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#1 Veterans, where and when?10-05-2011, 12:59 PM
Did a look but haven't found a thread where we pool all our goods into a single thread, so figured now was a good time to start.
When did you serve? What locations? What Branch? No ones required to share this info if they don't want to.
For myself, I enlisted into the AF DEP in July of 2001, and went AD in Feb 2002 as a Weather Forecaster. I've spent about a year or more at Keesler AFB Mississippi, Manas AB Kyrgyzstan, Shaw AFB South Carolina, Misawa AFB Japan, and Scott AFB Illinois. Planning on going the full 20.
Last edited by djones520; 10-05-2011 at 01:14 PM.In most sports, cold-cocking an opposing player repeatedly in the face with a series of gigantic Slovakian uppercuts would get you a multi-game suspension without pay.
In hockey, it means you have to sit in the penalty box for five minutes.
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Since I know we have one guy here from Ft. Hood, I thought I would ask if any of you remember an old Korean (Army) and Vietnam (Air Force) War helicopter pilot in a wheelchair who used to work as a greeter at a Ft Hood commissary or PX.
That was my uncle, and we loved him a lot.While you were hanging yourself , on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
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Enlisted Naval Reserve Dec, 1962.
Went active June, 63.
I served on both coasts. Amphibious Fleet, Mediterranean and Caribbean. Operations Game Warden and Market Time, VietNam, 1967-68. Temporarily assigned to both Colombian and Philippine navies for about 6 months each, and served as aboard Plainview AGE(H)-1 until discharge in 1971
USN 1966-70 4 deployments to US 7th fleet vietnam.Increase the peace
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Enlisted Reserves in the Army..active duty 56-58....F.A. surveyor instructor. Turned down OCS, radar school and golf teaching offers because extending my time was a no no. Spent most of my time in Germany 7th Army. The top General sent down word that I was to pull no duty and play golf for 6 weeks prior to the All Army Golf Tounament in Berlin. He wined and dined this PFC after placing 3rd in the European command tourney.
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My Dad's WW1 diary is here, and my notes are here. Nothing spectacular.......but proud to have served nevertheless.
The rest are here...
Benjamin, Sr., Benjamin, Jr., Lemuel, William and Benjamin Edgar are my connections with our great nation and some of the wars that we have fought. In all, the Cruzan family has shared a long and interesting history in these United States. We are in-laws to President Ulysses S Grant and have competed with Alexander Graham Bell for the first successful telephone. We've served our nation in military and civilian capacities. And we have our black sheep as well. A military deserter and two outlaws, one of which is buried along with the Hole-in-the-wall gang in Arizona.
But most of all, I'm proud of our military tradition.
Revolutionary War
Benjamin Cruzan, Sr., Co. "C", 5th Troop, 1st Regiment Light Dragoons, Continental Troops
War of 1812
Benjamin Cruzan, Jr., Dowden's Company of Infantry, 4th Kentucky Volunteers
Isaac Cruzan, Dowden's Company of Infantry, 4th Kentucky Volunteers
Israel Ross Cruzan, 1st Regiment, Ohio Militia
John Wesley Cruzan, Collier's Regiment, Ohio Militia
Civil War
Amos Cruzan, Co. "C", 130th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Benjamin Cruzan, Co. "C", 125th Regiment, Illinois Infantry
Charles Cruzan, Co. "D", 48th Regiment, Indiana Infantry
Elias Cruzan, Co. "F", 155th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
John Cruzan, Co. "C", 130th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
John A. Cruzan, Co. "F", 3rd Regiment, Iowa Infantry
Oliver Henderson Cruzan, Co. "D", 73rd Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Rozman Cruzan, Co. "E", 12th Regiment, Kansas Infantry
Thomas Cruzan, Co. "D", 146th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
Thomas Lee Cruzan, Co. "F", 7th Ohio Cavalry Regiment
William Cruzan, Co. "G", 87th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
William Edward Cruzan, Co. "K", 58th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
William Henry Cruzan, Co. "K", 138th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Infantry
William Harvey Cruzan, Co. "K", 131st Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry
William Manton Cruzan, Co. "E", 12th Regiment, Indiana Volunteer Cavalry
Indian Wars
Alfred Jacob Cruzan, Co. "C", 1st United States Infantry Regiment, Arizona Territory
Spanish-American War
Clarence Kyle Cruzan, Co. "B", 10th United States Regiment
World War I
Benjamin Edgar Cruzan, Pvt., Battery "F", 341st Field Artillery, 89th Division, 3rd Army, AEF
Benjamin Franklin Cruzan, Pvt., Co. "C", 342nd Machine Gun Battalion, 89th Division, 3rd Army, AEF
Charles W. Cruzan, United States Navy, AEF
Charles Milton Cruzan, AEF
Jacob W. Cruzan, Pvt., 89th Division, 3rd Army, AEF
Levi Morton Cruzan, AEF
Ray Ivan Cruzan, Co. "A", 312th Engineer Battalion, 89th Division, 3rd Army, AEF
World War II
Cecil Wesley Cruzan
Charles Grant Cruzan, Cmdr., United States Navy
Clare Cruzan, Cpl., United States Army
Clifford Cruzan, S1/C., United States Navy
Clyde Oliver Cruzan
Donald Cruzan
Edward M. Cruzan, BMC., United States Navy
Halbert B. Cruzan, Lt., United States Navy
Harold L. Cruzan, Pvt., United States Army Air Force
Harry Arthur Cruzan
James Franklin Cruzan, Jr., United States Navy, MIA and declared dead February, 1942
James M. Cruzan, Cpt., 514th ATC, United States Army Air Force, KIA 1945, CBI Theater
John Sargeant Cruzan, Maj., USMC
Joseph Albert Cruzan
Kenneth Irvin Cruzan, Sgt., United States Army Air Force, who died in a Japanese POW camp
Leonard F. Cruzan, Sgt., United States Army Air Force, POW, Stalag Luft IV, 1944-1945
William R. Cruzan, Cpl., Co. "A", 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Division, United States Army, Bronze Star
Korean War
William R. Cruzan, Sgt., Co. "A", 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Division, United States Army, MIA at Pork Chop Hill,
July 6, 1953. Declared KIA July 7, 1954
Vietnam War
Allen Wesley Cruzan, PO4, United States Navy
Marvin C Cruzan, 3276th SchRon, 3275th Group, Air Training Command, USAF; 91st Ranger Battalion, ARVN, MACV; Co."B", 937th Signal Battalion, MoANG
Gulf War
David Michael Cruzan, Cpl., United States Marine Corps
These records have been compiled from the records of the National Archives, the St. Louis Record Center and from family members. Unfortunately, over the years, many government records have been lost. First when the British sacked and burned Washington during the War of 1812 and later when a fire spread through the St. Louis Records Center destroying many of the records from World Wars I and II and the Korean conflict.
