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On March 14, 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an executive order setting aside Pelican Island, Florida, as the very first national wildlife refuge.
Today, it remains an essential breeding ground for migratory waterfowl—and one of 561 wildlife refuges overseen by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Daniel M. Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recently discussed what Pelican Island is like today.
How has Pelican Island changed over the past century?
Because of large-vessel traffic along the Intercoastal Waterway, Pelican Island itself has eroded over the decades from 5 acres [in the early 20th century] to 3.2 acres today. But prior to its centennial 10 years ago, we started stabilizing the island's shoreline with oyster shells, and as a result it has seen modest growth. And in another sense it is bigger than ever. The refuge now includes much of the adjacent barrier island, some 5,000 acres, and it is directly connected to the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, the most productive sea turtle nesting beach in North America.
Can the public visit Pelican Island?
The public cannot actually go on the island but you can kayak around it, and you can see it from an overlook we built [10 years ago], the Centennial Trail Boardwalk. It is a wonderful place to visit. Just go to the website, and contact the refuge office in Vero Beach for information on renting kayaks and to get maps of the boardwalk and other trails. There are handicapped-accessible trails.
You are also using oyster replenishment, which has helped stabilize Pelican Island, in other places, including Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina?
Yes. The Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is threatened by sea level rise. We are trying to restore the hydrology, regenerate the oysters, provide a stable system for a more orderly transition so the wildlife can survive. Alligator River has millions of migratory birds. The only wild population of the endangered red wolf in the world lives there, also the threatened red-cockaded woodpecker. We know that place is going to change, and we have to look 50, 100 years in the future. We have to make a long-term commitment.
When Theodore Roosevelt set aside Pelican Island, he was responding to massive poaching that threatened many bird species. What is the most critical issue facing the National Wildlife Refuge System today?
I'd say it is the loss and degradation of habitat. Climate change is one of the things driving loss of habitat, but so are people, more and more people occupying more of the available space on the planet. By and large, the wildlife refuges are well protected, but we need to renew this commitment to habitat protection. The refuges used to be surrounded by lands largely in their natural state. They could have been cattle ranches, hunting preserves, but now they are surrounded by suburban development and intensive agriculture. So we have to work not just to protect the refuges but the surrounding habitat. We are competing against forces that are enormous but there's this great Roosevelt quote: "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
So Theodore Roosevelt's legacy will endure?
I think it will. The American people have a passion for wildlife and will continue to have a passion for wildlife, so there's reason to be optimistic. If we see it as an obligation and are committed to managing these resources, we will succeed.


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The Little Shop of Stitches is making its home at 79 South Main Street in Miamisburg! The owner of the building is busy doing a lot of renovations both to the interior and the exterior. It will be AMAZING once it is finished!
The building sits right at the corner of Main Street and Linden Avenue in historic downtown Miamisburg. The building itself dates back to the 1920's and has a tremendous amount of charm. It reminds me of an old-fashioned general store. Quaint, comfortable, AWESOME!
I am proud to be "next door" neighbors with some fantastic local businesses -- Giuliano's Italian Restaurant, TJ Chumps, and A Taste of Wine. Downtown Miamisburg has a lot to offer, and now it's getting a new quilt shop!!!
There is still a lot of work to be done, and I will keep you all updated on the progress of the renovations. We are tentatively planning to be open for business around Labor Day. I am humbled by all of the support and good wishes I've received. I know you are just as excited as I am! Please help spread the word to all of your fellow stitchers -- The Little Shop of Stitches is on the map!
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AUGUSTA, Ga. - The men's and women's cross country All-Academic teams have been released by the Peach Belt Conference (PBC). Georgia College & State University had four names on the women's list and two on the men's squad.
Senior Sarah Hakala (Jacksonville, Fla.) with a GPA of 4.0 (Biology) and junior Bonnie Ueltzen (Blairsville, Ga.) with a 3.76 GPA (Physical Education) made first team honors. Junior standout Heather Raines (Lawrenceville, Ga.) had a GPA of 3.41 (Mass Communication) and sophomore Dani Destiche (Snellville, Ga.) with a GPA of 3.51 (Outdoor Education) were elected to second team honors.
Sophomore Tim Cary (Monroe, Ga.) is an Accounting major and had a 3.37 GPA along with junior teammate Josh Hollar (Canton, Ga.) who had a GPA of 3.5 (Mathematics) made the men's All-Academic list.
Ueltzen, Destiche and Hollar were named to the All-PBC teams in 2007. Ueltzen is No. 1 on the women's top 10 6K for a Bobcat at 24:13 at the 2008 Pepperdine Invitational. Raines and Destiche fall in right behind her with times of 24:16 and 24:21, respectively. Cary and Hollar both finished in the top 32 at the PBC Championships on their home course in Milledgeville with times of 29:46 and 30:33 respectively.
The two teams are the first in a new season-long program recognizing the outstanding accomplishments of PBC student-athletes in the classroom as well as on the field. To be eligible for the All-Academic team, a student-athlete must 1) participate in at least half of his/her team's events and be either a starter or significant contributor; 2) achieved a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale) and 3) completed at least one full academic year at his or her current institution. The Sports Information Directors from around the conference oversee and select the teams.
The GCSU Department of Athletics sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Follow the Bobcats and their positive impact on the Milledgeville community at www.gcsu.edu/bobcats.


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December 03, 2013
The recently released report by Washington, D.C., consultants Avalere calls into question promised savings from a single-payer health care system. Skeptics and opponents of Green Mountain Care want to see the money: Where are the savings promised by Dr. Hsaio when he urged Vermont to go for single-payer?
Are the savings in all Vermonters having access to health care for the same amount of money being spent now?
Are the savings in a healthier and more productive Vermont?
Are the savings in employers being able to invest in their businesses and employees instead of in insurance companies?
