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The Observer
August 28, 2005
'I'm not good at playing the game'
By Rachel Cooke
Gillian Anderson has made no secret of her dislike for the paparazzi, so why did she marry a journalist, asks Rachel Cooke. And why does this American love England so?
It tells you quite a lot about Gillian Anderson that she is conducting interviews to promote her latest movie in the crepuscular Bloomsbury offices of a film publicity company. Even to my weary eyes, they seem depressing, all dirty woodchip and trailing cables that lead who knows where. In the loo are damp blue towels; on the wall are laminated signs reminding employees to turn off the lights. What I want to know is: where are the coffee and croissants? Where is the giant, flat-screen TV permanently tuned to Sky? Call this a film junket? Anderson lurks in a vast room with grubby skirting boards; it has bad light, a single bulb emitting a yellow gloom of a kind that would make even Marilyn Monroe look liverish. A make-up artist is leaving and I wonder how she coped. Perhaps she keeps a miner's helmet among her brushes and powder; either that, or she made Anderson stand at the window, gazing at the driving rain.
None of this seems to bother Anderson. She never enjoys being made up, or having her picture taken, so the room's sallow aspect is, to be frank, neither here nor there. In fact, I get the impression that she finds it pleasingly ironic. In the years since she left the television show that made her so very famous (its sci-fi element meant that nerds took her to heart - and nerds make more scary fans than your average autograph hunter), she has done everything in her power to put some distance between herself and her old life. Refusing to be typecast, she chooses roles carefully, the more grungy or difficult, the better. Keen not to relinquish her hold on what passes for normal life, she has said goodbye to Los Angeles, with its agents, early nights and kidney-shaped pools, and hello to Notting Hill, with its estate agents, late nights and - let's be honest - rather poor outdoor swimming facilities. Most days, she leaves the house without lipstick and no one gives her so much as a second glance. This she regards as progress.
She loves living here, but then, it was her home until she was 11, when her father, who had been attending film school in London, moved the family back to America (afterwards, he worked in video post-production; her mother was in computers). 'It's easier to be myself here,' she says. 'I can go out wearing whatever the hell I want, no matter how ridiculous it looks. If I do that in America, people look at me like I'm insane. There are aspects of the British press which are incredibly intrusive, but then you'll go to a premiere and someone will ask permission to take a photo, and when you say, "That's enough", they'll back off. In the States, you go to a restaurant and there are people lined up outside with eight-by-10s of you. Or they just follow you with a video camera. I had someone deliberately rear-end my car a few years ago in LA, and there was a video camera: they were videoing my reaction.' And what was her reaction? 'Luckily, I was in a good mood.'
Did she feel under pressure to be groomed? 'I often showed up ungroomed. It didn't occur to me. Then I'd end up at a premiere and I'd think, what are you doing? I remember being at a restaurant with a famous British actress. I knew there were paparazzi outside. My intention was to make a beeline for the car. But then, as we were walking outside, she applied lipstick. I thought, what is she doing? But her public image is very glamorous. It's a different mindset.' The way Anderson talks, it is as if fame is an addiction, one she managed to avoid even though the drug was widely available to her and she was surrounded by addicts.
'I think it can be addictive. But something happens in my stomach if something feels disingenuous, whether it's a charity event that's just too glitzy or a person I'm having an interview with who doesn't seem genuine. I get such an awful feeling, like I'm betraying myself. I will do anything to stay away from that kind of situation. For some people, that's a good feeling - or they play the game better. But I'm not good at it - I don't particularly want to be - and so I don't; and because I don't, that has enabled me to maintain a certain level of sanity.' She pauses. 'Actually, I would never really claim sanity, to be honest with you.' Another pause. 'But I put on a good front.'
In person, Anderson is a surprise. I guess lots of people know by now that she is not, unlike Dana Scully, a redhead (they dyed her hair for The X-Files), but still, the blonde locks, also dyed, were news to me. She is short - 5ft 3in - and small-boned, warm and quite funny, in a batty way. She used to be quite difficult in interviews: prickly, reticent, the usual. In part, I suppose, this chatty demeanour is a natural concomitant of her new life. These days, it is her duty to talk because she is either plugging plays (she has done two in London, to mixed reviews) or small, independent films that need good box office, in this case, The Mighty Celt, a sweet picture about dog racing and the Troubles (her Irish accent is brilliant and she is convincing as a council-estate single mother). Then again, perhaps it also has to do with the fact that she is now sleeping with the enemy; Anderson's new husband is a journalist.
She and Julian Ozanne, a Kenyan-born, former foreign correspondent and now documentary maker, married last December on Shella Island off the coast of Kenya. Doesn't she think it's funny that he's a journalist? 'The only time I ever thought, "Dammit" was when I was really pissed off about something [that had been written], and he was more sympathetic to the journalist,' she says. 'I have never thought of him as a journalist - he was covering war zones [for the Financial Times]; that's completely different.' She rolls her eyes. 'Though there was somebody outside our house waiting in a car. I went ballistic about it, and he just said, "It's what they have to do. Don't get so upset about it." Then he went out to talk to them in a very calm way.'
Anderson met Ozanne in 2002, at a dinner party hosted by a mutual friend. 'He was sitting next to me. At the time, I wasn't drinking or smoking, no wheat or dairy or any of that kind of stuff, and he was a journalist living life to the full.'
So you were his idea of a total Hollywood freak? 'Exactly. And I thought he was obnoxious, large living. Then, after that, we'd see each other around London, and those opinions of each other continued until one day... there was this fondness that developed into something else entirely. We went to see a play and we spent the entire time talking about how happy we were to be single. It was genuine on both our parts. I'd never been single for so long and I was so happy. But I think that's when people are most attractive. Men have never approached me - I think they're really afraid of me - but when I was single, they all came out of the woodwork. I felt bright, light and positive. It's something everyone should strive for at some point, because then you will know that if a relationship ends, you will be totally OK in the end; that you can be happy by yourself.'
Anderson had a difficult adolescence (she was unhappy in all the ordinary ways, but she seems to have felt it more viscerally than most), during which she became a punk and glued shut the door of her high school. In Grand Rapids, Michigan, her English accent meant she felt out of place; she began seeing a therapist at 14. When she landed her role in The X-Files, a 24-year-old unknown, she nearly messed the whole thing up by marrying a production designer, Clyde Klotz, and then swiftly falling pregnant (on screen, her bump was covered with lab coats, then she was 'kidnapped'). Later, but not much later, she and Klotz divorced.
She is painfully aware of the precariousness of contentment. In the past, she has referred to herself as a survivor. Now, she says: 'My tendency is towards the opposite of health and taking care of myself. My natural tendency is destructive. In order not to act on that, I have to be careful. The minute I don't feel like that, if I let down my guard, I'm in trouble.'
Does she fear another divorce? 'We have a wonderful life, but one never knows. You can hope, but the minute you start to attach too much importance to something, you're stuck in the situation of feeling: what would I do without it? As long as I give as much as I possibly can, whether it's five years, or 50 ... ' Her voice trails off.
When she moved to London, her 11-year-old daughter, Piper, stayed with Klotz in Vancouver; recently, however, she has moved to London. Anderson is straightforward about the old arrangement. 'It was healthy for her to be in one place. She had so much family there on her father's side, and friends. I said, "I'll be the traveller, I'm in a position to do that." But we were just winging it, really.'
Does Piper understand the nature of her mother's fame? 'For years, she didn't, even though she was on set for the series; she didn't get that that's not what everyone's parents do. It wasn't until I took her on a Harry Potter set - she was fascinated - that it meant something. She is incredibly well-adjusted. Sometimes, she does get impressed - if I know someone in a movie she likes. But that's just a natural stage. At some point, most kids have posters up.'
She has no qualms about life in London. 'It is unfortunate that this [the terrorist attacks] happened right when my daughter was coming here. But this is where we have decided to make our home, and I'm one of those people who don't like to act on fear, whether it's in my work or my personal life. Something might happen, but acting on that would feel like giving in, somehow.'
