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Katy Perry Wanted Russell Brand To File For Divorce Because She's An Alcoholic Who's Afraid Of Her Parents
For those of you just joining the Internet, Russell Brand filed for divorce from Katy Perry after the two spent months pretending they're happily married, even going so far as to pump Katy full of booze and fast food to make her look pregnant. Except not really, she just has a drinking problem which is how I chose to read this. TMZ reports:
Our sources tell us … because of the friction and their schedules, they never spent long periods of time with each other.
One big bone of contention … Russell was much more of a homebody than Katy. Katy loved going out and partying, while Russell (who is sober) didn't enjoy the scene at all. We're told he would often insist on leaving places early and asking her to come with … which would trigger an argument.
Wow, so Russell Brand's life really is like Get Him To The Greek. It's suddenly a good time to be Lars Ulrich. (If you saw the movie, that joke was funny. I'd never lie to you.) Anyway, there was talk that Russell blindsided Katy by filing for divorce in London right before New Year's, but apparently she wanted him to pull the trigger because he's already a godless heathen, so her parents won't freak out and send her to Bible Camp again:
We're told both Katy and Russell were on board with the divorce a few weeks ago — but they didn't want to be in town when the papers were filed … so he went back to England and she booked it to Hawaii.
Since Katy's parents are evangelical Christians, we're told she didn't want to be the one to "officially" end the marriage by filing the docs … since she was raised to believe divorce is wrong.
Yes, because after quitting the Christian music industry to use your breasts as a launch pad for singing songs about experimental lesbianism then getting married in a Hindu ceremony, breaking things off with a British heroin addict who verbally assaults anti-gay "crusaders" is what's really going to make the Baby Jesus cry here. I get the feeling Katy Perry is missing the big picture, and that big picture is she already tipped her parents' hand by revealing they've cracked Satan's code and know he's hiding inside boxes of Lucky Charms. You have cost the Lord Thy God this realm, gluttonly titted harlot!
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On Wed, 31 May 2000, Ben Greear wrote: > jamal wrote: > > > > Ben, > > > > Your architecture of maintaining a device per VLAN does not scale; > > (as you might have heard from your numerous attempts to change device > > lookups). > > I have no intention of changing device lookups. I did write my own method > of naming them, but that's quite trivial. > > > What is the specific reason that you insist on mapping a VLAN to a device? > > Have you thought of using a VLAN lookup table instead? > > I do use a vlan lookup table, did you think I do a linear search through > the vlans for incomming pkts or something??? As far as I recall, every > lookup involved in any critical path is constant time. That is one of > the reasons I believe my implementation will scale better than the > other project... (could be wrong...) I just scanned through the other code and this is _exactly_ what i had in mind. ccing the authors incase they are not in the list. Their scanning algorithm certainly needs improvement > A VLAN should look just like an ethernet port. I **WANT** it to look > exactly like a device, so why not actually make it one?? I want to > use tcpdump on it, Modify tcpdump to do Vlan recognition (if it doesnt already). > I want to route, firewall, bridge and do everything > else that a device would do. VLANs are primarily for switching. Fair enough that you want to route them. But you can certainly still do this with policy routing for example. The only place i see routing taking effect is in the boundary between VLANs and non-VLAN domains. Out of ignorance: Is there anyone (vendor) who does routing of VLANs? firewalling: I believe the bridging folks are trying to move netfilter/ipchains down there; i dont know what the progress status is. > How can that be done if the VLAN is not > a device, and if it could be done, why would it be any more efficient? > Again from the above, you really dont need a device. Really, take a look at James Leu's MPLS which is a similar (introduces the extra shim headers etc) but a more complex issue. He doesnt introduce any new devices. Use a table or whatever structure (radix tree etc); allow search by VLANid, priority etc; With these you are free to put whatever search schemes, naming conventions etc that you want instead of subjecting the rest of the kernel to something that you need for your feature. In any case when there are two solutions, they need to get unified before making it into the kernel proper. On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Michael Richardson wrote: > > >>>>> "jamal" == jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > jamal> What is the specific reason that you insist on mapping a VLAN > > It is a nice abtraction. It has known interfaces (ifconfig, netstat,route). > hope my comments above answer this. On Wed, 31 May 2000, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > Is it just impossible to make this scale in 2.5? There are other things > which could require large numbers of network devices (like large-scale > PPPoA/PPPoE termination), it would be nice to support them. > 1) Fix pppd. Paulus is planning on a total re-write (i think you were copied on that email) 2) allow for multiple channels per device. With the new pppox architecture, you can then have a single socket selecting/polling for multiple circuits. cheers, jamal
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On 17.11.2004 19:59 +0100, Peter Allgeyer wrote:
> Yes, there is an information in the ports collection about
> ---< schnipp >---
> If vpnc fails with
> socket(SOCK_RAW): Protocol not supported
> check your kernel configuration. The ESP protocol is only
> enabled for FAST_IPSEC (this cannot be configured together with
> IPSEC). See LINT for further details.
> ---< schnapp >---
> M0n0wall is using FAST_IPSEC kernel option, so no problem, I
> thought :-( There must be another problem with the options compiled
> in m0n0wall, because it's not possible to open a raw socket to the
> ESP port (as in tunip.c). Maybe someone can track this down. Here
> is a sample code to play with:
I've toyed with vpnc on FreeBSD 4.10 a few months ago (for use with
the Cisco VPN concentrator at the university), and I actually had to
remove all kernel-based IPsec support (i.e. no FAST_IPSEC, and no
IPSEC(_ESP) either) to make it work, since vpnc handles ESP in
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Franklin County authorities plan to seek charges against at least one of two men accused of smuggling contraband into the county jail in separate incidents recently.
Bringing contraband into a jail facility is a felony offense in Missouri.
Sheriff Gary Toelke said the separate incidents happened in the last week.
One of the suspects had narcotics and drug paraphernalia hidden in a body cavity. The other attempted to smuggle in tobacco, also hidden in a body cavity.
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John Hickenlooper at last summer's Civic Center Eats.
As mayor, John Hickenlooper frequented the gourmet food trucks that parked outside City Hall for Civic Center Eats. Now Denver City Council representative Carla Madison, as head of the city's truck task force, is overseeing a study of the rules governing the operations of those trucks. She hopes to have a few fast fixes in place this spring -- definitely before the next mayor takes office.
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I originally looked at second hand outboards, but decided I needed reliability and a new motor was the best idea so I bought the remote version of the 9.8 hp Parsun motor, on the first and only trip out, it took 20 mins to start, then would not run up properly. Ran it for a maximum of 2 miles on 1/4 throttle as it would not rev any higher, then it would not tick over or start when hot. After inspection by local engineers, found oil leaking and one cylinder running rich fouling plugs in 2 mins, and the other cylinder running lean? Would not tick over or start if warm. So far this has proven not only unreliable, but utterly useless.
It is likely the engine needs a full strip down to find the problem. ( not carb, valves, cams etc all checked out already).
