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Etiquette is a strange and wonderful thing. There's something magical about the idea that random rules of behaviour can neatly separate polite people from the riffraff, the well-bred from the plebs.
Bread rolls at the table must always be torn, don't you know; never cut. And when people say "How do you do?" one must never reply "Great, thanks" - not exactly sure why; it must be a rhetorical question I guess. Never say toilet; it's a "lavatory" or "loo" - even "bog" is acceptable. Who'd have thought? And never hold a knife like a pen; you should hold a knife like a knife.
But while all these traditional niceties have long been set in stone, the accepted etiquettes surrounding the use of smartphones and mobile technology in general are emerging as we speak. Some people interpret the fact that we're all still figuring out what's acceptable and what's not as licence to abandon all principles of decent behaviour. This stance is a cop-out for there are some basic points that we really should all adhere to.
Do not take or make a telephone call at the checkout.
I've seen people talking on the phone while being served by a shop assistant or checkout operator. This behaviour is beyond rude. If your business was really that crucial I'm sure you'd also be important enough to have an assistant or a housekeeper to do the grocery shopping for you. So if you're not engaged with matters of great urgency such as saving the planet from imminent destruction, I have just ten words of advice while at the supermarket checkout or shop counter: Put the phone down and step away from the phone.
Never text while drunk.
Have you ever woken up with a fuzzy head and that sinking feeling as you wonder: who did I text late last night? And, more importantly, what did I say? Luckily the evidence is usually right there on your mobile device. I don't know about you but I always find my late night alcohol-fuelled texts are textbook examples of great punctuation, perfect spelling and moderate language. No, really. I think it's called overcompensating or something.
Do not text while driving.
It's dangerous and it's against the law. I initially thought the rule applied only when the vehicle was moving so you were permitted to text when stationary at traffic lights but now I understand that's a false assumption. I see people texting on the motorway all the time. (I've also witnessed people shaving, applying makeup, drinking coffee and eating while driving. Fifteen years ago on the slow, dull daily commute to Progressive Enterprises' headquarters in Mangere I used to flick through New Idea magazine and paint my fingernails - with quick-dry polish in a company car if you're worried about potential mess - while stopped at red lights.)
It's sometimes okay to walk and text.
Opinion is divided on this but I'm guilty of this habit. I don't recommend it if you're on crowded Queen Street pavements but I don't see a problem in a suburban street or quiet part of town. Just ensure you look up occasionally so you avoid other pedestrians and dog droppings. Many people text while crossing a road: for safety reasons, this is strictly not recommended.
Don't be an App bore.
Seriously dude, I do not need to see a demonstration of your favourite App - and I do not need to know how much it cost or how cool it is. In the words of ismashphone.com, "yeah, we get it. There's an App for everything... Still don't take every chance you get to bust out your smartphone and show me your fancy [A]pps."
Never talk on the phone while you're on the toilet.
This takes multitasking to a whole new level and I'm not even going to explain this one. Honestly!
Do you agree with this list of guidelines? If not, what have I got wrong? And what rules have I failed to mention? Do you have a particular bugbear when it comes to mobile technology etiquette? What rules of etiquette are you guilty of breaking?


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Are you starting to snuggle closer to the heater because the call of Autumn is surrounding you with cooler temperatures? Well, I started to feel the cooler temperatures and began searching for something both stylish and warm!
At Punky Chicks, I found the perfect outfit that is both fashionable and warm! The wonderful knitted stripped dress, scarf, and socks are beautifully detailed and the colors reflect those of the season. The delightful knit items are available in aubergine, blue pastels, olives, reds, soft naturals, and spice. If you are like me, you won't be able to choose just one, because each of the rich Autumn colors will call out to you!
Also perfect for the season is the hair created by Tameless. Ronnie is a charmingly sassy style that gently frames the face while the bangs softly fall to attract attention to the eyes. This is a really lovely hairstyle, that can be worn for any occasion!
I also found a stunning new skin at Apparence named Emma and paired it with the Blossom eye shadow and lashes from Shakeup. I thought the combination created a very stunning look when paired with the hair and knitted scarf from the outfit.
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Happy shopping!
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Hair: Tameless Hair — Ronnie
Skin: Apparence — Emma (T0 E4)
Makeup: Shakeup — Eyeshadow + Eyelashes (blossom)
Shape: Anna Shapes— Snow
Pose: KaTink — Allison 7
Background: KaTink — November group gift (Autumn Splendor – Pack 4 – #37)

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Loose brush strokes make up Philips unique style. His use of bold colors and palm leaves are directly inspired by his environment living in South Florida.
To maintain integrity of surface design, proper care for VIVRE includes displaying or storing in temperatures between 50-90 degrees fahrenheit, and avoiding contact with direct, sunlight, heat, or moisture. Due to the use of acrylic paints items must always be partitioned to avoid bonding between painted surfaces.
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 10:36
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My idea of a lucid puppy remaster
Lucid is probably the most solid and stable puppy out there, but is getting old. So why not update it?
What are your Ideas?
Well I will: 1) Remove any kernel-related drivers, aufs2-utils, the old kernel. 2) Compile new kernel and recompile any removed drivers. 3) Add kernel and rivers into main sfs. 3) Update many built-in packages through already compiled packages on the forum. 4) Build new ISO.
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 11:23
Post subject: Re: My idea of a lucid puppy remaster
bark_bark_bark wrote:
Well I will:
By all means, go ahead with this project. But here is a question that you should ask yourself - what makes Lupu solid and stable?
Once you start changing things, can you keep that stability?
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Posted: Fri 04 Jan 2013, 12:49
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One thing I do want to add is 3g/4g modem/dongle support. I would want help finding opensource drivers to support those devices.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 00:57
Post subject: option?
My Lucid 528 runs a Huawei e1762 3g dongle fine after I run 'modprobe option'. You need isp-specific info like APN, pin, dial string, then use internet connection wizard.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 01:03
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I've --on occasion-- connected with an older Pantech UM175. Only thing is it needs Windoze to activate the service (dang and blast Verizon for their Linux unfriendliness), but once it's activated, it's a small matter of plugging in a couple things and running PupDial.
Note that the activation issue is NOT my only problem with Verizon (by far) and I do not do not DO NOT EVER recommend them as an ISP -- but I'm stuck with them for now (it's a long and complicated story, please don't ask) so that's how it is.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 14:35
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James C might have info on this.
1. The new kernel might allow some newer hardware to run, but I built one with a 3.x kernel and had troubles on shutdown.
2. Some programs are already latest versions
Updating programs might be a nightmare because system libraries would have to be updated.
3. I personally think energy put into testing Slacko and other newer Puppies would have better payoff.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 15:37
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I don't find Lucid that stable or solid, but 3 Headed Dog is basically 5.2.8 but with the 5.3.1 kernel and much more stable.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 15:40
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WHAT!!!??? The linux kernel reached 5.3.1
. last time i checked the latest was 3.8-rc2 and I checked a minute ago.
