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LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities seized a far-flung marketing operation Monday over claims the Kentucky-based company amounted to a global pyramid scheme that siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from people who paid steep fees to become sales representatives but made a pittance for selling products.
Federal and state agents converged on Fortune Hi-Tech Marketing's headquarters in Lexington and its warehouse in Danville after a federal judge in Chicago ordered the company to cease operations. The judge appointed a receiver to oversee the company's assets.
"We think today's actions are the beginning of the end for one of the most prolific pyramid schemes operating in North America," said Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, who joined in a federal lawsuit filed in Chicago against Fortune.
Besides Kentucky, other plaintiffs are the states of Illinois and North Carolina and the Federal Trade Commission.
The company said in a recorded phone message at its Lexington headquarters that it will vigorously defend itself and expects to be vindicated.
"We are confident that our side of the story will be heard and we are already making positive strides toward reopening," the company's recording said.
The company used testimonials to try to lure its sales force. Some Fortune representatives claimed they earned more than 10 times as much as their previous incomes by their second year with the marketing company, authorities said. One person claimed that another representative earned more than $50,000 in his sixth month and millions of dollars in later years.
More than 90 percent of Fortune's sales members quit after one year, Conway said.
To participate, those representatives paid annual fees of $100 to $300, authorities said. To qualify for sales commissions and recruiting bonuses, they paid an extra $130 to $400 per month and agreed to a plan that billed them monthly for products.
In all, representatives invested about $1,500 per year to be associated with Fortune, authorities said.
The lawsuit claims sales recruits were told they could earn high commissions by selling products to people outside the operation. Instead, only minimal compensation was paid for sales to non-participants, and few products were sold to anyone other than participants, it said.
Other defendants in the case include prominent businessman Paul C. Orberson, who launched Fortune Hi-Tech in 2001.
Orberson has been a big contributor to the athletic programs at the University of Kentucky and Western Kentucky University.
A woman identifying herself as his wife said Monday she would give him a message that AP is seeking his comment.
Orberson gave a $1.6 million donation to University of Kentucky to help fund an expansion of the football training complex. The addition was named the Paul Orberson Football Office Complex, according to UK's athletic website. At Western Kentucky, the school's baseball clubhouse is named after Orberson, a WKU graduate who was the lead donor in building the clubhouse.
The lawsuit alleges that Fortune misled its vast network of sales members into believing they would earn big money for selling consumer goods such as satellite television and cellphone services as well as Fortune's line of health and beauty products.
The operation's sales network included more than 100,000 people in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, authorities said.
"We think damages to consumers could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars," Conway said.
Conway said his office will forward information to local prosecutors in Lexington to look into possible criminal misconduct.
C. Steven Baker, director of the Federal Trade Commission's Midwest Region, declined to put an estimated worth on Fortune's assets, saying the receiver will work to determine the value. He said the assets have been frozen to allow refunds to Fortune members if ordered by the court.
Baker said that Fortune's sales representatives were "victims of a rigged game."
"No matter how hard you worked ... there's very little chance that people could even break even," Baker said. "The plan is set up so that 96 percent of people must lose money to keep this whole enterprise functioning. Fortune knows that and has set this company up to produce just those results."
Conway said, "Fortune Hi-Tech distributors only received pennies for selling multi-year service contracts but they received significant payments for signing up new members. Legitimate multi-level marketing companies reward distributors based on product sales, not on signing up individuals. Thus the key test as to whether or not you have a pyramid scheme or you have legitimate direct marketing."
Fortune's Lexington headquarters had about 80 employees, and 10 to 15 people worked at its warehouse operation in Danville, Conway said.
The states of North Dakota, Montana and Texas have previously taken legal action against Fortune and reached settlements. The attorneys general of North Carolina and Illinois contacted Conway and the FTC regarding complaints from consumers in their states.


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If Exists (Select 1...) vs If Exists (select * ...)
If exists is a well known way to improve performance because it returns as soon as it matches a single row - at that point it knows the condition is true and there is no need to continue.During a recent www.opass.org meeting guest speaker Bill Graziano mentioned that he uses if exists (select 1) instead of if exists (select *) as a performance optimization. Discussion revealed that this was based on a conversation with a MS person at some point, but Bill didn't have online URL to support it. Note that I'm not knocking Bill here, just curious to see if anyone can shed any light on this.
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Grandeur and Filth
The Victorian City: Images and Realities
The Victorian Working Class: Selections from the Morning Chronicle Service (Portland, Oregon)
The Real Foundations: Literature and Social Change
The Victorians by the Sea
Engels, Manchester, and the Working Class
Millions of us still live in Victorian cities; "the structures outlast the people who put them there," as Messrs. Dyos and Wolff observe in the epilogue to their stunning book, "and impose constraints on those who have to adapt them later to their own use." Their contributors offer some striking images of these constrains. Take, for example, Sybil Baker's cool, minute, and frightful account of Victorian Belfast:
Belfast's a famous northern town,
Ships and linen its occupation,
And the workers have a riot on
The slightest provocation—
the provocation being, usually, an attempt to repress their sectarian and ethnic "walks." Just the situation of Bloody Sunday in Londonderry not so long ago; and on Miss Baker's map there, embattled as now, are Shankhill and the Falls Road.
Other cities, if they have shorter memories and less religion, are still in large part nineteenth-century structures. London, though already in the previous century what Morris called "the horrible muckheap in which we dwell," took on its modern randomness and enormity. Bagehot, in a famous passage twice quoted in this book, compared it to a newspaper: "everything is there, and everything is disconnected." All possible worlds coexist in contiguous but discontinuous columns; life and death, wealth and poverty, instantaneously and pointlessly associated. The new city partook of no familiar order, had no apprehensible structure.
Mr. Craig quotes a song called "I can't find Brummagem"—the trouble was not that Birmingham was small or elusive, but that it was everywhere and nowhere. Engels had to work to get some idea of where Manchester was; even now "the shortest way out of Manchester" is a euphemism for strong drink. And in London he memorably registered the brutal indifference of a city crowd, people not looking at one another, mankind dissolved into monads. That sense of ricocheting off thousands of meaningless urban objects, identified by Walter Benjamin in the experience of Baudelaire, is part of the consciousness of all modern city-dwellers.
L'immonde cité: nothing is better documented than the filth of Victorian cities, unless it is their grandeur. That filth and grandeur should coexist seemed to many the inevitable consequence of Political Economy., of laws as invariant as Newton's. The grand municipal centers celebrated and exploited a system which necessarily packed the poor into slums; the roads and railways required for the conveyance of the middle classes away from such areas occasionally ripped right through them, tearing up the homes and graveyards of the poor, and for a moment offending the newly refined senses of the rich. Meanwhile the sewage of a vast population fell untreated into the rivers. In the summer of 1858 the House of Commons had to suspend its sittings because of the stench from the Thames.
The Victorians took much interest in all these developments; they loved statistics, and complied them tirelessly; and, as The Victorian City sumptuously shows, they also recorded the scene, in all its black majesty, with pencil and camera.1 They were further…
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Indopacetus pacificus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Indopacetus pacificus (Longman, 1926)
Common Name(s):
Mesoplodon pacificus (Longman, 1926)
Mesoplodon pacificus Longman, 1926
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Some marine mammal scientists believe this species should be in the genus Mesoplodon. In 1996, it was listed under Mesoplodon, but it is now generally considered under Indopacetus (Rice 1998). Until just a few years ago, this species was only known only from two skulls. Sightings of what are now known to be this species in tropical waters were often mistakenly attributed to a whale of the genus Hyperoodon (Dalebout et al. 2003).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Data Deficient ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Taylor, B.L., Baird, R., Barlow, J., Dawson, S.M., Ford, J., Mead, J.G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Wade, P. & Pitman, R.L.
|Hammond, P.S. & Perrin, W.F. (Cetacean Red List Authority)
There is almost no information on abundance and no information on trends in global abundance for this species. As a relatively uncommon species it is potentially vulnerable to low-level threats and a 30% global reduction over three generations cannot not be ruled out.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|There have been many sightings at widespread locations in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans (Dalebout et al. 2003). The distribution is not fully known, but it appears to be limited to the Indo-Pacific region (Culik 2004). The collected specimens are from Australia, Somalia, South Africa, the Maldives, Kenya, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan. These beaked whales are relatively infrequently seen in the eastern tropical Pacific and may be more common in the western Pacific. They also appear to be more common in the western Indian Ocean, especially around the Maldives archipelago (Anderson et al. 2006).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Australia; Comoros; Japan; Kenya; Malaysia; Maldives; Mayotte; Mexico; New Caledonia; Philippines; Saudi Arabia; Somalia; South Africa; Sri Lanka; Taiwan, Province of China; United States (Hawaiian Is.)
