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What you'll see:** It's quintessential New England scenery all the way, right down to the lighthouses that dot the state's rocky shores. Dating back to the mid '20s, Route 1 traverses the length of Maine while mostly hugging the coastline. Locals swear by the view of Grand Lake and Peakaboo Mountain, so much so that the 12-mile stretch of Route 1 between Danforth and Orient has been dubbed the "Million Dollar View." And if the tank is full and you don't feel like turning back, there's no need to stop at the Maine border; Route 1 continues all the way through to Florida.
Cultural stop: We promised you a lighthouse: Just a smidgen off of Route 1, the Portland Head Light in Cape Elizabeth beckons from Fort Williams Park. Dating back to 1791, it's the oldest lighthouse in Maine, and one of the oldest in the United States.
Roadside attraction: The Main State Prison Industries showroom in Thomaston sells items that are handmade by prisoners, and you can find everything from carved wooden jewelry boxes ($8.50 for a small box to $500 for a cedar armoire) to model ships. It's actually illegal for the showroom to ship the items across state lines, so it's a great stop if you're looking for something you can only find in Maine.
Grab a bite: If you're not eating lobster in Maine, what's the point? The Chauncey Creek Lobster Pier in Kittery Point is one of those riverside picnic table joints you get nostalgic for come winter. The establishment is BYO—BYO entire cooler full of beers, that is.
What you'll see: The Blue Ridge Parkway bills itself as "America's Favorite Drive"—it is, after all, one of the most visited spots in the National Park Service—and it's easy to see why. The road winds its way through 469 miles of Appalachian Highlands between North Carolina and Virginia before linking up with the Skyline Drive in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park. There are ample places to pull off the road and go for a hike or a picnic while taking in natural wonders like the Linville Gorge, Whitewater Falls, or Mount Mitchell—the highest point east of the Mississippi.
Cultural stop: If you're in the mood for some Americana music, the Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Virginia, hosts concerts in its outdoor amphitheater. This summer saw performances with Roseanne Cash, Elizabeth LaPrell, and the Slate Mountain Ramblers. Indoors, you can check out the Roots of American Music Museum and see old-timey fiddles and banjoes.
Roadside attraction: Looking Glass Rock near Brevard, North Carolina is a nearly 4,000-foot-tall lump of granite that looks like it was deposited whole in the middle of Pisgah National Forest. When water freezes to the rock face in winter, the surface reflects the sun—hence the name. Naturally, Looking Glass Rock is a hit with rock climbers.
Grab a bite: Go straight for the top: The Pisgah Inn sits at the top of Mount Pisgah, the highest point on the Blue Ridge Parkway. The on-site restaurant makes the most of the 5,000-foot elevation with wrap-around windows. Best of all: If you feel too stuffed to drive onward, you can always stay the night.
What you'll see: Water, and plenty of it. You might not be able to walk on water, but with this strip of road traveling across the Florida Keys, connected by 42 bridges, you'll feel like you can drive on it. Instead of grass and pines, you'll whiz by seascapes and palm trees. The Overseas Highway is also a good complement to the Maine Coast, as it's the extreme opposite end of Route 1.
Cultural stop: At the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, you can meet dolphins and California sea lions and watch as trainers teach them new tricks—then head to the indoor, air-conditioned theater for educational presentations about the animals.
Roadside attraction: The famous Seven Mile Bridge connects Marathon to Little Duck key, with stunning ocean views the whole way. But if driving past just won't do, here's a good place to park the car and get out to walk or bike. The first Seven Mile Bridge—which was used by trains, not cars, until a hurricane wiped out huge swaths of the tracks in the mid '30s—is now part of the Florida Keys Overseas Heritage Trail and recognized by the National Register of Historic Places. Now closed to most cars, it's a good place to try and catch a sunset.
**Grab a bite: **A stop at the Holiday Isle Tiki Bar is almost obligatory when traveling through the Florida Keys. It has all of the grass-hut décor you'd expect from a tiki bar, but what sets it apart is that it claims to have invented the Rum Runner cocktail (made with banana liqueur, Meyers rum, brandy, and grenadine). After a couple, you won't care if it's true or not.
**What you'll see: **There are parks, parks, and more parks lining this 93-mile stretch of highway. In them, you can find canyons. You can find waterfalls. You can find caverns. And, of course, there's always Lookout Mountain itself.
**Cultural stop: **If you get sick of driving yourself around, you can always take a trolley-style car to the summit of Lookout Mountain on the Incline Railway in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Once you're up top, visit the Battles for Chattanooga Electric Map & Museum, which houses a 3D map with thousands of miniature soldiers and electronic light effects that give an overview of the area's Civil War history.
Roadside attraction: If you head over during the first weekend in August, you'll find the World's Longest Yard Sale. At a whopping 690 miles—yes, longer than the parkway itself—the sale spans six states, stretching from Michigan to Tennessee. That's a lot of junk to rummage through.
**Grab a bite: **Not only is The Mountain Inn restaurant located right in Alabama's Desoto State Park, but it was also the park's main lodge. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the restaurant in the 1930s, and today it maintains plenty of rustic charm.
What you'll see:** You can't have a list of classic road trips without the iconic Route 66—a.k.a. "The Mother Road"—where drivers have been getting their kicks since 1926. Stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles, the 2,400-mile highway passes through six states (Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California), crossing farmland, forests, plains, and desert. Along the way, there are plenty of kitschy gas stations, motels, and mom-and-pop establishments to beef up the nostalgia factor.
**Cultural stop: **The KiMo Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was built as a movie palace in 1927, and it still hosts film screenings and events today. It's one of the few movie theaters to be decorated in the "Pueblo Deco" style, which fuses the ornateness of Art Deco with Southwestern motifs.
**Roadside attraction: **Route 66 is nothing if not a haven for roadside attractions: the World's Largest Catsup Bottle in Collinsville, Illinois; the Railsplitter Covered Wagon (also the world's largest) in Lincoln, Illinois; the Blue Whale in Catoosa, Oklahoma; the Milk Bottle Grocery in Oklahoma City; the Wigwam Motel Village #6 in Holbrook, Arizona—the list goes on.
Grab a bite: Since Route 66 is all about history, head to the Ariston Café in Litchfield, Illinois, which claims to be "one of the oldest, if not the oldest restaurant" along the highway. Or, you can always try their recipe for baklava at home and get a taste of Route 66 without having to travel.
What you'll see: **Definitely bring your camera for this one. The highway travels through Badlands National Park for a little more than 30 miles, staying close to the impressive cliffs and buttes the whole way. Along the route, there are 14 overlooks where you can try to get the perfect shot.
**Cultural stop: **Before you head out, stop at the Ben Reifel Visitor Center, where you can browse through some books about the area's history, see a few exhibits about the ecology of the park, and watch Land of Stone and Light, a film about the park, in an air-conditioned, 95-seat theater.
Roadside attraction: Nature is the only attraction here. In addition to the dramatic stone foundation, the park is also home to a sprawling mixed-grass prairie, where wildlife such as bison, prairies dogs, bighorn sheep, bald eagles, black-footed ferrets, and antelope roam freely.
**Grab a bite: **If you're not picnicking, you can try the Cedar Pass Lodge Restaurant, which opened in 1928 as a gas station, grocery store, campsite, and dance hall for travelers. The specialty on the menu is the Sioux Indian taco: seasoned buffalo wrapped in house-made fry bread.
What you'll see: **Bryce Canyon and Capitol Reef National Parks bookend this 124-mile highway, and there's plenty of rugged landscape in between. You'll find limestone canyons, red rock cliffs, ancient pueblos, and even pine forests. A stop at the Homestead Overlook is a must, where you get a vantage point from 9,400 feet up in the air.
Cultural stop: The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a 1.7 million-acre swath of land that's one of the largest publicly managed tracts of land in the country, with every type of landscape you'd want to see along the drive. You'll find eons-old cliffs, fossil-laden plateaus, and surprisingly lush canyons supporting different ecosystems and disparate plants and animals. A stop at the visitor center in Cannonville, Utah, offers exhibits on how people have interacted with these lands throughout history.
**Roadside attraction: **Check out the Kodachrome Basin State Park in Henrieville for one of nature's oddball roadside sites. The park itself is home to 67 "sand pipes," or red-rock cylinders—eroded solidified geysers—that stick straight up out of the land like chimneys.
