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Healthy gums are firm and springy, and vary in color depending on the thickness of the outer layer. A change in normal color is one of the first signs of gum disease, which has three stages: gingivitis, periodontitis, and advanced periodontitis (pyorrhea). This progression is illustrated by the figures above.
Gingivitis-an inflammation of the gums-is the initial stage of gum disease and the easiest to treat. The direct cause of gingivitis is plaque the soft, sticky, almost colorless film that forms continuously on the teeth and gums. Plaque is not harmful if it is removed before it begins to accumulate. However, if teeth and gums are not cleaned thoroughly every twenty-four to thirty-six hours, the bacteria in plaque produce toxins and enzymes that inflame the gums. Due to this inflammation, the gums become slightly red and puffy and may bleed during brushing or flossing; the gums may also begin to recede (pull away) slightly from the tooth or teeth. During this early stage of gum disease, called gingivitis, damage can be reversed since the bone and connective tissue that hold the teeth in place are not yet affected.
Other factors that may contribute to gingivitis include habitual clenching and grinding of the teeth and mouth-breathing. A diet that is high in simple carbohydrates and sugar and deficient in vitamins also contributes to gingivitis, as well as the use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol. Heredity, hormonal imbalances (during pregnancy and puberty), oral contraceptives, and stress are other possible contributors.
If gingivitis is left untreated, the inflammation can spread to the roots of the teeth developing into periodontitis. During this second stage of gum disease, the plaque penetrates deeper into the gum tissues and eventually begins to affect the underlying bone. As the disease continues to advance, the gums further recede from the teeth giving them an elongated appearance. Gum pockets form, in which more plaque and food debris collects. These pockets prevent easy cleaning and elimination of plaque under the gums, causing halitosis (see Bad Breath in Part Two) and pain. Accumulation of bacteria causes infections that begin to destroy the bone. Abscesses may form, the teeth may shift or become loose, and the bite may change. Tartar or mineralized plaque deposits further irritate the gums. Any pressure on the gums during this stage may cause heavy bleeding or the discharge of pus.
The third stage of gum disease, advanced periodontitis or pyorrhea, is marked by major gum recession and severe bone loss. At this point, the teeth are often too loose to be saved and frequently have to be pulled.
Acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (ANUG), also called Vincent's disease or trench mouth, is another type of gum disease. Symptoms of ANUG include ulcers along the gum line and between the teeth. It is often accompanied by fever, swollen glands, nausea, headaches, and general weakness. Although ANUG appears suddenly, its causative factors-poor oral hygiene, physical and mental stress, weakened immune system due to illness-usually have been present for some time.


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A perfect powder day starts with the right wax. Fresh, cold snow can be sticky and slow if your board isn't properly tuned. Steep terrain and gravity may keep even a poorly waxed board moving, but most resorts have flat sections and cat tracks to negotiate on the way to the goods.
Avoid wasting precious time, or even worse, unstrapping your back binding to skate through the flats, by hot waxing your board the night before riding. Waxes vary based on the snow's temperature and moisture content, but new snow usually calls for a cold, hard wax. After ironing in the wax and letting it cool, be sure to scrape off the excess wax (with a plastic scraper) in the morning for super glidability.
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Helping communities with preservation planning is a top priority for the Center for Historic Preservation. Whether for an entire community or for an individual building, the planning process is an important first-step for communities whose goals are associated with successful and sustainable preservation efforts. The most successful projects are those supported by a great deal of careful planning. The Center for Historic Preservation offers two types of preservation plans: 1) the community or neighborhood/district plan, and 2) the individual building plan.
Planning for Your Community For your community, the center offers a range of preservation planning services, including community preservation plans, historic resource surveys, design guidelines and National Register nominations. The community or neighborhood/district plan serves as a planning document. It can include a survey of an area's existing resources and its condition, traffic or parking studies, and recommendations on how to develop the area's potential. Our staff works closely with local community leaders, planning offices, and neighborhood groups to establish a focused, yet holistic, approach that will use a community's historic resources to enhance future progress.
Planning for Your Building Preservation plans for an individual building are as important as a complex plan for an entire community. For your building, we offer a range of preservation services: building preservation plans, historic structure reports, maintenance plans, adaptive use studies, pro formas, condition assessments and facade rehabilitation studies. The individual building preservation plans created by the Center for Historic Preservation help individual building owners prepare for restoration, rehabilitation, or renovation projects by creating in-depth surveys of a building's historic, architectural, and artistic elements, but also help building owners assess what's wrong with the building, how to fix the building and the steps that need to be taken to correct any issues. Our preservation plans have also included a prioritized listing of elements in need of repair and detailed histories of past building uses and owners.


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Technology has been on a diet from day one. The slimmer, the better. Why the need for this permanent state of weight loss? It's rather simple really; thin stuff looks cool.
The latest piece of gadgetry to undergo the slimfast treatment has been the laptop. Helped along by things like the SSD and increasingly compact screen technology, you can now get a proper computing experience out of something thinner than a copy of The Dandy.
These new super slim laptops have been christened Ultrabooks by Intel. Anything packing an SSD, fast sleep/wake time, integrated graphics, low voltage processors and a greater than five hour battery life gets to carry the title. It also has to be less than 1.4 Kg and thinner than 20mm. You may have noticed we have put the MacBook Air into this battle. There is a rather simple reason for this; its specs virtually match every other Ultrabook on the market, it just isn't called one.
With more and more Ultrabooks hitting the shops, choosing the best is getting difficult. Thankfully us peeps at Pocket-lint have put together this handy versus for you as part of Style Week. Like two stick insects battling it out, this is a super slim fight, this is the Ultrabook royal rumble.
- 1st: MacBook Air
- Brushed aluminium has never looked so good
- 2nd: Acer Aspire S3
- It's basically a MacBook Air
- 3rd: Asus UX31
- Concentric circles look great
- 4th: Lenovo IdeaPad
- Matte is always good, just not everywhere
- 5th: Toshiba Portege
- Too square
To be honest, every laptop in this category looks better than everything devoid of the Ultrabook moniker. Plenty of aluminium and black keyboards being thrown around here. The problem is that, ultimately, Apple started it and they know how to do it best. No one really comes close to the simplicity and style of the current gen MacBook Air.
The rest, however, do put up a pretty good fight. The Aspire is practically the same bar the black keyboard. The Asus sports concentric circles in its housing, which look particularly swish under desk lights. Lenovo at least had a go but the problem is they got a bit over excited and ended up creating something that looks more like a large black plastic slab, and a brown one at that.
Toshiba, though, appeared to be living in a world where rounded edges didn't exist when they created the Z830. Victory here for Apple on the looks front, but then did that come as any surprise? The company has been making the best looking computers for quite some time now.
- 1st: Lenovo IdeaPad
- 324 x 215 x 14.9mm
- 2nd: Toshiba Portege
- 316 x 227 x 16 mm
- 3rd: MacBook Air
- 325 x 227 x 17mm
- 4th: Acer Aspire S3
- 323 x 218.5 x 17.5mm
- 5th: Asus UX31
- 325 x 223 x 18 mm
Size is what makes an Ultrabook so exciting and what's really important when it comes down to it is just how thin each one is. At release, the MacBook Air set the standard that everyone was desperate to beat. At the thick end, it sits at 17mm, which is still incredibly slim. This has now been bested by Lenovo and Toshiba's offerings. Lenovo in particular manages an amazing 14.9mm which is approaching tablet levels of thickness.
You'd be pleased to have any of this lot in your hands but for sheer dimensions, that IdeaPad is seriously impressive. The Toshiba isn't that far off and the other three are comparatively the "fatties" of the bunch.
