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Set four years since the events of the first film, Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) returns to the headquarters of his old military unit to visit Major Susan Turner (Cobie Smulders), with whom he's kept in touch by phone. To his dismay, he discovers she's been arrested for espionage.
Believing her to be innocent, Jack must break her out of prison not only to save her life, but in an effort to discover the truth. Meanwhile, Jack is framed for the murder of a Colonel, and also discovers he may have a 15-year-old daughter named Samantha (Danika Yarosh). However, the girl's connection to him puts her in danger, so he goes on the run with the girl and Turner, as they uncover a conspiracy that is bigger than all of them.
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On July 5, 2011, the Public Utilities Department will launch a new billing system which will enhance our ability to serve our customers. The Customer Care Solutions (CCS) system will allow customers to have more access to their account information, more and easier ways to pay their bills and let Customer Service Representatives help customers more quickly and efficiently.
The majority of customers will be seamlessly transitioned into the new CCS system. Customers who pay electronically or receive monthly bills are being contacted by email or regular mail regarding their account. Important information for these customers can be found at:
As part of this transition the City Utility bill itself is getting an upgrade. Customers will see they have a new Account Number and that the bill is easier to read. More information can also be displayed on the bill. For instance, when a bill is prorated the new system will show customers more exactly what their charges are.
Updates to this page will occur regularly as we get closer to beginning this exciting new era in customer service.
I-Pay (electronic bill payment) Customers
The City of San Diego will launch a new online billing and payment system on July 5, 2011. The new Customer Care Solutions portal will replace the existing I-Pay online billing and payment system. All I-Pay system users will have one-time impacts associated with the transition to this new system.
The current I-Pay system will be deactivated on June 24, 2011, before the new Customer Care Center portal is available. One-time/recurring payments scheduled for processing on or after June 24, 2011 in the existing I-Pay system will not be processed. The new Customer Care Solutions portal will be launched and available for customers to register, receive bills and schedule future one-time and recurring payments on July 5, 2011.
What do you need to know or do during this transition?
- Write-down and save your current /water/sewer utility account number.
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Between June 24, 2011 and July 5, 2011:
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Banks, Reborn
When banks become funeral homes, churches, and strip clubs.
By the late 1970s, when deindustrialization and urban decline pushed middle-class city residents to the suburbs, it was difficult to find a functioning bank in now-ghetto neighborhoods of cities like Chicago. Poor urban neighborhoods became, in essence, "de-banked."
Old bank buildings can accommodate all kinds of new activities. In Newark, N.J., for example, former banks have become crack dens and homeless shelters. In the South Bronx, N.Y., and Chicago, they have been reborn as funeral homes, stores, and community organization centers. In Detroit, many are now churches. In South Los Angeles, the Pacific National Bank became an office for the city's housing authority.
The expensive details that gave banks their power and dignity complicate efforts to adapt them to other uses. Bronze grillwork, marble counters, and massive vault doors have to be ripped out. Old banks don't make good retail stores because they typically lack windows in which to display merchandise.
Since modern banks don't generally house huge vaults filled with money, they don't need to be so heavily protected. "Capital One Bank Coming Soon" reads the sign on a former Kentucky Fried Chicken in Newark. No longer needing to appear solid, permanent, and respectable, a bank now can be housed in a flimsy former fast food outlet.


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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A man who authorities say drove an SUV that crashed into another vehicle, sending it spinning into a daycare center where a girl was killed and 14 people were injured, was ordered Friday to stay in jail until a judge can determine whether he is a flight risk.
Robert Corchado, 28, will be held in jail until at least Monday when a judge will hear arguments on whether he can be released on bail, Circuit Judge Jerry Brewer said during a first appearance hearing.
Bail was initially set for $100,000, but a prosecutor told the judge that Corchado was a flight risk and that he should be held without bond.
"I have a witness here, a trooper, who can testify that he is a flight risk," prosecutor Austin Price said. "He has it on good authority that this defendant, is planning, once he posts bond, to leave the country."
Corchado's public defender, Jon de Armas, asked that the $100,000 bond remain in place.
The judge said that if Corchado is released, he will be prohibited from driving a car as a condition.
Police say Corchado crashed his Dodge Durango into a convertible, which in turn smashed into the KinderCare building on Wednesday. Corchado fled the scene, authorities said.
A manhunt across Florida ended Thursday with Corchado's arrest. He was charged with leaving the scene of a deadly accident almost precisely 24 hours after the KinderCare facility in Winter Park was torn open in the wreck, killing 4-year-old Lily Quintus, who was sitting in a classroom awaiting her afternoon snack. Fourteen others were injured, most of them children.
Family members say Lily Quintus loved princesses, ranch dressing — on everything — and "Star Wars."
"Families are emotionally destroyed because of what he did," Nicole Quintus, Lily's mother, said in an interview with The Associated Press.
The mother softly sobbed as she spoke of her daughter. She said Lily also loved the TV series "Doctor Who" and put ranch dressing on even pizza and hot dogs. Nicole Quintus said a teacher called her soon after the crash, screaming but unable to say what happened.
"One minute everything was normal, and the next there was an explosion and smoke and screams," she said.
The girl's 7-year-old brother is an aspiring engineer who wants to design a time machine to bring Lily back, the mother added.
"She was beautiful and passionate and innocent," the mother said, "and she deserved so much more."
Eight patients, including Lily, were initially taken to Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital in Orlando. One remained in critical condition Friday, and three were listed in fair condition, according to a statement. Three had been discharged. The remaining victims were taken to other hospitals. There were no updates on their conditions Friday.
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Ian Clark's High School Lacrosse: Bedford boys remains focused on third titleBY IAN CLARK
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April 23. 2014 11:17PM
WHEN A winning streak reaches a certain point, it's kind of hard to ignore it.
Such is the case with the Bedford boys' lacrosse team, which has won 44 consecutive games and the previous two Division II NHIAA championships (with perfect records both times). The Bulldogs have opened this season with four more wins.
Bedford head coach Matt Guerard said he doesn't hear his players talk about the streak, but he knows it drives them.
"The only people who ask are the media guys asking what the number is at and all that stuff," Guerard said. "These kids have worked really hard to get where they are with that streak. I think always having it in the back of their mind and the front of their brain during a game really helps with our concentration. We're happy to be at 44."
Senior captain Dan Colella said the players do discuss the streak and agreed that it does push them in tight games.
"We've definitely talked about it and it's definitely in the back of our heads. I think it gives us a little boost of confidence since we haven't lost in two years," Colella said. "(We say) 'we're not going to lose this one.' It's one of those things that you fire up in the huddle. 'This isn't going to be the team that beats us. This isn't going to be the game that loses the streak. Definitely not to these guys, not today.' "
Scoring threat Colella is one of three senior captains along with goalie Matt Howe and midfielder Grant Mello that Guerard says he leans on heavily.
"I rely a lot on the seniors on the field, especially," Guerard said. "You can only do so much from the sidelines so you've got to rely on those guys in-game to direct traffic inside and defensively and offensively. Their as much of a coach on the field as I am off the field."Colella said that he and his fellow seniors, a group that includes Pat Simpson, Nicholas Vailas, Todd Glynn, Justin Irvine, Michael Bureau, Aaron Palys and James Curran, are well aware that this is the final hurrah.
