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From True Crime: Hong Kong To Sleeping Dogs[edit]
Sleeping Dogs was originally an Activision-led project called True Crime: Hong Kong. It was to be the third installment of the True Crime series before Activision cancelled the project in February of 2011 due to Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg's belief that "it just wasn't going to be good enough." [1]
Shortly after in August, Square Enix picked up the publishing rights to continue the games' development at the hands of United Front Games, but chose to rename the project to Sleeping Dogs. This move aligned with United Front Game's original vision since the undercover cop action title always meant to be a new IP, as Senior Producer Jeff O'Connell says, "We always wanted the game to be an original IP; we didn't envision it being part of the True Crime brand, so to be able to finish it this way, I think is maybe the best possible scenario." [2]
Hong Kong: Not Your Average Setting[edit]
Many crime dramas find themselves in New York, Miami, or Los Angeles. Sleeping Dogs developer United Front Games want nothing more than to deliver an ultra-violent police drama inspired by Hong Kong cinema, and so the eclectic city of Hong Kong was the obvious choice for the setting of this crime thriller. "It's some place entirely new and colourful and different and I think that's a great selling point," says Senior Producer Jeff O'Connell. [3]
The development team encountered a number of challenges with getting the authenticity of Hong Kong just right. It was tricky just trying to capture the juxtaposition of Hong Kong's modernized architecture against the ancient temples that have been around for hundreds of years.
Plus, there's the "complexities of lighting some of the city's canyon-like streets, weighting the best routes through Hong Kong's maze of alleyways and designing a more ground-based, horizontal free-running system thanks to Hong Kong's quirky mix of modern and historical architecture and its vast range of building heights." [4] One of the biggest hurdles, too, was working with Hong Kong's native Cantonese dialect. Luckily, the staff at Vancouver included many Cantonese-speaking employees that helped with casting Cantonese actors to do voiceover work. The result lends to a more authentic-sounding Hong Kong.
Not Just Another Open-World Game...Right?[edit]
Sleeping Dogs will be an open-world game. Of course, the landscape of open-world genres has changed quite a bit since the project's conception. The Grand Theft Auto series still sets the benchmark for all open-world games following. "An open-world game itself is a very challenging thing," says design director Mike Skupa. "You move one little piece and it affects many, many different things." [5]
You'll be allowed to roam around freely to explore and do a variety of activities. There will be Side Missions that might involve street racing and stores, from which Wei Shen will be able to purchase new clothing. These outfits can provide various bonuses to Face.
Combat Is King (and Brutal)[edit]
Sleeping Dogs places a great emphasis on the game's combat system. It's packed with tons of flashy, highly choreographed yet brutal hand-to-hand combat punctuated by dramatic executions that involve the environment, like refrigerator doors. The hyperviolence isn't just there to mask the blemishes of the combat. In fact, Square Enix called upon famed mixed-martial arts champion Georges St-Pierre to inform the combat system. Says St-Pierre, "I'm really impressed to see how the hand-to-hand combat in the game is shaping up -- it's been a great experience being involved." [6]
The style and pacing of Sleeping Dog's hand-to-hand combat closely resembles the zen-like fluidity of Batman: Arkham City's combat, right down to the appearance of flashing symbols to signal a counter-attack. Press the button at the right moment and string together a seamless flurry of attacks. The similarity in combat styles comes as no surprise, since Square Enix London helped Rocksteady with the combat in Arkham City. [7] In Sleeping Dogs, however, choice in combat situations is the varying spice that gives the game its unique flair. Environmental objects that you can smash foes into will illuminate in a red outline. These objects can range from fuse boxes to blunt railings, which offer an ultra-violent end to an enemy. [8]
Speaking of ultra violence, brutal and sadistic are great descriptors to underscore the over-the-top ridiculousness of the combat, especially the melee finishers. Combine the hand-to-hand combat with a takedown involving an environmental object, and you'll get some shocking results.
A Marriage Of Many Games[edit]
The gameplay style of Sleeping Dogs can be likened to the free-running of Assassin's Creed, the free-flowing combat of Batman: Arkham City, and street-racing of Need for Speed or Midnight Club. [9] Take this scenario from Alastair Cornish, external director at Square Enix, for instance: "In the blink of an eye you can punch someone in the face, vault over cover, grab a gun and jump on top of a car to hijack it. You can then drive off, lean out of a window and fire at the tyres of another car to take it out. It's all seamless and it all uses a unified control scheme that's easy to pick up and use, yet has a lot of depth." [10]
The free-flowing style of the violent combat was explained prior, but when not in combat Sleeping Dog's hero Wei Shen lends his impressive agility and athleticism to some impressive free-running bits. You can count on powering through the crowded, maze-like streets of Northpoint -- Sleeping Dog's equivalent of Kowloon in Hong Kong -- clamber up buildings and vault over objects. Then there's the driving, which plays more like an arcade-style racer like The Midnight Club.
As far as the game's structure, it will follow Grand Theft Auto's mission-by-mission style. Certain parts of the city will remain locked until the story progresses to that point, but players can complete missions at their pace.
It'll feature a mini-map on the screen that shows the map of the city and key locations. Wei Shen's armor and health bars will be displayed on the perimeter of this map: a red semicircle represents his health, and the green semicircle represents his armor.
Sleeping Dogs Has A Need for Speed[edit]
As mentioned, Wei Shen will be able to enter and comandeer a variety of vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, and boats. The Need for Speed-inspired driving segments were worked on by several developers who've had experience with previous Need for Speed titles. A neat feature is that Wei Shen can leap onto an adjacent moving vehicle from a motorcycle.
A Reputation System[edit]
The game will feature a sort of reputation system called Face. Face gauges the amount of respect Wei Shen has; the higher it is the more access to more important people you will have. In addition, XP can be earned towards the Triad or Police to curry either side's favor. With this XP system, you will be able to acquire more equipment and abilities.
The Hero Is Not Jackie Chan[edit]
The game casts you as an undercover cop, Wei Shen, investigating Hong Kong's criminal underworld. He has a special interest in the Triad organization known as Sun On Yee.
The million dollar question: Is there multiplayer in Sleeping Dogs? The short answer is no. There will, however, be leaderboards and stats that you can share online with other players.
Ever Dreamed Of Being An Action Hero?[edit]
Sleeping Dogs is many things. It is an open-world game, a cop drama, a violent shooter, a high-adrenaline driving game, and the list could go on. Sleeping Dogs isn't just a bunch of games welded together; it's a game made for people who like to envision themselves as an action hero, the likes of Jackie Chan or Jet Li.
Jeff O'Connell says, "I think what we've done is create an experience where a gamer can be an action hero; a modern day action hero. A guy who has amazing fighting moves; he can do things that you've seen James Bond or Jason Bourne do...To be able to do all these things in an open-world, in a non-linear experience, I think that level of freedom is something that I always wanted to be able to do, so to be able to make a game about it is pretty amazing." [11]
Pre-Order Exclusives[edit]
There are pre-order incentives available at the following stores: Amazon, GameStop and Best Buy.
- Amazon will give pre-order customers an exclusive mission called Shaolin Showdown, a Shaolin warrior outfit, bonus Triad XP points and a Wing Chun safehouse decoration.