- 1st= Lenovo IdeaPad
- Up to 8 hours
- 1st= Toshiba Portege
- Up to 8 hours
- 3rd= Asus Ux31
- 7 hours
- 3rd= macbook air
- Up to 7 hours
- 5th: Acer Aspire S3
- 5 hours
Battery life is crucial to the Ultrabook. Its portability means you will likely be spending a lot of time in between charges. So, you're going to want the best possible power management and battery life. The specs that companies list tend to be only achievable if you were particularly well behaved in terms of what you put the laptop through. Play a lot of games for example, or browse the web on full brightness watching Flash videos, and you can expect to get your full quota.
Still, Lenovo and Toshiba have managed to glean an extra hour to boast about over the majority of the competition. As such they grab 1st and 2nd here. Not far off are the MacBook Air and Asus UX31 and it's really only the Acer which you'd have to be a touch annoyed about with about a third less battery life than all the rest.
- 1st= Lenovo IdeaPad
- Intel i7 2677m, 4GB RAM
- 1st= MacBook Air
- Intel i7, 4GB
- 1st= Asus UX31
- Intel i7 2677m , 4GB RAM
- 1st= Acer Aspire S3
- Intel i7, 4GB
- 5th: Toshiba Portege
- i5 2577m, 4GB RAM
For this category we went with the maximum spec possible for each laptop. It's basically a tie across the board bar the Toshiba, which is slightly less powerful with an i5, but not by much. From our experience in the past, one might find that, with the combination of an SSD and the way that OS X manages power, the MacBook Air could feel a lot faster, but then not everyone wants to use Apple's operating system and, ultimately, it might not be the case with respect to these other Windows machines.
- 1st= Lenovo IdeaPad
- 1st= MacBook Air
- 1st= Asus UX31
- 4th: Toshiba Portege
- 5th: Acer Aspire S3
- 500GB hybrid drive
A virtual tie all around again on the storage front. If you have loads of cash to play with, then the 256GB SSD is well worth it. It gives you just the right balance between storage and power. Forget about it being cheap though. The Acer is sitting at the bottom for one simple reason. It doesn't have an SSD, rather a hybrid 5400 rpm hard drive. Sure you get 500GBs of space, but we thought Intel only classed notebooks as Ultrabooks when they had SSDs inside? There is an option to go for an SSD with the Acer but it bumps the price up to £1099.
The implications this could have on battery life, due to moving parts as well as boot speed, are difficult to ignore and evident as we can see in the battery section above. Still all that memory comes a lot cheaper than putting a full 256GB into of the others. So, ultimately its up to you but, for our money, if you're not going SSD with an Ultrabook, you might just be missing the point.
- 1st: Asus UX31
- Bang & Olufsen ICEpower SonicMaster
- 2nd= Toshiba Portege
- 2 built-in speakers, Dolby Adv. Audio 2
- 2nd= Acer Aspire S3
- 2 built-in speakers, Dolby Home Theatre v 4
- 4th= Lenovo IdeaPad
- Stereo speakers
- 5th= MacBook Air
- Stereo speakers
Despite their size, a lot of these Ultrabooks can manage pretty decent audio quality. Having had some ears-on time with the Asus UX31, we have to say it stands out from the rest by a long way. The B&O tech embedded makes for crisp and clear room filling audio, amazing from something so tiny.
The Toshiba and Acer both have plenty of Dolby tech packed in to clean up audio and get their speakers sounding good, hence the 2nd and 3rd. Lenovo and Apple keep it simple with just a pair of stereo speakers. Both are surprisingly loud, just don't expect things to sound quite as sweet as the rest of the competition.
- 1st: toshiba portege
- USB 3.0, USB 2.0 x2, HDMI, VGA,
- 2nd: asus ux31
- USB 3.0, USB 2.0, microHDMI, miniVGA
- 3rd: Acer Aspire S3
- USB 2.0 x2, HDMI, VGA
- 4th: Lenovo IdeaPad
- 5th: MacBook Air
- USB 2.0 x2, Thunderbolt,
There is a surprising amount of connections to be found on the majority of these Ultrabooks with all of them featuring the standard headphones, external mics and USB card readers. What seems to have separated the sheep from the goats though, is when it comes down to the USBs, HDMIs and VGAs of this world. In particular the inclusion of USB 3.0 outputs in a lot of the models is nice to see.
The Toshiba takes the crown with all the bases covered plus even a USB 2.0 port to spare. Close behind, just one port down and everything seemingly micro, is the Asus. After that, it's the Acer which is short of a future thinking bit of USB 3.0 compatibility followed very closely indeed by the Lenovo that has no VGA option to fall back on.
Lastly, it's the MacBook Air that's actually relatively barren on the connections front. Apple does benefit from Thunderbolt and that will be great when there's a touch more compatibility for it. Otherwise, you're looking at adapters for the time being on the video front.
- 1st: Toshiba Portege
- 1120g
- 2nd: Lenovo IdeaPad
- 1315g
- 3rd: MacBook Air
- 1350g
- 4th: Acer Aspire S3
- 1400g
- 5th: Asus UX31
- 1406g
Weight is crucial with an Ultrabook. The lighter it is, the more portable - a must for those planning on replacing their usual hefty laptops with one. The Toshiba wins this round by quite a way, sizing in at just over a kg which is very, very light indeed. We then enter into the 1300g club, where the weight difference is so little you likely wouldn't notice if you picked them all up at the same time. Bringing up the rear is the Acer and the Asus which are a touch heftier.
All in all, the above chart should show you just how portable every Ultrabook is. If, however, you want to boast that you own the lightest, then the Toshiba is the one for you.
- 1stt: Acer Aspire S3
- £914
- 2nd: Asus UX31
- £999
- 3rd: Toshiba Portege
- £1099
- 4th: Lenovo IdeaPad
- £1199
- 5th: MacBook Air
- £1449
None of these Ultrabooks exactly come cheap, but then you are paying a premium for the size and power combination. The Acer and Asus manage to keep things below the £1000 mark, particularly impressive for the latter, which includes B&O speakers and an i7 processor.
The Toshiba is just a touch more but this is trumped by the Lenovo, which you are likely paying for build quality with. The MacBook Air is way out though, no surprise there. A fully specced 256GB with an i7 inside will cost you £250 more than the competition. Still you are getting the best looking of the bunch.
- 1st: Lenovo IdeaPad
- First Look
- 2nd: Asus UX31
- Review
- 3rd= MacBook Air
- Review
- 3rd= Toshiba Portege
- First Look
- 5th: Acer Aspire S3
- First Look
We've tried a few different ways of scoring this one but in the end it comes down to any major issues which each laptop may have and any major plus point. We should also add that we've effectively ignored the 'Looks' round because it's so very subjective. We might prefer the styling of the MacBook Air but you may find more affinity with the utility chic of the Lenovo.
The easy part is telling you the reason Acer came out at the bottom. That hybrid drive is a real issue for one and it rather goes against the second rule of the Ultrabook Club which is not 'you do not talk about Ultrabook Club' but instead that it should have an SSD. Throw in the poor battery life and suddenly it drops to the back of the field.
The MacBook and the Toshiba both look pretty decent on paper. The Toshiba's issue is that you can't spec it up as high as the others. There's less storage and a less powerful chip at its heart but the fact that it's really thin, really light and has good audio technology inside. all the same, helps a lot. The MacBook is probably a better all-rounder but what drags it down from second place is probably that price tag.
Unlike the Apple, the Asus Zenbook UX31 is very reasonable, well specced and has great touches like the B&O sound. You could argue that it slips a touch on size and weight but, to be far, there's not a huge amount of difference in either of those categories.
And all of that leaves the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s as the ultra Ultrabook. It's razer thin, seriously light and with all the power and storage that you could be after. There's no mistakes at all in its design and the only slight issue might really be with the price and a missing VGA port. Frankly though, we can live with that.
Do take a look at our full reviews and first look reviews of the Ultrabooks for a better idea of which one might suit you the best.
