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CEREBELLUM, DELAY AND TRACE EYEBLINK CONDITIONING by Narawut Pakaprot ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (NEUROSCIENCE) December 2009 Copyright 2009 Narawut Pakaprot
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|The cerebellum has a very well organized anatomy. It is recognized for its critical role in the control of movements. For many years, eyeblink conditioning procedures have been used extensively in rabbits and currently in rats and mice to study the role of the cerebellum in motor learning and memory. The paired presentation of the neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) with the noxious unconditioned stimulus (US) produces the learned behavioral conditioned response (CR) – appropriately timed eyeblink. The CS consists typically of a tone or a flashing light whereas the US consists typically of an airpuff into the eye. The mapping of the circuitry essential for eyeblink conditioning has been shown to be successful especially in the standard delay paradigm. The convergent inputs of parallel and climbing fibers at the Purkinje cells, and mossy and climbing fiber collaterals at the deep cerebellar interpositus nuclei provide two simultaneous coincidence detection pathways for conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US). Different types of synaptic plasticity are exhibited in these two pathways in the cerebellar cortex and deep cerebellar nuclei, establishing the cerebellum as a motor learning machine. The memory storage sites of the eyeblink conditioning paradigms have been investigated, and the overwhelming evidence supports the view that the memory is stored in the interpositus (IP) nucleus. The cerebellar cortical circuit helps in acquiring the normal CR in terms of the acquisition rate and the appropriate timing. Trace conditioning – another variant of the eyeblink conditioning paradigm and a simple model of declarative memory – has been shown by many authors to require many more brain areas during memory processes – acquisition, retention, and retrieval – but little is known about the responsible circuitry.; The experiments conducted here emphasize the differential role of the cerebellar cortex and the IP nucleus in standard delay eyeblink conditioning and enhance our understanding of the memory storage site in trace eyeblink conditioning. We hypothesized that the IP nucleus is important as a site of memory storage in both delay and trace eyeblink conditioning. The following experiments employed eyeblink conditioning training while muscimol was infused into either the cerebellar cortex or the IP nucleus at the time before or after the training depending on training procedures of each experiment. In the delay conditioning experiment, the data indicated that the post-training inactivation of both the cerebellar cortex and the IP nucleus did not prevent the acquisition of the memory, and the pre-training inactivation of only the IP nucleus, but not the cerebellar cortex, inhibited the expression of the previously learned memory. In the trace conditioning experiment, the data showed that the pre-training inactivation of the IP nucleus, before the learning of trace eyeblink conditioning, prevented the acquisition of the memory and the inactivation after the learning reversibly abolished the expression of the memory. The obtained data support our hypothesis about the importance of the IP nucleus as a memory storage site in both delay and trace eyeblink conditioning.
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Plant collecting has taken front row center in the Dennis Shrader/Bill Smith household on Long Island. The steps from the deck are an extension of the garden, where containers of various sizes and materials are used to good effect. Some hold individual specimens of plants that being nursed along for possible propagation, while others hold mini-landscapes of varieties seen throughout the garden. When growing a container garden, be sure to feed regularly as watering quickly leaches nutrients from the soil.
Photography: Matthew Benson
The old design principle of keeping formal elements of the garden close to the house while the more natural and informal planting schemes are furthest away is one that works in any garden, no matter how big or small. The clipped knot garden at the entrance to Dennis and Bill's home is typical of the sort of formal feature that can be used to achieve an orderly yet picturesque effect. Design your own knot pattern based on a motif in a carpet or other décor feature.
The so-called tiki hut is an open-sided garden building at the heart of the garden; its walls are made from the dense planting surrounding it. Outdoor spaces like this are like secret gardens within the garden, offering a quiet refuge. Find a quiet corner in your own garden and with tall-growing plants and evergreen shrubs surrounding a small carpet of close-clipped grass, carve out a tiki-like island of calm. Furnish it with a comfortable deckchair and a few scattered cushions and take a 20-minute vacation!
A wet, marshy area surrounding the pool near the garden's edge has been planted with a variety of native and ornamental grasses, including the reed Juncus stygius ssp. Americanus, Pennisetum villousum 'Feathertop' and low-growing Festuca ovina. A simple dogleg plank bridge gives focus to informal scene, as well as keeping feet dry. Adding a variety of small habitats like this to a garden will attract an assortment of wildlife, adding another layer of interest—and beauty—to the garden.
Weeds are plants in the wrong place, it's said. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and if you're nuts about plants, a double-flowered rose plantain (Plantago major 'Rosularis') is a lovely thing. With its bottlebrush shaped blossom, it is a decorative version of the common—and reviled—lawn weed. There is also a purple-leaved version of the weed that is good foliage plant for groundcover, though seedlings of R.m. 'Atropurpurea', can become invasive.
Water features are an integral part of this garden, and here the watery course of the rill pool unites two garden rooms that sit opposite each other along a main axial pathway. Each end of the rill is enlarged to form the small pools that serve as reservoirs for the recycling pump that keeps the water circulating along the length of the rill.
Alocasia amazonica, popularly known as the African Mask is a tropical plant admired for the bold white veins etched across the dark green leaves. It is not at all hardy and the tubers from it grows can be preserved over winter if kept in a dry compost in a cool, dark place. As the spring advances, bring the pot into light and begin watering to kick-start the plant's growth cycle. When the soil begins to warm and there is no further danger of a cold snap and frost, it can be planted out in the border or as the central feature in a container.
One of the tricks of plant combining is to match leaf shape, but contrast scale. Here the giant taro leaf dwarfs the heart-shaped leaves of an annual verbena. Look for similar contrasts of scale among other bedding plants when composing a summer display—tropical plants provide some of the most dramatic counterpoints in size, shape and color, too.
The leaves of Cristia, a distinctive tropical plant, are shaped rather like a swallowtail butterfly, hence its common names, swallowtail or butterfly plant. Christia obcordata is typically found in southeast Asia, but has spread to south America. And now, thanks to nurserymen like Dennis and Bill, is appearing in gardens and specialist nurseries in the USA.
On the principle that "too much is never enough," a regiment of urns planted with Agave desmettiana, gray-leaved Lampranthus deltoides, and chartreuse green Sedum repestre 'Angelina' lines a gravel path against a hedge of American hornbeam.

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tomatonetwork needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 12 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We're looking for a re-design http://www.mikkis.co.uk but based on the layout of http://www.subzeropromotions.co.uk so we can re-use the simple XHTML/CSS.
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We want a web 2.0 deisgn with the same page structure that exisits on the current site. We'd also like someone to come up with promotional boxes to fit in the center of the deisgn like we have achived here http://www.apartmentslovakia.co.uk/wb
We have attached the master mikkis logo but don't mind if this isn't used or is used in a very suttle way.
We need somethings that's crisp, clear, and user friendly with all the menu options that currently exist.
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Tanya.rio needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 8 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
Olympus is a leading endoscope company providing innovative solutions for medical industry. With an approximately 70% global market share for gastrointestinal endoscopes and an established position at the medical vanguard, Olympus maintains its passion for advancing technologies in response to doctors' needs and to improve patients' quality of life.
