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For millions of Americans who came of age in the 1950s, Dave Brubeck was jazz. His performances on college campuses, Top 40 radio play, his role as a jazz ambassador for the U.S., his picture on the cover of Time magazine — all made him one of the most recognized and recognizable musicians of the era.
He died Wednesday morning, the day before his 92nd birthday, in Norwalk, Conn. The cause was heart failure.
Brubeck's start in music was like the jazz he played: unorthodox. He never learned to read sheet music growing up. And he developed his chops playing in a military band for Gen. George Patton's Third Army. In the '50s he formed a quartet with saxophone player Paul Desmond that broke into the Top 40 with "Take Five." It was released as a million-selling single with "Blue Rondo à la Turk" on the flip side.
That song is in 9/8 time — a radical departure from the 4/4 rhythm that Brubeck says Americans were comfortable with at the time. Audiences weren't the only ones taken aback by his music. In interviews that aired on NPR's Jazz Profiles series, Brubeck and Desmond said their musical styles often clashed.
"I was very wild harmonically in those days," said Brubeck. "And the first chord I hit scared Desmond to the point where he thought I was stark raving mad."
"Well," said Desmond, "I was trying to play some sort of melodic chorus, and he would be in 15 different keys on an out-of-tune piano, and there were occasions where I was totally desperate about the situation."
Nevertheless, the two collaborated for decades. In 1959, a song that Desmond wrote earned the quartet its greatest success.
"Take 5" was named after the song's 5/4 time signature.
It appeared on the album Time Out with other tunes that jumped back and forth between different rhythms. The president of Columbia Records was excited that the album was so different from anything else on his label.
But Brubeck said the marketing department was not. "They said, 'You've broken all the rules — the unwritten laws of Columbia Records. You have all originals on this album. Also, you want to use a painting on the cover, and people can't dance to this.' "
Radio stations in Chicago and Detroit disagreed, playing "Take 5" repeatedly.
Brubeck saw the fruits of that exposure firsthand. "In Detroit," he said, "that whole ballroom was dancing in 5/4 — you know, where they throw couples up in the air and between their legs and over their shoulders."
The song climbed to No. 25 on Billboard's Hot 100. College students across the country were dancing to it. In fact, Brubeck made his name playing colleges in the early '50s. One of his early successes was his recording Jazz Goes to College.
After the original Dave Brubeck quartet broke up in the '60s, he came out with an album composed of music he once thought was too structured. In 1968, Brubeck collaborated with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on a religious piece called The Light in the Wilderness.
Jazz critic Nat Hentoff says he was blown away by Brubeck's transformation from jazz player to classical composer. "He's a much underrated composer. I heard a concerto — it was a religious work, and it was so powerful that it brought me to tears."
Later, Brubeck joined the Catholic Church. He became fascinated with composing religious fugues, operas and symphonies. That's not to say Brubeck stopped touring with his jazz groups — some of which included his sons.
Even after bouts of serious illness that forced him into a wheelchair, Brubeck seemed transformed as he sat at the piano — striking the keys with an energy he never seemed to lose. He played hundreds of gigs around the world almost till the end of his life.
Hentoff says Brubeck's professional longevity will be his legacy. "Professional musicians eventually may say, 'OK, we figured out some changes in rhythms that influenced us to think about.' But the main point is the vitality that keeps going. I always called jazz the life force and, my goodness, Mr. Brubeck exemplifies that."
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One of the biggest names in the world of jazz died today: Dave Brubeck. He was a favorite among millions of mans, a master of difficult meters who brought jazz to the mainstream in the 1950s and '60s. Brubeck died of heart failure in Norwalk, Connecticut, while on his way to a standard appointment with his cardiologist. Tomorrow would have been Dave Brubeck's 92nd birthday. NPR's Neda Ulaby has this remembrance.
NEDA ULABY, BYLINE: He was more than a jazz pianist and composer. He was a star at a moment when the big bands were fading and rock 'n' roll was on the rise, and his group had a Top 40 hit: "Take Five."
ULABY: But Dave Brubeck did not want to be a musician as a child in California. He hated to practice. He wanted to be a cowboy.
DAVE BRUBECK: I wanted to be like my father who was a cattleman and a rodeo roper. He was my hero. And we moved to a 45,000-acre cattle ranch, and all summer I worked with my father.
ULABY: That's Brubeck in 1999 on WHYY's FRESH AIR. It was Brubeck's mother who was a musician, and she urged her son to go to college. His love of cows led him to enroll in a pre-veterinary program. He moved to music on the advice of the zoology professor. But Brubeck never bother to learn how to read the notes. His senior year, he got caught.
BRUBECK: The piano teacher, in five minutes, ran downstairs to the dean and said Brubeck can't read at all. So the dean said you're a disgrace to the conservatory and we can't graduate you. And when some of the younger teachers heard this, they went to the dean and they said you're making a big mistake because he writes the best counterpoint I've ever had, said Dr. Brown.
ULABY: Before the Dave Brubeck Quartet became an international sensation, he played with Army bands during World War II and found himself behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge. When he came back, he planned to become a classical musician and enrolled at Mills College with a famous teacher: composer Darius Milhaud.
BRUBECK: And he would tell me don' give up jazz. He said, you can do that so well, why do you want to give it up and become a classical composer?
ULABY: But Brubeck saw himself, as he once said, as a composer who happened to play the piano. Although he loved experimentation, Brubeck decided with his first trio to stop performing original compositions and focus on applying his style to standards.
ULABY: Dave Brubeck's elegant, modern approach found a following. The group added and lost members and toured the world under the auspices of the State Department. Brubeck appreciated the irregular meters he heard on tour and fought with Columbia Records over incorporating them into his group's 1959 album "Time Out."
BRUBECK: I was starting to do different time signatures, but the record companies were kind of leery of getting out of the usual dance tempos that were mostly 4/4 and an occasional waltz. So eventually, against their wishes, I forced them to put "Time Out" out, and it became the biggest seller they ever had in jazz.
ULABY: "Time Out" became the first jazz record to sell a million copies. Dave Brubeck appeared on the cover of Time magazine. His quartet - saxophonist Paul Desmond, bassist Eugene Wright and drummer Joe Morello - remained the most popular jazz group in the 1960s. It played as many as 250 shows a year and bucked conventions more meaningful than time signatures.
BRUBECK: We had a huge following at black universities, Afro-American universities. We were really doing some work that people seemed to forget how hard it was to do, where you had to have a police escort to the concert. The president of the college refusing to let you go on and the students demanding you go on.
ULABY: And it wasn't just black universities. Dave Brubeck's integrated group brought jazz to young audiences. He was, for many Americans, their initiation into jazz.
ULABY: In 1967, the Dave Brubeck Quartet broke up. Brubeck focused on composition. His work was inspired by religion, the civil rights movement, the students killed at Kent State. His popularity never waned, and he started performing with three of his sons - Darius, Danny and Chris - who spoke with NPR three years ago about his father's influence.
DARIUS BRUBECK: He just keeps performing, he keeps recording. You know, it's been an amazing life, and I'm so grateful to him that he bucked the ranch and became a musician, you know, at least when I wanted to become a musician, unlike his father who wanted him to become a cowboy and was disappointed he became a musician. I don't think Dave's disappointed in me becoming a musician at all. And, you know, there can't be anything too much more rewarding for a father and son to be working on a composition like this.
ULABY: The composition was a piece inspired by Dave Brubeck's western roots and the photographs of Ansel Adams. It was premiered by his hometown symphony in Stockton, California.
ULABY: Over the course of his long life, Brubeck composed well over 500 pieces of music. Towards the end, he admitted to slowing down.
BRUBECK: A few things about getting old that you have to adjust to. If I hold a pencil for hours like I used to making a score, my hands cramp up and I can't play the piano so well.
ULABY: So his son Chris, he told NPR, pitched in.
BRUBECK: He's got such a great musical imagination. As soon as I get home, he'll say, Dad, come over and listen to what I've just done or he'll play it to me when I'm on the road. He'll play it on the phone. He always seems to do something better than I would've done it.
ULABY: Dave Brubeck is survived by five of his children and his wife Iola, who he married in 1942. When asked once what jazz was all about, Brubeck said dialogue. It's answering one another. Neda Ulaby, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Men's volleyball coach Ken Preston ended his 30-year coaching career at UC Santa Barbara in exciting fashion with a 3-1 defeat of UC San Diego Saturday at Robertson Gymnasium. Three out of four games went to extra points with the 14th-ranked Gauchos taking a 31-33, 30-17, 31-29, 32-30 win to end their 2008 campaign.
UCSB finished the year with a 10-17 overall record and went 7-15 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF). UCSD ended their season at 10-19 and 6-16. Both teams entered tonight's match with identical MPSF records, so the win secured a 10th-place finish in the league for Santa Barbara.
Preston, who took over the helm of the UCSB program in 1979, finished his 30-year stint with a 516-381 overall record, good for a .575 winning percentage.
It was also the final career match for four Gaucho seniors including libero Ben Brockman, middle blocker Theo Brunner, and outside hitters Mike Fisher and Phil Mathews.
