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Our own age, that is. The first time Jerry Colbert listened to "Closer Than Ever," just after the revue's 1989 off-Broadway premiere, he thought it was ... OK. "Now, I think, `How could I not have loved this show?!' " says Colbert, a Charlotte-based actor/singer featured in Collaborative Arts' current staging at Spirit Square. Maturity, Colbert explains with a shrug, has added him to the show's passionate fan base among theater insiders. "It's filled with humanity," says Colbert, describing "Closer Than Ever" as a series of entertaining and often moving observations on a range of experiences, from dating to parenthood to the loss of a spouse. "All the songs address real-life situations that I think anyone who's achieved a certain age will relate to." The show, by songwriting team David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr.
The Truth About Autism: Scientists Reconsider What They Think They ...
The YouTube clip opens with a woman facing away from the camera, rocking back and forth, flapping her hands awkwardly, and emitting an eerie hum. She then performs strange repetitive behaviors: slapping a piece of paper against a window, running a hand lengthwise over a computer keyboard, twisting the knob of a drawer. She bats a necklace with her hand and nuzzles her face against the pages of a book. And you find yourself thinking: Who's shooting this footage of the handicapped lady, and why do I always get sucked into watching the latest viral video? But then the words "A Translation" appear on a black screen, and for the next five minutes, 27-year-old Amanda Baggs — who is autistic and doesn't speak — describes in vivid and articulate terms what's going on inside her head as she carries out these seemingly bizarre actions.
Marketbright Co-Founder to Address the Changing Face of Technology ...
The SLAM 2008 Conference focuses on successful business development models, sales strategies, licensing technologies, partnering, growth opportunities, and marketing issues facing software companies. WHERE: WHEN: Thursday, April 3rd, 8:30-9:10am PT WHO: Dom Lindars is co-founder and CEO of Marketbright. Marketbright delivers the industry's most comprehensive, on-demand marketing automation platform for companies looking to improve their marketing efforts. With Marketbright, companies gain self-service campaign execution, automated lead scoring and qualification for companies, and 360 visibility into their campaign ROI metrics. Marketbright is the only on demand marketing automation vendor that supports companies' channel marketing efforts, and provides a fully featured content management backend.
Storm worm continues its rampage
The body of the message contains a text link leading to a web page advertising an online 'greeting card' supposedly sent to the user. On clicking either the image or the link, the user downloads an executable file that installs the Storm malware. Infected machines are then connected to a customised peer-to-peer network which is used to control the botnet and install new versions of the worm. This malware connects the user to Storm's huge botnet, which has been linked to spam runs and phishing attacks, and is said to be among the greatest threats on the internet. As Storm's run nears 14 months, security companies are stepping up their efforts to slow the worm. ThreatStop has made its normally private list of blocked Storm domains available to the general public, allowing users to copy the list and use it with firewall software to block traffic from known Storm distributors.
MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them
The argument of whether it's useful or not, though, has nothing to do with bloat or the memory footprint of the OS. 163. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them Maybe Jamie and Adam should test the "myths" of linux install, vista bloat, and the general stability of these OS's on Mythbusters, hm? 162. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them The only thing I say good about MS software is that people have to upgrade systems as the os changes. I get free computers when helping people upgrade and then I put Linux on the discarded computers. Small businesses could save a fortune in equipment cost if they knew what could be done with classic systems. Like Emeril says: "Don't tell anybody or everyone will be doing it." Thank you Microsoft. 161. RE: MythBusters: 7 Tech Headaches—and How to Fix Them The only thing I say good about MS software is that people have to upgrade systems as the os changes.
Okanagan International Sculpture Symposium
Kelowna and District Arts Council will be hosting the 2002 Okanagan International Sculpture Symposium. The budget for the symposium is estimated to be 1.5 million dollars The symposium will consist of a core team of 10 international sculptors representing a diversity of cultural influences. This core will be selected with the help of the symposium committee as well as participating foreign governments. Up to 15 Canadian sculptors will also participate. All sculptors will create permanent sculpture onsite and the public will be invited to view the works in progress. All sculptors will be commissioned to create one monumental sculptural piece. This symposium will billed as the natural continuation of the 1975 stone symposium held in Van Dusen gardens in Vancouver. This was an extremely successful event that averaged over 300 spectators a day for the three month event and involved 15 sculptors from around the world.
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