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Indian Ocean – western; Indian Ocean – eastern; Pacific – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|While it is certainly not the rarest of beaked whales, the paucity of recent sightings of Longman's beaked whales indicate that it is not particularly common either. The only estimates of abundance available are of 1,007 individuals (CV=126%) in the waters around Hawaii (Barlow 2006), and 291 (CV=100%) in the eastern North Pacific (Ferguson and Barlow 2001).
There is no information on trends in the global abundance of this species.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|The sightings of this species come from scattered locations, many in deep, oceanic waters, in the tropical to subtropical Indo-Pacific. Sightings have occurred in areas with surface water temperatures of 21-31°C.
Nothing is known of its feeding habits, except for the stomach contents of a single specimen from Japan (Yamada 2003). These suggested that the species feeds primarily on cephalopods, like other beaked whales.
|Major Threat(s):
Direct hunting has never been associated with this species. Pervasive gillnet and longline fisheries throughout the species' range raises concern that some bycatch is likely. Even low levels of bycatch might cause unsustainable impacts on this naturally rare cetacean.
It is unknown if military, seismic or other loud noise-producing human activities resulted in the live stranding of a possible mother/calf pair in NE Taiwan (Wang and Yang 2006; Yang et al. 2008). However, "bubble-like lesions" were reported in at least one of these whales by Yang et al (2008). There is some evidence from Sri Lanka for occasional incidental or directed takes of animals identified as 'bottlenose whales' which are likely to be Indopacetus (Dayaratne and Joseph 1993).
Evidence from stranded individuals of several similar species of beaked whales indicates that they have swallowed discarded plastic items, which may eventually lead to death (e.g. Scott et al. 2001); this species may also be at risk.
This species, like other beaked whales, is likely to be vulnerable to loud anthropogenic sounds, such as those generated by navy sonar and seismic exploration (Cox et al. 2006).
Predicted impacts of global climate change on the marine environment may affect this species of whale, although the nature of impacts is unclear (Learmonth et al. 2006).
|Conservation Actions:
|The species is listed in Appendix II of CITES. Research is needed to determine the impact of possible threats on this species.
|Taylor, B.L., Baird, R., Barlow, J., Dawson, S.M., Ford, J., Mead, J.G., Notarbartolo di Sciara, G., Wade, P. & Pitman, R.L. 2008. Indopacetus pacificus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T40635A10345818. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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Emergency Plans
Employees and students should be prepared to cope with the hazards and disasters that threaten the day-to-day functions of the College. The following instructions were prepared to help you know what to do if there is a weather emergency.
Reporting an Emergency
7:30 am to 5:00 pm
Dial 6000-Campus Switchboard, from any campus extension and the appropriate medical, fire, and police will be notified.
After hours
Dial 911 for Fire or Ambulance. Dial 785-442-3212 for local police.
Before taking any action, be sure you are not endangering yourself. Avoid any unstable structures, electrical wires, toxic fumes, chemical spills, fire, etc. Do not jeopardize your life or the lives of others in attempting to save personal or College property.
When you call, give:
- Your name
- Your telephone number and location
- Name and location of emergency
- Don't hang up until the person answering the call ends the conversation
- If there is a generalized emergency and the phone lines are dead, take a message to the Administration Building Switchboard or Housing Director, Heritage 4 (after 5 pm)
- If the emergency involves students, please refrain from making further calls to friends or parents. If at all possible notify the Vice President of Student Services immediately. College administration will contact any additional parties that needed to be informed.
Acting in an Emergency
- Remain calm, use common sense, and render assistance. Don't panic
- Evacuate buildings immediately upon hearing an audible alarm, or when remaining in the building becomes life-threatening
- Know the location of at least two emergency exit routes in your working area.
Do Not:
1. Use the telephones for reasons other than emergency purposes
2. Use the elevators or chair lifts in emergencies or attempt to exit stalled elevators
Medical Emergencies:
Do not exceed your training or knowledge when attempting to render first aid. Immediately dial 911 or 6000 and report the nature of the illness.
Fire Emergencies:
- Know how to activate the fire alarm
- Know the location of fire extinguishers and how to use them.
- Know all building exit routes. Elevators should not be used for exit in the event of a fire. Keep exit routes free of obstruction.
- Have emergency telephone numbers attached to telephones
If a Fire is Suspected or Discovered:
- Activate the fire alarm and call 6000 and/or 911. Give as much information as possible, including building name, floor, and room number of the possible fire. Never attempt to fight the fire alone.
- Where there is no alarm, warn other occupants by knocking on the doors and shouting a warning.
- Leave the building. As you exit, close doors and windows behind you to prevent the fire's spread. Go to the nearest exit or stairwell. Do not use elevators. If the nearest exit is blocked by fire, heat or smoke, go to the alternate exit.
- If there is smoke in your room or in the hallways, keep down near the floor.
- Before opening a door, feel the door and/or knob. If either is hot, do not open the door.
- Open the door slowly. If heat or heavy smoke is present, close the door and stay in the room. Open a window to let the heat and smoke out and fresh air.
- If you are trapped in your room, call 911 and/or 6000 and give your location. Hang an object out the window to attract attention.
Bomb Threats
If you receive a threatening call:
- Notify Vice President of Student Services ext. 6020 or Dean of Finance & Operations 6002 immediately.
- Notify your supervisor
- Ascertain as much information from the caller as possible, such as:
- Where is the bomb?
- When will it go off?
- What is the caller's age?
- Is the caller warning you to have the building evacuated?
- Why is the caller threatening to set off a bomb
- Do not touch suspicious objects.
- Do not attempt to find the bomb.
Robbery Assault
These procedures should be followed to help assure your safety:
- Cooperate. Give the person exactly what he/she asks for, nothing more.
- Remember distinguishing traits: color of clothing; hat or no hat; beard or moustache; race approximate height, weight, and age.
- Note the type of weapon used.
- Listen carefully to notice voice characteristics and what are said.
- Note direction of travel or flight after the confrontation. Check vehicle type and license number if possible.
- Notify police immediately 442-3212
Sexual Assault
Many victims of sexual assault do not know where to turn for help, know what to do after an assault. The following steps should serve only as a guide.
- Get help quickly
- Call 442-3212 for police assistance
- The victim should call a close friend or relative
- Do not change clothes or shower. You may destroy valuable evidence needed by the police.
Policy Prohibiting Sexual Harassment
It shall be administrative policy of Highland Community College that no person shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity of Highland Community College as required by Public Law 92-318.
In compliance with Section 86.8 of P. L.> 92-318, the President of the College has been designated as the Compliance Officer and the employee responsible to coordinate he efforts of the college to comply with and carry out its responsibilities under this Act, including any investigation of any compliant communicated to Highland any actions which should be prohibited by this Act. The Compliance Officer may be contacted by mail at Highland Community College, 606 W Main, Highland, Kansas 66035 or by telephone 785-442-6010.
Random Acts of Violence
Personal safety should be a primary concern. If a situation occurs in which your personal safety is in immediate danger, remove yourself from the building if at all possible.
Contact the Administration Building switchboard 442-6000 as soon as possible.