"There's tons of seniors on the team and they kind of feel an obligation, the last year as seniors to finish out what we started," Colella said. "We've come into our own. Once you hit that senior year it's kind of crazy. You have the senior guys saying "this is our senior season and you've got to leave it all out there. No regrets.' It's like a chip on our shoulder and we play like it's our last play, because it could be."
There is no secret to Bedford's success. It's that combination every team dreams of. The coaching is top notch. The Bulldogs can score at will, and even on down days they manage to find the net. The defense stifles the opposition. The players put in the hard work.
And when they need it, the goaltending is superb as well.
"Matt Howe is a tremendous goalie," Guerard said. "He sees the ball very well. If you give him 12, 13 yards to see the ball, there's a pretty good chance he's going to gobble it up. He's been very good for us for three years and hasn't lost a varsity start. He's 44-0."
There was talk of the Bulldogs moving up to Division I this season. It did not happen, but will next year. Bedford has already beaten one DI school this spring, notching an 8-5 win over Exeter.
Bedford and its streak will face a stiff test next over the next week. Saturday the Bulldogs play Hanover (3-1) from Division I and then next Wednesday it's DI powerhouse Pinkerton Academy of Derry.
If the streak dies, the ultimate goal will not change.
"If it (goes on), great. If it doesn't, too bad, so sad, move on," Colella said. "We have a common goal: get to the championship game."
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Metallica Reveal Epic Behind-the-Scenes Footage From 'Through the Never' 3D Film
It seems like Metallica have been painstakingly working on their 3D concert film 'Metallica: Through the Never' for ages now. Though that may be true, the film will finally hit theaters in the next few weeks, but to give you a taste of 'Through the Never,' Metallica have unveiled two behind-the-scenes clips from the flick. First off, this movie was friggin' expensive to make. How expensive? Just a cool $20 million that Metallica financed themselves. 'Through the Never' will feature a full Metallica concert with a running narrative storyline integrated throughout the band's live footage.
The new behind-the-scenes footage featured on ComingSoon.net takes the band all the way back to 2010, when the 'Through the Never' team were discussing exactly what kind of film they wanted to make. After a long while of throwing around gigantic ideas, Metallica were so glued to the idea of 'Through the Never' that their inability to find people to invest in the film didn't hold them back. "There was a lot of times in this movie where we're like, 'No way, we can't do this. Let's just pull the plug,'" says frontman James Hetfield. "From the money it's gonna take to make this thing, how long it's gonna take to even break even; our kids could still have the bill for this thing."
In 'Through the Never,' Metallica's stage setup and the effects used during their performance are truly mind-blowing, with many adaptations of imagery re-imagined from past Metallica records. However, the back story of the film's creation and the hardships involved are just as enticing, making for a rich behind-the-scenes experience in these short clips.
Watch Metallica's two insider looks (Part 1 above and Part 2 below) into making 'Through the Never.'
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Rethinking data
Data may be the preeminent obsession of our age[1]. We marvel at the ever-growing quantity of data on the Internet, and fortunes are made when Google sells shares for the first time on the stock market. We worry about how corporations and governments collect, protect, and share our personal information. A beloved character on a television science fiction show is named Data. We spend billions of dollars to convert the entire human genome into digital data, and having completed that, barely pause for breath before launching similar and even larger bioinformatic endeavours. All this attention being paid to data reflects a real societal transformation as ubiquitous computing and the Internet refashion our economy and, in some respects, our lives. However, as with other important transformations—think of Darwin's theory of natural selection, and the revolutionary advances in genetics and neuroscience—misinterpretation, misapplication, hype, and fads can develop. In this post, I'd like to examine the current excitement about data and where we may be going astray.
Big Data
Writing in the New York Times, Steve Lohr points out that larger and larger quantities of data are being collected—a phenomenon that has been called "Big Data":
In field after field, computing and the Web are creating new realms of data to explore — sensor signals, surveillance tapes, social network chatter, public records and more. And the digital data surge only promises to accelerate, rising fivefold by 2012, according to a projection by IDC, a research firm.Widespread excitement is being generated by the prospect of corporations, governments, and scientists mining these immense data sets for insights. In 2008, a special issue of the journal Nature was devoted to Big Data. Microsoft Research's 2009 book, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, includes these reflections by Craig Mundie (p.223):
Computing technology, with its pervasive connectivity via the Internet, already underpins almost all scientific study. We are amassing previously unimaginable amounts of data in digital form—data that will help bring about a profound transformation of scientific research and insight.The enthusiasm in the lay press is even less restrained. Last November, Popular Science had a special issue all about data. It has a slightly breathless feel—one of the articles is titled "The Glory of Big Data"—which is perhaps not so surprising in a magazine whose slogan is "The Future Now".
Data Science
Along with the growth in data, there has been a tremendous growth in analytical and computational tools for drawing inferences from large data sets. Most prominently, techniques from computer science—in particular data mining and machine learning—have frequently been applied to big data. These approaches can often be applied automatically—which is to say, without the need to make much in the way of assumptions, and without explicitly specifying models. What is more, they tend to be scalable—it is feasible (in terms of computing resources and time) to apply them to enormous data sets. Such approaches are sometimes seen as black boxes in that the link between the inputs and the outputs is not entirely clear. To some extent these characteristics stand in contrast with statistical techniques, which have been less optimized for use with very large data sets and which make more explicit assumptions based on the nature of the data and the way they were collected. Fitted statistical models are interpretable, if sometimes rather technical.
In an article on big data, Sameer Chopra suggests that organizations should "embrace traditional statistical modeling and machine learning approaches". Some have argued that a new discipline is forming— dubbed data science[2]—which combines these and other techniques for working with data. In 2010, Mike Loukides at O'Reilly Media wrote a good summary of data science, except for this odd claim:
Using data effectively requires something different from traditional statistics, where actuaries in business suits perform arcane but fairly well-defined kinds of analysis.Leaving aside the confusion between statistics and actuarial science (not to mention stereotyped notions of typical attire), what is curious is the suggestion that "traditional statistics" has little role to play in the effective use of data. Chopra is more diplomatic: machine learning "lends itself better to the road ahead". Now, in many cases, a fast and automatic method may indeed be just what's needed. Consider the recommendations we have come to expect from online stores. They may not be perfect, but they can be quite convenient. Unfortunately, the successes of computing-intensive approaches for some applications has encouraged some grandiose visions. In an emphatic piece titled "The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete", Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine, writes:
This is a world where massive amounts of data and applied mathematics replace every other tool that might be brought to bear. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity.Furthermore:
We can stop looking for models. We can analyze the data without hypotheses about what it might show. We can throw the numbers into the biggest computing clusters the world has ever seen and let statistical algorithms find patterns where science cannot.previously criticized.) The suggestion that we should "forget" the theory developed by experts in the relevant field seems particularly unwise. Theory and expert opinion are always imperfect, but that doesn't mean they should be casually discarded.
