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RENO, Nev. (AP) — An underage mountain lion has been caught after trying to slip into a casino in downtown Reno, Nev., ahead of the breakfast rush.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy says the young male cat's behavior was "almost the equivalent of being a stupid teenager."
Healy says coming-of-age cougars often end up where they shouldn't after being chased out of a territory by adults.
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SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — A sophisticated group of conspirators was involved in the suicide bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver last week, and they spent about a month in Bulgaria before the attack, the country's prime minister said Tuesday.
Boiko Borisov's comments confirm suspicions that the suicide attacker who targeted a bus filled with Israeli vacationers last Wednesday did not act alone. However, the prime minister didn't say how many people were believed to have been involved in the attack on Israeli tourists in Burgas and also declined to back up Israel's claims that Iran and the militant group Hezbollah played roles.
Those involved used "leased vehicles, they moved in different cities so as not to be seen together, and no two of them can be seen in one place on any security camera," Borisov said, speaking alongside visiting White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan.
He described the people behind the blast as "exceptionally skilled" and said they "observed absolute secrecy." He also said DNA samples from the suicide bomber have been shared with all partner security services, but no match has been found in their databases.
"There was absolutely no chance of preventing such an act of violence," Borisov insisted. "We could have only detected it by chance or if we had been informed by the services that such activities were under way in Bulgaria."
He said officials believe he might have flow into Bulgaria from a European country in the Schengen passport-free travel zone, and that Bulgaria is exploring that lead with officials in other European countries. Though a European Union member, Bulgaria doesn't yet belong to the Schengen area.
"We do not know his identity, but it is known when he has arrived, the presumed flight, where he came from. It could turn out that he entered Bulgaria from a Schengen member country," Borisov said.
Brennan also stopped short of blaming Iran or Hezbollah, both of which are U.S. nemeses, though he noted both Tehran and the Lebanese group had been implicated in attacks on civilians in the past. He said the U.S. has been working with Bulgaria during its investigation.
"Bulgaria will continue to have the full support of the United States in the weeks and months ahead," Brennan said.
European security officials say that images of the attacker have not yet matched any of their databases but that it's possible the man was not on a watch list.
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His comments were relayed by a meeting participant who discussed contents from the closed session on condition of anonymity.
Also Tuesday, Israeli and Bulgarian officials held a memorial ceremony at Burgas Airport to pay tribute to the victims of the attack with a minute of silence and the playing of the national anthems. Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov laid a wreath.
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As the Auglaize County commissioners plan to move forward with construction of a dog shelter this year, talks of different ways to scale back costs are being discussed.
"Off and on we have been working on this for the last several years," Auglaize County Commissioner John Bergman said. "It's been way too long, but it is hard to justify the last bid amount we got for a dog pound."
Bergman explained to date they yet to receive any reasonable, good bids on the proposed 2,200-square foot project.
Commissioners and Auglaize County Dog Warden Russ Bailey met with representatives of the Minster-based architectural firm Garmann-Miller & Associates this week to discuss different options for possibly bringing in lower bids. The commissioners are mulling over their options before coming back in a couple weeks to meet again with the architects who planned to figure harder costs and tweak plans as needed.
In the latest drawings, architect Brad Garmann presented two looks — one an all masonry building simplified to cut down on costs and the other a pre-engineered metal building. The latest drawings incorporated cost savings features of the Darke County dog shelter, which commissioners visited last fall.
Garmann explained they were all just options right now and it was up to the commissioners how far they wanted to go in cutting costs. The metal building, as designed, was expected to cut costs in half.
While not commissioners first pick, they said they did like the lower price tag.
Garmann, who could not provide actual cost estimates for the latest drawings at this time, said other possible ways shelter costs could be lowered would be using a single general contractor and a provision that takes effect at the end of September and doesn't require prevailing wages be paid in projects of $250,000 and less.
"I wanted to share with you some options," Garmann said. "We can bring these numbers down, maybe somewhere in-between. In this business, you get what you pay for."
The lowest bid the last time the project was bid out was $530,000, $100,000 more than the estimated cost.
"There was not much to that building and it has definitely been a conundrum to me why costs are coming in so high," Commissioner Doug Spencer said.
Describing the original building plans as simple, he said the latest design was really simple.
Throughout the talks about a shelter, Bergman has expressed concerns about not wanting to cheapen the building or make it harder to take care of operationally in the long run with immediate cost saving measures they may take now.
One item Bergman has continued to push for is special glazed tiling, which would make kennel cleanup both easier and more sanitary.
"This is a building that is going to be used every day," said Bergman, who also talked about ways to improve insulation. "I am thinking about what they will be dealing with day in and day out."
The commissioner would like to stay away from a building that looks like a "machine shop."
"I am concerned about it," Bergman said. "I already felt we had a bare bones building to begin with. I don't want to give up too much of the inside functionalities."
Spencer said they need to consider the advantages and disadvantages of different types of building construction and features against potential cost savings.
The dog warden said his biggest concern was finding a way to provide for dogs to get outside of the facility on a concrete pad with some shading and some runs. These were scrapped with the scaled down plans.
"Hopefully, we can find a way to get the project done," Spencer said. "It's overdue."
Blending the new shelter in with existing buildings — such as the Auglaize County Sheriff's Office and garage and the Auglaize County Educational Service Center — also is something commissioners have been vocal about throughout the planning process. The new shelter is to be located along U.S. 33 near the Auglaize County Fairgrounds and behind the Sheriff's Office on county property, to which utilities already have been extended.
Extensive searches were done for existing buildings that would meet needs in 2008, before commissioners determined that they could not find a good match both in an existing structure and a location appropriate for a county dog shelter.
"We found renovating a facility could be just as costly if not more so," Spencer said.
A temporary location in a building adjacent to the Neil Armstrong Airport outside of New Knoxville has been used far beyond the six months to a year originally expected.
In addition to not being large enough for the necessary supplies or the number of dogs the dog warden handles, the temporary facility has been a nightmare to heat and has no available hot water, said Spencer, describing how Bailey carries buckets of hot water from the airport to use in the makeshift kennel, which itself was hard to find.
