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should i fix my 2007 toyota hybrid?
It has 140,000 miles on it. I was in an accident and while it was sitting at a wrecker lot i guess there was a misunderstanding and they thought that i wasn\\'t going to want the car anymore and they got into it and sold the ABS Actuator. When i went in to ask about it they told me that every time a hybrid car is in a wreck that part automatically has to be replaced. IS THIS TRUE? I was hit in the driver passenger side so the motor didn\\'t have any impact whatsoever. A new actuator part at toyota is running 1450.00... and i heard that i could get a used one for about 800.00... Is it worth it for me to fix this car?
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Have you checked with a Toyota Service Department? I wouldn't take the word from a wrecker lot that had already TAKEN YOURS. This sound like a scam to me. They probably sold the ABS Actuator because it was worth some money.


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Apple offers an extensive collection of music, video and audiobook genres from across the world. The only issue is, content bought on the platform will not be accessible anymore once subscription ends. TuneFab Studio announces their Apple Music Converter that allows Apple device users to convert their favorite songs to MP3 so they can enjoy it on almost every other device. The company also offer the Apple Music Converter (Mac), which converts M4P to MP3 and the M4V Converter (Mac) that allow users convert rented M4V movies and videos so that they can view them on other devices.
Download the free trial by visiting the website at www.tunefab.com, and start converting.
"Apple device users get their hands tied when they purchase content on Apple and can only enjoy it on Apple devices. This can be very frustrating, which is why we have created this technologically advanced program to help them enjoy their favorite Apple music, audio, and video on other devices. Our program is efficient, ensuring that content doesn't lose their quality and value to the conversion process. TuneFab is the perfect software for anyone who wants to be truly unlimited in their enjoyment," said Ryan Lee, CEO of TuneFab Studio.
TuneFab Apple Music Converter is the perfect tool for Apple Device users who want to remove the limitation and keep the music as long as they wish. The program gives users full control of their music by helping to convert M4P songs to common formats, such as MP3, M4A, AC3, AU, AC3, FLAC, AIFF or MKA. The software also works with iTunes M4B and Audible AA, AAX files so that users can convert Audiobook to popular MP3, M4A, AC3, FLAC, etc. The program allows easy extraction of audio from iTunes M4V videos, like iTunes movies, music, TV shows, and podcasts. The Apple Music Converter for Mac converts Apple music and audiobooks to mp3 and other formats, making it easy to listen to songs on iPod, and Walkman. The M4V Converter for Mac converts M4V to MP4, with high-quality output 1080/720 HD output, playback capacity on various devices, and it keeps all multi-language subtitles and audio tracks.
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Welcome to CRIU, a project to implement checkpoint/restore functionality for Linux.
Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace, or CRIU (pronounced kree-oo, IPA: /krɪʊ/, Russian: криу), is a software tool for the Linux operating system. Using this tool, you can freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it as a collection of files on disk. You can then use the files to restore the application and run it exactly as it was during the time of the freeze. With this feature, application live migration, snapshots, remote debugging, and many other things are possible.
CRIU started as a project of Virtuozzo, and grew with tremendous help from the community. It is currently used by (integrated into) OpenVZ, LXC/LXD, Docker, Podman, and other software, and packaged for many Linux distributions.
- Getting packages for your distribution
- Or try manual installation to have CRIU on your system
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- Collection of real world examples of how to use CRIU. Some are complex, some are not. HOW TO dump a simple loop might be the best one to start with. Also a set of asciinema records for real-life examples.
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- A sort of troubleshooting guide
- What can change after C/R
- CRIU cannot (yet) save and restore every single bit of tasks' state. This page describes what bits visible through standard kernel API are such.
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- What an application could do to make CRIU refuse to dump it.
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- 2019-10-03, Fast In-Memory CRIU for Docker Containers
- 2019-09-24, Using Container Migration for High Performance Computing (HPC) Workloads Resilience
- 2019-09-11, Performance Estimation of Container-BasedCloud-to-Fog Offloading
- 2019-07-16, FastContainer: A Homeostatic System Architecture High-speed Adapting Execution Environment Changes
- 2019-07-11, Exploring Potential for Non-Disruptive Vertical Auto Scaling and Resource Estimation in Kubernetes
- 2019-07, University of Twente: Increasing Availability of the AEPU by Improving the Update Process
- 2019-05-25, Replayable Execution Optimized for Page Sharing for a Managed Runtime Environment
- 2019-04-29, Binghamton University: mWarp: Accelerating Intra-Host Live Container Migration via Memory Warping
- 2019-04-10, CRIU and SELinux
- 2019-03-27, Container Migration in the Fog: A Performance Evaluation
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José Saramago's eerie story of an epidemic in a contemporary city begins with the scene of a man sitting in a car at a traffic light. The light turns green but the car does not move, even when the drivers in the cars behind it begin honking their horns. The man has suddenly gone blind; his world has turned to a milky whiteness.
A passerby drives the blind man home. Later, the blind man's wife returns and discovers her husband's condition. She takes him to an eye doctor by taxi because the passerby has stolen the blind man's car. Immediately upon arriving at the doctor's office, the blind man is ushered in to see the doctor ahead of the other patients, who include a girl with dark glasses suffering from conjunctivitis, a young boy with a squint accompanied by his mother, and an old man with an eye patch over a hollow socket and a cataract in the remaining eye. The doctor is mystified by the sudden complete loss of sight and by a blindness of whiteness instead of the usual darkness.
The man who had stolen the car is suddenly overcome by the same white blindness that had stricken his victim. The girl with the dark glasses goes blind while having sex for money in a hotel room. The doctor loses his sight at home in the company of his wife and calls the Ministry of Health to warn of a possible epidemic. Others are infected by the strange eye disease.
