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Posts tagged with 'conservation'
The Perks of Conserving a Wall Sconce
28 January 2011 by Eleanor
Now that I have completed the first quarter of my ICON and Heritage Lottery Funded internship in Objects Conservation and Public Engagement at the National Conservation Centre, I thought I'd share with you one of my favourite bits so far!
Last October I started conserving a nineteenth century ceramic Wall Sconce. "Wall Sconce?" I hear you cry? . . . A wall sconce is usually a bracket, or in this case a decorative ceramic plate with candle holders, which would have once been fixed to a wall to provide indoor lighting. They must have been a very useful item before the invention of the electric light-bulb. I have to say that when I first saw the Sconce, covered with bright and colourful floral designs, it certainly wasn't to my taste! But nevertheless my duty of care and curiosity quickly dismissed my initial dislike of the sickly design, and with the help of the Ceramics and Glass Conservator at the National Conservation Centre I began proposing a conservation treatment plan. The plan was to carefully clean away thick black surface dirt which covered the ceramic surface and also to create a removable plaster fill, to complete a large v-shaped chip which was missing from one of the Sconce's candle holders. Read more…
End of an Era . . . and the Start of Something New
22 December 2010 by Eleanor
Last Friday was a sad day at the National Conservation Centre as the doors closed to visitors for the last time. However, yesterday brought with it a silver lining, as we relocated our conservation themed event 'Crystal Magic' over to the Clore Natural History Centre at World Museum.
The event was buzzing and despite the icy conditions outside, over seventy people attended the afternoon event. 'Salty' our magical crystal growing snowman stole the show, as he busied away growing snow-like crystals. He even let us borrow a few to look at more closely. With our video microscope having also made the transition from the National Conservation Centre over to World Museum, we were able to examine crystals up close and discovered all kinds of beautiful colours, shapes and patterns. Read more…
The end of an era
17 December 2010 by Sam
Way back in the early 1990s when I was an architecture student I went on a site visit to the shell of a building that had been the Midland Goods Depot in a past life. I was fascinated to hear how it was being converted into an innovative Conservation Centre for the museums, with every studio inside specially set up for the particular needs of conservators specialising in different materials.
A couple of years later – having abandoned a career in architecture in favour of art history – I started work at the Walker Art Gallery. The paintings conservators were based there at the time (in rooms which later became part of the exhibition galleries) and I got to know them over many cups of coffee in the staff room. I did miss them when they moved into the new building but was excited to see their impressive new studio.
Not long afterwards the National Conservation Centre opened to the public to great acclaim. It was ground breaking in focusing on the essential behind-the-scenes work of conservators that people would never normally see. This included everything from the cutting edge use of lasers by Conservation Technologies to traditional skills used to conserve objects such as the Lutyens cathedral model.
The Centre also built up a great reputation as a venue for photography exhibitions. I've particularly enjoyed the glimpses of the city's past in exhibitions from Stephen Shakeshaft, Philip Jones Griffiths, Bernard Fallon and the fantastic Stewart Bale collection.
With all these great memories I can't help feeling sad that the National Conservation Centre will close to visitors today, it really is the end of an era.
Behind the scenes the work of the conservators is, of course, continuing – they're rather busy at the moment preparing displays for the Museum of Liverpool. You can read about the work they do on the website and see special in-depth features about the research they carry out, such the surprising discovery about the past of a painting of St Michael from the Lady Lever.
There will also be special conservation-themed events at our other venues, starting with a look at Crystal magic at World Museum next week, with more to follow, so do keep an eye out for them. Read more…
Object Detectives
19 November 2010 by Eleanor
My name is Ellie and I am a new addition at the National Conservation Centre in Liverpool. I am here on a year long internship in Objects Conservation and Public Engagement, funded by ICON (Institute of Conservation) and the Heritage Lottery Fund.
While I am here I will post regular updates on the blog to provide a glimpse of what is happening behind-the-scenes at the National Conservation Centre, as conservators look after and investigate fascinating objects from the collection. Read more…
Art Merseywide showcases local talent
22 September 2010 by Sam
While the Biennial attract artists from all over the world to exhibit in Liverpool, the next exhibition to open at the National Conservation Centre on Friday, Art Merseywide, gives talented local artists the opportunity to show their work. With artworks selected from open exhibitions held in Liverpool, Halton, Knowsley, St Helens, Sefton and Wirral over the last year, Art Merseywide gives what exhibition organiser Louise Hesketh, of the Brindley Theatre and Arts Centre in Runcorn, describes as "a candid snapshot of the thriving local art scene". Read more…
Last Lewis's Event this Sunday
27 August 2010 by Lucy
From tomorrow, there are only three full days left for you to visit the National Conservation Centre's popular exhibition Lewis's Fifth Floor: A Department Story.
This exhibition by Liverpool photographer Stephen King has been a real success, having received over 37,000 visitors since it opened in February.
Sadly, the store closed at the end of May, but it's been lovely to see so many people coming to the exhibition to relive memories of the fifth floor and often uncover its hidden secrets for the first time, unaware that this closed floor ever existed. Read more…
Another chance to x-ray your toys
24 August 2010 by Sam
If like me you are curious about what's inside your treasured posessions and how they work – but not curious enough to break them in order to find out – then you need to go to the X-Ray your toys session at the National Conservation Centre tomorrow afternoon.
I popped along to the last session with my trusty Rubik's cube, which conservator David Crombie x-rayed from a couple of different angles in order to reveal the clever way that the pieces are held together but can still be moved round into all sorts of colourful combinations. Read more…
Free Talk – Forgotten Murals
16 August 2010 by Lucy
The well-loved icon of Liverpool department stores Lewis's, sadly closed its doors for the last time at the end of May. Prior to that for around the last 30 years the store was mainly recognised for its shopping culture, but until the early 1980s it was much more than a place where you might buy a dress or new handbag.
Before the 80s the store also offered three restaurants and what was at one time the world's largest hair salon on the fifth floor, until it was closed to the public in the 80s and used as a storage floor ever since. Read more…
X-ray your toys in our lab!
29 July 2010 by Sam
Have you ever wondered what's inside a Rubik's cube – or any other toys? This Friday staff at the National Conservation Centre will be hosting an 'X-ray your toy' event, as a fun way to show children how we use science to examine our collections. The X-ray equipment includes a digital X-ray reader, and is used by conservators to look beneath the surface of paintings, or inside corroded lumps of archaeological iron.
We're inviting children of all ages to bring along a favourite toy, and we've already booked in a Transformer, a toy calculator, a pair of Ben 10 walkie-talkies, and a Pixel Chicks game, alongside the Rubik's cube. Watch this space for a gallery of unusual X-ray images – and you can see some toys that we've already x-rayed on Flickr.
The X-ray your toy event will be taking place 12.30-3.30pm on Friday 30 July, in the Reveal gallery at the National Conservation Centre. If you miss this, there's another chance at the same time on Wednesday 25 August. Full details of all our events and activities are on the website. Read more…
Funding for trainee development
17 June 2010 by Lynn
Rose Hardman reports on funding that will enable fantastic new opportunities for conservation trainees.
We were delighted to receive the news recently that the Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded £350,700 to help National Museums Liverpool and the North West Fed deliver training opportunities for 12 Positive Action Trainees.
The money, awarded under the Heritage Lottery Fund's Skills for the Future programme, will give trainees a chance to learn about heritage conservation and audience development.
National Museums Liverpool's six trainees will spend two years looking at conservation techniques with the Institute of Conservation as a key partner. We will begin advertising for placements at National Museums Liverpool in 2012. Read more…


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18 Tokyo Porn Review — «...dozens of tender girls getting stripped and banged wildly...»
The Tour Promises: Grab your books! TubeDupe is going to high school again! But what we are going to study this time is a legion of smoking-hot Asian teenagers who cannot wait to take off their school uniforms to delight us with their alluring curves, delicate breasts and tiny firm asses. These horny babes might look sweet and innocent at first sight, but when the camera starts rolling they unleash the sexual beast inside them and do the dirtiest things you can imagine on camera. Are you prepared to see dozens of tender girls getting stripped and banged wildly?
