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iPhone 5 rumour rollup for the week ending February 24
- 25 February, 2012 10:43
Beguiled by curvaceous images of yet another iPhone 5 "concept," the iOSsphere contemplated a future where iPhone 5 has a smaller dock connector and a 3D screen, and replaces your credit card.
Even though you'd be replacing it with something much larger and way heavier.
You read it here second.
"Sometimes all you want to carry is your iPhone (or any other smartphone) without having to worry about a wallet as well. It'd be much easier to just pay for anything you want with the phone."
~ Shawn Ingram, GottaBeMobile, on why "worrying about a wallet" is, or should be, a design focus for the iPhone 5
iPhone 5 will have a smaller dock connector
"Apple is fearless when it comes to driving the future," writes Rene Ritchie in a ringing post at iMore.com. "And the dock connector might be next on their list."
To be honest, Rollup doesn't immediately associate Fearless Futurity with the iDevice dock connector. We usually associate that with LTE+ or High-High Definition screens or six-core processors.
"We've heard that Apple is getting ready to ditch the dock connector as it's currently sized and implemented on iPods, iPhones, and iPads," says Ritchie, without even hinting from whom he might be hearing this. "The reason isn't anything political, like a new desire to conform to an outdated micro-USB standard, but typically Apple: to save space inside the iPhone 5 for what are now more important components."
His basic argument is that Apple has been ruthlessly imaginative in packing and repacking the iPhone's innards to optimize the use of the highly limited volume for components. "The dock connector as it exists now is a relatively big component that takes up, while not a lot of space compared to the entire assembly, a lot of space compared to the difference between mini and micro SIM."
Given that the iCloud synchronization and storage is now available, Ritchie notes, the use of that relatively big component is less important than it used to be. And more important are components like the long-expected LTE radio, and more space for a bigger battery to run it and higher resolution screens and a four-core processor.
"Apple probably won't go micro-USB either, because it's not faster and not Apple's style," Ritchie predicts. "A smaller dock connector — a 'micro dock' if you will — makes a lot more sense."
Such a decision would be a cause for rejoicing for many but for just as many a cause for weeping and gnashing of teeth because "not all current accessories would be compatible, of course, even if Apple offered an adapter dongle."
As with any Apple decision, the rule is: Get over it.
iPhone 5 3D display "a possibility"
Over at the aptly named PlanetInsane.com, Delaon has finally picked up on recent reports that Apple has been granted another patent for 3D technology and spun this gossamer filament of fact into gold. "3D Display a Possibility for iPhone 5", reads the headline.
As they say, anything is possible. It's possible that President Obama will decide to forego the next election and retire to Martha's Vineyard. It's possible that the alternative energy industry will figure out to way to make money without taxpayer handouts.
Delaon apparently is convinced that Apple is filing 3D patents left and right in a frenzy of innovation because Android smartphones have been leading the way in 3D, stealing a march, getting the upper hand, and so on. "The attempts of Android to offer a 3D smartphone have challenged Apple to file various bold patents for 3D displays in the previous years," he intones.
But as PC World's Ginny Mies concluded in her June 2011 review of the HTC EVO 3D, "Well, let's just say it is a very good thing that there's more to this phone than just a 3D display."
Reviewing the same phone for Wired's U.K. Website, Dave Oliver wrote "Your eyes may start to cross after a while, but it's certainly a fun party piece when you're showing off your pics and vids taken with the stereoscopic cameras -- though you've got to look at it straight on, and it doesn't take much of an angle to lose the effect." The technical term for this is "damning with faint praise."
Someone is being challenged, alright. But we don't think it's Apple.
iPhone 5 will have mobile payment feature to shut up clamoring consumers
"Consumers Clamoring For iPhone 5 With Credit Card Capabilities" screams the headline for Shawn Ingram's post at GottaBeMobile.
Frankly, this came as a surprise to Rollup, who goes days, even weeks and sometimes months without hearing a single clamor for the Right to Pay With an iPhone.
"Mobile payments isn't an entirely new concept, but it's a concept that many hope would become a reality much sooner," Ingram declares. The "many" probably refers to the venture fund backers who've poured money for years into various mobile payment software and hardware vendors, including near field communications (NFC) radios.
"Sometimes all you want to carry is your iPhone (or any other smartphone) without having to worry about a wallet as well. It'd be much easier to just pay for anything you want with the phone," writes Ingram, veering dangerously close to whining.
But he's got facts: specifically a "new Nielsen report," which shows that "71 percent of people who download apps to their smartphones want to use their phones to pay at store registers." And iPhone users are even more enthusiastic: 75% of them "said they would like to use their phones as a credit card."
Apple needs to wake up and hear clamoring. "The Nielsen numbers are one of the more compelling reasons why Apple should build NFC into the new iPhone," Ingram declares. "If Apple can make some sort of deal with credit card companies an iPhone 5 with NFC could make mobile payments much bigger than they are now."
If they build it, people will buy with it.
Ingram doesn't appear to have actually read the Nielsen report, instead linking to a VentureBeat story, by Jennifer Van Grove, who does link to it. Van Grove leads with a different Nielsen fact: "New data from Nielsen shows that nearly one-third of U.S. smartphone owners (29 percent) now turn to their devices for shopping dos and don'ts." Mobile Web, browser, social networking: we get that.
Then she continues: "And our new-found love affair with our phones is so promising, most of us are ready to close the deal — 71 percent of app downloaders said they'd like to use their phone to pay at the register."
The problem is that the 71 percent did not actually say that, according to Nielsen's own post. That post doesn't give the exact question the respondents were asked but a chart labels the topic as "Interest in using mobile phone as a credit card."
The possible answers are: not at all interested, slightly interested, somewhat interested, very interested, and extremely interested. We can assume the verys and extremelys are the aforementioined venture investors and people like Sean Ingram.
But "slightly" and "somewhat" are, let's face it, hardly "clamoring." The actual number for the iPhone app downloaders in the survey were: 18% extremely interested, 21% very interested (totalling 39% of the sample), 23% somewhat interested, 13% slightly interested, and 25% or one in four, not at all interested.
So one can say that 75% of these people selected one of four answers that all contained the word "interested" and therefore expressed some level of "interest" in using iPhone as a credit card.
But you can also say that 61% expressed little or no interest. Because, sensibly, they have many other, much more compelling things in which to be interested. So the Nielsen numbers actually become a compelling reason for Apple not to bother with NFC anytime soon in the iPhone.
iPhone 5 release ahead of schedule because iPhone 4S "losing steam"
That's the theory of Michale Cadiz, in a post at DailyMobile. It's based, very loosely, on some Gartner projections gleaned not from Gartner but from another story at International Business Times.
Gartner notes that the record-setting quarter benefitted by an extra calendar week, the holidays, and decisions by some number of buyers to delay iPhone 4 purchases in early Fall in anticipation of the new iPhone's unveiling. Essentially, the idea is that Apple's record-setting pace of iPhone 4S sales at the close of calendar 2011 will not continue.
But in his post, Cadiz writes that "Gartner expects Apple's market share to decline for a couple of quarters as holiday demands are sated and iPhone 4S' availability widens." But a decline in market share isn't at all the same thing as "losing steam" -- either through declining sales or a slower rate in the growth of sales. Not to mention the fact that widening the availability of the phone seems much more likely to increase sales than decrease them.
