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Liverpool could welcome back Jose Enrique, Pepe Reina and Glen Johnson when they visit Arsenal in the Premier League on Wednesday.
Left-back Enrique, who has also taken a more advanced role in the Liverpool team this season, has not played since tearing a hamstring during the 3-0 Premier League win at QPR on December 30.
Goalkeeper Reina has missed the last two matches with a thigh injury, while right-back Johnson sat out Sunday's shock FA Cup fourth-round defeat at Oldham with a hamstring problem.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is keen to put the cup embarrassment behind him by improving his side's league position over the coming weeks, and feels the return of the three absentees will help him achieve that.
"We've got players coming back from injury, which will be good," he said. "Glen Johnson is back, Jose Enrique will be back and Pepe Reina will be back, so we'll travel there with a strong squad and the mentality to get a good result."
Liverpool are in seventh place - seven points off a Champions League spot and 22 adrift of leaders Manchester United - as they prepare to travel to the Emirates. Rodgers' side have won six of their last nine league games, and the manager is hopeful that they can pick up another victory against the Gunners.
"If we put yesterday aside, the team that has been playing of late in the league has got big confidence," he said. "We know it's a tough game for us, but it's a game we're certainly going to look to go and try to win - and a game we're capable of winning. On the day, we can go and win the game. There's absolutely no question of that."
Rodgers said Liverpool's 2-0 defeat at home to Arsenal on September 2 was one of their poorest displays of the season, and wants his players to make up for it.
"We played Arsenal earlier on in the season and, because of circumstance, we weren't at our best and deservedly lost the game," he added. "But I believe we've made improvements, both mentally and tactically, in our game, so it will be equally as tough for them."


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Virginia is named for Queen Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen." (Which is almost certainly not an accurate appellation. She never married, but it's generally accepted that she had many lovers.)
The name Virginia was originally applied to all the English claims in the Americas, beginning with the failed colony or Roanoke in 1584 in what is now North Carolina. Like Louisiana, the current state but a small part of what was once encompassed by the territory of that name. The state of West Virginia was formed during the Civil War. The western counties of Virginia had relatively few slaves and did not agree with the rest of the state's secession from the union during the Civil War. These counties seceded from Virginia instead, remained in the union during the war, and were granted statehood in 1863.1
1Webster's Third New International Dictionary, edited by Philip Babcock Gove (Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, 1993), 2555;
Illustrated Dictionary of Place Names, edited by Kelsie B. Harder (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976), 577.
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In these trying economic times, I thought it would be prudent to try to save some money on the cost of my Cloud experiment. (Although a colleague of mine pointed out that my actions were "anti-stimulative.") I wanted to downsize my machine to the 10 cent per hour machine described as:
Small Instance (Default) 1.7 GB of memory, 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit), 160 GB of instance storage, 32-bit platform
I didn't want to have to start from scratch; I wanted to keep the database and all the applications that I installed intact. But how could I do that? I knew full well that once I shut my instance down everything was gone. This is where the beauty of Amazon's Elastic Block Storage (EBS) comes in. It allows you to create persistent volumes that you can then attach, format, and mount on an EC2 instance. If you shutdown the EC2 instance for any reason your EBS volume persists and you can then mount it on another EC2 instance.
EBS has its own charges and I estimated it would cost me about $18 per month for my 10GB volume. But I am saving about $72 month by decreasing my hourly costs by 10 cents, so my net savings will be more than $50 a month. Not bad.
So the idea is that I create an EBS volume, move all the database files necessary to run the database to that volume, and then start a database using those data files on the cheaper machine. With some help from my friends at the Oracle Cloud Computing Center, I was able to do just that and I have detailed the steps below.
First I needed to create my EBS volume. This is very simple using Elasticfox and detailed in the Elasticfox Getting Started Guide. Click on the Volumes and Snapshots tab and then the create icon. Enter the size in GB (I chose 10) and also choose an availability zone. This is important since you can only attach EBS volumes in the same availability zone as your EC2 instance. My instance was in the us-east-1b zone so I chose that.
Now that I have the EBS volume I attached it to my instance by going to the Instances tab in Elasticfox, right clicking on my instance, and choose Attach an EBS volume. I gave it a device name of /dev/sdf1. Next I need to format the volume as a file system before I can use it so I issue (as root):
$ mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdf1
Figure 1, Create an EBS volume
Mount it to a temporary place, like:
$ mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt
My instance had a mount point of /u02 which contained all of the file necessary for my database including the datafiles, control files, redo log files, etc.
$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9647 7116 2042 78% /
none 871 539 332 62% /dev/shm
/dev/sda2 342668 3000 322262 1% /u02
I copied all those files to the temporary mount point on /mnt. First I shutdown the database or the files will be unusable.
$ su - oracle
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL> shutdown immediate
SQL> exit
$ cp /u02/* /mnt/
$ exit #this will return me to the root user
Finally I un-mounted the current /u02 mount point and remount /dev/sdf1 to /u02. I only did this to prove I can start the database using the EBS volume with these data files. If I can't start the database using this EBS volume mounted as /u02, I don't want to proceed until I can.
$ umount /dev/sda2
$ umount /dev/sdf1
$ mount /dev/sdf1 /u02
$ su - oracle
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL> startup
In my case, the database started up so I did a shutdown immediate. I un-mounted /dev/sdf1 and then detached the EBS volume from this instance. I kept this instance available until I successfully started the database on the new smaller instance.
SQL> shutdown immediate
SQL> exit
$ exit
$ umount /dev/sdf1
With the database shutdown and the EBS volume detached, I created a snapshot of the volume. The snapshot is a point-in-time backup of the EBS volume and it is stored using Amazon's S3. Once I have a snapshot, I can create new EBS volumes based on that snapshot. This gives me the flexibility of shutting down all instances and deleting my EBS volume, and then I only pay S3 storage charges. I can create a new EBS volume based on this snapshot sometime in the future, start an EC2 instance, attach the EBS volume and I am good to go.
Figure 2, Create a snapshot of the EBS volume
Next, I started a new instance using the same 11gR1 32 bit AMI on a smaller instance with Elasticfox. It was important that I chose the same availability zone as my EBS volume, us-east-1b.
Figure 3, Launch the smaller EC2 instance
I connected to the instance using Putty and chose "No" when asked if I wanted to create a database at this time. This gave me an instance with the Oracle software installed in an Oracle home, but without a database. Now for the magic. I created a /u02 mount point under /, attached the EBS volume to this instance as /dev/sdf1, and then mounted it to /u02. To start the database on this instance I also needed to set my ORACLE_SID environment variable and create symlinks in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs to the spfile and password file in the admin directory on /u02.
$ mkdir /u02
$ mount /dev/sdf1 /u02
$ su – oracle
$ export ORACLE_SID=orcl
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/dbs
$ ln -s /u02/admin/orcl/dbs/spfileorcl.ora spfileorcl.ora
$ ln -s /u02/admin/orcl/dbs/orapworcl orapworcl
$ sqlplus / as sysdba
SQL> startup
And my database started on the new 10 cent/hour machine!


