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Find police departments, precincts, and stations. Police departments provide information on public safety, police reports, dispatch, impounds, and policing.
A Police Department is a law enforcement agency that has been granted specific police powers. The primary functions of a Police Department are deterring crime, stopping crimes in progress, investigating crimes, and serving as first responders for emergencies and situations that threaten public safety.
Police Departments at the state, county, and local levels, and Police that serve special purpose districts, derive their authority from their respective states. Each of the states defines the powers granted to Police Departments, but they generally have the authority, under varying circumstances, to stop and search individuals, arrest and detain individuals, issue penalties and fines, and conduct investigations.
Police Departments are often configured into several interconnected divisions, including Patrol, Investigations, and Traffic Control. The Patrol Division typically provides for a baseline Police presence throughout the jurisdiction in Police vehicles, on foot, and on bicycles, in order to prevent crime as well as to provide rapid responses to calls for service. Patrol Officers are expected to respond to virtually any emergency situation and to work closely with other public safety agencies including Fire Departments and Emergency Medical units. Investigations divisions are responsible for investigating and solving crimes and gathering sufficient evidence to allow crimes to be prosecuted. Traffic Control divisions enforce traffic safety laws.
Police Departments often create specialized units organized around particular crimes or public safety issues, including domestic violence, gang activity, or narcotics trafficking. Many Police Departments also establish ties throughout the community with businesses, schools, neighborhood organizations, and religious institutions. Police Departments may offer youth programming or sponsor events to strengthen these relationships. Some Police Departments are responsible for their own dispatch activity, while others rely on 911 public safety answering points for dispatch services.
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Rescue Profile: Adam Noah
Case #: 16195
Early in the morning of March 10th, 2016, Adam Noah, a hunter from Baker Lake, Nunavut, headed out on his snowmobile for a day of caribou hunting. By the middle of the afternoon, when he was in a remote area about 45 kilometers east of Baker Lake, his snowmobile broke down. The temperature in that area was -40° Celsius.
For the past two years Noah says he has owned a SPOT GPS Satellite Messenger, which he carries with him as part of his emergency gear whenever he goes hunting or fishing. "We don't only use a snowmobile when we go out hunting or fishing. We always have a sled attached which carries survival gear. It gets so cold that you can't just go hunting for the day without emergency gear." For Noah, SPOT is an important part of his emergency gear.
Rescue Profile: Matt Oliver
Case #: 15932
Matt Oliver and four friends picked a beautiful day for snowmobiling in Steamboat Springs, CO. They set off on their ride around 10 AM and traveled a familiar route. A few hours into their ride, they decided to take a different path back to their vehicles. The new path led them to a creek ravine and they realized they were getting into dangerous avalanche terrain. They began strategizing the best way out.
The group of five experienced snowmobilers vacillated about driving back through their old tracks, but after determining their location via their GPS system, they decided it was safer to head down the creek for another half mile rather than driving back uphill. The thick blankets of snow made it very difficult for them to make much distance and they knew they couldn't continue on without putting themselves at a greater risk.
Luckily, Matt and his friends were well prepared with saws, thermals, boiling pots and Matt's SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger. "I pressed the S.O.S. on my SPOT to alert GEOS International Emergency Rescue Coordination Center, knowing that it would not be until morning when search and rescue could safely come help us," commented Matt. They made a fire and set up camp for the night. Meanwhile, GEOS contacted Matt's mom and dad to let them know of the situation. The family was advised that it would take some time for search and rescue to assist due to the situation of snow and avalanche danger.
Rescue Profile: Cam Villeneuve
Case #: 16054
SPOT GPS Satellite Messenger Rescue:
Cam Villeneuve is a recreational pilot from the Thompson Valley Sport Aircraft Club in Kamloops, BC who loves to fly year-round. He has even installed skis on his small aircraft so that he can "land everywhere, on land, on hill sides and on lakes."
In the mid-afternoon of February 1st, 2016, Villeneuve was returning to Blair Fields Airport, wrapping up a 45-minute flight. It was a beautiful sunny day and he was having fun landing and taking off from frozen lakes on the south side of Kamloops. On his approach to the landing strip, at a distance of about 3 miles, the aircraft "became very unstable and hard to control" says Villeneuve. "All of a sudden I was looking straight down at the ground from about 400 feet."
Rescue Profile: Alfred Moore
Case #: 15780
Alfred Moore, an outdoor aficionado from Southern California, has been riding motorcycles for four years, on average 3-5 days a week. He and seven of his buddies recently went on a three-day weekend camping trip in the Los Padres National Forest. On the second day, Alfred and one other were tailing at the end of their group when he hit a switchback in the soft sand and took a hard fall.
After his friend helped pull his bike off of him, Alfred realized he was in bad shape. "The initial pain was horrific, but then I lost feeling in my leg below my knee cap," he stated. Alfred's first instinct was to call his wife, Tiffanie. After dropped calls due to poor cell coverage, he grabbed his SPOT Gen3 that his wife convinced him to purchase just days prior to trip and pressed the S.O.S button.
Back at home, Tiffanie received the call from GEOS International Emergency Rescue Coordination Center. She had told GEOS that she suspected he was in trouble after the attempted calls he had made earlier but didn't know what was wrong. They assured her help was on the way to his location and that they would be back in touch with her to provide an update.
Rescue Profile: Michael Herrera
Case #: 15697
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On October 23 in DeKalb County, Alabama, retired Houston firefighter Michael Herrera was alone and off-roading on his dual-sport bike when he took a hard fall. Although initially disoriented, Michael's experience as a first responder told him that his injuries were more serious than he could see so he reached for his SPOT Gen3® and pressed the S.O.S. button.
Back at home, his wife LaDonna grew concerned when she realized that the SPOT Gen3 was not tracking Michael anymore on his SPOT Shared Page and she knew in her heart that he needed emergency assistance.

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With the increased popularity of frying turkeys for Thanksgiving — and the likelihood this year of Thanksgivukkah latkes — the City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works' Bureau of Sanitation is kicking off a program aimed at prompting home chefs to recycle their used kitchen oil and grease.
"It's in response to inquiries we've received from residents on what they can do with their used cooking oil," said Tonya Durrell, spokeswoman for the Bureau of Sanitation.
Recycled household fryer oil is being accepted at the bureau's SAFE — Solvents, Automotive, Flammables, Electronics — centers throughout the city.
The program is open only to Los Angeles residents, and there is a maximum of 10 gallons. It is not available to commercial operations such as restaurants.
Sanitation Director Enrique Zaldivar noted the oil will be recycled and used for fuel and energy.
"If you are frying a turkey for the holiday, remember that pouring the oil down the kitchen sink or drain can clog your house plumbing and sewer pipes and may cause sewage backups and overflows," he said. "Recycling fryer oil will help protect our environment."
SAFE centers have been open for more than 10 years, taking in upwards of 7 million pounds of solvents and hazardous materials each year, Durrell said.
Used oil should be brought in a closed, leakproof container.
The centers will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. You can find them at 11025 Randall St., Sun Valley; 10241 N. Balboa Blvd., Northridge; 4600 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles; 2649 E. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles; 1400 N. Gaffey St., San Pedro; and 7660 W. Imperial Highway, Gate B, Playa del Rey.


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Hot, sharp and unflinching, Margaret Cho owned the Opera House concert hall with her late-night Just For Laughs gig. The American-Korean comedian's stand-up is audacious but its brilliance is wit, not simply shock value.
