It's time to get organized! I've come across lots of great ways for Home Organizing Ideas. Here is a great list of easy ways to organize in all the chaotic spaces in your house. Even if you're starting in one room in your house, little changes can help reduce the clutter. Some of these are great tools you can buy, others are tutorials and a few just for inspiration for their beauty.Organizing is great. I mean, without it you have those episodes of never being able to find what you need or not knowing where to put things when you buy them. While there are tons of products that you can buy that are designed to help you to get your home organized, we like the DIY of doing things so we have a few ideas for organization tips that you can do yourself, from things around your home.
This first one is a bit obvious, but it's worth mentioning. Bacteria, mold, dust, and dander cause everything from allergies to asthma. Regular cleaning sessions will significantly lower the potential for sickness, and create a healthier family overall.
I don't know about you, but if I have a friend stop by and my house is a wreck, I'm more likely to over-explain why my house looks that way. It's not only super embarrassing, I also go into anxiety-overdrive wondering what they think about my home and how it reflects on me as a person!
By keeping your appliances in good condition, you'll spend less money to repair or replace them. And how do you do that? By cleaning them! It might not sound like a big deal, but I'm all about avoiding unnecessary costs, even if it means a little extra attention to keep things like my dishwasher running smoothly.
A good cleaning session always gets my heart pumping, especially if it's a task like scrubbing down the shower or vacuuming the floors. Plus, our vacuum is particularly heavy to lug around, so it's pretty much like lifting weights, right?
I know it sounds super simple, but taking just a few minutes to put items away right after you're done using them has an amazing effect. Not only will you have less of a mess to clean later, you'll easily find an item within seconds of needing it. This in turn, saves time, and time is just as important as saving money!
Have you ever felt guilty about watching Netflix or reading a book? I have a really hard time relaxing—mostly because the moment I sit down, I think of twenty other things I should be doing, cleaning included!
The next time you feel like your life is spiraling out of control, take a good look around your home. What do you see? Is it full of toys? Clutter? Stains? Crumbs? Those things might be a huge cause of anxiety and frustration.
Remember how at the beginning of this post, I talked about that sense of accomplishment I felt after tackling the bathroom? Knowing I had crossed something major off my list gave me a huge boost of energy. I was pretty happy too!


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A provisional calendar has been announced for the 2017 edition of the FIA World Endurance Championship. The first event will take place in Silverstone on April 16th. The 6th Hour of Silverstone will open the Championship on the Silverstone Circuit. The next event will be held on May 6th in Belgium. This event is another 6 hour-long race on the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps.
The next event in the FIA World Endurance Racing will be the 85th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. This particularly challenging racing event will take place on June 17th and June 18th in Le Mans. It will be followed by the 6 Hours of Nürburgring in Germany on July 16th.
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Part 1, the correspondence, includes letters to and from Bartram's family, friends, and peers, establishing his developing consciousness about the natural world as well as his passion for rendering it in drawing. The difficult business of undertaking scientific study and commercial botany in the eighteenth century comes alive through letters that detail travel arrangements, enduring hardship, and mentoring. Commonly regarded as a recluse or eccentric, Bartram nstead emerges as deeply engaged with the major ideas, issues, and intellectual life of his time.
Part 2 presents selections from Bartram's diverse but little-known unpublished writings. Leading scholars in their field introduce manuscripts such as a draft for Travels, garden diaries faithfully kept, an antislavery treatise scrawled on the back of a plant catalog, a commonplace book, pharmacopoeia compiled for his brothers, and exacting accounts of Native American culture. Each selection reveals another dimension of Bartram's unending interest in the world he encountered at home and while traveling through the southern colonies.
This is a beautiful book, lovingly produced for readers who adore William Bartram (1739-1823) as an artist, Romantic, naturalist, and gardener and painstakingly assembled by scholars who approach him from a variety of perspectives.
Because the volume's inclusion of correspondence, botanical materials, philosophical tracts, draft documents, and illustrations provides a richly multidimensional representation of Bartram's experiences and achievements, William Bartram: The Search for Nature's Design comes closer than any previous work on Bartram to showing us not only the whole career but also the whole person: the failed businessman, insecure son, devout Quaker, wilderness traveler, assiduous gardener, loyal friend, advisor and mentor, and tireless student of a natural world that he felt offered a continuing revelation of divinity. It is an ambitious book, impressive in both execution and presentation.
In this marvelous, indispensable edition, editors Hallock and Hoffmann, assisted by an interdisciplinary team of coeditors, successfully challenges the stereotype of William Bartram the solitary wanderer and one-book author of Travels who spent the last decades of his life pottering around in his father's botanical garden. They replace it with a more complex and more provocative image: that of a sophisticated artist and scientist fully in touch with his time, a tireless mentor to an international circle of young naturalists and firm believer in the rights of humans as well as animals. Driven by a compassion for all manner of living things, Bartram's pliable prose and supple drawings redefine what we know about early American culture.
Here is a highly valuable collection of previously unpublished manuscript materials from the hand of William Bartram, one of a very small group of internationally prominent naturalists in the United States at its time of inception. For anyone interested in the history of gardens, botany, early ecological thinking, nature illustration, ethnography (especially of southeastern Indians), antislavery treatises, Quaker figures, travel literature, climate studies, pharmacology, or American history and culture more generally, this collection of Bartram's writings and artwork is a treasure trove. For scholars who only know Bartram as the writer of Travels, and as the American who influenced British Romanticism, here is copious new material (with lucid critical introductions) that shows Bartram's involvement in all the key cultural and intellectual debates of his time.
Hallock and Hoffmann have set out to consider 'the full range and broader contexts of Bartram's work' and to provide a framework for future scholarship-in which they have succeeded admirably.
This volume is important for anyone interested in Bartram's Travels or in the cultures of natural history more generally. The materials collected here illustrate Bartram's biography and the production of Travels and present his participation in a range of contexts: literary natural history, visual arts, moral philosophy, antislavery, ethnography, commerce, medicine, gardening, field botany, Linnaean taxonomy, and so on. Expert introductions provide excellent guides to these contexts. The documents are presented in a highly readable clear-text style that preserves the flavor of the original manuscripts. I've used some of these materials successfully to open Travels for study in the undergraduate classroom.
William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design provides, for the first time, a primary text survey of the full career of one of the most important North American naturalists of the eighteenth century, a man whose travels, collections, gardens, writing, and expertise placed him at the center of an emergent global network of natural history correspondents. This remarkably ambitious book comes closer than any previous work on Bartram to showing us not only the whole career but also the whole person: the failed businessman, insecure son, devout Quaker, wilderness traveler, assiduous gardener, loyal friend, advisor and mentor, and tireless student of the natural world. This book provides the richest, most engaging, and most detailed picture to date of one of the most remarkable of eighteenth-century Americans. It will be a wonderful addition to knowledge in a number of cognate fields.
