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Knowles, Julian D. & Hewitt, Donna G. (2006) Amphibian. [Live Performance (Music)]
Amphibian is an 10'00'' musical work which explores new musical interfaces and approaches to hybridising performance practices from the popular music, electronic dance music and computer music traditions. The work is designed to be presented in a range of contexts associated with the electro-acoustic, popular and classical music traditions.
The work is for two performers using two synchronised laptops, an electric guitar and a custom designed gestural interface for vocal performers - the e-Mic (Extended Mic-stand Interface Controller). This interface was developed by one of the co-authors, Donna Hewitt. The e-Mic allows a vocal performer to manipulate the voice in real time through the capture of physical gestures via an array of sensors - pressure, distance, tilt - along with ribbon controllers and an X-Y joystick microphone mount. Performance data are then sent to a computer, running audio-processing software, which is used to transform the audio signal from the microphone. In this work, data is also exchanged between performers via a local wireless network, allowing performers to work with shared data streams.
The duo employs the gestural conventions of guitarist and singer (i.e. 'a band' in a popular music context), but transform these sounds and gestures into new digital music. The gestural language of popular music is deliberately subverted and taken into a new context. The piece thus explores the nexus between the sonic and performative practices of electro acoustic music and intelligent electronic dance music ('idm').
This work was situated in the research fields of new musical interfacing, interaction design, experimental music composition and performance. The contexts in which the research was conducted were live musical performance and studio music production. The work investigated new methods for musical interfacing, performance data mapping, hybrid performance and compositional practices in electronic music.
The research methodology was practice-led. New insights were gained from the iterative experimental workshopping of gestural inputs, musical data mapping, inter-performer data exchange, software patch design, data and audio processing chains.
In respect of interfacing, there were innovations in the design and implementation of a novel sensor-based gestural interface for singers, the e-Mic, one of the only existing gestural controllers for singers. This work explored the compositional potential of sharing real time performance data between performers and deployed novel methods for inter-performer data exchange and mapping.
As regards stylistic and performance innovation, the work explored and demonstrated an approach to the hybridisation of the gestural and sonic language of popular music with recent 'post-digital' approaches to laptop based experimental music
The development of the work was supported by an Australia Council Grant. Research findings have been disseminated via a range of international conference publications, recordings, radio interviews (ABC Classic FM), broadcasts, and performances at international events and festivals. The work was curated into the major Australian international festival, Liquid Architecture, and was selected by an international music jury (through blind peer review) for presentation at the International Computer Music Conference in Belfast, N. Ireland.
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Item Type: | Creative Work (Live Performance (Music)) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Funders: | Australia Council for the Arts | |||||||||||||||||||||
Measurements or Duration: | 10'00" | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Keywords: | Electronic Music, Laptop Performance, Gestural Controller, Experimental Music, Popular Music | |||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING (190000) > FILM TELEVISION AND DIGITAL MEDIA (190200) > Electronic Media Art (190203) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING (190000) > PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING (190400) > Music Composition (190406) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING (190000) > PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING (190400) > Music Performance (190407) |
Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Past > Institutes > Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Past > Schools > Music & Sound |
Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2006 Julian Knowles and Donna Hewitt | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Michael Burke McHugh pled not guilty on Wednesday to four felony charges and a misdemeanor for wielding a BB gun at Estancia High School last week, according to a spokesperson for the Orange County District Attorney.
McHugh was arrested by Costa Mesa officers at the school on Friday after police said he displayed the gun and scuffled with a school administrator. The incident caused Estancia administrators to put the school on lockdown.
The Costa Mesa resident, 45, was charged with felony counts of aggravated assault, criminal threats, threat of injury to a public officer or school official and possession of a weapon on school grounds, district attorney spokeswoman Farrah Emami said, along with a misdemeanor count of disobeying a court order.
The 100-yard restraining order McHugh is accused of violating was issued by the Superior Court in November 2010, according to Emami. A Costa Mesa Police Department statement released Friday said the order prevented him from coming in close contact with his daughter, who is a minor.
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Ritual Torture says playing death metal doesn't mean they want people to die. "We're not about violence," says guitarist Jesse Jensen. But Ritual Torture's lyrics can get gory and morbid. "Humanity has always been obsessed with death," says bassist-singer Steve Pearce. "Christians are preoccupied with the cross, which is a piece of torture equipment.…"
He says there is a brotherhood among local death-metal bands, such as Infinitum Obscure, Inhuman Sacrifice, and Condemned. For starters, they all appreciate aggressive riffs, intricate guitar work, and guttural vocals. "Whereas hip-hop advocates rape and killing people, we like to get together and drink and hang out and watch horror movies," says Jensen. "We promote unity and brotherhood."
He says some venues have a built-in prejudice against death metal.
"People outside the metal scene just don't like metalheads. Bars are afraid to have death metal. They are afraid that the fans will tear the place apart. If anything, death metal is less violent than punk. Hensley's [in Carlsbad] specifically won't play death-metal bands, but they are okay with punk. But, punks can be less respectful than metalheads."
While drummer Rick Carter says people should not be concerned with death-metal band violence, he tells me about a dangerous metal subgenre emerging. "Hate-edge is an offshoot of straight-edge. If you go on tour and you don't follow the straight-edge lifestyle, they'll kick your ass. In other words, if you smoke, drink, or have sex."
Death metal is not to be confused with the much more popular strain of metal known as metalcore, spearheaded by bands like San Diego's As I Lay Dying.
"I went to [Vista] high school with one of the guitar players of As I Lay Dying," says Pearce. "He had short hair then. He used to make fun of me for having long hair and listening to heavy metal. Now he has become all that but even more so. To death-metal people, As I Lay Dying is a fucking joke. It's MTV bubblegum crap."
"Metalcore bands today are what the hair-metal bands were in the '80s," says Jensen. "Hair-metal bands came out of thrash metal, but they found a market and a way to make a fashion statement. Now glam-metal bands want to be in our genre, but they are too pussy to play death metal."
Ritual Torture's Rise of the Fallen is available on cassette. "A label in Sweden called Blood Harvest Records put it out," says Pearce. "They heard about us from our friends in this L.A. band Unholy Lust. People want to see the old-school formats like vinyl and cassettes. You can get it online for $4.50."
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One day when his donkey called him an ass.
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McKay v. Social Security Administration et al
Marty Lee McKay
SSA-Email Notification and Social Security Administration
Case Number:
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Tennessee Middle District Court
Nashville Office
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Presiding Judge:
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Chalk was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England and moved with his family to Vancouver, Canada in 1957. He has been involved with professional theatre since 1978, and has performed at the Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company (VPTC), the Arts Club Theatre Company (ACTC), The Vancouver Theatresports League and numerous theatres in British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta.
The last live stage production he did was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, where he played Miles Gloriosus. He also performed in Henry IV and As You Like It at the VPTC, as well as Dracula and Passion at the ACTC.
Most of his career has been in film and television; he had a recurring role on Cold Squad for four years, for which he won Gemini Awards in two consecutive years, and until the close of its ninth season had a recurring role on the science-fiction series Stargate SG-1 as russian Colonel Chekov.
