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By Lisa Capobianco
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When award-winning writer Andre Dubus III became the 2014 Southington Reads Author for the library, he said that he felt honored. As an author of six books, all published in more than 25 different languages, Dubus never takes pride in rewriting everything he composes, feeling like his work is never complete.
"It is very encouraging," said Dubus, referring to his title as the 2014 Southington Reads author. "When you finish a book, you do not know if it is going to be thrown off a cliff."
Dubus recently released his sixth book called "Dirty Love," which tells four long stories about love and betrayal among several main characters, including a project manager who follows his unfaithful wife. The library will display multiple copies of his recent book.
"There is something cleansing about writing about the lives of others," said Dubus, who added that the characters in his novels are based on people in his own life, including himself.
Growing up on the Merrimack River along the Massachusetts-New Hampshire border, Dubus started to write fiction at the age of 22 after receiving his Bachelor's degree in sociology. In his memoir called "Townie," Dubus shares his story about growing up with a single mother in a town full of drugs and crime. In order to defend himself, Dubus became a boxer and learned to fight so well that he even scared himself, he said. His memoir serves as a meditation on physical violence as well as the success and failures of love.
"The hardest part was writing about my family," said Dubus, who had a difficult time communicating with his father growing up.
A full-time teacher at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Dubus received numerous awards for his memoir including the "2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature," and received the title of number four New York Times bestseller, according to his website. His novel, "House of Sand and Fog," also became a success, becoming an Academy Award-nominated movie and an Oprah Book Club Selection. The novel also a number one New York Times bestseller and became a fiction finalist for the National Book Award.
Sue Smayda, the executive director at the Southington Library, said she felt impressed by the author the moment she heard him speak at the Connecticut Library Association's conference, where he spoke about the art of being an author. Smayda said Dubus is the right candidate for the 2014 Southington Reads Author because his novels, including "Dirty Love," spark conversation among books lovers.
"He does a terrific job," Smayda said. "I think this book is great for discussion."
Dubus will speak about his life as an author and his books at the Aqua Turf on March 18.
Although Dubus started writing later on in life, Dubus said his craft came naturally since he comes from a family full of writers. Dubus's father wrote ten books, including "The Lieutenant," "Finding a Girl in America," and the story collections, "Separate Flights." His first cousin once removed is James Lee Burke, who wrote more than 30 novels. Nell Dubus, his aunt, also writes novels.
"It is in the blood," said Dubus, who added that he felt like himself for the first time when he started writing. "I cannot go without writing—the writing creates more writing."
Andre Dubus III is the Southington Reads author
By Lisa Capobianco


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So yesterday I was thinking about what to wear to work and realized while looking through my closet that I have a pattern going on. I have tons of jeans, horizontal striped shirts and a butt load of jackets, cardigans and blazers. So I guess my BFF would be outer wear and scarves. When I'm deciding what to wear I always start with my jeans and then comes stripes and jackets. If I want to bring it up a notch, I throw on a fancy scarf and bold accessories.
So tell me, What's you're BFF (Best Fashion Friend)?

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SLATER & Gordon has confirmed that Julia Gillard faced a fundamental conflict of interest when she represented both a crony of her boyfriend and his union as a salaried partner of the firm in the early 1990s.
An independent legal opinion had endorsed the firm's decision to stop acting for both the Australian Workers Union and AWU official Ralph Blewitt when it became aware of the conflict in late 1995.
Slater & Gordon released details of the opinion in response to persistent media questions regarding Ms Gillard's role in giving advice on the incorporation of the now infamous AWU Workplace Reform Association in 1992.
A police investigation later revealed that her then boyfriend, senior AWU official Bruce Wilson, had stolen more than $400,000 from the association - including $100,000 spent towards the purchase of a Fitzroy property.
Both the formation of the association and the property purchase were done in the name of Ralph Blewitt - who last week gave statements to Victorian police detailing his involvement in the rorting of the association.
As a partner and deputy head of Slater & Gordon's industrial department, Ms Gillard represented both the West Australian and Victorian branches of the AWU.
But she confirmed on Monday that she had been representing Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt personally when she helped them, for the association, buy the Fitzroy property - and denied she had acted without authority.
''Did I need to separately advise the AWU this was occurring? Of course I didn't. The people I was dealing with were elected officials of the AWU,'' she told a media conference.
Referring to the Workplace Reform Association, she said: ''I was not incorporating this association on the instructions of the AWU; I was incorporating this association on the instructions of Mr Wilson and Mr Blewitt as representatives of a team of union officials who would run together for re-election.''
The senior partners at Slater & Gordon considered sacking Ms Gillard when they discovered in August 1995 that she had helped form the association without advising them or opening a proper work file.
In a statement released on Tuesday, Slater & Gordon responded to allegations that the firm had failed to notify the police or the AWU when it learnt of ''allegations of misconduct by its other client Bruce Wilson'' in 1995.
''Slater & Gordon has consistently maintained, and still maintains, that at all times it has acted in accordance with its legal and ethical obligations in relation to all aspects of the AWU matter,'' it said.
The firm said it had received late on Monday independent advice on those obligations from law firm Arnold Bloch Leibler and Philip Crutchfield, SC.
That advice had confirmed that ''in circumstances where a conflict arises between two existing clients, Slater & Gordon was obliged to, and did, cease acting [for] both.''
The statement confirmed that ''in the relation to the AWU matter'', the firm had ''acted for both a union and a union official [personally].''
In acting for the official the firm had obtained information that was confidential to the official and the disclosure of which to the union would have been a conflict between the interests of the union and the official.
''Slater & Gordon ceased acting for both clients after it became aware of this conflict situation,'' the statement said.


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"I come from a family of painters, writers, actors,
designers, and singers, so I guess a passion for expressing
myself is in my blood."
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21/1/2014 - The OECD area employment rate in the third quarter of 2013 – defined as the share of people of working-age who are in employment – increased for the second consecutive quarter (by 0.1 percentage point to 65.2%).
In the euro area, the employment rate rose for the first time since the second quarter of 2011 (up 0.1 percentage point to 63.5%) but remained 0.3 percentage point lower than one year ago. Compared with the previous quarter, the employment rate also increased in Japan (up 0.3 percentage point to 71.8%), the United Kingdom (up 0.2 percentage point to 70.8%) and the United States (up 0.1 percentage point to 67.4%) but it decreased in Canada (by 0.2 percentage point to 72.4%).
Among other OECD countries, the largest rises were observed in Portugal (up 0.7 percentage point to 61.3%), Slovenia (up 0.7 percentage point to 63.7%), Ireland (up 0.6 percentage point to 60.7%), Israel (up 0.6 percentage point to 67.3%) and New Zealand (up 0.5 percentage point to 73.2%). The largest falls were observed in Estonia (down 1.1 percentage points to 67.9%), Turkey (down 0.5 percentage point to 49.2%), the Netherlands (down 0.4 percentage point to 74.0%) and Denmark (down 0.4 percentage point to 72.4%).
