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Can a Photograph Offer a Clue About What Happened to Amelia Earhart? [VIDEO]
It's been 75 years since Amelia Earhart disappeared in the South Pacific, but researchers have gotten a new lead in the case. A photo that was taken only three months after her disappearance could hold an important clue to where she is.
Two Firemen Dressed in Drag Put Out Burning Car
It's a little unusual to drive down a rural highway and see a car engulfed in flames. It's even more unusual to see two firemen dressed in drag dousing those flames with a fire hose. And yet, that's exactly what happened in Minnesota recently.
10 Gloriously Green St. Patrick's Day Foods
Everyone knows that St. Patrick's Day is the one day out of the year when we're all Irish. And, apparently that translates into wearing anything green and silly we can get our hands on and having as much to drink as we can carry at one time. But, there's another strange tradition that has developed in celebration of this day. We can't explain it. Are Irish people really that into unnaturally green food?
Our 10 Favorite Working Women for International Women's Day
Women make the world go 'round. Ok, we need men too, or the world would be lopsided and there would be no one to open jars, but it's International Women's Day, so we're focusing on the fairer sex and how they make the world a better place.
Twitter Is Selling Your Tweets and You Don't Get a Dime
You may not be able to search for your own Tweets on Twitter after a week, but a marketing research company in the UK can now search all the Tweets Tweeted since January of 2010. This is possible because Twitter just sold Datasift the right to sort through them.
15 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Dr. Seuss
Friday, March 2nd is a date that we must celebrate. On March's second day, we must say "Hooray!" With a "Yip yip yippee yay," for Dr. Seuss' own birthday. In celebration of Dr. Seuss Day, on the day of Theodor Seuss Geisel's birth, (March 2nd, 1904, to be exact), we have dug up 15 facts about the self-proclaimed doctor that you might not know.
Model Sees With Prosthetic Eye for First Time Since Accident
Early in December, 23-year-old model Lauren Scruggs stepped in front of a propeller plane while the propeller was still spinning. In that instant, her life changed forever. The Texas model and blogger lost her left eye in the accident, but was recently seen in public last week with her prosthetic eye for the first time.
10 Cute Dogs Who Will Do Anything for Treats
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Just 'Cause You're Freelance Doesn't Mean You Can't Get Full-Time Perks – Dollars and Sense
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'The Simpsons' 500th Episode Offers a Secret Message to Fans
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Teen Girl Forced By Parents to Stand on Corner and Hold 'I Steal' Sign
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Did President Eisenhower Meet with Aliens?
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Oregon's 7 Wonders
There are many splendid places to see in Oregon where you can let your spirit for outdoor adventure soar. The biggest challenge may be finding enough time to discover them all.
There are seven statewide destinations that are easy to reach for newcomers and longtime residents alike. They are places where you can find adventure and make some fabulous memories of your own.
Ever wonder what makes Oregon so special? Just ask an artist – like Jennifer Moore. "For me – at this spot in Central Oregon – it's about the shadows, the lights and the darks," noted the longtime artist who is lucky enough to visit regularly the rugged and dramatic Smith Rock. Moore sees great drama in the details of Smith Rock State Park and she captures it on her canvas with one brush stroke at a time.
"This morning, the rocks had more purple and darker tones and now it's getting greener as the sun takes over. I have been all over the state and to have this fascinating group of rocks right in my own backyard — plus the Crooked River – there's just nothing like it."
Smith Rock State Park is an iconic, natural destination that draws half a million visitors each year — and yet, its 650 acres offer plenty of elbow room for folks to stretch out and play, according to Scott Brown, the Park Manager.
Brown is proud of the fact that people and the wildlife get along just fine across the park land. He added that even more 'special' is that Smith Rock was the only state park to be selected as one of the 7 Wonders of Oregon. "Oh yes, we were flattered – but then this place has always been special – for hikers, wildlife watchers, climbers and the like. It is loved by many people."
The 7 Wonders of Oregon is an invitation for you from Travel Oregon to explore the many corners of the state.
Like Crater Lake – where a boat ride takes you into ancient geologic history.
Or The Painted Hills – where "Painted Cove Trail" offers a boardwalk across colorful ash fall dating back 33 million years.
The Wallowa Mountains – where a tram ride to the top of Mt Howard allows you to stand shoulder to shoulder with a mountain range that will make you feel small.
And the Columbia River Gorge for a view that's never twice the same atop Rowena Crest and the tom McCall Preserve — with camera in hand, you can wander down a trail at a timeless place to see springtime splendor.
The Wonders offer more than stunning scenery; there's great adventure. At Mount Hood you can join observers who count and then band raptors atop Bonney Butte.
Finally, there's the Oregon Coast and one of my favorite outdoor activities where all you need is a paddle and a life vest and a spirit of adventure. It's so easy that anyone can try digging supper from the sea.
Justin Yax of the Central Oregon Visitors Association said that the 7 Wonders of Oregon is a checklist of places you must see and experience – especially if you call Oregon your home. "Each of the wonders is unique and majestic in its own right. They are rich with history, scenery and adventure that everyone should discover on their own. We try to make those discoveries easier through the new 7 Wonders experience."
Meanwhile, back at Smith Rock, Jennifer Moore agreed that there is adventure waiting at each turn of a backroad or byway in Oregon and people need to slow down to enjoy it – she also insisted that there is more to the state than meets the eye and the best part is exploring and discovering something new about home, in Oregon. "I think the trick is finding beauty in the places that people don't expect it because then whatever you're doing is unexpected."
Make sure when you travel to the Wonders that you tag your photos #traveloregon on Instagram, and they may be featured in the 7 Wonders of Oregon gallery on the Travel Oregon website.
about author Grant McOmie
Grant McOmie is a Pacific Northwest broadcast journalist, teacher and author who writes and produces stories and special programs about the people, places, outdoor activities and environmental issues of the Pacific Northwest. A fifth generation Oregon native, Grant's roots run deepest in the central Oregon region near Prineville and Redmond where his family continues to live.
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WATCH: Cops confiscate 2-pound joint in California
While marijuana possession is considered a felony in most states in the U.S., anybody with a prescription in California can legally have up to an ounce of the drug.
However, one of the students took the festivities to the extreme when he revealed a 2-pount joint at the annual gathering, which can be seen in vid below!
Instead of incarcerating the large funny cigarette owner under, two campus police officers simply confiscated it. However, the owner was clearly not a happy camper, as the estimated valued of the marijuana cigarette is between $5,000 to $6,000, according to Daily Mail.
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Schedule of Events
• Saturday, August 12, 2006. 7:00 –
9:00 a.m. "5 km Fun Run" along Lovina
• Saturday, August 12, 2006. Starting
from 9:00 a.m. at Taman Kota, Singaraja the
opening of organized events including food stalls,
martial arts demonstrations, fashion shows and
fashion competitions including attendance by
Miss Bali Tourism 2005 and Miss Indonesia Tourism
2006 as panel members. Traditional kite flying
and painting competitions, clowns, dancers,
marching bands and crafts from all over North
Bali are among some of the special activities
planned during the full day of activities.
• Saturday, August 12, 2006. 3:00 p.m.
the quarter finals of the "Miss & Master
Beauty & Brains Contest" with the semi-final
round to take place at the Singaraja Royal Palace
later in the evening.
• Saturday & Sunday, August 12-13,
2006. Nightly performance each evening starting
at 9:00 p.m. of the Lovina Jazz & Blues
Festival at Spice Café, located on the
beach at Kaliasem.
• Sunday, August 13, 2006. Singaraja
Street Parade at 3:00 p.m. from the Raka Panji
Sakti Statue in Singaraja and ending at the
Taman Kota Festival Grounds.
• Sunday, August 13, 2006. Grande Finale
Dinner at the Singaraja Royal Palace at 7:00
p.m. Winners of "Miss & Master Beauty
& Brains Contest" to be announced;
music and cultural performances; and performance
of the rare "crow dance," an ancient
performance last witnessed in the 15th century.
• Monday, August 14, 2006. A golf tournament
at the Bali Handara Kosaido Golf Course in Bedugul.