Buy and enjoy this book! . . . .The two coeditors and nine other contributors as well as the publishers, the designers, and the donors who must have provided subventions, all deserve our gratitude. If all you do is gaze at the pictures it is still a bargain as a coffee table book.
WILLIAM BARTRAM (1739-1823) is renowned as one of the first early American naturalists.
THOMAS HALLOCK, assistant professor of English at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, is the author of From the Fallen Tree: Frontier Narratives, Environmental Politics, and the Roots of a National Literature, 1749-1826.
NANCY E. HOFFMAN is an adjunct professor at Villanova University. She coedited the tercentennial reappraisal America's Curious Botanist: John Bartram, 1699-1777.


A constructive research methodology has been used to explore the use of thermal images for improving Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) performance. Previous research has shown that the addition of a visual modality for speech recognition improves ASR performance in both clean and noisy environments. However, Audio-Visual Automatic Speech Recognition (AVASR) performance can be greatly affected by changing lighting conditions. Conversely, thermal cameras are highly invariant to changes in lighting conditions as such the use of thermal video may be beneficial to AVASR.
An AVASR system was created for testing the effect of adding a third modality to AVASR. Mel-frequency Cepstral Coefficient (MFCC) based speech recognition was used for audio speech recognition. For visual recognition, the standard video and thermal video were processed using a method derived from Wai Chee Yau's (2008) proposed Motion Templates method of feature extraction.
A custom audio visual database was created for this project. Eleven participants were recorded in audio, standard video and thermal video repeating ten words each (the numbers zero through nine) fifteen times to create a database of 1650 words for testing. Testing was completed using a speaker dependent, isolated word recognition system. For each participant 14 samples of each word were used for training Hidden Markov Models (HMM) with the remaining sample used for testing with Gaussian white noise added to the audio signal at 20, 10, 0, -10 and -20 decibel signal to noise ratios (SNR). This test was repeated five times with different samples selected for each test and the results averaged to reduce sample bias.
It was successfully shown that combining audio, standard, and thermal video for ASR can improve performance by increasing recognition rates a relative 11.8% over audio and standard video combined ASR and a relative 38.2% over audio only ASR when averaged over all noise levels.


What do you associate with New Year's Eve? Fun, champagne and… good intentions? Do you still remember what you resolved to do last year? Learning a new language probably ranked right up there with joining a gym and giving up a nasty habit. Regardless of the reasons you had for making this resolution, the result is – unfortunately – almost always the same. After the first days at "full speed ahead", by spring the motivation has subsided and you find yourself staring discontentedly at the grammar books you bought with such enthusiasm.
But why? Why does everyone think that it's so hard to learn a language? And that it requires so much time to practice? Could it be because we all have a few bad habits that we're not aware of (and therefore can't get rid of)?
Let's take a look at the most common mistakes and figure out how we can avoid them.
When the adventure of a new language starts, your enthusiasm knows no bounds. On the one hand, that's something very positive. On the other hand, it's important not to rely on enthusiasm alone. When the newness and initial excitement has worn off, you might not know where to find the motivation to learn. That's why it's necessary to steer your initial exuberance in the right direction, and not let it disappear like a flash in the pan. It's better to take it slow – tame your enthusiasm and make sure that learning a language becomes a regular daily activity.
Otherwise something like this might happen: You'll study every day for the first week. Already in the second week you'll skip a day because you're too tired. The following week it happens again, and then again the week after that. Soon, you'll be staring, frustrated, at that pile of language books on your desk.
Our Tip: Steer your initial exuberance in the right direction and make sure that learning a language becomes a regular daily activity. Ten minutes a day is better than full-on for a week and then nothing after that.
No, we're not crazy. We're talking to all those people who think that memorization is the key to everything, to everyone who boasts about their photographic memory, and to everyone who gets stuck on vocabulary lists. Don't get us wrong: a good memory is definitely helpful, but one should not forget (no pun intended) to use and train it the right way.
Memorizing entire phrases can be helpful in certain, clearly-defined situations (like picking up your luggage at the airport, for example). But it won't be of any benefit when topics come up in conversation that weren't in that book you so diligently memorized.
Use your memory and make it your ally. Learn phrases and words with which you can make associations or create mnemonic devices. And when a word doesn't seem to want to come out, find an alternative or paraphrase what you mean. In this way, you don't only get your synapses firing, but you can also remember things better and for longer periods of time. Try it for yourself!
Our Tip: Your memory is an important ally if you use it intelligently.
No one is perfect… and you shouldn't try to be! One of the first obstacles you encounter on the path to "fluent mastery" of a language is the absurd and premature demand you place on yourself to speak with perfect and error-free pronunciation and grammar. Of course, you can and will get there with a lot of practice, but it shouldn't be the highest priority when you're getting to know a completely new language.
If you get lost in especially complicated grammar when you're trying to say something simple, or if you're only sure of yourself when you don't make even the smallest pronunciation mistakes, then it's highly likely that within a few weeks, you'll give up out of total frustration.
"Until I can speak perfectly, I won't speak. But if I don't speak, I'll never improve and can give up hope of ever being able to speak perfectly". It's a Catch 22!
Our Tip: Give yourself a break and don't be afraid to make mistakes! You'll soon see the progress that'll bring you closer to your goal.
Are you finally going to get up out of that chair, or do you want to put down roots right where you're sitting? You're diligent and persistent. You've used your memory and your desire to learn in the best way possible. You've trusted yourself to speak to people because you understand that we all learn from making mistakes. And now? Now it's time to give yourself a reward!
When you set such a big goal as learning a new language, it's important now and then to pat yourself on the back and enjoy the success you've achieved. You've managed to have your first real-life conversation? You've got all that difficult pronunciation down? You've gotten through the jungle of pronouns? Then you should celebrate it and do something fun! Watch a film, sing a song at the top of your lungs, or listen to the radio… but, of course, in the language you're learning! When you couple language learning with activities that bring you joy, you'll learn more effectively and remember what you've learned more easily.
Our Tip: You don't have to learn like a crazy person. There should also be time to combine the enjoyable with the practical, and have fun while learning!
Learn the art of always keeping your goal within sight. Of course, anyone could say that learning for learning's sake is the ideal picture of education… that goes without saying. But if you want to reach the end of the road, it's important that you're aware of why you stepped onto the path in the first place.
Why are you learning a new language? For love? To get a raise? Because you want to try your luck in a new country? Because you can't stand films that are dubbed? Very good. Keep your goal in sight and imagine that with every tiny step forward, the path to your goal gets shorter and the top of the mountain gets closer.
