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The New York Giants are still the New York Giants. The Chicago Bears are better than the Houston Texans. The Seattle Seahawks are Rex Ryan's vision. And don't tell Doug Martin he's the next Ray Rice.
As usual, I have nine strong takes on what's going on around the NFL in the latest edition of The Schein Nine.
"The Giants are paper champs." "Here comes another second-half swoon." "This team isn't going anywhere!"
Please stop talking. I'm getting a headache.
I know the New York Giants have set a precedent over the past few seasons of collapsing in the second half. I know their fans are nervous and the media elite is concerned about how the Giants ended the first half of this season with their worst performance of the year, blowing a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter at home against the Pittsburgh Steelers. However, losing four games in a row last year didn't seem to bother the Giants en route to the Super Bowl. In fact, the players will tell you that the turning point was the Week 15 debacle against the Washington Redskins, after which they didn't lose again.
The Giants are 6-3. They are too well-coached, too battle-tested and have too much championship fiber and heart to collapse. It also doesn't hurt that the NFC East is the worst division in football. Folding up would be impossible for the Giants. They have Eli Manning. They have Tom Coughlin. That means they'll make the playoffs. And once they make it, their upside is to reach the Super Bowl -- and win.
Now, the Giants do have legitimate issues. Their passing attack hasn't had its usual sizzle in recent weeks; Sunday represented Manning's lowest passing-yardage total (125) in a single game in almost four years. Receiver Hakeem Nicks can't stay healthy, and when he's been on the field, he hasn't produced. The same goes for running back Ahmad Bradshaw. Offensive lineman David Diehl came back, but he looked like a recently injured player shaking off the rust.
However, I can't push the panic button based on what this group has accomplished. Victor Cruz has been dynamite this year, and while Manning has been in a minor slump, he's still elite, one of the five best quarterback in the game. I was stunned that the offense put up three three-and-outs in the fourth quarter against Pittsburgh last Sunday. Considering Manning's knack for late-game dominance, I have to believe that was a one-time anomaly and won't become a second-half trend.
Coughlin was spot-on when he called his defense "soft" against Pittsburgh. The tackling attempts on the short pass to Mike Wallace, which turned into a game-changing 51-yard touchdown, were awful. New York's run defense was even worse.
The Giants have given up big plays in the passing attack. Their vaunted pass rush has been ordinary and inconsistent this season. But despite those struggles, the Giants have been solid in the red zone and have had a knack for making game-changing plays. See what happened in wins against the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys, for example. Does anyone really believe these pass rushers will be held down all year? I don't.
The Giants are visiting the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday. In theory, Bengals receiver A.J. Green should be licking his chops to get a shot at this defense. The matchup might be close; heck, the Giants might even lose. But in reality, the Bengals are the Bengals and the Giants are the Giants. One team thrives while the other fizzles when the pressure is turned up.
It's easy to nit-pick the champs. Fact is, the sum has been greater than the parts during this 6-3 start. That's Giants football under Tom Coughlin.
2. Watt's the deal?
Literally, I wanted to know just that when I talked to Houston Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt on SiriusXM Blitz this week. The current favorite to nab Defensive Player of the Year honors has a knack for batting balls away at the line of scrimmage. Watt explained that he studies film extensively and added, rather simply, "If I'm not going to get the sack, I need to make a play."
I had to laugh.
Watt acknowledged what a big statement game Houston is facing against the Chicago Bears on Sunday night. The last time the Texans went up against top competition out of conference, they were hammered by the Green Bay Packers.
I love how the Texans have played this year, but I think the Bears are better. Chicago's defense has outperformed Houston's, and that's a statement. Bears quarterback Jay Cutler, meanwhile, has been tough. Chicago wins a close one.
3. Baby bear
If Bears cornerback Charles Tillman's wife is having their baby on Sunday, he should be with her, enjoying every second of welcoming a daughter into the world, and not playing football. There is no other option.
4. The next Ray Rice? Try "the first Doug Martin"
Tampa Bay Buccaneers rookie running back Doug Martin gets why he's often compared to the Baltimore Ravens' Ray Rice. Both players have thrived under Bucs coach Greg Schiano, for whom Rice starred at Rutgers. But Martin is done with it.
"I'm tired of the comparison," Martin told me on SiriusXM Blitz on Monday, when he was fresh off a 251-yard, four-touchdown performance against the Oakland Raiders. "I want to create my own name."
5. Raider woes
Yes, the Raiders have major issues. As Martin proved (again), Oakland can't stop the run. The Raiders' own running back, Darren McFadden, is hurt. And I'll write it again: They don't have a quarterback.
Carson Palmer throws too many picks. Even Raiders coach Dennis Allen confessed that Palmer "could've eaten the ball" rather than throwing the final pick that sealed the loss to the Bucs.
I don't think the Raiders' quarterback for 2013 is currently on their roster. It shouldn't be Palmer.
6. Coming together in Baltimore
Baltimore Ravens cornerback Cary Williams has been one of the unsung defensive heroes in the NFL this year. He told me this week that the club used its bye to focus on "unacceptable mental busts and stupid plays" on defense.
Harrison: Week 10 predictions
Two of the NFL's best teams face off Sunday night. Who will prevail: Texans or Bears? Elliot Harrison provides his picks. **More ...**
"We need 11 guys to the ball," Williams explained. "Just worry about our individual jobs. Trust the guys around you. And believe."
I asked Williams which Ravens player had stepped up, from a leadership perspective, in the absence of Ray Lewis. Williams cited Ed Reed and Terrelle Suggs, stressing Suggs' "love for the game." Williams said the effort Suggs gave in a Week 7 loss to Houston despite being less than 100 percent was inspiring, and that effect carried over to their bye week and subsequent Week 9 win over the Cleveland Browns.
Still, I was totally unimpressed with Joe Flacco in that Browns game. He'll have no excuses against the Raiders' defense.
7. Rex's vision, Seattle style
When I talked to Seattle Seahawks cornerback Brandon Browner on SiriusXM NFL Radio recently, I told him how tough I think the Seattle defense is, how that unit plays with a swagger.
"I really appreciate you noticing and saying that on a national stage," Browner said.
New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has probably noticed, too. Ryan might think of his 2009 or 2010 Jets teams when he visits the 2012 Seattle Seahawks in the Great Northwest on Sunday.
The Seahawks are built in a way that's similar to Ryan's vision. Their defensive backfield is rangy, physical, and nasty, and makes plenty of plays. The pass rush, led by reported Jets draft target Bruce Irvin, is intense. Running back Marshawn Lynch pounds the rock with authority.
Seahawks rookie Russell Wilson has also emerged as a better quarterback -- and better decision-maker -- than Jets starter Mark Sanchez.
I think Seattle will beat up on Gang Green.
8. Flying high
Speaking of the Saints, was that a good win for them on Monday? Or, as I would tend to believe, are the Philadelphia Eagles just that inept?
I think Atlanta improves to 9-0.
9. Huge Shocker!
Wait, second-year quarterback Jake Locker is healthy immediately after the Tennessee Titans played their worst game of the season? Color me stunned. (That's sarcasm, folks).
While I like Locker's upside and campaigned for him to start at the beginning of the year, the Miami Dolphins will make him pay while handing the Titans another loss.

