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Durham, North Carolina (CNN) -- The first week of each month, Karen and Jerry Vaneman pack their car for a four-hour drive from Asheville, North Carolina, to the medical complex at Duke University. Inside the Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Karen waits patiently as a parade of doctors and technicians pokes and prods, taking samples of all kinds. On this day alone, she gives 21 vials of blood.
In March 2008, Karen was working out in the gym at UNC-Asheville when her left arm went limp. She felt so faint and dizzy that she had to sit. When the Vanemans first got to the emergency room, the doctors were afraid that Karen was suffering a stroke or heart attack.
In fact, Vaneman, a retired professor of Shakespeare and medieval literature, had brain cancer: a glioblastoma or GBM, the most common type of brain tumor. Many doctors consider it a death sentence, but not the team at the Preston Robert Tisch center, where Vaneman was directed for surgery and post-operative care.
"Other doctors will tell you you've got six to nine months, maybe a year to live," says Dr. Henry Friedman, the center's director. "'You're incurable; move on with your life the best you can.' But it's a self-fulfilling prophecy."
At Duke, aggressive treatment is the rule. Almost every patient is enrolled in a clinical trial. For Vaneman, that meant a novel vaccine.
The vaccine, based on research done at Duke and Johns Hopkins, and produced by Pfizer, is called CDX-110. It's not a vaccine in the traditional sense: It doesn't prevent disease. But like any vaccine, it triggers the immune system to attack an intruder, in this case, the cancerous cells.
"All the cells in our body have a [genetic] fingerprint," said Dr. John Sampson, a surgeon and researcher who helped develop the vaccine. "The immune system can recognize differences in those fingerprints."
CDX-110 targets a particular protein -- one with the unwieldy name of EGFRviii, or "EGFR factor three." There is a huge amount of genetic variation within even one patient's tumor, which is one reason the disease is so hard to treat. But according to Sampson, about 40 percent of tumor cells produce EGFRviii. It acts like a homing beacon for the disease-fighting immune cells that are stirred up by the vaccine.
"We're using white blood cells called T-cells, antibodies, to attack the tumor cells because [the tumor cells] have a different fingerprint from the normal cells in the body," Sampson says.
"Unlike chemotherapy, which really hurts all dividing cells in the body, or radiation... the immune system can be absolutely precise. And so we get a very tumor-specific attack with very low toxicity," he says. That means patients suffer fewer side effects.
A vaccine approach is not unique to brain cancer; several are under investigation. Last summer, researchers presented data showing that another vaccine could extend survival for prostate cancer patients.
CDX-110 is not the only candidate for a brain cancer vaccine, either. A project at the University of California, San Francisco, takes a more radically personalized approach. The vaccine for each GBM patient is custom-made from that patient's own tumor cells. Each drug is one-of-a-kind.
"This is the ultimate personalized medicine," says Dr. Andrew Parsa, the neurosurgeon who is running the trial. "It's like having a lot of little medicines instead of one big blockbuster."
The vaccine works -- he hopes -- by targeting something called a heat-shock protein, which is produced in high quantity by tumor cells.
Another novel aspect of the UCSF research is that it doesn't involve a pharmaceutical company as a backer. Instead, it's funded completely by the National Cancer Institute and a handful of cancer nonprofits.
One of the funders, Deneen Hesser, research director of the American Brain Tumor Association, says the research on vaccines is exciting and about expanding the realm of possibility.
"Vaccines represent treatment options," Hesser says. "For patients to be able to have choices, choices in how to approach a treatment plan, is really much different from historical approaches to treating brain tumors."
The UCSF trial is still in its early stages. The current Phase 2 trials -- testing whether the vaccine is effective -- have been enrolling patients only since last summer. The research with CDX-110 is further along, but results from the first multicenter trial will not be made public until later this spring. Forty-four hospitals and medical centers are participating.
At least one of Sampson's patients has made it six years without his tumor coming back. Still unclear is just how many other patients can benefit. Parsa, at UCSF, says his hospital tested 14 patients for the multicenter study. Only one had a tumor that was vulnerable to the vaccine.
In Asheville, Karen Vaneman calls herself lucky.
"In the last year, I've been more mindful of my priorities," Vaneman says. "My family, and the granddaughter, and my husband who has been like a rock through the whole thing. And beyond that, trying to keep a connection with the rest of life, too -- the birds, the bees, the rocks, things like that."
She's hiking again through the hills around Asheville, although she limits the walks to about 2 miles these days. She feels good. And she's happy, more than happy, to put up with the monthly trips to Durham.
"As long as the vaccine works, I'll be getting the monthly shots. And when it doesn't work [any more], then I'm in trouble."


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Last year when it was my son's birthday the staff at a restaurant sang to him while he was looking around to see who's birthday it was, hahahahaha, best video ever!! This year, he did much better, and Texas Roadhouse knows how to do up a birthday. This lady yelling was our waitress, and she got a really good tip. ;)
Another big event happened this week...school started! Little man is repeating Kindergarten again this year...our choice. This was such a hard, hard, hard decision for us. The teacher left it in our hands last year whether or not to pass him. He was doing fine with his work but was noticeably under-confident in doing it. I saw the same thing on the soccer field. He was basically a year younger than everyone else (he's on the birthday bubble), and that can make a huge difference in Kindergarten. I saw that with my own two eyes.
A big thank you to Joyce from Catch My Words who gave me so much clarity and help when I was trying to make this decision!!! Joyce is a school teacher, and she was a big, big help to me on making one of the most difficult decisions I've ever made regarding my youngest. I knew in my heart of hearts when I made the decision it was the right one. Just a couple of days into the school year, I've had that reaffirmed several times. He is already showing confidence this year (he knows what he's doing this go around), he's the same size as everyone else now (lol!), and it's just the right fit.
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And the school year is off and running, woo hoo!! Grandma and Grandpa are picking him up from school today, to take him out for a birthday dinner and give him his present (they were out of town for his actual birthday). His first time ever going off without mom or dad, and he's excited. It's going to be a good day for my little one, and that makes me very happy. :)


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Wisconsin has more than $50 million in unclaimed lottery winnings in Wisconsin going back to 1997.
The Post-Crescent in Appleton reports that many lotto game players trash their tickets if they don't win major jackpots. But some of those tickets were worth money, and the pot of unclaimed money keeps growing.
Unclaimed winnings in the most recent fiscal year alone amounted to $2.8 million. That represents only the lotto games of Powerball, Mega Millions, Megabucks, Supercash, Badger 5, Pick 3 and Pick 4. It does not include unclaimed winnings from instant, scratch-off games.
Winners have 180 days to claim prizes. Unclaimed dollars are sent to the lottery's property tax relief fund.
Wisconsin Lottery spokesman Andrew Bohage said $2 million to $4 million a year in unclaimed winnings is typical. He said unclaimed winnings tend to rise when top prizes skyrocket into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
"With big jackpots, you have people who don't play the game regularly," he said, adding that some of those new players don't realize they won a smaller cash prize. Others might not want to take the time to claim a modest payout.


