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Expert on Middle East to discuss the intricacies of al Qaeda, March 25
Posted March 22, 2002; 01:29 p.m.
"Pragmatic Fanatics: The Tension Between Tactics and True Belief in al Qaeda" is the title of a talk to be presented at 4:30 p.m. Monday, March 25, in Bowl 1, Robertson Hall.
The speaker will be Michael Doran, an assistant professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton who studies Middle Eastern nationalism, inter-Arab relations, relations between the Middle East and the West, and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He currently teaches several courses that focus on the historical aspects of conflict in the Middle East as well as the more recent events that have shaped the United States' relations with this region.
Since Sept. 11, Doran has been invited to speak at numerous on- and off-campus events on the subject of terrorism and the crises occurring in the Middle East. His answer to the question "Why do Muslims hate us so much?" appeared in the January/February issue of Foreign Affairs and also was published in a new book, "How Did This Happen: Terrorism and the New War" (Public Affairs, 2001).
Doran earned his master's and Ph.D. degrees in Near Eastern studies from Princeton. His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Near Eastern Studies .
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Lecture set on free speech in wartime, Nov. 1
Posted October 28, 2004; 12:29 a.m.
"Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime" is the title of an address to be presented at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Geoffrey Stone, the Harry Kalven Jr. Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will speak. He has written numerous publications that have addressed matters concerning freedom of speech, freedom of religion, academic freedom, law enforcement's use of secret agents and informants, the Supreme Court and the FBI.
Stone's recent book, "Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime From the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism," discusses -- from both a historical and present-day perspective -- the ramifications that periods of national crisis have had on civil liberties, and how measures taken in response to those situations have usurped the underpinnings of the Constitution.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Law and Public Affairs .
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The year has changed. And although 2012
is will be wonderful – because it's really up to me to make it so, isn't it – I've been sort of down lately. I've got this coping method for it though. It's that if I can find just a single "sign from the universe" per day that "life is good afterall", then I can manage. It's that sort of thing that – if you're sitting on a bus (feeling slightly sad maybe?) and watching the cars go by and you see a car with the license plate being something like "LUV" or "HEY" whatever "word" that just hits you. I like to think that as a sign of.. hey, everything's cool, right. So it's the little things that you should be aware of – to look for.
Stop, listen, see! So here's how my last week was "universe" wise:
Monday January 2nd: The guy at the bank was really helpful & sweet to me.
Tuesday January 3rd: Was waiting for a bus and saw a young guy help out an old lady who was having a hard time getting on the bus (with all the ice & snow being so slippery on the street). Made me smile.
Wednesday January 4th: Went to get a "take-away" salad and the queue at the café was very long. However, I got served right as I stepped into the queue and the waitress even opened up a 2nd cash register just so I could pay my salad right away and be off my way. Usually I've had to wait until the "normal" queue is done so I can pay my take-away meal. Win!
Thursday January 5th: Woke up when a friend texted me "Come out for a jog?!" – and of course I went.
Friday January 6th: Caught up with the one that went away.
Saturday January 7th: Went to play laser tag with a group of friends. And a dinner. And a movie.
Sunday January 8th: Begun The Jillian Michaels' "30 Day Shred" challenge.
Other than that. My days go by with me writing my masters thesis, exercising, planning my trip to Japan (and adventure to Australia) and… that's about it! In less than 2 months I'll be in Japan! In a few months I'll be more fit! In 6 months I'll be ready with my thesis and my Aussie-plans! And you know what. Today, I'm much happier than I was on monday when I begun "writing" this blog entry. So my "method" of trying to be positive worked. Though, of course – tomorrow is a new day and it might be good or bad. We'll see. But I'll try to find something positive in it.
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1978 - the first year Kenner released toys. Chewbacca was my favorite character, and I had to have him! R2D2 was my first figure though. Then I got the stormtrooper and Chewie.
Luke I got loose, from a friend, for a birthday (not even wrapped, just in a brown paper bag with a ribbon - but I didn't care).
I got Han, Leia, and the Death Squad Commander all together, but I think I got the rest of them before then. I can't recall.
I liked the Die-Cast vehicles then too - the X-wing and Vader's TIE were my first. I couldn't wait until I got the regular TIE Fighter, because even then I knew Darth Vader couldn't lose. Once I had that white die-cast fighter, adventure started to explode. But I wanted the (die cast) Millennium Falcon more than anything!
I think I had the landspeeder that year too (for the regular figures). It was more than fun to make it haul-butt over the tile floor!


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As if Illinois didn't already have enough problems in the eyes of muni investors, the securities and exchange commission just charged the state with securities fraud for downplaying funding problems at its pension-funds to muni bond investors from 2005 to early 2009. From the SEC's statement:
"Municipal investors are no less entitled to truthful risk disclosures than other investors," said George S. Canellos, Acting Director of the SEC's Division of Enforcement. "Time after time, Illinois failed to inform its bond investors about the risk to its financial condition posed by the structural underfunding of its pension system."
The SEC said its investigation revealed that Illinois failed to inform investors about the impact of pension-fund problems as the state sold more than $2.2 billion worth of muni bonds during that period. Citing steps that Illinois has since taken to fix the problems, the SEC said Illinois agreed to settle the charges without facing any fines or penalties.


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Convict Questions
Currently at my workplace, we have a breeding pair of convict cichlids that have recently birthed a huge set of fry. They previously lived with my boss in her 40g oscar tank(yes don't even get me started on that mixture) and they would have many sets of fry and none of them ever survived, so she decided to bring them up to work and put them in a 10g(again, don't get me started). The fry are about a week old today and while I only have experience with blood parrot cichlids, I've really come to enjoy the convicts. I'm thinking about setting up a 20g(L) tank here at my house to bring home some of the matured fry. I realize I probably can't have that many of them and the rest we're planning on selling the surviving fry to our LFS once they've old enough. I don't know just a whole lot about this breed of fish and I've done some research, but I was curious when it would be possible to seperate the fry from the parents, I've yet to find information on that. I'm also curious what type of decoration I should put into their tank here at home. The tank at work is just for the kids and thus has tacky cartoonish decoration and fake plants for hiding spots. The breeding pair there(Willy and Wanda) love to dig up the tank and tend to rearrange it every week or so, well up until the fry were born anyway. I've read how this fish enjoys hiding spots, perhaps caves of some sort, probably no plants since they do tend to uproot the fake ones in the work tank. Any ideas or suggestions are appreciated since I'm a newbie to them. I have five hearty blood parrot cichlids that I've had for a few years, but they're very different from the convicts.
No. Your tank is too small for them, as hers is, and what will you do with them? Stores don't want the fry because they spawn constantly. They are also mean as pit bulls when they do. I would never put one with my blood parrots either because a male convict with spawn with a female parrot. She could feed the fry to her Oscar?
I think you will have a problem trying to keep 3 angels in a 55 gallon but this thread is not about that.
I have a twenty gallon that I am breeding convicts in and have about 50-75 three month old babies, and the mom. Everything was fine and everyone plus the dad was in the tank, a month or two into it the dad was not letting the mom eat and kinda beating her up, he ended up being amost twice her size and put on alot of size fast as she wasnt eating. I took him out and put him in my big tank and just kept the mom in there,she is fine and so are the babies without dad(he is the small fish and ALOT calmer in the big tank). But my babies are doing great and havent skipped a beat without dad.
Mom is actually in a breeding box because dad beat her up and letting her heal, the babies get kinda aggressive if she is wounded. This is just my setup and working pretty good so far
@Lady Hobbs I no longer have the Angels in with my BP's, the signature is just old. I have four BPs in the 55g and they're all pretty happy, though I'll admit that my BPs are not peaceful to other fish, they actually attacked two plecos that I've had in there and killed one, the other I rehomed. I've always heard how BPs are peaceful fish, but mine sure arn't, at least to other fish, each other they are fine, I've had them spawn several times over, though never anything comes of it due to their hybrid status.
Out of curisoity, what would come of a Convict/BP pairing? Anything?
@snapper1978 Oddly enough, the pair in question are the exact opposite of yours, Momma is quiet mean and beats Daddy around alot, she rules that tank and she's twice his size. The fry are only a week old, but I've been looking for signs of extreme aggresion between the pair but so far there is not, she does like to dominate the food when it's put into the tank, but beyond that she just chases him around sometimes and then they go back to protecting the fry.
To the both of you, what size would you suggest for the two convicts I bring home. I could take a pair of males or females depending on how they do together.
yeah mine are the exact opposite and i had to take the male out cuz he beat her up pretty bad. She is healing now in a breeding box, but my male is at least 5-6" and he dominated that tank and that was a 20 gallon. I would say at least a 55 cuz i put my male in there and it is a different story, he gets pushed around some but it is just more peaceful cuz they are more spread out. but my male got REAL aggressive when the babies came, not the female.
I think they are gorgeous fish, just nasty as hell. The babies had to be separated cuz they would pick at the females wounds and really pick on her also.They are cool but ONE per tank, these mofo's breed like rabbits. I was trying for ONE batch and ended up with three,lol
My co-worker, who usually tells me the difference in male/female fish, assured me that "Wanda" was the larger fish and "Willy" was the smaller one, but I mentioned this to her today and she went online and then compared our fish to the pictures and sure enough the larger fish was the male and the smaller more timid one was the female. We've started to watch for major signs of aggression, as of right now, both parents are being protective of the fry without hurting one another, though the male is very aggresive in general and I can see this becoming a problem at some point.
That is easy to tell, the female will have reddish spot on each side by her gills, the males do not have any color and are strictly black and white. I got mine about the same size and the male shot up in size then started wwe in my tank so he had to go,lol. yeah mine were the same and about a month after the babies were born something must of happened cuz it was alot different. i read if she eats on or something like that then he will punish her for that, but he beat the hell out of my female in the matter of a week i had to take him out. My female is still not healthy yet, plus wouldnt let her eat at all. he would damn near ram my tank from me just looking in, these fish def change with babies. but hopefully a month or so and mine will be big enough to go trade in
I watched them closely this morning during their feeding and Daddy was indeed a little aggresive but he did let Mom eat so for now it's okay, but I fear it'll get to the point where I'm going to need to seperate him from her.
Just watch them cuz mine were fine until the babies were a month or month and a half then he got mean, but also with him not letting her eat he JUMPED in size and really got mean. Good luck they really are cool looking fish just nasty as all hell. Mine used to ram the glass when i was looking at the babies.
Yes Daddy is already coming up very closs to the glass whenever anyone looks at the babies. He's got a temper on him for sure.