I am looking for a replacement or change to a non-Chinese motor as I need reliability as a primary requirement. At the early stages of getting a real resolution to this problem, so the quality of the back up is still being tested, hopefully the back up from the dealer will soften the bad experience of the Parsun...watch this space!
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Atterbury Family gives gift in support of the Campaign for UMKC
Student Success Center named in their honor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The UMKC Foundation, on behalf of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has received a gift from Mary and Alan Atterbury and the Atterbury Family Foundation for the Campaign for UMKC. In their honor, the university has named its newly renovated student centerpiece building the Atterbury Student Success Center.
"The Atterburys have been active supporters of UMKC and the Kansas City community, and this gift is evidence of that continued support," said UMKC Chancellor Leo E. Morton. "The Student Success Center is the keystone to achieving Goal Number 1 of our Strategic Plan - to place student success at the center - and the Atterburys are a perfect namesake for that building."
The Atterburys are longtime friends of UMKC, having made significant past contributions directly and through the Atterbury Family Foundation in support of the University, including the endowment of scholarships for the UMKC Trustees Scholarship Program and the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance.
"Alan Atterbury has been instrumental in establishing and leading the UMKC Foundation," said Murray Blackwelder, president of the foundation. "The Atterburys have been strong supporters of education in our community and their current gift will provide important progress in reaching our campaign goal."
Alan Atterbury currently serves as chairman of the UMKC Foundation and has served as a UMKC Trustee, chairing the board from 2003-2006. He was a supporter and contributor to the in-depth study on higher education in Kansas City that resulted in the "Time to Get It Right" report. One area stressed in the report was the need for a private endowment board to enhance and manage philanthropic investments in UMKC, which resulted in the establishment of the UMKC Foundation.
Mary Atterbury served on the Friends of the Conservatory Board of Directors, Friends of the Conservatory Ovation Committee, Crescendo Planning Committee and, with Alan, served as honorary chair of Crescendo 2007.
The UMKC Foundation recently set a record for annual funds raised on behalf of UMKC - more than $65 million in the 2011-2012 fiscal year. The foundation is leading a seven-year, $250 million Campaign for UMKC, and more that $129 million has been raised in three years.
About the UMKC Foundation
The UMKC Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization serving as the official fundraising and fundraising management organization for UMKC. For more information about the UMKC Foundation, visit umkcfoundation.org.
About the University of Missouri-Kansas City
The University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), one of four University of Missouri campuses, is a public university serving more than 15,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students. UMKC engages with the community and economy based on a four-part mission: life and health sciences; visual and performing arts; urban issues and education; and a vibrant learning and campus life experience. For more information about UMKC, visit www.umkc.edu. You can also find us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and watch us on YouTube.
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Four members of the Sulphur Springs High School Chapter of Business Professionals of America scored high enough at state to advance to the national leadership conference, five others were named as national alternates either in individual or team competition, one student earned the Statesman Torch Award and and a dozen students were noted for their participation in a walk to benefit Special Olympics.
"Students from our Sulphur Springs High School chapters of Business Professionals of America are an outstanding group of future business professionals," said chapter advisor Jenny Arledge, who teaches Accounting I and II as well as business information management. "These students have worked hard to learn what it takes to be a professional and have attained the business skills needed to earn their positions at the state level of competition, which emphasizes business workforce education and training."
Qualifying for national competition are Hunter Allen, Rebecca Halter, Karl Sehnert and Magan Smith. Sehnert advanced after taking first place honors in computer security at the state convention, Allen with a second place finish in human resource management, Halter third in database applications and Smith as the third-ranked administrative support research individual.
Halter also received special recognition for earning the Statesman Torch Award. Given at the state level, the Statesman Torch Award requires 50 points in each of the seven "Torch" categories — leadership; service; cooperation; knowledge; friendship; love, hope, faith; and patriotism. A statesman is defined by www.bpa.org as "one who is a leader in the promotion of the public good and in national affairs."
SSHS students named as national alternates based on their state rankings were Macy Johnston, Morgan Owens, Deketra Mosley, Abbey Martin and Nima Sherpa. Johnston and Owens were ranked the fourth place administrative support team at the state convention. Martin finished fourth in digital media production. Mosley finished seventh in advanced interview skills. Sherpa was named an alternate in payroll accounting after finishing sixth at state and also finished seventh in the open event of financial math and analysis concepts.
Also competing at the state level were the following students in their respective events: Hunter Allen in economic research team, Alexis Clayton in advanced office systems and procedures, Hagen Clevenger in basic office systems and procedures, Vivi Cruz in advanced word processing, Jordan Eckerd in C ++ programming, JT Grant in banking and finance, Iris Gutierrez in advanced spreadsheet applications, Rebecca Halter in economic research team, Sam Hammons in broadcast news production team, Mikayla Jones in database applications, Shannon Lucas in fundamental accounting, Morgan Owens in advanced office systems and procedures, Zaveria Sims in legal office procedures, Magan Smith in economic research team, Taylor Swinson in economic research team, Jacqueline Tovar-Yanez in JAVA programming, Rachel Winborn in broadcast news production team and Tino Zapata in banking and finance.
A dozen SSHS students were also noted for their participation in the state level "$10 for 10 Blocks — Walk for Winners" event, one of the challenges at regional, state and national BPA levels designed to raise funds for Special Olympics. Mikayla Jones, Iris Gutierrez, Tino Zapata, Hagen Clevenger, Shannon Lucas, Karl Sehnert, Nima Sherpa and Rachel Winborn participated in the walk. JT Grant, Macy Johnston, Abbey Martin, and Morgan Owens also participated in the fundraiser. A drawing was held for special prizes among those who walked. Iris Gutierrez won an iPad, Shannon Lucas won a $50 gift card, and both Mikayla Jones and Rachel Winborn won $25 gift cards.
Business Professionals of America is a national organization for high school, college and middle school students preparing for careers in business and information technology. The organization's activities and programs complement classroom instruction by giving students practical experience through application of the skills learned at school. Business Professionals of America acts as a cohesive agent in the nationwide networking of education and business and industry. BPA is contributing to the preparation of a world-class workforce through the advancement of leadership, citizenship, academic and technological skills.
Overall, 23 of SSHS BPA Chapter's 66 members joined over 2,500 other conference delegates from across the state at the Business Professionals of America 2014 State Leadership Conference, "Accelerate Your Future," March 5-8 in Houston, where they participated in state level business skills competitions, internships, general sessions, and state officer candidate campaigns and elections. Besides having the opportunity to excel, they experienced some of the sites in downtown Houston and neighboring Meyerland Plaza.
Those qualifying will make the trip to Indianapolis, Ind., April 30-May 4 for the national BPA leadership convention.
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The White House on Wednesday denied keeping Israel in the dark over ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran, but suggested its ally had cherry-picked information to bolster opposition to the deal.
Amid strains in the US-Israeli relationship over negotiations to reach a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, White House spokesman Josh Earnest rejected suggestions Israel was being frozen out.
"There were some initial reports that indicated that the United States is no longer communicating with our allies in Israel about the ongoing negotiations with Iran," said Earnest.
