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Here we were, stuck axle-deep on a muddy road in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, after a very impressive midafternoon rainstorm. Ten miles behind us was a small village with a deep hole in the ground where the village men would dig up chunks of tin and sell them to traveling salesmen. This was the last village under government control before the tin trade fell into the hands of a genocidal rebel group called the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
So, with dusk falling, the rain starting, and a mile or two to walk to the closest friendly village, there was nothing to do but get on the cellphone to inform my wife I wouldn't make it to the hotel that night in Bukavu. Later, in the village, my colleague Stephanie Nolen of the Toronto Globe and Mail would send an e-mail from her BlackBerry to her paper's editors, explaining that she was safe.
Welcome to the jungle. Now complete with 3G mobile phone connectivity.
I'm not sure what I expected when I arrived on the African continent. Having lived in India for five-plus years, I knew enough to distrust the "white man's burden" perspective of British colonialism, or the quaint "noble savage" messages embedded in Belgian comics like Tin-Tin. Instead, I buried myself in the African fiction of Chinua Achebe and the plays of Athol Fugard, and hoped that I would quickly find people in our new home in Johannesburg, South Africa, to guide us toward a real sense of what Africa was all about.
Five years later, having served as Africa bureau chief of The Christian Science Monitor – living in the upper-middle-class comforts of Johannesburg and traveling to the squatter camps of Chad, the artisanal tin mines of Congo, the deserts of Timbuktu – I have plenty of stories to tell. But while I have seen the same violence you read about in the news, and share the same concerns others have about the state of governance here, I remain convinced that much coverage of Africa remains needlessly tilted toward the negative.
Nobody I know here denies the problems of this continent, but too few outsiders hear about the positive strides being made and the people who are making them. Think of all the images one gets of Africa – starving babies, child soldiers, incessant conflict, unapologetic greed. Certainly every one of these images is based in fact.
Is there starvation in Africa? Ask someone who has visited the Horn of Africa, with its horrific drought and its decades-long civil war.
Is there violence? Ask a Tutsi woman who has lost her entire family in the 1994 genocide; or ask a Congolese family whose male children have been kidnapped as child soldiers by the Lord's Resistance Army. But these images don't tell the whole story of Africa.
Here are a few of the more common misperceptions: Africa is poor; Africa is violent; Africa is technologically backward; Africa needs "our" help; and my favorite, Africa is a country.
Add those all up, and you start to wonder why people live here. Repeat them out loud, and you might annoy some of your African friends. Report on them, year after year, and you can spend a very fruitful career in Nairobi or Dakar, in Cairo or Johannesburg. If you never look for Africans who are perfectly aware of these problems and who are actively searching for solutions, well, it's almost certain that you'll never find them. Yet those people do exist. Here are some of the people I met along the way, who changed how I saw Africa.
1. Africa is 'poor'
I met Olga Thimbela and Pontsho Monamodi in their tin-shack dwelling in an informal settlement outside Roodepoort almost four years ago. On paper, they were among the poorest people in South Africa. In a good month, Pontsho earned 1,400 rand (about $200) working as a security guard, protecting the homes of middle-class South Africans.
Olga had just given up a part-time job as a housecleaner in many of those homes to look after her children. Considering that she had eight to look after – two of her own, and six others who were the orphaned children of relatives who had died of AIDS – Olga had work enough to manage at home.
Olga and Pontsho are part of a massive demographic trend in South Africa, the surviving relatives who must care for the children of the estimated 2 million South Africans who have died of AIDS in the past decade and a half. It's a disease that has disproportionately struck the poorest of the poor, those who must travel long distances to seek work and those who often have little information on the dangers of unprotected sex.
And it's a disease that has massive economic and social consequences for a nation that should be building for the future, but instead is struggling with looking after an entire generation of children – as many as 1.4 million orphans in all.
The striking part of Olga and Pontsho's story is that theirs is a common narrative. More than a quarter of all South Africans are jobless, according to official statistics. More than 65 percent live on less than 550 rand ($75) per month, or $2.60 a day. And yet, the gross domestic product, on a per capita basis, is $10,700. What those figures suggest is that South Africa isn't a poor country: It's a country where the wealth is concentrated in a few hands.
Sitting in Olga and Pontsho's home – with a throng of young faces staring at me – I was dumbfounded by their generosity. Many middle-class families give to charity, perhaps with a check to Oxfam or by volunteering to build homes for Habitat for Humanity. But when charity becomes a matter of daily life, it is taking the concept to another level.
South Africans call it ubuntu, a Zulu word that means "humanness." In the philosophy of ubuntu, you are only a human being if you are connected to and helping out other human beings. For Olga, ubuntu was as natural as breathing.
"I do a lot of stuff for my kids and my sister's kids because I didn't want to see these kids to go to eat in the dustbin or to go to steal," Olga told me, her voice shaking with emotion. But she trusted then that doing good for others wouldn't cause her own family harm. Bulelwa, a seventh-grader and the daughter of Olga's aunt, said that Olga "give us equal food. She doesn't call us names. She treat us equal like her children."
Olga's choice took her on a very bumpy road during the four years that the Monitor followed her. With relatives pestering her for a portion of the government-provided $90 monthly child-welfare grants, her marriage with Pontsho broke up. Little Bulelwa rebelled and became pregnant. In our last meeting, last year, Olga blamed herself for taking on so much responsibility.
But getting to know Olga a bit over the years, I can't imagine her not shouldering such a great burden. It wasn't poverty that tore up Olga's family: It was greed by family members. Today, Olga blames generosity for her downfall. But that generosity speaks of a cultural wealth that is still deeply felt in most South African communities.
The word ubuntu has been so often used by politicians that it is fast losing its credit, but as long as the impulse remains, South Africans will have a foundation stone for building a new, more equitable South Africa.
2. Africa is 'violent'
On a sunny March morning in 2007, I was robbed at gunpoint. I had just gone to our local bank in Johannesburg to withdraw a large amount of money ahead of a trip to Kenya and Somalia. From the bank, I went to a pet store (we had just gotten a parrot) a few blocks down the road. In the parking lot, I found myself facing a young man with a gun, and behind him several other men, who proceeded to shout at me and look in my car.
"Where is the money?" the leader yelled.
"What money?" I asked.
They were insistent.
"Where is the money?"
I pointed at the glove compartment, where I had stowed the cash in an envelope. They grabbed it, made me empty my pockets, jumped in their car, and fled. I sank to the ground, shocked but unharmed.
Several things are important in this incident. One, it occurred just six months after I had arrived, and it made a strong impression on me about South Africa's crime problem. Two, it was definitely not random. Police later determined that a bank employee had tipped off the robbers after I had shown up earlier without proper ID and promised I would return in an hour to complete the withdrawal. Three, the robbers never touched me.
In that sense, it was emblematic: For every shootout that ends in a death, for every carjacking or "smash and grab," for every home invasion that shocks the nation – and there are plenty of those – many more criminal acts are professional, dispassionate, strictly business, like this one.
It is hardly surprising that crime exists in South Africa. This is, after all, a country with the highest disparity between rich and poor, where multimillion-dollar homes lie within sight of the tin shacks of settlements like Diepsloot and Alexandra townships. What is surprising is that more crime doesn't occur. Friends of ours from Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro have told us that crime here is nothing compared with what they have back home.