Grab a bite: The Hell's Backbone Grill in Boulder recently earned accolades for the Best Southeastern cuisine in Salt Lake Magazine. Located on the grounds of the Boulder Mountain Lodge, the farm-to-table restaurant uses organic and local ingredients, many of which are grown right in the on-site garden.
What you'll see:** The Pacific Ocean—as much of it as you can take. The Pacific Coast Highway (or "PCH" for the initiated) runs along the West Coast from California all the way through Washington, with breathtaking views of cliffs dropping into the ocean below. Although all segments of the highway have their charms, most agree that the area around Big Sur offers the most jaw-dropping scenery—as well as the stunning Bixby Bridge, with arches spanning over Rainbow Canyon. Pro tip: If you're squeamish about heights and feel nervous about the prospect of driving around a twisty highway with steep drop-offs, choose a south-to-north route, which keeps you on the inside lane.
**Cultural stop: **William Randolph Hearst was the inspiration for Charles Foster Kane of Citizen Kane fame, and he chose to build Hearst Castle—his personal Xanadu—in San Simeon right on the California coast. Today, you can tour the grand rooms of the house, including the ornate pool areas, upstairs private quarters, and the over-the-top assembly room.
Roadside attraction: To find a true, cheesy roadside attraction, you'll have to cross the border into Oregon, where, in South Port Orford you'll find the Prehistoric Gardens. There, you'll find concrete re-creations of near-life-size—if not scientifically accurate—dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.
Grab a bite: Nepenthe in Big Sur lets you take a break from the road trip without sacrificing the view—it's been famous since 1949 as a place to refuel while still looking out onto the ocean. It's known for its "ambrosia burger," which comes slathered in a blend of tomato sauce, salsa, and mayonnaise. Or just stick with the view.
What you'll see:** If there's ever been a reason to rent a convertible, it's the Road to Hana.
The 68-mile highway runs along the northeastern coast of Maui, with plenty of stops to pull over and see waterfalls, surfers, gardens, parks, and beaches. Best of all: If you don't feel like driving yourself, you can always take a van tour and let someone else do the work for you.
Cultural stop: At the Garden of Eden Maui Botanical Gardens & Arboretum, you can find 26 acres of unspoiled trails, tropical flowers, and panoramic views. You can see a 100-year-old mango tree or the Upper Puohokamoa Waterfalls, accessible only to garden visitors. And, if one rock formation looks awfully familiar, it's because it was used as a location in Jurassic Park.
**Roadside attraction: **Sure, the view above ground is great, but what about below the surface? The Hana Lava Tube takes you on a self-guided tour through trails and tunnels built by underground rivers of flowing lava. When you get out, you can also take a crack at the Red Ti Botanical Garden Maze—like a hedge maze, but with more tropical foliage.
Grab a bite: Though there are plenty of places along the way to stop for fresh banana bread, if you're looking to sit down, there's Mama's Fish House Restaurant, which prides itself on preparing fresh fish with an "aloha spirit." If you're lucky, you'll dine on grilled octopus caught on a free-dive in nearby Kuau Cove.
What you'll see: The 127-mile stretch that links Anchorage with Seward is lined with picturesque Alaskan scenery: glaciers and fjords, rivers and lakes, mountains and alpine valleys. Along the way, the drive is bordered by the Chugach State Park and Chugach National Forest, the northernmost National Forest in the United States. Make sure you plan enough to time to stop and photograph the way the sunlight reflects off of Kenai Lake or Turnagain Arm.
Cultural stop: Before you head out on the road, stop at the Alaska Museum of Natural History to learn more about the area you're driving through. Exhibits focus on the Ice Age in Alaska, polar dinosaurs, mine geology, and Alaska's animals.
Roadside attraction: If you think there's gold in them thar hills, you can try panning for it at the Indian Valley Mine, which was a real mine that operated in Alaska after the gold rush. If you strike it rich, though, we want a cut.
Grab a bite: Take a tram to top of the ski slopes at the Alyeska Resort for Seven Glaciers, the complex's mountaintop restaurant. While enjoying the view from an elevation of 2,300 feet, you can feast on Alaskan cuisine made from local ingredients.
**More about great road trips: **
Great Drives: Like a Bat Out of Reno
Driving Ralph Lauren: Three Perfect Road Trips


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Your first order of business, once you've fully explored, is so speak to Mr. House. As you no doubt noticed while working your way around his penthouse, Mr. House isn't human. Well, not quite human, at least. Instead, a daunting, big brother-like face is shown on a green-toned screen. Speak to the screen, and you'll engage in a conversation with Mr. House. Now, this conversation can go in any number of ways. You can give Mr. House the Platinum Chip you acquired from Benny, if you'd like. You can even do that while getting more and more Bottle Caps from Mr. House for your hard work. Or, you can simply refuse to give the Platinum Chip to Mr. House, which is precisely what we did. Keep in mind that if you choose to do this, all of the robots everywhere in the casino will turn on you. This will also seal off the entire The House Always Wins quest sequence. But you have to do what you have to do.
Upon refusing to give Mr. House the Platinum Chip, you've basically sealed his fate. There's no turning back now. It's important to note that if you turn hostile with Mr. House, you will not be able to sell any of your Snow Globes to him, though you can still earn the Trophy/Achievement for finding them all. Mr. House can't do anything to you, but all of his security robots sure can. You can kill whatever robots you want for the time being, but your main priority for now should be getting to the computer terminal affixed to a wall to your left. Access the computer terminal and force it to open up the secret area behind the wall. Once that's done, you can then blaze through to another computer terminal on your left. This computer will open up a hidden corridor to your left.
Head down this corridor into an isolated, factory-like room full of pipes, steel and steam. The robots won't follow behind, so you're totally safe (for now). Run down the catwalk you're on to some sort of strange pod, with a computer terminal in front of it. Within the pod is Mr. House's centuries-old, decrepit body. You have more options here, as to what you do to Mr. House. We opted to disable him, removing him from the casino's mainframe, but otherwise keeping him alive. This is a pretty severe thing to do to him, since he's still hooked-up to life support, but then again, he did sic his robots on you when you refused to hand over the Platinum Chip. You reap what you sow, Mr. House! Should you choose to make a different decision, though, that's cool too.
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Journalists are back to work at Uganda's leading privately owned daily, The Monitor, after a 10-day siege of their newsroom by police. But that does not mean it is business as usual for the nation's press. The paper's owners at the Nation Media Group evidently begged and negotiated for its reopening--signaling to other media houses that they should toe the government line or face a similar stranglehold. Although the deliberations were successful in returning the paper to the newsstands, the long-term costs may prove exorbitant.
The saga began on May 20 when police raided the premises of The Monitor ostensibly in search of a letter and related documents written by Gen. David Sejusa, the coordinator of intelligence services, on the sensitive question of presidential succession. Sejusa's letter, addressed to the Internal Security Organization Director-General, alleged an assassination plot against senior officials who reportedly oppose plans for President Yoweri Museveni's son to succeed him. The Monitor published sections of the letter and a story based on its contents on May 7. Police asked for a court order to search The Monitor for the letter, but abused the directive, sealing off the newspaper's premises as a crime scene, stopping the printing presses, and disrupting the operations of two sister radio stations, KFM and Dembe FM, housed in the same building. Although The Monitor's legal team obtained another court order to reopen the premises, and despite vocal protests by journalists and activists outside, police would not budge. The stranglehold on The Monitor was fiscal as well as physical: the paper's general finance manager, George Rioba, said it was losing 120 Ugandan shillings (US$48,000) each day of the siege, according to news reports.
And yet there is little indication that police were genuinely interested in obtaining the letter in the first place. Officers told Geoffrey Ssebaggala, national coordinator of the Ugandan Human Rights Network of Journalists, the civil society group that organized the protests against the closure, that they were not willing to open the premises even if they found the letter, Ssebaggala told me. And a government statement issued when the siege of The Monitor ended on May 30 claimed that police would continue the search--but they did not, Monitor political writer Charles Mwanguhya told me. According to Ofwono Opondo, ruling party spokesman and recently appointed executive director of the Media Centre, a state body that issues government press releases, the police had already obtained the letter from another source prior before the siege began, but "wanted to subdue, to show how inconveniencing the state can be."