In any case, she has no desire to be in America; if she hadn't been here already, she would certainly have moved after Bush was re-elected. 'I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.' For this reason, she relishes our overtly critical press, for all that it used to send its photographers to stand outside her house.
I cannot ever see her going back to Hollywood. She sounds British and she acts British, plus, at 37, she dislikes the idea of cosmetic surgery which means that the kind of work she is currently pursuing - she is in Michael Winterbottom's version of Tristram Shandy, and will soon be seen as Lady Deadlock in Andrew Davies's pacey new adaptation of Bleak House for the BBC - will serve her far better than, say, romantic comedies in the long run. Would she ever go back into an X-Files type show?
'Part of me would love to be in a position to pick and choose, but part of me knows there is a price. I want to live between here and Africa and I don't want to be in a situation where I can't walk out of the door because of the paparazzi.'
Not all actors mean it when they say this kind of thing, but I think she just might. As for her loyal nerds, she is tolerant - up to a point. In a recent message on her website, she puts it this way: 'Guys ... get some sleep!'


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Last October, a surgeon in Brooklyn used one of the clips to tie off Michael King's renal artery when he donated a kidney to his ailing wife. Twelve hours later, the clip popped off. King bled to death internally in the hospital as his wife lay helplessly nearby. He was 29.
Experts say such deaths are the result of a major weakness in the nation's system for recalling thousands of medical devices routinely implanted in people's bodies, ranging from screws and plates to artificial knees and hips.
"There is no system for being informed of what the problems are with the products you have in your body. Even your physician may not know," said Terry Fadem, president of the Biomedical Research and Education Foundation in Philadelphia.
Unlike the auto industry, medical equipment makers have no centralized system for tracking products throughout their life span. That means in some instances, manufacturers do not have an easy way of knowing where problematic devices are or which patients got them.
Meanwhile, the number of items implanted in people's bodies is soaring, as is the number of recalls. Nearly 2,500 medical devices were recalled for potential safety problems in fiscal 2008, according to the Food and Drug Administration. That was nearly double the number reported the previous year and a 164 percent increase since 2000.
In 2006 alone, surgeons implanted a million hip and knee replacements, according to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. That number is expected to quadruple by 2030.
Fadem's foundation and other groups have been pushing for years for better tracking of devices, hoping to create something like the patient registries used in Sweden, England and Australia to keep tabs on artificial joints.
Health care reform legislation being considered in Congress includes a proposal to set up the nation's first comprehensive medical device registry. Doctors say its primary use would be to uncover safety problems, but it could also be used to locate patients quickly during a recall.
The FDA currently requires comprehensive tracking of only 14 types of devices, including pacemakers, mechanical heart valves and breast implants. The agency says it is working toward better registration and tracking of other devices.
Manufacturers trace many other medical products only as far as the distributor. Finding them again is not always easy, particularly after they have been implanted into someone's body. Hospitals record the model and lot numbers of implants, but that information is often buried deep in billing records or operating-room log books.
Manufacturers send out thousands of letters announcing recalls, and the FDA puts the information on the Web, but the warnings sometimes go unnoticed.
More than 1,000 such recall notices were sent out in the first seven months of 2009 involving devices such as tracheal tubes, catheters, pacemakers, prosthetic hips, screws, pain pumps and pieces of artificial spine. More than 100 were ranked as "Class 1" recalls by the FDA, which involve a defect serious enough to create a "reasonable probability of adverse health consequences or death."
"Trying to get all that product out of the market is a real effort," said Tim Ulatowski, director of compliance for the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Dr. Bruce Moskowitz, chairman of the research foundation and an internist in Palm Beach, Fla., said he got a recall notice in February warning about external defibrillators, the paddles doctors use to shock a heart that has stopped beating. The defibrillators had a remote chance of blowing a fuse, delivering a low shock or shutting down in the cold.
The letter included a list of thousands of serial numbers, each representing a flawed device, but no information on who might have bought them or where.
"I couldn't do anything with it," he said. "So they are still out there."
Another patient, Richard Stone, 49, of Palm Beach, Fla., languished for months with undiagnosed pain in his artificial hip before doctors discovered that a piece of metal on the prosthetic had snapped and was scraping out the inside of his femur.
"I couldn't move at all," he said. "Even when I would move an inch, it would send a shock through my entire body."
Doctors later realized that that several batches of the same hip system - though not the one in Stone's body - had been recalled eight months earlier because of similar reports of breakage.
Stone said that if a registry had been in place, the problem might have been diagnosed sooner, saving him nine months of excruciating pain. He is now suing the manufacturer of the hip and a Florida pain clinic that treated him.
A lawyer for the King family, Jeff Korek, said that in Michael King's case, the hospital had received a registered letter about the Hem-o-lok recall from the manufacturer, Teleflex Inc. He said it was unclear why the alert was not acted upon. The family is suing the hospital, SUNY Downstate Medical Center and the surgeon.
Teleflex Medical said in a statement that it complied with all FDA regulations by notifying medical centers in writing that the clip, while fine for other types of surgery, should not be used to tie off the renal artery on living kidney donors.
Some potential solutions are in the works.
The FDA has been laying the groundwork for a registry of patients with artificial joints, which are more prone to breakage than other types of implants and are also experiencing a huge surge in use. The agency is also working on a system that would make tracking easier by associating each medical device with a unique ID number.
Thomas Gross, director of post-market surveillance for the FDA's Center for Devices, said the agency has been in talks with the industry on both projects for more than a year and is making progress.
He said the issue has gained "momentum" both in the agency and the industry, and that the FDA's new commissioner, Margaret Hamburg, is "putting a priority on post-market safety."
Jeff Secunda, a vice president of regulatory affairs at AdvaMed, an association that represents medical device companies, said the new ID system being developed by the FDA could be "the answer to everyone's problem" if combined with better electronic health records.
AdvaMed has been more critical of the proposal for a national medical device registry, saying it would be too costly and require doctors to gather information on products unlikely to pose a safety hazard.
Secunda said incidents in which patients have been hurt because of difficulty with a recall are extremely rare.
Yet mistakes do happen.
Premier Inc., an alliance of 2,200 U.S. hospitals, said it examined one recent recall and found that even after a device with a potentially dangerous flaw was pulled from the market, doctors at more than 40 hospitals implanted it in at least 50 patients.
"This is not just an issue in the United States. This is an issue across the globe," said the group's chief information officer, Joe Pleasant.
Not content to wait for government action, some medical organizations have been trying to develop tracking programs on their own.
The Kaiser Permanente health system in California has a registry keeping tabs on 75,000 artificial joints. It also gives doctors valuable information on how often they break down.
"Within 24 hours, we get a printout, by patient and by doctor, of who has those implants," said Dr. Thomas Barber, an orthopedic surgeon, associate physician in chief of the Oakland Medical Center and a board member at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
Without that system, he said, hospitals can have a much tougher time. Many, he said, still keep track of implants using a system involving stickers, provided by the manufacturers, pasted into the pages of operating room log books.
"When there is a recall, hospitals have to manually go through the implant log by hand," he said.
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons established a nonprofit organization in June with the goal of building a national joint implant registry similar to the Kaiser Permanente system.
The research foundation in Philadelphia launched a device registry last spring geared toward patients. Any person can sign up for free to automatically get e-mails about potential safety issues with their implant.
For King's still-distraught widow, ShellyAnn King, any reforms will come too late.
The 31-year-old New Yorker had wanted a new kidney so she could get off dialysis and eventually have a baby with her husband.
Thanks to her husband's sacrifice, she is healthy now, but she said every day is "torment and torture."
"I don't want any family to go through what we're going through," she said. "I don't want another husband or wife to feel this unnecessary grief. It should have been prevented."
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Back and burnt
Oh, and my computer is back, as well. My brother-in-law did an "archive and install" through his laptop via Firewire and was able to install Tiger without a hitch. Big thanks to the helpful readers who offered some Mac assistance in this matter. It's good to know that there are others out there who are more than willing to help a fellow blogger out. Many thanks, guys.
