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Canonical transient receptor potential (TRPC) channels are a family of non-selective cation channels that play a crucial role in modulating neuronal excitability due to their involvement in intracellular Ca2+ regulation and dendritic growth. TRPC5 channels a) are one of the two most prevalent TRPC channels in the adult rodent brain; b) are densely expressed in deep layer pyramidal neurons of the prefrontal cortex (PFC); and c) modulate neuronal persistent activity necessary for working memory and attention. In order to evaluate the causal role of TRPC5 in motivation/reward-related behaviors, conditional forebrain TRPC5 knock-down (trpc5-KD) mice were generated and trained to nose-poke for intravenous cocaine. Here we present a data set containing the first 6 days of saline or cocaine self-administration in wild type (WT) and trpc5-KD mice. In addition, we also present a data set showing the dose-response to cocaine after both groups had achieved similar levels of cocaine self-administration. Compared to WT mice, trpc5-KD mice exhibited an apparent increase in self-administration on the first day of cocaine testing without prior operant training. There were no apparent differences between WT and trpc5-KD mice for saline responding on the first day of training. Both groups showed similar dose-response sensitivity to cocaine after several days of achieving similar levels of cocaine intake. (for more see our recent publication)
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Cocaine self-administration in mice with forebrain knock-down of trpc5 ion channels
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Changing the Culture of "Ding": Education, Legislation and Research on Concussive Brain Injury in Youth Athletics
Posted in Uncategorized on April 17, 2012| 1 Comment »
How can we change the culture of minimizing an injury, often times referred to as a "ding" or "getting your bell rung", to a culture recognizing that concussions are brain injuries? (for my full article published in Nature Precedings April 3 click here) The number of emergency department visits concerning sport related TBI in youth increased 57% from 2001 to 2009 and while a fraction of that increase may be attributed to injuries that were once missed now being identified due to greater general awareness, the fact remains that there are nearly 200,000 children every year who suffer sport related concussion or other TBI serious enough to prompt a visit to the ED. 40% of sports related concussions involve children between the ages of 8 and 13, and in this group the rate of concussion doubled between 1997 and 2007. The risk of concussion is highest in football and there are nearly 67,000 diagnosed concussions in high school football every year.In other sports that males and females play, such as basketball, girls seem to be at a higher risk. In high schools, concussions account for 15% of all sports related injuries resulting in at least one day of play lost. The risk of a suffering a concussion when participating in a contact sport may be as high as 20% per season. In both girls' and boys' soccer and basketball 20% of the concussions were repeat concussions. These statistics just further illustrate the gravity of the problem of sport related concussions. Here we describe the need for more work on education, legislation and research in order to change in the concussion/mTBI culture.
Gulf War Syndrome: A role for organophosphate induced plasticity of locus coeruleus neurons
Posted in Uncategorized on July 12, 2011| 5 Comments »
In 2008, more than 15 years after the Gulf War had ended, the US Government acknowledged the Gulf War Syndrome as a legitimate illness. That year a congressionally mandated Research Advisory Committee issued a 452-page report that stated, "scientific evidence leaves no question that Gulf War illness is a real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans. Because it wasn't acknowledged as an illness there were no significant funds available to research the illness, so next to nothing was known about which brain regions might be involved.
In 2008, my laboratory obtained a VA sponsored contract to study the role of the toxic organophosphate metabolite, chlorpyrifos oxon on various brain regions in order to shed light into the cellular mechanisms of a number of psychological symptoms associated with deployed Gulf War veterans. Over the past few years, we have published a couple papers on the subject. Most recently, (July 8, 2011) we published our most recent findings in Nature Precedings implicating a brain region critically involved in attention, addition and arousal. Visit the site and Vote for our paper and leave us a comment there or at http://www.neuro-cloud.info if you are interested in collaborating with us on this project.
"Gulf War syndrome is a chronic multi-symptom illness that has affected about a quarter of the deployed veterans of the 1991 Gulf War. Exposure to prolonged low-level organophosphate insecticides and other toxic chemicals is now thought to be responsible. Chlorpyrifos was one commonly used insecticide. The metabolite of chlorpyrifos, chlorpyrifos oxon, is a potent irreversible inhibitor of acetylcholinesterase, much like the nerve agent Sarin. To date, the target brain region(s) most susceptible to the neuroactive effects of chlorpyrifos oxon have yet to be identified. To address this we tested ability of chlorpyrifos oxon to influence neuronal excitability and induce lasting changes in the locus coeruleus, a brain region implicated in anxiety, substance use, attention and emotional response to stress. Here we used an ex vivo rodent model to identify a dramatic effect of chlorpyrifos oxon on locus coeruleus noradrenergic neuronal activity. Prolonged exposure to chlorpyrifos oxon caused acute inhibition and a lasting rebound excitatory state expressed after days of exposure and subsequent withdrawal. Our findings indicate that the locus coeruleus is a brain region vulnerable to chlorpyrifos oxon-induced neuroplastic changes possibly leading to the neurological symptoms affecting veterans of the Gulf War.
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Don Cooper, Professor, Institute for Behavioral Genetics
Our brain's short-term memory system has been likened to the rewritable
RAM memory of a computer. To perform normal functions, we need the ability
to transiently store, quickly and reliably, large amounts of data, but
only a small amount of this needs to be retained in the longer term.
Scientists have spent decades working out which parts of the brain are
responsible for this memory buffer system, and how neural networks manage
this feat. Given the wealth of detailed information gathered from
neuroscience we are now at a point where we can begin to design pedagogies
that capitalize on the learning and memory models developed from
neuroscience. Professor Cooper will discuss what neuroscience has to say
about attention and learning at the neuronal level and how we can design a
"neuropedagogical" approach to promote learning.
Google glimpses into the mind of God using a Rubik's cube
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2010| Leave a Comment »
What do you get when you give a team of international Rubik's cube nerds access to Google's most powerful computers? The answer is 20… and it is a number that previously only God knew. Google's computers prove that Rubik's Cube puzzle can always be solved in 20 moves or less. Nerdy Rubik's researchers claim, "One may suppose God would use a much more efficient algorithm, one that always uses the shortest sequence of moves; this is known as God's Algorithm. The number of moves this algorithm would take in the worst case is called God's Number. At long last, God's Number has been shown to be 20."
Google's motto is "Don't be evil" and now they have proven to have divine insight, but I am not sure the researchers interpretation of God's nature is accurate. Knowing what we know about the nature of God, since when does God solve problems in the most efficient and elegant manner (the Great Flood notwithstanding), after all God is eternal and doesn't need to be efficient. Natural selection, the driver underlying the theory of evolution, is a perfect example of the unbiased and patient approach that is more consistent with the nature of God. One wonders how many iterations it would take to arrive at 20 moves using a "natural selection-like" random move-and-learn approach. Using this approach all Rubik's cube solutions should converge on 20 given enough iterations and memory of prior successful attempts.
Google Maps, then Google Earth …Now Google Brain?
Posted in Uncategorized on August 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
The Whole Brain Catalog is a crowdsourcing project where scientists enter data from across the research spectrum, in a variety of forms, like MRI data, stained neurons and theoretical diagrams of brain circuitry and presents them in a way that scientists, doctors and 3-D animators can digest in a unified way. Those users then contribute back to the site, wiki-style, to produce an increasingly full model of the brain at every scale, down to the molecular level. Check out the article (Click picture)
The Gambling Brain: Near misses can be as addictive as wins
Posted in Uncategorized on June 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
A new study reveals how casinos capitalize on a glitch in human decision-making to keep gamblers glued to their slot machines.
As anyone who has come oh-so close to winning a computer solitaire game and been unable to resist clicking "new game," or who has found it harder to walk away from a slot machine after spinning two bells and a lemon (a near-miss) than after getting a bell, a lemon, and a three-bar (a total miss), knows, near-misses are like crack. (Sharon Begley, Newsweek.com).


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Guatemalan Lawsuit Against Canadian Mining Giant May Set Precedent
A group of indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi' have filed three civil lawsuits in Canada against HudBay Minerals Inc. of Toronto for alleged human rights atrocities committed by its subsidiaries - HMI Nickel, Skye Resources and CompañÃa Guatemalteca de NÃquel - at the company's nickel mine in eastern Guatemala.
The outcome of this cross border lawsuit is being closely watched by human rights activists after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a case against Shell for aiding and abetting human rights abuses in Nigeria on the grounds that Shell did not have sufficient ties to the U.S.
However the Supreme Court decision left open the possibility that U.S. companies could be sued in U.S. courts for human rights abuses abroad. Thus a legal decision that allows Canadian companies to be sued in their home country, would also help fill the legal vacuum that multinationals have often taken advantage of historically to escape liability.
