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Diana Kohnle
Immunoglobulins are special proteins in the blood that fight infections. Some of our white blood cells make them. They are also known as antibodies. Antibodies are important for the immune system. In immunoglobulin therapy (IVIg), extra immunoglobulins from a donor are injected into your blood.
It is used to treat disorders of the immune system, such as:
IVIg can also reduce inflammation in the body. Some conditions, including acute infections, may need IVIg to restore antibodies and boost the immune system.
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have IVIg, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
No special instructions are given prior to the procedure. Before the solution is given, it is closely screened for any viruses, diseases, or infections.
Concentrated immunoglobulin antibodies will be collected from a healthy individual. These antibodies are added to a sterile solution.
An IV needle will be inserted into a vein in your arm. The combined solution will be delivered from a hanging bag through the IV to your vein.
About 5-6 hours
The procedure is not painful. There may be some minor discomfort as the IV is inserted into the skin.
The site where the IV was put in may become irritated. You should check with your doctor if this happens.
You may begin to see an improvement in your original symptoms as soon as 24-48 hours following the procedure. For some, it may be 3-4 weeks before an improvement is seen.
Immunoglobulin therapy is usually done in cycles. For an infection or other immune system deficiency, therapy is usually recommended every 3-4 weeks. If you have a neurological or autoimmune disease, therapy is given for 5 days a month for 3-6 months. Following the initial therapy, maintenance therapy is given every 3-4 weeks.
As with the introduction of any foreign substance or chemical to the body, the possibility of allergic reaction exists. If you experience any of the following symptoms of anaphylactic shock (severe allergic reaction), you should call the doctor right away:
If you think you have an emergency, call for emergency medical services right away.
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Rod Frazier, Manatee High assistant football coach, is accused of improperly touching a student and sending her text messages
An assistant football coach at Manatee High School — one of the winningest programs in the state — is being investigated after a student said he improperly touched her, sent her text messages, told her he loved her and once asked for a naked photograph.
School officials confirmed this week that Rod Frazier, who coaches running backs for the Hurricanes, is the subject of an ongoing inquiry. They would not comment on when the investigation began, what prompted it or how many people have been interviewed.
The Herald-Tribune obtained a letter that the student's parents said was hand-delivered to Manatee High School Principal Don Sauer on Jan. 9. In the letter the girl describes how Frazier initially befriended her, but over time began to make inappropriate advances toward her.
"When we were in his office he would give me a hug, rub his hand on my upper leg, grab my thigh and butt," she wrote.
Frazier would not comment Thursday.
His attorney, Ed Mulock, did not return a phone call from the Herald-Tribune. He told SNN Local News that the accusations are unfounded.
"There is no substance to this," Mulock said. "It's kids texting and on Facebook. Things get blown out of proportion.
"The allegations are unspecific. This is a rumor mill issue."
In an interview with the Herald-Tribune, the student said she was touched inappropriately around 10 times by Frazier and received more than 250 texts, at least half during class or at night.
The student said she was in Frazier's office more than 100 times, sometimes when other students were being disciplined, and resource officers, administrators and other school employees would see her.
She said one time she was seen in Frazier's office by a teacher after Frazier pulled her onto his lap, surprising her.
"You're telling me no one noticed how often she was in that office?" said the student's mother. "They all knew. They all knew, OK? Anyone of them that has a child, I pray that that never happens to their child."
Frazier has been an assistant football coach at the football powerhouse since 2001.
In addition to coaching running backs for the team Frazier is also a "parent liaison" at Manatee High. In that capacity he is the person to whom referrals and other disciplinary actions are first reported at the school.
He played football under Manatee High Coach Joe Kinnan in the mid-1990s and went on to play for the University of Florida. His older brother, Tommie Frazier, quarterbacked Manatee High to two state championships in the early 1990s and then led the University of Nebraska to back-to-back national championships.
Rod Frazier is part of a Manatee High football program that garnered national attention: In 2012 the team was ranked No. 1 in the nation by several polls before losing in the state District semi-finals.
Kinnan declined to comment.
Bradenton Police Chief Michael Radzilowski said he sent detectives to school district headquarters Thursday to obtain the girl's letter and will have detectives interview her.
"Our detectives will investigate it to the best of our ability and if we find any evidence of criminal activity we will forward it to the State Attorney's Office," Radzilowski said.
Went back to work
A school district document signed by Interim Superintendent David Gayler shows that Frazier was placed on paid leave Nov. 15.
Gayler said this week that the investigation was based on "rumors and innuendos about inappropriate relationships with students."
Frazier returned to campus the next day and coached during a playoff game against St. Petersburg Northeast that night. The Hurricanes won that game 65-12.
"If he went back to work after a day, then they couldn't find anything to attach to the complaint," Gayler said Thursday.
State statutes require school districts to take precautionary measures when they receive allegations against employees that involve the safety or welfare of children.
In November, former Office of Professional Standards specialist Debra Horne began the investigation of Frazier.
Sources told the Herald-Tribune that her initial investigation involved interviews with a half-dozen Manatee High School teachers, but no students.
Horne has since taken a job at Prine Elementary as an assistant principal and Assistant Superintendent Scott Martin is overseeing the investigation.
Martin said Thursday that because the investigation is ongoing he could not discuss what prompted the inquiry, who had been questioned or whether the Department of Children and Families had been notified.
'The kids never win'
A review of court records suggests that the last five years of Frazier's life have been tumultuous.
Since the middle of 2007, his wife has asked for a restraining order, police jailed him for breaking that order, a court ordered him to pay child support and a bank foreclosed on his home.
Court papers show a rocky relationship between Frazier and his wife, Janet. She first filed a domestic violence injunction in July 2007, asking a court to keep the coach away from his family.
In those records, Janet Frazier said her husband once choked her, used drugs like cocaine, Ambien and Xanax, and was so depressed he cut his wrists with a razor.
Frazier's wife asked for the order to be lifted about in August — but returned to court in September again seeking protection. This time, she said Frazier punched her in the face.
Frazier was arrested in October when he showed up at his wife's home one night to speak with her.
Prosecutors dropped the case when his wife indicated that she no longer wanted to pursue it.
There is no mention of the arrest in Frazier's personnel file.
Those allegations were not the last time Frazier was accused of misconduct.
Adinah Torres, a former parent liaison at Manatee High, said she was inappropriately touched by assistant football coach Rod Frazier in March 2011 while in his office. He was helping her on his computer.
"I was sitting at the desk and he was sitting on top of his desk and he reached over and slid his leg and rubbed it against mine," Torres, 46, told the Herald-Tribune. "I looked up at him and I moved back and then I finished what I was doing and got out of there."
Torres said she routinely saw female students in Frazier's office, sometimes when he wasn't there, and often with the door closed.
"It was very uncomfortable, the things that you saw," she said. "You know, girls sitting up on the desk. He had another desk and they would lay up on that desk.
"It made me very uncomfortable to see these girls all around him."
Torres said she never saw Frazier touch a student inappropriately, or heard him make sexual jokes or suggestions to a student.
After the incident, Torres said Frazier made the work environment so uncomfortable that she began seeking employment elsewhere.
She began her job at Manatee in November 2010 and stayed through the 2011-12 school year.
"The first opportunity that presented itself," she said, "I was out of there."
The Manatee High School girl who wrote the letter complaining about Frazier's behavior around her said she also left the school to get away from him.
She said she waited so long to say anything because she did not think anyone would believe her.
"Everyone believes the teacher," she said. "It's an adult against a kid. The adult always wins. The kids never win."

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Pacific Zipper Pouch in Starry Night Linen Canvas
Pacific Zipper Pouch in Starry Night Linen Canvas
The new I M P R I N T Collection, featuring beautiful textiles, colors and textures hand pieced to create unique works of art.