Our Tip: Keeping a goal in sight increases motivation. Before you start, set a goal!
Ready to learn a new language? Use the tips above for a fresh start.
Nowadays you can adapt and personalize the way you learn more than ever before, depending upon preferences, motivations and time.
Have you tried and failed to learn a foreign language? Looking back, can you identify the reasons why you didn't succeed? Here are seven tricks to ensure you stay on the track to proficiency. It's time to try, try again!


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Grand Dividing Theory of Female Doritos
By Jen Gann@jngann
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There are two types of women in this world. One prefers Nacho Cheese Doritos, the other Cool Ranch.
I am a Nacho Cheese woman. I am comforted by the bright red bag, the cloudy-orange chips inside, the blanket of stink accompanying each bite. Nacho Cheese Doritos are reliable. They have no spark and no surprises.
What makes a Nacho Cheese woman? She has brothers, no sisters. She has never learned how to put on makeup. She doesn't mind a spill on her clothes, because why would you ever wear clothes you can't spill on? Her person is chaotic; her house is pristine. She is almost violently judgmental, but keeps most of those thoughts carefully contained. She likes beer. She enjoys the company of other women, especially those she'd describe as "laid-back." She lives her life always a little concerned she might be gross in ways she's incapable of detecting.
And who is the Cool Ranch woman? She goes to her fridge and pulls out a bottle of white wine. She participates in "no-makeup makeup." Her sisters are some of her very best friends. Inside her purse, which she has, is a Tide Pen. If you're lucky enough to hold her hand, your own palm will be left with the crisp, clean scent of unnamed fruit. She is upfront about her desires and preferences and doesn't understand why you won't look the bartender in the eye and state firmly that you asked for a lime, not a lemon.
This woman likes the bright, confetti flavor of Cool Ranch Doritos. Where Nacho Cheese is a ripe, muddy taste, Cool Ranch has a controlled spark, a prim but present jolt. Nacho Cheese invites you to lie back on the couch, to settle in, content with your orange dust-cloud. Cool Ranch would really rather you sat up, daintily wiping your fingers on a neutral-colored linen napkin every few multi-colored bites. Nacho Cheese is a haze, a blur, an amoeba. Cool Ranch is sharper, a million tiny pinpricks of flavor.
The patient zero subjects for my theory are myself — a vast constellation of stains, sister to two brothers, the immediate descendent of a woman with two brothers of her own — and my dear friend Elyse, who has two sisters and is a successful hair stylist. She looks the way you'd guess a hairstylist would, which is to say: She looks good. Really good. She's confident and put-together, with those tousled curls and a quick but firm makeup routine that I only know about from the time we went to Arizona together, two women divided by Doritos, united by the need to escape their very young sons. Not long ago I texted to confirm that her Doritos preference still stands. The reply came almost instantly and without follow-up questions: "Cool ranch baby."
Despite an enduring love for Elyse, I will admit that over the years, I have been mildly to majorly suspicious of the generic Cool Ranch woman. In my experience, she notices the mud on your boots. She is willing to order wine when the day clearly calls for a bottle of Bud. She has a screaming fight with her sister over the phone, which she still uses to speak in non-emergency situations. She shows up to a thing wearing the exact right thing. In other words, to a Nacho Cheese woman, she is an alien, intriguing but threatening, beautiful, but distantly so.
Of course, I am willing to see that one woman's familiar is another's alien. "I haven't spoken to my brother in six months," the Nacho Cheese woman says. "We get along great!" Those who interact with her professionally might note her slovenly appearance and doubt her abilities. Others may interpret her mildness as weakness or failure to care. If I stretch my imagination, I can accept that some women truly do find beer "filling," and actually enjoy the taste of sour envelopes, more commonly known as the effect of drinking white wine.
These are differences in experience and preferences, and these are all fine. But the real reason I am suspicious of the Cool Ranch woman is because, if I'm truly honest with myself, she has what I can't have or can't figure out how to have. She has those sisters — or relates to certain kinds of women in general — who lead to an outward confidence or, at the very least, a makeup tutorial at a formative age.
Some women have brothers and a sister, or a sister and brothers, or some of each. I don't know where they fit in. (For the only children who have read this far and are wondering: You are Cool Ranch. I'm pretty sure.)
There are also women who defy my categories, though usually not without good reason. "Maybe that was your response to the masculine energy of having two brothers," I posited to one fan of Cool Ranch. There is also the reality that some women, even those you harbor intense affection for and respect as professionals, respond to a question about chips like this: "I don't care about Doritos." Others take a more measured approach: "Buy Nacho, but wouldn't decline Cool Ranch." One in particular has an answer that does nothing but stun: "I just ate a Dorito for the first time last year!"
For the first time in 20-plus years of friendship, I asked Elyse why she prefers Cool Ranch over Nacho Cheese. In the past her reasons were always ones I projected onto her: Nacho Cheese grosses her out, it's too messy for her, Cool Ranch is the more artificial, more controlled choice. "Hmm," she said. "I never really thought of why. Maybe it's that they don't stain my fingers."
Just as I'd suspected. But then she went on: "They don't taste as fake to me as the orange ones."
With those words, a beloved friend crumbled my fragile house of chips. It took just one line of text to dismantle what I'd always held dear about myself, especially in relation to the women I defined myself against. It would seem that the authenticity and muddy realness of Nacho Doritos do not translate for everyone; that Cool Ranch can somehow taste more natural than Nacho Cheese; that one woman's fun is another woman's fakery. What if white wine actually tastes good? What if it's possible for a makeup routine to be simple? Is having a sister … fun?
Earlier this week I went to my favorite corner store and bought two bags of chips. I got on the train, lucked into a solo seat and began alternating between Cool Ranch and Nacho Cheese. I considered the ways in which my theory rests on gender stereotypes, a lifetime of carefully cultivated dislikes, unkind reactions to what the world has not given me. In between bites of Nacho Cheese, I gave Cool Ranch her chance, and you know what? That delicate bitch still tasted worse.
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Attorney-Client Privilege Questioned After Inmate's Call Is Recorded
Criminal defense lawyer Steven Raiser had always assumed that conversations between him, his staff and his clients who are in prison were strictly confidential.
That's why he was alarmed when a prosecutor in court handed him a tape of his client's jail calls that included one made to his own law office.
"The fact is, there's an attorney-client-privileged phone call. The district attorney is not supposed to then use those communications," Raiser said.
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A spokesman for Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice said attorney-client calls are supposed to get screened out by the jail -- and usually are. The office said the phone number the inmate called in this case was not on a list of attorney numbers the jail screens out when it records calls.
Spokesman Shams Tarek said it's not clear why this phone number was recorded.