- Best Buy will offer a character outfit based on MMA champion Georges St-Pierre. Wearing the outfit unlocks a flying punch ability and enhances grappling and throw damage.
- GameStop will give an exclusive mission called High Speed. and a Hong Kong SWAT outfit, vehicle and assault rifle.
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First up, a good cause. If you love the romance genre and love the romance community and want to see it portrayed with depth and affection, take a look at documentary filmmaker Laurie Kahn's showreel at Kickstarter. I am a backer.
Now, about where I've been. Usually I will at least make a chirp here when I have a book coming out. Notice there was no such announcement for RAVISHING THE HEIRESS, a book I love dearly, no less.
It has been a heck of a busy summer. In the first six month of the year, I wrote TEMPTING THE BRIDE four times. We moved during the last rewrite, because the last rewrite should have been completed months before. Of course. I then spent three weeks getting the old house ready to rent–the thought of those weeks still make my legs quake.
At the beginning of July, after a brief family vacation, during which I did galleys for TEMPTING, the kids left for Grandma's. His Hawtness and I, wasting no time, headed for San Diego, where he was needed for a project for three weeks. We'd planned to work a lot and take a lot of walks on the beaches. But barely twenty-four hours after we landed, His Hawtness fell and broke a couple of transverse lumbars, which necessitated a trip to the emergency room followed by three days in the hospital.
Our first roommate in the trauma ward was a cheerful gentleman who just had knee replacement surgery. He wore it out playing hockey and plans to get back on the ice as soon as he gets used to the new knee. After he was discharged, however, our next roommate was a homeless gentleman who had been beat up for $24 and brought to the hospital as a John Doe. That rather put everything in perspective.
But His Hawtness always did have the proper perspective. Yes, it was a stroke of bad luck. But he feels that it was also a stroke of terrific luck, as I am usually not there with him when he traveled. Had he fallen down without me around, he reasoned, he'd have been in much more trouble, as he wouldn't have been able to get to the phone and might not be found hurt until the hotel housekeeping came the next day.
As it was, we were together throughout and that is indeed something to be thankful about.
While he was hospitalized, I cancelled my RWA Nationals registration: It looked as if he would need round-the-clock attention for a very long time. And it still looked that way his first couple of days out of the hospital. Then came the rapid, fantastic improvements. One day he needed the walker, the next day he didn't. One day he could only walk up stairs, but not come down; the next day he walked up and came down. Ten days after he went to the emergency room, he went to work.
When he was first hurt, we lamented that instead of working as soon as we arrived in San Diego, we should have gone to the beach instead. I was pretty sure the beach would be out of the question afterwards. But in the end, we walked on not one but two beaches–including Black's Beach, the access road to which is steep and winding–and enjoyed some gorgeous sunsets over the Pacific. (Walking, by the way, was universally recommended as the best thing for his recovery.)
We came back home at the end of July. Now he drives himself, brings home grocery–though he is careful about not lifting anything heavy–washes dishes and even cooks. 🙂 He is going to physical therapy twice a week to regain his full range of motion–and looks forward to doing yoga and running again.
While I wasn't running around nursemaiding–and a great deal of the time I wasn't, since His Hawtness is so independent–I finished my entry in the MIDNIGHT SCANDALS anthology, which also features contributions by Courtney Milan and Carolyn Jewel, and will be out August 27, 2012.
Here is the lovely cover Courtney designed.
I call this book the Fitzhugh Trilogy Book 2.3, as my novella features the story of Isabelle from Ravishing the Heiress.
After losing her childhood sweetheart to another woman, Isabelle Englewood is heartbroken. But then something remarkable happens: She meets Ralston Fitzwilliam, who looks almost exactly like the man she cannot have. Will this lead to an affair she regrets in the morning, or a wonderful new beginning to the rest of her life?
A pre-order link is not available yet, since we are self-pubbing this. But we've been told by our agent (this is an all Nelson Agency collaboration) that we might get one after August 20. That's not much before the official release date but I guess that's something.
I also did a round of edits on my young adult fantasy.
I haven't talked much about the YA at all on this blog, not out of any particular sense of secrecy, but because 1) 4 rewrites for TEMPTING! 2) the pub date of the YA fantasy isn't until fall 2013, and 3) not only does it not have a cover yet, for the longest time it didn't even have an official title.
But now I'm pretty it will be called THE BURNING SKY.
So how did the book come about?
I never intended to write YA. I knew the market was hot, but the last time I wanted to be a children's writer was when I was in fifth grade. Once I came of age, I didn't regularly read children's/YA books, except those that crossed over to the mainstream, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials, Twilight, etc.
From time to time, I did say to myself, it would be nice to write something Sr. Kidlet would like, something more action adventure-y. But I never had any real ideas.
Then at the beginning of 2009, I received an email from Kristin Nelson, my agent. She'd just had lunch with a children's editor who enjoyed my romances and who wondered if I would be interested in writing YA. I wrote back and said to please thank her for the interest and tell her that I am mulling over ideas.
I didn't–there were no ideas to mull over. My brain is either on or off and it was definitely off for YA. Then a few months later, Kristin emailed again and said she'd received a follow up note from the editor, hoping to read a YA submission from me some day.
That very afternoon, as I was walking toward Costco, a line dropped into my head. On the night I was born, stars fell.
That was pretty crazy. Stories usually come to me with a conflict attached, not an opening line. Throughout the rest of 2009, between balls-to-the-wall rewrites for HIS AT NIGHT, I tried to figure out why stars fell–a meteor storm–and why it mattered.
The moment HIS AT NIGHT was done, I jumped into the YA. This was the beginning of 2010, during most of which I was not under contract for historical romances. I'd seen my friends getting YA contracts on proposal, so I thought I'd try the same thing.
I sent a bunch of chapters to Kristin, she said, um, no. I rewrote the chapters, sent them back in, um, still no. It was a pretty darn steep learning curve, trying to figure out how much of a big story to put in book 1, how to worldbuild without overtaking everything else and–this astonished me most of all–how to write a girl character with some depth. I never thought I'd have a problem in that department, but oy, I struggled here, largely because even though she is the one born on the night the stars fell, the boy character is the one whose goals and circumstances drive this particular segment of the overall story.
And the opening. Lawd. I've had stories where I struggled with the opening–DELICIOUS needed five. But with this one I stopped counting after about a dozen or so.
It wasn't until November of 2011 that Kristin finally said, yes, I will send this book out on submission. At which point I said to His Hawtness, I hope she makes enough in commission on this sale to cover the six times she had to read and comment on this manuscript, two times as proposal and four times as fulls!
The book sold early in 2012 as book 1 of a trilogy, to Donna Bray at Balzer+Bray, an imprint of Harper Collins Children. And she has had some tremendous insights. So even for a book that has already undergone six drafts, there is still significant room for improvement.
(That original opening line also didn't make it. And the book is in third person, not first person.)
What is the book about, you ask? Let me give you the opening paragraphs.
Just before the start of Summer Half, 1883, a very minor event took place at Eton College, that venerable and illustrious English public school for boys. A sixteen-year-old student named Archer Fairfax returned from a three-month absence, caused by a fractured femur, to resume his education.
Amost every word in the preceding sentence is false. Archer Fairfax had not suffered a broken limb. He had never before set foot in Eton. His name was not Archer Fairfax. And he was, in fact, not even a he.
