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Lots of great stuff on the front page of amphibi.us today
January 31, 2011
Particularly, this: http://amphibi.us/all/we-are-all-little-boys-and-little-girls/
Continuing my pointless "I got the day off" wikileaks search for info on U.S. investment in Brazil's oil industry, I found this classified cable on August 2005 meetings between Brazilian and U.S. trade representatives. Of particular note is the section on trade liberalization — specifically, a comment made by a mining magnate that was present:
Roger Agnelli of mining giant CVRD observed that Brazil and the U.S. have complementary economies that would stand to gain substantially from integration.
I wondered why he would even be there, so I looked up Agnelli and it turns out that in addition to the iron-ore business CVRD (now known as Vale), he also sat on the board of Petrobas, Brazil's state-assisted oil company, and on Anadarko's Global Advisory Board. Master Caution followers of the last few hours (all zero of you) will remember that Anadarko was one of the companies present at the 2008 meeting between U.S. oil companies and the Ambassador to Brazil that kicked off my interest in this subject in the first place.
That 2008 meeting, which took place just days after the price of oil topped $100 for the first time, also took place in a time of exciting oil discovery off the Atlantic Coast of Brazil. Two weeks later, Petrobas would announce the discovery of another enormous natural gas and oil condensate field nearby in the Atlantic, and energy pundits would wonder aloud in the coming months whether Brazil's reserves would create a petroleum-independent Western Hemisphere.
"Pre-salt oil is like a pretty woman on a dance floor full of men," Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, put it bluntly. "Everybody wants a go."
Flash forward to January 1, 2011, and newly sworn in Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff calls the oil and gas reserves off her Atlantic coast Brazil's "passport to the future."
I'm still having trouble connecting the dots here. I kind of feel like the U.S. government, in the form of vehicles like the U.S. Commercial Service and others, went down to Brazil over the course of the 2000s and pushed for more open trade policies because major U.S. oil companies told them to. My eyes hurt and I need more coffee and I'm not sure the story goes any further than that, nor am I sure that it's all that interesting. U.S. companies meddling in South American politics for the benefit of energy companies: big deal, right? Still, it's an interesting research project and it's keeping my mind active while I wait to hear back about grad school applications.
More soon. Any help/comments/direction would be much appreciated.
"Brazil Cost"?
January 17, 2011
In my last post I noted how due to a surplus of free time I had begun sifting through the diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks and found an interesting item about a 2008 meeting between major U.S. oil executives and the Ambassador to Brazil, in which the oil companies saw a "positive" environment for petroleum-related investments in Brazil.
I just want to see if anything came of it and what factors led up to it. So I've started searching, and just now found this. Check out point 8, about halfway down, titled "Brazil Cost." This cable is from 2003 and apparently at that time the idea of investing in Brazil wasn't quite as rosy (this was during negotiations and campaigning for the creation of a Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a debate that still goes on today throughout the Western Hemisphere).
Although developed country protectionism is always cited as a major problem undermining Brazil's competitiveness, so are internal problems sometimes called the "Brazil cost," i.e., high costs associated with Brazil's tax structure, outdated social security system, labor code, poor education, and, in general, bureaucratic obstacles to commerce. While the GOB is committed to social security and tax reform, it seems to lack faith it can lower the "Brazil cost" sufficiently in the near term to guarantee Brazilian competitiveness in the free trade environment an FTAA agreement would create.
So what happened between 2003 and 2008? Was the "Brazil cost" lowered significantly enough to where U.S. oil companies believed the Brazilian investment picture was "positive"? Or does this just point to a difference between the outlook in Brazil for oil companies vs. trade generally?
Using WikiLeaks to Research Brazil's Oil Future
January 17, 2011
So I had the day off today and I opted to read the paper for the first time in awhile this morning, and this story about an ex-Swiss banker giving information to WikiLeaks inspired me to take a look through those Cablegate memos that caused such a stir in the last few months.
I started by looking through some cables that had come out at the time of various events like the first Gulf War. Then I just started chronologically reading different bits of this or that from a year picked at random (2004) and found a hilarious example of gossipy celeb-worship on the part of the U.S. diplomatic corps. All the while I noted the increased frequency of dispatches coming from Brazil, as I tried to remember news stories from 2004 that would warrant so much information coming from the U.S. embassy there. There was, of course, the Aristide situation, which Brazil helped to deal with from a U.S. diplomatic standpoint.
But then I found this, from 2008: a cable from Rio de Janeiro given the subject heading "U.S. OIL COMPANIES ON INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN BRAZIL." It comes from a roundtable discussion Organized by the U.S. Commercial Service between then-Ambassador to Brazil Clifford Sobel and top-level executives from Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Devon Energy, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, and Hess Corporation. The meeting took place on January 8, 2008, six days after the price of petroleum hit $100 a barrel for the first time.
According to the cable, the executives called the climate for investing in Brazilian oil "positive," and Ambassador Sobel offers to advocate for them to the Brazilian government and state-controlled petroleum entities. I decided to look back through the earlier cables from Brazil, and see if I could trace any of the activity from prior years and connect it to the favorable situation (as seen by the oil executives) in 2008.
After about an hour of hard reading and googling, I found this site, CableGateGame. The amount of information contained in the WikiLeaks cables is immense and daunting, and CableGate can help with summaries of complicated texts, but it suffers from an awkward format. It's still hard to know where to start.
I'm going to keep searching through CableGate and WikiLeaks and see if I can turn anything up that would explain/illuminate the meeting between major American oil executives and the government of Brazil. Questions I have include: just how "positive" is the investment climate in Brazil? What changes have taken place in the last decade to bring this situation about? How much oil is in Brazil? How will it be gathered and who benefits the most from a favorable oil trade with Brazil? I have others, but that's my starting point. I'll try to keep updating as info comes in and I welcome any help from whoever out there sees this.
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On December 30 my dear husband and I attend the Temple for the first time in Twin Falls. What a beautiful day and what a beautiful experience. We had our family and friends there with us and it was something that I will never forget. Learn more about why Temples are so important and what happens inside here.
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This year Kärnten Läuft invites you back to the turquoise- blue waters of the Wörthersee. Our organizing team is committed to composing the ideal mix of sporting excellence, running holidays, and family experience.
Enclosed, you will find all the information regarding the race and the route for the Dog Run. You will also find the sign up in the right column.
As part of the Dog Race, a dog fair suited for the whole family will be hosted on Saturday, August 19th from 8:30 am to 11 am. Serving as an exchange platform for dog owners and experts, exchanging valuable tips on sports and training with dogs, dog care, veterinary care for dogs, and many other subjects at the fair. A complimentary breakfast ensures that owners and their four-legged friends have a perfect start in the day. Likewise, dog pools and the Wörthersee provide excellent opportunities for both humans and dogs to have a refreshing break.
Want to join in, but are unsure if your dog is fit enough or suitable for the run? Simply ask our expert Dr. Pekarek via email:
Only healthy and regularly vaccinated dogs are permitted to participate. Furthermore, dogs that are in heat are also not allowed to participate. Dogs have to be kept on a leash at all times during the race. The organizer assumes no liability for injuries or damage to humans and animals. The use of muzzles is recommended.