Anderson's faith in big data and blind computing power can be challenged on several grounds. Take selection bias, which can play havoc with predictions. As an example, consider the political poll conducted by The Literary Digest magazine, just before the 1936 presidential election. The magazine sent out 10 million postcard questionnaires to its subscribers, and received about 2.3 million back. In 1936, that was big data. The results clearly pointed to a victory by the republican challenger, Alf Landon. In fact, Franklin Delano Roosevelt won by a landslide. The likely explanation for this colossal failure: for one thing, subscribers to The Literary Digest were not representative of the voting population of the United States; for another, the 23% who responded to the questionnaire were likely quite different from those who did not. This double dose of selection bias resulted in a very unreliable prediction. Today, national opinion polls typically survey between 500 and 3000 people, but those people are selected randomly and great efforts are expended to avoid bias. The moral of this story is that, contrary to the hype, bigger data is not necessarily better data. Carefully designed data collection can trump sheer volume of data. Of course it all depends on the situation.
Selection biases can also be induced during data analysis when cases with missing data are excluded, since the pattern of missingness often carries information. More generally, bias can creep into results in any number of ways, and extensive lists of biases have been compiled. One important source of bias is the well-known principle of Garbage In Garbage Out. Anderson refers to measurements taken with "unprecedented fidelity". It is true that in some areas, impressive technical improvements in certain measurement have been made, but data quality issues are much broader and are usually problematic. Data quality issues can never be ignored, and can sometimes completely derail an analysis.
Another limitation of Anderson's vision concerns the goals of data analysis. When the goal is prediction, it may be quite sufficient to algorithmically sift through correlations between variables. Notwithstanding the previously noted hazards of prediction, such an approach can be very effective. But data analysis is not always about prediction. Sometimes we wish to draw conclusions about the causes of phenomena. Such causal inference is best achieved through experimentation, but here a problem arises: big data is mostly observational. Anderson tries to sidestep this by claiming that with enough data "Correlation is enough":
Correlation supersedes causation, and science can advance even without coherent models, unified theories, or really any mechanistic explanation at all.this article [pdf]). A classic example concerns a positive correlation between the number of drownings each month and ice cream sales. Of course this is not a causal relationship. The confounding factor here is the season: during the warmer periods of the year when people consume more ice cream, there are far more water activities and hence drownings. When a confounding factor is not taken into account, estimates of the effect of one factor on another may be biased. Worse, this bias does not go away as the quantity of data increases—big data can't help us here. Finally, confounding cannot be handled automatically; expert input is indispensable in any kind of causal analysis. We can't do without theory.
Big data affords many new possibilities. But just being big does not eliminate the problems that have plagued the analysis of much smaller data sets. Appropriate use of data still requires careful thought—about both the content area of interest and the best tool for the job.
Thinking about Data
It is also useful to think more broadly about the concept of data. Let's start with an examination of the word data itself, to see what baggage it carries.
We are inconsistent in how we talk about data. The words data and information are often used synonymously (think of "data processing" and "information processing"). Notions of an information hierarchy have been around for a long time. One model goes by the acronym DIKW, representing an ordered progression from Data to Information to Knowledge and eventually Wisdom. Ultimately, these are epistemological questions, and easy answers are illusory.
Nevertheless, if what we mean by data is the kind of thing stored on a memory stick, then data can be meaningless noise, the draft of a novel, a pop song, the genome of a virus, a blurry photo taken by a cellphone, or a business's sales records. Each of these types of information and an endless variety of others can be stored in digital memory: on one level all data are equivalent. Indeed the mathematical field of information theory sets aside the meaning or content of data, and focuses entirely on questions about encoding and communicating information. In the same spirit, Chris Anderson argues that we need "to view data mathematically first and establish a context for it later."
But when we consider the use of data, it makes no sense to think of all data as equivalent. The complete lyrics of all of the songs by the Beatles is not the same as a CT scan. Data are of use to us when they are "about" something. In philosophy this is the concept of intentionality, which is an aspect of consciousness. By themselves, the data on my memory stick have no meaning. A human consciousness must engage with the data for them to be meaningful. When this takes place, a complex web of contextual elements come into play. Depending on who is reading them, the Beatles' lyrics may call to mind the music, the cultural references, the history of rock and roll, and diverse personal associations. A radiologist who examines a CT scan will recognize various anatomical features and perhaps concerning signs of pathology. Judgements of quality may also arise, whether in mistranscribed lyrics or a poorly performed CT scan.
When a gift is given to you, it is easy to default to the passive role of recipient. The details of how the gift was selected and acquired may be entirely unknown to you. A dealer in fine art would carefully investigate a newly acquired work to determine its provenance and authenticity. Similarly, when you receive data from an outside source, it is important to take an active role. At the very least, you should ask questions. Chris Anderson claims that "With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves." But on their own, the numbers never speak for themselves, any more than a painting stolen during WWII will whisper the secret of its rightful ownership. One common source of received data today is administrative data, that is, data collected as part of an organization's routine operations. Rather than taking such data at face value, it is important to investigate the underlying processes and context.
It is also possible to make use of received data to design a study. For example, to investigate the effect of a certain exposure, cases of a rare outcome may be selected from a data set and matched with controls, that is individuals who are similar except that they did not experience that outcome. (This is a matched case-control study.) Appropriate care must be taken in how the cases and controls are selected, and in ensuring that any selection effects in the original database do not translate into bias in the analysis. Tools for the valid and efficient analysis of such observational studies have been investigated by epidemiologists and statisticians for over 50 years.
When we collect the data ourselves, we have an opportunity to take an active role from the start. In an experiment, we manipulate independent variables and measure the resulting values of dependent variables. Careful experimental design lets us accurately and efficiently obtain results. In many cases, however, true experiments are not possible. Instead, observational studies, where there is no manipulation of independent variables, are used. Numerous designs for observational studies exist, including case-control (as mentioned above), cohort, and cross-sectional. Again, careful design is vital to avoid bias, and to efficiently obtain results.
Still, the underlying bad idea may, in subtler form, gradually gain acceptance. The costs may only be appreciated much later. Today it is easy to see how damaging ideas like social Darwinism—the malignant offspring of a very good idea—proved to be. But at the time, it may have seemed like a plausible extrapolation from a brilliant new theory.
The role of data in our societies and our own lives is becoming increasingly central. We live in a world where the quantity of data is exploding and truly gargantuan data sets are being generated and analyzed. But it is important that we not become hypnotized by their immensity. It is all too easy to see data as somehow magical, and to imagine that big data combined with computational brute force will overcome all obstacles.
Let's enjoy the popcorn—but turn down the heat a little.
1. ^In this post, I won't worry too much about whether to treat data as singular or plural. It strikes me as a little bit like the question of whether to talk about bacteria or a bacterium. While the distinction is sometimes important, people can get awfully hung up on it, with little benefit.
2. ^ See this interesting history of data science.


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This is one of the most famous songs of the Shakespearean age. Shakespeare included the song in his 'Twelfth Night'.
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Take A Part is my first and one of my best songs. It was written on the first day of the new decade. Take A Part was played on the radio in 1986 by the Carlton University Station, CFMU. It's one of the ten songs of the You Won't Like All Of It Tape.
