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The Young Man and Journalism, By Chester S. Lord, 1922
by Chester Sanders Lord
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One of the most important decisions a young man is called upon to make relates to the determination of his life-work. It is fraught with serious consequence for him. It involves the possibilities of success and failure. The social order is such that he can best realize his ends by the pursuit of a vocation. It unifies his purposes and endeavors making them count for most in the struggle for existence and for material welfare. It furnishes steady employment at a definite task as against changeable effort and an unstable task. This makes for superior skill and greater efficiency which result in a larger gain to himself and in a more genuine contribution to the economic world. But a mans vocation relates to a much wider sphere than the economic. It is intimately associated with the totality of his interests. It is in a very real sense the center of most of his relations in life. His intelv lectual interests are seriously dependent upon his vocational career. Not only does the attainment of skill and efficiency call for the acquisition of knowledge and development of judgment, but the leisure that is so essential to the pursuit of those intdlectual ends which are a necessary part of his general culture is, in turn, dependent, to a considerable extent, upon the skill and efficiency that he acquires in his vocation.
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G. Network Port: This is where a network connector, which looks like the connector on the end of a phone wire expert that it's a little bigger, would go.
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J. PS/2 Ports: These ports are almost exclusively for keyboard and mouse connectors, although these devices are often USB 2.0 nowadays.

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Remember that wacky couple who crashed a state dinner at the White House last November, then went around like they were actually famous or something? It's been reported that they somehow think the world gives enough of a shit about them to dress up in costumes of them for Halloween. I can't be bothered to find a picture of these narcissists, so here's a picture of a cool fountain instead, which sort of illustrates my reaction to the story:
But hey, if you think the White House Gatecrashers is a great and hilarious costume idea, here are some others you'll probably like:
- Some teenybopper who, like, totally snuck backstage at the Justin Bieber concert!
- That 28-year-old dude who hooks the high school parties with beer as an excuse to hang out at them.
- The kid who ran on the field at that Phillies game and got tasered (unless people can use real tasers on him).
- Sparkly vampires (unless people can use real tasers on them).
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Just Because: Here's Martin Maldonado Blasting a Guy in the Face
There's jack shit going on with the Green Bay Packers today. The local hacks are reporting that the schedule will be out this week. Yeah, we told you that last week. Let's rehash it!
No, we're not going to do that. And we're probably going to take the rest of the day off of trying to make up stories about the Packers when there are none, for that matter.
But this if fun, so we thought we'd bring it to you instead.
The Milwaukee Brewers played the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday, winning 3-2 in 14. Hell of a game. I'm really starting to enjoy idiot fans booing Ryan Braun every time he comes to the plate, especially when he jacks a solo shot in the 9th to tie the game, like he did yesterday.
Boo that, asshats!
Anyway, the Crew and the Pirates got into a little brouhaha in the third inning of that contest. Carlos Gomez, swinging for the fences as always, hit a shot. He apparently thought it was a homer and flipped his bat. Well, it wasn't, but he turned it into a triple anyway because Carlos Gomez.
Whatever jerkoff was pitching for the Pirates didn't like Gomez's bat flip, started jawing and the benches cleared. Because baseball has stupid unwritten rules.
We didn't actually see this because we were listening to the sweet sounds of Bob Uecker on the MLB app. However, we saw it today and it's glorious.
Brewers' backup catcher Martin Maldonado was involved in the fray and he absolutely jacked a motherfucker.
After, he explained that he was just defending Gomez, who he said was being held down by two guys. We can't really tell if that was the case or not, but somebody got his regardless.
Don't mess with Martin Maldonado.
Monty McMahon is one of the founders of Total Packers. He is probably the most famous graduate of UW-Oshkosh next to Jim Gantner.
1.) the pitcher is a pussy for getting his feelings hurt. Just shut your mouth and pitch. If you don't like the bat flip, don't let the batter hit one like that. Pitch better.
2.) helluva punch, but he was a little high on the head and looks like he got him on the forehead. Betcha it left a good monkey bump, but I'll bet Maldonado's hand hurt a bit. Saw him flexing it in the dugout.
Hell Baseball is almost as impossible to watch as pro basketball, soccer, and bowling. It must really be a slow day.
How can anyone give a shit about the unwritten rules of baseball when Pete Rose cannot even get in the baseball hall of fame.
I wonder if Gomez will have his feelings hurt when he gets plunked in the back or head a few times with a fastball in future games. I bet Gomez just shuts his mouth and walks to first base(not).


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Khamra Obscura (ebook)
On 3 April 2011, photographer Jon Michael Anzalone went out into Istanbul and shot 24 rolls of film over 24 consecutive hours. Khamra Obscura is the total collection of those photographs, presented in sequence. The work seeks to establish familiarity with a city in the Islamic cultural sphere in order to foster mutual understanding.