Cadiz says the improvements and changes in iPhone 4S – camera improvements, A5 chip, Siri voice assistant - "may not be sufficient to ensure a long-lasting success as the iPhone 4."
And why's that? "It's 'smallish' screen (3.5″ as against 4″ from its Android competitor), lack of 4G-LTE support, short battery life plus it looks no different than its predecessor factors greatly against iPhone 4S novelty," he writes. It's a bit confusing because Cadiz actually seems to be arguing that the iPhone 4S is in fact only a novelty compared to the "long-lasting success" of its predecessor.
In any case, the failing 4S is likely to cause panic in Cupterino, Cadiz suggests. "This [losing steam] may ultimately lead to Apple pushing through with their original plans of releasing iPhone 5 ahead of schedule (June or earlier) instead of waiting for October, exactly a year after iPhone 4S was released."
Another confusing comment, because it suggests Apple's original plan was to release iPhone 5 in June 2012, just eight months after the 4S, but then it decided inexplicably to wait until October but now, faced with the coming collapse of iPhone 4S sales, will go back to June.
Cadiz describes himself in his online profile as "a corporate slave by day, a full-time partyphile at night." It's not clear when in that 24-hour period he posted his analysis.
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The U.S. Department of Energy submitted 56 code change proposals for the International Code Council's (ICC) Code Development Cycle produced the 2012 I-codes. Thirty-two of the proposals were primarily related to commercial buildings, 24 were for residential buildings. The proposals were mainly to the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) though most of the residential proposals also applied to Chapter 11 of the International Residential Code.
The central theme of the DOE proposals is to improve energy efficiency. Additionally, for commercial buildings DOE attempted to make the IECC more consistent with ASHRAE Standard 90.1. Finally, some proposals were not intended to change requirements but rather improve the usability of the codes, fix wording, correct errors, etc.
DOE invited discussion on these proposals and on preparations for the ICC code hearings that took place from October 24 through November 11, 2009, in Baltimore, Maryland.
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South African Journal of Animal Science
On-line version ISSN 2221-4062
Print version ISSN 0375-1589
DAVIDS, A.H. et al. Genetic variation within and among three ostrich breeds, estimated by using microsatellite markers. S. Afr. j. anim. sci. [online]. 2012, vol.42, n.2, pp.156-163. ISSN 2221-4062.
Genetic diversity within and among three ostrich populations was investigated to corroborate whether these populations can be classified genetically as three different breeds. The DNA of South African Black (SAB, n = 30), Zimbabwean Blue (ZB, n = 32) and Kenyan Redneck (KR, n = 17) birds was assessed for genetic differences using 19 microsatellite loci. The number of alleles, as well as observed and expected heterozygosity of alleles, was determined. Genetic differentiation was measured using the F-statistic (FST) and Nei's genetic distance. Significant differences were observed among the three breeds. The SAB and ZB (F ST = 0.10 and Nei = 0.49) were genetically more similar, whereas the genetic distance between the KR and ZB breeds was the greatest (FST= 0.13 and Nei = 0.61). The SAB strain exhibited the greatest observed heterozygosity (Ho = 0.72) within its population while the ZB and the KR exhibited lower levels of heterozygosity (Ho = 0.68). Based on these results, it was suggested that crossbreeding between these breeds would lead to heterosis in commercial ostrich enterprises.
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Group features Confederate flag on specialty license plates in Georgia, renewing debate
ATLANTA – Georgia officials have once again approved a specialty license plate featuring the Confederate battle flag, infuriating civil rights advocates and renewing a debate among those who believe the symbol honors Confederate heritage and others who see it as racially charged.
The Georgia division of The Sons of Confederate Veterans requested the new plate. Its old one had a small Confederate battle flag. The new one features an additional, larger image in the background that covers the entire plate.
A group spokesman says it means no offense and people have a right to commemorate their heritage.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman Maynard Eaton tells The Atlanta Journal-Constitution the state shouldn't have sanctioned the move and calls displaying the emblem "reprehensible."
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On the cusp of 2013, I've invited 11 of the greater Houston area's top minds to write about something they believe, but cannot prove. A new entry in the 11 for '13 series will be published each morning during the holidays.
Today's mini essay comes from Carolyn Sumners, the curator of astronomy at the Houston Museum of Natural Science…
The Burke Baker Planetarium is opening a new show called The X-Planets in January. The number of confirmed planets orbiting other stars has just climbed to over 800. After doing research for a show about these exoplanets and the adaptability of Earth life to extremeconditions, it is easy to conclude that life on another world is statistically likely. Yet we still have no proof and we're pushing the limits of our observational technology just to find these alien worlds.
To detect the presence of an exoplanet, we measure the tiny dip in a star's brightness when an orbiting planet crosses in front. Detecting an exoplanet in this way is like finding a firefly crawling across a searchlight by looking for the decreasing brightness of that searchlight from 1,000 kilometers away.
We also use a high-resolution spectrograph to display the different colors in a star's light and detect an exoplanet by a tiny shift in a star's color as the orbiting planet tugs on it. We can measure a change as small as a meter per second in the star's speed, thereby detecting worlds as small as Earth orbiting other stars.
How must more sensitive our equipment be to detect the atmospheric signature of life on a distant Earth-like world? And also how will the public react? Would such data constitute enough proof? I suspect that with all the science fiction aliens in movies, the public will be more surprised if we don't discover little green or grey beings, or at least alien slime. It's impossible to prove the negative (that the aliens are not there) while conclusive evidence of life beyond Earth still eludes us.
To see other 11 for '13 entries, click here. And you can click here see entries from the 11 for '11 series that I published a year ago, and here for the 11 for '12 series.


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Here's one of our fave celebs Emmy Rossum, walking the red carpet at the premiere of her new film You're Not You in LA. Emmy paired a sultry LBD with matching black Jimmy Choo Escape Sandals especially for the occasion. These shoes aren't currently available in stores, but the rest of the brand's line can be found at Jimmy Choo, natch.
Emmy excels at accessorizing all manner of looks for daytime and night. We actually saw her running errands in a similarly fancy pair of suede cut-out Jimmy Choo Talka Pumps back in July. You can peruse all of Emmy's best looks, handbags, shoes, and Choos in "The Many Bags of Emmy Rossum" on PurseBlog.


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Working Glasses, 21Oz., Set of 4
An icon in French homes and cafes, the Luminarc ten-sided glass has become a worldwide kitchen classic for its durability and practicality. These are ideal everyday drinking glasses, perfect for juices and refreshments as well as hot tea and coffee. The plastic lids allow for easy refrigerator storage.
- Set of four 14-oz., 21-oz. or 24-oz. glasses with lids.
- Made of thick, durable, clear soda lime glass.
- Thermal shock resistant: Can be used for both cold and hot beverages.
- Ten-sided shape offers a good grip.
- Includes white plastic lids, ideal for storing drinks in the refrigerator.
- Lids are BPA free.
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- Additional lids available for purchase in select stores.
- Made in USA.
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- 14-oz.: 3 3/4" diam., 3 3/4" high, 14-oz. cap.
