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Use of Technology in Mental Health
Technology is a significant and even imperative part of daily life for most people. Computers, phones, tablets, and other "smart" devices have long since become mainstream and utilized across all sectors of society, all cultures and ages. These devices keep us all constantly connected to the internet and to each other, making virtually any piece of information available to us at any time. Applications or "apps" on computers and smart devices have digitized various services to make them more convenient. It often seems as though anything in life is already a 'click' away, and the amount of tasks that can be accomplished online seems to expands everyday. As a growing number of services are becoming available online, mental health has been gradually following suit.
Health providers from all fields have used technology professionally for years, beginning with the use of the computer for internal communication and pagers to reach doctors urgently, to now using electronic medical records and patient portals which can create ready access for patients to contact their doctor and review medical information on demand. Likewise, therapists have also utilized phone calls to conduct therapy at a distance and "check in" on their patients in between office visits, when necessary. However, as the capabilities of technology grow, the mental health field is grabbling with how to adapt. What was once thought to be successful only in a face to face, in person setting, technology is proving that mental health treatment can be effectively provided at a distance, and is now bridging large gaps in access to mental health care. Today's technology includes apps for both computers and wireless devices that complement or supplement treatment, websites that support talk therapy in various forms, as well as various digitized manual based treatments that can, in some cases, replace the need for face-to-face treatment.
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American Telemedicine Association
The American Telemedicine Association (ATA) is a non-profit association based in Washington DC with a membership network of more than 10,000 industry leaders and healthcare professionals. ATA is a leading telehealth association dedicated to help with the quality, equity and affordability of healthcare throughout the world.
ATA recognizes the use of telemedicine has spread rapidly and is now becoming integrated into the ongoing operations of hospitals, specialty departments, home health agencies, private physician offices as well as consumer's homes and workplaces. This organization provides the "Learning Center" which provides courses with toolkits, webinars and recorded conferences to help any organization or provider looking to provide telehealth services be aware of advancements in the industry and best practices for patient care.
ATA also is dedicated to helping to advocate for access to telehealth, and consumers can find out more about their states policies, coverage, and even current work being done in the legislative bodies in their area so they can help to advocate for services to be available.
Consortium of Telehealth Resource firstname.lastname@example.com
Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) have been established to provide assistance, education and information to organizations and individuals who are actively providing or interested in providing health care at a distance. Telehealth Resource Centers (TRCs) across the nation work collaboratively to provide information and assistance to all requesters. Our 12 regional and 2 national TRCs are expertly staffed and have come together under one consortium to forefront the advancement and accessibility of telehealth with a focus in rural healthcare
mHealth for Mental Health
Technology is redefining how we study, assess, and treat mental illnesses. Mobile health (mHealth) is bringing cutting edge treatments out of the clinics and research centers and into the hands of the people who need them most. Among the technologies that have been developed are apps designed to assist those with Serious Mental Illness (SMI) to prevent relapse and assess symptoms, including auditory and visual hallucinations. They are also developing technologies that can assist those in parts of the world where mental health care is not readily available including Ghana and serving Palestinians in the West Bank. They have also developed technologies for those serving in the military and are researching how mobile interventions can compare to traditional clinic based interventions for Serious Mental Illness.
Led by Dr. Dror Ben-Zeev at the University of Washington (email@example.com), the group is dedicated to the development and testing of innovative mHealth approaches that are designed for real-world clinical populations, experiencing real-world challenges, in real-world environments. mHealth works closely with patients, practitioners, and healthcare organizations to create and study novel mHealth technologies as well as innovative methods for using existing technology to enhance mental health.
National Consortium of TeleHealth Research Centers
The Northeast Telehealth Resource Center (NETRC) has a mission to increase access to quality health care services for rural and medically underserved populations through Telehealth. We provide FREE, individualized technical assistance, education, and other resources in collaboration with the Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers, MCD Public Health, and the University of Vermont. Our service area includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, but we gladly accept calls no matter where you are located. Learn more by clicking on the button below to visit our website.
Northeast Telehealth Resource Center offers:
- Short and long term technical assistance services for organizations and individuals
- Education for the telehealth workforce
- Access to educational materials
- Access to specialized tools + templates
- Access to telehealth experts willing to share their experiences
- Monthly newsletter updates and other alerts on telehealth in the northeast
- Anuual Regional Conference to faciliatate learning and networking
- Support for collaboration that fosters a favorable environment for telehealth
National Telehealth Policy Resource Center
The Center for Connected Health Policy (CCHP) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to maximize telehealth's ability to improve health outcomes, care delivery, and cost-effectiveness. Originally focused exclusively on California telehealth policy, CCHP garnered extensive attention with its Telehealth Model Statute Report, which became the basis for the California Telehealth Advancement Act of 2011 (AB 415). This Act now allows all licensed health professionals to utilize telehealth, removes restrictions and barriers to providing telehealth, and expands the locations where telehealth can take place. CCHP is a project of the Public Health Institute, a non-profit, private organization dedicated to promoting health, well-being and quality of life for people throughout California, across the nation and around the world.
Neuroscape is a translational neuroscience center at UCSF engaged in both development and research to advance cutting-edge technologies as novel brain assessment and optimization tools. We also support the neuroscience efforts of others by providing unique, state-of-the-art development studios and research facilities to drive the rapid translation of neuroscience into real-world solutions. Neuroscape's unique multidisciplinary approach involves the development of custom-designed, closed-loop systems that integrate recent technological advances in software (e.g., 3D video game engines, multimodal recording and brain computer interface algorithms) with the latest innovations in hardware (e.g., virtual reality, motion capture, GPU computing, wearable physiological recordings, and transcranial brain stimulation). To learn more about the technologies that are currently being developed and evaluated, visit: https://neuroscape.ucsf.edu/technology/#ace
Rural Health Information Hub
The Rural Health Information Hub, formerly the Rural Assistance Center, is funded by the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy to be a national clearinghouse on rural health issues. We are committed to supporting healthcare and population health in rural communities.
Telehealth Use in Rural Healthcare - About This Guide: Telehealth has great potential to expand access and improve the quality of rural healthcare. It can reduce burdens for patients, such as travel to receive specialty care, and improve monitoring, timeliness, and communications within the healthcare system. This topic guide is designed to serve both as an introduction to Telehealth and as a reference that collects the "best of the best" resources: selected documents, organizations, tools, funding opportunities, news items, events, and program examples.
SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions: Telebehavioral Health Training and Technical email@example.com
The SAMHSA-HRSA Center for Integrated Health Solutions Telebehavioral Health Training and Technical Assistance Series can help safety net providers and rural health clinics understand and adopt telebehavioral health services. The implementation of telehealth services for mental health and substance use allows for increased access to these services, particularly in rural or underserved areas.
Divided into six sessions, the training provides the tools and resources necessary to identify and implement a telebehavioral health program. Each educational session includes a Q&A component with telebehavioral health experts and associated resources for further exploration and information.


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Hey guys,
Been reading past posts on the SS Octane and it seems that people either love it and acknowledge no real issues with it or people despise the thing and wish it was never built.
SS discountined the model pretty quick which would lead me to believe that there might be something up with it.
