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Perennial to trees, from membranous bulb, fibrous corm, scaly rhizome, or erect caudex
Stem generally underground
Leaves generally basal, often withering early, alternate, generally ± linear
Inflorescence various, generally bracted
Flower generally bisexual, generally radial; perianth often showy, segments generally 6 in two petal-like whorls (outer sometimes sepal-like), free or fused at base; stamens 6 (or 3 + generally 3 ± petal-like staminodes), filaments sometimes attached to perianth or fused into a tube or crown; ovary superior or inferior, chambers 3, placentas generally axile, style generally 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: generally capsule, loculicidal or septicidal (berry or nut)
Genera in family: ± 300 genera, 4600 species: especially ± dry temp and subtropical; many cultivated for ornamental or food;
some TOXIC. Here includes genera sometimes treated in Agavaceae, Amaryllidaceae, and other families.
Perennial with onion odor, taste; bulb solitary or on rhizomes, reforming each year, divides at base into daughter bulbs, outer bulb coats generally brown or gray, cell sculpture generally important to identification, inner bulb coats generally white
Stem scapose, cylindric or flat
Leaves basal, 15, linear, cylindric, channeled, or flat, generally withering from tip before flower
Inflorescence: umbel; bracts generally 24, conspicuous, ± fused, scarious
Flower: perianth segments 6, in 2 petal-like whorls; stamens 6, epipetalous, filaments wide at base, fused into a ring; ovary superior, sometimes with 3 or 6 crests, chambers 3, ovules generally 2 per chamber, style 1, stigma entire or 3-lobed
Fruit: capsule, loculicidal
Seed obovoid, black, sculpture net-like, smooth, or granular
Species in genus: 500 species: worldwide, especially CA
Etymology: (Latin: garlic)
Bulb 12 cm, ± spheric; outer coat sculpture ± square, walls thick, appearing crusted
Stem 2060 cm, 3-angled, 2 angles slightly winged
Leaves 23, < or = stem, flat, linear to narrowly lanceolate
Inflorescence: flowers 1025; pedicels 1535 mm
Flower 712 mm; perianth parts ± spreading, elliptic, entire, white; ovary crest 0
Ecology: Disturbed ± urban places
Elevation: < 100 m.
Bioregional distribution: North Coast, North Coast Ranges, Sacramento Valley, Central Coast, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast
Distribution outside California: native to Mediterranean
Cult as ornamental.


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LONDON (Reuters) - The peer-to-peer lending industry has welcomed a commitment by the British government to regulate the internet-based financiers, describing it as a "watershed moment".
So-called crowdfunding providers and peer-to-peer lenders, which help businesses and individuals to raise cash from members of the public, had said that rules tailored to more traditional markets were holding back development of a vital source of finance.
But from April 2014 peer-to-peer lenders, such as Zopa and Funding Circle, will be regulated by the new Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and consultation will begin early next year to decide how the new rules will work, the Treasury reiterated on Friday after an announcement in parliament last month.
"We have always strongly believed that introducing proportionate regulation was necessary to enable the sector to continue to flourish," the Peer-to-Peer Finance Association said.
"We are committed to working closely with the government and the Financial Conduct Authority over the coming months to build the right framework for our future."
The crowdfunding industry has developed in response to reduced bank lending to small and medium-sized businesses because of tougher capital rules and greater regulatory scrutiny.
A host of alternative financing models have cropped up online, many allowing individuals to lend to, or invest in, companies with sums from as little as 10 pounds ($16). Massolution, a research and advisory firm specializing in the sector, says that 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) was raised globally from crowdfunding last year.
Though some websites have tried to fit their operations within existing regulation, most remain largely outside it.
Part of the problem in drawing up appropriate regulation is the wide range of activities involved. Some offer debt, some equity, while others seek donations for charity or funding for creative projects in return for some non-financial reward.
With little or no expected returns from the latter, the main focus on the need for regulation has been around equity crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending.
The government, keen to improve the flow of finance to small businesses to boost the sluggish economy, has also set up a working group to look at all aspects of policy on such websites.
As well as making sure that individuals are aware of the inherent risk involved with putting money in start-ups, the industry wants to ensure that platforms vet businesses adequately to avoid scams.
"Regulation is on its way," Susan Kramer, a Liberal Democrat member of the British parliament's upper house, said at an industry summit on Friday. "It is not a question of 'will there be regulation?', it is a question of 'will it be the right regulation?'"
Britain's Financial Services Authority (FSA) warned in August that inexperienced investors should be aware of the risks when using crowdfunding websites. A few days later United States securities regulators put crowdfunding at the top of their annual investment scams list.
At the moment, the FSA considers authorization of equity crowdfunding schemes case by case, it said.
Views differ about how to tackle these risks without stifling an increasingly important source of funding, and the matter is complicated by the varying rules already in place in different countries across Europe.
Measures taken by Seedrs, the only crowdfunding website to have received FSA approval, include the requirement for investors to pass a test to show that they understand the risks.
"It is hard to come up with a whole securities regulation; sometimes it does have to be a bit incremental and adaptive," Seedrs founder Jeff Lynn said. "There is no question at all that this is going to be a space that will continue to move."
Some would like the operation of such platforms to be a distinct regulated activity, but others argue for smaller steps, such as a cap on the sums that people can invest or lend.
Though the introduction of a separate regulated activity could still be some way off, lawyer and co-founder of peer-to-peer site Zopa, Simon Deane-Johns, said that increased engagement with government and regulators was encouraging.
"Over the next year or two it should become progressively easier to set up a platform," he said. ($1 = 0.6214 British pounds) ($1 = 0.7700 euros)
Editing by Alexander Smith and David Goodman

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Sourcer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 47 diseños de 20 diseñadores freelance.
VideoBam is a free video hosting platform. Users can easily upload and share videos online.
All age groups but primarily males 18-35.
Create the homepage design of VideoBam. This will include the elements seen in mock.jpg.
The winner will also have an opportunity to design the other pages of the site. We can discuss the details once this contest has ended.
Delivery: 1 PSD file of the design
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.
Look forward to your entries.
Thank you.
Design the homepage of Videobam - less is more as you can see from the rough design. The elements and/or necessary text is in the attached mock file: mock.jpg.
The main action for the user is to upload video so it should be made clear in the design.
Looking for something sleek but not glossy and chunky, preferably with a dark color scheme; however, not opposed to lighter colors. See notes in 'Example Websites' section.
When user clicks on Options an overlay with input boxes and a checkbox for creating teaser will be shown. The overlay will need to be designed as part of the requirements.
The font and logo can be designed or modified as needed. The font file is attached in the zip file: Fonts.zip.
Nice use of black/gray colors, text, http://www.smugmug.com/
Definitely some elements to learn from.
Also attached niceuseofgreys.png is a good example of a nice use of grey and darker colors.


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I faced with problem of rendering OpenGL objects with 2 or 3 lights on printing preview and printing. It different as by drowing on screen using hardware acceleration. It uses lighting from tow lides for both red and green color, but on printing it looks like light working only from one side.
Here two screen shots
Can't someone help with the problem?


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Update: This is also worth taking a look at -
Against Monopoly
defending the right to innovate
Fair Use
Monopoly corrupts. Absolute monopoly corrupts absolutely.
Center for the Study of Innovative Freedom
Recording Industry vs. The People
Copyright Notice: We don't think much of copyright, so you can do what you want with the content on this blog. Of course we are hungry for publicity, so we would be pleased if you avoided plagiarism and gave us credit for what we have written. We encourage you not to impose copyright restrictions on your "derivative" works, but we won't try to stop you. For the legally or statist minded, you can consider yourself subject to a Creative Commons Attribution License.
Hitler Is Suddenly Making A Lot Of Sense....
Update: This is also worth taking a look at -
[Posted at 04/21/2010 05:56 PM by Justin Levine on Fair Use comments(9)]
Meta: site problem. The following page:
will not fully load. The page is truncated right after the words "Submit Comment"; the comment submission form itself is the part that's missing as a result.
That seems to be the only page affected out of several that I tested.
Reloading the page does not resolve the problem. The server cuts off the last part of the page's HTML code consistently every time it serves that page.
Please identify and correct this problem ASAP, since I'd like to make a comment to that article.
[Comment at 04/22/2010 02:38 PM by Zachary Frederickson]
We have Star Trek conventions. From the number of videos and responses, it looks like we could have a convention based on these videos! The best video gets a version of the iron cross? A new commercial artistic opportunity!
[Comment at 04/22/2010 04:31 PM by Steve R.]
Well, Justin, since I cannot comment on the other article, I have to comment on this one.
You confuse DMCA and copyright law. Yes, the DMCA has the word "copyright" in it, but it is actually quite separate from copyright. In fact, the DMCA "cheated" with respect to copyright by almost completely (and probably unconstitutionally) avoiding copyright.
In effect, the DMCA assumes the file against which a complaint is lodged is guilty until proven innocent. The DMCA also says to an ISP, IF the offending filed, video, etc., is found to be a copyright violation (wait - wasn't the DMCA supposed to be ABOUT copyright? NO, the DMCA is almost completely independent of copyright laws - it is more like legalized blackmail), then you could be sucked in as well. By removing the accused file, you get safe harbor.
