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Wall Street Beats London's City in Pay for Middle Office Workers
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Middle office professionals should move to Wall Street if they?re chasing money, but stick to the City of London if they want more career opportunities.
Pay for senior risk and compliance professionals working in banking in New York outstrip those for equivalent roles in London, Continental Europe and Asia, according to the 2013 salary survey released today by recruiters Robert Walters. Risk and compliance roles at banks are among the few ?for which the survey compares pay globally.
A senior compliance professional working in an investment bank in New York can expect between $250-525k, suggests the survey, while an equivalent role in London pays a maximum of $232k. In fact, Wall Street compliance pay outstrips every other geography; Singapore is the closest competitor with senior salaries out up to $298k.
Not surprisingly, with the onslaught of regulation, compliance recruitment remained high globally, suggests the survey, with hedge funds, commercial banks and investment banks alike all competing for talent.
It?s more of a mixed job market for risk professionals, however. In London, risk recruitment ?remained high throughout 2012?, particularly in operational risk, and has continued to be active throughout the first few weeks of 2013, says Robert Walters.
In New York, meanwhile, banks are less likely to recruit risk professionals. ?With the potential restrictiveness of Dodd-Rank remaining unclear, many bulge bracket firms were cautious in their risk management hiring approaches,? said the survey. ?Firms also looked to fill many roles with internal candidates whenever possible.?
We?ve outlined compensation for risk and compliance jobs globally below, but the U.S. figures for risk roles include bonus payments so aren?t directly comparable. However, middle office bonuses have traditionally comprised a small proportion of total compensation relative to front office positions. We have requested base salary figures for U.S. risk jobs ?from Robert Walters.
Source: http://news.dealbreaker.efinancialcareers.com/newsandviews_item/wpNewsItemId-134820
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Biological marker predicts susceptibility to common cold
Feb. 19, 2013 ? Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have identified a biological marker in the immune system that -- beginning at about age 22 -- predicts our ability to fight off the common cold.
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and led by Carnegie Mellon's Sheldon Cohen, the study found that the length of telomeres -- protective cap-like protein complexes at the ends of chromosomes -- predicts resistance to upper respiratory infections in young and midlife adults. Telomere length is a biomarker of aging with telomeres shortening with increasing chronological age. As a cell's telomeres shorten, it loses its ability to function normally and eventually dies. Having shorter telomeres is associated with early onset of aging related diseases such as cardiovascular disease and cancer, and with mortality in older adults. Unknown until now is whether telomere length plays a role in the health of young to midlife adults.
"Our work suggests the possibility that telomere length is a relatively consistent marker across the life span and that it can start predicting disease susceptibility in young adulthood," said Cohen, the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. "We knew that people in their late 50s and older with shorter telomeres are at a greater risk for illness and mortality. We also knew that factors other than aging, such as chronic stress and poor health behaviors, are associated with shorter telomeres in older people. Consequently, we expected that younger people would vary in their telomere length as well and wanted to see what this would mean for their health."
Cohen and his team measured the telomere length of white blood cells from 152 healthy volunteers aged 18-55. These individuals were then exposed to a rhinovirus, which causes a common cold, and quarantined for five days to see if they actually developed an infection.
The results showed that participants with shorter telomeres were more likely to become infected by the cold virus. Further, although there was no relationship between telomere length and infection among the youngest participants (ages 18-21), beginning at about age 22, telomere length started to predict whether individuals would develop an infection. As participant age increased, telomere length became an even stronger predictor. Additionally, telomere length of a specific type of white blood cell -- a CD8CD28- T-cytolytic cell -- was a superior predictor of infection and cold symptoms than other white blood cell types. The telomeres found in CD8CD28- cells shorten more quickly than those found in other cell types, and previous research has found shorter telomere length in these cells to be associated with decreases in markers of immune competence.
"These cells are important in eliminating infected cells and those with shorter telomeres in the CD8CD28- cell population may be at greater risk for infection because they have fewer functional cells available to respond to the [cold] virus," Cohen said. "The superior ability of CD8CD28- T-cytolytic cells to predict infection gives us an idea of which cells to focus on in future work on how telomere length influences the immune system's response to infection and other immune-related challenges."
