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Cornell researchers have uncovered the basic cell biology that helps explain heart defects found in diseases known as laminopathies.

The findings, published online May 5 in Nature, reveal possible places in a biological pathway where drug therapies may eventually be applied to treat the heart disease associated with such diverse diseases as Emery-Dreifuss muscular dystrophy, dilated cardiomyopathy and limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.

Many laminopathies, caused by mutations to the so-called LMNA gene, affect skeletal and cardiac muscles for reasons that have not been well understood. The LMNA gene codes for the proteins lamin A and C, which provide stability to the cell’s nucleus and play important roles in gene regulation.

In order to study heart failure associated with laminopathies, the researchers made use of existing mouse models – mice bred for research that may have an existing, inbred or induced disease that is similar to a human condition. One of the mouse models has mutations in the LMNA gene that produces mice with enlarged hearts that failed, leading to death at eight to 10 weeks of age. Another mouse model used in the study completely lacks lamins A and C, and the mice develop muscular dystrophy with similar heart conditions that cause death at around four to eight weeks of age, said Jan Lammerding, the paper’s senior author, assistant professor in the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology and the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

In normal cells, a signaling protein called MLK1 resides in the cell’s body, outside of the nucleus. MLK1 binds to a protein called G-actin, which covers up a code on MLK1’s surface that permits entry into the cell’s nucleus. When the cell is mechanically stressed or exposed to specific growth factors, “an adaptive response occurs to reinforce the muscle cell to be fully functional,” said Lammerding.

In the process, G-actin detaches from MKL1 and is converted into another protein called F-actin, which exposes the code for MLK1’s entry into the nucleus. Once inside the nucleus, MLK1 binds to another protein to activate genes for reinforcing the cell’s structure.

In the experimental mice, G-actin failed to consistently convert to F-actin. As a result, G-actin often remained bound to MKL1, blocking its entry code. The culprit behind this disruption was a protein called emerin, which triggers processes that sequester MLK1 in the nucleus and is normally held in place at the nucleus’ inner membrane by lamins A and C. When the lamins were missing or mutated, emerin floated away from the inner nuclear membrane, and MLK1 was quickly exported out of the nucleus. Without MLK1 in the nucleus, the genes that trigger the cell’s adaptations to mechanical stress, including the conversion of G-actin to F-actin, remain inactive, leading to the heart disease found in many laminopathies.

 With this knowledge, researchers may eventually create “drugs that modulate and target downstream consequences by stimulating the impaired pathway and turning it on,” Lammerding added.

Chin Yee Ho, a Weill Institute postdoctoral fellow, was the paper’s lead author. Co-authors include Diana Jaalouk, Weill Institute visiting scientist from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and Maria Vartiainen, a researcher at the University of Helsinki.

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In all honesty, I never expected to see the words “Robert Rodriguez” and “direct to video horror” come up in the same sentence unless the word “never” was involved. Either that or a lot of laughing. But that’s at least somewhat the case here with “Curandero: Dawn of the Demon”, a copy of which Lionsgate sent our way for review.

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For many citizens, cybersecurity is understood simply as “measures taken to protect a computer or computer system (as on the Internet) against unauthorized access or attack” (Merriam-Webster). They count on their government officials to make sure both their online banking and tap water is safe. And that’s all they care to know about cybersecurity.
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US mobile operator Verizon is working with Google to develop a tablet PC to take on the Apple iPad.

The latest Google tablet PC news comes from reports on Bloomberg and in the Wall Street Journal.

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Verizon's CEO Lowell McAdam told the WSJ: "What do we think the next big wave of opportunities are? We're We're working on tablets together, for example.

"We're looking at all the things Google has in its archives that we could put on a tablet to make it a great experience."

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Locking the Vogans Computers into a Logic Loop will completely cripple the Vogans for all time. The Constructor Fleet will pass the problem up to their superiors and the entire Vogan Species will be unable to proceed till they work out what the problem is.

As their computers will fail to comprehend the issue they will be forced to work it out by hand and that will take them several Million Years to do and then they will have to recheck and recheck till they are satisfied that everything is now correct.

