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It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.-Garfield
The very best predators are cunning. They go after solitary animals, those who travel alone, who are cut off from the herd.
But not all predators have claws.Several men, dressed in black, advanced upon an isolated house. Thermals showed the lone occupant was facing a glowing box, away from the windows and doors. The design--same as every other generic house in the suburb--gave them a floor plan, so they could even flank him.Two men at the kitchen door, two at the front. At precisely midnight, they swung the doors open silently, and proceeded to each entryway of the room the target was in. He still didn't notice. A quick hand signal, and they swung around the corner and advanced upon him.Nothing.The lead leveled his gun over the young man's shoulder. Still nothing."Boom, headshot," the kid muttered.The gun tapped his shoulder, and the target looked down to find an Uzi. He took his hand off the mouse, hit mute on his headset, and pulled it down to his neck before spinning the chair around."Sonny" Nelson stared down the barrels of four guns, all pointed directly at his head."Um...hi." he said. "Are you guys from the RIAA?"
Several hours later, a blindfolded, handcuffed, and cavity-searched Sonny was led out of a van, across some concrete, and then into some sort of hallway. He had already thought through every spy movie he had ever seen, and come to two conclusions.One, these guys weren't from the RIAA.Two, his chances of survival were much better if he made fun of the bad guys, the bad guy's henchmen, and the bad guy's mother. They would get angry, and then the Chief Henchman would punch him in the stomach, and then the Bad Guy would tell the Lieutenant to hold it, we can't kill him just yet, and the Lieutenant would subside, like a volcano. It would all work out.Just then, the henchman on his right pulled off the blindfold, to reveal two other henchman dragging a guy who looked around his age off to the right, blood dripping from his lips."Really, Mr. Smith," said a small, balding man in a lab coat, "I've told you time and time again hitting the test subjects in the solar plexus can be fatal.""It works in the movies," replied the large, muscular guy next to him."But we are not in the m--oh, Mr. Nelson. Welcome to my underground lair!"Sonny pulled his jaw up and looked around at the edifice. "Meh. I've seen lairier.""You have been selected to take part in a very special experiment. I am attempting to merge a human being and a hydroplasmic entity. I plan to do this with the assistance of high-energy tachyon fields--""Do you explain your crazy plans to everyone, or am I special?""I would think you, of all people, would understand my genius. I've read your file. You chose to exercise your considerable intelligence in your menial little job and--" he sniffed "--playing video games.""I've always been an overachiever."Smith smiled tightly. "That's quite amusing, Mr. Nelson.""Thank you. I don't suppose you would let me go now?""What?" said the scientist. "From what I know of your browsing habits, you would welcome the chance to be turned into one of my glorious creations.""Buddy, there's a huge gap between what I get off to and--waitwaitWHAT? You put a bug in my computer?"The doc smiled evilly. "We like to think of it as 'intelligence gathering'.""Because you don't have any of your own, I take it?""Japes will not help you, Mr. Nelson.""Come to think of it, the best way you could get my genetic profile was getting saliva from my waste material, since I've never given blood, or been involved in a criminal investigation."The doc said nothing."You didn't collect saliva, did you?""Take him away," the older man rasped."Were you voted most likely to dig through someone's garbage for used Kleenex?" Sonny yelled as he was wheeled away. "I mean, I'm just curious. Couldn't you have just broke into a blood bank or something?"The scientist looked surprised. "Huh, should've thought of that."
"That's a white name. You're Ch--East Asian."
"I get a +2 racial bonus versus math problems."The nurse snickered. "I'm sorry, that wasn't right.""It's okay to laugh at jokes about race if they're made by a member of that race. Unless the race being joked about is white, and then everybody gets free shots.""I'm white.""I won't hold that that against you."There was a brief, inexplicably awkward silence."I was adopted."There was another brief, inexplicably awkward silence."In case you haven't figured it out, I'm the hero here." Sonny said, to break it."Oh, are you?" Scrub, scrub."Yep. The experiment will fail, or my friends will get me at the last, most dramatic instant, and then I'll go after the doc with a handgun I grab out of a holster, equally as deadly despite my inferior weapon.""Doesn't the hero usually hit them in the face first at the exact same time as his sidekick, then grab the guards' rifles?""You're right. I must've been thinking cop movie.""Got it all planned out, have you?""Of course I do. I used to be a Boy Scout." Pause. "Well, I knew a Boy Scout." Pause. "Actually, I was fired from a fry cook opportunity."The nurse looked puzzled."C'mon, this is my best stuff here!""Do you actually have any friends?""Yes--""No, in real life. Do you play D&D, even?"Sonny thought. "Hunh.""Exactly.""That still leaves escape.""You'd be the first."She hummed as she washed him down. The restraint system in the shower allowed for a full range of movement, and let her push him around in the air like a doll on invisible strings."That's a nice tune. What is it?"She looked up, surprised, and blushed. "I don't know the name. My mum taught it to me.""What's it about?""Um, a princess." She was trying to hide a smile. Wasn't quite the Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter, but she was nothing if not cute. And touching his naughty bits."Gah!""Sorry about the water," said the nurse apologetically."C-c-cold!""Well, that's calmed your little man down." She was grinning now, like a Cheshire Cat. Sonny wondered if she hadn't poured water on his...libido on purpose."Wait, a sec," Sonny said as something struck him. "The doc invented this incredible restraint system, and he uses this to hold prisoners? Why not sell it?""The military wasn't interested. I think it was the first step on his road to going mad.""Then why not sell it to rich bondage enthusiasts?""Because--" the nurse stopped, and her brow crinkled. "Hunh.""See, now you have a viable business plan, and don't have to go kidnapping people. Let me go and we'll go tell the doc together! After I put on my clothes.""No. No matter how cute you are."There was an awkward silence before the nurse continued, this time with the feet. The sponge tickled."I must say," she said, from somewhere around his ankle. "You're talking this rather well. Most of the test subjects are still kicking and screaming at this point. One of them tried to piss on me.""Tried?""The doctor made sure to remove the offending organ before starting the experiment. Luckily he was in a fairly good mood, and used anesthetic. But not much."A few more minutes of silence."Are you supposed to be fraternizing with the test subjects?" Sonny wondered aloud. "Won't that create a bond between you and them that could jeopardize your objectivity?""'Fraternizing'? I was clutching your bits not five minutes ago!""What if I get out of here and start talking?""Firstly, they put a little...thing in your neck when they bought you in. Get more than five hundred feet from the nearest transmitter, and you won't be telling anyone anything. And about the experiments...well, thankfully, most of them die.""Well!" said Sonny, with his best Sam Gamgee imitation. "That's a comfort, and no mist--did you say 'thankfully'?"The nurse paused. "You said you were the hero. Have you considered that you might end up one of the hideous, misbegotten vestigally human crimes against nature which the hero has to kill on his way to the villain?""Forget nursing, you should be a writer.""I'm finished.""What, no shampoo? I've got this really bad flaking problem."The doors hissed open, and the guards--who must've been waiting outside--came in and strapped the naked Sonny to the ...rolly...table...thing. They spun him around, and pushed him toward the door."Call me," Sonny yelled."My name is Lily," he heard, and the door slid shut behind him.
