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a resident of another community
on Dec 13, 2013 at 12:14 pm
Lower Peninsula and the south bay produces jobs, either private or public. While jobs are produced here, jobs are produced elsewhere in the bay area, Fremont and Union City which is home to many businesses that serve the area. San Francisco has problems with Ellis Act Evictions, Oakland is being compared to Brooklyn in NYC, both places are seeing rent rise to New York levels.
While I read a article about East Palo Alto becoming more upmarket or lets just say it and get it over with. Gentrification. Union City has a long way to go, but with some investment, modern city planning and tall buildings. You can think Docklands in London and the Isle of Dogs. A new business area from a old port and industrial area but I doubt it would happen here. NIMBYISM, clinging to the chance that we are going to need useless single.story buildings.
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Corta Madera voted out of ABAG last year, it should take effect about now.
Residents should vote for local control candidates.
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a resident of another community
on Nov 18, 2011 at 2:20 pm
They need to rename the "water board". Waterboard is a trademark of the Bush administration.
a resident of Rex Manor
on Nov 18, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Ha, I must admit I also picked up the wrong kind of "water boarding" from the headline.
But good for Mr Schmidt to recognize the conflict and recusing himself. Too bad the environmental organization lost a staffer, and too bad it's impossible to wear the two hats simultaneously.
a resident of Monta Loma
on Nov 19, 2011 at 10:25 am
I thought water boarding was illegal?
a resident of Old Mountain View
on Nov 19, 2011 at 9:42 pm
Unfortunately Mr Schmidt should have resigned from the board. He is an ideologue who is only interested in pushing a political agenda of environmental groups. He is part of the problem with the current divisions o the board. Dont look for any leadership from Mr Schmidt.
a resident of another community
on Nov 22, 2011 at 8:26 am
Political Insider,
Wouldn't that be unfair to the plurality of people who voted for him, presumably knowing that he is a committed environmentalist?
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So I just got a new dell with the Intel 5300 wireless card, and I'm booting from the BT4 live dvd. My issue is (I think) that it appears packet injection isn't working, or stops working. I'm not all that new to Linux, though I'm a little rusty, and I've only been using backtrack for a few days, so I'll step through what I'm doing. If any more info would help, let me know.
First, I run
I know my wireless card is wlan0 and my AP is on channel 9.Code:airmon-ng start wlan0 09
And this appears to work fine. Beacons rise steadily, PWR is usually around -30 or -40, and there is typically 1-4 stations listed.Code:airodump-ng --output-format ivs --ivs --channel 9 --bssid [bssid] -w wireless mon0
Here is where the problem is. If i run
It will tell me "Injection is working!" and get 29 or 30/30 directed probe requests.Code:aireplay-ng -9 mon0
Now i can run an ARP request attack (aireplay-ng -3), and it will steadily increase packets read, ARP req's will go up every few seconds, but i never get any ACKs. A -9 test will still do the same thing. If i run a fragement attack, it will just keep asking me every minute or two if i want to use this packet, and nothign useful ever happens.
If I try a fake auth attack, everything generally goes to hell. Airmon will stop collecting data packets (but not beacons), a -9 test will fail, and the fake auth might get a packet or two with success, but then will stop working pretty much forever. If i stop mon0 and restart it, I can also start over, but it happens every time.
I've tried faking my MAC address as a computer thats already authenticated to my network, but that doesnt seem to change anything. Does anyone have any ideas whats wrong? I've read the 5300 doesn't work all that well with injection- but I was under the understand it DOES work. Am I mistaken?


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I want to establish connection between two m0n0s, one static a one dynamic IP. What IP have I to
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Re: DSolve
I think that I posted a solution to this before. Here is another attempt.
Note that DSolve allows the boundary conditions to be entered as equations:
Mathematica (sun3.68881) 1.2 (November 6, 1989) [With pre-loaded data]
by S. Wolfram, D. Grayson, R. Maeder, H. Cejtin,
S. Omohundro, D. Ballman and J. Keiper
with I. Rivin and D. Withoff
Copyright 1988,1989 Wolfram Research Inc.
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In[1]:= ?DSolve
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constraints may be of the form Derivative[k][y][pti]== vali.
