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Does the term "literary rock 'n' roll" sound like an oxymoron? When you hear the word "reading," do you think of a self-important blowhard droning on while you snooze?
Each year since 1996, the Fiction Writing Department of Columbia College Chicago aims to change those perceptions with Story Week, a literary extravaganza where top authors from Chicago and around the world make stories come alive.
The centerpiece event—Literary Rock & Roll—features readings this year from a trio of America's most visceral storytellers, all guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat: best-selling author and Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival co-founder Heidi W. Durrow ("The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"), Columbia College Fiction Writing Department acting chair Patricia Ann McNair ("The Temple of Air") and author and filmmaker John Sayles ("A Moment in the Sun," "Passion Fish," "Lone Star"), followed by live music from orchestral pop band Canasta. We checked in with all three authors to find out what they're up to.
Story Week Festival of Writers--Literary Rock & Roll: American Dreamers
Go: 6 p.m. Thursday at Metro, 3730 N. Clark St.
Tickets: Free (all ages); 312-369-7611; colum.edu/storyweek
From what are you reading at the Metro?
Patricia Ann McNair: "The Temple of Air," my collection of linked short stories in which a tragic accident happens at a summer carnival and starts the stories rolling. I'm not sure yet what story I will read—need to get just the right literary rock 'n' roll feel, you know?
Heidi W. Durrow: My debut novel, which is set in part in Chicago. It's the story of two people dealing with grief and trying to figure out how they can create and define what family means anew.
John Sayles: My novel, "A Moment in the Sun," which is an epic that takes place between 1896 and 1903 in various places in the U.S., Cuba and the Philippines. The story is told in a mosaic of different characters' experiences and deals thematically with race and imperialism.
What inspired you to want to tell stories professionally?
HD: My mom. I think I wanted to live the dream she couldn't. She was thrust into the role of single mom and dealt with a lot of financial struggle. I always believed in her. I wanted to show I believed in her dream by doing this for her.
PM: My parents were writers and after I rebelled for awhile and tried to be an actress, I finally followed the family path. Like a lot of folks, I meandered my way through my early adult years—bartending, waitressing, pumping gas, selling door to door, a runner on the trading floor—but found my way into a writing class and never really left.
JS: I think stories are how people define themselves, express themselves, explain themselves and try to understand the complex or the unknown. For me, this last function is most interesting—I write stories about things that I'm interested in but don't fully understand—and the process of writing is as much about learning more as it is about telling other people what I think.
As an artist, what's most interesting to you about Chicago?
HD: The Scandinavian history. And the fact that my "literary mother," Harlem Renaissance writer and fellow Afro-Viking, Nella Larsen, grew up here.
JS: I've written six or seven screenplays set in Chicago—though none has ever been shot there—and always love the way the American story, with all its ups and downs, has been played out so passionately in that city. Chicago doesn't bother being subtle about what it's up to.
PM: Chicago is known for its art museums, its music, its theater. It should also be known for its literary community. We are descendants of some of the greats: Algren, Terkel, Sandburg, Brooks, Bellow … and today, this is a remarkable city of writers. Story Week, Reading Under the Influence, Come Home Chicago, 2nd Story, The Chicago Way, Two-Cooking Minimum, Neutron Bomb, Revolutions—hardly a night goes by that you can't hear some lit out loud. A whole lot of writing going on.
What do you do to stimulate your imagination?
JS: I usually do a kind of "cross-training"—reading more books, fiction and non-fiction when I'm working on movies and watching more movies and television when I'm working on a book. I always listen to a lot of music while I¹m doing either, mostly stuff I get a strong emotion from.
HD: I read poetry. I am a frustrated (read: terrible) poet. When I'm stuck, I go to the geniuses who put feeling and thought and story into very few words: Carl Phillips, William Stafford, Rita Dove, Honoree Fannone Jeffers, Sharon Olds, Mary Oliver, Audre Lorde.
PM: I think like a lot of writers—like a lot of people, probably—I'm always making up little stories in my head. On the train when you see the couple with their backs turned to one another, not speaking; on-line at the grocery store behind the guy with the five big bottles of mustard and one mango; on the street where the car with the curtains over the windows and flat tires is parked. These little images, moments, observations almost always make me want to write. Why don't they speak to one another? What is he gonna do with the mango? Does someone live in that car? Chicago is a great place for story gathering.
What are you reading right now?
JS: Laura Esquivel's "Malinche" (in Spanish) and "Clarence Darrow, Attorney for the Damned," by John A. Farrell (in English).
PM: I always have a couple of things on the bedside table. Right now it's "Fires of Our Choosing," by newly arrived Chicago writer Eugene Cross and "The Coward's Tale," by UK writer Vanessa Gebbie. Cross's book is tough and beautifully brutal, stories from blue collar Pennsylvania and Gebbie's is a novel-in-stories told with considerable lyricism and almost poetic prose about the residents of a small Welsh mining village. They make a good contrast to one another.
HD: Not enough. I'm reading a lot of non-fiction; getting myself riled up in ideas. But I need beauty now. Suggestions?
JS: "Havana World Series," by Jose Latour; "Bohemian Girl," by Terese Svoboda; "Conquistadora," by Esmeralda Santiago; "The Book of Night Women," by Marlon James; and "Say Her Name," by Francisco Goldman.
PM: There's a whole lot of beauty in our Story Week colleague Christine Sneed's "Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry." And you can't really go wrong by going back in time and reading "Mrs. Dalloway," by Virginia Woolf. Just sayin'.