The employment rate for older workers (aged 55-64) in the OECD area continued to increase, rising by 0.3 percentage point (to 56.5%) in the third quarter of 2013 and is now 0.9 percentage point higher than one year ago and 2.4 percentage points higher than in the second quarter of 2008. Over the last year, the older workers employment rate rose by 2.0 percentage points in the United Kingdom (to 60.2%), 1.6 percentage points in Japan (to 67.1%), 1.4 percentage points in the euro area (to 50.3%), and by 0.3 percentage point in the United States (to 60.9%). Over the same period it decreased in Australia, Greece, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain and Turkey. TheOECD areaemployment rates for other age groups were at the same levels as one year ago.
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text: Stay away from the iWill DVD266u-RN board. It has dual socket 370 and DDR 266 support which was very nice at the time it was released. Not to mention the bonus IDE RAID controller. If only it had an integrated video it would be an ideal board on specs. The keyword here is on specs. The onboard NIC almost never worked out of the box, some wont work even after reflashing them with the MAC address provided by the manufacturer. Of the 4 boards I have received for a prototype mini-wulf, 2 boards would not boot up. Upon closer examination, the Crucial DDR DIMMS that would fit nicely in most any DIMM sockets do not fit well in the sockets on this motherboard. It was impossible to get 4 256MB DIMMs in to the board and boot up to 1GB total. These were just problems off the top of my head. There were plenty other little quirks like not vendor not including a custom backplane cover, being shorted on the number PCI slots and such. In their defense, a defective board was replaced right away and that their pre and post sales support were excellent. This evaluation was the experience of one particular model that did not work out although everything in writing would have indicated that this is an almost ideal board for a 'wulf cluster. All in all, defintely stay away from this one model, though not necessarily the company. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lux" <James.P.Lux at jpl.nasa.gov> To: <beowulf at beowulf.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:13 AM Subject: onboard NICs to stay away from? > Does anyone have a handy list of particularly bad motherboard componentry > to stay away from? > > What would be useful is to know things like: > > Especially crippled on-board LAN interfaces (i.e. the drivers don't work, > it's badly implemented, no possibility for booting over LAN, etc.) > > Chipsets that are just so oriented towards consumer apps that they choke > the memory, or require some exotic (expensive) configuration, or have weird > video card interactions, or are totally undocumented in the "open literature" > > > Thanks... > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >


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To promote Street Fighter X Tekken, Capcom roped in a handful of women to cosplay as the fighting game characters. Dubbed "Miss St. X", the women are bikini models and starlets. One, however, stands apart when wearing funny shoes and throwing big, heavy balls.
See, Rina Ohtsuka, who is cosplaying as Tekken's Nina, is a bowler and is part some kind of a pro-bowling idol unit.
Female bowling has its followers in Japan, and Bowling Revolution P-League sometimes appears on late night television. "P" stands for "Pretty", "Power", "Passion", "Performance" and "Perfect".
So while not modelling or dressing as Tekken's Nina, Ohtsuka loves to hit the lanes and boasts a high score of 224.


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Four Seasons Resort Seychelles can customize itineraries for your group or special event as well as those travelling on solo excursions or with children. The Resort is the ideal location for small conferences, corporate meetings and large family gatherings. Each member of our staff is committed to helping you get the most out of your experience.
Arrival at the Resort
After being greeted at Seychelles International Airport, transfer to Four Seasons Resort Seychelles where you'll receive a warm welcome. Check in at the reception desk, then take a complimentary buggy ride to your villa.
- Spend the afternoon relaxing by the pool and enjoy lunch or snacks.
- Treat yourself to a massage and body treatment in the Spa.
- For yoga enthusiasts, practise yoga in the Yoga Pavilion as the sun dips into the Indian Ocean.
- Admire the golden sunset while sipping an aperitif.
- Enjoy a savoury Mediterranean dinner at ZEZ Restaurant.
- Wake up to breakfast in your villa.
- Begin with a swim off the pristine beach before a day of water sports such as snorkelling, diving and sailing.
- Fish for big-game fish in the Outer and Inner Islands.
- Enjoy a lunch of fresh seafood and fish at Kannel, where the chef will grill your freshly caught fish upon request.
- Bask in the afternoon sun and frolic on the beach.
- Sail away as the setting sun greets the moon, and dine under a star-filled sky aboard your luxury boat.
- Enjoy breakfast in the comfort of your villa.
- Take a power walk on the beach.
- Refresh with a private dip in your villa pool.
- Admire the views of the beach and greenery from the comforts of your tree-top hideaway.
After a relaxing lunch by the beach, choose from:
- A visit to two UNESCO World Heritage sites, Aldabra Atoll and Vallée de Mai, to see the famous Aldabra giant tortoises and coco de mer.
- An outing to Praslin to frolic on Anse Lazio, rated one of the top 10 beaches in the world.
- Wind down with sunset yoga at the Yoga Pavilion.
- Make memories with a barefoot candlelit dinner for two, served in your own cosy beachfront tent.
- Enjoy a morning swim in the ocean or pool.
- Take an aqua yoga class in the pool with a qualified instructor.
- Feast on fresh tropical fruit.
- Island hop to Cousine, Curieuse and St. Pierre on your choice of watercraft.
- Deep sea fish or bottom fish at Cousine.
- At Curieuse, get up close and personal with an Aldabra giant tortoise, large humphead parrot fish and the coco de mer.
- At St. Pierre, snorkel and dive among the rain fish.
- Recline, relax and feast at Kannel.
- Mingle with friends and enjoy a water pipe at Kannel Bar.
- Revive with a morning workout in the Resort's fitness centre.
- Breakfast at ZEZ restaurant.
- Book an invigorating facial in the Spa, coupled with relaxing foot reflexology.
- After a lunch at Le Jardin du Roi, tour the garden and learn about Seychelles' ancient spice cultivation, flora and fauna.
- Indulge in an afternoon snack of homemade ice cream in exotic flavours such as clove, lemongrass, cinnamon and rich vanilla.
- Journey to Bel Ombre region and listen to John "Cruise" Wilkins recount pirate tales from Seychelles' past.
- Savour a Creole meal in Victoria.
- Take an evening stroll around the historical capital, followed by drinks at a local bar.
- Wake up with yoga and meditation at the Yoga Pavilion at sunrise.
- Breakfast at leisure.
- Stroll through the Botanical Gardens in Victoria and learn about Seychelles' rich botanical species.
- Lunch in Victoria
- Explore one of the world's smallest capitals, with its vibrant and bustling market.
- Visit Victoria Natural History Museum.
- Look for the clock tower modelled after Little Ben in London.
- Unwind in the Library with a captivating book.
- Celebrate your last night in paradise with a memorable dinner at ZEZ Restaurant.
- Join aqua aerobics in the Resort pool.
- Take part in a game of beach volleyball.
- Enjoy breakfast on the beach.
