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|This article or section may be Overly British. Americans may not understand humour, only humor. Canadians and Australians may not understand anything at all. Don't change a thing to remedy this.
"MORE Britishe historie? I'll be in my trailre drinking absinthe."
"I want you to make the Welsh language so difficult and unpronouncable, that school children in the 21st century will have to invent new swear words just to describe it."
"Ask Boudicca to translate."
When you think of a fighting British Queen, who do you think of? Queen Elizabeth? Queen Victoria? No. You think of Boudica. Or Boadicea. Or Boudicca. Or Boo-DICK-ca. Or BoBawitdabadabangadangdiggydiggydiggysaidtheboogysaidupjumptheboogy!. Or Bo Derek, even, if you're silly.
No one really knows for sure, and there sure as hell isn't a person from the 1st century one could talk to to figure out who she was or how her name was spelled. There may be some historical sources, but you don't see anyone at Uncyclopedia "reading" them for "facts."
In America, Boudica is best-known as "Xena: Warrior Princess".
A Comprehensife Historie[edit]
Boudica cameth to rule[edit]
So to set the scene, there was this place called Celtic Britain and there really wasn't much around, maybe a straw hut or two. If you were lucky you'd see a cow. Basically the place really sucked. Anyone who was anyone was already long gone, most likely to The 21 Club. Anyway, there was a bloke here who was king of a small mess of it, and his own tribe as well. This tribe was called the Iceni, and they lived on that little chunk of eastern Britain that looks a bit like an ass. Know what I'm talking about? This King, who was named Ybbterium, made a deal with the Romans, who were big on burning things at the time, that he would pay some money and they wouldn't burn his stuff. For a while, everyone was all smiles. Upon ingesting hemlock,("I thought it would be minty!") he died. Tragic right? NO! The real tragedy is that he had no sons, so his sexy wife Boodikka had to lead the kingdom. As a woman, she was obviously unfit to lead, but the concept of the glass ceiling was still under development.
Her rule leadeth to conflicte[edit]
The Roman governer, Tieremisius, of course realized that as a woman, Boadicea could not rule effectively. Tieremisius had had some sexual problems the week before. His girlfriend, whose name is lost to history, (but is believed to be Agnes) had recently broken up with him. Distraught, he sought to make her jealous by making catcalls at a local. But who? The daughter of a Queen of course!!! So that's exactly what he did. When Queen Boudica heard of this, she immedietely stopped chattering with her book club and rushed to round up an army of Britons. This was fairly easy, as most of the Roman army was off fighting whales in the Irish sea. She and her gang of Celts went about breaking things in the local malls. Really it was utter chaos, they were taking pictures of themselves in stores, throwing their trash on the ground, eating babies, and they even laughed at security when they were told to leave. By this way and because people were scared of her bitchiness they defeated many a shop. After walking through Dillards and trying on every hat without buying even one, they finally left to confront the Roman army at the London souvernir shop, or, Londinium, which by this time was rushing towards the mall.
A large battle ensueth[edit]
Boudica+ approx. 50,000 Celtic warriors, all of whom are bristling for a fight. VS. Tieremisius+ approx. 10,000 legionaires, who are all damn sick of eating [[shit]] and marching.
Boudica should win, I mean, it's simple math right?
Yes, but you forgot to take into account one factor. Boudica is a (sexy) woman!!! This means, no matter how many warriors fought for her, her defeat was predetermined by her lack of a penis. Some historians may argue that her defeate was due to her military inexperiense and the sheer Roman discipline. They are full of shit. Seriously, no dick, no win.
But, alas, the Romans were not driven into the Chunnel, but fought back with swords and punching in or around London, and Queen (see above) found herself at the wrong end of a double-edged sword. Overcome with whimsy, she famously remarked:
"Please forward all my voice-mail unto Heaven, lest I shall miss a call from my agente."
Then she either took poison or some Roman dude stabbed her or something. Don't ask us. She is currently buried under Station 9 3/4, the magical place where young witches and wizards board the Hogwarts Express to embark on their yearly studies at Hogwart's School of Wizardry. Rumor has it that students urinate on her bones for good luck.
An Alternate Historie of Questionable Veracitie[edit]
Here at Uncyclopedia, we encourage dissent and disagreement in the name of Truth. Here is an alternate account of Boudica/Boudicea/Bo Derek, which may or may not be any more or less true than the account that has proceeded it.
When the Romans invaded the British Isles thay didn't reckon on tangoing with Queen Uber-Bitch Boudica. Well-known for having seven arms and three heads, she was an unstoppable killing machine. And kill she did.
Her killing was only stopped when Julius Caesar sent a hoard of flaming superpigs into Londinium (now London). Boudica smelled bacon and ate all the pigs, she died of an extreme heart attack.
You must admit, this is at least possible.
The continuing tradition[edit]
Most of her best fights have been preserved on YouTube and Myspace and her followers continue the tradition to this day especially at the Festival of Beatdown including the ancient tradition of placing of the bottom on the abdomen - mostly though mobile phones have replaced swords and spears and as with bullfighting the loser is not now normally killed.
See Also[edit]
|Preceded by:
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BRUSSELS – The 17 European Union nations that use the euro have struck an agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a program to reduce Greek debt and put Athens on the way to get the next installment of its much-needed bailout loans.
The first disbursement is set to take place Dec. 13, said Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurogroup of finance ministers, after Tuesday's decision.
Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, said markets should pay heed. "It will certainly reduce the uncertainty and strengthen confidence in Europe and in Greece."
This was the third time in the last two weeks that finance ministers from the eurozone had tried to hammer out a deal on the next installment of bailout money — some €44.6 billion ($57.8 billion).
In Athens, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras welcomed it as a great victory. "As Greeks, we fought together. And tomorrow a new day begins for all Greeks."
And the EU lauded all Greeks for holding their country back from the brink.
"We strongly believe in the Greek capacity to recover. The Greek people are courageous people. They are willing to bring their country back on the path of growth," Juncker said.
The so-called troika of the European Central Bank, IMF and the European Commission, which is the 27-country EU's executive arm, have twice agreed to bail out Greece, pledging a total of €240 billion ($310 billion) in rescue loans — of which the country has received about €150 billion ($195 billion) so far. In return for its bailout loans, Greece has had to impose several rounds of austerity measures and submit its economy to scrutiny.
Greece is predicted to enter its sixth year of recession shortly and has a quarter of its workforce out of a job, and there had been fears it might be forced to drop out of the eurozone, destabilizing other countries in the process.
The main aim of the bailout program is to right Greece's economy and get it to a point where it can independently raise money on the debt markets. It has been clear for months that the country is far from achieving that goal. The talks have centred on trying to get Greece back on the path to sustainability by reaching an agreement on how the country's debt load can be reduced.
Juncker said the agreement includes:
— A plan to reduce Greece's debt level to 124 per cent of its gross domestic product by 2020 and below 110 per cent by 2022. The IMF had originally insisted on a debt-to-GDP ratio of 120 per cent by 2020.
—A cut of 100 basis points on the interest rate charged to Greece by other eurozone member states — excluding those that are also receiving bailouts.
—A 15-year extension of the maturities of loans from other countries and the eurozone's bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility, and a deferral of interest payments by Greece on EFSF loans by 10 years.
"This is not just about money," Juncker said. "It is the promise of a better future for the Greek people and for the euro area as a whole."
The head of the IMF, Christine Lagarde, also said the agreement was significant.
"We wanted to make sure that Greece was back on track," Lagarde said. "If you put it all together it is a significant amount."
Greece will get €34.4 billion ($40.84 billion) straight away and the rest in separate installments in January, February and March.
The political agreement reached Tuesday will have to be submitted to parliaments in some countries. After that, the finance ministers plan to hold another meeting, either in person or by telephone, to give final approval to the disbursement.
Pan Pylas in London, Geir Moulson in Berlin, and Derek Gatopoulos in Athens contributed to this report. Don Melvin can be reached at http://twitter.com/Don_Melvin.