Based on a two-year study, the League of Women Voters strongly supports single-payer, publicly funded health insurance for Vermont. Remember that we're all paying for everybody's health care now, through a complicated mix of Medicare, Medicaid, Tricare, insurance premiums and cost shifting that still leaves many un- or underinsured. The transitional problems experienced by Vermont Health Connect have been exploited by opponents to insurance reform and should not be confused with single-payer. Don't let those afraid of needed change make us lose sight of the goal of affordable, universal health care for Vermont.
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Javier Montes [Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists]
As we mentioned a couple Fridays ago, we're going to spend the next 5 days highlighting all of the authors selected for Granta's _"Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists" special issue. All past and future posts related to this issue can be found by clicking here.
Today's featured Granta author is Spanish author Javier Montes. The opening of his new novel "The Hotel Life" was translated by superstar Margaret Jull Costa for this issue.
OK, the "fun wintertime weather" of Rochester has been replaced by mountains of snow and slipping cars and interminable delays getting into the office. Oh, and zero degree nights. People now resemble nondescript bundles, and the idea of walking anywhere to get sustenance and coffee seems as mentally daunting as climbing a mountain, or traveling through the Canadian tundra.
In addition to suffering this "wintry mix," I've spent about an hour resetting every password I can think of since my email account and password were released and compromised thanks to that Gawker hack thing. UGH. The simplicity of using the same password at all accounts has been replaced by unique digit and symbol combinations that resemble the inside of a schizophrenic's mind.
So, these two things have left me a bit cranky, a lot behind, and having to half phone this post in . . . (Excuses, excuses.)
Javier Montes's "The Hotel Life" is one of my favorite pieces in here. It's not the most experimental (also a big fan of the Hasbun, which will be highlighted next week) or the most daring, but in its direct simplicity and creepy moments, it's a memorable, interesting opening (?) to his "novel in progress."
First though, here's a bit about Montes himself: According to Granta, he's a writer, translator, and art critic. (Here are some pieces from Letras Libres.) He won the Jose Maria Pereda Prize for his first novel, Los penultimos, and just published another, Segunda parte. (Nice. Those are titles I can approve of.) Together with Andres Barba, he received the Anagrama Essay Prize for the book La ceremonia del porno. (And the list of awesome titles continues.) He's done other things with Barba, including editing an anthology of stories entitled After Henry James. (Again.)
About "The Hotel Life": I'm going to include to excerpts below, the opening which sets the tone about the narrator deciding to write a review of a local hotel, and then a part of the creepy-odd moment when he gets to his room.
HOTEL IMPERIAL, 17 March
I took only one light suitcase with me, although it was such a short journey that I could easily have taken more and heavier luggage if I'd wanted. Ten blocks, or 1.132km according to the electronic receipt from the taxi. There was so much traffic, though, that it took me twenty minutes. No one said goodbye to me or closed the apartment door behind me, no one came with me, still less followed in my tracks. I was, however, expected at my destination, and the room where I was to spend the night had been reserved in my name. I live so close to the hotel that it really would have been quicker to walk, but I decided to hail a taxi so as to get the journey off to a good start. However short, it was still a journey, and I wanted to show that I was taking it seriously (but then I've always taken both my work and my journeys seriously; they do, after all, come to more or less the same thing).
Or perhaps the opposite was true, perhaps it was a matter of being capable of a certain playfulness too, when required. I've spent half my life moving from hotel to hotel, but this was the first time I would sleep in one in my own city. That's why I finally agreed to do it when the newspaper called and suggested the Imperial. I think we were all surprised when I did.
'They've finished the refurbishment now and have just sent us their new publicity pack.'
Initially, I refused. They know I never write about new hotels.
'But this isn't a new hotel. It's the same old Imperial. They've just given it a facelift.'
I don't like new hotels: the smell of paint, the piped music. And I distrust the refurbished variety. Any 'facelift' destroys the prestige and character which, in older establishments, are the hotel equivalent of good sense and even sentiment, or, at least, of memory. I don't know that I'm much of a sentimentalist myself, but I do have a good memory. And I've noticed that, after a certain age, sentiment and memory tend to merge, which is probably why I prefer hotels that know how to remember.
I long ago agreed my terms with the newspaper. I choose the hotel of the week, and they pay. Cheap or expensive, near or far, undiscovered or famous, and usually just for one night, but sometimes two. No skimping (they skimp quite enough on my fee) and no favours either. I never accept invitations in exchange for a review.
Not even if it's a bad review, as some either very stupid or very astute PR guy once asked me over the phone.
People in the hotel world know my views, but an awful lot of invitations still get sent to me at the office (I won't allow the paper to give anyone my home address). I suppose the PR companies send them just in case I do, one day, take the bait, just in case I relent and end up accepting and going to the hotel, where they will treat me like royalty and give me the very best room, so that I will then write a five-star review, which they will frame and hang up in reception or post on their website, and which will bring in money from guests or, even if it doesn't and even if they don't need it, will doubtless bring them other things that are sometimes worth as much or more than money: the approval of fellow hoteliers, the warm glow of vanity confirmed, the certainty that they are, as a hotel, on the right track.
My column, I have to say, continues to be a success. And although the people at the newspaper never say as much, so that I don't get bigheaded, I know that hotels, airlines and travel agencies are queuing up to put a half-page advertisement in my section: 'The Hotel Life'.
That success is, of course, relative, as is any success in newspapers and in print. Every now and then, someone suggests I start a blog with my reviews. Even the people at the newspaper do so occasionally. It might be fouling our own nest, they say, but if you started a blog and got some advertising on it, you'd make a mint.
I think they're exaggerating.
'Besides, you only live around the corner. All you'd have to do is spend a couple of hours there one afternoon to check out what they've done.'
Again I refused. They know perfectly well that I don't write about hotels I haven't slept in. It would be like writing a restaurant review having only sniffed the plates as the waiters brought them out (of course, my colleague on the next page sometimes does exactly that in his column: 'Dinner is Served'. He said to me when we met once, 'I can tell by the smell alone what's cooking.' I didn't take to him, and the feeling, I imagine, was mutual).
