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Come on now. Is Obama really a "psychopathic megalomaniac"?
I learned of Obama's problems today. Not from Ron Paul supporters. Not from Glenn Beck's Drudge wanna-be news site The Blaze. I read about Obama's psychosis from left wing Democrats.
Everyday I get emails from former members of Move On, a pro-Democratic Party group that was famously active during the build-up to the Iraq War in 2003. They're complaining about one man: President Obama.
In these emails, one thing is apparent. When it comes to the left wing liberals, Obama is being left behind.
The left was mostly raptured into political heaven four years ago when they elected Obama on bended knee. He spoke about things dear to their hearts: closing Guantanamo Bay. Ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Getting tough on bankers.
Guantanamo is still open. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, but the military presence remains. (Smacks of imperialism. That's something the left hates as much as libertarians do.) Then there's the president's bit about getting tough on bankers. Where has the White House come down hard on Wall Street? Fuhgeddaboudit. This is New York!
One anti-Obama Saturday in my inbox:
Re: Write-in Kermit the Frog!
If being a 'pragmatist' or a 'realist' means choosing only amongst evils, count us OUT. Obama betrayed the American voters who expected he would not gut the US Constitution. Both parties are the same. And, in a world of infinite possibilities we choose not between the lesser of two evils. In fact, those of us who are not into denial and work at the human rights front lines prefer to face the Republican snake head-on then the confused and gutless Democrat chameleon whining about being a progressive when they are NOT." — Ezili Danto, human rights lawyer at the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network
Re: Obama is a psychopath; reminds me of Stalin
There's a cancer in the presidency called Barack Obama. We have a psychopathic megalomaniac occupying the White house who could be compared to Nero, Caligula, Stalin, or Pol Pot in his disdain for human life. He and his coven of other like minded DC psychopaths and sociopaths are on a murdering spree and like a third world dictator Obama can have someone and their family (including you) executed or blasted to smithereens with a thumbs up or down. This is sickening to me. They are so blase about murdering that they refer to the hit list photos as "baseball cards". Killing is a game or a sport to them. There is a "cancer on the Presidency" and that cancer has metastasized throughout Washington DC. It was there before Obama arrived but he brought a whole new and virulent strain with him. Every time there is a shameful incident or embarrassing event perpetrated by "a few bad apples" we hear from the DC psychopaths that "That is not who we are". They are incorrect. It is who they are in DC. It is not who we the real everyday thinking feeling Americans are. I certainly am not one of the people to be included in their cumulative we." — Alexander Cockburn, writing for his online publication Counterpunch. Alexander is also a columnist at The Nation, though I have a hard time believing this missive will make it passed Katrina Vanden Heuvel. Alex is a firebrand. I've written for him once or twice, and he was kind enough to comment on my reporting about the Iraq War for The Boston Globe in 2003 in his Beat the Devil column. This sounds like Alex being Alex, alright. Gotta love his fire.
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Welcome, everyone, to the English Department's new website and to the new academic year. Both are works in progress but, as a quick tour will make clear, the new website is already a big improvement over the old site. The old academic year, however, will be harder to top. As you can see in our newsletter, last year our faculty and our students won a wide array of awards, national and local, both for research and for teaching. And the successful negotiation of our first (for faculty) union contract boosted morale by starting us down the path toward a much fairer system of compensation.
Now, back from the summer, we're ready to take on the challenges of making the new year as fruitful as the last one was. At least most of us are. Roger Reeves and Sunil Agnani will be gone for the year, Roger with a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, Sunil with a Rice Seminar Research Fellowship at Rice. Alfred Thomas will also be gone but only for a semester, serving as the first Kosciuszko Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Warsaw and I'll be away for just a couple of weeks as the Media@McGill Beaverbrook Visiting Scholar at McGill University. These absences will be more than made up for, however, by the arrival of our new colleague, Peter Coviello. Pete is the author of several important books on American literature, was for fifteen years a dynamic and much-loved teacher at Bowdoin College and, with the wonderful talk he gave on polygamy last year, began to make his presence felt in our Department even before he arrived to stay. We're thrilled to have the opportunity to welcome him to UIC.
One of the things we didn't accomplish last year has left us with probably our most exciting challenge for the new one. We didn't make an appointment of a new Director of First-Year Writing, but during the course of the search I was so impressed by the energy, intelligence and expertise of the faculty we already have in place that I've authorized a FYWP working group, chaired by Mark Bennett and Charitianne Williams, to begin thinking about what we already do well, what we need to do better, and what we might start doing for the first time. The idea behind this group is to make even better use than we already do of the knowledge, talent and energy of our students and faculty. If you have thoughts about the teaching of writing, you should feel free to get in touch with Mark or Charitianne, and if you have ideas more generally about things that English might be doing, you should just get in touch with me.
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MAE322 - The Economics of the Environment
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Must have passed a unit in MAE101, MAE103, SLE103 or SQA101
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Note:You will need to access substantial learning resources and experiences in CloudDeakin (Deakin's online learning environment). Compliance with the Standards in computing, connectivity and student capability are a condition on your enrolment.