"He's done a great job keeping the building sanitized, but it is not an easy chore," Spencer said. "This was supposed to be nothing more than a short term answer out of immediate necessity that we thought would bridge the gap."
Spencer said now it is "the sooner the better" on getting the dog warden's operations into a new shelter.
"We hope to get it done yet this year," Spencer said. "I know what we are in now and we need to be out of there."
At this point, the county's Dog and Kennel Fund could cover approximately 40 percent of construction costs for a new building but it wouldn't have enough to fund the whole project.
"We will probably have to take a look at advancing from the Permanent Improvement Fund and use yearly dog tag sales to pay it back," Spencer said, explaining the more simple the plan the more the Dog and Kennel Fund could cover. "The question is over the long run, is paying an additional $200,000 for a building we desired and designed worth it?"


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text: Spirofucci Posted November 10, 2011 (edited) FTS 4/14/13 The twins 4/14/13 FTS 2/12/13FTS 8/22/12FTS 3/3/12 (crappy I phone pic)Start date: 11/11/11Tank: RSM 130D Sole reason for choosing the RSM: Stevie T's thread here on NRStand: Stock RSMSide Cabinet: custom DIY to match RSM standScape: Custom DIY rock sculpture. Inspired by Chingchai and Nineball (RC Forum)Lighting: Ecotech Radion Pro natural mode @ 100%Skimmer: Lifereef skimmerATO: JBJ with Marineland Maxijet 1200 and Stevie T black PVC pipe modFlow: Ecotech MP10w x 2, reefcrest @ 60%, battery back upHeater: Aqueon 150 wFiltration: Custom Lifereef sump with CPE and Phosban underneath the filter padsRO/DI: Sprectrpure CSPDI 90 gpd, with booster pumpSalt mix: Red Sea coral proSand: Caribsea, fine sugarFish: 2 ocellaris clowns, midas blenny, sixline wrasseInverts: Serpent star. Hermits: electric blue, blue leg. Snails: nassarius, dwarf certh, nerite, turbo, dwarf planaxis, stomatellas.Corals: Elegance, emerald duncan, branching duncan, nsp gorgonianBirdsnest: red, ora green, ponape, hot pink, tubbs, hot pink, BOPMontipora: Sunset, superman, setosa, orange, LE fiery orange,blue and purple digitata, alien green confusa, orneji juici, forrest fireZoas: blue tubbs, radioactive green, hawian tropic, ultra eagle eye, dragon eye, hulk, bozo,tropical flower, blue steel, blue dream, cherry flash, Le carribian, rasta farian, nuclear eclipse, mandarin flash, demon eyes, flaming keds reds, purple haze, bluekiss, skyeees, bubble gum.Palys: purple death, everlasting gobstopper, armor of god, nuclear green, pink & gold, mohawk, rare red, rare orange, supernova, super girl, spiderman, pink/purple, space monster, pink dragon, watermelon, pink dawn, galaxy sparkle, peachy, pink sparkle.Styophora: hot pink, milkaSPS: ultra pink millie, strawberry shortcake, royal blue turaki, neon supergreen acro, purple valida acro, neon green slimer, sunrise rainbow millie, tyree jesus stag, Larry Jackson tricolor, ORA cali tort, oregon tort, rare yellow tort, , blue on blue gomezi, cherry red millie, kryptonite vermiculata, rainbow blue millie, Tyree pink lemonade, aqua tenius, snowcone prostata, pearl berry.Acan: ultra, rainbowRicordia: 18 purdy ones1/13/13 Added Lifereef custom sump with a 34 gal cubed Solona as a display fuge, lighted by my older Radion XR30 (G1). It has 12 different macros, 30 + zoas, two rock nems, 2 mini nems, purple tipped froggy, green favia, red/green blasto, three photo gorgs, and five fish which are: Flame angel Black cap Jawfish Mystery wrasse Hellfreaky fire fish Swales swiss basslet11/9/11This is my first attempt at anything salty. After years of facination and obsession with reef tanks, I finally got an RSM 130D. Based on everthing I read, I always thought nano tanks weren't big enough to be stable and always were on the verge of crashing. Needless to say I stumbled onto this wonderful site and quickley learned that this was not so.I was inspired by all the tanks on here, but became especially facinated with Stevie T's tank thread and how his tank evolved and how simple he made everthing. This gave me the confidence that I might be able accomplish a similar tank since I live in the deepest part of South Texas where reefing is almost unheard of, so the only support I could count on would be found right here on nano-reef.So far I have the tank, built a rock structure and am in the process of building a cabinet that will store buckets of water and other stuff. Some really cool goodies have arrived and am waiting for a few more before I am wet.Well enough babbling, here are some pics: Edited April 22, 2013 by Spirofucci 2 Share this post Link to post


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Afrithelphusa monodosa
|Scope: Global, Western Africa & Pan-Africa
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|Scientific Name:
|Afrithelphusa monodosa (Bott, 1959)
Common Name(s):
Afrithelphusa monodosus (Bott, 1959) [orth. error]
Globonautes monodosus Bott, 1959
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Bott (1959) described this species as Globonautes monodosus. Cumberlidge (1999) transferred this species to the genus Afrithelphusa Bott, 1969. This species is one of only five species in two genera that belong to a rare group of freshwater crabs endemic to the upper Guinea forest block of West Africa. This genus was recently transferred from the Gecarcinucidae and reassigned to the Potamonautidae: Deckeniinae: Deckeniini: Globonautina by Cumberlidge et al. (2007).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Endangered B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii); C2a(i) ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Cumberlidge, N.
|Clotilde-Ba, F.-L., Attipoe, F.Y.K. & Darwall, W. and McIvor, A.