One thought on "Sydney Morning Herald 1/9/2012"
Margaret! I am a half Korean girl – who has a blog too – not as fabulous as yours but one of these days I'm doing a shout out article on you. I love love love your writing. I look forward to everything you write. My blog is: runlikejoy.blogspot.com if you ever want to check it out.


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A Man's Life: Why Dressing Like a Pirate is our Strategy for Saving Literatureby Greg Behr and Billy Warden
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An ongoing conversation about what it means to be a man in the 21st Century
Diving into a kid's toy bin opens as many possibilities as it does problems.
A bright green sword looks really cool, but those neon flourishes could bleed away our credibility.
On the other hand, a plastic replica of a 16th century cutlass may make us look way too serious. And who wants literature to be overly nerdy anymore?
Thankfully, there's a pair made for kids who want to battle each other like Jack Sparrow without muss or fuss.
Tucking the sabers into our designer belts (we are metropolitan men, after all), we head to a local gallery for the launch of Big Beard: The Sea-sational Story of Blackbeard's Little Brother—an offshoot of our literary magazine, The Raleigh Quarterly.
"Big Beard" encapsulates our strategy for reinvigorating reading and writing today through a more engaging and authentic experience.
No, that won't do. That is old school literary talk.
We wrote a story about a kid pirate and asked hip artists to illustrate it so we could entice people to read it. Then we transformed into Toys-R-Us pirates to make sure people would experience the story on a still deeper level, surrounded by others, commenting on it, making it better.
We tricked them.
But it had to be that way. People are jaded about reading and writing. Long ago, they spit out the traditional take-your-medicine approach. And neither cool book covers, nor celebrity authors, nor Kindles have sparked a sustained return to the word.
So here we are, two clean-cut professionals who put together a magazine on the side, festooned in fake dreadlocks, standing on a shaky ladder-turned -crow's-nest, reading a kids' story through accents that mix B-movie Long John Silver with Zimbab-wean drug lord.
And, it seems to be working.
Publishing The Raleigh Quarterly for the past 18 months in the city for which it is named has been fascinating, but not that tough. Turns out our basic hunch was right: Folks other than English majors still write in their spare time. Often, they are the ones we least expected but end up loving most. And by "write" we mean more than monosyllabic "tweets"—which we'll get to in a minute.
Yeah, the professors send in their work. It is good. It hammers all the points a quality short story or poem should hit and you feel about the same level of satisfaction you do when finishing a too-perfect Richard Ford novel.
Accountants and attorneys, store clerks, and seamstresses on the other hand, they know how to tell a tale. Theirs are the stories conceived out of a life experience that just has to be told. Born of humiliation or triumph. Consigned to a drawer, forgotten, unloved and brooding like a bastard child.
We can relate. We believe in do-it-yourself revolutionaries. In writers who write despite not being their English teacher's favorite. In artists whose lines aren't perfect but whose fierceness is undeniable.
So we find the frustrated, undercover artists among us and convince them that an audience wants to read them, needs to read them.
We launched our print edition last October with a story by an unknown named Michael Fischer, a talented writer and a former patient at an area psychiatric hospital. In his memories of that now-shuttered institution, Michael found the words and passion only he could produce but many could appreciate.
Is Michael Fischer a literary name? Has he been published in The Paris Review? No, and chances are he won't be. But for a certain audience, Michael's story was as revelatory as The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
On our site, a searing narrative about a boy in an asylum lives alongside an erotic story about body painting by our city's best-known public relations executive.
Yes, a PR pro letting down her guard, sharing a fan-tasy, showing some skin! That is the power of opening the floodgates.
Now, the tremendously trendy founders of Face-book, Twitter, etc., might say, "Oh well, we're doing the same thing, only bigger and better. We're opening the gates and letting OCEANS spill forth.
OK, but oceans of what?
These flashes from the front lines are fine—with one major exception. They're terrifying if and when the millions of potential creators gathered 'round the virtual campfire come to believe that these tiny and tinny transmissions are the only way or the best way to express themselves. That Twitter is as good as it gets, and that their daily (or hourly) pad pecks are as good as they've got.
No! Stop! Step away from the iPhone and listen…if you have the urge to communicate, it may mean that a beast or a ballerina of a STORY is struggling to get out. Giving birth to it will be infinitely more painful than picking 10 words to describe today's lunch, but it's also going to be so much more rewarding. Not only to you, but to people you've never met who need YOUR story to make sense of their own.
Look, you 20-some-things didn't ask to be born into a generation where philistinism is the status quo, things are "hot" or "not" and you are judged by how cleverly you Tweet. And you more senior folks couldn't have known that your pop culture would become culture, period. But you can transcend. You can be the Charles Dickens Toni Morrison Stephen King Sylvia Plath next door.
Literary magazines traditionally pick 20 pieces each quarter they deem important and publish them for the same folks who read the last edition. For all its often annoying inanity, social networking now makes that model impossible to take seriously.
As a species, we've become too wired for stimulus. Our minds have become raging piles of octopi, electric tentacles swooping to and fro looking to grab the snarky and scary, frivolous and fantastic.
That's why The Raleigh Quarterly goes a different route than the old literary magazines. The porn route.
Pornography Web sites give users exactly what they want when they want it (not that you'd know anything about that). Whatever you are into, you are most certainly able to find it right next to things you wouldn't want to look at in a million years.
But you don't have to see it unless you want to. It is always there for you. And at some point, you can't… help…but…LOOK!
Living your life as a foot fetishist can be as dull as reading only Southern Gothic writers. Sometimes you just have to make that leap into latex or Contemporary Mystery. At the RQ, you can slip out of a bracing story called, bluntly, "Jew" and into a poem that begins, "I untied the black ribbon. I tied it 'round your breasts." Out of an essay on flowers in the desert and into a digital art exhibit in which, according to the artist, "the banal becomes beastly." Hard to believe none of that is stimulating…intellectually, that is.
Now that we've touched on porn, it's time to return to the children. Or at least our children's story, Big Beard.
We are halfway into our third reading of the night… and fourth beer. Suddenly, every line has a double mean-ing—teased out either by us or by the sloshy, standing-room-only crowd.
Squinting through a boozy blur (and a pair of eye patches), we spot a face we know but never expected to see here. It's a judge. He's wearing his usual spectacles, but a different sort of expression. He smiles crookedly, and his eyes dance a jacked-up jig that seems choreographed by Li'l Wayne.
After we wind up, His Honor begins the cross-examination. How did we get into all this? Do our significant others know (and approve)? And the one that makes our night and proves our point: How can he get involved?
The judge's story hasn't arrived yet. But we imagine that every night he shoves aside stacks of legal briefs, grabs a quill pen, and scratches out his tale. Something lawless, twisted, and totally worth waiting for.


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, March 04, 2010
Marilyn Conover: A Female Illustrator You Should Know
Marilyn had just moved from Boston to New York when she illustrated this story for Readers Digest Condensed Books. She didn't even have furniture at that point, so these pieces were propped up on packing crates while she painted them.
She was originally from Chicago and she and her husband worked as apprentices to Gil Elvgren. She also knew Joyce Ballentyne and knew of Lucia Lerner. She says that even during her early years in the business she was never disrespected of mistreated by any man. "And that was long before all that Women's Liberation crap!" she said with emphasis.