General Impressions: I'm telling you, these girls might strike you as the sweet and innocent type but that's bullshit. These girls love to get a good and hard cock stuck inside their hairy pussies, in and out, over and over. Not only do they enjoy being banged in every possible way, they get specially aroused to know that everyone is going to watch them having sex and recognize them as amateur porn stars. Who knows, maybe one of these teenage hotties will become the Asian Jenna Jameson! Let's find that out by exploring all these great teen porn videos that 18 Tokyo has for us, shall we?
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Mailbag Monday: A weekly segment that covers readers' questions and concerns about all things Philosophy, Bro, and Philosophy Bro that don't quite fit anywhere else. Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Mailbag Monday' in the subject line.
Rolf writes,
Bro, i got a problem
So alright, you got this shit with ethics and not murdering for no reason and shit.
But if you keep asking 'why' long enough you discover that any sort of ethic-based code of living is eventually derived from either
- intuitive feelings (i FEEL it's not right to murder)
- or dogmatism (i can't murder because the bible says so)
and it eventually leads to some sort of nihilism where every fucking thing is subjective and you got like 2 philosibros arguing against eachother and im like 'yeah theyre both kinda right but whoever to believe doesnt really matter anyway cause its so fucking subjective'
Should i just pick whatever i 'feel' is right or live in apathy all my life?
Dude, you keep asking "why" long enough, you're going to have waaaaaay bigger problems than, "I'm not sure what's right or wrong anymore." Descartes tried it, and he had to rely on the existence of God and a really fucking suspect notion of how ideas work to get him anywhere other than, "Well, I exist right now at this moment in time insofar as time is maybe a thing." The external world, other minds, right and wrong, your memories of childhood, pretty much everything is fucked if you ask "why?" long enough.
In that sense, 'feelings' and dogmatism are really kind of the same thing - someone just asserting that this is the thing that grounds morality. You have to start somewhere! But people have derived morality from plenty of places - our capacity for pleasure and pain, our ability to reason, some sort of hypothetical contract - it's all over the place, man. It sure looks dogmatic when someone says, "It's utility that makes things right and wrong." Why? "Because. Because if we didn't get utility from things, we wouldn't have to bother." Well c'mon, that's just saying the same thing over again. But what are you supposed to say? What would an alternative to 'dogmatism' look like?


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|arXiv : q-bio.QM/0611054
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|Journal of Grid Computing 6 (2008) 29-43
|Grid enabled virtual screening against malaria
|N. Jacq1, 2J. Salzemann1F. Jacq1Y. Legré1E. Medernach1Johan Montagnat3A. Maass4M. Reichstadt1H. Schwichtenberg4M. Sridhar4V. Kasam4M. Zimmermann4M. Hofmann4V. Breton1
|WISDOM is an international initiative to enable a virtual screening pipeline on a grid infrastructure. Its first attempt was to deploy large scale in silico docking on a public grid infrastructure. Protein-ligand docking is about computing the binding energy of a protein target to a library of potential drugs using a scoring algorithm. Previous deployments were either limited to one cluster, to grids of clusters in the tightly protected environment of a pharmaceutical laboratory or to pervasive grids. The first large scale docking experiment ran on the EGEE grid production service from 11 July 2005 to 19 August 2005 against targets relevant to research on malaria and saw over 41 million compounds docked for the equivalent of 80 years of CPU time. Up to 1,700 computers were simultaneously used in 15 countries around the world. Issues related to the deployment and the monitoring of the in silico docking experiment as well as experience with grid operation and services are reported in the paper. The main problem encountered for such a large scale deployment was the grid infrastructure stability. Although the overall success rate was above 80%, a lot of monitoring and supervision was still required at the application level to resubmit the jobs that failed. But the experiment demonstrated how grid infrastructures have a tremendous capacity to mobilize very large CPU resources for well targeted goals during a significant period of time. This success leads to a second computing challenge targeting Avian Flu neuraminidase N1.
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|LPC - Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire [Clermont-Ferrand]
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|C-S - Communication & Systèmes [Toulouse]
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|I3S - Laboratoire d'Informatique, Signaux, et Systèmes de Sophia Antipolis
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|SCAI - Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing
Informatique/Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé
|Data challenge – drug discovery – grid computing – grid infrastructure – in silico docking – virtual screening – malaria
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God Bless America
|August 2014 BARC VE Session Results
Two applicants passed their exams at the August 19 BARC VE session. One upgraded to Extra and one passed the Technician exam.
Joseph E. Towell, KK4SFE, Tarboro, NC, upgraded to Amateur Extra. Jay Oswald, Greenville, passed the Technician exam and he was assigned call sign KM4DXX on August 26. Congratulations to both for their accomplishment.
Also Jay joined the Brightleaf ARC and Joseph completed an application and plans to join at the September meeting. Welcome to the club.
The VE's that attended were Acting VE Liaison Dave Langley, W4YDY, Thomas Styron, KB7L, Dan Wallace, K4HMW, Byron Highland, K4BMH, Richard Campbell, W4JNC, and James Lewis, AK4MU.
The next regular BARC VE session is scheduled for October 21, 2014.
BARC Member John Johnston, NC4JJ, Silent KeyJonathan O'Quinn, KK4LHL, received a phone call from Jeanette Johnston, wife of John Johnston, on July 6, 2014.
John Johnston, NC4JJ, passed away on the morning of July 6, 2014. He is going to be cremated, and there will be no formal service.
John was an enthusiastic member of the club and very interested in Amateur Radio. He passed Technician exam in 2012 and received the call sign KK4IUB. He later upgraded to Amateur Extra and received the vanity call sign NC4JJ.
The Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club members extend their condolences to John's wife and family.
June 2014 BARC VE Session Results6/23/14
Four applicants passed their exams at the June BARC VE session. One upgraded to General and three passed the Technician exam. The FCC issued their new call signs on June 23.
Judy Chappell, KC3CXI, Clarks Summit, PA, upgraded to General. Robert Mahe, KM4CPD, Greenville, Jason Melendez, KM4CPC, Winterville, and William Sawyer, KM4CPB, Winterville, passed the Technician exam. Congratulations to all for their accomplishment.
Also Robert, Jason and William joined the Brightleaf ARC. Welcome to the club.
The VE's that attended were Acting VE Liaison Dave Langley, W4YDY, Thomas Styron, KB7L, Dan Wallace, K4HMW, Byron Highland, K4BMH, Terry Monday, K4ZYD, and James Lewis, AK4MU.
2013 Christmas Party
A good time was had by all at the annual Christmas Party with good conversation and food. The food was very, very good and there was plenty there for everyone. Thanks to Brenda Bertrand, KJ4GDS, Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, and Richard Campbell, W4JNC, for getting the Poinsettias, table setups and beverages. Peer awards were handed out by MC Mike Langley, KD4MTT, who first talked about some of the history of BARC. He presented the BARC Ham of the Year Plaque to Gerry Clayton, K4IDD, and certificates for OM of the Year to John McCoy, K4KBB, YL of the Year to Brenda Bertrand, KJ4GDS and Elmer of the Year to Bernie Nobles, WA4MOK.
A plaque was also presented to Richard Campbell, W4JNC, outgoing BARC President for the past 2 years. Certificates were also given to the 2013 Officers, First Vice President John McCoy, K4KBB; Second Vice President Terry Monday, K4ZYD; Secretary Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX; Treasurer Gerry Clayton, K4IDD; Board Member Thomas Styron, KB7L; and Board Member Byron Highland, K4BMH.