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Hi, I try to figure out how much work it would be to create such a page: http://tiny.cc/2c8odx
I know that the page is build in:-HTML5 Canvas-JavaScript-CSS3
It would be great if someone can make a assessment about the difficulty of the project for a coder who is skilled in this languages.
The question refers to the presentation (universe) not to the intro and content of the page.
Wow, that is some very nifty canvas manipulation. Well in terms of difficulty I think to create that level of interactivity would be a huge challenge even for a pro like myself. There is a lot of advanced mathematical calculations in doing that. Perhaps there is a plugin or library but failing that looks like a lot of head banging mathematics. I've done things similar in flash using actionscript but that was aeons ago. Though I suppose the trig is similar.
I can't recommend anything more recent but this book does a good job of going over the mathematical concepts to create that level of interactivity. Though if you're not familiar with Actiionscript and JavaScript not to mention canvas manipulation it might be a stretch. Though it does do a good job of breaking down the mathematics of creating such behavior.
Thank you very much oddz for your clear assessment!If we look "just" at the last stage where you get the circle. Is this also that much work? Would it be much easier if I create the circle in 2D?


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Menlo Park City Council members sided with state law on Oct. 23, voting 3-2 with councilmen Cline and Cohen opposed, to endorse a resolution that pledges the city will do its part to build its fair share of apartments and/or single-family homes.
The decision means Menlo Park is officially on board with the Regional Housing Needs Assessment, a state program that requires cities to build enough homes to maintain a sufficient housing-to-jobs ratio.
"This doesn't mean we're going to go build 993 homes by 2014, but it does mean that morally, if not legally, we have an obligation to figure out what available land we have, and what can be zoned for housing," said Councilman John Boyle.
Mayor Kelly Fergusson and Councilman Heyward Robinson noted that 993 homes is a lofty goal, but both council members said the city must follow the law and create a plan to determine what type of housing the city needs.
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Under state law, cities are required to adjust zoning for a specific number of homes — a process referred to as a city's housing element.
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"I don't think our city is ready to commit to what [the state] is demanding, and I'm not satisfied the law has the teeth sufficient to compel us to do it," Councilman Cohen said after the meeting.
Councilman Cline said adjusting zoning for 993 more homes would put a lot of pressure on the council to approve housing projects — something residents don't necessarily want to see more of in Menlo Park.
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"I don't think Menlo Park can hit that number, and I don't want it being hung over our heads on a regular basis," Mr. Cline said. "By making this promise to add housing, we become a prisoner to this number."
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So why hasn't Menlo Park gotten in any trouble over the years?
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5 Cheese Macaroni
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Whether it is a summer picnic or Christmas dinner, all year around, my family asks me to bring the macaroni and cheese. EVERYONE loves how rich and creamy it is!
Blue Ribbon Recipe
- 1 (16 ounc box
- elbow macaroni
- 1 stick
- butter
- 1 c
- shredded muenster cheese
- 1 c
- shredded cheddar cheese
- 1 c
- shredded extra sharp cheddar cheese
- 1 c
- shredded monterey jack cheese
- 8 oz
- cubed processed cheese food (velveta)
- 1 1/2 c
- half-and-half
- 2
- eggs
- 1/4 tsp
- salt
- 1/8 tsp
- ground black pepper
How to Make 5 Cheese Macaroni
- 1Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain well and return to cooking pot. Add the stick of butter and mix it into the macaroni evenly
- 2In a large bowl, combine the Muenster cheese, mild and sharp Cheddar cheeses, Monterey Jack cheese and proccessed cheese ; combine cheeses well then add it to the noodles and again mix well
- 3Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- 4Im a small bowl, combine the half and half, eggs and salt and pepper. Mix this thoroughly. Pour this into the noodle and cheese dish. Be sure to coat all of the noodles and cheese with the half and half mixure. Transfer to a lightly greased deep 2 1/2 quart casserole dish or 9x13
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(CNSNews.com) – As trade with China becomes a looming election year issue, President Barack Obama told his Chinese counterpart that commerce between the two nations must be "in accordance with international rules and norms."
Obama and Republican presidential candidates have criticized China for dumping products on the market, currency manipulation and other unfair trade practices.