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Still Drinks (Soft Drinks) Market in Peru - Outlook to 2022: Market Size, Growth and Forecast Analytics
Still Drinks (Soft Drinks) Market in Peru - Outlook to 2022: Market Size, Growth and Forecast Analytics
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Still Drinks (Soft Drinks) Market in Peru - Outlook to 2022: Market Size, Growth and Forecast Analytics
Still Drinks (Soft Drinks) Market in Peru - Outlook to 2022: Market Size, Growth and Forecast Analytics is a broad level market review of Still Drinks market in Peru.
Flavored ready to drink, non-carbonated products, which may be fruit or non-fruit flavored and have a juice content of 0-24.9%. Sugar, artificial flavoring and coloring may be added.
Excludes non-carbonated tea-based and coffee-based products (included in iced/rtd tea drinks and iced/rtd coffee drinks respectively) and non-carbonated sports drinks and energy drinks.
Excludes sweetened non-carbonated water-based flavored beverages. These products are included under Enhanced Water or Flavored Water.
Includes coconut water where the product is not 100% pure coconut water and juice content percentage is below 25%. 100% pure coconut water products are included in the juice category
Still Drinks market in Peru registered a negative compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -2.50% during the period 2012 to 2017 with a sales value of PEN 438.92 Million in 2017, an increase of 2.93% over 2016. The market achieved its strongest performance in 2017, when it grew by 2.93% over its previous year and its weakest performance in 2013, when it fell by -7.35% over 2012.
The research handbook provides up-to-date market size data for period 2012-2017 and illustrative forecast to 2022 covering key market aspects like Sales Value and Volume for Still Drinks and its variants .
Furthermore, the research handbook details out Sales Value and Volume for top brands for the year 2014 to 2017 and overall market sales by Distribution Channel (Hypermarkets & Supermarkets, Convenience Stores, Department Stores, Dollar Stores, Variety Store, Cash & Carries and Warehouse clubs, eRetailers, Food & Drinks specialists, Drug stores & Pharmacies, Health & Beauty Stores, Other general retailers and others) where ever applicable.
The research handbook acts as an essential tool for companies active or planning to venture in to Peru's Still Drinks (Soft Drinks) market. The comprehensive statistics within the research handbook provides insight into the operating environment of the market and also ensures right business decision making based on historical trends and industry model based forecasting.
Sales Values in the handbook are depicted in USD ($) and local currency of country and Volumes are represented in M Liters.
*Note: Certain content / sections in the research handbook may be removed or altered based on the availability and relevance of data.
- Overall Still Drinks (Soft Drinks) market value and volume analytics with growth analysis from 2012 to 2022.
- Value and Volume terms for the Top Brands.
- Distribution channel sales analytics from 2014-2017.
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Table of Contents
1 Still Drinks Market Overview
2 Peru Still Drinks Market Analytics, 2012-22
2.1 Still Drinks Value Analytics, 2012-22
2.1.1 Still Drinks Market by Value, 2012-22
2.2 Still Drinks Volume Analytics, 2012-22
2.2.1 Still Drinks Market by Volume, 2012-22
3 Peru Still Drinks Brand Analytics, 2014-17
3.1 Still Drinks Brand Analytics by Value, 2014-17
3.2 Still Drinks Brand Analytics by Volume, 2014-17
4 Peru Still Drinks Distribution Channel Analytics by Value, 2014-17
4.1 Still Drinks Distribution Channel Analytics by Value, 2014-17
5 Appendix
5.1 Definitions
5.1.1 Category Definitions
5.1.2 Distribution Channel Definitions
5.1.3 Volume Units and Aggregations
5.1.4 CAGR Definition and Calculation
5.1.5 Graphical representation of Brands
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5.1.7 Methodology Summary
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North Baldwin man dies in Southern State crash
Police have identified the driver in a one-car fatal accident on the Southern State Parkway as Timothy Kearney, 23, of North Baldwin.
Kearney was pronounced dead at the scene, between exits 20 and 21, about 4:20 a.m. Saturday.
Kearney was westbound when his Toyota Camry went into the center median, striking the guide rail. The car overturned, slid off the parkway and struck a tree.
"By the time the troopers got there, it was engulfed in flames," State Trooper Tammy Mickoliger said.
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Round the track: Dillon boys and nepotism talk will never fade
If Austin and Ty Dillon worried about pressure or whether people thought they deserved their rides at Richard Childress Racing, they probably wouldn't drive cars with a slanted 3 logo made famous by Dale Earnhardt.
But while they probably don't worry about it, Saturday wasn't the first time, nor will it be the last, that they will have that accusation thrown at them.
In the heated moments following a wreck Saturday with Ty Dillon during the Camping World Truck Series race at Martinsville, Kevin Harvick, who has driven in Cup at RCR for the last 13 years, called them "punk-ass kids" and cited them as the reason he will leave RCR after this season for Stewart-Haas Racing.
"They've got no respect for what they do in this sport and they've had everything fed to them with a spoon," Harvick said.
Those comments no doubt will frustrate them and thoroughly tick off their grandfather, team owner Richard Childress. He will vow that they have sponsorship, that they have won races and competed for championships. They have proven their worth to go on to the next step (Austin to Sprint Cup next season and Ty to the Nationwide Series), and at times Childress has even held them back when other owners have talked about putting them in cars.
Childress won't — and shouldn't — apologize for giving his grandsons opportunities to race at NASCAR's highest levels. It's his money. It's his team. He can put the focus on his grandkids if he wants.
Blood is thicker than water. Childress wouldn't be human if he didn't want his grandsons to win more than others. But he also has a bottom line to think about, and he knows that if his grandsons don't win championships, he's better off if the winner comes from within his organization. For his grandkids to meet their potential, they'll need the help of strong teammates.
So he has incentive to have a strong program around his grandsons. But anyone who doesn't like the fact that they will be the focus probably should get a resume ready. Or leave. If Harvick truly feels that way about the Dillons, then he absolutely did the right thing in making the decision to go to SHR next year.
The fact is that without the grandkids, there is no RCR, and Childress is instead spending time out on his ranch or on some hunting excursion. The grandkids remain the reason that he is still around, still has the enthusiasm and the fire for a sport where he hasn't won a Cup championship in nearly 20 years.
The Dillons are not the first drivers labeled as punks by a competitor. The Busch brothers have heard it. Brad Keselowski probably has been called a punk. Joey Logano has faced similar accusations. Whenever a young driver comes on the scene, he typically will race hard enough to ruffle some feathers and annoy the veterans.
The Dillon boys do have the luxury of knowing granddad owns the team. They know he will give them time to develop, that they don't necessarily race for their future with every green flag.
They do have the pressure to prove themselves, but they know they are not auditioning for other team owners. That means they can be a little more bull-headed on the track, if necessary, not really worrying about whether they anger another driver or team. They know their grandfather is old school and if they wreck while racing, while being aggressive, it will be looked at as a learning experience, at least for the time being.
They have the respect of many in the garage in how they handle themselves, but they also probably have a little more of a license to be themselves. If that means walking around with a cowboy hat and a little bit of a strut, so be it. If that means warning another driver after getting wrecked on the final lap, then so be it.
What has to irk Childress the most is the perception that RCR could suffer with Harvick's departure, that his grandkids won't bring back the glory days of the organization. The truth of the matter is that Childress hasn't won a Cup championship since 1994. He was able to continue after the death of a seven-time Cup champion. So while Childress might wish he had Harvick next year, it's not as if Harvick's departure should be seen as something that will shake the foundation at RCR.
The bottom line is that only one way exists for RCR to prove that the Dillon boys are not the only focus. That's for drivers not named Dillon to win races and finish higher in the standings than those named Dillon.
And there's only one way for the Dillon boys to prove they are deserving of their rides. That's for them to win races and finish higher in the standings than those not named Dillon.


