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There is an old adage genealogists will appreciate, "You can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends." And many times they become your family.
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This post began as a remembrance to an old and dear friend, Harry 'Hap' Fleming. (He earned the name 'Hap' as a child because he was always happy.) But as I attempted to put the pictorial elements together, I realized how many times, we as genealogists, face the situation where all of the pieces of someone's life are gone! They've been discarded after the person died - thrown away, given away or sold in hopes of making a 'big' profit. Unfortunately, this was the case with Hap's photo album and scrapbooks. This was Hap's chronicle to his younger days when he played with the Big Bands.
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|Jimmy Dorsey
Now, granted, there were no pictures of Glen Miller's Band or Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra in Hap's album, though Hap did play gigs where the Dorsey Brothers were playing. According to Hap, "Those boys fought tooth and nail, day and night, until they went on stage. Then they put all differences aside and played "the music that satisfies," (a reference to the Chesterfield Quarter Hour program from 1932.) Jimmy broke off from his brother Tommy's band and both men went on to lead two of the most popular Big Bands of the era.
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No, Hap Fleming started out in a dance band back in the 30's as a piano player. And Hap could PLAY! Although he did take lessons for a year or so as a child, he refused to practice. Finally his piano teacher told his mother, "Stop wasting your money on that boy. He'll never learn the correct piano techniques." And it was true, he never learned the schooled method – but Hap could make a piano come alive, playing swinging Big Band tunes that made you want to dance, or quiet sentimental 'sweet' music, that made you remember and long for something better. He was a natural, playing it all by ear.
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A Pennsylvania native, Hap played with several bands including the Jimmy Simms Orchestra. He joined fellow Kittanning resident, Angelo 'Angie' Sgro's swing band in the forties. They started out playing places like the Alexander Hotel and graduated to the Sunset Grove Ballroom near Rural Valley, Pennsylvania. The 13-member group opened for the Big Band greats such as Jan Garber, Sammy Kay, and Lawrence Welk. And once, Lawrence Welk's Orchestra returned the favor and actually opened for them!
|Band Leader Lee Angelo
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|The Band's 36 Olds Station Wagon
The dance band's popularity grew. They played Pittsburgh and were 'discovered.' The group of hometown boys came to be known as the Lee Angelo Dance Band. They toured the country, packing ballrooms, country clubs and dance halls from Pittsburgh to Denver, Chicago to Mississippi. Hap's stories of playing till early in the morning, then packing it all up into a couple of station wagons and heading down the road to the next gig, always captivated me. I could just imagine those (always, in my mind) moonlit drives in the middle of the night, still talking and joking about the evening's show, until the first glimpse of dawn, when everyone would settle down and sleep until the cars pulled in to the next town and it was time to get up and do it all again – simply for the pure joy of it!
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Unfortunately when Hap died in November 2003 his estate was intestate. He trusted that what he said he wanted to happen would. Somewhere along the line his Big Band photo album and scrapbooks disappeared. My fear is that they were parted out and the famous Big Band autographs and photos he had collected over the years were sold for cash. Done so without a thought to the fact that these books were a very meaningful record of his life.
Regrettably this happens all too often. So a few pointers; make sure, if you are the person designated to receive a loved one's memory books, it's put in writing and you have a copy. If those items are truly gone, try to recreate what you remember was there. Contact anyone you can remember who might still have photos or mementos of those earlier times. This applies not only to those who have recently passed, but ancestors from generations back. The Internet makes detective work more possible and much easier now. You'll be surprised what is out there.
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|Article on Lee Angelo Band
newspaperarchives.com for any relevant clippings and articles. Although I haven't located the actual 1930's articles about his band, I did rediscover this write up done in the Indiana, Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper. This came out in December 2000 when Brian and I were spending the holidays with Hap. He told me stories about the 'Big Band days' yet again, and finding this helped to jog my memory on other anecdotes he had shared with me throughout the years.
|We lost Hap on November 20, 2003.
He was 92.
|Harry 'Hap' Fleming
~ Joy
(Special thanks to Tim and Jane Attaway of Pulliam's Funeral Home, Oblong, Illinois.
And to Sue Jones, Crawford County Historical Society, Robinson, Illinois.)
(Special thanks to Tim and Jane Attaway of Pulliam's Funeral Home, Oblong, Illinois.
And to Sue Jones, Crawford County Historical Society, Robinson, Illinois.)


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I have to say that after a rocky start I made out pretty well yesterday – which was Day 1 of the 1940 US Federal Census release. I started pretty much at 9:oo EDT on the dot trying to access the ED where both my sets of my grandparents lived from the NARA website. After several hours of no luck — meaning the site was too busy and I was not even able to view one image – I tried Ancestry.com. Luckily for me, the state of Pennsylvania was near the top of the queue. By mid-afternoon, some of Chester County was available so I starting looking at North Coventry and South Coventry townships for some "cousins." I hit the jackpot finding several families.
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Here's a scenario most small-group leaders have experienced: You think of a great question as you're preparing for a group meeting during the week. It's a real doozy of a discussion starter—deep, poignant, and winsomely phrased. You simply can't wait to unleash this momentous query the next time your group gets together.
When you actually ask the question, however, the group hits you back with a wall of silence. Nobody says anything. If your group meeting were made into a TV sitcom, there would be cricket noises in the background. (Play the video above to see what I mean.)
As the seconds tick by, you begin to wonder: What went wrong? Why doesn't anyone say anything? What should I do now?
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Try this little experiment before we go any further. Find a clock (or use the stop-watch on your fancy phone, if you have a fancy phone) and give yourself 30 seconds of silence. Just sit without doing or saying anything for 30 seconds. Go ahead and try it now.
Thirty seconds is a long time, right? But as small-group leaders, we need to give our group members at least 30 seconds of silence in order to answer our deepest questions. If that seems crazy, consider everything your group members need to do after you ask a discussion question:
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- They need to cross-reference that potential answer with the Scripture passage or other reference that sparked the question in the first place.
- They need to confirm whether their potential answer is in fact a good and helpful response to the question. (And if not, they need to start the process over again.)
- They need to figure out the best way to phrase their answer in a way that is clear and concise.
- They need to adjust their answer based on the responses of other group members who may speak before they are ready.