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The Kingdom of the Cults has been the authoritative reference work on major cult systems for more than 40 years. In an era of rapid cult growth worldwide, Christians today need the information in this book more than ever. It will equip readers from every walk of life to use biblical truth to counter the efforts of cults to masquerade as mainstream Christianity.
Working closely together, Ravi Zacharias and managing editors Jill and Kevin Rische have updated and augmented the work with new material. This book will continue as a crucial tool in countercult ministry and in evangelism for years to come. Among cults and religions included are Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormonism, New Age cults, the Unification Church, Baha'i Faith, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.
Readable and reliable, this book sets the standard for reference books on cults.
Walter Martin (1928-1989) held four degrees, having received his doctorate from California Coast University in the field of comparative religions. Author of a dozen books and numerous booklets and articles, he founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960.
©2003 The Estate of Walter Martin (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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ArtistLuigi Ghirri
About the Artist
Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992) was an extraordinary photographer as well as a prolific writer and curator. He is considered to be the most important Italian photographer of the 20th century. Ghirri's work covers a wide range of subjects mostly photographed in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. His photos are presented in a deadpan manner that is occasionally humorous and often rooted in art history. Ghirri's landscapes are a contemporary interpretation of Metaphysical painting in their mysteriousness and dreamlike atmospheres. They explore photographic traditions and highlight a fascination with everyday life.
Luigi Ghirri studied as a surveyor and as a graphic designer. He began taking photographs professionally at the age of 30. Shortly after, his work began attracting international attention. Time-Life magazine's 1975 annual Photography Year Edition chose him as "Discovery of the Year". In 1977, Ghirri founded a publishing house, Punto e Virgola, with his wife Paola Borgonzoni Ghirri. The establishment was able to support the growth of Italian photographic culture, publish important artist monographs and educate an audience that had little knowledge of photographic practice as an art form. In 1979 he published the first photobook of his own images, Kodachrome.
During the 1980s Ghirri began to photograph Italian landscapes and was singled out as one of the most significant Italian authors in the history of 20th century photography. His conceptual photographs, coupled with a remarkable literary output, led him to produce several noteworthy photographic projects. In 1984 Ghirri curated Viaggio in Italia (Italian Voyage) which included the work of Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basicilico and Mimmo Jodice among other leading Italian photographers. The exploratory exhibition offered reflections and ideas about the country and was a milestone in the history of Italian contemporary photography. In 1989, he published Il Profilo delle Nuvole (Cloud Profiles) which included exclusively Ghirri's captivating images and represents his highest achievement. Ghirri exhibited throughout Italy during his relatively brief life.
Ghirri's work addresses the codes of photography. His pictures are not acts of mimesis or replication but ways of exploring reality. They are investigations of the unknown and examine the spiritual and the immaterial world. Photography for Ghirri was a form of poetry and a means of communication; it was a mental habitat where boundaries and territories intersect and fluctuate. His photography was used as a way to challenge the standardized view of Italy created by the media during the 1970s and 80s.
For many years, the deceptively simple nature of Ghirri's photographs delayed critical attention to his practice. However, in 2013 his work has begun to gain its rightful recognition with a large-scale retrospective at MAXXI Rome and a display at the Venice Biennale.
As an artist, Luigi Ghirri is now credited with proving the importance of colour photography as an artistic medium. At the same time, the way in which he mixed theatricality, fiction and reality anticipated today's most important art photographers such as Cindy Sherman, Gregory Crewdson and Thomas Demand.
Luigi Ghirri's photographs can be found in prestigious private collections worldwide and museums such as the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Musée-Château (Annecy), Musée de la Photographie Réattu (Arles), Polaroid Collection (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Musée Nicéphore Niépce (Chalon-sur-Saòne), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan), Galleria Civica (Modena), Canadian Centre for Architecture – Centre Canadien d'Architecture (Montreal), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Cabinets des estampes – Bibliotèque Nationale (Paris), Fond National d'Art Contemporain (Paris), Fnac Collection (Paris), Biblioteca Panizzi – Fototeca (Reggio Emilia), Fondazione MAXXI (Rome) and Palazzo Braschi – Archivio Fotografico Comunale (Rome).
Selected Articles
ARTUNER Insight | Luigi Ghirri and Nick Goss: Picturing Human Absense
ARTUNER Insight | Ghirri Goes to Brazil
ARTUNER Insight | Surveyor: Luigi Ghirri in the History of Landscape Photography
ARTUNER Insight | Our First Collection: Why Luigi Ghirri
ARTUNER Insight | An Italian Journey: Modern and Vintage Prints by Luigi Ghirri
ARTUNER Insight | The Artist as Philosopher: Beyond Ghirri's Photography
Selected Exhibitions
- Luigi Ghirri: The Impossible Landscape, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York , 2016
- Italia Inside Out, Palazzo della Ragione Fotografia, Milan, 2015
- Ghirri Goes to Brazil ARTUNER, Rio de Janeiro, 2014
- Ghirri Goes to Brazil ARTUNER, São Paulo, 2013
- The Italian Pavillion, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2013
- Luigi Ghirri. Thinking Images, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome, 2013
- Luigi Ghirri, Kodachrome, Mathew Marks Gallery, New York, 2013
- Un'idea e un progetto. Luigi Ghirri e l'attività curatoriale, VII settimana della Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, 2012
- Le scatole viventi, Project Prints, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2012
- Luigi Ghirri: Atlante and other selected works, Reception Gallery, Berlin, 2011
- Illuminations [curated by Bice Curinger], Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2011
- Luigi Ghirri, Project Prints, Mummery + Schnelle Gallery, London, 2011
- La Carte d'après Nature [curated by Thomas Demand], Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, 2010
- Luigi Ghirri, Project Prints, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, 2010
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In the following review excerpt, Gilman praises The Great White Hope for, among other things, its energy and message, but feels that in the end the work lacks "final authority."
Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope is so pertinently addressed to our present concerns, makes such intelligent use of so many stage resources, possesses such fine energy in places and offers so many superior moments that I wish I could embrace it wholeheartedly and not feel, as I do, that something central hasn't been accomplished, something remains below the mark. The mark I have in mind is that line which nobody can or would want to fix with precision but that is there anyway, separating the plausible and welcome from the conclusive and inimitable. This play about the first Negro heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, is distinguished, in other words, by everything except final authority, unassailable rightness.
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Blue and lime green are the perfect palette for an Easter brunch. This invitation from WH Hostess sets the tone for a cheery event full of darling details. Welcome your guests with a beautiful, Spring-like wreath on your front door. This concept is so simple to….simply attach loops of ribbon to a styrofoam wreath, glue in some white "eggs", and voila!
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In a bid to discourage a hostile takeover by investor Daniel S. Loeb, Sotheby's auction house filed a shareholder rights plan with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The plan creates hurdles for parties wishing to gain control of the company by diluting the value of an investor's shares if he gains control of more than 10 percent of the house's shares. That number is 20 percent for institutional investors, or those eligible to report their holdings on a Schedule 13G.
Sotheby's said in a press release that the rights plan will not in itself prevent a takeover, but said it "should encourage anyone seeking to acquire the Company to negotiate with the Board prior to attempting a takeover." The plan, according to the auction house, is designed to "protect Sotheby's and its shareholders from efforts to obtain control that are inconsistent with the best interests of the company and its shareholders."