• Monday, August 14, 2006. Special Brunch
and Spouse program with a Sportswear Fashion
For more information on the North Bali Festival
visit their website.
More information: North
Bali Website
Activities will be held in three main areas:
a) Along the entire length of Sanur Beach covering
the area marked by Jalan Segara Ayu to the north
and Jalan Pantai Sindhu to the south; b) the
ijumpi stage facing Sanur Beach between the
Hotel Segara Village and Segara Agung Restaurant.;
and c) in the cottage area within the Bali Beach
Hotel Complex.
While specific locations and timings for each
activity have yet to be announced, the preliminary
schedule of events follows.
Day One – Friday, August 25,
• Opening Ceremony
• Ijumpi Annual Cooking Competition
• City Tour and Fun Bike Tour
• Wind Surfing, Kite Surfing, and Kayaking
• Jukung Traditional Sail Boat Festival
• Tennis Tournament
• Karaoke Competition
• Painting Exhibition
• Food Festival and Bazaar
• Festival Parade
• Traditional Balinese Dance Performance
Day Two – Saturday, August 26,
• Ujumpi Annual Cooking Competition
• Jazz Festival
•Sabur Open Golf Tournament
• Wind Surfing, Kite Surfing and Kayaking
• Jukung Tradition Sail Boat Festival
• Kite Festival
• City Tour and Dun Bike Tour
Day Three – Sunday, August 27,
• Underwater Festival
• Final Round Tennis Tournament
• Closing Ceremony
More information: Sanur
Village Website
(8/5/2006) Indonesia's Minister of Culture
and Tourism, Jero Wacik, has announced that
Bali will be the venue for a Bali Bike Festival
to be held on the Island September 16-17, 2006.
Organizers are targeting 2,500 bicyclists from
both Indonesia and abroad to attend the community-based
event intended to form stronger bounds between
Bali tourism industry and the local population.
Scheduled to take place just prior to the world-wide
celebration of World Tourism Day on September
27th, the Bali event has adopted as its theme:
"Bali Bike Fest 2006 - Peace Through Tourism."
Organizers are hopeful that the event will
receive widespread support and over time become
an annual calendar event.
The sudden death of a large number of domestic
chickens brought a special team of disease control
officials to the affected villages who conducted
tests and destroyed birds within a three kilometer
radius of the outbreak. Officials also immediately
introduced a number of biometric precautions
which included the antiseptic spraying of all
poultry cages in five separate locations at
While health officials continue to monitor
developments in Jembrana closely, no human infections
have been reported in connection with the latest
H5N1 outbreaks have now been recorded in 27
of Indonesia's 33 provinces.
The rapid deployment of the system precipitated
by the widespread loss of life in the December
26, 2004 earthquake and tsunami which killed
more than 200,000 people has now focused attention
on the preparedness of national and local governments
to effectively raise the alarm and implement
evacuation programs when and if a tsunami is
Concerns in this regard were only heightened
when Indonesian officials were accused of failing
to warn local communities of the July 17, 2006
tsunami which struck Java's southern coast and
killed more than 600 people.
At a recent three-day meeting that assessed
the US$126 million Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning
and Mitigation System the United Nations' Joseph
Chung warned "the system is only as good
as the response."
Less than two years after the tragic "boxing
day" tsunami of 2004, some 23 sophisticated
monitoring systems are now operating in the
Indian Ocean that can instantaneously measure
and assess sub-ocean earthquakes and their potential
for generating a deadly tsunami. These warnings
are instantaneously relayed to the Pacific Tsunami
Warning Center (Hawaii)and the Japanese Meteorological
Agency who broadcast warnings to countries at
risk and independently operated tsunami alarm
system [See: Personal Tsunami Alarm System].
A Growing State of Emergency Preparedness
in Bali
Over the past week coastal areas around Bali
have performed coordinated safety drills involving
the public, police, military and local community
groups honing their skills on how they would
respond to an actual tsunami disaster. In Bali
this has included evacuation drills of beachside
areas, the transportation of victims to local
medical facilities, and public order precautions
by the police and military.
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While the three men have steadfastly refused
to exercise a final last-ditch appeal which
would further delay their execution, their lawyers
are threatening to unilaterally challenge the
legality of the retroactive application of the
new anti-terror law for a crime committed prior
to the legislation's introduction.
The execution of the three, whenever it finally
does occur, will perhaps bring some degree of
closure to the families of the bombing victims,
including the 88 Australians who died in the
While vehement in their opposition to the capital
punishment – particularly when applied
on foreign soil against Australian nationals,
the Australian Federal Government has tempered
it opposition in the current instance with Australian
Foreign Affair Minister Alexander Downer saying,
"the Bali bombers were tried and convicted
by Indonesian courts and found guilty of the
most heinous of crimes." As a result, while
Australia maintains its philosophical opposition
to the death penalty, it will not protest the
execution of the Bali bombers.
When executed, the bombers' remains will be
handed over by authorities to the men's families
for final burial. In doing so, Amrozi, Iman
Samudra and Ali Gufron will be afforded a final
dignity they so cruelly denied their victims
on October 12, 2002.
The Krama Subak are the traditional councils
which have governed Bali's unique system of
water distribution for hundreds of years working
to create an equitable system to sustain the
Island's system of inter-connected rice terraces.
Speaking at a gathering of approximately 100
Krama Subak held in Gerokgak Village, North
Bali, on Tuesday, August 1, 2006, Professor
Dr, I Gede Pitana, the former Chief of the Bali
Tourism Authority, called on the Krama Subak
to retain their traditional authority over the
Island's water rights.
The meeting, sponsored by the Buleleng branch
of the Young Business Peoples Association (HIMPI)
and the Department of Agriculture from Udayana
University, saw Dr. Pitana point the the Krama
Subak's preeminent historical claim to the right
to distribute water rights in Bali and the United
Nations' acceptance of the primacy of traditional
rights as forming the legal basis for retaining
Bali's traditional system of water distribution.
Pitana's comments, quoted in the Indonesian
language Bali Post, cited the subak system as
a cornerstone of Balinese society that is best
positioned to help develop the Island's vision
of agricultural tourism (agrowisata).
With sponsored drinks, food and entertainment
in generous supply, the "Recharge Parties"
- organized by Goestamar Ardibrata and his team
at Bali & Beyond Magazine are invariably
lively affairs marked by warm fellowship among
co-workers in Bali's travel industry.
The August venue was B'Couple Bar & Grill
a 24-hour sidewalk café in the very heart
of South Kuta's Tuban area.
As the pictures shown on balidiscovery.com
show, the Bali travel industry does know how
to party.
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In addition to the daily service currently
offered by Garuda, additional flights will commence
operating on Fridays and Saturdays from August
25, 2006.
The new Bali bound services will depart Perth
at 5.35 p.m., while inbound services will leave
Denpasar at 1:00 p.m. arriving in Western Australia
at 4.35 p.m..
Long-Awaited Executive Class Seats
The extra services will be operated by Boeing
737-400 aircraft offering 14 executive class
and 117 economy class seats. Added to the existing
all-economy 168 seats per day operated on B737-800
aircraft, this will bring Garuda Indonesia's
weekly capacity from Perth to Bali to 1,438
seats, an increase of 22% in overall capacity.
"Our flights to Bali are always full,"
explained Rob Moro, Western Australia Sales
Manager of Garuda Indonesia. "This overwhelming
demand is indicative of the continuing resilience
and enduring popularity of this island destination,"
he added.
Mr Moro said: "With bargains abounding
in airfare and accommodation packages, there's
probably never been a better time to enjoy the
Island of the Gods."
By exploring the popular and quintessentially
Jakarta musical form of Gambang Kromong, this
promising young Indonesian filmmaker demonstrates
that modern Indonesian society is indeed a wonderfully
rich admixture of the countless ethnicities
that comprise Indonesia today. By using music
as the medium to explore deeper issues, Anak
Naga Beranak Naga demonstrates how the cross-fertilization
of Javanese, Sundanese, Deli and Chinese cultures
has resulted in a musical form that is greater
than the sum total of its component parts. By
extension, the film begs the larger question:
What constitutes modern Indonesian society and
the rich promise of the national motto –
"Unity in Diversity" (Bhinekka Tunggal
A Celebration of Betawi Culture
In addition to a special screening in Bali
of the documentary 'Anak Naga Beranak Naga'
the evening will also include a live performance
of Kroncong Tugu melodies together with a special
performance of the Lenggag None dance performed
by an accomplished Betawi Dance Troupe.