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General Motors Professional Managers Network, Niagara Hospice, Heinrich Chevrolet and Micro Graphics recently sponsored a car raffle to benefit hospice care in Western New York. The first-prize winner got to choose between a 2012 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible LT1 or $25,000 in cash. Second prize was $1,000, and there were 14 other prizewinners at $500 each.
Rochester's James Grassi won the contest and selected the convertible.
Thanks to our community and General Motors employees more than 3,000 tickets were sold. Proceeds from the event totaled more than $22,000, which will benefit Niagara Hospice, Hospice Buffalo, Lifetime Care and VNS of Rochester.
"We sincerely appreciate the efforts of the General Motors Community that made this raffle successful, and we at Niagara Hospice are happy to announce that we will continue this raffle in 2013," said Mandy Raff, event coordinator for the Niagara Hospice Alliance. "Please visit www.NiagaraHospice.org soon for all the details on the 2013 car raffle."


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Blogs > Ivan Lajara
Daily Freeman Life Editor Ivan Lajara talks about journalism, living in the Hudson Valley, language, the Web, cats and even politics. But he shouldn't.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Attack of the turkey
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
NYPIRG's 'Trouble in Toyland' 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
A Four Loko experiment in the name of science and/or stupidity
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
Loco people drinking Four Loko
And here's New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz:
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Wednesday, November 17, 2010
How to marry print, web with Quick Response codes
First, a re-cap. The front page's QR code allows you to 'Like' the Freeman on Facebook with your smartphone. So far I've heard a lot of buzz about it, but we haven't gotten many 'Likes' through it - yet. (I'm also pushing social media elsewhere, so our recent increase in 'Likes' has been partially due to that effort).
In today's Life section, left, accompanying a food story about Aroma Thyme Bistro in Ellenville, there is a QR box (which in this section is replacing the On The Web box). This code, I believe, enhances print by allowing smartphone users to seamlessly watch a video related to the story right on their phones.
Let me demonstrate.
Labels: Idealab, journal register company, JRC, qr, qr codes, quick response
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Quick response codes, explained
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Monday, November 15, 2010
How to make Quick Response codes work for your publication
It's a QR (Quick Response) code. It will run with the following explanation.
"Scan this QR (Quick Response) code to 'Like' the Freeman on Facebook. You will need special software on your camera-equipped smartphone to decode the image. Search for 'QR code' in your phone's app store"
You'll need a smartphone, and it could be any of these:
This is part of the Journal Register Company's Idealab, something that I'm not explaining again.
Anyway, if you are too lazy to search for 'QR code' in your phone's app store, here are some, based on a quick search and categorized by device. I'm only listing free apps:
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I realized last year that I don't have a love/hate relationship with the fiction at Strange Horizons so much as a like/indifference relationship with it. A number of stories there last year interested me in some way or another, but only one or two fully captured my imagination and attention (particularly Douglas Lain's "A Coffee Cup/Alien Invasion Story"), while many others were not stories I thought were particularly bad, they just weren't anything I remembered more than five minutes after reading them.
This is a very different relationship from the one I have with magazines like F&SF or (the now defunct) SciFiction, where usually a few stories each year blow me away, and a bunch of others make me wonder what the editor was smoking when they accepted them.
All of which is preamble for what I want to say, which is: After what seemed to me a particularly dull start to the year, Strange Horizons has published a number of good-to-excellent stories in the past few weeks, especially "The Desires of Houses" by Haddayr Copley-Woods, "Ignis Fatuus" by Eliani Torres, and "The Flying Woman" by Meghan McCarron. (Joanne Merriam's "The Purple Hippopotamus Wading Pool" is affecting and well written, but it seemed to me to be a story about how women who cheat on their husbands will, or should, be punished and degraded horribly, a position I find troubling, though certainly not every reader will see the story this way, or mind.)
"The Desires of Houses" is a light and clever story that stands just fine on its own; saying anything other than "it works" would be to say too much, but it's rare that a one-joke story like this one works quite so well -- such a story is so much harder to write than it seems, because every word and phrase has to be pitched just right.
I read "Ignis Fatuus" once, then immediately read it again, because there's so much going on in it, and the opening is so deceptive, that one reading just doesn't do it justice. What begins as a seemingly mundane bit of domestic erotica becomes a science fiction story, yet it never loses sight of where and how it began. A tremendous amount of backstory is hinted at and revealed with deft skill, both the backstory of the future world itself and of the main characters. The writing is stylish but not ostentatious, there's a strong voice to the narration, but the events move forward swiftly -- swiftly enough that a second reading reveals how much can be missed in the first reading. This is easily one of the best stories I've read from 2006 so far.
"The Flying Woman" made me laugh a few times, which I always appreciate, but the emotions at the end are complex, a mix of sadness and nostalgia and wistfulness. The fragmentary, collage-like structure of the story reinforces the idea of it all being both memory and myth, half dream and half reality, a grab-bag full of yearnings. Many of the stories Strange Horizons publishes reach for this kind of bittersweet emotional territory, and most of them end up seeming not quite on the mark, a bit anemic or mannered, but "The Flying Woman" has enough layers and enough substance that it captures a lot within a relatively short space. It's a story that relies quite a bit on the quirkiness of its narrative voice, but it doesn't only rely on that -- the voice is buttressed by a thoughtful structure, substantive events, and about as much complexity of character as can be hoped for in a story of this length.


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This year's ArtBeat theme is WATER.
During the heat of summer (held on the third weekend in July), artists and festival goers converge on Davis Square, transforming it into one of the area's largest and most innovative arts festivals. Each year we develop a theme that serves as a launching point for artists and the community to express themselves.
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Ideas for doing effective small groups, plus Randy Pope on the value of church discipleship, and a college class wants curriculum suggestions.
Featured musical artist: Seth Condrey
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Most churches have small groups; it's a way to make the big church small, encourage authenticity and accountability, and dig deeper into the Word and each others' lives. But we've all been in small groups that were, um, lacking. What makes a good small group? How do you maximize your small group experience? And are small groups or Bible studies truly necessary within the church?
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Pastor Randy Pope is serious about making disciples. So serious, that he's determined for his church to be defined by it. As the author of INsourcing, Randy outlines the reasons and ways to bring discipleship back to the local church in a way that will multiply converts, grow believers, and add life and purpose to everything that happens there.
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|Vic Seasonal Rainfall Outlook: probabilities for Spring 2003, issued 19th August 2003
50:50 odds for spring rainfall across Victoria
The Bureau's spring rainfall outlook shows a moderate swing towards wetter conditions in southwest WA. However odds are near 50:50 for the remainder of the country with no big swings towards a wetter or drier season across any State or Territory.
For the September to November period, the chances of above median rainfall are between 40 and 50% across Victoria (see map). So with climate patterns like the current, about 5 seasons out of 10 are expected to be wetter than average across the State, with about 5 out of 10 being drier.
Outlook confidence is related to the influence of Pacific and Indian Ocean temperatures on seasonal rainfall. During spring, history shows this influence to be moderate across Victoria except in the far southwest where the influence is weak. Users are urged to exercise caution when applying probabilities in areas indicating weak signals (see background information).
The tropical Indian Ocean is currently warmer than average, whilst the Pacific is showing near normal temperatures. For more detail see the El Niño Wrap-Up. The excess warmth in the Indian Ocean has had the greater influence on the overall pattern of probabilities.
July's value of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) was +3, fifteen points above the June value of 12. The approximate SOI for the 30 days ending 16th August was +1.
Click on the map above for a larger version of the map. Use the reload/refresh button to ensure the latest forecast map is displayed.
|More information on this outlook is available from 9.00am to 5.00pm (EST) Monday to Friday by contacting the Climate and Consultancy section in the Bureau's Victorian Regional Office: (03) 9669 4949.
THE NEXT ISSUE OF THE SEASONAL OUTLOOK IS EXPECTED BY 16th SEPTEMBER 2003.
