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Summer Reruns
Everyone may stream their entertainment on their teeny tiny phones but that's just the tech; without a good story summer still means reruns.
So in the fine old tradition of reruns, I give you a recap of the summertime blues.
(Coming soon, Lyme Disease. Stay tuned.)
This entry was posted in Cranky Comments on July 29, 2013 by susan.
Is there an epidemiologist in the house? *
There's an appalling advert for one of the adjunct health unions/associations/whatever where someone collapses in a restaurant and the doctor starts to call for various "technologists" (x-ray, CT scan, etc.). I don't doubt their word that health care today is complex; still, call me crazy but if I collapsed somewhere I'd really rather have an actual health professional, a clinician, by which I mean a nurse or physician, at my side than someone who knows how to operate an ultrasound machine thank you very much. Remember, machines don't "know" whether something is a concern or not – it's people, actual humans, who make that determination.
A determination that all too often relies on over-optimistic beliefs regarding the accuracy of "tests".
(But as neurologist and author Oliver Sachs once sadly remarked: They don't give Nobel prizes to clinicians, only medical researchers.)
Worse, everything from the images and data we get from those machines not to mention the health information that's flung at us from all sides is based on statistics. More accurately, a statistical approximation of "normal". The normal person, whatever or whomever that may be. Another term, whether one is being statistically accurate or not, is "average".
Now I don't know about you but I've never met an "average" person. Everyone I know is distinctive, sometimes eccentric, often times interesting, funny and, well, different. People are a jumble of ethnicities, backgrounds, socio-economic and otherwise; their education and passions and hobbies and interests differ as does everything from their diets to their bad habits. Er, risky behaviours to the epidemiologists in the house.
So here we all are, contorting ourselves into bizarre shapes trying to fit into the statistical moulds they'd have us fit, from the not-so-benign lipid levels and blood pressure (for which drugs are available should one not conform to aforesaid norm) to clothing sizes and availability in everything from lipstick colours to food. Oh, yeah, tell me you haven't noticed that your favorite kind of frozen chips appeals to you and six other people so it's been discontinued.
From supplements to ideal weight, glucose and you-name-it, normal follows us around like some malevolent mosquito, buzzing in our ear and biting us in the you-know-what when we try to ignore it. Whether it's Dr. Google or the news items on everything from your phone to your TV.
But when we're feeling off, or sick or have had something bad happen what we want and need is a clinician: someone who knows how to set that broken bone, do that tracheotomy, or CPR and know just how much morphine to prescribe so we'll keep breathing. Unfortunately, the spate of bad health news out there makes us all so nervous that all to often when we do end up at the clinic or the ER we've got nothing more terrifying than bronchitis or a particularly bad bout of cystitis. Not for us former generations stoicism; we race over 'just in case' for everything from a sore knee to a cough.
An American chap once disparagingly told me Canadian health care was simply dreadful. How did he know? Well, when he lived in Montreal he had a bad cold. One assumes in winter when people get those in cold climates. Then, late Saturday night he decides to head over to the Emerg because his cough was worrying him. Could he breathe? Yes. Was he running a temp? No. But he went anyway. And couldn't figure out why the ER staff didn't rush him to have tests and x-rays. Ah, d'you think you could have picked a less busy time? Of course not.
Where's an epidemiologist when you need one?
* Not my line, though I wish it were. I read it in Gordon Clark's column in The Vancouver Province on July 8. Laughed out loud as a matter of fact.
This entry was posted in Health Care on July 16, 2013 by susan.
They got stones, I'll give you that
I was going to call this post "nobody knows the trouble I seen" except that it seems ludicrously self indulgent to whine that one has been living through construction hell when the rest of the world has revolutions, civil wars, hurricanes and so on to contend with. (But, to paraphrase Will Rogers, everything is manageable provided it's happening to someone else.) This isn't to say my curmudgeonly instincts have been dormant . One particular item a while back had me seething.
"Sugary drinks are not so sweet" was the headline in the Health section of the Globe and Mail (24 May 2013). Apparently, drinking a sugar-sweetened drink a day not only rots your teeth and adds up to empty calories (with the added bonus that it makes New York's Mayor Bloomburg crazy) but "may increase the risk of kidney stones". Gasp. I had to pause to take a sip of my ginger ale* while that sank in.
I puzzed and I puzzed, to reference one of my favorite curmudgeons, the Grinch. Didn't make sense. How on earth could fructose cause blobs of crystallized minerals to form in the kidney? (To reinforce the point that sugary drinks are Evil the accompanying photo was of a surgeon with a scalpel. Someone had fun with that.)
The research cited was from 2007, published in a journal called Kidney International (2008, 73; 207-212). The worthiest journal nobody's ever heard of. My curiosity got the better of me and I downloaded the article and read through the cringe-inducing prospective study; yet another data-mining expedition hoping to find a "link" between X and Y. (For more on my distaste for the term, see post.) The data? From – wait for it – the appalling Nurses' Health Study, formerly used to "prove" that taking estrogen was just a boffo idea. Here, the research cites some 19,000+ women along with some 46,000 men from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Impressive numbers. Pity the hypothesis is so feeble.
Not of course to our heroes, researchers Taylor and Curhan, unspecified experts at a renal division/lab at Brigham Young and Harvard who engage in enough statistical jiggery-pokery to make the world go round. (Pity nobody blinks when data gets tortured.)
Just a few problems here. As I explained, in often far too exhaustive detail in The Estrogen Errors, extrapolating to the general population from the Nurse's Study is massively problematic. For starters, there's its basic design, bi-annual self reports, which are notoriously unreliable. We're all prone to error as any gibbon with half a brain knows: we forget, lie and generally get things wrong. Good grief, most of us stutter when they ask us how much we weigh when we get a new driver's license. Plus, there's the healthy user bias – people who respond to any questionnaire tend to be richer, smarter, better off, i.e., healthier than the average bear. Er, person. Often they're white and frequently younger. All of which means they are not like the real at-risk population who, by and large, tends to be poorer, less educated, older, more diverse, less health and diet conscious, more stressed and sicker. Face it, d'you think you'd have time to sit around reading some blog if you had to work at two or more minimum wage jobs just to put food on the table and pay your rent? Could you even afford an iPad or even high speed internet?
This is on top of the fact that professionals in general can't stand in for "everyone" and basing one's conclusions of what these people do (or say) is what's popularly known as being spectacularly wrong.