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Shelley L. Berger, Ph.D.
Shelley L. Berger
Daniel S. Och University Professor
Department: Cell and Developmental Biology
Graduate Group Affiliations
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9-125 Smilow Center for Translational Research
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6058
Office: 215-746-3106
Fax: 215-746-8791
Fax: 215-746-8791
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Penn Epigenetics Program
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Berger Lab Website
Cell and Developmental Biology Page
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Cell and Molecular Biology graduate group faculty webpage.
Penn Epigenetics Program
IRM webpage
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B.S. (Biology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1982.
PhD (Cell & Molecular Biology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1987.
B.S. (Biology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1982.
PhD (Cell & Molecular Biology)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 1987.
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests:
Epigenetics and chromatin structure/function in genomic regulation
Post-translational modifications of histones and transcription factors
Biological problems: transcription, cancer, senescence and aging, behavioral epigenetics, gametogenesis.
Key words: epigenetics, chromatin, histone post-translational modifications, p53 tumor suppresor
Description of Research:
Research Overview --
Our research focuses on regulation of the nuclear genome in mammals and model organisms. The long strands of nuclear DNA are associated with packaging proteins, called histones, into a structure known as chromatin, akin to the way thread is organized around a spool. We are particularly interested in changes in this chromatin structure via chemical modification of the histone proteins, and how attachment of certain chemical groups onto the histones leads to altered chromatin function. These targeted structural changes are conceptually like the unraveling of the thread to reach specific, buried sections. We are also fascinated by functional changes in chromatin, caused by these histone modifications, that persist through cell division from one cell into two daughter cells; these persistent, or epigenetic, changes are of particular interest because they are key to normal and abnormal growth: they occur during organismal development into multicellular tissues and organs, and are typically disrupted during abnormal reversal of tissue specialization and growth control as in cancer, as well as during aging of cells and individuals.
Research Focus --
The basis of genome regulation is a fundamental biological question. Our past research findings have helped to establish the prevailing view that histone modifications regulate genomic functions, including transcription of genes, DNA replication during cell division, repair of DNA mutations as a result of DNA damage, and other processes. Our work has focused on transcription, or the turning on and off of gene expression, and the myriad of histone modifications that occur, such as acetylation, phosphorylation, methylation, among other chemical changes. We have identified many new modifications and the enzymes that carry them out, as well as understanding how the enzymes are recruited to certain locations in the genome. There is now an explosion of research in the field of chromatin regulation and how these histone modifications function to regulate the genome. We have contributed to the current ideas, including how histone PTMs function in combinatorial patterns, and in temporal sequences, to set up the intricate timing and spatial requirements of turning genes on and off, as depicted in the Figure. For example, we have extensively studied a pattern on histone H3 consisting of Serine10 phosphorylation and Lysine14 acetylation. We identified the enzymes that carry out the linked modifications, established the structural and biochemical basis of the cross-talk, and discovered a binding protein that specifically associates with the pattern, rather than the individual modifications. In a second example, we studied the timing of histone H2B ubiquitylation followed by deubiquitylation, identified the deubiquitylating enzyme, and determined the biochemical role of the dynamic switch, i.e. in regulating elongation by RNA polymerase II through transcribed genes.
Our work has also helped to reveal how some of these modifications, first characterized on histone substrates, such as acetylation and methylation, function to regulate non-histone proteins. In particular, we have identified new modifications on the tumor suppressor and transcription factor, p53; we focus on p53 because of its key function in regulating growth to prevent cancer, and so we wish to determine how these individual modifications turn p53 function on and off. As depicted in the Figure, our recent findings show that methylation and demethylation of p53 at a single lysine residue both activate and repress p53 function. This regulation occurs by promoting or inhibiting, respectively, the binding of a p53 coactivator protein, called 53BP1. We believe this type of regulation of p53 will prove to be common among non-histone proteins.
Research Future Directions --
Our current focus is to continue to discover novel chromatin and factor modifications and their mechanisms of action. However we are now endeavoring to elucidate the role and importance of these modifications in normal and abnormal cellular function. We are in particular keen to determine whether these modifications are important in persistent or epigenetic cellular states, as mentioned above. Thus, our emphasis is more biological in the sense of investigating how physical changes in chromatin impact biological processes such as gametogenesis and viral latency, as well as broader phenomenon such as aging, behavior and cancer. As one recent example, we have initiated a study of chromatin changes during replicative aging in the model S. cerevisiae. We discovered that telomeric changes in chromatin are centrally involved. Specifically, as depicted in the Figure, in old cells there is a reduction in the level of the histone deacetylase Sir2, which is crucial in maintaining compact chromatin in sub-telomeric regions, leading to an increase in histone H4 K16 acetylation by the acetylase Sas2. The result of this is decompaction of the teleomeric chromatin in the old cells.
Epigenetics is still an emerging field in biology, and is exerting an increasingly profound impact on medicine because of its potential explanatory power in development and disease. In spite of the broad interest, there is no clear consensus on a definition of epigenetics in chromatin research. To help to provide a framework for the field and beyond into the wider research community, we have recently published a short proposal defining Epigenetics, encompassing both established ideas in the chromatin field and providing some operational concepts, as shown in the Figure.
Lab personnel:
Lab management --
Jean Dorsey, research
Cristina Brady, research
Angela Hines, research
Sophia Castro-Anderson, administration
Analyst --
Gregory Donahue
Adam Drake
Post-doctoral scientists --
Parisha Shah, Ph.D.
Dan Simola, Ph.D.
Morgan Sammons, Ph.D.
Jialei Hu, Ph.D.
Dan Bose, Ph.D.
Zhixun Dou, Ph.D.
Raffaella Nativio, Ph.D.
Payel Sen, Ph.D.
Lacey Luense, Ph.D.
Pre-doctoral scientists --
Phillip Mews
Jiajun Zhu
Riley Graham
Caiyue Xu
Enrique Lin Shiao
Resident/Fellows --
Brian Capell, M.D., Ph.D.
Samantha Schon, M.D.
Selected PublicationsShah PP, Donahue G, Otte GL, Capell BC, Nelson DM, Cao K, Aggarwala V, Cruickshanks HA, Rai TS, McBryan T, Gregory BD, Adams PD, Berger SL.: Lamin B1 depletion in senescent cells triggers large-scale changes in gene expression and the chromatin landscape. Genes Dev. 27(16): 1787-99, August 15 2013.
Simola DF, Ye C, Mutti NS, Dolezal K, Bonasio R, Liebig J, Reinberg D, Berger SL.: A chromatin link to caste identity in the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus. Genome Res. 23(3): 486-96, March 2013.
Simola DF, Wissler L, Donahue G, Waterhouse RM, Helmkampf M, Roux J, Nygaard S, Glastad KM, Hagen DE, Viljakainen L, Reese JT, Hunt BG, Graur D, Elhaik E, Kriventseva EV, Wen J, Parker BJ, Cash E, Privman E, Childers CP, Muñoz-Torres MC, Boomsma JJ, Bornberg-Bauer E, Currie CR, Elsik CG, Suen G, Goodisman MA, Keller L, Liebig J, Rawls A, Reinberg D, Smith CD, Smith CR, Tsutsui N, Wurm Y, Zdobnov EM, Berger SL, Gadau J.: Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality. Genome Res. August 2013.
Berger SL.: Transgenerational inheritance of longevity: epigenetic mysteries abound. Cell Metab. January 2012.
Bryant JM, Berger SL.: Low-hanging fruit: targeting Brdt in the testes. EMBO J. 31(19): 3788-9, October 3 2012.
Bryant JM, Govin J, Zhang L, Donahue G, Pugh BF, Berger SL.: The linker histone plays a dual role during gametogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol. 32(14): 2771-83, July 2012.
Bungard D, Fuerth BJ, Zeng PY, Faubert B, Maas NL, Viollet B, Carling D, Thompson CB, Jones RG, Berger SL.: Signaling kinase AMPK activates stress-promoted transcription via histone H2B phosphorylation. Science 329(5996): 1201-5, September 3 2010.
Bonasio R, Zhang G, Ye C, Mutti NS, Fang X, Qin N, Donahue G, Yang P, Li Q, Li C, Zhang P, Huang Z, Berger SL, Reinberg D, Wang J, Liebig J.: Genomic comparison of the ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator. Science August 2010.
Govin J, Dorsey J, Gaucher J, Rousseaux S, Khochbin S, Berger SL.: Systematic screen reveals new functional dynamics of histones H3 and H4 during gametogenesis. Genes Dev. August 2010.
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Today I just browsed the Scoop website, cause we're seeking for a new weblog system. PHPNuke encounters serious security problems from time to time and after updating to the newest version, we had some trouble with themes and other stuff.
However, Scoop not seems to offer internationalization support yet and I am pretty sure that we need a German localization for using it. Let's see whether there are some developing efforts in this area or not. I subscribed to the ML of scoop anyway.
Yesterday I got my new 19'' monitor (CTX PR960F). I am feeling very lucky now. Development would be much easier now and I got new motivation to hack on Pharmacy. But first I have to write an article about Subversion for the German computer magazine iX.
I finished the translation of "The Linux Problem Solver" by Brian Ward. It will be published by dpunkt-Verlag.