Kärnten Läuft Running City & Parking:
The Kärnten Läuft "Running City" is located directly on the Metznitzstrand (beach) in Klagenfurt, next to the Wörthersee Strandbad. It is easily accessible by car, train, bus, or bike. The car park at the Minimundus, located right after the A2 motorway exit, offers ample parking for all visitors and runners on each of the days. The Running City is within short walking distance of the car park as well as from the train station, which is located a few meters away from the car parks.
Pick up of Start Documents
To be able to participate in the Kleine Zeitung Wörthersee half marathon you need a bib number. Your bib number contains the chip necessary for timekeeping (powered by MaxFun). When picking up your number at the registration tent in the Running City, you will also get a Kärnten Läuft duffel back which serves for the transport of clothing during the race.
Benefits for participation:
Whoever participates in the Kärnten Läuft run is automatically a winner. Just like in the previous years, there are going to be numerous benefits for every runner at our event. In addition to the medal, all participants receive a bulging starter bag filled with goodiess and treats, as well as a comprehensive voucher booklet, which can already be used on-site.


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We met Yvonne a few years ago at a prayer station in Jamaica, Queens. She had an amazing testimony of how God delivered her from drugs. She knew the power of God in her life, but after being hurt from some negative experiences with her church, she began to distance herself from other believers. We had a good talk with her about the importance of and having fellowship with other believers despite their flaws. We exchanged contact information and invited her to join us at King's Fellowship.
Amy kept in touch with her, calling her from time to time to check up on her and pray with her, encouraging her as much as she could, but we eventually lost touch with Yvonne. Several months went by without hearing from her. But then, last fall, Amy received a voicemail from Yvonne stating that God had been speaking to her about needing to be a part of a church again. She knew she needed the fellowship and the encouragement. Since then, Yvonne has been a regular attendee of our Sunday night services and has even joined us for outreach.
Yvonne is not the same woman we met a few months ago! God is healing her heart and drawing her into deeper relationship and she has even expressed an interest in volunteering more of her time with us. It has been incredible to see God's commitment to Yvonne and it has also been a big answer to prayer, as we are constantly praying for those we meet to be drawn closer to God and come into a church where they can be discipled.


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SIGGRAPH 2013 Showcases the Latest Real-Time Developments
Real-Time Live! is the premier showcase for the latest trends and techniques for pushing the boundaries of interactive visuals. As part of the Computer Animation Festival, an international jury selects submissions from a diverse array of industries to create a fast-paced, 90-minute show of cutting-edge, aesthetically stimulating real-time work.
"Celebrating its 5th Anniversary, Real-Time Live! 2013 is a can't miss, one night only event at SIGGRAPH," said Abe Wiley, Real-Time Live! Chair from AMD. "This year's show is as diverse as ever and attendees will have their minds blown by live, interactive demonstrations of the latest advancements in photorealistic facial animation, medical visualization, crowd simulation, hair rendering, massive destruction, real-time cinematics, and more!"
Each live presentation lasts less than 10 minutes, and is presented by the artists and engineers who produced the work.
SIGGRAPH 2013 Real-Time Live! Highlights:
Digital Ira: High-Resolution Facial Performance Playback
Graham Fyffe, USC Institute for Creative Technologies; Jorge Jimenez, Activision, Inc.; Oleg Alexander, Jay Busch, Paul Graham, Borom Tunwattanapong, Koki Nagano, Ryosuke Ichikari, Paul Debevec, Andrew Jones, USC Institute for Creative Technologies; Javier von der Pahlen; Etienne Danvoye; Bernardo Antoniazzi; Michael Eheler; Zbynek Kysela, Activision, Inc.; Curtis Beeson; Steve Burke; Mark Daly, NVIDIA Corporation
Video performance capture drives a facial blendshape model made from high-resolution facial scans that are compressed and realistically rendered in a reproducible game-ready pipeline designed for current-generation PCs and next-generation consoles.
Butterfly Effect
Renaldas Zioma, Unity Technologies
Unreal Engine 4 Infiltrator Demonstration
Dana Cowley, Brian Karis, Epic Games, Inc.
Thomas Mann, Still; Daniel Szymanski; Andreas Rose, Framefield GmbH; Wolf Budgenhagen, Still
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Pick The Perfect Ferry Ride
There are a number of beautiful places in Singapore that you can explore however if you are planning to visit Singapore with your family then you should also try out some of the areas that are connected to Singapore. Malaysia is a popular destination for tourists and not taking a ferry ride when you are here is something that you will regret. If you have children this is something that you will enjoy and remember for a very long time which is why you should not prevent them from taking this beautiful ferry ride. There are a number of different ferry rides available but if you do not want to waste too much time on the ride and you would rather explore the place once you reach then you should try to take the ferry to Batam. In case you are planning to visit this beautiful little Island then make sure that you book your ferry ticket from singapore to batam in advance.You do not need to be in Singapore in order to book your ferry ticket mainly because technology helps you to book tickets in advance and online. There are a number of different things that you can do on this beautiful little Island and one of the best things you can do is relax your eyes and enjoy your vacation.
This is a little Island which is less crowded as compared to Singapore and in case you are looking for an escape from the crowd that Singapore has then this is a perfect place to come to. You can even spend a few days in batam depending on what your travel plans are. It is a good idea to spend a few days here and you can actually explore the island in detail and learn a lot about Malaysian culture.


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Tiger Lily Press Annual Print Sale:
A one-day sale featuring the work of local printmakers and book artists.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Second Floor
3711 Clifton Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45220
Tiger Lily Press offers fine art prints for sale by local printmakers. Meet the artists and hear them explain their techniques for making art at the annual Print Sale, held concurrently with the Autumn Air Art Fair at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center.
Original etchings, screen prints, woodblocks, collagraphs, lithographs, and linocuts will be available, framed and unframed. All prints are limited edition, hand-made prints created by the exhibiting artists, not mass-produced copies. Prints, cards, artists' books, and other unique items will be available for purchase.
Participating printmakers include: James Billiter, Rick Finn, Sheila Fleischer, April Foster, Kathleen Piercefield, Nicci Mecchler, Megan Schweitzer, Ken Swinson, Jan Thomas, Nancy Turner, Carole Winters, and Mary Woodworth.
The 2017 Tiger Lily Press Fundraiser Calendar will be available for purchase at the sale. The biennial limited edition calendar features prints in a range of techniques that are suitable for printing. Printmakers that have donated their time and talent to this project include: Kathleen Piercefield, Rick Finn, Mary Woodworth, Tory Keith, Nicole Hollon, Jay Harriman, Jonpaul Smith, Nicci Mechler, April Foster, Vanessa Sorensen, Mary Mark, Nancy Hunter, and Susan Naylor for cover page, credits, and project coordination. The calendars are $45.00 each with all proceeds benefiting Tiger Lily Press.