This unit introduces the use of economic tools to evaluate environmental issues. It is designed to develop in students an awareness of the socio-economic issues relevant to natural resource management. Topics include: the relationship between the economy and the environment; market failure and environmental problems; an introduction to Benefit Cost Analysis as a decision making tool; discussion of methods of valuation of environmental goods and services; the allocation of renewable resources (catchments and agriculture); the allocation of common property resources (fisheries) and the economics of biodiversity.
Written Assignment 1 1000 words 15%, Written Assignment 2 1500 words 25%, Examination 2 hours 60%, Hurdle requirement: achieve at least 50% of the marks available on the examination.
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What is the Grinnell Liberal Arts in Prison Program?
The Grinnell Liberal Arts in Prison Program provides liberal arts education to incarcerated men and women in Iowa's prisons and kids at the Iowa Juvenile Home. We offer a First Year of College to men who undergo a selective admissions process at the Newton Correctional Facility. In addition, between 60-80 on-campus students volunteer in the prisons each semester.
Who teaches the classes? Do they volunteer?
All faculty who teach courses in prison are paid and are not volunteers.
Who volunteers in the program? How many people participate?
Each semester, around 60-80 student volunteers who sign-up each semester, many of whom volunteer for several semesters during their time at Grinnell. According to our recent program assessment, one in seven of the graduating class of 2012 participated in the Liberal Arts in Prison Program. Furthermore, approximately 9% of all students enrolled in Grinnell College from Fall 2009 to Spring 2012 volunteered with the program.
Faculty and staff participate in several ways, from giving a one-time lecture on a topic of their choice, to teaching a full accredited class for the First Year of College program. We usually offer 2 to 3 accredited classes each semester, and a handful of faculty give one-time lectures. Several staff and faculty members have also tutoring men enrolled in the FYOC program.
Each semester we usually have a special event at one of the prisons, including performances by the Jazz Band and Grinnell Singers, and a Grinnell Community production of Waiting for Godot.
For more information on the details of program, see our Program Summary from Fall 2009-Summer 2012 on thehistory page.
What does the program cost?
The Liberal Arts in Prison Program has a total yearly budget of $40,000 a year. This covers all our extensive student volunteer program, which included over 60 students last year, as well as all expenses for the First Year of College accredited program.
How is the program funded?
LAPP is funded entirely by grants and private donations. If you would like to to contribute to our program, please visit our donate page.
Do students in prison get credit from Grinnell College?
Yes, students enrolled in the First Year of College program receive Grinnell College credits on a transcript from Grinnell. The program is designed to provide the students with 32 credits in introductory level liberal arts courses. We currently offer the First Year of College program at the Newton Correctional Facility.
Do Grinnell College students receive credit for their participation?
Students can design and teach their own course as a 2- or 4-credit Independent Study or as a 2-credit Plus 2 option. These opportunities must be considered well in advance, but we are happy to discuss the option with any interested students.
How does the program benefit the volunteers?
In the fall of 2011, we conducted a survey to assess the impact of the Liberal Arts in Prison Program. For more information about this assessment, visit our program impact page.
Is volunteering in prison dangerous?
No, absolutely not. None of our volunteers have ever been harmed or threatened while volunteering in prison.


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The wounded veterans of The Warrior Ride bicycled through The Citadel campus this morning and now are at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center.
About 30 veterans are riding together on adapted bicycles throughout the Lowcountry over the next two days to generate support for veterans' sacrifices.
The Warrior Ride began this morning at Waterfront Park in Mount Pleasant. It crossed the Ravenel Bridge, then stopped at The Citadel's Daniel Library for a 10 a.m. ceremony.
The group, all veterans, is scheduled to leave the VA around 1:45 p.m. It will continue its ride in downtown Charleston, including stops at the Battery and Civil War sites. It then heads to Patriots Point, then to the Isle of Palms VFW for dinner.
Participation in The Warrior Ride is free for service members, with expenses donated by local businesses including Tri-County Links and Holiday Inn Express in Moncks Corner.
At 9 a.m. Friday, the group will be greeted by hundreds of employees at Santee Cooper headquarters at 1 Riverwood Drive in Moncks Corner.
Lowcountry residents are encouraged to show their support by watching the parade and cheering them along. Find out more on The Warrior Ride website.
Read more in upcoming editions of The Post and Courier. Reach Diane Knich at 937-5491 or on Twitter @dianeknich.
About 30 wounded veterans of The Warrior Ride bicycled through The Citadel campus Thursday morning.×
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In 2014 MultiTaction secured a 2014 Digital Signage Expo (DSE) Apex Award for The Cube
Google Creative Sandbox Interactive Touch Table allows visitors to experience individual Creative Sandbox projects. They broke down into several groups that each use a certain type of technology "building blocks": Video, Social, Mobile, GEO APIs, Search, Display, Web/Apps, Commerce.
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When users touch the university logo on a multitouch table, they get a dialog box that enables them to search the entire university alumni database by searching on name, year, or special events.
MultiTouch produced the Official 2011 International CES Twitter Wall. It incorporated Twitter feeds from CES – including the official #CES tag – as well as 2011 CES news from show attendees, bloggers, and exhibitors, and will curate stills and video content from the show as well.
The world's largest public multitouch display is installed for Siemens in Vienna. The multitouch wall with 8.5 meter wide LCD in Siemens City is made by uma and MultiTaction. The wall enables tens of visitors to simultaneously interact with Siemens information, as well as digital art, audiovisuals, local and global news, and other rich media and Web 2.0 content.