"That obviously is false," he added.
Earnest detailed a range of recent and planned meetings between Israeli intelligence and security bosses and the White House to show talks were ongoing.
But Earnest said the United States did not want to negotiate publicly, adding that Israel had previously misled the public about the US position in the talks.
"There is a continued practice of cherry-picking specific pieces of information and using them out of context to distort the negotiating position of the United States," he said.
"There's no question that some of the things that the Israelis have said in characterizing our negotiating position have not been accurate. There's no question about that."
The Iran nuclear talks are approaching a make-or-break point, with negotiators trying to reach a broad deal before March 31.
The deal could thaw more than three decades of animosity between Washington and Tehran and remake the Middle East.
Israel has actively opposed the deal, prompting one in a series of spats between President Barack Obama's administration and that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Obama has refused to meet Netanyahu during his Washington trip next month, saying diplomatic protocol forbids him from doing so, since the Israeli leader is running for re-election on March 17.
The two leaders have had a famously frosty relationship.
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Coffin Dodgers Disco: let's get ready to grumble
Too old for clubbing? No such thing. The kids aren't all right at this new over-28s night
Carl Hill and Mike Toller have been putting on nights in London since 2005. They've made us laugh at long-running pop party Club de Fromage and made us cry at Feeling Gloomy. For their next enterprise, however, they're telling a large chunk of London's clubbers to sod off.
Anyone under the age of 28 is barred from Coffin Dodgers Disco – their new monthly party which launches this week at The Albany. This isn't a joke – they will actually be checking ID on the door. More of a joke is their elderly 'door fascist' Vera, who'll be quizzing people on cultural references designed to weed out the whippersnappers (see some of their sample questions below). As an added novelty, genuine OAPs are allowed in for free. 'We've already got one confirmed to come down,' says Hill. 'I hope too many don't come or they'll bankrupt us.'
Why would two successful promoters want to exclude punters? As a man in his thirties, the desire to grow old gracefully was a spark for Hill: 'I remember watching an older DJ trying to be down with the kids. It was painful for me, the crowd and probably him. I swore they could take me to the knacker's yard before I got like that'.
Toller and Hill also noticed that certain adults felt alienated by clubland. 'People were grumbling to us that clubs weren't for them anymore. They weren't ready to go home at 11pm and put their slippers on; they just wanted to party among people their own age.'
Coffin Dodgers Disco won't be for everyone, even without the age restriction. The name alone suggests having a sense of humour about one's age is paramount. 'We want it to be exclusive,' says Hall, who hopes the night develops a fanbase that's both glad to be grey and game for a laugh.
In case there's any doubt that tongues are firmly in cheek, the party will be hosted by the promoter's ageing aliases – Don and Reg. Don is a retired taxi driver while Reg was a meat porter in Smithfield market. Both are escaping from Sweet Memories retirement home to slap down classic floorfillers until 2.30am – or until their colostomy bags reach critical mass. There may even be a late-night limbo contest – as long as their guest's hips don't give out. 'St John Ambulance will be on standby,' assures Hill.
Sucking in stomachs, pretending to be hip, staring jealously at wrinkle-less faces and wallets topped up by the bank of mum and dad... these are things anyone past their twenties shouldn't have to put up with. Salvation has arrived – you just need to admit that you're old to enjoy it.
Unfortunate enough to look younger than 28? Here's some tongue-in-cheek questions you may get asked on the door at Coffin Dodgers Disco...
1. Name two of the England footballers featured in the 1982 Panini World Cup sticker album.
2. Sing the theme to 'Mysterious Cities of Gold' or 'Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds'.
3. 'No-one goes away empty-handed.' What did contestants get for appearing on 'Blankety Blank'?
4. Do the 'Superman' dance. Bonus marks if you know the whole thing.
5. Who was Pauline married to in 'EastEnders' and why did he go to prison? Bonus point if you can name Sanjay's wife.
What a disappointment! Was looking forward to a great New Year's bash - but a major let-down. Rubbish music (do these guys understand bpm at all?), rubbish venue, no atmosphere, no balloons - not even a midnight countdown. Avoid this like the plague.
I love the idea, but am slightly concerned about the IDing on the door. At 32, I don't carry anything around any more that has my DOB on. And before you ask, No, I don't drive so I don't have a driving licence.
The concept works for The Mansion London: They host "The Black Chapter" a monthly house music night in South Kensington for people over 27: http://www.themansionlondon.com/#!next-event/c1f18


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|Dr. Darius CARPENTER, photo by Midge Frazel
The page for it at Find a Grave is just as exceptionally fine. Take a look.
By the way, the graves behind it are surname IDE.
Dedicated to gravestone research and photography, personal family history, technology and research ideas. Guided by my inner light, I strive to help others enjoy their ancestors. Charter Member of the Gravestone Rabbits.
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Hi Midge, That gravestone is in wonderful condition, as well as being loaded with information. Great find and nice post.
I went to research this stone and discovered that it was well done at Find a Grave. That saved me so much time.


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It's possible that the body of the surviving bust of the Head of a Man might have looked like Doryphoros, since the faces are almost mask-like in their impassive perfection. Polykleitos' treatment of the body is very volumetric, with masses of muscle and flesh rounded off into virtually abstract shapes, and the hair pasted tightly on the roundness of the skull.
Praxiteles's Hermes and the Infant Dionysos is based on Greek myth. In the scene depicted Hermes is holding Dionysos after saving him from the ashes of his mother Semele after she burst into flames at the sight of Zeus (Allan and Maitland 103).
Here again we have the idealized realism of Classical Greek sculpture. The face of the Head of a Man could be grafted onto the image of the god with little loss of effect, since these artists strove to imbue their human subjects with a god-like perfection of beauty. Like Polykleitos, Praxiteles has modelled anatomically correct bodies into smoothly graceful, glorious art.
The strongest evidence with which to attribute the Head of a Man to the Classical era of Greek sculpture is the fact that it does not show any of the increased individuation and naturalism of the Apoxymos attributed to Lysippus, dated more than a century after the heyday of the Classical period in 330 BCE. Here at last is the prototype of the more realistic, individualized, idiosyncratic portraits eventually favored by the Romans.
An athlete is shown scaping oil off his arm with a strigil (Boardman 177). The figure is slimmer, the muscles more realistically delineated, and the face could now be that of a living man, although still beautiful. The hair is more realistic and protruding than in the case of Polykleitos, although admittedly similar to that of the Head of a Man. The pose is more linear, less blocky and totemic.


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The book on raising two athletic daughters
In Robert Strauss' memoir, "Daddy's Little Goalie," the former reporter for Sports Illustrated shares funny, heartfelt stories about raising his two athletically inclined daughters, Ella and Sylvia. Strauss, whose byline has appeared in the New York Times and many other publications, is also an adjunct professor of writing in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania. espnW caught up with Strauss to talk about the book and his experience as a father of "girl jocks."
espnW: What inspired you to write the book?