In addition, the Cincinnati Book Arts Society will join the sale to show, sell, and educate about their craft. The group will offer journals, sketchbooks, artists' books, miniature books, cards, and other unique items.
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Radford Arsenal invests hundreds of millions in cleaner technology
RADFORD, Va. – On Wednesday, the Virginia Department of Health's Office of Drinking Water awarded the 2016 Excellence in Waterworks Operations Performance Gold Award to the Radford Army Ammunition Plant.
The award is given for water systems which have demonstrated excellence in performance and operations, and for the treatment and distribution of drinking water to the public.
That's not all the plant is working on, a multi-million dollar project is underway that will drastically reduce emissions from what is currently Virginia's largest polluter.
Rob Davie, the plant's chief of operations, walked WSLS 10 through the new steam-powered plant, which is replacing the old, outdated coal fired plant that's responsible for a lot of their emissions.
The new plant is making the munitions production process much cleaner for the environment.
Exceeding emission limits into the air, the coal-fired power house, has powered the production of munitions for decades at the Arsenal and has been LTC Alicia Masson's main priority to change.
"The coal-fired power house has what's called opacity incidents and that's where we were emitting things into the air that more than what exceeds our permissible limits on opacity. Those events were occurring regularly enough to cause the Army years ago to look for a better option," said Masson.
Years of research and $60 million later, Masson said those emissions from coal will now be reduced to zero.
Steam is now that better option.
"We were able to achieve our power requirements and power goals in greener, cleaner technology... as opposed to the hulking monstrosity that is the brick-and-mortar facility, and it also gets us away from using coal which also protects the environment," continued Masson.
Davies said the new power house should be fully operational in a month.
In addition, only yards away, a $400 million construction project is underway on a new nitruscellulos facility. What is used to begin the gun powder production process will now be a much greener method.
Construction is expected to be complete in late 2018.
Now in the permitting process, Masson has also pushed for a new incinerator that will reduce the use of open burning that's been a point of concern for the public.
"I'm never going to be able to say we'll dispose of 100 percent because I don't know what the future of munitions look like, but I can say that we'll get as close as we can," said Masson.
Preliminary test results are back from drone air testing directly over the open burn sites.
"It supports that what we're doing is exactly the correct way to do it and it supports that what we are doing as we are conducting those burns is not a danger to health or human life," said Masson.
Those test results are a huge deal, especially since the open burn sites have been a point of public concern.
They are conducted by the University of Dayton and NASA, an outside source from the Arsenal. Masson will discuss the full test results as soon as they become available.
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Cornwall hotels
Long sandy beaches. 630 miles of coastal path to walk/run/cyle. Best weather in Britain. How could England's far southwest coastline not be the top destination for outdoor pursuits including surfing (what it's famous for), diving, kayaking and cycling? With a love of the outdoors comes a love of wildlife. Our hotels in Cornwall will put you close to all of the following: Newquay Zoo and its 130 species, Blue Reef Aquarium and its underwater shark safari and also Europe's busiest seal rescue centre.
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For Cornwall breaks, you're booking a hotel in Cornwall for the coastline not the culture, right? At the Minack Theatre you get both. It's an outdoor theatre set on the rustic coast, and it's just 18.9 miles from our Hayle Hotel. The Eden Project is a very different type of theatre. The actors are basically plants — from all over the world. This includes banana trees, coffee, rubber and giant bamboo. It's all housed in a stunning location including a giant crater formerly used as a fictitious planet in the film Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Our St Austell Hotel is just 4.5 miles away from this otherworldly "garden." If you've got the children this trip, then trade plants for penguins a plenty at the Newquay Zoo. It's less than a mile from our Newquay Seafront Hotel.
Things to do in Cornwall
With so many things to do in Cornwall, you're spoilt for choice. But let's say you've come to Cornwall for the wild coastal adventures. Take a break from sand and sun at Crealy Adventure Park. Thrill-a-second rides like Raging Rivers, The Beast and Viking Warrior await, and our Wadebridge Hotel is just 3.8 miles away when you've got nothing left. Rather keep to a nature theme? The Blue Reef Aquarium's a half-mile from our Newquay Seafront Hotel. And then there's the Seal Sanctuary which looks after injured or ill seal pups. It's situated in the rolling hills 15 miles from our Hayle Hotel.


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We have recently demonstrated CXCR4 overexpression in vestibular schwannomas (VS). This study investigated the feasibility of CXCR4-directed positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging of VS using the radiolabeled chemokine ligand [\(^{68}\)Ga]Pentixafor. Methods: 4 patients with 6 primarily diagnosed or pre-treated/observed VS were enrolled. All subjects underwent [\(^{68}\)Ga]Pentixafor PET/CT prior to surgical resection. Images were analyzed visually and semi-quantitatively for CXCR4 expression including calculation of tumor-to-background ratios (TBR). Immunohistochemistry served as standard of reference in three patients. Results: [\(^{68}\)Ga]Pentixafor PET/CT was visually positive in all cases. SUV\(_{mean}\) and SUV\(_{max}\) were 3.0 ± 0.3 and 3.8 ± 0.4 and TBR\(_{mean}\) and TBR\(_{max}\) were 4.0 ± 1.4 and 5.0 ± 1.7, respectively. Histological analysis confirmed CXCR4 expression in tumors. Conclusion: Non-invasive imaging of CXCR4 expression using [\(^{68}\)Ga]Pentixafor PET/CT of VS is feasible and could prove useful for in vivo assessment of CXCR4 expression.
\(^{11}\)C-Methionine-PET: a novel and sensitive tool for monitoring of early response to treatment in multiple myeloma (2015)
Multiple myeloma (MM) remains an essentially incurable hematologic malignancy. However, new treatment modalities and novel drugs have been introduced and thus additional tools for therapy monitoring are increasingly needed. Therefore, we evaluated the radiotracers \(^{11}\)C-Methionine (paraprotein-biosynthesis) and \(^{18}\)F-FDG (glucose-utilization) for monitoring response to anti-myeloma-therapy and outcome prediction. Influence of proteasome-inhibition on radiotracer-uptake of different MM cell-lines and patient-derived CD138\(^{+}\) plasma cells was analyzed and related to tumor-biology. Mice xenotransplanted with MM. 1S tumors underwent MET- and FDG-\(\mu\)PET. Tumor-to-background ratios before and after 24 h, 8 and 15 days treatment with bortezomib were correlated to survival. Treatment reduced both MET and FDG uptake; changes in tracer-retention correlated with a switch from high to low CD138-expression. In xenotransplanted mice, MET-uptake significantly decreased by 30-79% as early as 24 h after bortezomib injection. No significant differences were detected thus early with FDG. This finding was confirmed in patient-derived MM cells. Importantly, early reduction of MET-but not FDG-uptake correlated with improved survival and reduced tumor burden in mice. Our results suggest that MET is superior to FDG in very early assessment of response to anti-myeloma-therapy. Early changes in MET-uptake have predictive potential regarding response and survival. MET-PET holds promise to individualize therapies in MM in future.