Anyways, I have been offered to buy one at a pretty good price and was wondering if I should get it?
Thanks for the advice in advance

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Blasting America's parents with the teen-shaking shout, "Go Johnny go!" Chuck Berry, dead at 90, taught the world to rock. It took the sly blueberry thrills of Fats Domino, gone at 89, to add the roll.
The absurdist red smoking jacket of Hugh Hefner, 91 ushered in a sexual revolution of pouty Playmates and upscale urges. It was Mary Tyler Moore, 80, who tore up that centerfold, proving that even sexier could be a spunky, single career woman on TV.
Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan, 82, was the last human to walk on the moon in 1972. Only six moonwalkers remain, but all left footprints, untouched in the lunar dust nearly a half-century later.
We lost teen heartthrobs like David Cassidy, 67, and Erin Moran, 56. And we lost the genial Gomer Pyle wisdom of Jim Nabors, 87, who soothed his fans with country humor, a gospel-perfect voice and visions of a homogeneous time gone by.
Everyone, from the most high-flying to the earthbound among us, leaves a mark, an echo, an imprint on those around them and those to come. And sometimes those influencers, whether superstar athlete, embattled world leader or a family's favorite relative, don't realize the impact they're having, the inspirations, learnings or complications they leave behind.
We lost gossip columnist Liz Smith, 94, whose coverage of a brash Manhattan real estate mogul helped invent Donald Trump. And activist Dick Gregory, 84, the groundbreaking comedian who helped break the color barrier on television and seemed to be on a perpetual hunger strike against injustice for the rest of his career
PHOTOS: People we lost in 2017
Here is a list of those we lost in 2017:
William Peter Blatty: January 12
Gene Cernan: January 16
Mary Tyler Moore: January 25
John Hurt: January 25
Richard Hutch: February 7
Al Jarreau: February 12
Norma McCorvey: February 18
Clyde Stubblefield: February 18
Bill Paxton: February 25
Joni Sledge: March 10
Derek Walcott: March 17
Chuck Berry: March 18
Don Rickles: April 6
J Geils: April 11
Charlie Murphy: April 12
Aaron Hernandez: April 19
Erin Moran: April 22
Jonathan Demme: April 27
Roger Ailes: May 18
Chris Cornell: May 18
Nicky Hayden: May 22
Roger Moore: May 23
Gregg Allman: May 27
Adam West: June 9
Michael Nyqvist: June 27
Nelsan Ellis: July 8
Fresh Kid Ice: July 13
Martin Landau: July 15
George A Romero: July 16
Chester Bennington: July 20
John Heard: July 21
June Foray: July 26
Sam Shepard: June 27
Darren Daulton: August 6
Don Baylor: August 7
Glen Campbell: August 8
Dick Gregory: August 19
Jerry Lewis: August 20
Jay Thomas: August 24
Richard Anderson: August 31
Walter Becker: September 3
Troy Gentry: September 8
Harry Dean Stanton: September 15
Penny Chenery: September 16
Jake LaMotta: September 19
Bernie Casey: September 19
Charles Bradley: September 23
Hugh Hefner: September 27
Monty Hall: September 30
Tom Petty: October 2
Ralphie May: October 6
YA Tittle: October 8
Fats Domino: October 24
Robert Guillaume: October 24
Dick Gordon: November 6
Roy Halladay: November 7
Liz Smith: November 12
Lil Peep: November 15
Ann Wedgeworth: November 16
Earle Hyman: November 17
Malcolm Young: November 18
Della Reese: November 19
Mel Tillis: November 19
Jana Novotna: November 19
David Cassidy: November 21
Rance Howard: November 25
Jim Nabors: November 30
Steve Reevis: December 7
Keely Smith: December 16
Jonghyun Kim: December 19
Bernard Law: December 20
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"An important, thoughtful, and gracefully written political history."—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination."—The Dallas Morning News
"A superb book that greatly deepens our understanding of these founders."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Enough colorful characters for a miniseries, loaded with backstabbing (and frontstabbing too)."—Newsday
"A richly detailed account . . . that humanizes its subjects."—Tulsa World
"A remarkably lucid account . . . With stunning style and clarity, [Burstein and Isenberg have] meticulously reexamined this political relationship."—Library Journal


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People often ask me how a writer's room works. Do all the writers work on episodes together, like a snarky, eight-headed hydra, or do we toil away in solitude, typing until our fingers bleed? The answer is neither, and both. Though I can only speak for Bones specifically, the following essay will walk you through the basic steps of how an episode of television gets made.
Step One: Pitching a World
There are eight writers on staff at Bones, and we each come to the table with a plethora of episode ideas. Some are more issue oriented, like "The Lost Love in a Foreign Land," which dealt with human trafficking. Others take a peek inside a unique world, like "The Geek in the Guck," which was about video games and gamers. The creator of said ideas then pitches them to our head writer, who takes a chosen few to the show-runner, who gives one of them a green light. This moves us on to…
Step Two: Breaking the Story
Once we know the world we're dealing with, we start breaking the story in the writer's room, with the writer responsible for that episode leading the charge. At Bones, we typically have no more than four writers breaking a story at a time so that every voice has a chance to be heard. If you compare scriptwriting to house-building, breaking a story is a lot like putting up the frame. Using the A-story (on Bones, this is the murder case) as our driving force, it is our job to "beat" (plot) out all six acts scene by scene. When it comes to writing an episode of TV, this is the part that requires the real heavy lifting. Taking a concept and a few vague character ideas and fleshing that out into a dramatic six-act drama is no easy task. Yet on Bones, we do this 22 times a year.
Step Three: The Writing Process
Once the story's been pitched to the show-runner and (hopefully) approved, writers are sent off to outline. We have approximately one week to transform the beats on the white board into a more formal, readable story, which then gets sent to the network for notes. Once the network approves, we're off to script and have two weeks to deliver a "Writer's Draft." On Bones, each writer is responsible for writing two episodes per season, with freelancers and the show-runner filling out the rest. Also, if we choose, we are allowed to write our outlines and scripts from home. #PajamasAllDayLong
Step Four: Rewriting
If you're a writer, you already know that writing is really rewriting. And in the case of TV writing, this concept takes an added dimension as it is truly a collaborative process. Being rewritten by the show-runner is not only common to TV writing, but expected. And while it's crucial to stand behind what you've written, you never want to be married to your own words. Ultimately, the show-runner is the voice of the show, and his or her revisions are an opportunity for learning. I am constantly in awe of Bones' show-runner Stephen Nathan's wit, pathos, and depth of understanding of the show's characters. Also, he writes faster than any human I've ever met.
Step Five: Prep
This is the stage where you think you're done, but really you're not, because prep (pre-production) brings up all sorts of questions and issues that necessitate script changes. Sometimes, those changes are big, like adding a whole new scene or changing a location due to scheduling issues. Other times, it can be as a small as correcting a single word of medical jargon. But pretty much every day during prep, new script pages are distributed in varying colors, marking what has been changed. Prep is also when we cast our actors, find locations, and determine costumes and props, which is my favorite part of the process.