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Top Items:
New 3G Apple iPhone in U.S., Canada, Suggests Customs Data — Since mid-March, Apple Inc. and its logistics partners have imported 188 ocean containers of a product type never before declared on its shipping manifests. — With iPhones currently out of stock at many Apple stores …
Discussion: ParisLemon, Apple 2.0, I4U News, iSmashPhone, MacRumors, Blogcosm, Insanely Great Mac, greg hughes, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Digg
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0: Apple takes delivery of 188 mysterious ocean containers
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: 3G iPhone arrived already in Millions via Container Shipments?
Robert Palmer / The Unofficial Apple Weblog: Could 'electric computers' be the new iPhone?
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Rumor: Tablet Mac coming this fall (updated 3x) — I don't often publish first hand rumors, but today I've something special for you, if you like tablets that is. — A little birdy tells me that Apple will announce a 12 or 13-inch tablet in the fall of this year. Most likely in the September or October time frame.
Discussion: GottaBeMobile, LoopRumors and TG Daily
Warner Crocker / GottaBeMobile: Here Come the Apple Tablet Rumors Again
Kazouz / LoopRumors: Tablet Mac to arrive fall 2008?
Christian Zibreg / TG Daily: Five reasons why an Apple tablet makes sense now
Reliving the clone wars — Psystar's efforts have rekindled Mac clone talk—but don't expect Apple to join in — In April 1995, while lunching with reporters at San Francisco's trendy LuLu restaurant, Power Computing CEO Steve Kahng was asked how his company, which had just released …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Technovia
The Macalope / CNET News.com: Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Ian Betteridge / Technovia: Why Mac cloning today wouldn't be like Mac cloning ten years ago
Arn / MacRumors:
Tablet Mac Coming in Fall 2008? — Jason O'Grady revives rumors of a tablet Mac in his 'The Apple Core' blog today with claims that the long-rumored Mac Tablet would finally be arriving later this year. — Specifically, he believes that Apple will announce a 12" or 13" tablet "in the fall" of this year.
Live Search:
Book search winding down — Today we informed our partners that we are ending the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and that both sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.
Discussion: Download Squad, mathewingram.com/work, Salon, TechCrunch, TeleRead, The Inquisitr, The Chronicle, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, WebProNews, Epicenter, The Social, WebGuild, GMSV, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Watch Blog, Microsoft News Tracker, TomsTechBlog.com, Guardian Unlimited and Slashdot
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Microsoft kills off book, academic search products
Farhad Manjoo / Salon: Microsoft kills books search engine because books aren't fun
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Microsoft To Shut Live Search Books
David Rothman / TeleRead: Bad news for e-books: Microsoft Live Search Books and journal searcher to go dead
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr: Microsoft Changes Direction On Search
Catherine Rampell / The Chronicle: Microsoft Shuts Book-Digitizing Project
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Microsoft Burns Down Book Search
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Microsoft Gives Up on Book Search
Caroline McCarthy / The Social: Microsoft's Live Search scraps book digitization project
Joseph Hunkins / WebGuild: More Death at Microsoft Live Search
John Murrell / GMSV: Microsoft Live Search cuts dead wood, writes finis to books
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider: Microsoft Shuts Down Book, Academic Searches (MSFT)
Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog: Microsoft Closing Live Search Books and Academic Projects
David Hunter / Microsoft News Tracker: Microsoft pulls the plug on Live Search Books
Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited: Book search? Academic search? Forget that, says Microsoft
ScuttleMonkey / Slashdot: Closing the Cover on Microsoft Book Scanning
Microsoft shuts down book search
Microsoft shuts down book search
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Microsoft Gets Out Of Book Search, But Hands Tools Over To Libraries
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft Burns Book Search - Lacks "High Consumer Intent"
Microsoft Burns Book Search - Lacks "High Consumer Intent"
Discussion: New York Times and ResourceShelf
Peter X. Deng / Facebook Blog:
Update Your Profile From More Websites — A few weeks ago, we told you about the new ability to import stories into your Mini-Feed from other sites. Since then, we've been working on increasing the number of sites that work with this feature. We're happy to report that now …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Real McCrea, Inside Facebook and Mashable!
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb: Facebook's Lifestream Adds More Services
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Facebook triples the number of services you can import into your feed — moving in on FriendFeed? — Facebook continues to inch closer to competing with FriendFeed. Today the social network announced eight more services that you can import into the Mini-Feed on your profile.
Discussion: Webomatica and CNET News.com
Jason Kaneshiro / Webomatica: Keep Your Eyes On FriendFeed: It May Be The Google Of Social Networks
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com: Facebook adds more services to Mini-Feed
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
It's Time For FriendFeed To Kill Twitter — The big news today is that Twitter was up for short period, before once again going down. — So that was a little sarcastic, but news of Twitter being down simply isn't news anymore. There has been another round (seemingly never ending now) …
Discussion: louisgray.com
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
MicroHoo: The Gates Factor — Sure, Microsoft and Yahoo are talking this weekend and they are talking about a lot of configurations of a revived deal to merge the companies together in some way that makes all parties happy. — But make no mistake: It is Yahoo (YHOO) pushing the one-price-buys-all idea …
Discussion: Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, PDA and Outside the Lines
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: C'Mon, You Know You Want It, Steve ... Microsoft's unsolicited …
Jemima Kiss / PDA: More drama at Yahoo as board member quits
The Register:
Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears — Over 36? You can't play — A social networking site has deleted most of its users over the age of 36 because it claims older users pose a danger of sex offending. It claims to be forced into the action by the Government …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Social Networking Site Bans Anyone Over Age 36 To (Sorta) Deal With Sex Offender Law
Social Networking Site Bans Anyone Over Age 36 To (Sorta) Deal With Sex Offender Law
Discussion: The Inquisitr
JR Raphael / The Inquisitr: Social Network Bans Older Users
Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
How "Why Startups Fail" Fails — David Feinleib at Mohr Davidow Ventures pens a piece called, "Why Startups Fail." Here are his four reasons with my thoughts below. … This is exactly why we encourage new companies to stay as far away from venture funding as they can. VC's encourage you to spend!
Discussion: STARTUP CHATTER
Donna Bogatin / STARTUP CHATTER: Bootstrap Rules in Silicon Alley: Tech Startups Unite!
Dave / Tech, Startups, Capital, Ideas:
Why Startups Fail … In the case of the startup in a hot sector …
Why Startups Fail … In the case of the startup in a hot sector …
Discussion: Furrier.org and HipMojo.com
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Explaining Failure is Easy, Explaining Success is Nearly Impossible
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Akimbo, Dot Gone — Akimbo, an early entrant in the Internet Video game has shuttered its doors, as first indicated by VentureBeat and confirmed by NewTeeVee. Peter Chantel, CFO of the company told NewTeeVee that the nine-year-old company has held onto a skeleton staff that will find a buyer for the company.
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Engadget, CNET News.com, VentureBeat, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, TechCrunch, The Inquisitr and Online Video Watch
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee: Akimbo Skeleton Crew Looking for a Buyer
Nilay Patel / Engadget: Akimbo streams out of business
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com: Report: Set-top box maker Akimbo shuts down
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: Akimbo, Dot Gone
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Akimbo Jumps Into Deadpool, Takes $56 Million With It
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr: $39.7 Million Later Akimbo Is No More
Ben Homer / Online Video Watch: Akimbo Ends its Misery
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
Blu-ray Awaits Its Spoils — Blu-ray may have won the format war, but it hasn't won over many consumers. — Now was supposed to be the boom time for the young video technology, pitched as a high-definition replacement for the DVD. In January, consumer electronics company Toshiba dropped support …
Daily Yomiuri Online:
Man 'stole rental cars after planting GPS devices in them' — A 30-year-old man has been indicted on charges of stealing rental cars by installing global positioning system devices in rented vehicles, tracking their location after they are returned to rental companies, and then stealing them by using copied keys, police said.
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Tiny Dancer / Homotron.net: Grand Theft Auto: GPS Edition Hits Japan
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear: Japanese thief uses GPS to track, steal rented cars
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SF's BART in talks for full Wi-Fi rollout — The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District is negotiating with a startup for a Wi-Fi network that would provide fast Internet access to riders throughout its 104-mile regional rail system. — BART would not pay anything for the network …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
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Release Date: February 8, 2011
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Pages: 314
Received: Review copy from publisher
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Goodreads Page
Or at least it was, until one particular Monday. It starts with a third grader in need of protection. And before this ordeal is over, it's going to involve a legendary high school crime boss named Staples, an intramural gambling ring, a graffiti ninja, the nine most dangerous bullies in school, and the first Chicago Cubs World Series game in almost seventy years. And that's just the beginning. Mac and Vince soon realize that the trouble with solving everyone else's problems is that there's no one left to solve yours.