The government, concerned about an apparently spreading plague, begins rounding up the sufferers and quarantining them in an abandoned mental hospital. When the police arrive to take the doctor away, the doctor's wife jumps into the car and falsely proclaims that she has just gone blind in order to be allowed to go with her husband. Through the rest of the story, she will be the only central character with sight and ultimately the only person with sight, the only witness to the degradation of people in a sightless world. At the hospital, they meet the man who had gone blind in the car, the man's wife, the car thief, the girl who had lost her vision in the hotel, and the boy with the squint who has been taken away from his mother. These people continue to be nameless, as well as sightless, as if their social identities had been stripped away along with their eyesight.
More people enter the hospital as more are affected by the epidemic, and the government rounds them up in a futile effort to contain the spreading affliction. The hospital is guarded by armed soldiers who have orders to shoot anyone who comes too near the surrounding walls. The soldiers themselves keep going blind, however, and have to be replaced by others. Inside the hospital, conditions deteriorate because the sightless are unable to clean themselves or their surroundings adequately. When the frightened soldiers open fire on some of the internees, the others are slow to pick up the bodies, so that the place is infected with the dead as well as with excrement. This theme of uncleanliness runs throughout the novel, with pollution—both physical and moral—presented as a consequence of lack of vision.
The only blind internees who are able to organize themselves effectively are members of a gang headed by one man who has managed to smuggle a gun into the hospital. The gang takes control of the food brought in intermittently by the military. The gang members force the other internees to pay for food. First, the others have to surrender everything they have of value. Then the women in the various barracks of the hospital must submit to sex with the ruthless men in order to purchase food for their barracks. Without sight, the only social order possible is of the cruelest and most exploitative character.
The doctor's wife stabs the leader of the gang to death with a pair of scissors and another woman sets fire to the gang's barracks. The fire spreads to the entire hospital and the blind flee, hoping the soldiers will not open fire. The soldiers are all gone, however. The doctor's wife leads the small band, her...
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The more my besetting sin troubled me, the more anxious I became for an education. I believed that, if I were educated, God could make me understand what I needed; for, in spite of what others said, it would come to me, now and then, that I needed something more than what I had, but what that something was I could not tell.
About this time Mrs. Phileos and Miss Crandall met with great indignity from a proslavery mob in Canterbury, Conn., because they dared to teach colored children to read. If they went out to walk, they were followed by a rabble of men and boys, who hooted at
One scholar, with whom I was acquainted, was so frightened that she went into spasms, which resulted in a derangement from which she never recovered. We were a despised and oppressed people; we had no refuge but God. He heard our cries, saw our tears, and wonderfully delivered us.
Bless the Lord that he is "a man of war!" "I am that I am" is his name. Mr. and Mrs. Phileos and their daughter opened a school in Albany for colored children of both sexes. This was joyful news to me. I had saved a little money from my earnings, and my father promised to help me; so I started with hopes, expecting in a short time to be able to understand the Bible, and read and write well. Again was I doomed to disappointment: for some inexplicable reason, the family left the place in a few weeks after beginning the school. My poor heart sank within me. I could scarcely speak for constant weeping. That was my last schooling. Being quite a young woman, I was obliged to work, and study the Bible as best I could. The dear Holy Spirit helped me wonderfully to understand the precious Word.
Through temptation I was brought into great distress of mind; the enemy of the souls thrust sore at me; but I was saved from falling into his snares--saved in the hour of trial from my impetuous spirit, by the angel of the Lord standing in the gap, staying me in my course.
"Oh, bless the name of Jesus! he maketh the rebel a
priest and king;
He hath bought me and taught me the new song to sing."
I continued to live in an up-and-down way for more than a year, when there came to our church an old man and his wife, who, when speaking in meeting, told of the trouble they once had had in trying to overcome their temper, subdue their pride, etc. But they took all to Jesus, believing his blood could wash them clean and sanctify them wholly to himself; and oh! the peace, the sweet peace, they had enjoyed ever since. Their Words thrilled me through and through.
I at once understood what I needed. Though I had read in my Bible many things they told me, I had never understood what I read. I needed a Philip to teach me.
I told my parents, my minister, and my leader that I wanted to be sanctified. They told me sanctification was for the aged and persons about to die, and not for one like me.
I wanted to go and visit these old people who had been sanctified, but my mother said: "No, you can't go; you are half crazy now, and these people don't know what they are talking about." To have my mother refuse my request so peremptorily made me very sorrowful for many days. Darkness came upon me, and my distress was greater than before, for, instead of following the true light, I was turned away from it.


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If art's your thing, masterpieces by old and new masters can be viewed in museums like the Albertinum and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, while world-class opera can be enjoyed at the Semper Opera House. On the north bank of the Elbe River, Neustadt is a hub of hip nightlife.
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A girl named Sophie is homeless and has been through the hardest times a 16 year old girl should not have to go through. One day when she goes into a coffee shop to see if there was any work going, she bumps into a woman who turns out to be Avril Lavigne who is someone she was looked up to all her life. She helps Avril out the way of being hurt by a mob of people wanting her autograph and some who just don't like her... Avril instantly has this weird attraction toward Sophie that she has never felt before towards any girl. When she finally finds out Sophie is homeless and lives on the streets it breaks her heart, but what happens when they kiss...? What happens when Avril starts to find out about the dark things that have made Sophie a cold person...? This story was named Darlin' after the song Darlin' by Avril Lavigne. Even though this story is based in 2010 which is before that song even came out of Avril's 4th studio album Goodbye Lullaby. I thought the song suited what this story
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Watch how Siemens Healthineers helped Labor Blackholm MVZ restructure their laboratory for improved efficiency.