Step Six: The Shoot
On Bones, we have nine days to shoot each episode and the majority of this time is spent on our standing sets of the Jeffersonian lab and the FBI (on Stages 6 and 9 at Fox Studios) with one-two days spent on location. Writers are encouraged to produce their own episodes of Bones, which means spending as much time on set as possible. If you've never been on a film or TV shoot, the days are long and the pace is slow—then suddenly fast. But the cast and crew are amazing, the atmosphere on set is fun and friendly, and there are always lots of snacks. Sometimes, one of the actors will have a question about what you've written, which usually leads to a rewrite on the spot. This can be slightly stressful, but I find these changes always make the show better. Plus, writing on set under time pressure makes me feel like a real TV writer.
Step Seven: Post-Production
This is the part where everyone's hard work turns into an actual episode of TV. Editing is really the show-runner's domain, so I haven't spent much time in post, but my office is right across from it, so I have the torture pleasure of hearing each episode come together before I watch it on TV. 😉
I think I've answered the most commonly asked questions here. But if you have any others, feel free to put them in the comments section and I'll do my best to get to them as soon as possible.


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The 9th edition of the Fabio Fasola's Hell is now ready.
What changes and… what does not???
With the passing of time, Fabio Fasola's Hell has changed, with some new aspects that improbe the shape of the event, more and more followed and exciting, but that didn't change the basis that could soften the pity. Damned! Whenever did you see a Hell turn into a Purgatory?
The burning heart of Hell's Gate still stands as an extreme and selective challenge and so will be also for the ninth edition.
The best riders in the world have already proved that Hell can be won, with sacrifice, effort and talent, and only a few, normally the most "qualified", could write their names down on a Gold Book that is not only the register of an enduro discipline, but a real pass for the History of Enduro.
Knight, Braybrook, Blazusiak, Lampkin, Jarvis are all great champions that gained their universal fame also to the fact that they had Hell's Gate among their successes.
In 2012 a new challenge takes place into…Paradise of Ciocco, the unequalled scenery for the creation of an event without compromises.
"Nucleo" and details: the Trophy of Hell's Gate will be given again after a track of five laps that will be only a little changed in order to empathise the technical aspects of the race.
The qualification phase in the morning will be changed on a technical level and be shaped to be easier also for the "passionate" which are an always growing part of the participants to the Hell's Gate. Based on the modern enduro, the eliminatory phase will be easier in order to shape the selection on a more technical basis and not only power. This solution could open the doors of Hell's Gate to a new name, a new talent or an "old lion" that still has something to say about it.
Again more changes for Hell's Gate 2012, this time linked to the "Happening" still representative for all the passionate that each year climb up to the mountains of Ciocco to take part to the party. But we still have time to talk about that later, of course we need to keep up with some suspense.


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I thought I wouldn't get to take pics of this until I went back to Cali to visit the familia. However, a few weeks back, shortly after the previous post, I got a surprise email from my brother Adrian with the attached pics, and an email busting my chops saying the following:
"Hey Gonzo, your slacking! Check out the detail in your first rendering!! " End of email.
As mentioned in the previous post, I did this pencil rendering in my high school art class. Must have been junior or senior year in Mrs. Peter's art class. I don't know any guys in high school that didn't try and attempt to copy a Frazetta or a Derek Riggs EDDIE from Iron Maiden. It was almost a right of passage.
My uncle Art used to come back from his art classes and show me how to add shadows and volume to my dorky superhero drawings by shading them with pencils other than a 2B. They make different pencils other than a 2B for drawing?! (12 year old Augie's brain explodes)
My high school art classes were my chance to attempt what my uncles were doing on a scale that was bigger than my Pee-Chee covers. I remember that they had those big art-o-graph projectors in my high school class, so that you can blow up your image and trace it at any size you wanted (Man. I'm getting flashbacks of HUUUGE pastel renderings of Nagel women on black paper that were always being done by someone in class).
Anyways, I always thought it was cheating somehow to use the projectors, so my stubborn Puerto Rican side talked myself into not using the projectors and just copying it by hand by just eyeballing it. Seems like you would learn more that way, or not. Just took longer I guess.
Highschool art class was the only class I looked forward to. You had all the time in the world to work on stuff. Not like now. Now, as a "grown up" you need to make that time to do personal projects. If you don't, someone else will and you'll get left behind. Make the time kids. Don't be a Gonzo slacker! (Thanks for the pics bro!)


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Bieber Will Disprove His Daddyhood With DNA
To end these terrible falsehoods about fatherhood once and for all, beloved boy wonder Justin Bieber will give up some of his sacred DNA and (presumably) prove stuntwoman Mariah Yeater to be a trouble-making lying-liar-lady. The test will take place in two weeks, TMZ reports. It won't be broadcast live on pay-per-view for only $49.95, we're pretty sure.
Once Bieber proves Mariah Yeater to be a liar liar escort for hire(?), he plans to sue the nose-ring offa her. And he will win, because he's Justin Bieber. And he will sell the nose-ring at a pawn shop and use the $12 he gets for the nose-ring to take Selena Gomez to Cold Stone Creamery. And they will splurge on sundaes with extra-toppings while his handlers escort Yeater to the same prison dungeon where Bieber keeps his pin-poked effigy of U.S. Senator Amy Kloubuchar. Shit just got real.


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HARRISBURG – As the impact of the state's proposed Transportation Funding plan is discussed, PennDOT Secretary Barry J. Schoch urges that these facts be referenced:
• The financing phases in over a five-year period. It is misleading to ignore this fact when gauging the plan's impact. The plan does not include an immediate increase of 28 cents per gallon, as has been reported. Such an estimate is based on the wholesale price of fuel in 2018. It is not possible to predict the price per gallon five years from now.
• The plan eliminates the 12 cent-a-gallon liquid fuels tax. Under this proposal, all gas tax revenues are generated at the wholesale level.
• Competitive situations and the cost of crude oil have the largest impact on the price per gallon. Even with this revenue enhancement in place, the average driver would only pay about $2.50 more a week in the fifth year of the plan, less than the cost of one gallon of gas. In return, the commonwealth will receive $2.3 to $2.4 billion in transportation improvements.
• Comparison of gas tax rates with other states is not a fair assessment since many states use other funding sources to pay for highways and bridges, so they keep their rates artificially low. In Pennsylvania, fuel taxes are used only for highway and bridge-related purposes and state police patrol functions. Income and sales taxes are not used to pay for state-maintained highways and bridges in Pennsylvania. The fuel taxes in Pennsylvania amount to a true users' fee, based on the amount of gasoline consumed and use of the highway and bridge system.
• Pennsylvania's vehicle registration fees are among the lowest in the nation, with 39 states charging more. Also, 31 states charge more for the cost of a driver's license.


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From BPS Director Susan Anderson: United Nations chooses Portland to host World Environment Day for the United States
This year, Earth Day in Portland will be celebrated in the spotlight of the United Nations. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has selected Portland as the North American host city for this year's World Environment Day on June 5, 2013. Established by the UN General Assembly in 1972, World Environment Day is celebrated in more than 120 nations, focusing international attention on environmental issues.