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The unique feature of this headlamp is its compact hand-crank dynamo charger, which ensures that you will never have to rely on batteries. Containing three durable LEDs (rated for over 100,000 hours of use), the lamp has three settings (full power, half power, and flashing) and can be tilted to four different positions within a 90° range. The comfortable headband is fully adjustable, can be worn directly on the head or over headgear, and has a clip for attaching the dynamo charger.
Two minutes of cranking produces about 20 minutes of light. You can also charge the dynamo battery using a computer USB port and the included cord (3-hour charge produces 3 to 4 hours of light). Also includes an optional battery pack that is held in your pocket and runs on three AA cells (not included).
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Residents debated the need Tuesday for 50 percent property tax increase the Bayou Cane Fire Department is asking voters to approve.
Residents debated the need Tuesday for 50 percent property tax increase the Bayou Cane Fire Department is asking voters to approve.
About 50 people attended a town hall meeting at the department's main station, asking questions about how the department functions and why the money is needed.
The department has put two tax proposals on the ballot that would:
n Renew a 20-mill property tax, or millage, used to run the Bayou Cane Fire Department.
n Levy a new 10-mill property tax.
Bayou Cane officials say the second tax is needed because a 2009 grant used to hire 14 new employees is set to expire. The district needed the extra manpower, and the grant delayed a tax-hike request then, Assistant Fire Chief Kenny Hill said.
Opponents of the request say the department should do without if it can't afford the extra manpower via the 20-mill tax it has long received.
Currently, about 85 percent of the district's tax money goes to salaries, benefits and uniforms. The rest pays for fuel, vehicle insurance and utilities, Hill said.
At the meeting Tuesday, firefighters said they responded to 10 percent more calls than the Houma Fire Department and did so with a $4.1 million budget compared to Houma's $6.1 million.
"Is this the permanent solution? No, I don't think it is," Fire Chief Ken Himel said.
The problem, Himel said, is that only Bayou Cane property owners fund the needs of people who work and shop in the community, which includes Southland Mall and the retail strip along Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Himel said the department has few options.
"You can't mention a sales tax because the parish council goes nuts when we bring it up," Himel said. "But that's a fairer way of paying."
The current tax brought in $3.6 million last year.
Terrebonne's tax assessor estimates the 20-mill tax could bring in $3.8 million next year, and the newly proposed 10-mill tax could bring in another $1.9 million.
"You want a millage, the teachers want a millage," Bayou Cane homeowner Michael Dalaune, 58. "It's better for me to have an increase in my insurance than to pay these millages that are going through the roof."
The first $75,000 of a home's value is exempt from property taxes in Louisiana, so the 20-mill tax costs the owner of a $150,000 house about $150 annually. The 10-mill tax will add another $75 a year to that same homeowner's tax bill.
Dalaune referenced insurance costs because firefighters have said they are worried the department will lose its above-average fire-protection rating of 2 out of 10 if it cuts staffing.
Bayou Cane resident Ray Husher, 69, who has attended the department's board meetings for years, said he would be happy to fund the department with more of his tax dollars.
"I have no problem voting for both. If it's going to be money out of my pocket, I'd rather pay for the millage and get better services," Husher said.
Bayou Cane resident Rob Brunet said he did not understand why the department had to ask for a renewal of its current tax and a second tax at the same time.
"Why couldn't you break it up?" Brunet said.
"I would rather go with the renewal now and the increase later," Himel responded. "But we're out of time."
If voters approve, the second, additional tax will be levied next year, and firefighters will get the money in 2014, Hill said. However, the renewal of the first tax won't be levied for two years, and firefighters won't receive the revenue until 2015.
If they waited a year or two to ask for an additional tax, they would have to tell voters, "If you don't vote for the millage, we're going to lay people off. If you vote for the millage, we're going to lay people off, but we might be able to hire them back," Himel said.
Dalaune asked why firefighters had to take fire trucks to lunch, and officials said it was because they are still on-call.
If someone approached these firefighters, telling them their house was on fire, "how would you feel if four firefighters looked at you and said, 'Be right back. Got to get the truck,' " Himel said.
Officials also used the town hall meeting to address information brought up in the past by those who oppose the tax increase.
Terrebonne Councilman Greg Hood wrote letters to The Courier, Daily Comet and Tri-Parish Times listing items the Bayou Cane Fire Department wanted to purchase and fund.
That was a wish list drawn up by former Chief Charles Long, Himel said.
"I would never budget to put up a $10,000 sign when the one we have is perfectly fine," Himel said.
The department will repair its training field, Hill said. Most repairs and purchases have been delayed in anticipation of a tight budget next year.
Residents also talked about a flier that former parish Councilman Ronnie Eschete is mailing to voters, which shows the department's increasing revenue and mentions a "union takeover."
Eschete has repeatedly said that government agencies can always think of reasons they need more money, but taxpayers have to cut them off.
Himel said Bayou Cane's union does not have collective-bargaining rights, and its members cannot go on strike. The only planned wage increases are the 2 percent annual raises mandated by the state, he added.
"In no way are we campaigning for a 'union takeover' nor are we rallying for increased wages for our firefighters," said Ricky Valenti Jr., president of the Bayou Cane Firefighters Association. "The association and its members have an excellent working relationship with the department administrators, fire chief and board members and plan to continue that relationship for many years to come."
After the meeting, Dalaune said he wasn't convinced. He'll likely vote for the renewal but against the additional tax, he said.
"I'm not voting for any increases," he said, citing that he recently took a $20,000 cut in his income. "I cannot justify giving anyone any more money."
Staff Writer Katie Urbaszewski can be reached at 448-7617 or katie.urbaszewski


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2009 Yamaha TDM 900 specifications, pictures, reviews and rating
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|Yamaha's profilation of this bike
|If you love all kinds of travel, here is the motorcycle that will take you wherever you want to go. The TDM900 is an ultra-versatile performer with a sportbike's soul, created to do it all, from taking you on unforgettable touring trips through the mountains to your everyday, workaday commuting trip.
|General information
|Yamaha TDM 900
|76.5 out of 100. Show full rating and compare with other bikes
|Engine and transmission
|897.00 ccm (54.73 cubic inches)
|Engine type:
|Twin, four-stroke
|85.02 HP (62.1 kW))
|88.80 Nm (9.1 kgf-m or 65.5 ft.lbs) @ 9100 RPM
|Bore x stroke:
|92.0 x 67.5 mm (3.6 x 2.7 inches)
|Fuel system:
|Injection. Electronic Fuel Injection
|Fuel control:
|Double Overhead Cams/Twin Cam (DOHC)
|Lubrication system:
|Dry sump
|Cooling system:
|Transmission type,
final drive:
|Wet, multiple-disc coil spring
|Chassis, suspension, brakes and wheels
|Frame type:
|Aluminium, diamond shaped
|114 mm (4.5 inches)
|Front suspension:
|Telescopic forks
|Front wheel travel:
|150 mm (5.9 inches)
|Rear suspension:
|Swingarm (link suspension)
|Rear wheel travel:
|133 mm (5.2 inches)
|Front tyre:
|Rear tyre:
|Front brakes:
|Double disc
|Front brakes diameter:
|298 mm (11.7 inches)
|Rear brakes:
|Single disc
|Rear brakes diameter:
|245 mm (9.6 inches)
|Physical measures and capacities
|Weight incl. oil, gas, etc:
|223.0 kg (491.6 pounds)
|Seat height:
|825 mm (32.5 inches) If adjustable, lowest setting.
|Overall height:
|1,290 mm (50.8 inches)
|Overall length:
|2,180 mm (85.8 inches)
|Overall width:
|800 mm (31.5 inches)
|Ground clearance:
|160 mm (6.3 inches)
|1,485 mm (58.5 inches)
|Fuel capacity:
|20.00 litres (5.28 gallons)
|Oil capacity:
|4.70 litres (0.31 quarts)
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I could literally fill my entire allotted space here saying what's wrong with the Manic Street Preachers' debut album. Far too long; questionably sequenced; lousy quality control; essentially the sound of one gifted but still learning guitarist and singer attempting to turn a series of slogans into actual songs.