Khamra Obscura is both a photographer's journey to discover a place and a personal journey to understand the process of artistic creation. The images are strong individually but, read as a whole, illustrate the momentum and buildup of ideas and themes. Eventually, the poetry of the city and the poetry of art align and interact to form a strong and unified body of work which celebrates both the human spirit and the culture in which it was created.


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It is ironic that the day Apple announces a Kindle Fire competitor, the 7" iPad,
There are so many choices it gets confusing. I was thinking about getting an iPad mini for my grandchildren for Christmas but it is so expensive compared to others of similar size.
I don't know about the Kindle. I hear you're really locked into Amazon, and that it has a very slow browser.
I own a Nexus 7 (which I love), and am wondering if I should get it for the kids. They do love and use FaceTime though.
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Funding opportunities
The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is still a major health problem. In both developed and underdeveloped nations, millions of people are infected with this virus. HIV infects cells of the immune system, becomes part of the cell's genetic information, stays there for the rest of the life of these cells, and uses these cells as a factory to make more HIV. In this process, the immune cells get destroyed. Soon a condition called AIDS, the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome sets in where the immune system cannot fight common infections. If left untreated, death from severe infections occurs within 8 to 10 years. Although advances in treatment using small molecule drugs have extended the life span of HIV infected individuals, neither a cure for HIV infection nor a well working vaccine could be developed. Drug treatment is currently the only option to keep HIV infected individuals alive. Patients have to take a combination of drugs daily and reliably for the rest of their lives. If not taken regularly, HIV becomes resistant to the drugs and continues to destroy immune cells. What makes this situation even more complicated is the fact that many patients cannot take these drugs due to severe side effects.
Stem cell gene therapy for HIV may offer an alternative treatment. Blood forming stem cells, also called bone marrow stem cells make all blood cells of the body, including immune system cells such as T cells and macrophages that HIV destroys. If "anti-HIV genes" were inserted into the genetic information of bone marrow stem cells, these genes would be passed on to all new immune cells and make them resistant to HIV. Anti-HIV gene containing immune cells can now multiply in the presence of HIV and fight the virus. In previous and current stem cell gene therapy clinical trials for HIV, only one anti-HIV gene has been used. Our approach, however, will use a combination of three anti-HIV genes which are much more potent. They will not only prevent HIV from entering an immune cell but will also prevent HIV from mutating, since it would have to escape the anti-HIV effect of three genes, similar to triple combination anti-HIV drug therapy. To demonstrate safety and effectiveness of our treatment, we will perform a clinical trial in HIV lymphoma patients. In such patients, the destruction of the immune system by HIV led to the development of a cancer of the lymph nodes called B cell lymphoma. High dose chemotherapy together with the transplantation of the patient's own bone marrow stem cells cures B cell lymphoma. We will insert anti-HIV genes in the patient's bone marrow stem cells and then transplant these gene containing cells into the HIV infected lymphoma patient. The gene containing bone marrow stem cells will produce a new immune system and newly arising immune cells will be resistant to HIV. In this case, we have not only cured the patient's cancer but have also given the patient an HIV resistant immune system which will be able to fight HIV.
As of September 30, 2010, over 198,883 cumulative HIV/AIDS cases were reported in California. Another 40,000 un-named cases of HIV were also reported before 2006 although some of them may be duplicates of the named HIV cases. Patients living with HIV/AIDS totaled 108,986 at the end of September 2010. These numbers continue to grow since new cases of HIV and AIDS are being reported on a daily basis and patients now live much longer. In fact, after New York, California has the second highest number of HIV cases in the nation. Although the current and improved anti-retroviral small molecule drugs have prolonged the life of these patients, they still have to deal with the emotional, financial, and medical consequences of this disease. The fear of side effects and the potential generation of drug resistant strains of HIV is a constant struggle that these patients have to live with for the rest of their lives. Furthermore, not every patient with HIV responds to treatment and not every complication of HIV dissipates upon starting a drug regimen. In fact, the risk of some AIDS-related cancers still remains high despite the ongoing drug therapy. Additionally, in the current economic crisis, the financial burden of the long term treatment of these patients on California taxpayers is even more obvious. In 2006, the lifetime cost of taking care of an HIV patient was calculated to be about $618,900. Most of this was related to the medication cost. With the introduction of new HIV medications that have a substantially higher price and with the increase in the survival of HIV/AIDS patients, the cost of taking care of these patients can be estimated to be very high.
The proposed budget cuts and projected shortfall in the California AIDS assistant programs such as ADAP will make the situation worse and could result in catastrophic consequences for patients who desperately need this of kind of support. Consequently, improved therapeutic approaches and the focus on developing a cure for HIV infected patients are issues of great importance to the people of California.
Our proposed anti-HIV stem cell gene therapy strategy comprises the modification of autologous hematopoietic blood forming stem cells with a triple combination of potent anti-HIV genes delivered by a single lentiviral vector construct. This approach would engineer a patient's immune cells in a way to make them completely resistant to HIV infection. By transplanting these anti-HIV gene expressing stem cells back into an HIV infected patient, the ability of HIV to further replicate and ravage the patient's immune system would be diminished. The prospect of such a stem cell based therapy which may require only a single treatment to cure an HIV infected patient and which would last for the life of the individual would be especially compelling to the HIV community and the people of California.