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This link says that I can unlock these sets of armor by killing 100 Metal Slimes.
- Is this true? I would have expected to find more than just the one reference to this unlockable.
- Is there something else I have to do after killing the Metal Slimes?
- Is it just the plain old Metal Slimes in the Quarantomb, or any Slime which is also Metal?


text: Originally appearing here. The party drug MDMA, colloquially known as the party drug Ecstasy, can be used to cure patients of severe post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a study of experimental testing of combining the drug with psychotherapy. The research, however, was not conducted on war veterans, a group most often associated with PTSD, but with rape victims, who, on average, had been living with their symptoms for 19 years. Back in the early 2000s, Dr. Michael Mithoefer received the green-light from the DEA for clinical trials of MDMA. Along with his wife Ann, a nurse, he would administer two doses of MDMA over one intensive therapy session that lasted between eight and ten hours, following a week-long series of shorter, non-drug sessions. Then they would repeat the process three to five weeks later. During the drug-induced session Dr. Mithoefer would have the patient focus on their sexual assaults. The MDMA seemed to reduce their fear and calm them, enabling them to discuss and work through their problems in ways that they previously could not. According to the study, the patients symptoms of PTSD (anxiety, hyperarousal, depression, nightmares, etc.) dropped by 75%, which is "twice the relief" patients experienced with non-MDMA therapy. And the 15 out of 21 people who recovered, remained that way, nearly 10 years after treatment. One woman who worked with the Mithoefers, Rachel Hope, shared her story with CNN. She was raped repeatedly when she was four years old after her mother went out of town and left her in the care of a pedophile for six weeks. Decades later, in 1998, the news that the man who'd sexually abused her was being investigated for molesting another girl caused Hope to have a breakdown. "I started having these outrageous flashbacks, and body memories. The first time, I thought someone slipped me a drug. Because it would be these unstoppable, full-body blackout memories, and people would tell me later, 'You were just screaming for an hour.'" Her symptoms were debilitating, involving panic attacks, anxiety attacks, irritable bowel syndrome, insomnia, bleeding ulcers, and nausea. She'd been hospitalized multiple times. Hope tried nearly every form of therapy—eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, cognitive behavioral therapy, hypnosis, acupuncture, and gestalt therapy—to no avail. She began to accept that she just might be disabled. And then she read about Mithoefers. Within weeks of working with them, she says that 90% of her symptoms were gone. Naturally, the military is very interested in the Mithoefers' results. Loree Sutton, who served as an Army psychiatrist until she retired two years ago, finds the research "promising." Since publishing his work, Dr. Mithoefer began treating veterans, police officers, and firemen. But civilians actually make up the majority of the seven million people suffering with PTSD, many of them being survivors of sexual assault. Jezebel writes about how MDMA-assisted psychotherapy can help survivors of sexual assault overcome treatment-resistant posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).


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Victims voice relief after arrest in serial killing case
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Jane Carson-Sandler's morning in 1976 turned from innocence to terror when a masked man broke into her home and entered the bedroom where she lay snuggled with her 3-year-old son.
He confronted them with a butcher knife and shone a flashlight in her eyes before tying them up.
She said she was paralyzed by fear, afraid the man would kill them. When he untied her ankles, she knew he would rape her.
Before assaulting her, he moved her son from her side, but she doesn't know where. After it was over, he put her son back in bed next to her.
Carson-Sandler voiced relief after police arrested Joseph James DeAngelo and identified him on Wednesday as the serial killer who committed a string of killings and rapes in the 1970s and '80s in California.
Carson-Sandler, now 72, wants to face her attacker in person and ask how long he had been watching her and what he did with her son during the attack.
"I just wonder when he first saw me, how long he had been stalking me," said Carson-Sandler, who was in the Air Force reserves and studying to be a nurse at the time of the attack.
Carson-Sandler was one of dozens of women raped by a man dubbed the East Area Rapist and the Golden State Killer, who police say killed at least 12 people and raped at least 45 in the 1970s and 1980s.
She was attacked in her home in the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights.
She and Bruce Harrington, whose brother and sister-in-law were killed in 1980 in Orange County, said DeAngelo's arrest will launch a healing process for victims that has been delayed for decades.
"It is time for the victims to begin to heal," Harrington said at a news conference in Sacramento.
A DNA match led authorities to arrest DeAngelo in connection with four killings in Sacramento and Ventura counties, officials said.
"I feel like I'm in the middle of a dream and I'm going to wake up and it's not going to be true," Carson-Sandler said in an interview with The Associated Press. "It's just so nice to have closure and to know he's in jail."
Carson-Sandler, now living near Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, said she didn't know DeAngelo or recognize his name.
She wrote a book about her experience called "Frozen in Fear." She has spoken with rapists in prison about how the attack affected her. She tells them to close their eyes and imagine she is their mother or sister or lover while she tells her story.
She says she hopes to make them understand the trauma they have caused so they won't hurt more people.
Harrington's brother, 24-year-old Keith Harrington and his wife, 27-year-old Patrice Harrington, were beaten to death in their home, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said.
Bruce Harrington applauded law enforcement's pursuit of justice for them. DeAngelo's arrest, he said, will "bring closure to the anguish that we all suffered for the last 40-odd years."