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Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
Basic and Advanced Infantry, Fort Polk LA
RVN, 1967-68 with D CO, 2ND BN, 27TH Infantry, 25 INF DIVThe poster formerly known as chuck58 on the old board.
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Thank you all of you that have served you are all the best
USN 1973-77. Served with VA-22 out of Lemoore,Ca. Deployed aboard USS Coral Sea. WestPac.
After active duty, did 4 in Reserves.
In my later years, volunteered in USCGA for 5 years.
U.S. Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989 - Kaneohe Bay Hawaii
Marine Reserves from 1989-1992 - Tulsa, OK
(3 years off for college)
Army National Guard from 1995 to present. - Tulsa Oklahoma
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About Executive Bruce Dammeier
Elected as the Executive of Pierce County in November of 2016.
- State Senate: January 2013 – December 2016
- House of Representatives: January 2009 - January 2013
- Member of the Puyallup School Board - 2001 - 2009
EDUCATION: University of Washington – M.S., engineering; U.S. Naval Academy – B.S. in Ocean Engineering.
OCCUPATION: Small business owner and director of printing business in Pierce County.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT: Member, Young Life; member, Mel Korum YMCA Advisory Council; member, Tacoma #8 Rotary Club; member, Tacoma Goodwill Board of Directors; member, Lighthouse Christian Church; member, Good Samaritan Hospital Board of Directors; member, University of Washington – Tacoma Advisory Board.
AWARDS (include):
- Jobs for Washington Graduates Award (2012)
- Friend of Children Award, Washington State PTA (2011)
- Legislative Hero, Washington State HVAC/R Association, Inc. (2011)
- "In the Bag" Award – Washington Food Industry Association (2010-11)
- Cornerstone Award, Association of Washington Business (2009-11)
- Guardian of Small Business Award, National Federation of Independent Business (2009-12)
- Pioneer Educator Award, Washington Families for Online Learning (2010)
- Outstanding Advocate Award, Puyallup PTA Council (2009)
- Local Hero Award, Bank of America Neighborhood Excellence Initiative (2007)
PERSONAL: A Pierce County native, Executive Dammeier attended Curtis High School before going on to graduate with distinction from the U.S. Naval Academy and serve eight years as a Civil Engineer Corps Officer. While on active duty, he was deployed on humanitarian relief missions in the United States and across the world. At the conclusion of his military service, he returned to Washington State and became a dedicated community volunteer. Bruce and Lauren, his wife of more than 35 years, live in Puyallup. They have three grown sons.

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|Adapter for the Arduino electronics prototyping platform
|Nico Stuurman
|Linux, Mac, and Windows
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The Arduino is a low cost programmable digital IO board. It has some digital inputs and digital outputs and can communicate with the computer through a serial interface (that is hidden in a USB connection). A very nice and simple programming language makes the Arduino very simple to program. The Micro-Manager interface to the Arduino consists of an Arduino program (the 'firmware') that you need to upload to the Arduino first. The current version of the Micro-Manager has facilities to use the Arduino as a shutter, and as a shutter that only opens when a TTL is set high (for instance, when the camera is exposing). Also, timed sequences of TTL output can be setup. There are also facilities for programmable analogue out, however, those need connection of a DA chip and requires constructions of a 'daughterboard'/'shield'.Image source .svg file)
- 1 Installation
- 2 Hardware Configuration Wizard
- 3 Usage Notes
- 4 Project Tutorials
Arduino Software (IDE)
The Arduino IDE is required to upload the firmware to the Arduino. Once this step is done, it should no longer be required. Download and install the Arduino Software for your platform. Establish a connection with your Arduino using the instructions that come with the Arduino software (this includes installing a driver for the USB to serial adapter built into the Arduino.
Then download the firmware source code and copy into a blank Arduino Sketch window. Send to the Arduino, and your Arduino is programmed to work with Micro-Manager.
Hardware Configuration Wizard
Add the Arduino-Hub. You may want to set the "Verbose" property of the port to 0 to avoid extensive logging of the communcation with the device, especially if you are using the input functionality (which queries the Arduino every second).
|Pre-Initialization Properties
|Inverted causes digital inputs and outputs to be considered HIGH when 0 Volts and LOW when +5 Volts.
|Serial Setting
There are no unused ports available!, first check that the Arduino is connected to the computer. Also, under GNU/Linux systems,make sure that your user is in the
dialout system group (see details).
Peripheral Devices Setup
|Digital output pattern set across pins 8 to 13. See usage in #Digital IO.
| Toggles the digital outputs pattern across pins 8 to 13. Set all pins off when the shutter is closed, and restores the value set in
Switch-State when the shutter is opened.
|Reports, both, the digital and analog (0-1023) state of the analog input pins 0 to 5.
|(Not usually used) Reserved for TLV5618 AOTF Peripheral. TLV5618 is a chip acting as a DAC (digital-to-analog converter) that can be added as a shield to the Arduino. This way, the Arduino can be used to control analog devices such as AOTF or stages. See #DAC.
|Initialization Properties
|Reads all 6 input pins when set to All, otherwise reads the individual 0-5 Pin number.
|Choose whether the Arduino should use its internal 20 kOhm internal pull-up resistor. If not sure, choose On.