Brunner, a 2007 AVCA All-American, had a stellar last match with 15 kills, seven blocks, and 19 points. He hit a match-high .667 with one error in 21 sets. Freshman opposite Jeff Menzel posted a career and match-high 26 kills on a grueling 49 attempts. He also led the match in point production with 29.5. Mathews hit double figures in kills with 11 and added a match-high eight digs and four aces. Middle Scott Slaughter joined Brunner at the net to tally seven blocks as UCSB held a 15.5 to 13 edge in that department.
UC San Diego had three players with 10 or more kills including Jason Spangler (21), Frank Fritsch (14), and Russ Hardy (11), who was playing in his final match as UCSD's lone senior. Calvin Ross had seven blocks and setter Phil Bannan ran his assist total to 55.
Overall, Santa Barbara hit .310 (63-27-116) to San Diego's .225 (58-31-120). After posting a lackluster .133 attack in the opening set, the Gauchos poured it on in games two and three, hitting .483 and .455, respectively.
UCSB took an early 2-0 lead in the fourth frame, but quickly found itself down by as many as seven points as late as 27-20. Three straight UCSD errors, one from the service line and two on the attack, brought UCSB back within four points at 27-23. Following a kill by Hardy, the Gauchos posted another three consecutive points on a kill and an ace by Mathews and a block by Mike Runkle and Slaughter, making the score 28-26 in favor of the Tritons. A kill from Menzel would tie the game at 29, but another Hardy kill put San Diego up by one again. Menzel again tied the match at 30 all with a kill, and a pair of blocks by Brunner and Runkle completed the comeback win.
Overall, the match was tied 24 times, but the lead changed on just four occasions.
In the opening set, it was close the whole way through. Tied at 31-31, Hardy and Spangler posted back-to-back kills to take the game. The second game was all Santa Barbara. After taking the lead at 7-6, the Gauchos would not trail again. Game three saw UCSB play from behind for much of it. Down by as many as five points, Santa Barbara rallied to tie it at 25 on a Mathews kill. The Gauchos took their first lead of the game on a Menzel kill that made it 30-29. Brunner finished it off with a kill.
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Apple is now allowing VoIP-over-3G apps, after a change to the new beta version 3.2 of its iPhone SDK, released yesterday in concert with the announcement of Cupertino's long-awaited iPad. The news comes by way of a press release from iCall, a second from Fring, and a third from Acrobits, all providers of VoIP services for the …
is not a surprise - as the this 'fixes' one of the biggest slams against the iPad. That it is a big iPhone without the phone. Now it has a phone - and one which uses IP - which seems to work better than voice for AT&T. (The other slam is the name but you can't win them all)
Keep in mind that voice and IP are different technologies and one pays different fees to use the technology. In the next few years there will be a merging of the technology - but exactly what that new tech will be has not been settled on.
VoIP is treated as data, not voice. Guessing EDGE is too slow.
Wondering why AT&T would agree to a plan that could ultimately eliminate revenues from voice services. Maybe they figure the technology is still too immature to pose a genuine threat? Even over a pretty good DSL connection VoIP is pretty laggy for me here in NYC.
OK, I'm in the UK so don't have to put up with AT&T, et al, that the US do.
Using my MiFi (Wi-Fi to 3G router) from 3 I connect Skype over the Wifi connection, passing the VoIP packets along through my 3G connection. I have, hey presto, Skype over 3G.
I get 5Gb transfer for £15 a month on a rolling monthly contract, so no nasty lock-ins or expensive contracts.
Or am I missing the point?
This is interesting. In a recent Blog posting at http://blog.truphone.com, Truphone were pointing out that currently they only supported VoIP over 3G on Nokia handsets - all of their other products are WiFi only. They cited call quality as one reason why this was so, in addition to the "not all networks allow it" line.
I wonder if they'll change their mind on their iPhone App.


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That's What A $15,000 Gold LEGO Brick Looks Like
Hey, people of money, listen up. If taking nightly dives into your pool of gold coins (like Scrooge McDuck) hasn't completely desensitized you to the appeal of all things golden, there's a little something you could buy. Provided of course that you share the geek's enchantment with all things LEGO.
This brick is 25.65g of 14K gold (0.8246 troy oz). The brick is the same size and shape as the original 2×4 LEGO brick.
This incedibly rare piece was given to LEGO employees that had 25 years of employement at the Hohenwestedt, Germany factory and was also given to couple of very special business partners of LEGO of the time. It was only given out from about 1979-1981, only one or 2 per year from my understanding.
This amazing brick comes in its original display box which features the LEGO logo of the time that it was given out. The box itself is plastic and has a minor amount of storage wear on it.
So yeah, you can buy it. This particular one was made in 1980, and the asking price is $15,000. That's a roughly tenfold premium on regular gold, so there's definitely some collector's salivating going on.
Us, we're gonna stick with spray painting our bricks with yellow paint and pretending we're rich.
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On October 23 in DeKalb County, Alabama, retired Houston firefighter Michael Herrera was alone and off-roading on his dual-sport bike when he took a hard fall. Although initially disoriented, Michael's experience as a first responder told him that his injuries were more serious than he could see so he reached for his SPOT Gen3® and pressed the S.O.S. button.
Back at home, his wife LaDonna grew concerned when she realized that the SPOT Gen3 was not tracking Michael anymore on his SPOT Shared Page and she knew in her heart that he needed emergency assistance.
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While elk hunting in northern New Mexico, SPOT user Larry Reeves became a part of a real-life rescue scenario when another hunter frantically reached out to him for help for his partner. "A fellow hunter from another camp raced in to my camp saying his partner had a broken leg after being thrown from a horse. He was going in and out of shock." After assessing the hunter's injuries and wrapping his leg as best as he could, Larry realized that trying to move the injured hunter would only cause additional trauma. With limited resources and no access to immediate medical attention, Larry knew the best option for this injured hunter was to press the SOS button on his SPOT device.
Within minutes of the SOS activation, search and rescue efforts were underway. Dispatchers began tracking Larry's coordinates in an effort to pinpoint his exact location. After passing along those coordinates to the helicopter search and rescue team out of Santa Fe, help was on the way. Larry recalls the rescue, "The search and rescue helicopter landed in a forest opening at night. It was pretty cool."
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While hiking alone south along the Talgar River, Matthias Uhrlandt ran into dangerous terrain. Heavy rocks and boulders, loose sand and forceful river water were just a few of the elements fighting against Matthias. "After one day of constantly risking my life, I thought I reached a point of no return." Determined to continue on his way, Matthias trudged on, continuing his journey until he could go no farther. "I reached a big cliff, but without any equipment and a helping hand, it was absolutely impossible." Not being able to climb the difficult cliff or get to the other side of the river to safe land, Matthias was trapped.
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Garrett Atkinson and a friend were hiking the Four Pass Loop near Aspen, CO separated by the trail head by over 13 miles in all directions. On the second night, Garrett spent the entire night coughing up blood and fighting his every breath. The next day he tried with all his might to walk out but continued to fall after several attempts. "I was extremely dizzy and nauseated," Garrett remembers. In that moment he knew there was no chance of making it off the trail alone and pressed the SOS button on his
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6. Adrian Salcedo, Right-Handed Starter, 21 years old.
2011 Stats: 6-6 with a 2.93 ERA in 135 innings, with 92/27 K/BB for Class A Beloit.
Last year's rank: 8
Acquired: Signed out of Mocha, Dominican Republic in December 2007.
What would you say if I told you the Twins had a prospect that has a 2.76 ERA, strikes out 7.1/9 and only walks 1.5/9? He's a pitcher that gives up less than a hit per 9 and has only allowed 12 HRs in 359 minor league innings. This pitcher is only 21 years old and is 6'4". What if I also told you that he has a really good, mid 90s fastball, decent breaking pitch and change up? You'd probably say he is the Twins #1 prospect! He is Adrian Salcedo and his numbers jump off the screen....except that 7.1 K rate.
About that K rate. Salcedo struck out more 8 batters per 9 in rookie ball. In the 162.1 innings above rookie ball, Salcedo only struck out 108 entering this season. His other numbers have remained solid, but it is disturbing how much his K rate has dropped. Has he turned into a typical Twins pitcher?
Salcedo has been in the Twins system for a little while, but he is still only 21 years old. Scouts seem to like his stuff, but his pitches are a little bit inconsistent. Salcedo is still young, has generally been young for his level and he has never really struggled. Salcedo had all of the looks of a potential ace early in his career. He's a tall kid that still has room for a couple pounds and a couple miles on his fastball. It's a little early to dump dirt on his potential ace status, but if his 2011 numbers are more indicative of how his career will play out, he will still be a good pitcher.
Ideal scenario: Salcedo continues to throw strikes, but gets more swings and misses. He is only 21 and if he needs development time, spending all season in Fort Myers will be just fine. If he can get that strikeout rate around 8 per 9 innings in Fort Myers, he could be in-line for a late season promotion to New Britain.
Path to the majors: Salcedo is still a couple of years away and I hope the Twins take their time with him. Given the state of the major league pitching staff, he could be just a year and a half away of making his major league debut if he pitches well.
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Today protests , rallies and clashes were beyond Tahrir square and Cairo amazingly and surprisingly. In fact the protesters outside Cairo were much violent and scary than in Cairo where the clashes are between protesters and security forces.