In order to provide the best possible reprocessing for Olympus's Endoscopes, Olympus launched the OER-AW endoscope reprocessor in 2010. Nobody is as familiar with the design, development, and the manufacture of the endoscopes as Olympus, which is why Olympus introduced the OER-AW Endoscope Reprocesspor for the users of Olympus endoscopes. Followed by last year's product launch, recently Olympus would like to introduce the newly approved feature – automatic air, water and detergent flushing function to Australia market. Addition to the current campaigns includes product brochure, website promotion and new feature announcement, Olympus would like to promote this unique function by creating a one page A4 advertisement that will be published in different magazines for nurses and included as a flyer for the GENCA conference (the Gastroenterological Nurses College of Australia) next year.
• Doctors
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• GENCA attendees
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Our target audiences, the medical professionals include doctors and nurses are comfortable with the new technology and innovative medical products. Also, they are cost and time concerned. Any possible solutions that help them to release current workload (save time and labor effort) or improve endoscopes turnover (save cost and help more patients) will be attractive. However, our target audiences are normally not the decision makers but the equipment users and the influencers. In most cases, they have the power to influence the decision makers in purchasing.
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I am pretty sure I have to get glasses. I don't mind, but let me tell you something. My skull is such – that is a memorable phrase isn't it and worth repeating – my skull is such that a normal pair of glasses will not fit my head. My nose does not have a bridge.
My Korean roots are very evident in my face so I went to Koreatown where I hoped to find glasses that could meet at the bridge of my nose. I failed miserably. Not only did they not have the glasses required to improve my eyesight, the bridge question was never resolved. It seems that many of the Asian makers of fine optical accoutrement do not take into account their own physical heritage. Every pair, Eastern or Western felt uncomfortable, slid down my face.
I refuse to call it 'flat' even though it might contain fewer planes than another say – European face. I have no problem with my face, as I have mentioned I am one of the most beautiful women in the world, which is a blessing but also a curse. My beauty is hidden mostly because the media cannot handle a woman who is intelligent, honest and ridiculous, so my beauty is ignored in order to flatter those who have not a brain nor a voice nor integrity. I am also hounded by the cosmetic companies who boast that they are worth it, or that I am worth it but honestly nobody is worth that kind of innocuous, time wasting blather.
The anger that I have right now is directed toward those who make, design and market glasses, which are probably essential to all people at one time or another, specifically not for – a skull like mine – if you will – a skull as such. So fuck all y'all.
What? Don't you motherfuckers want me to be able to see? Fuck your driving jokes and the bullshit about the small eyes. I don't want that. I need answers. Why can't I, an accomplished comedian, world traveler, fashion icon, media mogul, artist, muse, dancer, gender revolutionary, social critic, maniacal despot, lifeguard, housewife, couture designer, pratfaller extraordinaire (Harold Lloyd can kiss my ass – he had the best glasses), jewelry maker, musician, humanitarian, law student, film producer, mystic, acclaimed writer, hip hop wannabe, visionary, activist of all activists – that is stupid – I take that part back – actually, I take all of it back, it is self- aggrandizing, and that is not what this is about. Why can't I, an Asian American woman, find a decent pair of glasses that will:
a) fit my face
b) not give me a migraine whenever I put them on
c) not slide down my nose
d) not give me acne in the spots where the kidney shaped pads are placed on the glasses as if that would help me keep the glasses on my 'misshapen' misadventure of a head; safety brakes for my Black Diamond face, as the eyeglass industry refers to it
e) allow me to see clearly
Would the status quo have me left farsighted and blurred? Are they really thinking that Asians are bad drivers and should be stopped at the very first opportunity? Is the DMV eye test a sort of automotive ethnic cleansing?
Yes, I could wear contact lenses, but I don't want shit on top of my eye. Sorry. That is the fucking deal. Give me my fucking glasses. For a skull as such, here is an order, not a request. I am not alone. My skull is not the only skull with these shapes, these planes, these valleys, these lowlands. We want to see. And I don't want to design my own glasses. I don't have time. I have more important things to do.
Nonetheless, this is extremely important.


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Bose recently sent their new in-car media center to the FCC for testing. The car they sent it in? A Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. Bose sure knows how to wow 'em, eh? You can't distract us from your product, Bose, no matter how much you try!
Their Media Center uses Gracenote and AMG metadata to figure out what exactly it is you're listening to, and loads up with maps from Navteq. It also has a TV tuner, which is sure to be one of the more dangerous additions to the car-electronics lineup in some time.
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With a luminous face that has mesmerized audiences around the world for six decades and an incomparable voice that must surely be one of the most easily identifiable of any film actress, Katharine Hepburn has proven to be the most monumental and enduring star of the silver screen.
Known and admired for her independence, courage, outspoken views, and fierce determination, she is first and foremost an actress who has made more than 40 feature films and numerous television movies and has appeared in more than 30 stage productions ranging from sparking comedies, to Elizabethan drama, to Broadway musicals.
The second of six children, Hepburn was reared by rather unorthodox parents who granted their children complete freedom and whom Hepburn credits with all her astonishing success. "The great thing my parents gave me was not to have fear, " she says. "I was taught not to be afraid of anything."
As a child, Hepburn was an expert wrestler, tumbler, and trapeze performer. When she was eight, she made her first public appearance at a votes-for-women rally. Her early teens were spent producing elaborate puppet shows for her family and friends. By the time she entered Bryn Mawr in 1924, she was determined to be an actress. Four years later she made her Broadway debut it the Cort Theatre in These Days. The play closed after eight performances, but she was immediately cast as the star's understudy in Phillip Barry's Holiday, thus began one of the great writer-actress partnerships that would culminate a decade later in the smash stage and screen hit, The Philadelphia Story.
In 1932, she was picked by producer David O. Selznick and director George Cukor to make her screen debut in A Bill of Divorcement. One film later she won her first Oscar for Morning Glory. She has since become the all-time Oscar champion, having been nominated a record-breaking 12 times. Furthermore, she's the only four-time winner in an acting category: Morning Glory, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, The Lion in Winter, and On Golden Pond. (Significantly, considering the brevity of most film careers, the latter three were earned after she turned 58!)
With a filmography too lengthy to list in detail, highlights include Little Women, Alice Adams , Stage Door, Bringing up Baby, The African Queen, Summertime, Long Day's Journey into Night, and her celebrated nine-film collaboration with Spencer Tracy that began in 1942 with Woman of the Year peaked with Adam's Rib (1949) and Pat and Mike (1952), and ended with Tracy's death in 1967 with Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Hepburn's was a career filled with incredible highs and more than a few flops. An early Hepburn stage performance in The Lake was, after all, the target of Dorothy Parker's infamous "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B." She was officially labeled "Box Office Poison" in 1938, but her influence over the American public remained unshakable--wooing audiences with her charismatic blend of down-to-earth sass and sophisticated glamour. While working together in On Golden Pond, Henry Fonda offered his own explanation for Hepburn's phenomenal career: "Kate is unique--in her looks, in the way she plays, most of all herself."