What really interested me, though, was what these researchers thought might be going on physiologically. In other words, how did we get from basic sugar metabolism to blobs of crystallized minerals in the kidney? Gremlins? Evil spirits? The authors do obligingly admit that the underlying mechanisms are "unknown" (ah, ya think?!) but postulate various processes, none of which make sense. Hence their masterful use of language:
"Fructose may also increase urinary excretion of oxalate, an important risk factor for calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis. Carbohydrates, along with amino acids, provide the majority of the carbon for glyoxylate and oxalate synthesis, and fructose may be an important dietary sugar influencing the production of oxalate." (emphasis mine)
The authors concede backing for their hypotheses are "sparse"; personally I would have said nonexistent. Rats make up the bulk of their research subjects in this section and the one study they cite using humans consists of eleven – yes, 11 – men whose pee was analyzed for calcium loss (versus calcium intake). Fructose intake made no difference in the calcium these men excreted but the researchers still concluded that the reason fructose laden drinks caused kidney stones "may be related to the effect of fructose intake on urine composition". How they concluded this I have no idea. Maybe they were on a sugar high.
The only marginally plausible explanation had to do with uric acid metabolism and for a moment I thought, OK, this might make sense. Then I checked the reference and realized it only applied to people with gout, whose uric acid metabolism is already dysfunctional (that being the definition of gout).
Kidney stones, by the bye, are hardly that common and rarely if ever life threatening. Even Wikipedia's overblown, hyperventilating piece on the topic, that sounds as though it was written by a nephrologist who had just passed one, admits that the incidence or number of new cases a year is "0.5%". (Of course it doesn't specify 0.5% of what which is rather an important point, but let's not nitpick at this late point in the post.)
How did this 5-year-old study even make it into the health news section? Having spent some years as a medical writer and journalist, I can tell you exactly how. A group of people in an editorial meeting, drinking coffee – or pop – were bouncing around story ideas and someone suggested a piece vilifying soft drinks, currently Public Enemy No. 1 (see NYC, Bloomburg). So, they wrote the headline then they contacted the hapless writer who cast about for some new and nifty problem that could be blamed on aforesaid sugary drinks. Everyone knowing full well that the majority of people only read the headline and the first paragraph; it's only mutants such as myself who check the original research and parse the methods section.
If sugary drinks do give you kidney stones, these people didn't prove it.
There are a lot of good reasons to consider soft drinks a treat, not a staple. They're empty calories; they rot your teeth and many of them contain fairly high amounts of caffeine which can make you nervy and insomniac. But kidney stones? Really?! We think not. And it takes stones to say they do.
* oh get over it. It's summer. There's construction outside. Yes, I have the occasional ginger ale or Coke. Sometimes, when I'm especially cranky, two days in a row. Sue me.
This entry was posted in Health Care, Medicine and Health on July 7, 2013 by susan.


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The Cookers–Living Embodiment of Heyday of Jazz–Plot Tour as Downbeat Puts Band on Cover & New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest Includes Them
Look Out! (Gearbox Records) Ranks Among 2021's Best Albums at NPR Music, Offbeat, Jazz Critics' Poll, Jazztimes & Beyond
Jazz supergroup the Cookers—whose members have played with many of the all-time greats of jazz and whose album Look Out! (Gearbox Records) is ranked among 2021's best by NPR Music, OffBeat, Jazz Times, the Jazz Critics' Poll, and more—will tour this winter.
DownBeat Magazine has the band on the cover of its January issue. The Magazine's Ted Panken writes, "The collective septet uncorks rarified levels of inflamed soul improvisation emblematic of the Cookers' brand. This is not hyperbole. Each member of The Cookers is a model practitioner of the go-for-the-jugular, kinetic, swing-oriented esthetic… playing music tempered by a. master control that maneuvers the flame with a Michelin chef's finesse and discipline."
Meanwhile, Cookers' members Billy Hart (drums) and Donald Harrison (saxophone) will be honored as Jazz Masters by the National Endowment for the Arts in a ceremony this spring.
THE COOKERS TOUR DATES
February 19 – Kente Arts – Pittsburgh, PA
February 22 – Portland Jazz Festival – Portland, OR
February 23 – Yoshi's – Oakland, CA
February 24 – Kuumbwa Jazz Center – Santa Cruz, CA
February 25 – San Jose Winter Jazz Fest – San Jose, CA
February 27 – Nate Holden Theater – Los Angeles, CA
March 1-5 – Birdland – New York, NY
March 17-20 – Blues Alley – Washington, DC
April 2 – Robert Schumann Saal – Dusseldorf, Germany
April 3 – Theater Stubchen – Kassel, Germany
April 5 – New Morning – Paris, France
April 6 – Philharmonie – Szczecin, Poland
April 7-8 – Church of Sound – London, UK
April 9 – Madrid Jazz Festival – Madrid, Spain
April 29-May 1 (exact date TBA) – New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival – New Orleans, LA
PRAISE FOR LOOK OUT!:
"The Cookers, a group of luminaries mostly now in their 70s and 80s, have managed to retain the rough-and-tumble spirit of their old work, while accepting the laurels that have rightfully come to them. On their new album, Look Out, a bristling collection of originals, the old feeling is newly alive."
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–Andy Cowan, MOJO Magazine
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–Phil Freeman, Stereogum
"One of the hardest working groups in contemporary jazz… originals that plug effortlessly into the spirit and lexicon of those milestones… The fact that all of this comes across as a living music, and more than a mere exercise in nostalgia, speaks volumes about The Cookers' considerable chops as both composers and performers of bona fide deep jazz."
–Daniel Spicer, The Wire
"Post-bop goodness… a veritable supergroup of jazz heavyweights."
–Matt Micucci, Jazziz
"Mostly incendiary performances… the Cookers can still deliver."
–Perry Tannenbaum, Jazz Times
"Fierce… If you're looking for a take-no-prisoners approach to improvisation performed by living masters of our music, then look no further than The Cookers… Could rival any superhero squad for extraordinary powers, esprit de corps, and a burning sense of purpose. The all-star group."
–Nate Chinen, WBGO.org
"Supreme hard-hitting jazz… These are the cats that make it sizzle… While there is generous solo space for each musician to take off with enthusiastic support from the group, the ensemble work is magnificently impressive… The legendary musicians here were some of the creators of the new sound that followed the bebop era of jazz. Their improvisational powers remain dangerously potent as warned by the album's title, Look Out!"
