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Mostly it's humans.
http://www.hmc.psu.edu/healthinfo/m/malaria.htm [psu.edu]
http://www.itg.be/evde/02_Malariap2.htm [www.itg.be]
But there is some anecdotal evidence that "long pig" does taste pretty good.
Mmmmmm... Soylent Green...
Mammal most likely to explode would be the one who has the largest population in Malaria regions already, is most susceptible to infection and has the highest mortality rate from infection.
That would be human beings.
Whether or not a further homo sapien population explosion in Africa is something you consider a good or a bad thing may be debated by some (batshit insane) people. Personally though, I reckon this is one case where advocating population control through birth control is probably better than advocating it through mass infections by a parasite that causes perhaps one of the most painful deaths in nature.
PS. Writing as somebody who has actually HAD malaria. Fortunate enough not to have had a resistant strain. I live in Africa (though I no longer live in a Malaria region, I grew up in one).
Some people have speculated that the population explosion in African and Asian countries is caused by high mortality rates. When parents need children for farming, working, or for dowries -- and when there is a relatively high risk of the child dying before puberty -- people opt to have a lot of children to ensure that they survive to be productive.
I'm not saying I believe it, but one has to be careful in assuming that a decrease in mortality will necessarily mean an increase in population.
You should believe it.. It's the main reason family sizes have shrunk in modern civilization - the need to have many children to do these activities has diminished, thus the need to have many children has diminished.
It might seem bad, or not politically correct, to think this way but if you look at family sizes over the last 1000 years in first world nations you will see the trend.
that causes perhaps one of the most painful deaths in nature.
Writing as someone who also had malaria (P.falciparum and vivax simultaneously), I'd like to correct this because it's simply not true. Not in any way, shape or form. And I had the most dangerous form you can get.
Worst case scenario, you spend a week cycling through chills and fevers, fevers and chills. Then you get TIRED. So tired you can barely move. Eventually, you go into a coma. After that there's plenty of bad shit going on to your sys
>>that causes perhaps one of the most painful deaths in nature.
>Writing as someone who also had malaria (P.falciparum and vivax simultaneously), I'd like to correct this because it's simply not true. Not in any way, shape or form. And I had the most dangerous form you can get.
Right, so did I. In fact, I got it in Nigeria. Neither of us however have DIED of it. I doubt you went through the final stage symptoms because htey are invariable fatal - I didn't either. But what you list are the symptoms th
Honest question -- how can pain killers not have an effect? Is it analogous to "phantom limb pain"? i.e. I thought the pain killers literally turned off the signals from the nerves to the brain that 'make' the pain. So the brain must be making up the pain all by itself?
Okay. I said ONE OF the most painful ways in nature. First I never claimed it was THE most painful, and secondly I SPECIFICALLY restricted it to natural deaths. Burning to death doesn't count. Very few diseases have such an extended and incredibly torturous gestation.
Again, see what you're doing here? I get where you're coming from, but you're going about it the wrong way. Misinformation doesn't help anyone, particularly the millions who die every year from it.
Unless you've actually seen it happen - you do
Worst case scenario, you spend a week cycling through chills and fevers, fevers and chills. Then you get TIRED. So tired you can barely move. Eventually, you go into a coma. After that there's plenty of bad shit going on to your system but you don't feel any of it because you're in a coma. Then you die. I didn't personally get to this part, but I'm guessing it's as painless as the coma was. According to my parents, I was certainly thrashing around a lot, had all kinds of fluids in my lungs, all that I'm sure appears painful, but honestly it was nothing compared to catheterization.
Which is to say, yes, deadly, yes, you don't want to get it, but no, not the most painful way to shake off this mortal coil. Not even close. I could think of so many worse ways to go.
We're all happy to know you didn't get to the "die" part!
Seriously, though - I was unaware that most of the malarial deaths happen post-coma: I thought it was a totally or mostly awake disease
Speaking of which, why can't we just make a malaria-proof human?
it's called sickle-cell anemia...
Yeah, this'll be great until we find out they're also immune to mosquito repellent and their desire for human blood has been quadrupled.
What could be scarier than VAMPIRE mosquitos!
oh wait
well, we could end up with ZOMBIE VAMPIRE mosquitos perhaps. Swat 'em and they come back...
As long as it doesn't create NINJA PIRATE mosquitos, we're safe.
Swat 'em and they come back...
Our house is already full of such beasts. Total immune to any sort of spray, and event after swatting them they just walk it off for a minute and then fly away (laughing!). For some reason they don't know its the middle of winter and down to freezing most nights.
Re: the link:
Anyone habitually shooting snakes is a douchebag of the highest order. They're wild animals that are pretty much harmless unless you go out of your way to piss them off, and most of the poisonous American varieties are rattlesnakes that will warn you so you don't step on them accidentally.
At 1000 times their maximum size of 16 mm [wikipedia.org] that would make them monsters 16 meters long. Even at one sixteenth that size it would still qualify as a monster insect.
depends how you figure size.
at 1000x their volume, the GP is probably about right.
at 1000x their length (1,000,000,000x their volume) they would be as you describe.
Just saw Splice, huh? Well, I regret to inform you that real life is not, in fact, a scifi movie. Just like how radiation doesn't spontaneously give people super powers, genetic engineering doesn't randomly create monsters. I realize this may be harsh news for those of you who can't live without the constant threat of a world wide zombie apocalypse, but it's the truth.
SOME people do.
From my perspective the most visible people opposed to genetically modified organisms are the least informed. The people who dress up and scream about "frankenfoods" often are doing so out of uninformed ignorance.
Other people (like me) are concerned about this too, but don't parade around screaming government conspiracy about it. Maybe we tend to be a little more open minded about it too, making us reserve judgement until we get some indication as to whether it's going to have major ecological disadvantages that would outweigh the advantages such as making healthy food cheaper or eradicating malaria.
I mean, I personally make transgenic bacteria most weeks, so not everyone who is cautious about GMOs are raving anti-science zealots.
Alternatively, maybe we're hypocrites. I'm guessing we'll get called that and more by extremists on both sides.
It's not so much that I'm afraid of GMOs in themselves, I'm much more afraid of Monsanto owning the rights to my food.
I'm personally more concerned about things like unforseen health effects of consuming GMO, GMOs becoming invasive species, gene transfer from crops to pests creating super invasive species, and becoming dependent on monocultured food stocks leading to blights and starvation.
Monsanto being monsanto does make some of those things more of an issue. They're a lot more cavalier with risks than many organizations would be, and they certainly are doing all they can to press the monoculture, but there are plenty of big risks that don't have anything to do with patents.
As you, yourself, point out, there's no way to do enough analysis.
IF you are concerned about safety, FDA or no, there has been extensive research on it. Very [agbioworld.org] many [blogspot.com] studies [biofortified.org] demonstrate no difference between GMOs and non-GM crops, and as a result, the general scientific consensus is that they're safe. Even if we assume Monsanto is influencing the FDA, I doubt they exert the same influence over countless relevant experts. Heck, even countries like Iran and China have developed their own homegrown strains of GMO. Iran made the worlds first Bt rice. Is Monsanto bribing off what one of most anti-US countries in the world?
Those who claim that GMOs are dangerous haven't done a very good job of proving their claims, either. For something to be dangerous, I think we can all agree it must have a reason, yes? Just being GMO is not a valid reason, it must have some sort of chemical compount, not present in the unmodified counterpart, that is dangerous. To date, no such compound from a commercially approved GMO has been identified. No genetic reasoning, no chemical pathways given for the production, and no proven cases of people actually hurt by them. No reason in theory, no evidence in practice. Starfruit [nih.gov] and kiwi [nih.gov] have presented more problems than GMOs, yet no one protests them. And of course, GMOs must be reviewed on a case by case basis, maybe someday the FDA royally screws up and one that kills people is released , but if it is, there'll be a reason for it. And since there is neither a known reason as to why any of the commercial GMOs would hurt anyone nor evidence that it happens, I guess the FDA just puts them in a catagory similar to Generally Recognized As Safe after the testing has been done.