Loeb, 51, is CEO of New York hedge fund Third Point LLC, which holds 9.3 percent of the company's outstanding shares. He sent Ruprecht a letter last week complaining about lagging performance, a corporate malaise and Ruprecht's compensation.
Loeb has brought his brand of activist investment to Sotheby's tony doorstep. "I am willing to join the board immediately and help recruit several new directors who have experience increasing shareholder value, share a passion for art, understand technology and luxury brands, or have operated top-performing sales organizations," Loeb wrote, and concluded, "It is also time, Mr. Ruprecht, for you to step down from your positions as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer and for the role of Chairman to be separated for your successor."


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U.S.: Are Hot Labor Markets Cooling Off?
That steam rising from the economy is coming from the labor markets. They are really cooking. At 4.9%, joblessness is now at a 23-year low. A record percentage of adults have jobs, and real wages are moving up, even at the lower end of the pay scale.
A few months ago, news like this would have sent Wall Street running for cover, out of fear that tight labor markets--fueled by the economy's blistering 4.7% pace over the past two quarters--would force the Federal Reserve to hike short-term interest rates in order to assure that inflation stayed tame. Instead, bonds have rallied, and the stock market has forgotten all its winter worries that had sent share prices tumbling nearly 10%. In fact, the Dow Jones industrial average hit 7225 on May 6, a new record.
Why this new round of exuberance? The data show that, despite tight job markets, labor costs remain under control. Also, there are emerging signs that the hot economy is cooling down, although the degree of the slowdown is still unclear. For example, the April job report shows that job growth is easing, but factory workers clocked in a record amount of overtime (charts). Nevertheless, all this eases two of the financial markets' fears: that the Fed is behind in its efforts to control inflation and that further substantial rate hikes may be necessary.
Also, the markets are pleased that the White House and Congress have brokered a deal to balance the federal budget. Never mind that over the next five years, the tax cuts are front-loaded, the spending cuts are back-loaded, and recession is assumed to be nowhere in sight. Still, after haranguing both parties for years to balance the budget, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan may be reluctant to lift rates again so quickly after a compromise was finally reached.
PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT, Wall Street seems to be flirting with the notion that a new economic paradigm is at work, one in which strong growth and low inflation can coexist peacefully enough in coming quarters to keep the Fed from spoiling the party. The continued lack of pressure from labor costs on inflation strengthens that thesis compared to a year ago, but the real test now begins: Can businesses keep costs down and profits up, amid ever-tightening labor markets in which joblessness is already well below nearly all definitions of "full employment"?
Indeed, the head-turner in the April job report was the drop in the unemployment rate from 5.2% to 4.9%. The large fall partly reflected a decline in the labor force, which was bound to happen sooner or later since yearly labor-force growth has outpaced the growth in the adult population since the summer of 1996. Now in 1997, labor-force growth may be starting to slow down, which could push the jobless rate even lower. In fact, if labor-force participation had not soared, the jobless rate would have been below 4.5% right now.
The low unemployment rate has reignited discussions over NAIRU, or the nonaccelerating-inflation rate of unemployment, below which wages rise fast enough to generate price increases. While the debate centers on whether the economy's NAIRU has shifted lower and to what level, Greenspan himself has said that there is no national NAIRU, but only local ones. However, with more than a third of U.S. cities reporting jobless rates below 4% in March, it's no surprise that yearly pay gains are accelerating.
True, hourly wages dropped by a penny in April, to $12.14. But the decline was concentrated in a 0.8% fall in wages in the financial and real estate sector. And that drop followed two large gains in January and February. So far this year, nonfarm pay of production and nonsupervisory workers is up 3.8% from the same four months of last year. After inflation, that's a 1% gain, the fastest real wage growth since 1983.
WALL STREET WILL NOT take chances waiting to see how any new economic paradigm plays out. Indeed, the Dow plunged 140 points on May 7, in part because a Fed report prepared for the May 20 policy meeting noted that tight labor markets are lifting labor costs and that in some areas, businesses are finding less price resistance amid strong consumer demand.
In coming months, the markets will take their cues primarily from the economy's pace and what it implies for the inflation outlook. On that front, early second-quarter data show that growth is slackening. However, some slowdown this quarter was inevitable after the first quarter's 5.6% gallop. What's not clear is how much is growth tapering off and how long any slowdown will last.
ON THAT ISSUE, the latest data are a mixed bag and not very helpful. March factory orders declined, and the nation's purchasing managers said that industrial activity slowed a bit in April, but the labor market data suggested that manufacturing is gathering steam. The second-quarter trend may not be clear until the May data offer more evidence.
The April job report showed a slower pace of payroll gains. April payrolls increased by a less-than-expected 142,000 jobs, and March's gains were lowered to 139,000. The April rise was well below the monthly average of 237,000 in the first quarter, and the nonfarm workweek shrank 18 minutes to 34.6 hours.
Some of the weakness in April hiring reflected special factors. The month's rainy weather helped trim construction jobs by 44,000. And factory jobs fell 14,000, but most of that came from the strike at Chrysler Corp., which pared a half hour from that industry's workweek.
But manufacturing still has momentum. Even against the auto-sector drag, the overall factory workweek rose by six minutes, to 42.2 hours, matching the record high hit in January, 1995. Moreover, factory overtime rose to a record 5 hours. Extra worktime suggests that industrial output continued to rise last month, and that capacity utilization rates rose further. Operating rates are near levels that, in the past, have been associated with supply bottlenecks and price pressures.
Consumers will play a key role this quarter and next. To be sure, they will not be able to maintain their blistering 6.4% pace in the first quarter, which was fueled partly by warm weather and early tax refunds. Already, weekly store surveys suggest a more moderate pace of buying, and April car sales fell to an annual rate of 14.3 million from 15.8 million in March, although strike-related shortages cut into dealers' results (chart).
However, amid strong labor markets, high levels of optimism, and a resurgence of stock-market gains, household fundamentals are still as supportive as they ever were. That means consumers could head back to car dealerships and shopping malls in coming months. If they do, the Fed's worries about overly strong demand will resurface--and Wall Street's renewed exuberance could start to look irrational again.


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I thought you were playstation for life
You go around buying Wiis and Nintendos.
Thats a disgrace to all FAITHFUL playstation users
Women REALLY let playstation down.. or maybe just Mel, Jane and some, I repeat, some others
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I am currently playing the new Zelda game on the DS and have been stuck for about 2 days on one stupid maze!! Anyways the other night i dreamt about it and after dying a couple of times i solved the puzzle in my dream - Tried it this morning on the game and it worked!!