- Have a farewell lunch at Kannel.
- Unwind with a Seychellois massage at the Spa.
- Browse for souvenirs and a special Seychelles memento at the Resort's Boutique and Art Gallery.
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David Lauderdale
Why a decorated Parris Island Marine would fight for a piece of headgear
It's a dirty, rotten shame.
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Paul T. Archie deserves a better ending after defending his nation in uniform for 26 years.
Archie was forced last week to resign his post as sergeant major at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and the Eastern Recruiting Region. He is no longer senior enlisted advisor to Parris Island's commanding general because he got into an altercation with a protester outside the gates of the boot camp in Port Royal.
Archie confronted Marine veteran Ethan Arguello because Arguello wore the distinctive head covering of the depot's drill instructors during his protest. Arguello is upset with President Barack Obama's negotiated swap of imprisoned Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners.
But it was the headgear, not the swap that's divided the nation, that brought Archie and the protester nose-to-nose as television cameras recorded a scene that tens of thousands of viewers would click to see.
The headgear the Marines call a "campaign cover" came off. Archie grabbed it in midair and drove off with it. The protester filed a charge of third-degree assault and battery. Archie was jailed and released. Three days later, he resigned after Headquarters Marine Corps asked him to retire or be relieved of his duty. A statement from the depot said the commanding general accepted his retirement with regret.
Obviously, the Marine Corps can't have its leadership on the police blotter. And Archie must be held accountable for his choices.
But this whole episode is a dirty, rotten shame.
Archie, 44, was an 18-year-old kid from Texas when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and shipped out to boot camp in San Diego.
Like the protester who is acting on behalf of seven colleagues killed while he served in the Middle East, Archie ended up seeing plenty of stuff we folks at home don't have to. In Iraq, his Marines were hit by roadside bombs about every other day.
When a friend was killed in Afghanistan, Archie told the Stars and Stripes, the newspaper for military personnel, about a letter the first sergeant had sent home just two days before he was killed. "Don't feel sorry for us," it read. "We're doing exactly what we want to do, which is protecting America from those who want to do harm to us."
Archie was awarded the Bronze Star for heroism in Iraq.
When Archie took his final assignment on Parris Island in February, he was returning to familiar Lowcountry sand. For three years, he had "made Marines" here as a drill instructor, and trained the men and women who make Marines in the Drill Instructor School.
Archie and the protester, a former drill instructor, were both painfully familiar with the Ribbon Creek incident on Parris Island. They all learn about the night in April 1956 that a drill instructor marched his platoon into tidal waters behind the firing range and six of them drowned.
From the tragedy emerged a quick effort to improve the quality of life for drill instructors. They got better housing, better pay, free laundry service -- and a distinctive "campaign cover" to engender greater respect for the role they play.
From one of the Corps' lowest moments came a new resolve. Its symbol was the drill instructor's stiff, slightly cocked campaign cover.
That's why a piece of felt that the uninformed call a "hat" is worth fighting about.
I've met many Marines over the years while working in Beaufort County, home of Parris Island and Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
Some civilians think they come across as too self-confident, too bossy, too loud, too dogmatic or maybe too pushy.
I'm glad they're on my side.
I'm glad Archie was on my side. I'm glad he appreciated the far-reaching significance of what drill instructors represent to America, and our freedom to protest against the president.
I don't care what codes and laws may say about the use of military uniforms by veterans or civilians. Common sense dictates that you don't stand at the gates of Parris Island, or anywhere else, in civvies and use a campaign cover to draw attention to a personal cause.
From what I saw on the video, the protester was just as confrontational as the sergeant major. The episode is a dirty, rotten shame that never should have happened.
Archie has paid enough for his choices that day.
The misdemeanor charge against him should be dropped.
Follow columnist David Lauderdale at twitter.com/ThatsLauderdale.
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Results tagged "2013 volleyball"
Today the ACC has announced its tentative ESPN3 lineup for Olympic
sports and Pitt will be well represented in its first year in the conference.
Volleyball, under first year head coach Dan Fisher, will have at least six contests broadcast live on the ESPN3 platform. Women's soccer will have five, including four at home, and men's soccer's three broadcasts will all be played at home at Ambrose Urbanic Field at the Petersen Sports Complex.
Check back on www.PittsburghPanthers.com for additional broadcasts added to the lineup as the seasons approach.
Pitt Women's Volleyball
· Pitt vs. Georgia Tech - Sunday, Sept. 29
· Pitt vs. Virginia Tech - Friday, Oct. 4
· Pitt @ Florida State - Sunday, Oct. 13
· Pitt vs. Syracuse - Sunday, Oct. 20
· Pitt @ Notre Dame - Sunday, Nov. 3
· Pitt vs. NC State - Sunday, Nov. 24
Pitt Men's Soccer
· Pitt vs. Wake Forest - Saturday, Sept. 21
· Pitt vs. Virginia Tech - Tuesday, Oct. 8
· Pitt vs. North Carolina - Saturday, Oct. 26
Pitt Women's Soccer
· Pitt vs. Boston College - Thursday, Sept. 12
· Pitt vs. NC State - Sunday, Sept. 15


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Watch Taylor Swift + Nicki Minaj in New 'Ellen' Promos
Can you believe Ellen DeGeneres is back with the 10th season of her talk show 'Ellen?!' No –we can't either! But she is, and she's asked a few favors from her friends (Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, and even Jennifer Aniston, among other stars) to help with some promos for the upcoming season.
In Swift's promo, the country singer gushes about the talk show host. "Ellen is completely amazing," she says. "I remember the first time I was on the show." But before being allowed to continue, Ellen herself interrupts the star from behind the scenes. She suggests that Swift try shooting a promo without talking, even "shushing" her and motioning for her to just smile – which Taylor happily, yet awkwardly, obliges to before getting a "perfect" from Ellen.
In another promo featuring Minaj, the rapper goes on to say that Ellen has that "boom badoom boom, boom badoom boom bass, she's got that super bass," and calls the show "groundbreaking." But Minaj isn't the only star of the same promo. Russell Brand, Charlize Theron, Carrie Underwood, Cameron Diaz, Justin Bieber, Steve Carell, and Vince Vaughn all gather to share their affection for Ellen.
We love Ellen too! Uh… anyone wanna hook us up with tickets?
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Southampton Town officials announced this week that they had raided a private 10-bedroom house in Water Mill that was, they said, being operated as a resort. On Sunday, police officers and town code enforcement officers entered the building at 76 Rose Hill Road and found numerous violations of the town building and rental codes, including two additional basement bedrooms, which were prohibited by the certificate of occupancy and the building plans approved by the town. The basement area of the pool house was in the process of being converted to a two-bedroom apartment to house two staff members, who were acting as concierges for the property. That conversion did not have a building permit.