That's a lot of work. And that's why your group members need time. They need time to process. They need time to think. And they're probably going to be silent when they do so.
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Back to the scenario from earlier in this post. If you ask a discussion question and receive a wall of silence in response, that's probably a good thing. That probably means your people are thinking deeply about deep issues.
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This is the 20th consecutive year that IBM topped the annual list of U.S. patent recipients.
"We are proud of this new benchmark in technological and scientific creativity, which grows out of IBM's century-long commitment to research and development," said Ginni Rometty, chairman and CEO, IBM. "Most concretely, our 2012 patent record and the two decades of leadership it extends are a testament to thousands of brilliant IBM inventors -- the living embodiments of our devotion to innovation that matters, for our clients, for our company and for the world."
IBM's record-setting 2012 patent tally was made possible by more than 8,000 IBM inventors residing in 46 different U.S. states and 35 countries. IBM inventors residing outside the U.S. contributed to nearly 30% of the company's 2012 U.S. patent output.
From 1993-2012, IBM inventors received nearly 67,000 U.S. patents. The company's 2012 patent count exceeded the combined totals of Accenture, Amazon, Apple, EMC, HP, Intel, Oracle/SUN and Symantec.
The Top Ten list of 2012 U.S. patent recipients* includes:
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3 Canon 3,174
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IBM's record 2012 patent output featured inventions that are reshaping how companies are applying technology in today's world of a Smarter Planet and those that are laying the groundwork for the new era of cognitive systems:
· U.S. Patent #8,275,803: System and method for providing answers to questions - This patented invention was implemented in the IBM Watson system and describes a technique that enables a computer to take a question expressed in natural language, understand it in detail, and deliver a precise answer to the question.
· U.S. Patent #8,250,010: Electronic learning synapse with spike-timing dependent plasticity using unipolar memory-switching elements - This patent relates to algorithms and circuits for efficiently mimicking the learning function of a brain's synapses and lays the foundation for a non-von Neumann computer architecture. IBM is working on a cognitive computing project called Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable Electronics (SyNAPSE), which aims to emulate the brain's abilities for perception, action and cognition while consuming orders of magnitude less power and volume without being programmed.
· U.S. Patent #8185480: System and method for optimizing pattern recognition of non-gaussian parameters - This patent describes a technique for dealing with and recognizing patterns in fast growing, large data sets of complex information, such as understanding of spoken phrases or processing satellite data to predict locations of traffic jams.
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· U.S. Patent #s 8,291,378: Simplified deployment modeling & 8,332,873: Dynamic application instance placement in data center environments – These patented inventions describe a Software Defined Environment composed of a modeling platform to define application components with their requirements and characteristics, and an intelligent orchestration system to dynamically deploy, update and manage workloads. The inventions enable the IBM PureSystems family of products to use repeatable patterns for faster deployment and optimized workload lifecycle management.
· U.S. Patent #8,341,441: Reducing energy consumption in a cloud computing environment – This patented invention describes a technique that enables more efficient and effective use of cloud computing resources, thereby reducing and minimizing energy consumption.
· U.S. Patent #8,247,261: Thin substrate fabrication using stress-induced substrate spalling - This patent describes a low-cost method for manufacturing a new class of flexible semiconductor materials that will enable ultra-thin, lightweight and flexible products and can be applied to a wide range of technologies such as biomedical, security, wearable computing and solid-state lighting.
· U.S. Patent #8,302,173: Providing a user device with a set of access codes – This invention provides a method to validate and retrieve one or several security codes --valid for only a very short period of time to enhance system security-- via a mobile network (SMS, for example) and a separately encrypted channel from a secure server, for example, to complete a secure transaction or perform secure login operations via a mobile phone.
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"Against the Odds is a remarkable story, a tale of courage and perseverance told with humor and honesty. There must be thousands of athletes who have finished an IRONMAN® race faster than John Pendergrass, but there can't be very many who have had as interesting a journey."
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—Don Mann, author of The Complete Guide to Adventure Racing and Director of the Eastern Shore 140 Ultra Triathlon
"Against the Odds is an easy read with so much self-deprecation and humor that you can easily lose sight of the fact that it's a story of remarkable achievement. Six IRONMAN® Triathlons on six continents after discovering triathlon in your sixties? That's amazing. But the biggest takeaway from Pendergrass' book is just how much fun it was for him. He never takes himself too seriously, a refreshing change in the triathlon world, and it's easy to imagine him being an unintentional hero for those who simply wondered what was possible, even if there were some moments when it seemed like simply getting up out of a recliner was a bit too much to ask."
—Jordan Rapp, champion triathlete and Chief Technology Officer at Slowtwitch.com
Foreword by Brett Favre
Chapter 1: China on My Mind
Chapter 2: Looking for a Challenge
Chapter 3: "Whoever Finishes First, We'll Call Him the IRONMAN®"
Chapter 4: Triathlon 101
Chapter 5: The IRONMAN Mystique
Chapter 6: In the Pool and On the Road
Chapter 7: Adventures in South America: Brazil
Chapter 8: No Country for an Old Man: Switzerland
Chapter 9: Hurricanes and Hip Fractures
Chapter 10: Back on the Road: South Africa
Chapter 11: A Land of Great Surprises: New Zealand
Chapter 12: A Crowd in the Desert: Arizona
Chapter 13: The Sixth and Final Stop: China


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Corn was higher on Monday, breaking its 9 day losing streak. Soybeans also rallied, breaking the 10 day streak. Wheat was the upside leader, finishing 11 cents higher in September and 35 cents higher to close the July contract.
The rally basically recouped the losses from Friday's WASDE report but markets are still well off their highs for 2014. Three months ago December corn was posting a high of $5.17 and here we are 25% below that level at $3.88 ¼. Surprisingly the funds haven't given up on their corn longs just yet. Their net long position actually grew from the week prior by 5,411 contracts and sits at 107,600 using futures and options combined. The managed money soybean long has declined sharply in the last 3 weeks however and is only 2,142 using futures/options. Last year the managed money actually built a sizable net short corn position before the year was over, we will see if this trend repeats itself in 2014.