Obama and China's President Hu Jintao held a bilateral meeting while attending the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea.
Earlier this month, Obama announced that the U.S., European Union and Japan would join to take an unfair trade complaint against China before the World Trade Organization.
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Hu offered a very brief statement without addressing any specific issue.
"A month ago, Vice President Xi Jinping made a successful visit to the United States," Hu said. "I asked him to hand to the president my reply to earlier letter, and I want to thank the American side for the warm hospitality and for all the arrangements made for his visit."
Obama has touted the Trade Enforcement Unit he created to investigate any unfair trade that might be occurring anywhere in the world, and has insisted the playing field was not level for American businesses.
The WTO complaint against China regards competition for the alternative energy market, another high priority of the administration. Earlier this month, Obama also signed an "anti-dumping" bill that passed Congress on a bipartisan basis that allows the Department of Commerce to more strictly regulate trade from non-market economy countries, which would include communist China.
Meanwhile, GOP presidential candidates who hope to challenge the president in November have talked about China, prompting some foreign policy experts to fear a "trade war."
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last month, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney wrote, "Unless China changes its ways, on day one of my presidency I will designate it a currency manipulator and take appropriate counteraction. A trade war with China is the last thing I want, but I cannot tolerate our current trade surrender."
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Lust said an employee of McKeesport Ambulance Rescue Service was passing the building, saw smoke and called for help.
Crews extinguished the fires before they could spread, Lust said. Damage to the property was mostly from heat and smoke.
Lust said the house is in an area that has seen suspicious fires in the past.
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The incident is under investigation by the Allegheny County Fire Marshal's office.
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Lady Gaga Debuts New Project!! (Video)
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Lady Gaga is on fire! She's in a new movie called "Machete Kills" and she plays "La Chameleon". The movie opens on October 11th. Gaga has also debuted a new fashion film called "The Glass House". Is there anything this woman can't do?!
Watch "The Glass House" below and click here for the "Machete Kills" trailer!


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The Implicit Self in Perception
Document Type:ASSC Conference Item
Article Type:Theoretical
Topics:Theory of Consciousness
Deposited by:Arnon Cahen
Date of Issue:2006
Event Dates:23-26 June 2006
Event Location:Oxford, UK
Event Title:10th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
Event Type:ASSC Conference
Presentation Type:Poster
Abstract:A host of philosophical problems in the philosophy of mind, consciousness, self-awareness, and perception, have led various philosophers to appeal to an implicit presence of the self within the contents of perception as a way towards a possible solution. For example, such appeals have been made in response to Hume's elusiveness of the self thesis; to ground the possibility of self-awareness in general; to explain the possibility of immunity to error through misidentification with respect of the first person pronoun; and most importantly, in this context, to explain the distinctiveness of the contents of experience. This last project, which is also my central concern in this paper, is widely present in recent literature on consciousness in attempts to explain the essentially perspectival nature of the contents of experience (For example, Noe 2004, Eilan 1995, Van Gulick, 2004). However, while an appeal to the implicitness of the self seems on the right track, it has generally been left unclear what it would mean for the self to be implicit, rather than explicit, in perception, and how such an appeal is to explain the perspectival nature of experience. It is my main goal in this paper to give a positive account of the implicit participation of the self in the contents of experience as it relates to the distinctive nature of such contents. I argue that the way we should understand the implicitness of the self in perception is by recognizing that at least part of the contents of perception are relational properties that hold between the perceiving subject and its environment. However, while such relational properties are part of the content represented in perception, it is only one of the relata that the subject is made aware of in having the perception, namely that object to which the subject bears the relation in question; it is in this sense that the self is implicit in perception. I then proceed to explain how such relational properties could be part of the content of perception, given that in having the perception one is made perceptually aware of only one of its relata.


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While White & Case licks its wounds and goes away to consider an appeal, Deacons claims to have been fully vindicated in its rigorous pursuit of one of the most extraordinary examples of inter-law firm litigation in recent years. Not least because such a cumbersome outfit as a law firm partnership – with its creaking decision-making structure and the limited scope for any trial to bring commercial success – allowed the case to reach the courtroom in the first place.
