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The 2012-13 winter sports season at Hope was highlighted by team successes, individual accomplishments and coaching milestones.
Highlighting the season was the play of the women's basketball team. The Flying Dutch were ranked nationally the entire season and advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division III championship.
A club sport at Hope, ice hockey continued a tradition of excellence by advancing to the semi-final game of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) national tournament. Senior Chris Kunnen of Des Moines, Iowa, was voted the ACHA national player of the year.
Two coaches, Brian Morehouse '91 in women's basketball and Chris Van Timmeren '97 in hockey, achieved victory milestones. With his team winning a conference championship for the 11th time in 17 years, Morehouse is the second winningest coach in NCAA Division III women's basketball. The team's 29-2 season record put him at 426-70 over his career. Van Timmeren over his 13 seasons as coach of the hockey team has a 301-92-12 record.
The coaching of Hope's winter sports teams were definitely family affairs. Brian Morehouse was assisted in women's basketball by his father, Dean; Chris Van Timmeren's assistant was his brother, Scott '03, and in men's basketball coach Matt Neil '82 was assisted by his son, Logan '12.
The men's basketball team overcame early season challenges with a strong finish to end second in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) race and advance to the championship game of the conference race. The Flying Dutchmen posted an 18-9 season record.
The women's basketball team went undefeated on their home floor with a 17-0 record. They ranked second in the nation in scoring defense, allowing just 44.9 points per game. A sharp-shooting sophomore guard, Brittany Berry of Grand Rapids, Mich., led the nation in three-point shooting accuracy at .512. Her average topped all NCAA women's basketball players in every division. Senior teammate Liz Ellis of East Grand Rapids, Mich., was voted the MIAA Defensive Player of the Year a third consecutive year. She and teammate Courtney Kust of Cincinnati, Ohio, received All-MIAA first team and All-Region honors.
In swimming, senior Libby Westrate of Grandville, Mich., was voted the MIAA's most valuable female swimmer for the second consecutive year. Hope's all-time record holder in the 50, 100 and 200 freestyle, Westrate was a four-time All-MIAA honoree.
In men's basketball, senior forward Nate Snuggerud of Zeeland, Mich., was named to the All-MIAA first team. He led the team in scoring and rebounding as both a junior and senior, and finished his career on the Hope all-time scoring honor roll in 13th place with 1,366 points.
Hope's thrilling 73-70 home court victory on February 9 over rival Calvin gained at least three new fans. In attendance were Dr. John Knapp, his wife Kelly and son Ronnie. They were in Holland at the invitation of Hope's Presidential Search Committee and joined fans in the filled DeVos Fieldhouse for their first game in The Rivalry. On Monday, March 25, Dr. Knapp was named the 12th president of Hope College effective Monday, July 1.
Nine members of the swimming and diving teams received All-MIAA honors. Joining Libby Westrate as a four-time all-leaguer was senior Josh Grabijas of Howell, Mich. Honored for a third consecutive year was junior Nick Hazekamp of Janesville, Wis., while senior Erin Holstad of Traverse City, Mich., was a first-time honoree.
Five Flying Dutch are among a league-record 11 freshmen to be honored: Hannah Larson of Jackson, Mich.; Klare Northuis of Holland, Mich.; Sarah Sheridan of Richmond, Ind.; Jorgie Watson of Grand Rapids, Mich.; and Lindsay Wiederhold of Plainwell, Mich.
Four swimmers qualified for the NCAA Division III championships and competed in seven events. Achieving honorable mention recognition in the 400-yard freestyle relay were Hannah Larson, Klare Northuis, Libby Westrate and sophomore Luisa Burgess of Pittsburgh, Pa.
While considered a spring sport, collegiate lacrosse made its debut at Hope with snow still on the ground. The Flying Dutchmen won their first five games, while the Flying Dutch celebrated their first home game with a 22-1 victory. The lacrosse teams are coached by Hope alums Michael Schanhals '92 and Tracy Benjamin '09.


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It's an exciting time to be in the insurance industry where the speed of change and pace of innovation have never been greater. Customer dynamics, digital technologies, and the proliferation of data are just a few of the trends reshaping the industry and introducing new opportunities.
Through the on-going collaboration of the Life and Annuity Software Client Advisory Board (CAB), Accenture is dedicated to understanding how these trends impact your business strategies. Together we'll learn how we can help you capitalize on opportunities by designing tools and capabilities to meet your objectives and support your needs.
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What is the Great Scots! volunteer program?
Many MC alumni, alumni spouses, students, and friends have expressed an interest in volunteering at the College. From these requests, the Great Scots! volunteer program was created to offer opportunities to stay connected and support the mission of the College. Great Scots! is "volunteer-friendly" as projects are well-organized and designed for all skill levels. Great Scots! volunteers have the flexibility to choose the level of their involvement and the commitment of their time. During the 2012-2013 academic year, GS! Volunteers donated over 8,000 hours to the College and the Clayton Center for the Arts!
What are the volunteer opportunities?
Great Scots! opportunities are grouped into 6 categories: Administrative, Athletics, Hospitality, Friends of the College Woods, Landscaping, and Archives. Examples of these categories are:
• Administrative support, assist with mailings, registrations, & event preparation, library research and proctor exams
• Basketball(15 Scots & 12 Lady Scots home games): concession & ticket sales
• Soccer: ball runners
• Assist with the preservation of the nearly 200-year History of Maryville College
• Due to space restrictions participation is limited; currently all positions are filled.
• Please register if you would like to be contacted for future opportunities.
• Serve as a host or greeter for campus events.
How does the Great Scots! volunteer program work?
Most volunteer opportunities are between the hours of 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Contact Marde Soutullo, coordinator of the Great Scots! Volunteer program, or sign up on line. We appreciate your interest and you will be contacted about volunteer opportunities.
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Since June 09, Great Scots! Volunteers have donated over 1,071 hours assisting the College with administrative, athletic, horticulture, and archives support. Over the past seven months, contribution of the Great Scots! calculates to 134 – 8 hour days.


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2010: Played in 13 games and netted three markers in her second season at Sacred Heart...Tallied the game winning goal August 27 in a 4-3 triumph over Saint Peter's at Campus Field...Slotted home two first half goals, including the game winner, in a 4-0 win over Robert Morris on senior day.
2009: Appeared in all 18 of the Pioneers contests and made 17 starts in her rookie season...Finished the season with two goals and one assist for five total points...Notched her first collegiate goal in her second game as she scored the game winner August 30 against Longwood...Tallied 33 total shots and 16 shots on goal.