Most analysts are projecting record US corn and soybean crops this year which will continue to limit any upside potential until the next weather event comes along. The problem for corn is that we have already entered the critical stages and it will be hard for any meaningful losses to occur during the remainder of the growing season. Soybeans are still up in the air, but the June 30th acreage report has given the market plenty of cushion to still build a meaningful carryout. The market will be watching the early August forecast very closely for direction.
Corn ratings were 76% good-to-excellent and soybeans were 72%, both very favorable. Corn is 34% silking compared to 33% as the 5 year average. Soybeans are 41% blooming compared to 37% on average. For the full report please visit the following link: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/CropProg/CropProg-07-14-2014.pdf
For now we believe the path of least resistance still remains downward but we would be on the lookout for dead-cat-bounce opportunities to sell again. We have a few gaps left above the market and still have plenty of growing year left. For those of you who wish to catch up on corn and soybean hedging, we would put scale up orders between here and the gap fills going back to the 4th of July weekend. That level is $4.14 ½ for Dec corn and $11.32 ¾ for Nov beans.
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This is not intended as an insurance advertisement, just a freeze from ESPN's coverage of the Home Run Derby that struck me as bordering on art: the shadowed silhouettes of fans in the right field bleachers at Angel Stadium during David Ortiz's ups.
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I grew up with Sherm Feller in Fenway Park and "Rocketman" playing over the P.A. as a young Roger Clemens warmed up to start the game. Later, I got to know Kenny Coleman and I would never tell him this but it was so cool to hear that voice calling my name, even if it was just to go to dinner.
Hi Keith! Love the stories. The "take off your clothes" blooper had me laughing out loud. That reminds me – I was talking to a friend today, while working on his new computer. He told me about his uncle, Les Carmichael, who used to do baseball announcing quite a few years ago. (He might have gone by Robert – I think Les was his middle name.) In any case, my friend told me that his uncle would sometimes be announcing the game in a room far away from the actual field – but that information would be coming over the wire, and he would report on that. Unfortunately, one day the information stopped coming in, and he had to make up stuff. "Uhh… it looks as if they're taking a time out. The catcher has gone out on the field to talk to the pitcher…" (That is, of course, a loose transcription of what he told me he thought his uncle might have said.) It was a far different job on those days, I guess. By the way, I would love to hear the story on YOUR worst blooper – can you put it on Twitter, or is it even too bad to post there? Oh, and by the way…. "Bulging…. DISCS!" 🙂 Great blog post! Have a great night, and thanks for the laughs!
Great story either way. I once ordered a Subway sandwich with "lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and banana peckers." I now stop at pickles; I just can't risk doing that again!
Somewhat of a less interesting relation – The State Farm ad at the Oakland Coliseum is in left field. Symmetry, anyone?
BTW, I do like the picture! You are getting too good with that 4G. Reminds me…next time I'm in West Texas I'm going to take a picture of those wickedly large ants that have their own shadows.
Found it! Les Carmichael – sports anchor (1958-1973), KMOV radio. Also, WEW/KWK (Bill Snyder, Les Carmichael). Not that you should care about this, but I like doing research, and after hearing my friend's stories, I was curious to see if I could find anything about him.
BoSox fans–What is the origin of the nickname "Big Papi"
I firmly believe that many of the Twitter trolls also post comments on MLB websites. The thread about the HR Derby is particularly enthralling. The Yankee fans and the Red Sox fans are really going at each other. I thought the Cardinals/Cubs rivalry was bad, but we ain't got nothin on these AL fans. I thought the Twitter hashtag #cubssuck was pretty provocative until I read some of the comments on that HR Derby thread. Whoa.
When Red Barber started in Cincinnati, he replaced a local announcer named Harry Hartmann, who also had been and remained PA announcer. So, when he did the broadcasts, Harry would shut off the PA mike when he was going to call the plays. I don't know of other examples at the time. But it is interesting to note that for a quarter of a century, we Dodger fans were treated to the basso of John Ramsey, who was a wonderful PA man in his own right and, like Bob Sheppard, respected the crowd enough not to sound like a raving moron, as so many of them do today–even at Dodger Stadium, the PA man tries to build up the excitement. I did PA at my high school's basketball games, and someone even told me I didn't get excited enough. I said, well, that's not my job–that's for the fans to do.
Errr. . .like beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. Or so they say. I'm an artiste and I see contrast in this photo, but my eye is nevertheless drawn to the glowing Gatorade and State Farm logos. As much as it pains me to say, the boys on Madison Avenue would be proud.
And I'm tellin' ya . . . I have one of those names that defies correct pronunciation. A boss mispronounced my name for many years, despite repeated corrections, objections, and ignoring-him-till-he-flippin'-said-it-right, on my part. What is it with some people and names?
So, again, Mr. Sheppard going the extra mile in order to pronounce the ballplayers' names correctly when introducing them honestly brings a lump to my throat. That gracious extension of himself is the sort of thing I would never forget, and would go out of my way somehow to repay.
All of this talk about PA gaffes puts me in mind of that episode of ?Seinfeld,? where Jerry is dating a woman whose name for the life of him he can't remember. Being Jerry, of course he can't just ask her. Finally, she enticingly proffers that her name rhymes with certain embarrassing body parts. And then he and George wrack their brains trying to figure out what the hell it could be . . .
Keith – My condolences to the Yankees organization and fans such as yourself, following the death of George Steinbrenner, the team's second great loss in as many days.
I don't know if this qualifies as a gaffe but I thought Keith might appreciate it. I was watching a game on YES and the announcer Michael Kay saw a fan in the stands who was on camera and said "That fan looks just like Courteney Cox of 'Friends'! They could be twins!" The problem is– she was actually Contessa Brewer of MSNBC. Vin is definitely the #1 announcer (even when Curtis Granderson briefly became "Curtis Gunderson" a couple weeks ago in L.A.) and Gary, Keith and Ron are the next best booth (even when Keith H. doses off in the booth or asks Gary if he just went to church on Sunday).


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By Ashley Pavone
You might grab a steaming cup of hot chocolate to keep warm while watching a sports game, or just to stay warm in the winter weather. But what if buying hot chocolate also meant warming your heart by providing an eager student with necessary school supplies?
