in hybrid multipurpose vehicle is in the works, likely by the 2013 model year. Also planned: a plug-in hybrid version of the Cadillac SRX crossover by 2013.
This year GM's German subsidiary, Opel, launched the Ampera plug-in using Volt technology. Opel will show an EV minicar at the Geneva show.
Last fall GM began testing a fleet of electric-powered Chevrolet Cruzes in South Korea, but there's no word on production plans. Also, GM has continued fuel cell EV research; limited retail sales in California in 2015 would not be a surprise.
The Fit EV will enter demonstration fleets this year. Honda Motor Co. CEO Takanobu Ito has said the vehicle would go on sale in 2012. The EV Concept will be shown in Geneva.
Honda is developing a plug-in two-motor hybrid powertrain, which will debut in 2012. It will allow for driving in electric, gasoline-electric and gasoline-only modes. The technology will debut on the 2013 Accord.
Honda is leasing its FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell car to select Honda customers in Southern California, with hopes of a retail launch in 2018, if not sooner.
Kia has shown the Pop concept, a three-seat electric city car, but has not announced a production plan.
Mazda plans to launch an EV based on its Mazda2 subcompact in the spring of 2012. Initially the car will be leased in Japan, mainly to fleet customers. Nothing has been decided about U.S. sales, Mazda says.
Mercedes-Benz plans to bring an A-class EV to the United States within three years. Parent company Daimler is working with China's BYD. Daimler plans to build more than 500 A-class EVs this year.
Herbert Kohler, head of e-drive and future mobility at Daimler, recently said the automaker will launch the SLS AMG in 2013 as an EV, followed by an S-class plug-in hybrid. Company sources say the S-class plug-in will launch in 2014.
Limited numbers of the Mercedes B-class fuel cell EV are available for lease in California. Mercedes is expected to launch retail sales in California in 2015.
Mitsubishi plans to launch its i small EV, formerly called the iMiEV, here late this year.
Mini has not announced plans for retail sale of the Mini E, offered in a limited lease test fleet.
Infiniti plans to launch its first EV in 2013. Infiniti revealed a sketch of the five-seat sedan in late September that Nissan-Infiniti design boss Shiro Nakamura says is close to the production model.
Infiniti's EV is part of Nissan and French alliance partner Renault's lineup of eight EVs for at least five key segments, starting with the Nissan Leaf.
One hint about how Nissan might follow the Leaf: the Esflow concept, an EV sports car using the Leaf lithium ion battery pack, appears at the Geneva show.
Meanwhile, the alliance has not announced plans to adapt Renault's EVs for sale here as Nissans - but there is an intriguing set of possibilities. They include the Renault Fluence large sedan and a Kangoo car-derived van, scheduled to debut in Europe in midyear; a two-seat
microcar called the Twizy; and the Zoe four-seater. Nissan/Renault has said it is aiming for EV production capacity of 500,000 units within the next few years.
In September, Saab set up a venture with supplier American Axle & Manufacturing to make electric all-wheel-drive systems for EVs and hybrids. No details are available about product plans.
Daimler's Smart brand is selling limited quantities of its EV ForTwo now. Daimler plans larger-scale production in 2012.
Suzuki plans a plug-in Swift but has not announced a timetable.
Production of the Model S sedan, Tesla's follow-up to the stylish Roadster, is scheduled to start in mid-2012. Tesla expects to offer a crossover EV in 2013. Tesla also has said it will launch a small EV selling for under $30,000 in four or five years.
Think is selling small quantities of its U.S.-manufactured City EV to fleet users and plans retail sales in limited markets this year. The company is looking at EV-ready areas such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York and Washington, D.C. Also on the list: Indianapolis, because of its proximity to Think's Elkhart, Ind., plant.
Toyota says it will build 35 RAV4 EVs in cooperation with Tesla Motors for a demonstration fleet. Toyota wants a production version by 2012. The companies also may develop an electric Lexus RX SUV.
An electric version of the Scion iQ will go on sale in 2012. It is not certain if it will carry a Toyota or Scion badge.
A plug-in version of the Prius hybrid, with a 15-mile EV-only range, will go on sale in 2012. Toyota plans a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle in 2015.
VW Group plans to launch a full-electric version of its Up minicar, the E-Up, as well as electric versions of the Golf and Jetta, globally in 2013. The Golf electric arrives here in late 2013 or early 2014.
VW will produce the XL 1, a two-seat plug-in hybrid, in 2013. Sales will begin in Europe and expand to the United States sometime afterward.
Volvo will launch a European test fleet of its C30 EV this year. Test fleets also will operate in the United States and China next year. Volvo CEO Stefan Jacoby declines to say when the car will be in dealer showrooms.
Jacoby said Volvo will introduce a plug-in hybrid in 2012, with U.S. retail sales beginning after 2013. Most likely that will be the plug-in diesel-electric V60 wagon Volvo will show at the Geneva auto show. Production is scheduled to begin in 2012.
Atlanta-based startup Wheego says it will start retail sales of the LiFe, a two-seat EV microcar, on March 30. It plans a five-seat car this year, followed by a light truck.
ZAP's Chinese partner Jonway Automobile says it will sell the A380 EV SUV by June and ZAP's Alias EV roadster by September.