'Well, if that's what's bothering you, spend the night there.'
They may have been joking, but I took them at their word. I rather liked the idea of sleeping in a hotel room from which I could almost, you might say, see the windows of my own empty apartment and bedroom. A night of novelty might buck me up a bit. I've grown rather jaded with the years; well, I've been doing the same job for a long time now. My choice, of course. And I do it reasonably well, I think, possibly better than anyone, to judge by the emails I sometimes get from readers and even the occasional letter written the old-fashioned way, with pen and paper, envelope and stamp, and which the newspaper also forwards to me.
The letters always arrive opened. Apparently it's a security thing, but it seems a bit over the top: I might be somewhat harsh in my comments at times, but not enough to merit a letter bomb. Then again, I don't mind if the people at the office read them, always assuming they do, because at least the editors will see that I do still have a public.
On the other hand, there's nothing so very amazing about being better than anyone else at a job for which there's scarcely any competition. There aren't many of us hotel reviewers left, not at least in the newspaper world. The Internet is another matter, there everyone wants to give his and her opinion and to analyse their journey down to the last detail and even write as if they were real reviewers (I think some of them copy my style and my adjectives). There's nothing wrong with that, I suppose. On the other hand, the reviews are never somehow right either: they're nearly always illintentioned, ill-considered and ill-written by venomous individuals or by just plain weirdos: I mean, I like my work, but I certainly wouldn't do it for free.
In the end, I gave in, which is presumably what the people at the Imperial were counting on when they tried their luck. The editors were thrilled, so I guess they had some advertising deal going on as well. As usual, they made the reservation in my name. My real name, of course, not the pseudonym I use for my column. The surname on my ID card throws even the sharpest manager or receptionist off the scent and means that I can be just like any other hotel guest. That's also why I won't allow my photograph to appear alongside my name, and why I never go to conventions or meetings with colleagues. That's no great sacrifice, mind: they're doubtless as dull as the reviews they write. Having no face makes my job much easier and – why deny it? – more amusing too. That way, the whole thing has something of the double agent or the undercover spy about it. A double double agent, because in hotels, no one is ever who they say they are, and who doesn't take advantage of a stay in a hotel to play detective, however unwittingly?
After all these years of only using my real name to check in, it now seems to me falser than my false name; apart from the people on the newspaper, few people know it, and still fewer – almost no one, in fact – uses it.
The corridor on my floor was empty and silent, as if it were five in the morning. Or as if it were precisely the time it was, because hotels are often very noisy at five in the morning. No employees, no guests. The thick, gluey smell of new carpets. I reached my room door and it took me a while to work out how to put the card in the slot. Finally, the little red light blinked, then turned green. The door gave a kind of wheeze and reluctantly opened a couple of centimetres. Beyond lay a dark area, one of those spaces in hotel rooms that serve as a kind of no-man's-land and provide the luxury of a square metre with no furniture, no name and no other purpose than that of isolating the bedroom, at least in theory, from any noise out in the corridor.
To my right, the door of the bedroom stood slightly ajar, letting in just enough light for me to see that the door to the bathroom stood wide open. A gleaming tap dripped in the darkness. Before I had a chance to close the main door to the corridor, I heard a voice inside. Like a thief taken by surprise, I instinctively froze, an instinct I had no idea I possessed and which was, besides, entirely misplaced. To my left, in the full-length mirror in the vestibule, something moved. In the reflection, I could make out the inside of the room that the door was preventing me from seeing. I saw a double bed with a beige counterpane that matched the grey light coming in through a window invisible to me.
A girl was sitting on the edge, towards the head of the bed. She was pretty, despite the ridiculous amount of make-up she was wearing. She looked very young. She had on only a bra and panties. Her hair and skin were the colour of the bedspread. Her hands were resting on her lap, and she was staring down at them with a look of utter boredom on her face. She was blowing out her cheeks a little, drumming lightly on the carpet with her feet and sighing scornfully, exaggerating these signs of tedium, like a child pretending to be bored. Out of the corner of her eye she was watching something happening on the part of the bed not reflected in the mirror. She wasn't alone. The mattress creaked without her having moved a muscle and someone – a man, of course – panted once, twice, three times.
I didn't know whether to go back out into the corridor or to walk straight in and demand an explanation. Since they clearly couldn't see me, I took another step forward, my eyes still fixed on the mirror. The girl's reflection disappeared. On the other side of the bed, with his back to the headboard and to her, I saw a naked boy. He was probably slightly younger than the girl and much darker skinned too. I couldn't see his face because his head was bent contritely over his chest: I could see only a tense forehead, the beginning of a frown. He was still breathing like someone about to make some great physical effort, and was running his hand over his chest with a strangely insentient, robotic gesture. Then the girl spoke.
'Get on with it, will you?'
The boy jumped and looked at her as if he had forgotten she was there.
'All right, all right.'
He again focused on his hand and let it slide slowly down his chest to his navel. He placed it, without much conviction, on his flaccid penis, which he shook a couple of times, like a rattle. Then suddenly a shiver ran through him.
'It's too bloody cold in here.'
'Yeah, yeah.'
The girl's 'yeah, yeah' sounded resigned, as if she had said it a thousand times before, as if she had spent her whole life in that room, sitting there in her underpants, listening to people complaining about the cold. I imagined her arching her eyebrows and nodding in mock solemnity, but to check that I was right, I would have had to stop seeing the boy's face. She must have liked the woman-of-the-world air that her 'yeah, yeah' gave her, because she repeated it.
'Yeah, yeah.'
The boy started breathing hard again as he went about his business without success. The girl joined in his next out-breath.
'What's wrong?'
'I don't know. Can't you help?'
'No, I can't, I've told you already. You have to do it on your own. Then we can fuck.'
'I can't get it up.'
'Well, watch the film then.'
The girl had suddenly adopted the tone of an older sister.
