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Two earn National Science Foundation fellowships04/23/2012
The early research efforts of two first-year polymer science graduate students, Erin Childers and John Swanson, have earned them National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships.
Erin Childers
Both students, who are focused on materials science, were selected for the NSF Fellowship program based on their "potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of the U.S. science and engineering enterprise." In 2012, the NSF offered 2,000 such grants.
Childers, of Cuyahoga Falls, is a 2011 graduate of Ursuline College. Attending on an athletic scholarship for cross-country and track, she graduated with a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry. As an undergraduate, Childers did chemistry research with Dr. Sarah Preston at Ursuline, and Dr. John Protasiewicz, at Case Western Reserve University. She also was part of a research project in cell biology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute with Dr. Paul Fox.
Working to improve surgery success rate
Now a part of the Becker Research Group, headed by Dr. Matthew Becker, an associate professor of polymer science, Childers is focused on how to improve the success rate of rotator cuff surgery. With a failure rate of 60 to 90 percent, depending on the tear size, Childers' approach is to develop a polymer scaffold with biodegradable and tissue regeneration properties that would speed healing time when placed at the injury site during surgery.
This early research is shaping the direction Childers is likely to take in her career.
"Whether I'm in academia or industry, I do know that I will do something in biomaterials or biomedicines because I really want to be able to help push the current medical procedures beyond what they are today," says Childers. "Instead of the many procedures that salvage, I would hope that we can have regeneration procedures that restore or rebuild, and that look natural and are not rejected by the body. I honestly believe that these goals can be accomplished by biomaterials — we just need to discover them."
John Swanson
Meanwhile, Swanson's research focus is on developing multifunctional degradable biomaterials for tissue engineering applications in the research group headed by Dr. Abraham Joy, assistant professor of polymer science. Swanson carried out research as an undergraduate in Dr. Philip Costanzo's research group at California Polytechnic State University. He earned a B.S. in Biochemistry with a concentration in polymers and coatings in 2011.
Expanding role of polymers in healing
"Right now, most biodegradable polymers, such as dissolvable stitches, are used simply for their desirable physical properties, they cannot tell your body to do anything," says Swanson, a native of Seattle. "My project focuses on the design and synthesis of a unique biodegradable polymer that can be used within the body to elicit a specific biologic response, such as re-growing blood vessels, while still being able to control the physical properties of the material.
"The challenge is to create well defined polymers decorated with multiple biological factors that will all work in unison to bring about the desired outcome," adds Swanson, who hopes to have a career in industry working on the research and development of new polymeric materials for biomedical and commercial applications.
The National Science Foundation Fellowship program is the oldest of its kind and has a long history of selecting recipients who achieve high levels of success in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Past recipients include Nobel Prize winners, a U.S. Secretary of Energy and the founder of Google.
Fellows are given a stipend of $30,000 for 12 months, in increments of $2,500 a month, and are awarded for a maximum of three years over a five-year period.


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Today, we were doing a few more work in our office, and drilling a hole to basement, the worker made bullseye on power cable for biometrics terminals.
So I had the chance to watch one of the biometrics terminal boot. What was my surprise when I see on the small LCD a Penguin and the word LINUX.
Well this product is made by ZK-USA, and consulting their site there is some reference to Linux OS.
I didn't had access to the documentation in box but I can't see anything on their website related to GPL. I'm no specialist at GPL, but I will go deep on this tomorrow, related to the papers that came with the hardware to see if they are violating GPL or not.
On the other side at home I bought a wireless multimedia reader, and with the Manual came the GPL and a address to ask for source code if interested. I have to name that company, because I should, it's the French Dane-Elec. Cheers for them, great product and great attitude.
On a world with more and more embedded system I believe all of us should look deeply to what we are buying, if some of us defend FOSS, so let's do it.
Linux GPL don't ask for much money, is just 0$=0€, why a company that profit a lot from free raw material violate GPL?
At the following sites you can find Lists of companies who violate GPL, and the only reason i see is greed.
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By Russ Britt
With 2 million people having obtained health insurance through the end of the year, Obamacare has a long way to go before it reaches its goal of enlisting 7 million in the program. But a survey released Thursday shows many remain uninformed about the Affordable Care Act and its financial assistance.
The poll from Enroll America, a nonprofit designed to help encourage enrollment in Obamacare, shows nearly seven out of 10 uninsured adults are unaware that subsidies or financial aid is available under the Affordable Care Act.
The survey also shows that virtually the same number of uninsured have yet to visit their online marketplace — and the most common reason is not because of recent troubles with HealthCare.gov. Instead, it's the belief that they can't afford insurance.
One-third of those who have yet to go online to buy insurance, or 34%, say they can't afford it, while 21% say they are waiting for problems with HealthCare.gov to be fixed. But the survey also found 92% of those who experienced a problem when they went to an online public health exchange said they planned to return to the site.
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Still, 62% of those who aren't insured say they definitely or probably will get insurance, while another 19% say "it depends." What does it depend on? Well, 74% of those say it's whether they can afford it.
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CARDILLO: Greens Farms' Obi has warm perspective on America
WESTPORT -- Snowdrifts approach 10 feet tall. Roads are better suited for the Iditarod dog sleds than cars. Television weathermen throw around the term "snowpocalypse" without impunity.
Suffice it to say, by mid-January, most citizens of Southwestern Connecticut have had their fill of snow in the winter of 2011.