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Why Im not excited about multitasking! On iOS, OS X, Windows or any other platform, multitasking simply is not a good fit for humans.
The reason is that while these operating systems might multitask and quite efficiently at times, humans and human brains more specifically, cannot multitask.
Let's take the typical working day. Let's say that you finish eating lunch at home and get back in the car to drive to your office. On the way to work you remember that you have to pick up some groceries on your way back home.
[toDoArray addObject:@"groceries"];
A few minutes later a call comes in and you are asked to email some information to a client.
[toDoArray addObject:@"emailSales"];
Now you realize you do not have that client's email, but a friend of yours does have it. You decide to call that friend and ask him for the information so you move over your phone application. You get the client's email but along with that information comes an invitation to a social gathering later on that night. Now you must switch over to your calendar app and add that reminder. You probably want to add a reminder to notify your spouse as well.
[toDoArray addObject:@"socialGatheringAtPedros"];
[toDoArray addObject:@"notifyWife"];
After all these distractions you finally open up your email client in order to send the information. If you're lucky you have managed to reach your office without crashing. Don't cry victory yet, you still have to park your car.
You open up your email client just to realize you have five new email messages. Two of these require urgent attention. You are lucky enough to have the information needed by one of these two emails, however you must open up What's App and search through many chats in order to retrieve information for the last email.
[toDoArray addObject:@"findDataForLastUrgentEmail"];
As luck would have it the information was not in your What's App application but you are sure it's either in your Twitter client or Facebook. You search both these applications without any success and as soon as you are about to tap on Google+, a "Running with Friends" game notification pops up on your screen and you accidentally tap on it and you're taken to the App Store for an in app purchase. Now you realize you have about three updates pending for applications. You tap on "Update All" and realize you do not have Internet connectivity at the moment.
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So your phone is multitasking quite well, it has Twitter, Facebook, What's App, Calendar, App Store and a few other applications running at the same time.
You on the other hand right now are probably parked on top of your boss' car, are fired, are getting insulting messages from your spouse because you did not notify her on time, your friend is upset because you did not RSVP, the kids are mad because you did not pick up the groceries, and you have lost one of the most important sales of your career.
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Founded by a small group of dedicated people in 2006, FOSD was established to support the students at the Oregon School for the Deaf (OSD). From that beginning, Friends of OSD has grown into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with an all-volunteer Board of Directors. In 2014, FOSD created an Advisory Council of 15 members.
The Friends of OSD Strategic Plan provides direction as the nonprofit continues to expand. We are proud to say that 95% of all grants and donations go directly to programs that benefit students.
*The State of Oregon is responsible for operating programs and services for the students at the Oregon School for the Deaf (OSD). Federal case law establishes the expectation that special education services provided by a school be reasonably designed to ensure students make progress. Friends of OSD will not replace or supplant the responsibilities of the state.


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5 CFR § 430.401 - Purpose.
(a) This subpart implements 5 U.S.C. 5307(d), as added by section 1322 of the Chief Human Capital Officers Act of 2002 (Title XIII of Public Law 107–296, the Homeland Security Act of 2002; November 25, 2002), which provides a higher aggregate limitation on pay for certain members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) under 5 U.S.C. 5382 and 5383 and employees in senior-level (SL) and scientific or professional (ST) positions paid under 5 U.S.C. 5376. In addition, this subpart is necessary to administer rates of basic pay for members of the SES under 5 U.S.C. 5382, as amended by section 1125 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. The regulations in this subpart strengthen the application of pay-for-performance principles to senior executives and senior professionals. Specifically, the statutory provisions authorize an agency to apply a higher maximum rate of basic pay for senior executives (consistent with 5 CFR part 534, subpart D, when effective) and apply a higher aggregate limitation on pay (consistent with 5 CFR part 530, subpart B) to its senior employees, but only after OPM, with OMB concurrence, has certified that the design and application of the agency's appraisal systems for these employees make meaningful distinctions based on relative performance. This subpart establishes the certification criteria and procedures that OPM will apply in considering agency requests for such certification.
(b) Senior executives generally may receive an annual rate of basic pay up to the rate for level III of the Executive Schedule under 5 U.S.C. 5382 and 5 CFR part 534, subpart D, when effective. Senior employees generally may receive total compensation in a calendar year up to the rate for level I of the Executive Schedule under 5 U.S.C. 5307(a) and 5 CFR 530.203(a). Only employees covered by an appraisal system that OPM, with OMB concurrence, certifies under this subpart are eligible for a maximum annual rate of basic pay for senior executives up to the rate for level II of the Executive Schedule (consistent with 5 U.S.C. 5382 and 5 CFR part 534, subpart D, when effective) and a higher aggregate pay limitation equivalent to the total annual compensation payable to the Vice President (consistent with 5 U.S.C. 5307(d) and 5 CFR 530.203(b)).