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Inside Apple's iPad: Adobe FlashApple's new iPad is being criticized for lacking the capacity to render interactive content built using Adobe's Flash platform, but the company shows no sign of reversing course.
Since the iPhone debuted in 2007 without any support for Flash, Adobe has begun a revitalized campaign to breathe interest in Flash. This includes the announcement of a new series of Flash 10.1 runtimes for Windows Mobile, Nokia S60/Symbian, Palm WebOS, and Android phones (but not RIM's Blackberry). This suggests not having Flash will be a problem for the iPad.
Adobe has also staged a regular conversation amplified by analysts and pundits that essentially claims Apple is unfairly restricting choice in the market by not supporting Flash on its iPhone platform.
Additionally, while Adobe says it is supporting open standards for the web related to HTML5, it still maintains that Flash is "critical to the web" while it also works to cement as much new content as possible into the proprietary mold of its Flash platform and the related Flex and AIR initiatives.
Will being Flash-free hurt the iPad?
Adobe's arguments for Flash are difficult to support in the mobile realm. The iPhone has been wildly popular since its debut despite its lack of support for Flash. Apple's smartphone dramatically raised the bar for what customers expected in a mobile web browser. By doing this without Flash, Apple essentially redefined what the web should look like, at least on a mobile device.
While a few mobile devices can render Flash content designed for desktop PCs, Adobe's original strategy for Flash on mobile devices prior to the iPhone was Flash Lite. This subset of the Flash runtime is based upon Adobe's old Flash 7 (MX 2004) and ActionScript 2.0 bytecode, which uses an entirely different ActionScript virtual machine than Adobe's newer Flash 9/10 (which use ActionScript 3.0 bytecode).
On the desktop, Adobe simply included two engines for running both old legacy Flash and more modern content. That's not really possible or desirable in a mobile environment where the Flash runtime is supposed to respect the device's limited processor and memory resources.
Adobe basically delivered Flash Lite as a way to say Flash was playable on mobile devices without actually doing the work of bringing a real Flash runtime to each mobile platform. The company has had a difficult enough time just supporting Flash on Windows PCs and Mac OS X at the same time, let alone Linux, the PlayStation 3's NetFront brewer, the Wii's Opera browser, and the top several mobile platforms.
Adobe hopes to roll out Flash 11 with support for ActionScript 3.0 bytecode across all desktop and mobile platforms (apart from the Blackberry and iPhone, iPod touch and iPad) soon, but the fact that it will be missing on the fastest growing mobile platforms and two of the most popular smartphone platforms will definitely be a problem, as developers creating content simply can't reach the top mobile platforms using Adobe's technology.
The iPhone's lack of support for Flash does not appear to have had any impact on its popularity, but clearly has played a significant role in devaluing the importance of Flash in mobile devices, even if other platforms are enthusiastically embracing Flash. At the same time, if developers on other platforms use Flash to reach those mobile audiences, they'll being doing that instead of creating native software for Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, and so on. That will also benefit Apple, because it will keep its iPhone App Store well ahead of rivals.
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by Tom Utescher
Even with around 70 athletes on its track and field roster this spring, Mount St. Joseph Academy found rough going in its league dual meet opener at Jenkintown's St. Basil Academy last Tuesday afternoon. The host Panthers took first place in 15 of 17 events (there was no pole vault competition) to top the MSJ Magic, 108-33.
Preventing the Panthers from establishing a complete monopoly on first place finishes were Mount senior Moira Sweeney, who won the discus, and freshman Sarah Lynch, who prevailed in the high jump. Three jumpers cleared the winning height, but based on attempts needed Lynch was first and MSJ sophomore Katie Gross second.
The Magic fared better overall in the field events than on the track. In the six jumping and throwing disciplines the scoring was relatively close between the teams, 32-22 in favor of the Panthers.
Mount St. Joe finished second and third in the shot put, thanks to junior Connie Russin and sophomore Natalie Hasson, and also in the long jump, where sophomore Allie Waters was runner-up and senior Alise McNutt was third. McNutt also placed third in the triple jump.
On the track, Mount St. Joe recorded second-place finishes for sophomore Lauren Seminack in the 400 meters, junior Danielle Leporace in the 800, and sophomore Patricia Hoffman in the 1600. In addition, Hoffman placed third in the 800.
In the 100 meter high hurdles, Mount senior Morgan McCafferty appeared to be on her way to victory, but she stumbled before the last hurdle and finished out of the money. Earlier in the meet, she came in third in the 300 intermediate hurdles.
St. Basil bagged one-two-three sweeps in the 100, 400, and 3200 meter races, the high hurdles, and the javelin. The outstanding individual performers for the Panthers were senior Gina Vanore and junior Alexa Keehfuss. Vanore won the 200, the 400, and the long jump and was runner-up in the 100, while Keehfuss took first in the 100 meters and the high hurdles, and second in the 400.
Individual Scoring Results
100 Meters
1. SBA Alexa Keehfuss 12.6
2. SBA Gina Vanore 12.6
3. SBA Katie Cassidy 12.7
200 Meters
1. SBA Gina Vanore 26.4
2. SBA Alexa Keehfuss 26.4
3. SBA Katie Cassidy 27.1
400 Meters
1. SBA Gina Vanore 1:02.7
2. MSJ Lauren Seminack 1:05.6
3. SBA Regina Wilson 1:05.7
800 Meters
1. SBA Regina Wilson 2:36.2
2. MSJ Danielle Leporace 2:37.0
3. MSJ Patricia Hoffman 2:39.0
1600 Meters
1. SBA Megan McGarrity 5:30.2
2. MSJ Patricia Hoffman 5:33.4
3. SBA Corinne Manela 5:36.0
3200 Meters
1. SBA Casey Uhrich 12:35.6
2. SBA Megan McGarrity 12:35.9
3. SBA Valerie Santangelo 12:37.1
100 Hurdles
1. SBA Alexa Keehfuss 18.7
2. SBA Madeleine Brownsey 19.0
3. SBA Gabby Herrmann 19.2
300 Hurdles
1. SBA Regina Wilson 50.2
2. SBA Madeleine Brownsey 51.7
3. MSJ Morgan McCafferty 52.5
1. MSJ Moira Sweeney 74'6.5"
2. SBA Katie Gallagher 69'5.5"
3. SBA Maria Sassane 59'8"
High Jump
1. MSJ Sarah Lynch 4'6"
2. MSJ Katie Gross 4'6"
3. SBA Megan Black 4'6"
1. SBA Kiersten Moylan 81'0"
2. SBA Meg Onslager 78'0"
3. SBA Liz Wilby 73'6"
Long Jump
1. SBA Gina Vanore 15'9"
2. MSJ Allie Waters 14'2"
3. MSJ Alise McNutt 14'0"
Shot Put
1. SBA Katie Gallagher 32'1.5"
2. MSJ Connie Russin 28'8"
3. MSJ Natalie Hasson 25'8"
Triple Jump
1. SBA Megan Black 30'6"
2. SBA Gabby Herrmann 30'6"
3. MSJ Alise McNutt 29'9"


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Do you feel like your life is operating on warp speed?