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1) Over 5,800 people died last year as a result of texting while driving.
2) One survey found 26 percent of mobile phone users have texted while driving.
3) 60 percent of teenagers reported that they have texted while driving.
4) 49 percent of drivers in their 20's said that they have texted while driving.
MELBOURNE, FL - The Trauma Center at Holmes Regional Medical Center, together with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office will launch a new campaign combating the dangers of texting while driving on Thursday, May 20, at 10:30am in the Melbourne Auditorium parking lot.
The announcement is part of a multi-media awareness blitz intended to highlight the dangers and sometimes deadly outcomes of texting on cell phones while driving. The message of the campaign is simple:
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The campaign will include ads on the air and in local newspapers. It will also include a new website where you can pledge not to text and drive, receive a certificate for your pledge, and encourage others to take the "don't text and drive pledge."
The website is: www.HealthFirstReality.org/NoText.
The campaign marks the start of a long term commitment by the Trauma Center at Holmes Regional Medical Center to educate drivers regarding the dangers of texting while behind the wheel.
On Thursday, May 20, at 10:30am, see a demonstration using cars and an obstacle course to show how texting impairs ability to drive safely.
The Trauma Center at Holmes Regional Medical Center and the Brevard County Sheriff's Office urge everyone to log on to the website, take the pledge, and don't text and drive!


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US evangelicals aren't the conseratives the used to be. And the implications for the election couldn't be bigger
Back in the day, when Jim Wallis started telling evangelicals they didn't have to be Republicans or even right-wingers to be good Christians, he used to wave around a Bible that had been cut to shreds. He had gone through the good book and cut out all references to helping the poor and social justice. What was left was thin and tatty, and he'd provocatively declare to evangelical audiences: "This is the American Bible."
Back in the 1980s and 1990s he was, to borrow the language of his faith, a prophet in the wilderness. The religious right was in the ascendancy. Movement conservatism and the self-righteous moral majority at its core was the face America had been showing the world since Ronald Reagan was elected at the end of the 1970s. In many parts of the globe it wasn't seen as a pretty face.
While movement conservatism waned slightly during the Clinton years (although Newt Gingrich and the majority Republican Congress kept the flame burning), Karl Rove used gay marriage, abortion and stem-cell research to turn the nearly 25% of Americans who consider themselves evangelical Christians into a potent voting bloc in 2000 and 2004. George Bush was their president, and God would bless them. The last eight years, however, have not gone as planned. Bush has disappointed.
Evangelicals will once again be a significant force in this year's presidential elections, but don't assume that the evangelicals you knew eight - or even four - years ago are the same today as they were then. Don't assume they'll stay loyal to movement conservatism and vote alongside the economic and national security conservatives. In those mega churches, those small-town Pentecostal gatherings and those soaring Catholic cathedrals, the mood has changed. A lot. Evangelical leaders are talking about "a quiet earthquake".
Wallis, the author of God's Politics and a new book, Great Awakenings, is a prominent, respected evangelical leader and says his message that God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat has finally sunk in. That tatty bible he used to carry round? "It's coming back together," he says. When we spoke recently about the religious right and the power it's wielded in this country, he told me plain and simple: "It's really over." As he's written elsewhere evangelicals are leaving the religious right in droves.
The 2008 elections will be different from 2004 in two significant ways. First, Wallis talks about "a level praying field". Both the remaining Democratic contenders speak openly about their faith in a way Democratic leaders have long been reluctant to. They're unashamedly reaching out to church communities, refusing to concede the Christian vote to the right. What's more, the churches are listening. On the Republican side, only Mike Huckabee is a truly evangelical candidate, and while he has won some grassroots support, most church leaders have refused to embrace his candidacy.
Some in the media lazily assume that the religious vote has simply been looking for a right-wing candidate they can relate to and, for lack of alternatives, will rally around John McCain if he becomes the inevitable nominee. But that misses Wallis' second point - that the evangelical agenda has changed. Evangelicals simply aren't the conservatives they used to be.
For years, evangelicals have voted strictly according to a few core issues, most notably abortion and gay marriage. No more. Wallis says the key issues in churches now are poverty, peace and social justice. The polls back him up. As early as October last year CBS News found that evangelicals wanted to hear the candidates talk about healthcare and the war in Iraq. Abortion and gay marriage were at the bottom of their priorities. When asked what issues evangelicals should be involved in, 33% said poverty and 17% genocide, compared to 22% who said abortion. Over 40% say a candidate's position on climate change will be "extremely" or "very" important in deciding their vote.
As Wallis says: "Most evangelicals will care more about the 30,000 children who died yesterday and the 30,000 more who will die today for the most stupid, unnecessary reasons, than about a gay marriage amendment in Ohio."
Why the change? Partly because the Republicans have failed them. Evangelicals signed a Faustian pact, handing over their mailing lists and votes in return for a conservative moral agenda. But those policies have gained them little. Abortion rates, for example, are unchanged. Far from spreading American Christian values, the war in Iraq has poisoned international relations. Their political and religious leaders have been dragged down by greed and sexual scandal. "They feel used," says Wallis, and he's confident a Rove-like fear campaign wouldn't work again.
But the change is more than political. Moderates such as Wallis have stood up to be counted and preached a Bible-based Christianity that isn't right-wing or partisan. The evangelical tradition - still only a few generations old - is maturing, and as it grows in its faith, it has found it increasingly hard to ignore the Bible's dictates on poverty and justice. In churches worldwide, creation theology - not creationism, but a stressing of the biblical passages that urge good stewardship of the earth - has grown in influence, spawning a fast-growing Christian green movement.
And there's another reason that's easily overlooked. Evangelicals, by definition, are committed to "spreading the word". Those mega churches have started missions all round the world, and what do you know? When they see poverty in the flesh, come face to face with people of other cultures and faiths, when they hear about human rights abuses first-hand, they are changed. They judge less and care more. You could call it a revelation.
Many of those missions involve young Christians, and it's Christian youth who are the beating heart of evangelical change. They care at least as much about the environment and poverty as they do abortion. "Most of them don't know or care about the Reagan coalition," Wallis says.
A poll in this month's Relevant magazine - a periodical for young evangelicals - is striking. I don't know the poll's methodology, only that "thousands voted" and that it was "online", so I take the findings with a grain of salt. Still, the findings are worth noting.
Almost 55% of those surveyed considered themselves conservative on "moral issues" such as abortion and gay marriage, but 44% said they were liberal on "social issues" such as poverty and healthcare. These people are not of the Moral Majority. In fact, asked who was the better president, 55% to 45% they preferred Bill Clinton to George Bush. The poll's key question was "who would Jesus vote for?" As you might imagine, Mike Huckabee did well, with 24%. But the top dog was Barak Obama on 28%.
What this means for the 2008 race is that, as I've written before, it's the Democrats' to lose. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were both able to win nearly 40% of the evangelical vote, but John Kerry only won 21%. If evangelicals are in the mood for change and open to the Democratic candidate talking healthcare and care for the poor, well, as Wallis puts it: "That's the election all by itself."
However, this is bigger than 2008. Let me preface what I say next by acknowledging that evangelicals haven't suddenly turned into San Francisco liberals or loyal Democrats. Most remain pro-life and anti-gay marriage, and those issues continue to matter. Many evangelicals haven't changed at all. But many, many more have. What we're seeing is a moderating, a recognition that Christian and right-wing beliefs need not, perhaps should not, go hand-in-hand.
What that means is the death of movement conservatism, as its central thread disentangles itself. For more than a generation, religious, economic and national security conservatives have tended to vote en masse, and Republican. Wound together, the rope has been strong. Yet in this Republican race each thread has its own candidate. The evangelicals have Huckabee, but he's open to big government spending and talks to "Wal-Mart Republicans, not Wall Street Republicans". The economic conservatives distrust him and when he talks of Bush's "bunker mentality" in foreign policy, the neocons wail. The national security conservatives have McCain, but he's an economic lightweight and he's long been offside with the religious vote. Romney was the guy for the Republican leadership, the money men. But as a Mormon and with little foreign policy heft, he was hardly loved by the other threads, and he was forced to exit the race. With every attack the candidates make on each other, the threads pull further apart.
To Wallis's mind, "they're splintering". He continues: "The three pillars of conservatism are not going to win the hearts and minds of the religious community now because the economic agenda fails the crunch questions of compassion and social justice."
Let the people say, amen.
This post first appeared in the Guardian's Comment is Free section on February 12, 2008.