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- Mean clinical chemistry turnaround time (TAT), including reruns and dilutions, was reduced from 40 to 22 minutes (45%).
- Mean immunoassay TAT, including reruns, was reduced from 57 to 34 minutes (40%).
- Decreased manual interventions in the pre- and post-analytical phases using a combination of system and automation features, such as intelligent sample routing and onboard aliquot retention, repeats and dilutions.
- Throughput increased from 4400 to 5880 samples per day (34%) while the number of analyzers decreased by 30%.
- Overtime costs were reduced by improving staff utilization, conducting more tests with fewer processes, and minimizing manual intervention.
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Street Lights Improve Life in Lagos
New street lights in Lagos, Nigeria are part of a modest effort to step up amenities in a city plagued by kidnappings and other troubles. WSJ's Drew Hinshaw reports.
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... I ... and it can be ... crisscrossing NATO's West Africa's biggest city ... to put up streetlights ... it might seem like a minor projects interface troubled by bigger trauma like kidnappings ... for infrastructure and snarling traffic ... but the streetlights represent the city's modest effort to start stepping up city amenities ... however slowly ... what we have here ... yet as ... to what's being called ... one of the best ... what is the starting with thoroughfares and winding their way into roads and alleys ... they've ... been is about fifty km of road in the city in the city of twenty one million people and six thousand km ... and as a loss at a table that happens sometimes taxis adds to the polls ... and once in awhile armed robbers come and I cut the wires and commit robbery ... still ... the fact that the lights on here at all is a sign of progress ... the Wall Street John all this is true to show him make those Nigeria ...


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California Speedway and the Automobile Club of Southern California Announce Historic 10-Year Partnership
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CA - International Speedway Corporation and the Automobile Club of Southern California - the nation's largest member of the AAA federation - today unveiled details of a new partnership. At a trackside press conference, Speedway President Gillian Zucker and Auto Club CEO Tom McKernan announced the re-naming of the state's premier motorsports facility as the Auto Club Speedway of Southern California.
Zucker and McKernan cited the long history and proud tradition of motorsports in California, and the role their two organizations have played in making the Speedway the state's most popular sporting venue, with two NASCAR Sprint Cup races and other events attracting nearly 500,000 fans every year.
"The Automobile Club of Southern California does more than recognize the alignment of its brand with motorsports - Auto Club members are also race fans. So, this relationship was built to not only extend the Auto Club's brand exposure but also to provide a broad-reaching, positive impact at the track for race fans," Zucker said. "The Auto Club's commitment to its members and fans will be seen over the next ten years in facility improvements, fan promotions and cutting edge guest amenities. We believe this relationship is the start of a new era for motorsports in Southern California and we look forward to the day when one in every two households in Southern California has not just a member of Auto Club but a member of the Auto Club Speedway fan family."
The new partnership will place a premium on enhancing the fan experience at the Auto Club Speedway, with special initiatives aimed at Auto Club members, and a series of capital improvements that will make the racetrack more comfortable, accessible and enjoyable. Detailed plans are still being developed, but as soon as this year, fans can expect to see new escalators, increased shade, new misting zones, and new interactive fan-friendly elements incorporating new technologies.
"For more than 10 years the Auto Club has showcased its services to thousands of race fans at California Speedway. We now have a unique opportunity to expand that outreach and at the same time offer our members and all fans a world-class entertainment experience," said McKernan. "Auto racing is a part of the heritage of the Automobile Club of Southern California and we are pleased that we can build on that legacy and take the sport into the future through our relationship with International Speedway Corporation."
In outlining details of the partnership, McKernan also cited the Auto Club's commitment to promoting automobile and driver safety, and the high-profile platform auto racing provides to promote the organization's safe-driving initiatives and insurance offerings.
"By supporting motorsports we can reinforce the message that the only safe way to drive fast is if you are a professional on a racetrack," McKernan said. "This partnership is about more than sports, it also provides us with a unique venue to educate Californians about auto safety."
The Auto Club and its affiliated insurance company will use the Speedway facilities to expand development of automotive technology and driver safety initiatives. Activities will include testing at the Speedway to evaluate new automobile equipment and performance characteristics, and the opening of new Auto Club Teen and Mature Driver Schools at the track. The Auto Club Dragway, located on the north side of the Speedway facility, will continue as a site for the National Hot Rod Association street legal drag racing program, offering Southern Californians a safe alternative to illegal street racing.
Today's announcement is the culmination of a relationship that has spanned more than a decade. An original California Speedway corporate partner, the Auto Club's relationship with the Speedway began in 1997 with the Auto Club 200 Inaugural NASCAR Grand National West Series race. The company moved its sponsorship to the Saturday cup companion race in 1999 with the Auto Club 300 (now the Stater Bros 300), continuing with that event through the 2002 race. The Auto Club assumed the event title sponsorship of a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at California Speedway in 2003. In addition, the Auto Club became a naming rights partner at the track in 2005 through the naming of the Auto Club Dragway, the Speedway's quarter-mile dragstrip.
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in-ef-ê-bêl • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: 1. Indescribable, that cannot be expressed in words. 2. Unspeakable, unutterable, forbidden to be spoken, as the ineffable name of God.
Notes: Today's word is the negation of effable "utterable, pronounceable", which has slumped into disuse. The reason seems clear: all the words and sounds we utter are utterable, hence effable, so when would we need the word? It is the unutterable words like floccinaucinihilipilification for which we need a descriptive term. Since we avoid such terms, we seldom need words like ineffable. That is why its meaning has changed to either "indescribable" or "forbidden to be spoken".