Test Communication
Arduino boards Duemilanove and newer feature an LED attached to pin 13. One can verify the Arduino is communicating by changing the state of pin 13 and verifying the LED changes. Setting pin 13 HIGH requires setting the
Arduino-Switch-State to 32 (i.e. 2^5) in the
Device/Property Browser. If you added the
Arduino-Shutter peripheral to the
Arduino-Hub toggle the
Arduino-Shutter in the main MM window, or if you don't have it change the
Arduino-Switch-State back to 0 to see the LED go off.
Usage Notes
Digital IO
All possible combinations of digital outputs that can be set across pins 8 to 13 can be set by a single number from from 0 to 63, with 0 turning off all pins and 63 turning all pins on.
To choose the set of pins to be on for your
Arduino-Switch-State pattern, simply add all the decimal values for the pin from the table below; so for pins 8 and 10 to be on, needs a decimal value of 1 + 4 = 5 to be set in
|Decimal Value when On
The reason one has to do this is MM encodes the pins as bits in binary. Pin 13 corresponds to the most significant bit 5, whose decimal value is 2^5 = 32. Similarly pin 10 will be bit 2 which has a decimal value of 2^2 = 4.
The "blanking" feature of the device adapter allows to ensure that the sample is illuminated only when the camera is exposing. By connecting a TTL output of the camera (active when the camera is exposing) to the arduino input and enabling blanking, the digital output of the arduino will be kept at zero as long as the TTL is inactive.
Device Properties
|Switch-Blanking Mode
|Allows On or Off: enables "blanking" when the TTL input is inactive.
|Switch-Blank On
|Allows Low or High: defines the active state of the TTL input.
|Set the digital output pattern across pins 8 to 13. Allows values 0-63. See usage in #Digital IO
| Off operates the Arduino in normal "switching" mode.
On enables triggered "sequencing" mode. One defines and upload multiple pattern states to the Arduino using a Beanshell script. Then the digital input signal to pin 2 switches between the sets of patterns. Typically, one would connect the camera exposure signal to pin 2.
|Set the digital output pattern across pins 8 to 13. Allows values 0-63. See usage in #Digital IO
|10-bit value of ADC input.
| Value depends on how the
Pin initialization property was set. Shows binary state of the input pin, if a single in was selected. Shows the 5-bit value of all input pins if "All" was selected.
|(Not usually used) Reserved for TLV5618 AOTF Peripheral.
|(Not usually used) Reserved for TLV5618 AOTF Peripheral.
A DAC (digital-to-analog) converter is required for the Arduino to output analog signals. Indeed, the Arduino can only simulate analog outputs using a PWM. To output true analog output, a chip that perform a digital-to-analog conversion is required.
When a pin is configured in PWM mode (using the
analogWrite Arduino command), the pin constantly switches between the binary HIGH and LOW values such that the temporal average of the signal is the required analog output: although the average of the voltage on a given pin is different from the HIGH and LOW values, the pin actually outputs a high frequency square wave, which can be detrimental to some devices that require a true analog signal. A way to smooth the PWM output to its average value is to use a RC circuit.
Furthermore, the default PWM frequency of the Arduino is relatively low: about 1 kHz. It is possible to go up to 30-60kHz.
DAC - Description
One DAC chip is the Texas Instrument TLV5618. It is a 12 bit DAC. It is easy to handle and the Arduino firmware can talk natively to it through a builtin SPI protocol.
It can be wired as follows on pins 3, 4 and 5 of the Arduino and will require a few additional components:
- A decoupling capacitor (we used a 100 nF ceramic capacitor)
- Resistors/potentiometers to build a voltage divisor and power the REF pin of the DAC. The reference has to be set at 2.04 V. This can be achieved using a 20 kOhm resistor on one side and a 29 kOhm resistor on the other side (29 kohm can be obtained with 20+6.8+2.2 kOhm serial resistors).
Those should be wired as follow:
- OUT_A and OUT_B are the analog outputs.
- The pair of resistors R1 and R2can be tweaked as long as the voltage on the REF pin of the TLV5618 remains 2.04 V
- The +5V and GND should be wired to the 5V and GND pins of the Arduino
Alternative wiring
The current (as of Oct. 2016) implementation of the SPI interface in the Arduino firmware limits the speed of the DAC to approximately 1 kHz. However, it is possible to do better by using the builtin SPI interface of the Arduino. This can shrink the response down to 25 µs (40 kHz).
However, the SPI interface is only available on pins 10, 11, 13, which requires a little bit of reorganization of the Arduino code to work out-of-the box, and the
analogueOutput function has to be re-written to use the SPI interface (see an example)
Additional information is available on those websites:
DAC - performance
Linearity: If the voltage on the reference pin REF of the TLV5618 is properly set, the response to a ramp command is fairly linear (see image below). Note that the y scale is arbitrary and the x scale is ms.
Response time:
Project Tutorials
- Step-by-step to controlling multiple light sources with an Arduino for sequenceable MDA by Guillaume Witz & Thomas Julou.
- TTL control of multiple LEDs by David Knecht.
- Detect tube lens position of Nikon Ti Eclipse
- Control laser shutter with Arduino by Rocco D'Antuono.
- Open LED Illuminator by Jens B. Bosse et al.


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Discover Alaska's incomparable wilderness and compelling history with this informative travel map, part of the "Close-up: U.S.A" series. Half of a two-map set published in June 1975, the Alaska map highlights parks, forests, and wildlife refuges, showing both existing sites and proposed areas. Two articles accompanied this map including "Preserving America's Last Great Wilderness."
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You might remember this past Monday that I did a post based on a post I had seen on the blog PopRockBopTilUDrop. Craig, the proprietor on that blog, said that the URL of his blog was based on the radio station he worked at, KIMN (pronounced "Kim"), which from the '50's through the '80's was Denver's popular "950 KIMN." I found a survey from September 21, 1984 on ARSA, so let's check out their Top 10 from that day.
- The Pointer Sisters, "I'm So Excited" Originally released in 1982 (when it only reached #30), it was re-mixed and released again in 1984, reaching #9 on the Hot 100 and #25 on the Adult Contemporary chart. In Denver it stayed at #10 from the week before.