Presented by On Stage
The single evening Bali premiere of Anak Naga
Beranak Naga and a Betawi Culture experience
are presented by On Stage - a Bali-based organization
that endeavors to celebrate the diversity of
the universal human spirit via the regular cultural
events in the form of dance, theatre, film and
art exhibitions.
Anak Naga Beranak Naga & Betawi Cultural
Anak Naga Beranak Naga - a documentary film
by Ariani Darmawan will be shown at the Nusa
Dua Beach Hotel & Spa's Budaya Stage in
conjunction with a special Betawi cultural performance
at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 23, 2006.
Suggested Admission donation is Rp. 110,000
(approximately US$12.00).
Naga Beranak Naga Website]
Available in four modules of 5 hours each,
participants will have a hands on experience
working with the latest kitchen equipment while
acquiring practical cooking tips from one of
Bali's most senior chefs.
The Four Modules on Offer are:
• Saturday, August 19, 2006 – Breakfast
• Saturday, September 2, 2006 –
Dinner Module
• Saturday, September 16, 2006 –
Pies and Cakes Modules
• Saturday, September 30, 2006 –
Sunday Roast Module
Each course will run from 8:00 a.m. until 1:00
p.m. and costs US$30 plus 21% tax and service
per participant.
More information: Email
- Four Seasons' Domestic Helpers Cooking Course
The five beaches making it to the Spice
list are:
• Dreamland Beach - Westward facing and
recommended for its sunsets, Dreamland is surrounded
by the limestone cliffs of the Island's Ungasan
peninsula. While visiting this special white-sand
beach, be sure to include a visit to Bali's
nearby Ulawatu temple.
• Geger Beach - The thousands of people
who stay in the luxurious hotels within the
Nusa Dua Complex and Tanjung Benoa are largely
unaware of the large white sand beach just minutes
away on Bali's southernmost beach. Geger is
accessed via a dirt track to the left on the
road leading to The Balè and the Nikko
Bali Resort. Look for the "Geger Beach"
• Padang-padang - One of Bali's popular
surfing beaches, Padang-padang is a slight detour
on the road to Uluwatu temple whose entrance
is marked by a large bridge. Park near the bridge
and walk the short distance to the beach. A
great place to surf or sit and admire the daring-do
of locals and foreign surfers.
• Blue Ocean Sunset - Also known as Double
Six Beach because of the famous beach-side night
spot located on this beach, this beach offers
swimming, surf and a wonderful selection of
trendy restaurants and bars to while away the
sunny days and tropical nights. Take the road
to "Double Six" and park in the lot
just opposite the wide, sandy beach.
• Padang Bai - A number of picturesque
and surprisingly private beaches are located
in the areas adjacent to the busy ferry terminal
connecting Bali to Lombok. Blue lagoons, inexpensive
beachside eateries, and local jukung boats to
take you on snorkeling forays are just some
of the many charms of this collection of beaches
just a 1.5 hour drive from Kuta.


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American Silverberry
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Elaeagnus commutata
July 6, 1806, in Powell County, Montana.
A rounded, twiggy shrub with narrow, silvery, scurfy leaves on grayish red branches. Small clusters of inconspicuous, cone-shaped flowers are spicily perfumed with a heavy, sweet scent. The fruit is a dry, mealy, whitish berry. This suckering shrub can form patches several yards in diameter. Height: 1-12 ft (0.3-3.7 m).
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I use iTunes. I have an iPod. They are totally awesome, and have radically contributed to my ability to enjoy my music collection. See, when I was in college and high school, I had an income but no bills. I suppose that about 75% of my income went to the purchase of CDs. I have about a thousand CDs, now. It's hard to listen to them effectively, because sometimes an album is all crap, save for one or two good tracks. Or sometimes I've bought an album and shelved it without forming a good opinion. iTunes and the iPod let me access all 15000 songs easily, leaving metadata on them to remind me what I like, what's good for the gym, and how many times I've listened to "We Love Deez Hoez" over and over.
I made a playlist called "The Rating Queue," configured to update with unrated songs from genres I might listen to at work or while walking around. As I listened to music on my iPod, I rated it. Over the last five months, I built up about five or six thousand ratings.
Ratings are stored in two files: the music library and the XML music library. The XML music library is for unknown use, but it's convenient if you want to parse the data. I've guessed it's just for data access by impatient third-party apps.
I have a little bash script called 'itl' that I use to swap out the music library files and re-symlink the folders that hold my music. That way I have one library for my work share, one for my laptop's hard drive, and one for the big share at home. It's a quick and dirty hack, but it works.
At some point in the past, I did something like remove the symlinks for itl and let the files live directly in place. I don't know what or when. Suffice it to say that when I ran itl for the first time in ages, I deleted my music library files. All my play counts and ratings were deleted.
That shouldn't have been a big deal; after all, I'd made a backup copy of the file for playing with Mac::iTunes. But I had just deleted it while reorganizing.
Well, failing that, I have a large number of ratings on my iPod. So I could resync. But my iPod was in California for repair.
Ok, so I could restore from backup! Too bad I only ever backed up my server, never my workstation. ("Everything important is from CVS, right?" I was so naive.) Part of the irony is that I had deleted the test copy of the music library during a transfer of all scrap files from my server to my laptop, done so that I could start backing up the laptop instead of the server!
I knew that I'd sent a copy of a library, some time ago, to iTunesRegistry.com; I opened Safari to see if I could just download that XML. I couldn't connect! They'd gone under!
Well, I was really not happy about this development, but once it was clear that there would not be a solution in the next ten minutes I went out cycling. When I got home, I found that iTunesRegistry
So, now the only problem became loading the tracks. Well, it wasn't really easy to find a correlation between the database entries and my repopulated library. I could've looked for Genre-Artist-Album-Song, but I decided it would be easier to use filesize. I only found about 20 songs in my library that had identical filesize, and I was willing to live with that. I sat down and quickly learned enough AppleScript to do the job. Of course, I didn't want to read in, parse, and update the data with AppleScript! I wanted to use Mac::Glue.
This did not work out well. I spent more than an hour hitting my head against the wall, trying to get an array of "track" items from the "library playlist" item. I just couldn't do it! Finally, tired and frustrated, I opted for the worst possible solution: generate AppleScript with perl and pass it to osascript(1). That's right, four thousand system calls passing something like "tell iTunes to set the rating of every track in library playlist whose size is $size to $rating"
It's been running since 22:30 last night, and it was about half done when I left for work this morning. I just don't care about elegance anymore. I want my music rated and my iPod repopulated. That's the good news, by the way: I got a brand new iPod from Apple yesterday, sent as a replacement.
Once this is over, I'm going to investigate the Mac::Glue problem. I would've used Mac::iTunes, but the CPAN version is ancient and my last experience with the CVS version was still iffy. I'm more excited than ever, now, to help bdfoy polish it up. (When is he back, anyway?)


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Natalie Trapp <email@example.com>
Re: st: re: binary variables
Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:16:54 +0200
Thank you so much for all the comments. They were very helpful.
@Martin: I am not so convenient with Stata, so I haven't found out all
the tools yet. Though I made the dofile, which generates the binary
variables, with the GAMS program; so it wasn't much work.
So, thank you very much once again. You gave me many more ideas!
On 6/3/2010 11:58 AM, Christopher Baum wrote:
Natalie said
I also couldn't sort out how to make the "xtreg" command work. It gives
me the error "not sorted r(5);", even when I sorted the data and then
typed the "xtreg" command (maybe because there are too many variables or
maybe because I have cross sectional data?!).
