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Google Attempting to Unequivocally Change Twitter Communication
Thanks to Search Engine Land's piece on what, essentially, is TweetRank, we can see that Google is attempting to force a change in the way people communicate on Twitter.
I know that seems like a large leap of logic, but when it's distilled and deconstructed down to the central idea, that is exactly what Google intends to do.
Here's what Amit Singhal says about how they calculate your TweetRank (in a nutshell)
In the case of tweets, the key is to identify "reputed followers," says Amit Singhal, a Google Fellow, who led development of real-time search. (Twitterers "follow" the comments of other Twitterers they've selected, and are themselves "followed.")
"You earn reputation, and then you give reputation. If lots of people follow you, and then you follow someone–then even though this [new person] does not have lots of followers," his tweet is deemed valuable because his followers are themselves followed widely, Singhal says. It is "definitely, definitely" more than a popularity contest…
In fact, that is exactly what it is. A popularity contest. Of course, we all had some inkling of that notion to begin with, but now it's official. I do think they are trying to determine relevance and trustworthiness and integrating that into the TweetRank algorithm, but like meta-keywords in their heyday, it's a lot easier to "filter out noise" by a simple follower count. It's more than that, it is, to say the least, another Orwellian attempt by Google to "filter" information they deem "relevant and trustworthy". Just look at the article's example for "Obama" tweets.
Google is now Controlling the Conversation
Do not attempt to adjust the vertical or the horizontal. They have control. With the inception of TweetRank, and the newfound importance of RTS (real-time-search) and the RTR (real-time-results), if you want exposure you'll have to play by their rules. What does that mean exactly?
Hello. I'm SPAM-BOT #6257. I'm now following you.
First: don't manage who follows you or who you follow. As pointed out, high follower counts, like the PageRank algorithm theorized, is essentially a vote of confidence the user is worthwhile, trusted, and relevant. If follower count is the initial indicator of "trust", then we're about to see quality take a dive. Anyone who's been using twitter, say for more than 2 months, knows spam is the prevalent thing in the tweet-tubes.
#HowDoesThisSignalLowQuality ?
Second: put the brakes on your hash-tag use. I can see Google's point on this, and there is no limit to hash-spam out there (i.e. #ThatsOldSkool). But, for much of the users on twitter, particularly the SEM crowd, it's more artistic expression and blunt force. Personally, I use the hash-tag for sarcasm, blunt honesty, and to call out industries of importance to me. Hash-tags on Twitter are part of the socio-culture. It's ingrained. To be so wholly injudicious and lump ALL hash-tags together is ridiculous.
Google: Can it Change the Culture of Twitter?
No one is really taking this seriously yet, so I don't expect the change to happen overnight. However, as RTS and RTRs are pushed to the forefront of search, and Google makes good on the RTR algorithm, you're going to see marketers drop hash-tags from their tweets. You're going to see an over-abundance of spam infiltrating the ranks of everyone just to have massive follower counts.
It will only take 6 months of this algorithm being applied before Google goes back to the drawing board. Google picking on the easy marks to establish faux-quality guidelines: Followers and Hash-Tags. It won't take long before QDF (query deserves freshness) queries and results are overrun with pure and utter garbage, under the current guidelines. These two major indices DO NOT indicate quality of tweet or Tweeple.
I think Google will fail in its quest to re-mold the conversation on Twitter. And, ultimately, Google is going to have to really put some complicated thought into how it serves RTRs. Perhaps an algorithm that matches the complexity of the is SERP algorithm. This is the easy way out, and it's only going to lead to poor quality and bad results.
Feb 27 2010
Sounds like I need to start Twittering right away. I had no idea there was such a thing as TweetRank. Is this proposed or does it already exist?
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Ah, safe home Chicago: The murder rate has fallen by nearly half. Unless, that is, you live on the blood-drenched streets where violent crime rates have actually increased. Until we end that concentrated slaughter, this city again risks losing its foundation of working, middle-class families.
By chance, grace or luck, a bullet that heaved across a South Side park last month tore through a little boy's cheek but missed his brain. A turn of his head, a half-second delay, a shift in the shooter's grip, ever so subtle, could have delivered death to 3-year-old Deonta Howard.
Chance. Grace. Luck. Deonta survived the shooting on an outdoor basketball court in his Back of the Yards neighborhood. His puffy face, eye swollen shut, blue pajamas and Radio Flyer hospital bed graced the Tribune's front page.
His story disturbed millions of people.
Violent crime is often the most influential driver of urban instability. During one of Chicago's most violent years on record — 1992 — the Tribune surveyed adults of almost 3,000 households who left the city between April 1 and Oct. 31. The No. 1 issue was safety: Nearly 2 of every 3 respondents sought a safer place to live.
Two decades later, Chicago faces a similar precipice. Crime on the South and West sides threatens to provoke out-migration similar to suburban flight of the 1960s and 1970s. Then, middle-class white families fled the city, destabilizing communities that never recovered. Now, middle-class black families wonder whether to flee. Areas such as Chatham — a sturdy, tidy outpost of police officers, teachers and small business owners — won't prosper if fear of crime takes an irreversible hold. And the Chatham area, which in the past year was among the city's most violent communities, isn't alone.
Ald. Howard Brookins Jr., whose 21st Ward includes Chatham, says the exodus of stable black families is his No. 1 frustration. Every "For Sale" sign pushed into the grass of a prim bungalow is a defeat: "They say, 'I'm just going to fold and leave. I can afford to, and the perception of safety in Oak Lawn or Homewood or Olympia Fields or Tinley or Orland Park is better.'"
The 2010 U.S. census showed that Chicago lost 200,000 people over the previous decade. Three South Side wards that had the deepest population plunges — the 3rd, 9th and 17th — also struggle with crime. All three wards continue to rank in the top 15 of 50 wards with the most violent crime.