- Scandal featuring Patty Smyth, "The Warrior" Title track from their 1984 album, it was their only song to reach the Top 40, peaking at #7 on the Hot 100 and #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.
- Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called To Say I Love You" A huge hit for Stevie, it reached #1 on the Hot 100, R&B and Adult Contemporary charts. This weekin Denver it jumped from #14 to #8 with a bullet.
- Huey Lewis & The News, "If This Is It" The fourth single off their hugely popular 1983 Sports album, it peaked at #6 on both the hot 100 and the Cash Box survey. It was down from #4 the week before.
- Lionel Ritchie, "Stuck On You" From 1983's Can't Slow Down album, it reached #3 on the Hot 100, #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and by virtue of the fact he wore a cowboy hat on the single sleeve, #24 on the Country chart. Down from #3 in Denver this week.
- Cyndi Lauper, "She Bop" The third single from her debut album She's So Unusual, this reached #3 on the Hot 100 annd Cash Box surveys. It spent a second week at #5 on 950 KIMN's survey this week.
- The Cars, "Drive" From the album Heartbeat City, it was sung by bassist Benajmin Orr and was their highest-charting single, reaching #3 nationally. It rose from #7 on KIMN, meaning it and Huey Lewis's song switched positions.
- Prince, "Let's Go Crazy" From the Purple Rain soundtrack, it was Prince's second straight #1 after "When Doves Cry." Up from #6 the previous week, swapping with Lionel Ritchie.
- Tina Turner, "What's Love Got To Do With It" From Private Dancer, Tina's first and only #1, it also reached #2 on the R&B chart. In Denver, it had slipped from #1, trading places with…
- John Waite, "Missing You" I was going to say that John Waite was a one-hit wonder, but since the definition of that is "only one Top 40 single ever," I can't, because his follow-up single, "Tears," reached #37 (#8 on the Mainstream Rock chart). From his 1984 No Brakes album, which reached #10 in the US.
In 1988, KIMN changed its call letters to KYGO and began broadcasting country. The callsign re-emerged in 1995 on 100.3 FM. Currently it's known as Mix 100 ("All The Hits") with an Adult Top 40 format.
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Lbill wrote:But, even more important, I want to see stocks get killed so I can buy. The last time I bought was the very day the S&P hit bottom at 666 back in March 2009. Going for a 2-fer.
In quote 1 above, you say that you've owned stocks before, and want to own them again. In quote 2, you say you have always earned good returns without being invested in stocks. Which is it?Lbill wrote:No, I honestly think that investing in stocks stinks. It's a legitimate viewpoint even though it's a voice in wilderness in the Cult of Equities. You can make pretty good returns without undergoing the torture of the stock market - I always have.
In any event, you are obviously skilled, as you managed to not only buy stocks near the bottom in 2009, but on the actual lowest day which occurred. Well done!


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Father Dajczer, in his book The Gift of Faith, writes about the parable of the talents, the Gospel for this Sunday. He states that the talents God gives us are not just gift and material, but opportunity. Opportunity is found especially in the absence of things and in suffering.
He says that God is continually bestowing his gifts upon us, and that how we use those gifts, especially the gift of difficult experiences, is the way that we are transformed. It is easy to see the possession of certain "talents" or abilities as gift; but what about sickness as a talent, or the pain of loss as the gift with which to transform our world and us?
Not long ago I attended a special reunion of my father's Second World War army regiment. Only 25 men of his group are still alive, and nine attended the weekend.
I talked with sons and daughters of his comrades and we shared some stories of the struggles we had seen our fathers overcome or succumb to, as the case might be. I was left with a deeper appreciation of my father's story.
He enlisted the summer of 1940 and returned home from Europe in October 1945. I was born 10 years later, the fourth of five children.
I did not understand my father in those early years. It seemed to me that much of his time was spent withdrawn from me, or angry at the many frustrations found in the life of the small farmer.
Years later I recognized that what I saw in those first years were the consequences from his time at war. He didn't know what to do with those experiences, those losses, the humanity and the inhumanity that he had seen.
At the same time, I also observed his intense desire to understand more deeply the process of the descent of a social group into the normalization of injustice. And I saw him as a man increasingly concerned with the evidence of that same decline in North American culture.
I remember the day in the early 1970s that I came home from university to hear the latest campaign that he was working on. He had heard of a social studies exercise in the Grade 11 class at the local school in which they were given the "lifeboat" scenario – four people in the boat, only enough resources for three, which life do you measure as the least valuable and thus throw out of the boat.
Though he no longer had children in the school system he spoke to teacher, principal, superintendent, board members and department of education officials – fighting so that truth might stop the decline, which had already begun, into moral relativism and the devaluing of human life.
He took the gift of the suffering and anger of seeing a concentration camp on the day of its liberation and transformed it into a hunger and passion for justice and the protection of life, especially for those most vulnerable. I think that is what Father Dajczer is talking about.
May we have the grace to likewise use the blessing of God's difficult graces.
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Gibson Custom's aim is quite simple: To recapture the glory days of the electric guitar. By crafting 100% accurate replicas of Gibson's most sought after models from over forty years ago, Gibson Custom guitars are designed under the most meticulous circumstances imaginable when it comes to instrument manufacturing. Throughout Gibson Custom's incredible catalog of electric and acoustic guitars, you'll find historic models that have graced the hands of icons from Joe Walsh to Jimmy Page, and countless others.
For a semi-hollow body that performs like a solid body, the Gibson Custom Shop CS-336 Figured Top electric guitar has come to life through Gibson's Custom, Art, & Historic Division. The shape of this magnificent axe is a scaled-down version of the Gibson ES-335, offering you more comfort and easier playability. Of course, many experts will agree that that ultimate model in terms of style and sophistication is the Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul. Crafted right here in America with a one-piece mahogany set neck and body, and a carved maple top, the immaculate warmth and sustain of this guitar needs to be heard to be believed.
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Focus on Iran in presidential debate run-up
Both campaigns cautious on report of possible talks
Lynn University students stand-in for Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama during testing for Monday's presidential debate.