In the 45 days from Earth Day (April 22) to World Environment Day, a variety of public events will celebrate Portland's leadership in sustainability and green living. The City and UNEP are encouraging community groups, businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals to join in by organizing or participating in public events during this time. Follow events for UNWED at www.portlandoregon.gov/wed and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/2013wedportland .
From Portland's Solarize and energy efficiency programs to our world renowned green building services, green streets and curbside composting and recycling program — which has reduced household garbage by nearly 40 percent — we have a lot to celebrate this year. Hosting the United Nations World Environment Day is a great opportunity to showcase Portland's story and legacy of leadership to the world.
So how did we get here today?
In the 1990s and 2000s, many new efforts were begun by Portlanders that focused on sustainable building, energy and water efficiency, recycling and waste reduction, biking infrastructure, solar and wind power, stormwater management, and creating walkable, connected neighborhoods.
In 1993, Portland became the first U.S. city to adopt a climate action plan for its entire community. At that time, few Americans cared much about what was then called "global warming." The focus of the plan was to reduce carbon emissions — but to do it in a way that would help families save money, reduce local air pollution, cut operating costs for businesses, and build more livable, walkable neighborhoods.
The 1993 plan has been updated regularly and has been a success. Per capita carbon emissions are down by more than 25 percent, with total emissions down six percent (below 1990 levels). At the same time, carbon emissions in the United States have increased by about 10 percent.
In response to this increasingly urgent need to shift to a low-carbon economy and community, in 2009 Portland adopted a new Climate Action Plan with a goal of reducing 1990 level emissions by 80 percent. To reach that goal, the City has focused on both innovative and practical solutions in such areas as transportation and land use, energy efficiency, renewable energy and solid waste reduction.
Portland is moving in the right direction, and the gap between Portland's success and the U.S. average tells a compelling story — that American cities can be both prosperous and reduce carbon emissions.
What's Next for Portland?
Achieving an 80-percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050 remains a very ambitious goal. Proposed new efforts on the horizon include:
- More bikeways and an additional seven miles of light rail.
- Enhanced energy efficiency programs.
- New rules for energy performance disclosure for commercial buildings.
- More solar and wind power generation.
- Investments in district-scale energy systems and community-owned solar energy installations.
- Improved zoning and a new Comprehensive Plan that focuses on creating more healthy, connected neighborhoods.
- More technical assistance for companies pursuing sustainable operations.
- The City's first climate preparedness plan.
Portland's success relies on its strong partnerships between residents, businesses, nonprofits, academic institutions and other governments. Together these individuals and organizations work to be a catalyst for action, as they continue to seek new partnerships with cities around the world.
This is our chance to shine and our challenge to stay in a leadership position. It's also a chance for the rest of the cities in the world to push us forward toward greater innovations. How will you celebrate Earth Day?
Susan Anderson
Bureau of Planning and Sustainability


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it is my first day at a new job in a new country and my boss asked me to translate the phrase " inspired perspectives" into mandarin for him. this is what i found with online translation tools: 启发的观点
does this make any sense to you? it would be amazing if somebody would help and reply! thank you!!!
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Where are we heading to?
Some interesting stuff lately:
The "Portuguese version of Google Summer of Code" is "Sapo Summerbits", with its 2009 version already going on with 10 approved projects. From those, two are quite interesting to me:
- "Erro de Sistema" (translated to "System Error") is going to be an Open Source 3D Animation Short Movie ("open content film"), made entirely with Open Source and about Open Source. The script is already published, and the team is getting more contributors. Work on the storyboard and concept art has already started. The project will use Open Source tools like Celtx, Blender, Pencil, Debian, Ubuntu, Ardour, Audacity, LMMS, Transverso DAW, Gimp, Inkscape, Cinelerra, Kdenlive and Farmerjoe. The student behind this project is João Alberto, which you might recall as being one of the two guys who made the 3D Animation Short Movie "Playground", which I've talked about here in the past since its soundtrack was made using Merankorii tracks.
- "Portucale" is going to be a Real Time Strategy Game about the History of Portuguese Conquests. It will be written in "C/C++" (maybe a mixture of the two?) and Javascript for user interaction with the game's interface. It will use NASM, SDL, Boost, zlib, libpng, libxml2, OpenGL, OpenAL, libogg, libvorbis, cryptopp, wxWidgets, gamin, BFD, enet and DevIL. I think it will be a fork of 0 A.D..
Facebook bought Friendfeed, supposedly to get its staff into their R&D. This is a huge blow to Friendfeed users, which - it's easy to see - aren't happy with the decision. The biggest question is wether (or, in fact, when) Friendfeed will just be shutted down. Facebook isn't a replacement for almost every Friendfeed user: there are the few of us that simply refuse to have a Facebook account (I'm in this group, as you already know if you're a regular reader of this blog), but for the others there's still the simple fact that they are two really distinct web apps with really distinct communities. Not only Friendfeed isn't replaceable by Facebook in terms of features - something that Facebook people might want to change - but specially the two services have different purposes. So, people are already planning "the future", their jump. From people asking for good methods to backup all their Friendfeed data (including their social graph), to people asking Facebook to just make Friendfeed's code Open Source, or people actually looking into alternatives. I've been looking into those alternatives myself, and the most convincing one for me was Identoo.com, because it lets you do almost everything that Friendfeed does (until now I only missed the "Hide" functionality), adaptation and migration is more or less quick, and it is mobile-friendly (heck, here it is better than Friendfeed: instead of using a fftogo-like mobile portal, I can use Identoo's website in the mobile without problems). I didn't considered in my tests one fact that makes Identoo even better: Identoo is nothing more than an installation of the Open Source platform NoseRub (similar to what Identi.ca is to Laconi.ca), which means that the development of NoseRub (thus Identoo) is transparent, and we can actually affect where is it heading to (even if not with code, just by making bug reports, suggestions, feature requests and such). Is it as good as Friendfeed? No, but it can turn out to be as good or even better, and it is good enough for when Friendfeed dies (if you, like me, won't believe that Facebook would open source Friendfeed's code). When I heard about FB buying FF I was worried, now I'm relaxed about it.
The WTF moment: Microsoft was told it can't sell "Microsoft Word" on the United Stated while it still has the ability to open XML, DOCX or DOCM files that have "custom XML" (and also pay a fine), thanks to a patent infringement. Ridiculous, like every other patent case... Of course, this being Microsoft, and them having the money they have, they'll appeal and try to rule the patent as invalid. And they'll do it again and again until they manage to win. The bad news is that they still don't see patents as bad (how could they, when they use their own patents to try to scare their competition?), just invalid (like every other patent against them would be, and neither of those patents owned by Microsoft are, for sure).
The RealDVD case is finally over, the making DVD copies program is now illegal in the United States. Yes, people can make copies of their DVDs, but they can't invent a way of doing that copy, nor use a tool to make that exact copy. Am I the only one seeing this as obviously stupid?
And the final rant of the day: two guys were convicted in UK of refusing to decrypt data. These are, as far as I know, the first two victims of 2007's law that gives authorities the power to force people to unscramble their data. "Privacy? Rights? Pfft, we can't have those if we want to take down the terrorists!"