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Manu Dibango Photo Credit: Dani Machlis
Originally Published in Scribbles from the Den
Dibussi dissects the cavalier attitude towards African intellectual property and indigenous natural resources plagiarized and/or exploited with little or no compensation, as well as the ramifications thereof.
During a tour of Cameroon in 1975, James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, met Tala Andre Marie, a budding Cameroonian blind singer and guitarist who had just released a funk number titled 'Hot Koki' . Tala gave him a copy of the record "to give him an insight into the kind of music being made in Cameroon". According to the Boston Globe, "Two years later, Brown dropped 'Hustle!!!'— with the same melody, beat, and arrangements, only with English lyrics." Tala and his music label, Fiesta Records, gathered a team of lawyers who filed a law suit in the United States. After a drawn out battle that lasted four years, an American court concluded that James Brown had indeed used Tala's song without authorization. Tala says there was very little financial fallout from the case, with the bulk of the money going to the lawyers. Tala nonetheless contends that it was a huge moral victory and good PR.
Manu and the King of Pop
In 1982, it was the turn of Manu Dibango, the King of Soul Makossa, to deal with plagiarism. Ten years earlier, Manu had recorded a hit song called 'Soul Makossa' which was nominated for the Grammy awards. According to The New Yorker, Soul Makossa, which was the B side of Mouvement Ewondo, a single composed for the 1972 African Nations Cup in Cameroon, was "a honking, galloping funk track—that was the real hit, in Africa, in Europe, and in America, where it came to be seen as one of the first disco records… A generation of disk jockeys learned to wield the power of the song's famous introduction: a hard beat, a single guitar chord, and Dibango's low growl. He named his song after the makossa, a Cameroonian dance, but he stretched the word out, played with it: "Ma-mako, ma-ma-ssa, mako-makossa."
What happened a decade later to Soul Makossa's famous refrain is the stuff that legends are made of. Let's leave it up to The New Yorker to tell the story:
Dibango was in Paris, listening to the radio at his apartment, when he heard something familiar: those same syllables, more or less, in a very different context. The DJ was playing 'Wanna Be Startin' Somethin', the unconventional first song from Thriller. It is more than six minutes long, and although the music is exuberant throughout, the lyrics aren't as silly as they first sound: paranoia ("Still they hate you, you're a vegetable/You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable") gives way to exhortation ("If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby") and, eventually, inspiration ("I believe in me/So you believe in you"). The galloping rhythm sounds a bit like "Soul Makossa," and near the end Jackson acknowledges the debt by singing words that many listeners mistook for nonsense: "Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa." Soon, Dibango's phone started ringing. Friends and relatives were calling to offer their congratulations: Michael Jackson was singing his song! But Dibango's pride turned to puzzlement when he bought the album, only to find that the song was credited to Michael Jackson and no one else.
Just like James Brown before him, Jackson first argued that the refrain consisted of a string of meaningless words spouted in the heat of the moment. Then later, he insisted that they were words in Swahili. Eventually he conceded that he had indeed borrowed the lines from Manu's Soul Makossa and reached an out of court settlement.
[In a postscript to this story, Manu again sued Jackson in 2007 after the pop star gave permission to Rihanna to use the famous chorus as a hook for her song 'Don't Stop the Music' without contacting Manu.]
Tim & Forty and Missy Elliott/Timberland
In 1978, a new duo called Tim & Foty appeared on the Cameroonian music scene with a new genre of Makossa spiced with a liberal dose of "Afro Funk / Afro Beat / Afro Jazz Fusion". The duo's debut album Eda included a song titled "Douala by Night" described as a "disco beat and funky guitar riff number". Douala by Night, which is available on iTunes on the Tim & Foty Greatest Hits Album, was an instant hit
Some 25 years later, Jean Marie Tiam aka Tim was in the studio in Paris working on a solo album (The duo had disbanded in 1982 but Tim had continued on a solo career) on which he planned to include a remake of "Douala by Night". Tim was shocked when the studio musicians informed him that the song was not his and that it belonged to American Hip Hop artist Missy Elliott who had released the song under the title "Dog on Heat" (featuring Method Man & Red Man) in her Timberland-produced 2002 album, So Addictive. Tim took his complaint to the Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique (SACEM) "the French professional association collecting payments of artists' rights and distributing the rights to the original authors, composers and publishers". SACEM confirmed that Missy Elliott had plagiarized Douala by Night's guitar riff by night by at least 70%. Tim filed a lawsuit against Moses Timberland in 2007 and on January 15, 2010, an out of court settlement was reached between the two, with Tim entitled to royalties beginning from 2009, along with a small monetary compensation. Tim says he was not really interested in the money and simply wanted to "restore the historical truth [and] let intellectual honesty and intellectual property triumph."
South Africa 2010: Enter the Diva
Recently again, in the run up to the eagerly anticipated 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, another Cameroonian song was+ in the news, the subject of another plagiarism charge. In 1985 the Golden Sounds, a group composed primarily of members from Cameroon's Presidential Guards released an album whose title track 'Zangalewa' was based on a parade song which was popular with the rank and file of the Cameroonian army and whose origins could be traced back Cameroonian riflemen who took part in the Second World War. 'Zangalewa' became an international hit which transformed Emile Kojidie, Victor Dooh Belley and group leader Ze Bella into celebrities (to the dismay of the army brass who subsequently created the conditions that led to the disbanding of the group a few years later – but that is another story). The group also included a few members who were not in the military such as Annie Anzouer who with Ze Bella performed some of the group's most popular tunes such as 'Maladie difficile à Soigner' and 'Un Bébé', and who later went on to have the most successful solo career among all Golden Sounds members.
Fast forward to 2010. Ze Bella who had retired from the Presidential Guards in 2002 was enjoying a quiet retirement in his village when he got a call from an acquaintance in France informing him that Shakira had just released a version of 'Zangalewa'. This information was soon confirmed by Emile Kojidy another Golden Sounds alum now living in the United States. They were both right.
A few days earlier, the Internet had been inundated with buzz about the new song by Columbian pop star Shakira titled 'Zaminamina' which was rumored to be the official anthem for the FIFA 2010 World Cup. To many listeners, the song was eerily familiar and many bloggers and journalist sought to find out the origins of the song [See the blog of WFMU Radio for one of the most exhaustive efforts to track down the origins of the song.]
To Cameroonians and many African, the origin of the song was no mystery as they instantly recognized it as a remix of 'Zangalewa'. Thus began a frenzied online campaign to alert the world that this was not a Shakira original but a remix. The task was made all the more easier thanks to videos of the Golden Sounds performing Zangalewa that were available on the web. The campaign picked up steam as the international media began taking an interest in the story. [See for example, this report on the French cable news channel France24 titled "Shakira Used Cameroonian pop song for World Cup anthem… without asking".
In an interview with Cameroon Tribune, which ran a special report on the controversy, Ze Bella, the leader of the defunct group declared that while they were proud that a "world music icon" had remixed their song as the World Cup anthem, they nonetheless expected to be properly credited and adequately compensated. He however lamented that there was little they could do if Shakira or Sony refused to pay up:
Nous sommes vraiment impuissants pour aller aujourd'hui aux Etats-Unis revendiquer nos droits. Il y a au moins une trentaine de groupes de par le monde qui ont repris les Zangalewa. / We are really powerless to travel to the United States to assert our rights. There are at least 30 groups that have remade Zangalewa…
Faced with the barrage of worldwide negative publicity Sony and Shakira (probably with the prodding of FIFA which did not want anything that could mar the World Cup) quickly settled. They agreed to credit Zangalewa and began working out details for a financial compensation. Thus, when on May 5, Fifa officially confirmed that 'Zaminamina', which was now called 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)', was indeed the anthem of the 2010 World cup, it also stressed that "The song was written by Shakira, the world-famous singer from Latin America…The chorus is similar to that of a popular Cameroon song made famous by Golden Voices in particular".
On May 11, some members of Zangalewa held a press conference in Douala, Cameroon, to inform the media that negotiations were well underway with Sony and Shakira who had agreed to an out of court settlement and that Sony mauling over the possibility of including the single on Shakira's next album scheduled to be released at the end of the year. Didier Edo, the group's manager conceded that it had not been easy to negotiate with Shakira's manager, Sony Music, and all other interested parties.
Pickett and Puma
This is probably the place to mention the story of Ngando Pickett the unofficial mascot of the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon whose image is currently being used as part of a major publicity campaign in Paris by Puma, the German sportswear giant which is also the official jersey provider for the lndomitable Lions. Ngando's image graces billboards along the Paris Metro route with the tagline "How deep is your love."
Ngando first heard about the publicity blitz from a friend who called him from Paris. Ngando has written several letters to Puma but the corporation has simply ignored him. And without the means to hire a copyright lawyer in France, Puma is getting away with this violation of "fair use" rules. According to Anjali Nayar, a Canadian journalist who recently interviewed Ngando Picket,
On one hand, the global exposure has made Ngando really happy. His image has united Cameroonians for years and will now unite the world. But at the same time, he felt duped. "Those images belong to me," he explains, in an almost apologetic tone. "And it should be up to me to decide whether my image can be used for a film or advertisement"… Did Puma really put Ngando's half-naked image on posters around Paris without consent, or did Cameroon's Ministry of Sports OK the picture as part of the sponsorship deal for the Indomitable Lions? Finally, now that the publicity is out, what can a poor man like Ngando do to stand up for his rights against the government and a multinational corporation?
Ngando, who always seems to have the right attitude, doesn't seem that fazed. With or without help— he says he'll always be there to support the Lions. His life path is born from passion rather than greed.
But it still bothers me that everyone but he and his family seems to 'eat' from his love for the game, including his managers, his neighborhood, his government, and now even Puma.
Undermining African Intellectual Property
Since the Zangalewa and Ngando Pickett controversies broke out, there has been a heated debate on Cameroonian and other internet fora where some have argued that Zangalewa and Ngando Pickett should be happy that they are getting a level of international exposure which they would otherwise never have had. What better stage for exposure than the Paris Metro or the World Cup opening ceremony? How much money did the Zangalewa make in their entire career that they now want to feed off the Shakira, and, who outside Cameroon knew about Pickett before Puma turned him into an international celebrity… for free?
In my opinion, these are wrong questions. In fact, it is this kind of cavalier attitude towards intellectual property and indigenous natural resources that have resulted in African regimes auctioning off Africa's natural resources to Western multinationals, including the ongoing massive land grants being made these days to the Chinese. As Jean Marie Tiam pointed out in the passage on Tim & Foty above, the issue here is first of all about the respect of intellectual property and the right to be acknowledged and credited for one's work of art. And it is also about being compensated fairly for one's labor. [As Dolly Parton unequivocally pointed out during her May 21, 2010 appearance on the Oprah Show, "Every time [Whitney Houston's version of "I will always Love you"] is played, I receive a check". That is how it should be for all artists irrespective of where they come from.
For decades, African artists have had their works plagiarized by the West with little or no compensation or acknowledgement. The most memorable example of the theft of the intellectual rights of an African artist is that of Solomon Popoli Linda who in 1939 wrote the song "Mbube" and received 10 shillings (less than $US 2) for his efforts. The song which later became the pop hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" was reinterpreted by dozens of American artists without Linda or his family receiving a dime. In fact he died penniless. In 1995, the Lion Sleeps Tonight earned an estimated $15 million dollars just for its use in the movie Lion King – a movie which has since grossed about 800 million USD worldwide. Linda's descendants sued Walt Disney for 1.5 million dollars with the full backing of the South African government. Disney settled for an undisclosed sum just as the trial was about to begin.
Back to those who believe that the Zangalewa should just enjoy their 15 minutes of fame and shut up, I would like to remind them that 'Waka Waka' is not just any song; it is the official anthem of the FIFA World Cup, the world's most popular and lucrative sporting event. Not only do the Zangalewa deserve a check from Shakira and Sony each time the song is played, they are also entitled to royalties from all FIFA merchandise that will be tied to the song (video games, action figures, toys, ring tones, etc.). From a career perspective, this is the best time for Zangalewa to make use of the moment. For example, having all of their albums and songs available on itunes, releasing a "Greatest Hits" album along with their old videos, and completing their official website which is "under Construction" would be a good starting point. In the meantime, artists who still believe that they can use songs by African artists without authorization or without crediting them should realize that in this age of the Internet, they will be found out and exposed sooner rather than later…