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I'm very puzzled looking at that page. I just can't deside where to look first. And those colors are not in good combination (as for european-man at least). You should consider of using less colors and less font-style combinations. Ok... but I am not really graphics-designer ;)
There are two answers about DNS article... Strange. Is it totally foolish or an opposite?! Or just have no reason to talk about (as badvogato said) Can't guess. :)
Actually this article is not about DNS.. It is about global namespaces. Let's say you need namespace for documents independent of storage place. Or catalog of people (on global-IRC) independent of servers.. .etc.


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Located within walking distance of Golden Nugget, The Mob Museum is a world-class destination in downtown Las Vegas dedicated to the thrilling story of organized crime and law enforcement. It presents an exciting and authentic view of the Mob's impact on Las Vegas history and its unique imprint on the world. The Mob Museum puts the visitor in the middle of the action through high-tech theater presentations, iconic one-of-a-kind artifacts and interactive, themed environments.
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With more than 150 designer and name-brand outlet stores offering huge savings every day, the Las Vegas Premium Outlets are located just minutes away from Golden Nugget. Stroll through this beautiful outdoor shopping plaza which includes designer names such as Armani Exchange, Banana Republic, Coach, Dolce & Gabbana, Guess, Kenneth Cole, Lacoste, Michael Kors, Nike, Polo, Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger and more.
Las Vegas 51's
Las Vegas Triple-A baseball, of the Pacific Coast League, has provided exciting family entertainment to the city for over three decades (1983-2013). The Las Vegas 51s have the proud distinction of being the longest enduring franchise in the history of professional sports in the state of Nevada. The 51s pride themselves in giving back to the community of Las Vegas and to help and aid in annual school functions, children's hospital visits and charity events with various businesses and organizations in the Las Vegas valley.
Visit the Las Vegas 51's Website
Big B Bus Tours
Your open-top bus tour takes you to all of the famous landmarks on the Las Vegas Strip. Along the way, learn about the Las Vegas story through the history and facts provided by the entertaining tour commentary. The hop-on, hop-off facility will enable you to get on and off the bus at many places of interest and affords plenty of time to visit some of Las Vegas' popular hotel resorts and attractions. The Big Bus tour is a safe and relaxed way to experience this great city and is the perfect introduction to Las Vegas and a fun day out for all.
Visit Big B Bus Tours Website
The Beef Jerky Store
Located in the heart of famous Downtown Las Vegas and part of the Fremont Street Experience. Providing "Omiyage" or gifts and snacks. The Beef Jerky Store is a family-owned and operated business for over 20 years.
Visit The Jerky Store's Website
Gold and Silver Pawn Shop
The filming location of the History Channel's hottest reality show, PAWN STARS, the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop is located just a few blocks from Golden Nugget. Here you'll find rare art, electric guitars, jewelry, tools, electronics, comic books, collectables and official Gold & Silver Pawn Shop merchandise.
Rick's Restorations
AMERICAN RESTORATION on the History Channel features Rick Dale and his crew of loose screws at Rick's Restorations. Located downtown and just minutes away from Golden Nugget, you can take a guided tour through the factory where the hit reality show is filmed. Then, stroll through the shops where you can purchase classic items restored by Rick and his crew.
Neon Museum
Dedicated to preserving the rich history of Las Vegas' iconic art form, the neon sign, the Neon Museum is located just a few blocks from Golden Nugget and offers guided tours to the public. More than 150 signs on display tell the unique story about Las Vegas from the 1930s to present day.
Smith Center
Located just minutes from Golden Nugget, the Smith Center is a world-class performing arts center offering a wide range of programs including Hit Broadway Shows, Music and Dance Performances, Comedy, and more. In addition, guest can sign up for free guided walking tours which highlight the Smith Center's impressive architectural, artistic, and historical features.
Counts Kustoms
Visit the site of the History Channel's latest hit show "Counting Cars", located in the heart of Las Vegas near the Golden Nugget. Visit the World's largest and coolest place to be if you dig custom bikes, killer paint, and vintage cars. Just like the hit show, walking into Danny Koker's shop is like entering an automotive and motorcycle museum where you'll find custom choppers built for such icons as Ozzy Osbourne, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban, UFC Fighter Matt Hughes and members of Motley Crue. You may even find your own custom ride to take back home with you.