'Wait, I'll turn up the volume.'
I heard her feeling for something next to the bed and heard things falling onto the carpet. I didn't dare change my position in order to be able to see her face again. I was beginning to feel afraid they would discover me there. The idea of marching into the bedroom, pretending to be surprised and asserting my rights had vanished of its own accord. I should have gone down to reception. The truth is, I don't know if I stayed there because I was afraid of making a noise as I left or because I wanted to see and hear more. It seemed to me that I could safely wait a while longer: if the boy or the girl got up, I would still have time to step out into the corridor and close the door before they saw me.
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In the absence of effective provincial laws and policies to protect the Rouge Park, municipal plans are determining how, or if, the Rouge Park vision will be implemented.
A good example of this reality is Markham Council's September 2003 approval of an Official Plan Amendment (OPA) intended to give legal force to the Rouge North Management Plan (RNMP).
The RNMP was developed between 1997 and 2002 to guide the establishment of the Rouge Park in York Region. Although, it is a compromise between development and conservation interests, the RNMP contains some good objectives, policies and management guidelines.
The Town of Markham endorsed the Rouge North Management Plan in July 2001 as the basis for a subsequent amendment to Markham's Official Plan. Unfortunately, Markham approved an Official Plan Amendment that is inconsistent with the endorsed RNMP and the protection of the Rouge Park. Among the inconsistencies:
By failing to require the application of the "ecological criteria" within the existing urban boundary, Markham has condemned 30% of the Rouge River Watershed to the continued use of out-dated and ineffective standards for water quality and watershed protection.
The consequences of Markham's weak Rouge North Official Plan Amendment include:
The establishment of a healthy and sustainable Rouge Park will require greater leadership and protection from the province, Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, federal government and municipalities.
Together, they must create laws and policies to protect the Rouge Park and watershed from unwise development and they must allocate funding to acquire land and restore forest cover to more than 30% of the Rouge watershed.
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FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari, Episode 8: November 14, 2013
This episode is dedicated to public facing moderation plans at strategic level as a way to oversee, monitor, and grow a community. We understand what a public facing moderation plan is, why it's important, how an organization should be internally structured (who does what) and I also share with you an example of a great public facing moderation plan.
Here you can find the accurate description of what's discussed in this episode. If you feel a bit lost, if you are new to this, or if the topics seem to be too complicated, don't worry. You can take your time and listen to the show while you follow this post that I have already prepared for you.
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We are a very early-stage, bootstrapped venture. Our goal is to build a platform that will make shopping more efficient for everyone online, and that will leverage existing online communities to do so.
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Right now, our target audience is other businesses, both large and small, who are interested in incorporating our technology into their sites. Therefore, we are seeking an elegant, professional logo that is nevertheless unique & memorable.
We have incorporated under the name Group Commerce, Inc.
We will either call ourselves Group Commerce Inc (GCI), or, more likely, Group Commerce Solutions (GCS).
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Seventeen-year-old Joshua had fond memories of swimming in Arkansas's Strawberry River, a popular site for community gatherings and picnics. But after the construction of a wastewater treatment facility upstream, no one would enter the waters. "The wonderland where I spent so many hours as a child is deserted now, and nobody swims or fishes in that section of the river," Joshua would later write. "I decided to find out for myself if the [facility] had indeed contaminated the water, or if the community had overreacted."
Hypothesizing that the water was unsafe for swimming and wading due to contamination, Joshua tested the water in various sites along the river over the course of a year—a project that led to Joshua's essay An Evaluation of Fecal Contamination in Strawberry River, for which he received a 2011 Young Naturalist Award.
Joshua evaluated the risk of water-related illness in the river by measuring the amounts of Escherichia coli in the water, as well as Enterococcus faecalis, intestinal microbes that can be harmful to humans. While E. coli testing can measure fecal pollution, E. faecalis is better at distinguishing between human and animal feces because it is found primarily in humans and chickens rather than in all warm-blooded animals. Joshua also took note of the climate, topography, land use, and potential animal fecal contaminators around Strawberry River in order to see the full picture of its apparent pollution.
Joshua's samples supported his hypothesis, revealing the water did not meet swimming and wading safety standards. Furthermore, E. faecalis provided a more consistent test result for fecal contamination than E. coli in his experiment.
Joshua's research isn't over yet. He has been continuing the investigation throughout 2011 to understand seasonal fluctuations in river contaminants, so that he can gauge whether swimmers face a higher risk of illness at the time of year when swimming becomes a popular pastime.
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SAN BERNARDINO >> Mark Bailey, manager of The Library Gentlemen's Club in Redlands, believes local government never gives adult businesses a fair shake. They're not the seedy establishments government makes them out to be, he said.
Bailey was reacting to a vote Tuesday by San Bernardino County supervisors, who unanimously approved an ordinance that will impose sweeping regulations on adult businesses in the county's unincorporated areas, including mandatory licenses for strip club owners, managers and dancers and the banning of physical contact between patrons and dancers.
"The people that are putting all these ordinances into effect apparently they have nothing else to do," Bailey said, adding that no sexual intercourse occurs at the clubs, at least not at the one he manages.
Bailey said adults should be treated like adults at adult businesses and have their freedom. He believes people are exposed to more harm going to the movies.
"Regulate the kids that go into see the movie '300.' It's an R-rated movie," Bailey said. "I saw it recently and there were 35 kids under 10 watching everybody's head fly off and blood all over the scene. Regulate that. People who come here are over 21 and they're adult for the most part."
The goal of the county's ordinance, which goes before the Board of Supervisors on March 25 for final adoption, is to deter the crime and blight long associated with adult businesses.
It requires dancers and patrons to maintain a minimal distance of six feet from one another at all times and restricts dancer activity to a main stage.
In addition, doors on arcade booths where patrons pay to watch adult films in private would be prohibited in order to deter unlawful sexual activity and the potential spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Strip club owners, managers and dancers would have to pay application and license fees and renew them annually at a cost of $92.