In Play: This word is more often used to describe the indescribable, rather than the unspeakable: "Frieda Livery has an ineffable je-ne-sais-quoi about her that attracts men like moths to a candle." It can, however, still be used in that sense: "Since he accidentally scored the winning goal for the opposition, his name has become ineffable; they just refer to him as 'H' down in the athletic department."
Word History: Today's Good Word comes via Old French from Latin ineffabilis "unutterable", an adjective based on the prefix in- "not" + ex "out of" + fari "to speak". The past participle of fari is fatum, whose meaning migrated from "spoken" to "prophecy" to "doom" as it became Old French fat. We then borrowed it as fate. Fari also lies at the bottom of fabula "story (something spoken)", which the French compacted into fable before lending it to us. The present participle, fan(t)s "speaking", turns up in infan(t)s "not speaking", which English also borrowed from French, this time as infant. (Well, our gratitude to Katy Brezger for suggesting today's Good Word is not ineffable: thank you, Katy.)
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My Series4 has very low signal strength on both tuners. Started after a nearby lightening strike. Everything else works fine, I can get a picture if I amplify the signal a good bit, but even with the amp, the levels are still only in the 30~40 range.
I plan on buying a new Series4, and trying to repair the damage to the analog section with parts from the new unit. But perhaps it would be better if I could just replace the digital IC, that contains my lifetime sub information. I was thinking if remove the IC from the damaged Tivo, and transplant that into the new one I could retain my service number and subscription status.
Would that work?
What chip would that be?
Are there any other components that would be involved?
Would the old HDD work in the new unit, once I transplant the device?
Thanks for any adivice or tips on this situation.
Si me rogas, potes abire et tu ipse cacare.
Too busy TiVo wrangling to watch television anymore.
TiVo began storing the TSN on the CPU beginning with the TiVo HD, so the only way to to move TSN's between units is with an IR rework station and BGA reballing kit.


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RSWA selects water supply plan
Pressured by recent drought worries, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority has finally chosen a new 50-year water supply plan–the South Fork pipeline. The plan calls for the expansion of Ragged Mountain Reservoir and a new pipeline to the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir. The RSWA will hold a public forum on the plan on Tuesday, April 18 at Monticello High School at 7pm. The plan still needs to be approved by the Albemarle County Service Authority board, the City Council and the Board of Supervisors, and the State. But county officials say that state regulators, as well as local officials and environmentalists, are very supportive of the plan.


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Letters to the Editor for Feb. 15
Thank you for 26 reasons
I just wanted to say thank you to the editorial staff at the Register Citizen for putting the 26 Reasons to Act in the paper daily.
This is such a wonderful way to profile the children and teachers who lost their lives at Sandy Hook and let us really get to know them.
I do agree that we have to address the issue of gun violence in this country.
And anyone who thinks differently, I wonder would their feelings be the same if it were their family member who lost their life?
--Jeanette Richard, Torrington
Hoping for spring
Blizzard Charlotte brought five inches of snow to Winsted on Friday evening about 6 p.m. There were 1,000 snow plows out throughout the State of CT.
The snow was coming down three to four inches an hour at some places in the state at 8 p.m. Friday evening of Feb. 8.
At about this same time there was an average of 12 inches of snow in each city.
The storm was expected to last through Saturday morning.
My sister was happy about one thing.
We had a late Christmas get-together with my boyfriend and a friend of ours. One of the presents I gave her was a 12-band radio, which she needed.
Since she had no radio and if she lost power; she would have then been in touch; with the outside world. She was truly grateful.
Gusts of wind were approximately 40-50 mile per hour. One-half to two-feet of snow was expected.
As I looked out the window, the snow showed a steady and fast rush to the ground.
Of course it takes much time and effort for the clean up. There were power outages, also.
Let's hope when this storm ends, warmer days will be in sight and that the groundhog seeing his shadow will indeed bring an early spring.
-- Arlene Ascenzo, Torrington
Clear sidewalks - keep our citizens safe!
Blizzard Charlotte left the Torrington area with high snow banks, limited visibility, and narrow roadways. We remind residents to:
1) Drive slowly approaching intersections
2) Decrease speeds on hazardous roadways (snow packed, icy or bumpy roads caused by snow)
3) Allow oncoming traffic to pass your safely on narrow roads
4) Be cognizant that if you are exiting a driveway, business, etc, people may NOT see you coming out (due to high snow banks or snow drifts left behind)
5) Be aware of pedestrians exiting onto roadways.
To that end, clearing sidewalks is very important to the safety of our residents.
In addition, City Ordinance 180-2 mandates owners or occupants remove and/or treat (i.e. sand/salt) snow, sleet, and ice from city sidewalks, and fire hydrants in which their property adjoins or abuts within 12 hours after the cessation of the fall of snow or sleet.
Failure to remove the snow, sleet, or ice will result in a $75.00 fine for each offense and may result in the city clearing the sidewalks at the owner's expense.
We remind citizens that through April 1, 2013, Torrington City Ordinance 194-4 forbids parking on ANY CITY STREET or in any city owned parking lot between the hours of 12 midnight and 7 a.m. for any period over one hour.
Violations will result in a $20 parking ticket for each offense and may result in the towing/removal of the vehicle at the owner's expense.
Thank you for assisting us and helping each other following this historic blizzard.
Be a good neighbor and continue to check on those in need, the elderly and those needing a little extra assistance.