Campus staff will notify those in other buildings and provide instructions.
If you are aware of others being injured, refrain from contacting family members or friends. The President or designee will make all necessary contacts, including media statements.
Power Outages
Occasionally, the City of Highland experiences power outages. We do not always know the extent of these outages, but offer the following guidelines:
- If outage occurs during the daytime while campus offices are open, contact the administration building switchboard. The switchboard can tell you if this is a campus wide problem. If is a single building, maintenance will be contacted.
- Please wait at least fifteen minutes to give maintenance or switchboard the opportunity to determine the problem. We will notify you if it cannot be fixed immediately.
- If the outage is extensive and does not seem to be fixable within the immediate future, dismiss your classes. This is a judgment call.
Vehicular Accidents
If you collide with an unattended vehicle, stop immediately, attempt to locate the vehicles' owner, or notify the Dean of Finance & Operations or the Vice President of Student Services. If this is not possible leave a note with your name, address and telephone number.
Damage under $350.00
If you are involved in an accident resulting in damage under $350.00 you must stop and give the following information to the owner/operator of the other vehicle:
- Your name
- Your address
- Registration number of your vehicle;
- Your driver's license number
Vehicle Damage over $350, injury or death related to vehicular accidents on the HCC campus.
If an accident results in damage over $350, if there is a question about the amount of damage, of if an accident results in injury or death on the HCC campus, notify the Dean of Finance & Operations and/or the Vice President of Student Services and the local police immediately.
College Vehicles
Report immediately all collisions involving College vehicles to the Business Office Manager, regardless of the amount of damage. Procedures and contacts appear on the back of the form used during vehicle checkout. Please refer to those procedures when operating a college owned vehicle.
Fumes/Vapors/Gas Leaks
If a vapor, fume or gas leak enters you work place and you cannot determine the sources, leave the area immediately. Post a do not enter sign and contact maintenance 442-6110 or Switchboard 442-6000.
Winter Storms
When a severe storm occurs on campus, the College President decides whether the campus will close or personnel should leave work early. Personnel are notified through their department supervisors. When notified to leave campus, please do so without delay.
Students, faculty, and staff who question whether the College will be open after a major overnight storm should tune into 103.9 KNZA-Hiawatha. A message will be left on campus switchboard regarding campus closings.
Tornados/Severe Weather
Kansas is located within an active tornado zone. Actions taken before, during and immediately after a tornado may be the difference between life and death.
When a tornado is confirmed to be in or near Doniphan County, Police or Emergency Preparedness will activate the storm warning sirens. Furthermore, college officials will activate the campus emergency alert system. A message will be broadcast across the campus speaker system and sent via email and text message for those signed up to receive RAVE alerts. Everyone should take cover by going to a designated shelter area. Specific locations of shelter areas are printed on bright blue signs located in each building. If at all possible, do not use the Administration Building basement as a shelter.
Shelter Locations:
Lower level Library Student Union
Lower level Administration Building
Lower level Yost Hall
Lower level locker rooms Allen Fieldhouse
Student Housing Residents:
If these locations are not open or available, go to the lowest level of the apartment building you reside.
The "take shelter" siren has a wailing rise and fall sound that will operate for 15 seconds, then turn off for 5
The "all clear" is a flat, one tone siren that will operate for 2 seconds then turn off for 2 seconds. This will last for one minute.
The college speaker system and RAVE alert text messaging system will also send an all clear message when the dangerous storm has passed.
The city alarms are located off campus, but can easily be heard from outside any building. At the college, an additional hazard exists due to the number of chemicals and gas lines in laboratories. Try to avoid these areas for shelter.
General Instructions
- Don't go sightseeing
- Move towards the lowest level and center of the building. Stay away from windows.
- Do not use the telephone except to report medical or fire emergencies, safety hazards or criminal activity
- Keep walkways and loading dock areas clear for emergency vehicles.
- Cooperate with public safety officials. Do not go into damaged areas unless your help is requested.
Distribution of Public Information Arising from Campus Disasters
In the event of a tragedy or disaster impacting the campus community, please do not contact employees, students, parents of students, media or others. Any and all notifications of death or disasters, relating to or involving students and employees while associated with a college event or on campus, will be handled by the Vice President of Student Services, the Executive Assistant to the President, the President or the President's designee.
If you are involved in a college event that results in the death of an employee or student, notify the Vice President of Student Services or the President as soon as reasonably possible. These individuals will make the appropriate notifications.


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March 25. 2014 11:40AM
Distracted driving led to Concord I-93 crash, police say
CONCORD - State police say distracted driving caused a crash that sent one vehicle over the guardrail on Interstate 93 in Concord early Tuesday morning.
The accident happened about 6:40 a.m. when a 2008 Honda Accord driven by William Swanson, 26, of Manchester, changed lanes and struck a 2004 Ford pickup driven by Seth Danko, 36, of Boscawen, according to police.
Swanson's inattention/distraction is believed to have been the primary factor in the crash, according to police, who said he told investigators he took his eyes off the road for a moment prior to the collision.
Danko's pickup rolled over the guardrail and down into an embankment where it struck a tree. Danko suffered minor injuries and was transported to Concord Hospital for evaluation. Swanson was not injured, police said.
One lane of travel was closed for approximately two hours while state police, Concord fire and wrecker crews cleared the scene.
Any witnesses to the accident are encouraged to contact Trooper Charles George at 271-3636.


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We further examined the interaction of Osa and Snr1 proteins with the promoters of Dl, ase and spdo in a ChIP assay using Osa- and Snr1-specific antibodies or an unrelated IgG control ( Fig. 7A-B′ ). We found that Osa and Snr1 associated with the Dl and ase promoters at the chromatin level, whereas neither bound to the spdo promoter, which suggests that Osa and Snr1 might regulate Dl and ase expression directly. However, we could not exclude the possibility that Dl and ase are indirectly regulated by another transcriptional target of Osa.
Osa and Snr1 bind to the promoters of and . ( A ) The genomic locus of and . The black bar under the locus indicates the region used for ChIP assay. ( B , B ′) Osa- and Snr1-specific antibodies or unrelated IgG (control) were used in the ChIP assay. Osa and Snr1 are associated with the and promoters at the chromatin level, but neither binds to the promoter. <0.01 (Student's -test). Data (qPCR) are mean ± s.d. ( C ) The Osa-containing SWI/SNF (Brahma) chromatin remodeling complex regulates the fate of ISCs by controlling the expression of and .
In summary, these data suggest that Osa regulates ISC differentiation into ECs by controlling Dl expression in ISCs, and regulates EE cell formation by controlling ase expression ( Fig. 7C ).
Previous studies have demonstrated that N signaling regulates ISC fate specification in the Drosophila posterior midgut ( Ohlstein and Spradling, 2007 ). The Dl ligand is specifically expressed in ISCs to activate N signaling in neighboring EBs to promote EB to EC or inhibit EB to EE cell differentiation. However, it is still not fully understood how ISCs are coordinately controlled to differentiate into EC or EE cells, thus maintaining tissue homeostasis. Here, we found that the commitment of stem cells to discrete differentiated cells is coordinately regulated by the Osa-containing SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex. Osa regulates ISC differentiation into ECs by controlling the expression of Dl to elaborate N signaling, and regulates EE cell formation by controlling the expression of ase transcription.