A stop-work order was issued for the pool house, and records were seized to help in the investigation of whether the house was being used as a commercial business property in a residential area. The town does not permit rentals of properties for less than 30 days. The owner, Michael D'Alessio, and the two staff members, Megan Kemper and Mathew Ardley, were issued appearance tickets for several violations of the town code, including a lack of rental permits, a pattern of transient rentals, missing building permits, missing plumbing or electrical permits, changes of use, and violations of the house's certificate of occupancy.


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(The Root) — For two decades, the International AIDS Conference has played a vital role in assembling the global community to discuss new scientific advances and to mobilize action around fighting the devastating disease. Taking place in Washington, D.C., this week — the first time in 22 years that the conference has been held in the United States — the event also creates renewed urgency around the national epidemic.
Despite the staggering 1.1 million people living with HIV in the U.S., Kevin Fenton, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, is optimistic that government and community-based partners are now on the right track to stem HIV's tide.
In an interview with The Root, Fenton discussed the importance of finally confronting the reality that "not everybody is equally affected by the epidemic," new research that underscores the major impact of basic public-awareness campaigns and why he believes that, after decades of merely stabilizing the number of new HIV infections, a new federal strategy and new medical breakthroughs will get the country much closer to an AIDS-free generation.
The Root: Over the past couple of years, CDC has rolled out a range of new HIV initiatives. How do these efforts differ from past approaches?
Kevin Fenton: Everything that you're seeing now is rooted in the National HIV/AIDS Strategy, which was released two years ago. That was the first time that the United States had a documented vision, strategy and plan for addressing the HIV epidemic in a coordinated way in this country. The strategy was clear about what we needed to do: Reduce the number of new infections, improve access to care, address health inequities and work more collaboratively across government and with external partners.
It challenged us to not see the epidemic as "business as usual." We needed more focus, more targeting, more scale and impact. For example, our Enhanced Comprehensive HIV Prevention Planning program focuses on 12 high-burden cities that account for 44 percent of persons living with HIV in the United States. Our new social-marketing campaigns are geared toward raising awareness and addressing stigma and discrimination — all of which were in the national strategy.
TR: In contrast, how would you describe the "business as usual" prevention approach that CDC used before?
KF: There was a feeling that we had to view everyone as being equally at risk, and we had to cover everybody in the response. The reality is, we don't have the resources to do everything for everyone. And the reality is that not everybody is equally affected by the epidemic. The disease is not randomly distributed in the population, and we need to focus on those communities who are hardest hit. We know that those are gay and bisexual men of all races, African-American men and women, Hispanic and Latino men and women, injection-drug users and the transgender population.
All Americans need the basic tools about HIV to protect themselves. Everybody should know about HIV testing and how HIV is transmitted, and that is work we will always have to do. But you can target some messages to people who are HIV positive and people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV — the fact that we have very good treatments which are now available, that people who are living with HIV should be on treatment, suppress their virus and practice safer sex to reduce onward transmissions. There's a balancing act. And that balance is the reality of HIV 30 years into the epidemic.
TR: How is the National HIV/AIDS Strategy tracking so far in terms of results?
KF: There are some parts of the country that have already started to see declines in new HIV infections over the past couple of years. San Francisco has seen a downturn after an aggressive campaign of educating their local community — especially gay men — scaling up HIV testing so that more men are testing more frequently and ensuring that those who test positively are linked to care. Over the last couple of years, San Francisco has said, "If you're diagnosed HIV positive, we're going to offer you treatment. It doesn't matter who you are, whether they have private or public insurance, how high your CD4 count is; we're going to put you on treatment."
Treatment is effective in reducing the risk of transmitting HIV by 96 percent. It's one of the most powerful tools we have, and San Francisco has gone on record as being very aggressive. New York City has also been scaling up HIV testing and most recently has said that they will put more people on treatment as well.
At the national level, we're still holding the epidemic at bay. We're still seeing stable incidence at a time when more and more people are living with HIV — that's stable incidence when, theoretically, there are more opportunities for more HIV to be spreading. And that's good news. But we want to do better than holding it steady. I think we will begin to see declines occurring in cities and states which have more aggressive programs, and over time we will see more changes occurring nationally.
KF: In those first 10 years the conversation and awareness about HIV was much greater. The proportion of the American population who viewed HIV as a serious and urgent threat was much higher. Schools had lots of programs educating young people on HIV and sexual-health issues. And remember, in those 10 years we didn't have the sort of effective treatments that we have now. So there was a lot of fear there.
Over the past 10 years we've seen a number of changes. In our society we're not talking about HIV the way we used to. Data from the Kaiser Foundation suggest that only 6 to 8 percent of Americans view HIV as a serious public health threat.
Also in many schools across the country, we're seeing fewer with strong HIV-education programs and sexual-health programs. So that whole issue of sex education as well is changing in the U.S. as there's more pressure on school curriculum, and some states and jurisdictions have preferred to go with abstinence-only versus more comprehensive sex-education models. It's not my role to say which is better or worse, but it's clear that many of these changes can have an impact on whether we're able to give young people the skills they need to protect themselves.
TR: Going back to the government's new, more targeted and comprehensive approach to fighting HIV — do you feel confident that these will actually turn the tide on the epidemic?
KF: I took over leading this center seven years ago. I remember thinking about the importance of us having a national strategy, of working across the U.S. government together in a more focused way. I envisioned a future in which there were new resources, new partnerships, more effective ways of delivering the tools we have for combating HIV. Now I feel like we're moving in the right direction.
We have a lot more to do. But now we have a road map and new resources. The Food and Drug Administration has been on a roll as well. They approved the first over-the-counter HIV test, and they recently approved the use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, which is a drug you can take if you're HIV negative to prevent yourself from getting the virus. The landscape is changing very rapidly.
President Obama said last year that we're now at the beginning of the end of AIDS, and I firmly believe that we are. The key thing is to keep focused, renew that sense of urgency and continue to drive toward impact. And if it's not having an impact, let's use our resources differently until they do.
Cynthia Gordy was The Root's senior political correspondent.


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Mark Wahlberg will step into Michael Caine's shoes when he stars in a remake of vintage 1969 crime caper The Italian Job. Executive produced by Working Title, the new version will relocate the bulk of the action from Italy to Los Angeles. But the makers are keen to insist that the classic Mini Coopers that featured so prominently in the original will still have a part to play in the remake. Directed by F. Gary Gray (The Negotiator), The Italian Job begins filming at Paramount Studios on August 3.
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i have faith that if mark chose the film, he thinks it is worth remaking, and that is good enough for me.
look forward to seeing it
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Thanks for the info Mark!
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DCG- filming starts on August 3rd. its in the info mark s. gave.
I don't mind remakes, Mark has done a lot of new things in the past so I don't mind. Thanks for the info Mark! Anyone know where the Paramount Studios he will be at are? I think it says LA but I'm kinda illiterate at the moment.
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Here's alot more background on the movie. Figure since nobody seems to care much about spoilers cos you're all greedy buggers. LOL I'll cop to being the biggest infomation greed monster.