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"A Path of Rigmarole' was created in three countries and five cities. This is not to dispute that it was not written in about half an hour (as the great song writers of great songs will tell you)
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"Usagi" is a traditional song of Japan. "Usagi" is "Rabbit" in Japanese and the song is about bunnies jumping at or on the Moon.
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This song has been hiding away for 400 years. This song is neither brilliant nor poor but just a modest song for an average guy like me.
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This song was recorded in a authentic Scottish environment as it was recorded in my apartment which is right under a grove of genuine Scottish Palm Trees. Although this studio is in Japan the Scottish flavour can be sensed in this picture!
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This is an Ottawa song about skating on the Rideau Canal. On Aug. 5 1982, I wrote the first part of this song in my sleep, in a dream, about Melanie. I woke up and wrote it down. The second part was written as I walked home after dancing with Wild Ni
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I am happy to be able to finally post a Philip Rosseter song from his only Booke of Airs. This is Take 2 but it did not finish so I added the end of Take 3 to end.
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This is a song dedicated to Ottawa Buskers including; the late Paul Chappmen, Roger Rainbow, Dario Domingues (1954 to 2000) and Roman Bociurkiw (1960-2002).
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'Farthest' and 'Disappointment' were two songs that were written on the same day. The two songs were merged on January 7, 1998 after over 15 years of separation.
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This is a piece that everyone knows. Waldteufel's music dominated Balls at Buckingham Palace. This is Trick T. Olly at Buckingham Palace.
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This galliard is from William Barley's 1596 book 'A new Booke of Tabliture for the Orpharion' and is the first of 3 galliards to the Countesse of Sussex that were composed by Philip Rosseter.
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A lute song published in the year 1597 preformed solo on guitar while singing at the same time.
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Deutsche Telekom: We don't need no steenkin' set tops
Appears to back CloudTV in its searched for virtualised solution
IFA 2013 One of the big pieces of news from the IFA in Berlin came out of Deutsche Telekom's network day, where it showed its progress so far in its search for a set-top-free IPTV world.
Deutsche is one of Europe's leading pay TV players and looks ready to adopt the "cloud" for TV.
It has been looking into what it calls "virtualisation of the set top" since late 2011 and has been testing systems in field trials ever since.
We have guessed before that this type of system, whomever gets the contract for its design, would create a black hole in set-top orders for some time to come. This is especially because the company behind it is a company that is rapidly rising through the ranks of top European pay TV players.
We currently have it ranked about ninth in Europe with between four and five million pay TV homes, across territories as diverse as Germany, Romania, Croatia, Greece, Hungary and Slovakia.
The large majority of these installations are IPTV-based, with a handful based on direct-to-home satellite, and we have Deutsche set to reach some 8 million pay TV homes by 2017. Imagine what impact that such a deal might have on set-top volumes in Europe, if for instance it used something like the ActiveVideo CloudTV system.
In ActiveVideo, the video is rendered with the user interface in the cloud, and looks just like HTML5.0, but it can run on older set tops and smart TVs, which normally might not have the power – or the design – to run a full HTML 5.0 client.
And that's the new fact that appears to have come out, not that ActiveVideo would be bidding for this contract (this had been assumed by many), but that Deutsche Telekom mentions the company by name in its release, and doesn't mention any other.
It isn't say we have chosen this, but it appears to be saying, "we'll use this or something like it," with the likely outcome being a moratorium on set tops for some time to come – across a wide swathe of European IPTV.
The release said:
The primary goal of virtualizing the set-top box is to move the execution of applications to the cloud. From there, they run in a standardized web browser and are transmitted to various devices as a video data stream (H.264/H.265).
The process can be used with HDMI dongles, smart TVs, tablets, PCs and smartphones. With this approach, even older, low-performance devices can present ultra-modern, resource-hungry user interfaces in a fluid manner. The virtual, cloud-based set-top box decouples the user device from the development process, and thus from the life cycle of applications and services. Ultramodern web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and WebRTC are used.
Well if this doesn't say loud and clear that ActiveVideo has this one in the bag, we don't know what else would. The way it describes this technology is the way ActiveVideo works and we have to remember that it took successful legal action against none other than Verizon for copying this approach – so it would seem unlikely that Deutsche could get away with using a technology described in this way without paying some kind of homage, direct or indirect, to ActiveVideo.
We know that ActiveVideo has licensed Cisco with its technology and we suspect that other set top makers and pay TV UI suppliers may have also licensed it. So potentially if Deutsche Telekom needs the support of someone larger, they can be found, but the underlying ideas will still have come from ActiveVideo at the very least.
The release goes on to say that tests were successful and acceptance tests with live customers at OTE in Greece were also successful, and that another test will take place in the course of the last quarter of 2013, in Croatia and then DT will move to marketing strategies.
The set top has left the building and there will be grimaces all over Europe at the extent to which this shuts out future deals at the Deutsche subsidiaries, though not half as much as will happen if Liberty Global, goes down this route, as it also threatens to, because that's the largest pay TV operation in Europe, just ahead of Sky.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Flies who play the mating game while also living with their brothers are gentler to females during sex and tend to hassle them less, according a study by British scientists.
The study found that unrelated male flies compete more fiercely for female attention than related flies, pestering them more often for sex and leaving them little time to sleep or eat.
"Brothers don't need to compete so much with each other for female attention since their genes will get passed on if their sibling mates successfully anyway," said Dr Tommaso Pizzari of Oxford University's zoology department, who led the study.
"Their more relaxed attitude to mating results in fewer fights and they also harm the females less as their courting is not so aggressive."
The scientists also found that female mates of competing unrelated flies tend to have shorter reproductive lives and produce fewer offspring when males constantly harass them.
According to the research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, fly courtship is complex and involves a kind of foreplay of singing and genital licking.
"Repeated harassment of this sort may physically damage females as well as leaving them less time to get the food and rest they require for a healthy life," Pizzari said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers are preparing for a second run at writing the new U.S. farm law that ended in a stalemate in 2012, and the biggest obstacle is not likely to be soil conservation or crop subsidies, but the billions spent mostly in cities and towns.
Analysts say food stamps for the poor, the biggest Agriculture Department program at an estimated $79 billion this year, is the make-or-break issue. Republicans are demanding far larger cuts than Democrats will entertain, and the debate is becoming increasingly partisan.
Enrollment in the program has doubled in a decade and costs have tripled. Critics say spending is out of control when only the neediest should get aid. Defenders say the weak economy is the culprit - enrollment is highest during economic turmoil - and that food stamps are targeted to avoid cuts in farm subsidies.
Food stamps "is the key to getting a final farm bill done. Not that there won't be plenty of other fights," said Pat Westhoff, director of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI), a think tank at the University of Missouri.
"It seems like there is going to be some trimming and a battle between the House (of Representatives) and Senate over how much," said analyst Mark McMinimy of Guggenheim Securities. "I think a lot of heat is going to be around nutrition assistance."
The Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to start drafting its bill on Tuesday, with its House panel likely to follow on Wednesday. "On food stamps, they're going to be 10 miles apart," said a farm lobbyist.