One reason that these cases are important is because of a legal doctrine known as "forum non conveniens" (which literally means an inconvenient forum) under which lawsuits brought against multinational companies for abuses in other countries are often rejected in most courts. Indeed HudBay sought to have the lawsuits dismissed on the grounds that under Canadian law, a parent company cannot be held responsible for its subsidiaries' actions. The company argued that the case should be heard in Guatemalan courts instead.
But this past February, in a surprise move, HudBay abandoned its earlier defense that Guatemala was the proper legal forum for the lawsuits. This was after Amnesty Canada, acting as a court intervener, argued that HudBay could be be held legally accountable for alleged negligence.
"I think it's a stunning victory for human rights. I think it's historic," Murray Klippenstein, the lawyer for the Guatemalan plaintiffs told the Toronto Star. "It should send shockwaves through the boardrooms throughout Canada."
For its part, the company claims that it made the decision based on cost. Analysts also believe that the company also made a calculated gamble that it could win the case in Canada because the witnesses for the plaintiffs were perceived as weak. Not least was perhaps the worry that they might lose the lawsuit, given that Chevron took the chance of being sued in Ecuador as the most "convenient" forum only to lose badly and receive a multi-billion dollar judgment against it.
Backrgound to the Lawsuit
In 1956, two years after the 1954 military coup d'état, the government granted mining licenses to Hanna Mining Company, a U.S. corporation. In 1960 INCO, a Canadian nickel mining giant, bought a majority share in Hanna Mining Company's Exmibal nickel mining project in El Pastor in the department of Izabal, an area with a history of land conflicts. (A department is roughly equivalent to a province. There are 22 in Guatemala).
The Guatemalan government granted Hanna Mining Company and INCO a 40 year nickel mining license - on land that mostly belonged to Mayan Q'eqchi' occupied ancestral territory. Communities were evicted and violence erupted.
According to a report produced by the Catholic Organisation for Relief and Development Aid (CORDAID), the Exmibal project caused social conflict "related to indigenous protests against land dispossession and ensuing human rights violations against community leaders."
The Exmibal mine operated briefly from 1978-1981. After decades of inactivity, another Canadian mining company, Skype Resources, bought the concession in 2004. Land conflicts resurfaced. In 2006, Mayan Q'eqchi' families began laying claim to ancestral land that Skye Resources and its subsidiary, CGN, were using to develop the Fenix nickel mine.
In 2008, HudBay bought Skye Resources, its subsidiary CGN, and the Fenix mine - it was renamed HMI Nickel. HMI/Skye then merged to form a single company, HudBay Minerals. Klippenstein, on a website dedicated to the lawsuits, explains that "as a result of the merger, HudBay is legally responsible for HMI/Skye's liabilities and past actions."
In October 2011, three lawsuits were brought by 13 plaintiffs from the Ocho Lote community in the municipality of El Pastor against HudBay Minerals. Eleven of them are women who allege that in 2007, during a series of violent evictions to make way for Skye Resources' Fenix mine, they were gang raped by the military, police officers, and mining security employees.
"This is where they threw me to the ground and started ripping my clothes off. I thought only one of them would rape me but it was all nine men," Rosa Elbria told human rights organization, Rights Action, in a video testimony as she sat on the remains of her stove in the ruins of her former home.
Another plaintiff, Angelica Choc has filed on behalf of herself and her deceased husband, Adolfo Ich. The lawsuit claims that on September 27, 2009, Ich, a respected community leader, teacher, and father of five from the community of La Union, was hacked and shot to death by mining security personnel as he peacefully tried to intervene in a protest.
"I believe he was killed because he spoke out about the rights violations caused by Canadian mining in Guatemala. I believe he was killed because he was encouraging communities to stay united against the harmful practices of the mining company," Choc said in her legal statement.
German Chub, a young father of three, says he was shot by the same mining personnel the very same day. The attack left Chub paralyzed from the waist down. "Look at me. Look at what I've become. I'm not lying," he told a CBC reporter as he pointed to his wheelchair.
The plaintiffs took their case to Canada arguing that the weak Guatemalan legal system would fail to provide justice. According to a Human Rights Watch report, "[d]eficient and corrupt police, prosecutorial, and judicial systems, as well as the absence of an adequate witness protection program, all contribute to Guatemala's alarmingly low prosecution rate." A staggering 99.75% of violent crime in Guatemala went unpunished as of 2009.
HudBay vehemently contests the alleged charges and has written a detailed response on its website, entitled, "The facts: Hudbay's former operations in Guatemala." Amongst others things, HudBay claims illegal squatters were legally evicted and that it "does not believe that the allegations that sexual assaults occurred during these evictions is credible and no complaints of this nature have been filed with the authorities in Guatemala."
With regard to the 2009 shooting of Ich, HudBay claims that, "based on internal investigations and eye witness reports, Hudbay believes that CGN personnel were not involved with his death."
Setting a Precedent
The Guatemalan plaintiffs have been supported by Amnesty International Canada, which was granted leave by the courts to intervene at a hearing last month after HudBay agreed to allow the lawsuit to proceed.
"Canadian companies are under an obligation to respect human rights wherever they operate, particularly where the business is operating in a conflict-affected or high risk area, and where the indigenous peoples' lives and livelihoods are at risk," Tara Scurr, Business and Human Rights campaigner for Amnesty International Canada said in a statement. "This ... reflects the interest all Canadians share in ensuring that victims of gross human rights abuses have an effective and meaningful avenue to seek justice and accountability."
The arguments were head by Madam Justice Carole Brown of the Ontario Superior Court, who is expected to issue a decision soon.
Activist lawyers are hoping that the lawsuits like the HudBay case will help make the case that companies should have to abide by their home country laws or face real sanctions.
"Given corporate complicity in egregious abuses around the world, respect for human rights should not be a function of voluntary compliance but instead a matter of enforceable legal rights," writes Lauren Carasik, director of the International Human Rights Clinic at Western New England University School of Law. "The international community must demand accountability, and reinforce and reaffirm the practices of corporations that do take seriously the impact of their behaviour."
Pratap Chatterjee contributed reporting.
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Clinton Pushes Pakistan On Terrorism
Clinton Pushes Pakistan On Terrorism
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses a joint press conference in Islamabad on Friday, as Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar looks on.Kevin Lamar Que/AFP/Getty Images
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrapped up talks Friday with senior Pakistani leaders as the two sides continued to show strains in their relationship over the issue of combating terrorism.
Clinton took part in high-level discussions Thursday night and met Friday with Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar. It was brief, and at a press conference afterward, the two women were cordial, if stiff.
Clinton's visit was part of a high-profile delegation that included CIA chief David Petraeus and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey. Clinton said the discussions with the Pakistani leadership focused on Afghanistan and counterterrorism.
At the press conference, Clinton hinted that progress was limited.
"It is no secret that the United States and Pakistan do not always see eye to eye," she said. "And we will not resolve the differences in our views in any single visit."
A major point of U.S. concern is Pakistan's ties with the Taliban and the so-called Haqqani network, Afghan insurgents who have bases in Pakistani territory. During the day, Clinton confirmed rumors that the U.S. had a meeting with members of the Haqqani network. State Department officials, speaking on background, said there was just one meeting over the summer, and it was at the request of Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI.
Since then, there have been attacks in Afghanistan blamed on the Haqqanis, including the prolonged assault on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul last month. At Friday's press conference, Clinton once again addressed the issue of insurgents who are based on Pakistani soil.
Clinton Urges Pakistan To Act
"For too long, extremists have been able to operate here in Pakistan and from Pakistani soil," she said. "No one who targets innocent civilians — whether they be Pakistanis, Afghans, American or anyone else — should be tolerated or protected."
Clinton's comments about militant safe havens in Pakistan are similar to those made by other senior Obama administration officials over the past few weeks, and they have hit a nerve, putting the Pakistani military and civilian leadership on the defensive. Foreign Minister Khar denied the charge several times during the press conference.
"Let me reconfirm that there is no question of any support by any Pakistan institutions to safe havens in Pakistan. Let me be unequivocal, completely clear on that," she said.
Khar and Clinton seemed to talk past each other at the press conference. Both voiced an abhorrence of terrorism, and the hope for a stable Afghanistan. But they approached the problems from different perspectives. At one point, Khar seemed annoyed by journalists' questions that suggested Pakistan was not doing enough to combat militants.
"There seems to be an impression that Pakistan does not look at this threat seriously and does not respond to this threat seriously," she said. "We have taken this threat seriously — we have acted against this threat."
As Clinton left Islamabad, U.S. officials said they were confident the Pakistanis heard their message about what they'd like to see happen. Whether or not the Pakistanis choose to act is another question.


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Maga Magazinovic a Pioneer of modern dance in Serbia
As a performing art, ballet arrived in Serbia much later than in western Europe or in Russia. In the early 20th century, only some enthusiasts in Belgrade were interested in dance and ballet as a form of art. The first and the most dedicated champion of dance as an official form of art in Serbia was Maga Magazinović (1882–1968), a person of versatile talents, who was always ahead of her time. She was the first woman to graduate from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade and the first woman who wrote for the POLITIKA daily. Marija - Maga Magazinović was born in Užice, Western Serbia, in 1882. She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade in 1904, in the class of distinguished Serbian philosopher Branislav Petronijević.