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Separate recent announcements by retailer JCPenney and drug store chain Walgreen could give investors a big opportunity, "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer said Tuesday. But it's not what you might think.
"There's a lot of ways to win in business," he said, listing a few tried-and-true methods of beating the competition. "And then again, sometimes you can win by doing nothing, doing nothing but going against flailing and faltering competitors who seem to be flummoxed and floundering in unfathomable ways. Or to put it another way, you can be lucky enough to compete against JC Penney and Walgreen."
This week, JCPenney announced that key executive Michael Francis would be leaving the company. Francis, who came from Target, was supposed to help new CEO Ron Johnson reinvent the retailer, shifting away from its coupon strategy it had employed for years.


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Like so many worthy acts, Dynasty Electric rose from the underbelly of the Brooklyn electronic scene to impress some of the best in the business. Since solidifying their act, they've taken the stage with a "who's who" of artists, from Girl Talk to Curren$y, and they show no signs of stopping.
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Thanks goes to Chandler Sterling for pointing this one out!
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SQL Baselines, Adaptive Cursor Sharing and Automatic Cardinality Feedback SQL Statement Tuning In Oracle 11gR2
A talk by Jozé Senegacnik at Miracle OpenWorld 2010
About the Talk
April 15, 2010 9:00 AM
Billund, DenmarkBillund, Denmark
Oracle introduced new features for execution plan stability in version 11gR1 such as SQL Baselines and Adaptive Cursor Sharing. The presentation will discuss the mechanisms and implementation of these two new features, benefits and possible drawbacks. In the second part we will discuss also the new feature of automatic cardinality feedback SQL statement tuning introduced in Oracle 11gR2.


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This week, the arrival of Valentine's Day also brings a very nice assortment of new release Blu-ray and DVD options. A number of the films hitting shelves today were Academy Award hopefuls, with one even being heavily nominated by Oscar. So, let us dive right in and get started!
"The Edge of Seventeen"
This teen coming-of-age tale is really tremendous, with a Hailee Steinfeld performance that stands among the very best of 2016. Few stories about growing up can combine the specificity of an experience with the universality of teenage years like this film did. Here is just a taste of the rave review we have up on our site for "The Edge of Seventeen":
It's not often that a new release can feel like an instant classic. It doesn't at all seem like hyperbole to write that 'The Edge of Seventeen' is going to deeply speak to a lot of teenagers as the years progress. It has such a specific yet timeless message about the confusion of growing up. However, in no way do you have to be a teenager to respond to it. This almost 30-year-old man was incredibly entertained, moved and outright blown away by it.
The arrival today of "The Edge of Seventeen" should entice you to race out to a store and pick it up. It's absolutely worth it.
Special Features: N/A
Total Box Office: $14,431,633
Major Awards: Nominated for Best First Film at the Directors Guild of America awards
Recommended Movies
One of the most Oscar-nominated science fiction films ever now reaches an even broader audience. Aside from the Amy Adams snub in Best Actress, "Arrival" more or less cleaned up with the Academy, and rightly so. It was deservedly embraced as something more than just a genre outing. Clayton has a full-on rave here at the site for "Arrival," which includes the following high praise:
The science fiction genre has evolved into some of the most prolific imagery and storytelling of the silver screen. Denis Villeneuve's splendid 'Arrival' has the foreign director taking on uncharted territory and putting forth his finest film of his career yet.
"Arrival" is one of the better sci-fi movies of the last few years, so it's pleasing to see it embraced by voters. Pick it up and relive the experience for yourself.
Special Features: Featurettes
Total Box Office: $99,412,735 (and counting)
Major Awards: Nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture
"Bleed for This"
A sports biopic with a committed Miles Teller performance at its core, this is just a cut below being good enough for awards contention. Fans of boxing films will recognize the beats, but likely enjoy it nonetheless. Mark had a Telluride Film Festival review in which he said the following about it:
'Bleed for This' isn't 'Creed,' or even 'The Fighter,' but it is a highly entertaining, superbly-acted sports film…
Teller really does make this worth seeing.
Special Features: N/A
Total Box Office: $5,083,906
Major Awards: None
Vintage Viewing
In honor of this week's release of "Lovesong," the pick is going to be a previous outing from the filmmaking team of So Yong Kim and Bradley Rust Gray. It's "The Exploding Girl," a mumblecore-style character study that's really underrated. Zoe Kazan gave her first truly stunning performance here, absolutely blowing you away with her complex portrait of a young woman in New York City and marking her arrival on the cinematic scene. The New York Daily News raved about it, writing:
This quietly poetic little gem contains many beautiful things, not least of which is leading lady Zoe Kazan, who lets every scene billow and swirl around her effortlessly.
If you haven't seen this one yet and you're a Kazan fan, rectify that immediately!
Other Films Being Released
Here's a look at what else is hitting shelves today, besides recommended titles like "Arrival" and "The Edge of Seventeen":
"Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
Once upon a time, this war movie was a surefire Academy Award juggernaut. Director Ang Lee ended up with a big misfire, however. Overly concerned with visual invention and neglecting story, it's a slog to get through. Clayton chimed in at the New York Film Festival with this review:
The demand for the awe that Lee besets upon himself is the film's greatest crime. He focuses too much on building the medium and completely abandons the things that have made him such a prolific director in the first place.
Easily 2016's biggest disappointment, it's really only worth picking up as a curiosity.
Box Office: $1,738,477
In another world, Rebecca Hall would have been a major Oscar contender in Best Actress. That didn't happen, obviously, but many still find her performance to be one of 2016's best. The Chicago Sun-Times sure agrees in their review, writing:
Rebecca Hall gives one of the great performances of the year as the title character in 'Christine,' an intense, stomach-churning, unblinking drama.
Check it out and see what could have been for Hall.
Box Office: $298,525
"The Crash"
This high concept financial thriller apparently wastes an inherently strong premise with mediocre execution. The AV Club panned it in this fashion:
'The Crash' fumbles between bad diatribe and bad domestic drama, complete with subplots about absent parents and childhood cancer.
Box Office: N/A
"King Cobra"
An homage in many ways to "Boogie Nights," this crime drama is nowhere near as strong. In fact, it's fairly poor. Variety summed it up well:
'King Cobra' is all smut and no soul … tacky, superficially titillating …
It's just not very good, despite a committed performance from Christian Slater.
Box Office: $74,712
"London Road"
A really unusual film, it defies easy description, which is probably what kept it from finding an audience. Time Out had this to say:
An exciting, unsettling experience blessed with imagination and compassion.
It sounds different, if nothing else.
Box Office: N/A
"The Witness"
A documentary about the notorious Kitty Genovese murder and its aftermath, particularly in regard to her family, it was an under-the-radar favorite for doc fans this year. The Hollywood Reporter said the following in their review:
Seen in vintage 8mm home movies, Kitty Genovese emerges as a vibrant, exuberant young woman whose violent death tragically came to overshadow her much too brief life.
Nearly nominated for an Oscar in Best Documentary Feature, this is a doc to make time for once we get through the actual nominees.