Versatile, handcrafted, fully lined small zippered pouch / purse for organizing or storage. Available in two convenient sizes. The small size is perfect for your phone, credit cards, cash, passport, lipstick, etc. The larger size is great for larger phones/devices, cords, art supplies, baby items, etc. Both are easy to throw in your larger bag or slide into your pocket!
Made in a modern starry night cotton canvas print in white on black. It is fully lined in a solid cotton. YKK brass zipper closure and leather zipper pull. Shown with a BRASS BURGUNDY ZIPPER.
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Nigel Dudley and Sue Stolton 2011 – United Kingdom
Nobody knows better the benefits that national parks and other protected areas bring to people and nature than Sue Stolton and Nigel Dudley, and no one has worked harder to bring this knowledge to bear in saving the world's natural wealth.
Nigel and Sue are both members of IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and work as independent consultants on projects all over the world. The duo have played an instrumental role in highlighting how important protected areas are to people—not least how they contribute to healthy lifestyles, poverty alleviation, food production and clean water supplies.
Healthy parks, healthy people
They have produced clear and accessible publications, tools and manuals for conservation practitioners and provide new approaches to understanding the benefits protected areas offer in supporting local communities and economies. Implementing these approaches—translating international and national policy into action at the ground level—is a key part of their work.
The focus of attention on protected areas has long been on identifying new sites or areas to fill gaps in key landscapes, and to meet the internationally-set target of 17% coverage of the land area. There is still a long way to go to meet these targets in many countries, and particularly in marine areas, and there are also wide concerns about the amount of attention being paid to looking after these areas once designated.
Recognized for their work on the effective management and governance of protected areas, the two renowned conservationists led the revision and implementation of the IUCN Protected Area Management Categories, which classify protected areas according to their management objectives. Their contribution to WWF's innovative publication series Arguments for Protection has significantly increased understanding and awareness of the benefits of protected areas by governments and communities around the world. And for many years, Sue and Nigel have focused their work on the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity's Programme of Work on Protected Areas. This provides a globally-accepted framework for creating comprehensive, effectively managed and sustainably funded protected area systems around the globe.
Spreading the word
By demonstrating the importance of protected areas to global priorities such as adapting to climate change or halting biodiversity loss, they have helped to build the case for protected area conservation among a far wider international constituency.
A proportion of the work carried out by Sue and Nigel is unpaid and from their own resources. They do this because of their commitment to improve the benefits of protected areas and in the belief that active networks of experts, of which they are a part and play a leadership role, can make a real difference to action on the ground.
Sue and Nigel work at all levels, from advising international environmental conventions and governments to working with local conservationists on field projects. They live in Bristol and West Wales, and when at home take great pleasure in walking in the mountains of Snowdonia.
Last month Nigel and Sue were joint recipients of the WCPA's prestigious Kenton Miller Award for 'outstanding innovation in making sustainable the world's national parks and protected areas'.
Sue and Nigel's consultancy Equilibrium Research has just celebrated 20 years in operation. They can be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected]


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Ryder Cup Captains Davis Love III and Jose Maria Olazabal participated in one of the cooler golf events you'll see in Chicago.
The pro golfers hit balls off the 16th floor Trump Tower Terrace aiming for a golf green built on a barge that floated in the Chicago River.
"It's moving," said a surprised Davis Love III before his first practice shot.
Each of the golfers took three tries at making the 220-yard approach shot.
Both Love III and Olazabal laned one on the green meaning the the Ryder Cup Magnificent Moments campaign will donate $100,000 to the PGA Foundation and Ronald McDonald House Charites of Chicagoland and Northwest, Indiana.
"I can't believe how short it played," Love said. Both golfers used a 7-iron to land the shot.
If they would have hit a hole-in-one the amount would have doubled.
The Ryder Cup will come to Chicago this year and be played at Medinah Country Club.


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LocationPasadena, CA, USA
ArchitectureMorphosis Architects
Project ArchitectDavid Rindlaub
Project DesignersMartin Summers, Shanna Yates
Project TeamIrena Bedenikovic, Pavel Getov, Debbie Lin, Kristina Loock, David Rindlaub
Project ManagerKim Groves
Structural EngineerJohn A. Martin & Associates
Mechanical Electrical Plumbing EngineerIBE Consulting Engineers
Civil EngineerKPFF Consulting Engineers
Landscape ArchitectKatherine Spitz Associates
Laboratory ConsultantResearch Facilities Design
Architectural LightingHorton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, Inc.
Signage And GraphicsFollis Design
Curtain Wall ConsultantDavid Van Vokinburg
Project AssistantsPatrick Dunn-Baker with Adam Bressler, Laura Foxman, Brock Hinze, Amy Kwok, Hugo Martinez, Mark McPhie, Barbra Moss, Greg Neudorf, Mike Patterson, Aleksander Tamm-Seitz , Rychiee Espinosa, Jennifer Kasick, Kyle Coburn, Christin To, Sunnie Lau
Job CaptainSalvador Hidalgo
Acoustical EngineerMartin Newson & Associates, LLC
Audio Visual And TelecommunicationsVantage Technology Consulting Group
Vertical TransportationEdgett Williams Consulting Group, Inc.
Code And Security ConsultantSchirmer Engineering Corporation
SpecificationsTechnical Resources Consultants, Inc.
Cost EstimatorDavis Langdon
General ContractorHathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company
Area9290.0 m2
Project Year2009
Text description provided by the architects. Since the construction of the Palomar Observatory in 1948, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has continuously pioneered new ways of observing and explaining the heavens. Caltech scientists and engineers have deployed ever-changing telescopes on satellites, rockets, and balloons, and with these have made fundamental discoveries leading to new theoretical models. Paramount discoveries that have come out of Caltech include the cosmological nature of distant quasars, gamma-ray bursts, and brown dwarfs. In 2007 alone, Caltech astronomers found the largest object orbiting the sun since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, as well as the most distant galaxy in the universe. Yet, over the decades, the various specialists dispersed across the Caltech campus. The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics brings together a dozen different groups with vastly different cultures, focuses, and scopes into a single structure designed to facilitate collaboration and spontaneous discourse.
In the tradition of ancient and modern architectural observatories found around the world, the building itself conceptually acts as an astronomical instrument. A vertical volume pierces the building, tilting its lens to admit light from the skies. The result is an occupiable telescope, a public stair space that links earth and sky even as it strives to link person to person.
Located on Caltech's South Campus directly across California Boulevard from the Institution's historic North Campus core, the Cahill Center physically and symbolically connects the two campuses. The new building's scale, orientation, horizontal massing, and material language connect with the original complex of Spanish and Mediterranean buildings across California Boulevard (a significant part of the campus's historic core as envisioned by Bertram Goodhue's 1917 master plan). On the south side of the building, the athletic fields appear to extend all the way to the building's edge. A grove of newly planted sycamore trees, part of the overall landscape strategy, create a natural but permeable boundary. The new building extends a primary north-south axis across California Boulevard, stitching the two campuses together. A series of north-south interior corridors-literally, "stitches"-reinforce this connection and serve to orient circulation. Floor to ceiling glazing terminates the stitches: the southern façade's glazing overlooks Caltech's large, open athletic fields, while the northern façade's glazing offers views back to the historic core and to the San Gabriel Mountain Range beyond.
All of the building's laboratories, each configured to accommodate a specific area of research or activity, are located on the basement level of the building. By setting the building back on the site and by carefully sculpting the landscape around the building, the laboratories are granted as much access to natural light as is possible and practical, minimizing the basement feel and strengthening visual connection and accessibility to the ground level and to the campus.
The ground level of the building features a series of public spaces. The entry lobby (which includes the building's central vertical circulation volume), the 148-seat Hameetman auditorium, and a library maximize the building's use as a social and gathering space. The floor to ceiling all glass east wall of the auditorium affords views out to campus an in to the building, further promoting connectivity between the north and south campus. The library, located adjacent to the auditorium at the southeast corner of the building, opens out onto a semi-private deck that overlooks the athletic fields. Shaded by the sycamore grove, a deciduous tree, the deck provides an outdoor gathering space that is pleasant to use throughout the year.