The Obama and Romney campaigns jousted over the president's leadership on Iranian sanctions on Sunday, a day before the candidates focus on foreign policy in their final debate, but both sides were cautious when discussing a reported agreement between the United States and Iran to hold one-on-one talks about nuclear development after Election Day.
The White House has denied that a deal is in place for bilateral negotiations with Iran, and the two campaigns appeared unsure of how such talks would play with voters — whether endorsing the meetings would project diplomacy or naïveté.
"I don't want to go too deeply into what may or may not happen because the White House has said there is no deal," Obama adviser David Axelrod said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
In Florida, where Monday's debate will be held, Mitt Romney declined to say whether he would be open to one-on-one talks with Iran. The former Massachusetts governor was taking a break from debate preparations.
The preliminary agreement between the United States and Iran, reported by The New York Times, would set up the first bilateral discussions between the two countries about Iran's uranium enrichment program.
Iran says the program is peaceful, but the United States and its allies believe the goal is to develop a nuclear weapon.
Obama and Romney have resolved to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, and each has also said military action should be a last resort.
What is unclear is the extent to which either candidate would be willing to make concessions to achieve their shared goals.
According to the Times report, the Obama administration would consider allowing Iran to perform limited uranium enrichment for energy purposes.
Romney has on different occasions described his "red line" on Iran as actual possession of a nuclear weapon and the mere ability to develop one.
Public opinion is shifting toward a hardline stance against Iran's nuclear program, according to a Pew Research Center poll published last week. In January, 50 percent of voters said it is more important for the United States to take a firm stand than it is to avoid a military conflict; 41 percent said the opposite. The new survey showed the split is now 56 to 35, a 12-point swing toward firmness.
On "Meet the Press," Romney surrogates sent mixed messages about bilateral talks with Iran. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida said Romney would consider one-on-one negotiations.
"I think he's talked about that," Rubio said. "He has said that war and any kind of armed conflict is the last option. Everything else should fail. But at the same time, I think he's very cognizant of the fact that Iran has used negotiations in the past to buy themselves time."
Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, Romney's debate practice partner, said on the same program that "it sounds like the US is taking a position that we're likely to jettison our allies."
"The last thing we would want to do is to abandon our allies on this and to make it a one-on-one negotiation," Portman added.
The United States is part of a coalition of nations that has imposed economic sanctions on Iran. Under this pressure, the value of Iran's currency, the rial, dropped by 40 percent earlier this month.
In a likely preview of Monday's debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Obama and Romney's teams argued about whether the sanctions are working and who deserves credit for spearheading their implementation.
"The president put together a strong global coalition imposing sanctions on the Iranians, including not only Europe, obviously — which has made a dramatic impact on the Iranian economy — but Russia as well," Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, said on "Fox News Sunday."
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, said on ABC's "This Week" that "on the issue of Iran trying to acquire nuclear weapons, the United States was isolated from the rest of the world" when Obama took office. Axelrod asserted that unified international opposition to an Iranian nuclear weapon is "all because of the leadership of this president."
International sanctions against Iran have intensified during Obama's term, but the United Nations Security Council had already approved some sanctions before Obama took office.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, said on "Fox News Sunday" that the sanctions have been "a miserable failure," noting that Iran has accelerated uranium enrichment since Obama took office.
Portman said "it's true that we've started to put sanctions in place, but . . . that's because Congress pressured the president to do it, other countries pressured us to do it."
Sanctions against Iran include a blend of measures taken by Congress and the United Nations. The Romney campaign's familiar charge that Obama "watered down sanctions" refers to a statement the president wrote when he signed a national defense bill that included sanctions against Iran. Obama wrote that he would treat any provisions of the bill that conflict with his constitutional authority as nonbinding.
In addition, a round of sanctions approved by the United Nations in 2010 did not include action against Iran's central bank, but the Obama administration agreed to the softer measures because China and Russia had threatened to use their veto powers to kill the sanctions.
Portman also suggested that news of prospective talks with Iran is "another example of a national security leak from the White House."
Republicans have accused the White House of leaking sensitive information about the president's counterterrorism efforts — including the use of a computer virus to slow Iran's nuclear program — for political gain.
But unlike revelations of cyber warfare, reports about bilateral discussions with Iran do not necessarily strengthen Obama's image.
During the 2008 Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton, now Obama's secretary of state, blasted Obama for saying during a debate that he would sit down with the leaders of rogue nations, including Iran.
"I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naïve," Clinton said at the time.


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We have previously discussed Empathy, an open source instant messaging client and toolkit that is part of the Telepathy project. Empathy has officially been proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.22, making Telepathy and the Mission Control connection management framework potential external dependencies.
Empathy is rapidly becoming an important part of the GNOME software ecosystem and is already packaged in several mainstream distributions, including the upcoming Ubuntu 7.10 release. Empathy integration features for Nautilus, Totem, Epiphany, and Jokosher and others are currently being developed. The Empathy toolkit is also being used by Intel as part of its new Linux-based mobile platform. Telepathy could eventually provide pervasive messaging and presence functionality throughout the entire desktop environment.
Although there is much support for Empathy in the GNOME developer community, there are some who are reluctant to support inclusion in GNOME 2.22 because of limited documentation, the need to relicense GPL components adapted from the Gossip client under the LGPL, and general concerns about completeness. It is not yet certain whether or not these issues will be resolved in time for Empathy to be included in GNOME 2.22, but the project has significant momentum and provides considerable value, making it likely candidate for inclusion at some point in the future if not in GNOME 2.22.
In related news, Empathy 0.13 was officially released today, with a completely reworked contact list API, an improved smiley management algorithm, avatar caching, and many bug fixes and minor improvements. Empathy developer Xavier Claessens has also announced a new experimental Empathy branch with preliminary support for VoIP.
Other features being considered for GNOME 2.22 include Novell's improvements to the clock applet, Alex Gravely's innovative Gimmie project, the Anjuta software development environment, and the Cheese photo application. Stay tuned for in-depth coverage of some of these features in upcoming journal posts.