Certificates were also presented to Tom Parsons, W4TEP, Callsign Trustee for W4AMC/W4UHS/W1VOA; Taylor Millar, W4WTM, Publicity and Dave Langley, W4YDY, Ham Chatter & Web Editor. Also certificates were given to Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX, Equipment Chairman and VE Liaison and the following Volunteer Examiners, Dave Langley, W4YDY, Dan Wallace, K4HMW, Thomas Styron, KB7L, Byron Highland, K4BMH, Richard Campbell, W4JNC, Morris Lewis, AK4MU, Tom McLaughlin, KE4NQP, Gerry Clayton, K4IDD, and Nikki Berry, KF4CL. (All VE's were not present)
Mike introduced the 2014 BARC officers. They are President Terry Monday, K4ZYD, (not present); First Vice President; Josh Steele, KB3VKH; Second Vice President, John McCoy, K4KBB; Secretary Ted Bertrand, KI4PWX; Treasurer Gerry Clayton, K4IDD; Board Member Richard Campbell, W4JNC; and Board Member Morris Lewis, AK4MU.
For those that missed the party, be sure to put it on you schedule next year. A lot of fun and a great time is always had by everyone. It's one of the two biggest BARC events of the year, the other being Field Day in June.
2014 DuesMembership dues for BARC are due January 1. Those who have not paid their dues will not be listed on the roster and will be removed from the Ham Chatter mailing list starting in April. Membership dues are the same as they were in 2013 and are as follows:
Regular Member $20.00
Please mail your dues, along with the member application form to:Brightleaf Amateur Radio Club, P.O. Box 8387, Greenville, NC 27835. We are requesting that you send the application form in so that we can have your correct information on file. The form can be downloaded from http://www.w4amc.com/application.pdf. If anyone has any questions concerning their membership status or their dues, please email Gerry Clayton, K4IDD, BARC Treasurer, at gclayton4 @ suddenlink.net (remove spaces in email address).
Thank you for your support and participation in BARC.
Bill Finch, W4EHF, 101, SK
Bill Finch, W4EHF, passed away July 27,
2013. He was 101 years old and a very active Life Member of the Brightleaf ARC.
Bill had been an Amateur Radio operator for 78 years and was licensed in 1935.
He upgraded to Amateur Extra Class when he was 94 in 2005. Bill's son, Bill
Finch, Jr., AI4TN, is also a member of BARC.
Bill Finch, W4EHF, awarded North Carolina's Order of the Long Leaf Pine
BARC member, Bill Finch, W4EHF, was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by Governor Beverly Perdue for his service to Amateur Radio and his work in emergency communications and radio nets. Bill is still active in the traffic nets every week. It was presented to him by North Carolina Section Manager Bill Morine, N2COP, at the RARSFest April 7, 2012 at the beginning of the ARRL Division meeting. Weldon Fields, W4AJT, Greensboro, also received the award. Morine remarked that there was a lot of Amateur Radio experience between Bill, age 100, and Weldon, age 98. Bill was licensed in 1935 and Weldon was licensed in 1930 for a total of 159 years between the two.
The Order of the Long Leaf Pine is among the most prestigious awards presented by the Governor of North Carolina. The Order of the Long Leaf Pine is presented to individuals who have a proven record of extraordinary service to the state. Contributions to their communities, extra effort in their careers, and many years of service to their organizations are some of the guidelines by which recipients are selected for this award.
Bill had a few remarks at the end of the ceremony thanking everyone for their help and about his love of North Carolina even when he was away. Bill remarked that he was born in Raleigh and always looked forward to returning to North Carolina even though he was not gone for long. Years ago while in New York, he memorized the North Carolina toast and recited it in his comments. The first 4 lines are on the certificate that he received.
Congratulations Bill from all BARC members. Well deserved.


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want to hear something silly?
It was finally warm enough to play outside today, so I took Zoe to the park. As she was climbing around the playground, a boy about 5 or 6 called out to his dad, "hey dad, want to hear something silly? There's a baby wearing glasses!" My heart sank. His dad asked him why that was silly, and I told him she needed the glasses to see, and he seemed to think that made sense. He later noticed that I wore glasses and asked if Zoe's dad wore glasses, too.
I don't remember being made fun of for wearing glasses, or getting any comments about them much at all, but I didn't get them until I was 8 or 10 (I can't quite remember exactly). Before today, Zoe had generally just gotten curious or nice comments about her glasses, this is the first time I'd heard a less kind comment. I know that the kid was just surprised and curious, not trying to be mean at all, but I'm a bit worried about Zoe hearing that her glasses are silly, especially from other kids. Anyone else dealt with other kids making comments about your child's glasses? How do you respond? Or how have you taught your kid to respond?
You know, I do call her a "silly girl" from time to time, but not because of her glasses.
March 31, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Hi – you don't know me, I am Alicia's aunt. My baby (now 15) wore glasses from age 7 mo to 6 yr. I was horrified when I first was told, but eventually got used to the four-eyes look on her. Lots of your photos remind me of her. I also got lots of comments – mostly from children 'MOMMY – look at the baby with glasses'. She was severely far sighted, and grew out of it, and could have had all sorts of problems if she had not got her glasses. So I am very grateful for the glasses. I was also always grateful for the warrenty :).
April 1, 2008 at 1:23 am
Playgrounds can be tough! It sounds like you (and the boy's dad) handled this situation well. The nice thing is that you modeled for Zoe that she can stick up for herself by gently educating others (once she's got the language for that!)
We go tomorrow to shop for the "real" pair of glasses and hopefully order some that will work.
I also learned that an aunt of mine has ambloypia. She warned of the seriousness of the problem in adulthood, although I'm not sure how early she got glasses. I'm hoping that starting this early with Eliza will help prevent future problems.
May 28, 2008 at 5:47 pm
I am sooo glad that I found this blog! My son, Hunter, has been wearing glasses now for two months. He is 14 months old now, and I still have a hard time dealing with the fact that my son needs them. He has a strabismus that we are trying to correct without surgery.
The first day that we went out with his glasses on, I could not believe the stares! Some people can be so rude. One adult male actually said, "What could a baby possibly need glasses for? Thanks just ridiculous!" I could not believe his words. I proceeded to explain why, but he just laughed. I was so angry! My son is so adorable with his glasses on I can hardly imagine him without them now. After that day, I am so thankful that its just glasses. Hunter could really have something wrong with him. We are truly blessed that this is correctable. And I will always teach him not to stare at others because they are different. After two months, I am getting used to the stares and points. I have worn glasses for many years-now I have a twin!
Thanks for letting me post my comments.


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Realities and appearances, arguments and facts: Scheme for better political news.
The grid you see here is my attempt to imagine a better way to classify political news, and to present it. Adapted from my (much longer) PressThink post: Why Political Coverage is Broken …
Imagine the entirety of today's political reporting and commentary plotted on a grid. On the left side of the page: realities. On the right side: appearances. At the top of the page: facts. On the bottom: arguments. Realities and appearances, arguments and facts. All political news might be divided into these categories, and journalists could organize their daily report into my four quadrants.
Under appearances (on the right side of the page) we find everything that is just that: the attempt to make things appear a certain way. All media stunts. Everything that fits under the management of impressions, or politics as entertainment. The photo ops. The press releases issued in lieu of doing something. Lindsay Tanner's book, Sideshow, is full of examples from the day to day life of a government minister in Australia:
I once visited Townsville for about six hours when I was a shadow minister, but my itinerary consisted entirely of media interviews. I met with no local organizations, visited no local institutions, and inspected no local facilities. In each interview I had to pretend that I was visiting the city for a legitimate reason. Each time I was asked, "why are you in Townsville today?" I had to resist the urge to reply, "To speak to you, actually."
My suggestion is to report appearances as just that: mere appearances. Which would be a way of jeering at them, labeling them as not quite real, and not very serious. So the appearances section would be heavy on satire and simple quotation. In the U.S., Jon Stewart has become a huge star by satirizing this space. My scheme would be a way for journalists to get in on some of that action. Appearances, then, means downgrading or penalizing politicians who deal in the fake, the trivial, the merely sensational. In other words: "watch out or you'll wind up in the appearances column."
Under realities we find everything that is actually about real problems, real solutions, real proposals, consequential plans and of course events that have an integrity beyond their fitness as media provocations. This is the political news proper, cured of what Tanner calls the sideshow.