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Broadly speaking, the high growth rates for this region have been spearheaded by a number of similar and distinct factors. All countries in this report collection have experienced strong medical devices import growth and steadily rising health expenditure. Medical devices imports, as we have seen in the last economic crisis in 1997, could possibly be affected in the short term, but like before, these countries are expected to bounce back.
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So CEO salary has increased by approximately 9.7% adjusted for inflation every year between 1990-2005 [1] (that is approx 300% increase over that time, so 4 times what they had in 1990). Anyway, that has a doubling time of years. Now median CEO (among the top 200) made approximately 10 million a year in compensation in 2010 [2]. In 2009 there were about 8.3 trillion dollars in existence [3]. Anyway, approximately a CEO makes a 1 millionth of the money in the world, or in other words, if we had a million CEOs we'd exhaust our money supply. It takes about doublings to get a million. Hence in years one CEO will make all the money in the world. And this is all inflation adjusted.
But we don't have to go so far to get into trouble. Now we did talk about the top 200, so when would the top 200 make all the money in the world. Well that requires only doublings so years. OK, so in less than 100 years, the top 200 CEOs will suck out all the money in the universe.
Anyway, the problem is the following: The companies are not rewarding an individual CEO for good performance. They are rewarding all future CEOs. The thing is, that there is no "starting salary." A CEO that just started is (statistically) making about the same as the one who's been around for quite a while. If you would start all CEOs at a base salary, then one particular CEOs salary could rise at 10% a year because he'd be with the company only a fixed number of years, the problem would be manageable. Now to whatever extent there is anything like a "starting salary" the increase an individual CEO makes is even higher than 10% a year. Essentially the starting salary is increasing at 10% a year.
Let's look at even a more realistic example of how quickly do we get into trouble. The CEO salary can easily be even 1% of the revenue for the company [4]. In fact some small private colleges are paying 1% of their budgets to their university president, a group where similar thing has happened. Well, now think about this doubling. If it is 1% now, it will be 2% in 7.5 years, 4% in 15 years, 8% in 22.5 years, 16% in 30 years, 32% in 37.5 years, 64% in 45 years, and we get 100% at less than 50 years. So in less than 50 years the entire revenue would have to support the CEO. Now you say, well but the revenue is also growing. Not so fast, the 10% pay increase is overall, that includes companies that did badly and those that did well. One would think that the growth of revenue on average (including failed companies) is not that much more than inflation. And this is adjusted for inflation. In any case CEO is definitely growing a lot faster than the economy (and hence your average revenue), and hence you hit the wall sooner or later. Even if we lob off another 2% to adjust for growth, the doubling time for CEO pay is still 9 years.
Of course a problem would appear a lot earlier than in 50 years. So it's not only the "rich get richer" and "things are not fair" argument. This state of affairs is actually unsustainable even in relatively short period of time (within our lifetimes). I think people don't understand that exponential growth is really really fast. That's why pyramid schemes never work. It's why Ponzi schemes usually fail far quicker than the perpetrator hoped. 10% increase a year does not seem like much (just like 10% return on investment doesn't seem like that terribly much).
[1] http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html (better sources exist, but I am too lazy to search further).
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/07/03/business/20110703-executive-pay-revisited-even-higher-than-it-first-seemed.html
[3] http://money.howstuffworks.com/how-much-money-is-in-the-world.htm
[4] http://yourperspective.org/index.php?action=read&value=16a2b99e-4847-102d-bdde-00065b3be33a


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Saving the Mangroves on the Edge of Marco Island & Goodland
There is a PLAN!! (click here)We can rescue the dying mangrove forest at the edge of Marco Island, and improve drainage around Goodland to both prevent future death of mangroves there and assist with improving road drainage and flood prevention.
What was once a lush, green stand of mangroves providing nursery habitat for fish and invertebrates like shrimp and crabs, and roosting and foraging spots for wading birds has become a muddy moonscape of leafless trees. Dead now for over 20 years with no sign of recovery.
The die-off on both sides of SR-92 just west of Goodland has been decades in the making. The constuction of SR-92 in 1938 cut off the water flow into and out of the mangroves fed by Fruit Farm Creek. Heavy rains that came with Hurricane Andrew in 1992 flooded the forest. Too much water essentially drowns the forest by covering parts of the mangroves' root systems needed to deliver oxygen to the trees. Waterlogged soils lead to a building of toxins that causes a "rotten egg" smell that wafts through nearby neighborhoods.
With sea level rise, more water came in to flood these areas, but like a bathtub, the water could not get out because the normal "drain" was blocked. With time the channel underneath the bridge on SR-92A has also become blocked and allows flooded waters to stand for long periods of time during heavy rains and increase the period of flooding on the road to Goodland. Without a solution, the mangroves west of 92A will show the extensive deaths seen north and south of SR-92. A Solution Is Needed!
That solution has in part been designed and permitted by Coastal Resources Group, Inc., and one phase of the work has been implemented. The solution as shown in the current restoration plan (click here) is to excavate a connecting swale on the north side of SR-92 to restore tidal exchange to the dead mangroves east of Stevens Landing. You can see the mangrove recovery there now! We call this Phase 1a. Phases 1b and 2 include the installation of three new culverts underneath SR-92, and appropriate monitoring to document success! With a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Coastal Program ($75,000) we have been able to design and permit all of these phases and are awaiting funding through the RESTORE program using funds from the BP oil spill provided to Collier County. The total cost of this phase of the restoration is $1.9 million, and we have raised $500,000 in donations from citizens, donated time from the Conservancy to help with monitoring, and donated matching time from the staff of CRG, a 501(c)3 non-for-profit teaching and research organization. Your donations have helped, but more are needed. Our request for RESTORE funding in the amount of $1.4 million is pending review at this time.
Phase 3 of our proposed work plan has yet to be funded for design and permitting, and the cost is not known. Phase 3 will involve examining the tidal connections under SR-92A (at the bridge) and recommending modifications and perhaps new culverts to improve drainage and prevent the future death of all the mangroves west of SR-92A which are currently showing signs of flooding stress. These improvements along with raising the road should significantly help flooding issues on the road to Goodland and improve local ecological conditions.
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Many apologies, I forgot to include the subject on the original post Hello all, I hope that this is a relevant post. Having recently undergone an operation to remove an acoustic neuroma which has resulted in a total loss of hearing in my left ear, I am trying to find any and all information about current (and perhaps future) hearing aids to give me some sort of return to stereo (is that the correct word?) hearing. The aid should be as unobtrusive as possible. I am an extremly fit 53 year old (squash/scuba) and, if it is relevant, wear glasses (wire framed). Does anyone know of or is perhaps developing or has an idea or information for any such aids? Any information or advice will be gratefully received. Many thanks and regards John Smith ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------- John S Smith Voice: +44(0)1202 734701 22 Palmerston Road, Parkstone Fax: +44(0)1202 716644 Poole. Dorset BH14 9HH UK email: john at joatamon.demon.co.uk


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Bad actor program
A seal can be described as a bad actor for many different reasons. But it always involves the fact that the seal does not meet technical and / or financial expectations. The essential aim of a Bad Actor Program is to identify and analyze critical sealing points, and to develop and implement improvements.
- Identification of bad actors
- Definition of aims and introduction of improvements
- Accompanying training and supervision
- Progress monitoring and documentation
The benefits to you
- Increased system availability
- Increased system reliability
- Improved cost/benefit ratio


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I would also include a protien rest at 131 for 10 minutes. Where did you get the pecan smoked malt?
Reading this thread reminds me of the toy guns I got my kids this Christmas.They use a lot of caps.
I had a friend who used to say she was so anti-capatilist even her name was all lower case.


