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The Chelyabinsk meteor might have brothers and sisters out there.
The Chelyabinsk meteor might have brothers and sisters out there.
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ohh someone uploaded my favorite episode finally
I love the soundtrack for this show. It's like a mix of Signs and Super Metroid haha
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I actually watched that one earlier last week. For some reason I didn't like the narration of it, but it did introduce me to some neat stuff that I recalled learning about as a kid. Pulsar galaxies are my favorite. Mianly because it's like this slow and endering torture for planets themselves. It's amazing!
It surprisingly seems like something that would show up on BBC through, minus the britishness.
Did you guys see the documentary by stephen hawkings about the creation of the universe? It seemed pretty detailed the last time I caught it.
Music from the Depth of Space.
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I love this thread already! lol but i don't know what people will talk about here?
When I was young (elementary), I loved astronomy so much, my ambition is to be an astronaut lol, but now I will be satisfied if I get a high grade telescope just to study stars/space again or take photographs.
(I just realized that now I can buy one! yey, thanks for this thread for reminding me that :D )
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Grasshopper is too cool. O,o I love the divert test they did a while back. Gonna look totally crazy when they start flying it around at super sonic speed. :)
This photo taken during the summer by Cassini was released today (full size here):Spoiler:
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Cassini's Saturn images are just amazing. Here's an annotated version of the image: http://i.imgur.com/RYURAVN.jpg
We really need to send more probes to the outer planets; they've been woefully ignored.
While we're posting images...
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I like how Pluto is still included in everything despite being demoted. It makes for a good marker of the kuiper belt I guess
Did that one probe ever reach Pluto and charon for pictures yet btw? I think we were gonna get some close up pix of what makes Pluto so pink
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A lot of people genuinely dislike Pluto's demotion so I'm not surprised it's in there.
New Horizons won't make its closest approach to Pluto until July 2015 so the first, extremely tiny pictures won't start coming in until late April of that year. It's a just a flyby though so it'll get some really nice images but nothing from orbit.
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Edit: Does anybody know when the Messenger satellite goes into orbit around Mercury?
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So... Something happened to C/2012 S1, looks like it broke up near perihelion. Some fragments may have survived. :( So sad, I was looking forward to seeing it.
People really aren't sure what happened to ISON.
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Cassini captures a new awesome view of the hexagon storm.
Link to NASAs photojournal
An Atlas-5 rocket carried an imaging satellite called USA-247 into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office a couple of days ago.
Here's the mission patch for it:
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Sweet! Tony stays, as Vince at the SR.com has the news. Like many of you thought, the job just isn't done here. I can't wait until his press conference tomorrow or Tuesday and we can hear about the future, and Tony WILL be part of it!
Interesting that he did talk to IU after all (and not a shocker). This is a great day for Cougars everywhere!

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Finishing in the top 10 in a national competition category is nothing new for Alfred State's Andrea Koston.
Last year, the 2017 culinary arts: baking, production and management graduate from Rochester earned a fifth-place spot in the commercial baking category in the 52nd annual National SkillsUSA Championship. This year, Koston fared even better against the competition, taking home a silver medal in commercial baking in the 53rd annual event, which took place in Louisville, KY.
Alfred State Culinary Arts Instructor Brian Decker, who served as an adviser to the students during the trip to Kentucky, along with Automotive Trades Instructor Bradley Smith, said, "Andrea mentioned to me several times that her current employer, where Andrea has baking responsibilities, was very willing to let her practice prior to the competition while on the job. She indicated that they were very supportive and encouraging, which truly speaks to Andrea's strengths and character. I am very proud of Andrea for her silver medal win, as well as all of our students who competed in this year's SkillsUSA Nationals."
More than 6,000 students compete in 100 occupational and leadership skill areas at the SkillsUSA championships, according to the SkillsUSA website. The site further adds that these competitions establish industry standards for entry-level workers in many fields.
Having recently earned her two-year degree, Koston will continue her education at Alfred State in the fall in the college's four-year technology management program. Also representing Alfred State at the national championship were Jacob Knapp, autobody repair, Dansville; Nicholas Most, building trades: building construction, Endicott; Brenton Yager, masonry, Falconer; Mike Burdick, automotive service technician, Webster; and Cole Smith, electrical construction and maintenance electrician, Collins.


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Not to long ago I caught up with Nick Koumbarakis with academic training in Quantity Surveying and Construction Management from my alma mater at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) to ask him to share his career and life lessons. I wondered why someone, who for all intents and purposes, could have become a successful professional in his field of expertise would explore an equally valid vocational path as a mixologist. As a bartender at House of Machines and blogger for The Alchemist Says, Nick brings together the power of personal passion, entrepreneurial vision, and artisanal expression to craft his own future marked by gratitude, integrity and striving for excellence. I hope you enjoy this guest article!
Find your passion and never let it go
I have to constantly remind myself how grateful I truly am to greet each new day with purpose, that in spite of hardships, "my journey" has only just begun. I feel that there are certain traits that separate the people that will leave a legacy in life that will echo for eternity. Of those traits: passion, commitment and integrity are the most important ones. You cannot be taught. Passion is something that cannot be learnt, it is something that you live and breathe, something you are committed too. What are you willing to sacrifice to be the very best at what you do? How far will you go? How passionate and committed are you about your craft?
You are your best brand ambassador
How did this whole journey start? People often talk about leaving a "legacy" and having that engraved at a young age, almost predestined, though was it the path I ultimately wanted to follow? We all do it differently, in every journey there are bound to be adversities even sacrifices that life will present you with that you will ultimately have to overcome. I am no different. When I accepted my life mission to be the best bartender I could be, it definitely brought me to a crossroads in my life, a period of uncertainty, where I was not only questioned by those closest to me, I even began questioning myself, even doubting my abilities. Do I continue on the path less travelled, constantly forging and creating my own legacy!? It was a constant struggle having to contend with the perception of being "undervalued". I wanted to live a life knowing I did not conform to the status quo, that I gave it my all, that I was truly fulfilled, that I lived a life free of regret. Yet I needed a sign …
Remain open to life's affirmations
I know this may sound hagiographic, but as "planned happenstance" would have it, it was during this period that I met an elderly man at an event with whom I had no prior encounters. I knew what he stood for and I respected that. He told me "You are involved in some form of the arts, where you will influence and be the voice for many, I can see it within you, you are destined for something more, something brave, something great, you are on the right path". He then walked off; it was the last I have ever heard or seen of him. It was in that moment that I knew it was my destiny to become a bartender, a bartender for life. However, the one person I admired above all, who instilled the very values directing my life, strongly disagreed with my career choice. I felt as if I had let him down. A sense of disappointment. I know he only had my best interests at heart, he still does.
Excellence is borne from perseverance
I wanted to prove to those that doubted me, who thought I would never succeed in life by just being a "bartender". I was galvanised by this. I was determined. I wanted to showcase my abilities and creative voice on a larger platform in South Africa to test my mettle against the world's best. I knew I had the ability and the confidence, though it seemed no one gave me the opportunity.
Several years later the opportunity presented itself which allowed me to showcase my brand at the Bacardi Legacy Global Finals and also to express my personal journey as a South African bartender through a drink I created called THE TOURIST. I wanted it more, more than any other competitor. It was something that I lived for, every second every day for 3 months. It was the beginning of many things to come including representing South Africa at the Diageo Reserve World Class Bartender 2013 Contest. It not only changed the perceptions of consumers and those closest to me, it also changed my life for the better, and even though it might seem minor to many who ask, it has changed my life in ways that it is definitely worth fighting for.