Is there a parallel in other laws? Yes. If you become knowledgeable of a crime and fail to report the crime, you may be charged as an accessory. So, if you become aware that someone committed a murder, you may be charged as an accessory to the crime of murder. Does the ability to charge a person with murder have a SINGLE THING TO DO WITH LAWS AGAINST MURDER? No. They are separate laws.
I will point out, again, and as has been pointed out elsewhere, the DMCA has NOT been constitutionally tested before the Supreme Court. I believe that the provisions of the DMCA, since they in fact contravert constitutional protections, will be ruled unconstitutional in view of the constitution and COPYRIGHT LAW (HAH!), if it ever gets tested before the Supreme Court.
Simple example: If someone creates an opinion video of a company, and the video uses various items generated by the company that fall under copyright law, the company can lodge a complaint and have the opinion video pulled down.
Yet, under the constitution AND copyright law, such a video is protected under first amendment rights. In fact, if such an expression appears nearly anywhere else, in a magazine, newspaper or even on television, the courts have ruled over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over (just keep on going...) that such expressions are constitutionally protected as well as being allowable by copyright laws. The DMCA is an aberration that gets around this by threatening ISP's IF there is ever a successful application of COPYRIGHT law.
So go back and tell people to compare posts all you want. Parody remains parody. Fair use remains fair use. Just because they are taken down has virtually nothing to do with copyright law and constitutional protections, and if the laws that permit such takedowns are ever tested and the attorneys for the defendants are halfway decent, the DMCA is likely to be taken down.
[Comment at 04/23/2010 06:08 AM by Anonymous]
By the way, Nobody Nowhere's analysis of the four factors seems pretty much spot on to me. Note that he is applying COPYRIGHT law...let me say that slowly here for you...C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T law...not the DMCA. Sure, you can twist an ISP's arm all day long with the DMCA, which pretty much avoids copyright law, but when it comes to actually taking an issue over a specific item to court, the complainer will lose if the video is protected under the first amendment or C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T law.
The real problem here is two fold...
(1) Thus far no one has wanted to be the poster child for taking the DMCA all the way to the Supreme Court.
(2) I doubt there is a plaintiff who really wants to take the DMCA all the way to the Supreme Court, because if they did, and they lose, as they most likely will (hahahahahaha...under the first amendment and C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T law), then the DMCA will immediately be dead. But, what entity that benefits from the DMCA would be willing to take the DMCA all the way to the Supreme Court with the near certain likelihood that the first amendment and C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T law would put a stake through its heart?
[Comment at 04/23/2010 06:33 AM by Anonymous]
Anonymous -
If the Hitler video issue were ever litigated in court, most (not all, but most) of the Hitler videos would likely be found to be in violation (depending on the specific context).
Other commenters on the web agree and point out that fair use / parody analysis is never as simple as you make it out to be.
As the above comments indicate, this has sparked a war of words between those who have studied copyright law for a long while and know how it practically operates in reality, versus those who understandably wish to label things fair use/parody to suit their personal policy preferences (which I obviously share).
Again, the four fair use factors are elastic enough that doing a "self-analysis" doesn't prove anything. You need to point to case law which demonstrates how the parody defense is actually applied by the courts. When you read up more on that, I think you will be surprised and disappointed on how hollow a defense it often is and how little protections it often affords.
How do you conclude that the DMCA would be struck down by the Supreme Court? Simply parroting the phrase "first amendment" isn't going to help as past cases have shown us in the copyright context. First Amendment law only implicates government action with regards to censorship. I don't see how that is implicated here since the takedown notices are all done through private actors.
If you are so confident, then there is nothing to be worried about with the DMCA since a case will eventually find its way to the Supreme Court and be struck down. The reason people are up in arms over it is because they know full well that it will likely be upheld - which is naturally an outrage.
Please keep a civil tone, identify yourself for now on with a specific moniker that distinguishes you from other "Anonymous" commenters, and argue from reason (preferably with cited legal sources) or I will have no hesitation in simply deleting your comments and closing off the thread.
[Comment at 04/23/2010 11:56 AM by Justin Levine]
Justin: is the condescending tone of your post here really necessary?
On the matter of fair use: the proportion of the work is one of the four factors and clearly in favor here -- typically about three minutes out of 156, or one part in 52, the same proportions as one card to an entire deck. How it affects the market for the work is another factor, and I don't see any of the three-minute parody videos being a substitute for the entire movie. Short, repurposed clips generally will meet both of those fair-use factors.
Published, factual works (and this is clearly published and based on a true story) have more fair-use leeway when copying from them than do unpublished and/or fictional works.
That's three.
The remaining factor is character of the use. Parody is protected speech, but when it's not parody of the copyrighted work itself or the copyright holder's beliefs this factor is weakened. There's a strong case for the ones on the topic of the takedowns themselves being fair use, then, since they are using the excerpt from the copyrighted work to criticize the copyright holder, which makes all four factors favor a finding of fair use in those instances. The fair use case is weaker for the rest of them, but I'd call it still fairly strong with three of the four factors clearly favoring a finding of fair use.
I don't know why you seem to think the fair use cases for these videos would be weak with three of the factors aligned in their favor and only one of them iffy. It feels like you're betting that a particular pair of coin tosses will come up double-heads, when the rational assessment is that the odds against you are 75%.
First Amendment law only implicates government action with regards to censorship. I don't see how that is implicated here since the takedown notices are all done through private actors.
The takedown notices only have the power they do because of government. Without the DMCA's notice-and-takedown requirement, there'd be no liability on service providers that ignored a DMCA takedown. Much censorship could be avoided simply by changing the DMCA to notice-and-notice. That makes the DMCA an integral part of the censorship, and thus the legislature and the courts complicit in it, and that in turn appears to be a First Amendment violation given how frequently a takedown is executed for protected speech rather than a genuine infringement.
Please keep a civil tone, identify yourself for now on with a specific moniker that distinguishes you from other "Anonymous" commenters, and argue from reason (preferably with cited legal sources) or I will have no hesitation in simply deleting your comments and closing off the thread.
Did I just read that right? Did you really a) accuse someone else of being uncivil in tone when the tone of your own post seems quite similar to that of theirs, b) tell someone not to comment anonymously on a blog that expressly permits anonymous commenting, and then c) threaten to actually censor people? Irony alert.
Although I have rarely commented, I have read this blog for years, and now I find myself questioning whether I should continue to do so. If certain opinions will now be deleted, and anonymous commenting, and commenting on particular posts, barred, then I shall be shaking my head in sadness and disappointment, deleting my bookmark, and chalking this one up as another blog that jumped the shark.
In particular if I ever find any evidence (such as via web.archive.org or Google cache, or my own eyewitnessing) that comments have been deleted here that were neither spam nor clearly off-topic, then I will quit this site, particularly as this site has a steady trickle of spams and other off-topic comments that have generally been allowed to stand (and even one or two flamewars that devolved into little but namecalling and "I know you are but what am I" style ripostes). Thus any deletion of on-topic comments would be proof positive that the site's deletion policy has less to do with the comment's on-topic-ness than it does to do with the personal feelings/opinions of the sysop. (That blatantly pro-monopoly comments have also been allowed to stand consistently over the years would make it clear that it was, in fact, even more arbitrary than that, perhaps only when the sysop had a particular, personal beef with the comment or the commenter!)
I hope that your threats of censorship were either a badly-delivered joke (badly-delivered in not being obviously non-serious) or else a temporary aberration in the heat of the moment that you won't follow through on, and perhaps even will apologize for. Because it sure looks like the main "crime" of the commenter you threatened was not incivility (much worse has been allowed to remain on this site) nor anonymity (expressly allowed by the site's configuration for donkey's years) but the mere fact of disagreeing with you.
[Comment at 04/23/2010 01:38 PM by Harry Ziering]
I like you.
Even better, I like your enumeration of the four factors test. They also seem to support the points I have attempted to make.
Merely running about with a "copyright sucks" banner, while interesting, seems to fall short of making relevant points.
However, Mr. Levine wants case law, I got case law...
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. (Supreme Court says parody is a defense to copyright infringement - a shock - who knew?) Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp. Mattel v. Walking Mountain Productions Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin (oooo...parody of Gone with the Wind - PRO-TECTED!) Columbia Pictures Corp. v. National Broadcasting Co., 137 F. Supp. 348 (S.D. Cal. 1955) Elsmere Music, Inc. v National Broadcasting Co. ("I Love Sodom" was deemed a parody of "I Love New York") Fisher v. Dees ("When Sonny Sniffs Glue" is acceptable parody of "When Sunny Gets Blue")
...oops, ran out of time to find more case law. However, there is a bunch. About the only time parody is not protected is when there is near copying of the source material, though even that may be protected in certain cases.
[Comment at 04/23/2010 02:49 PM by Anonymous]
Harry -
The response for threats of deletion came from the tone on a separate post on the Star Wars Uncut issue which started getting increasingly nasty. Not the comment on this one. When you read his original comments in the other thread and follow his own original tone and line of thinking, then yes - the resulting tone from me is entirely justified. I'm sorry that the anonymous person has apparently taken it all personally and felt bad that I pointed out that he knows less about how copyright law operates outside of theoretical discussions than his comments suggested, but oh well. It has devolved into a case where he feels the need to "win" and get the last word in at all costs. Again, oh well.