Holding on to middle-class families ought to be easier now that … Chicago is so much safer than it was. In the early 1990s, this city averaged more than 900 homicides a year. Before a decline began accelerating in 2004, Chicago logged 600 or more homicides in each of 36 consecutive years, obliterating some 28,000 lives. Most victims were young minorities. The vast majority were slain in geographically limited parts of the city.
Last year saw 507 homicides; so far this year, a still-horrific 345.
Research by Daniel Hertz, a master's candidate at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy, documents how concentrated today's violence is: Even as the city overall has had a stark drop in homicides, many communities have seen increases over the terrifying homicide rates of the 1990s. The homicide rate per capita on the West, South and Southwest sides today is higher than it was 20 years ago, and the gap between safer and more dangerous areas is wider. Communities in that swath, stretching east to Lake Michigan and including Woodlawn, South Shore, Chatham and Auburn Gresham, are among those where homicides per capita have risen.
The citywide homicide rate has fallen because certain areas — basically the entire North Side — are safer and mask the increases in the killing fields to the west, southwest and south. Some of those areas are now just as violent as or more violent than they were 20 years ago.
Many parents whisk kids to distant summer camps or to Grandma's house far away. Others let their college kids stay on campus for the summer. But their reasons can depend on where they live. More and more, Brookins' constituents send youngsters to camp to escape violence. And parents tell college kids to stay away lest they get caught up in mayhem. Protecting children means … keeping them out of Chicago. "I don't know how we fix that unless and until we get the buy-in," he says. "People didn't stop smoking en masse until it was not cool to smoke. The same thing has to happen with thugging and roguish behavior. It has to become, to young people, that this is not cool to do, walking around with your pants hanging down, hanging out in a park."
Behavior that's innocuous for one young person nudges another to riskier behavior. "Truancy, running away, difficult temperament — they seem like minor types of offenses," says Robert Sampson, social sciences professor at Harvard and author of "Great American City," an exploration of Chicago's social structures. "At some point they get rejected by their peers and their teachers, and they start to hang out with other delinquents." Obstacles reinforce one another: Living amid poverty, unemployment, segregation and violence can be the equivalent of losing up to a year or two in school, he found.
The schools show it. In impoverished areas, elementary and high schools have abysmal percentages of students who meet state standards in reading and math. Exposure to violence "inculcates the expectation that violence is normal," Sampson says. Those who expect to die young "have nothing to lose, at least in their minds." That's why retaliatory sprays of gunfire aren't always born of strategic gang-and-drug enterprise. Rather, Chicago's splintered gang structure — fractured into block-by-block cliques — leads to senseless, sophomoric turf wars.
In the Back of the Yards shooting, police say a young man grazed by a bullet earlier that day sought revenge at the basketball court in Cornell Park. That was his motive for joining with allies to wreak havoc: a relatively minor wound on his leg. For that, in a matter of minutes, 13 people lay bleeding. One was 3-year-old Deonta.
In the past 12 months, New City, which includes Back of the Yards, has logged 6,138 crimes, 545 of them violent. It ranks 18th of 77 communities citywide for all crime. Austin ranks first with 20,079 crimes, 1,668 of them violent.
Englewood and West Englewood consistently fall among the 10 most dangerous communities. Together, they lost nearly 20,000 residents from 2000 to 2010 — one-quarter of their population.
The communities reporting the least crime during the past 12 months? Montclare, Forest Park and Edison Park on the Far Northwest Side, Mount Greenwood on the Far Southwest Side and Burnside on the Southeast Side.
Violence here remains high. Los Angeles logged 299 murders in 2012. New York City had 419. Both are more populous than Chicago. "I hear people say, 'Why can't we be safe like New York?''' crime researcher Hertz tells us. "Well, we are. The entire North Side is really, really safe. But the dynamic is more unequal than ever." On his blog, he says the imbalance helps explain why, "in the face of a 50 percent decrease in homicides citywide over the last two decades, many people persist in believing that the opposite is true — because in their neighborhoods, it is."
Anti-crime tactics such as targeted policing have helped. Englewood, for example, has become safer: In 2012, homicides fell by 29 percent and shootings by 5 percent. But a city in which 30 percent of students quit high school and some areas have a 35 percent jobless rate is destined to have a high crime rate. That creates an exodus of the educated and employable, who move because they can.
If we don't curb crime, if we don't prevent an exodus, we risk losing … Chicago.


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Carmen Tibideaux is a recurring character on Glee, who made her debut appearance in Choke, the eighteenth episode of Season Three. She is the Dean of Vocal Performance and Song Interpretation at NYADA.