For the sizeable chorus cursing Old Man Winter under their breath, Sean Obi's tact is markedly different. Obi, a 6-foot-9 center at Greens Farms Academy, is from Nigeria and hadn't seen the fluffy white stuff until last month.
"I never knew it would get to snow this much, it's very beautiful," the soft-spoken sophomore said last week.
While Obi, who just turns 16 this weekend, is getting accustomed to snow and all other aspects of life as an American teenager, the region -- specifically college coaches -- are beginning to get to know about him. Through GFA's first nine games, he has posted an eye-opening line of 23.6 points and 19.7 rebounds per game, attracting scouts from places like Harvard and Columbia, who are equally impressed by his honors-level academics.
"Basically when I came here, I never looked at all that stuff," Obi said about the recruiting process. "I came here to play basketball and whatever takes place in the next stage is left to God."
The abridged story of how this budding Division-I prospect landed on the quiet, tranquil GFA campus highlights the power of connections made during a lifetime.
Steve Eggers, an oil trader who lives in Greenwich, had been doing business in Nigeria dating back to the 1970s. During his many trips to the country, he'd play pickup basketball in his downtime and developed ties within the Nigerian hoops community.
Flash forward to July 2010 and one of those contacts, Ahmed Baba Ahmed, a Nigerian businessman based in Texas, called Eggers raving about a kid playing in a private school in his hometown.
"He called me up and was like, `Steve, I've got the next LeBron James.' I said, `Ahmed, they're all the next LeBron James.' He's like, `Nah nah, you don't understand. He's a great kid, he's very talented,'" Eggers said. "Five or six weeks later, he was at our door."
Eggers said that it wasn't that cut and dried. He and his wife, Bobbi, had previously thought about adopting or being foster parents. The family is also friends with former King School of Stamford coach Ervin Braun, who became the guardian of two players from Mozambique in the early 2000s.
Factor in Greens Farms Academy trying to increase its international diversity and sporting profile and Eggers' son Hunter playing for the Dragons varsity team, and the family took a chance.
Eggers did make sure to express to Obi's family in Nigeria that GFA didn't have the reputation as a basketball factory, so if they wanted to send him to one, he could help arrange it. Obi's family, though, was happy with a school with a strong academic reputation, which could offer one-on-one instruction. GFA's first-year coach, Doug Scott, a former assistant at St. Luke's in New Canaan, has familiarity with international players as well.
"My parents here are very lovely," said Obi, who calls the Eggers mom and dad.
Until coming to America on Aug. 27, 2010, Obi had been attending a school in the city of Kaduna in the north-central part of the country -- away from his family in the state of Anambra, located in the southeastern part of Nigeria -- to focus on basketball and academics. Conflict around his home also forced Obi to move around when he was young.
Always among the tallest kids, Obi only began focusing on basketball four years ago, growing up developing his smooth footwork on local soccer fields. The fact he'd already been away from his family and spoke English helped make the transition easier, though Obi is still getting used to some American customs, especially the food.
"He hates cheese. ... No pizza. No beef," Hunter Eggers said. "He basically eats chicken and rice ... and Frosted Flakes."
Culinary cultural differences aside, the transition for Obi has been rather smooth, as he's put in as much work in the classroom as the basketball court. Some aspects of Western education have taken some time for Obi to grasp, such as his first book, "Oedipus Rex." Conversely, his favorite subject is Algebra, which naturally has less of a language or cultural barrier.
Obi spends most of his time free time studying, sometimes past 2 a.m., or talking with his family in Nigeria on the phone or Skype, which is a software application that allows him to make voice calls on the Internet. The only television he watches is NBA games, specifically Knicks' forward Amar'e Stoudemire.
"This kid, you'll never meet anyone that works harder at anything," Steve Eggers said. "He's not a one-dimensional kid."
Those dimensions, despite the comparison to LeBron, don't include that me-first, diva-like attitude displayed by many players of Obi's age and talent, such as James. If anything, Obi's cerebral approach and sculpted physique are more reminiscent of a player very familiar to Connecticut basketball fans, Emeka Okafor, which is fitting, since the former UConn All-American is of Nigerian descent.
"We kind of kept him under wraps and only put him in one college exposure camp back in the fall, and the Eggers literally almost had to change their phone number," Scott said.
Obi admits all aspects of his game need improvement, notably free throws, as he works toward taking his game to the next level. And Greens Farms' opponents don't always provide a nightly challenge in the post for Obi. In Tuesday's easy win over Chase Collegiate, he appeared a foot taller than all his opponents. During the summer, he plans to join an AAU team where there will be more players of his size to help his game grow.
As he continues to develop and becomes more of a known commodity on the American hoops scene, the intensity of his collegiate recruitment should increase. The process -- something else that's entirely foreign to Obi -- shouldn't faze him, with his thoughtful, grounded approach to life.
A life that now should be filled with plenty of new experiences.
"I always watched (American) movies," Obi said. "I knew it was filled with opportunities both for sports and academics. I knew it's all about being hard-working and doing what's best."
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The National Transportation Safety Board in Washington D. C. released its findings last week on the horrific bus crash which killed nine people and injured scores of others in San Juan County on January 6, 2008.
The accident occurred near Mexican Hat. The bus was returning home to Phoenix loaded with skiers who had been in Vail, CO.