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Title: | The effect of perceptual availability and prior discourse on young children's use of referring expressions |
Author: | Danielle Matthews |
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Author: | Elena V. Lieven |
Institution: | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Author: | Anna L. Theakston |
Institution: | University of Manchester |
Author: | Michael Tomasello |
Institution: | Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Linguistic Field: | Discourse Analysis; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics |
Abstract: | Choosing appropriate referring expressions requires assessing whether a referent is "available" to the addressee either perceptually or through discourse. In Study 1, we found that 3- and 4-year-olds, but not 2-year-olds, chose different referring expressions (noun vs. pronoun) depending on whether their addressee could see the intended referent or not. In Study 2, in more neutral discourse contexts than previous studies, we found that 3- and 4-year-olds clearly differed in their use of referring expressions according to whether their addressee had already mentioned a referent. Moreover, 2-year-olds responded with more naming constructions when the referent had not been mentioned previously. This suggests that, despite early social–cognitive developments, (a) it takes time to master the given/new contrast linguistically, and (b) children understand the contrast earlier based on discourse, rather than perceptual context. |
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Police fine driver for Nanaimo Parkway crash
Fines equal less than $500 against the driver who caused a crash that sent three men to hospital, totalled three vehicles, closed the Nanaimo Parkway and tied up multiple emergency services for several hours Friday morning.
The collision happened at about 7:30 a.m. between Mostar and Aulds roads when a 24-year-old man driving a northbound 2008 Ford Ranger pickup lost control of his vehicle, which crossed the centre median, rolled, became airborne and crashed into a southbound Chevy Silverado pickup driven by a 66-year-old man and a Volkswagen Jetta driven by a 20-year-old man.
The driver who caused the accident has been charged with driving without due care which carries a fine of $368 dollars. He also provided a sample of his breath at the scene and recorded 0.055 blood-alcohol content. As a "new driver" he was issued a 24-hour driving prohibition and charged with driving contrary to the restrictions of his licence, which carries a fine of $109 dollars.
"He was driving pretty fast," O'Brien said. "We have witness statements saying he was cutting back and forth between lanes."
The driver of the Ranger and the male driver of the Silverado sustained minor injuries and were released from hospital later that day.
The 20-year-old man driving the Jetta suffered serious facial, head and pelvic injuries in the crash and will remain in hospital for an indefinite period.


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Hi everybody!!!We did it! We are married!!I was trying to post a picture from the Betrothal Ceremony, but I got an error message saying the upload folder is full. The picture is only 80KB.
Many years. About the pic. given some of the tech issues we've been having, it may be temporary. Try it again some time.


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OSHA News Release – Region 6
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Region 6 News Release: OSHA-07-1117-DAL
July 24, 2007
Contact: Diana Petterson or Elizabeth Todd
Phone: (214) 767-4776, Ext. 222 or 221
HOUSTON -- Better health and safety for construction employees is the goal of a new partnership uniting the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Anslow Bryant Construction Ltd. and the Houston Chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).
"The Labor Department is committed to protecting the well-being of America's construction employees," said Dean McDaniel, OSHA's regional administrator in Dallas. "This partnership will help to ensure that goal is accomplished."
Anslow Bryant is the latest member to join the OSHA/AGC Exemplary Partnership, begun in 1999, which has grown to 13 Houston-based general contractors and three subcontractors. OSHA and AGC conduct safety training with partnership members to improve hazard recognition and take corrective action when necessary.
OSHA's Strategic Partnership Program is part of U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao's ongoing efforts to improve the health and safety of employees through cooperative relationships with trade associations, labor organizations, employers and employees. More than 1.2 million employees and more than 33,000 employers across the United States have participated with OSHA in more than 475 strategic partnerships since the program began in 1998.
Employers and employees with questions about this and other OSHA partnerships may call the agency's Houston North area office at (281) 591-2438, Houston South area office at (281) 286-0583 or visit OSHA's Web site at www.osha.gov (click on "Cooperative Programs").
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing safe and healthful workplaces for their employees. OSHA's role is to assure the safety and health of America's working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
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Artists and photographers working in two-dimensional art or low-relief media are invited to exhibit their work at Oak Harbor Library. The library is visited by more than 700 people per day. This provides an opportunity for local artists to increase public awareness of their work and for potential sales without commission or entry fees.
About the Display Space
Display areas include wall space behind the check-out desk and in the Center for Lifelong Learning near the library entrance. The display walls are suitable for two-dimensional art and low-relief media such as fiber art or mixed media.
- Check-out Desk: The display space is approximately 4 feet high x 15 feet wide. There is room for 3 to 5 pieces of art depending on size and orientation. Artwork is viewed at a distance of about 15 feet. This area is best for pieces that are 16 x 20 inches or larger and don't contain small details. Art on this wall is usually rotated monthly.
- Center for Lifelong Learning: The display space is approximately 6 feet high x 17 feet wide. It is located in a public area with potential for close viewing. There is room for 4 to 9 pieces of art depending on size and orientation. This area is suitable for large or small artwork. Art on this wall is usually rotated every 2 – 3 months.
The adjustable art hanging systems are limited to a maximum weight of 20 lbs. per piece. Artwork must be framed or mounted so it can be hung on hooks on vertical wires. Picture wire is preferable to saw tooth or other stationary hangers. Fiber art can be hung from fishing line.
Precautions will be taken to protect the artwork from damage or theft. The Oak Harbor Library makes its best effort to secure its facility when not in use and is protected by a security system. However, Sno-Isle Libraries will not provide insurance for artwork and artists are asked to sign a Hold Harmless Agreement.
Selection Process and Criteria
Submissions will be reviewed for approval by the library manager. Selection criteria are based on artistic competence and suitability for the display space. Compatibility with the library environment and appropriate subject matter for display in a public building frequented by persons of all ages are paramount. No works that depict religious images, political images, nudity, sexual acts, profanity or obscenity will be selected.
Exhibit Period
The exhibit period is one to three months, depending on space availability. When artists are selected, the library's representative will contact them and schedule an exhibit period. Delivery and retrieval of artwork are by appointment only.
Promotion of Exhibited Artwork
Selected artists agree to provide photographs or permit Sno-Isle Libraries to photograph one or more images for promotional purposes. Artists are encouraged to submit a short biography or artist's statement. Artists who would like to present an artist's talk or facilitate a workshop for students should indicate this in their letter of interest.
Sale of Artwork
Artists are invited to display contact information such as business card, bookmark or brochure. They may also provide a portfolio that can be viewed by the public. Portfolio dimensions should be 10 x 12 inches or less due to limited space. Prices may not be displayed with exhibited work, but may be listed in the portfolio. Potential buyers will be advised to contact the artist directly. Sales of artwork will not be handled in any way by library staff.
No commission or entry fees are required. Artists will not receive compensation from Sno-Isle Libraries for artwork exhibited at Oak Harbor Library.
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- Hold Harmless Agreement signed by artist (and parent/guardian if artist is under 18).
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- Resume including exhibition history and biography or artist statement. Student artists may submit a recommendation from their instructor instead of a resume.
- Images sent via email, images on a CD or printed photos showing samples of artwork. Include artist's name, title, medium, size and description. If artist wants CD or photos returned by mail, please include a self-addressed, postage-paid envelope. Otherwise, these materials can be picked up at the library.


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Do any of you think that there will be an new update of IOS with the ipad 3 and if so what new features come with ideas
I think that I read somewhere in one of the posts rumors that iOS 6 was being tested...but who knows, all these rumors are flying all around.
iOS 5.1 is in beta number 3 already. however the only real addition that they mention is the slide to unlock screen now lets you slide upward to get right to camera. I'm sure apple will talk about 5.1 at the announcement and the final version of 5.1 will be available for developers to install and the iPad3 would of course come with this version. Who knows if there are any features they will add that are not in the beta. Also with people seeing iOS 6.0 in the wild we could very well have 6.0 on the new iPad with older models receiving it shortly there after. They have done that before.