Students from Chestnut Hill College (CHC), Mount St. Joseph Academy (the Mount), and Norwood-Fontbonne Academy will be selling hot chocolate, collecting money and supplies for that exact cause at "Stag and Doe Night" on Dec. 8 from 6-9 p.m.
Although students from these schools range in education level from Kindergarten to college seniors, they share one thing: the common mission of the Sisters of St. Joseph — unity and reconciliation. In addition to this, the desire to help others is what propelled the idea for all the schools to share this connection.
The desire to associate and connect has been in the process for several years, with correspondences from the Campus Ministry centers and directors of each school. Finally those directors, as well as a handful of students from each school met in late October at Chestnut Hill College. Each school discussed their mission and how they enact them in various aspects such as academics, spirituality, and athletics.
The meeting "was a chance to support each other on projects and address issues together," Kate Tully, a junior from Mount St. Joseph Academy, said. "We were inspired to hear how each school and its students are reaching out to help others."
Christine Sedlack, an eighth grader from Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, added that the meeting "[gave us the] hope to make a positive difference in the lives of others."
Community service and sharing of resources is key to each educational institution. They all tutor students every week, collect items and money for various organizations, and make sandwiches for the homeless.
"My experience going down to Chestnut Hill College was truly enlightening," Grace Hogan, 8th grader at Norwood-Fontbonne Academy, said. "Though we all knew that there was poverty right in our backyard, we are now aware of what we can do. I learned that together we can all make a difference."
First up on the schools' agenda is to expand Mount St. Joseph Academy's "school-in-a-box" program; a box full of collected items from students, faculty, and administrators of the schools to meet the educational needs of students. It includes essentials such as pens and paper, but also less recognized items such as dictionaries and calculators.
"All three groups are out to obtain the same goal," Amy Bryan, a sophomore at Chestnut Hill College, says. "It is great that we [students of CHC, the Mount, and Norwood-Fontbonne] are all going to work together for our services (such as the) school-in-a-box project."
The Campus Ministry centers from each school will collect these items for the next few months and following the Mount's example, will put the boxes together and then deliver the boxes to local schools in need of supplies.
Wondering how you can get involved? Stop by "Stag and Doe Night" in Chestnut Hill on Dec. 8 from 6-9 p.m. You can also mail supplies or donations to Chestnut Hill College (9601 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, Care of Sister Michelle Lesher in Campus Ministry). For more information, please contact Sister Michelle Lesher at 215-248-7107.
Future plans for the school alliance include addressing issues surrounding their shared mission.


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INTERVIEW- Galloping success: Deerhoof stampedes into Satellite Ballroom
Greg Saunier is full of fascinating juxtapositions– for starters, he responds to every question with an unintentional half-laugh somewhere between Mike Judge's Butt-head and a hippo, always teetering just on the edge of an Urkel snort. But more to the point, his latest album opens with a caffeinated drum break that actually sounds like Jet Li beating down 30 people in a single meticulously choreographed fight sequence only to fade into vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki's cute timid invitation to "Meet me/Meet the perfect me."
That brief passage typifies the contrast that makes Deerhoof so interesting– bursts of aggressive noise are woven into pop so sweet and childish that it almost has to be a joke.
It isn't, but it does seem like Deerhoof is just starting to figure out the formula themselves– they've stuck pretty close to an album-a-year release schedule for the past decade in an attempt to figure out just how much experimentation the mainstream is willing to swallow. They've found no reason to let up yet: the response so far has been strong enough to land them opening gigs with everyone from Radiohead and Wilco. Last time they were here, for example, they were opening for the Flaming Lips at the Pavilion; kudos to the Satellite Ballroom for giving them the headlining show that will really let them spread their wings.
The Hook: Why such prolific output?
Greg Saunier: People ask that question, and I'm never quite sure how to take it. Are you saying it seems like a little much?
The Hook: Ha! No. I just mean that you seem to create more art than other bands in your position.
Greg Sanier: Even if people are listening to your music and you rejoice in that, you never assume that anyone's still going to be listening to it tomorrow. In popular music, tastes are extremely fickle. There's never been any such thing as feeling established or comfortable or stable. I don't feel like we're prolific. It actually, to me, feels very slow. I see other people around me, other musicians, who seem to make us look glacial in comparison.
The Hook: It definitely seems like the media marketing machine doesn't view music as a timeless art anymore; it's a product with a limited shelf life. Do you think you can make timeless records if you're putting one out every year?
Greg Saunier: You used the word marketing machine, and I use that word all the time too, but when you look at it, it is composed of actual people. And if you talk to those actual people, it's not like every one of them listens only to music that came out that week. Timelessness is a value, but it's one that rings hollow as far as a press release is concerned. So it doesn't get used much unless it's Bob Dylan or the Rolling Stones or something. It's not even an accurate description of the music, because it's just one person's take on it with ulterior motives. I would go so far as to advise your readers not to even believe your article. Even though there's less an ulterior motive, it's neither true nor false, and it's no substitute for a listener's own experience of the music. Each person brings something different to Deerhoof. We're always astounded at the number of different– even conflicting– ways our music is interpreted by our listeners. All of them are right, but none of them are the whole story. We sort of think of our music as not even music until someone hears it and has some sort of response to it.
The Hook: If a tree falls in the forest...
Greg Saunier: Exactly. It doesn't really become music until it's listened to by people. And then it really becomes something mysterious and collaborative. Anyone listening becomes part of the band, in a way. I don't know what they're going to hear. I know what I hear, but my perspective on it is completely different. Some people think we play the weirdest, most avant-garde noise– that we're people who don't have any idea how to play a music or play an instrument. Someone else thinks it's totally sellout poppy bubblegum whatever– and they're talking about the same song! I love that. I love that confusion.
The Hook: How do you write? On paper? On a computer? On a guitar?
Greg Saunier: Each of us writes differently. John or Satomi might record into a tape recorder. The format isn't important, as long as you find a way to remember the idea. I happen to notate my ideas on paper, but that's just because that's what I learned when I was a kid. I studied music in school and went the academic or technical route.
The Hook: So did I, actually. And, you know, at my college graduation ceremony, the head of the Music department gave me two things: my diploma and a copy of "Milk Man."
Greg Saunier: What?!
The Hook: Seriously.