Our results suggest that Osa, a component of the SWI/SNF complex, is essential for ISC differentiation into EC and EE cells in the posterior midgut. The SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex performs a crucial function in gene regulation by using energy derived from ATP hydrolysis to alter the contacts between histones and DNA in nucleosomes, resulting in increased DNA accessibility to transcription factors and other regulatory proteins. Activating the N signal in EBs with the ISC-originated N ligand Dl is essential for EB differentiation into ECs. Osa promotes the expression of in ISCs and maintains activation of the N signal in EBs to promote EB to EC differentiation. Repressing Dl expression by loss of function of Osa enhances ISC self-renewal and blocks ISC commitment to ECs, resulting in ISC expansion/tumors. Dl expression alone is sufficient to rescue the ISC expansion/tumor phenotype in mutants. SWI/SNF components have been shown to frequently occupy transcription start sites, enhancers and CTCF-binding regions (
Euskirchen et al., 2011
). Indeed, Osa and Snr1 bind to the promoter region of at the chromatin level. Consistently, genetic interaction between the SWI/SNF complex and Dl were found during a genetic screen (
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), and the expression of a dominant-negative form of Brm, a core component of the SWI/SNF complex, in the adult sense organ precursor lineage causes phenotypes similar to those resulting from impaired Dl-N signaling.
Why does the Osa-containing SWI/SNF complex regulate expression only in ISCs and not in EBs? One possible explanation is that the complex in ISCs and EBs has different associated factors, and only that in ISCs is able to regulate expression. Another possibility is that some transcription factors recruit the complex to regulate expression, and these transcription factors exist only in ISCs.
Disrupting the Dl-N signal in ISCs results in both ISC and EE cell expansion. Given that Osa regulates Dl expression in ISCs, mutant ISCs should have phenotypes similar to those that result from impaired Dl-N signaling; however, mutation only causes ISC expansion, and EE cell formation is repressed. Proneural bHLH factors of the achaete-scute complex (AS-C), Sc and Ase, have been reported to play a crucial role in EE cell fate specification ( Bardin et al., 2010 ). or overexpression in midgut progenitors leads to dramatically increased EE cell numbers, whereas mutant ISC clones of Df(1)scB57, which lack all four AS-C genes, i.e. (), [] and , are devoid of EE cells ( Bardin et al., 2010 ). and expression is upregulated when the N signal is blocked in the intestinal midgut. Similarly, we also found that the expression of is upregulated in the midgut compared with the wild-type control, whereas expression is significantly decreased in the midgut. Furthermore, knockdown of alone blocks EE cell formation in the midgut. Thus, our data suggest that Osa controls EE cell formation by regulating the expression of . Terminal differentiation of EBs into EC or EE cells has been proposed to be regulated by differential N signaling, whereby a high level of N activity induces EBs to differentiate into ECs, whereas a low level of N activity promotes the EE cell fate ( Ohlstein and Spradling, 2007 ). However, EE cells can still be generated even when N activity is suppressed by either the expression of or the clonal deletion of or , suggesting that the N signal is not required for EE cells at all.
Both Sc and Ase may play important roles in regulating EE cell fate in the midgut. A high level of N activity might suppress the expression of and and thereby promote EC fate. By contrast, a low level of N activity might activate the expression of and , inducing EB cells to differentiate into EE cells. Excess EE cells in the midgut might be the result of upregulation of and caused by disruption of the N signal. Indeed, previous studies have shown that N signaling activates the expression of the Enhancer of split complex [E(spl)-C], which can, in turn, repress the expression of the proneural genes and (
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(Adds background on killings)
By Alex Dobuzinskis and Jim Forsyth
March 26 (Reuters) - The suspect in the killing of the Colorado prisons chief had bomb-making materials and instructions for building bombs in the trunk of his car, Texas authorities said in court papers released on Tuesday.
Evan Spencer Ebel, a 28-year-old parolee from a Denver suburb, was killed in Decatur in a gun battle with Texas police last Thursday after a high-speed chase.
Ebel has already been linked to the killings last week of the Colorado prisons chief, Tom Clements, and a Denver pizza delivery man, but investigators had not indicated that he may have been plotting a bombing.
On Tuesday, a court in Wise County, Texas, released a list of evidence recovered in a search of Ebel's Cadillac car which included miscellaneous bomb making materials in a black duffle bag and a backpack, which were found in the trunk.
They also discovered a document with "apparent bomb making instructions" in the backpack, according to the court documents, which were related to a search warrant filed last week.
Other items found in the car included black powder, documents from the Colorado Department of Corrections, a projectile, four cartridge cases and zip ties, which can be used to restrain a person, the documents said.
The documents released on Tuesday do not indicate what police believe Ebel may have been planning to do with the bomb-making materials.
Ebel, who according to law enforcement sources was a member of a white supremacist prison gang known as the 211 Crew, had served time in prison in Colorado and was paroled in the Denver area in January. He was arrested at least seven times between 2003 and 2010 for crimes including burglary, weapons possession, assault, menacing and robbery, court records indicate.
A representative from the Texas Ranger Division, which obtained the search warrant for Ebel's car, could not be reached for comment. Authorities involved in the investigation in Colorado also declined to comment.
The El Paso County Sheriff's Office is the lead agency investigating Clements' death, which occurred in that Colorado county. The office on Monday said ballistics tests established the gun Ebel used in a shootout with police in Texas was the same weapon used to kill the prisons chief.
On Friday, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper confirmed reports he had been a longtime friend of the Ebel family, after having met the dead suspect's father, Jack Ebel, 30 years ago. The governor said Evan Ebel "had a bad streak."
Authorities have been looking for ties between the death of Clements and the January killing of Mark Hasse, a prosecutor in the Kaufman County District Attorney's Office. Kaufman County is east of Dallas. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and Jim Forsyth in San Antonio, editing by Scott Malone, Kevin Gray and David Brunnstrom)


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After years breathing AMD's dust, Intel beat its rival to the punch by releasing its quad-core Xeon 5300 'Clovertown' processor for servers in November. But AMD's 'Barcelona' quad-core chip, due to arrive midway through 2007, will be a significant notch faster than the Clovertown chips expected to be on the market at that time, said Randy Allen, AMD's corporate vice president for server and workstation products. "We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by 40 percent," Allen said.


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In the world of data warehouse specific databases, column-oriented databases (as opposed to the classic row-based databases) are becoming very popular. One of the most popular pure-play column-oriented databases is from Vertica and Oracle databases with Exadata storage includes hybrid columnar compression, which maintains the row structure, but compresses the data very effectively with common values in columns.
The next release of SQL Server (SQL Server 2012, 11.0, or Denali, if you like) will include Microsoft's first release of their database engine to include columnar compression, which is being surfaced to database developers and DBAs as columnar indexes. The technology that Microsoft is using inside SQL Server for the column-oriented compression and indexing is based on the same Vertipaq technology that is currently in use in PowerPivot and being expanded upon in Denali as a secondary Analysis Services engine that will provide an alternative to the MDX/UDM engine.
Much of what I am describing here is fully expanded upon in this whitepaper by Microsoft's Eric Hanson which I highly recommend that you download and read. It is brief and very effective. What I want to also highlight in terms of the Microsoft implementation of columnstore indexes is that the data on the data pages in a columnstore index are stored as pure column storage, not as a hybrid row and column model.
The example columnstore index from that whitepaper is reproduced for you here:
CREATE COLUMNSTORE INDEX cstore on [dbo].[catalog_sales] ([cs_sold_date_sk] ,[cs_sold_time_sk] ,[cs_ship_date_sk] ,[cs_bill_customer_sk] ,[cs_bill_cdemo_sk]
Basically, what they are doing is adding ALL rows from the fact table of their star schema data warehouse data model in this index. The query optimizer will make the determination of using the columnstore index or another index or heap for you. I've also copied a screenshot of how you can access columnstore indexes on your fact table from the SSMS GUI in SQL Server Denali here:
That dialog is available under indexes in your database tables folder in SSMS. You can only have 1 columnstore index per table.
This is from CTP3 of SQL Server Denali, so you can try this out today. The Microsoft whitepaper states that using the column oriented index on your tables can improve your query performance against that fact table up to 100X and possibly even more. The idea is that you can start to use columnstore indexes on your fact tables in your SQL Server data warehouse so that you won't need to pre-aggregate certain data. Instead, the increased speed times will allow you to perform those aggregations in your queries. This is where the benefit to your business intelligence solutions are noticed. Particularly, if you want to avoid building cubes for aggregations and avoid the processing delays of dealing with a UDM model, then this may be a solution to try out.