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I'm so happy to see this finished. ;__; My first time co-ordinating a MEP and it's with my favourite Lady Gaga album... it's a little late schedule-wise but it's finally here! I'm so proud of all the editors who participated, really I'm serious. You all did such a great job in editing your parts and I'm incredibly happy to see there are more Lady Gaga fans out there other than just me. Thank you so much for taking part and it's been a blast working with you all!
Anyway for the viewers, this is in 480p. Which was the standard I set for the MEP.
720p MP4 and 480p XviD is now available for direct download off the video information page.
Since everybody had their own different interpretation of her songs, each and every track is unique in their own way which makes it even more interesting to watch. At least in my opinion. Also I don't want to see any flaming or criticism regarding the song choices, if you dislike Gaga, then simply don't watch it. For those who do watch it, I hope you enjoy the video!


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GRAMMY-winning and Latin GRAMMY-nominated jazz bassist Charles Flores died Aug. 22 following a battle with throat cancer. He was 41. Born in Cuba, Flores started playing bass at age 10. After high school, he joined pianist Emiliano Salvador's Grupo Afrocuba and appeared on the band's 1993 album Acontecer. In 2002 he began performing with the Michel Camilo Trio and in 2003 earned a GRAMMY for Best Latin Jazz Album for Live At The Blue Note along with Michel Camilo, Robert J. Friedrich and Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez. (8/27)


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The Hope College men's basketball coaching staff will participate in the annual Coaches vs. Cancer® Suits and Sneakers awareness intitiave on Saturday, Jan. 28, when the Flying Dutchmen host Alma for the annual Winter Happening game at DeVos Fieldhouse.
The initiative is a collaborative endeavor of the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC).
Coach Matt Neil and his staff will wear sneakers instead of dress shoes with their suits to demonstrate their support for the American Cancer Society and its vision of a world with less cancer and more birthdays. They will be joined by the coaches from Alma College. The sneakerrs to be worn by the coaches were donated by Gazelle Sports Stoe of Holland.
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Effective March 6, 2010, new lawyers or members that have not yet completed their three Basic CLE course component of the Basic Skills Course Requirement (BSCR), Rule 6-12, Rules Regulating The Florida Bar, will be able to fulfill this requirement either by attending a live Basic CLE presentation or participating in the 24/7 on-line CLE version of the Basic program and obtaining a certificate of completion. This on-line CLE option will replace the previously offered video replays. Live webcasts/virtual seminars, audio-CD and video-DVD programs will not satisfy this requirement. You can register for upcoming live seminars or participate in the 24/7 On-line CLE at your convenience and any time, 24 hours a day, by accessing The Florida Bar CLE website at www.floridabar.org/CLE.
The in-person attendance requirement for Practicing with Professionalism has not changed.
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I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
The conversation is NOT about some backwoods part of the world where family trees don't fork!!
The conversation is about BHO running for a 3rd term. That is not possible due to the 22nd A Nor could GW or Bill run again. However, Michelle or Hillary or Jeb or ANY of their kin or spouses are not in any way precluded by the 22A.
this is a poll from Real Clear Politics
M&K's HR UH Tucker of Texoma JH
M&K's SHR Prime Black Angus
M&K's Miss Jessie Girl JH
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to me the fact that bill served two terms does indeed disqualify hillary from running. m&k is right!
i take the constitution and its amendments literally. i take the bible literally!
mark-10:7-8, 7 for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh; so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. kjv
this clearly states that biblically the clintons are one. i do not however feel the constitution or this verse would disqualify monica, paula or bill's other carnal interests from running!
john mccallie
Leave the Bible out of it. Seperation of Church and State. The book is not relevant if you don't believe it. So let's not bring that in here as far as eligibility to run for office.
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shiny, i am not a congressman. it would thus be impossible for me to "make a law respecting the establishment of religion". i was only mentioning what Jesus Christ is quoted to have said about a married couple.
btw, i am not opposed to hillary clinton as a presidential candidate. i supported and campaigned for a female candidate for president recently.........of my wife's "every other tuesday garden club"!
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|Bonefish, Tarpon, and other Obsessions Turquoise water, silver demons on the fly
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|I was trying to find the posting for the couples clave but couldn't. The stormy season is usually during September and October. We usually travel in November because it is after the storm season but before the prices go back up in December. Cold fronts can come in but they pass just as quickly and I'm not sure if they have all that much effect so far South. The only difference in the fishing is caused by the high tides. Fishing along the mangroves on the incoming and outgoing tides produces fabulous action. An 9 weight is sometimes needed to keep the bones out of the mangroves and adds to the excitement. Also the biggest fish are present at that time of year along with more Permit than you would expect. I'm starting to sound like a brochure from a lodge. Our other favourite time to travel is May for similar reasons.
|Funny you mention it! We are hoping to have a "couples clave" next year and Stella Maris is not a bad choice. However isn't November the stormy season in the Carribean?
Travel companions wanted
My wife and I are an early 30's couple looking for others to join our trips. We travel twice a year to the tropics for sun and fun bringing our girls one trip and going alone another. The kids are both under 3 at present. I am a flyfishing nut, she could care less. We are both novice divers. We will only be making one trip next year (no kids allowed), to Stella Maris resort on Long Island in the Bahamas, in November. It's not booked yet and we can switch to renting a house if others want to come along. Going as a group can cut the cost down, although we don't want to get too cheap. Sharing a guide for a couple of days and then DIY for a couple, with some diving/snorkelling, etc is the ticket.
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Intel's Dadi Perlmutter, Executive Vice President, Architecture Group with Xeon Phi and Atom CPUs
For most of the past 40 years, power consumption was treated as an afterthought at virtually every level. Unless you were building specialized hardware for particular operating environments, it made little sense to invest in clock-gating or other power conservation technology. Moore's law and Dennard scaling regularly delivered better transistor processes that leaked less and scaled more efficiently without requiring any particular effort on the engineers' part.
That trend came to a decisive halt at the 90nm process node back in 2005. Intel had already begun to develop technologies to lower CPU power consumption by that point; the company's SpeedStep technology had debuted several years earlier. Haswell continues this work, offering fine-grained control over areas of logic that were previously either on or off, up to and including specific execution units.
These optimizations are impressive in and of themselves, particularly the fact that idle CPU power is approaching tablet levels, but they're only part of the story. Operating system changes matter as well, and Intel has teamed up with Microsoft to ensure that Windows 8 takes full advantage of current and future hardware.


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I'm not all that great at calling I need as much help as I can get. Don't get me wrong I get them to talk back, so it's just a matter of time I get one into range, I've killed a few TOMS in the past with friends calling for me.
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Religion Quotes and Sayings
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
The world as we know does not provide a pain free existence. Emotionally and physically we are tormented. It's in the upheaval and unrest that we co-exist in a realm of spiritual principles and laws. Until we come to that realization, the experiences and judgments of this world will constantly be at odds with us. Human existence is partnered with spiritual laws; it's the foundation of the human experience.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
– Voltaire
Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man … Living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.
– George Carlin
Religious believers are not morally superior. Nonbelievers are by no means amoral.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion is the spiritual intervention in our affairs to keep our society alive, just as medicine is the biological intervention in cellular affairs to keep our bodies alive.
What makes you think that your religion is superior than mine, if we both can't scientifically prove the existence of our creator.
Imagine the world as one country with one policy and one president. It would be like having one religion. How peaceful would that be.
All good, noble things are religious and moral in nature, but have nothing to do with religion.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Difference between religions and humanity. Religions tell you to spend thousands of dollars on pilgrimage and distribution of holy books, while humanity tells you to spend that money on your neighbor who is starving to death, and on people living in poverty.
Time, tradition, and customs have altered everything including religions. No religion can claim to be wholly unified. We now understand the power of time.
Religious people are more likely to be prejudiced, dogmatic and closed-mind, and not all believers are faithful to the moral percepts and principles taught by religion.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion is the creation of human fear, imagination and delusion.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion is a tranquilizer of the soul that makes believers feel a sense of peace and happiness.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion is a sanctuary for those who are insecure and threatened by the complexities and uncertainties of life.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion is a teacher of love, kindness, sympathy, benevolence and morality, trying to improve human nature.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism–history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Religion cannot protect itself from religious hypocrites, including priests who sexually abuse teenagers and altar boys.
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Nias people
north Nias, Indonesia
Monument honouring a chief
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19th century or earlier
160.0 (h) x 30.0 (w) x 41.0 (d) cm
Purchased 2009
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
In former times, monumental sculptures carved from stone and wood in the form of ancestral and aristocratic effigies, obelisks, pillars, steles and seats of honour were prolific throughout the island of Nias. These impressive monuments are still a feature of traditional villages which consist of immense wooden houses, paved terraces and stone plazas.
This spectacular gowe salawa, commissioned for an owasa feast, is carved in the realistic style identified with the villages of northern Nias. Shown in the squatting position—an ancient and enduring pose appearing repeatedly in the ancestral art of Southeast Asia—the gowe salawa is shown with sword at the waist and wearing the characteristic gold moustache and pointed beard favoured by the nobility.