I'm sure that there will be numerous Vogan Poems written about these evil vile actions on your part and hopefully it will not cause the extinction of the Vogan Species as they are unable to procreate till they have solved the issue.

So now I suppose we all know why the Bees and Frogs have stopped disappearing. :0


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July24_textboxIn a statement, Google’s spokesperson, Veronica Bell, said that Google was hopeful the city and local groups will use the free WiFi to bridge the digital divide and strengthen their community. The Google donation will cover the costs of the equipment, installation and maintenance for two years. It is presumed that the city will foot the maintenance costs thereafter.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee praised the initiative as a great example of public-private partnerships that help bring better services to his city’s residents in the 21st century. Mayor Lee is a friend of the tech industry in San Francisco, placing a strong focus on making the city friendly to tech companies, workers and users.

Supervisor Farrell was quick to emphasize that the chosen 31 parks and plazas span the city including Chinatown and the Tenderloin and are focused on public spaces that get the most use. He further stated that the Google money was strictly a gift, with no strings attached.

This year, the San Francisco Department of Technology is also working on a free wireless network along Market Street that would be installed and operated by it. This will enhance the City’s work to revitalize this area with tech start-ups.

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This news is no doubt welcomed by former San Francisco Mayor and now Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, who originally worked with Earthlink and Google six years ago to bring a free public wireless system to San Francisco. Later Earthlink withdrew from the deal, amid much public controversy.


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Empower consumers to co-create the advertising content they are exposed to. No more ad noise in our lives. Simply sustainable value added.

For decades we have been inundated by mass marketing content that creates much more annoying noises in our lives than value.

What happens when consumers in the uprising of the mobile Internet era turn traditional marketing around by crowd-sourcing advertising content creation and aggregating consumer demand in near real time?

What would the implications be on our economy?
Would brands discover high-value marketing insight to create growth without pushing unwanted noise in consumers' lives?
What would be the implications of this new form of digital collaboration among consumers and brands on our environment?
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    Nov 30 2013: In the past, advertising and communication 1-dimensional nature. But today we are experiencing a major revolution in the advertising industry. With the trend of the media, entertainment increasingly diverse, advertisers must now available anytime, anywhere, 24/7, 365 days, whenever customers need. Advertising doesn't face of customer that is a tool to help create a better world . The most important thing is to create brand engagement with customers. Companies are innovating to find new ways to help customers associated with their brands. However, creativity is not the ultimate goal, but the ultimate goal is to provide a better life ...
  • Nov 28 2013: Arsene, If this conversation ends this week, maybe we should continue through our own blog or something. All in the spirit of the Cluetrain Manifesto (http://www.cluetrain.com/book/95-theses.html).

    About a month ago, a former colleague of mine who now works with Gartner as a BI analyst, challenged me and others to write a short story on how societies will be affected by (big) data in 10 to 15 years from now.
    Here's what I sent him: http://ikvraagjewat.nl/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/The-Purpose-Era.pdf
    I am sure you will recognize a thing or two. I am currently working on a short analysis of developments which will, in my opinion, lead up to a future like this.

    One more nice read:

    Have a great day,
    Jan Willem
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      Nov 28 2013: Hi Jan Willem,

      This conversation ends on Dec 4th, next Wednesday.  Let's hope to keep on sharing very constructive content by then, as you just did.  We can most definitely explore ways to keep exchanging after this deadline.  It's a fascinating subject in my view.  When we envision the future implications, it's difficult not to feel a sense of purpose to move thought and actions forward on this.

      Thank you for making me aware of the Cluetrain Manifesto.  I will definitely read it with a lot of interest since "the human voice is unmistakably genuine" has been a driving principle of my entrepreneurial actions in the startup ideas I have operationalize as well as in my marketing activities at larger companies.  Actually, I have done some interesting experiments to tear down the walls of the traditional "corporate voice", and create a direct, real-time conversation among target consumers and what becomes a "connected brand" entity.