–Geraldine Wyckoff, OffBeat Magazine
–Thomas Conrad and Fred Kaplan, Stereophile Magazine
★★★★ "The band's ability to keep referencing profound African-American traditions whilst sounding dynamically contemporary."
– John Fordham, JazzWise Magazine
THE COOKERS ARE:
Billy Harper (sax)
Billy Hart (drums)
Eddie Henderson (trumpet)
Cecil McBee (bass)
George Cables (piano)
David Weiss (trumpet)
Donald Harrison (sax)

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Cloudera Completes Agreement to Become a Private Company
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I picked up an ADS lowpass filter schematic from another designer. The lowpass uses lumped element coils and is placed in a housing. The original designer placed some mutual coupling elements between the inductors to tweak the response due to the coil proximity and housing.
I am interested in calculating the power dissipated in the inductors. If I disable the mutual coupling, the calculated dissipations look reasonable (relatively light coupling--disabling minimally effect the response). However, with the mutual coupling elements enabled, the power dissipated among the inductors (four inductors in my case) are significantly different and in some cases negative. However, if you sum the power among the four inductors (with mutual enabled), the total power dissipation looks reasonable. The total loss of the network looks approximately the same whether the mutuals are enabled or not. However, the power distribution inside the filter is not right.
So, my question(s): Why does the power dissipation distribution change so radically when adding the mutual coupling. [Power is calculated as 0.5*real(V x I*) and it is calculated into the device and out of the device--the difference being Pdiss]. Does this mean that the coupling terms are physically wrong? Or, does something get messed up in the matrix when mutuals are enabled such that the power dissipated becomes confounded internal to the structure? Is there a more generalized formulation for calculating dissipated power?
The mutual inductance blocks DC and is an ideal inductor so it will not disipate power. When you add the mutual inductance to the circuit it will create signal paths that are not there otherwise. This will definetely have an impact on the power distribution in the circuit. This is probably the effect that the original designer wanted to capture so in principle what you are saying sounds reasobale.


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I'll throw this out there for now, the car on the outside of Gene looks like Frankie Mantello, if that is the case then it is #93. It is really hard to tell if there is no head rest. But I believe I see four injectors for and Offy.
Last edited by Thomas E; 07-30-2010 at 08:09 PM.
Thomas, that was my guess, but I'm stumped by the contour of the roll bar, and the Kurtis style nose !?! Looks like Mantello to me, the uniform and helmet, need to cross reference some other old photo's.
Thomas, your correct, I copied these from a previous post, from England of all places, I'd say the evidence is conclusive.
Mantello outside of Grier and Eddie.
The uniform looks the same.
Joe's dad out front as Mantello spins. This was a pre WWII Kurtis, it belonged to Rex Mays and Buddy Martinson brought it to Denver. Somewhere along the way they added the more traditional Kurtis nose, the pre war nose had the grill bars running horizontal, one of the greatest midgets ever.
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There are a lot great midgets. The #27 Rodriquez Offy, #5 Axel/Jackson offy, #3 Stockwell offy, #15 Barlett Falcon, #6 Hamilton Offy, #42 Manning Chevy II, #44 Walker Roadster . . . well you get the Idea.
Ray Koch's number 93 will always be number 1 with me. I first saw the #93 car in early 1951 on visit to Denver from South Dakota with my dad, it was at Englewood Speedway. The driver at that time was Don Padia, he also drove the #99 Codner Roaring Roadster.
We were not there the week Don was driving #93 and he had a bad crash, the injuries would prove to be too much, Don died about a month later. The track physician at that time I believe was Dr. Lilienthal, it was told that Doc Lilienthal stopped each day to check on Don and would stay for an hour or so until Don passed away.
In the early 60's I took two Monogram Midgets and made replicas of #93 for Ray and Frank, it took extra kits for those just right parts, gloss red and hand lettered. Were they surprised.
Those two model car builds were followed up with a #5, #6, #15, #55, #27, #1.
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Also of note, the man standing next to Eddie is H.J. Tate - only went by his last name. Nice '54 early '55 Chevy behind them!
mtate your logic makes some sense except that the #1 cars for the years 1957, 1958 and 1959 were all '32 Ford Coupes. Bob Bushef had a '32 five window for '57 and '58 while Bill Starks drove both a five and three window coupe for 1959. The #1 car in this photo is clearly a '34 Ford. If I can find a way to get a more clear view of the other stock car behind the midget I might be able to nail it down.
Concerning this photo, wondering if Jerry Lee or someone has a better or an original one. Photos from that era had a higher resolution which could then be magnified without losing detail. Some additional info that makes me believe that it is 1956 is that Gordon Herring was the CARC President that year, and may have chosen the #1 for that reason, plus it was probably available since his teammate from 1955, Norm Engblom who had been #1 then, wasn't using it. My fortunes increased in 1956 in that Mr. Herring invited me to a preseason hot lap session. (Had to use that info at the gate to get in since the park hadn't opened yet). Unfortunately the #1 wasn't a car that I remember from that visit, nor subsequent visits. Guess it's hard to be president and race too. Meanwhile, I'm willing to agree that the question of what year this is may not be completely settled yet.


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Dear President Timothy Killeen and Chancellor Susan Koch:
In August, NPR Illinois in partnership with ProPublica's Local Reporting Network published articles about the University of Illinois' handling of sexual misconduct cases. Our reporting documented that the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has helped several professors retain seemingly unblemished records even though they were found to have violated school policies, including its sexual misconduct policies. Following these stories, NPR Illinois and ProPublica published a questionnaire for other victims of sexual harassment at Illinois colleges and universities to help our reporting by sharing their experiences. In the requests published on our website, we extended offers of confidentiality, as is common practice for journalists dealing with people who may be traumatized.
Within days, the University of Illinois Springfield, where NPR Illinois is based, raised an objection to this practice. Specifically, the Title IX coordinator told station leadership (in person and in writing) that virtually all university employees – referred to in policy as "responsible employees" – including journalists, are required to report alleged sexual misconduct that we are told about to the Title IX office. The ethics officer later reached out with a similar message to the journalists and leadership at NPR Illinois.
NPR Illinois leadership then requested an exemption to the Title IX policy, for journalists employed by the university engaged in newsgathering activities.