Cohen added, "The increased importance of telomere length with age is likely because the younger participants had fewer very short telomeres, or that their young immune systems were able to compensate for the loss of effective cells."
Cohen emphasized that "this is preliminary research and further work with other viruses and with natural infections will help clarify its implications."
In addition to Cohen, the research team included CMU's Denise Janicki-Deverts; the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center's Ronald B. Turner; Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's Margaretha L. Casselbrant, Ha-Sheng Li-Korotky and William J. Doyle; and Elissa S. Epel of the University of California, San Francisco.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases funded this research, with supplemental support from the MacArthur Foundation's Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health, the Eberly Foundation, the Hamburg Fellowship and National Institutes of Health funding to the University of Pittsburgh Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
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Inmate wanted Bieber castrated, suffocated
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By Bruna Nessif, E! Online
Things just got a little scarier. News of a possible murder plot formulated by an inmate and two fugitives against pop star Justin Bieber made headlines in December, and now the details behind that conspiracy have unraveled after the audio of phone calls made last November from a prison near Las Cruces, N.M., were released.
Police told ABC News ' Albuquerque affiliate KOAT that inmate Dana Martin, who is doing time at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility for the murder and rape of a 15-year-old girl, was the mastermind behind the plot.
A Justin Bieber murder plot?
According to police, Martin directed a former jailhouse friend in Vermont, Mark Staake, and Staake's nephew, Tanner Ruane, to carry out the kidnapping and murder, and asked Ruane in a taped conversation, "Did he go over the Bieber thing with you?"
"Nah. The way I like to work dude, I like to know as little as possible," Ruane replied. "He's gonna use one of the things you gave him, and then he's gonna take care of it." Oh, and it gets worse.
"We went and bought the hedge clippers," Ruane said. "You're gonna give me 5 large ($5,000) for each one I get." Police said that Ruane was instructed to castrate Bieber and his bodyguard with the clippers, and then suffocate them with a scarf.
"Tie it really tight, and that cuts off all the oxygen, and then tie it in the back again, really tight. That seals the deal," Martin was heard saying.
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Luckily, before any of this could take place, Staake and Ruane were arrested by border patrol agents after making a wrong turn in to Canada. They, along with Martin, now face two counts each of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts each of conspiracy to commit aggravated battery.
Bieber's camp were not immediately available for comment, but told E! News when the plot first came about in December, "We take every precaution to protect and insure the safety of Justin and his fans."
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Dopants dramatically alter electronic structure of superconductor
Monday, February 18, 2013
Over the last quarter century, scientists have discovered a handful of materials that can be converted from magnetic insulators or metals into "superconductors" able to carry electrical current with no energy loss-an enormously promising idea for new types of zero-resistance electronics and energy-storage and transmission systems. At present, a key step to achieving superconductivity (in addition to keeping the materials very cold) is to substitute a different kind of atom into some positions of the "parent" material's crystal framework. Until now, scientists thought this process, called doping, simply added more electrons or other charge carriers, thereby rendering the electronic environment more conducive to the formation of electron pairs that could move with no energy loss if the material is held at a certain chilly temperature.
Now, new studies of an iron-based superconductor by an international team of scientists - including physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Cornell University - suggest that the story is somewhat more complicated. Their research, published online in Nature Physics February 17, 2013,* demonstrates that doping, in addition to adding electrons, dramatically alters the atomic-scale electronic structure of the parent material, with important consequences for the behavior of the current-carrying electrons.
"The key observation - that dopant atoms introduce elongated impurity states which scatter electrons in the material in an asymmetric way - helps explain most of the unusual properties," said J.C. S?amus Davis, the study's lead author, who directs the Center for Emergent Superconductivity at Brookhaven Lab and is also the J.G. White Distinguished Professor of Physical Sciences at Cornell University. "Our findings provide a new starting point for theorists trying to grapple with how these materials work, and could potentially point to new ways to design superconductors with improved properties," he said.
The researchers used a technique developed by Davis called spectroscopic imaging scanning tunneling microscopy to visualize the electronic properties around individual dopant atoms in the parent material, and to simultaneously monitor how electrons scatter around these dopants (in this case, cobalt).