My name is Nick Koumbarakis, and I am a bartender …
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04-01-2003 – Bilks long career has seen many milestones; the first recording to simultaneously top both the UK and US charts with the 1960 hit Strangers on the Shore, a collection of gold and platinum discs for record sales and the MBE he received in 2001 for services to music. 50 years at the top of the profession have not dimmed Bilks enthusiasm for live performance and his willingness to try new products reflects the dedication he still has for finding that perfect sound. During preparations for the 2003 UK tour, Bilks tour manager and front of house engineer for the past 30 years, Les Squires, called Audio-Technica to see if he could put a couple of microphones which had been recommended to him through their paces. Every time A-T put a microphone in front of me I found it to be better than what we had been using, which is why we have finished up having a channel list which is packed with Audio-Technica. That channel list is made up of 2*AE5400, 2*AE4100, 3*A4033ASM, 1* ATM23HE, 1*ATM25, 2 ATM35 and an AT wireless system. Squires continues, I really like the fact that Audio-Technicas have such a wide range of mics. I have mixed and matched manufacturers before, but there is something quite neat about having all the microphones from a single source. It also helps that Audio-Technica, and in particular, Paul Mason, have been very easy to work with and have paid special attention to matching exactly the right products to each part of the bands sound. The mics are proving to be excellent and have what I would call a signature Audio-Technica sound; warm, but detailed, which is just perfect for jazz. Full details of Acker Bilks 2003 UK tour can be found on the website at www.ackersmusicagency.co.uk


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The Top Benefits of Cosmetic Medicine in Decatur, IL
Medical cosmetic solutions have been around for hundreds of years, helping individuals to improve their appearance and increase their self confidence in the process. Cosmetic medicine has come a long way since then, now offering safer and more effective treatments.
If you are considering choosing a treatment or treatments for yourself to help improve your appearance, you are not alone. Choosing cosmetic surgery or treatments is safest and most reliable way to help you achieve the results you're looking for. To learn more about why you should choose medical cosmetic treatments, here are the top benefits of cosmetic medicine in Decatur, IL.
Increase Confidence
One of the most popular reasons why individuals seek cosmetic medicine treatments is to enhance their physical appearance and improve their self-esteem. The self-esteem boost will help you wear the clothes and participate in the activities which you've always wanted to, but didn't feel comfortable doing due to some of your physical characteristics.
Enhance Mental Health
Some unwanted physical attributes can contribute to some individuals' societal anxiety and other mental health issues. Cosmetic medicine can help to improve mental health by improving confidence and eliminating major insecurities that can inhibit some individuals from achieving mental wellness.
More Opportunities
Some studies show that individuals who are more comfortable with their appearance enjoy more professional and personal opportunities. This is caused by improved confidence, which helps in social situations.
Improve Physical Health
Some cosmetic treatments can help improve your physical health as well. For example, body contouring and liposuction treatments help to encourage weight loss and cleaner eating, which can improve physical health. There are many treatments available that can help improve your health and looks. Contact us for more information.


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Some billions of years ago
In pools such as these
On the shores of a boiling sea
From the humblest beginnings
A miracle still
Such simple creatures
Would become the miracle, me
The Great Ocean Road
Near Portland
Victoria, Australia
Taken during travels, 1995
"Such simple creatures" were the first living things to engineer climate change on Earth, unleashing perhaps the planet's most catastrophic extinction event. They did it without massive industrialisation. Cyanobacteria converted sunlight to energy and oxygen, the latter of which killed off almost everything dependent on an atmosphere rich in carbon dioxide and other gases. From Wikipedia:
Cyanobacteria, which appeared about 200 million years before the GOE, began producing oxygen by photosynthesis. Before the GOE, any free oxygen they produced was chemically captured by dissolved iron or organic matter. The GOE was the point when these oxygen sinks became saturated and could not capture all of the oxygen that was produced by cyanobacterial photosynthesis. After the GOE, the excess free oxygen started to accumulate in the atmosphere.
Free oxygen is toxic to obligate anaerobic organisms, and the rising concentrations may have wiped out most of the Earth's anaerobic inhabitants at the time. Cyanobacteria were therefore responsible for one of the most significant extinction events in Earth's history. But research have shown that microbial mats of oxygen-producing microbes will produce a thin layer, one or two millimeters thick, of oxygenated water in an otherwise anoxic environment even under thick ice, and before oxygen started accumulating in the atmosphere, organisms living on these mats would already be adapted to being exposed to oxygen. Additionally, the free oxygen reacted with atmospheric methane, a greenhouse gas, greatly reducing its concentration and triggering the Huronian glaciation, possibly the longest snowball Earth episode in the Earth's history.
Eventually, aerobic organisms began to evolve, consuming oxygen and bringing about an equilibrium in its availability. Free oxygen has been an important constituent of the atmosphere ever since.
But here we are, billions of years later, simple organisms transforming the planet, creators of the next great extinction event.
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It can seem overwhelming sometimes – the obligations and commitments of Life.
We take them on one at a time, each one a seeming necessity in the pattern of living successfully in our communities and relationships. Some appear as investments in our success – school loans, car loans, health insurance. Some give us a sense of stability and connection – family, friends, partners. Each commitment and obligation serves to create a framework upon which our choices hang. These structures come to define us and the pattern of our lives…
Until we want something that doesn't fit. When a desire emerges that doesn't get satisfaction within the lifestyle created, then these commitments/obligations become more like prison walls than the structures to support success they were meant to be.
When a compelling urge towards fulfillment finds itself thwarted, the tendency is to blame. Blame the commitments. Blame the obligations. Blame the job we have to keep to make the payments. Blame the partner who expects us to keep agreements. Blame the parents. Blame world events. Blame. And the more we blame, the more powerless we feel to fulfill the powerful desire within.
There is another option.
No matter how constricting a circumstance seems; no matter how powerless we feel to change the momentum or direction our Life's decisions create, we still have choice. The choice to find a better feeling place within.
No matter what we want, the point of the fulfilling that desire is to feel good. No matter the form it takes. No matter the way it shapes our lifestyle. The true fulfillment of any desire is to feel happy.
Some would say walk away from anything that stops feeling good. Some would say keep agreements only if it feels good, and pursue only what feels good.
There is another option. Look inward. Own the feelings that spark the desire for something different. Claim responsibility for the attitudes that influence feeling happy. Awaken the ability to separate feelings from circumstances, and – in doing so – empower feelings to evolve independently.
When feelings are free to flow, they will naturally move towards happiness. Like a river to the sea. Like a cork bobbing to the surface. Like flowers growing towards the sun. Released from attachments to circumstance, feelings always flow towards feeling better. While it is true they may move through fear or anger or frustration to get there, given the freedom to flow feelings move magnetically towards relief.
Consider the possibilities. If we can let go the tendency to associate feelings to circumstance – let go of the requirement that the circumstance needs to change for the feeling to change – and ride the current, then we are forever free to reach for and find happy feelings no matter what the commitments and obligations we keep.
Power is Being, and the dance is Creation; flows through us a river to sea.
Ride the current on a raft of imagination. Feel the flow. Home.
Thank you. I love you.


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The Norfolk & Norwich Law Society recently held its annual dinner and excellence awards, which saw over 300 guests from the local legal community congregating at the Open venue in Norwich city centre.
Naomi Newell, a solicitor in our litigation department, was shortlisted for the 'Junior Lawyer of the Year' award alongside two other junior solicitors at other local firms Clapham & Collinge and Mills & Reeve. Naomi attended the dinner with Caroline Linsdell, training partner and commercial property specialist, and Jane Anderson, senior partner and family law specialist, along with Claire Roberts and Georgie Harrington, other junior lawyers in our private client and conveyancing teams.
We are delighted and proud to confirm that the Norfolk & Norwich Law Society board crowned Naomi as their Junior Lawyer of the Year.
Naomi was recognised by the board for her pro bono work in the local community throughout her undergraduate degree at the University of East Anglia, continuing onto her voluntary contribution to the Norfolk Community Law Service's general legal advice rota. Naomi also speaks at local high schools to promote the profession and higher education, volunteering her time outside work hours to mentor students interested in a legal career.
Congratulations Naomi!


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Australian Soybean Conference 2007
14th Australian Soybean Industry Conference
"Success with Soybean"
The 14th Australian Soybean Industry Conference was held in Bundaberg in March.
Conference proceedings can be downloaded by clicking on presenter names below.
