text: DepartmentsCardiovascular MedicineSpecialty GroupsCardiac Rehabilitation ProgramCardiovascular Health ClinicCardiovascular Imaging (CT, MRI, Nuclear Cardiology)Echocardiography LaboratoryHypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ClinicPulmonary Hypertension ClinicSports CardiologyLocationJacksonville, FloridaLanguagesEnglishExisting patientsSend a secure message via patient portal Share this page via: Facebook Twitter Print Biographical summary Dr. Brian P. Shapiro is a general noninvasive cardiologist with special interests in cardiovascular disease prevention and wellness, sports cardiology, pulmonary hypertension, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Expert in multimodality imaging including echocardiogram, nuclear cardiology, cardiac MRI, and CT. Highly involved in caring for patients from underserved populations and volunteers at multiple clinics around Jacksonville serving these patients including the Sulzbacher Clinic and Volunteers in Medicine. Extensive research experience with a large number of grants and publications predominantly in advanced imaging in cardiovascular disease such as using cardiac MRI with exercise to detect early disease activity. Involved in many large, multi-center prospective clinical trials implementing optimal disease management in conditions like hypertension. Mentors a large number of medical students, residents, and fellows as part of his roles as the Dean of Academic Affairs for Mayo Medical School, Associate Fellowship Director for Cardiovascular Medicine, and the Director of CV Education for Internal Medicine Residents. Conditions treatedHeart failureHypertrophic cardiomyopathyPulmonary hypertension Procedures performedEchocardiogramMRI cardiac stress test InterestsAdvanced cardiovascular imagingPulmonary hypertensionHeart failureClinical research with advanced cardiovascular imagingGeneral non-invasive cardiologySports cardiologyHypertrophic cardiomyopathyCardiovascular disease prevention Mayo Clinic locations Jacksonville, Florida Driving Directions More info Billing & insurance Accessibility services Education2010Clinical Fellowship - Cardiology Clinical Fellowship and Cardiovascular Imaging Fellowship; Echocardiography (Level 3), Cardiovascular MRI (Level 3), Cardiovascular CT (Level 3), Nuclear Cardiology (Level 2)Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine2007Chief Resident - Cardiology; Clinical Investigator Research TractMayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine2007Research Fellowship - Cardiology; Clinical Investigator Research TractMayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine2005Resident - Internal MedicineMayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine2002MD - MedicineMiller School of Medicine, University of Miami1997BA - HistoryUniversity of Florida1995Visiting Student - Study Abroad ProgramUniversity of InnsbruckShow more education Activities and honorsCertifications2010Adult Comp EchocardiographyNational Board of Echocardiography2009Cardiovascular DiseasesAmerican Board of Internal Medicine2005Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineShow more certificationsAwards and honors2020Honors Award , Officer Development School (US Navy )US Navy2018Endowment for Education Research Award American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine2017Community Service Award Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine2017Outstanding Faculty Member AwardMayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development2017Outstanding Faculty Member Award - Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional DevelopmentMayo Clinic in Florida2017Cardiovascular Researcher of the Year American College of Cardiology - Florida Chapter2016Endowment for Education Research AwardMayo Clinic in Florida2015Teacher of the Year Award-Cardiovascular DiseasesDepartment of Internal Medicine2013Teacher of the Year AwardDepartment of Internal Medicine2012Department of Medicine Outstanding Educator AwardMayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Department of Education Administration2012Teacher of the Year AwardDepartment of Internal Medicine2011Teacher of the Year AwardDepartment of Internal Medicine2010Cardiovascular Diseases Award for Outstanding AchievementMayo Clinic in Rochester2010Cardiovascular Diseases Award for Outstanding Achievement- ResearchDivision of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2010Teacher of the Year AwardDepartment of Internal Medicine2008Medtronic Basic Concepts for Cardiology FellowsMedtronic, Inc.2008Cardiology Fellows ProgramHeart Failure Society of America2006Chief ResidentCardiology Research Fellowship, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science1997Phi Beta Kappa National Honors SocietyUniversity of Florida1997Golden Key National Honors SocietyUniversity of Florida1997Graduated with HonorsUniversity of Florida1994Dean's ListUniversity of FloridaShow more awards and honorsProfessional memberships2019 - presentMemberGraduate Medical Education2018 - presentDirectorSulzbacher Procedure Clinic, Department of Family Medicine2018 - presentMemberOutpatient Clinical Practice Committee2016 - presentMemberMayo School of Medicine Executive Operating Team 2016 - presentExecutive TeamAmerican Heart Association Heart Walk, Mayo Clinic in Florida2015 - presentDirectorDivision of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine2015 - 2019ChairClinical Competency Committee, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2015 - 2020Assistant DeanMayo Medical School2015 - presentAcademic Promotions CommitteeMayo Medical School2015 - presentExcecutive Operating TeamMayo Medical School2015 - presentMemberFlorida Education Committee2014 - presentDirectorCardiovascular Diseases Fellowship Clinical Competency Committee2014 - presentEducational DirectorFlorida Chapter, American College of Cardiology2013 - presentCo-DirectorHypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2012 - presentCo-DirectorAmyloidosis Clinic, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2012 - 2014Director of Clinical ResearchDivision of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2012 - 2019DirectorResidency Program, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2012 - 2014Vice ChairMayo Clinic Florida Research Operations Management Team, Executive Operations Team - Florida, Mayo Clinic Florida Committees2011 - 2016MemberClinical Research Subcommittee, Research Committee, Mayo Clinic Florida Committees2011 - 2012DirectorCardiac Rehabilitation, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2010 - presentMemberPulmonary Hypertension Clinic, Department of Internal Medicine2010 - presentDirectorCardiac Imaging Laboratory, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine2010 - presentMemberSociety for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance2010 - presentMemberSociety of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography2010 - presentMemberNorth American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging2009 - presentMemberAmerican Society of Nuclear Cardiology2009 - presentMemberAmerican Society of Echocardiography2006 - 2007Co-LeaderCardiology Fellows Journal Club, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases2006 - presentMemberPulmonary Hypertension Association2006 - 2007LeaderClinical Investigator Research Journal Club, Mayo Clinic Committees2005 - presentMemberAmerican Heart Association2005 - presentMemberAmerican College of Cardiology2002 - presentMemberAmerican Medical AssociationShow more professional membershipsPublicationsSee my publicationsResearch activitiesSee a description of research activities. 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- Greg Baker
Halleluiah! (Reprinted from the Metro Spirit 5-30-13)
Halleluiah! – The lake is full! Our family spent the weekend up there over Memorial Day. It brought back memories of the good old days where you didn't have to worry about lake levels. Based on the number of folks cruising around, I suspect that we weren't the only family celebrating a return to the lake. I hope that you enjoyed it as much as we did.
My contribution to the weekend was disconnecting from all my electronic entanglements. Well, as many as I could. The unexpected pop-up occurs from time-to-time, and this weekend was no different in that respect. But if you are one of those folks that find yourself with one foot perpetually stuck in the Cloud, try taking a step away (is that a mixed metaphor?) and enjoy some home brew. It'll do you some good.
At least until the luxury ski boats come down the lake.
Now, I'm for having a good time on the lake just like everyone else. You can call me old school if you like, but I always believed that my good time shouldn't create problems for others. So dude, if you've done well enough to afford an expensive ski boat, more power to you. (Seriously, I hope that we've done business together, and that I helped you earn it.) And if you want to let your teenager take that boat out with their friends unsupervised, I'm cool with that. Your kid has obviously earned your trust.
But I really don't think it's appropriate to crank up a sound system and force the entire lake to partake of melodies celebrating the finer qualities of prostitutes, gangs and the ghetto lifestyle.
Seriously, we were indoors, the boat was on the other side of the lake, and we couldn't hear the television.
And that was the quiet one.
The whole scenario is ludicrous (no pun intended) to me. Here's a group of white teenagers from obviously affluent families blasting gang'sta rap while sitting in a $50,000+ ski boat with a bunch of future sorority co-eds. Yeah…you guys are down with the brothers. I totally buy it.
Fortunately, this creates an easy resolution for Columbia County's finest. On Sunday, we saw several citations issued. We assume they were written up against a noise ordinance, although to be honest, I wasn't aware an ordinance was on the books. By Monday, the word had gotten out. Every crew that started blasting tunes was immediately approached by other teens on jet skis, and the music magically disappeared.
Side Note – The rising moon over the lake on Saturday and Sunday nights was a sight to see. Hope you caught it. Also, we witnessed the Columbia County Lake Patrol bust a party barge off Wildwood. Not sure what was going on, but the Blue lights on the nighttime water was another stunning visual effect. (Although, probably not to the folks on the barge.)
Major Tom – An unknown recording artist named Chris Hadfield recently released a new version of the David Bowie classic, Space Oddity. Many unknowns have recorded a version of this classic, so what makes this one special? This is the first one actually recorded in outer space. International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield recorded the song while living on the space station. I've linked the YouTube site below. I also recommend that you browse his twitter feed. Lots and lots of great photography from the ISS.
Space Oddity video: http://youtu.be/KaOC9danxNo
Chris Hadfieid Twitter: @Cmdr_Hadfield
Until next time, I'll be floating in my tin can far above the world. @gregory_a_baker

