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I don't know why this story is just now making its way around the internet since I remember reading it back in '07 when it came out and forgetting to post it because I drink too much, but whatever. We all have our demons. Mine's booze. Little Hans Jørgen Olsen? His happened to be a pedophilic moose.
According to NextNature, the Olsen siblings "trespassed the territory of the moose during a walk in the forest near their home." When the moose attacked, Hans used the Warrior ability Taunt, i.e. he taunted the moose, thereby allowing his sister to escape. Stage 1 complete.
Next he had to save himself. There's an ability for that - the Hunter skill Feign Death. Hans lay still on the ground. The moose, exhibiting typical low-level monster behavior, left the boy alone and wandered off.
Well well well, playing World of Warcraft pays off after all. Not that you need WoW to defeat a moose. No, everything you need to know to put a moose down you can learn from God of War. Namely, freezing that bitch with Medusa's head and beating it till it shatters.
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Everbloom, a Night Elf Restoration Druid playing on World of Warcraft's Feathermoon server, managed to top out their stats at level 85 with only one quest AND NOT A SINGLE KILL. WoW. Get it?! Me neither, I think I took triple my meds this morning! All the player did do to r... / Continue →
Seen here getting his swerve fact-checkin' on, World of Warcraft fanboy 'red-shirt guy' has officially gotten the autotuned treatment. And this is it. It started off okay, got really terrible, and then plateaued off at really terrible with the occasional dip to godawful gaaah... / Continue →


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Besides the omissions listed previously (see Omissions from Ada), we know of several problems with and limitations of Ada mode in gdb, some of which will be fixed with planned future releases of the debugger and the GNU Ada compiler.
for any of
the standard symbols defined by the Ada language. gdb knows about
this: it will strip the prefix from names when you use it, and will never
look for a name you have so qualified among local symbols, nor match against
symbols in other packages or subprograms. If you have
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Canucks general manager Mike Gillis suggested to the Vancouver Sun on Tuesday that trade talks surrounding goalie Roberto Luongo are picking up steam.
"We have a potential deal in place with one team that has to do something with another player that they have — and it's not who anybody thinks it is — and so we have to wait. (But) we've been offered packages that don't fit what our plan is, what we need," Gillis told the Sun.
Gillis explained how the offers have not suited the Canucks' needs.
"(Teams would offer) excess salary coming back with a [throw-in] player who can't play in our lineup. They say, 'OK, we'll do this, but you've got to take this.' Well, we're not taking it. We've had lots of proposals like that with good pieces that can help us but the other part doesn't help us, and oftentimes they have term attached to them, so we'd just be turning around and buying out a guy.
"I'd rather keep the guy we know, who's a good person."
Last May, Luongo told reporters that he would be willing to waive his no-trade clause if the Canucks asked him to. For now he's holding tight until he hears from his general manager.
Cory Schneider started the Canucks opener on Saturday but was pulled in favour of Luongo during a 7-3 loss to the Anaheim Ducks. Luongo got the start the next night and played the whole game in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Edmonton Oilers.
The Canucks announced via Twitter on Tuesday that Schneider will start the team's next game on Wednesday at home against the Calgary Flames.
"It was a bad game, a very bad game to start the year but I would like to think that 60 games prior to that is more of a body of evidence than 25 minutes of bad hockey," said Schneider. "I'm going to use that to be confidant in my game and secure in my abilitites."
Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault is keeping his focus on getting his players prepared to face their next opponent.
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David Frank Katoski, 53, of Duluth, passed away unexpectedly on Monday Feb. 11, 2013.
David Frank Katoski, 53, of Duluth, passed away unexpectedly on Monday Feb. 11, 2013.
Dave was born in Duluth on March 23, 1959 to Carl and Irene Katoski.
Dave attended Cathedral High School where he was captain of the football, baseball and basketball teams and crowned King his senior year. Dave went on to play for the UMD football team from 1977-1981, where in 1980 the team achieved their first undefeated record in school history. It was at that time Dave met the love of his life Patti. After a seven year courtship and a VCR box proposal the two married on Aug. 17, 1985.
Dave's true pride and joy were his kids. His daughter Katie was born in 1986, followed by his son Kelly in 1989. Sean joined the family in 2000. Dave lived for his kids, and brought both Katie and Kelly into the family business at Last Chance Liquor. The three spent every day together laughing, smiling and occasionally getting some work done.
Dave's joy other than his friends and family included coaching countless football, basketball, softball and soccer teams, he was never afraid to place a bet on his boys. When he wasn't helping his kids work on their home improvement projects, you could find him cooking for anyone he thought might be hungry or taking a ride on his Harley. Dave was a grateful member of Alcoholics Anonymous.
He is preceded in death by his father Carl; brother Dick; father-in-law, Chet Welhaven; and brother-in-law, Bob Young.