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Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Sports Medicine
Slap Tear
My doctor thinks I have a slap tear in my left shoulder and has me scheduled for an MRI Arthogram. I have a problem with not asking questions while at the office and have lots when I leave.
The main question now is what exactly is an MRI Arthogram and what can I expect that is different than a standard MRI? I know dye is injected. Is this painful? The hospital I'm having this done at requires I have a driver with me. Thanks
An MR arthrogram is an MRI scan performed usually both before as well as after contrast - or "dye" - is injected into the joint being imaged. Compared to a standard MRI scan, an MR arthrogram is significantly more accurate in detecting (that is, less likely to miss) a SLAP tear.
A SLAP tear is an abbreviation for "Superior Labrum Anterior-Posterior. The labrum is a cartilaginous lip attached to the rim of the bony socket of the shoulder joint which deepens it and thereby helps stabilize this ball-and-socket joint... in this case, the tear extends both towards the front or anterior, as well as towards the back or posterior, sides of the shoulder joint.
Before undergoing a medical procedure, particularly an invasive procedure (although the risk for an MR arthrogram is low), it is important to have "informed consent" which includes discussion of what the procedure entails, along with its risks and benefits. Since you have a number of questions about this procedure, please consider writing these down and getting answers satisfactory and understandable to you/. Ask your physician and perhaps the MRI facility, to enable you to truly make an informed choice about undergoing this diagnostic procedure.
Brian L Bowyer, MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
College of Medicine
The Ohio State University

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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Bonds of Fenris by S.J. Bell
She's all but resigned herself to a dreary existence on the margins of society when she meets Corwin. Corwin is a werewolf like none other. He walks among humans as if it was nothing, and can keep his wolf under control even when the moon is full. Talia's mind is suddenly opened to the possibilities before her, and the realization of how little she really knows about lycanthropy.
Corwin claims that he can teach her how to cope as he does, even how to transcend her affliction. But it will not be easy. It is a hard education that requires her to question everything her pack taught her, and confront exactly what she has become. And, more amazingly, what she never stopped being.
Review: Bonds of Fenris is an excellent story to show readers what might be going on in a human's head as they change into a werewolf. I knew it was a sort of growing up story and I naturally assumed it was about Talia growing up, but every character had their chance to grow. I liked all of the characters a lot. They showed great depth and strength. Pierce annoyed me though. He took some getting used to. I liked the concept of Bonds of Fenris very much. There are a lot of books about shifters out, but I haven't seen too many go into detail about how a new wolf might feel after being infected. This book does a great job with getting you into that mindset. The fear and the confusion. I saw the ending coming though. It wasn't something I figured out from the first chapter, but a few pages before the big shock thing is revealed I knew what was going on. I do indeed recommend you checking this book out if you want a good read from the POV of someone who doesn't like to be a wolf. In a lot of shifter books I've read, the main characters feel at home in their wolf skin, but no one in this pack was like that. It was a nice change from the rest of the shifter books out there.
4 howls
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Labels: 4 howls, Bonds of Fenris, S.J. Bell
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
Soon, Isobel finds herself making excuses to be with Varen. Steadily pulled away from her friends and her possessive boyfriend, Isobel ventures deeper and deeper into the dream world Varen has created through the pages of his notebook, a realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life. As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined, and that the most frightening realities are those of the mind. Now she must find a way to reach Varen before he is consumed by the shadows of his own nightmares.
Review: Nevermore was a nice paranormal young adult book, but the characters were pretty generic. I might just be sick of the typical young adult story. Varen was the misunderstood goth kid which his foot in the paranormal world. Isobel was the obnoxious, preppy cheerleader. That being said, they were good to read. Isobel annoyed me a little bit, but for the most part I liked reading them. Reynolds might be my favorite character. I only say "might" because I haven't quite made up my mind about whether I like him or not. I'm interested to see how his character is handled in Enshadowed. Pinfeather and Scrim were interesting little characters as well. I'm rather curious about them in general. Like I said, this is a paranormal young adult story, but there were some interesting characters/situations. I liked the Nocs. They were creepily different. I hope to see more of them in book 2. It didn't feel like Nevermore was 500+ pages either. I thought the story moved at a decent pace. So while Nevermore isn't exactly the "fresh, new" story people might be waiting for, I feel like it is certainly worth checking out. I enjoyed it very much, and I can't wait to read Enshadowed.
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Friday, April 13, 2012
Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward
Summary: Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment is a heartbroken shadow of the vampire leader he once was. Brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel, he fights again with ruthless vengeance- and is unprepared for a new tragedy. Seeing his beloved in dreams—trapped in a cold, desolate netherworld—he turns to the angel to save his former mate, only to despair at the path he himself must take to set her free. As war with the lessers rages, and a new clan of vampires vies for the Blind King's throne, Tohr struggles between an unforgettable past, and a future that he doesn't know he can live with… but can't seem to turn away from.
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Labels: 4.5 howls, JR Ward, Lover Reborn
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Lover Unleashed by J.R. Ward
Summary: Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, warrior cloth as her brother: A fighter by nature, and a maverick when it comes to the traditional role of Chosen females, there is no place for her on the Far Side… and no role for her on the front lines of the war, either.
When she suffers a paralyzing injury, human surgeon Dr. Manuel Manello is called in to treat her as only he can- and he soon gets sucked into her dangerous, secret world. Although he never before believed in things that go bump in the night- like vampires- he finds himself more than willing to be seduced by the powerful female who marks both his body and his soul.