The Wall of Chile (Muro de Chile) for the Chilean Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World's Fair features a 4-meter-long and 1.2-meter-high LCD wall displaying details about Chile's culture and character.
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Bluescape is a cloud-based visual collaboration workspace that transforms how business professionals work together. The workspaces can be used for sharing ideas, plans and documents; bringing incredibly complex projects to the market faster; streamlining the decision making and allowing collaboration over distributed physical locations.
An essential part of the Bluescape solution are the MultiTaction displays. MultiTaction displays combined with Bluescape software allows businesses to connect people and resources to enable better decision making, innovation, and collaboration across global time zones.
MultiTaction Cell displays have been used in the construction of the world's largest interactive multitouch wall. The wall was built by UK-based Engage Production Ltd for a renowned global company providing advice on business advancement, and forms part of a fully integrated and unique communications facility.
A hand and finger gesture conrolled multitouch microscope brings new dimensions into teaching and research. The method is a combination between web-based virtual microscopy and a giant size multitouch display.
Currently deployed in real estate sales and leasing offices, MultiTaction displays allow users to explore different properties, view availability of properties with real-time data and compare multiple floor plans. The advanced tracking features of the MultiTaction displays allow users to annotate on the content with an IR pen, then identify themselves using the MultiTaction Codice™ and email annotated content instantly.
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The invisible marker technology enables marker tracking on transparent surfaces without visible markers. Here different kinds of drinking glasses are used as product, that can be used browse through images and videos associated with the specific kind of glass.
BeautyTouch is a 360 degree solution to interactive retail marketing for innovative brands looking to give their customers an exciting in-store experience every time.
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Xenium Digital came up with an object recognition featuring solution. IDBI shortlisted Xenium Digital to promote the new Debit card for IDBI bank. To target the top executives at airports, high end MultiTaction technology provided the best option.
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LK-AG developed the multimedia innovation area for heroal at the trade fair BAU 2013 in Munich. The innovative installation includes a large communication table which was the highlight of the area at heroal.
Scion utilized MultiTaction optical marker technology on interactive table with translucent control cards.
The Tangible Bar application was developed by NMY as an exhibit for use as an interactive point-of-sale at trade fairs and in showrooms. The term "tangible user interface" refers to an interface via which a user can control a digital world with real, physical objects. Users can interact with the information on the display table by turning, sliding or combining a number of different tangibles and interacting with the extended multitouch on-screen controls.
The Tangible Bar application invites visitors of the EADS Cassidian Technology & Innovation booth to interactively explore the world of aviation research. Triggered by user interactions, the application can display impressive interactive messages, data visualizations, 3D product simulations and other media content. Users can alter the different technical parameters by turning and moving the acryl-made Sagitta drone control blocks. Using these physical tangibles, visitors are able to concretely internalize the digital content and dive into the EADS's world of different innovative technologies.
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ABB is using MultiTaction wall displays to present its new Onboard DC Grid technology in exhibitions.
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Audi has introduced car show interactive multitouch display tables with applications designed by Interactive Scape. The Audi Efficiency Tables with MultiTaction displays are currently being used in several automotive shows in Europe for presenting the efficiency of Audi cars. Motor show visitors can play a 360-degree animation, videos, pictures and information in several languages on Full HD LCD tables at Audi exhibit stands.
Imagination showcase application for Lincoln has presented the Detroit Auto Show (NAIAS 2010) and other US car show visitors highly visual information about Lincoln cars using passes with 2D bar codes.
The Foresee Consulting Application for T-mobile allows consumers to compare the features of mobile phone models on an interactive multitouch table at mobile phone stores.
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The Visitor Audio Experience at the Australian War Memorial is intended to provide additional layers of engaging and informative curated content to enhance the visitor experience rather than provide a traditional 'guide' to the galleries. At this stage it has been rolled out for the "Australians in the Great War" galleries but the intention is to further expand the concept to encompass all galleries. The delivery platform for the experience is a modified smartphone device, enclosed in a specially designed case and the visitor is provided with the device and headphones for their visit.
The experience commences with the visitor receiving a 'smart device' on arrival in the Orientation Gallery. They are provided with a simple instruction to place it on the bench that is part of a large-scale multimedia touch wall comprised of twenty MT553UTB MultiTaction Cells. The cells are arrayed in seven columns, each with two vertical and one horizontal cells. The horizontal cell in each column is partially obscured by the vertical cell above to reduce the depth of the 'table', allowing easier visitor access to the vertical touch surface.
Each 'smart device' has a fiducial marker applied to the back cover. When the device is placed on the table the cell recognises the device and initiates the tour selection system, and reveals a tour selection menu on the adjacent vertical 'wall' cells. The visitor can review the available tours by touching on the tour icons, revealing details of the tour content, and the selected tour is dragged to a placeholder that animates then 'loads' the tour on the 'smart device'. Once selected the visitor removes the device and makes their way into the gallery for their tour.