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Battery-operated lights on ice skates, electric lighting and an electric doorbell at home, the first ideas for his own electric bicycle – Prof. Dr.-Ing. h.c. Ferdinand
The world's first hybrid vehicle was unveiled to the public on 14 April 1900 at the World Exposition in Paris by Ludwig Lohner and the young Ferdinand
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HARTFORD -- There were 15,000 steps ready to be taken to start the Sandy Hook Run For the Families 5K Saturday morning on Main Street as the seconds ticked down from the words,"on your mark....get ready.....go!"
The only focus, however, was on the 26 steps that we won't ever hear again.
The 20 little steps running around a playground playing tag or lining up in class getting ready to go to lunch. And the six adult steps in position to shepherd young lives with the patience that only comes with a true passion to teach our children.
We all so desperately wish that something could have been done differently so that the tragic event of last Dec. 14 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown never happened.
We didn't really want to be standing at that starting line.
There we were 15,000 strong -- shoulder to shoulder -- a record number for a first time race in the state. Mom's gripping strollers, young children bouncing around, dad's leaning over to give encouragement to their sons or daughters. People of all different ages and ethnicities -- many wearing the Sandy Hook colors of green and white -- lined up ready to run or walk in support of the lives taken just 99 days ago.
The power of Connecticut coming together to support our own was at an all-time high. There was a feeling or spirit on that crowded street that doesn't come with your typical road race. Everybody knew it and that's what drew so many caring people to do something to show their support and compassion for Newtown.
The runners knew it was going to be a special day even if they didn't want to be standing there.
"It's a mixed bag of emotions," said Tom Kuroski, the president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers. "I'm excited about being here, but I wish this wasn't happening. It's a real roller coaster of emotions. My wife (Beth) and I started seeing the signs for the race on I-84 and she started getting emotional."
The feelings of sadness quickly turned to pride and strength for many people like the Kuroskis.
"I'm so extremely proud of the teachers," said Tom, who teaches anatomy and physiology at Newtown High. "We have 320 of 425 teachers from Newtown participating in the run. I really can't say enough about the professionals and role models they are for the students. They can see us all standing tall today."
The teachers and all the residents of Newtown are well aware of the outpouring of kindness from around the world, but nothing compares to the hugs that come from right next door -- from the Suffield family standing near me at the starting line to the young runners from a club in New Haven. Even members of the high school marching bands from Stratford and Danbury played music to help motivate the runners along the course.
Besides the nearly $350,000 raised in entry fees alone, more money was raised by racing teams and other groups that should push the total over the $500,000 mark for the Sandy Hook School Support Fund.
Newtown residents Tom and Emily Snayd ran the race with their three children -- Isabelle, 10, Hannah, 8, and Fletcher, 4.
"It means a lot to see all these people come together," said Emily, who has run in many races. "I've never seen a race like this. You can feel the emotion. It was great to come down the hill and see a sea of people."
The Snayds were among a group of Newtown residents that started the Sandy Hook Promise, a non-profit corporation dedicated to supporting the families and community members affected by the tragedy.
"We just want to be there to support our community," said Tom. "This was a great event and we wanted to be a part of it."
Like everybody there, including the hundreds of volunteers and all the people that helped put together a race that nobody will forget, being a part of the run was a proud day for all of Connecticut.
Even though deep down nobody wanted to be there.
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A look ahead
Saturday, March 30
Easton (9:30 a.m.): 14th Annual April Fool's 5K Race for DARE. Visit http://darerace.musicmaniadjs.com for complete details.
Derby (9 a.m.): Walnut Hill Community Church Easter-Run 5K: Visit http://www.easterrunwalk.com/ for complete details.
Sunday, April 7
Danbury (10 a.m.): Stratton Faxon Greater Danbury Road Race Half Marathon and 5K. Visit http://www.jbsports.com/ for more details.
Saturday, April 27
Danbury (10 a.m.): Danbury Running For Life 5K. Visit http://athletesofchrist.com/ for more details.
Milford (9 a.m.): CT Center for Child Development Strides Fot the Spectrum 5K. Visit http://www.hitekracing.com/stridesforspectrum/ for more details.


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Las Vegas prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a self-described pimp charged in a shooting and fiery crash that killed three people on the Strip, including an aspiring rapper with Oakland ties.
Ammar Asim Faruq Harris was arrested Feb. 28 in Los Angeles and is jailed in Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Sun reported that the district attorney on Wednesday filed the notice of intent to seek the death penalty after a special panel reviewed the case and recommended that action.
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Harris was arrested a week after the pre-dawn crash in which he's accused of shooting out of a black Range Rover into a Maserati sports car, mortally wounding driver Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., an Oakland rapper.
The Maserati crashed into a taxi that exploded into flames, killing cab driver Michael Boldon and passenger Sandra Sutton-Wasmund, of Maple Valley, Wash.
Cherry, 27, was an aspiring rap artist who had produced a video using the name Kenny Clutch.
After he was killed, family members said he had moved from the Bay Area to Las Vegas to pursue a music career.
Kenny Clutch's YouTube music video, "Stay Schemin," shows scenes of Las Vegas Strip hotels as he sings about paying $120,000 for his Maserati.
"One mistake change lives all in one night," he rapped in one verse.
Newly obtained video shows what occurred in the minutes before gunfire and a fiery crash claimed three lives in the heart of the Las Vegas strip in February. (see above)
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In SQL Server 2012, we have a new feature: partially contained databases. In a previous post, I showed how to enable this, and this post will look at one of the advantages of contained databases: users without logins.
Contained Users
One of the problems in non-contained databases is the fact that when a database is moved or restored, the login mapping to the user in the database doesn't always transfer cleanly. Microsoft has sp_help_revlogin and sp_change_users_login to help fix this, but in a DR situation, or in a crisis, this may not work. It's also a hassle.
Contained users help fix this. They are users that exist within the database, and do not require a login mapping. The server level authentication will transfer to a database level authentication, if the database has the partial containment option set.
To create a contained user, you can use the GUI, or T-SQL, both of which are easy and I'll show them below:
SSMS Contained User
If you right click the Users folder (under Security) in a database, you can select the New User option.
When this appears, you can then use the drop down to select a User with a Password option for a SQL Server user that is contained inside a database.
The traditional user is a user with a login. Here's the dialog from SSMS 2008, with no option for a user without a password.
Back to 2012, I can enter a user name and password, and then I have a user in my database.
The process for a Windows user (again, without a login) is similar. I can select a "Windows User" and then select the ellipsis by the User name and search for an AD user.
This looks the same when I accept a user
I can set a default schema here, and a language, but I don't need the login.
The process with T-SQL is the same. The code for the CREATE USER command is simple:
create user Billy with password = 'Billy2Goat$Gruff' ;
If I want a Windows user, I can do this:
CREATE USER [DKRSQL2012\Andy] GO
Note that this is domain\user syntax. Some AD tools allow the user@domain syntax, but this isn't allowed in SQL Server 2012 for the CREATE USER command.
You can replace the user name with a group at the database level, and the syntax is the same.
That's it. It's simple, and in another post, I'll look at authentication.