I imagine you tried to include those explicit region variables (Saarland Brandenburg MeckPomm Sachsen, etc.) in xtreg, fe. You can't include region dummies and fit a fixed effects model. All you need to do is
xtreg depvar indepvars, fe i(REGION)
and Stata will fit the model using the within transformation (equivalent to including dummies for each REGION).
To see that this works:
webuse grunfeld
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Coffee/tea in a common area, laundry facilities, and multilingual staff are available at this smoke-free aparthotel. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Other amenities include barbecue grills and a front-desk safe.
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They are supposed to share custody equally. She feels that she has all the say in this situation and he doesnt rock the boat, because she is a difficult person to deal with. He doesn't want it to get ugly. The original divorce decree, has split the bills and she is the one who wrote it up and he went along with it. He has followed it and given her more than she asked for because he wanted his daughter to be safe and happy. she is persuing more money, because she thinks she needs more. She was asking $400.00 a month and he told her no because he cant afford it.
She went to $200.00 but it isn't in the divorce decree. She was supposed to pay him. But she never did.
Thank you for your follow-up, Rosanne.It sounds as if it has already gotten somewhat ugly. Please allow me to share a few thoughts based on the facts that you have provided.First of all the fact that she remarried to someone far more well-off is a non-issue. The child is your son's and the other person's, so it is their responsibility to care for the child. Unless the other party formally adopts the child and in process severs your son's paternal obligations (obviously not likely or happening), he is never going to be responsible for any care or maintenance.As for your son's obligations, have him go to the link below:http://www.azcourts.gov/familylaw/childsupportcalculator.aspxThis link would allow him to formally estimate and calculate what his real obligation is. If he is paying more than the minimum and she is demanding additional costs, have him file a formal petition for modification to the courts, AND if she is withholding the child, also file a separate motion to compel, which is a request that the courts take formal notice of her not following the terms of the agreement. Then, if she still fails to allow him time to see the child, he could then file a petition for contempt of court and pursue her for intentionally refusing to allow him access or time as provided. He likewise can also go to court and state that the expenses have to be decided upon jointly and if he can care for the child (via you) and not via childcare, those expenses and their lack of necessity should also be taken into consideration.Good luck.
Hello Dimitry,
In the divorce it states that as long as the time split between parents is equal there will be no child support for either party. Now with my daughter going to school full time, the time will be more equally split. So with the mom filling for child support will this make her request obsolete?
Thank you for your follow-up, Roseanne.Which request, for support? It may be possible for your son to claim and show that since there was an agreement in the divorce, the parties cannot pursue additional benefits. But typically child support conditions are not fully honored--the courts look to substantial changes if any, and if those exist, they may intentionally choose to allow modifications to take place. If, for example, at the time divorce was granted both parties made about the same, and now one party makes significantly more, that party can be made to pay support based on change in circumstance.Good luck.


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Should Trade Prevail Over Animal Health Consideration?
(Brussels)– Does protection of public morality and the life and health of animals justify restrictions to trade? Should international trade trump citizens' concerns? Or are restrictions on seal products justified by the necessity to respond to the moral concerns that EU citizens have about the welfare of seals? These and others were the questions examined last week by a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel during a three-day hearing on the EU ban on the sale of seal products in Europe.
A few years ago, the images of seals being inhumanely killed and sometimes skinned alive led to a massive public outcry in Europe about the cruelty involved. European citizens mobilized to condemn the seal hunt and ask for seal products to be banned in the EU. The result was the 2009 EU seal regulation banning the import of products from commercial seal hunts; full enforcement began in August 2010.
Since that time it is illegal to import and place products from seal hunt on the EU market. The EU ban is targeted at commercial seal hunts only, mainly carried out by three countries: Canada, Norway and Namibia. The legislation exempts products coming from subsistence hunts carried out by indigenous Inuit communities and allows exceptions for trade in by-products from sustainable marine resources management. These exceptions represent non-commercial use of seal products.
Noteworthy is the fact that the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor of the ban – 550 out of 736 members; and the ban is widely supported by the European public. In other words, it is considered that the Europeans have made a democratic choice to express in law their views that the seal hunt is cruel and morally indefensible. In the words of Sheryl Fink, International Fund for Animal Welfare's (IFAW) Canada Seals Campaign Director, "the EU seal legislation represents a huge animal welfare victory and since its approval the number of seals killed in the inherently cruel commercial seal hunts has plummeted."
EU ban under threat
But the ban is now under attack. The government of Canada teamed up with Norway to attack the EU law at the WTO, the institution in charge of regulating international trade. They claim that the EU is contravening international trade rules. The WTO aims at promoting trade liberalization and creating a level playing field for all countries by defending the principle of non-discrimination. Its rules nevertheless cater for the possibility for national authorities to introduce trade restrictions if motivated by public morality, animal health and welfare. Other concerns such as the environment, are based on the condition that the policy does not discriminate between countries and that it is not a disguised form of protecting domestic products.
This leaves us with a first bizarre situation where ensuring trade is the rule and animal health and welfare and public morality are the exceptions. This, in itself, is revealing of what we have made of today's world; should trade a priori prevail any other consideration, including public morality and animal life? And how come it is a trade organization that has been entrusted with the competence and the responsibility to decide on what should be the priority?
During the three-day hearing that took place last week, the WTO panel heard the different parties and their statements; each delegation made his case and had the possibility to ask questions. What made it particularly interesting is the fact that it was the first time ever that a WTO panel was examining an animal health issue. "The WTO is still struggling with a lot of questions in this kind of case", says Sonja van Tichelen, IFAW's European Regional Director in an interview with Mint Press. "You could see that by all the questions they asked during the hearing. For example, to what extent is a country allowed to refuse goods produced in conditions considered as unacceptable by its citizens? What is the level of public concern needed to be considered? What is the difference between public concern and public opinion?"
"This case is particularly important because it will determine to what extent citizens can influence the societies in which they live," Sonja van Tichelen adds. "Can citizens in Europe and elsewhere stop something which concerns them greatly, in this case, trading in seal products from the inherently cruel commercial seal industry, or does international trade trump their legitimate concerns"? The potential implications of the WTO-panel's decision are hence much wider and far-reaching than the seal hunt: other issues of animal welfare could be affected, like for example cosmetics that have been tested on animals.
The Canadians argue that the EU could have dealt with its citizens' concerns through a system of certification and labeling to show that seals were killed without unnecessary cruelty. But it would involve close inspection of the hunt; and this appears almost impossible given the vast geographical areas concerned and the difficult conditions. Additionally, "even when cruelty is caught on camera and submitted to authorities, technical issues mean that prosecution is difficult," Sheryl Fink argues.
This leads us to another question: why does the EU need a ban at all? If European consumers dislike the way seal products are obtained, they can decide not to buy them. In the end, the result would probably be the same. "Well, Sonja van Tichelen argues, the public outcry at the cruel killing of seals was such that the European legislator felt a public policy decision was necessary to ensure that EU citizens would not unwittingly be made complicit in that cruelty through their purchases. It is like a public health safety issue, you know: at one stage, it becomes so big that the authorities must intervene, that you cannot simply leave it to the consumers."
Canadian challenge not about jobs
If the WTO-panel condemns the EU ban, it could open the way to more challenges, including against Russia and Taiwan, two countries that have recently implemented regulations against the import of seal products. And perhaps even against the United States that banned the trade in marine mammal products in 1972 based on their Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA). Strangely enough, this ban was never contested by Canada. Could it be that Ottawa does not want to antagonize its main trade partner?
But then, what is the Canadian challenge really about? It is not about protecting industries or jobs; although the seal processing industry and the Canadian Sealers Association say seal products harvested in Newfoundland and Labrador provide significant economic benefit to the region, the reality is that the Canadian commercial seal hunt is nearly bust. The industry requires government-funded life support to survive. This year, the provincial government provided a 3.6 million dollar loan to the Canadian seal processing industry, "in order to protect the future viability of the province's seal hunt," Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Darin King, announced.
In reality, this is more about a principle: what is at stake for the Canadians here is protecting the seal hunt's reputation in other markets. At a time when Canada's seal industry is hoping to have access to the Chinese market, it views the WTO challenge as key to stopping the hunt's pariah image from spreading.