Dave is survived by his wife, Patti; daughter Katie (Andrew) Hagglund; sons Kelly Katoski and Sean Mayberry (Urie Phillips); grandaughters, Harmoni and Layla Mayberry; mother Irene; sisters, Sue (Jim) Kozarek, Diane (Dan) Palmstein, and Nancy Katoski; mother-in-law Betty Welhaven; brother and sister-in-law, Allen (Jennifer) Young, Penny (Dane) Ford; nine nieces and nephews and so many loving friends, players and program confidants.
VISITATION: 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, 2801 East 4th Street Duluth, Minn. Funeral mass will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 16 in Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary 2801 East 4th Street Duluth, Minn. Memorials to the family are preferred in lieu of flowers and will be disbursed to three local charities. Arrangements by Dougherty Funeral Home, Duluth, (218) 727-3555.
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Standard Parcels REVISED March 2010
This Customer Support Ruling determines when mailers may enter Standard Mail (STD) parcels at Destination Delivery Units (DDUs) and claim the 3/5 Presorted rate and the Destination Network Distribution Center (DNDC) discount.
The mailings may contain less than the minimum volume required for the STD Mail 5-digit sort (e.g., 10 pounds to a 5-digit Scheme/5-digit). It also includes the option to combine STD Mail machinable and irregular parcels in the same container with Package Services parcels when presented at a DDU.
Pieces in a mailing are eligible for the DNDC rate when they, 1) are deposited at a NDC or ASF, 2) are addressed for delivery to one of the 3-digit ZIP Codes serviced by the NDC or ASF, and, 3) are containerized based on the standards for the rate claimed. Allowing both the 3/5 rate and the DNDC discount for containers with less than 10 pounds of STD Mail recognizes that the mailing would meet the minimum volume requirement of 200 addressed pieces or 50 pounds of addressed pieces for the DNDC separation, that it has bypassed several processing points in postal operations and, as a result, has reduced costs.
Mailers wishing to deposit STD Mail parcels that have less than the minimum required for the STD Mail 5-digit sort (e.g., 10 pounds to a 5-digit Scheme/5-digit) at DDUs and/or combine STD Mail parcels and Package Services parcels for entry at DDUs must meet the following requirements:
Under current Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) standards, the DSCF rate for STD parcels is allowed if the minimum volume for a 5-digit STD Mail container (e.g., 10 pounds to the 5-digit/5-digit Scheme) is met. If a mailer combines STD parcels with Parcel Select parcels in containers and can document on the manifest supporting the mailing that there are 10 or more pounds of STD parcels for a 5-digit/scheme destination, that mail would be eligible for the DSCF discount. At this time, the Postal Service will not allow the DSCF rate for mail that does not meet current DMM eligibility standards.
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An Existentialist Ethics
"From the period when I wrote la Nausée I wanted to create a morality. My evolution consists in my no longer dreaming of doing so." By 1964, when he spoke these words, Jean Paul Sartre had renounced his intention of writing an ethical treatise based on the philosophy of l'Etre et le Néant. Converted to a radical Marxism, and immersed in Marxist thought and Marxist action, he was impatient of his former preoccupations. "…I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, undernourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. Hunger is an evil: period." Remembering the more fantastical aspects under which the concept of value appeared in Sartre's magnum opus, one might remark that the discovery was overdue. Mrs. Barnes, who as Sartre's translator once offered in a glossary heading under "value" that it was "more specifically" the "beyond of all surpassings as the For-itself seeks to be united with its Self," and who peoples her book with such dramatis personae as freedoms, consciousnesses, Being, Nothingness, and the Other, has, however, no such prejudice in favor of plainness, and she is one of those who regret that Sartre abandoned his earlier project. While naturally disowning any intention of writing Sartre's book for him, she wants to show the possibility of an existentialist ethics with Sartre's theory of consciousness as its base.
Sartre's own reasons for renouncing the project seem to come from his preoccupation with Marxism. He no longer wants to talk about metaphysical freedom to those who lack the "real freedom" that must wait on social revolution. Nor does he wish to construct a morality for an unjust world. Mrs. Barnes seems to find the last point more puzzling than it is, supposing Sartre to be obsessed with an ideal of ethical purity not to be realized in a setting of injustice. But Sartre's objection seems to be made clear in his study of Genet, where he speaks about the form that generosity, for instance, must take for "alienated man." He must give away his possessions, since one can only give what one has; but this "ambiguous virtue," which in one sense places man above things, also confirms him in the "illusion of possessing"; while the beneficiary is doubly enslaved: to the thing and to the man who gives. And in another place Sartre denies to an unjust society based on exploitation the right to judge morally one who steals. It is surely not as unreasonable as Mrs. Barnes suggests to refuse to say what is morally good or bad in a society whose practices are as bad as our own.
Sartre may, therefore, have good reasons for declining to develop an ethical system at the present time. But this is not, of course, to say that there is some special difficulty about an existentialist ethics, and Mrs. Barnes, herself not a Marxist but a tolerant reforming liberal humanist, is quite within her rights in trying to …
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Regulator's Woodall braced for a year of monitoring
by Michelle Abrego on Jan 09, 2013 at 11:12
FSA head of investment intermediaries Linda Woodall prepares for a year of reviewing the RDR's impact and ensuring advisers comply with the rules.