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Carmen makes her appearance being escorted into the hall by Will Schuester to oversee the auditions of Kurt and Rachel. Backstage, both Rachel and Kurt show extreme anxiety over the knowledge of their NYADA educator as she is revealed to be one of NYADA's most infamous alumni, a profound Broadway and opera performer and the recently appointed Dean of Vocal Performance and Song Interpretation, travelling around the country to handpick the students for her own inaugural class. She calls Kurt to the stage first and appears to be dismayed by his original song choice of The Music of the Night, stating that it is, alongside The Impossible Dream from La Mancha and Being Alive from Company, the most commonly heard audition song to her. However, she is intrigued and impressed by his then-impromtu performance of Not the Boy Next Door, stating that Hugh Jackman himself would have been very proud of what Kurt had done with the song and congratulating him for taking a bold risk. Later, she calls Rachel to the stage and listens to her choke twice on Don't Rain on My Parade before stopping her by informing her that she was supposed to be given eight bars and she had already given her sixteen. Sternly enough, she states that if the lines are forgotten on Broadway, the role goes to the actor's understudy. She then says "I'm very sorry, but this audition is over" and takes her leave, leaving a horror-struck, crying Rachel desperately pleading for a third chance but thoroughly ignoring her. This later leads to Rachel performing Cry alone in the auditorium. (Choke)
She gets called by Rachel towards the beginning of where it is revealed that she had received numerous calls and gifts from Rachel, and an invitation to see Rachel perform at Nationals, in the hope that Carmen will take her rejection from NYADA back. It is revealed that she teaches master-classes in singing and theatre. She later-on receives a visit from Tina and Rachel while at another audition, who want to persuade Carmen to give Rachel another chance to get into NYADA. She is annoyed to see Rachel, because Rachel takes time away from other young adults who have the same dreams as her. She doesn't change her opinion when Tina and Rachel state how much talent and passion Rachel has and asks them to leave. But when Rachel says that she will try out the following years and reminds Carmen that she tried out four times for Juilliard, she becomes meditative. (Props)
Carmen takes up Rachel's offer to come see her sing at Nationals in Chicago. During It's All Coming Back to Me Now she arrives and notices how much the crowd admire her solo. She looks impressed during Paradise By The Dashboard Light as well, giving a standing ovation and whistling. Jesse stops Carmen in the lobby, reminding her that when he auditioned for her a few years ago, she told him he showed promise. She acknowledges that she probably did say that, but adds that she auditions hundreds each year and attempts to blow off what she thinks is going to be a professional appeal. Jesse insists she listen: he wants to tell her that Rachel is the most talented person he knows, she'll definitely be a star one day, and she'd be an excellent addition to NYADA. Tibideaux responds by recalling Jesse's audition with Giants in the Sky, a flawed but passionate and admirable attempt at what may be Steven Sondheim's most challenging song. She wishes him good luck and leaves. It is revealed in Goodbye that Rachel had an impact on her and that she has been accepted to the school thanks to Carmen. (Nationals)
At NYADA, Carmen welcomes the returning students into "The Round Room." She makes aware to the students that they will get an opportunity to sing. First to sing is Beatrice McClaine. She begins to sing Ave Maria, but is stopped by Carmen. She insists that she practice more and criticizes her for not practicing enough, also telling her to leave and re-apply later, leaving Rachel worried for when she must perform. Rachel is then called up to sing by Carmen. She tells Rachel to "impress me." Rachel sings New York State of Mind (which is sung as a tag-team duet with Marley, who is singing it in Ohio, auditioning for the New Directions). Once the song is finished, Miss Tibideaux is impressed and applauds her. (The New Rachel)
Carmen returns near the start of the episode, when she is seen writing and sealing a Winter Showcase invitational, which she subsequently delivers to Rachel. This invitation is extremely hard to get and Rachel is thrilled when she receives it. Meanwhile, Kurt returns to follow up on his re-audition for NYADA and visits Carmen in her office. While she tells him she finds him talented, she chides him for lacking emotional depth and dismisses him. Later, she introduces the acts for the winter showcase in The Round Room. After praising Rachel's performances of Being Good Isn't Good Enough and O Holy Night, she blindsides Kurt by announcing that he would be performing his re-audition on the spot following the intermission. When he finishes singing Being Alive (a song she expressed personal disdain for previously in Choke), she stands and applauds him, noting that he heeded her advice. Later, in Kurt and Rachel's apartment, it is revealed he impressed her enough for her to finally accept him into NYADA, pleasing Kurt immensely. (Swan Song)
Carmen is briefly mentioned by Rachel at NYADA, when she tells Kurt that she volunteered for the 'Annual NYADA Piano Tuning' that Carmen required help for. (Tina in the Sky with Diamonds)
She is again mentioned by Kurt, while preparing Blaine for his audition in NYADA. It is later revealed that Blaine did a great audition there (his audition wasn't shown). (Movin' Out)
Blaine and Rachel perform Broadway Baby as a duet for their Mid-Winter Critique. Carmen appears not too pleased and sits with her arms crossed during the performance. After Blaine and Rachel have finished, Carmen explains that they have not followed the direction of the assignment, which was supposed to be an individual performance. Carmen accuses Blaine and Rachel of acting as if they are above their classmates, but offers both of them to re-do their assignment according to original directions. When Rachel visits Carmen in her office, Rachel requests her Mid-Winter Critique be held off until after the opening night of Funny Girl. Carmen declines the request and tells Rachel that while she is talented and driven, she lacks a foundation and doesn't listen which is why Rachel needs NYADA. Rachel is angry by Carmen's assessment and makes the decision to drop out of NYADA, claiming she doesn't need the school anymore, since her dream of starring on Broadway has come true. Carmen urges Rachel to take time to think about the decision, but Rachel says her mind is made up. Later, Blaine performs Not While I'm Around for Carmen as a solo. After Kurt is released from the hospital, he performs I'm Still Here for his Mid-Winter Critique. Carmen appears to be pleased with Kurt's performance. (Bash)
Carmen is the Dean of Vocal Performance and Song Interpretation at NYADA and is an extremely accomplished performer and singer. She is generally considered to be admonishing and strict, but kind enough and very open to new students and ideas.
- Carmen is the first person known to stop a Broadway performance because someone interrupted. Kurt says in Choke that "Once, La Tibideaux stopped a performance of Medea at the Met because someone glanced at their watch while she was doing one of her 'I'm killing my babies' arias. She destroyed him."
- It is said by Kurt that she doesn't like showy colours during auditions. (Movin' Out)
- She applied to Juilliard 4 times. (Props)


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A night of Jamaican jazz
A concert of saxophonist Joe Harriott's 'free form' jazz with local Bristol reggae
Radio 3 jazz presenter Geoffrey Smith wrote in the magazine last year that 'Maybe 2012 will be Joe Harriott's year' – following the timely release of a CD box set, celebrating the career of this often overlooked, but extremely gifted, saxophone player from Kingston, Jamaica, who settled in Britain in the 1950s and died in 1973. Harriott's diverse career took in established jazz forms, writing for the likes of trombonist Chris Barber, [Spotify link] to his own 'free form' jazz experiments and the later 'Indo-Jazz' crossover LPs with John Mayer. It's tragic that he died so young, aged just 44.