Democrat Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, is aiming for $4 billion in food stamp cuts over 10 years.
That is a far cry from the $20 billion in savings targeted by Oklahoma Republican Frank Lucas, the House Agriculture chairman, up $4 billion from the proposal in last year's bill, which House Republican leaders never put to a floor vote.
Republicans such as Senators Pat Roberts of Kansas and John Thune of South Dakota, and Representatives Marlin Stutzman of Indiana and Randy Neugebauer of Texas, would cut food stamps much more deeply, by some $36 billion over a decade.
While Stabenow says closing loopholes can generate substantial savings, the Republican faction would restrict eligibility broadly.
Between 2 million and 4 million people could be cut from the program under the Republicans' cuts, says an anti-hunger expert. That would be as much as 8 percent of the current enrollment.
Those receiving food stamps - formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP - was a record 47.8 million at the end of 2012, up from 46.5 million a year earlier.
Agriculture Committee leaders from both chambers commonly say farm policy is not a partisan issue.
Historically, disputes have split along regional lines that pit cotton and rice growers from the South against corn and soybean farmers of the Midwest. Republicans and Democrats cooperate based more on geography than party affiliation.
On food stamps, party identification increasingly appears paramount, however.
While Senate Agriculture Committee members Roberts and Thune, from the socially conservative Great Plains, want to cut food stamps, another committee member, Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, circulated a letter opposing any cuts in food stamps. It was signed by 32 Democratic senators.
In the House, Massachusetts Democrat Jim McGovern has sponsored a resolution opposing against food stamp cuts. As of Wednesday, it had 115 sponsors, all Democrats.
The farm bill died in the House at the end of 2012 in an election-year deadlock over food stamps. The Democratic-led Senate passed its version over the summer.
Small-farm activist Ferd Hoefner, policy director at the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, said the quarrel over SNAP could rupture a long-standing partnership of rural and urban lawmakers who supported farm programs on the one hand, and public nutrition programs on the other.
"Is this the end of the farm bill coalition?" Hoefner said.
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"We want to hire the best so we look to hire vets," said Jason Allbaugh, a military relations representative who works at Chesapeake to recruit veterans for the company. Named to Civilian Job News' Most Valuable Employers (MVE) for Military® in 2010, 2011 and 2012, Chesapeake is widely recognized as one of the most military-friendly employers in the nation. Find out more about veterans working at Chesapeake in this story.
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It stands to reason that a thick tumbler, having a larger body of cold matter for the heat to distribute itself over, is less liable to crack when boiling water is poured into it than a thin one would be.
It stands to reason that my men have their own work to attend to, and cannot be running about London all day rectifying other people's mistakes.
It stands to reason that Russia, though vast, is a poor country, that the war must cost immense sums, and that there must come a time.Spectator.
He had also the comfortable reflection that, by the violent quarrel with Lord Dalgarno, he must now forfeit the friendship and good offices of that nobleman's father and sister.Scott.
Naturally that reference was received with laughter by the Opposition, who are, or profess to be, convinced that our countrymen in the Transvaal do not intend to keep faith with us. They are very welcome to the monopoly of that unworthy estimate, which must greatly endear them to all our kindred beyond seas.Times.
The whole of these proceedings were so agreeable to Mr. Pecksniff, that he stood with his eyes fixed upon the floor..., as if a host of penal sentences were being passed upon him.Dickens.
The time comes when the banker thinks it prudent to contract some of his accounts, and this may be one which he thinks it expedient to reduce: and then perhaps he makes the pleasant discovery, that there are no such persons at all as the acceptors, and that the funds for meeting all these bills have been got from himself!H. D. Macleod.
And this honourable (?) proposal was actually made in the presence of two at least of the parties to the former transaction!
These so-called gentlemen seem to forget...
I was content to be snubbed and harassed and worried a hundred times a day by one or other of the 'great' personages who wandered at will all over my house and grounds, and accepted my lavish hospitality. Many people imagine that it must be an 'honour' to entertain a select party of aristocrats, but I...Corelli.
The much-prated-of 'kindness of heart' and 'generosity' possessed by millionaires, generally amounts to this kind of thing.Corelli.
Was I about to discover that the supposed 'woman-hater' had been tamed and caught at last?Corelli.
That should undoubtedly have been your 'great' careeryou were born for itmade for it! You would have been as brute-souled as you are now...Corelli.
Our enveloping movements since some days proved successful, and fiercest battle is now proceeding.Times.
In which, too, so many noblest men have ... both made and been what will be venerated to all time.Carlyle.
Struggling with objects which, though it cannot master them, are essentially of richest significance.Carlyle.
The request was urged with every kind suggestion, and every assurance of aid and comfort, by friendliest parties in Manchester, who, in the sequel, amply redeemed their word.Emerson.
In Darkest Africa.Stanley.
Delos furnishes, not only quaintest tripods, crude bronze oxen and horses like those found at Olympia, but...L. M. Mitchell.
The scene represents in crudest forms the combat of gods and giants, a subject which should attain long afterwards fullest expression in the powerful frieze of the Great Altar at Pergamon.L. M. Mitchell.
A world of highest and noblest thought in dramas of perfect form.L. M. Mitchell.
From earliest times such competitive games had been celebrated.L. M. Mitchell.
When fullest, freest forms had not yet been developed.L. M. Mitchell.
How beautiful is noble-sentiment; like gossamer-gauze beautiful and cheap, which will stand no tear and wear.Carlyle.
Bloated promises, which end in nothing or little.Emerson.
The universities also are parcel of the ecclesiastical system.Emerson.
Fox, Burke, Pitt, Erskine, Wilberforce, Sheridan, Romilly, or whatever national man, were by this means sent to Parliament.Emerson.
And the stronger these are, the individual is so much weaker.Emerson.
The faster the ball falls to the sun, the force to fly off is by so much augmented.Emerson.
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Nick Cannon Discovers Blood Clots In His Lungs, Quits NYC Radio Show
Nick Cannon announced he will be quitting his morning radio show after docs found blood clots in his lungs.
Nick Cannon, 31, announced on Feb. 15 that he'll be leaving his Rollin with Nick Cannon NYC radio show on 92.3. Last weekend, he was hospitalized after doctors discovered blood clots in his lungs as well as an enlarged ventricle in his heart.
"The Doctors found blood clots in my lungs and said if I don't slow down and stop working so hard then it's a wrap!" he tweeted on Feb. 17.
He also released a statement. "Under doctor's orders, I have been asked to put my health first and cut back on some of my professional commitments in order to allow my body to get the rest that it needs to keep up with the demands of my multi-tasking schedule," he said. "Even Superman has to sleep."
This is the second health scare for Nick this year. In early January he was hospitalized for mild kidney failure while on vacation in Colorado with wife Mariah Carey and their twins Roc and Roe. He is set to continue working on his weekend radio show Cannons Countdown and will return as host of America's Got Talent.
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Conditions on the surface of Mars are fairly similar to those here on Earth. The planet has a thin atmosphere, weather, and some frozen water at its poles and mixed with the orange dirt. Yet Mars is not a particularly comfortable home for life, because it's outside the "habitable zone" -- the distance from the Sun where the temperature is just right for liquid water at the planet's surface.