You can expect IOS 5.1 to be demoed and will be released on the day or few days before the iPad 3 goes on sale. Sent from my iPhone using iPF
the great thing about the new iOS versions is that they can now be updated over the air without the need of a computer. I'm thinking apple can use this to their advantage by loading all of the iPads with the version of iOS that they had ready at the time of manufacturing and not not worry about them having the latest update because as soon as they go online it will pull down the latest update. This means they would not have to have a final iOS version ready before packaging all the iPads and they could possibly be able to have more iPads packaged and ready for the launch.


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Sony (SNE) has confirmed that its Wii-style motion controller -- rumored to be called "Arc" -- won't be released until fall. The industry had expected a spring launch.
This is bad news for Sony, since its product will hit the market right before Microsoft's (MSFT) much more eagerly anticipated Project Natal.
One more reason to suspect that the Arc will flop.


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Road to the Stamping Ground
Travel notes by Jiří Kylián
Choreographer Jiří Kylián filmed the documentary Road to the Stamping Ground at the 1980 Tribal Dancers gathering at Groote Island, Australia.
Footage contains scenes from a spirited group dance inspired by aboriginal rites.
In the film, Kylián, who serves as both artistic director and principal choreographer of the Nederlands Dans Theater, explores the festival participants' verbal and nonverbal forms of communication.
The tribes involved in the annual gathering have no common native language and can only communicate in basic English. Kylián points out that each tribe brings with them traditional dances from their local areas, and through movement or stamping, finds a way to share their mystical experiences with other tribes. These aboriginal people believe that dance ensures the spiritual well-being and social cohesion of community life.
Movie director : Hans Hulscher
Collection : The Contemporary Ballet Scene
Music genre : Ballet
Duration : 36 min
Production date : 1983
Production : © MCMLXXXIV RM ARTS / Polygon Pictures / Nos-TV
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Should it bother me that my son is so... cynical? I mean, he doesn't *seem* overly cynical to me, but should I be concerned? |
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. Other testers seem to be trying to prove the point that most people are average,
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Saw a couple at B&N today which might fit the bill: Grossology and You, and....DARN!...WHAT WAS IT....it was by Wayne someone, all about poop, or something - if you search at Amazon it should probably show up, and you could check inside each of them. Sorry, I was chasing ds around and didn't have a pencil...
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I saw the mom after school a few days later and mentioned how bright her son was to her thinking that maybe we could have a conversation about how he might be better served in the school and grade acceleration since I'm thinking of trying to fight that fight for my older dd later and I know it will be a fight at this school. The mom tells me that they held him out a year (he could have started kg the year before -- he's 13 months older than my kindergartener who is in his class) and how pleased she is that he's at the top of the class and that's why they waited to start him so that he would be there. Now, this kid would be at the top of a first grade class academically, too and I really feel bad for him b/c he really doesn't belong in kindergarten.
To my question -- do I just drop it and say nothing further? I feel bad for this kid and truly believe that they are doing him a disservice by holding him back with a group of younger kids when he is so obviously ready to be elsewhere and so bored much of the time. |
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I was just wondering if the Christian/not Jewish mammas here "do" Santa with their kids. I've been reading over some of the Santa threads, but I don't think that it would be right of me to post because a) we're Jewish and b) I've got a kid who looked at the Snoopy walking around the Mall of America and said "Um, mom, Snoopy is not a dog, that's a guy in a suit!" and looked at me like I was crazy.
Originally Posted by Emeline
When we explained to ds that Santa Clause was just a story and not real he kind of looked at us like "Duh?".
Originally Posted by teachma
See, I've always wondered how many kids are out there maintaining their belief in Santa (and his cronies, the Tooth Fairy, etc.) for the sake of their parents, who expect them to believe and might be heartbroken to learn that their little children no longer believe. In various conversations w/ ds over the years, whenever I've disclosed that something is imaginary, he's always given me that "duh!" kind of expression...like he obviously knew it already, for a long time. Kids (not just gifted ones) are smarter than adults often give them credit for being. I feel like many of them pretend the whole thing to keep their moms and dads happy.
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I can't pretend to BeanBean that I believe; he's sweet and caring, and can be very empathic. |
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I introduced myself on the last thread, but here I am again...
Question - has anyone here had to negotiate with their child's school for advancement in one subject while staying with their age-mates the rest of the day? DD has strengths in math, and is doing at least first grade level math, possibly second grade, depending on whose scope and sequence you look at. She'll be in a K class at a private school this fall, and they use Math Their Way. This curriculum is SO not what DD needs in order to move forward and be challenged. In talking with her future teacher last spring, she assured me that DD would be appropriately challenged, not to worry. (The issue of reading came up as well, as DD can read, too.) Her teacher seemed sincere, but I can't help but wonder if she figured I was just one of 'those' parents who thinks their child is brighter than everyone else's. Honestly, if I had my way she'd be in a first grade class from the start, but last spring they didn't have any spots, so we accepted the K spot with our fingers crossed that we'd be able to work something out. Now I'm wondering if we've made a big mistake. I love the school in general, from what I've seen and heard about it, and I know that emotionally and socially it's likely a wonderful place for DD to be. But I can't help but also worry about her academic experiences. Any advice? Do I wait a week, a month, into the year before registering concerns? I'm a worrier by nature and I know this is going to weigh heavily on my mind. I'd planned on hs'ing, but right now school seems like a better choicce overall for DD. I hope it is - we're giving it a year to see how it goes. Anyway, I'm rambling. TIA for any help or support. |
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A doggy style sex position utilized by men whose stomachs have become so fat, and their stomach skin so loose, that their stomachs hang down covering their genitals (see also "Awning"). The man hoists his belly onto the back of his partner, thus exposing his genitals and permitting him to have sex.
Hey baby, get on your hands and knees, it's belly hoist time!
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Vortex Point 8
The gang needs to perform an exorcism in an abandoned lighthouse. Care to join?
4.08 / 5.00 6,613 ViewsI made the first version of this game in a week, working with full game jam spirit, as a present for my girlfriend. Since I got sponsored, I worked 2 more weeks on it and now here it is!
Love's First Week is a game about kicking. Kicking rocks, kicking boyfriends, it's all okay in this game!
Play it by yourself or with a friend! (best suited for lovers!)
Love's First Week is a puzzle/platformer with two characters. Player controls both characters to solve puzzles. The characters have to kick rocks and each other to continue their journey. Find out what happens to their relationship after 15 challenging levels!
Instructions: WASD and Arrow Buttons to move, SPACE and K to kick!
Great, simple, 2D platformer/puzze game.
thanks! glad you enjoyed it :)
This was cute, funny and really sweet. May not have the best art but still really nice and fits the game. Keep it up! :)
Thanks, glad you liked it! :) My art will hopefully get better :)
...This is actually quite funny and sweet. Shame about the graphics being butt ugly.
Some butts are good-looking, though. Thanks!


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One of the many reasons the death of celebrity like Philip Seymour Hoffman is particularly difficult for the public is that most of us didn't know him while he was alive through anything but his work. It's easy to feel connected to a talented actor, but just as easy to feel helpless when and if a tragedy befalls them.