Conference Presentations
Keynote Address: Mr Kim Cooper, Food Grade Soybean Manager, St. Clair Agri Services, Ontario, Canada
Soya foods – Global trends: Dr Vish Lakshminarayana, So Natural, Technical and Operations Manager
Introduction – Success with soybeans and sugarcane: Mr Neil Halpin, Senior Experimentalist, Queensland Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries
Soybeans in a sugarcane farming system: Dr Alan Garside, Research Leader, Sugar Yield Decline Joint Venture
How soybeans are successful in my cane farming system: Mr Elton Petersen, Farmer, Maryborough
How soybeans are successful in my cane farming system: Mr Bruce Peterson, Farmer, Childers
Soybean IPM workshops: Women in Sugar
Breakfast address: Mr Robert Green, President Australian Oilseeds Federation
Introduction – Success in expanding the industry: Dr Susan Knights, Australian Oilseeds Federation – Agronomic Support for Soybeans, SE Knights Consulting
Developing a Soybean Industry in the Northern Territory: Mr Vernon Nicholle, Energy Crops Australia
Success with Biotechnology: Stewart Addison, Associate Fellow, Monsanto Australia Limited
Soybean biotechnology and end user targets: Professor Peter Gresshof, Director, ARC Centre of Excellence, Integrative Legume Research, University of Queensland
Developing strategies for genetically modified and non-genetically modified crops in Queensland: Mr Peter Cronin, Principle Research Scientist, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Sense and Sensibility – the truth about soy and cancer: Dr Leigh Ward, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, University of Queensland, Dr Barbara J Meyer, University of Wollongong & Ms Katie Battersby, University of Queensland
New directions in the Australian soybean breeding program: Dr Andrew James Plant Breeder, CSIRO Plant Industries
Improving soybean varieties for coastal farming systems: Dr Natalie Moore, Research Agronomist, New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Soybean industry development in north Queensland: Export and value chain initiatives to SE Asia, Mr Stephen Sinclair, Senior Trade & Business Officer, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
Purple seed stain and other emerging diseases: Dr Malcolm Ryley, Principle Plant Pathologist, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries
The potential for nematode problems in the developing soybean breeding program: Dr Graham Stirling, Biological Crop Protection
Coastal soybean IPM and beyond: Mr Hugh Brier, Pulse Entomologist, Queensland Department of Primary Industry and Fisheries
Coastal soybean IPM and beyond: Geoff and Maureen McCarthy, ISIS district farmers
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in Idaho Fall Sick Due to Illegal Pesticide Spraying
(Beyond Pesticides, August 22, 2005) The Department of Agriculture issued notices of violation to three companies and one pilot for violating state pesticide law. The law states that a certain amount of time must pass before farmworkers enter a field after it has been sprayed. Arroway Farms, along with Valley Air Service, are being held accountable for not leaving substantial time between pesticide spraying and the start of the workday. Their neglect for the law resulted in the falling ill of 29 farmworkers as a result of pesticide exposure.
On July 6th Fred Amen, a crop duster pilot for Valley Air Service, applied a tank of three mixed pesticides, Mustang Max, Dithane DF, and Lannate LV, to an onion field owned by Arroway Farms. The spraying took place between midnight and 1:30 a.m., only 4 and a half hours before workers were scheduled to begin their day in the field. The law states that 12 hours must pass before workers can re-enter a field that was sprayed with Mustang Max (active ingredient: Cypermethrin Zeta). Dithane DF (active ingredient: Mancozeb) and Lannate LV (active ingredient: methomyl) have even longer waiting periods of 24 hours and 48 hours respectively.
The workers who showed up that day began to feel ill immediately. One worker, a 14-year-old boy named Miguel, recalled, "Everybody around me was getting sick, and it was really scary." Miguel, along with his mother and 18-year-old sister, has felt numbness, nausea, headache, and fatigue since the day of the exposure.
The active ingredients in all three of the pesticides used have been identified as a "bad actor chemical" by Pesticide Action Network (PAN). Cypermethrin Zeta, a synthetic pyrethroid, is a possible carcinogen, a suspected endocrine disruptor, and has an acute toxicity rating of 1 (on a scale of 1 to 4, 1 being the most toxic 4 being the least). Mancozeb is a carcinogen, a suspected endocrine disruptor, and a developmental and reproductive toxin. Methomyl, is a suspected endocrine disruptor, a potential groundwater contaminant, and has an acute toxicity level of 1.
Arroway Farms faces
up to $9,000 in fines due to failure to train employees on workers rights
and failure to provide and maintain sufficient safety information at
central locations on the farm. Valley Air Service, Inc., along with
the pilot and the Marsing Agricultural Labor Sponsoring Committee, are
being charged with violations of the Worker
Protection Standard and pesticide labels. They are also facing fines
as much as $9,000.
TAKE ACTION: Support farmworker's health and rights by buying organic and fair trade products whenever possible.


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Why is the present moment called "the digital age"? What does it mean to have digital electronics, as opposed to analog? What's so useful about digital?
In present-day electronics, the bulk of the calculations and computing are done on digital circuits, hence the "digital age" moniker. To get into what this means, we have to take a look back at the early development of calculating machines that used electronic signals. There are lots of components you can use in an electronic circuit, and with some basic resistors and capacitors you can start to build circuits that add one voltage to another, or perform other simple mathematical calculations. Early electronic calculators were made to mimic physical calculators and controllers that operated using gears or other mechanisms, such as the Antikythera mechanism, astrolabes, or even slide rules. Most physical calculators are analog, meaning that they apply an operation, like addition, to a set of numbers that can be anywhere along a continuous spectrum. Adding 3 to 6 and getting 9 is an analog operation. But it turns out that analog electronics have a reliability problem: any variation in the output, which could be due to changes in the circuit's environment, degradation in the circuit components, or leaking of current out of the circuit, will be indistinguishable from the actual signal. So if I add 3 volts to 6 volts, but I lose half a volt, I'll get 8.5 volts and have no way of knowing whether that's the answer I was supposed to get or not. For some applications, this isn't an issue if the person using the electronics is able to calibrate the circuit before operation, or if you have some method of double-checking your result. But if you want to build consumer electronics, where the user is not an expert, or electronics that can reliably operate without adjustment somewhere inaccessible, reliability is a huge issue.
But what if, instead of having a continuum of possible values, we instead use a small number of discrete values? This is called digital computation after the digits of the hand, which are frequently used to count the integers from 1 to 10. Digital computing deals in only two states: on and off, also known as true and false, or 0 and 1. It allows us to hide all the messiness of the analog world by assigning on and off to a wide range of voltage values: for example, we could have 0-2V mean off, and 3-5 V mean on. Now we have a very large margin of error in our voltage ranges, so a little leakage or signal degradation will not affect what we read as the circuit output. The graph below shows how an oscillating analog signal would look as a digital signal.
Physically, there are several ways to build a system that can switch between on and off. The first one that gained a foothold in technological use was the vacuum tube, which is somewhat similar to an incandescent light bulb. In a vacuum tube, a filament can be heated to emit electrons, which are collected at an electrode nearby. The electrons are passed through a region of empty vacuum to get from the filament to the electrode, hence the name, and a control grid induces an electric field that can change how much current passes through the vacuum tube. Early computers had to have one of these vacuum tubes for each switch, hence the massive size of the first computers which easily filled a room or several rooms. If you read science fiction from the vacuum tube era, computers play a big role, quite literally since people assumed that any computer that had the power to rival the human brain would have to be large enough to fill huge underground caverns.
The development of silicon as a material for electronics changed everything. Silicon can be turned on or off as a conductor of electrons simply by applying a voltage, and it can be manufactured so that the switch size is much smaller than the smallest vacuum tube. The scale of the smallest features you can make from silicon has been decreasing for decades, which means we are building computational chips with more and more switches in a given area.
But, one tricky thing about moving to digital logic is that the best math for these calculations is not much like our everyday math. Fortunately, a construction for doing digital calculations was developed in the mid-nineteenth century by George Boole. More on that next time!


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Avion Project
3001 N. Hollywood Way
The project proposes to construct a business park on approximately 60 acres of vacant land adjacent to the Burbank Bob Hope Airport consisting of the following components:
- Six, two-story buildings for industrial/warehouse uses totaling 1,014,887 square feet;
- Nine, two-story buildings for creative office uses totaling 142,250 square feet;
- Two, one-story buildings for retail/restaurant uses totaling approximately 15,154 square feet;
- One hotel with 166 rooms;
- Complete site improvements related to the project including utilities, drainage, paving, landscaping, lighting, etc.
- Extend, improve, and dedicate Tulare Avenue west of Hollywood Way;
- Extend, improve, and dedicate Kenwood Street south to the future Tulare Avenue.