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In case you haven't noticed, FOX has a certified hit courtesy of the new blockbuster hit show, The Masked Singer. The premiere of the show just a few weeks back drew in over 15 million viewers, which is unheard of these days in the ever-crowded media landscape.
So were you one of those millions? If not, no worries. There is still time to hop on the bandwagon. But in order to tune into the show and not think you have entered some sort of crazy atmosphere, it's a good idea to do your research.
And lucky for you, we have already done your research for you.
The Hosts
The Masked Singer is hosted by Nick Cannon, who used to host another reality competition show called America's Got Talent. Joining him is a panel of celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, Ken Jeong and Robin Thicke.
How It Works
On the show, celebrities square off in a singing competition with a twist – they wear these crazy amazing costumes while doing it, so their identity is concealed, that is until they get voted off the show. There are lions and deers, peacocks and unicorns – you just never know who is going to show up.
Of course, to wet viewer's appetites, the panelists will ask a series of questions to see if they can get clues as to who the secret celebrity is. The celebrity can be just about anyone, from singers to athletes to comedians. You just never can tell, literally.
During each show, one singer is eliminated and finally reveal their true identity. So far, two of the 12 celebrity singers have been revealed, including the Hippo, a.k.a. NFL player Antonio Brown, and the Pineapple, a.k.a. Tommy Chong.
When To Watch
The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on Fox.
Now, we know what you are saying – this might be a little too odd for your taste. We get it. But we ask you to give it ten minutes, and we pretty much guarantee that you will be hooked.


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Republican presidential candidates are turning their sights on criminal justice reform, indicating that the issue has broken into the mainstream conservative movement as the party seeks inroads with minority voters.
Conservatives have been gravitating toward the criminal justice reform movement for some time, but the fact that the GOP contenders have zeroed in on it as a potent political issue is a sea change moment for reform activists, as well as those eager to see Republicans expand the party's reach.
In addition, the issue could be an in for Republicans as they court the African-American and Hispanic voters that have traditionally been a stronghold of the Democratic Party.
President Obama won 93 percent of the black vote and 71 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012. Obama noted in an address on criminal justice reform on Tuesday that it's these minority groups that are disproportionately affected by the nation's ballooning prison population.
"America's demographics are changing at lighting speed, so Republicans are going to have to court minority voters, period," said GOP strategist Ford O'Connell. "This is a smart way to do it. Will it move the needle on the 2016 electoral map? I don't know. But at least there's a realization that we can't win the White House relying solely on white voters."


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How Cape Fear region schools make up snow days varies by district
Cumberland County and several area school systems will be closed today while others already have plans to be shut down Wednesday, as well.
It's the first official snow days of the academic year, and for those school systems that cancel classes, the instructional time will need to be made up.
How school districts make up the time varies from district to district. Some systems opt to use Saturdays or days allotted for spring break.
So far, Cumberland County students have only had delayed openings in recent inclement weather and have not had to make up any days.
School days aren't built into the school calendar, so Cumberland superintendent Frank Till said officials will extend the school day to make up for the loss of instructional time.
If schools are closed for a period of time because of inclement weather, students would attend on days designated as teacher work days.
"It's still early in the winter," Till said. "We have some contingencies."
Harnett, Hoke, Scotland and Moore school districts will release students early today. Harnett plans to make up school days on Saturdays, if needed, according to a school official.
A Moore County spokesman said the system typically makes up days on Saturdays, as well.
Bladen, Robeson, Lee, Columbus and Whiteville City schools will be closed today and Wednesday.
Neither Harnett or Cumberland officials have made a decision about Wednesday classes.
Till said he would decide today.
"I don't want to make that call too far in advance," he said. "We will err on the side of caution."
Fayetteville Technical Community College will be closed today and Wednesday.
Fayetteville State University will close at noon today and will be closed Wednesday.
Officials have not decided how to make up the instructional time.
Days can't be added to the semester.
Staff writer Venita Jenkins can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 486-3511.


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Earlier this month major Canadian telecommunications company Bell lowered the prices of its roaming packages by 50%.
Now Telus is doing the same, significantly slashing the prices of its US roaming packages.
For $25, Telus customers can now get 50 minutes of talk, 50 megabytes of data, and 150 outgoing texts in the US. A $45 plan triples the minutes and data and offers unlimited texting. Check out all of Telus' cheaper roaming packages here.
The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is cracking down on Canadian telcos' exorbitant roaming fees, though the Big Three prefer to cite "listening to customers" as the primary reason for lowering rates as opposed to the CRTC's efforts.
Up to 18 million Canadians cross the US border per year and spend a staggering $800 million annually in roaming fees, according to the CRTC.
"It was very clear that Canadians are unhappy with how much it costs to use their phones a lot when they travel abroad," Bell president Wade Oosterman stated obviously this month.
Telus' pay-per-use "everyday low rates" remain high, however, charging users $5 for a single megabyte of data in the US and 60 cents for a text message.


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My boy Arrow, (GCH Mischief Afoot Arrow's Solid Alibi) won Best of Breed in the AKC's National Owner Handler Series. His mom Michelle sent us their picture. I'm proud of them, what a great Christmas present!
My daughter Billie Jean "Stillwater Style" won Best of Breed on Saturday at the Vancouver (WA) Kennel Club under Judge Mr. Chuck Murray. I'm really proud of her, she shows like a pro.
In my first shows as a Veteran (I just turned seven years old) I had a great time!
At the Cascade Pembroke Welsh Corgi Club's annual specialty show I was chosen Best Veteran in Sweepstakes by judge Mrs. Janet Summer (Kinion Corgis) of Oregon City, Oregon.
In the breed judging, I was Select Dog, Best Veteran and Dad & I got Best Owner-Handled Dog. Our judge was Mr. Kim Visgo Nielsen of Denmark. Dad had to carry a big handful of ribbons home.
My boy Arrow, now "CH" Mischief Afoot Arrow's Solid Alibi won his AKC Championship Saturday, at the Peninsula Dog Fanciers' shows in Bremerton, Washington. Mom, Dad and Arrow's Mom, Michelle, celebrated with champagne… Arrow and I got some too.
Last week at the Chintimini Kennel Club shows in Albany, Oregon.
Arrow did great! On the first day he won Select Dog, and because his Mom Michelle was handling him he got to go to the National Owner Handler Series Group where he took first place. Because of that, he got to go to the NOHS Best in Show competition where he won Reserve Best in Show. The next day he won Best of Breed and then won a Third Place in Groups.
My boy Odin (from my litter with Fergie) won Winner's Dog Friday at the Arrowhead Kennel Club shows in Scottsdale, Arizona. Odin's Dad Brandon handled him for the first time and did great! Odin's Mom Kerrie got him all groomed and ready to show. What a team! Thank you, breeder Robin Jones (Desprado Corgis in Sierra Vista, AZ) for mentoring Brandon, Kerrie and Odin.
Mom and Dad took me to Canada this weekend and I finished my championship there. I won a Group 4 on Friday and a Group 3 on Saturday. We were in Surry, BC, at the Fraser Valley Dog Fanciers shows. Dad bought me a new bandana to celebrate!


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How to Install Ghost on Dreamhost
Once you are logged into the Dreamhost cPanel, on the left hand side, click on "VPS" and then "Enable VPS Service". It may take a little bit for Dreamhost to create your VPS, but once its ready, you will see a code that looks like this
ps226308. Copy that code, you will need it in a minute
Now on the left hand side, click on "VPS" and then "Manage Admin Users"
Add a new user with SSH access
5. Now open up Terminal or your command line appliction and type the following command, replacing
testghost with your username from earlier (it may take a few minutes for your username to propagate):
ssh email@example.com
6. Once in, update the Dreamhost VPS operating system:
sudo apt-get update
sudo aptitude install build-essential zip
7. Download and install Node.js
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
9. Download and Install Ghost
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/
cd /var/www/
curl -L -O https://ghost.org/zip/ghost-latest.zip
sudo unzip -d ghost [Name-of-Ghost-zip].zip
cd ghost/
sudo npm install --production
10. Edit the config file:
cp config.example.js config.js
sudo vi config.js
11. In the "Production" section, change the following:
host: '127.0.0.1',
host: '0.0.0.0',
12. Create Ghost User:
sudo adduser --shell /bin/bash --gecos 'Ghost application' ghost
sudo chown -R ghost:ghost /var/www/ghost/
13. Log into Ghost User:
su - ghost
cd /var/www/ghost/
14. Start Ghost:
npm start --production
15. Browse to your DreamHost URL with `:2368` at the end of the url to see it running (replacing `ps226308` with your DreamHost generated ID from earlier):
Proxy from Port 80 and Keep Ghost Running
There you have it, Node.js is installed, Ghost files are located in
/var/www/ghost, and Ghost has been started. You can keep Ghost the way it is currently setup if you do not mind adding :2368 to the end of your url, but we would highly recommend you check out the following two articles to help get your Ghost blog ready:
Next Steps:
Learn Ghost from the Ground Up
Head to "Ghost for Beginners" to learn everything you need to know about learning and customizing Ghost
Find the Perfect Ghost Theme
Go to our Ghost themes section of this site to browse all of your Ghost theme options in one place.