The retail distribution review (RDR) deadline of 31 December was the beginning, not the end, of a long road to reforming financial advice, according to the woman charged with ensuring the changes deliver their intended outcomes.
Linda Woodall (pictured) is the latest in a string of Financial Services Authority (FSA) employees to be charged with overseeing the RDR. And while the regulator's policy team may be taking a break in 2013, Woodall and her supervisory team are braced for a busy year, checking advisers fall in line with the new rules and that consumers benefit.
Woodall, who is head of investment intermediaries, said advisers must continually check their proposition delivers the right outcome for clients. She said the FSA would practice what it preached in this respect by reviewing the effectiveness and impact of its RDR policies over the coming year.
Four thematic reviews
The FSA will conduct four thematic reviews in three cycles over the next 12 months before publishing a formal review and research findings in 2014 on how successful the RDR has been, said Woodall.
The thematic reviews will be on professionalism, charging structures, description of advice and non-advised sales.
Woodall said the FSA would publish its findings and share guidance on what advisers needed to do to ensure good practice at the end of each cycle.
'It's recognised this has been a big change, and the fact that we've got this far is not the end of the story,' she said.
'There are three distinct cycles, and we will be sharing good practice and [information on] areas where we think the marketplace could improve.
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Jan 09, 2013 at 12:07
Very welcome pragmatism. The regulatory habit of "we've got a secret, you've got to guess what it is" appear to be over. The tone is conciliatory, supportive even. I particularly like the cycle approach adopted: Review, Gather and Analyse Information, Report Findings, highlighting Good Practices and Poor Practices.
The key will be the duration of each cycle. The sector needs a shorter period from initial round of research meetings/interviews through to publication of Good and Poor Practices, so Firms get early feedback from the FSA on where its expectations are.
It's a very positive start to the year, I conclude.
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 12:17
No respite for intermediaries then? We've qualified to Level 4, converted to Adviser Charging, amended our IDD's, many of us have suffered yet further increases to our PII premiums, the FSA has refused to give an inch over the longstop, the proportion of complaints, complaints referred to the FOS and complaints referred to the FOS that are upheld which are attributable to IFA's continues to fall, more and more IFA firms are transitioning steadily towards recurring rather than just initial revenue streams. Yet all this still isn't good enough for the FSA. So much for Hector Sants' denial of the FSA having any sort of prejudicial agenda against IFA's.
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 12:58
Hmmm, interesting.
Anyone else tried completing the RDR Professionalism Presubmission adviser return?
I have had an e-mail today from another firm who had my reminder, I have received anothers firms reminder. Tried to complete the FSA form as instructed, which clearly stated DO NOT PASTE information, but was unable to input details, so phoned the FSA help line. They told me you have to cut and pasta from the FSA website the IRN's.
So what should have taken me 5 mins took 45 mins. I have received incorrect mail, been given unclear and incorrect instruction, have had to complete the form against the clear instruction not to paste as you cannot complete unless you do cut and paste.
Anyone else feel four reviews might be OTT, costly and maybe they should spend a little more time looking at their own systems and TCF.
report thisJan 09, 2013 at 14:19
Lovely processes. Beautiful plumage your Norwegian Blue. Just what I'd do to be honest can't fault the methodology or general approach.
It does stick in my craw when they do the Mystic Meg bit tho', soothsaying hasn't been their strong point thus far.
Full time regulators and part-time, quasi sales managers for 30,000 advisers of all shapes and sizes is how they come across in articles like this.
Quite bizarre and makes me wonder which side of the looking glass I'm on.
report thisJan 18, 2013 at 19:37
The Gorgon speaks.......
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The main factor hindering me from completing a task is this bothersome little thing I like to call "Monday." These Monday impediments always come along much sooner than I anticipate. During the week, I can rarely muster the energy after work to spend time on a project, and the aforementioned spouse's escalating annoyance often compels me to relocate much of the construction-related material and byproducts to a less conspicuous area, thereby rendering the area into something I'm able to view as more finished/less urgent than do other members of my household.
Currently, there is not a single room in our house not bearing my mark - a mark as familiar to my family as that of Zorro. He of the Z. Me of the tape-masked yet not painted, the spackled yet not sanded, the mitered yet not nailed.
That of which legends are made.
Just not particularly positive legends.
My husband compares me to a dog marking its territory, in an only slightly more tolerable manner.
Lest you believe me to be proud of my failings, please know that I'm not. I recognize the frustration of my spouse and my child, who must regularly traverse our abode in hurdle-like fashion. Still, I find myself unable to take most projects beyond a certain level of completion. Once the most challenging point is past, I find that my interest has gone with it.
I envy the surgeon who, once he's performed his job on the patient, can pass the needle and thread to his assistant and say, "Close her up." That's what I need for my unfinished life.
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An independent filmmaker and Full Sail University graduate has managed to make an entire movie at Disney parks without park permission or getting caught.