The project site is located at 3001 N. Hollywood Way, and is surrounded by industrial/storage uses (to the north and east), the Burbank Bob Hope Airport (to the west and south), and vacant parcels. North Hollywood Way abuts the easterly boundary of the project site, and North San Fernando Road is to the north, and Winona Avenue is to the south.
Discretionary approvals being requested:
- A General Plan Amendment to change the General Plan land use designation from "Airport" to "Golden State Commercial/Industrial" for a portion of the project site (18 acres);
- A Zoning Map amendment from M-2 and Airport zoning designations to "Planned Development" zoning;
- A Development Agreement;
- Development Review for the warehouse, office, and retail/restaurant buildings; and
- A Tentative Parcel Map to subdivide the project site into separate legal lots.
Please click on any of the following links to view available project plans currently under review. These materials are subject to change as the project continues through the development review process:
- Project Site Aerial Photo
- 3D Architectural Renderings
- Office Aerial Rendering
- Site Plan: Part 1
- Site Plan: Part 2
- Site Plan: Part 3
- Site Plan: Part 4
Upcoming Public Meetings
The project will be heard at the following public meeting:
- Special City Council Meeting on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4 p.m at 3001 N. Hollywood Way (Avion Project site) in Burbank. The City Council will be conducting a lot site visit. Please see the meeting agenda here.
- City Council Meeting on Tuesday, March 26, 2019 at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 275 E. Olive Avenue in Burbank. The City Council will vote to approve or deny the project, and whether to certify the Environmental Impact Report (EIR). See the public notice here.
Prior Public Meetings
The following public meetings have been held for the project:
- Planning Board on Monday, February 25, 2019 at 6 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at 275 E. Olive Avenue in Burbank. The Planning Board approved the project and made a recommendation to the City Council on whether to approve or deny the project, and whether to certify the Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The meeting agenda, staff report, and video is available online.
- Planning Board - On Monday, September 10, 2018, the Planning Board held a meeting to obtain public comments (verbal or written) on the Draft EIR. This meeting will be held in the Council Chambers in the Burbank City Hall located at 275 E Olive Avenue in Burbank. The meeting agenda, staff report, and video is available online.
- Community and Scoping Meeting - A community meeting and EIR Scoping Meeting was held on June 29, 2017 in Community Room 104 at the Community Services Building at 150 N. Third Street in Burbank. The purpose of the meeting was to present the project and to receive comments on any potential environmental impacts that should be studied in the Draft EIR.
The City of Burbank, as lead agency, has prepared the following environmental documents in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act for the project:
- Released the Notice of Preparation (NOP).
- A Draft Initial Study was circulated for public comment and review, in preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The public comment period ended on July 8, 2017. Hardcopies are available at the Planning Division office. The State Clearinghouse number for the EIR is 2017061019.
- The City of Burbank circulated the Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) for public comment and review from August 15 to September 28, 2018. An electronic copy of the document is available below. The State Clearinghouse number for the EIR is 2017061019.
- Draft EIR
- Appendix A (Initial Study/Notice of Preparation and IS/NOP Comments)
- Appendix B (Air Quality Technical Report)
- Appendix C (Cultural Resource Assessment)
- Appendix D (Energy Calculation)
- Appendix E (Geotechnical Engineering Investigation)
- Appendix F (Greenhouse Gas Emissions)
- Appendix G - Part 1 (Hazards and Hazardous Materials Documentation)
- Appendix G - Part 2 (Hazards and Hazardous Materials Documentation)
- Appendix G - Part 3 (Hazards and Hazardous Materials Documentation)
- Appendix H (Hydrology)
- Appendix I (Noise Technical Report)
- Appendix J (Traffic Impact Study)
- Appendix K (Tribal Cultural Resources)
- Appendix L (Utilities and Service Systems)
- The City of Burbank has prepared the final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) in response to public comment and released on February 15th, 2019. An electronic copy of the document is available below. The State Clearinghouse number for the EIR is 2017061019.
For more information, or to join the mailing list for upcoming meetings, please contact Scott Plambaeck, Deputy City Planner, by phone (818)238-5250 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Braz J Med Biol Res vol.39 no.10 Ribeirão Preto Oct. 2006
Braz J Med Biol Res, October 2006, Volume 39(10) 1349-1355
Adhesion molecule profiles of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas in the leukemic phase
D.M. Matos, E.G. Rizzatti, A.B. Garcia, D.A.P. Gallo and R.P. Falcão
Departamento de Clínica Médica e Centro de Terapia Celular, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil
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Correspondence and Footnotes
We evaluated the expression of 10 adhesion molecules on peripheral blood tumor cells of 17 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, 17 with mantle-cell lymphoma, and 13 with nodal or splenic marginal B-cell lymphoma, all in the leukemic phase and before the beginning of any therapy. The diagnosis of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas was based on cytological, histological, immunophenotypic, and molecular biology methods. The mean fluorescence intensity of the adhesion molecules in tumor cells was measured by flow cytometry of CD19-positive cells and differed amongst the types of lymphomas. Comparison of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and mantle-cell lymphoma showed that the former presented a higher expression of CD11c and CD49c, and a lower expression of CD11b and CD49d adhesion molecules. Comparison of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and marginal B-cell lymphoma showed that the former presented a higher expression of CD49c and a lower expression of CD11a, CD11b, CD18, CD49d, CD29, and CD54. Finally, comparison of mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma showed that marginal B-cell lymphoma had a higher expression of CD11a, CD11c, CD18, CD29, and CD54. Thus, the CD49c/CD49d pair consistently demonstrated a distinct pattern of expression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia compared with mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma, which could be helpful for the differential diagnosis. Moreover, the distinct profiles of adhesion molecules in these diseases may be responsible for their different capacities to invade the blood stream.
Key words: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Adhesion molecules, Flow cytometry, CD49c/CD49d
B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (B-NHL) are a heterogeneous group of neoplastic diseases whose tumor cells are the malignant counterparts of normal B-lymphocytes (1). Although in most cases B-NHL arise from the lymph node (2), they can also display a leukemic phase characterized by the presence of lymphoma cells in peripheral blood. The frequency of patients in the leukemic phase is different among the subtypes of B-NHL: in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, by definition, the involvement of peripheral blood is present in all patients (3); in mantle-cell lymphoma, the leukemic phase is present in 26-44% of cases (4,5), but has also been reported to be present in 77% of cases in other series (6), and in nodal and splenic marginal B-cell lymphoma, it has been reported to be present in 11 and 57% of cases, respectively (7). These differences in the clinical behavior of B-NHL are most likely related to differential expression of various adhesion molecules on the membrane of tumor cells (4).
Adhesion molecules are a group of ligands and receptors involved in several biological processes, particularly cell migration (8). Given that some B-NHL subtypes are considered to be the malignant counterparts of distinctive steps in normal B-cell development, it is reasonable to infer that the malignant lymphoid cells use the same mechanisms of lymphocyte migration as normal B-cells to disseminate from their primary sites. In fact, a number of in vitro (9) and preclinical experiments (10,11), as well as clinical observations (12-14) give support to this hypothesis.
Here we studied the expression of 10 adhesion molecules in tumor cells from the peripheral blood of patients with leukemic B-NHL (chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle-cell lymphoma, nodal or splenic marginal B-cell lymphoma) to determine how the down-regulation of specific adhesion markers inherently associated with malignant transformation contributes to the biogenesis of the leukemic phase observed in some B-NHL subtypes.
Patients, Material and Methods
We studied the peripheral blood of 47 patients with a diagnosis of B-NHL in the leukemic phase: 17 with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, 17 with mantle-cell lymphoma, and 13 with nodal or splenic marginal B-cell lymphoma. Some clinical and laboratory features of the patients are shown in Table 1. We defined the leukemic phase of B-NHL by the presence of a minimum of 3000 abnormal lymphoid cells/µL associated with immunoglobulin light chain restriction. The flow cytometry studies were performed before the beginning of treatment. The research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of the University Hospital, School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients.
The diagnosis of B-NHL was based on cytological, histological, immunophenotypic, and molecular biology methods. All cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia had a score of 4 or 5 in the Matutes scoring system (15,16), while mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma had a score of 0 to 3. In addition, except for one patient, who showed CYCLIN D1 positivity only by immunohistochemistry, all cases of mantle-cell lymphoma showed evidence of CYCLIN D1 overexpression as measured by real-time polymerase chain reaction (data not shown).