They rolled him--still shackled--through several hallways and into what looked like a cross between an operating theatre and an early 90s metal video. Big electrical thingies, and a stainless steel table with brown straps on it.
"Leather!" Sonny exclaimed. "You remembered my little chafing problem! You do care!"The one on the left twitched a little. Good, he had finally gotten at least one of them to see him as human. Unfortunately, it was a little too late.The geek was counting on being able to wriggle out of the straps, but after they strapped him down, the two men produced steel manacles. The Doc sure was genre savvy.The guards cleared out.A robotic trolley rolled in, carrying a jar. Inside the jar was a green translucent fluid that rocked slightly with the jar's motion. As it got close to Sonny, it pressed up against the side of the of the container, trying to get at him--This ain't fun anymore, Sonny thought, and immediately began to kick and scream."He's just resting -- waiting for a new life to come." said the Doc's voice, faintly, and a second later the intercom clicked on."I used to make a speech at this point, Mr. Nelson. I don't anymore. Suffice it to know that we're attempting to bond you with a...being known as a hydroplasma. It may comfort you to know that should this succeed, your life--and death--will have benefited humanity.No, that doesn't comfort me at all! Sonny thought."If not," the Doc continued, "well, few will miss you."Sonny quit thrashing, 'cause it obviously weren't doin' no good. Setup the Marquis de Sade would be proud of. That left him with one more card to play."Objection!" yelled Sonny, wishing he could point dramatically. "What are your requirements for falsifiability?"The Doc paused. "Falsi-what-ity?""Falsifiability, doc. For an experiment to be considered valid, you need to know the terms under which it could be considered a failure.""I--""In fact, do you even have a control? A hypothesis? Tenure, even?""Well," said the doc, and stopped. He leaned over the railing in what he clearly thought was a sinister fashion and flipped the switch. "For SCIENCE!""I'm starting to think you're not a real doctor at all!" Sonny yelled as the emitter warmed up. "You have shown no regard for basic testing protocols or the ethics of the scientific community!""Eh, who cares what they think," growled the doc, and pushed the big red button.The big arcing electrical thingies got really bright.Sonny closed his eyes, and noticed the machines around him were making that charging-up sound, just like in the cartoons.The hydroplasma cringed in the bottom of its container as the electricity arced toward it and the human.Sonny's last thought before the lightning hit was the wish that he could flip off the Doc.A final burst of power sent spasms throughout both the geek and the goo. The latter vanished. The former died.
The Doc chewed the inside of his cheek. "Lost another one."Jones, his personal assistant, had long stopped making the "--to DiTech." joke. He busied himself with double-checking Nelson's vital signs.He hit the intercom switch. "Standard incineration procedures." To Jones: "How many candidates do we have left?""After Nelson, that leaves--ah.""What is it? Spit it out!""Nelson's heart is beating again. His body is returning to normal temperature--""He's alive?""It would appear so, sir."The Doc rubbed his gloved hands together. "Excellent."
He woke up slowly. If pressed, he would've said it was like coming to the surface.He turned his head to the right. Guards entering the room. Armed.(viene la tormenta)O...kay. One of the last lines from "The Terminator". Odd thought to be having. And since he was apparently Not Dead, his first priority was getting free of the table.His right hand slid easily out of the cuff. He stared at it; his hand was noticeably smaller, but he could feel and see mass rushing back into it from his arm as he looked(fear is the mind killer)That was from "Dune". Something was happening to his head(I kill with my heart)every movie and film and book he had ever seen running straight through him and all this new stuff and he knew who he was(fantastic)he knew what he could do.(over nine thousand)He smoothly pivoted out of the bed, his body moving around the straps and manacles. The gasmasked guards drew back in surprise, guns raising.(are you my mummy?)His other hand expanded, suddenly(you won't like me when I'm angry)and his body spun through the gunfire, moving in a not-quite-organic fashion, like something that had just learned to be human and didn't quite have a handle on it. He ended up between the two men, and his arms shot out, too far and too rubbery, curling around the guards' heads.(it's clobberin' time)The two men were each knocked out when their helmets collided, and he let them slump to the floor.Above him, in the observation booth, the Doc's hands were pressed up against the window, his jaw hanging down. He turned to ask Jones what he thought of the whole deal, only to find an empty room and an open door.He snorted. "Wuss."On a whim, the young man below sent his "hands" snaking into the guards ears, and dropped off a little present. Now he'd be able to read and control their minds at will. Useful, that."Freeze!"The sound of a dozen or so safeties clicking off(imma chargin' mah laser)drew his attention. Smith, of course, was leading, and he had the biggest gun. The young man smiled, and took one step toward them.Then he turned translucent green, the same texture as the hydroplasma, in the instant between the first guard starting to pull the trigger and the bullet leaving the barrel. The goo the nerd was now made of simply let the fire go straight through it. His greatly enhanced mental faculties were able to calculate the precise amount of friction to prevent ricochets.The guards(gentlemen)stared at him, agog. He switched back to his regular appearance, and decided to add clothes. His usual t-shirt and jeans appeared on his body. Smith stared at the geek in a blind fury, and switched his gun to AUTO."Alright chums," Sonny yelled, a manic, too-wide grin on his face. "Let's do this!"(leeroy jenkins--)
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Simultaneous occurrence of axonal Guillain–Barré syndrome in two siblings following dengue infection
Shweta Pandey, Ravindra Kumar Garg, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Neeraj Kumar, Ravi Uniyal
Department of Neurology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:Dr. Shweta PandeyDepartment of Neurology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow - 226 003, Uttar Pradesh IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheck1DOI: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_454_17
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/aian.AIAN_454_17
Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS) is an infrequent neurological complication of dengue viral infection. It is broadly divided into either acute inflammatory demyelinating variety or an axonal variety (acute motor axonal and acute sensory and motor axonal variants). Axonal variants are distinctly infrequent. Two brothers (18 years and 15 years) were hospitalized on the same day with complaints of acute symmetric upper- and lower-limb weakness of 7 days' duration. They did not have overt manifestations of dengue fever which preceded the neurological presentation. They had flaccid areflexic pure motor quadriparesis. Dengue IgM serology was positive in both. Nerve conduction study showed predominant axonopathic changes in both the patients. Both the patients showed significant improvement with conservative treatment during hospital stay of 7 days. This is unusual report of dengue-associated axonal GBS in two brothers. Whether simultaneous occurrence of GBS in two siblings is a coincidence or genetically determined is still a question.
Keywords: Autoimmune, dengue virus, genetic susceptibility, Guillain–Barré syndrome