In 1909, she left for Berlin, where she studied the German language and history of art. She studied ballet with the most famous artists and theoreticians of those times, theatre and film director Max Reinhardt and famous ballet dancer Isadora Duncan. In Belgrade, in 1910, with an approval of the Ministry of Education, she opened The School for Declamation, Aesthetic Gymnastics and Foreign Languages. The name was inspired by the then education minister, Jaša Prodanović, who, in a letter of his to Magazinović, wrote: Do not instill fear in people with dance and ballet – name the school as humbly as possible. In 1912/1913 she spent a year in Hellerau, Germany, studying the method of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, a Swiss composer and musician who developed eurhythmics, a method of learning and experiencing music through movement. When she returned to Belgrade, she renamed her school The School for Rhythmics and Plastics of Maga Magazinović. The school lasted until 1935, parallel with classical ballet education in Belgrade, which began in 1921.
Maga Magazinović was also the first woman librarian in the National Library of Serbia and the first woman who was a journalist by vocation. Immediately after the POLITIKA daily was founded in 1904, she started paving the way for women to journalism, at the time when marriage was considered the greatest success for a woman. She was an editor of a section dedicated to women and also wrote texts on rhythmics and plastics as a form of bodily and spiritual education of young people, especially girls. She also contributed articles to some other magazines and journals and pursued her journalist career for the rest of her life, in addition to teaching and dancing.
In her memoirs, Maga Magazinović describes the atmosphere in which dance was established as art in Belgrade in the early 20th century. The first dancers schooled in classical ballet were Russian emigrees, who arrived in Belgrade as refugees after the October Revolution and began work on the foundation of a ballet ensemble of the National Theatre in Belgrade. The history of ballet in Serbia bears a specific and unique feature – contrary to other European countries and America – modern ballet was established in Serbia before the classical one, for Maga Magazinović founded her school ten years before the official foundation of the ballet ensemble in the Belgrade National Theatre.
The energy Maga Magazinović invested in the development of art of dance in Serbia was admirable. Aspiring to constant professional education, she often attended specialist courses in Europe. After the Second World War, she worked as a teacher in several subjects in the State Ballet School. One of the subjects was the History of Dance, on which topic she wrote the first book in Serbian. For forty years, Maga Magazinović was also a teacher of philosophy, German and Serbian in the First Grammar School for Girls. She died in 1968.


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Les designers du monde entier sont en train de soumettre des concepts créatifs de logodesign pour maxafi - custom.
Very straightforward logo needed for the company 'maxafi'. No restraints on color (would prefer to avoid blue though).
Desired Color Scheme:
Desired Style:
Modern, Simple, 'web 2.0'
Accepted File Formats:
Illustrator .ai (preferable), Photoshop .psd (acceptable - 300dpi or above)
Maxafi is a web publishing network - we build and maintain our own websites. Maxafi is a new name for an existing company (which we will not be disclosing just yet).
We are looking for something relatively simple and modern. The logo itself does not have to immediately identify the line of business we are in (we do expect to diversify in the future anyway).
I would prefer something where the text is the actual logotype, or where elements blend with the logotype - rather than having 2 or more seperate elements. That said, only my own imagination is heading that way, so I'm open to all ideas.
I will provide feedback on an ongoing basis to all entrants, and will be upfront and honest with you - if it doesn't work for me, I'll tell you rather than have you rework something that just isn't going to do it for me.
Looking forward to seeing all the great work from everyone here!
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Baby Blizzard Bear is one of the few pets that is limited to one per WoW account, and it cannot be caged for auction or transferal to another player. The restriction makes sense because owners of the item could create an infinity of the battle pet to sell, but it saddens me all the same - not for loss of potential gold-making, but that such a cute little thing cannot be shared with newer players.
Baby Blizzard Bear
Baby Blizzard Bear
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Achievement: WoW's 4th Anniversary
Category: Feats of Strength
This pet is not tradeable.
"This rare bear is bred for its small size and perpetually youthful appearance."


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| 6.5°C Dublin
TOTTENHAM have defended their fans after the Society of Black Lawyers threatened to make a complaint to police over their claims anti-Semitic abuse is taking place at White Hart Lane.
The group behind the push for a black players' union have put forward a 10-point plan they think will help combat racism in football.
The group want to give referees the power to call off games if there is racial abuse from the terraces and they want any player who is guilty of racism to be sacked.
The organisation have also claimed they will report any fans heard singing anti-Semitic songs at the home of Tottenham to the police.
Although widely recognised as an insult, some Spurs fans proudly call themselves "Yids" or "Yiddos" and chant "Yid army" at games as an act of defiance to those who discriminate against the club's large Jewish following.
Peter Herbert, who chairs the Society of Black Lawyers says this is not acceptable. He said: "It does not make a difference if it is Tottenham fans doing the chants or away fans - if they continue to do it we will report it to the police.
"There has to be zero tolerance and if that catches out Spurs then so be it."
Asked about Jewish fans themselves singing the chant, he said: "That's not acceptable either."
He added: "If neither Tottenham FC nor the FA are willing to take a stand then SBL will report the matter to the Metropolitan Police Service for investigation and, if necessary, prosecution.
"The report will be made if this behaviour does not cease by 20 November. We will have monitors in attendance to observe what occurs."
Spurs responded to Herbert's claims by defending their supporters and pointing out that their fans have in the past been subjected to taunts about the Holocaust.
"Our position on this topic is very clear," a Tottenham statement read.
"The club does not tolerate any form of racist or abusive chanting.
"Our guiding principle in respect of the 'Y-word' is based on the point of law itself - the distinguishing factor is the intent with which it is used i.e. if it is used with the deliberate intention to cause offence. This has been the basis of prosecutions of fans of other teams to date.
"Our fans adopted the chant as a defence mechanism in order to own the term and thereby deflect anti-Semitic abuse. They do not use the term to others to cause any offence, they use it a chant amongst themselves.
"The club believes that real anti-Semitic abuse such as hissing to simulate the noise of gas chambers is the real evil and the real offence. We believe this is the area that requires a determined and concerted effort from all parties and where we seek greater support to eradicate."
Racism has been a burning issue within the game over the last few weeks.
Chelsea captain John Terry was banned for four matches for racially abusing Anton Ferdinand - although he was cleared of criminal charges - and two weeks ago the Blues became embroiled in another race row when they accused referee Mark Clattenburg of using "inappropriate language" towards their midfielder John Obi Mikel.
The language Clattenburg is alleged to have used is understood to have been interpreted as being racist.
The referee, who denies the claim, should be suspended while the FA and the police are conducting an investigation in to the matter, the SBL say.
A statement from the organisation read: "The SBL expresses serious concern that the FA has not suspended (Clattenburg) in light of the allegations of racial abuse he faces.
"Suspension is commonly used in employment situations where allegations of misconduct are made where a person's integrity and responsibility is open to question.
"This is partly to preserve the position of the person under investigation and would be in the interests of a referee in these circumstances to ensure he is not subject to false allegations in what is clearly a highly charged environment.
"Suspension does not signal any guilt at all."
Clattenburg did not referee a game last weekend and will not do so again this week so he can concentrate on helping the FA and the police with their enquiries.
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The day I arrived, I was fortunate enough to get through to someone we use to plow our driveway when needed. When the driveway isn't plowed, the berm from the highway department snow plow prevents us from getting into the driveway, there is no place to park, and we can't get to the house. They came, plowed the driveway, and left. I was lucky they weren't too busy to come on short notice, and throughout the day when I called, the line was busy. When I finally got through, their phone rang for the first time in two days because the power had been out for 48 hours.
Because the power had been off, I had to deal with a house that was cooling off due to lack of heat: the temperature had reached 43°F. I turned on our front-room oil stove, which doesn't require electricity, then tromped back in the dark to the furnace, which is located in a small closet-like recess on the outside of the house. I pushed the two reset buttons I could see: nothing, nada, no heat. By the time I went to bed, the oil stove was heating the house at the rate of 3°F per hour. It was 61°F in the morning when I got up - not shabby, really, and warm enough to prevent pipes from freezing.
In the morning after coffee, I tried the furnace reset buttons again, found out the location of a third reset button from a maintenance guy, and also found out that if the furnace is running when the power shuts off (or flickers off and on, I presume), it will shut down and not come back on without a manual reset.
I couldn't stay, though, just to make sure the the power stayed on, or to light the front oil stove periodically, or to hit the reset buttons when needed. So I've had the place winterized, which means we won't be paying much for heating this winter, and the place won't be very visitor-friendly until we turn the water back on in spring or early summer. That's what happens when you move, I guess...