But then there's my other axis. Facts and arguments. Both are important, both are a valid part of politics.
So imagine my four quadrants.
Top left: Today's new realities: come and get the facts. The actual news of politics, minus all the distractions and deceptions.
Bottom left: Genuine debates, legitimate controversies, important speeches, reality-based arguments that engage with the world as it is.
Top right: Appearances presented as fact. Pseudo-events, photo ops, media stunts: the entire realm of managed impressions.
Bottom right: Phony arguments. Manufactured controversies. Sideshows. Propaganda masquerading as debate.
Now imagine all of today's political news and commentary sorted into these four quadrants. This becomes the new portal to political news. (Think of it as an improvement on this page, or this one.) Realities and appearances, arguments and facts. To render the political world that way, journalists would have to exercise their judgment about what is real and what is not. And this is exactly what would bring them into better alignment with our needs as citizens.
Grid created by Niel Bekker. Thanks, Niel!
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Drop-in Toddler Story Time
Pittsford Community Library
24 State StreetPittsford, NY, 14534
United States
Phone: 585-249-5478
Jeanne Steinbrenner
The event has already taken a place at this date:
Mon, 12/10/2012
9:15, 10:00, and 10:45 a.m.
Stories, songs, and fingerplays make up this fun 20-minute program for children 18 months to 3 years old (with a caregiver).
Offered three times each Monday: 9:15, 10:00, and 10:45 a.m. Drop in - No registration required. Note: There are no story times 12/17 through 1/4.


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by Nicholas Minnix and Tim Heaney
on November 4, 2009 @ 15:00:00
Follow @NicholasMinnix Follow @Tim_Heaney
If you are serious about winning your fantasy league football championship, stay on top of your fantasy football team throughout the year.
Each week during the NFL fantasy football season, KFFL brings you its Fantasy Football Waiver Wire, which breaks down players to pick up. Be aggressive when picking up fantasy football free agents. Even if you do not need a player, you can tuck him away for depth or block others from adding him to their fantasy football team.
Note: Percentage of polled leagues in which player is available in parentheses
Fantasy football free agents: Priority additions
The following players should be high on your radar and are worthy of being added immediately to your fantasy football team.
Malcom Floyd, San Diego Chargers (95 percent)
The 6-foot-5, 225-pound Floyd started in Week 8 ahead of Chris Chambers, 31. The latter has lost a step, has had trouble hauling in the football and was released the day after that game. The two were splitting time at the spot opposite Vincent Jackson; Floyd had been targeted more often recently and was outperforming Chambers. San Diego's potentially explosive offense values size on the outside. These two have headed in opposite directions.
Fantasy football free agents: Look to acquire
The following players will have greater significance in deep fantasy football leagues. In shallow fantasy football leagues, they are not as high of a priority but should be considered based on your fantasy football team's needs.
Justin Gage, Tennessee Titans (80 percent)
Picking the right Titans wideout to break out each week has been a crapshoot, but Gage has an advantage now that Vince Young is behind center. Gage's best season in the NFL came in VY's second NFL campaign, which saw Young start 15 games. Gage has a better rapport with Young than any recipient not named Bo Scaife.
Gage has been targeted at least five times in five of Tennessee's seven games this year, making him arguably Tennessee's most involved wideout. His 15 looks in the last three games lead Titans wideouts. At this juncture, Gage has the most to gain due to his familiarity with the new starting thrower.
Fantasy football free agents: Watch list
These fantasy football free agents shouldn't be on your immediate list. They may have had a big week. They may have talent but are buried on the depth chart and merely awaiting an opportunity. Still, fantasy football players must know who they are for their potential contribution in the future.
Brian Hartline, Miami Dolphins (84 percent)
Now that Ted Ginn Jr. seems to be at home in the return game, Hartline should remain in a starting role. The latter can line up at any wideout spot for Miami, which gives him more opportunities for playing time. Hartline failed to convert his sole look in Week 8, but quarterback Chad Henne overthrew him.
Despite the presence of Davone Bess and Greg Camarillo to cloud the target picture, the Dolphins sought out Hartline five times in Week 7. The Ohio State alum has shown a connection with Henne from their days on the backup squad together earlier this year.
Fantasy football free agents: One-week plays
The following fantasy football pickups are for those who need injury or bye week replacements. They are not players you immediately acquire - unless your team is in dire straights. Some have, however, shown some life and should be followed in case they materialize as options beyond their temporary use.
NEW - Jerheme Urban, Arizona Cardinals (99 percent)
Anquan Boldin (ankle) is expected to suit up for Week 9 after he left early because of a right ankle injury last week. However, if Boldin is limited or ineffective, Urban would be the one to fill the void. He's a possession guy (10.8 yards per reception this season) that has two-plus years of experience in Arizona.
The Cards face the Chicago Bears this week. Chicago isn't allowing a ton of yardage to this position (115.3) per game over the last month, but they are allowing 1.67 scores per game to receivers in that time. He shouldn't be high on your list, but if you are desperate to fill the byes, Urban is worth a flier.
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'Marriage Isn't for You' Blog Post Goes Viral
Blogger Seth Adam Smith, a married man, wrote a blog post about overcoming his own selfishness on his way down the aisle with the Love of his life, Kim. Seth describes a conversation he had with his wise dad who told him point blank that marriage is not for men — though not in those exact words.
His dad's exact words were:
Marriage isn't for you. You don't marry to make yourself happy, you marry to make someone else happy. More than that, your marriage isn't for yourself, you're marrying for a family. Not just for the in-laws and all of that nonsense, but for your future children. Who do you want to help you raise them? Who do you want to influence them? Marriage isn't for you. It's not about you. Marriage is about the person you married."
Seth's blog post has caught fire all over the Internet, on social media websites and message boards. It's as if Seth's message of self-sacrifice and consideration for others is a new concept in human behavior.
Personally, I think Seth cheated on Kim, and that's what brought about his great metamorphosis. Seth and Kim are high school sweethearts who met when they were 15. It's likely that Kim knows Seth is a dog — but she married him anyway, because dogs need Love too.
Read the full post here.
Black Twitter Drags Blue Ivy
Black Twitter is a subculture of the social networking giant Twitter.com. Black Twitter exists to tear down public figures who are at the forefront of urban entertainment. On Black Twitter nothing is sacred; not children, not even the Pope. Black Twitter has decided that Beyonce's daughter, Blue Ivy, was really born a boy, and that she was fathered by an up-and-coming Canadian hip hop artist named The Weeknd (pictured above).
So when photos surfaced online of Blue Ivy wearing baby dreads in her hair, Black Twitter zoomed into action. Check out some of the harsh tweets compiled by Bossip.com after the break.
Stacey Dash Endorses Mitt Romney
Actress Stacey Dash sparked outrage when she tweeted her endorsement for GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The former "Single Ladies" star tweeted: "Vote for Romney. The only choice for your future." She also retweeted a message from Romney's official Twitter page that read: "Women have had enough of @BarackObama's disappointment. We need new leadership to get our economy growing again."
Stacey's twitter followers immediately reacted with controlled rage and indignation. One confused follower wrote "Wait stacey dash is voting for romney? you get a lil money and you forget that you're black and a woman. two things romney hates."
And a staff writer for the blog Hello Beautiful wrote: "If Stacey Dash only knew (which she probably doesn't), Mitt Romney doesn't exactly support women's rights. He plans to "get rid" of Planned Parenthood; an organization that funds health services and counseling for women."
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Ocean, 24, became something of a cause célebre among the LGBT community when he came out to his fans and the world just days before the release of his new album, Channel Orange. Many within the LGBT and music communities reached out publicly and privately to the effeminate singer to show their support.
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President Obama sent out this anniversary tweet today — just 3 years after his wife, Michelle Obama, told People magazine she considered divorcing him.
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An emotional Robin Roberts thanks her fans for the love
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The Botanical Garden of Naples, Italy is a research facility of the University of Naples Federico II.