On Tuesday, that request was denied. In an email to NPR Illinois leadership, the ethics officer explained, in part: "maintaining the need for such employees to report [to the university] would appropriately support the interests of campus safety." Although the officer offered assurance that the university values "journalistic integrity, freedom of the press, and the legal protections that exist to advance those interests," the email concludes: "[Journalists] remain free to pursue information about the topic at issue but should avoid promising confidentiality to anyone about allegations of sexual misconduct."
Keeping source information confidential is a common practice for investigative journalists. Asking journalists to reveal sources or prohibiting them from receiving confidential information is antithetical to freedom of the press and editorial independence.
Therefore, we are calling on you, as leaders of the university, to recognize the First Amendment protections of journalists and the editorial independence of our news organization by reconsidering our request for an exemption.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees holds the license for NPR Illinois/WUIS. We also follow the Public Media Code of Integrity, which states: "The freedom of public media professionals to make editorial decisions without undue influence is essential. It is rooted in America's commitment to free speech and a free press."
Those editorial decisions include promising confidentiality to people who take great personal risks to share their stories with us.
We have adopted extra measures, described in an editor's note from ProPublica, to ensure we can continue reporting on this important topic for now, while protecting those who want to confidentially share their stories with our news organization.
However, routing tips through our partner organization does not address the fact that this policy impedes our ability to report on misconduct at our license holder – the University of Illinois.
We understand and appreciate that the goal of the Title IX policy is to address claims of misconduct and discrimination, to fairly investigate them and recommend ways to resolve complaints. Our goal as a journalism organization is not to interfere with the Title IX process, but to ethically and responsibly report on it – to tell the stories of the people who have experienced misconduct and the process by which the university handles these claims.
We know that victims are often fearful or hesitant to report claims. According to a June 2016 report from the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, on average between 87% and 94% of individuals who experience sexual harassment at work never make a formal complaint. Another study referenced in the EEOC report found that 75% of victims who do report face some form of retaliation as a result.
To best continue this work, we need to allow anyone who is critical or wary of the Title IX reporting system to talk with us openly and freely.
We hope our reporting spotlights the problems in order to make potential solutions more clear to the university and the general public. For now, the enforcement of the Title IX policy prevents us from doing this important work, and does a disservice to victims and our broader audience.
Currently, the University of Illinois Springfield's Title IX policy exempts Counseling Center employees from being mandated reporters. We request that newsgathering activities carried out by professional journalists employed by the University of Illinois be likewise exempted from mandated reporting. This policy modification was suggested to us by attorney Don Craven, who represents the Illinois News Broadcasters Association in cases pertaining to freedom of the press.
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Former University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professor Gary Gang Xu assaulted and threatened students while university officials downplayed complaints, a lawsuit says. He ultimately resigned, taking $10,000 as part of his separation agreement.
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After NPR Illinois and ProPublica found that several University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professors who violated policies were allowed to quietly resign and take paid leave with their reputations intact, lawmakers called for reforms.
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NPR Illinois and ProPublica found several sexual harassment allegations against University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty that haven't been publicly reported. Here's a rundown of the accusations, the consequences each faced and their responses.
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An administrator resigned amid sexual harassment accusations. Another college hired him. A professor was found to have stalked a coworker. She agreed to retire, then won a Fulbright grant. Campus leaders vow reforms, but many say it's a long road.
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We'd like to hear about your experience with misconduct on campus, or if you were subjected to it but did not or could not file a report. We need help understanding flaws in the systems intended to hold perpetrators accountable.
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Spring and Summer are traditionally the seasons for big conventions all around the globe. At the end of June, Amsterdam was the location for Unite Europe 2017, a convention hosted by the people behind Unity.
The purpose of Unite Europe is to bring together developers, content creators, artists and everybody else who's working with Unity. Merkator uses Unity for its HoloLens development and we wanted to see first-hand what the future holds for Unity. This was also a perfect opportunity to talk to other developers and companies and get their thoughts on Mixed & Augmented Reality.
Mixed and Augmented Reality is booming, and that's been made pretty clear by the sheer number of companies at Unite's Exhibition Floor who were showcasing their work. Ranging from Vuforia, over Mapbox, to small independent companies like Idle Hands Productions, you couldn't turn your head and not see anything VR/AR related!
Even Ubisoft, one of the world's biggest game developers, is also jumping on the AR wagon and presented a small proof of concept of some apps/games they're working on for Microsoft's Hololens.
Speaking of presentations, we had the opportunity to talk to the HoloLens Program Director at Unite. We shared thoughts on the HoloLens, where we are with Augmented Reality now and what the future might hold. Clearly Microsoft has a lot in store for us in the coming months and years. Augmented Reality will truly have its place in our daily lives.
It was also a great experience to be able to talk to other HoloLens developers and hear about the challenges they're facing in their typical business cases, and share thoughts on the challenges in our specific business cases.
A practical example: When your HoloLens application relies on Spatial Mapping (i.e. HoloLens' awareness of your surroundings and objects in the room), you have to make sure that the HoloLens gets enough time at the start of your app to scan the environment. Ubisoft had a great way of working around this by having the user perform some sort of a calibration process in their app. They ask the user to follow around an object with the HoloLens, giving the device the opportunity to scan in the environment. A clever solution to a common challenge.
Next up for us if off course to take all this new information and knowledge in, and go to work with it. We'd like to try out the new Vuforia Model Targets SDK, Mapbox's SDK and the Mapformer package from Idle Hands. Stay tuned for more updates!
That Microsoft is actively developing for HoloLens, but so are many other companies? Have a look at these impressive videos ranging from making calls with Skype, to Augmented Eductation!
Finally, did you know that Merkator is also developing for the HoloLens? Stay tuned, because our HoloLens App will prove to be a window to new ways of working for our customers!
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. military is beginning testing on the world's largest unmanned ship — a self-driving 132-foot surface vessel designed to travel thousands of miles out at sea without a single crew member on board. Officials showed off the so-called "Sea Hunter" on Monday off San Diego's...
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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. military is beginning testing on the world's largest unmanned ship — a self-driving 132-foot surface vessel designed to travel thousands of miles out at sea without a single crew member on board.
Officials showed off the so-called "Sea Hunter" on Monday off San Diego's coast, where it will test it over the next two years.
Officials say the ship has the potential to revolutionize not only the military's maritime service but commercial shipping by marking the first step toward sending unmanned cargo vessels between countries.