Despite the recent discovery of a new population of this species, it is still currently known from only a few specimens and from only two localities in Guinea. It was previously known from a single specimen collected in Boke, Guinea in 1947. Because of this the extent of occurrence for this species is here revised upward to an estimated 5,000 sq km (EN B1a), with an estimated area of occupancy of less than 500 sq km (EN B2a) due to its restriction to year-round wetland areas in guinea savannah and altered rainforest. Because of the discovery of new populations of this species (and the promise of finding other populations), its conservation status is downgraded from CR to EN. Available information on population size and trends and on the number of mature individuals is insufficient to estimate actual population size (for criterion C), but the scarcity of specimens implies a small population size (estimated to be fewer than 2,500 mature individuals) with no subpopulation estimated to contain more than 250 individuals i.e. EN C2a(i). There is a likely trend towards declining numbers due to increased habitat destruction relating to expanding human populations and more intensive agriculture in northwest Guinea. No quantitative analysis of the probability of extinction has been carried out to assess the species under criterion E.
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|Guinea: this species is known only from two localities in Guinea and is therefore endemic to that country.
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|This species is known from less than 20 specimens. There is no information available on the population size or abundance of this species.
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|This species lives in swamps and year-round wetland habitats in the Guinea savannah zone of northwestern Guinea. The original vegetation cover found at the farmland near the village of Sarabaya where this species was recently collected lies in southern guinea savannah in the semi-deciduous moist forest zone (Cumberlidge 2006). Specimens of A. monodosus were collected from cultivated land from burrows dug into permanently moist soil each with a shallow pool of water at the bottom. At the end of the dry season after a six-month period without rain the soil in this area nevertheless remains wet year round, so this locality either has an underground water table close to the surface, or a nearby spring. The natural habitat of A. monodosus is still unknown but presumably this cultivated land was originally a permanent freshwater marsh. There were no nearby sources of surface water and it is clear that these crabs do not need to be immersed in water (as do their relatives that live in streams and rivers), and that A. monodosus can meet its water requirements (such as keeping its respiratory membranes moist and osmoregulation of body fluids) with the small amount of muddy water that collects at the bottom of their burrow. This species is clearly a competent air-breather and has a pair of well-developed pseudolungs similar to those seen in the related West African endemic genus Globonautes.
|Major Threat(s):
|The major present and future threats to this species include habitat loss/degradation (human induced) due to human population increases, deforestation, and associated increased agriculture in northwest Guinea.
|Conservation Actions:
|No conservation measures are known to be in place for this species and it is not found in a protected area.
|Cumberlidge, N. 1996. Afrithelphusa monodosa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T595A13066274. . Downloaded on 19 August 2018.
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To the Governor's Desk: HB 7151 Passes with New, Important Provisions for the State University System
Katherine Betta, House of Representatives, Speaker's Office, firstname.lastname@example.com, 850-488-1450
Kelly Layman, Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, firstname.lastname@example.com, 850-245-0466
CHAIR BILL PROCTOR: 'Legislation ensures an ongoing, coordinated state effort so Floridians have access to postsecondary programs preparing them for successful careers'
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – House Bill 7151 passed the House today, had previously passed the Senate and is on its way to the Governor's desk. The bill includes a majority of the legislative agenda set last fall by the Board of Governors and includes measures sponsored in bills filed by Rep. Bill Proctor, R-St. Augustine; Sen. Evelyn Lynn, R-Daytona Beach; Rep. Larry Metz, R-Eustis; and Sen. Steve Oelrich, R-Gainesville.
HB 7151 itself was sponsored by the Chair of the House Education Committee, Rep. Proctor, who highlighted the relationship between higher education and the state's economic future.
"Florida has long been seen as a leader in higher education, and our state has benefitted from a robust array of offerings that provide a variety of postsecondary education options for students, including state universities, state colleges, career education centers, and private colleges and universities," Proctor said. "All institutions of higher education play a critical role in having a well-educated workforce, which is essential to our state's economic development. This legislation ensures that there is an ongoing, coordinated state effort so Floridians have continued access to postsecondary programs preparing them for successful careers."
Frank T. Brogan, chancellor of the State University System of Florida, said the provisions in the bill were vital to the current work of the Board of Governors, which oversees the 11 universities in the State University System with more than 320,000 students enrolled.
"On behalf of the Board of Governors, we truly appreciate the support of Speaker Dean Cannon and President Mike Haridopolos – and particularly Rep. Proctor, Rep. Metz, Sen. Lynn and Sen. Oelrich in this case – in assisting and bolstering our state universities as we continue our work toward a more coordinated delivery system of higher education in Florida," Brogan said.
HB 7151 by Rep. Proctor and HB 4177 by Rep. Metz were combined in part with other legislative provisions in Senate bills into eventual passage of HB 7151. The bill as passed proposes the following new provisions in law:
· Repeals subsection (10) of Section 1007.27, Florida Statutes, which currently prohibits universities from requiring students to attend summer term if they have earned nine or more college credits through accelerated mechanisms – such as Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and other similar programs. This will assist in providing additional student access to the state universities, a continuing shared priority of the Board of Governors and universities.
· Allows universities to retain abandoned property instead of being required to auction the property. For instance, some universities plan to utilize abandoned bicycles as part of an on-campus bike-loan program to serve students.
· Addresses additional housekeeping provisions in statute that are needed as a result of the governance agreement and corresponding statutory re-write of higher education law accomplished in the 2010 Session, following the signing of the agreement between the Legislature and the Board of Governors of the State University System.
· Provides additional details and requirements regarding the work of the Higher Education Coordinating Council (www.floridahighereducation.org), which convened last fall as a result of the governance agreement signed between the Legislature and the Board of Governors in the 2010 Session. (Originating legislation is posted at the web site indicated.) The Council already was tasked to make recommendations. The Council already has the five chief executives in higher education collaborating on an extensive list of issues related to the entire higher education sector – the State University System, Florida College System, Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida (non-profit institutions), and the Commission for Independent Education (for-profit colleges and universities). The Council also has two citizen co-chairs serving presently – one appointed by the Senate, one appointed by the House. New provisions:
Ø Require the Council to make recommendations about the creation of any new comprehensive undergraduate institutions, and to make any recommendations addressing the creation of higher education institutions or branch campuses.
Ø Direct the Council to make recommendations for performance outputs, and outcomes that are consistent across all five delivery sectors outlined above.
Ø Require that a study be conducted to determine appropriate scores on Advanced Placement (AP) exams for college credits, and whether the scores and credits awarded need to be standard across all programs and institutions.