      The results were very encouraging.  I used different information formats: text, image, video, and voice.  The engagement metrics were through the roof.  The key is to find large enough distribution channels (that can potentially scale on their own through social amplification) to reach an order of magnitude that disrupts traditional unilateral marketing communications.

      There is a lot of hope in that perspective.  There is a new breed of social startups that have recently gained access to funding to illuminate the social sphere of influence, and the power of organic amplification that comes with it.

      Still along those human lines, the E2E movement.   E2E for "end to end" consumer experience, fusion of software and people (see: http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131114195950-58666-airbnb-redfin-uber-and-the-rise-of-the-e2e-movement?_mSplash=1).

      With these trends in motion, I am confident that the consumer collectives are on their way to a promising future.  Your article is spot on...

      [to be continued]
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      Nov 28 2013: To build on the subject of big data that drives a lot of your thinking in your article, a few days ago, I also published a little something on the subject.  It's called "Big data bot on a human diet".  If this is of interest to you, it's on my amateur blog at http://vizxxi.blogspot.com, I'd value your thoughts.

      Last but not least, it's quite intriguing to me that the last article you mention is about a very recent interview of Nilofer Merchant who wrote in The New How that, “Permission to innovate without asking happens when the strategy is co-owned".

      A few years ago, as I was starting on a first co-creation venture, I had the pleasure of exchanging ideas with her on the subject as the community of Wshers we were developing had the purpose to "co-own the strategy" of their target connected brands.

      Let's connect the unconnected, let's experience the promises of our fluid society (http://vizxxi.blogspot.com/2012/02/our-fluid-society.html).
  • Nov 27 2013: Excellent idea Arsene, I have had similar thoughts myself. But I think it is more than just advertising, it's about balancing the power between supply and demand in general. Integrating ethical and moral values with economic transactions. I am convinced the future of western societies lies in those kinds of ideas. Especially in a globalizing world.

    See also Charles Leadbeater: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html
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      Nov 27 2013: Hi Jan,

      Excellent Talk by Charles Leadbeater. Thank you for sharing!

      I think Sophie-Charlotte on this thread should be interested in watching Charles' talk. He answers a question she posed that I had voluntarily not answered yet.

      Also, if you are interested, we should talk. You are absolutely right, the broader idea is about open innovation and co-creation (collaborative innovation as Charles puts it). It applies to many industries, not just advertising.

      Happy to share some of my real life example as I executed a few years ago on an idea that I had when I was 12-year-old. This idea that TED published actually :)
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    Nov 15 2013: TED friends: I thought I would share this talk for our conversation. It looks very relevant in my opinion.

    How could we humanize this "filtering bot"?
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    Nov 11 2013: As a matter of fact, I know one thing is of much debate.What exacly is noise? For example,I like some music very much, but for my mother it's only some noise.We often argue about it. And I think good advertisement should be designed with the combination of audio,visual and physical feelings. Do you mean to mute all the advertisement to make people's consuming habits affected by the new forms of propaganda? It sounds interesting.
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      Nov 11 2013: Hi Yoka,

      This is an excellent point. We all have our own, personal definition of noise...

      Can we imagine new media where we are much less likely to be exposed to what we perceive as noise?

      We may not need to block everything from reaching our eyes and ears. Beyond content that we consume for entertainment or knowledge, what if the advertising content became something of high value to us.

      What if, every time we form the desire to find a product or service that solves something of meaning in our life, at this point in time, we could be exposed to real time information that would help us acquire this solution, ideally, in the terms of interest to us (price, shape, mode of delivery etc...).

      To some extent, search engine were pioneers in that sense, but there is still a lot of noise when conducting web searches, it takes us quite a few attempts and quite some time to get to something, and often times, we do have to compromise, we do not really find what we really need, or want.

      A bit off topic, but I'd also like to build on your comment "good advertisement should be designed with the combination of audio, visual and physical feelings".

      Do you think that in the future, even through the digital streams of the mobile internet, we will be able to make the "good advertisement" resonate with more of our senses?