Violence on a broader scale in Africa is more complicated than it is often portrayed as well. The places where the most violence occurs are not necessarily big cities like Johannesburg or Lagos, Nigeria, but full-force war zones like Sudan's Darfur region (where perhaps 300,000 have died since 2005) or the Democratic Republic of Congo (where an estimated 5 million have died in multiple wars since 1996). Even then, the highest death tolls have come not from war wounds, but rather the starvation or diseases that result from uprooting families and moving them hundreds of miles to refugee camps.
Does the violence of these wars make Africa a violent place? Not any more, necessarily, than the violence of the Bosnian-Serb conflict of the early 1990s made Europe a dangerous place. Wars in Africa are about the same sort of stuff that they are about on other continents: power.
And just as there are warmongers in every society, so, too, there are peacemakers. In Kenya, when politicians were busy whipping up ethnic hatred among rival groups after the botched presidential elections of December 2007, there were church leaders, human rights activists, youth leaders, and others who risked their lives to appeal for calm.
Hezron Masitsa was one of those young men. As a practicing Quaker and a trained mediator at the Alternatives to Violence Program in Nairobi, Hezron had helped Christian and Muslim communities along the Kenyan coast rebuild trust after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States soured relations between the two communities. At the time, Christian pastors were telling their flocks that all Muslims were terrorists, and Muslim preachers told their followers that Christians were determined to destroy Islam.
To get the communities talking again, Hezron invited elders of each side to attend a meeting, and then made them participate in "silly games" and trust-building exercises. When I met him in mid-January 2008, he had hopes of doing the same thing in Kenya's Rift Valley. But he knew he had to wait until tempers cooled. Some 800 Kenyans had just been killed in postelection violence, and the murderous wave was still spreading.
"The emotions are very high right now, so first we need to talk with people, find out what they are feeling, and create a space where people can speak freely," Hezron told me at the Quaker church he attends. He said that when violence was occurring, it was too difficult to get local elders to sit down with their perceived enemies. But when it ebbed, Hezron would be there, creating a place for enemies to air their views and to establish the conditions once more for peaceful coexistence.
"It's not easy; you can't expect people to go back to normal when all this is going on," Hezron said with a sigh. "We need to build trust in one another again."
If you meet one Hezron Masitsa, you'll think he's an anomaly. But spend enough time as a reporter in Africa, and you'll find a peacemaker like him in nearly every community. It may be a doctor like Denis Mukwege setting up a gynecological hospital for the rape victims of eastern Congo. It may be a Wangari Maathai planting greenbelts to prevent the desertification of northern Kenya. It may be an aid worker like Emmanuel Uwurukundo, who lost much of his family during the Rwandan genocide and decided his survival gave him an obligation to help others, such as Darfuri refugees in camps in eastern Chad.
Pessimism is terribly fashionable these days, but optimism tells me there's a reason societies produce peacemakers, and they should be given as much attention as the warmongers.
3. Africa needs our help
It wasn't long after my arrival here that I noticed a steady stream of celebrities to Africa.
Oprah Winfrey would come to check on her boarding school for girls outside Johannesburg. Former President Bill Clinton would come to Nairobi. George Clooney and Mia Farrow would visit the Darfur refugee camps in eastern Chad. Angelina Jolie would visit refugee camps in eastern Congo, and later give birth to a child in Namibia. Madonna would come, twice, to adopt children, and to set up an Oprah-style school for underprivileged girls.
Some of these celebrities had studied their material, as Matt Damon appears to have done on drinking water projects in Zambia. Others – let's just leave them unnamed – had not. Yet the derision of many Africans toward these famous outsiders was often the same, regardless.
"Oh, look," one South African friend muttered to me one day, seeing the perfect jaw line of a Hollywood star in a magazine article about that person's activism in Africa. "Another white Tarzan has come to save us benighted Africans."
It has taken me a while to get to the root of this ridicule. Is it because these famous politicians, supermodels, or box-office giants are making a big deal about a small problem? No, certainly genocide in Rwanda and war crimes in Darfur are matters that deserve attention. Is it that they are using these good acts to burnish their image? Maybe so.
But the real reason has to do with the perception that Africa is incapable of solving its own problems. Everyone needs a little assistance during a natural disaster, of course. In the ongoing drought in parts of Somalia, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya, food aid will keep millions of people alive who might otherwise die. During the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and during the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in the US, even the world's richest nations were willing to take assistance from other nations, and Africa is no exception.
But when it comes to long-term development – taking a very poor and underdeveloped nation like Rwanda, for instance, and turning it into a high-tech oriented information center like Singapore – many African politicians and intellectuals say they want the West to butt out. Western aid comes with strings attached, including lengthy lectures on the merits of democracy, good governance, and human rights. Many Africans are tempted to interrupt this sermonizing with a question: "What about Guantánamo Bay?"
Across the continent, a new generation of leaders is starting to put its growing self-confidence into action by rejecting outside assistance, for both noble and ignoble reasons. Prominent among them was former South African President Thabo Mbeki, whose mantra of "African solutions for African problems," guided everything from the country's disdain for European-led peacekeeping missions to American-funded drugs for AIDS treatment.
More recently, Malawi's president, Bingu Mutharika, decided to forgo £22 million in British development aid this year, rather than comply with strict British rules for reforming its economy and imposing good-governance measures.
Kenyan leaders, angry that fellow politicians might face trial for international human rights charges from the postelection violence, have urged other African nations to join them in boycotting any future cooperation with the International Criminal Court at The Hague. And then there's Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who tends to tell his Western critics to simply "go hang."
Is all this just members of a "Dictator's Club" protecting their own interests? Sure. But what about those African intellectuals who are critical of their leaders, yet still insist that Africans need to develop their own ability to solve problems?
Last year, I got to meet the son of a man whose influence ripples far beyond his native South Africa. Nkosinathi Biko, the son of slain black-consciousness leader Steve Biko, has tailored his father's message of pride in African heritage to the post-apartheid age. It's a time when young black schoolchildren know they have political freedom, he told me, but when many young black South Africans still lack confidence in their culture. Being proud of who you are, he said, is key for black South Africans to find their place in their world.
I found that pride in extreme places, like the Touloum refugee camp in eastern Chad. Having talked to a Darfuri woman displaced from her farm in Sudan, photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman and I were preparing to leave when the refugee woman insisted on giving us tea and biscuits. Her poverty was no excuse, in her mind, for not offering typical Darfuri hospitality for guests from afar.
4. Africa is 'backward'
If it is difficult to turn Steve Biko's vision of black consciousness – confident Africans doing things for themselves – into action, it isn't because Africans lack the motivation or inventiveness to do so.
In Kenya, I've seen people use their cellphones for banking, an idea just gaining a foothold in many Western countries. On payday, they take their money to a local cellphone shop, buy a few scratch cards for airtime, and send the code numbers to their relatives by text message. Their family members, in turn, either use the airtime or give that code to their own shopkeeper, who gives them cash.
In fact, it was this common practice of using airtime to send money that attracted the attention of the cellphone company Safaricom and the British Department for International Development to launch a new service called M-PESA. Today, M-PESA serves effectively as one of Kenya's largest banks, with some 75 percent of the 9.5 million M-PESA account holders using it to store money, according to a study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The project worked so well, it has now spread to South Africa – a country with a world-class banking sector – and plans are afoot to take it elsewhere in Africa.