This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known.
Expect magic.
And cross-dressing too, obviously. 🙂
I call it a reverse Harry Potter, young wizards attending a muggle school, and plotting the overthrow of the dark lord from there. Senior Kidlet started reading the story early in 2010 and fell for it right away, much to my delight and surprise, since the story was still kind of a blob then. He has since read every draft several times and is waiting with baited breath to evangelize his schoolmates about the book. I have to say, I enjoy having a fanboy. 🙂 And since I wanted to write something he would enjoy, well, that's a life goal accomplished.
The rest of the summer will be spent editing A DANCE IN MOONLIGHT, my novella in MIDNIGHT SCANDALS, then work begins on book 2 of the YA fantasy trilogy, due March of next year. I also intend to self-pub THE BRIDE OF LARKSPEAR, which folks who have read RAVISHING THE HEIRESS might recognize as the naughty story Hastings wrote for Helena, hopefully before TEMPTING THE BRIDE comes out.
Before I go, it has been a while since I blogged, so–you know it–here are some foreign covers. 🙂
Looks familiar? Yep, Courtney Milan's UNCLAIMED.


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Kevin Davies sent a sample of his saliva to a genetic testing laboratory in Iceland to learn about his health risks. When he received his results, Mr. Davies learned that, based on his genetic makeup, he had an above-average risk of contracting prostate cancer.
Out of curiosity, he checked back three months later and found that the company, called deCODE, had changed its assessment: His risk was now below average.
DeCODE had recalculated its algorithm, based on new data. Davies, who is himself a geneticist by training, wasn't too surprised by this about-face: "The information that these companies can give you can change and evolve over time," he says.
That isn't the only way today's genetic tests offer slippery conclusions. According to a US government study, results often vary widely among genetic-testing companies, largely because each has its own way of choosing and analyzing data.
When the project to map human DNA was finally completed in 2003, many predicted a revolution. Drugs could be chosen to match individual patients with maximum therapeutic effect and minimum side effects, the advent of so-called personalized medicine.
But a summer spate of troubling stumbles for genetic-testing companies and programs shows just how long and twisting the road can be between advances in basic scientific research and their application.
It also has spotlighted the question of how medicine will be practiced in an era when anyone can research ailments and treatments on the Internet, sometimes becoming more familiar with new therapies and tests than their physicians.
In July, a report from the US Government Accountability Office presented at a congressional hearing on genetic testing roiled the waters. The GAO found that direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic test results were "misleading and of little or no practical use to consumers." As a test, the GAO sent identical saliva samples to four leading companies. It found that disease predictions varied widely, "indicating that identical DNA can yield contradictory results" from each company.
The GAO also found 10 "egregious examples of deceptive marketing" by companies, such as saying they could predict what sports children would be good at. Two companies said it would be fine for a woman to surprise her fiancé with the results of his genetic test, which she would secretly have done on him, an obvious privacy violation.
The problem is "there's no gold standard. There's no way of saying what would be the correct answer" in interpreting the data that companies present to their customers, says Troy Duster, a sociologist at the University of California and New York University who has long studied the ethical issues surrounding genetic research.
"The idea that consumers should be relying on this kind of spurious information whose interpretation is so questionable, and whose utility is so questionable – it's bogus," says Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director of The Center for Genetics and Society (CGS), a nonprofit group in Berkeley, Calif.
In August, an article in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine urged that consumers be protected from "unrealistic claims and misinterpretations of complex, dynamic genomic information." In many cases, the authors said, "there is little or no evidence of the clinical validity of genetic tests."
Genetic-testing companies beg to differ.
"We are confident in our service's accuracy and reliability," says a blog entry on the website of 23andMe, a genetic-testing company based in Mountain View, Calif., one of several that were singled out for criticism by the GAO. "It is widely accepted that the technology we are using is sound." The company called the GAO report "deeply flawed" and "unscientific" and noted that the "GAO did not find any problem with the underlying data that we provide...."
In an e-mail, 23andMe spokeswoman Jane Rubinstein adds that the company has met with the Food and Drug Administration and "anticipates actively working with the FDA," including sharing a proposal on ways to regulate the genetic-testing industry. "Because we are in early discussions we do not want to be more specific," Ms. Rubinstein says.
Geneticist Davies, author of the new book "The $1,000 Genome," found that receiving his gene-test results was an "empowering and exhilarating" experience, even though he knew the results should be viewed as very "preliminary." "It's the very early days," he says. "For the most part, the DTC companies do a good job of stressing that, [but] I think they can do a better job."
He's also critical of the GAO report. "It seemed to me they had an answer in mind and then went about proving their thesis," Davies says. "I just didn't like the way it was done at all."
In the view of Hank Greely, director of the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford University, genetic testing is overdue for stronger federal regulation, including a ban on DTC tests done without the supervision of a doctor or other health-care provider.
"If [a test] is health-related, it should go through a health professional ... who can help and advise you as to what it means," he says.
All the leading DTC genetic-testing companies say they offer either in-house counseling or referrals to genetic counselors to help explain the results. But interpreting the data can be tricky business.
Based on identical test results, for example, a customer may be told that she has a five-times-higher-than-average likelihood of contracting a certain disease. Or the same data could be rephrased to say that her chance of contracting that illness are 5 in 1,000 instead of the average of 1 in 1,000, a much less troubling message.
What's more, there's wide agreement that genetic factors play only a partial, and poorly understood, role in the development of disease. Other variables, such as a person's lifestyle and environment, are also part of the equation and make extracting the role of genes more complex.
"The companies are pretending that the science has advanced enough that they can say something. But it hasn't," Dr. Greely says.
The problem of how to properly conduct genetic testing and inform participants arose again in August when the University of California, Berkeley, asked more than 5,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students to submit saliva samples for genetic testing as part of an effort to teach them something about genetic tests. The students were to be tested for three supposedly benign traits: their responses to dairy products, folic acid, and alcohol. The program was halted after serious concerns were raised about it. Those students who did submit samples now will not receive their results.
"You're going to tell 17- and 18-year-olds that they are efficient metabolizers of alcohol? What are they going to do with that information?" CGS's Ms. Darnovsky asks. "That seemed to me to be so irresponsible."
Current genetic tests analyze about 600,000 SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) or 0.1 percent of the entire genome. What these DTC genetic-testing companies are doing is "a dying technology," Greely says. Whole-genome sequencing is a far more elaborate, and potentially much more helpful, look at a person's genetic makeup, he says. The cost was $50,000 last year and is down to $10,000 this year. In two or three years it will be $1,000. "That will be the next direct-to-consumer issue," he says.
"Everybody's whole-genome sequence will say something scary, either for them directly or for children they may have in the future or may have had in the past," he says. "The idea that people are just going to get this [information] over the Internet [without counseling] scares me."


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"It is not an easy ballet", The Guardian's critic Mary Clarke said of Different Drummer "but it should be seen especially by people who think ballet is just Swan Lake". In his choice of title MacMillan was quoting from Henry Thoreau's Walden. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."