The case is far from being closed. A second hearing is planned for April; and the panel's report is not expected before September. And if the parties to the dispute are not happy with the decision, they can still lodge an appeal with the WTO's Appellate Body. This body resembles a court of appeal and its decisions are final and binding. In human rights issues, countries have not yet managed to find an international system as efficient and effective.
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Choice artworks headline Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches' Dec. 4 sale
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The three previous sales at Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches in West Palm Beach, FL produced some eye-opening surprises, primarily centered around Oriental art and porcelain. The Dec. 4 sale produced some surprises, as well, this time pertaining to Western art and a Palm Beach art gallery consignor.
Just prior to the sale, more than 160 lots were withdrawn after questions arose about the consignor's right to sell the items. Preferring to stay on the conservative side, Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches withdrew the lots in question until resolution could be achieved. The sale still featured a healthy inventory with over 300 lots on the bill of fare from a variety of estates in the South Florida area and several items from the Albert Peter Thomas Rochelle estate.
Unusual furniture sold surprisingly well in a sale focused on art. A 19-leg bronzed resin over steel dining table base, 103in by 60in, with an oval glass top, the "Stalagmite" table by American Paul Evans, circa 1974, sold over estimate at $5,175. An Evans glass-top bronzed coffee table reached $4,025; and a four-piece collection of coffee tables and end tables, tiled in polished chrome and brass, sold for $2,750, soaring over its $500/700 estimate.
The real excitement of the sale was reserved for three works by Indian-born artist Avanash Chandra (1931-1991). He left India for England at age 25 in 1956, and within 10n years the BBC had produced a documentary about him, the V & A had bought his work and he had became the first Indian painter to have work displayed at the Tate Gallery, London. He moved his studio to New York in 1967, and by the time of his death in 1991, had held 32 individual shows. When the Chandra works crossed the blocks five phone operators in the Gallery had their hands full with bidders. The first lot was an abstract composition with figures, watercolor on paper, 21 by 28in, signed "Avanash '60." It sold to a New York bidder for $7,475. The second lot was a Jamaica landscape, oil on unframed canvas, 22¼ by 50in. Inscribed "Avanash Chandra, London, 1986," it sold over estimate to a different New York bidder for $19,550. The third lot was the charm. It was an abstract composition, oil on canvas, signed and dated "83" on the lower left. The 35¾ by 47½in unframed work went to the New York buyer of the earlier abstract for a sale high of $43,700, well above the $20,000/$25,000 estimate.
Two Salvador Dali works sold solidly within estimate. The "Grasshopper Child" etching, signed in pencil numbered 65/100, circa 1935, sold on an absentee bid of $9,200 and four color lithographs entitled "Visions Surrealiste" in a purple silk folio case. Each litho was signed in pencil and numbered 125/150. The set sold via LiveAuctioneers for $4,500.
A screen print on Perspex, "Untitled-Fragment 2" by Bridget Riley English, b. 1931, signed in pencil, 27 by 26½in, sold to a bidder in England for $7,475; and an oil on canvas landscape by American Samuel. S. Carr (1837-1908) titled "Genre Scene with Children and Goat Cart," 12 by 18in in the original gesso cast frame, in need of cleaning and repair, sold for $8,050, more than double the $4,000 high estimate. After many years of storage in a garage in Palm Beach, a bronze sculpture by Marius Jean Antonin Mercie. French (1845-1916) saw the light of day. Titled "Gloria Victis" (Glory to the Defeated), 37in high in good condition, it sold within estimate for $14, 950.
A pair of intricately carved white jade plaques with dragon and scroll forms on rosewood stands, 2¾ by 2¼in and 2¼ by 4½in, sold through LiveAuctioneers to a bidder in Taiwan for $2,160. The duo had been estimated at $500/$700.
Watch for online auction catalogs for all upcoming sales produced by Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches at www.liveauctioneers.com.


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Project Veritas Action investigates the U.S. Department of Justice and their Civil Rights Division that has been involved in "grotesque" prosecutorial misconduct in cases against law enforcement. The same division, and even the attorney involved in past misconduct, is now investigating the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner.
VO #1: Was Senator Mary Landrieu's connections to the U. S. Attorney's office the reason I was so aggressively prosecuted five years ago?
In light of new revelations…Ethical Conduct Complaints have been filed with the Louisiana Attorney Disciplinary Board. The complaints were filed against former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jan Mann, Salvatore Perricone and the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District James B. Letten. An ethics complaint was also filed with the Justice Department against Karla Dobinski.
Letten: Listen to me, pay attention to me, listen to me, listen to me you hobbits. You are less than I can ever tell you.
VO #2: This is Former U. S. Attorney James Letten on the sidewalk in front of the Tulane University law School where he is an assistant Dean.
Letten: blah blah blah…(throws book at James)
VO #3: This wasn't the first time Jim Letten has thrown the book at me. On January 25th, 2010, I was arrested with three colleagues by the FBI and
charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent of committing a felony. A charge that was well beyond the facts of the case.
Mike Madigan: It seemed to be an enormous overreaction to what happened. And relatively soon within the first couple of days, the prosecutors knew that this was not any terrorist activity and they knew that it was a politically related mater having to do with Senator Landrieu.
O'Keefe: We actually showed our real drivers licenses, each and every one of us./// I walked up to Senator Landrieu's door, it was open, anyone could walk in, it was business hours. And I sat down on the couch. And then I said, and this was in the original FBI affidavit, I said to the secretary, I said, "I'm waiting for somebody."
Letten: I didn't prosecute your case asshole. I recused. I recused from your case…
VO #4: Letten did recuse himself but left the prosecution of the case to his number two Jan Mann. Mann's personal connections to Mary Landrieu were well known, going back to when the two went to school together. My attorney, Mike Madigan believed that Letten's entire office should have recused itself, primarily because of relationships and personal connections with Senator Landrieu.
Madigan: We looked at what remained as the leadership at that point in time and we learned quickly on that Senator Landrieu's brother, who I believe the name was Maurice, was part of the leadership of that office with Jan Mann.
VO #5: Madigan wrote a strong letter to the Justice Department asking for the case to be moved to another jurisdiction but that didn't happen. Jan Mann continued to press the case, in spite of the outrageousness of the charges.
Madigan: We thought it was a very large overreach to be using that statute in the first place particularly in light of the fact that it was obviously designed for terrorist activity and I think the prosecutors knew pretty soon on that that was not the case.
VO #6: The facts of the case were pretty straightforward if slightly ridiculous. In January of 2010, Senator Landrieu's support of Obamacare led Louisiana voters to flood her office with complaints. The plan was to make an undercover video.
O'Keefe: United States Senator Mary Landrieu had said her phones were jammed. We thought it would be revelatory and ironic and funny and youtube worthy if we caught her staffers on tape making derogatory comments about the tea party. "Oh, let's just shut those phones down so those tea party people can't get through to us."
VO #7: Two of the participants were wearing hard hats and reflective vests purchased that morning at a hardware store.
O'Keefe: We looked absurd, we looked like the Village People. In fact, they were dressed so absurdly that one of the secretaries laughed and said they obviously aren't telephone repair people.
VO #8: No one was fooled and someone called the FBI. All four of those arrested faced felony charges…that Mike Madigan says, made no sense at all.
Mike Madigan: There was no criminal intent, there was no effort to commit a felony, no evidence whatsoever.
VO #9: But Assistant U. S. Attorney Jan Mann's prosecution was relentless. And perhaps even unethical. Privileged…client-attorney emails were somehow released to the press just weeks after the arrest.
Madigan: The only place that that could have happened from was from the seizure of James computer by the government./// Well we thought it was extremely unprofessional, inappropriate if not criminal action.
VO #10: Madigan asked Mann to investigate the leaks but his letter went unanswered. It now seems pretty evident that there were a lot of unethical activities going on in the U.S Attorney's office. Last year, five New Orleans police officers who had been convicted for a deadly shooting had their convictions overturned.
MSNBC News: In a 129 page ruling a federal judge overturned the convictions citing witness coercion, inconsistent testimony and a scandal in which at least three government attorneys were revealed to have posted comments about the case on line.
