Devo drummer Alan Myers dies of cancer

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Alan Myers of the band Devo performs onstage in Los Angeles around 1979.

Alan Myers, Devo's drummer during their period of greatest success, died Monday of brain cancer. He was 58. Myers' death was first reported on Facebook by his friend Ralph Carney, a jazz musician who knew Myers in Devo's hometown of Akron, Ohio, (and the uncle of Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney).

Myers became Devo's third drummer when he joined the band in 1976. Known for his precision on the kit, his playing featured on Devo's first seven albums, including 1978's "Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!" and 1980's "Freedom of Choice," which included the single "Whip It." He left the band in 1986 over a lack of creative fulfillment as the group increasingly used electronic drums, according to the 2003 book "We Are Devo!"

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After leaving Devo, Myers worked as an electrical contractor in Los Angeles, and since 2005 had played improvisational music with his wife, Christine Myers, in the group Skyline Electric. He had also performed with his daughter, Laena Geronimo, in the experimental ensemble Swahili Blonde.

Myers' former bandmate Gerald Casale praised the drummer on Twitter as news of his death spread. The Devo founder called Myers "the most incredible drummer I had the privilege to play with for 10 years. Losing him was like losing an arm."

In subsequent tweets, Casale wrote, "I begged him not to quit Devo. He could not tolerate being replaced by the Fairlight and autocratic machine music. I agreed ... Alan, you were the best -- a human metronome and then some."

Drummer Josh Freese, who joined Devo for their 2010 reunion, has cited Myers as one of his major influences. "An underrated/brilliant drummer," Freese tweeted. "Such an honor playing his parts w/Devo. Godspeed Human Metronome."

Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/devo-drummer-alan-myers-dies-cancer-6C10454468

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The Ballpoint Pen Turns 75 Years Old Today

You've probably never used a fountain pen, or accidentally spilled a jar of refil ink and ruined your favorite pants. And for that, you have the ballpoint pen to thank. The handy gadget is having its 75th birthday today, so go sign away your rights to something to celebrate!

Back in 1888, a guy by the name of John J. Loud developed the first precursor to the ballpoint been, but although the idea was sound, the execution just wasn't up to snuff. It worked, but just well enough to write on leather?not paper. And while it was popular with bovine graffiti artist of the day (probably?) it never really caught on.

Then, in 1938?75 years ago to this very day?L?szl? B?r? and his brother Gy?rgy patented their own, more successful model. It used the same ball-in-socket method, but had a thicker ink, which allowed it to handle paper just fine, and avoided the janky, pressurized compartments previous models of the pen had relied on.

Ballpoints didn't get popular here in the States until 1950 when Marcel Bich (later without the h) developed his Bic Cristal design, which you still chew on?and shatter in your mouth?today.

So happy birthday to the ballpoint pen, putting portable ink in your pocket since before you were born!

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Teaching complete evolutionary stories increases learning

June 15, 2013 ? Many students have difficulty understanding and explaining how evolution operates. In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteristic to their genetic consequences and effects in populations. The researchers, Peter J. T. White, Merle K. Heidemann, and James J. Smith, then incorporated two of the scenarios into a cellular and molecular biology course taught to undergraduates at the university's Lyman Briggs College.

When the students' understanding was tested, the results showed that students who had understood an integrated evolutionary scenario were better at explaining and describing how evolution works in general.

The results of the research, described in the July issue of BioScience, are significant because evolution is not usually taught in this comprehensive, soup-to-nuts way. Rather, instructors teach examples of parts of the evolutionary process, such as the ecological effects of natural selection or the rules of genetic inheritance, separately. It appears that this fragmentation makes it harder for students to understand the process as a whole.

White and his colleagues note that "surprisingly few" comprehensive evolutionary study systems have been described, although the number is growing. The two employed in the BioScience study were about the evolution of sweet taste and wrinkled skin in domestic garden peas, and the evolution of light or dark coat color in beach mice living on light or dark sand. Students were tested on the beach mouse coat color scenario as well as on evolutionary principles in general. Understanding the beach mouse example was a better predictor of good responses to questions about evolution in general than was performance on the course as a whole. This suggests that improvements in evolutionary understanding came mostly from studying the integrated evolution scenarios.

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DM Ya'alon to Meet with Secretary Hagel in Washington

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DM Ya'alon to Meet with Secretary Hagel in Washington

DM Moshe Ya'alon will travel to Washington Thursday in order to meet his counterpart Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. The two are scheduled to discuss the Syrian civil war, the Iranian nuclear program, the US security support package for Israel, as well as additional current regional security issues.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/270266

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Iraq hit by wave of bomb attacks, killing dozens

BAGHDAD (AP) ? A wave of car bombings rocked central and northern Iraq on Monday, killing at least 39 people and extending the deadliest eruption of violence to hit the country in years.

Attackers initially targeted market-goers early in the morning, then turned their sights on police posts after sunset. Security forces scrambled to contain the violence, blocking a key road in central Iraq and imposing a curfew in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Mosul after the blasts went off.