I'm digging Tiger, as I was able to fix all the odd problems I had with my Powerbook G4 before the upgrade. Practically all my previous problems were completely password- and keychain-related: couldn't utilize Fast-User Switching, had to enter every password for every email account (Andrea and I have three) for Mail (if you're a Mac Mail user, you know just how frustrating that could be), couldn't access https (security) pages in Safari, and other small-ish glitches. So, yay! Everything is fixed and running smoothly, right? Wrong. Whenever my computer goes into "sleep" mode after inactivity, I loose my wireless connection and have to restart to get it back up again! I've tried several things, but nothing seems to work. But I'm not too worried. One thing I've noticed about being a computer user is that with every glitch I encounter, there are hundreds out there who have experienced the same thing I have. More than likely there is a solution to this quirk, and so I'm not too worried about it. I think.
Now that I'm getting settled back in, I'll be posting some great stuff coming up soon. And I promise to make it up to you all for missing out on an Ava Thursday. I hate that I skipped a week. Very sorry about that.
So, anyway -- have a great Memorial Day!
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glad you're back; sorry you're burnt. missed both yours and andrea's posts. sounds like you had a good week. i look forward to your great posts!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 30, 2005 9:31 PM
I had a similar problem when I first set up my wireless network -- the connection would fail when the laptop went to sleep, and I would have to restart to reconnect. At least, that's what I thought was happening, until I noticed that after I took a phone call on my cordless phone, my wireless connection would crap out. I discovered that the cordless phone and the wireless were both 2.4GHz pieces of hardware, and were conflicting heavily. I upgraded the phone, and problem solved. I realize that this does nothing to help you out. I have no excuse.ReplyDelete
Glad your back and that your computer is mostly operational again. We definitely missed you and Ava's Thursday.ReplyDelete
Might be as simple as your energy settings, in your System Prefs but you've probably already checked on that one right?ReplyDelete
Actually, I had not checked on the Energy settings, but it doesn't matter now, as everything seems to be working just fine now. It does do a quick fade out once I wake the Powerbook up, or open the cover, but it then quickly recovers. Thanks for the heads up, though.ReplyDelete
And lora, it's good to be back, but I sure do miss the beach and sun....
Yes it's good to know people are willing to help, it's even better to know that people will be thanked for doing so...ReplyDelete
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Wednesday, November 18, 2015
Jonathan Adler Designs a Collection for Moto X Pure Edition and Shares His Holiday Gifting Tips
The collection will be available for pre-order at Motorola.com/JonathanAdler beginning November 24, and will officially go on sale December 3 for $474.99 (32GB). To help round out the rest of your shopping list, we asked Jonathan to share his top holiday gifting tips for the style-obsessed friends and family in your life.
Hey Moto fans, it's Jonathan Adler here! I'm excited to be collaborating with Motorola. Like them, when I approach design, I encourage self-expression and ignoring the "rules" - and, I'm obsessed with my phone. So, why not embrace more choice when it comes to phone design? We all deserve phones as stylish as we are.
I'm sure many of you are thinking about your holiday gifting, so here are my tips for selecting the perfect gift for the design lover in your life.
- Make it Personal: Give a gift that appeals to everyone's favorite person: themselves. Even the least vain person in your orbit won't say no to a cozy baby Alpaca throw with their initials on it. Soft, squishy and luxurious -– what could be better?
- Think Outside the Gift Box: One of the best gifts I give myself every year is a trip to Capri each summer. If you're gifting a trip, try to find a little something for the recipient to open in advance – our Jet Set candles are available in squillions of scents and locales and provide an olfactory preview of your trip.
- Be Unexpected: I think good gifts are any combination of the following: super thoughtful, super premium or super unique. I love the idea of taking something utilitarian that you use every day and jazzing it up – just like I did with my new designs for Moto X Pure Edition. If it's going to be in your hand 24/7, might as well make it chic and unique.
- Bow & Go: I strive to make products with packaging that's as beautiful as what's inside. Just bow and go; when you're not spending an eternity wrapping it, you'll have more time to devour the hors d'oeuvres at a holiday party.
- Give Good Game: I love to give games, and not just because I'm a super competitive person. If the conversation ever starts to lag at a holiday party you can just whip out a game and vanquish your boring seat mate at a round of backgammon.
Happy shopping!
Jonathan Adler
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Monday, November 16, 2015
Ashton Kutcher Explores How Far You'd Go for #PhoneLove
They say love makes you do crazy things -- particularly when it comes to your smartphone.
Think about all the instances when you've placed your phone's needs before your own -- the times you've found yourself crawling on dirty floors looking for an outlet to charge from, jumping out of bed in the middle of the night because your phone rings or chimes, or sticking your hand in a toilet because it slipped out of your pocket at precisely the wrong time. We sleep with them, eat with them, even shower with them. And do we need to mention the heartbreak felt when they're dead, lost or worse, shattered by an accidental drop?
#PhoneLove is the intense and many times irrational relationships people have with their smartphones.
This isn't bad, it's simply true. To prove it, Ashton Kutcher conducted a series of real-world social experiments to see what happens when people are forced to choose between themselves and their phones. The purpose of these experiments is simple: to prove that people care about their phones more than they realize, but those phones aren't always loving them back.
Check out people being put to the test to see just how long they can go without touching their phones in this first #PhoneLove experiment:
At Moto, we believe you deserve a better mobile relationship with your phone. One that is reciprocal and two way. Unobtrusive, yet intuitive. Supportive, but not co-dependent. Where all the care and devotion you show is returned.
We'll continue to share Ashton's #PhoneLove experiments in the coming weeks to test this theory further. In the meantime, we want to hear about your cases of #PhoneLove on social! For better or for worse.
Explore #PhoneLove.
Explore #PhoneLove.
Saturday, November 14, 2015
Start Up with 'Stitch': The Making of Motorola's New Bootanimation
At Motorola, we design our smartphones and smartwatches to not only look and work great, but also feel great to the touch. Whether it's the choice of a real wood grain or genuine Horween leather backs available across our Moto X line, or the various sizes and watchbands designed to fit all types of wrists on our Moto 360s, we always strive to deliver a user experience that's uniquely tangible.
So when it came time to develop a new startup animation -- the animated Motorola logo that appears on your display when you turn your phone on -- we approached renowned product designer Peter Crawley, best known for his "Stitched Illustrations," in which he hand-pierces paper with a pin, and then stitches it with a needle and cotton thread, resulting in pieces of art that you can almost feel just by looking at them. This felt like a perfect match with our innovative design spirit at Motorola.
"I knew from the start that I wanted the finished piece to have a real tactile feel to it -- for the customer to be able to see the texture and natural qualities of the paper and thread," Crawley explains. "We played a lot with the existing Motorola color palettes, but felt that the blues and yellow used would not only work best with the screens but also really highlight the textures of the natural materials. The paper stock is sourced from a traditional English paper mill and is usually used for watercolor paintings, but it had such a great texture that is acts as a rich canvas for my work, too."
So how does a primarily visual artist make the jump into digital animation? Check out the video below to get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of our new "Stitch" boot-up.
"It was the first time I had worked on an animation of this type, but the animation team was very experienced in this space and did a fantastic job in pulling together the concept and making the final piece exactly what we envisaged," adds Crawley. "Seeing my work come to life in this way is really rewarding, but knowing it will be in people's hands all over the world is absolutely amazing."
Look for "Stitch" on your Motorola device soon. For details on when upgrades will be coming to you, please refer to our software upgrade page for the latest and specifics by country, or follow G+ posts of our release announcements.
Today, it's starting to roll out on the retail 2015 Moto X Style (3rd Gen) in both Brazil and India, and on the retail 2014 Moto X (2nd Gen) in Brazil retail.Moodle
Hand stitched Illustration: Peter Crawley
Director: Lewis Kyle White
Creative Director: Chris Claire - Motorola
Animator Hands: Cadi Catlow
DOP: Phil Sills
Producer: Juliette S Dalton
Runner: Lou Marcellin
Studio assistant: Ian Stuart
Production: 2diceproductionz
Making of
Film, Directed, DOP, Produced and Edit: Juliette S Dalton - 2diceproductionz
Making of Music: Dan Truen
Juliette S Dalton - 2diceproductionz
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Motorolans Give Back to Chicago
Motorolans are dedicated to solving problems that improve people's lives, whether it's through the mobile devices we create or through giving back to the communities where we live and work. In that spirit, today 300 Motorolans are giving back to the community through Motoserve, our annual day of service at Motorola Mobility's global headquarters in Chicago.