As the two find so much more than an erotic connection, the human and vampire worlds collide … just as a centuries old score catches up with Payne and puts both her love and her life in deadly jeopardy.
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Labels: 4 howls, JR Ward, Lover Unleashed
Friday, April 6, 2012
A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing by Terry Spear
Summary: Meara Greymere is in charge of the cabin rentals on the rugged Oregon coastline, so her brother and his mate could take a delayed honeymoon. But while Hunter is away, the she-wolf intends to play—she just has to convince the right alpha male to rent one of the cabins, and she'll take it from there. But when Finn Emerson arrives with every intention of pretending to be her lover, she's not going to take this lying down. She knows he'll tell her brother what she's up to and put an end to her game.
Finn Emerson is an ex-Navy SEAL, formerly one of Hunter Greymere's team members, and now he's trying to track down a gray wolf, who's already made an attempt on one of their team member's lives. Finn believes Hunter will be targeted next, only to discover Hunter is off with his mate on a honeymoon, and he fears Hunter's sister is in grave danger. But the former SEAL soon learns protecting the unpredictable sexy she-wolf is a mission and a half and protecting her isn't all he wants to do.
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Labels: 5 howls, A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing, Terry Spear
Monday, April 2, 2012
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Summary: Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival
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Labels: 5 howls, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
New in the Den (IMM 28)
Already read A SEAL in Wolf's Clothing. <3 That's all I've got to say.
Yep. Got Tohr. I'm in the middle of Payne/Manny's book, but this one is coming up next.
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Michigan Tech Scientists Design Laser Calibration System for Next-Gen Gamma-Ray Telescope
By Marcia Goodrich | Published
Super-high-energy galactic gamma rays have trillions of times more energy than visible light, and they disappear in the atmosphere before they hit the Earth's surface. So if you want to detect these mysterious phenomena, a regular telescope isn't much help.
To learn about the highest-energy gamma rays, scientists build elaborate observatories, and one of the most advanced is the new High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Gamma-Ray Observatory, high in the mountains about six hours from Mexico City. When it's completed, it will be the only facility in the world that can detect the highest-energy gamma rays, with energies of up to 100 TeV (trillion electron volts), or tens of trillions of times more energy than the light we see.
Petra Huentemeyer, an assistant professor of physics at Michigan Technological University, is part of that effort. Her team is designing the observatory's laser calibration system in cooperation with researchers from the University of New Mexico.
Scientists are interested in the highest-energy gamma rays because they hold clues to the nature of space and time. No one knows for sure where these rays come from. Perhaps they originated in the Big Bang, or they could be generated by some of the universe's showiest pyrotechnics: supernovae, huge explosions that occur when massive stars collapse to form neutron stars, quarks or black holes.
When one of these high-energy gamma rays approaches the Earth, it collides with molecules in the air, disintegrating and creating an air shower of other high-energy particles. It is these particles that the scientists actually track, using big tanks of water called Cherenkov detectors. When it's done, the HAWC Observatory will have 300 of these tanks, each 25 feet across and 16 feet high.
They are named after Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, who discovered that light slows down while traveling through matter. It slows down so much that some particles can actually go faster than light. (In a vacuum, nothing travels faster than the speed of light.) These ultra-fast particles create a light cone and a shock wave, the photonic equivalent of a sonic boom.
When particles from gamma-ray air showers pour into the Cherenkov tanks at the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory, they will exceed light's speed limit in water and create light cones. Photomultipliers in the tank will convert some of that light to electricity—like a solar panel. That electricity triggers a laser, which travels through fiber optic cables to the HAWC computers and signals the presence of a gamma-ray-induced air shower.
When it goes on line in August, HAWC will be one of seven ground-based gamma-ray observatories in the world. It will not only lead the pack in detecting the highest-energy gamma rays; its extreme precision will also give better information on the origins of the gamma rays and their energy. "It's 15 times more sensitive than the Milagro Gamma-Ray Observatory at Los Alamos National Lab," said Huentemeyer.
Huentemeyer directs the HAWC team charged with calibrating the equipment and verifying that the data gathered are correct.
Calibration at the HAWC Observatory is critical, because the science depends on measurements that must be accurate to within of 10ths of billionths of a second. That precision is essential because the photomultipliers not only detect the presence of air showers. They also use the orientation of those air showers to figure out where the gamma rays come from.
"Think of the air showers like a pancake flying through space," said Huentemeyer. The "pancake" arrives at the Cherenkov detector and its array of photomultipliers at an angle.
That means that particles at the bottom edge of the pancake will trigger a photomultiplier first, and the particles at the top will be detected last. The time difference between the two strikes can be used to calculate the angle of the air shower, which can determine where in the sky the gamma ray appeared.
"We work on the timing of these hits to the photomultipliers, which are nanoseconds apart," Huentemeyer said. The electrical signals travel through 600 feet of fiber optic cable, and the team is responsible for making sure that everything is calibrated identically.
"A lot of work went into writing the software that allows this work to be remotely controlled," Huentemeyer said. "We also use software packages written for the Large Hadron Collider," the world's largest high-energy particle accelerator.
HAWC is just beginning its mission, so it hasn't detected evidence of the highest-energy gamma rays yet, since they are extremely rare. It has found lower-energy rays, and just to make sure its first detectors were working properly, the team snapped an image in one place it did not expect to find gamma rays: in the shadow of the moon.
When it's up and running, HAWC is set to pick up gamma rays traveling to Earth via the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.