High School: Three sport letterman in soccer, basketball, and lacrosse at St. John Vianney High School...Played four years of soccer and basketball with one season of lacrosse...Served as captain of both the soccer and basketball teams in her senior season...Twice named to All-County and All-State soccer team (2008 and 2009)...Three time All-Division soccer selection (2007-09)...Played in 2009 senior all-star game...Basketball team won 2008 state championship and 2009 winners of the tournament of champions.
Personal: Jennifer Mulvey. Born: 12/4/90. Parents: Patti and Neil. Siblings: Nicole and Dan. Hobbies: Going to the beach and boating. Favorite Teams: New York Yankees and New York Giants. Favorite Athletes: Fernando Torres and Robinson Cano. Favorite Book: And Then There Were None. Favorite Movie: Dirty Dancing. Favorite TV Shows: Modern Family and The Office. Favorite Food: Pizza.


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Bay of Plenty
The Bay of Plenty region is home to spectacular beaches, juicy kiwifruit and New Zealand's only active marine volcano.
When James Cook arrived in 1769, he anchored off a great bay 'full of plantations and villages' that was, he noted 'a bay of plenty'. The Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, is no less plentiful today. Around Tauranga are hectares of orchards and gardens producing everything from kiwifruit and citrus fruit to avocados. Add to this bounty the local wines and the plentiful fresh seafood and you just know that this is a place where you will dine well.
Mount Maunganui, a short distance from Tauranga, has spectacular beaches which are a magnet for surfers all year round and voted New Zealand's best by TripAdvisor. For the adventurous, there's skydiving and for those more keen on terra firma, blokarting (small land yachts) will blow the cobwebs away.
Visit White Island – a quick helicopter ride from Whakatane – and you can walk, yes, on an active volcano as it hisses, belches and rumbles. It's that same geothermal activity that provides the hot pools and spas that you will find in many places where you can relax and let the world slide by. There is plentiful accommodation in the area; everything from bed and breakfasts through to hotels and boutique lodges.


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Chocolate glass, sometimes mistakenly called caramel slag, was made by the Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company of Greentown, Indiana, from 1900 to 1903. It was also made at other National Glass Company factories. Chocolate glass is pressed glass and ranges in color from a lighter latte color to a darker, espresso. Fenton Art Glass Co. made chocolate glass from about 1907 to 1915. More recent pieces have been made by Imperial and others.
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Anyone working in a post-production field knows (or at least should know) the importance of a good file structure and naming system. With information, media, various files and more coming at you from every direction it can be difficult to find a place for everything. However, if a client abruptly requests a very specific clip or document and you can't find it you will be in trouble. What are you to do? Check out an application like Post Haste.
Post Haste is a project management tool with a special focus on file structure and naming systems via the use of various templates. Post Haste is great for audio and video professionals, web and graphic designers, photographers, animators and anyone else with a need to keep projects and project assets neat and organized. Read on to learn more about what Post Haste does, what it has to offer and some of my thoughts on the application.


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Our Mission
Project POOCH, Inc.'s mission is to provide opportunities for youth in corrections to learn responsibility, patience, and compassion for all life by working with shelter dogs.
Joan Dalton founded the program in 1993 while she was vice principal at MacLaren's Lord High School. She started with one dog and one youth. Since that time Project POOCH, Inc.® has changed (and saved) the lives of hundreds of dogs and youths.
The youth work with their dogs daily and practice the principles of positive reinforcement and behavior modification. As the trainers manage their dogs, they learn how to manage their own behavior. They also earn school credits, develop good work habits, and acquire valuable occupational skills.
The relationships, emotional support and mutual trust established between the trainers and dogs are pivotal to the success of the program. For some students and dogs, this relationship is a first experience of unconditional love, and it helps them develop the self-confidence and hope they need to build future relationships.
The youth are closely monitored. Participants have consistently demonstrated a reduced incidence of aggression toward others during their stay at MacLaren. They also show growth in leadership skills and improvement in their ability to work with others. Youth who demonstrate responsibility, patience, and the ability to train dogs on their own are given additional opportunities to train dogs for the public.
Two social scientists have studied the benefits of the Project POOCH program for its youth participants.
Dr. Sandra Merriam, Pepperdine University
Sandra Merriam, Ph.D., Pepperdine University, surveyed MacLaren staff and youth enrolled in the program in structured interviews. She reported the following:
Based on survey responses from the staff at MacLaren, the youths who participated in Project POOCH showed marked behavior improvement in the areas of respect for authority, social interaction and leadership.
Program youth interviewed reported that they felt they had changed and improved in the areas of honesty, empathy, nurturing, social growth, understanding, self-confidence and pride of accomplishment.
Dr. Merriam reviewed recidivism data and found zero recidivism among the Project POOCH youth she interviewed. To request a condensed version of this study, please contact: Dr. Sandra Merriam at: firstname.lastname@example.com; or read an article about her study in the March 2005 Journal of Correctional Education: Humanizing Prisons with Animals: A Closer Look at "Cell Dogs" and Horse Programs in Correctional Institutions.
Kate Davis, M.S.W.
Kate Davis, M.S.W., presented her study titled Perspectives of Youth in an Animal-Centered Correctional Program: A Qualitative Evaluation of Project Pooch at the December 2007 National Technology Assessment Conference on Animal Assisted Programs for Youth-At-Risk sponsored by the Humane Society of the United States and the Center for Prevention of Youth Violence of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
This study was reviewed and approved by the Human Subjects Review Board (HSRB) of Portland State University. The researcher and her assistant conducted ethnographic interviews and focus groups with Project Pooch youth and MacLaren staff followed by formal interviews with a sample of 14 program participants (ages 17-22).
The researcher summarized in reference to Project POOCH, as well as other Prison Based Animal Programs (PAPs):
On the occasions when animal welfare advocates and human
rights advocates find they have a shared interest in providing humane
care to all living creatures, despite their offenses, there exists the
potential for a powerful alliance to influence reformation of care for
sheltered dogs and for incarcerated individuals.
The entire report including methodology, analysis, and interviews may be found here in PDF format: Perspectives of Youth in an Animal-Centered Correctional Vocational Program: A Qualitative Evaluation of Project Pooch.


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Date(s) - 12/07/2018
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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To RSVP for this information or kickoff session, please email firstname.lastname@example.com or click Here and submit your information. We will reply to your request with a confirmation of the date/time/and location.
Address: 4490 N. Pershing Drive, Arlington, VA 22203
Parking: Please park on N. Pershing or on 2nd St (at the end of N. Pershing just past the Recreation Room Building. Parking in the lots next to the Recreation Room Building OR in the parking lots for adjacent apartment buildings will leave you at risk of being towed.
Contact: Please call 703-200-3081 if you need assistance!
Description: This is the sales office/community room for a condominium community called Arlington Oaks.