There were protests and clashes over Morsi's latest decisions in the following governorates : Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, El Behaira , Dakhalia , Assuit, Qena , Luxor and Aswan !!!
In Alexandria angry protesters stormed and occupied then torched it the Freedom and Justice Party HQ in Al Ibrahimia area.
|In front of the FJP HQ in Alex "@M_Aladdin92"
Soon enough there have been clashes between the MB supporters in Alex and the protesters that turned violently. The protesters accused MB supporters of abducting some of their friends from the protesters handing them to the security forces. The security forces of course treated those detainees in the worst way ever.
|People say that this guy is from MB !!?
The clashes between security forces and protesters also took place. The CSF fired tear gas grenades that reached in to the houses.
|Tear gas in residential areas at night "@elmansi"
The protesters were reportedly anarchists who changed the flag of the party to Anarchist flag. "I am searching for photos"
There were also clashes between Morsi's Islamist supporters and opponents at El Qaed Ibrahim mosque after Friday prayer there.
Famous socialist veteran Abu El Ezz El Hariri and his wife were badly attacked by the Muslim brotherhood's supporters in their car after he was accused by them of funding the thugs that attacked their HQs !!!! The former presidential candidate says that he was dragged to the clashes after receiving a phone call from the head of Alexandria´s security directorate asking him to come there.
It is kind of joke to know that El Hariri , the working class politician who owns an old bookstore and old car will fund thugs to attack other parties' HQ.
It is worth to mention that the Facebook now is full of photos for items found in the FJP HQ that was ransacked.
Morsi got 58% of votes in Alexandria that got a strong revolutionary and Salafist voting base.
Moving to Beheira governorate , there have been clashes between the supporters and opponents of Morsi. The security forces fired tear gas grenades in these clashes. Not only the supporters of FJP and MB protected their HQs there but also the Salafists and here is an important change yesterday reported in several governorates that armed Salafists protected FJP headquarters and attacked other protesters.
Already today the head of Salafist Calling in Kafr El Dawwar saying yesterday that the Salafist calling and the Salafists will stand against attempt to attack the HQ of FJP and Muslim brotherhood.
Update : The main HQ of FJP in Damanhur has been torched today , Saturday !! There are on going clashes there between protesters, security forces and MB supporters. There is a field hospital there and it is reporting gunshots injuries among the protesters.
Morsi got 59% of the votes there. There is a strong MB voting base in the governorate.
To Dakhalia , Mansoura the protesters tore up the banners of the FJP and the Muslim brotherhood. There was an attempt to storm the FJP HQs there but the security forces protected it. Morsi got 44% of the votes there.
In Mahla , the protesters stormed the Muslim brotherhood HQ in the city after hearing news that there are protesters detained there and were being tortured. The HQ in Mahla was damaged and ransacked.The MB members accused activist and former MP Hamdy El Fakharny of standing behind what happened to their headquarter.
|in Mahla at MB HQ "@Wessam_Hussin"
In Damietta , unknown assailants attacked the protesters in front of the Muslim brotherhood HQ and the police withdrew from the scene and did not stop this attack.Morsi got 56% of the votes there.
Moving to Upper Egypt we will start with tgrieving Assuit. There have been clashes between the protesters and Morsi's supporters. There have been reports saying that the FJP HQ was torched in the city.
Of course Morsi mentioned Assuit and its tragedy in his speech to his supporters yesterday but again it is too late. He said that he will compensate the families of Al Mandara's school bus LE 50,000 for each child killed in the accident.
|The protesters in Assuit yesterday "@mohamedgad97"
Morsi got 61% of the votes in the presidential elections in Assuit. The protests continued for the second day in row and the Muslim brotherhood attacked the protesters injuring them.The MB protesters say "Morsi , you got men in your back !!!"
|One of the injured tonight "@Al7ag_3bdo"
To Aswan , there have been clashes between protesters and security forces at the FJP HQ in the city. Morsi got 52% of the votes there. It was a late protest but a big one according to the eye witnesses.The protesters reported the members of FJP to the police after being attacked by sticks and canes
|The protest in Aswan "@_Fatjoint_"
Port Said was on fire for real last night. There was an attempt to storm the FJP HQ in Port Said last night just like Alexandria but armed Salafists unleashed attack on the protesters. According to eye witnesses these Salafists got automatic guns and came in tracks. There were many injured in these clashes. No police was found.
|The protesters at FJP before the attack "@ostaz_cheetos"
In Suez the protesters attacked the Muslim brotherhood HQ in the city with rocks and Molotov cocktails. The protesters also attacked the FJP HQ in Suez and there have been clashes between and the Salafists who appeared suddenly to protect it.The protesters accused MB supporters of using gunshots and bird shots against them.
|One of the injured from bird shots
Morsi got in Suez 63% of the votes. Suez got a strong Salafist voter base already.
Ikhwan Online , the official Arabic website of the MB "that should be closed ASAP for the amount of radicalism, hate and incitement" main office was attacked too by so-called unknown assailants.
Ironically and sadly Essam El Arian , the deputy chairman of the FJP claimed that no one stormed his party's HQs in the governorates !!!!! At the same time other leading figures in his party were asking the ministry of interior to protect their HQs and to arrest those assailants.
Yesterday the ministry of health reported that the official number of protesters reached to 56, of course I highly doubt it as it could be higher considering the amount of violence in Alexandria and in Port Said.
Big changes start small.
BY the way Saad El Shater , the son of Khairat El Shater tweeted the following today
بيحرقوا مقر الأخوان؟ .. هما مش عارفين ان مقر الاخوان في قلوب اعضائها؟!They burn the Muslim brotherhood HQs !?? Do not they know that HQs of MB is in the hearts of its members !!!
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(SEATTLE, Wash.) -- A Washington man was sentenced to two years in prison for shooting his terminally ill wife in what his family said was a mercy killing.
Donald McNeely, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Thursday. His adult children asked a judge for mercy and insisted their father killed their mother, who had an inoperable brain tumor, out of compassion.
"I think that was his only option," said Nikki Bryant, McNeely's daughter.
"He loved my mother," she told ABC News affiliate KOMO-TV in Seattle. "He still loves her very, very much."
On March 14, 2012, McNeely sat with his wife, Linda, who had just returned from hospice care. He watched her for two hours as she slept before he delivered one shot to her ailing body.
McNeely called 911 around 3 p.m. that day and told the operator he "could not stand it anymore," according to the police report.
He then called his two adult children, who rushed to the scene as he surrendered to police.
The body of 52-year-old Linda McNeely was found draped with a blanket in the home, with a pistol lying nearby, according to the report.
McNeely told police his wife had asked him several times over the course of her illness to shoot her.
Washington is one of two states that has a "Death With Dignity" Act. The law allows terminally ill adults who are of sound mind and have been given six months or less to live the right to obtain prescription drugs that will speed up their deaths. Oregon is the only other state with a similar law.
The McNeelys had considered the option, but Linda McNeely was not a candidate because of her cognitive deterioration, the Everett Herald reported.
Donald McNeely had faced a maximum of 18 years in prison.
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio


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Clarkson University's Dana Barry Wins 18th Consecutive APEX Award & Other Honors
Dana M. Barry, senior technical writer and editor at Clarkson University's Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP), has won her 18th consecutive APEX Award for Publication Excellence, as well as other honors.
The APEX 2013 Award, presented by Communications Concepts of Springfield, Va., is based on editorial content and overall communications effectiveness and excellence. Barry has received this award annually since 1996.
Her winning entry, the CAMP Annual Report Newsletter: 2011-2012, faired extremely well in the competition. There were some 2,400 entries from the United States and other countries in the competition. Approximately 971 awards of excellence were distributed in 138 subcategories of 12 major areas.
Barry has more than 150 professional publications including 11 books, several book chapters, science encyclopedia entries, journal features, scripts for aired television shows, and music CDs. This work is published in the United States, Japan, England, Australia, Malaysia, China, India and other countries.
In addition to the APEX 2013 Award, Barry has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2014, Marquis Who's Who in America 2014 and the Dictionary of International Biography -37th edition, 2014, by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England. Her biography recently appeared in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2012 and 2013 and in Marquis Who's Who in America 2013.
Barry has five graduate degrees including a master's degree in chemistry from Clarkson University and a Ph.D. in engineering from Osaka University in Japan.
Barry has the official title of visiting professor (2012-2014) in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Suzuka National College of Technology (SNCT) in Japan. She will serve as a visiting professor there this September. Her research collaborator at SNCT is Dean Professor Hideyuki Kanematsu. In addition, she is scientific board president for Ansted University and an officer for the Northern New York section of the American Chemical Society.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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Free/Public Source Software
Security is built on trust, and trust requires openness and transparency.
With scan results being one of the main metrics used in determining the web application security posture for an organization, it is paramount that these results are not only handled in a trusted, safe and secure manner, but are accurate and complete without leaving you with a false sense of security.
Arachni's source code is publicly available, thus, providing a verifiable, inspectable code base to ensure your results have the highest level of protection, and that all possible issues are identified.
With its cards on the table, Arachni can make no false claims about its capabilities just to tick and flick a marketing checklist, but instead achieves what it is designed to, with exceptional results. This is proven through rigorous benchmarking, test cases, and community support.