VO #11: They had anonymously posted prejudicial comments condemning the cops before and during the trial. The government attorneys were Jan Mann, Karla Dobinski and Salvatore Perricone.
O'Keefe: It also turns out that one of those U.S. Attorney's was blogging about me.
VO #12: Salvatore Perricone used the screen name legacy U.S.A when commenting about my case. The day after my arrest he anonymously blogged, "sure they should be punished. Throw the book at them."
legacyusa Jan 27, 2010 Of all the idiots we have in the Senate, why did they pick Mary. Besides, she's hardly ever in that office, anyway. So why? Sure they should be punished. Throw the book at them. But why that office?
VO #13: On May 25th, 2010 the Mary Landrieu case ended.
O'Keefe: The government gave me three years of probation for a class b misdemeanor. It was very unusual. The case was handled unusually. Days before I was sentenced, a federal judge who usually doesn't get involved in misdemeanor cases, made reference of an extremely serious crime I committed. He talked about acts of violence being committed.
Madigan: I have to say that in forty years of practice I've never seen a probation like that. It was extremely onerous, with regard to James. It made his life miserable basically requiring all kinds of things that I thought were totally unnecessary and that I have never seen before or since.
O'Keefe: I want people to know about this. I want them to know what happened here./// All of these people need to be brought to justice.
VO #14: Now, some five years on…it is time to set the record straight. Senator Landrieu needs to address these questions. And the prosecutors who handled my case, must answer for their possibly criminal or at least unethical actions.


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> From: dave [mailto:dave at rodrig dot com]
> Not quite...
> I seem to remember that it represents the average *number* of processes
> in the kernel's wait queue over the last 1, 5, and 15 mins.
> (As opposed to a percentage.)
> I'm not a developer, correct me if the terminology is off (or if I'm
> just plain wrong :).....
> dave
That is my understanding too - BUT what I'd like to know is how that relates
to performance and usability... like when does a webserver start showing lag
or a vpn start dropping connections?
I expect there are no hard and fast rules, but is there a real use to these
numbers other than a realative indication of my system load?


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Located in Naka Ward, Ikawa Ryokan is within a 10-minute walk of popular sights such as Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Bell of Peace and Hiroshima National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims are also a short walk from this Hiroshima ryokan.
Start your day off with breakfast, available for a fee.
Guests can stay connected with free wired Internet.
- Walking distance to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- Free in-room wired Internet
Ikawa Ryokan
Ryokan Amenities
Ryokan Amenities
- Total number of rooms - 35
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
Available in all rooms: Free wired high-speed Internet
Room Amenities
- Daily housekeeping
- Free wired high-speed Internet
Ryokan Policies
Check-in time starts at 1 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are not available.
- Pets not 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.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
Ryokan Name
- Ikawa Ryokan Hiroshima
- Ikawa Ryokan
- Ikawa Hiroshima
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The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare requires all international visitors to submit their passport number and nationality when registering at any lodging facility (inns, hotels, motels, etc. ). Additionally, lodging proprietors are required to photocopy passports for all registering guests and keep the photocopy on file.


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Low vision assessment and training materials for use in developing countries
Keeffe, Jill E., Lawrence, Margaret, Lovie-Kitchin, Jan E., Marshall, Keith, & Taylor, Hugh R. (1994) Low vision assessment and training materials for use in developing countries. In Kooijman, A.C., Looijestijn, P.L., Welling, J.A., & van der Wildt, G.J. (Eds.) Low Vision - Research and New Developments in Rehabilitation. IOS Press, Amsterdam, pp. 47-50.
The problems faced by developing countries for low vision assessment and training include the size and distribution of the population in relation to available resources, the lack of appropriate assessment materials, and lack of skills and knowledge in the assessment and rehabilitation of low vision. This paper reports on tests and assessment procedures which have been designed utilising technology appropriate to developing countries. Manuals include information on low vision and suggestions for a vision training program. Together these form a multi-purpose kit. Relevant parts can be selected for screening, identification of children with low vision, a comprehensive assessment of functional vision, or a short assessment for a particular purpose such as mobility. The kit has been used and evaluated in many parts of the developing world to ensure its appropriateness.
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LARGO — Given the choice, Kasey Howard would have passed the ball. Or dribbled it. Maybe even called a timeout.
But with time winding down and Calvary Christian trailing by three points, Howard had no choice but to shoot. Standing just behind the 3-point line with two seconds left in regulation, Howard's shot swished through the net to tie Sickles 46-46.
In overtime, the Warriors made key free throws to defeat the Gryphons 59-54 and advance to the Indian Rocks Christian Holiday Tournament final against Harmony.
"I had to just get off a shot," Howard said. "It was the last chance we had. I haven't been shooting the ball well at all this season. It was just kind of luck."
Howard's 3-pointer was her only field goal of the game. While it was certainly clutch, it wasn't the only reason Calvary Christian (13-1) was able to stay alive.
Senior Caroline Andreassen had a game-high 23 points, including four 3s. Freshman Carley Plentovich added 12 points and twin Savannah had nine points, seven of which came on free throws.
"I thought this was an outstanding team effort," Warriors coach Brooke Sibert said. "I have confidence in all my players. We practice late-game situations in every practice. They all have different strengths, and I'm confident they will come through."
It took the first quarter for both teams to settle down. There were numerous turnovers and the teams combined to shoot 14 free throws. In the second quarter, Calvary Christian seemed to take charge when it took a 20-14 lead thanks in part to a Carley Plentovich 3.
The lead bounced back and forth much of the second half. After taking a 44-43 lead with 25 seconds left, Sickles (14-4) forced a turnover. With 13 seconds left, Cassidy O'Brien was fouled and calmly hit both free throws to make it 46-43.
Calvary was able to break the Sickles press, then find Howard open for her game tying shot.
In overtime, the teams traded baskets before the Warriors went on a 4-0 run to get some breathing room. Savannah and Carley Plentovich hit clutch free throws during the run to put the game away.
Jana Henson led Sickles with 19 points. Hartman added 13.
Also of note, East Lake junior Amber Jennings reached 1,000 career points in the Eagles' 44-40 loss to host IRC.
And Osceola sophomore Katie Horan made five 3-pointers against Tenoroc and now has 19 in her past three games. She already had broken the school record for 3s in a season (40) and her total is now 46.


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3com network supervisor does a lot of this kind of stuff ... not sure if
its free any more, used to be a free download, and is not limited to
3com switches, it seemed even to navigate its way easily around full
layer 3 networks as well ...
A fairly useful product to have in your toolkit
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Cases of synaesthesia may be idiopathic (developmental), with the person having experienced synaesthesia as long as they can remember, or non-idiopathic, resulting from a known etiology or mechanism which is acquired and produced synaesthesia.
One type of non-idiopathic synaesthesia is epileptic synaesthesia. This type of synaesthesia is experienced during electrical discharge (seizure) in the limbic region of the brain and is found in less than 7 percent of all temporal lobe - limbic seizures. Seizures which remain confined to the hippocampus in the limbic area of the brain produce elementary sensations, such as a simple taste like bitter. Those which spread to the cortex of the temporal lobe produce more specific and elaborated perceptions, such as the taste of a chocolate chip cookie. Indeed, it has been found that electrical stimulation of the temporal cortex alone evokes synaesthesia.
Another school of thought is that there is a normal phase of synaesthesia in development, that all babies experience sensory input in an undifferentiated way in early infancy, probably up to about 4 months in age. This intermodal unity has been the focus of many studies. It has been found, for example, that neonates are able to detect tactile (touch)-visual correspondences. At a critical period, the senses may become increasingly modular, presumably because modularity leads to more rapid and efficient information processing and is therefore highly adaptive. In adults with synaesthesia the process of modularization of the senses may not have been completed. Connections between different sensory modalities in synaesthetes may have either grown or not died off. Although no conclusive findings have been produced for humans, it is known that such connections exist between auditory and visual areas in the early developing brain of many species. In the macaque monkey and domestic cat, transient connections exist up to three months after birth. There exists the possibility that the normal human brain also contains these connections but that there is an inhibitory mechanism, like a kind of gate, which prevents their activation. This inhibitory mechanism may be dysfunctional in synaesthetes.