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When we last left the Christian Initiation rites, we were deep into the explanatory sections on the Easter Vigil. Tonight, we look at one of the long narratives in the Baptism rite:
209. The celebration of baptism begins with the blessing of water, even when the sacraments of initiation are received outside the Easter season. Should the sacraments be celebrated outside the Easter Vigil but during the Easter season (see RCIA 26), the water blessed at the Vigil is used, but a prayer of thanksgiving, having the same themes of water as God's creation and the sacramental use of water in the unfolding of the paschal mystery, and the blessing is also a remembrance of God's wonderful works in the history of salvation.
The blessing thus introduces an invocation of the Trinity at the very outset of the celebration of baptism. For it calls to mind the mystery of God's love from the beginning of the world and the creation of the human race; by invoking the Holy Spirit and the proclaiming Christ's death and resurrection, it impresses on the mind the newness of Christian baptism, by which we share in his own death and resurrection and receive the holiness of God himself.
Well okay, we're not looking at the actual blessing of baptismal water just yet. That will wait for RCIA 222. After the litany of the saints, why is there this long prayer/narrative speaking of the Trinity and God's agency in the salvation of the human race? Can't we just get on with the meat of the rite after all these months and years?
The rite suggests a sacramental theology in which God is at work throughout the rite, not just at the "magic moment." That's important to remember as modern-day Catholic ponder the issues of apathy, relevance, and a lack of strong faith in many believers as they progress through the sacraments. There is also a very Jewish sense of recall: recounting the deeds of God in history. Christians do well to root themselves as part of a spectrum of tradition and belief. We do not parrot old mumbo jumbo for its own sake. Recalling history puts us in our place. We have the sense of being a small part of a greater whole, that the baptismal rites are very grave affairs that lie beyond mere human invention and ingenuity.
People sometimes fuss about the Easter Vigil, but it's important to remember that as good liturgy pretty much everything it contains has a reason to be there.


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Friday, June 19, 2009
Me On The CHRC
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Academic and blogger Marc Bourrie had a good post recently on the Orwellian tactics of Commissar Lynch and the CHRC. Given that he has done doctoral research on the history of state censorship in Canada, his opinions on this matter carry some weight.
But there's another reason why his post is worth reading, for if you take a look at the comments section you will discover everything you need to know about the intellectual bankruptcy of the port side of the Canadian blogosphere. In response to Bourrie's reasoned criticisms of the HRCs, the luminaries of Canada's nutroots - Dawgie and BCL in particular - have nothing to say. They evince no concern about due process, the rule of law, free speech rights, Warman's internet shenanigans, etc. No, for them the real issue is Ezra Levant's honesty (Robert McClelland calls him a "lying douchebag" in the first comment.
Nothing to say?
Well, indeed I have written alot on Ezra's varous allegations. Because most of the ensuing debate hinges on their accuracy. Here's just a few wherein I believe I have managed to establish that one or another of his claims are false, either through original research or by citing the work of others:
On his false allegations re the creation of the Canadian Nazi Party by the CJC: here, here, and here.
On his false allegations (recycled from White Nationalist sources) re the "hacked wifi" controversy: here, here, here, here, here, and here. And that's probably not all of them.
On his false allegations re the Cools post (also recycled from White Nationalist sources): here, here, here, here, here, here. And these are just the more important ones.
On Ezra's tenuous grasp of the complexities of the various provincial and federal human rights codes/laws etc: here, here, here, and esp. here (wherein I realized Ezra didn't understand what section of the B.C. code was actually at issue).
On Ezra's doubts re the existence of Bill White (American Neo-Nazi, now bound for the BigHouse thanks in part to Richard Warmen).
On Ezra's claim that Section 13 has been suspended (due to the brave work of himself, Ezra Levant).
And that's not half the stuff I've written. Anything I have said about Mr. Levant's accuracy has been sourced up the wazoo from multiple places.
But wait! Its not just about Ezra here at BCLSB, not even when it comes to the issues surrounding Canadian HRCs/HRTs (including the "problems" with the way they operate! For example:
On Warman's "shenanigans": here.
And on the Moon reports recommendations: here, here, here, here, and here.
On the Topham case (which is an example of "Left" anti-semitism and therefore, come to think of it, a refutation of Ezra's charge that HRCs/HRTs only target Conservatives).
On B'nai Brith's recommendations re the CHRC/CHRT.
Anyway, that is a small selection. I would just add that whenever I have made an error in writing about any of these matters, I have corrected it as quickly and openly as possible. That is what you do when you are concerned with facts. On the other hand, I doubt Ezra has every acknowledged error in any of the cases above, and others involved in the debate (Mark Steyn) have refused to pull false and in fact defamatory material from their websites when asked.
I would put this up against anything Mr. Yirush has attempted on the issue. Or anything Mr. Bourrie as done, come to think of it, Mr. Bourrie being a generally intelligent person who gets all tribal when he sees real or imaginary threats to the journalistic profession. In fact I would suggest that both men read some of the material before suggesting that I have been conducting an empty smear campaign.
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- Ti-Guy said...
They evince no concern about due process, the rule of law, free speech rights, Warman's internet shenanigans, etc.
The lies, the lies, the lies...
- Robert G. Harvie, Q.C. said...
Ok, but, here's the thing. We get that you don't like Ezra and Steyn. But, do you believe that the balance evidenced by the various HRC's is appropriate today?
Do you believe that Richard Warman's conduct is above reproach?
The thing that strikes me is this is all somewhat reminiscent of the battles between Joe Borowski and Henry Morgentaler - where the real point of the issue somehow got lost in the battle of personalities, with the various factions simply supporting their "champion" and then leaving their tools of critical analysis at the door.
Consider, if you might, how you might feel if some right-wing zealot was the chair of one of these HRC's, and there was a suggestion that certain bloggers were exposing "Conservatives" to hatred and contempt? And, I'm sure I don't need to ask you, do you feel that you might be entitled to respond, "..and what if they deserve it?"
- bigcitylib said...
Roblaw,Conservatives aren't a protected group as far as I know. But if someone were calling repeatedly for Christian genocide (which is the kind of thing the HRT's actually worry about), then I would have no particular problem with an HRT takig that up.
- Robert G. Harvie, Q.C. said...
So, then, your suggestion BCL, is he legislation is sufficient in and of itself to assure that it's tools cannot be abused by someone with a certain ideological point of view that might differ from yours.
You missed my point - if a righ-wing ideologue was the chair of a HRC, you would feel comfortable in the legislation as it stands, assuring that your point of view was able to be expressed freely, and that your ability to defend yourself if you were subject to a complaint was more than adequate.
- Ti-Guy said...
with the various factions simply supporting their "champion" and then leaving their tools of critical analysis at the door.
Unless you've really not paid attention to this issue, this is outright fabrication, Rob. Ezra's personality is about the only one I really find repulsive; with respect to the rest, we've spent an ordinate amount of time challenging the vilification, the defamation, the usubstantiated assertions, and the outright lies that have been trotted out to challenge the tribunals.
What kind of lawyer are you to blithely dismiss that kind of commitment to clarity to suggest that it's, above all, just an matter of political differences and juvenile personality clashes?
By the way, are you a friend of Ezra's?
- bigcitylib said...
I didn't miss your point, if thats what it was; I ignored it. Why would anyone seriously worry about a right-wing ideologue being appointed? Lynch is a Tory appointee; so is Lustig.
- Ti-Guy said...
Feh. Rob's just a troll, really. He never comes back when anyone points out a weakness in his argument. At best, he'll pull out some snippet he's gleaned from parsing a comment and then derail the conversation with that. And putting words in people's mouths is standard operating procedure for trolls: "So what you're saying is you support nun-raping?"
I've come to the conclusion that most right wingers mistake catalogues of logical fallacies as guides on how to argue.
- Dr.Dawg said...
Excellent compilation, to which I would merely add Ezra's spectacular misreadings of a number of HRT cases, including the infamous "hand-washing case" that really wasn't about handwashing at all.
One cavil: Topham is not a "lefty" by any stretch, and allows his site to be used (for example) to glorify Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP. How he ever got the "left" tag is a mystery to me.
- Ti-Guy said...
How he ever got the "left" tag is a mystery to me.
Brain-addled by post-structuralism, I imagine. And that was/is a leftist intellectual fashion, no matter how much some people try to distance themselves from it.
- Dr.Dawg said...
I don't see too much "post-" anything in Topham, I'm afraid. A classic paleo-Nazi.
- Ti-Guy said...
I don't see too much "post-" anything in Topham,
You're right, though. The dominant theme over there is Jewish/Zionist conspiracy. It's just me trying, and failing, to make sense of people who came of age in the 60's.
- Ti-Guy said...
By the way, is this "twerp" this Graig Yirush? M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from Cambridge University? PhD Johns Hopkins University?
If it's also Olaf/The Prairie Wrangler's Craig (which I suspect it is) I didn't realise that that asshole was so credentialed.