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IRONTON, La. – When Hurricane Isaac whirled into the Gulf Coast this week, the federal levee system protecting New Orleans did its job. But the patchwork of floodwalls shielding subdivisions outside the city and rural fishing and farming communities was no match for the drenching storm.
As the cleanup began Friday, an old debate grew more urgent: Is it worth billions of dollars to build better levees in areas that are sparsely populated and naturally flood-prone?
Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Army Corps of Engineers has backed away from the idea of extending protection across much of south Louisiana, citing doubts about whether improved levees would work and whether the money could be better spent elsewhere.
None of that sits well with locals, who feel abandoned.
"Each time you have a hurricane, you are going to spend enormous amounts of money on search and rescue, rebuilding churches, schools, everything, just like right here in Ironton," said Charles J. Ballay, district attorney of Plaquemines Parish, as he rode atop an airboat looking for stranded residents. "This was a Category 1 storm and look at what it has done."
The town baseball field was a lake, water lapped inside living rooms and children's toys bobbed in the high water. Not far away, ranchers tried to save a herd of cattle that stood neck-deep in the flood.
About 1 million people in coastal Louisiana live outside the massive levee system that protects greater New Orleans, and almost all of them are at risk of flooding during a major storm.
For decades, Louisiana has pressed the federal government to erect larger, stronger levees in areas vulnerable to hurricanes. The calls for better protection intensified after Isaac.
"These people don't deserve this," Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu told WVUE-TV near Braithwaite, a community flooded to the rooftops when a nearby non-federal levee was overwhelmed by Isaac's storm surge. "We have to fight harder and stronger for protection for everyone. You know, on one side of the levee it's completely dry. Houses are safe. Families are going back to normal. And on the other side, it's a nightmare."
Matt Ranatza, a farmer in Jesuit Bend, a town left out of the federal system in Plaquemines, said the situation makes him "insane."
"There's a perfectly good levee right behind my house that they could have fixed, and that's the levee that was in danger of overtopping," he said. "For them to just say we're not going to do it there is criminal."
Huey Galmiche, an oil services salesman who evacuated to escape Isaac, said the parish was worth saving because it is a hub for the oil and natural gas industry. Anytime the main highway gets flooded, oil production is cut off.
"So that's costing us money for me and everybody that buys a gallon of gas, OK?" he said. "Raising the levee in the long run probably saves money."
Katrina killed about 1,400 people in New Orleans and caused flooding that covered about 80 percent of the city. The disaster exposed the corps' engineering standards as weak and unreliable, which led to revisions that made new levee systems even more expensive.
In the hurricane's aftermath, the corps was given $14 billion to protect New Orleans with new floodgates and floodwalls and higher levees. But none of those efforts encompassed the many smaller communities beyond the city, and the agency has struggled to offer those areas any added defenses.
In June, the corps scrapped plans to build a $1 billion levee system to protect areas between the Mississippi River and Bayou Lafourche southwest of New Orleans.
The agency said it could not find an economically feasible way to build levees or raise enough homes to guard parts of nine parishes against a storm with a mere 1 percent chance of occurring in any given year, also known as 100-year protection.
Meanwhile, another big-ticket levee project designed to protect Houma, the Morganza-to-the-Gulf project, is on hold because of similar doubts about costs and benefits.
At a news conference Friday, Landrieu said she hoped the levee issue would get the attention of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who was touring damaged areas.
She wanted Romney to see that the Corps of Engineers is underfunded.
"I realize that he's all about cutting the federal budget," Landrieu said. "But this is one agency that cannot, absolutely cannot, take any additional cuts."
For now, Louisiana is putting its hopes on money the state expects to get in coming years from increased offshore oil and gas royalties and other sources, such as money BP PLC is expected to pay for damage caused by its 2010 oil spill.
Still, even Louisiana has begun to second-guess the wisdom of trying to protect everything.
This year, the state issued a master plan that put emphasis on building so-called "ring levees" around towns and cities instead of erecting great wall-like systems to shield larger areas.
"We've drawn some lines in the sand," said Joseph Suhayda, a coastal oceanographic consultant. "There is a lot of area to protect, and the population density and property has got to factor in there somewhere."
But building levees takes time, and it's not clear that they are a reliable, long-term solution.
In Louisiana's poor soil conditions, levees sink and must be raised up every once in a while with new dirt. It can be costly to find suitable material to build them.
Besides that, the Louisiana coast is steadily eroding due to rising sea levels, oil drilling and even levee building that stops spring floods from replenishing marshes. The state has lost about 1,900 square miles of land since the 1930s, and scientists warn that more will follow.
Paul Kemp, a coastal geologist who heads the National Audubon Society's Gulf Coast Initiative, said many people in Louisiana are drawing back from the coast and behind the better levees systems.
"Look at Plaquemines since Katrina," Kemp said. "It has not been rebuilt. It's a bunch of trailers. That's what the future holds: People will have a house behind the levee and then have something more disposable outside the levees."


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IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Legal concerns have forced the University of Iowa to suspend a promotion offering free tuition to five randomly selected students who purchased football season tickets.
Athletic director Gary Barta says he has decided to temporarily shutter the offer after questions were raised about whether it complies with state raffle laws.
Iowa says the free tuition package is worth roughly $8,000. The award also can be used to cover fees, books and related supplies for the upcoming fall and spring semesters.
The Hawkeyes also were planning prizes such as $500 in school supplies and $1,000 gift cards to a local grocery store chain in an effort to boost lagging student ticket sales.
Iowa has seen those numbers drop from 10,000 to roughly 7,000 in less than two years.


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Anti-Abortion Phone App Lets You Pray to Accomplish Absolutely Nothing
One of the sad byproducts of the media conspiracy to ignore this week's pro-life conference in Washington was that we almost missed this new iPhone app for baby-savin'. If only we'd seen it on Wednesday, we could've told you how much it sucked sooner:
Anti-abortion activists gathered at the Family Research Council's headquarters in DC Wednesday for a tech-focused gathering called, unfortunately and un-ironically, "Pro Life Con." The rockstar wasn't FRC president Tony Perkins or Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus, who both spoke to the gaggle; it was Brian Fisher, creator of the Online for Life phone app.
All of us at #prolifecon are downloading @OnlineForLife's app. It's phenomenal!
— Libby Barnes (@LibbyMBarnes) January 22, 2014
I'll admit, the peer pressure was killing me. What does it do, you ask? What doesn't it do!:
Download the Online for Life App to receive real-time alerts on women seeking abortions in your area. Invite your friends to join you in prayer and share the good news when a woman chooses life.
Sounds Big Brother creepy, no? Actually, as my wife and I learned, it doesn't do a lot. First, you have to log in:
Apologies to anyone who actually uses that email.
So what happens next? You pray. And... yeah, that's pretty much about it.
You get a screen (shown below and in the top photo at the left) that piles up messages telling you how an anonymous woman "considering an abortion" just got in touch with a "PRC"—a pregnancy resource center, one of the faux-clinics run by Online for Life's partners, where they distribute misinformation to pregnant women in order to convince them not to terminate their pregnancies.
That app doesn't tell you whether the women who are "considering abortion" think they're contacting a health clinic that performs abortions. It doesn't tell you if the women know they're calling an anti-abortion counseling center. It doesn't tell you much, really, and it's not clear if anything it tells you is true. What's it to you?
Your job here—and it feels more like a job than a game, which is death for a phone app—is to pray for these folks. You do that by swiping across a pregnant woman's message, leaving an awesome red-baby message in its wake:
It feels bizarrely like deleting an email... or terminating something. Not sure that's what they were going for there.
So far, so boring. But wait! There's not much more. Only a screen where you, the pilgrim, can gauge your progress:
This screen purports to tell you how many prayers you logged; how many of the people you prayed for made an appointment to visit a PRC; how many actually showed up; and how many decided, Madonna-style, that they're keepin' their babies. Is it for real? Who knows. Now, shut up and do some more prayer-swipin'!
Fisher, the brains behind the app and the organization that created it, is a fairly opaque "author, speaker, and business leader" who also self-published a book called "ABORTION: THE ULTIMATE EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN," a denim-covered copy of which can be yours for $25. I'm getting my copy now; based on the ponderous prose of the introduction, reading the book is bound to give me a greater sense of accomplishment than playing with this phone app.


