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Inspector General For Intelligence Community Rejects Congress' Request To Investigate The NSA
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"At present, we are not resourced to conduct the requested review within the requested timeframe," wrote McCullough, before adding he and other agency inspectors general are weighing now whether they can combine forces on a larger probe.Not surprisingly, those who asked for the help, are not pleased. Senator Pat Leahy appears particularly angry about this:
That response didn't sit well with Leahy, who raised the letter during a scathing speech on the Senate floor Wednesday that slammed the intelligence community for a "trust deficit." Leahy also emphasized his belief that "the American people are rightly concerned that their private information could be swept up into a massive database, and then compromised."While it may be true that McCullough does not have significant resources to do this kind of investigation, that really just highlights the problem. There clearly is not sufficient oversight over the NSA's activities. The fact that the very person in charge of this kind of investigation, when told to do it by Congress, says he can't, should demonstrate just how little actual oversight there is. Perhaps instead of putting more money towards stopping the next Ed Snowden, the Senate should give that money to the inspector general to investigate the NSA and encourage the next Ed Snowden to come forward.


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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Syrian government's shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles and launchers could imperil civil aviation if they fall into the hands of terror groups, according to an independent report examining the global proliferation of portable missiles.
The report released Friday by the Federation of American Scientists, a prominent Washington group that focuses on issues of science and security, warns that some opposition factions inside Syria are already wielding small numbers of anti-aircraft systems in combat against Syrian government forces. Citing video and photo evidence from opposition forces, media and official accounts, the FAS study says some portable launchers and missiles have been seized by opposition forces during battles with Syrian troops, while others have been smuggled in to rebel fighters from neighboring countries.
The 88-page report warns about man-portable air-defense systems, also known as MANPADS, in the arsenal of Syrian President Bashar Assad's government. U.S. officials have estimated the Syrian government has as many as 20,000 MANPADS, compact missile launchers with the range and explosive power to attack low-flying planes and helicopters. It's unclear how many similar weapons might have been smuggled into Syria by rebels and sympathizers to fight Assad.
Syria's anti-aircraft missile inventory is comparable in size to that amassed by Libyan forces before the 2011 ouster of Moammar Gadhafi. The FAS study cites the widespread looting of anti-aircraft weapons that occurred after Gadhafi's fall and the mass ransacking of Iraqi weapons depots after the U.S. invasion in 2003 as evidence that Syria's missiles are equally vulnerable. The report said it was unclear whether any have been smuggled out of Libya.
"Should Syria go the way of Libya and Iraq, the international community could be confronted with the loss of government control over thousands of additional MANPADS, some of which are significantly more sophisticated than most of the MANPADS looted from depots in Libya," wrote the study's author, Matthew Schroeder, director of the FAS' Arms Sales Monitoring Project.
Portable anti-aircraft missiles have most often been used by non-government forces in conflict zones such as Iraq, where U.S. aircraft were targeted and sometimes struck by militants. Civilian passenger flights have never been threatened by shoulder-fired missiles in the U.S., but there have been nearly a dozen lethal strikes over the past decade in Asia and Africa. The FAS report said the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia used an SA-18 missile to shoot down a Belarusian cargo aircraft departing from Mogadishu in 2007.
Both militant and moderate opposition forces have repeatedly urged Western and Mideast nations to supply them with portable anti-aircraft systems capable of downing Syrian aircraft used in bombing runs at rebel and civilian targets. But the U.S. has so far balked at providing missiles, worried that some could end up with terrorist groups.
Verifying the authenticity of videos and photos depicting the missiles in Syria has been difficult because of battlefield conditions and the propaganda uses and blurred history and identities of those who post the material online. But Schroeder said that a "broad array of sources," which include media eyewitness accounts of the use of missiles, point to the availability and occasional use of anti-aircraft weapons in Syria.
Many of the portable launchers displayed by Syrian rebel groups on the Internet, Schroeder said, appear to be decades-old models such as Russian-made SA-7s _ similar to ones found in Libya after Gadhafi's ouster. Such older weapons have sometimes been unreliable in combat because of age and corrosion.
Unlike Libya, Syria's military has a larger supply of newer and longer-range models supplied from Russia, Schroeder said, and as a result, Syrian rebels also appear to have seized some new-model Russian missile launchers.
Schroeder also cited an amateur video from YouTube showing a Syrian rebel downing a government helicopter with a missile fired from a Chinese-made FN-6 portable launcher near Aleppo last February. The video showed a grayish contrail streaking toward a helicopter that burst into flames. The Associated Press reported Feb. 25 that the video appeared to be authentic and corresponded to other AP reporting. Hart Uhl, a spokesman for the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies, a Washington-based Syrian opposition organization, said the video appeared to have been posted by the Military Council of Aleppo, a rebel faction.
Schroeder noted that Syria is not known to have Chinese missiles, making it likely that the weapon was smuggled in from outside Syria. The attack occurred just a month after U.S. and Yemeni authorities intercepted a dhow, a boat often used for smuggling, near the coast of Yemen carrying 10 missiles for another Chinese-made portable anti-aircraft system, he said.
State Department weapons policy officials have begun planning to recover and dispose of the Syrian military's missiles, said a State Department official who was not authorized to talk publicly about the planning and spoke on condition of anonymity. The official would not discuss details of the plans, but despite similar efforts after Gadhafi's fall, the U.S. was unable to prevent widespread looting of the weapons.
State Department officials said in 2012 that only 5,000 of Libya's 20,000 missiles were recovered and disposed of by U.S. weapons experts and private contractors _ an acknowledgement that many more were either destroyed in combat or ended up in the hands of militias and armed factions.
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US college player of the year Anthony Davis of Kentucky was taken with the number one pick of the 2012 NBA Draft by the New Orleans Hornets, and moments later the power forward had even more to celebrate.
"It's indescribable right now," slender power forward Davis, 19, said after shaking NBA Commissioner David Stern's hand. "A great feeling, great experience. I've wanted this all my life, so it's finally here."
Davis's dream night was topped off when his college team-mate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist became the second player taken in the draft when the Charlotte Bobcats made their selection.
Davis and small forward Kidd-Gilchrist, who teamed up to win the US college basketball championship, became the first players from the same school to go one-two in an NBA draft.
"It's crazy," Davis said. "Michael is a great player."
Before the draft, Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist sat with Kentucky coach John Calipari, but they did not talk about going one-two.
"I was shocked at first," Kidd-Gilchrist said about hearing his name called. "I was shocked."
Kidd-Gilchrist's selection at number two was a bit of a surprise, but the choice of Davis was a no-brainer.
"To be drafted number one overall means a lot to me, for a 19-year-old freshman, now professional," Davis said. "The city of New Orleans was great, I had a great time when I went to visit. I just can't wait to get down there and start to play."
The 6-foot-10 (2.08 m) Davis averaged 14.2 points a game for Kentucky and shined on the defensive end, pulling down 10.4 rebounds and nearly five blocked shots a game, and was named Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four.
Davis said he would have to build up his strength when asked about his greatest challenge entering the NBA.