Ø Require that the Council submit a report by December 31, 2011, to the Legislature, the Governor, and to the Florida Board of Governors and State Board of Education, so that the recommendations may be considered in the 2012 Session of the Legislature.
For more information about the Board of Governors and links to the institutions in the State University System of Florida, see www.flbog.edu.


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Steel Panther open All You Can Eat Tour in Seattle
Note: Since I was working with Behemoth this same night, Stephanie covered the Steel Panther show/photos for me ;) Here's her quick review & photos:
What can I say about the latest concert given by Steel Panther Saturday night at Showbox SoDo? Bad boys, raunchy music, raunchy shtick, lots of spandex and one hell of a good time. It's their formula and it continues to work. During "Community Property&q uot; Michael proudly announced that Seattle was the best crowd so far on the tour. Satchel astutely informed Michael that it was the first night of their North American tour so....... I'm going to hold onto the best crowd comment. The other cities have a high bar to beat us. ;)
I was privileged to have a full show pass to capture photos from their entire set and all of Michael Starr's outfits. I only had to duck and cover a few times as I was standing where a crowd surfer would likely land. Now that the band has 3 full length albums under their belt, some of the songs I had become accustomed to hearing have been dropped off the set list to make room for songs off of their newest release - All You Can Eat.
Visit Steel Panther online: http://steelpantherrocks.com
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For full-show photos visit my gallery HERE
Review: Stephanie Savoia
Set List:
Bold songs are from the newest CD All You Can Eat:
"Party Like Tomorrow Is the End of the World"
"Asian Hooker"
"Just Like Tiger Woods"
"If I Was the King"
"Eyes of a Panther"
"Gangbang at the Old Folks Home"
"Tomorrow Night"
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Google Inc. dropped as much as 3.1% and then reversed most of the tumble within a second in a series of transactions that spurred concern the stock was hit by a computerized-trading error.
Google slid as low as $775 in two trades totaling 210 shares at 9:37 a.m. New York time and then recovered most of the loss within the same second, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The stock had opened the session with a gain, climbing to as high as $803.96. It traded down 0.1% on the day at $798.87 as of 2:20 p.m. in New York.
The decline wasn't large enough to trigger a trading circuit breaker that would pause Google shares. That would require a drop of 10% in five minutes. The shares are not yet part of a pilot program to test a "limit-up/limit-down" system that will stop trades from occurring at a specified percentage above or below a stock's rolling five-minute average price.
"I don't think the seller did this on purpose, it was most likely an error," Mike Shea, a managing partner at New York- based brokerage firm Direct Access Partners LLC, said in an an e-mail. "The problem with errors in high-priced stocks is that you rarely see the market center bust trades because you rarely see the stock trade up or down the 10% threshold usually required for review and relief."
Google's Moves
Google shares jumped 4.4% on April 19 after the company reported profit that topped analysts' estimates as advertisers increased spending on mobile and video promotions. The company was fined 145,000 euros ($189,230) by Germany for collecting wireless-network data by its cars taking photos for the Street View service, Hamburg data regulator Johannes Caspar said in an e-mail statement today.
Google slid from $796 to $775 in about three-quarters of a second, then rebounded to $793 a second later, according to a report from Nanex LLC, a market-data firm that analyzes high- frequency trading. The drop involved 307 trades and 57,255 shares from 10 exchanges and dark pools, Nanex said. During the drop, there were five orders placed and then canceled for every trade executed, the firm said.
The 3.1% drop erased about $6.65 billion in the market value of Google's Class A shares compared with the April 19 close, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. At $264.9 billion, Google is the third-largest company in the world, behind Exxon Mobil Corp. and Apple Inc.
'Fat Finger'
"I think that it may have been a fat finger," Larry Peruzzi, senior equity trader at Cabrera Capital Markets LLC in Boston, said in an e-mail. "Funny how two years ago this would have been a big issue. Now the market has almost become complacent of these errors."
Robert Madden, a spokesman for Nasdaq OMX Group Inc., where Google shares are listed, didn't immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment. Tim Drinan, spokesman for Google, declined to comment.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is seeking to limit technology breakdowns at venues handling stock, options and bond trades and ensure they can withstand malfunctions that could jeopardize markets. Regulators wrote a 373-page rule, called Regulation Systems Compliance and Integrity, after the May 6, 2010, flash crash when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged 9.2% before recovering, and last year's breakdowns that spoiled the initial public offerings by Bats Global Markets Inc. and Facebook Inc.
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What can individuals do to improve their community's resilience — whether that be in Portland or elsewhere?
I would suggest one of the 1st steps is to re-enforce the school buildings to withstand an earthquake, use the food certified kitchens in the schools to process locally grown food, and store emergency provisions at the schools.
If you mount solar PV panels on the roofs and place HAM radios there you can be fairly sure of having islands of communication even if things go really sideways.
You would need to have rain water cisterns at the schools, which could also be used for the urban orchards and the veggie gardens.
More broadly speaking, knowing your neighbors and being on good terms with them is possibly the 1st thing to do. It's only then that conversations about sharing resources can be possible.
It sounds like you've picked schools as the epicenter for resilience in communities. Why?
At least in the case of Portland, they are arranged so there is usually a school within a 1/2 mile of you at any point in town. Community centers, churches, a mall…. these would of course work as well.
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...contradict the key points we made in our article; namely that The Infinite Mind series was funded in part by drug company money; that each of the four experts on the show, "Prozac Nation: Revisited" has received drug company funding; that despite enormous controversy about the safety and efficacy of antidepressants, the experts all expressed a singular viewpoint; and finally, listeners were not told about the experts' financial conflicts of interest.
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Bill Lichtenstein, senior executive producer of the radio program The Infinite Mind, has responded in detail to the "Medical Examiner" article "Stealth Marketers," which featured the program. He says:
It is important to state that we stand by the program and its editorial content. There is, as our guests observed, no credible evidence that the use of antidepressants contributes to the sort of violence that erupted at NIU. There is, on the other hand, a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggesting that more young people may be dying in part because of the chilling effect of the FDA "black box" warning. While some will take issue with these studies, we believe they are important, that they deepen the public dialog, and that they've gotten lost in superficial media coverage of a complex issue.