But the magic of the Manics' early years is that all these faults are invariably cited as virtues: Generation Terrorists is the key document of the days when the band were a gang of faintly preposterous young provocateurs embarked upon on an extravagant crusade to tell society exactly what was wrong with it. Twenty years later, it feels like a memento from a more innocent time, before the darkness came.
And at its considerable best, one of Generation Terrorists's greatest virtues is how incredibly young the band sounds: with James Dean Bradfield's slightly quivering voice, 'Stay Beautiful's autobiographical-ish tale of teen rebellion ("all broken up at seventeen… we're a mess of eyeliner and spraypaint") and its wonderful chorus - in which a two note riff subs in for the words 'fuck off' – is sublime, all the vulnerability and attitude of Bradfield's Hollywood namesake, exquisite in its faux naivety.
The soul of this record is the healthy clutch of songs here cut from the same cloth, notably 'So Dead' ("you're gonna pay for my intelligence"), 'Tennessee' ("our epitaph reads like your sin") and 'Methadone Pretty' ("I accuse history, I accuse"), metallic updates on classic rock'n'roll with lyrics that read like an improbably soundbite heavy mash up of Nietzsche and The Ramones. If they'd wanted to, I suspect the Manics could have made a dizzyingly romantic ten or 12 track debut album entirely in this vein, one that would technically be 'better' than what they in fact turned in.
This didn't happen – instead the 18-track (19 in this reissue) Generation Terrorists is populated by an erratic series of creations spawned from the DNA of the Manics' favourite bands: Guns 'N Roses ('Slash 'n' Burn', 'Condemned to Rock'n'roll') ; The Clash ('Natwest – Barclays – Midlands – Lloyds', 'Repeat'); even, bizarrely, Public Enemy ('Repeat [Stars and Stripes]'). Some of this stuff is good, some of this stuff is bad: only a lunatic wouldn't say it was overegged.
Despite the timeless allure of the band's cheery declaration that they would set fire to themselves on TOTP after selling 16m copies of this record, which would be a double, I do feel that the album's sheer bulk – combined with the fact that on CD it's not actually a double - does tend to swamp some of the better tracks. Obscure punk cover 'Damn Dog' and 'Repeat [Stars and Stripes]' (a polished proto Big Beat dance remix from PE's Bomb Squad) are eminently B-side-ish, and I think there's a wider issue with the sequencing: the opening run of 'Slash 'n' Burn', 'Natwest – Barclays – Midlands – Lloyds' and 'Born to End' is solidly proficient rather than ball grabbingly arresting – no 'Welcome to the Jungle' or 'London Calling'.
But then, of course, we come to 'Motorcycle Emptiness', a titanic, six minute beat poem-cum-refutation of mainstream culture that sounds like it was written by a band at least a decade older and wiser, clean riffs singing like rockets and Bradfield's steely vocals making every line from lyricists Nicky Wire and Richie Edwards sound like some Old Testament proclamation. It is an astonishing song, and in many ways feels like the legitimate end product of the occasionally misfiring ambition around it. 'Little Baby Nothing', aka the Traci Lords duet that the band wanted to be a Kylie Minogue duet, is a bit rougher, but with its melodic piano line and discernible sense of narrative it looks forwards to the band the Manics would become while boasting the quintessential slogan-tastic coda of the band's career, with its immortal line, "rock'n'roll is our epiphany, culture, boredom, alienation and despair".
These two tracks represent the first appearance of that powerful sense of gravitas that would later define the band. They are, in essence, vastly more advanced pieces of songwriting than the rest of the record, and to a large extent they make up for its shortcomings – yes, some of Generation Terrorists is a mess. But look, in the end they could do this.
It's kind of to the credit of this 20-year-anniversay reissue that in terms of the main record there's no airbrushing. The remaster is fairly unrevelatory, merely adding a bit of volume. And there's the slightly desultory tacking on of the band's cover of 'Theme from MAS*H' at the end (it's a great cover, but in terms of the impact of the record it slightly pisses on 'proper' closer 'Condemned to Rock'n'roll's chips). This rerelease might have been an opportunity to have more of a tinker – prune a couple of tracks, maybe sub in the Heavenly version of 'Spectators of Suicide', that sort of thing. But tidying Generation Terrorists up would be untrue to Generation Terrorists and it's best left as is, I think.
There is an absolute fucktonne of bonus material available with this reissue, depending upon which version one buys. Having already waded through 19 tracks of the basic album, do you really want 43 more songs (mostly demos), plus a DVD documentary? Sure! What emerges from the documentary – entitled Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair - is not so much the story of what the record meant, more the story of how the Manics came to make it, from their first London gig at the Horse and Groom, via their short time on Heavenly, and on to the absurdly extended recording session for the album under the tutelage of slick US-based producer Steve Brown.
There is a lot from both Brown and the band on how the youthful, Jasmine Minks-obsessed Manics were sculpted into something approximating a rock band. The bonus music discs represent a fascinating window into the band's earlier years, when they were a lot more 'indie' in sound than the rock act they self-consciously honed themselves into. The Heavenly stuff is here, which is great, but particularly fascinating is 'Motorcycle Emptiness (South Wales Demo)', an alluring piece of twee-pop that sounds not unlike the band's heroes McCarthy, and almost nothing like the final record. The South Wales Demos in general offer a fascinating and far from unpleasant window into a parallel world where the Manics hadn't shot for the big time.
It's the archive footage on the DVD disc that seems the most important, though. Richie Edwards didn't play a note on this album, and it can be hard to visualise his role in the band prior to The Holy Bible. It's a joy, then, to see him and Wire provocatively fannying around with such abandon – it suited Wire having a partner in crime, more so than being gobshite in chief, and it's important to realise the band were having a good deal of fun back then. As they note in the documentary, despite the infamous '4 real' incident, Richie's problems didn't really start until after the release of Generation Terrorists . These days he tends to be viewed as a perma-troubled martyr, but I think I'd prefer to remember him like this: bolshy co-conspirator behind one of the most wonderfully eccentric debut albums of all time.