While police have raided The Monitor before, this intrusion came at an awkward time for the country, with Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, hosting the African Union Summit and high-profile international visitors in the region. The paper had covered two previous letters written by the general without incident, local journalists said. The problem this time, Opondo said, was the "cocktail of names" Sejusa mentioned in the letter, including those of Museveni's son and brother. The tension between State House and The Monitor had built up for some time, Managing Editor Don Wanyama told me. The paper had interviewed some months earlier opposition leader Kizza Besigye, who also hinted at the potential succession of Museveni's son to state house, for example. "In some ways they were attempting to break the backbone of the media at a time when these stories of succession were increasing," the executive director of the Uganda-based Africa Centre for Media Excellence, Peter Mwesige, told me. "When you have senior generals with such strong statements, they [the government] attempted to nip this in the bud."
Although the police closure was illegal, and despite the fact that The Monitor has always beat the government in past court cases, the siege eventually ended only after lengthy negotiations between the government and Nation Media Group. The initial discussions involved Opondo and top-level management of The Monitor and the parent company, local journalists told me. The final mediation, however, took place between Museveni himself on one side and the chief executive of Nation Media Group, Linus Gitahi, and the chairman of Monitor Publications, Simon Kagugube, on the other, during two visits to Addis Ababa, where Museveni was attending the AU meetings.
Immediately, users of social media like Twitter and Facebook were awash with criticism that the media company had sold out The Monitor. The Nation Media Group was quick to reject the claims that they had capitulated to a series of government demands, compromising the paper's independence, in order to reopen. A statement published in the paper on June 6 claimed, "At no time did we make any concessions or sign any agreements." In interviews after the re-opening, Monitor Managing Director Alex Asiimwe told reporters, "You can ask the government--the only thing we were asked to live by is our editorial policy guidelines. We did not sign anything else." And yet the media company's May 27 letter addressed to the president highlighted pledges not included in their much-stated editorial policies. The letter pledged "to be sensitive to and not publish or air stories that can generate tensions, ethnic hatred, cause insecurity or disturb law and order." At face value these may be exemplary undertakings, but throughout East Africa, authorities routinely use the guise of national security and ethnic tension to censor the press and stifle legitimate public debate on sensitive issues.
"What standards are they using for these terms?" questioned Ssebaggala in an interview with CPJ. "Who defines national security in relation to the press?" Additionally, a commitment in the letter to "seek regular interface with your office" would seem to suggest that media owners are willing to further shorten the leash between State House and the paper.
Perhaps most disturbing, the Nation Media Group letter said the company "highly regretted the story that led to the closure," without articulating any actual faults with the May 7 article. Indeed, Sejusa had confirmed his penmanship of the letter. But the first Monitor editorial published upon re-opening took an apologetic tone. "We remain committed to fair, balanced journalism. We will make mistakes, because we are human. But we will always try to learn from them and to be better next day."
"He [Sejusa] confirmed writing the letter, he is the head of intelligence--who else is a better person to comment?" Wanyama, the managing editor, said. The May 7 story also showed that the journalists sought reply from government officials who disputed Sejusa's claims. "It is not a question what was wrong with the story--in fact, we did not go through the details of what was wrong with the story," New Media Chairman Gitahi bluntly told reporters after the siege.
During a staff meeting at the paper's re-opening, the bosses castigated Monitor reporters not for factual mistakes but for failure to achieve stronger sales, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by CPJ. Gitahi, the CEO, told staff that, with 20,000 copies sold daily, reaching an estimated 400,000 readers out of a population of 35 million, "You are not a paper of influence. You are just talking to yourselves." Chairman Kagugube said, "The reason that [the public] don't buy is because they think you don't write very smartly. Don't deceive yourself that your stories are very hot." The paper's owners seemed to be warning staff away from sensitive stories, but they seem also to have forgotten that The Monitor's readership is based on its critical stance. The publication, labeled an "enemy paper" by Museveni during a recent parliament hearing, is unlikely to increase sales if tamed.
Kagugube concluded that the paper's owners would continue to support its journalists, but did not want to have to "beg the way we begged." The idea that the media owners "begged" in the first place is bad enough. But now Monitor staff members have further worries over their status at the paper, and this could result in self-censorship, local journalists told me. Rumors have circulated that the management may fire certain staff members to ensure the government's ire is not raised again, they said. Repeated calls for comment to Managing Director Asiimwe went unanswered.
During negotiations to re-open the paper, the government requested that action be taken against some of the paper's staff members, though what action wasn't specified, Opondo claimed. "The staff have a right to fear, since The Monitor management agreed to take action--whether that is sacking, demotions, transfers, etc." In that case, the government has achieved a far more effective means of silencing the paper by targeting individuals with job insecurity, than with a widely covered police raid. The strategy has been used in the past, with at least seven senior managers at The Monitor either thrown out or transferred in the past decade, local journalists said.
The attempts to intimidate critical journalists may have already begun. On June 2, The Monitor's sister TV station, NTV, told its outspoken regular panelist, Chris Obure, not to participate in a weekly political talk show. According to Obure, the show's producer, Michael Baleke, was told by his seniors to keep Obure off the show for an unspecified period of time. "He [Baleke] said he wasn't given reasons for my not appearing but suspected that management was uneasy," Obure told me via email. "He also said earlier [before the siege] a government representative had called NTV and warned them about my presence on the show, asking them to reconstitute the panel." Obure suspects the displeasure is related to his recent comments about discrepancies in army pay and unfair promotions and deployments under Brigadier Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the president's son.
Also on June 2, The Monitor recalled an early edition of its Sunday paper. The first edition of the Sunday Monitor's lead story, "Museveni ranks low in East Africa," covered the Ugandan president's poor assessment for governance by the Africa Leadership Index. But Asiimwe ordered editors to drop the story after the early edition had hit the stands and replace it with coverage of a college strike which had originally appeared on page six in the early edition, according to news reports. The Monitor's managing director claimed the story had not "been handled well," the reports said. The story was also removed from The Monitor's website.
On the other hand, editions printed since the paper re-opened have also included several columnists criticizing the police raid on The Monitor, as well as sensitive stories such as plans by the outgoing secretary-general to the prime minister's office to document corruption he witnessed there. Further, because of the prevalence of social media, the scope for censoring stories is diminishing. "We have expanding, alternative spaces which civil society can use to put pressure on the media," Mwesige said. "In the past, media would have all its pressure from the government, but now we have so many platforms to discuss issues--pressure from civil society will keep the media on its toes in terms of maintaining independence." Wanyama also believes The Monitor cannot change. "It is the culture of the paper to be critical," the managing editor said. "If it self-censors, it will cease to be."


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From Soho to SoMo for special effects studios
South Melbourne is turning into Australia's own Hollywood as US special effects wizards Luma Pictures opens its first overseas studio in the suburb.
The California-based firm, which has worked on more than 75 films including the The Avengers, Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter, is believed to be the first major American studio to join a growing hub of firms in the area that create cutting-edge visual effects for the international and local film and TV industry.
There are at least nine other audio and visual effects studios servicing the film, TV and advertising industry in the area, including Digital Pictures Australia (Snowtown, Balibo), Chroma Media (Howzat!), Planet X Studios, Activemotion and Black Sheep Films. Some are owned by American parent companies.
Luma Picture's co-founder Payam Shohadai declined to comment about the studio or its plans, but the company has advertised 16 local job positions so far.
Luma's arrival has been welcomed by long-time operator Iloura, which recently brought to life the pot-smoking, foul-mouthed teddy bear in Seth MacFarlane's Ted.
"It's become a pretty strong industry here, with studios working in feature films, TV, games and advertising," said Iloura's executive producer Simon Rosenthal.
"The closest to it would be in Soho in London where you can walk door to door between the effects studios. I don't know why South Melbourne was anointed as the suburb of choice but it is."
Mr Rosenthal said competition for talent was intense, which probably accounted for the concentration of so many operators in an area known for its access to the CBD, public transport, restaurants and pubs.
"Putting a studio in the outer suburbs isn't going to cut it – not when there's so much competition for (staff)," he said.
Luma Pictures has opened on the second-floor of a warehouse in 256 Clarendon Street, signing a lease over the space for at least five years. There's a Hollywood connection to the building itself, which is owned by Martin Zoland, executive producer of Australian film The Tumbler and US film The Perfect Host.