The building is the result of a series of forces that collide to produce unique spaces of discovery. Force lines track the movement of form and light through the building's faceted façade, the central vertical volume, and the stitches. As one moves through the space, formal fragments coalesce to reconstruct the interactions among light, architectural elements, and bodies as physical traces of the institution's new ideas.


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Securing WordPress Admin in Linux
Note: Managed WordPress accounts do not support the addition of a second password as described in this article.This article shows you how to add an additional password to your wp-admin folder under WordPress® on Linux shared hosting. A few important things you need before you get started:
- This article is for advanced users. If these steps are done incorrectly, you could interrupt the connection between the server and database.
- You need to know what a
.htaccessfile is and be comfortable editing one.
You can add an extra layer of security by requiring an additional password before users are allowed to access your wp-admin folder. This can prevent attacks that attempt to bypass the WordPress admin login.
Requiring an additional password shouldn't interfere with plugins, themes, and stock WordPress installations.
To Secure WordPress Admin in Linux
- Set up password protection on your WordPress installation's wp-admin directory. For more information, see Password protect a directory in my Web & Classic hosting account.
- Using your hosting account's editor, open your
- Add this code to the bottom of the file:
<Files "admin-ajax.php"> Order allow,deny Allow from all Satisfy any </Files>
Now, when you visit your WordPress admin login, you are prompted to log in.


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Filthy guitars smother the debut album from snow patrol, the most american sounding non-american band to be touring the uk. it feels like the dandy warhols pulling back the reigns of the pixies and then has a nutty surprise for you with some seriously cool scratching by the time you get to 'absolute gravity'. snow patrol are a band who really come into their element live and this is a worthy first album with plenty of diversity and noise. there are plenty of softer moments but it's the noise we love them for.
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Another single from the same stable as Belle & Sebastian. Great songwriting with a hint of lo-fi make this collection of songs a refreshing change from all that major label 'indie' stuff. Imagine the blissful mature vocals of the aforementioned Belle and Sebastian mixed with the youthful energy of Urusei Yatsura – FANTASTIC.


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And people say that the holiday-that-shall-not-be-named-that-happens-in-the-last-week-of-December has gotten out of hand with its commercialization.
I love how the PIPG's lawyer cited a LV court case to back his claim of fair use and parody. Absolutely priceless.
"Lastly, the artwork clearly is a fair use under 15 U.S.C 1125(c)(3)(A), and a parody protected under 15 U.S.C. 1125(c)(3)(A)(ii). See also Loius Vuitton Malletier vs. Haute Diggity Dog, LLC. 507 F.3d 252 (4th Cir. 2007)."
Jump forward 50 years when e-books are the norm and some newer technology (whatever that may be)is looking to replace them
Maybe nobody will care about e-books 50 years from now, but I do ... Someone worked really hard to make the language just right, just the way they wanted it. They were so sure of it that they spent countless hours typing it out, editing it, moving paragraphs from here to there before they finally hit the save button and made the read-only copy available to the masses. So for a literature-crazed person like me, it's just not permanent enough.
LOL, that's totally what I thought!
"Gay no Wikipedia!? I was about to search something fucking bitch.. ["The page 'Something fucking bitch' does not exist. You can ask for it to be created, but consider checking the search results below to see whether the topic is already covered." Incidentally, the first result is "Flavor of Love (season 1)"]"
I don't think I've ever laughed this hard while reading Techdirt. Nice job Mr. Carab.
hackaday.com had this up on their site all day yesterday.
I really can't believe that a lawyer has actually taken this on. No where do I see that ebay is interfering with the auction. Lets look at it this way.
You go to a traditional auction house because you've seen an item you're interested in. You go to the auction with a predetermined maximum anount of money you're willing to spend on that item. As the bidding starts, you don't bid that maximum amount right away, you bid the minimum possible and only increase it when someone else has out bid you. If things work out in your favor, you've purchased the item for much less than what you have set as your maximum bid for that item.
Here's another example, you participate in an auction over the phone, speaking on the phone with a representative from the auction house. You start bidding on an item and tell the person on the other end of the phone, who is submitting your bids for you, that you don't want to bid more than a certain amount for this item, but you tell the person to keep bidding for you as long as the current bid is below that maximum amount. Again, if things work out in your favor, you've purchased the item for much less than what you had set your maximum bid to.
It seems to me that this is exactly what ebay is doing. When in an auction house, the seller has no idea what I have set my maximum bid to, so when I purchase the item for less than my maximum the seller is none the wiser that I was willing to spend more than I actually did. Just because ebay provides a means to set your maximum, it in no way suggests that this amount is the actual bid. The actual bid is the increment set for the auction above the previous bid.
Hopefully the judge will have the common sense to see right through this and dismiss the case right away.
"The idea is to keep employees from feeling chained to their smartphones, and to send a message to bosses that it's not reasonable to expect employees to be reachable at night, according to the Allgemeine Zeitung."
I've only got 3 domains, and at the moment they're all registered with GoDaddy. I've also got an SSL certificate for one of the domains from them. I've already started the process of moving them, and plan to finalize the move by the 29th. Among my reasons for moving include their initial support of SOPA, as well as their half-hearted reversal, but the other main reason I'm leaving is because they continue to accept the domain transfers of domains seized by the ICE division of homeland security. In my opinion, if they're truly opposed to internet censorship then when the DOJ asks them to accept these transfers they would simply tell them no.
If you don't want your employees to access work emails when they're not at work, don't send them emails when they're not at work.
Here's the problem with your analogy, someone who gets educated in the field of genetically altered seeds isn't going to go looking for work in Congress, they're going to go looking for work in the private sector with a firm that deals with genetically altered seeds.
Someone who goes looking for work in Congress will most likely have gotten educated in political science (why the hell its called a science is beyond me).
The problem is that once those in Congress who have been educated in poly-sci have shown that they're willing to make backroom deals for certain industries (they have no background in that industry other than greasing palms with it) when their tenure in Congress is up they tend to move into that industry, in an upper management decision-making role.
On the other side of the coin, most people who end up in upper management roles in big industry have not been educated in the specifics of that industry, they have been educated in "business" in general, and for the most part, if they had to make decisions that would affect their product directly, their product would fail (they leave those decisions to the people educated in the specific field). When they see a need to sway legislation in their favor to stifle competition, and lobbying alone isn't netting the results they desire, they themselves run for office, in order to help the industry (or specific company) that they left, many times remaining on the board of said company.
That is how the revolving door begins, once their tenure is up in one, they move to the other, then back, lather, rinse, repeat. These people are not educated in the nitty gritty details that make their particular industry function, they are upper management whose job function is generic and can be moved from one industry to another with no noticable difference, from the recording indusrty, to the movie industry, to big pharma, to big oil, so on and so on. And that is why your analogy, and your argument in general is an epic FAIL!
I'm going to patent, copyright, trademark, or whatever the hell else I need to do, the concept of building a mall out of building materials. Then I can charge license fees to every mall owner in the country.
*sits back watching the coin just roll in*
Ok, lets think about this for a second. FOIA was put in place so that the American public can have access to government documents. With the DOJ asking for permission to LIE when it receives FOIA requests, it might as well be saying "Hey, lets just get rid of this stupid FOIA thing". If they are granted permission to lie about it, we MIGHT AS WELL get rid of it and stop fooling ourselves already.
Its funny that this post would be made today. Earlier today, when I first got to work, I tried to click in the crystal box on the link for the post about Nintendo.
Because where I work they are so overly opposed to social networking sites twitter is blocked, as well as facebook. But because the people in charge of setting up the filters have no idea what their doing Mike's article about Nintendo was blocked because the word Twitter was in the title.
I did a simple test and it turns out that here at my work if you type the word twitter into google and hit the search button, all the results are filtered as well.