The premises take up about 15 hectares and are located on via Foria, adjacent to the gigantic old Albergo dei Poveri, the Royal Hospice for the Poor under the Bourbon dynasty. The facility is part of the university's Department of Natural Science. It is one of the many scientific and educational facilities instituted under French rule in Naples (1806–15). The Garden opened in 1810.At present the Garden displays on the premises around 25,000 samples of vegetation, covering about 10,000 plant species.
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Dear Rupanuga Prabhu
Nice to hear your pure glorification of Srila Prabhupada. It is important that we remind each other how fortunate we are to have had the rare opportunity of meeting such an empowered representative of Lord Nityananda. It is our sacred duty to try to repay Srila Prabhupada by cooperating together in spreading his mission.
Looking forward to hearing more of your inspiring words.
Your servant,
Trivikrama Swami
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 23.08.2011 @ 21:19
High Court rejects ISKCON, Bangalore, plea for stay
Thanks Locanananda Prabhu for your concise explanation of what the problem has been and the simple remedy for solving it.
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 29.05.2011 @ 18:33
Book Review: Miracle On 2nd Ave
Thanks Maharaja for the inspiring endorsement. I do plan on getting the book.
Don't mind but it would be better if you ran a spell check before you sent things out for publication.
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 13.05.2011 @ 00:46
Instead of having the Gitas stolen from the rooms why not put a sign on the book saying; "Please do not take this book, if you would like your own they are available from the front desk!"
Then charge them something.
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 20.12.2010 @ 03:55
Proper Gender Roles in ISKCON Must be Authoritatively and Clearly Defined
Here two words are very significant. Devahuti served her husband in two ways, virambheŠa and gauraveŠa. These are two important processes in serving the husband or the Supreme Personality of Godhead. VirambheŠa means "with intimacy," and gauraveŠa means "with great reverence." The husband is a very intimate friend; therefore, the wife must render service just like an intimate friend, and at the same time she must understand that the husband is superior in position, and thus she must offer him all respect. A man's psychology and woman's psychology are different. As constituted by bodily frame, a man always wants to be superior to his wife, and a woman, as bodily constituted, is naturally inferior to her husband. Thus the natural instinct is that the husband wants to post himself as superior to the wife, and this must be observed. Even if there is some wrong on the part of the husband, the wife must tolerate it, and thus there will be no misunderstanding between husband and wife. VirambheŠa means "with intimacy," but it must not be familiarity that breeds contempt. According to the Vedic civilization, a wife cannot call her husband by name. In the present civilization the wife calls her husband by name, but in Hindu civilization she does not. Thus the inferiority and superiority complexes are recognized. Damena ca: a wife has to learn to control herself even if there is a misunderstanding. Sauhdena v€c€ madhuray€ means always desiring good for the husband and speaking to him with sweet words. A person becomes agitated by so many material contacts in the outside world; therefore, in his home life he must be treated by his wife with sweet words.
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 24.12.2010 @ 16:59
Sita Rama Prabhu has said:
"Still Krishna consciousness will go on. Therefore with a realistic understanding of the nature of material conditioning, and in accordance with the spirit and desire of Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada I teach that the essential point for couples is to chant their rounds, follow the four regulations, and somehow or other get along. No one can tell me that this preaching is incorrect."
Your preaching is good Sita Rama Prabhu. We have to preach according to time and circumstances. However why not gradually train our young men and women, BEFORE they are married that there is a better system. A system that has been tried and tested for eons of time in which the husband vows to respect and protect his wife and in return the wife vows to be chaste to and serve her husband.
The simple point is that in order to protect someone they have to be willing to be controlled to some degree. If the wife insists on going to a night club with a girl friend at one in the morning , on the plea that she has her rights, then how can the husband protect her?
It is out of love and concern for women that the Vedic culture has posted the husband as a protector of his wife. Unfortunately men have abused their position and therefore there is this agitation for equal rights.
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 24.11.2010 @ 23:07
We call it grhasta ashrama. Ashrama implies that there is discipline. Just like in the temple, the temple commander, and temple president, have some authority over the devotees who are living there. So the husband is the natural authority in the grhasta ashrama. Not that the wife has to worship him, but she should act in such a way that he is not displeased with her. Otherwise the marriage becomes chaotic.
Srila Prabhupada mentions in this regard that the male psychology is that he wants to be posted as superior to his wife.
Just like in the temple; we don't have to worship the temple president, but we are expected to submit to his reasonable instructions.
Ys Ts
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 20.11.2010 @ 20:10
Thank you Omkara devi dasi for your powerful comments. I was also inspired by Giriraja Maharaja's timely article which he has presented so soberly. We all know that death is approaching, but as Yudhistira Maharaja said, the most wonderful thing is that somehow we think we can avoid it.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada for giving us his personal example and repeated instructions on how to face this inevitable condition with dignity, courage, and a steady humor.
Your insignificant servant,
Trivikrama Swami
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 22.10.2009 @ 02:14
Puri priests up in arms against ISKCON
This can be turned into a positive opportunity to glorify Srila Prabhupada. If we organize a large group of devotees from all over India to travel to Jagganath Puri and have continuous Hari Nam it would surely attract attention of the media. Also leading life members could approach the media as well a their local politicians to protest this affront to Srila Prabhupada and his Iskcon movement.
I wish I was there in India to help. Don't let this opportunity pass to make everyone know that we are all loyal to Srila Prabhupada and won't tolerate this insult to our Founder Acarya
Imagine if an effigy of the prophet Mohammad was burned. What kind of reaction would we expect from his followers?
Ys TS
Comment Posted By trivikramaswami On 15.11.2008 @ 23:48
I find I am not able to follow the discussion as the sound is not clear. Can we not have it in written form?
Ys TS
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Some very exciting times lie ahead for this single-level classic. Incorporating a formal lounge/dining room, timber-panelled family room with adjoining retro kitchen/meals, study/computer room, sunroom, laundry & backyard, there's plenty to work with & plenty of scope to transform into a wonderful home with a modern revamp. Alternatively let it out as you & your architect make plans for redeveloping into a luxury new residence (STCA). Additional features include ducted heating, a reverse-cycle... More


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Ways to Upcycle Trunk into Functional Furniture?
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Q: I have a lovely trunk that I've used in nearly every room of my home. It's nothing special, but I really love it and have a sentimental attachment to it. I have always used it simply as a storage piece (at the foot of the bed, against a wall, etc.) In my new apartment, I'd like to repurpose the trunk in some way — ideally so that it works as both storage and furniture (I'm shorter on space than I was before!):
So I'm looking for ideas and inspiration: how to add height, how to reuse the trunk in my home in a new way. I tried standing it on bricks (ew), and tried balancing it on an old coffee table base (looked like a poor man's MacGuyver). Any other unique ideas to get me started would be fantastic!
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That's a great color, I've never seen such a fun, bright trunk! My first thought was to add some nice big castors to the bottom, that way you can obviously move it around easier, plus it'll add some height if you want to use it was a table or bench. Chunky, substantial legs would also give you the height you need and make it look more like a piece of furniture. I could definitely see this under a window, if you add a custom sized pad in a bold fabric, plus a toss pillow or two. So it doesn't look "lonely" under the window, anchor it with a side table or shelf to encourage using it as a comfy spot. Good luck!
if you make a rectangular pillow of the same size of the top, you could make it to stay using some velcro strips self-adhesive on the sides and use it as foot stool next to your couch or armchair. And you can store blankets for the cold tv-nights into the trunk. Lovely color, by the way!
If you have a fireplace, I use a trunk as a side table next to the fireplace and keep the logs inside. ( a bit of a pain to remove all the thinks on top every time I need some wood, but I don't have much on it anyway)
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I think casters are a great idea - even if you keep it as a coffee table. If you do spring for casters, get the commercial grade ones so you never have to worry about it.
If you're looking for cheap but reasonably sturdy legs, you might check out IKEA. They have steel or wood, ranging from 5 or so inches to 30+ high so you can manage a coffee table all the way to a console table. Some people put square ottomans under console tables to keep foot ottomans out of the way while having a catch-all. Cuter options are often available at your local hardware store too.
casters are infinitely more practical. I've put casters on my dining table and all sorts of furniture and never regretted it.