Visitors are able to get an overview of the region's attractions by studying them on the MultiTaction displays. When a visitor chooses a postcard of interest and places it with an optical marker on a display, the display recognizes the marker and shows further information on possible destinations, museums or other attractions in the area. The combination of touch and haptic interfaces helps to engage those visitors who enjoy collecting and sending postcards. The installation has also increased the amount of time visitors spend at the exhibit.
Read more at Imagination's website
Interactive display at the Museum of Stone in the Saviour on the Spilled Blood lets user to lets more about precious stones used at the world famous St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
This interactive installation at Trinity University's admissions office Welcome Center provides a platform for prospective students to explore their academic interests and options during on-campus tours of the university. Students select up to three 'Interest Cards' from a displayed set and place them on the table. At that point, the table comes to life, displaying related topics, areas of study, on-campus information and academic multi-media specific to each card.
The Oztoc is a project between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the New York Hall of Science. It is an interactive multitouch table to investigate how collaboration and learning occur during play in informal settings such as museums. To explore the game players combine physical blocks (representing electronic components) to create circuitry and lights to attract undiscovered underwater creatures. The game allows researchers to study how children can learn to think like engineers as they problem solve, reason and work with each other.
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"World Heritage Sites of Russia" multimedia project was initiated to draw public attention towards the beauty of the unique architecture of Russian UNESCO World Heritage buildings. The installation was presented for the first time in Moscow during International Museum Festival INTERMUSEUM that is considered the main cultural event in Russia.
With the support of 12 interactive MultiTaction Codice markers, the visitors were able to open the colorful visual content. Each of the markers was dedicated to a specific architectural site. Once the marker was placed to the table, the text box with the information and photos was shown on the table while a short introductory movie was playing on the wall.
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At the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, visitors can step up to the World Youth Day interactive table to virtually travel to the cities which have hosted these massive papal gatherings. Small, circular discs indicate the cities that have drawn hundreds of thousands of youth, including Paris, Manila, Toronto, and Denver. After selecting a disc and placing it anywhere on the interactive table, visitors are prompted to move it along a path, which unlocks engaging content such as archival images, videos, and quotes. The last stop of the journey prompts users to reflect on several quotes from the Pope and select the one they feel best represents the experience. This selected quote is then digitally "attached" to their disc, to be displayed when the next museum visitor puts it on the table. For more information, please click here.
Interactive MultiTaction displays enable visitors shape the content of the exhibition at the Finnish Nature Centre Haltia. By manipulating different kind of maps on displays, users can, for instance, learn about geology of Finland.
Two large MultiTaction interactive display systems have been launched in the new Space Shuttle Atlantis attraction at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. The exhibit pays tribute to the space shuttle Atlantis, the last shuttle to enter space, and provides guests with more than 60 interactive touchscreen experiences and high-tech simulators.
MultiTaction displays have been used as part of the Emirates Aviation Experience in North Greenwich, London. Engage Production Ltd were commissioned by Pulse Group to build and implement the coding for an aircraft turnaround simulation.
Plankton Populations is an exhibit at the Exploratorium that gives museum visitors both a global and microscopic view of the oceans' plankton, with social, open-ended interaction. The exhibit is an adaptation of a model created by scientists at MIT's Darwin Project, which allows researchers to test how plankton respond to different environmental conditions, such as climate change.
The Interactive Media Lab at the Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden) utilizes MultiTaction iWall for research purposes. TU Dresden's goal is to conduct ambitious research in modern human-computer interaction and interactive information visualization. They are the first to use MultiTaction iWall, the largest fully interactive display wall in Europe.
Visitors study and manipulate photos revealing more about the exhibits and the stories behind them. They can learn more about exhibitions, artists, events and the museum itself in the museum magazine on the display. Visitors can also take part in discussions about exhibitions by reading tweets on the wall and sending their own ones to the Twitter cloud on the display.
Sekuensaa is a musical exploration experience in which multiple participants simultaneously interact with a sound synthesizer by arranging a special set of markers on top of a multitouch table.
Childhood toys leap into the future with this interactive LEGO game. The immersive game displays multi-touch technology on Intel Intelligent Systems.
User can play music on CAVI Radartable by using different objects 2D bar codes on the display.
Visitors to the Memory of a Nation exhibition at the National Archives of Australia can view a range of documents relating to Australia's past. The program lets visitors handle a digital version of the paper artefact without any concern for object conservation. Thematic links between records encourage exploration by visitors.
Never Enough Grass interactive is filled with 3D animations and models, sheep breeding and cattle herding games, video overlays of iconic fauna, and a playable piano. Visitors navigate through a highly animated interface to explore a diverse range of content and stories from locations that have played a key part in the development of the Australian pastoral industry.
Visitors of the National Museum of Finland can study a big number of photos, videos and other images and texts on MultiTaction tables. Tables provide the museum a solution to present a huge amount of material from the last century in a limited space.
Augmented reality applications where users can find movie-themed content by placing coasters on the interactive multitouch table display.
The MultiTaction wall at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, provides high-resolution photos and videos of the Space Shuttle, which multiple users can manipulate simultaneously.
The EIT ICT Labs and MultiTaction presented an almost five-meter long interactive dual-action multitouch wall at CeBIT 2012. Reseachers have solved the problem how to attract people to use a multitouch display wall. The multitouch wall with Kinect 3D motion sensing cameras reacts to new potential users passing by and lures them to touch the wall and explore the content when they approach it.