Yes, even at age 84, Marilyn Conover is a real firecracker!
But that's not to say life was a walk in the park...
"Just thinking about those old days is making me physically ill," is how she described it to me.
She talked about the stress of being a professional illustrator and a mother - how her husband brought her a layout she had to work on in her hospital bed after delivering her baby girl - about the female art director at JWT in Chicago who refused to let her go home to look after her daughter until late in the evening because she wanted to meet then and there. "Oh, I wouldn't wish that kind of life on any woman," said Marilyn. She adds, "And my husband was no help at all." In the '50s, taking care of children was women's work.
Both Marilyn and her husband were artists, but when they moved to New York she continued illustrating while he became an art rep... at the Charles E. Cooper studio!
Marilyn says she never wanted for work. Despite any shortcomings some other illustrators might have suffered, she was always busy with assignments.
She credits her New York art rep, Joe Mendola, with her success. "From the minute he saw my portfolio he wanted me in his group," she says matter of factly. "Joe was great. He was the best."
There's so much more... but I'll save it for another day. I was amused when Marilyn asked me what I was going to do with all this info. "I'm going to write about you on my blog," I said.
"Really," she replied with a note of incredulity, "who would care?"
* My Marilyn Conover Flickr set.
* With the addition of Marilyn Conover, there are now 12 entries on the new Female Illustrators of the Mid-20th Century blog.
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Who would care? ME!ReplyDelete
This is some wonderful work and historically insightful. My god am I ever glad the illustration business has evolved for women, even though there's still lot of room for improvement.
Marilyn has a deft sense of rhythm & color in her work and her paintings immediately engage with the viewer.
Thank you for sharing.
Question: Is she still working, if so where?
Thanks dwilson, I'm glad you enjoyed this post as much as I enjoyed bringing it to you. Marilyn was in a hurry (even so, we talked for half an hour!) so I wasn't able to ask if she's still working. But my earlier research turned up this listing for a book Marilyn wrote and illustrated in 1994. That's the most recent example of her work I was able to locate.ReplyDelete
Who would care? Me too.ReplyDelete
Beautiful work. I wish I had ten percent of her talent.
Thanks for posting this.
- Chad sterling6:37 PM
Excellent design sense and a woman's eye for color-if that's not a sexist remark.ReplyDelete
- Charlie Allen9:42 PM
Wow, wow, and wow! You keep opening new doors, Leif, and this is another great surprise. Can't believe how many artists in my time that I didn't see or know about. Marilyn Conover....a fine designer, draftsman, etc.....the whole kaboodle. She's so right about the pressure-cooker years....and even more so for a woman who wanted a family life as well as an illustration career. Wonder if she knew Barbara Bradley? Thanks always for TI and all the research.ReplyDelete


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the best is even forget the past, all the mistakes we made, all the folly and blunders we have made. we must move on and live the present and hope for the future with hope. Past is past is past and the present is to be lived with fun and health, we do not know tomorrow, we must raise our heads and think that tomorrow will be much better than today.
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Pat Williams Regency Confirmation Vote Looks to Run Along Partisan Lines [AUDIO]
Three Montana state senators on the Education and Cultural Resources Committee in Helena have commented on the upcoming hearing to confirm or reject Pat Williams as a member of the Montana Board of Regents on March 20.
Republican Dave Lewis said Thursday that he wants to talk with Williams about comments he made to the New York Times in which he referred to University of Montana football players as 'thugs', before he makes up his mind on a vote to confirm or reject. Lewis said Williams is a friend he's known for many years, both as an educator and as a member of the Montana congressional delegation. He said he does not understand how a man with Williams' political experience could make such comments, especially immediately prior to the Jordan Johnson rape trial in Missoula.
State Senator Dave Lewis
Democratic State Senator Jonathan Windy Boy was unequivocal in his support for Williams. In fact, Windy Boy said if the New York Times had asked him about the University of Montana football team, he would probably have said the same words Williams did. When asked if he would have any questions for Mr. Williams during the upcoming hearing on March 20, Windy Boy said "no, because he already has my vote even before the hearing starts"
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Democratic State Senator Tom Facey of Missoula is actually carrying the bill to confirm the three individuals who are up for confirmation on the Board of Regents, including Pat Williams. Facey is also a staunch Williams supporter, citing Williams' strong support for higher education over the years, and also in is time as regent. Regarding the furor over his comments to the New York Times and subsequent media interviews, Facey says they are a "non-factor" in his decision.
Facey also pointed out that "as a former member of the Grizzly football team, I was not offended by his comments, and I think Pat should be confirmed".
Facey explained the confirmation process. He said the three individuals can be voted on as a group, or a member of the committee may request that they be voted on separately, and that a vote to "confirm" or "not to confirm" may be received. Facey said if Williams receives a "not to confirm" vote from the Senate Education committee, he would urge the full Senate to ignore the recommendation and confirm Williams despite the committee's vote.
State Senator Tom Facey
Following Williams' statement to the New York Times, he explained the context of the comments during an interview on KGVO Radio in Missoula.
Two groups have issued petitions regarding Williams' appointment to the Board of Regents, one to reject, and one formed days later to confirm.
The State Senators on the committee have received hundreds of calls and emails from both sides of the issue. There are 10 senators on the Education and Cultural Resources Committee, 6 Republicans and 4 Democrats.


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December 16, 2004
Secretary Jonathan Katz
Dear Secretary Katz,
As an investor advocate, I commend the Commission for its bold step to require brokers to provide pre-sale disclosure of costs and conflicts of interest when they sell mutual funds. However, I am concerned that certain aspects of the proposal, including the proposed timing, content, and format of the disclosures, need improvement.
With a few strengthening provisions, others believe this rule proposal could help investors to make more cost conscious mutual fund purchase decisions, potentially saving us tens of thousands of dollars over the life of our investments.
Specifically, the rule should provide for written disclosures at point of recommendation, rather than point of sale. The disclosure rule should also include mutual fund operation costs, including sales-related costs. Finally, disclosures need to be provided in a clear and simple manner so investors can understand them.
There is gross conflict of intersted in many aspects of our government and society, please help us little people from being preyed on even more. I trust CU enough to go along with this letter. Thanks for considering my concerns.
Mr. Andrew Bairnsfather


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Route 66 Band
The Route 66 Band started out to be the Sunday host band at Cortland's Country Music Park. The musicians and singers were all from other bands. Marie Petry from "Destiny" band; Bruce Huggins from "Slick Nickel Band"; and Merle Matts from the "New York Country Band". Jay Crapo joined the band in the fall of 2002, Wade Jacobson in October of 2005, and Howie O'Dell , the newest member joined in April of 2006. Merle and Marie have both been inducted in the New York State Country Music Hall of Fame in Cortland, N.Y. After practicing together and working together for several months they decided that they had something special and decided to try and take in on further.
They recorded a CD titled "Most Requested Songs of Route 66" which has 19 songs on the CD. They then went on to showcase at the New York and Pennsylvania Fair Conventions. The New York Convention was in Rochester, N.Y. and the Pennsylvania Convention was in Hershey, Pa. The response was very good. Last year at the Chenango Co. Fair in Norwich, N.Y. they did their own "Grand Ole Opry Show" under the tent to a packed crowd. They also did three nights at the GDS Fair in Newfoundland, Pa. Due to the band's versatility, new venues opened up for them. To promote this rare find, they created the Dinner Shows at Cortland's Country Music Park.