Discuss - stepping into Michael Caine's shoes on a UK cult film. Remakes esp in light if what Mark supposedly said on Extra [general discussion - 'back' by Mark S. April 24]...
Wahlberg to Star in 'Italian Job'
By Michael Fleming
NEW YORK (Variety) - Actor Mark Wahlberg is set to star in "The Italian Job," a high-octane heist drama that will begin shooting Aug. 3 at Paramount Pictures.
F. Gary Gray is directing the film, a remake of the 1969 caper that starred Michael Caine, Benny Hill and Noel Coward.
That film, though considered something of a stylish classic because of its clever use of the tiny, high-speed Mini Cooper cars for a memorable chase sequence, was much more of a comedy than the new version will be.
While the original was a gold heist set entirely in Europe, the new version -- scripted by Donna and Wayne Powers -- will begin in Italy, but with the robbery taking place in Los Angeles.
Automaker BMW bought the Mini Cooper and is releasing the first new models of the automobiles in 2003. That's good timing, because the cars will figure prominently in the revamped plot.
Wahlberg will play Charlie Croker, a career criminal who heads the crew that masterminds a massive gold bullion take. It is made possible when they create the largest traffic jam in L.A. history.
While that disables the populace, the criminals are empowered by their use of the Mini Coopers, which are incredibly fast but small enough to travel on sidewalks and the subway system while the city and the cops are
That plays to the strength of director Gray, who completed the Vin Diesel picture "Diablo" for New Line, and previously directed the logistically complicated action films "The Negotiator" and "Set It Off."
For Wahlberg, the film marks the second high-profile remake he's toplined in Europe, as he starred with Thandie Newton in the Jonathan Demme-directed "Charade" remake, which Universal is calling "The Truth About Charlie."
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No bashing from me; for the most part I totally agree with you.
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I just watched
the Italian Job
.It is amazing movie! I'm looking forward to seeing the remake of the film, even the shooting has not started.
With the remake version, it is said that it becomes a cool criminal action film cutting off the element of the comedy of the original movie. If the element of comedy is shaved, it will be like mixing "Gone in 60 Seconds" with "Oceans 11"? Because, some expert's friends are assembled to challenge a large crime. And police and some rival are going to chase them, ofcourse there are big car action sequences. And the guy who just came out of prison is a leader of the biggest crime.
I think that flight / pursuit scene using the mini cooper would become good rather than the original. I hope the gold robbery
scene and Italian mafias will also become more precise. Anyway, screenplay and casing are the key, I think. I wish the film will be more fresh! than we expect.
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Hi being from the UK I can highly reccommend you watch The Italian Job It has a cult following over here It is a very clever film.Mark must be happy with the dicisions he is making & the roles he is taking on .All true fans will love whatever he does.Good luck Mark
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i think it would be fun to do remakes. when you do an original, it's original. you get to chose however you want the character to be portrayed (with the director's lee-way). but with a remake, you get to test your skills to see if you can make it as good as the first, while making sure you do the original actor/film justice. i applaude mark for taking on the task twice.
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sounds like the big hit meets three kings...heist, boullion? i agree...enough with the remakes though! however, they do say the third time's a charm!
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Lianne or Mark,
Do either of you know if casting has already been completed for this film? For extra's or other roles? And if I read correctly, they will be filming 1st in L.A and then in Europe or is it the other way around? I don't have a agent yet so I have to do what I can to find this stuff out
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I can't wait to watch the Italian Job
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IPhone class receives rave reviews
Serban Porumbescu and Ken Joy organized an new course in the Computer Science Department at UC Davis during the fall quarter, entitled "Introduction to IPhone Application Development." This extremely popular course received rave reviews from the students, as was recently reported in CNET news. Porumbescu was a graduate student in IDAV and received his Ph.D. in 2008. He currently works for Tapulous, a company that produces IPhone Applications.
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IDAV Researchers chaired two tutorials at IEEE VisWeek 2009, held in Atlantic City NJ, from October 11-16, 2009. Christoph Garth chaired a well-attended tutorial on flow visualization and Hank Childs and Sean Ahern (of Oak Ridge National Laboratory) hosted a VisIt tutorial. An excellent review of the VisIt tutorial was written up in vizworld.com.
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IDAV offers an IPhone Application Development Course through the Computer Science Department
Ken Joy and Serban Porumbescu are offering an IPhone Application Development Course through the Computer Science Department at UC Davis. This course, numbered ECS 189H, leads the students through the App Development Process, culminating with projects that can be submitted to the ITunes App Store. The course is available on ITunesU.
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Hank Childs has been appointed chief software architect for a new Visualization and Data Analysis Center at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). The National Science Foundation, through the eXtremeDigital program, has awarded a $7 million grant to TACC that will provide a comprehensive visualization and data analysis to the open science community. Childs, a chief architect of VisIt package, a large scale visualization package will be working to expand visualization and data analysis tools for the Teragrid community.
September 1, 2009
Andrew Davidson spends the summer at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Andrew Davidson spent summer 2009 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology as part of the National Science Foundation's East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute.
August 20, 2009
Michael Neff Receives a $242K CreativeIT Award from NSF to study how computer tools support creativity
The National Science Foundation has awarded Michael Neff $245,000 for a three year study entitled "Increasing Creative Exploration with Computer Tools that Support Spontaneity and Embodiment". The study will examine whether graphics applications that focus on providing 3D gestural interfaces and allow spontaneous exploration can increase users creativity.
August 20, 2009
VACET/IDAV Featured in Wired Science's Best Science Visualization Videos of 2009
The video "Turbulent Flow of Coolant in an Advanced Recycling Nuclear Reactor" was featured by Wired Science as one of the best science visualization videos of 2009. This video shows turbulent flow of coolant into a moc-up of an advanced recycling nuclear reactor. The video was generated by Hank Childs of VACET/IDAV, Paul Fischer, Aleks Obabko, Dave Pointer and Andrew Siegel.
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VACET Researchers SMASH the Trillion Zone Barrier.
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August 16, 2009
Ken Joy and Christoph Garth receive $450K award from NSF for study of Lagrangian Visualization Methods
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August 15, 2009
Michael Neff Awarded CAREER Award by NSF
Professor Michael Neff has received the NSF CAREER award for his project titled "Generative Models for Character Animation and Gesture in the New Age of Art and Electronic Interaction." This research will develop new models of human movement to be used in character animation applications such as movies, games, and online worlds.
August 1, 2009
Hank Childs joins IDAV
Hank Childs, architect of VisIt -- one of the most popular frameworks for data analysis and visualization, has joined IDAV as a Professional Researcher. Childs, who holds a half-time appointment at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory comes to Davis after nearly a decade at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, where he was a member of the original VisIt development team. Hank, a member of our DoE VACET project, will concentrate on large-scale visualization projects while working at IDAV.