In other news, I discovered we have a slightly larger than usual view of the lake (usual being very tiny). That's because an entire house went missing some time in the last few months. (It's not really missing, just taken down.) This view is from where the now-missing house used to be. A partial view of the lake, especially if it's through trees, is called a peekaboo. The size of the peek varies from a couple spots to something a bit more sizeable. Ours new view is visible from one side of the backyard.


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A new "Kennedy doctrine"
Speaking only for himself — at least for now, Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has floated the idea that members of the President's Cabinet may be protected by an even greater legal immunity shield than has existed, especially when they are reacting to terrorism threats. It could mean that, even if a Cabinet officer has been found explicitly to have violated someone's constitutional or statutory rights in one, or perhaps even a few, federal court rulings, that may not be enough to lead to a finding of wrongdoing.
Kennedy put forward that concept in his separate opinion last Tuesday in a case involving former U.S. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft (Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, 10-98). It drew no other votes in support. Still, it may be fair to suggest that, if a Cabinet officer seeks to take advantage of that in the future, Kennedy might well be able to turn it into a majority view. At least four of his colleagues seem quite sympathetic to immunity claims.
Technically speaking, what Kennedy has spelled out is a very strict view of when a constitutional right is "clearly establilshed," and so its violation by a government official can lead to personal responsibility, and even liability in the form of money damages. Although doctrines of legal immunity apply to government officers at all levels, down to the local police force, Kennedy's version would be reserved for officials who have national authority, reaching many and perhaps all jurisdictions across the country. He also intimated that it might be limited to situations when a Cabinet officer is engaging in some form of "national security operation."
Under long-standing Supreme Court precedent, a federal, state or local officer is immune from claims for money damages unless one of his actions is shown to be a violation of an individual's right, and — a separate requirement — unless that right is proved to have existed at the time the official acted. The theory behind this form of "qualified immunity" is that officials need to be put on notice when they are acting outside the law, and should not be interrupted in their official work to fend off a court case based on a brand-new theory of wrongdoing.
Kennedy's new approach, perhaps appropriately called a new "doctrine," deals with the second requirement of this immunity formula, requiring proof that the right was "clearly established" at the time of the challenged official's action.
The nub of Kennedy's concern, at least in the Ashcroft case, was summed up in these two concluding sentences: "National security operations should not have to grind to a halt even when an appellate court finds those operations unconstitutional. The doctrine of qualified immunity does not so constrain national officeholders entrusted with urgent responsibilities."
Kennedy began that section of his concurring opinion (Part II) by saying that the fact that the U.S. attorney general "holds a high office in the government must inform what law is clearly established for the purposes of this case." But he went on from that point, and seemed to be suggesting a general rule, not just one for evaluating what Ashcroft was claimed to have done to Abdullah al-Kidd, a terrorism suspect arrested and detained for 16 days under a "material-witness arrest" warrant.
Cabinet and other "high office" holders, Kennedy said, have duties of their national position that are implemented "in many jurisdictions throughout the country." That authority might be questioned in some courts, but approved in others, the opinion noted. When faced with such inconsistent court declarations, Kennedy added, a "national officeholder should be given some deference for qualified immunity purposes." That leeway, he said, in an uncertain qualification, might not exist if the officer takes an action in a place where the action has alreadybeen found illegal.
Even with that qualification, however, Kennedy stressed the breadth of his holding: "A national officeholder intent on retaining qualified immunity need not abide by the most stringent standard adopted anywhere in the United States. And the national officeholder need not guess at when a relatively small set of appellate precedents have established a binding legal rule."
It would go too far to deter a national officer from doing his or her job, Kennedy added, to subject them "to personal liability whenever they confronted disagreement among appellate courts." Again, he said, courts should be cautious in this respect "particularly in the area of national security."
One of the risks, Kennedy said further, is that "too expansive a view of 'clearly established law' could risk giving local judicial determinations the effect of rules with de facto national significance, contrary to the normal process of ordered appellate review."
The Ninth Circuit Court — the particular target of Kennedy's musings in the al-Kidd case — gave him an example of what he was concerned about. That Circuit Court, he said, "appears to have reasoned" that a federal judge in New York had authority to "establish a legal rule binding on the Attorney General" nationwide — and for an actions taken in Boise, Idaho, and near Washington, D.C.
There are indications, in the main opinion in the Ashcroft case, that four Justices who, with Kennedy, made up the majority, might well join him in implementing his new "doctrine" of immunity in some future case. The main opinion, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, displayed a distinct sympathy for claims of immunity by reaching out to decide a constitutional question that it did not need to resolve, in order to cement the finding of immunity.
The Court, as three dissenters pointed out, could have decided the case simply by concluding that Abdullah al-Kidd's constitutional claim involved a right that was not clearly established at the time of his arrest and detention, in 2003. All members of the Court who took part (Justice Kagan was recused) agreed on that point.
But the Scalia majority opinion said that the Ninth Circuit was wrong in the way it decided al-Kidd's constitutional challenge on the merits, and it was necessary to correct that to ensure that lower courts "do not insulate constitutional decisions at the frontiers of the law from our review." (Al-Kidd's claim was that it violated the Fourth Amendment for the government to use a law designed to ensure that a witness shows up to testify at trial as a mechanism for arresting and detaining that individual, with no intention of calling him as a witness. The Court said such a "pretextual" use of the material-witness law did not violate the Fourth Amendment.)
In addition to Kennedy and Scalia, that conclusion had the support of Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., and Justices Samuel A. Alito, Jr., and Clarence Thomas. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor, in a pair of partial concurrences joned by each other and by Justice Stephen G. Breyer, argued that the majority should not have reached out to decide what they said was a difficult constitutional issue.
Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, A new "Kennedy doctrine", SCOTUSblog (Jun. 4, 2011, 2:14 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2011/06/a-new-kennedy-doctrine/


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RF~trend necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 110 diseños de 34 diseñadores freelance.
RF trend (http://www.rftrend.com)
- We are a start-up company that unites apparel retail expertise with expertise in RFID hard- and software
- We are looking for something that will portray us as professional, reliable and high-tech. As a company, we provide consultancy service, as well as hard- and software solutions in the area of RFID for apparel retail companies.
- For more information on Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio-…tification and http://www.rfidjournal.com/article/…339/1/129/, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zj7…re=related or under Google (image) search)
- We focus on national and international apparel retail chains that look into RFID technology to optimize their processes (in-store and supply chain), their category management, inventory management, as well as their layout management.
- The people we talk to in these apparel retail companies are from the middle and upper management, both from the IT department and the financial / commercial management.
What we would like to convey with our logo are the following ideas
- Competency
- Innovativeness
- Reliability
- Dynamic and flexible
- "Worth the money".
- The logo should on the one hand reflect the technological side of the company and our competency in the area of RFID (ideally with some radio waves between a reader and an antenna/tag). On the other hand, it shall also convey the trendiness of an apparel / fashion company (ideally with some apparel item symbol or logo).
- The RF trend logo needs to be bold, easily readable (in both small, medium displays) and convey the RF trend name AND the web address rftrend.com (by including .com in the logo).
- We favor muted colors and the logo shall be easily readable on both, dark or light backgrounds. Green can be considered/integrated since the word "trend" can be associated with "market trend" where green is an indicator of growth and profit.
- We would prefer a square design (for easier and larger placements for varying uses), but we are open to other shaped treatments.
- We'll need the usual print and web file formats as deliverables from this exercise: CMYK image in EPS/AI format; layered RGB file in Photoshop PSD PNG format; JPEG version as well.
- Good luck -- and many thanks.
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Pop needs a bloke like Usher who can sing, dance and make your girlfriend's knees tremble with one well-timed flash of his torso. Excluding Chris Brown, naturally, there's no one who comes close to the R&B superstar's ability to top the charts with a falsetto vocal that's cravenly sexual. So it's more than a little ironic that Looking 4 Myself is an album with one eye on the introspective competition of The Weeknd and Frank Ocean.
At least its writhing lead single 'Climax' borrows that gluttonous communion of sex and self-loathing, trumping the Tumblr heroes at their own game. It's a surefire contender for song of the year and Diplo's best effort since the not at all shabby 'Beat Of My Drum'. Even if Usher's seventh album never recaptures the sheer intensity or quality of this phenomenal track, it's still a welcome change in direction from the patchy posturing of Raymond v Raymond.
Kicking off with the jubilant 'Can't Stop Won't Stop', which only breaks its rampant BPM rate to give a little clubstep wobble, carnal delights are placed right in the foreground of this LP. 'Scream' is a more by-the-numbers attempt to recapture any hearts and minds perplexed by the newly conflicted Usher. On paper it's filthy but in terms of Top 40 bangers, only Olly Murs is likely to come out with something more chaste in 2012.
