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Radiohead's Thom has always been the subject of black and white, one dimensional media profiles. In this self interview he faces his multi-dimensional other selves and for the first time, we get a close-up snapshot of the real Thom Yorke.
Taken from the April 1996 Issue of Dazed
It's been a year since Radiohead release The Bends, and now one of the best rock albums of '95 is back by popular demand, firmly entrenched in our national charts at number four. Amazingly, the Brits failed to award them one of four nominations. Their last but one single "Just", a charity record for their Help EP, was even refused a playlist by Radio One on the grounds that it was not "radio friendly". Yet despite the media support afforded to many other bands, Radiohead have gone supernova through: nakedly brilliant song writing, stadium lifting sound; non-stop touring schedules and just being themselves.
27-year-old Thom Yorke is a difficult man to decline. Like the difference between his one slightly sleepy eye and his other wide eye, there's a distinct contrast to his personality. One side of him is inward looking, the other is looking out for answers to the outside world. The band are an internal support group, each member with their own neatly cohesive responsibilites. But as the focal and vocal point, Thom is pressured to play out the roles defined by music, it burns him up inside, saps the poetry from his soul and conflicts with his passionate belief in artistic responsibility.
In The Bends, we see Thom's collective voices compressed and recompressed like reflections in a hall of mirrors, into comically exaggerated lows and anthemic, epic highs. On stage, Thom's self deprecation evokes an empathy and hysteria rarely witnessed in pop audiences. Seeing Radiohead live is less a group experience and more a personal revolution. During cinematic moments. like the chorus for "Just", when he sings, You do it to yourself, just you, you and no one else, it's as if he's speaking to each and everyone there.
So do you ever have a laugh?
"Whenever anyone puts a microphone in front of me, I'm serious because I want to get these noises out of my head. At home i've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. The people that make me laugh more than anyone else are Jonny and Ed. We've known each other since we were 15, so how can you not mercilessly rip the shit out of each other? It's just like when you're a kid, it's no different."
The Bends was an ecliptic moment in Radiohead's trajectory, a point where the pressure of producing a follow up to their two million-selling debut Pablo Honey saw their tears and desires overshadowed by an honesty to find themselves. And just as The Bends was an evolutionary progression, so their new recordings, according to Thom, see Radiohead redefining their sound surroundings, with some purely computer-originated songs, others stripped down, unplugged and semi-acoustic.
Radiohead have already gone through several pop cycles. The New of the New Wave failed to pick up on the not so new Radiohead, and, in its arrogant and self perpetuating publicity driven schemes, Britpop ignored them. They carved their own niche in the collective conciousness of the record-buying publc. The Radiohead of today are anarchists in a highly politicised pop game, art students who didn't believe in college, rock 'n' roll stars who don't write about cocaine. They're doing it their way.
" You're just a worrier . You're about as intuitive as a brick. You spend half your life worrying, more than half your life. You should fucking get a life, you shoud be enjoying what you're doing." – Thom Yorke
Thom: This is a quote, and I think this is you. 'The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney character's who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without seeing it. the power of their imagination keeps them suspended in mid-air, but as soon as they look down and see where they are, they fall.'
Thom: Well, am I looking down? I don't think i'm looking down. I sort of understand the Walt Disney bit though. the cartoon character bit. I understand running off the edge of a cliff, the expression on the face as they look down. I suppose it means something about the suspension of disbelief and I suppose what you are trying to as me, is 'What are you doing?' I can understand that, but it's better than working in advertising which is what my dad wanted me to do. And i'm looking down and i'm not falling.
Thom: No, but other people in your position do. Why should be any different?
Thom: I don't say i'm any any different at all. I just worry about losing it , you know? I spend most of every fucking day worrying about losing it . I've got to stop swearing as well, because some woman just wrote me a letter saying she really likes my music, but she's 50 years old; our music (laughs) and she doesn't like the swearing. (laughs)
Thom: Really? That's really interesting that you'd actually get worried about that . It's pretty pathetic, isn't it? You're really 'Be nice to everybody, nice big grin, shake hands, worry about wasteful packaging, worry whether people are going to break into your home while you're asleep . You worry about not having written back to fan mail. You worry about what to say to important people. You worry about what to say on stage infront of people. You're just a worrier . You're about as intuitive as a brick. You spend half your life worrying, more than half your life. You should fucking get a life, you shoud be enjoying what you're doing. Get on with it, enjoy it. Suck it up . All those lovely people being nice to you . It's what you always wanted.
Thom: I didn't know what I wanted. I don't think anybody knows what they want. We did a show in Los Angeles. It's a Christmas radio show; they have these every year and everybody does it who wants to be liked by the radio station that year, and we did it. And we thought we were going to hate it, but we turned up and everybody there, like Lenny Kravitz and people like Oasis, were talking to us and saying: 'Hi, you know, I really liked that song' or something and you're going , 'Er, thanks very much'. And that was great, and it was like being at your own birthday party, but you don' t know anybody, but they know it's your birthday and I don't know. No, that's bullshit. Anyway it got a bit out of hand because all the people there - except for a few like Oasis and Lenny Kravitz who we have respect for - were just fucking clinging on, you know? And they got this crazy look in their eye, and apparently a lot of them were on coke. I didn't know that; they said it 's the coke paranoia thing.
There was one particular famous ex-celebrity who I can't name who was really ready to punch me and was giving me a lecture about not behaving in the correct manner towards him because he came up to me and he says: 'Hey, man, you know, I really love you, man, you know, your album's great, you know, we want to make music like you' and I'm talking to somebody else and I'm thinking, 'Well, I'm not impressed', and it's not like I'm having a fucking go or anything, I'm just not into talking to him simply because he's another famous person, ex-famous person in this business. I'm sorry, but I didn't get into this to sort of go to the parties and fucking talk too the famous people. I got into this because I really love what we did and I really love the other blokes in the band and that's why I got into this and get out of my face, you know? But I didn't say any of these things, I just sort of said nothing .
And there was this famous model there and I snubbed her because I was a bit out of my head at the time and I was a bit stoned. Anyway, I couldn't do it, you know? I wasn't really able to communicate with anyone except for people I really knew. I suppose the novelty of these people has worn off and I just sound like this sulky kid who has had a big birthday party but didn't get the present he wanted and, you know, someone should just slap him around the face. And this guy was quite prepared to do that.
Thom: OK, this is an obvious question. Why did you want to be famous then?
Thom: Because I wanted to meet REM and Elvis Costello (laughs) and now I have. But really we just started making tapes when we were younger. First me on my own, and then me and Jonny, and then with the others. And we'd play them to people, and they'd really like them and they'd take them home and they'd actually play them at home and I was really into this. Or I'd be at a party or something and someone would give me a guitar and I'd play a song. I mean this is all when we were sort of 15, 16 and it was the first time that I found something that I really loved and I suppose that I just loved the attention, so I wanted to be famous, I wanted the attention. What's wrong with that? But there is also something really seriously fucking unhealthy about it.
Thom: You haven't really answered the question. You've said 'Oh, I want to be loved'. And that's not the real fucking reason, is it? I think you're a bit of a fucking prat.
Thom: Yeah, I agree. Um... other reasons to be famous. I think this discussion is so fucking lame. There's no point in continuing it, really. My favourite answer is: 'Because that way more people get to hear what we do', but that would be a lie, because I'm sure if you asked other members of the band they would agree, but it isn't the only reason. I just get really wound up because I think that when we got involved in what we do, we were so naive. I still think we are naive and I used to sort of want to hide it and now I'm proud of it because I think the most offensive thing about the music business, the most offensive thing about the media in general, is the level of cynicism and the fact that people really believe that they can pawn off endlessly recycled bullshit with no heart and people will buy it. And people do buy it , so I'm wrong and they're right, just to end this one; whenever I get lost about this, then the others always pull me up. And this is not just about me; I mean I'm doing this interview on my own because I think it's a good idea because I'm not very good at dealing with day to day press interviews. I 'm not that precious about the way people think about me, bu t I am precious about offensive stuff that people write and I am precious about headlines like the one that was put in the NME, 'Thorn's Temper Tantrum'. This was a while ago, before Christmas. As they put it, I threw tantrum in Germany and left the stage and nobody could understand what had happened and everyone was really pissed off and the whole audience were really angry and wanted their money back or whatever. The article was run like that and it was sort of second or third hand. What actually happened on that night was that I'd been really, really ill for quite some time and I didn't know whether I would be able to do it or not and it's very difficult to tell but after a while, if you're doing a tour, there is a point where you have to just carry on. It doesn't matter how ill you are, you still have to get on stage, and that really fucking does something to your head after a while. When I tried the soundcheck I got really worried because I couldn't sing anything. And when the show came round, people had driven hundreds of miles to come and it was snowing and it was like three or four foot deep and I just thought: 'There is no way I'm not doing the show because these people have travelled this far'. So I got up on stage and I thought it would be alright, but after three songs I lost my voice completely and I was croaking and I just got really fucking freaked out. I got tunnel vision and I don't really know what happened. I threw stuff around and threw my amp around and drum kit and ended up with blood all over my face and things. I cried for about two hours afterwards. I want people to know what happened that night . I'm sure no one gives a fuck and I'm sure the NME don't give a fuck, but what they wrote in that piece hurt me more than anything else anyone has ever written about me.