Last year they did "A Tribute to Hank Williams and Hank Williams Jr.", "A Tribute to Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty" , a "Tribute to the Grand Ole Opry III" and "A Tribute to the Best Duets in Country Music", along with all the pig roasts, fireman conventions, weddings, and regular playing jobs. May 11, 2006, they did a Tribute to "George Jones and Tammy Wynette" and will be doing a show called "Country Music Through The Decades", June 8th, which will be songs from the cowboy era all the way up to today's country music, and "A Tribute to Buck Owens and Patsy Cline"; July 13th and a "Tribute to The Grand Ole Opry IV" on September 14th. They have also have done 2 dances in which they played Classic 50's & 60's Rock & Roll and will be doing a Sock Hop, August 4th on Rt. 12 in Nimmonsburg, N.Y.
In June of 2003 they started a fan club which now has over 300 members from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont. On June 1, 2005 the fan club went International with our first two fan club members from Germany.
Their second CD "We're Still Country" was released on Jan. 11, 2004, at their CD coming out party at Cortland's Country Music Park. This CD also includes 19 songs.
If you'd like to learn more about the band you can go to their website, www.route66band.homestead.com. You can actually hear 30 sec. of each song on the CD.


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Every nation has its "greatest generation," and for Israel that is generally viewed as being those who put on the uniform of the IDF in the two decades immediately following the establishment of the State of Israel.
From 1948 through the 1960s, Israeli forces faced and overcame seemingly insurmountable odds time and again, leading many of Israel's Arab enemies to believe that the IDF was simply invincible.
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a star among Israel's greatest generation, died on Wednesday following a lengthy battle with leukemia. He was 68 years old, and left behind a wife and five grown children.
Lipkin-Shahak served in the Israeli army for 36 years, during which he was twice awarded the Medal of Courage for his battlefield leadership in Operation Inferno (1968) and Operation Spring of Youth (1973).
He later went on to become IDF chief of staff in 1995, and retired from the army to join politics in 1998. Lipkin-Shahak's brief stint in the Knesset revealed centrist positions, with him seemingly sliding further to the left following his party's defeat in the 2001 election.
Despite his leftist views regarding Jewish settlement of Judea and Samaria, senior figures in those communities fondly recalled his years as head of Israel's Central Command.
Knesset Member Uri Ariel (National Union) upon learning of Lipkin-Shahak's passing said that during Ariel's time as head of the main settler council he "had the pleasure of getting to know [Lipkin-Shahak] well in his capacity as the commander of the IDF's Central Division. I salute a man who spent most of his years fighting for Israel's security.
While this writer strongly disagreed with much of Lipkin-Shahak's politics, it is nevertheless sobering to see Israel lose yet another of its old warhorses. Nearly all of Israel's greatest generation have now succumbed to age and sickness (and in Yitzhak Rabin's case, assassination), and their experience and guidance will be sorely missed in the years to come.
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George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, a distinguished Irish philosopher and writer, after whom Berkeley California is named, was born at Dysert Castle, near Thomastown, Ireland, March 12, 1685. Educated in Trinity College, Dublin, he was appointed in Episcopal prelate, and devoted himself to literature and to philanthropic efforts to establish in America a college for the education and conversion of the Indians to Christianity. He lived nearly four years in Rhode Island, respected, esteemed and beloved by the people of early New England. The British government neglected to furnish the promised funds for the college, and, having exhausted much of his own fortune in his benevolent design, Bishop Berkeley was compelled to return to his native land. So powerfully impressed had he become with the great future of the American colonies that he wrote the famous poem, "Destiny of America," the concluding stanza of which is quoted above. Alexander Pope, his intimate friend, declared he was "possessed of every virtue." He died January 14, 1753, at Oxford, England.


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Culture Slut
Culture Slut is a quarter-size perzine written by Amber Farthing of Lindsay, ON Canada. Amber started the zine in September 2004 as a way of getting her thoughts "out there" instead of having them pester her all day in her head. It mainly focusses on her quest to infuse feminism into her daily life. It's full of journal entries, opinion pieces, top tens and mix tape tracklists.
Most issues are put together in the classic cut and paste manner, with a combination of handwriting and typed text, depending on when Amber has access to a computer or typewriter.
Culture Slut #1 was released in September 2004 and contains Top Ten lists, such as "Ten Favourite Books" and "Things I Dislike". It features the article 2002- The Year My VCR Broke in which Amber tells the story of the time her VCR broke, and how she managed to break the cycle of lazy television-watching (by never getting the VCR repaired) and why she would like to live in a television-free household. It also has a DIY guide to making that awesome Clash t-shirt fit properly (because "Girls buy band shirts too!", tales of her first trip to England, tips on secondhand shopping, tales of sexism, and mix tape track lists.
Culture Slut #2 info to come at a later date.
Culture Slut #3 was released in February 2005 and contains the stories of the dreams she has at night and her interpretations of their meanings, the time she stole supplies from her school in Grade Six in an attempt to become a Great Writer, the beginning of her awareness of the anti-porn movement, the pros and cons of housewifery, New Year's Resolutions, plus the usual top tens and mix tape lists.
Culture Slut #4 was released in November 2005, and contains the articles The Little Things You Can Do To Make A Cashier's Day Easier, No More Hey Baby!, 10 Random Things About 10 Anonymous People, Fashion And Feminism, On Breasts And Body Image..., some musings on SuicideGirls and porn star autobiographies, plus zine reviews and even more mix tapes.
Culture Slut #5 was released in June 2006 and features journal-style writing on her first zine expo, her obsession with numbers, and snippets from her daily life, along with the articles, Does the make-up make you? and A Tim Horton's Rant.
Culture Slut #6 was released in August 2006, a time when Amber was going through a difficult breakup and questioning everything. It tells tales of her childhood, of the constellations, of her first tattoo, of the difficulty of being an anti-porn feminist, and features an unsent letter to the boy she loves. It also features articles by both her and her sister Maranda (who writes Telegram Ma'am) about what it's like being twins. Amber was a telemarketer for a few months, and she writes helpful hints on how to get rid of telemarketers' unwanted phone calls without being a total asshole.
Culture Slut #7 was released in December 2006 and is basically about "The Year Of Amber." She had resolved to make 2006 her best year yet, and issue #7 chronicles that year. It is all about swing sets, hallucinogenic drugs, break-ups and get-back-togethers, tattoos, telemarketing, a trip to Toledo, Ohio, and her big move to Ottawa, Ontario. Also, she expresses her thoughts on the word "slut."
Culture Slut # 8 was released in January 2007, and this is where Amber really comes into her own. She tells her life story in a series of anecdotes. She tells of her childhood and her absent father, attending Sunday School when she doesn't believe in God, finding Nirvana, getting her first period, falling in love, moving away (and moving back) and all of those moments that make up life. Although it is less than forty pages, one really feels as if they've gotten to know her. It also features reviews of the books and zines that have been inspiring her as of late, and a memorial for her cat Rummy.
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Still need to run out and grab a couple more items, head to the new seamstress (yay!) and pick up everything and head to clients home and get it all put together.