"When we listen to a call, we stop listening if and when we realize it's a privileged call," said Tarek. "We work diligently to ensure that all confidential statements between a client and his or her attorney remain private, and that attorney-client privilege is respected at all times."
The criminal case in question involved a witness tampering charge against the inmate who called Raiser's office from the jail.
Tarek said he could not comment specifically on the witness tampering case, since it was later dismissed and sealed. But he said it "presented a number of issues regarding the attorney-client privilege and the exceptions that apply to that privilege."
Nassau County Judge George Peck never ruled on whether the call from jail was privileged because he refused to enter them as evidence based on an unrelated issue.
A spokeswoman for the Nassau County Correctional Facility did not return calls seeking comment.
Raiser said he is not comforted by prosecutors' assurances that they hang up if a call is privileged. He said prosecutors should have to subpoena jail calls just like defense lawyers do, showing a judge that they have reason to believe the calls are relevant to the case.
Legal experts are divided over how absolute the attorney-client privilege is. They agree that there are exceptions to the rule -- for example, if a client were conspiring with his lawyer to commit a crime, or if he said something to his lawyer in front of a large group of people, so he had no expectation of privacy.
Jim Cohen, a criminal law professor at Fordham Law School, said because there is a sign at the jail alerting inmates that their calls are recorded, all their calls -- even those to their lawyers -- may be fair game.
"The government, whether it be federal or state, takes the position that … 'we told you that we would be listening, and we told you that we would be using the contents of the conversation. So you really have no complaint at all,'" Cohen said.
But Richard Klein, of Touro Law School, disagreed. He says what happened in this case is totally inappropriate.
"It's not amorphous," Klein said. "The attorney-client is absolute. It's one of the basic aspects of our criminal justice system that what a defendant says to his or her attorney is confidential."


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Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:30:54 -0800 (PST)
TUCKER NAMED BPA GM OF THE YEAR: Stuart Tucker bested Ed Beach, by seven points, leaving Ed in the bridesmaid position for the second year in a row in the annual BPA GM of the Year vote. The Hannibal GM will receive free lodging at WBC 2011 in gratitude for his service. Overall, scores ranged from Stuart's 76 to a low of 17 for the 12 nominees. The Board's eight first-place votes were split among six nominees. Taking his fourth Top Six nomination with one of those first place votes was Ed Beach, who garnered a score of 69 for hosting Here I Stand, with extra consideration for his work in the Juniors room and the Great Campaigns event. Marc Houde garnered his first Top Six honors to finish third with 63 points for hosting Robo Rally. Rounding out the remainder of our Top Six GMs were John Weber (Puerto Rico) and Claire Brosius (Ticket to Ride) with identical scores of 57, and Larry Lingle whose decoration of the Marietta Room transformed it into a veritable Pirates of the Caribbean ride was good enough for a score of 56, as Cap'n Larry drew 100 cutthroats to Pirate's Cove. Well done all. Our sincere thanks to you and all others like you who try to make WBC a little more special every year. For more details see http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/topgm.htm
WBC TRIAL EVENTS ANNOUNCED: BPA thanks its members for their participation in the voting process during the 2011 Membership Drive which determined this year's 25 Continuing Trial events. The selected events are now eligible for inclusion in WBC 2011 upon receipt of a suitable event form by Feb. 28 from a current BPA member willing to serve as the GM. Events for which no such GM commitment is forthcoming will be replaced by BPA from those on the Alternate list. Vendors and sponsors may also select events from the Alternate list or altogether different events provided they have a GM commitment. To be added to the Alternate list, an event must have an event form submitted by a current member acting as the GM.
Battleline once again led all candidates. In addition, A House Divided made good its return after a six-year absence by again being voted back into the fold for 2011. The big winner was GMT which won admission for all nine of its events on the ballot; six returnees and three new games. The hard luck losers of the vote were Goa and Tikal which fell just beneath the cut after seven- and 11-year runs respectively. Other veteran events failing to make the cutoff included War of 1812 (12 years), Republic of Rome (20 years) and Tyranno Ex (17 years). View the current WBC 2011 lineup on the Orphans Page, which will be updated weekly between now and March when GM submissions end. The complete voting results are available at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/trialvote.htm
Vendors/Sponsors are likewise reminded to submit or authorize their 2011 Trial Events by Feb 28th. We also are in need of a few Juniors events and Seminar speakers. Contact us with any suggestions for same.
WAM IX ALMOST HERE: The new Washington's War headlines a quartet of CDW tournaments including Hannibal, Combat Commander and Twilight Struggle which will be offered for the four day-conference in addition to the usual slate of Open Gaming opportunities. For more information on the January 27th-30th convention to be held in the Timonium, MD Holiday Inn, see http://www.boardgamers.org/specific/wam11ann.htm.
GM RESERVATIONS: All WBC GMs are reminded that their "reservations" for events they ran in 2010 expired on January 1st. To retain GM status of your event, you must submit a new event form at http://www.boardgamers.org/forms/SubmitEvent.php and renew your membership. Many events are currently listed as OPEN on the Orphans List for lack of a GM's commitment. Those in Pre-Con slots will lose that status if a GM is not forthcoming soon. See the current lineup and GM vacancies at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/orphans.htm .
QUEEN GAMES AT WBC: BPA is pleased to announce the sponsorship of a major European games publisher at WBC in 2011. The publisher of Alhambra and Chicago Express among many others will be hosting a major dedicated demonstration area similar to Cafe Jay to introduce their extensive game line to an American audience. To get an advance peek at their games see http://www.queen-games.de/ or check out their link in our Exhibitor section whenever visiting our home page. We are currently looking for volunteers to GM events for three of their titles this summer: Chicago Express, Fresco and Samarkand.
2010 PATRONS: The BPA's list of 2010 Patrons is now posted at http://www.boardgamers.org/wbc/patrons.htm . Please report any inaccuracies to cd [at] boardgamers.org no later than January 31st to ensure an accurate listing in the upcoming Yearbook.
