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If you had to wipe one of these bands and their music off the face of the earth, who would it be? Korn System of a down Metallica Disturbed Godsmack Linkin Park Slip knot Papa Roach Five Finger Death Punch
1. Leave on decent terms with the band 2. Quit while you are ahead. If you can't make good music, don't make any for awhile. 3. When you come back after 6 years, don't join a band nobody is going to take seriously and act like you are about to blow us all away. David Silveria = Big Fish in Little Pond
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Today has been kind of a bad day for me. It all started last night when I watched something that put me in a bad mood. Then the more I thought about it, the more disturbed I became. As some of you know, I was supposed to be inside the world trade center on 911, but sleeping in possibly saved my life. Because of that, I have been more interested than your average joe on what is happening...
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City Hall Reporter's Notebook: Bars and barbs editionFebruary 25,2013C.J. Abatiell said the average Rutland bar owner knows how to avoid serving minors.
Abatiell, owner of CJs Suds South, was one of the Rutland bar owners who turned up last week as the Board of Aldermen discussed a law that would have banned people under 21 from Rutland bars. The law, ultimately rejected after two amendments and a seemingly endless debate, was intended to close a loophole in the entertainment ordinance but reached somewhat further than the 18-and-over parties that spurred its proposal.
Ive been in the bar business, probably, longer than most of the Board of Aldermen are old at this point, he said. Quite frankly, for the board to tell me, at this point, Im incapable of maintaining my business ... Its kind of offensive.
Abatiell noted that the law, as written, would not have applied to Rutlands fraternal organizations, and he suspected that was a political decision rather than one grounded in good policy.
Eight hundred members of the Moose Club we dont want to upset the Moose Club, he said.
Discussion in committee had pitted the social ill of an alcoholic parent parking a child on a bar stool for hours on end against the social good of letting a parent bring a child in to use the bathroom during Friday Night Live. Abatiell offered a different scenario.
In the summertime, I get a lot of bikers ... couples with kids, he said. They might want to stop and have a burger on the deck. The kids might want to have a soda. ... Im to stop them at the door and say, Sorry, you cant have a soda on the deck because its a city ordinance? Theres no sense.
Abatiell said the loss of that sort of business in an already troublesome economy would be devastating, and if the board is worried about minors coming into his establishment, they should be just as worried about them coming into clubs or alcohol-serving restaurants.
I cant sell a drink at the same price as one of the fraternal clubs, he said. From the break-open tickets right on through, were never on an even playing field.
So, why is bringing my kid along bad if I do it at Two Sheas but OK if I do it at the Moose or the Elks?
Alderman Charles Romeo, who wrote the proposal, said he made a distinction between the public nature of bars and the private character of the members-only establishments.
I dont think we should be as interested in regulating private events as we are in the general public, he said.
Scene from a mayoral debate
The story on last weeks mayoral debate focused on public safety since it made up the bulk of the debate and featured the most visible clash of ideas.
While the only subject they said they agreed completely on was not wanting the city to own the downtown parking deck, some of the argument between Mayor Christopher Louras and Board of Aldermen President David Allaire was of the uh-huh/nuh-uh variety, such as their discussion of transparency.
Allaire said the public would be involved in his administrations decision making from day one and Louras did not always communicate in a timely manner. Louras said he was extremely transparent, communicating issues to the board in a timely manner, but Allaire did not always transmit information he came across to the entire board to which Allaire responded thats just false.
Neither made the sort of claim, at least on that subject, specific enough to fact-check.
The discussion of roads appeared to touch off a philosophical clash before bringing the candidates back to roughly the same location.
Allaire said a lot of taxpayers dont see the logic behind the paving list and that he would like to see a comprehensive program determining where to pave.
Louras replied that when it comes to paving, the mayor should defer to the professionals.
The politicians should not be involved in deciding what gets paved and when, he said. We need to leave that to the engineers.
Allaire came back with a sentiment that the citys elected officials are supposed to be the voice of the people, but yes, youll defer to DPW to make those decisions.
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Wednesday evening starts with another Community and Economic Development Committee meeting at 5:30 p.m., this time on solar and clean energy. Then, aldermanic candidates gather at the Rutland Free Library at 6:30 p.m. for a forum sponsored by the Rutland County Democrats.
Thursday is similarly double-booked, with the Finance Committee meeting at 5:30 p.m. to discuss the recreation departments Home Depot account and then the Paramount Theatre hosting a mayoral debate at 7 p.m.
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Bullying of LGBT Youth LectureEvent Details: 12:00 p.m., April 21, School of Law, 3700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63108
Morgan Keenan, safe schools organizer with PROMO, will visit Saint Louis University School of Law at noon Thursday, April 21, in the Morrissey Hall, room 306.
PROMO is Missouri's statewide organization advocating for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality through legislative action, electoral politics, grassroots organizing, and community education.
Keenan will discuss bullying of LGBT youth, which leads to the loss of too many children and teens. Come learn more about advocacy efforts in St Louis.
Keenan is a national and statewide community organizer. After graduating from University of Memphis, he joined a two-year fellowship program through US Public Interest Research Group.
During his time in the fellowship, he helped pass a bill in the state of Ohio that restricts predatory payday loan sharks. In the last couple years, he has been working with the national organization Transportation Equity Network on workforce development and transportation access for minorities.
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Welcome to Boyfriend of the Week, which is almost like it sounds but not quite. No, ladies, this isn't our weekly gab sesh about who is looking mighty fine (heeeey, Antoine) and who's starting to look rough around the edges (sorry, Calvert, you have to get those teeth fixed) –that's Twitter, of course. This is merely my overeager way of talking about my choice for player of the week. And my opinion counts (to me).