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The Art of Martiall Discipline (open edition)
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We have ventured into publishing in a small way for the first time. It has always been our desire to reproduce this unique artefact: The Art of Martiall Discipline � an English Civil War officer's handbook, which has been in our collection for some years now.In conjunction with our old friend John Stallard (an avid Civil War buff), we have produced an actual sized, full colour facsimile, with a separate introduction by the Civil War historian Keith Roberts.The book was once owned and partially written by Richard Barnstone of Gamul's Regt., as well as fellow officers, before and during the Civil War.This is an amazing one-off example of an officer's book used in the field 360 years ago. It is a patchwork of hand written pre-Pitman short hand/code (yet to be deciphered) and printed material. It also contains hand rendered pike and shot formations as well as pictures of pike and shot postures, half of which are hand coloured possibly during the civil War period itself.


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Key Technology has been selected for the 2007 Governor's Trader of the Year Award that honors one Washington State business each year, recognizing innovative products or services that demonstrate outstanding success in international market development.
"At Key, technology innovation and a dedication to strong customer service are cornerstones of our business," noted David Camp, President and CEO of Key Technology. "Many of our customers have an international presence and it is our strategy to support these customers with superior service wherever they are located. This base of multinational customers supports Key in building its sales and service organization around the world and that global presence helps Key reach new customers in a wide number of regional markets. It's very rewarding to be recognized for our success in these areas."
Key Technology maintains demonstration and testing facilities, manufacturing, engineering, R&D, parts, and service at its headquarters in Walla Walla, Washington, and at Key Technology BV in Beusichem, the
Netherlands. The company's subsidiary, Key Technology Australia Pty. Ltd., provides sales and service to customers in Australia and New Zealand.
Additionally, Key recently opened two new international sales and service offices, one in Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico in 2005, with a staff of local residents, and one in Shanghai, China in 2006, employing a large contingent of Chinese nationals.


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Our very first offering of conversationals was created by lead designer, Nicole de Leon, and the name stuck. Home to our car prints, the calendar girls (and boys) and some edgy skulls and tattoos, this collection of fabrics, not unlike Nicole herself, always gets people talking.
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I am trying to find evidence for or against automatically scrolling (animating) panel content. Please open this Axure prototype to see exactly what I am talking about.
The client wants it, we think it's a terrible idea but have not evidence against. Mr. Nielsen has already said something on the topic (1, 2). But I would like something more concrete.
Also does anyone have any examples of sites that do this automatic scrolling currently?


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Brian Solis is a digital analyst, anthropologist, and also a futurist. In his work at Altimeter Group, Solis studies the effects of disruptive technology on business and society. He is an avid keynote speaker and award-winning author who is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders in digital transformation.
His most recent book, What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences (WTF), explores the landscape of connected consumerism and how business and customer relationships unfold in four distinct moments of truth. His previous book, The End of Business as Usual, explores the emergence of Generation-C, a new generation of customers and employees and how businesses must adapt to reach them. In 2009, Solis released Engage, which is regarded as the industry reference guide for businesses to market, sell and service in the social web.


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Pistis Sophia, by G.R.S. Mead, [1921], at sacred-texts.com
Mary questioneth the Saviour.It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished saying these words unto his disciples, that Mary came forward and said to the Saviour: "My Lord, will then a righteous man who is perfected in all righteousness, and that man who hath no sin at all, will such an one be tormented in the chastisements and judgments or not? Or will rather that man be brought into the kingdom of heaven or not?"
Of the soul of the righteous man who hath not received the mysteries at death.And the Saviour answered and said unto Mary: "A righteous man who is perfected in all righteousness and who hath never committed any sin of any kind, and such an one who never hath received mysteries of the Light, if the time is at hand when he goeth forth out of the body, then straightway come the receivers of one of the great triple-powers,--those among whom there is a great [one],--snatch away the soul of that man from the hands of the retributive receivers and spend three days circling with it in all the creatures of the world. After three days they lead it down into the chaos, so as to lead it into all the chastisements of the judgments and to dispatch it to all the judgments. The fires of the chaos do not trouble it greatly; but they will trouble it partly for a short time.
"And with haste they take pity on it quickly, to lead it up out of the chaos and lead it on the
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way of the midst through all the rulers. And they [sc. the rulers] do not chastize it in their harsh judgments, but the fire of their regions troubleth it partly. And if it shall be brought into the region of Yachthanabas, the pitiless, then will he indeed not be able to chastize it in his evil judgments, but he holdeth it fast a short time, while the fire of his chastisements troubleth it partly.
And again they take pity on it quickly, and lead it up out of those regions of theirs and they do not bring it into the æons, so that the rulers of the æons do not carry it away ravishingly; they bring it on the way of the sun and bring it before the Virgin of Light. She proveth it and findeth that it is pure of sins, but letteth them not bring it to the Light, because the sign of the kingdom of the mystery is not with it. But she sealeth it with a higher seal and letteth it be cast down into the body |263. into the æons of righteousness,--that body which will be good to find the signs of the mysteries of the Light and inherit the Light-kingdom for ever.
"If on the contrary he hath sinned once or twice or thrice, then will he be cast back into the world again according to the type of the sins which he hath committed, the type of which I will tell you when I shall have told you the expansion of the universe.
"But amēn, amēn, I say unto you: Even if a righteous man hath committed no sins at all, he cannot possibly be brought into the Light-kingdom, because the sign of the kingdom of the mysteries is not with him. In a word, it is impossible to bring souls into the Light without the mysteries of the Light-kingdom."


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The criteria of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)'s Red List are an essential tool for evaluating the conservation status of species around the planet, and according to these criteria all the species in the Canary Islands are endangered. However, research carried out recently by José Luis Martín Esquivel has highlighted some conflicting areas within the scientific protocol designed to identify threatened plants and animals.
José Luis Martín Esquivel, a researcher at the Centre for Environmental Planning (CEPLAM) run by the Government of the Canary Islands, has assessed the conservation status of species that are supposed to be under threat in the Canary Islands according to IUCN criteria. However, the lists of species threatened with extinction according to these criteria did not coincide with reality, as they were "too extensive" and included species that "do not face any risk at all".
After analysing the basis for the Red List criteria, Martín Esquivel discovered that "almost all relate to vertebrates (above all birds) and plants, and they are all based on continental species, not island ones", the author of the study published in the Journal for Nature Conservation tells SINC.
Given the difference between continental and island ecosystems, the scientist says there is a "clear discrepancy". Species on islands are distributed according to the size of the island itself, "and are often found at lower concentrations than similar continental species, without this meaning they should be thought to be threatened", adds Martín Esquivel.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), any species with a distribution area of less than 2,000 km2 should be considered to be threatened. This would mean the 3,672 species endemic to the Canary Islands (38 vertebrates, 510 plants, 2,960 arthropods or invertebrates and 196 molluscs) should be labelled as threatened, because only the largest island of the Canaries, Tenerife, covers an area of around 2,000 km2.
The scientists believes that "many of the more than 4,000 endemic species on the Canary Islands are in a very healthy condition, and are not at any risk whatsoever", although he adds that specific conservation measures are needed as a matter of urgency in order to conserve the unique biodiversity of small islands. In comparison with continents and large islands, small islands operate on a different ecological basis.
Another inconsistency noted in the study is that insects, the most naturally abundant group (accounting for 90% of the almost 4,000 endemic species in the Canary Islands), are not covered by Red List criteria for threatened species. As invertebrates usually have a smaller distribution area than large vertebrates and birds "the same baseline criteria cannot be used for birds and snails, for example", explains the biologist.
"More than 2,000 species, most of which are in a good state of conservation, are island species endemic to the Canary Islands, living in protected areas without any significant threats, and so one cannot conclude that they are at risk", stresses Martín Esquivel, who compares the problem to that in other islands, such as the Galapagos, or larger islands such as New Zealand.
Are small island species in decline?
According to the biologist, the best way to identify whether species on small islands are threatened would be to "stop using the qualitative thresholds system" established by the IUCN, and "find out whether the species is in regression", because a threatened species is one that is losing ground in terms of the area it occupies, or the number of its individuals. Martín Esquivel says "the most important thing is whether the species' home range is decreasing, stable, or expanding".
The researcher suggests rigorously identifying those species that are really threatened. Protecting species means ensuring that "the few resources available for protecting priority species are spent on those really in most urgent need of conservation". "Expending efforts on species that are not threatened simply because they are iconic or because powerful pressure groups are fighting for them does not help efforts to prevent biodiversity loss", the biologist concludes.
Martín, José L. "Are the IUCN standard home-range thresholds for species a good indicator to prioritise conservation urgency in small islands? A case study in the Canary Islands (Spain)" Journal for Nature Conservation 17(2): 87-98 2009.