"That's when things will really get interesting," Huentemeyer said.
The HAWC collaboration involves approximately 150 scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory's Neutron Science and Technology and Subatomic Physics groups, 15 universities in the United States and 15 in Mexico. Construction is funded by the US Department of Energy Office of Science's High Energy Physics program, the National Science Foundation and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico's science funding agency).
Note: The colorful thumbnail graphic that appears on the Michigan Tech news site is the "shadow" of the Moon, which blocks the arrival of cosmic rays.
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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Podcast: Running Out of Fuel
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When a perfectly good airplane ends up in the trees because it ran out of fuel, most pilots shake their heads in disbelief, but they also wonder -- could that happen to me? Bruce Landsberg, president of the AOPA Foundation and the Air Safety Institute, says it happens more often than you might think -- on average, about twice a week in the U.S. (Click here for his recent analysis and a map.) AVweb's Mary Grady talks with Landsberg to find out why these preventable accidents continue to happen and learns about some successful strategies that are helping to reduce the numbers.
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What is Building 7?
Building 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was part of the World Trade Center complex. It would have been the tallest high-rise in 33 states. It collapsed at 5:20 pm on September 11, 2001. It was not hit by an airplane and suffered minimal damage compared to other buildings much closer to the Twin Towers.
Video compilation of Building 7's destruction (no sound):
To learn more about Building 7, visit "7 Facts about Building 7", which includes photos of Building 7 before, during and after its destruction.
The Origin of "BuildingWhat?"
More than eight years after the tragedy of September 11, 2001, New York Supreme Court Justice Edward H. Lehner was hearing arguments in a courtroom less than a mile from Ground Zero about a ballot initiative to launch a new investigation of the 9/11 attacks. When the lawyer for the plaintiffs sponsoring the initiative explained that the 9/11 Commission report left many unanswered questions, including "Why did Building 7 come down," the Judge replied quizzically, "Building what?"
Like Judge Lehner, millions of people do not know or remember only vaguely that a third tower called World Trade Center Building 7 also collapsed on September 11, 2001. In any other situation, the complete, free fall collapse of a 47-story skyscraper would be played over and over on the news. It would be discussed for years to come and building design codes would be completely rewritten. So, why does no one know about Building 7? And why did Building 7 come down?
The answers to these questions have far-reaching implications for our society. The goal of the "BuildingWhat?" campaign is to raise awareness of Building 7 so that together we can begin to address these questions.
Please check out the buildingwhat.org website for more details about the collapse of building 7.


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Unserious Democrats on the nation's debt
December 01. 2012 10:59PM
How serious are Democrats about balancing the nation's budget? On Thursday, President Obama offered Republicans a plan to avoid the fiscal cliff: $1.6 trillion in tax increases, $400 billion in spending cuts, $50 billion in new spending, and unilateral presidential authority to raise the debt ceiling. "The offer lacks any concessions to Republicans," The Washington Post reported.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen helpfully illustrated the Democrats' attitude during an interview with MSNBC on Tuesday. After saying that no sacred cows should be spared when it comes to reducing the federal debt and avoiding the fiscal cliff, she said we should "take Social Security off the table."
"Social Security has not contributed to the debt and the deficits," Shaheen asserted. That is false. Social Security benefits payments have been greater than its revenues since 2009. Last year Social Security ran a $46 billion deficit. "Now, Social Security is sucking money out of the Treasury," The Washington Post reported in October of 2011.
Democrats want substantial tax hikes, paltry spending cuts and unsustainable entitlement spending left largely untouched.
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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Chinese immigrant accused of killing her unborn infant by eating rat poison while pregnant says her life has been difficult since she was charged but that she stays busy to avoid dwelling on her upcoming murder trial.
"I work all the time. I work. It helps," Bei Bei Shuai told Indianapolis television station WRTV (http://bit.ly/17Yxzng ) for a story Thursday. "I don't have time to think about it. I work seven days a week."
Shuai was eight months pregnant when she ate rat poison in December 2010 in a suicide attempt after her boyfriend broke up with her. Doctors called authorities when the baby died three days after being delivered prematurely.
Prosecutors charged Shuai with murder and feticide in March 2011. She was released on bond last May after more than a year in jail following an Indiana Court of Appeals ruling in her favor.
"My life has been difficult. I was scared," said Shuai, a 36-year-old Shanghai native. "It has been really, really difficult."
The case has attracted attention from medical groups and reproductive rights advocates around the globe who claim it could set a precedent by which pregnant women could be prosecuted for smoking or other behavior that authorities deem dangerous to their unborn child. Dozens of organizations have filed friend-of-the-court briefs on Shuai's behalf.
Attorney Linda Pence says she is disappointed that prosecutors are still pursuing murder charges against Shuai. A Marion County judge ruled in January that testimony from a pathologist who did the original autopsy could not be admitted because the pathologist didn't consider other possible causes for the brain bleeding that caused the baby's death, including a drug that Shuai received while she was in the hospital.
"As of now, they have not provided any testimony from an expert that can testify that the rat poison caused the death of the fetus, which is alarming to me," Pence said. "When you charge someone with murder, the most heinous crime on the books, you would have competent good evidence before you made those charges."
Jury selection in Shuai's trial is scheduled for Aug. 26.


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Activist Alicia Coons of Point Loma and others are petitioning the City Council to ask them to direct SeaWorld to only use fireworks alternatives for their nightly summer shows.