Thom: I think you've said enough about your fucking precious bullshit . It seems that you're a graduate of the Sinead O' Connor school of media handling and don't you feel it's about time you grew up a little? Stamping your little feet comes across as rather laughable under the circumstances, don't you think?
Thom: I think that has a lot to do with the expression that's on my face. People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit. (laughs) I do stamp my feet out of frustration really, but I don't do it as much now because I feel that we're in more control of what's happening.
Thom: Do you think that people who read this find this level of agonising pretty offensive?
Thom: I think the only reason that I'm able to think like this is because we've been off the wheel long enough and I've been at home long enough to start to see a lot of things for what they are. What worries me more than anything else is the whole notion that I'm who people focus on, like it's of significance, you know? People look at me and think that it's a complete existence. What really fucks me up in the head is that basically I'm supposed to be endorsing this sort of pop star, 'Wow, lucky bastard, he's got it all' existence. What frightens me is the idea that what Radiohead do is basically packaged back to people in the form of entertainment, to play in their car stereos on their way to work. And that's not why I started this but then I should shut the fuck up because it's pop music and it's not anything more than that. But I got into music because I naively thought that pop music was basically the only viable art form left, because the art world is run by a few very extremely, um, privileged people and is ultimately corrupt and barren of any context. And I thought that the pop music industry was different and I was fucking wrong, because I went to the Brits and I saw it everywhere and it's the same thing. It's a lot of women who couldn't fit in their cocktail dresses and lots of men in black ties who essentially didn't want to be there, but were. And I was there and we were all committing the same offence. All my favourite artists are people who never seem to be involved in the industry and I found myself getting involved in it, and I felt really ashamed to be there.
Thom: It sounds to me like you're going around in ever-decreasing circles.
"I get scared about my mind going round in circles but I think that's only because I'm constantly aware of my own reflection" – Thom Yorke
Thom: Yeah, I agree. I don't know if anybody else has this feeling. When you're walking down the street and you catch your reflection in something like a car window or a shop window and you see your face and you think, 'Who's that?'. You know: 'That's not me, that doesn't represent who I am'. And I think I've recently discovered what the problem is and it's a feeling that essentially you're just in a room full of mirrors. You can shoot at all the reflections, but basically it's all meaningless because you're just trapped and you put yourself there. I've realised recently that it's actually worrying about it that's the fucking problem. It's actually saying, 'No, this is me, that's not me', and being precious about who you are, because I believe now that everyone changes all the time. I think the most unhealthy thing for a human being is to feel that they have to behave in a certain way because other people expect them to behave like that, or to feel they have to think in a certain way because what happens then is basically your mind goes round in circles. I was getting really freaked out the other day because I was talking to Jonny when we were in the studio, and I woke up one morning and discovered that during the night, as a dream or something, my mind was going round in a trap. Like it was going round and round and round and round. It was like four or five words just going round in my head and it went on for about an hour and I couldn't stop it. And Jonny said he had the same thing. He went to Israel with his wife after a tour and he'd just got out of the bath, and picked up a towel to dry himself. Then once he put the towel down on the floor, he stood there completely freaked out for a half an hour because there were so many different places to put the towel. He'd become paralysed and got really really scared, because his mind had gone into a lock and wouldn't stop. So I get scared about my mind going round in circles but I think that's only because I'm constantly aware of my own reflection and I feel that's an extremely unhealthy thing. And I feel sorry for anyone who actually starts to believe their own reflection because I've done it. What a wanker!
Thom: Well, I think you're being very dishonest. I think that you're a little shit like every other narcissistic little boy in a pop band. Your particular angle in life is being the tortured artist, which frankly is already appearing fairly tired. It's about time you lightened up.
Thom: You're right. I'll lighten up. At the moment I'm really excited about what we could do, but just as much, like 50 per cent of the time, I'm thinking how close it is to just being completely banal. I guess that's what's supposed to happen. The best thing for us is to just keep turning stuff out and not worrying about what people think. The thing that paralysed us for the first two or three months of recording The Bends was the fact that we were paralysed about what people would think. We were paralysed about who we were supposed to be. We were paralysed about how we were supposed to be. It's pretty difficult not to love the attention. And I kind of went through a phase of going to London a lot and going to parties and things. Part of me really wanted to do that, wanted to go out and sort of soak up this beaming fucking sunshine coming out of my bottom or whatever it was, but you know... Maybe I should have done it, but it's not my thing, that's all. I'm not good at taking compliments, but I do it. I think it's more that people have put this level of significance into it, to the point where it 's really taking the piss. The reason I'm proud of the fact that people have jumped to The Bends now is because I know how difficult it was to make. The record is a document of a period of time and that was a diffi cult period of time and the fact that people really like it makes me very proud. I don't really care who wins Brit awards because nobody else does.
"The thing that paralysed us for the first two or three months of recording The Bends was the fact that we were paralysed about what people would think." - Thom Yorke
Thom: It sounds to me like you're desperately trying to find something to fight against.
Thom: I didn't come here to be attacked by you. Just fucking lay off, alright? (laughs).
Thom: No wonder you don't talk too much: you don't seem to have much to say, Thom.
Thom: I don't think I do have.
Thom: Do you enjoy getting drunk on your own, then, Thom?
Thom: Stuff comes out, and I like it because there's a sort of comfort in it. Being pissed out of your head and on your own, but it's a bit softer. I think that I should ask you some questions now. You're the one that's been trying to pick a fight with me. Why do you follow me around everywhere?
Thom: What do you mean, 'follow you around'? I'm just another voice in the tape recorder, part of the interview. What do you mean, 'follow you around'?
Thom: You know what I mean. Why do you make me do that stuff? Why do you make me hurt people?
Thom: You sound like some dodgy John Hurt serial killer character.
Thom: I don't mean 'hurt people'; people say I get in a state, and I think it's because you're around.
Thom: I think you're just creating this as part of a convenient excuse for your bad behaviour.
Thom: You've always got a fucking answer, haven't you? You've always got a fucking answer.
Thom: I think this sounds a little bit too much like a very bad '80s thriller, or something. You're trying to create some sort of persona thing. Anyway I don't think this is really for the public domain. Do you?
Thom: No, but this is the first time I've ever talked to you.
Thom: No it's not. That's bullshit.
Thom: Everyone has different sides, and at least I don't go and harm anybody. Except maybe the fish in the pond. I think maybe this house is haunted. I tell you about the fish. It was during a Christmas and I bought this house and there were these two beautiful oriental fish that lived in a pond at the bottom of the garden and my other half went away for a few days and one of the things that was left on a note was 'look after the fish', because at that time there was ice and snow covering the ground. It was like two foot deep or something ridiculous. Now I let these fish die because I couldn't even be fucking bothered to get my shit together to go down to the bottom of the garden and knock a little hole in the ice to keep these fish alive. So when I eventually remembered that they were there, I saw them belly up in the ice and one of them was, his little mouth was right next to the last hole that had been made there in the pond. A last gasp for breath of air and I couldn't even fucking manage that.
Thom: Poor little Thom.
Thom: You're the wanker that wants me to sleep with all these women. But I haven't done it, and I won't.
Thom: But you know they're still there.
Thom: I don't think it 's any of your business.
Thom: Of course it's my business.