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Digging around my office yesterday, I found a spare copy of Patrick O'Keefe's excellent book 'Managing Online Forums'. You can read my review here.
As it's a spare copy I am going to give this one away. If you would like it, simply hit the Tweet button at the bottom of this post. On Wednesday June 15 2011 at 6pm Pacific Time, I will choose a random winner out of everyone who participated in the 'Tweet Out' and mail them the book. This is open to anyone, anywhere in the world.
If you can't cope with the odds, pick up a copy at Amazon.
[UPDATE: Patrick just got in touch and said he'll be sending me a signature card to put in the book - so your copy will also be signed by the author]
The winner has now been drawn. Congratulations @PatrickAero!


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The pharmaceutical industry, with its roots in traditional remedies, has always had its hits and misses. The application of scientific experimentation and development rigor has made the industry more rational, but plenty of luck is still required. A late-stage drug being advanced by a major pharmaceutical company has just a 20 per cent chance of being approved for clinical use. But synthetic biology may be changing these odds.
Synthetic biology is a fast-growing discipline that makes biological systems easier to engineer. It is genetic engineering done with digital technology. The field is based on DNA synthesis technologies that allows new DNA code to be chemically "printed", plus advanced computer-aided design software. These combine to make programming living cells similar to programming computer systems.
Synthetic biology is booming. Researchers and developers are in high demand. SynBioBeta, an industry hub based in San Francisco, estimates that USD2 billion will flow towards companies in the field this year. But one area of R&D that has been largely overlooked by scientists and developers alike is the design and construction of viruses. This is surprising given that viruses have very small genomes, typically under 200,000 basepairs of code, making them easy to synthesize, and because they can both cause and cure (as is the case with gene therapies) human disease.
In the past, modifying viruses to study or domesticate them was slow and laborious work. But with DNA synthesis now good enough to write virus genomes in their entirety from scratch, precise virus engineering has become push-button. With genetic design software improving, and new DNA synthesis technologies coming online, we could see the emergence of a viral "app store", opening the floodgates to new experiments, genetic therapies, and vaccines.
Arguably, the virus app store is overdue. Despite the first synthetic virus, poliovirus, being reported back in 2002, only another two dozen virus species have been made synthetically – or at least reported in scientific journals. This is a miniscule fraction of the millions, if not billions of natural virus species.
Humane Genomics (HGI), incorporated in 2017, is exploring the use of synthetic viruses as personalized cancer therapies. The conventional way of drug-making is to find a chemical or biological agent that works well for a group of people. The problem with this approach is that each instance of cancer is actually a unique disease. Cancer is an infection, only not with a microbe or virus that we have encountered in the world, but with some of our own cells gone rogue. Because we are each unique, our cancers are unique, which means cancer treatments must also be unique. Finding common, "druggable" targets is not just hard to do, it is pointless.
Fully personalized (n=1) therapies make the most sense for cancer. They also eliminate the most expensive and time-consuming part of drug development, the phased clinical trials required to ensure new drugs are safe for the "average" patient. With n=1 therapies, regulators approve the process, not the product. Along these lines, personalized CAR-T therapies won their first FDA approvals in 2017.
HGI is working to create custom virotherapies where viruses or virus-like particles are designed for a single patient. The iterative design-build-test process should work for any cell. Rather than pursue human trials, it starts with companion dogs. Dogs get many of the same cancers that we do, often involving the same genes and mutations. They are less susceptible to placebo effects and dosing irregularities. And because we consider our dogs family members, we want them to get the best care possible, even if this means seeking experimental treatments.
The process always begins with a single dog. A biopsy is obtained – a sample of the dog's cancer. (A liquid biopsy can also be used, allowing identification of a cancer in the earlies stages). Cancerous and normal cells are then profiled, typically with the expressed RNA, or transcriptome, being sequenced. This information, which tells us which genes differentially turned on or off in the cancer compared to normal cells, is used to computationally design a custom synthetic virus that can specifically infect and cripple the cancer cell. Once validated in the laboratory, the virus is ready for clinical use. Each virus is only used once, on the dog for which it was made.
Personalized drug development could fundamentally change the way new cancer drugs are made. HGI can make a custom virus in a few months for about USD 50,000, while traditional drug development can run in the billions of dollars and take over a decade. Meanwhile, the rapid improvements being made in DNA synthesis, automation, and miniaturization could result in virotherapy development times and costs falling exponentially.
Best of all, every dog treated helps to refine the process for all subsequent treatments. In other words, this way of making medicine is continuously getting smarter and better over time. When dogs start getting better, more affordable cancer detection and treatments than the best human treatments, it should be relatively easy for doctors and regulators to adopt a new approach to cancer treatment.
HGI has chosen to follow in the footsteps of open source software developer Red Hat. This approach also allows the flexibility to use a different business model than the rest of the pharma industry. Being open allows collaboration with both academic and commercial groups while keeping legal costs under control. Instead of chasing blockbuster drugs with USD 1 billion in annual sales, HGI seek to become the "Netflix" of the pharma world, offering everyone personalized cancer drugs for a low monthly subscription. The success of Netflix versus the traditional studios should be inspiring to anyone seeking to create next-generation pharma.
If successful, the gaps between research, development, and the clinic will become closer and cancer will become a manageable disease, like most other infections. Not only is this more humane, solving cancer will free up an enormous amount of financial and intellectual resources towards curing other, more complicated diseases. This is a better future not just for the pharmaceutical industry, but for all humanity.
Andrew Hessel is the CEO of Humane Genomics Inc., a seed-stage company developing virus-based therapies for cancer, starting with dogs. He is a co-founder of the Genome Project-write, the international scientific effort working to engineer large genomes, including the human genome. His goal is to help people better understand and use living systems to meet the needs of society.


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World Famous
My mom's chocolate chip cookies were the best. Her secret was simple: she used the Nestle Tollhouse recipe, but with a slight tweak (which I won't share!). Back in the day whenever I baked them, friends and co-workers would devour the chocolate treats and insist I bring them to future gatherings. The cookies became known as my "world famous" chocolate chip cookies. I continued to make them over the years, but recently decided to veganify them which was easy with just a few simple tweaks.
Mom's Tricks for Success
My mom's chocolate chip cookies tasted so good because she used an electric mixer vs. hand mixing and didn't over bake the cookies, which is key (see the Notes section of the recipe for my tip). There was also her secret ingredient, but that is not contained in this version. So try these out and let me know what you think.
- 2 1/4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup vegan butter, softened (I use Earth Balance)
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, room temperature
- 3/4 cup organic peanut butter
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/2 tsp water
- egg replacer equivalent to 2 eggs
- 1 cup vegan bittersweet chocolate chips (I use Equal Exchange)
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper and set aside.
- Sift together flour, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a mixer, cream together butter, coconut oil, peanut butter and sugars.
- Beat in vanilla, water, and egg replacer until creamy.
- Add flour mixture, about a 1/2 cup at a time, and mix well.
- Remove bowl from mixer, add in chocolate chips, and stir with a large spoon.
- Drop by large spoonfuls onto cookies sheets. You may need to pinch the dough to keep it from falling apart.
- Place cookie sheets on center over rack and bake for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are slightly brown on top.
- Remove from oven and let sit for about 5 minutes.
- Remove from cookie sheet and place on a wire rack until cool.
- To make mixing easier, I try to bring my butter to room temperature. If you forget, slice the butter up into small pieces to hasten the softening process.
- I bake 2 cookie sheets at a time.
- I've always noticed that chocolate chip cookie recipes go awry when people try to over bake the cookies. So as soon as you see a little brown on top, pull them out. They will finish baking on the cookie sheet. Be sure to let them sit for 5 minutes before placing them on a wire rack to cool.
Lori Hill
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Master theses
During a masterthesis a student works fulltime in the VUmc, for a period of 6-9 months, on his on her assignment. The projects are always on the domain of patient flow and capacity management in which a quantitative approach is taken. We work mostly with students with a technical or (applied) mathematical background.
Overview mastertheses since 2005:
- Workforce planning at clinical wards (2008)
- A mathematical approach for dimensioning clinical wards (2007)
- Optimizing cardiothoracic patient flow and ICU booking policy: a simulation study (2006) - confidential
- The impact of caselength and variation on the feasiblity of occupancy rates of surgical disciplines (2005)
- Control of healthcare processes: logistically homogeneous patientgroups (2005)
Business cases
In the BMI (Business Mathematics and Informatics) business case a group of bachelor students tackles a problem.
See overview of student papers below (Dutch only).
- Operationele Kennis (M. van Schoonhoven, maart 2004)
- Waiting patiently (A. Hutzschenreuter, januari 2004)
- Operations Research in de Gezondheidszorg (H. Huijser)
Student assignments
At the moment we have a few student assigments available, see overview below:
- Workforce planning at clinical wards - is inmiddels vervuld
- Analyse historische zittingsduren tbv implementatie CS-OK
- Determining shift schedules for an ED department
- Hospital capacity planning
- Impact van leeftijdsopbouw op personeelsplanning op de IC (coming up)
Interested? Send an email to Arnoud de Bruin or call: 020-4443068