-- Lt. Michael R. Emanuel Jr.,
Torrington Police Department


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A Vaccine to Prevent Heart Attacks? Or a New Frankendrug?
We can hear it now: "Give it to your children before they get fat!"
Swedish researchers have developed a new vaccine that they believe can drastically reduce the fat in arteries, thereby reducing or preventing heart attacks. The vaccine, which would be delivered by injection or through a nasal spray, could be available within five years.
It's the peptide vaccine CVX-210 (the CVX stands for CardioVax, the company that is developing the drug with the researchers). The team identified three peptides—a chain of twenty amino acids—which reduced development of atherosclerosis in mice by 60 to 70%. The vaccine involves just one of these three amino acid segments.
Head researcher Jan Nilsson announced at a cardiovascular biology conference that they are trying to change the way the immune system responds to plaque build-up in the arteries, reduce inflammation, and suppress plaque formation. He believes the antibody therapy is "likely to be expensive, so you could probably only afford to give it to high-risk populations rather than everyone." The rest, presumably, would simply take statin drugs all their life!
But let's look for a moment at what the vaccine actually does.
In the 1990s, scientists found antibodies against oxidized LDL cholesterol inside artery plaques. This gave rise to the concept that cardiovascular disease might be an autoimmune disease, where the immune system was attacking oxidized LDL. The Swedish researchers found that by using an adjuvant—that is, an agent in the vaccine designed to increase the immune response—they were able to dampen the inflammation and reduce the fatty plaque build-up.
But if inflammation and plaque build-up is indeed part of an autoimmune disease, creating a vaccine that increases immune response seems to have a huge potential for things to go awry! Usually in patients who have an autoimmune disorder, the immune system can't tell the difference between healthy body tissue and antigens. When this happens, the immune response can destroy normal, healthy body tissues.
Another thing to remember is that inflammation is the body's way of coping with invaders and perceived threats. The build-up of fat and plaque in the arteries is the body's process of scarring and healing. As Dr. Joseph A. Mercola points out, when inflammation occurs, your blood vessels constrict to keep you from bleeding to death; your blood becomes thicker so it can clot; your immune system sends cells and chemicals to fight viruses, bacteria, and other infectious agents; and cells multiply to repair the damage. If your arteries are damaged, a very similar process occurs inside of your body, but with slightly different terminology: when the "scar" is in your artery, they call it "plaque."
In order to replace your damaged cells, the body needs cholesterol; no cell can form without it. If you have damaged cells that need to be replaced, your liver will be notified to make more cholesterol and release it into your bloodstream. This is a deliberate process that takes place in order for your body to produce new, healthy cells.
Chronic inflammation—and chronic plaque formation—along with the thickening of your blood and constricting of your blood vessels that normally occur during the inflammatory process, can indeed increase your risk of high blood pressure and heart attacks. But the answer is not to take drugs that artificially lower your cell-healing cholesterol, nor vaccines that artificially stimulate the immune response against arterial fats. Researcher Nilsson stated—and the media has been repeating it ever since—that this can be considered "truly groundbreaking" since it is "the first time that the underlying cause of heart disease has been targeted." No! Getting a quick-fix vaccination so you don't have to change your lifestyle is just the opposite of "treating the underlying cause"!
Real treatment of the underlying causes is through a holistic approach to health. To cure inflammation, and prevent it in the first place, you must modify your diet (perhaps significantly), exercise properly, and supplement wisely. The best thing about this is that you don't have to wait five years for it—you can start right away! Many experts recommend:
- Getting 30 to 60 minutes of exercise most days of the week with an emphasis on interval aerobic training as well as muscle-preserving moves
- Avoiding deep fried foods, foods high in trans fat, refined foods, processed foods, and too much starchy food
- Normalizing your body's omega 6 to omega 3 fat ratio
- Reducing stress
- Getting plenty of vitamin K, and especially K2—it is a powerful inhibitor of calcification of arteries and cartilage
Be sure to see your own healthcare professional for a program that is tailored to your personal needs.
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Robin Williams, Comedic Master And Oscar Winner, Dies At 63
Robin Williams, Comedic Master And Oscar Winner, Dies At 63
Robin Williams has died at the age of 63. Williams is remembered for his roles in TV and film — including a radio DJ in Good Morning Vietnam, an inspiring teacher in Dead Poet's Society and his Oscar-winning turn as a therapist in Good Will Hunting. Entertainment reporter Steve Zeitchik discusses Williams' legacy.
The comedy and entertainment world has lost one of its masters. Robin Williams has died. He was 63 years old. Among his many roles on film and television, he'll be remembered as the fast-talking radio DJ in "Good Morning Vietnam," the loveable Mrs. Doubtfire, the alien Mork in "Mork And Mindy," and the inspiring teacher in "Dead Poets Society."
ROBIN WILLIAMS: (As John Keating) I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.
SIEGEL: Williams won an Academy Award as best supporting actor in "Good Will Hunting." He was found unconscious and not breathing around noon today in his home in Tiburon, California. The Marin County Sherriff's Office said in a statement that it suspects the death to be a suicide. It said a comprehensive investigation must be completed. We're joined now by Steven Zeitchik who writes about movies for the Los Angeles Times. And Steven Zeitchik, when you think of the career of Robin Williams, what stands out most? What do you think he'll be remembered for most?
STEVEN ZEITCHIK: Well, it's interesting as you were saying, Robert, some of those films that I thought about - for every one you mentioned, I thought about three or four others that were equally worthy. And I think first and foremost just how prolific he was not just in comedy, which I think obviously was his kind of bread and butter - what he most enjoyed doing - but also drama. You know, you said "Good Will Hunting" and "Dead Poets Society." You can add "Awakenings" and really a whole host of other films in there that he showed not just his kind of protean comic persona, but also his melancholic and often dramatic one. And I think that other side of him is being celebrated now in the wake of his passing and rightly so.