"The physicality. Guys are a lot stronger in the NBA and I know that's one of my weaknesses. So I try to make it a strength, stay in the weight room, try to get tougher."
The Washington Wizards took guard Bradley Beal of the University of Florida with the third pick before the Cleveland Cavaliers tabbed guard Dion Waiters of Syracuse with the next.
Power forward Thomas Robinson of Kansas went to the Sacramento Kings with the fifth pick of the first round.
New Orleans used the 10th pick to take Duke guard Austin Rivers, son of Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers.
The Houston Rockets had three first-round picks, having added draft choices through trades.
Houston took guard Jeremy Lamb from Connecticut with the 12th pick, added small forward Royce White of Iowa State at number 16 and nabbed forward Terrence Jones of Kentucky at 18.
The first international player taken in the draft was France's Evan Fournier. The shooting guard from Poiters Basket 86 was taken with the 20th pick of the first round by the Denver Nuggets.
First round Draft picks (pick number, NBA team, player, position, origin):
1 New Orleans Hornets - Anthony Davis, Forward, Kentucky
2 Charlotte Bobcats - Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, F, Kentucky
3 Washington Wizards - Bradley Beal, Guard, Florida
4 Cleveland Cavaliers - Dion Waiters, G, Syracuse
5 Sacramento Kings - Thomas Robinson, F, Kansas
6 Portland Trail Blazers (from Brooklyn) - Damian Lillard, G, Weber State
7 Golden State Warriors - Harrison Barnes, F, North Carolina
8 Toronto Raptors - Terrence Ross, G, Washington
9 Detroit Pistons - Andre Drummond, Center, Connecticut
10 New Orleans Hornets (from Minnesota via L.A. Clippers)- Austin Rivers, G, Duke
11 Portland Trail Blazers - Leonard Meyers, C, Illinois
12 Houston Rockets - Jeremy Lamb, G, Connecticut
13 Phoenix Suns - Kendall Marshall, G, North Carolina
14 Milwaukee Bucks - John Henson, F, North Carolina
15 Philadelphia 76ers - Maurice Harkless, F, St. John's
16 Houston Rockets (from New York) - Royce White, F, Iowa State
17 Dallas Mavericks - Tyler Zeller, F, North Carolina
18 Houston Rockets (from Minnesota) - Terrence Jones, F, Kentucky
19 Orlando Magic - Andrew Nicholson, F, St. Bonaventure
20 Denver Nuggets - Evan Fournier, G, Poiters Basket 86 (France)
21 Boston Celtics - Jared Sullinger, F, Ohio State
22 Boston Celtics (from L.A. Clippers via Oklahoma City) - Fab Melo, C, Syracuse
23 Atlanta Hawks - John Jenkins, G, Vanderbilt
24 Cleveland Cavaliers (from L.A. Lakers) - Jared Cunningham, G, Oregon State
25 Memphis Grizzlies - Tony Wroten, Jr., G, Washington
26 Indiana Pacers - Miles Plumlee, F, Duke
27 Miami Heat - Arnett Moultrie, F, Mississippi State
28 Oklahoma City Thunder - Perry Jones III, F, Baylor
29 Chicago Bulls - Marquis Teague, G, Kentucky
30 Golden State Warriors (from San Antonio) - Festus Ezeli, C, Vanderbilt


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It's been just seven years since Justin Daerr decided to make Boulder his home.
In that time, he's grown quite attached to the area. On Sunday, he believes that attachment helped him to the best win of his career.
Daerr won the inaugural Ironman Boulder, finishing the 140.6-mile course in 8 hours, 20 minutes, 26 seconds.
"It meant the world to me," Daerr said of picking up his first Ironman win in his hometown. "There's so many people here that I've gotten to know over the years. This is the first time they all came out together to watch. Hearing your name all day long on the run course, that's a huge advantage. Every time you hear a word of encouragement, it refocuses you back to getting the job done."
The 33-year-old Daerr has competed in nearly 30 Ironmans, with several top five finishes to his credit. That experience may have helped him against Richie Cunningham, a 70.3 specialist who was competing in just his second Ironman. Cunningham finished second, in 8:30:38.
"Yeah, it is what I specialize in, so I think I just have a rolodex of experiences, in terms of what to look for and what to feel and what to expect," Daerr said. "That may have played out in my favor."
Cunningham led most of the way, holding a steady lead until the marathon. Daerr passed Cunningham around the 17th mile of the run.
"Towards the end of the bike, I suffered a little bit and didn't manage to get the gap that I wanted," said Cunningham, an Australian who has lived in Boulder for nearly four years. "I ran hard the first lap to try and keep the distance away, but I knew he was coming and I wasn't putting any time into him."
Considering it was just his second Ironman, and first in seven years, Cunningham said, "You always want to win, but I'm happy with second."
For Daerr, it was an emotional finish that included his teary-eyed wife, Brooke, putting the medal around his neck at the end.
"The thing about my wife and my family, they've always believed in me when I've had a hard time believing in myself," Daerr said. "It's not just me racing out there, it's all of them, especially her."Holy Family graduate Danielle Kehoe was the first female to cross the finish line. Kehoe's time was 9:19:54 unofficially. Boulder resident Laura Bennett, a former Olympian, finished second.


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Either way, they have been getting trolled since I joined this site. This board is pretty dead though but at least it gets active once in a while. I found it funny that Denny actually mentioned the tollness yet went on to write an essay on the ramifications of being an arrogant prick would bring me. I have to admit though, most of what I was posting was complete bull yet people still got all fumed up and were going apeshit. Lol, pickle strikes again successively!


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Letterer: Clayton Cowles
After a five year gap since the previous mini-series, Phonogram has finally returned with The Immaterial Girl and - if this first issue is any indication - it continues to get better with each new volume. If the original arc, Rue Britannia, showcased the raw cleverness of Gillen's writing and stylishness of McKelvie's art in the early stages of their collaboration and comic book careers, then the next chapter, The Singles Club, brought with it a new focus and sense of discipline. It was tighter, easier to follow and never felt convoluted or got metatextual to the extent that it alienated the reader.
But whilst The Singles Club was more fun to read and far easier to follow, it was a little less ambitious than the story that had come before - essentially being a collection of one-shots, each focussing on a different character with the entire series taking place over the same club night out. The Immaterial Girl seems like both an obvious progression and combination of everything that came before. It's slick, disciplined and accessible like the second volume, with the ambition and world-building scope of its predecessor.
This time the story takes previous supporting regular Emily Aster and thrusts her into the spotlight, exploring her backstory. In doing so it jumps between different times of her life and, with them, naturally transports us to different musical 'scenes' with their own affectionately rendered fashions and obsessions - a set-up which plays right into Gillen and McKelvie's interests as they geek out over clothing, music, places, and fictionalised versions of people they knew. [To emphasise the amount of love and care that goes into detail: an offhand reference to the White Stripes having played "across town a few days ago" in the Brighton of November 2001 is completely accurate, according to a quick Google search.]