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I wrote some code that was meant to syndicate my WordPress based weblog here, but it doesn't work right and I don't think I'll fix it till 1.2 is out where they've cleaned up the extension/plugin mechanism.
Java / Mono / Patents / Free Software
I think at this point or soon on an asthetic level Java and C# will be pretty much on par. The one thing that has kept me from being too interested in either language is the lack of generic collection classes. I can't bring myself to use java.util.Vector and all the casting and exception catching thats required. As far as I understand Java 1.5 has and C# 2.0 will have generics. The core libraries of these languages seem to have similar features but different designs.
One major issue with Java right now is that Sun holds a whole lot of IP over the language, the platform and even the name. You can't say "Java" on your product unless you pay Sun a bunch of money and pass a whole bunch of compliance tests. Sun also claim copyright over the core APIs interfaces. This in my opinion makes Java a non-starter even with an perfect open source implementation.
Free Software
As Miguel points out Microsoft's patent grant on the ECMA C# core doesn't protect anyone from other parties' patents. Neither would openning up Sun's Java code or IP. I don't think we can win that one. I'm sure there are patents out there that cover features of C and C++ that we just have to live with.
I don't know what the answer is moving forwards. I personality like Python but I know that whenever I start developing something of any size the lack of strict typing etc, makes it a pain.
It seems to me that the IP on C# seems a lot freer than on Java. This is because Microsoft and Sun are both power and money hungry companies but Microsoft's a bit smarter and they realise that widespread acceptance is important and getting other people to build an industry around their technology is good for them and will build power and make money for them.
What Could Sun Do?
If Sun wants to "beat C#" the first thing they need to do is to stop trying to make money of Java licensing, submit the VM spec, language and java.* libraries to an open standardization process, publish their compliance tests for free and make the kinds of IP grants that Microsoft has over C# to the core Java platform. This would put Microsoft and Sun on an equal footing. It would encourage competition in the Java space and we might see improvements to the platform happen a lot quicker.


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- "Ron's old Shooting Star was often outstripped by passing butterflies."
- —Description[src]
Known owners
- Ronald Weasley had a Shooting Star before acquiring a Cleansweep Eleven[1].
- Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry maintained a supply of them for flying lessons[2]. Fred and George Weasley always complained that the school brooms would always fly slightly to the left or that they would start to vibrate if one flew too high. After the destruction of his Nimbus 2000, Harry Potter was forced to temporarily use one of these during Quidditch practises, but was urged to quickly find a replacement, as the broomstick's lack of speed and performance was unacceptable for actual Quidditch matches.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Quidditch Through the Ages
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
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Sunday, 11 December 2011
The story of the Mini-figure
The Geege was asked to buy it for him yesterday, but came home with the wrong thing.
I promised we would get to the shops so he could buy one before we went to our Christmas picnic today. We were running a bit late, as is customary, but he insisted. So I told him to pick a shop to visit, one only and we would give it a quick try.
So we visited the selected store. Not a mini-figure to be seen. Nugget's face was one of despair, so despite being late and having said "Just one store", we all trudged to another store. On the other side of the shopping centre. And guess what? Not a mini-figure to be seen.
Nugget's face told the story. His eyes pleaded.
"One more" I conceded, and we made our way to another department store. All the way to the back. Three mini figures left. Nugget selected one. I had to bite my tongue I was so surprised to find myself in the situation I was in. One bloody hour to find a mini-figure. What was wrong with me???
He paid his $5 and off we went to the picnic.
We arrived at 11.07. At approximately 11.10, Doo Dah came to tell me that Nugget had buried his mini-figure in the sand and couldn't find it! Ahhhh! I seethed on the inside - that thing was coming home no matter what!
I helped him search the giant sandpit and we rescued it, but then it was lost again when it played 'goalie' during the soccer match. Nugget found it. Its arms were dislodged, but they were replaced and in the end, it made it safely home.
There was more energy and effort that went into that mini-figure than is truly normal.
You can imagine my face as I strolled into the local corner store and found this!
When have you gone above and beyond for your children?
* We figure if the kids are buying their own stuff it isn't breaking Buy Nothing New policy?
15 comments:
- Toni said...
my son LOVES mini-figs!
- 11 December 2011 at 22:34
- Jess WhoaMamma said...
Oh, the irony! I'm a sucker to my minxes whims. I try to be the almighty Mamma-fort, invincible, impenetrable, but they get me in the end. Whether it's an icecream in winter, another sheet of useless stickers that I'll be scraping off their beds, or putting on the Scooby Doo dvd for the trillionth time, I always succumb :(
- 11 December 2011 at 22:36
- Bungalowgirl said...
Oh dear, now that you have let the wicked thing into the house, it gets worse. Try milling around the mini figure box for a good 20 minutes groping every single packet because the only one you really want is Lizard man. And yes if the one chosen turns out to be Cleopatra instead there will be tears. melx
- 11 December 2011 at 23:21
- Mum on the Run said...
Ha ha ha.
I'm sorry - but the Sun-Herald were just rubbing your face in it there!!
I understand that feeling of 'how did we become "those" parents today?'
Some days, it's worth it.
- 12 December 2011 at 00:11
- Mama of 2 boys said...
Oh this is brilliant! I love your perseverance on behalf of your little Nugget. Those blessed lego mini figurines, don't get me started on those ;o)
But, I had a similar situation last week with one of those coloured bouncy rubber balls, $2 in the old vending machine bubble thingo. I don't usually give in, but Felix has bitten Angus just prior to our trip to the shops and it was a bit of a sweetener for poor Angus. So, he got the ball... but the problem with those balls is when dropped they just... GO! I believe I went way too far in saving that ball over the course of the next half hour... only for Angus to drop it right outside our front door and it bounced off down our street. So yet again, I high-tailed it down our steep hill, Felix on my hip, to retrieve the ball from the gutter... 'just' as it was about to go into the stormwater drain. Above and beyond?? I think so ;o) xo
- 12 December 2011 at 00:32
- Christie - Childhood 101 said...
I can completely relate. Our mini figs are Disney fairies but the store treks are the same :)
- 12 December 2011 at 00:32
- tinsenpup said...
I do things just like that ALL THE TIME. It's like some kind of brain deficit or something. I once drove for eight hours (there and back) so that my daughter could see the Bananas in Pyjamas perform for 15 minutes.
- 12 December 2011 at 02:07
- Diminishing Lucy said...
One day, when I stop being really irritated by the tale (it is still in the "very annoying" pile in my head, rather than Ihe "how funny" pile, I shall blog about the little brown teddy and the Little Mermaid and the scooters....
Glad he got there in the end...
- 12 December 2011 at 06:05
What a nightmare! We've done this too. I once drove all the way to Ikea (an hour away) to buy a new soft toy for No.2 after he lost his at the market. Only drama was I got there at closing time, and had to do an Indiana Jones through the exit, the registers, and then was caught running through the store by a staff member. I proceeded to cry and said I couldn't go home without a stuffed ratty or my son wouldn't sleep. I think he helped me out of pity, but by god he did help me! He went upstairs and brought down several rats and mice so I could identify the right one and buy one PLUS a spare. Bless Mr Ikea.
- 12 December 2011 at 06:56
- Emily said...
Oh no! I'm laughing, but in that 'I feel your pain' way.
That said, I recognise more of myself in Nugget's actions than in your own. Perhaps my husband will feel your pain more keenly.
- 12 December 2011 at 13:39
- Seana Smith said...
AArrgghh... just reading this is making me grind my teeth... I can't even remember a particular incident, it's just the full horror of it all... the hardest bit is having to drag other children along for the ride.
I need a Valium.
- 12 December 2011 at 13:58
Frustratingly funny!!
- 12 December 2011 at 15:32
- Maxabella said...
I do this sort of shit all the time. That's why my kids are spoiled and annoying. x
- 12 December 2011 at 17:40
- Lizeylou said...
I would have done exactly the same as you.
I would have visited shop after shop as I have seen that look of disappointment in my kids eyes before and I don't have the heart to say enough / no more.
A about 18 months ago I bought a present for my son Joe. There was only 1 thing he wanted so I didn't hesitate in getting it for him.
The only thing was when I got home I realised that I had bought the wrong thing.
I couldn't wait till the next day to return it - oh no, the thought of him getting the wrong thing made me turn around late that night and go back and get the right thing straight away - Its that look of disappointment.
Not the I didn't get the right ice cream/lollipop/pair of socks look - but that devastated look - breaks my heart.
- 12 December 2011 at 20:48
- emma @ frog, goose and bear said...
I am crying along with you and laughing my head off at the same time!
- 12 December 2011 at 21:51