The Motorola Mobility Foundation -- Motorola's charitable and philanthropic arm -- has partnered with Chicago Cares for the second year in a row to try to make a difference in some of the city's under-resourced neighborhoods through hands-on service. Motorolans are providing lunch to needy senior citizens, beautifying schools and community spaces with murals and fresh paint, and acknowledging the service and sacrifice of our nation's veterans with transition and aid kits.
We're proud that Motorolans are providing their time and talent in the community today. Some of the specific ways that our volunteer teams are making a difference are:
- Humboldt Park - Casa Central: Hosting a Kids Olympics, organizing a Casino Day and adding a fresh coat of paint to the Auditorium, a room that is in use nearly every day of the year.
- Back of the Yards - Hedges Elementary: Creating colorful mosaics, painting classrooms, and constructing bookcases in an effort to beautify the school for students and staff.
- Near West Side - Hope Institute: Giving the school a fresh look by painting the cafeteria and creating four colorful murals throughout the hallways.
- Bronzeville - Lincoln Perry Apartments: Spending quality time with senior residents while cooking and serving a meal, playing Bingo and making fleece blankets.
- Merchandise Mart - Motorola Mobility: Assembling 350 Welcome Home Kits for Veterans and Active Service Members to thank them for their service and help them set-up their new homes. Collecting, sorting and packaging close to 1500 hats and gloves that will keep Chicago's children, adults and seniors warm this winter.
Today's activities are part of a year-round series of volunteer programs offered by the Motorola Mobility Foundation to Motorola's employees. The Foundation's mission is to catalyze the innovative use of technology to improve lives and communities. It does this by leveraging employee expertise and talent, providing funding, and partnering with nonprofits, learning institutions, startups, government, corporate and civic organizations.
Click here to learn more about the Motorola Mobility Foundation.
Wednesday, November 04, 2015
Moto Shop: Chicagoans get an Experiential Retail Shop this Holiday Season
Smartphones and wearables are the most personal accessories we own, and we want to make the shopping experience for Moto devices equally personal.
That's why we're introducing Moto Shop: the first-ever Motorola experiential boutique in the heart of downtown Chicago -- our hometown. We'll open on Saturday, November 7, just in time for your holiday shopping.
Looking at products online can be fun, but nothing compares to experiencing them in person, especially when it comes to your smartphone or smartwatch. But don't expect phones on display outlining technical specs -- Moto Shop is a hands-on, interactive environment with dedicated areas that bring to life our marquee products and device features.
Here's a peek at what you can expect when Moto Shop opens:
We're transforming Moto Maker from an online design studio to a mini workshop where you can get hands-on with genuine leathers, real woods and a broad-ranging color palette to build a custom Moto X Pure Edition. The possibilities are (almost) endless.
The Moto 360 boutique offers personalized smartwatch shopping. Nearly all the Moto Maker customization options are on display, so you can try them on and build a watch that reflects your unique style.
Get photographed on our Moto Shoot set with the Moto X Pure Edition's top-rated 21 megapixel camera. You'll never want to use another camera again.
And finally, we couldn't build Moto Shop without letting shoppers put the world's first shatterproof phone to the test in the Drop Zone. See Moto ShatterShield in action as the Droid Turbo 2 plummets from your hands onto slabs of concrete, ceramic and tile and never worry about dropping your phone again.
Come meet us in person on opening day, November 7, or for our grand opening celebration on November 14. We'd love to help you cross a few items off of your holiday gift list. Moto Shop is located at 108 N. State St. (Suite 140 at Block 37) and will be open 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday.
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Gooney Bird Greene
Rating: 8.9 / 10 from 13 ratings
Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining "absolutely true" stories.
There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What other new kid comes to school wearing pajamas and cowboy boots one day and a polka-dot t-shirt and tutu on another? Gooney Bird has to sit right smack in the middle of the class because she likes to be in the middle of everything. She is the star of story time and keeps her teacher and classmates on the edge of their seats with her "absolutely true" stories. But what about her classmates? Do they have stories good enough to share?


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Lars Von Trier's 'Nymph()maniac' Is Uncomfortable But Thought-Provoking
For those still brooding over the Woody Allen scandal, consider those of us who are fans of Lars von Trier.
Von Trier is not a 78-year-old comic with a single crime, alleged to have taken place twenty years ago, never proven, and dismissed by law enforcement. He is a complicated, depressed, brilliant, misunderstood, controversial filmmaker who is either an anti-Semite or a quasi-Jewish theologian, either a radical feminist or a misogynist, either an artist or a blowhard.
Not many people will see von Trier's latest film, the two part philosophical/sexual epic, Nymp()maniac, both parts of which are now in limited release. Anyone expecting pornography will be disappointed; while there is plenty of sex and more nudity than I've seen in any non-pornographic film, it's about as un-arousing as a series of medical examinations. And most of those who even hear of the thing will, I suspect, raise their eyebrows and move on.
But Nymph()maniac is a fascinating, flawed artifact. It is a meditation on morality, theology, and whether wanting too much pleasure out of life is a sin. It is also very talky – think of it as My Dinner with Andre with full-frontal nudity.
Ostensibly, Nymph()maniac is the story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who is indeed a nymphomaniac, and who tells her tell to Seligman (Stellan Skaarsgard), a kindly, asexual Jewish intellectual who finds her injured one night and takes her in. In eight chapters – framed, as in much of von Trier's recent work, by interstitial titles – she describes a life of sexual voraciousness, culminating in violence and loss.
As someone whose appetites cannot be sated, Joe binges on everything, and indeed, the laundry list of erotic possibility is here: S/M, group sex, borderline incest, you name it. But she is so anti-sentimental that she feels nothing emotionally, even before her body goes numb physically at the end of Part One. She confesses to Seligman that she is an evil person.
Curiously, Seligman resists, and this conflict – between Joe's sense of herself as fallen, and Seligman's belief that she is not – spans the entire duration of the film. We are left to judge for ourselves.
We are also given, in various degrees of awkwardness, a dozen or so religious allegories for Joe's experience. Her descent from sensual gluttony into self-punishment is analogized by Seligman to the life-affirming Eastern Orthodox Church and the death-centered Western Roman Catholic Church. Sex is like flyfishing. Sex is like polyphony. Sex is like numerology.
It's even like clipping one's fingernails. Right-handed hedonists clip the left hand first, because it's easier – to Joe, this is obvious. Right-handed ascetics clip the right hand first to get the harder work out of the way; this is Seligman's method.
What becomes clear, over the course of Nymph()maniac, is that sex is, for Joe and perhaps for us, about everything, and everything is about sex. Freud's theory of children being polymorphously perverse is invoked late in the film, and it seems to be validated for adults as well. Even the punctuation at the center of the film's title is meant to evoke the female genitalia. Now, if you saw that yourself, does that make you sophisticated or depraved?
In asking these sorts of questions, Nymph()maniac raises all three conundrums about von Trier that I raised a moment ago.
First, there is the question of Judaism. Readers of this publication may recall that, two years ago, von Trier gave yet another absurd, provocative interview in which he said, among other things, "What can I say? I understand Hitler, but I think he did some wrong things, yes, absolutely. … He's not what you would call a good guy, but I understand much about him, and I sympathize with him a little bit. But come on, I'm not for the Second World War, and I'm not against Jews."
This was too much, of course, for the Jewish "watchdogs" that help us sort bigots from the just. We're not allowed to have complicated thoughts about Hitler; we're only allowed to have one thought. So von Trier was roasted, and duly apologized, although he later appeared to recant the apology.
As well he should have. As an intellectual and an artist, of course von Trier wants to try to understand evil; it's what he does in most of his films. He also explained that he'd recently learned his actual father was a German, not the Jewish man he had known as his father. And that he was joking. Or whatever.