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Thomaspain was evenhandedly mean to everyone, concluding "we really need to be reminded that it's time to grow up, to put our Bibles down with our guns, and face the uncertain future we, not God, have created." We're not sure how long he thinks it'll be before that happens.—MR … 8.30 p.m. GMT
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
We have to take issue with DuckworkerMike, with his rather rude words about English cooking after reading the "Food" item on Brit chef Gordon Ramsay: Of course sweeping generalizations of dubious worth are the very lifeblood of the Fray, but you don't want to get on the wrong side of the English Fray Editor that way. And no, we're not repeating his insults—go and look if you must. However, we might let Mike off because we like the sound of his asparagus recipe. There are quite a few recipes and tips in the thread here: Don't read while hungry. Garlic mashed potatoes, pilaf, salad, butterflied stuffed lamb, grilled or roasted, scrambled egg and couscous (together? Yes), and here, shrimp ceviche (warning: tempting hints but no recipe). There was a discussion on the availability or otherwise of ingredients: One day the conclusion to these loooong threads might be that you can't get those weird things in the big city, but come to my local 7-Eleven and you'll be fine. That day has not yet come. The thread turns up with every Slate article on cooking, so we also saw it here last week with Sara Dickerman's item on food writers and money. In fact, did anyone care much about Gordon Ramsay? Well Nutmiffin did, in a way: "Yeah, Americans will read the book while eating a Big Mac, over discussions like; 'how much does this guy make a year?'" But a thread about Rachel Ray ("grating, hyperactive munchkin chef"—no, jbtowers, tell us what you really think, though we're not repeating your mean hope for her and the knife) generated more heat about its subject, along with detailed discussions of her methods.
Ttimms56 had some good advice: "always look at the picture of the author of the cookbook that claims healthier food, if the author is plump I have to wonder about the book." And Margaretnelsonwest—a true Fray character—made one of her mysterious comments: "I will never clean a bird that was brought to me even if he owns the estate and that is that." We keep grasping for meaning, and we think it's there—there's certainly something rather British about it, a touch of Masterpiece Theater.
One other question did arouse strong feelings: kitchen scales, "impossibly frou-frou accessory" or vital kitchen equipment? And yes, we do all have them and use them all the time in the United Kingdom, and when you tell us what kind of a useful measurement a "cup of cold butter" is, we'll stop.
Back to the Dickerman article, and food journalist Judith Weinraub came in to defend her colleagues against the charge that they did not deal with money issues carefully enough when writing about cooking:
Reporters writing in food sections are supposed to report, not opine…I do agree that people have to cook--not with haute cuisine culinary skills, but with basic skills that can take advantage of seasonal produce and less expensive proteins. And that can be a problem for people used to relying on the commercial food system. As for actual dollars and cents, that can be (and is) done in general terms. But stories that do that with hard numbers will always risk being wrong, depending on where readers shop, and how often prices change. These are all complicated issues, and of course the press should reflect readers' concerns or just plain what readers want to read about. I share similar concerns about food costs and how to serve readers best, but it's just too easy to damn the so-called food press.
Completing Food and Drink week in the Fray, there was the kosher wine article—we've read le-idiot's post several times and still can't tell if he's serious. The first part is a quote from someone else's wine review, so scroll down to the bit about "penetrated my tooth enamel, regrew my tonsils and finally pulled my small intestines onto the floor of my mouth; lifted my tongue to my palate so it could both escape the relentless flow and prevent projectile vomiting; and the long, long finish that complemented both the texture of the shag rug and cat hair on the sofa...let me tell you -- it just doesn't get any better!" We're thinking that Passover went well in his house. MR … 17.00 p.m. GMT
Friday, April 25, 2008
Earlier this week, Will Saletan covered PETA's latest initiative: a $1 million dollar prize offered to anyone who develops a commercially viable "in vitro chicken-meat product." For the entrepreneur lucky enough to win, phil_white99 already envisions the publicity campaign:
look at the free marketing that this future company already got (and will continue to get) from PETA! Imagine Pamela Anderson chowing down on lab-created chicken breasts on YouTube, while shaking her lab-created human breasts.
p_w99's enthusiasm for the idea put him in the minority. Skeptics mostly ruled the roost, so to speak, in Science Fray, egged on by Daniel Engber's derision of the PETA prize as nothing more than a publicity stunt. Firstearth_wiccan, then quillsinister explain why lab-grown meat will never be comparable to the real thing. sepiaprincess gets queasy over "Frankenmeat," while lotsy00 evokes "Chicken Little," the lab meat product in 1953 sci-fi classic The Space Merchants.
Even assuming the success of such an experiment, "what happens to all those 40 billion pigs, cows, fish and chickens?" asksMara5525? (The answer here from Trebuchet: They will be set into the wild and "make good hunting in a few generations. Hopefully they won't evolve into killer chickens!")
Wouldn't "true vegetarians" be repulsed by the taste of meat anyway, "no matter what form it comes in," wonders cmarinelli? Self-proclaimed "animal rights activist" Chicachew agrees, while veg-partisan infornographer says "the prospect of lab-grown meat has me incredibly excited." Read why.
LeRoy_Was_Here zooms out to the global picture:
Part of the reason for soaring food prices are the growing affluence of countries like China and India, and a growing taste for meat among the middle class in those rapidly-developing nations. But meat requires a large amount of grain, and water, and land.
This issue actually goes far beyond the putative health benefits for humans of a vegan diet, and the ethical issues of killing animals for meat. It is deeply connected with the much broader issue of sustainability.
And if we believe ejherb's assertion that "the beef, pork, and poultry industries contribute massively more to global warming than automobiles," lab-based food production would mean a lighter carbon footprint.