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The Pleistocene to Holocene transition is both a reality of climate history, and a notion of the prehistorian. A century of approaches to Australian archaeology guides the frameworks of the issue today.
Australia, a dry island continent in mid latitude, spans from tropical to cold temperate regions; long isolation has given it its own flora and fauna. Environmental changes in the late Quaternary have had their own and special courses in the continent and its several regions. The role of fires set by people is an important issue in the changing 'natural' landscape.
Western Arnhem Land is a small area (by Australian standards) on the north coast where remarkable sequences of sediment illuminate its complex landscape history. Matching the enviromental succession is an archaeological sequence with lithic sites running back into the Pleistocene. The famous richness of the region's rock-art also documents the human presence, again over a great time-depth, and gives a direct report of how ancient Arnhem Landers depicted themselves. By 'bridging' between these three themes, a rare and perhaps unique synthesis can be built.
The rise of cemeteries, extreme biological diversification, size decrease, increased violence, disappearance of megafauna, exploitation of different resources, evolution of rivers to an expanded system of microenvironments, changes in occupation. How are these features of Australian Aboriginal societies in the great river-systems of the southeast related? From evidence of geomorphology, skeletal biology and other aspects of the archaeological record, a sharp disjunction between two different and relatively stable states is seen: a transforming transition rather than a gradual change.
Tasmania, at the south of the land-mass, experienced the Glacial Maximum as a properly cold affair. Recent archaeological work, some in country now difficult of human access, has developed an intricate story of changing adaptations. At the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, a major reorganization of Aboriginal adaptation strategies is seen in the archaeological record, argued to follow late-Pleistocene environmental amelioration.
An element in the changing pattern of Australian archaeology has been the filling-in of great blanks on the archaeological map, once survey and excavation has begun to explore them. The dry lands of the great central and western deserts of Australia, a hard place for humans to this day, have in the last couple of decades come to find a large place in the transitional story.
The wetter tropical zones of northern Australia are linked by their monsoonal climates. Their archaeology shows its own distinctive pattern as well, and rock-art is an important source of evidence and insight. This study focusses on a part of Queensland, setting this local sequence alongside Arnhem Land (reported by the paper of Taçon & Brockwell) and in the northern pattern as a whole.
A characteristic feature of human subsistence as the last glaciation ended was the turn towards new food sources, in a 'broad spectrum' transformation. Australia took an unusual course, and the trajectory in its arid zone is especially striking. What were the broad spectrum diets in arid Austalia? Why did they arise so late? Did they arise late?
Stone artefacts are made central in Australian prehistory by their dominance in the material we have from the field. Their contribution to this prehistory comes in the form of an unchanging tradition that spans the transition and changes only in the mid Holocene. This makes the Australian record almost unique in the world; but it is a uniqueness that may owe more to archaeological methods than cultural conservatism.
Australia, with its wide continental shelves, is a difficult region for the study of coastal adaptations over the Transition, as so much land was drowned by the post-glacial sealevel rise. What can be discerned has a place in a larger and longer-term pattern of adaptation.
A central issue in the regional prehistory over the Transition — and therefore of this whole set of papers — is the different life-ways that came to be followed in Papua New Guinea and in Australia itself; the one became agricultural, the other hunter-gatherer. There is more to the story than that divide; this is a story of a human and created world, rather than a simple response to directing environment.
At the south and north limits of our region are mountainous areas very different from the open arid spaces of the Australian continent between. In the north, the high country of New Guinea offers a complex and well-studied environmental sequence as the arena for early and puzzling human adaptations, precursor of the extraordinary societies of the island today.
The distribution of food-plants—both potential and actually exploited — reflects the natural history of contact across the seas and through the region, often long before Pleistocene times. The later and the human contribution has to be discerned from varied lines of evidence. The inventive process of early domestication leading to cultivation in the Sahulian north (New Guinea) was not a part of plant adaptation in the south (Australia). Neither did species diffusion result in adoption of agriculture or stimulation towards domestication among the Aboriginal hunter-gatherers.
The high and low islands of Torres Strait, scattered between the tip of Queensland and the coast of Papua New Guinea, make a unique frontier in later world prehistory: between a continent of hunter-gatherers and the majority world of cultivators. Consideration of just what archaeology there is in the Torres Strait Islands, and of its date, improve on the conventional question: was the Strait a bridge or a barrier?
In this concluding discussion the editors explore and summarize issues in the human story of the book's Transitions.


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New Sensor Patent
Canon has published a back illuminated sensor patent for APS-C and Full Frame sensors. Back Illuminated Sensors allow for a more effective use of pixel area.
Patent Publication No. 2012-15275
- 2012.1.19 Release Date
- Filing date 2010.6.30
Back-illuminated imaging device
- The two bonded substrates photoelectric conversion unit and the peripheral circuit manufacturing to
- Photoelectric conversion unit and the peripheral circuit microprocessor which is connected by bump
- The incident light is changed and the current strong influence to adjacent pixels in the peripheral circuit, and noise (similar to a smear phenomenon).
Canon's patented
- And a peripheral circuit connected to a DC power supply photoelectric conversion unit
- Resistance is lowered, reducing the voltage drop


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Install iOS 10.3.3 ASAP
Apple have released iOS 10.3.3 and it has a large number of fixes that you should apply as soon as you can.
iOS 10.3.3 fixes a number of security issues, that include:
- Arbitrary code execution with system and/or kernel privileges
- Disclosure of user information
- Unexpected application termination
- Address bar spoofing
- Multiple memory corruption issues
- Arbitrary code execution on the Wi-Fi chip
This last one for the Wi-Fi chip can allow attackers in Wi-Fi range to find and take over you device and crash it. This exploit is known as Broadpwn and has been given a 9.8/10 score US's National Institute of Standards and Technology severity scale (NIST). It's not just an Apple problem, mobile devices with the Broadcom chip-set are likely to be at risk, Google has already patched it's devices.
More details can be found on the numerous fixes in 10.3.3 here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207923
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A new Christmas tradition
Growing up, there was usually insufficient money to celebrate Christmas. But in spite of that, I loved Christmas.
The colour of the lights, the dazzling decorations, the spirit of generosity, joy and love. It all seemed so much more prevalent and tangible during this season.
When I married and had my own family, Christmas became a very significant event on our calendar. A lavishly decorated Christmas tree dominated our living room, surrounded by beautifully wrapped presents. Delightful squeals filled the house each morning as my children unwrapped a carefully selected gift, representing the 12 days leading up to Christmas. Christmas Day was filled with family, food and festivities.
But when I began working at The Salvation Army homeless youth shelter, Oasis, in the heart of inner-Sydney, our idea of Christmas was changed forever. For the young people at Oasis, Christmas was marked by despair rather than joy. The constant images of families, laughter, celebration and connection reminded them of the things absent from their lives.
So we decided to do something about it. We hired a venue, found a team of enthusiastic volunteers, cut hams, cooked turkeys, hung decorations, wrapped presents, and opened the doors!
The first year, 200 people turned up, and it was chaotic. We didn't have enough plates, so volunteers were washing them as soon as someone finished their meal, ready for the next guest. However, laughter, joy, and unrecognisable renditions of Christmas carols filled the venue that day.
Thirteen years on, The Salvation Army Sydney Christmas lunch now serves more than 1,200 people. While I no longer run the event, supporting this amazing community celebration continues to be the way our family celebrates Christmas.
So what led me to change the Christmas traditions that I treasured so much?
As a follower of Jesus, I couldn't sit in the face of pain, poverty, and isolation, and do nothing. My faith, if it is genuine, demands that I make some response. I had no special experience or skills to host a Christmas lunch for 200 people, but we did what we could. Somehow, out of that willingness, a life-giving event emerged.
This is what God asks us to do – connect.
In the bible, it says this: "God helping you, take your everyday ordinary life and place it before God as an offering … those of us who are strong and able need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. Each of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves 'How can I help?'" (Romans 12 – The Message)
Something beautiful has happened in my own family through opening our lives and Christmas to others. Our son, Nathan, has now left home and has his own young family. They live in and run a Salvation Army community house on an estate in a troubled area of Sydney. This year, they will be running their own Christmas Day event for the residents who live in that estate, encouraging people to connect and know they are not alone. In another area of Sydney, my daughter, Sarah, will be cooking Christmas dinner in a Salvation Army house where she works. It's a house for asylum seekers, all under the age of 18, who have travelled on their own to Australia. They are anxious and fearful, far away from family and friends.
What is the ultimate Christmas tradition and story? God demonstrating his desire to connect with us through the sending of Jesus: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son..." (John 3:16)
This Christmas, I encourage you to establish new family traditions. Something that reflects giving, connection, and others, that can be passed from generation to generation. Invite a neighbour for Christmas lunch, place a present under the Kmart Wishing Tree, volunteer at a homeless shelter or community centre, donate food to your local Salvation Army centre, or buy a coffee for the homeless man you pass every day.
There are so many ways, it just takes your willingness to begin a new Christmas tradition.
By Major Robbin Moulds