From this point onwards, the pace of Looking 4 Myself jumps straight off a cliff marked 'pedestrian'. Its raft of slow jams is evenly split between the melodramatic 'Sins Of My Father' and the more charismatic 'What Happened To U' which specialises in elevating the humble brag into an artform. Fame has made Usher a truly terrible flirt if he thinks the way to a woman's heart is an endless list of his achievements, "Money, clouds, fancy cars, big old cribs, platinum on the wall, seven Grammys, sold out concerts", followed by a brief come on, "But I've fainted cos I miss you".
Holding together the leaden ship is a string of sterling collaborative tracks with Luke Steele (Empire of the Sun), Pharrell and Rick Ross. Most impressive is the rampant funk of the N.E.R.D. maestro's 'Twisted' where Raymond IV gets to put his retro soul chops to the test in a rare blast of upbeat energy. That said, Ross reprises his role as everyone's favourite thug king/former correctional officer to nearly derail 'Lemme See' by tying Trayvon Martin's death to a love for "the most ice" and "cash shit". Thankfully, the true lothario of this story focuses on thrusting his lyrical hips in every which direction rather than dwelling on the idiocy of his guest.
Strip away four or so tracks of pure fat and what's left of Looking 4 Myself is a trim and proper album. Far from the bold reinvention initially promised, its restless energy masks over most missteps. Even if Usher wears a split personality between eternally prowling predator and angst-ridden sinner, it's a compelling costume to have borrowed before the threads have worn thin.
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There is something about the German outfit that makes men look hot. In this picture we have Bayern Munich's soccer players Miroslav Klose, Luca Toni and Franck Ribery, and the look great!
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Misleading Headline...
I pictured Ballmer leaping around a stage in the presence of Diana Ross & co.
It quite put me off my cocoa & chocolate hobnob.
America's top court will hear Microsoft defend claims that its Word software infringed on patens held by software maker i4i. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Microsoft's appeal against a 2009 court order that it must pay i4i $290m for infringements of patents by Word. A decision …
"Redmond only started work on custom XML in Word after it had partnered i4i on Office."
Will these poor folks never learn? To deal with MS at that kind of level is to sign your business away. Not my opinion, that of Stac in the days of DOS 6, and many other victims since
A case with a questionable ruling and massive fine that the Supremes can use to weigh in on patent issues like this.
Reading the patent details, and the way Microsoft "infringed" I don;t see how it even got this far, unless it was intentional to simply get a good case to this level with good media attention. What Microsoft is doing with XML in this case is really simple, placing one document inside of an XML record using an optional (but documented) XML field. What i4i argued they did was something slightly different (with the same end result of getting one document inside of another) but Microsoft did not actually do that, since doing that is done in SGML, not XML, which needed no such construct. The use of XML this way is obvious, and thus the patent should not apply. the USPTO did agree, when applied to SGML (as the patent describes) it is a valid patent. The courts decided it should also apply to XML, even though its not using the process the same way i4i detailed it, and even though XML is itself what should be targeted if it was in fact infringing.
this should be a good show. hopefully shed a lot of light on patents, especially software patents.
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What did i4i do in this case that was "really innovative"? Or indeed innovative at all, and not completely obvious to any skilled practitioner with relevant area knowledge?
Software patents are usually bogus, and this one looks no different.
Often there is hard work involved in implementing a technique in software. It's often a shame when the result of a small organization's hard work is duplicated by a large organization with more resources to throw at the problem and a bigger market presence. But patent law does not exist to protect hard work; it exists to protect innovation. If the technique being implemented is obvious (however difficult), then it doesn't meet the (theoretical) standard for patent protection.
Sure, this is a weakness in US IP law, favoring established players. Software patents are meant to protect innovative ideas (and it's arguable whether they should even do that), not simply the introduction of new features. It's infeasible to use trade secret protection for software that's distributed to end users. Copyright only protects a particular implementation. There's no legal basis for ensuring a temporary monopoly just for creating an improved software product. That means established players can avoid improving products until threatened by newcomers, at which time they can just duplicate the new features and protect their market share. But them's the breaks, unless and until we can figure out a way to make the system more fair. Patent abuse will not accomplish that.
If Microsoft wins this it is proof positive that the patent system is broken and should be dismantled.
If i4i wins this it is proof positive that the patent system is broken and should be dismantled.
In the case of the former it will be a clear indication that software patents cannot be upheld because as far as I can tell i4i has an open and shut case under the rules as they stand.
In the latter, it will show that allowing companies to patent relatively trivial software algorithms does damage to the industry as a whole and should be abolished immediately.
The thing that is certain? That regardless of what happens software patents will remain and the lawyers will all get new Learjets.
As far as I've been able to track down, this is little more than using custom defined XML (via a xml schema) to extract data from an xml document for insertion into another document.
So, at lack of a better term, would this be kind of an XML alternative to mail merge? If so, then wouldn't the be 100% identical to using a database schema to reference the fields of a database file? In the case of a Microsoft Access file, the contents of an Access database would be defined using something similar to an "hierarchal schema" and the fields containing the data would be validated against this "hierarchal schema". So in effect, if the Access database format were exported as XML so that the schema of the database were defined as an XML schema and the data were exported as raw XML data?
So, while I never exported an access database as XML and a schema, wouldn't anyone who has theoretically be in violation of this patent if they use the XML to import the schema and data into another system?
Now, the XML schema concept was designed specifically for this kind of scenario. After all, you wouldn't need a schema for any other reason than defining the format of XML data and authenticating against it. It exists to allow programs to access data in the XML format described by it.
1) What is it that is actually patented?
It seems to me they chose a portion of the XML spec and wrote a patent for it.
2) Did they actually patent the design of XML by doing this?
This "custom XML" thing sounds redundant since unless the XML language itself is customizable (like using { and } instead of < and >), then MS hasn't used the language any different than what it was specifically designed and documented for.
3) What is Microsoft actually violating by using this?
Is Microsoft using the XML in any specific way that actually is not what the XML schema spec was designed for in the first place?
i4i patented their thingy before XML was done. XML is merely a smokescreen for patent breaking on Microsoft's part. Note that the patent has been upheld. How Microsoft even got close to the Supreme Court thinking it's a worthwhile thing to look at is perhaps the more interesting story.
"... the patent has been upheld" - so? The USPTO and US courts have demonstrated on many occasions that they're not qualified to evaluate software patents, so this is worthless as evidence in favor of the patent.
i4i's patent (5,787,449) was granted in July 1998; the first XML recommendation was published in February 1998. So i4i did not "patent ... before XML was done". They *filed* in 1994, and the first draft published by the W3C XML WG was in 1996; but of course the discussions that led to the W3C's Generic SGML Editorial Review Board and then to the XML WG started before that.
At best, i4i's patent process started only a short time before public XML discussions.
And XML itself is just an SGML application profile. SGML is an extensible metadata system, and after a quick read of the 20 claims in the i4i patent, I don't see anything there that's not either in SGML, or an obvious feature of an SGML-based document processing system. Much of it could be traced back to SGML's ancestors, like GML/Script and RUNOFF.
Well it was clear the Republicans got their insiders onto the Supreme Court as there is no other way that Citizens United got their way.
I will forgive some of the brain dead decisions that the Supreme Court has handed down but this is (like the Dread Scott decision) one for the records. I wonder if it will take a civil war to correct this one?
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Grandtrek PT3 205/70R15 96H
After the success of the Grandtrek PT2, Dunlop's new Grandtrek PT3 was made. A good tyre better with improved braking, handling and stability. The advanced silica based tread compound offers high wear resistance combined with less rolling resistance to give exceptional durability. Its new even footprint distribution gives extended mileage.


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Dimebag Darrel, his Dean guitars and a Squeal
He was born to Jerry Abbott, a country musician and producer. He took up guitar when he was in his early teens, winning a series of local guitar competitions, where in one he was awarded his first Dean (later known as the ML styled guitar.) Coincidentally, his father had bought him a cherryburst finish Dean (ML) standard the morning before the competition, so he only had a few hours of playing time on it. These and another contest prize, his first Randall Amplifier, are the two staples of his style and sound.
Abbott formed Pantera in 1981 with his brother Vinnie Paul on drums. The band began in a glam metal style, but by the late '80s showed a greater influence from thrash metal acts such as Exodus, Megadeth, Exhorder and Metallica, as well as traditional metal bands such as Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Pantera subsequently became a key formulator of the post-thrash subgenre of "groove" metal. It would not be until nine years after forming that Pantera saw its first piece of commercial success in its 1990 major label debut, Cowboys from Hell. Pantera's "groove" style came to fruition in its breakthrough album Vulgar Display of Power, released on February 25, 1992, which saw the replacement of the power metal falsetto vocals with a hardcore-influenced shouted delivery and heavier guitar sound. In 1992, Abbott dropped the nickname "Diamond Darrell" and assumed the nickname "Dimebag Darrell". Pantera began to suffer from mounting tensions between band members in the mid-1990s, largely due to Phil Anselmo's rampant drug abuse; in 2003, the group broke up. Anselmo left the band for other projects, such as Superjoint Ritual and Down.