July 15, 2009
Ken Joy and John Owens receive $800K Grant from NNSA to Study New Methods for "Large-Scale Aerial Video"
Ken Joy and John Owens has been awarded an $800K grant from the National Nuclear Security Administration to study "Real-Time Three-Dimensional Exploration of Wide-Area High-Resolution." This three-year study will focus on development of new algorithms for visualizing moving elements in an "urban" environment, based upon large-scale aerial video images.
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John Owens receives an HP Labs Innovation Award
John Owens received an HP Labs Innovation Research Program Award for his research in "GPU Completeness: Computational Patterns and Analysis for GPU Computing"
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Ken Joy receives "Professor of the Year" award from the UC Davis Computer Science Club
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John Owens receives ECE Graduate Student Award
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Anjul Patney wins NVIDIA Fellowship
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Maruicio-Hess Flores awarded a Lawrence Scholar Fellowship
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I wanted to share my birth story….This is my third baby and my first time doing Hypnobabies…
On October 12th (after 2 days of doing maternity acupressure) I took 2 tablespoons of castrol oil in a sugar free chocolate shake. I started having pressure waves an hour later which continued for 5 hours (absolutely no castrol oil side effects which was a relief- I only took a very small amount).
My pressure waves lasted no more then 45 seconds and were irregular but some coming every 3 minutes. I stayed relaxed through out each pressure wave. I called my Doula at that time just to let her know what was going on. I listened to my early first stage CD and fell asleep in my bed. I woke up very relaxed. At that time my pressure waves stopped. It was a very nice and relaxing day. My husband was with our two boys so there were no distractions.
Later that night after my sons were in bed I decided to take another small amount of castrol oil in a shake (2 tablespoons). The pressure waves started an hour later…I walked around for most of them in center and said my peace cue word which worked help me relax. About 1030 I went to the bathroom and discovered that I had some bloody show. I immediately called my Doula and then my midwife who advised me to come in since I was 45 minutes away.
From this point on (after calling my babysitter and then my friend to come over so we could leave sooner) things went very fast..the pressure waves seemed on top of each other. We got into the car and I told my DH to drive fast (Later I realized I was already in transformation). I had my headphones on trying to listen while hanging on to car handle as my DH drove quite fast to get us to the hospital. The pressure waves were very intense and at one point my DH turned a corner and my headphones flew off of my head.
My DH told me later that I was very quiet with each pressure wave and the only way he knew I wasn't having one was when I spoke or sighed. I was saying to myself "baby stay in..baby stay in.." My PW's were not p***ful but they were so INTENSE (and this is b/c I think I only had 20 seconds in between each one).
My water broke and I immediately felt intense pressure of her head. I told my DH to pull over (he thought I was kidding at first!) He pulled into a driveway and honked the horn and started calling 911. I kept thinking I have to get my jeans off b/c I can't deliver her in my jeans. While my DH was on the phone with a dispatcher I took my jeans off and walked to the back of the van. My DH at that time was trying to get stuff out of the back of the van for me to lay down…the dispatcher was telling him that I needed to lay down….I told my DH that I didn't need to lay down.
I then told him "I need you to catch the baby now." At that time, I pushed (it felt so great to be able to push)..our baby into my DH hands. I toke her and discovered she had a loose cord around her neck..I pulled it over her head and started wiping her down with my DH's shirt that he took off. I then got into the front seat and put her to my chest and blasted the heat. Four minutes later the paramedics arrived.
We were then taken to the hospital were my Doula and midwife were waiting. Nora Jane weighed 7 pounds 15 oz and checked out just fine. I had a 1 degree laceration which was repaired with a few stitches. My DH and I look back and we just can't believe her birth story. We later discovered we were 10.2 miles away from the hospital. And the driveway where she was delivered the house was for sale and vacant. Which I am relieved b/c I really didn't need an audience at that moment.
My DH said that I was so calm and quiet through out the entire birth. I felt calm, but didn't realize how quiet I was b/c everything felt so intense inside my body as I was experiencing my labor and birth of Nora. I am so pleased and happy with my Hypnobabies birth experience. Nora is such a calm and mellow baby which I also contribute to Hypnobabies as well. My DH is an ER nurse and I worked as a L+D nurse for 5 years (I have been at home for 3 yrs now) and even with our experience it is a completely different feeling when it is happening to yourself. And not making it to the hospital is not something we ever planned or visualized, but she was ready and nothing was going to stop her from being born at that moment.


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One shareholder offered GM CEO Dan Akerson his vision for more comfortable drivers' seats. Another guy griped that he just flew in from California and wasn't offered any coffee. Another suggested trying to get the nickname "Greatness Motors" to stick.
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Diabetes is a common metabolic disorder in which defects in the way insulin is produced or acts within the body leads to high levels of blood glucose. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases estimated that in 2007 about 23.6 million people in the United States were affected by diabetes. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, metabolic syndrome is a grouping of clinical features that includes: abdominal obesity, high triglyceride level, low HDL cholesterol level, high blood pressure, and high fasting blood glucose. These features can increase the chances of diabetes, heart disease, or stroke. In 2007, about 47 million Americans were characterized with metabolic syndrome based on data from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. This number is increasing steadily as the prevalence of obesity in adults increases. This project will sequence 113 genes associated with type 2 diabetes in about 1,600 Caucasian individual from the FUSION study and 10 genes associated with metabolic syndrome in about 5,600 Caucasian individuals from the Northern Finland Birth Cohort.
Cardiovasular disease has a significant impact on the health and mortality rate of Americans. The National Center for Health Statistics reports that it is the highest ranked cause of death in the United States. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, cardiovascular disease is the inability of the heart to function properly. While environmental factors have a large role in the development of cardiovascular disease, investigators have identified many targets for genetic variation that may confer substantial heritable risk for the disease. This project aims to examine the spectrum of allelic variation in about 76 genes that contribute to hypertension, cardiac hypertrophy and dilation, aberrant cardiac electrophysiology, dyslipidemias, and diabetes in over 4000 unrelated subjects from primarily European-American and African-American participants in the Framingham and Jackson Heart Studies.
Tetralogy of Fallot is a congenital heart condition that includes a large hole between the lower chambers of the heart (lventricular septal defect), narrowing of pulmonary valve and passageway (stenosis), thickening of the right ventricle (hypertrophy), and a defect in the location of the aorta (overriding aorta). The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute reports that about 5 out of every 10,000 babies are affected by the disorder. The only treatment option is to surgically repair the heart. It is a significant cause of stillbirths worldwide. Recent molecular genetic studies of families with dominant transmission of heart malformations have led to the discovery of gene targets that are linked to the disease. This project will sequence about 77 target genes with evidence for linkage to the disease in about 765 individuals.
Approximately 2 millon adults in the US are affected by schizophrenia (Jablensky. Eur Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 250: 274-285, 2000). It has a high economic and quality of life burden because of the necessity for lifelong treatment upon diagnosis. The National Institute of Mental Health summarizes schizophrenia as a severe brain disorder that causes hallucinations and disordered thoughts or movements. At least 12 genes have strong linkage evidence based on family, adoption, and twin studies (Sullivan et al. Arch. Gen. Psy. 60: 1187-1192, 2000). This project will characterize these 12 target genes in 765 individuals involved in the diverse CATIE study.