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It's never worth rushing a great meal or a great cigar, but if you wish to have one of France's great gastronomic experiences, you better get to Paris as soon as you can. Despite opening a majestic, new restaurant in January, superchef Joël Robuchon still claims that he will hang up his kitchen whites soon after his fiftieth birthday, which he celebrated in April. "I am not sure what I will do but I am sure that I will stay in gastronomy," he says. "But the life of a chef is just too severe."
His notion of severity, however, produces some of the finest cuisine in Paris, day in and day out. Chef Robuchon is always in the middle of it, orchestrating his chefs like a player-coach of a world-class football team. He gets everything he can out of his staff, which in the end means amazing food arrives at your table. Creating ultra-flavorful, intense food is his genius. People who have a preference for light, healthy food--hold the salt, thank you--have no business booking a table here.
A recent lunch started with a rich--yet somehow light on the palate--cream soup with puréed white beans and truffles. The opulent flavors of the creamy soup magnified the decadent character of the black truffles. It was almost a meal in itself. The next course was a sea bass fillet, which had been pan-seared, then baked and served over a reduced sauce of grape juice. The fresh acidity in the sauce enhanced the delicate flavors of the fish. A pigs' feet dish stuffed with black truffles was equally impressive as was the truffle risotto surrounded by tiny morsels of sautéed sweetbreads in a veal-based sauce.
Although we didn't order it, the chef insisted that we try his gratin of macaroni, truffles, celery and foie gras, which is best described as a cottage pie, Beverly Hills-style. One mouthful was enough. It was one of the richest dishes I have ever eaten. There was very little room for cheese and dessert, although both are excellent, especially the chocolate tarts, cakes and ice creams that arrive at your table.
There is no problem with finding a great bottle of wine at Joël Robuchon. Just a year ago, Robuchon had the worst wine list of any of the Michelin three-starred restaurants in Paris. However, since leaving his old restaurant, Jamin, he has added a cellar stocked with wine worth more than $1 million. Robuchon's wine list, with more than 600 selections, now ranks with the best in the city.
Bordeaux takes up the most space on his posterlike list, with more than 200 selections including key vintages from the '60s, '50s, '40s and '30s. Red Burgundy is the second-largest category with 120 selections. White Burgundy and Champagne are well represented. Less-traditional French wine lovers will not be disappointed with Robuchon's new list either. There are plenty of interesting wines from the Rhône, Alsace, Loire, and even the Midi, Cahors, Madiran, Bandol, Irouléguy and Corsica. Sweet wines are equally interesting with a solid selection of Sauternes--Y'quem back to '45-- late-harvest Alsace and an amazing set of sweet Vouvray back to '21. Prices range from about $16 for a simple bottle of red to nearly $2,000 for a great wine from the '30s or '40s. However, $50 to $70 will get you a fabulous bottle.
Don't worry about finding a wonderful cigar after your meal. Our choice included a Hoyo de Monterrey Churchill, Epicure No. 2, Romeo y Julieta Churchill, Rafael Gonzales Corona, Fonseca Perfecto, Partagas 8-9-8 and El Rey del Mondo Taino. Cigar prices are about 15 to 20 percent above Paris retail. Strangely, there were no Cohibas, even though they are found in just about every other top restaurant in Paris. However, the maître d'hotel, a keen cigar aficionado, said he found them overpriced and preferred his current selection.
A Hoyo de Monterrey Churchill was perfect, and the ambience of the turn-of-the-century parlor room harkened to a time of private clubs and aristocrats. About $5 million went into the restaurant's decor, which has dark wood paneling. Robuchon asked his friend Alain Weill, a noted expert on the period as well as cigars and turn-of-the-century posters, to oversee the project and make sure everything was done to specification. The one problem with Joël Robuchon is that the restaurant seats only 57 people; so it doesn't leave much room if you plan a visit before the master himself retires from the kitchen.
--James Suckling
Joël Robuchon
9, avenue Raymond Poincare
75116 Paris
Phone: (33) 1-47-27-12-27
Lunch and Dinner: about $160 to $210 per person without wine


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Bruins-Maple Leafs PreviewNHL.com @NHLdotcom
GAME: Boston Bruins (12-16-6) at Toronto Maple Leafs (17-14-3).
TIME: Friday, 7 p.m. EST.
The Toronto Maple Leafs' potent power play came up short Thursday against the Boston Bruins.
Now, the Leafs will look to generate more offense with the man advantage when the Northeast Division rivals wrap up their home-and-home series.
The Maple Leafs entered Thursday tied with Ottawa for third in the league with 46 power play goals and a 21.7 percentage on the man advantage. However, they went 0-for-9 on the power play in Thursday's 4-1 loss.
"We've got to do a better job on the power-play," defenseman Bryan McCabe said. "Those are key situations and when we don't produce we don't win."
Toronto fell to 1-6 in games when they fail to score a power play goal. The Maple Leafs are 11-0-1 when scoring two or more man-advantage goals, including a seven-goal effort Oct. 14 at Atlanta.
Mariusz Czerkawski scored in his second consecutive game for Toronto, which has lost five of its last seven. The Leafs are just 6-for-47 (13 percent) on the power play over that span.
"We're not consistent enough at putting the puck on the net and when you miss the net, it's basically a turnover," coach Pat Quinn said.
The Bruins won for just the second time in six games, scoring their most goals in that stretch. Alexei Zhamnov got the tie-breaking goal - his first score of the season - and Travis Green, Wayne Primeau and Brad Stuart also scored.
"Sometimes you forget what it feels like to score and getting that second one was very important for us tonight," Zhamnov said. "When I saw the empty net in front of me, I almost lost the puck."
Brian Leetch added three assists for the Bruins, who won for the second time in seven road games.
"We played better with the lead than we have and tonight showed us we can do that," said goalie Hannu Toivonen, who stopped 26 shots. "We needed to build confidence with the lead and we did that and got some points tonight."
STANDINGS (through Dec. 22): Bruins - 30 points, 5th place, 19 PB, Northeast Division. Maple Leafs - 37 points, 4th place, 12 PB, Northeast Division.
TEAM LEADERS: Bruins - Sergei Samsonov, 13 goals and 27 points; Samsonov and Brad Boyes, 14 assists; Jiri Slegr and Hal Gill, 48 PIM. Maple Leafs - Darcy Tucker, 14 goals; McCabe, 29 assists, 40 points and 50 PIM.
SPECIAL TEAMS (through Dec. 22): Bruins - Power play: 17.1 percent (33 for 193), 16th in NHL. Penalty killing: 82.7 percent (177 for 214), tied for 13th. Maple Leafs - Power play: 20.8 percent (46 for 221), tied for 4th. Penalty killing: 80.5 percent (178 for 221), tied for 24th.
GOALTENDERS: Bruins - Andrew Raycroft (5-13-2, 0 SO, 3.36 GAA); Toivonen (7-3-4, 1, 2.93). Maple Leafs - Ed Belfour (13-11-2, 0, 3.46); Mikael Tellqvist (4-3-1, 1, 2.54).
SEASON SERIES: Bruins, 3-1-1.