SIEGEL: But what you've just referred to as his protean comic persona was quite remarkable. The man had a comic gift. It seemed like Mork could be from another planet sometimes.
ZEITCHIK: No question, and I think a lot of people were kind of shocked - I know (unintelligible) - from those early days on Mork where he started improvising. And, you know, some of the show-runners and the people working on the series were shocked at what he could do. And, you know, now I think we kind of take for granted not just him, but I think other personalities who are able to improvise either, you know, in a live setting or on a TV or film set. But it was not done nearly as much when he started, and I think in many ways he paved the way. I mean, you know, voices, characters, obviously mimicry as we saw with a lot of his stand-up specials. So protean is the word that comes to mind for me, and improvisation is another one - something that, again, a lot of people have now done in his - kind of followed in his footsteps. But I don't know if anyone's ever done it better. I don't know if anyone ever will do it better.
SIEGEL: Certainly an original - recently, we haven't seen quite so much of Robin Williams. I understand that there was a sequel to "Mrs. Doubtfire" in the works. He had a television sitcom called "The Crazy Ones" that I gather was not a big success. Was his star on the decline?
ZEITCHIK: Yeah, he seemed to have - look, I mean it's amazing you said "Mork And Mindy" first came on the air in 1978. That's - you know, even to take that - from that to "Good Will Hunting" which was 20 years later, is a pretty remarkable run. But I would say in the last 15 years he was working a little bit less. You know, he was - again, understandably - maybe slowing down a bit, but certainly did a lot of independent films. And I think when you go and look at kind of his filmography, you know, there were certainly movies - kind of, again, independent films that he'd done in the last number of years. He did have a few movies - not just "Mrs. Doubtfire," which was in development, but a few movies in the can. One movie coming up - a big - fortunately it was going to be a kind of romp of a film - is the new "Night At The Museum" movie in which he plays Teddy Roosevelt, a role he's had in the past in this series. And I just saw a trailer for it, and he looked very funny. So, he certainly had kind of taken on more supporting roles, more independent films, but not as much of the lead comic stuff that we knew from earlier in his career.
SIEGEL: Steven Zeitchik, thanks for talking with us.
ZEITCHIK: Thank you, Robert, I appreciate it.
SIEGEL: Steven Zeitchik who writes about movies for the Los Angeles Times was talking about Robin Williams who was found dead in his home in Tiburon, California today. It is a suspected suicide.
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Cruise Ship Makes Rescue off Florida
A cruise ship idling without passengers came to the aid of a small craft in distress in international waters 37 miles off the coast of Palm Beach, Fla., on Saturday.Upon seeing the boat in the water, the 855-foot Carnival Sensation maneuvered alongside the craft and provided blankets, life jackets, food and water to the 24 people on board, which included individuals from various nationalities and two children, operator Carnival Cruise Line said.When the boat began taking on water, Carnival Sensation rescued all 24 individuals and brought them on board. They were evaluated by Carnival Sensation's medical team and were quarantined away from crew members.
Offshore Equipment Hydraulic Maintenance Tip-of-the-Day: Tribology
Tip #1: Tribology - Assume All Hydraulic Components are Designed EquallyBelieve it or not, maintenance begins during the design phase. Moving parts create friction, and friction can lead to wear, ending in premature failure, especially when tribology is ignored. In order to have a long-lasting hydraulic system, it is critical to specify operating conditions and environment during the project start. When all conditions are considered, it is possible to select the right component with the ideal tribological configuration for lasting component life.
Volvo Penta, Danfoss Editron Power Hybrid CTVs
A pair of hybrid-electric crew transfer vessels (CTV) being built for Danish operator MHO&Co will be powered by propulsion systems manufacturer Volvo Penta and electrification specialist Danfoss Editron.The 35-meter CTVs were designed by MHO&Co in cooperation with Incat Crowther in the U.K. and Australia and are being constructed at the Afai Southern Shipyard in China for delivery in 2021.Volvo Penta marine gensets will help power these vessels – the electric propulsion power for the driveline will come from five variable speed Volvo D8 gensets.
Seychelles Ports Authority Takes Delivery of New Tug
Seychelles Ports Authority (SPA) recently completed technical acceptance of a new azimuth stern drive (ASD) tug from Sanmar Shipyards in Turkey. The latest addition to the SPA fleet is another of the Sanmar flagship RAmparts 2400SX, designed by Robert Allan Limited exclusively for Sanmar and designated the Bogacay XLI.Mobilization has already commenced under the direction of a Sanmar delivery crew. The tug's name will be unveiled upon arrival to its new home at Port Victoria in Mahe.Measuring 24.4m in length with a molded beam of 11.25m and a maximum draft of 5.
Lounsbury Joins Harvey Gulf Subsea Solutions
U.S.-based Harvey Gulf Subsea Solutions said it has appointed LaDawn Lounsbury to its Business Development Team.Lounsbury brings to the position extensive subsea background and well-established client relationships, having previously held roles with Helix, Ranger Offshore, Oceaneering International and, most recently, Bayou Companies Deepwater Flow Assurance and Coating and Insulation Business, over the course of her 12-year career. She has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business from Louisiana Tech.A wholly owned subsidiary of Harvey Gulf International Marine, Harvey Gulf Subsea Solutions aims to provide a total package of turnkey solutions for all subsea requirements.


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William is a consultant, lecturer, and author of books on data communications and computer networking. His most recent book is Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, Second Edition (Prentice-Hall, 1998). He can be contacted at http://www.shore.net/~ws.