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Trilogy is a very flexible linear accelerator platform that uses Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT) to deliver pinpoint radiation beam targeting and control, and shorter treatment sessions.
It delivers 3D-Conformal radiation therapy, Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), RapidArc radiotherapy, Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT), all from one system allowing your doctor to choose the right treatment for you.
The Trilogy has an On-Board Imager (OBI) controlled by two robotic arms that rotate around you to create a three-dimensional picture to confirm the location of tumor. It then provides a precisely sculpted 3D radiation dose as it rotates 360º around you. The system continuously monitors the movement of your tumor as you breathe ('respiratory gating") and only delivers radiation when the tumor is in exactly the right place. This allows for a higher, more effective dosage amount without additional risk of side effects, including damage to normal, surrounding tissues. It also makes it an effective weapon against very small tumors.


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Found: Alepochori
Injury: Head injury
Condition: Crucial condition
Adopter: Leschke-Will Claudia
Period: from 01-09-2020 to 30-09-2020
ΑΡΧΕΛΩΝ Σύλλογος για την Προστασία της Θαλάσσιας Χελώνας
ARCHELON Τhe Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece
The Sea Turtle Rescue Centre has been operating since 1994 in Glyfada, Attica, by the waterfront. It was founded by ARCHELON with the support of the Municipality of Glyfada and the Ministry of Environment and is one of the first Sea Turtle Rescue Centers in the Mediterranean. Its purpose is to treat injured and sick sea turtles and eventually release them back into the sea. More


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History and Background
Education Support Professionals: An essential part of One Education Workforce
In early 2009, Education Support Professional (ESP) membership in the National Education Association topped half a million, reflecting a 3200% growth since we gained full membership status in 1980.
Education Support Professionals were first recognized as Association members in 1967, when "Educational Secretaries" received membership. A category for "Auxiliary Personnel," or paraprofessionals, was added in 1972. "Educational Support Personnel"—encompassing all non-teaching education employees— was established as a separate membership category in 1980. ESP won a position on the NEA Board of Directors in 1983, and we continued to expand our representation in governance throughout the 1980s.
In1988, Education Support Personnel were included as active members rather than a separate membership category. ESP were recognized as "professionals" in 2001, and in 2002, we gained our own NEA department, Education Support Professionals Quality, charged with promoting professional quality for ESP.
Currently, there are more than 3 million education support staff in the nation's school systems. Because nearly one half of the employees of any given school district are support professionals, we represent the biggest opportunity for NEA membership growth.
Our power can only increase as our numbers grow.
Issues of Importance for Education Support Professionals
To attract a skilled, dedicated and experienced Education Support Professionals workforce, and to be a full partner in a strong Association, ESPs need:
ESPs need to have our importance acknowledged by school districts, administrators, teachers, parents, and our Association.
ESP want to be treated as full partners in the education team at the school level and within the local, state and national Association.
Job Security
ESP need protection from layoffs and privatization.
Pay and Benefits
ESP need pay commensurate with the skills and responsibilities of our positions—no less than a living wage.
Training and Professional Development
ESP need opportunities and meaningful education that provides both for career path development (e.g. paras becoming teachers) and for continual improvement within our current jobs.We want training to bring our skills up to date with 21st century changes.