"It's been proven across the country that adult businesses can promote an increase in sexually transmitted diseases. It's been proven that they lead to an increase in crimes such as prostitution and drug trafficking, and it's been proven that they promote blight in neighborhoods, they reduce property values and they keep other businesses from wanting to locate there," county spokesman David Wert said.
He said the new ordinance allows adult businesses plenty of places to operate, but places where they will not pose harmful impacts.
In its ordinance, the county cites dozens of studies conducted over the last 40 years linking adult businesses to increased crime and blight in the neighborhoods where they operate.
Santa Monica-based attorney Roger Jon Diamond, who for decades has defended adult business owners in Southern California and elsewhere, including the longstanding legal battle between the city of San Bernardino and the Flesh Club, said the "secondary effects" studies often cited by municipalities are dated and do not reflect the business model of the contemporary gentleman's club.
"That's a typical procedural move that is made in these kinds of cases," said Diamond, who chalked the ordinance up to political grandstanding. "These studies are old, and they weren't that good to begin with."
There are no known adult businesses currently operating in county unincorporated areas, he said.
For more than 20 years, the city of San Bernardino tried shuttering the Flesh Club, alleging it was a den for prostitution and a crime magnet. But the taxpayer funded legal battle proved futile. The club was allowed to stay open and the city was slapped with a $1.4 million judgement for lost wages due to the club's forced temporary closure during the litigation.
"They haven't offered any evidence that the Flesh Club has caused any secondary adverse effects in the community, because it hasn't happened," Diamond said.
Under the county's new adult business zoning regulations, there would be 202 potential sites for such businesses, but only 24 could be in operation at any time. That's because the ordinance does not allow any adult business to be within 1,000 feet from another one, meaning that available land space would quickly dwindle with the opening of each business.
"What the ordinance does is prevent an overconcentration so you don't have one area that becomes nothing but adult businesses. That's what the separation standard does," said Terri Rahhal, the county's planning director.
Of the 24 locations where adult businesses could operate legally, 14 are in the High Desert, nine are in the San Bernardino Valley and one is in the mountains.
Part of the problem, Rahhal said, is that locations where adult businesses can meet the new zoning regulations become slim pickings in more densely populated and developed areas.
The new zoning regulations also prohibit adult businesses from being within 500 feet of residential areas, religious institutions, K-12 schools, and parks.
One of the problems the county had to grapple with was trying to find areas in the more densely populated valley where adult businesses could operate and not be in conflict with the zoning regulations.
"When you get into the urbanized areas there are a lot of existing uses that can create land use conflicts, so it's hard to find sites that are a sufficient distance from all the other uses," Rahhal said.
Diamond said the ordinance essentially banishes adult businesses to areas where it wouldn't be lucrative for them to operate.
"The majority (of areas) are not usable and they know that," Diamond said. "It's another example of our freedom being taken from (us)."
Wert said there are no unusable areas mapped out for adult businesses.
"All of the locations are accessible to the public," said Wert. "Mr. Diamond knows this is an effective legally sound ordinance that will protect communities from the proven harmful effects of adult businesses while giving adult businesses an appropriate opportunity to exist."


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The earliest textual reference to the sphinx of India is found in the Yajur Veda. The earliest known depictions in stone of sphinxes are found in central and north-west India and date to the 1st century BCE till the 2nd century CE. They are found among the decorations of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain shrines. And they show distinct Hellenistic influences especially in that they often have wings of the type typical of Greek sphinxes.
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I thought the great cat od India was the Tiger.
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the idea has to have been imported.
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U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, on Thursday said he will resign from Congress to accept a post with the University of Alabama System.
U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile, on Thursday said he will resign from Congress to accept a post with the University of Alabama System.
Robert Witt, chancellor of the three-campus UA System, said Bonner will begin his new duties as vice chancellor for government relations and economic development on Aug. 16, the day after his resignation from Congress takes effect.
"Jo's extensive government experience and outstanding economic development record make him ideally suited for this important new position," Witt said in a statement released Thursday by the UA system.
The vice chancellor job is a newly created position in the UA system.
Bonner, 53, is a 1982 graduate of UA. He is the younger brother of Judy Bonner, who last year was named president of the UA system's flagship Tuscaloosa campus.
"I am very pleased that Jo will continue to serve the state of Alabama in this new capacity with the UA System office," Judy Bonner said.
"Certainly, his experience and expertise in the area of government relations and economic development will be invaluable as he works with all three campuses to enhance the quality of life for all Alabamians," she said.
"On a personal level, I am very proud of him, of the contributions he has already made and the work he will accomplish in this new position."
Jo Bonner has served in Congress since 2003. He was re-elected in 2012 and is serving his sixth term representing Alabama's 1st District, a southwestern area that includes Mobile.
Gov. Robert Bentley said he will call for a special election to fill the vacated position for the remainder of Bonner's term.
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Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed says his teammate Joe Flacco deserves all the money he's getting. Now, it's time to see whether Reed gets the contract that he wants from the Ravens, too.
Reed told "NFL AM" on Monday that he's still waiting for a call, but he remains optimistic.
"I haven't spoken to anyone. Hopefully that call comes soon," Reed said.
Asked about Bill Belichick's long-simmering appreciation of Reed, the Oscars correspondent made his intentions in free agency clear.
"I'm a Raven. I plan on being a Raven. I couldn't see me anywhere else right now," Reed said. "If it happens, I'm a football player. I can adapt to any situation."
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Researchers will test in laboratory cultures and animals a new brain glioma treatment that combines gene therapy and immunotherapy. They will assess the ability of this treatment to destroy human and mouse glioma cells and determine whether this treatment might be useful as a vaccine against subsequent glioma recurrence.