I like the idea of putting an upholstered foam top on it. If you have an entryway (or even a highly organized coat closet), you can hang some hooks or a shelf above it and create your own "landing pad." It did this with a small wooden trunk and wrought iron hooks on the wall just inside my bedroom, and it's a great place to drop off a coat, hats, etc.
Instead of legs, what about setting it on a sturdy platform, with or without legs?
I vote for casters and a slab cushion on top - voila, bench! :)
If you have a piece that you don't want to direcly alter; Try casters attached to a piece of plywood with trim or something to prevent the trunk from sliding would give you height you need... and you can use the platform for movable stack of storage bins or moving furniture later (depending on how strong you make it.
If you go the seat cushion route, you could add a pleated skirt to it to cover the trunk and soften the look up (or is that so '90's?).
Another option is to stand it on end, put castors or legs on the bottom to raise it off the floor, and use it like a small armoire. You could put hooks, shelves, or a bar inside for storing clothing, accessories, or books.
My personal take would be to put it on it's side and make a minibar inside.
Or, jack it up on tv trays (usually dirt cheap at thrift stores) and use it as a console table. Just put a few screws through the trays to keep them open, as they tend to be shaky. Rug mats will keep it from slipping.
why not add the height to the top? Get some fabric and pillow stuffing and add a seat cushion to the top. It could function as an ottoman or bench seat in your window. If you are dead set on adding the height on the bottom, why not add wheels? You could paint them to match the rest of the trunk.
I actually added some in-drawer file frames to mine (for like $10 on amazon) and turned it into my file cabinet. It's really, really easy/cheap and can eliminate the need for a desk if you just use your laptop most of the time and have been using a desk almost entirely for storage.
Is it sturdy enough to hold up to people sitting on it? Some trunks of this kind are made of thin enough metal that a lot of wwight can bend them...
I envision a parsons table kind of base, with square (in cross section) legs and a base the same size as the trunk's bottom to lift it as a coffee table. You could paint it to match or contrast with the trunk color, match the color of the hardware, or go black.
I second the idea of casters. I don't know if this would be doable, but you could try some cement blocks painted in a metallic to match the trunk, or covered in fabric (or mattress foam, then fabric). Not sure if that would work or not.
If it helps, this gives me a great idea for a coffee table because we actually need something extremely short to fit under the handle of the reclining part of the chair. Thanks for the reverse inspiration!
Ashley Erin Mayer
i think casters sound best. maybe you can find some in a bright color or paint them a bright color. alternatively find a luggage rack at a thrift store and you can set it up high. just make sure the luggage rack is sturdy enough.
Elevate it on a couple of wooden wine crates.
We had a sturdy chest that we weren't sure what to do with, and decided to use it as a bench at our dining table. We have little kids and they think it is the coolest thing ever, as 2 or 3 can sit together at a time. Adults like it too since you can spread out a bit or sit indian-style.
Some legs or wheels would transform it into mobile storage, paint it black or any accenting color from the room it'll be in, a rectangular pillow top with a interesting pattern and even new hardware too would spruce it up and make it your own.
I would do something like this! - http://s3.amazonaws.com/cmi-niche/assets/pictures/16452/content_gift8.jpg?1319646665
Then put casters or legs on the bottom and use it as a side table with a lamp on top - http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20049538/
Please submit a before and after whatever you decide to do.
I agree with ShinySpork. Check out the couch legs available from IKEA for a short height boost.
I have two of these beauties is two separate sizes. I reinforced the tops of both with some 2x4s, One is a record holder/end table and the other is an amazing tv stand. Inside I've organized all the additional/back up cables, and dvds.
I've had these for years, and I will never get rid of them. I hope you get to keep yours for a long while.
Try it on it's side as an end table (or landing table) if it isn't opened very often.
Hi Emily,
I think you have a gorgeous piece of furniture here, and if I were you I would try to protect it as much as possible. The first thing I thought to myself when I saw it was that it would look wonderful sitting underneath a simple acrylic or glass table. Here is a perfect coffee table for that:
You would get a coffee table that works, and also it would give you a little bit of contrast against the rest of your apartment decor -- and contrast is one of my favorite things in the world! At the same time, the table would protect the chest from damage, and you'd be able to look at it at all times.
Now, I understand that you are on a very, very tight budget, so I did a quick search on Amazon, and there are some not-so-expensive options:
If you don't like this idea, I would say that I also like the caster suggestion -- the only thing is that I'd be hesitant to alter the chest permanently.
In either case, good luck!
I turned my rhino trunks on their sides vertically and used them as side tables. You could also leave them horizontal. I really liked the way they are used in this living room: http://ohjoy.blogs.com/my_weblog/2012/11/baby-proofing-your-stylish-living-room.html
We have a old WWI Medical trunk made out of metal that weighs probably 80lbs. I love it and it makes an excellent bench by the door to put our shoes on. I made a cushion to tie on top of it so there's some soft and hard looks to it.
re. casters: screw them into sturdy shelving/plywood a bit smaller than dimensions of trunk, whatever way it stands, place trunk on board. if bottom is longer/wider dimension, use 6-8 casters to distribute weight, balance caster placement between strength at edges & recessed so not-as-obvious. use industrial grade (ikea's disintegrate at 2-3 yrs). raises @ 2".
as coffee table, raise @ 2" more by placing casters-on-another-board-upside-down/blocks/books at corners & putting piece of 1/4" glass on top of that (stick small clear bumpers on underside of glass so it does not roll off casters on top of trunk). may be able to find glass at thrift shop.
I took an old trunk and added legs from an equally old midcentury-style ottoman with tapered legs. Check Goodwill and similar thrift-type venues for legs you like.


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I am astonished at the amount of fanart people have already produced for Pokemon X and Y's starters — this is just a flicker from the wildfire of Fennekin illustrations out there threatening to engulf the entire internet. Their artists in order of appearance:
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Released in Japan a few years ago and inspired by a popular manga/anime, Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo features all sorts of fun minigames like: dog breakdancing, Super Mario Bros. 3-style face matching, and some kind of crying/ballet dancing activity. I need to import this.IMPORT Kochira Katsushikaku Kameari Kouenmae Hashutsujo
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15 years later, Devil Summoner: Soul Hackers is finally coming to the states
Wow, that music! I totally missed this song from Atlus' trailers for the Japanese version. I considered just posting the initial English screens and linking out the trailer, but that track is too good. The video doesn't delve into the story, though, so here's a summary:
"Soul Hackers tells of a city held up as a beacon of humanity's triumph of technology, but with an infernal secret. In this would-be utopia, a group of hackers takes on a centuries-old mystic society, and a battle for control over humanity's fate is about to begin."
Shin Megami Tensei fans have waited for this one to make it here since 1997, when it released in Japan for Sega Saturn. Atlus sought to localize a PlayStation edition of Soul Hackers back in the day, but Sony shot down that idea. This 3DS enhanced port of the first-person cyberpunk/occult RPG will release in the U.S. next spring.BUY Devil Survivor Overclocked, Devil Survivor 2
Here's one last Nester comic to close out Nintendo Power, which is shipping its last issue this month. Artist Bill Mudron killed it here (the comic, not the actual magazine).
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Animal Crossing: New Leaf — first English look and trailer for the Nintendo 3DS game releasing some time in the first half of 2013. That's what's up.Preorder: Animal Crossing 3DS
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K.K. Slider picks up a cup of joe, and other new Animal Crossing 3DS GIFs from the latest Japanese commercials. I'm totally thrilled by the idea of working at The Roost.Preorder: Animal Crossing 3DS
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you can work in the coffee shop in the new Animal Crossing
you can work in the coffee shop in the new Animal Crossing
"Boy or Girl" a new Pokemon comic exploring unexpected gender-bending in the series, illustrated by Mare Odomo and featured at Attract Mode. Every Mare Odomo Pokemon comic is a gift. Don't let this one go to waste.Buy: Pokemon Black/White Version 2
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Nintendo Direct's Animal Crossing 3DS stream had a startling amount of awesome stuff this morning: camping grounds, Club 444, four islands you can visit, etc. You can read translated details on everything shown here.