Earlier studies had shown that certain electronic properties of the non-superconducting "parent" material had a strong directional dependence - for example, electrons were able to move more easily in one direction through the crystal than in the perpendicular direction. However, in those studies, the signal of a strong directional dependence only appeared when the scientists put the dopants into the material, and got stronger the more dopants they added.
Before this, the assumption was that dopants simply added electrons, and that the material's properties - including the emergence of superconductivity - were due to some intrinsic characteristic (for example, the alternating alignments of electron spins on adjacent atoms) that resulted in a directional dependence.
"But the emergence of directional dependence of electronic properties as more dopants are added suggests that the strong directionality is a result of the dopants, not an intrinsic property of the material," Davis said. "We decided to test this idea by directly imaging what each dopant atom does to the nearby atomic-level electronic structure in these materials."
According to Davis, the current paper reports two very clear results:
1) At each cobalt dopant atom, there is an elongated impurity state-a quantum mechanical state bound to the cobalt atom-that aligns in a particular direction (the same for each cobalt atom) relative to the overall crystal. 2) These oblong, aligned impurity states scatter the current-carrying electrons away from the impurity state in an asymmetric way - similar to the way ripples of water would propagate asymmetrically outward from an elongated stick thrown into a pond, rather than forming the circular pattern produced by a pebble.
"These direct observational findings explain most of the outstanding mysteries about how the electrical current moves through these materials - for example, with greater ease perpendicular to the direction you would expect based solely on the characteristics of the parent material," Davis said. "The results show that the dopants actually do dramatic things to the electronic structure of the parent material."
"It's possible that what we've found could be similar to an effect dopants had on early semiconductors," Davis said. "Early versions of these materials, though useful, had nowhere near the performance as those developed after the 1970s, when scientists at Bell Labs figured out a way to move the dopant atoms far away from the electrons so they wouldn't mess up the electronic structure." That advance made possible all the microelectronics we now use every day, including cell phones, he said.
"If we find out the dopant atoms are doing something we don't want in the iron and even copper superconductors, maybe we can find a way to move them away from the active electrons to make more useful materials."
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A Night of Intrigue with Electa Rome Parks - Feb 19,2013
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"Teachers in Florida suburb getting free weapons training lessons"
Will the attitude of teachers change on guns? ?Probably not for most liberal teachers, but this is still encouraging.
A group of teachers in a Florida suburb are receiving free weapons training classes for free,?according to a report by FOX13 News.?
The event held in Safety Harbor and conducted by security company International Executive Protection is meant to teach teachers, and students, the basics of self-defense and the details of Florida's Concealed Carry Weapons Permit.?
"I've been kind of skirting around the issue of getting a gun again and this opportunity came open," Oak Grove (Clearwater) Middle School teacher Terri Cunningham told FOX13 News. "I decided it's free; don't turn down anything that's free."?
The class, which normally costs $75, was offered with a discount because of the apparent growing interest in concealed carry permits among teachers in the wake of the Newtown shooting. . . .
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Harry Caray, baseball?s best play-by-play man; Remembering on 15th anniversary of his death
Has it really been this long? On Feb. 18, 1998, Harry Caray died in Palm Springs.
That means more than 15 years have gone by since Caray called his last game for the Cubs? season finale in 1997. It dawned on me that a new generation of fans have arrived to the scene without ever hearing Harry.
It doesn?t seem possible, considering he was the voice of so many generations during a 53-year career with the Cardinals, A?s, White Sox, and Cubs. Fifteen years since his death? Really, it seems like only yesterday that I held my transistor radio to my ear to hear him belt out his signature call of a Dick Allen homer in 1972.
I know there are people who worship at the living shrine of Vin Scully, regarding him as baseball?s Babe Ruth of play-by-play men. Scully?s brilliance, and now remarkable endurance, is the stuff of legend.
However, in my mind, Harry Caray was the best there ever was in terms of bringing fan and excitement to a baseball game.
Unfortunately, many fans only remember him for his later years with the Cubs, when a stroke and age robbed him of his sharpness. He still was entertaining as a unique character, but his best years were behind him.