''This isn't a short term gig for us, it's the first phase of an international push," Luma said in a company email that was posted on industry website Ozanimate.
"We'll be bringing the whole Luma package to the new studio ... and it will be doing big feature film work just like Santa Monica."
Estate agent Louise Nicoll of Savills Australia said Luma was looking to replicate the high-tech but laid-back atmosphere of its California facility.
While there are no figures estimating the total value of the industry in Australia, about $2.98 billion has been spent on the production of TV and film dramas alone in the last decade, according to Screen Australia.
But the industry took a blow recently when Sydney lost its chance to host the filming of the latest Wachowski siblings' $200 million sci-fi outing Jupiter Ascending after the federal government refused to increase the amount of financial support it provides to foreign productions.
Mr Rosenthal said the government rebates offered to foreign studios that send production work to Australian visual effects companies was essential to maintaining the industry.
Current projects for Iloura include Will Smith's 1000 A.E., Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and I, Frankenstein.


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Mixed Emotions is the debut album by Tanlines, a Brooklyn NY duo composed of Eric Emm (vocals, guitar, keyboards) and Jesse Cohen (drums, keyboards, bass). Initially born as a production project based out of Emm's Brooklyn-based Brothers Studio, Tanlines has evolved into a deeply personal, unique electronic pop group.
But before there was Tanlines, there was just Eric and just Jesse, working in separate bands and projects until their paths crossed in 2008. Jesse's former band had recorded at Eric's studio; the two got along famously and struck up a friendship. "We have complementary qualities. It's like a lot of duos, I think. We have different personalities, but we just innately understand each other," says Cohen. The pair began making music together almost on a lark, deciding one night to remix a song for the band Telepathe, with whom Eric was working at the time, and put it on the internet that same evening for no reason beyond simply doing so. Suddenly, the song was making rounds on the web and being championed by various tastemakers. Their second song, "New Flowers," written for one of Jesse's friends' art projects, had the same reaction, resulting in excellent UK label Young Turks (The XX, SBTRKT) emailing the band to release a single in 2009. "It was at that point that we thought, 'Okay, this is a real project now,'" says Cohen.
Shows around the world followed, including amazing sets at the likes of The Guggenheim, The Whitney, the New Museum and more in their hometown of NYC ("Our genre was 'Museum House' for a while," jokes Emm), and an opening slot on Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas's solo tour in 2009. Effortlessly cool Parisian label Kitsune released a Tanlines single, while American label True Panther released the Tanlines' first EP in 2010. They booked a three week tour in Europe, excited from the exciting things that had been happening to them, only to play some of the most disappointing shows of their career. "It was eye opening," says Emm. "We realized we had a lot of work to do." The inspiration for said work came in the form of albums the duo brought with them to listen to while driving through Europe. "We brought R.E.M. records, skate punk records from the 80's, Born in the USA, stuff like that. Emm says, "listening to them, I became very aware of the lasting resonance of a good song. A good song transcends production trends. That's what we were missing, and I wanted to start making songs that would have a life of their own."
Upon returning from the European tour in the spring of 2010, Cohen and Emm returned home to New York to find an eviction notice for the recording studio that Eric and his brother (one-time trance producer Joshua Ryan) had built from the ground up eight years prior. The building had been sold and there were plans to convert it into a homeless shelter (...which was ultimately never built). For two years, the studio had been their figurative, and sometimes literal home (the spare bedroom often housed Jesse Cohen after late night sessions). With all of that change and uncertainty in mind, Tanlines began to work on their first proper album.
That album, Mixed Emotions, is a testament to the benefits and pitfalls of life's changes, getting older, and being pushed out of one's comfort zone. The band that was born out of a studio suddenly found themselves without a home base, forced to reevaluate themselves. Emm honed his voice, a confident and tranquil baritone, and focused on lyricism, something he had not done seriously in the past. Many of the songs on Mixed Emotions began as simple songs written on a guitar, with the band later adding their palette of electronic and organic sounds afterwards. "A great song can stick with someone for their whole life," says Cohen as a means of explanation. "As a musician, you have the opportunity to create that, and that is the thing that you chase. When we were forced to really figure out what we were trying to do with our album, our music in general, and our lives broadly, it was obvious." Emm attributes his newfound lyrical earnestness and immediacy more directly- "I just reached a point in my life where I wasn't afraid and didn't give a shit."
Emm sings stories about loss, the passage of time, and the lessons and warnings of accumulated knowledge gleaned by someone who has spent an entire lifetime in music. "Real Life," one of Mixed Emotion's most bombastic songs, has Emm countering with the searching lyrics: "For a minute I was lost / I looked away/ I was looking for a home / I was looking for a role." Emm, who by his own account has lived "an extremely unconventional life," quit school at 15 to play guitar and skateboard, joined his favorite band and toured around the world at 19, and built a studio that hosted some of the area's most notable underground acts in the mid 2000s, found the displacement both bittersweet and liberating. The lyrics that poured out of him reflect both earnest excitement and wisdom- they are about recognizing the sadness of a loss while still accepting that nothing ever really changes for good. On "Brothers" he sings "You're just the same as you ever were / You fight and you don't wonder why it makes no sense, I'm just the same as I ever been / But I'm the only one who doesn't notice it".
"This process," Cohen says, referring to the agita of recording in the midst of the studio loss and its subsequent, sudden adulthood, "felt more like making a movie than an album." Ultimately, the final step of mixing the album took them to an entirely different musical universe, the Miami-based studio of legendary mixer Jimmy Douglass (Timbaland, Aaliyah, Justin Timberlake, Television, Roxy Music) in whom the band found an unlikely kindred spirit. It was a journey that pushed the band to expand their sonic ambitions and away from the comfort of their previous experiences.
Perhaps that's why Mixed Emotions feels so vivid—sometimes painful, sometimes transcendent—a very precise labor of love. It obscures and blurs the lines between synthetic and organic sounds, real and fake, happy and sad. It is the sound of stadium pop in small spaces. Before deciding on the name Mixed Emotions, Tanlines' debut was called ;( (pronounced "winky-sad'), an emoticon of their own creation and the unofficial mascot of the band. A winky-sad is used to indicate something that is sad, but that you can still make a joke about. Musically, it is perhaps a happy-sounding song with melancholic lyrics. It's the acknowledgment that most things are many things at once. It is Mixed Emotions ;(


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GERMAN construction group Bilfinger, part of the consortium behind Edinburgh's £776 million tram project, has posted a 17 per cent jump in annual profits and predicted further growth for the year ahead.
The firm said pre-tax profits before one-off items rose to €466m (£397m) for 2012, up from €397m the previous year and slightly ahead of analysts' expectations, despite being faced with an "economically difficult environment".
Profits were boosted by a €45m gain from the sale of investments in Nigeria and Bilfinger, which began life in 1883 building bridges in Mannheim, said underlying profits for the coming year should be higher than the €421m booked for 2012.
Chief executive Roland Koch said last month that the group has amassed an €850m warchest for acquisitions to boosts its overseas presence.
Officials behind Edinburgh's controversial tram scheme, running from the airport to the city centre, are confident that services will start running next summer, three years behind the original deadline.


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James Joseph Sylvester
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Died: 15 March 1897 in London, England
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James Joseph Sylvester's father was Abraham Joseph who was a merchant. The first strange fact (which the careful reader may already have noticed!) is that Sylvester's father had the surname Joseph, and not Sylvester. Indeed the subject of this biography grew up with the name James Joseph and it was only shortly before he began his university studies that he decided to add the surname Sylvester. One might ask at this point why he added an extra name. The reason was that his eldest brother decided at this time to emigrate to the United States and he was required to have at least three names before he was allowed to gain residence. We should also mention at this point the fact that Sylvester was born into a Jewish family, and brought up in the Jewish faith, which would lead to difficulties later in his life which we describe below.
Sylvester attended two schools in London, the first one being a boarding school in Highgate which he attended up to 1827, after which he undertook a further eighteen months study at a school in Islington. In 1828, at the age of fourteen, he entered University College London, and began his studies in the first year that the College received students. This was a sensible choice since, unlike some other British universities, it was non-sectarian. It also had the very talented De Morgan as its professor of mathematics. However things did not go well for Sylvester for, when only five months into his studies, he was accused of threatening a fellow student with a knife in the College refectory. Sylvester's family withdrew him from University College immediately after the allegations were made. Realising that, although Sylvester was able to profit from university education, he was not yet mature enough for university life, his family sent him to continue his schooling at the Royal Institution in Liverpool.