"Escape From Tomorrow" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January.
While studio cameras can't escape detection, scenes from "Escape From Tomorrow" were shot with small cameras that a lot of tourists already carry around their neck.
It's not hard to find the countless home movies of Disney vacations on YouTube.
In fact, because so many families document trips with cameras, it made it easier for a fake family and director to film "Escape From Tomorrow" on Disney properties.
In a clip on the Internet Movie Database, the cast and crew explained how they blended in.
"I didn't even see the director; he was texting and calling and then we had an AD that was far. I wouldn't even know where they were," actor Elena Schuber said.
A trailer shows a snippet of the black and white movie, which tells the story of a middle-aged man unhappy with his life and his interest in two teenage girls he meets while on vacation.
In an interview posted online by the Los Angeles Times, director Randy Moore and the main actor explained how they talked about scenes while staying under the radar.
One such scene appeared to be shot while riding "It's a Small World."
"We could take one actor individually instead of trying to huddle as a group," Moore said.
One of the actors said if anyone forgot a line, Moore had the script on iPads.
The movie is expected to be shown in select theaters around the country starting Oct. 11.
Jennifer Guhl at the Enzian Theater said the Enzian does not have plans to screen the movie at this time.
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The lives of hundreds of Miami's homeless were dramatically impacted last Friday when a federal judge approved changes to a landmark settlement that gives less rights to the poor as city officials seek to clean up its streets to help revitalize the downtown.
My brother's keeper starts at home
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Aviation dept. celebrates Black History with Garth Reeves, Sr.
The Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) ended Black History Month on a high note on February 28th with an employee luncheon featuring guest speaker Garth Reeves, Sr. Reeves is the longtime community activist and publisher emeritus of the Miami Times
Monestime hosts Black Heritage Festival at Gwen Cherry Park
Commissioner Monestime welcomed guests to the first annual Commissioner Monestime Black Heritage Festival Event on February 22nd at Gwen Cherry Park.
Florida International University student wins $10,000 scholarship
Derrick Deal is celebrating the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. The senior at Florida International University's (FIU) Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management was declared the winner of Red Robin's Golden Robin Contest on February 5th. Deal's winning recipe earned him a $10,000 scholarship and the chance for his Bubblin' Brown Sugar Bar-B-Que Burger to be featured as a limited-time menu offering at participating Red Robin® restaurants nationwide in the future.
Wilson, Carvalho join President at White House
Meeting on My Brother's Keeper initiative
Superintendent Alberto Carvalho joined (right) Congresswoman Frederica Wilson at the White House to discuss President Obama's My Brother's Keeper, an initiative to help Black men stay on track and reach their full potential. Held on February 27th, the President reached out to foundation leaders and the parents of Trayvon
Wilson's statement on second anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death
"Today, we honor Trayvon's memory and stand in solidarity with his family," said Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. "On the second anniversary of his death, we also think about ways to prevent such a tragedy from ever happening again. While sold to Florida legislators as a pragmatic fix to help victims of domestic violence to
Stephanie Sylvestre joins The Children's Trust
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Miami Gardens teen picked for Disney workshop
All-expense paid trip for education, mentoring
100 teens including Miami Garden resident KiAundra Kilpatrick, were selected to receive an all-expense-paid trip to the Walt Disney World Resort from March 6th thru the 9th--but they won't be vacationing. Instead, they will participate in the Disney Dreamers Academy, a four-day, unorthodox educational and mentoring program.
White House honors local woman for STEM efforts
Entrepreneur Felicia Hatcher named as "Champion of Change"
The White House honored ten local heroes, including Felecia Hatcher of Miami, who are "Champions of Change" for their innovation in creating diversity and access in STEM fields on February 26th. The Champions of Change program was created as an opportunity for the White House to feature individuals, businesses and organizations doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities.
First lady Obama visits Gwen Cherry Park
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A pioneer: Raphu Salathiel Williams
Is it better to concentrate on the positive and leave the negative behind? I say no, for so much good can come out of negative situations, such as documented proof of the refusal to have a mind set of "less than" during an era so determined to confine Black people.
Miami Gardens residents engage in bond discussion
Town hall draws questions on how $60 million will be spent
Bad weather did not prevent over 200 residents of Miami Gardens from packing a town hall meeting last Thursday, to drill City leaders on a proposed $60 million dollar bond to fund renovations and new projects. Held at the Betty Ferguson Complex's outdoor amphitheater, Mayor Oliver G. Gilbert and the City Council's proposal was met with general confusion from locals who admitted it was their first time hearing anything about it.
National week of prayer for HIV/AIDS awareness
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Abstinence is for the strong
Abstinence Between Strong Teens International, Inc. has been around for over 20 years, educating youth on relationships, marriage and sex from a character development perspective. It was founded by an educator, Althea McMillan, a Miami-Dade County school teacher who watched the teen pregnancy rate increase year-after-year and felt that something needed to be done beside telling the students to, "just say no."