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Punk rock may not had the all-encompassing revolutionary effect that it orginally was supposed to-after all, disco and pop still reigned on the charts after the "sex Pistols" disbandment-but it left a number of musical upheavals in its wake. At the time, every musical genre that followed punk was termed "New Wave", in homage to the generation of French filmmakers that revolutionized the cinema in the 50's.[1]
In America, same of the very first punk bands indicated how the music would transform into New Wave. With their ironic reworkings of '60s pop, bubblegum and garage rock, Blondie and the Ramones had the melodic sensibilities, as well as the visual gimmicksthat would proveto be commercial New Wave success. However, Blondie-who were blessed with Debbie Harry's sexy, photogenic looks-made the commercial crossover, and the Ramones remained the cult act, no matter how hard they tried to break into pop charts with buzzing catchy rockers like "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" and "Rock & Roll Radio".[1]
MTV needed videous to fill their 24 hours of programming, and New Wawe, particulary New Romantics, become their key to success. Soon, these groups, who had significant success in England, began making across America, not only in New York and Los Angeles, but also in the mid-west. Elvis Costello, the Clash, the Go-Go's, the Police, the Cars, the Pretenders, the Talking Heads became stars thanks to MTV and mainstream radio play, but MTV's most significiant contribution was fueling the last great era of one-hit wonders.[1]-
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Q. Thinking back many eons, wouldn't a pair of passionate T. rexes heaped upon one another have broken some bones? How on Earth did dinos do it? –M. Crichton
A. Paleontologists have suggested they mated a little like lizards, with tails and legs intertwined, placing some mighty forces on the female's hind legs and the male's down rear leg. Too much weight to bear? Not at all, answers zoologist R. McNeill Alexander in Dynamics of Dinosaurs & Other Extinct Giants. Picture yourself walking: At times all your weight is on a single leg, doubling the bone stress of just standing. Running, you put triple the stress on each leg without causing problems.
Even if the down dino had to bear all the weight of the duo, peak bone forces would only have been about double the standing forces. Ergo: "If dinos could walk, they could also have sex– and obviously did both successfully."
Q. How in just a few short weeks might you convince someone you're a stock-forecasting savant, even when you're not? Don't really try this! –M. Milken
A. Take a list of 1024 investors and send them a letter on Monday, outline Edward Burger and Michael Starbird in The Heart of Mathematics. To 512 of them you write, "IBM stock will go up next week"; to the other 512 you say, "IBM stock will go down next week."
The following week, you send 512 letters to the group for whom you predicted correctly, and to 256 you write, "IBM stock will go up next week," and so on. At the end of that week, 256 people are starting to pay attention to your forecasting savvy. Then it's on to 128 letters, 64, 32, 16, 8, 4, 2.
"After nine weeks, two people will have seen you predict the future nine times in a row," the authors say. Now you ask them to send a large check requesting your next week's prediction, followed by an "up" letter to one, "down" to the other. Later, to assuage your conscience, you return the check to the person you misled.
Presumably, this sort of scam is illegal, but it happens inadvertently in another way: There are thousands of people who predict stock market activity, many in good faith, and some will be correct sometimes. "The moral of this story is beware of investment counsel that says, 'This expert correctly predicted the big crash of 1987,'" Burger and Starbird conclude.
Q. How do the words "blizzard" and "blizard" differ, and what's their origin anyway? –W. Skeat
A. As a massive wind-driven snow event, "blizzard" is of debatable origin, but initially it meant "a stunning blow" such as a boxer's knockout punch, says Randy Cerveny in Freaks of the Storm. U.S. frontiersman Davy Crockett himself once referred to "taking a blizzard" (in this case a rifle shot) at a deer. Then in 1870 an Iowa newspaper editor used "blizard" to describe a snowstorm that had "K.O.'ed" his city. Within a few years, papers in the U.S. and Canada were using the weather term.
The Great Blizzard of 1888, one of the worst in American history, unloosed 70 mph winds and 20-foot plus drifts and killed 400. Out of that blizzard came the story of businessman C. H. McDonald, who while mired in a snowdrift, collided with a hard object and got a nasty gash on the head. It turned out to be the hoof of a frozen horse, prompting him to later tell friends, "I'm the only man ever to be kicked in the head by a dead horse."
Q. Late one night, the Chief Medical Examiner for New York City got a call from the distraught family of a man who had died at a subway station, apparently by throwing himself off the waiting platform onto the rails. In that system, the third rail is "hot," possibly electrocuting him. At the autopsy, the examiner found no evidence of stroke or heart attack but did uncover a few curious burns. The moral of the story as it emerged from the investigation was a) an apparent suicide isn't always what it seems b) don't get drunk if you can't hold your alcohol c) even a minor act of indiscretion can kill you d) unsuspected dangers may lurk at a subway terminal e) curious burns uncovered may spark a curious conclusion f) all of the above. –R. Giuliani
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I've been immersed in the mission this week – San Francisco's Mission district. Block after colorful block surrounds Kiva's office at 18th and Folsom where we've been gathered just prior to our departures throughout the world. And while you can find virtually any type of cuisine in the area – from Salvadoran to Vietnamese to Senegalese – it's really all about the burritos. Last night's sampling was a bulging toasty tortilla jammed with spicy al pastor courtesy of El Farolito on 24th and Mission. Taqueria Cancun is just a short 5 blocks away where the carne asada super burrito lives up to its name.
As much as I enjoy the burritos, I'll soon be several thousand miles away from the Mission and writing about the best eatery in Khujand, Tajikistan. I have no idea what to expect and my only experience with Tajik cuisine is reading about it from 'The Google.' Something called cheburek is described as a deep-fried dough cake filled with ground lamb, spices and onions. Hmmm, sounds a bit like a burrito? Maybe not… but I'm confident that I'll put on a few pounds to insulate against the bitter Tajikistan winter. And of course there's the vodka, but that's for another post.
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MALIBU, Calif. – Behind Nicole Nesbit's career-high 26 points, UC Santa Barbara overcame a 14-point deficit to defeat Pepperdine 77-69 at the Firestone Fieldhouse on Tuesday night.
The Gauchos improve to 4-3 on the year and have now won two consecutive road games.
"It was a good win for us tonight," UCSB Head Coach Carlene Mitchell said. "In the second half, we were more aggressive on defense and we had terrific free throw shooting at the end."
Nesbit has now set her single-game scoring mark in back-to-back games. She led the Gauchos by shooting 8-15 from the field, 3-5 from downtown, and 7-7 from the free throw line.
As a team, UCSB knocked down 16 of their 17 tries at the foul line.
Also shooting perfect from the charity stripe was Melissa Zornig, who drained the last four free throws of the contest to keep the Waves out of reach.
The senior guard nearly recorded a double-double as she finished with 18 points and nine rebounds. Aiding in the UCSB comeback, she collected 12 points and seven boards in the second half alone.
At the 3:49 mark in the first, UCSB found itself down by 14 points after Bria Richardson knocked down a three-pointer to move the score to 33-19.
The Gauchos finally responded to Pepperdine by firing off a 10-2 run in the final 3:13 of the half.
Zornig started the run with a made jump shot from the left side. She, as well as Nesbit, went on to sink a long range shot before Mi'Chael Wright grabbed and offensive board and the put back to get UCSB within six at 37-31.
After the break, Zornig opened up second half play with a deep ball from the right wing to cut the lead in half.
The Waves managed to keep their lead through the first 9:30 of the second, but six straight UCSB points finally tied the game at 54.