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Is 2012 your year to run for a seat on the board of directors or as a neighborhood representative or alternate in your neighborhood? If so, this is the last week that you can apply to run in Sun City's 2012 election.
Homeowners wishing to run for a position on the board of directors or for neighborhood representative or alternate neighborhood representatives in their neighborhood in this spring's community election have until Friday to pick up and submit election packets at Palmetto Commons.
Sun City residents will vote for new community leaders in April. Residents will elect one resident to the board of directors, and 20 neighborhoods will elect neighborhood representative and alternate neighborhood representative. The neighborhoods electing neighborhood representatives and alternate representatives are: Aster Fields, Basket Walk, Blue Heron Village, Bull Hill, Cypress Run, Foxlake, Garden Walk, Hampton Village, Murray Hill, Palmetto Place, Pelican Point, Rivergrass, Spring Hill, Stratford Village, Summerplace Village, The Preserve, Water Lily Cove, Whispering Oaks, Willow Brook Village and Windsor Walk.
Candidates for the board of directors and neighborhood representatives and alternates will be announced via email March 1. Formal campaigning begins March 26. Two meet and greet events with the board of directors are scheduled this year: Meet your board of director candidates from 7-9 p.m. March 26 at Magnolia Hall, and Issues & Views from 8-10 a.m. on March 27 in Pinckney Hall.
Only lot owners are eligible to vote and only one vote is allowed for each owned property. Owners can vote for one board of directors candidate, and one neighborhood representative and alternate representative if their neighborhood is among the 20 voting in this election. Lot owners must be registered with the community association by March 1 in order to vote.
Ballots will be delivered to residents' lower boxes with April's SunSations before April 1. Ballots will also be mailed to non-resident owners. In addition, lot owners can pick up ballots at Palmetto Commons. Residents must show their Sun City activity card in order to obtain a ballot or cast a ballot on the final day of voting.
"The actual voting begins April 7," said Al Stern, a member of the election committee. "On April 7, residents can vote one of three ways. They can mail in their ballot, they can deliver their ballot to Palmetto Commons, or for the first time ever, vote online. We're in beta testing right now and it's working very well. It's very user-friendly and I think people are really going to like it. It's going to be really neat."
Residents can vote online from their home computers, or kiosks in Palmetto Commons and Pinckney Hall. Check eNews Weekly and Sun City TV for more information about instructions and practice sessions prior to the official start of voting on April 7.
The final day to vote for board and neighborhood representatives and alternates is from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. on May 1 in Pinckney Hall.
More information about the election and a timeline can be found on page 25 of the February Issue of SunSations. Check eNews Weekly and Sun City TV for more information, too.
The election committee is looking for residents who are relative computer novices to test the new electronic voting system. An orientation and testing will take place from 10 a.m.-noon March 6 in Pinckney Hall. A question and suggestion period will follow. Ten people are needed. If you are able to volunteer, call Sandi Cannon, election committee chair, at 705-6599.