The Pentagon's research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, developed the ship along with Virginia-based Leidos. The tests will largely focus on its ability to react on its own to avoid collisions with seafaring traffic.
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Ellen DeGeneres addresses George W. Bush friendship backlash
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Ellen DeGeneres has hit out at fans who criticized her for chatting to former U.S. president George W. Bush at an American football game.
Pictures and video of DeGeneres and her partner Portia de Rossi enjoying a Dallas Cowboys game with George and his wife Laura on Sunday sparked anger from Twitter users, who were furious due to the ex-politician's anti-LGBTQ stances and decision to go to war in Iraq.
Only at the Cowboys game: George and Laura Bush singing the National Anthem with Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi. 'Merica! @fox4sports pic.twitter.com/X03931Mx7i
— John Gnann (@kdfw07) October 6, 2019
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the comedian addressed the controversy while taping an episode of her chat show that aired on Tuesday.
"People were upset: Why is a gay Hollywood liberal sitting next to a conservative president? A lot of people were mad," she said, before explaining that she was friends with the Bushes.
Yes, that was me at the Cowboys game with George W. Bush over the weekend. Here's the whole story. pic.twitter.com/AYiwY5gTIS
— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) October 8, 2019
"Here's the thing: I'm friends with George Bush, in fact I'm friends with a lot of people who don't share the same beliefs that I have. We are all different and I think we've forgotten that that's OK that we're all different."
The 61-year-old star also focused on tweets which praised two Americans with very different views for coming together, and said that even though she believes people should not wear fur, she still has friends who do.
"Just because I don't agree with someone on everything does not mean I'm not going to be friends with them," she added. "When I say be kind to one another, I don't mean only the people that think the same as you do, I mean be kind to everyone."
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Bloomberg News: Biggest Electric School Bus Deal in U.S. Approved in Maryland
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Bloomberg News quoted AEE on the clean energy impact of Highland Electric Transportation's school bus electrification contract with Maryland's Montgomery County Board of Education. Read excerpts below and the full story here (sub req).
A school system outside Washington is poised to become the nation's biggest operator of electric school buses... The Board of Education in Maryland's Montgomery County voted unanimously on Tuesday evening to approve a 16-year, $169 million contract to lease 326 buses, part of a plan that could result in the county replacing its entire 1,422-bus fleet over the next two decades.
The deal represents the largest municipal government order of any kind for buses, according to Monique Hanis, a spokeswoman for Advanced Energy Economy, a business association that promotes clean energy use.
The Biden administration has pledged to support the adoption of electric vehicles and automakers have said they intend to convert their fleets to electric in coming decades… Montgomery County is working with a vendor that is paying to install equipment to charge the buses at night when power costs are low in exchange for being able to re-sell unused power from the bus batteries back to the grid when it is more valuable...
Plug-in car supporters say they hope the deal becomes a template for school districts and government agencies across the country.
The vehicles will be built by Thomas Built Buses Inc. and Proterra Inc. in a deal coordinated by Highland Electric Transportation Inc. Todd Watkins, the transportation director of Montgomery County Public Schools, said the contract would be the first electric school bus contract in the nation that is not dependent on federal grants.
Highland will provide buses, install charging facilities at the county's bus depots and train drivers. The company will also provide maintenance and manage the charging operation…
"It costs no more what districts are spending on diesel," Watkins said. "We think there's going to be savings initially on fuel and maintenance. The price of electric buses will fall and the price of diesel buses is going to rise to the point that they meet. And, eventually, you won't be able to get a diesel bus."...
Duncan McIntyre, chief executive officer of Highland Electric Transportation, said the plan is a "scalable transition to electrification" that is "almost 100% privately financed..."
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German authorities arrested Captain of Sea Shepherd
Captain Paul Watson was arrested last saturday in Germany for extradition to Costa Rica.
The German police have said that the warrant for Captain Watson's arrest is in response to an alleged violation of ships traffic in Costa Rica, which occurred during the filming of Sharkwater in 2002.
The specific "violation of ships traffic" incident took place on the high seas in Guatemalan waters, when Sea Shepherd encountered an illegal shark finning operation, run by a Costa Rican ship called the Varadero. On order of the Guatemalan authorities, Sea Shepherd instructed the crew of the Varadero to cease their shark finning activities and head back to port to be prosecuted.
While escorting the Varadero back to port, the tables were turned and a Guatemalan gunboat was dispatched to intercept the Sea Shepherd crew. The crew of the Varadero accused the Sea Shepherds of trying to kill them, while the video evidence proves this to be a fallacy. To avoid the Guatemalan gunboat, Sea Shepherd then set sail for Costa Rica, where they uncovered even more illegal shark finning activities in the form of dried shark fins by the thousands on the roofs of industrial buildings.
Conservationists around the world maintain hope that the Costa Ricans will drop the charges against Captain Watson. There is also a chance that the charges have already been dropped, but Sea Shepherd has been unable to confirm that with the Costa Rican officials. With Costa Rica's rich biodiversity, it would be a travesty for them not to stand up for sharks, which sit at the highest levels of the food chain assuring balance among ecological communities in the ocean.
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While in jail, Captain Watson is being assisted by the European Parliament Vice President Daniel Cohn Bendit and the European deputy Jose Bove. Our hope is that these two honorable gentlemen can set Captain Watson free before this nonsense goes any further. The European Sea Shepherds have also mobilized to support Captain Watson.
As the plight of the sharks becomes more desperate, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has begun to outline a new shark campaign for 2012.
Julie Andersen, founder of Shark Savers and Shark Angels, has joined Sea Shepherd to lead our global campaign to save sharks from extinction.
"We've got all the laws we need to protect sharks. Now we will leverage our resources and expertise to help countries around the globe enforce them. Using Galapagos as a model, we will travel wherever we are needed – enforcing local laws while developing strategies and training locals to defend their sharks, fueling world-wide enforcement efforts."
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There is a darkness throughout Night Dust that I could neither pinpoint nor deflect. Because, equally, it's a stirring and elegiac work that seems to prowl through the shadows whilst gazing longingly and hopefully into the light. When opener "Near Dark" first surged out of my speakers, with its mournful tones, gentle electric finger-picking and bowed guitar, I thought of both Richard Skelton and, more ominously, William Fowler Collins, as the track grinds fitfully to a bleakly morose conclusion. With a title like Night Dust, of course, you'd have to expect something sombre and, crucially, elusive.