I think you mean the kernel FROM Slacko 531. That version is also a bit old.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 17:56
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If you wanted to update lucid you would need to look at the kernel. Probably 22.214.171.124 (LTS, though not updated since October) would be a fair choice. Use the same .config from the original and add any new drivers from staging. Modem drivers could probably be compiled now too (softmodem). Search the forum for any additional stuff that's been done by tempestuous, locate the source and compile those too.
Not much point in going with a really new kernel as then a Xorg upgrade would be needed to work with all the new drm stuff, and probably a lot of underlying stuff that goes with it.. then you run the risk of incompatibility with lucid repos, in which case it's not lucid any more.
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Posted: Sat 05 Jan 2013, 23:51
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playdayz wrote:
1. The new kernel might allow some newer hardware to run, but I built one with a 3.x kernel and had troubles on shutdown.
That's an understatement.
I probably did 8 or 10 Lucid builds with the 3.X kernels.........so many shutdown and other little problems that i just moved on.Newer 2.6 kernels worked pretty well though.
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Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2013, 12:54
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hi bark_bark_bark,
if you think about it, precise puppy is basically an updated lupu, newer kernel, newer glibc and access to newer packages. i'm finding in the precise PPM, a lot more stuff is working than in lucid, particularly python apps. and the PPM in general is vastly improved!
so rather than updating lucid , maybe add the user friendliness that playdaze (hi playdaze) added to lucid, by way of apps (pupsave hotbackup, wmswitcher, right click options as examples),and the various tweaks and settings that made lucid great.
next would be to add all the drivers that tempestuous made for lucid.
lastly, and the main complaint about precise that i hear on puppychat, is it's lack of .pets in it's own repo. so fill the precise repo with our favourite .pets.,
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Posted: Wed 09 Jan 2013, 23:17
Post subject: Lucid Puppy remaster
Subject description: Good idea
This distro Lucid now works quite perfectly on my computer Medion P7624. Alsa driver made it it speaking. This distro is fast, and packages are usable without having to change something.
For me, it should be the Ubuntu Puppy, and the only one
, the last one.
Keep on improving it (no wireless connection with iwlagn)
Precise is a good distro, but repositories with depandancies are awful. We dont know how to make packages. And we dont want to know. Somebody has to make the work for us.
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Posted: Fri 11 Jan 2013, 15:08
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just use lucid if you like it, you don't have to use precise. but lucid is getting old now , so don't expect to get the latest and greatest apps running on it in the future
i personally love precise, and it has replaced my lucid installation of two years,
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Posted: Tue 29 Jul 2014, 06:43
Post subject: newest apps ?
newest apps ? well i shall wait and see. applications are dissapearing from unbuntu repositories. New ones will be welcome. Our compilers would enjoy that.
Happily QT is arriving..
Thanks phil trying things get forward. No always easy, but you go on !
Ubuntu is Windows like, now. Just the OS, buy the apps !
Passenger Pelo ! don't ask him to repair the aircraft. Don't use him as a demining dog .... pleeease.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – MIT will kick off the 2012 football season at home when it hosts Becker College on September 8 at 1:00 p.m. on Roberts Field at Steinbrenner Stadium. It will be the first of five home games on the nine-game, 2012 schedule for the Engineers, a schedule that also includes a pair of Friday contests.
MIT will start the season with back-to-back home games. After hosting Becker, the Engineers will take on the U.S. Coast Guard Academy on Sept. 15. The game, which will be the first-ever meeting between the two schools, will also be the first contest of the season against a New England Football Conference opponent.
Games against Boyd Division foes in the NEFC will fill out the rest of the schedule for MIT. The Engineers will hit the road for the first time in 2012 on Sept. 21 when they face Curry College in the first Friday game of the season.
Football Alumni Weekend will begin another two-game home stretch when MIT hosts UMass Dartmouth on Sept. 29. The Engineers will close out the home stand on October 6 against Plymouth State University before heading out on the road again to take on Western New England University on October 13.
Another Friday night contest will mark Senior Day as MIT plays its final home game of the season on Oct. 19 against Salve Regina University. The Engineers will close out the regular season with a pair of road games, the only time during the season MIT will play back-to-back games on the road. First up will be a trip to Nichols College on Oct. 27 before the final regular season game at Endicott College on November 3.
2012 MIT Football Schedule
Sept. 8
|1:00 p.m.
|Sept. 15
|12:00 p.m.
|Sept. 21
|at Curry*
|7:30 p.m.
|Sept. 29
|12:00 p.m.
|Oct. 6
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|Oct. 13
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|Oct. 19
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Pelham police said they were called to Bush Hill Road about 11:39 a.m., after an off-road vehicle "came around the corner at a high rate of speed" and struck a pickup truck with a snow plow attached.
Russell Vigeant, 49, of Hudson, N.H., was driving the pickup.
He told police the off-road vehicle crossed into his lane of travel at high speed and struck his truck.
Vigeant told police the driver of the off-road vehicle stopped, provided his information, and then took off after saying he did not want to be arrested.
Pelham Police say officers followed a trail of fluid left behind by the off-road vehicle, and found the vehicle and Peter Hahn, 38, of Nashua, a bit further down Bush Hill Road.
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However, I did several CHA projects most of which I can't share here... yet!
But here's one I can and so here it is :)
The lovelies I played with in this layout are from Crate Paper's School Spirit collection.
If you are lucky to be going to CHA, try to stop by the Crate Paper booth to feast your eyes on this collection in real life.
Off to daydreaming my friends :)


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Tigerville, S.C. - Coming off a heartbreaking double overtime loss to Newberry College Thursday afternoon, the GSW men's soccer team fought to a 2-2 draw Saturday afternoon against the North Greenville Trojans in Tigerville, S.C.
The game was a tale of 'anything you can do, I can do better' as GSW trailed early in the first half when North Greenville's Todd Johnson scored in the 24th minute. Just one minute later however, the Blue & Gold struck back as a goal by freshman forward Michael Corrigan tied the game. The scored remained tied for the rest of the first half.
In the second half, circumstances flipped as the Canes were first to strike in the 65th minute when Corrigan scored his second goal of the match and GSW took a 2-1 advantage. However that was short lived as two minutes later, NGU's Adam Turner scored to even up the match at two apiece.
2-2 proved to be the final as the score remained knotted throughout the rest of the second half and two overtimes. GSW senior goal keeper Ryan Tucker had a good defensive effort for the Canes with 8 saves.
The Hurricanes are now 0-1-1 on the season and will be back in action this Friday, September 7, as they face Peach Belt Conference foe UNC Pembroke in the team's home opener at 3:30 p.m. at Hurricane Field.


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Duke Nukem 3D
From Openmoko
Legendary First Person Shooter. Rafa shared a simple duke nukem 3d port for Neo which can be played using the accelerometer :)
- opkg install http://alasal.be/openmoko/repo/duke3d_0.1.1_armv4t.ipk
- HOWTO about the package.