Thom: OK then, but I don't think it 's anybody else's business.
Thom: Everything is their business. That's the whole point, Thom. This tape's running out. Have you got anything else you want to say in this somewhat random interview that we've been doing?
Thom: I want to say that I did this for a reason. It was a good idea because I wanted to just take a different photograph. You know, a different reflection in a different shop window. But maybe I just kind of forgot what it was I wanted to do. I wanted it to be some sort of deep psychological experience. I wanted to be locked in a room for a day, but my life being what it is, I couldn't do that .
Thom: So let 's find you a cheery question to end this, shall we? After all, this is the media. Do you think you'll ever get to heaven, Thom? Or maybe just the top of the charts?
Thom: Only if I get rid of you.
Thom: Absolutely no chance whatsoever.


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Parisi signs Dane County budget
County executive approves $524.6 million spending plan
MADISON, Wis. — Dane County Executive Joe Parisi signed the 2013 county budget Thursday with no vetoes.
In the 2013 Dane County budget, more than $243 million is allocated to county human services that prevent child abuse and neglect, combat domestic violence and protect victims and their families, provide a safety net for older adults, address homelessness, expand resources for those struggling with mental illness and drug and alcohol addiction, and more.
The $524.6 million spending plan includes a $2 million increase in funding for those who struggle with disabilities, including a new program developed by Parisi to reduce waiting lists for assistance.
Dane County officials said continued state and federal funding reductions and modifications to reimbursement formulas have placed a significant strain on the county's Department of Human Services. Parisi said he used other funding sources in his budget to make up for a federal cut that would have otherwise resulted in a $850,000 reduction in services for those with disabilities.
The budget also includes $600,000 for a homeless day shelter and $3.5 million for road projects.
Parisi said sound fiscal management has resulted in the county's General Reserve Fund quadrupling in the past year.
The county executive's budget for next year included an additional $1 million increase in that Reserve Fund and filled nearly $2 million in budget lines that had been chronically underfunded, according to a news release. Parisi said those steps have the county on track to end this year with more than $11 million in its reserve fund, a $14 million swing to the positive in the past two years.

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FRESNO, Calif. – Federal food safety officials warned Monday that consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination.
Still reeling from the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts, the Food and Drug Administration said central California-based Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., the nation's second-largest pistachio processor, was voluntarily recalling a portion of the roasted nuts it has been shipping since last fall. A Setton spokeswoman said that amounts to more than 2 million pounds of nuts.
"Our advice to consumers is that they avoid eating pistachio products, and that they hold onto those products," said Dr. David Acheson, assistant commissioner for food safety. "The number of products that are going to be recalled over the coming days will grow, simply because these pistachio nuts have then been repackaged into consumer-level containers."
Two people called the FDA complaining of gastrointestinal illness that could be associated with the nuts, but the link hasn't been confirmed, Acheson said. Still, the plant decided to shut down late last week, officials said.
The recalled nuts represent a small fraction of the 55 million pounds of pistachios that the company's plant processed last year and an even smaller portion of the 278 million pounds produced in the state in the 2008 season, according to the Fresno-based Administrative Committee for Pistachios.
California alone is the second-largest producer of pistachios in the world.
According to the company's Web site, Setton Pistachio is in the corporate family of Commack, N.Y.-based Setton International Foods Inc. The company sells nuts, dried fruit, edible seeds, chocolate and yogurt-coated candies.
The FDA learned about the problem last Tuesday, when Kraft Foods Inc. notified the agency that it had detected salmonella in roasted pistachios through routine product testing. Kraft and the Georgia Nut Co. recalled their Back to Nature Nantucket Blend trail mix the next day.
The FDA contacted Setton Pistachio and California health officials shortly afterward, in what Acheson called a "proactive move."
By Friday, grocery operator Kroger Co. recalled one of its lines of bagged pistachios because of possible salmonella contamination, saying the California plant also supplied its nuts. Those nuts were sold in 31 states.
Fabia D'Arienzo, a spokeswoman for Tulare County-based Setton Pistachio, said the company was only recalling certain bulk roasted in-shell and roasted shelled pistachios that were shipped on or after September 1.
Because Setton Pistachio shipped tote bags of nuts weighing up to 2,000 pounds to 36 wholesalers across the country, it will take weeks to figure out how many products could be affected, said Jeff Farrar, chief of the Food and Drug Branch of the California Department of Public Health.
"It will be safe to assume based on the volume that this will be an ingredient in a lot of different products, and that may possibly include things like ice cream and cake mixes," Farrar said. "The firm is already turning around trucks in transit to bring those back to the facility."
Salmonella, the most common cause of food-borne illness, is a bacteria that causes diarrhea, fever and cramping. Most people recover, but the infection can be life-threatening for children, the elderly and people with weakened immune systems.
For nuts, roasting is supposed to kill the bacteria. But problems can occur if the roasting is not done correctly or if roasted nuts are re-contaminated. That can happen if mice, rats or birds get into the facility.
Last winter, a national salmonella outbreak was blamed on a Georgia company under federal investigation for flouting safety procedures and knowingly shipping contaminated peanuts.
The outbreak is still ongoing. More than 690 people in 46 states have gotten sick. Nearly 3,900 products made with peanut ingredients from Peanut Corp of America have been recalled.
California public health authorities have taken hundreds of samples at Setton's processing facility, but lab results have not yet determined whether salmonella was found at the plant, Farrar said. The food companies' own tests of the contaminated products isolated four different types of salmonella, but none were the same strain as the one found in the peanuts, Acheson said.
Associated Press writers Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar in Washington and Tracie Cone in Fresno contributed to this report.
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It's been a long time coming, but I finally have pictures of Chase's nursery. And, it's completed just in time for him to get here. Hopefully he will come sometime over the weekend. If not, I'm definitely being induced on Wednesday. I didn't really mention it on the blog, but this pregnancy has definitely had it's ups and downs. We had two preterm labor scares back in January. It all turned out okay, but it really threw us for a loop while it was happening. Since January I've had more contractions than most women have while delivering 5 children. The closer to his due date that we get the more contractions I have. The doctors were sure he was going to come early, but he's already decided to show everyone, especially me, whose boss. Now he's full-term and we can't wait for him to get here so that we can see his sweet face.
Enough of the mushy stuff. Onto his room and the details. In case you just started reading my blog or just missed my original idea board for his nursery here it is. I had to sacrifice a few of the design elements due to the price but I feel like overall I created the nursery that I had originally envisioned.
When I figured out that the West Elm rug I originally wanted was going to break our budget I opted for my own DIY verson. For the ottoman, I reupholstered the infamous leopard-printed x-bench in a chevron print.
I originally purchased a vintage piece similar to the one on the inspiration board for his dresser/changing table. Once we moved I decided that the vintage piece was going to look a lot better as a buffet in our new dining room, so I opted for the white Malm from Ikea.
I never intended to use the Serena & Lily glider that was on the inspiration board but I wanted to find one similar to have slipcovered. After looking and looking on Craigslist I had almost given up on ever finding one that was the style I wanted and within my price range. Then sweet Angela from The Painted House emailed me to let me know that she wanted to sell the glider she had used with all three of her children. I was so excited, especially when I saw how pretty the form was. It was just what I was looking for. It's also extremely comfy. Here is the before shot.
I used a prewashed ivory linen for the slipcover so that I could easily throw it in the wash and clorox it.
This bird mobile was the very first thing that I bought for the nursery. I actually bought it about 7 months before I was even pregnant. It was on sale for $19.99 at Sundance. I knew I would use it whether I had a girl or a boy.
The gallery wall consists of art from Etsy as well as 2 pieces that Billy made when he was a little boy. The little painted swallow was gifted to me from a dear artist friend, and I actually won the abstract canvas during one of Angela's giveaway about a year and a half ago. That piece has been so many places in our home and it ended up working so perfectly on Chase's gallery wall.
Here is one of my favorite accessories in his room. My cousin gave me these adorable mugs that spell out his name. I just love them.
The hanging ceramic bird houses are from West Elm.
Scored the cute lamp at Homegoods.
Thanks to a suggestion from one of my awesome readers I was able to get the fabric that I really wanted for his crib skirt and pillow at an unbelievable deal on Mary Jo's Cloth Store. I couldn't believe it, but on this site it was less expensive than my designer pricing.