Project Synopsis
The goal of this proposal is to demonstrate safety and effectiveness of a novel therapeutic against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in patients with relapsed B cell lymphoma. The treatment will consist of autologous bone marrow transplantation using a patient's own hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) that have been genetically modified to express three independent anti-HIV genes. The applicants hypothesize that since HSC have the ability to self-renew, these cells will allow subsequent repopulation of the patient's immune system with derivatives that are resistant to HIV. Proposed activities include completion of investigational new drug (IND)-enabling studies, filing of an IND and appropriate regulatory approvals, and initiation and completion of a Phase I/II clinical trial.
Significance and Impact
- The proposed target profile is reasonable and appropriate, and the intended patient population is well delineated.
- Although patients with relapsed B cell lymphoma comprise a very small subset of the HIV+ population, the proposed studies could yield proof of concept that would inform the development of other HIV treatments.
- While modern retroviral therapy has been extremely effective in the vast majority of HIV+ patients, these medications can be costly, must be taken for life, and can be associated with toxicity and other complications. If successful, the proposed strategy may enable a one-time functional cure for HIV infection, or at least reduce the number of daily medications that are needed to control the disease.
- The impact of this approach on HIV standard of care is uncertain, as autologous bone marrow transplantation is a risky procedure that is not likely to be offered to patients other than those requiring one for another indication, such as cancer. If a safe conditioning regimen were to be devised, however, it is possible that this approach could be more widely implemented.
- Reviewers cautioned that the effectiveness of the proposed therapeutic could potentially be limited by the need for ongoing expression of the anti-HIV genes and/or unexpected negative effects of their long term expression on HSC-derived lineages.
-The proposed therapy could be quite expensive, and it is questionable whether it would be feasible in patients from underdeveloped countries in near future.
- The applicant describes a single development candidate and proposes activities that are fully within scope of this RFA. It is likely that that one or more project objectives will be readily achieved within four years.
Project Rationale and Feasibility
- The rationale for targeting three distinct genes is excellent, as it reduces the risk of losing all anti-HIV activity by gene silencing as well as development of viral resistance. This approach also has the advantage of being active against CXCR4- as well as CCR5-specific HIV variants.
- A major concern is the potential difficulty in recruiting sufficient patients to complete the clinical trial in the project period. The proposal did not describe the applicant institution's ability to identify HIV+ patients with relapsed B cell lymphoma who require an autologous transplant, a challenging scenario even at the largest transplant hospitals. Reviewers suggested that a multi-center trial might be in order.
- The draft project plan is feasible and should provide useful data for informing go/no go decisions. The milestones are clearly outlined, and the project activities are sufficiently focused to advance knowledge on safety and/or efficacy. The timelines are reasonable but ambitious, given the need to complete manufacture and testing of the gene modification vector under good manufacturing practices (GMP).
- Reviewers discussed a number of weaknesses in the preliminary data, which is not published, and questioned the predictive value of those studies. For example, some experiments utilized different starting material than that which is proposed for the clinical trial. Moreover, the order in which cells were modified and infected with HIV does not mimic the clinical situation, where patient cells would be infected prior to genetic modification.
- The proposed two-part clinical trial design is very good and mitigates risk.
- Reviewers found the strength of the preclinical work difficult to judge and therefore suggested that the applicant include data or discussion of the long-term durability of engraftment in the mouse model, as well as studies to compare the engraftment efficiency of anti-HIV transduced cells to un-manipulated cells. They further recommended that error bars/statistics be included on data so that reviewers can assess variability.
- Reviewers suggested that the applicant address the following questions in the full proposal: 1) Do anti-HIV gene expression levels change over time? 2) What is the period for follow-up tumorigenicity studies? 3) In patients, antiretroviral therapy will be suspended upon engraftment; how will this therapy affect engraftment if administered at the time of stem cell infusion? How will this therapy be managed subsequent to treatment and what risks will that present?
- Reviewers suggested that it would be useful if preclinical studies included benchmarks and internal controls, for example to compare the proposed vector system to one that has already gone into patients. Actual data showing strong suppression of viremia in the animal model would also strengthen the proposal.
- Reviewers recommended inclusion of a pre-pre-IND meeting in the early stages of this project.
Principal Investigator (PI) and Planning Leader
- The PI is highly experienced with bone marrow transplantation, including the use of gene-modified cells for treating cancer. He/she has been actively involved in multiple clinical trials and is well qualified to lead this effort.
- The Planning Leader has extensive experience with stem cell gene therapy trials for HIV. He/she has significant expertise on the technical aspects of cellular development and gene therapy, including GMP production of lentiviral vector and clinical grade transduced stem cells.