Robert Strauss: I would tell stories of my kids in sports that weren't "My kid scored 40 points today," it was, "You're not going to believe what happened at this game today," and it would be some goofy little thing. A friend said you ought to write a book about this. I said, "This is the kind of book that's already been written several zillion times," and he said, "No, not by you."
My kids and I relate through sports, like many parents and their kids. I'm a dad of daughters, and most books like this -- parenting books -- are written by women. Those written by men are usually about their sons, and usually they're serious, and mine was a little less serious about it. That's where it comes from.
espnW: What is one of the biggest lessons you've learned from your daughters through sports?
Strauss: About two or three weeks ago, I saw what will probably be the last event. It was shocking to me. My younger daughter [Sylvia] happened to be the captain of the New Jersey state championship-winning tennis team this year, so they ended on a glorious note. She was only the sixth-best player on the team, but the team was so good that she was [named] All South Jersey. They were winning everything. The last match was a playoff for the South Jersey doubles championship, and the only people who were there were the two coaches, one of the sisters, one of the sister's friends and me. What I learned is that sometimes it's only for you and your kids. Sometimes the memory is all that matters, and this is a goofy ending to a 17-year run of watching your kids play.
espnW: Can you share one of your favorite stories from the book that best exemplifies your experiences?
Strauss: One is that Sylvia, my younger one, must have been about 10 years old and playing in one of those super-duper basketball tournaments. After the game I go over and put my arm around her and say, "Well, Sylvia, it was great that you were the high scorer of the team. It's a shame it was only with one point." They lost 44-1. Let's face it, if she had scored 19 points, it would have been an unmemorable game, but the idea that she made one foul shot, and that was the only shot, and [means] we can remember just as happily a game where it was a slaughter on one side as the other.
The other was that my older daughter [Ella] decided to be on a diving team. She gets to her first meet at the pool that most of her friends belong to, and she came in 28th out of 28 -- whatever it was, it was last. She's holding her little slip and her lip is somewhere down around her ankles, and I give her this pep talk, and then I said, "But there are your friends over there." They're all waiting for her to come over, and they start cheering to her: "El-la! El-la!" Both of those things show that the real spirit of all of this is that you can lose without being a loser.
espnW: Why is it important for fathers to be involved in their daughters' sports?
Strauss: I hate to say that there's still gender inequity that goes on, but if I had sons, which I don't, and my son was standing on the mound of Little League, I would be having that little bubble overhead saying he's going to get the $20 million contract or be the next Roy Halladay or something like that. I realized early on that wasn't really going to happen for us. I think it's important to find that bond with your kid, and if you can do it in this cross-referenced thing -- a guy with girls' athletics -- and be sane at the same time ... they will tell you that I was at everything but I never screamed at a ref, I never screamed at a coach, I never screamed at a kid. It was great to have this venue of sports, but it's probably because I was an ex-sports writer and watched sporting events. When you're 5 years old, you cuddle up to your parents doing whatever they do. If I were the best French horn player in the world, I'm sure [my daughters] would be doing that. If I were in theater, I'm sure they'd be doing that. It just happened to be sports for us.
espnW: What do you think was the turning point for it to be more acceptable for fathers to be more involved in their daughters' sports?
Strauss: There's still a paucity of women's coaches in higher-level and in sandlot sports. At some point, the dads said, "I played soccer or baseball or whatever it is, so all right, I'll do it." There's ubiquity -- Title IX and its ancillary things where girls go out and play soccer at age 4 -- like I said in the book and I truly believe, I can look at my high school yearbook -- and I graduated high school in 1969 -- and there certainly were girls playing sports, but I don't remember it. I see the swim team photo, and I see the field hockey photo and it happened, but I wasn't a part of it even for the girls who were in my class. There was a leap that was made sometime after that that really made the difference and made it easier.
espnW: This year is the 40th anniversary of Title IX. Why do you think sports are so important to girls as they develop?
Strauss: I live in a small town of overachievers -- Haddonfield, N.J. -- and one way to overachieve is in sports, because it's statistical and it's out there. There's somewhat of an equality, even up to high school sports. One of the things I point out, and this year it happened again: The homecoming queens for the four years surrounding my older daughter's time in high school were three field hockey captains and a girl who became a Division I soccer player. I can tell you, when I was growing up, that was not the entrée to becoming the homecoming queen. Now that's just part of what you do as a high school girl or as a junior high school girl -- at least in this town -- is play sports. That's part of the milieu. It's the way you get into group activities, it's the way you show leadership, it's part of the fabric.
espnW: What did you learn about yourself and your relationship with your daughters through writing the book?
Strauss: I'm a journalist who's written a lot through my life, but I always wanted to do something like this. It made me wish that my parents had done it, and I encourage every parent to do it even if they don't publish it as a book. I know that I wish that I could know what my mother and father thought while I was doing whatever it was I was doing back then. It's made me think more about what I want for the rest of my life. It's made me conscious of wanting to care for my kids even beyond that last tennis match or that last run with them.


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Superhumps in Cataclysmic Binaries. XIX. DV Ursae Majoris
Joseph Patterson, Tonny Vanmunster, David Skillman, Lasse Jensen, John
Stull, Brian Martin, Lewis Cook, and Jonathan Kemp
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
December 2000, Volume 112, Page 1584
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
December 2000, Volume 112, Page 1584
DV Ursae Majoris is a deeply eclipsing dwarf nova which shows very powerful superhumps when it attains superoutburst. We report detailed observations of the 1997 and 1999 eruptions. In many ways the results reproduce what has been learned from other eclipsing dwarf novae: that the disk becomes very large in outburst; that the superhumping light originates from large radii in the disk; that the shape of the disk appears to change on a timescale of a few days. The mean superhump period was 0.08870(8) d, but in both eruptions the period probably decreased with P-dot=-7×10-5. Globally distributed coverage of the 1997 eruption revealed two other interesting features: evidence of a transient modulation at the orbital period at the peak of eruption, and intricate fine structure in the harmonics of the main superhump signal. In particular, we found that the "second harmonic" occurred not at 3w-3W as expected (where w and W are respectively the orbital and "precession" frequencies), but at 3w-2W and 3w-W.
We also report photometry at quiescence, which separates the luminous contributions of the white dwarf, accretion disk, and secondary star. We derive a distance of 800±300 pc. Analysis of the eclipses suggests i=85�2 °, M2=0.18±0.03 Msol, M1=0.9±0.2 Msol.
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Apart from the toroidal field generated by the external field coils and the field generated by the flow in the plasma, the tokamak requires a third vertical field (poloidal field), fixing the position of the flow in the plasma container. The flow in the plasma is mainly used to generate the enclosing magnetic field. In addition, it provides effective initial heating of the plasma. The flow in the plasma is normally induced by a transformer coil.
Owing to the transformer, the tokamak does not work continuously, but in pulse mode. Since, however, a power plant should not be operated in pulse mode for technical reasons, methods are examined to generate a continuous flow – for example by high-frequency waves.
The fusion research plant JET is built according to the tokamak principle. The fusion reactor ITER is also planned according to this principle.