It could easily be read as smug or self-indulgent but what makes Phonogram (and with it the entire Gillen/McKelvie oeuvre) so great is that it's completely anti-cynical. It's fundamentally a celebration of loving whatever it is you love and doing it with total commitment - and though we see that via a tour through what moves and inspires the creators, you never get the feeling they're looking down on anything else (even if the characters themselves may be on occasion). The best example of this comes when a phonomancer* asks a random guy about his take on pop trio the Sugarbabes only to throw a punch he responds "my real take or ironic?" The guy isn't being punched for not liking the Sugarbabes (well, mostly) but for being pretentious and insincere. He's embarrassed about what he taps his feet to and that is why he must bare the brunt of Seth Bingo's pugilistic fury. Such is the verdict of Phonogram.
|So good.
I don't usually care a great deal about spoilers as a rule, but I genuinely don't want to write too much about what happens over the second half of the issue because it's really inventive and surprising (even if it is skillfully foreshadowed earlier in the issue). So go and read the comic because it's great stuff by brilliant creators - including regular colourist Matthew Wilson and letterer Clayton Cowles. I'll just conclude by writing that volume three is shaping up to be something really special and potentially more emotionally satisfying than the previous ones which have largely traded on being clever and funny. The first issue here has it all and is a really good indication of where Gillen and McKelvie are now as creators. Viewing it alongside those other two (still very good) arcs gives a strong indication of how their collaborative voice has matured.
As far as new readers go, I'd tend to echo the creators themselves in saying that The Singles Club is a perfect introduction to the style and humour of the thing, but I'd add those who know them from Wicked + Divine (another current Image title) or their run on Young Avengers at Marvel will have no problem jumping on here. You can probably come in completely cold too, but you'd probably get a bit more from it if you're plugged into their particular sensibilities beforehand.
*In Phonogram the idea that music is magic is made literal, with phonomancers those who can manipulate this power. Incidentally, the idea that songs are spells is best encapsulated in a small backup story in this issue, written by Gillen and drawn by Sarah Gordon, called Everything is Nothing, in which a Taylor Swift song that reminds a guy of a recent breakup is referred to as a "curse song". The man is question is compelled to play it seventeen times back to back and it summons his ex's ghost... because metaphor. It's a really good backup story.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Elvis Presley's ex-wife Priscilla and their daughter, Lisa Marie, have greeted thousands of fans who flocked to Graceland for a candelight vigil marking the 35th anniversary of the singer's death.
The vigil opened Wednesday night after Priscilla Presley thanked the crowd for their enduring admiration of the rock `n' roll icon. Lisa Marie Presley said she avoided making appearances at past vigils because she always thought they would be too emotional.
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GEAUGA COUNTY, OH (WOIO) - A suppression hearing was held Thursday for TJ Lane, who admitted to the February 27 shooting at Chardon High School, but offered no motive.
Lane is using an insanity defense, and now his attorneys are fighting to get some evidence tossed, particularly, what he said to police in a cruiser when they picked him up.
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17-year-old Russell King, Jr., 16-year-old Daniel Parmertor and 16-year-old Demetrius Hewlin were killed. 17-year-old Nick Walczak remains paralyzed from the waist down. 18-year-old Joy Rickers and a 6th, unidentified victim were treated and released from the hospital.
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Snowflakes in Miami...or as close to snow as we might get anyway. For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope it was absolutely wonderful. Now, Christmastime is around the corner. Where DOES the year go? Anyway, let the holiday nail designs begin, right? I've seen so many pretty designs, I dont know where to start. I had my kids this weekend so this mani took me a while, but I finally got around to it. Whenever the girls see me doing my nails, they want theirs done too. *rolls eyes*
This is two coats of Snowcone by Orly. One of my favorite blues. I've had my bottle like three years and it's still good as new. No formula issues, ever. Then I took the snowflake images from Konad plate m59 to stamp using Ibiza from Zoya, Millennium by China Glaze and Konad Special White. Pretty, no?
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Do you ever shave hands, arms, or feet before applying henna to the area? Or do you just push the body hair down with the cone tip? Thanks!
Shaving before Henna?
I never shave a client before hennaing, I just work with the hair as best I can. In six years of doing this professionally, I've only ever had one client that was too hairy to henna. We ended up doing a design on his forehead because he was just too wooley anywhere else.
I would definately not shave a client before henna'ing for a couple of reasons. The first reason being health, you don't want to cut someone, razors are far too expensive for one use and you obviously wouldn't reuse it. If there is a cut and you henna over it, then it's going to be permenant. On top of that a day or so after shaving especially on the arms you're usually going to get bumps and/or ingrown hairs which just wouldn't look very good. Try and push the hairs aside with the tip of the cone if they're too hairy then you're just going to have to find a tactful way of telling them the truth. With brides generally they get waxed or threaded before the henna so not much to worry about there.
I Nair myself on Miss Penni's excellent advice, it makes for a perfect skin prep and removes old stains nicely. I would never tell a client to remove hair - it might tick somebody off. I just henna with it.
Thanks so much!
As a dog musher, my hands get pretty tore up in the winter, harnessing dogs and snaping them onto the ganglines ect. Some of the exposed skin that comes into contact with metal (every dog has two snaps) just gets peeled off. So, nicks, cuts, and scrapes all over the backs of my hands. They are mostly small. I henna right over them. I've never gotten a tattoo from them. So I think hennaing over a shaving cut, while may be uncomfortable, would not make a permanent mark.
And yet it can still happen. If you want to do it on yourself that's one thing but you certainly don't want to take the chance of it happening on a client. Besides we're under the gun enough for using henna (misconceptions, and in the US having it banned for body art etc) I highly doubt anyone wants to add to our fight by bringing razors into it. I know for a fact if I started doing that at festivals etc I'd never get another booth, might as well be tattoo'ing people.
Do any of you remember the lady who posted years ago that she would burn the hair off of her clients? She'd take a match, light their arm hair, and whooosh! Hairless! (We don't recommend this!)
I have told people if the area that they want their design is too hairy, its usually always men, and then we find someplace, like inside their arm, that is smoother. I did once have a man who wanted his design in a particular location who went home to shave and came back for his henna. But no, I won't shave my clients!
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OMG a match?!? I must have missed her posts..damnnnn!
Lol I wasn't in favor of shaving, only saying that I have hennaed over many abraisions and cuts and have never tattooed myself.
If you're having trouble, anoushka, stop shaving - use those arms for practice! You can't drape or float lines as easily, so I get right next to the skin and sort of tunnel the cone tip under the hairs and just above the skin if possible - I can't really describe it accurately. Hair is a pain, but the only way to do it is to do it. Lots. :)
I'm merely a hobby hennaer, but I do recomment my clients (e.g. friends) to shave or wax before henna if they want the design on legs or on ancle. Shaving and waxing usually exfoliates skin, which should be avoid with new henna on.


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Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 3rd Planet
Lovely Complex (TV Series!)