Investigators blamed the accident on excessive speed and driver fatigue. The driver admitted he hadn't been feeling well, that he suffered from sleep apnea and that he had gotten little sleep the night before the return trip.
Investigators said the bus was traveling between 88 and 92 miles an hour when it left the road and rolled, shearing off the top of the bus and ejecting 51 of the 53 people on board.
The crash is being used by the NTSB to develop recommendations for increased bus safety, including seat belts to keep people from being ejected and stronger roofs for buses so they will not completely shear off when rolling, as was the case in this accident.
Additionally, they plan to make bus companies more liable and responsible for making sure their drivers are fit to drive.
This incident was the most deadly single vehicle crash in San Juan County history. Because the accident occurred late at night in an area with no cell phone service, little highway traffic and long distances from medical personnel and facilities, it was over an hour before first responders arrived on the scene. Emergency personnel from communities all over the Four Corners assisted in getting the injured to several area hospitals.
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What Is Cancer?
Cancer refers to the abnormal and uncontrolled growth of certain cells that can get in the way of normal body functions. Cancer can spread (metastasize) from where it starts growing to other organs and parts of the body. Cancer can destroy healthy cells and cause illness and death.
A healthy immune system helps to prevent cancer. Because those living with HIV (HIV+) have weakened immune systems, it is easier for people living with HIV to become ill with several kinds of cancer. People living with HIV are more likely to be infected with viruses that can lead to cancer. These viruses include:
The following types of cancer lead to an AIDS diagnosis: Kaposi's sarcoma, certain types of lymphoma, and cervical cancer. Other non-AIDS defining cancers for which people living with HIV are at increased risk include anal, liver, and lung cancer. All of these are explained in detail below.
Kaposi's Sarcoma (KS)
KS was one of the most common opportunistic infections (OIs) in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
HHV-8 is the virus that causes KS. It is transmitted through sexual contact or blood products. KS has always been less common in women than in men, but is less common in all people with HIV since the use of newer, more effective HIV drug combinations.
A recent study found that some people living with HIV who have KS find that their KS gets worse after starting HIV drugs. This is most likely due to IRIS (immune reconstitution inflammation syndrome), which happens when your immune system acts so strongly and so quickly that it causes lots of inflammation that can actually make your symptoms worse. KS-IRIS usually happens more often in people living with HIV who have higher HIV viral loads, higher KS viral loads, and more advanced KS disease.
KS on the skin is not life threatening. However, if KS spreads to other parts of the body, especially the lungs, it can cause serious problems. An oncologist (a doctor who specializes in cancer) usually suggests treatment options based on factors such as the size, number, and location of KS tumors. However, the first treatment for KS is to begin HIV drugs. Your HIV provider and other specialists (e.g., radiation oncologist, dermatologist) may be involved as well.
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Ring Ceremony Photos & News
As promised I have put together a Photo Album from the World Series Ring Ceremony! You can see all the players, plus a few coaches getting their rings. The quality is a tad lower than I normally like, but I was VERY far away when shooting these…thank goodness for ZOOM lenses :O) I have also included shots from the miraculous 12-11 come from behind victory over the Braves that occurred after the ceremony.
There have been some questions recently about whether 2008 first-time Major Leaguers like
Mike Cervenak, Andy Tracy and Lou Marson would be receiving a World Series Ring, since their names were not announced at yesterday's ceremony. I can tell you that I have received confirmation from Cervenak's agent that he will receive his ring tonight! I can only assume from this that the other players mentioned, plus possibly TJ Bohn, Brad Harman and a few others, may also be getting a ring. It was my thought that anyone who was on the roster in 2008 and played in a game should qualify, so I am very happy to hear that this should be the case. Congrats to all and best of luck to the Iron Pigs, who will open their season tonight with Kyle Kendrick on the mound!
I have a few other fun photos to share with you; if you were unable to pick up a copy of the Phillies 1st 2009 Official Magazine, here is what you missed:
A cover spread of 12 of our World Champions in Tuxedos:
And then most of the World Series Team, all dressed up, in a centerfold. I took the book apart and scanned the images, fitting them together at the center with a little help from Photoshop; even still, they managed to cut part of Charlie Manuel's head off, plus part of the trophy, in the middle. Fixed the trophy (it's magic!), but left Manuel's head alone :O)
Every player had a different and unique reaction to seeing their World Series Rings; Brad Lidge testified that he would sleep with his; Jamie Moyer noted that his was a bit large, but that he would grow into it; And Cole Hamels…well, see for yourself:
My, oh my, that boy is seriously whipped. Oh sorry, what I meant to say was, how cute is it that Cole loves his wife SO much ;O) Yeah, that's it….
The Phillies are on their way to Colorado! Game 1 of the series with the Rockies will air at 4:10pm tomorrow with Mr. Hamels on the mound in his season debut.
(Photos by Jenn except Tuxedo shots)
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Six months after President Obama vowed to change his administration's approach to lethal drone missile strikes, the pace of aerial attacks has fallen sharply, thanks in part to stricter targeting criteria.
Obama also promised to make the drone campaign more transparent. But a blanket of secrecy thus far has remained firmly in place.
The Democrat-led Senate Intelligence Committee voted on Nov. 5 to require the administration to disclose how many civilians and militants were killed by drones each year. That tally has never been publicly available.
The panel also voted to impose additional intelligence demands before the White House could authorize a drone strike against a U.S. citizen or resident alien. Drones have killed five Americans since 2002, although only one, Al Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki, was officially marked for death.