Greg Saunier: Was it at UVA?
The Hook: Yeah. How did you...
Greg Saunier: It wasn't Fred Maus, was it?
The Hook: Wow. Yeah.
Greg Saunier: I'm going to have to go scold him for that. I know Fred Maus really well. He was my teacher in high school. I did composition lessons with him, I'd go maybe once a week after school. He was kind of a mentor to me.
The Hook: And all this time I thought he was on the cutting edge of indie rock hipness.
Greg Saunier: The wisdom that he had, I'm still comprehending the meaning of even today. The music he introduced me to, I'm still coming to terms with.
The Hook: I thought, "Who the f–- is Deerhoof?" and traded it in for something mundane.
Greg Saunier: One of the things that's very striking about Satomi is her lack of background. She had never been in a band or played any instrument or music in her life. She was starting from absolute scratch. I treasured that, and I still do– her perspective and her background being so utterly different from mine. And yet we seem to be able to find points of agreement or consensus about what we want to do in music. If we can agree on what we're doing, then we know that we've made a good decision.
The Hook: I remember hearing that The Runners Four was submitted to the label and then recalled four times before its release.
Greg Saunier: It's not just The Runners Four. We've done that with every single album we've put out. You're working so hard on it, you start to not be able to tell anymore if it's right. You can't even tell what it sounds like. Suddenly, once it's too late to do anything about it, you can see the flaws, crystal clear.
The Hook: Is that exacerbated by the fact that you produce it all yourselves?
Greg Saunier: It's not a problem, it's just a step in the process. Becoming overfamiliar with it is not just a problem, it's a solution. We're putting the music to extreme tests, testing the songs in every way we can think of– listening to it over and over again so as to get deliberately tired of it and sick of it to realize the flaw. You realize what part of it is getting on your nerves or what part is getting boring so you can have your imagination try to solve that. That process of getting tired of your own music becomes a stepping stone to some place you didn't envision the song could go.
Deerhoof stampedes across the Satellite Ballroom February 24 at 9pm for the bargain-bin price of $10. The Harlem Shakes and Flying open.


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Hubby said I should share our old-fashioned, southern muscadine wine recipe after I told him that I had posted Gran's muscadine cobbler recipe. I was reluctant to do so not because of its secret ingrediants or because it's acidic and you have to acquire a taste for it. I didn't post it because all of the kids would have been in big trouble if we had ever so much as whispered out loud that somebody in the family had made wine or anything alcoholic.
This recipe for muscadine wine will produce a sweet version. If you want your wine to have more kick to it, some people add vodka.
8 quarts of muscadine Grapes
8 pounds of granulated sugar
4 quarts of warm spring water (un-chlorinated)
1 package of dry yeast
Wash the muscadines and then one by one, mash the grapes in your fingers.
Pour the sugar in the warm water and stir still dissolved. Dip out a small amount in a cup and dissolve the yeast and pour it back into the main mixture.
Pour the liquid over the mashed muscadines.
Stir the muscadine mixture every day for a week.
Strain into a crock or churn that can be sealed and let sit for six weeks.
Strain mixture again and put in jars with the lids screwed on very loosely for the first few days (about 3) so that there's no chance of the jars exploding (ask me how I know!).
Tighten the jar lids and store in the cellar or a cool place.
The south, as I'm sure you know from watching old timey movies, has a reputation for making moonshine whiskey. But what you might not know is that for every man who had a still and made "shine" there was probably a wife who sang in the choir every Sunday that may have helped in the process to raise a little money to feed her children. The enterprise was necessary but shameful at the time and in the south, if you had relatives who made whiskey it is not something that is discussed.
The one and only reason that my grandmother shared her muscadine wine recipe with me is because she believed in its medicinal properties. And as muscadine grapes contain as much if not more resveratrol than grapes, it seems that she was right.
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Here is the member's list who joined for Blogging Marathon celebrations...
Sri Valli -- The leader
After we decided where to stay lot's of plans were going on for long time trough mails and whatsapp. In between this, one day Vaishali gave me a call and told that she is planing a trip to pondicherry if you like to join can join, I said i will join, but I never been there before. I just wanted to spend a day with them.
Five of us decided to go pondicherry a day before our Blogging marathon meet. Vaishali, Archana,Usha, Pradnya came to Chennai on 18 February so that we can leave for Pondicherry on 19th
18th evening first Vaishali, Archana arrived at my place,we enjoyed dinner with two other our blogger friends Pari and Sanjeeta. Around 9 o clock Valli came home to receive Vaishali and Archana, She is there for some time and left. Then Usha and Pradnya joined us..
19th early morning 6 o clock we started for pondicherry, we spent whole day in pondicherry came back in the evening.
20th Friday officially the first day of our BM 50 celebrations already five of us were there at home by 7:30 Kamalika joined us. Then 8:30 Gayathri joined us
We had our breakfast with Idli, dosa, sambar and karivepaku karam podi
Then Kalyani, Veena and PJ joined us
Valli gave a dress code for all the three days for first day we should be in green so we have a photo session in green dress code.
For the first day lunch we made our lunch at home, Vaishali made rice with fresh garlic and green peas, and cucumber raita, pradnya made Bakhri and zunka, aloo kurma and curd rice made by me, Archana made ginnu, Pj brought mysurpa from Koyambattur and gudpoli from Archana.
After having this heavy lunch what any one can do will go for a good sleep but we 12 crazy ladies had a photography session with Usha and after that a official photo shoot in white dress.
In between this we celebrated our teem leader Valli and one of our friend Kalyani's birthday
After this photo shoot we all are getting ready for dinner in between this Gayathri made a wonderful coffee.
By evening 6 o clock we all got ready with our traditional dress then vaishali arranged her pani puri shots
For dinner we reached Annalakshmi restaurent ther we had Mahalakshmi preeti bhjan which is a thali mix of North and South Indian dishes after this I didn;t have strength move a bit. It was so full and very hard to walk.
When we came back home every on was very tried but we didn't sleep for a while that night we keep on laughing and chating for whole night
That's all for Day one will come back with day two..............