Table 1. Clinical and laboratory features of the patients according to diagnosis.
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Flow cytometry
All samples were analyzed with a FACScan flow cytometer (Becton Dickinson, San Jose, CA, USA) equipped with an argon ion laser with a wavelength of 488 nm, by collecting 10,000 events per tube. The Cell Quest software (Becton Dickinson) was used for data acquisition and analysis. Only CD19-positive cells were gated for analysis (Figure 1A), and the expression of adhesion molecules was measured by the mean fluorescent intensity (MFI) obtained from histogram graphs on a linear scale (Figure 1B). Since the setting of an arbitrary cut-off value led to no meaningful conclusions, we preferred to use the MFI as the variable to estimate the intensity of expression of the adhesion molecules. The final MFI value was obtained by subtracting the "MFI of non-specific isotypes" from the "MFI of the relevant antigen".
Mononuclear cells were isolated from peripheral blood samples by Fycoll Hypaque density gradient centrifugation (1.077 g/mL; Becton Dickinson). The flow cytometry panel consisted of monoclonal antibodies against the following adhesion molecules (with the respective clones in parentheses): CD11a, aL integrin (HI111); CD11b, aM integrin (ICRF44); CD11c, aX integrin (B-ly6); CD18, ß2 integrin (6.7); CD29, ß1 integrin (MAR4); CD44, H-CAM (G44-26); CD49c, a3 integrin, VLA-3 (C3II.1); CD49d, a4 integrin, VLA-4 (9F10); CD54, ICAM-1 (HA58); CD62L, L-selectin (Dreg-56). All monoclonal antibodies were conjugated with fluorescein isothiocyanate, phycoerythrin, or perydin chlorophyl protein and all were purchased from Becton Dickinson. To exclude T lymphocytes and monocytes from analysis, CD19 was added to all tubes: tube 1, CD18 x CD11a x CD19; tube 2, CD11b x CD19; tube 3, CD11c x CD19; tube 4, CD44 x CD29 x CD19; tube 5, CD62 x CD54 x CD19; tube 6, CD49c x CD19; tube 7, CD49d x CD19.
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Statistical analysis
Comparison of the expression of adhesion molecules between the three groups was performed by the Kruskal-Wallis test using GraphPad Prism and Statistical Analysis System (SAS) softwares, with the level of significance set at P < 0.05. When a P value of 0.05 or less was found in the Kruskal-Wallis test, the Dunn post-test was applied to analyze pairs of groups.
The expression of the adhesion molecules of malignant lymphoid cells was measured by flow cytometry in CD19-positive cells. The MFI of the adhesion molecules CD11a, CD11b, CD11c, CD18, CD49c, CD49d, CD29, and CD54 was different in the three groups, as shown in Table 2. The Dunn post-test was applied when the P value was 0.05 or less. The results of pair comparisons are shown in Table 3.
Comparison of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and mantle-cell lymphoma showed that chronic lymphocytic leukemia presented a higher expression of CD11c and CD49c, and a lower expression of CD11b and CD49d. Comparison of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and marginal B-cell lymphoma showed that the former presented a higher expression of CD49c and a lower expression of CD11a, CD11b, CD18, CD49d, CD29, and CD54. Finally, comparison of mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma showed that the latter had a higher expression of CD11a, CD11c, CD18, CD29, and CD54.
Table 2. Adhesion molecule on lymphoma cells according to diagnosis.
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|Table 3. Pairwise comparison of B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphomas for surface antigens by the Dunn post-test.
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We analyzed the expression of 10 adhesion molecules in the peripheral blood of 47 patients with a diagnosis of B-NHL. We expected that the higher frequency of blood invasion by tumor cells in chronic lymphocytic leukemia, when compared with the other B-NHL, could be explained by specific profiles of adhesion molecule expression.
Our finding of the lower expression of CD11a and CD49d in chronic lymphocytic leukemia suggests that these adhesion molecules are probably responsible for the different compartment the disease infiltrates compared to its related entity, the small lymphocytic lymphoma (17,18). Actually, since the structure of normal lymphoid follicles in lymph nodes depends on the appropriate association between B lymphocytes and dendritic follicular cells through the interaction of CD11a and ICAM-1 (an intercellular adhesion molecule), and of CD49d and VCAM-1 (a vascular cell adhesion molecule), respectively (19), the lower expression of CD11a and CD49d on tumor cells of chronic lymphocytic leukemia could facilitate their detachment from the lymph node, while the expression of these adhesion molecules is preserved in small lymphocytic lymphoma (17,18). In fact, the down-regulation of CD11a and CD49d in chronic lymphocytic leukemia could also explain the peripheral blood invasion by these malignant cells, as compared with the occasional infiltration observed in mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma.
Our findings of a greater expression of CD49c and a lower expression of CD49d in chronic lymphocytic leukemia as compared with the other B-NHL have been previously observed (20,21). The combination of strong expression of CD49c and weak expression of CD49d is the hallmark of chronic lymphocytic leukemia and can be used in the differentiation between this disease and the other B-NHL in the leukemic phase. In fact, it has been shown that imbalance in CD49c/CD49d expression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia also contributes to the peripheral blood invasion (22). Moreover, a recent study has demonstrated prognostic relevance for the combination of high CD49c and low CD49d expression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (23).
CD29 is the common ß1 chain of a subunits of integrins a3/CD49c and a4/CD49d (8). Since the CD29 and a subunits are expressed together by a non-covalent bond, the higher expression of this adhesion molecule observed in marginal B-cell lymphoma is probably the result of the concomitant higher expression of CD49d in this subtype of B-NHL.
The presence of the myelomonocytic antigens CD11b and CD11c on cells of chronic lymphocytic leukemia has been previously reported (24,25). CD11b has a heterogeneous expression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Whereas some publications described a high expression of this adhesion molecule in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (20), others reported a low expression (21,25). The data presented in the current study are in agreement with these latter reports, and since the mantle-cell lymphoma and the marginal B-cell lymphoma showed a higher expression of CD11b compared to chronic lymphocytic leukemia, this adhesion molecule could eventually be used to help differentiate between chronic lymphocytic leukemia and the other B-NHL in the leukemic phase. Moreover, CD11b may have other biological functions in chronic lymphocytic leukemia since it has been reported to be associated with a higher probability of disease progression and poor survival (26), as well as to prevent the induction of apoptosis in this disease (27). Our findings add more information about the expression of CD11b in mantle-cell lymphoma and in marginal B-cell lymphoma since there are only a few studies in the literature regarding this adhesion molecule in these diseases (28).
The role of CD11c in the dissemination of B-NHL is still controversial. Angelopoulou et al. (28) and Bairey et al. (29) found a higher frequency of splenic involvement in cases of chronic lymphocytic leukemia with strong CD11c positivity. Moreover, this adhesion molecule is usually over-expressed in splenic marginal B-cell lymphoma (28) and in hairy cell leukemia (30,31), both diseases characterized by large splenomegaly, which could suggest a role for CD11c in the infiltration of the spleen. However, our data do not support this hypothesis, since 14 of 17 of our patients with the diagnosis of mantle-cell lymphoma presented an enlarged spleen, but showed a very low expression of CD11c. In agreement with our results, Angelopoulou et al. (32), in a study of 11 patients with mantle-cell lymphoma, observed that the CD11c was negative in all patients, including a subgroup of 6 patients with exclusively splenic disease.
CD54 is a member of the immunoglobulin superfamily that normally has a lower expression in peripheral blood mononuclear cells when compared with the lymph node (33). In our series, marginal B-cell lymphoma presented the highest expression of this adhesion molecule. Similarly, Csanaky et al. (34), studying 7 patients with this disease, found a higher level of CD54 expression when compared with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Stauder et al. (35) and Horst et al. (36) showed that the lower expression of CD54 in indolent B-NHL correlates with a higher frequency of invasion of peripheral blood. In addition, Terol et al. (37) showed that low expression or absence of CD54 was associated with a higher frequency of disseminated disease (stage IV), extranodal involvement and bone marrow infiltration. Down-regulation of CD54 seems to favor the dissemination of tumor cells by a still unknown biological pathway and little information is available about the expression of this adhesion molecule in splenic marginal B-cell lymphoma.