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Unreleased Britney Spears Song 'Love' Leaks Online [AUDIO]
A never-before-released Britney Spears track has made its way online which has fans speculating about which album the song was intended for.
Even though the YouTube video lists the song as being titled 'Welcome to Me,' various sources on the Net -- including DigitalSpy -- say that the song title is actually 'Love.' A snippet of the song was once leaked but this video contains the full song, although still in a somewhat raw, unfinished form.
The snippet was once leaked with Britney's 2007 'Blackout' album cover which caused many to believe that the song was intended for that album. Others speculate, however, that the song was meant for her planned 2005 'Original Doll' album, which famously was never finished or released.
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HPI's exclusive limited-edition 1/43 scale die-cast model line-up now features the iconic Japanese supercar, the Nissan GT-R. This is the latest version of the legendary Skyline series of sports cars, code-named the R35. Although popular with sports car fans around the world because of its low cost compared to exotic brands from Europe and the fact it has remained a rear-wheel drive car, the Skyline GT-R's popularity exploded in the mainstream when it started appearing in hugely popular video games, comics and movies since the mid-1990's. The Skyline models have always showcased the latest driving technologies that Nissan engineers could fit into a road-going car, and the GT-R continues this tradition, with a twin-turbocharged 3.8 litre V6, four-wheel drive, rear-mounted transmission, a top speed over 310kph (193mph) and 0-60mph time under 3.8 seconds. As proof of its supercar status, Nissan engineers and drivers in May 2008 set a lap time of 7 minutes 29 seconds on the famed Nürburgring - just one second slower than a 400,000 Euro Porsche Carrera GT. We are proud to present the Nissan GT-R in a variety of actual production colours. These models are extremely limited in production numbers because of the special high-detail resin used for the moulds. Worldwide quantities will be in the low hundreds. HPI precision die-cast metal models are 1/43 scale, a convenient size for any desk or display case. Incredible attention has been paid to make the shape of cars as true to scale as possible. Fine exterior details like radiators, disc brakes, brake calipers, mirrors, wings, exhaust, headlight buckets, mirrors, tow hooks and radio antennae combine to make the models extremely realistic. Each car has a fully painted and detailed interior, steering wheel, and dashboard. These models come mounted to a display platform that includes a clear plastic protective case and the car can be easily removed from the platform for individual display. Every Nissan GT-R model is made in a special resin material that allows our designers to precisely replicate not just every curve and shape of the original car, but every opening such as door/bonnet lines and vent or grille. Compare a resin model with a normal die-cast metal and you will quickly see the difference! Each model is also sprayed with the actual production paint used on the real car, to give you an authentic scale reproduction. Our resin models are extremely fragile and the wheels do not rotate, so the model should be kept mounted on its display stand. Remember: HPI resin die-cast models are made in extremely limited quantities, once gone they will never be available again. Collect all of the HPI resin die-cast cars: #8404 Nissan GT-R (R35) Ultimate Metal Silver #8405 Nissan GT-R (R35) Super Black #8406 Nissan GT-R (R35) Vibrant Red #8407 Nissan GT-R (R35) Good Wood Festival of Speed #8408 Nissan GT-R (R35) Nürburgring Test 2007 #8409 Nissan GT-R (R35) Tokyo Smart Driver #8414 Nissan GT-R (R35) Nismo Club Sports Pkg #8401 Orochi Mitsuoka (White Metallic) #8402 Orochi Mitsuoka (Gloss Black) #8403 Orochi Mitsuoka (Night Purple)


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Milton Bugay, 92, a jeweler and pianist, who for 45 years, along with his wife, operated a jewelry store in Chestnut Hill founded by his father, died Dec. 31 of congestive heart failure at his home in Chestnut Hill.
Mr. Bugay and his wife, the late Margaret Bugay, managed Bugay's Jewelers, at 8638 Germantown Ave., from 1958 until 2003, when the Bugay's children took over the store's operation. The business was started by Mr. Bugay's father, Samuel, a watchmaker, in the late 1920s.
In addition to managing the jewelry store, Mr. Bugay had a successful career as a pianist who played at supper and night clubs throughout the Philadelphia and southern New Jersey areas. For a time, he recorded music on his own label.
During the 1970s, he played at clubs and restaurants in Montgomery and Bucks counties and taught a music course at Montgomery County Community College. Even at the age of 86 he continued to perform regularly, and at 90 was taking requests from patients while playing a grand piano in the lobby of a rehabilitation center where he was recuperating from a bout of edema.
According to his daughter Rosalind, Mr. Bugay prided himself on his knowledge of classical and popular music and continued to play Bach every day until a few weeks before his death.
Born in Philadelphia, he graduated from Germantown High School and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania until enlisting in the Coast Guard during World War II. As a musician, he was kept stateside and performed with bands at military hospitals and bases.
While stationed at Curtis Bay in Maryland he attended the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and stayed on after his discharge to complete his Preparatory Certificate. He then enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, but returned to Philadelphia after his mother's death in 1946 and re-enrolled in the Wharton School. With only three years left on his GI Bill, he persuaded the university to allow him to pursue a bachelor's degree along with a master's degree in music.
Mr. Bugay met his future wife, Margaret Dalton, while he was performing at a dinner club in Center City Philadelphia. He helped her to start a hair cosmetics business that became successful in the Middle Atlantic States. He wrote marketing commercials for late-night TV shows, and his wife, a model, would demonstrate the products.
In addition to his daughter, Mr. Bugay is survived by sons Samuel and Arthur, and eight grandchildren. Funeral services were held Jan. 2 at Goldstein's Rosenberg's Raphael-Sacks funeral home, with interment in Montefiore Cemetery. – WF


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The RTC Podblast: Scott Van Pelt EditionPosted by rtmsf on February 28th, 2014
As we count down the hours until the beginning of March, the RTC Podblast crew is excited to welcome ESPN Sportscenter anchor and all-around good guy Scott Van Pelt (@notthefakeSVP) to this week's edition. We recorded before several of last night's upsets, but we did get some conversation in about Kentucky's home loss to Arkansas, a discussion about the teams we think are truly most likely to win the national title, and a hard look at the best games in a fairly loaded weekend of action. As always, Shane Connolly (@sconnolly114) hosts the proceedings. Have a listen.
Also, as we head into March and the insane number of podcasts/podblasts that we plan on dropping throughout the month, remember to make sure to subscribe on iTunes so that you'll get all of the episodes immediately downloaded to your listening device. The turnarounds are going to be quick!
- 0:00-6:33 – Arkansas Completes Kentucky Sweep in Rupp
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- 9:51-15:37 – Reactions to March Prognostication Rankings
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Text-based (computing)
Usually used in reference to a computer application, a text-based application is one whose primary input and output are based on text rather than graphics or sound. This does not mean that text-based applications do not have graphics or sound, just that the graphics or sound are secondary to the text.