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Java Inner classes
A nested class is a member of its enclosing class. Nested classes are divided into two categories: static and non-static. Nested classes that are declared static are simply called static nested classes. Non-static nested classes are called inner classes.
To instantiate an inner class, you must first instantiate the outer class. Then, create the inner object within the outer object.
There are three reasons you might create a nested class:
Organization: sometimes it seems most sensible to sort a class into the namespace of another class, especially when it won't be used in any other context.
Access: nested classes have special access to the variables/fields of their containing classes (precisely which variables/fields depends on the kind of nested class, whether inner or static).
Convenience: having to create a new file for every new type is bothersome, again, especially when the type will only be used in one context.


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Be a "crazy" safe driving advocate
April 19, 2016
Do you text while you drive? Do you talk on the phone while you drive? Do you realize you are putting your own life and the lives of others at risk when you are distracted behind the wheel?
Think of all the people that you encounter daily while driving. People, with families and their own stories, driving on the same roads as you to wherever their journey takes them. When looking at a busy highway from this perspective, the vehicles travelling become much more personal.
I have simply lost count of how many times I've lectured people over their distracted driving habits. Some have called me the "crazy" safe driving girl, many have ignored my message, and some have even called me annoying. However, I simply don't care. It's never been about me and never will be. When my friend and I started advocating for safe driving in high school, we didn't do it to achieve great success for ourselves.
We have chosen to be the voices for the 8 people killed each day because of distracted driving related crashes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those voices forever silenced, unable to educate others on the dangers of careless driving habits. I have never lost someone in my life to distracted driving. However, I have discovered the shattering effect distracted driving has played in other's lives, and it truly tears me apart.
We see it all the time in the news. Headline after headline carries the same message of the dangers of being distracted behind the wheel. Then what? The story ceases to exist after the 10 o'clock newscast, and that's the sad part of all of this. The 8 people that die each day to this deadly epidemic deserve more than a one minute story.
It is all citizens' responsibility to hold people accountable for their deadly habits. You also need to be a "crazy" safe driving activist:
be honest, be confrontational, and if it comes to this point, be annoying. Don't you dare sit in silence when you see someone texting and driving. Don't you dare think it's alright for someone to not be wearing their seat belt. Don't you dare think that distracted driving won't kill you, because it could. You or someone you know could be one of those 8 people that dies today.
Put down the phone, don't mess with the radio, stop being distracted by passengers in the vehicle. Distracted driving needs to end, but it won't unless you do your part to prevent it.
For more statistics and information on how to prevent distracted driving, go to the National Organizations for Youth Safety and the Centers for Disease Control.


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E-News - No Excuses!
It's the month of Christmas, and I title my newsletter "no excuses"? You would think I'd come up with something a little happier, cheerful or merrier, right? Well, a couple weeks back, I met a guy by the name of Kyle Maynard for the first time live. I had hired Kyle to come in and speak to ...read more


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So much has been written about the Ray Rice incident this week that I hesitate to even bother jumping into the fray. But, I started this blog, at least in part, to give me my own personal venue to vent. Especially when I'm really pissed. I read an article in today's Washington Post that made me steam. The improbable title of the article is "As the Ravens return to NFL action, many fans in Baltimore show support for Ray Rice."
The article spoke of the many Baltimore fans who arrived at Ravens stadium last night for the Ravens game against the Steelers wearing Rice's number 27 jersey to show their support for him. WTF does that even mean? If it means "support" as in "love the sinner, hate the sin," well, OK, I guess I get that. But, I don't think that's where these idiots live. Read the following paragraph from the article
On Thursday morning, though, Baltimore resident Kathi Bessling pulled on her Rice jersey and outfitted her three daughters in the No. 27, too. To Bessling, Rice was more than the man who punched Palmer, now his wife; he was a man her children and their friends had once looked up to, a man they cheered for in a Super Bowl win two seasons ago, a player who had rewarded them with three Pro Bowl seasons. Does that just disappear because of one incident, one video? It did not for many of those wandering the walkways Thursday. "He's still a good guy," Bessling said, standing near the statue of Lewis, another former Baltimore luminary with a complicated past. "I just feel like the Ravens are being targeted."
Seriously??? This woman put her three daughters in Ray Rice jerseys? Exactly what is she teaching them with that wardrobe decision? One incident? One video? He's still a "good guy." WTF is this woman talking about? The one incident that was caught on the one video shows this 200 lb man, reported to bench press 405 lbs, punching a defenseless woman in the face and knocking her out cold. In what alternative universe is he a "good guy?" In what fantasy land is this "targeting the Ravens?" HE PUNCHED HIS FIANCE IN THE FACE AND KNOCKED HER OUT!!!
Note to Kathi Bessling and other like-minded Baltimore fans:
1. Ray Rice is not a good guy. He's a troubled and abusive man, who belongs in intensive treatment and/or behind bars.
2. Nobody is "targeting the Ravens." Normal people are just repulsed and outraged by such barbaric behavior and want to see it punished. See #1.
3. There are things in life that are more important than winning Super Bowls. One example is not beating up women.
It's troubling to have to remind people of these facts, but apparently in Baltimore we still do.


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Essential Diagram supports connecting symbols and links together. Typically, symbols and links are connected together using the interactive LinkTool. Connections can also be created programmatically.
Here is some terminology that is important to know in order to understand connections:
Connection - An object that binds together two ports
Port - A location on a symbol or link at which connections to other ports can be established
Port Container - Any object that contains ports and supports connections to those ports (symbols and links are port containers)
Symbol - A node in a diagram that has child nodes and that supports ports and labels (symbols are port containers)
Link - A special type of symbol that has two endpoints, a direction, and a port anchored to each endpoint to support connections to symbols (links are port containers)
Ports determine where on a symbol or link that connections can be docked. All symbols have a center port that can either be enabled or disabled. Symbols can also have any number of ports elsewhere within their bounds. Each port can have zero or more connections on it at any given time.
Connections are the glue that hold ports together. Each connection has a reference to two ports. Port containers keep track of both ports and the connections to those ports. Both port containers involved in a given connection keep a reference to the connection object. Removing the connection from one port container will automatically remove it from the other port container.
A port container refers to its own port on a given connection as the local port. That simply means it is the port that it owns and not the port belonging to the other port container involved in the connection. The port belonging to the other port container involved in the connection is referred to as the foreign port. The terms "local" and "foreign" are simply a way to identify one of the two ports on a connection with respect to one of the port containers involved in the connection.
The IPortContainer interface contains many useful methods for navigating the ports and connections belonging to a symbol or link. Both the symbol and link classes implement this interface.
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[PAST EVENT] Hauben Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Deborah Loewenberg Ball
LocationSchool of Education
301 Monticello Ave
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
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(How) Can Teaching Disrupt Racism and Oppression?
Historical and persistent marginalization and oppression permeate all aspects of contemporary life, including education. Institutional structures and exclusionary practices rooted in social and cultural status groups and identities preserve and reinforce racialized and gendered norms. Teaching at all levels has enormous potential to disrupt these patterns, but it has instead often reproduced inequality and reified injustice through the discretionary spaces that are inherent to teaching. These discretionary spaces enable teachers to adapt responsively to cultural contexts, communities, and students, but they also make classroom practice vulnerable to actions and decisions that perpetuate oppression. This talk will investigate how patterns?particularly enacted patterns and signals of low expectations for marginalized students?are produced and reproduced, minute to minute, day to day, and week to week, inside of these discretionary spaces in teaching. We will explore how content can be taught in ways that can change the nature of the experiences of students and affect their sense of identity, belonging, and success and will consider what it would take to make such instruction a reality inside of classrooms.
Deborah Loewenberg Ball is the William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education at the University of Michigan, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and the founding director of TeachingWorks. She taught elementary school for more than 15 years, and continues to teach mathematics to elementary students every summer. Previously, she was the dean of the University of Michigan School of Education for more than ten years. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications, developed videos about studying the work of teaching mathematics, and given lectures and presentations around the world. Ball is an expert on teacher education, studying the practice of teaching as the active work of building relationships with children to support their learning and growth. Her research focuses on improving the quality of beginning teaching and investigating the challenges of learning for children of color and low-income children.
About the Hauben Distinguished Lecture Series
This lecture is supported through a generous endowed gift established by Margaret Divens Hauben ?59 and her husband, the late Lawrence A. Hauben with the purpose of supporting the School of Education in its efforts to bring renowned scholars to William & Mary.