Notice that from the whitepaper, this query includes a grouping and aggregate function and is what they are using for their sample timing:
select w_city, w_state, d_year, SUM(cs_sales_price) as cs_sales_price from warehouse, catalog_sales, date_dim where w_warehouse_sk = cs_warehouse_sk and cs_sold_date_sk = d_date_sk and w_state in ('SD','OH') and d_year in (2001,2002,2003) group by w_city, w_state, d_year order by d_year, w_state, w_city;
If you'd like to keep more of your BI logic in T-SQL, away from MDX and MOLAP, then columnstore indexes on your data warehouse may be the ticket to speed these types of queries to the point to where they are viable for your solution.
I also recommend this YouTube video that Eric Hanson uploaded and walks you through the creation of a columnstore index. The whitepaper I linked to above will also detail for you some of the limitations of columnstore indexes in SQL Server Denali that you will want to become familiar with including how to update them (they are read-only) and they must be partition-aligned.


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Now that Halloween is over, we can move on to the second greatest holiday of the year, Thanksgiving. It is the one time of year everyone pretends to be a little nicer. The relatives are back home, the turkey is in the oven, and the football is getting better each week.
But the greatest part of Thanksgiving season is the ladies. Beautiful women continue to figure out ways to stay warm using less and less clothing every year. This year, it is the boots. The short skirts are coming out of the closet because the boots are getting higher and higher up the legs.
So when you are done chomping down on that turkey leg, sit back and enjoy a few of the sexiest photo's you might see until 2014 of beautiful women in knee-high boots. Enjoy.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:
Barnes & Noble Inc., down $1.79 at $14.26
The book seller reported that its digital content growth slowed as it faced increased competition from rivals like Amazon.com and Google.
Stein Mart Inc., up 97 cents at $8.56
The discount retailer said that sales at stores open at least a year jumped 7.1 percent last month. It also announced a special $1 dividend.
Tiffany & Co., down $3.93 at $59.80
The jewelry company's third-quarter net income fell 30 percent due to a higher-than-expected tax rate and high metal costs.
The Kroger Co., up $1.19 at $26.25
The supermarket chain raised its earnings outlook for the year after reporting a third-quarter profit that topped expectations.
La-Z-Boy Inc., down $1.57 at $14.60
The furniture company reported that its fiscal second-quarter net income fell as investments in its business hurt its bottom line.
Aeropostale Inc., down 70 cents at $13.42
After poor back-to-school sales, the teen retailer's third-quarter profit was nearly flat and it issued a weak forecast.
Research In Motion Ltd., up 44 cents at $11.54
Goldman Sachs upgraded the phone maker's shares to "Buy," saying there is a chance its BlackBerry 10 phones could be a success.
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc., down $3.32 at $61.78
The restaurant chain said that its fiscal first-quarter net income fell 3 percent, pulled down by severance costs and expenses.


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Fans of acoustic music will want to check out the Ocean Beach People's Organic Foods Co-Op Deli, which offers free music twice a week. The music happens on Fridays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. and on Sundays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. A great place to take in a meal or a quick break while shopping by catching up-and-coming talent, the venue presents an eclectic mix of artists performing folk, jazz, blues and bluegrass music. Between the great music, fresh food and ocean breezes, this could just about be the quintessential Ocean Beach spot.
• Acoustic music: Friday, March 8 at 5:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 10 at 11 a.m. at Ocean Beach People's Organic Foods Co-Op Deli, 4765 Voltaire Street. Free. www.obpeoplesfood.coop.
One of San Diego's best-known reggae-influenced artists, Quino makes a rare appearance March 9 at Humphreys Backstage Lounge. If you're a fan of reggae or Hawaiian music, this show is for you.
Quino first came to national attention in 1994, when his band, Big Mountain, scored a No. 4 hit with a cover of the Peter Frampton song "Baby, I Love Your Way." While nothing he's released since has climbed to those heights, his groove-filled music continues to be a major draw. Quino hasn't released an album since his solo debut in 2010 with "La Ofrenda," but whether he plays new creations or old favorites, anyone who wants an aural pick-me-up during the gloomy days of March will enjoy Quino's island rhythms.
• Quino performs at 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 9 at Humphreys Backstage Live, 2241 Shelter Island Drive. $12. www.humphreysbackstagelive.com
Anyone wanting to squeeze in a last bit of weekend fun before the reality of Monday hits should head to Gallagher's on Sunday, March 10 for a set from The Hips. Specializing in funk, soul and R&B, the band performs from 3 to 6 p.m., making this the perfect way to top off a Sunday. The Hips' set list includes excellent takes of hit tunes from the Motown 1960s to the funky 1970s, the perfect soundtrack for dancing or just winding down the afternoon.
• The Hips perform at 3 p.m. on Sunday March 10 at Gallagher's, 5046 Newport Ave. 21 and up. For more information, visit www.gallagherspubob.com.
Patterned after classic rockers circa 1970 to 1984, Locked Out of Eden is built on four excellent musicians. Frontman David Hermsen has a superb voice at times, reminiscent of a young, edgy Neil Diamond, while guitarist Guy Aschelman may be the band's secret weapon, with an arsenal of cool riffs. If you're bored with bands playing the same old covers, Locked Out Of Eden's well-crafted original songs, cut from the same cloth as the classics they take their inspiration from, should be enough to satisfy any rock fan.
• Locked Out Of Eden performs at 8 p.m. on Friday, March 15 at Riley's Music Lounge, 2901 Nimitz Blvd. No cover. 21 and up.
Nothing less than an explosion of sound and smooth beats, Afro-Cuban, Latin-jazz and reggae-based band Agua Dulce may not seem like the obvious band to book on St. Patrick's Day on Sunday, March 17, but there is no doubting the band's ability to get a party started. Together since the mid-1990s, Agua Dulce continues to be one of the most popular groups locally. Even if you're not familiar with the tunes, the groove-filled music will get your feet tapping in no time. Appearing at Winston's Beach Club, the band's intricate melodies are wonderful to listen to, but this is a band that's custom-built for the dance floor.
• Agua Dulce performs at 5 p.m. on Sunday, March 17 at Winston's Beach Club, 1921 Bacon St. No cover. 21 and up. www.winstonsob.com


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Dairymen from California, south Texas, Virginia, and as far away as New Zealand and Holland, have moved into the Southern High Plains in the last two years, looking for cheaper land, adequate water supplies and a more temperate climate to increase productivity.
Dairy specialists say the High Plains offers dairymen a handful of incentives.
"One of the big advantages is the reduced rainfall, which means dry lot facilities work better," says Ellen Jordan, an Extension dairy specialist at the Texas A&M Research and Extension Center in Dallas.
"Also, with less rainfall dairies face reduced environmental costs as lagoons don't have to be as big and potential for runoff contamination is reduced. The third advantage is that fewer people live in the area and folks are still accustomed to an agrarian way of life. They welcome the industry," Jordan says.
Crop producers in the area will have another outlet for their crops and may improve rotations.
"There will be a demand for corn silage as well as for other forages," Jordan says. "In addition, relationships may be built where manure is transported back to the fields that produced the forage, providing both nutrients and organic material."
"It is a symbiotic relationship where both parties win," adds Gary Goodall, Texas A&M associate dairy lecturer in College Station. "This does not happen often. Local farmers can purchase fertilizer from the dairy. The dairy has waste to get rid of and the extra organic matter improves farmers' soil."
Goodall says new markets help local farmers "cut out the middle man."
Floyd McAlister, County Extension agent in Roosevelt County, N. M., says the market for corn silage has improved somewhat with the increased demand. "However, with the number of farmers willing to produce silage it's still a buyers market. About half of our alfalfa production here is bagged as haylage and most of our irrigated winter wheat is bagged as wheatlage now."
He says wheatlage yields have been impressive, around 20 tons per acre. "All these crops provide high quality feeds in demand by dairies. Growers aren't making big money from these crops, but, all things considered, they beat corn at $2.00 and wheat at $2.50 or so."