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The LG G Flex is the first widely released smartphone with a true flexible display instead of just curved glass. The whole device has the ability to flex under pressure, to the point of becoming totally flat. This is a great way to prevent damage (especially when sitting on the phone), but since flexible displays are in their infancy, it looks like this has caused some problems.
Many users are complaining of small bumps appearing on their devices. This seems to be caused by the flexible display glass deforming due to its elasticity. LG has responded to this issue, simply advising:
Please don't try to use frequent, excessive force on the device or the screen. The reason we've made the G Flex screen elastic is to protect the device from damage from sudden impacts such as being sat on or laid down on.LG
Yes, don't flex your phone too often and it won't happen to you. LG also says that the bumps will disappear over time and can be taken care of by lightly pressing on them. The company seems to think this is a non-issue, but that judgement is up to you. With the device coming to the US, would you buy it with the possibility of it deforming over time from flexing? Leave a comment!


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Conservation in Cambodia - Monthly Update July 2013
Heavy rain for the majority of the month meant we were only able to complete 20 seahorse surveys. However, the volunteers didn't let this get them down as they were keen to continue their training in order to complete 30 of these surveys the following month. The reef team have successfully surveyed 40 of their 49 GPS points around the island and are excited to explore new areas.
New arrivals to the project are keen to be trained and become part of the survey team, as the dives are exciting and the work rewarding. All our 2 Week Special volunteers got involved as much as possible in the limited time available and gelled well with our long term volunteers.
Seahorse Surveys
Heavy rain meant only 20 seahorse surveys were completed, but the extra bungalow time meant we completed our report for the second quarter of 2013. Abigail, Stephanie and Matt put their statistics to good use while other volunteers provided photos and helped with writing the report.
Due to the limited diving, some of the seahorse team also joined some of the reef dives to see what it was all about. We hope to train some of our long term volunteers in reef and seahorse data collecting techniques in order to complete more surveys per month despite having worse weather.
Reef Surveys
The reef team have now surveyed 40 of the GPS points extending around the island. Our 2 Week Specials got to go on some reef dives and learn fish identification with Erika, as well as learn how we survey. This data will contribute directly to a comparative study where the findings will be produced in a final report and we can evaluate the effectiveness of the community fishing area and implement more protective and monitoring strategies in the future.
Clean Ups
Heavy rain during July meant any sunshine got us all outside and cleaning the beach. We worked along Long Beach, the project site, and the playground throughout the month. A break in the rain got the volunteers keen to get outside and moving. Kori, Eveline and Steph were great at getting the other volunteers motivated too.
Community Projects
The 2 Week Special volunteers were great at maintaining the playground and Khmer school. Daily activities there include clean ups, gardening and maintenance, topping up with fresh sand and painting a mural on the pre-school wall. Other long term volunteers also got involved with this and made it a successful group effort.
Heavy rain during July kept the volunteers indoors, but still happy and motivated. We had a lot of statistics and report writing sessions, volunteers helped to update coral, fish, invertebrate and seahorse identification guides and we even had some spare time for diving and conservation documentaries. The 2 Week Special volunteers fit in really well with others and quickly adapted to daily life on the island.
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It's that time of year again. You voted for the most important honors of the season: WBRU's Top 95.5 Songs of 2016! All day today December 31, 2016, tune in to 95.5 WBRU to see which of your favs made the cut. And check back here in the New Year to see the complete list!


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By Taylor Miller
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After five years of working his way to the top of one of the best wrestling programs in the nation, senior Chris McNeil is finally Oklahoma State's 174-pound starter.
McNeil grew up in a military family led by his father, who served 23 years in the military as a physician's assistant. McNeil was born on an American military base in Germany and traveled all over Europe before settling down in Lawton, Okla.
He began wrestling at the age of 12 when his football coach encouraged him to use it as a tool to become a better football player. Because of his football coach, McNeil said he found a new passion.
"I was all for it once I got a hold of it," he said. "I just found where I needed to be."
McNeil has always been an ambitious wrestler. In high school, he wanted to win multiple state championships as well as a few national titles.
Although those goals weren't achieved, he was named an All-American, and he never stopped working for big goals. McNeil said the atmosphere surrounding the OSU wrestling program made him want it all.
"You get immersed in it and you see the guys around you," he said. "You're working out with Olympic champions and national champions. So, you want it all from the start."
Oklahoma State wrestling coach John Smith's great past combined with his ability to keep his spiritual life first is an inspiration as well to McNeil.
Participating in open tournaments and some duals his first four years, he compiled a 49-23 overall record and recorded 13 major decisions and two technical falls. During his sophomore and junior years, he was slowed down by two knee injuries.
In addition to the injuries, being a Division I wrestler while pursing a degree in biology pre-med was a tough mix for him, McNeil said.
Smith said he admires McNeil's leadership off the mat.
"He shows everybody that there's no excuses. He's getting one of the toughest degrees at Oklahoma State," Smith said. "On top of that, he's making every practice and making great grades. He works at what he earns. He's probably one of the greatest influences on our younger people and the program."
Powering through the adversity he faced in previous seasons, McNeil found himself as the 174 guy at the start of the 2011-12 season, his senior season. He learned that getting to the top means more hard work.
"When I was looking up and trying to work for the spot, I would think that once I'm there everything would be clicking and I would be the man," he said. "It's not like that at all. I'm still in the grind every day. Pain is my friend. I have to be able to go through it day in and day out."
McNeil proved he deserved the starting spot after a first-place finish at the University of Central Missouri Open.
So far this season, McNeil is 7-1 overall and has recorded three major decisions and one pin.
The Cowboys are 3-0 after facing Iowa State, Minnesota and Oklahoma. McNeil said he's excited for the rest of the season and thinks about a NCAA title for himself and his teammates every day.
"Now, we feel like it's our time to bring the dynasty back to where it needs to be," McNeil said. "It's a fun place to be right now, especially, when all the other OSU sports are giving that same vibe. It's a good time to wear orange."
Outside of wrestling, McNeil enjoys music, dancing and most of all, helping others. He believes his experiences allow him to help others overcome their fears and make the most out of their lives.
"I have a big heart. I really like to help people enjoy and see the brighter side of things in life because someone always has it rougher than we do," McNeil said. "On top of that, just bringing Christ through everything I do because I would not be anywhere close to where I am right now without him."
As his wrestling career at OSU comes to an end, McNeil doesn't let his accolades define him, and he is most proud of his ability to maintain his identity through his college years.
"If I were to go back to four or five years ago and look back to now, I would admire myself," McNeil said. "I don't have all the accolades that I planned to get at this point, but the story is not done yet. It's not all the way written, and the dream never changed. When I look in the mirror, I think, 'I'm proud to be here.'"
After he graduates in May, McNeil plans to attend medical school and feels that he has a lot to offer during his lifetime.
"I love the hospital, and I love inspiring people to live for something more than themselves," McNeil said. "There's something bigger out there and if you can make the small sacrifices every day, you might live another day to see your grandchildren or inspire for years and years to leave a legacy. Those are the things I think about and would like to give to the world after wrestling."


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For those readers aspiring to be nefarious peons in a supervillain organization, this vintage Berliet military truck emblazoned with the HYDRA insignia from Captain America: The First Avenger should suffice nicely. Several HYDRA trucks are being auctioned off in March.
Here's what Captain America executive producer Nigel Gostelow had to say about the auction to The Telegraph:
I, along with our director, Joe Johnston, are both avid 'petrolheads', and so historical accuracy was vitally important to us [...] When it comes to movie production, the settings need to look and feel real, and these cars played a large part in that process. Ultimately they looked great on set, and pleasingly, were correct and very well prepared.
Over fifty vintage automobiles from 1938-1941 will be auctioned off by Historics at Brooking — you can see the full list here. The HYDRA truck should go for £3,000-£5,000, but be forewarned that it'll be fairly useless should you run into those SHIELD agents and their chichi hovercars.