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Understanding Typhoid Disease After Vaccination
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01405521
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : July 29, 2011
Last Update Posted : October 18, 2018
- Study Details
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- How to Read a Study Record
|Condition or disease
|Typhoid Fever Enteric Fever Typhoid
|Biological: Vaccine placebo (excipients only) Biological: Ty21a Biological: M10ZH09 vaccine
|Phase 2
Typhoid is a serious infection killing up to 600,000 people every year; it is a frequent cause of fever and hospital admission in areas where disease is common. As the infection is restricted to humans, it should be possible to eliminate typhoid; better vaccines and ways of confirming infection are required in order for this to succeed. We propose to use a recently established human typhoid challenge model in order to evaluate a novel oral vaccine candidate and to develop new methods for diagnosing typhoid.
Although there are vaccines available to prevent typhoid, they offer little protection to populations where typhoid predominates, especially young children. Currently, the effectiveness of vaccines against typhoid cannot be predicted, as measures of protection against typhoid are unknown. As a result, implementation of vaccine programmes in disease endemic regions currently requires large and expensive trials in each new population, significantly delaying programmatic implementation.
We will use a typhoid challenge model to achieve our goal of accelerating the introduction of more effective vaccines into populations with a high burden of disease. Healthy adults will be vaccinated with either a novel oral typhoid vaccine or vaccine-placebo prior to being infected with the bacteria causing typhoid. This will allow us to measure the effectiveness of the vaccine and to identify components of the immune response important in producing protection against infection.
Current methods for confirming typhoid infection are slow and insensitive, particularly in endemic regions where the cost of laboratory equipment is prohibitive. In this project, we will also explore ways to diagnose typhoid, with the aim of developing tests that are quick, reliable and are be cost-effective in resource-poor settings. This would improve individual patient management, and allow accurate measurement of disease burden, which is vital to improve the efforts of vaccine programmes.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|99 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Understanding Typhoid Disease After Vaccination: a Single Centre, Randomised, Doubleblind, Placebo Controlled Study to Evaluate M01ZH09 in a Healthy Adult Challenge Model, Using Ty21a Vaccine as a Positive Control.
|Actual Study Start Date :
|October 7, 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|December 2015
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|August 31, 2019
|Experimental: M01ZH09 vaccine
Biological: M10ZH09 vaccine
single oral dose
Other Name: Typhella
|Placebo Comparator: Vaccine placebo
Biological: Vaccine placebo (excipients only)
single oral dose,
Ty21a vaccine
Positive control
Biological: Ty21a
3 oral doses, alternate days
Other Name: Vivotif
- Diagnosis of typhoid fever [ Time Frame: 2 weeks after typhoid challenge ]
Typhoid fever defined as development of Gram negative bacteraemia after day 5 or temperature over 38C persisting for 12 hours or more.
Typhoid challenge defined as ingestion of virulent S. Typhi (Quailes strain).
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 60 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion criteria:
- Male or female aged 18 - 60 years inclusive and in good health.
- Have an abdominal ultrasound scan result documented demonstrating no evidence of gallbladder pathology.
- Willing to allow their general practitioner and/or hospital consultant (if relevant) and the Health Protection Unit to be notified of participation in the study.
- Agree to refrain from blood donation in the future if diagnosed with typhoid fever.
- Be willing to have 24-hour contact with study staff during the four weeks post-challenge.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Have previously received any typhoid vaccine, been resident in a typhoid endemic country for over 6 months, been diagnosed with probable or confirmed typhoid infection or been challenged with Salmonella Typhi or enrolled in a typhoid challenge study.
- Have any known or suspected impairment or alteration of immune function.
- History of significant cardiovascular disease.
- History of significant respiratory disease.
- History of significant endocrine disorder.
- History of significant renal or bladder disease.
- History of biliary tract disease.
- History of significant gastrointestinal disease.
- History of significant neurological disease.
- History of significant metabolic disease.
- History of significant haematological diagnosis.
- History of psychiatric illness requiring hospitalisation, current known or suspected drug or alcohol misuse.
- History of significant infectious disease.
- History of non-benign cancer.
- Presence of any implants or prostheses.
- Hypersensitivity to any component of the vaccine or are hypersensitive to two or more of the following antibiotics: ciprofloxacin, azithromycin, ampicillin, trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole.
- Female participant who is pregnant, lactating or who is unwilling to ensure that they or their partner use effective contraception one month prior to vaccination and continue to do so until two negative stool samples obtained a week apart, a minimum of 1 week after completion of antibiotic treatment have been obtained.
- Current occupation involving: clinical or social work with direct contact with young children (defined as those attending pre-school groups, nursery or aged less than 2 years); highly susceptible patients or persons in whom typhoid infection would have particularly serious consequences (i.e. those who are immunocompromised or debilitated); care work involving the elderly.
- Current occupation as a commercial food handler involving the preparation or serving of unwrapped foods not subjected to further heating.
- Household contact with a young child (defined as above).
- Household/close contact who is immunocompromised.
- Scheduled elective surgery or other procedures requiring general anaesthesia during the vaccine/challenge period, at time of enrolment.
- Participants who have taken part in other research involving an investigational product (IMP) within the 30 days prior to enrolment.
- Have received blood, blood products and/or plasma derivatives including parenteral immunoglobulin preparations in the previous 3 months
- Any other significant disease or disorder which, in the opinion of the investigator, may put the participants at risk because of participation in the study, may influence the result of the study, or affect the participant's ability to participate in the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01405521
|United Kingdom
|Oxford Vaccine Group, Centre for Clinical Vaccinology and Tropical Medicine
|Oxford, United Kingdom
|Principal Investigator:
|Andrew J Pollard
|Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford
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|Responsible Party:
|University of Oxford
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01405521 History of Changes
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2011-000381-35 ( EudraCT Number )
|First Posted:
|July 29, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 18, 2018
|Last Verified:
|October 2018
typhoid vaccine M01ZH09
Ty21a typhoid vaccine
Typhoid Fever
Body Temperature Changes
Signs and Symptoms
Salmonella Infections
Enterobacteriaceae Infections
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2006 Honda Civic Exterior Lighting Recall | Mar 23, 2006
Certain Pro-a Motors Corner Lamps, Turn Signals, And Headlights Sold As Replacement Lamps For Use On Certain Passenger Vehicles Listed Above. Some Combination Lamps That Are Not Equipped With Amber Side Reflectors Fail To Conform To Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108, Lamps, Reflective Devices, And Associated Equipment.
Without The Amber Reflectors, The Vehicle Will Be Poorly Illuminated, Possibly Resulting In A Vehicle Crash Without Warning.
Summary Of Corrective Actions Taken: Pro-a Motors Will Notify Owners And Offer To Repurchase The Lamps. The Recall Began On April 3, 2006. Owners May Contact Pro-a Motors At 323-838-2988.
This Recall Only Pertains To Pro-a Motors Aftermarket Lamps And Has No Relation To Any Original Equipment Installed On The Listed Passenger Vehicles.for More Information On The Lamp Model Numbers, Click On Document Search And View Document Titled "lamp Model Numbers."customers May Contact The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Vehicle Safety Hotline At 1-888-327-4236 (tty: 1-800-424-9153); Or Go To Http://www.safercar.gov.
This recall was issued on Mar 23, 2006 for 2006 Honda Civic, manufactured by PRO-A MOTORS, INC., in response to Exterior Lighting problems.