LAST MEETING: Thursday; Bruins, 4-1. At Boston, Tellqvist stopped 21 shots for the Maple Leafs.
ROAD/HOME RECORDS: Bruins - 6-10-4 on the road; Maple Leafs - 11-7-1 at home.
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Johnny Cash, whose gravelly bass-baritone was the vocal bedrock of American country music for more than four decades, died yesterday in Nashville. He was 71 and lived nearby in Hendersonville, Tenn.
The cause was complications of diabetes, said Lou Robin, Mr. Cash's manager.
Known as the Man in Black, both for his voice, which projected the fateful gravity of a country patriarch, and for his signature look, which suggested a cowboy undertaker, Mr. Cash was one of the few performers who outlasted trends to become a mythical figure rediscovered by each new generation.
Beginning in the mid-1950's, when he made his first records for the Sun label, Mr. Cash forged a lean, hard-bitten country-folk music that at its most powerful seemed to erase the lines between singing, storytelling and grueling life experience. Born in poverty in Arkansas at the height of the Depression, he was country music's foremost poet of the working poor. His stripped-down songs described the lives of coal miners and sharecroppers, convicts and cowboys, railroad workers and laborers.
His influence extended far beyond the sphere of country music; along with Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, his peers on Sun Records in the mid-1950's, he is considered a pioneer of rock 'n' roll. In 1992, 12 years after his election to the Country Music Hall of Fame, he was elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and he remains the only performer besides Presley to have been inducted into both.
Rockers embraced him after he and Bob Dylan recorded a duet, ''Girl From the North Country,'' on Mr. Dylan's ''Nashville Skyline'' album. Recently, Mr. Cash's version of the Nine Inch Nails song ''Hurt'' won six nominations at the MTV Video Music Awards. (The video won for best cinematography.) Only his hospitalization for a stomach ailment prevented him from attending the awards ceremony.
In May, his wife, June Carter Cash, whom he married in 1968 and whom he credited with helping him stay off drugs, died. The marriage established them as the unofficial First Family of country music.
Mr. Cash won 11 Grammys in all, including a lifetime achievement award in 1999. The most recent was this year, for best country male vocal performance for the song ''Give My Love to Rose.''
Mr. Cash exerted an incalculable influence on music. As Rich Kienzle observed in Country Music magazine, he ''strengthened the bonds between folk and country music so that both sides saw their similarities as well as their differences.''
''He helped to liberalize Nashville,'' Mr. Kienzle wrote, ''so that it could accept the unconventional and the controversial, and he did as much as anyone to make the 'outlaw' phenomenon possible.''
Long before the term ''concept album'' was coined, Mr. Cash created thematic albums like ''Ride This Train'' (1960), ''Blood, Sweat and Tears'' (1963), ''Bitter Tears'' (1964) and ''Johnny Cash Sings Ballads of the True West'' (1965).
Rock's Primal Beginnings
The sound of the slapped bass on his first major hit, ''I Walk the Line,'' and the hard-edged boom-chigga beat of the early hits he recorded with his trio, the Tennessee Three, were primal rock 'n' roll sounds. And his deep vocals, with their crags and quavers, demonstrated that a voice need not be pretty to be eloquent.
Unable to read music, Mr. Cash would compose a song in his head and play it over and over until he was satisfied enough to put it on tape. He would often write lyrics while traveling from one engagement to another.
Recent tributes to him by younger musicians include a multiartist anthology of Cash songs, ''Till Things Get Brighter,'' and recordings of his songs by Stevie Nicks and the Beat Farmers. He was a guest soloist on U2's 1993 album, ''Zooropa.''
Mr. Cash's 1954 song about violent outcasts, ''Folsom Prison Blues,'' has even been described as a forerunner of gangsta rap. The song, which he wrote shortly after he left the Air Force, captured an essential ingredient of his mystique, the image of the reformed outlaw:
I hear that train a-comin'
Comin' round the bend.
I ain't seen the sunshine
Since I don't know when.
Well, I'm stuck in Folsom Prison
And time keeps draggin' on.
With its bare-bones realism, the song distilled the sepulchral grimness that often seemed to engulf Mr. Cash, who fought a long battle against addiction to drugs, particularly amphetamines. But he spent only one day in jail, in El Paso, for possession of pills that would have been legal with a prescription.
''There is that beast there in me,'' he said in an interview with Neil Strauss in The New York Times in 1994. ''And I got to keep him caged, or he'll eat me alive.'' But as Mr. Strauss observed, the sinners that Mr. Cash sang about, unlike those in most gangsta raps, were usually plagued by guilt and seeking God's forgiveness. His tales may have been grim, but they were not nihilistic.
Mr. Cash's appeal transcended boundaries of class, generation and geography. Describing a characteristic performance, Paul Hemphill, a country music historian, once wrote: ''Cash, wearing all black, Cash with human suffering in his deep eyes and on his tortured face, Cash, insolent and lashing out from the stage, Cash, in a black swallowtail coat and striped morning pants like an elegant undertaker, Cash swinging his guitar around, pointing it at his listeners as though it were a tommy gun, all of these things captured the whole world.''
In a career in which he recorded more than 1,500 songs, Mr. Cash applied his gritty voice to almost every kind of material. Blues, hymns, cowboy songs, American Indian ballads, railroad songs, children's songs, spoken narratives, patriotic songs, love songs and novelties were all delivered in a near-monotone that was the vocal equivalent of a monument hammered out of stone.
In the repertory of songs he wrote and sang, ''characters face unforgiving elements and indifferent fate; their faith and virtue will not necessarily be rewarded in this world,'' Jon Pareles, chief pop music critic for The Times, wrote in 1994. ''Even love songs, like 'I Walk the Line' and 'Ring of Fire,' are about the dangers of temptation and the singer's stubborn resolve in fighting it off.''
Mr. Cash's stoical singing about loneliness and death, love and humble Christian faith reflected the barren terrain of his upbringing. He was born in a shack on Feb. 26, 1932, in Kingsland, Ark., to Ray Cash and Carrie Rivers Cash, cotton farmers whose livelihood was destroyed by the Depression. They named him J. R; it is not clear how John evolved, and the R is a mystery. But it was the legendary record producer Sam Phillips of Sun Records who later gave him the name Johnny.
The Depression forced Ray Cash to become a hobo laborer, picking cotton, chopping wood and doing railroad chores until he was able to take advantage of a New Deal resettlement program for impoverished farmers. When J. R. was 3, the family moved to 20 acres and a five-room house in Dyess Colony, in northeastern Arkansas. There he spent the next 15 years, working in the fields and learning the plain-spoken stories of the sharecroppers. He was close to his three brothers and two sisters -- Roy, Jack, Tommy, Reba and Joann -- and was deeply influenced by his mother's devotion to the Pentecostal Church of God.
From Air Force to Star
Drawn to country music on the radio, the young J. R. Cash listened to the Grand Ole Opry and particularly admired the music of Ernest Tubb, Roy Acuff, Hank Williams and the Carter Family. He began writing songs, poems and stories and sang on local radio in Arkansas. When he was 12, his faith deepened after his older brother Jack, a preacher, was killed in an accident.