Please note: It was ordinary Kenyans, not Safaricom, who started cellphone banking, a business that is rapidly giving traditional banks and money-transfer companies like Western Union a run for their wired money. It's a fact that I keep in my head whenever I hear pessimistic Africans (especially white South Africans) sigh and tell me, "This is Africa." It sounds like an obvious statement of geography. It is meant as a catchall excuse for inefficiency. What did you expect? This is Africa.
Yet I saw ingenuity where others saw backwardness. In a refugee camp in Chad for the exiles of Sudan's Darfur region, I watched women use handmade foil-and-cardboard solar stoves to cook meals.
In Malawi, I read about a boy who had built his own windmill to generate electricity in his rural home. In Mali, I saw farmers use ancient irrigation systems to divert water from the Niger River into rice fields they had carved out of the desert, and in Ethiopia I met farmers who used cellphones to find the best price for their crops.
In the end, we all look at the same evidence and take away lessons that we want to learn. What Africa lacks is not inventiveness but rather effective governance. When Africans get the leaders who will do the job of making the power plants, water systems, roads, and schools actually work, then you'll see the beginnings of an African renaissance.
5. Africa is a country
The young Ethiopian office workers ripped up pieces of spongy injera bread and mopped up the sauce from a spicy grilled meat dish called "tibs." They were laughing, flirting, feeding each other, and telling me about the dating scene in Ethiopia.
"I couldn't marry an African man," said one pretty Ethiopian young lady, flatly, referring to any male outside Ethiopia, and other women at the table nodded their heads. The young lady began to list her reasons why, and I won't list them here, because if a white person said them, he would be accused of racism.
What stunned me, though, was her use of the word "African." On my map of Africa, the country of Ethiopia is clearly attached to the continent. So why did these Ethiopians not consider themselves to be Africans?
The experience evoked a kind of déjà vu. In Johannesburg, my South African neighbors often would ask me, the exotic foreign correspondent, if I would be traveling "to Africa" anytime soon. When this sort of thing happens to me often enough, I start to doubt my understanding of the word "Africa." Whether we like to admit it or not, non-Africans have a picture in their mind of Africa, one that looks remarkably like the film images of "Out of Africa." But the continent is, in fact, divided up into 54 countries, along lines that have remained largely unchanged since a group of European kings and prime ministers sketched boundaries at a conference in Berlin in 1885. But there is a temptation to speak of Africans as if they are one people, with a common history, with common cultures and traits and beliefs. And it just isn't so.
Encouraging this view are intellectual giants of the anticolonial period such as Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, and Leopold Senghor. Fighting against the colonial method of divide and rule, Mr. Garvey urged Africans to embrace a broader African unity. Senegalese poet Mr. Senghor wrote lengthy books about a Pan-African culture, common among the various colonial peoples, and called this sense of Africanness "Negritude."
But after independence, many people embraced an identity much closer to home. In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, activists told me the source of their problems was the domination of the Shona-speaking tribes loyal to Mr. Mugabe, who had ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980. They told me about a brutal military operation called "Gukuruhundi" against Ndebele-speaking people, in which an estimated 20,000 civilians were killed.
"We can't even think of ourselves as Zimbabwean," said one activist from a local federalist party that was seeking autonomy for the Matabeleland region that includes Bulawayo. "We are Ndebeles, and we have to look out for our own interest and govern our own affairs. This country you call Zimbabwe will never work."
It's a sentiment that the newly independent nation of South Sudan would sympathize with, now that they have freed themselves from the Arab-dominated nation of Sudan; and that Somalilanders would appreciate as well, as they declare unilateral secession from the Somali government in Mogadishu.
But it's a sentiment that policymakers in Washington and Paris and London – and aid workers and celebrity fundraisers should keep in mind. This month, when Fast Company magazine ran a story about Matt Damon's worthy efforts to fund clean-drinking water projects in Zambia, the chattering class known as Twitter murmured over the prevailing stereotype of Africa.
Reading the headline – "Can Matt Damon Bring Clean Water to Africa?" – one person tweeted sarcastically: "Really? All of it?"


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Texture through Voices
Musical textures are also sometimes described as being the ways in which the various voices are combined to create a harmony. A string quartet, for instance, has a particular texture to its sound that is derived from the way the various instruments combine and contrast. This also applies to the way that the various voices are combined in vocal ensembles and any other ensemble performance. A woodwind quartet, for instance, may have a very smooth and light texture, while a brass band would have a forceful, brassy texture.
Expression, Dynamics, Style, Tempo and Phrasing
Expression is not just an important part of music, it's oftentimes the entire point of performing or composing piece. The expressiveness of the musicians in an orchestra, the members of a band or any other group of performers does depend on them having a general structure from which to work. Improvisation is an important element in jazz, rock, blues and many other forms of music, but expression can also be defined and communicated to musicians in ensembles by describing the elements of music that are most conducive to expression.
Listen to your song in performance. Remember that, as Stravinsky said, art is never really finished, it's just abandoned at some point. That being said, hearing your song for the first time doesn't mean that you're done with it. You have to do some critical listening and, if you can, lean on friends or your teachers to give you feedback.
Listen to see if the song really matches with the genre. In some cases, you may hear mistakes that you didn't know were there. In other cases, you may notice that mistakes you were aware of sound great. Keep an open mind and try to listen to the song as if you've never heard it before. Concentrating on your mistakes will not help you refine the song; it will discourage you.
Mozart, according to legend, wrote in pen and never scratched off one note on his manuscripts. In short, the man never made a mistake when composing. Hardly anyone is like that, however, and most artists do a lot of refining.
After you've listened to your piece, concentrate on what you might want to change or leave the same about it. You may want to further develop some themes and you may want to completely abandon others. You may want to transpose the entire melody to a more accessible or agreeable key or you may want to entirely restructure the rhythmic elements of the song. Your song should be thought of as being made out of wet clay, not out of stone. You can refine it as much as you want and, as is the case with all writing, a good portion of writing music is actually rewriting music.
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Musicology was once a comparative pursuit. Western musicologists used to essentially compare the music of other cultures to their own and, quite often, tried to portray one as advanced and one as primitive. This has changed over the years and musicologists now travel the world collecting samples of the unique musical expressions of the world's peoples. You can learn a lot about music by listening to it as performed by other cultures.
Understanding Ear Fatigue
While you're listening to music from other cultures, you'll experience your own cultural predispositions as you've likely never experienced them before. One of the most common manifestations of this is called ear fatigue.
A great deal of the music you'll hear from other cultures will seem out of key to you, if you're accustomed to Western music. It's important to give yourself a break now and then. If you find yourself not taking in the music because the contrasts with what you're accustomed to are becoming all that you can hear, take a break. World music deserves to be appreciated and, like cuisines from other cultures, it's sometimes an acquired taste. The old adage "the appetite comes with eating" sometimes applies in this regard. As you hear more and more exotic music, you will develop a feel and an appreciation for its unique qualities.
Time and Distance are the Same
Musicology doesn't just address the differences in music relative to culture. It also addresses differences in music relative to time. For example, madrigals, Gregorian chants, fugues and many other forms are all European in their origins, but are vastly different due to the separations in time that exist between them.
Studying historic forms of music is another way to explore the music of different cultures. The cultures that produced the grand symphonies of Mozart and the elegant waltzes of Strauss were very different ones than exist today, and deserve to be explored and understood based on their own merits.