On 7 July 1831 Sylvester matriculated as a student at St John's College, Cambridge, although his studies were interrupted when he was forced to take most of the two years 1833-34 and 1834-35 out due to a lengthy illness. After regaining his health he took the mathematical tripos examination in 1837. Two other famous mathematicians took the tripos examination in the same year as Sylvester, namely Duncan Gregory and George Green. Sylvester came second, Green who was 20 years older than the other two came fourth, with Duncan Gregory fifth. (The mathematician who came first, William Griffin, did little work of importance after graduating: this was not at all uncommon a result of the 'speed test' which the tripos was at that time.)
We were careful to say that Sylvester took the tripos examination in 1837 rather than saying he graduated in that year, for he was not able to graduate. At this time it was necessary for a student to sign up to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England before graduating and Sylvester, being Jewish, naturally refused to take the necessary oath so could not graduate. For the same reason he was not eligible for a Smith's prize nor was he eligible to compete for a Fellowship.
For the three years from 1838 Sylvester held the chair of natural philosophy at the University of London, one of the few places which did not bar him because of his religion. His former teacher De Morgan was one of his colleagues. However Sylvester was a mathematician and it was mathematics, not physics, that he wished to teach. He was a very active researcher and by the time he resigned the chair of natural philosophy in 1841 he had published fifteen papers on fluid dynamics and algebraic equations. Sylvester might have been a professor for three years but he still had no degree for the reason we indicated above. He remedied this in 1841 when he was awarded a B.A. and an M.A. by Trinity College, Dublin. In fact it was legislation which allowed Roman Catholics to take degrees at Trinity College which also meant that Jews could graduate there.
At the age of 27 he applied for, and was appointed to, the chair of mathematics in the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the United States. His application was strongly supported by De Morgan, John Herschel and Charles Babbage. For example De Morgan wrote:-
No person of his years in this country has more reputation than Mr Sylvester as an original mathematician, or bids fairer to extend the exact sciences by his labours. From my own knowledge of what he has done, I can safely say that he is a mathematician of great power, well acquainted with the most modern forms of the science, and very zealous in the persecution of his inquiries.However he resigned after only a few months in post. The following version of events is recorded by Feuer in [11]. A student who had been reading a newspaper in one of Sylvester's lectures insulted him and Sylvester struck him with a sword stick. The student collapsed in shock and Sylvester believed (wrongly) that he had killed him. He fled to New York where one of his elder brothers was living. Although this story is probably accurate in one sense, in another it gives a quite false impression of events. There is no doubt that the students at the University of Virginia were very badly behaved and their behaviour was made worse by drink. It is also likely that they reacted more against Sylvester as a foreigner although there are many records of abusive behaviour before Sylvester arrived. Certainly Sylvester complained to the Faculty on 1 February 1842 about the behaviour of a particular first year student. The abuse suffered by Sylvester from this student got worse after this. Although the student was reprimanded by the university authorities, no sanctions were made against him. Sylvester objected to the lenient attitude of the Faculty on 19 March and resigned three days later.
In New York he began to look for university positions. After two unsuccessful bids for posts at Columbia College and Harvard, he boarded a ship back to England on 20 November 1843. He suffered another upset while in New York. He met a local girl, Miss Marston, and became very fond of her. He proposed marriage but she turned him down on the grounds that he was of the Jewish religion.
On his return to England Sylvester worked as an actuary and was secretary at the Equity Law and Life Assurance Company. However, he also gave mathematics tuition with his pupils including Florence Nightingale. He decided to study law and, by good fortune, Cayley was also studying to become a lawyer. Both met at the courts of Lincoln's Inn in London and they discussed mathematics as they walked around the courts and, although very different in temperament, they became life long friends.
Sylvester tried hard to return to being a professional mathematician and he applied for a lectureship in geometry at Gresham College, London in 1854 but he was not appointed. Another failed application was for the chair in mathematics at the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, but, after the successful applicant died within a few months of being appointed, Sylvester became professor of mathematics at Woolwich.
Sylvester did important work on matrix theory, a topic in which he became interested during walks with Cayley while they were at the courts of Lincoln's Inn. In 1851 he discovered the discriminant of a cubic equation and first used the name 'discriminant' for such expressions of quadratic equations and those of higher order. He published important papers in 1852 and 1853, namely On the principle of the calculus of forms and On the theory of syzygetic relations and two rational integer functions. In particular he used matrix theory to study higher dimensional geometry. He also contributed to the creation of the theory of elementary divisors of lambda matrices.
De Morgan was the first president of the London Mathematical Society. Sylvester became the second president of that Society in 1866. He was the first recipient of the gold medal which the Society awarded to honour De Morgan. He had also been elected to the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1863 and had been a fellow of the Royal Society of London since 1839. Being at a military academy Sylvester was forced to retire at age 55. Parshall writes [21]:-
During his last five years there, in fact, Sylvester frequently found himself at odds with the military authorities over his teaching duties and increasingly sensed the diminishment of his mathematical talents.After retiring in 1870 he lived in London, spending most days at the Athenaeum Club (he had been elected a member of the Club in 1856). At first it looked as though he might give up mathematics since he published his only book at this time and it was on poetry. Clearly Sylvester was proud of this work, entitled The Laws of Verse, since after this he sometimes signed himself "J J Sylvester, author of The Laws of Verse". Parshall writes [21]:-
Sylvester's love of poetry and language manifested itself in notable ways even in his mathematical writings. His mastery of French, German, Italian, and Greek was often reflected in the mathematical neologisms - like "meicatecticizant" and "tamisage" - for which he gained a certain notoriety. Moreover, literary illusions, poetic quotations, and unfettered hyperbole spiced his published papers and lectures.For three years Sylvester appears to have done no mathematical research but then Chebyshev visited London and the two discussed mechanical linkages which can be used to draw straight lines. After working on this topic Sylvester lectured on it at an evening lecture entitled On recent discoveries in mechanical conversion of motion which he gave at the Royal Institution. One mathematician in the audience at this lecture was Kempe and he became absorbed by this topic. Kempe and Sylvester worked jointly on linkages and made important discoveries.
In 1877 Sylvester accepted a chair at Johns Hopkins University and he founded in 1878 the American Journal of Mathematics, the first mathematical journal in the United States. In fact the seven years that Sylvester spent at Johns Hopkins saw a resurgence in his mathematical interests. For the first time in his career he was teaching and undertaking research in a proper university environment and, moreover, he was able to give leadership in a way that had not been possible throughout the rest of his career. For the first time he had research students around him whose studies he could supervise in directions which his interests took him. In fact he supervised the doctorates of nine students during his seven years at Johns Hopkins. His research interests reinvigorated, he involved his students in important ideas in the theory of partitions which he undertook during these years. He published this work in the American Journal of Mathematics which he had founded. Given that he was so successful at Johns Hopkins, one has to ask why he left when he did. We know of his reasons through a personal letter he wrote to Klein who considered succeeding him but found the salary and conditions insufficient. Sylvester certainly wanted to return to his native land and had some personal reasons to return. However, his main reason was (see [5]):-
... because I did not consider that my mathematical rerudition was sufficiently extensive nor the vigour of my mental constitution adequate to keep me abreast of the continually advancing tide of mathematical progress to that extent which ought to be expected from one on whom practically rests the responsibility of directing and moulding the mathematical education of 55 million of one of the most intellectual races of men upon the face of the earth.When Smith died in 1883 Sylvester, although 68 years old at this time, was appointed to the Savilian chair of Geometry at Oxford. However Sylvester only liked to lecture on his own research and this was not well liked at Oxford where students wanted only to do well in examinations. In 1892, at the age of 78, Oxford appointed a deputy professor in his place and Sylvester, by this time partially blind and suffering from loss of memory, returned to London where he spent his last years at the Athenaeum Club.