Shortly before singer Phil Anselmo joined Pantera, Abbott was invited to join Dave Mustaine's thrash band Megadeth. Abbott was willing to join, but on the condition that Mustaine also hired his brother Vinnie on drums. As Mustaine had already hired drummer Nick Menza, Abbott stayed with Pantera.
On December 8, 2004, while performing with Damageplan at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, Abbott was shot onstage by a mentally ill former US Marine named Nathan Gale. Abbott was shot three times in the head, killing him instantly. Damageplan's drum technician, John "Kat" Brooks, and tour manager, Chris Paluska, were injured. Gale fired a total of fifteen shots, taking the time to reload once, and remaining silent throughout the shooting.
Eddie Van Halen, whom Abbott had recently befriended, placed his original black with yellow stripes guitar (commonly called "bumblebee") into the Kiss Kasket. Abbott had mentioned to Ed that he liked that color combination the best of Ed's guitars (this guitar appears on the back sleeve of Van Halen's second album "Van Halen II"), and Eddie was going to paint one that way for him. Darrell also credited Vito Rulez of Chauncy for convincing him to try Bill Lawrence pickups. According to an interview with Dino Cazares then of Fear Factory Abbott told him that during the recording of Reinventing the Steel he A/B'd his guitar tone with Dino's (incidentally during the making of Fear Factory's Demanufacture Cazares A/B'd his guitar tone against that of Vulgar Display of Power). Abbott co-designed a guitar with Dean just months before his death. Called the Razorback, it was a modified version of the ML. It is more pointed and has extra barbs on the wings. This design spawned variations, such as a 24-fret version, different paint jobs including a flamed maple top with natural finish, EMG pickups, and also helped with the design of the V-shaped version, the Razorback V (lacking the neck-pointing front wing).
In his early career as a musician, Dimebag used Dean ML guitars and Bill Lawrence L500XL pickups, which he would install in a reversed position to have the "hot" blade facing the neck. His main guitars were an ML guitar customized by Buddy Blaze, painted with a unique lightning bolt design and was equipped with a 'Floyd Rose tremolo bar called the "Dean From Hell", and a Braziliaburst ML. He used Dean guitars from 1983 – 1995. When Dean guitars went out of business, he ended up going to numerous other guitar companies. Failing to get an endorsement from BC Rich guitars (which his fellow guitar playing friend Kerry King used), he then went to Jackson Guitars for a short period of time.
Though he never played any of the Jacksons live, he is rumored to have used them on recordings and known to use them during rehearsals. His only Jacksons were two Randy Rhoads models, one of which was white and another that had a lightning sky graphic. His relation ship with Jackson only lasted through 1995 however.
Dimebag used Washburn guitars from 1996 – 2004 endorsing various signature models such as the Dimebolt and the Stealth. His main guitars at this point were the Dime 3, the Stealth, and the Culprit (a unique model designed by Washburn which varied greatly from the ML). Seymour Duncan manufactures a signature pickup co-designed by Dime, called the Dimebucker. Dimebag endorsed Seymour Duncan, but continued to use Bill Lawrence pickups in most of his personal guitars. Several months before his death, Darrell ended his long relationship with Washburn guitars, and again became a Dean endorsee, coinciding with Dean Guitar founder Dean Zelinksy's return. Dean guitars built him a brand new signature guitar, called the Dime O' Flame, which he began using live. As a tribute to him, in 2005 Dean Guitars released the new Dimebag Tribute line of ML guitars. These guitars come in various models, ranging from lower end ones that have a stop tail piece, a bolt-on neck, Basswood Body, and lower quality pickups, to higher end models with Dimebuckers, a Floyd Rose bridge, and set neck construction. In his last few weeks with Dean Guitars, Dimebag helped design a guitar he called the Razorback. After his death, Dean continued with the Razorback project and dedicated them to the memory of him. During the height of Dimebag's fame, he also worked together with MXR and Dunlop to produce the MXR Dimebag Distortion and the Dimebag "Crybaby from Hell" Wah respectively.
Dimebag Darrell discography and filmography
Abbott performed on Anthrax albums, including Stomp 442 (1995); Volume 8: The Threat Is Real (1998); the Inside Out EP (1998) and We've Come for You All (2003). With Damageplan, Abbott played on the Devastation Sampler (2003) and on the album New Found Power (2004). With Pantera, Abbott recorded a number of albums, EPs, singles, and videos, including Power Metal (1988); Cowboys from Hell (1990); Vulgar Display of Power (1992); and Hostile Moments (1994). He also recorded albums under his own name, including Country Western Transvestite Whore and Supercop Soundtrack (1996) and he recorded a country music album entitled Rebel Meets Rebel (2004).
Equipment circa 2000
Randall Warhead 300Watt Head
Randall RS412W Warhead Cabinet / 4×12
Digitech WH-1 Whammy Original x 2
Dunlop 535Q Wah Pedal
Whirlwind A/B Selector
Furman PQ-3B Parametric Equalizer
Korg DTR-1 Rack Tuner
Rocktron Guitar Silencer
~ by itsstecole on January 7, 2009.
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Tags: (ML), Abbott, Bill Lawrence, Cowboys from Hell, Damageplan, Dave Mustaine, dean, Dimebag, Dimebag Darrell, Down, eddie van halen, Exhorder, Exodus, Fear Factory, Jerry, Kiss, Megadeth, Metallica, Pantera, Phil Anselmo's, Razorback, Vinnie Paul, Vulgar Display of Power


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Cell Phone Etiquette
One of the things that irritate me is the lack of Cell Phone Etiquette. You know what I'm talking about!.. So many things that we see and even caught ourselves doing that we wouldn't think of doing 10 years ago.
Can you imagine 15 years ago, how you felt when a person is talking to you and then was disrupted because of a phone call? No big deal, right? its happens alot, we can't foresee or do not have physic powers to know when the phone rings. But I remember a time, when the phone rang while engaging in a conversation, the person would apologize and explain that they need to get to the phone..
we understand, we are understanding people. But what about today, what have we seen happening? Well, often, the abruptly answer the cell phone, without excusing themselves.
then they ramble on, talking on the cell, talking about little things.. Then, your conversation becomes second place.. We would kick ourselves for doing that decades ago.
Now, now heres my favorite (Sarcastically Speaking) talking on the cell while ordering their food. Have you ever seen that? Here they are talking to two different people, like they can handle two conversation at the same time.. Very irritating. Is there any wonder why McDonald had placed a sign at the drive-in to turn off cell phones?
Whats wrong with saying, I will have to call back?
Another negative vibe about cell phone usage, is that, here I am Hard of Hearing, and I have to turn my aids off because a person in close range feels the need to yell in his cell phone. Thats what my family tells me when I'm on the phone, primarily because I turn my aids off and turn it to telephone pickup so I do not hear my own voice. I just witness this yesterday at my favorite Restaurant. A cell phone user was very loud.. Even the person that was at his table, was shrinking down at his seat and looked uncomfortable, well, yeah, I know that because I was too.
Remember the times, that you will be walking along and then all the sudden, a person was talking to you. And you thought that you need to be nice and continue the conversation only to find out that the person was not talking to you.. They had an bluetooth earphone that they were actively having a conversation with the caller. Boy, that created an embarrassing moment for me but created an surprised look at the other person.
Heres some Etiquette found at this link below. I copied 8 points to keep in mind
1. When a Private Conversation Isn't Possible. Intimate public settings such as restaurants, public restrooms, waiting rooms, hallways, buses, subways or anywhere a private conversation is not possible is a bad place for a cell phone conversation. To practice good cell phone etiquette, put the ringer on vibrate or silent mode and let the call roll over to voice mail. If it's an important call, step outside or to a secluded area to return the call. If that's not possible and you must take the call, keep your voice low and the conversation brief. Let the caller know you'll get back to them when you're able.
2. Lights Out, Phone Off. Phones should be turned off in movie theaters, playhouses, observatories or any other public place that creates an atmosphere to transport the imagination of the audience. People pay good money to be entertained and a ringer breaks the illusion.
3. Modulate Your Voice. Cell phones have sensitive microphones that can pick up a very soft voice while blocking out ambient noise. Yelling into a cell phone is not necessary. When people are nearby, be considerate and keep your voice low, your tone unemotional and even, and your conversation private. Arguing or airing dirty laundry in public is very poor cell phone etiquette.
4. Observe the 10-foot Proximity Rule. Maintain a distance of at least 10-feet (3 meters) from the nearest person when talking on a cell phone. No matter how quietly you speak, if standing too close to others they are forced to overhear your personal business.
5. Keep It Short. Keep public conversations brief and get back to the caller when you're not in a public place.
6. Love the One You're With. It's rude to take a cell phone call on a date or during a social engagement with others. It's also inconsiderate to take a call in the middle of a conversation. If the caller were present he or she would likely wait to politely interrupt at a more appropriate time. Let the call roll to voice mail and return it later.