And the interest is growing. Joe Harriott's music is currently being showcased in concerts across the country, as part of the Lively UP! Festival, which marks 50 years since Jamaican independence.
I went along to the Bristol leg of the celebrations, hosted by St George's earlier this week. The first half, delivered by The Bristol Reggae Orchestra, a (going on) 30-piece band with strings, brass, woodwind and a pulsing rhythm section, definitely set the scene. The band drifted through tunes ranging from Nat King Cole to reggae hits by Freddie MacGregor and Delroy Wilson. And this feel-good community band had people dancing and swaying in the aisles of this converted church.
By way of contrast, the second half showcased two of Joe Harriott's 'free form' jazz albums from the early 1960s, 'Free Form' and 'Abstract', which had been expertly re-arranged by pianist Peter Edwards – from the original five-piece to an 11-piece line-up. The band, the Nu Civilisation Orchestra has some excellent UK jazz talent, including trumpeter Byron Wallen and alto saxist Nathaniel Facey in its ranks. And introducing the programme, Edwards explained how Harriott saw the sounds of 'free form' jazz as 'equivalent to brush strokes on a painting'. To illustrate this, a screen behind the band showed film footage of visual artist Emma Godebska, creating paintings, while it played.
The result was fascinating and genuinely illuminating, as we were treated to the challenging soundscape of Harriott's 'free form' jazz. And this was no safe option for some of the audience. The arrangements moved from tumbling bebop, plunging into shuddering grooves and at times squawking cacophony, interspaced with calypso, blues, swing and myriad influences – with all concerned demonstrating why they are at the top of their field.
At the start of the concert, Lively UP!'s executive director Janine Irons, announced: 'We're going to be celebrating the great Joe Harriott – a great musician that a lot of people don't really know about.' I certainly learnt a lot about Harriott's 'free from' jazz and I hope that this project triggers future performances of his wider output and re-releases of some of his great records, such as the incredibly rare Hum Dono (1969).
There's another chance to catch A Tribute to Joe Harriott in Manchester at the RNCM Theatre on Saturday 20 October.
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THE CHURCH OF bob
This particular
"Church of Bob"
is the creation of artist, playwright, composer and performer
Bob Diven
. It began as a theatrical production to celebrate Charles Darwin's 200th birthday, then "evolved" into a weekly blog with sermons, cartoons and reviews. The "rev" has stepped down now after some 160 weekly sermons, but you can still read them at your leisure
Billions of years ago...
...the first successful chemical reactions that would become what we call "life" began to stir. This is where
began -- with the first living organisms. When we think about
, our minds struggle to grasp the vast expanse of time during which life has been evolving on earth. (In practical terms we might as well be talking about "eternity"). But once we are able to wrap our minds around just how long the time line of evolution extends into the past (
past), we can begin to understand that we did, indeed, evolve from more primitive life forms. We are then free to see that we share a lineage with every other animal on the planet that extends all the way back to the very first living organism. I find a certain
in this knowledge (as well as a sense of place and belonging). For we have evolved to live on this planet, in this atmosphere, and so we are completely at home here: the sun feels good on our face, the air soft on our skin, ripe fruit tastes sweet upon the tongue.
is not a competing deity or religion. Evolution has no intelligence or personality as it is a
process. Evolution is merely a means of describing observable phenomenon. The same holds true for
Natural Selection
. Though many hold that there is no meaning without a divine creator, no morality, no purpose nor reason to live, I do not believe this to be the case. I have found that there is a deep richness to living that is only enhanced by an understanding of Evolution -- an understanding of how we were
The not-so-reverend bob.
More science-related musical fun from Bob Diven -- watch the premiere of "Dawn of the Dinosaurs" with The Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra! (video below)
The not-so-reverend bob and friends.
COMMENTS on
Bob Diven's
"Happy Birthday Charles Darwin at the Church of Evolution with the not-so-reverend bob":
"Delightful performance--wish you could make the rounds of junior and senior high schools! Great lesson in science! Well done!"
"I had no idea what to expect from "Happy Birthday Charles Darwin"... The idea of presenting the story using the technique of a Church was not altogether short of brilliant.... Incredibly, I learned a great deal from your well prepared and presented sermon.... The time-line to which you diligently adhered astounded me... The music was really, really creative."
To read
SERMONS and THOUGHTS of the not-so-reverend bob, visit his "boblog" here.
Happy Darwin Day
from the church of bob! To find out more (and to locate a Darwin Day event near you) visit
The "rev" in his office. Dinosaurs seem to follow him everywhere he goes.
Donate to The Church of Bob
All original material on this site is copyrighted by it's creator for any and all commercial purposes, but may be reprinted without permission for any properly credited fair use. Smile:
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The two main topics to be discussed are the elaboration of the principle of the sharing of benefits as set out in Article 15 of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights (2005), and the update of the IBC's reflection on the human genome and human rights.
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The International Bioethics Committee (IBC) is a body of 36 independent experts that follows progress in the life sciences and its applications in order to ensure respect for human dignity and freedom. It was created in 1993.
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BRISBANE — One hundred millions dollars is up for grabs in Australia on Tuesday as this gambling nation enters a new phase of its lottery obsession — the nine-figure payout.
For years Australians have gazed on gape-mouthed as the Americans and the Spanish proffered $500-million lottery wins while Aussie dreams were kept modestly confined to the $1-million realm.
But next week, Australians, many of whom see gambling as something like a patriotic duty, will enter an unprecedented, state-sanctioned, gambling frenzy.