The building does not look like the other 2 story garden style condominiums which surround it! Please take a look at the Google Map to familiarize yourself with the area as GPS units tend to take you about 1 block off!
The meeting room is just inside to the left, and there are bathrooms available.
The closest Metro is Ballston Metro Stop. Here is a link of how to navigate from the Ballston Metro to Arlington Oaks
This is a picture of the building from the outside.
Written Directions to Arlington Oaks Community Room
I-66, from the West:
- Exit at Glebe Road/Ballston onto Fairfax Dr.
- Turn Right at second light onto Glebe Road.
- Continue past the Ballston Mall, Harris Teeter, and the Mercedes Dealership
- Turn Right at the CVS onto N. Pershing.
- Cross over George Mason Dr. at the stop light. The building will be down the road on your left about 300 yards.
I-66, from DC:
- Exit at Glebe Road.
- Turn left at the light at the end of the exit ramp onto Glebe Road.
- Cross over Fairfax drive and follow the directions from #3 above.
Route 50, from the West:
- Exit Route 50 (right hand side) at George Mason Dr.
- Turn Left onto George Mason Dr. at the stoplight.
- After you cross over Route 50 on George Mason Dr, turn Left at first stop light onto N. Pershing Dr.
- The building will be down the road on your left about 300 yards.
Route 50, from DC:
- Exit Route 50 on your Right onto George Mason Dr.
- Turn Right at the light onto George Mason Dr.
- Turn Left at first stop light onto N. Pershing Dr.
- The building will be down the road on your left about 300 yards.


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City of Lincoln
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Mayor's Office
City of Lincoln and Lancaster County offices will be closed Monday, July 5 in observance of the Independence Day holiday.
The following services will not be provided on Sunday or Monday:
Some City facilities will be open to the public:
City parking meters also will be enforced on Monday.
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Here is a symbol that some of you may recognize. This little fella is the mascot for rock band that formed back in 1994. Here is "how to draw Aquabats", step by step. The Aquabats logo is exactly what it looks like; a bat body with a human face and human legs. The A stands for the name of the band, and the color of the bat is to match the colors of the suits that the members of the band wear. As of right now there is five band members and their names are; The MC Bat Commander, Crash McLarson, Jimmy the Robot, Ricky Fitness, and Eagle "Bones" Falconhawk. I have personally never heard of the band before, but if it was requested by more than five people, I guess I need to brush up on my music list. Anyways, have fun drawing Aquabats folks, and I will be back with other tuts that will blow the time right from under you. Adios mi amigos.
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10 year plan for public transport adopted for community feedback
Waikato Regional Council has today adopted a draft regional public transport plan which sets out what services will be delivered and how over the next 10 years.
Waikato Regional Council has today adopted a draft regional public transport plan which sets out what services will be delivered and how over the next 10 years.
A new plan to tackle the spread of the dangerous marine pest Mediterranean fanworm into Coromandel harbours and the Firth of Thames has today been endorsed by Waikato regional councillors at their meeting in Hamilton.
Two important new plans designed to help protect and restore the health of the Waipa River catchment and the Upper Waikato River catchment have today been endorsed by Waikato regional councillors.
Justin Cruickshank is a Waikato trucking 'legend' whose road safety tip for fellow drivers features in the second phase of a regional education campaign launched today.
Agrichemical contractors operating without certification and in breach of the regional rules pose a potential risk to the community, warns Waikato Regional Council.
There's a bit of a myth that drowning is a "gentle" way to die.
Good progress on tackling highly invasive aquatic pest plants in the lower Waikato River area is a feature of an annual report presented today to Waikato Regional Council's integrated catchment management committee.
Waikato Regional Council has been able to rule out the disease kauri dieback as the cause of problems with kauri at the Waipa District Council-managed Gudex Memorial Park near Cambridge.
The Collaborative Stakeholder Group (CSG), in working on ways to protect and restore the health of the Waikato and Waipa rivers, is taking into account the new National Policy Statement (NPS) for Freshwater Management 2014 which came into effect in August.
Waikato Regional Council ecologist Dr Bruno David has won a prestigious science award for innovative projects to protect native fish and control populations of invasive species.
Eight organisations have signed up to a project to protect the Desert Road landscape from the adverse effects of three invasive legume plants.


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Free Breakfast at Ikea This Weekend
If you were planning this weekend to hit your local Ikea to get a Flurvig, a Granvik, a Göllusk, a Yerkvar, or any of their other fine Swedish flat-pack sundries and goods, you're in luck. You don't have to do it hungry because Ikea is giving away free breakfast until 10:30 AM all weekend (with the help of this handy coupon). (Sorry Hicksville, Houston, Pittsburgh, and Seattle: the offer isn't valid at your stores.)
Ikea's breakfast has always been a cheap lure (99 cents) to get people into the store early, but this weekend it's free—and it includes bacon. Free bacon!
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At Memorial Hermann, affiliated specialists use technologically advanced equipment to create comprehensive, personalized diagnostic evaluation and treatment plans for men's and women's incontinence and pelvic floor disorders.
Stress incontinence can result from multiple vaginal births, pelvic surgery, chronic coughing, obesity, heavy lifting, frequent straining during bowel movements or pelvic organ prolapse.
Urge incontinence, also known as "overactive bladder," results from unknown causes. People with overactive bladder experience a sudden urine loss or urge to urinate due to bladder spasms of unknown origin.
Mixed incontinence, the most common form of the disorder, is a combination of stress and urge incontinence.
Overflow incontinence results in unwanted loss of urine associated with incomplete emptying of the bladder. Causes include obstruction of the bladder outlet in men due to prostate enlargement,pelvic floor disorders in women or neurogenic bladder caused by peripheral neuropathy, diabetes or spinal cord injury.
Transient incontinence is less common and can result from urinary tract infections, medications, urethritis or chronic incomplete emptying of the bladder. Normally, it can be resolved by diagnosis and treatment of the underlying cause.
Affiliated physicians begin treatment with the least invasive options:
Kegel exercises are a program of pelvic-muscle training designed to decrease urine leakage by increasing the strength of the pelvic floor muscles, specifically the levator ani.
Medication is the first line of treatment for women who experience urgency, urge urinary incontinence and urinary frequency. New second-generation medications for overactive bladder are now available and producing excellent results. Medications include:
Bladder training and timed voiding may be as effective or more effective for some types of urinary incontinence than treatment with medication.
Bladder augmentation offers patients who have not responded to other treatments for urge incontinence a surgical option. Memorial Hermann-TMC offers minimally invasive robotic-assisted bladder augmentation for patients who qualify for the procedure.