Before the 1980s, most computers were text-based. The operator used the keyboard as the main input device to type in necessary commands into the terminal that could only display text on a low-resolution monochrome video monitor. The majority of end-user software was also written in text-based mode during this time. During this era, operating a computer was considered to be a challenging task because of the complexity of the text-based environment.
However, with the development of the graphical user interface and the improvement in hardware, many software engineers started adding graphics for their applications. As a result, the pointing device that controls the coordination of the cursor on the screen became a primary input source (such as a mouse), and the graphics displayed with some text on the screen became a primary output source.
There is a lot of text-based software in modern operating systems, particularly in Unix and Unix-like, which can usually be accessed through the shell running in a system (or virtual) console or a terminal emulator. In these operating systems text-based programs continue to be the primary software for system administration, programming and scripting. On the contrary, Microsoft Windows contains far less text-based software, which is essentially the remnants due to the MS-DOS ancestry, even though there are still several programs for system administration and critical maintenance.
When the method used to access the operating system itself is text-based, the interface is usually referred to as a Command Line Interface (CLI). This function is carried out by various shells in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, and CMD and PowerShell in Microsoft Windows.
Benefits of text-based software
Text-based applications typically run faster than software involving graphics does. Text-based applications run faster because the machine does not expend resources on processing the graphics, which generally requires more system resources than text does. For the same reason, text-based applications use memory more efficiently.
Command line interfaces often provide the user more control on the software than a graphical user interface, by taking all the details of a command as parameters and/or by redirecting the outputs between commands. Since the available parameters are not explicitly enumerated, the application can accept many more options than an equivalent GUI-based software: a high number of options in a GUI would make it too complex and impractical, but that doesn't happen in a CLI. Thus the text-based input can provide more flexibility at the cost of learnability and a burden on user's memory.
As a result, text-based software can offer more powerful features than graphic-based software, such as combining the command using a pipeline that allows output of the first command to be used as the input of the next command. Using this, a complex operation can be accomplished in a single command line using a sequence of commands connected together in a pipeline.
In certain circumstances, text-based application offers faster user interaction than the graphic-based software does. Assuming that the user is fluent with typing, the user can enter commands faster than when using the graphical interface, because the users do not have to move their hands from the keyboard to enter different commands.
Limitations of text-based software
Many users may not find an application with a text-based interface very user-friendly. This is especially true for beginning computer users. While the user may learn how to operate the software by simply playing around or navigating through given options, a text-based system usually requires users to have a more detailed understanding of the commands. Many text-based applications have a menu or help system that shows the user some (or all) of the available options of the software.
Text-based software also has limitations on its output as well. Text-based output may not be considered very attractive to many users, and may be difficult to understand (compared to an output involving graphics). Therefore, certain operations cannot be implemented using text-based software, due to its limitation of range in its input and output.


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What is the Red Flags Rule?
As of Nov. 1, 2008, financial institutions have been required to comply with sections 114 and 315 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA). These Red Flag guidelines apply to "covered accounts" defined as: (1) an account primarily for personal, family or household purposes that involves or is designed to permit multiple payments or transactions, or (2) any other account for which there is a reasonably foreseeable risk to customers or the safety and soundness of the financial institution or creditor from identity theft.
Who is Impacted by the Red Flags Rule?
All financial institutions are required to have both written and operational identity theft prevention programs. Whether you are preparing for an upcoming deadline or staying current with the latest requirements, make informed decisions that expedite the process and maximize resources.
How do I know which Red Flags apply to me?
The Red Flags that will apply to you depend on a number of factors, including: (1) the types of covered accounts you offer and how those accounts may be opened and accessed, and (2) your previous experiences with identity theft. In order to determine the applicable Red Flags, you must consider these factors, as well as various sources and categories of Red Flags identified in the Guidelines.
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Whether a horseback riding vacation in the summer, or a ski vacation in the winter, the C Lazy U is a special place for all, any time of the year.
A place where western charm and hospitality are exactly what you would imagine they should be. More than an ordinary vacation or retreat destination, but a memory that will last a lifetime.
The Summer Season provides incredible family vacation opportunities. Endless horseback riding potential abounds. As an Orvis Endorsed Fly Fishing Lodge we offer some of the most spectacular fishing in North America. Outdoor pool, full service spa, tennis courts, mountain biking, and hiking insure that there is ample adventure for every member of your family.
In the Fall Season, the ranch is available for private group and corporate retreats. We are a private, secluded, and unique alternative for productive group events. Everything from meeting space to quality cuisine, to activities, to an impressive wine list is at your disposal.
Our Hunting Season is spectacular. We truly define "luxury hunting". Our guests enjoy access to over 16,000 acres of private land for quality elk and mule deer hunting. All complemented by our five spur service, accommodations, and cuisine. Truly the finest hunting experience in all of Colorado.
The Holiday Season at the C Lazy U celebrates a very traditional western Christmas. Horse drawn sleigh rides, tubing, ice skating, hot chocolate and warm chocolate chip cookies define our atmosphere. Santa Claus arrives in true western fashion with his magical bag in tow with gifts for all.
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This article is a travel topic
Running as part of a vacation has seen strong growth in recent years. Individuals wanting to complete marathons in different cities, states, or countries can do so with the numerous marathons offered all over the world. Companies such as Marathon Tours and Travel [1] operates tours that take traveling marathoners around the globe.
Marathons are not the only option for running on a vacation - both endurance races and shorter distance runs are also possible. Run the World [2] operates interesting culture/running tours to international destinations, and allows a traveller to run, but still soak in a large part of culture, which is often missed on a marathon trip.
The Hash House Harriers [3] are a running club that originated among expats in South-East Asia but has since spread widely, with well over a thousand groups in many countries. They do a weekly hare-and-hounds run, followed by a gathering at a local eatery. There are frequent regional gatherings called "interhashes".
Guided running tours are a new category of adventure travel. Experienced runners take clients on great routes and allow them to maintain a running routine while traveling on business or pleasure. In San Francisco, check out American Running Guides [4]. They bring runners all over the city and across the Golden Gate Bridge for some trail running in Marin County.
Here are some of the best places in the world for travellers to run; that is, routes that lend themselves to both sightseeing and a good jog:
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At its simplest, you can use the program to optimise and edit most digital images. ImageJ will open most standard formats, including JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP and GIF; you can then crop, resize, flip or rotate the picture, and there are all the usual tools to adjust brightness, contrast and colours, add text, lines and more.
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I need some advice., I live in a remote part of Washington State, there are no opportunities for schooling anywhere on the map. I am interested in the HVAC trade, and for my question, is there a universally known correspondence school course or online study course that is a considered to be really good and worth the money? I know there is really no substitute for a real apprenticeship, but there are no opportunities where I live, and to support a family quickly I will have to have some knowledge before I can be employable in any other town. I'm too old to start at minimum wage with a family.
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