"The American people should be given basic facts about mistakes when they are made, and they should also be given the rules that the government must follow when targeting and killing an American involved in terrorist activities," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a committee member, said in a statement.
The proposed restrictions, however, part of a broader intelligence bill, may not survive. Republicans on the Senate panel voted for the bill, but most opposed the drone amendments. Key lawmakers in the GOP-controlled House also oppose the provisions.
The White House has yet to take a position. Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, said the administration already was transparent concerning drones.
"The president has committed to undertaking these activities with the greatest possible transparency, and we will continue to share as much information as possible with the American people, the Congress and the international community," she said.
In a speech in May at National Defense University, Obama said he had signed a policy directive that set new standards before the White House would approve targeted killing by drones.
Obama said the CIA had to show that a proposed target posed a "continuing imminent threat" to Americans, rather than a "significant threat," the previous standard. In addition, no attack would be ordered without "near certainty" that civilians would not be harmed, the president said.
The number of strikes already had fallen before May, but the new rules served to cut the frequency further.
The Long War Journal, which tracks drone attacks through local news reports, has counted 22 strikes this year in Yemen, down from 42 last year. It has counted 25 attacks in Pakistan this year, down from 46 last year and a peak of 117 in 2010. A single strike has been reported in Somalia this year.
Administration officials have said drone strikes have killed relatively few civilians, but have refused to say how many. The Long War Journal says 11 civilians have been killed in Pakistan this year and two in Yemen; other estimates are higher.
In June, a drone-launched missile hit an SUV carrying an Al Qaeda commander in Yemen. CIA officers didn't realize that his younger brother also was in vehicle, according to U.S. officials who would not be named because the operation is classified. The CIA later put the victim's age at between 6 and 13.
The CIA has given a classified briefing to Congress on the death, but has refused to acknowledge it publicly. The NSA's Hayden declined to comment.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said the number of noncombatant deaths was "significantly lower" than critics claimed. She said she had urged the White House to disclose the data "so the American people know how careful these strikes have been."
In part, drone strikes have declined because there are fewer identified terrorist leaders to hit. In Pakistan, the core leadership of the Al Qaeda network founded by Osama bin Laden has been decimated, although remnants are still active.
But experts say the Nov. 1 drone strike that killed Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who helped organize the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA officers and contractors in December 2009 in eastern Afghanistan, proves that drones remain a vital counter-terrorism weapon.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in Yemen, has weakened but is still virulent. Nine U.S. drone strikes were launched against the group in August after authorities detected a plot against U.S. embassies. But the pace has dropped to about two a month since then.
Harold Koh, who served as State Department legal advisor in Obama's first term, said in an email that the new targeting standards had "disciplined" the drone program.
But Koh, now a professor at Yale Law School, said he saw "little or no movement" on making the program more transparent, a goal he believes is necessary to boost the program's legitimacy abroad.
In May, White House aides indicated that the Pentagon would take over at least some covert drone operations from the CIA. The military operates under different legal statutes than the CIA, and can provide more information to the public.
That plan has stalled, however, due to logistical, bureaucratic and legal concerns.
The CIA is resisting giving up its drones, especially in Pakistan, where the government almost certainly would oppose U.S. military operations. Some counter-terrorism officials also worry that the Pentagon won't be able to act as quickly as the CIA.
Leon E. Panetta, who served as CIA director from 2009 to 2011 and as secretary of Defense from 2011 to 2013, favors shifting more drone operations to the military.
"We made a great deal of progress at the CIA, and it was a very effective operation in terms of establishing targets and conducting very specific strikes at going after core Al Qaeda leadership," he said on CBS' "Face the Nation" on Nov. 10.
The Pentagon "is beginning to develop that kind of capability," he said.
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text: Cape Town - Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday congratulated the Proteas squad on its magnificent rearguard action and, in particular, Faf du Plessis for his phenomenal performance on debut to earn a draw in the second Test match at the Adelaide Oval.The Nashua Titans batsman became the first South African to score a century and a half-century on his debut. His aggregate of 188 was the second best for the Proteas after Jacques Rudolph who made 222 from one innings against Bangladesh in 2003. His innings lasted 16 minutes short of eight hours and enabled the Proteas to bat out time on the last day.The match also produced yet another statistical landmark for Jacques Kallis who has now scored 50 or more runs in a Test innings on 100 occasions.Australia v South Africa 2nd Test Day 5 Highlights "Faf played with great skill, determination and pride, and the hallmark was the calmness he displayed, particularly in guiding the tail-enders through an extremely difficult last hour," commented CSA Acting CEO Jacques Faul."These are all the characteristics that have made our Test side such a world-class unit over the past few years and demonstrated just how hard they are to beat."Faf's performance in this match was world-class by any standards but to do it on debut in an away Test against Australia was absolutely phenomenal."There is a great skill involved in playing match-winning innings but playing match-saving innings can often be even more difficult. This performance was right up with the best we have seen since unity in this respect and is certainly comparable with Jacques Kallis' maiden century in his seventh Test match against Australia at Melbourne where he defied Shane Warne on the last two days for six hours; Gary Kirsten's double century after we had been forced to follow on against England at Sahara Stadium Kingsmead; and Jacques Kallis unbeaten century at the Bourda Oval in Guyana when the Proteas also followed on after trailing by more than 300 runs on the first innings."Faf was by no means a one-man band in saving this match and we congratulate everybody for the way they knuckled down to complete a job well done."This has been an engrossing series of Test cricket to date which underlines the greatness of the five-day format, and all South Africans will be looking forward to another keen encounter at Perth from Friday."This will incidentally be our 200th Test match since unity and I am sure the Proteas will be aiming to make it a very special occasion."