Are you so caught up in all of your daily activities that you end the day feeling like you don't have a clue as to what really went on?
With the modern world's emphasis and value on speed, fast, and now, it's hard to get through a day without feeling constant pressure, strain, and a "Hurry up!" attitude. In fact, it seems like most people are more interested in how fast things happen rather than how well things get done. Living in the present is almost an absurd attempt with the all of the stresses and strains we've let society put on us.
In this first of its kind book, Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, Susan Smalley and Diana Winston take the reader on an easy-to-read lesson into the art and science (just as the title states) of mindfulness and how it can transform your life. If you've ever wanted to discover living in the present and how empowering and freeing it can be, Fully Present teaches you how.
Understanding Mindfulness and Living in the Present
Mindfulness is the art of being aware and paying attention with openness and curiosity to the present moment. Mindfulness can transform your life in ways you can only imagine.
Fully Present begins with the authors' own personal accounts of their experiences with mindfulness. Susan Smalley tells the reader how despite her seemingly happy dream life as a mother of three, successful professor, and wife of a successful Hollywood entrepreneur, she was really feeling angry, resentful, and out-of-touch inside. Living in the present didn't exist. Smalley explains how her life transformed into one of connectedness, deep peace, and true compassion for others as well as herself. She learned to live in the present and appreciate it for all it is and all it isn't.
As for co-author Diana Winston, she explains to the reader how she came upon mindfulness, living in the present, and how vital it is to having a truly happy life. As a meandering new college graduate, Winston took to traveling to India. During this journey she became interested in many of their teachings—including mindfulness—from Buddhist teachings. She almost immediately became immersed in this way of living and of thinking, which included many mediation retreats and even a year spent as a Buddhist nun in Burma.
These two authors beautifully weave a tale of living in the present that encompasses both their personal stories as well as science and art. Fully Present offers a baseline view of what mindfulness is and how to make it part of your life from both the scientific and art perspective. If you feel rushed, out-of-touch with yourself and others, angry, upset, depressed or just feel you aren't living in the present, Fully Present provides the tools and insight to set you free.
A Perfect Merge of Science and Art
Fully Present offers both an understanding in the scientific realm of what living in the present and mindfulness actually are, as well as the art of mindfulness. Not only does the reader come to understand with the mind what mindfulness is, you'll also learn how to make this mindfulness part of your life on a daily basis.
Mindfulness is helpful to any person regardless of who you are, where you've been, or where you want to go. If you want to live life in deep inner peace and feel contentment that is unwavering, Fully Present is the tool to take you there.
Both Susan Smalley and Diana Winston work at the Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA—which was founded by Susan Smalley.
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Most people spend long summer evenings in Paris strolling arm in arm around the boulevards, sitting in cafes or lolling in parks. I spent this weekend in the sewers. Am I odd in finding drains a sexy subject? Perhaps. But they're my number one candidate for a Song of Contagion.
I'm lobbying for a diarrhoea story that starts in 1830 and tells the story of poo-related deaths in London and Calcutta. The British and the Indian music will start off at the same volume because back then, diarrhoea was killing roughly the same proportion of the population in those cities. Then in the 1850s the British music gets deafening — that was the Big Stink and the cholera epidemic that followed. This rattles the Victorians into action, and they start to build drains — represented by the introduction of a didgeridoo as a bass-line to the British music (I'm hoping for a dij because it both looks and sounds like a drain…) As a result, diarrhoea deaths in London plummet. While the dij bass-line carries on, the rest of the British music gets quieter and falls silent. The Indian music, on the other hand, never gets a bass-line. Neither the colonial government nor the many subsequent Indian governments have invested sufficiently in basic sanitation, and tens of thousands of children continue to die of diarrhoea in Indian cities to this day.
Whether this story gets selected or not is up to Tony Haynes and his song-writers and musicians in the Grand Union Orchestra. But it is also up to you, and whether you have better ideas about which diseases would best illustrate the different social, political and physical forces that shape our perception of the importance of a specific illness. In our current thinking, the list of parameters which affect our perception of disease fall into four categories. They look like this:
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Show Case Restaurant Features Array of Northwest Pacific Menu Items
VANCOUVER, BC--(Marketwire - Dec 26, 2012) - Challenged by the diverse flavours, influences and inspirations of Vancouver, the talented culinary staff of the Show Case Restaurant and Bar has designed an intriguing new winter menu that is sure to bring joy to the taste buds of even the most discerning diner.
Offering stylish Vancouver dining inside the prominent Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown Hotel, the bill of fare at Show Case Restaurant features a variety of Pacific Northwest menu items with new winter dishes including steak frites, ling cod, Thai shrimp rice bowl, crispy buttermilk chicken sandwich, corned beef Reuben sandwich and more. The impressive new menu includes some savory old menu favorites such as prawn and scallop capellini, chicken quesadilla, Gelderman's Farm pork chop and the eatery's famous butter chicken curry and has some great additions as well.
Known for its outstanding quality, innovative presentations and exceptional service, this award-winning choice among restaurants in downtown Vancouver is ideal for an evening out or gathering with family and friends. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner, the menus are priced to please and the restaurant's downtown location at the corner of Hastings and Thurlow is popular for business lunches, shopping breaks and sightseeing expeditions. The casual atmosphere of the restaurant and its adjoining bar create it a relaxing atmosphere during the day or night.
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Aaa! So you've decided to totally lose your mind and write games that work in Linux! Welcome to Linux, chances are you decided to get Ubuntu since you have absolutely no idea how to use Linux. It seems like you probably have made games for windows before in c or something, and have probably never heard of GCC, SDL, or OpenGL. No! With you it probably has always been DirectX to the death! I might be overreacting and you might have knowledge of any of the above, but if that's the case then you're going to be much better off~ If you meet the above minimum requirements, then this tutorial is for you. To make sure that this tutorial works like it should and so that you don't have to open the terminal so much, I highly recommend you get Ubuntu.
After you've played with the system a bit and got your video card working... You didn't? Well just click on the Hardware Drivers manager as shown in the picture:
You'll see a list of drivers, try and enable your video card if it isn't already enabled. You may notice a significant increase in the performance of the GUI now. Alright... Now what!? I think it's best to start at the bare minimum and compile a simple hello world program. Compiler? What compiler? There may not be a Microsoft Visual Studio in Linux, but it came with GCC with c and c++ versions. Let's stick with c to keep it simple. Anyways, go ahead and make a new folder called hello:
Hello World
Alright, let's take GCC for a spin! Open the folder, right click, and create a new file and name it hello.c as shown in the picture:
Double click on it to open the edit and put the following hello world program inside:
/* hello.c A Hello World Example for Linux written by WolfCoder (2008) */ /* Includes */ #include <stdio.h> /* Main */ int main() { /* Welcome the user */ printf("Hello, world!\n"); /* Exit */ return 0; }
Alright! Er... Now we need to get GCC to compile and run this thing. Linux supports some weird batch files called Makefiles, which are sort of smart .bat files as you are used to in Windows. There's much you can do with a Makefile, but it basically follows this syntax:
<target>: <list of files to depend on> <command> <command> ...