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"The Voice" used the biggest opening act any show could ask for – Super Bowl XLVI – to kick-start its much-anticipated season two.
Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green, Adam Levine, and Blake Shelton all returned with a clear new focus. Not only are they out to find talent, but Green, Aguilera and Shelton made it clear they are out to deny Team Adam back-to-back championships.
To refresh your memories: Not only does "The Voice" pit singers against one another, but it also sets up a competition among their celebrity mentors. Singers who successfully pass the tryout must then choose their coach for the season.
In Sunday's show, perhaps the biggest highlight was contestant Jesse Campbell, a once-homeless dad from California, who had all four judges spinning around to see who the new guy was within seconds of taking the stage to sing "A Song for You". Offered a gig with any of the coaches, he went with Team Christina.
Campbell didn't just make an instant impact on the show - he was trending on Twitter by the show's second commercial break.
Later, it was husky-voiced rocker Juliet Simms brought Levine, literally, out of his seat. The Maroon 5 front man stood for her entire performance of "Oh, Darling." But his enthusiasm was no match for that of Green.
"I heard the story of my life in that performance," Green told Simms. She agreed to take the "F*** You" singer on as her coach.
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Despite being the defending champ, Levine went 0-3 at the start of the blind auditions, failing to convince any of the singers to take him on before Tony Lucca - a former "Mickey Mouse Club" co-star of Aguilera's - broke his scoreless streak.
He also had to endure some ribbing from Aguilera, who at one point accused him of trying to be like Justin Timberlake and also called him a "used car salesman." Look out ahead, is all we can say.
Going in, we know to expect an enormous boost in star power this season, with musical icons Lionel Richie, Alanis Morissette, Jewel, Kelly Clarkson, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Ne-Yo, Miranda Lambert, and Robin Thicke joining the four original coaches to shepherd a new crop of hopefuls.
In its first season, "The Voice" averaged between 11 and 13 million viewers, making it one of the highest rated shows on TV. "Team Adam" member Javier Colon, a Connecticut native, took home the inaugural crown.
The second part of "The Voice" auditions airs at 8 p.m. Monday -- its regular timeslot -- Feb. 6.


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NEWINGTON — USA Training Centers has announced that Ken Jobin of Manchester has joined USA Training Centers and USA Mavericks club team.
Jobin graduated from Manchester Memorial High School in 1992. He attended the University of New Hampshire, graduating in 1997, pitching for the Division I Wildcats, where he earned all-conference status. Jobin brings 18 years of overall baseball experience. Jobin played professionally for the Nashua Pride in the Can Am League. In 2009, Jobin was appointed a major league scout for the Milwaukee Brewers. Also in 2010, he served as a scout for the Los Angeles Angels. He spent two years as a pitching coach at New England College during the 2010-2011 seasons.
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Men's hockey: Finishing Touches continues to roll
ROCHESTER — Finishing Touches continued to stay atop the Rochester Men's Hockey League standings. On Monday, FT beat winless Merrimack Mortgage, 8-4.
FT (4-0-1) was led by Sean Holt with three goals, while Tom Tabb added two. Marcus Dillon and Jeff Berlin each had a goal and two assists. Trevor Brieg also scored. Ethan Baker made 29 saves.
John O'Brien, Jay LeDuc, John Zoeller and Mark Zoeller all scored one goal for Merrimack (0-5-0), which fell behind 4-0 after the first period and never recovered.
Brett Donovan had three assists and Derek Colwell stopped 32 shots.
Towle Pallet edged RSA Realty, 4-3, overcoming a 3-1 deficit after two periods.
Towle (2-2-1) received single goals from John Desmarais, Matt Negm, Scott Brown and Josh McGilvray. Dan Trepanier stopped 23 shots.
RSA (3-1-1) received goals from Ryan Montecalvo, Pat Rahn and Ryan Thorpe. Casey Cox made 26 saves.
DeNiro Development and Seacoast Kettlebell played to a 4-4 tie.
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As David Duchovny gets ready to start shooting Showtime's "Calfornication" on April 19, he is going to need a lawyer pronto.
That's because Duchovny's last screen moments as Hank Moody last season featured him getting arrested.
"We left Hank last year going to jail," he said at the press day for his new film "The Joneses."
The lawyer, who will naturally be a female and no doubt beautiful, is one part the show's creators are currently casting for. Also needed is a fictional female celebrity. It will be hard to top last season's guest stars who included rocker Rick Springfield in a truly inspired arc.
Duchovny promises the show will stay a comedy not a drama. "Last year was a descent, we went about as far down as we could in terms of keeping it a comedic show," he said. "I think this year is going to be about rising up and using this as the low point."
Even though Duchovny has moved to New York with his family, the Showtime shoot is always "a pleasure."
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All in all, it was a good, quiet weekend of recovery - just what we all needed. We finally got all the Christmas decorations put away, and I did very little else, other than some cooking. I'm still sort of in limbo today, however, with both boys home from school. Jamie had a scheduled day off, but Craig crashed again yesterday afternoon - after a good weekend - with bad CFS symptoms plus nausea. There's a nasty stomach virus going around (one of the kids in our own neighborhood has it), so I'm thinking maybe that's what has triggered this unusual crash in Craig. I hope he rebounds quickly again.
But today is Monday and that means movies! We had a chance to watch several DVDs this weekend:
- With the kids, we watched G-Force, a cute adventure with guinea pigs starring as special agents in the FBI. It was especially amusing for us, as pet owners of various rodents over the years (currently mice). Nothing super-special (it was no Up), but a fun way to spend Saturday evening together.
- Ken and I watched No Country For Old Men. I knew it was very violent (not usually my kind of flick), but I wanted to see it because it was so highly acclaimed and had won so many awards. It was excellent, about a small town Texas sheriff searching for a psychopathic murderer on the loose before he finds his prey, an innocent guy who found his drug money after an earlier murder. There IS a lot of violence (guns and shooting), but the movie was very well-done and well-acted, though I was disappointed in the ending.
- Saturday night, we watched Fracture, a murder mystery of an entirely different kind, starring Anthony Hopkins as a really creepy guy who kills his wife (does anyone do creepy as well as Anthony Hopkins? I don't think so). The lawyer trying to prosecute the case against the very smart and slippery Hopkins is played by Ryan Gosling. This is intellectual and moral suspense, not an action movie, and it was very good (and I loved this ending!).