The reputational damage to all parties is impossible to quantify, but given the time, expense and energy expended and with other local rivals keen to take advantage, can any provocation be deemed sufficient to justify the cost?
There was plenty at stake. Mark Fairburn and his team were a highly-rated insolvency and restructuring group with a projected turnover of HK$31m (£2.4m) in the first full year, expected to rise to HK$39m (£3m) in the third year, according to the Business Plan for Business Recovery and Insolvency, submitted by Fairburn to White & Case and reproduced in part in the judgment.
The predicted client following was also considerable and included: Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), BNP Paribas Peregrine Capital, KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Ernst & Young. SCB was such a fan of Fairburn that the bank even initiated a meeting for him with an alternative and rival to White & Case in the form of Shearman & Sterling. Fairburn was even found to have charged a lunch to Deacons that was used to gain assurances that instructions from key client SCB would continue. To add insult to injury, the prevailing market view at the time was that Fairburn and his team were hard done by and should have been allowed to leave freely.
But Deacons could never have hoped to keep those clients whose minds were already set. Regardless of the details of any partnership agreement, what property is there in a client? Normally, even bitter negotiation would likely produce an agreement that would allow both parties some satisfaction, ie sacrificing the loss of one client loyal to the individual in return for an agreement to retain others.
The other major piece of partnership litigation pending (if it ever reaches trial) promises to be just as good: the world's largest law firm (Clifford Chance) against disgruntled staff and partners from a collapsed firm (Brobecks) with little or nothing to lose.
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Do you know what the most stressful thing in your life is? The chair.
Most of us sit strapped into to our office chairs for a good portion of our waking hours. Hunched over a computer, our bones and backs begin to ache. Then what do we do? Why, we sit in a car for a nice long stretch (which involves no actual stretching), just in time to get home and plop our desperate behinds down on the sofa.
No wonder massages feel so great [1]. We're in dire need of some appropriate pressure relief! Of course, exercise [2] helps tremendously [3]. A little daily exercise – even a brief, brisk walk – helps to lubricate your joints, clear toxins from your muscle tissue, burn calories, restore those happy hormones in your brain, and relieve tension and pressure. However, there are things you can do from the (dis)comfort of your office chair to relieve pressure and physical tension throughout the day. We all know our bodies hurt, but even your face can get tense after staring at a screen and scrunching your nose while you're crunching your numbers. Here are some fun, indulgent, easy tips to try. If you don't like them, don't point a finger at us. (Get it? Sorry.) The best thing to do when you're stuck in a cubicle [4]? Focus on your face and neck. For your lower body, you'll need more than a few hopeful pokes. But a little upper-body love can leave you feeling mentally restored and visibly refreshed.
1. Start by stroking the whole face. Use both hands and work up the neck, out across the cheeks, then glide gently inwards, work up and out over the forehead. Finish by applying gentle pressure to the temples.
2. Stimulate the skin by using the back of your hands and loosely rolling your fingers up the cheek. This can also be used on the neck and under the chin.
3. With your thumb and forefinger, gently pinch the skin along the jawbone and under the chin. This is very stimulating and helps prevent a double chin.
4. To release tension around the eyes, firmly squeeze the eyebrows with your thumb and forefinger. Always work from the bridge of the nose towards the temples.
5. For tension in the neck and shoulders make firm circular movements working up either side of the neck then out across the shoulders.
FACE MASSAGE TIPS FROM: Holistic Online [5]
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Robert G. Jones
|Robert Gambrell "Bob" Jones
|Louisiana State Senate
|In office
|Preceded by
|A. C. "Ace" Clemons, Jr.
|Succeeded by
|William L. McLeod
|Louisiana State Representative from Calcasieu Parish
|In office
|Personal details
May 9, 1939
Lake Charles, Calcasieu Parish
Louisiana, USA
|Political party
|Democrat-turned-Republican (1978)
|Sarah Quinn Jones
Sam Houston Jones, II
Robert Gambrell Jones, known as Bob Jones (born May 9, 1939), is a stockbroker in Lake Charles, Louisiana, who served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1968 to 1972 and in the State Senate from 1972 to 1976. He is the son of the late Governor Sam H. Jones.