Evan Caminiti is perhaps best known as being one half of drone meisters Barn Owl, who use Earth's recent template of country-tinged drone metal, but strip away the percussion to create widescreen sonic vistas that stretch and grind across a fantasy vision of nocturnal Americana. Think Neil Young and Crazy Horse being conducted by Klaus Schulze. Something like that… The thing with Barn Owl's formula is that it has, much like Earth, got very clearly-defined parameters, and with Night Dust, Caminiti does a good job of moving off in new directions whilst maintaining the fulcrum of what he's good at, particularly on electric guitar.
Like Skelton, Caminiti directs almost bloody-minded focus on his guitar, as if he were delving into the instrument's sound to manipulate and distort from within, were such a thing possible. With such cautious intensity and immediacy, the emphasis is on the emotion created by these guitar sounds, which could almost be a voice such are their apparent deep-rooted connection to the San Francisco resident's soul. Night Dust doesn't share the expansive palette of Skelton's wondrous Landings album, but Caminiti's approach to the guitar is as restrained and deliberate as the Lancastrian's (Night Dust was recorded on a 4-track cassette, something that enhances its sparseness), and the potency of these 11 tracks stems in great part from the resultant sentimental impact.
Equally, however, Caminiti has cited the "smoky blue hues and washed-out lights of some of the 80s best vampire movies" as being an influence on Night Dust, something that moves these oblique tunes away from Skelton's abstract emotivity and into the bleak, nocturnal world inhabited by the aforementioned William Fowler Collins. On "Returning Spirits", echoing percussive rumbles accompany the swirling synths and muffled guitar feedback, sounding like unidentified bumps in the proverbial night. "Star Circle" is swamped in bleak synth drones that amble in near-circular fashion under a haze of murk and later tracks see Caminiti revert to his Barn Owl roots with ragged, growling guitar solos that buck and shake with barely-controlled menace. Night Dust is an album of the shadows and darkness, and, like a stroll down a deserted country path at midnight, it may not come at you with any violence, but constantly hints that something may be waiting and watching out of sight.
With the longest tracks "only" stretching to just over five minutes, many feel like sketches almost in the style of another great "emotional" guitar band, The Durutti Column (circa LC). Night Dust is an album that drifts like, well, dust, and I imagine its elusiveness may frustrate some listeners. But as you vacillate in its grasp, buoyed gently but insistingly by tones, silences and wispy, dark melodies, you can't help but feel touched by the manifold sensations and feelings it evokes. Night Dust is a haunted, and often haunting, album where texture, atmosphere and emotions are used to create a palpable sonic environment.
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Sex Lit Resurgence in Ottawa
this past weekend was fraught with sexual literature, starting with the Reclaiming Eros reading on Friday at Venus Envy, that I was honoured to be a part of.
it was a joy to hear Luna Allison, Barbara Brown and Suzanne Blackburn read. I opened with my kinky rendition of My Favourite Things and then read a timely political smut story in which Tories were flogged. oh the satisfaction ;). Luna performed a combo song / spoken word piece complete with the audience simulating a heartbeat for her. lots of love in that room Friday night. she also read two short stories, one of which she will continue when she reads in November at the new and wonderful Naughty Thoughts Book Club (more on that later).
Barbara Brown and Suzanne Blackburn came from Toronto to launch Suzanne's book. Was lovely to hear Barbara's spoken word pieces, particularly a poem about the sensuousness of spindles. Suzanne, who is from the States, read from Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers. It was an interesting format for a book. Suzanne wrote in the first person but based on her interviews with celebrated sex enthusiasts such as Annie Sprinkle. The idea that sex is something to be celebrated shouldn't be something novel in this day and age, but it is. Damage is done to people if we repress their sexuality. Readings like the one at Venus Envy go a long way toward reminding us to rejoice in our sexuality.
Thanks to Sara and Fiona of Venus Envy who provided a lovely welcome and organized the event. It was the first time any reading organizer for readings i've taken part in has ever taken the time to look for and put out any of the erotica anthologies i'm published in alongside the book being launched.
it was clear on Friday night that Ottawans have a great appetite for sexlit. i don't think there are enough opportunities to read and listen to such in Ottawa. there is something beautiful about being able to read sexually explicit writing and not be the sole voice and then afterward to have such a loving response. i guess it didn't hurt that i was wearing clothing i usually reserve for the boudoir :)
one new initiative that is helping to alleviate the sexual tension in Ottawa is the Naughty Thoughts Book Club, the new reading series launched by Capital Xtra's head heart throb Marcus McCann. Montrealer Daniel Allen Cox was the debut author, brining his novel Shuck(Arsenal Pulp Press) to Ottawa. It's about a 90s NYC porn actor, sex worker. Daniel dropped his pants to re-enact the novel's title and a scene set on New York streets. He has very nice grey boxer briefs. He also finger printed a willing volunteer from the audience, but alas, didn't frisk or cuff anyone. Maybe next time. Marcus read from the novel on Daniel's behalf because the author doesn't like to read from his own work. I'd like to know how to get away with that ;)
You may recall Daniel's first book, Tattoo This Madness In, published by Ottawa's own Dusty Owl Press. It's still available thru the Owl. And you can pick up Shuck from After Stonewall at 370 Bank St, a splendid bookstore featuring the best in GLBT fiction, non fiction, porn and more.
Hats off to Marcus for starting this new series. It was delightful to sip my pomegranate mojito in the Buzz while hearing about the top ten most effective ways to become a porn star.
we've had sex lit as the main course at reading series before: a few years ago the folks at Capital Slam ran a series called Talented Tongues at Venus Envy, hosted and organized by Lisa Slater, who has since left Ottawa for Vancouver;
another series Dirty Girls, ran for a few years at the Laff and then the Mercury Lounge and was hosted by Ottawa writer and former Xpress sex columnist Nichole McGill.
Who else pens sex lit in Ottawa?
Patricia K. McCarthy is a self-published writer of erotic vampire books. She recently had a launch for her latest novel, the Crimson Boy at Venus Envy. Spoken word artists Jacqueline Lawrence, Steve Sauve and Oni the Haitian Sensation, have been known to dish up a sexy poem or two. check out Oni's Bedside Booty Book CD. Megan Butcher also writes sexy vignettes.
who else?