The "stop all the presses" news, though, was DJ K.K., the club-rockin' alter-ego of our favorite dog musician. He'll perform on non-Saturday evenings — there will also be NES/Famicom nights, which sounds like the best thing.Preorder: Animal Crossing 3DS
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A closer look at the NSMB 2 and Animal Crossing 3DS special edition XL systems coming to Japan, the latter of which looks like either a Louis Vuitton pattern or underwear, depending on who you ask. If you ask our readers, their heads will fill with pantsu.
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Why Idenix is a Good Bet for Aggressive Investors
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We hear about life-threatening diseases almost every day. We hear about the serious illnesses caused by hepatitis and HIV viruses. Unfortunately, infections from these blood borne pathogens are one of the world's leading causes of death, which creates a serious global health problem.
Hepatitis, the inflammatory swelling of the liver, may lead to cirrhosis or to cancer. There are three types, each one named for the virus causing it: Hepatitis A, B or C. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the most common chronic infection caused by a blood borne pathogen in the U.S. is hepatitis C, with about 3.2 million individuals infected. Approximately 60% to 70% of them have liver disease.
The hepatitis C virus is often transmitted through exposure to infected blood, during transfusion of blood or through injecting drugs with shared needles, but it may also be transmitted through sexual exposure.
The problem is that many infected individuals do not know about their infection as long as they are not clinically ill, but they can transmit the infection to others. In some cases, the disease develops only decades after infection.
Hepatitis B may vary from a short, mild illness to a long-term disease that may cause liver cancer. Almost 43,000 persons were supposed to be infected in the United States in 2007, but there were fewer reported cases as some people carrying the virus are asymptomatic. The number of total chronic cases is estimated to be somewhere between 800,000 and 1.4 million in the United States. Like hepatitis C, the infection is transmitted through contact with blood, semen, or sharing injection needles.
Still, maybe the most feared infectious disease is acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), caused by the HIV virus. This really does not need any introduction. According to the CDC there are approximately 1.2 million people in the United States infected with HIV.
The brighter news is that there are companies that are continuously working in order to make headway against the Hepatitis "miasma." Idenix Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: IDIX) is one of them.
Apart from its HBV-antiviral product, telbivudine (Tyzeka/Sebivo) -- commercialized by Novartis (NVS) and already available on the market -- Idenix focuses on the treatment of hepatitis C. Clinical trials for the company's protease inhibitor discovery program have been in the pipeline since 2009. The work of its laboratories in the U.S. and in France and its researchers' expertise in nucleoside chemistry may make the company one of the leaders in antiviral pharmaceuticals.
Discovering Hepatitis pathogenesis is an ongoing effort, and as a result drugs like Tyzeka reduce viral load and reinforce reduced T cell counts that are negatively affected and overwhelmed by the virus. Responsiveness is a key issue with antivirals, and the latest data shows that CD4+ T cells could be an improved marker for measuring the drug's responsiveness. With the patent for Tyzeka in physical form granted in 2006 (along with three other patents and also international protection through the ICT), with Novartis as assignee, the company still has approximately 14 years of exclusivity.
The company's competitors however, are also working on antiviral drug candidates. The biggest competitor is Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) with a robust pipeline and the continued marketing deal with Gilead's Atriple HIV antiviral drug. It has sold off activities unrelated to pharmaceuticals and now holds a significant amount of cash to finance research and acquisitions. Besides, its revenue shows a steady growth. The pharmaceutical giant's chances to outperform the market are in line with those of Idenix.
Another strong candidate is Merck (NYSE: MRK), a producer of a wide range of pharmaceutical products like drugs to treat asthma, cardiovascular disease, various infections, and osteoporosis. It also offers vaccines to prevent hepatitis B, HPV, and pediatric diseases. Merck's Victrelis protease inhibitor targeting HCV is already approved by FDA but sales have been weaker than expected through 2011 in no small part due to competition from Vertex's Incivek (discussed further below). As far as its position in the pharmaceutical industry is concerned, after the acquisition of Schering-Plough, the company improved its chances to be one of the leaders.
Investors who want to buy stocks of antiviral pharmaceutical companies have other opportunities as well. Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) is focusing its efforts toward HCV as well. The company has significant experience in antiviral discovery and production, having successfully bundled HIV antivirals through Atripla (which it continues to market with Bristol-Myers) and more recently Complera. Foster City announced that Gilead's experimental drug was successfully tested in combination with the antiviral ribavirin: The treatment cleared the virus in 1 out of 9 patients who had not responded previously. Thus far, the company's revenue growth is higher than industry average as its franchise ensures constant growth of sales and profit.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) has also had good results in developing antiviral therapies for HCV and other diseases. The company discovered Incivek, a protease inhibitor that is approved by FDA. Its two HIV protease inhibitors are now commercialized by GlaxoSmithKline. Its newest product, Kalydeco, was approved for the treatment of cystic fibrosis. The company achieved extremely high sales growth that slowed recently. The company posted $356.9 million in revenues from Incivek in its fiscal first quarter.
In comparison to its competitors, Idenix is considered to be a small-cap company with a high risk. The company's stock is currently trading around $8 per share with a 52-week range of around $4 to $15. Its revenue equaled $7 million in 2011, 32% less than in 2010, and the annual losses were $0.57 per share.
Thus, the focus is on its pipeline. Recently, Idenix has reported positive results for its two leading drugs in HCV pipeline - IDX719 and IDX184. Idenix President and CEO Ron Renaud stated that the company is very satisfied with the interim results for IDX184 and with the progress made across other programs in 2011. I think the company has all right to be satisfied since the Phase IIb trial of IDX184 confirmed that this drug demonstrated antiviral activity and safety in preclinical and clinical studies. This means that the company is moving forward with the drugs still in pipeline, which is always a good sign.
With a good research team, proven track record and promising drug candidates, I must say Idenix looks promising. However, as its rivals are very strong and have more convincing financial results, I can recommend the stock only to those investors who are able to take more risk with the hope of receiving their reward from the successful product development in the future.
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Wisdom for Modern Life by Daisaku Ikeda
When deluded, one is called an ordinary being, but when enlightened, one is called a Buddha. This is similar to a tarnished mirror that will shine like a jewel when polished. A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to become like a clear mirror, reflecting the essential nature of phenomena and the true aspect of reality. Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. -Nichiren<< Yesterday Today Tomorrow >>
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The following is from: "ruth weiss and the American Beat movement of the '50s and 60's" by Horst Spandler, published in: ruth weiss, no dancing aloud – lautes tanzen nicht erlaubt. edition exil, Vienna, 2006. – also used as an introduction to ruth weiss' book can't stop the beat – THE LIFE AND WORDS OF A BEAT POET. Divine Arts, Studio City, 2011.
ruth weiss' and Kerouac's ways crossed in 1955. By then Kerouac had published but one book, The Town and the City (1950). Two more years were to pass until On the Road made him famous. As ruth weiss stresses, they were not lovers – luckily, she believes, because otherwise their relationship would not have been as relaxed as it was. Kerouac's visits to her place followed a certain routine. He used to show up late at night with a bottle of wine, then they would talk about everything under the sun, about writing stream of consciousness and his technique of sketching with words, i.e. catching moments in a way painters do, which he developed in those years – and they wrote haiku together. Expressing herself in this short form derived from Japanese literature became one of ruth weiss' long-lasting passions. The poems received a very special note by the water colors she added to them. Jack Kerouac's collected haiku appeared in 2004. Unfortunately none from this early stage of experimenting with the form are included, because they did not survive. But ruth weiss reports his comments on her poems: "You write better haiku than I do."