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"You will say Christ saith this, and the apostles say this, but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast thou walked in the Light, and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God?" —George Fox, 1652
The Jewish and Christian writings in the Bible are part of the Quaker religious inheritance shared with other churches. Following Fox, however, Friends have refused to make the Bible the final test of right conduct and true doctrine. Divine revelation has not been confined to the past. The same Holy Spirit which inspired the scriptures in the past can inspire living believers centuries later. By the Inner Light, God has provided everyone with access to spiritual truth for today.
There is extreme variety in the Bible's contents and much of it is quite foreign to our present ways of living and thinking. If it is to be our only guide, it is plainly silent on many urgent questions.
Not all Friends have achieved an ideal relationship to the Bible. Old patterns of misuse or sheer neglect prevent the most beneficial use of the book. What Friends acknowledge as "biblical illiteracy" is too prevalent, and the cure is not easy.
—Adapted from Henry J. Cadbury "Friends and the Bible"


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GLSL Shaders Mod v2.2.3 Forge Edition for Minecraft 1.6.4
* Compatible with AMD Catalyst 14.9
. Compatible with Minecraft 1.6.4.
. Compatible with OptiFine_1.6.4_HD_U_D1. (only ultra edition) (anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering must be disabled)
. Requires Forge or FML. You can download Forge installer from files.minecraftforge.net.
Use Forge installer to install Forge. Select Forge Profile in Minecraft Launcher.
Copy ShadersMod jar file to mods folder in game directory (or mods\1.6.4), so it will be loaded by Forge.
How to install:
First, install forge.
– Use Minecraft Launcher. Make sure you have run Minecraft 1.7.10 at least once before installing Forge.
– Close Minecraft Launcher.
– Use Forge installer to install Forge.
– Open Minecraft Launcher and select Forge Profile (or new/edit profile and select a forge version).
– Click Play. Forge should create mods folder in game directory.
Next, install ShadersMod in mods fodler.
– Copy ShadersMod jar file to mods folder in game directory, so it will be loaded by Forge next time.
– If you want to install this together with OptiFine, also copy Optifine jar file to mods folder.
– Open Minecraft Launcher. Select Forge profile and click Play.
– Open Option screen. There should be Shaders button. Click it to open Shaders screen.


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Miley Cyrus has recruited woman of the moment Lily Allen as her new BFF as she continues on her path for world domination.
The Wrecking Ball singer cosied up to her controversial UK counterpart for a quick selfie when the pair hooked up in London.
And after she was ridiculed for being too tame on The X Factor's results show at the weekend, it seems Miley has taken inspiration from Lady Gaga and spiced up her image by bleaching her brows.
And Lily definitely seems to think the bold move was a funny one.
Along with the snap, she tweeted: 'Miley and me xx.'
The Hard Out Here singer has since touched down in Los Angeles after sharing the long-haul flight from the capital with One Direction.
She tweeted afterwards: 'Alas, no mile high club action with any member of 1D for me. Jolly nice chaps though. LA, nice to be here and not on freezing England.'


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Factory 45 is a multi-purpose warehouse space above Mercato Metropolitano, Elephant & Castle's street food market. Co-founders Romain D, Romain R, Thibault and Youri opened the space after the French Corner, their previous venture in Mercato Metropolitano, had been a success. The new Factory 45 space would give them the flexibility to offer a wider range of activities, from fitness and photography to art installations and corporate entertainment.
The team of young entrepreneurs had moved quickly, refurbishing and launching Factory 45 just two months after getting the keys to the building. Meanwhile, the French Corner was being refurbished for the summer, moving from a winter skiing theme to a summer Provençal theme. All of these costs — from the custom-made bar to the outdoor pétanque field — would be happening in a short space of time, at a quiet time of year, so the owners decided to use business finance to keep things running smoothly until they recouped the costs over the busy summer period.
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An army of infuriated student protesters successfully blocked Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos and his pal, Martin Shkreli, "the most hated man in America," from spreading their message of hate on campus grounds. The scheduled event at the University of California at Davis was to be one of almost 30 stops on Yiannopoulos' self-titled "Dangerous Faggot" college campus tour. During the series of incidents, at least one cup of coffee was thrown and most satisfyingly, Shkreli was reportedly hit in the face with a pile of dog poop.
"My event at UC Davis tonight has been canceled after violence from left-wing protesters," Yiannopoulos posted on Facebook, as the rising tension prevented both hosts from speaking at the bigot bonanza.
"This was in no way a peaceful protest," Davis College Republican executive director Andrew Mendoza told the Los Angeles Times. "I want to make that very clear."
The reasoning behind the outrage is very clear. "If white privilege is a thing, why are people working so hard to be black?" Yiannopolis said at an earlier stop at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. "All of the award shows and cultural events favor black culture."
The 33-year-old Breitbart columnist and editor cultivated his career on dishing out vicious insults. Yiannopoulos was recently banned from Twitter after trolling all four actresses from "Ghostbusters," specifically targeting actress Leslie Jones. Yiannopoulos' dedicated followers drove Jones to tears with scathing, racially-motivated insults.
Shkreli also managed to get banned from Twitter recently, after stalking and harassing journalist Lauren Duca. Shkreli is best known for raising the price of Daraprim, an HIV drug, 5000 percent as well as heftily raising the price of the life-saving EpiPen.
Yiannopoulos has been caught donning a Nazi-era iron cross, a symbol of white supremacy and anti-Semitism, and has been photographed holding books on Hitler. As a homosexual from Britain living in America, he hardly makes sense as the voice and face of the young alt-right.
This Breitbart article Yiannopoulos wrote uses pseudoscience to argue "scientific race differences" and defend segregation. Despite all this, Simon & Schuster decided to move forward, offering him a $250,000 book deal.
The morning after the canceled event, Yiannopoulos held a small counter-protest, speaking to a group at a tree planter outside Memorial Union at the UC Davis Campus.