For those tricky and highly specialized environments, custom modifications can easily be added into Arachni to supplement its features. Customizations can include:
- Checks — To identify custom issues.
- Plugins — To cleanly extend the system's functionality.
- Reporters — To store/format scan results in whatever way suits you best.
- RPC services — To control remote resources in your own way.
Arachni is licensed under the Arachni Public Source License v1.0, please see the license terms for more information.
Multiple deployment options
Arachni is designed to be usable regardless of the environment in which it's deployed. Depending on the requirements, this can be anywhere from the simple and point and shoot web interface through to the highly customized and scripted use cases utilizing the core Ruby library.
Whatever the environment, it's highly likely that Arachni will adapt to your needs. Deployment options include:
- Ruby library, for highly-customized, scripted scans.
- CLI scanner utility, for quick scans.
- WebUI, for multi-User, multi-Scan, multi-Dispatcher management.
- Distributed system using remote agents.
In all cases, deployment is simple. There are no dependencies like databases*, system services, libraries nor any configuration overhead. Simply, download and extract one of our packages to a supported OS and run a script, a scan, fire-up the web interface or convert the machine to a Grid node — all with a single command.
From submitting a form with a single line of code, to a global Grid of scanners, Arachni's got you covered — with the latter not being much harder than the former.
* The WebUI comes pre-configured with SQLite3; however, for larger workloads PostgreSQL is recommended.
Abundance of security checks
Out of the box, Arachni has all the full featured support and vulnerability analysis that one would expect from a first class web application scanner.
All the usual suspects are supported, including:
- XSS (with DOM variants)
- SQL injection
- NoSQL injection
- Code injection
- File inclusion variants
- Many more…
In addition, Arachni's analysis techniques are unparalleled in reliability, accuracy and resiliency, even under unstable network conditions or when dealing with misbehaving web applications.
With continued support from its growing community, Arachni is continually pushing the boundaries in web application scanning.
Integrated browser environment
Arachni can handle complex modern web applications thanks to its real browser engine, providing:
- Support for JavaScript/DOM/HTML5/AJAX.
- Detection of DOM-based vulnerabilities.
- Tracing of data and execution flows of DOM and JavaScript environments.
- Extra tracing optimizations for common JavaScript frameworks:
This makes Arachni unique amongst all web application scanners. One way to think of Arachni is as an automated, distributed, high-performance JavaScript/DOM security debugger (amongst other things).
Arachni provides full stack data* at your fingertips including: stacktraces, function signatures, names, locations, source codes and argument lists, captured upon detection of a vulnerable state.
* Some stack data will not be accessible when running under JavaScript Strict mode.
Intelligent, on-the-fly adaptation to each web application
Arachni analyzes each application resource individually, which in turn allows it to tailor each request to the technologies being used. This results in only applicable payloads being injected when performing its checks, leading to less bandwidth consumption, less stress to the web application and, as a result, faster and more reliable scans.
In addition, web application behavior is constantly fingerprinted and monitored, enabling the identification of custom-404 handlers, server health, etc. with the scanner adjusting its strategy on-the-fly, to ensure accuracy and stability throughout the scan.
Finally, Arachni trains itself during the entire scan, by learning from HTTP responses, in order to identify new input vectors and handle complex workflows like wizards etc.
Mobile ready — in more ways than one
Arachni can be configured to replicate multiple different client platforms including phones and tablets. This is achieved using both user-agent identification, and the viewport size and orientation. This provides a real browser experience for the unparralleled coverage and testing of mobile sites.
Furthermore, you can easily organize multi-device scans by using the WebUI to create, manage and share scan-groups and associated configuration profiles.
In addition to the above, there's another way in which Arachni is mobile-ready and that's via its responsive web user interface. Fire-up the WebUI on a machine with a supported OS and start, control or monitor scans from your tablet or phone.
High performance
Scanners work with enormous amounts of workloads, often dealing with thousands of pages and performing millions of requests. When dealing with those kinds of numbers, small latencies can quickly accumulate to large delays.
Arachni wastes no time and minimizes any delay by utilizing:
- Asynchronous HTTP requests for lightweight concurrency and fast communications.
- Support for multi-Instance scans, utilizing multiple Instances/processes, for super-fast audits.
- Even when distributed across multiple nodes.
After all, the sooner you learn about issues, the sooner you can mitigate risks.
Highly detailed, well-structured reports
Reports can be generated in a number of open formats that allow you to consume all relevant information and context from a single file that is intuitively organised and well-structured. Making the next stages of the vulnerability lifecyle a sinch.
All reports include an abundance of context for easy reproduction and verification of identified issues, such as:
- Affected page snapshots, including:
- DOM transitions, allowing for restoration of state.
- DOM capture as HTML code.
- Data-flow sinks, displaying the flow of tainted arguments throughout the JavaScript environment.
- Execution-flow sinks, displaying execution points of injected JavaScript payloads.
- Referring page snapshots, for easy comparison of before and after states.
- Full JavaScript stack data for sinks, including:
- Stacktraces.
- Function names.
- Function argument signatures.
- Function locations.
- Function source codes.
- Function argument lists.
As touched on, reports are available in a number of formats that allow you to interpret and use the information contained within. Formats include:


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CALUMET PARK, Ill. – For the kids who participated in a clinic of basketball and life skills Saturday in south-suburban Chicago, the mere fact that they were in a gym and a classroom all day meant the event was successful at its most fundamental level.
"You take away the opportunity for the kids to be recruited by the gang members, who are out there recruiting every day. So now they're in here with us," said Marco Johnson, a 29-year veteran of the local police force and representative of the Police Athletic League.
More than 100 at-risk youngsters took part in the event, hosted by the National Basketball Retired Players Association in conjunction with the National PAL and the National Urban League. Former Chicago Bulls and NBA players such as Bob Love, Dave Corzine, Jeff Sanders, Kenny Battle, Emmette Bryant and Casey Shaw logged eight hours or more at the Calumet Park Recreation Center.
The clinic – one of 14 already staged or coming to cities across the country – rotated young players through various skill stations, with enough classroom time to address some of the more pressing issues in their daily lives, ones they might not talk about if not for all the fun and star power Saturday.
"The biggest part is, give the kids hope," said Chris Hill, president of the NPAL. "We're going into communities where there's a lot of violence, a lot of drugs and alcohol and a lot of bad education. We're trying to let them know there's a way out. The way to get them here is to bring in athletes.
"Once they get here, we also let them know there's more to life than what they see every day."
Seven-foot giants such as Corzine, Roger Brown and LaRue Martin aren't part of the kids' everyday scenery. "The size automatically gets their attention," said Johnson, a sturdy man with a wide smile and, though he kept them holstered for this event, a mean stare and a backup scowl. "But what's amazing is, a lot of these kids know the history of the game. One of the little kids was like, 'Is that Bob … Bob … Bob Love?'
"I said, 'How'd you know that?' 'My dad told me about him.' "
Some of the NBRPA "Legends" who volunteered were done playing before some kids' parents were born. Still the name recognition was high, especially those who crossed paths with a Michael Jordan Bulls' team. And with basketball's prominence in many of the youngsters' worlds, the former players' stories resonated.
"I was talking to my son," Johnson said, "because they showed on TV the other night that LaRue was 'the worst [No. 1] pick ever.' I said, 'You tell me, would you rather be the worst draft pick in the NBA or no pick in the NBA?' My son was like, yeah, I guess you've got a point.
"If these kids perservere, they will make it, whether it's in sports or something else."
Corzine, who played 13 seasons in the NBA, is back at his alma mater of DePaul as an assistant athletic director working in community outreach. He and Brown offered instructions on post play, while finding ways to stress ambitions beyond basketball.
"The earlier we can get the message to kids, the better," he said. "Without being too much of a dream buster – everyone's entitled to pursue their own dreams – so many people focus on the ones who make it and are successful. They're a very small percentage but they're the ones everybody sees.
"The value, really, of athletics is physical fitness, healthy lifestyles – people take that for granted. Anything they can do to stay active is important. But also, you want them to be able to translate those skills they learn into what they can use academically and eventually in a career, as far as working hard and teamwork and being persistent, having integrity for the people you play with and work with. All those skills are transferable to their lives."
Said Battle, who is supervising seven of the 14 clinics: "A kid knows, if he's part of a sport or an organization, there are rules and regulations. I guarantee you, every one of those rules has educational value, where you have to maintain certain grades, you can't be involved with a gang, you can't be bringing trouble to the youth center or an organization."
The NBRPA, NPAL and the National Urban League already has hosted events in San Diego, Charlotte, Detroit and, for tornado victims, in Oklahoma. Upcoming clinics are scheduled in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Orlando and Miami.
The messages from week to week largely remain the same. But the audience changes, so the impact stays fresh.
"We were in North Carolina this past week and Chris Washburn came in," Hill said of the NBA's third draft pick in 1986, a notorious bust undermined by drug addiction and behavioral issues. "We had no idea what he was going to say, and he got up and said, 'Listen, I made $4 million a year. I didn't do things right. I was homeless – eating out of garbage cans. I ended up using drugs. I went to jail. Then I went to prison. But I made my way out because I rebounded back to what I learn. Now I own my own business, but look at what I went through.'
"This was the message he said to kids. We're trying to stop them from going through that."