I still have no idea how to really move forward from Philip's death in particular, but I've found that one of the things that helps me is listening to people who knew him talk about his life. Reading what fellow addict-in-recovery Aaron Sorkin had to say about the nature of addiction does a lot to reassure me that there was a real person behind the characters I got to know in the movies. And basically anyone talking about who he was and how he was gives me a measure of comfort.
It's helpful to discover that he made a genuine mark on the people around him, even if I never got a chance to interact with him on a personal level, and nothing has illustrated that to me better than listening to what Amy Adams has to say on the subject. She worked with PSH in two separate films, Doubt and The Master, and her emotional words on Inside The Actors Studio bring you one step closer to knowing what an amazing man he truly was.
"Gosh I wish you all could get a chance to work with him. He was beautiful, he's a beautiful spirit and he had this unique ability to see people. To really see them — not look through them. He just really saw people, and he will be missed. [...] I just really loved him, and I know so many people did, and I just don't know how much more I can talk about it right now, sorry."
It's tough to hear stuff like that, and I can imagine it's even tougher to say, but it's important to remember the talented, genuine man behind the struggle with drugs. Thank you Amy, for sharing.


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Steamboat Springs Steamboat Springs City Council members are raising questions about a proposed sports complex in Northwest Colorado.
Officials from Hayden, Steamboat Springs, the sports community and the Steamboat Springs Chamber Resort Assoc-iation have been meeting since fall to discuss building a sports complex in the region.
Sandy Evans Hall, executive vice president of the chamber, presented information from the meetings to the Steamboat Springs City Council on Tuesday. She said that two sites have been identified: one south of Hayden and one west of Steamboat. A design firm has completed renderings for the locations.
An estimated cost of the Hayden Village complex concept is $9.3 million; the land and water rights would be donated by landowner Ron Sills. The Brown complex, on property west of Steamboat owned by Mary Brown, would cost about $7.9 million. The Brown land, land preparation and water would cost an estimated $6 million.
The complex idea is in part spurred by the summer sports organization Triple Crown. The organization's contracts with the chamber and the city of Steamboat expire in 2007. Triple Crown President Dave King said in August that the organization would leave Steamboat if no new fields were built in the area.
Paying for property for the complex is one of the issues Evans Hall said officials should study. She also said that officials need to look into:
Financing options for the construction and ongoing operation of the complex.
The cost to maintain and operate the complex.
Identifying potential tournaments that could use the complex, besides Triple Crown.
Possible negative impacts of a complex, including noise, lights, traffic and parking.
Gathering public input during valley-wide presentations.
During Tuesday's meeting, council member Towny Anderson raised several questions and identified several issues related to the complex concept.
Triple Crown is a company, he said. He asked: Are Triple Crown officials willing to make a commitment to use the new complex?
Evans Hall said that the organization would commit to 20 years in the Yampa Valley and also would give $500,000.
"I think that there's a commitment that they're willing to make," Evans Hall said. She said other organizations or tournaments might also be willing to promise to use the complex.
Anderson also said that there are impacts of Triple Crown beyond financial or economic effects. There is a quality of life issue, he said, and people have the perception that Triple Crown participants disrupt the community.
Anderson also said he wondered what the economic effects on Steamboat would be if the complex were in Hayden.
Lastly, Anderson said he perceived a conflict between the chamber's marketing plan and the construction of the fields. Earlier in the meeting, the chamber presented its summer marketing plan, which emphasizes open space, local heritage and other assets. Those assets are already here, Anderson said, but a sports complex is not. He said there is a "level of discomfort" with this aspect of building a complex.
Evans Hall said that she was not sure that there was a conflict between the marketing and building the complex. She said that the community does many sporting events already, and the ball fields would just add to that. Also, she said, the community would benefit from the complex because it would free up existing fields.
Council member Loui Antonucci said Wednesday that he has an open mind about the possibility of a complex and that he thinks it would be a positive economic contributor for all of Northwest Colorado.
Antonucci said that he was impressed with how far officials have come in the process, especially with identifying land.
He said that he sees the complex as a black-and-white numbers issue for now. He said that the first step for officials is to identify the potential revenues versus the costs of a complex before anyone should consider the political issues surrounding the Triple Crown proposal.
Antonucci said he would like to see more refined information about the cost of land, development and operation for a complex -- and how officials want to finance those costs.
Council member Steve Ivan-cie said he was encouraged to see how much work officials have accomplished while examining the possibility of a complex.
Ivancie said he has an open mind about building a complex. He said he wants the facility's users to be balanced. He also wants fields to be open to local groups.
"My community and the kids come first," he said.
Rich Levy of the Community Alliance of the Yampa Valley said that he wonders where the money for the complex would come from. He said that the millions of dollars that would be spent on a complex would be better spent on other things, such as affordable housing.
The sports complex issue is not a minor one, Anderson said.
"This is huge," he said.


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I'm revisiting an earlier post on the continuing unrest in ACC leadership, which means I'm plowing through updates on scandals of every sort, and with them all the subtle (and not so subtle) ways schools try to minimize resulting punishments. College football has turned into such a high-stakes money game that teams respond (almost invariably) to scandal by hiring lawyers, holding secret meetings, and generally closing their ranks. It's not just the ACC, of course. Penn State's name will be stained for decades, and Ohio State, Southern Cal, and other schools have been tarnished, and yet each posted vigorous defenses, or mounted promises both direct and allusive to return to the status quo.
It wasn't always this way. Imagine a football team at its peak, having just reached its first ever bowl game—the Gator Bowl, no less, in a time when there were only eight major bowls—deciding to throttle its football program not by submitting to NCAA demands, but by voluntarily abandoning its aspirations for the sport.
Washington and Lee University, a tiny private school in western Virginia, did just that in 1954 when it stopped awarding scholarships in sports, and a few years later moved all its teams(save for lacrosse) down to the "College Division," now known as Division III. It was a decision long in the making, and finally brought to a boil by a cheating scandal.
Like many older schools, the W&L Generals had a great deal of football success in the 19th century and the earliest decades of the 20th, though unlike many of its peers, it produced competitive teams at the University Division, which would be today's FCS schools. The school always embraced these wins, though it did so with a slight measure of distance. The distance was owed to trustees and administrators who fought vigorously to preserve the university's character of a small institution with an overriding focus on academics; diluting that focus with football was out of the question. Perhaps the best example of this commitment can be seen in the frustrations of Dr. George Denny, president of W&L between 1901 and 1911, who was hampered in his efforts to raise the profile of football. He subsequently took his talents to Tuscaloosa, and now shares a stadium name with Bear Bryant.
Despite this unease, W&L fielded high-level teams on into the 50's, culminating in their '51 Gator Bowl appearance versus Wyoming. The team's Split-T attack was one of the best offenses in the nation, and had knocked off larger schools like West Virginia, Richmond, and Virginia Tech, while holding its own against national power Tennessee before losing by a touchdown (and this despite out-gaining the Vols by a 120 yards.) Significant internal hurdles—their QB's father had died just days before the game, and future NFL All-Pro Walt Michaels missed the game with appendicitis—helped prevent them from stopping the Cowboys' potent single-wing game, though to outsiders the future of the team seemed bright.