Matthew Firth writes gritty and straight-up stories where sex is included, usually as something uncomfortable or embarrassing, but never avoided in his writing. He is also the publisher/editor of Front&Centre Magazine, which features writing and reviews from all over the world. The stories are not always sexual in nature, but often. My story "Caught in the Rain" about a woman's sadistic delight in watching another women standing in the rain was published in F&C.
speaking of magazines....we just had a launch of Carleton's new sex mag, the Moose and Pussy at the Dusty Owl recently and before that my good pal Liam Taliesin published two issues of a wondrous literary erotica journal called Moist, now defunct thanks to distributor bankrupcies alas. but it was a gorgeous and sexy mag and i still miss it.
next up on the sexual celebration is another Capital Xtra event "Transgress" at the Ottawa International Writers Festival on October 24, featuring Sean Horlor, Todd Klinck, Nairne Holtz and Daniel MacIvor.
judging by audience reactions and the well filled rooms at this weekend's readings, Ottawa's appetite for literature which deals openly with sex and sexuality has not yet been sated.
let's keep it coming.
yesterday's Vote Culture and other artists defending the arts
yesterday's Vote Culture Town Hall was inspiring, particularly because of the stirring words of the first speaker, Wajdi Mouawad, who is the NAC's Artistic Director of French Theatre and an award winning playwright.
one of his key points is that we weren't there to defend arts subsidies but the existence of art itself, that Canada has a reputation for treating its artists with contempt. he said that artists have to situate themselves in the margins in order to practice their art. he told the audience he was speaking as an artist, a director. he talked about his own appreciation for beauty as a motivation in his own work. his speech was very personal and intimate as if he were addressing each member of the audience directly.
also very inspiring was Martin Faucher, President of the Conseil québécois du théâtre. he spoke of his own upbringing and of not fitting in and the role of the arts in his life.
as one of the politicians pointed out, arts is on the political agenda this time around instead of relegated to the sidelines. if you couldn't attend the town hall or even if you could, you can still communicate your concern with making the arts a priority in this election; the Canadian Arts Coalition has an election toolkit that gives you advice about how you can raise the issue of arts with the candidates in your ridings here.
on a side note, i would have liked to have seen representatives from a wider variety of artistic disciplines. if we're going to raise awareness about the role of art in Canada, we need to include representatives from visual, music, literary arts, urban arts and so forth. i'm assuming that if there'd been more time to organize, that would have happened. in future though, it is imperative for all arts to join forces and for each sector to be invited to the table.
all that aside though, it was a stirring event and the Academic Hall theatre was packed. then there was a rally up on Parliament Hill.
i leave the artists themselves with the last word...
Margaret Atwood, Yan Martel and Wajdi Mouawad have recently spoken out in defence of the arts. the links to their passionnate cris de coeur are below.
Wajdi Mouawad [in translation]
Vote Culture, Rally today at 4pm, U of Ottawa
the galas i attend with my arts funding
it was amusing to read of Harper's latest hijinx in which he referred to arts funding as a "niche issue" (Ottawa Citizen, Sept 24, 2008). wasn't it fun the way he pitted "ordinary working people" against "a bunch of people at a rich gala"?
this is how out of touch our dishonourable prime minister is with the arts. what he knows about the arts he learns by watching tv. no doubt he thinks all dogs talk because he's heard Brian yacking on Family Guy.
the arts is not a marginal, nor a niche issue. from the time people begin school to the time, they are put in the ground, it is very likely that they have had some contact with the arts, whether it be through taking band in high school (subsidized) or attending a play at their local theatre (hopefully subsidized) to the pottery class at the retirement home (hopefully subsidized).
and what about subsidies? if we say that arts shouldn't be subsidised what should? sports? the dairy industry? big oil companies?
statistics that have demonstrated that areas with an active arts community make an area more attractive to live in and bring in more revenue than they cost in subsidies.
it serves the Tory's purposes to pit urban dwellers against rural dwellers, to separate "ordinary working Canadians" from artists, who are depicted as people who attend fancy galas. the fact is many artists are working at least one other job to support a family and to help underwrite their work. very few people receive funding from the government for their art but many funding recipients have gone on to receive world recognition.
it's all foolishness what Harper says, but i know people who will buy in to his bullshit. even though they themselves have been & their sons and daughters are involved in many subsidised activities, such as you know....um...university...riding the bus...driving on highways, medicare.
i'm off to spend more of my (non existant) funding, sipping (imaginary) champagne at yet another (invisible) gala.
if you have time today, please attend the Vote Culture Rally
VOTE CULTURE Town Hall / Assemblée publique VOTE CULTURE
Academic Hall, University of Ottawa
Street: 133 Séraphin-Marion
City/Town: Ottawa, ON
Contact Info Email: info@voteculture.ca
shutterbuggery etc
at the Owl reading yesterday afternoon i counted at least five cameras in the room.
here are the results of two by Ottawa's sexiest photographers:
http://flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/2876733813/
thanks to them both, i actually manage to look rather fetching.
thanks to everyone who came to my launch of Welcome to Earth at the Dusty Owly yesterday. it was great fun. & thanks to the Owls: Cathy, Steve and Kate and to Chris of Dog and Pony Sound for pumping up the volume on my soft voice so that the boys in the back could hear.
my next reading is this Friday at 8:30 pm at Venus Envy, when Luna Allison and I heat up the audience as part of the launch of Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers. I have gone over and over what i might read, but i think i've decided on True Grit, my story about a gay bdsm sex scandal on the Hill. the timing just seems too perfect. i promise you i won't read anything pretty. i write smut. come and see ;)
don't forget to check out all the great readings this week: Tree on Tuesday has Susan Musgrave, rob mclennan reads at the Ottawa Art Gallery on Thursday as part of the amazing exhibit, Evidence: the Ottawa City Book Project and the new Capital Xtra sponsored Gay and Lesbian reading series Naughty Thoughts debuts at the Buzz on Sunday with Daniel Allen Cox reading from his new novel Shuck about a 90s sex worker in NYC.
while we're on the subject of sex and literature, am i the only one who craves a pansexual reading series catering to smut writers of all sexes, genders, colours, flavours and bents? possibly open mic?
Upcoming Everything and Beyond......!
we're heading into one heck of a busy literary season, so i just thought i'd mention a few upcoming readings and activities that i'm directly involved in in the next 10 days or so:
Saturday, Sept 20, 2008
AIDS Walk For Life (Ottawa)
Walk starts at 7pm, registration at 6pm.