- Files: http://fz.hobby-site.org/om/duke-nukem-3d/
- Instructions: http://fz.hobby-site.org/om/duke-nukem-3d/readme-openmoko.txt
- Source Code released:http://fz.hobby-site.org/om/duke-nukem-3d/
- Instructions schematics: http://fz.hobby-site.org/om/duke-nukem-3d/how-to-play-duke.png
- Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=260Kpiqv9_U
Note: Game will not run if you don't have accelerometers working properly (check with 'hexdump /dev/input/event2' and 'hexdump /dev/input/event3'. Also make sure PulseAudio isn't running: '/etc/init.d/pulseaudio stop', otherwise it will cause the following error: some people have reported that it will not run resulting in the error 'Unknown multivoc error' even when PulseAudio is not installed - waiting on a workaround. To use game without sound, edit ~/.duke3d/duke3d.cfg and change FXDevice = 0 to FXDevice = 13 under [Sound Setup]
Charles-Henri's version:
- http://charles-henri.org/duke3d_1.0-r1_armv4t.opk
- http://charles-henri.org/duke3d-source.tar.gz
- http://charles-henri.org/Xglamo
The buttons are:
jump escape prev weapon next weapon open/accept fire
In menus, click to the left to go back. In y/n menus, click "open" to accept / "escape" to cancel. Saving / loading should work; to save, select a slot, use jump, prev weapon or next weapon to add a dummy name, then press accept.
The Xglamo binary fixes this bug.
|Duke Nukem 3D
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Tech Committee Meeting Minutes 18 June 2013
- Welcome to our new at-large committee members: Bozana Bokan (Free University Berlin), Marc Bria (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
- Bozana has been working with PKP for quite awhile, especially with multi-lingual development; main contact with Free University of Berlin. Contributed bug fixes and major code, including working on the Lucene improvements.
- Marc has been a stable contributor to the support forums and has focused on important areas such as hosting large numbers of installations.
- Quick round of updates: What have we all been working on PKP-wise? Any particular needs that the group can help with?
- Alec, lead PKP developer; Jason Nugent is usually on the call, but can't be today.
- Barbara, developer from California Digital Library at University of California; chair of Technical Advisory Committee; working on backporting some code for OJS
- Lisa, Technical Lead from California Digital Library
- Bartek, OCUL--PKP Partner, currently working on setting up a centralized hosting service for all the member libraries. Talking to University of Ottawa Press about OMP; want a pilot partner
- Bozana--porting implementations to v 3.0
- Marc--working on translation of OJS and OCS; working on OMP in next round of translations. Joining early adopters of OMP, making some contributions to the code; in particular theming issues.
- At-large membership: one more member to invite
- For the third person, we had discussed a specific institution, but they may be joining in as a partner, so they would have a regular seat, so we would still have an At-large membership available. We have to wait and see how that pans out.
- 3 volunteers from members committee - Brian Owen has asked the Members Committee to appoint 3 people. We hope to have them on board soon, well in advance of the AGM. Still waiting on this.
- Reviewing our mandate, cont'd.
- Charge #1: provide technical input and advice on PKP's software development methodologies and priorities. A couple of meetings ago, the group came to the consensus that PKP priorities and methodologies are unclear. We are working towards fixing this so that we can begin to give input.
- James has kindly provided a #Round up of documentation relating to PKP Priorities and Methodologies. Please read and we will discuss. What needs clarification? What would this information ideally look like?
- Barbara has taken a stab at organizing the PKP wiki so that this kind of info can be more easily found (see Main page - New). What do people think?
- Previously, tried to get everyone in the Tech Committee trying to understand priorities at PKP, which revealed that the published documentation around milestones and the roadmap were out of date. Now they're up to date. Will work on keeping this up to date. Need to work on how to bring in new contributors more quickly. This is also a chance to leverage skills in the Committee and also to become more aware of issues and needs around the globe. Need feedback from people, since they don't use their own software that much. When meet people at the regular conferences, they get huge lists of requests from publishers, but it's hard to deal with because it's so much--would like people to come to them sooner so that they could incorporate those requests into the regular workflow.
- Discussion:
- Marc--really appreciates the work that PKP is doing and really likes the current methodology, which is very clear. Likes that the direction is being set by the Technical Committee, but it's a very high level approach. How deeply does the Committee really need to go into the work of the PKP Development team?
- Alec--it would be great to make better connections between the high level milestones and the low-level bugs.
- Bozana--likes the documentation James made. Good to have it up to date; likes Barbara's reorgnization of the Wiki.
- Lisa--likes everything; agrees with Alec that it would be great to fill in the space between the Milestones/Roadmap and bugs--would be nice to get requirements and features in there.
- Alec--they are working on this; trying to figure out now how to get community input into community feedback to help with prioritiziation. Looking at other tools to help with this.
- Lisa--suggests using GetSatisfaction on the demo versions of PKP software.
- Barbara--also suggests attending and finding ideas at the Community Leadership Summit. Alec is going too.
- Marc--doesn't like software as a service developments. Want people to build their own tools.
- Alec--agrees, especially when they're not open source.
- Barbara--agrees that using open source tools whenever possible; mixed feelings about rolling your own, because it takes so many resources.
- Committee communication
- Google group -- any progress on finding out whether or not we can have a listserv hosted by SFU?
- There was also a discussion about using a mailing list that is archived and that isn't associated with Google. Marc is going to look into hosting the listserv. Alec prefers it to live at SFU, but there are issues, so it's not set in stone because there are some institutional limitations because of the relationship between SFU and PKP.
- People are OK with Google Groups for now.
- There is a #pkp channel on chat.freenode.net -- come hang out! New to IRC? Read the IRC Help page or feel free to ask Barbara :-)
- Google group -- any progress on finding out whether or not we can have a listserv hosted by SFU?
- PKP AGM and conference in Mexico City, August 19-21
- Who is going? Alec, Barbara, Bozana will be there. Talking about a Tech Committee meeting on the 19th.
- What are our goals for the PKP Tech Committee meeting there?
- Next meeting: how about Tuesday 16 July, 2013? This date is fine for everyone. This time is OK with everyone. Will email to confirm with those who were absent.
- Anything else?
Alec--next milestone--very near to alpha release of OJS 3.0 in the beginning of next month. It may not be as stable as an alpha; working with CDL on getting a UI/UX review of the software, so this release is to help with that. This is a first chance to get community feedback on this--please encourage people to check it out. It won't have migration tools until the beta release, which is targeted for this fall. This release is a major change from the 2.4.X line. Extending this developing over a year to make sure there is as much community feedback as possible. Trying to keep it smaller and simpler and avoid code spread. Revising the schedule soon and will update folks as soon as possible.
Bozana--could ask people to help, but would need more information about what people should look at/do in terms of testing and feedback.
Alec--it will have the complete workflow, with a provisional reader front end (basic). This is a chance to see what the workflows and layout will look like. Won't include things like subscription and payment. It's for early adopters to see it and get a chance to accomodate themselves to the new approach. The Beta release is for finding bugs and holes. Trying to keep releases early and frequent.
Bozana--wants to know how people should comment?
Lisa--that's a good example of how Get Satisfaction could be useful.


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Twins' recovery signals key step in genetic medicine
Twins' recovery a key step in genetic medicine, thanks to Baylor Med
For every day of his first six years of life, Noah Beery drooled and threw up large amounts of what he ate. And he was the healthy twin.