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Aw I hope you get some rest! I'm going to be tackling a few projects myself this weekend! xx
I so wish I were doing what you are doing this weekend, but I am not. My family (husband & two kiddos) and I will be traveling 3 hours away to attend a wedding outside on Saturday. Oh, did I mention I live in Texas? It should be outlawed to have a wedding outside in August in TEXAS!
Try to get some rest!
Good luck! Sounds like you're gonna be busy! I will be working on some projects, too, but for the fun of it...
I feel just like you! I'm having a party tomorrow and have 1 million things to do, work my normal job, and at some point take a shower??!!! All those bags make me happy inside.
I feel like my house always looks like as of late haha! It makes me feel crazy!
I will have a little fun on Saturday... but when we're not out celebrating other people's milestones, we'll be knocking some projects off our always growing to-do list, and cleaning!
Try to enjoy it at least a little! :)
i wish, i work retail and its tax-free weekend here. :( no fun.
Maybe I'll be having more fun than you, but I doubt it.
My family is insisting I go camping.
I hope you get a few things crossed off your list this weekend AND have time to just chill out :)
chaos come before beauty!
Don't fret my friend, the fruits of you labor will be worth all the effort that goes into making an interior a home. Good luck!
Sounds like you had a busy week, Camila! Hope you get time to recoup this weekend. No big plans for me -- hoping to get a few small things done around the house but R&R is definitely on the top of my list!
Phew! Good luck!! I have a bunch of nursery projects to finish up including finishing bumpers, crib skirt, organizing the closet and changing table and hanging my giant CB2 abacus in there somewhere. Nesting in full effect :)
Perhaps it is just me, but I think your weekend sounds really good. I'd love to be a fly on the wall, or an additional set of hands to help! You're doing great work up there next to the big city!
Sounds like fun to me!
I love those fabric swatches on your dining table! Sorry your so swamped - but really I'm sure thats a good thing (maybe not for your mind but for your career)!
Thanks for all the support! I'm totally living the dream. Just totally wiped!
Charging my camera as I type so I will try to snap as many pictures as I can.
Glad to see that other designers have inventory all over their house before an install!!!
Good luck!
I cannot wait to see Eat Pray Love with my favorite girlfriends this weekend!!
But I did spot a Pier 1 bag in your picture... that should be fun to unpack!!
Hang in there! I am in the same boat.
Sounds like you need a little break. Try to have a great weekend!
I'm having more fun than you.
But you will have a cool room when it's over.
Love the collection of furniture you've got going!
Can you share where you got those drum-like end tables/stools that are in the first two pictures? Thanks and good luck with everything!
Boy sounds exhausting! I've had weeks like this too! Good luck!
Well, your house is sure filled with awesome stuff that will eventually make its way into other people's houses! Looking forward to seeing what you do with it all!
Where are the cute garden stools from?
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Adherence to Non-HIV Medications May Be Greater Cause for Concern Than Adherence to Antiretrovirals
November 1, 2013
HIV-infected patients may be significantly less likely to adhere to the medications they take for their comorbid conditions than to their HIV antiretrovirals, according to research presented at IDWeek 2013. The findings shed light on the increasing importance of clinicians ensuring that, as they continue to provide HIV care for their patients, they also help those patients effectively manage the health issues they commonly experience alongside their HIV infection, such as dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease.
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center conducted a retrospective chart review of 171 HIV-infected patients who received care through the Louis Stokes medical center in 2011 and 2012. During the study period, all patients were continuously prescribed HIV antiretroviral therapy and non-HIV medications.
This was an almost entirely male (95%) and predominantly black (57%) study cohort. The mean age at baseline was roughly 55 years. Despite relatively high rates of mental health issues (45% of the cohort had a history of depression, 22% had a history of substance abuse and 18% had a history of alcohol abuse), most patients had a baseline CD4+ cell count over 200 cells/mm3 (86%) and the vast majority had a baseline viral load below 75 copies/mL (78%). This is not particularly a surprise among populations of patients who receive care at Veterans Affairs clinics, which tend to report better engagement in care.
The 171 patients were prescribed a total of 458 antiretrovirals and 667 non-antiretroviral medications during the study period. Most of the antiretrovirals prescribed were typical first-line agents, predominantly efavirenz/tenofovir/emtricitabine (Atripla), tenofovir/emtricitabine (Truvada), atazanavir (Reyataz) and ritonavir (Norvir). The non-antiretroviral medications commonly fell into one of four classes: prescription vitamins (especially multivitamins), antihypertensives (predominantly lisinopril and hydrochlorothiazide, taken either separately or concurrently), gastrointestinal agents (mainly omeprazole) and antidepressants (citalopram, sertraline or mirtazapine).
Adherence to medications was calculated using a "proportion of days covered" (PDC) measurement, which is based on an examination of the patients' medication supply and refill dates compared to prescription release dates. A paired samples t-test was used to compare adherence levels between the two types of medications.
The researchers found that study patients' overall mean PDC was 85.8% for antiretrovirals, compared to a notably lower 77.0% for non-antiretrovirals (P < .001), a difference that was equivalent to 32.1 additional days of missed non-antiretroviral coverage over a 365-day period. In a multiple linear regression analysis, no correlation with PDC difference was found by age, copayment exemption status or having a history of alcohol abuse, depression or substance abuse.
Mean PDC appeared to vary by drug class as well as individual drug, though no numbers regarding statistical significance were provided (and the overall number of patients on each drug was relatively small). PDC appeared similarly high among most antiretrovirals, with most hovering in the 80% to 90% range. Among non-antiretrovirals, PDC appeared highest for the hypertensives (with ranges from 85% to 92%) and lower for antidepressants (68% to 82%), gastrointestinal agents (70% to 74%) and vitamins (64% to 76%).
As the attention of HIV care providers turns ever-more often to the management of comorbid conditions (including cardiovascular care, mental health and digestive/gastrointestinal care) in our increasingly aging HIV-infected populations, study results such as these highlight the need to remain vigilant that patients are tending to all aspects of their health. "Patients who are otherwise adherent to their ART are less adherent with their non-ART medications. Interventions to improve medication adherence should also include non-ART medications in addition to ART," the researchers concluded.
The poster for this study that was presented at IDWeek 2013 is available online, as is the study abstract.
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Oilers 1, Ducks 2 – Game 39 – 2013-04-08 @ 8:00 PM MST – SNET EDM
I won't sugar coat it, it will take a miracle to make it into the playoffs now. The Oilers had a terrible weekend.. not just because of how they played, but because of how other teams played. The bottom teams are catching up, and the teams ahead of them are gaining some ground. It does not look good. But humoring the possibility, the famous playoff chances site – Sports Club Stats – has Edmonton at 14.7% now. An 8-2-0 record will likely do it. A 7-2-1 gives us a 68.1% chance, by their calculations. It ain't ova till it's ova. But it's pretty much over. I still have a glimmer of hope though, being the sucker I am. But the Oilers are going to have to play better if they have a hope in hell of doing it. Lucky for the Oilers (I suppose?) we have 7 of the last 10 games at home. Three of the games are versus less awesome teams – the Flames, Coyotes, and Avalanche. The rest are going to be tough ones. They are against the Ducks (3 times), the Wild (twice), the Hawks, and the Canucks. It isn't over… but it sure doesn't look good. Their biggest hope of catching a team lies in Detroit. They also have the teams like Phoenix, and Dallas to worry about too. If those teams pace the Oilers, we're done.