Macfarlane [17] describes Sylvester in the following way:
Sylvester was fiery and passionate ... Sylvester never wrote a paper without foot-notes, appendices, supplements, and the alterations and corrections in his proofs were such that the printers found their task well-nigh impossible. ... Sylvester satisfied the popular idea of a mathematician as one lost in reflection, and high above mundane affairs. ... Sylvester was an orator, and if not a poet, he at least prided himself on his poetry.One of Sylvester's students at Johns Hopkins University describes his teaching there:-
... the substance of his lectures had to consist largely of his own work, and, as a rule, of work hot from the forge. The consequence was that a continuous and systematic presentation of any extensive body of doctrine already completed was not to be expected from him. Any unsolved difficulty, any suggested extension, such would have been passed by with a mention by other lecturers, became inevitably with him the occasion of a digression which was sure to consume many weeks, if indeed it did not take him away from the original object permanently. Nearly all of the important memoirs which he published, while in Baltimore, arose in this way. We who attended his lectures may be said to have seen these memoirs in the making.The following quote, from Thomas Hirst, tells us something about Sylvester's personality:-
On Monday having received a letter from Sylvester I went to see him at the Athenaeum Club. ... He was, moreover, excessively friendly, wished we lived together, asked me to go live with him at Woolwich and so forth. In short he was eccentrically affectionate.Sylvester sent the following puzzle to the Educational Times. It tells us of one of his hobbies as well as his interest in puzzles:-
I have a large number of stamps to the value of 5d and 17d only. What is the largest denomination which I cannot make up with a combination of these two different values.[The answer is 63d. Can you prove this!]
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Dr. Glaser is a board-certified internist, researcher and medical director at the Lancaster Ayurveda Medical Centers based in Sterling, MA. He can be reached at 978-422-5044. Answers to many questions about Ayurveda can be found on the Lancaster web site, www.AyurvedaMed.com, where you can subscribe to their free online newsletter, The Spirit of Health.
Sufferers of pemphigus are in a good position to aid well meaning administrators in politics, social policy, security, intelligence and defense who are currently grappling with how to re-engineer a free society immune to disruption from within or without, because this disorder recapitulates issues in domestic security. Understanding the immunology of autoimmune disorders sheds light on critical issues of individual and societal health, so we will examine immunology from both a western and eastern perspective.
A Sanskrit expression from Charaka Samhita, the oldest textbook of medicine, states, yatha pinde tatha brahmande, i.e. "as is the individual physiology, so is the universe." This means that the body is an expression of an underlying field of intelligence, the same intelligence that also governs the functioning of larger structures such as galaxies, ecosystems and societies. In the wake of recent horrific events, we have all wondered if there is any intelligence at all at work in a human society. Quantum mechanics and chaos theory both insist, "Yes! But like biology, it is an intelligence that operates with probabilities and uncertainty." This also means that social systems have their own physiology.
The ancient Ayurvedic texts call this intelligence Veda, and describe it as a blueprint for the physiology, indeed for the cosmos. Veda functions as a constitution of the universe, describing the laws of nature at work as unmanifest, unexpressed intelligence that expresses itself into a human, a virus or a star. The verses of Veda and the Vedic literature also have a discrete structure, an architecture defined by the relationships between the syllables, words, chapters and rhythms.
If Veda indeed provides the blueprint for nature including for humankind, one would expect that human physiology and anatomy reflects the architecture and functioning of Veda. Tony Nader, MD, PhD, a Harvard-trained neuroscientist investigated whether the structure of Veda could be found in the human neuroanatomy. Dr. Nader analyzed all 40 areas of Veda and the Vedic literature and discovered that each Vedic text has an almost identical corresponding structure in the human anatomy. For example, Rg Veda, the primordial Vedic text which gives rise to all others, is composed of 192 groups of verses. Similarly, the human autonomic nervous system governing our vital functions consists of 192 nerves.
This recent insight from neuroscience provides one of the strongest confirmations of the existence of an underlying blueprint for creation and that every human individual is cosmic. This correspondence also validates the biblical understanding that man is made in the image of the divine.
Agnivesha, a medical student who lived thousands of years ago, poses in the ancient Ayurvedic medical text a question about immunity that is still pertinent today. "Why is it that some people eat all the right things and they still get disease and infections, while some people never eat well and they seem to never fall sick?" His professor, Atreya, gives an answer that prophesies our modern understanding. "Predisposition to disease also depends on how and when the food is eaten, the environment of the individual, as well as on genetics."
Immune disorders, like problems with security systems or militias, can be categorized as either 1) weak immunity or 2) strong immunity, but lacking organization and leadership. AIDS is an example of the former because the immune cells are both scarce and weak. Pemphigus and other autoimmune disorders and allergies are examples of the latter. In allergic conditions, a strong immune system aims its formidable weapons at a non-threatening foreign irritant, the proverbial cannon against the mosquito.
Autoimmune disorders are the most interesting to a student of social policy and domestic security because they represent an imbalance between adequate internal vigilance and tolerance of individuality. Autoimmune diseases are caused by activation of immune cells for no apparent reason such as an infection. The immune response is directed against one's own tissues, perhaps tissues that, to a T cell, look a lot like an invader. This includes not only pemphigus, but common disorders such as hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, juvenile diabetes and probably multiple sclerosis, as well as more uncommon problems such as lupus, spondylitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
Immune cells are not designed simply to discriminate self from foreign, but to attack in an environment of inflammation triggered by chemical signals. Autoimmune disease usually implies both a genetic predisposition and the presence of triggers such as viruses or bacteria, drugs, a woman's natural estrogen or even stress. It seems that Atreya was right: genes and one's environment are just as important as a good diet.
Pemphigus and other immune disorders of the skin may be more common than immune disorders involving other organs simply because the skin, our largest organ, is responsible with the toughest immune task in the body: keeping the interior sterile in the face of an unsterile hostile environment. The intelligence to accomplish this difficult task, according to Ayurveda, comes from the source of intelligence in Veda, whose first biological expression is our DNA.
The standard medical approach is to subdue the immune system using harmful steroids and other risky immune suppressants otherwise used for preventing transplant rejection. Continuing our analogy, this is comparable to so weakening the FBI and other domestic security agencies, simply because they lacked perfect discrimination between the innocent citizenry and subversives, that it endangers the whole society.
It has long been known that stress aggravates allergic disorders like asthma, eczema and hives. What experienced ER doc hasn't seen kids with severe wheezing at home, who are fine as soon as they enter the hospital, knowing that they wouldn't suffocate? Now several studies have shown that stress can also be a trigger for autoimmune disorders, including Grave's disease, lupus, colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis. Our forebears fleeing a saber-tooth tiger had a good chance of being wounded, and needed an immune system that would be mobilized and stimulated from the chase alone. Today the tiger and its like are extinct, but we go about our business with our nervous systems in high gear as if these dangers were present, creating neuropeptides and stress hormones in the brain that circulate through our bodies to turn our immune systems on inappropriately. Serenity, on the other hand, allows proliferating cells to be quiescent.
So intimately are the nervous and immune systems connected that a new science called psychoneuroimmunology has arisen that may make this connection not only legitimate but also practical. Brains and immune cells both have memories and intellects, and even share some common cells. Most importantly, a nervous system free of anxiety and depression creates a neurochemistry that signals the immune system to deactivate. Countries at peace, like Switzerland and Costa Rica, marshal small, inconspicuous armies.
The western approach to pemphigus and other autoimmune disorders is to take corticosteroids and other powerful immunosuppressants. The Ayurvedic approach to autoimmunity is to put the immune system to rest rather than to suppress it. Transcendental Meditation has been shown to improve the inflammatory response of gingivitis and to lower cortisol and increase DHEA, exactly the opposite of the stress response. Several Ayurvedic herbs, including guggulu, have powerful anti-inflammatory effects and have been shown effective in rheumatoid arthritis, the autoimmune disorder that wreaks the most widespread suffering.
When I was in medical school, we thought that the body naturally eliminates clones of cells that attack one's self, leaving intact only the T and B cells which react against foreign antigens such as bacteria. Now we understand that a low level of autoreactivity is natural and even critical to normal immune function. Apparently, tissues that provoke an immune response help naïve immune cells to differentiate and survive. In addition, since our bodies create cancer cells every day, a hint of autoreactivity may be one of the ways the immune system is recruited to eliminate these abnormal cells, which don't look quite like "self."
It seems that the healthiest condition for the body is akin to a benign yet testy society that is perpetually challenging the domestic security agencies to keep them on their toes. In these challenging times, may we have the humility to take a few lessons from Nature in establishing our new world order. Perhaps we can take a few lessons from the ancient sages of Ayurveda in overcoming pemphigus.