All of the case law cited here were instances of the parodies directly targeting the original works. That is not the case in many of the Hitler videos, and certainly not the case in the completed work of Star Wars Uncut which started the flame war between me an the anonymous poster. Obviously I am not arguing that a parody defense never exists in the law. I am merely stating that it is unlikely to succeed in many of the Hitler videos and and even less so with Star Wars Uncut (which uses the entire work).
Anyone can read the 4 part fair use factors and then do their own self-analysis to justify their positions. None of that has any relevance as to how the courts actually apply it.
If I try to utilize my law degree to explain to other people how the law actually operates in this area, I am suddenly accused of being condescending or arguing from authority. Oh well. If you wish to personally believe that these works would be protected in court, its no sweat off my back. I and most other attorneys who work in copyright areas know otherwise, but again, you can feel free to continue to think of how foolish and naive we all are.
I would again ask you to read other commenters at other sites on this issue and ask yourself if you feel that they are equally as wrong and misinformed as you apparently believe I am. In relation to the StarWars Uncut issue which started this debate, I would ask you to analyse how the Dr. Suess V. Penguin Books case would not apply.
If you are unwilling to do that - oh well. No sweat off my back.
[Comment at 04/23/2010 07:50 PM by Justin Levine]
The response for threats of deletion came from the tone on a separate post on the Star Wars Uncut issue which started getting increasingly nasty. Not the comment on this one. When you read his original comments in the other thread and follow his own original tone and line of thinking, then yes - the resulting tone from me is entirely justified.
Seemed you were slinging mud at each other, to me.
Moreover, I don't think it's the same anonymous poster there and here. The one calls himself "Nobody Nowhere" apparently after the site's default email and the other leaves it as "Anonymous". A quick search shows other similar posts by "Nobody Nowhere" but not by "Anonymous".
It has devolved into a case where he feels the need to "win" and get the last word in at all costs. Again, oh well.
That's an interesting thing for you to say, because it doesn't seem to me that he is the one disabling commenting to certain threads and threatening to delete posts, i.e. using or threatening to use admin privileges to get the last word.
If I try to utilize my law degree to explain to other people how the law actually operates in this area, I am suddenly accused of being condescending
It's the tone/subtext of your posts that gets them labeled as "condescending", not the declarative content.
Now: can you name any case in any US court where three of the four fair use factors strongly favored a finding of fair use, and a fair use defense was used by the defendant, but the court found the use to be infringing instead? I'd like to see a citation of the form Jones v. Smith for, preferably, multiple such cases. Better yet, statistics on what proportion of cases with three fair use factors in favor lead to a finding of infringement, as a percentage of all cases that go all the way to a judgment. (There may still be a bias there, if cases that get settled were more likely to be won by one side or the other on average. I don't see an easy way to correct for that bias, given that settlement terms tend to be confidential so it's hard to judge from publicly available data who can be said to have "won" in those cases. Even if we could, that reflects how the lawyers for both sides thought the court would eventually rule, which may not be the same as how it actually would have had it gone to a judgment.)
[Comment at 04/23/2010 09:32 PM by Harry Ziering]
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First, as you consider Denis McDonough, and his role in the Benghazi events, it is worth noting this little before seen short video from 2006 while George Bush was in office. The Democrats had just won the majority seats in the House of Representatives, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were being used 24/7 by the politicos to demonize Bush.
This is Denis McDonough when he was working for the Center for American Progress in 2006:
It is worth bookmarking that video to share with any progressive who would challenge congressional oversight of national security with specifics of Benghazi. Indeed, the key player himself states openly only 6 years earlier that Congress has a duty to investigate.
WE GO DEEPER – Now for a little on the backstory of Denis McDonough let's go back to 2008 and review the information as it was coming out then:
From 2008 – If liberals had any hopes of being able to make the same claims in the near future, they knew they needed to be more like conservatives. Wealthy Democrats wanted to have ideological rabble rousers like Rush Limbaugh and activist breeding grounds like the College Republicans to create a new generation of shock troops. But most of all, to have a real shot at regaining control of Washington, they wanted to plot an intellectual coup, spearheaded by an aggressive idea factory like the Heritage Foundation. (See pictures from the historic Election Day.)
Five years later, they have that, and a lot more, in the Center for American Progress (CAP), the most influential independent organization in Obama's nascent Washington. CAP was the brainchild of former Clinton White House chief of staff John Podesta, who dutifully worked wealthy dinner parties with a simple idea: He would create a new organization, a "think tank on steroids," to help progressive ideas regain power. Tom Daschle, once the top Democrat in the Senate, got on board, calling it an "action tank." Sarah Wartell, who would become Podesta's deputy, had a more homely description: "Not your grandmother's think tank."
And not since the Heritage Foundation helped guide Ronald Reagan's transition in 1981 has a single outside group held so much sway. Just as candidate Obama depended on CAP during the campaign for opposition research and talking points, President-elect Obama has effectively contracted out the management of his own government's formation to Podesta. "The Podesta group was formed to bring Democrats back into the presidency, that was its purpose of being," says Stephen Hess, an expert on presidential transitions at the Brookings Institution, a much more traditional think tank. (link)
Denis McDonough was Tom Dashle's aide at CAP 1996-1999. We have outlined a particular unusual ineptitude in the advisors around President Obama, but Denis McDonough takes the ideological cake:
From 2010 – He [McDonough] worked as a House international relations committee staffer from 1996 through 1999, after which he moved to Daschle's office. At the Center for American Progress he researched health care policy.
At CAP McDonough researched Healthcare Policy? Now he is titled a key "National Security Advisor"? Odd no. But yet, what was the first ideological task when President Obama took office in 2009? Yep, Obamacare….. Let's read on.
WhoRunsGov also links to two 2006 articles by McDonough, one published by Henry L. Stimson Center, "Short Term Focus on Long Term Challenges: The Administration,Congress and Iraq" (PDF) and the other published by the Center for American Progress, "No Mere Oversight: Congress Oversight of Intelligence Is Broken" (PDF).
As the reader pares the fat and gristle away from the McDonough profile, all that remains is an attractive skeleton whose primary skill is his perfect loyalty to his boss. (link)
Beyond McDonough you have this left leaning Washington Post article from last December revealing the possibilities that appear quite accurately now coming to play:
DECEMBER 2012 – Deputy chief of staff Pete Rouse — who used to be Daschle's chief of staff in the Senate and became Obama's chief of staff after Daschle lost in 2004, has let it be known that he is interested in leaving — though he has said that before.
Speaking of the chief of staff, with incumbent Jack Lew said to be departing, perhaps to Treasury, [*snip – now confirmed] deputy secretary of state Tom Nides and former Biden chief of staff Ron Klain are obvious possibilities to replace him.
But there's increasing talk that deputy national security adviser Denis McDonough is a strong contender to move into the lovely corner office down the hall from the Oval, which comes with a working fireplace, the beautiful Don Regan memorial outdoor patio and a bottle of painkillers. (link)
Jack Lew has indeed been tasked to replace Tim Geithner as Treasury Secretary and note who is amid the names of replacement for him (as Obama's Chief of Staff) along with Denis McDonough, "TOM NIDES".
You might remember when Hillary could not make the Senate Benghazi hearings because of her stomach flu, exhaustion, slip and fall, concussion, blot clot, someone was sent in her stead. That someone was Tom Nides. Hmmm?
Deputy Secretaries of State Bill Burns and Tom Nides will
testify in her place. (link)
Prior to the Benghazi Slaughter/Terror attack, actually EXACTLY a week before, the following release was from the State Dept.
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012 – Following on the recent U.S. Government meetings on economic assistance to Cairo, on September 8 Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides will join the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and more than 100 U.S. company executives as part of a delegation to promote private sector development in Egypt. This trip will focus on the second part of the two pronged economic diplomacy approach described by Secretary Clinton during her visit to Egypt in July and it will identify new business opportunities and partnerships for U.S. companies, express U.S. business confidence in Egypt, and demonstrate a commitment to Egypt's long-term economic development. (link)
The crossroads from National Security and Foreign Policy create multiple levels of entangled association. From January 7th of this year:
JANUARY 2013 – Insiders call President Barack Obama's trio of closest foreign policy and security advisers, "the Holy Trinity", and no one has ever doubted who plays the role of Holy Ghost: counterterrorism czar John Brennan. Where National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and his deputy, Denis McDonough, occupy traditional White House roles, Brennan has been Obama's man in the shadows, as my colleague Michael Crowley detailed in his excellent article on Brennan. (link)
John Brennan has now been tapped to replace General Petraeus at the CIA.
Now, let's tack away from National Security and toward Domestic Policy. Consider where Jack Lew is being placed, The Treasury Dept. Why is that aspect important? Well, two reasons: No Budget and The Debt Ceiling – consider this outline from a year ago:
JANUARY 2012 – Lew, who replaces William M. Daley, steps into the role after a year of fierce partisan battles that saw Obama's policy goals largely stalled in Congress. More and more, the president relied on executive orders to enact small pieces of his economic, education and housing proposals.