Particularly those who never get that far, yet learn to cope without ever bouncing a ball in college or the pros.


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Vehicle Overview
After taking a break in 2013, the 2014 Kia Sedona is back, but not with a vengeance as very little has changed since the 2012 model year. The seven-passenger minivan now wears a new grille and headlight design, and sports new goodies inside to keep the entire family entertained.
Available in two trim levels, the 2014 Sedona LX comes standard with LED lights, fog lights, and 16-inch steel wheels. Inside, a storage console for iPads and tablets has been added to the list of standard features including satellite radio, Bluetooth, MP3 connectivity, steering wheel-mounted audio controls, keyless entry, folding second-row seats, and back-up sensors. The up-level EX trim adds 17-inch alloy wheels, leather seats, heated driver's seat, roof rack, and a rearview camera display. Power sliding doors, power sunroof, automatic rain sensing wipers, and navigation are also available.
Hardware remains the same, including the 3.5-liter V-6 rated at 269 hp and 246 lb-ft of torque, paired to a six-speed automatic transmission. The Sedona achieves an EPA rated 17/24 mpg city/highway, which isn't quite up to par with the popular Honda Odyssey's 18-19/27-28 mpg, though it's not far behind the Dodge Grand Caravan's 17/25 mpg or the Toyota Sienna's 18/25 mpg. For those who don't want to follow the crowd with the more popular minivan offerings, the Sedona is a good choice, though we recommend waiting it out since a revamped model is in on the horizon.
What's New for 2014
The Sedona comes back after a one-year hiatus with minimal visual updates to the exterior and interior. No changes have been made underneath the hood.
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- Adequate power
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- Dated design
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Any true Apple fan will remember when Steve Jobs got up on stage and announced the first iPhone. You may also remember that one of his first calls was a prank call to a Starbucks location in California. He jokingly asked for 4,000 lattes to go and quickly said he was kidding and hung up. As it happens, this on-stage prank still spurs phones calls for the same order to that same Starbucks location. Fast Company reports:
Kimiko Barbour, the store's manager, realized the reason for the recurring prank calls only after Fast Company made inquiries for this story. "They happened randomly. It's funny because I didn't even know that this existed until [you called]," she says. "Another manager was like, 'Hey, have you seen the video?' And I was like, 'What video?' She emailed it to me, and I showed Hannah. Then it all connected.
They spent some time tracking down the barista at the Starbucks location that actually took the call from Jobs. It turns out her name is Hannah and she had been working at that location for over half a decade. It wasn't until Fast Company started inquiring that they figured out what that call was all about and why they still received calls for thousands of lattes.
Hannah, the barista who answered the call, says if she would have known it was Jobs she would have asked him if he would come in to her store so she could make him the perfect drink.
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Go to Game And App Devs Meetup instead, New Game Events no longer posted hereJune 2nd, 2013
Want to catch up on all the new game events? Check out what Ann is organizing now at Game and App Devs.
Want to catch up on all the new game events? Check out what Ann is organizing now at Game and App Devs.
Hi Everyone,
It's been a while and we decided to have SVIGDA Pizza Nights, which we all meet and gather for Game talk and Pizza.
This is a Retro Event, once upon a time, to the days when we had no sponsors, and the people had come from all over and paid for their own food and talked about games. It was a merry evening of a social gathering and most importantly pizza. So, the moral of this tale, comes with a warning which you will be paying for your own orders.
Location: Once known as Kapp's in Mountion View, is now known as 191 Restaurant Bar and Grill. (191 Castro St) Downtown Mountain View.
When: April 25 (Wed)
What time: 7:30pm
RSVP: http://goo.gl/FMAzo
Register at http://gdc2012igdaparty.eventbrite.com/
It's GDC, it's Party Time. Save the Date. We are proud to announce this year's party for the entire IGDA will be done by our group and initially sponsored by Game Dojos Accelerator.
Meet Game Industry developers, professionals and friends from around the world. Eat, drink, have fun and commemorate another year in game. Details to come, see you there!
If you would like your name in lights and a table joining us as a sponsor, contact Ann, one of the organizers here.
***You Must be 21 or Older with Picture ID***
(Don't forget to bring Driver Licences or Passport)
Brenda Garno Brathwaite or John Romero — who does a better hair toss?
And Game Design Nirvana it was. This was on Eventbrite at http://johnandbrenda.eventbrite.com/
An Evening with John And Brenda
Join us for an Evening of Game Design with John Romero and Brenda Garno Brathwaite.
What would John Romero Do? What does Brenda Garno Brathwaiite Think? This is our chance to ask!
OK does anybody not know who they are or what they have created? For starters John Romero designed what is generally credited as being the first genre proper and full blown archetype of the FPS. Just in case you are unfamiliar with game history scroll down and click on the links. Between the two of them they have designed for console, pc, facebook, mobile over their careers and in many different game genres, in some cases creating or evolving the genre along the way.
These are top game industry professionals, kind enough to come to a local event when they are convention keynote types. Take advantage of that for your game knowledge! It is about design, design, design for the evening.
In order to provide maximum focused time for John and Brenda and your game design related questions there will be no Sponsors or Tables accepted for this event. We love our sponsors, really we do and we love our table demo game fun even more however this event is special and it's going to be all John and Brenda and You.
There will be food and refreshments, you don't need to eat beforehand. And yes, of course there will be some time set aside for networking, we are game people after all!
The evening is designed with a large Q&A portion with questions being culled from the audience. We will send out a call for questions beforehand to those registered. Ask and send in what is on your mind.We will also try to take some spontaneous and follow up questions to add depth as time and format permits.
In addition we do have one of the great game speech ranters of all time in Brenda Garno Brathwaite, in case she feels like riffing on a subject, no guarantees on that but one can always hope.
Questions on their current designs with Loot Drop will need to be sensitive to their release schedule and proprietary information.
Enjoy some publicity that is already out there on what these two are and have been up to in their illustrious game design lives. Ticket policy is the typical fully transfereable while not refundable.
John Romero is a game designer, programmer, artist and sequential artist whose work spans over 130 games, 97 of which have been published commercially, including the iconic works Wolfenstein 3D,DOOM and Quake. His latest Facebook game, Ravenwood Fair, has gained roughly a million players a week since its release in late October 2010. He has consulted on four other Facebook titles for the Google-acquired company Slide. He is currently the CEO of social game company, Loot Drop.
Romero is a serial entrepreneur who has founded seven successful companies including companies in the traditional hardcore, MMO and mobile spaces. His contributions and philanthropy within the commercial game industry have led to a myriad of inspired games and the founding of 10 companies. He is considered to be among the world's top game designers, and his products have won every major award.
One of the earliest "indie" developers, Romero began working in the game space in 1979 on mainframes before moving to the Apple II in 1981. He is a completely self-taught programmer, designer and artist, having drawn his inspirations from early Apple II programmers.
Romero's current areas of interest are Facebook games and massively multi-player online (MMO) games as well as social media and its intersection with gaming.
Brenda Garno Brathwaite is a game designer, artist, writer and game developer who entered the video game industry in 1981 at the age of 15. She worked with Sir-tech Software for 18 years on the Wizardry series and later the Jagged Alliance series among others before moving on to work with Atari on Dungeons & Dragons. During this time, Brenda had the opportunity to work alongside legends in the game industry and quite literally apprenticed in the ways of game design moving up through the ranks from lowly acolyte to lead game designer to creative director.
Since her days at Atari, Brenda has worked with a variety of companies, including Electronic Arts, Cyberlore, Firaxis and numerous companies in the social media space. She is presently co-founder, COO and a game designer at Loot Drop. Brenda develops her games both in analog and digital mediums, depending on the needs of the game. She has worked as a system designer, writer, level designer, world designer, lead designer and creative director throughout the years.
Brenda served on the board of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) until July 2010, and is presently on the advisory board for the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at the Strong Museum of Play and the advisory board for Game Developer Magazine. She was named Woman of the Year by Charisma+2 Magazine in 2010 and also was a nominee in Microsoft's 2010 Women in Games game design awards. In 2009, Train won the coveted Vanguard Award at IndieCade for "pushing the boundaries of game design and showing us what games can do." She was named one of the top 20 most influential women in the game industry by Gamasutra.com in 2008 and of the 100 most influential women in the game industry by Next Generation magazine in 2007. Nerve magazine also called her one of the the 50 artists, actors, authors, activists and icons who are making the world a more stimulating place.
And now just for fun, how many game designers can you name in this picture?
Catching up on the Posts. Ann was busy away from games for a bit creating a new separate venture called the HTML5 Developers Conference held in San Francisco on Sept 27, 2011.
It was a great to see some of the great minds in the field of HTML5 and JavaScript there along with a business and games track that will be expanded on in the future. Had a lot of appreciative feedback on the speakers.
Tickets sold out several days before the event and
at the Westin Hotel San Francisco, we know that because the 1000 lanyards ran out and we had to buy several hundred more. Had an after party at Jillians. Amazing!
Catching up with posting all the things we did. Here is the HTML5 Hackathon at EventBrite, here was our tagline:
Held in conjunction with the HTML5 Devloper's Conference – get ready for the new wave of games & apps – so join us for the HTML5 Hackathon @ Eventbrite!