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Spartacus: Vengeance
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Australian Actor Liam McIntyre Taking Over Starz 'Spartacus' Role From Andy Whitfield
"Spartacus" has a new leading man.
Just days after Starz announced they were planning to recast the title role, left vacated by Andy Whitfield, who has been battling cancer, a rep for the cable channel confirmed to Access Hollywood that Australian actor Liam McIntyre has won the part.
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Liam, 28, will take over the role, which Andy left due to his cancer battle, as the network proceeds with Season 2 of the bloody drama, which begins shooting this spring.
"Since no one can really replace Andy, we realized that we should instead find an actor who can truly lead 'Spartacus' forward," Starz President and CEO Chris Albrecht said in a statement. "It was important to us to have Andy endorse the idea of recasting this part, which he did in the same heroic manner that he's dealt with his whole ordeal. And that, coupled with our fortune in finding a young actor with the gladiator credentials and the acting ability of Liam, makes it easier for us to keep this hit franchise going."
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Liam's pedigree includes stints on the long-running Australian soap "Neighbors" (the same show "House M.D.'s" Jesse Spencer comes from). He also had a small role in HBO's "The Pacific," playing the character of Lew.
According to Starz, Liam is currently in New Zealand where he is getting "into gladiator shape" in order to take on the meaty part.
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this definitely sucks, being a huge fan of Andy Whitfield and all and now he's being replaced.
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Andy will be missed, he's got to get healthy.
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I think season 2 is Spartacus and his crew vs. the Romans(aka Galaba).
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The fight scenes still top notch. when guy slit guys throat on those swords X . The graphic violence in this show is done very well. JMO.
People need to get on the Spartacus wagon.
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no spoilers please.
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U just need to watch it.
Posted February 02, 2011 - 12:06 PM
Part 2 was good too.
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I like the pace and flow of this prequel. I was very skeptical about how good the show would be w/o Andy. It's exceeded my expectations. It gives me hope for the 2nd season.
Dig the new chicks this season.
Posted February 03, 2011 - 10:58 PM
Writing work is top notch.
I like the pace and flow of this prequel. I was very skeptical about how good the show would be w/o Andy. It's exceeded my expectations. It gives me hope for the 2nd season.
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Two days ago I was on Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart" with Carol Massar to discuss "Getting Boston's Edge Back" - which focused on how Boston was doing but quickly turned into a discussion on the race for the next Facebook. As I approached the set I felt confident that I could tell an enthusiastic story about Boston's innovation economy until Carol asked me why Boston has lost so much market share to the Valley!
I think I did a reasonable job defending Boston. While Carol was great, my biggest issue with the show was how it showed up on YouTube - "Greeley Says Boston VC Not Focused on Social Media" - which is nothing I ever said, quite the opposite actually. I stressed repeatedly that entrepreneurs in Boston solve really hard problems - I even used the word "intractable." I referenced cloud computing, storage, infrastructure, robotics, life sciences as sectors we excelled at - although I did acknowledge that we might be guilty of selling out too early.
Boston has been #2 to the Valley for a long time in VC activity - admittedly even a distant #2 - both in terms of dollars invested and number of companies. We also are a smaller geography with crummy weather 6 months a year. In fact - and quite timely - late last week 2Q11 funding data was released and there are some interesting data there:
- Per CB Insights VC investment in Massachusetts in 2Q11 was $1.1 billion in 89 companies, up from $719 million and 85 companies the prior quarter, and up from $689 million and 85 companies in 2Q10
- Nationally $7.6 billion was invested in 768 companies (this continues to baffle me - VC's are investing at a nearly $30 billion annual pace but we will only raise around $15 billion this year in new funds)
- 12% of all investment was deemed to be "seed" investing - a five quarter high
- Clear evidence of consolidation as California/Massachusetts/New York companies accounted for 74% of all dollars raised versus 69% in prior quarter (or 57% in 4Q10)
- Nationally 18% of dollars invested were "seed/Series A" versus 21% for "Series B"
- Internet was 36% of all dollars invested with healthcare (25%), mobile (7%), energy (6%), non-internet software (6%), and hardware (5%) rounding out the balance
The diversity of industries represented in the Massachusetts data was impressive, and while some people wring their hands about us being #2,this diversity augurs well for a healthy VC marketplace in the future. Why do I say that?
- In terms of number of companies which raised capital in 2Q11, healthcare was 34% while internet (27%), non-internet software (13%), mobile (8%), energy (4%) and industrial (4%) were some of the other categories
- On a dollars invested basis, healthcare jumps to 52% of the total while internet (24%), non-internet software (5%), mobile (5%), energy (6%), and industrial (3%) fill out the balance
But what I often point to is the fact that of the $175 billion managed nationally by VC's, the local VC community manages approximately $35 billion or 20% (more than the 15% our local companies attracted). We continue to have a strength of VC activity which is critical for the future health of the Boston innovation scene.
But we can not stop aspiring to launch the next Facebook here. Let's not let the next great one get away - unfortunately it may just not be in social media/commerce.
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Advertisers' Dilemma In Online Video — Reach Or Frequency?
Digital advertising is far too big for marketers to ignore. But whether or not the web can have the widespread reach of TV is still a matter for debate.
That's a particularly pressing issue now, ahead of this spring's "upfront" ad sales negotiations. Online giants like YouTube and Yahoo are ramping up digital offerings in hopes of luring a piece of ad budgets that typically flow to television.
In a note to investors last week, RBC Capital Markets analyst David Bank poured cold water on the idea that online video would draw much money from traditional television anytime soon, arguing "its all about reach."
"Online video consumers tend to represent a very concentrated and somewhat limited subsection of consumers," Mr. Bank said. "Advertisers will tend to reach the same small group of consumers time and time again, with the identical message."
Others disagreed. "If you just talk about TV versus desktop web, TV is going to produce a larger reach," said Andrew Lipsman, vice president of marketing and insights at comScore. But if you look at digital as desktop, smartphone, and tablet all together, the reach becomes more powerful, he said.
"Most of our clients are trying to use digital to expand to reach beyond the audience they reach with TV," said Randall Beard, global head of advertiser solutions at Nielsen.
In absolute terms, television's reach is hard to beat. There are 115.6 million TV homes in the U.S. and 294 million persons age 2 or older live in those homes, a 1.6% increase from last year, according to Nielsen. In comparison, between desktop and mobile, the top 25 web properties like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook reach an average 46% of the 243 million person digital population, according to comScore.
In February, 182.4 million people watched web video, according to comScore. That's a big number, but compared to TV it looks small.
Still, demographics matter to marketers. People aged 18 to 34, the group that marketers often pay a premium to reach, spend 44% more time per viewer watching online video and 36% more time watching YouTube than the average internet user, according to comScore.
As Mr. Beard puts it, TV has wider reach – networks can expose more people to an ad campaign. But because younger people tend to watch less TV, the web offers advertisers the opportunity to reach that audience with more frequency, he said.
Ad buyers say that TV viewership has also fragmented out to more places like web and mobile, though TV remains a necessary component for many advertisers.
"We look at the best ways of reaching our target whether it's on a PC or tablet or a 65-inch screen at home," said John Muszynski, chief investment officer at Spark, an ad buyer.
Mr. Bank's skepticism may be backed up by the slow pace of change. What money has moved into online video is coming mostly from other budgets such as print and display, according to media buyers and marketers.