Different Drummer was inspired by George Büchner's play Woyzeck, the story of a soldier and his descent into insanity. MacMillan told the writer Rachel Billington that he had arrived at his subject when he produced Strindberg's play Dance of Death in 1983, an experience which re-stimulated his interest in expressionism. He also knew Berg's opera Wozzeck and this clearly influenced his choice of composers for Different Drummer - Berg's teacher Arnold Schoenberg, along with Berg's contemporary in the Second Viennese School, Anton Webern. MacMillan had similarly drawn on Schoenberg and Webern when choosing music for My Brother, My Sisters (1978).
Written in 1836, Büchner's play, based on an actual murder case, was a powerful indictment of the exploitation of the poor by the military and medical establishments of the time. Its antihero is forced to earn extra money to support his mistress Marie and their child by performing menial jobs for his captain and taking part in degrading medical experiments. As Woyzeck's health deteriorates, Marie turns her attentions to a handsome drum major. Woyzeckconfronts the drum major who beats him up. Persecuted and humiliated, Woyzeck stabs Marie to death before he drowns himself in a bath.
A programme note read: "Kenneth MacMillan wishes to thank Yolanda Sonnabend for her contribution to the creation of this ballet." But five days before the premiere MacMillan made a decision to abandon her designs and kept only her costumes. Instead Different Drummer was performed on an almost bare stage stripped back to a few flats with the decor from the opera Andrea Chenier, then in production at Covent Garden, decked around the walls, while a large bath stood centre stage.
The ballet, like Büchner's play, is fragmentary, but mesmeric in the accumulation of these fragments. It opens with Woyzeck and Andres his fellow-soldier dutifully marching while on guard. Then Woyzeck's torturers arrive and MacMillan progressively reveals the humiliations visited on him by the Doctor and the Captain; his relationship with Marie and his cuckolding by the Drum Major; Woyzeck'smounting despair and hysteria; the inexorable descent into murder and a suicide. These events are rendered through the prism of Woyzeck's tortured psyche. As the ballet ends, Woyzeck's and Marie's corpses are prepared for an autopsy; the Doctor and the Captain wheel mortuary trolleys triumphantly across the stage. But in a suggestion of an apotheosis - and mirroring Schoenberg's score - Woyzeckand Marie seem transfigured; united in another world while their bodies are left in the hands of their earthly tormenters. However, the suggestion of transfiguration did not survive in MacMillan's subsequent reworking of Different Drummer for the Deutsche Oper ballet in Berlin and the Royal Ballet's later restagings.
MacMillan draws variously on Büchner's religious referents. In the original, Marie, plagued by guilt at her relationship with the Drum Major, reads the Biblical story of the woman taken in adultery. She comforts her (and Woyzeck's) illegitimate child by telling him a fairy story. When she returns to the Bible, she finds there the story of Mary Magdalen. Balletically, Marie, as it were, becomes Mary Magdalen, washing the feet of a soldier, who reveals his identity with a crown of thorns. Elsewhere, a simple duet for Woyzeck and his friend Andres is suggestive of a piet´.
The layers of choreographic movement echo the ballet's title; the perfect drills of the corps de ballet, soldiers who march with elegantly pointed feet; a more individual language for Andres, Woyzeck's friend; the Doctor and the Captain are expressionist ciphers. But for Woyzeck there is graphically distorted movement – worried backward jumps, shoulder spins - which speaks his alienation.
Different Drummer is a complex, difficult work with which several critics struggled. But to the author Rachel Billington it had "the compulsive, nightmare feeling of a painting brought to life." Billington also noted afterimages of the First World War. MacMillan, she sensed, was exorcising demons; railing at the fates that had so reduced his own father, who had been gassed in the conflict. Clement Crisp of The Financial Times spoke for the work's many advocates when he characterised the ballet as "uncomfortable, haunting, brave".
First performance: Covent Garden, London, 24 February 1984
Company: The Royal Ballet
Cast: Wayne Eagling, Alessandra Ferri, Stephen Jefferies, Guy Niblett, David Drew, Jonathan Burrows, Jonathan Cope, Antony Dowson, Ross MacGibbon, Bruce Sansom, Stephen Sheriff
Music: Anton Webern, Passacaglia for Orchestra, Op. 1; Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Design: Yolanda Sonnabend
Benesh notation score: Monica Parker (1984) Working score.


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Since 2007, reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) has become a major focus in negotiations over renewed commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). An effective REDD mechanism may enable developing countries to merge the goals of national forest protection with sustainable development, while providing a potentially effective and efficient climate change mitigation option to help combat climate change. For successful REDD regimes, national governments must have effective national legal frameworks to ensure that forests remain intact and standing on a permanent basis.
A forthcoming IUCN publication on REDD national legal frameworks, to be released at the 15th COP to the UNFCCC in Copenhagen this December, includes both a substantive discussion on key legal issues relating to REDD (forest and carbon ownership, participation, benefit-sharing, and additionality/permanence), as well as four national case studies.
On 3-4 October, ELC Legal Officer and editor/co-author for the study John Costenbader organised a meeting in Bangkok during UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol negotiations to review work to date and develop an abridged toolkit based on the study findings. The meeting offered participants a chance to discuss work with experts, Parties and stakeholders, as well as inject the publication with the latest considerations from REDD negotiations.


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Less Salt, Same Taste? Food Companies Quietly Change Recipes
McDonald's, Boston Market, Kraft Are Under Pressure to Alter Formulas, but Consumers Don't Always Like Them
Food and restaurant companies are under increasing pressure to make products healthier, but sometimes they don't want customers to know when they have cut the salt or fat.
Companies have employed the tactic, which some executives call "stealth health," in tweaking products including Hamburger Helper, Oreo cookies and McDonald's french fries.


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Your experience and training at Solano Community College will prepare you for the world of work, now and in the future. We invite you to meet our staff and let them assist you in developing your comprehensive educational plan. All training meets CalWORKs guidelines and those of the Solano County Health and Social Services Department.
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Office of Labor-Management Standards (OLMS)
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233 Cumberland Bend Drive, Suite 110
Nashville, TN 37228
(615) 736-5906 Fax: (615) 736-7148
September 30, 2010
Mr. Ronald Bowlin, President
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Dear Mr. Bowlin:
This office has recently completed an audit of American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Local 5 under the Compliance Audit Program (CAP) to determine your organization's compliance with the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (LMRDA). As discussed during the exit interview with you and Secretary-Treasurer Cheryl Womack on September 30, 2010, the following problems were disclosed during the CAP. The matters listed below are not an exhaustive list of all possible problem areas since the audit conducted was limited in scope.
Reporting Violations
Title II of the LMRDA establishes certain reporting and recordkeeping requirements. Section 206 requires, among other things, that labor organizations maintain adequate records for at least five years by which each receipt and disbursement of funds, as well as all account balances, can be verified, explained, and clarified. As a general rule, labor organizations must maintain all records used or received in the course of union business.
For disbursements, this includes not only original bills, invoices, receipts, vouchers, and applicable resolutions, but also documentation showing the nature of the union business requiring the disbursement, the goods or services received, and the identity of the recipient(s) of the goods or services. In most instances, this documentation requirement can be satisfied with a sufficiently descriptive expense receipt or invoice. If an expense receipt is not sufficiently descriptive, a union officer or employee should write a note on it providing the additional information. For money it receives, the labor organization must keep at least one record showing the date, amount, purpose, and source of that money. The labor organization must also retain bank records for all accounts.