The Judaism in Nymph()maniac is far more interesting than identity politics. Seligman is, in part, an anti-Jewish cliché: he is the desensualized, feminized Jewish man who stands apart from life, rather than living it. Only at the very end of the film does he seem to possess a libido, and even then, he explains it as a matter of intellectual curiosity.
Yet Seligman is also the Jew-as-interpreter. Joe provides the text, Seligman the commentary. Whether this deepens or distracts from the narrative is, itself, a question of philosophical disposition. Is life to be interpreted, or sucked dry?
Seligman is also the Jewish moralist – which here brings us to the second of the charges against von Trier: that he is a misogynist.
Certainly, as a writer/director, he depicts endless scenes of women being tormented. Nicole Kidman in Dogville, Emily Watson in Breaking the Waves, Bjork in Dancer in the Dark, and now Gainsbourg all endure brutal violence at the hands of men. (Gainsbourg, at least, was able to turn the tables in von Trier's Antichrist, where she played the title character.) Von Trier is a critic of misogyny who enacts misogyny in his own work.
Nymph()maniac continues in this vein, but in probably the most explicit way yet. At one point, Seligman asks Joe whether she, or society, would judge herself if she were a man trolling for sex on a train, a man leaving his wife because of sexual desire, a man seeking out sexual pleasure. "Gender roles are killing and mutilating you and millions of women," he says.
This is as explicit a feminist statement as we've ever seen in a von Trier film, although it doesn't seem to persuade Joe, who continues to regard herself as evil and in need of reform. (With some justification: she did, after all, abandon her child, violate the trust of a teenager, and take up a life of crime.) And all of von Trier's previous films can indeed be read of harsh critiques of sexism and misogyny.
And yet… there's that niggling sensation that the auteur seems to like putting his women through the paces. Seligman, too, by finally compromising his morality at the end of the film, perhaps gestures to this ambiguity.
So, is all of this philosophical pondering great art, or pretentious hogwash?
This, too, is a matter of opinion. Certainly, Nymph()maniac is difficult viewing, although it also contains a series of scene-steals from Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, and Jamie Bell – interestingly, all stars whose most famous work lies in the past, and thus seem older than we remember – who are each devastating in their episodic appearances. (I'll pass over Shia LaBoeuf here.) Their scenes are over the top, and tours de force.
But they are also a bit cool, because of von Trier's Brechtian distance from them. We watch brutal scenes of (respectively) a mother unhinged, a father with dementia, and a sadist in action – all through Joe's jaded and emotionless eyes. At times, Nymph()maniac can feel more like a concept paper than a realized film, with its stilted philosophizing and weirdly-off accents – the film seems to take place in London, but it was filmed in Belgium with a multinational cast, and seems instead to be set in some vague 'Europe.' Even for those who get past the many images of vaginas and erect penises, Nymph()maniac can feel, oddly, like a bore.
Not for me, though. From my perspective, any film that makes me think this much is worth two (or four) hours of my time. Nymph()maniac caused me to reflect on my own life, and how much I, like Joe, might "ask more of the sunset." And how I, like her, may view it as sin or salvation.


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The F1 world is waiting to discover whether Honda's team will make it onto the grid next year.
Becken has unearthed an interesting detail potentially revealing the name of the new team as Brawn Racing:
There?������s an interesting history regarding an internet domain registered by a lawyer named Caroline McGrory (former BAR employee!). She taken two names:
BRAWNRACING.COM and BRAWNRACING.CO.UK
Here, the data concerning the domain register:
Registrant: Caroline McGrory
28 The Hall Close
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Domain name: brawnracing.com
Created on: 2009-02-25
Expires on: 2011-02-25
Is this the new identity of the team formerly known as Honda? Or someone taking a punt on what the team will be called, and pre-emptively registering the domain name in the hope of making some quick cash? Answers in the comments…


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WASHINGTON — Americans want and deserve excellent health care — whether they are visiting a primary care physician for a checkup, having surgery or need more complex care — but many wonder how they and the nation will afford it. In remarks Tuesday to the National Press Club, Mayo Clinic President and CEO John Noseworthy, M.D., outlined three steps health care providers and policymakers should take to create high-quality, patient-centered care at lower costs:
Deliver knowledge: Mayo Clinic and other health care providers must move quickly to put the knowledge gained through research into practice, benefiting patients. That is often easier said than done, in large part because of the constant flood of new information, Dr. Noseworthy says.
"Americans expect and deserve contemporary health care best practices," Dr. Noseworthy says. "They should reap the benefits of the research they support through their tax dollars."
Mayo Clinic is taking several steps to speed medical advances to patients. For example, it has created the Mayo Clinic Care Network. In the network, Mayo partners with like-minded medical practices across the country and around the world who would like to better care for their patients locally by accessing Mayo experts and expertise. In another project, Mayo is creating an electronic book of Mayo-vetted knowledge about best-practice protocols and hospital orders, patient education materials and other information that can be swiftly updated and shared across a health care organization in real time.
"We have come to realize that Mayo's most scalable product is our knowledge — both 'what we know' and also how we deliver this knowledge to patients," Dr. Noseworthy says.
Create value: High-quality care at lower costs can seem like an elusive goal, but new partnerships can make it possible, Dr. Noseworthy says.
Mayo has joined with Optum, a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary, to combine health outcomes data on 5 million Mayo patients with Optum's cost-of-care data on 109 million patients. Optum and Mayo are inviting others from all walks of health care to join the partnership, Optum Labs. The result will be a large-scale look at what works best for patients and the most efficient ways to deliver that care.
"With value as the highest, common goal, health care professionals in all care settings can turn traditional thinking on its head and find better, more affordable ways to care for patients," Dr. Noseworthy says.
Fund excellence: The government must fund innovation, create a payment system that is data-driven and recognizes the different levels of care and rewards quality and value at each level, and overhaul Medicare's payment structure, Dr. Noseworthy says.
Funding from NIH, CDC and other agencies is critical to research and discovery and economic vitality in U.S. communities, Dr. Noseworthy says. It plays a key role in identifying the best practices that can improve health care quality and drive down costs and should be supported, he says.
The next step is creating payment policies that recognize the full spectrum of care a patient may need through the course of a lifetime, Dr. Noseworthy says.
"The Affordable Care Act does much to improve primary care and to make it more accessible. But sooner or later, and particularly as we age, most people will need intermediate care and perhaps even complex care," he says. "More work is needed to create and ensure a high-quality continuum of care for Americans."
Patients with complex conditions requiring care from several specialists, and even many needing intermediate care such as knee replacement surgery, do not fit into neat categories, Dr. Noseworthy says. The U.S. health care payment system should include incentives and rewards for the proper and efficient management of complicated cases, he says.
Payment reform should also include Medicare, starting with an overhaul of the Sustainable Growth Rate, a complicated formula that determines Medicare physician payments, Dr. Noseworthy says. That includes repealing the Sustainable Growth Rate; creating a 1- to 3-year transitional reimbursement schedule using the Consumer Price Index; and establishing new, negotiated payment models that tie reimbursement to patient-centered care and quality outcomes along the spectrum of care.
"The answers to the challenges that America faces will not be simple, but if we align how we pay for care with how we diagnose and treat patients, we can reach our goal of high-value care for every patient," Dr. Noseworthy says.
To view Dr. Noseworthy's speech at the National Press Club, go to the Mayo Clinic News Network.
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Talking Points
- Candlestick analysis can be worked into any active Forex trading strategy.
- The Harami pattern can lead to trend changes and potential breakouts
- Traders can look for profit taking or retracement trading opportunities
Understanding candlestick charts continues to be the backbone of price action analysis for the Forex market. Oncetraders understand the basics, they can then begin to compile a series of candles to form patterns to confirm potential changes and market direction. One of the most used candle patterns is known as the Harami. Today we will review the Harami pattern and how it can be implemented into your trading strategy.