      I am interested in new forms of electronics, I know for a fact that there already are early prototypes of olfactory sensors for example. There are other experiments on creating texture and shapes.

      What would the experience be like if one day, all of our senses could resonate with new forms of personalized advertising content?
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        Nov 29 2013: Hi,Arsene,
        I see your desire on exploring the ideal status of services from all kinds of advertisement now. I think you want to develop a characteristic-oriented electronic advertisement filtering method. That could be effective and convenient for some busy and lazy people. But still if it's too personalized, maybe our personal information and inclination that related to our privacy would be collected and I'm afraid we would have to lose a lot of privacy and safety due to some possible cyber violations. I'm with the idea to develop a humane way of letting people filter advertisement by themselves instead of providing filtered messages based on collecting people's personal information.
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    Lejan .

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    Nov 11 2013: How could any product advertising add sustainable value to consumers? This idea is contradictory in itself, as the informational content transferred is neither meant nor expected to deliver much if any useful information about products and services.

    On this topic I actually love to have my add-blockers and pop-up killers installed to be as noiseless as possible on my way through the Internet and to cut off all the 'buy me, buy me, buy me' pseudo-values as I go. This is true value to me as a consumer and when I am going to 'consume' something, any manufacturer is actually the last I would consider to ask about the advantages of their products. How could they not manipulate me in their favor?

    And if your idea contains also consumer co-created and shared advertising ban-lists to upgrade each others first line of add-block defense, I would go for this shared value as well and participate right away.
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      Nov 11 2013: Hi Lejan,

      What if us, consumers, could turn around the way we are being advertised.

      As opposed to manufacturers pushing to us their "manipulated message", as you put it in your great comment, what if we were the ones to express what we are looking for, and team up with other consumers interested in the same product or services?
      Do you think the power of us, consumers, could be strong enough to get manufacturers of products or providers of services to deliver what we want and nothing else - no more noise?
  • Nov 9 2013: That's kind and healthy,nice idea.But I don't count on too much about no annoying noises advertisement environment.as long as there is advertisement we want to have,not everyone feels comfortable to accept them all.So I meant when our products don't need any advertisement anymore,annoying noises of advertisement disappears automatically:)
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      Nov 11 2013: That's an interesting point. When there is a new product or service of interest to us, wouldn't we want to become aware of it?

      As long as what the product or service does is in resonance with something we need or want, would we still perceive the advertising content as noise?

      Are there new collaborative interactions, among consumers and brands, to communicate in much more mutually beneficial ways?

      Ways where consumers are exposed to products and services they really need or want, and at the same time, ways that avoid the huge waste in marketing spend for brands who are still using poorly targeting media.
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    Nov 6 2013: I love the idea of co-creation, but aside from a small fan base, it seems like a lot to ask of consumers. How to solve for that?
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      Nov 7 2013: Hi Sophie-Charlotte,

      I'll be happy to share quite a few real life experiences on this as well as new ideas. First, let's see if other members of the TED community could share their thoughts on this great point.
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      Nov 27 2013: Hi Sophie-Charlotte,

      Jan shared interesting information that partly answers your question.
      Specifically, you may want to have a look at this TED Talk by Charles Leadbeater: http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_innovation.html

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    Nov 5 2013: I love the idea! Companies like Trustee are trying to do that in a way. What's your take on their offering?
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      Nov 5 2013: Hi Sophie-Charlotte,

      Thank you for being the first to join this conversation.

      Truste seems to have an interesting offering. Specifically, I see they have an ad service that relates more closely to the idea we are discussing here when compared to their other services.

      The way they market this service is "better behavorial targeting" and therefore results. This is not something radically changing the way consumers and brands interact to uncover new, sustainable value.

      For years, marketers have used behavioral targeting by inferring which future behaviors consumers may have based on past behaviors. The issue here, in my marketing experience, is still the inference.

      Regardless of how sophisticated the set of behavioral data may be and how sharp the marketing targeting decisions may be, the mere fact of relying on the past to predict the future introduces a big value gap when compared to real time consumer desire.