What wasn't so apparent was that during a rough stretch in the 40's, W&L came to realize that a school with a few hundred students, a selective admissions pool, and a reputation for serving only the well-heeled, couldn't compete with big universities. It would eventually have to choose between stepping down from major college athletics, or take up a full-hearted measure in the spirit of Denny's ambitions to expand in a football-first direction.
I doubt the latter option was ever realistic, as both President Francis Gaines and prominent professor/coach Edwin "Cy" Twombly (a former MLB standout and father of the same-named painter) were aware of the changing college landscape and respectful of the schools traditions. The decision was essentially made for them in 1954 when a cheating scandal was discovered among the football team. Details on the scandal are scarce, though it was anathema to a school grounded in a strong honor code. During the year, university trustees decided to stop granting athletic scholarships; current ones would be honored, though no new ones were to be given. Sport would again become a pastime.
While public schools swelled with GI Bill enrollees and desegregation changed the talent composition of the sport, the Generals were eroding players and struggling to escape the shadow of the Old South. W&L struggled against these programs, with thirty- and forty-point losses becoming common. In 1958, the school dropped to College Division and exited major competition almost entirely, with lacrosse holding out until 1987. Vocal alumni and students fought the process to a degree, but never with the vigor necessary to slow the decision, much less avert it.
I can't imagine a Penn State, Miami, or Chapel Hill committing such an act, and these are schools more distant from dominance than W&L was at the time it gutted itself. There are simply too many reasons (both good and ill) to keep FBS football. For most schools hovering between levels of play, the decision is to move up in the ranks, and damn the consequences: see UConn, Charlotte, Georgia State, and other recent and pending arrivals. The few schools that do step back have generally already stumbled into financial ruin, and slashing athletics is less an act of free will and more like turning the house over to creditors. This may all change if the football bubble (if it's real) ever bursts, but I doubt before then.


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Class: EENT Drugs, Miscellaneous
VA Class: OR900
Chemical Name: 2-amino-7-isopropyl-5-oxo-5H-[1]benzopyrano[2,3-b] pyridine-3-carboxylic acid
Molecular Formula: C16H14N2O4
CAS Number: 68302-57-8
Brands: Aphthasol
Aphthous ulcer healing agent.1
Uses for Amlexanox
Aphthous Ulcers
Treatment of aphthous ulcers in patients with normal immune systems.1
Safety and efficacy not established in immunocompromised patients.1
Amlexanox Dosage and Administration
Oral, Topical Use Only
Apply topically to oral cavity as a paste.1 Not for ophthalmic use.1
Apply paste as soon as possible after noticing aphthous ulcer symptoms.1 Apply 4 times daily, preferably following oral hygiene after breakfast, lunch, dinner, and at bedtime.1
Before application, dry ulcer(s) by gently patting with a soft, clean cloth.1 Wash hands and apply paste onto moistened index finger tip; dab paste with gentle pressure onto each ulcer in the mouth.1
Wash hands when application is finished.1
Aphthous Ulcers
Oral, Topical Use Only
Apply approximately 0.5 cm (¼ inch) onto each ulcer 4 times daily.1
Continue treatment until ulcer heals.1 If substantial healing or pain reduction has not occurred in 10 days, consult dentist or physician.1
Special Populations
Geriatric Patients
Select dosage with caution, usually starting at the low end of the dosage range, because of possible age-related decreases in hepatic, renal, or cardiac function and of concomitant disease or other drug therapy.1
Cautions for Amlexanox
Known hypersensitivity to amlexanox or any ingredient in the formulation.1
Sensitivity Reactions
Hypersensitivity Reactions
Discontinue use if rash or contact mucositis occurs.1
Specific Populations
Category B.1
Distributed into milk in rats.1 Caution if used in nursing women.1
Pediatric Use
Safety and efficacy not established.1
Geriatric Use
Insufficient experience in patients ≥65 years of age to determine whether they respond differently than younger adults.1 Other clinical experience has not identified differences in responses between geriatric and younger patients.1 Select dosage with caution.1 (See Geriatric Patients under Dosage and Administration.)
Common Adverse Effects
Transient pain, stinging, and/or burning at application site.1 3
Interactions for Amlexanox
No formal drug interaction studies to date.1
Amlexanox Pharmacokinetics
Not substantially absorbed through the active ulcer;1 systemic absorption occurs mostly via the GI tract.1 3
Peak serum concentrations attained 2.4 hours after a single oral application of 100 mg of paste (5 mg amlexanox).1 3
Steady-state concentrations reached within 1 week after multiple applications 4 times daily; no accumulation observed with ≤4 weeks of use.1 3
Distributed into milk in rats.1
Elimination Route
Approximately 17% of dose is excreted in urine as unchanged drug, hydroxylated metabolite, and conjugates.1 3
Approximately 3.5 hours (range: 2.4–4.6 hours).1 3
Oral, Topical Use Only
Accelerates healing of aphthous ulcers; precise mechanism of such effect unknown.1 2 3
Potent in vitro inhibitor of formation and/or release of inflammatory mediators (histamine and leukotrienes) from mast cells, neutrophils, and mononuclear cells.1 4 5
Advice to Patients
Importance of learning and adhering to proper administration techniques.1
Importance of initiating treatment as soon as possible after noticing symptoms of an aphthous ulcer.1
Importance of using until the ulcer heals or consulting a clinician if substantial healing or pain relief has not occurred in 10 days.1
Importance of discontinuing treatment if rash or contact mucositis occurs.1
Importance of avoiding contact with eyes; if ocular contact occurs, rinse eye(s) promptly.1
Keep out of reach of children.1
Importance of informing clinicians of existing or contemplated therapy, including prescription and OTC drugs and dietary or herbal supplements, as well as concomitant illnesses.1
Importance of women informing clinicians if they are or plan to become pregnant or plan to breast-feed.1
Importance of informing patients of other important precautionary information.1 (See Cautions.)
Excipients in commercially available drug preparations may have clinically important effects in some individuals; consult specific product labeling for details.
Please refer to the ASHP Drug Shortages Resource Center for information on shortages of one or more of these preparations.
Routes |
Dosage Forms |
Strengths |
Brand Names |
Manufacturer |
Oral (Topical Use Only) |
Paste |
5% |
Aphthasol |
Uluru |
AHFS DI Essentials. © Copyright 2017, Selected Revisions April 1, 2008. American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Inc., 4500 East-West Highway, Suite 900, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
1. Access Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Aphthasol (amlexanox) oral paste 5% prescribing information. Dallas, TX; 2004 Mar.