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I've Discovered An Excuse to Get Men Out of Any Situation [Half a Man]
A recent piece of satire on one of my favorite sports websites prompted some research on another current favorite of mine – Lena Dunham. I realize that's a substantial amount of a** kissing in one opening sentence but it's true. Dunham is funny, unafraid to take risks and like her or not -- and plenty of people fall in the "or not" category -- she's going to be around for a long time.
The post took a quick jab at Dunham's upbringing, of which I'm unfamiliar, so I went where the world goes to get more information on Dunham's background -- Wikipedia. It was there I found perhaps the most fantastic information ever. It changed the way I'll live my life. Here is that nugget, accentuated by block quotes. If I could somehow add glitters stars, fireworks and a Paul Rudd dancing GIF in between the words I would.
"In 2012, Dunham began dating Jack Antonoff, lead guitarist of the band Fun. The two have decided to put off marriage until the legalization of same-sex marriage."
I don't like to throw the word brilliant around (unless I'm talking about my 2-year-old kid, my cat, the first season of the original 'The Office', peanut butter and jelly in the same jar or underwear that captures farts, but this same-sex excuse might be the most brilliant idea I've ever read.
First, let's get this all out of the way – I'm 100% for same-sex marriage. Gay people should have the same rights as straight people and while I'll never live to see every state in this union agree, I'm hopeful that by the time I drop dead, at least half the country will pass legislation allowing gay people to be just as miserable as us married heteros.
Now that that's out of the way I can make my jokes with a clear conscious and at least have only half the people reading email to call me an a-hole.
I'm going to use the fact that gay people can't get marriage as a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE card when I don't want to do things. I'm just upset I didn't find out sooner about this excuse or I would have put off my whole marriage and kids thing for a few more decades.
"Honey, I'd love to get married, but until the gays can…"
Eh, what's done is done but there is still so, SO much more to avoid.
"Honey, I'd love to go to your cousin's wedding more than a hundred miles away but, until the gays can get married, I just don't feel…"
"Honey, I'd love to cut the grass, but until the gays can live together and cut their own grass, AS A MARRIED COUPLE, I just don't feel…"
"Honey, I'd love to go to the gym with you but until gay couples are recognized as married and can pay the same rates as us straight people, I refuse to patronize an establishment that won't let them pump each other in public."
I'm urging every guy out there to try this excuse. If your girlfriend is pressuring you to get married, move in together, cut the grass, or go to a wedding on the same Sunday as the premiere of 'The Walking Dead,' try pulling the gay card and see what happens.
Best case scenario? You're not doing any of those things anytime soon, and your significant other will think of you as a pioneer for human rights. Worst case? She calls you a clueless idiot and makes you do it anyway.
Which is why I'm married, still cutting grass and DVRing 'The Walking Dead' premiere. Yeah, gay people are REALLY missing out on this marriage stuff.
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Life Blood
Dir. Ron Carlson
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New Year's Eve, 1969. Totally hot, ample-bosomed lesbian lovers Brooke (Sophie Monk) and Rhea (Anya Lahiri) are at a totally hot, swinging party in LA. The evening's glitter ball bedazzled festivities are cut short when Brooke stumbles into the bathroom and interrupts Hollywood A-lister Warren James (Justin Shilton) totally attempting to rape a young fan (Scout Taylor-Compton – Halloween, Halloween II). Brooke, being a totally hot, feisty and opinionated lesbian (well it was the Sixties!) naturally objects to this sort of not-cool behaviour and stabs the would-be rapist in the throat. In a really hot, pouty way. A lot. Escaping to the desert in their car ("I just wish I could let the top down and let this warm desert air cleanse my body"), Brooke and Rhea then encounter God herself (supermodel-slash-actress Angela Lindvall), who, after she takes on the form of a cheap CGI sandstorm, is revealed to be A TOTALLY HOT GIRL! Who is naturally clad in very see through, very skimpy negligee. She offers to turn the pair into immortal, vampiric angels of death, destined to wander the earth destroying evil wherever they find it.
Cut to forty years later. Our leggy lesbian lovers are resurrected from their desert tomb/womb to begin their totally divine mission. This naturally involves a shot of them strutting along a moonlit desert highway in their sexy lingerie. Not in slow motion though, because that would just be silly. Enamoured with her newfound power and immortality however, sassy Brooke decides that satisfying her constant bloodlust is much more fun than doing God's work and goes on a totally horrifying killing spree that only Rhea can end!!
Life Blood holds much promise in its trashy, irreverent premise. Dubbed 'Daughters Of Darkness meets Thelma and Louise', the concept of hot lipstick lesbian vampires getting it on and kicking ass in the name of the Lord (who is also an alluring and provocatively attired hottie, of course) holds the promise of much guilty pleasure. But does it deliver on this lurid and preposterous promise? Hell, yeah! Well actually, yes and no. While there is much to delight here – lesbians, midget cops, boobs, gore, ludicrously funny dialogue, irresistible campiness and a sordid Joie de vivre all executed with a quirky camp charm, Life Blood positively zips along for its first act, content to revel in its own kinky trashiness. Until our lesbian lovelies need to seek refuge from the rising sun, that is.