      There are quite a few behavioral targeting offerings out there, retargeting being one that has seen some momentum lately. They all have their relative effectiveness in terms of meeting the brands' marketing objectives. Nonetheless, at least for what I have seen in various industries, the result metrics could be much improved and so are the related marketing budgets, and to another extent, the impact on our environment.

      Exploring how we could unleash consumers' real time consumption desire to better illuminate down funnel decision making dynamics could result in much stronger marketing returns on investment.

      All in all, building consumer trust and moving towards greater privacy considerations is clearly the way to go. But I believe both consumers and brands could mutually benefit from new forms of real time digital co-creation.

      Could we find other nascent startups venturing in that promising space?
  • Nov 29 2013: That is a great story Arsene! Thanks for sharing. I will try to contact you soon. My Skype handle: jan.willem.ebbinge
    Now first I will take a look at the Twitter and Facebook pages you mentioned. Very inspiring!

    I will get back with a reaction
    Jan Willem
  • Nov 28 2013: Thanks Arsene, I have some reading to do.
    Still, I am curious about the recent startups you mention about "social sphere of influence, and the power of organic amplification that comes with it.". Can you give some examples?

    And didn't you mention an idea that you had? About a vision or a plan you had when you were 12? Enlighten me! :-)
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      Nov 28 2013: Hi Jan Willem,

      As a starting point, I would look at:
      > Linqia http://www.linqia.com/
      > Traackr http://traackr.com/

      I am acquainted with their founders and happy to make a connection. This space is evolving so fast that many months later, I am sure there are a bunch of competitors that I am not even aware of. Could be worth researching.

      Regarding the vision I had when I was 12 that took me quite some time to execute on. I can write a novel about it. Actually, I had kept a blog on blogger that depicted our adventure in a detailed way (the blog was part of the influence strategy obviously). Unfortunately, it was on blogger and it's gone apparently.

      But, without writing a novel, I can give you the highlights and I am happy to speak on Skype (arsenucciu) if you want more details.

      I was 12 years old, on a bus in Cezanne country. It was early in the morning and I was not that happy to be awake this early to go to high school for the first time in Aix-en-Provence, the "big city" nearby my Provence village.

      Mornings don't bode well with me :)

      Even less, when the music on the bus radio was constantly interrupted with irrelevant ads. They were creating so much unwanted noises in these grumpy mornings, that I thought there had to be a better way for advertisers to reach their target market. I couldn't understand how some sort of return on investment could be possible. They were losing, and I thought we were losing big time as consumers.

      Then, same thing on TV. Then, later on, even today, push ads on the web are nonsense most of the time (even retargeting).

      Back in 2006, I thought we could disrupt that with mobile. As a wireless engineer who had purposely deviated into marketing early on to try to figure out a way to act on the idea I had had a few decades before on the bus, I thought that we could deliver tailored ads on mobile that would immensely resonate with us, consumers, and unravel the untapped potential of distance in the marketing mix../..
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      Nov 28 2013: ../.. It was pre-iPhone and I thought creating an electronic coupon paltform that would deliver location-based ads had potential.

      However, as a blinded, reality distortion animated entrepreneur, I knew that I needed to challenge my intuitions. I embarked on an mba program in Boston suited for entrepreneurs. Studying there, I realized that I didn't want to create a startup that would be tracking too many "big personal data" on consumers. Therefore, I morphed the nascent Mgem concept into WishaDeal. A crowd-sourced deal discovery and consumer demand aggregation app that would create a powershift towards "consumer collectives" as you call them in your article.

      Although I was already passionate about the concept of open innovation (I had experienced it early on in my life at my family's business, not too far from your country) and was hoping to create new products from crowd-sourced ideation to market penetration (since by illuminating the demand upfront you tremendously reduce R&D risks), I thought focusing on deal creation for stay-at-home and work-at-home moms could be an interesting start.

      Therefore, I started engaging with hashtags #sahm and #wahm on Twitter (respectively stay-at-home-mom and work-at-home-mom). Scaling the following to over 5,000 (Twitter page still there at https://twitter.com/wishadeal). I thought this would be a great way to connect at no cost to mom influencers in the blogging sphere to amplify our value proposition throughout the social networks.