The Harami Candle Pattern
The Harami candle pattern may be new to some but for many it may already be known as a derivation of an "Inside Bar". Pictured above we can see a traditional Harami which can be defined by a few distinct characteristics. First the Harami is comprised of two candles. The first candle shoulddepicta large bullish candle such as a bullish engulfing candle. This blue candle is then followed up by a second smaller candle. The key to identifying a Harami is to have this second candle not close outside of the previous candles body. To add validity to the pattern, the second candle should close above half the traded value of the first candles body.
A bearish Harami will show a bull market stopping dead in its tracks as in the example below. However, these patterns can be considered weak, because even if the pair pulls back after a Harami it does not necessarily dictate a full market reversal. Because of this, the pattern often incorporates a third candle for confirmation, creating a Three Inside Down pattern.
Let's look at a current example.
Learn Forex – EURCAD with Harami
(Created using FXCM's Marketscope 2.0 charts)
Uses in Trading
Above we can see a Bearish Harami in action on the EURCAD currency pair. The daily graph has been in a long standing established uptrend, but prices have a tendency to retrace along the way. This last retracement was started with the formation of a Harami. With its creation, the market put in its current high then quickly descended 556 pips to for a higher low on the chart.
Traders looking to take advantage of the Bearish Harami pattern can add it into any existing trending market plan. Traders can look to take profits on any existing long trades, or even consider trading a full out reversal once this pattern appears. Regardless of your trading plan, when adding new components to your strategy you should be tracking your results with a trade journal. This way over time you can gauge the effectiveness of price action and candle analysis in your trading.
---Written by Walker England, Trading Instructor
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Nikon TC-20E III 2x Teleconverter for AF and AF-S Lenses
The Nikon TC-20E III 2x Teleconverter is an exceptional teleconverter optimized for use with FX and DX digital SLR cameras. It doubles the focal length of compatible Nikkor lenses. The TC-20E III is constructed of 7 elements in 5 groups and with Nikon's Integrated Coating (IC) you will see improved color and reduced flair. It has one aspherical lens element which virtually eliminates lens aberrations.
The 2x extender (also known as a teleconverter) will double the focal length of your existing lens, and will cut back the amount of light by 2 f/stops. For example, using this teleconverter with a 300mm lens will effectively increase the focal length to 600mm. A lens set to f/2.8 will now be f/5.6. Teleconverters are best used with longer telephoto lenses and are not recommended for lenses wider than 50mm, e.g. 28-105mm (35mm format).
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A mild case of human smuggling brought The Astronomer and me to Back A Yard in Menlo Park. Our friend Matt, who traveled with us from L.A. to The Bay, needed to meet up with his friends A.J. and Ariel in Mountain View. Rather than drop off Matt at A.J. and Ariel's place, we decided to meet halfway in Menlo Park for a casual lunch. The impromptu meet-up also provided a fun opportunity to put a face to a food blog—Ariel is the author of This Food is my J.A.M. The more cameras at a meal, the merrier.
According the restaurant's website, 'Back A Yard' is a Caribbean term that encompasses the "lifestyle, culture, spirit, cuisine, and festive mood of welcoming visitors to your home." Located in a not-so-swank part of The Peninsula, this brightly painted hole-in-the-wall seats just sixteen people. All orders are placed and paid for up front with the cashier. Food is delivered hot from the kitchen soon after.
Mandy Erickson of the San Francisco Chronicle writes, "At Back A Yard, jerk cooking, a marriage of Jamaican spices and African barbecue techniques, is applied to pork, chicken, salmon, steak and tofu. The marinade permeates the meat (or meat substitute), adding complexity of flavor and heat without overwhelming the palate."
The Astronomer and I shared a Jerk Chicken and Pork Combo ($11.50), which came with rice and beans, fried plantains, a small salad, and a garlicky dipping sauce on the side. The chicken and pork, which were seasoned with allspice, nutmeg, Scotch bonnet peppers, and thyme, were moist, flavorful, and fatty in all the right places. The plantains were nicely caramelized and pleasantly sweet, while the rice and beans took on the same flavor profile as the meats. The food at Back A Yard is straightforward, hearty, and satisfying.
In addition to our jerk platter, we ordered a side of corn festivals ($2.25). These doughnut-like pieces of fried flour and cornmeal were slightly sweet, simultaneously springy yet doughy, and very addictive. They paired perfectly with the jerky meats and savory rice.
Lastly, our table shared a slice of key lime pie ($2.75). The graham cracker crust was crumbly and buttery, while the curd filling delicately balanced sweet and tart.
Back A Yard
1189 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-323-4244


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Kasper Kwant is a Dutch DJ and producer clearly focused on lounge, deep & house. Kasper runs his own events all over the Netherlands.
Combined with his love for music, his ability to keep his listeners engaged while pulling out the right tracks at the right moment and sensitively interacts with the crowd.
Kasper has been trusted over his 25 year career in a multitude of venues and festivals all over the world.
Extrema Outdoor (Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands), Kollektiv (Norway), Royal Bar (Moscow), Club Zoe (Italy), Buddha Bar (Geneva & Amsterdam), Club Take 5 (Salzburg), Club Monza (Utrecht)and he hosted multiple stages at Free Your Mind Festival.He's an ex resident of Buddha Bar Amsterdam and MOMO Amsterdam.
Lately his main focus is producing and performing with his live-act Kamara
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You Have No Idea
A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Holly wood, Love, Loss (and Each Other)
Author: Vanessa Williams, Helen Williams
Narrator: Vanessa Williams, Helen Williams
Unabridged: 7 hr 17 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Published: 04/17/2012
The highly anticipated first book by a widely respected entertainer whose career highlights include The Right Stuff, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, and former Miss AmericaWhen Vanessa Williams was growing up, she had a plan: She'd go to college and major in musical theater; afterward she'd get her MFA from the Yale School of Drama, and then she would embark on a successful career on Broadway. And to make sure she stayed on that path, her mother, Helen Williams, gave her a list of things that she should never— ever—do. Near the top of that list was "never ever pose nude for anyone." So when Vanessa became the first African-American woman to win the title of Miss America in September 1983 (an accomplishment that she never planned for or desired), only to be forced to resign ten months later due to a nude photo scandal, the lives of both Vanessa and Helen took an unexpected turn. But Vanessa survived this setback, and many others to come, to enjoy a thirty-plus-year career as an award-winning singer and actress. Vanessa has been asked to write her memoir many times, but only now—with the help of her mother—is she ready to tell her story. Vanessa grew up in Millwood, New York, part of one of the town's only black families. As a teenager, Vanessa defied Helen, flirting with boys, drinking, and smoking pot. But despite their early conflicts, Helen has always ardently protected her daughter, staying in contact with the FBI about the multiple death threats Vanessa received after being crowned and being there for her during the dissolution of her two marriages. Now the mother of four children, Vanessa describes how she's made it through the ups and downs of her life as well as her career. Jointly written by Vanessa and Helen and filled with dozens of personal family photos and mementos, You Have No Idea is an empowering celebration of the love between a mother and daughter and the life of a woman who beat the odds to achieve her destiny.


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Plaza Restored To Safe Use – November 1, 2011
The following is a memorandum distributed this afternoon to City of Arcata staff and city councilmembers. – Ed.
We spent approximately 35-40 staff hours cleaning the Plaza picking up 51 bags of garbage (3000 lbs). We scoured the turf and picked up all visible glass, whippets, condoms, human excrement, etc.. We power washed the center of the Plaza and McKinley, utilized fire hoses and washed down all the sidewalks, benches and amenities. Public Works also swept the streets.
We left the site at 3:45, safe for the public. During our cleaning, we were not allowing people within the Plaza – but it is okay now. Though beaten and bruised, it is safe for the public.
Dan Diemer, Superintendent of Parks/Facilities
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the Aesthetic Surgery Center of Napa Valley
We are a full-service plastic and cosmetic surgery practice, led by the expertise of renowned plastic surgeon, John P. Zimmermann M.D.*. Located in the heart of wine country, our luxurious spa and office are distinguished by both the talented staff and our state of the art facility. From breast augmentation and abdominoplasty to facelift surgery and injectables, our goal is to provide you with the most natural and minimally invasive techniques and to ensure you obtain the personalized results you desire. We understand that the decision to undergo aesthetic or reconstructive surgery is not only time consuming but delicate, which is why we are eager to provide you with the resources you need to make a choice that is right for you.