When they hide out at a gas station, the movie pretty much slams on the breaks and doesn't seem to know what to do next. While it is necessary to the plot for Brooke and Rhea to hide from the sun in a confined location, and was also most likely due to budget constraints, the second act feels dragged out, with the rest of the film playing out in the confines of the gas station. Having Brooke kill and drink the blood of whoever enters the station just isn't enough, and the story skimps on the alluring promise of vampire lesbians ridding the world of nasty sinners. Even the priceless dialogue ("Can we close the blinds? This desert's really hot") can't keep things ticking over. A modest body count is racked up nonetheless as Brooke offs everyone who enters the gas station, appropriately (yet very oddly) called 'Murder World.' And that is pretty much it for the rest of the film! She also bumps of Rhea when they have a
The avenging angel theme recalls such titles as The Prophecy and recent clunker Legion, but Life Blood never really does anything with the intriguing premise of God-created, heavenly vampiric avengers sent to drain the life from sinners who cross their path. Instead, what we get is a movie set in a gas station in which two lesbians bitch and fight and kill some people. While its potential to become a future trashy cult classic is debatable, Life Blood still manages to unspool as a lurid, mainly enjoyable, blood-soaked romp with a distinct comic book vibe.
Hey, it's about totally hot vampire lesbians fucking shit up for God! What were you expecting?
Life Blood (cert. 18) was released on DVD (£12.99) by Chelsea Films on 11th October 2010.


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Turning movies into stage musicals is nothing new. "Ghost," opening at Hollywood Pantages, is neither the most inspired nor the weirdest idea.
The two most successful movie adaptations are Mel Brooks' "The Producers" and John Walters' "Hairspray." Both were modest hits as films that became huge on Broadway and then became popular new movies.
Some big musicals have different names than the films they are based on.
The 1968 "Promises, Promises" with appealing songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and a book by Neil Simon was inspired by Billy Wilder's 1960 drama "The Apartment." The 1970 "Applause," for which Lauren Bacall won a Tony, was from the 1950 classic "All About Eve."
In 1995, Julie Andrews played the same role on Broadway that she originated in the 1982 film, "Victor/Victoria."
Of course, Disney has created a factory of turning its movies into musicals: "Aladdin," "Beauty and the Beast" and even "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," which was a complete failure in 1979.
One reason it's popular to turn movies into musicals is that audiences are already familiar with the story. The hard part is the music, unless you bring that from the film as well, like "Victor/Victoria."
A jukebox musical with songs from other sources can solve that. The recently opened Broadway adaptation of Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" uses a collection of familiar Tin Pan Alley tunes.
Coming up with an original memorable score, however, may be the biggest obstacle. Otherwise, there are really no rules for transforming a movie into a musical.
While stage shows can be limited in what they can do as opposed to the freedom of film, imagination can make up for it. Take "The Lion King." How do you adapt animated animals for the theater?
As it turned out, the invented, brilliant and colorful headdresses created a fantastic visage for the animal characters, which the actors could remove in key scenes to display their inner emotions — an effective and moving spectacle that took the stage version far beyond the film.
"Mary Poppins" still kept the beloved governess flying (with wires) but upped the ante by doing something that wouldn't seem as effective on film, having chimneysweep Bert tap dancing upside down across the proscenium during the song "Step in Time" — a wow moment live.
When a musical is adapted into a film, it obviously has the ability to open up the story; think of that panoramic helicopter shot where Julie Andrews sings that the "the hills are alive" in "The Sound of Music."
But some directors prefer to stick with the intimacy of the music like Clint Eastwood did in "Jersey Boys," or Tom Hooper with "Les Misérables," in which he didn't take the camera off the actors as they sang their numbers.
This worked marvelously for Anne Hathaway playing Fantine. Her jaw-dropping up-close performance of "I Dreamed a Dream" won her an Oscar for only about 15 minutes of total screen time in the film.
There are certainly lots of attempts to make films into musicals, including the porn flick "Debbie Does Dallas." The original stage version had no nudity and never made the Great White Way, but has played around the world, sometimes in racier productions.
"A Little Night Music" inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night," was a major hit. Of course, it's a Stephen Sondheim musical — always a recipe for success — with the memorable song, "Send in the Clowns."
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European shares, oil and gold rose strongly on Wednesday after U.S. politicians struck a long-awaited deal to avoid a fiscal crisis, while safe-haven dollar and German government bonds fell.
Lawmakers approved a plan to prevent huge tax increases and delay spending cuts that together would have pushed the world's largest economy off the "fiscal cliff" and into a likely recession.
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The Japanese yen also continued its slide, hitting its lowest level since July 2010, as investors bet that the Bank of Japan would have to take ever-more aggressive easing steps to support the economy and satisfy the new government.
The pattern was the same for bonds, where prices of higher-yielding Spanish and Italian government bonds rose and the German equivalent, usually favored by risk-averse investors, fell. The Bund future was last 89 ticks down at 144.75.
"The compromise is supportive for risk sentiment as we've seen in a few markets already and it should weigh on Bunds which should correct in line with (U.S.) Treasuries. Treasuries could even underperform," said Rainer Guntermann, a strategist at Commerzbank.