      But it was not enough.

      Then, I started to engage the same target audience on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NeoWisher) and was using co-creation to not only develop our community site (WishaDeal.com at the time) and develop community leaders. For that, I used real-time collaboration tools and engaged my community leaders to even co-create our own social currency, "the kishes".../....
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      Nov 28 2013: .../... "the kishes".

      Kishes are like bitcoins in a way, except that their value in the beginning was purely inspirational, aligned with the vision. The ambitious idea to disrupt traditional HR was to quantify every value added behavior in the community (creation of new deals, sharing, all facets of value creation actually) and empower remote talents, distributed anywhere in the world (mostly U.S. actually, because I had planted a social seed in the U.S., a few in Canada too by the way) to engage in these behavior on our open platform.

      This way, from this co-creation platform, we could see emerge the leaders and give them the reins of the startup. We had even managed to have community leaders take on key social responsibilities like leading facebook engagement as an example. I just made them administrator of our facebook page.

      We used a game dynamics to design an environment of relentless creativity, although we could only reward the early wishers with the inspirational "kishes" of our vision.

      As demand aggregation shaped up, we were contacting the "targeted brands" to negotiate a business deal. Note that the deal could be a premium deal because we would request something unique. Something that we wishers wished to pay a premium for because it filled an unmet need in our lives.

      Well, that's already a novel, if you want to know more, we can speak :)
  • Nov 27 2013: Hi Arsene,
    we should definitely talk!
    Curious about your example, and I have a thing or two to share as well.

    Not much time right now, but let's keep in touch

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a landmark visit to Baghdad on March 2 for talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials, Iraq said on Thursday.

Ahmadinejad’s visit will be the first to Iraq by the president of the Islamic Republic, which is at loggerheads with the United States over the causes of violence in Iraq as well as Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iran, a predominantly Shiite Muslim country, and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s.

Ties have improved since Sunni Arab strongman Saddam Hussein was ousted in the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and a Shiite Islamist-led government came to power in Baghdad.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said Ahmadinejad would visit Iraq for two days.

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“This was supposed to take place on this week’s Friday, but based on latest evaluation and because of technical issues, these negotiations have been postponed but we are still firm on holding them,” Kazemi-Qomi told IRNA.

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The price reductions, which come into effect from Friday, also see the cost of the Xbox 360 Premium, which has a 20GB hard drive, dropping from £249.99 to £199.99, and the Xbox 360 Elite, with a 120GB hard drive, retailing for £259.99 rather than £299.99.

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Microsoft has also been stung by a string of complaints from Xbox customers whose consoles have developed an unexplained fault, known in the gaming community as the "red ring of death", because the problem is signified by the appearance of a circle of red lights on the front of the console. And Microsoft also announced last month that it would no longer be producing a bolt-on HD-DVD player for the Xbox 360, after it became clear that the Sony-backed Blu-ray format had won the battle to become the next-generation high-definition DVD standard of choice.

The price cut comes just weeks before the release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the much-anticipated latest installment in the Grand Theft Auto series.

The title will be released simultaneously on both Sony's PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's Xbox 360 platforms, and will pitch the two technology giants in a head-to-head battle to win gamers to their platform.

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A House without Walls

We pass this house on our way to Stonebriar Mall in Frisco
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This house baffles me.

It has no walls.

I can't decide if someone just had to stop in the middle of building it.

Or if it burned and that's all that's left.

Or if it was made to look that way...for some specific unknown reason.

It'd be a great place for a concert.

My kids think aliens did it.
of course.

Sometimes I feel like a house without walls.
But unique.

Actually, I found the real story behind the house.

Twisted Fencepost said...

I don't remember the house in Dallas not having any walls!? tee hee
Guess that's why there was so much turmoil on Dallas. No one had any privacy.

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i need walls. and doors... with locks.

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That IS weird. No furniture so I guess construction? I guess there's Southern AND Northern exposure..