- Andrew Balber


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my blue turqs are finally comfy.
Long story short I got some blue turqs, sick ones, and had to get a bunch of replacements ones and a whole lot of hassle. Anyway, we have 4 left that are doing well. I have got them to accept hand fed food so that's pretty exciting. I find that if I hand feed them a bit first then they don't pay attention to the pecking order and everyone gets an equal amount. After I put the rest of the food in then the pecking order comes into play again. I am quite hopeful that these guys will get to be big beautiful fish. :D
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By ROBERT PALMER, Special to the New York Times
Published: October 18, 1986
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 17— Chuck Berry's 60th-birthday concert brought a cast of international rock luminaries to the Fox Theater here Thursday for two concerts. The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards assembled and led Mr. Berry's backup band, and there were guest appearances from Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Etta James and Julian Lennon, among others. The second of two shows was inspirational; the first was derailed by a Hollywood film crew and its director, Taylor Hackford.
Mr. Berry, the most incisive lyricist and influential guitarist of rock-and-roll's first decade, grew up in St. Louis and still lives here. He has also had his share of troubles here. Yesterday he starred in his own concert, film and after-the-show birthday celebration, received the key to the city and got congratulatory telegrams from President Reagan, Carl Sagan and rock-star admirers.
The original songs Mr. Berry performed were flawlessly chosen. They reflected his exceptional gift for the American vernacular with their rapid-fire images of open highways and youthful promise. As expected, Mr. Berry also did his celebrated duck walk across the stage and danced, sang and played guitar with the same lean, tensile grace.
But it took Johnny Johnson, the little-known barrelhouse pianist who played on Mr. Berry's early records, and the British rockers Mr. Richards and Mr. Clapton to salvage the first concert from the film crew's intrusions. The show ground to a halt after almost every song, and Mr. Hackford, who directed ''White Knights'' and ''An Officer and a Gentleman,'' frequently bustled on stage, interrupting the proceedings, intimidating the much-too-patient audience and making it impossible for the performers to build momentum or sustain a mood.
Ms. Ronstadt came on stage to sing a forced, unconvincing rendition of Mr. Berry's ''Living in the U.S.A.'' She did not return for the second show, which otherwise followed the same program. Julian Lennon and Mr. Berry sang an excruciatingly out-of-tune duet on ''Johnny B. Goode.''
But Mr. Clapton played and sang the blues with consummate authority, and with a kind of selfless virtuosity that brought the audience to its feet. Mr. Richards played Hasidic riffs to keep the band on track in the face of severe sound problems, and he galvanized the crowd whenever Mr. Berry gave him the nod for a solo.
Some jam-session-style improvisations added the fine guitarist Robert Cray and featured Mr. Johnson's sovereign mastery of blues and boogie-woogie piano idioms. And finally, the great soul singer Etta James simply roared through Mr. Berry's ''Rock-and-Roll Music.''
The second show found the band's guest performers determined to avoid another near-debacle; the music clicked right away and kept moving with minimal interruptions. Fortunately, the earlier show's sound problems had been cleared up. One could finally hear the band Mr. Richards had assembled, and one noted that the individual musicians could now hear one another.
The pairing of Steve Jordan, drummer for the David Letterman television show's band, and Joey Spampinato, bassist for the rock group NRBQ, seemed odd initially. But the second show found these two musicians working effectively as a team. Mr. Cray had been drafted into the band as second guitarist, and he helped Mr. Richards loosen up for some spectacularly taut, hard-edged solos while bringing a more relaxed, fluid feeling to the rhythm section. The organist Chuck Leavell and the saxophonist Bobby Keys, both veterans of tours with the Rolling Stones, played ably and could finally be heard. And once again, the pianist Mr. Johnson stole the show with playing worthy of any of the boogie-woogie greats.
This time, Mr. Lennon and Mr. Berry harmonized passably, at least; Ingrid Berry harmonized more winningly with her father. Mr. Clapton's guitar harmonics pealed like church bells, and Mr. Cray and Mr. Berry sang together on ''Brown-Eyed Handsome Man.''
Ms. James improved on her stunning performance from the first show, then improvised in an even more galvanizing ''Hoochie Coochie Man,'' which celebrated Mr. Berry as ''badder than Jesse James'' and ''the king of rock-and-roll.'' The star himself was driven on stage in a red Cadillac convertible for the finale.
Martin Scorcese showed in making the Band's ''Last Waltz'' that a Hollywood director and full crew can film a rock concert superbly without interrupting the music or intruding on the audience. Perhaps the first-show crowd will at least see a worthwhile film. The second show's highlights were just about as exciting as rock-and-roll gets. For Mr. Berry, the evening can only be described as a triumph.
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More than 11,000 cormorants killed during first season on Santee Cooper
SCDNR said hunters averaged almost 25 birds per trip
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Hunters killed more than 11,000 cormorants during a month-long season on the Santee Cooper lakes, according to SCDNR.