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.(PHOTO:)
• Want Super Bowl credentials? Grease the accomplice of three people who allegedly stole a laptop from a car outside Joe's Crabshack in Arlington, Texas, and you can be Joe Buck's sidekick for a day. [Fox Dallas]
• The Philadelphia Eagles found their "redheaded scapegoat" in Sean McDermott. [Philly.com]
• Albert Pujols' agent says the Cardinals better quietly have an acceptable deal in place before Spring Training or, well, he didn't say "else." [STL Today]
• Golfer Dustin Johnson says he didn't pull out of a tournament because of lady troubles. In fact, he says he hasn't even had a ladyfriend for months. [CBS Sports]
• Tony Stewart allegedly pulls a reverse Russell Crowe by fightin' with the Sydney Speedway co-owner.
It is believed that Stewart, who is racing for a team owned by Morris' business partner and Australian speedway legend Garry Rush, had issues about track conditions after a Hot Lap session and made them known to Morris. A helmet and punches were rumored to be thrown and exchanged during the alleged altercation. [Speedcafe.com.au]
• Tottenham vs. Manchester United at 11:10 a.m. eastern. [Telegraph] Tevez had a stellar goal vs. Wolves of the two he scored yesterday (0:52) ...
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• Will Allen, flop artist. [Yahoo Sports]
• Dirk Nowitzki done goofed. [Dallas Morning News]
• Someone one the Islanders got a hat trick! Someone on the Islanders got a hat trick! Tres bon! [CNNSI]
• If "more Gus Johnson than ever before" is your thing, so is Big Ten Basketball this year.
• And, finally, from the "Hickey's Biased" coverage files … Fighting Blue Hens ladies basketball win [News Journal]. ... And so do we all when ladies fight on a bus [WETV].
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The biggest match this weekend will be waged by Columbus and FC Dallas. Both teams are very evenly matched, so MLSsoccer.com broke down each line to figure out just which team will have the slight edge in Saturday's battle at Crew Stadium.
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William Hesmer has been solid overall, but he has rarely been asked to make the last-gasp, game-saving stop. It may come down to that on Saturday.
Statistics say that Kevin Hartman is the top 'keeper in MLS (by GAA and Saves Percentage), but it's his ability to organize the back line that has his manager most thrilled.
Edge: FC Dallas
The center backs are established, but the fullback situation less so. An emergency right back (Frankie Hejduk's out) and a tired rookie (Shaun Francis) or rusty veteran (Gino Padula) at left back are a concern against an FCD team that is exceptionally strong down the flanks.
The absence of Ugo Ihemelu at central defender is massive, but rookie Zach Lloyd has filled in admirably. The remainder of the back four is established and the fullbacks (Heath Pearce and Jair Benitez) are two of the best two-way players in MLS.
Edge: FC Dallas
Without Emmanuel Ekpo and Robbie Rogers on the left, the Crew will need to count Eddie Gaven's ability to create havoc down the right flank. The Brian Carroll-Adam Moffat pairing in the middle will be outnumbered and also have the tricky David Ferreira to contend with.
FCD have two MVP candidates in the middle of the field in Brek Shea and Ferreira. Atiba Harris is a weapon on the right and Daniel Hernandez and Eric Alexander clog up the middle effectively.
Edge: FC Dallas
While Guillermo Barros Schelotto is mainly a threat with his passing game and set pieces, Jason Garey is all over the attacking front and is coming off his best match vs. Colorado.
The lone FCD striker, Milton Rodriguez, operates at the service of the rest of the attack, holding up the ball and ensuring the rest of the team gets involved. Anonymous, but a very critical contribution.
Edge: Crew
Injuries have the Crew bench unusually shorthanded. The muscle of Steve Lenhart and the speed of Emilio Renteria could be a key in attack down the stretch.
Jeff Cunningham is FCD's biggest weapon among their subs. If FC Dallas are down in the match, they will likely look to emerging midfielder Eric Avila.
Edge: Crew
Injuries have piled onto an emotionally draining Champions League trip to Mexico, which will make this match a challenging one for manage for Robert Warzycha despite the fact it's being played at home. His motivational skills will be tested.
Besides two absences, Schellas Hyndman has his full lineup, seven days of rest and an 11-game unbeaten streak as incentive for his side. He also has his team playing on automatic, both at home and away.
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-Inflammation identified as reason why only 1 in 10 patients survive beyond 10 years on dialysis
-Current therapy is hampered by infection and membrane failure
-New insights clear way for more targeted therapies and improved treatments
Clinicians and scientists from Keele and Cardiff universities have published data from a landmark study that explains why survival in patients on peritoneal dialysis is low.
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is a treatment for over 250,000 patients with chronic kidney disease worldwide, using the patient's peritoneum in the abdomen. Currently, only one in ten PD patients survives beyond 10 years on dialysis. For each one-year increase in the patient's age, the risk of death increases by 4% and patients with diabetes have a 30% increased risk of death.
Scientists have now discovered that inflammation in the body and in the peritoneal cavity (where dialysis is performed) are a separate process, which has implications for both the ability to perform dialysis and patient survival. In effect, systemic (whole body) inflammation controls the outcome (survival) whilst peritoneal inflammation controls membrane survival.
Professor Nicholas Topley from Cardiff University and Professor Simon Davies from Keele University designed the study that has taken 12 years to complete:
"Improving survival and doing better dialysis to improve quality of life is the key goal of our research," said Professor Topley from Cardiff University's School of Medicine. "This study was a hard one to bring home because of its length of follow up and the logistics of collecting patient samples worldwide. The importance of the results is self-evident – this is a big leap forward for PD."
Professor Simon Davies, lead investigator from Keele University, said: "We will now be able to target inflammation to improve survival and recovery. Of course there is more to be done but this will form the basis of understanding that to holistically treat the patient one needs to define the clinical problem."
The 12-year international study, with 10 centres in the UK, Korea and Canada, is the longest and largest of its kind. Researchers recruited more than 1500 patients to the study over a 10-year period and then performed a detailed clinical and immunological analysis of samples obtained from PD patients. This for the first time characterised inflammation in these patients and linked it directly to patient outcomes.
The data will enable clinicians who treat PD patients to be able to target treatment where it is needed, thereby improving and extending the therapy, quality of life and reducing treatment failure.