In 1975, Jones was an unsuccessful intraparty opponent to Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards, who secured the second of four nonconsecutive gubernatorial terms in the state's first ever nonpartisan blanket primary. In 1978, Jones switched affiliation to the Republican Party,[1] but he never sought office thereafter as a member of the GOP.
Jones was born in Lake Charles to Sam Houston Jones (1897–1978) and the former Louise Gambrell Boyer (1902–1996). He has a sister, Carolyn Jelks Jones (1938-) and two half-brothers from his mother's first marriage, James G. Boyer (1928-) and William E. "Billy" Boyer (1930-99). A native of Honolulu, Hawaii, Billy Boyer was a member of the Lake Charles City Council from 1969 to 1974, and then the elected mayor until 1981.
Bobby Jones was a year old when his father became governor in 1940. He therefore spent his early childhood years in the governor's mansion in Baton Rouge. The Joneses returned to Lake Charles in 1944, when James Houston "Jimmie" Davis became governor. Sam Jones resumed his law practice, and young Jones and his sister, Jelks, grew up in Lake Charles, the seat of Calcasieu Parish in far southwestern Louisiana. Bob Jones graduated from Lake Charles High School in 1956.
Following a year at LSU, Jones obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Tulane University in New Orleans in 1960. He was then accepted into the MBA program at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1961, Jones wed his high school sweetheart, the former Sarah Quinn, also from Lake Charles. Jones received his MBA in 1962 and returned to Lake Charles to work in the brokerage business.[2]
In the Summer of 1962 he joined regional brokerage firm Kohlmeyer & Co in their Lake Charles office. Kohlmeyer was later absorbed by Thomson McKinnon Securities which later became Prudential Securities, then Wachovia Securities and now Wells Fargo Advisors. Nevertheless, Jones has had the same home phone number and work phone number since 1962.
Jones enters Louisiana politics[edit]
A tall, slender, ectomorphic man, Bob Jones was fully gray-haired before he was thirty, a physical feature which distinguished him from others in a group. His career was proceeding from the state House to the state Senate, but then he ran into an obstacle with his gubernatorial bid.
Bob Jones, at twenty-eight, was elected to the Louisiana House in the 1967-1968 election cycle. He was one of five Democrats in an at-large delegation from Calcasieu and Cameron parishes. He became a leader of the group dubbed by the media as the "Young Turks". Among his reform colleagues was his Caddo Parish friend Don W. Williamson. Jones opposed the construction of the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans and the spending of bond monies on questionable projects. The "Turks" were often seen as a thorn in the side of Governor John J. McKeithen.
In 1972, Rutgers University's Institute of Politics named Jones one of the two best state legislators in the nation. He was also the Lake Charles "Man of the Year."[3]
Jones left the House after a single term, when he was elected to the Senate in a district that encompassed about half of Calcasieu Parish and all of adjacent Jefferson Davis Parish. He succeeded A.C. "Ace" Clemons, Jr., a Democrat elected in 1968 who had switched parties in 1970 and served the second half of his third Senate term as a Republican.
Challenging Edwin Edwards, 1975[edit]
Jones joined Louisiana Secretary of State Wade O. Martin, Jr., in challenging the reelection of Edwin Edwards as governor. Jones claimed that Edwards failed in his promises to reduce crime, unemployment, and the cost of state government.[4] He also alleged that Edwards was partial to South Louisiana in appointments and policies, at the expense of the lesser-populated northern section of the state. No appointments to the State Mineral Board, for instance, came at the time from North Louisiana. Government, said Jones, "should operate on a philosophy of truth and responsiveness."[5] Jones also opposed gambling and urged a revised criminal rehabilitation program for Louisiana. Of Edwards, Jones said that the governor "promised an era of excellence and delivered an era of corruption.".[4]
Jones claimed too that Louisiana AFL-CIO President Victor Bussie of Baton Rouge had "a stranglehold on the legislature and the governor's office. Bussie doesn't have the support of the people, but he owns the governor and much of the legislature."[4] Jones said, "It is unhealthy when one man [Bussie] affects the type of control which Bussie does. He very substantially affects the governor's decisions and bears far more influence than any other politician or leader in Baton Rouge."[2]
Edwards won with 750,107 votes (62.3 percent). Jones polled 292,220 ballots (24.3 percent), and Martin trailed with 146,363 votes (12.2 percent).[6]
After Jones' gubernatorial defeat, he signaled that he might run again in 1979. Edwards ridiculed his opponent: "Yes, I think he's going to run again in four years. That's like the captain of the Titanic advertising for new passengers ... for his next voyage on the Good Ship Iceberg."[7]
Supporting the GOP[edit]
In 1979, Jones, by then a registered Republican, did not seek the governorship, as Edwards had predicted. Instead, he supported Republican gubernatorial candidate David C. Treen. Treen thereafter appointed Jones to the Louisiana Racing Commission, where he served from 1980 to 1984. Jones also supported Republican John Henry Baker's attempt to abolish the former office of Louisiana elections commissioner in the 1979 general election. Baker, however, was defeated in the race, and the elections office continued to exist for another twenty-five years before it ceased to exist in 2004.