In fact, of the hundreds of planets discovered in other star systems, only a few are inside their habitable zones. One that closely resembles Earth is known as Kepler-22b. It was discovered by the Kepler spacecraft -- an observatory that's hunting for Earth-like planets in Earth-like orbits around 150,000 Sun-like stars. The planet is about twice as wide as Earth, so it's probably a dense, rocky world like Earth.
Just because a planet is inside the habitable zone, though, that doesn't mean it has life -- or even that it's an especially good home for life. Mars is so small, for example, that its gravity isn't strong enough to hold onto a dense atmosphere for long. And other worlds might be too big, or made of the wrong material.
Still, the habitable zone is the right place to begin the hunt for inhabited planets -- worlds like our own Earth.
And you can hunt for Mars all night. It's in the east as darkness falls, in the constellation Leo. It's putting on its best display of the year, so it shines like a bright orange star all night long.
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Tongues wagging over Kiss and Crue
THE rumour mill grinds afresh today about a visit to the city by American rock legends Kiss, together with heavy metal band Motley Crue, early next year.
The Daily Mercury broke the news yesterday that there was heavy speculation about Kiss heading to town to perform at Virgin Australia Stadium early next year.
A visit to the country had been confirmed on the David Letterman show by Kiss frontman Paul Stanley, who said they would tour South Africa with Motley Crue and then both bands were heading to Australia after that.
An announcement yesterday afternoon in South Australia has added further fuel to the Kiss/Crue fire.
The Clipsal 500 V8 Supercars entertainment line-up was announced, and heading the program was, you guessed it, Kiss and Motley Crue.
Though several sources close to the promoter have been contacted, they would not confirm the rumours.
However, they said to expect an announcement next week.
Other acts named in the V8 Supercars line-up, but on different nights, included Hilltop Hoods, Drapht, Illy and Pez, The Angels and Ian Moss. According to online music site fasterlouder.com.au, Kiss and Motley Crue have been touring together across the US, Mexico and Canada since July.
Kiss, regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of all time, released their latest album Monster last month.
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SANDRA FISHERS LEGACY New York City-born artist Sandra Fisher (1947-1994) was a painter of portraits, nudes, studio interiors and landscapes. The exhibit An American Abroad: Sandra Fisher and her School of London Friends offers a comprehensive survey of her paintings and monotypes exploring her legacy as a painter and a muse. Continues thru May 13. New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 8 W. 8th St. 212-673-6466. Free. Pictured above is Tulio in Patterned Trousers, 1992.
CAPTIVATING ARTISTIC WORKS Variations on Variations features new paintings by Anne Bachelier. Her dream-like paintings suggest feelings of power, peace, and protection. Reception Thurs., May 4 from 6-9pm, call to rsvp. Exhibit continues thru June 4. CFM Gallery, 112 Greene St. 212-966-3864. www.cfmgallery.com. Pictured above is La Chambre des Mysteres, 2006.
PAINTINGS AND COLLAGED DRAWINGS View works by Wendy Gittler in the exhibition Themes and Variations 1960s 2006. Opening reception is Sat., May 13 from 6-8. Continues thru June 4. Westbeth Gallery, 57 Bethune St. 212-989-4650. www.westbeth.org. Pictured above is Daphane, Apollo & a Jinn.
JEWISH ART Journey Through Jerusalem is a career retrospective of Maty Grunberg, spanning 1966-2006, bringing together his works as a painter, a sculptor and a designer. The artist incorporates personal and ancestral memories into his works, the newest of which are woodcuts of Jerusalem. Continues thru June 30. Hebrew Union College, 1 W. 4th St., bet Broadway & Mercer. 212-824-2205. Photo ID required.
HYBRID OF PAINTING AND PRINTMAKING David Fratkins unique artistic process creates ornamented skins with dimension and luminosity. Through his works, he examines patterns as the visual equivalent of chant or prayer. Opening reception is Sat., April 29 from 6-8pm. Continues thru May 20. The Painting Center, Project Room, 52 Greene St., 2nd floor. 212-343-1060. Pictured above is Druid Frug, Acrylic.
PAINTING AND SCULPTURE View works by the artist Arslan depicting solitary, androgynous subjects in the silent moments we all experience. Opening reception is Thurs., May 4 from 6-8pm. Continues thru June 3. Dillon Gallery, 555 W. 25th St. 212-727-8585. www.dillongallery.com. Pictured above is Crouching Girl, 2006, cast concrete.
WORKS BY NEW YORK ARTIST View collage paintings by Tony Saunders exploring the coexistence of opposites in the exhibit Paintings & C. Opening reception is Sat., April 29 from 6-8pm. Continues thru May 20. The Painting Center, 52 Greene St. 212-343-1060. Pictured above is Yours Truly, 2004, oil.
SCULPTURE AND PHOTOGRAPHS View works by Nicole Cherubini exploring the ideas of excess and abundance. Reception Sun., March 23 from 5:30-7:30pm. Gallery talk Sun., March 30 at 6:30pm. Exhibit continues thru April 29. Jane Hartsook Gallery, 16 Jones St., bet W. 4th & Bleecker Sts. 212-242-4106. HYPERLINK "http://www.greenwichhousepottery.org" www.greenwichhousepottery.org. Pictured above is Untitled, 2006, ceramic detail.
GRAFFITI AS ART View fresh visions of graffiti from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and New York City. Exhibit continues thru May 5. The Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU, 7 E. 10th St. Pictured above is Jerusalem Wall Stencil Art, 2005, by Leora Cheshin. For more information, visit www.nyu.edu/bronfman.
RELATIONSHIP WOES In The Stuttering Preacher, a proud Black woman is tired of deceitful, game playing men and bad relationships. She then crosses romantic paths with the charming but dangerous Stuttering Preacher. Presented along with Champion, about a man who struggles with major life altering challenges. Both are one act plays. Thurs., April 6 - Sun., April 30; Thurs. Fri. at 7:30pm, Sat. at 8pm and Sun. at 3pm. Henry Street Settlements Abrons Arts Center, 466 Grand St. $18. 212-279-4200. Pictured above is The Stuttering Preachers playwright and co-star Levy Lee Simon.
30-YEAR OLD PHOTOS DOCUMENT CHANGE The Lost Waterfront features photos by Shelley Seccombe taken over 30 years ago. The photos depict the Hudson River waterfront in Greenwich Village during a time when the area was in transition from a strictly commercial past to a recreationally-oriented future. Continues thru Oct. 31. South Street Seaport Museum, 12 Fulton St. 212-748-8600. Pictured above is a lute player
A FAREWELL TRIBUTE TO THE FULTON FISH MARKET The open-air Fulton Fish Market operated in Lower Manhattan from 1822-2005. Artist Ellen Bradshaw captured its last days on canvas. View her works, influenced by the realism of the Ashcan painters of the 1910-30s and the color and atmosphere of the Impressionists. Receptions are Thurs., April 6 from 5-8pm and Sat., April 8 from 3-6pm. Continues thru April 22. Pleiades Gallery, 530 W. 25th St., 4th floor, bet 10th & 11th Aves. 646-230-0056.