The target is a name, for exmaple "compile". After the colon you need to press TAB and enter file names, sperated by a space. If these files are modified from the last time the command was run, the commands below execute. The commands are simple command-line terminal commands. Simple? Well, create a new text file called "Makefile" and don't add .txt or anything, it's just called Makefile. Put the following code in it:
compile: hello.c gcc -c hello.c gcc hello.o -o hello ./hello
Don't forget to press enter at the end. Basically, this file means that if "make compile" is typed in the command line, then if hello.c is modified from the last time, it should run the commands below. gcc -c <list of .c files> compiles the files, gcc <list of .o> -o <name of program> puts them together and ./hello executes the program to test it. But... How do you test it? There's a nifty shortcut built into the text editor you are in right now (GEdit to be sure), just Go to Edit, and the Preferences, click the Plugins tab, and then check External Tools if it isn't checked already. The following should be available to you as shown in the picture:
So click it and... What!? stdio.h is not found? How did you manage that!? We need to actually add... *sigh* the standard c library manually. Click on the following shown in the picture to get to the Synaptic Package Manager:
Click search and type "libc6-dev" or "libc" or "libc-dev" until you see a libc-dev package to install. Click the box, mark it for installation and apply changes. It should look something like this (but not exactly):
Hello SDL
That's how you add libraries and things directly. Now go back to the makefile and click the tools->build again. Yay! It tells you "Hello, world!" finally. It's been a bumpy ride, but I'm going to finish off with an application that opens a blank SDL window. SDL is a system for simple 2D games, and it's perfect for getting used to Linux game programming. Go ahead and install the following package like you did before, here's a picture so it did happen:
Alright, make a new folder called "sdltest" and create a new file called sdltest.c with the following code (notice how GEdit highlights c syntax^^):
/* sdltest.c Tests SDL under Linux written by WolfCoder (2008) */ /* Includes */ #include </usr/include/SDL/SDL.h> /* Globals */ SDL_Surface *screen; SDL_Event event; /* Main */ int main() { /* Initialize SDL */ SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO); /* Set video mode */ screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640,480,32,SDL_SWSURFACE); /* Enter a loop */ while(1) { /* Check for user quit */ while(SDL_PollEvent(&event)) { if(event.type == SDL_QUIT) { /* Stop the test */ SDL_Quit(); return 0; } } /* Fill with black */ SDL_FillRect(screen,&screen->clip_rect,SDL_MapRGB(screen->format,0,0,0)); /* Update */ SDL_Flip(screen); } }
Alright, put a Makefile in there with the following code (the file should ALWAYS BE "Makefile"):
compile: sdltest.c gcc -c sdltest.c gcc -lSDL sdltest.o -o sdltest ./sdltest
Notice the lSDL? That has to go BEFORE the other stuff because GCC has (at least for me) placed them all in order. Alright, just to make sure, my folder looks like this (I have already tried out the program as you can see from the extra files... you should tools->build too...):
And finally, we've come to a landing! The final result is a black window of SDL:
From here, now all you have to do is learn SDL. There's nothing else Linux-related you have to worry about anymore for the time being, but keep an eye out for any more Linux Tutorials for such things as using the tools and libraries to make games, and how to build a Windows version of your game (it's actually sort of the same way, only with a Windows port of GCC).
Before I let you loose, let me give you a list of tools you can use to help you make games. You can search for these under Add/Remove in Applications. Installing them is easy.
- GIMP (probably already installed) for making images, it's no Photoshop but it does the job.
- Audacity for editing sound files.
- Blender for making 3D models.
...and so much more, browse their software catalog under Add/Remove.
Also, take a look for what they've got for IDEs, I'll use GEdit's build shortcut and makefiles for the sake of simplicity for any demos I make, but using an IDE allows you to organize better your game projects. I hope you enjoyed yourself, and have fun with Linux! Try playing a few of the games you can find under Add/Remove, hehe


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When the SLS hit the scene in 2010, it made waves. With its truly unique - and stunning - styling, sinister exhaust note and steep price tag, it can't be ignored, no matter who you are, what you drive or how you drive it.
Having driven one close to the advertised top speed and blasted through canyon roads leaving thick trails of pricey Michelin tire smoke, I can tell you the SLS is one of the more confusing cars to rationalize, yet it's also an absolute riot to drive. It will make you smile like a little girl, or throw you in a ditch to teach you a lesson.
It's a high-end luxury super sports coupe that behaves like an aggressively tuned import car. Did it need to be updated and refreshed? Sure, the new GT is welcomed, but did this series of tweaks solidify a logical place for the car? We're unsure.
The SLS GT sees an increase of 20hp from a smaller displacement V8. However, horsepower definitely wasn't an area where the SLS required help, but we'll never complain about too much of something so wonderful.
The exhaust note is somehow even better than before. The SLS remains the best sounding Benz, and possibly one of the best sounding German cars of all time. From pops and burbles to rev limiters and wide-open-throttle pulls, the car begs to be driven hard.
While it performs well on a road course, its straight-line prowess is definitely the easiest to exploit. The jaunt to 60 takes 3.6sec and will blow past the quarter-mile in 11.7sec at 124.5mph. Launches are always fun thanks to the Race Start feature on the improved DCT transmission.
Shifts are now faster and more precise. Even in full auto mode, the transmission does a great job of reading your mind, finding the correct gear for your driving style, although using the paddles is undeniably more fun.
If all roads were silky smooth and racetracks didn't have big curbs and tight turns, the SLS would be a driver's choice. And yet both the last version and new GT suffer from a shimmy at the rear simply by turning-in hard or gently trail-braking. And while you can adapt your style to induce less of this, nothing can make it ride smoother or softer.
We don't want the SLS to float on a cloud, but the car is too stiff to be daily driven. And even on a road course like Streets of Willow, the C63 Black Series felt better suited for track duty and was also far more compliant than the SLS. And we're making this assessment in Sport mode, the softer of the two available suspension settings. Sport+ is more rigid than most cars we've driven.
If you were purchasing an SLS AMG GT solely because you're obsessed with its style, have an affinity for burnouts and loud downshifts, spirited highway sprints and maybe some canyon hooning, then this is a superb reason to spend $200,000. But if you want a car for work and the track, we'd recommend you shop around, because there are cars that can do more for less.
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FLAGLER BEACH, Fla. – A Flagler County mother has donated money to hire a deputy for her daughter's elementary school because of concerns she had after the mass shooting at a Connecticut school, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.
A sheriff's spokesman said Laura Lauria wrote a check for nearly $12,000 to the Flagler County School District, which will reimburse the Sheriff's Office to station a deputy for six hours per day, five days per week, at Old Kings Elementary School in Flagler Beach.
There are resource deputies at the county's two high school and three middle schools. Officials have considered putting deputies at elementary schools, but say the costs are prohibitive.
The Sheriff's Office spokesman said Lauria funded the "hiring" through her police supply company, Police Services Inc.
Local 6 contacted the offices of Police Services Inc. in Ormond Beach on Monday, but Lauria could not be reached for comment.