So lets route around them, and stop using sites that use verisign. Tell the sites we don't like the practices of verisign and until they stop using verisign, we're going to stop using them.
I'm a network admin, and about a year ago we had certain emails subpeonaed by the FBI, emails dating back over ten years, specific to one particular vendor, to and/or from anyone and everyone, past or present in the company that may have had communications with this vendor. It took me and one other admin a grand total of a day and a half to sort through our Exchange server and backup tapes and provide the FBI with every email they requested.
Oh, and it didn't cost us a penny for paper or printer consumables, we delivered the emails on a DVD. Thousand's of dollars to perform this request? Yeah right, I WISH I made that much money. I wouldn't have to work any more.
Now there's an incentive to go to the moview, free body gropes (the movie goer of course being the gropee).
"I could then go off on his "theaters are in the business of selling seats, not content", but it is so blatantly idiotic that I would never know when to stop."
Oh really?!
Well here is an example of theaters doing something Mike has been saying they need to do for a while now, offer a better experience, part of the CwF+RtB concept.
How about theaters offering "dinner and a movie" all under one roof without having to leave your seat.
Kinda dispels YOUR AC point!
Now THAT is a great idea!
Is it just me or are these people living in a different reality than the rest of us?


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The Lookout
by Ian Gaston (www.imgimagery.com)
Sunset over Snake River
by Matt Levine (www.enivelm.com)
by Jeff Lewis (landESCAPEvisuals.com)
The magic of a clearing storm in Yosemite while the full moon rises.
Three Brothers
by Clint Scott (www.500px.com/steeray22)
Yosemite After a Snowstorm
Snow lightly dusts the mountains, trees, and ground after a snowstorm.
Photograph by Tung X. Dao
Perfect Dance
by Aaron Meyers (https://www.instagram.com/aaronmphoto/)
Preparing for a photo-vacation is both exciting and frustrating. I research locations, lookup moon and sun rise and set times, track the weather, figure out the best place to stand, view hundreds of photos ... the list goes on. By the time I'm ready for the trip I have a pre-visualization of the exact photo that I'd like to take. I also know that the perfect photo rarely happens. Still, I had my hopes up for an aurora-filled visit to Vesturhorn Mountain in Iceland.
Willie, Alan, Rebecca and I had enjoyed an amazingly spectacular display of Northern Lights the night before, when the sun kicked up a Kp 5 solar storm for us. We watched in amazement as the aurora danced before our very eyes and took hundreds of photos of the amazing display. Selfishly we hoped it would repeat the following night when we made our way further east to Vesturhorn. The following night we drove to Vesturhorn, parked our Happy Camper RV's on the side of the road and waited.
Clouds had rolled in after sunset and we were a bit discouraged. We could see the Northern Lights hiding behind the clouds but those dang clouds were obscuring it! We went to bed hoping the clouds would clear. Every hour I would wake up, check the sky, reset the alarm and go back to bed. I repeated this 5 times and, finally, at 5am, with a few hours left before sunrise, I noticed the clouds were disappearing. I grabbed the camera and raced outside.
Before our eyes the northern lights danced, twinkled and streaked across the sky. Rebecca and I were so engrossed with watching the aurora perfectly dance through the sky that we almost forgot to wake up Willie and Alan! The next 3 hours were spent taking photo after photo, mostly in complete silence, as we made sure to soak in the scene. The images coming out of my camera blew me away — they were better than I had even imagined: an amazing mountain, a beautiful display of Northern Lights, and the aurora reflected in the ice ... what more could I ask for?!
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Center Of Attention
by Jason Chong (www.jasonchongphotography.com)
My first national park I ever visited was Yosemite. I was smitten by its views in higher and lower elevations. This park is great for all ages and when my children were born, I made sure as soon as it was possible to bring them here. I hope that the public continues to support public and open spaces so that all generation of ages can enjoy.
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Golden Sunset, Tenaya Canyon, Yosemite National Park
by Della Huff (www.dellahuff.com)
This was taken from the summit of Clouds Rest in Yosemite National Park at 9,978 feet. Late summer wildfires in the Sierra created a smoky haze that lingered over Yosemite Valley, creating a golden glow as the sun set.
Grinnels Grace
by Sushruth Gowda (www.instagram.com/poplocknshootphoto)
Probably one of the best view points I have seen on a hiking trail. The water color is produced by various minerals that exist in rocks eroded by glacial water.
Half Dome Sunset
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by Nicholas Ewing (www.instagram.com/ewingnicholas)
Halcyon Days
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A Maroon Morning
by Srivats Ravichandran (www.instagram.com/vats1234)
They're called the Maroon Bells, these 14ers, and you can clearly see why. When the alpenglow from the twilight blue hour lights up these peaks, they truly do turn a bright shade of maroon much to the amazement of every person standing there and I watching a sight to behold. And this stunning location turns into a heavenly paradise when there are fall colors on the slopes of these mountains.
Snow Globe
by Jeff Lewis (www.landESCAPEvisuals.com)
Snow falls over Yosemite Valley at dawn.
Convict lake
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Morning reflection.
Half Dome - Winter Reflection
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Surprise Awakening
by Aaron Meyers (https://www.instagram.com/aaronmphoto/)
I normally try not to get too excited for things in the future that have a high probability of changing but as Willie, Alan, and I checked the weather forecast for our upcoming trip to Glacier National Park I couldn't help but let the excitement build up. The weather looked perfect! Things didn't go quite as planned. We would watch beautiful clouds fizzle away right before our eyes, thunderstorms roll in, rain pour for hours and the fog get so thick you could barely see your feet. For a day and a half we sat around doing nothing because the weather was so bad.
On the 3rd morning we woke up at 4am and saw a few stars peaking out. "Maybe the storm will break" we thought. Dragging ourselves out of bed we made our way into the park and started to get excited! It looked like the clouds might be thinning! You know what happened next, right? Mama Nature was right on queue and within a blink of an eye made those clouds disappear completely. At this point we felt pretty defeated - even almost to the point of anger.
It's a good thing we're not quitters because just as quickly as the clouds disappeared they came back and positioned themselves perfectly in the mountains. They say the best photos come from patient photographers and in this case it's true. When the sun rose above the horizon it lit the entire scene in a beautiful orange glow. The word "dynamic" continuously came up whenever we talk about this scene. Everything came together perfectly: the glow in the branches, the S-curve in the river, and the illuminated mountains all made for the perfect scene to wake up to. And let me tell you -- we had quite the "wake your tuchas up" moment ...
Earlier in the morning, I asked Willie and Alan: "What do we do if we see a bear while we're there?" Willie replied "it's too steep for a bear to be up there. We should be fine." I didn't really believe his answer but it was too early in the morning to argue. While snapping away I noticed something move in the background. "Oh hey, look… Bear" I thought to myself. About 2 seconds later I realized what I just said in my head: BEAR!!!!!!!! GRIZZLY BEAR! About 40 feet away! The first thing out of my mouth was "holy sh!t!". Willie and Alan looked at me like I was crazy. "BEAR!!!!" I scream as I run for the bear spray. Willie backed up. Alan picked up a rock. When the bear realized who we were it too freaked out and galloped off. My previous 2 photos had picked up the bear! Can you find the bear here?
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Mt. Shasta reflections over lake during sunrise.
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Vermilion Lake Sunrise
by Tracie/Picture Happy Photos (www.picturehappyphotos.com)
This was taken in November 2016 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. This sunrise was taken from the third Vermilion Lake which is being fed by a natural hot spring. Mt. Rundle and Sulphur Mountains can be seen in the background.
A Midwinter's Tale
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Cold and chilly weather with mist grazing the surface of the meadows, fresh gloves of snow covering the rocks on the shores of the Merced river. To top it all off, on a gorgeous Christmas evening, the full moon was rising up a short while after sunset. What was a dark valley was then gorgeously lit up by bright evening moonlight that came up in between El Capitan and the Three Sisters at Yosemite National Park


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France's retirement protest strikes turned violent today as youths clashed with riot police in cities across the country.