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by Pettus Read
The summer heat was making its presence known on the top of my hair-thinning head as I moved across the black-top of my favorite restaurant the other day as my "smart" phone began to ring its peculiar ring tone of a chime that only dogs and myself enjoy. The call was coming from Aunt Sadie telling me to come by and have some fresh cheese pie she had just cooked up. Cheese pie is an old dish our family has enjoyed for years and Aunt Sadie's is guaranteed to stop up every artery you have. The gooey concoction is baked in Lodge cast iron several years old and made from fresh creamery cheese along with handmade buttermilk dough. Just the thought of a bite made me tell her I would be by in a bit, as soon as I caught up on some work.
Instead of going to an office to finish up what I needed to do, I got out my iPad to check some emails and the latest news. Communicating has moved to our little square devices these days and I often wonder if we are really communicating or performing tasks. I'm now friends with folks I've never met, people have my identity who may be wanting to give it back, phones that are "smart" often show me how dumb I am and my newspaper now comes from the airwaves, cutting out my morning walk to the mailbox, doing away with my opportunity to share communicating the day's beginning with God. I've often wondered do we need to be as connected as we are? A visit out with Uncle Sid and Aunt Sadie gave me my answer.
I was looking forward to a summer afternoon's visit with the couple and sure enough, there they sat breaking beans into a green crock bowl. Across their laps were spread newspaper pages from today's edition of the local paper. I'm sure they didn't get their news today from an iPad and there probably wasn't much ink left on the pages after Uncle Sid got through reading it either.
Each of their laps held heaping mounds of freshly picked green beans from their own garden, and with expert regimentation, they were snapping the bean pods into inch pieces with the skill of a surgeon. Breaking beans on the back porch has always been a part of summer at their house. While picking up a handful of green beans and sitting down in a straight-back wooden chair near the couple, I started breaking beans alongside them. With the snap of each bean I could almost feel the stress and tension of the busy day from back in the city leak from my finger tips like water from a garden hose hooked to a bad faucet. And to think, many people pay fortunes to get professional help to relieve stress like this when all they need is a back porch and a newspaper page full of beans.
"Uncle Sid hasn't got lost anymore in 'Wall Marks' has he?" I asked with a grin on my face.
"Boy, (and yes, I'm turning 65, but he still calls me Boy) there are some places that a man can get confused in and that big old store is one place that this farmer finds a little bit confusing," he said.
"Now what were you looking for when you got lost?" I asked. I had heard the story several times but couldn't get enough hearing my favorite farmer tell it.
"I went looking for tractor grease and ended up in their camera and compact disc section," he said. "I asked some kid with his ball cap on sideways where I might find tractor grease and he said he never heard of such a thing. He then pulled out his telephone from his pants, that had slipped down a little too much as far as I'm concerned, and started doing that "text'n" stuff with his thumbs. After just a few seconds he told me that grease was on aisle 12 and maybe I should call my sitter to take me over there. I told him maybe he needed to turn his hat around straight because it didn't look like to me his head was on crooked and while he was at it, pull his britches up as well. I thanked him for his help and told him I didn't have a sitter but I still respect my elders," he went on to say.
Uncle Sid then picked up some more beans and got back to work, but stopped long enough to say, "There is just too much communication these days. Kids don't talk, but instead do this "text'n." They spend all their time "gogglin" for answers. If they don't learn how to talk to folks, in a few generations, everybody will be mute and have overgrown thumbs."
I knew I wasn't the only one who thought that! Maybe it is time to put away the "smart" phone and iPad. It would sure beat "gogglin."
- Pettus L. Read is editor of the Tennessee Farm Bureau News and Director of Communications for the Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation. He may be contacted by e-mail at
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The Associate of Arts (A.A.) degree is awarded for study in the liberal arts. It is designed for those students who have a broad range of interests and are not seeking a career-specific program. For those interested in a career in education, the A.A. will qualify you for the New Hampshire Department of Education Para II Certification* and will provide a good foundation for those intending to pursue a bachelor's degree with teacher certification. The Associate in Arts degree requires 60 semester hours of credit.
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thepanu necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 6 diseñadores freelance.
Hello to all artist's and designer wizards!
Our company provides a web service for private consumers and businesses (B2B). Our service is new type of bidding service which is based on everything individual or unique. Our website enables customers (private consumers or companies) in need of service or product to leave bid requests which are then distributed to matching service or product providers.
Our motto is that customers don't have to be experts in their own needs and that is how our service is working. We provide one of a kind "mapping tool" for ones needs and with the information gained by mapping tool, our service matches suitable providers for ones individual needs.
We don't sell any end user products or services and we are not online store. We are in fact consulting service for everyday life needs that cannot be found from store shelf's and usually are expensive or tricky purchases for normal consumers and little and middle size companies. In addition to creating viable business we want to encourage healthy competition between service providers.
Kilpailuta.Se (http://www.kilpailuta.se) is finnish and what it says or means is that it kind of orders one to make invitation for tenders (or bids).
Our target audience is wide. It ranges from companies from basically any industry to individual people in need of help in renovating. Basically our target audience consist persons that are 25-60 years of age. Products and services that are bidded trough our service are those that cannot be found from straight from store shelves.
1 main page, 1 subpage
We hope to create an image that is reliable, sensible and affordable and won't blend in with websites that are online stores (we don't sell any end user products or services and we are not online store). We are looking for something modern/contemporary that conveys clean and responsible image but not looking hard-line corporate.