During South Carolina's first-ever double-crested cormorant season, hunters killed more than 11,000 of the nuisance birds in the Santee Cooper lakes, according to the S.C. Department of Natural Resources.
The season, which SCDNR got after the population of the federally protected, fish-eating birds on Lake Marion and Lake Moultrie skyrocketed from 6,000 in 2008 to 25,000 in 2012, lasted from Feb. 2-March 1. According to surveys from Clemson Extension, each bird at an estimated eight fish per day.
SCDNR issued 1,225 special permits tied to training sessions hunters were required to attend. The agency estimated that 40 percent of the hunters who had permits hunted, with almost 500 returning information forms that detailed the numbers of hours spent afield and the number of birds killed.
While the average number of cormorants killed per person was 23.5, one hunter reported killing 278. Jim Strong of Strong Arms in Sumter killed more than 80; he said it took between three or four shots to kill one bird.
"Those birds are tougher than we all thought. It usually takes two to three to knock them out of the air, then another shot to put them away," he said.
Derrell Shipes, chief of statewide wildlife projects for SCDNR, said a season next year is likely, thanks to a stipulation in the law that obliges the agency to allow another season. But Shipes expects it will be set up differently than this year's season.
"The agency has to look at what about the first season worked well, and what didn't," he said, with biologists looking at "how significant is that number of birds killed, and what will be its impact."
Shipes said SCDNR has been contacted by wildlife agencies in Oregon and Texas, two states with large populations of cormorants, who wanted details of South Carolina's first season. Those states are looking at holding similar seasons.
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We're not sure how this one got past Apple's App Store censors, but the clever kids at Nullriver have released what appears to be the first tethering solution for the iPhone. The $10 NetShare app is just a SOCKS proxy that links an ad-hoc WiFi network to the iPhone's 3G or EDGE connection — and if we could get it to work, we'd probably think it was a fine, if hacky, solution to a major limitation of Steve's baby. As it stands, though, the instructions are pretty sparse, and while we can get the app to recognize a connection, we're not able to actually load anything. We're not sure how long this one's going to last — anyone else willing to give it a shot before it gets yanked?
As an iPhone owner, I noticed the above story over at Engadget while at work yesterday. I just put it in the back of my mind as something I'd do a little later in the day, spend the $10 bucks on the Nullriver app that allows my iPhone 3G to do something I've been wanting to since I've had the thing… connect to it wirelessly via my Nokia N810 or laptop while mobile.
That is until Apple, who had previously allowed and authorized the useful app into their coveted App Store, adding a functionality that's on most smartphones worth more than 2 cents, as well as jailbroken iPhones as well. For free.
So at the end of the day, what happens? Apple pulls the app. Now who do the geeks with an iPhone that's honestly lacking a few areas of functionality that other users have had for years get mad at? AT&T or Apple?
Can't say that I'm surprised though.
Update: It's back in the Apple App Store. I couldn't even begin to tell you what's going on with this; but if you really wanted it, go get it now before they change their mind… again.
Update: And it's gone again.
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Not sure how to pull back a published rant… so I'll just say that I hope this sticks around long enough for me to pick it up.
The Internet has come a long way since its inception. There are now several different ways to get an internet connection. One can do this by inserting wireless internet card in computer or can use DSL. Apart from this, internet phones and ip phones are there as well to help people connect internet through phones. Internet telephony is not the last option available, wireless internet providers are there as well to offer internet connectivity.


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June is Torture Awareness Month, and to observe it, the Las Vegas group of Amnesty International will hold two events this Friday and Saturday.
The Saturday event will be the annual vigil to remember victims of torture, taking place from 10 to 10:30 a.m. at the corner of Sixth and National. The night before, the group will show a film, "The Response," a dramatization of a panel of military judges deciding whether an alleged enemy combatant should be released from detention at Guantánamo, or continue to be imprisoned, perhaps indefinitely.
In response to the advertisement in the Optic about the Mora San Miguel Electric Co-op annual meeting: I find the ad offensive because it is factually incorrect, and misses the larger point. The ad states that one of the proposed bylaw changes suggests moving the cooperative to Pecos, which is not the case. In the spirit of full disclosure, I did not submit, write, or collaborate on proposal No.
Thumbs UP for ... SHOW'S OVER. Val Kilmer gave an awkward apology at this week's San Miguel County Commission meeting, saying he was sorry about what he says he didn't say. And while that seems to be enough for most, it may not have been enough for his main antagonist, Abe Tapia, who was also put off by the "police state" approach to Wednesday's meeting.
Apparently, the Mora-San Miguel Electric Cooperative has not even considered using current technology to solve the distance-to-meeting problem for its membership. Simply employ video teleconferencing from the Pecos office during meetings. This technology has been available for at least two decades, is proven, and is increasingly popular in commercial settings as the cost of travel increases. There are a number of commercial services offering this technology; for instance, Go To Meeting or Webex, among others.