Production Company: Toei Animation
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Expected Release Date: April 2007
Website: http://www.tbs.co.jp/lovecom/
The show is based on a manga by Nakahara Aya. The manga is serialized in Margaret and Shojo Beat. I believe there is also a live-action movie on this title that has come out last year in August. As of right now, there aren't much other info regarding the anime adaptation. The premesis of the story does read interesting. The synopsis in the following is taken from the manga counterpart as it is posted in ANN:
Risa and Otani are always being laughed at as the comedy duo. Risa, a girl, is taller than the average girl, and Otani, a boy, is shorter than the average boy. The two are always bickering and even their teacher sees them as a comedy act. But as their friendship develops, so does Risa's feelings toward Otani.Will update once more information becomes available. Looking forward to it!
|2007-02-22, 09:11
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High on Jin
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Wammy House, Drovers Run
i liked this shoujo series when i read the manga, and i still do. it's funny when they always quarrel lol. gives of a feel the same way Kare Kano did to me before.
no news on the seiyuu yet, huh.
|2007-03-02, 09:22
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Join Date: Jul 2006
LC manga is quite good, well at least first 5 volumes I managed to read, Risa&Otani are super hilarious as a (non-)couple.
|2007-03-07, 08:28
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High on Jin
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Wammy House, Drovers Run
Casted Seiyuu
Okamura Akemi as Koizumi Risa
Nagata Akira as Ootani Atsushi
Takimoto Fujiko as Kotobuki Seijirou/Seiko
Suwabe Junichi as Maitake Kuniumi
Araki Kae as Yoshioka Mimi
Kojima Kazuko as Tanaka Chihara
Tsuda Kenjiro as Ryouji Suzuki
Kamakari Kenta as Kohori Kazuki
Onosaka Masaya as Fukagawa Haruka
Higashi Saori as Ishihara Nobuko
Tokuyama Yasuhiko as Nakao Heikichi
Matsuoka Yuki as Kanzaki Mayu
|2007-04-07, 16:07
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Episode 01 Screencaps and Summary
|2007-04-07, 17:55
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Join Date: Jul 2004
That was more enjoyable than I expected. I couldn't really get into the manga, but these people are pretty interesting. Since it's a popular manga, I'll take for granted they can weave enough more story to make it interesting, although I feel as if I see the whole thing already. The ugly face distortions turned me off at first, but they ended up working, with the voices. I felt lost for a while with the Kansai-ben, but eventually found I could understand enough. Overall, the show gave a good feeling.
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Age: 34
first episode looks interesting, i've heard good things about the manga but that is about the only material i have as to whether i'll watch it or not
is the manga finished? anyone have a prediction as to how many episodes this series could be?
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Beautiful fighter.
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: England, UK
Age: 32
I can't get over how beautiful this show looks --- i just rewatched for that thought alone. Gotta agree that the OP could have been better, though the ED is pure love --- need more of that.
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Next spring, seniors at about 200 U.S. colleges will take a new test [CLA+] that could prove more important to their future than final exams: an SAT-like assessment that aims to cut through grade-point averages and judge students' real value to employers.The test is administered on a 1600-point scale, a la the old SAT scoring system, because the public is familiar with it. Parenthetically, and purely speculatively, I suspect the test's non-profit creator, The Council for Aid to Education, chose not to employ a 2400-point scale to match the current SAT scoring system as a means of signalling that this test should be taken more seriously than the softer new SAT is and should instead be treated like the old SAT was.
When everyone starts noticing that Harvard students, scoring around 2100 on the SAT in their junior and senior years of high school, consistently score around 1400 on the CLA+ as seniors in college, while state university students who scored 1500 going in regularly score 1000 going out, the gig is going to be up: Top universities don't churn out the smartest students because of the educational environments the students are exposed to at said universities, they churn out the smartest students because they admit the smartest students to begin with. It's an enormously costly, wasteful, anti-natal signalling charade, and the combination of both pre- and post-testing has the potential to go a long way in exposing it as such.
Harvard, Princeton, and Yale aren't shelling out the $35 for their graduates to take set for the test upon graduation:
The CLA + will be open to anyone—whether they are graduating from a four-year university or have taken just a series of MOOCs—and students will be allowed to show their scores to prospective employees. The test costs $35, but most schools are picking up the fee. Among schools that will use CLA + are the University of Texas system, Flagler College in Florida and Marshall University in West Virginia.Too much strain on the Ivies' endowments, surely. Better to use those war chests to set the Council for Aid to Education up for a Griggs v. Duke Power fall to shutter the whole approach before it is able to shed too much of the light of truth on all those self-serving pretty egalitarian lies. Indeed, the WSJ article reports on some people in industry who perspicaciously see this as a quicker, cheaper, and more reliable proxy for IQ testing (which they'd love to employ ubiquitously but know that doing so is fraught with all kinds of legal peril) than the current stew of collegiate resumes and GPAs is:
HNTB Corp., a national architectural firm with 3,600 employees, see value in new tools such as the CLA +, said Michael Sweeney, a senior vice president. Even students with top grades from good schools may not "be able to write well or make an argument," he said. "I think at some point everybody has been fooled by good grades or a good resume."While members of the Dark Enlightenment like to ridicule educational romanticism for being the reality-denying the monstrosity that it is, there are surely improvements to be made around the margins, not to mention optimal and sub-optimal methods of delivering material to students hoping to internalize it. In other words, pedagogy isn't pure junk.
This post-graduate testing should provide a legitimate, broad-based measure of how schools are doing. If Onett U is taking in 1500s and putting out 1100s, Twoson taking in 1800s and putting out 1200s, and Threed taking in 1500s and putting out 800s, we have reason to suspect that Onett is doing something right, Twoson is run of the mill, and Threed is infested with zombies. Prior to post-graduation testing, the consensus in this hypothetical scenario would be that Twoson is the 'best' school in Eagleland, when coupling a little empiricism with HBD-realism reveals that in fact Onett is employing the most epistemological approach.


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I have a backlog of titles that I need to talk about. I just want all the authors and publishers who have sent me stuff over the past one or two months to know that I will be getting to those in the coming weeks. In two cases (a book on Bull Run and another of letters from a member of the 8th PA Reserves), I want to go into more detail. The first I think will feature an author interview. The second will incorporate the results of a trip I made this week to Antietam National Battlefield, where historian Ted Alexander was nice enough to come in on his day off to give me access to the park's file on the 8th PA Reserves. What I found in that file pertaining to my great-grandmother's brother was startling. Fantastic, in fact.
But more on that, and on all the other books in the queue, later.
For now, here is the very best Confederate battle flag image to come down the pike in a long, long time.


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Commercial Core Improvement Project Kings Beach – May 2013
Supervisors Montgomery and Holmes present a commendation in honor of the late Auburn Symphony Maestro Michael Goodwin – June 2013
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Supervisor Montgomery celebrates the Grand Opening of the new trails at Hidden Falls Regional Park – May 2013
Stan and Myrna Yurfest receive the 2013 Meadow Vista Community Service Award - May 2013
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Foresthill Forum Member Sharon Page presents Steve Cannizaro the 2013 Civic Achievement Award
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Supervisor Montgomery at the Truckee Donner Land Trust's Royal Gorge land acquisition - January 2013 Photo by: George Lamson
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Commemorative plaque for the William Mintline bench at the Placer County Library in Colfax CA
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Folks, we spend a lot of time in the bathroom! A few simple steps help make this little bathroom seem light, large and clean.