As for the weeds, that is a very real problem. The thing there is, everyone saw that coming. Even Monsanto said it would happen. The problem was that there are only two traits for herbicide resistance, Starlink and Round-Up Ready, and only Round-Up Ready was extensively used. The problem wasn't overuse, but over-reliance. If there were more approved traits, and people used multiple herbicides, it would much more difficult for a weed to develop resistance. Even if it were to acquire the resistance through horizontal gene transfer, if there were multiple genes confirming resistance to multiple compounds, it is still very unlikely. These weeds aren't really 'superweeds' by the way, just regular weeds that are resistant to the most popular herbicide, so they can still be taken out by other chemicals and methods, but still, this never should have been allowed to happen in the first place. I don't know why it wasn't done, why those traits weren't pushed out there, maybe the FDA was lax in approving them, maybe activists protested, maybe the companies just didn't care, whatever, but yes, someone screwed the pooch on that one.
It's not so much that I'm afraid of GMOs in themselves, I'm much more afraid of Monsanto owning the rights to my food.
I'm personally more concerned about things like unforseen health effects of consuming GMO, GMOs becoming invasive species, gene transfer from crops to pests creating super invasive species, and becoming dependent on monocultured food stocks leading to blights and starvation.
Monsanto being monsanto does make some of those things more of an issue. They're a lot more cavalier with risks than many organizations would be, and they certainly are doing all they can to press the monoculture, but there are plenty of big risks that don't have anything to do with patents.
If it were anything less critical and vital than our food supply, then I'd say take the risk and see what happens. But things like "widespread famine" or "potential dependency on one vendor for food" are not my concept of the ideal failure mode.
When Microsoft implements vendorlock, it's annoying and inconvenient and maybe expensive. When Monsanto implements vendorlock, it's a whole new level of control. I've never seen a single action or statement from them, an unelected private company, that made them worthy of having the sort of power and control that they are reaching for. If you do some research and know anything about them, you likely would never do business with them or any subsidiaries for any reason. I would be hesitant to trust benevolent, self-denying, noble people with this level of control over the food supply. They want me to trust amoral, self-serving, corporate types with that power? Really? It'd be a funny joke if it were not so absurd and misguided.
Just consider one question: if genetically modified foods are so great, if only ignorant jackasses would ever have a reason to doubt their virtues, if the facts are on the side of those who want to sell them, then why does Monsanto fight so hard and spend so much money and lobby so much to prevent non-GMO food producers from labeling their products as such? Why is it so incredibly important to them that the FDA not allow such a statement of fact on a food label? Whatever happened to the concept of informed consent? Why would someone with all the facts on their side fear informed consent and fight so hard to prevent it? You see, something here just doesn't add up. Anyone who would deprive you of making an informed choice rightly deserves suspicion.
Other people (like me) are concerned about this too, but don't parade around screaming government conspiracy about it. Maybe we tend to be a little more open minded about it too, making us reserve judgement until we get some indication as to whether it's going to have major ecological disadvantages that would outweigh the advantages such as making healthy food cheaper or eradicating malaria.
As another poster has already said, the problem is the control that goes along with the patent rights.
I'll mention another problem. The moment we can write code of non-trivial complexity that can be perfectly verified to be entirely bug-free is the moment I will begin to believe that genetic engineers who plan to release a modified creature into the wild can foresee all possible consequences of their creation. At least with computer code, we design the entire system from the ground up, both the hardware and the software, we have complete control over both, and still cannot guarantee that something will function as intended. Methinks that perfectly verifying no negative and unforeseen consequences with genetics will be more difficult still, since we discovered that system and did not design it and do not fully control it.
Killer bees were an attempt to cross-breed two species of honeybee that normally would never be able to produce offspring. It was supposed to give us the hardiness of the African bee with the docility and honey production of the European bee. What we ended up with was a monster that has caused many highly unpleasant deaths. That wasn't malice on the part of the scientists. It was their inability to completely foresee what the result was going to be and how it was going to interact with an entire interconnected ecosystem of other species. There is precedent for wanting a bit more assurance than what has been offered prior to allowing such creatures in the wild.
I'll mention another problem. The moment we can write code of non-trivial complexity that can be perfectly verified to be entirely bug-free is the moment I will begin to believe that genetic engineers who plan to release a modified creature into the wild can foresee all possible consequences of their creation.
I agree with this statement a lot. I don't know much about biotech, mind you, but it always struck me as taking a closed source executable, flipping a bit, running it, seeing the part you intended on changing did change (on the 9999th iteration), a rough bug test (try all the inputs I guess, not much more you can do) and shipping it out.
I wouldn't do that with software, so why we do it with things that can spread on their own, I have no idea.
Funny you mention Africanized bees, because that was just conventional breeding. With absolutely anything, be it new biotech or techniques we've used for thousands of years, there is the potential for unforeseen side effects and unknown unknowns. Without some sort of omnipotence, you can't know every possible side effect that might come about. For example, look at the combustion engine. After years of usage, now we are told it is causing global warming. How could people at the start of the Industrial Revolution have foreseen this? Should we have expected them to never put the fossil fueled combustion engine into use because of what might happen? It is impossible to know what exactly each and every outcome of our actions may be. The smallpox vaccine could have some sort of complex, as of yet undescribed, intergenerational effect that could wipe out hundreds of millions tomorrow, and you can't disprove that statement. GMOs could do the same thing, either in terms of human health or ecologically, and you can't disprove that statement either. That's why the argument isn't 'Prove that there will never be a problem.' The argument is 'Sufficiently prove that there are no foreseeable problems.' And really, it isn't even that, the argument is 'Is the damage they cause (if indeed they do) less than the damage that agriculture will cause without them?' And in the meantime, the evidence we suggests that they are beneficial, so should we forgo those benefits in fear of a potential, but merely hypothetical, problem?
I'd go out on a limb and say it's not clear we need malaria-proof anything.
Spraying -- since the end of the civil war in Mozambique -- and distributing treated mosquito nets has greatly reduced Malaria in Mozambique and the lowveld regions of South Africa. Malaria was eliminated in Europe and the US without malaria-proof mosquitoes. (Remember that nasty DDT? It was intended solely for spraying the inside walls of houses in the south. Farmers saw how well it worked and started spraying it on their crops, and
I wonder where you've been in Mozambique... Costa do Sol doesn't count. I was a contractor in Manica province a couple of years back. I got malaria four times in one year. Every other international I knew contracted malaria. Mozambican colleagues were also infected often. We had treated nets, sprayed pesticides in our facilities, didn't let water stand, etc., etc.
It doesn't work. Maybe you can point to some percentage decrease in an area, but people are still getting and dying from malaria. Relying on individual action (treated nets, spraying own facilities) or an on-going effort organized by the government (a national spraying campaign)... recipe for failure.
I'm not saying we shouldn't take those kinds of actions-- any reduction is good. I'm saying that we should work towards total eradication of malaria. Ending poverty should put the material conditions in place, but maybe GM mosquitoes could help along the way.
I don't know.
It seems to me a bit like trying to eliminate spam by engineering internet users who aren't interested in sex or money.
I don't know.
It seems to me a bit like trying to eliminate spam by engineering internet users who aren't interested in sex or money.
Bad analogy -- they're not changing the humans, they're changing the mosquitoes. So it is rather a bit like infecting spammers with some disease that makes them lose their interest in money, but doesn't endanger their target... And put it like that, it seems like a measure we all can support!
In Mozambique 2006, WHO reports:
22 Million Suspected Cases
7 Million Confirmed
19 Thousand Dead
Malaria instance rate went from 20% to 30% from 2001 to 2007
And here's my citation: http://malaria.who.int/wmr2008/MAL2008-CountryProfiles/MAL2008-Mozambique-EN.pdf [who.int]
*Note some people are infected more than once per year and some not at all.
There's a chance it could evolve to defeat that defense as well as a chance that the evolved version could be even more deadly.
There's also a chance it would be less deadly, since it has to use some of its metabolic output to be immune to whatever defense the skeeterboffins at UA have cooked up.