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First they spenttens of strying to boost their favorite presidential candidates, then they poured cash into ads attacking Donald Trump, and now some of the biggest donors on the right are turning their attention to the delegate fight.
In the coming weeks and even at the convention, Hubbard said, big donors and super PACs like Our Principles "can certainly try to influence people. I could call a delegate and say what I think, if they'd talk to me. I can buy a billboard. I can run ads. Why not?" Trump's campaign will also be working to whip delegates, Hubbard noted, "and you'll have other people trying to do the same thing. So fair is fair."
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Trump said on Fox that "the people out there are going crazy â" in the Denver area and Colorado itself â" and they're going absolutely crazy because they weren't given a vote, this was given by politicians."
To be sure, Cruz's campaign outreach to delegates has played a major role in his delegate-hunting advantage in caucuses and conventions.
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He rejected Trump's allegations of corruption and said his PAC is merely capitalizing on Trump's lack of preparation in Colorado, which canceled its primary last year in favor of the convention. "The campaigns have known about this for a year and some argued for a primary, but Trump was not among them because he was too busy tweeting at the haters and losers," said Miller.
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Those operatives have also supervised the distribution of hundreds of copies of an anti-Trump "voter guide" that portrays the New York aire as a charlatan who favored abortion rights, donated hundreds of s of dollars to Democrats, knogly used "illegal immigrant" labor to build Trump Tower and questioned Ronald Reagan's backbone, among other sins ast conservativism.


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Greta Christina
For more information, see the Wikipedia article:
Greta Christina is a professional author and blogger who writes on "Sex, atheism, politics, dreams, and whatever." She is best known for her blog post Atheists and Anger examining the "angry atheists" stereotype, and containing a thorough list of justifiable sources of anger for atheists. She now blogs at FreeThoughtBlogs.
See Also[edit]
- Why Are You Atheists So Angry?: 99 Things that Piss off the Godless
External link[edit]
- Greta Christina's Blog
- Site Map, a list of particularly good posts from 2008 and before.


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Ok so here is the deal.
About 5 years ago I had my eyes checked and I was given a perscription for reading glasses.
The dude says, "When people get to be "your age" the eyes tend to warp a bit and it becomes difficult to see things close up".
Baloney !!
Guy had no clue what he was talking about. Your age...why I oughtta...
I have perfect eyes and require no glasses whatsoever.
All I need to do is squint a bit, because I read too much and my eyes get tired.
Well I filled the perscription only because I have free eyecare, and most certainly not because I have old eyes and need glasses to read..
Now here is the problem. When I read too much, my cheeks get tired from doing just a tiny bit of squinting, which I have to do because I have "tired" eyes. Yeah that's it tired eyes.
I do occasionally put the glasses on because I look stylish with them on.
Yeah that's it...stylish.
Only problem is, from the squinting and the "tired" eyes, it tends to put pressure on my brain and I sometimes forget things. Like where those glasses are.
So if you ever see me misspell something, it is because my eyes are tired, my cheeks are tired, my brain is fuzzy and I can't find my glasses that I really don't need but make me look stylish.
Yeah that's it. Stylish.