Can lights or overhead lights are good for general illumination, but primping requires the proper lighting. Vanity lighting should wash over your face evenly, providing a flattering glow. Sconces on either side of the mirror at eye level are best at eliminating unsightly shadows. Incandescent and halogen lamps on dimmers allow for low-level mood lights or bright levels for makeup or shaving.
A window in the shower? Looking out at treetops while showering is a great way to start the day. Higher windows help avoid splashing, but steam and moisture are enemies to wood. Many new extremely waterproof paints are available to protect woodwork. For privacy, instead of fussy light-blocking shades or curtains, insert a textured glass panel or apply frosted privacy adhesive film (Gila brand). It will last quite a while and can be easily and cheaply replaced after a few years.
The shower space shares a standard 5-foot tub, which is much less expensive than a longer bathtub. A tiled ledge fills in the larger bathroom width while opening the shower area. The ledge leaves room for sitting, shower products, towels or propping up a leg for shaving.
The glass shower enclosure opens up the space, shares the window and exposes the accent tile. Cobalt blue penny tiles add a punch of color and texture. These tiny tiles are perfect for walls where the large amount of grout does not get as dirty as it would on the floor.
Kids can be really messy, especially little boys. Cleaning up splashes is easy with tiled walls around the toilet and shower. The adjacent vanity surfaces are protected too. By shrouding the cabinet with a solid surface (Corian), we created a seamless surface from sides to sink. Just wipe it clean.
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McNulty sued Ben last year, claiming Ben sexually assaulted her in a Lake Tahoe hotel room in 2008. Ben denies the claim.
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Fred Meyer Front End Hourly Associate
Company Name: Fred Meyer
Position Type: Employee
FLSA Status: Non-Exempt
Description: Front-End
Front-End Purpose: If you believe that variety is the spice of life then we have some great opportunities for you in one of the many positions in our Front-End department. As a member of our Front-End team you will interact with a diverse group of exciting customers and make friendships that will enrich your life and the lives of those you help. Also, there's such a variety of tasks available to you that you will find no two workdays are alike. So if you're tired of working humdrum jobs, apply with us and start on a career that provides you with more than simply a paycheck.
Front-End Department roles include:
- Cashier/Front End Clerk
- Courtesy Clerk
- File Maintenance Clerk
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Front-End Job Duties Vary by Position and May Include:
- Provide friendly and efficient customer service by demonstrating sincerity, patience and respect in all customer interactions and by thanking customers for their business.
- Process customer transactions quickly, accurately, and efficiently.
- Bag groceries for customers while being friendly and attentive to customers' needs.
- Report product ordering and shipping discrepancies to the department manager.
- Stock and inventory department merchandise.
- Stay current with present, future, seasonal and special ads.
- Collect carts in a safe manner, transport them to the cart room and remove all debris from carts.
- Communicate new and on-going special programs and promotions to customers.
- Check children in and out of Kids Korner using the registration process.
- Encourage children to play, learn, and socialize with you, other staff and other children in Kids Korner.
- Process fuel, merchandise, and lottery sales quickly and accurately.
- Clean up spills and complete Fuel Spill Report.
- Maintain knowledge of emergency plans numbers and procedures.
- Maintain cleanliness of department.
- Ensure all forms of tender and coupons are properly handled.
- Comply with safety procedures and report unsafe conditions to management.
Skills/Qualifications: Ability to handle a high volume, fast paced environment; effective interpersonal, communication and customer service skills
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Wild top Predators as Kuemper gets first NHL shutoutby John Manasso
NASHVILLE -- It certainly appears as if playing with a pair of 21-year-olds is helping to rejuvenate Dany Heatley, who will soon turn 33.
Heatley posted his second two-point game in two days to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Nashville Predators 4-0 at Bridgestone Arena on Sunday for their fifth win in six games.
Wild goalie Darcy Kuemper made 23 saves to earn his first career shutout and second win in four appearances (2-1-0) this season.
Heatley said he got off to a slow start this season due to a surgical procedure on his left shoulder that prematurely ended his 2012-13 season last April. Playing with Charlie Coyle and Jason Zucker and developing chemistry with the youngsters has helped pick up his level of play, he said.
Heatley went the first 10 games of the season without a goal as coach Mike Yeo moved him from line to line, but he has nine goals after he scored in the first period against Nashville on Sunday. His emergence has meant a lot to the Wild, especially with the team short top-six forwards Mikko Koivu and Zach Parise due to injury.
Heatley feels he is playing his best hockey of the season.
"I think it's also the first time we've had a couple of guys we've played steady together for more than a game or two," he said. "Like I said, that chemistry's a big deal and it's going good right now."
Coyle laughed as he told a story about growing up and having Heatley's hockey card from his days with the Ottawa Senators, back when Heatley recorded back-to-back 50-goal seasons.
"I have a box of hockey cards that I bought a few years ago," Coyle said. "He's on the cover of it. I still have it at my house, I think, in my room. I haven't told him that yet. My mom reminds me every now and then."
Both of Heatley's points came in the first period Sunday. Minnesota took advantage of a turnover by Nashville left wing Viktor Stalberg, who entered the game minus-12, in the offensive zone to score its first goal.
With the rush going the other way, Coyle shot from the high slot and Heatley redirected it past Nashville goalie Marek Mazanec at 12:03 of the first period.
"We heard from the bench, so we had an odd-man rush," Heatley said. "Chuckie made a great play, and it was a pretty easy one."
Heatley set up the Wild's second goal 2:12 after he had scored to put Minnesota ahead 1-0. He skated down the right wing on a 2-on-1 and zipped a pass to Zucker through a tight window, enabling the young left wing to convert his third goal.
Minnesota (25-18-5) improved to 5-1-0 in its past six games. Nashville (19-21-7), which is 1-3-3 in its past seven, fell 10 points behind Minnesota for eighth place in the Western Conference.
The Wild did a strong job limiting Nashville's chances in front of Kuemper. One of the goalie's best stops came in the form of a glove save on a backhander from former Wild forward Matt Cullen on a surprisingly dangerous 2-on-2 situation in the second period. In the third period, Kuemper again robbed Cullen by going across the crease and using his left pad to blunt Cullen's attempt at converting a cross-ice pass.
"Obviously, shutouts are always fun and to get one at the highest level is a pretty cool experience, but if you watched how the guys played in front of me, I let a few rebounds go but made it a little tough on them," Kuemper said. "But they did a great job in front of me and made my job easy."
Minnesota killed the only penalty it faced, and Nashville, which has the NHL's No. 7 power play, went a fourth straight game without a goal with the man advantage (0-for-8 over that span). The Predators have one power-play goal in their past seven games.