Analyzing without Bias:
When you compose a piece of music, much of the work is dedicated toward providing the right balance between comparison and contrast. The same holds true when you're listening to music from other cultures or time periods. Start by comparing it with what you do know. You'll use the same skills you've used to develop your skills as a musician thus far. Ask some basic questions about the music as you listen.
Remember that listening to music and enjoying music can be two separate things. While you're exploring the music of any given culture, remember to listen to it from an objective standpoint. In some cases, you may not enjoy some music from other cultures that much. This is fine, but you should still be able to listen to and speak about it intelligently and in terms that go beyond your opinion of it. This is called appreciation and it's a fundamental component of any serious musical study.
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Reading Music
Reading music is a skill and it's one of the most important ones that performing artists have. That being said, not all musicians—even in classical settings—are expected to read off of music. If you're a blues guitarist, for example, it would probably look a bit strange to your audience if you were reading a song off of sheet music, especially considering the fact that the relative simplicity of the music doesn't necessitate that it be read off of sheets.
When you're reading sheet music, you'll want to work the way a politician giving a speech works: you read ahead of where you actually are in the music. As you may suspect, this takes some considerable skill. A combination of being familiar with the piece and with being able to sight read music is what makes very experienced musicians able to read very complex music without missing a beat.
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Some people are very intimidated by singing. This is natural: hearing your singing voice is sometimes quite a shock and there's some embarrassment when you hit a note wrong, especially when it comes out comically wrong. However, the vast majority of professional musicians can correctly sing the notes within a comfortable octave for their voice and there's a good reason for this: When you can reproduce those tones on demand, you can hear sheet music in your head as you read it and, thus, you can reproduce it correctly, every time.
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Maggie Estep "No More Mister Nice Girl"
There really was a brief period in pop culture when poets were supposed to be the next rock stars. The media tried to tell us that about comedians as well. As it turned out, rock stars are the next rock stars, as it was and so it shall always be. But there was a spoken-word boom here in LA in the '80s, with punk-derived rockers like Chris D. of the Flesh eaters, Exene, D. Boon, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Henry Rollins etc. all giving readings, there were spoken-word nights at punk venues, college stations had spoken-word shows, there was a series of Harvey Kubernik-produced (mostly) spoken word albums, with "real" writers like Bukowski and the also recently departed Wanda Coleman getting up there with the rockers. This went national in the '90s, as the entertainment industry was flailing about trying to figure out what the next big "alternative" thing would be that the kids would eat up (e.g.: signing the likes of Foetus and The Butthole Surfers to major labels!). Poet Maggie Estep got swept up in this, releasing two albums of her reading her poetry and sorta-singing backed, not by beatniks on bongos, but by alt-rockers, including guitarist Pat Place, who played on a lot of those no wave/punk-funk bands we featured here on the "Down By Law" collection. Another member was in the great toy-pop band Pianosaurus.
After mainstream culture wrestled alternativeness into submission, as it usually does, Estep was free to become a novelist, which is what she was 'til her recent death at the unfortunately early age of 50.
The whole "Gen X"/MTV vibe this album gives off is a weird time-travel back to the days of Tower Records, "Beavis and Butthead," deliberately not wearing flannel shirts, gangsta rap cassettes, being young, single and broke, and lashing out at the media hype about people of my generation being young, single and broke. R.I.P. Maggie. R.I.P the '90s.
|1. Hey Baby
|2. I'm Not A Normal Girl
|3. Paradise Lost
|4. Even If
|5. Car Guy
|6. The Stupid Jerk I'm Obsessed With
|7. My Life Of Gardening
|8. F*#! Me
|9. Scarification
|10. Pee Lady
|11. Sex Goddess Of The Western Hemisphere
|12. I Swear
|13. Vegetable Omelet
|14. Rip Trip Strip
|15. Ingeborg, Mistress Of The Dark
|16. Bad Day At The Beauty Salon
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It's set to be a cloudy day with some rain across West Yorkshire today with top temperatures of 21 degrees.
The B6133 Snydale Road, Normanton, and Neville Street, Normanton, are closed in both directions because of a building fire.
It is hoped that the roads will re-open later today.
A burst water main is causing disruption on the roads in Hipperholme.
Victoria Road, Hipperholme, is closed in both directions between the A649 Wakefield Road junction and the junction of Westfield Avenue.
It is hoped that the roads will re-reopen later today.


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Irish Onion Soup
The inspiration behind this recipe came from my father, who owned a restaurant and created the original dish. This version stars contemporary ingredients but still serves the same popular robust flavor. —Theresa Miller, Sault St. Marie, Michigan
Total TimePrep: 45 min. Cook: 45 min.
Makes10 servings (2-1/2 quarts)
- 3 medium red potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt, divided
- 3 large sweet onions, halved and thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 pound sliced baby portobello mushrooms
- 1/2 cup sunflower kernels
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary or 1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 5 cups chicken broth
- 3/4 cup stout beer or additional chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 10 slices French bread baguette (1/4 inch thick)
- 10 slices white cheddar cheese
- 1 log (11 ounces) fresh goat cheese, sliced
- Place potatoes on a baking sheet. Drizzle with oil and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon salt. Bake at 425° for 20-25 minutes or until tender.
- Meanwhile, in a Dutch oven, saute onions in butter until tender. Reduce heat to medium-low; cook for 30 minutes or until deep golden brown, stirring occasionally. Add the mushrooms, sunflower kernels, rosemary, pepper and remaining salt. Cook 8-10 minutes longer or until mushrooms are tender. Stir in the broth, beer, brown sugar and potatoes; heat through.
- Place bread slices on a baking sheet; top with cheeses. Broil 3-4 inches from the heat for 3-5 minutes or until cheese is melted. Ladle soup into bowls; top each with a cheese toast. Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts1 cup soup with 1 slice cheese toast: 347 calories, 21g fat (11g saturated fat), 59mg cholesterol, 1119mg sodium, 25g carbohydrate (9g sugars, 3g fiber), 15g protein.
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For Immediate Release, June 14, 2012
Contact: Bill Snape, (202) 536-9351
Attorney Fees for Landmark Settlement to Save 757 Imperiled Plants and Animals: $168.29 per Species
TUCSON, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity today provided Rep. Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) with its attorney fees figures ($128,158) related to last year's historic agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to speed up protection decisions for 757 of the country's rarest and least-protected plants and animals.
Hastings requested the total as part of his latest attack on the Endangered Species Act and his outlandish claims that conservation groups are getting rich from attorney fees from last summer's historic settlement and other environmental actions. The 2011 agreement settled five lawsuits lasting more than five years, reduced future litigation and conflict, and provided important assurances that hundreds of imperiled species — from wolverines and walruses to turtles and trout — will be considered for protection.
"That works out to about $168.29 per species. That's an incredible bargain for wildlife and American taxpayers," said Bill Snape, senior counsel at the Center. "Under the agreement, species get the help they need, years of conflict are avoided and the Endangered Species Act works like it's supposed to."
All told, the Center has received less than 4 percent of the money the federal government has paid out in attorney fees to all parties, including environmental groups and industry, connected with Endangered Species Act cases dating back to 2008, according to Department of Justice figures. The typical fee award to the Center was less than $20,000.
Hastings and others in Congress have also criticized the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), a federal law allowing attorney fees to be awarded to qualified groups or individuals who win lawsuits challenging a government action and show that the government's position was not "substantially justified."