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If so many of the artists tagged "Alt.Country" actually consider themselves Rock or Indie, and most – demonstrably – grew up with Punk, Hardcore, and 70s Hard Rock, then the question of authenticity goes out the window. You might as well use synths and drum-machines alongside your slide and fiddles (like Smog, Sparklehorse, Palace Music). Alt.Country's fair-game, right?
Years before Alt. Country became so contested, The Magnetic Fields already seemed to have made an Alt.Country classic, in the form of The Charm of the Highway Strip (1994). In many respects the most coherent concept album in The Magnetic Fields' oeuvre, Highway Strip was the first album Stephin Merritt sang in his own voice, having delegated vocal duties to Susan Anway, on Distant Plastic Trees (1989) and The Wayward Bus (1991). Their, her stylized vocals underscored the irony of a chanteuse singing these 'Gay & Loud' songs (as Merritt called his publishing company). The seeds of Merritt's interest in Folk and Country as a conceptual counterpoint to his Futurist electronica are apparent early on, though, in songs like '100,000 Fireflies', which closes Distant Plastic Trees –
I have a mandolin – I play it all night long
It makes me want to want to kill myself
I also have a dobro, made in some mountain range
Sounds like a mountain range in love
But when I turn up the tone on my electric guitar,
I'm afraid of the dark without you close to me
At the end of the song, Merritt hints that Country music's a state of mind, and the country itself (the boondocks; Hicksville; Nowhere, Idaho) is just a metaphor for a couple's solitude:
You won't be happy with me, but give me one more chance
You won't be happy anyway
Why do we still live here, in this repulsive town?
All our friends are in New York.
Why do we keep shrieking, when we mean soft things?
We should be whispering all the time.
Given that Merritt's made "a career from being blue" (as he jokingly sings on 69 Love-Songs) it's no surprise that when he first chose to sing in his own voice, Merritt adopted a country-singer persona, if only for Highway Strip. It's the music of misery, after all.
Ghosts and Vampires and The Charm of the Highway Strip
In spite of its gothic touches, there's a more sincere, and more sophisticated engagement with the traditions of Country Music than many in the genre. Two years before David Lynch's Lost Highway (1996), Merritt's album reflects a longstanding preoccupation in American culture that screenwriter Barry Gifford picked up on, when he sent the split-minded protagonists along the lost highway, and into the desert, to confront the vampiric figures feeding on them (providing them fast women, and the eyes of the crowd on them, until each addiction destroyed them). Like Gifford (himself a peripheral figure in the Beat scene), Merritt would have been thinking of Hank Williams' 'Lost Highway' when he wrote the opening track, 'Lonely Highway', and there's a gradual build-up to a complex mythology, from that romantically exaggerated, but otherwise realist, setting. The opening verse of Merritt's opening song sounds straight (i.e. literal), unless you assume there's a camp pun on the name of the town / the name of a lover:
I'm never going back to Jackson
I couldn't bear to show my face
I nearly killed you with my drinking
Wouldn't be caught dead in that place
So far, so Country, but then we get a stronger taste of Surrealism, in the second track. Surrealism drew on the richly metaphoric poetry of exotic cultures, in an age of European pillaging, but it also drew on the urban experience of images and ideas colliding in the metropolis: the weirdness (or, seemingly fated meaningfulness) of chance encounters; the unexpectedly poetic beauty of scientific neologisms like "magnetic fields" for André Breton & co. This is 'Long Vermont Roads' –
Your eyes are long Vermont roads
With a tacky song on the radio
And your eyes are toothless young men in Tennessee
[…] But after all those trains, and all those breakdown lanes
The roads don't love you, and still they won't pretend to
Country singers love their puns… which makes their forced analogies so appealing to pilfer, albeit affectionately, for a Noo Yawk Bohemian like Merritt. In that second verse, Merritt transforms "breakdown lanes" into another symbol – after all, it's the place you literally pull over, the hard-shoulder you cry on, when you're driving away from your lover (and maybe it's where you pick up hitchers for a good time, too). By the third song, we're truly on the Lost Highway:
Some roads are only seen at night
Ghost roads – nothing but neon signs
But sometimes the neon gas gets free
And turns into walking dead like me
It's possible, even likely, that Merritt was thinking of the vampire symbolism in Bret Easton Ellis' Rules of Attraction and The Informers when he wrote many of these songs. Gifford's vampire had its own duality (i.e. forms of addiction, both literal and figural), and Ellis focused on the dealer-as-vampire (also, the emotionally-cold user-as-vampire), but either way the vampire is one of the most polymorphous and perverse of symbols, in a psyche that's already supposed to be polymorphously perverse (sez Freud). By using vampires again in the next track, 'I Have the Moon', Merritt defamiliarizes hackneyed notions of eternal love:
…we have walked in ancient times
And we've been burned for many crimes
We have ended many lives
But we never really died…
…all of which is gushingly sad, drawled out in Merritt's world-weary tone, but reminds us all how many people we seem to have been, each time we embark on a new love, and each time we realize we're those lovers – we're going through the motions that put us on a path that stretches back to the beginning of time. Sometimes old songs – not just country songs – can do this for us young'uns, sick of contemporary schmaltz; they make you realize people felt this decades ago, people who "were born and then they lived and then they died / seems so unfair, I want to cry" (to quote Stephen Morrissey). From a heterosexual perspective, the song's doubly moving, because it's the first one in which the singer (or his persona) comes out at the end, revealing the vampire as a double metaphor of love that should never die (but flames up and shrieks when it does), and the homosexual, whose lover may not have come out:
I'd like to come and comfort you
But I'd be blinded by the blue
You have the sun, I have the moon
You're bound to die under the sun
But I'll be doomed to carry on
You have become like other men
But let me kiss you once again
You have the sun, I have the moon
Heartbreaking stuff. Probably time for another video... This is 'Two Characters in Search of a Country Song' - title taken from Luigi Pirandello; arch lyrics about listening to the angelic "voices from Nashville Above" all Merritt's own:
It's not all appropriations of Country music, to serve the interests of listeners (and a songwriter) supposedly excluded from the genre. Leaving aside the modern classics for hip young metrosexuals, Merritt digs up Arthur Miller's Willie Loman, that perennial symbol of aspirational but downtrodden America. In 'Crowd of Drifters' Merritt doesn't specify the demons at any point, only that:
Sometimes the road is too long
You meet all kinds of people
Some of them cast no shadows
They have no reflections
Take a look in your photobook
I'm not there anymore
I was a travelling salesman
I got lost on the back roads
Fell in with a crowd of drifters
Sometimes the sun is too bright and
It burns you like acid…
Merritt tricks the listener into hearing wage-slavery as spiritual death. Maybe the anonymous people on the road "cast no shadows" because they're thin – emaciated by poor diets and broken sleep in Motel rooms – or they only come out at night. Is the singer no longer "in your photobook" because he was never quite there, or his face has ceased to have any meaning, to be noticed? Has he been taken out in some frustrated gesture of banishment, and then forgotten, he was written off so long ago? There's something delirious, sleep-deprived, early-morning dream-logic about the lack of resolution. The burning sun in the second verse, again, doesn't force the vampire metaphor: it captures the sting of the late-afternoon sun reflecting off fenders and hoods onto weary eyes. This guy doesn't have nothing though: he has a car; he has that good ole phallic symbol of autonomy and masculinity.
Trains, Plains, and a Barefoot Girl
Continuing his backwards trajectory through American myth-history, Merritt introduces a female character for 'Fear of Trains' (track 7), a song that would be almost academic in its exhuming of white men's guilt, if it weren't for its jaunty train rhythm… although even that manages to be pointed, the use of trains being class-coded, a mark of social stratification, and an instrument of economic subjugation:
It was the Army train that took her Daddy from her
It was the Bible train that took her Momma too
And that high loud whistle made her horse run away
But the straw that broke the camel's back was you
It was the Government train that took away her childhood
It was the KKK that took away her past
It was the white man's will that hers be broken
But that barefoot girl could run too fast
In 'When the Open Road Is Closing In', the singer has simply become the road; realizing that the highway is the beginning and the endpoint of automation: curbing your life to a straight line, and making you one-dimensional. The sequencing of the album isn't strictly (reverse) chronological, but its penultimate track suggests that The Charm of the Highway Strip is only slightly removed from The Charm of the Railway Track, which came before. On the rails, the destination is a vanishing point that only the driver can see, while the passengers are looking at a procession of blurred images. On the Lonely Highway, every driver may be isolated in their metal shell, but the passengers on a train are often just as lonely among strangers, and lack the comforting illusion of autonomy. There's not much to say about the final instrumental, but given the historic parallels between the events of 80 years ago, and the events of 2008 – 2009, a track entitled 'Dust Bowl' is a poignant message that where we're coming from is often where we're going.
Finally, if there is as strong a connection to Bret Easton Ellis as I've suggested, Merritt must have loved the fact he got to put a "Merge" sign on the back of his minimalist sleeve – alluding simultaneously to Kraftwerk's Autobahn and the dark punning in Less Than Zero, not to mention subsequent novels about spiritual, cultural, and moral vacuity in contemporary America. In the novel, the narrator ponders Freeway etiquette ("people are afraid to merge") without ever thinking of his insight as an epiphany. Like Ellis, Merritt more than once transforms ghosts and vampires from the stock figures of horror-movies (personifying guilty memories or predatory sexuality) into emblems of distinctly fin-de-siecle anxieties: ghostliness as emptiness, and the vampire as insatiable, unfeeling consumer, drained by the late-capitalist economy. Sounds like an Alt.Country album to me, and a classic one at that…


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With the preparations for "Super 8" not keeping him sufficiently busy, JJ Abrams' will be producing a new comic book adaptation about the very first robot, one that fought alongside the likes of Teddy Roosevelt.
Abrams' Bad Robot productions will be bringing "Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel" to the silver screen, according to Heat Vision. The "graphic novel-picture book hybrid," (whatever that means) by the husband -and-wife team of Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett, is described thusly:
Meet Boilerplate, the world's first robot soldier—not in a present-day military lab or a science-fiction movie, but in the past, during one of the most fascinating periods of U.S. history. Designed by Professor Archibald Campion in 1893 as a prototype, for the self-proclaimed purpose of "preventing the deaths of men in the conflicts of nations," Boilerplate charged into combat alongside such notables as Teddy Roosevelt and Lawrence of Arabia. Campion and his robot also circled the planet with the U.S. Navy, trekked to the South Pole, made silent movies, and hobnobbed with the likes of Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla.
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Guinan first pitched the story 11 years ago via a website, one that eventually developed a following of its own. He even went as far as producing a faux trailer (embedded in this story) for the movie. The book was finally published last year.
Who knows when this will be ready, but we're digging it.