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following their collaboration with nike, today liberty launch a collection with Dr.Martens. bringing together two great heritage brands, with a theme of *wild nature*, the small collection celebrates some of liberty's most classic floral prints, combining them with the classic, functional & yet slightly rebellious design of Dr.Martens.
i've never owned a pair of DM's, although given the appalling weather they would prove incredibly practical at the moment, & i think i could be swayed by a really pretty floral print.
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Oracle has updated its MySQL Cluster software to make it more appealing to large Web service providers, among other users of large-volume distributed databases.
MySQL Cluster 7.2, released for general availability Wednesday, "is a huge step forward for MySQL Cluster, taking it further into the Web market," said Tomas Ulin, vice president of MySQL engineering for Oracle.
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Two features in particular will help with such duties. The software now offers a Memcached API (application programming interface) that allows applications to access data directly rather than go through the SQL engine. The software also implements a speedier way of executing complex queries, or queries that involve joining data from multiple tables.
With these two new features, MySQL Cluster can offer the best attributes of both SQL and NoSQL databases, Ulin explained. It can rival the fast key value operations of NoSQL, while still offering the ability to do complex SQL queries of a regular SQL database.
MySQL Cluster is a version of the open-source MySQL database that has been configured to run across multiple servers. It is designed in such a way that if one server, or node, fails, then the cluster retains all data and continues to operate without fail. It uses a shared-nothing architecture, in which the cluster has no shared memory or disk space, a trait that helps systems scale to an unlimited number or nodes.
Traditionally, MySQL Cluster has been widely deployed in the telecommunications field. "You can go to any continent and find mobile networks that have deployed MySQL Cluster," Ulin said. Telecommunications companies enjoy the cluster software's ability to scale easily, as well as the ability to recall data no matter how recently it was written to disk. They also enjoy the fact that MySQL Cluster can run on low-cost commodity servers, Ulin said.
With this release, Oracle has prepped MySQL Cluster with new features that should make it particularly well-suited for large-scale Web applications, Ulin said. "We've seen telecoms and Web merging together. The requirements for the telecommunications industry are becoming requirements for the Web industry: [very] low latency, high availability and scaling. We see a very good fit here," Ulin said. The software would be suitable for Web service tasks such as user profile management, session management, online gaming and high-volume OLTP (online transaction processing).
MySQL Cluster 7.2 is the first version to offer access to its data by way of a Memcached API. Used by many large Web service providers such as Facebook, Memcached creates a hash table of commonly accessed database items that is stored in a server's working memory for quick access, by way of an API (application programming interface).
"Persistent Memcached is a useful thing," said Curt Monash of Monash Research, noting that sales of the Couchbase NoSQL database, built on Memcached, have been quite strong.
"MySQL has always given good performance when used just as a key-value store," Monash said. "So it's reasonable to hope the Memcached interface will have good performance out of the box."
MySQL Cluster did offer a similar direct-access capability before through another API called NDB (network database). That API was proprietary to Oracle, however. The use of Memcached will allow more administrators -- those already familiar with Memcached -- to work easily with MySQL Cluster.
The software also introduces a feature called adaptive query localization, which can reduce the time it takes to execute complex queries. Complex joins are the "Achilles' heel" of SQL databases, Ulin admitted. Such queries involve combining data from multiple tables, which is a computationally intensive operation, especially with large data sets. In its previous incarnations, MySQL Cluster would execute complex queries by collecting all the data on a server and execute the join orders. "You might have to shuffle 2 gigabytes of data up to the MySQL server just to get only a few lines" of resulting data, Ulin said.
Adaptive query localization moves as much of the join computation as possible to the servers that hold the data. Much of the cross-indexing is done on the individual node before it is transferred to the server tasked with making the query. This approach can return results to queries up to 70 times faster than what previous versions of MySQL Cluster could do, Oracle claimed.
The new feature "can really broaden the uses for MySQL clustering," Ulin said.
The software comes with a number of other new features as well. One is the ability to spread individual data nodes out across multiple data centers. The software also allows administrators to share user privilege tables across different nodes, eliminating the need to define user privileges on each server.
In addition to updating MySQL Cluster, the company has also certified the software to work within Oracle VM environments. Oracle has also updated MySQL Cluster's stand-alone administrative package, MySQL Cluster Manager, which is now at version 1.1.4.
MySQL Cluster software is available as a free download. Oracle also offers a supported version, MySQL Cluster Carrier Grade Edition Subscription, starting at US$10,000 for servers with one to four sockets.
Joab Jackson covers enterprise software and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Joab on Twitter at @Joab_Jackson. Joab's email address is email@example.com.


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BLT1. /B-L-T/, /bl*t/ or (rarely) /belt/ Synonym for blit. This is the original form of blit and the ancestor of bitblt. It refers to any large bit-field copy or move operation (one resource-intensive memory-shuffling operation done on pre-paged versions of ITS, WAITS and TOPS-10 was sardonically referred to as "The Big BLT"). The jargon usage has outlasted the PDP-10 BLock Transfer instruction from which BLT derives; nowadays, the assembly language mnemonic BLT almost always means "Branch if Less Than zero". 2. bacon, lettuce and tomato (sandwich). [Jargon File]
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text: Conference Call Accessible Via Live WebcastBOTHELL, WA, September 30, 2002 - Sonosite, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONO), today announced that the Company will report its third quarter earnings results on Wednesday, October 23, 2002, after market close. Sonosite's management team will host a conference call on Wednesday, October 23 at 1:30 p.m. (PDT) to discuss the company's third quarter results. The call will be broadcast live via the "Investors" section of Sonosite's corporate website: http://ir.sonosite.com/.A replay of the call will be available by calling (719) 457-0820 or toll-free (888) 203-1112. Replay access will be available until 8 p.m. (PDT) on Thursday, October 24, 2002. The confirmation code 428460 is required for replay access. The call will be archived on Sonosite's website until November 23, 2002, at http://ir.sonosite.com/.About SonositeSonosite, Inc. (www.sonosite.com) is the innovator and world leader in hand-carried ultrasound, with an installed base of more than 20,000 systems. The Company, headquartered near Seattle, Washington is represented by eight subsidiaries and a global distribution netwok in over 75 countries. Sonosite's small, lightweight systems are expanding the use of ultrasound across the clinical spectrum by cost-effectively bringing high performance ultrasound to the point of patient care. The Company employs approximately 450 people worldwide.