The spokesman also said FCSO wants to put deputies at all schools in the county and is working on finding funding.
Flagler County parents tell Local 6 they support the addition of the deputy.
"If I had the money I'd hire four or five," said grandmother Gwen Hadley. "To know there's someone there if someone comes in with a gun they could try and stop them before they kill more children."
Parent Lisa Howell agreed.
"I think it's going to make a lot of parents more comfortable that someone else is able to do that, and it's helping a lot of people," Howell said.
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Oval Masa Cakes With Goat Cheese Filling
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- 1 1/2 cups crumbled chilled soft fresh goat cheese - (abt 7 oz)
- 6 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- 2 cups freshly ground corn masa dough for tortillas - (abt 17 oz) (or make masa dough with 1 3/4 cups
- masa harina [corn tortilla mix; abt 8 1/2
- oz] mixed with 1 cup plus 2 tbspns warm water)
- 2 tablespoons lard or solid vegetable shortening
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- Warm water as needed
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Roasted-Tomatillo And Lime Salsa (see recipe)
- Sliced fresh radishes
Servings 12
Step 1
Mix goat cheese and cilantro in medium bowl for filling. Cover; chill.
Combine fresh masa or masa harina mixture, lard, and salt in large bowl. Knead until well blended, adding warm water by teaspoonfuls as needed until dough is soft but not sticky. Divide into 12 equal portions; shape each into ball. Arrange on sheet of foil; cover.
Cut two 8-inch rounds from heavy-duty resealable plastic bag. Place 1 plastic round on bottom half of tortilla press. Place 1 dough ball in center; top with second plastic round. Close tortilla press, gently flattening dough to 4-inch round about 1/4 inch thick. Peel off top plastic. Arrange 2 tablespoons goat cheese filling in strip in center of dough round. Using bottom plastic as aid, fold up sides of dough over filling. Using moistened fingertips, mold dough into oval, sealing filling inside. Arrange, seam-side down, on sheet of aluminum foil. Repeat with remaining masa balls and filling.
Heat 2 heavy large ungreased griddles or skillets over medium heat. Arrange 6 cakes in each. Cook until cakes are pale golden, 8 minutes per side. Transfer masa cakes to baking sheet. (Masa cakes can be made 2 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.)
Pour vegetable oil into each griddle to depth of 1/8 inch. Heat over medium-high heat 2 minutes. Add 6 masa cakes to each griddle. Fry until masa cakes are heated through and golden brown, about 4 minutes per side.
Arrange masa cakes on platter. Spoon some tomatillo salsa over. Garnish with radishes. Serve with remaining salsa.
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Amy is bookended by two striking performances. The first, in which a 14 year old Amy sings 'Happy Birthday' at a party with friends, the second, a studio duet with Tony Bennett. The first, while just teenage fooling around, reveals someone with a special voice who loves to use it, the second, someone using that voice in tandem with one of the great song stylists, with risk, range and artistry. A voice which four months later would be no more.
But what happens in the intervening two hours or so of Asif Kapadia's documentary is an engaging visual kaleidoscope in which her voice is not always to the fore. It's a painstakingly researched and meticulously edited collage of moments, highspots, lowspots, mobile phone footage, tv footage, helicopter shots, back of car shots, voicemail messages, voiceover interviews which works, by telling a story without imposing a viewpoint. It's all more or less interesting stuff. But when that voice sings or those eyes reveal or betray or hint at something it sparkles. Watch the eyes disdain as they diss an interviewer comparing her to Dido.
The voice – and the eyes – are at the core of this. The rest is just more or less interesting packaging, the sharp but ordinary girl from Southgate or the paparazzi-hounded celeb from Camden, caught up, willingly or inescapably in the claws of the twin bitch goddesses of success and excess. She charms and frustrates and teases and repels like any clever adolescent or addict will. Nothing new.
And the eyes have it, wide eyed at high times, at low times dead, a half look, a shamed look, a detached look. She was clearly stressed and confused by her family situation, hopelessly co-dependent on a similarly confused loser, uncomfortably unable to please the returned dad, wild child both tormented by and, by turns, triumphing in and wasting her talent.
Perhaps not much of it was her fault, perhaps none at all. Any would-be or nonentity with a fraction of her ability can make it nowadays if making it implies signing up unprotected to the sad circus or mad parade. I don't think she even thought about making some accommodation with it, or finding some space outside it. It all just happened.
You get a glimpse of what might have been in that final session with Bennett. In awe of her idol, she's nervous, unsure, feels she can't get it right. Bennett's stories of Dinah Washington are the trigger she needs, she takes off and does the job, an adventurous descant to his very straight take on 'Body and Soul'. And then she says to Bennett something about it was sad Washington died really young.
Watch it. I can't be objective really, having known her briefly when she was a teenager, being familiar with her haunts and hangouts. She was the out of time jazz singer. This is the modern world. And sometimes modern life is rubbish.


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Over the years, water has shown to have its health benefits. In fact, drinking water regularly is one the healthiest things you can do. But did you know that water is also a way to help reduce the severity of Psoriasis? Psoriasis is a chronic, autoimmune disease that appears on the skin. It occurs when the immune system sends out incorrect signals that speed up the growth of skin cells. Oftentimes, you will have too many skin cells in one location, causing swelling, flaking and dryness. It can also be itchy, red, sore and very tender.
While there is no cure for Psoriasis, numerous studies suggest that drinking water is crucial in reducing the severity of it. Flushing toxins, healthier and hydrated skin are just a few of the reasons why drinking water is often recommended. Drinking at least 2 liters of water a day may dramatically reduce your Psoriasis. Other ways to help reduce it also include an improved diet consisting of green leafy vegetables.
One method that has worked in the past to reduce the severity of Psoriasis is through the use of Water Softeners. Water softeners are designed to remove calcium and magnesium, which can be very harmful, from your water supply. Hard water often results from a large presence of calcium and magnesium, and oftentimes is not ideal to use when dealing with Psoriasis. Below are great products that will remove the "hard water" from your home:
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Junior • 2012
Went 1 for 1 against South Florida March 4 … Registered a hit against Cal State Bakersfield March 10 … Had a hit, a run and an RBI in a win over Columbia April 6 … Launched a two-run homer in series opener against Yale April 14 … Bashed a grand slam and scored two runs in Game 1 of Sunday doubleheader against Yale April 15 … Ripped an RBI double and scored a run against Holy Cross April 26 … Went 1 for 2 with an RBI in regular-season finale against Dartmouth April 29
Sophomore • 2011
Went 1 for 1 against North Dakota March 12 ... Went 1 for 1 with an RBI in Game 2 against Rhode Island March 29 … Scored a run against Yale April 24 and 26 and against Dartmouth May 1.