In the wording of an online petition drive protesting SeaWorld's pyrotechnics displays, Coons claims, "SeaWorld is damaging the quality of life of hundreds of thousands of San Diegans who live within a 20-mile radius on a nightly basis every day for three months straight … The fireworks at SeaWorld constitute animal cruelty. Dogs, cats and other companion animals don't understand that the terrifying loud bangs are a celebration. … Exposure to hazardous noise is one of the most common causes of irreversible hearing loss. … We are asking the San Diego City Council to ban the fireworks at SeaWorld and ask them to switch to laser-light shows which provide all the awe of fireworks displays and are kinder to animals and the environment and show a courteous and decent neighborly behavior to the people of San Diego."
In reply to the online petition drive, SeaWorld spokesman Dave Koontz issued the following statement: "Nightly fireworks during the summer have been a tradition for SeaWorld and San Diego for nearly 30 years, and we continue to receive significant positive feedback from visitors and area residents. It is the culmination of our daily 'Summer Nights' program."
Dave Koontz said the marine park "only uses small fireworks shells in our displays, which take place on 66 nights during the summer, as it has long been our policy not to use any shells for the sole purpose to make noise. All of our fireworks displays are conducted in accordance with city of San Diego policy, which is the ordinance that regulates fireworks demonstrations in San Diego, as well as our National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit."
Regarding the impact of noise from fireworks on animals, Koontz said, "Our firework displays do not impact the animals in our park. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service filed a report relating to our animals and fireworks that states that 'all animals were apparently healthy and there were no aberrant behavioral manifestations noted ... as result of firework activities in the evening during summer.'
"More than 10 years of analysis consistently demonstrate that our fireworks are not having a detrimental impact on Mission Bay," Koontz said.
Koontz said unlike other community Fourth of July celebrations, "Our fireworks displays last only five minutes."
Alexis Coons said her group hopes to collect at least 10,000 signatures before taking it to the City Council for possible action.


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LMM wrote:I hope this is an ongoing confession thread...
I like smutty romance novels about Navy Seals or some other kind of military operator and heaving bosoms.
SLS61185 wrote:I also don't babysit him while he's out in the backyard. He goes outside by himself for as long as he wants. Yes, I check on him. Yes it's fenced in. Yes he wares his collar and tags while he's out there. I've typed up 3 different posts about it, and have deleted it because I'm not very nice. Just typing this I took some stuff out because of it.
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PoodleMaMaKat wrote:I ate an entire pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream last night.
I sat down on the couch with a spoon and the container and started eating. I was quickly lost deep in thought. Suddenly the spoon scratched the bottom of the container. But really what's the point of leaving 3 bites in the bottom of the container!!
It wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't already eaten 3 slices of pizza and two pieces of Cold Stone ice cream cake earlier yesterday!!
plebayo wrote:A spike in your caloric intake is good for your metabolism. Just sayin'
I do the same thing with Trouble and Dukemadremissy wrote:Onto another really gross confession. I share my icecream with Kinzyl and Sammy. Yes, we share the same spoon. I take a bite, give Sammy a bite and then Kinzyl. Really gross but it doesn't bother me at all. What's a little slobber between loved ones.
TheRedQueen wrote:LMM wrote:I hope this is an ongoing confession thread...
I like smutty romance novels about Navy Seals or some other kind of military operator and heaving bosoms.
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Syd Nice Attack Victim Says Mystery Stranger Saved Her Life
Adelaide Stratton was overseas with friends, enjoying the treasures of France when she was suddenly and unexpectedly mowed down by a 19-tonne truck that ploughed through the crowd.
22-year-old Adelaide was walking on the Promenade de Anglais with three travel companions when she became separated from the group.
The truck then struck her before a stranger took her into his care and looked after her.
'I just remembered his face and his long hair and I remember he couldn't speak English because he wasn't telling me what had happened,' the Sydney woman told Channel 7's Sunday Night.
'He was just looking at me and squeezing my hand'.
That stranger was Patrick Sergent, and throughout the horror of the attack, Patrick was the man who held the victims until help arrived and assisted by covering dead bodies with tablecloths so that the survivors, including Adelaide, wouldn't see them.
He also put his face close to the victim's mouths to confirm they were no longer breathing.
As police feared a bomb might be inside the truck, ambulances and emergency services were unable to rescue remaining victims for more than an hour.
Adelaide lay paralysed just 70 metres from where the driver of the truck, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, was shot dead by police.
And when she was taken to hospital, Patrick was there by her side.
'He's the bravest man I've ever met, what kind of person does that?' Adelaide said.
Adelaide suffered a horrific leg wound and a shattered bone at the base of her skull.
For days following the attack, she had no memory of the massacre and believed she had just tripped over in the street.
When Patrick came to visit her, she was confused at who he was until he showed her his long hair.
'I think our looks conveyed it. Words were of no use, we were just connected,' she said.
During her time in hospital, the French president paid her a visit to apologise for the attack.
'He apologised which is outrageous,' she told the program. 'He didn't do it, it's not his fault.'
'He kept saying: "This is is not France, this is not France". Since the attack, Adelaide has now returned to Sydney and is continuing her recovery with her friends and family by her side.
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Hip-hop fans will remember that Drake was set to play Hampton Coliseum back in November. That show was canceled due to what was described as a scheduling conflict.
The show has been rescheduled, but not at Hampton Coliseum. Promoters announced today that Drake -- along with J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana -- will perform May 23 at the Farm Bureau Live amphitheater in Virginia Beach.
Drake's hits include "The Motto," "Take Care" and "Make Me Proud."
Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday, March 30 from Ticketmaster and LiveNation.com. They'll be priced at $38.75 to $144.25.
Here's the official word.
LOS ANGELES, CA, MARCH 21, 2012 – Multi-Platinum selling, Grammy® nominated recording artist Drake today announced a 27-city U.S. amphitheater run of The Club Paradise Tour in support of his critically acclaimed album TAKE CARE. J. Cole, Waka Flocka Flame, Meek Mill, 2 Chainz and French Montana will support. Tickets for their performance at Farm Bureau Live at Virginia Beach on May 23rd will go on sale Friday, March 30th at 10am at the Hardee's Thickburger box office, all Ticketmaster outlets, charge by phone 800-745-3000 or http://www.livenation.com/Drake-tickets/artist/1319371.
Citi card members will have access to presale tickets beginning Wednesday, March 21st at 10am local time through Citi's Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Citi is the official credit card of The Club Paradise Tour.
"I feel like this tour is coming at the perfect time," says Drake. "It's taking place in the season that we all wait for, We're outdoors and you've got every single artist you wait to hear in the club on one bill...that's Club Paradise."
The Club Paradise Tour comes on the heels of Drake's hugely successful sold out US college and European arena tours which saw the artist play US college arenas from Miami to San Jose and European venues including London's O2 Arena and the Oslo Spektrum. The Los Angeles Times review of Drake's performance at USC's Galen Center praised Drake's "masterful flow and wildly imaginative wordplay," and The OC Register raved that the LA show was a "near knockout performance" and "only a sampling of the heights Drake seems capable of scaling."
TAKE CARE (Young Money / Cash Money / Universal Republic), Drake's sophomore album was released November 15, 2011 and debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart with 631,000 copies sold. Acclaimed by fans and critics alike, the album has been praised as one of the best releases of the year, with The New York Times dubbing Drake "hip-hop's current center of gravity." The album has since been certified Platinum, having sold over 1.5 million copies in the US.
TAKE CARE follows Drake's full length album debut, 2010's THANK ME LATER, which also bowed at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 chart week of release and has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The album earned Drake multiple Grammy® nominations, including Best New Artist, Best Rap Album, and Best Rap Solo performance.
VIP packages for The Club Paradise Tour are available through VIP Nation, including premium seats, exclusive merchandise and more. For more information please visit www.VIPNation.com.
May 7 Concord, CA Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord ** March 23
May 8 Irvine, CA Verizon Wireless Amphitheater March 24
May 10 Phoenix, AZ Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion March 24
May 11 Las Vegas, NV MGM Grand Garden Arena TBA
May 13 Denver, CO Comfort Dental Amphitheatre March 24
May 14 Albuquerque, NM Hard Rock Casino Albuquerque Presents The Pavilion March 24
May 16 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion March 23
May 17 Houston, TX Toyota Center March 23
May 19 Charlotte, NC Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte TBA
May 20 Atlanta, GA Aaron's Amphitheatre at Lakewood TBA
May 22 Raleigh, NC Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek TBA
May 23 Virginia Beach, VA Farm Bureau Live at Va Beach March 30
May 25 Washington, DC Verizon Center TBA
May 26 Pittsburgh, PA First Niagara Pavilion TBA
May 28 Cleveland, OH Blossom Music Center TBA
May 30 Detroit, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre TBA
June 1 Indianapolis, IN Klipsch Music Center TBA
June 2 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre TBA
June 5 Memphis, TN FedExForum TBA
June 6 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center TBA
June 8 Darien Lake, NY Darien Lake Performing Arts Center TBA
June 9 Philadelphia, PA Susquehanna Bank Center TBA
June 11 Hartford, CT Comcast Theatre TBA
June 12 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center TBA
June 14 Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center TBA
June 16 New York, NY Nikon at Jones Beach Theater TBA
June 17 Boston, MA Comcast Center TBA
** J. Cole will not be appearing on this date
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"Metalworking for Revolution: Equipping the American Army" examines 18th-century metalworkers' crucial role in the fight for independence
For the patriots of America's War for Independence, the phrase "let freedom ring" might well have referred to the sound of the blacksmith's hammer and anvil. Learn how the artisans of the American colonies powered the armories of the American Revolution when The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation hosts its second conference for metalworkers – and others who want to broaden their understanding of 18th-century metalworking and its products – Nov. 16-19. "Metalworking for Revolution: Equipping the American Army" explores the materials, technologies and skills of the blacksmiths, founders, silversmiths, tinsmiths and toolmakers who supplied the equipment needed to fight the American Revolution.
Prior to the Revolution, Americans relied on English manufacturers to supply military arms and materials for defense of the colonies. With the onset of war, they turned to their own artisans. American metalworkers found themselves filling the demand for buttons, buckles and cooking utensils as well as swords, tomahawks, muskets, bayonets and entrenching tools. Much of this work took place in small shops, but large manufactories were established to cast artillery barrels and mass-produce small arms. Technologies included forging, welding, heat-treating, casting, sheet metalworking, soldering, filing, boring, punching, die-sinking and engraving.
Members of Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Trades Program and guest speakers will discuss the development of these industries and demonstrate many of these processes, making reproductions of original objects using 18th-century tools and methods. Morning presentations will take place in the Hennage Auditorium at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and will include:
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4:30 p.m. in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area, the Blacksmith, Gunsmith, Silversmith, Foundry and Toolmaker shops will present special demonstrations for conference attendees, making many of the items discussed earlier in the day.