In the 1980 presidential primaries, Jones contributed to former Governor John B. Connally, Jr., of Texas and U.S. Senator Howard Henry Baker, Jr., of Tennessee. In 1990, he contributed to his former "Young Turk" colleague Ben Bagert, of New Orleans, who later withdrew from the race against Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., of Shreveport. Jones contributed to George Herbert Walker Bush in the 1992 primary against Patrick J. Buchanan.
Jones is of English, Scottish, and Welsh extraction. He is United Methodist, but Mrs. Jones is Roman Catholic. The Joneses have four children: Sam Houston Jones, II (1962-), Anna Gambrelle Jones DiGiglia (1966-), Genin Quinn Jones (1967-) and Jennifer Louis Jones Schindler (1979-).
From 2008-2014, he was appointed to serve on the Louisiana Gaming Control Board by Governor Bobby Jindal. That board regulates the large gambling industry in the state.[8]
Jones filed his legislative papers and gubernatorial campaign memorabilia in the archives of McNeese State University in Lake Charles.
- ^ "Bob Jones turns Republican", Minden Press-Herald, February 27, 1978, p. 1
- ^ a b "Minden first stop on Jones' campaign trail", Minden Press-Herald, May 9, 1975, p. 1
- ^ "Lions Host State Candidate", Minden Press-Herald, September 3, 1975, p. 1
- ^ a b c "Jones Raps Edwards," Minden Press-Herald, September 5, 1975, p. 1
- ^ "Parade Crowd Hears Jones", Minden Press-Herald, October 1, 1975, p. 1
- ^ Louisiana Secretary of State, Election returns, November 1, 1975
- ^ Minden Press-Herald, December 5, 1975, p. 1
- ^ "Jindal Names Ex-Governor's Son To Board". KTBS-TV in Shreveport. Retrieved January 17, 2015.
- http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?city=LAKE+CHARLES&st=LA&last=Jones&first=Robert
- http://www.swlahistory.org/newsletterd.htm
- http://www.library.mcneese.edu/depts/archive/jonesbob176.htm
- Louisiana House of Representatives, 1880-2008 (Baton Rouge: Secretary of State)
- Louisiana State Senators, 1880-2004 (Baton Rouge: Secretary of State)
|Preceded by
(Three at-large members)
|Louisiana State Representative (At-large from Calcasieu and Cameron parishes; later District 36)
Robert Gambrell "Bob" Jones
|Succeeded by
Six members in single member districts
|Preceded by
A.C. "Ace" Clemons, Jr.
|Louisiana State Senator from Calcasieu and Jefferson Davis parishes
Robert Gambrell "Bob" Jones
|Succeeded by
William L. McLeod
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Members of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Louisiana State Senators
- Louisiana gubernatorial candidates
- Politicians from Lake Charles, Louisiana
- Louisiana Democrats
- Louisiana Republicans
- Businesspeople from Louisiana
- Harvard Business School alumni
- Tulane University alumni
- Stockbrokers
- American United Methodists


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Have a taste of Tao Lin's new novel: ''Paul noticed Laura looking at his pile of construction paper and said she could have some if she wanted, and she focused self-consciously on wanting some, saying how she would use it and what colours she liked, seeming appreciative in an affectedly sincere manner - the genuine sincerity of a person who doesn't trust her natural behaviour to appear sincere.''