On the tying play, Destini Mason picked up a defensive rebound and took it the other way herself. While at the top of the arc, she made a quick skip pass to a wide-open Jasmine Ware who finished on the baseline.
Mason finished with 11 points and eight rebounds, while Ware put up six points and five rebounds off the bench.
The Gauchos enjoyed high productivity from their reserves against the Waves, in particular from Ware and Kristine Brance.
The junior transfer found a season-high eight points and also added five rebounds. She scored all of her points in the second half.
Brance made back-to-back buckets for the Gauchos starting at the 7:40 mark in the second half. With her first take, she split two defenders on a crossover move and found her way to the basket for the open lay up.
She followed that display with a baseline jumper she nailed after creating space off a step back. The shot gave the Gauchos the 62-61 lead, an advantage they would never give up.
Of UCSB's final 15 points, 11 came from the free throw line as Pepperdine was forced to foul in the waning minutes of the game to keep up.
After giving up nine turnovers in the first half, the Gauchos only gave up possession four times after halftime. Conversely, the Waves coughed up the ball eight times in the last 20 minutes, compared to just six times in the first half.
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Dine Out for Farms™ is a national, week-long event that will bring together restaurants and consumers to support a sustainable future for America's farms. From October 10-16, participating restaurants will raise funds and awareness for our programs that support farms and help save the land that sustains us.
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New London — Two New London men were arrested Sunday night for allegedly robbing at gunpoint a group of men of an iphone 5 in the parking lot of the Wendy's restaurant on Colman Street.
Police said the incident happened at about 10:45 p.m. The victims followed the suspects who fled in a vehicle into Waterford. The victims called police as they followed the robbers.
Waterford police stopped the suspect vehicle and detained the men until New London police arrived. Police said a stolen .357 revolver was recovered in the car.
Shaquan Seales, 19, of 7 Griswold Court, and Yojang Torres, 19, of 168 Laurel Drive, were each charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree larceny.
Seales was also charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, fifth-degree larceny, weapon in a motor vehicle, possession of a pistol without a permit and theft of a firearm.
Police said the victims and the suspects are known to each other, and the incident does not appear to be a random act of violence.
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Longtime Stetson baseball coach Pete Dunn has been selected for the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
DELAND — It's impossible to talk about Stetson baseball without mentioning head coach Pete Dunn.
And vice versa.
The American Baseball Coaches Association will make sure the two are intertwined forever when it bestows its highest honor on the head Hatter next January with Dunn's induction into the ABCA Hall of Fame.
Stetson announced Tuesday afternoon that Dunn, who is embarking on his 34th season as head coach, will be among those inducted Jan. 3, 2014, at the ABCA Convention in Dallas. The full class will be released later this year, but last week it was announced that Jack Leggett of Clemson and Paul Mainieri of LSU also would be inducted. All three are among college baseball's top 10 active wins leaders.
"It is a tremendous honor for me to be inducted into the ABCA Hall of Fame," said Dunn, who already is a member of the Central Florida Sports and Stetson University halls of fame. "To even be mentioned in the same breath as some of the men who are in the ABCA Hall of Fame is truly humbling.
"But this is not a recognition of Pete Dunn; it is a recognition of the accomplishments of all the young men I have had the extreme pleasure to coach and mentor over the years, as well as my assistant coaches whose loyalty and expertise make my job so rewarding. There's not a single coach in the Hall of Fame who got there by himself."
Dunn's 1,202 victories — all with the Hatters — rank eighth on the active Division I coaches wins list. Dunn, Mainieri and Leggett will join four other active top 10 coaches already enshrined — Mike Martin of Florida State, Mark Marquess of Stanford, Mike Gillespie of UC Irvine and John Anderson of Minnesota.
Dunn boasts a career record of 1,202-762-3 in 33 seasons as head coach at his alma mater. He has been a part of 1,355 victories — 71.7 percent of the all-time total for the Hatters — in his 39 seasons associated with Stetson. He has been involved in 2,203 games — 66.7 percent of Stetson's games.
"Yeah, I don't really know what those numbers mean except that I'm really old and have been around for a while," the 64-year-old said with a laugh. "I'm certainly proud that I've had the opportunity to do my entire college head-coaching career at my alma mater."
One of Dunn's former players is his boss, Stetson athletic director Jeff Altier.
"I cannot think of a greater honor for Pete than to be elected into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame," Altier said. "Ultimately, these are his peers and they are acknowledging and recognizing him as one of the most outstanding college baseball coaches ever. His election to the Hall of Fame certainly comes as no surprise to me."
There are 19 voting members on the ABCA Hall of Fame Committee, and a candidate must be named on 75 percent of the ballots to gain induction.
Dunn's name has been synonymous with the Hatters, something Stetson University President Wendy B. Libby has experienced in her travels.
"As I travel across the United States, it is remarkable how many people know about our university because of the success of Coach Dunn and his team," Libby said. "I am thrilled that he has been recognized by the ABCA for his lifelong contributions to the game of baseball."
Dunn has led the Hatters to 13 NCAA Regional Tournament appearances in his career and has captured eight Atlantic Sun Conference titles. He has been named the league's coach of the year six times.
The ABCA Hall of Fame currently includes 260 members, including Ron Polk, one of Dunn's mentors, who coached at Georgia Southern, Mississippi State and Georgia. Dunn spent two seasons as a graduate assistant coach for Polk at Georgia Southern.
"I was blessed to have a chance to play for and work for two of the best college baseball coaches the sport has ever known," Dunn said. "I played for coach Jim Ward here at Stetson and later worked for him for three years. He is one of the best baseball minds I have ever known. He gave me the chance to come back to Stetson to coach, and I will forever be grateful for that.
"Coach Polk gave me the opportunity to get into college coaching when he brought me to Georgia Southern in 1972. I am proud to say that I had the privilege to work under one of the greatest college coaches of all time."
Dunn came to Stetson in the fall of 1968 as a transfer student and catcher from Brevard Community College. He played for two seasons before the Kansas City Royals gave him a chance to play professional baseball, but it wasn't long before reality set in, he said.
"Like so many I had visions of grandeur of playing Major League Baseball," Dunn recalled. "After the reality set in that it wasn't going to happen, I knew I wanted to coach."
Dunn's invitation to get his foot in the door of college coaching didn't come anywhere near a baseball diamond. It came via time in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves, where Polk also was serving. Polk had recently taken over at Georgia Southern and he offered Dunn a grad assistant position, which he accepted.
It was an unlikely start to what's become a hall-of-fame coaching career for Pete Dunn.


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Cats and dogs can be spayed and neutered free or at low cost at the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program's mobile clinics.
Animals must be at least 4 months old. Pets should not be given food or water after 10 p.m. the night before surgery.
A random lottery at 7:30 a.m. each clinic day will determine which animals will be seen that day and in what order. Lottery tickets will be distributed at 7 a.m. One animal per household will be accepted each day.
Pets belonging to individuals on government assistance will receive the service free. To learn the price schedule for others or to find out more about the pet-sterilization service, call 210-673-7722.
Jan. 23: H-E-B, 735 SW Military Drive and Pleasanton Road.
Jan. 30: H-E-B Westlakes, 8219 Marbach Road
S.N.A.P. also has a stationary clinic at 6758 Ingram Road. Low-cost spaying and neutering is available there by appointment on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Call the phone number listed above to make an appointment. Appointments also may be made online at www.snapus.org.