Message authentication is a procedure that allows communicating parties to verify that received messages are authentic. The two important aspects are verifying that the contents of the message have not been altered and that the source is authentic. The Message Authentication Code (MAC) is a widely used technique for performing message authentication. A variation on the MAC algorithm has emerged as an Internet standard for a wide variety of applications -- HMAC, short for "Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication." HMAC was introduced in "Keying Hash Functions for Message Authentication," by M. Bellare, R. Canetti, and H. Krawczyk in Proceedings, CRYPTO '96 (Springer-Verlag,andathttp://wwwcse .ucsd.edu/users/mihir). HMAC is currently an Internet draft that has been distributed by the Internet Engineering Task Force as Request For Proposal (RFP) 2104.
MAC algorithms involve the use of a secret key to generate a small block of data, known as a "message authentication code," that is appended to the message. This technique assumes that two communicating parties, say A and B, share K as a secret key. When A has a message to send to B, it calculates the message authentication code as a function of the message and the key. The message and code are transmitted to the intended recipient. The recipient performs the same calculation on the received message, using the same secret key, to generate a new message authentication code. The received code is compared to the calculated code; see Figure 1. If you assume that only the receiver and the sender know the identity of the secret key, and if the received code matches the calculated code, then:
1. The receiver is assured that the message has not been altered. If an attacker alters the message but does not alter the code, then the receiver's calculation of the code will differ from the received code. Because the attacker is assumed not to know the secret key, the attacker cannot alter the code to correspond to the alterations in the message.
2. The receiver is assured that the message is from the alleged sender. Because no one else knows the secret key, no one else could prepare a message with the proper code.
3. If the message includes a sequence number (such as is used with X.25, HDLC, and TCP), then the receiver can be assured of the proper sequence, because an attacker cannot successfully alter the sequence number.
A number of algorithms could be used to generate the code. The National Bureau of Standards (NBS), in its publication DES Mode of Operation (http://www.nist .gov/itl/div897/pubs/fip113.htm), recommends the use of the DES algorithm. The DES algorithm is used to generate an encrypted version of the message, and the last bits of ciphertext are used as the code. A 16- or 32-bit code is typical. HMAC is a more efficient, and increasingly popular, alternative.
The process just described is similar to encryption. One difference is that the authentication algorithm does not need to be reversible, as it must for decryption. It turns out that because of the mathematical properties of the authentication function, it is less vulnerable than encryption to being broken.
In recent years, there has been increased interest in developing a MAC derived from a cryptographic hash code, such as MD5, SHA-1, or RIPEMD-160. The motivations for this interest are:
- Cryptographic hash functions generally execute faster in software than symmetric block ciphers such as DES.
- Library code for cryptographic hash functions is widely available.
- There are no export restrictions for cryptographic hash functions, whereas symmetric block ciphers, even when used for MACs, are restricted.
A hash function such as MD5 was not designed for use as a MAC and cannot be used directly for that purpose because it does not rely on a secret key. There have been a number of proposals to incorporate a secret key into an existing hash algorithm. HMAC received the most support. HMAC has been chosen as the mandatory-to-implement MAC for IP Security, and is used in other Internet protocols, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS, soon to replace Secure Sockets Layer) and Secure Electronic Transaction (SET).
HMAC-Design Objectives
Design objectives that RFC 2104 lists for HMAC include:
- To use, without modifications, available hash functions. In particular, hash functions that perform well in software, and for which code is freely and widely available.
- To allow for easy replaceability of the embedded hash function in case faster or more secure hash functions are found or required.
- To preserve the original performance of the hash function without incurring a significant degradation.
- To use and handle keys in a simple way.
- To have a well understood cryptographic analysis of the strength of the authentication mechanism based on reasonable assumptions on the embedded hash function.
The first two objectives are important to the acceptability of HMAC. HMAC treats the hash function as a black box. This has two benefits. First, an existing implementation of a hash function can be used as a module in implementing HMAC. The bulk of the HMAC code is prepackaged and ready to use without modification. Second, to replace a given hash function in an HMAC implementation, you must simply remove the existing hash function module and drop in the new module. This could be done if a faster hash function were desired. More important, if the security of the embedded hash function were compromised, the security of HMAC could be retained simply by replacing the embedded hash function with a more secure one (replacing MD5 with SHA-1, for example).
The last design objective in the preceding list is, in fact, the main advantage of HMAC over other proposed hash-based schemes. HMAC can be proven secure provided that the embedded hash function has some reasonable cryptographic strengths.
The HMAC Algorithm
Figure 2 illustrates the overall operation of HMAC (see Table 1 for definition of the terms in Figure 2). HMAC can then be expressed; see Figure 3. In other words:
1. Append zeros to the left end of K to create a b-bit string K+ (for example, if K is of length 160 bits and b = 512, then K will be appended with 44 zero bytes 0x00).
2. XOR (bitwise exclusive OR) K+ with ipad to produce the b-bit block Si.
3. Append M to Si.
4. Apply H to the stream generated in Step 3.
5. XOR K+ with opad to produce the b-bit block So.
6. Append the hash result from Step 4 to So.
7. Apply H to the stream generated in Step 6 and output the result.
Note the XOR with ipad results in flipping one-half of the bits of K. Similarly, the XOR with opad results in flipping one-half of the bits of K, but a different set of bits. In effect, by passing Si and So through the compression function of the hash algorithm, you have pseudorandomly generated two keys from K. HMAC should execute in approximately the same time as the embedded hash function for long messages. HMAC adds three executions of the hash compression function (for Si, So, and the block produced from the inner hash).