During his prime, nobody was better. His descriptions were vivid, and he always was brutally frank, earning the admiration of fans and rancor of players and managers. Here?s a link of Caray?s best calls with the White Sox during in the 1970s compiled by Mark Liptak of WhiteSoxInteractive.com.
Myron Cope had this description of Caray from a 1968 article in Sports Illustrated:
No sir, Caray is having none of that drawing-room dignity affected by the boys with pear-shaped tones. Nor, as he settles into his Busch Stadium chair for a series with the Giants, is he having any of that kid-glove technique the ballplayers love so well.
?Here?s Ty Cline, who?s modeled a few uniforms,? Caray announces in the first inning. ?His name reminds you of Ty Cobb.? Then the withering appendage: ?And he?s batting .185.? From the enemy Caray soon turns to the home team. ?Here?s slumping Orlando Cepeda, with two strikes on him and two runners waiting to be driven in. Struck him out, on a bad ball!? Back to the Giants. At bat is Willie Mays, of whom broadcasters speak encomiums. Steve Carlton fires. ?Hooo! What a cut he took!? Carlton fires again. ?Hooo! What a cut! Man, I?ve never seen Mays take a more vicious cut in his life. Looked like he left both his feet!? Carlton fires a third time, and Mays lands among the mortals. ?Struck him out?on a bad fastball over his head!?
When Caray died, I was assigned to write the front-page obit for the Chicago Tribune. I tried to capture the essence of the man in the booth:
Harry Caray was fun. It was that simple.
Fun was the theme of one of his trademark lines. On a hot, summer afternoon, with the game either languishing or careening toward its finish _ it didn?t matter _ Caray would chortle, ?Ah, you can?t beat fun at the old ballpark.?
Caray made baseball?s most exciting moments more fun. He made baseball?s mundane moments fun.
He had fun with names, those he intentionally pronounced backward, and those he unintentionally mangled or misprounced (even Cubs great Ryne Sandberg was called Ryne Sanderson at times, or merely ?Ryne-berg,? and he gave up trying on Ken Caminiti). During his days with the White Sox, he made foul balls fun, hanging a net out of his broadcast perch. Caught a few, too.
He wasn?t just a man of the fans. On occasion he sat with them, calling games from the bleachers. He knew where to have the most fun. Only Harry Caray could take a tired old custom like the seventh-inning stretch and transform it into a memorable, magical, albeit off-key, Chicago ritual.
For 162 days and nights during the season, the man with the gravel voice, glasses made from window panes and trademark ?Holy cow!? was a once-in-a-lifetime life of the party. The party never will be the same.
Sure enough, the party hasn?t been the same.
Here?s to you, Harry. Now and forever.
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Iran confiscates Buddha statues from shops
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) ? An Iranian newspaper is reporting that government authorities are confiscating Buddha statues from shops in Tehran to stop the promotion of Buddhism in the country.
Sunday's report by the independent Arman daily quotes Saeed Jaberi Ansari, an official for the protection of Iran's cultural heritage, as saying that authorities will not permit a specific belief to be promoted through such statues.
Ansari called the Buddha statues symbols of "cultural invasion."
He did not elaborate on how many have been confiscated so far, but said more would be seized from shops.
Iran has long fought against items, such as Barbie dolls and Simpsons cartoon characters, to defuse Western influence, but this appears to be the first time that Iranian authorities are showing an opposition to symbols from the East.
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Gracenote unleashes its vast musical know-how to developers
You've probably used Gracenote thousands of times and have been none the wiser, but for good reason: the musical metadata service lives in the background of several apps, appearing only momentarily to bring meaning to your favorite tunes. Now, Gracenote is looking to expand its reach by opening its APIs and SDKs to app developers -- effectively putting its massive database in the hands of all who seek it. Of course, ripping CDs isn't quite what it once was, and that's why Gracenote has also opened its MusicID song recognition service to developers, allowing them to harness the same functionality of apps such as Shazam and SoundHound. The free service is available now, and for extra insight, you'll find the full PR after the break.
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Russian meteor shook ground like an earthquake
A meteor explosion in the skies above Russia this morning also walloped the Earth, triggering shaking as strong as an earthquake, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports.
Today's early morning blast, centered on the Chelyabinsk region, sent massive tremors through the ground, which were recorded on seismic monitoring instruments around the world.