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Almost everything that we do in life has a reason or purpose behind it. When we are kind and polite to others, we expect the same in return. Some of us were brought up to "do unto others as you would have them to do unto you." People will do things with negative reasons or motives, only to see how you will react or respond (negatively or positively). Their goal is to hurt you, not to help you.
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Young pianist set to perform at South Miami Dade Cultural Arts Center
One of the hottest young musicians in jazz will grace the stage of the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. New Orlean's native Jon Batiste is slated to bring his unique voice, virtuosic piano chops and dapper sense of style to Miami on March 8th.
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YAAAUU (Yet Another Article About Ubuntu Unity)
I tried. I really did. I tried to like Ubuntu's new Unity interface and tried hard to make it work. Unity felt ok on the Acer Netbook -- the small screen is a good match for the new vertical application launcher.
It was sort of ok on the larger Dell Latitude E6500s laptop.
It was ultimately a disaster on my 64-bit desktop with the 24-inch display. Not because I had to fiddle for an hour or so to figure out how to use Compiz to give me more than the default four virtual workspaces. Not because switching between workspaces is kind of clunky, requiring either two hands to perform a triple-key shortcut followed by a mouse click to switch workspaces, or alternatively being required to navigate the fussy vertical app launcher to find the switcher app. I could have eventually accepted that. I think.
What ultimately made me go back to the Gnome 2 shell was that for the third (and last) time last week Unity crashed while I was trying to switch between workspaces. Each time the switcher application froze mid-switch and locked my desktop up *hard*. I could not even ssh into it from another machine to kill the session, I had to do a hard reset.
The crash behavior acts like a memory leak or other kind of memory error because it takes about three days of heavy use and lots of switching between workspaces before it crashes, but that last time proved to me that Unity is not yet ready for prime time, at least not for this user.
Now, running Ubuntu 11.04 under the nice, comfortable Gnome 2 interface, I only have to deal with one little annoyance: when I switch between workspaces there are frequently graphics "artifacts" left over from the workspace I just switched from. This no doubt a feature of how Ubuntu integrates the proprietary driver for my Nvidia 8200 chipset.
Life isn't perfect, but it still beats the alternatives.
no honest person could
no honest person could honestly say which is worse: unity or gnome 3. it's neck and neck. right now i'm leaning toward saying gnome, but every day one learns some new horrible truth about the two experiments.
on a general note, people who use ubuntu should just get over it. they've been left behind for a new "market" that awaits canonical, just around the corner. so move on peeps, ubuntu has.
on another particular note, kde is ridiculously bloated, at least the way it's put on that ubuntu kde thing which is what i tested. it's so slow that it gives linux a bad name.
and when all's been said and done, phones are supposed to be dumb. unlike people who fall for advertizing tricks and buy what they don't need. tablets, huh.
I've pretty much heard the same about Gnome 3. And I've long since given up on the baroque brokenness that is KDE. Somebody is bound to get the Linux Desktop right eventually. No, it will not be xfce.
Debian + KDE
Hey I love my Debian Squeeze KDE 4.4.5 desktop. It kicks ass and I've used Gnome 2 since 2006. I switched over to Debian Stable because it is actually stable unlike Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Been running Debian Squeeze since the freeze I think it was December or February can't remember, but everything that I need to do on it has worked once it has been setup and don't have to worry about stupid updates that break the system or have to implement every 2-4 days.
It could be e17. Fast and I
It could be e17. Fast and I mean really fast, customizable AND not fugly.
Just use Debian.
Gnome 2.3.
BUY A MAC. - I have two
BUY A MAC. - I have two - but I prefer Ubuntu - free software easy to customize and easier to use.
We're not all rich, and it's certainly not better.
Been there, did that
OSX is ok, but I really do prefer Linux and the flexibility one has in selecting which desktop environment to use.
Maybe next version Unity
I tried Unity for a day or two and I removed it. I believe they will get it right later. I might try what you did Rich because it had to many glitches for me
Unity not ready
I went back to 10.10... Even on gnome2 i had random crashes. Unity is not ready... but the worst is that it is a disaster in a dual monitor configuration... It is just horrible! I'll wait. I tries Mint but it seams that the crashes are not Unity related.
Not sure it's all Unity's fault
I did an in-place upgrade 10.10 -> 11.04 on my HP laptop, and experienced all of the Unity weirdness people have reported - hangs, invisible windows blocking mouse clicks, etc. After some experimenting with KDE and a couple other desktops, I did a clean install of 11.04 to de-clutter and go back to Unity. ALL of the aberrant desktop behavior vanished. I wonder if the upgrade process isn't properly retiring the old Gnome 2 shell.
Postscript: Even after reinstalling, I soon found Unity annoying enough to drop it in favor of Gnome 3. Even though the look/feel is similar, imho G3 is much more intuitive and less intrusive. Plus it has an app search function that actually WORKS, and the full menu tree as backup.
PPS: I did have a couple of graphics glitches with G3, quickly cured by installing the latest/greatest proprietary Nvidia driver (275.09.07). Might help w/your artifacting.