Well, I don't understand why Slashdot didn't publish a link to their actual press release [uanews.org] which is much more informative than medicaldaily.com's 5 paragraph paraphrasing. Their press release explains, that they are basically stimulating the mosquitos' own immune response and metabolism by playing around with the mosquitos' biological production of Akt signalling enzyme, it seems like were hoping to reduce mosquitos' life span by manipulating metabolic functions, and they got other interesting results:
It's always possible it could evolve past this defense, but as a parasite it doesn't evolve as fast as a bacteria or virus. So if they can spread fast enough, it's possible the parasite wouldn't have the time.
As for how this variant would out-compete the normal... If it otherwise matches the normal, it's quite possible this would be enough in and of itself: It wouldn't be spending energy on feeding a common parasite, and therefore would be able to grow stronger & faster on the same amount of food as another mosquito that is infected.
Worst case really is if the trait waters down when they breed with regular mosquitos: Then it might be weak enough that some of the parasite survives, which would then be a way for it to get a chance at resistance...
And how would you make this variant of mosquito out-compete the normal, already established ones?
I'd hazard a guess that the simple, but probably more dangerous way would be to make these already transgenic malaria proof mosquitoes immune to some type of pesticide, so they'd have a selective advantage.
A somewhat safer, but far more expensive way would be to breed large amounts of the malaria proof mosquitoes and release them to just crowd out the normal ones.
Expensive because in addition to the raising a lot of them, you'd have to convince people to let you release large amount of blood sucking parasites near them. Other blood sucking parasites would get rich suing the pants off of that. And it's going to be an uphill battle releasing -any- transgenic organism into the wild. I think concern is entirely justified there as we have a poor track record managing the environment, but I could be convinced it's worth testing if we are reasonably sure it will just prevent malaria transmission. Artificially evolving mosquitoes to be immune to pesticides though would be extremely dangerous and seems like it has a good chance of backfiring if the genes for malaria immunity could be dropped but the pesticide immunity were retained.
You can guess which approach I suspect is going to be taken.
Actually they already do this with sterile males (males do not suck blood) pesticide free resistance proof eradication, this also works on a lot of other critters. Problem is the will always come back, they breed fast there is a ecological niche, and we can not afford to eradicate them globally. On the other hand the resistant mosquitoes would have an advantage without further modification, malaria makes them sick too, so do this over the main malarial regions and natural selection will take care of the r
Malaria harms mosquitoes too. An earlier attempt of this concept tried to outcompete factor and found that due to the added immunity the mosquito quickly rose to around 90% after a few generations. In theory, all they need to do is release this mosquito and it should have the immunity gene take over the vast majority of the mosquito population in short order and protect a lot of humans as a consequence.
Also, you can't really evolve past a defense if the wall is instantly 50 feet high. You need some leeway like not taking the full doses of antibiotics or a rather large quasi-species of HIV to have something in the works that kind-of works and then play off that. This makes the mosquitoes rather instantly immune and likely couldn't be evolved around, anymore than a deer could evolve a defense for a high powered sniper rifle that appeared on the scene rather suddenly in evolutionary terms.
Defeat a high powered sniper rifle is no different that defeating wolf's teeth: it would be prohibitively expensive to defend against them directly, so it's all about avoidance. This mean, stealth and detection of predators (including humans). And for that, deer are equipped moderately well -- and evolution _will_ make them better at spotting hidden humans pretty soon. Just give it time, hunting rifles are a quite new invention.
Setting these mosquitoes up in the wild assumes they will 'take over' the role of existing mosquitoes within the environment. What advantage does being malaria-free have to these mosquitoes? If none, will they survive in the wild? (Or make a big enough dent in the population to matter). Also, what happens when these mosquitoes mate with existing mosquitoes?
Setting these mosquitoes up in the wild assumes they will 'take over' the role of existing mosquitoes within the environment. What advantage does being malaria-free have to these mosquitoes? If none, will they survive in the wild? (Or make a big enough dent in the population to matter). Also, what happens when these mosquitoes mate with existing mosquitoes?
Hey, of course the above are legitimate questions. Tell you what:
a. more funds need to be provided to the creators of the malaria-proof mosquitoes (and, maybe we will have the answer. But,again, maybe not...)
b. it is not necessarily that the malaria-proof mosquitoes would be the only solution to keep malaria at bay (i.e. may not be the most effective way to spend the money)
c. even more, it doesn't come immediately that eliminating malaria is a good thing - what if the presence of malaria keeps (by compe
bite-proof mosquitoes? I didn't realize that there was a big problem with people biting mosquitoes!
and... umm... yeah.
http://intellectualventureslab.com/?p=653 [intellectu...reslab.com]
Not just designs, full grown products are already here. See for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSIWpFPkYrk [youtube.com]
Wait! I thought it was the humans that got infected with malaria and the mosquitoes were just carriers.
The mosquitoes are actually infected, it just doesn't significantly negatively affect them. That's a common way of being a carrier.
The mosquitoes are actually infected, it just doesn't significantly negatively affect them.
I guess the hope is that the malariated mosquitos are significantly negatively affected, otherwise these new mosquitos aren't likely to out-compete their less desirable brethren.
Great... just great.
Here's an idea. How about, instead of curing their diseases, we put out efforts instead into eradicating the bastards. It's not like we don't know how to drive a species into extinction. We've done it, or are on the verge of doing it, to many cool species. So why the hell can't we do it to one of the more bastardly unpleasant ones?
Any hippy that objects... let's make them extinct too.
First look at the breeding rate of all the different species we've driven extinct. Then compare to the reproduction rate of mosquitoes. Also compare the food sources and available habitats.
Problem with driving mosquitoes extinct is that they are among the (relatively) few species on the planet that can live almost anywhere we can, and regards us as food. It also only takes a few of them surviving, and then with their reproduction rate they're back very quickly in that area.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done, but it's be a bitch to do and there'd be a lot of bykill that we don't really want. It'd also take out a very low level creature in the foodchain.
It'd also take out a very low level creature in the foodchain.
What the fuck do you mean "LOW", wetbar? Last I checked, we were eating you.
The Mosquitos
At least we're close to exterminating the Guinea Worm. (Only 3185 cases left, total. The parasite only infects humans.)
One of the few things that Jimmy Carter actually did right.
The plan is to replace the wild mosquitos with the genetically modified but if the wild mosquitos are more fit it probably won't work. Quite an achievement, though. Of course they could now create a super mosquito that is more fit, bites the hell out of us but doesn't pass on malaria. Might be worth it.
Maybe it's just me, but after reading for seemingly months about some seriously stupid studies being conducted, I finally come across one that seems to be worth every penny we would ever spend on it. Malaria via mosquito is a HUGE problem in certain parts of the world.
It's about time we stopped pissing money away, trying to figure out why water is wet, why alcohol in excess makes you think you can sing, or scientifically proving the whole chicken vs. egg thing (sadly, that last one is an actual study)...
But now the trick is getting these genetically modified mosquitoes to out-compete the unmodified one.
By the way, if this is done Monsanto style, will we be charged a fee if we get bitten by one of these copyrighted patented trademarked proprietary mosquitoes?
> The University of Arizona team reported that their genetically modified mosquitoes
What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
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Answer: A good start. If I never see another framework which makes you write the same thing three different times in three different ways, and claims it's making things "easier" by doing so, it'll be 15 years too late.
... Struts is the most appaling MVC framework for web applications ever invented. It is a poor abstraction of the underlying servlet mechanism, it requires a hideously complicated configuration file and the original logic tags were some of the worst ever invented.
Struts 2 is of course polishing a turd.
Well, Struts 2 was a completely different thing. Why WebWork thought Struts was the right brand to associate with, we'll never know.
Amen. Vote parent up.
Whoever designed the Struts tag libraries is a stupid cunt who deserves slow torture, followed by slow, lingering death for all the developer productivity he's destroyed over the years.
... Struts is the most appaling MVC framework for web applications ever invented.
Well, it was the first MVC framework. Back in 2000, we were glad we weren't doing plain JSP/Servlet.