Initial reports pegged the explosion as similar to a magnitude 2.7 shaker, according a seismograph released by the USGS. For comparison, the 1908 Tunguska meteor blast's shock waves, which flattened 80 million trees in Siberia, produced the equivalent of an estimated 5.0 temblor.
"When you have an explosion in the air, it shakes the ground, and we see it on the seismographs," explained Paul Caruso, a geophysicist at the USGS National Earthquake Information Center in Denver, Colo., which reported the meteor-related tremors. "It's not an earthquake, and it looks very different from the usual earthquake seismogram," he told OurAmazingPlanet.
Few meteor explosions have actually been recorded on seismographs, though, Caruso said. "We've been looking at it all morning," he added.
The meteor reportedly injured hundreds of people and damaged hundreds of buildings when it exploded in a massive blast Friday morning (Feb. 15).
Most of the injured were reportedly hurt by falling glass caused by the blast, and many have been hospitalized. In addition, an estimated 297 buildings suffered damage, including six hospitals and 12 schools, according to translations of updates by the Russian Emergency Ministry.
Scientists think a meteoroid entered the atmosphere above Russia's southern Chelyabinsk region, where it exploded and broke up into fragments scattered across three regions of Russia and Kazakhstan, according to news reports. [Photos of Russia's Meteor Fireball Blast]
The Russian meteor probably had nothing to do with the upcoming close Earth approach of asteroid 2013 DA14, which is due to make its closest approach to the Earth at 2:24 p.m. ET, Don Yeomans, head of NASA's Near-Earth Object Program, told SPACE.com. The Russian meteor's trail did not travel south to north as the asteroid will.
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Our Lady Peace's Jeremy Taggart drummed up pro baseball interest
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A few weeks ago, I was invited to do Off The Record with Michael Landsberg and was stoked to discover that one of the other guests was Jeremy Taggart, the outstanding drummer from the Canadian alternative rock band Our Lady Peace.
The chance to connect with someone like Taggart was exciting because, well, like a lot of other guys, I always wanted to be a drummer. From the time I was as big as a cat, I?ve pounded on tables, desks, dashboards ... anything, anytime, anywhere, basically non-stop. The only time I?m not tapping is in my sleep, and even then I?m not sure. My daughter Bubba grew up thinking she was a cymbal. I should have named her Zildjian.
Unfortunately, I never had the discipline to carry it through. The old man putting his foot through my bass drum and then throwing my kit in the snow bank didn?t help. But that?s why I?ve always admired ?real? drummers, guys who have the chops and the discipline, and put themselves out there every day.
I never mentioned any of this to Taggart before the show, but I almost jumped out of my chair late in the program when Landsberg invited him to drum on a table. Later, I got a call from one of my buddies, Steve Chalmers, who, after watching OTR, asked how I felt when Taggart was drumming away.
?How do you think I felt?? I said.
?I bet you wanted to join in,? he said.
Are you kidding? I was dying.
The good news is, besides being a great drummer, Taggart is a helluva nice guy, and when I asked him if we could rap about his drumming and his love of sports, he was into it. Turns out there?s more to Taggart?s love of sports than just being a fan.
At one point in his life, before he took up drums in a serious way, Taggart had dreams of becoming a pro ball player. And it wasn?t just some Walter Mitty daydream. The dude had some serious pitching skills.
From the ages of four to 16, when he decided to give up mitts for sticks, Taggart?s dreams were on the field. He lived and breathed baseball, pitching mostly, and thanks to an obsessive work ethic, developed into a solid hurler.
?I practised to the point of insanity,? said Taggart. ?I used to pitch two-to-three hours every single day with my dad. I always had a leg-up on other players because I was the only one practising (that much). For 12 years, me and my dad worked super-hard at baseball. That was it for him.?
When Taggart eventually quit baseball to pursue a career on the drums, his dad was devastated, despite the fact that Ron Taggart was once a professional drummer himself.
?My quitting baseball was kind of a rope around my dad?s neck, in a sense,? said Taggart. ?He was a professional drummer who gave it up for his family because it was impossible to feed everybody and be a drummer, though he was very good.?