Still, given the amount of quality programming now showing up on Web outlets, things are likely to eventually shift. Indeed, in terms of share of total ad spending, eMarketer recently predicted that digital would pass TV by 2018. By then, the number of people watching online video is likely to be more than a "subsection" of the audience.


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This study will help define the multiple roles of immune dendritic cells in shaping the central nervous system's (CNS) immune responses to infections, and also in maintaining CNS health.
Dendritic cells are innate immune cells, the body's first line of defense. They recognize invaders and mount a rapid, generalized short response. They also summon specific "adaptive" immune T cells, the body's second line of defense, to mount a sustained highly targeted attack against invaders. Additionally, evidence suggests that adaptive immunity may also confer neuroprotection. Studies of cancer patients who experience cognitive problems while undergoing immunosuppressive chemotherapy improve cognitively once chemotherapy is completed and their immune systems are no longer suppressed. Now researchers have found that some dendritic cells and adaptive T cells in the healthy ("steady state") reside in structures near brain tissues. They are found the in the choroid plexus—a membrane in the fluid spaces of the brain that secretes cerebrospinal fluid—and in the meninges—the membranes that surround and protect the CNS, (brain and spinal cord). The meninges and choroid plexus also serve as gates for T cells to enter the brain.
The investigators hypothesize that dendritic cells in these gateway structures contribute to shaping immune responses in the CNS by directly conditioning T cells at these sites of entry into the CNS. They will study dendritic cells':1) origin and turnover in the steady state (health); 2) their development; and 3) how they condition T cells to recognize an invader. They then will study how T cells may regulate "microglia," the only immune cells that reside in the brain and mount an inflammatory response to brain tissue damage.
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text: Hello again, O.K. So Option 3 -- 32 desktops from HP or Dell-- is eliminated because I cannot afford to upgrade the air conditioning unit in the room available and I cannot afford an onsite service contract to cover repair costs. In response to RGB's request for more information: "It might be more helpful if you gave us your budget and your software constraints (e.g. how much memory per CPU or core do you need). I'm assuming embarrassingly parallel MC (which is what I do) so the network is basically irrelevant." Here are my budgetary constraints and my needs Budget ~US $ 25 000, with the possibility of "liberating" another $ 5 000 out of another grant or my university. My Monte Carlo simulations deal with percolation problems, Potts models, and fiber bundle models, some of which require in excess of 512 MB of memory; I am trying to buy machines with at least that amount of memory per core and ideally twice that amount. The network is irrelevant for these simulations, but based upon my reading I think I should go for gigabit ethernet. Thank you all for your thoughtful responses. I am finding them very helpful. Wishing you the best, Don On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 18:09, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006, Don R. Baker wrote: > > > for 8 years, but consider myself to still be a beginner. I have a room > > with 4, 15 amp circuits and a 20 000 btu air conditioning unit installed > > that I can use for the next 2 years, but after that I may need to find > > another home for the system. > > Let's see. 20KBTU is a bit more than 1.5 tons of AC, call it the > ability to remove 5800 Watts total. 4 x 15 x 120 is is 7200 Watts peak, > or about 5000 Watts RMS. In my opinion this is going to leave you a bit > light on AC if you run the circuits fully loaded, and don't forget warm > bodies (60 W) and built in light bulbs etc. on other circuits (maybe > several hundred W more). You have to not only remove the heat as fast > as it comes in but get ahead some, correct for heat that infiltrates > through the walls, and get the room temperature down below 20C (68 F) if > at all possible. 15-16C is more like it -- cold enough to just be > uncomfortable. > > If you limit what you run per circuit to roughly 1000 Watts, that is > 4000 watts and gives you a bit of margin. Or get a bigger AC -- a 2 ton > AC is still pretty cheap and would probably manage fully loaded > circuits. Just a thought. > > > My dilemma is that for my budget I can buy one of the following > > solutions: > > > > Solution #1 > > A custom built "personal cluster" with 8 dual core processors either > > Xeons or Opterons (16 cores and 16 GB of memory) with all the software > > installed, read to go. > > > > Solution #2 > > I can buy 16 workstations, each with Dual Core Athlon X64 4400+ > > processors (32 cores and 32 GB of memory) upon which I will probably > > install either Warewulf or Oscar. > > > > > > Solution #3 > > I can buy 32 HP or Dell "mass market" desktops running dual core chips > > (64 cores and 64 GB memory) upon which I will probably install either > > Warewulf or Oscar. (Note that I read the discussion this past November > > on "cheap PCs this christmas") > > > > > > Obviously, I get more computing power in the last two solutions, but at > > what cost in terms of time and upkeep? Once the system is up and > > running I can dedicate about 5 hours per week, and probably no more, and > > CAD$ ~500 per year for maintenance. > > I personally would reject #3 out of hand, unless you buy three year > onsite service contracts on the Dells (spending nodes as required). > Dell doesn't do Opterons, I don't think, as well. HPs ditto. > > Solutions #1 or #2 are both reasonable, although I'm not sure where your > numbers are coming from. It might be more helpful if you gave us your > budget and your software constraints (e.g. how much memory per CPU or > core do you need). I'm assuming embarrassingly parallel MC (which is > what I do) so the network is basically irrelevant. > > > Do any of you have some sage advice? Have any of you used a "personal > > cluster"? Any thoughts you may have will be very much appreciated. > > Thank you all for your time. > > Sure, a bunch of us (myself included) have personal clusters, although > yours is going to be mine -- I never have more than about 10 nodes > because at that point my house starts to melt in the summertime (and the > nodes start to cost roughly $1000/year just to run). Remember, power > costs ballpark of $1/watt/year to heat AND remove the heat (within a > factor of two) so if you DO fill your room to capacity with 4000 watts > running 24x7, plan to spend around $4000/year just to run it and keep it > cool. > > > Wishing you the best from a cool Montreal, > > Although there is that -- I suppose in the wintertime you could just > open a window and snow-cool it... but that at most knocks it down to > $3000, because most of the money is for the power, not the cooling:-). > > >From this point of view getting fewer, faster nodes (e.g. 8 dual-dual > core processor from e.g. Penguin or ASL (32 processor cores) is likely > to be a net savings in power, in money PAYING for power, high quality > nodes are less likely to break, and less of your time doing both soft > and hard maintenance. I'd really try to keep your system count down for > home clusters as they can eat enough time and money to destroy personal > relationships with loved ones... > > They don't have to be preinstalled with linux, though. Oh, they may BE > preinstalled (often with SuSE) but I'd advise reinstalling Centos or FC > (see archives for pros and cons of choice). That way you get an > indefinite free update stream and full yum-ability. SuSE does yum > (thanks to Joe Landman of this list, who might ALSO sell you prebuilt > nodes) but it ain't necessarily pretty... > > rgb > > > > > Don > > -- "Melting rocks today for a better tomorrow . . . " Don R. Baker, Professor of Geochemistry, Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill University 3450 rue University, Montreal, QC Canada H3A 2A7 514-398-7485


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February, 1997
|February ushers in the madness, pageantry, and revelry of New Orleans' biggest and most famous celebration--Mardi Gras!
This month we bring you images of the more private side of Mardi Gras which most visitors (and many New Orleans residents) rarely see. On display here are reproductions of historical Carnival memorabilia--a Carnival "throw," a letter from Rex, and invitations,favors and an admit card from the Carnival balls given by the krewes that also put on the parades that we all enjoy.