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Consistent with our goal to keep patients and their families informed, we have composed this list of questions and answers for you to help you better understand what a neuropsychological evaluation involves before the appointment and to answer the most common questions we have received over the years.
Neuropsychological testing will formally evaluate how your brain is functioning by testing many different aspects of thinking skills (such as memory, attention, language, and vision), movement, sensation, behavioral, and emotional functioning. Many tests simply involve you responding out loud to the examiner but there is some paper and pencil testing and minimal use of a computer.
The answer to this question varies greatly depending on the patient and the complexity of the presenting problem. In straightforward cases, it may be possible to complete the entire evaluation (interview and testing) in five to six hours. In other cases, the interview component alone can take four to five hours. Most patients are asked to return on a separate day for testing. We can almost always schedule the second appointment close to first evaluation date. The actual testing time varies but can last anywhere from 3 to 5 hours, depending on the complexity of the case, the number of tests that need to be used, and the referral questions. During testing, there are ample opportunities to stretch and use the restroom if needed.
This varies, but all efforts will be made for a report to be generated within two weeks of the evaluation date. The report will then be mailed to the referral source by our administrative assistant.
Patients have a right to their medical records and can always request them from the Clinical Data Services department at University Hospital (315-464-4310). We try to facilitate your ability to obtain a copy of the report when clinically appropriate. If there are any questions or comments about the content of the report, patients are asked to contact the Neuropsychology Assessment Program at 315-464-2320 so they discuss this with the neuropsychologist.
Yes. It is often helpful for the neuropsychologists to interview a family member to learn more about you and your symptoms. If you do not have a close family member, a close friend is also appropriate to bring.
Family members are encouraged to sit in during the clinical interview, but cannot sit in during the actual testing because this can cause distractions and because the tests were not normed with third parties in the room. The official position of the National Academy of Neuropsychology (NAN) is that 3rd party observers should not sit in on neuropsychological testing. One exception Dr. Carone provides for this (consistent with NAN guidelines) is that parents can sit in on the testing if the child has extreme separation anxiety. However, this would be noted in the neuropsychological report and could affect the test results.
You will be interviewed and tested by the neuropsychologist. Sometimes, a trained graduate student pursuing a degree in psychology or a psychology intern will help administer the tests but this would be under the direct supervision of the neuropsychologist. Please note that only the neuropsychologist selects the tests and interprets the results.
Yes. Dr. Carone is board certified by the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABCN) which operates through the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). Board certification attests to excellence in meeting the advanced education, training, and professional standing established by ABCN and ABPP as well as examination by peers in the specialty, attesting to the demonstration of practice at the specialty level.
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This is the fifth and last (irrevocably the last) of the novels which make up the sequence called "Children of Violence," and in the most obvious sort of way it does more than its predecessors to account for the over-all title. Otherwise, and apart from the continuing technique of total evocation, it would hardly seem to come from the same pen.
In the first four novels Mrs. Lessing is a conscientiously realistic writer, dealing with many (if not all!) of the political and social issues which have engaged the international intelligentsia since the end of the First World War. Personally I find the writing in these books somewhat undistinguished, artisan rather than artistic—in the present book, why use a word like "matriarchical," why perpetrate a sentence like "She comforted Lynda that she was not to worry, Algavious (she called him Al for short) would take off her, Lynda, with her, Sandra, when it was time"?—and the detail of the narration impresses me as quite suffocating at times. Mrs. Lessing has never trusted to the illuminating image or the revealing instance, the part which could evoke the whole more accurately than the whole can ever do: she spells everything out. At the same time, except for that quasi-mystical communion of the flesh, so very, very conscious, which comes early in the present novel, her spelling is good and careful; she takes pains with her documentation; she adopts attitudes and sides, and they are always decent ones. She knows what is right, what is good, but she doesn't make either the ends or the means seem simpler than they are, and like a true liberal she inclines to say more for the bad attitudes and the wrong sides than they would bother to say for themselves. Her roman fleuve moves sluggishly—Martha Quest's prime seems to last for a good fifty years!—but it has a certain grim carrying power about it.
If Mrs. Lessing is more concerned with matter than with style, then at least this is preferable to the contrary state of affairs. Her work is free of gimmicks, a fact which endows it with distinction at a time when so many novels turn out to be gimmicks et praeterea nihil. To take but a few recent examples: an old-fashioned boy's adventure retold in four-letter words; a faded novelette of stock situations injected with modish voyeurism; a thin and oft-told tale lacquered over with such painstaking obscurity as to suggest profound originality to overworked reviewers and under-developed readers…. All about as inventive as the Black Mass. No, Mrs. Lessing works for her royalties; she is a stakhanovite of contemporary fiction.
Yet this new and final installment does decline, I fear, into reliance on a gimmick—the gimmick of the apocalyptic, or the science-fictional, which here takes the form of a not very specific "Catastrophe" resulting from the escape of nerve-gas from a research station and/or accidents involving nuclear devices. Unhappily there is no true—no artistically true—connection between the Martha Quest whom we…
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The story you're about to read is true. Three grown men officially known by nicknames and wearing clothes that look like they've been handed down by much bigger brothers are leading a cult that is threatening to suck our culture back into the 1970s. Please be aware of the warning signs. To demonstrate their loyalty, not to mention the magnitude of their sheer groovitude, the group's devotees indie-rock gurus, legions of faceless hipsters and annoyingly ubiquitous barely celebs are donning the garments of their chosen leaders. Pumas, baggy pants and Fila tennis shirts abound. When they're not sporting knit stocking caps, their baseball hats, invariably, point backward.
This alliance based in a Los Angeles enclave known as Grand Royal exists ostensibly to make music under the moniker Beastie Boys. Other activities, however, persist. Guided by Michael Diamond, 28 (alias Mike D), Grand Royal has grown into a media microjuggernaut. It's a record label. It's a magazine. It's a way of life. Officials close to the Beastie Boys view Diamond (who is also an investor in the Beasties-style clothing store called X-Large) as a shrewd, slightly image-obsessed business maven. His co-conspirators, meanwhile, are less visible among the desks, skateboard ramp and basketball court that mark the confines of the G.R. offices. Adam Horovitz, 27 (pseudonym King Ad-Rock), is known to experts as the charismatic, carefree personification of the Beasties' oeuvre. The third member, Adam Yauch, 29 (assumed name MCA), is the quiet Beastie the wholly enigmatic spiritual loner. Of course, these are simply preliminary sketches. An extensive investigation is required in order to reach the conclusion that these generalizations are for the most part right on the money.
100 Greatest Artists of All Time: the Beastie Boys
And so it is that this inquiry takes us to Brussels, Belgium, where the Beasties are on a recruiting trip for new converts. And as it is the first step for all takeovers, the group has descended upon a radio station to secure the airwaves and get its message to the people. The Boys have been invited to act as DJs and play some music for the masses. Diamond is reading off the band's list of demands.
"OK," Diamond is saying, "Dr. John, Jungle Brothers, Sly Stone, Madness, Kiss, Kool and the Gang, Sergio Mendes. . . ."
It is a dizzying selection that simultaneously reveals the unlimited range of the group's influences and throws the show's host into a bout of nervous babble. It doesn't help that she is without a Beasties-to-English dictionary, which, even in America, is often a necessity.
When the Beasties explain to her that Kool and the Gang offer "mad, mad cuts," she says, "But you like them, right?" By way of clarification, the Boys explain that not only are Kool and the Gang "fly, fresh, dope and phat," they are, ultimately, "the shit."
Scrambling to get back on familiar footing, the DJ decides to showcase the work of some home-grown talent.
"Yo, this band is from Antwerp?" asks Horovitz as the first song plays. "They're buggin' in Antwerp, huh?"