Not only is its Australia's most famous horse race, the Melbourne Cup, which last year attracted $150 million of bets in state-run agencies alone — or a $7.50 punt for every man woman and child.
It's also the date for the weekly Oz Lotto draw which has reach the magical figure of $100 million.
That's not quite yet in the realm of Spain's Sorteo Extraordinario de Navidad, which apparently nudged the billion-dollar mark last year in its first division payout.
And, in truth, it was actually exceeded a few years ago when the then unthinkable figure of $90 million was reached and a late surge of betting pushed the first division payout (shared by two winners) to just over $100 million.
But the certainty of nine figures in the first division next week has sent the nation into mild hysteria, with nearly double the prize (about $190 million) already spent on Oz Lotto tickets since the game began carrying-over more than two months ago.
Last Tuesday, when the jackpot reached $70 million, it was estimated one third of the nation had bought a stake in the statistical improbability of picking the correct seven numbers out of 45.
The Melbourne Cup transfixes Australia and rates as an unofficial holiday. But most limit their bets to somewhere between $5 and $20 on a favoured few gallopers in the endearing hope of doubling or perhaps tripling their money.
It's the lotto, not the Cup, which inspires the toxic dreams of massive wealth and the possibility of leaving the drudgery of paid employment far behind.
Sombre mathematicians regularly point out in media appearances that one could have been playing Oz Lotto every week since Cleopatra's birth and still have little chance of winning first prize.
But the experts are swiftly dismissed by Australians, much as they are by Canadians, who still gaze longingly at that 6/49 ticket they pick up with the weekly shopping.
Australia is widely recognized as having a collective gambling problem. But despite much huffing and puffing, little is done to combat the illness that enslaves thousands of citizens.
Governments, too, are addicted to the massive revenues flowing from state-run gambling houses not only milking the pockets of horse racing punters but cleaning up with the weekly lotto draws, including Oz Lotto.
And when, for as little as $2, you can dream of a life changing fortune to sweep away all your financial worries, it's difficult to be too hard on the pensioners and the unemployed who line up every week with their pitiful handful of spare change, and their poignant hopes.
The lotto dreams of an ordinary Aussie, known locally as a battler, veer towards buying a house or paying off the debt on the present one, taking a luxury cruise, maybe buying a new car and handing out wads of cash to family members — and even a few charities.
The dreams of the already wealthy (and, yes, a surprising number of them still buy lotto tickets) tend towards establishing a trust for the children and perhaps reinforcing their financial position to better create some sort of dynasty to last generations.
But for millions of Australians, even many among the executive class, there's one shared lotto-inspired scenario which crosses many boundaries and has informed millions of hysterical water-cooler discussions.
The theatrical resignation from paid employment is the No. 1 fantasy of most adult Australians, crossing class and gender lines, eclipsing even the more fervent imaginings inspired by Fifty Shades of Grey.
The more creative among us who know how to accessorize a fantasy can embellish it right down to the wardrobe — a personal acquaintance favours a crimson-red smoking jacket offset by a small, hand-rolled cheroot held betwixt thumb and forefinger.
Impeccably attired, he walks into the boss's office, takes a seat uninvited and swings both feet onto his superior's desk.
And there, while blowing elaborate smoke rings in the air in blatant contravention of work place health and safely regulations, he quietly offers advice on how the executive arm of his organization might like to take his paid position, and shove it into the further reaches of its lower colon.
Gambling — a serious social illness, but the inspiration for our most cherished dreams.
Michael Madigan is the Free Press correspondent in Australia. He writes mostly about politics for the Brisbane-based Courier Mail.
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High Road Sports Introduces Comprehensive Anti-doping Program
Team High Road is implementing a new comprehensive and independent anti-doping program. The program will be managed by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), a company that provides anti-doping monitoring and testing programs to prevent and detect doping behavior in cyclists.
"Last year we made a strong commitment to fight against doping," said Bob Stapleton of High Road Sports. "It is the most comprehensive program out there. It is what the team needs and what the sport needs."
Through this program, each of the team's riders will give a minimum of 26 random blood AND urine samples per year. This is dramatically more testing than any other program conducts and will allow ACE to build profiles of each individual rider so that they will be able to detect small changes in the body chemistry that may be caused by blood transfusions or banned substances. The profiles will use blood and urine to build hematological parameters and a urinary steroidal profile. ACE will send test results to the UCI, to WADA and to the team.
The profiles are intended to be used in conjunction with the new World Anti-doping Agency (WADA) biological passports, which the UCI has announced will be introduced for each ProTour rider at the beginning of the 2008 season. The passports will act as a record of all tests for each professional rider to provide more comprehensive blood and urine profiles, much the same as the ACE system works.
The ACE program is fully endorsed by the UCI. Anne Gripper commented that "the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE) assists cycling teams to create a doping-free culture by providing a robust, independent and transparent antidoping program." She added that, "Bob Stapleton and High Road Sports continue to demonstrate leadership in this regard. By initiating a comprehensive team-based anti-doping program delivered by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), by actively supporting the UCI in their broad anti-doping efforts and most importantly, by actively working to create a doping-free culture within their team, they are a role model for other teams to follow."
Stapleton stated, "We started with the first testing at our team meeting in October and we are very pleased to see that our riders understand the importance of these strict measures. We believe frequent comprehensive testing and using profiles that detect small changes in body chemistry are invaluable tools to ensure the future of the team in the sport. The testing will keep us more informed about the conduct and health of our athletes," he added.
ACE is also 100 percent committed to the same cause. CEO of ACE, Paul Strauss MD, says they are excited to be working with the team to bring their program to the highest level. "For us", he said, "It is great to have the opportunity to participate in this positive change, not only with Team High Road, but with the whole sport of cycling."