The items shown here are from the Louisiana Division's extensive Carnival Collection--some 11,000 pieces, dating from the 1860s to the 1990s--including invitations, admit cards, programs, dance cards, favors, doubloons, Zulu coconuts, float designs, and other items chronicling the history of the biggest party on earth.
Shown above is an 1897 admit card to the ball of the Knights of Mithras, celebrating its 100th anniversary in 1997.
Mithras is one of a number of krewes that does not parade but celebrates Carnival with an annual ball.
|An invitation to the Mithras ball from 1910.
|An invitation to the ball of the Mistik Krewe of Comus. Comus was the first Carnival organization to stage a formal parade, in 1857, and the first to use the term "krewe" to describe its club. Until 1992, the Comus parade was the last parade to roll on Mardi Gras night, closing out the season for the people on the streets and ushering in the forty lean days of Lent. Comus no long parades, but it continues to hold its ball on the final evening of Mardi Gras.
|An assortment of lapel pins, given as favors to attendees of Mardi Gras balls. This pins are from the balls of the following krewes (clockwise from top): Momus, Twelfth Nigh Revelers, Twelfth Night Revelers, Twelfth Night Revelers, Elves of Oberon, and Atlanteans.
|This Zulu "throw" is unusual, but it is not as unusual as the famous Zulu coconuts (we couldn't scan one of those), hand made by the krewe members and perhaps the most prized of all Mardi Gras throws. The Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, which first paraded in 1909, is a traditionally African-American krewe and began as a satirical comment on the old line white-only krewes. Today, the arrival of Zulu at the riverfront on Lundi Gras (the Monday before Mardi Gras) and the Zulu parade early on Mardi Gras morning are among the most awaited spectacles of the season. To find out more, visit the Zulu Home Page.
|An invitation from 1870 to the first Twelfth Night Revelers' bal masque. January 6, "Twelfth Night," is the beginning of the Carnival season, and the Twelfth Night Revelers' ball on that evening is one of the events that "officially" opens the Mardi Gras festivities.
|This letter from Richard Freeman, Rex of 1959, is part of a small group of "School of Design" papers within the Louisiana Division's Carnival Collection. Rex, the king of Carnival, first paraded in 1872, and the krewe celebrates its 125th anniversary this year. The letter thanks Sr. Mary Louise, O.P., the President of Dominican College, for her telegram congratulating Rex upon his election as King of Carnival.
|This bust of Napoleon, Emperor of the French and seller of Louisiana to the United States, stands in the Louisiana Division. Napoleon patiently suffers a variety of indignities throughout the year as staff members dress him up for Halloween, Christmas, Ash Wednesday, Easter, Jazz Fast, Bastille Day, Ash Wednesday, and, of course, Mardi Gras. The sign puts into Napoleon's native tongue the universal cry of all Mardi Gras parade-goers: "Jetez-moi quelque chose, Meestah!" or as we say it in the Crescent City,
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From the December 6, 2011, issue of the Price Sun Advocate.
Guest column, by William Krompel.
In connection with publisher, Richard Shaw's October 25, 2011 editorial entitled "Governors narrows state of mind," in the Sun Advocate, I believe Governor Herbert and other relevant state and federal officials need to examine the issue of Sanpete's proposed Narrows dam and reservoir project with a wider focus.
Because of the importance of this issue to Carbon County and the entire state, I've spent well over two decades studying and collecting information on this issue from officials of Utah State Water Rights, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Forest Service, water users on both sides of the mountain, energy industries, fishing, recreation, conservation, environmental groups, etc. In addition on a number of occasions I've toured and hiked this region above Scofield Reservoir with some of these individuals from the above mentioned groups. This includes hiking the National Recreation Trail along the Upper Fish Creek and touring the headwaters of the Price River above Scofield Reservoir where the Narrows Reservoir is proposed to be built. I've also seen firsthand some of the Sanpete water users trans-mountain ditches and diversion tunnels in this region
Looking at this from a wider perspective, here are some relevant facts and conclusions I've drawn on this important issue that need to be considered.
* For decades Sanpete water users have and are currently diverting significant amounts of fresh water from Emery and Carbon Counties natural water drainages; an on average estimated 10,000 acre-feet per year according to Utah State Water Resources officials. This is accomplished by a network of over 68 miles of Trans-mountain ditches and tunnels operated by Sanpete water users that run along the top of the Wasatch Plateau. Some of diverted water is stored in the Sanpete water users private reservoirs known as Fairview Lakes. I have copies of documents that list Sampete's trans-mountain diversion ditches and water rights from the U.S. Forest Service and State Water Rights.
* Sanpete Water Conservancy District, per a 1984 legal agreement, secured an additional transmountain water right of 5,400 acre feet per year. The 1984 agreement can be viewed on Sanpete Water District web page at :www.Narrowsproject.com However, for the last 27 years since 1984 according to Bureau of Reclamation officials, none of the 5,400 acre-feet have been put to beneficial use. Furthermore, the 1984 agreement did not, according to court rulings, guarantee funding and construction of Sanpete's proposed 17,000 acre-foot Narrows Reservoir.
* Carbon water users also have equally valid Scofield Reservoir water rights of 30,000 acre-feet per year that haveconsistently, for many decades, put to beneficial use.
* The heart of the problem in my view is the over allocation of water rights by the state. Some U.S. Forest officials claim water rights on some rivers and streams are over-allocated by a factor of two or three times the available water. For example, proponents of the Narrows project claim that "they only want to store water in their proposed Narrows reservoir that is spilling over the spillway at Scofield every year which they say is is of no use to either Carbon or Emery Counties. Yet the history of 67 years of water data at Scofield Reservoir from 1945 to 2011 show Scofield only spills about 30 percent of the time. Scofield last spilled in 1999, 12 years ago-even with large quantities of fresh water being pumped into Scofield from Skyline mine since 2000.
* During drought cycles Carbon water users receive only fractional parts of their yearly water rights of 30,000 acre-feet. In 1961, a drought year, only 6,790 acre-feet of maximum acive storage at Scofield was available or 22 percent of Carbon water user water rights. In 1991, also a drought year, only 3,000 acre-feet were available out of maximum storage of 65,800. That was 5 percent of the capacity of the reservoir. This represents 10 percent of Carbon's water right. Had the Narrows Reservoir been in place during the time, Scofield Reservoir would have been completely out of usable water at least two years before the drought finally ended and 20,000 citizens lives and property would have been put in jeopardy.
* In the last drought cycle, which started in 2000, the maximum active storage at Scofield on May 14, 2004 would have been more like 6,000 acre feet or less than 10 percent of capacity. What saved us was the fresh water that Skyline Mine has been pumping into Scofield since 2000 at the rate of 6,000 gallons per minute or nearly 10,000 acre feet per year. This is a temporary phenomenon that will no longer be available once mine operations cease.
* In closing I think it is imperative that the governor and other relevant State and Federal officials understand the seriousness of this issue by looking at Sanpete's proposed Narrows project in this broader context to avert a calamity to Carbon County's energy-based economy that benefits the entire state and nation as well as its 20,000 citizens that rely on this water supply.
The proposed Narrows project, if built, will certainly intensify the frequency and duration of drought effect cycles in Carbon. And the droughts will become so severe that it is very likely there will be recurring states of water shortage emergencies in Carbon County.
To read Sanpete's answers to Mr. Krompel's comments above, click here.


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