The audit of Local 5's 2010 records revealed the following recordkeeping violation:
Lost Wages
Local 5 did not retain adequate documentation for lost wage reimbursement payments to union officers totaling at least $1,288.05. The union must maintain records in support of lost wage claims that identify each date lost wages were incurred, the number of hours lost on each date, the applicable rate of pay, and a description of the union business conducted. The OLMS audit found that Local 5 paid lost time on the following dates: January 01, 2009, April 30, 2009, and September 26, 2009, but there was not a lost time voucher, USPS Form 3971, LWOP form, or check stub to reference the payments.
Based on your assurance that Local 5 will retain adequate documentation in the future, OLMS will take no further enforcement action at this time regarding the above violations
I want to extend my personal appreciation to American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO, Local 5 for the cooperation and courtesy extended during this compliance audit. I strongly recommend that you make sure this letter and the compliance assistance materials provided to you are passed on to future officers. If we can provide any additional assistance, please do not hesitate to call.
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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I know, I know! It's not Friday, but I wanted to share this very simple recipe with you before the week was out, and tomorrow I'm having a giveaway and featuring a sponsored post that doesn't exactly fall into economy class. So, today it is. While you'll have to turn the oven on to make this casserole, it is filling, as well as economical, and it is a nice dish to serve after a day on the water. My only caution is that you'll want to slice your potatoes paper thin or they won't cook within the allotted time. While it is probably not necessary, I feel duty bound to remind you that bouillon powder and Parmesan cheese are both salty, so you'll want to hold back on the amount of it you use to season your pork chops. Warnings aside, I like the simplicity of this recipe and I think you will too. It makes a hearty, well-seasoned meal that your family will enjoy whatever the season. Here is how the Pauper's Casserole is made.
Pauper's Pork Chop Casserole...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
4 small baking potatoes peeled and very thinly sliced
4 thin cut boneless pork loin chops
2 tablespoons dried chopped onion
1 tablespoon beef bouillon powder or 3 beef bouillon cubes crushed
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black
1 cup white sauce (see recipe below)
1/2 cup shredded American or Swiss cheese
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat a 9 x 9-inch casserole with nonstick spray.
2) Layer potatoes in bottom of pan. Top with chops. Sprinkle with pepper. Combine dried onion and bouillon powder if a small bowl. Sprinkle over pork chops. Pour white sauce over all.
3) Cover, bake 50 minutes. Uncover, top with shredded cheese and bake for 10 minutes more. Yield: 4 servings.
Quick White Sauce
1 cup cold milk
2 tablespoons quick-mixing flour
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon white pepper
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
In 1-quart saucepan, stir together all ingredients except cheese. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly. Add cheese and stir 1 minute longer.
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HID lights are the latest and innovative piece of invention in today's automotive technology. HID lights will offer a stylish and unique appearance to all cars. You don't need to drive a sports car in order to appreciate HID lights. HID Conversion Kit provides excellent lighting for greater vision at night and leaves a stylish impression to the car and driver.
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Judge OKs DNA tests in Ottawa quadruple murder case
A Franklin County judge has granted a second request by prosecutors for DNA testing on evidence in the capital murder case of a man accused of killing four people in eastern Kansas.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Franklin County District Judge Thomas H. Sachse granted the request last week in the state's case against 28-year-old Kyle T. Flack, of Ottawa. He was charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, rape and other charges after the bodies of three adults and an 18-month-old girl were found at an Ottawa area farm house in May.
Flack's court-appointed lawyer, Ron Evans, objects to the testing because some items that could otherwise be used as evidence could be destroyed in testing.
In July, Sachse granted prosecutors' requests for DNA testing on 13 other items.


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- I have been in the markets as an independent trader since 2003. I use various profitable strategies based on technical analysis, cyclical analysis and financial analysis. My training has been enhanced by obtaining a degree in the economics of financial markets, attending various courses, a trainee-ship with industry professionals, as well as the study of several fundamental books on financial markets. I would like to emphasize my almost total dedication to this activity. The continuous strive for improvement, in order to be more uniform and connected to the market, makes this work one of my greatest passions. I strongly believe that recognizing and understanding "the sense of timing" is a great skill for a trader. Any asset that is subject to supply and demand at least from a buyer and a seller, who act with a common interest "undermined" by psychological behavior. A trading system seeks "to eliminate" the dangerous human psychology component.
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Aesop Rock Big Bang
[Aesop Rock] Well, so we meet again (He said he's grown spiritually since the last one) Ok, this is the dawning of the book of bitter aspects Where the jackals sit and watch the pedigods last flesh Poison functions accompanied by six armorclad Black horse and buggy mechanism Tugged a portion of my severed vision The gathering of loose ends in a bucket Wit a shoestring budget Every man's got a field to plow (I know that now) But it's like, man I really can't afford the oxen Fee fie et cetera I smell the warm blood of the bill collector knockin I get awkwardly sturdy with a frigid liquid backbone I get swept in the pressure cooker tryin to paddle back home I get sprung with a vibe and alliance of clean intention By eclipsing doom midigons hatched to bash these picket fences Now I'll attend the wedding of the open sword festering Now when the groom presents the ring The bride commence to blistering This textbook magnificently crude Prototype king beserker modulate Serve the vertical thirst, burst horizontal Treasure, loose cannons span the starbit power The clippership dipped in truth famine pressure Cabin fever meter pegging ludicrous Beautiful cartoon trooper swallow brutal futility with a teaspoon full of sugar I rock ready aim fire, while y'all rock ready fire aim Then blame the stationary target when the prey escapes the frame Merit badge marksman, a poacher, it's all the same So I lay across the woods perpendicular to the grain [Chorus] *rapped in doubletime* I gotta be a big bang, gotta be Never wanna be hear a probably, I wanna see or hear a "Yes sir, sir" YES SIR! Armed with a tome, cross, sore to the bone Warn the other brothers that was born forlorn Big bang, sharper than a big dick Hotter than a tunnel of big dreams that think big things I'ma burn with this little light of mind and a prime concern to earn thanks, I'ma be a big bang *repeat except 1st line is "I wanna be a big bang, gotta be"* [Aesop Rock] I'm just a survivor of the wooly mammoth population Bottle neck effect, sorta born deaf Alien of shallow alchemy If you gon' metamorph the basemetal to precious Might as well steal from the rich, bewitch the pesants I'm floating the hoaming pigeon out hell's kitchen window Left an SOS infested bottle nestled in his grip so With a prayer circle release party and hardy wild bellow I observed him fly ten feet then dropped the bottles to the devils Fertile circle turn pertal crescent via bad investment Despised every second, but I GUESS I LEARNED MY LESSON! If I made an angel in the snow for every rotted victim There'd be wings to float this mothership up out the goblin system Sticky panoramic contaminate planet In conjunction with phantom assumption Gutterbug alumnus candidates Well, I promise you I man the lighthouse Just to help guide in your ship If you promise to help pull this hook out my lip (bitch) Godspeed, straitjacket and ragged approach To circle suns via folklore pollutants to rhyme strictly From a BC generation disgust Community movement alluding to a "No blood given, no recognition" Life matter, I was us up all night with a rusty hammer Trying to build a fence around these magic beans my dreams are gathered But uh, that certain lack of avail I sail a choppy lie with bouancy like a bucket of rocks (a bucket of rocks) Chorus 2x [Aesop Rock] Big bang, bi-big bang It's gettin bigger by the second Check it Ok, I'm here to rock the tugboat and bare the others farewell I shook the buddy system wisdom till the similairs repel I sell a barrel of spirit to dummy dimwits syndicate jackals I'm broken arrow to the f..ckin bone (broken poem) I don't really believe in God But God, I'm scared to death of God?!? I swear to God, I never meant to spill the beans Nor tear the pod It's like I hike an acre unimpressed And slept on the sabre's edge Enough times to splice anti-Christ's favorite pledge I wanna know myself Sorta solo sheep amidst wolves And still my shepherd can't administer the proper push and pulls I push the ghouls to man overboard Pull the bulls onto my sword And buckle down in a corner chair with a round table floor Got an angel on my left shoulder, a devil on the polar Got a mug a frigid, got a mug a solar, sliiidde over Therecipe's design unplug the appetite continuity By stitching together esteemed congruents (beautifully) I peel back carts and lodge Greek physics in the chambers Quartarized the wound and heads like "Gimme gimme something major" Road side prophetic, ascend well enveloped in a mummy ribbon system Blistering in a wishing well BIG BANG!