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I went to my first Patriots game Sunday. I've lived in Boston for nine years, though not consecutively. I went to college here, worked here twice, I've covered numerous Patriots-based stories but this was my very first game. And it was awesome!
Not only did the Patriots beat the Colts but a friend of hubby's got us pre-game field passes. There was Tom Brady up close, that one was obvious. But I also got to see my favorite player, Patrick Chung, told Deion Branch I was a huge fan as he ran by, watched Peyton Manning drill balls into the hands of his receiver, and was asked if I was part of the Kraft family because we were in Robert Kraft's area on the field (We were quickly told to move on!).
What made the experience even more enjoyable… I was thoroughly prepared for my first Patriots game at Gillette Stadium due to all the fabulously nice tweeps on Twitter. Here are some of the suggestions, many of which are brilliant! Thanks!!!
@susantran OH I almost forgot, bring some cough drops for right after the game, or you might be a little hoarse from all the screaming later
@susantran Oh and snacks too LOL!
@susantran bring one of those little stadium butt pads. Those seats are uncomfortable.
@susantran LOL some inventive suggestions there. Average wardrobe for Pats game: Jacket, Gloves, Warm hat, lap blanket and Hot Cocoa.
@susantran are you able to go to CBS Scene. Or do you have to stick with NBC affiliated restaurants
@susantran Don't forget your flask. Dr. McGillicuddy's Mentholmint does the trick.
@susantran a Philadelphia Eagles jacket.
@susantran Must bring invite to luxury or owners box. It's cold out there. My wife loved the Bass Pro Shop though. Seriously crazy.
@susantran dress like your going skiing no sun at 415 start
@susantran it's going to be cold, get those hand warmers to put in your gloves and boots. Park in P-2 and Fried Dough at Halftime is my Fav
@susantran I went to 1 game when I was a kid. Bring a warm jacket (depending on weather). Sneak in snacks if prices are high. lol


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A preview period will begin on Monday, March 26 for the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago, giving the University community and the public a first look at a facility that represents a milestone for the arts in Chicago.
The preview period will continue for six months as construction is completed on the innovative building, designed by renowned architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. Many portions of the facility are ready now, and others will be finished in the coming months. Arts programming already is beginning, with select classes, and more than 40 performances, exhibitions, and conferences scheduled for the preview period.
Artists and scholars from many disciplines will make use of the Logan Center, providing opportunities for students, faculty, staff, visiting artists and the public to experience the arts during the preview period. The Logan Center's Campus Open House will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, March 30. A grand opening celebration for the Logan Center will take place from Oct. 11 to 13.
Creating a hub for vibrant arts scene
"The Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts will enrich and inspire arts education, scholarship, and creative practice at the University of Chicago," said President Robert J. Zimmer. "We are now seeing the fruits of the vision of the late David Logan, whose commitment to the arts and culture made an historic impact on the University. The Logan family's legacy is manifest in this new facility, and in the creativity and collaborations that will unfold there."
The Logan Center is designed to serve as a hub for the vibrant arts scene at UChicago. Williams and Tsien designed the 11-story, 184,000-square-foot building as an elegant "mixing bowl for the arts," in which artists and scholars of many disciplines will work and perform, creating new possibilities for spontaneous collaboration. The building houses classrooms, studios, rehearsal rooms, and exhibition and performance spaces. These innovative facilities will be home to academic and extracurricular programs in cinema and media studies, creative writing, music, theater and performance studies, and the visual arts. With spaces and programming attuned to the needs of the University and visitors alike, the Logan Center provides a vital new gathering space for Chicago's arts community.
"We're very excited to offer this first look at the Logan Center, and to begin to discover all of the ways our faculty, students, visiting artists, and neighbors will make the building their own," said Bill Michel, Executive Director of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. "After a decade of planning, it is exciting to see the ideas of so many people result in an incredible new arts center that will catalyze creativity and inquiry in new ways."
During the preview period, some courses in art history, creative writing, music, theatre and performance studies, and the visual arts will be held in the Logan Center. Upcoming public events include the March 30 campus open house; the opening of "Catherine Sullivan and Company's Inaugurals," a gallery exhibition by multimedia artist and Department of Visual Arts faculty member Catherine Sullivan, also on March 30; an ArtSpeaks lecture by Waltz with Bashir director Ari Folman on April 23; a Theater & and Performance Studies/University Theater performance of playwright Mickle Maher's adaptation of An Actor Prepares beginning April 25; and a major conference on comics sponsored by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry from May 18 to 20.
Located at 915 E. 60th St. on the Midway Plaisance, the Logan Center will serve as a bridge between UChicago's campus and the cultural offerings of the South Side and greater Chicago. The Logan Center will work collaboratively with the University's new Arts and Public Life Initiative to build partnerships with civic and cultural institutions citywide. In addition, the Logan Center plans to offer a variety of public programs aimed at visitors of all ages, such as arts education programming for students in nearby schools, and a monthly "Saturday Afternoon Arts" program for adults and families in the community. The Logan Center's community open house will be held on April 21.
"I am grateful that the Logan family is supporting a development of such magnitude in Woodlawn," says 20th Ward Alderman Willie B. Cochran. "In my personal engagements with David, he emphasized the importance of ensuring the Logan Center's inclusiveness with respect to the surrounding communities, especially Woodlawn and Washington Park.
"David clearly saw the Center as a vehicle to contribute to community transformation and improvement of the quality of life for all community members," adds Cochran. "I am inspired by his vision and his family's commitment to ensuring that the Logan Center serves, indeed, as a pathway to a richer life experience for all."
'A place where arts overlap'
In 2007, David and Reva Logan, and their children and grandchildren, gave $35 million to the University in support of the new arts center. David Logan, AB'39, JD'41, passed away in 2011, leaving an enduring legacy of support for the arts and the University. "My mom and dad always believed the arts tell us who we are. They inspire us, and they make us better people," said the Logans' eldest son, Dan, during the 2010 groundbreaking ceremony for the center.
As designed by Williams and Tsien, the building's light-filled glass and stone tower adjoins a three-story "podium" with a saw-tooth roof. The 170-foot tower houses a performance penthouse, screening room, rooftop deck, classrooms, rehearsal rooms, and performance labs, while the podium features studio space, music practice rooms, workshops, a café, a digital media center, production and editing labs, two theaters, and a 474-seat performance hall. Certain spaces, while accessible for special occasions and tours, will be finished during the summer and early fall.
"The Logan Center is made to be explored and discovered by students over time," the architects wrote in a joint statement on the facility's debut. "In doing so, this building will be for all who use the Logan Center a place where arts overlap and friendships are formed, and the exhilarating and the unimagined happen."
Williams and Tsien's environmentally conscious design incorporates regionally sourced materials, a "green roof," and solar panels. The University is pursuing LEED Silver Certification for the Logan Center.
"The arts at the University of Chicago have for many years now been bubbling energetically; the Logan Center will give public face to this energy and it will enrich the conversation and collaboration in our community as it enables the production of great art," said Jessica Stockholder, a renowned sculptor and chair of the Department of Visual Arts.
The opening of the Logan Center is part of a broader effort to reimagine the role of the arts at UChicago. "The University of Chicago truly understands that the arts are integral to the mission of a research university," says Larry Norman, Deputy Provost for the Arts. "The Logan Center, in partnership with our other arts initiatives and programs, will enable us to explore more deeply the relationship between theory and practice, as well as the relationship between the University and the city."
In response to a 2001 report on the future of the arts at UChicago, the University has launched an ambitious suite of new initiatives and programs to enhance the existing UChicago Arts landscape. These include the Logan Center, the Arts and Public Life Initiative and its flagship project, the Washington Park Arts Incubator, and the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry. The new initiatives join academic departments and programs in the Division of the Humanities and the College, as well as professional organizations, including the Court Theatre, Oriental Institute Museum, Smart Museum of Art, and University of Chicago Presents, and more than 60 student arts organizations, in forging an integrative model for practice, presentation, and scholarship.
The Logan Center is the latest addition to the varied architectural landscape of the UChicago campus, which features buildings designed by Henry Ives Cobb, Ricardo Legoretta, Cesar Pelli, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Rafael Viñoly, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, designed by Helmut Jahn, has garnered international acclaim since it opened in May 2011.
More information about the Logan Center can be found at http://logancenter.uchicago.edu