Lew is skilled in such practices. For two different presidents, Bill Clinton and Obama, he has headed the Office of Management and Budget, whose mission includes putting in place rules and regulations that don't require congressional approval.
As Obama's fourth chief of staff, he'll be positioned to carry out the White House's pivot away from engagement with Congress in favor of unilateral action. The approach jibes with a reelection strategy that includes running against a deeply unpopular Congress. (link)


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Tennis star Serena Williams underwent "emergency treatment" after doctors discovered a blood clot in her lungs, People magazine reported.
Spokeswoman Nicole Chabot told the magazine that Williams "underwent emergency treatment for a hematoma suffered as a result of treatment for a more critical situation."
Williams suffered from a pulmonary embolism last week, Chabot said. The 29-year-old Williams is being treated at a Los Angeles hospital.
"Doctors are continuing to monitor her situation closely to avoid additional complications," Chabot told the magazine.
The winner of 13 Grand Slam titles, Williams attended Sunday night's Elton John AIDS Foundation Academy Awards Viewing Party.
On Tuesday night, Williams posted on her Twitter account "Tough day."
Williams has been sidelined by two operations on her right foot after cutting her foot on glass at a restaurant, and has not played a competitive match since winning Wimbledon on July 3.
Chabot also told the magazine that the embolism was discovered after she returned to Los Angeles from New York "for doctor appointments for the ongoing issues with her foot."


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Plasma Mobile Technology Preview Features in Kubuntu 10.10
Plasma Mobile
Yesterday's Kubuntu 10.10 release features new KDE software for your phone. Working with KDE's Plasma Mobile team, Kubuntu have created Kubuntu Mobile, suitable for smart phones and available for i386 and ARM platforms. This is a technology preview of the upcoming Plasma Mobile workspace and is not ready for day to day use.
Kubuntu 10.10 also features an application-focused KDE interface to the cross-distribution PackageKit package management layer, providing a modern and easy to use native interface for installing and updating your software.
Why are the numbers so tiny?
The numbers are not visible, and I do not see any reason why it should be that way...
By dgvirtual at Tue, 2010/10/12 - 11:12am
Bug or feature?
I suspect it may be a bug rather than a deliberate feature. Or perhaps the font setup assumes a particular phone dpi and the screenshot is from a virtual machine at a different dpi.
The workspace is in general still very much a work in progress of course
By Stuart Jarvis at Tue, 2010/10/12 - 2:43pm
Simply put, I took the
Simply put, I took the screenshot from a regular-sized monitor. That dialer is just a mockup, anyways, and would probably use nice, scalable graphics in any practical application. It is a technology preview, after all.
By JontheEchidna at Tue, 2010/10/12 - 11:11pm
Kubuntu 10.10
I just wanted to say that I'm really impressed by Kubuntu 10.10. Very well done!
So after using sidux (now dead) and Archlinux for a while I'm happy that Kubuntu is on the right track again. The default configuration is sane and everthing feels snappy and fast.
But in whole: Great release!
By Zapp at Wed, 2010/10/13 - 10:01am
Yupp, it was pulseaudio, a simple
By Zapp at Wed, 2010/10/13 - 10:28am
this is really great thanks a
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Earlier this week, Univision's show Nuestra Belleza Latina aired a special episode featuring Seventeen! The show is similar to America's Next Top Model and each episode features a competition among the models. In the last episode, the 24 models were split up into three groups and had to create the perfect Quinceanera look. Seventeen's beauty director, Yesenia Almonte, served as the guest judge on the show and helped select the winning group who will be featured in Seventeen's June/July 2012 Latina beauty special!
The competition definitely caused some on-screen drama and involved fun fashion choices. Check out the below clip to see what happened:
Have you ever dreamed of being in the pages of Seventeen, just like the hopeful models on Nuestra Belleza? Well, you CAN! Go to seventeen.com/prettyamazing and tell us why you deserve to be our next cover girl. The finalist will also win a $20,000 scholarship!


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Overview of Hostel
We look forward to welcoming you to Abigails Hostel! A whopping 98% rating for our location means you can be sure you have the very best base for exploring and enjoying Dublin City!
All room are en-suite and rates include clean, fresh linen and a breakfast consisting of cereal, toast, yoghurt, te
***From Dublin Airport:
Coming from the airport you can catch the express bus, the local public bus or take a taxi to the city center.
Airlink Express Bus (Dublin Bus Routes 747 & 748)
When you arrive at Dublin airport arrivals hall various buses are located outside the main arrival hall doors. For most routes, the stop you're looking for is O'Connell Street - ask the driver to let you know when the bus has arrived here. When you reach O'Connell Street cross to the south side of O'Connell Bridge and turn right and you'll find Aston Quay. Abigail's Hostel is located 50 yards up on the left-hand side.
Services depart the airport from 05h45 - 23h30 at 10/20 minute intervals; €6 single, €3 for under-16s. Journey takes approximately 25 minutes.
When you arrive at Dublin airport you can take the Aircoach bus from outside of the terminal building. The stop you're looking for is O'Connell Street; ask the driver to indicate when you've arrived. Journey takes approximately 25 minutes.
Route 16A
When you arrive at Dublin airport, take the bus located outside of the main arriving hall on your left side (the last stop). Get off at Upper O'Connell Street. Mon - Sat: 06h50 - 23h10, Sunday: 07h40 - 22h20
Approximately every 20 minutes. Exact fare is needed for the bus, as change is not given back. Journey takes approximately 40-60 minutes.
Route 41, 41A, 41B, 41C
Take the bus directly from outside terminal building. Get off at Eden Quay - walk towards O'Connell Bridge and follow the directions as above.
Mon-Sat: 06h25 - 23h30, Sunday: 07h30- 23h15
Dublin bus fares approx. (€3.30 adult). Exact fare is needed for the bus, as change is not given back.
By Taxi:
Taxis are available from the forecourt on the Arrivals level. The approximate cost of a taxi to Abigail's Hostel is €30 (however this depends on traffic and the time of the day).
***From Connolly Train Station or Busaras (Central Bus Station):
If you're travelling from Busaras or Connolly Station, you can walk to our hostel (about 10 minutes walk).
On foot:
Exiting Connolly Station on to Amiens Street you will see Busaras, the central bus station. From Busaras, head southwest on Frenchman's Lane toward Moland Place. Turn left at Lower Gardiner Street. Slight right at Beresford Place (you will see the beautiful Custom House building on your left-hand side). Crossing the River Liffey, turn right at George's Quay and continue to follow the quays along the river, passing O'Connell Bridge on your right hand side. Continue on Aston Quay, and Abigail's Hostel is on your left at No 7.
By Bus:
Take the 151 or 128
By Taxi:
Travelling by taxi could cost you approximately €7 depending on traffic.
***From Heuston Station:
By Tram (LUAS):
This is the easiest way. Take the tram at Heuston Station and get off at Abbey St Luas Stop. Then walk back a minute to find O'Connell Street and turn left and walk towards O'Connell Bridge. We are located on the south-side of the bridge, on the right.
By Bus:
Take the no. 90 (€1.65)
By Taxi:
There is a taxi rank located outside the train station. A taxi from Heuston Station will cost approximately €15 depending on traffic and number of passengers.
***From Dun Laoghaire Ferryport:
Take the DART to Tara St station. Turn left when you exit the station, keeping the River Liffey on your right-hand side. Walk past O'Connell Bridge and continue along Eden Quay about 50 meters/yards; Abigail's Hostel is on your left.
***From Dublin Port (North Wall):
By Bus:
Take the public bus outside of the main building; Route 53 runs to the city centre (Busaras). Buses are scheduled to coincide with the ferry timetable.
By Taxi:
A taxi from here will cost approximately €20 depending on traffic. It can be quite difficult to get a taxi from the ferry port when a large number of passengers travel..
Located near
Trinity College, O'Connell Street and Bridge, Connelly & Heuston Station. National Bus Station. The Dart Station & both red and green Luas Stops. Henry Street and Grafton Street, Christchurch & St. Patrick's Cathedrals. Croke Park, Dublin Zoo, James Joyce Tower, Kilmainham Gaol, National Gallery of Ireland, National Museum of Ireland, The Old Jameson Distillery.
Conditions & Policy
Child Friendly
Please note we have a 48hr cancellation policy. All cancellations must be received before 2pm two days before arrival otherwise they will be charged a cancellation charge equal to the first night's accommodation. Please note we have a 14 night maximum stay policy. During busy period you could be asked to change room however your room type will be honoured or upgraded. Children under 16 are not permitted to sleep in shared dorms. Balance on all groups of 10 persons or more are due four weeks prior to arrival. Groups of 10 persons or more are required to fill in a code of conduct form on arrival and leave a refundable damages deposit of 300 Euro. This deposit has to be paid with credit card upon check-in and will be refunded on the morning of departure when the rooms have been checked. Abigails Hostel is a tourist hostel, for short- term stays only (maximum 14 nights). Hostel management reserves the right to cancel or amend a booking for anti-social behaviour towards hostel staff and/or guests, or non-adherence to our terms and conditions. You must have a passport or national drivers licence to check in.