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Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center is affiliated with highly qualified, experienced specialists and provides technologically advanced equipment for personalized diagnosis and treatment of men's and women's incontinence. Learn more about referrals and appointments.


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The sign was up all over Gilo today. It looks like a typical Peace Now poster.
It says:
Evacuate Gilo - NOW!
Peace Now is everyone's problem!
At this rate we'll all live be living in caravans!
Provided as food for thought by Im Tirtzu and concerned Jerusalem citizens.
The 40,000 (brand new) settlers in Gilo seem to echo these sentiments.
(Gilo is a neighborhood in Jerusalem).
Visiting Israel?
Learn to Shoot at Caliber-3 with top Israeli Anti-Terror Experts!
Wherever I am, my blog turns towards Eretz Yisrael טובה הארץ מאד מאד


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These snow socks have been especially for cars, in particular those that cannot be fitted with snow chains. A handy storage bag and a pair of gloves is supplied with the snow socks to make fitting them as quick and easy as possible. You only need to fit the snow socks to the drive wheels of the car and it usually takes 2 minutes to fit the pair. It is important to be aware that, so far, this textile type of product is not necessarily regarded as legally acceptable in European ski resorts. Therefore, in our opinion, if you are travelling to a European ski resort, the ideal solution is to take snow socks but also carry a pair of snow chains should the conditions or local legislation demand them to be used. If you are unsure of fitment or have any doubts please phone one of the stores direct and my staff will be delighted to help you choose the correct ones. We don't want you stuck on some mountainside at -5 degrees because they don't fit! Please note that these may be supplied with the Siepa logo printed on them. The product is the same.
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So I was running a little late because there was an episode of Party Down to finish RIP the best show ever. Never fear; the first 15 minutes were probably not that great, I hear.
5:24 Julianna Marguiles wins tonight for outfit, I don't need to see anyone else (forshadowing: she actually did win!). Giuliana says, "Gorge."
LL Cool J in the house. He literally looks as though he has not aged at all. This is probably due to that same Kangol hat he always wears. Jessie: I bet he's 50. IMDB says 43.
Emily: There's this music video where he just licks his lips over and over again, just like he is now. Bonus points for anyone who can find that and post it in the comments.
5:29 Kyra's adjusting. I like her wing points at the top of the dress, they remind me of Maleficent, the evil lady from Sleeping Beauty.
Jessie: She looks like Catwoman.
Emily: In a good, not Catwoman way.
Jessie: Whatever, don't you dare slander her name
Emily: Have you seen the one with Halle Berry?
Kurt from Glee says it's hard to watch TV because he just keeps looking at his Golden Globe sitting next to it. Mentions that he might want to move it so that he can just relax already.
Addition to the list of pet peeves about Giuliana: Her incessant name-dropping. Jessie adds, "You cant say "mwah" while you actually kiss someone, that's against the rules." She then catches herself, and asks for this comment to be stricken from the record because "it's a good thing KB's not here, she does that." The Unlive Blog never lies, Jessie.
5:32 Naya Rivera is doing that thing that Mariah Carey did for about a decade where she just wore too much beige because she was vaguely ethnic. Mistakes. She also appears to be talking to a man who could pass for Leighton "that's not a last name" Meester's brother.
5:35 It's Razor from The Kids Are All Right!
5:39 Angie Harmon comes on. I should really keep watching Rizzoli and Isles, especially since they have some like secret gay following on Youtube with all these people making fanvids in hopes the lead women will get together? Is this the new Xena? Jessie notes that Angie's dress has probably been worn before. Another Jesse (Tyler Ferguson) is wearing a flannel tie on a plaid shirt. Props.
5:43 Mila Kunis arrives. Jessie: Where's Mac, where's Mac!
KB: They broke up.
Jessie: Oh right.
She looks like the young lady on Modern Family who I keep thinking looks lovely at these things but dresses just a little old for herself, who met her boyfriend at a High School Musical 3 audition and Giuliana just will not stop prattling on endlessly to.
Anyway. Thought Mila's dress was potentially the same collection as Heidi Klum's from the Globes, but KB thinks it's from the same McQueen collection Michelle Obama's dinner with the Chinese that there has been so much hubbub about.
Girl from Winter's Bone who KB hates because that movie edged out Andrew Garfield for Supporting Actor and The Town for Best Picture at the Oscars. This totally nonsensical hatred will continue throughout the night. But this is my favorite look, I think. It's Oscar de la Renta.
5:46 Dianna Agron is the epitome of class again, in lace and sequins. Giuliana: You went with a shorter hemline!
A minute later it appears they haven't moved on in conversation, prompting KB to say "Are they still talking about her shorter hemline?"
Jessie will spend much of the red carpet reading aloud the E! News ticker at the bottom of the screen. Some highlights: We've now discovered Eric Benet is engaged to "Mariela Testosterone" and that Justin Bieber is married.
5:48 Sophia Vergara. KB: You can spot those boobs a mile away. This viewing party is quickly becoming not team Sophia.
Ed Helms tells Giuliana that he's "just rocking the carpet, SAG awards style."
5:51 Julie Bowen in a fucking jumpsuit. Where is Amulya?!
Giuliana: You are more dressed up than most women here, this is tre elegante.
And then there was the collective wince heard 'round the world.
5:54 Epiphany! Those awful tmobile commercials feature Fisher from Greek! And the reason I didn't recognize him was because his hair is so horrible for a reason unbeknownest to us.
6:05 John Krasinski is, through the help of modern technology, is both talking to Giuliana and her co-host whose like, somewhere else on the red carpet. He says that this is "so interactive. This is next-level interviewing."
Lea Michelle is certainly into the deep-v's and low-boob these days.
Jane Lynch is wearing Neil Lane. Sean: She's going to prom after this.
Emily: In what, 1957?
Jessie: You know what guys, maybe she didn't get to go to prom because she was bullied.
6:10 January Jones is pretty obviously going so conservative because of the Globes dress. But it's not Versace, it's Carolina Herrera and I love it.
6:13 Jessie says I'm going to feminist hell because I dont like Hilary Swank. Discuss.
When Melissa Leo walks out, there are SO many moans.
Giuliana tells us she would love to be telepathic in real life. And then as Claire Danes approaches, mutters crazily under her breath "OMG pretty." It's good that we don't need to be telepathic IRL to figure out what she's thinking.
6:18 Some girl who is a correspondant and on The City star says in her British accent that Jennifer Lawrence doesn't look good because of the black tie on her dress? "You're not doing karate, my love."
6:29 Giuliana gets into it with Nicole about her "attic baby", which I did not know was a Francesca original until this very moment.
6:31 Giuliana cannot talk to Christian Bale. "How are you feeling, are you feeling like the birthday boy? Christian: Of course im feeling like the birthday boy.