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Nick Pappas, 94, of Newcomerstown, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, at the Union Hospital, Dover.
He was born Tuesday, Dec. 24, 1918, in Newcomerstown, to the late James and Samantha (Nellis) Pappas.
He was a Newcomerstown High School graduate.
He was a US Navy World War II veteran serving from June 13, 1944, until Feb. 13, 1946.
He retired from Simonds Industries of Newcomerstown.
He was a member of the American Legion of Newcomerstown.
On Monday, Dec. 18, 1939, he married Beatrice (Powell) Pappas, who survives.
He is also survived by one daughter, Jean Edwards of Dayton; two sons, James (Melody) Pappas of Newcomerstown and David
(Linda) Pappas of Glasgow, Ky.; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Helen of Peoria, Ill., and Thelma of Florida.
He was preceded in death by two brothers, Mike and George; and three sisters, Kathryn, Mary and Stella.
No services are planned.
Online condolences may be made at www.addyfuneralhome.com.


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How to develop a sound content marketing strategy
Expert Mirko Lange's guide through the "content jungle"
Content marketing is nothing new anymore for event planners, venue operators and destination marketing managers. However, it is sometimes hard to focus on the essentials when faced with a wide variety of goals, channels to use and trends to follow. Content marketing expert Mirko Lange provides tips how to come up with the right strategy and implement it.
Status quo: too much content, not enough planning
"Here's the problem: We're all constantly producing content. The choice of channels is ever growing and more and more teams get involved in the work," says Mirko Lange. "What we can observe is that companies are often very much overwhelmed. They resort to hasty measures and simply producing isolated content for specific channels. However, what's missing, is an overall plan that meaningfully connects all the different dots," so the analysis of the communications and PR expert.
Marketing professionals and managers are not only caught in a jungle of marketing goals and techniques; they're also confronted with phenomena such as "content shock" or "channel overkill". All in all, a rather worrying and frustrating scenario.
What is content marketing?
Let's go back to the question what content marketing actually means. It is, so Lange, "a marketing technique addressing a target audience not with advertising but with content that informs, entertains and is of an advisory nature in order to reach different goals" – e.g., more website traffic or better rankings. For the classic sales funnel, this means that its increasingly less effective mode of operation, with the elements advertising, marketing, sales and service, is being replaced with a new model that, on each level, revolves around content.
According to Lange, there is one guiding principle that applies to every step on the way, from addressing potential customers to closing a deal and the subsequent customer management: Content needs to be useful and what is useful, is defined by the extent to which a specific piece of content satisfies a need.
Here is how the GCB markets its content:
Featured Events
News & Stories
What is good content?
Lange's answer to that question is that "good content connects the needs of your audience with your own expertise and conversion." In this context, it is vital to have a "core story" that each and every content marketing measure is derived from.
However, marketing professionals who want to quickly implement good content need to be aware of one pitfall in particular; the issue of silos. Or, in other words, different departments in companies that often independently of each other produce content: "Content must not develop out of silos but be based on themes," says Lange. A solid content strategy is the basis for this, ensuring that company goals are pursued jointly: "Don't publish articles before goals and benefits have clearly been defined. Working with a strategic basis also means that companies become more aware of how they use their limited resources and hence, work more effectively."
Mirko Lange is one of the most renowned strategy consultants for content marketing in Germany. He is the founder and CEO of scompler, a strategic editorial planner, as well as vice president of content strategy consulting for the Canadian content marketing provider ScribbleLive. Mirko Lange has more than 20 years experience in fields of corporate communications, PR and online marketing. The current consulting customers include companies such as Deutsche Bahn and Vattenfall. In addition Mirko Lange is a publicist and lecturer at several German universities.
Michelin Guide – successful content marketing more than 100 years ago
The Michelin Guide is a very old best practice example for content marketing. More than 100 years ago, this hotel, travel and restaurant guide was launched by the tire manufacturer Michelin as a directory providing useful information for motorists (e.g., car mechanics, petrol stations). The renowned publication quickly developed into a stand-alone product, independent of the company, while still – or maybe precisely because of that – contributing to the positive image of the brand name Michelin to this day.
Looking for good content examples?
How to develop a content strategy
A well-thought-out content strategy needs the combination of an organically integrated company, i.e., overcoming silos, with a clear focus on useful content, i.e., taking on the perspective of potential customers.
Bottomline: Don't start with the second step
Lange is convinced: "As soon as marketing managers realise that a strategy has to be the basis for all content activities, the first step has been taken. If you're really aware of the issue at hand and start dealing with it, it automatically leads to taking all the steps involved in the right order – instead of, as is often the case, resorting to pointless actions und distributing content without a strategic concept."


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Jon White, M.D. Former Deputy National Coordinator, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
Dr. Jon White serves as deputy national coordinator for health information technology. The family physician has dedicated his career to improving health and health care quality through the use and sharing of electronic health information. At ONC, Dr. White provides high level executive direction and leadership for all ONC programs and policies, and advances key priorities. He has led mission-critical activities, including the publication of high priority, nationally impactful regulations, the publication of the Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap, a widely-publicized congressional report on information blocking, and ONC's efforts in the precision medicine initiative.
Before his service at ONC, Dr. White was director of the division of health IT at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). In his role at AHRQ, he directed hundreds of projects in 48 states, including research, demonstration and implementation projects on a wide variety of health IT applications and issues. Dr. White has deep experience working with federal government partners (including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Veterans Affairs), as well as key health care professional, patient, policy, and health IT stakeholder groups to implement major health care initiatives.
Dr. White trained in family medicine at the University of Virginia and Lancaster General Hospital in Pennsylvania. He is a recipient of the national AAFP Award for Excellence in Graduate Education.