More to be found in Human Nature Fray. AC … 12:15 p.m. ET
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
There wasn't even agreement on whether the article was pro-Hillary or anti. Linda Hirshman's " Yo Mamma" on Clinton and U.S. women's mothers brought out close arguments, ranging from the (slightly predictable) [Hillary] "reminds me of my ex-wife" to several readers who said she reminded them of Richard Nixon, to a Republican feminist's claim that "If I continue to hear the patronizing attacks against her based on the pitch of her voice or her appearance or her husband, I may just have to vote for her. Girls need to stick together sometimes."
There was some meta-discussion of why analyses like this appear. Jenniferwhatnot said, "Where are all the articles about men afraid to openly support Obama out of fear of offending their feminist girlfriend? That's right, there aren't any." And thank you KHpoliticalinnuendohere for this defenseofSlate:
The majority of Slate readers are educated and in touch with politics, especially those who post here on the Fray. These are the people who exhausted their attention to policy long ago. We know what the differences and similarities are, we've gone over both Obama and Clinton's with fine-toothed combs, so to expect an op-ed type of publication like Slate to rehash them over and over again is to completely misunderstand their goal and function.
The most controversial line in the article was this: "Only women seem to need to separate and destroy in order to start all over again with each generation." Many readers wanted to argue, Dickey Roscombe from literature:
Nothing says boomer narcissism like identifying a particular problem in one's own sphere of understanding and deciding it must be entirely new and unique. … It would take far too long to detail how western history and literature (from Oedipus to Henry IV to HW Plainview) has faithfully told and re-told the story of men rejecting the worlds and lives of their fathers. Certainly, it is a failure of Western culture to have for so long ignored the parallel stories of mothers and daughters, but to attribute to that story a uniqueness that denies the experiences of fathers and sons is to remake the mistakes of the dead white men that the second-wave feminists worked so hard to debunk.
Ian Kamaku's view was on a different plane, and possibly more provocative to half his readers—well not exactly half:
Just how does 52 to 54% of a population become a minority? Laziness? Stupidity? ... If only you [women] could unite around a leader ... ah, but therein lies the problem, but also the answer ... women will not follow a powerful leader. They will drive the hag out of their kitchens. There is a chance, perhaps a small one, but a chance none the less that when given an order by his father, a 30 year old man might comply. If a woman of 30 is given a direct order by her mother, the chances of her obeying are the chances of the sun moving around the Earth.
Still trying to win friends among women, the same poster said this:
Have you ever noted that when a man wants to get a laugh, he will put on a dress; when a woman wishes to be taken seriously, she will put on a man's uniform? My, my, what does that tell us?
Answer from Pigbodine: "That you watch too much Benny Hill and not enough of French & Saunders." Pigbodine also said, "So, I am not voting for Hillary Clinton. Not because of her sex or that she reminds me of my mom. I am not voting for Hillary Clinton because she does not remind me of Hillary Clinton; she reminds me of John McCain (who kind of reminds me of my dad) and George Bush (who kind of reminds me Lennie from Of Mice and Men)."
Strive (a self-described fortysomething woman) bravely laid her own mother on the line:
My mother … believes whatever Right-leaning political or social screed hits her Inbox, and happily forwards it to 20 of her friends so that she will have good luck that day. She is college-educated and is good at her job, which requires specialized skills. She reads her local paper daily and watches the news every night. But my mother is a stupid woman—my definition being that she has access to information and chooses to either ignore or reject it out of hand because considering or accepting it may require her to think critically about real issues.
She was gently upbraided in the same thread by Munich:
You make some very good points here … but you really oughtn't trash your Mom like that. One day, your mother is going to die … and you really won't like thinking back to the time you repeatedly called her stupid on a public message board. Have a great weekend.
StevieN knew what was needed:
One day, there will be [a woman candidate] and, like Obama is to Jesse Jackson, she will be to Hillary: a candidate who appeals to EVERYONE—beyond the pull of identity politics. And that one will be the first woman president.
Djg1229 had a reasonable demand: "Please let me make [my voting] decision without calling me names or imputing bad intentions to me." That decision had been reached after careful consideration: "I find her to be poorly-suited for the job." Not the only one—there was severe criticism of Hillary's "womanish leisure suits" in this thread, a phrase that caused great hilarity among posters.
Last word goes to Thevail, because this comment—"seriously, you have no idea how perfectly the combination of brave feminists and loving mothers fixed the world"—seems to be so perfectly balanced: We think it was meant as praise, but it could go either way.
—MR ... 1:00 p.m. PST
Friday, April 18, 2008
Who is going to hell? It's a place that gets plenty of mentions in the Fray, and readers this week were ready to send disgraced cleric Bernard Law and Slate writer Christopher Hitchens there (in a post called "Different Paths, Same Destination"). But, perhaps surprisingly, the polygamous men of the FLDS compound, while heavily criticized, were not facing the ultimate in Fray condemnation. After reading the "Explainer" titled "Three Girls for Every Boy," posters were somewhat uneasy—no one approved of underage sex or forced marriage, but as Arlington put it:
If consenting adults want to enter into multiple-this, multiple-that relationships, I'm all for it. I don't think the state has any business determining whether or not those relationships are marriages or not. In fact, I don't think the state has any business proclaiming any arrangement, including the common one man-one woman setup, a marriage. The state(s) need to get out of the marriage business and leave it to the churches, whether those churches be mainstream, fringe, cult or completely bogus … The FLDS situation is a little different because some of the girls are 12 or 13 years old at the time they're forced to marry, and they're held against their will in some cases. There's also the problem of throwing out the minor boys who are not old enough to fend for themselves.
He was answering The True Conservative's question:
Where are our favorite defenders of "alternative lifestyles" now? … Do these people not have the same rights as gays? For the record, I am against polygamy and gay marriage. But at least I am consistent.
Ever helpful Fray poster Kaiso was ready to do the math for a polygamous family:
The replacement rate per family with N wives is N+1+C, where C is the number of children who are eventually kicked out, leave, die, or are infertile. So take [Warren] Jeffs and his 40 wives: they need 41 children + some unknown number (probably higher than .1) to reach replacement. Most men in polygamous couples don't have quite that many wives, but assuming at least one wife has 2 kids, and the others have at least one, that's replacement.