Certain studies have led researchers to believe that, in late infancy, there is a change in the aspects of stimulation attended to. Infants respond only to differences in amount of stimulation whereas adults, while retaining this ability, respond to differences between modalities of stimulation instead. In this sense, we all have synaesthetic capabilities.
For colored hearing synaesthesia in particular, three psychological theories have been put forward. The doctrine of the unity of the senses or linkage theory, proposes that the perpetuation of a primitive perceptual experience in the limbic system is the root cause of color synaesthesia. As this system evolved, the perception was differentiated into two separate senses, hearing and vision.
A similar theory, the crosstalk theory, holds that auditory and visual information pathways may cross in synaesthetes. These cross-modal neural connections may be numerically greater than usual or simply used in different ways.
Some believe higher cognitive/cortical level processing (the limbic system is thought to be lower level) to be involved. According to this view, colored hearing synaesthesia is the result of a chain of mental associations, some of the intermediate links having dropped out of awareness. For instance, a person may see red every time they hear a trumpet because of the red uniforms of a brass band.
Feedback connections aid us in imagery, memory, sensory attention and other cognitive functions, but could they also result in synaesthesia? Auditory and visual information must meet somewhere in the brain or we could not process them in conjunction as they occur. These systems may contain feedback pathways normally but, in synaesthetes, they may be altered to include information from the other senses!
As you can see, synaesthesia is an extremely complex phenomenon. As methods for exploring the way the brain works improve, the mechanisms of synaesthesia may be revealed.


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Subject: Re: [htdig] root2word.db / word2root.db
From: Joerg Behrens (email@example.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 04:40:18 PST
Gudula Franz schrieb:
> Hallo,
> iÇve installed Htdig and copied the files bad_words, german.0,
> german.aff (from the GermanWordlist.zip) in common/german
> IÇm working with the php-classes from Manuel Lemos an now the programm
> htdig_build_databases.php is running
> I read that it will be took a lot of time to create the files
> root2word.db, word2root.db.
> My Question is :
> Can I get the files from somewhere else? Because it will take too much
> time till the files are created.
> Or must they be origianl from the website, where I want to work with
> htdig?
Only with some older versions of ht://dig in takes hours and days to
build the root2word.db, word2root.db. !! Since 3.1.12 (i cant remember)
it is very fast. I use the GermanWordlist too and it needs only a few
minutes to build the databases on my PPro200 Mhz with htdig 3.1.14. The
size of this 2 files is to big to send it with email. For the
root2word.db we need 5.9 MB and for the word2root.db 11.6 MB. When its
possible for you i can but these files on our Downloadserver (gzipped
with best regards
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Injured Motorcyclist Dies
Omaha Police say a motorcylist who was injured in a crash Wednesday afternoon has died.
Investigators say 38-year-old Wesley Wiebe was riding his motorcycle at a high rate of speed near 40th and Spencer around 1:30 p.m. when he lost control and hit a northbound car.
Wiebe was taken to Alegent Creighton University Medical Center where he died of complications from his injuries. The driver of the car was not hurt.


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Join the World's Most Determined Stuntman Joe Danger on the set of a very scary movie! Featuring 15 new scenes, across 3 complete tours, with 5 ghoulish new characters.
Sabotage dark rituals in a haunted forest as a Vampire Hunter, escape waves of consuming darkness as the 'Werebear' and hunt for brains as a flesh seeking zombie in this bone-chilling action film!
Contains five new ghastly characters to unlock for four-way Multiplayer matches, classic Movie Mode or Deleted Scenes challenges!
Brand new Leaderboards, Pro Medals and Trophies await for the true undead daredevils!
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" Address: Leidsekade 82 / HS 1017 PM / Amsterdam / Netherlands / Tel: +3120 62 30 295 "
Hotel Kooyk, Amsterdam
I stayed in this 1-star listed hotel, near the famous Leidseplein square in Amsterdam, back in March. As always, I used booking.com to make a reservation. I stayed in a twin room with a friend, and we paid 39 Euros per night, which included breakfast.
The hotel is a five minute walk from Leidsplein, which is basically an entertainment district with also a lot of shops nearby. There is also a north-south tramline that runs through it which heads directly to Amsterdam central train station (about 15min, 3 Euros) so it was very easy to get there. However, the hotel itself is on a canal front around the corner from all the excitement so it was quiet at night.
The hotel
Access was through a front door opening out on to the canal front. It was necessary to ring a bell to get let in, after which you were given a pass card which worked an electronic lock so you could come in and out. There was a blue sign hanging over the door and it was easy enough to find, but inside it looked very much like a converted house. The corridors were cramped, the reception area small, and the stairs were quite treacherous. I approach all such things in good spirits and it didn't bother me at all having to lug my bag up a steep staircase with only room for one, but other people might not be so impressed. There was no elevator.
The rooms
We stayed in a twin room. The beds were okay and comfortable enough, but it was very obviously budget. The lighting was a little dim, the window opened on to a closed courtyard, the paintwork wasn't the best and the cupboards in the room were pretty shabby. It was clean, but it had a distinct youth hostel feel, with the shabbiness of the furniture and the worn carpets making it feel dirty, even if it wasn't. Still, we were only staying for two nights and had known what to expect from the reviews on booking.com. I have travelled around Italy, Vietnam, and Thailand with the same friend, and we've stayed in a lot worse.
The showers were in the corridor and were pretty poky, although the water was at least hot. The toilets were cramped and the locks didn't work very well. I actually interrupted one guy in the middle of an act because the hook lock didn't shut properly and popped out when I opened the door.
The staff
There appeared to be two guys running the place, an older Dutch man who met us on arrival and a younger English ex-pat who seemed to be live-in staff. I got talking to the English guy and he was quite nice and helpful but in a matey kind of way rather than professional. As I've said before, I'm used to a bit of raggedness so nothing bothered me, but it certainly wasn't a four star hotel at budget prices, it was very much budget. While the younger guy was nice to me he was quite rude to some other customers on our second morning because they seemed to be taking advantage of the buffet breakfast a little too much for his liking, when other people were waiting for a table. They were Asian, Chinese, I think, and were demanding endless refills of juice and coffee in a packed breakfast room when he was the only one on duty. It was quite clear to me that they were expecting a little too much and I could understand his attitude, but again I reiterate that this was budget accommodation and in a higher class of hotel such rudeness would not be tolerated.
Breakfast, in a couple of cramped rooms at the front of the hotel, was pretty decent. It was buffet style, with tea coffee, juices, ham and cheese, toast and cereal. Considering it was included in the price I had no complaints, but the poor guy on duty was run ragged when it seemed all the customers came down for breakfast at once and there weren't enough tables. You got the feeling you had to eat and get out as quickly as possible, although he had a smile for us among growling at other people!
Other features
Internet was available, at an extortionate 10 Euros a night for wi-fi, which I saw some customers complaining about. Personally, I just used the communal computer that was available for 1 Euro for half an hour. While I thought charging for wi-fi was pretty cheeky, I kind of felt all these people these days who can't leave their computers alone for more than five minutes deserved it and I imagine pretty much every bar in the square around the corner had it for free.
There was also a laundry service available, but I didn't use it so can't really comment.
You get what you pay for, that's the bottom line. It was listed as a budget hotel, and it was among the cheaper options in an expensive city yet was quite central, near a tram line and close to lots of entertainment, and had breakfast thrown in. The staff were perfectly nice to me and I enjoyed my stay, although I got the impression that a lot of the other customers were expecting something for nothing and were getting frustrated when they didn't get it. I've stayed in some budget hotels that were really far better than their listing, but Hotel Kooyk is what it says on the packet, no more, no less. Personally, I would be quite happy to stay there again.