Julia Stiles looks amazing! There are worse dopplegangers to have.
6:33 Winona looks like a bridesmaid who wore white and the bride hates her. She was in Black Swan?! Maybe I didn't know that because I'm still thinking about this:
Amy Adams is in Herve Leger, but all I can do is feel sympathy for her with her slight hair tuft at the hairline of her very sleek ponytail.
6:35 James Franco is wearing amazing sunglasses that are "Steve McQueen edition."
This just in: Geoffrey rush is still bald, but wearing a different hat.
6:40 JT is making love with himself to the camera. But he has a buzz cut, so I love it. Giuliana asks him, "Did you ever want to change your name because it was kinda longer? See what we make you think about here on E!" She also gives him a nip of whiskey to "raise the roof a little bit."
6:43 Christina Hendricks says "I feel like im in a smoking jacket." Consensus is that her hair is a little brassy, and she's wearing too much makeup, but I still love it.
Jessie asks, "Is there an actual awards show thats going to happen? I feel as though it'll just be this all night."
It is noted that Robin Wright nee Robin Wright Penn looks good. Her hair, however, does not. Jessie: It is a bang. One bang.
Giuliana tells us that, don't worry, "all the stars look fabulous from my vantage point." Your vantage point of needing to suck up to them so that you get someone to talk to you on this show. Let's end on a more refreshing point: Helena Bonham Carter is not wearing the same dress as during the Globes and says, "They're going to rip me to shreds anyway, so I might as well make it worse."
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An Australian man brought gaming addiction to a whole new level last week when he broke the Guinness world record for longest "Call of Duty" session by playing the hit for more than five and a half days.
Okan Kaya, 28, of Sydney, played the new "Call of Duty: Black Ops II" game for 135 hours and 50 minutes, surpassing the previous 120-hour record, the U.K. Daily Mail reported.
Kaya, a sales manager for online retailer 4Cabling, was allowed a 10-minute break every hour, but stored many of them up to sleep for several hours at a time. He even had to bandage his hands to keep them from cramping up, the Mail said.
A Taiwanese teen died earlier this year after playing a video game for 40 consecutive hours, The Australian reported. Another gaming-related death happened in 2011, when a Chinese man lost consciousness after playing for three days straight, according to the BBC.
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Hank Aaron accomplished what was once considered unthinkable when he broke Babe Ruth's home run record. Thirty-nine years later, Aaron has provided another welcome surprise by joining Twitter, using the handle @henrylouisaaron.
Aaron sent his first message Tuesday morning.
"I am officially on Twitter! I won't be posting a lot, but look forward to sharing with you."
I am officially on Twitter!I won't be posting a lot, but look forward to sharing with you."- Hank Aaron (@HenryLouisAaron) March 19, 2013
Aaron's account went live Tuesday night and he had 40 followers before he sent his first tweet. The Braves confirmed the account at 11:06 a.m. on Tuesday. Within the hour that followed, The Hammer had gained more than 7,000 followers.
One of the most legendary figures in baseball history, Aaron owns the Major League record for most career extra-base hits, total bases and RBIs. He broke Aaron's home run record when he hit his 715th on April 8, 1974 and ended his career with 755.
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- In 2013, I will work with debt collectors to eliminate any and all of my collections items. I will make 2013 the year that I am finally free of overdue debt.
- In 2013, I will revisit the credit mix that I have and make sure that I have a good balance of installment credit and revolving credit, and I will open new accounts and manage them wisely to rebalance this mix.
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Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital have put forward a new theory as to what causes sepsis, an often fatal condition that occurs when infection spreads throughout the body. Leaking blood vessels may actually be a cause of sepsis, rather than a symptom as previously thought, said Dr. Warren Lee. Dr. Lee's hypothesis and a review of recent research on sepsis were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Sepsis kills about 1,400 people a day worldwide and is the second-leading cause of death in intensive care units in Canada. Despite intense research, the death rate remains high, between 30 and 50 per cent. Treatments largely consist of surgical removal or drainage of the infected site, antibiotics and supportive care. "The lack of therapies is not for want of effort. On the basis of promising in vitro and animal studies, many drugs have entered clinical trials only to fail, resulting in the description of sepsis research as a 'graveyard' of discovery," said Dr. Lee, a critical care physician and researcher in the hospital's L Ka Shing Knowledge Institute.
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Earth is under a constant barrage of information from space. Whether from satellites orbiting our planet, spacecraft circling Mars, or probes streaking toward the far reaches of the Solar System, NASA collects massive amounts of data from its spacefaring missions each day. NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) satellites, for example, provide daily imagery and measurements of Earth's atmosphere, oceans, vegetation, and more. The Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) collects all of that science data and processes, archives, and distributes it to researchers around the globe; EOSDIS recently reached a total archive volume of 4.5 petabytes. Try to store that amount of information in your standard, four-drawer file cabinet, and you would need 90 million to get the job done.
To manage the flood of information, NASA has explored technologies to efficiently collect, archive, and provide access to EOS data for scientists today and for years to come. One such technology is now providing similar capabilities to businesses and organizations worldwide.
In 2004, Archivas Inc. of Waltham, Massachusetts partnered with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Founded by the former chief technology officer of The New York Times, who was seeking an effective means of digitally archiving the paper's 100-plus years of news, Archivas innovated new software technologies for preserving and providing useful access to vast digital repositories of data. The company began work with Goddard computer scientist Curt Tilmes to develop and test a beta form of its ArC technology for NASA to collect and store data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard NASA's Aura EOS satellite.
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WASHINGTON – Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez met with Florida lawmakers Tuesday on Capitol Hill to discuss the U.S. embargo and how to help make technology more readily available to all Cubans on the communist island.
Her stop in Washington was a first for Sanchez, who is currently on an 80-day world tour after being granted permission to travel.
Sanchez met with U.S. Rep. Joe Garcia, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sen. Bill Nelson. Missing from the meeting was Cuban-American Sen. Marco Rubio whose office says plans to meet with Sanchez later this week.
Sanchez spoke about the plight of Cubans and their lack of access to information and the internet. Sanchez has her own blog, "Generation Y," and sends daily tweets about the life on the island and news regarding dissidents.
She acknowledges that not everyone can do this, but it's something she wants to change.
"For 10 years, they've been trying to shut me up, but today we are stronger than ever," Sanchez said.
Sanchez has all intentions of returning to Cuba. When asked in a press conference following her meeting with lawmakers if she feared repercussions for being so open on this trip, she said it would be worth it.
"If that's the price I'll have to pay for this trip and the possibility to speak of that Cuba that is so censored, then I think it's worth whatever the punishment," Sanchez said.