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110: In, Through and Beyond
This is not a drill! The Black Hole: guilty pleasure or maligned masterpiece? Maybe it's somewhere in between. And maybe it's a means of pointlessly scaring the crap out of a seven-year-old. Plus, year-end roundups of science and wonderfully geeky merch, a discussion of Star Trek Continues' final and finest hour, and any excuse to subject you to the theme from Star Cops. (79:03)
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Jack Johnson Gallery
Jack Johnson releases his new album, Sleep Through The Static on February 4 and it's another collection of acoustic gems, albeit with a slightly darker edge. Check out our photo gallery of the Hawaii-based singer-songwriter…
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Self-proclaimed landscape designer Julianne Moore charmed us with her quircky expressions and quintessential landscaping outfit in "The Kids Are Alright." Her indulgent newfound passion was terribly entertaining as she described her vision to her newest client. Moore felt that "more was more" and opted for a "lush and fecund" garden overgrown like a tropical paradise.
Maybe she was channeling her tropical landscape experience from The Lost World (yes I was surprised to remember she was in Jurassic Park 2). Though NYC is in stark contrast to southern California where the little Jade plants we buy in 3″ containers grow into hedges, we can still incorporate a piece of lush paradise into our gardens.
Think of "house plants" as seasonal annuals for outdoors. They offer so much diversity in foliage texture and colors that can kick you landscape up a few notches. With the humudity we get here in NYC during the summer months, tropical plants thrive as long as they have the correct sun/wind exposure. Some of my favorite tropical plants to use in the garden include:
1. Ricinus communis (Castor Bean) I love the size and feel of the palmate leaves. By late summer the plant can grow to over 6′ tall and produces spiny seed pods with a bright red color. It makes quite an impact in the landscape. The seeds of this plant are poisonous and children should be educated about this.
2. Colocasia esculenta (Elephant's Ear) You can't go wrong with this one. It is so forgiving and easy to grow. It likes moist soil and can even be grown as an aquatic plant. Don't let it dry out.
3. Amorphophallus bulbifer (Voodoo Lily) This unusual plant has a long skinny trunk with white and green spots all over it and a canopy of deep green leaves at the top. Few plants have this kind of form so make it a focal point in the landscape. Read more about the life cycle of this plant here: http://www.rareflora.com/amorphophallusbul.htm


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List of abilities
Evolved humans, whether natural or synthetic, possess extraordinary abilities.
List of Confirmed Abilities
|Possessed by
|Absorbed by
|Ability absorption
| Arthur Petrelli,
Tommy Clark
|The ability to steal another's ability, rendering them powerless
|Ability augmentation
|Paulette Hawkins
|The ability to augment other evolved human abilities
|Ability replication
|Peter Petrelli (synthetic)
|The ability to replicate one ability at a time through physical contact
|Accelerated probability
| Santiago,
|The ability to predict the probability of a certain event correctly and accelerate one's self to achieve those predictions
|Acid secretion
|Leonard Cushing
|The ability to generate highly corrosive fluids
|Acidic blood
|Mary Krause
|The ability to have acidic blood
|Activation and deactivation
|Matt Parkman, Jr.
|The ability to activate and deactivate various objects
|Adoptive muscle memory
|Monica Dawson
|The ability to replicate any physical action after seeing it performed
|Age shifting
|The Russian
|The ability to change one's own age
|Age transferal
|Leona Mills
|The ability to transfer the aging and life force to and from an object and make the user younger or older
| Bob Bishop,
|The ability to change the molecular composition of any material to gold
|Alejandro's ability
|Alejandro Herrera
|The ability to absorb and counter the effects of Maya's poison emission
|Animal control
|Markus Gaines
|The ability to control and communicate with animals
|Appearance alteration
|Connie Logan
|The ability to change the skin, hair, and vocal cords of another person
|Aquatic breathing
| Alex Woolsly,
Kevin Wrigley
|The ability to breathe underwater
|Aura absorption
|Linda Tavara
|The ability to see auras and take the lives and powers of others
|Bliss and horror
|The ability to bring about feelings of bliss and horror in others
|Bone spike protrusion
|Perrin Crocker
|The ability to create bone spikes that protrude from one's body
|Chlorine gas exudation
|Tina Ramierez
|The ability to exhale chlorine gas instead of carbon dioxide
|Bridget Bailey
|The ability to perceive the history of an object by touching it
| Molly Walker,
Adam Soo Hoo
|The ability to see distant people and things
|The ability to cause things to disappear and reappear
| Julien Dumont,
Magdalena Muller,
M. F. Harris
|The ability to replicate oneself and produce identical clones
|The Constrictor
|The ability to mimic the attributes of a constricting snake, including squeezing extra-tightly with one's body, numbing with one's touch and gender neutrality
|The ability to crumple and deform objects
| Hana Gitelman,
Richard Drucker,
Myles Stevens
|The ability to intercept, generate, and interpret electronic, digital, and radio transmissions with one's mind
|Danger sensing
|Evan Davis
|The ability to sense danger
|David's ability
|David Sullivan (synthetic)
|The ability to growl and charge at others viciously
|Rollo Fusor's accomplice
|The ability to remove the water contained in objects or people by force of will
|Tom Miller
|The ability to disintegrate objects without physical contact
|Disintegration touch
|Felicia Brooks
|Felicia's name for her ability
|Dream manipulation
| Sanjog Iyer,
Fredrick Ganes
|The ability to manipulate the dreams of others
|The ability to to stretch, deform, expand, and contract one's body
|Electric manipulation
| Agent,
Elle Bishop,
"Biker Woman"
| Future Peter1,
Peter Petrelli (lost),
Arthur Petrelli,
|The ability to create and direct electrical arcs
|Electrical absorption
| Teenage patient,
Benjamin Franklin
|The ability to absorb and subsequently release electrical energy
|Elemental control
|The ability to control Earth's elements
|Empathic manipulation
| Joseph Sullivan,
Syn Anders,
Morgan Harvey
|The ability to control emotions
|Empathic mimicry
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|Arthur Petrelli
|The ability to duplicate the powers of other evolved humans within proximity and reproduce them at will when thinking about the original source of the power
|The ability to feel the emotions, thoughts, hopes, desires, and dreams of others
|Energy absorption, transference, and redirection
|Mindy Sprague
|The ability to absorb, transfer, and redirect energy
|Enhanced hearing
|Dale Smither
|Sylar (lost)
|The ability to hear sounds beyond normal limits
|Enhanced memory
| Charlie Andrews,
Matt Neuenberg,
Katherine Murry,
Pacy McNeil,
Trevor Tanaka
|Sylar (lost, alternative timeline)
|The ability to quickly absorb and accurately retain great amounts of information
|Enhanced strength
| Niki Sanders (synthetic),
Michael Fitzgerald,
Scott (synthetic),
Mohinder Suresh (synthetic),
Pushing woman,
Oscar Gutierrez,
James Dearing,
Karen Eriksen
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to exert greater than normal physical force
|Enhanced strength and senses
|Mohinder Suresh (synthetic, corrected)
|The ability to possess enhanced human senses, instinct, and strength
|Enhanced synesthesia
| Emma Coolidge,
Chris Coolidge
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to see sound waves as light and project concussive blasts
|Fire breathing
| Chris Bowman,
Gail Bowman,
Jennie Bowman
|The ability to breathe out fire
|Fire casting
| El Diablo,
Blazing homeless man,
"The Firestarter"
|The ability to engulf oneself in flames
| Nathan Petrelli (synthetic),
West Rosen,
April Clifton,
Rob Brewer,
Floating boy,
"Chinese Guy",
| Peter Petrelli (lost),
Future Sylar1,
|The ability to propel oneself through the air
|The ability to create and manipulate forcefields
| James Walker,
Tracy Strauss (synthetic),
Mick the Ice Guy
| Sylar (lost),
Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to reduce temperatures and freeze objects by force of will
|Future terrorist's ability
|Future terrorist
|The ability to shoot a concentrated flow of green energy or liquid from the hand
|Gold mimicry
|"Little Miss Goldenrod"
|The ability to turn one's body into gold
|Gordon Hovey
|The ability to turn things into sand
|Gravitational manipulation
|Stephen Canfield
|The ability to create gravitational vacuums
|Green energy blast
|The ability to discharge a green-colored emission
|Hachiro's ability
|Hachiro Otomo
|The ability to digitize matter and interact with virtual environments
| Daniel Linderman,
Ishi Nakamura,
Taylor's father
|The ability to heal the wounds of others
|Healing touch
|Jeremy Greer
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to control the flow of life
|Heat generation
| Mrs. Comey,
British girl
|The ability to heat things
| Candice Willmer,
Crazy Tom,
| Future Sylar1,
Future Peter2
|The ability to alter the perceptions of others
|Image projection
|The ability to project images from one's eyes
|Impenetrable skin
|Baron Samedi
|The ability of one's skin to not be penetrated by anything
|Joe Macon
|The ability to mentally imprint marks onto surfaces
|Induced radioactivity
|Ted Sprague
| Peter Petrelli (lost),
Sylar (lost),
Future Gabriel2