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Comment Etiquette – Do You Reply to All or Just Some?
Google the topic of Comment Etiquette, and even if you spell etiquette wrong (which I did – it is a very tricky word to spell), there will be quite a few sites to check out. WordPress weighs in with 'Are You Well-Versed in Comment Etiquette'.
I've learned a few things about making comments by observation of results. One of them is 'don't ever leave a comment on a vegetarian blog if you are not one'. Carnivores are generally not well received, even very polite Canadian ones. Actually, a general rule of thumb is to be very cautious about leaving a comment anywhere if you realize you are going to be the only one with a dissenting opinion. It is like responding 'Yes' when a friend asks you if she looks fat in her new tight jeans. Some things are best left unsaid.
I read quite a few blogs, and often I would like to leave a comment. But if there are 30 or 100 comments there already, I realize I have absolutely nothing new to say. So I click the Like Button. To me, the Like Button is my way of saying 'This is very good! You are a very talented blogger, and I thoroughly enjoyed this post!" Only it is a lot briefer, and the blogger doesn't have to say anything back.
I know there are two schools of thought on how bloggers reply to comments:
– Some bloggers think each and every comment should receive a reply, even if all they say is 'Thanks".
– Some bloggers think that some comments clearly lead to replies, while other comments are more like someone pushed the Like Button, and no reply is necessary.
Which brings me to the meat of this post which is, how do you reply to comments on your blog? Are you an ALL person, or are you a SOME person? I would really like to know what my readers think, because it will help me to decide whether I am going to continue being an ALL person, or whether I will become a SOME person.
43 thoughts on "Comment Etiquette – Do You Reply to All or Just Some?"
I am a "rarely" commenter, which I realize is not always the most encouraging thing to the blogger, but I don't like leaving a comment unless I *really* want to add my voice to the mix. I read far more than I comment on.
Seeing as my blog is sorely neglected due to having too much snark and not nearly enough cookies to balance it out lately (not to mention the absolute shock to the system of a "20-more-like-40-hours-a-week" job after years of working part-time), I probably shouldn't comment on my comments to my commenters.
What an interesting topic – commenting etiquette…but I'm guessing that there really is such a thing. I guess I'm a SOME person. I can't reply to all of my comments..but I do try – at least – to return a 'like' comment on their blog!
I didn't realize there was a comment after my comment. Is there someplace I should be going to see your response?
Because, if you have been responding then I have a lot of reading to do.
PS I love your blog and your thoughtful topics.
I usually reply individually. And I get most of my comments on my blog on FB so I get to go there too and reply.
How to comment. Not each and every blog, like you if there already a lot of comments I don't know what I could add. I do comment on the ones that move me to do so.
I try to comment as much as I write my own blog. I think it sharpens me. Every blog has a personality all to its own.
Usually 99% of time, it's great when people leave comments on my blogs. I nurture and feed 3 blogs that I started from ground up with writing for a 4th blog as part of a large team.
I only wish that some folks reciprocated to comment on my blog or at least "liked" a blog post or 2, when I've commented on their blogs….several times. I just then don't both visiting them if their content is not critical to my knowledge, but more recreational.
Life is short and so I have to channel my time in the way that there is a healthy exchange of info. with another person.
2 of my blogs are aimed at professional/technical folks and so I don't expect a huge amount of comment feedback. My 3rd blog is a personal blog (linked to my name here).


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text: Raised Red: Red Bulls Emphasize Homegrown Talent Ahead of 2017 Season Tweet Red Bulls academy and NYRB II product Dan Metzger © The New York Red Bulls have signed six players thus far to bolster its lineup ahead of the 2017 CONCACAF Champions League and MLS regular season. TICKETS: SCCL Leg 1 – Red Bulls vs. Vancouver Whitecaps FC, Feb. 22 at 8 p.m. Veterans Aurelien Collin and Damien Perrinelle re-join the team alongside a plethora of young talent including former New York Red Bulls II players Rafael Diaz and Dan Metzger, and former Red Bulls U-23 and academy players, Arun Basuljevic and Evan Louro. While Perrinelle and Collin's names stand out for most Red Bulls fans as mainstays in the team's back line, the other names may not be as familiar to some, despite having been associated with the club at numerous levels of the organization's development pyramid. "I've been at this club since I was 11-years-old," Basuljevic said. "It's a dream come true…to finally sign my first professional contract, it's absolutely amazing." WATCH: Arun Basuljevic on his Homegrown Contract and the Red Bull Way The Red Bulls now have eight Homegrown Players on the roster, with Basuljevic and Louro joining Alex Muyl, Derrick Etienne Jr., Brandon Allen, Sean Davis, Tyler Adams and Connor Lade on New York's list. Basuljevic and Louro were also members of the Red Bulls RDS before taking the next step in the development pyramid and joining the academy. New York's emphasis on developing talent through its academy has led to an MLS record 18 Homegrown Players, the most of any club in the league since the rule was created in 2008. "I've been here for a little bit…I was in the academy," Louro said. "I know most of the first team guys, which helped with the transition. "I'm trying to develop as much as I can, getting advice to make myself better. I just want to be the best player I can possibly be." WATCH: Goalkeepers Look to Push Each Other in Robles' Absence Metzger, despite not being officially tagged as a Homegrown Player, is another product of the Red Bulls' academy. Alongside Diaz, Metzger took the USL route to joining the first team, after playing two seasons for Red Bulls II. "Red Bulls has a great USL program and it helped me develop the last two years," Metzger said. "They're great with developing players and moving on up to the first team. Glad it worked out for me." New York's latest signings means the core of the team is getting younger. The current average age of the Red Bulls roster (excluding on-loan forward Anatole Abang) is 25.54, and could continue to shrink if the club signs any of their 2017 MLS SuperDraft picks. For perspective, compare this average age to the Red Bulls of five years ago, when the average age was 27.77 in 2012. With the influx of young talent, Red Bulls head coach Jesse Marsch noted the importance of educating his new young players on the Red Bulls' signature style of play. "It's important for them to understand quickly how we do things…how we work here and what the environment is like," Marsch said. "We try to have good energy, we try to set high standards for them, but we want them to enjoy themselves." WATCH: Young Players Ready to Adjust to Quick, Technical Pace of Red Bulls Training Marsch also noted that both the new and returning players will have some learning to do as the technical staff aims to implement new tactical adjustments. "We're trying to build a bit tactically and with some of the concepts that we have from what we've built the last two years," Marsch said. "I think there's new steps to take forward. "One of them is the specifics of when to press and how to press and when to counter-press and making sure our habits are good in that manner." Back to news


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Where is unsigned char used in C ( please tell about some real-world examples )? Why would we need both char and unsigned char?
Char ranges from -127 to 128 ( 8-bit integer ) Unsigned Char ranges from 0 to 255 ( 8-bit integer )
If the purpose is to store ASCII, why would we need both?
Another question. Consider this:
char a = 127;
unsigned char b = 255;
When I print it using std::cout. It gives me different characters. Can you explain why? ( I'm using Microsoft vs11 compiler )


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Miggy feeling stronger after offseason surgery
LAKELAND, Fla. -- The Tigers have no shortage of star pitchers who reported to Spring Training well ahead of Thursday's official reporting date. That's no different than previous years. The superstar slugger who reported at the start of the week made a bigger impact with his arrival.
Miguel Cabrera has been around all week, taking advantage of the field availability and weight room at Joker Marchant Stadium to get an early start to his spring workouts. It's not that he needs the extra rehab work. In fact, he says he feels fine. To compare it to last season, when he battled through a groin tear for much of the stretch run, left him smiling.
"Oh my god, I feel free, like I can do anything right now," Cabrera said Wednesday. "I don't worry about anything. I don't worry if it's going to hurt, if it's going to feel good if I do this. I feel free, ready to go."
Cabrera underwent core muscle surgery at the end of October to repair the damage. He felt the difference within days, he said, and was cleared for full activity earlier this offseason. The one difference in his routine is an increase in exercises to strengthen his core muscles.
"I've gotten a lot stronger," he said. "I've tried to make sure everything's going to be good when I start baseball. That's what I do differently."