Other topics of conversation included the U.S. embargo, which Sanchez opposes but many of South Florida's congressional delegation strongly supports.
Senator Nelson discussed the death of dissident Oswaldo Paya, who was killed in a car crash in Cuba last July. The driver, Angel Carromero, who was convicted in Paya's death and is currently serving his sentence in Spain, said in an interview with The Washington Post that the group was being followed by a car with government plates that he says struck them from behind. The Cuban government has said the crash near the eastern city of Bayamo was caused when Carromero lost control and hit a tree.
So what's been the most fascinating part of her trip so far? Sanchez said it's not the amazing sites or the food, but of meeting other Cubans around the world.
"I've found Cubans who know the historical stories of 50 years ago that we Cubans on the island have already forgotten about. I've found Cubans rescuing popular images and popular songs of times of old. I've found Cubans who, one way or another, are taking the island of Cuba on their shoulders or in their minds or in their hearts."
Sanchez is expected to speak at the Freedom Tower on April 1 before her return to Cuba.
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When people move, they take care to shut off utilities, change their billing address and even get a new driver's license. One of the last things on most people's minds is updating their voter registration information, a little oversight that was costing Orange Country, Calif., quite a bit of money.
In a county with 1.6 million voters on its rolls, costs associated with mandated election-related communications between government and citizens can really add up. If a voter's address is wrong, for example, then the money spent on outreach is wasted.
"People tend to think about updating their information with us last," said Orange County Registrar of Voters Neal Kelley. "They'll update their magazine subscriptions before they contact us. When you factor in postage and printing, each bad address costs the county between three and four dollars."
And those recurring costs will only increase unless the voter list is pared down and made more accurate.
Yet tools available to Kelley and other registrars across the country trying to cull bad addresses are limited. In Kelley's case, he only had returned mail and the national change of address system from the Post Office to work with – both of which were problematic. The Post Office is not required to return sample ballots, so that information never gets back to the registrar. And if a resident doesn't fill out a change of address form with the USPS, Kelley's office had no way of knowing the new address.
Enter Experian Public Sector, which offers address verification services to government organizations that need help keeping their voting lists accurate.
Data collected by Experian is more accurate than what government customers can get, said Jill Canetta, vice president of marketing and operations for Experian Public Sector. "Since we are a credit bureau, we have to go through a cleansing process with our information," she said.
A name could be listed several different ways, depending on variations in spelling or if initials are used. "We bring all those instances together and find the right one, saving it as a single record," she said. Experian also captures data from sources like payday loan companies and rent bureaus, giving it information on people who may have never bought a home or applied for a car loan.
Experian Public Sector offered to take the Orange County list of voters and check it against its database of known addresses. By law, the county could only send Experian the name and last known address for 260,000 inactive voters – those who had not voted in Orange County for the past four years. But it was enough.
Once the proper addresses came back to Orange County, post cards were sent out to those voters. According to Kelley, 18,600 people sent back cards confirming that they had moved out of the county and were no longer eligible to vote there. Removing those people from the mailing list saved the county $80,000 in the next election. And had those bad addresses not been removed, the county would have kept trying to reach those people.
Other voters on the list had moved but were still living in Orange County. Their information was updated and their new polling place assigned. While that didn't save the county any money outright, it did make them active on voter rolls again and likely saved some confusion and time on election day.
The records Orange County sent to Experian were formatted into a text file, though Experian accepts a wide variety of formats: fixed, variable, CSV or Excel, Canetta said. "Input and output files can be mapped quickly to accommodate field positions so that limited effort is required of the user," she added. In addition, Experian guarantees a 24-hour turnaround for all government agencies for up to 250,000 records.
Orange County first checked its list in 2012 and then again in 2014. It was the first and so far only county in California to scrub its voter lists for accuracy using the Experian program. The county paid $25,000 to have its 260,000 inactive voter records checked, which works out to less than 10 cents per record.
Given the amount of both instant and ongoing savings the county received from that one run, Kelley said he anticipates keeping the lists up to date from now on using the same process.
"I think we need to do this every two years," he said. "But our list will get smaller as it gets more accurate. My guess is that in 2016 when we do this again, we will have half as many records that need checking as before."
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Welcome to part two of DiS's publication of Plan B's extensive interview transcripts with Don Wilkie and Ian Ilavsky, co-founders of Constellation records. Yesterday they discussed being 'of Montreal'; today the founders of the notoriously leftwing label go talk politics.
Plan B: Until recently your website had a front page stating 'Economic downturn = progress' – care to expand on this? Is it the recession's damage to the capitalist system you're alluding to, or the idea bad times = good art?
CST: Only that the sole definition of progress on a global scale (starting with the world's industrialized economies) that we can conceive of at this point will require concepts like contraction, reduced consumption, and the elimination of bubbles and other calculated financial ponzi schemes.
We go on to say 'let's all try to work on making this equation a reality' – meaning of course that there is going to be nothing pretty about a sustained economic downturn unless, as citizens and consumers, we can conceive of it as fundamentally progressive. Certainly this conception is not going to come from our official leaders – at least not on any evidence thus far. You have to wonder what the four trillion dollars that has been thrown into the 'world financial system' in the past few months might otherwise have paid for.
PB: How do your politics dovetail with the running of a label? The original mission statement of Constellation is that you hope to 'enact a mode of cultural production that critiques the worst tendencies of the music industry, artistic commodification, and perhaps in some tiny way, the world at large.'
CST: We've tried. Back when we occasionally wrote these manifestos we were trying to provoke a conversation. We were trying to summon up some sort of reaction 'from our own ranks' as it were, some sort of talk about the impossible promise of indie rock/punk rock. And that pretty much failed, as we should have expected, but honestly didn't – because of course why would anyone go out of her way to read such arch polemics with generosity of spirit or double-take?
It was a risk, but we genuinely thought at least some segment of the music media would both place it in a tradition of politco-artistic manifestos and take us up on it in some way. Instead, it was generally ignored or read as pure sanctimony. Except perhaps by some number of actual musicians, local organizers and music fans, who seemed to get it.
PB: Would you still hold this as your maxim?
CST: Yes. Ultimately of course we also fucking meant it, and were challenging ourselves to live up to it.
PB: How successful do you feel you've been?
Not very, given the primary intention: to trigger reactions and provoke discourse 'within the industry'.
On the other hand:
Godspeed declined countless opportunities to 'take it to the next level' and consistently refused to do any number of things that would have been the most natural moves in the world for a band in their position at the time, which would have lined their pockets without anyone barely noticing or caring.
Constellation, for its part, has to this day never signed a contract with any of its bands. We've never paid a lawyer, and we've never lost a band. We've issued every single title for the last decade on CD and LP (save one Franke Sparo EP of radio sessions and our two compilations) and we've kept them all in print, without downgrading the packaging, so that anyone discovering the label or any of its artists today can pay a normal, non-collector price for any of our records.