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Near the end of 2008 one of the best albums of the year dropped and although it didn't make any of our writers top 10 list, it did consistently come up 11th or 10b, we all loved it that much. That album, Does You Inspire You, is by the band Chairlift haling from Brooklyn-slash-Colorado. If you don't recognize the name, then you would at least recognize their song "Bruises" as it was used in a North American iPod campaign for months on end. The band wrapped up a North America tour a few months back opening for Sebastien Tellier, but are scheduled to do a few more stops, including festivals. While on their busy schedule I was able to catch up with the beautiful Caroline Polachek, lead vocalist in the group.
Killahbeez: Hi Caroline, thanks for taking the time to do this interview. Let's start with the band name, Chairlift, why and what's the significance / meaning behind it?
Caroline Polachek: A chairlift is a long slow panoramic trip over changing terrain.
KB: Interesting. How did Aaron, Patrick and yourself all meet and eventually make the move to Brooklyn?
CP: I sang in Patrick's band for a while in 2005 after seeing them open for Cat Power my first day of college in Boulder. (The) Band broke up, and Aaron and I met and swapped demos in the back row of our economics recitation. I started singing backup on the folk songs he was preparing for a recording session at Elliot Smith's studio in LA, but by the time we got there, we 'd become a collaboration more than a solo project- we dubbed it Chairlift. Moved to NY shortly after since I transferred to art school there, and ran into Patrick randomly in the street, who came to our show and eagerly asked to join. Adding drums really changed our sound. We've been an equal trio ever since.
KB: Wow, that's a pretty cool story.
KB: With such a great scene continually growing and transforming in Brooklyn and in New York City in general, how has that move influence the bands sound and songs?
CP: There's a lot of young energy, a lot of entrepreneurship, and a lot of opportunities, but no 'sound'. The scene is by nature eclectic and experimental, but our particular niche shares a love of pop. We were lucky to have a supportive crew of bands like Yeasayer, MGMT, Grizzly Bear, Boy Crisis, Elizabeth Harper, Violens, Lights, Telepathe etc that were also making their own version of pop music. I don't think this influenced the songs, but more the vibe and the live setting.
KB: With the whole Chairlift album, Does You Inspire You, I definitely get the sense of being taken on a journey, the music, your voice, it all puts me into this hypnotic state. Was that something intentional on the bands' part?
CP: One hundred percent.
KB: The band has a distinct '80s sound to it, but refreshed and updated. Was that era an influence on the band members?
CP: We weren't listening to much 80s music- all those sounds came into play because we liked the way they reminded us of the radio, our childhoods, or bad tv.
KB: The bands first video, "Planet Health" was directed by you, is directing music videos something that you want to explore more of down to road?
CP: Yes! I art-directed and wrote the treatment for our "Evident Utensil" video, and have since directed, shot, and edited a video for the closing song on our record, "Ceiling Wax". I'm doing videos for Violens and Elizabeth Harper at the moment, and am working on the treatments for "Planet Health" and "Bruises". I love video, and am psyched that art school paid off somehow. Thanks mom!
KB: Hahaha
KB: On the note of music videos, the latest one "Evident Utensils" is seriously trippy. At first I thought my computer was bugging out then I thought I WAS bugging out. What's the whole concept / story behind the video and why did the band decide to use the data moshing special effect?
CP: Using data moshing was the brilliant Idea of director/international man of mystery Ray Tintori and producer/terrorist Bob Weisz, who we worked with really closely. The grounding concept of the video is a play between the naive eagerness and violent masochism. I was living in the apartment filled with paintings of bondage and torture instruments, so I suppose the imagery got into my bloodstream a bit, and I wanted to go out to the woods with my friends and whip the shit out of each other. Aaron baptized / waterboarded everyone in the river at the end.
KB: Earlier this year you collaborated with Flosstradamus for the record "Big Bills", which sounds AMAZING. How did that partnership come about? Are there more collaborations for yourself down the road? I find your voice quite entrancing. Hahaha.
CP: Haha, cool. I love collaborating. (Hi Brian Eno :))The Flosstradamus collaboration came together when they approached me out of the blue and invited me to sing on the one-off dance single they were to do for Greenlabel sound. With the exception of our friends HOLY GHOST!, I'd never worked with any dance-scene people, so I was into it. They sent me three 30-second clips to choose from as the starting point, and then two weeks later we met in the studio in LA to do the session with my friend Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart). I played the bass lines, synths, wrote all vocal parts, and added a verse and a bridge. It was two long days of work, but we're all psyched about it.
KB: Wow, thats insane. The results definitely show as well. Have you always known that singing something that you always wanted to pursue?
CP: Yes, whether that meant in the shower or on stage.
KB: Going back to the band, are there any upcoming collaborations or remixes that fans can look forward to?
CP: Right now I've got collaborations in the works with an epic forthcoming pet project of Yeasayer's, a full-length with Jorge Elbrecht (Violens), backup vox on Sebastian Blanck (former Black Dice), HOLY GHOST!, Acrylics, Boy Crisis, and a remix for Telepathe.
KB: Wow. Definitely a busy schedule ahead. In addition to this, the band has a hectic touring schedule essentially for the first half of the year. What else is on the plate for Chairlift and yourself? Thoughts of a second album being planned?
CP: Videos! New cool website, summer festivals, weird merch. We've already got 8 songs contending for the next record, can't wait to get going on them and weaving them into our live show. As is, our record Does You Inspire You that came out last September is being re released in late April, remastered with two new songs that were intended for the original release but didn't get arranged in time. I love them- they're my favorites of the record, and I love watching people's reactions to hearing these yet unheard chairlift songs.
KB: Very cool. Looking forward to hearing those at your concert. Thanks again for doing the interview. Is there anything you want to say to readers or something you want fans to take away from the album?
CP: It's the official film soundtrack to a movie that doesn't officially exist.
KB: Officially the coolest answer ever!
For more info on Chairlift check out their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/chairlift.


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Top 10 Features 55+ Baby Boomer Buyer's Want In A Home.
A recent survey given to 55+ Home Buyers shows what their 10 most important design features are. This can be important information to you when selling a home or when buying and thinking of selling down the road. Surprisingly a downstairs master bedroom isn't higher on the list! --In Pitt County and the Greenville Area, we as Realtors get asked more often about what floor the master bedroom is on than if the house comes with a washing machine.
- 90% - Washer/Dryer in the Home
- 84% - Storage Space
- 81% - Windows that Open Easily
- 73% - Garage Door Opener
- 73% - Easy-to-use Thermostat
- 71% - Master Bedroom on 1st Floor
- 67% - Private Patio
- 66% - Porch
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"This isn't your ordinary music competition," host Allison Hagendorf says in introducing "The Next: Fame is at Your Doorstep." But that's exactly what this CW summer fill-in is — doling out a pinch of "American Idol" here, a dollop of "The Voice" there, with a touch of homegrown mentoring a la "The Karate Kid" for good measure. Frankly, the ability of these shows to keep proliferating — and still spawn the occasional success — remains something of a mystery, but "The Next," however inoffensive, might more accurately be called simply "The Latest."
Four established singers — Joe Jonas, John Rich, Nelly and Gloria Estefan — participate as mentors, with each being assigned a not-entirely unknown hopeful (most have some kind of Web presence) and tutoring them for three days. Those taped packages culminate in a quartet of live performances — the premiere is held at the House of Blues in Orlando — before the audience selects a winner, and the show moves on to another city.
Finalists assemble in Los Angeles (where have we heard that before?), to select an eventual champion, who earns a recording contract.
Despite the program's subtitle "Fame is at Your Doorstep," the conceit of having the celebs make house calls — and even tag along as the contestants go about their lives and day jobs — doesn't really alter the fundamental dynamics of the competition format, or the frenzied crowd hooting and hollering at performances that range from genuine promise to slightly better than karaoke night.
Nor does it help that the stars are all relentlessly positive — not only with their adopted charges, but in evaluating all the performers. If viewers have come to expect the occasional snark, or even constructive criticism, they're clearly in the wrong place here.
During his segment, Rich refers to the search for talent as "the eternal Easter egg hunt," which is certainly true, and even more so since networks discovered the enormous potential in turning the audition process itself into programming.
One can hardly blame CW for joining in the quest. Yet like those eggs, it's a genre becoming cheaper by the dozen.


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Louis Shoneff entered the Athletic Hall of Fame after playing a primary role on the Academy's first-ever varsity men's basketball team in the 1944-45 season, The team finished with a 9-1 record, suffering their only loss by one point to Long Island University. Shoneff led the team in scoring with 129 points; a 12.9 points per game average. He scored 19 against rival Pennsylvania Military Academy in a 50-44 win for the Blue and Gray, establishing one of the inaugural Academy Records. In the game, the visiting team from PMC launched a second half scoring spree that closed Kings Point's lead to five points. Shoneff then notched five consecutive baskets to move the Mariners safely out in front en route to the win.