NEW PAINTINGS BY A NEW YORKER New York based artist John Hardy expands his interpretation of the contemporary world by examining conspicuous consumerism and its effect on identity and social acculturation. With vibrant imagery and a palette taken directly from life, the paintings combine urban architecture, the inhabitants of city streets and the marketing images of our time. Pictured above is I Need to See You, 2004. Continues thru April 8. DFN Gallery 176 Franklin St. 212-334-3400.
DIRECTORS CHOICE WORKS OF ART View unique fired clay pieces by sculptor Marilyn Fox, gauze works by mixed media artist Franklin MacFie and paintings and drawings by Carol Massa. Artists reception is Thurs., March 9 from 5-8pm. Continues thru March 26. Pictured above is Angels Dancing by Carol Massa. Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune St. at Washington St. 212-989-4650, www.westbeth.org.
ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION The Salmagundi Club has served as a center for fine artists from New York and around the country for over 130 years. Currently view works as part of the Junior & Scholarship Members Annual Exhibition. Continues thru March 17. Pictured above is Paige by Rose Freymuth-Frazier. Salmagundi Club, 47 5th Ave. at 12th St. 212-255-7740, www.salmagundi.org.
ART BY TATTOO AND MIXED MEDIA ARTIST A solo-exhibit of mixed media silhouetted self-portraits by Grime, an artist, writer and businessman. Grimes work addresses ideas of beauty, banality, consumerism, sex, politics, death and life. His art plays with self-image, how he perceives himself and how he believes others perceive him. Invisible NYC, 148 Orchard St. Thru March 25. 212-228-1358.
A VISUAL DANCE INTO THE UNSEEN New York artist Marion Lanes newest exhibit, Life Forms, offers a new genre of painting. She works from evocative graphic drawings and creates forms that suggest the complexities of emerging cellular life forms under a microscope or vast explosions of energy in cosmic space. Pleides Gallery, 530 W. 25th St. Continues thru March 11. 646-230-0056.
INNOVATIVE ART IN THE LES In Gallery A, Light My Ire is a group exhibit in which angst and art collide and features works by Allan Rubin, Hi Tek Hoop and more. Continues thru May 31. In Gallery B, The Year of the Dog is an installation and performance by Peter Grzybowski. It consists of fluorescent paintings, digital video and a sound track to give the impression of a parallel reality. Continues thru March 31. Fusion Arts, 57 Stanton St., bet Forsyth & Eldridge Sts. 212-995-5290.
PAINTINGS ON PAPER Exhibit features works by Stanford Brent. Pictured above is Sinker, 2004-2005, acrylic on paper. Opening reception is Thurs., Feb. 16 from 6:30-8:30pm. Continues thru March 11. New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, 8 W. 8th St. 212-673-6466.
RUSSIAN ABSTRACT ART Moscow born artist Natalia Sitnikovas first exhibition in the U.S. presents an opportunity to view abstraction as an integral part of Russian contemporary art. View 25 individual paintings, assembled into an abstract installation with each canvas being an independent composition in itself. Pictured above is Composition 25, #6. Continues thru Feb. 20. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, 114 Prince St. 212-343-9377.
AFRICAN ART EXPOSITION Artificial Afrika is an exhibition that considers contemporary artistic appropriations of African visual culture through mythology, religious traditions, musical forms and other culturally-specific practices. Continues thru March 17. Gigantic ArtSpace, 59 Franklin St. 212-226-6762. Panel discussion Thurs., Feb. 9 at 7pm at the American Folk Art Museum, 45 W. 53rd St. $10, $5 museum members, seniors and students. Tickets are available by calling 212- 265-1040 x 160.
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Jeff Austin has announced a few shows with some special guests in Colorado for April. The Yonder Mountain String Band mandolinist will be joined by Danny Barnes on banjo, Larry Keel on guitar and Jenny Keel on bass for a three-night run. The group will play three20south in Breckenridge, CO on April 11, The Fox Theatre in Boulder, CO on April 12 and The Bluebird Theater in Denver on April 13. Tickets to the events are not yet on sale, but should be available in the near future.


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Release Date: October 11, 2012
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- It's a win-win: a "star-studded" video premiere and the opportunity to generate enough votes to win $10,000 for University at Buffalo School of Nursing breast cancer research.
The Briody Health Care Facility of Lockport will host the premiere of its "Pink Glove Dance Video" on Thursday, Oct. 11, at 5 p.m. at the Palace Theater, 2 East Ave., in Lockport, starring members of the Lockport police force and fire department, the Lockport mayor, UB nursing students and UB assistant professor of nursing, Robin Lally, PhD, RN.
The event is free and open to the public.
The video will be entered into a contest sponsored by Medline, the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies.
Starting on Oct. 12, viewers can view and vote on their favorite Pink Glove Dance Video (voting requires a Facebook account) at http://pinkglovedance.com; voting extends through Oct. 26. The top three winners will receive a donation in their name to the breast cancer charity of their choice. Medline is donating $10,000 for 1st place, $5,000 for 2nd and $2,000 for 3rd.
Briody Health Care Facility's choice of charity, if their video wins, is to donate it to UB's nursing school to support Lally's breast cancer research, which focuses on how women react to a diagnosis of breast cancer.
The winners will be announced Nov. 2 on http://pinkglovedance.com.
Medline established a breast cancer campaign in 2009 with the manufacture of a pink glove called "Generation Pink."
Andy Mills, president of Medline, said "Gloves are the first point of contact between the health care worker and the patient. And, because the glove is pink, we hoped it would get people talking about breast cancer."
But Medline wanted to spread the word even further. So, they came up with the idea of videotaping health care workers dancing in pink gloves and they launched it online in November 2009. The idea went viral, generating thousands of responses including emails and letters from survivors and their families.
Ann Briody-Petock, the owner and administrator of the Briody, got the idea of donating the prize money to Lally from Davina Porock, MSN, PhD, UB nursing professor and associate dean for research and scholarship who was conducting research in person-centered care at Briody Health Care.
Porock says, "Briody had already decided to do the video when it was mentioned to me. The prize from this year's competition was to go to breast cancer research but the folks at Briody didn't want it to just get lost in one of the larger charities, so they asked me if I knew anyone who was doing breast cancer research. Robin of course is our star in that department so I told them about her work and they loved the idea of supporting the research and being able to be in direct contact with the researcher."
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It has been a busy couple of weeks since I last posted. Last night I got back into Seattle from an assignment that took me to Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, and Akron. Lot's of flying, driving, checking into hotels, and shooting. It was a great assignment, and I'll share the images when they are in print. Lot's of shooting these past weeks have also meant my list of new blog posts to write is growing longer by the day. As soon as I get a couple of down days I'll get back on it.