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They sit through five hours of substance-abuse treatment classes each week.
They take psychological examinations. They must go to weekly Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous meetings.
There is much more they must do, because the residential rehabilitation program requires it as part of their treatment. Fifteen of the men are guilty of crimes and ordered there by the court system, said director Hank Waide.
Every year, Calhoun County judges send hundreds of people who plead guilty to drug crimes to in-patient rehabilitation facilities rather than to prison. It's a move, court officials say, necessitated by prison overcrowding and aimed at addressing the root of many of these offenders' problems: addiction.
But judges aren't just sending these defendants to places like Anniston Fellowship House, state-certified programs with highly regulated requirements for treatment. Local judges are also approving the placement of drug offenders in rehab programs that don't follow state or federal guidelines for substance abuse care and have zero oversight from the state Department of Mental Health, the agency in charge of certifying such facilities.
Court and health care officials are mired in debate over the practice: Many have different opinions about the legality and effectiveness of requiring people who commit drug crimes to undergo treatment in unregulated facilities, by way of court order.
Judges say it's necessary for them to do this, because state prisons are too crowded to incarcerate every drug offender. And there are lengthy waiting lists at local state-certified programs.
Others involved with court-ordered substance abuse treatment on the local, state and federal levels — including those same judges — also worry that sending drug offenders to uncertified rehabs gives rise to inconsistent treatment methods, levels of care and the existence of programs more focused on running a business than rehabilitating addicts.
"You see a lot of these different programs pop up, some of them are pretty permanent and have some pretty dedicated people in them," said Malcolm Street, presiding circuit judge at the Calhoun County Courthouse. "But ... it's sort of a free, unregulated market out there."
Certification process and the law
Court officials say it's legal for judges to approve attorneys' requests for guilty clients to stay in uncertified rehabs as a stipulation of their probations — even if some, like Street, are leery of the practice. But officials with the Department of Mental Health have a different opinion: They say the law requires that all programs, faith-based or not, undergo certification before providing treatment.
Rehab center operators must meet a number of standards to earn state certification. They must provide a certain amount of living space for each patient. They must have staff who are trained in addiction treatment and licensed by a state board.
Those standards differ depending on what kind of facility it is — whether it's outpatient or a residential rehab, how many people it expects to house and the severity of those people's addiction problems.
Anniston Fellowship House, for example, is certified as an 18-bed residential facility.
To keep that certification, the program must meet the following requirements, to name a few: It must have 80 square feet of open floor space per person. The counseling staff must have at least two years of experience and be licensed by the state Board of Addiction Counselors. Everyone who enters the program has to undergo a psychological evaluation by a person with a master's degree. All of its addiction classes are evidence-based, meaning they are supported by national mental health research.
"The program standards are fairly strict," director Waide said.
That helps to ensure people receive safe, effective and accurate treatment, according to Robin Bridges, who runs New Directions, the Calhoun-Cleburne Mental Health Board's certified outpatient program.
"There's accountability, because if you're certified, you're going to be reviewed and inspected," Bridges said.
Mental health officials inspect certified rehabs at least twice per year and also have the authority to show up for an inspection unannounced.
On the other hand, there is no real oversight mechanism to ensure programs that aren't certified are providing those same standards of treatment — other than the already-overburdened court system, officials said.
"We're working on all of these investigations that come through the court … because we're shorthanded, most of our focus goes for sex offenders and violent offenders first," said Ed Turner, who oversees all of the probation offices in Calhoun, Cleburne and Etowah counties. "Some of the rehabs are good, some of them do fine, some of them are in it to make money."
Court officials: Certification not required
Court officials point to a portion of Alabama's law that governs mental health practices as the exception in state law that allows faith-based rehabs to forgo the standards of care, living space requirements and other regulations the Department of Mental Health imposes on certified agencies.
In other words, they say faith-based programs can run rehabs without certification.
State law section 22-50-17 states no one can operate a substance abuse treatment facility without certification "provided that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to require … that a church or ministry be certified which provides only religious services."
It's an exception that upholds the basic separation between church and state, Circuit Judge Debra Jones said, and allows religious organizations to share the costs of treating drug offenders who want to take a faith-based approach to their recovery.
Circuit judges, like Jones, Street and Brian Howell, are quick to point out that they don't decide which programs drug offenders attend. They let the defendants and their attorneys make a suggestion for a specific rehab and either approve or deny that suggestion as a court probation order.
But all three judges say they allow drug offenders to go to uncertified residential rehab programs — ones the judges say they keep an eye on themselves. Jones said she gives nearly every drug defendant who pleads guilty in her courtroom a chance at probation, provided they spend a year at a residential rehab facility. Street and Howell describe processes that each work on a more case-by-case basis.
All of the judges know of facilities they've had bad experiences with, do not think work and will not send people to — though none of them agreed to mention specific programs by name. Jones said she sends people to uncertified rehabs that she thinks work, because she believes the state should not regulate treatment.