Meanwhile flights were disrupted, public transport thrown into chaos and there was growing alarm among motorists over fuel shortages with hundreds of filling stations running dry.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, who has staked his reputation on bringing in tough economic measures, including raising the retirement age from 60 to 62, pledged to crack down on "troublemakers" and said he would ensure that "public order is guaranteed."
More than 200 protests and one-day strikes by workers in sectors across the French economy were held around the country.
Initial estimates from the SNCF national railway operator and the Education Ministry suggested the number of public sector strikers was diminishing after week of disruptions.
In many cities, protesters were being joined by youths who appeared to be seizing an opportunity to lash out at police.
At a school in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, closed because of earlier violence, a few hundred youths started throwing stones from a bridge at police, who responded with tear gas.
Nanterre has often seen student protests in past years and the latest clashes were reminiscent of 2005 riots that spread through poor housing projects nationwide with large, disenfranchised immigrant populations.
At the Place de la Republique in Paris, youths pelted riot police with projectiles and started fires. Similar skirmishes broke out in other cities.
It was the sixth national day of demonstrations over the planned pension reform since early September. Union leaders have vowed to keep up the pressure until the government scraps the unpopular plan, saying retirement at 60 is a fundamental social right.
Mr Sarkozy called the reform his "duty" as a head of state and said it must go through to save France's generous but money-losing pension system.
He has stressed that 62 is among the lowest retirement ages in Europe, the French are living much longer and the pension system is losing money.
The measure is expected to pass a vote in the Senate this week. Originally due to tomorrow, it has been pushed back until later in the week so MPs have the time to examine hundreds of amendments brought by opposition Socialists and others.
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The DGAC civil aviation authority said up to half of flights today out of Paris' Orly airport would be scrapped, and a third of flights out of other French airports, including the country's largest, Charles de Gaulle, serving Paris, would be cancelled.
Most were short- and medium-haul domestic and inter-European flights. The walkout by air traffic controllers was expected to last one day, with flights expected to return to normal tomorrow.
Strikes by oil refinery workers have sparked fuel shortages that forced at least 1,000 filling stations to close. Others saw large crowds.
At one on the south of Paris today the queue snaked for hundreds of yards and some drivers carried petrol cans to stock up with.
Mr Sarkozy said such shortages "cannot exist in a democracy."
"There are people who want to work, the immense majority, and they cannot be deprived of petrol," he insisted.
Police in the north-western town of Grand-Quevilly moved protesters blocking a fuel depot which had been completely sealed off.
Truckers have joined the protest, creating huge tailbacks by driving at a snail's pace on roads.
About 20 truckers blocked an oil depot in Nanterre west of Paris operated by Total, turning away fellow truckers coming to fill up.
Students entered the fray last week, blockading high schools and staging protests that have occasionally degenerated into clashes with police.
With disruptions on the national railway entering their eighth consecutive day, many commuters' patience was beginning to wear thin. Only about one in two trains were running on some of the Paris Metro lines.
Caroline Mesnard, a 29-year-old teacher said she expected her commute to take about twice as long as usual - as it has since last Tuesday's start of the open-ended strike on France's trains.
"All I can say is that after eight days, it's beginning to get a bit tiresome," she said. "I'm really tired, but there's nothing to be done but hang on and wait for this to end."
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The two subtitles to American Cheeses tell us a lot: "The Best Regional, Artisan, and Farmhouse Cheeses," and "Who Makes Them and Where to Find Them." Food consultant Clark Wolf has written an interesting book for anyone remotely interested in the birth and development of the American artisanal cheese movement. And thanks to the good folks at Simon & Schuster, we have four copies of this tangy read to give away. To win a copy, just tell us what your favorite kind of American artisanal cheese is here in the comments. —Ed Levine
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J.Lo: Your Hair Was Huge On 'American Idol'! Big Isn't Always Better
Check out J.Lo's massive, long mane on 'American Idol' — it truly had a life of its own!
Jennifer Lopez definitely let her hair do the talking. She was wearing a lion's mane on her head! We love big hair, but this might have gone a little too far.Back-combed and teased to the nth-degree, J.Lo's curls looked like a huge frizz-ball sitting on top of the judges' panel. We couldn't focus on anything she was saying because we were so distracted by all the hair!
Yes, that '80s retro style is in — but we don't want to literally go back in time! J.Lo's look wouldn't be so overwhelming if she had defined her curls a bit more to create a smoother, sleeker look.
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I've said a number of times that I hoped Elizabeth Warren prevailed in Massachusetts, and now I see that she has. I should say, though, that I think it's a shame that Senator Scott Brown had to lose to make her victory possible.
If Brown were running against a garden-variety liberal Democrat, I'd probably have been rooting for his victory. I'd like to see both parties show the flexibility on cultural shibboleths to field viable candidates in all the states of the union, and let the divide between the parties line up along meat-and-potatoes lines. And Scott Brown is exactly the kind of Republican you'd have to run to win in Massachusetts.
But Elizabeth Warren isn't a garden-variety liberal Democrat. She's the substantive and symbolic leader of the fight to rein in Wall Street after the financial crisis. She could still do something in office that would turn me against her – I certainly expect to be disappointed with her in a variety of areas – but it's a good idea to have at least a few Senators who really know and care about an important topic and push back against the consensus. I'd like to see her get a good number of years to fight this particular fight.
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Russia Demands Internet Takeover By The UN... And Then Retracts It
from the look-at-that... deptQuite a week for random governmental retractions. Back in February, when we first warned about the upcoming "World Conference on International Telecommunications" (WCIT) meeting of the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU), we noted that the thing to be most afraid of was countries like Russia and China using the process to take over control of aspects of the internet, in part to allow greater control for the sake of censorship, but also to set up questionable "tariffs" on internet traffic, designed to basically divert money to state owned or "closely associated" telcos. While much of the focus over the past few months was on the EU telcos proposal, you had to know that even worse was coming.
Last week, the Russians released their proposal, first in Russian and a few days later with an English translation to the ITU -- and both versions quickly leaked. You can download it from the Internet Archive or view the embed below. It is a pretty blatantly bad document. Larry Downes, over at News.com, has a pretty thorough analysis of the document and why it's troubling. Here's a snippet:
The leaked proposal would strongly endorse national control over those parts of the Internet that reside within a country's borders, including ISPs, traffic, and engineering. One suggested change to the treaty, for example, declares that "Member States shall have the sovereign right to manage the Internet within their national territory, as well as to manage national Internet domain names."This isn't a surprise... but it is a clear problem:
Russia is also calling for a major revision to the multi-stakeholder governance process that has long-presided over domain names and Internet addressing, which it calls a "critical transnational resource." Under a proposed revision, the treaty would be amended to make clear that "Member States shall have equal rights in the international allocation of Internet addressing and identification resources."
Today, oversight of domain names and IP addresses is delegated to ICANN, a nongovernmental organization, which manages key Internet resources through a complex mechanism. According to ICANN, its model is "bottom up" and includes "registries, registrars, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), intellectual property advocates, commercial and business interests, noncommercial and nonprofit interests, representation from more than 100 governments, and a global array of individual Internet users."
The ITU, by contrast, allows only its member nations to vote. Private organizations can participate in its proceedings by paying a large annual fee but cannot propose amendments or vote.
Curbing the Internet is a priority for these countries that goes well beyond the WCIT process. China, for example, recently hosted its first annual "Internet Roundtable for Emerging Countries," attended by Russia, Brazil, India, and South Africa. According to observers of the meeting, the participants agreed that "The Internet must be managed by governments, with a particular focus on the influence of social networks on society."Of course, a funny thing happened over the weekend... In talking to people familiar with the matter, we found out that days after the Russian proposal went live, they pulled it and submitted a "revised" version. Right now it's Russian only, so people are waiting for the ITU's translators to dig in, but we're hearing from people who understand Russian that the new version is slightly better than the original, but still has significant problems.