As we roll into Friday the 14th of October, one short week after all of the cannon-blowing, gigantic-screen-dropping festivities prior to the Nashville game, we're looking at a record of 0-3-1, less than ideal attendance, and suddenly all of Canada laughing at us and paving the road to Quebec City (joke's on you, you can't have them until 2040). The numbers alone speak for themselves: this kind of sucks. But if you look at it on a game-by-game basis, really only the road game in Minnesota was thoroughly awful. The Nashville game started with promise and kept up with a decent pace. Damn that Pekka Rinne. The Vancouver game was full of fireworks and blowing a lead for likely the first of many times, and a third period that fell apart. The Colorado game was full of promise and felt good, like aloe on a sunburn. Kind of like this: Ahhhhhhh, we're going to do this, we're going to get that first win. I can't wait to enjoy this over a donut on the way h –ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW? Oh, the elusive first win.
So how do you pick Boyfriend of the Week when the team is struggling and an overwhelming chunk of the team is underachieving drastically? Well, there is always Rick Nash, with his five points in four games and a pretty decent game vs COL. But he's Rick Nash, and let's face it, I can't pick him every week. So this week's choice is:
Let me admit, when we signed this guy, I didn't know anything about him other than his name is Vaclav… or Vinny… or something like that, and he's kind of old (I mean, compared to Ryan Johansen). I thought, "Great. Another Chris Clark/Ethan Moreau/feelsorryfortheoldwashedupguy signing." But! I have been pleasantly surprised by Mr. Prospal. He's one point short of Nash so far – he has 4 in 4 games –on a top line that has produced nearly all of the team's offense. Prospal has brought an unexpected spark on the 'Superstar' line, and has looked very, very good. So, in Week One, I salute you, Vinny Prospal, my boyfriend of the week. Keep up the good work, and don't forget your wallet. I don't cook on the first date.


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Historical Papyrus in Five Pieces
When complete, the papyrus to which this fragment belonged measured almost seven feet long. The texts are written in a cursive form of hieroglyphs called hieratic. Differences in handwriting and in the historical events described demonstrate that different scribes added new inscriptions over several generations.
The most important text recounts the efforts of a Thirteenth Dynasty Theban noblewoman named Senebtisi to establish legal ownership of ninety-five household servants, whose names indicate that forty-five were of Asiatic origin. The presence of so many foreigners in a single household suggests that the Asiatic population was increasing rapidly in Thirteenth Dynasty Egypt.
As was customary, some of these foreigners no doubt married Egyptians, adopted Egyptian beliefs and cultural traditions, and were absorbed into the cultural mainstream. Others, especially prisoners of war or descendants of military captives, remained loyal to their Asian heritage. Some of these foreigners facilitated the collapse of the Middle Kingdom and the later conquest of Egypt by the Asiatic Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period.
- Medium: Papyrus, ink
- Place Made: Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1809-1743 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XII Dynasty-XIII Dynasty
- Period: Middle Kingdom
- Dimensions: 35.1446a: 10 3/8 x 11 13/16 in. (26.3 x 30 cm) 35.1448b: 6 1/2 x 20 11/16 in. (16.5 x 52.5 cm) 35.1446c: 11 1/2 x 20 in. (29.2 x 50.8 cm) 35.1446d: 11 x 19 3/8 in. (28 x 49.2 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 35.1446a-e
- Credit Line: Gift of Theodora Wilbour
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Caption: Historical Papyrus in Five Pieces, ca. 1809-1743 B.C.E. Papyrus, ink, 35.1446a: 10 3/8 x 11 13/16 in. (26.3 x 30 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Theodora Wilbour, 35.1446a-e
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- Catalogue Description: Hieratic papyrus inscribed recto and verso, recording a will. Recto inscribed in red and black recording royal decrees giving titles to property. Verso, in black ink, itemizes the property.
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LA Galaxy forward Landon Donovan made his debut as a television analyst this week with appearances on Fox Sports 1.
Donovan looked extremely polished and confidence on air as he analyzed Tuesday's UEFA Champions League slate. One moment received a lot of attention as Donovan was asked about his U.S. National Team teammate Jermaine Jones' Schalke and their match against Steaua Bucuresti, which ultimately ended in a scoreless draw.
Check out the video and a series of tweets below.
Gametime!!! @foxsports1 @uclonfox pic.twitter.com/qOXUUu7ng5
— Landon Donovan (@landondonovan) November 26, 2013
Thanks for all your help...you guys made it easy for me! RT @warrenbarton2: Great to have @landondonovan on @FOXSports1 see you tomorrow
— Landon Donovan (@landondonovan) November 26, 2013
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CARSON, Calif. – The LA Galaxy announced their annual team awards on Tuesday with Robbie Keane taking home team MVP honors.
Keane enjoyed an MLS MVP-type season with 16 goals and 11 assists in 23 games played earning the team MVP and team Golden Boot. Meanwhile, Omar Gonzalez earned the club defender of the year award after a strong season that saw him finish fourth for the league honor.
Galaxy defender Sean Franklin won the club's Humanitarian of the Year award for his work with the community.
LA Galaxy center back Omar Gonzalez finished third in MLS Defender of the Year voting as New England Revolution defender Jose Goncalves took home the award.
Gonzalez earned 18.37 percent of the club vote, 7.79 percent of the media vote and 15.07 percent of the player vote for a weighted total of 41.23. Coming in second was Sporting Kansas City defender Matt Besler with New York Red Bulls center back Jamison Olave coming in fourth.
The award for the league's top defender wasn't the only awards issued on Tuesday as Hilario Grajeda was voted Referee of the Year and Kermit Quisenberry was voted the Assistant Referee of the Year.
The LA Galaxy held their 10th annual Foundation's Feast on Monday at StubHub Center providing a Thanksgiving dinner for 250 needy children and families.
A photo gallery of the event is below.
LA Galaxy Academy forward Jesus Nunez (pictured above) has been called up to the U.S. Under-15 Boys' National Team for their upcoming U.S. Soccer Developmental Academy Winter Showcase in Florida.
Nunez has scored eight goals in 10 games for the Galaxy U-16s this season, which is nearly one third of the team's 28 total goals. The tournament will take place from Dec. 11-15 in Lakewood Ranch, Fla. with the head coach Hugo Perez's squad taking on U-15/16 New York Red Bulls on Dec. 12, DeAnza Force on Dec. 13 and Weston FC on Dec. 16.
Six of the players taking part are from California.