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A starting eleven plus substitutes who will be missing over the next fortnight.
With key fixtures coming up in both Serie A and the Champions League over the next two weeks, AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri will be under severe pressure as he attempts to deal with the absence of a number of key players.
It is a scenario that the Rossoneri have unfortunately become accustomed to in recent years, and although there is a sense of frustration over the inability to prevent the number of injuries, there is also an element of bad luck considering the timing and quantity of issues.
While Daniele Bonera was a pre-season casualty after suffering a fractured knee-cap, promising full-back Mattia De Sciglio joined him as a long-term absentee with a meniscus problem in his left knee.
The 20-year-old underwent surgery to repair the damage and will face a month on the sidelines, which is a particularly disappointing start to the campaign considering his development over the past twelve months.
Fellow full-back Ignazio Abate is ruled out for up to 10 days after picking up a muscle injury on international duty with Italy, while the midfield trio of Andrea Poli, Kaka and captain Riccardo Montolivo all suffered strains during the 2-2 draw with Torino on Saturday night.
Giampaolo Pazzini is not expected to return for a month or so after undergoing knee surgery in the summer, while M'Baye Niang and Stephan El Shaarawy have muscular injuries that will see them remain in the treatment room for the next two weeks at least.
Adding to Allegri's selection headaches are the likes of Riccardo Saponara and Matias Silvestre, thus completing a starting eleven of potential first-team players.
Kaka has asked the club to not pay his wages while he is ruled out, which is a wonderful gesture from the 31-year-old, but it will only go so far in covering the disappointment of his immediate setback.
In the absence of the players mentioned above, more responsibility will inevitably be placed on Mario Balotelli, while an uninspiring midfield of combative midfielders will likely struggle to break down their opponents over the course of September.
With a Champions League clash with Celtic to look forward to on Wednesday night, before a meeting with Scudetto rivals Napoli next Sunday, it could prove to be an uncomfortable week ahead for Allegri and Milan.
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Lancaster's Eden Resort in the Heart of Amish Country Announces the Near Completion of Their 1.5 Million Dollar Renovation
(PRWEB) March 26, 2013
Offering guests a prime location in Lancaster, PA, the Best Western Premier Eden Resort and Suites promises to "exceed your expectations, not your budget." The Eden Resort continues the tradition they began in 1972, to provide the best in luxury and leisure for every savvy traveler.
This year, the Eden Resort continues their 40 years of excellence in hospitality as they near the completion of a 1.5 million dollar renovation that includes 66 upscale interior guest rooms, an expansive indoor pool area, a freshly designed information center, extensive phone and internet upgrades, and chic exterior landscaping that includes a shadow rock wall and fencing. Early this summer, the final phase of renovation will completely transform the Grande Ballroom, the resort's largest private ballroom available.
Mark Clossey, with over 30-plus years' experience in the hotel industry, whose career includes numerous hotel brands including the Helmsley organization, Disney and many others, currently serves as the general manager of the Eden Resort. According to Mark "I'm always impressed with the attention to detail the owners of the Eden Resort & Suites take when planning a hotel improvement. The hotel's current renovations are nothing short of spectacular." Mark continues, "Everything from the indoor pool to the newly redesigned interior guest rooms are simply some of the best I've seen anywhere." His excitement is hard to contain, "My staff and I can't wait to see the outcome of the new grand ballroom design."
From the start, the Eden Resort and Suites have prided themselves on superior guest services including a phenomenal staff, exceptional amenities, and incredible value. Numerous awards – from the 2012 Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence to Lancaster's Favorite Hotel by Lancaster Newspapers for nine years – attest to their achievement.
The Eden Resort offers guests amenities galore, including the newly renovated indoor pool, the all-new outdoor heated pool and recreation complex with picnic facilities, playground, kid's splash zone and sports center complex, two restaurants, a lounge, champagne brunch in the courtyard, a fitness center and meeting and wedding facilities. All of this, seated in the picturesque countryside amid the Amish attractions, shopping, amusement parks and sights make it the ideal retreat for vacationers and business travelers in the Lancaster area.
The Eden Resort and Suites continues to be committed to the satisfaction of their guests as it nears the completion of a 1.5 million dollar renovation.


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Sweet and tangy, these moist, delicate pancakes are bursting with lemon flavor.
On Erez's birthday a few years ago, I wanted to celebrate by making him a special 3-course dinner. In case you haven't figured it out already, we love food, so I spent the entire day cooking what I thought was the perfect meal. Although I wasn't much of a chef at that point, I was already into baking, so the dessert excited me quite a bit.
Erez's absolute favorite dessert flavor is lemon. Before I met him, I didn't care much for it, but after years of having to compromise and share the same lemon desserts, I slowly fell in love with this refreshingly tangy fruit.
I decided to make a lemon pudding cake for him. I'm sure you all know how it is when you make much more food than you really need because you're afraid of not having enough. That's exactly what happened to me. Actually, that's what always happens to me. Luckily, my friend Rene was with me that day (yes, it took two people cooking all day long for one meal) and she had this idea of making pancakes with the leftover batter. Since it was a cake batter and not at all a pancake batter, I ignored her. A minute later, though, I saw her hearting a griddle and adding some more ingredients.
She looked like one of those master chefs that always know exactly what they're doing, and it turns out that she did! Those pancakes, regardless of the fact that they weren't really pancakes, were the most delicious ones I've ever tasted. We thought we were the most ingenious people on earth. Yes, I said we. I took some of the credit just for being present.
The moment of truth came that evening when I presented Erez with the pudding and the little heart-shaped pancakes we arranged around it. He took a bite of my original dessert and didn't mention anything about it, he just kept talking as normal. Yet when he took a bite of the pancakes, his eyes opened wide in excitement and he said that I was a genius.
Erez recently celebrated another birthday, which reminded me of this story and really made me want some more lemon pancakes. This recipe is a little different; it's a real pancake batter instead of leftover cake batter, but I promise it's just as delicious! 🙂
This is a basic pancake recipe with the addition of grated lemon and juice, which add a refreshing and unique flavor. I used buttermilk for moistness and a slight tang that complements the fruit perfectly. If you prefer regular milk, simply mix the milk with the lemon juice and let it sit for 5 minutes before pouring into the wet ingredients. I love to serve these pancakes with maple syrup, but you can also use fresh berries, jam or jelly, grated white chocolate, or mascarpone cream.
Read more about making pancakes here, then go make yourself some of these delicious (and easy) treats!
- Zest and juice from one lemon (about 1 tablespoon zest, 1/4 cup juice)
- 3 tablespoons (37 grams/1.3 ounces) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (140 grams/5 ounces) all-purpose flour, sifted
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 large egg
- 1 cup buttermilk*
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons (30 grams/1 ounces) butter, melted
- Canola oil/cooking spray , for coating the pan
- In a large bowl, mix lemon zest and sugar until well combined. Add flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Mix to combine, then set aside.
- In a separate medium bowl, whisk together egg, buttermilk, melted butter, vanilla extract and lemon juice.
- Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Stir until combined and moistened. Be careful not to over mix.
- Heat a griddle or skillet over medium heat. Coat with cooking spray or oil. For each pancake, drop 1/4 cup of batter onto skillet. Cook 1-2 minutes, until surface of pancakes have some bubbles. Flip carefully and cook another 1-2 minutes. Transfer to a plate and cover loosely with aluminum foil to keep warm. Make sure to coat the skillet before every pancake or batch of pancakes to prevent sticking.
- Serve immediately while pancakes are still warm. Drizzle with maple syrup or desired topping.
- *Buttermilk can be substituted with milk. Mix the milk and lemon juice together and let sit for 5 minutes before adding to the wet ingredients.