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You can use DSCC to perform this task. For information, see Directory Service Control Center Interface and the DSCC online help.
Ensure that you use the ldapdelete utility that is provided as a part of the Directory Server Enterprise Edition software.
Use the ldapdelete command-line utility to delete entries from the directory. This utility binds to the directory server and deletes one or more entries based on their DN. You must provide a bind DN that has permission to delete the specified entries.
You cannot delete an entry that has children. The LDAP protocol forbids the situation where child entries would no longer have a parent. For example, you cannot delete an organizational unit entry unless you have first deleted all entries that belong to the organizational unit.
The following example shows only one entry in the organizational unit. This entry and then its parent entry can be deleted.
$ ldapdelete -h host1 -p 1389 -D cn=admin,cn=Administrators,cn=config -w - Enter bind password: uid=bjensen,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com ou=People,dc=example,dc=com


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Mission statement
German Studies is the interdisciplinary study of the contemporary cultural, social, economic and political life of the German-speaking peoples in their historical and international contexts. The German faculty of Pomona and Scripps colleges offer a single unified and comprehensive curriculum for language, literature and cultural studies courses. The specific outcome of a Major in the Claremont German Program is the educated speaker with translingual and transcultural competence. This means the ability to operate between languages. Our students are educated to be informed and capable interlocutors with educated native speakers in the target language.
Teaching practice
The multiple tasks for this outcome can be broken down into a set of key abilities. All abilities are in play in all our courses - to varying extents and with different emphases. Contrary to the common distinction between skill and content courses, roughly corresponding to the division between language courses and "upper-division" courses in a Fl department, we believe that there is no language teaching without involving content of the target language/culture; and inversely, even our advanced courses still also work on language improvement. Our teaching, therefore, simply shifts its emphases on the central goals along an axis from beginning language learning to transcultural competence.
Learning Goals in the Study of German Language
All Students in German: All German language students (German 1-33) should achieve the B-2 level of the internationally recognized Goethe Institute exam, which follows the EU frame of reference for scholastic performance (CEFR). This entails the ability to converse in German on a wide range of topics, to comprehend basic German texts, and to write on non-technical topics.
German Majors additionally should be able to: German majors should achieve the C-1 level of the language in the CEFR. This means the ability to converse in German on a wide range of topics, including academic topics, to comprehend and analyze German texts, and to write critically on a broad range of topics.
Language Assessment Tools
Each class requires:
- Quizzes,
- Midterms,
- Finals
- Course evaluations - all geared toward the overarching goal.
- Study Abroad (providing an outside perspective for German language and culture evaluation). We are developing ways to better integrate and, hence, assess, students abilities after their return from Study Abroad.
Learning Goals in the Study of German Culture
Majors should be able to:
- navigate the German Internet;
- function independently in a German-speaking environment;
- have a broad understanding of the historical political, cultural events that shape contemporary Germany;
- be familiar with representative works of German literature, fine arts, music, cinema, and architecture;
- acquire cultural competency understood as historical and political awareness, social sensibility, and aesthetic perception;
- understand how German cultural reality is constantly renewed in daily life through cultural subsystems such as:
- the media
- literary and artistic works;
- social and historical narratives in the arts, the legal, political, educational economic and social welfare systems
- sport or leisure, together with the cultural metaphors they have created and their relation to the national imagination
- stereotypes of self and others
- symbols and sites of memory/history, such as buildings, places, landscapes, historical figures, popular heroes, culture-specific products, literary and artistic canons, fashion, cuisine, etc.
Cultural Studies Assessment Tools
- Each course has its appropriate form of assessment (written exam; oral presentations; essays; media project, etc.)
- Study Abroad
- Senior Exercise:
- Option 1: Senior Exercise consisting of three essays, one in German, two in English, based on previous course work; and an Oral exam (in German) to discuss the results of the written part.
- Option 2: Senior Thesis with a required presentation.
Three times in the course of study, students and their advisors meet to develop and reassess a coherent plan of study and assess the student's progress. The first meeting is required when declaring the major; the second at the beginning of the senior year; the third is a progress evaluation on the student's senior exercise (either comps or thesis) and may fall into the middle of the first or second semester of the senior year, depending on whether it is a two or one semester project. At each stage, a brief report is drawn up, addressing such things as courses taken and still to be taken; matters of SA; senior exercise, etc. These reports, together with the grades (and any additional written feedback from the instructors) of all upper-division courses form a mini-portfolio of student progress and evaluation.
Feedback-loop and Use of Results Toward Program Improvement
G&Ru will in the future continue to hold its thesis presentations jointly and as a faculty jointly discuss and assess this part of students' work with a view to improving the senior exercise and, if need be, preceding course work and learning goals.


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As we've seen in trailers going back to E3, Lara Croft gets the crap beat out of her trying to escape from the bandits' camp in the Tomb Raider reboot, though to be fair, she gives as good as she gets. That must have been on the mind of whoever came up with this design for a Tomb Raider special edition controller, because it looks worn the hell out.
This design was achieved with "a two-layer color finish with laser etching," and when it zooms up on the cuts crisscrossing the fingerprint pattern, it looks like Lara grabbed a palmfull of briar vines to swing across the chasm. Supposedly this represents the worn character of her trusty ice axe.
The controller is $59.99 and comes with a download code for an exclusive character playable in multiplayer. It'll be on shelves when the game arrives March 5.


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The United Way of Amarillo & Canyon is scheduled to announce Thursday how it will distribute funding for 37 community programs this year throughout the region.
The organizations leaders recently demanded the Red Cross, which receives money from the United Way, answer for mistakes in handling $282,000 in wildfire relief donations last year.
Some expressed doubts they could confidently raise money to be allocated to the Red Cross without a more specific accounting of why just half the $282,000 raised following February 2011 wildfires in Potter and Randall counties went to victims and first responders.