The complete roster is below..
GOALKEEPERS (2): David Abonce (FC Dallas; The Colony, Texas), Carlos Avilez (FC Dallas; Dallas, Texas)
DEFENDERS (4): McKay Eves (San Diego Surf; San Diego, Calif.), Kyle Gruno (Philadelphia Union; Saddle River, N.J.), Antonio Nava (De Anza Force; Redwood City, Calif.), Sam Vines (Colorado Rapids; Colorado Springs, Colo.)
MIDFIELDERS (6): Jose Alfaro (Chicago Magic PSG; West Chicago, Ill.), Jose Carranza (D.C. United; Manassas, Va.), Ernesto Espinoza (Club Tijuana; San Ysidro, Calif.), Roberto Hernandez (Texas Rush; Houston, Texas), Nicholas Taitague (FC Richmond Magic; Midlothian, Va.), Juan Pablo Torres (Georgia United; Lilburn, Ga.)
FORWARDS (6): Lucas Del Rosario (CASL; Durham, N.C.), Omir Fernandez (New York Red Bulls; New York, N.Y.), Jonathan Gonzalez (Atletico Santa Rosa; Santa Rosa, Calif.), Jeanpaul Marin (New York Red Bulls; Rego Park, N.Y.), Jesus Nunez (LA Galaxy; Anaheim, Calif.), Adolfo Trujillo (De Anza Force; Livermore, Calif.)
We know the schedule for the 2014 MLS regular season and now here are few musings on the schedule that was released earlier on Monday.
*The countdown begins: Mark your calendars. The Galaxy will open up the season 108 days from now against Real Salt Lake on March 8 at StubHub Center.
*Only one home game against San Jose Earthquakes and Chivas USA this year: LA will play twice away against three of their heated rivals in Seattle, San Jose and Chivas USA. LA's first SuperClasico will take place on April 6 with Chivas hosting before LA host their lone match on June 8. The series will end on Aug. 31 with a Chivas home match. Meanwhile, LA take on San Jose for the first time on June 28 at Stanford Stadium. The Galaxy get their lone match against the Quakes at home on August 8 before the series ends with what may be LA's final trip ever to Buck Shaw Stadium on Sept. 14. The Quakes expect to open up their new digs in 2015.
*Two-week World Cup break: LA will not play a league game between June 9 and June 28 as the league undergoes a two-week break for the group stages of the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil. The Galaxy's final match before the break will be their home-leg of the SuperClasico against Chivas USA on June 8 before returning to action on June 28 against the Earthquakes at Stanford Stadium.
*LA's Fourth of July streak continues: The LA Galaxy will extend the longest streak in American Professional Sports of games played on July 4 when they host the Portland Timbers at StubHub Center.
*The LA Galaxy will be on national television 19 times this season: The premier television draw in MLS, the Galaxy will be on the league's national television partners 19 times. LA will play eight games on NBC or NBC SN including six on ESPN, ESPN 2 or ESPN Deportes. The Galaxy will also play five games on Spanish only networks UniMas or Univision Deportes, but those games will be televised in English locally on TWC SportsNet.
*The LA Galaxy will end the season with a home at home series against Seattle Sounders FC: LA will end the year with a pair of matches against Seattle as they host the Sounders in their final home game on Oct. before traveling to CenturyLink Field on Oct. – where they will end the year. If history means anything, both of these matches should have major playoff seeding implications.
The LA Galaxy are going to have a chance to get revenge for their stunning Western Conference Semifinal defeat to MLS Cup finalist Real Salt Lake right off the bat in 2014.
LA will open the season on March 8 at StubHub Center against 2013 MLS Cup finalist Real Salt Lake before hosting D.C. United on March 15. Both matches are likely to be sandwiched inbetween LA's CONCACAF Champions League participation. The Galaxy will play four of their first five matches at StubHub Center -- three of them being home matches as LA take on Chivas USA in the first SuperClasico on April 6 -- with their first road match being a trip to Rio Tinto Stadium to face RSL on March 22 which will be Salt Lake's home opener.
MLS will take a two-week break during the group phase of the 2014 FIFA World Cup with the last matches before the break taking place on June 11.
The complete schedule can be found here while 2014 Season Tickets can be purchased here.
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LA Galaxy forward Gyasi Zardes finished fourth in MLS Rookie the Year voting as Colorado Rapids midfielder Dillon Powers took home the honors.
Zardes tallied four goals and four assists in 27 appearances during his first season as a professional. Zardes received 16.33 percent of the club voting, 3.9 percent of the media vote and 11.2 percent of player votes for a weighted total of 31.43.
Colorado Rapids forward Deshorn Brown and Seattle Sounders FC defender DeAndre Yedlin finished second and third.
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The LA Galaxy were awarded the Xbox MLS Team Fair Play award on Monday.
The award is selected by MLS based on objective criteria such fewest fouls committed and cards received as well as on the subjective evaluation of sportsmanlike behavior. The Galaxy defeated the Houston Dynamo and Vancouver Whitecaps FC for the award.
LA committed just 386 in the 2013 MLS regular season which was the third fewest amount in the league. Meanwhile, LA earned just 36 yellow cards, the lowest total in MLS. LA was also awarded just a single red card in 2013 after receiving six in the past two years.
MLS Cup 2013 will be held at Sporting Park after Sporting Kansas City erased an early one goal deficit to defeat the Houston Dynamo 2-1 and advance to the league championship.
Boniek Garcia put the Dynamo up after just three minutes, but Sporting leveled the score in the 14th minute after C.J. Sapong found the back of the net. In the 63rd minute, Dom Dwyer gave Kansas City the lead for good as he beat Houston 'keeper Tally Hall for the game winner which ends the Dynamo's streak of MLS Cup appearances at two.
Kansas City heads to the final for the first time since they won their first MLS Cup championship in 2004.


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Michael Norgrove: Another death from boxing puts the sport back in the dock - Others - More Sports - The IndependentMichael Norgrove was known as a crowd-pleasing boxer his fights were regular all-action humdingers, former club mates recall.