Intervisio has launched 'The Wall' an interactive, multitouch display game show. In the show, couples compete in 15-minute physical action and knowledge-based games that involve touching elements on a 7-meter (22-foot) long multitouch display wall. It has already been optioned in the U.S. and the UK. The show's touchscreen games will be made available as online apps for the play-at-home audience, providing unique sponsorship opportunities beyond traditional advertising blocks.
A 7-meter long asymmetric multitouch table at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra reclaims the Aboriginal history of the world's longest stock route in Australia.
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In 2007, I thought the consolidation of the Malvern and Nishna Valley school districts into one East Mills Community School District was a good idea.
I don't feel that way anymore.
As an outsider looking in, the Nishna Valley-Malvern marriage appears to be on shaky ground.
Driving around Pacific Junction Friday, watching the sandbaggers and railroad contractors preparing for the predicted flood waters, I was reminded of the eerie feeling I had back in the summer of 1979 while completing some National Guard training at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss.
I didn't have a television in my dorm room on the base, probably not even a radio, and certainly not a computer or cell phone. I was two weeks away from completing a hot summer of training and anxious to return home to Nebraska.
I've stated previously in this column that one of the greatest privileges I've had during my time as editor of The Opinion-Tribune was accompanying World War II veterans from southwest Iowa to Washington, D.C., in September 2008, on the inaugural Western Iowa Honor Flight.
The irony of President Obama announcing to the American public on May 1 that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. special military forces in Pakistan hasn't gone unnoticed in the past 72 hours.
It was on May 1, 1945, when the world learned through a radio broadcast that Nazi Germany dictator Adolph Hitler had committed suicide.
Last week, I had the opportunity to get a personal tour of the famous Todd House down in Tabor. I had heard a lot about the place over the years - knew it had a lot of history behind it and a connection to the Underground Railroad - but had never actually seen the place in person.
President's Day is Monday. We observe this day in February because it happens to be the birth month of George Washington, our first president, and Abraham Lincoln, the man many historians regard as our greatest president ever.
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Selected PublicationsBrown, P.; Levis, M.; McIntyre, E.; Griesemer, M.; Small, D. Combinations of the FLT3 inhibitor CEP-701 and chemotherapy synergistically kill infant and childhood MLL-rearranged ALL cells in a sequence-dependent manner. Leukemia. 2006 Aug;20(8):1368-1376.
Kim, K.T.; Levis, M.; Small, D. Constitutively activated FLT3 phosphorylates BAD partially through pim-1. Br J Haematol. 2006 Sep;134(5):500-509.
Knapper, S.; Burnett, A.K.; Littlewood, T.; Kell, W.J.; Agrawal, S.; Chopra, R.; Clark, R.; Levis, M.J.; Small, D. A phase 2 trial of the FLT3 inhibitor lestaurtinib (CEP701) as first-line treatment for older patients with acute myeloid leukemia not considered fit for intensive chemotherapy. Blood. 2006 Nov 15;108(10):3262-3270.
Levis, M.; Brown, P.; Smith, B.D.; Stine, A.; Pham, R.; Stone, R.; Deangelo, D.; Galinsky, I.; Giles, F.; Estey, E.; Kantarjian, H.; Cohen, P.; Wang, Y.; Roesel, J.; Karp, J.E.; Small, D. Plasma inhibitory activity (PIA): a pharmacodynamic assay reveals insights into the basis for cytotoxic response to FLT3 inhibitors. Blood. 2006 Nov 15;108(10):3477-3483.
Piloto, O.; Nguyen, B.; Huso, D.; Kim, K.T.; Li, Y.; Witte, L.; Hicklin, D.J.; Brown, P.; Small, D. IMC-EB10, an anti-FLT3 monoclonal antibody, prolongs survival and reduces nonobese diabetic/severe combined immunodeficient engraftment of some acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell lines and primary leukemic samples. Cancer Res. 2006 May 1;66(9):4843-4851.
Radomska, H.S.; Basseres, D.S.; Zheng, R.; Zhang, P.; Dayaram, T.; Yamamoto, Y.; Sternberg, D.W.; Lokker, N.; Giese, N.A.; Bohlander, S.K.; Schnittger, S.; Delmotte, M.H.; Davis, R.J.; Small, D.; Hiddemann, W.; Gilliland, D.G.; Tenen, D.G. Block of C/EBP alpha function by phosphorylation in acute myeloid leukemia with FLT3 activating mutations. J Exp Med. 2006 Feb 20;203(2):371-381.
Baldwin, B.R.; Li, L.; Tse, K.F.; Small, S.; Collector, M.; Whartenby, K.A.; Sharkis, S.J.; Racke, F.; Huso, D.; Small, D. Transgenic mice expressing Tel-FLT3, a constitutively activated form of FLT3, develop myeloproliferative disease. Leukemia. 2007 Apr;21(4):764-771.
Brown, P.; McIntyre, E.; Rau, R.; Meshinchi, S.; Lacayo, N.; Dahl, G.; Alonzo, T.A.; Chang, M.; Arceci, R.J.; Small, D. The incidence and clinical significance of nucleophosmin mutations in childhood AML. Blood. 2007 Aug 1;110(3):979-985.