Killing in Iraq has spiked to levels not seen since 2008. The surge in bloodshed, which follows months of protests by the country's Sunni Arab minority against the Shiite-led government, is raising fears that Iraq is heading for another bout of uncontrollable sectarian violence.

The upsurge comes as foreign fighters are increasingly pouring into neighboring Syria, where a grueling civil war has taken on sectarian overtones similar to those that pushed Iraq to the brink of its own civil war in 2006 and 2007.

Syria's conflict is fueling sectarian tensions inside Iraq, with Iraqi al-Qaida-linked militants cooperating with ideological allies among the Syrian rebels, while Iraqi Shiite militants increasingly fight alongside forces loyal to Syria's Iranian-backed regime.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Monday's attacks ? as has been the case for much of the violence in recent weeks ? but coordinated car bombings in civilian areas are frequently the work of al-Qaida's front group in Iraq, known as the Islamic State of Iraq.

Monday's deadliest single attack hit Diyala province when three parked car bombs exploded virtually simultaneously around a wholesale fruit and vegetable market at the height of business in the town of Jidaidat al-Shatt. The town is just outside the provincial capital of Baqouba, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

The blasts killed 15 people and wounded 46. Soon after the explosions, security forces sealed the roads linking Baqouba to Baghdad in an apparent effort to prevent further attacks.

Shortly after midday, another car bomb went off near a fish market in the northern Baghdad suburb of Taji, killing seven shoppers and wounding 25, police said.

In the northern city of Tuz Khormato, police said a parked car bomb exploded near a small outdoor market just before the sunset, killing three people and wounding 22. The town is about 200 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad.

Baqouba and the surrounding Diyala province were once the site of some of the fiercest fighting between U.S. forces and insurgents in Iraq, and it remains a hotbed for terrorist attacks. The area is religiously mixed and witnessed some of the worst atrocities as Shiite militias battled Sunni insurgents for control in the years after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The three car bombs used in the attack near Baqouba were deployed in different locations in and around the market in order to inflict the most damage and casualties, police said. One of the vehicles was a pickup truck loaded with produce that was parked inside the market.

Last Friday, Diyala was the site of another deadly bombing. A suicide attacker drove an explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims visiting holy shrines in Iraq, killing 11 and wounding more than two dozen. The attack took place in the town of Muqdadiyah, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad.

Provincial councilman Sadiq al-Husseini blamed that attack and Monday's bombing in the produce market on al-Qaida-linked groups.

"When the grip is tightened on these groups, they resort to random attacks on residents and foreign pilgrims in order to show to the people that they are still active," he said. "Our security forces still lack intelligence and bomb detecting equipment" to stop such attacks, he said.

In the evening, a rapid-fire wave of car bombings erupted in the volatile northern city of Mosul, killing at least 14 and wounding dozens.

Police in Mosul said one suicide bomber rammed his car into a police post, killing seven police and one civilian.

In another attack, a bomber detonated his vehicle at a security checkpoint, killing three. A similar attack on another checkpoint killed three police.

Mosul authorities imposed a curfew on the city. Mosul, the capital of Ninevah province, which borders Syria, has been one of the hardest areas to tame since bloodshed erupted after the U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.

Hospital officials confirmed the death tolls. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the details to reporters.

According to the United Nations, at least 1,045 Iraqi civilians and security personnel were killed in May. The tally surpassed April's 712 killed ? at the time, Iraq's deadliest month since 2008. According to an Associated Press count, more than 100 people have been killed so far in June.

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Associated Press writers Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub contributed to this report.

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Feel-good 'Kinky Boots' wins at feel-good Tonys

Cyndi Lauper poses with her award for best musical score for "Kinky Boots" in the press room at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Cyndi Lauper poses with her award for best musical score for "Kinky Boots" in the press room at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Pam MacKinnon poses with her award for best direction of a play for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" in the press room at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Cyndi Lauper arrives on the red carpet at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Andrea Martin poses with her award for best features actress in a musical for "Pippin" in the press room at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Cyndi Lauper poses with her award for best musical score for "Kinky Boots" in the press room at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, on Sunday, June 9, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

NEW YORK (AP) ? On a feel-good night for Broadway, it was only natural that the Tony award go to its most feel-good musical, the joyous "Kinky Boots." But most everything about Sunday's Tony telecast was warmhearted, from inspiring speeches about the theatrical community to the inspired antics of Neil Patrick Harris, who should officially be awarded the host job on a permanent basis.

It was an especially happy night for female theater artists: In a rare feat, women took home both directing prizes, for a musical (Diane Paulus for the high-energy "Pippin" revival) and for a play (Pam MacKinnon for the searing revival of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?").

And Cyndi Lauper won best original score for "Kinky Boots," a result that had many in the audience whooping with delight. "Girl, you're gonna have fun tonight!" shouted presenter Jesse Tyler Ferguson, the "Modern Family" actor ? a reference, of course, to Lauper's iconic "Girls Just Want to Have Fun."