Meet The Press!
Arguably the best way to get the word out about your game or your game company
is to get media coverage. Well respected online and physical magazines,
TV shows, and review sites provide their audience with an expert,
unbiased viewpoint and so have a great deal more credibility than
advertising. Media coverage can make a marked difference in not only
spreading the word, but also how your game or company is perceived.
So how do you entice a journalist to write your story? To answer that we
have assembled a panel of game-media giants to tell you about how they
view the world. Find out what makes them tick, what they want to write
about, and what pisses them off.
Chris Baker – Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Chris Baker writes and edits stories for Wired. He has also contributed to Slate, Entertainment Weekly, Spin, Maxim, Giant Robot, Film Threat, EGM,
Kill Screen, and the 1-Up zine.
Jeff Scott – Founder & Chief Editor, 148apps.com
Scott is the founder of the 148Apps network of sites covering mobile
applications and the business surrounding the development of apps.
Launched in 2008, 148Apps is an innovator in the mobile apps space,
being one of the first sites to publish statistics and metrics on the
app marketplaces it covers. Based in San Francisco, his background is in
web and mobile application development, having worked for a variety of
startups large and small before starting his own web publishing company.
Dean Takahashi – GamesBeat
is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games,
security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked
at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring,
the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times
Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360
Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on
Twitter at @venturebeat.
Sam Kennedy – IGN.com
Kennedy has been a pioneer in the videogame media since the mid-90s. He
started his career by launching Gaming-Age.com and then went on to work
at such publications as GameFan, GameSpot, EGM, and the Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine.
In 2003 he launched 1UP.com, the first community and content
destination for gamers, and later its two associated sites
GameVideos.com and MyCheats.com. He oversaw the 1UP Network until its
acquisition by IGN in 2011, after which he took on a broader role of
Audience Generation Director for IGN, building audiences and communities
for IGN.com, 1UP.com, and GameSpy.com.
AJ Glasser – Lead Writer, Inside Network
AJ Glasser is lead writer for Inside Network. Inside Network covers Inside Social Games, Inside Mobile Apps, Inside Facebook and App Data. AJ is a prolific lead writer on games, apps, and social networks. Previously, she served as News Editor at GamePro Media and as San Francisco Correspondent for Gawker Media games blog, Kotaku. Her work can also be found in Future US Inc. publications like GamesRadar.com and the Official PlayStation and Xbox magazines. AJ earned her Masters of Journalism from Stanford University, and her undergraduate degree in International Relations from Mills College..
Lightning Talks:
Philo Northrup – Co-Founder Envie Interactive
has been gamifying art and artifying games spanning three decades with over 50 titles published and countless awards garnered including Best Downloadable Game of the Year and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. His lifelong passion for the arts and the desire to play while he works will be on display as he lets us in on how his newest project, VIE: Virtual Island of Entertainment, is taking a slice out of a billion person pie.
Ben Savage – CEO Sibblingz
Facebook, Apple, and Google are all fighting over the emerging 14 Billion dollar mobile games market, with each party trying to attract developers into creating content for their respective platform. Sibblingz developed Spaceport so that developers don't have to choose one over another. Welcome to Platform independence.
Moderators: Ann Burkett Chair SV IGDA, Simon Amarasignham Director SV IGDA
Brought to you by The Silicon Valley IGDA
Thank you to our Venue Host: Google
Sponsors, thanks for making food/drinks and event possible:
It's time for a relaxed mixer and a bit of "find your team" matchmaking followed by a chat with our great mobile specialists complete with zombies and talking cats and air guitar. Come get your mobile mojo on!
REGISTER AT http://yourmobilemojo.eventbrite.com/
Andrej Nabergo CEO Outfit7 Talking Tom has come along way. "Tom" and "Ben the Dog" are being represented by WME, the same firm that represents Keira Knightley and pop queen Lady Gaga. Not too shabby for what was once an off the shelf 3d cat model, so Andrej knows all about the the ins and outs of nurturing winning IP. Talking Tom and friends have been downloaded over 135million times. An elegantly simple entertaining interactive app that has become a worldwide phenomen. Bring your questions on building engaging IP or general entrepeneurship. This man knows!
Thomas Chung VP & GM, The Playforge Don't know how to do in app monetization? Thomas Chung knows how. Free iphone app Zombie Farm uses it. Zombie farm has a revenue run rate of "double digit millions," all
thanks to virtual goods. Accoding to Business Insider, "Virtual goods is big business for iPhone apps now. Three of the top
ten grossing apps are free, making all of their money from virtual
goods. (Zombie Farm is the number seven gross app in the App Store.)"
Besides asking Thomas about how to harvest zombies and money, you may want to ask him about the strategies he and his team used for building a great game in general at Playforge. The team will be launching a new game soon. We are all ears,
Raj Singh A mobile industry veteran having worked across the space over the past 12 years. Raj is the Founder and CEO of Fifo Labs focused on enterprise mobility.Fifo Labs was spun-out of SRI (Stanford Research Institute) where Raj served as an EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence). Previously, Raj was the founding Vice President ofBusiness Development for Skyfire, a mobile browser that supports full Flash rendering.Prior to Skyfire, Raj co-founded venture-funded Veeker, NBC's mobile video citizenjournalism service and ToneThis, CNET's top downloaded ringtone creation product.Ask Raj about interesting upcoming mobile technologies.
Moderator: Ann Burkett Chair Silicon Valley IGDA
This event will sell out, to attend register at http://buildgamecompany.eventbrite.com/
Hightlights the current world of Silicon Valley style company building for game related companies
Life building game companies was once simple. Bootstrap or find a publisher. Pretty much.
With the the explosive growth in the online and mobile gaming space of the last decade out from under the previous publisher constraints comes enough choices to make your head explode too, and we don't mean just for special effects!
Instead of cleaning up the brains like a zombie, we suggest you check out this expert panel instead on "How to Build Your Successful Game Company" with people who have recently done it.
From running out of funds to pivoting with a new
idea "Xbox Live for iPhone", then managing like a good entrepreneur
pirate to get it covered by Techcrunch, getting into Peter Relan's
YouWeb incubator and being acquired for $104 million — all we can say is this is someone who
deserves that raised eyebrow!
OpenFeint has over 80 million players, 20,000 developers and 5,500 live games. OpenFeint was acquired in April 2011 by GREE, Japan's leading mobile social gaming platform, together reaching over 100 million players.
Ben Savage CEO/Founder at Sibblingz. Where Ben goes, typically successful games and platforms follow. After achieving an early facebook game success he went on to join the magic at incubator YouWeb. Credits include assisting on Happy Island and his Sibblingz team was heavily involved in the prototype and development of fellow incubee Crowdstar's now flagship hit game "It Girl".
Ben's team's latest is Spaceport. Developers write a game once, and simultaneously deploy across the entire Web, iOS, Android, and Symbian operating systems, Games created with Spaceport can be updated instantly. It uses popular Javascript with an already familiar API.
Ben's vision is to make the process of creating games like that of creating websites; simple, fast, instantly accessible around the world and across mobile operating systems.
Mark Weeks is a partner at Cooley LLP's Business department. His practice includes the corporate representation of emerging growth and public companies, venture capital firms and investment banks. He is involved in a full range of corporate legal projects including private financings, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate partnerships and technology licensing, as well as the representation of investment banks in equity and debt transactions. Mr. Week represents numerous clients in the life sciences and technology industries, including CrowdStar, AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, IDEV Technologies, and Openfeint
Date: June 14th, Tuesday, 6-8:30 pm
Venue: Cooley Palo Alto/Hanover Campus (3175 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304)
Overview: With all the recent media coverage of the explosive growth in the online and mobile gaming space (Zynga, Rovio, Crowdstar, etc.), huge investment rounds for game developers (ie Kabam, Crowdstar, Wooga, etc.), and massive acquisitions (ie OpenFeint, Ngmoco, Playdom, Riot Games, etc), people want to understand better how it's done. This joint event between SV IGDA and SVF highlights the current world of Silicon Valley style company building for game related companies . The event leads off with a fireside chat with Jason Citron (CEO/Founder, OpenFeint, the largest cross platform mobile social gaming network, was recently acquired by GREE of Japan for $104 million. A panel of experts follows that will cover what you need to know to get up and running and focused on success, spanning: founding team, company formation, bootstrapping, IP issues, 'hot' areas, operations, investors/funding, growth, and exits.
Panel Members: Jason Citron (CEO/Founder, OpenFeint), Ben Savage (CEO/founder at Sibblingz – "It Girl", "SpacePort"), Marc Burch (Angel Investor), social game infrastructure), Ben Wan (former VC and current social gaming entrepreneur), Mark Weeks (Legal Expert, Partner Cooley LLP, clients include OpenFeint, Sibblingz, Crowdstar)
Moderators: Ann Burkett Chair Silicon Valley IGDA and Jorden Woods, President, SVF


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WTF!? Lil Wayne Named Songwriter Of The Year
Rapper Lil Wayne was honoured with the Songwriter of the Year prize at the Broadcast Music, Inc. R&B/Hip-Hop Awards on Friday (22Aug14). Lil Wayne won the trophy at the music industry event which celebrates the songwriters, producers and publishers of the most-performed R&B/hip-hop songs of the previous year.