"Metalworking for Revolution: Equipping the American Army" begins with a program introduction at 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and runs through the evening on Wednesday, Nov. 19. Patterned after Colonial Williamsburg's annual woodworking conferences, "Metalworking for Revolution" will be informal; participants' comments and questions will be welcome throughout, and speakers will be on-hand during morning breaks and afternoon demonstrations.
Registration is limited and includes the opening reception, three continental breakfasts, three coffee breaks, two afternoon breaks, dinner on Wednesday, all conference programs and a Colonial Williamsburg admission pass valid for the duration of the conference. Cost is $295 per person, and additional dinner tickets may be purchased for $65 per person. Lodging is not included in the registration fee. To register or for more information, call 1-800-603-0948 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5 p.m. or visit www.history.org/conted.
Established in 1926, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is the not-for-profit educational institution that preserves and operates the restored 18th-century Revolutionary capital of Virginia as a town-sized living history museum, telling the inspirational stories of our nation's founding men and women. Within the restored and reconstructed buildings, historic interpreters, attired as colonial men and women from slaves to shopkeepers to soldiers, relate stories of colonial Virginia society and culture – stories of our journey to become Americans – while historic trades people research, demonstrate and preserve the 18th-century world of work and industry. As Colonial Williamsburg interprets life in the time of the American Revolution for its guests, it also invites them to interact with history. "Revolutionary City®," a dramatic live street theater presentation, is a 2008 Rand McNally Best-of-the-Road™ Editor's Pick. Williamsburg is located in Virginia's Tidewater region, 20 minutes from Newport News, within an hour's drive of Richmond and Norfolk, and 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., off Interstate 64. For more information about Colonial Williamsburg, call 1-800-HISTORY or visit Colonial Williamsburg's Web site at www.history.org.
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Three Things You Should Know About Anne Lindberg
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In her delicate mixed-media drawings, sculptures, and installations, Anne Lindberg works literally line by line, creating textured, abstract compositions, which she describes as "mirror[s] of how I experience the world." Her deceptively simple works—comprising graphite and colored pencil drawings on mat board or over photographs; thread drawings; thread-based sculptures and installations; and architectural interventions—are generated out of a meticulous and labor-intensive process. Each line is hand drawn, every thread is hand stretched into compositions that appear to ripple and shimmer, moving and shifting with the viewer's own changing position. Lindberg is inspired by textiles and by the neurological and physiological networks of the human body. At once intensely physical and ethereal, her works elegantly reflect these living systems, as she explains: "The work references physiological systems—such as heartbeat, respiration, neural paths, equilibrium—and psychological states."
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Help with DX58SO2 Motherboard TroublesSwiss_Cheese Apr 10, 2011 2:09 PM
I recently purchased a DX58SO2 motherboard and I,m having boot issues. the problem is very specific and reproducible . It occurs in two different situations.
Situation 1:
The computer is turned off for a period of 2 hours or more. (I'll call that a cold start) when the power button is pressed the motherboard powers on
runs for 2 seconds then powers off for 1 second ,then powers on again with no boot, all fans running and a 00 on the LED. I then press the Reset button
once and the board powers off for one second and powers on again and then boots. the computer seems to run very stable afterward with no other problems.
Situation 2:
The computer goes into hibernate state and sits that way for 2 or more hours, I click the mouse and the board powers on but hangs with all fans running and
a 00 on the LED. I then press the Reset button (sometimes up to 3 times in this scenario) and the board powers off for one second and powers on again and then boots. also I would like to note that any application/s that were running at the time the computer went into its hibernate state were returned to the same
states they were in upon windows resuming, with no stability issues noticed.
This doesn't seem to be a simple turn the computer off and it won't boot back up problem. its time sensitive in some way.
My System Spec's:
Motherboard: Intel DX58SO2 (ofcourse) BIO's Updated using Express BIOS Update SOX5820J.86A.0765 and set to default
Processor: Intel i7 960
Ram: 6GB Corsair CMZ12GX3M3A1600C9 Vengeance PC12800 DDR3 RAM 3x 2048mb triple channel (listed as CORE i7 on the box it comes in)
GPU: EVGA Geforce GTX 460 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 2.0 (one card only, not running SLI at this time)
Hard Drive: Seagate ST3320418AS Barracuda Hard Drive 320GB 7200RPM SATA 3G 16MB cache (pluged into SATA port0)
DVD: Asus DRW-24B1ST 24X Internal DVD Burner (pluged into SATA port5)
PSU: Corsair TX950W Power Supply
Case: Cooler Master HAF 922
OS: Windows 7 pro 64Bit
Steps I've taken to try and resoulve this issue:
1. Unpluged SATA hard drive and DVD from motherboard and attempted boot.
2. Removed RAM and ran each stick indiviualy
3. From the BIO's I turned down the voltage on my RAM it was running by default at 1.5125v I turned it Down to 1.5v (per tech support suggestion)
this of course is the only change I have now made to the default BIO's settings.
None of these steps had any effect or helped in any way, the problem persists. I'd like to add that this was a painfull touble shooting session as I had to wait about two hours inbetween tests after successfull boots. to make sure I was reproducing the problem if it was going to occur again after a change.