BoD NOMINATIONS: All BPA members are hereby notified of their right to nominate members for the three Board seats whose terms expire at the next WBC. To appear on the ballot, members must be nominated in writing by at least three members including themselves. Nominations must be signed and received at BPA, 1541 Redfield Rd, Bel Air, MD 21015 no later than February 28th to be eligible for election in that year. NOTE: Email nominations are NOT acceptable, nor can a member nominate more than one member for the Board. When contemplating nominations, members are urged to consider that the BPA conducts most of its business by email and needs Board members who are able and willing to offer their time and skills to the organization in a timely manner. Board members should be considered more for their ability to contribute to the running of a successful company than for their attachment to any particular game or genre. Besides forwarding a signed nomination for himself/herself, each nominee should submit by March 1st a statement not to exceed 100 words summarizing what they can contribute in service to the Board of Directors of the BPA. The nomination form is on line at http://www.boardgamers.org/bpanom.htm
DAMCKE WINS AGE OF RENAISSANCE PBeM: Carl Damcke bested a field of 44 to win the latest Age of Renaissance email tournament as the e-mail version continues to outdraw its WBC counterpart. Carl's Paris played a steady game and broke into a big lead on Turn 7 with good leaders and many commodity payouts. Genoa (Thomas Browne) made a strong push on Turn 8 collecting over $250 in silk but it was too little too late. A game long feud between London (Ewan McNay) and Barcelona (Mark Smith) hurt both of their causes and benefited Paris. Venice (Phil Watkins) came in fifth despite Crusading on Turn 3 and having two turns as the sole owner of Holy Indulgence. Dan Leader earned 6th place laurels for the best runner-up performance in the semis. More details and updated laurel totals are now available at http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook/aorpge.htm#pbem or follow the results from the source at http://gregstripes.com/aor/2008_progress.html .
MECAY TAKES POG TITLE AGAIN: Stefan Mecay, the holder of three WBC Paths of Glory titles, has matched that performance with an equal number of PBeM crowns with his recent defeat of Nick Anner to take the 5th BPA POG PBeM Tournament. Mecay bested a field of 64 in five rounds and 14 months as 147 games were logged on ACTS. Rounding out the laurelists were Mauro Faina of Italy, Dave Dockter, Tom Drueding, and Nick Frydas. More details and updated laurel totals are now available at http://www.boardgamers.org/yearbook/pogpge.htm#pbem
MARCH MADNESS: Half of the Sweet Sixteen has been determined with Daniel Leader still the only coach to get both his teams that close to the Final Four. To follow the progress of the brackets, see: http://www.nktelco.net/bdmonnin/mm-brack-2011.htm
GETTYSBURG: After five rounds of the Third Gettysburg PBeM tournament, 36 players have been reduced to two as #6 seed Bill Thomson and #8 seed Mike Pacheco battle it out for the title. In the semi-finals, Mike Pacheco's Rebel forces, bidding 5.0, overcame Dan Overland's Federals with a 2nd day resignation by the Blue. The results reversed in the other matchup, with Bill Thomson's Blue forcing a 2nd day concession by Ed Menzel's Grey, who had bid 5.5. Follow the progress if the event at http://www.wargameacademy.org/G88/2009-PBEM/index.html
All BPA PBeM tournaments require current BPA membership when the event starts. All multi-day paid attendees to WBC are current BPA members for the balance of that calendar year. Associate Calendar year memberships enabling play in all PBeM events starting in that year cost only $10. You need not keep your membership current in order to finish a PBeM event. Players may join the BPA throughout the year. Members are reminded they can upgrade their current memberships at any time by remitting additional funds. See http://www.boardgamers.org/bpaterms.htm for details.
BPA members who would like to see an email tournament for their favorite game are encouraged to step forward as the GM of such an event. BPA does not run tournaments. Rather, we are an organization of gamers lending support to one another so such events can happen. No one cares as much about your hobby as you do. Get involved. See the
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Sulaymaniyah - A leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan announced that the Presidency of the Kurdistan Parliament will be determined, and the formation of the new government will start soon.
Spokesman for the PUK SaadiBira said in a press conference after the meeting of the Political Bureau today, that during the meeting of the Kurdistan Parliament to be scheduled on the eighteenth of this month, will determine the Presidency in Parliament, and the formation of the new government."
He pointed out that a new Governor will be selected for Kirkuk, and will be the Kurdish component and from the Patriotic Union specifically.
He stressed the importance of uniting the visions and positions between the Kurdish parties, and the need to solve problems by peaceful means.
He pointed out that "the situation in Kirkuk is not good and that the province has a special situation and it is necessary to resolve problems and differences in them."


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Q: Youtube Live Video Streams dosen't work in qtwebengine I was trying to make a browser that can support Disney+ and YouTube live streams using QtWebEngine. But it isn't playing youtube live video. Say's "this browser doesn't recognize any of the video formats available" or something like that. This is my qml (made no changes in cpp code).
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I don't remember how I stumbled upon this book, but I remember having huge expectations for it.
The first thing that comes to mind about this book is the way the tone was fluctuating between adorable and fugly/creepy. Like a sinusoidal wave.
Eleanor and Park are pretty much normal teens who slowly discover each other and fall in love. There is a mystery about Eleanor's back story in the beginning which was nice. To read about a Korean guy in such a setting was interesting. Park looks like his life might be perfect but there are some major flaws too. These flaws were touched upon elegantly. The initial stages of getting to know one another, the little cutsie exchanges of phone numbers and comic books were the good parts.


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How The Bay Area Helped Create The National Park Service
Sequoia National Park © Stephanie/Flickr
Courtney Holcomb
This week, America celebrates the 100th birthday of the National Park Service, happy for any excuse to explore one of the country's 411 gorgeous national parks and monuments. As we celebrate, we can't help but reminisce on the National Park Service's origins. Bay Area residents can take pride in the extensive role their community played in making the NPS's establishment possible in the first place.
Perhaps the most influential Bay Area resident to contribute to the service was Stephen T. Mather, the very first director of the National Park Service. A native to San Francisco and a graduate of UC Berkeley, Mather was a wealthy marketing guru. By 1915, the country had 35 national parks and monuments, without any universal administration and with very little funding. The parks were sorely neglected and unappealing to the public. Mather wrote to Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, to complain about the park conditions. Lane, another key player in the National Park Service's creation, was also a UC Berkeley graduate who had spent years reporting for the San Francisco Chronicle and even served as San Francisco's city attorney for two terms. Lane, knowing Mather as a dynamic, powerful personality, decided to put him in charge of making improvements happen.
Stephen Mather plaque | © Bryant Baker/Wikipedia
Mather decided he needed to get the public to care about the parks in order get funding from Congress. He gathered all the park superintendents together at the UC Berkeley Sigma Chi house to hold the famous conference that led to the formation of the National Park Service. Mather continued to serve the NPS until he fell ill in 1929, a year before he died.
After Mather fell ill, his assistant, Horace Albright, took over as director of the NPS. Albright was also a UC Berkeley graduate. Several other Berkeley affiliates played a key role in the early NPS, like Professor Adolph Miller, Professor William Colby, Professor Joseph N. Le Conte, and his father Joseph Le Conte. Beyond Berkeley, San Francisco architect Mark Daniels designed the first NPS uniform and helped run the parks as well. Representative William Kent of Marin County was one of the two sponsors of the legislation that created the National Park Service, and he also gave the government the redwood forest that would later become Muir Woods.