|The ability to manipulate the movement of subatomic particles, thus generating and emitting toxic radiation
|Intuitive aptitude
| Sylar,
Samson Gray
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to analyze complex systems and intuitively understand how they work without special education or training
| Claude Rains,
Becky Taylor,
"Hipster Dude",
Farah Nazan
|Peter Petrelli
|The ability to not be seen
|Laser emission
|The ability to generate a beam of coherent light
| Abu Aswan,
Khufu and his kin
|The ability to levitate and move extremely heavy objects
|Lie detection
|Sue Landers
|The ability to detect when others lie
|Luke's ability
|Luke Collins
|The ability to emit heat, light, and electromagnetism
| Howard Grigsby,
Dee H
|The ability to emit light from one's body
|Lung adaptation
|Bianca Karina
|The ability to adapt one's lungs to any environment
| The German,
Magnetism terrorist,
Bo LoFontaine
|The ability to manipulate ferrous objects and materials
|Mass manipulation
| Sylvia,
Eric Lee Harrison
|The ability to manipulate mass, growing or shrinking at will
|Ida May Walker
|Linda Tavara
|The ability to view the spirits of the deceased
|Zane Taylor
|Sylar (lost)
|The ability to melt solid materials
|Memory manipulation
|The ability to make an individual re-experience forgotten or past memories and to erase memories
|Memory storage
|Caspar Abraham
|The ability to transfer a person's memory into inanimate objects
|Mental manipulation
| Arthur Petrelli,
Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to manipulate others' minds, causing them to lose memories or be prevented from using mental powers
|Metal mimicry
| Danny Pine,
Large guy
|The ability to transmute one's own body into metal
|Microwave emission
| Luke Campbell,
Mr. Shelby
|The ability to emit rays of microwaves from one's hands
|Miko's ability
|Miko Otomo
|The ability to physically enter the video game Evernow
|Mist mimicry
|Father Mauricio
|The ability to mimic mist and control one's body while in a smoky state
|Nerve gas emission
|Manhattan target
|The ability to emit nerve gas when sweating
|Nerve manipulation
|"The Watcher"
|The ability to manipulate the nerves of others
|Neurocognitive deficit
|Anna Korolenko
|The ability to shut down the upper brain functions of surrounding individuals
|Oil secretion
|Howie Kaplan
|The ability to secrete oil from one's hands
|The ability to automatically understand all verbal and non-verbal communication
| Eden McCain,
Damen Peak
|The ability to force others to obey one's spoken commands
| D.L. Hawkins,
Samir Mellouk,
Skinny guy,
Jose Gutierrez,
Marylou Winawer
| Future Sylar1,
Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to pass through solid objects at will
|Phoenix mimicry
|The ability to possess traits remenicent of a phoenix, including reincarnation, flight, and pyrokinesis
|Plant growth
| Au Co,
Ian Michaels
|The ability to accelerate plant growth
|Plant manipulation
| Brendan Lewis,
Sue Grandry,
Theodore van den Burg
|The ability to mimic and create plants and other vegetation
|Trevor Mason (synthetic)
|The ability to create and manipulate plasma
|Poison emission
|Maya Herrera (lost)
|Arthur Petrelli
|The ability to harm or kill people in the immediate area by emitting a deadly poison
|Harold Esposito
|Future Peter2
|The ability to insert a person into someone else's body
| Isaac Mendez,
| Peter Petrelli (lost),
Sylar (lost),
Future Gabriel2,
Arthur Petrelli
|The ability to accurately predict future events through paintings
|Precognitive dreaming
|Angela Petrelli
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to see the future through dreams
|Primal rage
|Ricardo Silva
|The ability to induce an uncontrollable rage in others
|Probability computation
|Kaito Nakamura
|The ability to see the variables of any situation and predict the outcome
|Puppet master
|Eric Doyle
|The ability to control the motor functions of people and objects
| Meredith Gordon,
Flint Gordon, Jr.,
Coach Lewis
| Future Peter1,
Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to create and control fire using the power of the mind
|Rapid cell regeneration
| Claire Bennet (lost),
Adam Monroe (lost),
| Peter Petrelli (lost),
Future Sylar1,
Arthur Petrelli,
Tommy Clark (lost)
|The ability to heal wounds quickly without any scarring
|Unknown victim
|Samson Gray
|The ability to lull victims into a sedated state
|Seismic burst
| Mr. Shaw,
Mr. Taylor,
|The ability to repel objects away from one's self
|Shape shifting
| James Martin,
Josh Davis,
Shape shifting evo,
Phil Haas
| Sylar,
Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to shift one's physical characteristics
| Trevor Zeitlan,
|Sylar (lost)
|The ability to shatter objects without physical contact
|Sound absorption
|The ability to absorb and nullify sound waves
|Sound manipulation
| Echo DeMille,
Jesse Murphy
|The ability to manipulate sound waves using one's voice
|Space-time manipulation
| Hiro Nakamura (restored,lost),
Cassandra Hays,
Dahlia Hays (synthetic)
| Peter Petrelli (lost),
Arthur Petrelli,
Tommy Clark
|The ability to alter the space-time continuum, including slowing down, speeding up, reversing, stopping, moving backwards and forwards through time, and moving instantaneously through space
|Spider mimicry
|The ability to turn one's body into a spider-like creature
|Spontaneous combustion
|The ability to cause things to catch fire
|Super speed
| Agent,
Daphne Millbrook,
Speedster trainee,
"Angry Old Man"
| Future Peter1,
Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to move at a higher rate than normal
|Ando Masahashi (synthetic)
|The ability to emit a red-colored beam of energy which can be used for a multitude of effects
|Micah Sanders
|The ability to control and manipulate technology with the mind
| Brian Davis,
Unknown victim,
Game operator,
Dahlia Hays,
Francis Culp,
Morgan Perdue,
Cassandra Hays (synthetic),
Alex Woodward
| Sylar,
Peter Petrelli (lost),
Arthur Petrelli,
Samson Gray,
|The ability to move objects with the mind
| Matt Parkman,
Maury Parkman,
Charles Deveaux
| Peter Petrelli (lost),
Arthur Petrelli,
|The ability to mentally control functions of the brain
| Manuel Garcia,
Rachel Mills,
Teleportation trainee
|The ability to instantly move between two locations
|Telescopic vision
| Donna Dunlap,
Alexander French
|The ability to see clearly in darkness and magnify vision to various levels
|Temporal rewind
|John Mulligan
|The ability to rewind time
| Sparrow Redhouse,
Samuel Sullivan
|Peter Petrelli (lost)
|The ability to control geologic materials such as dirt and rocks
|Phoebe Frady
|The ability to manipulate light and shadows
|Wall crawling
|The ability to crawl up walls effortlessly
|Water mimicry
| "Liquid man",
Donald Essex
|The ability to mimic water
|Weather control
|Alice Shaw
|The ability to control the weather
Unseen Abilities
These abilities have been described in writing, but have never been visually demonstrated, such as abilities demonstrated in iStory or book content.
List of Non-Demonstrated Abilities
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|Acid secretion
|São Paulo, Brazil
|Assignment tracker map
|Age manipulation
|David Reese
|The Needs of the Many
|Astral vision
|Katie Angro
|The Needs of the Many
|Chlorokinesis and plant mimicry
|Theodore van den Burg
|The Netherlands
|Heroes: Survival
|South Dakota
|Slow Burn
|Unknown convict
|Lisbon, Portugal
|Assignment tracker map
|Middle school boy
|Santa Cruz, CA
|Five Years Gone
|Dynamic camouflage
|A woman
|Genesis Files
|Earthquake causing
|A man
|Sydney, Australia
|I Am Become Death
|Electric mimicry
|Assignment tracker map
|Electronic data manipulation
|Pakistan and Afghanistan border
|Assignment tracker map
|Empathic manipulation
|Morgan Harvey
|New York, NY
|Heroes: Survival
|Enhanced thought processing
|Katherine Murry
|Los Angeles, CA
|Heroes: Survival
|Enhanced memory
|Trevor Tanaka
|Los Angeles, CA
|Heroes: Survival
|Evolved human detection
|Lukas Bahn
|Washington, DC
|Assignment tracker map
|Gas mimicry
|Zan Hahn
|Beijing, China
|Assignment tracker map
|Hair manipulation
|Paul Harding
|Washington, DC
|Assignment tracker map
|Induced explosion
|Darryl Blake
|San Diego, CA
|Assignment tracker map
|Induced sleep and soporifia
|Therese Bryne
|Boston, MA
|Heroes: Survival
|Intuitive empathy and empathy communication
|The Civilian
|Memory theft
|Miles Lecomte
|San Francisco, CA
|Heroes: Survival
|Metal duplication
|Assignment tracker map
|Metallic sweat
|Carmen Gonzalez
|Leon, Mexico
|Assignment tracker map
|Nervous system manipulation
|Toronto, Canada
|Assignment tracker map
|Object displacement
|Sebastian Shell
|Beijing, China
|Assignment tracker map
|Photographic memory and reflexes
|Pacy McNeil
|New York, NY
|Heroes: Survival
|Power manipulation
|Alisa Kousoulis
|The Needs of the Many
|Reality distortion
|"The Prankster"
|Waterbury, CT
|Assignment tracker map
|Shadow mimicry
|Unknown male 1
|Reno, NV
|Assignment tracker map
|Silicon manipulation
|Heroes: Survival
|Size alteration
|Robert Ferguson
|Alexandria, LA
|Assignment tracker map
|Snake mimicry
|"Snake man"
|Everglades National Park
|Assignment tracker map
|Debra Harding
|Boise, ID
|Assignment tracker map
|Alexander French
|St. Louis, MO
|The Needs of the Many
|Temperature manipulation
|Ian Verro
|Denver, Colorado
|Assignment tracker map
| Transportation
| Journal male 2
Journal female 1
| Chilpancingo, Mexico
Palu, Indonesia
| Chandra's journal
| Weather control
| Albert Rossling
"The Croatian"
| San Diego, CA
| Assignment tracker map
Faces, Part 1"
Shown in Deleted Scenes
|Deleted Scene Power
|Dynamic camouflage
|"Chameleon girl"
|Season Two DVD deleted scene
|Impenetrable skin
|Robert Keep
|Season Two DVD deleted scene
|Induced radioactivity
|Amid Halebi ("The Engineer")