Box Office: $159,305
Special Criterion Collection Section
"The Tree of Wooden Clogs"
Joining the collection this week is this three-hour-plus foreign drama from Ermanno Olmi. No less than Roger Ebert praised it, writing in his review:
It is a very pleasant, even lulling, experience to watch these daily activities, and I found myself enjoying the film on a documentary level.
Pick it up and see why Ebert was a fan.
TV Releases
"Hap and Leonard: The Complete First Season"
"Kojak: Season One"
"Liberty's Kids: The Complete Series"
"Mercy Street: The Complete Second Season"
"Star Trek Enterprise: The Complete Series"


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After a long discussion with my number two daughter, I am making a new effort with my blog. It will be a little more structured and pre-planned. There will be writing of blogs on Tuesdays and Thursdays and the contents will be memories and present day life. I think my name dropping days are over, there are very few celebs living in this wonderful part of our Geography. Some may still pop up in my memory however.
I am involved with a project that is called FAKE IT IN FABRICS. I will explain how it came about. One day, when the mail arrived, I received a postcard from very good friends who were visiting in Washington DC. They had spent a couple of days going through the SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM and had bought the card there. It depicted a woman with flowers and it was painted by MATISSE. I was overjoyed to hear from my friends and I treasured the painting on the postcard. And then an ugly, avaricious feeling came over me. It was caused by the card. Reality told me, that no matter how old I would get, no matter how much money I could amass, I would never be able to buy a MATISSE. This feeling grew to horrid levels. I was groveling in it.
And then it was like waking up from a nightmare. I said to myself, I will make a MATISSE. I will copy this card in fabrics and I will own a MATISSE. I worked like a driven person and at the end I owned a MATISSE. I knew it was a fake, but it was beautiful. I framed it in an old Swedish frame and from a distance it was perfect. Up close it was perfect too, but one could see that a different kind of paint had been used. There was some machine stitching, but most of the stitching was by hand. All the yardage I found in my own drawers, left over from my quilting days.
I have made many FAKE IT IN FAbRICS since then. Most of them were used to sell in raffles for some worthy cause. I decided to try teaching this art on a HOLLAND AMERICAN CRUISE SHIP. So I began giving classes locally at the Senior Center here in Port Angeles. I made up several kits for people to chose from, did a little advertising and began with a very small class. People enjoyed what they were doing. I saw one of the results, framed perfectly, and told the student that it was better than mine.
I signed up for a cruise on AMSTERDAM who was going around the world. I tried before the cruise to see the officer who would be in charge of amusement and various classes and never made contact. So I took the cruise regardless, hoping to make arrangements while on board. The officer in charge of classes was totally into music and could care less about my offering. But the Cruise was fabulous and I will regale you with some of the high-lights at a later time,
Monday, March 30, 2009
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Oh what fun! Might you be able to post a photograph of one of these "Fakes in Fabric" for us all to see??! :)
- March 30, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Yes, pictures, please!
- March 30, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- Laura said...
Ditto again! I was in 4-H sewing as a child and would be very interested in seeing a finished piece.
As for the changes to your blog, I will be looking forward to Tuesdays and Thursdays with Svensto. I hope you enjoy the structure.
- March 30, 2009 at 7:44 PM
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for accountability: three days ago i resolved to begin writing every day again. the bulk of this writing, i believe, will be private. but a small taste into content these days:
this morning i wrote about visiting a church yesterday for the first time since december, and conversing with a (lovely) associate pastor regarding life, church, politics and youth ministry. it was familiar and hard at the same time.
it made my stomach hurt to go yesterday, and to write about it today.
my hesitation and trepidation was met with kindness and gentleness, and an apology for many larger institutions for naming me as "unfit for ministry" and a genuine desire to help me network in this valley i now call home.
for now this "extended-micro-blog" (shorter than a "normal" blog, longer than a tweet) is enough.
doing the work to build up that muscle strength again.
one day, perhaps a full-on blog post where i share the writing rather than writing about the writing.
doing the work to build up that muscle strength again.


text: Stefanie Carnes, PhD, LCSW, a leading therapist, author and expert in the treatment of sexual addiction and intimacy disorders, will develop special trauma-informed programming for women at two residential addiction treatment centers: Malibu Vista in Malibu, Calif., and The Sundance Center in Scottsdale, Ariz. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) February 18, 2015 \u2013 Stefanie Carnes, PhD, LCSW, a noted therapist, author and expert in the treatment of addiction and intimacy disorders, is joining two of the Promises Behavioral Health\u00ae programs as a clinical consultant. Dr. Carnes is a certified sex addiction therapist and supervisor specializing in the treatment of couples and families struggling with sexual addiction. Dr. Carnes has more than two decades of experience in addiction treatment, including managing and directing drug rehabilitation centers and providing training at the advanced professional level. She is currently president of the International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals and a frequent speaker at professional conferences nationwide. \u201cWe\u2019re proud to have someone of Dr. Carnes\u2019 caliber joining our family of treatment centers and expanding our programming for women and families,\u201d says Keith Arnold, senior vice president of clinical outreach, marketing and strategic development for Promises Behavioral Health. \u201cShe has the ideal blend of expertise in sexual addiction, intimacy disorders and trauma needed to develop programming relevant to women and families struggling with addictions and mental health issues.\u201d Dr. Carnes\u2019 new role will include expanding residential treatment services for women at two Promises Behavioral Health owned facilities: Malibu Vista in Malibu, Calif., and The Sundance Center in Scottsdale, Ariz. Dr. Carnes will set up groundbreaking \u201cpartners programs,\u201d offering intensive couples therapy and residential treatment for partners of sex addicts struggling with issues of betrayal, grief and loss. \u201cThis programming will be one of very few resources in the U.S. for partners of sex addicts, and there\u2019s a tremendous need for it,\u201d says Dr. Carnes. \u201cWe know that 70 percent of partners of sex addicts have acute stress disorders, including PTSD, and that they need higher levels of support than is usually available in residential treatment.\u201d Dr. Carnes is also going to be expanding programming to include treatment for co-occurring sexual addiction, love addiction and intimacy issues. The programs will provide intensive couples therapy, and will extend treatment services to include children and other family members, when warranted. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be developing these programs for Promises Behavioral Health,\u201d says Dr. Carnes. \u201cI\u2019m hoping to be able to build on the already strong base of sex addiction and intimacy programs developed by Rob Weiss, who is one of the nation\u2019s foremost experts on sex and intimacy disorders as well as technology addiction.\u201d Dr. Carnes has written extensively on sexuality, intimacy disorders and addiction. Her books include Mending a Shattered Heart: A Guide for Partners of Sex Addicts; Facing Addiction: Starting Recovery from Alcohol and Drugs; and Facing Heartbreak: Steps to Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts. In taking on this new role, Dr. Carnes joins a clinical team of thought leaders that includes sexual addiction expert, psychotherapist and mating\/tech\/relationship author Robert Weiss, LCSW, CSAT-S; renowned\u00a0nutrition scientist and\u00a0expert in integrative medicine Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP; and psychologist, distinguished trauma specialist and author Christine Courtois, PhD, ABPP. About the Malibu VistaSM Mental Health Center The Malibu VistaSM mental health center is an exclusive residential treatment center for women suffering from trauma, depression, anxiety, personality disorders and other psychiatric issues. Situated in two private, boutique-style residences with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean, Malibu Vista supports women\u2019s recovery in a way that embraces their specific physical, mental, relational and spiritual needs. To learn more about us, call (866) 285-9441 or visit www.malibuvista.com. About The Sundance Center The Sundance Center is a Joint Commission-accredited residential addiction treatment center in Arizona that offers innovative therapies such as a nutritional program from a naturopathic doctor and equine therapy as well as world-class amenities including onsite massages and a gourmet chef. Our multidisciplinary team treats the whole person, using personalized treatment approaches that heal the body, mind and spirit from addiction and its root causes. To learn more about us, call (855) 893-5987 or visit www.sundancecenter.com. The Malibu Vista mental health treatment center and The Sundance Center are members of the Promises Behavioral Health\u00ae family of behavioral health programs located throughout the U.S. Promises Behavioral Health offers comprehensive, innovative treatment for substance abuse, sexual addiction, trauma, eating disorders and other mental health disorders. 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The boys are back in town. The Childs boys, that is. And if you don't know who they are, don't worry, you probably will soon.