We have never attributed any label overhead to a release budget.
We've accounted for every penny of every project and even on records that only sell a couple thousand copies, there have been royalties paid to the artist, strictly from record sales alone.
We've consistently devoted the bulk of our production budgets to artwork and packaging and still print with the same tiny silkscreen, foil-stamp and offset shops that we first sought out in 1997.
We still hand-assemble, bag, sticker and seal every single CD and LP in-house, and we have never printed a bar code on an album jacket. We've never allowed any of the music we've released to be used to sell a product.
One-hundred percent of licensing revenue for film or television usages that may have come our way has been passed on to the band in question. Recently, we've found ourselves working with career artists like Vic Chesnutt and Carla Bozulich, who have traversed the entire sordid arc of the music industry and 20 years later, seem genuinely happy to be working with us – they've found a home on the label and an extended family of musicians and engineers affiliated with Constellation and with the Hotel2Tango, and are making some of the most powerful and committed work of their lives.
And on the other hand, and in the past two years:
Our entire catalogue has been made widely available as commercial MP3s.
We have hired professional, outside publicists in the USA for certain releases.
We once discounted our entire back catalogue for sale pricing at Fopp in the UK.
We have applied for and received label-specific subsidies from the Canadian government.
These are all things we said, at one point or another, either publicly or privately, that we would not do. We have nothing to say in our defense, other than that the music industry has indeed gotten worse and worse and just about everyone, in different ways, from major labels on down to 'indie artists', have conspired directly or indirectly to make music fans feel and believe that they have little reason to actually pay for recorded music.
Unfortunately, and unlike most labels these days, record sales are our sole revenue stream.
We remain idealists and intend to still be here when the world swings back around.
PB: It would seem Godspeed were by far the most politically outspoken of your bands... is it a mistake to think of Constellation as 'political' label outside of the sphere of record company politics?
CST: Constellation is not a political label outside the sphere of music industry politics, just to clarify. What that means for us is that, as the label owners and directors, the politics that shape and govern label practices sometimes do involve our analysis and/or critique of trends or phenomena in the music industry that are not necessarily and strictly speaking about record company operations. Perhaps that clarification is largely a function of how narrowly we have defined ourselves as a record company, viz. the end of the preceding answer!
In any case, there are cultural and industrial trends central to the way recorded music is commercialized, commodified and consumed that we have an opinion about, and that shapes label 'policy'. Since we have no formal contractual bond with our artists, label policies sometimes require an explanation and/or an argument that is ultimately 'political'.
But it is absolutely not important to make an ideological connection [with our artists]. The only thing that matters is mutual respect, from the outset, and a good, human understanding between parties as to what each expects from or will ask of the other. Trust is the basis for the connection: ethics, not politics or ideology,
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PB: You've rarely signed any bands explicitly agit/left-leaning lyrically... is that because there are few bands with lyrics of that nature who gel with the ahem Constellation sound?
CST: On the one hand, listen to Silver Mt. Zion, Black Ox Orkestar (pictured top) - well, read the translations from Yiddish - and more recently, Vic Chesnutt.
With the first two examples at least, there's some pretty explicit stuff. On the very first SMZ record, Efrim makes his vocal debut by singing "Let's kill first the bankers… Let's televise and broadcast the raping of kings." He doesn't really back down much from there over subsequent albums.
Scott Gilmore, singing in Yiddish on two pretty fucking brilliant Black Ox records, includes verses like "Do the oppressed mirror the oppressor?/The beaten child is on the street with fists/And the sad race of wise men/Sends brutes/To the border." This is a modern Jewish folk quartet, singing in Yiddish, about stuff that is quite explicitly critical of the Israeli security state.
But sure, on the other hand, we have not gone out of our way to seek out agit-prop, left-leaning bands. And Chumbawumba just wouldn't ever take our calls.
If someone locally, over all these years, had wedded explicitly 'political' lyrics to music that turned our crank, we would have embraced it for sure. There is nothing about the way any of our vocal artists sing and compose songs that is aesthetically incompatible with overt or polemically 'leftist' words.
Perhaps we're just drawn to more subtle lyrical styles. There's definitely abundant politics in Frankie Sparo lyrics, but it ain't Billy Bragg (no disrespect to Mr. Bragg of course). Shellac can be thought of as an 'agit' band lyrically, and if a group mining similar territory (but not derivatively of course) were to have emerged from Montreal we'd have been all over that. Fugazi, The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans all come to mind as music-makers that musically slay us, with lyrics to boot.
In controlled doses, balls-out sloganeering works pretty well in screamo hardcore, but probably Constellation would pass, if for no other reason than that, sometimes, we do actually dissuade overtures from bands we really like because we feel the label might hinder more than help them. That's a whole other discussion – that sometimes the label feels it has to respect certain limits imposed by its core audience and or by the distribution networks it has cultivated.
PB: Especially back in the Nineties, would it be anything near the mark to say a roster of largely instrumental bands WAS a political statement?
CST: No, Constellation really did not set out to (and did not) foster an instrumental roster. Is it possible to make a political statement unintentionally on the level you're suggesting? Maybe.
Perhaps 'personal' music politics, in the sense of band hierarchies, rejections of standard forms, and musicians' previous experiences in groups with different internal power structures would be more relevant. Insofar as instrumental rock groups, however different aesthetically, might have shared some common thread of dissatisfaction with conventional forms or the internal politics of previous group configurations and songwriting dynamics (not that we're saying this was the case with the members of early Constellation bands – we honestly don't know one way or the other) then maybe the additive political sensibilities of these players helped inform and shape the label in certain ways.
But again, we're not suggesting a political 'result' for the label derived from the formal aesthetics of the music. More from how the personalities of the participating musicians fed into other aspects of 'behind-the-scenes' administrative or organizational discourse around the label.
PB: Clearly you have had to make some compromises along the way; was allowing your product to be sold by Amazon or iTunes galling? I can imagine selling digital product must be pretty annoying, given the efforts you go to with packaging.
CST: From the time digital music was in its infancy, we've lobbed many bricks, from many angles, at its shiny facade.
We refused to engage for as long as we could, until we realised that a big ugly McMansion had been built behind that facade and much of what would pass for the future of the record business was likely to take place behind its doors.
We came to the conclusion that we were unfairly holding our artists hostage to our politics. For about a year-and-a-half, we built our own tiny network, figuring if people want to buy our records as MP3s, they can seek them out at a handful of small independent digital shops. This amounted to essentially nothing. Sadly, and somewhat shockingly, online digital distribution and sales is far more dominated by the 'major players' than physical retail. This still frankly baffles us – why not hit an indie site like Insound or Zunior or Fina and give them your digital business? But there it is – people mostly go to the places that are built-in and/or branded, i.e. iTunes, Amazon.