Schroeder Baker's take was straightforward: "Can you say 'quarter million dollar ripoff'? I knew you could." He diagnosed welfare fraud. Herzliebster thought it was "simple Darwinism in action … Maximize reproductive success of dominant males, eliminate unsuccessful males."
Back with the Catholic Church, Nate415, answering Christopher Hitchens' "Two Questions for the Pope," had this to say about Cardinal Law:
What Law did was an affront to God, the Church and the families under his pastoral care. That he hasn't had to go from door to door of the families he harmed and kneel and ask for forgiveness is scandalous, but certainly does not entirely discredit the Catholic Church.
And Nightswimmer knew which works of art we should be thanking the Church for: "Godfather, Sopranos, Da Vinci Code, [and] Thornbirds."
Weddings were at issue over at "Dear Prudence"—just the one bride this time, but that was trouble enough. Readers were on the whole outraged by the letter writer's wish to dictate to her future mother-in-law. A few of the other letters were discussed (What kind of biopsy did she get for $300? It sounded too cheap), but, on the whole, space had to be cleared for the long descriptions of posters' weddings, clothes, general arrangements, and who had the most hideous wedding outfits—plenty of candidates, plus an argument on the merits of chocolate-brown tuxedos (with robin's egg blue vest or without?).
Weddings, religion—neither is the answer to our final quiz question. What does Inquisitor consider to be "an American institution. More important than say Congress but perhaps less than the 'A-Team' "? The answer—provoked by the charming slide show for this "DVD Extras"—is "The Price is Right." MR… 3:00 p.m. GMT


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Citadel cadet Terrance Martin worked with fifth - and sixth-graders Monday morning at Daniel Jenkins Academy helping them to identify their strengths so they could build on them.
Then, in the afternoon, the senior from Cowen, Tenn. spent time at Healing Farms Ministries, helping young adults with intellectual disabilities with their daily routines.
Martin and his fellow cadets and staffers at the military college contribute thousands of hours of service work to the Charleston-area each year.
On Monday, the school was recognized for those efforts.
The Citadel landed The Washington Center 2013 Higher Education Civic Engagement Award. Lt. Gen. John Rosa, the school's president, accepted the award Monday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The school was one of only five nationally to land an award, which is sponsored by the New York Life Foundation.
"At The Citadel, instilling the importance of selfless service is an essential part of educating principled leaders," Rosa said. "This award demonstrates that our students are not just learning the value of civic engagement, they are living it."
School officials said that in the 2011-2012 school year, students contributed 13,000 hours to community service activities. The work has an estimated value of $286,000, they said.
Martin, a criminal justice major, said cadets learn from their fist day on campus that they are expected to serve others. "Service makes better leaders," he said.
But it's more than that, he said. He hopes his work can, at least in some small way, make the world a better place. He will be satisfied if the work he has done recently makes a difference in the life of just one person, he said.
And the hands-on experience he is getting will definitely help him when he applies to graduate programs in forensic psychology, he said. He hopes eventually to help young people who have made mistakes turn their lives around, instead of falling into a prison pipeline, he said.
Healing Farms founder Mary Tutterow said many cadets have worked at her organization and their help is valuable. Cadets are prepared when they arrive, she said, and they help the young adults at Healing Farms find ways to contribute to the world. "It's what make us work," she said.
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The Chichicastenango Guatemala area is a worn and torn land rich in Mayan culture and traditions. The Pray America/Manos de Jesus ministry began serving the local Mayan people in 2003 with James 1:27 as a foundation. Though many churches and short-term teams have partnered with our ministry, there is still much ministry and much work to be done.
We invite you on this journey with us. This is a life-long journey in pursuit of the heart of God. Much ministry is still needed to continue bringing the hope of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the people of Chichicastenango, one soul at a time. As St. Francis of Assisi once said: "Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words".


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"I think every living moment of a human being's life, unless the person is starving or in immediate danger of death in some other way, is controlled by a concern for status," Tom Wolfe has said. As the man in the iconic white suit with a swaggering pen, Wolfe has spent the past fifty years chronicling America's status battles and capturing our cultural zeitgeist.
After earning a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale in 1957, Wolfe plunged into a decade-long career as a newspaperman, beginning with a stint at the Springfield (Massachusetts) Union. A tour as The Washington Post's Latin American correspondent followed in 1960, earning him an award from the Washington Newspaper Guild for his coverage of the Cuban revolution.
Like other writers before him, Wolfe yearned to test his talents in New York. In 1962, he became a reporter for the New York Herald-Tribune and a staff writer for New York magazine, pounding out stories alongside Jimmy Breslin. Wolfe also produced a series of articles for Esquire and New York that laid the foundation for the New Journalism, a style of writing that combined journalistic accuracy with a novelist's eye for description, theme, and point of view. The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) assembled these articles into book form and gave Wolfe his first best seller. Others followed: The Pump House Gang (1968) featured more observations about Sixties culture and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968) captured the LSD-infused antics of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
In 1979, Wolfe published The Right Stuff, a hefty account of the launching of the American space program after World War II. The book, which focused on the competition between the pilots and astronauts for glory and girls, not only became a best seller, but also earned Wolfe the American Book Award for nonfiction, the National Institute of Arts and Letters Harold Vursell Award for prose style, and the Columbia Journalism Award.
Although Wolfe's talent for observation and thick description had served him well as a nonfiction writer, he had yet to make the jump to fiction. Taking a page from Charles Dickens, one of his favorite writers, Wolfe pounded out The Bonfire of the Vanities as a serial for Rolling Stone in 1984 and 1985. The tale, which appeared as a book in 1987, portrayed New York as a money-obsessed, sex-seeking, power-hungry, appearance-driven urban cocktail of a city. Sherman McCoy, investment banker and "Master of the Universe," learns just how mercurial and bitter-tasting the city can be after a wrong turn sends his high-flying life into a nosedive.