And there you have it. A full tour of Chase's nursery. I'll probably be MIA for the next few weeks. I'll try to post pictures of Chase as soon as I can after he is born. I'm sure I'll have my hands full for those first few weeks though.
I hope you all have a Happy and Fun-filled Memorial Day!
Info and Sources:
- Overhead pendant light – Ikea Boja Pendant Lamp
- Wall paint – Sherwin Williams Rainwashed
- Stuffed owl – Pier One
- Curtains – Ikea Aina with custom banding added


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SPARTANBURG, S.C. – The Carolina Panthers are setting the bar a little higher this season after leading the NFL in sacks in 2013.
Defensive tackle Colin Cole said one of the goals for this year's defense is to break the NFL's single-season sack record of 72 set by the 1984 Chicago Bears — a team that included current Panthers coach Ron Rivera at linebacker.
The Panthers are coming off a franchise-record 60-sack season and return all of their starters and most of their reserves from a talented front seven. The league's No. 2-ranked defense features veteran pass rushing ends Greg Hardy and Charles Johnson, who combined for 26 sacks last season, and the NFL's reigning Defensive Player of the Year in middle linebacker Luke Kuechly.
Carolina is also hoping to get some added penetration from second-round draft pick Kony Ealy, a player the team said it had a first-round grade on entering the draft.
It's a lofty goal, for sure, but Cole said "if you don't talk about it, you don't bring it into fruition.
"We set our bar pretty high last year. ... but the goal is to surpass that and get up there with the big dogs of the past years and set records," said Cole, who started 13 games last season for Carolina.
Rivera was a rookie on a 1984 Bears, although he didn't register any sacks that season.
He said while he'd like to see his own team beat that record, it won't be easy.
Chicago's defense was led by coordinator Buddy Ryan, whose innovative "46 Defense" featured a plethora of blitzes.
Rivera said the Bears had the "perfect storm" in terms of personnel, a group included Richard Dent, Dan Hampton, Steve McMichael, Mike Singletary and Wilber Marshall and would go on to win the Super Bowl the following season.
"We were very talented, but we blitzed a lot more," Rivera said. "We were doing the 46 (defense) which was very new to a lot of people and innovative. So it created a lot more opportunities."
Rivera also said the rules of the game have changed and that officials are a little more lenient in terms of allowing offensive linemen to use their hands.
Still, Rivera said anything is possible.
"The nice thing is our guys have that kind of confidence," Rivera said. "We have some good pass-rushers. That's what it is. You have to have a combination."
Johnson, who has averaged 11 sacks per season over the past four years, isn't much into predictions or lofty goals.
But he likes the talent the Panthers have assembled on defense and said the familiarity players have with the system and each other could pay huge dividends.
"It's a feel thing," Johnson said. "We know each other and know how to rush and how guys rush. So you become comfortable with each and what each player can do. That allows you to communicate well, and you don't have to worry about the little things. You just go play."
Cole agrees.
He said the Panthers have one of the best defensive lines and the fastest group of linebackers in the league.
"We have a group of guys on defense that can get downhill and make plays for us," Cole said.
Rivera isn't sure how 2014 will turn out.
He's more concerned about winning football games than piling up sack numbers. But he said taking down the Bears sack record would be an extraordinary accomplishment.
"That would be nice. It really would," Rivera said. "Do we have the kind of guys that are capable of good numbers? We do. You can predict all you want. You just don't know. You have to do it."
NOTES: Johnson (hamstring) and Ealy (foot) remained out of practice Monday recovering from injuries. ... Rivera said he still hasn't settled on a starting left tackle, although Byron Bell continues to work at that position. ... RB Jonathan Stewart said he felt fine after participating in his first padded practice Monday in more than nine months.
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Hospitals After COVID-19: How Do We Design For An Uncertain Future?
Flexibility is now the most valuable component of healthcare buildings
6 October 2020
One of the many lessons of this crisis is that flexibility of space is paramount to enable optimum resilience and provide readiness for the unknown. Instead of 'value engineering' out everything that makes a project resilient, we should engineer in added value
Converting normal patient rooms to ICU rooms is not plug-and-play. You can't just plug in all the equipment that's required to keep the patient alive because the requirements are very different
In South Africa, there is a long list of facilities that are inadequate or that needed additional capacity even before COVID-19, but there was no funding available
We need to be very specific about the limitations of an area and exactly what it will be able to adapt to
We need to take more of a life-cycle analysis approach to resiliency decisions. If a resiliency measure costs an extra 10%, does that 10% investment add value over the 50-year life cycle of the building?


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Creativity is a sought-after commodity among employers and those seeking personal or professional fulfillment. It comes in handy not only while concocting works of art and literature but also in planning a corporate event or devising a new business strategy. Some people seem more naturally open to new ideas and able to put them to innovative uses. Many of these individuals also tend to be a little…well…different, as Harvard psychologist Shelley Carson wrote in the May/June 2011 Scientific American MIND. But you don't have to be eccentric to be creative. You don't even have to be born with a knack for innovation.
Psychologists, artists and others have developed tactics and advice for unlocking people's creative potential (see, for example, "Let Your Creativity Soar" by Mariette DiChristina, John Houtz, Julia Cameron and Robert Epstein in Scientific American MIND, June/July 2008). In her recent book, Your Creative Brain: Seven Steps to Maximize Imagination, Productivity and Innovation in Your Life (Jossey-Bass, 2010), Carson outlined seven different "brainsets," or mental frameworks, that facilitate original thinking along with tips on how to cultivate these states of mind. Depending on your personality, some of the brainsets below may feel more comfortable than others. The idea here, though, Carson wrote, is to expand your mental horizons by venturing into your discomfort zone. The following slides describe each brainset, along with exercises that will help you train your brain to think in these mind-expanding ways.


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- Pages: 48 Pages
- Series: Legend
- Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
- Imprint: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers


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March 16, 2017
Ava's Baby Room Reveal
42 comments:
I just love her room and everything about your post. You make me smile and inspire me to be unique and creative. Thank you for being honest, real, and down to earth, but most of all funny!!ReplyDelete
P.S. Ava is ADORABLE!! :)ReplyDelete
Love, love, love! What a beautiful room it turned out to be!ReplyDelete
And what a cutie Ava is!ReplyDelete
Super cute. First time I'm commenting, but I have been following for a long time. Good job mama! She looks so happy in there! And until someone has a toddler, or has watched a toddler for long periods of time, there can be no judgement for afternoons of RHWoBH.ReplyDelete
You make me laugh and give me hope for tackling motherhood one day. Never change!ReplyDelete
I adore you and sweet Ava June!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
AW! Booher! And I love you!Delete
Love the beautiful room and your daughter is a living doll.ReplyDelete
Loved reading this! The room is looking gorgeous and such a good after! Most of all, though, I love seeing that sweet little girl doin' her thing! :)ReplyDelete
Absolutely fabulous! You did a terrific job with the redecorating. You are so talented and creative.ReplyDelete
That......is a beautiful room. Reminds me of theUgly Duckling fairy tale. And, i trade out my granddaughter's toys too. She is the same Age as Ava, and they seem to be doing the same things. Only I'm 63 now and she wears me Out! Lately she likes to draw, which means I draw characters from Dora and Pooh. It does keep her still for 10 to 15 minutes. She adds the finishing touches. Ha ha.so,so that's my toddler tip. I've been searching for a gray for my bathroom, I'll have to try some of your suggestions.ReplyDelete
Ava's room is lovely, your artwork is really great! I had a bit of a chuckle at the comment about the closet doors still being unpainted when she goes to college - it's funny 'coz it's true! We did a kitchen reno almost a year ago, and still haven't painted the new doors. Whoops. We're repainting our living room this Easter, and I'm determined that everything will be finished - for once!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful, happy space! And that rug! ��ReplyDelete
You should feel good about your art. Great job. The whole room is adorable, like Ava.ReplyDelete
Your right, the rug just makes the room! It's perfect, it ties everything in so nicely. I absolutely love your sense of style xxReplyDelete
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It's perfect and that rug is to die for!ReplyDelete
Beautiful and ever so classy.ReplyDelete
Great job, it looks amazing and I do the toy swap thing too. Take a big pile of books and stuff upstairs and bring the upstairs toys down. It's like they're brand new this way, kinda :)ReplyDelete
I LOVE the room Virginia and your little girl (can I still say she's a baby!!) is beautiful and precious. Yes, yes sell your art work on etsy! I'll be your first customer!ReplyDelete
Just lovely! I always have a smile when I see a post from you in my in-box. I am enjoying your journey in decorating and parenthood. Ava is precious. The no doors is really weird, I can't even imagine why.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing your creativity and also your vulnerability with everyone. You are so brave.... to just put yourself out there. I still get so hung up on 'it's not perfect' that I am paralyzed by it. I won't even try. Sigh. However, you inspire me and I want to challenge myself.ReplyDelete
Seriously, you crack me up! Mowing in a dress with a ponytail and sideburns hahaha!!ReplyDelete
I love what you've done in the room to make it your own...ooops, I mean Ava's! (But it has your touch and love on it!) I was wondering if the half wall was because there were boys sharing the room perhaps? Otherwise, the half wall and no door thing is perplexing. But what you have made of that is hardly recognizable. It is beautiful and lots of room to grow into! She is growing so fast!ReplyDelete
Ava's going to be gorgeous like her mama and daddy.ReplyDelete
I love the room - it's big enough to house two kids, don't you think? *Smile* (Wait until Ava's four.)