The nightly visits quite regularly ended with Kerouac passing out drunk on the floor, but often sleeping no longer than until sunrise, when Neal Cassady frequently knocked at the door, Kerouac's friend, whom he immortalized in his novels On the Road and Visions of Cody as the prototype of the Beat hero. Off the three would go on wild Beat style joy rides, pretty much like the ones described in Kerouac's books, on the serpentine roads of Portrero Hill – rides which ruth weiss remembers not without going goose-pimply, since she believes she owes her life to the fact that so early in the morning there was hardly any oncoming traffic on those blind curves.
That ruth weiss was friends with the surrealist poet Philip Lamantia one usually hears from her in connection with a rather spectacular story she records in Compass, a journal of an extended visit to Mexico. In 1959 she met with two of her friends from San Francisco in Mexico City, Lamantia and the photographer Ann McKeever, and they spontaneously decided to climb the near-by Mayan Pyramid of the Sun in order to watch the sunrise from there. They made it to the top of it, but then her fear of heights paralyzed her to such a degree that she had to be carried all the way down.Another anecdote, which she willingly tells in her incomparable way, has grown up around her friendship with street poet Jack Micheline. In 1967 she spent some time in Los Angeles, because she had met the artist Paul Blake, her longtime companion and illustrator of some of her books, and followed him there. On her way to the different bars she used to write in she again and again spied a tall and impressive man, who didn't appear to be threatening, but nevertheless seemed to stalk her somehow. Years later, back in San Francisco, when she and Paul launched Surprise Voyage, a poetry performance series in the Old Spaghetti Factory, somebody recommended poet Jack Micheline, whom she had not met in person yet up to then. She agreed and was just as surprised as he was when they faced each other. He shouted: "Oh, it's you! You used to follow me all the time in Los Angeles!" That was the start of a lasting contact in the course of which Micheline bought several pieces of art from Paul Blake, but occasionally he also appeared unexpectedly and urged him and ruth weiss to buy some of his drawings, because he was short of money.
A long friendly relationship also existed between her and the poet Bob Kaufman, who had already gained some renown in French bohemian circles famed as "the black Rimbaud". As a Jew with black skin he was predestined to be a social outcast and was a typical street poet, who was present and well-known on the streets and squares as well as in the bars of North Beach. In no way did he crave for literary fame and he did not bother to write down his poems, because he recited them by heart. weiss contributed a number of poems to the now legendary literature magazine Beatitude, edited by Kaufman, which was distributed in mimeographed copies and offered a platform to some of the better known, but also to now long-forgotten writers of the scene. In his book Blows Like a Horn, Preston Whaley dedicated a joint chapter to ruth weiss and Bob Kaufman – first of all, because he views them as typical members of the Beat Generation in San Francisco, but at the same time also as writers who not only wrote from the extreme fringe of society, but both remained underestimated marginal figures of literature for a long time. He recognizes certain affinities in their literary production of that period, namely that they both "displaced and deconstructed the self in order to cross […] the very brink of selfhood" and broke open syntactical structures.
– Horst Spandler
she grooves with time
day time, night time
be bop jazz time
dances with timeless time
all rhythm no rhyme
birds in flight flap their wings
copulate with the wind
a magician's illusion where
time and words move from celibate
to wild orgy
feed off the flesh of the other
pause in roller coaster freeze
stop motion
she sings her song
another day another night
bitch slaps father time
kaufman, son of jazz
in her heart
micheline in her blood
jazz in the Fillmore|
jazz on the Harlem rooftops
full moon rising
with poems that dig into my bones
lubricates the gears of my mind
lost in a haze of motionless motion
For ruth weiss,
"The Beat Generation Goddess"
– Bob Booker
Some of ruth's books
ruth weiss reads two poems
reading at the Beat Museum, accompanied by percussionist Hal Davis.
a conversation with ruth weiss
ruth weiss reads her work in New Orleans
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Extreme Makeover: Toddler Edition
Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Frank Ryan gives one mom a plastic surgery consultation -- because you're never too young to get a little work done.
The sad truth is that there are parents/guardians out there that have actually really done this. Could you imagine?!
So sad. I feel bad for mothers who have such low self-esteem that they pass that onto their children.
I am very sorry but I feel that is just plain WRONG … did you hear the lil girls response? "I want plastic surgery because I love my mom" I mean really?! WOW, I do believe "to each their own" but this does make me sad. I have a little girl who will be 7 and at age 3 she was saying she was fat, I could NOT believe it. I have done everything in my power to tell her she is beautiful and that every person has a different shape, some are curvy, some are less curvy and that's okay because that is what makes YOU … YOU… So sad to me.
OMG..that woman is insane, what is wrong with her lipo on a 3 yr old..that sould be considered child abuse…reshape her head, she needs to get her head examined or re-wired, and that doctor should not be licensed to do that to children, he was feeding into the mother's craziness…he is just as insane as the mother, i can't believe he said children with sixpacks do better in school…show me that study…I am a teacher and there is no such research or proof…and unfortunately the victim is the little girl. I have a 12 and 2 yr old and would never consider plastic surgery at that age because she are still developing and there is no reason what so ever to alter their growth…what is wrong with people?
I know this has to be a joke? Right?
I am upset that this parity is being done in front of the 3 year old— she is too young to understand humor and if she takes any of it in it would be damaging.
I really hope this is a joke. If it is they need to label it & let everyone know! If it's not a joke, this is disgusting and the "mom" needs to be locked up (along with the doctor). And that child DEFINATLY needs to be taken away from her (for her sake)!! That poor little girl will be so messed up in her head, just like the mom is. She's sitting there listening to them talk about her that way, shes going to be so self conscience! Shes going to die young from all the surgery if she starts now and shes going to look like a monster after her body starts growing. All children are beautiful the way God created them and she should be thankful she even has a kid!!!! I was appalled when I saw this and I just pray that its a joke.. if it's not I want the Moms email address so I can give her a piece of my mind… that is so messed up.
You've got to be kidding me!!! This is one sick, twisted, sorry excuse for a mother. She obviously has made this BEAUTIFUL little girl think that she's not pretty enough, or good enough for people to love her for who she is instead of how she looks, which is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!! This woman is insane and does not deserve to have children. I hope child protective services steps in and takes this little angel away from that monster before it's too late.
She is making a point. She is not really getting her daughter plastic surgery. Read eveything first.
Somebody please rescue the kid!
She is one CRAZY Woman!!! If it's real I just want to SLAP her silly till she realize what she is doing!!!! I would never ever let my child do such a thing at that age…The little girl is still growing, so her body is going to change. Why have the little girl go through all that?? It could ruin her life.
I was HORIFIED to see this story…. The kid is 3 ! Is that mother a JOKE ! SHE NEEDS HER HEAD READ !!!! Stupid people like that feed these things into their INNOCENT childrens heads… NO WONDER we have children with vanity issues…. DRIVEN by people like this STUPID woman !!!!
Well down you clown………
This gave me mixed feelings. Once I saw they moved to talking about giving her a c-cup I had to believe this was a joke. But it does make me wonder if people are doing stuff like this.
I get it that this is a joke and not real but so not funny. Kids shouldn't be used as the butt end of jokes. This isn't even terribly funny. You moms need to get out more.
She looks 4?? LOL!!!
OK, you women can't be seriously thinking for one minute that this was real? It's called "humor", people!!!
I can't believe people really think this is real.It's a joke can't you tell?For those that really truly beleive this google the word"Spoof"and then you'll realize that this is a spoof.
If this is real: Shoot her NOW! What the *&^% is wrong with this woman?
I agree w/ Amy… Not sure whats funnier, the video or the people that actually think this is real


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PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Commissioners in South Dakota's Hughes County are considering doubling the county's wheel tax to raise more money for roads.
Commissioners have given initial approval to doubling the tax of $2 per wheel and $8 per vehicle. A final vote is set for July 2.
Proposals to increase the county wheel tax have failed in the past. Voters overwhelmingly defeated a referred measure in 1995, and in 2008 county commissioners voted narrowly to reject another proposal after a Pierre resident threatened to refer it.
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