Honestly, at this point it's hard to muster any feelings at all about the digital side of things – the domain is just so utterly apolitical and abstract to us, through and through. To the extent there are conscious consumers considerate enough to actually pay for digital music, truly and without a speck of irony we salute you, no matter who you buy from. It is a tremendous help to our artists and to our core vocation, which is making tangible physical audio packages with lots of love and care. If a digital revenue stream can help us keep serving up quality physical albums for those who continue to care about such frivolity, that's great.
And ultimately we do accept that MP3s work for some people as a preferred format (assuming they are willing to pay for a format in the first place). There are sound environmental reasons for it, and not everyone wants, has room for, or can afford a stereo – which is where the undeniable aesthetic strengths of CDs and LPs reside. We have been dragged into the future and we ain't fighting it no more.
PB: I am looking at my copy of Land Of Kush's (above) Against The Day and seeing a little Canadian flag in the corner; the way I understand it, government funding is available for Canadian bands... is this something you are entirely happy with?
CST: If you're asking whether we agree with state funding of culture in general, the answer is a resounding yes. As with many countries suffering under conservative or neo-liberal governments, such funding in Canada is under sustained attack, and it really is a handful of crumbs that gets pitched at culture, and then mostly if said culture can be justified purely on economic grounds; in other words, our cultural funding agencies are being transformed into export development corporations.
Constellation existed for its entire history without such funding, though we occasionally helped our bands apply directly for recording and touring grants. The Canadian flag you're seeing on the Kush record is a result of having recently qualified for a national program, aimed primarily at assisting record labels in the transition to the bold new digital age! We clearly needed the help.
PB: Angry young left wing firebrands tend to mellow, it has oft been observed. Have you observed this happening to yourselves?)
CST: It has also often been observed that anger and fire tends to dissipate as material wealth accumulates and one begins to more or less exclusively associate with others whose wealth is accumulating. Fortunately for us (and our politics), material wealth remains pretty elusive and scarce in these parts and what we and our peers do get our hands on is mostly been plowed back into keeping our collective endeavours running. That said, we have no doubt mellowed in ways that we can't yet see very clearly, or are in denial about.
But really not much has changed. We've always been focused on sustainability and maintaining a human scale and a human pace. Twelve years in and it's still just the two of us, plus a trusty warehouse guy and, as of a few years ago, a part-time indie accountant who has also become a great friend. You need to work a lot harder to sell a record these days, and to some degree we've capitulated on the marketing front, greasing those wheels a tiny bit by hiring out to the occasional publicist – no way are we gonna start working the phones in our own office, at this stage in the game. But the big ideas will always be worth a fight.
PB: Can a 12-year-old record company maintain an outsider status indefinitely? I'm not talking about 'selling out', but presumably you must be looked to as role-models/elder statesmen/givers of advice by aspirant young indie labels, there must surely be at least SOME sense of responsibility to such labels..?
CST: Status as insider or outsider seems to us to have very little to do with the label's age and everything to do with ongoing practice. Where we might currently sit on that continuum we will leave to the punters, however, we see nothing inherently 'insider' about taking some responsibility for the crop of kids and labels coming behind us. On the contrary, we've often despaired over the relative dearth of like-minded labels and as such, have never refused any request for advice and/or whatever kind of help we can offer, so long as we can at least glean what we consider to be noble intentions behind a project.
In tomorrow's final part, Constellation talk about, y'know, bands on Constellation.


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HIV/AIDS News
NIH Launches Online AIDS Oral History Project
"We received a referral to the NIH, in June of 1981, of a patient D who, as we shall discuss, turned out to be the first patient seen at NIH with AIDS." - Dr. Thomas Waldmann
"I made the decision that we would have to switch over to research on this disease [AIDS] because, as every month went by, I became more convinced that we were dealing with something that was going to be a disaster for society." - Dr. Anthony S. Fauci
What did researchers think, feel, and do when AIDS - eventually traced to a smoldering new virus that would wreak havoc worldwide - first emerged? To commemorate the twentieth anniversary on June 5th of the first publication about AIDS, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announces the launch of a new Web site titled "In Their Own Words: NIH Researchers Recall the Early Years of AIDS" (http://aidshistory.nih.gov). The site features compelling stories told in the transcripts of interviews NIH Historian Victoria A. Harden, Ph.D., conducted with physicians, scientists, nurses, and administrators involved in AIDS research at NIH. The voices of some of them can be heard in audio clips featured in brief chapters highlighting their first encounters with AIDS patients, the discovery of HIV, the search for treatments, and other aspects of AIDS research at NIH in the 1980s.
An ongoing project, the site will be updated over time with more oral histories and other archival material. It is a window into the world of biomedical science for the public, and it is expected to be a valuable resource for scholars, students, the media, and policy makers interested in the history of AIDS research.
"As a historian of science and medicine working in an institution leading the world in formulating a response to a new infectious disease," comments Dr. Harden, "I thought it was imperative to document and preserve what was happening here." She began the AIDS history project in 1988, shortly after the NIH established a history office and hired her as its director. "The people who have suffered with or died from AIDS and those who have cared for people with AIDS need to know that from the beginning, a group of highly skilled and caring people at NIH worked as hard as people could to address the problem."
In addition to the oral history transcripts and brief biographies, the site features a 1981-1988 timeline of key events in AIDS history, focused mainly on NIH and other federal agencies, as well as document and image archives. The document archive includes selected press releases, articles authored by Dr. Harden, as well as copies of the AIDS Memorandum, a fast-track way to circulate unpublished observations and data among NIH AIDS researchers in the early 1980s.
"In the past 20 years, advances in HIV/AIDS research have been extraordinary, but much remains to be accomplished, especially in terms of remaining vigilant in our fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States and in bringing the benefits of AIDS research to poorer countries around the world," comments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "Dr. Harden's office has done a great service to the public and to medical historians in documenting how NIH responded during the early years of AIDS."
Dr. Fauci has served as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the NIH institute that funds most HIV/AIDS research, since 1984. He was among the first researchers at NIH to focus on AIDS research, and in early 1982, he took care of one of the first AIDS patients admitted to the NIH. His is among the transcripts that can be accessed via the Web site. Among the other approximately 20 transcripts currently online are those of Drs. Robert Gallo, H. Clifford Lane, Samuel Broder, Christine Grady, Thomas C. Quinn, Harvey Klein and Robert Yarchoan.
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Press releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at http://www.niaid.nih.gov.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.


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