All right, Tom Mullins, which version of your loose-lips-sink-ships inanity would you like for the public to bruit around?
Republican Tom Mullins, who will face U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan in the November general election, was on local radio station KNMX in May. Although he made the following quoted remarks about a month ago, before winning the recent primaries, the full impact of the statements appeared in the press only last week.
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We're glad Las Vegas Police Chief Gary Gold has decided not to use the electroshock weapon known as Tasers in his department. He said the history of lawsuits and the number of reported injuries that stem from their use led him to conclude that they are just too risky. We think he's doing the right thing by banning their use.
The Las Vegas City Schools has held the Fifth Grade Boys' and Girls' Basketball Tournament successfully for the past 10 years. This would not be possible without the support of the school administrators, teachers, parents, and coaches. A special thanks to Coach Fabian Trujillo, Coach Raynee Gerhart, Coach Benny Ortiz, Pete Garcia and Justin Montoya, as well as our sponsors, Elk Lodge 408 and the Bank of Las Vegas.
Congratulations to the 2010 Champions: Legion Park Boys and the Los Niños Girls.
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Sniper Ghost Warrior 2 Siberian Strike is set in an isolated Siberian location and will offer a more open world experience for solving missions. Players will not be guided and the only way to find their way through the new location is by using the map.
In the remote abandoned Siberian city of Birsovik, the Russian government established a top secret military installation focused on arms R&D. American intelligence gets word that the facility shifted its focus recently to weapons of mass destruction. A CIA operative, M. Diaz is sent in undercover, posing as lab personnel, to uncover the truth. When he stops sending in reports, a search mission is quickly put together.
The player steps in the shoes of Cole "Sandman" Anderson, a veteran special ops sniper, now in the ranks of Task 121 – a group put together to counter any WMD-hungry warlord's whim in the Asia – Pacific region. Anderson is ordered to locate Diaz's GPS signal and assess the situation on the ground, then extract any intelligence he may have found.
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Well roundedDanielZo0 | June 11, 2013 | See all DanielZo0's reviews »
This game is actually surprisingly good after the first. Please ignore GhostsofWar he is obviously a SEV2 fanboy. Pros-- -Great Visuals (CryEngine 3 baby) -Fixed AI (Ignore GhostsofWar he must just really suck... They are smarter with their attacks, they dont see you after you shoot from 500m away with a silenced rifle, They dont detect you when you are hiding pretty close with a ghillie suit, they dont have aimbots, etc.) -Plays a lot smoother than 1st/less clunky gameplay -Smooth and clean menu -Way more sniping knowledge needed. aka less hand holding Cons-- -Minor bugs, but it is only 10 hours from launch at time of writing. Patches will come. -Multiplayer is very fun, but that is the most bugged. Very rarely connects to lobbies, 1 game mode, 2 maps. But when you do get in -and that's what I'm judging on- its awesome. And like I said before 10 hours in... Patches will come...
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Definitely a worthwhile add-on if you enjoyed Sniper Ghost Warrior 2. Very different environment from the main game. The falling snow seems a little too real! Not really as "open-world" as the description makes it out to be, but not entirely scripted either.


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After complete three months break in the Bahamas, the Microsoft Touch Mouse Sensor SDK has once more resurfaced on the Microsoft Research download site in both 32-bit and 64-bit desires. Better grab it before it makes another long hiatus.
The Microsoft Touch Mouse patronages multitouch gestures through an integrated sensor. The Touch Mouse Sensor API software-development kit (SDK) is a small library envisioned to enable students and researchers to experiment directly with Touch Mouse sensor output. Using this SDK, you can create your own applications consuming the 13 x 15 sensor image.


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White House weighs executive action to limit weapons
Vice President Joe Biden vowed urgent action against gun violence in America Wednesday, pledging steps by the Obama administration that he said could "take thousands of people out of harm's way" and improve the safety of millions more.
But a day ahead of a meeting with the National Rifle Association, which has sunk past gun-control efforts and is opposing any new ones, Biden signaled that the administration is mindful of political realities that could imperil sweeping gun-control legislation, and is willing to settle for something less. He said the administration is considering its own executive action as well as measures by Congress, but he didn't offer specifics.
"I want to make it clear that we are not going to get caught up in the notion that unless we can do everything, we're going to do nothing," Biden told an array of gun- control advocates, crime victims and others at the White House. "It's critically important we act."
Shortly after last month's slaughter of schoolchildren at Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama tasked Biden with heading a commission to come up with recommendations on gun policy by the end of this month. Obama supports steps including reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines and closing loopholes that allow many gun buyers to avoid background checks.
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence says that some 40 percent of gun sales are made without background checks, such as at gun shows and over the Internet.
The tragedy in Newtown, in which 20 young children and six adults were gunned down by a man with a military-style, semi-automatic rifle, has prodded the administration to act. Obama had remained largely silent on gun control after the 2011 shootings in Tucson, Ariz., that killed six people and wounded 12 others, including then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and the Colorado movie theater killing of a dozen people and wounding of many more last July.