The results of the present study allow us to conclude that chronic lymphocytic leukemia, mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma have different adhesion molecule profiles, and these differences may be responsible for the distinct capacities of these diseases to disseminate into the blood stream. Moreover, our data reinforce the hypothesis that the peripheral blood invasion always present in chronic lymphocytic leukemia is the consequence of an imbalance of adhesion molecule expression in tumor cells. Furthermore, we demonstrated that the CD49c/CD49d pair consistently presented a distinct pattern of expression in chronic lymphocytic leukemia compared to mantle-cell lymphoma and marginal B-cell lymphoma, which could be helpful for the differential diagnosis.
Future studies comparing the expression of adhesion molecules in peripheral blood and lymph nodes could better address their role in the phenomenon of peripheral blood invasion in B-NHL.
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Address for correspondence: R.P. Falcão, Laboratório de Hematologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, FMRP, USP, Av. Bandeirantes, 3900, 14049-900 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brasil. Fax: +55-16-3633-1144. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Publication supported by FAPESP. Received May 9, 2006. Accepted August 15, 2006.


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The Extra Lens
The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle and Franklin Bruno on the music of their lives
Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "Foofer" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
For this edition, we checked in with Mountain Goats frontman John Darnielle and Nothing Painted Blue leader Franklin Bruno, who collectively make up the duo the Extra Lens, and whose album Undercard is out now on Merge. However, Darnielle and Bruno didn't participate in the usual 5-10-15-20 process. They didn't give their exact ages, and sent an email in which both picked songs or albums from five-year intervals. But hey, we aren't complaining: these guys definitely know how to write. Oh, and Bruno only picked records by other duos.
Louis Prima & Keely Smith: "I'm in the Mood for Love"
Franklin Bruno: Before I start: I'm narrowing down my choices to duos, or at least bands whose core members come in pairs, as a way of threading one possible path through a promiscuous listening history, and also to commemorate John's and my revived (though never truly dead) collaboration. I don't have any general insights to offer about the duo dynamic: The process remains mysterious to me (I can't speak for John), and even though I try not to be a romantic individualist in either art or politics, I'm a little dubious of claims about "collective consciousness" or the like. So, to business.
My earliest musical memories are of my dad playing and singing Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin standards on the piano, as well as his own unpublished songs, which he's been writing since the 1940s (and still is). There was more sheet music around our home than records, but one of the hipper LPs (besides Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin songbook) was a 1958 Capitol compilation called Popular Jazz Gold Album, which included this not-very-reverent reading of a Jimmy McHugh/Dorothy Fields standard. For those who don't know, saxophonist/bandleader Prima and his singer wife Keely Smith (who's still performing) were the hottest nightclub ticket in Vegas though the 1950s and 60s. As a kid, I wouldn't have been able to recognize Prima's vocal debt to Louis Armstrong or his band's to Louis Jordan's proto-R&B-- I was responding to the swing, and the spontaneity.
Elton John and Kiki Dee: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart"
John Darnielle: I'm pretty sure I "bought" this-- i.e., talked my mom into buying it for me-- at a lamented-by-me-alone department store called Gemco, on Indian Hill between San Bernardino and the onramp to the 10. Big old sign on a pole in one of those immense California parking lots which for better or worse became the standard throughout the nation, red letters revolving in the air: GEMCO.
Their small music section was a Saturday morning powerhouse of possibility for me. Their 45 section stocked the top 40 singles as calculated by God knew who: Billboard? "American Top 40"? In-store sales? It wasn't clear. This record captivated me completely; the B-side was, if I remember, "Snow Queen", featured the unfortunate rhyme-line "like white wine when it's chilled" (rhyming, even, with "hills": for shame). When I hear this now, Kiki Dee's phrasing still sends a bubbly shiver up my neck. Is it memory or the actual phrasing? Who can say?
Barnes & Barnes: "Fish Heads"
FB: I had the usual ear to Top 40 radio as a pre-adolescent (and still have a sweet tooth for yacht rock), but was even more obsessed with the comedy/novelty radio host Dr. Demento, back when he held court for four hours every Sunday night on KMET, Los Angeles' AOR behemoth. "Weird Al" Yankovic, who sent in tapes of himself playing accordion in his school bathroom, came out that scene.
The duo of Art and Artie Barnes were another staple, and their biggest "hit" is a fair indication of where my sense of humor was at the time. (Speaking of yacht rock -- one of the Barnes "brothers" was "Lost in Space"/"Twilight Zone" child actor Billy Mumy, later a member of America). Dr. Demento himself was the FM handle of Barry Hansen, a serious musicologist and record collector buddy of John Fahey's. His show was also my gateway to pre-war jazz (he played a Bix Beiderbecke side every week) and to the grim humor of some punk and new wave (this is where I first heard Devo, the Normal's "Warm Leatherette", and the Adverts' "Gary Gilmore's Eyes").
Jimmy Page: Death Wish II: The Original Soundtrack
JD: Let me be clear: to the best of my knowledge, I have never heard this record. It took me a long time to warm up to Led Zeppelin. From grade school on, I only owned III, and I didn't really get it, though I loved "Immigrant Song". In 1982, I was listening to Lou Reed, and the first and second Psychedelic Furs albums but God please not the third one, and Adam and the Ants and ABC and more terrible prog than I'd care to admit.
But I was also haunting the cut-out bin, where the Death Wish II soundtrack reliably peered out in its dozens from the racks. It was a visual fixture of the year for me. I believe in albums not only as vehicles for music but also as powerful personal totems, and the impact of this record on my visual landscape that year on my writing, I don't think it's a light thing to have in your head, flashing on and off from time to time: Death Wish II. Death Wish II. Death Wish II. Like a billboard worming its way into my interior landscape. I hear, incidentally, that the record is good, but who wants to demystify a reliably opaque metaphor?
Slow Children: "President Am I"
FB: This dates from 1982 or 1983, but it's representative. By high school, I was all about new wave, the more anxious and angular the better. Guitars were just fine, but so were synths. I never connected nearly as solidly with classic rock, which seemed slovenly and threatening. (This wasn't a coterie taste in mid-80s Southern California, where KROQ championed Soft Cell and Sparks-- though I now see that waver/hesher tensions were generally arrayed along class lines. I wasn't viewed as a weirdo until I graduated to the Minutemen, the dB's, and Salem 66 via KSPC, the local college radio station. I digress.)
Slow Children-- no relation to a current Minneapolis nu-metal band-- were a songwriting vehicle for guitarist Andrew Chinich and singer Pal Shazar (a kind of art-house Cyndi Lauper, whose moment she preceded by a few years). Shazar and Chinich were the group's faces, but their keyboardist was Stephen Hague, who later went on to production fame with OMD, New Order, and the Pet Shop Boys. Their two albums work the fragmented-forms-reflecting-fragmental-mental states angle with more musical and lyrical invention than many better-known artists. Nothing Painted Blue covered this on a 1995 seven-inch, mostly because I was psyched when I learned to play the synth hook on guitar without losing count. Just last week, I came across a New York blogger who has posted their entire catalog-- seemingly with the members' okay-- as a zip file. It's here, and recommended.
Celtic Frost: Into the Pandemonium
JD: This wasn't the record that changed my life like it was for a lot of people; the CF record that upended the way I looked at music was actually a three-song EP called Tragic Serenades, which I'd bought on cassette at Music Plus. But Into the Pandemonium, with its cover of "Mexican Radio" and its awkward techno move "One in Their Pride" and the bizarre Christian Death nods in some of the vocals ("Mesmerized") and above all in its tour, which I caught at Fender's Ballroom in Long Beach, was Celtic Frost's moment.
I think this time period in metal is one of the most remarkable times in rock history: a bunch of guys around the world are sorting through information, half on instinct and half blind chance, and coming up with a mishmash of goth and thrash and pre-90s techno, and combining it with something that came from deep within and was entirely self-guided.
Wckr Spgt: ["Assault TV"](http://www.wckrspgt.com/spgt/songs/a.html?song_info=322 ""Assault TV"" )
FB: I've written about them at length in the liner notes to a recent tribute compilation, but it can't be said too often: Wckr Spgt are the forefathers (or maybe creepy uncles) of the Inland Empire scene that eventually produced Shrimper Tapes/Records.