The office has seen a few delays during the last two weeks, so thankfully I haven't missed anything yet. It sounds like tomorrow things should start moving really quickly once they begin framing. Below are a couple of pictures of the foundation / floor. We went with a black hand troweled concrete floor. It hasn't been clear coated yet, so it will look a little shinier once that is done. I learned a lot about concrete going through this process, and we decided to mix black coloring into the concrete so it will be black throughout the entire foundation and floor. Some of the other options for coloring concrete include several different types of stains etc. but those are prone to fading, chipping, not producing the color you wanted, etc. Color mixing seemed like a better option for us, not to mention we saved about $2,000 by mixing the color on site as opposed to having the concrete company do it. That makes sense, right? Pouring 13 small bags into a mixer. Let's see… Yep, about $2,000. I'm in the wrong line of work!
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Ah, Christmas Eve. The day we remind our kids that they still have to be good for at least one more day, and remind ourselves that a little extra patience probably wouldn't hurt anyone. Easier said than done, for sure. But it's more important than ever to take a step back, take a breath, and keep some perspective.
In keeping with the spirit of things, here's my naughty and nice list.
- Hardware equilibrium: We're at a place and time in which the underlying technology of smartphones is fairly equal. It's not 100 percent apples to apples, but it's close enough for most folks. And that means it's up to the manufacturers to make the difference in tweaks and customizations. Some add functionality and eke out every last ounce of performance (Samsung). Others have the design chops but seem to struggle a little in the coding department (HTC). Either way, it's good for competition, and that's good for consumers. Samsung undoubtedly will improve the way its UI looks, and HTC will keep working out the bugs. [NICE]
- Carriers and contracts: Still the scrooge of the U.S. smartphone business. But as long as as continue to put a low up-front cost ahead of long-term prospects, nothing's going to change. You wouldn't expect a $2,000 car to last as long -- or be as satisfactory -- as a $20,000 car. So why do we settle for two-year contracts with $50 smartphones, many of which were born into obsolescence? [NAUGHTY]
- Tunnel vision: Focusing on specs while ignoring the forest for the trees. The inability to accept that Nexus devices will never have SD cards. Poo-pooing a phone before you've ever touched it. [NAUGHTY]
- Readers helping readers: Nothing makes me happier than seeing new folk ask questions in our forums and getting helpful answers from the veterans. [FEELING GOOD]
- Patents and stories about patents: Not unimportant, but they get folks riled up about things that are extremely complex, slow-moving and, ultimately, don't really matter to consumers. [PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY]
- Screwing with developers: Looking at you, Twitter. [STOP IT ALREADY]
- Screwing with users: Looking at you, Facebook and Instagram. [FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUU]
- Smartphones instead of point-and-shoot cameras: Perhaps the single most important improvement, alongside faster data speeds. Our kids will wonder why so little of life was documented before 2010 or so. [INEVITABLY NICE]
- Unplugging: On the other hand, it makes it that much nicer (and important) to turn off the phone every now and then. Put down the tablet. Read a book. Talk to someone. [MUST DO MORE OFTEN]
- Super scary Android malware and viruses: Easy to avoid. Hard to convince mainstream publications that they're part of the problem. [FUD]
- Updates that seem to downgrade your phone: This happens far too often. A software update should not make your device run worse. Ever. Remind me to roll back my Nexus 7 to Android 4.1.2. [WHOOPS]
- Smartphones as digital wallets: Ahead of their time. But Verizon and Google going back and forth over competing standards isn't helping anyone. [GROW UP]
Hope everybody has a safe and happy holiday!
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Where does it say, in true Christianity, where does it say in the Commandments to kill people?That is the preferred pass time of the Pagan Roman Catholicism and Pagan Islam, and? all the other Pagans.It would appear, that Pagans and Atheists(closet Pagans) are the problem in this world. Right buddy?
How is existence a belief? Either something exists or it doesn't, existence cannot be influenced by the mind; unless you? are a solipsist and believe the universe to be a figment of your imagination. How is Atheism Paganism? I am not judging you, I haven't said anything aggressive or confrontational at all. You have obviously come across a lot of people who just want to argue and hurl insults.
Interesting. Do you think my description of religious faith as a mental illness is accurate? In that it is something that damages the mental health of a person and requires some sort of therapy to recover from? It is not simply something that can be argued out of someone.


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80s -International Baggyz- When I am in the mood for action I slide on a pair of these elastic waist bad boys. I find the ease in fit allows me to maneuver the trickiest of judo moves, bike jumps and slides me into the home plate for the run of an evening - if you get my drift and if I know one thing about ladies its that they love shaded grey, white and black camo print. I feel so confident in these pants that I can guarantee personally that if you dont have an adventure of a lifetime in these cotton beauties I will call you at 5am with an inspirational quote of the day for a week. Thats creepy on so many levels that you have to buy them now. These sweet slacks are brand new but still have a small flaw in the form of blown hems at base of left leg - no prob though dude cause they will be tucked into your socks.
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Jay Bruce had two RBIs and scored a run, Shin-Soo Choo drove in a run and scored twice, and the Cincinnati Reds held off the Chicago Cubs 6-5 on Friday.
The Cubs scored three runs in the ninth against Reds closer Aroldis Chapman before reliever J.J. Hoover came on and struck out Darwin Barney with the bases loaded to pick up his first save.
Nate Schierholtz drew a two-out bases-loaded walk and Welington Castillo followed with a two-run single to pull the Cubs within one. After pinch-hitter Cody Ransom drew a walk to load the bases again, Hoover replaced Chapman.
Mike Leake (2-1) gave up two runs and nine hits in 5 2-3 innings, earned his fourth straight decision over the Cubs with help from five relievers.
Devin Mesoraco, Todd Frazier and Zack Cozart also had run-scoring hits to help the Reds hand Carlos Villanueva (1-2) the loss.


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Research in Astrophysics covers theory, observation, and instrumentation, with investigations focused on exoplanets, brown dwarfs, the formation of planets, stars, and galaxies, the evolution of stars and gas in the universe, and large-scale surveys.
Studies include numerical simulations of planet, star, and galaxy formation; observational work on explosions and shells of novae, and cataclysmic variables in nearby galaxies and globular clusters; surveys for massive star pre-supernovae (Wolf-Rayet stars) throughout the Milky Way; and the development of new techniques to study the solar-system scale environs of nearby stars, including direct observations of exoplanets and nascent solar systems.
Project 1640
An instrument designed to simultaneously image and acquire low-resolution spectra of planets orbiting nearby stars.
Star and Planet Formation
Simulating how stars and planets form from clouds of interstellar gas.
Stellar Populations
Investigating stellar populations, novae, and Wolf Rayet stars in the Milky Way.
The Lyot Project
Construction and deployment of the world's first coronagraph optimized for the diffraction limit of a telescope.
Gemini Planet Imager
An adaptive optics instrument for imaging exoplanets using the Gemini Telescope.


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CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Police in Connecticut say an apparent hoarder has died after the cluttered first floor of her home collapsed into the basement.
Authorities say 66-year-old Beverly Mitchell was found in her Cheshire home Saturday, two days after a postal carrier called police to request a welfare check because her mail was piling up.
Cheshire police say they went to the home Thursday but didn't find anyone. Police say the first floor was piled waist-high with clutter, and they didn't realize until Friday that the floor had collapsed.
Officials say they found Mitchell's body while removing debris with a backhoe through a hole in the house.
Police say Mitchell had declined offers of help from social service officials over the years.


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