With five straight wins since turning professional, the east Londoners sixth contest against rival Tom Bowen was set to be one of the centrepieces of a night of celebration at the historic south London venue The Ring, which was hosting its first competitive pro action since the Second World War.
But despite scoring a first-round knockdown against his opponent, Zambian-born Norgrove appeared unwell in the fifth. The fight was stopped and he was taken to hospital but he died nine days later, on Saturday, from a blood clot on the brain.
The 31-year-old, returning to the ring after a two-year lay-off, is the first British boxer to die following a bout since James Murray in 1995. The tragedy has reopened old divides over the safety of the sport.
Robert Smith, general secretary of the British Boxing Board of Control, defended the safety procedures in force before the contest: We are one of the strictest authorities in the world. This is an acute injury, this can happen any time. He had his medicals done, he had his brain scans done. There was nothing there of any concern whatsoever, else he wouldnt have been in the ring.
The brain injury association Headway said his death was another example of the brutal and dangerous nature of the sport and called for it to be outlawed. Chief executive Peter McCabe said: Every time a boxer gets into the ring, there is a significant risk that they may lose their life or sustain a devastating, life-changing brain injury.
There are risks involved with all contact sports, but while other sports manage those risks by introducing laws to try to protect participants from blows to the head, the ultimate aim in boxing is to knock your opponent out by repeatedly and deliberately striking their heads. Until this sport is banned, more young lives will be tragically lost.


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The meteor that rained down on central Russia and injured upwards of 1,000 people was not a celestial object at all, but a U.S. weapons test, claimed nationalist Russian lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Zhirinovsky, the head of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party who is known for his nationalist views and outlandish allegations, made the startling claim to Russia's state-owned news agency, RIA Novosti.
"Those aren't meteors falling; it's the Americans testing new weapons," the Russian politician said.
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- MD - University of Iowa, 2001
- PhD - University of Iowa, 2001
CertificationsAmerican Board of Pathology - Clinical Pathology & Hematology
SpeciatiesHematopathology, Molecular Hematopathology, Hematopoiesis, Iron Metabolism
Clinical ExpertiseDiagnostic Hematopathology, flow cytometry, molecular diagnostics, molecular cytogenetics applied to hematologic diseases and special coagulation laboratory
Research ExpertiseMy research lab is interested in disorders of blood cell production and function in human hematologic diseases with a major focus on the influence of iron deficiency/sequestration on erythropoiesis in a variety of anemias. Current projects are investigating the effects of iron restriction on erythropoietin receptor signaling using a human cell culture based model of iron deficiency anemia and mouse models of anemia. Using these model systems, we are investigating how iron deficiency suppresses red blood cell production and increases platelet production. We have found evidence that supports an iron-dependent, molecular signaling pathway that involves aconitase enzymes, PKC, ERK, AKT and the distal portion of the erythropoietin receptor. We are investigating the molecular mechanisms of iron sensing by the mitochondria in early erythroid progenitor cells and how this iron sensor affects cell fate and erythropoietin-dependent erythropoiesis. A second related area of interest is the role of mitochondrial metabolism in erythropoiesis and megakaryopoiesis. Recently, through several collaborations within the Vascular Medicine Institute, we are investigating the role of specific erythrocyte membrane proteins in the regulation of cell shape, stability and life-span during sickle cell disease and red blood cell storage. The long-term goals of the laboratory are to understand how intrinsic and extrinsic factors regulate red blood cell production and survival in patients with anemia and use this knowledge to improve therapy for these patients.
Selected PublicationsView Dr. Bullock's publications on PubMed
Delehanty LL, Bullock GC, Goldfarb AN: Protein Kinase D-HDAC5 Signaling Regulates Erythropoiesis and Contributes to Erythropoietin Cross-talk with GATA1. Blood 120(20):4219-28. PMID: 22983445.Talbot AL, Bullock GC, Delehanty LL, Sattler M, Zhao ZJ, Goldfarb AN. Aconitase Regulation of Erythropoiesis Correlates with a Novel Licensing Function in Erythropoietin-induced ERK Signaling. PLoS ONE 6(8):e23850. Epub 2011. PMID:21887333.
Bullock GC, Delehanty LL, Talbot AL, Gonias SL, Tong WH, Rouault TA, Dewar B, Macdonald JM, Chruma JJ, Goldfarb AN. Iron Control of Erythroid Development by a Novel Aconitase-associated Regulatory Pathway. Blood. 2010;116:97-108. PMCID: PMC2904585.
Meriden Z, Bullock GC, Bagg A, Bonatti H, Cousar JB, Lopes B, Robbins NK, Cathro HP. Post-transplantation Lymphoproliferative Disease Involving the Pituitary Gland. Human Pathology. 2010;41:1641-1645.
Elagib KE, Mihaylov IS, Delehanty LL, Bullock GC, Ouma KD, Caronia JF, Gonias SL, Goldfarb AN. Cross-talk of GATA-1 and P-TEFb in Megakaryocyte Differentiation. Blood. 2008;112:4884-4894. PMCID: PMC2597596.
Mikesh LM, Crowe SE, Bullock GC, Taylor NE, Bruns DE. Celiac Disease Refractory to a Gluten-free Diet? Clinical Chemistry. 2008;54:441-444.
Haverstick DM, Bullock GC, Bruns DE. Genotyping of Hepatitis C Virus by Melting Curve Analysis: Analytical Characteristics and Performance. Clinical Chemistry. 2004;50(12):2405-2407.
Bullock GC, Bruns DE, Haverstick DM. Hepatitis C Genotype Determination by Melting Curve Analysis with a Single Set of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer Probes. Clinical Chemistry. 2002;48(12):2147-2154.
Bullock GC, Thrower AR, Stinski MF. Cellular Proteins Bind to Sequence Motifs in the R1 Element Between the HCMV Immune Evasion Genes. Experimental & Molecular Pathology. 2002;72(3):196-206.
Bullock GC, Lashmit PE, Stinski MF. Effect of the R1 Element on Expression of the US3 and US6 Immune Evasion Genes of Human Cytomegalovirus. Virology. 2001;288(1):164-174.