The Russian proposal, however, is the most audacious power grab to date. And it comes as little surprise to observers of the ITU, which has deepened ties to Russia in a bid to demonstrate its relevance in cybersecurity. Last year, during a meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure, Putin bluntly told Toure that Russia was keen on the idea of "establishing international control over the Internet using the monitoring and supervisory capability of the International Telecommunications Union."
Meanwhile, Downes piece also has two ridiculous tidbits about just how out of touch and clueless the ITU is. Earlier this month, we wrote about an editorial in Wired by ITU boss Hamadoun Toure in which he explained why the UN should regulate the internet. Downes points out that the title of that article was changed from "UN Must Regulate the Internet" to "UN: We Seek to Bring Internet to All." Quite different, though it's unclear who came up with the headline. The bigger issue, however, is that part of Toure's insistence that the ITU process is an "open" one relies on the existence of the WCIT Public Views and Opinions page, where people could submit their opinions -- and he encouraged people to do so. Only problem? At the time Toure's piece was published, the ITU had already turned off the ability to add new comments.
A link directed readers to the WCIT 12 "Public Views and Opinions" page, which, since it was created in July, has received only 15 posts.Why is it even a discussion for the ITU to try to take more control over the internet when they clearly have no clue?
But perhaps that's because the ITU required commenters to first register, provide extensive identifying information, and agree to a lengthy terms of service agreement before they could "express their views" on the contents of a single, and highly redacted, early draft of the proposals the ITU decided to release. (The complete document, as well as many more recent versions, are available on WCITLeaks.)
Or perhaps that's because, as one of Wired's reader's pointed out, the "Public Views and Opinions" page had actually been shut down before Toure's editorial was even published.
Weeks ahead of the conference, and just as some of the worst proposals are leaking out of the ITU's information fortress, the public comment page now reads solemnly: "We inform you that the WCIT-12 Open Consultation process is now closed."
That statement captures, in a nutshell, everything that's wrong with the WCIT, and the ITU's pathetic effort to spin it.
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Hello I'm new to M&M and these forums. I just got M&M 3e (since it was the newest edition)and I see that there is a section for the 1st and 2nd edition rules but can't seem to find the 3rd edition section, am I missing something? Thanks for any help.
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The NHLA Executive Board has voted to support a joint statement with other state library chapters and ALA regarding the pricing of e-content. Additionally, ALA has just launched an E-book Media and Communications toolkit that may help libraries become better advocates for fair pricing that can be found at this link.
An article that discusses the joint statement in American Libraries' "Inside Scoop" can be found here.
The text of the joint statement approved by the NHLA Board is as follows:
The New Hampshire Library Association has approved the following joint statement:
The American people long ago realized the importance of creating and maintaining a literate and informed citizenry. Publishers, authors, distributors and literary agencies have long recognized the important role played in our society by our libraries. In the past, they have supported libraries by providing purchasing discounts of printed materials, promoting authors and working with librarians to increase accessibility and enjoyment of the written word.
In this technological age, libraries must stay responsive to the public and deliver the written word in both electronic and print formats. The Indiana Library Federation, the New Jersey Library Association and the Montana Library Association are increasingly concerned about the publishers and distributors whose policies withhold e-content from library users.
Libraries, like other consumers, should be free to buy any published e-content at competitive prices, to keep these items in their collection and to loan them to their patrons. Anything less violates basic democratic principles of a free market, freedom of speech and equitable access. If financial barriers are removed in libraries, all citizens would have equal access to this material.
The Indiana Library Federation is in agreement with the Montana Library Association which asks publishers of e-content to place libraries on a level playing field with other consumers of e-content. The cooperative relationship among publishers, authors, distributors and agents must be restored.
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UCR professor studies engineering and invention on the half-shell
Marine snails, sea urchins, and other animals from the sea are teaching researchers in UC Riverside's Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering how to make the world a better place.
Consider, for example, the possibilities of designing a lightweight armor that would protect U.S. soldiers in Iraq from Improvised Explosive Devices. Or, what flexible ceramics might offer industry. Or, how everyone could benefit from new ways of producing and storing energy.
Nature holds these secrets and the answers to the questions that Prof. David Kisailus's research group is learning how to ask. "My hope," Kisailus said, "is that we can truly learn from these organisms how to design, optimize, and synthesize engineering materials that display properties that we as engineers can only dream of."
Studying ocean animals daily as they grow seems a tough task for Inland Southern California scientists. Instead of commuting to the coast, the researchers have brought the oceans to UCR in a unique 500-gallon seawater system that dominates the Biomimetic and Nanostructured Materials Laboratory, offering homes for both coldwater (60 degrees Fahrenheit) and tropical (80 degrees Fahrenheit) species.
While some people trek to exotic, faraway locales to admire the beauty of coral reefs, at UCR, people simply can visit Bourns Hall to see a dramatic and authentic tropical coral reef ecosystem. Another showcase tank boasts a thriving coldwater marine population that includes California's red abalone (Haliotis rufescens), purple and brown sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus and Lytechinus pictus), giant keyhole limpets (Megathura crenulata), several coral species (Balanophyllia elegans, Astrangia lajollaensis and Paracyathus stearnsi), along with numerous colonies of club-tipped corallimorpharians (Corynactis californica).
Other tanks hold animals for studies, while a series of separate small tanks host the crankier, more aggressive species or those with special dietary needs. The mother of all pump and filtration systems circulates and processes the water throughout, with total flow rates of nearly 10,000 gallons of seawater per hour, providing an environment like their natural habitat.
James Weaver, an invertebrate marine zoologist who works as a research associate with Kisailus, designed and built the elaborate tanks and filtration system, which includes a 6-foot-tall fluidized bioreactor. But to these researchers, the animals in the tanks are the true marvels in engineering. "We just utilize nature as our platform for inspiration," Kisailus said.
Kisailus first became excited about materials science while doing research lab work as an undergraduate at Drexel University. After earning his master's degree in Materials Science at the University of Florida, Kisailus did his Ph.D. work at University of California, Santa Barbara, where he met Weaver as a fellow graduate student.
The two dreamed then of someday combining Weaver's expertise in invertebrate zoology and Kisailus's in materials science. That dream has come true at UCR. "We are now constantly bouncing ideas off each other again and it seems as if there will never be a shortage of novel ideas," Kisailus said.
In their teamwork, Weaver is the guy who brings in animals with unique features, while Kisailus is the guy with the beaker. "James brings me knowledge of all these critters," Kisailus said, "And I say, let's look at how the abalone grows its shell. Maybe we can use a similar strategy to modify a nanostructure in a solar cell to make them more efficient."
Sea urchins synthesize flexible ceramics … and some marine sponges form fracture-resistant glass rods and fibers. "We look at these mineralizing skeletal systems and adapt the lessons learned from their study for the synthesis of real-life engineering," he said.
Consider red abalone, the largest of California's marine snails, with a large oval shell that coastal Native Americans once used as a shallow bowl. Inside the shell is mother-of-pearl, or nacre, a tough material that absorbs energy. Maybe, he said, the abalone can show scientists how to make a lightweight armor that is strong enough to protect American soldiers in Iraq from devastating IED attacks.
As the red abalone grows, it constructs its shell in the same way a new building goes up, girders first. In the case of the abalone shell, however, the girders are composed of organic material. Then it fills in the areas between the girders with the mineral component, resulting in the formation of a very tough layered nano-composite. "It's all in a very predefined orientation, all controlled by genetics," Kisailus said.
The scientists are trying to mimic that precision, using beakers and simple chemistry to make materials with controlled size and shape. If they succeed, Kisailus sees a future with more efficient energy storage and conversion — and eventually, some solutions to the global energy crisis. "Imagine having a solar cell that can be inexpensive, flexible, and highly efficient," Kisailus said. "I believe many of the organisms we study hold the keys to solving these problems."