Environmental groups collect a small portion of overall EAJA fees. The Center for Biological Diversity receives only a tiny fraction — about half of 1 percent, on average — of its total annual income from attorney fees recovered through EAJA. Those suits were filed to ensure that federal agencies comply with laws that protect imperiled species and their habitat.
"No one's getting rich off of attorney fees when it comes to saving endangered species," Snape said. "The biggest benefit goes to plants and animals facing extinction. We bring these cases so species get the protection they need. Species that aren't protected are much more likely to go extinct."
Despite Hastings' claims, expenses associated with Endangered Species Act litigation are a very small portion of the Fish and Wildlife Service's budget. In a Sept. 11, 2011 letter to the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, the Service disclosed that in 2010 it spent $1.24 million to "manage, coordinate, track, and support ESA litigation" brought by environmental and industry groups. This amounts to one half of 1 percent of the endangered species budget, which was more than $275 million in 2010. According to the letter, the amount the Service spent on litigation has remained relatively constant over the past 10 years.
Two recent studies provide important new insight on attorney-fee awards.
One study published in 2011 in the Journal of Forestry ("The Equal Access to Justice Act and U.S. Forest Service Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?" by M.J. Mortimer and R.W. Malmsheimer) found that barely half of fee payments from cases involving the U.S. Forest Service went to environmental groups over a seven-year study period.
Another study released last year by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that businesses and trade groups, not environmentalists, file the most lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency. Industry groups filed 48 percent of those suits while environmental groups filed 30 percent.
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Pentax launches limited edition K2000 kit
It's a statement of fact that entry-level DSLRs all pretty much look the same. Well, they did until now.
Pentax has unveiled a special limited-edition version of its K2000 interchangeable-lens camera that's not black, and not silver, but white. Even better, the new release comes in two-lens kit featuring whited out versions of the company's 18-55mm and 55-200mm DA L lenses.
Basic specs of the limited edition K2000 mirror those of the original, with a 2.7 inch LCD, a five-point AF system, sensitivity from ISO 100 to 3200, and a beginner-friendly interface. The K2000 also provides in-body image stabilization (Pentax calls it Shake Reduction), which stabilizes any lens that's mounted to the camera.
Other technical details concerning the K2000 can be found in our original K2000 announcement.
The latest K2000 and matching lenses are certainly visually arresting, if only because of their uniqueness. We're wondering if die-hard Pentaxians wouldn't have preferred the long-rumored silver alloy-clad variant instead (to match their silver FA Limited primes, of course), but whatever you think of the new color scheme, there's no denying that Pentax is living up to its "be interesting" tag line with this one.
The limited edition K2000 will be available in February. Quantities and U.S. pricing were not provided in the official press release, but we'll update this story as information becomes available.
Pentax K2000 Limited Edition Specifications:
|10.2 megapixel, 23.5×15.7mm CCD
|Pentax KAF3 mount (compatible with all K mount lenses)
|2.7″, 230K-dot TFT LCD; Penta-Mirror optical viewfinder (96% coverage, 0.85x magnification) with diopter adjustment
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|Auto, Daylight, Shade, Cloudy, Tungsten, Fluorescent W, Fluorescent D, Fluorescent N, Flash, Color Temperature, Manual
|Metering Modes
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Phenylephrine injection is used to treat hypotension (low blood pressure) that may occur during surgery.
This medicine is to be given only by or under the direct supervision of your doctor.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of phenylephrine injection in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of phenylephrine injection in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have kidney, liver, or heart problems, which may require caution and an adjustment in the dose for patients receiving phenylephrine injection.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are receiving this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
A nurse or other trained health professional will give you this medicine in a hospital. This medicine is given through a needle placed in one of your veins.
Your doctor will check your progress closely while you are receiving this medicine. This will allow your doctor to see if the medicine is working properly and to decide if you should continue to receive it. Blood tests may be needed to check for unwanted effects.
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Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
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Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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text: Value & Restructuring, as well as the 35 other Excelsior funds, are still commission-free despite being sold to an adviser that levies sales charges. By Katy Marquardt, Staff Writer October 2, 2007 Excelsior Value & Restructuring, a fund that buys the beaten-down shares of companies in transition, is undergoing a change of its own. Effective October 1, the fund -- a member of the Kiplinger 25 -- fell under the management of the Columbia Funds. In July, Charles Schwab sold Excelsior's previous adviser, U.S. Trust, to Bank of America, which distributes the Columbia funds. The 36 funds in the Excelsior fund family join Columbia's 88 funds, most of which levy sales charges. But do-it-youself investors have no cause for concern -- at least for now. Columbia is still offering all Excelsior funds commission-free (it is also offering A- and C-class load versions for funds sold through brokers and other third parties). Dave Williams, who has run Value & Restructuring since the fund's inception in 1992, has delivered outstanding results. Over the past decade through September 30, Value & Restructuring (symbol UMBIX) gained an annualized 12%, placing it in the top 2% of funds that invest in large, undervalued companes. Williams, who plans to retire at the end of 2009, hunts for solidly managed companies that are working to revamp their businesses through cost-cutting, product improvements, new management, reorganizations, or acquisitions. Although large companies account for half of the fund, nearly 40% of assets are invested in midsize firms and a bit more than 10% rest in small outfits. Advertisement Although the fund gained 12% in the first three quarters of 2007, it did hit a rough patch over the summer. From July 19, when the market hit a then-record (it set a new record on October 1), through its trough on August 16, Value & Restructuring sank 14%. By contrast, Standard & Poor's 500-stock index dropped 9% over that period (the fund outpaced the S&P 500 by three percentage points in the first three quarters). Part of the problem over the summer was the fund's 21% stake in financial stocks, which were hit especially hard by concerns over subprime mortgages, defaults and hedge-fund implosions. Companies seen as potential takeover targets, another one of the fund's staples, also suffered as many investors began to worry that the great merger and acquisition boom was nearing its end. "One problem for the time being is that the takeover game, at best, is going to slow down, and at worst, will come to a halt," says Williams. One of Value & Restructuring's few holdings to be bought out this was equipment-rental company United Rentals. It was was acquired by private-equity fund Cerberus Capital Management in July. A big bet on energy stocks has helped Value & Restructuring outpace the market so far this year (the sector accounts for 21% of the fund's $8.8 billion in assets) "Energy has been one saving grace in a very difficult year," says Williams. He remains bullish on the sector: "The market hasn't given oil stocks any credit," he says. Advertisement His top holdings include Petroleo Brasileiro (PBR), ConocoPhillips (COP), and Devon Energy Corp (DVN). Williams is especially bullish on Anadarko Petroleum (APC), one of the largest independent exploration and production companies in North America. Williams recently added JCPenney (JCP) to the portfolio. The department-store retailer's shares, which closed at $64.03 on October 1, trade at a modest 12 times analysts' earnings estimates of $5.48 per share for the fiscal year that ends next January, according to Thomson First Call. "It's wacky that it's that cheap," Williams says. "It should be a screaming buy, but because it's tainted with the consumer label, the stock hasn't performed particularly well." Columbia hasn't changed the Excelsior Value & Restructuring's annual fees, which stand at 1.05%. However, Columbia did lift the initial minimum investment requirement. It had been $500. It's now $2,500.


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Barbara Bray shares http://my-ecoach.com/ with us and describes its history and rich resources for educators. Special thanks to Jeff Lebow for helping Sharon with the streaming and archiving!
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Our guest tonight, Rushton Hurley, share his NextVista video-sharing initiative for educators.