Nashville coach Barry Trotz lamented the team's lack of practice time, and believes some extra work will improve the power play. That won't happen Monday, when the Predators have an off day. Having played Thursday, Saturday and Sunday and with a game Tuesday against the Calgary Flames, the Predators will have had one practice (last Wednesday) before their next one rolls around this coming Wednesday.
"When you don't have a chance to practice, your practice sometimes happens by getting opportunities on the power play," Trotz said. "We haven't had a lot of them lately, so, just like anything, I know when we practice, we're always a better team because we go over details."
Minnesota scored two goals in the third period. With Mazanec scrambling around his net after a series of shots, Matt Cooke tapped in a goal at 1:14 to make it 3-0.
Wild defenseman Marco Scandella completed the scoring at 10:16. He flipped a shot off a faceoff win through a screen that fluttered over Mazanec's glove.
Predators fans again showered former Nashville defenseman Ryan Suter with boos every time he touched the puck. Suter, playing in Nashville for the third time since signing with the Wild as a free agent in July 2012, had the secondary assist on the team's first goal.
"A simple game is how we're successful," said Suter, who logged 28:42 of ice time and finished plus-2. "We were able to get the pucks in and get the forechecks going. We got a lot of pucks to the net. Nothing fancy and that's how we have to play games right now."


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Samsung TwoStep R470
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it's ok at first
pros: sound quality is good. I like the MP3 player and it takes a decent pic. It was free after rebate with a 2 year contract
cons: recently my version of the phone has started shutting itself off randomly. I won't have it in my pocket or anything just in my hand and will go to use it and it is off. I didn't turn it off. It also shuts itself off after I make a call if I do not end the call first. My husbands version of the same phone, just a different color, overheats just sitting on a shelf or the kitchen counter, even sitting unused.
would definitely not get this phone again.
I miss my Nokia!!! That was the best phone EVER! I dropped it, accidentally left it for a few hours with a bag of groceries that I put in the freezer, and many more not so great things to it and it still worked. This one was not even dropped and doesn't work right.
Geat MP3 Player, stinky phone
PROS - MP3 player works well, great with added song storage on memory card.
Phone looks good. Feels solid.
CONS - Voice dialing is absolutely more dangerous than just holding the phone in your hand and dialing. It doesn't work quickly, easily, or at all many times.
Earpiece is great for an MP3 player, but not so convenient for on the road calls. Make sure you use the short side, or people won't hear you, since the mouthpiece will be hanging down at your belly button.
Seemed to drop more calls that it should have.
Am a former Nokia 6255i customer at US Cellular. Will try to get Nokia to fix the phone so I can go back to it.
So, what was Samsung thinking? Lets make an MP3 player for the cell phone market? Huh? Nokia still has the best voice dialing system, hands down.
If you need a phone to be a phone, skip this one. It's for the teeny boppers obviously.
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Samsung two step
I really love just about everything about the two step. However I'm having one problem, when I'm on the phone and a call comes in through call waiting the phone automatically shuts off, hangs up on the person I'm talking to and re powers back on.
Great basic phone
This a very good basic phone with some nice features. Great reception and fantastic battery life. Loading songs is a breeze. My computer recognized and set up the phone as a hard drive with the Micro SD card installed then it was just a matter of dragging and dropping the MP3 files into the music folder the phone created. So easy. The MP3 player sounds great with good ear buds but the stock headset is very tinny sounding and I would only use it for answering the phone when driving. Great free phone.
It's a fair phone
The few complaints I have is that you can only listen to the music player with a microchip only. I think this phone should be able to allow full length songs to be saved on the phone as well. It gets very costly with some of the available compatible applications that U.S. Cellular has for this phone. With the unlimited minute, text messaging plan, and easyedge plans I will pay an estimated $100 monthly and that's not including the web browser application at an additional $19.99/month. The middle soft keys are too small for my thumb; I tend to hit other the keys. I feel there will be other versions of this phone but I will not buy it. Other than that the phone has a lot of useful features. The stereo speakers just kicks it to another level, the sound is clear and loud enough to here the music.


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Comparison of Liposomal Doxorubicin Used Alone or in Combination With Bleomycin Plus Vincristine in the Treatment of Kaposi's Sarcoma in Patients With AIDS
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First Posted : August 31, 2001
Last Update Posted : April 17, 2012
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To evaluate the safety and efficacy of liposomal doxorubicin hydrochloride ( DOX-SL ) alone or in combination with bleomycin and vincristine in the long-term treatment of AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma. To determine whether the 3-drug combination enhances progression-free survival and quality of life.
Liposomal formulations of chemotherapeutic agents increase drug accumulation in tumors, which permits disease palliation at relatively low doses and thus decreases some of the dose-limiting toxicity. Multi-agent therapy is considered to be more effective than single-agent therapy; therefore, DOX-SL will be combined with bleomycin and vincristine.
|Condition or disease
|Sarcoma, Kaposi HIV Infections
|Drug: Doxorubicin hydrochloride (liposomal) Drug: Filgrastim Drug: Bleomycin sulfate Drug: Vincristine sulfate
|Phase 2
Liposomal formulations of chemotherapeutic agents increase drug accumulation in tumors, which permits disease palliation at relatively low doses and thus decreases some of the dose-limiting toxicity. Multi-agent therapy is considered to be more effective than single-agent therapy; therefore, DOX-SL will be combined with bleomycin and vincristine.
Patients are randomized to receive intravenous DOX-SL alone or in combination with vincristine/bleomycin every 2 weeks. Filgrastim ( granulocyte colony-stimulating factor; G-CSF ) may be given as needed for neutropenia.
AS PER AMENDMENT 11/7/96: Based on interim review data, it is recommended that subjects receiving DOX-SL plus vincristine/bleomycin have vincristine/bleomycin discontinued and receive DOX-SL alone unless, in the opinion of the treating physician, they are benefitting from the DOX-SL plus vincristine/bleomycin regimen.
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|Comparison Study of Liposomal Doxorubicin With or Without Bleomycin and Vincristine for the Treatment of Advanced AIDS-Associated Kaposi's Sarcoma
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|August 1998
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Inclusion Criteria
Concurrent Medication:
- Licensed or Treatment IND-approved antiretrovirals ( AZT, ddI, ddC, d4T ).
- PCP prophylaxis (required if CD4 count < 200 cells/mm3).
- Chemoprophylaxis or maintenance for bacterial infections, candidiasis, MAC, and herpes simplex.
- Up to 14 days of metronidazole.
- Recombinant erythropoietin.
Patients must have:
- Documented HIV infection.
- Advanced stage Kaposi's sarcoma.
- No active acute opportunistic infection.
Exclusion Criteria
Co-existing Condition:
Patients with the following symptoms or conditions are excluded:
- Significant pulmonary insufficiency (unless due to pulmonary KS).
- Significant cardiac insufficiency.
- Other active malignancies except for basal or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or in situ cervical cancer.
- Grade 2 or worse peripheral neuropathy.
- Altered mental status that prevents informed consent.
- Active Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- Hypersensitivity or allergic reaction to any study drugs or E. coli-derived medications such as filgrastim (G-CSF).