The United Way of Amarillo & Canyon also plans announce a new initiative to ensure children in kindergarten through fifth grade have access to training in team skills, conflict resolution, diplomacy and financial literacy, as well as provide support for parents who are living in poverty.
The organization allocated more than $2.8 million to 39 programs last year.
It is scheduled to announce the funding at 2 p.m. at the United Way Conference Room, 2207 Line Ave.


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SOC: Colonial City of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
VII.31 Colonial City of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
At the request of the authorities of the Dominican Republic, an expert mission was undertaken in August 1998 to assess the state of conservation of the World Heritage site of Santo Domingo. The report emphasized the need to balance interventions in the physical-environmental recuperation of the area, tourism development and the socio-cultural development of the local population (housing, services etc.). It furthermore stressed that the effective control by the Office for the Cultural Heritage depends very much on the adoption of the Master Plan for the City which would establish an extended protection zone and norms for land-use. It also pointed out that several buildings in the city had collapsed recently, not caused by natural disasters but by the lack of maintenance.
On 22 September 1998, Hurricane Georges caused severe damage to the Dominican Republic. The Secretariat received reports from the Office for Cultural Heritage of the Dominican Republic and the national ICOMOS Committee. It was reported that serious damage was caused to residential buildings, churches and to the Casa de Juan de Herrera at the Plaza de Colon.
The Committee expressed concern about the damage caused by Hurricane George to the World Heritage site of Santo Domingo and encouraged the national authorities to take the necessary measures for the consolidation and safeguarding of the damaged buildings. It expressed its readiness to assist in undertaking emergency measures for the consolidation and recuperation of damaged buildings. It noted that the Chairperson had approved emergency assistance for the safeguarding of the Casa de Juan de Herrera.
At the same time, however, the Committee noted that part of the damage could only occur due to the lack of maintenance and preventive measures. It stressed the need for risk preparedness and preventive planning and conservation measures, particularly in hurricane prone areas such as the Caribbean.
The Committee requested the authorities to submit, by 15 April 1999, a progress report on the actions taken in response to the report of the monitoring mission of August 1998 and to the damage caused by Hurricane Georges.
The Committee requested the Secretariat and the advisory bodies to look into the possibilities to develop specific activities for the Caribbean to promote and implement risk preparedness schemes.
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Pair of proteins gets brain cells into shape
Scientists at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Bonn have gained new insights into the early phase of the brain's development. In cooperation with researchers of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, the University of Bonn and other German and international colleagues they identified two proteins that control the formation of cell protuberances. The typical ramifications through which nerve cells receive and forward signals ultimately originate from these outgrowths.
The study conducted by Prof. Frank Bradke's team provides indications on brain development and about the causes of diseases of the nervous system. The results have now been published in Neuron.
Under the microscope, the brain appears as a network of intricate beauty comprising billions of nerve cells (the so-called "neurons") linked together. This network is engaged in a constant process of sharing information. The signals are transmitted from neuron to neuron through fine ramifications of the cell body. However, to acquire this typical structure, young nerve cells have first to go through a shape transformation. "Young neurons have a rather inconspicuous form. They tend to be round and are reminiscent of cherries," comments Frank Bradke, group leader at the DZNE in Bonn. "At this stage, the neuron is much like an island. It is insulated and does not have any direct contact with other cells."
Consequently, nerve cells have to go through a phase of change while they are still in the early stages of their development. To date, little was known about how the cells master this transformation, which is so important for their function. It is essential for the brain's development that its neurons develop contacts to a multitude of other cells. The initial step of this process is that tiny extensions, the so-called "neurites" protrude out of the cell body. The study conducted by the researchers in Bonn and their colleagues sheds light on this process.
A dynamic duo gets its grip on the cell's corset
Investigating mouse brain cells, the neuroscientists were able to identify the three key players involved in the shape change: the cell's cytoskeleton, which consists of specific proteins that give the cell its form and stability, as well as the two proteins named "ADF" and "cofilin." "We were able to show that these two proteins do have a significant impact on cell structure," explains Dr. Kevin Flynn, a postdoc researcher in Bradke's team and first author of the report published in "Neuron". "Much like scissors they cut through the support corset of the cell in the proper location. Neurites can subsequently develop through these gaps."
For this to occur several processes have to work hand in hand: along its perimeter, the neuron receives its stability mainly through a network of actin filaments, string shaped protein molecules. The proteins ADF and cofilin can alter this structure by dissolving the actin filaments and enabling fragments resulting from this process to be carried away. As a result, other components of the cytoskeleton – the microtubules – are able to come to action. The microtubule migrate through the newly opened gap and form a new cell protuberance.
Impact on the development of the brain
In their study, the researchers demonstrated the significance of the two proteins in nerve cell development. In certain mice, the production of ADF and cofilin was virtually halted. As a result the brains of newborn animals had severe abnormalities. Analysis of their brain cells indicated that they had failed to develop any neurites.
"Our study shows that the proteins ADF and cofilin, and their interaction with actin filaments, are key factors for brain development," comments Bradke. However, the development of neurites is also of relevance in other contexts. For instance, nerve cells have to regrow their connections after an injury. In addition, a number of diseases and malformations of the nervous system are linked to underdeveloped neurites. "We now have a better understanding of the molecular processes that are involved in this important process."


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Usability Studies and Feedback
For us to be a success, we must reach our audience at the point of need, with the content they need, in the form they need it. This is an ambitious goal, given that we have not yet clearly identified our audiences. We believe that they include researchers primarily in the humanities, undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Alabama, and patrons in the University of Alabama community.
To succeed, we must connect with our users and obtain feedback, and then modify our content and its delivery methods appropriately. This must be an iterative effort, as our user base and our offerings are continually morphing.
Cabaniss Study
Donnelly Lancaster Walton (Archival Access Coordinator) developed a proposal for a user study in late 2008: http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/f/f4/User_study_20081110.docx
Some of the questions she posed include:
- Do our researchers want to do their own searches and pull together the letters written by individuals and place them in their own order?
- Do they want us to present them to them in the order in which they are arranged physically at the Hoole?
- Do they want us to present the collections folder-by-folder and allow them to virtually open the folder and view the contents?
- Do they want to look at the archival finding aid and view the digital items within the context of the finding aid?
We attempted to address these points with the Cabaniss_Usability_Study in late 2010.
Metadata Comparison Study
A second usability study evolved from the concern over the lack of staffing support for archivists to create item-level descriptive metadata, against the burgeoning need for content to feed the digitization machine. This usability study is currently underway and more information on this effort is available in the Metadata_Comparison_Test.
Our experience with these studies clarified for us that we need to better understand the metrics for testing learnability of interfaces and how to best select questions and perform tests to ensure valuable results for analysis. Prior to development of the next tests, we studied Measuring the User Experience: Collecting, Analyzing and Presenting Usability Metrics by Tom Tullis and Bill Albert, Morgan Kaufmann publishers, 2008. ISBN: 978-0-12-373558-4
Acumen Access Study
A third usability study held in January 2012 pointed out some problems our patrons are having with the Acumen interface. Amanda Presnell, who carried out this study with the assistance of Jeremiah Colonna-Romano, then presented the results to the Digital Planning meeting. Her presentation is available here: http://www.lib.ua.edu/wiki/digcoll/images/6/6a/Presentation.pdf
As a result of these findings, Digital Services then developed two videos to link into the left side of the Acumen interface. One is "How to use Acumen" and the second is "What's in Acumen?" -- the Hoole curators provided the text and examples for the second video. Our next step is to determine how useful these videos are in meeting the need they attempt to fill.