Following his high school graduation, he headed north and took a job at an auto body plant in Pontiac, Mich. The job lasted less than a month, and he enlisted in the Air Force in 1950. He was sent to Landsberg, Germany, where he served as a radio operator and was promoted to staff sergeant.
While overseas, Mr. Cash began writing songs, including ''Hey Porter,'' which would later be one side of his first single. Returning to the United States in 1954, he married Vivian Liberto, whom he had met while in basic training in Texas, and they moved to Memphis. There he became a door-to-door appliance salesman and for a while enrolled in a course in radio announcing. He was determined to have a career in music.
Through his brother Ray, who worked in a garage, he met a pair of guitar-playing auto mechanics, Monroe Perkins and Marshall Grant, who with the steel guitarist A. W. Kernodle became the members of his first band, which performed at church socials and country fairs.
In late 1954, the band, minus Mr. Kernodle, who had left, auditioned for Mr. Phillips, and the following spring the group, the Tennessee Three, recorded five songs for Sun. One was Mr. Cash's ballad ''Cry, Cry, Cry,'' which became the first country hit for the fledgling label. Released in 1955, it was reported to have sold more than 100,000 copies in the South alone.
Mr. Cash was signed to a contract by Sun and began to tour the United States and Canada and appear on radio and television. His next successful disc, which Mr. Phillips had wanted to give to Tennessee Ernie Ford as a follow-up to Ford's hit recording of ''The Ballad of Davy Crockett,'' was ''Folsom Prison Blues.'' With ''So Doggone Lonesome,'' equally popular at the time, Mr. Cash had a two-sided hit, selling more than a million copies and remaining on the top of the charts for nearly a year in the South.
In May 1956, Sun released Mr. Cash's biggest hit and signature song, ''I Walk the Line,'' a stern avowal of sexual fidelity that eventually sold more than two million copies. His next single, ''There You Go,'' also reached No. 1 on the country charts, and in July he was invited to join the Grand Ole Opry. By the summer of 1958, he had written more than 50 songs, and he had sold more than six million records for Sun. But when the label balked at letting Mr. Cash record gospel music, he moved to Columbia Records, where he would remain for the next 28 years.
In short order, Columbia released several successful albums and a single, ''Don't Take Your Guns to Town,'' that sold half a million copies. Mr. Cash began appearing on television variety shows and acting in film and television westerns. Touring, he discovered that he was as popular in Europe, Asia and Australia as he was in the United States.
Unlike other country singers, Mr. Cash did not remain silent on social or political issues. He recorded several protest songs, including ''The Ballad of Ira Hayes,'' about an American Indian who was one of the marines who raised the American flag at Iwo Jima but descended into alcoholism after experiencing discrimination after the war.
The rigors of touring and Mr. Cash's own tendency toward depression contributed to a dependency on amphetamines and barbiturates, which began in the early 1960's and steadily worsened. He began missing engagements and went on wild binges. His wife sued for divorce.
After a serious drug binge in 1967, he was found, close to death, by a policeman in a tiny Georgia village. June Carter, the daughter of Mother Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family, persuaded him to undergo treatment for his drug dependency and helped him to rediscover his Christian faith. After marrying in 1968, they toured together in a family show that often included Ms. Carter's sisters, Anita and Helen, as well as Mother Maybelle, Carl Perkins and the Statler Brothers.
Mr. Cash's drug problems recurred off and on. He entered the Betty Ford Center for treatment in 1985, and became addicted and was treated again after his release.
His career took a sharp upswing in the late 1960's. He released two hugely successful albums, ''At Folsom Prison'' and ''At San Quentin.'' His association with Mr. Dylan, whom he had befriended at the Newport Folk Festival in 1964, helped to bring his music to a young rock audience. In 1968 he filled Carnegie Hall and broke the Beatles' attendance record at the Palladium in London.
By 1969, Mr. Cash was the host of his own network television show, appearing over the next two years with stars like Mr. Dylan, Glen Campbell, Ray Charles and the Carter Family. Also in 1969, his novelty song ''A Boy Named Sue,'' written by Shel Silverstein, became his biggest pop hit.
Following ''I Walk the Line'' and ''There You Go,'' Mr. Cash scored several more No. 1 country hits: ''Ballad of a Teenage Queen,'' ''I Guess Things Happen That Way,'' ''Don't Take Your Guns to Town,'' ''Ring of Fire,'' ''Understand Your Man,'' a new version of ''Folsom Prison Blues,'' ''Daddy Sang Bass,'' ''Sunday Morning Coming Down,'' ''Flesh and Blood'' and ''One Piece at a Time.''
He recorded a number of religious albums, and in 1971 he and his wife traveled to Israel to work on a film, ''The Gospel Road,'' which dealt with Christianity and contemporary life in the Holy Land. Originally distributed by 20th Century Fox, it was later acquired by the Rev. Billy Graham's film company.
Over the years, Mr. Cash also appeared in Hollywood films, including ''Five Minutes to Live,'' ''The Night Rider,'' ''Hootenanny Hoot'' and ''A Gunfight,'' which co-starred Kirk Douglas. He also appeared in seven made-for-television films and in the mini-series ''North and South.''
By the 1980's, Mr. Cash and his family constituted one of the nation's most respected musical dynasties. Rosanne Cash, a daughter from his first marriage, and her husband at the time, the singer and songwriter Rodney Crowell, were leaders among the younger generation of country musicians who rejected the country-pop formulas of Nashville to blend elements of Southern California folk-rock with a more austere, new traditionalist country aesthetic. Carlene Carter, the daughter of the country singer Carl Smith and June Carter Cash, also had some success as a neo-rockabilly singer.
Mr. Cash, like many other older stars who had achieved an almost statesmanlike status in the country music firmament, experienced some decline in record sales in the 1980's and 90's. After leaving Columbia, he signed in 1986 with Mercury, where he had limited success. But if his career flagged, his legend flourished.
He and his fellow country music performers Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson toured and recorded as the Highwaymen. He received a Grammy Legend Award in 1990 and two years later was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four years after that, he was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors.
A 90's Comeback
His musical career took an unusual turn in 1994 when he was signed by Rick Rubin, a producer of heavy metal and rap acts, to Mr. Rubin's label, American Records. ''American Recordings,'' his first album for the label, was a bare-bones country-folk album in which he applied his fatalistic stamp to songs by Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Loudon Wainwright III and other folk-pop songwriters. The album sold only a little more than 100,000 copies, but it won him his sixth Grammy Award, in the best contemporary folk album category. His resurgence continued with ''Unchained,'' which was nominated for two Grammys.
Mr. Cash is survived by four daughters, Rosanne, Tara, Cinda and Kathy, and a son, John Carter, who all performed with him at one time or another.
For all the grimness of his Man in Black persona, Mr. Cash insisted that he was not a morbid person. ''I am not obsessed with death -- I'm obsessed with living,'' he said in 1994, six years after recovering from heart surgery. ''The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.''
In ''Cash,'' his second autobiography, written with Patrick Carr and published in 1997, he fantasized about the final word on Johnny Cash, when ''halfway through 'Ring of Fire' or 'I Still Miss Someone' or 'Sunday Morning Coming Down,' I'll just keel over and die on the stage, under the lights, with my band and my family around me. That's every performer's dream, you know.''