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That's kind of strange that they've just left the skeleton of the house still standing. It's kind of creepy looking. Interesting story though!

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I was looking at it and thinking that it sure did look like the Dallas ranch (Southfork). Cool!

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I worked really hard today to finish all of my housework so that I can have tomorrow free to sew.  I still have 3 major things to make and 4 towels to embroider.  For now, I'll show you some things I've made in the past.

I made this cross stitch calendar in 1985.  Before I was finished, I'd made one for my mom, my sister, and my MIL.  It wouldn't be Christmas without it.

I made this back during the 1980's too.  The inside is a straw wreath.  The fabric was gathered and stretched over it.  I haven't used it in a couple of years, although I'm not sure why.

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Postby Matrix » Sat Mar 05, 2005 7:11 pm

hi im matrix and im new here...
well just want to ask help because im an independent learner for latin, ive always wanted to study latin since high school but it was never part of the curriculum... so im here just want to ask which books should i download and what the supplements that i need to learn latin? thanks in advance
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Postby Meowth » Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:00 pm

you should consider to download D'Ooge and Allen and Greenough Grammar books

i've been studying latin from D'Ooge book with excellent results ;) you just need to be disciplined
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Postby kissifer » Fri Apr 29, 2005 12:18 pm

hey, i'm training as an english teacher, i've wanted to learn latin for a while, and as well as making me seem clever to other people, i think it will help with my english grammar and technical terms. just though i'd say hi.

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Postby jaiden » Sat Sep 24, 2005 1:21 am

I'm new here, too. I've always wanted to learn Latin, and so when I found this site I've jumped in! Learning independantly when you haven't had grammar inforced since 8th grade is a bit of a challenge, but the textbook has been tremedously helpful so far.

;) look forward to getting to know you all...
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Postby Kip » Sat Sep 24, 2005 8:10 pm

grammar inforced since 8th grade is a bit of a challenge

Know how you feel. Learning latin requires knowing grammer in it's basic form. You're looking at a guy that had 4 years of English I! :oops: No kidding. I am a self-learner too and I am grasping grammer a heck of a lot better than I did 25 years ago by reading these Latin Grammer books. I am also using D'Ooge to study Latin as with other books as well. I do not have the Wheelock books. Not sure which edition to have yet. I am getting conflicting opionions on that issue. Anyway, this site has been a tremendous help for me.

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Postby Dom » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:30 pm

I use 'ecce romani' - a very respectable book. It also contains information about the ancient world which is very interesting. Being mere 14 years of age, however, I am not entirely sure of whether you would share my enthusiasm (though it still teaches you all the things you need to know). Kennedy's Latin primer is also an excellent resource to supplement 'ecce romani'.

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Postby CuinoVivien » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:02 am

I've always been interested with Languages. Latin's one of the most beautiful, i'd say. Precise and extremely well-constructed. Thought i'd give it a try with D'Ooge book.

Just thought I'd say hi to everyone here. :)
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Postby runicus » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:42 pm

Hi there,
This is another novice,and a fanatic for languages,who besides his native Chinese and a second language,English,has attempted to learn several other tongues and not without results,say,German,French,Japanese.
I began to be interested in Latin when I was reading a Chinese version of LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO,in which to have found lots of Latin proverbs. When I had some knowledge about German,which shares with Latin at least declensions of nouns,I was able to have a look into a dilapidated textbook for Latin editioned in 1980s.
I was ecstatic when I found this marvellous website for classical languages,and I am no less interested in these despite my Chinese nationality.For now,I have a general knowledge about Latin,say,five declensions,four conjugations,and the delicate and complicated paradigms for the verbs(which remind me of LA CONJUGAISON DES VERBES DE FRANCAIS. :) ).I am a person good at memorising and analysing,so I find learning of Latin a lot of fun,and so I believe as far as Greek is concerned.
All I need now is more and more practice and memory work which I am quite willing to do.(considering that I have VENI VIDI VICI the GRE vocabulary) Fortunas bonas,O amici!!

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