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Every year at this time, the
showcases the finalists for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The exhibits invariably reveal "energy, imagination and engagement with the significant issues of our time," says BMA director Doreen Bolger.
That description, especially the "significant issues" part, seems doubly fitting for the 2011 finalists, whose work is on display at the museum through Aug. 7.
The collection includes hard-hitting, uncompromising photos from the war in Afghanistan by Washington-based Louie Palu. Photographs taken in Spain by another Washington-based artist, Mark Parascandola, confront the topics of the legacy of developers. A video by Baltimore's Stephanie Barber, using old photos of nameless men, creates a haunting poem about identity and loneliness.
Rounding out the exhibit are bold abstract sculptures of Baltimore-based Rachel Rotenberg that incorporate wood and vine; and a wall-sized installation of cellphone photos by another Baltimore-based artist, Matthew Porterfield, who also created a kinetic video out of those images.
This is the sixth year of the $25,000 Sondheim Prize, produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and given to an artist in the Greater Baltimore region. The 2011 winner will be announced by a jury on July 9.
The BMA's exhibit of the 2011 finalists is likely to spur plenty of comment. Palu's work, in particular, promises to generate strong reactions.
"Right after [President Barack] Obama talks about the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, you can go to an art museum and see photographs of the actual war," Palu says.
The artist spent the better part of five years in Afghanistan, photographing a war that seems to have been out of sight, out of mind for many Americans. The images Palu captured will put it right back front and center.
"There are a number of complicated factors about showing images of horror and war," he said. "It is an extremely difficult environment to work in. You are near death all the time, the smell of blood every day. You name it, I saw it."
The compelling composed photographs show gravely wounded soldiers and civilians, a horse killed by an improvised explosive device, bloodied limbs and blood-stained floors, a bound and gagged prisoner.
In one shot, a civilian is being searched, his arms outstretched. Only one eye of the confronting soldier can be seen, but it is clear that both eyes are staring intently into the man's face as if trying to read his soul, while the hands determine the risk posed by the body.
"My goal or mission is not to have people crying, but to stir discussion," Palu says. "I want people to feel what it's like on the front lines."
Palu's photographs have two-edged power, given their subject matter and their remarkable sense of structure and color. The same can be said of Parascandola's work, a series of photos taken in Almeria, a desert landscape in Spain.
"My mother's family is from there, and I've been traveling there since I was a kid," Parascandola says. "Almeria has gone through various boom and bust cycles. Throughout the 20th century, it has been one of the poorest regions in Europe."
The photographer found in that area the material to evoke "the idea of a ghost town."
Some of the ghostly images are housing developments that were started during a boom cycle, but left unfinished or abandoned as the economy soured. The photos create striking geometrical shapes etched against the barren landscape.
The other photos in Parascandola's Sondheim entry are of movie sets used for "spaghetti Westerns" filmed in that part of Spain decades ago. These ghost towns "were never inhabited, of course, but they have been abandoned and left in the desert," says the artist, whose work speaks to multiple issues while providing vivid structure and color.
Structure and color are primary forces in Rotenberg's sculpture.
"They're come from stories I miraculously create — well, to me, it feels miraculous," the artist says. "Then I draw them until I get to the place where it just says 'build me.' "
What springs from her stories-turned-drawings are wooden sculptures crafted into curving, sensual shapes that are then painted.
The abstract items include "Limn," a large rounded, vessellike object made from cedar two-by-fours and a thick vine; the piece seems to sink into a pedestal. The smell of the cedar comes through as you get close to look inside the sculpture, which gives it a kind of animated presence.
"I wanted pieces that would talk to each other, and, hopefully, to you," Rotenberg says.
The installation by Porterfield, creator of the independent film "Putty Hill," takes up one wall, where six dozen 20-by 30-inch cellphone pictures form a large quiltlike work. On the opposite wall is a monitor showing a video montage of the same pictures and additional ones.
"All of the photos were taken over the last year," says Porterfield. "It is a personal work in that they are all scenes from [my] daily life … They celebrate the everyday and offer a way of seeing and making sense of the world."
The video, using a flicker technique, intensifies and animates the images, setting up a relationship with the stills on the other wall.
Around the corner is another monitor, this one showing two rough six-minute videos by Barber.
"Bust Chance" uses found footage of a Chinese audience at an acrobatic show. "It's a very collage-ish film and it's about subverting expectations," Barber says.
The other video, "Dwarfs the Sea," also uses found images — photos of men, mostly African-American and Arab, showing little expression.
"I'm not sure what these pictures were," Barber says. "Maybe ID pictures. I am imagining these men were sailors, immigrants. They have an existential loneliness, a lonely so huge it dwarfs the sea."
A verbal description written by Barber and intoned by a mechanical voice-over provides summations of each man, creating a bittersweet montage.
In addition to those videos, Barber will be making fresh ones throughout the Sondheim exhibit. She plans to develop a concept, film it and process it each day and have it showing on a monitor the next day. She will add musical soundtracks to some, computer animation to others. Passers-by will often be invited to be in the films.
"I will be inspired by whatever happens," Barber says.
The idea of fresh art being created daily adds yet another intriguing dimension to an already lively exhibit.
If you go
The 2011 Sondheim Artscape Prize finalists exhibit runs through Aug. 7 at the
, 10 Art Museum Drive. Free admission. Call 443-573-1700 or go to artbma.org


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KUALA LUMPUR/PHU QUOC ISLAND, Vietnam - The disappearance of a Malaysian airliner about an hour into a flight to Beijing is an "unprecedented mystery", the civil aviation chief said on Monday, as a massive air and sea search now in its third day failed to find any trace of the plane or 239 people on board.
Dozens of ships and aircraft from 10 countries scoured the seas around Malaysia and south of Vietnam as questions mounted over possible security lapses and whether a bomb or hijacking attempt could have brought down the Boeing 777-200ER which took off from the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
The area of the search would be widened from Tuesday, Azharuddin Abdul Rahman, the head of Malaysia's Civil Aviation Authority, told reporters.
A senior police official told Reuters that people armed with explosives and carrying false identity papers had tried to fly out of Kuala Lumpur in the past, and that current investigations were focused on two passengers who were on the missing plane with stolen passports.
"We have stopped men with false or stolen passports and carrying explosives, who have tried to get past KLIA (airport) security and get on to a plane," he said. "There have been two or three incidents, but I will not divulge the details."
Interpol confirmed on Sunday at least two passengers used stolen passports and said it was checking whether others aboard had used false identity documents.
Azharuddin said a hijacking attempt could not be ruled out as investigators explore all theories for the loss of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. "Unfortunately we have not found anything that appears to be objects from the aircraft, let alone the aircraft," he told a news conference. "As far as we are concerned, we have to find the aircraft. We have to find a piece of the aircraft if possible."
Azharuddin also said the two men with stolen passports did not look like Asians, but he did not elaborate. Airport CCTV footage showed they completed all security procedures, he said. "We are looking at the possibility of a stolen passport syndicate," he said.
A senior source involved in preliminary investigations in Malaysia said the failure to find any debris indicated the plane may have broken up mid-flight, which could disperse wreckage over a very wide area. "The fact that we are unable to find any debris so far appears to indicate that the aircraft is likely to have disintegrated at around 35,000 feet," said the source.
Asked about the possibility of an explosion, the source said there was no evidence of foul play and that the aircraft could have broken up due to mechanical causes.
Still, the source said the closest parallels were the bomb explosions on board an Air India jetliner in 1985 when it was over the Atlantic Ocean and a Pan Am aircraft over the Scottish town of Lockerbie in 1988. Both planes were cruising at around 31,000 feet at the time.
The United States extensively reviewed imagery taken by American spy satellites for evidence of a mid-air explosion, but saw none, a US government source said. The source described US satellite coverage of the region as thorough.
Hopes for a breakthrough rose briefly when Vietnam scrambled helicopters to investigate a floating yellow object it was thought could have been a life raft. But the country's Civil Aviation Authority said on its website that the object turned out to be a "moss-covered cap of a cable reel".
Flight MH370 disappeared from radar screens in the early hours of Saturday, about an hour into its flight from Kuala Lumpur, after climbing to a cruising altitude of 35,000 ft (10,670 metres).
Underlining the lack of hard information about the plane's fate, a US Navy P-3 aircraft capable of covering 1,500 sq miles every hour was sweeping the northern part of the Strait of Malacca, on the other side of the Malaysian peninsula from where the last contact with MH370 was made.
No distress signal was sent from the lost plane, which experts said suggested a sudden catastrophic failure or explosion, but Malaysia's air force chief said radar tracking showed it may have turned back from its scheduled route before it disappeared.
The Boeing 777 has one of the best safety records of any commercial aircraft in service. Its only previous fatal crash came on July 6 last year when Asiana Airlines Flight 214 struck a seawall on landing in San Francisco, killing three people.
About two-thirds of the 227 passengers and 12 crew now presumed to have died aboard the plane were Chinese. The airline said other nationalities included 38 Malaysians, seven Indonesians, six Australians, five Indians, four French and three Americans.
The passenger manifest issued by the airline included the names of two Europeans - Austrian Christian Kozel and Italian Luigi Maraldi - who were not on the plane. Their passports had been stolen in Thailand during the past two years.
An Interpol spokeswoman said a check of all documents used to board the plane had revealed more "suspect passports", which were being investigated. "Whilst it is too soon to speculate about any connection between these stolen passports and the missing plane, it is clearly of great concern that any passenger was able to board an international flight using a stolen passport listed in Interpol's databases," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said.
A European diplomat in Kuala Lumpur cautioned that the Malaysian capital was an Asian hub for illegal migrants, many of whom used false documents and complex routes including via Beijing or West Africa to reach a final destination in Europe. "You shouldn't automatically think that the fact there were two people on the plane with false passports had anything to do with the disappearance of the plane," the diplomat said. "The more you know about the role of Kuala Lumpur in this chain, the more doubtful you are of the chances of a linkage."
A Thai travel agent who arranged the tickets for the two passengers using the stolen passports said she had booked them on the flight via Beijing because they were the cheapest tickets, the Financial Times reported.
The travel agent in the resort of Pattaya said an Iranian business contact she knew only as "Mr Ali" had asked her to book tickets for the two men on March 1.
She had initially booked them on other airlines but those reservations expired and on March 6, Mr Ali had asked her to book them again. She told the newspaper she did not think Mr Ali, who paid her in cash and booked tickets with her regularly, was linked to terrorism.