His sister, Alexis, would wake multiple times at night and endure tremors for hours at a time. By midmorning she could no longer exert herself even to sit up. An initial diagnosis of cerebral palsy at age 2 proved false when the twins' condition continued to deteriorate.
When the children were 6, doctors diagnosed them with a relatively rare genetic disorder. Treatment helped but did not cure them. When Alexis was 12 she stopped breathing and almost died. Paramedics had to revive her twice.
Until the dawn of the era of personalized medicine, this is where the story would have ended, in likely tragedy.
But with genetic sequencing becoming more commonplace every year, the Beerys sought a deeper genetic analysis of their childrens' problems, and at Baylor College of Medicine the San Diego family had their complete genomes sequenced.
This finally identified the problem: a genetic twist on a rare disease. With a slight alteration to their medical treatment, the twins — now 14 — are as active as any others their age.
"I totally feel grateful for every day," said Retta Beery, the twins' mom. "Every time we look at Noah and Alexis doing anything, just having conversations with friends, to running track and winning races, I feel so incredibly blessed and amazed and in awe of every moment."
A promise finally realized
On one hand the Beerys' transformed lives represent an isolated victory, a very personal tale. But this is a story that resonates far beyond one family. Their experience may be the first time doctors have used whole genome sequencing to diagnose an ailment and improve medical care.
And the success experienced by the Beery family likely signals that the promise of personalized medicine, powered by physicians being able to read the genetic codebook of human disease, eventually will be realized.
"If you ask me, this is practicing personal genomics," said Dr. Jim Lupski, the Baylor physician who helped analyze the Beery genomes.
"I don't want it to come out as hype, because we don't need hype," Lupski said. "We have a lot of work to do, and a lot to understand about genetics and medicine. We have a few decades yet of filling in the Rosetta Stone.
"But I think this shows there will come a day when the genome sequence will be as integral to the workup of a patient as the family history is right now."
Noah and Alexis were born colicky. They cried and screamed night and day and threw up daily. By their 9-month checkup they were far behind the normal development milestones.
After tests upon tests, from MRIs to endoscopies, Noah's uncontrollable vomiting and Alexis' apparent seizures only worsened.
Retta Beery continued to research their condition, and the daily timing of Alexis' symptoms gave her the clue that eventually led the family to neurologist Dr. John Fink at the University of Michigan.
When the twins were nearly 6 the family traveled to Michigan, where Fink diagnosed the children with the genetic disease dopamine-responsive dystonia. This can be treated with a synthetic form of dopamine, a neurotransmitting chemical.
"When we got to Michigan we literally had to carry Alexis around," Retta Beery recalled. "Then we gave her one quarter of a pill that first night. She slept for the first time in her life for the full night through. She walked to the rental car on her own. She got into the car on her own for the first time in her life and buckled herself in. We had no idea what cognitive ability she had because it was trapped inside this body that would not function."
Alexis and Noah made remarkable recoveries, beginning to live the normal lives their parents had dreamed of, playing sports and excelling in school.
"It was everything we never imagined could happen," Beery recalled.
3 billion bits of data
Then, about two years ago, Alexis had a cough that began to worsen and turned into a breathing problem. Various physicians were stumped. All of a sudden the family was back in a nightmare of not knowing whether a child would survive.
Retta's husband, Joe, worked for a biotechnology company and suggested they look into genetic sequencing. She eventually linked up with Baylor, which has one of the world's largest genetic sequencing labs, and Texas Children's Hospital.
Baylor's Matthew Bainbridge led the effort to sequence the family genomes. After reading out every one of the 3 billion bits of data in each DNA sequence, the researchers found that the twins had neither of the two gene mutations known to cause dopamine-responsive dystonia.
But scientists found three related genetic abnormalities that might cause the disease, and one of these mutations led them to conclude that Alexis and Noah were deficient in serotonin, another neurotransmitter, in addition to dopamine.
With the addition of a supplement, Alexis' breathing problems were solved. She's running track again, and Noah's focus in school has improved significantly. The research describing the transformation is published in Wednesday's Science Translational Medicine.
Eight years of work
It's been eight years since the completion of the Human Genome Project, but only one year since the first time geneticists sequenced a person's entire genome to identify the genetic cause of a disease. This occurred when Baylor identified the gene mutation that caused an illness that afflicted Lupski, the Baylor physician.
The new work takes that a step forward by using a whole genome sequence to improve medical therapy.
"It feels really good to see this moving ahead," said Richard Gibbs, who directs the Baylor Genome Sequencing Center and was a key figure in the Human Genome Project.
A glimpse into future
It's been a struggle to take the human genome's raw data and change medical care. Since the first genome's completion, scientists have discovered that the role of genetics in human health is more complicated than they had anticipated.
Cures didn't come immediately after the genome's completion, and the use of genetics to improve care of common diseases, such as heart ailments and cancer, has yet to become commonplace.
Yet Gibbs said geneticists are beginning to grasp the whole picture of genetics and disease, and the Beery family's success provides a glimpse of the future of medicine.
"This," he said, "Is just one more brick in the wall."


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The respected business daily cited an unnamed source in the Russian defence ministry as saying that no Russian defence ministry military or civilian personnel were now present in Syria, a Soviet-era ally of Moscow.
The source said the decision was taken to limit the dangers posed to Russians amid a raging civil war and to reduce the threat of political damage that could result from Russians being killed by either side.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov had appeared to confirm the evacuation of military staff in an interview with the London-published Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat published on Friday.
"Today, the Russian defence ministry does not have a single person in Syria," he said.
"In Tartus, we never had a base in the first place. It is a technical facility for maintaining ships sailing in the Mediterranean," he added.
The facility in the Mediterranean port of Tartus, located in the Alawite Muslim heartland region of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, is Russia's only such asset outside the former Soviet Union.
Created as the result of an agreement between Damascus and Moscow in 1971, the Tartus facility was believed in recent months to have been staffed by just a few dozen Russian defence ministry personnel.
Russia always insisted on calling it not a base but a "point of military-technical supply of the Russian Navy". But analysts have always seen its sheer existence as a huge asset for Moscow.
The Vedomosti report said the decision to remove defence ministry personnel did not cover technical experts who are hired by the Syrian government to help train its army use Russian-issued weapons.
Russia supplies ground-to-surface interceptor missiles to Syria as well as warplanes and helicopters and other heavy machinery meant for national self-defence.
Moscow defends its military sales to Syria by arguing that it is only fulfilling contracts signed before the current conflict broke out in March 2011.
Syria represents Russia's last strategic ally in the Middle East and the fall of Assad would deal a significant blow to Moscow's geopolitical aspirations.
Russia now intends to keep between three and five warships permanently stationed in the region as a show of its strategic interest in the Middle East, the Vedomosti report said.
© 2010 Ahram Online.


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Tony and Emmy Award-winner Martin Short will bring his comedy concert, "A Musical Evening of Comedy" to Hartford's Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts on Oct. 13
The show will benefit the Helen and Harry Gray Cancer Center at Hartford Hospital.