Jeremy, Josh and Jai Childs are natives of Colorado Springs and graduates of Sierra High School, and this week they're at the Fine Arts Center performing James McLure's play Lone Star after a stint in Nashville and parts east. And given that McLure's one-act play is about two brothers -- one recently returned to small-town Texas from fighting in Vietnam and the one who stayed behind -- there is a natural symmetry to the brothers' performance.
Set on a summer's evening outside a bar with a few old tires, a beat-up old car bench, and a case of Lone Star beer, the play belongs to the oldest Childs' brother, Jeremy. He plays Roy, a short-tempered vet who spends every evening outside Angel's bar trying to re-create his prewar past. He's clearly an accomplished actor, and he moves back and forth between big bully swagger and nostalgic stupor with grace. Playing opposite his real and fictional brother Ray (Jai Childs), he dominates the stage in more ways than one.
Jai Childs, meanwhile, plays younger brother Ray, who is trying to keep his older brother company while making sure to steer clear of his wrath. Ray provides most of the comic relief of the play, and the scene where he refuses to go along with playing the "gook" as Roy re-creates the steamy Southeast Asian jungle demonstrates outstanding comic timing. In general, Jai Childs doesn't quite have the stamina to maintain the character at full bore for the whole production, but his relative lack of experience probably won't be a problem for long.
The third (and middle) brother, Josh, has a much smaller part than the other two Childs boys. He plays Cletis, a childhood friend and acquaintance of Roy and Ray who now runs an appliance store with his father.
In contrast to the rough-and-tumble brothers, Cletis shows up in polished penny loafers and a button-down shirt. Stepping in as the straight man in the dramatic triangle, Cletis tries to stand up to Roy's bullying, but his inner weakness begins to shine out from behind the polish, and the part is played perfectly with a kind of slightly-turned-shoulder-and-neck twist that instantly conveys his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of physical intimidation.
For all that the Childs brothers achieve as an acting team, though, Lone Star falls short of great theater. While attempting to portray the various hurts of a man who, as they saying goes, can't go home again, author James McLure has either taken on too much, or just not quite enough to fully satisfy. To begin with, Roy's character trajectory (from drunk to drunker) doesn't bring the viewer any closer to his core. Furthermore, while the long disquisitions about sex, cars and small-town hijinks are amusing and slightly revealing, McLure expects these ramblings to carry too much freight without giving the characters (especially Roy) enough specificity beyond the caricature of small-town Texas playboys.
Adding to the somewhat saccharine aftertaste of the play is its "look at those stars" kind of pap ending that's just too tidy. For all the bad things that have happened to Roy, the audience hasn't been taken sufficiently deep to carry a sentimental, pseudo-metaphysical ending.
All in all, McLure's play just doesn't give the Childs the material necessary to use their considerable talents. And with Jeremy's presence, Josh's physicality and Jai's comic timing, there's a lot of them there. Now they just need to find some less conventional, more tightly structured material to showcase their acting abilities, and Colorado Springs will be the better for their homecoming.
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K-pop contest held in Azerbaijan
Baku, Azerbaijan, May 22
On May 20, the K-pop contest in Azerbaijan, the regional preliminary of the K-pop World Festival 2014 organized by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea, was held in Baku State University.
In the K-pop contest, fourteen contestants competed on the stage in front of the room full of the audience in the auditorium of the Baku State University, the embassy told Trend on May 22.
The winner of the contest won the Samsung Galaxy Tab and has a chance to visit Korea for K-pop World Festival 2014 in October after the internet poll and professional screening.
Through music, the K-pop contest provided a good opportunity for the Korean and Azerbaijani people to understand each other even further.
Azerbaijani PM appeals to population due to sharp increase in number of cases of coronavirus infection


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The inimitable Tallis Steelyard introduces a new volume of The Port Naain Intelligencer… a tortuous tale of passion, intrigue and murder on the streets of his city in which he and Benor became embroiled.
In Port Naain, Jim Webster has created a detailed and lively world and an even livelier underworld, seen largely through the eyes of those who walk between the two… Benor Dorfinngil, roofrunner and cartographer, and Tallis Steelyard, poet.
It is difficult to call Jim's books fantasy as their landscape draws you immediately into its reality. They are not 'humour'…though they are amusing, largely through the characterisation of the players and the author's dry wit. Nor do they slot neatly into any other genre, but blur the borders between. Which is probably why I enjoy them so much.
In this tale, Benor encounters a young bride who falls at his feet. Her husband is missing and it falls to Benor, with Tallis and his redoubtable wife Sheena the Mud-jobber, to solve the mystery of the missing bridegroom. It is Sheena the young bride is seeking… she is, amongst other things, a collector of corpses.
But what seems to be a simple case of a misplaced groom becomes a mystery with plot and counterplot… Being a Woman in Love is never straightforward…
Jim's use of language and detailed observation of the workings of the… frailer side of humanity are a delight. Port Naain, its environs and its inhabitants, though, are the real stars of these books. A superbly crafted world, described with the casual touch of someone whose imagination walks their streets. If you haven't read them yet… do. You won't be disappointed.
Woman in Love
by Jim Webster
Now I suppose I ought to confess that I've been banned from doing book reviews. I suppose it was inevitable really, at least after the sad incident with Selpan Tillop and the prayer wheel. (Although in my own defence I could point out that my review was indeed remarkably mild, given I'd wasted fifteen minutes of my life trying to read the book! That's fifteen minutes I'll never get back.)
But still, back to the main point of my comments. It appears that the next unseemly catalogue of young Benor's exploits is to be published. Doubtless deep in his cups he has been coaxed or cozened into gossiping.