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On Tuesday, October 15, The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. The case stems from a November 2006 election in which a majority of Michigan voters supported a proposition to amend the state constitution to prohibit "all sex- and race-based preferences in public education, public employment, and public contracting." The day after the proposition passed, a collection of interest groups and individuals formed the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigration Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary (Coalition). The Coalition sued the governor and the regents and boards of trustees of three state universities in district court, arguing that the proposition as it related to public education violated the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. Jennifer Gratz, founder and CEO of the XIV Foundation and the lead plaintiff in the affirmative action case Gratz v. Bollinger, and Robert Driscoll, Friedlander Misler PLLC, will attend the oral arguments and offer their impressions to a Teleforum audience.
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Been giving this a lot of thought and in the interest of full disclosure (not like that) because I am am forever sounding off in my pseudo-professorial pretentious fashion and alluding to "the books" that I should go full frontal (not like that, again, I am fond of you people) and just this one time drop the mask.
For those who want to know:
Karen Novak
[I]Five Mile House[/I] (Bloomsbury 2000)
[I]Ordinary Monsters[/I] (also known to the publisher as "the misstep") (2002)
[I]Innocence[/I] (2003)
[I]The Wilderness[/I] (2004)
So I've shown you mine. Now I have to go hide in the closet for awhile. I'm an exhibitionist, yes but a painfully shy exhibitionist. You should see how much xanax I have to down before a reading. See you after the closet. Assuming I ever crawl back out.


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Kristin Cavallari has a coke problem
Kristin Cavallari apparently spent Super Bowl weekend scouring Miami for coke, according to Us Magazine:
But those close to the hard-partying Cavallari, 23, say that such antics have become more and more typical. "Her issues are becoming apparent to everyone," an insider reveals. "She's getting scary-thin and not showering regularly…She's clearly unhealthy."
Her Hills friends Brody Jenner, Audrina Patridge, Lo Bosworth and Stephanie Pratt have all expressed serious concerns, but to no avail. "She doesn't think she has a problem," a source says.
And Cavallari isn't just a wild girl on her days off: the erratic, gaunt star has become chronically tardy to Hills tapings — when she shows up at all.
In a sad twist, her struggles may even become fodder on MTV's hit show. "Her drug problem finally became an unavoidable conversation topic on film," an insider says. "If MTV uses the footage, it will be clear to everyone."
Of course the only real way to know Kristin Cavallari has a coke problem is when Lindsay Lohan jumps out of a moving vehicle to knife her in the gut. So until the dominant junkie feels her supply is threatened, it just wouldn't feel right to pass judgment. Out loud.


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Sax, Flute, and Beyond
As some may know, I have been pretty focused on Tenor Sax and Flute these last few months and WD-41 duo has become Dark Matter Horns, don't worry, I did not give up guitar, just taking a well needed break and enjoying new creative adventures. Flute was my first serious instrument in my teens although I switched to bass to get in bands and later to guitar and such. Sax was something I toyed around with for a couple of years a long time ago and just now getting back to it. We've had some fun gigs as Dark Matter Horns and more are coming. I will also be returning to Italy to play flute with Bobby Soul in Genoa Italy in June. More to come.
Upcoming gigs,
April 14 at 8, Cafe Creme in Austin, DarkMatterHorns with special guests.
April 27 at 7, DMH host the start of the 6th season of Jazz OUTside at Kenny Dorham's Backyard in Austin TX. Other acts TBA soon.
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Yesterday was a fun day for phone lovers. Early in the morning Nokia held an event where they introduced the new Lumia 820 and 920 Windows Phone 8 handsets. My take-away was that Nokia was really pushing the camera aspects of the handsets, and the 920 did look like a sweet piece of kit. ITworld's Keith Shaw gathered a bunch of information on that event and I'll direct you to his post for more from the world of Windows phones.
Later in the day was the Motorola event. This was from the 'new Motorola Mobility' I guess. In other words, the Motorola purchased by Google. They had 3 new Droid RAZR handsets to show off: the Droid RAZR Maxx HD, Droid RAZR HD, and Droid RAZR M. Not at all confusing.
As far as I can tell, the first two are the same phone except that the Maxx has a larger battery and twice the storage (32 GB vs 16 GB for the RAZR HD). The RAZR Maxx HD and RAZR HD otherwise share a 4.7" AMOLED HD screen running at 1,290 x 720, a 1.5 Ghz dual-core Snapdragon CPU and an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera (with a 1.3 front facing camera for video chat). Both are shipping with Android 4.0.4 (Ice Cream Sandwich) but Motorola promises an upgrade to Jelly Bean before the end of the year. Oh and of course both support LTE. Price and launch date? Not yet known.
The last handset was the RAZR M which looks like a nice handset for the price-conscious shopper. You get the same 1.5 Ghz dual-core CPU but only 8 GB of storage. The 4.3" screen is an AMOLED Advanced version running at 960 x 540. You still get an 8 megapixel rear facing camera. This one should be up for pre-order by the time you read this and goes for a reasonable $99 on contract. One thing to note is the tiny bezel on this phone. The handset is just a smidge wider than the screen itself.
You can watch a replay of the event below. It's about an hour long:
One last note. Motorola claims they're going to get Jelly Bean on as many of their devices as possible, but if you own a Motorola handset that they're not upgrading, they'll give you $100 towards the cost of one of these new phones. They weren't forthcoming with details about how this deal will work, yet, but it's something to keep in mind if, like me, you still have an original Droid kicking around (though I suppose it's possible they'll manage to get Jelly Bean running on that old hardware).
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(CNSNews.com) – Israel's security cabinet agreed early Tuesday to accept an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire to end a week of fighting between Israel's armed forces and Hamas, but the radical Palestinian group which controls the Gaza Strip looked unlikely to follow suit.
Two hours after the cabinet decision at 9 AM, the Israeli military issued a statement saying, "Israel's leadership has directed our forces to suspend strikes in Gaza. We remain prepared to respond to Hamas attacks and defend Israel."
But Hamas' military wing, the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, said the Egyptian initiative amounted to "surrender" and was unacceptable.
President Obama on Monday night welcomed the Egyptian plan, telling a Ramadan iftar dinner at the White House that "further escalation benefits no-one, least of all the Israeli and the Palestinian people."
Secretary of State John Kerry had been planning to fly to Cairo from Vienna to push the initiative ahead, but U.S. officials said early Tuesday he would no longer do so.
According to the Hamas-run health ministry 185 people have been killed in Gaza over the past week. Despite the loss of life, Hamas officials were quoted Monday as saying their organization would not accept an agreement that merely ended the fighting.
Instead the group would insist on other measures too, including an easing of Israel's security blockade on Gaza and the release of Palestinians arrested during a Israeli hunt for three missing teenagers, whose bodies were found in the West Bank two weeks ago.
"Any ceasefire must be based on the conditions we have outlined, nothing less than that will be accepted," Hamas official Mushir al-Masri told the French news agency AFP, adding that Hamas otherwise was ready for a "long, drawn-out battle."