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Clean and professional theme, Gen2 allow use for your own wallpapers, uses user defined fonts and a friendly user interface.
Gen2 comes with a hidden horizontal scrolling bar with 10 user defined icons and hidden today, weather dedicated slot, transitional screens on devices running os 5.0, custom icons, meters, banners and more.
* Hidden Horizontal Scrolling Bar
* Hidden Today
* Weather Slot (application not included)
* Custom icons
* Custom Meters
* Custom Banners
* Custom wallpapers
* Animated Screens and menus with Transitions (available on devices running OS 5.0)
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Ever since ET for the Atari 2600 wowed gamers worldwide, science fiction and video games have been natural bedfellows. Here are 10 great scifi tales that embrace the aesthetics, technology, and popular tropes of the gaming world.
Death Race 2000 (1975)
This cult classic was based on a short story by Ib Melchior and produced by Roger Corman. In this B-movie spectacular, David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone play dueling contestants in the Annual Transcontinental Road Race, a coast-to-coast rally across dystopian America in which drivers are awarded points for the number of pedestrians they mow down. The film plays out like a grindhouse Grand Theft Auto or a Smash TV on wheels. There's definitely a parable about our entertainment dehumanizing us tucked away somewhere amidst the carnage, but who cares? A car shaped like bull runs over a matador! And like GTA, the movie's 1976 arcade adaptation caused quite the moral panic. Witness the movie's lunacy in full here.
Starship Troopers (1959)
Robert Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning novel popularized so many ubiquitous scifi concepts it's mind-boggling. And in videogamedom, Heinlein's Mobile Infantry has commanded sales like a sonofagun. Crysis, Starcraft, Doom, Gears of War, and Halo owe their space marine motifs (and the occasional power armor) to Heinlein.
Cube (1997)
Splice director Vincenzo Natali's breakout film is the ultimate puzzle game — a group of strangers are imprisoned in a deathtrap-filled monolith (the titular Cube). The Cube's traps sync up with a mathematical code that the prisoners must crack before they starve to death...or become cubed themselves. In this geometric hell, there are no extra lives.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967)
Those of you who love torturing the shit out of your Sims will get a kick out of Harlan Ellison's Hugo Award-winning short story. In the post-apocalyptic future, only five human beings remain — they're prisoners of AM, the supercomputer that eradicated the rest of mankind. AM hates the humans, but keeps them immortal to torment for eternity. Think SHODAN from System Shock 2 was bad? AM spends its days relentlessly screwing with its hostages — the supercomputer keeps them alive with crappy food, sends monsters after them, and transforms one unlucky character into a brainless caveman with a giant penis.
eXistenZ (1999)
David Cronenberg's virtual reality flick presaged the reality-confused hijinks of Inception by 11 years — unfortunately, it was also released a couple weeks after The Matrix and eclipsed by its success. No matter, eXistenZ has earned its place in the cult pantheon. Jennifer Jason Leigh stars Allegra Geller, a game designer on the run from assassins. Together with Ted Pikul (Jude Law), Allegra must fix her new VR game, eXistenZ . But the game begins altering their perceptions of reality, like in this scene where Law builds a handgun out of mutant Chinese food.
Tron (1983)
Ah, the lightcycles — they were really one big fatal game of mobile phone Snake, no? Thanks to the revolutionary production design from Moebius, Syd Mead, and Peter Lloyd, Tron brought virtual worlds to the big screen and defined the popular aesthetics of computer reality.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)
This first half of this seminal H.P. Lovecraft novella unfolds like a great old-school RPG. A man goes to investigate the mysterious New England town of Innsmouth, a dilapidated, ugly hamlet filled with toad-like, ugly citizens. After procuring a map from a store clerk, the visitor tracks down the town drunk, who divulges Innsmouth's dark secret. The second half of the novella plays like a survival strategy game — the protagonist must escape from his hotel unarmed without alerting the horror in the darkness. Read the whole thing here.
We3 (2004)
In Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's three-issue miniseries, the US military transforms regular housepets into remote-controlled, sentient, cyborg dreadnoughts. When authority treats reality like a game, even your dog can be retrofitted with downloadable content. The freneticism puts Ninja Gaiden to shame.
Spook Country (2007)
William Gibson's political thriller takes place in a not-so-distant future where augmented reality technology has been merged with GPS to create a secondary virtual world that can be seen with the right toys. Shadowy government operatives and enigmatic European billionaires take interest in this augmented tech. Spooky Country isn't as out-there as Gibson's other works, but the novel offers a tangible take on where gaming could head in the next few decades. Rather than playing games on a screen, we could simply pop on a visor and lob virtual harpoons at a giant squid in an empty warehouse.
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Okay, so The Last Starfighter is more schmaltzy than awesome, but the flick was like Cocoon for arcade dwellers — it gives you hope that somewhere in the galaxy, a faraway planet worships your Q*Bert prowess. Somewhere, aliens are deciphering the sacred numerology of your high score. Somewhere, an otherworldly congregation shouts @!#?@! towards the heavens, praising your holy initials: FUK.
PS: We were kidding about ET.


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Cleaning up and Clearing up
I got my hair did!! Not sure if you can tell by the picture on the side, but my hair was getting looooong. I'm pretty sure the longest parts were midway down my back! I didn't let it go on purpose. I got a trim before my graduation in May, then forgot all about it!! You can tell where my personal priorities lay – gym first, grooming second :P
I also picked up a medium mahogany brown colour to dye it as well. I'm naturally quite fair-haired, but it washes me out, so I darken it. Don't worry, I'll obnoxiously take pictures of that as well :P
On to the day at hand…
As you could probably tell from my post last night, I was not on the top of my game. Thus, no breakfast cookie was prepared before
my drug-induced sleep. I slept almost solid because of my handy dandy Nyquil. Reading the news on the radio irritated my throat all morning, but I'm hopeful after another 8-hour coma + rest day tomorrow, I'll be back to somewhat normal :)
Oh, yes, no breakfast cookie. Breakfast sandwich instead.