Glacier Point | © Mitchel Jones/Flickr
So next time you visit one of the country's gorgeous parks, take a moment to thank the many Bay Area figures who played important roles in the National Park Service's creation, and look back on the parks' Bay Area heritage with pride.


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Biography of Jane Porter
Jane Porter (1776 -1850)
WE ARE TOLD that Jane Porter was less than six years old when lullabies of "Wallace Wight" were sung to her in her Edinburgh nursery; while in the great hall the old serving-man told wondrous tales of the Battles of Bannockburn and Cambuskenneth. Is it any wonder then, that an imaginative child grown into a talented woman should create "Scottish Chiefs"?
If, as it is charged, Miss Porter's descriptions of Wallace's achievements are exaggerated, it is no exaggeration to say that her book has become an acknowledged masterpiece of English literature.
Generation upon generation has succumbed to the noble bearing and teachings of "the noblest Scot of all" who led the fight against King Edward's invaders.
Miss Porter devoted a good portion of her early life to research for her story which deals with the period of 1296 to 1305 in the histories of England and Scotland. She took the cold facts of history and warmed them with the flame of her genius to a warm, throbbing story describing the intimate lives of her characters.
Carefully sheltered in the green garden of her cottage in Thames-Ditton, Miss Porter was unconscious of her future glory as she wrote the story of medieval war-engines, clashing armies, and besieged castles. Little did she know, in 1809, that her book was to be translated into every language of the continent; that it would be read by kings, queens and princes, and finally invoke the censorship of the great Napoleon himself!
In her precise Mid Victorian manner, Miss Porter expressed polite gratification for the wide acceptance of her "Scottish Chiefs." She wrote of her "grateful sense of the candor with which so adventurous a work from a female pen has been generally received, particularly among the people of her hero's nation-the country in which she first drew the elements of her intellectual life."
Petite, gentle and shy, Jane Porter wrote of war and battle strategy with the genius of a field marshal. She raises the towers of castles and invests them with men of armor with a sure, certain knowledge of medieval history. Again in 1840, after many thousands of copies of her book had come from the press, she wrote a "Retrospective Preface" when an illustrated edition was given to the public. It was in this second preface that Miss Porter told of how the central figures of her novel first appeared before her imagination. Her chief instructress in the Scottish legends was a pious old woman who lived near her home.
So deeply etched in her young mind were the tales of Wallace and his heroic followers that young Jane began her research at a very early age and it was with a great deal of courage that she took her quill in hand to write "Scottish Chiefs." Only Jane Porter's genius made it possible for the skeptical public of her time to accept the work of a "female" writer; only the rich masterpiece of storytelling which "Scottish Chiefs" proved itself to be, has kept this breathless romantic thriller as popular today as it was more than a century ago.
Jane Porter, whose story of the Scottish fight for independence was to make her name a byword in the English speaking world, was born in the year that the American colonies struck for their independence also - 1776. The little girl whose daydreams were of knights and battles when other children played with dolls lived to see her dreams entertain the world. Jane Porter died May 24, 1850.


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I have been having this problem for months. I have a webhosting server and from time to time, every submit of any PHP form hangs. There are no errors in the log and I have updated all packages over the previous months. I even created a brand new chroot with all packages compiled from scratch and installed a new kernel but nothing helps. It seems random, sometimes the server can last for a couple of weeks without any problem but then there are days when it happens several times. It used to be worse when I had the worker MPM, I have switched to prefork in the meantime. That helped a bit but did not solve the problem. I have also tried decreasing the max requests per child directive, in hopes that if PHP leaks or hangs, the process will get restarted more frequently, solving the problem. But it did not really help either.
Now I do not know what else to try or where to look. Any ideas would be appreciated.
What kind of webhosting server? Shared, virtual private or rented hardware? I assume the server OS is Gentoo, since you're posting here.
It is my own hardware, nothing virtual.
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -pipe -fforce-addr"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=core2 -march=core2 -pipe -fforce-addr"
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Also I found out that very simple PHP scripts do not hang on POST - but when it comes to opening wordpress sites or sending some support tickets, etc., it becomes very slow - top shows nothing, Apache seems to be sleeping and not using CPU at all.
When I check the log while it is stalling, it shows nothing. The corresponding line in the log appears only after the page has been successfully downloaded but it shows the correct time (when I sent the request).
Is it possible that the bottleneck is your MySQL server? For example it might be that slow queries on a large data basis cause MySQL to have too many open connections, and (depending on its configuration) it waits until a new slot is available.
What types of PHP applications do you have installed? In your WordPress installation(s), what plugins do you use? Did you try deactivating them? Sometimes they are horribly coded and cause the weirdest problems.
MySQL is not the bottleneck, it is not doing anything when this problem occurs. Also, there are not many open connections to the database.
The biggest problem is that it is a webhosting server and I have no control over what my customers are using. I cannot just go and disable some wordpress plugins in their installation. Unfortunately, this makes it really difficult to trace the root of the problem. I am quite sure that something must trigger it, some weird PHP script one of my customers is using, a wordpress plugin, something like that. On the other hand, since I am using apache/prefork, the processes should be isolated and even if one of them slows down, the rest should work normally.
The biggest problem is that it is a webhosting server and I have no control over what my customers are using.
Yup, what you're experiencing are the common problems of a virtual hosting provider. Unless you're offering real virtualization and resource provisioning, one customer can drag the entire server down.
Are you using Munin? If not, you should really consider installing it. If you already have it, I would recommend to assign virtual identifiers to your customers and monitor their ressource usage. For example, as for Apache, you could set up virtual, internal IP addresses (one for each vHost) and assign a Munin sensor to each of them. I think there are Munin plugins to monitor virtual hosts directly, but I don't know how they perform. Same for MySQL etc. You can even write your own sensors, it's not that hard.
Thanks for the tip, I will try Munin and see what it can tell me.


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If you thought spending hours in a gym every day would help you slim down, think again! A new study suggests that exercise may not prevent weight gain.
"Our study results indicate that physical activity may not protect you from gaining weight," said lead study author Lara Dugas, Assistant Professor at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine in the US.
The findings of the study involving young adults from five countries were published in the journal PeerJ.
Physical activity has many proven health benefits, ranging from reducing the risk of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer to improving mental health and mood.
People who are physically active tend to be healthier and live longer.
But while physical activity burns calories, it also increases appetite, and people may compensate by eating more or by being less active the rest of the day.
The researchers followed adults aged 25 to 40 living in five countries – the US, Ghana, South Africa, Jamaica and Seychelles.
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Toyota Overtakes Volkswagen As Top-selling Global Auto Maker
By AFP News
Japan's Toyota reclaimed the title of world's top-selling automaker in 2020, according to data released by the firm on Thursday, pushing Volkswagen into second place for the first time in five years.