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Boston, MA — Smart Destinations, the company behind Go City Cards and Explorer Passes, announces the expansion of the Go Oahu Card with the addition of the Moanalua Golf Course. The 18-hole course is located less than 25 miles from Waikiki hotels… [Read More]
August 18, 2010
Boston, MA — Smart Destinations, the company behind Go City Cards and Explorer Passes, announces the expansion of the Go Oahu Card with the addition of the Moanalua Golf Course. The 18-hole course is located less than 25 miles from Waikiki hotels and the Go Oahu Card offer includes a golf cart as well as round trip transportation from the hotels to the course. This course is a $125 value and is free as a bonus with the 3-5-7 day Go Oahu Cards.
"Our Oahu program has always been place we try out new things," said Cecilia Dahl, President and Co-Founder of Smart Destinations. "We've already have partnerships for a Luau, surf lessons, guided snorkeling expeditions, as well as the kinds of tours and museums that have been a staple of our other destinations. Golf was a logical next step for us and is just the latest example of how we are creating a better way for people to book the things they like to do on vacation."
The Moanalua is a course that will please both golfers and history buffs. The greens and fairways are all of Bermuda grass and the course is a par 36 over 2,972 yards. The Moanalua Golf Course is Hawaii's first golf course and also the oldest golf course west of the Rocky Mountains. Amelia Earhart once landed her plane there and polo matches were once held on the back nine.
The addition of Moanalua Golf Course adds to the value of the Go Oahu Card which already has 35 attractions ranging from The Grand Circle Island Tour, Sea Life Park, the Makani Catamaran and the Pearl Harbor tour to name a few.
Smart Destinations is the premier provider of unlimited admission sightseeing passes in 15 major North American travel destinations from Oahu to Boston. The Smart Destinations' ticketing system encompasses over 425 museums, attractions and tours, aggregating them in each destination onto fixed price, multi-admission products, resulting in up to 50% savings compared to buying separate tickets. The combination of savings and convenience has resulted in 94% customer satisfaction as measured by 3rd party research and helped the company rank 78 on Inc. Magazine's 2008 list of the 500 fastest growing companies. Distributed through major travel services in 25 countries as well as on the Web, Smart Destinations' products are a "trusted companion" for the best a destination has to offer at an unbeatable price point. For more information on the company and its products, visit www.smartdestinations.com.


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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at firstname.lastname@example.com.
- Arizona State University
- Venkatesan, Ashok
- 1 Li, Baoxin
- 1 Panchanathan, Sethuraman
- 1 Ye, Jieping
- 1 English
- 1 Public
- Statistics
- 1 Activity Recognition
- 1 AdaBoost
- 1 Artificial Intelligence
- 1 Computer Science
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- 1 Machine Learning
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- 1 Transfer Learning
- Reverse Fountain Cytoplasmic Streaming in Rhizopus Oryzae
- Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems
- Developing an Augmented Reality Solution for Mapping Underground Infrastructure
- Characterization of 2D Human Ankle Stiffness during Postural Balance and Walking for Robot-aided Ankle Rehabilitation
- Using Molecular, Cellular and Bioengineering Approaches Towards Understanding Muscle Stem Cell Biology
Real-world environments are characterized by non-stationary and continuously evolving data. Learning a classification model on this data would require a framework that is able to adapt itself to newer circumstances. Under such circumstances, transfer learning has come to be a dependable methodology for improving classification performance with reduced training costs and without the need for explicit relearning from scratch. In this thesis, a novel instance transfer technique that adapts a "Cost-sensitive" variation of AdaBoost is presented. The method capitalizes on the theoretical and functional properties of AdaBoost to selectively reuse outdated training instances obtained from a "source" domain to effectively …
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Those are not your whales. Ya know, you love them, and you think, I'm the one that touches them, feeds them, keeps them alive, gives them the care that they need. They're NOT your whales. They own them!
Year Released: 2013
Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite
Cast: Numerous former trainers at Seaworld
I like a good documentary. I own numerous documentaries about a variety of subjects, including astronomy, football (or soccer for my American readers), nature (David Attenborough in particular) and various other subjects, but I never thought I'd watch a documentary about killer whales because, for lack of words, it's not a subject that particularly interests me.
On Saturday evening I was seeing an old friend for the first time in nearly two years and after a while talking, she asked if I wanted to watch a documentary film called "Blackfish". I'm not going to lie, I'd never heard of it before and because of my lack of interested in the subject matter, the idea of watching it didn't exactly thrill me. The reason I was a bit sceptical at first as I tend to only watch documentaries that I'm interested in and the run time of around 85 minutes made it seem like it was going to drag. I was not excited at all.
Despite that, I thought I'd humour my friend and watch it anyway, afterall, it's time with someone that I don't see often, so why not? 85 minutes later I had found myself wanting more from it. It was an exceptionally clever documentary and considering I knew nothing of SeaWorld, Tilikum or many other aspects relating to this, I was genuinely surprised how much I enjoyed it.
The documentary focuses on the killer whale known as Tilikum at the SeaWorld resort in Orlando. It follows his journey from being captured in the early 1980s right up until he killed his trainer, Dawn Brancheau, in 2010.
A group of former SeaWorld employees and experts give their thoughts on why Tilikum, a normally happy and timid killer whale, would suddenly attack Brancheau, such as the tight enclosure that he is kept in overnight, the attacks he suffers at the hands of some of the female killer whales, or simply whether it is just part of his nature.
In between switching to and from other examples of trainers being attacked and/or killed at various other parks across America, as well as various lies told by staff at similar parks with regards to the lifespan of whales and why their dorsal fins have collapsed.
So why are you reviewing this?
Firstly, I'm going to be open about this, it's going to be a short review for the simple and rather obvious fact that there is no character development possible, there are no plot twists or anything else I would normally be focused on.
I feel that if you give this documentary film a chance, you will enjoy it. As I mentioned earlier I was not at all optimistic about this being enjoyable or good, and yet I found myself engrossed by it. Although I love documentaries, once you've seen them about a specific subject then you've seen the majority of them, but this feels different and has a natural progression throughout.
It doesn't feel forced, there are no definitive answers given, it's all speculation about why a seemingly happy whale would suddenly attack when unprovoked, but because no-one knows the answer there is still that sense of mystery left with the animals. That works incredibly well because there are so many things in life that we will never truly understand, and wild animals are one of them.
Something I also touched on earlier was that I felt educated after watching Blackfish, which again isn't something I usually take away from documentaries. I knew very little, if anything, of killer whales before this and the workings of SeaWorld. It doesn't even cast SeaWorld in a ridiculously bad light. Granted, it doesn't cast them in a positive light either, but it didn't present a true "SeaWorld are bastards" style either.
My only two concerns or criticisms with the documentary are that there are so many people being interviewed that you are left wondering struggling to remember their names and what their former role was. They knew their subject matter exceptionally well and gave a well informed and relatively unbiased opinion on things, but by the end of the documentary that I had loved, I couldn't tell you the name of a single one of the people being interviewed.
This, combined with constantly jumping from past to present and back again, as well as jumping to stories from other parks, makes it a little confusing to keep up if you're not paying attention. If you're not paying attention during this documentary then it would be easy to get lost in it.
Again, I know this is a considerably shorter review than normal but there aren't that many places that you can go with a review of a documentary, but I had to say that I loved Blackfish. It is an exceptionally well thought out and informative documentary that leaves you feeling exactly what a documentary should leave you feeling, educated.
Whilst it has some flaws, Blackfish is an engaging film and one that I never imagined that I would watch. So if you're into documentaries then I would seriously recommend that you give it fit into your time somewhere.