Later, we started using newer frameworks. Pretty soon, we noticed we were working several times faster than in Struts.
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They came by boat, they came by car, they came by bicycle and they even came by golf cart to Low Key Tiki's "Rock on the Dock" Song Writer's Festival Saturday.
"This has turned out to be a perfect day," Low Key owner Scott Adams said. "The weather is cooperating, the music is great and people are having a great time.
"Every artist is playing original material," Adams said. "We have singles, duos and trios. It just takes a little too long for a complete band to set up so we limit it so we have more time listening to music instead of setting up."
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Gary and Kerri at the Rock on the Dock Song Writer's Festival at Low Key Tiki in St. James City on Pine Island.
One of the artists was Renn Loren from Hawaii by way of Punta Gorda. "He plays the island frequently," Adams said.
Loren has his very own unique brand of "honky tonk-tiki rock" music which combines elements of island style, country, Latin, Americana, Caribbean, Cajun and Tex-Mex all blended up into one rockin' tequila-drenched, sun-soaked country-beach-rock sound that is highly dance and party-friendly.
Ben and Jennifer McKnight traveled from Cape Coral to listen to the music.
"This guy is great," Jennifer McKnight said of Loren. "We've come out to the island a few times since we moved here last year from Detroit and I think the music on Pine Island is unbelievable. I think we've been to every place with live music on the island and Renn Loren is one of my favorites."
"Every year we've done this event it gets bigger and better," said Kerri of the duo Gary and Kerri. "This is our third year and we have a packed house. Gary does all of the production and I do the emceeing. People sure are having a great time."


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Contemporary Islam is not known for its engagement in the modern scientific project. But it is heir to a legendary "Golden Age" of Arabic science frequently invoked by commentators hoping to make Muslims and Westerners more respectful and understanding of each other. President Obama, for instance, in his June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, praised Muslims for their historical scientific and intellectual contributions to civilization:
It was Islam that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
Such tributes to the Arab world's era of scientific achievement are generally made in service of a broader political point, as they usually precede discussion of the region's contemporary problems. They serve as an implicit exhortation: the great age of Arab science demonstrates that there is no categorical or congenital barrier to tolerance, cosmopolitanism, and advancement in the Islamic Middle East.
To anyone familiar with this Golden Age, roughly spanning the eighth through the thirteenth centuries a.d., the disparity between the intellectual achievements of the Middle East then and now — particularly relative to the rest of the world — is staggering indeed. In his 2002 book What Went Wrong?: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East, historian Bernard Lewis notes that "for many centuries the world of Islam was in the forefront of human civilization and achievement." "Nothing in Europe," notes Jamil Ragep, a professor of the history of science at the University of Oklahoma, "could hold a candle to what was going on in the Islamic world until about 1600." Algebra, algorithm, alchemy, alcohol, alkali, nadir, zenith, coffee, and lemon: these words all derive from Arabic, reflecting Islam's contribution to the West.
Today, however, the spirit of science in the Muslim world is as dry as the desert. Pakistani physicist Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy laid out the grim statistics in a 2007 Physics Today article: Muslim countries have nine scientists, engineers, and technicians per thousand people, compared with a world average of forty-one. In these nations, there are approximately 1,800 universities, but only 312 of those universities have scholars who have published journal articles. Of the fifty most-published of these universities, twenty-six are in Turkey, nine are in Iran, three each are in Malaysia and Egypt, Pakistan has two, and Uganda, the U.A.E., Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Kuwait, Jordan, and Azerbaijan each have one.
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Add a Serial port to the PowerPC Linkstation
The console is the text output device for system administration messages. These messages come from the kernel, from the init system and from the system logger. On modern small computers the console is usually the computer's attached monitor and keyboard. The LinkStation, however, doesn't have monitor output; instead, it uses a serial connection for console output. Not only does the serial console provide valuable debugging output, it also allows root access!
Most of this information courtesy of http://www.type-g.com, http://www.kurobox.com, http://www.tldp.org, and John Taylor.
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- (1) 0.015", 1 oz silver-bearing solder
- (1) Desolder braid, solder sucker, or Servisol Soldamop
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- (1) Serial converter (or build your own - see Stage 4)
- (1) Tweezers
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Stage 1 - Access the Board
- Disassemble the LinkStation.
- Remove the main circuit board by removing the 4 mounting screws:
- Place the circuit board on a static-free work area:
Stage 2 - Attach Header to the Board
- The console header needs to be attached to the J1 pad:
- Remove the preexisting solder from J1:
- Solder the PCB header to J1 so that the pinouts face towards the IDE header:
- The pinout for J1: \\
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- 3: Power (3.3V) \\
- 4: Ground (GND)
Stage 3 - Enable Full Serial Tx/Rx
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- This stage may be skipped if you only want 1-way console output.
- Remove the 10K Ohm resistor from R75. Do not apply heat for too long or you will damage the 10K Ohm resistor:\\
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Stage 4 - The Serial Converter
- You can purchase a preassembled serial converter (recommended) from [| SuperDroid Robots] (#MCU-026-172) or [| CompSys] (#A232DBH3v).
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- (1) MAX3232CPE IC (Maxim), 3V type, 16 pin DIL \\
- (1) Right angled RS232 male socket \\
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Stage 5 - Cleaning Up
Stage 6 - Using the Serial Console
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text: Kurb 4,988 Report post Posted January 22, 2013 Your "two brothers" comment didnt come off as fighting for inequality. Just using over the top sarcasm to deflect from a serious issue thats being discussed nationally right now because it obviously made you uncomfortable. If a person make a post in the Tinderbox about women's rights or some asian guy feels he was fired unjustly, Im not gonna go in there passionately and lampoon the topic. But that is exactly what you do every time which makes it seem like you have something invested. So again I ask, how does this exactly affect you? Here is the trick. About twice a month you start a thread like this. Pounding on some drum about Black guy does this better, white guy isn't that great, etc etc. You thrive, wallow and relish the subject of racism, to a fault You are getting to the point you see it even when it isn't actually there. Up and to the point you are now whining "it's me against 20 other posters! You need to have a look in the mirror as to why so many flock these shitthreads and bait you out in other threads. While I have tolerated and even sometimes defended your points I get tired of it. Every thing is not some vast Rich White Man conspiracy to hold back blacks and before you deny that I can easily pull up every thread you have made and show you post by post where that can be taken out of your comments/threads. Forgive me if I feel the need you call you out on your hypocrisy when you dance a little dance that your president is Black, just for the sake of him being Black. These very actions are counter productive to the very thing you wish to fight. No I have not, I am not an NFL exec. But my nephew who plays QB may decide to become one one day. His son may decide he wants to one day. Just like you and Zod want your kids to have every opportunity afforded to them, so do I mine. Yet you lampoon me when I try to do that and call me "militant" for it. The fact this board has always grossly underrepresented the black portion of the Carolina Panthers fanbase is probably why you share this view. Thats why I stand out on this forum, yet in the real world and other sports forums I go to, I dont. I agree everyone should have the same opprotunity, EVERYONE I have no idea wtf you are even talking with the rest of this. How do you know who is what color, why do you even care? You hinted that I just wanted to hire black people for the sake of hiring black people. Which pretty much implied they were not qualified. That was a very self serving perspective Kurb. So I hinted and implied. So you are assuming what I intended ? Please. You're on eggshells because you let white dudes go on long spills about eugenics and whatever jargon was in them threads last week and didn't feel a need to "set them straight" the way you always seem to do with me or even appear in the thread. But let me make a thread about topic currently being discussed and here comes Captain-Save-A-Kurb to the rescue with over the top sarcasm to deflect from something he's uncomfortable with. I honestly have no idea what you are talking about. As for letting things go on? I banned someone just today for mentioning he didn't like the 13th amendment. Like I said before, my conscience is BEYOND clear on this subject. I'll talk about race and equality with anyone most anywhere. I choose to see people as what they are, not how much light they do or do not reflect off their skin. edited see above . There just aren't enough blacks represented on this board to get an open honest discussion. That's why its cheesy seeing a thread that revolves around a black issue (in Tinderbox for example) and not a single black person in there to speak on it. That's very self serving and "safe" for some on this board. How exactly do you know who is black and who isn't? I surely don't. Kurb you run from the topic of race all the time. You're scared. Its OK. You're obviously not equipped to discuss it or not comfortable. Some people fight, some people hide under the bed. You hide under the bed, but that's cool, you're not an AFRICAN AMERICAN so you have that luxury, use it. Maybe if you were an AFRICAN AMERICAN you'd understand hiding under the bed isn't always an option. I'm not gonna beat you up about that though. Show me where? Who exactly are you fighting here? Hide under my bed ? Please. You want me to be scared to engage this subject. It makes your propaganda easier to push. The good points you actually make are washed away in the sea of bullshit you have created by exaggerating and projecting racism on people who may simply disagree with part of your ideas. Then act like it. Why not bring intelligent discussion instead of lame over the top sarcasm? Have we just met? I'm not and could care less. But if 90% of NASCAR was black and all the owners and people behind the scenes were white, I'd say the same thing, its a modern day plantation. I can not think of a more disrespectful comparison than the one you just made. That's disgusting. I can relate to people assuming Im not qualified for something or less intelligent simply because Im black. Funny I can do the same b/c I am white. Your responses to many posters on this board over the years could say the same. Or the time me and my Hispanic friend ran into trouble in college with the wrong types over his race, or the time me and my wife couldn't get service b/c she is asian, or the times I have basically been asked to leave clubs because of my race. But YOU stay in your safe box of irrationality that you and yours are the only people to ever have some hardship based on how you look. I notice you still havent commented on the topic at hand. Its hard to defend the indefensible ehh? You're still deflecting What % do you want hired as coaches ? GMs? Diversity is a good thing, I said that earlier. Caldwell is going to the SuperBowl, teams usually don't wait that long to hire a HC. But that fact doesn't support your narrative so it is ignored. I don't know how to fix it. I am a believer of the "best man gets the job" I give zero shits about his skin color. If he is the best man he gets the job. . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Lake Sturgeon
Giant of the
Great Lakes
A Great Fish of the Great Lakes
Contemporaries of dinosaurs, lake
sturgeon have remained unchanged
for millions of years. Once abundant
in the shallows of the Great Lakes,
these ancient fish look like fossils
sprung to life.