How the ACE Program Works
ACE's program is a comprehensive anti-doping program that tests for three categories of abuse - blood doping, anabolic steroid use and hormone use, such as hGH. The program is unlike any other anti-doping program in both scope and nature. ACE's Pure Sport program involves year round testing of every athlete in the program and each athlete will be subject to a minimum of 26 collections of blood, serum and urine each year. The key to ACE's testing is a combination of this high volume of testing and the longitudinal analysis of the data.
Data Sharing with UCI and Teams
As part of its' support of the ACE PURE Sport program, UCI has agreed to accept all Team High Road and Slipstream-Chipotle blood test results provided by ACE. UCI will have access to the ACE data through role-based security protocols managed by ACE. The sharing of the blood test results with UCI is in line with the forthcoming UCI Blood Passport Program that is scheduled for implementation during the 2008 cycling season.
Longitudinal Analysis
The extensive use of longitudinal analysis is a sharp departure from traditional antidoping techniques and it allows ACE to detect possible doping earlier, longer after administration has stopped and doping in much small quantities when compared to traditional anti-doping. Additionally, and perhaps most importantly, it also allows the detection of doping by means and substances currently completely undetectable by traditional anti-doping.
The reason for all this is that relevant biological parameters (described in detail, below) have a great variation between individuals but relatively much smaller variation within an individual. As one example, the Stimulation Index (or Off-Score) is used by the UCI to present a possibility of doping when it exceeds 133. This is over five standard deviations from the mean of the general population and needs to be so insensitive because even though it is over five standard deviations from the norm for the general population, in some individuals it could be as little as two standard deviations from that individual's normal value.
As an overly simple example, using longitudinal analysis, where each individual has dozens of data points, ACE is able state, for example, for an individual with a mean Off- Score of 90 and a Standard Deviation of 8 that if that individual recorded an Off-Score over 106 that there would be only a five percent chance that the result was from normal variation and at 114 there would be less than one-half of one percent. Both of those examples would be completely normal under traditional anti-doping, but in the ACE program both would be an indication of possible doping, with the Off-Score of 114 in that case being a very strong indication.
Blood Doping Detection
To detect blood doping, ACE's Pure Sport program measures Hemoglobin, Hematocrit, Recticulocyte count and MCV as it's main biological markers. It also uses the Stimulation Index (an indexed relationship between Hemoglobin and Recticulocytes) as part of its primary analysis. ACE also measures several other blood factors to provide secondary clues into blood manipulation including MCH, MCHC, RBC and Platelet Count. For 2008, ACE is looking to incorporate Blood Volume testing as part of its biological matrix testing for blood manipulation. Using the relationships between these biological parameters, ACE can gain a very good indication of possible doping with even very small variations. The extensive number of parameters monitored also allows ACE to gain a very good picture of what reasons might exist for any particular noted movement in a parameter. It is this comprehensive testing combined with more real experience interpreting results in elite athletes than any other program that allows ACE to detect doing better than other programs, including traditional anti-doping.
Using the example above, blood doping is readily detected by ACE when traditional antidoping would miss it. Additionally, because ACE's program involves frequent, yearround testing, it is difficult for such doping to escape detection. For example, using blood doping and the hypothetical subject above, traditional anti-doping would not detect the doping at all. But, even if the subject were to have an Off-Score above the UCI limit of 133, because of the bodies feedback mechanisms traditional anti-doping still might fail to detect the doping simply out of luck, because the testing is not frequent enough. If a person has a natural mean Off-Score of 90 and on day 1 administers a blood doping agent that causes his day 2 off score to go to 135. Within less than a week it would be reasonable that this person's Off-Score would be below 133 (though still quite high). Thus, under traditional anti-doping a person blood doping on day 1 might be detectable for 2-6 days. Under ACE's program, however, this doping would remain detectable for over 4-6 weeks - e.g. far longer than the testing interval.
Steroid Use Detection
As with blood, ACE measures an extensive number of biological parameters - in both urine and serum - to help detect possible steroid use. Additionally, ACE screens in urine for the direct detection of over 70 substances on the WADA banned substances list, with more being added every day. In urine, ACE measures testosterone, epitestosterone, androsterone, eitocholanolone, 5- and 5£]-androstanediol. Using these six biological measurements, ACE has developed a highly sensitive proprietary index for monitoring steroid use. ACE backs this detection method up with its serum measurement of LH and FSH.
The longitudinal analysis of these markers is similar in kind to the blood cell analysis described above. When a person takes an anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS or steroid) that person immediately alters his body's steroid profile. LH and FSH are immediately suppressed. This in turn suppresses the body's own steroid production. Altering for a substantial time and in a predictable manner the biological markers listed above.
As an example, in traditional anti-doping, the use of the T/E ratio is well known. Because this ratio of biological markers is performed on a single measurement, rather than a longitudinal measurement of dozens of data points, and because this traditional marker looks at only one marker - the ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone - the test is too insensitive and too infrequent to detect the vast majority of steroid abuse.
WADA defines as suspect a T/E ratio of 4:1. This is over six standard deviations for the expected norm of 1:1 in the general population. Using a smaller ratio, however, would be impractical. For example, using publicly available figure, only 3 of nearly 500 cases since 2004 where the T/E ratio was between 4:1 and 6:1 resulted in a confirmed adverse analytical finding under the WADA system. The reason for this is the lack of frequent, longitudinal testing. In the ACE system, again, variation from an individual athlete's norm in excess of two standard deviations is considered suspect, with a deviation of three standard deviations being highly suspect.