Faculty Researcher Study
In late 2012, we began a user study to understand how faculty researchers access primary source materials online. Our research questions are: What aspects of current online primary source materials are most useful for faculty researchers? What aspects are most problematic? What gaps exist between the needs of these researchers and the current methods of online delivery? The study is ongoing, with interviews taking place December 2012 - February 2013.


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Disney Channel Preparing 'Teen Beach Movie 2′ for 2015
'Teen Beach Movie' fans, get ready for a whole new adventure: Disney Channel has officially announced that a 'Teen Beach Movie 2' is being produced for a 2015 release. Shooting will begin this July.
Billboard reports that Ross Lynch, Maia Mitchell, Grace Phipps, Garrett Clayton and John DeLuca will all be reprising their roles from the first movie for the sequel. New cast members will be announced later.
Regarding plot details, the site reports that the story takes place "months after McKenzie (Mitchell) and Brady (Lynch) return from a summer adventure that transported them into Brady's favorite 1960s beach party movie, 'Wet Side Story,' only to receive a surprise visit from Lela (Phipps), Tanner (Clayton), Butchy (DeLuca) and their other surfer and biker friends."
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The Georgia Southwestern women's tennis team has won three of its last four matches heading into Saturday's contest at No. 16 Georgia College. After blanking Albany State, 9-0, on Mar. 13, the Lady Hurricanes won at Clark Atlanta, 6-3 and at home against UNC Pembroke, 5-4, before suffering a 9-0 defeat at the hands of No. 25 Francis Marion.
The win against UNCP marks the first time the program has defeated a Peach Belt Conference opponent in consecutive seasons.
Below is a recap of Southwestern's recent matches:
GSW 6, Clark Atlanta 3
The Lady Hurricanes defeated the Panthers, 6-3, on Thursday afternoon (Mar. 15) in Atlanta.
GSW improved its record to 5-7 thanks to a solid start in doubles action against Clark Atlanta. GSW swept doubles play, led by Mollie McGowan and Victoria Ondo's 8-1 victory at No. 2, and took a 3-0 team lead into singles.
McGowan and Ondo were victorious on the singles side as well. McGowan won 6-1, 6-3 at No. 3 over Vanessa Jean Baptiste and Ondo did not drop a game in her No. 4 match against Kasey Dawson.
Clark Atlanta fell to 3-7 this spring.
|Singles competition
|1. Keva Palmer (CLARKATL) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-1
|2. Brionne Bachus (CLARKATL) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 6-3, 6-3
|3. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) def. Vanessa Jean Baptist (CLARKATL) 6-1, 6-3
|4. Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) def. Kasey Dawson (CLARKATL) 6-0, 6-0
|5. Ivory Conley (CLARKATL) def. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (11-9)
|6. Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) def. No player (CLARKATL), by default
|Doubles competition
|1. Carly Cangelosi/Ginny Jones (GSW-W) def. Keva Palmer/Brionne Bachus (CLARKATL) 8-4
|2. Mollie McGowan/Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) def. Kasey Dawson/Ivory Conley (CLARKATL) 8-1
|3. Kalie Douberly/Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) def. Vanessa Jean Baptist/No player (CLARKATL), by default
GSW 5, UNC Pembroke 4
For the second-straight season, GSW handed UNC Pembroke a 5-4 defeat. The Lady 'Canes were victorious on Saturday morning (Mar. 17) at the Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex.
It was the third-straight win for GSW as the Lady 'Canes improved to 6-7 overall and 2-4 in Peach Belt Conference play. UNC Pembroke dipped to 8-8 overall and 0-5 in the PBC. GSW matched its program best for conference wins in a season with the victory, matching last year's total.
Once again, the Lady 'Canes benefited from strong doubles play. GSW swept UNCP and took a 3-0 lead into the singles matches.
Victory Ondo and Ginny Jones won both of their matches for GSW.
Ondo paired with Mollie McGowan for an 8-3 victory over Leigh-Anne McAfee and Hannah Herlocker at No. 2 doubles. Ondo followed that win with a 6-3, 7-5 victory at No. 4 singles over Shelby Bickel.
Jones teamed with Carly Cangelosi for an 8-6 win at No. 1 doubles, then proceeded to defeat Madeline DiNunzio at No. 5 singles, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2.
|Singles competition
|1. Mia Winterbottom (UNCP) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-1
|2. Leigh-Anne McAfee (UNCP) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 6-2, 2-6, 6-3
|3. Hannah Herlocker (UNCP) def. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) 6-4, 6-3
|4. Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) def. Shelby Bickel (UNCP) 6-3, 7-5
|5. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) def. Madeline DiNunzio (UNCP) 7-6 (7-2), 6-2
|6. Monica Espitia (UNCP) def. Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) 6-4, 7-5
|Doubles competition
|1. Carly Cangelosi/Ginny Jones (GSW-W) def. Mia Winterbottom/Shelby Bickel (UNCP) 8-6
|2. Victoria Ondo/Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) def. Leigh-Anne McAfee/Hannah Herlocker (UNCP) 8-3
3. Kalie Douberly/Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) def. Madeline DiNunzio/Beverly Vause (UNCP) 8-3
GSW 0, #25 Francis Marion 9
GSW's three-match winning streak came to a halt after a 9-0 loss to 25th-ranked Francis Marion on Sunday morning (Mar. 18) at the Susan K. Smith Tennis Complex.
The Lady Hurricanes best opportunity for a point against FMU came at No. 3 doubles where Kalie Douberly and Melinda Vansant were defeated 8-5 by Kerry Hall and Caitlin Siney.
Southwestern drops to 6-8 overall and 2-5 in the PBC, while FMU improves to 9-1 and 5-1 in PBC play.
|Singles competition
|1. #9 Jitka Gavdunova (FMUW) def. Carly Cangelosi (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-0
|2. #17 Mona Blauen (FMUW) def. Kalie Douberly (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-0
|3. #38 Tereza Baranova (FMUW) def. Mollie McGowan (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-3
|4. Julia Graf (FMUW) def. Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) 6-2, 6-0
|5. Kimberley Hurter (FMUW) def. Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 6-1, 6-0
|6. Caitlin Siney (FMUW) def. Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) 6-0, 6-3
|Doubles competition
|1. #9 Jitka Gavdunova/Mona Blauen (FMUW) def. Carly Cangelosi/Ginny Jones (GSW-W) 8-0
|2. Tereza Baranova/Julia Graf (FMUW) def. Mollie McGowan/Victoria Ondo (GSW-W) 8-1
|3. Kerry Hall/Caitlin Siney (FMUW) def. Kalie Douberly/Melinda Vansant (GSW-W) 8-5


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In the days leading up to the 2013 NFL Draft, NFL.com writers will list their best and worst picks for all 32 teams and allow users to determine their choices as well.
Kansas City ChiefsTony Gonzalez might be the NFL's all-time leading receiving tight end, but he has serious competition for the title of best Chiefs draft pick ever. Also, who was the worst draft pick by Kansas City?
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