Lashmit PE, Stinski MF, Murphy EA, Bullock GC. A cis Repression Sequence Adjacent to the Transcription Start Site of the Human Cytomegalovirus US3 Gene is Required to Down Regulate Gene Expression at Early and Late Times After Infection. Journal of Virology. 1998;72(12):9575-9584.
Thrower AR, Bullock GC, Bissell JE, Stinski MF. Regulation of a Human Cytomegalovirus Immediate-early Gene (US3) by a Silencer-Enhancer Combination. Journal of Virology. 1996;70(1):91-100.
Richardson CL, Delehanty LL, Bullock GC, Rival CM, Tung KS, Kimpel DL, Gardenghi SA, Rivella ST, Goldfarb AN Therapeutic targeting of the erythroid iron restriction response in anemia of chronic disease. Journal of Clnical Investigation, Accepted for Publication 05/09/2013.
Textbook Chapters
Silverman LM, Bullock GC. Essential Concepts in Molecular Pathology. Ed. W.B. Coleman and G.J. Tsongalis Chapter 29 Molecular Diagnosis of Human Disease. Elsivier, New York, 2010. ISBN: 9780123744180.
Silverman LM, Bullock GC. Molecular Pathology: The Molecular Basis of Human Disease. Ed. W.B. Coleman and G.J. Tsongalis Chapter 28: Molecular Diagnosis of Human Disease. Elsevier, New York, 2009. ISBN: 9780123744197.


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amyjw wrote:Also, I'm curious about Long Tall Fat Short Sally. I think I may have missed something obvious, but what's the deal with her?
raptornx01 wrote:Esk's appearance didn't feel like an explanation at all. It felt more like a set-up/tease for some future story.
swreader wrote:raptornx01 wrote:Esk's appearance didn't feel like an explanation at all. It felt more like a set-up/tease for some future story.
I couldn't disagree more with what I think you are saying, though I'll admit that I'm not sure what kind of explanation you thought there should be.
Esk, I think, is brought in for two reasons. First, people have been asking Terry for years "Whatever happened to Esk?" And wanting to know more about her. Thus, he amuses himself by putting her in what I take to be the last of the quartet of Tiffany books. But, Esk is not a witch--she's a wizard! And she can therefore do some things that witches can't do--like go back and find the origin of the cunning man, and engage in all kinds of time travel (including providing the "traveling now"). She serves as a necessary plot device to provide absolutely necessary information and warning to Tiffany in a way that no one else can.
Tiffany (and the readers) need to know the history (and power) of this evil spirit. He is one of Terry's best villains, both in himself (and his total disregard for those he uses) and even worse,in the way he corrupts the society existing when he reappears. His power is so great that he even gets Tiffany and the Boffo shop owner witch (whose name escapes me at the moment) to turn on each other. He destroys the ability to trust and encourages everyone to find someone else to blame for everything. Since he's dead, he can't be killed--only sent back until someone awakens him again. But if he takes over Tiffany with all her power, he would be much worse. That's why the other witches are prepared to kill Tiffany if she doesn't defeat him.
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So excited I'm still going strong and loving it! I also have two friends who have decided they are going to join me and change their lives as well! I'm so glad to be making and impact with the people around me. How has your change impacted the people around you?
we get into interesting conversations more often. And, I've noticed that some of my co-workers will ask me questions if they have a food/nutrition question about something.
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My family is going strong too!My husband and son are having to buy smaller jeans and pull their belts in many more notches than usual.I have lost about 15 lbs.People are starting to notice and ask questions and give advice... I usually highlight the things no one can argue - like my husband not snoring anymore...It's super exciting Also, I highlight my grocery bill savings. You can buy an awful lot of vegetables for the price of a package of meat or fake meat even.Yay all of us - so happy!
I'm loving it. Yet I don't have the same experience. My roommates are meat eating, crack food addicted, milk by the gallon chugglers and I do some of the cooking. They have turned a deaf ear on me for years. Just old hippie talk.
Yet I have switched white rice for brown rice, I cut out all excess fats and oils. I make more vegetables and grains than meat. I have stopped telling them about the benefits and just demonstrated it by living life and feeling better than when I was in my 20s.
Last night my son asked for me to add beans into this Mexican brown rice/taco flavored/meat dish. Yay!! I live for all the small victories. Yesterday I noticed someone had some of my soymilk. Yay! Baby steps, baby steps.
I personally have dropped over 30 pounds and am less than 5' tall, so makes a big difference. I'm a walking vegan billboard, always smiling, and living life large. And with all the politics in California about GMOs and just food in general, I think it's going to be their year…..lol
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It's a great feeling knowing you are doing something for your health and the lives of so many animals... there is no greater reward... I know have 4 of my friends who are going vegetarian and will merge into being vegan within this year... I'm excited for the victories....I still need to loss 45lbs and my neighbor is starting a diet pool. She said to bring ideas on how one can loss weight in a healthy manner so guess what I'm bringing along? you got it....Vegan information...
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Bowl with an Enthronement Scene
Some of the earliest scenes of the princely cycle appear in Iranian ceramics of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries before the Mongol invasion, when much of Iran, Central Asia, and Anatolia fell under Seljuq control. The Seljuqs were a Turkic dynasty and followers of the Sunni branch of Islam. Foreigners to Iran and its culture, their rulers sought legitimacy by naming themselves after the legendary Iranian kings lauded in the national epic, the Shahnama, and by patronizing art and architectural commissions that celebrated kingship and authority. Although few illustrated manuscripts remain from this period, a great number of surviving ceramic wares reveal aspects of courtly life under the Seljuqs, including the one on view. Such mina'i (enamel) or haft rangi (seven-color) wares comprised some of the earliest examples of polychrome ceramics and represent an expensive and labor-intensive process passed down from one generation of potters to the next. This bowl would have been painted in turquoise, blue, and purple on an opaque white glaze after a first firing; the enamel pigments including black and red, were then added, as well as leaf gilding, and the object would have gone through a second firing at a lower temperature to produce the final product. Kashan has been identified as the main city mina'i wares were made, although it was probably not the only production site for such pottery.