Back in my pre-weight loss days, I used to eat a fried egg sandwich for breakfast almost every single day. Except, those old-school sandwiches were made with two whole eggs, thick-sliced old cheddar, huge pieces of "birdseed bread" and lotsa butter along the way. Today's was dry, with one egg, and a pre-sliced piece of light cheddar. For the most part, I really enjoy my "new" foods. But I gotta admit, this did not live up to its former glory.
I chased it down with an orange, in case you were dying to know :P
I rushed through my early morning tasks so I could head to the farmers market before it got busy. I was there at 7am and it was still pitch dark out!! I think it was a little too early, as not all the vendors were set up. It was pretty slim pickings.
Got back and snacked.
I really enjoy these caramel ReBars. 12g protein and 4 servings of fruit & veggies.
I mean, they taste like they have four servings of fruit and veggies, but I genuinely enjoy it! Put chocolate and peanuts on anything and I'll like it :)
Lunch was from the market. Dolma:
Aka grape leaves stuffed with rice and a few surprise chickpeas.
Pita bread with hummus and tabbouleh.
It was like a pizza! A very messy, garlicky pizza.
My afternoon snack featured more market goodies. Homemade smoked herring.
On crackers with laughing cow. The lady I bought this from is known for her smoked salmon, but I bought the herring because it was cheaper. Ohmygodsooogoooood. It was the first time I ever had smoked fish that actually melted in my mouth. Definitely splurging on the salmon next time!
I partnered it with a small McCowan apple.
The vendor told me it was "a very good eating apple." Which I would have to agree with. Very crunchy inside and out with a nice hint of tartness. It reminded me a lot of a McIntosh.
Aaaaand a quick Google search just told me it's the child of a McIntosh! Also known as a Macoun. I probably won't be eating a lot of them though. I bought a big bag which is destined for apple sauce and other baking projects.
Then it was off to the mall to get my hair done. Dangerous location for a hairdresser, as I also did a little shopping after. I swear I really needed that purse and matching wallet!
If there's one good thing about doing an 8-hour work day so early, is that it allows me plenty of time to prepare dinner after. I decided today was the perfect day to step up to Janetha's kitchen clearing challenge. While I may not be moving, I do have tons of dried legumes and grains in my pantry that should really be used up. Personally, I prefer getting my grains from bread and oats, so I never feel inclined to cook them with dinner. Plus, I've somehow convinced myself that it takes tons of time, which it doesn't!
Kitchen clearing dish #1: stuffed bell pepper.
- 1 package Yves Original veggie ground round
- 1 small onion
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/2 jar basil tomato sauce
- 1/2 tbsp chili powder
- 1/2 cup dry quinoa, cooked with 1 cup water
- 2 laughing cow cheese wedges
- 1 red bell pepper
- parmesan cheese to garnish
Every single one of those ingredients, minus the cheeses, have been taking up room in my kitchen for-ever! Even the bell pepper, I bought a huge bag of them weeks ago!
Kitchen clearing dish #2: Dazzled carrots with pears and balsamic
This dish was 100% inspired by Zesty Cook, whose original recipe can be found here.
I cut the recipe in half, using about 4 carrots and half a pear. I have a few pears in my fridge that are starting to look sad, so I knew this dish was a must when I saw it! I also didn't use chicken stock because I don't have any. Instead, I cooked the carrots in a little water, onion, garlic and parsely, then added the pears and balsamic until my tastebuds were happy. This was a stunning dish – I loved it!
Overall, a delicious meal that I couldn't even finish.
I would also like to add that the $25 I spent at the market today is the only money I've spent on groceries in over 10 days. I need to buy some essentials (*cough* yogurtandcottagecheese*cough*) soon, but I'm pretty pleased with myself. I spend soooo much money on food!
Time to wrap this giant post up with some questions:
1. What's your favourite kind of apple? Honeycrisp, galas, and red/yellow delicious :)
2. How often do you get your hair done? I typically only get it cut/dyed every six months. I'm pretty sure that's too long though! I always get a few horrified looks at the hairdresser :P


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But one of the survivors has grown up.
Eighteen years ago, FBI Agent Rachel Ward's mirror twin was kidnapped.
Now, she's coming after the monster who stole her sister, because another twin has been abducted, and Rachel won't let Gemini escape again.
In this relentless, edge-of-your-seat thriller, Kate Kessler provides a harrowing look at how the past is never truly put to rest.
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We are facing one issue in Encyclopedia application, it runs successfully in Genève but in India it gives one JavaScript error is thrown but internally it has some environment specific problem .We have also deployed the local code base war file into DEV server (Geneve) it runs without any errors. Even the database is same for local and Development Server-Encyclopedia application (Geneve).
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Midwinter, the classic Amiga survival adventure by the late Mike Singleton, will be remade in HD for release next year – making good on a promise from early 2013.
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Chris Wild has announced plans to remake the late Mike Singleton's classic adventure Midwinter, as well as produce an expanded version of The Lords of Midnight with 3D rendering called the 30th Anniversary Edition. Rock, Paper, Shotgun reports Wild's plans are in the tentative stages, and he's keen to hear from others who'd like to […]
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At least seven suspected militants from Saudi Arabia were among the alleged al-Qaida members killed in Yemen in a recent wave of U.S. drone strikes, senior Yemeni officials said Friday, suggesting that Saudis are increasingly crossing the border to carry funds or seek terrorist training.
With several U.S. diplomatic posts closed temporarily in Africa and the Middle East this week amid a global alert about terrorism, Washington evacuated most of its personnel from Lahore, Pakistan's second-largest city. The U.S., along with Britain, also flew diplomatic staff out of Yemen's capital of Sanaa this week.
Since July 27, drone attacks in Yemen's southern and central provinces have killed a total of 34 militants suspected of being members of the country's al-Qaida branch, known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, security officials have said.
On Thursday alone, the officials said U.S. drones conducted three airstrikes, killing 12 militants.
The drone strikes occurred in areas where the terrorist group enjoys protection from anti-government tribes or hides in mountainous areas.