Mark Givens and Joel Huschle, the constants, were already releasing cassettes locally by 1983, and they've been unendingly prolific and unfailingly innocent of any sensible approach to commerce ever since. (Their website lists 1,248 songs, all available for free download.)
John went to high school with them and was in the Congress with Mark. I came to know them when one of their more accessible incarnations played many, many Pomona College parties-- the song I'm picking was a staple of those shows. I began playing guitar with them shortly after, and still do when I'm back in California. The fact that John and I took up a discrete band name back when we were four-tracking together in Claremont may have something to do with Wckr Spgt's habit of sticking a new label on every conceptually-driven side project (the Bloody Hawaiians, the Crunch Sisters, the Monroe Pole Show), even when the "concept" was "the 15 songs we wrote and recorded today."
Queen Mother Rage: "Slippin' Into Darkness"
JD: This actually came out in 1991, but I'd been living in employee housing on the grounds of a state hospital without cable TV in my room, and most anything new I learned about during that time came from random purchases of things that looked interesting to me.
I have goth blood; any artist who gives herself a name like "Queen Mother Rage" is going to get my attention. And really, anybody who wasn't into rap in the early 90s missed out on one of the most fun, fluid, vital times in music, in any genre anywhere, ever. I bought cassingles. I bought them if I'd heard them and they sounded good, and I bought them if they looked cool. Ice Cream Tee, "Can't Hold Back". X-Clan, "Funkin' Lesson". The Flower Shop mix of "The Humpty Dance". I would listen on the same boombox I was using to record The Hound Chronicles.
FB: This five-year-interval conceit skips over my most single-minded period of devotion, both as practitioner and audience, to the "indie ock" cause. By 1995, I had moved out of the Claremont post-college boho house where, among other things, John and I recorded our early compilation tracks and first single, and headed out to L.A. proper to start grad school; my record collection was expanding in heterodox directions as well.
All that said, Vancouver's Mecca Normal has been a big deal to me before, during, and after this period. I knew their first album and K singles in college radio days, kept a respectful, admiring distance from them at the International Pop Underground festival in 1990, and their most recent full-length, The Observer, was one of my favorites of 2006. Besides being one of those too-rare bands for whom "independence" is more than a subcultural marketing tool, they're a real case of more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts magic. David Lester is a stellar punk rock guitarist whose playing, however muscular, never comes off as macho, and Jean Smith has remained a confrontational feminist voice and presence even as her words have moved from agit-prop ("Strong White Male") to an allusive approach I'll lazily call "poetic", to the heart-rending narratives of their last two records. I'm picking an early-ish single. Nod to Virginia Woolf aside, the lyrics leave maximum room for interpretation, while the charging riff renders comprehension-- and the need for a rhythm section-- moot. I swear I'll cover this someday.
JD: I'm the only person who ever heard this record outside of people directly affiliated with Ratt. It is a very confused record, adrift in a world into which it can't find a place to fit. I wrote a long piece about it for my friend Sam's lit mag, The Wilshire Review. It features a song called "Ratt Madness". No points if you accurately guess that the chorus of "Ratt Madness" consists mainly of the song's title, repeated a few times. By this point in my listening, I have gravitated almost exclusively toward outliers.
Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd: "Koko"
FB: This disc happens to have been released in 2000, but it stands in for a range of interests during a fin de siècle crisis that I don't think was unique to me. In the late 90s and early 00s, the whole project of guitar-band rock, and maybe even of songwriting, seemed, if not over, at least over-mined to many of my contemporaries. This was tough for me, because I was appreciative of but not truly enthusiastic about the most acclaimed "post-rock" and electronica artists of that period-- not to mention all the trend-hoppers who suddenly went from being Pavement copyists to representing themselves as "sound artists".
My reaction was to gravitate toward musical theater cast recordings (which I won't force on Pitchfork readers) and left-of-center jazz. I don't know a better term for what I was listening to, but I've always been more drawn to jazz that takes free and "non-idiomatic" techniques as a resource rather than the whole of the law: more Braxton than Ayler, more AACM than AMM, more Dutch improv than British.
The quartets co-fronted by Lacy and Rudd are a good example of what I mean. The pair met on a boring Dixieland-revival gig, and, years before they were well-known individually, stretched themselves in a mid-60s "workshopping" quartet that dug deep into lesser-known Thelonious Monk compositions that few other musicians were playing at the time. That group is documented on the annoyingly out-of-print School Days. The leaders revisit some of the same tunes on the reunion disc Monk's Dream, but I'm going with their take on Duke Ellington's "Koko" because it's a more concise showcase for the heat-generating friction between Lacy's incisive, almost analytical soprano sax vocabulary and Rudd's avant-gutbucket trombone.
Summoning: Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame
JD: I wasn't listening to this when it came out in 2002. I was listening to Hate Eternal, who also made an unbelievable metal album that year. But if I weren't a guy who tends to hold his own past against himself with a real vengeance (I was a fantasy-lit geek in junior high), I might have also listened to this, which is an album that has been kicking my ass all through 2010.
I love the hell out of this band. They inspire me. They make exactly the records that they want to make, without regard to fashion or trend, and seemingly without regard for any voices in their heads which must surely occasionally pipe up and say: "Really? Another album of songs with themes taken directly from Tolkien?" Real talk though. If you don't respond to "In Hollow Hills Beneath the Fells" you need to get your hat and coat. If you do not love these riffs, you cannot sup at my table. Period.
The Go-Betweens: "____"Surfing Magazines", "Orpheus Beach"
FB: It would be criminally misleading not to include the Go-Betweens on this list, as Robert Forster's and the late Grant McLennan's songs have been a near-constant presence in my life for twenty-odd years now, both as musical model and personal comfort. (And let's also spare a thought for Lindy Morrison's drumming in the band's classic 80s line-up.)
I encountered them by luck in high school, because the Bleddyn Butcher cover photo to their "Part Company" 12" was intriguing, and it cost 37 cents because of a small tear in the back cover. It's hard to count the ways they've been important to me since: McLennan's facility with a hook, Forster's subtle theatricality, the etched specificity of their lyrics, their refusal to concede, even for a moment, that the fact that they were a bit bookish meant that they couldn't express rich emotional lives.
Their last pre-hiatus albums, Tallulah and 16 Lovers Lane, came out while I was a college DJ (at the very station I'd been listening to in my high school bedroom a few years earlier); then the songwriters took a 10-year break from one another, except for a few acoustic duo shows, before reconvening under the band name in 2000. By this time, it was clear how distinct Forster and McLennan's respective songwriting voices had become-- and also how much they stepped up their game when they worked together.
__Amy Grant: The Storyteller Collection
JD: Without going into detail, 2007 was a hard year for me. In scenes eerily reminiscent of my adolescence, I spent much of the year curled up in a ball with headphones on, crying without being able to stop. This is not an exaggeration. I did it in cars, in hotel rooms, backstage, at friends' places. Everywhere. There were a bunch of records that saved my skin that year, but none that I turned to more constantly than Amy Grant's career-retrospective box set The Storyteller Collection. She is a tower of strength. She is a consummate artist. I don't know that I can explain how I feel about her, though at some point, I'll finish the article I started writing about her on the night I flew out to see her in Greeneville, Tennessee, and maybe that will clarify it some.
__Everly Brothers: "Man With Money"
FB: I could front about No Age or Sleigh Bells or Buke & Gass, but if I'm honest, the Everly Brothers are the single artist I've listened to with the most pleasure and admiration over the last two or three years. Like anyone with a heart and ears, I've always loved their dozen-odd oldies-station perennials ("Cathy's Clown" was the first song the college version of Nothing Painted Blue ever played live), but I didn't know the deep cuts until Collector's Choice started reissuing their original Warner Bros. albums on CD (a less daunting investment than those hulking Bear Records box sets).
The Everlys didn't see much American chart action after the British Invasion, but they were a solid live attraction in the UK and Europe, and several of their mid-60s albums are as strong, and often harder-edged, than their 50s singles. (I'd start with In Our Image and Gone, Gone, Gone.)