A resident of the Great Lakes for
10,000 years, the lake sturgeon is
more than a holdover from the distant
past—it is a barometer of the health
and diversity of the entire Great
Lakes ecosystem. Today lake
sturgeon inhabit large river and lake
systems throughout the Great Lakes
basin and the Mississippi River and
Hudson Bay drainages.
Lake sturgeon are an awesome sight.
The largest fish in the Great Lakes,
they can grow to be nine feet long
and weigh more than 300 pounds.
Like their prehistoric ancestors, lake
sturgeon have a distinct shark-like
tail and rows of armored plates called
"scutes" for protection. Despite their
intimidating look and size, sturgeon
are a docile fish. They have no
teeth, and instead use a protruding
vacuum mouth to feed on insects,
crustaceans, fish and other organisms
on the lake bottom.
Female sturgeon generally first
reproduce between the ages of 24 and
26 years old—older than humans!
Males usually mature between 8 and
12 years old, but may take up to 22
years to mature. Females spawn only
once every four to nine years and
males once every two to seven years.
The sturgeon's periodic spawning
cycle results in only 10 to 20 percent
of the population spawning during a
given year. While female sturgeon
can live up to 150 years, the male
sturgeon's life span is typically 50
to 60 years.
Lay the monster
Lay the sturgeon,
King of fishes;
Through his
gills he breathed
the water,
With his fins
he fanned and
With his tail
he swept the
There he lay in
all his armour…
– The Song of
by Henry
From Revered to Nuisance to
Caviar…and Back
Native Americans revered the
sturgeon as an important part of their
culture that provided the community
with food, oil, leather and other
staples. Early commercial fishermen
(before 1850) slaughtered sturgeon as
a nuisance fish that destroyed fishing
nets targeted at other species.
By the mid to late 1800s, the
economic value of lake sturgeon
was recognized and a targeted
commercial fishery intensified.
Total catch of lake sturgeon peaked
in the mid 1880s at 4,901 metric tons
(8.6 million pounds). However, by
1900 commercial catches began to
decline quickly as the population of
sturgeon plummeted. Between 1900
and the 1970s, sturgeon populations
continued to decline.
In addition to over-harvesting,
habitat loss is a major factor
contributing to the sturgeon's
decline. In the Great Lakes, the
damming of tributary waters has
prevented access to historical
spawning grounds and other
spawning areas have been
destroyed by siltation resulting from
deforestation, poor agricultural
practices and dredging. Pollution
from nutrients and contaminants in
the water has hindered reproductive
success and the sturgeon's late
maturity and infrequent spawning
has also contributed to its decline.
Lake sturgeon populations that
remain in the Great Lakes today
represent only a fraction of their
former number. The lake sturgeon
is listed as a threatened species in
19 of the 20 states it inhabits and
is recognized by the American
Fisheries Society as threatened
throughout North America. Lake
sturgeon are now protected in most
waters of the Great Lakes with
closed seasons, size limits, harvest
quotas and gear restrictions.
Partnerships to Bring
Back the Lake Sturgeon
Throughout the Great Lakes, over
40 partnerships have been formed
between federal and state agencies,
tribal governments, Canadian
agencies, academic institutions,
commercial fishers, sport anglers,
private organizations and
individuals in order to conserve,
protect and enhance lake sturgeon
populations. U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
Service offices throughout the Great
Lakes are working together with
other partners to better understand
the lake sturgeon's unique life
history and meet rehabilitation
Partners capture lake sturgeon
to gather information such as age,
growth and health of sturgeon, then
tag and release the fish. Data from
recaptured fish help biologists
determine the number, distribution
and movement of the fish. Telemetry
studies are underway to determine
lake sturgeon daily and seasonal
movement, spawning areas and
preferred habitat. Biologists
evaluate the success of spawning
and larval development, as well
as factors inhibiting successful
reproduction. The genetic analysis
being conducted will help determine
population variability and overlap.
These partners are also working
together on various other projects,
including the design and evaluation
of "fishways" which will allow
sturgeon to by-pass dams; stocking
rivers with hatchery-reared lake
sturgeon; and controlling sea
lampreys to protect sturgeon.
Law enforcement officers are also
valuable partners who work to
prevent the illegal harvesting
of sturgeon and to educate the
fishing public.
The many partnerships formed
throughout the Great Lakes allow
agencies and organizations to share
knowledge and resources which
helps to accomplish our common
goal of lake sturgeon rehabilitation
in the Great Lakes.
You Can Lend a Hand
You can help the lake sturgeon
stage a comeback. If you catch a
lake sturgeon, and local fishing
regulations allow you to possess it,
gently measure and release the fish.
If the fish has a tag, record the
agency, number and color of the tag
and then contact that agency. Report
sightings of lake sturgeon to your
nearest U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Fishery Resources Office.
For centuries the lake sturgeon
has been an important member of
the Great Lakes fish community.
Through education, increased
awareness, habitat protection, water
quality improvement and regulatory
measures, we can still ensure a bright
future for this timeless giant of the
Great Lakes.
Visit the Great Lakes
Lake Sturgeon web site
for more information on programs,
activities and agencies that benefit
Keweenaw Bay
Indian Community
S. A. Stephenson, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Great Lakes
Fishery Resources Offices
Lake Superior
2800 Lakeshore Dr. E.
Ashland, WI 54806
715/682 6185 ext. 203
Lake Michigan
1015 Challenger Ct.
Green Bay, WI 54311
920/465 7440
© Shedd Aquarium, Patrice Ceisel
This brochure is a product of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Great Lakes Basin Ecosystem Team Lake Sturgeon Committee.
Available in alternative formats upon request.
Hearing impaired individuals can also reach these offices
through the Federal Relay Number at 1 800/877 8339.