Cabrera's lack of worries apparently includes his contract situation. He has two years left on the deal he signed six years ago. That's normally the time when many teams approach star players about contract extensions, when free agency is still far enough away that long-term security has an appeal.
Cabrera indicated there's nothing going on just yet, but he isn't concerned. With two years left on his contract, he said, they have plenty of time to work on a new deal.


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We have a SQL generator that emits SQL conditional statements generically for specified fields (which for the sake of discussion: we will label as
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myField = 'foo'.
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NTEXT. Thus, we have to do the comparison with a cast:
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What Makes SEO & SEM So Damn HardBlog Post: March 01, 2007
For me,
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Our company is based in Portugal and we find very difficult to explain why do clients need SEO / SEM.
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Even if they have spent a few thousand dollars (or sometimes millions) creating the site for zero visitors.
Every day we see big companies making big budget ads on TV spending millions to promote a web site (banks, insurance companies, …)
And when we look at their web site they didn't even care to create different titles for each page, so how can we explain them about SEO / SEM.


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I've rediscovered my love of sparkly glosses; maybe it's because the weather is so miserable outside, and I just need something to cheer my up in the gloomy mornings!
Although I don't buy MAC that often, they do make one of my favourite lip glosses EVER – Dazzleglass in Baby Sparks. It's a super soft pink with tons of multi coloured sparkles and I just love it will all me heart. One of the few lip glosses I have finished.
Moon Crystal is a range of sparkly, rich textured glosses from Etude House. There are 5 shades to choose from. I have 01.
The other shades:
1 would usually be too pale for my liking but it looked really pretty in the pictures. 2 is a hot pink, 3 is a coral, 4 is a purple and 5 is a warmer pink. I have to say, none of the other shades really screamed at me…sometimes with sparkly shades, less is more and some of these colours were a bit bold for me.
It's largely a very sheer pink with glitters that have a blue edge – very pretty! It's less pigmented than Baby Sparks but has a similar consistency, quite thick and sticky.
On my lips:
I like this lip gloss, it was inexpensive (half the price of a dazzleglass at £6) and pretty and wearable. Lasting power is ok, because of it's stickiness. Having said that I'm still not 100% taken by the other colours so I hope they bring out more.
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Lewis & Clark debaters win prestigious debate tournament
November 06, 2012
Lewis & Clark debaters Joe Hykan ('13) and Benjamin Mann ('14) won the prestigious Pat Kennedy Round Robin debate tournament, held November 2 at the University of the Pacific.
The round robin tournament, open only to twelve of the top parliamentary debate teams in the nation, focused on topics of mass transportation and public transit. Along with the University of the Pacific, the event was co-hosted by the San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission. Among the topics debated were high-speed rail, self driving cars, emission reduction and eminent domain issues.
Hykan and Mann won six of their seven debates, defeating teams from Pepperdine University, the College of Idaho and the University of California at Los Angeles in early debates.
After defeating Concordia University in the semifinal debate, the Lewis & Clark duo debated a team from Southern Illinois University in the final round. Southern Illinois is consistently one of the top debate programs in the nation, and currently has the top team in the nation. In addition, the final debate was unique because it was judged by an audience of the public instead of debate professionals. Hykan and Mann connected well with the audience and won by a 55-35 margin.
Hykan, who is currently ranked on the 8th placed team in the nation, was also named the 3rd best individual speaker at the event.
Director of Forensics Joe Gantt said of the victory, "It is an incredible honor to win the Pat Kennedy Round Robin. The field of teams at that tournament is impressive, and it is a testament to Joe and Ben's hard work that they came out on top. I am especially proud of the fact that we were able to win debates in front of both an audience of debate judges as well as the broader audience of local community members."
For more information on Lewis & Clark Forensics, please contact Director of Forensics Joe Gantt at email@example.com.


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In searching for information about William Brady, b c 1848 Cavan, Ireland, son of Thomas Brady & Catherine Gibney I found the following…
1880 US Census, CT, New Haven, Derby, Birmingham; SD 1, ED 66, Sheet 8
William Brady, 35 b Ireland, works in rolling mill
Bridget, wife, 30 b Ireland, keeping house
Mary, daughter, 7 b Ireland, at school
Katie, daughter, 1 b CT
Note: Looks like family came to USA between the births of their daughters.
1900 US Census, CT, New Haven, Derby; SD 26, ED 304, Sheet 6
210 Hawkins Street. William Brady, 55 b Ireland; Boarder with the Callaghan family
Note: William & his wife are living on the same street but in different homes.
1900 US Census, CT, New Haven, Derby; SD 26, ED 304, Sheet 5
157 Hawkins Street. Bridget Brady, head, 50 b Ireland; mother of 9/6 living
Mary E, 23 b July 1876 CT
Catherine, 21 b May 1879 CT; packer in mill
Bridget, 18 b Dec 1881 CT; weaver in silk mill
Annie, 17 b Apr 1883 CT; weaver in silk mill
Helen, 14 b May 1886 CT; at school
Eugene, 12 b Mar 1888 CT; at school
Ellen Smith, niece, 31, b May 1869
Owen Smith, nephew, 28 b Nov 1871
Patrick McCabe, niece, 19 b Mar 1881
1910 US Census, CT, New Haven, Derby; Ed 334 Sheet 9A
William Brady, 64 b Ireland
Bridget, wife, 57 b Ireland
Bridget, daughter, 27 b CT
Note: This report is very hard to read.


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Muse of the Brew, Student of the Leaf
I'm not an elitist, a purist, an expert, a tea-snob, or a know-it-all. I am a beginner, and a tea-adventurer.
Tea often speaks of the kindness of strangers, when spoken language will not suffice. Tea transcends expectations. In an ancient gesture of welcome, a cup of hot tea offered on a desert-journey refreshes and, surprisingly, cools, like a floral oasis. Mine was poured from a dented aluminum kettle carried by camel-pack, sipped in silence as we crouched on hard-baked earth that held its heat although the equatorial moon burned full above us.
Many degrees north and east, I have shivered and clasped a tea-bowl with both hands while a storm raged up and down the mountain, wind rattling the corrugated tin roof like a hungry ghost. My hosts chuckled at me through the veil of steam rising from our cups, their children dozing blissfully in our laps, wrapped in skins.
Imagine my amazement not long ago when I encountered the seemingly normal couple with no teapot. Prosperous retirees in a sleek, designer-y home on the northern California coast, filled with books and art. No teapot, no tea-kettle, no tea. Not even a random no-name teabag pinched from hotel room-service on a business trip. No, they were not zealots, who consider tea (perhaps correctly) as medicine. For the first time, I knew that I was amongst savages. I found it terrifying.
What I love about tea is its mystery. There is always an element of surprise when I raise a cup of tea, even if it is one of my favorites. Like wine, tea is dynamic and volatile. Its chemical composition evolves and changes. Even in a proper airtight tin, tucked away from light, it will not last forever. Speaking as a novice, my advice: enjoy it now.
There is no time like the present, starting with October, to enjoy "Tea for Her", if you're a gal. If you're not, well, it couldn't hurt, but Art of Tea also makes manly blends for dudes.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It's the perfect time to schedule that squeeze-fest known as a mammogram, or as I prefer to call them, "girlie s'more's". For resources and information, check out Pink-Link.org, a non-profit online resource for women with breast cancer, breast cancer survivors, and all of us who love them.
Back to the brew: As you know, many potential benefits are swirling in the pot of discussion regarding tea-drinking. In particular, an organic phytoestrogen known as Shatavari makes this tea of special interest to women. In the Ayurvedic tradition, Shatavari is called "curer of 100 diseases". Well, actually, in Sanskrit, "Shatavari" means "she who possesses 100 husbands", which, hmmmmm, sounds even more interesting, as long as I don't have to wash all those socks. In any case, this relative of the asparagus plant has been valued in India for centuries as a women's tonic, recommended to support healthy pregnancy and support a nursing mother's lactation.
"Tea for Her" blends Shatavari with Organic Fennel (yummy licorice/anise-like flavor, and famously digestive) with a bouquet of Organic Lavender, Hibiscus and Chrysanthemum, suffused with the exquisiteness of Organic Rose-Petals. No caffeine. This is a Certified Organic and Fair Trade tea. A pleasing cup for anyone needing a lift, or just lovin' some girl-power.
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