A lively discussion with Lucy Gray who introduces us to Don Buckley, Karen Blumberg, Andrew Gardner of the innovative school, THE School at Columbia.
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This is Ultra Fine food grade charcoal powder made from coconut shell, and it is a favorite as there is virtually no grit to it, velvety smooth when mixed with water. Its texture is like fine, soft talcum powder.
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Coconut Activated Charcoal Powder Ultra Fine is a Food Grade steam activated charcoal made from coconut shell. It is used in a variety of applications including food, and health and beauty products. It can be mixed with water and used to brush and whiten teeth, mixed with thickening agents to make jels and skin creams, and taken internally for various health conditions.
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The Collectables from Crytek now available through the App Store
The Collectables, the tactical-action game from Crytek for DeNA's Mobage platform, is now available through the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Players assemble a squad of misfit mercenaries in and command each soldier in various combat scenarios. Crews can be upgraded using a collecting card system. It is free-to-play with extra in-game gold available […]
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Crytek's free-to-play The Collectables to be released through DeNA's Mobage platform in 2014
Crytek is joining forces with DeNA to develop a free-to-play mobile game called "The Collectables".
DeNa shutters five Mobage games in Japan, Infinity Blade Cross among casualties
DeNa has closed five titles hosted on its Mobage social hub in Japan, including Epic Games' localised version of Infinity Blade Cross.
Mobage outage takes out Android, iOS games
Mobile platform Mobage is experiencing "some problems" and is out of service with no ETA on its return. Many Mobage games on both Android and iOS require an always-on Internet connection, which means a large swathe of its catalogue of games are pretty much out of order too. Maybe you can live without My Monster […]
Kompu gacha freemium systems banned in Japan
Following an investigation, the Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency has issued a ban on "kompu gacha" style online social games.
Japanese social games warned off shady freemium schemes
The Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency is cracking down on free to play social games which offer random rewards in return for micro-payments.
Ninja Gaiden heading to Mobage with Clans
Tecmo Koei's announced Ninja Gaiden will come to social platform Mobage later this year. Clans is the latest title to be brought to the service by the publisher, although no gameplay details have been released. The game is being aimed for an international release. A Japanese release for smartphones is expected to release this summer. […]
Disney and DeNA partner to release Disney and Marvel social titles internationally
DeNA and Disney have announced a partnership which will result in more licensed social games from the developer land the mobile gaming platform, Mobage. The first jointly-developed title from the firms, Disney Party, was released earlier in the week and a second, Disney Fantasy Quest, will be released on April 2. A card battle game […]
Trio of DICE developers quit studio for Ngmoco Sweden
DICE developers Wille Wintertidh, Malte Hildingsson and Torbjorn Lædre – the latter two of which worked on Battlefield 3 – have left the firm for Ngmoco Sweden. The new hires were announced by Ngmoco Sweden manager Ben Cousins, who left EA in March last year. The former DICE developers will be joining Tony Davis, former […]
Killer 7 dev to create social mobile games in Japan
Grasshopper Manufacture, creator of offbeat titles Killer 7, No More Heroes and Shadows of the Damned, has teamed up with Japanese social gaming company DeNA to work on new projects. Expect kooky results.
Square and DeNA developing social Final Fantasy game for Mobage platform
Square Enix and DeNA are developing the first social game based on the Final Fantasy IP in Japan. The game, which was initially revealed via a teaser yesterday, will be released via DeNA's Mobage platform, and while there isn't a date set, pre-registrations are being accepted. Those in Japan who own Fantasy Type-0 on PSP will receive […]
Final Fantasy x Mobage announced
Andriasang's turned up a teaser website for something called Final Fantasy x Mobage. Described as "an RPG where you fight for your friends", the game is set for release in Japan in northern winter and will sport some connectivity with Final Fantasy Type-0. No word on whether we'll see a localised version on the Western […]
Thursday Shorts II: ESPN, Mobage, League of Legends, EVE, Idea Factory
Time for more shorts, and the list is rather, er um, short this afternoon.
Suda has 100 social game ideas, wants to make NMH "social game with the most blood"
We say "social gaming," you say, "ewwww." Normally, anyway. But what if we then say "Suda 51"? Oh goodness, you're looking quite pale. You should probably sit dow– and your head just exploded. Now we get to say "ewwww." But! Your head's loss isn't in vain, because we're going to use it for a relatively […]
Professor Layton Royale announced as social game
Level-5 has announced a new Professor Layton game which is a cross between the popular puzzler and Mobage's Kaito Royale series.
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The Collectables from Crytek now available through the App Store
Crytek's free-to-play The Collectables to be released through DeNA's Mobage platform in 2014
DeNa shutters five Mobage games in Japan, Infinity Blade Cross among casualties
Disney and DeNA partner to release Disney and Marvel social titles internationally
Square and DeNA developing social Final Fantasy game for Mobage platform
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What's the Difference Between Healthy and Fit?
The terms "healthy" and "fit" are often used interchangeably. But these two terms are not synonymous. Health and fitness are two different concepts. So, what's the difference between the two? Let's take a look.
First of all, health is a general term that is used to indicate the overall well-being of a person. Health is both physical and emotional, so a person could be emotionally healthy but physically unwell, and vice-versa. In general, a healthy person is a person who is free from illness and diseases, doesn't suffer from any kind of impairment or pain, and is both emotionally sound and mentally stable. Health can be affected by a number of different factors, including the food you choose to eat, your environment and surroundings, how often you exercise, whether or not you have any illness or diseases, etc. All in all, health is a pretty general and broad term.
Fitness, however, is a much more specific term. Fitness is more a measure of an individual's physical capabilities than a measure of well-being. While there are many different factors that affect your health, some of which you don't have control over, your fitness level is almost entirely the product of your actions and choices. For example, the food you choose to eat and the drink you choose to drink will affect your level of fitness. And most importantly, you can improve your fitness by making the choice to exercise more often and at a higher intensity level. Everybody has the power to make choices to improve their own individual fitness level.
And while being healthy and being are two different concepts, it should be noted that they are related. Improving your fitness level will likely make you a more healthy person overall. You will reduce your risk of obesity, lower your blood pressure, and boost your immune system. Making the choice to improve your fitness level is also an excellent way to improve your overall health.
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George Benson's amazingly elegant orchestra show, "an unforgettable tribute to Nat King Cole" is now in it's fourth year of touring and from the looks of things, this masterpiece will be in demand for a good while. Judging from the overwhelming response worldwide (from Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles to three performances with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center and three performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House), Mr Benson, the orchestras and choruses have been thrilling audiences at every turn. And why not? George Benson is not only one of the world's most respected guitarists, but also one of the great vocal stylists of our time. Throw in the lush orchestral arrangements and fathomless beauty of Nat King Cole's music and you have an experience that is truly "unforgettable."
The presentation, featuring George Benson, his touring band, plus orchestra and chorus recaptures the magic of that glorious chapter in music created by Nat King Cole, along with all the hits for which Mr. Benson is so well known. This is a truly magnificent evening of music.
Saturday, January 26, 2013 Start time: 8 PM
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Meet Sterling Diane Falconetti!
The baby girl, born June 25, is the newest addition to Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller's family. She and her husband, John Falconetti, are already parents to 3 -year-old son Rocco.
"She is our miracle baby," says Miller, 36, who battled a non-hereditary form of ovarian cancer known as a germ cell malignancy in early 2011.