You have no reason to be insecure about your art! And you should be proud of Ava's A -- it's beautiful.
I agree with everyone else, your humor and willingness to be real are as much a part of the attraction of your blog as all of your creativity.
Thanks for sharing.
I never comment, but this is such a great room, and one that will grow with her (I have older girls, so I know!!!) - congratulations and having great vision, and I hope that you can banish those insecure voices...ReplyDelete
It's so nice to hear another update from you - love hearing how the new house is coming along. Ava's room is looking lovely! xReplyDelete
I love this post! Thanks for keeping it real about life with toddlers. My two are now teens but they were tiny when we moved into our current house and I am just now getting to the projects I wanted to do when we moved in...14 years ago. You know, like painting your fireplace brick but couldn't because the one day you had to do it was the day sonny boy got into the cheese slices and stuck them all over the brick. (Did you know kraft singles stick to brick? Well now you do, you're welcome). And I love love love your floral canvases! Please tell you're making prints of those we can buy because I seriously need them in my life! You're an amazing artist.ReplyDelete
Toddler activity? Bucket of water and a clean paintbrush outside. They will "paint" everything in sight. Empty 2 liter bottle and little pieces of wadded up paper they can "poke" down the hole - smaller bottles work for outings and restaurants too.
The room looks amazing! And I eagerly and patiently await your post about painting.ReplyDelete
Also I'm growing out a shaved head/undercut, and my hair looks a lot like Ava's right now! But mine is pink. :)
Absolutely gorgeous!! Every post is totally worth the wait, Virginia! I'm still totally obsessed with your style! Actually it's funny because I've had an old canvas that I found at Goodwill that has been sitting in the back of closet for like 2 years because I was determined to create something like you did. So needless to say, I'm looking forward to you getting inspired in hopes that I finally create something too lol! Thanks for always inspiring me with your amazing reveals!!ReplyDelete
That bronze door is amazing! My house is too dark for something like that, but I like it!!ReplyDelete
Love it all. But I really love that rug - I went on Rugs USA and it looks so bright, but in your room it is subtle and beautiful! I think I'm going to order it for my master. Great job and thanks!ReplyDelete
IT TURNED OUT SO BEAUTIFUL. CONGRATS E KEEP GOING WITH THE GOOD WORK ;)ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you're back to posting semi- regularly! Your blog has seriously inspired me to finally start doing my own DIY projects :) I never thought I had it in me before but you make it look possible! Thanks so much for sharing your beautiful creations and your life with us! Your artwork is amazing <3ReplyDelete
Love it. Precious.ReplyDelete
Its lovely! Such a lucky girl to have so much romping room!ReplyDelete
The rug really makes the room! Beautiful selection and beautiful baby! I've been silently (and infrequently) following your home updates in parallel with buying my first home, and, as a side note, I cannot believe how big Ava has gotten.ReplyDelete
If you're ever interested in another gray paint color to try, I would like to suggest Sherwin-Williams Alpaca. It doesn't look like a typical gray in the paint swatch & that's probably why it's not as popular, but it is a beautiful, light neutral that can match to so many color tones! Depending on your natural light and decor, it can pick up purples, greens, blues, peachs, browns, and of course gray tones.
I had a hard time w/ my home because the kitchen has brown toned countertops and backsplash, but I love warm grays & couldn't find a happy medium. After trying 10 samples in several rooms (a tip I learned from you & see in this post again), I settled on SW Alpaca. As a result, I get more complements on the paint color than anything else in the house & definitely from everyone on their first time coming over. It's a little bizarre.
Again, a beautiful reveal on Ava's room! Thanks for sharing your projects and inspiration. :)
Virginia, I went to art school and teach painting classes regularly and even I don't think I could put as much detail into Ava's painting like you did! Holy crap girl, you've got some serious talent!ReplyDelete
Ava's room is beautiful and so is she!ReplyDelete
Wow, It looks so beautiful!!! I love everything in that room. Thanks for sharing:)ReplyDelete
I just love the room and Ava is adorable is still looks so much like your husband. I wish you weren't so insecure about your talents girl because you're rocking it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful room/beautiful mom and daughter! Great job! Love reading your posts.....we moms need all the laughter and funny stories we can get!! Thanks for keepin it real! :)ReplyDelete


text: 350 years ago, Johannes Vermeer once painted a piece (pictured above) called The Music Lesson. What you're looking at is something many people have considered impossible up to today; the light that shines through the windows in the painting is painted with exactly the same color that it has in real life when viewed through a projected image. It wasn't being painted using a normal vision – it was being painted like it was a hand-made photograph. While many artists were indeed famous for implementing realism into their work even centuries ago, a painting this photorealistic has been though impossible to achieve up to even today. But for some reason, a painting like that exists, and Tim Jenison is a man who had a drive to find out how that was possible.


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Hyundai Motor and Grab Signs Partnership to Expand Urban Mobility Service
– Hyundai joins Grab's latest Series G financing round.
– Investment to help Hyundai expand urban mobility service in Southeast Asia.
– Hyundai, Grab to develop mobility service platform utilizing IONIQ model.
– Grab is Southeast Asia's largest mobility service provider.
SEOUL, South Korea and SINGAPORE, Jan. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Hyundai Motor Company, South Korea's largest automaker, and Grab, the leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform in Southeast Asia, today announced a strategic partnership that will expand Hyundai's innovative future mobility services in Southeast Asia.
The strategic partnership will help Hyundai explore new opportunities in the sharing economy and enhance its capability to lead future mobility in one of the world's fastest-growing markets, Southeast Asia.
The two companies will jointly explore ways to develop and provide innovative services to Southeast Asian customers, including a new mobility service platform that will utilize Hyundai's eco-friendly models such as the IONIQ Electric.
"Hyundai's strategic investment in Grab marks the beginning of an exciting new partnership between the two parties, bringing Hyundai one step closer to realizing its vision for future mobility. Grab's expertise in the Southeast Asian market coupled with Hyundai's eco-vehicle leadership will bring innovative services to customers," said Dr. Young Cho Chi, Chief Innovation Officer and head of Strategy & Technology Division, which was established last year to spearhead Hyundai's future innovation. "We will continue expanding collaboration with leading mobility service providers in the world."
Grab's Series G financing marks the company's latest and largest fundraising round and significant investors including Didi Chuxing, SoftBank and Toyota Tsusho have participated in the funding together with Hyundai.
"As we move into the next stage of Grab's growth, we look forward to collaborating closely with Hyundai to continue innovating new mobility solutions for Southeast Asia. We are pleased to welcome Hyundai to our global network of strategic partners, and we are confident that we have an alliance of strong partners to push forward into Grab's next phase of long-term growth," said Anthony Tan, Group CEO and Co-founder of Grab.
Focusing on its 'open innovation' spirit, Hyundai has been bolstering its efforts to transform people's lives with disruptive technologies and services that materialize its visions for future mobility – clean, connected and freedom in mobility. Enhancements in mobility services include car-sharing, -hailing and –pooling, all of which benefit users by freeing them from existing mobility limitations.