Two routes for treating cancer are gene therapy and immunotherapy. In gene therapy, tumors are treated with viruses that: 1) replicate inside tumor cells and destroy them, or 2) produce proteins that inhibit tumor growth. In immunotherapy, immune cells or cytokines (signaling proteins that regulate immune cell activity) are administered to strengthen the body's own immune system to destroy tumor cells. A number of gene or immunotherapeutic agents have now been evaluated for treatment of brain glioma, but these have shown only limited efficacy when used alone. The investigators will therefore test the efficacy of combining gene and immunotherapeutic agents.
The gene therapeutic agent they will test is an adenovirus (adenoviruses are the family of viruses that includes the common cold virus) that replicates inside cancer cells, but not normal cells, and kills cancer cells. The immunotherapeutic agent they will use is called "mda-7/IL-24." To make this agent, they inserted into the adenovirus DNA the gene for a cytokine (called the melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin 24, or mda-7/IL-24 for short). This cytokine combats glioma in multiple ways: it stimulates cell death pathways in tumor cells, inhibits the growth of blood vessels that nourish the tumors, and stimulates immune processes that destroy the tumor cells.
Previous work showed that this combined therapeutic agent completely eradicated human breast and prostate cancer or melanoma cells that were transplanted into laboratory mice. Now they will test whether the treatment is effective against glioma tumors as well. First, they will test the ability of the agent to kill human and mouse glioma cells in laboratory tissue cultures. Next, they will test the ability of the agent to kill human glioma cells that have been transplanted into the brains of normal laboratory mice, to assess the role of different immune cell types in mediating any beneficial effects of the treatment. Then they will test the ability of the agent to treat human glioma cells that have been transplanted into the brains of mice with suppressed immune systems, which resemble those of end-stage glioma patients (whose immune systems are compromised by prolonged drug and radiation therapy). The ability of this treatment to prevent future tumor recurrence will also be evaluated.
Significance: This study will evaluate whether a combined gene and immunotherapeutic agent is effective in treating human glioma tumors in animal models. These studies will help accrue baseline information for successful transition of the developed strategy to Phase I clinical trials for evaluating its potential as an effective therapy in glioma patients.
Malignant gliomas are the most frequent primary brain tumors, with a median survival of only 10 to 12 months with conventional therapy. A single agent gene- and immunotherapy is currently undergoing clinical evaluations for malignant glioma with limited success, thus underscoring the need for developing combinatorial strategies to counteract this lethal cancer. We propose a therapeutic regimen combining gene therapy and immunotherapy in a single modality that would significantly enhance the therapeutic efficacy thus prolonging disease-free lifespan in glioma patients, with possible establishment of a cure.
As an immunotherapeutic, we employ melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24), a secreted cytokine that harbors the unique property of inducing apoptosis only in cancer cells without harming normal cells. As a cytokine, mda-7/IL-24 also exerts indirect anti-tumor effects by inhibiting tumor angiogenesis, stimulating an anti-tumor immune response, and sensitizing cancer cells to radiation and other modalities of treatment thereby inhibiting both primary and metastatic tumors. The profound anti-tumor effects of an adenovirus expressing mda-7/IL-24, Ad.mda-7, have been confirmed not only in animal models but also in a Phase I clinical trial in patients with multiple solid tumors, demonstrating objective response. In in vitro cultures, mda-7/IL-24 induces the production of pro-inflammatory cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and in cancer patients treatment with Ad.mda-7 resulted in higher circulating levels of TNF-α and IL-6 with marked increase in circulating CD3+ and CD8+ T cells.
Murine fibrosarcoma UV2237m cells infected with Ad.mda-7 did not grow in syngeneic immunocompetent C3H mice. These tumor-free C3H mice, when challenged with parental tumor cells, experienced no tumor growth, suggesting induction of systemic immunity and a vaccine effect by mda-7/IL-24. Splenocytes prepared from vaccinated C3H mice demonstrated higher proliferative activity and produced elevated levels of TH1 cytokines compared with those from control mice and demonstrated a significant increase in the CD3+CD8+ cell population. These findings indicate that modulation of immune system plays an important role in the multi-pronged anti-cancer effects of mda-7/IL-24.
As a gene therapeutic, we employ conditionally replication competent adenoviruses (CRCA) that induce cancer-specific oncolysis. We have created a CRCA in which the expression of the E1A genes of adenovirus, necessary for replication, is under the control of the cancer selective promoter of the PEG-3 gene and that simultaneously expresses mda-7/IL-24 (Ad.PEG-E1A-mda-7). Ad.PEG-E1A-mda-7 replicates, generates MDA-7/IL-24, and induces apoptosis selectively in cancer cells, but not in normal cells. Intratumoral injection of Ad.PEG-E1A-mda-7 completely eradicates both primary injected and distant non-injected human breast and prostate cancer and melanoma tumors in nude mice. Ad.PEG-E1A-mda-7 represents an advance over Ad.mda-7, as demonstrated by total eradication of both the primary and distant tumors as compared to only growth inhibition of distant tumors by Ad.mda-7.
In the present proposal, we intend to evaluate the eradication efficacy of Ad.PEG-E1A-mda-7 in human malignant glioma xenografts established in nude mouse brain, as well as mouse glioma tumors established in syngeneic animals. We will also evaluate the vaccine effect established by mda-7/IL-24 so that re-challenging the animals with the same glioma cells will preclude establishment of the tumor. These studies have direct relevance to malignant glioma progression, a disease with 100% recurrence. Employment of an immunocompromized animal model (nude mouse) and an immunocompetent model will provide insight into the full repertoire of immunostimulatory activity of mda-7/IL-24 and into the inhibitory effect of neutralization of the adenovirus by the development of an anti-adenoviral antibody. The studies with the nude mice are important, since the end-stage glioma patients become immunocompromized after repeated treatments with chemo- and radiotherapy. These preclinical studies will help us accrue essential baseline information to develop a Phase I/II clinical trial for translation of this approach in malignant glioma patients, with the aim of prolonging survival and saving lives.