The seven-time Olympic medalist, leader of the famed "Magnificent Seven" women's gymnastics team at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, underwent surgery to remove her left ovary and fallopian tube after her cancer diagnosis.
Although she preserved her eggs "as an insurance policy," prior to undergoing a grueling nine-week chemotherapy regimen, she was able to conceive Sterling, now three weeks old, naturally.
Soon after they began trying for baby No. 2, "one day I did the [pregnancy] test, left it on the counter, got busy, came back seven hours later and went to throw it away and it said 'PREGNANT,'" recalls Miller. "I thought it must have malfunctioned. I took another test and it said pregnant too. I was surprised, but John and I both had put our trust in God."
Now a health advocate who runs a women's health and wellness company, Shannon Miller Lifestyle, Miller says motherhood has "given me purpose that's different than anything I've ever done. I think it's calmed me down a little bit. Everything I do is for the kids. At the end of the day, that's all that matters."
For much more on Miller's emotional cancer journey and her new daughter, pick up this week's issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
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Waite resigns as Badger volleyball coach
Steps down after 14 seasons
MADISON — Pete Waite, the head volleyball coach at the University of Wisconsin for the last 14 years, has resigned his position, Director of Athletics Barry Alvarez announced today.
"I would like to thank Pete for his years of service to the Wisconsin volleyball program," said Alvarez. "He always ran his program with respect and dignity, and was a good representative of the athletic department. We wish him all the best."
Waite was 305-146 (.676) in 14 years at Wisconsin and 571-248 (.697) in 25 years as a head coach. He won his 300 th match at UW against South Alabama on Sept. 15, 2012.
He is the longest tenured volleyball coach in Wisconsin history and is the only UW volleyball coach to record 300 overall wins and 150 Big Ten wins.
Waite had a 14-year Big Ten record of 170-108 (.612).
"I've decided to resign from my position to allow someone else the opportunity to take this program back to the top of the Big Ten," said Waite.
"We have some very good players in the program right now and have signed three excellent recruits for 2013. I wish them all nothing but success and I look forward to following the rest of their careers.
"I want to thank Pat Richter for hiring me and Barry Alvarez for his support. I want to thank all of the players, assistant coaches, fans and support staff in the department who have helped us along the way. I especially want to thank my family for their support and love over the years."
Under Waite's watch, the Badgers competed in nine NCAA tournaments, including a second-place finish in the 2000 championship. Wisconsin also won two Big Ten conference titles (2000 and 2001) during his tenure.
Waite has coached 10 All-Americans, 14 all-region honorees, two Big Ten players of the year and 20 first-team All-Big Ten selections at Wisconsin.
He has also coached one Big Ten Freshman of the Year and 11 Big Ten All-Freshmen team members. He was named the Big Ten Coach of the Year in 2000, 2001 and 2006.
In the classroom, his student-athletes earned 91 Academic All-Big Ten honors. Seven also earned Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District honors.
Waite came to Wisconsin in 1999 after spending 11 seasons at Northern Illinois. He is the all-time winningest coach for the Huskies at 266-102 (.723).


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Sell Me Some Access
There was a bidding war for my services once.
Okay, technically it was more of a catfight than a bidding war, but I guarantee you it was fierce. I was in college at the time, and I somehow duped two girls into believing I was A-list boyfriend material. A gnarly girlpocalypse ensued.
It was awesome.
Then there was also the time in middle school where, for a small fee of one US American dollar, I would open up my father's Playboy collection for viewing, all in the name of health and sex education, of course.
But I've never been Yu Darvish-ed before. I mean, I've never had a bunch of folks throwing MAD MONEY at me just for the opportunity to negotiate a contract. I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but Nolan Ryan has never gone all in on my ass…ets. My assets. That's what I meant to say.
Personally, I cannot WAIT to see Yu Darvish in action. I've been salivating at his proposed Major League entry since the '09 WBC and now it looks like I may finally get my wish. Picture a 2012 season with an Adam Wainwright, a Stephen Strasburg AND a Yu Darvish!?!?!? Somebody douse me with Gatorade!
Meanwhile, if Yu's people are any good, then they got their Newt Gingrich on before teams put in their final bids. You know it, I know it and the American people know it: no one sells access like the Grand Old Party.
Oh the Dems do it too.
Ron Paul. That is all.
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When our application doesn't work the way we expect it to (e.g. throws exceptions etc.), I usually insert a lot of debug code at certain points in the application in order to get a better overview of what exactly is going on, what the values for certain objects are, to better trace where this error is triggered from. Then I send a new installer to the user(s) that are having the problem and if the problem is triggered again I look at the logs and see what they say.
But I don't want all this debug code to be in the production code, since this would create some really big debug files with information that is not always relevant.
The other problem is that our code base changes, and the next time, the same debug code might have to go in different parts of the application.
Is there a way to merge this debug code within the production code only when needed and have it appear at the correct points within the application?
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How to Easily Exchange Currency in Browns Plains
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Liberty Union High School will begin a partnership with Nationwide Children's Hospital Sports Medicine this month to provide sports medicine services and health and wellness education to student athletes.
Nationwide Children's Sports Medicine will provide a certified athletic trainer to Liberty Union High School. The athletic trainer will be part of a team providing sports medicine expertise to the Liberty Union Lions athletes, coaches and staff. They will be on the sidelines at practices and games providing care for all Lions athletes.
Services provided by Nationwide Children's Sports Medicine includes initial injury evaluation, management and rehabilitation, training optimization, injury prevention, concussion management and coordination of care with the sports medicine and orthopedics specialists of Nationwide Children's. The entire team of experts works with the school's staff to deliver cutting-edge and comprehensive sports medicine services to the Liberty Union schools and community.
"We are extremely excited about our partnership with Liberty Union High School," said Thomas Pommering, DO, medical director of Sports Medicine at Nationwide Children's. "Athletes are constantly pushing themselves to reach their full athletic potential, so it is imperative they have access to a comprehensive team of specialists dedicated to the care and management of competitive, young athletes."
Nationwide Children's currently partners with nearly a dozen other central Ohio high schools, as well as Ohio Dominican University.
About Nationwide Children's Sports Medicine
Nationwide Children's Sports Medicine includes a staff of physicians, orthopedic surgeons, athletic trainers and physical therapists who are all trained to provide age-appropriate patient care to recreational, competitive and elite athletes. In addition to treatment, Nationwide Children's offers a comprehensive program focused on research, education, injury prevention, strength and conditioning, and wellness.


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MetalCloak creates Game-Changing Products for the Off Road Enthusiast.
MetalCloak's Premium Black Textured Powdercoat process is detailed in this updated video.
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smcgovern necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Paying for school is not an easy task. TuitionFund aims to help students pay their way through partnerships between student and merchant bodies. TuitionFund needs a design that will strike the middle ground and be attractive to both the students and merchants, highlighting that in working together success is in the future for both.
Here is the old site placed on atemporary URL for your reference:
Need a clean, cool professional andfinancial feel template. The template will need to fit into the sitestructure. So a few details may help. The content of the site iseither a) 1 column text in paragraphs (w/ image(s)) or FAQ format, b)2 column text in paragraphs (w/ image(s)) or c) a form. So thetemplate will need to be flexible to handle these 3 options. Pleaseprovide on your examples these 3 options on a single page so we cansee how the template handles them. It will really help. The site isaimed at 2 audiences i) those needing help with tuition e.g.,`students` and ii) those who can provide help with tuition e.g.`merchants`. They have their own specific content.