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A Plea for Restoration
Sometimes, life is so hard.
Doing the right thing seems easy enough,
Until it comes time to do it,
When dread of the consequences
Becomes an overwhelming concern.
Why can't life be easier?
Why am I "so special" to You that
My life is constantly filled with difficulties?
Why can't things go easily—just for a while?
Why me, Lord? Why me?
I don't want to sound like I'm whining,
But I know that I am. I'm complaining
Because my shoes are too tight,
While others have no legs.
I know I should be more grateful,
But I need a respite from my pain,
From my despair, and from my sorrow.
There is nobody who can help but You.
The "Be warmed and be filled crowd"
Smile and offer meaningless platitudes,
As I nurse the emotional wounds
I fear will destroy me.
I want to serve You with gladness,
But there is no joy in me—
Nothing that could sustain me for more
Than a few moments at a time.
I don't want to be a plastic automaton,
Pretending that everything is okay,
When I know things are dreadfully wrong.
My future is in Your hands,
My days, which are numbered by You,
Are passing before me, and it all
Seems like a terrible waste.
Intervene, Lord. Allow me to know
Joy and gladness once more.
Fill my days with peace and prosperity,
So that I can tell other of Your faithfulness.


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The Best Celebrities to Team With During the Zombie Apocalypse
List Rules All the celebs on this list have mad skills that will help you survive a zombie apocalypse - vote up the celebs you'd most want to join your warrior crew of zombie slayers.
Building the A-team during the zombie apocalypse is crucial to survival. We've listed the absolute best celebrities you should be joining forces with when the going gets tough and undead get going.
Zombie apocalypses can be so darn unpredictable! All that stuff you see on "Walking Dead," that's nothing compared to a real zombie apocalypse. For the real thing, you need a celeb that really knows how to handle their ish in a life-or-death situation. For effective butt-kickng, Woody Harrelson's got a stellar zombie slaying resume via his turn in Zombieland. For survival, Bear Grylls knows how to use a sheep corpse as a sleeping bag (comes in handy!). Quick emergency getaway? Harrison Ford's got you covered, as he knows how to fly a helicopter. This list is chock full of celebs who would be ideal warriors to join you in your quest for survival as zombies come and TRY to take over our precious Mother Earth. Bring it, Zombies!These celebrities will cover all of your bases and then some, keeping you safe, happy, and healthy after the destruction of mankind and our world as we know it. Vote up the celebrity you'd most want to team up with during a zombie apocalypse.


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The Rockley Family Foundation does not award scholarships directly to the general public. Instead, we provide resources to many of our institutional partners who in turn select and award music scholarships at their discretion. As a result of the contributions from the Foundation, students at our partner universities are given the opportunity to continue their musical education.
Below are examples of universities whose students have benefited from the Rockley Family Foundation's music scholarship donations.


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Our newfound obsession with video is making Google richer. Amid all the news from Microsoft, Apple and Samsung this week, you could be forgiven for ignoring the biggest daddy of them all.
But as they do, quietly and steadily, Google's spiders have been raking it in – largely from mobile advertising and YouTube.
Perhaps surprisingly in the summer of Pokémon Go, the search giant's parent Alphabet has posted a revenue jump of 20 per cent over the third quarter of this year, Reuters reports. Looked at another way, that's a 27 per cent increase in net income to $5.06 billion (Dh18.59 billion). Total revenue was $22.45 billion, making for the seventh straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth. And it's higher than expected! Who says we're in a recession?
So how does Google plan to keep it up in a market where Facebook has positioned itself as the curated search alternative? The company's Chief Executive, Sundar Pichai, believes fresh gains will accrue from voice search, with new products such as Google Assistant and the Google Home smart speaker.
"We feel well positioned as we transition to a new era of computing," Pichai said in an conference call, according to Reuters. "This new era is one in which people will experience computing more naturally and seamlessly in the context of their lives, powered by intelligent assistants and the cloud."
So there you have it. The Alphabet is always one step ahead of you.


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News & Features
2017 Academy of Distinguished Alumni
July 27, 2017
Seven alumni from the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have been elected to the Academy of Distinguished Alumni.
The department established the Academy of Distinguished Alumni to acknowledge the professional achievements and contributions of its graduates. Twenty-seven charter members were inducted into the academy in 2003, and over 100 additional members have been selected since.
These distinguished graduates are recognized for expertise in their fields, research and education advancements and strong leadership qualities. The 2017 honorees are J.J. Roger Cheng, David T. Covarrubias, L. Patrick Flynn, Jr., Rashed Islam, David H. Nicastro, Andrew W. Taylor, and John A. Wooley.
J.J. Roger Cheng (MSCE 1981, PhD 1984)
C.W. Carry Professor of Steel Structures,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta
David T. Covarrubias (MSCE 1988)
CEO, Structural Engineering Associates, Inc.
L. Patrick Flynn, Jr. (BSArE 1981)
President/CEO, Flynn Construction, Inc.
Rashed Islam (MSCE 1996)
Vice President, Managing Principal, HDR Engineering, Inc.
David H. Nicastro (MSCE 1985)
CEO, Building Diagnostics, Inc.
Andrew W. Taylor (PhD 1990)
Associate, KPFF Consulting Engineers
John A. Wooley (BSCE 1972, MSCE 1974)
Founder and Principal Engineer, Balcones Geotechnical
"The members of our Academy of Distinguished Alumni shine a bright light on our community, inspiring current and future students to one day weave the physical fabric of society, to shape our world in such a way that benefits humankind and the environment," said Department Chair Richard Corsi. "Our CAEE community is fortunate to have such a distinguished group of alumni that we can call our own and look to with pride. The class of 2017 adds much to the wide and deep accomplishments of the Academy."
The Class of 2017 will be inducted on September 29, 2017. Alumni, faculty and students are invited to attend the induction ceremony.
For more information, please contact Carol Perales.


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Good evening and welcome to Word of the Day! A journey through the English vocabulary and the words that piqued my interest, in WotD we'll be learning a new word for each working day of the week, bar holidays, unless there's a holiday special...
Today's word is:
Showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.
ORIGIN: late Middle English : from ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis (translating Greek olugopsukhos), from pusillus 'very small' + animus 'mind,' + -ous .
What a beautiful insult, to call someone pusillanimous is humiliating, not only it's an unconventional word, it's simply clever... and that's what the president of Venezuela just called the Opposing party in order to taunt them into committing a mistake, and to be fair, the insult suits both parties, after two months of nonstop protests nothing has happened. The Officialism party works their way around wasting money to hide the truth, on the other hand the opposition has no apparent plan in motion, they're just "going with the flow" of the situation, after all they're just a large mass of civilians taking the streets in "peaceful" protests.