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The Eclipse VIATRA™ framework supports the development of model transformations with specific focus on event-driven, reactive transformations. Building upon the incremental query support, VIATRA offers a language to define transformations and a reactive transformation engine to execute certain transformations upon changes in the underlying model.
The VIATRA project provides:
- An incremental query engine together with a graph pattern based language to specify and execute model queries efficiently.
- An internal DSL over the Xtend language to specify both batch and event-driven, reactive transformations.
- A rule-based design space exploration framework to explore design candidates as models satisfying multiple criteria.
- A model obfuscator to remove sensitive information from a confidential model (e.g. to create bug reports).
The current VIATRA project is a full rewrite of the previous VIATRA2 framework, now with full compatibility and support for EMF models. The project features a History wiki page that describes the main differences between the different versions.
This project is part of Eclipse IDE 2022-09, Eclipse IDE 2022-06, Eclipse IDE 2022-03, Eclipse IDE 2021-12, Eclipse IDE 2021-09, Eclipse IDE 2021-06, Eclipse IDE 2021-03, Eclipse IDE 2020-12, Eclipse IDE 2020-09, Eclipse IDE 2020-06, Eclipse IDE 2020-03, Eclipse IDE 2019-12, Eclipse IDE 2019-09, Eclipse IDE 2019-06, Eclipse IDE 2019-03, Eclipse IDE 2018-12, Eclipse IDE 2018-09, Eclipse Photon, and Eclipse Oxygen.
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The average American does not focus on the benefits of economic recession, an economic recession usually just means less sales and less customers. However, internet marketers can take advantage of the benefits of economic recession with a few tricks.
How can an internet marketer make the most of the benefits of economic recession?
1. Take yourself out of your comfort zone. Finding a marketing strategy that works for your business is great, but this means that you are less likely to take any marketing risks. However, every business—whether online or offline—needs to experience a bit of risk in order to develop. An economic recession can help marketers look for new ways to grow a business and keep it afloat.
2. Force yourself to get rid of waste. Similar to a lack of risk-taking, some business owners hold on to things that are not making ANY money. Cutting time-wasters is a great way to start treating a business as a true money-making machine. This is one of the benefits of economic recession that should always be taken to heart.
3. Use the economic recession to end procrastination. The threat of losing money or declaring bankruptcy is a great motivating factor to force people into action. Now is the time to search your brain to start implementing new ideas. Getting rid of procrastination is a great way to grow an online business with the benefits of economic recession.
4. Unite against a common cause. The entire population is struggling from the economic recession making it a common complaint. Perhaps out of desperation, we start to operate outside of our comfort zone to do things that will help a business grow. Either by networking, meeting new people, or talking to strangers, a recession helps to connect people and increases the number of clients, customers, and even friends.
The benefits of economic recession may not be obvious at first, but a recession ultimately reminds us how to grow our business in order to meet financial goals.
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Before having children, when I was a full-time class teacher, I'd quite harshly put parents into categories. They weren't ones which I'd talk about out loud of course, indeed even my normally politically correct brain would refrain me from fully acknowledging them to myself, but they were there. There was "that kind" of parent or "that type". And who were the worst? The ones I feared most by far were those who started the term with the sentence: "As a teacher…"
Well, I'll tell you that, as a teacher, and now a parent, I'm yet to utter those three poisoned words in any setting I've taken my children to. Sure, it comes up, it's no secret. When I had phonics explained to me, I let it slip that I did understand a little about that and two and two was added and equalled to "oh God, another annoying teacher parent". Square that by, "let's hope she won't interfere."
There was another instance at a pre-school my son went to when one of the practitioners said: "Are you a teacher?" I thought she must have noticed my fabulous interaction with the children, my expert, child-centred chit chat each morning. I said: "Yes, how did you know?" "Oh, just that you called a water apron a water apron". Yep, I know all about aprons, me.
But I know, on this front at least, I'm not a nightmare parent. I don't interfere, I'm positive and say things like: "sorry, I know you're really busy" and "don't worry it's fine". These sentences trip off the tongue almost obsessively, trying to compensate for the fact that they know I'm a teacher and they know (as do I) what that can mean.
On the home front though, I am basically a nightmare parent. While I know all about learning through play, and vehemently advocate the less target-driven approach to a holistic education, give me a list of spellings and one of my offspring and I'm off, absorbed into a teaching approach last seen somewhere mid last century.
Some time last term, when a mere babe in year one, my daughter was sent home with a list of spellings that I glanced at and tutted at profusely (still in nice, non-pushy mode) thinking "Mountain? Dolphin? Elephant?" Why on earth does she need to know these words? Not exactly easy. Not even useful for that matter.
But 100 metres later, at my front door, I was in a fluster. I was going to make her know those words come Monday. It was so important she knew how to spell mountain, I realised that now. Cancel ballet lessons, cancel the play-date, postpone the fun, it's "/m/ /ou/ /n/ /t/ai//n/" and nothing else this weekend.
I don't know what it is. Why I can be one kind of teacher (I've often been referred to as "hippy dippy" and "lefty" – badges I'll wear with pride) yet when it comes to my flesh and blood, I'm only just short of using a dunce's cap.
I have friends who've home schooled. The negative comments you hear around this notion is that it's far too relaxed, no structure, too laissez faire all round. Not in my gaff. The only reason I couldn't contemplate home schooling would be because I actually quite like my children and wouldn't want to subject them to my stricter than strict approach that's induced only by the combination of their mere presence and an educational activity.
But with this new term approaching, I'm going to endeavour to practise (at home) what I preach (professionally). My kids won't recognise this new "don't worry about the homework - let's build a den" mum.
I'll let you know how I go. Best get back to the kids, the three year-old hasn't finished his seven times tables yet.
Phoebe Doyle is a former primary teacher who now writes on education, parenting and health issues. She's a parent of two young children and blogs at http://www.tremendouslytwo.com/ You can follow her on Twitter @tremendously2.
Are you gearing up to teach your child in class this term? Or maybe you are sending your child to school for the first time and are worried about what kind of parent you will be? Please share your experiences with us by making a comment below.


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BEIJING, August 27- There was a time when the great David Rudisha pondered if he would ever return to past glories.
It was only 18 months on from that stunning night in London when the Kenyan struck Olympic gold in a world record time when he admitted he had plunged into what he termed, "a dark place."
In October 2013, Rudisha had undergone key-hole surgery on his knee to fix a problem which had caused him to end his season prematurely; and two months on he was enduring difficult times.
"The injury was a bad moment for me," recalled Rudisha. "I had the operation, then the knee was very painful and it became swollen. I began to run but even warming up was a bit of a problem. I couldn't run for five minutes, I was in so much pain. That was the lowest moment. Sometimes in your mind, you think, will I ever come back again for a big competition?"
The road back has not been easy.
He has leaned heavily on his support team: his coach, Brother Colm O'Connell the famed Irish missionary, his athlete representative, James Templeton, and his family led by his wife, Elizabeth, whose due date for their second child was the day of the men's 800m final.
Yet slowly the injury healed.
In early 2014, the Kenyan enjoyed "a good" period of rehabilitation in Germany but after returning to running in March last year, he had significantly lost some muscle in his leg and this, plus a lack of his old sharpness, impacted upon his form.
After a 12-month competitive break, he returned to action at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Eugene in the early summer of last year but placed an unfamiliar seventh in 1:44.87.
It is a measure of the Olympic champion's class that he then bounced back with Diamond League victories in New York and Glasgow but this was not quite yet the dominant Rudisha of old.
-Commonwealth silver-
He went on to place fifth in Monaco and then had to settle for a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow behind a familiar adversary, London 2012 Olympic Games silver medallist Nijel Amos of Botswana.
The season was far from perfect but, like all great champions, he offered an honest appraisal of this year.
"It was tough coming back and having those defeats, it is like you have forgotten how to run," explained Rudisha, who first struck world championships gold in 2011.
"The 2013 and 2014 seasons were tough, those years were the down moments of my career. I had lost muscle in my leg so to win the Commonwealth silver medal was a big moment for me. Throughout, I believed in myself and I had the encouragement of others, which in both sport and life is very important."
Rudisha returned to training and opened his year with a couple of outings in Australia – the homeland of Templeton – and was reasonably satisfied to win races in Sydney and Melbourne.
His opening race on the 2015 Diamond League circuit ended in victory in New York, although successive defeats to Amos in Lausanne and London raised further question marks as to the his form.
Then, in the Kenyan trials final earlier this month, he suffered a shock defeat to Ferguson Cheruiyot, which lead to more concerns for his ability to secure a second world title.
However, Rudisha refused to panic.
"In my race in London I was able to hold (my form) until the final 30 metres, so I knew I was close," he explained.
"At the Kenyan trials, I was beaten but felt I was at 95 per cent. I saw my weaker points and started to work on them, so for the last month I worked on my speed. I realised once my speed returned, I was confident and I had nothing to worry about."
With his old swagger, not to mention his speed back, he then opted to play a very different tactical role here in Beijing from his famous race in London.
Historically a destructive front-runner, he sought a fresh approach for his campaign in the Chinese capital.
-Speed king-
"I knew I could control the race with my sprint over the last 100 or 150 metres. I wanted it to be a tactical race, so I can use my sprint."
So it was that Rudisha perfectly delivered on his plan in a final surprisingly containing neither Amos nor the 2013 defending champion Mohammed Aman, of Ethiopia, both of whom failed to advance beyond the semi-finals.
He controlled the race from the front and was happy to take the field through the first 400m in a relatively pedestrian 54.17.
The 26-year-old then slowly cranked up the pace with 300 metres remaining and just when he appeared vulnerable to an attack around the final bend, he delivered on his promise by unleashing a devastating strike for home to secure gold and become the first man in history to regain this title.
The time of 1:45.84 mattered little. He was back and he had once again tamed the 800m.
"Championship racing is different," he added. "It is always very difficult. The 800m is one of the most unforgiving races, if you make a small mistake you need two years to rectify it."
A regret the tall Kenyan won't have after for a while once more returning to his place at the 800m summit.