|Los Angeles, CA
|Unaired pilot
|Probability computation
|Kaito Nakamura
|Tokyo, Japan
|Season Two DVD deleted scene, Comic-Con video
1. These abilities were manifested in the "explosion future."
2. These abilities were manifested in the "exposed future."
3. These abilities have been referenced in either an episode, graphic novel, or Heroes Evolutions, but have not been detailed enough to confirm their exact nature and identification. Therefore they are unconfirmed and listed here for documentation.
4. These abilities have been confirmed by text demonstration, such as in the iStory, or by being listed in a trusted show source, such as the Assignment Tracker. However, none of these have been visually illustrated with a drawn image or photograph. Therefore, they are listed as unseen for documentation.
See Also
- For other uses of ability, see ability (disambig).
- For information on the inheritance of abilities, see ability heredity.
- For Sylar's ability to steal other evolved humans' abilities, see ability theft.
- For a comparison of Isaac's paintings with their realizations, see prophecy.
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Several hundred people sat with rapt attention on Thursday at University of the Pacific, listening to the motivational words of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Bankruptcy was not on their minds.
Several hundred people sat with rapt attention on Thursday at University of the Pacific, listening to the motivational words of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Bankruptcy was not on their minds.
Back on the same campus Friday morning, students, staff and supporters gathered at the DeRosa Center to watch the Pacific men's basketball team play in the NCAA Tournament. Despite the disappointing outcome, their thoughts were on basketball and not the other "B" word.
A thousand or so people gathered early Friday evening outside the Bob Hope Theatre in downtown Stockton as the street was transformed into a mini French Quarter. They ate gumbo, red rice and beans and po'boy sandwiches, sipped on Hurricane drinks and listened to high school and college jazz bands. They reveled, giving nary a thought to the "B" word.
A couple hours later, many of those revelers watched jazz giant Wynton Marsalis perform in a sold-out concert at the Bob Hope Theatre. Others, meanwhile, went back to the Pacific campus to watch the women's basketball team win a National Invitational Tournament game. The "B" word? It wasn't given a thought.
And across town, at the county fairgrounds, NASCAR legend Tony Stewart showed up for a little dirt-track racing. The racing icon helped put more than 10,000 people in the seats, and it's guaranteed none of them were contemplating the "B" word.
So there you have it. On the eve of a four-day trial that could very well determine much of Stockton's future, its citizens were not spell-bound or shackled by the word "Bankruptcy."
They enjoyed an unbelievable number of high-quality events and big-name visitors. Condoleezza Rice, Wynton Marsalis and Tony Stewart in a two-day period, with the NCAA Tournament thrown in for good measure. That's just awesome for a city and, frankly, it was a lot of fun covering the events for a couple days.
Alas, the headlines return to bankruptcy on Monday. The topic won't consume all of The Record's front-page space - there are too many other things still going on in everyday life here - but it will be a big focus.
Yet it all seems very strange because the outcome seems so apparent. We could be shocked, but here's what's likely to happen:
� The city and its creditors will get a couple of days to make their cases before bankruptcy judge Christopher M. Klein;
� The judge, who has shown indications that he favors declaring Stockton eligible for bankruptcy, will do so. He could have done this without the trial, but the losing side is sure to appeal. That makes this initial trial key if the case it appealed;
� The battle between Stockton and its creditors will continue, and it will be intense. The end of the trial will not mean a winner and a loser.
� Amid all of this important work in Sacramento, the sideshow will continue in Stockton.
That sideshow is the face-off between Mayor Anthony Silva and City Manager Bob Deis - and the majority of City Council - over how to fight crime in the city.
Silva is pushing forward with his tax initiative, promising dozens if not hundreds of more cops while Deis and others are saying he is being irresponsible and could hamstring the city's finances for years.
It's become apparent that Silva is not backing down - nor will he "be muzzled," we're told - and that he's alienating himself from other city leaders in this pursuit.
That might not matter because, if he's successful in getting the tax initiative approved for a special election, it'll be Stockton voters - many of the same people who helped him upset incumbent Ann Johnston - who decide whether he's putting forth a visionary crime strategy or a pipe dream wrapped in lunacy.
Stay tuned, but do so with this thought: Whatever happens with the "B" trial and the mayor's end run, Stockton will move forward. It must.
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I bought yarn for a Granny Square blanket. The problem is that I bought the yarn a while ago. Here is a link to my post about when I bought it. I don't know why I waited so long to start it, but I did.
I did add a few more colors not too long after my original purchase, and everything stayed bagged up and in my craft closet until just last week.
I decided to do a traditional granny square blanket. It's funny, I had to re-do that first square at least three times because I crochet so tightly. I just couldn't get it to look nice. I tried using a larger hook, which sometimes works for me, but not this time. So, I had to make myself crochet really loose.
The main color will be the gray with off-white, blue, green, coral and purple (yes, it's purple). I really love the gray; it's a heather gray which reminds me of cuddling up in a old, warm sweatshirt on a cold winter day.
I am weaving in my ends as I go, rather than leaving them all until the end. Sometimes that task seems so BIG if I leave it till the end. I am hoping it won't this time.
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The hotel-room sexual assault allegations against 49ers star wide receiver Michael Crabtree do not appear to be holding up under investigation.
San Francisco police said Friday that they were looking into a complaint that Crabtree had assaulted a woman in a hotel after the Niners defeated the Green Bay Packers in a playoff game Jan. 12.
According to a San Francisco law enforcement source, the woman who lodged the allegation was one of three women who joined Crabtree in a party at a room in the tony W Hotel on Third Street.
The other two women have told investigators that Crabtree didn't assault anyone, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is continuing.
Police haven't found any physical evidence of an attack, the source added. It hasn't been disclosed whether the woman who said she had been victimized went to a hospital to be examined.
The woman went to Oakland police four days after the party; investigators there promptly referred her to San Francisco police, according to multiple sources.
Crabtree, 25, has denied any wrongdoing, the sources told us. He was accompanied by an attorney when he spoke Friday with police, who publicly described him as cooperative.
Police Chief Greg Suhr declined to discuss the case, other than to say that he hoped the investigation would be wrapped up within the next 10 days – in other words, before the Super Bowl.
"It will take as long as it takes, but we are going to do it right," Suhr said.
Incidentally, Crabtree and the Niners caught a break when police held off on releasing news of the inquiry until late Friday, after The Chronicle had asked about the allegation. By then, the Niners were on a plane for Atlanta – and had imposed a pregame blackout on player interviews.
State of Jerry: There's one thing Gov. Jerry Brown won't see when he gazes out over all the politicians gathered to hear the annual State of the State Address on Thursday – competition.
"He won't see any if he looks forward, backward or sideways," said Hoover Institution research fellow Bill Whalen, a former aide to ex-Gov. Pete Wilson.
Brown pretty much won the jackpot when he rolled the dice and won on Proposition 30, the sales- and income-tax package that is bringing in an extra $6 billion a year.
The result: No big deficit, no unpopular cuts, no angry labor unions – and no one on either side of the aisle with much traction even if they wanted to run against Brown next year.
"The first thing they would have to do is raise money," Whalen said. "And that would be tough going, considering that every moneyed interest in the state is lined up behind Brown."
And that's why Attorney General Kamala Harris will sit tight, as will Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom – and why outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will take a job with the Obama administration as transportation secretary if it's offered.
The only wild card is what effect Brown's recent bout with prostate cancer might have on his desire for a second term.
"My bet is that he runs," says former state Democratic Party Chairman Art Torres.
"At the end of the day," Torres said, "he can't survive without politics."
Mystery man: Chris Hansen, the boyish face behind the deal to move the Sacramento Kings NBA team to Seattle, is a San Francisco hedge fund manager who launched his own firm, Valiant Capital, as the economy was tanking in 2008.
As for why the San Diego State and USC business school alum isn't widely known around here, even in financial circles?