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Jennifer Lopez has settled back in behind the judges' table on "American Idol," and with her freshman season under her belt and a high profile personal life split behind her, don't expect her to slip into Simon-esque snarkiness.
As she tells PopcornBiz, J-Lo's still looking to push the contenders to raise their bar without bringing them down, and is still playing to role of idol herself both at work and at home.
On her style of judging contestants this season:
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"It hasn't changed. We are still the same people. I'm still an emotional person, but – I don't know, we are a little more comfortable. We are still having fun. We have amazing talent. So that always makes it more exciting…We don't tell them to come back next year if we don't think they should come back next year. And as far as mentoring them through the process, yeah, we try to give them advice as we would want it to be given to us. That's how I always deliver what I'm saying. I want to do it in a way where they hear me. At the same time, you know, there's nothing wrong with a little tough love. But there's nothing wrong with a little encouragement either and a little bit of, you know, kind of making them feel great at the same time. So we all have our own styles and personalities in how we do that, but at the end of the day, we are trying to get them through to be the winner, no matter what we say to them."
On what she's learned about 'Idol' after that first year:
"It's so funny, because I was such a fan of the show in the beginning so I pretty much knew what the show was, as opposed to Steven [Tyler] who didn't know what it was at all. He didn't – he had never watched the show, so he didn't know what it was but I was someone who'd watched it forever. What do I know about it now? That live TV's tiring. I didn't know that. I'd never done live TV, so that's a big thing. That's why I marvel at Ryan [Seacrest] when I think about like he gets up at three in the morning and then he comes down. If he can do it I can do it."
On balancing her career with raising her twins, Max and Emme:
"They are so little and cute. You know, it's a juggling act. Just like any single mom, it's just balancing everything out and making sure that they're okay. They come first, though. They come first. It was so funny because I sat down to look at my schedule for the next few months with my manager, and I was like, 'Okay. This, this, and this I'm doing with the kids at this time.' And, you know, that goes first and then everybody works around that. And that's how we do it. That's how we do it, so they feel loved, happy, and like what they are, the most important thing in my life."
On whether her kids have figured out that Mom's kind of a big deal:
"It's funny, they know a little bit of what I do, but now they're going to be four really soon, in February so they kind of get it. They know I dance, they know I sing. They know hair and makeup and I go and I do things. They don't know everything, but it's funny: we get to go out where they're not bombarded and stuff like that, so I've learned how to move in those circles really well so they don't get too overwhelmed with people and things like that. We do okay."
On the return of 'In Living Color,' the series that gave her a big break as one of the original Fly Girls:
"What? Is that right? Oh my God – I didn't even know. That's awesome…I might [go on]. Who knows? I haven't heard from Keenen [Ivory Wyans] but if he called me and wanted me to do something it would be awesome. I owe Keenen a lot from the beginning of my career. He always believed in me. He always was constantly putting in my brain: 'You're going to be a star, do you know that?' He was a mentor to me, so I wish him the best in that.
On starring in "Parker," a new film adaptation of Richard Stark's hard-boiled crime noir novel series:
"I didn't know the original novel until Taylor Hackford asked me to do it. He said he had a part for me. We'd been talking about working together for years and it was a lot of fun. We shot it this summer. It was great. It was a tough part for me but it was good. It was great working with Taylor finally."
On her stint appearing in "What to Expect When You're Expecting":
"I actually play somebody who can't have babies so my arc is very different than everybody else's and I adopt. It's a really nice storyline. It only took a couple of weeks to shoot everybody's piece. It's a big ensemble thing, but I think it'll be a cute movie."
On developing her new talent search series, aimed at the Latin market:
"We're working on a show called 'Que Viva.' I'm actually producing that show, so I have a little bit more leeway on when I do things and when I don't. And now that we're more into the live part of 'Idol' coming up, it's only two days a week, so we're going to have time to work on both at the same time. It's an exciting project. I'm really, really excited about it."
"American Idol" airs tonight at 8 PM ET on Fox


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NBA forward Caron Butler is coming home
The Phoenix Suns have traded small forward Caron Butler to the Milwaukee Bucks for point guard Ish Smith and center Viacheslav Kravstov.
The move sends Butler to his hometown team. The 11-year NBA veteran is from nearby Racine.
The Suns acquired Butler and point guard Eric Bledsoe from the Clippers on July 10 in a three-team trade that sent the Suns' Jared Dudley and Milwaukee's J.J. Redick to Los Angeles. Milwaukee got two second-round draft picks in the deal.
Butler signed a three-year, $24 million contract with the Clippers in December of 2011. A starter for the Clippers the last two seasons, Butler has averaged 15.5 points in stops that included Miami, the Los Angeles Lakers, Washington, Dallas and the Clippers.
"We're very excited to welcome Caron back home," Bucks general manager John Hammond said in a statement.
Hammond said Butler "gives us depth at the small forward position and will be a mentor for our younger players."
Suns General Manager Ryan McDonough said the trade "gives us significant cap space as well as the flexibility to trade for another exciting player."
It also could provide some money that would make it easier to swallow the $9 million hit the team would take if it waives Michael Beasley, who was arrested in early August on suspicion of marijuana possession and had been a disappointment on and off the court in his one season with Phoenix. Finding someone who would take him in a trade seems unlikely, given his long history of marijuana problems.
Smith has played for five teams in three NBA seasons after making the Houston roster as an undrafted free agent in 2010. He appeared in 52 games last season, 36 with Orlando before he was traded to Milwaukee and played in 16 games there.
The 6-foot-11 Kravstov enters his second NBA season and will join fellow Ukrainian center Alex Len, the Suns' first-round draft pick. They are the only two Ukrainians on an NBA roster. Moments after the trade was confirmed, the Suns announced they had signed Len, the fifth overall pick in the draft.
Kravstov appeared in 25 games with the Detroit Pistons as a rookie. He went to the Bucks on July 31 as part of the trade that sent Brandon Jennings to Detroit.
The trade is the latest in a series of efforts by the new general manager McDonough and new coach Jeff Hornacek to rebuild the Suns after the team endured its second-worst finish in franchise history.
Butler had expressed satisfaction with the role made for him in Phoenix, even serving as one of the models at a local shopping mall when the Suns unveiled their new uniforms.
But he undoubtedly will love the move back to his home area.
Butler, a two-time All-Star, started 78 games for the Clippers last season, averaging 10.4 points per game, shooting 39 percent from 3-point range.
After two seasons at UConn, Butler was selected by Miami as the 10th overall pick in the 2002 draft. His uniform numbers have been retired by the two high schools where he played, Racine Park, Wis., and Maine Central Institute.


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犬猫用消化促進プロバイオティクス, 60 チュアブル錠剤
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|157 mg
|リン (りん酸二カルシウムとして)
|119 mg
ペットプロバイオティクス消化補助ブレンド (2億5千万の活性菌含有**)
ビフィドバクテリウムビフィダム, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus salivarius, Lactobacillus paracasei
|2.1 mg
|100 mg
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