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Jan. 3 (UPI) -- James Avery, best known for playing Uncle Phil on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, died New Year's Eve of complications following heart surgery. He was 65.
Though Fresh Prince himself has yet to make a public statement, Will Smith's wife took to Facebook to offer condolences.
"Happy New Year everyone! I was hoping to start the new year differently but we have lost yet another friend. James Avery who we all lovingly know as Uncle Phil from The Fresh Prince has passed," wrote Jada Pinkett Smith."Our condolences to aunt Florence (his mother), Miss Barbara (his wife) and all those who loved him. Rest in peace James."
Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Carlton Banks, said he remembered Avery for his love and knowledge of jazz music.
Ribeiro first broke the news of his onscreen father's death via Facebook:
The world has lost a truly special man. I am very saddened to say that James Avery has passed. Even though he played my father on TV, he was a wonderful father figure to me in life. He will be deeply missed.
Tatyana Ali, who played Avery's daughter Ashley, also reached out on social media with a statement and a poem by Nikki Giovanni.
"James was my teacher my protector & the most magnificent actor," she wrote. "We're feeling his loss very deeply. He'll always be apart of me."
Tyra Banks, who had a recurring role in the show's fourth season, also spoke out on Twitter.
A poem of friendship by Nikki Giovanni: We are not lovers because of the love we make but the love we have pic.twitter.com/H0HhqmEwjo— Tatyana Ali (@TatyanaAli) January 2, 2014
"Sending condolences to the family of James Avery, "Uncle Phil" of the Fresh Prince. I'll always remember how warm he was to me on set," she wrote.


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Crappie Reels
Crappie Fishing Reels
For the ultimate in Crappie fishing, it's the Slater's Deluxe Crappie Reels! Can be mounted in regular crappie reel seats or easily taped on to any pole. Just add line guide and you've got one of the finest crappie fishing systems on the market. The Deluxe Crappie Reels heavy-duty nylon construction and compact (2-7/16" diameter) design makes it durable and lightweight (2 oz). The deluxe crappie reels are versatile too... with the ability to be set for free wheeling, positive lock or operate with its line tensioner drag system. Ideal for ice fishing too. Comes packaged on skin-pack card for pegboard display.
The finest quality spring-tension crappie reels on the market today! Excellent for adjusting line length in pole fishing when used together with line guides. Ideal for ice fishing too.
These Slater's Pole Reels, available in 2 1/4" diameter & 3" diameter, are built of sturdy nylon for greater durability. These crappie reels feature a heavy-duty metal tension screw and durable spring for an effective drag system. Also features an easy-grip nylon crank handle and built-in stripper guide. Easy to install by taping to your pole.
The Line Minder Crappie Reels give you the ability to change your line length quickly and easily. Makes any crappie pole more effective when easily taped on and used with line guides. The Line Minder Crappie Reels durable nylon construction make it maintenance free. Features a positive locking system with easy push/pull locking. Ideal for ice fishing too.
The Slater's Pee Wee Crappie Reels is ideal for any type of pan fishing including ice fishing. The Pee Wee Crappie Reel allows for easy and quick line length adjustment. This crappie reel weigh only 3 oz and features a gear ratio of 3.6:1. The Pee Wee Crappie Reel comes with a bait clicker, tension control, anti-reverse lever, right or left hand retrieve and a line capacity of 50 yards. This crappie reels is green in color.