7. Drive Now, Talk Later. Multitasking isn't always a good thing. Some evidence shows that accidents are on the rise due to cell phone use. Most calls can wait until you've reached your destination, and if a call is upsetting or distracting pull over to have the conversation.
8. Use Common Sense. Turn off your phone before a job interview, presentation, or boardroom meeting. Leave it off at funerals, weddings, or anyplace a quiet atmosphere is mandated, such as a courthouse, library, museum, or place of worship.
so lets concentrate on better Cell Phone Etiquette in 2010!
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I was wondering whether SO proved any of the claims used when it was built? Claims and mechanisms such as
- How the community will do things right and the law of large numbers will select the good solutions (~)?
- The property of no-registration required causing OPs to never find back to their questions and no one accepts it.
- Do the cost associations of given and received downvotes achieve the desired effect?
- Doesn't upvotes draw attention of those who simply want the badge for +300 votes and vote for answers without even thinking about it?
- Were the SO mechanisms created based on any scientific (human, phsychological, behavioral, etc.) research?
- etc. you name it.
(PS: Maybe a dupe, maybe too early to ask.)


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I have been thinking about double K's because of the K2/2K syncs investigated in the last few videos.
I eat chocolate bars at my day job (I should probably not eat such crap, but I am addicted to sugar right now..) While eating a Kit Kat I realized it is, like King Kong and Kublai Khan, yet another double K. It seemed a little trivial (nothing truly is trivial, it depends on the amount of presence you have in the NOW) until I also saw the fantastic animation of the Mika 'Lollipop' song. Included in said video we view 'The Lollipop Girl" passing a stylized Kit Kat bar with the 2 (not to mention a funky H) adding some extra K2 resonance to this bar. The H syncs originate from Gosporn (how is that pronounced?) articles here and here and have been expanded upon at The Blob and Concrete Junkyard. More about the highlighted H, perhaps in a future video.
Mika - Lollipop
Muse, Miss Robin (K2 mountaineer in "Vertical Limit") Tunney (see the Tunney Trilogy) is another Lollipop girl as her job in "Cherish" is animating a lollipop girl!
Notice please the Zebra behind Robin Tunney as Zoe, a black and white animal/sphinx resonator to be found on the Chariot Tarot cards. (again, see the Tunney Trilogy for explanation)
At Mika's website you can join a secret society.
"Zoolander" was such an iconic 2001 film that Oliver Stones' "World Trade Centre" used it to visually transports us back to September 11th. In this scene, even used in the trailer, the shadow of a plane passes directly over a "Zoolander" billboard (image above). Titles that start with ZO like "Zoolander" are fascinating in themselves as I have encountered them in the mega-ritual before. Stargate Queen Robin Tunney has played characters called Zoe 3 times in her career and has all the Aleister Crowley "Grid Page" elements pointing at her name and the ZO of "Zodiac" on this films poster.
ZO or OZ is also Pan/77. The OZ is present on the Sphere sculpture in "The Wiz" (See the "911 Stargate" video)
In "Zoolander" Will Ferrell becomes a 'lollipop girl' while programming male model Ben Stiller to be his 'Manchurian Candidate' assassin.
As George W. Bush has been sighted (on questionable and flimsy evidence, none the less stimulating..) as a possible grandson of Aleister Crowley this sync is interesting. George has been connected to the 911 mega ritual and Pan/OZ/ZO/77 through his reading of "The Pet Goat" as the planes (or whatever) hit the buildings.


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The cover of the UK edition of Pippa Middleton's party book 'Celebrate: A Year Of British Festivities for Families and Friends' was released by her publishers today.
When asked if the book contained any adult party games of the kind Prince Harry might enjoy, her publishers told the Royalist all content was embargoed until the 16 October release date, but somehow, judging from the wholesome scenes depicted on the cover, we don't think there will be any clothing-optional games inside.
In a press release to accompany the release of the jacket, Pippa said: "This book is designed to be a comprehensive guide to home entertaining, based on my experience in my family's party business, Party Pieces, and work for London-based events company, Table Talk. It is a useful and practical journey into British-themed occasions and I hope it offers welcome inspiration and ideas, most of which needn't leave you alarmingly out of pocket. Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting so this is all about finding ways to manage and enjoy the process.
"I hope you will see this as a feel-good book with ideas to look forward to each month, providing threads of lasting, happy memories, be it around a table lit with candles in winter, outside on a rug in summer or in the autumn, perched on a leaf-covered bench, hot drink in hand."


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Tinseltown approves.
After a federal judge in San Francisco struck down a voter referendum banning gay marriage in California, a host of gay and straight celebrities took to the Internet Wednesday in support of the ruling.
"This just in: Equality won!" tweeted Ellen DeGeneres, who married actress Portia de Rossi in a Golden State ceremony two years ago, shortly before the ban took effect with Proposition 8.
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De Rossi added that she was "ecstatic that Proposition 8 has been overturned" E! News reported. "This is an incredibly exciting and historical day and a big step towards equal rights for all."
The ruling, which will likely be appealed, also drew support from three Hiltons: Paris, Nicky -- and Perez.
"What a huge historical day for equal rights in this country!" Paris tweeted. "There shouldn't be a law on true love. :)"
Added Perez Hilton, the outspoken gay blogger: "So amazing!"
Reality stars Kim and Khloe Kardashian also weighed in with their verdict.
"I know we're still not out of the woods here and the decision will likely be appealed and taken to Supreme court but that doesn't mean today isn't a day to celebrate dolls!" Khloe Kardashian blogged, Usmagazine.com reported. "So go out and party and be merry with the people you love."
Lance Bass, Pink, Ricky Martin, Kelly Osbourne, Samantha Ronsen, Seth Meyers, Solange Knowles, Kal Penn and Christian Applegate also tweeted their approval.
Among those who blasted the move was Newt Gingrich, the conservative former Speaker of the House, People mag reported.
"Judge Walker's ruling overturning Prop 8 is an outrageous disrespect for our Constitution and for the majority of people of the United States who believe marriage is the union of husband and wife," Gingrich wrote on his website.


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TMC is the Only Recognized Lymphedema Treatment Center in the Region
TMC Health Sciences District is the only National Lymphedema Network (NLN) Affiliated Clinic in the Kansas City region. A NLN Affiliated clinic designation means TMC has certified lymphedema therapists that treat patients with lymphedema and other edema related complications.
"Many patients and healthcare providers are not aware there is a treatment for this disease," said Marcia Beck, TMC APRN and NLN medical advisory committee member. "While treatment is covered for breast cancer patients under the Cancer Rights Act, compression garments are often not covered or prohibitively expensive."
Lymphedemais the swelling of arms or legs, most commonly due to the removal or damage of lymph nodes as part of cancer treatment. The loss of or damage to lymph nodes prevents the proper drainage of lymph fluid and the build-up causes swelling. While there is not cure for lymphedema, it can be managed with early diagnosis and proper care from certified lymphedema therapists. The most common cancer associated with lymphedema is breast cancer and other head/neck cancer treatments.
Compression garments are the primary way to properly treat and control lymphedema. In addition to pre and post-surgical screenings for lymphedema, full Decongestive Therapy, compression garment measurement/fitting and wound care are vital treatments offered by TMC's certified lymphedema therapists. However, Medicare beneficiaries and those with state sponsored insurance plans are not eligible for reimbursement for compression garments. Many commercial plans vary widely in their reimbursement structures making care prohibitively expensive for many. While patients can apply for funding through the Marilyn Westbrook Garment fund, a national grass roots effort to make insurance reimbursement mandatory is taking place.
"Ongoing treatment with proper garments and therapy are of the utmost importance for patients with lymphedema," said Karen Bock, PT, CWS, CLT-LANA and specialty board certified physical therapist in wound care at TMC. "Lymphedema can occur within days of cancer surgery or it may take years and without proper preventive and maintenance care, it can be debilitating for some."
As part of the 2016 World Lymphedema Awareness Day on March 6, the NLN and its affiliates are drawing attention to the Lymphedema Treatment Act, currently making its way through the U.S. Congress. The bi-partisan act would add lymphedema compression garments and supplies to the list of federally mandated items required that all insurance plans must provide reimbursement for.
This would help all lymphedema patients to have immediate access to the medical supplies and garments they need to prevent the progression of this treatable disease.


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AUGUSTA, Ga. — If you want a splash of cold water to the face, think of this: it was 50 years ago that Jack Nicklaus won the first of his six Masters titles.
He didn't look much like the cool, blond Golden Bear he would become in the 1970s back then, but he had game.
Tuesday afternoon, summoned to the media centre at Augusta National to reflect on golf and life and the 1963 Masters, the now 73-year-old Nicklaus entertained reporters old and young with his customary eye contact, easy conversation and sharp memory.
"I didn't play very well the first round. I shot 74," he said. "I came back with 66 the second round. And then we had the rain day. And the rain day, I played with (Mike) Souchak and it just poured, and in those days when they washed out a round, they washed out the whole round. They didn't start back at the same place.