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With just nine months to go until Election Day, electronic voting machines remain as iffy and controversial as ever. The new technology was once widely viewed as an improvement over the antiquated paper ballots used in some states during the highly contentious 2000 presidential race that ushered George W. Bush into the White House (think: hanging chads). But it is still plagued by accuracy and security concerns.
In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office (GAO)—Congress's investigative arm—gave at best a lukewarm endorsement of electronic voting technology. Congress called upon the GAO to investigate the role that iVotronic direct-recording electronic (DRE) touch-screen voting machines, made by Election Systems & Software, Inc., in Omaha, Neb., played in the highly controversial 2006 election for Florida's 13th Congressional District, in which Republican Vern Buchanan edged out Democrat Christine Jennings by a whisker-thin 369 vote margin.
During that election, more than 18,000 of the 143,532 ballots cast on the e-voting machines in Florida's Sarasota County did not register a vote for either candidate. The GAO checked for flaws in voting machines used there during the election. As part of the effort, investigators examined the firmware (software embedded in the devices) to make sure it matched that certified by the State of Florida. They also tested the devices to make sure they properly recorded and counted the ballots and whether they could provide accurate results even if miscalibrated.
The agency's conclusion: "Although the test results cannot be used to provide absolute assurance, we believe that these test results, combined with the other reviews that have been conducted by Florida, GAO, and others, have significantly reduced the possibility that the iVotronic DREs were the cause of the undervote."
Although hardly a ringing endorsement for e-voting technology, the GAO's findings contradicted those of researchers at Dartmouth College and the University of California, Los Angeles, who, after conducting a separate study (released in September) found that the "exceptionally high ... undervote rate" in the Florida's 13th District race "was almost certainly caused by" a poorly designed and confusing electronic ballot displayed on the voting machine's touch screen.
Florida's own assessment of its e-voting technology statewide has been even less enthusiastic. The state last May commissioned a review led by Florida State University's Security and Assurance in Information Technology (SAIT) laboratory of voting system software made by Diebold Election Systems (which now calls itself Premier Election Solutions). Two months later, investigators released a scathing report in which they describe a glitch in Diebold's optical-scan firmware that enabled a "type of vote manipulation if an adversary can introduce an unofficial memory card into an active terminal" prior to an election. Such a card can be preprogrammed to essentially swap the electronically tabulated votes of two candidates or reroute all of one candidate's votes to a different candidate. The investigators simulated a cyber strike on their test systems and had no trouble carrying it out despite new mechanisms designed to protect against "similarly documented attacks in previous studies," the report states.
SAIT also found that the systems' encryption algorithms "had some cryptographic flaws," says SAIT co-director Alec Yasinsac, a Florida State University associate professor of computer science. In particular, the keys required to lock and unlock encrypted information were difficult to manage and safeguard against potential hackers. Once they cracked the encryption code, investigators found, intruders were able to access all encrypted data in the voting machine. "The types of attacks are very real," he says.
One of the greatest challenges when securing computers is accounting for the unexpected, says Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity, Inc., the San Francisco–based maker of the source code analysis software that SAIT used during its probe of Diebold's system. This is becoming more difficult as increasingly sophisticated software—including that which runs electronic voting machines—continues to grow to encyclopedic portions. One program can contain tens of millions of lines of code.
Whereas certain technology—such as pacemakers and other medical devices—are heavily regulated and must adhere to strict design and construction standards, voting machines are still mostly unregulated. "There's no validation of how the software for these systems is designed and built," Hallem says, adding that this is "surprising given the importance of voting machines to our national infrastructure."
This has caused problems throughout the U.S. as different states attempt to assess the effectiveness of their e-voting technology. Following a review of e-voting machine security vulnerabilities and source code, California Secretary of State Debra Bowen in August decertified all e-voting machines in her state, other than those designed for disabled voters. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner recently released the results of a probe into her state's electronic voting systems that concluded they, too, were riddled with "critical security failures" that could impact the integrity of elections.
"In the year 2000, when the Florida election went nuts, there were some electronic systems, but by and large the vast majority was done on handwritten ballots and punch ballots," SAIT co-director Yasinsac says. In the wake of the controversy, e-voting was held up as a way to restore integrity to the process. "We pushed this technology even though it was not ready," he adds. "Much of the software that the machines used is more than 10 years old and has been revised heavily, making it harder to review."
Any significant changes in election technology will come too late for this year's bid for the White House. In states such as Maryland, where Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley has proposed spending $6.8 million to buy new optical-scan machines to improve the accuracy of that state's elections, the technology will not be ready to go until 2010. Meantime, legislation introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives last year by Rep. Rush Holt [D–N.J.] that would require voter-verified permanent paper ballots (amending the tech-friendly but misguided Help America Vote Act of 2002) is languishing in committee and will not impact this year's elections.


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U.S. builders broke ground on fewer houses in November after starting work in October at the fastest pace in four years. Super storm Sandy likely slowed starts in the Northeast.
The Commerce Department said Wednesday that builders began construction of homes at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 861,000. That was 3 percent less than October's annual rate of 888,000, the fastest since July 2008.
Housing starts fell 5.2 percent in the Northeast in November compared with October. And compared with a year earlier, starts are down nearly 26 percent in the Northeast, the only region to record a drop in the past year.
Still, overall construction remains healthy. Housing starts were 21.6 percent higher last month than in November 2011. And permits rose to 899,000, the most since July 2008.
Housing starts are far above the annual rate of 478,000 touched in April 2009, the recession low. But they're still well short of the 1.5 million annual rate that is considered healthy.