Egyptian President Abdul Fattah el-Sisi's government, unlike its predecessor, is not a Hamas ally and so has less leverage with the Palestinian group. The former Muslim Brotherhood government brokered a ceasefire deal after a previous round of violence between Israel and Hamas – eight days of fighting in Nov. 2012, also triggered by an escalation of rocket attacks from Gaza.
The current violence has seen at least 1,081 rockets fired from Gaza since July 8, of which 845 landed in Israel and around 191 was intercepted by Israel's missile defense system, according to the Israel Defense Forces. Over that same period the IDF says it has hit more than 1,500 targets identified as being used by Hamas and other extremist groups "for military purposes."
Egypt's ceasefire proposal came as Arab League foreign ministers were holding urgent talks in Cairo, where they demanded that Israel immediately stop what they termed its "aggressions" in Gaza and called for international intervention.
Before the meeting was closed to the press, Arab League head Nabil Al-Arabi accused Israel of committing "war crimes."
At the White House iftar, attended by administration officials and American Muslim representatives, Obama acknowledged that Americans were divided over the issue, but expressed clear support for Israel's right to respond to rocket attacks.
"People here in the United States care deeply about what's happening there and I know there are strong views as well as differences about how we should move forward – which is part of American democracy, we welcome that debate," he said.
"I will say very clearly, no country can accept rockets fired indiscriminately at citizens. And so we've been very clear that Israel has the right to defend itself against what I consider to be inexcusable attacks from Hamas."
At the same time, Obama said that "the death and injury of Palestinians is a tragedy, which is why we've emphasized the need to protect civilians, regardless of who they are or where they live."
The president also made a bid, again, for a broader peace agreement. His administration's last push, a nine-month initiative spearheaded by Kerry, collapsed at the end of April.
"The situation in Gaza reminds us again that the status quo is unsustainable and the only path to true security is a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians," Obama said.
Even if a ceasefire is eventually agreed upon the prospect for future talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority looks bleak as long as P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas keeps in place a reconciliation agreement he reached with Hamas – a longstanding rival of his Fatah faction – in May.
That deal paved the way for the formation of a Hamas-backed "unity" government, prompting Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to accuse Abbas of having chosen peace with Hamas over peace with Israel.
Hamas is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, and American law prohibits federal funding for "any entity effectively controlled by Hamas, any power sharing government of which Hamas is a member, or that results from an agreement with Hamas and over which Hamas exercises undue influence."
Despite the fact the unity government arose directly out of an agreement with Hamas, the Obama administration said since ministers in the government were "technocrats" unaffiliated with the terrorist group, it would continue to fund the P.A.


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The Chinese say that the animal ruling the year you were born will influence your life.
Personality Traits of the Rat:
Charming, social, and quick witted, rats are happy, popular people.
Rats are always on the go and find safety in numbers. Rats are detail
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William Shakespeare, Sean Penn, Mozart, George Washington, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Timothy Hutton, Mata Hari, Kate Jackson, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Jr., Prince Charles, Doris Day, Hugh Grant, Kenny Loggins, Sidney Poitier, Peggy Fleming
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I partnered a visit to my niece and her family with WordCamp in Nashville. I've been playing with WordPress sites since August 2011, so I figured that it was about time to take a step up to see how I could use it better. WordCamp Nashville only cost $20. Hey, that included lunch and a T-Shirt. That's not much to lose.
After a nice spaghetti supper with niece's family Friday night, I got up early on Saturday morning and mapped out the sessions to suit me. I picked
Having worked a good bit with ColdFusion web forms, I was excited about the first session. I walked in close to a half hour early. Here was a bunch of folks with their heads buried in their laptops. Nobody looked up. I was thinking to myself. Okay, now what have I gotten myself into. I was new to the group, didn't have a tablet or laptop, and my Windows 8 phone battery was dead from chatting to friends and family almost the whole way to Nashville. I asked my well-prepared neighbor to my left, "You don't happen to have a cell phone charger in your bag. Do you?" "Sure don't. Sorry. That's a pain. " Then, he turned his attention back to his laptop. I'm thinking to myself: Please don't let this be a "follow along with your laptop session." Well, it wasn't. Joel Norris mostly asked questions and talked. It was okay, but I had not used some of the tools that he was talking about. It wasn't exactly what I had envisioned.
I was blown away by how good John Householder held my attention with his Wireframes talk. Wearing a hard hat, he set us up for wondering where he was going to take us. Building a website is like building a house. You really need a decent blueprint before you start building. Lots of good information about how you need to consider mobile users and their smaller footprint and if things will wrap as you would like. Good stuff to know. Click here to go to his Wireframes slides .
I had no idea what the keynote speaker was going to be about. Since I can't hear thunder, I usually sit front and center. Not long before Kate O'Neill started her talk, she looked at me and quizzed, "Hair check?" I replied, "You're good." Now, how in the world did she know out of this full room of people that I was the one with a beauty license? 🙂 She was a fabulous speaker. I would recommend that you hear her talk if you get a chance.
Prior to [meta]marketer, Kate's experience included the first content management role at Netflix, leading cutting-edge online optimization work at Magazines.com, developing Toshiba America's first intranet, building the first departmental website at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and holding leadership positions in a variety of digital content and technology start-ups. (http://metamarketer.com/about/kate-oneill/)
Being a language major in college (I think… major in German and minor in Russian), WordCamp was a good fit for her. Also, she is now a singer/songwriter. At places other than Nashville, you can sing your song, get a round of applause, and hear "Great song!" from the audience. What's different in Nashville? You can sing, get a round of applause, and hear "Great song! We need to write together sometime." It is the same way in the Nashville technology world. There is great collaboration going on.
After lunch, I cut out for a bit and found Nashville's Costco to get gas and fruit. Both are great. I was late getting back for the SEO session.
Steve Wilkison created his simple but impressive slideshow on queries using WordPress. Click here to go step through it. He certainly covered a lot of ground given about 30 min for his talk and 10-15 min for Q&A. It was well worth my time.
The last session by the Ninja Forms guy, James Laws, was direct, honest, and hilarious.
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This was a real shot in the arm for me. It made me want to go create something and maybe start a WordPress User Group in Knoxville. Mark Tune suggested that I check out nashvillemeetups.com.
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More gruesome details of the cannibalism case that has transfixed Europe emerged yesterday.
The victim in a murder case in Germany generating front page headlines across the continent wrote his will immediately before he met his murderer, authorities said amid mounting indications that both victim and killer engaged in cannibalism.
"The victim appeared to be fully aware of the situation," an investigator said. "Videotape material definitely shows him and the suspect engaged in eating his own flesh prior to his death."
Law officers who have seen the video made by the suspect of the final moments of his victim's life were said to be undergoing psychiatric counselling.
The 41-year-old suspect, identified only as Armin M, admitted having videotaped himself killing the man he had met through a gay internet chat room. Both men were described as computer experts and "internet addicts". Authorities filed murder charges against the reclusive Armin M yesterday.