The site layout in more detail.
- Header. Should contain the company logo, the search box (which will just go to Google Site Search so no need for a result page) and buttons to link to `TuitionFund Program Information` i.e., information aimed at `students`, `TuitionFund Merchant Program Information` i.e. information aimed at `merchants`, `Financial Services Inquiry` i.e. links to a page with a form or just pops-up an e-mail via `mailto:`, `Consumer Inquiry` i.e. links to a page with a form or just pops-up an e-mail via `mailto:` and `Merchant Inquiry` i.e. links to a page with a form or just pops-up an e-mail via `mailto:`. The header should also contain `cookie crumbs` to highlight to the site visitor in which section they are in.
- Footer: Should contain the legal disclaimer (feel free to place something generic in there, but it needs to be text not a graphic) and links to `site map`, `faq`, `privacy policy` and `about us`.
- Home: The home page is relevant to both `students` and `merchants`. Probably 2 column format.
- TuitionFund Program Information Home: The Home for the `student` information. Probably 2 column format.
- Recommend a Merchant/Financial Service Form: This will be a form. It will also be followed by a Thank You page.
- TuitionFund Merchant/Financial Service Home: The Home for the `merchant` information. Probably 2 column format.
- Merchant/Financial Sign-up Form: This will be a form. It will also be followed by a Thank You page.
The header will contain a graphic ofthe logo, and the 1 column or 2 column page layouts may containeither picture imagery (potentially stock) or paragraph headings thatare text images.
The text format will be in header,sub-header, paragraph text, link (anchor, visited, hover and active)and list item. So seeing examples of these possibilities would begreat too.
This following technical information issupplied only as that, information. We do not expect any programmingfor this project.
The site will be built out to CSS 2.xand XHTML 1.0 Strict standards. It will be powered by PHP 5.x usingMySQL 5.x to store data from forms before e-mailing. In addition itmay be built using the Smarty Templates engine.
There will be no more than 2 rounds ofrevisions to the winner. I will be able to supply company logo invector format for inclusion in the templates.
- The site must be clean and reflect thefeeling of competent financial service(s). It must be interesting /pleasant to use for both the `student` and `merchant` targetaudiences. It must have the logo of TuitionFund in the header andit's tag line.
- We do want to maintain the current colors, font styles and other particulars of our logos, the TuitionFund name and the tag line "your education savings program". Therefore, the design and style you select should be consistent with and compliment our existing logo, name and tagline colors and font styles.
- I think withwanting a professional web site anything gaudy like you might findfor entertainment content is a big no-no. Nothing cluttered. Nosharply contrasting colors although color complements are fine.


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Brad Cloepfil on Denver's Clyfford Still Museum, one year later
Brad CLoepfil, the architect who designed Denver's Clyfford Still Museum, will give a lecture on the building Monday, April 8. The talk will take place next door in the Denver Art Museum's Sharp Auditorium Hall.
It will be Cloepfil's first major update on the museum since it opened in November, 2011. He plans to revisit his intentions for the building, but with the added perspective of how it actually operates in the real world.
Cloepfil is among the country's most talented designers. And one its busiest, particularly in the museum world. Among his projects: the Seattle Art Museum expansion, the Museum of Contemporary Art St. Louis and the Museum of Arts and Design, which stands prominently on Columbus Circle in New York.


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I first got to see Matt Miller speak in person a few Bluehat's ago when he was talking about 'Temporal return addresses' . . . ah yes – the talk was entitled "Temporal Chronomancy" according to Mr. Shostack's blog and it was all the way back in 2005. The basic premise behind the talk was that…
Year: 2008
Interesting stuff and the end is near (for my blog)
First off – OneCare is dead – long live . . . OneCare . . . err Morro?http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10101582-83.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1 Next up – Zune 3.1 is out – download it – love it. http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/zune-3-1-update-out-today-now-featuring-sudoku/Also – the flash memory based Zunes are getting price chopped from $10 – $30 in time for Christmas:http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/18/microsoft-ratchets-down-pricing-on-flash-based-zunes/Things I loved about the 3.1…
This week's Fail Open Goat Award goes to – Credit Card Processing
Microsoft SideSight?
Looks cool: http://www.gearlog.com/2008/10/microsofts_sidesight_something.php
Akamai / IIS7 / SilverLight 2.0 / VC-1 == HD over broadband happiness. It's sort of cool – the video started off a tad blurry and then got sharper after a few seconds and I didn't have a single glitch. Pretty impressive stuff: http://www.smoothhd.com/Also see: http://www.akamai.com/smoothhd
Mass SQL Injection : The Chinese Way
The blog pretty much speaks for itself: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20081022_sql_injection_attacks_chinese_way/ Client-side browser vulns are of little use without an effective way of spreading them to the victims – unfortunately – it's still relatively easy for the miscreants to spread them around using tools like this.Interesting the comment about SQL injection via cookies . . .
Out of band security update planned for today (MS08-067)
Updated 10/23/2008 @ 1:17pm ESTWe have pushed the update live – here's the direct link to the bulletin:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS08-067.mspx (if it doesn't work for you – keep trying – it will be live real soon now).Also note that the Microsoft Malware Protection Center also has generic detection for the malware dropped in the targeted attacks!You can read…
Flash 10 & IE8b2 Per Site ActiveX
So I've got IE8b2 installed on all of my machines and I've noticed that since installing Flash 10 that all web sites now prompt me before running Flash 10! The new gold bar experience users will see when they install Flash 10 on IE8 is described here (thanks to Eric Lawrence for the URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/05/07/ie8-security-part-ii-activex-improvements.aspx)….
Flash 10 is out – install it like . . . yesterday.
If I were a bad guy and I wanted to pwn lots of people via the web – I'd probably focus my efforts on ubiquitous software guaranteed to give me a lot of bang for my buck (like Flash and Acrobat). Software like Flash would seem like a good target given that it's installed on just…
Win7 to officially be called . . . Win7?
I actually for once – LOVE that we are keeping the name of the OS simple and leaving it at Win7. I will admit – I was somewhat disappointed when XP's name was announced internally (internally it was known as Whistler) and I was downright horrified when we decided to call Longhorn "Vista" (my friends…


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To the Surface Lyrics
Breaking off a piece too big. You've had it in from the beginning. You couldn't handle what was created, and now you're stuck with no way out. Looking for something not there, expecting something else. To the surface it will rise. Losing faith in myself, but there is so much more, so much left. Positioned it, to the side - but it's not lost, it's just confined. And to the surface it will rise, it's crawling back to haunt your mind. It's a waste of time, wasted time. No way out.. Past returns to take you right back to the surface.


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NYSE: Stock Markets' 'Showrooms' Growing Emptier
Investors shopping for stock deals are doing more of their business directly through platforms run by banks and brokers, leaving the showrooms of the securities industry — exchanges — with quieter aisles, New York Stock Exchange executives said Tuesday.
Trading activity on private, U.S. stock markets run by big financial firms hit record levels in January, according to figures tabulated by the NYSE. On Jan. 23, 38% of all Big Board-listed stocks were traded internally by banks and on electronic "dark pool" markets, while trading in shares listed on the NYSE's junior Amex market reached a record 39% on Jan. 28 and the level for Nasdaq-listed securities topped 41%.


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