Also as with blood, the frequency of testing with the ACE program allows far greater reliability. If, for example, an individual took oral testosterone, his T/E ratio might not exceed 4:1 at all, but if it did and even if it went as high as 30:1 or more, once the athlete stopped administration his T/E ratio could be back below 4:1 within a day, possibly sooner. His use of testosterone under traditional anti-doping would be detectable for several more days using IRMS, but without the elevated T/E ratio, the WADA lab would have no reason to think it should perform IRMS. Using ACE's longitudinal analysis, oral testosterone use is easily detectable out to seven days and likely detectable out to 14 days, depending on the individual and dose. With ACE testing occurring randomly at a minimum of once every 14 days, the ability for athletes to escape detection is remote.
hGH testing
ACE monitors hGH as part of its serum testing. hGH is extraordinarily difficult to detect because it returns to normal so quickly after administration. However, ACE has had some success in detecting hGH use because of its combination of high frequency testing and longitudinal analysis. Currently, hGH use is undetectable with traditional means of anti-doping.
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Families on vacation love the convenience of this location in Festus and South St. Louis. Our hotel's friendly staff can offer terrific suggestions on what to see and do. Spend the day sampling Missouri wines, or head into St. Louis to visit the iconic Gateway Arch. Sports fans can catch the Rams, Cardinals or the Blues in action. From the historic Anheuser estate to a visit to the brewery, there's no shortage of things to enjoy while you're in Festus.
Our contemporary hotel welcomes you with all the modern amenities you've come to expect. From spacious rooms with a 32-inch LCD TV to the complimentary, hot Express Start Breakfast Bar, we know what you want. You can relax year-round in the indoor pool or work out in the nicely equipped Fitness Center. See for yourself why guests love our service, and book your reservation for a memorable stay in Festus, MO as our hotel's guest!
- Black-out Shades
- Crib Available
- Iron/Ironing Board
- Separate Hanging Closet
- In-Room Heating and A/C Controls
Bathroom/Personal Care
- Private Bathroom
- Bathroom Amenities Available
- Hair Dryer
- Bathtub
In-Room Features
- Mini Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Coffee Maker
- Flat-screen TV
- iPod Docking Station with Clock Radio
- Desk-level Electrical Outlet
- Cable/Satellite
- Premium Channels
- CD Player
- Stereo/Radio
- Direct-dial Phone
- Phone with Voicemail
- Windows Open by Guest
Added Value
- Complimentary Coffee/Tea Supplies
- Complimentary Bottled Water
- Full Breakfast Included
- Breakfast Buffet Included
- Continental Breakfast Included
- Complimentary Coffee in Lobby
- Kids Eat Free
- Off-site Restaurant Delivery Available
Business Services
- 1 Meeting Room(s) Available
- On-Site Business Center
- Printer
- Copier
- Scanner
- Office supplies available
Internet Access
- Free High-Speed Internet in all Rooms
- Wireless Internet service is free for all IHG® Rewards Club members
- Internet Browser on TV
Entertainment & Recreation
- Indoor Pool
- Heated Indoor Pool
- Indoor Pool Hours of Operation: 8:00 AM - 11:00 PM
Deck has several single chairs and side tables along with 4 chaise lounges.
Health & Fitness
Complimentary Fitness Center
Located on the 1st floor. Open 24 hours with guest key access. Treadmill, stationary Bicycle, Elliptical Machine
Hours of Operation: 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM
Fitness Center Type: LIMITED
Fitness Center Equipment:
- Treadmill
- Elliptical Machines
- Stationary Bicycle
Housekeeping & Laundry
- Daily Housekeeping
- On-site Guest Self-Laundry Facilities
- Hours of Operation: 7:00 AM - 6:30 AM
Added Value
- Wake Up Calls
- Ice Machine
Hotel Details
1802 Gamel Cemetery Road
Festus, Missouri 63028
United States
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 11:00 AM
Check-in Age: 21
Parking + -
- Complimentary Self Parking Available
Accessibility + -
- Public Entrance
- Guest Rooms
- Elevators
- Public Restrooms
- Registration Desk
- Exercise Facility
- Business Center
- Pool
- Number of Accessible Meeting Rooms: 1
Accessible Hotel Areas
- Registration Area
- Accessible Guest Rooms
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Exercise Facility
- Pool
Hotel Areas with Accessible Routes from Accessible Public Entrance
- Accessible Self Parking
- Van Accessible Self Parking
- Portable Bathtub Seats
- Closed Caption TVs
- Telephone with TDD
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Guest Rooms
- Visual Alarm/Alert in Public Spaces
- Communication Kits with Visual Alarms
Provided by Hotel
Pet Policy + -
- Service Animals Allowed
- This hotel does not accept pets. Kennels available locally At Circle Of Life Animal Hospital. Highway 67 South Festus, Missouri 636. 937.7673.
Facility + -
- Smoke-Free Facility
- Number of Floors: 4
- Total Number of Rooms: 86
- Number of Suites: 23
- Number of Non-Smoking Rooms: 86
- Number of Accessible Rooms: 7
Credit Cards + -
- American Express
- Visa
- MasterCard
- Diners Club
- Carte Blanche
- Discover


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"We at Plymouth Speedway extend our deepest condolences and prayers to the family of Kevin Ward, Jr. and thoughts and prayers to Tony Stewart and his family," Plymouth Speedway officials posted on its site. "Tony Stewart will NOT be racing at Plymouth Speedway this Saturday. More information on the weekend's racing will be announced this week."
During a dirt track race in upstate New York on Saturday, Stewart and hit and killed 20-year-old driver Kevin Ward Jr. No criminal charges are pending against Stewart, the Ontario County, N.Y., sheriff said Sunday, but the fatal accident could have legal and financial ramifications for Stewart as the investigation continues and more details of the tragic accident emerge.
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Ward's family, however, faces a more trying future in mourning his loss. Ward's parents were in stands at at Canandaigua Motorsports Park during Saturday's race and issued a statement Sunday afternoon, thanking the community for its support but asking for privacy while they grieve.