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CARY, N.C. – Georgia College & State University All-American righthander Martin Dewald (Mannheim, Germany) handcuffed batters Thursday en route to his fourth-straight complete game and fourth shutout of the season, a 3-0 win for the No. 4 Bobcats (42-16) over No. 9 University of Southern Indiana (50-14) at the Division II College World Series.
The win forces an elimination game between the same two teams Friday, May 28 at a time to be determined by this evening's UC-San Diego/Franklin Pierce University game. If the FPU wins, the Bobcats play at 10 a.m., with the 'Cats playing at 11 a.m. should UCSD win.
Dewald scattered five hits and three walks over nine innings, improving to 12-3 on the season. The 12 victories ties the single-season record in Georgia College history, most recently set in 1997 by Kevin Mobley. Dewald's eight strikeouts gives him 125 on the season, one shy of second place in a single season effort, set in 1995 by Kevin Dye.
"I try to close out nine innings," said Dewald of the four straight complete games. "I approach every inning the same, not trying to save anything. Last week I had a three day rest and this week I actually had an extra day."
Dewald set down 12 Screaming Eagle batters in a row at one point, not allowing a hit from the fourth to the eighth.
The Bobcats got the winning run in the first, when All-American centerfielder Sean Harrell (Martinez, Ga.) hit a one-out triple and scored a batter later on a Steve Muoio (Rochester, N.Y.) sacrifice fly. An RBI double in the fourth by third baseman Paul Bordon (Martinez, Ga.) plated Jason Veyna (Lamar, Colo.) who walked, and gave the Bobcats a 2-0 lead.
Harrell capped the scoring in the fifth, reaching on a hit batsman, stealing second, third and eventually home on a pickoff play at first. The Bobcats were aggressive on the basepaths, stealing five bases in as many tries.
"I saw the catcher come up the line a little bit towards fair territory," said Harrell of the head-first slide into the plate. "You try not to slide too many times head first into the plate, but I think that was a point where you could do it. I just tried to get wide and stick my hand in under there and got it in."
Bordon was the lone multi-hit performer, going 2-for-4 with an RBI. Harrell scored twice on a 1-for-3 effort.
USI starter Jared Canterbury (4-1) went 4 1/3 innings in the loss, allowing three runs on three hits and three walks. Dewald scattered the Screaming Eagles' five hits among five players, allowing runners to reach third just twice.
The 42 team victories for head coach Tom Carty are the fourth-most in the NCAA era of baseball at Georgia College.
"We just need to play better," said Carty of playing the same team again tomorrow. "I don't think that was our best offensive game. We just need to take care of ourselves and just try and do what we do well."
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Scientists say Oklahoma recorded 222 earthquakes with magnitudes of 2.5 or greater last year, soaring above 2012's total of 64 temblors.
And 2014 is already off to a busy start — the state has recorded 63 earthquakes so far at 2.5-magnitude or greater, according to The Oklahoman. That total doesn't include several earthquakes that struck Logan County late Sunday and early Monday.
The cause of the increase in seismic activity is under investigation.
Seismologist Austin Holland with the Oklahoma Geological Survey said there were 97 quakes at 2.5-magnitude or greater in 2011, and 104 such quakes in 2010.
Oklahoma's strongest recorded earthquake was a 5.6-magnitude quake that struck in November 2011 near Prague. It damaged 200 buildings, shook a football stadium and rattled parts of seven states.
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The review conference of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty went past deadline into Saturday with the United States and Iraq deadlocked on the single remaining obstacle to consensus.
Conference chairman Abdallah Baali stopped the clock just before midnight (0400 GMT) telling delegates they still had work to do.
He did not give a time for reconvening the session.
The conference, which began on April 24, was the first review since 1995, when countries, which had signed the 1970 treaty, agreed to extend it indefinitely.
Only two of the five previous review conferences managed to agree on a final declaration.
Baali told AFP late Friday that Iraq rejected any language, which said it was not in compliance with international nuclear energy safeguards.
The United States wanted the wording as a condition for naming Israel and encouraging it to sign the NPT.
Israel, India, Pakistan and Cuba are the only countries not to have signed the NPT, which seeks to prohibit the spread of nuclear weapons beyond the five declared nuclear states.
Earlier, delegates had hailed as a breakthrough an agreement by the five declared nuclear-weapons states to "an unequivocal undertaking to accomplish total elimination of their nuclear arsenals."
The wording would be incorporated into the final declaration if one were adopted.
Although it set no timetable, the agreement went beyond a commitment to "the ultimate goal" of nuclear disarmament, which the five had reaffirmed in a joint statement on May 1 and which was rejected by most other countries.
The agreement contained six steps for weapons states to embark upon.
These included moves to reduce their arsenals, remove tactical weapons, lower the alert levels of nuclear missiles and diminish the importance of nuclear deterrence in policy-making - UNITED NATIONS (AFP)
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Dreaming of an iPhone but can't afford a data plan? Or you simply don't want to fork over money to AT&T?
One clever 22-year-old has a way to circumvent the system and look just as cool as all your fellow Apple fan boys and girls.
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The Apple Peel is a simple cover that slides right on top of your iPod Touch, which just happens to look a lot like an iPhone. But unlike normal iPod or iPhone covers, this one comes with a battery, a dock connector and a sim card -- giving you phone-like capabilities on the iPod touch.
The peel eliminates the need for a Wi-Fi network to be able to make calls on your iPod Touch. The service is already working in China and it is expected to hit the US this week.
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The backpack style carrier is particularly suited for toy breed dogs that weigh up to 10 lbs. Of course, other small pets can travel in the backpack as well. It is made from the same hand selected fabrics as the Tote, which makes it quite the fashion statement.
The interior has a wooden board for easy cleanup, Add a comfy, washable fleece blanket for even more comfort. The carrier itself is spot washable with mild soap and cool water.
Your furry friend is fully enclosed, making your trips a safe and friendly way to travel with your pet.
It will also fit under the foot-well for in-cabin plane travel. Backpack design allows for hands free travel.
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Bed Bugs Symtomps
How will you know if your house has been infested by these insects? Best symptoms of bed bugs are bed bugs bites that you can notice on your skin usually after sleeping. The bites look very similar to mosquito bites and can be very itchy possible accompanied by skin rash as well. Also pay attention to places on your skin with small loss of skin tissue or blisters around the places of bites. Symptoms of bed bugs infestation can also be small blood spots on your bed sheets.
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How to Kill Bed Bugs
Bed bugs are not just a discomfort, but a serious health hazard as well. They live in your home and feed on human blood so they are not to be taken lightly. These little buggers can bring all sorts of diseases, skin rashes and allergic reactions so if you have any reason to suspect that they could be living in your home or if you notice any symptoms of bed bugs you should act immediately to get them terminated as quickly and efficiently as possible.
First, you need to do a thorough inspection of all parts of your home to detect the source and to see how spread they are and how serious the condition is. If your home has clutter and messy corners witch you do not clean on a regular basis, now is the time to pay attention to that. It will be a lot easier to detect infested items.
You could always call exterminator but in my opinion, that's not wise to your privacy in your neighborhood. The other choice is to buy bed bugs spray from store and choose the product that environment friendly, safe for your children, non-toxic spray product that not only kill bed bugs but also kill their eggs simultaneously.
There is a product in amazon that environment friendly and easy to use hand-spray pack. Bed Bug, Dust Mite ERADICATOR 24oz ready to use spray, natural enzymes that safely removes bugs, scientific efficacy test proven.Just spray at them and it will die immediately.
Or, if you are traveling a lot, you may need this product to protect you from bed bugs in motels, public car or air plane chairs. Green Rest Easy Bed Bug Travel Spray, 2 oz. Twin Pack
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Bed bugs or Cimicidae is a small parasitic insect that feeds from human blood. Their number has been pretty much cut down in the late 1940s, but is becoming a larger problem again after 1995. An adult bed bug is 4-5 mm long and about 1,5mm wide. They are mostly brown color and have no wings, while a baby bed bug is lighter in color and of course smaller.
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