Rattled, the DJ comes to the defense of her countrymen. "No, they are a very popular band," she says, shaking her head dejectedly.
Diamond interjects: "What do you think about Grand Royal taking a little trip and signing up the whole Antwerp scene?"
She stands as if looking for an escape route. "There are many good bands there," she says.
"You don't have to tell me," says Horovitz. "This is totally fly. We gotta start giggin' in Antwerp. Antwerp is the shit."
Indeed, there are few territories the Beastie Boys could not storm with relative ease. Because of this, understanding the Beasties' mystique is more critical now than ever before. Their latest album, Ill Communication, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and seems destined to become the soundtrack for summer in these very United States. A sly blending of the styles that have graced their previous three albums, Ill Communication fuses jazz-laced hip-hop, crappy 1980-style punk thrash, aggressive, groove-heavy rap and the kind of infectiously sleazy funk instrumentals that can be heard playing in porn movies just after someone says, "Hey, you're not the regular cabana boy."
It's a long way from 1986, when the Beasties' debut, a metal-meets-rap amalgam called Licensed to Ill, became the best-selling rap album of all time (until M.C. Hammer's Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em later unseated it), offered the world "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party!)" and created the Boys' original posture as cartoonish, beer-swilling assholes. Back then, the Beastie Boys were a multiplatinum novelty. Today, after much image reconstruction and four groundbreaking records, they are considered musical innovators, cultural pioneers and the kind of upstanding citizens that deserve a little time to kick back and dig their bad selves. Now, with the success of Ill Communication and a co-headlining spot on the traveling revival meeting known as Lollapalooza, the Beasties' niche is as secure as it is all powerful.
Which all seems a little lost on our DJ, who has decided to defuse the situation by changing the subject altogether.
"So, you play many different styles, don't you?" she asks.
Horovitz speaks up. "We're like John Starks, the Knicks guard," he says. "We're unpredictable. Do you know John Starks? He's a streak shooter."
Terrified, the DJ turns to her microphone and begins speaking French at an alarming rate.
"Wait a minute," says Yauch. "Are you making fun of us?"
The face of the Beastie Boys is pressed into a Formica-topped table, smack in the middle of the dining car on a train hurtling from Brussels toward Paris. In just about an hour, this train will break down, leaving everyone on board to grab luggage and begin shambling down the tracks like extras from the Grapes of Wrath but that's another story altogether. Presently, Horovitz possessor of the band's greatest celebrity status, son of playwright Israel Horovitz, husband of actress lone Skye and star of two movies, Lost Angels and Roadside Prophets is balancing his body weight against his forehead and talking about life as the poster boy for all that Beastie-ality represents.
"I love being in the Beastie Boys," Horovitz says. "I don't want to be the leader. I wonder what it would have been like if I could actually sing. It would be interesting. I don't want to be the cleanup hitter for the group. At a time I really wanted to. That's when I got into movies and wanted to be the man. Right now I'm not into that."
From the beginning, the Beastie Boys have always been greater than the sum of their parts. For all his savoir-faire, Horovitz as a solo act would be like Curly doing slapstick without the rest of his Stooges. Horovitz is simply one of the boys – three smart, economically privileged friends from the New York punk-club scene that gripped the city when they were teenagers. The fact that the group, after releasing a 1982 punk EP, Pollywog Stew, while still in high school, went on to discover hip-hop, hook up with a suburbanite heavy-metal head named Rick Rubin (who was then running Def Jam Records out of his NYU dorm room) and collaborate on Licensed to Ill seems like the freakest of accidents. They were into punk rock, getting loaded and spray-painting the town red. Or green or blue for that matter.
Horovitz's independence began early, and his emotional strength was tested often. When he was 3 years old, his parents divorced. Despite the fact that for most of his life his elder brother and sister lived with their father, Horovitz lived with his mother. She ran a thrift store in New York City's bohemian West Village called Gee the Kids Need Clothes, and Horovitz would ride his skateboard from school at lunch time to visit her. In fourth grade he got busted by a friend's mother for smoking pot. The pot belonged to Horovitz's mom.
"She was the coolest person ever," says Horovitz. "Ask Mike and Adam. She was so cool. One time we went and saw Fear at the Mudd Club, and we were waiting in line, and she and her best friend show up, stumbling down the street and singing and laughing. I was like 'Mom, what are you doing?' She just said, 'Well, I want to see them.'"
A short time later, however, Horovitz's life was altered forever when his mother died as a result of her alcoholism. "One day she just kind of got real sick," he says. "She drank a lot. And she was sick for two days and didn't even move or leave her room. But she did that a bunch of times. Next thing I knew, she was in the hospital. It was crazy. It was so awful. I guess I got really lucky at that time because the band stuff really picked up, and we did a lot of recording, went on tour. If I had just been sitting around all day, I would have probably . . . who knows."
The manifestations of Horovitz's loss were many. Instantly, he says, he and his brother and sister became extremely close. "We knew right then and there," says Horovitz, "that we had a for-real family." He also developed ulcers, a condition from which he no longer suffers. "I don't know what caused the ulcers," he says. "Stuff used to get me really crazy, touring stuff. I used to hide. I hid from everybody. Back in '87 when things were so hectic, I'd run away. There was so much pressure. I just like being home. I just like to hang out."
More than his band mates, in fact, Horovitz has perfected the art of dalliance. He is paid handsomely for it, and to his credit the job suits him well. If you need someone to kick back and crack a joke, Ad-Rock is, indeed, the king.
"He really is such a great person," says Adam's father, Israel. "His mom was a great artist, a wonderful painter and also an exceptionally nice person. So that he got from her. I'm not such a nice person. And because of that, I've had to learn to work really hard. That he got from me."
What Adam works most feverishly at is playing things cool. He lists his dog as one of his three role models (along with Bob Marley and Fugazi's Ian MacKaye), because, he says admiringly, "He is just the cool-out king." Horovitz's typical day begins with his and Skye's taking their dogs down to her mother's house, which is nearby in the secluded Hollywood Hills, having a cup of cappuccino, smoking a joint and whiling away the hours until dinner or the studio beckon.
After dealing with his mother's death and the drug overdose three years ago of Dave Skilken, his best friend since high school, Horovitz is well acquainted with pain. He is also on a first-name basis with legal trauma. While in England during the Licensed to Ill tour, he was the focal point of a media circus when he was brought up on charges (which were eventually dropped) for allegedly throwing a beer can at a female fan. Recently, he was sentenced to 200 hours of community service when a cameraman for Hard Copy accused him of assault after Horovitz and a friend tried to stop him from filming a private memorial service for River Phoenix, which was being held in Horovitz's back yard.
"What I work hardest at is just trying to not let things get me crazy," says Horovitz. "Life can be hell on earth. Just being away from home gets me kind of hectic. I'm insecure that maybe I'll never be able to go back."
Whatever insecurities exist are very clearly internalized. On the outside, Horovitz bounds around like a cartoon mouse. He is all smiles, hugs, 1970s pop-culture trivia and innate magnetism. It might be one dimensional, but it's certainly enough for him.
"I just see myself as a little kid, listening to KABC radio playing all those songs from the '70s," says Horovitz. "I was smoking joints when I was a little kid in the schoolyard, playing basketball. Nothing's changed. I've got this picture of myself climbing on the fence at PS 41. I'm wearing corduroys, a burgundy T-shirt, a green winter knit cap, and I've got Puma Clyde's on. I'm that same kind of kid I was back then. I'm happy. I don't need to change that."
The past is a precarious place for the Beastie Boys. On one hand, it's home to the '70s and the myriad references that define their music and fashion. On the other hand, it also houses the days of Licensed to Ill. When it comes to assessing that period, the Beastie Boys have been the benefactors of more revisionist history than Richard Nixon. Now all seems to be forgiven. Boys, the theory goes, will be boys. In their case, however, boys will be bastards. It's a fact the Beasties are well aware of. Their most visible period was unfortunately their youngest, drunkest and most embarrassing. No matter how much they've matured which, to be fair, is an amount just over leaps and bounds the Beastie Boys are still dragging around the image they projected in their early 20s.