Ron worked at the Sears warehouse in Rexdale for 23 years and, while giving up a career as a musician was difficult, he did pass on his love of the drums ? and baseball ? to his son. The family moved around the province frequently when Jeremy was young, but he played at the highest level of youth ball wherever they went and dreamt of becoming a pro.
?At 16, I could hit 85 mph and I was pretty accurate,? he said. ?I could really find the corners, and those are the kind of pitchers that usually end up doing well.?
Taggart threw two no-hitters and a perfect game during his rep career and once fanned 21 batters in a game. He also attended an Atlanta Braves tryout camp in Toronto. But as he got older, he realized that, as good as he was, there were other kids out there even better. It?s a familiar story.
?When I went to the actual training camps, you could see the talent. I saw guys who were 6-foot-4 and could throw 90 miles an hour,? said Taggart, who checked in at about 5-foot-8 and 145 pounds. ?I could drop (a pitch) about a foot, I could take out a lot of guys. But all I had was accuracy and a brain.?
Sadly, in his late teens, Taggart became disillusioned with baseball. Not so much with the game itself, but with the politics of sport and some of his coaches.
?We weren?t a very well-to-do family and I was always on rep teams, and the coaches and the parents, well, it can be very clique-y,? he said.
Late in his ball career, one of Taggart?s coaches faced sexual assault charges as a result of an incident with a player. That was it. He quit baseball and concentrated on drumming, practising ?12 hours a day for three years.? The commitment paid off.
Though Taggart had only been drumming in a serious way for a relatively short time, he brought it. In 1993, Our Lady Peace held open auditions. Taggart, who was all of 17 years old, beat out dozens of hardcore drummers to get the gig. So while one life ended, another began, though it was a bittersweet time.
?I was done with the game and I hated it, and it was actually sad when I quit baseball in 1992 because I didn?t watch the Jays win the ?92 and ?93 World Series,? he said.
Eventually, though, as OLP became more and more successful, and Taggart settled into his drumming career, his love of baseball returned.
?It wasn?t until I was on tour and comfortable in my own skin again that I started to realize how much I loved baseball,? he said. ?Every year I would write a history of baseball for my speech at school, I collected baseball cards, I was a huge fan of the history of the sport. So I knew it would come back, but it?s sad that I missed those two World Series.?
Like practically every other baseball fan in this city, Taggart is pumped about the Jays? chances this season. But it?s not just baseball that turns his crank. The man is a total sports freak. Check out his Twitter account (@Taggart7), including this post from Sunday afternoon: ?#Raptors game tonight. Gladly missing the Grammys for courty?s! Levon tribute everyday in my house anyway.?
Taggart adores baseball and golf the most (he?s a five handicap and will watch the entire European Tour tournaments on TV or his laptop), but is also a diehard Leafs, Raptors and Argos fan and tweets off almost every game. He?s currently in discussions with TSN on some sports/music related projects.
When OLP is touring, Taggart isn?t the only guy on his laptop every day checking stats and scores. The other guys in the band ? lead vocalist Raine Maida, bassist Duncan Coutts and guitarist Steve Mazur ? are all big sports fans. So much so that they named their last record, the group?s eighth studio album, Curve and put Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo on the cover. The band contacted Chuvalo?s wife Joanne with the idea of using his picture and Taggart said getting to know Chuvalo, widely considered the toughest boxer in history, was a total blast.
?Absolutely unreal,? said Taggart. ?He?s such a sweetheart. He?s an icon and deserves tenfold (more) than what he?s received.?
To the members of OLP, recording a boxing-themed album wasn?t a total reach. In a blog he wrote for AOL, Maida explained what he considered the similarities between rockers and fighters: ?There are strong emotional and physical similarities between the two. The boxer skillfully relies on rhythm and improvisation to control a fight. An artist relies on rhythm and improvisation to help guide the listener. The boxer uses footwork, punching combinations and tempo to attack and escape his opponent. The artist uses chord progressions, melody and tempo to help the listener escape. Either in the ring or on stage, both the fighter and artist put a piece of their soul on display in a fascinating struggle of determination and acceptance. It?s a struggle for affirmation that their work and life force are worthwhile. This war is an age old battle between ego and the sacred self. One designed to fight, the other to heal.?