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George Akerlof, the husband of new Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen, has an unpaid position on the board of an academic center funded by UBS AG, the giant Swiss bank, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal, on Wednesday.
Akerlof is one of eight members of the advisory board at the UBS International Center of Economics in Society, which was founded in 2012 at the University of Zurich.
According to the article, experts disagreed on whether Akerlof's board membership was a conflict of interest.
The Fed is set to finalize new rules on foreign banks operating in the U.S., including UBS.
A Fed spokeswoman told the newspaper that the board membership should be considered a relationship between Akerlof and the University of Zurich and not with UBS.
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Kristen Stewart is spotted out and about with pals after her split from beau Robert Pattinson on Thursday (May 23) in Studio City, Calif.
The 23-year-old actress left a waxing salon before hopping in the passenger's seat of her pal's car and heading to grab groceries at Gelson's in Los Angeles.
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Robert was seen entering an office building solo that same day.
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Nic Cage Quotes of the Day: Celebrated thespian Nic Cage's expansive acting range is laid bare in The Movie Miscellany's inspirational (if not-safe-for-work) rundown of the 100 Greatest Nicolas Cage Quotes.
Civil War Vet of the Day: Nic Cage is finally confronted with the irrefutable fact that he's an immortal vampire, makes up some unbuyable excuse supposedly explaining how he's not.
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Celeb Arrest of the Day: Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage (yeah, he totally won an oscar once) was arrested in New Orleans on charges of domestic abuse and disturbing the peace following a loud argument with his wife Alice in the street, though she was apparently not the complaining witness and no physical contact took place.


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This week, planetary scientist Alan Stern announced that he was stepping down as NASA's associate administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, the head role in the space agency's science programs. His departure was unexpected, and the agency gave no reason for the sudden departure.
The shakeup in NASA science comes the same week that NASA officials suggested that the Mars rover program would face a $4 million cut in its budget, potentially resulting in one of the rovers being shut down for lack of funds. NASA administrator Michael Griffin has now reversed those budget cuts, and has stated that no rover will be shut down. The space agency said in a statement that the initial letter regarding the budget cuts "was not coordinated with the administrator's office and is in the process of being rescinded."
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Jennifer Love Hewitt and "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson hit strip clubs in Los Angeles late at night looking for moves the actress could use in her sexy new video.
The actress was working with producer Jackson on her revamp of standard "I'm a Woman" as part of a video for her TV series "The Client List," in which she plays a happy-to-please high-end masseuse, and when it came to shooting the racy black-and-white video, Hewitt decided she needed to do a little research.
The star, who strips down to her lingerie for the saucy Matthew Rolston-directed video, says, "When I said I was gonna do burlesque (in the video) he (Jackson) said, 'I know these great choreographers who do burlesque.'
"Randy and I for, like, a month would go, at about 10 o'clock at night, to burlesque clubs… and hang out… and really seriously be like, 'That pelvic movement, that's gonna look good on my figure. That shimmy thing, no.'"
And the actress still can't believe no one recognized the pair and called in the paparazzi.
She adds, "No one wrote about it or saw us. I go to the cleaners and it's like in those normal things people do (sections of magazines). Randy Jackson and I were in burlesque clubs and nobody said a word. It was hysterical."


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Emergency Medicine
The Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Program at McMaster University is a one year program designed to provide physicians, who have completed a family medicine residency, with the specific competence to practice Emergency Medicine and the leadership skills to assess, promote, and integrate emergency health services in the community.
Both urban and community stream are available, depending on your career goals as a physician.
The teaching hospitals used are organized by specialty, such as burn/trauma, oncology, pediatric trauma, and emergency psychiatry. The hospitals, both urban and community, offer emergency departments with good patient volume supported by comprehensive medical and surgical services. Overall, the sites offer a wide range of patient problems.
Rotations may be tailored to your prior training and career goals, however, certain rotations are considered mandatory and must be completed. Rotations will include ICU, CCU, Surgery, Trauma, Orthopedics, Plastics and Emergency Medicine.
A typical residency year would include:
- 4 blocks – Emergency Medicine
- 1 block – Emergency Pediatrics
- 1 block – Trauma
- 2 blocks – ICU
- 1 block – CCU
- 1 block – Selective
- 1 block – Anesthesia
- 1 block – Plastics
- 1 block – Community Emergency Medicine
It is recommended that interested applicants ensure significant experience is gained in emergency pediatrics. We suggest using elective time in the first or second year of family medicine residency to obtain this experience.
Selectives are completed in a variety of formats and approval is based on a set of criteria. Historically, Selectives have included Toxicology in New York City, or an additional block of Trauma, Emergency or Surgery (lumps and bumps). These Selective are tailored toward your stated objectives.
Academic Activities
Emergency Medicine core content material is covered during weekly academic half days. Thursday mornings are the Academic Half Day for Emergency Medicine. Sessions include core content, Tintinalli Rounds, Skill Sessions, radiology, examination preparation, bioethics, and administration.
In addition, there will be four Simulation Sessions with high fidelity simulators through the academic year. Finally, there is a day in the Anatomy Lab practicing procedures on cadavers.
Research / Rounds
Residents are expected to complete a resident research project on evidence-based medicine skills. It is expected you have the ability to search data bases, critically appraise the articles and present the material at Resident Research Day. This may take the form of a CQI/QA project, literature search or a formal research design study. It is expected that you will display competence in preparing, practicing and evaluating evidence-based medicine.
Course in Ultrasound
An Ultrasound (US) Course following the EDE principles is offered in the early fall of the year. This course teaches the technical skills and didactic principles of Point of Care US (POCUS). The remainder of the course is spent scanning volunteers to achieve the required number of scans. We have ample faculty available to assist with attaining the required scans for full certification if you are unable to do so during the US Course.
Applicants must have successfully completed two years of a Family Medicine Residency Program leading to certification by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Applicants must also have written, or be eligible to write, the College of Family Physicians of Canada Certification Examination.
Application Requirement
The application process will run through the CARMS match. The website will be available at carms.ca. All applicants for the Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Residency Program are required to:
- Complete the National Application form
- Complete the National Match Registration Form
- Provide three letters of reference and Referee Assessment forms
- Provide a Family Medicine Program Director's Assessment of Applicant form
- Written letter to Dr. Erich Hanel, Program Director, Family Medicine/Emergency Medicine Residency program stating your reasons for wishing to join this program
- Send a curriculum vitae.
The Selection Committee will be chaired by the Program Director and will consist of resident representatives and faculty members from the Residency Steering Committee. For application deadlines and interview dates, please refer to the CaRMS website.