Devanand Sarkar, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Human and Molecular Genetics and Massey Cancer Center in Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. One focus of his research work is to elucidate the molecular mechanism of development of brain tumors (malignant glioma) and employ that knowledge to develop novel and effective therapeutic strategy for the disease. He has developed a novel strategy of combining gene- and immunotherapy in a single modality of treatment. A series of conditionally replication-competent adenoviruses (CRCAs) have been generated that replicate selectively in cancer cells, but not in normal cells, using a cancer-specific promoter strategy and simultaneously generates an immunomodulating/apoptosis-inducing pleiotropic cytokine, such as melanoma differentiation associated gene-7/interleukin-24 (mda-7/IL-24) or interferon-γ. These CRCAs have shown efficacy in eradicating primary and distant tumors (resembling metastasis) in diverse tumor models in nude mice and are now being evaluated in immunocompetent animals for future transition in clinical trials.
Sensory difficulties, like hearing loss or vision problems, are not just about those senses but also the extra cognitive effort it takes to understand them. Dana Foundation grantee Jonathan Peelle talks about the cognitive challenges involved with hearing issues, how even slight deficits in "normal" hearing levels can lead to changes in how sound is processed, and why this work may offer us new insights into how hearing may be linked to the development of dementias.


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We celebrate "Tall Poppies" in Napier, Hawke's Bay
We love to celebrate 'Tall Poppies" in Napier, Hawke's Bay and the pick of the bunch is our fabulous food & wine!
Ok, so I know you are not meant to "air punch", "high five yourself "or give your self a "pat on the back" in Kiwi "Tall Poppy" land, BUT, I am going to throw all of that out the window and do all 3.
The reason being is a subject close to all of our hearts and mouths, that is, food & wine (divine).
We really do food and wine exceptionally well here in the "Hawke's Bay" & Napier being the heart of Hawke's Bay, there are so many divine restaurants & establishments at your finger tips, our recent hospitality awards prove this. Take a wee minute to watch the highlights Click here to view
We also run the most incredible food and wine festival in the country, the infamous F.A.W.C festival so make sure you do not miss out as summer is only around the corner!
In honor of our fabulous food & wine in Napier, Hawke's Bay, we are packing up some scrumptious "DIVINE DINING" treats for you……….How does this sound? Stay two nights with us and let us look after your dining. I know,your taste buds are salivating, right? The first night our chef will spoil you "in house" with creating a delicious meal for you with all of our yummy local produce in your apartment. On night two you will dine in style at the infamous "Pacifica Restaurant"
To continue singing from the same song sheet, why not treat yourself to a yummy sensory winery tour and delicious lunch in the stunning recently renovated "Church Road Winery"?
This tour is not available to the public and only available exclusively through "The Dome" Collected from "The Dome" you will be given an insight into the 1931 earthquake and Napier's re-building in Art Deco. Enjoy an overview of Napier, world famous Art Deco National Tobacco building and magnificent city lookouts.
Arriving at the Church Road Winery, with glass in hand, sample wine directly from our cellars whilst gaining a technical insight into the crafting of Church Road wines. Your tour concludes with a tasting of four wines from the McDonald Series and Grand Reserve range where each specially selected wine will be accompanied with a bite-sized food offering, providing an insight into wine and food matching.
By now, I am sure you will be ready for a long soak in the Magna pool at The Dome in Napier, enjoy!


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The Smorgasbord That Thinks It's a Weight-Loss Plan
By the time Gary Shor gets home from work at six, he has had breakfast and three lunches. Forty-five minutes later, he'll eat dinner. Yet he weighs about 30 pounds less than back when he was eating only three meals a day.
Mr. Shor belongs to a small but dedicated group who, heeding popular nutritional advice, has traded in the traditional breakfast-lunch-and-dinner lifestyle for a daylong stream of mini meals.


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New Zealand building consents rose 7.8 per cent in September, its fourth straight gain and biggest growth since March, as intentions to build in Auckland and Christchurch gather pace.
The number of new dwellings consented rose to a seasonally adjusted 1,540 in September from 1,429 a month earlier, according to Statistics New Zealand. Stripping out apartments, which tend to be volatile, issuance rose 5.6 per cent to 1,339, seasonally adjusted.
New dwelling consents were up 22 per cent from the same month a year earlier, with Canterbury issuance up 80 per cent to 396 and Auckland permits up 50 per cent to 458. The value of residential consents rose 45 per cent to $577 million in September.
Statistics NZ said some $58 million of consents granted in Canterbury were earthquake-related, $17 million of which was for residential construction. Since the first quake on Sept. 4, 2010, more than 2,900 consents have been issued in Canterbury totalling $636 million.
"The steady gradual improvement in building consent issuance adds to confidence construction activity will pick up over the coming year," ASB economist Christina Leung said in a note. "We expect rebuilding activity will gain further momentum later this year and provide a boost to construction activity, which will likely lead to capacity pressures in the sector."
The figures come after the government this week announced a series of new reports and legislative tinkering to improve the country's housing supply in response to a Productivity Commission report into improving the affordability of New Zealand homes.
Finance Minister Bill English said the government's top priority is to figure out how to direct local authorities in expanding the amount of land available for housing projects targeted at low and middle income earners.
Today's figures showed the value of non-residential building consents slipped 1.8 per cent to $314 million from a year earlier, led by declines in offices and administration buildings and storage buildings.
Annual commercial building consents rose 2.2 per cent to $3.78 billion, while residential issuance advanced 22 per cent to $5.87 billion.