Dialysis treatment is a daily reality for patients with kidney failure which can last for many years and incurs a huge annual cost for the NHS. A UK estimate suggests that renal disease costs the NHS in England £1.45 billion and £800million in Wales, annually.
More than 250,000 patients worldwide use peritoneal dialysis as their primary form of renal replacement therapy.
The paper, entitled 'Independent Effects of Systemic and Peritoneal Inflammation on Peritoneal Dialysis Survivalis published today in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. An online version can be accessed here.
The research was funded by Baxter Healthcare's Renal Division and the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis and is endorsed by the ISPD and the British Renal Society.
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Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crew seemed surprised by crash in San Francisco
The sudden, unheralded nature of Aviana Airlines Flight 214's crash in San Francisco on Saturday afternoon seems to have taken even the jet's trained crew by surprise in the crucial, chaotic moments after it came to rest just beyond the seawall at the end of the runway.
After the Boeing 777-200 that originated in Seoul, South Korea, hit the seawall barrier at the end of the runway, snapping the tail right off the aircraft, San Francisco resident and crash survivor Benjamin Levy said the crew was simply "overwhelmed."
He said there was no verbal warning from the pilot or crew before the impact.
"I mean, the crew was not expecting it at all," Levy said. "So, I mean the ones who were able were helping, the ones who were injured were not. You know, we had to help each other out."
So far, 305 of the 307 passengers and crew survived the crash. At least 181 people have been transported to area hospitals, 49 with serious injuries.
San Francisco General said early Sunday morning that the hospital had received 53 patients, including at least 26 children. Six of those patients were reported in critical condition, including one child. Hospital spokeswoman Rachael Kagan said 4 other adults and one child who arrived in critical condition have since been upgraded to serious. The ages of the children were not immediately given.
- Asiana Airlines president apologizes for crash that killed 2
- Capt. Sullenberger: S.F. airport construction possible factor in crash
- Plane crash at San Francisco airport, 2 dead
- Boeing 777 has strong safety record, experts say
There were seemingly several mitigating factors making the crash less deadly than possible, even with the crew overwhelmed. First was the fact that the plane did not disintegrate when its tail hit the seawall upon landing, despite coming in at an "odd angle," according to what eyewitness Kate Belding told CBS affiliate KCBS in San Francisco.
Kelly Thompson, another eyewitness on the ground, told KCBS she heard a "horrible thud," and then watched as "the airliner bounced and then slid to a stop on the runway."
Anthony Castorani, who told CBS News he watched the crash from his hotel room near the airport, said the plane performed a "side motion diagonal cartwheel" after hitting the runway.
Survivor Levy said there was no fire immediately following the plane going down, likely enabling people to escape. With a fire, there probably would have been a lot more deaths
"There was a bit of chaos, but I think we managed to get everybody to calm down pretty quickly, and really start getting out. Not pushing on each other, not stepping on each other. So it felt like it went pretty fast," Levy said.
San Francisco Fire Department Chief Joanne Hayes-White said the two people who died were found on "the exterior" of the plane. San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault told the San Jose Mercury News that one appeared to have been thrown from the rear of the plane when the tail broke off, and the other was found near the wreckage. State broadcaster China Central Television said the two victims were Ye Mengyuan and Wang Linjia, students at Jiangshan Middle School in eastern China.
The South Korean airline said in a statement that Ye and Wang were both 16.
"Having surveyed that area, we're lucky that there hasn't been a greater loss," fire chief Hayes-White said.
Levy said only after most people were off the plane did he see "fire a lot more, smoke coming out, explosions coming out."
Levy said he was accustomed to flying into San Francisco and as the plane made its approach Saturday, he looked out the window and thought the water below seemed to be much closer than usual.
"Maybe 10 feet above the water and we're not even on the runway -- I don't see any runway, I just see water. So I'm realizing, we're way too low, but i'm just like, eh, he's gonna make it, he knows what he's doing," he told a gaggle of news reporters. "Well, that wasn't the case, somehow we hit the tarmac."
He said he felt extremely lucky to have escaped with just bumps and bruises.
Although there has been no official word on the possible causes of the crash, in a press briefing held Sunday in South Korea, Asiana Airlines CEO and President Yoon Young-Doo pointed out that "veteran pilots" were flying he plane and said that the accident likely did not occur from pilot error. He also said that error on the part of mechanics has "yet to be confirmed."
The National Transportation safety board has launched a full-scale investigation. NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman told Fox News investigators have collected the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder and were able to send them out on a red eye back to D.C.
"We hope our team and lab will read them out today," Hersman said. "The cockpit gives a sense of the conversation, the workload, what was going on inside the cockpit between the pilot, not just in the moments of the crash but in the minutes and hours before the crash."
Hersman added: "Of course our focus right now is on the perishable information."
CBS News aviation and safety analyst Capt. Chesley Sullenberger said it was possible that ongoing construction at San Francisco International Airport would be examined as a factor in the Asiana crash.
Sullenberger, the famed Bay Area pilot who landed the "Miracle on the Hudson" flight, said the construction might have been a contributing factor impacting landings at the facility. He said that the FAA-mandated construction is intended to increase the safety zone of the runway by moving it farther away from the seawall near where the plane crash landed.
The Reuters news agency reported that a widely-used landing assistance system known as "glide path" had been turned off at San Francisco International for much of the summer, and while it was not unusual for the system to be turned off during good weather conditions, it would likely be another factor for investigators to consider.
"The pilots would have had to rely solely on visual cues to fly the proper glide path to the runway, and not have had available to them the electronic information that they typically have even in good weather at most major airports," explained Sullenberger.
As officials try to figure out what went wrong, families of survivors and victims were being notified late Saturday and Sunday. Asiana Airlines released the nationalities of the people on board the flight: 77 Korean citizens, 141 Chinese citizens, 61 U.S. citizens and 1 Japanese citizen.


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Ralph Waldo Emerson just couldn't get over how cool a library is:
Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries in a thousand years have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary and impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words for us.Today it's even better. We not only access the "wisest and wittiest men," but women as well, and from "uncivil" countries. We don't even need to go to a library: we can access these riches from our computer.
In a year of recession and high unemployment, with economic wealth increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few at the top, I am heartened by the artists who recognize alternative kinds of wealth freely available from libraries and museums.