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I have been Dr. Doweikos patient since I was 19 and moved to Boston. I am now 33. I've been sick and injured on many occasions and recently had a complex infection following jaw surgery from an outside hospital. John took over my case and applied an aggressive treatment. If it wasn't for him and Nancy his assistant I don't know what I would have done. He is a skilled, compassionate doctor and a true testament of what patient care and advocacy should be. He always listens, never rushes and ensure things are done personally. I love this Doctor!
I have been dr. D's pt for over 10 years. I travel all the way from ct to see him because he cares. He is one of the best drs a patient can ever wish for. Some people are trained to be drs but he was born to be a dr.
I seen Dr. Doweiko for 14 years, I explain to him there is something wrong with my hip, I even pulled down my pants to show him the problem with my hip. I complained for five years and then found out I had osteoporosis and also Vitamin D was only 14, and had cancer. I changed hospitals. I am on infusions for osteoporosis.
I have been a patient of Dr. Doweiko for 20 years. I don't know what I ever would have done without him. He is kind, patient, knowledgable and cares so much about me and my family. He will go out of his way to help you. For one to say he is any thing but what I have stared in completely unfair and untruthful. You must have the wrong physician!
i went to this phycian who seemed rushed, failed to listen, and provided 90% of my medical report based on past information and did NOT update or keep current my medications. Most of his report was incorrect and fabricated providing misleading information in the record. He gave me a perscription in which the drug he should be knowledgable, however, it was an overdose. The pharmacy was unable to reach him and to correct the problem was dismissed. I plan on filing an incident and looking for a more qualified physican in-charge of my health care needs.
I live in central Massachusetts and travel over an hour for my appointments with Dr. Doweiko. He is outstanding.
Dr.Doweiko is an incredible physician. Extremely knowledgeable, thorough, on-time and someone who is genuinely concerned for the well-being of his patients. I have always been treated with dignity and respect and have full faith in his abilities. I live an hours drive away and it's not always convenient to get into Boston, however I would not consider switching physicians. Not only is he a great physician, he is a wonderful person as well.
I love him, he makes me feel like a human! Not just a patient!
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Amish Corn Crib Loft Amenities
Amish Corn Crib Amenities
For its first 150 years, the Amish corn crib resided in North Eastern Ohio. It was carefully disassembled and moved to its resurrection site here in the Texas hill country. A long porch was added to the original structure for our guest's comfort. Solitude and relaxation are the order of the day as visitors enjoy the back porch for reading, dining or viewing the fields and the fauna that wanders there.
This log and timber B&B combines hand-crafted construction and furniture with antiques from the surrounding area to create a warm and inviting dwelling. The two units can be used individually or easily shared by a small group of family or friends. In summer months, it is a short walk to the lovely pool for a cool dip and wider views of the outlying hills.
The loft has a king size bed, sitting area, mini-kitchen, jacuzzi tub and a porch (above) with a scenic view of cactus and deer trails.
The crib has a queen size bed, a private entrance, a mini-kitchen, a claw-footed bath tub and a large porch that looks out over scenic hills of mesquite and cactus.
|The porch directly off the bedroom invites you to relax with a snack or a meal and enjoy the presence of the surrounding nature. You are likely to see some of our longhorns, local deer or the distant stars sharing this place of natural beauty.


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Blake Shelton under fire for 'Backstory' comments
Listen to Blake Shelton on iHeartRadio
Country legends Ray Price and Ray Stevens are sounding off about comments Blake Shelton made on his GAC special Backstory, which aired in December. According Yahoo! Blake made the comments toward the end of the hour-long show.
"If I am Male Vocalist of the Year that must mean that I'm one of those people now that who gets to decide if it moves forward and if it moves on. Country music has to move on in order to survive. Nobody wants to listen to their grandpa's music. And I don't care how many of these old farts around Nashville going, 'My God! That ain't country.' Well, that's because you don't buy records anymore jackass. The kids do, and they don't want to buy that you're buying."
Price fired back over Facebook, posting: "This guy sounds like in his own mind that his head is so large no hat ever made will fit him. Stupidity Reigns Supreme! Ray Price (Chief "Old Fart" & "Jackass") P.S. You should be lucky as us old-timers. Check back in 63 years (the year 2075) and let us know how your name and your music will be remembered."
Stevens issued a statement, reading: "I just heard Blake Shelton's remarks about 'old farts and jackasses' and all I want to know is how he found out the title to my next single because it's been a closely guarded secret here at the 'Home.' It will be available on vinyl or 8-Track at your nearest Tower Records store."
Blake took to Twitter to clear the air.
Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement "Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music"..— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
And probably some other things from that same interview on GAC Backstory.. I hate that I upset him.. The truth is my statement was and STILL— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
Is about how we as the new generation of country artists have to keep re-inventing country music to keep it popular. Just EXACTLY...— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
The way Mr. Price did along hid journey as a main stream country artist.. Pushing the boundaries with his records. "For The Goodtimes" is a— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
Perfect example with the introduction of a bigger orchestrated sound in country music.. It was new and awesome!!! I absolutely have no doubt— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
I could have worded it better(as always ha!) and I apologize to Mr. Price and any other heroes of mine that it may offended..— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
I meant every word I said. Country music is my life and it's future AND pastis important to me. I'll put my Lo e and respect and knowledge— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
About it up against anybody out there... ANYBODY...— Blake Shelton (@blakeshelton) January 24, 2013
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At first I didn't recognize Danity Kane's Aubrey O'Day without Kim Kardashian's ass in her face. Then I didn't recognize her even more because it took me about 12 hours to look at her face. I was, uh, admiring her jeans. So, yeah, basically, what I'm getting at is after a long day of deep, intellectual discussion on race, reuniting with our old friend Britney and tackling the injustices of pregnancy, there's nothing like a set of visible nipples to bring us all together. Group hug!
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Cat Veterinary
Have Cat Questions? Ask a Cat Vet Online.
First, can you tell me why you are giving one? And to treat what?
Where did you get the penicillin? Do you know how much to give?
What kind of penicillin is it? Brand name and strength?
Thanks for the info.
Most colds in cats are viral infections, so antibiotics won't have any effect. They are usually self limiting and resolve within a week as long as it doesn't get complicated or turn into pneumonia. Is she eating/drinking ok? Is she acting lethargic?
Penicillin can be given in the muscle and sometimes as a subcutaneous injection. Have you ever given an injection in the muscle before? If you don't feel comfortable doing it, I wouldn't.
Also, there are other causes of the symptoms you described including allergies, asthma, and feline heartworm disease.
Well... if it is a virus the penicillin won't help.
You can give the injection by picking up the skin between the shoulders and making a tent.., sticking the needle through the skin into the space between the skin and the muscle... pull back on the plunger to make sure you don't get blood, and then inject into the space just under the skin... If you get a lot of resistance on injection, you are probably either still stuck in the skin or in the muscle underneath. Most pets don't mind the injection, but it can sometimes sting. I like to rub the area afterwards so that they don't get a lump or knot. That is made to give daily. You can give 1/4 child's dose of benadryl every 12 hours if there is any sneezing or congestion. Try tempting her with meat flavored baby foods to keep her appetite up. When cats get colds and they get congested, their nose might get stopped up, and they rely on their sense of smell to eat... besides possibly having a fever, that's why many of them stop eating, so offering things like meat flavored baby foods that are very aromatic will help.


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With an updated launch date in hand, THQ has released a new trailer starring Death from the action title Darksiders II.
THQ chief Brian Farrell revealed in an investor call earlier this week the game would release August 14, says a report from Joystiq.
The game follows Death as he battles to rewrite decisions made by fellow Four Horseman War, who kicks off the apocalypse early through events from the first Darksiders title.
Darksiders II will be available for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.
Mike Snider began covering the video game industry during the Super Nintendo-Sega Genesis clash in 1992. An original pinball wizard, he eventually was seduced by Robotron: 2084 and Tempest. These days he is a fan of action/shooters and lives out his Keith Moon fantasies playing a mean drum kit on music games. More about Mike.
Brett Molina has been writing about video games for USA TODAY since 2005. He is well-versed in Madden NFL, the fighting genre and first-person shooters. The first video game he played was Asteroids at a local arcade. He has been hooked ever since. More about Brett.