Imagine 250 pages of this. Never mind that it draws heavily on the author's own life - much of Taipei, maybe even half of it, feels as if it was written as a dare. Which isn't to say it's a bad book, but the temptation to review the author and, indeed, his entire generation rather than the novel is very strong. We'll do no such thing here.
The narrative concerns Paul, a Brooklyn-based writer in his mid-20s, as he drifts from one awkward relationship to another, attends parties he doesn't want to go to, ingests vast amounts of drugs, and makes films of himself and his friends. The rest of his time is spent emailing, updating social media accounts, and either shopping at Whole Foods, eating in restaurants or talking about going to restaurants. Brooklyn, that middle-class paradise, has rarely looked more boring.
Eventually he meets Erin online and, later, in the flesh, and as the two travel to Baton Rouge, Baltimore, Las Vegas and Taipei, we watch their romance develop.
There's an excellent joke in making the central character a writer who has almost nothing to say for himself, nor entertains a single original thought, and spends the first half of the book trying to find ways not to talk to people at the string of parties he'd rather not attend. And, in the mode of social media, which encourage us to publicise our every thought, Lin does precisely that in long, clause-ridden sentences that would rather fold back on themselves than connect with the next one. Lin has clearly put a lot of effort and skill into producing a book that reads like an unedited live blog of his characters. Which is to say that the only possible way to approach Taipei is on its own terms, sit back and see where it'll take you.
Once you settle into the rhythm of the prose, the work becomes much more engaging and we get a pretty conventional story of love and (just barely) transformation played out among 20-something characters. Paul and Erin's drug use escalates as does the amount of time they spend online. The internet is depicted as significantly more addictive and estranging, and the drugs seem to be more a coping mechanism for their own self-loathing. Lin does a remarkable job of capturing and amplifying the hesitancy, the self-consciousness of the age, where almost everything we say or do is scrutinised and, especially, everything is open to misinterpretation. As a meditation on 21st-century alienation, Taipei captures the bleak remove at which we now live our lives: sitting alone in rooms or, worse, among friends, and devoting attention only to what's on the screens before us.
It reminds me of Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, which documents the consciousness of a drug-fuelled writer and his existential concerns, but the triumph of Lin's work is in the writing, which is infuriating, absorbing and, ultimately, very successful. However, I'm looking forward to his next work to see if he might resolve a nagging question: when did the stakes get so low?
Purchase Taipei by Tao Lin here.
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Ray Rice's place in Baltimore has some of the usual trappings of an NFL bachelor pad. It's in a gated community, has a pool in the back yard, comes equipped with security cameras and has some gold-plated faucets in the master bathroom.
It also has a wood deck that's touted as "sturdy," a one-car garage, four bedrooms, four bathrooms, 2,100 square feet and a $339,000 price tag. Three-hundred thirty-nine thousand?! For an NFL player with a $40 million contract? Is he parking a Geo in that garage?
That sort money can buy a fine, affordable home in most places, especially in a city where housing costs are low. For an NFL player living in a gated suburb of Baltimore, that's practically Dickensian.
Rice bought the frugal townhouse for $350,000 in 2008. We applaud his financial prudence. It suggests Ray Rice will be able to keep living in a large house for the next 50 years rather than having to downsize after his career because he spent all his money on a $20 million mansion during his playing days.
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Fair Maiden Refuses Prince William's Kiss In Glasgow
It happens to the best of us. You dress like like a Disney princess, hoping to meet a real-life one and BOOM! Her husband tries to make your day by giving you a peck on the cheek.
Shona Ritchie, 4, waited with her mother for the Earl and Countess of Strathearn to arrive at Emirates Arena in Glasgow, Scotland today. When Prince William came to greet the little whipper-snapper, she showed him a flower she was saving for Catherine.
Nope. Shona wasn't having any of it, leaving wills with just half a cheek to kiss as the kid shrinked into her mom's arms.
"Oh, next time, Shona, next time," a chivalrous William said, according to the Daily Mail.
Way to go, Shona. He's only the former most eligible bachelor in the world.


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