Freshman • 2010
Received All-Ivy League honorable mention … Went 1 for 3 with an RBI in a 5-4 win over Northern Illinois March 13 … Went 2 for 2 with a run scored against Bucknell March 16 … Was 1 for 3 with a three-run home run in game one at Cornell Apr. 3, and was 2 for 3 with two doubles and an RBI in game two against the Big Red … Went five innings and struck out four against Cornell … Was 2 for 3 with a double against Holy Cross Apr. 6 … Went 1 for 3 with a solo home run against Penn Apr. 10 … Went 3 for 3 with a double and a run scored against Columbia Apr. 11 … Launched a solo home run against local rival Boston College Apr. 15 … Went 1 for 2 with a double and three RBI to lead Harvard over Brown Apr. 18 … Drove in a pair of runs in both game against Yale Apr. 24 … Was 2 for 3 in game one against Dartmouth on May 1 and May 2 … Went 1 for 3 with an RBI single in game one of the Ivy League Championship series against Cornell and repeated the performance in the deciding game three.
Before Harvard
Lettered four years in softball and two years in water polo at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy … Captained softball team junior and senior seasons … Named first-team All-State California by CIF and CalHiSports-ESPN … Named 2008 and 2009 All-Area Team, Player and Pitcher of the Year by the Los Angeles Daily News, Pasadena Star News, Glendale News Press and the Mission League … Played for the Valley Breeze 18U Gold travel softball team … Elected as student body president … Served as yearbook editor-in-chief … College Board AP Scholar ... California Scholastic Federation Scholar.
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If you didn't get a chance to attend the IHRSA conference this year, you can get a peek at some of the events, products and seminars at the show by reading through our blog entries. We covered the trade show floor, most of the keynote events and Augie's Bash. And we certainly don't want you to miss the performance by the IHRSA board of directors, so we included a link to the video in our blog entry about that.
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Charleston, Ill. – The Tigerbelles and Flying Tigers each had strong outings at this weekend's OVC Tournament, placing second and fifth, respectively.
The Tennessee State women's track and field team earned 95 points, trailing only Southeast Missouri State who had 101. The men's team garnered 78.5 points which was only 3.5 points away from fourth.
The Tigerbelles got eight points in the first women's event when Britani Logan placed second in the weight throw with a toss of 18.5 meters. They then received 10 points when Gabrielle Todd won the high jump with a leap of 1.71 meters.
Another winner in the field events was Ashontae Jackson who had a long jump of 6.11 meters in the preliminaries but still took home first place with a hop of 5.91 meters in the finals.
Jackson also earned her team six points in the 400-meter dash and two in the 200-meter. Quanisha Sales got TSU five key points in the 200-meter by placing fourth.
The duo of Jackson and Sales paired with Todd and Breanna Adams to earn a second-place finish in the 4 x 400 meter relay with a time of 3:48.30- only .10 seconds from first.
Ja'Lyn Burr rounded out the winners for the Tigerbelles by placing first in the triple jump with a 12.25-meter leap. Felecia Oladakun also picked up four points for TSU by placing fifth in the event.
The Flying Tigers' tournament started off really well with Daryl Rice, Sean Jenkins and Shaquille Cragwall each placing in the high jump. Rice placed first with a hop of 2.06 meters.
Also performing well in the jumps was Royce Dates who placed second in the long jump with final of 7.38 meters. He also finished third in the triple jump with a leap of 14.21 meters.
However, Dates finished behind teammate Tyler Anderson who won the triple jump after hopping 14.45 meters.
Michael Johnson also had a solid weekend for TSU, finishing fourth in the 200-meter dash (22.49 seconds) and seventh in the 400 (50.09).
TSU will try to carry over its success and improve before starting the Outdoor Season on Mar. 15 against Rhodes College in Memphis.
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The restaurant doesn't take reservations, and although it was crowded, we were seated right away at the last empty table upstairs. Floor to ceiling windows and a transparent roof make the space feel large, airy, and bright.
Other seating options include an indoor bar/lounge area downstairs, and an outdoor deck with tables and couches covered by heat lamps.
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What we ate, shared appetizers:
The runners-up: Margherita Flat Bread and Sliders
Honorable mention: The fries that came with the Sliders were perfectly crispy on the outside and soft on the inside (also available as a side order)
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- Celsius clientele looked like an even mix of New Yorkers, business lunchers, and tourists (the downstairs bar is a magnet for the after-work crowd)
- Space and food are very kid friendly
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- Higher prices than your typical lunch on the go, but similar to other sit down restaurants in the area
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Lakers rout Celtics, force Game 7 in NBA finals
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The trophy, the champagne, the hats, the T-shirts. Even Bill Russell and Kevin McHale. Everything was in place at Staples Center for the Boston Celtics to wrap up their 18th NBA championship.
And then the Lakers shoved everything back in its boxes and sent all the Celtics in sight back to their hotels for two more days.
With an emphatic, historic blowout win in Game 6 Tuesday night, Los Angeles earned the right to host the grand finale to both the NBA season and this scintillating chapter in the league's most glamorous rivalry.
Kobe Bryant scored 26 points, Pau Gasol added 17 points and 13 rebounds, and the Lakers held Boston to the second lowest-scoring performance in NBA finals history in an 89-67 victory, setting up a winner-take-all Game 7 on Thursday.
Faced with elimination for the first time in this postseason, the defending champion Lakers didn't flinch. Just look at Bryant, who still hasn't cracked a smile during the quest for his fifth title -- the same number as Magic Johnson, and one behind Michael Jordan.
"We're used to being in must-win situations," Bryant said. "The way we look at it, (Game 7) is just a game we've got to win. ... I don't mean to be a buzzkill. I know what's at stake, but I'm not tripping."
He left that to the Celtics, who fell all over themselves after falling behind by 22 points in the first half. Boston memorably eliminated the Lakers in the sixth game of the 2008 finals with a 39-point blowout -- but this time around, the Celtics lost their series lead and their starting center in one disastrous Game 6.
"We didn't get in any rhythm early, and it affects our chemistry," said Ray Allen, who scored 19 points. "We each tried to make the home run play early. As a starting unit, we take responsibility. We have to do a better job next game."
Ron Artest added 15 points for the Lakers, who got their backs off the wall with a dazzling first half and a strong finish built around defense that held Boston to 33 percent shooting. Only Utah's infamous 54-point performance against Chicago in 1998 was worse.
Bryant grabbed 11 rebounds, and Gasol led the Lakers with nine assists in a remarkable bounce-back game for Los Angeles, which dominated from the opening minutes by vacuuming up rebounds -- 13 more than Boston -- and playing relentless defense.
"I was very happy," Bryant said after the defending champions stretched the finals to the limit for the first time since 2005. "We did a great job defensively. We kept them out of the middle, kept them out of the paint, did a good job on the boards. It was a solid effort by us."
These rivals have played a Game 7 four times in their 11 previous finals meetings, with Boston winning all four. But it hasn't happened since 1984 -- and it hasn't happened to Bryant, who looks determined to stake a spot among the NBA's highest circle of greats.
But while Bryant was a one-man band for much of the Lakers' three-game stay in Boston, Los Angeles was a symphony in Game 6. Gasol was a constant low-post presence and playmaker after disappearing for long stretches of the series, while Artest harnessed his wildly inconsistent jumper and hit three 3-pointers.