The sea tanks are drawing in a crowd of young researchers. "It was my co-op experiences and work as a researcher as an undergraduate at Drexel University that set me on this path to research and intrigued my imagination," Kisailus said. "Although I am a new professor, and have two graduate students, I am hiring many undergraduates to work in my lab and learn to connect the textbook to research. Right now I have 11 undergrads buzzing around in the lab and will probably hire a few more … many with outstanding potential coming from all walks of life. I hope to inspire them the way I have been and get them excited about biomimetics and materials science."
He also wants to invite area kids from kindergarten through high school to come tour the lab and see the drama and beauty of the marine tanks. It's his hope to inspire them to pursue a higher education. "They're the future," Kisailus said.
Source: University of California - Riverside


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ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams tells The Huffington Post on February 9, 2010 that more than 600 people per week are signing up with ASCAP.
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ASCAP President and Chairman Paul Williams tells The Huffington Post on February 9, 2010 that more than 600 people per week are signing up with ASCAP.
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Pandora has announced that it surpassed 40 million registered users earlier this month. That means the service had doubled its size in 2009. And it's adding 600,000 new registered users a week now. Even more remarkable is that half of those new users are coming from mobile devices. And of those, the iPhone continues to lead the way with 10 million Pandora users of its own. That number has grown some 400% this year.
If you are wondering about how much new music can be injected into a stream, check out this report by Bridge Ratings:
While a solid 40% of Pandora's consumers rate the service "Excellent", a large component of Pandora's users find the music flow or unfamiliar music quotient to be less comfortable compared to their experience listening to terrestrial radio streams.
According to Billboard (view more information)
Worldwide, a record $4.4 billion in box office revenues were reported to Boxscore, an 11.7% increase over last year and the second consecutive year of double-digit growth. Attendance of 73 million represents a 12.6% increase over 2008, an important trend for a sector of the business that is now considered the most important for the majority of artists.
Via Edison Research (view the article):
Recent data from comScore shows a consistent 3 month decline among 18-24s, who may perceive Facebook as losing its "cool". A little more than half of 18-24 year olds agreed that "sites like Facebook are diluting the quality of relationships." Approximately 40% of them said they now use sites that are more focused on specific interests, such as music or movies.
Stats and charts via TechCrunch (click to view more).
95% of pages have more than 10 fans
65% of pages have more than 100 fans
23% of pages have more than 1,000 fans
4% of pages have more than 10,000 fans
0.76% of pages have more than 100,000 fans
0.047% of pages have more than one million fans (297 in total).
According to Nielsen via Mark Ramsey, in 2009, mp3 players had 11.5% daily reach and 69 minutes of daily average use. Streaming had 9.3% daily reach and 67 minutes of daily average use.
Time to start thinking about the impact that mobile internet will have on the music industry. See the Morgan Stanley Internet / Mary Meeker presentation on TechCrunch.
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Here's some interesting stats on social gaming and virtual goods. TechCrunch has a post about a company called Zynga (as of October 20th, 2009):
50 million daily active users as of yesterday (across Zynga games).
Farmville 20 million active users alone.
800,000 virtual tractors sold.
$830,00 worth of virtual special sweet potato seeds in Farmville in 2 weeks – half of that has gone to school children in Haiti.
According to Hitwise (lots of relevant stats on this page).
Facebook accounted for 58.59 percent of all U.S. visits among a custom category of 155 social networking Web sites in September 2009
MySpace had the highest average time spent among the top five most visited social networking Web sites, with 25 minutes and 56 seconds
Via Wired
According a new report from Arbor Networks, a network-management firm used by more than 70 percent of the world's top ISPs. P2P is falling out of favor so fast that the report declares that P2P is dead to ISPs…
via HypeBot
MySpace Music is the #1 site in time spent for the 18-34 demographic
The site is #2 in total unique users
MySpace Music has 18.95 million monthly unique users
via Harve Alan Media >> Nielsen
Web visitors using a mobile device increased 34 percent year-over-year, from 42.5 million mobile Web visitors in July 2008 to 56.9 million in July 2009 according to The Nielsen Company.
According to guardian.co.uk
The research reveals that in the UK, the average person spends £10,000 on music in their lifetime – taking in CDs, downloads, vinyl, music technology, gigs and festival tickets. The typical lifetime spend of a man comes in at £12,480, while the typical British female will spend £9,120.
Lots of stats via the The Infinite Dial 2009 - Presentation
via TechCrunch
App Store for the iPhone / iPod Touch has now seen more than 2 billion downloads of applications, with a half billion programs in the last quarter alone.
In addition, the company revealed that the total number of apps in the store currently exceeds 85,000, and that they are now available to more than 50 million customers in 77 countries.


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Aspen Summer Words this week: Southern writer Ernest J. Gaines — whose novel "A Lesson Before Dying" won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize — will be awarded the Aspen Writers' Foundation's Aspen Prize for Literature at this year's Summer Words Literary Festival.
The festival, which runs Sunday, June 20, through Friday, June 25, under the title "Crossroads: A Literary Intersection of the American South."
Other Southern authors scheduled to appear include Dorothy Allison, "Bastard Out of Carolina"; Richard Bausch, "Peace"; poet Nikky Finney, "On Wings Made of Gauze"; biographer Walter Isaacson, "Benjamin Franklin: An American Life"; Ron Rush, "Serena"; and Kathryn Stockett, "The Help."
A concurrent writing retreat will be held with eight creative-writing classes and one literature-appreciation course. In addition to authors, the festival features editors, literary agents and musicians in readings, craft discussion and panel discussions, as well as events for kids and entertainment at social gatherings.
Festival passes are $200. For more information, go to www.aspenwriters.org or call 970-925-3122.


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GOP seeks to lessen tea party clout
Senate Republicans are spoiling for a fight this primary season as they try to take back control of the party from conservative activists.
The strategy: prop up the most electable candidates — even if they are more moderate than ones demanded by tea party activists — and punish those who get in their way.
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After witnessing the business community help save the candidacy of Bradley Byrne, an establishment-backed candidate in a GOP runoff Tuesday for a House seat in Alabama, Republican senators are calling for the same type of support from well-funded GOP groups in Senate primaries next year.
"If you have an unlevel playing field, then you get predictable results," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who faces a primary challenge next year, said Wednesday. "The people who want to support a more traditional, Ronald Reagan-like Republican also need to get in the game."
The fight between the establishment and the tea party has been brewing since 2010, but it has taken on new urgency in the aftermath of the Tuesday elections and as the midterm elections draw near. Many congressional Republicans were quick to argue that the 2013 elections bolster the case they've been making for the past three years: Candidates matter.
( PHOTOS: Senators up for election in 2014)
Gov. Chris Christie romped to reelection in New Jersey by positioning himself as a deal-cutting pragmatic Republican who did not adhere to strict conservative orthodoxy. But to his south, Ken Cuccinelli lost his bid for the Virginia governor's mansion in part because Democrats seized on his hard-line conservative credentials. And even further south in Alabama, Byrne beat back Dean Young, a staunch conservative who likened himself to Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
Republicans said they must replicate the tactics by choosing the best candidates in 2014 — regardless of the demands of tea party-aligned groups.
"If super PACs are going to get involved in primaries, there has to be some other people involved in primaries who are interested in actually winning the election in November — and not just purifying the party in the primary," said Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who ran the National Republican Senatorial Committee in the past two cycles and faces reelection next year.
With the blessing of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the hardball plan is already beginning to take shape. Senior Republican officials are privately warning GOP consultants and firms who continue to work with one of their main foes — the Senate Conservatives Fund — and another GOP ad firm that they won't get contracts from the NRSC. They'll also be frozen out of McConnell's network if they remain hired by their right-wing rival.
The NRSC is prepared to spend money in primaries after sitting out the intraparty fights in 2012.