McAlister says the county has around 40 dairies milking close to 50,000 cows. Curry County has about 18 dairies and probably more than 40,000 milking cows. Several dairies currently are under construction in Roosevelt and Curry Counties with additional sites with permits for dairy construction.
"Dairy Farmers of America has sold half interest in their milk plant at Portales to Fontera Cooperative Group of New Zealand," McAlister says. "The plant is now under the name DairiConcepts LP. The plant will produce milk protein concentrates (MPCs) and other dairy ingredients targeting growing markets in the U.S. food sector. The expanded plant capacity will reach 5.7 million pounds of milk per day and will be the first commercial production of MPCs in the United States."
Texas county agents also see advantages for established row crop farmers and anticipate a steady growth of the High Plains dairy industry, if the price of milk cows declines.
"Dairymen are paying from $2500 to $3500 for a heifer," says Curtis Preston, Bailey County Extension agent. "Calves just off the bottle are bringing $600 to $700," he says. "The area is not set up yet for dairy cow replacement."
Preston and counterparts in Lamb and Parmer Counties say dairies coming in need a lot of cows. Most are setting up herds of 2000 to 3000 and one prospective site in nearby Deaf Smith County could top 10,000 head.
Preston says initial estimates on putting in a 2500-cow dairy, including the cost of the animals, was about $3 million. "With higher cow prices, the figure now runs from $3 million to $5 million," he says.
Kent Lewis says new dairies in Lamb County are moving in from Stephenville, Calif., the East Coast and Holland. "The High Plains offers dairymen advantages," he says. "Feed sources are close. We grow good corn silage and have a lot of alfalfa. We still have good water and our soils pose less pollution potential. Cattle do well here."
"Cows give from 2500 to 3000 pounds more milk per year in this area because of cooler summers," says Preston. "We have had no trouble with feedlot waste, so we should be able to handle the dairies. Plenty of people want the fertilizer."
Preston says a dairy must include a lagoon and a plan to dispose of wastewater. "But lagoons in this arid climate rarely fill up."
"Our low humidity and mild climate are significant advantages," says Parmer County agent Cody Hill. Mild winters, compared to northern dairy states, also favor cattle health. Lewis says dry conditions also reduce incidence of several bovine diseases, such as foot rot.
All three agree that area farmers will see benefits from increased dairy numbers.
"Our next step will be to educate dairymen on the value of forage sorghum for silage," Preston says. "If the industry keeps growing, we will not be able to produce enough corn silage. We can make sorghum with much less water and get high quality feed and good yields. Sorghum uses from six inches to 10 inches less water than corn."
He says dairies offer excellent opportunities for alfalfa producers. "But farmers have to meet the demanding specifications for dairy nutrition," he says. "Growers can get as much as $130 per ton, but they have to commit to growing it properly."
"We would like to see dairies use more local alfalfa," Hill says. "And we'd like to see more silage use." He says corn acreage in the area has decreased for the past six years and most of what has been grown has gone to silage. "We see increased interest in alfalfa."
"Some dairies are buying land to produce their own feed," Lewis says, "but most can't produce enough and will have to buy more. That should help local farmers."
"Dairy owners are buying from a quarter to a half section of land," Preston says.
"We might see cooperative agreements between dairymen and farmers," Hill adds. "Dairy operators may not have the land or the experience to grow feed and farmers don't have the dairy expertise and may grow feed on contract. The bankers like the influx of dairies."
Some drawbacks exist. "Dairies will compete for farm labor," Lewis says. Preston adds that larger dairies will hire from 10 to 15 people. "Part of that will be minimum wage but some will be higher paid jobs."
Lewis says getting into forage production, especially with alfalfa, poses challenges, too. Producing high quality alfalfa comes with a pretty good learning curve. "And equipment could be an issue," he says. "A baler costs around $50,000 and we do not have a custom harvest network for alfalfa hay."
As the price of dairy cows moderates, all three agents expect to see the dairy industry continue to expand into the High Plains. "A dairyman from California can sell land for a high price out there and replace it much cheaper in this area,' Preston says.
"Diaries could help farmers in this area hold on," Hill says. "This provides new opportunities for crop production and provides employment opportunities as well."
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Recognizing some of the top high school performances of the past week.
Mandy Coleman
McNair girls basketball: For the third week in a row, the Eagles won a tournament championship and Coleman was named that tournament's Most Valuable Player. This time it was on her home floor, where the Eagles beat Palo Alto-Gunn 55-35 in Saturday's McNair Winter Shootout final. Coleman scored 10 of her game-high 14 rebounds in the first half and finished with 15 rebounds against a Gunn team that advanced to the Division I NorCal semifinals last season. She opened the tournament with 16 points in a 74-29 win over Bear Creek and had 28 in a 68-40 semifinals win over Calaveras.
McKenzie Bacich
Bear Creek girls wrestling: The freshman standout won her third tournament in the past month, finishing first at 98 pounds at the Morningstar Invitational in Los Banos while helping the Bruins capture third place in the team standings.
Devante Baisa
Kimball basketball: Helped the Jaguars finish third in the Tracy Holiday Classic with 14 points in a 61-50 win over Modesto-Johansen. The 5-foot-9 senior point guard also had 21 in the semifinals in a 58-50 loss to Merced-Golden Valley.
Kenneth Daye
West basketball: Named the Tracy Holiday Classic MVP after his two late steals gave the Wolf Pack its first lead in the finals over Golden Valley. The Wolf Pack held on for its third consecutive tournament title, 66-64.
Dwayne Lee
Bear Creek basketball: The 6-1 senior guard scored 15 of his game-high 21 points in the first quarter, then answered Edison's comeback bid with two big field goals down the stretch, including the game-winner, in a 51-47 Bear Creek victory.
Gabe Vincent
St. Mary's basketball: The junior guard, who leads St. Mary's with 20.3 points per game, finished with 24 points, 11 rebounds and six assists in the Rams' 62-50 win over Sacramento-McClatchy.
Benjamin Simi
Lodi basketball: The 6-4 senior forward scored a game-high 24 points in a 58-55 overtime win over Sierra, and he converted 11 of 13 free-throw opportunities - including his last five. He's now shooting 92 percent from the line.
Tiara Tucker
Brookside Christian girls basketball: Had 25 points behind four 3-pointers, six assists, six rebounds and eight steals in an 89-35 win over Sacramento-Grant one night after scoring 28 in a 76-24 win over Elk Grove-Franklin.
- Stephen Roberson
To nominate a headliner, contact reporter Stephen Roberson at (209) 546-8272 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/sportsblog.


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Friday Nights @ OMCA
Oakland's popular weekly night market is back for a new year of fun and festivities! Join OMCA and Off the Grid on 10th Street every Friday starting January 10 for a taste of local music, food, art, and culture! Savor California beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages around the Koi Pond at the Blue Oak beer garden. Enjoy half-price admission, live music, hands-on activities for kids, and extended OMCA Store hours. Bring the whole family to OMCA for a sampling of the best in Bay Area curbside cuisine!
What to expect on January 17:
- Screening of Demolition: Troll – a 10 minute documentary about the Bay Bridge Troll followed by a discussion with the troll creator Bill Roan and filmmakers Joseph De Mario & Megan McHugh, at 6 pm, 7 pm, and 8 pm
- Twelve gourmet food trucks from Off the Grid featuring the best in local cuisine
- Local beer and wine specials in the Blue Oak beer garden
- Resident DJ for the month, DJ Leydis, spinning hits on the 1s and 2s from 5 to 6:30 pm
- Family-friendly drop-in art activity: create your mini dream world inside a matchbox inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the exhibition The Smallest of Worlds, from 5 to 8 pm
- Zumba class with Andreina in the 10th Street Amphitheater from 6:30 to 7 pm
- Fito Reinoso playing Cuban Salsa from 7 to 9 pm
- A Snack Size Docent Tour, a fifteen-minute mini-tour led by a talented OMCA Docent to introduce you one of the Galleries—you won't know which until the tour begins!—meeting at the ticketing desk on Level 2 at 7:30 pm
- Extended hours in the Galleries and special exhibitions
Cost: Half-price gallery admission for adults, ages 18 and under are free. Admission for Members is always free. Cash bar. Prices vary for Off the Grid food trucks.