The scene on this bowl is particularly interesting as it currently the only known enthronement scene that includes children. This is suggested not only by the smaller size of the three figures to the right of the cypress tree, but by a female attendant, possibly the mother, who has one hand behind her child's shoulder while holding his hand with the other.
- Medium: Ceramic, mina'i (enameled) or haft rangi (seven colors) ware; in-glaze painted in blue, turquoise, and purple on an opaque white glaze, overglaze painted in red and black, with leaf gilding
- Place Made: Iran
- Dates: late 12th-early 13th century
- Dynasty: Seljuq
- Period: Saljuq
- Dimensions: 3 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (8.1 x 21 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Arts of the Islamic World
- Museum Location: This item is not on view
- Accession Number: 86.227.61
- Credit Line: Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Bowl with an Enthronement Scene, late 12th-early 13th century. Ceramic, mina'i (enameled) or haft rangi (seven colors) ware; in-glaze painted in blue, turquoise, and purple on an opaque white glaze, overglaze painted in red and black, with leaf gilding, 3 3/16 x 8 1/4 in. (8.1 x 21 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.227.61. Creative Commons-BY
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Welcome to the University of West Florida and the General Studies program. You will be taking General Studies courses and your major prerequisites throughout your freshman and sophomore years. General Studies is designed to provide you with a high quality program of study that will help you become a broadly educated person and provide you with the knowledge and skill set you need to succeed in your major, professional and personal life. Specific skills woven into the curriculum fall into four broad areas: Critical Thinking, Communication, Values/Integrity and Project Management.
This website is designed to help you understand the meaning behind the General Studies curriculum and the academic requirements of the program. General Studies includes coursework in composition, mathematics, social sciences, humanities and natural sciences. The courses in the program cover a wide variety of disciplines. It is my hope, and that of the faculty, that you will use this time to explore new ideas and concepts, and broaden your horizons. I believe you will enjoy your academic journey through your first two years.
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David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
Hello people. Before I get into this post I want to be clear I'm just explaining some history from the early days of Korn. Not bashing Korn at all. I hope Korn fans will find this info interesting. To all the haters that will talk smack. Then why bother reading this? Maybe you should get some help. So here we go. In 1991when Korn was first writing music it was in our rehearsal studio. When we had 6-8 songs we went and played our first show then back to our rehearsal room to keep writing. So over the next couple years we wrote songs and re-wrote songs,played numerous shows. The songs that became our first record,"Korn", where written and played live and fine tuned over a course of around two and half years. Our second and third records,Life is Peachy and Follow the Leader, were written in our rehearsal studio and rehearsed and fine tuned over and over. We didn't play shows while writing though. The music and vocals were written all together. This is the key point. The first three records had all kinds of strange and off time breaks in the songs. We would purposely speed up and slow down parts. Most of the weird breaks were made up by Fieldy and I. We would change the timing in the middle of songs that made no sense. One of the great things about music is there are no rules. Fast forward to our next record "Issues." A big name producer was brought in telling us he would "take us to the next level." I immediately called bullshit. I thought we had just made three legendary records? Here is the next key point. He wanted to record the record on the digital system pro-tools. He also wanted to record everything to a click track eliminating all crazy timing changes and off time breaks and the pushing and pulling of parts. I was the only one to think this was a horrible idea. Our signature style was under attack and the guys said just listen to this "big time" producer. So we started writing music. I did my thing on the drums by playing in my style. The producer immediately wanted me to simplify my playing. I said to him "this is not your record. I'm going to do my thing." The next day I get a phone call from our manager saying one of the band members says I'm being hard to work with. Seriously!! So I was being asking to be a puppet and dumb down my playing and be a good boy. I heard this enough times I finally just simplified everything. Pretty lame right? Then next it came to our attention that we were going to record all of the music before Jon even started on the vocals. That's another major blow to our signature sound. We always wrote songs as a five piece band and made unique accents and breaks specifically to the vocals. Well there goes that unique Korn sound. Once our original way of writing was totally changed the original sound was also changed. I was disappointed. I've been asked hundreds of times why our sound changed so much after Follow the Leader. Well, now you have the answer. I love the music we made after Leader, don't get the wrong idea. It just lost so much of our unique trademark sound. I really think the fans noticed. I made several attempts to get the band to get back to the basics and write and record like we did the first three records but was met with opposition every time. I don't know why. All I wanted to do is make better records. But the other members didn't want to spend the extra time it takes to write the original way. But hey, I tried. When I was talking about bringing the funk back I was talking about the original writing style. I would love to get back in the rehearsal studio with the guys and resurrect the original passion and unconventional writing style and make a record that stands up to the first three. Of course before that could happen I would love to just sit down with guys and talk about our humble beginnings and really put things in perspective. I really hope to see you Korn fans again soon from behind my drum kit on stage with the guys. If anyone wants to post this on other sites please do so. All I ask is to be honest and post it in its entirety and not take parts out of context. I hope you true Korn fans thought this insight was interesting. Take care everyone. Talk soon:)
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Re: David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
His words make so much sense.
There was a time when Korn would NEVER sell out.
Music evolves. But when I big time producer comes in and manipulates your music- that's not evolution.
David will always be the best drummer Korn ever had!
"That kid would play with his heart and soul. Till his wrists break and his hands bleed.
He's keepin' it real and an inspiration. I would accept no sticks from a
RE: David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
Does anyone have the link to his official facebook page?
I've seen a few pages but I'm not sure which one is the real David Silveria lol.
Re: David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
That`s true but if he`s real then: His opinion doesn`t seem to be bullshit, though it`s just one point of view, so I`d really like the others to comment this (maybe they don`t have the time or they think it`d just be childish)...
Scream at me again if you like, throw your hate at me with all your might, hit me cause I`m strange, hit me, tell me Imma pussy and you`re harder than me...
Re: David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
This was very interesting. I completely get what he was talking about.
Does it make me bad??
RE: Re: David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
This was very interesting. I completely get what he was talking about.