Rotation objectives
- Anesthesia
- Community Emergency Medicine
- Orthopaedic Surgery
- Pediatric Emergency Medicine
- Plastic Surgery
- Tertiary Care
- Trauma
Resident Research Day 2016
The effect of heart rate and age on the High-Sensitivity Cardiac
Dr. Nicole Desforges
Anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis: A review of the data and an approach to testing and treatment
Dr. Kyle Dorosh
Consequences of an Outpatient Treatment Protocol on Thromboembolic Disease Management in a community emergency department
Dr. Kayleigh Hagerman
Retrospective chart review of intubation practice of emergency physicians in stroke patients
Dr. Ashu Jain
Current patterns of pediatric emergency department visits within Hamilton
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Dr. Raj Vadera
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Hamilton General Hospital
Phone: (905) 521-2100 x 73547
Fax: (90) 577-8247
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CCFP Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Hamilton General Hospital
Dr. Jeremy Wojtowicz
Assistant Program Director
CCFP Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Hamilton General Hospital
Phone: (905) 521-2100 x 73547
Fax: (905) 577-8247
Dr. James Beecroft
Regional Education Coordinator
Niagara Regional Campus
CCFP Emergency Medicine Residency Program
Dr. Lorraine Colpitts
Regional Education Coordinator
Kitchener Waterloo Regional Campus
CCFP Emergency Medicine Residency Program
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The rainbow stories
Penguin Books, 1992 - Fiction - 541 pages
The thirteen stories in this book are populated by punks and angels, skinheads and religious assassins, streetwalkers and fetishists - people who live outside the law and and the clear light of the every day. Set in landscapes as diverse as ancient Babylon, India, and the seamy underbelly of San Francisco, these tales are laced with Vollman's fertile imagination. 'The Rainbow Stories' ushers readers into a world that bears an awful yet hypnotic resemblance to that of our deepest nightmares.
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The most trusted man in America didn't leave his longtime gal pal a penny.
Walter Cronkite divided up his estate among his three children and coworkers at CBS -- but left the longtime companion who spent the last four years of his life summering on the Vineyard and cruising in the waters off New England with the TV news legend high and dry, according to documents obtained by The New York Post.
Former opera singer Joanna Simon was not included in the multi-million dollar will, which was written in 2005 before the pair began dating and included the proceeds from the sale of his seaside home in Martha's Vineyard and a 32-foot power boat, The Post reported.
Cronkite, who left some memorabilia from his career to his alma mater the University of Texas, died at age 92 last month.
"He was the most remarkable man who ever lived and the love of my life," Simon told The Post following his death.
Cronkite's daughter, Nancy, told The Post that her father had never intended to put Simon in his will.
"It was about my mother," Nancy told The Post. "Dad said to us, 'I don't want to marry Joanna out of respect for your mother, and I don't want to share my estate with her.'"
Cronkite's former wife, Betsy, died in 2005. His three children stand to inherit millions. His chief of staff at CBS and other aides will end up with tens of thousands of dollars.


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Back when Marvel was in the casting and pre-production stages for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper's names were bandied about for the CGI characters of Rocket Raccoon and Groot. Given what we know about each actor, I automatically assumed that Diesel would go out for the gun-toting raccoon, while Cooper seemed a natural fit for the bizarre tree character.
It just goes to show you that Guardians, as directed by James Gunn, will be the superhero movie that keeps turning conventions on their heads.
Cooper was cast as Rocket Raccoon, and is still in the process of recording the voice of the unusual character, according to an interview with Collider that ran over the weekend. He admits that he wasn't familiar with the comic at all, but he loved Gunn and was excited to collaborate with the director of Super. As for figuring out the approach to Rocket's vocal tone, Cooper explained:
The one thing we debated was, you know, he's seen as a cockney accent sometimes. We talked about whether we would do that, or do this sort of other guy from the city. We're in the middle of [recording]."
Cooper went on the praise the work of his co-star, Chris Pratt, who plays Star-Lord in the movie and, I believe, becomes the leader of the misfit Guardians team. "Chris Pratt just blew me away," Cooper said. "I thought he's just like the perfect guy."
But will Guardians be the perfect film? It's based on a title the casual comic book audience isn't familiar with (much like Cooper, and other members of the cast). The franchise lacks a household name, a Captain America or an Iron Man. And while there are bona-fide celebrities in the cast – from Cooper and Pratt to Zoe Saldana and Diesel – the series lacks a Robert Downey Jr., a mega-star on which it can rest its fate. Guardians will have to win people over with its effort, with its charm.
Now, all of this seems likely, if Gunn can nail the tone that was present in that amazing Hall H footage from Comic-Con last July. It was sarcastic, chippy, adventurous and fun. It was Star Wars mixed with Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a raccoon who fires two machine guns at a time. It has such potential. We'll know soon enough if Gunn and his team are able to realize what Guardians has in front of them.
Guardians continues Marvel's Phase Two work, leading up to Joss Whedon's Avengers: Age of Ultron. Guardians of the Galaxy will be in theaters on Aug. 1, 2014. I wonder if a Super Bowl ad is in our future?


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Is it just me or is the first pitch of baseball games way more entertaining than the actual game?
Is it just me or is the first pitch of baseball games way more entertaining than the actual game?
In this 1980s Korean TV commercial for frozen chicken nuggets, Robocop breaks and enters into a home, eats chicken and steals their refrigerator.
Follow Up of the Day: Well, that didn't take long at all, did it?: A mere six days after its official launch, the Kickstarter project aimed at raising money to build Detroit a RoboCop statue has succeeded in its goal of raising $50,000. The project was started following the glib dismissal of the proposal by Detroit m
Worthwhile Cause of the Day: Detroit's mayor, Dave Bing, glibly swatted away a legitimate proposal to build a Robocop statue for his city. The Criterion Collection found this to be a poor decision on the part of Mayor Bing, and so did I. If you're in the same boat as myself and The Criterion Collection, all hope is not


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October 13, 2015
While people hurried through this New Zealand shopping center, this old lady had other plans. When the song, "Feelin' Good Ooh La La" by the DNC came on, she started dancing by herself in the middle of the square. Seconds later, a group of 80 more people joined her side, all between the ages of 65 and 96, making "The World's Oldest Flash Mob."
Not just a display of good fun, this flash mob was sponsored by Lifemark, an independent organization that rates homes for design and accessibility for the elderly and people with disabilities, to raise awareness of the need for specific housing for the growing elderly population of New Zealand. According to New Zealand's Ministry of Social Development, the population over 65 is expected to outnumber the population of children in the country by 2020. New Zealand isn't alone. The United Kingdom, Canada and United States are all projected to increase their senior populations to more than 20 percent of the whole by 2030, according to U.S. News & World Report.
By putting on this fun and lighthearted flash mob, Lifemark highlights another important point in addressing the needs of growing senior populations. In a feature by Business Innovation Factory, Joseph Coughlin, the director of MIT's AgeLab, says, "We consistently ask how we can design products for older adults, but we should be thinking about what is cool, desirable, sexy and fashionable." While industries are pigeonholing seniors to outdated preferences, today's seniors are diverse and have robust tastes and styles. Product design for seniors should not only address accessibility, but have an eye for style. One look at the members of this "Feelin' Good" flash mob makes it clear that while every dancer is lumped into one simple demographic, the truth is that each one has her own personal style and flair.
Uploaded in Aug. 2012, "The World's Oldest Flash Mob" continues to get positive feedback from viewers on YouTube. Recently, one viewer commented, "I thought it was awesome and brilliant!! Everyone seemed to have the time of their lives, and didn't care what anyone thought about it! I only wish that I could've been there!! Loved, loved, LOVED IT!!!" Proof that "senior" is not a bad word.
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