Tickets are $37.50 - $102.50 not including fees
Tickets go on sale Monday, June 18 at 10 a.m. at the Bushnell Box Office, order by phone 860-987-5900, or online at www.bushnell.org
Short won his first Emmy in 1982 while working on Canada's "SCTV Comedy Network," which brought him to the attention of the producers of "Saturday Night Live."
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He became a fan-favorite for his portrayal of characters such as Ed Grimley, lawyer Nathan Thurm and "legendary songwriter" Irving Cohen.
Feature films include: Three Amigos, Inner Space, Three Fugitives, Clifford, Father of the Bride, Pure Luck and Tim Burton's Mars Attack as well as voiced for "Madigascar 3" and Tim Burton film Frankenweenie.
Broadway show are: Little Me, Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl and Fame Becomes Me."
Short returned to television in an Emmy-nominated role for the mini-series Merlin and host of The Martin Short Show, which garnered him seven Emmy nominations. Short also wrote, produced and starred in three comedy specials, winning two Cable ACE awards and an Emmy. In 2001, he launched the critically acclaimed Primetime Glick, garnering another five Emmy nominations. Short was nominated for his nineteenth Emmy award in 2010 for his work as the lawyer Leonard Winstone on the critically acclaimed FX series Damages.
Currently, Short can be seen on the CBS hit comedy series How I Met Your Mother in the recurring role of Garrison Cootes. His voice can be heard as the Cat in the critically acclaimed PBS series Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That.


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Does The World Need Another Decent Movie?/
By Julien Favre With the world economy on the brink, the current environment has rarely been so tough for independent filmmakers. To get our films made and, even more so, to see them sold and/or distributed, is getting incredibly challenging. Foreign sales estimates for low budget independent films are a tenth of what they used to be pre-2008, and let's not be fooled by the numbers. We will be happy if we sell at all, even for symbolic numbers. From a filmmaker's perspective, we have entered a dichotomous world: a shrinking pool of independent films do well; most don't make any significant business. It is now as if there is only room for one indie hit per year. If you are not that film that everybody wants, you barely exist and your business footprint will be close to zero.
Now, you can look at this situation in two different ways. One way is to adjust to the market and give it what it wants, or can economically bare. This means making genre films that still have somewhat of a market and will recoup as long as they are technically sound and are made for the right price. You can also continue to make "art house" films (for lack of a better word) as long as you don't spend more than $80,000 making them, since this is what you can realistically hope to net from world wide sales if the film turns out okay and has a decent festival run.
But the other way to look at these dire market conditions is to ask ourselves: does the world really need another decent film? The elephant in the room is that most films are bad or average. Back when the economy was strong and there was a theatrical and DVD market for indie films, decent films used to do well enough to justify the venture from a business standpoint, but not anymore.
Even if no filmmaker or producer sets out to make yet another average film, we would be lying to ourselves if we were claiming that we never went in production on a film knowing full well that the script needed another pass, or praying that an average director would turn a good script into a great film, or that we would be able to cut around bad performance.
But the reality is that there is no room for average films anymore. There isn't even much room for good movies unless they are backed by heavyweight distributors. We can lament about how unfair, how scandalous it is that our labour-of-love films don't sell and nobody sees themt. Or we can accept the reality of the market and raise the bar of what we produce.
A month or so ago, someone asked me WHY i was a producer. I am so used to people asking me WHAT a producer is, but I was taken aback by this very simple question, and I didn't know what to say. Producing is so much part of me that I cannot contemplate doing anything else, but that doesn't answer the question.
But I realized after the fact that the WHY question is fundamental, and even more so considering the difficulties the indie film world is facing today. Since we are certainly not doing it for the money (and in most cases unfortunately not even for our investors' money), then why are we doing it? Not for the hours, obviously. Producing is not the healthiest or stress-free occupation. And from a human standpoint, it is rarely satisfying either. As a function of what we do, we are at the receiving end of all grievances and rarely get any recognition when things do go well because, you know, all is normal then…
So why are we doing it?
Because there is nothing like the experience of watching an amazing film and being devastated, blown away, changed by it. For me, it started with Akira Kurosawa's Ran. I remember being unable to speak for the rest of the day, and trying to find a way to merge with that world, keep it alive in my head, escape in it.
So deep down, this is what has been driving me: I want to hurt the audience with beauty, emotionally wreck the viewers by exposing them to true art. This is the WHY. This is why I want to make movies. But I guess this is very easy to lose sight of this as we struggle with the reality of the business, and making a living, and deal with the pressure of "producing something" to justify being a producer.
In an oft-quoted letter to his friend Oskar Pollak, Franz Kafka wrote: "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for? ...we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."
Of course, creating truly great art is incredibly difficult, and depends on so many factors, most of them beyond our control as producers. It is likely beyond most producers' or filmmakers' ability actually. There are plenty of competent people, but true talent is scarce. And even with the best intentions, the highest artistic integrity, there is never any guarantee of success.
But our responsibility, more than ever, is to try, to be intransigeant with content, to look at our slate with a cold heart and ask ourselves: does this movie really need to be made? And why? Would I honestly go see it if I wasn't the producer? It is so hard to get something made that making something, anything, seems like an achievement in itself. But it is not good enough, not anymore.
And in answering these questions, let's be honest. If what we read is not truly great, not really original, not inspired, if the demo-reel we are watching is average, if the ending doesn't quite work, let's keep working, let's keep writing, let's keep looking for the right creative partners and the right elements.
So rather than lament the lack of opportunities, our response as producers to these dire times should be to try and make better films, make great films, not just good ones. Films that will get seen, and distributed, regardless of the market conditions, the weather, venus' transit or what other movie is being released that week.
There is no room for good anymore, but simply making good movies is not why we got into this anyways, so maybe this is our opportunity to become who we always wanted to be, and do what we always aspired to: make films that break the frozen sea inside.
Julien Favre is a producer at DViant Films, an independent film company based in Los Angeles and Toronto. The company's latest release, Martin Donovan's Collaborator, opens at the Egyptian in Los Angeles this Friday.
COLLABORATOR opens theatrically in Los Angeles tomorrow (Friday, July 20th) for a limited one week run. Screening times here.
As of this writing COLLABORATOR is 82% "Fresh" at Rotten Tomatoes.
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Student Government necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 102 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
Student Government Association
Gainesville State College is one of the fastest growing schools in Georgia and we are looking for a new seal that represents the excellence, achievement and diversity of SGA, our Student Government Association...
... and we want you to design it!
For more information about Gainesville State College visit http://www.gsc.edu
We promise to give great feedback to all designs!
Gainesville State College is one of the fastest growing schools in Georgia, with currently just over 9,000 students.
Things we must have:
- The seal must still be clear when scaled from very large to small sizes.
- It must have the look and feel of a seal. (for example: U.S. Government Seals http://bit.ly/sealexamples )
- It must have "Student Government Association" written in full.
- It must have "Gainesville State College" written in full.
- It must feature our mascot 'Laker the Goose'.
Please Note: Due to existing image restrictions, this new look and feel of 'Laker' must be similar (but please not identical!) to previous artwork attached to this brief.
You are not restricted to recreating Laker exactly from the previous artwork. Please create your own designs only using the image posted as a guide for how Laker could look.