Hyundai has been enhancing its mobility services in world's major locations as it is committed to offer smarter value to customers to cope with rapidly-shifting market paradigm in automotive industry. Partnering with WaiveCar, Hyundai in January 2017 launched a car-sharing program that runs on advertising money, using IONIQ Electric model in the U.S. In October, Hyundai opened its first company-operated electric car sharing service in metropolitan Amsterdam, Netherlands and later in November handed over the first fleet of IONIQ hybrid models for the new Stadtauto (meaning 'city car') car sharing service in Vienna, Austria. IONIQ is the world's first model that offers three electrified powertrain-hybrid, plug-in hybrid and pure battery electric – in a single body type.
Grab operates the largest transportation network in Southeast Asia and is one of the most frequently used mobile platforms in the region with over 3.5 million daily rides. The Grab app has been downloaded onto over 77 million mobile devices, giving passengers access to the region's largest land transportation fleet comprising over 2.3 million drivers. Grab now offers private car, motorbike, taxi, and carpooling services across 8 countries and 168 cities in Southeast Asia.
About Grab
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform. Grab solves critical transportation challenges to make transport freedom a reality for 620 million people in Southeast Asia. Grab's core product platform includes transport solutions for drivers and passengers with an emphasis on convenience, safety and reliability, as well as its proprietary mobile payments platform, GrabPay, which is increasing access to mobile payment solutions for millions of Grab riders and drivers across Southeast Asia and deepening financial inclusion in the region. Grab currently offers services in Singapore, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. For more information, please visit: http://www.grab.com.
About Hyundai Motor
Established in 1967, Hyundai Motor Company is committed to becoming a lifetime partner in automobiles and beyond. The company leads the Hyundai Motor Group, an innovative business structure capable of circulating resources from molten iron to finished cars. Hyundai Motor has eight manufacturing bases and seven design and technical centers worldwide and in 2017 sold about 4.7 million vehicles globally. With more than 110,000 employees worldwide, Hyundai Motor continues to enhance its product line-up with localized models and strives to strengthen its leadership in clean technology, starting with the world's first mass-produced fuel cell electric vehicle, ix35 Fuel Cell and IONIQ, the world's first model with three electrified powertrains in a single body type.
More information about Hyundai Motor and its products can be found at:
http://worldwide.hyundai.com or http://globalpr.hyundai.com
SOURCE Hyundai Motor Company


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NGPriest: Dota 2 Update – June 27, 2012
Ξ June 27th, 2012 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Author: NGPriest |
Dota 2 Update – June 27, 2012
I'm pretty sure it should say "Dota 2 Test Build Update – June 27, 2012"
- Added Luna
- Added Guardian Wisp
- Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.
- Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.
- Bloodseeker: Fixed a bug where he could get healed by friendly heroes dying in the area around him that he didn't deny.
- Pudge: Fixed a bug that was sometimes causing Pudge's Dismember to do an extra tick of damage
- Pudge: Fixed a bug that allowed Pudge to deal damage without hurting himself by quickly toggling Rot.
- Rubick: Fixed a rare case where Rubick could get permanently stuck with Telekinesis Land.
- Rubick: Fixed a bug where Rubick would gain permanent Spectral Dagger buffs until he died.
- Rubick: Fixed a bug with Poison Release that would cause you to steal the wrong ability from Shadow Demon.
- Rubick: Stealing Spirit Bear is temporarily disabled.
- Fixed being able to use a different player's items in your combine, if that item was in your stash at the time
- More Rubick spell animations
- Various Rubick visual effect improvements and fixes
- Haste animation added for Bloodseeker
- Adjusted Ogre Magi's sidearm attack animation
- Logos removed from waterfall and mid river areas to safeguard gameplay
- Tweaked dire banner position left of fountain shop
- Roshan timer appear only after 10 seconds have passed from death
- Reduced Gyro's model scale a little
- Removed ambient effects on Razor and Morphling when hexed
- Fixed some cases where icons could get stuck on the screen
- Fixed new heroes not showing up in the hero picker if you had custom view set (They'll now appear in the top left of the grid view, for you to then place as you like)
- Tournament Panel: Fixed game list not refreshing unless you opened a different tournament and then back.
- Tournament Panel: Increased the size of the live games and recent games.
- Tournament Panel: Fixed details button not working properly for the last few games.
- Fixed Spectator label cutting off number of spectators.
- Fixed Live games not displaying correctly after opening a Tournament.
- Fixed a recent bug with the shop not closing when a unit is selected
- Fixed some bugs with losing commentator perspecting when pausing and unpausing
- Added backpack preview to couriers
- Back button in the loadout takes you back to the backpack if you arrived via a backpack right click
- Fixed some slots on the backpack not being right-clickable if they were not on page 1
- Fixed the first equip from the backpack sometimes not working properly
- Added inspect button near the hero panel for heroes that have custom items
- Updated the replay skill filter to have more usefull categories.
- Fixed dragging an item onto itself not turning its icon back on.
- Cheat commands are now echoed to chat
- Added a testing tool to the Workshop tab that allows contributors to see their models on a hero before submitting.
- Dota 2 now uses the CELT codec for increased voice communication quality.
Source Article from http://www.joeylau.me/2012/06/27/dota-2-update-june-27-2012/


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At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one of the most powerful magnetic detectors in the world is helping screen high-risk pregnant patients for rare but very serious fetal heart rhythm problems. Thanks to a collaboration with The Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; and Hope Children's Hospital, Chicago, the ultrasensitive detector measures magnetic signals coming from the tiny beating hearts of fetuses.
The translational research program allows pediatric cardiologists and obstetricians from around the country to gather additional data and offer their patients the best treatment options.
"It's the only place in the country dedicated to evaluating rare and very serious fetal heart rhythm problems using biomagnetism," says Dr. Ron Wakai, the professor of medical physics at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health who created the lab. "In a typical year, we see between 50 and 70 patients, the vast majority around their 25th week of pregnancy."
Janette Strasburger, a pediatric cardiologist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and a professor of pediatrics at The Medical College of Wisconsin (both in Milwaukee), supervises each patient during the procedure along with her obstetrical research nurse, Gretchen Eckstein.
Strasburger and Wakai teamed up eight years ago to study how biomagnetism could be used to diagnose fetal heart problems. They were soon joined by Bettina Cuneo, a pediatric cardiologist from Hope Children's Hospital in Chicago, who also specializes in fetal cases. With a solid scientific foundation now under their belts, the team has almost single-handedly created the emerging field of fetal cardiac arrhythmia care.
The result, says Strasburger, "is the closest thing there is to a cardiac intensive care unit for fetuses, with continuous monitoring while the mother and fetus are with us at the lab."
The hearts of the fetuses referred for evaluation may skip beats, race or beat too slowly. Structural abnormalities may also affect cardiac performance. Doctors must know exactly what's happening so they can treat accordingly. Results of the recordings, in conjunction with data obtained from current technologies such as ultrasound, allow physicians to offer appropriate treatment options — from cautiously waiting and seeing, to prescribing medications, to delivering the fetus as soon as possible.
"We may determine that the fetus has a potentially fatal arrhythmia that must be treated immediately," says Strasburger. "While rare, this treatment might include medications that the mother takes, or direct shots of medication given by a pregnancy specialist, similar to an immunization injection."
The passive detector, mounted on a track above a table upon which the patient lies, is positioned over the pregnant woman's belly, where it picks up the faintest magnetic signals and sends the information back to a computer in an adjacent room. The safe, non-invasive test takes about an hour.
Unlike MRI, which produces a magnetic field, this magnetic recorder does not. It listens for naturally-occurring magnetic fields.
"Currents flowing through the heart and brain generate these magnetic signals," explains Wakai. "They're the same currents that generate electrical signals detected by EKGs and EEGs."
The EKG is the standard test for adults with heart rhythm problems, but it doesn't work on fetuses, adds Wakai.
"A slimy protective layer on the fetal skin, called the vernix, prevents electrical signals from being conducted to the surface of the expectant mother's body, where they could be measured," he says. "Magnetic signals, which don't require electrical conductivity, aren't affected by the vernix."
The only detector sensitive enough to measure these signals is a superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID, which was invented by physicists and has been used for submarine detection and oil exploration in addition to its medical usage. Only a handful of hospitals now have SQUIDs, using them almost exclusively for adult brain mapping studies.