Still I have read the story. I cannot say I entirely approve. It goes on for page after page of prose, enlivened only by one small piece of verse, and even that is something I extemporised on the spot. On the other hand I suppose I should be modestly pleased that my words struck home and were remembered accurately after so many years.
But what I'd really like to point out is that this Webster chap who writes this stuff misses out so much. Where is the mention of the Anaphora controversy which racked the poetaster community during the period this story was set?
Similarly there was a bitter argument about Consonance and its place in modern poetry. I remember it well because it was my cynical use of enjambement to highlight the facile nature of the opposition that won the day.
And yet I suppose one must accept that not everybody remembers these days when the glory of Port Naain was its nest of young poets. Now you could search the city from one end to another and not find anyone who even understands the concept of Metaphysical conceit. We live in sad times and at least this story casts a light on the days of our greatness.
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Hello, Jim Webster here.
It's always nice when I do occasionally get a chance to get a word in. A little bit about myself? I'm a farmer, writer, freelance journalist, live in South Cumbria and have a wife and three daughters.
Some time ago I took Benor, who was the hero of two of my fantasy novels, and wrote six novellas about his exploits. Each is a stand along 'detective' story, and they can be read in any order, they're a collection rather than a series.
So far people seem to have enjoyed them and the fourth one is out on the first of July.
A flavour of the story (and just for Tallis, a little poetry of sorts):
Tallis commented, "Bald as an egg? There used to be a fashion amongst young men about town for shaving your head entirely. About ten years back. Some people got their heads tattooed as well but I thought it had faded away." He smiled and then declaimed quietly;
"As bald as an egg
Was Philinious Begg
Both his suit and his mistress were brash
Some would not quail
To tell you his tale
But I'm a poet, not a sweeper of trash."
Benor stood up, "A friend of yours?"
Benor was intrigued, "A fellow artist then?"
Tallis shook his head. "Alas no, he was a librettist, a composer of romantic ballads whose words are sung by drunken stevedores to their lady loves. Purveyors of sheet music fawn upon him and compete to shower him with gold."
Benor nodded, he was beginning to understand the ways of the literary fraternity.


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Unlike von Lejowski's family, Germans expelled by the Red Army in 1945, Jerry Lindenstraus left East Prussia because his family was Jewish. The Lindenstraus family had owned the second-largest department store in Gumbinnen since 1883. In 1933, they were forced to sell their assets at a fraction of their value and moved to Danzig (Gdansk). After his parents' divorce, he went to live with his father in Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). In that easternmost city in the German Reich, once renowned as an intellectual hub and the home of the German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, he witnessed the Kristallnacht in November 1938. That night, the Jewish school that Jerry attended was burned to the ground, along with two of the city's synagogues.
His mother fled to Colombia that year, where she found her footing relatively quickly. Jerry's father tried in vain to secure a visa until 1939, when he bought tickets on the Scharnhorst, a German luxury liner, on its last civilian voyage before being converted into a troop ship. The destination was Shanghai, the last refuge for over 20,000 German and Austrian Jews who were able to enter the city without a visa, but became trapped there as stateless refugees in the most precarious economic and social position.
"As a 10-year-old boy, I had fun on the ship," Jerry told the audience at the Neue Synagoge. "We traveled first class, and my father had to pay for a round trip even though we obviously did not return."
Life was difficult for the refugees in Shanghai, however, and Jerry's father died of tuberculosis shortly after his arrival. After eight years in Shanghai's Jewish ghetto, Hongkew, Lindenstraus joined his mother in Colombia; they had not seen one another in 10 years.
In addition to the audience at the Neue Synagoge, Jerry Lindenstraus shared his story in a video interview that will be archived at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. It will become one of 150 first-hand testimonials that will be available in the Visitors Center at the memorial near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
He also found time to explore Berlin's nightlife. Through his 20 years as a volunteer for Leo Baeck Institute, he has a wide network of former LBI interns, scholars, and employees who live in Germany. One former intern, Anke Kalkbrenner, took him to the storied Clärchens Ballhaus, a century-old venue for social dancing in Berlin Mitte. Lindenstraus said that the scholars at the Memorial Foundation who direct the oral history video archive were suitably impressed. "Daniel [Baranowski], who conducted the interview, told me he'd done 17 interviews with survivors, but I was the first one who ever went out dancing afterward."
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Dr. Brown served for over 22 years in the U.S. Navy and has more than 20 years of experience as systems engineer, educator, consultant, and technical manager. A graduate of the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School and the Naval War College, he also holds DAWIA certifications in Program Management, Systems Engineering, and Test and Evaluation. He also has experience in model building for Bayesian and neural networks, developing computer models generated from data sets, and programming. An experienced consultant, he has successfully completed projects for Office of Naval Research, the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, Internal Revenue Service, Department of Health and Human Services, Intelligence Advanced Research Project Agency (IARPA), NASA, and multiple U.S. intelligence agencies. He helped facilitate and write a Systems Engineering Policy Instruction for NASA and has also been a consultant in formulation of the acquisition plans for the Constellation Program. He has completed a number of business process modeling and reengineering projects to improve efficiency at the IRS. Selected to an elite group, Scientists Helping America, to assist with bringing technology to bear in the new war on terrorism after the 9/11 attacks, he received an ONR grant to demonstrate a shared control concept for unmanned vehicles. He has received recognition for contributions to the field of systems engineering with an individual award from the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics and a Team Award from the Chief Engineer of NASA. He is currently the Principal Investigator and project lead for an IARPA sponsored research project on detection of insider threats.
Ph.D., Information Technology, George Mason University, 2004
M.S., Aeronautical Engineering, US Naval Postgraduate School, 1985
B.S., Systems Engineering, US Naval Academy, 1978
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Brown, David, Rapid, Low Cost Modeling and Simulation: Integrating Bayesian Networks and Neural Networks as an Alternative to an Equation-Based Approach, VDM Verlag Dr Muller Aktiengesellschaft & Co, Saarbruken, Germany, 2008.
Brown, D and Mohler, R, "Artificial Intelligence for Constructing Accurate, Low-Cost Models and Simulation" presented and published in the proceedings of the 2005 I/ITSEC Conference. Winner of the 2006 Northrop Grumman Best Technical Paper in the Military category.
Brown, David and McVay, Tammi, "Weblog Technology for Program Management" Defense AT&L Magazine, Mar-Apr 2005.
Brown, D., "Building Communities of Practice", Program Manager Magazine, Nov-Dec 2002.
Brown, Cmdr David P., "Enterprise Architecture for DoD Acquisition", Acquisition Quarterly Review, Spring 2000.
Brown, Cmdr Dave, "Building a Better Mousetrap", Program Manager, Mar-Apr, 2000.
Brown, Cmdr David P., "Simulation Based Acquisition-Can It Live Up to Its Promises?" Program Manager, Jan-Feb 1999
"Enterprise Architecture for DoD Acquisition", Acquisition Review Quarterly, Spring 2000.
"Simulation Based Acquisition – Can It Live Up to Its Promises?" Program Manager Magazine, Jan-Feb 1999.