"Many of the faith-based programs are very good, teaches them life skills," she said. "We've been dependent on the state for far too long."
Street and Howell have a less-enthusiastic view of uncertified programs. They say they send people to programs around Calhoun County that aren't certified because they have to; there are waiting lists to get into certified places. For example, a person who wants to go to Anniston Fellowship House currently has to wait four to six weeks to get into the program. (What happens to someone during that wait period varies depending on the case circumstances.) So, Street and Howell send defendants to uncertified programs they feel they can trust, after getting to know the directors and learning about their practices. Jones, for her part, also holds meetings with program directors and investigates different methods of uncertified rehabs in Calhoun County.
"I would like to see more standards for rehabs," Howell said.
Mental health officials: Required but not enforced
Department of Mental Health officials admit it's hard to enforce the state requirements for rehabs.
Mental Health Commissioner Zelia Baugh said all programs that provide substance abuse treatment should be certified, regardless of whether a facility is affiliated with a church.
"We are concerned any time our consumers are referred to uncertified programs," Baugh said in an email when asked to address Calhoun County court practices. "We believe the faith-based community plays a vital role in providing support. However, treatment should be provided by certified providers."
To support their opinion, Department of Mental Health officials also cite another state law, section 12-23-9, governing drug abuse treatment procedures within the court system.
"The Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation shall develop policies and procedures which shall be followed in the treatment of offenders," the law reads. "These programs shall be certified by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation or the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-care Organizations."
The Department of Mental Health also has the authority to shut down any uncertified rehab in the state, department spokesman Jeff Shackelford said, but that almost never happens.
"Due to the volume of uncertified programs and limited manpower, the process to do so takes a considerable amount of time," he said. There are more than 400 uncertified rehabs currently open across the southern United States, according to an estimate from the Mental Health Department's Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. So far, the department has only closed down one such program — in Winston County seven years ago.
"Generally, the only way our department finds out about an uncertified program is when a concerned private citizen contacts us," Shackelford said. "When our department discovers there is an uncertified program, we invite them to undergo the certification process."
Local uncertified, faith-based programs
Center of Hope is one of the largest local examples of an uncertified, faith-based rehab program used by the courts. Executive Director Garry Burns estimated that 141 of the program's 222 current patients are there under court order. He and Bob McLeod, director of Our Father's Arms, another faith-based rehab in Jacksonville, both told The Star they were under the impression their programs are exempt from state certification.
Both programs have been around for a while. The Center of Hope began its year-long residential rehab program in 2004, and Our Father's Arms started its work in 1984.
"It's different from most of the other places you'll come in contact with," Burns said of the Center of Hope. "Everything is Bible-based."
One of the main differences between the Center of Hope and Our Father's Arms is the treatment process. The Center of Hope provides all of its addiction counseling services through in-house staff — people who typically don't have any licenses in mental health or substance abuse treatment but all of whom successfully have been through the Center of Hope program themselves.
Our Father's Arms also provides in-house counseling for the nine people enrolled, only a couple of whom who are court-ordered there, McLeod said. The Jacksonville faith-based program also provides transportation to and from evidence-based, 12-step treatment programs, like Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous and Celebrate Recovery.
"We are not a rehab in the traditional sense and not a halfway house," McLeod said. "Although people do get rehab here and find transition here."
The right thing to do?
In spite of the state law, there are also uncertified rehabs in Calhoun County that seemingly have no affiliation with a church or religious organization, operate as for-profit businesses and still receive patients who have been ordered there by the courts.
For example, Oxford-based rehabs Real Life Recovery and Tri-County Outreach are both used by local judges, but they aren't certified and are listed as corporations with the Alabama Secretary of State. The director of Tri-County Outreach didn't want to comment for this story but noted his program was not faith-based. Attempts to reach Real Life Recovery were unsuccessful.
Although Judge Jones didn't want to talk about specific programs, she said the costs of meeting state requirements associated with certification were too burdensome for many local facilities.
"With so many regulations, it would not be really cost-effective to keep one open," she said. In her mind, it's more important to have these various programs around than have them certified. She believes the efforts of local judges, probation officers and attorneys to monitor local rehabs is good enough.
Programs that don't work are naturally weeded out when judges elect to not allow drug offenders to receive treatment there, Jones said.
"It makes no difference to me whether it's a state-approved agency, because I'm familiar with our community," said Jones, who recently visited a local rehab and had the director arrested for testing positive for drugs. "I am fine with these agencies not being licensed."
In a perfect world, Jones and Howell said, all programs would be certified. But currently, the mental health board isn't enforcing it, and these drug offenders need somewhere to go, Howell said. The prisons are too overcrowded; they hold nearly 27,000 inmates but were built for only 13,400. And it's better to have offenders in some sort of rehab program, certified or not, while on probation than receive no treatment at all, court officials say.
"Every day, I am putting a Band-Aid on a bleeding artery, so do I care that this Band-Aid is sterile and meets the requirements of the health department?" Jones said.