Transportation: OMCA is conveniently located one block from the Lake Merritt BART Station. Event parking is available at the Museum garage for a $5 flat fee after 5 pm.
Presented in partnership with Off the Grid: Lake Merritt @ OMCA.
Black History Month programs at OMCA made possible in part by generous support from Bank of America.
Makers and Tasters Series is made possible by generous support from Whole Foods Market.
Friday Nights @ OMCA is made possible by generous support from the Walter and Elise Haas Fund.


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Over the past 12 months, Gainesville Police Department officers have issued 26,199 traffic citations to motorists within the city limits, according to data provided to The Sun through a public records request.
Josh Davis is relatively new to Gainesville, but already he knows to keep an eye on his speedometer when driving through town.
The 27-year-old confessed lead foot says he once received nine traffic citations over a two-year period but has not received a ticket in the past four years.
And while Davis' streak could be the result of caution learned the hard way, it also could be dictated by the roads he travels.
Over the past 12 months, Gainesville Police Department officers have issued 26,199 traffic citations to motorists within the city limits, according to data provided to The Sun through a public records request.
"That seems a little bit much, although I speed a lot so, I'm a little biased," Davis said with a laugh, while driving Friday on Northwest 34th Street.
An analysis of those 26,199 tickets citywide shows that between May 22, 2012, and May 22, 2013, more than 35 percent of all citations were issued on five roads — Northwest 34th Street, Northwest 13th Street, West University Avenue, Archer Road and Southwest 35th Place.
The majority of those citations — more than 13 percent of all citations given — were written on sections of those roads where the speed limit was 35 mph or less or near where the speed limit dropped.
The most heavily ticketed street over the past 12 months was Northwest 13th Street, where more than 3,000 tickets were issued — most of those for breaking the speed limit. More than 1,000 of those tickets were issued in the 600 and 700 blocks, where the speed limit is 30 mph.
Sgt. Joe Raulerson, who heads the police department's Traffic Safety Division, said many of the ticketed drivers didn't realize the speed limit had changed.
"Most of the people we stop still think they're in a 45 (miles per hour) zone, which they haven't been for 20 blocks," he said. "If they didn't speed, that would make our job a lot easier. We wouldn't have to use resources on trying to keep the speeds down."
The major goal of the Traffic Safety Division, Raulerson said, is reducing traffic crashes, specifically crashes involving injuries. He said that is accomplished by focusing on areas where there is a high volume of pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
"Before we go into a neighborhood, we look at crash data," he said. "We've seen over a 30 percent reduction in crashes over the last five years, and we're down again this year, too. I think we're headed in the right direction."
The number of traffic citations issued has been declining — with 30,327 issued in 2010 and 27,594 in 2011, according to GPD.
Alachua County Finance Director Todd Hutchison said total collections for traffic citations issued by GPD totaled $2,876,839 between May 1, 2012, through April 30, 2013. Of that amount, a relatively small percentage went to the city, he said.
For the 2011-12 fiscal year, for instance, Gainesville received slightly more than $457,000 in revenue from traffic citations, he said.
"There are a possible 28 different distributions counting State Trust Funds, Local Trust Funds and the Local Jurisdiction receiving a portion of the fine," Hutchison said.
Several of the areas that generated the most tickets are frequented by a high number of University of Florida students, especially Southwest 35th Place, which is surrounded by student apartment complexes.
But the majority of the drivers were not necessarily students, Raulerson said.
"Sometimes when the students leave town, it's a good time to go into the area because thieves will be less likely to break in," Raulerson said of why traffic enforcement details may actually be conducted when many students are out of town.
"Red and blue lights scare away a lot of criminals," he said.
Online technical producer Jackie Smith led the effort to research Gainesville's traffic citation data.


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Traveling a couple weeks ago, I picked up a copy of The Dallas Morning News and found an interesting tale about a Bay area endangered and colorful insect called the checkerspot butterfly. The article came from The Washington Post.
Since it presented a balanced view of an environmental issue, it is highly unlikely it will appear in any Central Valley major daily, and I thought it would make an interesting story to pass on.
The checkerspot butterfly is facing extinction in many areas of the Bay area, largely due to urban development. Homes and businesses are continuing to consume checkerspot butterfly habitat.
The article in The Post presented an interesting twist on why the butterfly disappeared from an undeveloped area called Coyote Ridge near San Jose in the Silicon Valley area.
A conservation biologist named Stuart Weiss decided to conduct a thorough study of the butterfly's rapid decline. Not surprisingly, he discovered that the freeway below Coyote Ridge was polluting the area, specifically depositing nitrogen oxide to the nutrient-poor serpentine-rock soil that sustains native grasslands on Coyote Ridge.
According to Weiss, the 110,000 vehicles going by Coyote Ridge on Highway 101 each day were depositing 15 to 20 pounds of N per acre on the ridge annually.
This allowed invasive species to out-compete native dwarf plantain which is critical survival habitat for the checkerspot butterfly. He called this a "drive-extinction."
However, the biologist did not stop there with his research. He also discovered that cattle grazing on the hillside actually helped protect the butterfly from extinction on the ridge.
The cattle were helping the butterfly by consuming the grasses that threatened the dwarf plantain. When local ranchers stopped grazing the hillsides, things only got worse for the butterfly.
The ironic part of this is that if you look up articles and research papers on the plight of the checkerspot butterfly, grazing is cited one reason for the decline of the butterfly populations.
Overgrazing can destroy habitat and ruin the land, but in the case of the checkerspot butterfly, good grassland grazing management actually enhanced its survival.
California's burgeoning population remains a threat to the survival of this colorful butterfly, but Weiss' work revealed to local businesses, including cattle ranchers, and politicians that by working together this special species could be saved from extinction.
Weiss' solid research led to the establishing of a couple of plant reserves to provide habitat for the butterfly. The article did not say it, but I suspect cattle grazing is a significant element to maintaining habitat for the butterfly.
In this era where environmental issues like endangered species often evolve into warfare waged by unrelenting radical environmentalists, it is refreshing to learn where solid science revealed the total truth about an environmental issue. And that truth led to a viable solution from the government and the private sector.
In a state with a population now of 36 million and headed for 46 million in less than 25 years, it would be well to remember the tiny Bay checkerspot butterfly and how it is surviving thanks a group of Californians working together and using solid science to address an environmental issue.


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By Susan Heavey
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama does not intend to authorize U.S. military force in Syria if lawmakers vote against his proposal seeking action amid allegations of chemical weapons use by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a top aide said on Friday.
"The president of course has the authority to act, but it's neither his desire nor his intention to use that authority absent Congress backing him," deputy national security adviser Tony Blinken told National Public Radio.
The comments come as lawmakers weigh whether to pass a resolution authorizing limited strikes against Syria. U.S. officials allege Assad's government used sarin nerve gas in a deadly attack on its civilians on August 21.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, appearing before lawmakers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives this week, has refused to say what he thought Obama would do if Congress did not agree to act on Syria in response to U.S. allegations of chemical weapons use.
Lawmakers are divided over whether and how to respond, and many are still undecided despite efforts by Obama administration officials to build support, including calls from the president.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a modified version of Obama's resolution on Wednesday, and the full Senate is likely to begin voting next Wednesday.
The timing of a vote in the House remained unclear. Both chambers must approve the measure for it to pass.
Worried about getting embroiled in Syria's civil war, many U.S. lawmakers have voiced concerns over using military force without backing from the United Nations or a broader coalition of other countries. Some have also said they want the United States to pursue other diplomatic and humanitarian options.