Rap duo MACklemore & Ryan Lewis picked up an award for Song of the Year for their track Can't Hold Us and teen star Zendaya received the Social Star accolade for using social media to showcase her music. Her category was voted by fans via Twitter.com.
Ludacris was honoured with the coveted President's Award in recognition of his achievements in songwriting over the past 16 years of his career. He also performed at the ceremony, which was held at the Pantages Theatre in Los Angeles.


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Oscar Pistorius – GQ's Superhuman of the Year, Hunk of the Day [PICTURES, VIDEOS]
GQ named Oscar Pistorius its Superhuman of the Year for a number of reasons. The South African professional runner won gold medals in the 2011 IPC Athletics World Championship for the 200m and 400m races, and the 4x400m relay, and — oh, yah — he did all while running on prosthetic legs.
Pistorius was born without both fibula bones, which run from below the knees and down to the ankles closer to the outside of the legs. This didn't stop the man from running, however, and in a matter of years he became one of the most renown runners in the world.
One could say — and we are — that he has a much better body than that of his competitors due to the fact that working out is much more difficult without leg support. While his story inspires other paraplegics, his ripped torso inspired fashion designer Thierry Mugler for his A*Men fragrance.
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shinron15 wrote:Divac isn't the only one with an incorrect number; Celtics Garnett wears #4 in game instead of #5.
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US News Ranks University at Albany School of Business
U.S. News and World Report has ranked the University at Albany School of Business MBA 86th in the U.S. (out of 448 AACSB accredited schools). Dean Donald Siegel stated "This is the first time in the history of the school that we have been ranked in the top 100 by U.S. News. Our ranking places us above much larger, elite private and public universities, such as North Carolina State, Rensselaer, Thunderbird, the University of Oregon, Stony Brook, and the University of Miami. A key reason for the jump in our ranking is our outstanding job placement. According to U.S. News, we were #1 in the U.S (tied with three other institutions), in terms of job placement for full-time MBA students (100% placement of students three months after graduation)."
The UAlbany School of Business was the first business school to be accredited by AACSB at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. In 2001, the school achieved separate AACSB accreditation for accounting and is currently one of only three public universities in NY State with dual AACSB accreditation (the others are Baruch and Buffalo). This fall, a new state-of-the-art $64 million, 96,000 square foot, LEED certified School of Business building will open.
Undergraduate degrees in business include concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Information Technology Management, Management, Marketing and the Financial Analyst Honors Program. The full-time MBA program offers concentrations in Information Technology Management and Human Resource Information Systems. An evening and executive weekend MBA serve working professionals. An undergraduate degree in accounting is offered, along with graduate programs in Taxation, Professional Accounting, Forensic Accounting and a two year program for those without an accounting background.


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Justice Donald A. Greenwood was appointed to the New York State Supreme Court in 2004 and was elected to a full term later that same year.
Justice Greenwood is the Deputy Administrative Judge for the Fifth Judicial District and was instrumental in bringing the Individual Assignment System to that district. In addition to his Commercial Term assignment, he presides over civil cases, including medical malpractice, personal injury and tax certiorari matters.
Prior to his appointment to Supreme Court, Justice Greenwood was in private practice concentrating in litigation, real estate and labor law. He served as the Town Attorney for the Town of DeWitt and represented other municipalities as well. He also served as an Assistant District Attorney and Deputy County Attorney for Onondaga County. Justice Greenwood is a former director of both the Onondaga County Bar Association and the Syracuse Landmark Theatre. He has also lectured for state and local bar associations on New York State Supreme Court litigation.
Justice Greenwood is a graduate of the University of Southern California. He received his J.D. from the Syracuse University College of Law and MBA from the Syracuse University School of Management. He lives in DeWitt with his wife and two children.


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I've seen this film only recently. Soderbergh is a competent director, but I wouldn't say a particularly interesting one if this film is any measure. "Behind the Candelabra" obviously took some of its influence from Irwin Winkler's 2004 biopic of Cole Porter, "De Lovely" - particularly the linking of musical sequences to aspects of the narrative, as well as the use of mise-en-scene contrasting artifice with reality. "Behind the Candelabra" resorted to stereotype in its portrayal of the gay coterie with which Liberace surrounded himself. I wondered whether this was a reflection of the superficial Liberace and, therefore, "real" in terms of his perceptions or "real" inasmuch as the entertainment industry has its own unique self-parodying, delimiting behaviours which would permit them to take stereotypes and fakes so 'seriously'. I suspect the latter, however some gay friends have suggested to me that this would be an accurate depiction of what it would have be like in Liberace's world. In any case, I felt the Coen Brothers could have done much more with this film which would have held my attention and made it far more compelling.
The film is based upon the book by Scott Thorson, one of Liberace's lovers. I was very impressed with the performance of Matt Damon as Thorson and I'd never realized before just how beautiful he is! This was essentially Damon's film, despite the title role belonging to Michael Douglas, which at first I found interesting and impressive, but which descended into one-dimensionality: he'd found the 'voice' and the body language (impersonation) but didn't really know how to use this to 'inhabit' the character and develop it further. Perhaps this was the fault of the script which threw away ideas without further development; for example, when Liberace's mother dies he confesses to Thorson that "I feel free". There was one strongly viable narrative arc which was discarded - it would have told us quite a lot about Liberace's problems with intimacy - because the film concentrated instead on his promiscuity and faithlessness and Scott Thorson's rather one-sided love for him. Apart from one 'intimate' scene where Liberace removes his toupee and reveals his bald head, their relationship is defined onscreen predominantly through sex - many scenes are played in the spa or the bedroom - and then it strays into bizarre territory; for example, Liberace pays for Thorson to have plastic surgery so that he'll resemble the pianist - and there are psycho-sexual aspects to the relationship linking it tangentially with incest. But the film didn't engage with this beyond what was, ultimately, quasi comedic. The role of the plastic surgeon was played by Rob Lowe, complete with squint-eyes caricaturing a cocaine-fuelled fantasy which merely aroused belly laughs.
Thorson had spent his youth being shunted from one foster home to another and this aspect of his book could have made an interesting sub-text in the film which would have created an audience perception that Thorson was more than another of Liberace's trophies and florid, decadent adornments.
It's disturbing to realize just how contemptuous entertainers like Liberace were and are toward their audiences - dishing them up 'pap' and being absolutely condescending and smug about it!! The music itself is dreadful and the meretricious decor in Liberace's home is a tasteless reminder that you can laugh "all the way to the bank" and not have a scintilla of class.
It is somewhat daring subject matter for a mainstream Hollywood audience but is sure to garner some awards because of the "bravery" of its stars!!
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Wow--thanks for quelling my high hopes for this film. I'm considering myself warned.
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Woman Runs in Bikini Through Frozen Streets of Siberia
Maybe living in Siberia isn't so bad after all. They've got hot women in bikinis running around in the streets. Sadly, this woman was arrested. Watch the video of her bikini-clad dash in subzero temps and find out why she got busted.


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Patrick Swayze died today after a long battle with cancer. He was 57.
Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2008. His publicist says he died with his family at his side.
He was the star of such movies as "Ghost," "Dirty Dancing," and "Road House." Swayze was named People's Sexiest Man Alive in 1991.
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Inna Rivkin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Spring 2019 Office Hours
Tuesdays 230-330pm, Thursday 510-610pm & by appointment
Office: 705A Gruening
Phone: 474-6178
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
If unable to reach Dr. Rivkin, you can call the Department of Psychology direct.
I was born in Russia, but moved to the U.S. in 1977. I received my B.A. in psychology from UC Berkeley in 1993, and my Ph.D. in social psychology (with minors in health psychology and psychometrics) from UCLA in 2000. I completed a post-doctoral fellowship in an interdisciplinary research training program on psychosocial and mental health services for people living with HIV. I was awarded a UCLA AIDS Institute Seed Grant for a project examining the effects of an expressive writing intervention on immune function and psychological adjustment for people living with HIV (Rivkin, Gustafson, Weingarten and Chin, 2006). I worked at UCLA as project director for the Eban program, a multi-site NIMH funded trial testing a culturally congruent HIV/STD risk reduction intervention for HIV-discordant African-American couples. I moved to Alaska in 2006 and worked as a visiting faculty member in the Psychology Department at UAA, before joining the faculty here at UAF in 2007.
The central theme of my research is adaptation in a social and cultural context, involving examination of the factors that promote physical and psychological health for people coping with stressful events. My work explores the effects of health interventions that incorporate cultural and community strengths, such as culturally congruent HIV risk reduction, health promotion, and coping interventions. I am also interested in how actively confronting a stressful event and expressing the accompanying emotions affect health and well-being, and in the role that the social and cultural context play in this process.
I am a researcher at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR), and investigator on the "Yup'ik Experiences of Stress and Coping" project. The goal of this project is to understand stress and coping in Yu'pik communities in order to develop a community-informed and culturally-grounded stress-reduction intervention.
In addition to being an active researcher, I enjoy teaching. I have taught undergraduate courses in Social Psychology, Health Psychology, Research Methods, General Psychology, and Personality, and Ph.D. courses in Community Psychology, Program Evaluation, and Community Practicum. Music and nature are also important in my life. In my spare time, I enjoy singing, songwriting, canoeing, hiking, skiing, and paragliding with my husband, Adam.