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According to a huge scoop from Phoronix, Steam might just come to Linux. That's right, Valve's insanely popular video game digital distribution platform will finally see the light of day on /etc/Steam (Linux users please note that I am a newbie and as such am just throwing around filesystem names to appear "cool")
For those that have doubted the exclusive Phoronix claims for quite a while now that the Steam client and Source Engine are in fact being ported to Linux, the doubts can be nearly laid to rest. Even I began to wonder how long it would take before the clients for their popular games would be publicly released under Linux. However, after confirming the information perhaps a bit too soon, their level of Linux interest is much more clear after spending a day at their offices.
After years of denying Steam on Linux it seems that Gabe Newell has finally let slip the codes of Linux into the fiery pit of an Internet guy. Michael Larabel, the founder of Linux focused website Phoronix had been personally contacted by Newell and subsequently he flew down to Valve's headquarters and has apparently seen the build in person. How awesome is that? He also says that he will be posting the Linux screenies soon on his twitter feed. Soon, he says. Soon. Which translates to "not soon enough!"
#valve does have Linux games coming plus other very positive Linux plans… I'll briefly post some screenshots and such tonight.
— Michael Larabel (@michaellarabel) April 25, 2012
Since the announcement, a barrage of followers and users have pretty much taken down the site where he promised a video will soon be uploaded.
welcome to all the new followers…. in a few hours when the load is back under control, I'll post the brief #Linux video on @phoronix
— Michael Larabel (@michaellarabel) April 25, 2012
Excellent news? You bet. It is thoroughly welcome after Desura's Linux-specific game search as well as Steam's own SteamPlay Mac support. Cannot wait for the video!


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Why We Should Fear the Japanese
As if facing Team Japan in the World Baseball Classic's upcoming semifinals isn't enough pressure on the already limping USA squad, once the laundry list of abominable possibilities finally settles in, we US Americans could be in big trouble.
Nevermind the impeccable team consciousness so calculated and so perfected by Team Japan during international competition. Nevermind Team Japan's quiet gamesmanship deftly defining and defending their world-class status. Nevermind Dice-K and Darvish. There is much more to fear… for example:
Rape! Dear readers, Ted Bundy, Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant… these guys ain't got nuthin' on the Japanese. Don't believe me? Know this: from December 1937 to February 1938, the Japanese raped an entire city! The then southern stronghold of China, Nanjing (aka Nanking), was completely decimated by the Japanese in a not-so-quiet storm of raging pillage quite akin to the stomping Chris Brown gave Rihanna not too long ago.
If that isn't reason enough to fear the Japanese, how about this?
Not only do they combine situational hitting with speed, they are also known to make sure the opposite clubhouse spread is spiked with magic mushrooms, leaving the competition confused in a burst of beguiling blur.
Yet nothing should invoke more fear in the hearts of Americans than the Japanese group mind. To illustrate, here's a clip of Team Japan's batting practice:
They may not be a hit on Broadway (yet), but the Japanese sure do know how to rhythmically scare the bejesus out of any and all opponents willing to scrap.
US Americans, let us unite! Persevere! And conquer!
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.
P.S. Dear readers, if you haven't already, make sure you purchase the Prince of New York Paul Lebowitz's 2009 Baseball Guide. You can get it *here* and you should get it soon. It is your one-stop shop for all things 2009 MLB and it has magical powers (and by "magical powers" I mean "table of contents"). Believe me, this dude knows what he's talking about. He's the clean, charming, polite version of Jose Canseco.
On the real.
(Ichiro blur photo courtesy of Donald Miralle/Getty Images)