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No matter where it is or how much you have, we don't doubt your enduring hate for cellulite. Those little dimples and creases patterned in to your skin are the result of uneven fat deposits within connective tissues, they are also a completely normal process of the human body. Yet, we would all admitedly go to the end of earth to try and make it disappear.
Cellulite is a word that women are taught to be fearful of from their young teens and are repetitively told is a bad, bad thing. Well, we're here to tell you that it's okay to be okay with cellulite and there is certainly no need to engage in expensive procedures and fad diets leading up to your wedding day. Look and feel your absolute best all year round with these 5 minute, do-it-yourself cellulite treatments.
Dry brushing
Your skin is your bodies largest organ, and if you don't treat it well you can't expect it to look amazing. Dry brushing is a great technique to remove a build up of toxins and impurities in the skin, and by removing dead skin cells you are allowing the regeneration of new ones. It also improves blood circulation in your problem areas and throughout the body.
Using a firm bristled brush, start with a light pressure on the problem area and slowly build up to a firmer massage. To avoid harshness on the skin try dry brushing in the shower just once a week.
Using the same concept as dry brushing, exfoliating is also a great way to get rid of old cells and regenerate healthy new ones. Exfoliating specifically on problem areas can also fake the effect of smoother skin, just by making your skin look fresh and glowing.
It can be done using all kinds of homemade ingredients, or ones easily available from a health food store or supermarket. Anything from coffee grounds, seaweed, sea salt, or natural green clay, mixed with sugar and coconut oil to make a scrub. Scrubbing twice a week will help encourage the regeneration of your skin and removal of toxins all around the cellulite.
Massage and oils
A quick way of starting to firm areas of concern is through self-massage, especially using specific oils that are great at tackling cellulite. Awakening the muscles and fatty deposits around them helps reduce fluid retention in the area, and the appearance of dimples. Oils such as juniper oil, tangerine oil and rose hip oil are all used in cellulite treatments effectively and especially through massage.
Mix a few drops with a small amount of olive oil, and using your hands or a brush massage the area for three to five minutes, three times a week. Even adding some of these oils into your diet, such as in smoothies, will help you reap their benefits.
Serums and creams
A great temporary quick fix for cellulite is the use of serums or creams that are intended to firm and tighten skin for a short amount of time. Massaging these into the area before an event will help reduce the appearance of dimples and uneven skin.
To find one that works well on cellulite you should look for key words such as 'firming', 'contouring', and 'tightening' in the title, as well as ingredients such as polymer, silicon and caffeine.
Lemon juice and cayenne pepper
Although it doesn't sound particularly tasty the combination of lemon juice and cayenne pepper is known to give results to firm and plump the skin through detox. The toxins trapped inside muscle tissue and uneven fatty deposits react well to the detoxifying and flushing out of toxins from the body.
For best results combine a large glass of water, the juice of half a lemon, and only two to three shakes of the cayenne pepper, and drink each morning.


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News reports indicate that the cops up in Portland are at a point where they want to clear various parks being used by the friendly and non-violent Occupy folks. The same reports indicate that some Occupy folks have started bringing in or manufacturing "weapons". This vast array of weapons include 2x4 pieces of wood with nails driven into them and shields from garbage can tops (like Captain America's shield, if you've seen the movie). They haven't mentioned Molotov cocktails...but's that probably another popular weapon of anarchists. I sat and pondered over this....if some type of battle starts up and policemen are injured....then it'll be a sign for cops across the nation. You can start counting the days where a second confrontation occurs, then a third. If I were an Occupy guy at any city.....I'd start to look around at my associates. There's the protest folks, and then there's the anarchist crowd. The minute your effort is deemed anarchist by the public....your media gains or words spoken over the past two months become worthless.
It took roughly 35 days, but this baby missing episode from Kansas City has finally come to the point where the mother is a suspect. The cops even were nice about it and apparently told that fact to the woman. My suspicion on this episode from almost day one.....one of the parents were involved in some fashion. But without a body, you will never see a case opened in court.
You won't see it mentioned in national news.....but some nut got out of a car and fired rounds from a AK-47 in Washington DC. Normally, we have this kind of stuff every week, and it's not worth mentioning. But in this case.....it was roughly a block away from the White House. This got the DC cops, the Secret Service, and the Federal Cops all upset. Based on cameras and comments spoken so far.....they think two cars were involved in the incident, and one was ditched over near a bridge heading south on the Potomac River. My guess is that one DC gang got upset with another DC gang, and just happened to bump into each other on Pennsylvania Avenue. The day will come when another gang does another battle up around the White House....and rounds actually hit the building. Maybe then.....the President will deem Washington a hostile zone and actually fix a forty-year problem.
Some smart guys did a internal review of man-hours for METRO here in DC. The question was....are folks over-working? Short answer....yes. They documented one guy who worked 117 man-hours in one week. You can imagine this scenario....management not monitoring man-hours....a guy work five days straight of 18 hours a day, and then he screws up and triggers an accident that kills forty people. METRO management is saying much. They seem to be waiting for the next accident, and just accepting the fact that they will pay out millions. And the idiot who is willing to work 117 man-hours in one week? He might be pulling in $100k a year on a regular $55k bus driver job...but he's a candidate for a heart-attack, if you ask me.
Finally, not that it really matters to most of us...but there's this new disease out there called Zuccotti-lung disease. Course, the only way you'd catch this....is by playing occupy up in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, New York. It ends being a cough, which just doesn't go away. It goes from a mild cough....to the far end of the scale where some suggest that it might be connected to tuberculosis. It helps to pass around a bottle of water among five folks....and all take a sip from the same bottle. You can imagine this scene in January.....ten people a day are hauled off to hospitals and forced into quarantine wards for a month because of this disease. Then folks start to refuse to go over to the doctor. And there in the middle of this? Some poor CBS journalist who is ordered to interview these folks daily and wondering about the CBS healthcare plan, and if they will keep him on for a month of quarantine.