The rhetoric has become more pointed, with top Republicans accusing the groups of caring strictly about their own profits rather than the cause of winning a Senate majority. And with the backing of Senate Republicans, Big Business groups — which are allied with McConnell — are taking a more aggressive tack in the 2014 primaries as well.
Some Republicans see the turn of events as eventually hobbling some of the outside groups. Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran, chairman of the NRSC, said the conservative organizations could grow weaker if they lose in 2014 and their fundraising begins to dry up.
( SEE RESULTS: 2013 elections)
"Donors are tired of contributing to groups that support candidates with their money that don't win elections," Moran said. "If you can only win a Republican primary and can't win a general election, you serve no purpose in changing the United States Senate to something that's good for the country."
The stakes couldn't be higher: In addition to the fiercely fought race to keep control of the House, Republicans must net six seats to take back the Senate majority next year. If they don't, the GOP's map to the majority grows much bleaker in future election cycles.
"Hopefully it means that the tea party people will start to realize that it's better to work within the Republican Party than to continually make it very difficult to elect Republicans," said Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who thwarted a tea party challenge in his primary last year. "I think the tea party could be a great asset to the Republican Party if they would just get behind solid conservatives who are running."
Whether the more combative approach works in the primary — or spawns a costly intraparty war that could damage the GOP in next year's general elections — remains to be seen. For instance, the NRSC and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have severed ties with Jamestown Associates, a consulting firm that helped cut ads supporting McConnell's primary challenger Matt Bevin.
( Also on POLITICO: NRSC talks tough ahead of primaries)
But it's uncertain whether the severed ties will have much of an impact: The NRSC hasn't worked with Jamestown since the 2010 cycle when it paid the group nearly $30,000 before ending its association with the firm following a controversial ad in the West Virginia Senate race.


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End of Year Carbon Report
On 16 June 2006 I picked up the most expensive piece of machinery I have ever purchased–a 2006 silver Honda Civic Hybrid. Since I was moving to Houston (a city with a reputation for bad public transport) from Boston (a city where owning a car is ridiculously difficult and not worth the expense or effort), I needed a car. So I splurged and got a properly green car.
(I researched both the Toyota Prius and the Honda Civic Hybrid. The Prius and the Civic get comparable gas mileage but the Prius was more expensive.)
So here are my stats (since 16 June 2006):
miles: 6,436
lifetime mpg: 47.9
number of tanks: 13
total gallons of gas: 134.4
My record tank was my drive from Chilhowie, Virginia, to West Memphis, Arkansas, a drive across the entire length of Tennessee: 55.7 mpg.
By my calculations, with my $2500 federal income tax credit, if gas remains about where it is in Houston today ($2.159/gal), my car's $3000 premium for the hybrid power train will have paid for itself within 18 months of purchase. Hurrah!


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- Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to the latest iOS, and your Mac to the latest macOS.
- Set up iCloud on all of your devices.
- Make sure that you're signed in to iCloud with the same Apple ID on all of your devices.
- If you have a Windows PC, update to Windows 7 or later and download iCloud for Windows.
If you have a device that can't update to the latest iOS or macOS, see the minimum system requirements to use iCloud Drive.
Get started
Set up iCloud Drive everywhere that you want to access and edit your files.
On your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
- Go to Settings > [your name].
- Tap iCloud.
- Swipe to turn on iCloud Drive.
You can find your iCloud Drive files in the Files app.
If you're using iOS 10 or iOS 9, tap Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive. Turn on iCloud Drive, and tap Show on Home Screen. Then you'll find your files in the iCloud Drive app.
On your Mac
- Go to Apple menu > System Preferences and select iCloud.
- Sign in with your Apple ID, if you need to.
- Select iCloud Drive.
If you want to add the files from your Mac Desktop and Documents folder to iCloud Drive, update your Mac to macOS Sierra or later then turn on Desktop and Documents. On your Mac, you can find the files on your Desktop and in your Documents folder in Finder under iCloud. If you add a second Mac Desktop, the files from your second Mac won't automatically merge with the files on your first Mac. Go to your Desktop and Documents folders in iCloud Drive, then look for a folder with the same name as your second Mac.
On iCloud.com
- Sign in to iCloud.com.
- Select Pages, Numbers, or Keynote. You'll be asked if you want to upgrade to iCloud Drive.
- Click Upgrade to iCloud Drive.
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- Go to Start, open Apps or Programs, and open iCloud for Windows.
- Enter your Apple ID to sign in to iCloud.
- Select iCloud Drive, then click Apply.
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Under a section "Audio Files"
(see horizontal menu at top of each page), as of 2008, I have
made available the first four audio files. Two files are the
audio portion of a video taping of an interview I did about
"channeling and extraterrestrials" at the 1993 International UFO
Congress, and the other two are the two sides of a
1990-recorded 90-minute cassette tape of me reading a selection of what I
my "lyrical essays" written during the late 1970's and through the 1980's,
which as yet remain unpublished. I have also added a section under
"Audio Files" for "Video Files" and have put a description and link there for
some of them. With my apologies for a too-long delay in getting to all this, as
soon as I can get someone with expertise to help me, I will revamp and expand
the full-text, audio, video, and linked parts of this website, as well as
edit to a more finished state existing audio and visual recordings. For now
(6/15/12), I am represented by a number of things on YouTube and via Google.
As of March 2009: MY NEWEST RECORDED INTERVIEW mentioned here:
A few years ago, East Coast filmmaker Ashley Young conducted an over-two-hour
videotaped interview with me at my home in Oakland, CA.. It has been divided into 14 consecutive
8-11-minute segments and also includes a selection of my artwork prefacing each
the segments.
Click here to get to the interviews. Or you can copy this link:
Or you can Google "Some Day Fire Productions". Or
just go to Jon Klimo on YouTube (but, unfortunately, those 14 parts tend to get
broken up in both the YouTube and Google options, and it's best to find them all
together and in sequence). Under "Some Day Fire," my
14-part interview is the fourth set of interviews of different people
listed under Ashley's production catalog.


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"Glacies" is Joe Snow's home planet where he and his folks enjoy the freezing cold weather. Suddenly, the cold quickly turned hot when a meteor shower rained over Glacies! In order to stop the shower, more of the powerful stars -- called the "Power Items" -- must be collected to overpower the meteors. Joe Snow agreed to venture out into space to find more Power Items to prevent the planet from melting and save all lives! In "Joe Snow," you control Joe to collect the treasures to give him points. Collecting points will allow Joe to withstand fire, lava, and acid to get one step closer towards finding the legendary power items!
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Thank you for the time to write and post this excellent writeup with photographs!
I've just finished posting the full report on my recent Nevada/Mojave ghost town trip, starting here:
These are the places I visited on the trip:
Jasper Queen Mine, CA
Corona Mine, CA
Minnietta-Keystone Mine, CA
Lookout Mine, NV
Black Butte Mine, NV
Nevada Rand Mine, NV
Nevada Scheelite Mine, NV
Red Top Mine, NV
Nevada Quicksilver Mine, NV
Pershing Mine, NV
Beacon Hill Mine, NV
Boyer Ranch, NV
Chalk Mountain Mines, NV
Westgate Mill, NV
Ellsworth, NV
Vindicator Mine, NV
Ames Camp, NV
Cloverdale, NV
Goldfield, NV
Gold Point, NV
Minnietta, CA
Lead (aka Hughes) Mine, CA
Lookout City, CA
Ballarat, CA
Goler Canyon and Newman's Cabin, CA
Lotus Mine, CA
In Goldfield, they now have a vintage train on display. It's an 0-6-0 tank engine (missing cab and other parts) and two wooden box cars.
In addition to all these historic places, I also saw some wildlife including hawks, antelope, burros, and a Great Basin rattlesnake (got some video of the snake).
Thank you for the time to write and post this excellent writeup with photographs!
Big Bear Lake, CA
Nice write up on your trip. Enjoy the photos and history. Thanks!
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