RIGHT? That awkward moment when it all makes sense.
"That kid would play with his heart and soul. Till his wrists break and his hands bleed.
He's keepin' it real and an inspiration. I would accept no sticks from a
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Re: David Silveria's recent facebook post. Thoughts?
EDIT: Actually, that was a lie. I read the post, but I can't take this seriously anymore. I have all the respect in the world for David as a musician, but he is becoming more and more like a mother-in-law from a soap opera.
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By Claire Walla
Christine Fetten is developing a 15-year plan for waste reduction. As Southampton Town's Director of Facilities Management, she's been tasked to lead the effort to improve the long-term recycling system laid-out in the town's overall Comprehensive Plan, which will span through 2025. And as part of this plan, she aims to track every pound of recyclable material that leaves this town, ensuring it all gets disposed of in the most environmentally sound way possible.
Overall, she said the Town of Southampton is recycling more than the national average, for which only an estimated 33 percent of households are actually reported to recycle. Of the residents who use the town's transfer stations, Fetten said about 51 percent separate out recyclables from their rubbish.
However, she went on to explain that only 15 percent of Southampton Town residents actually use the town's transfer stations. This is where enforcing recycling efforts can become tricky.
This is not to say 85 percent of the Town of Southampton is not recycling — Fetten made that clear. But, it does mean that 85 percent of town residents use private carters, and where those recyclables end up, Fetten said, is unknown at this point.
But this is just what Fetten aims to find out.
Southampton Town is required to draft a waste management plan by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). The town initially set to work on this document in collaboration with environmental consultants from CDM (Camp Dresser & McKee) and Smith Associates, who recommended the town continue operating its transfer stations. (In addition to facilities in Hampton Bays, Westhampton and North Sea, there is also a smaller transfer station in Sag Harbor.)
However, part of continuing operations included one crucial caveat: "The DEC wants us to gain more information on what all of the town's garbage is doing," Fetten explained.
Thus, her department will begin issuing permits to commercial carters in an effort to begin tracking that information.
"We're looking to obtain: tonnage collected, tonnage disposed of, ultimately tonnage recycled and the location of the receiving facilities and the routes," Fetten continued.
By collecting this information, Fetten said the town will "Gain an idea of the recycling rates in all parts of the town."
Currently, she said the town itself is making all efforts to dispose of waste products in ways that minimize their impact on the environment.
"We bring our co-mingled [garbage] to the town of Brookhaven," Fetten explained. "Plastics are generally baled and loaded into a trailer for overseas transportation containment."
She said paper is also baled and sent overseas, but the town receives money for these recyclables.
"Waste management is set up to be an enterprise account," Fetten continued.
So, the fees associated with the sale of recyclable materials go toward running the town's transfer stations. So does the sale of compost to commercial carters, which is $2 a yard when loaded on site, and $3 a yard when delivered by the town. (It's free for residents.)
"In addition to being sustainable, we need to make sure we're covering our costs."
Fetten said the town sends recyclable materials (paper, cardboard and metal) to Gershow Recyclables in Nassau County; it sends e-waste (including computers, cellular phones and televisions) to e-Scrap Destruction up island; and it takes all other recyclable materials (including glass and plastic) to Brookhaven Town's recycling facilities, where Fetten said they are reduced and reused.
However, not all materials that can be are currently recycled. Fetten said her department is looking into ways to properly dispose of batteries and Styrofoam. While rechargeable batteries can most often be returned to the store where they were purchased, at this point Fetten said alkaline batteries can only be chucked into green bags, which eventually end up at a landfill.
The same is true for Styrofoam.
"There's no longer a recycling facility on Long Island for that," she explained. "At least not that I know of. That's why it goes in a green bag [used for generic trash]."
She said the town is looking into opportunities to ultimately bale these products and then sell the materials for market value.
In the end, while Fetten said the town will continue to explore the most cost-effective and environmentally sustainable recycling options, and will continue to explore newer recycling technologies, she said the overall message is tied to a much bigger picture.
According to statistics compiled by CDM & Smith Associates, individuals in the Town of Southampton generate an average of 4.43 pounds of waste materials a day. And with a year-round population of 60,000, which is estimated to climb to 180,000 in the summer months, Fetten said, "that's a lot of waste!"
The ultimate goal is waste reduction, she continued. In part, this is contingent on state and federal governments, which have the power to introduce new technologies, like soy-based Styrofoam, which decomposes instead of being co-mingled with regular rubbish and tossed in a landfill.
But, on the local level, Fetten said the town needs to work on fostering sustainability goals and options. Not only encouraging residents to recycle, but teaching them how to cut-down on their waste from the get-go.
"There are so many different opportunities for the population to make choices" about the materials they use, Fetten continued. "That's really the goal of our education and outreach program: To provide that information to the public."
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The Gulf County School Board voted unanimously last week to request a special election in the spring to ask voters to approve a one mil additional operating levy.
In effect, the board is asking that voters continue their support expressed four years ago when a one mil additional operating levy was approved by ballot.
The district is currently in the final fiscal year in which it will receive that levy, which sunsets after four years.
"If the voters support use we will be able to maintain education as we know it," said Superintendent of Schools Jim Norton while asking the board to move forward on a full mil levy. "If they do not, we would be a lot less viable.
"We are trying to maintain our viability in a tough economy.
The board unanimously approved a resolution requesting that the Board of County Commissioners, which must sign off on any county-wide special election, agree to conduct a special election on March 5, 2013.
Not yet decided is whether the election will be conducted by mailed ballots, reducing the costs, as was the case four years ago.
Norton and board chair Linda Wood said they would look at the most economical way to conduct the election with Supervisor of Elections-elect John Hanlon.
Simply, the math is tilting against the district.
In the past four years since the additional operating levy was approved, declining property values have eroded the value of one mil and the district has realized roughly $4 million less that projected in the run-up to the vote.
In that same span, the district budget has fallen from roughly $21 million to under $16 million.
Norton emphasized that school property taxes fell by 5 percent this past year alone.