Lake Huron and Lake St. Clair
145 Water Street
Alpena, MI 49707
517/356 3052
Lakes Ontario and Erie
405 North French Road
Amherst, NY 14228
716/691 5456
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To the Editor:
I will vote for Don Kopsell for Nunda Township road commissioner. "Honesty," "reliability" and "fairness" are just three words of the many I could write that explain my knowledge of his management of Nunda roads. His crew of workers is constantly improving and assisting those of us in this community.
Kopsell has worked for years in bringing our roads up to county standards. Without his constant management, our roads would have no culverts to divert runoff waters, no 60-foot-wide roads, no broad shoulders, dangerously close trees on the road edges. He made our roads safe to travel.
My nephew, Chris Ruhnke, worked for several years on his crew until he died from a motocross accident. He said many times that Kopsell allows no easing back on his workers. He spoke constantly of how hard they all worked and how fair Kopsell was.
I trust that Kopsell manages our tax money allotted to him well.
Bonnie Salvesen
Crystal Lake


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If recent actions in the village of Westfield prove anything, it is that the state's Open Meetings Law carries as much weight as a limp noodle.
To recap, a group of Village Board members reacted to news Mike VandeVelde, village mayor, wanted to replace Rebecca Jackson, deputy village clerk, and Vern Luce, village clerk, because VandeVelde felt they were undermining the mayor's authority. Board members heard about VandeVelde's plan and decided to hold an impromptu meeting on Thursday, March 27 - notable because the board typically meets on Mondays.
Before the meeting, board member Rob Cochran contacted the New York Conference of Mayors to see if circumstances warranted such a hasty meeting. NYCOM's opinion was that it did not. Board members went ahead anyway, hiring an attorney at the cost of $100 an hour to give them information on the duties of elected officials and whether they could sanction or remove VandeVelde from office.
Cochran, meanwhile, was able to find out fairly quickly VandeVelde would be unable to summarily dismiss Jackson and Luce - meaning there was no urgency for a special meeting since the matter could be discussed at a regular board meeting.
Perhaps most disturbing is the response of board member Debra Puckhaber when the issue was discussed at a recent board meeting.
"We'll waive that one against all the other times that Open Meetings Law has been broken," she said.
What? Did she actually say that?
Ignorance by newly elected officials of the way the Open Meetings Law should work isn't excusable, but understandable because they may not have been educated on the law yet. To see such flagrant disregard of the Open Meetings Law - and to have that disregard manifested during open discussion at a board meeting - is another matter entirely. The only punishment currently available under the Open Meetings Law currently is public embarrassment. As we have seen recently, that is no punishment at all.
It is long past the time for the state Legislature to strengthen the Open Meetings Law into a device that truly makes elected officials think twice before having illegal meetings or entering into executive session improperly. A proposal being discussed in Alabama would allow private citizens to bring suit under the Open Meetings Act and, if they prevail, receive at least $1,000. A similar proposal discussed off and on in New York would also protect boards so they can recover legal costs if they are able to show the citizens' suit is invalid. Perhaps it's worth discussing possible court sanction or removal from office of public officials who regularly violate the Open Meetings Law.
Citizens have long known the toothlessness of the Open Meetings Law. It is time to push the state Legislature to act.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/12/chiiean_mint/
Chilean mint misspells Chile
Heads roll over 50-peso coin blunder
Posted in Bootnotes, 12th February 2010 15:03 GMT
The general manager of the Chilean mint has been given his marching orders after failing in a pretty fundamental area of his responsibilities: to ensure the country's name is spelt correctly on its national currency.
According to the BBC, thousands of 50-peso coins were issued in 2008 bearing the legend "REPUBLICA DE CHIIE". Surprisingly, no one noticed* until late last year, but when they did, it was time for Gregorio Iniguez and several other employees to start looking for less demanding work.
The Beeb notes that the mint has no plans to withdraw the collectors' item, with those already in possession of a Chiiean 50-peso nugget holding onto it in the hope the price will rise. ®
* Including the Banco Central de Chile, whose website apparently still features the offending coin, seen on the left, with the proper version at right:


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SonicHawk wrote:You won't be able to view moving gifs in your pictures folders, it needs a browser or app to support it.
There are apps out there that allow your iPhone to play gifs from your pictures folder (sorry if that's not the correct terminology, I run android mostly), but you have to have a jailbroken device.
Hawk Strap wrote:Push the big button on the bottom and say aloud, "suri play gif"
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Ok. Not actually sell it. Not in the financial sense.
What I mean is tell us what's so great about your distro of choice compared with others I could install.
btw, this thread isn't designed to start a flame war. I just want to know why people choose the distro they do. What they find best about the one they use most.


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MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) -- Riley County police say a report of shots fired in a northeast Manhattan neighborhood was the result of a suicide.
At 6:42 AM on Tuesday, January 22, 2013, officers responded to a report of gunshots at a house on Charolais Lane along Butterfield Road.
A 38-year-old man called authorities to report that shots had been fired in his home and that his fiance, a 48-year-old woman, was injured.
When officers arrived, they discovered the woman deceased as a result of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
An autopsy as been requested- a procedure police called "common" when someone dies from a gunshot wound. Police list the incident as a suicide by firearm.


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LONGMONT -- Psst. Quick suggestion: Playing hockey on thin ice might not be the best idea.
Sound obvious? Charles Kamenides thought so, too, before Thursday morning.
"We had a call that some people were out on the pond at Dry Creek park and that they had an ice hockey goal set up," said Kamenides, the city's parks maintenance and solid waste operations manager. "By the time we got there, they were gone, but we could see where they had skated, where they had shoveled snow off the ice, and where people had left their initials in the snow."
Skating on a city-owned pond -- or even being on it at all -- isn't allowed, no matter how thick or thin the ice is. And lately, the ice is pretty thin, Kamenides said, with such a brief freezing after so many warm days.
"It's not worth the risk," he said.
Plunges through the ice have been rare in Longmont; when they happen, they've usually been either dogs chasing birds onto the frozen surface or children playing on it. One of the more recent incidents in the area happened in Erie in December 2011, when a 14-year-old boy who thought he was walking on solid ground turned out to be on a frozen lake that gave way; the boy got to the edge of the lake and was eventually rescued.
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Peters and Maxime Taquet, a PhD student in the hospital's Computational Radiology Laboratory, analyzed EEG recordings from 19 different brain regions to track the brain's electrical cross-talk. They studied two groups of autistic children: 16 with classic autism and 14 whose autism is part of a genetic syndrome known as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). They compared these readings with EEGs from two control groups—46 healthy neurotypical children and 29 children with TSC but not autism.
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While the city will hold a sober ceremony on the one-year anniversary of the flood on June 20, Mayor Naheed Nenshi is calling for community parties the day after.
He announced Neighbour Day for June 21, and is urging Calgarians to host their neighbours for barbecues and plan block parties as a way of remembering the community's post-flood response.
"The best way for us to remember the incredible outpouring of citizenship after the flood is for us to be together with our neighbours," Nenshi said Monday.
Thousands of Calgarians volunteered in flooded neighbourhoods to clean up strangers' homes after the flood. Of the 80,000 residents on evacuation order in the first days, only a few thousand needed city-run sheltering; the rest found places to stay with friends or relatives.
The mayor said he'll try to attend as many community gatherings as he can, if his office is informed of them. His ambition to run around the city for neighbourhood events is reminiscent of his famously tireless touring and emergency briefings in the days after last June's disaster.
Neighbour Day, organized in part by the mayor's office, also has shades of the 3 Things for Calgary civic engagement program. Nenshi, who has a marketing background, launched the program in 2011 by urging Calgarians to do three things to help make Calgary a better city.
City hall also announced a June 20 formal commemorative event, but will release details about it in coming weeks. Nenshi said it will be a reflection on last year's flood but won't be "sombre."