On Thursday, a new gun- control group led by Giffords said it wants to raise $20 million for the 2014 congressional elections, matching the NRA's spending in last November's elections.
Giffords and her husband, former U.S. astronaut Mark Kelly, have turned to Houston trial lawyer and Democratic donor Steve Mostyn to act as the group's treasurer. He gave $1 million of his own money to help kick start a campaign launched on Tuesday calling for what Giffords and Kelly describe as common-sense measures to curb gun violence.
"We are going to provide support and backing for candidates in U.S. Congress and U.S. Senate races that are attacked by the NRA for taking moderate positions on common-sense gun safety issues," Mostyn said. "We will also field candidates."
Meanwhile, Connecticut is moving cautiously on gun control, but Gov. Andrew Cuomo in neighboring New York proposed a wide-ranging package of restrictions on Wednesday. He called for loopholes to be closed in a New York ban on assault weapons and ammunition magazines that carry more than 10 bullets. The Democrat also wants to require holders of handgun licenses to undergo follow-ups to make sure they are still qualified to possess a weapon, and he is calling for increased sentences for certain gun crimes.
Biden, referring to the Newtown shootings, said at the White House: "Every once in a while, there's something that awakens the conscience of the country, and that tragic event did it in a way like nothing I've seen in my career.
"The president and I are determined to take action. ... We can affect the well-being of millions of Americans and take thousands of people out of harm's way if we act responsibly."
Biden said that the administration is weighing executive action in addition to recommending legislation by Congress. Recommendations to the Biden group include making gun-trafficking a felony, getting the Justice Department to prosecute people caught lying on gun background-check forms, and ordering federal agencies to send data to the National Gun Background Check Database.


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Friday, December 21, 2012
The University of Missouri athletic department has received a $6.4 million gift.
The donors, who wish to remain annonomyous, will spread the money out during the next 10 years.
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Brady Dougan Discusses Changes at Credit Suisse
Speaking two weeks after first-quarter results showing a surge in profits, Credit Suisse Chief Executive Brady Dougan discusses the bank's business model with The Wall Street Journal's Finance Editor, Francesco Guerrera.
Dougan says first-quarter results underline a sustainable business model that makes the most of a strong private banking and wealth management franchise to balance the investment bank.
He explains the bank's decision to exit certain riskier business lines early on, and his ambitions for return on capital, banker pay as well as why he is proud to drive a Prius.


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Ideally positioned right on The Strand in Dee Why, with views of Dee Why beach and beyond, our recently renovated restaurant provides you comfort and great Thai cuisine. Indeed, The Thai and I has been offering diners traditional and modern Thai cuisine for the last 20 years.
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Does a location define its food, or does the food define its location?
While there is no right or wrong answer, Martie Duncan, of Martie Knows Parties and season eight of "Food Network Star," believes that food and the place it comes from have always been synonymous.
Especially when it comes to her home state, Alabama.
"Music, movies and books have been inspired by our food and food culture. If someone says 'Fried Green Tomatoes,' you automatically think of Alabama. We are so proud of our food culture. It's how we provide insight into how we live. We even promote it subconsciously."
"My friends from around the world, who have never been to Alabama, are dying to make the trip simply because of the food," she continues. "They've heard my stories of creamy shrimp and grits, with the shrimp just pulled from the Gulf; smoky BBQ pork piled high on a toasted bun; huge, fluffy biscuits slathered with sausage gravy; massive mile-high pies; and of course, the local favorite – meat and three."
While Birmingham-native Duncan points out Alabama food is homey and comforting ("it's simple and it's family"), she says don't like that fool you, though.
"We are a culinary mecca with many James Beard Foundation winners and nominees within our borders. Come to Alabama and taste for yourself."
And this year is a perfect time to do so, since the state is celebrating "The Year of Alabama Food." No matter what part of the state you visit, you are sure enjoy a cornucopia of flavors through a variety of dishes.
But don't take my word for it. Meet some of the chefs who, along with their restaurants, have helped turned Alabama into a strong culinary destination.
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There are many reasons to visit Huntsville. The city is home to such places as the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, the Botanical Gardens and the Harrison Brothers, the oldest hardware store in the state.
And then there's the food.
Over the past few years, Huntsville has developed quite a buzz among true foodies and most of it is due to chef James Boyce.
The 20-year culinary veteran, whose curriculum vitae includes such places as the highly-acclaimed Le Cirque in New York City, Phoenician in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, was encouraged by someone he had met in the area to come out and visit Huntsville.
Four years later, Boyce and his family have found home. "Here we are, and we love it here," says Boyce.
In 2008, he opened Cotton Row (recipient of Wine Spectator's Award of Excellence and AAA Diamond rated), followed by Pano e Vino in 2009 and Commerce Kitchen in 2010. Operating under the Boyce Restaurant Concepts, each restaurant provides a different culinary experience. At Cotton Row, you can expect as Boyce describes as "gourmet American/Southern classic, with a mix of French and Southern California influences." He points out that Pano e Vino is "a full service Italian bistro," while Commerce he calls a "glorified meat and three."