Kim, K.T.; Baird, K.; Davis, S.; Piloto, O.; Levis, M.; Li, L.; Chen, P.; Meltzer, P.; Small, D. Constitutive Fms-like tyrosine kinase 3 activation results in specific changes in gene expression in myeloid leukaemic cells. Br J Haematol. 2007 Sep;138(5):603-615.
Li, L.; Piloto, O.; Kim, K.T.; Ye, Z.; Nguyen, H.B.; Yu, X.; Levis, M.; Cheng, L.; Small, D. FLT3/ITD expression increases expansion, survival and entry into cell cycle of human haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells. Br J Haematol. 2007 Apr;137(1):64-75.
Piloto, O.; Wright, M.; Brown, P.; Kim, K.T.; Levis, M.; Small, D. Prolonged exposure to FLT3 inhibitors leads to resistance via activation of parallel signaling pathways. Blood. 2007 Feb 15;109(4):1643-1652.
Li, L.; Piloto, O.; Nguyen, H.B.; Greenberg, K.; Takamiya, K.; Racke, F.; Huso, D.; Small, D. Knock-in of an internal tandem duplication mutation into murine FLT3 confers myeloproliferative disease in a mouse model. Blood. 2008 Apr 1;111(7):3849-3858.
Sallmyr, A.; Fan, J.; Datta, K.; Kim, K.T.; Grosu, D.; Shapiro, P.; Small, D.; Rassool, F. Internal tandem duplication of FLT3 (FLT3/ITD) induces increased ROS production, DNA damage and misrepair: implications for poor prognosis in AML. Blood. 2008 Jan 11.
Small, D. Targeting FLT3 for the treatment of leukemia. Seminars in hematology. 2008 Jul;45(3 Suppl 2):S17-21.
Whartenby, K.A.; Small, D.; Calabresi, P.A. FLT3 inhibitors for the treatment of autoimmune disease. Expert Opin Investig Drugs. 2008 Nov;17(11):1685-1692.
Pratz, K.W.; Cortes, J.; Roboz, G.J.; Rao, N.; Arowojolu, O.; Stine, A.; Shiotsu, Y.; Shudo, A.; Akinaga, S.; Small, D.; Karp, J.E.; Levis, M. A pharmacodynamic study of the FLT3 inhibitor KW-2449 yields insight into the basis for clinical response. Blood. 2009 Apr 23;113(17):3938-3946.
Schafer, E.; Irizarry, R.; Negi, S.; McIntyre, E.; Small, D.; Figueroa, M.E.; Melnick, A.; Brown, P. Promoter hypermethylation in MLL-r infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia: biology and therapeutic targeting. Blood. 2010 Jun 10;115(23):4798-4809.
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The clerk told police he was behind the counter at the Burger Dairy III, 811 E. Pontiac St., on Saturday night when a man came through the front door and immediately pointed a silver handgun at him. Then a second man came inside, also pointing a gun at the clerk, the report stated.
The clerk dropped to the floor, a shot was fired and the round struck the counter. He grabbed his own handgun and stood to confront the pair. But the men, who did not say a word and did not steal anything, had already fled the store, the report stated.
Officers were dispatched to the store about 9:45 p.m. A customer in the store at the time corroborated the clerk's story, the report said.
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After a massacre decimates half his team and leaves him crippled, Jaxon Law must relearn how to fight-and battle the anger and guilt threatening to overwhelm him. But when he rescues a beautiful woman who awakens his primal instincts, Jax is unprepared for the dangers that lie ahead.
On the run from her employer, brilliant lab assistant Kira Locke has evidence that leads the Alpha Pack on a hunt for someone targeting human civilians with Psy abilities. And as Jax and Kira circle both the killer and each other, Jax will have to decide if the deep connection he feels with Kira is worth breaking the ultimate shifter rule-because bonding with Kira means putting his abilities at risk, and they might be the only tools he has to keep his mate alive.
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"[Fans] will fall head over heals for the Alpha Pack!" (Angela Knight, New York Times best-selling author)
I love being swept away by a new romance and thankfully Audible's ever growing Library means I get to indulge myself over and over again
This book has everything, ex Navy Seal were-men with supernatural 'gifts', genetic experiments, shape shifters, bad guys, sex and romance. J D Tyler throws more strange characters with weird abilities into the story as it unfolds and they can be brought forward to be part of the story or left in the background for another book. It reminded me of JR Ward's BlackDagger Brotherhood or Gena Showalter's Lords of the Underworld. So if you loved them then you will love this new series I am sure.
The narrator did a good job too.
These books are going to be an automatic download for me, now I just have to be patient and wait but it could end up a series of at least 7 or much more mmmmm delicious.
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Hello, my name is Teresa and I'm an addict.
"Mediocre shifter story."
Unfortunately this was one of those books that just didn't float my boat. I like the background that was created, but the characters just didn't get me all that excited. Although I didn't hate the characters, I just didn't like them overly and was debating to even finish the book. I mean the first sex scene had Jax smelling of another woman, and like an idiot Kiara didn't even blink an eye when she jumped into bed with him. It didn't feel sexy to me, but a wham, bam thank you ma'am. The second half of the book was an improvement and I might be willing to try the next book, but I will probably wait for a sale. Of course I have read/listen to much worse and stayed the course. The narrator was wrong for the part, although she did a good job it just seemed like she wasn't the right fit for these characters. I do like shifter books and I recommend Suzanne Wright, Thea Harrison and Nalini Singh.