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A pathetic message
Amir Taheri carefully reviews President Obama's first message to the Muslim world, as do Victor Davis Hanson, Fouad Ajami and Claudia Rosett. In the guise of cosmopolitan sophistication Obama conveys a Carterite weakness. It is hard to believe that it won't come back to haunt us, sooner rather than later. To comment on this post, go here. »
Among the goodies stuffed in the trillion dollar grab bag passed by by House Democrats yesterday — in addition to billions for ACORN — are many surprises. George Will discovers a Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research: The stimulus legislation would create a council for Comparative Effectiveness Research. This is about medicine but not about healing the economy. The CER would identify (this is language from the draft report on the »
Milbank mocks the Goracle of doom
Readers with a long memory may recall that the United States never adopted the Kyoto Protocol because the Clinton administration never submitted it for ratification to the Senate. The Clinton administration never submitted it to the Senate for ratification because in July 1997 the Senate voted 95-0 to adopt a resolution stating that "the United States should not be a signatory to any protocol to, or other agreement regarding, the »
Hat In Hand to Tehran?
Determined to distinguish itself from its predecessor, the Obama administration reportedly is working on a conciliatory letter to Iran: Officials of Barack Obama's administration have drafted a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing US-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks, the Guardian has learned. … Diplomats said Obama's letter would be a symbolic gesture to mark a change in tone from the hostile one adopted »
The Name is a Clue
This is one of those news stories that just make you laugh. The Associated Press reports that the snowy owl, native to the far north, has been moving south: The showy white owls of "Harry Potter" fame are spotted in small numbers in upstate New York and other northern states every winter. This year, they've also been spotted farther south, in states where they're rarely seen. In Tennessee, birders armed »
House Republicans Hold Firm
Congratulations to the House Republicans: all 177 voted against the Democrats' pork-fest bill. Eleven Democrats joined the Republicans in rejecting Nancy Pelosi's fiscal insanity, which, the Congressional Budget Office confirmed yesterday, would actually cost $1.1 trillion. The Republicans put together their own stimulus package; they say that, using Christina Romer's methodology–she will be the Chairman of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers–their program will create 6.2 million jobs. Whether that's right »
How Dumb Does He Think We Are?
Barack Obama has a remarkable ability to utter howlers with a straight face, but this one from today's radio address, talking about his proposed budget, stretched even his flexible standards of truth: These steps won't sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business. I know they're gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: »
It Could Be Worse
The International Monetary Fund projects that the U.S. GDP will contract by 1.6% in 2009, canceling out a modest 1.1% growth in 2008. That's not good, but it's better than the IMF predicts for any developed country other than Canada. The IMF projects Germany's GDP to be down 2.5% this year, France's 1.9%, the U.K.'s 2.8% and Japan's 2.6%. Similarly, the IMF expects the U.S. to lead the way out »
Legislating the Lilly Ledbetter lie
President Obama is set to sign into law, as the first legislation of his tenure, the so-called Lilly Ledbetter Act. It changes the rules for bringing lawsuits for alleged pay discrimination, enabling plaintiffs to bring stale claims, as Ledbetter herself attempted to do. It is fitting that this law will be the first legislative product of the Obama presidency, for it is based on a lie. I demonstrated this last »
Voting Underway in Iraq
Early voting in Iraq's provincial elections started today. The main balloting will come on Saturday, but some Iraqis are eligible to vote as early as today. Turnout was reported as high, with few reports of violence. Sunnis, especially in Anbar province, boycotted the 2005 provincial elections. That set the stage for the sectarian violence that followed, as the government was dominated by Shiites and Kurds. This year, voting in Anbar »
Hub fans bid kid adieu
RealClearPolitics has posted the column by Sam Adams celebrating John Updike's skills as an essayist. Adams writes: "He was, for my money, one of the greatest belletrists of all time — a master of the short, casual, elegant, whimsical, roving piece about absolutely anything." One of Updike's classics of the form is "Hub fans bid kid adieu." Updike reports on Ted Williams' last game at Fenway Park. It's a beautiful »
Name that party (Hartford edition)
Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez surrendered to authorities on corruption charges yesterday. The Hartford Courant's initial story by Jeffrey Cohen and Mark Pazniokas omit the mayor's party affiliation. (As JammieWearingFool notes, however, Perez is identified as a former community organizer.) In their subsequent long story on the charges, Cohen and Pazniokas identify the mayor's party affiliation in the thirteenth paragraph. Hartord residents will continue to enjoy the mayor's services while he »
Name that party (banned in Boston edition)
The AP reports that Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi is resigning from his powerful position under an ethical cloud. Winding down to paragraph 17, the careful reader can infer DiMasi's party: The resignation of DiMasi has some in the state wondering if there's something about the power of the office, or the increasingly one-party nature of Massachusetts' politics, that makes the job of House speaker particularly vulnerable to self-inflicted wounds. »
Entertainers From Hell
On January 23, Joy Behar, who apparently was once a comedian of some kind and now is in politics–sort of like Al Franken–appeared on the Larry King show on CNN. The Gay Patriot caught it and commented, but didn't have access to the transcript. It's up now, here, and it illustrates pretty well what we're up against in the world of entertainment. (I assume someone out there must think Behar »
All Politics, All the Time
This was the most laughable item in the news today: On the eve of a key vote, President Barack Obama privately promised Republican critics he stands ready to accept changes in $825 billion economic stimulus legislation, and urged lawmakers to "put politics aside" in the interest of creating badly needed jobs. What a joke! The Dems' $825 billion pork-fest bill is nothing but politics. Every constituency of the Democratic Party, »
John Updike, RIP
The death of John Updike at the age of 76 represents an irreplaceable loss to American letters. Indeed, Updike was an old fashioned man of letters. An accomplished novelist, gifted short story writer, occasional poet and superb critic, his death leaves a void in American literature. His gifts may have emerged most vividly in his short stories. He certainly wrote quite a few great ones. His stories about the Maples »
John Updike, RIP
The death of John Updike at the age of 76 represents an irreplaceable loss to American letters. Indeed, Updike was an old fashioned man of letters. An accomplished novelist, gifted short story writer, occasional poet and superb critic, his death leaves a void in American literature. His gifts may have emerged most vividly in his short stories. He certainly wrote quite a few great ones. His stories about the Maples »


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DeKALB – The eight-day Jewish holiday of Hanukkah is extremely early this year, with the first day falling on Thursday, Nov. 28 – which also happens to be Thanksgiving.
This convergence, which is being widely referred to as "Thanksgivukkah," last occurred in 1888, and according to experts, it won't happen again for close to 78,000 years.
In anticipation, Congregation Beth Shalom's Hanukkah Shop will be open early this year. The shop will be open for one day only, on Sunday, Nov. 17. Shop hours are during the congregation's Religious School, from 10 a.m. to noon. Stop by for all your Hanukkah needs, including candles, menorahs, dreidels, gelt, wrapping paper, and gift items, including small toys. A supply of general Judaic items are also available, as well as CDs by Koleynu, the congregation's choir.
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Win or lose, Monte Lee routinely holds a fairly lengthy postgame meeting with his College of Charleston baseball team. The Cougars gather around the coach in the outfield as he holds forth on the day's events.
Saturday's meeting ran a little long, because Lee had plenty to talk about. The Cougars had more errors (six) than runs (two) in losing the first two games of a three-game series with The Citadel.
And not just any series — it was the teams' final series as Southern Conference rivals.
Lee's Saturday night sermon paid off on Sunday, as the Cougars salvaged the third game of the series with a 7-5 win before 907 fans at Riley Park. College of Charleston (27-24, 15-11 SoCon) scored three runs in the first inning and five in the first three, then held off a Citadel rally.
"This game meant a lot," said right fielder Cody Martin, whose two-out, two-run double in the first inning lifted the Cougars' spirits. "Getting the series taken from us is hard enough; getting swept would be unacceptable. We came out with the mindset that we were going to win no matter what."
Matt Pegler (4-2), the preseason SoCon pitcher of the year, worked 61/3 innings for the win, and Dre Watts pitched two scoreless innings for his sixth save. The Cougars snapped a four-game skid and improved to 8-1 in the final game of SoCon series this season.
The Bulldogs (30-22, 17-10) are at UNC Greensboro next weekend and have the inside track on the No. 2 seed for the SoCon tournament after Elon (18-11) lost to Samford on Sunday.