Toyota said it had sold 9.53 million vehicles around the world last year, overtaking the 9.3 million sales made by its German rival.
The Japanese giant took the lead despite a decline in global sales of more than 10 percent as the auto industry suffered the effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
"Despite the Covid-19 pandemic... Toyota was able to continue corporate activities through comprehensive implementation of various infection prevention measures, and by working together with partners including suppliers and dealers," it said in a statement.
The last time Toyota held the top spot was in 2015 Photo: AFP / Philip FONG
That was still better than the more than 15 percent drop in sales Volkswagen announced earlier this month.
Toyota said it had benefited from a jump in sales in China, which were up over 10 percent year-on-year, and a better-than-expected performance globally in the October-December quarter.
The last time Toyota held the top spot was in 2015, with VW edging it out in the following years.
"Toyota's recent strategy of pursuing quality over quantity has... satisfied consumers", especially in North America and China, Koichi Sugimoto, an auto analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities, told AFP.
"Improved ties with the Chinese government, partly thanks to China's interest in Toyota's green tech as well as brand-building in the Chinese market by Japanese carmakers in general, also contributed" to sales growth, Sugimoto said.
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Galaxy Gazing
I think that the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at the door. Falling from airplanes the people are crying thank you, thank you, all down the air; and the cold carriages draw up for them on the rocks. Divinity is not playful. The universe was not made in jest but in solemn incomprehensible earnest. By a power that is unfathomably secret, and holy, and fleet. There is nothing to be done about it, but ignore it, or see.
—Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek1
The Milky Way from my driveway
Tonight, with clear weather and no moon around, I am up late to look at a dark sky with the first decent pair of binoculars I've ever owned. The vaguely textured white blur of the Milky Way that my eyes have long admired, unmagnified, now resolve through the 10x binoculars into clusters of countless stars with crisscrossing fuzzy ribbons of black woven in between.
I pan the circular field of view slowly along our galaxy's long overhead arc, immersed in the depth I sense above me from my two eyes merging a single image. There's a satisfying tangible connection between the fine motions of my arms and the slow sweeping past of this collection of a hundred billion stars in our little corner of the universe.
A dim smudge near Cassiopeia teases my eyes' limits of sensitivity and resolution. I think it's M52, a globular cluster a few thousand light-years away. It was first identified by Charles Messier in 1774. The photons I'm collecting in my binoculars tonight from its 193 or so stars were more than 90% of the way here when Messier peered through his telescope. In the meantime, a nation rose through a rebellion and then quashed one of its own; enslaved, freed, and still long oppressed a large fraction of its citizens; conquered its native peoples and then rescued others from conquest in two world wars.
The smudges are clusters of countless stars.2
These photons had already emerged from their nuclear furnaces by the time some settlements along the river Tiber formed the first humble beginnings of the Roman empire.3 Their journey may even have been halfway underway by then; we're not sure exactly how far away M52 is from us.4
It's been a little more than two thousand years ago since a citizen of that empire, a gifted poet and philosopher, stood next to some pool or pond beneath the night sky. The skies anywhere in Europe were darker than they are now, even at my place out in the country. I imagine Titus Lucretius Caras (c. 99-55 B.C.) looking at an image of the blazing array of stars overhead, seeing their "images," which, he muses, must "be able to run through space incalculable / In a moment of time."5
The pointpoints and patterns of the stars are mirrored in the still water before him, "not turned round intact, but flung straight back / In reverse," with the features thus shown "in reverse."6 He moves slightly to one side along the water's edge and notices how one particularly bright star near the horizon comes abruptly into view from behind the tree. Its direct image and its reflection both wink on instantly–at exactly the same time, as far as he can tell.7
A smooth surface of water is exposed
To a clear sky at night, at once the stars
And constellations of the firmament
Shining serene make answer in the water.
Yet he knows that the "images" raining down from the sky take a longer route when they make the extra trip to the water and back than when they go directly into his eye.
Now do you see how in an instant the image
Falls from the edge of heaven
to the edge of earth?
Wherefore again and yet again I say
How marvellously swift the motion is
Of the bodies which strike our eyes
and make us see.8
Those image-bearing bodies are "marvelously swift" indeed. They move 186,000 miles–more than 23 earth diameters–through the vacuum of space every second. Yet the immense vault of our universe is so incomprehensibly vast that it's taken most of the span of human civilization for them to reach us, from a relatively nearby neighbor within just our own galaxy (there are at least a hundred billion others).9
My kind of nightlife
Silent and impassive to all the twitches and ripples in the microscopic biofilm of one ordinary planet, in the hundreds of years since Messier noticed this odd feature among the stars–in the thousands filled with death and wars and tears of joy and sorrow since Lucretius did his ancient poolside musings–the photons from its clustered stars continued their long journey outward. Only now do they finally land on my retinas to collapse wave functions and trigger individual rod-shaped cells to launch neurotransmitters down neighboring filaments of cell-strings along my optic nerves.
In my brain, a little smudge registers. Something's really up there.
The stars in M52 will keep launching their photons all my life, as they have for 35 million years now. They'll get lost in the sea of light that covers and warms the daylight half of earth, fall through clear skies over the other half in darkness, and remain ignored almost always, as the earth swings around its own little star a few dozen more times until my eyes no longer see anything at all.
And yet, despite my absence, the earth will stay in its orbit and the photons will stream on.
Does it surprise you to see such ringing words of spirituality as the epigraph to an atheist's essay? Such prose retains its profound beauty regardless of one's disagreements with its message. And even with no God in the picture, I am still happy to call whatever was behind the Big Bang, or the quantum fluctuation that unleashed the Big Bang, or whatever was behind that, a "power that is unfathomably secret," even holy, filling me with a sort of reverence as I gave upwards at night. ↩
There's also some light pollution near the horizon, even out here, miles from the nearest city. I've tried to de-emphasize it with reduced yellow and green luminance. ↩
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome ↩
Because "this cluster is in the plane of the Milky Way," our available "methods of determining distance are too uncertain," some yielding estimates "as small as 3,000 light years, while others are as large as 7,000" (Ethan Siegel, "Messier Monday: A Star Cluster on the Bubble, M52," ScienceBlogs. ↩
Lucretius, Book IV, line 191. From On the Nature of the Universe, Ronald Melville, trans. (Oxford University Press). ↩
Book IV, lines 295-99. ↩
It's not exactly the same time, of course, something I remain well aware of as an electrical engineer with a radio background. Indeed, engineers rely on the known and limited speed of light to do antenna design with all of its resonant and carefully spaced conductive elements. Quarter-wavelength spacings abound. ↩
"How Many Stars Are There In the Universe?", European Space Agency. I've seen another dim smudge out there in the night sky from the nearest of those other galaxies, Andromeda. Its photons took millions of years to reach me instead of thousands. ↩


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NewsGroove Uk > Music > Slipknot's Jay Weinberg named world's best heavy metal drummer
Slipknot's Jay Weinberg named world's best heavy metal drummer
MusicNovember 30, 2019
posted on Nov. 30, 2019 at 12:45 pm
Slipknot's Jay Weinberg has been named the world's best heavy metal drummer in a new music poll.