"Unsatisfying Ending"
As the title suggests, this is the beginning of a series. While an incomplete story is expected, I find most authors find a way to give the ending a sense of completion while still enticing the reader to continue with the series. This one lacked a sense of completion. It might as well have had "To Be Continued..." at the end. Also, I usually like a little sex thrown in with a story, but I found these sex scenes tiresome and unexciting. Fortunately, the overall story had just enough interest to it that I think I may buy the next in the series--though with some hesitation. The slightly better reviews for the second release are enticing me. The narrator did a nice job. It kind of cracked me up that she used such a serious voice. Talking about shape shifters and secret government experiments is serious business, people! It didn't take me long to get over that and just to get into the fun of it, and she definitely brought the characters to life. If you've never read/listened to other shape shifter fiction, there are better options for a newbee. If you listen to audible books a whole lot and are exhausting your options, this is not a bad choice.
"More Story makes a better book"
I have found that in the past, when a book has lots of sex in it, the reader gets a weak story.
This book is a perfect example. I was interested in the premise. Shape shifters, Navy Seals, intrigue, I couldn't wait. Should have waited. For every interesting event, sex, the description of sex and/or body parts attributing to sex introduced. All right, already. Get on with the story...
Kira sounded competent and determined. She lost her way, big time. The rest of the group were very disappointing.
If you like the "Bodice Ripper" scenarios, this book might be for you. Otherwise, don't waste your time.
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"Best shifter series I have ever read"
It took me forever to listen to this book, I have had it for about 7 months but other things just kept popping up and I wasn't sure I wanted to get into another series...well THAT was the wrong call!
This book was great! There were hot alpha males, action packed drama, a medical side of shifting, a mating side of shifting and hot hot hot scenes! The characters were wonderful and so was the plot. There was one thing in the book I really didn't like...how does a seer not SEE the big picture? Or how an op will go? That part annoyed me, but I am off to book 2!
Credit or buy, it's that good!
"Too much sex that seems to distract from story."
Cut back on the sex scenes. One description of mating is good enough. Should be a rabbit pack not wolves. Seemed to detour the story.
Possibly not sure yet. Storyline has promise but sex scenes repeated over and over a "turn-off".
Did well with what she had to work with.
"Mixed feelings"
Probably not. The sex in this book had me wishing they would just finish so the story could continue. I'll have to find a book that doesn't go so overboard.
I like the subject but the sex episodes were too explicit for my taste.
I enjoy books about shapeshifters and mythical beings. This book was interesting and would I would have enjoyed more story and less sex.
Nothing. From the 1st chapter, this book is poorly written werewolf porn. Graphic juvenile masturbation and numerous gradeschool descriptions of genitals make it difficult to follow the awful story.
The writing, characters, story, and narrator.
Hell no! Please save your credit.
All of them.
I wanted to claw my ears off.
Audible OBSESSED!
"Primal, lusty, and action packed!"
Great story, full of action, and full of steamy steamy deliciousness! Oh, and the narrator--one of my favs--was excellent as usual.
I love the characters, every one of them. I was hooked from the beginning and was drawn in more and more as it continued.
Yes, she is a great narrator, I love all the voices she does.
Too many to count! I loved all the interactions between Jackson and Kira--I can't get enough of that primal love between them! The ending was a moving point in the book as well, heart wrenching to say the least.
Love this book!
"To Be or Not To Be"
I loved this book. It was my first Alpha book ever and it pulled me in with the different types of people and there backgrounds. I was confused at first if it was a love story or was it all about the pack and to find out the truth was in lighting. I hope the rest of the series will be added and if not I can see myself reading the books.
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- A selection of recent data referring to Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS CERN energy of 158 GeV per nucleon is presented which might describe the state of highly excited strongly interacting matter both above and below the deconfinement to hadronization (phase) transition predicted by lattice QCD. A tentative picture emerges in which a partonic state is indeed formed in central Pb+Pb collisions which hadronizes at about T = 185 MeV, and expands its volume more than tenfold, cooling to about 120 MeV before hadronic collisions cease. We suggest further that all SPS collisions, from central S+S onward, reach that partonic phase, the maximum energy density increasing with more massive collision systems.


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Dana White: Georges St-Pierre has choice of Anderson Silva or Johny Hendricks for next opponent - MMA Fighting
"If Georges wants to fight Anderson Silva, we're not going to tell him `No, you have to fight Johny Hendricks,'" White said.
White seemed to indicate if it was up to him and he could make the St-Pierre vs. Silva fight, St-Pierre would not vacate the title. He also noted win or lose against Silva, GSP would then go back to defending the welterweight belt.
It had long been speculated the UFC was hoping for a Jon Jones vs. Silva superfight for the 20th anniversary show if it was held at Madison Square Garden. If Jones beats Chael Sonnen on April 27 and Silva beats Weidman, White didn't tip his hat on whether he'd rather go in the Jones vs. Silva direction.