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Nurses play an enormous role in delivering health care and strengthening health systems around the world. At 35 million strong, nurses and midwives make up the large majority of the global health care workforce and deliver the bulk of all health care services.
But the distribution of nurses is far from equitable. According to the World Health Organization, five times more nurses work in high-income countries than in low-income ones, despite the higher burden of disease in poor countries. As a result, clinics and hospitals around the world are overwhelmed by patients and grossly understaffed. Nurses often shoulder this burden with low pay, few or poor educational opportunities, and inadequate resources to care for their patients.
PIH's approach
For a mother in labor in the mountains of Lesotho or a child suffering from cholera in Haiti, access to PIH's qualified nurses and midwives—who comprise 51 percent of our clinical workforce—often means the difference between life and death.
PIH promotes nursing as an integral part of delivering comprehensive, high-quality, and patient-centered care. At our sites around the world, we foster a culture of team-based care among nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals. This requires investing in nurses and midwives, improving the settings in which they work, and accompanying national Ministries of Health to do the same for nurses in the countries in which we work.
PIH's nursing program aims to:
• Develop best practices of global nursing care in resource-limited settings by integrating service delivery, training, and research.
• Strengthen nursing education and specialty expertise, which also provide professional development opportunities.
• Identify and support nursing leaders to improve training and enhance patient care.
In Haiti and Rwanda, PIH's nurse educators and mentors work alongside our nursing staff to improve patient care. These educators and mentors provide instruction but also an instant feedback loop and support system for staff nurses as they learn new skills and apply new knowledge.
In Haiti, some of our nurse educators focus on key specialties—such as maternal health, pediatrics, mental health, and surgery—which allows us to expand the capacity of our workforce and respond to more of our patients' needs.
PIH and its Haitian sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, also recently established a Nursing Center of Excellence, based at University Hospital in Mirebalais, that will support nurses throughout the PIH/ZL health care system. The Center's aim is to codify nursing practices, build the capacity of the health care workforce, and meet the region's urgent needs for specialized care.
In Rwanda, PIH launched a program in 2010 called MESH—short for Mentoring and Enhanced Supervision at Health Centers—in collaboration with Rwanda's Ministry of Health. The program connects experienced nurse mentors to staff nurses in rural health centers. Based on its initial success, the Rwandan government plans to expand the HIV portion of MESH throughout the country.
In Lesotho, nurses have driven the integration of maternal and child health services in our clinics, creating a strong platform of primary care. Their success allowed them to implement the innovative Maternal Mortality Reduction Program (MMRP) in a country with one of the highest maternal mortality ratios in the world.
The program, piloted in 2009 at Bobete Health Center, has had a tremendous effect on the lives of mothers and children. The year before the MMRP launched, only 46 women delivered at the facility. In the program's second year, 216 women safely delivered their babies. Since then, PIH/Lesotho has strengthened its efforts in Bobete and expanded to seven other sites around the country.


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Defending Olympic Men's 100 Meter champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica won the competition again Sunday at the London Games, joining USA's Carl Lewis as the only men to win gold medal in the 100 in back-to-back Olympics.
Bolt previously won the gold in the 100 at the 2008 games in Beijing.
The sprinter took the gold with a time of 9.63 seconds.
Jamaica's Yohan Blake took the silver with 9.75 seconds and USA's Justin Gatlin won the bronze with a time of 9.79 seconds.
Bolt appeared pretty confident after his dominating win in the semi-final round, saying, "I'm back baby, all day, every day."


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There has been an accumulation of minor activity about Gmail recently.
Gmail Outage
On 11 December 2012, many Google accounts experienced Gmail unavailability. I did not have experience any problems in Arizona. Gmail was definitely offline for at least 45 minutes, when I checked the official Google Apps Status page.
According to GigaOm, continuous deployment was the problem, and Gmail went down during a routine load balancing update. The GigaOm article is good. It includes a two-page PDF document later released by Google, with a detailed explanation of the incident.
For future reference, I suggest bookmarking the Google Apps Status Dashboard. Despite the "Google Apps" page name, the information is relevant to consumers as well as Google Apps business customers. It lists time and cause for disruptions in Gmail and many other Google services.
Verdict of the Herd
There is an unofficial Is Gmail down? service which culls data from multiple sources. It reminds me of an informal version of Herdict, the "verdict of the herd". Herdict collects and publicly reports on global incidents of filtering, denial of service attacks, availability, and overall internet infrastructure reliability. Input data is crowd-sourced.
Herdict reports on website inaccessibility regardless of cause. After aggregation and trend analysis, it can be useful for gauging regional blockages of websites known for activism and possibly subject to politically motivated internet censorship. "Is Gmail down" is not intended for anything beyond the convenience of the public, though that is always appreciated! It is not crowd-sourced, nor does it give a comprehensive real-time map of global Internet health. In contrast, Herdict does exactly that. The collected information can even be broken down on a more granular level.
I like the Herdict badge. You can put it on your website to support Herdict activities. Just click on the sheep-shaped image to get one. The Herdict real time interactive map is fun to watch, and its RSS feed is available for free to anyone who wants to use the data. Herdict is run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of Harvard University.


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Tiny Tower
Disney's first Star Wars game is Tiny Tower with a Death Star spin
Tiny Death Star is the first Star Wars game released under the Disney banner, and it looks like a blast.
Tiny Tower headlines
Upwardly mobile: the Tiny Tower time-suck
Mobile games represent an increasing proportion of the VG247 team's gaming hours. Brenna Hillier confesses to a terrible fixation on miniature, pixelated people.
Tiny Tower hits 10 million downloads
Nimblebit has confirmed that iOS micro-management game Tiny Tower has hit 10 million downloads since it released. This was announced by the developer's Ian Marsh, who said it was giving away 10 million tower bux to players of the game.Thanks, Edge.
Zynga boss dismisses Tiny Tower copycat claims
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus has defended the derivativeness of Dream Heights as standard industry practice.
Nimblebit lashes out at Zynga over Tiny Tower clone
Tiny Tower developer Nimblebit doesn't seem at all happy about Zynga's latest mobile effort, Dream Heights.
Apple Game of the Year Awards honour Dead Space, Tiny Wings, more
The European and US arms of Apple have both determined their iPad and iPhone game of the year awards, with each branch honouring different apps. Apple Europe gave top gongs to the home-grown Tiny Wings on iPhone, and Contre Jour on iPad. Its American brethren also went with local offerings, namely Tiny Tower and Dead […]
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Disney's first Star Wars game is Tiny Tower with a Death Star spin
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