When the great draftsman Noel Sickles was asked where he learned to draw, he responded, "In a library." Sickles had no formal art education but was able to teach himself from images he found in the public library in Chillicothe, Ohio:
I studied not only American cartooning, but all over the world: European, particularly. I became acquainted with all of the various types of cartooning. I went back and studied Simplicissimus and Jugend [magazines] and so on, and that got me more and more into becoming aware of illustration. And I then did the same thing there. I went through, well, the entire background, as much as I could find.Building from these examples, Sickles develop formidable artistic powers:
Imagine what he could have done if he'd had the resources of the internet.
As an impoverished child, Albert Dorne couldn't afford food, let alone art classes. At age 10, he began cutting school 3 or 4 days a week to sneak off to the Metropolitan Museum of Art where he taught himself to draw by copying the pictures. The determined little boy soon became well known to and admired by the museum staff.
After he became a famous illustrator, Dorne did everything he could to make sure that resources would be available for later generations of children.
Libraries are not relics of the past. One of today's best illustrators, Phil Hale, said:
I grew up in a town with a terrific traditional library, and a great collection of art books including many Illustrators annuals.... But also books about Brandywine and other early twentieth-century movements... The library was hugely important to me.There's nothing dated about Hale's sensational work:
Arthur Koestler was convinced that the right book will find us in time to fulfill our destiny. He recounted how, as a depressed and impoverished failure in Paris in the 1930s, he decided to commit suicide. He turned on the gas in his apartment and lay down on his bug stained mattress. "But as I was settling down on it, a book crashed on my head from the wobbly shelf. It nearly broke my nose, so I got up [and] turned off the gas." The book turned out to be about the Nazis coming to power in Germany. Said Koestler, "a more drastic pointer to the despicableness of my antics could hardly be imagined." He regrouped and went on to became a world famous author with a huge impact on the international politics of his day.
We can't always count on the proper book landing on our nose. We need the vision to recognize value in its potential form, and the initiative to transform it into kinetic form. Those traits are not among the advantages provided by wealth and privilege. Libraries are the great equalizer.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and polish your Golden Globe award. Sure, you won in the Musical/Comedy category, which is obviously the lesser category, but it's still an accolade! LET'S GO!
HARRY'S LAW – 10:00PM (NBC) Kathy Bates is now the latest Oscar-winning actress to migrate over to series television, following in the footsteps of Glenn Close and Holly Hunter and the like. For her first headliner show, she's teamed with David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, Boston Legal, etc) for a show about a lawyer (David E. Kelley writing about lawyers? Stunning) who gets dumped from her corporate job and has to set up her own storefront. That dude from ER who got helicoptered is also around, and there will be the requisite David E. Kelley character quirks that felt dated fifteen years ago.Still, given Bates' recent guest turn on "The Office," it might be worth tuning in every week to watch her chew the scenery. The woman isn't an amateur, that's for certain. ANTICIPATION: SHE HAS A BOY'S NAME!
SKINS – 10:00PM (MTV) MTV tries to adapt the controversial British TV show that features kids doing drugs (No!) and having sex (cover my ears!).I don't know why this is so scandalous. I saw that movie "Kids" over a decade ago and this can't possibly be any more distressing than that.Also tune in to see if MTV fails yet again at a scripted show. Scripted shows are like kryptonite to this network. It's uncanny. ANTICIPATION: SKIN!
BEING HUMAN – 9:00PM (SyFy – an NBC/Universal network) SyFy's newest scripted series is getting some good reviews. The pitch: a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost share an apartment together. That's it. That's really all you need to make an intriguing show. It's so simple, it's genius. Will the werewolf leave hair all over the toilet? Will the vampire hold blood orgies in the living room and annoy everyone? Should a ghost have to pay rent if she's not tangible? So many questions. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT – 9:00PM (CNN) Out with the old, in with the British. Tonight marks Piers Morgan's long-awaited debut as Larry King's replacement over at CNN. And his first guest is… Oprah! Not bad, Piers. But call me when it's a slow news day and you have to interview the parents of some white girl who's gone missing. That's where Larry really earned his suspenders. ANTICIPATION: FAILURE!
HOUSE – 8:00PM (FOX) Seizures. Cutting remarks. More seizures. You know the drill by now. ANTICIPATION: SHARK NEARING!
Monday Watch List: New Show Bonanza!
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Your final project is an opportunity to get in-depth experience applying the techniques we've discussed in class to a question that interests you. In choosing a project, you should draw on your own background, interests and strengths. You do not have to work on a project that relates directly to the topics covered in the classes and readings: other topics that pursue the general idea of probabilistic models of cognition are fine, and you should try to work on a project that captures your interests within that fairly broad scope. Working on existing research projects is okay, if they relate to the themes of the class.
You are encouraged (but not required) to do projects in small groups of two or three people.
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- Behavioral: Form a hypothesis inspired by a probabilistic model and test this hypothesis using one or two small experiments.
- Computational: Make a computational model of some aspect of human cognition, either significantly extending a model we've learned about in class, or modeling something new.
- AI: use an idea we've discussed in class to implement an interesting new AI system.
- Inference and infrastructure: Extend Church inference with a better algorithm, implement a useful automatic analysis of programs, or do another infrastucture project.
- The best projects will do a combination of these things, especially combining behavioral experiments with a computational model.
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Email your proposal to the instructor as a PDF file by midnight on Friday November 1, 2012.
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Each person or team will have 10 minutes to present their project. We will go in alphabetical order. The presentations should describe your question, methods, and results at a high level.
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When it comes to Augmented Reality apps on the iDevice, it seems that we're only scratching the surface of what can be achieved with this technology. We've seen AR apps for gaming, finding places near you and much more. Now you can add another unique experience to the list as BEP have released the world's first 360 degree view of their music video from the hit single The Time (Dirty Bit). With BEP360, users will be able to move around their iPhones and iPod Touches and feel as though they're right in middle of the video shoot. Pan left to see will.i.am, pan right to see Fergie…you get the idea.
The app goes for $2.99 and comes with other neat features, including the ability to point your iDevice camera at the album cover of The Beginning and see BEP avatars dancing to the beat. Check out the video demo and more after the gap!
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