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Uncovering America's Heritage... Coin by Coin
1937 Roanoke Island, NC, half dollar
Gather 'round, children, for Goldie's coin of the month. There's a mystery of history behind this half dollar. This coin came out in 1937 on the 350th anniversary of the "lost colony" of Roanoke Island. The island was part of the Virginia colony then, though now it's part of North Carolina.
In 1585, the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh sent men to Roanoke Island to build a fort, but they didn't stay. Two years later, Raleigh sent not only men, but women and even children to settle on the island for good. The first English child born in an American colony was born that year and named Virginia in honor of her birthplace.
Life in the wilderness was hard, and diseases spread easily. After about a month at the new settlement, John White, the leader, went back to England for more supplies. He was planning to be gone for only a few months, but England was at war with Spain. Three years passed before he could return.
When White and his crew got to the island, there was not a soul around. The houses were falling down and overgrown with weeds. Everyone had disappeared! The only clue they found was the word "Croatoan" carved in one of the posts of the fort, maybe as a sign.
There was a tribe nearby called the Croatoans, and White went to ask them about the settlers. But bad weather forced them to turn their boat around. Raleigh, of course, was hoping that the settlers were still alive, and the settlers of nearby Jamestown searched for them too. But that was twenty years later, and the men, women, and children of the 1587 colony were never seen again. The Lost Colony.
Today on Roanoke, Fort Raleigh has been rebuilt and the "Lost Colony" is a historic site. An outdoor theater has presented the story of the colony every summer since 1937, when our Roanoke coin was produced. The coin's final design was approved in December of 1936.


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Howard Stern is returning for a second season of "America's Got Talent."
He joins host Nick Cannon, whose return to the show was announced last week. Judge Howie Mandel is also expected to return, though Sharon Osbourne is not.
Also read: Sharon Osbourne Compares NBC to 'Titanic,' Re-Affirms 'AGT' Exit
She said over the summer that she would not be back, accusing the network of discriminating against her son, Jack, by cutting him from the reality series "Stars Earn Stripes" after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
NBC has denied her claims, saying it offered the younger Osbourne other positions on the series and that he turned them down.
The upcoming season of "America's Got Talent" — in which judges offer their take on a wide array of colorful competitors — will be the show's eighth. Auditions are underway.
"Howard Stern's towering presence and opinions on last season's show as a new judge made a dramatic impact and added a sharper edge to the fascinating developments on stage," said Paul Telegdy, NBC's president, of alternative and late night programming. "We know that Howard believes in 'America's Got Talent' — which remains America's top-rated summer series — and that dedication comes across in a genuine way to our viewers who share his passion about our amazing talent competition."
"America's Got Talent" is produced by FremantleMedia North America and Simon Cowell's SYCO Television. Simon Cowell, Jason Raff, Sam Donnelly ("Britain's Got Talent") and Trish Kinane are the executive producers.


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By Ali Smith
"Democracy of reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us."
In the mid-nineties I acquired a short story collection from Waterstones Chester. Somewhat drab in appearance, on its front cover was a washed-out black and white photograph of the American actress Louise Brooks, lifted from the film adaption of the controversial Diary of a Lost Girl, over which it displayed a single endorsement from the Northern Irish fiction writer, Bernard MacLaverty: "What a great batch of stories".
It was, however, published by Virago, and I was sufficiently intrigued by its description to purchase a copy. At 149 pages, I was able to read the book in one sitting, finding myself delighted by a memorable debut from an unknown author. 'Here's someone who knows their way around short fiction!' I said to myself.
The book was Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith, and it went on to win the Saltire First Book of the Year award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award. The author has since published a slew of successful, often experimental novels, and several other short story collections – the fifth and most recent of which was the wonderfully inventive Public Library and other stories in 2015. She is now widely considered to be one of our most gifted living writers and I have never failed but to be drawn to her works of fiction.
Born in Inverness in 1962, Smith was the daughter of working-class parents and was raised on a council estate. She gained a top first in Senior Honours English at the University of Aberdeen and won the University's Bobby Aitken Memorial Prize for poetry in 1984 before attending Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied for a PhD in American and Irish modernism. She did not complete her doctorate but started writing plays, moving to Edinburgh in 1990 to work as a lecturer of Scottish, English and American literature at the University of Strathclyde. She was compelled to leave in 1992 – suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome – and went on to hold several part-time jobs ranging from lettuce-cleaner to advertising copywriter, before having her first book published in 1995.
The jacket of my Penguin edition of Public library pictures a still from La Chinoise, a 1967 film by Jean-Luc Godard, on the rear is a roll of rhapsodic quotations from critics of note. It contains 12 literature-linked stories interspersed with comments from several of the author's friends on the subject of libraries: "their history, their importance and the recent spate of closures".
An exuberant defence of libraries, every one of Smith's humorous, often scathing stories is outstanding – her superbly written dialogue a spirited interflow of fact and fiction. I read this book slowly, relishing its unpredictable narratives such as those inspired by Robert Herrick's verse (Grass), the ashes of DH Lawrence (The Human Claim) and an array of literary odds and sods. My personal favourite was The ex-wife, about a woman's obsession with Katherine Mansfield, which leads to her breaking-up with her boyfriend, but there are naught but gems between these pages.
Public libraries are experiencing closures on an unprecedented scale in the UK and many other parts of the world, and this book makes perceptive observations about the importance of reading in "the best possible shared space". As a collection, it is powerful, linguistically clever and wonderfully entertaining. Furthermore, it is audaciously Smithsonian to the final full stop*.
* A punctuation mark at the end of a sentence, known in North America as a period.
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On April 8, 2011, the National Science Foundation announced that Meagan Bosket '09 was awarded a three-year NSF Graduate Fellowship to support her Ph.D. research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Meagan will be finishing her M.S. degree in Geochemistry later this spring and will continue in pursuit of her PhD at Wisconsin. Meagan's research is on tracing magma chamber evolution at Crater Lake, OR using uranium-series isotopes with Professor Clark Johnson.
As a student at Albion College, Meagan completed a B.A. in Geology. During her junior year, she traveled to Antarctica with Professor Thom Wilch to study the Minna Bluff volcanic complex, and completed a senior honors thesis on the geology of a phreatomagmagmatic volcano at Minna Bluff.