Things we would really like to have:
- We like a maximum of three colors, which could be our school colors: green, white and gray.
Ideas we'd really like to see you play around with:
- We would like to see symbols of a gavel, a scales of justice and a silhouette of geese flying in V formation.
- We would like to see the numbers 1964 (the year GSC was founded) and this year 2009 incorporated.
- The Seal doesn't have to be a circle.
Hidden Symbol
The hidden symbol DOES NOT have to be scalable, meaning it can be smaller or more obscure on the seal.
We would like the number 53 incorporated into the symbol as a hidden symbol, aka 'easter-egg'. Also, it doesn't have to be the digits 5 and 3 themselves, it could also be five objects of one type, and three of another on the seal. Get creative! We're looking for the coolest, hidden way you can use 5 and 3.
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Durbin to run for reelection
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) plans to run for reelection next year.
"I am out there running," he told POLITICO earlier this week.
The majority whip has been raising money but has not hired campaign staff yet. He is likely to formally announce his intentions in April.
Durbin, the number-two ranking Democrat in the Senate, has $2.6 million in the bank and a source said he will likely have around $3 million by the end of the first quarter.
Some thought the 68-year old might not seek a fourth term, perhaps taking a position in President Barack Obama's cabinet.
Durbin has held about 20 events since November in Washington and Illinois. He traveled to 17 states last cycle for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic candidates and the president.


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Exhibits and Public Programs
DNA Festival - Get a Hands-on Look at the World of Genomes
Families can dive deeper into the fascinating world of genomes at the Natural History Museum of Utah's DNA Festival, Saturday, July 9, 2016 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. The DNA Festival is tied to the Museum's special exhibit, Genome: Unlocking Life's Code, that runs through Sept. 5, 2016.
"Spot the Gecko" and win a free family pass to the Natural History Museum of Utah
Since January, families have enjoyed seeing the bulging eyes and colorful skin of living geckos on display in the Natural History Museum of Utah's Geckos Live! exhibit. Now in April, Utahns have a chance to catch a glimpse of a life-sized spotted gecko walking down Main Street, shopping at a mall, eating in a restaurant or hanging out at a library. So keep your eyes open and don't forget to snap a photo of the colorful guy and post it on social media for a chance to win a prize.
Get a Jump on 2016
Join us for a family-friendly Noon Years Eve celebration at the Natural History Museum of Utah on the final day of 2015. Party animals of all ages will be gathering in the Museum's Canyon area, Thursday, December 31, 2015 from 11:00am to 2:00pm for music, fun activities and of course, a group countdown to Noon!
Make ringing in the New Year a memorable event for those infamous party poopers or even the little celebrators who need to be in bed before the stroke of midnight. Guests in attendance will have the opportunity to:
Winter Nights
The Natural History Museum of Utah is excited to announce a series of family-friendly festivities on Wednesday evenings beginning the first week of December. Winter Nights at the Museum will highlight fun activities, musical presentations, shopping discounts and a live performance for visitors of all ages.
Birds of Paradise: An Amazing Avian Evolution
The Natural History Museum of Utah would like to take you on an expedition into the dense jungles of New Guinea to meet some of the most exotic, colorful and unusual birds on the planet. No need to book a flight, just drop by the Museum to spend time in the new "Birds of Paradise: An Amazing Avian Evolution" exhibit running Saturday, Sept. 19 through Jan 3, 2015.
Get Your DIY on with Two Unique Workshops Inspired by Nature
This fall, the Natural History Museum of Utah is teaming up with Craft Lake City for two exciting new DIY workshops. Both events will take place in the Naturalist Lab and are part of the Museum's After Dark series held on Wednesday evenings.
Firefly Sightings in Utah
June 17, 2015 —Natural History Museum of Utah entomologist Christy Bills wasn't sure what to think, when people first began reporting firefly sightings around the state. Not until someone brought her a firefly they had caught did she begin to think more about it. Of course, anyone who has spent time east of Colorado knows lightning bugs can be plentiful on a muggy summer night. Firefly sightings are much more common in warm, humid regions around the globe. Yet it seems more and more rural Utah residents are coming forward with lightning bug stories of their own.
Eye to Eye Exhibit Opens at the Natural History Museum of Utah
Eye to Eye: Re-visioning Eye Disease is an interactive exhibit that explores and celebrates the various ways people adapt and overcome the challenges associated with several common diseases of the eye. As part of the 'Utah Futures' gallery at the Natural History Museum of Utah at the Rio Tinto Center, the exhibit also explores advances in technology and research by Jade Therapeutics that are enabling exciting new treatment options.


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A Potter County grand jury indicted a divorced couple on murder charges in the 1987 shooting death of their friend at a northwest Amarillo home.
Horace Green, 77, and Rosie Ann Green, 63, were indicted in May in the Jan. 28, 1987, killing of Arthur Campbell, 23, according to court records.
A landlord found Campbell's body on the living room floor at 2344 N.W. 14th Ave. and called police. Campbell had been shot in the back of the head.
The indictments were unsealed Monday after authorities arrested Rosie Ann Green at her Henderson, Ky., apartment and brought her back to Amarillo.
Rosie Ann Green is being held at the Potter County jail in lieu of a $10,000 bond, a jail official said. Horace Green is free on a $10,000 bond, records said.
The murder charge is a first-degree felony punishable by five to 99 years in prison.
Campbell rented a home from Horace Green and began hanging out at Green's home, friend Terry Carter said Tuesday.
"Arthur was gay and coming out," Carter said. Horace Green "had this thing against homosexuals. He did not care for them."
Carter said Campbell joined the cheerleading squad at Tascosa High School during his junior year and graduated in 1980.
"He was a smart kid with a bright future," he said. "He was just so ambitious."
Campbell worked as an optician at Eye Pro Express, court records show.
In 1986, Rosie Allen Green and the Greens' son, Allen Charles, were listed as beneficiaries on Campbell's life insurance policy, according to court records.
The policy insured Campbell's life for $15,000 and included another $15,000 in the event of an accidental death, according to court records. In a June 1988 lawsuit, Allen Charles Green sued the insurance company for not paying a total of $30,000 after Campbell "died as a result of a gunshot wound to the back of his head," the original petition said.
Campbell's fatal gunshot wound fit the policy's "accidental means" definition, but the insurance company had failed to release the money, according to Green's suit.
Two months later, Allen Charles Green filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit after the parties "compromised and released his claim" for an undisclosed amount, records show.


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Parents play a critical role in the success of IDEA Public Schools. We encourage our parents to actively participate in the education of their children.
Get Involved in the Education of Your Children
You can get involved in your children's education by reading to them and asking them about their homework assignments as well as by making sure they attend school, get physical exercise, and eat healthy well-rounded meals every day.
Stay Informed about IDEA
IDEA is committed to keeping our parents up to date about our latest results and initiatives through regular campus communications as well as periodic electronic newsletters, printed magazines, and our district-wide and campus-specific websites.
Serve as an Ambassador for IDEA
We also encourage our parents to serve as ambassadors for IDEA Public Schools in the communities where they live. This might entail telling your neighbors about our unique college readiness curriculum and our strong track record of college success. Or it could involve letting your elected officials and local philanthropic organizations know about the importance of supporting public charter school legislation and fundraising.