But with declining enrollment – the district has lost almost 400 students the past decade and Port St. Joe Elementary alone is projected to be down another 40 students next year – the funding from the state, based on enrollment and the property tax base, as left the district fighting an operational shortfall for several years.
Compounding that is the reality that the board has any real sway over just one component of the budget, Local Capital Improvement.
The district has one of the lowest LCI millage rates in the state, at .400 mils and could raise it to as much as 1.50 mils, but that money can only be used for "bricks and mortar", equipment, building needs, but not personnel or operating funds.
Norton said he and staff had already identified some $600,000 in cuts – after some $1.5 million last fiscal year – that will likely take place no matter the outcome of the special election, but added that the district would face a shortfall of $1.8 million dollars if voters do not stay the course on the additional mil levy.
"It won't be school as normal if we lose that one mil," said board member John Wright, who said the impacts would be significant and across the board, impacting not only education but extracurricular activities."
The district would also face a potential issue with addressing a state constitutional amendment which mandates teacher/student ratios at each grade level.
The district is losing a second-grade teacher at Port St. Joe Elementary after the first of the year and will not be hiring a permanent replacement, at least in the short-term.
"We are in an attrition mode," Norton said. "There is just not much meat left on the bone.
"We are in a bad economic crunch. When we say we are paring as much as we can, we are paring as much as we can."
District officials also believe they have a strong case for voter approval of the additional mil levy.
"We may be small, but we are not small-time," Wood said. "We need to put good people with our children. We need this for the children to continue to the quality education they are getting."
The district has been an honor roll district – based primarily on results from the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test from which school grades some – and a high-performing district, which adds financial accountability and responsibility to the mix, for five consecutive years.
Dual-enrollment in the high schools has been increasing for three years – last year one student received his high school and AA degree the same month.
The district's graduation rate – this year it is 94 – is consistently in the top five among all districts in the state and is 20 percentage points above the state average.
"We have a wonderful school system," said board member Billy Quinn, Jr. "In order to keep that, there are costs. We are beckoning to the community to stand behind us."
Further, board members noted during a meeting last Thursday, they have held the line on property taxes and particularly the LCI portion and even contributed a portion of their own salaries to the district.
"We have done our jobs," Wright said. "I am not ashamed of anything we have done as a school board. You can only cut so much before you cut quality."
Board member George Cox noted that four years ago a central part of the district's pitch to voters was maintaining jobs. He said that remains the case currently, with as many as 40-60 jobs potentially on the line.
"There are still going to be jobs lost but we are going to tray to save every job we can," Cox said. "If the voters don't pass this, the school district will suffer."


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First, a little background: we built the first version of IronWorker, originally called SimpleWorker (clever name right?), with Ruby. We were a consulting company building apps for other companies and there were two really hot things at that time: Amazon Web Services and Ruby on Rails. So we built apps using Ruby on Rails on AWS and we got some great clients. The reason we built IronWorker was to scratch our own itch. We had several clients building hardware devices that constantly sent in data, 24/7, and we had to collect it and process it into something useful. Typically scheduling big jobs to run through the data every hour, then every day and so on. We decided to build something we could use for all our clients without having to manage a bunch of infrastructure for each of them to process this data. So we built "workers as a service" that we used internally for a while, then we thought there must be other people that need this so we decided to make it public and thus IronWorker was born.
Our sustained CPU usage on our servers was approximately 50-60%. When it increased a bit, we'd add more servers to keep it around 50%. This was fine as long as we didn't mind paying for a lot of servers (we did mind). The bigger problem was dealing with big traffic spikes. When a big spike in traffic came in, it created a domino effect that would take take down our entire cluster. At some threshold above 50%, our Rails servers would spike up to 100% CPU usage and become unresponsive. This would in turn cause the load balancer to think it failed and take it out of the pool, thereby applying the load that the unresponsive server would have been handling to the remaining servers. And since the remaining servers are now handling the load of the lost server plus the spike, inevitably a second server would go down, the load balancer would take it out of the pool and so on. Pretty soon every server in the pool is toast. This phenomenon is otherwise known as a colossal clusterf**k (ref: +Blake Mizerany).
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The only way to avoid this with the setup we had was to have a ton of extra capacity to keep our server utilization much lower than what it was, but that meant spending a ton of money. Something had to change.
We Rewrote ItWe decided to rewrite the API. This was an easy decision, clearly our Ruby on Rails API wasn't going to scale well and coming from many years of Java development and having written a bunch of things that handled tons of load with way less resources than what this Ruby on Rails setup could handle, I knew we could do a lot better. So then the decision came down to which language to use.
Choosing a LanguageI was open to new ideas since the last thing I wanted to do was go back to Java. Java is (was?) a great language in a lot of ways such as performance, but after writing Ruby code for a few years, I was hooked on how productive I could be. Ruby is fun, plain and simple.
We looked at other scripting languages with better performance than Ruby (which wasn't hard) like Python and JavaScript/Node, we looked at Java derivatives like Scala and Clojure, and other languages like Erlang (which apparently AWS uses) and Go (golang). Go won. The fact that concurrency was such a fundamental part of the language was huge; the standard core library had almost everything we needed to build an API service; it's terse; it compiles fast; like Ruby, Go is fun; and finally, the numbers don't lie. After some prototyping and performance testing, we knew we could push some serious load through it. With some convincing of the team ("It's all good, Google is backing it"), we bit the bullet.
After Gonever had another colossal clusterf**k since.
We have grown a lot since those early days. We now get way more traffic, we added two more services (IronMQ and IronCache), and we run 100's of servers to handle our customer's needs. And it's all powered by Go on the backend. In retrospect, it was a great decision to choose Go as it's allowed us to build great products, to grow and scale, and attract grade A talent. And I believe it will continue to help us grow for the foreseeable future.
UPDATE: Lots of conversation about this article at Hacker News.
UPDATE: We posted another article on our experiences with Go called Go After 2 Years in Production. In it, we address issues of performance, memory, concurrency, reliability, deployment, and talent acquisition. As with above, this article also generated a large thread of comments at Hacker News.