Western Carolina clinched the regular season title with a 21-6 league record, sweeping a doubleheader from Wofford on Sunday. Furman (14-16) snagged a spot in the tournament, while Wofford and UNC Greensboro were eliminated. Either Samford (11-15) or Davidson (10-17), who play each other this week, will get the eighth and final spot in the tourney, which starts May 22 in Greenville.
The Cougars, who host Georgia Southern, could also finish as high as second.
"We've had a tough week," said Lee, whose team averaged barely two runs in four losses to Campbell, Georgia and The Citadel. "We struggled to score runs for a whole week, really, but we found a way to score today. We cut down on our easy outs, on fly balls, and hit some hard ground balls and line drives early. And Pegler threw the ball very well, outside of their one big inning."
The Bulldogs had to use seven pitchers when freshman starter Austin Mason gave up five hits and five runs (three earned) in just 21/3 innings. Coach Fred Jordan may have an issue with his third starter as the SoCon tournament nears.
"Austin was wild in the strike zone, and they took advantage of it," he said. "We've got to figure out that third game, if we are still around in the tournament, and for this coming weekend."
The Citadel committed two errors and a passed ball Sunday, and failed to convert two-double play chances in the first, though neither was routine.
Down 6-1, the Bulldogs scored three times in the fifth as Hughston Armstrong stroked a two-out, two-run single. Bailey Rush's solo homer in the seventh sliced the lead to 6-5.
But the Cougars got a vital two-out insurance run in the eighth. Devon Reed beat out an infield single, stole his first base of the season and scored on Blake Butler's single to center.
The Cougars and Bulldogs could meet again in the SoCon tournament, and will continue to play as non-conference rivals. But after the players shook hands Sunday, Lee pondered what the Cougars' move to the Colonial Athletic Association this summer will mean for the rivalry.
"It does make it special when your rival is in your own conference," he said. "It will continue to be a rivalry no matter what conferences we are in. But it does make it special to play your rival in conference play.
"Heck, South Carolina and Clemson play in different conferences, and that's a good rivalry. And this is a good rivalry, a healthy rivalry, and it will continue to be."
The Citadel's Bo Thompson snapped an 0-for-27 skid with an RBI single in the fourth … The Cougars scored six of their seven runs with two outs … C of C has not been swept in a SoCon series since 2009 … Charleston hosts Jacksonville on Tuesday, while The Citadel is at Charleston Southern.


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American John Hahn shot four rounds in the sixties to lead the 24 qualifiers from Golf & Country Club Fleesensee at the First Qualifying Stage Section B in Germany.
Hahn, whose family originate from the host country, signed for a closing 69 – to go with previous rounds of 67, 65 and 68 – for a 19 under par aggregate of 269 to finish five shots clear of a quartet featuring compatriot Kyle Thompson, Austria's Philipp Fendt, Sweden's Gabriel Axell and Germany's Philipp Mejow.
Fendt was one of three players to shoot a joint best-of-the-day 66 in Göhren-Lebbin to seal progression alongside Norway's Christian Aronsen, who climbed to tied 12th, and Frenchman Cyril Bouniol (tied 16th).
Players from 13 different countries, including a strong representation of Scandinavian states, were among the 24 who finished on 281, seven under par, or better.
A further four nationalities were represented among the 27 qualifiers from Wychwood Park in England, where Ireland's Ruaidhri McGee led the way to Second Stage.
Despite carding a two over 74 in the final round, McGee triumphed by two shots in Cheshire with a three under par 285 total.
Northern Irishman Alan Dunbar, the 2012 Amateur Champion, finished alone in second after a closing 70, one shot clear of South Africa's Darryn Lloyd.
American Bryan Newman, meanwhile, fired a joint low round of the day of 68 to storm 20 places up the leaderboard to qualify for the Second Stage on the mark at nine over par.
A total of 51 players progressed through and will take their place in the Second Qualifying Stage, to take place in the first week of November over four courses in Spain leading to the Final Stage at PGA Catalunya Resort.
The First Qualifying Stage continues next week as more hopefuls begin their quest for a place on The European Tour with Section C taking place at Ribagolfe in Portugal and Circolo Golf Bogogno in Italy.


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We need to decide what to do with the "Help" namespace. Some MediaWiki-based wikis use it to point to, or provide mirrored versions of, Wikimedia's Meta-Wiki "Help" pages, which consist of a "Handbook" on the MediaWiki software for different target audiences. Others use it for their own "help" pages tied to their particular wiki, something I assume we're using the "Iron Chariots Wiki" namespace for. Opinions? - dcljr 00:40, 30 August 2006 (MST)


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Feb. 9, 2006
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - On the heels of a three-point weekend at Dartmouth and Harvard, Yale hosts Union for two games this weekend with a chance to tie a school record.
The Bulldogs (7-10-5, 4-5-4 ECACHL, 8th) extended their unbeaten streak to four with the win over the Big Green and the tie against the Crimson. The school record is six, set in 1986 and equaled last season.
Last year's six-game hot streak included two wins against the Dutchwomen (3-18-1, 0-14-0 ECACHL, 11th), in which the Bulldogs scored 12 goals and did not allow any. Defense has been a key to Yale's recent hot streak, and that starts in net. Senior Sarah Love (Bayfield, Ont.) was named ECACHL co-Goaltender of the Week on Monday and New England Hockey Journal Goaltender of the Week on Wednesday after stopping 73 of 74 shots against Dartmouth and Harvard. She has stopped 96 of the last 97 shots she has faced overall and has not allowed an even-strength goal in her last 183:30 in net.
The players directly in front of Love have also been playing some of their best hockey of late. With junior Nina Resor (Westwood, Mass.) sidelined, two-thirds of Yale's defensemen last weekend were freshmen - including two, Kristen Stupay (Ashburn, Va.) and Maggie Westfal (New Canaan, Conn.), who were converted from forward within the past month. The Bulldogs still held Harvard to one goal, well below its season average of three per game, and blanked Dartmouth for the first time in school history.
Westfal scored Yale's lone goal against Harvard, while fellow freshman Danielle Kozlowski (Melrose, Mass.) got the game-winner against Dartmouth with her first career tally. The Bulldogs will look scoring from more sources this weekend. The 12 goals Yale scored last year against the Dutchwomen came from eight different players, including a hat trick from junior Jenna Spring (Cranbrook, B.C.) in the 7-0 win that opened the series.
A solid offensive performance this weekend could also put Yale back on track to challenge some team offensive records. The Bulldogs need 21 goals in their final seven games to tie last season's school record for goals in conference play (50). Yale is 34 goals away from the school record for overall goals in a season, 87, set in 1984-85.
The Dutchwomen nearly upset Brown Jan. 21, falling 3-2 after leading 2-1 entering the third period. Freshman goaltender Alex Zirbel is capable of stymieing a barrage of shots, as she has exceeded the 50-save mark three times so far this season. That included a 56-save effort against Brown Jan. 20. Junior forward Elise Nichols is the team's leading scorer (5-7-12), followed by freshman forward Suzy Pocock (6-3-9).
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text: Duxbury and Kingston are among six communities to receive grants aimed at cleaning up coastal waterways through the state's Coastal Pollution Remediation Program. Duxbury will put its $124,115 award toward installation of three storm-water filtration systems to reduce polluted runoff from Bay Road into Duxbury Bay. The project is part of a decade-long effort to improve bay water quality, according to Duxbury conservation administrator Joe Grady. "We've done analyses to determine where the pollution is most prevalent; then we apply for grants," Grady said. "The Public Works Department will install the new systems in the ground this spring." Kingston will apply its $124,495 in state grant money toward controlling bacteria-laden storm-water runoff from two outfall locations into the Jones River Estuary. "The Jones River Watershed Association is thrilled the town got the money, and we look forward to the result," said the agency's executive director, Pine duBois. "It will address long-known issues affecting the mouth of the river." Each town is coming up with about $41,000 in matching funds. Grants were also awarded to Barnstable, Bourne, New Bedford, and Salem.