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The Berkeley County Sheriffs Office is investigating a fatal shooting of a teenager Monday night.
Berkeley County Sheriffs Office spokesman Dan Moon said Tuesday morning that an investigation is ongoing into a shooting in Ladson; a 15-year-old boy, Alonza Williams of Goose Creek, was shot multiple times and died at MUSC after being taken there by helicopter. The shooting occurred in the College Park area of Ladson.
It is under investigation, said Moon.
Berkeley County Coroner Bill Salisbury confirmed the victims identity.
On June 30, at 9:49 p.m. the 911 dispatcher received a call reporting a shooting in the College Park Area of Berkeley County. When sheriff officers arrived they found that Alonza Williams had been shot several times.
He was transported to MUSC by helicopter and was pronounced dead at 11:11 p.m., Salisbury said.
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WASHINGTON, March 13, 2013 The U.S. Department of Agricultures Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Buchheit Inc., Perryville, Mo., has paid $3,600 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
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Montpelier firefighters challenge city over withheld emailsBy David Taube
STAFF WRITER | February 05,2013MONTPELIER Local and state firefighter unions have cried foul over withheld emails in which city officials discussed a Montpelier Fire Department budget issue, but the city agreed Monday to release some documents initially kept private.
The Professional Fire Fighters of Vermont statewide union filed a public records request Jan. 25 after a final Montpelier City Council budget hearing, seeking exchanges between city officials, and the city withheld 30 records. But Montpelier firefighters union President Jake Larrabee said a lawyer for his union reviewed the citys response and believes the records are public.
Were going to discuss whether we want to litigate to get them released, Larrabee, a lieutenant firefighter with the city, said Monday.
City Manager William Fraser wrote in response to the public records request that 29 records were not being released because of an exemption that allows certain budget materials to be withheld. Another record was withheld on the grounds of privacy and personnel matters.
Three emails were disclosed, according to a city response that the state union provided to The Times Argus. But in a reversal of the initial decision, Mayor John Hollar said later Monday that many of the documents will be released now. He said that on second consideration, many of the exchanges deal with factual matters and can be released. Emails between himself and Fire Chief Bob Gowans and Fraser, however, will remain withheld because they are protected by statute, he said.
We have to have candid conversations, whether its over the phone or by email, before we make a policy determination, Hollar said.
The records request came after a city firefighter-led effort to keep a firefighter position from being cut during budget deliberations. Supporters gathered more than 840 signatures by petition to put a question on the Town Meeting Day ballot asking voters to restore the funding for the position. At the final budget meeting in late January, the council approved reducing the overall budget by the exact amount that city firefighters sought to add.
The position slated for elimination will be vacated when a lieutenant firefighter retires this summer. The restructuring would mean the Montpelier Fire Department would have one fewer day each week when a four-person crew is on duty overnight. The department currently has four nights each week with only a three-person crew.
The firefighter ballot item says the requested funding will be used specifically to restore the position that the city plans to cut. But according to the city, the money could go anywhere, so even if the item passes, the firefighter position could still be eliminated. The councils motion to cut roughly $50,000 from the budget, however, does not keep the city from restoring the position if it chooses.
The exemption cited by Montpelier for 29 of the 30 records withheld covers interdepartmental and intradepartmental communications that are preliminary to any determination of policy or action or precede the presentation of the budget. For the exemption to apply, the records must be over and above primarily factual materials. The citys attorney assisted in the initial response, Hollar said.
The unions Burlington-based attorney, Jim Dunn, said those conditions make the exemption narrow and the materials should be released, at the very least with redactions. Dunn and Robert Hemley, the attorney for The Times Argus and Rutland Herald, both said at first glance the exemption also appears to apply only to municipal departments, not elected officials.
The 30th record was withheld because the city cited two exemptions to the states open records law, covering records involving the formulation of policy where (disclosure) would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy and personnel files.
Dunn said the firefighters had not yet appealed the citys withholding of the documents.
Larrabee said that at the final budget meeting, the council also held breaks and then seemingly changed the course of its proceedings after he saw members talking with each other outside the meeting.
Hollar countered that, even in the Legislature, representatives will talk among themselves before casting votes, and that elected officials should be expected to discuss issues when there is not a quorum. He said private conversations can be critical to the process.
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Google Chrome's homepage for Brazil has a screenshot that shows a new orkut interface. Google decided to use some ideas from services like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook and make it easy to post messages and to see the messages posted by your friends.
Google's social network is popular in Brazil and India, but other social networks are trying to steal the crown. A ComScore report shows that "in August, Orkut's unique visitors in India dipped by 800,000 within a month, from 16 million visitors in July to 15.2 million visitors in August. On the other hand, Facebook grew its unique visitors in India by 700,000, from 7.5 million visitors in July to 8.2 million visitors in August."
orkut has never been an innovative service: many of its features were copied from other social networks. orkut's popularity in Brazil and India is probably the only reason why Google didn't discontinue the service.
Update (October 29): The new version of orkut, built using Google Web Toolkit, is now available via invitation. "We've concentrated orkut's principal actions onto your homepage, making it a one-stop-shop for nearly everything that you'd like to do. Now you can chat, watch videos, and browse and search within your full friends and communities lists without ever having to open a new page." Check orkut's blog for more information.
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