Another big advantage of the SQUID detector, says Wakai, is that it makes hour-long, continuous recordings, while ultrasounds, by far the most common technology used today in measuring fetal heart rhythms, capture only a small window of activity.
"While ultrasound measures the pumping action of the heart, this new magnetic recording device measures the rhythm signals that cause the heart to pump," he says.
The Wisconsin team has used the detector to analyze heartbeat irregularities in more than 300 patients so far, but they see it as just the tip of the iceberg.
"So many miscarriages and stillbirths are unexplained, and we think cardiac conditions often may be the explanation," says Strasburger. "We can use this technology to identify fetuses with many of those conditions."
There is hope for those fetuses, Strasburger adds.
"Many of the diseases fetuses are dying of in utero are preventable and treatable," she says.
Right now the testing is confined to patients who come to Madison. But Wakai and Strasburger plan to provide scientific and technical support for a project that will take the show on the road–with a mobile unit currently under construction.
"This is a big project involving many players, including a company based in rural Wisconsin, Shared Medical Technologies," Wakai says. "We will need a smaller SQUID sensor, a special shield that blocks magnetic interference from the environment and a truck large enough to carry it all."
He expects the first mobile unit to be ready for testing in about one year.
Strasburger, who practices primarily in the small town of Neenah, is committed to making connections with Badger State communities.
"One of my goals in practicing as an outreach physician with the Herma Heart Center at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin has been to integrate research into the community," she says.
Her role as a member of the Northeast Wisconsin community advisory committee for the UW-Madison Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR) reinforces this goal. ICTR aims to quickly move discoveries from academia to communities where they are needed the most.
"I'm convinced it's possible to do research from anywhere in this day and age," Strasburger says.
In addition to funding through the National Institutes of Health, support for the biomagnetism lab has also come from the Advancing a Healthier Wisconsin fund, provided by the Blue-Cross/Blue-Shield endowment to support promising research at the Medical College.
"Collaboration with the committed goal of the best care for mothers and their babies remains the vision of this work," says Strasburger.
Contact information for Childrens Hospital, Stephanie Hungerford, 414-266-5420 and University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dian Land, 608-261-1034, Medical College of Wisconsin, Toranj Marphetia, 414-955-4700.


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The paper demonstrates how the E–stability principle introduced by Evans and Honkapohja can be applied to models with heterogeneous and private information in order to assess the stability of rational expectations equilibria under learning. The paper extends already known stability results for the Grossman and Stiglitz model to a more general case with many differentially informed agents and to the case where information is endogenously acquired by optimizing agents. In both cases it turns out that the rational expectations equilibrium of the model is inherently E-stable and thus locally stable under recursive least squares learning.


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It's easy to forget now, but back in the 1990s, many video games had the same price on the sticker they do today, which when you account for inflation reminds you that they were super expensive.
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But just why did games cost so much? This infographic from a 1995 issue of British magazine Super Play breaks it down. For those outside the UK "VAT" is a consumer tax, but everything else is the video game business fighting over the spoils. Nintendo's cut is as obscene as the developer's royalty is disappointing.
Note that this division doesn't necessarily apply today; manufacturing costs are much lower, for example, as are retailer cuts. But for the mid-90s, they're obviously pretty spot-on!
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Lori Bagwell, a Carson City restaurant owner and former government worker, announced Thursday that she plans to run for the city's Board of Supervisors.
She will seek the seat representing Ward 3 that is held by John McKenna. McKenna intends to seek re-election, saying the city is in transition and that there is more work to be done.
Bagwell didn't mention McKenna in her news release, focusing on her own credentials.
"As a volunteer for various charities, civic committees and a small-business owner, I am well aware of the challenges facing the people of Carson City, as well as the government," she said. She said her vision is one of sensible growth, treasuring the past while moving forward in a cost-effective manner "without extensive fee and tax hikes."
Bagwell and her husband, Jim, own Charley's Grilled Subs at Carson Mall.
A 45-year resident of Carson City, she worked in state government for two decades and spent six years working at the Association of Counties. She has served on the Board of Equalization, which handles property tax issues, and the Redevelopment Advisory Citizens Committee.
McKenna, a certified public accountant, is in his first term and said he intends to seek a second. He was a longtime member of the Carson City School Board before winning the Ward 3 supervisor seat.
"I'm going to run," he said. "We're still in transition. I don't like to leave things unfinished."
The five-member board is made up of a mayor and four supervisors. Each supervisor comes from one of four wards, but all five on the board are voted on citywide by the entire electorate in both the primary and general elections. Only wards 1 and 3 are up for grabs in 2014. Karen Abowd is the Ward 1 supervisor. Official filing for the post doesn't begin until March.
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Genetic Screening Technique Can Detect More Than 700 Antimicrobial-Resistance GenesBy Sharon Durham
May 26, 2010
Using an advanced genetic screening technique, Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and cooperators have detected, for the first time, more than 700 genes that give microbes like Salmonella and E. coli the ability to resist antibiotics and other antimicrobial compounds.
The researchers used what is called DNA microarray technology to find the resistance genes in a wide variety of bacteria such as Salmonella, E. coli, Campylobacter, Listeria, and Enterococcus, among others. These organisms can cause food poisoning and are thus a major public health concern.
Researchers are concerned that some of these organisms have acquired genetic resistance to the antibiotics used to kill them. Finding the genes that confer resistance is an important step for scientists looking for new ways to control these organisms.
All genes identified in organisms are logged into GenBank, a gene database administered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health. ARS microbiologists Jonathan G. Frye, Rebecca L. Lindsey, Charlene R. Jackson, Paula J. Fedorka-Cray, Mark E. Berrang, Mark D. Englen, and Richard J. Meinersmann at the agency's Bacterial Epidemiology and Antimicrobial Resistance Research Unit in Athens, Ga., along with collaborators at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center in San Diego, Calif., searched through GenBank for genes annotated by other scientists to likely encode resistance.
Frye and his colleagues selected about 1,000 unique genes from among 5,000 genes found in GenBank that included the words "antimicrobial resistance" in their description. Then they designed a microarray of more than 700 DNA probes to detect the resistance genes, according to Frye.
A DNA microarray is a small glass slide used to test genetic samples for the presence of specific genes. To make the arrays, pieces of DNA called probes are designed to detect the genes that are known to confer antimicrobial resistance. These probes are then fused onto the glass slides in specific configurations.
To use the array, DNA extracted from the bacterium to be tested is tagged with fluorescent dyes and then put into contact with the slide containing the probes. The antimicrobial-resistance genes in the bacteria will then attach themselves to the probes they match on the slide, making the specific probe for that gene fluoresce and thus identifying the antimicrobial resistance gene that was in the bacterium.
This work was published in the scientific journal Microbial Drug Resistance.
ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) principal intramural scientific research agency. This research supports the USDA's priority of ensuring food safety.


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– Comedian Stephen Colbert is pulling out all the stops in his campaign to have NASA name a new room of the International Space Station after him.
"Well you voted, folks and look what happened," Colbert said Monday night on his faux-conservative show "The Colbert Report" on Comedy Central. "Unfortunately, Houston may have a problem with it."
Colbert urged his viewers to write his name in during NASA's recent voting poll to name Node 3, a new room for the space station that will launch on a future shuttle mission. The move apparently worked, with Colbert's write-in name nabbing more than 230,000 votes, beating NASA's top suggestion Serenity by more than 40,000 votes.
[Repeated queries by FOXNews.com to "The Colbert Report" eventually resulted in a brief e-mail from his personal publicist: "No comment, thanks!"]
There has been some speculation on how NASA will respond to Colbert's popularity in space. NASA has said that while it reserves the right to have the final word on Node 3's name, it would take write-in suggestions into consideration.
"We're still thinking about it," said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's space operations chief, on Saturday.
Some sources have suggested that NASA will meet Colbert's audience halfway by opting to name the space toilet for Node 3 after the comedian. Gerstenmaier, however, shared little during a Saturday briefing after the shuttle Discovery landed in Florida.
"We have a plan and we're working with some folks," Gerstenmaier said. "And in a couple of weeks, you'll know what the answer is."