"So I remember the 13th fairway, we had total 100 percent casual water and there was no place to drop it, and they said 'Tough, play it.' So we played it out of the water. Anyway, nobody thought we would finish the round. We finished, we got to the 18th green and that's when I looked at the leaderboard, and I'm colorblind, and I saw all these ones on the board. And I looked at my caddie, Willie Peterson, and I said, 'Willie, how many of those ones are red?' And he said, 'Just you, Boss.' And that's when I found out I was leading the tournament.
"Anyway, I finished off the next day. I don't even remember what I shot the last two rounds. But I won the tournament. Arnold put a green jacket on me, and it was a size 46 long. I could have used it for an overcoat. I was a 43 regular."
Nicklaus returned in '64 -- he would present Palmer with the jacket this time, the last major Arnold would ever win -- and the club still didn't have a green jacket for him, so they gave him the one belonging to former New York governor Thomas Dewey (of "Dewey Defeats Truman" fame) -- "And I wore that one for about 10 years. They kept putting Tom Dewey's coat on me every time I won the Masters," Nicklaus said.
The club finally came up with a green jacket for Nicklaus in 1998, and that year, with a hip so bad it would soon require a replacement, he nearly won a seventh Masters at age 58.
News that Nicklaus wore a size 43 regular sports jacket shows you just how athletes, and golfers, have changed over the years.
"Arnold called me Big Jack. I'm anything but big. I'm just like 'How ya doing?' like this all day with these guys now; they are all huge," Nicklaus said, mimicking a high handshake with a giant.
But of course, many questions were about his sixth win in 1986, at age 46, still the one golf tournament that remains green in the memories of a couple of generations of golf fans.
"I don't know whether my skills were all that diminished at 46. It's more my desire to work hard and prepare. I never thought that, you know, that I was deteriorated. I don't think I was quite old enough for the wheelchair yet," he said.
"But I was playing a dozen tournaments a year. I was just going through the motions. But every once in awhile, you find lightning in a bottle and all of a sudden you get excited about something. Every time I come here, I always get excited, but just didn't perform for a couple of years. And then all of a sudden I performed one year.
"But this is the kind of golf course that brings it back to you."
There were no world rankings when Nicklaus played so he has no idea how long he would have been ranked No. 1 during his career. But he won his 18 major golf championships over a period of a quarter of a century. Palmer, by contrast, won all seven of his between 1958 and 1964.
"Well, when you don't have a ranking system, how in the world would you know? You wouldn't even think about it. You would look back at it now, and say, gee, I suppose I would have been No. 1 for a while," Nicklaus said.
"I think there's too much attention paid to it. It's like my majors, I never counted my majors until Bob Green (of the Associated Press) told me at St. Andrews in the '70s. He says, 'Hey, Jack, that's ten, only three more to tie Bobby Jones.' I said, 'Really?'
"Honest, I swear, I never counted them. I knew that I was obviously somewhere near the top of the game. I certainly didn't like being second, so that was my goal, to stay right where I was."
His record still stands, with Tiger Woods four behind. This spring and summer, with the resurgence in his game, seems to be a pivotal moment for Woods in his career long pursuit of the Golden Bear's mark.
"I would have thought every summer was. I mean, I don't know ‑‑ obviously the older he gets and if he doesn't win, it makes my record move out further," Nicklaus said. "But I've said it, and I continue to say it that I still expect him to break my record. I think he's just too talented, too driven, and too focused on that."
On the other hand ...
"From this point, he's got to win five majors, which is a pretty good career for most people to start at age 37. He's still got to go do it. He's played very, very well this spring. I think if he wins here, I think that it would be a very large step towards regaining the confidence that he has not won a major in, what, 3 1/2 years ...
"Five," someone said.
"Really? Well, it's been a while. He's going to have to figure it out. But I think if he figures it out here, it will be a great boost for him. If he doesn't figure it out here, after the spring he's had, I think it will be a lot tougher for him."


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The $300 million deal is unlikely to spark a new trend as it combines two fairly niche asset classes
The establishment of Turkey's first medium term note programme by VakifBank is expected to prompt a wave of copycats. Deal counsel explain the key considerations for others looking to establish an MTN in the new territory
Turkiye Finans has become the first company to issue a non-ijara sukuk out of Turkey. It paves the way for more hybrid structures, and a wider variety of Turkish sukuk issuers
Here's why Turkey's first-ever sukuk should prompt a wave of copycat deals
The first limited recourse financing of a gas-fired power plant in the Turkish merchant sector has closed. Here's how it was structured
Analysis of the world's first SME backed covered bond and Turkey's first covered bond
The first Turkish direct high-yield offering has closed, avoiding the administrative burdens of the customary LPN structure
Turkish bank Akbank's $1 billion bond has avoided the usual loan participation structure. It also anticipates expected changes to tax laws
The Turkish market has had some rocky moments, but Murat Eryürekli and Yalim Özilhan of Eryurekli & Fidan are optimistic about its future
Turkey's laws continue to slow its entry into the EU and onto the world stage. The draft Commercial Code goes some way towards achieving that, says Esin Taboglu of Taboglu & Demirhan
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PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — Princeton University is offering booster shots for students and staff who received the meningitis B vaccine late last year.
The second dose will be available from Monday through Thursday at the school's Frist Campus Center. It's available to undergraduate students, graduate students living on campus and staff members with certain illnesses.
Nearly 5,300 people got the vaccine for the B strain of the meningitis bacteria. That represents 91 percent of the approximately 5,800 university community members who were eligible to receive it.
The vaccine is approved for use in Europe, Australia and Canada but is not yet approved for general use in the United States.
The vaccinations were given last December as part of the university's effort to halt an outbreak.
People who only received one dose of the vaccine have an increased risk of getting meningitis, because the protection provided by the first dose declines over time. State law requires that all students who live in college dorms in New Jersey receive a meningitis vaccination, but that does not protect against the B strain.
Officials have said seven Princeton students and a campus visitor contracted the uncommon meningitis strain in 2013. It causes flu-like symptoms such as headache, fever, vomiting, rashes and sensitivity to light.
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Claudio Sibille-ludovico Office Drawer, Chair & Desk Combo
At Design Interviews
Interview with Claudio Sibille : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Claudio Sibille : Space saving furniture, as in most of my projects. I once visited a very well know little castle in Montevideo known as the Pittamiglio´s caste. Pittamiglio was a very known and important arquitect. He was also an alchemist, and as such, his mansion was filled with hidden doors and secret rooms. He also used and abused with the use of wooden structures. I wanted to create something like a synthesis of this place while keeping a contemporary visual feel to it. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Claudio Sibille : I wanted to surprise. Space saving furniture can be fun also. It´s very interesting to see the reaction of the people when I extract the chair out of the main structure. No one sees it coming, it´s simple, and most of all, practical and functional. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Claudio Sibille : Whatever the future holds for it. I hope it can reach as much people as possible. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Claudio Sibille : Just wanted to pursuit an inspiration. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Claudio Sibille : Right now, i´m dealing with the production myself but it would be very nice to lease the production right to somebody else so i can spend my time designing. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Claudio Sibille : Not really. Not in a consious level anyway. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Claudio Sibille : All people who live in small space. Also students that might live in university campus and don´t have room to spare. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Claudio Sibille : Pencil, paper, Autocad and 3D Studio. In that exact order. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Claudio Sibille : I i spent hours and days searching in magazines, web sites and collecting hundreds of space saving solutions. This helped me be creative and original. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Claudio Sibille : I thought it would be a very effective way to reach more people and possible clients. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Claudio Sibille : I learned a lot about technical aspects of the material used and wood craft in general. The relationship one develops with a carpented of a smithy is very useful for the designer, since it helps understand more and in the future prevent possible errors. I love being there, and watching the building process of each and everyone of my designs. .
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all this has made Lake Garda Italy's most popular lake!
Italy's biggest lake was originally built by a glacier. Already in Roman times it gained a reputation as a wonderful place full of spectacular landscapes. Today, Lake Garda offers a breathtaking mix of historical and architectural monuments, picturesque, romantic villages, splendid castles and villas, typically pastel-colored houses and attractive harbors.
The area's mild climate favors typically mediterranean vegetation such as olives, cypresses and lemons. The microclimate created by the surrounding mountains guarantees that temperatures are not too high in summer and never sink too low in winter.
Along the lake's shore you fill find many possible itineraries and day trips, auch as the wine routes (strade del vino), visits to churches, museums, castles and many other attractions. The area also features many zoos, safari parks, spas, botanic gardens, water parks and theme parks such as the famous Gardaland.
For sports enthusiasts, the possible activities range from traditional, tranquil sports such as horseback riding, golf and swimming to more adventurous sports such as surfing, trekking, mountain biking, and even extreme sports like free climbing, hang gliding and paragliding.