Our logo is blue but rest of the layout doesn't have to be. Logo is in 4 deg angle
Websites we like, but not limited to following examples:
Header consists of
-adbanner and ad for it
-our logo
-place for a slogan
-links to pages:
-login/my info link
-link to register as a service user / provider
-search field
-links to facebook and similar sites
Footer consists:
-link to Terms and conditions
-Company info
-other relevant info and links
Main page is landing page and it consists header, footer and content area
Contentpage consists of header, footer, content area and left and right side columns which are category tree (for example of tree, see eveonline.com) and adcolumn.
In the mockups you can see different content elements we will provide.
Output needs to be layered psd file and all the used fonts should be freely available.
Layout in mockups isn't written in stone so you can use your imagination about the layout. For example the logo doesn't have to be aligned to the left or info box to the right.


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Johnny Lyall, Mt. Seymour, B.C., Canada.
Photo: Scott Serfas
"This past season I spent the majority of it moving. Here is a run down of how it went. First, I left my home in Vancouver and flew to Salt Lake City. After 3 weeks of bad weather I pulled the pin and headed to the Standard Films house in Tahoe. Within an hour of landing at the Reno airport, I found out that everyone there was going to Idaho. So that day I jumped into a rental car with Mathieu Crepel and Kazu and kept the back seat warm for a good 12 hours. I spent 2 weeks in Idaho where the stability was at an all time low and riding in the backcountry was very dangerous. So I hitched a ride back to Whistler with Jake Koia and spent a bit of time there before loading up my sled and truck and driving back down to Tahoe. After a good month in Tahoe I made the trip back to Vancouver, shot a day on Mt. Seymour and a few in Whistler before heading back to Tahoe for my third time. Two more weeks there and it was to the east coast of Canada for a Newfoundlandfeature and some hang time in Quebec. Finally I got back home to shoot a bit in Whistler and then finished the season with 3 weeks heli'n in Alaska with the Absinthe Films crew. Here are some photos that I was lucky enough to catch along the way."
Check out the Milking It video with Serfas here
If you are in the Vancouver B.C. area on November 28th don't miss Scott Serfas's Photo Exhibition:
For more of Scott Serfas's photo adventures click on this website link: www.scottserfas.com/


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Earth citizens of the future may look back on cinema in the late 20th and early 21st century and assume that Philip K. Dick was the only successful science fiction writer that ever lived, considering how often Hollywood dips into his bibliography. As a fan, I see little wrong with this, and the most recently announced adaptation of his work has me quite excited and intrigued. Electric Shepherd Productions, the production imprint of the Dick estate, will be producing a feature adaptation of the 1964 novel Martian Time-Slip, and they've tapped Dee Rees to direct.
Beyond the story's obvious potential merit as a film, it's Rees' involvement that makes this project so interesting. Martian Time-Slip will be her second feature, following the 2011 film festival favorite Pariah, which won Rees the Excellence in Cinematography Award at Sundance, as well as a Grand Jury Prize nomination. It tells the story of a 17-year-old Brooklyn girl whose life begins to revolve dramatically around her accepting her identity as a lesbian. It may not be the most distant storyline from the science fiction genre, but it's certainly in the running.
Deadline reports Rees will also be scripting the adaptation, which tells the story of a schizophrenic repairman living in a human colony on Mars as a way of coping with his condition. Personal politics, an autistic and nearly magical child named Manfred, Martian bushmen and time travel all converge into a pretty excellent story, which Dick expanded from the novella All We Marsmen, which he published in parts via Worlds of Tomorrow magazine in 1963.
Last year, Rees was tapped to direct the drama This Man, This Woman for producer Mike Lobell which told the story of a divorced couple who confront their past while sitting together on a long flight. That project sounded much more in tune with the heavy drama of Pariah. She was also attached to direct the thriller Bolo, but it's unclear where either of these projects are in their development stages.
This film would make it a busy year for Electric Shepherd Productions, which last produced 2011's The Adjustment Bureau. They've also got the Michel Gondry-directed telepathy drama Ubik, Disney's animated version of Dick's lone fantasy novel King of the Elves, and Marc Forster's adaptation of the reality-distorting short story The Electric Ant in development.
There's no sign of whether or not they would be involved with the potential Blade Runner sequel that Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford have been talking about for a while now. Below is the trailer for Blade Runner, the first Dick adaptation to make it to the big screen.


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Texas-based artist Adrian Esparza uses nails and the thread from Mexican sarape blankets to weave colorful geometric patterns. Growing up in El Paso, Esparza encountered these blankets on a daily basis. Using his background as a painter, Esparza observed that the blankets contained painterly qualities that he sought to deconstruct. The result is an unraveling of a Mexican cultural symbol into a new form, a multi-dimensional landscape of color and shape. Esparza's deconstruction and transformation of this cultural symbol reflects the displacement of identity that many Mexican-Americans experience as a result of migration. The wall pieces Esparza constructs from the serapes, though completely transformed, recall macrame and other handcrafts from the artist's culture. Through his work, Esparza reinvents the ordinary and asks the viewer to embrace the potential for creative transformation that can be found in the familiar and the mundane.
Esparza's work – titled "Wake and Wonder" – will be on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami as part of the exhibition, "Americana: Formalizing Craft," until May 2015.(via design boom)