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Lots of exciting things going on in Andy Boerger-land recently. The release of two books that I illustrated in just a few months' space of each other bodes well for good things ahead.
Plus, I was recently interviewed by interviewer/presenter and coach Soness Stevens for her own site (co-created with Brian Demers), where I was given the opportunity to show off the books, and talk a bit about my own philosophy of presenting, and communicating.
This link takes you to the video, and links below the site itself also link you to the books, which I will post more about on separate posts later.
Soness, take it away!
and the Youtube link


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Cute Riley Reid shows us her back tattoo! And not only that. We get to see one hot piece of ass. Riley is one of the cutest babes in the industry. With her teen, barely legal look she managed to steal some hearts. And she has the rights to do it. This girl looks amazing!
In this hot session she is in a bathroom wearing sexy white lingerie. She has a very good mood, looks happy and smiles all the time.
She's preparing for a hot bubble bath and while she does that she turns around letting us have a look at her round tushy and her Chinese letters tattoo that goes from her neck down to her sexy ass.
The water is ready so lovely Riley gets rid of her bra and her extra small panties. I must say her lolita body is something that you barely can take your eyes of. Her small teenager tits are quite a view.
She enters the bathtub and we have a great view of her ass and pussy. Both perfectly shaved waiting to be fucked. And we all know that cute Riley Reid loves a good fuck.
Now she's all covered in bubble bath and she starts playing with her ass and boobs. She spreads her butt cheeks because she knows we love a great butt hole view.
The show is almost over and Riley gets out of the bathtub and dries her body with a blue towel.
Throughout this entire photo session this lovely babe had a big smile on her face. Her green eyes lighten up the room.
It was quite a show I must admit. And I'm saying this because I also saw the video of this session. The photos listed here are just low res samples. If you want to have access to the full show and see the cute Riley Reid in action in HD visit Babes.com


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This game is my first experiment as a game developer.
At start I even could not imagine what kind of game it will be.
From the beginning:
Implementing minecraft-like maps looks like a simple task at the start: rendering axis-aligned cube and calculating collisions for it are much simpler than doing same with custom geometries.
First experiment was successful: 32x32x32 scene was rendered using LWJGL. I have added light calculations for sun and torches, tried importing .obj models. Then I tried to increase scene size. And that was the end for initial version.
I started looking at different engines to choose from (versions from 0.1.1 up to 0.1.4) and finally ended with JOGL. It took a lot of time just to correctly setup camera for a first time, but i still think that was good decision. All source code was rewritten multiple times and now i have engine capable of rendering radius of 128 blocks withing 5ms on my machine. This is about 200fps in average. More modern PCs shows about 500fps and less powerful laptop did 80fps.
By the way i did some tries to import and render PMD models, bring bullets to engine, was experimenting a lot with all features of engine.
Complex terrain
I still not sure if i will use this feature (everybody will say that it "looks like minecraft" XD), but i'm trying to make terrain that will look interesting. I also have another idea about map generation to avoid comparison with MC, but that is for another article.
PMD models
Player models is another game aspect. You don't need them for a single player FPS game, but i was developing multiplayer from the start. PMD models comes from Miku-Miku Dance (MMD) software, able to make nice motions of anime-styled models for a dance videos. You can find this videos by searching MMD word on youtube, nicovideo or another video hosting. This models have bones for all you can imagine (fingers, eyes, skirt etc). So it's possible to make even good-looking cloth animation for a little cost of performance. At the moment i still have some unfinished work with materials, sphere textures, face animation and have a little performance issue. More or less finished animation of walking and jumping (see the final video).
Nothing is implemented yet worth to show, just a lot of ideas.
Latest video, introducing new model animations.
Final word
Olacraft is a codename. I have no idea what name it will take at release.
Even this is an experiment, I am trying to make unique, fast paced and enjoyable shooter.
A lot of work is still waits for me, but i'm not afraid :).


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My dog Rexy and I got in our rocket ship to take a trip to the Moon.
It was quite a peaceful ride.
But then while cooking dinner, I burnt the fillet mignons, and the sprinklers went off on the spacecraft, and we got soaked.
There's something about the smell of a wet dog in close quarters.


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Back in 2009, the Swedish tourism industry expected turnover from tourists to Sweden would double to 500 billion kronor ($74.4 billion) by 2020.
However, lackluster spending by foreign tourists has forced the Swedish Travel and Tourism Industry (RTS) to lower their expectations to 451 billion.
"It's the foreign tourism that's not growing at the speed we anticipated," said Jan Lundin of the RTS to Dagens Industi newspaper (DI).
"Swedish tourism continues to grow, however".
In fact, tourism in Sweden is continuing to grow as an overall trend, and experts insist that there is no crisis, as tourism statistics in Sweden have never been higher.
It's just that expectations have not been met.
With a growth rate expected of 6.4 percent per year, analysists reasoned that a 515 billion kronor turn over could be expected in 2020, but last year's growth of only 3 percent suggests this will be unlikely.
For the predicted doubling of tourist sales by 2020, the yearly percentage increase would need to rise to seven percent each year for the next eight years.
In concrete figures, this means an increase of 25 billion kronor a year, RTS wrote in a statement.
"The industry has set high goals, and this generates creativity. We cannot act alone here, and it's time join hands with convention, culture and sports industry," said Lundin in a statement.
"Together, we can create more reasons to travel here, to take part in community building, and to contribute to the development of the regions that don't only attract more visitors, but even become attractive places to live and work."


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Denver — Audiovox's accessories unit announced a series of new products today at CEDIA Expo to support multiroom audio and video distribution systems.
The ARHD14 4×1 HDMI splitter has four display outputs, which allows one HDMI source to be attached to four video displays. It splits all HDMI formats including 1080p and features 24-karat gold-plated connectors, and LED display to indicate signal reception and built-in extender/repeater circuits to accommodate longer cable runs. It is HDCP compatible and will ship in November at a suggested retail of $499.
Audiovox is also introducing two multiroom speaker selection systems.
The AR1108 enables connection of up to eight pairs of speakers to a receiver or amplifier. The AR1106 connects to up to six pairs.
Both feature proprietary Dual Stage Dynamic Load Balancing technology and continuously variable remote speaker power limiting to provide two-way protection circuitry for receivers and speakers. A patented circuit design allows compatibility with all types of amplifiers and speakers, the company said.
The systems feature gold-plated five-way binding posts that accept up to 10-guage stripped speaker wire or speaker wire with pins, spades or bananas. They are compatible with 4-, 6- and 8-ohm speakers.
They have a flat frequency response range of 20HZ to 20kHZ and switchable power handling of 100 watts to 300 watts per channel.
The AR1106 has a suggested retail of $279. The AR1108 is $329. Both are available now.
Audiovox is also showing its AR CAT300WP CAT-5 component video/audio in-wall converter.
It works with all component video devices including overhead projectors and converts digital or analog audio signals in all HD formats. It has two power inputs and 24-karat gold-plated surfaces to prevent corrosion. It will be available next month at a suggested $299.
Also on display in the Audiovox booth is the ARDVC1 in-wall digital IR volume control with remote. The 100-watt dimmable display with blue lighting features impedance matching and connects to in-wall speakers using speaker wire and IR connects using CAT-5 cable.
It is available now at a suggested $159.
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So on New Year's Eve, I'm sitting around playing a hilarious game of Uno with my mom and a friend. (Who knew the card game Uno could be so cutthroat??!!)
We're chatting away and the friend mentions a song by the Kingston Trio called "M.T.A." (Bostonians, quit giggling.) Oh funny song, where have I been all your life? How is it that I have never, ever heard of this song before? (See video below.)
My research tells me that this is quite the iconic song in the Boston area. It is the story of a man named Charlie forever trapped on a subway train due to a fare increase and was originally created as a song to get a local mayor elected.
(Oh, I could have fun writing a parody of this song for the DC area……)
Of course, if Charlie had a smartphone, he could send out a tweet or a Facebook post about it. Sympathetic users would pass on the message to others, and Charlie would be rescued more quickly. Poor guy.
It got me thinking, when was the last time I heard a good ballad from a modern artist? It's been quite a while, because songs that tell a good story with a defined beginning, middle and ending aren't really created these days.
It seems like the golden age of ballads was between the 1960s and 1980s. There was Bobbie Gentry's Southern-Gothic "Ode to Billie Joe" in the 1960s (they made a movie out of that one), Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" and Harry Chapin's "Cat's in the Cradle" in the mid-1970s, and Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" and "Leader of the Band" from the 1980s.
According to Dictionary.com, the word "ballad" comes from Europe, where it originally meant "dance" or "dancing song". Although dancing is a bit hard to picture when we're talking about a song like "Ode to Billie Joe". "Footloose," it ain't.
It would be fun to see ballads make a comeback, don't you think? Blog readers, do you have one or two favorite ballads?
Video credit: Jan Hammer, YouTube.