It has been suggested to me by Tech support that I do not have compatible RAM . I was very supprized to hear this since the DX58SO2 supports the RAM type I purchased, but it turns out that my i7 960 CPU does not infact if you look at the specs none of the 15 Intel Processors listed as compatible with the DX58SO2 are spec'ed out for RAM over 1066mhz. I'm told that the Ram is handled by the CPU now and not the motherboard and that the the BIO's is forcing my 1600mhz ram to run at 1067mhz, which it is. it was suggested that this is the reason that my DX58SO2 is experiencing this boot issue and that if I continued to use this 1600Mhz RAM that I would probably start to experience other unpredicable side effects. I'm not particularly interested in over clocking, I chose the DX58SO2 because it seemed to have alot of potential for me to upgrade my system over time.
I'm was'nt realy So I'm biting the bullet and I have orderd 6GB of 1066mhz


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TAMPA - The Flyers played hard on Monday and, on most nights, would have salvaged at least a point.
But not this season. This is a season in which the Flyers hit the post more times than their opponents (2-1 on Monday), a season in which their defensemen allow too many odd-man rushes and leave their goalie hung out to dry.
They dropped a 4-2 decision to host Tampa Bay on Monday and fell into 12th in the Eastern Conference, five points out of eighth.
The Lightning, one of the NHL's worst teams in the last month, won it on a hard-earned deflected goal midway through the last period. Tampa iced it with an empty-netter in the closing seconds.
For the mostc part, the Flyers (13-16-1) showed more fight than in a lot of games this season, but they couldn't produce the big goal when needed.
They are now 0-11 when trailing after the first period.
That tells you all you need to know about this season.
Except for maybe this: The Flyers have been outscored, 33-20, in the third period, and they are 1-6 when games are tied (like Monday's) heading into the final period.
As a sidelight, coach Peter Laviolette demoted top-line left winger Scott Hartnell to the fourth line for about half the game after he was guilty of a roughing penalty on Cory Conacher 4:28 into the second period. Hartnell returned to the top unit with about eight minutes left.
Said Laviolette: "We've got to play a clean game, and it seems like we do things and shoot ourselves in the foot."
Laviolette, who inserted Zac Rinaldo onto the top line, said he wasn't trying to send a message to Hartnell.
Hartnell took the demotion in stride.
"If that's the way it's going to be, that's the way it's going to be," Hartnell said. "I finished my check and hit him a couple extra times where I shouldn't have, but the boys did a good job of killing it off. Is Lavy trying to send a message to me? He was trying to send it to the team, and it's unfortunate we couldn't come back tonight."
Hartnell still believes the Flyers _ who have lost five of their last seven games and don't play again until Sunday _ are a playoff team.
"We have to be confident. But these losses keep adding up and they still hurt," he said. "It's frustrating; it's not like guys aren't trying. It seems like our…third and fourth-line guys are playing our best hockey, and it's on us to be better and get focused and get ready to work."
The Flyers have 18 games to save their shortened season. Yes, it's enough time, but only if they start showing resiliency and learn how to finish off games.
Contact Sam Carchidi at email@example.com. Follow on Twitter @BroadStBull.


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When we pursue a research project to advance our goal of building the world's most effective advertising service, we start with some foundational questions: What problem(s) will the innovation solve? Can it scale? How will we measure the effects? What are the paths to increasing monetization Will this create value for our customers?
Of course, we asked these same questions when designing Hulu Ad Swap. We conducted research to determine whether Hulu Ad Swap could quantify (in both statistically reliable and valid terms) the improvement of the ad experience for advertisers and viewers across a variety of dimensions.
Going into the study, our thesis was that users wanted more choice and control, and advertisers wanted to eliminate waste (via targeting) and drive better outcomes (improved effectiveness measures). A recent Advertiser Perceptions study commissioned by the IAB entitled, "An Inside Look at Demand Side Perceptions of Video Advertising" quantified the criteria that advertisers, marketers, TV and online video buyers look for in their online video partnerships. Here's what they stated (in rank order):
- Targeting 82%-88%
- Results 85%-86%
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- Cost 28%-46%
Advertisers want better targeting and results, and viewers want more choice and relevancy, so naturally the question we wanted to address was simple: through a format rooted in choice, could we deliver on improved relevancy and results?
Our success measures were the predictive success measures that brand marketers use: Brand recall, favorability and purchase intent.
Results from the research study were very positive. Video ads that a user proactively chose to swap into (versus a video ad that was served at random) performed to a significantly greater degree than those that were not:
- Unaided Recall of the brand went from 30% to 58% (+93%)
- Aided Recall became near universal, from 59% to 91% (+54%)
- Brand Favorability went from 34% to 43% (+27%)
- Purchase Intent went from 23% to 31% (+35%)
- Stated Relevancy went from 15% to 22% (+46%)
The measured performance of choice-based ad formats like Hulu Ad Swap illustrates why offering interactivity can be a powerful mechanism to improve the effectiveness of advertising. Interactive formats can significantly exceed the effectiveness and efficiency of traditional video ad formats for the following reasons:
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- Increased attentiveness—when a choice is made, a viewer is invested in seeing the outcome.
- Cognitive dissonance—consumers like to feel justified about the choices they make.
Going forward, we are not expecting all Hulu users to swap ads every time they are offered the option to swap. The power behind Hulu Ad Swap is that a user has maximum control over their ad experience, and can swap their ad if they choose to do so. In fact, we expect response rates of around three percent. But for those who do choose to interact with this feature, we'll have learned a little more about their preferences. We can turn that learning into a better ad experience for our users, a better ad platform for our advertisers, and an improved monetization vehicle for our content partners.
We are continuing to research Hulu Ad Swap, and as we work to improve this ad innovation over time, our goal is to deliver both a more frictionless consumer advertising experience and even better results for our advertising customers.
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