That last line resonates big-time. Sitting in the Sun cafeteria, Taggart is asked: When drumming certain songs or listening to a great drum groove, does he ever get emotional, or perhaps even shed a tear?
?Absolutely,? he said. ?Drumming has healing properties. It keeps you young, it keeps you less depressed, it keeps you happy.?
That totally rings true. Even to a guy whose drum kit includes kitchen tables, desks and dashboards.
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THIS LITTLE DRUMMER BOY BECAME A PAPER BOY
I?m not the writer Steve Buffery is and I was never a drummer of Jeremy Taggert?s skill or accomplishments. But as those two wonder what might have been, I have to consider how fortunate I was to be able to pursue both passions ? though, regrettably, not at the same time.
Like Jeremy, I came from a highly musical family. Dad played drums professionally, mom the piano. My first cousin, the late Rick Danko, played bass for The Band and distant cousin Bobby Colomby was the drummer for Blood, Sweat and Tears. My sister, Caren Cole, is currently touring with the Jersey Boys while kid brother Danny has been a long-time jazz and blues bassist around T.O.
For me, however, it came down to a difficult decision. During the long-hair 1970s, my career in sports journalism was just beginning at the same time that I was drumming in a small handful of bands, doing everything from hard rock to Hava Nagila. Problem was, most of my drum gigs came the same weekend nights as I was supposed to be covering the local junior hockey team or a high-school hoops tournament. It became obvious that something had to go. As I knew I was never going to be the next John Bonham, I opted for the next Frank Orr and the drums were mothballed and eventually sold.
Haven?t touched a pair of drumsticks since, though I?ve never been able to stop slapping out those Neil Peart and Bill Bruford licks on whatever table top or steering wheel happens to be handy.
- Joel Colomby
Source: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/02/14/our-lady-peaces-jeremy-taggart-drummed-up-pro-baseball-interest
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Meet Your Doppelganger On Sodisco. A First Look At Ex-Payvment CEO Christian Taylor?s New Startup
Lonely? Wish you had someone to geek out with about the weird stuff you're into? Sodisco wants to find you a play date. It's the soon-to-launch startup from Christian Taylor, ex-CEO of Facebook e-commerce platform?Payvment?that just got bought by Intuit. Taylor called me up to reveal what Sodisco's all about: analyzing your interests and introducing you to your nearest clones.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/ElVNTdi3iZ4/
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Thursday, February 14, 2013
Illustrated London News Ltd.: Front End Web Developer
ILN is?seeking a?Front-End?Developer with strong PHP?expertise to join our growing web design and development team. This role bridges the creative and technical aspects of project delivery implements designs according to creative and art direction already established.
As such, the qualified candidate must be able to work in and bridge the creative with the technical across a variety of platforms and frameworks. Ultimately, the Front End Dev is responsible for all aspects of Presentation Layer development including all project related front-end technologies.?
Responsibilities/Role
- CSS 3
- Responsible for executing through code complex designs that reflect the creative and art direction provided within the established technical framework
- Creation of all coded Presentation Layer deliverables
- Works well as a team member, understanding how a team operates and what is expected of the various roles on the project
- Establish presentation layer requirements
- Participate in developing supporting proposal materials for projects.
- Participate in scoping and planning work
- Demonstrable experience of Web frameworks/CMS applications such as WordPress and Joomla
- Image production techniques using Photoshop
- Understanding of good design principles and ability to adhere to complex design specifications during implementation
?Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- You get to work in a vibrant environment in the heart of Tower Hill
- At least 3 years? experience HTML, JavaScript/JQuery, CSS 2
- At least 2 years? experience hands-on experience with PHP5, MySQL, Apache, AJAX
- Joomla and Wordpress template development experience
- Experience of using version control systems such as subversion and bug-tracking systems such as trac, mantis or bugzilla
- Expertise developing and testing across multiple browsers and operating systems
- Demonstrable and proven track record of full life-cycle web-based development projects
?Desirable Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- HTML5 especially audio and video embedding and old-browser compatibility
- Any experience in PHP frameworks such as Zend, Code Igniter or Symfony
- Excellent awareness of and ability to code around various security exploits such as XSS, SQL Injection using best practices.