Concurrent Medication:
- Drugs associated with peripheral neuropathy (other than approved antiretrovirals and vincristine).
- Multi-drug therapy for active Mycobacterium tuberculosis (although isoniazid and pyridoxine is allowed as treatment for a positive PPD, with permission of study chair).
Concurrent Treatment:
- Radiation therapy to study marker lesions.
Patients with the following prior condition are excluded:
- Neuropsychiatric history.
Prior Medication:
- Any anti-KS therapy within 21 days prior to study entry.
- Prior systemic therapy with any anthracycline (including liposomal anthracyclines), vincristine, or bleomycin.
- Any investigational drug (other than those available through Treatment IND and used for FDA-sanctioned purposes) within 14 days prior to study entry.
- No more than 2 cycles of any systemic chemotherapy for Kaposi's sarcoma.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00001059
|United States, Alabama
|Alabama Therapeutics CRS
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|United States, California
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90033
|UCLA CARE Center CRS
|Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095
|Ucsf Aids Crs
|San Francisco, California, United States
|United States, Colorado
|University of Colorado Hospital CRS
|Aurora, Colorado, United States, 80262
|United States, Florida
|Univ. of Miami AIDS CRS
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|United States, Hawaii
|Queens Med. Ctr.
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96813
|Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa, Leahi Hosp.
|Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 96816
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University CRS
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60611
|Rush Univ. Med. Ctr. ACTG CRS
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Indiana
|Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, Infectious Disease Research Clinic
|Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 46202
|United States, Massachusetts
|Bmc Actg Crs
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02118
|Beth Israel Deaconess - East Campus A0102 CRS
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|Massachusetts General Hospital ACTG CRS
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States
|United States, Missouri
|Washington U CRS
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
|United States, New York
|SUNY - Buffalo, Erie County Medical Ctr.
|Buffalo, New York, United States, 14215
|Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Ctr.
|New York, New York, United States, 10021
|Study Chair:
|Mitsuyasu R
|Study Chair:
|Krown S
|Study Chair:
|Von Roenn JH
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00001059 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
11262 ( Registry Identifier: DAIDS ES Registry Number )
|First Posted:
|August 31, 2001 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 17, 2012
|Last Verified:
|April 2012
Keywords provided by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID):
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Drug Therapy, Combination
Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Drug Carriers
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Sarcoma, Kaposi
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Herpesviridae Infections
DNA Virus Infections
Neoplasms, Vascular Tissue
Liposomal doxorubicin
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents


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We are looking for a stationary design (business card, logo, letter head, etc) for our new start up company. At this point we don't have website design and final logo yet. We are thinking to use something like http://esolutech.com/logo/logo.png but again this is not final.
Feel free to create any other logo other than the logo above. If you need the psd of the logo above, please pm me.
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The 2013 Boston Massacre, 2 March
The Bostonian Society's annual reenactment is scheduled for Saturday, 2 March, starting at 7:00 P.M. That's the Saturday nearest the actual anniversary on the 5th. Unless the weather is rainy enough to make the firelocks inoperable or renders the event even more dangerous than a massacre ought to be, the show will go on.
This society and its volunteers work hard to portray this event as authentically as possible. The clothing standards for civilians are at "Battle Road standards," with beards forbidden. The soldiers of the 29th Regiment of Foot wear hand-tailored uniforms matching the British army regulations of the late 1760s, when that unit was dispatched to North America. And the officers—their uniforms are even more stunning. (Absolutely gorgets, one might say.)
Because of the confined space and sight lines in downtown Boston, it's best to think of experiencing the Massacre reenactment, not just watching it. If you find yourself in a crowd glimpsing confused actions, hearing louder and louder yells and then gunshots, wondering what exactly happened and being glad you weren't hurt—well, that's how the event was for most of the people on King Street in 1770.
This year's reenactment has a new ingredient: a narrator to provide background information and introduce the vignettes that precede the main action. And the voice you'll hear will be mine.
The Bostonian Society has also scheduled daytime events for young visitors, starting at 11:00 A.M. and 2:00 P.M. with a free "Little Redcoats and Little Bostonians" program outside the Old State House museum. Half an hour later, young museumgoers can participate in and view sessions of the "Trial of the Century," acting out the soldiers' trial after the shooting; that requires reserving a space, and the museum opens at 9:00 in the morning.


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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, NORTH CAROLINA--(Marketwired - Aug. 8, 2014) - Adherex Technologies Inc. (TSX:AXH)(OTCQB:ADHXF), today reported the final results of the Warrant exchange which concluded on July 29, 2014. Approximately, 71% of all outstanding warrants originally issued by the Company on April 30, 2010 and 48% of all outstanding warrants issued on March 29, 2011 participated in the exchange. The new capital structure of the Company post the exchange is as follows:
Forward-Looking Statements
Except for historical information described in this press release, all other statements are forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company's business that could cause actual results to vary, including such risks that regulatory clinical and guideline developments may change, scientific data may not be sufficient to meet regulatory standards or receipt of required regulatory clearances or approvals, clinical results may not be replicated in actual patient settings, protection offered by the Company's patents and patent applications may be challenged, invalidated or circumvented by its competitors, the available market for the Company's products will not be as large as expected, the Company's products will not be able to penetrate one or more targeted markets, revenues will not be sufficient to fund further development and clinical studies, the Company may not meet its future capital needs, and its ability to obtain additional funding, as well as uncertainties relative to varying product formulations and a multitude of diverse regulatory and marketing requirements in different countries and municipalities, the risks described in the Offer Letter and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. Adherex Technologies Inc. disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
For a more detailed discussion of related risk factors, please refer to the Company's public filings available at www.sec.gov and www.sedar.com.
Rosty RaykovChief Executive OfficerAdherex Technologies Inc.T: (919) 636-5144
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Appeals Court In Google Book Scanning Case Clearly Leaning Towards Fair Use Ruling
from the does-not-bode-well-for-the-authors-guild dept
The parties were back in court on Wednesday, supposedly to discuss the appeal of the lower court's ruling on whether or not the Authors Guild can make this into a class action for all authors. Google had argued that it shouldn't be a class action, since the different issues (and defenses) concerning different authors would be entirely different -- and many authors actually support Google's book scanning project, so it would be weird to include them in the lawsuit. However, the district court disagreed, and said that it's fine to do it as a class action lawsuit.
Oddly, however, the three judge panel seemed less interested in that question than in the key question in the case: whether or not the book scanning was fair use. And, while it may be jumping the gun a bit, they certainly suggested that they think the scanning is likely to be considered fair use.
Judge Barrington Parker mentioned that he thought the book scanning effort "has enormous value for our culture" and that "there is a rather strong argument about the value of this project" and, finally, that the project has "enormous societal benefit." Those are not the words of someone about to kill off the project. Also on the panel was Judge Pierre Leval, one of the foremost scholars on fair use, and the author of one of the most frequently cited articles on fair use. He apparently quizzed the Author's Guild lawyer about why seeing a tiny snippet on Google Books would hurt an author. Leval also noted the similarities to another key fair use case, the one filed against Google by Perfect 10, concerning image search. There, the court found that thumbnail images were fair use. Leval noted the similarities here.