The walk raises awareness and money to help people with AIDS/HIV.
If you are so inclined, please join the Ottawa Writers & Friends team or sponsor us.
Bywords has been taking part in this walk since 2003. and last year, we changed the team name to Ottawa Writers & Friends in order to include writers of all stripes and also writer groupies :)
Let's show Ottawa that we care about the people in our community. C'mon out. It's always great fun. This is the only time you'll ever see me in a tutu. Drinks after at the Royal Oak at Bank & Gloucester, where i will drink beer...in a tutu (that is, i will be in the tutu, not the beer). Oh, and if you can't make it out, you can donate here
Sunday, Sept 21
Dusty Owl featuring Amanda Earl (that's me!)
Swizzles Bar & Grill, 246-b Queen Street
Feature at 2pm ish followed by open set and object of desire
Friday, Sept 26
Reclaiming Eros: Sacred Whores and Healers
featuring Luna Allison, Amanda Earl, Suzanne Blackburn and Margaret Wade
Venus Envy, 320 Lisgar, 8:30pm
Luna and I will be reading sexy stories and poems after which Suzanne and Margaret will tell us about this book which talks about the relationship between erotic expression and the divine.
Check the Bywords.ca calendar of literary events for many more activities this week and beyond ...
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Lift by Sandra Ridley
Last night's reading upstairs at the Carleton Tavern featuring Sandra Ridley, Marcus McCann and Sachiko Murakami had an excellent turnout. Marcus read from a few different chapbooks both forthcoming and recently released. It's always a pleasure to hear his work. I've had the fortune of being in a workshop with Marcus for a number of months now. Sachiko, who is a Vancouver writer read from her Talonbooks poetry collection The Invisibility Exhibit. It is her first book.
The highlight of the evening for me was Sandra's fine reading of what i believe is her first chapbook, Lift: Ghazals for C., published in a limited edition of 75 copies by Jack Pine Press. The beautifully made chapbook contains linocut and block prints by Eric Slankis, According to the site "The cover is a hand-printed front-to-back linocut print on Arches Aquarelle paper, protected by Mylar sheath. The book is hand-stitched with bees-waxed archival linen thread, and contains three original hand-printed block prints, with text printed on Canson Special Effects paper." Aside from its physical beauty, the chapbook, which consists of 12 ghazals for C., is a well-written sequence. Apparently it is an excerpt from a book-length manuscript, which won the 2008 Alfred G. Bailey Prize. In bios, Sandra always refers to herself as a Saskatchewan writer living in Ottawa. This collection, as audience member Mark Schaan said last night, is very Prairie. it has a Prairie feel to it, not just from the stark cover illustration by Slankis of a house, framed in black night. the poems themselves are stark as the prairie, a clapboard house, chokecherries, fireweed. nature is weaved thru the memories of a child that didn't live but is part of a family's history, even though her photographs have been taken out of the album. the poems put the photos back in the album, so to speak.
what I particularly like about these ghazals is their compactness or minimalism; the use ghazal couplets is a restrained form that works effectively to represent the understated tone, grief for a deceased child, Carolyn, to whom these ghazals are dedicated. we are told in the endnote that Carolyn died in 1958, two weeks before her second birthday.
As a needle slides, saline drips
& white cells multiply out of control.
Bone-seekers hide in marrow: in tibia,
in femur. Your bruise is wounded blood.
X-rays are pictures & smiles are expected.
Comfort, a thin blanket woven with lead.
We ask the Fates to respond & they do
with nothing but dread for our questions.
What's a sweet girl like you doing here?
Dear C., promise me that you'll be good.
i just received copies of my latest chapbook "Welcome to Earth: poem for alien(s)" from Bookthug. more info later on its Ottawa launch at the Dusty Owl. for now, i just wanted to say...woo hoo! you can purchase copies at the launch here in Ottawa or online thru Bookthug, should you so desire. my other chapbooks "Eleanor" and "the Sad Phoenician's Other Woman" are available thru above/ground press and from me, if you can catch me up here on cloud 9.
The Village Street Social & Film Screening tonight at 7pm
Show your support at a Bank St BBQ and film screening
Gilmour, between Bank and O'Connor
Contact: Marcus McCann- marcus.mccann@capital.xtra.ca
Have a HEART; use your BRAIN; muster up some COURAGE as we sing along to help put Bank Street OVER THE RAINBOW
Because there's no place like home... have fun and support the Village Initiative.
We're taking over Gilmour Street off Bank for some food and a film screening of The Wizard of Oz.
Sing along or cuddle up with a neighbour.
Bring a blanket or a lawn chair and camp out on the street.
FREE event, with a suggested donation of $5 for the Village.
The Village Initiative is a group of concerned queers who want visual acknowledgment of the gay and trans community on Bank St, where many of us already live, work & play.
The Bank St BIA (business improvement area) won't commit to rainbow banners and has led the push to shove our event off Bank Street onto Gilmour, but we refuse to give up.
Show the BIA how much the queer community loves Bank St.Things you can do at a BBQ:*
Eat a hot dog* Meet your neighbours* Singalong to the Wizard of Oz* Dress up like Dorothy (or a friend of Dorothy)* Sign the petition* Hug your neighbours
Village t-shirts, undies and wearable stickers will be available for sale at the screening.
ALL proceeds go directly to the Village Initiative. T's and undies - $20 each; stickers in 26 different "types" - $2 each.
Come out, get involved and stand up for YOUR Street!
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launch of the Moose and Pussy this Sunday
September 7, 2pm at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Swizzles Bar & Grill, 246-b Queen Street
also a fundraiser for AIDS Walk.
the Moose and Pussy is Carleton's only sex magazine, debuting at the Owl. there's a teaser up on the site. take a look at Kane X Faucher's erudite and insouciant piece "Ars Clitorum."
if you have smut to read, the open set will be a great chance to do so. let's celebrate Carleton's sexy new magazine with sizzle.
by the way, you can sign up to take part in Aids Walk or join or sponsor the Ottawa Writers & Friends team here. i'll be posting more about the walk, which takes place on September 20, later.
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rant about Citizen's lack of poetry coverage
is over at the Ottawa Poetry newsletter with a list of what's new and forthcoming in Canadian poetry for 20008/2009.


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