His 42-year-old victim, a computer chip developer at Siemens Corporation in Berlin identified only as Bernd Juergen B, willingly allowed himself to be led to the slaughter, police said.
On the morning of his disappearance on March 9 last year, Bernd Juergen B wrote out his will and had it notarised. He left the bulk of his estate, including a lavish penthouse apartment and $US50,000 ($88,560) worth of computer equipment to his live-in partner, a man named Rene.
Rene knew nothing of his plans and discovered the will only after Bernd Juergen B was reported missing, according to Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.
Unknown to Rene, the victim had told his boss he was taking that day off "to attend to some personal matters". That was the last time he was seen in Berlin.
Police said the victim had several thousand dollars in cash and his passport when he travelled 300km from Berlin to the alleged murderer's rambling half-timbered house near Kassel.
The two men had met through the chat room notice placed by the murderer, one of 80 such notices he had put on the internet. The notices read: "Gay male seeks hunks 18-30 to slaughter."
Police said a chat room user tipped them off to the existence of the ads. They now know of at least five respondents to the ad, besides undercover officers who answered it and quickly determined it was meant literally.
In addition to frozen human flesh and skeletal remains, police found the cellar of the house had been made into a two-room abattoir, including trough drains and meat hooks.
Police said Armin M had stabbed the man to death and dismembered the body. He froze the meat in "meal-sized packets" and ate most of it, burying the portions he did not eat.
The murder suspect was described by neighbours as a pleasant and polite man who kept to himself, though one said: "He was a mama's boy. He was totally fixated on his mother, who he said never let him date girls.."
He served a dozen years in the German armed forces as a non-commissioned officer in ordinance.
After leaving the military in 1991 he was trained as a computer technician and until recently worked with a software firm in the Rhine Valley.
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Julich, Germany (SPX) Oct 16, 2013
The human brain keeps changing throughout a person's lifetime. New connections are continually created while synapses that are no longer in use degenerate. To date, little is known about the mechanisms behind these processes.
Julich neuroinformatician Dr. Markus Butz has now been able to ascribe the formation of new neural networks in the visual cortex to a simple homeostatic rule that is also the basis of many other self-regulating processes in nature. With this explanation, he and his colleague Dr. Arjen van Ooyen from Amsterdam also provide a new theory on the plasticity of the brain - and a novel approach to understanding learning processes and treating brain injuries and diseases.
The brains of adult humans are by no means hard wired. Scientists have repeatedly established this fact over the last few years using different imaging techniques. This so-called neuroplasticity not only plays a key role in learning processes, it also enables the brain to recover from injuries and compensate for the loss of functions.
Researchers only recently found out that even in the adult brain, not only do existing synapses adapt to new circumstances, but new connections are constantly formed and reorganized. However, it was not yet known how these natural rearrangement processes are controlled in the brain.
In the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology, Butz and van Ooyen now present a simple rule that explains how these new networks of neurons are formed (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003259).
"It's very likely that the structural plasticity of the brain is the basis for long-term memory formation," says Markus Butz, who has been working at the recently established Simulation Laboratory Neuroscience at the Julich Supercomputing Centre for the past few months.
"And it's not just about learning. Following the amputation of extremities, brain injury, the onset of neurodegenerative diseases, and strokes, huge numbers of new synapses are formed in order to adapt the brain to the lasting changes in the patterns of incoming stimuli."
Activity regulates synapse formation
This also works the other way round: as soon as the activity level exceeds an upper limit, the number of synaptic connections is reduced to prevent any overexcitation - the neuron firing rate falls. Similar forms of homeostasis frequently occur in nature, for example in the regulation of body temperature and blood sugar levels.
However, Markus Butz stresses that this does not work without a certain minimal excitation of the neurons: "A neuron that no longer receives any stimuli loses even more synapses and will die off after some time. We must take this restriction into account if we want the results of our simulations to agree with observations."
Using the visual cortex as an example, the neuroscientists have studied the principles according to which neurons form new connections and abandon existing synapses.
In this region of the brain, about 10 % of the synapses are continuously regenerated. When the retina is damaged, this percentage increases even further. Using computer simulations, the authors succeeded in reconstructing the reorganization of the neurons in a way that conforms to experimental results from the visual cortex of mice and monkeys with damaged retinas.
The visual cortex is particularly suitable for demonstrating the new growth rule, because it has a property referred to as retinotopy: This means that points projected beside each other onto the retina are also arranged beside each other when they are projected onto the visual cortex, just like on a map.
If areas of the retina are damaged, the cells onto which the associated images are projected receive different inputs.
"In our simulations, you can see that areas which no longer receive any input from the retina start to build crosslinks, which allow them to receive more signals from their neighbouring cells," says Markus Butz. These crosslinks are formed slowly from the edge of the damaged area towards the centre, in a process resembling the healing of a wound, until the original activity level is more or less restored.
Synaptic and structural plasticity
As early as 1949, psychology professor Donald Olding Hebb discovered that connections between neurons that are frequently activated will become stronger. Those that exchange little information will become weaker. Today, many scientists believe that this Hebbian principle plays a central role in learning and memory processes.
While synaptic plasticity in involved primarily in short-term processes that take from a few milliseconds to several hours, structural plasticity extends over longer time scales, from several days to months.
Structural plasticity therefore plays a particularly important part during the (early) rehabilitation phase of patients affected by neurological diseases, which also lasts for weeks and months.
The vision driving the project is that valuable ideas for the treatment of stroke patients could result from accurate predictions of synapse formation. If doctors knew how the brain structure of a patient will change and reorganize during treatment, they could determine the ideal times for phases of stimulation and rest, thus improving treatment efficiency.
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Her team is already integrating the new rule into the freely accessible simulation software NEST, which is used by numerous scientists worldwide.
These findings are also of relevance for the Human Brain Project. Neuroscientists, medical scientists, computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians in Europe are working hand in hand to simulate the entire human brain on high-performance computers of the next generation in order to better understand how it functions.
"Due to the complex synaptic circuitry in the human brain, it's not plausible that its fault tolerance and flexibility are achieved based on static connection rules. Models are therefore required for a self-organization process," says Prof. Markus Diesmann from Julich's Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, who is involved in the project. He heads Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM-6), a subinstitute working at the interface between neuroscientific research and simulation technology.
A simple rule for dendritic spine and axonal bouton formation can account for cortical reorganization after focal retinal lesions; Markus Butz, Arjen van Ooyen ; PLoS Comput Biol (published online 10 October 2013); DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003259 PLoS Comput Biol Article
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Here's who we're not going to keep on roster and who I think we will, with a brief synopsis.
Jarvis Jones - Gone. what seemed like an easy decision last year this time (and one he thankfully chose against) is an even easier one this year thanks to an amazing season. Even though he missed a couple games Jones established himself as the best defensive player available in this year's draft and perhaps the best overall.
Alec Ogletree - Gone. I read somewhere the other day that a 2013 commit will be using the #9 next season while on defense. The fact that he's rated so high (mid-first rounder) in spite of a four game suspension tells you all you need to know. Jarvis could've slipped to the late first round or early second round in the 2012 draft. Tree won't leave anything to doubt.