There was also this exchange, as written up by Jeff Roberts at PaidContent:
The court drew a laugh when it asked the Guild's lawyer, Robert LaRocca, if the group would be comfortable betting the whole fair use ruling on a sample scanned book of Google's choosing.That's incredibly condescending and ridiculous to authors across the country who have realized that having a giant digital index that helps people find books is actually a good thing.
The judges also asked LaRocca to the explain why some authors were supporting Google's position; he described them as "a very, very vocal group out at Berkeley."
Once again, we're seeing the Authors Guild take an anti-progress, anti-technology position, probably costing their own members a huge sum in legal fees. It really makes you wonder who would want to support such an organization.


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Few things could be less cool than conducting a scientific study on what it means to be cool, but that didn't stop a group of researchers from facing the question down anyway.
Their study, "Coolness: An Empirical Investigation," developed from what sounds like a barroom debate.
"One day, a friend of mine was trying to figure out if Steve Buscemi was cool," said Ilan Dar-Nimrod, an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York. "We couldn't seem to agree, so being the social scientist geeks that we are, we decided to take it upon ourselves."
The researchers asked 508 people, ages 15 to 56, to come up with adjectives they associated with the word "cool." The participants repeatedly used terms like "confident" and "popular," and, less frequently, "aloof" and "calm." The researchers concluded that while coolness isn't necessarily easy to define, people recognize it when they see it.
"Coolness has really two faces," Dar-Nimrod said. "One is the face of someone like Miles Davis, the other is the face of a person who is considered to be confident and successful and attractive but doesn't have much of the edginess."


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The last four times the Bears have banged around with Adrian Peterson, they have limited him to fewer than 100 yards.
But that Adrian Peterson was not this Adrian Peterson.
The Adrian Peterson they will meet Sunday is on track for a career year, with highs in average yards per game (112.8) and yards per carry (5.8).
The Vikings halfback is a candidate for NFL most valuable player and comeback player of the year on a rebuilt left knee after he tore his anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments.
The thinking was Peterson might not be ready at the start of the season, and that he would be a little off his stride until maybe 2013.
That thinking was all wrong.
Even those in the trenches with Peterson have acknowledged they are shocked at how quickly he has regained form.
Just 3 weeks ago, Peterson had told Peter King of Sports Illustrated he was "still recovering." Now, he says, "I'm 100 percent, but I'm trying to reach past that 100 percent. I've been better than I was last year the last couple weeks. I still feel I'm going to get stronger. That's what I'm excited about the most."
As strange as it seems, the knee injury may have been the best thing that could have happened to Peterson.
"It's hard for me to believe he's better than he was before the surgery, but some of the things he has done make me believe it," Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said.
Peterson said he is a better player because of the challenge his injury presented.
"It really made me look at things differently," he said. "It really made me scratch harder, dig even deeper when I was working out and training to get back. This injury is like a blessing in disguise. It helped me push through [to] another level."
Peterson said he is like one of the Dragon Ball Z warriors who transforms to a "Super Saiyan" when he needs to channel something extra.
"Some of them just fight regular, but then they come up against competition and go Super Saiyan," he said. "That's what it is. I had to go Super Saiyan to get back."
Mystical orbs and wish-granting dragons aside, there are some more, ahem, down-to-earth explanations for why Peterson is overcoming so many perilous obstacles.
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He has altered his running style.
Frazier said Peterson has been less set on hitting a home run on every carry and more intent on hitting a single if the pitch isn't right for a home run.
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It's not like Peterson has become contact-shy. His 567 yards after contact lead the NFL.
The Vikings are using him differently.
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== O.N.E. Technologies ==
== O.N.E. Technologies ==
[http://www.onelabs.com/ O.N.E. Technologies] offers coreboot on all their x86 products and offers coreboot development services.
[http://www.onelabs.com/ O.N.E. Technologies] offers coreboot on all their x86 products and offers coreboot development services.
== Silicon Mechanics ==
== Silicon Mechanics ==
Revision as of 16:57, 24 September 2010
Here's a list of vendors and their products running coreboot/LinuxBIOS. Please contact us if you wish to add your product to the following list.
Artec Group
Artec Group runs coreboot on their Geode LX based DBE61 ThinCan system.
Cluster Labs
Cluster Labs sells a 1.1 GHz PIII cluster node with 1 GB memory, fast ethernet, and boots coreboot.
corehost is the first hosting provider in the world to deploy hardware that runs coreboot. You can rent virtual or dedicated servers based on hardware that runs coreboot.
coresystems GmbH
coresystems GmbH is offering coreboot based services and products. If you are a hardware/appliance vendor and want your system running coreboot, contact coresystems. As a coreboot contributor, coresystems is hosting the coreboot development repository, mailing list and web page.
The Cray Xd1 is an Opteron-based system which runs coreboot.
CW Linux
CW Linux offers pre-installed coreboot motherboards, SDK and related hardware for people want to use or develop applications on coreboot. It also provides professional services for custom coreboot-based system development.
i-TECH Corp.
i-TECH is selling test and analysis tools with coreboot, including all its "Satellite" Fibre Channel analyzers (IFC-3016, IFC-4016, IFC-30, IFC40) and "PassPort"-based test and analysis tools.
Linutop is going to ship coreboot on their diskless computers.
Linux Labs
Linux Labs is selling LinuxBIOS Beowulf clusters comprised of 1U x86-based nodes with LinuxBIOS installed.
Linux NetworX
Linux NetworX, a major contributor to the coreboot project, used to sell a variety of cluster solutions with coreboot installed. LNXI was recently bought by Cray.
LUCIDA is shipping several of their thin clients, e.g. the LT2610 and the LT3712 with coreboot, according to their website.
MikroTik is offering the Routerboard 200 series which seems to be shipped with coreboot (devices from other Routerboard series might use coreboot, too).
O.N.E. Technologies
O.N.E. Technologies offers coreboot on all their x86 products and offers coreboot development services.
Sage Electronic Engineering
Sage Electronic Engineering has developed the Sage SmartProbe and EDK for AMD systems development and debug. Sage also offers coreboot, Linux, and systems development services.
Silicon Mechanics
Silicon Mechanics will ship their Rackform nServ A236 with coreboot preinstalled if requested. See our news item from 2008/04/04. The Rackform nServ A255 uses the same motherboard, and is also available with coreboot.
VIA is helping the coreboot community support many new Epia's, mainboards and chipsets with several code donations and open programming guides. With key input from VIA, coreboot will soon support over 30 Mini-ITX mainboards. These mainboards are made by VIA, Jetway, Phitronics and MSI featuring the VIA C7 cpu, CN700 and VT8237 chipset.
pc2500 Phitronics / VIA pc2500
Linux VIA Portal aims to expand cooperation with open source communities by providing drivers, chipset programming manuals and source code for select Linux distributions to technical software developers.