In winning best musical, "Kinky" scored something of an upset over the terrific but decidedly darker "Matilda the Musical." And underscoring the sunny nature of this year's ceremony, a comedy ? Christopher Durang's dysfunctional-family satire "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" ? won for best play over the more typical dramatic fare.

It wasn't a great night for movie stars. In a season where a number of Hollywood personalities were snubbed for Tony nominations ? Scarlett Johansson, Bette Midler and Jessica Chastain among them ? best-actor nominee Tom Hanks ("Lucky Guy") lost out to Tracy Letts, previously a Tony-winning playwright, for his wrenching performance in "Virginia Woolf."

As it was for women, it was a big night for African-American actors, with wins for best actor and actress in a musical, best actress in a play and featured actor in a play.

The ebullient Billy Porter won best actor in a musical for playing a drag queen with a heart of gold and a taste for, well, kinky boots, in "Kinky Boots." He graciously saluted his co-star and co-nominee, Stark Sands. "''You are my rock, my sword, my shield," he said, adding: "I share this award with you. I'm gonna keep it at my house ? but I share it with you."

And the effervescent Patina Miller won best actress in a musical for "Pippin," in a role ? the Leading Player ? that also won Ben Vereen a Tony in 1973. Like Vereen, Miller sings and dances expertly in the role, but unlike Vereen, she also soars on a trapeze and sings while hula-hooping.

Cicely Tyson, 88, had perhaps the evening's most emotional win ? and not one but two standing ovations ? for best actress in a play, in "The Trip to Bountiful." She told the audience that at her age, she had "this burning desire to do just one more ? one more great role. I didn't want to be greedy. I just wanted one more."

And Courtney B. Vance won best featured actor in "Lucky Guy," his first win in three nominations.

"It's a richer experience now," he said at the Tony after-party. "Being nominated is a whirlwind. Now I know how to pace myself." He was snapping photos of his wife, actress Angela Bassett, as fellow guests at the Tony after-party at the Plaza Hotel crowded around them. "Besides," he said, "we're the toast of Broadway now! That doesn't happen very often."

Wins or losses, the guests at the Tony gala seemed intent on having a wonderful time. One of them was Billy Magnussen, who plays a studly young boyfriend to Sigourney Weaver's character in "Vanya and Sonia." He had lost out to Vance but couldn't stop dancing (if you wanted to interview him, you had to twirl along.) "Who gets to dance at the Tonys?" he asked joyfully and rather rhetorically. "This guy!" He said it was "amazing to be honored for something that I would do for free anyway."

Shalita Grant, his colleague in "Vanya and Sonia," was boogying on the dance floor too. "Hey, it's a great night," she said. "Two months on Broadway and then a nomination? I can't complain."

The winner in Grant's category was Judith Light of "The Assembled Parties," her second Tony in the category in two years. The former star of TV's "Who's the Boss?" gave one of the most poignant and admired speeches of the night, along with Letts, who made similar remarks about the Tonys being not about competition, but about collaboration.

At the after-party, Light elaborated on her thoughts. "We are here to celebrate each other," she said in an interview. "That is the magic. We root for each other. If we didn't, our work would simply be too arduous."

"This is my family," Light added, pointing to a ballroom filled with theater folk. "I'm so happy to be at a party with my family."

Light's counterpart on the musical side was Andrea Martin, 66, who won best featured actress in a musical for "Pippin," in which she plays the title character's grandmother, Berthe, and stops the show every night by performing high-flying stunts that thrill the audience.

Her co-star, Matthew James Thomas, who plays Pippin, said at the party that he was backstage watching Martin's emotional speech, and found it so moving that he burst into tears. "She's usually so together, so it was amazing to see her like that," he said. "I'm so happy for her, and Diane, and the whole company."

Also accepting congratulations at the party was someone who never appeared onstage: the Tony-winning composer, actor, lyricist and rapper Lin-Manuel Miranda, who co-wrote with Tom Kitt the terrific opening number performed by host Harris. Miranda, who wrote and starred in "In the Heights," also wrote the rap number that Harris performed with Audra McDonald at the end of the show, with lyrics that referred to events that had happened only minutes earlier ? a trick used by Seth MacFarlane and Kristin Chenoweth in their musical closing of this year's Academy Awards.

But that may have been the only similarity to the Oscars. Harris showed no sign of wear on his fourth go as Tony host, earning as many laughs as ever with routines like a running reference to boxer Mike Tyson, or a number about theater actors (like him) who move on to glory and wealth on TV shows ? some of which then get canceled.

Harris opened the show as the Irish "Guy" in the musical "Once," holding a guitar in a pub and singing soulfully, but then quickly jumped into a flashy production number that showcased performers from almost a dozen musicals. Among other things, Harris jumped through a hoop, a la "Pippin," vanished from a box and somehow appeared at the back of the theater, and promised a "truly legendary show" before glitter guns went off.

Legendary or not, it certainly made its audience very happy; by the end of the number, the entire Radio City Music Hall crowd was on its feet.

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AP Drama Writer Mark Kennedy contributed to this report.

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