As a parent of one or more IDEA students, you should receive frequent updates from your campus leaders. If you do not receive these updates via email, you can access them on your campus websites. In addition, IDEA Founder and CEO Tom Torkelson invites parents to share their questions, ideas and concerns via email.


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A village in Greater Kaohsiung's Tsuoying District (左營) built for the dependents of military personnel, where the walls are no longer pale and time-blasted, but are instead bedecked with an array of child-like graffiti, is to become history next month when the Ministry of National Defense tears down the community.
"Lost in a military dependents' village" (眷村裡迷路) provides the key theme for a series of artistic creations in Zihjhusin Village (自助新村) which draw thousands of tourists a week.
The project began in the summer of 2010, when two graduates from the Kaohsiung-based Wenzao Ursuline Collage of Languages — Chung Hui-jung (鍾慧蓉) and Huang Hsin-ying (黃馨瑩) — visited the village and accidentally lost their way wandering down an alleyway.
Despite getting lost, the pair asked a district police officer, identified only as La Ko (拉哥), "if they were allowed to paint there."
"Paint all you want, the village is going to be pulled down soon anyway," La Ko said to them.
The pair then brought several cans of paint and began to splash color on the walls, breathing new life into the village despite the demolition deadline, which runs in accordance with the Act for Rebuilding Old Quarters for Military Dependents (國軍老舊眷村改建條例).
Spreading through the social networking Web site Facebook as well as blogs, their works of art soon caught the attention of many young people, including a group of students from another Kaohsiung-based school, the Haicing Vocational High School of Technology and Commerce.
While the village has been transformed from an ordinary military dependents' village into a popular art community, noise pollution and litter issues have arisen. However, the fact that the place has become a must-see for young people still surprises many senior village residents.
Last year, a group of students launched a petition calling for the village to be preserved in an attempt to salvage what they described as a "youngsters' graffiti paradise." Several government officials also lobbied for the village's conservation, but their pleas fell on deaf ears.
Former chief executive of the Executive Yuan's Southern Taiwan Joint Services Center, Lo Shih-hsiung (羅世雄), conducted an on-site inspection of the village with military personnel in an effort to save the place from demolition. Despite the effort, the military remained firm in its stance to carry out its planned demolition.
Kaohsiung City Government Bureau of Cultural Affairs Director-General Shih Che (史哲) also expressed regret over the defense ministry's lack of appreciation of cultural heritage.
Sources said that the bureau had exhausted efforts to persuade the military to preserve the village as it had done with the Japanese-style Mingdesin Village (明德新村) as well as the designation of both Jianyesin Village (建業新村) and Hecyunsin Village (合群新村), in the city as cultural landscapes.
The combined size of the three villages totals 59 hectares.
According to the ministry-affiliated Marine Military Dependents Service Section, the majority of Zihjhusin village residents have been relocated to a new building and upon the village's scheduled demolition next month, the Ministry of Finance's National Property Administration is to be entrusted with putting the plot of land upon which Zihjhusin sits up for auction.
Profit from the sale of the land is to then be used to fill a Reconstruction Foundation fund gap of more than NT$5 billion (US$167 million), the section said.


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Reuters Digital Names Executive Editor
Jim Roberts has been named executive editor, Reuters Digital. In this newly created role, he will oversee the editorial work of Reuters.com and the global family of Reuters websites, opinion team and online video operation. Since 2006, Roberts served as The New York Times's chief digital editor and evangelist, first in the role of editor of digital news, and most recently as an assistant managing editor. He led a vast expansion of NYTimes.com from 2006 to 2009. Before joining the Times's digital team, Roberts was national editor of the Times and the paper's national political editor during the 2000 campaign. He also worked as an editor on the Times's metropolitan and sports desks. Before joining the Times, he worked in a variety of reporting and editing jobs in Richmond, Va., Baltimore and Dallas.


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Dear friends and visitors,
We have gathered here today to mourn the loss of a truly reliable friend. Not even two years of age, my loyal companion Matrox, nickname 250 GB Disk, passed away two days ago. Without any previous symptoms he lost his life under rather mysterious circumstances.
Let us all remember him, and my precious MP3 collection that he took with him, as the literally hot piece of storage device that he was. I hope that he is now watching me, if not my friends' and ex-girlfriends' pictures, that also died with him, from hard disk heaven above.
Okay, long story short: If you asked yourselves where I have been the last days – I had computer trouble and lost a lot of data. Well, just wanted to let you know.
If you have added me to your viral tags, don't worry. I'll add every newcomer tomorrow :-).
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When I went to elementary school, we discussed things like children do. We said what we liked, what we didn't care about or what we flat out hated.
Then I went to secondary school (at least I think that's what Americans would call it). There the teachers wanted to teach us to discuss issues like grown-ups do. Collect arguments, sort them in a pro/contra scheme, then debate on them. My problem: Never was one side a clear winner. It might work for the arguments, but the whole topics are not that easy.
I hated it. I won these debates, but till this day I don't like the pro/con idea.
Nowadays, when I turn on the news, I get the same feeling I got in the classrooms. There doesn't seem to be room for interpretation, analysis or a variety of different opinions. Everything has become pro/con.
While people see and report things as black or white, I enjoy the different shades of grey.
Have you ever felt stuck in a corner, when a topic came up and all of a sudden people asked you: "What do you say? Yes or no?", but you haven't really thought about it? Or maybe you have thought about it, but found reasonable arguments on both sides?
Welcome to the world of grey tones. The German comedian Dieter Nuhr once said:
I think there is a big misunderstanding. You can have an opinion in a Democracy - you don't have to.
"In this war, you're either with us or with the terrorists!" Uhm, what if I'm with you, but not with the war?
"Are you for globalization or against it?" I don't know, I've never seen it done in a fair way. All I see are corporations looking for cheap labor.
"What are you? Liberal or conservative?" Actually, I'm both. People are complicated.
"If you're against the war, you are against the troops." Wow, this is stupid.
The list could go on and on. Republican or Democrat? Left or right? Pro-choice or pro-life? You get my point.
As long as people tell me to chose between two extremes, I mostly stand in the middle, smiling.
Next time when you hear politicians talking on the news, babbling about their color, think about it and ask yourself where you stand - black or white? Or do you join me in grey?
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Could anyone please tell me where blogcatalog.com went?
Yesterday it was up, then down, then up before it went down completely. Now www.blogcatalog.com forwards you to siteproplus.com.
Not that I can't live without it, but I grew rather fond of it, especially after they introduced their forums.
Does anyone know what happened there? Any announcements I missed? A not renewed domain? Too much load because of the forum?
In case you are also wondering or know what's up, please leave a comment.
Hey, I'm over 30. Sudden changes are bad for my health *g*.
Update: Okay, it's back.
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I just read an article about Google on the Financial Times Website.
What peaked my interests were these quotes from Google's CEO Eric Schmidt:
We are very early in the total information we have within Google. The algorithms will get better and we will get better at personalisation.