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The Humanities
As I age, I have come to the conclusion that there used to be some form of class or just consciousness that existed in society that held basic principles of life, liberty, pursuit to happiness, appreciation for the arts, man-kind, betterment of/appreciation of the human condition and such near and dear. This included things like common decency and the ability to marginalize what I believe to be a cloud of idiocy even in the face of what many would deem arduous duty. It simply had to be done.
Maybe i'm wrong. Maybe I was just extremely fortunate in my upbringing and interest to have butted into stubborn headed elders whom for whatever reason saw the need to make sure I somehow believed this to be the case. Needless to say, in retrospect I very much pity my poor parents. Whom even though seem no worse for the wear can attest to the many battles. Fortunately the war was long ago ended in a series of newly signed treaties and an ever evolving and changing treatise. Which at this point gets summary retractions and addendum during the holidays. I pray often my own off-spring spares me.
In any event, I say this all because I came across an article in today's New York Times on digital humanities. The article in and of itself was of no interest to me. If one is now realizing that having large data sets to look deeper into a subject or topic makes sense then they haven't been practicing proper science. Computers are just tools, i'm not sure what the confusion is all about. What is interesting are the comments http://nyti.ms/9mOwAI. It's amazing to me that people in Humanities or Liberal Arts in general somehow feel that they are of some cloth or class irrespective to man-kind. The same way mathematicians or scientists in general feel as if they are apart of some form of church to which they are the studious acolytes serving the greater master of Truth. To which, they will impart knowledge as and when they see fit. To which, there is one structured way. It would only seem the logical thing to me to work with anyone, from any background if I thought it would further whatever I was interested in. That said there is clearly some insightful commentary, and hopefully more so will be added as the day, week continues.
Dr. Carl Sagan. My favorite humanist. You know why Carl Sagan is such a great mind to me? (I watch his series "Cosmos" at least once a year http://www.amazon.com/Cosmos-Carl-Sagan-DVD-Set/dp/B000055ZOB) He was simply able to impart with knowledge in such a brilliant fashion and he was a humanist! He was a physicist yes, but it is clearly obvious to anyone watching the series that the Physics was just an understanding of the world. To better understand deeper fundamental questions into human existence and our general welfare. If Dr. Carl Sagan was still alive there is no doubt in my mind and I would put my life on it right now. We'd have civilization on the Moon and be figuring out how to get to Mars.
Meanwhile, I seem to recall a time where watching Bugs Bunny I would get to hear Prokofiev or Grieg in the background. Where public works were seen as simply necessary. Where you could actually take piano classes at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music). Where, imparting with knowledge was the glory. All of these things have improved and empowered my life immensely. There are things that I appreciate sheerly because of the subtle exposure. How could I have been so wrong? What happened to these great minds? It's as if they have all passed away during the night leaving no recollection. All i'm left with are a bunch of grown children arguing over what the next Facebook or Twitter will be. How Social Media is great, did I hear about the Facebook email system. All these idiot startups that are solving cut and paste problems. How Google is going to save the world and a bunch of other random nonsense. It's as if it simply will not stop.
Selfishly, I think all of us from every background could really use a healthy dose of this imaginary consciousness I speak of, well imaginary, if it never existed. At least for myself, I really need it. From the responses in that article it looks to me that humanities is in serious trouble and if that is the case that means we all are.
Disclaimer: This post has absolutely nothing to do with where I may spend most of my work hours, any contracts I work on, or any of the in betweens. It's not endorsed in part, in whole or even understood by any party but myself. It is merely a personal observation. There is nothing to discuss in that regard and I'm going to start getting tired of writing these idiot disclaimers every time I say something off-the-cuff which may quite obviously unintentionally offend someone. So, just take it as my general position unless otherwise noted.
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Working Together Successfully
Everything you need to know to get your business relationship with an Administrative Consultant off to the best start!
Following are the key ingredients you must bring to the table to ensure you experience the most fruitful and rewarding benefits of working with an Administrative Consultant.
|Understand the nature of the relationship. The relationship you have with an Administrative Consultant (or ACE for short) is similar to that which you have with an attorney or accountant or other independent professional. She is not your employee or "hired help." She is an administrative expert, collaborative partner and trusted advisor. Respect her opinions and concerns. Be open to her input and advice. Your best interests and success are her priority.
|Collaborative partnership. Relationships are a two-way street; your participation is required. In order for it to work—indeed, for the magic to happen—and for you to get the very best experience and outcomes from it, you, as the client, are an integral part of the equation. If you are absent from the relationship, it won't work and you will end up dissatisfied.
|Must be comfortable with technology. Just like your attorney or accountant, an Administrative Consultant works from her own offices. Heck, you may never even meet in person. Meetings and consultations are typically held by phone or video chat (e.g., Skype) and email is the primary form of regular communication. You don't need to be a whiz (and you'll learn of all kinds of amazing tech tools and services from your ACE should you work together), but you do need to be comfortable with computers, technology and communicating by email in order to work with an Administrative Consultant.
|Be present and timely. One of the most important relationships you have in your business is with your Administrative Consultant. The administrative engine she is determined to help you with is critical to your business's success and smooth operations. In order for her to accomplish those objectives, it's vital that you answer questions and provide requested information and materials in a timely manner so that it doesn't hold up your business and objectives or hers.
|Communication is key. This is especially important in this kind of tech-driven, remote working relationship where we primarily communicate by email. Like you, an Administrative Consultant is not a mind reader. We can get really good at anticipating your needs, tastes and preferences the longer we work together; still, we can't guess or make assumptions. It is better to err on the side of over-communication and be forthcoming with details and expectations. Your Administrative Consultant may have further clarifying questions to make sure everything is understood.
|Make meetings a priority. Do everything in your power to keep your appointments, show up prepared and cancel with appropriate (not last minute) notice when you can't. Mutual respect of each others' time is a necessity.
|No dumping. If you disappear for long periods of time and then suddenly show up with a flurry of work requests that you need done "yesterday"... well, that just isn't going to work. An Administrative Consultant has other clients to serve whose needs are as important as yours. Every Administrative Consultant has her own policies and protocols. To work together successfully, you will need to plan ahead, give plenty of lead time (as specified by your Administrative Consultant) and follow her procedures for submitting work so that it can be managed effectively and accomplished in a timely manner to the highest standards.
|Practice the Golden Rule. Administrative Consultants expect to be treated with the same human dignity and respect with which you expect to be treated. We are deserving of civility and complete sentences. We expect to not be yelled at, grunted at or have orders barked at us. We appreciate "please" and "thank you" as much as you. Clients who are unable to extend common courtesy and mutual respect are not a good fit and will be let go with haste.
|Maintain professionalism. Difficulties, dissatisfaction, conflicts and misunderstanding can arise in any relationship. Your Administrative Consultant is always interested in your constructive feedback and being given the opportunity to improve or make things right. When communicating upset or complaints, just be sure to keep things professional, not personal. Continue to treat and speak to each other respectfully and humanely. This will go a long way in facilitating communication, being heard and finding resolution.
|Pay on time without any hassles. Respect cannot exist in the relationship where there is chronic late or nonpayment. You can expect one (or all) of these things to happen when that is the case: a) All work will cease until your account is paid in full; b) you will be required to pay in full up front for all work in the future; and c) you may be let go as a client.
|Own your business. An Administrative Consultant cannot care more about your business than you do. She is not responsible for ensuring you make money; that's your role. She wants to help and support you in achieving your goals and dreams, and she can if given the opportunity. However, the success or failure of your business is always your responsibility.
|Vacations and closures. It's important to understand that an Administrative Consultant is not a temp or substitute employee and, thus, does not provide that level of administrative support on a daily basis. What we provide is strategic support in specifically defined support areas. Just as your attorney or accountant (or any business for that matter) is closed on occasion for holidays, vacations, emergencies or other reasons, so, too, will your Administrative Consultant's business. Your AC should give you plenty of notice so that you can plan accordingly. Just know that if you are so dependent upon support that you are unable to take care of things yourself during these intermissions and your entire business comes to a screeching halt without us, what you really need is an employee, not an Administrative Consultant.
|Proper expectations. Rome wasn't built in a day. Neither will all your administrative needs, burdens and challenges be solved overnight. Recognize that this will be a process. And boy-oh-boy, will it be fun to see these things whipped into shape bit by bit as you continue to work together!
|Be generous and forthcoming with your praise, feedback and referrals. An Administrative Consultant is a business owner who takes pride and joy in her work and helping clients like you succeed. She's also a person, like any other, who appreciates recognition, a good word and a pat on the back for a job well done (not to mention your referrals and recommendations). She may also ask for your formal feedback at specific intervals throughout the year. This is for your benefit as well as hers and gives you an opportunity to let her know how she's doing, voice any concerns and offer suggestions on how she can better serve you.
So How Do You Get There?
You start by seeking the service of an administrative expert, of course! Find an Administrative Consultant today and go from struggling by yourself to getting things done and enjoying more time, freedom and success.