Bridges, the director of New Directions, the certified outpatient service provided by the Calhoun-Cleburne Mental Health Board, has for years watched drug offenders end up in uncertified programs.
"We jump through a lot of hoops to get certification and maintain certification," Bridges said. "The incentive to be certified is remain within the law. I mean, to me, I just think it's the right thing to do."
Star staff writer Cameron Steele: 256-235-3562. On Twitter @Csteele_star.


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High Frequency of Mosaicism among Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) with Microdeletions Caused by Somatic Recombination of the JJAZ1 Gene The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 75, Issue 3, 1 September 2004, Pages 410-423 H. Kehrer-Sawatzki, L. Kluwe, C. Sandig, M. Kohn, K. Wimmer, U. Krammer, A. Peyrl, D.E. Jenne, I. Hansmann and V.-F. Mautner Abstract Detailed analyses of 20 patients with sporadic neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) microdeletions revealed an unexpected high frequency of somatic mosaicism (8/20 [40%]). This proportion of mosaic deletions is much higher than previously anticipated. Of these deletions, 16 were identified by a screen of unselected patients with NF1. None of the eight patients with mosaic deletions exhibited the mental retardation and facial dysmorphism usually associated with NF1 microdeletions. Our study demonstrates the importance of a general screening for NF1 deletions, regardless of a special phenotype, because of a high estimated number of otherwise undetected mosaic NF1 microdeletions. In patients with mosaicism, the proportion of cells with the deletion was 91%–100% in peripheral leukocytes but was much lower (51%–80%) in buccal smears or peripheral skin fibroblasts. Therefore, the analysis of other tissues than blood is recommended, to exclude mosaicism with normal cells in patients with NF1 microdeletions. Furthermore, our study reveals breakpoint heterogeneity. The classic 1.4-Mb deletion was found in 13 patients. These type I deletions encompass 14 genes and have breakpoints in the NF1 low-copy repeats. However, we identified a second major type of NF1 microdeletion, which spans 1.2 Mb and affects 13 genes. This type II deletion was found in 8 (38%) of 21 patients and is mediated by recombination between the JJAZ1 gene and its pseudogene. The JJAZ1 gene, which is completely deleted in patients with type I NF1 microdeletions and is disrupted in deletions of type II, is highly expressed in brain structures associated with learning and memory. Thus, its haploinsufficiency might contribute to mental impairment in patients with constitutional NF1 microdeletions. Conspicuously, seven of the eight mosaic deletions are of type II, whereas only one was a classic type I deletion. Therefore, the JJAZ1 gene is a preferred target of strand exchange during mitotic nonallelic homologous recombination. Although type I NF1 microdeletions occur by interchromosomal recombination during meiosis, our findings imply that type II deletions are mediated by intrachromosomal recombination during mitosis. Thus, NF1 microdeletions acquired during mitotic cell divisions differ from those occurring in meiosis and are caused by different mechanisms. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (1650 kb) |
Elevated Risk for MPNST in NF1 Microdeletion Patients The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 72, Issue 5, 1 May 2003, Pages 1288-1292 T. De Raedt, H. Brems, P. Wolkenstein, D. Vidaud, S. Pilotti, F. Perrone, V. Mautner, S. Frahm, R. Sciot and E. Legius Abstract An NF1 microdeletion is the single most commonly reported mutation in individuals with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). Individuals with an NF1 microdeletion have, as a group, more neurofibromas at a younger age than the group of all individuals with NF1. We report that NF1 microdeletion individuals additionally have a substantially higher lifetime risk for the development of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors than individuals with NF1 who do not have an NF1 microdeletion. This should be taken into account in the medical follow-up of individuals with an NF1 microdeletion. Abstract | Full Text | PDF (70 kb) |
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Catalina López Correa1, Hilde Brems1, Conxi Lázaro3, Peter Marynen2 and Eric Legius1, ,
1 Center for Human Genetics, University Hospital Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium
2 Center for Human Genetics, Flanders Interuniversity Institut for Biotechnology, Leuven, Belgium
3 Medical and Molecular Genetics Center-IRO, Hospital Duran i Reynals, Barcelona
Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a common autosomal dominant disorder caused by mutations of the NF1 gene on chromosome 17. In only 5%–10% of cases, a microdeletion including the NF1 gene is found. We analyzed a set of polymorphic dinucleotide-repeat markers flanking the microdeletion on chromosome 17 in a group of seven unrelated families with a de novo NF1 microdeletion. Six of seven microdeletions were of maternal origin. The breakpoints of the microdeletions of maternal origin were localized in flanking paralogous sequences, called "NF1-REPs." The single deletion of paternal origin was shorter, and no crossover occurred on the paternal chromosome 17 during transmission. Five of the six cases of maternal origin were informative, and all five showed a crossover, between the flanking markers, after maternal transmission. The observed crossovers flanking the NF1 region suggest that these NF1 microdeletions result from an unequal crossover in maternal meiosis I, mediated by a misalignment of the flanking NF1-REPs.