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"We Are A Kissing Family"
Former boxer and Dancing with the Stars contestant, Laila Ali, is teaming up with Everyday Health TV in Around the Clock, a new daily discussion show alongside fellow celebrity moms such as Jillian Michaels, Kendra Wilkinson and Ali Landry to share "personal opinions" and health tips.
The mom-of-two opens up to Celebrity Baby Scoop about her kids – son C.J. who turns 4 in August, and 13-month-old daughter Sydney – their upcoming summer plans, and growing up with boxing legend father Muhammad Ali.
CBS: Tell us about Everyday Health TV's Around the Clock YouTube show. What is it all about, and how are you involved?
LA: "Around the Clock is a new show on YouTube's Emmy-nominated Everyday Health channel that focuses on certain health topics and how we feel about them. Sometimes the topics are funny and sometimes they are more serious. It is a quick daily topic talk show for moms.
I am one of the moms on the show, along with Kendra Wilkinson, Camila Alves,Heather Armstrong, and Ali Landry. We all talk about the topic of the day and give our personal opinions.
The viewers can also leave comments and request questions that they would like us to tackle. That's what will happen as the show grows; we will look at the topics that are the most popular and talk about them on the show."
CBS: How are your kids Sydney and C.J.? Do they get along well? What are they into these days?
LA: "Sydney is 13 months and C.J. is 3, getting ready to turn 4-years-old in August. They are growing so quickly! C.J. is in Pre-K and loves his sister. Of course there are struggles, like when C.J. is playing with his toys and Sydney comes over and knocks down something he built [laughs]. He will want to knock her over and I'll be like, 'Don't do that! Be careful with your sister!'
A lot of times he wants to hug her and pick her up, but he can't [laughs]. For the most part they get along really well, and it is funny how they have this little relationship of their own. Even though she can't talk, she gets so excited when he comes home from school, and she also gets mad when he leaves and she can't go. They also give each other hugs, which makes me as happy as I can be!
In regard to what they are into now, Sydney loves music. Whenever she hears music, she starts dancing. Her favorite thing to do is try to open up my kitchen cabinets and take everything out [laughs]. She also loves to open up my kitchen drawers and cabinets and take out my kitchen towels, put them on her head, and try to walk into things. So I really have to watch her when she tries to 'help' me in the kitchen [laughs].
C.J. is really into trains and cars, and every night he has three things that he has to take to bed with him. Every night it is something different, and he won't go to bed unless he has them. He will ask, 'Where's my car?' 'Where's my dog?' He wants to take any little random thing to bed with him [laughs].
CBS: What aspects of motherhood do you love the most?
LA: "Watching my kids grow, form their personalities, and come into their own independence are aspects that I love. They are little people, and I get to help shape the way they look at the world and the way they think of themselves, and I get to guide them along. They are going to be who they are, but my job is to help them with their foundations and make them strong, which makes me feel confident as a mom that they will make the right decisions in life."
CBS: Do you have any special motherhood moments to share?
LA: "With my son, the moments that I love with him, now that he can actually talk and have a conversation, are when he says, 'I love you mommy every night and gives me kisses. I say, 'Give me my kisses and hugs!' It makes me so happy and I always think to myself, 'O god, there is going to be a time when he doesn't want kisses or hugs anymore!' [laughs] I have to cherish these moments now.
My daughter is the same; she will actually grab me by the back of my neck with both of her arms and pull my face to hers for a kiss. I love that, because I grew up with my father and my father loved kids and kisses. Not all people love that…oh, and I am not talking about on the mouth! [laughs] I would be like, 'Daddy! Daddy! Muah, Muah, Muah!' and kiss all over his face. My kids are the same way. It is funny how it runs in our bloodline—we are a kissing family [laughs]."
CBS: What are your favorite childhood memories of summer vacation? What do you plan to do with your family this summer?
LA: "As a child, we didn't go on summer vacations. I just remember that my stepsisters would come over and everyone would be there. It was great to have everyone come to the house to go swimming together and pile up in the car together. It was a lot of fun…summers were always family time.
In regard to my plans for this summer, I plan to do a lot of swimming and I want to enroll my son in official swimming lessons and get Sydney in the water. I want to do a lot of outdoor activities, like take them to the beach. We haven't really done that, because I wanted to wait until my son was old enough. You have to be careful with the kids and sand; I don't want that situation where my daughter gets sand in her eyes. I want to take my son to the beach and do a lot of swimming, and maybe get him on the back of a bike. A lot of outdoor activities."
CBS: How do you balance work and family life?
LA: "Family comes first and is my priority. I know how to say 'no' to things, like I don't do a lot of traveling. It is a matter of looking at what's on the schedule and making sure I always have enough time to be home with my kids. It is very important to me that I am available to cook them dinner and be there before they go to sleep. I want to make sure I am there. I had a lot of nannies around, because my parents were traveling a lot and couldn't always be there, and I just don't want that for my kids."
CBS: What other projects are you working on right now?
LA: "Right now I am really focusing on my licensing and branding. I have my Laila Ali Professional Hair Care and Laila Ali Derm Essentials Skin Care products in stores. I also just did a deal with Hot Tools, and I am doing my own line of products like curling irons, blow dryers, and flat irons. I also have my Laila Ali line of salad dressings, seasonings, and marinades that will be in stores for the holidays.
I am also getting ready to shoot a commercial for Kohl's for the back to school season, because they are doing a campaign centered on female athletes that are moms.
Likewise, I also still endorse Subway, I have the Everyday Health show that comes on on Saturdays, and I will also be a major voice for women's boxing in the Olympics. There is also a new show that I will be shooting next month that will be airing in D.C. after the Olympics.
If people want to get ahold of me, they can follow me on Twitter! My handle is@TheRealLailaAli, and I also have a public Facebook fan page. I really do the interacting myself, so follow me and become a fan!"
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