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Everyone posting has agreed that these V-19 Clone Fighters are the coolest!
Ever since Episode 2, Hasbro has been doing great with making the best vehicles for our figures - and getting them to the toy shelves.
We have
Anakin's speeder
Zam's speeder
the Jedi Starfighter
an all-new Slave-One
the Republic Gunship
the Geonosian Fighter
the Hailfire Droid
Anakin's Jedi Starfighter
the re-release of the great AAT Federation Tank
plus classic vehicles like
KB's exclusive TIE Fighter
Wal-Mart's previously carried TIE Bomber
Many here have expressed their opinion that Hasbro could do a great job on a V-19 mold and include a Republic Gunship Pilot to boot.
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On Sunday, KCPT hosted a digital media training for 12 teens who serve on the KC Library's teen advisory group.
After a social media training session, conducted by Social Media Club KC, the kids created videos of each other in which they described their passions – including music, art, strategy games, science, computers, and more.
If you are interested in digital partnerships, contact Shane Guiter, VP of Digital.


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Scenes From the Gay Marriage Battle
Here at Mother Jones, we're all about keeping pictorial tabs on the United States' ongoing wars. My contribution today is a photo essay about a different kind of fight, courtesy Geoffrey King and Sunny Angulo's Such a Bittersweet Day: Marriage Equality in the Wake of Prop 8.
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera says that this collection of photos and oral histories about California's marriage equality movement "brilliantly capture[s] the humanity and passion of what is perhaps this generation's preeminent struggle for civil rights in America." And what a struggle it's been, even in just the last couple of years: The California Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, but then Prop 8, which bans gay marriage, passed thanks partly to meddling Mormons, so that now there's the discrimination within the discrimination that some same-sex couples—those who got in under the wire—can be legally married but others can't. And of course the battlefield exists way beyond California and beyond just the issue of marriage equality, with casualties like this and this and this every day.
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No updates since March, so I guess I'm a little overdue.
In April I was re-elected to the OCLUG board of directors, and am now acting as President. It feels as if OCLUG is stagnating a little, and perhaps we are losing some people because of the wide knowledge gap in our audience (we are almost evenly divided between complete newbies and very advanced developers). Some have been suggesting splitting the meetings in two in order to cater to both groups. The problem is that we already tried this in the past with mixed results (granted, that was many years ago). However, I would like to examine this possibility once more to see if:
- it will be financially feasible (my guess is "yes");
- it will generate a higher turnout and (hopefully) increase the membership;
- we can find two sets of speakers each month (even finding one set of speakers each month can be a challenge at times).
Despite my fears of the group stagnating, there have been some notable meetings in the previous months. OCLUG held it's annual Linux in the Wild BBQ in July, which was a success. Many kernel hackers, in town to attend the Linux Symposium, were welcomed by our local group. In June, Nathan Sidwell gave an excellent talk about GCC 3.4 and future directions for GCC.
Meanwhile, I was away in various parts of Europe during the month of August, so I'm still catching up on everything that I missed here at home. Today, my body finally moved away from Continental Europe Time (CET) and moved directly to Mountain Time (a bit of an overcorrection as I reside in the Eastern time zone). The trip was great and I managed to not touch a computer for the entire month. Of course, this had an effect not unlike compressing a coil, which has resulted in almost constant computer use since my return (barring sleep, the rare meal eaten at the dinner table and some reading time - about computer architecture, of course).
Before my trip, I had attended the Linux Symposium, and managed to win an AMD64-FX processor. It looks like I'll actually build a system with it as soon as I find a source of income to fund the purchase of a motherboard, memory and other necessities not included. People at the conference were joking that it's a wonderful -500$ prize. It will also mean that I will have fourth architecture in my home (x86, x86-64, PowerPC and ARM, when I get my messed up NetWinder to work).