"We want to carry everything we did tonight to (Game 7), and then I think we'll be in a very good place to win," Gasol said. "When you bring the intensity we did tonight, good things are going to happen."
With first lady Michelle Obama watching from a luxury box, the Lakers were on their best behavior -- and the Celtics responded terribly to the chance to clinch a title.
Paul Pierce scored 13 points and Kevin Garnett added 12, but the Celtics' offense was a jumbled, stand-around mess. Rajon Rondo, the late-game hero in Boston's last appearance in Los Angeles, got off to a 1-for-8 shooting start before finishing with 10 points and six assists.
"I thought we'd play better, obviously," Boston coach Doc Rivers said. "I thought we were ready. ... We played an individual game tonight on both ends. We never gave ourselves an opportunity offensively, because we never trusted each other. Everybody was out to make their own place."
The Celtics lost starting center Kendrick Perkins in the first quarter to a sprained right knee when he landed awkwardly under the hoop, but his absence couldn't explain the Lakers' utter domination of the first half -- a 30-13 rebounding edge while holding Boston to 34 percent shooting and frustrating Rondo.
"To me, the game is over," Rondo said. "We have one game (left). They have one game. All or nothing. (Game 6) is in the past."
There hasn't been a winner-take-all finals game since San Antonio finished off Detroit five years ago, and Thursday's Game 7 will be the 17th in NBA history. The Spurs' victory over the Pistons was the first Game 7 since 1994, when the Houston Rockets capped a comeback with two home victories over the New York Knicks and their point guard -- Rivers.
"It's really a high-tension situation," said Lakers coach Phil Jackson, a 10-time champion who has never coached a Game 7 in the finals. "Players have come down to putting a lot on the line at this particular point. It's not about the coaching at that point. They've already got it in them. It's about who comes out and provides the energy on the floor."
The Lakers improved to 10-1 in the postseason at Staples Center, while the Celtics dropped to 3-4 in closeout playoff games this season -- including 0-3 on the road. Boston had nine chances to finish a playoff series away from home in the past three postseasons, but has been successful only once.
NOTES: Los Angeles got two points and four rebounds in 16 minutes from injured C Andrew Bynum, who spent part of the second half in the locker room. Jackson said Bynum asked to come out after feeling tightness in his leg, which will require surgery in the offseason ... Allen hit two 3-pointers after hitting a finals-record eight in Game 2 in Los Angeles. He didn't make a 3-pointer during the last three games in Boston.


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Why You Should Regret LightSquared's Setbacks
from the competition-is-good deptLightSquared is a new wireless carrier that has been trying to launch a wholesale 4G network across the USA. Funded by private equity firm Harbinger Capital, it sought to re-purpose satellite communication frequencies to build a nationwide cellular-satellite hybrid network, and then re-sell the network capacity to other brands. In January 2011, the FCC, eager to foster new competitors in the mobile space, gave LightSquared the green light to launch using their spectrum with one provision - that their network equipment NOT interfere with GPS signals and devices. Well, over a year has come and gone, and despite incredible effort and wrangling, the independent testing keeps indicating that LightSquared's terrestrial towers are not compatible with GPS device use. As such, the FCC has basically rescinded LightSquared's request to launch service on their 1.5GHz L-Band spectrum.
Note that, while LightSquared DID knock out GPS devices, it was not LightSquared that transmitted on the GPS frequencies, but rather the GPS devices that sloppily "listen" to the adjacent LightSquared frequencies. The GPS chipsets were generally cheaply made with inadequate filtering. That said, who is at fault is irrelevant: it remains LightSquared's problem to solve if they want to launch their network. A long history of spectrum policy states that new entrants must not mess up the existing radio devices.
What we've lost here is the chance to have a truly innovative wireless carrier which would have stimulated competition, energized the vendor community, and provided a white-label network for MVNOs. LightSquared had, in fact, signed up dozens of partners who would offer LTE wireless services as cellular companies, CE makers, and store brands like Best Buy, for example, who could sell connectivity in a bundle with laptops. Maisie Ramsay over at Wireless Week explains how a vast community of over 30 technology vendors have also lost a valuable path to market.
What strikes me, as someone who works with wireless carriers (LightSquared included), is that we may lose one of the scrappiest players out there. And markets thrive when a scrappy player stirs up the pot. Hutchison Whampoa stirred up the UK markets when it launched 3G in 2003, Free is currently doing the same in France. In the USA, we have regional players like Metro PCS, but nothing at the national level. My role at the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley is right where innovators meet with the telcos, and it was gratifying to see the tornado of new ideas, vendors, and possibilities that came about with a new network. Without legacy systems nor legacy thinking, lots of great ideas are free to emerge.
For now, with LightSquared's options dwindling, we may have to have to look elsewhere for new competition and open creativity. The WiFi space is fairly promising, as the spread of hotspots continues to soar, and new versions (802.11ac) promise greater range and throughput. Chipsets are cheap, and billions of WiFi devices have been produced. Republic Wireless exemplifies the possibilities of leveraging WiFi in mobile phones to the limit. Lots of people are hoping that the "white spaces" frequencies in between TV channels will be offered up to a WiFi variant, which will mean low-frequency spectrum that penetrates walls and buildings much better than today's WiFi. I like what the US carriers have done with the (globally) early launch of LTE, but there's no doubt that with increased competition we'd have a more dynamic market.
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A good start is often crucial to the entire school career: the aim is to ensure that the process of "learning" from the very beginning is a positive experience.
No child is like another - at any time. Over- or under-stimulation of children has always been counterproductive. Biberkor offers a unique opportunity because we provide for the needs of individual children at the center of their personal development. This is particularly apparent for first-graders, who all start quite differently.
At this grade level, the German national curriculum provides for learning to read and being able to recognize numbers 1 – 20. Some children start school already knowing these basics.
At Biberkor, we focus on helping individual children with their own level of development, to best tackle the enormous task of learning to read, and to quickly start mastering larger numbers, once they have mastered the basics. Even gifted children benefit greatly from this system, since unlike most schools, they do not have to "downgrade" their intellect or wait for others to catch up.
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People with cancer are protected from discrimination by law.
In England, Scotland and Wales, The Equality Act 2010 combined various discrimination laws, including the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA), under one piece of legislation.
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA) and its extension, the Disability Discrimination Order of 2006, still protect people with a disability in Northern Ireland.
Under these acts, it's unlawful for an employer to treat a person less favourably (discriminate against them) because of their disability. Everyone with cancer is classed as disabled under these acts. Even if a person who had cancer in the past has been successfully treated and is now in remission, they will still be covered by these acts. This means their employer must not treat them less favourably for any reason relating to their past cancer.
Which areas of employment are covered by the legislation?
The Equality Act and the DDA cover all areas of employment, including:
- the recruitment process
- terms, conditions and benefits
- opportunities for promotion and training
- when employment has ended.
They also cover treating someone less favourably than other workers because of their cancer. This includes harassment and victimisation.
Both the Equality Act and the DDA require employers to make reasonable adjustments to make it easier for an employee with a disability to work. These are required to remove any substantial disadvantage they face in the workplace because of their cancer, when compared with others who do not have cancer.