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Welcome dear Friends of Hauereck
"We are family ..."! This phrase should make plain, that our main audience are and should be Families. We want to be a ski arena which is attractive to Families but it should also be a cheaper alternative to the big but expensive ski arenas for sporty skiers.
The Gastronomy at HAUERECK with Gasthaus Willenshofer ("Hauer"), the "Schneemannhütte" in the valley, a "Schirmbar" at the Hahngrabenabfahrt and two huts ("Sonnenhütte" and "Hauereck-Hütte") at the top of Hauereck is very well prepared for your visit. Quite cheap prices and a high quality will make your breaks very comfortable.
HAUERECK is also very popular to clubs for organizing different ski and snowboard races. For this the slopes are officially certified from the ÖSV and so the slopes have all the requirements for the ÖWO. The local sports club is the right contact for this and is available for you with their knowledge and equipment.
Also for cross-country skier, alpine tourers and backcountry skiers the HAUERECK is a perfect starting point.


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Ones to Watch in 2008: The 2008 US Presidential Elections, New Settlement Patterns, Visa Waiver Program, Migration and Climate Change, and France
Immigration and the 2008 US Presidential Elections
In a Democratic presidential debate this fall, the issue of driver's licenses for unauthorized immigrants in New York State tripped up candidate Hillary Clinton; the same topic caused Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican candidates to stumble at a subsequent debate. Republicans have also had increasingly testy exchanges about immigration enforcement, charging each other with "sanctuary" practices in years past.
Although polls show that voters' main concerns are the war in Iraq, health care, and the economy, immigration is surfacing repeatedly. With 2007 having failed to produce immigration reform (see Issue #1: Political Paralysis: The Failure of US Immigration Reform), some voters are angry enough that candidates' stands on immigration may well get them to the polls — and may affect the outcome of races in some districts or states.
New Settlement Patterns in the United States as a Consequence of State/Local Lawmaking on Immigration
Even though many local-level ordinances targeting unauthorized immigrants have not been enforced, and Hazleton has a court injunction against its law(see Issue #7: US Cities Face Legal Challenges, and All 50 States Try Their Hand at Making Immigration-related Laws ), the fact that communities support such regulations has caused immigrants to leave many of those towns, as the media have reported. Consequently, in 2008, we may hear more about immigrants settling in states and communities perceived as friendlier to them.
The End of the Visa Waiver Program as We Know It
The United States has been concerned for some years about the security loopholes in the air travel system (see Issue #5: Managing Global Travel with Technology and Cooperation), including the existing Visa Waiver Program (VWP). Under VWP, citizens of designated countries may travel to the United States for business or personal reasons for under 90 days without obtaining a visa.
Thanks to a law that President Bush signed in August, VWP travelers eventually will have to register online (but not for visas), and their submitted information will have to be approved before they can travel to the United States. Modeled on a system already in place in Australia, the Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) system will collect basic passenger biographic information that the Department of Homeland Security will use to assess potential threats. Although the target date for ETA's implementation is unknown, look for debate on its merits and drawbacks in 2008.
Migration and Climate Change
The Norwegian Nobel Committee focused public attention on climate change this year by awarding its Peace Prize to former Vice President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The citation read, in part, "Extensive climate changes may...induce large-scale migration."
However, climate-change discussions have not seriously addressed the likelihood and mechanisms of cross-border movement of people affected by rising sea levels, prolonged droughts, desertification, and extreme weather events. The most basic steps toward consensus on appropriate responses to climate-induced migration have yet to be taken. Indeed, migration did not make the formal agenda of this month's UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Bali. Expect climatologists and migration specialists to start talking to each other in 2008.
France as a Trendsetter
Known for his law-and-order approach to immigration, Nicolas Sarkozy — France's interior minister twice during Jacques Chirac's presidency and the French President as of May 2007 — has already instituted some of the immigration measures he proposed leading up to the election.
He created the Ministry for Immigration, Integration, National Identity, and Co-development to address all these issues under one department. A law passed this fall requires prospective immigrants to take a French language test and an exam on French values. Relatives in France seeking to bring over family from abroad must prove they make enough money to support them.
A plan to test some would-be migrants' DNA to verify their relationship to family in France sparked heated criticism. DNA testing will now be an 18-month trial and done only on a voluntary basis, with the French government paying for all tests. Sarkozy even wanted France to begin collecting data on ethnicity — long banned because everybody is considered French — a proposal that failed.
None of these measures are considered radical by European standards, but Sarkozy is not finished. He wants to see a "Mediterranean Union" that would link the region's countries through educational, health, or cultural projects, as well as shared security and business deals.
These plans, which have already upset countries in northern Europe, took shape in October when Sarkozy announced in Morocco that France will host a conference next summer to lay the political and cultural groundwork for the union. Migration issues will likely figure largely in discussions.
Sarkozy's determination to shake things up means France could become the immigration trendsetter in Europe in 2008.


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Warning: The following is a detailed walkthrough of 9. It contains information that will show you how to beat the game. Please, DO NOT READ FROM START TO FINISH! You will ruin the game for yourself. Use wisely and ye shall prosper...
9 Walkthrough
First open the envelope and read the will, the code for the door is at the bottom. Be sure to include the dashes. Then push enter button. Open the gate.
Grab the Monacle and you will fall down the stairs don't worry that the Twins take the Monacle, you will get it back later. Listen to Salty whenever he comes up, he will give you clues. Explore the Lobby.
To the right of the furnace is a ladder, go up and get the CD. Put CD in empty holder to the left of the ladder, turn on fuel. Face furnace (boiler) and turn red wheel to the right and fill boiler. Push red button, when gauge read 7 pull red knob down. Go to the steps on the opposite side of the room and go down the left side.
Pull the lever and hold it for a second or two. Turn right twice and you will see the water wheel turning. This powers up the bridge to the Organ and the neon "Muse" light below you. Turn right and get coin.
Put coin in Isadora's machine and listen to what she says. The grub means nothing. Just something wierd. Go up the ladder beside Isadora to the balcony. Click on the center of the door and solve the match-the-sounds puzzle. This changes with each game and is time consuming but not difficult Go straight ahead to the Muse Machine and look it over. on the way back look at the back of the door to see the chart of what goes in the Muse Machine.
Go to the Organ. Turn left and look and touch the Dog skeleton. Just something fun to do. Pull the lever beside the canal and a bridge comes up. Go forward to the Organ. Look up at monkey. Read sheet music on Organ. Play notes from left to right WITH NO STOPS. You should hear some music.
Go to the Tiki Gods guarding the door beside the stairs. They should laugh and let you into the Drum Room. Explore. Go through the door at the opposite end of the room into the T-shaped hall.
Look over juke box. Turn left and go forward to end of hall. Turn left and touch sign with colors, it should start blinking, the number of blinks for each color will be important later. Look at the other picture opposite. Just weird, not important as is the dripping sac thing at the other end of the hall. Now go to the other end of the hall. Turn right and touch the cat picture. Remember the part of the guitar that you see there. (this is called a notation clue)
Click to open the door and watch the Salty sequence. Listen to what Salty says when he comes out. Go back to Drum Room to the masks and click on them for mask puzzle. The masks have to be in order from left to right. Each mask must have a characteristic of one next to it. Try the round face with big eyes at the left, then the next with big eyes, then the next with funny fangs, and so on.
IMPORTANT Make a note of the color of the background and the masks to use on the Juke Box.
Use that on the Juke box and the needle falls through the record and drops the gear.
look down and open the grate and get the gear. Go to the Clown pole which is at the top of the stairs and down the ladder. Turn left and click on the heart revealing the gears. Pull the bottom gear all the way down. (it takes twice) Pull the left gear down twice. Insert the gear you have in the center. This will reverse the walkway right above you to let you in the upstairs hallway. Be sure to go to the CD to the right of Isadora and turn it over to get the number of the song to play for Salty. Also be sure to turn left at the top of the stairs and look under Thurston's picture for another notation clue. Go upstairs.