Aaron Murray - Stays. This was going to be a difficult decision for Murray even if he had a few more seconds to throw that game winning touchdown in the Dome. The mechanics and the talent really can't brush up against much higher of a ceiling can they? And still he can't make himself any taller at the combine. So his decision will come down to personal perspective I think: weighing whatever feedback he gets from the league and those close to him (Bobo, Richt, the Mannings, family...) against where he wants to be next year physically and mentally.
Kwame Geathers - This is as big of a decision for the defense as Murray's is for the offense. We're already losing Jenkins at the nose spot. If Kwame can bridge the gap as we give some younger guys some experience here it would be huge. Still, our luck with getting members of this family to matriculate fully has not been good. Grantham and Garner can use a deep 2013 class against the idea of Geathers leaving (Jenkins is one of a slew at DT that would go ahead of Geathers), but in the end I think Kwame is Gone.
Surprises - There's usually one or two that we're caught off guard by, at least from a "didn't see that coming" standpoint. Redshirt sophomores that are eligible as well as ones who have had significant playing time is a small pool. Like, Ken Malcome is about it. Unless you include Michael Bennett coming off a knee injury. As for juniors that we haven't already covered, we're looking at guys like Wooten and Vasser as well as some offensive line guys that are just getting their feet under them and some good exposure.
So I think we're concentrating on the list above, which is full of talent and experience, but is luckily short in number. We'll know more once we start to hear substantial rumors and the list of players who turned in requests for evaluation is leaked. And now that it's December we've officially created separation between Murray and Mason. So hopefully Murray stays and we get another season to establish some competition for Mason in the 2014 season with Bauta or the Ramsey kid that's supposed to enroll next month. That didn't seem like nearly as big of a deal until we saw how much more faith Bobo/Richt had in a walk on quarterback taking garbage time snaps over the redshirt freshman scholarhship player.


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Popular property highlights
Located in Cap Malheureux, this beachfront hotel is in the entertainment district and within a 15-minute walk of Anse la Raie, Cap Malheureux Beach, and The Red Roof Chapel. Calodyne Beach and Bain Boeuf Beach are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Hotel Features
Catch some rays on Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel's private sand beach or spend the day relaxing at the full-service spa. Then enjoy a meal at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants.
Room Amenities
All 67 rooms offer free WiFi, furnished balconies or patios, and flat-screen TVs with satellite channels. Guests will also find minibars, separate bathtubs and showers, and rainfall showerheads.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
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Hotel Amenities
Step outside to unwind on the sand beach. Enjoy the umbrellas and sun loungers for a relaxing day at the beach. At Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel you can cool off in one of the 2 outdoor swimming pools and indulge in a pampering afternoon at the full-service spa.
Dining is available at one of the hotel's 3 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the hotel's bars, which include 3 bars/lounges and a beach bar. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. This beach hotel also offers outdoor tennis courts, a spa tub, and a steam room. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel has designated areas for smoking.
- Free WiFi
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Wedding services
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Spa tub
- Garden
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Luggage storage
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Terrace
- Beach umbrellas
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 67
- Number of floors - 2
- Number of bars/lounges - 3
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Concierge services
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Designated smoking areas
- Pool umbrellas
- Billiards or pool table
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Multilingual staff
- Beach bar
- On private beach
- Number of restaurants - 3
- Free self parking
- Beach sun loungers
- Steam room
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free WiFi
- Air conditioning
- Free toiletries
- Rainfall showerhead
- Furnished balcony or patio
- Phone
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Satellite TV service
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Flat-panel TV
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
The Dining Room - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant serves breakfast and dinner.
XO - Overlooking the pool, this restaurant specializes in Asian cuisine and serves dinner only. Reservations are required.
The Cove - This seafood restaurant specializes in seafood and serves dinner only. Reservations are required.
Indigo Restaurant & Bar - This beachfront restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and light fare. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
STAY Bar - Overlooking the pool and garden, this bar specializes in international cuisine and serves lunch and light fare.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach and outdoor tennis courts are featured at the hotel. 2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a spa tub. Other recreational amenities include a steam room and a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Ecotours on site
- Kayaking on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Snorkeling on site
- Tennis lessons on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Yoga classes/instruction on site
- Boat tours nearby
- Boat tours on site
Spa Services
Spa Cinq Mondes has 7 treatment rooms including rooms for couples. Services include massages, facials, body wraps, and body scrubs. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including aromatherapy, Ayurvedic, and hydrotherapy. The spa is equipped with a steam room and Turkish bath/hammam.
The spa is open daily.
- Massages
- Number of treatment rooms 7
- Couples treatment rooms
- Manicures and pedicures
- Body wraps
- Body scrubs
- Aromatherapy treatments
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Ayurvedic treatments
- Steam room in spa
- Body treatments
- Facial treatments
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
Hotel Policies
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children 18 and younger are not allowed at this adults-only property. All guests older than 18 are welcome.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Minimum guest age is 18
Caters to adults only
No cribs (infant beds) available
No pets or service animals allowed
Guests booked in the Honeymoon Special rate plan must present their Wedding/Civil Partnership certificate at check-in, which must not exceed 9 months from date of issue at time of travel. If official marriage certificate documentation is not presented at check-in, the hotel reserves the right to amend the room rate.
- Christmas Eve (24 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 63.00
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 125.00
Optional extras
- Breakfast fee: between EUR 18 and EUR 25 per person (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: EUR 135 per vehicle (one way)
Hotel Name
- Paradise Cove Boutique
- Paradise Cove Boutique Cap Malheureux
- Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel
- Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel Cap Malheureux
We should mention
This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details 48 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments. Reservations can be made by contacting the hotel prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Guests under 18 years old are not permitted at this adults-only property. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
Awards & Affiliations
- The property is a member of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World.
Honeymoon Special
Book a 7-night minimum stay in a Deluxe Room Honeymoon Special rate plan and receive the following:
- 1 exotic cooking class to learn the art of mixing a tropical cocktail
- Introduction to diving for the couple
- 1 honeymoon dinner per stay for guests booked in the Deluxe Room Half-board Honeymoon rate (excluding drinks)
- Homemade jam, beach bag for ladies, and beach hat for men
- Seasonal fruits and sparkling wine upon arrival
- Photo souvenir
Honeymoon Special - Premium, Junior and Senior Suite
Book a 7-night minimum stay in a Honeymoon Special rate plan in the Premium Room, Junior Suite, or Senior Suite category and receive the following:
- 1 honeymoon dinner per stay for guests booked in the Half-board Honeymoon rate (excluding drinks)
- 1 exotic cooking class to learn the art of mixing a tropical cocktail
- Introduction to diving for the couple
- Homemade jam, beach bag for ladies, and beach hat for men
- Seasonal fruits and sparkling wine upon arrival
- Photo souvenir
- Romantic breakfast at La Cocoteraie served with sparkling wine
- Sarong for ladies and kurta for men
- Buy 1 massage, get 1 free
- Bottle of "rum arrangé"


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