"Our interpretation of a southern experience is a little different from other places," he says."
"Not sure if we have redefined southern cuisine, but hopefully we have accomplished opening eyes to different styles of food."
While his menus change with seasons, he says there are classic dishes at Cotton Row he would consider as favorites. On his must-try list includes the Braised Meyer Ranch Beef Short Ribs (included on the 2012 edition of the "100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die"), featuring a local twist – Anson Mill grits- and also served with balsamic portobello mushroom, herb salad and provencal tomato. Another entree is the Seared Maine Diver Sea Scallop complete with amish field bean cassoulet, baby tomatoes, collard greens and ramp cream sauce.
When is comes to dessert, Boyce is quick to answer, "Peanut Butter and Jelly Phyllo." This treat, highlighted as a famous dish with "The Year of Alabama Food," includes milk chocolate ice cream, salty peanuts and strawberry compote.
Gary Garner, owner and chef, Garrett's Restaurant
'Art of Food' is more than a tagline at Garrett's Restaurant in Montgomery, it describes how the overall experience at the restaurant engages all of the senses.
"When you provide top-notch service within an unique atmosphere and enjoy great food, you've pulled off the perfect dining experience," comments Gary Garner, owner and chef. " At Garrett's, it's known as the 'art of food.'"
"We're different. The restaurant is unique for Montgomery."
The phrase is also a nod to the food presentation as well. Garner, a self-taught chef, taps into his artistry skills to create eye-appealing dishes. As for the dishes' palate-appeal, he utilizes as much local and regional products available.
"The duck and the lamb come from local resources. When it comes to seafood dishes, I tend to use everything from the Gulf coast."
Referring to his dishes as "traditional southern food with a twist," items found on the include grilled Gulf Shrimp with Crabmeat Remoulade sauce and Flash-Fried Oysters that Garner says are "crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside," topped with special horseradish sauce ("I am known for my sauces.") There's also Grilled Pork Loin Chop served with
smoked Gouda macaroni and cheese, sautéed collard greens and a pancetta Tabasco beurre sauce, and Grilled Duck Breast over butternut squash and wild mushroom risotto with Bing cherry soy glaze and tempura haricot verts to try as well.
Do save room for dessert, because there is the Pecan Pie Martini (included in the 2010 edition of "100 Dishes to Eat in Alabama Before You Die") served in a martini glass. Garner calls it a cocktail and dessert in one. One of its many highlights is the Jack Daniels ice cream. For a little heat, try his Jalapeño Truffle Filled Chocolate Soufflé (recognized as a famous dish with "The Year of Alabama Food"), which he says is a perfect blend between sweet and heat.
Bill Schleusner, chef and co-owner, Rawls Restaurant
Every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, chef Bill Schleusner is on a mission. Visiting different farmers markets, he is searching out the freshest, locally-grown items to use in his dishes at Rawls Restaurant in Enterprise.
Farm-to-table is more than a trend with the Birmingham-native who graduated from Culinary Institute Academy, it's his way of cooking.
"I believe in preparing food in the old-school way, the way food was meant to be done -simple, seasoned well and cooked properly. It's not meant to confuse people."
"I don't like to manipulate the food so much to where people can't recognize what they are eating."
Trained and worked in restaurants in New York City and Birmingham, Schleusner is all about fresh products and ingredients.
"I don't like using cans or frozen items. You just don't know where it came from."
Rawls Restaurant's menu reads like a "who's-who" in local/regional products. Listed among the appetizers is the grilled Chilton County peaches (grown in Alabama) with shaved Tennessee Country Ham (courtesy of Benton's), Tupelo honey (comes from Florida) and greens, or the Fried Apalachicola oysters served with lemon and horseradish-tartar sauce.
On the entree side, there's the shrimp and grits with Conecuh sausage (produced in Alabama), which Schleusner says is prepared in more of a Louisiana-style; and the sautéed grouper (proudly from the Gulf) accompanied by a mix of vegetables.
Desserts follow the same rule as well – chose among the Carver Cup that features Sessions peanuts (produced in Alabama) and the Chilton County Peach Bread Pudding with vanilla ice cream.
"We offer people a choice," says Schleunser. " They go to a chain or spend a little extra money and enjoy a nice meal, centered around the finest and freshest local and regional products."


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Celebrating Arboy Day in Sterling
Sterling High School senior students Dasan Klingenberg and Marissa Larson water a Sir Galahad Flowering Crab tree that was planted at the high school Friday morning by the Sterling Tree Board. The board celebrated Arbor Day by planting five trees as they apply for a Tree City USA recognition. The volunteer students are members of BLIND (Building Lasting Impressions that Never Die), a student group that teaches character and leadership.
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