The goal is to enable Google users to be able to ask the question such as 'What shall I do tomorrow?' and 'What job shall I take?'
We cannot even answer the most basic questions because we don't know enough about you. That is the most important aspect of Google's expansion.
Recapitulating, I'd say it this way:
We are Google. Resistance is futile. You will be data mined. We will add your informational distinctiveness to our database. Your culture will adapt to be serviced by us.
Is it just me being paranoid, or does anyone else also think that Google is overdoing it?
Just think about it for a moment.
Do you use Google.com as your main search engine?
Do you surf the web with the Google Toolbar?
Do you use Gmail to store your emails?
Do you read feeds via Google Reader?
Do you stay in contact with friends by Google Talk?
Do you watch videos at youtube?
Do you use Google Earth to look at places?
Do you blog at blogger.com?
Do you display ads from Google Adsense? Hey, I do.
Do you Check your stats with Google Analytics?
There are a lot more things you can do with Google. And everything you do leaves data for Google to analyze.
Is it used to enhance their service? Maybe.
Can it be used in a bad way? Yes.
Do I want one single company do know that much about me? Heck, no!
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Yesterday I watched the last episode of "Gilmore Girls". One of my favorite TV-series - over.
Then a friend sent me a link to a site that said that there will be no 4th season of "Veronica Mars". That kinda pissed me off.
After that - to follow the theme of the day - I read that "Jericho" is also over.
When I was young, I watched stuff like "The A-Team". When I got older, I watched "Picket Fences" and "Profit", which is still my favorite TV-series. Then came "Buffy" & "Angel".
Today there are at least 15 shows I watch - Yes, I'm an addict and I love it.
Do you notice something in this list? Keep in mind the fact that I'm German.
Exactly - I didn't mention one German TV-show. Why? Because German TV-series in general suck! There are probably one or two pearls in this pile of dirt, but that's it.
What is your secret? It can't be the gigantic budget. Shows like "24″ or "Rome" might cost a lot to produce, but something like "How I met your mother"?
The Abundance of great actors? I don't think so. There are a lot of them, no doubt about that, but I wouldn't bet on a David Schwimmer block buster anytime soon.
So what makes your shows so much better than ours? The screen writers? Technology? The way they're produced?
I've got no idea. But I hope you will continue to make them. I'm an addict, remember?
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Super 14 - Round 8 Preview
Upsets on the cards in Super 14
April 1, 2010
Will Genia received high praise from his Wallabies predecessor this week © Getty Images
Round 8 of the 2010 Super 14 season is ripe for upsets as six of the bottom seven teams meet six contenders sitting in the top half of the standings.
While the fifth-placed Brumbies are sitting idle with a bye, the teams around them all have the chance to push on with matches against lowly opposition. Also resting up are the win-less Lions, who know any boilovers will see them stranded further adrift towards the bottom of the table.
Opening the round on Friday night are the desperate Hurricanes, coming off four losses in a row, who host the Crusaders in our Game of the Week.
Following that New Zealand derby, rock-bottom Western Force take on the second-placed Stormers in Perth. The improving Force gave the undefeated Bulls a run for their money at ME Bank Stadium last week so they'll hold some belief of getting a result, but it's their competition-worst attack against the leading defence of the Stormers that makes the visitors hot favourites.
Boosting the Force after their resilient defensive display against the Bulls are the returns of Wallaby backrowers David Pocock and Richard Brown after the pair were injured in Round 1.
Classy flanker Pocock slots straight back into the starting XV while Brown is on the bench. James O'Connor drops back to fullback as Ryan Cross moves inside Mitch Inman in the centres, while Scott Staniforth resumes on the wing after his short-term deal was extended. Mark Bartholomeusz replaces suspended left wing Nick Cummins.
Stormers coach Allister Coetzee has been forced into changes of his own due to injuries to prop Wicus Blaauw and fullback Joe Pietersen. JC Kritzinger replaces Blaauw while Sireli Naqelevuki comes onto the wing, with Gio Aplon moving to No.15.
The table-topping Bulls continue their Australasian tour on Saturday at Eden Park against the up-and-down Blues.
The Blues need to string wins together to match their decent performances, earned on the back of some stellar showings by the Super 14's form player in outside centre Rene Ranger. Tony Woodcock has been replaced in the starting side by Charlie Faumuina due to a neck injury, while Luke McAlister is on the bench after a string of injuries limited the playmaker's game time this season.
The Bulls, ominously, are unchanged as Jaco van der Westhuyzen prepares to earn his 50th cap off the bench. Five of their six straight wins came on home soil before their battle in Perth last week, so the champions are no certainties to claim their first ever win in Auckland.
In the round's second New Zealand derby, the Chiefs welcome the Highlanders to Waikato Stadium desperate for points.
The Highlanders have been off the pace this season and might be even further behind the pack without Israel Dagg's contributions from fullback. The seventh-placed Chiefs will be keen to capitalise on this home encounter with their fourth win of the season.
The Chiefs will have to overcome injuries to wing Sitiveni Sivivatu, flanker Tanerau Latimer and hooker Aled de Malmanche, with Dwayne Sweeney, Luke Braid and Hika Elliot their respective replacements. Mike Delany comes in at fly-half, pushing Stephen Donald out to No.12 and Jackson Willison out of the starting side.
The Chiefs have problems of their own, with vice captain Jamie Mackintosh out with a long-term injury known as 'turf toe'. He is replaced in the front row by Chris King, while inside centre Jason Shoemark, wing Fetu'u Vainikolo and flanker Alando Soakai come in for starts in the other changes from their win over the Lions.
The Waratahs, perhaps the unexpected members of the top four, host the Cheetahs on Saturday night with five points firmly in their sights.
It will be a night of milestones for the Waratahs, with Al Baxter set for his 100th cap, Lachie Turner becoming the youngest player to notch 50 appearances for the New South Wales outfit, and Dean Mumm captaining the side for the first time in place of the injured Phil Waugh.
Highly rated flanker Chris Alcock has the chance to impress in Waugh's sizable boots, while Ben Mowen starts next to him in the scrum as a replacement for Wycliff Palu, who has a hamstring strain.
The Cheetahs are the last team to leave home soil this season, and with only two wins from that favourable early draw, they're going to struggle to make an impression in Sydney. In their changes, fullback Hennie Daniller replaces Springbok Riaan Viljoen, and scrumhalf Tewis de Bruyn moves up from the bench in a swap with Sarel Pretorius.
Wrapping things up on Saturday is the only match in South Africa this week, where the Sharks host the Reds. The Queenslanders have been performing above expectations under Ewen McKenzie's tutelage and but for an undeserved last-minute defeat to the Waratahs would be sitting in their place in the top four.
The Sharks, though, have put two wins together after a horror start to their campaign. They're back at home after a five-week Australasian sojourn and veteran wing Stefan Terblanche is making his 100th appearance for the franchise.
The Reds' exemplary scrum-half Will Genia, the stand-in skipper and driving force for their attacking verve this season, received some big praise this week from Wallabies legend George Gregan. Gregan told Australian media he thought his heir apparent has "better skills" and, at 22, the potential to be a better player than he was.
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