The list of grievances reads like an uncensored peek into Bob Packwood's diaries. On the Licensed to Ill tour, women writhed onstage in dancing cages. A friend was hired for the tour as the band's "trim coordinator." The original title for Licensed to Ill was Don't Be a Faggot. Almost every dressing room was rendered a wading pool of Budweiser and broken glass. Their stage show featured a 25-foot hydraulic penis. Subtlety was far from the band's forte.
"A while ago I looked back and cringed," says Yauch. "These days I just look back and laugh. The bottom line is that it's all part of the learning curve."
In a strange way, the excesses of that period have proven to be a perverse saving grace. Soon after the Ill tour, the Beasties split with Rubin and their manager, current Def Jam president Russell Simmons, over a dispute about royalties.
The parting paved the way for the Beastie Boys to move from New York to Los Angeles and record Paul's Boutique, a less-than-mainstream project that never would have transpired if Rubin and Simmons had remained in the fold. Paul's Boutique tapped into 1970s funk years before the Beasties' peers began mining that era for samples. Despite low sales, it stands as a landmark moment in hip-hop and the Boys' most accomplished and underappreciated work.
"People think we were wild characters on Licensed to Ill and then mellowed out and made our little second record," says Horovitz. "We really started getting ill while we did Paul's Boutique. We had so much damn fun. All new place, new faces, new clubs. That was the total Hollywood lifestyle."
So, as the Boys pranced around L.A. (often in clothes left behind by their landlord's wife), they found themselves on a new career path. Where Licensed to Ill gave them mass appeal, Paul's Boutique brought musical credibility. Once again, they were cool. The heavens, in turn, realigned. Finally, with the platinum success of the more instrumental Check Your Head in 1992, they had it all.
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Which brings us to Ill Communication. The album finds the band simultaneously casting its musical nets wider while retaining equal focus on each of its chosen styles. With Horovitz on guitar, Diamond on drums and Yauch on bass, the instrumentals while not about to gain any of them a moonlighting job as a studio musician are nonetheless much more polished. The rapping reads less like rhymes than carefully crafted lyrics. The production, recorded to sound like the band is singing between two tin cans and a piece of string, brings as much urgency to Horovitz's nasal rasp as it does to Yauch's lowered vocal boom. In short, there are a number of bands that are better funk instrumentalists. And as Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest proves when he guests on the track "Get It Together," there are better rappers. Heck, there are dozens of better punk bands in existence. There's just nobody else that makes it so much fun and helps it all make so much sense. That magic belongs to the Beastie Boys alone.
"It would be nice to look at ourselves as innovators," says Horovitz. "I think we are creative, but in terms of being masterminds, no. We're just making some music that we like."
The only criticism the Beastie Boys can really take these days is that in-jokes still render their every conversation vaguely similar to hanging out in the most cliquish junior-high locker room in America. "We're snobs, definitely," says Horovitz. "That's why we have our little Grand Royal scene. If I was in New York and saw us living out in Hollywood and doing our whole thing, I'd probably think it was pretty funny."
How they will fare with the pulsating mass of like-minded individuality at Lollapalooza is anyone's guess. "Lollapalooza isn't really our scene at all," says Horovitz. "I definitely didn't want to do it at first. I don't think any of us did. It's so corny. But festivals can be really fun to play. Now I'm looking forward to it."
It's very possible people might look at my being into Buddhism and think it's a goof, but I have to follow my heart and then let people think what they think."
Adam Yauch is sitting outside at a Greek cafe, trying to add some clarity to his enigmatic image. It's just past 2 in the morning, and our investigation has once again led us to Brussels. The quiet that has descended over the city is interrupted only by the occasional car wending its way through the cobblestone streets. Yauch is smiling easily, speaking softly and sincerely and sipping on a leafy concoction that looks more like the refuse from someone's yardwork than a suitable beverage. Not surprisingly, the topic at the moment is Buddhism. Along with the snowboarding that fills his time through the winter months, Buddhism is Yauch's tag. He even wrote a song for Ill Communication called "Bodhisattva Vow." It's a bit of type-casting that Yauch doesn't mind so long as people understand the dedication inherent in the description.
"The main thing I'm striving for right now," says Yauch, "is integrating the ability to only put out positive energy toward all other beings. I want to integrate that into having fun and functioning in the band."
Brooklyn Heights, the upscale neighborhood that housed the Huxtable family on The Cosby Show, was not exactly teeming with Buddhists when Yauch was growing up. He was an only child more into electronics than karmic energy.His father was a painter and architect, his mother was a social worker, and theology played no role in the household whatsoever. "I remember asking my mom if there was a God," says Yauch. "She said, 'What do you think?' And I told her, I really don't know.' She just looked at me and said, 'Neither do I.' So that was it."
Instead, Yauch was encouraged to explore other cultures. He made several pilgrimages to Mexico in order to study the country's various ruins. He also toured Ireland and Europe. "A teacher said she thought that I was really insightful because I had traveled," says Yauch. "I think it gave me other perspectives."
What Yauch didn't have was musical potential. Despite his obsessive love of music, when he took a high-school aptitude test, the results revealed that he would be successful in any career other than the one he most wanted. As a solution, Yauch did what any 16-year-old would do. He joined a band anyway. "When I first started jamming, in the back of my head I thought, 'I have been tested, and my aptitude is not in music,' " says Yauch. "I told it to a friend, and he told me it was just bullshit."
The rest, as some are wont to say, is history. The punk-rock scene. The Beastie Boys. Two years of college at Bard before eventually dropping out. "My mom was trying to give me the "You need something to fall back on' routine," says Yauch. "I was telling her, 'No, I'm going to be a rock star.'" He laughs. "Now she just says, 'You were right, you told me.'"
What Mama Yauch probably didn't know is that while her boy was gaining stardom, he was also smoking more marijuana than is found in most glaucoma wards and dropping what he deems "huge quantities" of acid. By 1990 both had ceased.
"At first, smoking a lot was just fun, and then after a point it would make me feel insecure around other people," says Yauch. "I think part of taking the drugs was opening myself up to the fact that there's a lot more going on than what you see in the immediate world. The problem is it's not a very controlled way of approaching that."
If this was Hollywood, right about now, central casting would probably send in a healer. And as we've already established, the Beastie Boys now call Los Angeles home. So with the help of a spiritual healer, Yauch began his studies in earnest. What he learned, among many other things, was meditation, massage work and energy fields. Now, Yauch believes he's "a little closer to leaving this dimension." He's worked through virtually all of his insecurities and claims that very little upsets him on a day-to-day basis. Around the Beasties entourage, he listens to people intently, laughs often and then, without warning, disappears. Most of his possessions are in storage, and he rents an apartment on a month-by-month basis. He is also, by far, the most accomplished musician in the band.
"I'm very happy with my life right now," says Yauch. "Amazingly so. I often sit and reflect on it. I sit in my room before I go to sleep at night and think, 'Damn, this is nice.' "
He pauses and absorbs the quiet of the night.
"The stuff that I'm talking about is the stuff that too many people have pawned off as being some bullshit or me being elusive," Yauch says. "What I'm talking about is my true belief and my true understanding of reality. I'm working on being more focused on living in the present. Most of the other interviews I've done have taken what I said to be some kind of aloof avoidance. That is just not the case."
Michael Diamond is staring into the tape recorder like a suspect eyeing a polygraph machine. This might have to do with the fact that Diamond is a tad media obsessed (he even toyed with the idea of writing a piece for Grand Royal Magazine that rated all the Beastie Boys articles). Or it might be more directly linked to the fact that he stopped off in the room of his DJ, DJ Hurricane, for a bit of herbal inspiration and is to put it as simply as possible really stoned.