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Should we rebuild New Oreans?
What is happening right now in the aftermath of Katrina I think must be beyond all of our wildest nightmares. May God give all those suffering folks some sence of dignity. And may we as a nation put all our resourses we have left into helping.
But I have concerns about the rebuilding of New Orleans. Yes it needs to be rebuilt but my concern is that if we pour Billions and billions into this area will it go again soon. It seems the hurricane seasons are becoming more and more severe.
I have been hearing reports today on the radio that New Orleans could have been spared from such devistating damages if the land south of the city all the way to the Gulf which is a lot of miles had been left in its natural state. Mangroves and native vegitation were cleared 80 some odd years ago. The entire Delta is one big ditch now. Most of the ditches were made to drain flood water from the north but worked in reverse dirrection with the storm surge.
My question is do any of you have any ideas what should be done to protect the rebuilding of New Orleans? Must we get the surrounding environment back in a stablized natural state. Should we call in the Army Corps to build bigger levies? Maybe a combination of both. Better yet maybe move the city 50 mile north which might just happen naturally if people and business does not ever move back.
Demarie and I have been having this disscusion fro several days.
My first question is why did they build there in the first place if it was below sea level and if it was not below sea level how did it get that way? I was talking to Topwater about his gear for sale and the subject of the below sealevel thing came up, he claimed that the place has been slowly sinking and did not start out below sea level. Oh well between sinking and rising seas levels it seems to me like it might be a good time to move for higher ground.
hi oc, hope married life is agreeing with you. you know,about 40% of the netherlands is below sea level. the dutch are therefor considered the master dyke and levies designers in the world. in fact the person in charge of such things in new orleans is dutch. from what i have read, the new orleans levies are quite old and built to withstand a category 3 hurricane. from that point of view, they held up well. however as some dutch experts have been saying, the 19th century technology and the utter failure of the american government to upgrade despite decades of warnings made the disaster inevitable. hence, it seems to me that ythe technology is there. as for the money aspect---if we can rebuild europe, japan, iraq and all the others why not our own?
As large a disaster and tragedy New Orleans is going through right now, my personal thoughts are that having had the dikes built to allow the city to expand into the Gulf was a mistake in the first place. Because of this, I think it would be far better to instead of rebuilding all these area in New Orleans below sea level once again to have them build anew on land that is above sea level. However, knowing how human nature usually works, I would be very surprised if that happened.
Having watched the coverage with great sympathy, I have to say I was truly saddened and would give my time off in a minute to help if I thought I could make a difference. If I were a charter boat captain or a boat maker in the area I would donate time / craft to the folks, shuttle people to safety, and distribute food. Water is a real issue, perhaps a distillery or bottler of spring water could pay back the ridiculous profits they make on small bottles of water back to the people. Car makers are donating 25 or 50 trucks to the Red Cross, and medical firms are donating first aid and hygiene kits. Perhaps every raft maker in the US could ship inexpensive and highly portable rafts to the area for families trying to move what little memories they have from the muddy flooded streets. General foods - send granola bars, peanut butter, power bars and other easily consumed nutrition. If every company in America did one little thing the victims would fare significantly better. It's encouraging to see the support directed toward the area.
:confused: I am a little surprised that our government leaders have not seemed to take a prominent role in this affair as of yet. I could be mistaken but usually politicians involvement in anything comes with the utmost fanfare and propaganda and I haven't heard any chest beating about aid or mobilization of troops toward the cause. If anyone can elighten me I would be all ears.
What stikes my as odd is that the people traped in these areas have no clue as to the amount of devastation nor even where to go and what is happening......it would seem to me that flyovers and the dropping of info leaflets would go a long way in giving these folks some sense security and direction. The lack of info is obviously contributing to increased frustration, anger and despair.
As for rebuilding....I don't believe that the Dutch experience hurricanes...maybe that, plus their expertise keeps them OK......it make no sense to me, given the that hurricanes frequent the area of the gulf, that building below sea level makes any sense.
Lots of interesting ideas here.
The Dutch angle is a good one -- maybe the historical portion of the City, the part that is an national park (Jackson Square, the Cathedral, the French Quarter, Preservation Hall) could be restored and rebuilt. I understand that these areas suffered less damage than other portions of the City anyway. A modern system of dikes and levees could keep the water out in event of future hurricanes. Public transportation serving the historic district could be added.
The rest of the City -- Superdome et alia; residential areas; Garden District -- could be assessed on a building by building/block by block/neighborhood by neighborhood basis. What's worth rebuilding, by some criterion, could be rebuilt in situ. The rest of the growth and rebuilding could occur out toward the airport, I guess.
The bottom line is, if there is to be a Nawlens where it once was, there needs to be a massive and modern system of dikes and levess built to withstand the many severe hurricances and rising sea levels we will see in the future.
Nawlens is a spirit -- in music, in the sheer joy of living, in style, in architecture, in cusine, in specialness in our country -- it's without peer. I cannot imagine a United States without Basin Street or Bourbon Street, or Mardi Gras.
Let the good times roll (Laissez les bons temps roulez) again!
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great thread. picking up on juro's comments, it's difficult to fathom just how inept the government's response haS been particularly in light of the vast history of warnings that new orleans is so vulnerable to just such a catastrophe and the multitude of time in which katrina was threatenning. i can't help but wonder as to why the government did not put any meaningful assets in place in the days prior to katrina striking especially when the worse was contemplaed. are they that out of touch? scary. what does this say about our leaders and their decisions and analytical process? i guess i'm ranting a bit but it's mind boggling
When they do rebuild (and they will), I agree that it is equally/more important to address the loss of wetlands along the Gulf Coast, not simply as a buffer against the effects of storms, but also as critical habitat for my winter quarry (quack....) and many other game/nongame species...
You've hit the nail on the head. We could not be who we are without somehow reinstating this indellible piece of our heritage. Thanks for bringing a light of renewal to the situation, however distant at this time.
Once we get past the restoration of life, safety and comfort - I have complete confidence that we will get back to the serious business of restoring this cultural hotspot in the American experience. Hopefully with more 'Dutchmen'.
I'll contact you offline about a potential visit to your homewaters this fall...
I remember seeing on the news Saturday afternoon that the mayor of New Orleans issued an evacuation order for the whole city and that the governor issued an order for the folks to evacuate in the areas in and around the city. However, human nature being what it is, only 80% of the residents took heed and left while the other 20% stayed behind.
I've seen a few of those very brief "interviews" with some of those who stayed behind and they were saying things like, "I never thought it would be this bad. I have been through huricanes before and they never did anything like this." And one of my favorites, "We decided to take a nap for a short time to let the roads empty a bit and I guess we fell asleep becaue when I woke up the water was already coming into the bedroom. My husband and I had to go up on the roof to not be drowned."
I suppose what I getting at is the good people of New Orleans had been told to leave; however, like usual, there are far too many people who don't believe it will be too bad or believe the government is just trying to show them who the boss is. I also think that some of the folks who stayed did so for the possibility of looting and getting a lot of stuff if it did prove to be as bad as predicted.
I've seen folks complaining that the New Orleans police and firemen haven't been doing enough to find survivors; that the police and other public safety people are not picking up bodies of loved ones when survivors are with the body; that the police are doing enough to get drinking water and food to people still in the various neighborhoods; and that the police are spending too much time looking for survivors instead of stopping the looting. Those poor police, firemen, and national guardsmen trying to do all this have an impossible task at the moment because they can't do it all.
Roads are impassible, bridges are out, power lines are down, buildings are down or falling down, trees are down or falling down, and water is 20'-30-' deep in much of the city making it virtually impossible for rescue or other operations using vehicles to move into, let alone around in, most of the city. And the downed power lines, power poles, trees, buildings, and those falling down or in danger of falling down make it extremely difficult and very dangerous to get into most of the city in small boats.
I saw a report this evening that one of the dike breaches was plugged through using military helicoptersand and that most of the water coming through that breach was stopped from coming through. This will allow that part of the city to lower the water level; however, since it is below sea level it won't simply drain away, it will have to be pumped out. And since it is going to be weeks is not months for power to be restored to the city, the water will have to be pumped out by diesel or gasoline powered pumps flown in with helicopters or barged in. Unfortunately, barges cannot get into these areas yet because of all the debris, damaged and broken boats, oil rigs, pieces of buildings, etc. As the mayor of New Orleans has said, it is going to be 12 to 16 weeks before people will be able to return to the city, and at least a month before buildings, roads, and infastructure damage can be assessed.
I've seen several news reports that 10,000 to 15,000 national guard troups have been deployed and that they are in the greater New Orleans area at this time. An aircraft carrier has been deployed to the New Orleans area to function as a command center because nearly all of the city is under water and has been pretty much decimated.
I've also saw the the American Red Cross has gotten $15 million in donations from individuals as of noon today for the New Orleans relief effort.
I agree wholeheartedly, if corporate America would donate supplies, cash, and/or manpower to help clean up this huge disaster and to help the people of New Orleans, it would be a huge help. Perhaps we will see some of this occur. My prayer is for people accross the US to rise to the occasion and show compassion and mercy to those who have been made refugees and to provide money, manpower, food, clothing, building materials, and equipment to the city and people that have been so decimated.
Unfortunately, it seems like greed is already rearing its ugly head in the form of price gouging for food, motel rooms, etc. for the now homeless people of New Orleans and the Mississipi Gulf cities and towns. I've also seen fuel prices going well over $3.00/gallon in places like North Dakota. And my wife's sister who lives in Chicago sent us a photo today of a gas station in her neighborhood on Chicago's west side with gasoline prices of $5.87 for reg, $5.97 for mid-grade, and $6.17 for premium. I sincerely hope the folks who ingage in price gouging are prosecuted for such dispicable and greedy behavior.
Certainly the whole world grieves and must do what we can to help a people who do so much for the world.
On Sunday there will be prayers. Additionally, my church will be collecting what monies we can for donation to the US Red Cross.
However, as one looking in, the response is what frightens me. I don't see the know how or is it the bureaucracy of Homeland Security. Sometimes pride gets in the way. Maybe, this is a good time for the UN's help.
Many have done a lot more, and a lot more quickly with a lot less. I pray in the hours to come the people who need help will get it.
Finally, regarding the order to leave the city. I trust my leaders have learnt from from this disaster. The most vulnerable must be assisted in leaving the areas of danger and provided for. Busing (etc) is a must before a hurricane strikes. Certainly, policitians would have had buses lined up if it was a polling day, for they understand that many don't have the resources. The twenty percent that stayed were the ones who could not leave without help. (i.e. infants, the ill ones, the elderly and the poor).
There is a lot of blame to go around. There was talk for years that the system would not hold in a major event as was unfolded.
God bless America!
Instead of blaming these people, it must be realized that many were left behind. What about those unable to leave hospitals? Or the dedicated workers who stayed with their patients? They need help more than ever; it upsets me to hear any criticism on their behalf. Not now.
I agree with you 100%. I don't think any of us understand what is like to be so poverty stricken, very sick and alone or so committed to those who need your help. What were there 300,000 left behind in NO? Some were stupid yes, idiots even. But what I see on TV is the lifeless bodies of the elderly, the sick and those who are invalids. What I see is survivors with little or no skills in a thing called life.
This should be a great lesson to all of us who call this country our home. The lesson should be that our culture is a proud one but is truely fragile one also. We have built a culture here in America that is so unreal, so based on materialisim that it has blinded us as a nation, as families and indivivduals. I'm not talking about goverment, I'm talking about its people as a whole. Be you rich or poor the majority of Americans have become so dependent on the machine over the last 40 years or so that when a disaster happens we honestly do not no how to respond, how to survive. I often wonder what will happen if this country hits the economic skids equal to the great depression. Will we have the skills, the stomach, the moral conviction to stick together or will see New Orleans nation wide? I will not critisize any goverment be it local, state or federal at this time, there will be plenty of time later. I am thankful for all the help pooring in from all over the world and that many of us are sending money for aid. But why has this happened in the first place? Mother nature does pretty much what it wants and we have forgotten entirely how to live with her. We play Russian Roulett on a daily basis, all of us.
That is exactly what my much more wordy tome was getting at. We Americans as a whole do not heed the distruction nature can wrought. Like you, I cannot fault what government did or has done in the first few days after this unprecedented disaster in our country.
We have become so dependent on someone else (usually our citizens look to the government) doing things for us that we don't heed nature and the potential losses if we ignore nature and go on our merry way because of what the government has done, whether it is to put up dikes or says our buildings are earthquake proof. Thus, the Russian Roulette has even higher stakes and results in huge losses of life.
Please understand, that I have been moved to tears when I see the reports. I heard one today that said FEMA is in need of approximately 20,000 body bags! That is a huge loss of life. And this doesn't even speak of the problem of how to house the million people who cannot move back to their homes in the city and the surrounding area for many months if not years. My heart breaks for them.
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UTSA Honors College students with Professor Thomas Forsthuber
Neuroscience firm donates to Honors College
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(Oct. 17, 2007)--The UTSA Honors College received $3,200 from Teva Neuroscience, a Kansas City based company that helps people with neurological disorders live more independent lives.
The donation was used to purchase 64 stethoscopes for Honors College students in the course, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, taught by Thomas Forsthuber, UTSA professor and holder of the Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Endowed Chair in Biotechnology.
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The class is an introduction to clinical medicine and the pathology of important human diseases. Students learn about basic pathological mechanisms of human diseases at the level of cells, organs and organ systems, how to recognize the diseases and current treatments.
"I was very pleased that Teva Neuroscience was so generous in supporting our UTSA students, and I am sure they will put them to good use on their way to becoming compassionate doctors," said Forsthuber. "It was extremely rewarding to see the surprise and joy of the students when they received these stethoscopes."
Forsthuber's research in developing a novel type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis patients is funded through a $510,000 grant by the National Multiple Sclerosis. Over his 15-year career studying MS, Forsthuber has received three National MS Society grants, including his most recent, a first for the San Antonio community.
He also is a faculty member with the UTSA South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID), one of the leading emerging infectious disease research centers in the country. Since opening in 2005, the center has generated more than $5.3 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health and private organizations.
With 19 research teams, STCEID researchers focus on critical areas of human health including anthrax, tularemia, cholera, Lyme disease, desert valley fever, and other bacterial and fungal diseases.