Along with Tom Wolfe the Journalist and Tom Wolfe the Novelist, one cannot overlook Tom Wolfe the Provocateur. Wolfe has never hesitated to challenge prevailing notions. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers (1970) delved into race relations, offering both a raucous account of the Leonard Bernstein's party for the Black Panthers in his Park Avenue duplex, and a searing look at the mechanics of government's war on poverty. In The Painted Word (1975), Wolfe focused his status-calibrated eye on the contemporary art world, portraying it as an insular village of tastemakers. From Bauhaus to Our House (1981) tackled twentieth century architecture, with Wolfe charging that architects were more interested in theory than in buildings. In the wake of Bonfire's success, Wolfe stirred up the literary community, via an article in Harper's, when he suggested that the future of the American novel lay in the novelist functioning as reporter, not psychoanalyst.
Wolfe practiced what he preached with his next two novels, conducting extensive research on everything from quail farms to prisons to college keggers. A Man in Full (1998), set in Atlanta, the jewel of the rising New South, wades into racial politics and explores the consequences of 1980s greed. Wolfe's latest novel, I Am Charlotte Simmons (2004), offers a critique of campus life, in which sex, not educational goals, defines social status.
The key to Wolfe's enduring success lies in his ability to convey the nuances of his subjects or characters--the way they walk, what they drive, how they hold their fork--while providing a modern exhortation on the seven deadly sins. Given his ability to capture a cultural moment, it is no coincidence that contemporary language is sprinkled with Wolfian phrases: "statusphere," "the right stuff," "radical chic," "the Me Decade," and "good ol' boy."
Wolfe was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia. He lives in New York City with his wife, Sheila, his daughter, Alexandra, and his son, Tommy.


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12 years ago, MTV hosted Ibiza's first and only outdoor music festival. Some of the biggest names from the International music scene performed to thousands on a sunny hillside. Tickets for the event were the most sought after passes on the Island and for the first time ever on the White Isle, live mainstream artists, performed alongside the biggest names in dance, becoming an inspiration for the multi genre club line ups we see on Ibiza today. The festival became a major feat of achievement and a symbol of the power of the MTV brand. Never before had promoters been able to secure the collaboration and support of the Island authorities, which opened the doors for the promoters whoíve followed and still enjoy hosting parties for thousands of clubbers from around the world over a decade on.
This year MTV returns to host a series of live events at one of the Islands oldest and most spectacular clubs, Amnesia. Home to the Balearic pioneers, This year celebrating their 20th Birthday, Amnesiaís decks have been frequented by the Gods of Clubland now for two decades! MTVîs music events are world renown, the popular music network has unparallel relationships with the jet set world of the musical glitterati and access to the very best in new and established talent. The Summer program will follow last years star studded events; MTV Crashes, Isle of MTV and The EMA's.
For the whole of the summer season - starting on FRIDAY 1ST JULY - MTV will host 10 branded events at Amnesia, welcoming between 4000 and 6000 people to the dry ice, lasers, strobes and killer sound system at every night. The 10-week summer long event will officially launch with a headline set from a very special Ibiza exclusive from one of the worlds biggest artists, (to be announced later this week) and finish with a stunning surprise line up on 2nd September.
Every Friday Amnesia will come alive with incredible performances - taking place between Amnesiaís two rooms. Line up on The Terrace, includes; DURAN DURAN (WiTH DJ SUPPORT FROM MARK RONSON) on 12th August, 2MANYDJS (LIVE), RICHIE HAWTIN PRESENTS PLASTIKMAN (LIVE) and MARK RONSON & THE BUSINESS INTL, (LIVE), with many more live headline acts to be announced over the coming weeks. Ibiza legends LAYO AND BUSHWACKA will be hosting ëMTV & Amnesia present Shake It Ibizaí in the main room, with MAR-T and special guests including MARCO CAROLA, MAGDA, JAMES HOLDEN, DJ RALF and many more DJ's to be announced.
The headline sets will be aired in the form of 2 x 1 hour specials called I WANT MY MTV IBIZA on Saturday 6th August at 9pm and Saturday 9th September at 9pm on MTV UKís premiere music channel; MTV MUSIC (#350) MTV DANCE (#353) incorporating must see live performances, artist interviews and exclusive backstage access. The specials will also be available to view on mtv.co.uk across the summer, with full access to video content, galleries and interviews. MTV Spain will also be promoting the shows across their channels throughout the summer, along with MTV HD broadcasting to 27 Countries worldwide.
Speaking from Coachella, where the band performed last night, singer SIMON LE BON said: 'Duran Duran have both a musical connection and a personal history with Ibiza, but we've never actually done a show on the island, despite going there and enjoying everything it has to offer for years. With our roots firmly in dance and electronic culture, Ibiza has always been a part of our musical DNA so we're really looking forward to finally performing there at Amnesia, which is certainly one of the island's best clubs. This is a great moment for us right now, with a new body of work that we're really enjoying playing live, our European tour wouldn't have been complete without a stop in the party capital of the world. We're also really excited to be partnering with MTV on this one as we have such a long and creative history with the channel.
Tickets priced at approx 45 - 50 euros for each event go on sale today (18th April) on www.MTVibiza.com or via www.ticketmaster.co.uk
If the walls of this old finca could speak, their tales would fascinate you, you may have even been a part of them. From Alfredo's early days to the Oakenfold/Rampling/Holloway experience in 1987 through mammoth residencies such as Up Yer Ronson, Cream and Cocoon, Amnesia has always been a true temple to clubbing. A cavernous main room with the god like elevated DJ booth that has seen pretty much every name in dance music history grace its decks, from which point nights of pure hedonism and lucid malevolence have been composed and experienced by the swinging multitude in the pit of a dance floor below. The secret weapon, which has to be felt to be believed, is the dramatic ice cannon whose infrequent use means it still remains a mystique despite its notoriety.
Since 2008's renovation, and the removal of the bus stop DJ booth, the Amnesia terrace is now without doubt one of the world's premier clubbing spaces, enabling 7000 punters to cram in here on the big nights. An integral part of the authentic Amnesia experience, it was still partly open air until the late 90s and then spent 10 years of sporadic success, most notably La Troya and more recently with Cocoon and Cream. BUT, 2008's renovation changed everything, even creating friction between main room DJs and their terrace counterparts, as it became obvious the terrace was the place to be.
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