Inna and husband Adam riding the Gulkana river current.
Collaborating with Yup'ik communities.
Dr. Rivkin & her research team waiting to board their bush plane after disseminating project findings in one of her partnering Yup'ik communities.
Dr. Rivkin enjoying a spring bike ride in the woods!
- Rivkin, I.D., Johnson, S.*, Lopez, E., Trimble, J., Quaintance, T.*, & Orr, E. (2017). Yup'ik understanding of stress within the context of rapid cultural change. Journal of Community Psychology, 45(1), 33-52
- Hewell, V.M.*, Vasquez, A.R.*, & Rivkin, I.D. (2017). Systemic and individual factors in the buprenorphine treatment-seeking process: A qualitative study. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 12(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s13011-016-0085-y .
- Allen, J., Rivkin, I.D., & Lopez, E.D.S. (2014). Health and well-being. In F. Leong, L. Comas-Diaz, G. Nagayama Hall, V. McLloyd, & J. Trimble (Eds.) APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology: Vol. 1. Theory and Research (pp. 299-311). Washington, DC: APA Press.
- Rivkin, I.D., Trimble, J., Lopez, E., Johnson, S.*, Orr, E., & Allen, J. (2013). Disseminating research in rural Yup'ik communities: Challenges and ethical considerations in moving from discovery to intervention development. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72 (suppl. 1), 409-416. doi: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.20958
- Johnson, S.*, Rivkin, I.D., Lopez, E., & Orr, E. (2013). The meaning of coping in Yup'ik communities facing rapid cultural change. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72 (suppl. 1), 506-507.
- Lopez, E., Rivkin, I.D., & Johnson, S.* (2013). Commonalities in coping with stressful situations across Alaska Native culture, geography, and context. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72 (suppl. 1), 391-392.
- Zhang, A., Rivkin, I.D., & An, Na (2013). Responsibility judgments and responses to people living with AIDS in China: Testing an attributional perspective. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43(5), 1029-1039.
- Gifford, V., Niles, B., Rivkin, I.D., Koverola, C., & Polaha, J. (2012). Continuing education training focused on the development of behavioral telehealth competencies in behavioral healthcare providers. Rural and Remote Health, 12: 2108 (Online). Available: http://www.rrh.org.au/articles/showarticlenew.asp?ArticleID=2108
- Trimble, J., Rivkin, I.D., Johnson, S., Lopez, D. S., Orr, E., Allen, J., Fok, C., & Henry, D. B. (2012). 'Taringenqegcallrat cayarat umyuat-llu': Indigenous understandings in community based participatory research. Symposium published online by invitation in SCRA special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(3). http://www.gjcpp.org/en/article.php?issue=8&article=35 http://www.gjcpp.org/en/resource.php?issue=8&resource=65
- Rivkin, I.D., Johnson, S., Lopez, E., Orr, E., & Trimble, J. (2012). Understanding Yup'ik conceptions of stress within the context of rapid cultural change. Narrated presentation published online by invitation in SCRA special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(3). http://www.gjcpp.org/en/resource.php?issue=8&resource=66
- Lopez, E., Orr, E., Rivkin, I.D., & Johnson, S. (2012). Icugg', caarkalissiiyaakuvet? [You know, when you have too much to do?] Challenges in translating meaning. Narrated presentation published online by invitation in SCRA special issue of the Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 2(3). http://www.gjcpp.org/en/resources.php?issue=8&item=45
- Ford, T., Avey, J., DeRuyter, J., Whipple, J. L., & Rivkin, I.D. (2012). Providers' voices on telebehavioral health: Survey of an outpatient counseling agency in Alaska. Psychological Services, 9(3), 316-317.
- Rivkin, I.D., Lopez, E.D.S., Quaintance, T.M., Trimble, J.,, Hopkins, S., Fleming, C., Orr, E., & Mohatt, G.V. (2011). Value of community partnership for understanding stress and coping in rural Yup'ik communities: The CANHR study, Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice,4(3), 1-17.
- Gifford, V., Koverola, C., & Rivkin, I.D. (2010). Factors contributing to the long-term retention of behavioral health providers in rural Alaska. Rural Mental Health, 34(1),12-22.
- Rivkin, I.D., Wakelee, M, & Niles, B. (2009) Adjustment of students migrating from rural communities to attend university. Synopsis paper published in proceedings of conferece on "Lessons from Continuity an Change in the Fourth International Polar Year.", Fairbanks, AK.
- Shepler, D., Lupfer-Johnson, G., & Rivkin, I.D., (2008). The effects of yoga on self-objectification. Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research, 13 (4), 168-172.
- Williams, J. K., Wyatt, G. E., Rivkin, I.D., Ramamurthi, H. C., Li, X., & Liu, H. (2008). Risk reduction for HIV-positive African American and Latino men with histories of childhood sexual abuse. Archives if Sexual Behavior, 37(5), 763-772.
- NIMH Multisite HIV/STD Prevention Trial for African American Couples Group (2008a). Formative study to develop the EBAN treatment and comparison interventions for couples. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 49 (Supp1), S42-S51.
- NIMH Multisite HIV/STD Prevention trial for African American Couples Group (2008b). Supervision of facilitators in a multisite study: Goals, process and outcomes. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Symptoms, 49 (Supp1), S59-S67.
- Rivkin, I.D., Gustafson, J., & Weingarten, I., & Chin, D. (2006). The effects of expressive writing on adjustment to HIV. AIDS and Behavior, 10(1), 13-26.
- Myers, H., Wyatt, G. E., Loeb, T. B., Carmona, J. V., Warda, U., Longshore, D., Rivkin, I.D., Chin, D., & Liu, H. (2006). Severity of child sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress and risky sexual behaviors among HIVpositive women. AIDS and Behavior, 10(2), 191-199.
- Liu, H., Longshore, D., Williams, J. K., Rivkin, I.D., Loeb, T., Warda, U. S., Carmona, J. V., Myers, H., & Wyatt, G. (2006). Substance abuse and medication adherence among HIV-positive women with histories of childsexual abuse. AIDS and Behavior, 10(3), 279-286.
- Wyatt, G. E., Longshore, D., Chin, D., Carmona, J. V., Loeb, T. B., Myers, H. F., Warda, U., Liu, H., & Rivkin, I.D. (2004). The efficacy of an integrated risk reduction intervention for HIV-positive women with child sexual abuse histories. AIDS and Behavior, 8(4), 453-462.
- Wyatt, G. E., Loeb, T. B., Rivkin, I.D., Carmona, J. V., Chin, D., Williams, J., Myers, H., Longshore, D., & Sykora, C.; UCLA Women's Health Project (2003). What does child sexual abuse have to do with HIV prevention? Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UCSF, Child Sexual Abuse Fact Sheet #52E, September 2003.
- Loeb, T. B., Williams, J. K., Carmona, J. V., Rivkin, I.D., Wyatt, G. E., Chin, D., & Asuan-O'Brian, A. (2002). Child sexual abuse associations with the sexual functioning of adolescents and adults. In J.R. Heiman & C.M. Davis (Eds.), Annual Review of Sex Research, Volume XIII (pp. 307-345). Allentown, PA: Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.
- Rivkin, I.D. & Taylor, S. E. (1999). The effects of mental simulation on coping with controllable stressful events. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 25(12), 1451-1462.
- Grolnick, W. S., Kurowski, C. O., McMenamy, J. M., Rivkin, I.D., & Bridges, L. J. (1998). Mothers' strategies for regulating their toddlers' distress. Infant Behavior and Development, 21(3), 437-450.
- Taylor, S. E., Pham, L. B., Rivkin, I.D., & Armor, D. A. (1998). Harnessing the imagination: Mental simulation, self-regulation, and coping. American Psychologist, 53(4), 429-439.
- Han, E. E., & Rivkin, I.D. (1998). Relations between study habits, sleep, stress, and academic performance. Journal of Psychology and the Behavioral Sciences, 12, 23-32.
- Coleman, E. B., Brown, A. L., & Rivkin, I.D. (1997). The effects of instructional explanations on inferences from scientific text. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 6(4), 347-365.


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DragonAtma wrote:You can always set it to filter whether we're going with officers certainly active in period X and officers who may or may not have been active during period X.
This would be the ideal solution, but it means another data point in the encyclopedia. Basically, you would have your lifespan, but another date range aside to describe the 'approximated active period' which would be referenced by this search feature.
DragonAtma wrote:And it may be best to do without ü; sure, for some reason scholars like to use it, but then there's a the pain of wondering whether an officer is Lu Bu or Lü Bu (or Lu Bü or Lü Bü!).
I think it would be great to support umlauts. That's why I'm surprised they are not supported. I'm wondering if maybe support was broken somewhere along the line, because it is the sort of thing I would have wanted to support originally. And indeed, I thought it was.


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Lastly, seeing the great project made by Nicholas I decided to do give life to a GUS Simpson, here at Lausanne in Switzerland.
So I'm looking for some European fellows agreeing to ask their RepRap to replicate itself and let me adopt it's child.
I'll make it grow and teach it how to do replicate with the advices of this community.
If anyone can help me with that, please PM me.