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Alternate name: Pygmy Prickly-pear
Family: Cactaceae, Cactus view all from this family
Description This small but clump-forming plant forms a low mat of spiny jointed stems whose segments are easily detached.
Habit: native perennial shrub; stems succulent; pads variable, cylindrical to pear-shaped to somewhat flat circles or ovals, each 0.5-2 in (12-50 mm) long, 0.5-1.25 in (12-30 mm) wide.
Height: 1-12 in (2-30 cm); to 3 ft (1 m) diameter.
Leaf: spine, rigid, straight, sharp, white to pale gray, brown tipped, to 1 in long; in cluster of 2-8 per areole.
Flower: pale greenish-yellow to lemon yellow, 1.5-2 in wide.
Fruit: spiny berry, pear or egg-shaped, green or red becoming tan, wrinkled, fig-like, 0.4-1.2 in long, 0.3-0.6 in diameter.
Warning Most cacti of the genus Opuntia have sharp spines as well as tiny barbed hairs called glochids that can be difficult to remove from the skin.
Flower May to July, if conditions are right.
Habitat Dry open areas; barren areas in grasslands, woodlands, abandoned pastures, prairies, sagebrush; sandy, gravelly, and saline clay soils, on outcrops of granite, limestone, or quartzite; to 8000 ft (2400 m); also cultivated as an ornamental.
Range Western and central North America, from southern British Columbia; and Washington, south on the east side of the Cascade Mountains to northern California and northern Arizona; east to northern Texas, northeast to Iowa and Illinois, southern Michigan, and Ontario.
Discussion Also known as brittle pricklypear, pygmy prickly pear, little prickly pear, brittle cactus, fragile cactus, jumping cactus. Four varieties and subspecies have been proposed. This plant is under some sort of protection in Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin. It is considered weedy or invasive in some areas; the easily detached stem segments contribute to plant dispersal. Opuntia fragilis is the most widespread low prickly-pear, and the most cold-tolerant of all cacti.


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If your loved one has dementia, deciding when they can no longer drive is a difficult decision. They may react in different ways:
People with signs of dementia should have regular driving tests. Even if they pass a driving test, they should be retested in 6 months.
If your loved one resists you getting involved in their driving, get help from their health care provider, lawyer, or other family members.
Even before you see driving problems in someone with dementia, look for these signs that they may be at risk for driving badly:
Signs that driving may be getting more dangerous are:
It may help to set limits when driving problems start. Stay off busy roads, or do not drive at times of the day when traffic is heaviest.
Do not drive when the weather is bad. Do not drive long distances. Drive only on roads the patient is used to.
Caregivers should try to lessen the person's need to drive without making them feel isolated. Have someone deliver groceries, meals, or prescriptions to their home. Find a barber or hairdresser who will make home visits. Arrange for family and friends to visit and take them out for a few hours at a time.
Plan other ways to get your loved one places. Family members or friends, buses, taxis, and senior transportation services may be possibilities.
As danger to others or to your loved one increases, you may need to prevent to them from being able to use the car. Some ways to do this are:
Dave J, Hecht M. Dementia. In: Frontera, WR, Silver JK, Rizzo TD Jr, eds. Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2008:chap 119.
Smith DA, Brechtelsbauer DA. Delirium and dementia. In: Rakel RE, ed. Textbook of Family Medicine. 8th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 48.
Iverson DJ, Gronseth GS, Reger MA, Classen S, Dubinsky RM, Rizzo M. Practice parameter update: evaluation and management of driving risk in dementia. Neurology. 2010;74:1316-1324.
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