"He doesn't have the typical hedge fund pedigree" – namely, an Ivy League diploma or Goldman Sachs line on his resume – one prominent San Francisco investment banker told us.
Lone protester: Guests attending President Obama's inauguration Monday didn't have to put up with just the cold weather – some had to endure nonstop, top-of-the-lung heckling by an antiabortion protester who managed to elude the Secret Service by climbing to the top of a 60-foot tree.
Eyewitnesses tell us the man – holding a sign reading, "Pray to end abortion" – showed up three hours before the inauguration and ascended the tree, some 300 feet from the stage.
Secret Service brought in a ladder to try to grab him, but the protester only climbed higher until he was out of reach. So the Secret Service just left him there.
And the man made the most of it, screaming, "Democrats are baby killers!" and other taunts through the entire ceremony – making the day especially memorable for the $1,000-a-head guests standing right below the tree.
Folks like Coalition for Better Housing executive Brook Turner, who described him to us simply as "the jerk in the tree."
We're told the tree-sitter stayed there till well after the angry crowd dispersed and could safely leave under Secret Service protection.
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Jodi Arias' defense lawyers are seeking a mistrial in her murder case due to juror misconduct.
In a court filing Sunday, her attorneys claim the misconduct was discovered during closed proceedings last week. They did not cite specifics but note that removing the juror would also be an option. That would leave five alternate jurors, in addition to the 12 who will decide the case.
Arias' lawyers argued last week the prosecutor committed misconduct by signing autographs and posing for pictures outside court.
The judge questioned jurors individually in private, then a legal correspondent for Turner Broadcasting's "In Session" was asked about what she saw.
Defense lawyers contend the prosecutor's antics may have tainted the jury if anyone on the panel witnessed it.
Testimony in the case is set to resume Tuesday.


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Michelle Wie has spent countless hours preparing for the 2008 U.S. Women's Open with coach David Leadbetter in the hopes of reversing the downward spiral which has been her albatross since last year. Although Wie recently commented that she felt herself "re-emerging as a new player, a new person," she also reluctantly mentioned what has gone before, asserting, "I'm not ever going to think about before I broke my wrist. That was then and this is now."
Perhaps Wie has been going through a metamorphosis of sorts since her dismissal from the columns of many a golf writer who believed her to be washed up by her eighteenth birthday.
Her recent victory of sorts, a sixth place finish at the Ladies German Open as well as a genuine qualification into a major event instead the ritual "gimmees" offered to her by sponsors, has put Wie back on track. Now that appearance offers are no longer easily forthcoming (2008 Sony Open, 2008 Ginn Tribute hosted by Annika Sorenstam), Michelle seems to be developing a sense of humble graciousness, coming to the realization that it takes talent, not youth or the appearance of ability, in order to gain recognition in her chosen field.
"It's been a long time since I had to qualify for something, and it made me want it even more," a seemingly more grown-up Wie stated. "I think going through that qualifying humbled me a lot as a player, as a person. Sometimes, you have to go back to your roots to become a better player and a better person."
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UPDATED APR 1: Paramount, MGM and Skydance Productions' G.I. Joe: Retaliation stormed to the top of the international class over the holiday weekend thanks to an estimated $80.3m debut that posted the best result of the year-to-date.
The international launch was almost double that of the much-maligned predecessor G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra in the same territories back in 2009.
The action sequel took $132m worldwide — just more than what has been circulated as the official production budget of $130m. Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson, Byung-hun Lee, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Park, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Stevenson and Bruce Willis star and Jon M Chu directed.
IMAX was in the thick of things as usual, generating $2.35m from 78 international IMAX screens for a solid $30,000 per-screen average and more than $7m worldwide.
Retaliation ranked number one in most of its territories led by Russia on $11m from 872 sites, South Korea on $6m from 761, Mexico on $6m from 580, Germany on $4.5m from 461 and Australia on $4.2m from 266. The film is scheduled to touch down in China on Apr 15 and Japan on Jun 8.
Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters added $3.3m from 31 markets to reach $161.2m and opened in the high growth market of Venezuela on $1m from 60 sites. Germany added $1.2m for $16.4m after five weekends.
- UPDATE: DreamWorks Animation's The Croods grossed a confirmed $52.2m from 12,943 screens in 59 markets in its second weekend through Fox International to reach $140.4m. As with G.I. Joe, Russia led the way on $6.1mfrom 2,166 in second place to boost the tally to $22.1m, followed by the UK on a $5m number one hold from 1,100 for $15.7m.
Australia generated a $4.9m number one debut from 506 while Italy produced a $3.7m number one hold from 829 for $8.6m. Germany delivered a number two result as $3.7m from 998 pushed the running total to $10.3m and Spain generated $3.6m from 777 for a number one hold that elevated the tally to $9.6m.
Danny Boyle's Trance opened in the UK on $2.4m from 475, while Fox International Productions' Dragon Ball Z pulled off a thunderous number one debut in Japan in association with Toei, grossing around $7.3m from 328 screens. This was also IMAX's first Japanese DMR release and grossed $450,000 on the giant screens over two days for a $28,000 average.
A Good Day To Die Hard added $3.7m from 1,942 in 18 as the running total climbed to $230.2m. Hitchcock stands at $16.8m and Lincoln $81.8m.
- UPDATE: Jack The Giant Slayer brought in a confirmed $25m from approximately 11,000 screens in 57 markets through Warner Bros Pictures International to push the running total to $96.3m.
The adventure fantasy debuted in China on approximately $6.8m from approximately 3,120 screens in its first seven days, while the French launch generated $2m from 489 to rank second.
Jack opened in Brazil in fourth place on $1.9m from 430 and Italy produced $1.4m from 299 in its opening weekend. The film has amassed $12.8m in Russia and $5.8m in the UK after two weekends and $2.9m in Spain after three.
Local title The Noble Family (Nosotros Los Nobles) opened in Mexico on $2.7m from 835 including previews. The comedy is an Alazraki Films production.
- Oz: The Great And Powerful surged past the $200m mark through Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures International as an estimated $8.4m debut in China drove a $22.2m weekend that propelled the running total to $214m.
The global tally as reached $412.3m incorporating the North American result, which is poised at $198.3m. The leading international territories are Russia on $27.2m, the UK on $17.9m, Japan on $15.2m, Mexico on $14.1m and Australia on $13.1m.
- UPDATE: Universal Pictures International reported that Identity Thief generated a confirmed $5.4m from 2,057 theatres in 25 territories to raise the tally to $16.3m. Germany produced a $1.8m debut from 415 sites. The UK was the top holdover territory as $1.2m from 440 boosted the tally to $4.3m after two weekends. Spain has produced $1.3m after the same period.
Mama added $2.1m from 31 for $55.4m, This Is 40 stands at $19.7m, Ted $330.2m,Anna Karenina $54.6m and Working Title's Les Misérables $287.2m. The musical has powered its way to a $63.8m running total in Japan after 100 days and $63.9m in the UK after approximately 80 days or 12 weekends.
Next weekend Universal launches the Jurassic Park 3D in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Lebanon, Russia, Ukraine and the UAE. The rest of the world will follow over the next six months.
- UPDATE: Django Unchained earned $1.4m through Sony Pictures Releasing International from 51 markets as the running total climbed to $253.8m overall and $49.2m in Germany after 11 weekends.


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Kenya's Interior Ministry has said its armed forces are "in control" of the Westgate Shopping Mall in Nairobi.
The army and police have been involved in a stand-off with al-Shabaab militants since they attacked the shopping centre on Saturday, killing 62 people and injuring dozens more.
The ministry used its Twitter account to say the army was searching all floors of the shopping centre for any militants.
It said it believes that all the remaining hostages have been released.
Earlier, a series of loud explosions and gunfire were followed by a plume of black smoke.
Kenya's interior minister told a news conference that the militants had set a fire with mattresses in a supermarket on the centre's lower floors.
He said the militants were all men, but some wore women's clothing during the assault.
At least two militants have been killed so far today, while another died in the initial attack on Saturday.
The gunmen came from "all over the world", Kenya's military chief said, adding: "We are fighting global terrorism here."
Security officials near the scene had said the blasts heard at lunchtime were caused by Kenyan forces blasting a way in.
The action came a day after Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta dismissed a demand that he pull Kenyan forces out of neighbouring Somalia.
Al-Shabaab had warned it would kill hostages if the police and army moved in.
A senior police officer said the Kenyan authorities had been receiving advice from Western and Israeli experts.
The Kenyan Embassy has confirmed that the son of the former Kenyan Ambassador to Ireland, Catherine Muigai Mwangi, and his fiancée are among the dead.
Ms Mwangi had returned to Kenya last month after six years in Ireland.
Books of condolence will be open between tomorrow and Friday 27 September at the Kenyan Embassy in Ballsbridge.
US President Barack Obama has called the attack a "terrible outrage" and said the US was providing all the cooperation it could to Kenya.
"We stand with them against this terrible outrage that occurred," Mr Obama said during a meeting with Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan in New York.
Both men, who are in the city for the United Nations General Assembly, expressed condolences to the Kenyan president.
"I feel the pain of President Kenyatta ... terror anywhere is terror on all of us," Mr Jonathan said.