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Sgrombri Grigliati alla Calabrese
Region: Italy, Calabria
Category: Seafood-Grilled
Season: Summer
Difficulty: Easy but special equipment needed
This delicious recipe from Calabria is quite rich and perfect accompanied by a simple spaghetti.
[photo: Clifford A. Wright]
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Preparation Time: 25 minutes
Four 1-pound mackerel, cleaned and gutted, heads and tails removed, and cut into 3/4-inch steaks
Extra-virgin olive oil to taste
16 salted anchovy fillets (about 2 ounces), rinsed
1/4 cup (1/2 stick), unsalted butter, softened
3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
1 1/4 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
1. Prepare a hot charcoal fire or preheat a gas grill for 15 minutes on high.
2. Rub the mackerel steaks with the olive oil. (If you like, save the heads and tails for making fish stock.) Place the fish on the grill and cook, turning once, until the skin is blackened and crispy, about 8 minutes on each side.
3. Meanwhile, mash the anchovies, butter, parsley and lemon juice in a bowl until very well blended.
4. Remove the mackerel steaks from the grill and transfer to a heated platter. Dot the top of each steak with anchovy butter and serve.
In the anchovy butter, replace the parsley with mint and add 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper.
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1967: Luis Monge, America's last pre-Furman execution
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Forty-five years ago today, Luis Monge was gassed in Colorado for murder — the last execution in the United States before a decade-long lull in capital punishment in the U.S.
Monge, an insurance salesman with no prior history of violence, had a hearty brood of 10 children, but when his wife found out he was having an incestuous relationship with one of them, Monge bludgeoned the wife to death, and killed three of the young children just for good measure.
Monge pleaded insanity, and then when doctors found him sane enough to stand trial, just pleaded guilty — eventually dropping all appeals and asking to be hanged in public at the Denver City and County Building.
Despite the culprit's preferences, his execution was stayed for all of 1966 while Colorado voters weighed a referendum on continuing the death penalty. They ultimately voted 3-1 in favor. (See this detailed history of the death penalty in the Columbine State.)
Even though Monge himself embraced execution willingly, his seven remaining children (also the children of, and siblings of, his victims: surely a difficult position) still fought for clemency, and shared Monge's last meal with him.
Had Monge maintained his appeals, he — like four other Colorado inmates whose death dates were also on hold in 1966 — would likely have made it into the nationwide unofficial moratorium on executions that settled in while courts sorted out death penalty standards in the late 1960s and early-to-mid 1970s.* That period led into 1972's landmark Supreme Court decision Furman v. Georgia, invalidating all existing death sentences in the country and sparing men much more nefarious than Luis Monge.
Instead, this date's principal went to his death clutching a black rosary (and allegedly, and one must suspect apocryphally, asking if the gas would trouble his asthma)** and became a nigh-forgotten denouement from a closed chapter of death penalty jurisprudence, and the last man put to death in America until Gary Gilmore almost ten years later.
Apart from his milestone status vis-a-vis capital punishment nationwide, Monge is also the last person to die in the Colorado gas chamber.
The gas chamber that killed Luis Monge, now retired to Colorado's Museum of Prisons. (cc) image from Cowtools, who also has a photo of Monge's bullet-riddled grave marker.
In fact, Monge is currently still the second-last put to death in Colorado, period. It would be fully 30 years before Colorado executed again — in 1997, by lethal injection. As of this writing, it hasn't done so again since.
* If Monge had avoided execution, the "last pre-Furman execution" milestone would be held instead by California's Aaron Mitchell, the only man executed on the authority of California governor (and future U.S. president) Ronald Reagan.
** The man who pulled the lever for Monge's execution, Canon City penitentiary warden Wayne Patterson, was not enthusiastic about the job. He describes his experience here, saying that "Monge was a guilt-ridden man who was nearly suicidal before he was executed. Those were the [kind of] guys who were executed — not the people I thought belonged in the chamber."
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Is it for free? bane
bahh its windows only
Quotebahh its windows onlyIf you want to run it on linux you can probably get it working using Wine.
I did however find these:http://sketchyphysicstutorial.googlepages.com/
(I didnt read any of the Tutorials before hand)


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The combined accomplishments of Genesis Breyer P. Orridge and Tony Conrad are legendary and enormous, and are well-documented elsewhere. Over the years, both artists have appeared and performed at WFMU many times.Genesis first came by for an interview in 1988, on one of my late nightshifts in the old basement studios at Froeberg Hall, when WFMU was stillpart of Upsala College. That was during the early Acid House days of Psychic TV. (And just last year he came to the station with all of Throbbing Gristle for a long and lively chat session in the studio).About a year after that first interview with Gen, I met Tony Conrad, and I asked Tony to come to the station for an interview not long after. He couldn't be there in person so we did that interview by phone, but since then he's performed in the studio twice and we've done several in-studio interviews.Though I'd been friends with both of them for many years I had never considered the possibility that Gen and Tony might work together: to me they seemed to be approaching their work from wildly different perspectives. But circumstances can sometimes conspire to completely blow away our cherished, previously-held notions. At the suggestion of filmmaker Marie Losier, who's been working on two separate documentaries about both artists, a concert with Gen and Tony playing together was finally organized.And this is more or less how these two very unique artists were brought together, along with Edley O'Dowd on percussion, for a concert at Issue Project Room in January 2009 and for the one you can access here on the Free Music Archive. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. -Fabio (WFMU Playlist & Archive for Strength Through Failure, April 1st 2010) [F.R./R.J.H.]
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Recently a colleague from IT who is working with us on our patient-centered medical home asked me, "when is the rollout date for your patient-centered medical home?"
As we have gone through this process for the past six months, I can definitely answer that there is no one day when this is going to happen. We are not going to close the door one night, turn out the lights, shut down the computers, go home and go to sleep, to return the next morning to a fully formed patient-centered medical home.
Nor, I have discovered, are we going to get there by only taking the dozens, hundreds, thousands, of incremental baby steps towards our goal.
A recasting of the registrars here, a new way to collect data at registration, a new registry for high-risk patients, a new routing slip for our referral specialists.
I know now it is going to have to be a combination of both of these things, incremental tiny changes, and monumental, enormous, phenomenal, transformational changes.
Take for instance the example of our resident/registrar referral process. This project was created by one of our residents to improve the way our high-risk patients get their referrals and follow-up appointments, with a focus on getting people appointments before they leave the practice, including follow-up appointments with their primary care doctor or their team coverage.
This project is near and dear to the central tenets of the patient-centered medical home, catching those high-risk patients, improving continuity of care, and possibly improving our patients' ability to get into the specialist care we want for them.
The current system is challenged and suboptimal, because our referrals go to a large electronic task list to be worked on long after the patient leaves. Patients end up receiving a notice in the mail recommending they call some phone number to schedule their own appointments. You can imagine how patients with complex medical issues may be challenged maneuvering the system of appointments, and we've discovered they make it to very few of the referrals we will send them to.
Streamlining this process — by doing today's work today and having a specific team-associated registrar there to get the patient follow-up appointments made at the time of their office visit — will undoubtedly improve patient care. Although it does not ensure that they get there to those appointments (that is another project, where our care coordinators will contact them to assist them with actually getting to appointments), this will be a good start.
Our goal is to have this resident project, and the change that it will bring about in our processes of care, become integrated into our daily workflow, and seamlessly added to our electronic health record.
Until we are able to fully implement this, however, we are reverting to an old pen-and-paper solution. Bright yellow paper sheets are being printed up with the information the residents want conveyed to the registrars for our high-risk patients. They will bring these to the team registrar at the end of the visit to schedule follow-up appointments and referrals.
These forms will be collected by the registrars, collated at the end of the week, and the data will be entered by hand into an old-fashioned spreadsheet.
Someday this information will automatically be collected from the electronic health record as the patient goes through the process of their visit. Inclusion in the high-risk patient registry will automatically send their referrals and follow-up appointment requests to their team registrar, and by the time the patient arrives at the front desk for check out this information will be processed. But those days are not here yet, and IT is way behind, buried under an avalanche of high-priority projects.
And yet this is one of those baby steps. This is one tiny little cog in the enormous patient-centered medical home build process. These small changes add up to big changes, and big changes lead to transformation.
The big change comes from above. Engaging leadership, at both the medical college and the hospital level, and ongoing meetings to focus on our progress, will ensure that this transformational change can occur one step at a time, and many steps all together.
Fred N. Pelzman is an associate professor of medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital and associate director, Weill Cornell Internal Medicine Associates, New York City, NY. He blogs at Building the Patient-Centered Medical Home.