2. Khandwala A, Van Inwegen RG, Alfano MC. 5% amlexanox oral paste, a new treatment for recurrent minor aphthous ulcers: I. Clinical demonstration of acceleration of healing and resolution of pain. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 1997; 83:222-30. [PubMed 9117754]
3. Khandwala A, Van Inwegen RG, Charney MR et al. 5% amlexanox oral paste, a new treatment for recurrent minor aphthous ulcers: II. Pharmacokinetics and demonstration of clinical safety. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod. 1997; 83:231-8. [PubMed 9117755]
4. Saijo T, Kuriki H, Ashida Y et al. Mechanism of the action of amoxanox (AA-673), an orally active antiallergic agent. Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol. 1985; 78:43-50. [PubMed 2411669]
5. Makino H, Saijo T, Ashida Y et al. Mechanism of action of an antiallergic agent, amlexanox (AA-673), in inhibiting histamine release from mast cells. Int Arch Allergy Appl Immunol. 1987; 82:66-71. [PubMed 2433225]
6. Discus Dental, Culver City, CA: Personal communication.
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Another interesting article on setting variables for your script:
Another interesting article on setting variables for your script:
An interesting way to setup things in order to call into a python script from C#. I might use this some day…
This week end I updated the blog software to wordpress 3.2, it's going to be a lot easier to blog since I'll be able to do it directly from my phone, and can probably link the posts to my Facebook wall and google+, and maybe even twitter; this will the end of my long lasting social networking abstinence. Can't wait to see that happen!
Just posting a link to my codeproject article I wrote sometime ago.
Last Saturday I got my head shaved with Bottlewine and a few other co-workers from my past job at Children's Hospital for a fund raiser to help research on infantile cancer, here are some pictures, I raised close to 700$. The fundraiser is still going on, here is a link to my st baldrick's page if you would like to give some money:
The other day I found out that XCode breakpoints were not working anymore under iPhone Simulator, still worked fine with the device. Reinstalled XCode: nothing better. Removed all XCode settings files in the user directory as well as the /Library/Preferences directory: nothing better. Looking at the output from gdb I found it was reporting a certain number of errors related to finding symbols for the iPhone framework libraries: the messages read like this:
Unable to read symbols for "/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/UIKit" (file not found).
warning: Unable to read symbols from "UIKit" (not yet mapped into memory).
warning: Unable to read symbols for "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreGraphics.framework/CoreGraphics" (file not found).
warning: Unable to read symbols from "CoreGraphics" (not yet mapped into memory).
warning: Unable to read symbols for "/System/Library/Frameworks/OpenGLES.framework/OpenGLES" (file not found).
warning: Unable to read symbols from "OpenGLES" (not yet mapped into memory).
Program loaded.
Pending breakpoint 1 - ""aPointSystem.m:395" resolved
sharedlibrary apply-load-rules all
After a few google searches I realized a lot of people are reporting the same messages, but there was never a real solution on how to get rid of this and the rare solutions suggested to remove some rogue breakpoints and everything would be solved… So not so surprisingly I focused on solving this problem first because i thought it was very likely to be the reason for my breakpoints not working. Well yeah indeed if I remove all breakpoints all 'file not found' messages go away, but all debugging also goes away, as soon as the breakpoints are back, so are the messages !!
So after a couple days of scrambling I still had in the back of my mind the idea that the only thing I had done lately to the system was to upgrade the mac os X kernel to the newest voodoo kernel. Some rare intermittent crashes (see screenshots) occuring while debugging, together with the problem occuring only on the iphone smulator (hence host code and possible kernel hooks failures) and reinstallation/settings erasure independent it seemed to be a consistent explanation to my woes….
Sure enough, after I returned to the old kernel the breakpoints started working again, it turns out the 'file not found' messages are completely normal the reason being the iphone framework code is private to apple and therefore debug symbols are inexistent. You got to admit the 'file not found' messages are somewhat misleading.
So over thanksgiving I've taken some time to work a little more on my secret iPhone project (or I should just say "my secret project" abstracting the iPhone altogether since until recently almost no iPhone API's were called), and I'm pretty glad I've made a little progress from the point where I was stuck for a while now. I've started implementing things in OpenGL ES in the hopes to see things go very fast and some impressive rendering speeds however I was pretty disappointed by the outcome, I'm guessing the bottleneck is the arithmetic I'm doing so I've started considering using the vfp for the iPhone.
Lately as a result I've been looking into using the hardware a little more and that probably means that I will have to rewrite some parts of the engine to make hardware acceleration more doable.
I thought I'd share my little bit of research on google which gave me the following pointer to a very good place to start in order to exploit the iPhone vfp:
update: I've been researching a bit more and it seems the iPhone vfp is more specifically a vfp11 co-processor for the iPhone's processor (ARM1176JZF), for which I pulled the doc on the arm website:
Finally I'm back at it… since I took on this new job at Illumina in june I haven't had much time to spend here, but hopefully this isn't going to be true for very much longer. Today I have been working on putting together and uploading all the pictures that I have done since the last ones I posted, they total up to about 10Gb so it's going to take some time to get them all on the website.
My boss walked up to me about naming the project I'm working on, then I was wondering "why the heck do we need to have codenames for projects" anyways, the answer to this question aside, I decided I'd google a bit about this and see what I fell on:
I never thought I'd be able to tag together any post with the main topics of my blog: C# coding and Rock Climbing, well I was wrong… watch me.


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Catechol metabolites of endogenous estrogens induce redox cycling and generate reactive oxygen species in breast epithelial cells
Fussell, Karma C., Udasin, Ronald G., Smith, Peter J.S., Gallo, Michael A. and Laskin, Jeffrey D. (2010) Catechol metabolites of endogenous estrogens induce redox cycling and generate reactive oxygen species in breast epithelial cells Carcinogenesis, 32, (8), pp. 1285-1293. (doi:10.1093/carcin/bgr109). (PMID:21665890).
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Estrogens are major risk factors for the development of breast cancer; they can be metabolized to catechols which are further oxidized to DNA-reactive quinones and semiquinones. These metabolites are mutagenic and may contribute to the carcinogenic activity of estrogens. Redox cycling of the semiquinones and subsequent generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is also an important mechanism leading to DNA damage. The semiquinones of exogenous estrogens have been shown to redox cycle, however, redox cycling and the generation of ROS by endogenous estrogens has never been characterized. In the present studies we determined whether the catechol metabolites of endogenous estrogens including 2-hydroxyestradiol, 4-hydroxyestradiol, 4-hydroxyestrone, and 2-hydroxyestriol, can redox cycle in breast epithelial cells. These catechol estrogens, but not estradiol, estrone, estriol or 2-methoxyestradiol, were found to redox cycle and generate hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals in lysates of three different breast epithelial cell lines: MCF-7, MDA-MB-231 and MCF-10A. The generation of ROS required NADPH as a reducing equivalent and was inhibited by diphenyleneiodonium, a flavoenzyme inhibitor, indicating that redox cycling is mediated by flavin-containing oxidoreductases. Using extracellular microsensors, catechol estrogen metabolites stimulated the release of hydrogen peroxide by adherent cells, indicating that redox cycling occurs in viable intact cells. Taken together, these data demonstrate that catechol metabolites of endogenous estrogens undergo redox cycling in breast epithelial cells, resulting in ROS production. Depending on the localized concentrations of catechol estrogens and enzymes that mediate redox cycling, this may be an important mechanism contributing to the development of breast cancer.
Item Type: | Article | ||||||
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | doi:10.1093/carcin/bgr109 | ||||||
ISSNs: | 0143-3334 (print) |
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) | ||||||
Organisations: | Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences | ||||||
ePrint ID: | 204905 | ||||||
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Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2011 15:30 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 20 Feb 2017 13:57 | ||||||
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URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/204905 |
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