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By 2020, personal social relations will be have been transformed for the better, thanks to the magic of Web 2.0. So says a survey of American 'thought leaders' conducted by private liberal arts college Elon and pollster Pew.
85 per cent of people surveyed for The Future of Social Relations by Janna Quitney Anderson and Lee Rainee agreed that "email, social networks, and other online tools offer 'low‐friction' opportunities to create, enhance, and rediscover social ties that make a difference in people's lives". Only 12 per cent thought the overall effect of Web2.0rrhea was negative.
That's good news - and World Peace can't be far behind.
But then the survey asked 850 people, many of whom were responsible for hyping Web 2.0 in the first place, and most have a vested interest in the outcome. The pollsters cast their net far and wide, and found Esther Dyson, Jeff Jarvis, Ross Mayfield, Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold, David 'Doc' Searls, Dan Gillmor, Clay Shirky, "futurist and blogger" Stowe Boyd, and a few WiReD staff. Of the rest, you can safely guess that they get excited about TED Conferences and Malcolm Gladwell books. This homogeneity of belief doesn't seem to strike the pollsters as odd in any way. It's yet another thing to gawp at in slack-jawed amazement.
"While many respondents are at the pinnacle of Internet leadership, some of the survey respondents are 'working in the trenches' of building the web... They are not necessarily opinion leaders for their industries or well‐known futurists, but it is striking how much their views were distributed in ways that paralleled those who are celebrated in the technology field."
Well, not really so remarkable, when you consider whose fingers are in which pies. And reading on, we discover the pollsters admit that it was self-selecting, and "so does not yield a random, representative sample".
Even by its own standards as a self-appointed therapist to the nation, this is a remarkably silly Pew survey. Listening to the samples of deep thoughts from this shower, you marvel at how humans ever achieved the Enlightenment or democracy without Facebook. There are one or two rational voices, but they're swept under the carpet.
Nick Carr was polled, but isn't quoted in the executive summary. ®


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Talk about a challenge -- or two. This being a Saturday, I'm referring here, of course, the Photo Hunt meme -- specifically, the effort of coming up with a single entry that combines the themes for this week that have been separately thought up by Sandi and Gattina. For, truly, my first thought when seeing them was that they were worlds apart!
An early look through my photo archive yielded nothing, so I felt prompted to actually go out and take new photos especially for this entry. Fortunately, I decided to do so at the right time -- before the Christmas decorations had come down in many parts of Hong Kong, including purveyors of major bling like the ritzy Pacific Place mall (which I only usually go to for its Great Food Hall, whose cheese selection actually is good value as well as wide, and multiplex cinema).
In keeping with its super high end reputation, the festive decorations at Pacific Place mall could actually be described as more understated than at several other shopping malls in other parts of Hong Kong (who really do go to town with their Christmas-themed decorations each year). At the same time, there's still so much shiny ornaments on the trees that it's hard to see any tree branches amidst them all (and, of course, the evergreens' plentiful leaves)-- even though they are in fact there!
Still, for those who are apt to dismiss the place whole sale as not being really Hong Kong, I think there's some irony in that the mall's un-Asian sounding anchor tenant (Harvey Nichols -- whose flagship branch was established in 1813 in London) is actually owned by a Hong Kong tycoon named Dickson Poon -- who may be best known to fans of Hong Kong cinema as the producer behind movies such as Yes Madam and Royal Warriors starring his ex-wife, Michelle Yeoh! ;b


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I am trying to install SK for the first time on my daughter's phone. When I try to connect/create SK account, it shows me a new window for me to choose Google account or Microsoft account.
I am trying to use Google account, a popup ask me to choose the G account, I do so and then nothing happens and the window asking me to choose G account or Microsoft is still here....
Phone : Galaxy A5 2017
Android : V 8.0.0
Please help me.


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Posted by Editoress on 08/24/13
Tour di Via Italia is the oldest running Criterium in Canada held in Windsor, Ontario's Little Italy. Every Labour Day Weekend racers from all over Canada and the United States come for a day of racing and relaxation. Come enjoy traditional Italian food and culture, along with free Family races at Tour di Via Italia 2013.
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lithographylĭthŏg´rəfē [key], type of planographic or surface printing. It is distinguished from letterpress (relief) printing and from intaglio printing (in which the design is cut or etched into the plate). Lithography is used both as an art process and as a commercial printing process. In commercial printing the term is used synonymously with offset printing.
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Check out the latest in the Gallery:Gallery
All the more reason to put the pictures on the forum, not externally. OK it's my hobby horse, but I'm right am I not
.....In recent posts, I have embedded my photos in the post rather than linking to them on the Photobucket site but that costs Mad Modders' server storage capacity.......
And how long would it be before Coppermine, having become successful, gets sold to Photobucket and it all starts again?
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