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How can local churches work toward racial harmony?
- Know the history of the problem. In order to understand present racial tensions, one must know something about the history of race relations in one's context, the history of the church's involvement in racial oppression, and the particular historical experiences of different minority groups.
- Recognize our mutual culpability. Some people view racism exclusively as a sin of the powerful. As Christians, we must reject this definition and recognize that racism is a sin of the heart which Christians on all sides of racial divides can, and sadly too often do, commit. At the same time, we should recognize that the Scriptures do place greater responsibility for injustice in the hands of the powerful.
- Consider your church's neighborhood. Churches in highly diverse neighborhoods should themselves be more diverse. Churches in more demographically homogenous areas might expect to be more homogenous. One is not necessarily more spiritual than the other.
- Consider the real gospel tensions. Evangelism often occurs most naturally and easily when we evangelize other members of our own cultural group. At the same time, we want to build churches that reflect the spiritual and covenantal unity of the people of God across all cultural and ethnic barriers. In other words, there can be a tension in this fallen world between outreach and unity. Does that mean we forsake unity and so cater to a specific group? No. Does it mean we forsake outreach in order to cultivate unity with what we have? No. It means we need to carefully and thoughtfully pursue both outreach and unity.
- Think biblically and theologically. If we want to avoid being driven by trends and mere pragmatics, we must learn the hard discipline of thinking biblically and theologically about race. This means not only applying individual texts that touch on race but also thinking through how the Bible's entire story line bears on racial issues. It means considering broader themes such as man's creation in God's image, the social consequences of our depravity, our unity in the body of Christ, and the redemptive-historical trajectory from Eden to Babel to Pentecost to the multinational audience around God's throne in Revelation (5:9-10, 7:9-10).
(This material has been adapted from D.A. Carson's article, "Five Steps for Racial Reconciliation on Sunday at 11 a.m.")


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To say that long-time Kirby fans have been clamouring for Nintendo to release a good old-fashioned Kirby title would be a gross understatement. While Nintendo has released several instalments in the series over the past few years, the majority of them, such as Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby Mass Attack, have been fairly radical departures from the classic gameplay fans have grown to love. Thankfully, after quite a few years in development, HAL Laboratory has finally resurrected old-school Kirby gameplay and taken the beloved pink fluff back to the place where his adventure first began.
Fans of the earlier Kirby release will immediately feel right at home in Kirby's Return to Dream Land as the majority of the classic gameplay elements have returned. You'll be given a quick cutscene setting up the storyline and then tossed into the stage select screen. As with most Kirby titles, your goal is simply to navigate your way to the end-of-level doorway, collecting abilities and speciality items along the way.
Kirby only has a basic move set to start with: running, jumping, floating and inhaling enemies and items that can be swallowed or spat out as projectiles. There will also be times when you must wiggle the Wii Remote while performing your inhale move in order to suck up items and enemies that are too large for your regular inhale. Of course, it wouldn't be a classic Kirby game without the ability to absorb enemies' special powers and there's plenty of variety here with the abilities and their respective moves.
While the basic special abilities themselves are quite useful in tackling the barrage of enemies, the developers have also included a new feature that takes these special attack powers to a whole new level. If you're able to inhale certain enemies, you'll gain a Super Special Ability; think of these as much more powerful versions of some of the standard abilities. You'll be able to unleash mammoth screen-filling attacks that are as devastating as they are spectacular to watch. Of course, you only have these abilities for a short time, but they can be extremely useful.
In addition to the highly enjoyable single-player campaign, up to three more players can join in on the story mode. These additional players will be able to choose from three special series characters, such as King Dedede or Meta Knight, or even a different-coloured Kirby. Bringing in additional players will cost you a life for each one inserted into your game, but the trade-off is worth it considering how helpful more players can be. You can even hop on each other's backs and combine strength to execute powerful special moves that can't be performed by a single character.
As you manoeuvre through each level, finding well-hidden Energy Spheres allows you to unlock vast amounts of additional content, ranging from mini-games and challenges, such as time trials and target practice, to rooms that allow you to copy a special ability before entering a level on the world map. As trivial as these additional tasks might sound, once you've seen how fun and challenging they are, you'll definitely find yourself going back to completed levels to pick up additional Energy Spheres.
When it comes to the feel of the game, it's clear that the developer wanted to try to retain a classic Kirby sensibility — aside from the added number of copy abilities, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference in most cases. While there are bits of floaty physics tossed into the mix for times when Kirby is flying or swimming, for the most part the controls are extremely responsive. Using the Wii Remote on its side works quite well in using the classic control scheme, but having to stretch over to use the Minus button to drop abilities can be a bit inconvenient. However, it's a very minor gripe in what is, overall, a very solid control set up.
Over the past couple of years we've seen Nintendo and a handful of other developers really stretch the Wii console's graphical capabilities, but the presentation of Return to Dream Land should give the more flashy titles a run for their money. Not only is the world vibrant and colourful, but the level of detail in the various scenery and characters is impressive. The multiple levels of scrolling do a fantastic job of conveying depth and touches like distant backgrounds having the same level of detail as those found in the foreground shows the care HAL poured into Dream Land — and a monochromatic sub-level in various levels has to be seen to be believed. It's this attention to detail that really brings the storybook world of Dream Land alive and show just how capable the Wii can be when given the effort.
It wouldn't be a Kirby without a sugary sweet soundtrack and you're likely to crack a smile just listening to the whimsical musical tracks strung throughout the game. There are some amazing new musical tracks in the game, but the ones that tend to be the most catchy are the classic tunes that have been remixed for this release. There's honestly not a bad song in the entire game and gamers who stick with the game until the latter stages of the game will be treated to some of the best music the series has ever featured.
Kirby fans have been waiting a long time for a return to the classic Kirby experience, but after playing Kirby's Return to Dream Land, it's perfectly clear that the wait was well worth it. Not only are the colourful visuals absolutely stunning, but the classic gameplay, although a tad on the easy side, has never played better or featured more variety. And when you take into account how much additional content has been included, not to mention the engaging multiplayer mode, you end up with what is easily one of the most well-rounded Kirby titles ever crafted and the old-school Kirby adventure fans have been dreaming of for years.


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Liver Conditions, Diagnostics & Treatments
The hepatologists and surgeons on staff at Cedars-Sinai are among the medical field's elite. Their insights and opinions are frequently cited in medical publications, and their direction is sought by liver specialists worldwide. Every year, hundreds of physicians refer their most difficult cases to Cedars-Sinai.
Treatments and programs include:
- Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Program
- Fatty Liver Program
- Hepatology Program
- Liver Transplantation (Adult)
Our professionals address the full spectrum of liver conditions and diseases. Their experience and visionary research ensure that patients receive the most sophisticated and compassionate care available.
- Acute liver failure, a condition in which the liver deteriorates within a short period of time (weeks or even days). Cedars-Sinai's team of experts has pioneered new ways to manage this potentially life-threatening disease.
- Autoimmune chronic active hepatitis. In some patients, an overactive immune system attacks the liver and causes ongoing inflammation, which slowly damages the organ.
- Viral hepatitis. Hepatitis viruses can create an inflamed liver. While some patients experience only minor illness, others with hepatitis B and C are in grave danger of fatal liver failure.
- Alcoholic hepatitis. Overuse of alcohol over a long period can have a negative effect on liver cells. Inflammation occurs and fatty tissue builds up in the liver.
- Biliary cirrhosis, which causes blockages and scarring in the bile ducts (tubes carrying bile to the gallbladder and small intestine) inside the liver.
- Biliary tract diseases, affecting the gallbladder
- Primary sclerosing cholangitis, a condition which eventually destroys the bile ducts.
- Liver cancer. In primary liver cancer, malignant cells begin growing in the various tissues and components of the liver, largely due to the presence of hepatitis (B or C) or cirrhosis. Cancer that has originated in other parts of the body may spread to attack the liver.
- Budd-Chiari syndrome. A rare disorder, this condition results from blood clots that block the large veins in the liver.
- Drug-induced hepatotoxicity. Certain drugs taken may be toxic to the liver and cause damage.
- Fatty liver disease. About 20% of Americans suffer from this condition, often caused by obesity, diabetes or other health problems. Among the medical specialists at Cedars-Sinai are professionals recognized for their special expertise on diagnosing and treating fatty liver disease.
Have Questions or Need Help?
Call us or send a message to the Liver Disease and Transplant Center team. You can also have us call you back at your convenience.


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Insurance Advisor
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