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Vogondy takes stage at Critérium du Dauphiné, RadioShack's Janez Brajkovic keeps lead
Vogondy takes stage at Dauphiné, Brajkovic keeps lead
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Local officials hope that the twisting, 12.8km climb to the Risoul ski area in the French Alps could someday host a Tour de France stage.
If Thursday's attack-laden 210km fourth stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné is any indication, the Risoul climb seems Tour-worthy.
Nicolas Vogondy (BBox Bouygues) surged out of an elite dozen with less than 2km to go to claim the stage victory while Janez Brajkovic (RadioShack) fended off attacks from Denis Menchov (Rabobank) and Alberto Contador (Astana) to defend his leader's jersey.
"My sport director said to attack with 2km to go, you have nothing to lose," said Vogondy, who overcame arrhythmia to return to racing this spring. "I looked back and I had a nice gap. Perhaps the others were watching each other."
Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) didn't quite have the spring to follow when the late-stage attacks came, but limited his losses to cross the line 15th at 40 seconds back. David Millar (Garmin-Transitions) dipped to fourth, so Van Garderen climbed into second overall at 1:15 back, ceding only 25 seconds to Brajkovic.
"I didn't have the legs to follow the attacks. I just wanted to go at my own rhythm and lose as little time as possible," Van Garderen told VeloNews. "With the headwind all day and the uphill, it was over six hours, it was just brutal. Maybe tomorrow the snap will come back in my legs. Maybe I was a little blocked after the TT. Instead of just motoring along, hopefully tomorrow I can find a little snap in my legs and I can follow the moves."
Danny Pate (Garmin-Transitions) featured in the day's main breakaway, joining Austrian climber Stephan Denifl (Cervélo) to try their luck.
The pair battled gamely against strong headwinds, but Pate knew that the numbers were stacked against them. Despite opening a gap of 10 minutes, the pair hit the base of the Risoul climb with just under three minutes on the main pack.
With the big guns attacking from behind, Pate knew that wouldn't be enough. Denifl hung on until 2.5km to go, but Pate gave up the chase early, crossing the line 94th at 10:29 back.
"Everyone wants to have someone in the break. There were a couple of groups of 15 going early, so it was important to be there. Then I just ended up with one guy. No one anticipated that much headwind, there was headwind all day, so it was pretty hard for just two guys," Pate told VeloNews. "We were both pretty far down on GC, and with three hard days ahead of us, so we had that going for us. It was too much for two guys to do."
Pate in escape
Garmin-Transitions was intent on putting a man into a breakaway. Johan Van Sumeren went early before Pate jumped at about 30km, with Denifl hitching a ride. The pair quickly built up a big, 10-minute gap before RadioShack put a few men on the front to tighten the leash.
The pair made steady progress against gusty headwinds blowing down the Durance valley. They passed through Gap and Embrun, with a five-minute gap with 30km to go, but Pate knew the numbers were stacked against them.
Pate and Denifl hit the base of the 12.8km climb with just under a three-minute gap on the hard-chasing bunch. Rabobank and Liquigas helped RadioShack reduce the difference and then Sky's John Augustyn went to the front on the lower reaches of the climb.
Pate lost the Denifl's wheel and the lean Austrian played his chances for a stage victory with a two-minute gap with 10km to go.
"We both knew that we needed a lot of time coming into it, so we rode really hard to the bottom of the climb. We didn't have that much time (about three minutes). He was a little better than I was, he had a good ride," he said. "Rabobank and Liquigas were interested there in there, so it might not have mattered how many guys were there."
Up the Risoul
The attacks from stage-hunters came fast and hard out of the main group as the GC men eyed each other on the lower flanks. Laurent Lefevere (BBox Bouygues), Ivan Santaromita (Liquigas) and Branislau Samoilau (Quick Step) bolted out of the GC group as RadioShack's Chris Horner set tempo on the climb.
Riding with his jersey completely unzipped, Horner set a steady tempo up the lower part of long, twisting climb to the Risoul ski area, perched high overlooking the Durance valley.
Horner's pace kept a lid on the aggression until Christophe LeMevel (FDJeux) tried his luck with about 8km to go, scooting past Santaromita and making progress toward Denifl.
"We are very happy with the work that Horner and Lequatre did today," said RadioShack sport director Alain Gallopin. "Jani was able to stay with Contador today, and that's never an easy thing to do, so we are very content. We know this will be a very difficult race to win. We shall see what develops tomorrow."
Egoi Martínez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) shot out with about 7.5km, quickly catching Le Mevel and the fading Pate, while Horner kept setting a high pace to neutralize the earlier attacks. Lefevere was working about 1min behind Denifl.
Just as Martínez was caught with about 5km to go, his Euskaltel teammate Ivan Velasco shot clear.
Menchov (who started 8th at 2:49 back) paid back his Rabobank teammate's work with a strong acceleration with 4.5km. Horner's work was done and Astana surged to the front of the quickly reducing GC group. Brakjovic was holding on, but things were quickly tightening.
Denifl finally succumbed to the Menchov surge with 2.3km to just as Contador spring to life with 2.2km to go, a move that put Millar and Van Garderen into trouble. Brajkovic was able to follow as a group of 12 riders regrouped with 2km to go.
"I was expecting some attacks, but no one went, so I finally decided to go. I attacked to make a test, but the plan here remains the same. It was a hard stage, with a lot of wind, heat and six hours in the saddle," Contador said. "I'm going to see what happens tomorrow and see how it goes. If I am good, OK, if I am not, then that's OK, too. The objective remains the same – to be ready for the Tour de France."
Vogondy jumped with about 1.5km to go, followed by Basque sensation Romain Sicard (Euskaltel-Euskadi). Vogondy hung on to win, 12 seconds ahead of Sicard, who notched his best result of the season for the Tour de l'Avenir champion.
Brajkovic crossed the line third at 15 seconds back, just ahead of Contador, and widened his lead to 1:15, with Van Garderen slotting into second. Contador climbed to third at 1:41 back and Millar dipped to fourth at 1:56 back.
Friday's stage
The 62nd Dauphiné continues Friday with the short, but potentially explosive 143.5km fifth stage from Serre-Chevalier to Grenoble.
The route opens with the Cat. 2 Col du Lautaret at 15.5km before a long descent to Le Bourg d'Oisans. After passing through Vizille, the course turns onto the HC Chamrousse climb (17.5km at 7.5%). The climb tops out with 31km to go, from there, it's all downhill to the finish in downtown Grenoble.
Race notes
- Contador content: Alberto Contador is taking a philosophical approach to this Dauphiné. For the two-time Tour winner, the road to July goes through the Dauphiné, but the finish line he's most worried about comes on the Champs-Élysées. Contador said he was pleased to see Astana teammates Paolo Tiralongo, Jésus Hernández and Dani Navarro pulling near the end of the Risoul climb: "I am satisfied with how the team worked today, especially on the final climb. We have to get the mentality of the Tour in our heads. There's not better way than to make a test like today," Contador said. "The team was very motivated. They could have pulled even harder, but I told them not to."
- Five less: Jean-Christophe Peraud (Omega Pharma-Lotto), who crashed in Wednesday's TT, did not start. Bert Grabsch (HTC-Columbia), Joaquin Novoa (Cervélo) and Thomas Fothen and Markus Eichler (both Milram) did not finish. Former Tour de France KOM winner Mauricio Soler (Caisse d'Epargne) also pulled out of Thursday's stage and he's hoping to save his Tour de France hopes by seeking treatment for a knee injury he sustained earlier in the week. 161 riders remain in the race.
- Stetina 24th: Peter Stetina (Garmin-Transitions) rode well up the Risoul summit, crossing the line 24th at 1:01 back. The Coloradan is 28th overall at 5:58 back, and will be moving up the GC ladder if he continues climbing well with three hard stages to go.
Quick results:
- 1. Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Telecom in 6:03:25
- 2. Romain Sicard Euskaltel – Euskadi, at 0:06
- 3. Janez Brajkovic Team Radioshack, at 00:15
- 4. Alberto Contador Astana, at 00:15
- 5. Reine Taaramae Cofidis Le Credit En Ligne, at 00:18
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- 15. Tejay Van Garderen Team HTC – Columbia, at 00:40
- 1. Janez Brajkovic Team RadioShack in 16:25:44
- 2. Tejay Van Garderen Team HTC-Columbia, at 1:15
- 3. Alberto Contador Astana, at 01:41
- 4. David Millar Garmin – Transitions, at 01:56
- 5. Nicolas Vogondy Bbox Bouygues Telecom, at 02:43