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Spelthorne officers were also joined by colleagues from Hounslow, Richmond and Kingston.
During the operation, drugs were recovered and one car was seized.
Hounslow's Inspector Chris Brown said they will continue to work with other boroughs and forces to target crime.
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I'm pleased to report that Forge has exercised its option for me to write two more Nathan Heller novels. I have asked for fifteen months for each book, which means the one-a-year schedule the JFK trilogy established won't be met this time. Lots of research for me (and George Hagenauer) to do.
The first book, currently titled RED SCARE (although I'm also considering BETTER DEAD – any thoughts?) will deal with the McCarthy era. Regular followers of the series will note that we have moved backward for this one, to the early 1950s. Right now the book rather ambitiously deals with the Rosenbergs, Dashiell Hammett, McCarthy, and CIA LSD murder. I hope to cover all of this, but discussions with George (and research) may convince me to tighten the scope.
The second book is also ambitious in scope – dealing with both Robert Kennedy's assassination and a lengthy flashback finally exploring Heller's role on the Rackets Committee as an undercover operative infiltrating Jimmy Hoffa's organization. Right now I'm calling this THE SECOND GUNMAN, but I'm not married to that title.
Both of these novels deal with material I always knew I wanted to explore with but skipped over because, in order to get Heller back with a publisher, I felt the Kennedy trilogy was the more commercial bet. Part of my strategy was to get JFK done, because that was always the end game for the series. We haven't set the world on fire with the JFK novels, at least not so far, but we've done well enough for me to get offered another two books.
Of course, I am now not sure that JFK is the chronological end of the saga. I am considering MLK and Watergate. But that's another contract.
A couple of movie and TV notes.
Barb and I recently re-watched FREAKS & GEEKS, which is among the greatest TV shows of all time. This is where Seth Rogen, Jason Seigel and James Franco began (and arguably so did Judd Apatow, but the cast includes so many other great people. The regular cast (my favorite is Martin Starr, who went on to co-star in the also wonderful PARTY DOWN) is supported by all sorts of stars to be – Shia LeBeouf (a little kid here), Lizzy Caplan (also with PARTY DOWN in her future), Rashida Jones (THE OFFICE, PARKS & RECREATION). It's merely the best show ever done about high school (set in the '80s but timeless). Tom Wilson (Biff in BACK TO THE FUTURE!) is a semi-regular, and so are Joel Hodgson and Trace Beaulieu of MST3K. MST3K veteran and CINEMATIC TITANIC cast member J. Elvis Weinstein is a writer/producer on the show. 18 classic episodes.
The one-season follow-up, UNDECLARED, about first-year college students, is a worthy add-on, with Rogen back and really developing as both writer and actor, and lots of FREAKS & GEEKS actors returning as semi-regulars or guest stars. Judd Apatow is the creator, while FREAKS & GEEKS creator Paul Feig directs an episode.
On the film front, Barb and I took in the wonderful I-MAX 3-D version of THE WIZARD OF OZ (this may not be in theaters now – I think it was a one-week limited engagement) and a screening of VERTIGO at the same multi-plex. As Terry Beatty has pointed out, the 3-D restored OZ is oddly more intimate than before. VERTIGO remains my favorite film and an incredibly layered piece of work – the only private eye story that really rivals THE MALTESE FALCON for first position in the genre. James Stewart, in a career littered with great performances and classic films, delivers his finest performance.
Of new movies, we caught DeNiro in Luc Besson's underrated black comedy, THE FAMILY. Barb and I were very surprised by how much we liked that one. Dark and funny and with a (warped) good heart.
There are several much-hyped movies, some well-reviewed, that I can't make myself see. RUSH is a subject I don't care about, and director Ron Howard is notorious for his movies going on too long. DON JON – really? The story of a New Jersey lummox who gives up porn for Scarlett Johansson? How's that for a conflict….
Booklist gave us a very good review on WHAT DOESN'T KILL HER. Don't know how to link this, so here it is:
Here's a Spinetingler review of COMPLEX 90:
Will it be a major international incident, or will Mike overpower both the American and Soviet governments? Of course, the gore and sex which play a prominent part in the novel are trademarks of Spillane, purely Mike Hammer at his wise-cracking best. It's hard to tell where Spillane leaves off and Collins picks up.
Finally, here's a wonderful review of TRUE CRIME. Never too late!


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In an announcement released Nov. 29 on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site, the Army is asking all rifle makers who want to compete in the upcoming Improved Carbine search to test their weapons on the services potent new M855A1 cartridge and to make sure their guns can work with the M28 shotgun and M320 grenade launcher attached.
According to Lt. Col. Chris Lehner, the program manager for individual weapons, the new round is only available for government purchase, so in the interest of fairness to all those companies who have 5.56 designs, the service wanted to make sure all the candidates could fire the new round without encountering serious problems.
The first iteration of Familiarization firing will be on a 25yd and 300yd range (one or more days on each range). A third, 100m indoor range, may be available (availability pending the final count of vendors participating).The service is also inviting manufacturers to confirm their designs are compatible with "enablers" like the H&K-made M320 grenade launcher and the M26 magazine-fed shotgun. But this is not a firing event and is not restricted to 5.56 rifles.
The so-called "familiarization shoot" than "compatibility tests" will be conducted at HP White labs in Street, Md., from January - May of next year. But the important thing is that all companies who want to participate MUST REGISTER BETWEEN DECEMBER 6 to DECEMBER 10 by calling HP White and getting in the lottery for a time and date.
Interested vendors must register through: H.P. White Laboratory,Inc., Ray McBride, Lester Roane, or Frank Barile at 410-838-6550 December 06 - 10, 2010. All other inquiries please contact: The U.S. Army, ArmyContracting Command (ACC) Joint Munitions & Lethality (JM&L) ContractingCenter, CCJM-MA, Bldg 10, Attn: Pete Snedeker, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ 07806-5000 at email@example.com. This is a special notice only and is forplanning purposes only.In a conversation with Lehner to fill out the details of the announcement, I asked whether the 5.56 only test shoot is a forecast that the Army wants a 5.56 replacement for the M4. He explained that this was merely a way for manufacturers to shoot their rifle with the round now being used by most Soldiers in the field -- the 5.56x45 M855A1 cartridge. Other rounds like the 6.8 and 7.62 are already commercially available. There is no prejudice toward the 5.56 for the improved carbine program, he said.
And to make it even more fair, Lehner has arranged for a follow up test shoot for vendors who needed to tweak their designs in light of their weapon's performance in the initial trial with the M855A1 round. In other words, if your gun screws up firing the new bullet, you have a chance to change some barrel twist, retool the bolt or add some length and reshoot.
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We want these guys to have a stress free environment where they can shoot our ammunition, they don't have to worry about the government looking over their shoulder [since it's at HP White] collecting information on them and then they can make their tweaks, and then they can come to the competition.Make sure to read the entire announcement on the Army's Improved Carbine vendor familiarization shoot and compatibility test and make sure to register your bang stick by December 10 .