It's tough to blame Diamond. As the president of Grand Royal, he is the only Beastie who actually has less work to do when he schleps off on tour. Diamond deserves a little downtime. In a few hours, in fact, he plans to call his mother to ask what museums he should check out during his stay in Brussels.
Aside from pop culture, visual art is one of Diamond's only releases. His father, who died when Diamond was 16, was an art dealer, and much of his life on New York's affluent Upper West Side revolved around the artistic community. "The greatest education that I got was at my own dinner table," says Diamond, the youngest of three brothers. "I look at the true privilege of how we grew up not being so much economic there's no question we were very fortunate but the privilege really came out in an intellectual and geographic way. We were constantly exposed to these total New York characters."
Because of his brothers, Diamond was also exposed to punk rock at what he calls "a ridiculously early age." He attended a small, liberal private high school but spent most of his time at the clubs. "When my dad died, in certain ways I cut off," says Diamond. "In an everyday way, I became a much more silent person. I'd turn up at school, and where I would have used to have raised my hand and talked in class, it was 'Why bother?'"
College brought the same response. Not wanting to cause a confrontation with his mother, Diamond attended Vassar, where he lasted a semester and logged more time in Manhattan than he did on campus. Not long afterward, British Airways used a portion of a Beastie Boys single, "Cookie Puss," without permission, in a commercial. The band sued and was awarded $40,000. His business sense piqued, Diamond quit his day job in a bookstore and concentrated on the band. Legend has it that the group's split with Rubin had more than a little to do with the fact that Rubin viewed Diamond's musical and business senses as replaceable.
"There was a point where Rick probably didn't want me in because I deal with the business side," says Diamond. "Ultimately there was going to be a source of conflict there."
Horovitz is less diplomatic. "Rick thinks he knows what's best for everybody," says Horovitz. "Rick was the expendable motherfucker."
Granted the unanimous vote of confidence, Diamond set about building his Grand Royal empire. Which isn't exactly Xanadu. The entire office houses four or five employees, including Diamond, who lords over the manor behind a metal desk that he has had sprayed orange by car painter Earl Scheib.
Diamond's every action seems a struggle between his left and right side of his brain. At one moment he's laid-back, tossing off creative ideas and jokes. The next he's talking business or flashing a smile that looks surgically removed from a used-car salesman. If there is an angle to work, Diamond will find it. Usually he doesn't need to go searching. Most days involve spending time at home in the arty L.A. neighborhood of Silver Lake with his wife, director Tamra Davis (Gun Crazy), overseeing Grand Royal affairs and trying to work in as much golf as possible. And if his band mate is as insightful as he seems, days might get much busier very soon.
"I'm taking any bets, and I say that it'll be under a year before both Mike and Adam are expecting kids," says Yauch. "They won't admit it, but I'll lay odds. They'll both be amazing fathers."
Family and adulthood are themes that continually resurface in conversation with Diamond. He talks about being "constantly surprised at how adult" his home is. He plans on buying a second home, this one in Manhattan, when Lollapalooza ends. He worries about the inevitable moment when he'll realize that his kids don't think he's cool. He even frets about being too happy in his own family life.
"It kind of horrifies me," says Diamond, "that even though we picture ourselves as this totally eccentric family from the Upper West Side, we're actually a completely typical mature family. Like any New Yorker, I'd like to think that the experiences we go through and what we are as people are completely different than anyone else possibly could be. But ultimately the way we are is not that different than a family from Wisconsin."
At the moment, the Beastie Boys look less like architects of their own private kingdom than they do all-American kids at the park. In about 45 seconds, they'll be bounding across the stage in front of a sold-out crush of chanting Belgians. Right now, however, it's a tie game with two outs and a man on second. Yauch, clutching a broom handle, is at the plate. There's a pitch, he swings, sending the wad of rolled-up tape high over the beam that's been designated as home-run height.
As the room erupts, the tour manager shouts from the doorway that there is, in case anyone seems to have forgotten, a show to play. The band members scramble down the stairs and huddle next to the stage. They bump one another's chests, New York Knicks style. Then again. And again. Finally, the music comes on, and they storm the stage singing "Sure Shot."
It might not be your typical means of instigating a cultural revolution, but for the Beasties, it does the job. Every move they make is met with adoring screams. Every fashion accessory they've ever worn is duplicated somewhere on the floor. And every word they rap is shouted back, albeit in slightly broken English. The seizure of Belgium has been a success.
"People would perceive it as all these people trying to look like us or it being some fashion thing," says Horovitz. "But the key is, I don't think there's any difference between those kids and us."
Which might in the end be right. The music of the Beastie Boys is about bringing together as many different styles, ensuring that there's a little something for everyone. If you don't like the rap, try the funk. If that's not good, may they suggest the punk rock. Maybe another band on the Grand Royal record label would suit your taste better. Or if you're not into music at all, there's a humor magazine.
Yes, the execution might be overly exclusive —
"I don't want to say that we are better than anyone else," says Diamond. "For anyone in general to develop that attitude is potentially dangerous. But at the same time, with everything we've created and everything we thrive on, we have created this little fantasy world that maybe is elitist." but the results are populist. And for the Boys, at the end of the day, it's all about the family.
"It's just such cool chemistry between the three of us," says Yauch. "I don't even completely understand how it all interconnects. It's just that the three of us together is much stronger than any one of us working individually. We've been together for so long and care about each other so much, it's really like brothers."
This story is from the August 11th, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone.


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I am delighted to have an opportunity to recognize and to celebrate Ray Patterson's profound contributions to American copyright law.
For many years continuous controversy has made copyright, at least for me, a forbidding subject. Fortunately, Ray Patterson has been there to bring fairness, balance and understanding to the subject.
We have been in a period in which technology has been rapidly evolving and the economic stake in copyrighted works has been substantially escalating. It is, therefore, understandable that proprietary interests would aggressively pursue an agreeable resolution of these issues, either through the courts or by statute. However, we must remember there are rights for users and intermediary institutions. And, yes, there is even the public domain to look after.
I have known Ray Patterson for many years and am personally indebted to him. In the Congress we were fortunate to have Ray's wise advice and counsel. I salute the American Library Association and Professor Larry Lessig for honoring Ray Patterson.
An article from the forum, "On the Shoulders of Giants: Tributes to L. Ray Patterson "
Published October 2002 at info-commons.org. Copyright © Bob Kastenmeier


text: The digging that is going on outside of the Brisbane Fire Station may have caught your eye. Workers are installing the interim water, sewer, and gas lines for modular trailers that were ordered yesterday by the City. It will be 1 month on October 16th since severe mold was discovered at Station 81, resulting in the Brisbane firefighters traveling between Station 93 in Daly City (464 Martin St.) where they spend nights, and Station 81 in Brisbane (3445 Bayshore) where they are stationed in a staging trailer during the day. This staging trailer, however, is meant solely for such purposes and not equipped with showers, bathrooms, or sleeping quarters. The mobiles that were ordered today, so that the firefighters can remain in Brisbane around the clock, will be equipped with such, as well as a kitchen for them to once again cook together as a crew. The mobiles are scheduled to arrive October 20th and all of the final connections are targeted for completion by the end of the month, with the firefighters back in Brisbane 24/7 by November 1, 2010.


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One of the most important components of your office is actually the right kind of furniture. It is important to choose them carefully with lots of thoughtful consideration because it will not only be conveying an impression of you but would also help you be either comfortable in your office or otherwise. In addition, when you are looking for the right kind of furniture for the office, picking the correct office chair for yourself is very important.


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From our title, you will note that there are two places of worship; Kelso North and Ednam. We are not a linked charge, having only one Kirk Session and one Congregational Board... but you can find out a bit more about our history elsewhere in our site.
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