The terror network bolstered its operations in Yemen more than a decade after key Saudi operatives fled here following a major crackdown in their homeland. The drone strikes and a U.S.-backed offensive that began in June 2012 have driven militants from territory they had seized a year earlier, during Yemen's political turmoil amid the Arab Spring.
The senior Yemeni officials who said the seven Saudis were among the victims of the drone attacks said intelligence suggested the foreigners had crossed the border between the neighboring countries to either ferry in money to the terror group or to train in al-Qaida camps. "Al-Qaida is especially recruiting tech-savvy and well-educated Saudis," one of the senior security officials said.
He added that the terror group also is bringing in Pakistanis, who are explosives experts. He cited Ragaa Bin Ali a Pakistani bomb maker who was killed in a drone strike.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Saudi political analyst Anwar Eshki said the kingdom is aware of Saudis crossing into Yemen.
"The kingdom is tracking down those people ... but there are hundreds of organizations and groups that work on recruiting them," he said.
One suspected Saudi militant was among seven who were killed by a drone in the southern city of Shabwa. Four other Saudis were injured in the same attack, according to a senior local government official who also spoke anonymously because he was not allowed to talk to reporters.
While the United States acknowledges its drone program in Yemen, it does not talk about individual strikes. The program is run by the Pentagon's Joint Special Operations Command and the CIA, with the military flying its drones out of Djibouti, and the CIA out of a base in Saudi Arabia.
Asked at a White House news conference about the drone strikes, U.S. President Barack Obama said: "I will not have a discussion about operational issues."
The increase in the drone strikes has worried many in Yemen.
Fadl Abdullah, head of the Yemeni Organization for Human Rights, said the public believes that the U.S. is randomly bombing moving vehicles based on information from informants or intercepted phone conversations.
"We strongly condemn the drones," he said in a telephone interview from the southern city of Aden. "There are strong chances that civilians get killed in the middle of the strike, either because they are present at the site of the attack or simply because of wrong information provided by the informants."
He said he knew of nine cases of civilians being killed, but he could not provide their names.
The involvement of militants from Saudi Arabia is not surprising because AQAP is the product of a merger by the group's Yemeni and Saudi branches and led by Saudis.
Its No. 2 figure, Saeed al-Shihri, was a Saudi national who died of wounds sustained in November 2012 drone strike. Another leader is Ibrahim al-Asiri, who is believed to be moving in northern Yemen, close to the border with Saudi Arabia, his home.
Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said police arrested two foreign residents suspected of having contacts with the al-Qaida offshoot in Yemen over imminent suicide attacks in the region, although it did not identify suspected targets.
The official Saudi Press Agency quoted a ministry statement Thursday night as saying one of the suspects is from Yemen and the other from Chad.
The statement said the two exchanged information via the Internet with AQAP using several coded names to discuss "imminent suicide operations in the region."
According to Saudi Okaz daily, the Yemeni allegedly posted a message on his Twitter account about an upcoming operation. The paper posted his tweets about attacking "perverted security forces" to kill and torture them. The paper said the arrests were Aug. 2.
In an interview with the Saudi-funded Al-Arabiya network, Gen. Mansour al-Turkey, the spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, said the arrests are linked to the recent closures of Western embassies.
The personnel drawdown at the consulate in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore was precautionary and wasn't related to the recent closures of numerous U.S. diplomatic missions in the Muslim world because of a threat from al-Qaida, said two U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the order.
Earlier this week, 19 U.S. diplomatic outposts in 16 countries in the Middle East and Africa were closed to the public through Saturday after U.S. intelligence officials said they had intercepted a recent message from al-Qaida's top leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, about plans for a major terror attack.
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Citigroup is willing to sell its minority stake in Smith Barney to Morgan Stanley this year if the price is right.
Glenn Schorr, a Nomura Holdings analyst, wrote in a letter to clients on Thursday that Citigroup CFO John Gerspach and COO John Havens indicated that they would be willing to sell more than the scheduled 14% stake in Morgan Stanley Smith Barney if Morgan Stanley is interested.
Bloomberg reports Morgan Stanley has the option to buy a 14% stake in its joint venture with Citi in May, increasing its ownership to 65%, and can purchase the business outright over the next two years. In 2009, Morgan Stanley bought a controlling stake in the joint venture, which has more than 17,000 advisers and $1.65 trillion in client assets.
The news service notes the firms would have to renegotiate their existing deal and gain the approval of regulators. The Federal Reserve has approved the current plan.
Estimates of the potential deal's value vary greatly. Howard Chen, an analyst at Credit Suisse Group AG, estimated the value of the brokerage at $15 billion in a January note to clients. David Trone, a JMP Securities analyst, said in a note in February that the unit was worth $24 billion, Bloomberg reported.
The reason for a potential deal might be the fact that Morgan Stanley's global wealth management division had a 10% pretax profit margin in 2011, well below CEO James Gorman's goal of more than 20%. Greg Fleming, who runs the division, has vowed to increase that margin by the first half of next year.


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What growth Jay? (Jay's Height)The Space Cowboy. Talk about anything related to Jay. His singing, his clothes, his Black Devil Car, his style...
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lo my uncle and my cousin are 1.95 too
but they don't seem to be that tall...
maybe... I think they're not tall cuz i'm used to it
I've heard he's 174cms (5ft 8 1/2in) - which isn't tall but itsn't small either - it's pretty much my height with heels on LOL
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lm in the land of lilipudians, were between 150 and 175, if your taller than that your are giant here
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Showering standing up? That's for savages. I want to lie down when I bathe—and I want it to be on a bed of colorful fish. I want a Hydroglass.
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I've written a small GUI program to ease the creation of LaTeX style tables (both tabular and longtable) for my students.
I'm wondering if it is useful to upload it to CTAN. It is free software; however it seems to me the best to not only upload the sources but binaries, at least for Linux and Windows, too.
My questions are:
- Is it useful to upload non-TeX programs to CTAN?
- If so, how do I do this?
- What do I need to include?
Unfortunately, the CTAN upload page is down ATM, so I can't look for any hints there.