But Blinken cited the severe sanctions imposed on Assad already, and said that the UN has failed to act on even more basic steps.
"At this point, we have unfortunately exhausted everything," he told NPR's "Morning Edition" program.
(Reporting by Susan Cornwell and Susan Heavey)


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|2006-03-20, 23:42
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|2006-03-26, 22:02
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My god I am extremely late to the party. I cant belive I waited to watch this series out the ending has to be one of the best endings in anime history. And I am glad to see Runge actually getting along with his family becuse evrytime I saw him I always thought about his family. But the death of grimmer and the magnificent schtiner hurt me the most. Overall great series and I think a rewath is in order in about a year. Lol
|2006-05-09, 08:52
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Well since I decided to be stubborn and wait for AK's version I finally saw the final episode today. I did not expect a timeskip, I would have liked to have seen the immediate events after episode 73.
Nonetheless, it was nice to see how all the characters went on with their lives.
- Eva starting a new job as interior decorator, and having her alcohol problem under control. The conversation with the doctor was filled with both positive and depressing sentiments.
- Runge became a professor at the police academy, and has started to interact with his daughter more even if only by mail. He places the beer he promised to Grimmer at his gravestone, that was a nice touch.
- Tenma joined Doctors without Borders, it was interesting how his current activities were touched upon in each of the previous segments in this episode. He visits the twins' mother, who eventually reveals their true names. It irks me that we never actually hear these names, although I suppose it does not really matter.
- Nina went back to law school, and despite struggling to make her grades, expecting to get scolded she gets complimented on her thesis instead. Ofcourse she's happy with that, but it was even better to see her face light up after she hears Tenma will be back in town for a visit soon.
I'm not quite sure what to think of the ending, Tenma visits Johan who's still in a coma. Then, after mentioning her mother and that he knows their true names, Johan suddenly rises up with an eerie look and tells a little about what happened at the Three Frogs while Tenma stares at him in shock. Then suddenly Tenma snaps out of it, and it's unclear whether it really happened or it was his imagination. Shortly afterwards, Johan disappears.
It certainly does give you something to think about though, even if I would have preferred that some more gaps were filled in. Why did Johan get so screwed up specifically, while Nina did not? Johan somehow felt he did not exist since he did not have a name, and systematically tried to erase his past to make his nonexistance a reality. Knowing his real name, or even just knowing that he has a name (since Tenma never actually told him I think), might have been enough to snap him out of this train of thought. So whereever Johan went, there's a good chance he will not go back to his old way of life. In contrast, Nina never lost herself, and was satisfied adopting another name, and doesn't need to know her real name at all. Can't help but wonder what helped keep her sane, but glad she did since she's a great character. Nina's reaction to Tenma's visit was definately the highlight of this episode for me, really shows how close they have become.
|2006-05-09, 13:06
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Really, you should.
|2006-06-12, 17:44
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Anyways it was a great series n am curious yet glad Johan disappeared. It would have been sad if he was arrested, sentenced or worse murdered!!
They say what kills a monster is always human. So i think the real monster is those who create it, worship it, helps it. So the whole Organization including Poppe is to blame.
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|2006-07-01, 03:07
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|2006-07-01, 05:33
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Yeah have to agree. One of the best anime ever. Its a master piece i tell ya. just finished it few days ago. Even though somethings still remained in dark for me, i still Loved the series sooooooooooooooooooooo much.
|2006-07-10, 17:26
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About the biblical reference of the monster: I'll put in my two cents on what it ment in the show. For anyone who has evered studied the Bible one can know that parts of the Bible are to be taken as an analogy and some parts Literay. Like many parts of the last book of Revelation come to describe certain weapons they call "Like arrows which will have pinpoint accuray, and not miss they target." You have to relize that when the people who wrote Revelations were from thousands of years ago and they recieved theses messages from thier visions, so they used the best analogy of what they knew to describe this future vision, "IE arrows can be the analogy of cruise missiles today."
The begining Biblical refrences in Monster, is to the Antichrist and the details of him having 10 horns and crowns is an analogy to the New Roman Empire that he will control, think of the old Roman Empire but this is the rebirth of the Empire, what is currently know as the EU but will later be called the new Roman Empire, the idea behind this is that the Antichrist is described in the Bible as "The King of the North" who will come to control this new Roman Empire, which is represented by the 10 horns and crowns and the wounded and rehealing of this is represnted as one of the member Nations of the New Roman Empire will try to break away from the empire and will be wounded yet rehealed as it rejoins the empire later.
Also i would like to commit on Johans Perfect Sucide, ive previously wrote my ideas of what it meant before on ANN forum about Monster but was erased for some unknow reason that they never told me about. There is much more simliarities between Hitler and Johan that are not apparent from the first view, both were unwanted children that used others to get their ways , but the sucide thing is something i only discovered when i watch some History Channel special on the second world war and a German biographer of Hitler who also fought in ww2 as a 15 who lost his older brother in the war, offered up an idea that also fitted Johans Perfect Sucide he said that by the end of the battle for Stalingrad, Hitler knew the war was over, and said that though the reminder of the war Hitler wanted an Armaggedon ending that would follow his death, thus is why he oroded the whole country to be destoryed, as he was to be destoryed a perfect suicide of himself and the nation, but on a much smaller scale for Johan, in the town of Ruhenheim.
|2006-08-27, 16:59
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A very brilliant series! I have read through the threads and decided against commenting too much on anything, because the lively discussion here has pretty much died down now. And to be honest, much of my interpretation of the show falls along fairly similar lines to what some of you have already posted. All I will say is that Monster is one of the most entracing stories that I have ever encountered. Excellent art and animation that provides the most believeable of settings. Beautiful character development - you can fall in love with each and every character, because just about everyone involved has a story to tell. And of course, an intricate plot that encompasses a very intriguing mystery stretched over four decades presented in outstanding quality.
In the first half of the series, we learn who the monster is and how the monster works. By the end, we understand why the monster is and watch the monster work. Each episode provided yet another clue, adding another piece to the history of the monster. Everything culminates in a most satisfactory ending that ties everything together. I reiterate: a very brilliant series!
|2006-12-04, 11:31
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wow I am speechless. I hope the ppl that thought the anime is a masterpiece or the best anime anime actually understood the anime/manga. Heaps of many random answers are actually wrong, but did get corrected by later on at least.
In any case, I didn't finish watching the anime, the pace made me fell asleep so I went to read and finish the manga. All I can say is. Alright. Monster definitely does not deliver what it promises, ok spoilers time-
Tops I'd prolly give monster 7/10. So overated it's not even funny, imo.
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|2006-12-04, 23:07
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While you have every right to dislike this show, your condescending attitude, whether intentional or not, certainly doesn't help. Are you trying to troll?
|2006-12-28, 23:38
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Even disregarding the complex plotting and rich backstory, what I love most about Monster is the realism, complexity and distinctiveness of the characters. So many anime have the same cookie cutter characters, but in Monster even the minor characters are memorable and distinctive.
Anyone who would like a better understanding of Johan and his background, please read my fanfic reconstruction (see ffnet link in sig).
|2007-02-04, 07:54
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I recently finished watching Monster.
I must say some parts 'were' dragged out, but nevertheless it was still a great show. Personally though my favaourite arc was episodes 30 - 40. I was kinda dissapointed with the ending, too many loose ends that I wanted to be answered. Simply put, there wasn't enough closure. I was hoping to see more of what happened to the characters after the events of Johann, and also really wanted to see more Tenma. Also anyone else out there annoyed with the fact that we didn't get to hear Johann's real name? It seems I'm not the only one who thinks theres something going on between Tenma and Nina.
BTW, Grimmer dying is one of the sadder moments of the series.
PS: Was there actually a TV Show called the magnificent Steiner??
|2007-02-19, 05:33
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Sheesh, merely saying what I thought about an anime that doesn't agree with everyone makes a troll now, that is lame.
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