I'm tempted to choose one of several non-hits ("Just in Case", "Radio and TV") penned by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, the husband-and-wife team that also wrote "Bye Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie", and something like 2,000 songs for various country and pop artists. But since I'm a sucker for songs where X can't win Y's love because X is poor ("Cooler Than Me", "Fuck You", most of the Four Seasons' catalog), I'll end with a co-written Don and Phil Everly original from 1965-- a song the Who thought enough of to cover as the B-side of "I'm a Boy" a year later.
Quetzalcoatl: I Have Returned in Fire
JD: Quetzalcoatl is #1 in New York City! You heard it here first!


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The HEASARC has installed Listserv, an automated mail list handler.
This server allows more efficient management of the various OGIP mail exploders
used by ROSAT, ASCA, CGRO and HEASARC. Several lists using this system are now
in place and are described below.
For each mailing list there are two associated internet addresses. One address
is used for administrative details such as subscribing, unsubscribing, getting
information about the list, getting help, etc. The other address is used for
sending messages to the list. All lists are maintained on the machine
legacy.gsfc.nasa.gov. The administrative address is the same for every list
and is email@example.com. The second address is specific
for each list and is given in Table 1.
Here is an example of how to subscibe to and use a mailing list:
Assume a user has an internet address of firstname.lastname@example.com and wishes
to send and receive mail from the list "example". First the user must
subscribe to the list, which is done as follows:
(NOTE: full_name is the user's name, not the e-mail address)
After subscribing, to send messages to the list, e-mail
This user will then receive mail from the list at
To unsubscribe from the "example" list the user sends mail to
firstname.lastname@example.com with the one line body of the message being
unsubscribe example
There are a number of other commands recognized by listserv and information on
these can be obtained by sending mail to firstname.lastname@example.com with the
body of the message being
If you have questions about listserv or any of the lists, please contact
Bruce O'Neel
Table 1. OGIP mailing lists
list address
name (non-administrative) purpose access
ascanews email@example.com announcements of ASCA news R
heafits email@example.com discussion of issues related to O
FITS format files used for high
energy astrophysics data
rosnews firstname.lastname@example.com announcements of ROSAT news R
grorpt email@example.com CGRO weekly reports R
An access value of R means that there are restrictions on posting to the list.
An access value of O means there are no posting restrictions.
There are no restrictions on receiving mail from the list.
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A British woman learned the hard way about why people might want to think twice about becoming Facebook friends with their boss.
A woman named "Lindsay" was fired after complaining about and insulting her boss on Facebook, writing "OMG, I HATE MY JOB! My boss is a total pervvy wanker always making me do s—– stuff."
Her boss, who was one of her Facebook friends, replied on her profile with the following: "That 's—– stuff' is called your 'job', you know, what I pay you to do? But the fact that you seem able to f—– up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it. Don't bother coming in tomorrow. I'll pop your P45 (pink slip) in the post, and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here. And, yes, I'm serious."
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Originally Posted: Mar 8, 2013
Tag Archives: Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon's 'Much Ado About Mind Control'
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Much Ado About Nothing (2013) is Joss Whedon's (Project Monarch's poster boy) first new film post-The Avengers. The film is Whedon's take on the classic Shakespeare play and he shot the film in his very own home with an all-star Whedonverse cast from his various television series and films.
The film will be much loved by the 'Cult of Whedon' but it was clear from the footage in the first trailer that this film will be yet another Monarch Masterpiece by Whedon. Evidently chosen by him due to the mind control themes (identity) and symbols (masks) inherit in the play and exploiting them as a means of occult communication and mockery to other dark occultists.
The 1:42 minute trailer is completely jam packed with Monarch symbolism (the most witnessed by this author), and Whedon employs all the usual tricks to encode symbolism into the film. Nearly every scene contains some form of mind control symbology and it is quite sickening to see that Whedon would conceive of a film where he utilizes his "friends" (Whedonverse actors) in his film, yet mock them subliminally in every scene, by communicating the fact that each of his "friends" are actually Monarch Slaves. Who does that kind of thing?, a sociopath.
One must ask themselves if Joss Whedon's twisted fixation with Monarch Programming/Mind Control is present in all his work; is this because he himself might actually be a Monarch slave and under mind control? With the darkest occult revelation of Hollywood being that every single actor and actress are actually Monarch slaves, would it then not be unrealistic to believe that every single writer, producer and director be under the very same mind control?
Sadly, the destruction of the Human race through Project Monarch appears to be spiraling out of control and escalating on such an exponential level; horrifically, Hollywood is absolutely one of the primary deployment areas. Since this sadistic project continues to go on unacknowledged by politicians, governments and the military, the only thing we the public can really can do is to show NON-SUPPORT. Stop going to cinemas to watch these films, stop buying and renting DVD/BLURAY'S and this will eventually deliver a message; the only way these psychopaths can really conceive, economically.
I refuse to support the psychological destruction of my fellow brothers and sisters, have the courage to do so too.
Hollywood Subliminals
Dollhouse Decoded: The End of Humanity
Joss Whedon's Dollhouse (2009) exposes and deconstructs the methods, areas of deployment and thought process of those who execute the trauma behind the scenes of Project Monarch. The veiled "sci-fi" (sci-fact) narrative of this series when viewed with the right eyes reveals much about this classified project and Joss Whedon's own moral compass. Each episode highlights the various areas of society where this horrific program is in effect and the roles each Active/Doll portrays, the situations and supporting characters all reveal the ubiquitous deployment of this project.
R.E.M. had it right, back in 1987 with their classic song…
It's the End of the World as We Know It
(but do you feel fine about it?)
Dollhouse: 1×13 – Epitaph One [TV]
Dollhouse: 1×12 – Omega [TV]
Dollhouse: 1×11 – Briar Rose [TV]
Dollhouse: 1×10 – Haunted [TV]


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About the Talk
August 1, 2010 3:00 PM
Smashing MagazineSmashing Magazine
Thelma Golden, curator of the Studio Museum in Harlem, walks us through three recent shows that explore how art examines and redefines culture. The "post-black" artists she works with are using their art to instigate a new dialogue on race, culture and the meaning of art itself.
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Famous Sailors: The whole of the Tudor period was a time of great exploration. At the beginning of this period, it was the sailors from Spain and Portugal that were journeying the furthest and making the most remarkable discoveries in the New World.
It was during the reign of Elizabeth I that English sailors came into their own. They sought out new wealth and new opportunities and were not afraid of a little plundering of foreign vessels.
Famous Tudor Explorers
The Elizabethan era was not short of heroes wanting to take to the high seas for the glory of queen and country. Elizabethan explorers found that there was no shortage of Tudor sailors willing to accompany them on their voyages of discovery.
The most famous Tudor explorers are probably Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh, as these are the names most commonly found in the history books.
There were however many more successful English explorers of the time, such as Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Richard Grenville, and Sir John Hawkins as well as Sir Martin Frobisher and Sir Richard Hawkins. Also sailors like John Cabot, Sebastian Cabot and Henry Hudson; all of which made their name during this great time of discovery.
Famous Sailors in History
During this period in History, Spain was possibly the most powerful country in Europe. They certainly had the largest naval fleet and as such, no shortage of men willing to make their fortunes in the discovery of the New World and all of its treasures.
Amongst the most famous of these men that sailed under the flag of Spain are Christopher Columbus, Hernando Cortez, Francisco Pizarro, and Amerigo Vespucci, though the list is quite extensive. Other countries in Europe, such as Portugal, France, and Italy were also sending out ships on voyages of discovery. They were captained by men such as Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco De Gama, and Marco Polo.
Tudor Exploration
There were many reasons why the sailors of the time were willing to take part in what would undoubtedly be a dangerous voyage. What drove them was the spirit of adventure that abounded at the time. There was also a great deal of money to be made out of a successful voyage.
Not only was there the possibility of discovering a new land which could be claimed in the name of the queen, but there was also the discovery of new foods and spices as well as precious stones, perfumes, and medicines.
Famous Sailors during Tudor Times
New and exotic woods and dyes could also be brought back to England, all of which would make money. Navigation was becoming easier with the introduction of the compass, allowing sailors to find their way in foggy conditions where the stars could not be seen to guide them.
New maps had been made charting the newly discovered lands too which made navigation more straightforward. There was also the opportunity of discovering something so great, that it could be named after the captain of the ship that leads that specific voyage of discovery.
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