Turn left and listen to Thurston. just fun stuff. Go to microwave looking thing and open it and look at another notation clue. Go to Victrola and set lever to the number of song on the CD you just looked at. Push button and Salty goes crazy. Go to the end of the hall and look into binoculars, just shows chasm. Turn left and turn board over and get first notation clue with music to play on the Organ. Write this down or push the "PrintScreen" button and go to Paint and paste and print.
This is a pain, because you have to quit the game, but we found it the best way. Go to elevator and push button. Go in and turn left and push whatever lights up. Turn left and move lever to 1. (2 is where you are and the basement doesn't work yet) Attic you can go up and look but not enter. Exit elevator and go down the stairs, across to the ladder and up. Go to drum room, turn right, click on drum with face on it. Turn left, go to drum machine, pull lever on left side. Pull all the buttons down and listen to the drum solos. When ready push red button and play "Simon Says" with drummer. Get maraca from drummer.
Go to muse machine and insert maraca. Go to door in right side of t-shaped hall. Enter tapestry room, turn right. Click on tapestry. Enter room, and turn gears to show thone ( eye under screen will be blinking). Go set in thone, push red button, make note of the alignment of letter and symbol. Go to door, turn right, click on tapestry, enter, align wheel of fortune with clue from throne.
This sequence of symbols and letters will be applied to the Organ keyboard. Starting from the left side of the keyboard, assign the letters and their corresponding symbols to the keys using both black and white keys. you will notice that there are two letters missing from the alphabet since there are only 24 keys. We found it best to make a chart of the keys with the alphabet right above them, or we'll E-Mail you our chart. firstname.lastname@example.com
Look down, get mouse. Back out, turn right, go forward, turn left, go to cat tapestry, put mouse in bowl, but don't enter yet (this takes you to the chasm). Turn left, click on center tapestry to enter guitar book room, read guitar book, make notes on letters to tune guitar, look in three drawers below. Make note,or print the music notation clue in the center. Remember the letter of the guitar string, but don't take it. Now for the Chasm. Go to the cat tapestry and click on it, go ahead into the Chasm. You will pass through a door. Turn right and go ahead 1 time. Turn left, go ahead twice, turn left, go ahead once. You will be facing the skull. Turn left and go ahead once, turn left, go ahead once to the bar. Open the right hand panel, click on the center and drag left. Get the bottle. turn left twice, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead once bach to the skull. With the skull to your back, turn right, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead twice, turn left to the door. With your back to the door, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead once, turn left, go ahead to the skeleton. Turn right and give bottle to skeleton, and get bone. Turn right, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead once, turn left, go ahead twice to the door. Open the door back to the tapestry room.
Go to the garage door in the center of the upstairs hallway. Click on handle in middle and drag up. Give bone to dog. Explore. In the car is another notation clue. Go to the robot and click on him. Pick the car on the right, the slowest one. Right after you click on the starting lights hold down on the mouse button untill the race is over. May take several times. When you have won, listen to the robot. Turn right twice and go to the round tool shed left of the door. Click on handle and drag right. Look at the notation clue and draw it or print screen. Get spark plug. Look at notation clue in floorboard of car, and draw it. Go to muse machine and put in spark plug. Go back to garage, and get toothed wheel. Look down and enter hole. Face Skeleton, then turn right, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead once, turn left, go ahead twice to the door. Turn left and go ahead 1 time. Turn left, go ahead twice, turn left, go ahead once. You will be facing the skull. Look down, and click on the center of compartment. Put toothed wheel in empty spot. Here, since every game is different, you will have to experiment. The goal is to have all 12 holes showing pink. Our arrangement was 1, 3, 4, 2. The secrete is to add the total of pink dots on each wheel, and turn the top wheel untill all available pink dots are showing. When you get the wheels aligned properly, look up, and click on the skull to enter the Dolly room. Explore.
Go click on guitar case in the chair. She will tell you she needs a string. Go up the steps, enter the skull. Turn right, go ahead once, then turn left, go ahead one to the bar. Open the left hand or center panel, get string. Turn left twice, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead to the skull, enter skull. Give string to guitar. Tune the gutar using the tuning box on the left. Notice that the guitar head is bent down, so tune from bottom to top with the guide from the guitar book. Get the tuning fork. Go to the white door, and click in the middle. Go put it in the muse machine. Go back to the Dolly room at the left end of the t-shaped hall. After you enter the door, turn right, and go to the ball machine. You must align the cups to get the ball the the bottom of the board. We found it best to turn the lower cups first to see which way they will turn. This is fairly easy, it only took us a couple of tries. Click on the ball and draw the notation clue. There are 2 notation clues on this sheet. The first one is for the jungle organ. The second one is missing the second note, this will be the letter of the unused guitar string in the left drawer in the guitar book room
Go to guitar picture tapestry, the first one to the right of the throne and click on it. Using the clues from top of the stairs, microwave, and cat picture, drag correct pieces to center to build guitar. Pull up on toggle to watch movie. Turn right, open door and get vacuum tube. Since the twins take it from you, go back to the Dolly room, climb the stairs, enter the skull. Turn right, go ahead once, turn left, go ahead once, go ahead once over the bar. Turn left twice, go forward, open the chest marked time bomb, get the vacuum tube, back away, go ahead twice, turn right, go ahead once, turn right, go ahead to skull, enter skull. Put vacuum tube in muse machine.
Go to the organ. Build another keyboard chart below the first one, take the first symbol from the sheet music and place it and the letter on the second chart as indicated on the sheet music, then continue your alphabet from there, wraping around at the end of the keyboard back to the begining of the keyboard on the left. On ours we had to move up the keyboard to the right five notes counting both white and black keys. Using the chart from the tool shed, the right and left side will overlay. Using the notation clues fill in the blank spaces in the second row by matching the shaded boxes. In the first column add the first two rows of arrows to get the third row (f you have 4 arrows right in top box and 2 arrows left in the second box, the third box will be 2 arrows right). When finished this will be the sequence for the notation clue from the race car. Now play music from notation clues. When it is right, you will hear noises from the monkey above. We played all the notation clues, and the monkey was holding 4 coins to give to Isadora
We used the blue coin first and got the key.
Go up the red stairway the the hallway. Turn right and go forward to the attic door. Use key on door, open door. Go ahead twice to puzzle. Watch the way the figures move to figure out how to get to the door at the other end. This one is kind of tough. When you reach the door, turn left and click on the chest. Get the elevator card. Turn right and push button, enter elevator. Turn left and put card in panel. Turn left and move handle to basement.
Go forward, you will get a gun. Shoot all the rats, you must reload when the cylinder is empty by clicking on the cylinder in the lower left. You can turn your pistol into a machine gun by holding down on the control key and shooting a rat. When the clip is empty, you must repeat the process. Watch out for the big rats coming in from the hole ahead and a little to the left. It takes about five shots to kill them. This was one of the hardest sequences to finish for us. When all of the lights are lit, go forward to the boarded up door, turn right. Click on the paper, and get the monacle. Put monacle in muse machine.
After the muse machine blows up, listen to the twins, and follow them down. Turn left and click on boat. Explore. Click on anything that lights up, and look at it. The green on the palette is to tell you that green is the missing color in the color-number notation clue at the left end of the t-shaped hall. On ours, green was three beats, or play the note three times.
Now for the most nervewracking puzzle in the game. Go to the organ. Here is where you will need your organ keyboard chart again, and the completed chart from the tool shed. Play the notes on the totems from left to right using your second keyboard chart. When you run into a shaded box, play the first note on the top of the totem, then move up or down the keyboard the number of arrows indicated on the notation clue from the tool shed. If the note is colored, play that note that many times, if the box is colored, play the sequence that many times. Good luck, Happy playing.
Any questions or problems, feel free to E-Mail us at:
firstname.lastname@example.com. Leland and Arleigh


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Waiver for Conflicts of Interest for the October 30, 2019 Meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee (BRUDAC)
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