In addition to writing in their suggestions, voters were given the opportunity to select a name from NASA's list — Serenity, Earthrise, Legacy and Venture.
"Serenity? That's not a space station, that's an adult diaper," Colbert said.
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Node 3 is a new room for the space station that will launch aboard a NASA shuttle. It will include an astronaut toilet, eight refrigerator-sized equipment racks and much of the station's life support gear. It will also be the site of an observation portal to serve as the main workstation for the orbiting lab's robotic arm.
"Now for laymen out there, a space node is a node-like structure that is attached to other nodes in space in a ... I don't know what it is, but I want it!" Colbert said in Monday night's episode.
Colbert has drawn support for his name not only from the public, but also Congress.
In a March 26 statement, Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) urged NASA to respect the results of the agency's online poll.
"NASA decided to hold an election to name its new room at the International Space Station and the clear winner is Stephen Colbert," Fattah said in the statement. "The people have spoken, and Stephen Colbert won it fair and square — even if his campaign was a bit over the top."
Fattah pointed out that NASA's top choice Serenity finished well behind Colbert's name.
"When Americans look to the sky, they may see 'Serenity' but there will be no serenity here on Earth," Fattah said.
Colbert also enlisted the support of Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer for Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pa., during Monday night's "Colbert Report."
"As an astronomer, basically you are an ambassador for space," Colbert said. "Do you agree with him that the node should be named after me?"
"I think that's something that NASA's going to have to figure out, but you know, it could be a good idea," Pitts replied during a discussion about Galileo.
NASA's top vote-getter Serenity is a moniker that is also, coincidentally, the name of the fictional spaceship in the "Firefly" science fiction television series.
While Serenity came in second, it was the only NASA-selected name to make the top three. Coming in third was the write-in selection "Myyearbook" with 147,637 votes, with the write-in "Gaia" a solid fourth with 114,427 votes. In all, the naming poll received about 1.2 million votes.
"So NASA, I urge you to heed Congressman Fattah's call for democracy in orbit," Colbert said. "Either name that node after me, or I too will reject democracy and seize power as space's evil tyrant overlord. Ball's in your court."
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A glance into Tyrann Mathieu's football and NFL future
2011 Heisman Trophy finalist Tyrann Mathieu was dismissed from the LSU football team on Friday for disciplinary reasons. ESPN's Chris Low has reported Mathieu was booted for repeated violations of LSU's substance abuse policy.
Like Janoris Jenkins a year ago, Mathieu is pursuing options at the FCS level, formerly known as Division I-AA. He has already visited McNeese State. Jackson State and Prairie View A&M are reportedly also on Mathieu's radar. Check out CFT for the latest on Mathieu's college future.
As an NFL-oriented site, PFT's concern is with Mathieu's future as a big-league, pro player. Listed at 5-foot-9, 175 pounds by LSU, Mathieu is an undersized but versatile defensive back with a knack for taking the football away from opponents. In two seasons at LSU, Mathieu forced 11 fumbles, intercepted four passes, recovered eight fumbles, and recorded six sacks. Also a dynamic return specialist, Mathieu scored twice on 2011 punt returns.
Last month, I broke down five of Mathieu's sophomore-year games. He roamed all over LSU's defensive formation, playing 36 percent of his snaps at slot cornerback, 32.5 percent at outside corner, and 10 percent at safety. On 21 percent of his plays, Mathieu operated primarily as a pass-rushing linebacker. He was a "joker" in LSU's defense, wreaking havoc and causing collisions. He is a relentlessly physical defender. And while common perception might lead you to believe differently, I didn't find Mathieu to be a liability in coverage.
Bang it here for that five-game breakdown.
Mathieu appears headed for one year of FCS ball, and the NFL draft in 2013. While NFL teams will surely red flag Mathieu for character concerns and internally debate his next-level position fit, they're going to be impressed with his college game tape. Jenkins and Mathieu are different kinds of players, to be sure; Jenkins is a coverage corner, while Mathieu is a weapon with which a defense can attack an offense. But they are both former SEC stars who dropped down a level due to off-field issues, and it wouldn't be surprising if they ended up being selected in the same draft vicinity.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories rose in December, supported by a rebound in business investment in capital goods such as heavy machinery.
The results cap off another strong year for U.S. manufacturing. Combined with strong figures released Thursday on job growth in January, they signal the economic recovery is gathering strength.
Factory orders rose 1.1 percent following a 2.2 percent gain in November, the Commerce Department reported Friday. For the year, total orders were up 12.1 percent following a gain of 12.9 percent in 2010. Orders had plunged 22.1 percent in the 2009, the year the deep recession ended.
For December, orders for so-called core capital goods, which are viewed as a good measure of business investment plans, rose 3.1 percent to an all-time high. That gain was driven in part by a rush by businesses to take advantage of expiring tax breaks.
The advances in 2011 pushed orders for the year up to $5.36 trillion, still slightly below the peak of $5.44 trillion set in 2008.
For December, orders for durable goods, items expected to last at least three years, rose 3 percent, a figure that was unchanged from a preliminary report last week. Orders for nondurable goods slipped 0.4 percent, reflecting declines in petroleum products.
The orders category that signals business investment plans, non-defense capital goods excluding aircraft, climbed to an all-time high of $68.9 billion in December.
While some of that surge likely reflected a rush to make orders before investment tax breaks expired at the end of last year, many economists believe the boom in spending on new equipment will continue even with the tax breaks gone because there is a large amount of pent-up demand on the part of businesses to modernize their operations.
Companies are hiring more, factories are making more goods and more people are buying cars. Those positive signs for the economy have to be balanced against the threat that Europe's prolonged debt crisis is acting as a drag on global growth. That would hurt sales of U.S. exports.
In December, orders for commercial aircraft were up 18.9 percent, orders for autos increased 1.7 percent and demand for heavy machinery rose 6.7 percent, reflecting strong demand for oil field equipment and construction machinery.
Manufacturing has been a bright spot in the recovery, although there was a slowdown in the middle of last year as factories dealt with supply shortages caused by the Japanese natural disasters that occurred in March.
The Institute of Supply Management reported this week that its gauge of manufacturing activity expanded in January at the fastest pace in seven months. The index rose to 54.1, up from 53.1 in December. Readings above 50 indicate expansion and the index has been in expansion territory for 30 straight months.


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Ex-Twitter Employees Freaking Out Because They Can't Sell Their Stock
Twitter's stock is currently plummeting down almost 17 percent, but it could have been even worse. The lockup period expired yesterday, prompting fears of a crash should employees and investors decide to sell their stock. But former Twitter employees complained earlier today that they were blocked from cashing out.
Former Twitter engineer Sara Haider, Chad Woodford, Twitter's former product and business counsel, Mischa Nachtigal, who used to work on media and content partnerships, former engineering manager Mark McBride, and others appear to have chimed in on a private Facebook thread about the mismanaged lockup period. I've reached out to Haider and others on the thread to confirm that their statements haven't been doctored.
I also asked Twitter to verify the details and whether the issues have been resolved. An anonymous reader in Kinja, who directed us to the Facebook thread said "basically no employees have been able to sell," except executives. According to the thread, a Schwab representative said Twitter placed a hold on exercising options and Schwab did not expect the hold to be lifted until this afternoon.
Twitter's former head of communications Sean Garrett wrote that Twitter sent out an email after the market opened saying:
"There was a glitch in the exercise functionality with Schwab, but it has been turned on."
Haider, who now works at Secret, did not take the news well:
"a glitch? a fucking glitch. wow, just wow."
Extreme frustration with the process and the company is evident throughout the conversation. Nachtigal posted the following comment:
"Meanwhile, VPs and the GC are selling shares, while we have to wait. Serenity now!"
McBride wrote:
"The company infamous for infrastructure headaches experiences the same with employee lockup."
Twitter's CEO, cofounders, and investors may be holding onto their shares, but it doesn't appear ex-employees have has much faith in the company.
Update: As of Thursday evening, I still haven't heard back from either Twitter or Schwab, but one former Twitter employee did reach out to say that they had no issue selling through Schwab. In that case, the order was placed before the markets opened and sold at exactly 9.30 AM Eastern. The ex-employee was not an executive and claimed that current Twitter employees, who were also not executives, were able to sell without a problem.
If you are a current or former employee of Twitter, please feel free to contact the author of this post: email@example.com.