- Experience developing accessible websites (Section 508, W3C WAI Guidelines)
- Responsive/adaptive development
- Experience with XML: XSLT, DTD or Schema, DOM/XPath/SAX parsing
In return?
- Become a key member of staff of this agency with an unrivalled creative and content heritage
- Be competitively remunerated
- Work with a demanding, but appreciative, client base?
- Get to work with a veritable who?s who of luxury sector brands
For further information and to apply online please click on the "Apply Now" button
ILN is a customer engagement agency offering digital marketing and customer publishing services, with expertise in luxury, travel and retail sectors. We think that inspirational, well-crafted content is the most effective way to connect with audiences.
Source: http://jobs.brandrepublic.com/job/517606/front-end-web-developer/?TrackID=2
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Key events in hunt for ex-LA cop, suspected killer
Key events in the expansive, ongoing manhunt for Christopher Dorner, the fired Los Angeles police officer suspected of killing three people ? including a police officer in Southern California ? and posting a manifesto on Facebook outlining plans to kill the families of those he says have wronged him, all times approximate:
? Sunday, Feb. 3: An assistant women's college basketball coach and her fiance are found shot to death in their car in Irvine, Calif. Police learn later the woman was the daughter of a retired Los Angeles police captain who represented Dorner in disciplinary hearings that resulted in his dismissal from the force.
? Monday, Feb. 4: Some of Dorner's belongings, including police equipment, are found in a trash bin in suburban San Diego, linking him to Irvine killings.
? Wednesday, Feb. 6: Police announce finding Dorner's manifesto online.
? 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6: A man matching Dorner's description makes a failed attempt to steal a boat from a San Diego marina. An 81-year-old man on the vessel is tied up but otherwise unharmed.
? 1:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: LAPD officers, protecting a person named in the manifesto, chase a vehicle they believe is Dorner's. One officer is grazed in the forehead by a bullet during a shootout, and the gunman flees.
A short time later, a shooter believed to be Dorner ambushes two Riverside police officers during a routine patrol. One officer is killed, and the other critically injured.
? 2:20 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: A shuttle bus driver turns in a wallet with an LAPD badge and a picture ID of Dorner to San Diego police. The wallet was found fewer than five miles from the boat, near San Diego International Airport.
? 5 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: LAPD officers guarding a manifesto target in the Los Angeles suburb of Torrance open fire on a truck they mistakenly believe to be Dorner's. A mother and daughter delivering the newspaper are injured.
A short time later, Torrance police are involved in a second shooting involving a different truck they also mistake for Dorner's. Nobody is hurt.
? 8:35 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: Police find a burned-out pickup truck near the Big Bear ski area in the San Bernardino Mountains. Six hours later, authorities identify it as Dorner's.
? 9:40 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego is locked down after a Navy worker reports seeing someone who resembles Dorner. Military officials later said Dorner had indeed checked into a hotel on base earlier in the week ? on Tuesday ? but had left on Wednesday.
? 4 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7: Authorities search a Las Vegas-area home belonging to Dorner and leave with several boxes of items. They say no weapons were found but decline to disclose what was discovered.
? Friday, Feb. 8: Dozens of searchers hunt for Dorner in the freezing, snowy San Bernardino Mountains after losing his footprints near the site where the truck was found. Authorities search Dorner's mother's house in La Palma and collect 10 bags of evidence and also take five electronic items for examination. Police also search a storage locker in Buena Park.
? Saturday, Feb. 9: Helicopters equipped with heat-seeking technology resume search for Dorner in the mountains near Big Bear. Authorities reveal that weapons and camping gear were found in Dorner's burned truck.
? Sunday, Feb. 10: Authorities announce $1 million reward for information leading to Dorner's arrest.
? Monday, Feb. 11: Riverside County prosecutors charge Dorner with murdering a police officer and the attempted murder of three other officers in a potential death penalty case. Authorities receive more than 700 tips since the reward was announced.
?Thursday, Feb. 12: A person believed to be Dorner exchanges gunfire with Southern California authorities while barricaded in a cabin in the San Bernardino Mountains. Two law enforcement officers are wounded and airlifted to a hospital.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/key-events-hunt-ex-la-cop-suspected-killer-183457422.html
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