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|Find the best surf spots
Wednesday March 16 2011 03:22:59 PM
Surf spot: Banzai, Dominican Republic
Session's Rate:
Wind direction: Offshore
Wind Strength: Glassy
Length of the surf session: 180 min
Waves height: 1.0m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft
Waves Quality:
- Powerful
- Fast
- Tubular
Waves Shape:
- One peak
- Bowl
I surfed Banzai for years and it was always fun to surf. The wave is a short, but extremely powerful bowl that breaks into a hollow tube for 15-20 meters. The takeoff is tough, as only late takeoffs will access the wave, it is a matter of standing and turning right away, to travel inside the hollow tube. Alternatively, you can go straight and do a powerful bottom turn, but beware of shallow corals full of urchins. After the bottom turn and maybe one visit to the lip, your wave is pretty much over, it is that short. It is located on the East side of a deep canal that allows ships the access to the port of Boca Chica and to get there, you must paddle across that canal. The West side of the canal has another break called La Boya, which is also listed on this site. Banzai is great when all other spots are too small, as waves here are about 2 feet higher than other breaks.
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Our unique procedure to carry out structural steel detailing of concrete structures and also steel structures will certainly aid our customer to examine architectural design solutions.
Trusses can be subjected throughout the make-up and also come to be produced from hollow areas for visual charm. Big masses may call for the use of open areas (UKC, generally) or areas established up from plate.
A detailer is normally needed to upload his illustrations to the architectural designer and/or designer for analysis before the launch of illustrations for manufacture. Having stated that, to achieve his illustrations, a seasoned steel detailer generally recommends links issue to your approval with the architectural designer in problems specifically where the architectural illustrations have poor information. In these circumstances, the steel detailer is assisted by his experience and also knowledge in existing design codes.
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The boundary structure ought to provide a sufficient System to help the cladding technique and also be appropriately rigid to meet any type of deflection demands.
While seeking to maintain International assumptions in top-notch, our architectural design group aims to decrease product layout cycle time along with make sure Expenditure efficiency.
Precast concrete devices could be used combined with steel light beams. The systems could be hollow-main or solid, and also with conical or bluff ends.
The architectural style for an establishing have to make certain that the establishing will certainly have the ability to emerge securely as well as firmly, in a placement to operate without unusual deflections or activities which might create exhaustion of architectural components, splitting or failing of installations, components or dividings, or pain for owners. It will certainly need to make up activities as well as pressures consequently of temperature level, creep, fracturing and also enforced hundreds.
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MEWPs are made use of to access the steelwork throughout erection, i.e. internet site to bolt-up the items remaining raised in with the crane. Having stated that, the MEWPs them selves can be used each under or to the partially set up steelwork to put up lighter steel attributes appropriate supplied Certain actions are required to support the MEWP.
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The architectural designer could be the overview developer on these frameworks, and also rarely the only developer. From the style of frameworks consisting of these, architectural safety and security is of extremely important fantastic relevance (in the unified kingdom, styles for dams, nuclear capacity terminals as well as bridges should be signed off by a legal designer).
Studs typically are bonded on website, in the outdoor decking, in the direction of the (unpainted) leading flange of the light beam. Minimal shear ports might potentially be shot-fired for the steel beam of light. In some kind of building, the shear bond in between the steel participant plus the framing concrete is sufficient to supply composite activity with out even more shear ports.
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NCsoft announces WildStar at Gamescom, a science fiction MMOG, revealing this is the project in development at Carbine Studios since back in 2007 when this studio was formed by industry veterans Kevin Beardslee (a lead developer on WoW), Tim Cain (Fallout programmer and co-founder of Troika), and Jeremy Gaffney (City of Heroes and Asheron's Call). They say they have a polished three-level build of the game to show off to attendees of the trade show, and offer this cinematic introductory trailer and a very large batch of screenshots. Here's word on the game itself, followed by the embedded version of the intro trailer.
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New Releases - Crime and Heroes Video Feature
Shanghai crime, free EverQuest, and new Croft.
Shanghai crime, free EverQuest, and new Croft.
By popular demand, the Meatbeast is now a mount in Everquest II.
SOEmote is now live for EverQuest II.
Update 64, Qeynos Rises, brings a fully revamped city with an all-new storyline and quests to EverQuest II.
Director of Development for Everquest David Georeson introduces the SOEmote - a new facial recognition and voice technology feature for players.
In the latest game update for EverQuest II, you are introduced to the huge citadel of Skyshrine and the vast Withered Lands.
Senior artist Tad Ehrlich gives us a sneak peek at Skyshrine Courtyard in EverQuest II.
Senior artist Brandan McDonald takes us behind the scenes of Withered Lands of Norrath, available on April 17.
Check out an EverQuest II behind-the-scenes video featuring the creation of a new dragon character: Honvar.
Now you can fly in style through Norrath with Pegasus Feather Flight Wings or Nightmare Flight Wings while challenging opponents from above.
Explore the revamped Freeport City in this Everquest II trailer.
EverQuest II is now free to play!
In today's news blast, the Game Developers Choice Awards honor long-running online role-playing game EverQuest and newcomer Rift; Sega announces arcade classic Daytona USA (now with added karaoke) for XBLA ...
Jody keeps you updated on the ongoing PSN saga, including SOE downtime, and talks about Thor: God of Thunder on the DS, Madden NFL 12, and the latest Sound Byte ...
Check out the time-elapsed video below that details the six-day, step-by-step process used to create in-game characters for EverQuest II using Maya, Zbrush, Photoshop, and more.
Find how Everquest came to be in Evercracked!
Thanks for an awesome 10 years!
Check out this official trailer featuring new epic weapons.
The Churchill Club presents a panel moderated by GameSpot's Vince Broady featuring high profile industry insiders from Microsoft, Ubisoft, Sony Online, and more to discuss how the industry is on ...
Take a tour of a beautiful city high in this sky in this movie.
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Check out one of the new environments found in this expansion pack.
Take a look at some underwater adventuring in this movie.
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Take a look at a wild carpet ride in this movie.
Find out what EverQuest II: Desert of Flames has in store of EverQuest II fans in this developer interview.
Take an extensive look at this expansion pack for EverQuest II in this movie.
Feast your eyes on this impressive trailer for this adventure pack for EverQuest II.
Check out Greg Kasavin's thoughts on the new features of Everquest II.
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