Music Radar, a website for music makers, staged a poll to find out who the best metal drummer is and Weinberg came out on top with almost twice as many votes as the rest of the entrants combined.
Other names in the running included Slayer's Paul Bostaph, Korn's Ray Luzier, Lamb of God's Art Cruz, Machine Head's Chris Kontos and Jocke Wallgreen of Amon Amarth.
The Slipknot drummer took to Twitter to comment on topping the poll: "It's an honor to receive the title of 'Best Metal Drummer' in @musicradar's 2019 Best In Drums poll. Thanks to everyone who voted. I sincerely appreciate your support and interest."
It's an honor to receive the title of "Best Metal Drummer" in @musicradar's 2019 Best In Drums poll. Thanks to everyone who voted. I sincerely appreciate your support and interest. pic.twitter.com/ig8oodoaYt
— Jay Weinberg (@jayweinbergdrum) November 29, 2019
"Shout out to all the other incredible nominees," he continued. "I'm endlessly inspired by this enormous community of drummers, and I'm grateful for every opportunity to experience their contributions to music."
He added: "The best gratitude I can show is by giving everything I've got in every recording and every performance. Here's to a great 2019 and exciting 2020! See you out there."
Shout out to all the other incredible nominees. I'm endlessly inspired by this enormous community of drummers, and I'm grateful for every opportunity to experience their contributions to music.
The full rankings were as follows:
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1. Jay Weinberg, Slipknot
2. Paul Bostaph, Slayer
3. Ray Luzier, Korn
4. Jocke Wallgren, Amon Amarth
5. Chris Kontos, Machine Head
6. Christoph Schneider, Rammstein
7. Art Cruz, Lamb Of God
8. Jason Bittner, Overkill
Jay Weinberg, who is the son of Max Weinberg, of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and leader of the house band on Conan O'Brien's talk show, joined Slipknot in 2013 as a replacement for the band's former sticksman Joey Jordison.
Slipknot announced its split with Jordison in December 2013 but did not share the reasons for his exit. The drummer later revealed that a neurological disorder he suffers from was to blame for his departure from the band.
Meanwhile, Slipknot's Corey Taylor has recalled the time that the rockers supported a jazz band in their early days – which went down as well as you'd probably expect.
Speaking in a recent interview with BBC Radio 1's Daniel P Carter, he recalled how the 'We Are Not Your Kind' band opened up for the unnamed jazz act in their hometown of Des Moines, Iowa.
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Growth factors such as TGF alpha and their respective receptors play a crucial role in regulating cell differentiation, proliferation and survival. TGF alpha stimulates cell proliferation and is expressed in a number of tissues including skin, colon, liver and kidney (Kumar et al. 1995).
TGF alpha is one of seven epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) ligands (Singh et al. 2016). TGF alpha is synthesized in a precursor transmembrane format, which undergoes proteolytic cleavage to generate the mature extracellular soluble ligand (Singh et al. 2016). Membrane bound TGF alpha is also biologically active and induces juxtacrine signaling by binding to EGFR on neighboring cells (Schneider and Wolf 2008). Upon TGF alpha binding, the EGFR dimerizes resulting in its phosphorylation and kinase domain activation. EGFR phosphorylation activates cell signaling pathways, such as Raf/MEK/ERK1/2 and PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathways (Wang et al. 2012).
Overexpression of TGF alpha is observed in numerous cancer types including triple negative breast cancer and prostate cancer. TGF alpha plays a key role in proliferation and metastasis of tumor cells (Giricz et al. 2013, Qin et al. 2014). In addition to tumors, increased TGF alpha levels have been observed in the gastric mucosa of patients suffering from the hyper-proliferative stomach disorder, Ménétrier's disease (MD), which has resulted in the implication of TGF alpha in the pathogenesis of MD (Huh et al. 2015).
The proliferative effect of TGF alpha was demonstrated by performing a cell proliferation assay with Balb/3T3 mouse embryonic fibroblast cells. The expected ED50 for this effect is 0.1-1.0 ng/ml.
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Giricz, O. et al. (2013) TACE-dependent TGFα shedding drives triple-negative breast cancer cell invasion.
Int J Cancer. 133 (11): 2587-95.
Huh, W.J. et al. (2016) Ménétrier's Disease: Its Mimickers and Pathogenesis.
J Pathol Transl Med. 50 (1): 10-6.
Kumar, V. et al. (1995) Transforming growth factor alpha.
Cell Biol Int. 19 (5): 373-88.
Qin, W. et al. (2014) MicroRNA-124 regulates TGF-α-induced epithelial-mesenchymal transition in human prostate cancer cells.
Int J Oncol. 45 (3): 1225-31.
Schneider, M.R. & Wolf, E. (2009) The epidermal growth factor receptor ligands at a glance.
J Cell Physiol. 218 (3): 460-6.
Singh, B. et al. (2016) EGF receptor ligands: recent advances.
F1000Res. 5Sep 08 [Epub ahead of print].
Wang, C. et al. (2012) Transforming growth factor alpha (TGFα) regulates granulosa cell tumor (GCT) cell proliferation and migration through activation of multiple pathways.
PLoS One. 7 (11): e48299.


The trial begins nearly two years after Mike and Trina Kuznik were found shot to death at their car dealership on E. 185th Street.
CLEVELAND — A jury has been seated and now opening statements are expected Tuesday afternoon in the capital murder trial of accused killer Joseph McAlpin.
NOTE: The court is not permitting live streaming of the trial.
McAlpin faces more than two dozen charges in the April 2017 deaths of Mike and Trina Kuznik, who were both found shot to death at their car dealership, Mr. Cars, on E. 185th Street.
The couple's 19-year-old son found the bodies. Their dog was also killed.
Jury selection began March 18.
The charges against McAlpin, 31, include aggravated murder, murder, kidnapping and cruelty to animals. He could be sentenced to death if convicted.
Two more men, 24-year-old Jerome Diggs, Jr., and 25-year-old Andrew Keener, were also arrested in connection to the crimes in November 2017. According to court records, Keener pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in February, while Diggs' trial is scheduled to begin in April.
McAlpin previously served nine years in prison for aggravated robbery prior to his release in 2016.