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Kim Kardashian is slowly but surely coming back to her lifestyle before the robbery. Though she still keeps it low-key, such as her almost unseen attendance to her husband Kanye West's concert.The social media star was seen at the rapper's concert at the Forum in Los Angeles last Tuesday.
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She was photographed on the back of a golf cart backstage with her husband West. The couple was dressed very similarly, wearing all black. A camera crew recording them was also seen.
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Other family members also attended the event: Kris Jenner, Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner.
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Developing a conventional deterrent capability would also contribute directly to burden- sharing with the US in a much more unpredictable and contested Indo-Pacific region.Story here.
Deterrence seeks to prevent an adversary from acting in ways inimical to a nation's interests, by making the cost unacceptably high to the adversary.
Given the nature of the emerging security outlook, that requirement implies long-range power projection and strike capabilities for the ADF which it lacks in planned force structure, at least in the short term.
The future submarines certainly will do long-range deterrence tasks, but won't arrive until the early 2030s, and Australia won't have a credible force of future submarines until the mid-2040s. The future frigates won't start appearing until the late 2020s, and they'll face much more potent anti-ship threats at that point. In particular, Chinese anti-access and area denial is steadily pushing out further into the western Pacific, making shorter range platforms and weapons less credible as options.
The air force is already investigating Kongsberg's Joint Strike Missile for internal carriage on the F-35, but that has only a 280-kilometre range. The F-35, along with the F/A-18F Super Hornet, could also carry the Lockheed Martin long-range anti-ship missile (LRASM) which has a dual-role anti-ship and land attack capability and offers a substantial 926km range.
All air-delivered options are constrained by the range of the launching platform. The F-35 depends either on forward basing in host nations (which may not be available in a crisis) or forward tanker support for undertaking long-range strike, even with standoff weapons such as LRASM. China's counter-air doctrine targets combat enabler platforms like Wedgetail and airborne refuellers, making getting within range of vital targets difficult for even a stealthy but short-range F-35.
A better option may lie with naval-based land-attack cruise missiles for the Hobart-class AWDs and potentially the Collins-class submarines. This option should be designed for minimal cost and risk through acquiring weapons via US foreign military sales (FMS) with the weapon of choice being mature and preferably in operational service.
The obvious candidate would have to be the 1852km range Tomahawk land-attack missile (TLAM), which is due to remain in the US inventory through to the 2040s, and is being upgraded to Block IV status, which will offer more flexibility in targeting, and a long-range anti-ship capability.
They make a compelling case for both missiles but I have one question.
What is Australia trying to do and how do they view their force/military posture?
Do they see themselves as being tied at the hip to the US? If so then acquiring complementary capabilities is a no brainer. Do they view themselves as first and foremost a defense force to ensure Australian sovereignty? If so then they're building a weird force to accomplish that mission.
I can't make a reasoned determination about how they're doing till I know what they're trying to accomplish.
The disturbing thing?
I don't think they really know. I sense but can't prove that they're trying to take a fuzzy middle road that will leave both options unfulfilled.


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As part of my Autumn Bucket list (remember that? I wouldn't blame you if you didn't – I barely remember it myself) I had resolved to have a proper go at some Christian fiction alongside other reading duties. I have felt in the past that I have not really given Christian fiction the attention it deserves sometimes. This is partly due to some "mixed results" in this type of fiction that I read as a youngster. Most of it was either of the "Don't Get Left Behind!" genre with various stories of planes crashing, people's foreheads being branded with 666 and every single Christian in the world finding that, in fact they were never a Christian, because their wife/husband had been taken and they hadn't, also that their pastor/vicar was not a Christian either because when they ran to the church for support, the pastor would always be sat in the front row looking particulalrly sheepish. The other equally disapointing genre was "Christian romance" where no-one was ever troubled by lust and any problems (usually revolving around being unequally yolked, partners who were unsuitable and worrying about whether the romance would last the always "long hot summer") would alsways be solved by a kindly, wise vicar who watched the couple from afar in a wise kindly and in no way slightly stalky way. (Only, presumably to be very disappointed by finding himself alone on the front row after the rapture) I was brought up in a household where Aged Parent felt that Christian fiction of any sort was both pointless and possibly a "bad influence" (You have the BIble and real lfe stories – what do you need fiction for?) She was not alone in this viewpoint. She has made recent exceptions for Christian Fiction set in places such as the Twin Towers, a Tsunami and a hostage situation. It's a wonder I ever read anything. Anyway – digression!
This week I have read "The Gardener's Daughter" by KA Hitchens and it is a chicken of an entirely different feather. I am not sure if it is aimed at me – it may be for the Young Adult market but I am only saying this because the heroine is a young person. Not twelve or anything – but a nineteen year old young woman. It is also not "in your face" Christian. Someone without a faith background may not spot it at all but there are recurring themes of love, loyalty and goodness and a Father who tends a Garden lovingly – so I think we know what is going on. Having been brought up by her father after the death of her mother, a chance discovery brings her whole world crashing down and she runs away from home – not realising that there are darker forces at work and she is in danger. I can't really say much more without giving the game away. It is a bit of a stormer this and it certainly gallops along. It is, to use the apt phrase, a page turner. Ava – the heroine – is not completely sympathetic and that is a good thing I think – sometimes main Christian characters are too saintly to empathise with. I felt for her but sometimes thought that she brought some disasters onto herself. There is a moment where she was hiding some cash and I was yelling – don't do that!! And dear reader, I was right. (Sorry bit vague – trying to avoid spoilers) But she is brave and determined, her relationship with a young private detective is funny and sweet and the world she plunges herself into – in a seedy holiday camp – is very well realised. I enjoyed it a lot.


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CHICAGO, Ill. – Day two of the University of Chicago Phoenix Fall Classic was in session on Saturday, which features several strong swims from the Illinois Tech women's swimming and diving team. After two days of competition, the Scarlet Hawks sit in sixth place with 200 points.
- Chicago (888)
- Lewis (511)
- Hillsdale (347)
- Valparaiso (336)
- Carthage (257)
- Illinois Tech (200)
- Hope (191)
- Lincoln (188)
- Wheaton (134)
- North Central (72)
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- Setting a school record in the 200 Yard Butterfly was Megan Burrill, as the freshman finished sixth overall with a 1:50.20 time.
- Burrill was also part of Tech's 200 Yard Medley relay, as she combined with Jamie Wurster, Christian Hiotaky, and Kiara Jasunas to place 15th (1:56.87). In addition, she placed 27th (2:19.34) in the 200 Yard Individual Medley.
- After a great 1650 Yard Freestyle swim on Friday, Claudia Flores-Berumen had a season-best time in the 500 Yard Freestyle with a time of 5:29.48 (15th place). Katherine Lydon finished with a season-best time as well and placed 11th (5:17.16).
- In the 100 Yard Freestyle, Jasunas (55.46s, 21st place) and Wurster (56.81s, 26th place).
- Burrill, Kristin Wills, Jasunas, and Lydon all combined to finish in ninth in the 800 Yard Freestyle relay at 8:18.01.
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