HMAC Security
The security of any MAC function based on an embedded hash function depends in some way on the cryptographic strength of the underlying hash function. The appeal of HMAC is that its designers have been able to prove an exact relationship between the strength of the embedded hash function and the strength of HMAC. The security of a MAC function is generally expressed in terms of the probability of successful forgery with a given amount of time spent by the forger and a given number of message-MAC pairs created with the same key. In essence, it can be shown that, for a given level of effort (time, message-MAC pairs), on messages generated by legitimate users and seen by attackers, the probability of a successful attack on HMAC is equivalent to one of the following attacks on the embedded hash function:
1. Attackers are able to compute an output of the compression function even with an Initial Value (IV) that is random, secret, and unknown to attackers.
2. Attackers find collisions in the hash function even when the IV is random and secret.
In the first attack, you can view the compression function as equivalent to the hash function applied to a message consisting of a single b-bit block. For this attack, the IV of the hash function is replaced by a secret, random value of n bits. An attack on this hash function requires either a brute-force attack on the key, which is a level of effort on the order of 2n, or a birthday attack, which is a special case of the second attack.
In the second attack, attackers are looking for two messages, M and M',that produce the same hash: H(M)=H(M'). This requires a level of effort of 2n/2 for a hash length of n. On this basis, the security of MD5 is called into question, because a level of effort of 264 looks feasible with today's technology. Does this mean that a 128-bit hash function such as MD5 is unsuitable for HMAC? The answer is no. To attack MD5, attackers can choose any set of messages and work on these offline on a dedicated computing facility to find a collision. Because attackers know the hash algorithm and the default IV, attackers can generate the hash code for each of the messages that attackers generate. However, when attacking HMAC, attackers cannot generate message/code pairs offline because attackers do not know K. Therefore, attackers must observe a sequence of messages generated by HMAC under the same key and perform the attack on these known messages. For a hash code length of 128 bits, this requires 264 observed blocks (273 bits) generated using the same key. On a 1-Gbps link, you would need to observe a continuous stream of messages with no change in the key for about 250,000 years to succeed. Thus, if speed is a concern, it is fully acceptable to use MD5 rather than SHA-1 or RIPEMD-160 as the embedded hash function for HMAC.
Listing One, the appendix to RFC 2104, is sample code for the implementation of HMAC with MD5. Listing Two (also from RFC 2104) presents test vectors for Listing One (trailing '\0' of a character string not included).
Listing One
/* Function: hmac_md5 */ void hmac_md5(text, text_len, key, key_len, digest) unsigned char* text; /* pointer to data stream */ int text_len; /* length of data stream */ unsigned char* key; /* pointer to authentication key */ int key_len; /* length of authentication key */ caddr_t digest; /* caller digest to be filled in */ { MD5_CTX context; unsigned char k_ipad[65]; /* inner padding - key XORd with ipad */ unsigned char k_opad[65]; /* outer padding - key XORd with opad */ unsigned char tk[16]; int i; /* if key is longer than 64 bytes reset it to key=MD5(key) */ if (key_len > 64) { MD5_CTX tctx; MD5Init(&tctx); MD5Update(&tctx, key, key_len); MD5Final(tk, &tctx); key = tk; key_len = 16; } /* the HMAC_MD5 transform looks like: * MD5(K XOR opad, MD5(K XOR ipad, text)) * where K is an n byte key * ipad is the byte 0x36 repeated 64 times * opad is the byte 0x5c repeated 64 times * and text is the data being protected */ /* start out by storing key in pads */ bzero( k_ipad, sizeof k_ipad); bzero( k_opad, sizeof k_opad); bcopy( key, k_ipad, key_len); bcopy( key, k_opad, key_len); /* XOR key with ipad and opad values */ for (i=0; i<64; i++) { k_ipad[i] ^= 0x36; k_opad[i] ^= 0x5c; } /* perform inner MD5 */ MD5Init(&context); /* init context for 1st pass */ MD5Update(&context, k_ipad, 64) /* start with inner pad */ MD5Update(&context, text, text_len); /* then text of datagram */ MD5Final(digest, &context); /* finish up 1st pass */ /* perform outer MD5 */ MD5Init(&context); /* init context for 2nd pass */ MD5Update(&context, k_opad, 64); /* start with outer pad */ MD5Update(&context, digest, 16); /* then results of 1st hash */ MD5Final(digest, &context); /* finish up 2nd pass */ }
Listing Two
key = 0x0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b0b key_len = 16 bytes data = "Hi There" data_len = 8 bytes digest = 0x9294727a3638bb1c13f48ef8158bfc9d key = "Jefe" data = "what do ya want for nothing?" data_len = 28 bytes digest = 0x750c783e6ab0b503eaa86e310a5db738 key = 0xAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA key_len 16 bytes data = 0xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD... ..DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD... ..DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD... ..DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD... ..DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD data_len = 50 bytes digest = 0x56be34521d144c88dbb8c733f0e8b3f6
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SUNNYVALE, CA and YOKNEAM, ISRAEL – October 21, 2013 – Mellanox® Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: MLNX), a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced the availability of its Messaging Accelerator (VMA) as an Open Source software platform for message-based and streaming network socket applications. VMA Open Source allows application developers to work within the VMA developer community to fully customize their application software source code and achieve optimal configurations that will boost performance, lower latency and increase transactions per second. In addition, VMA Open Source provides end-users with a significant reduction in solution cost of over 30 percent.
VMA Open Source delivers performance boosts for a wide-array of network socket applications including financial services, Web 2.0, medical online web services, imaging, radar and other data acquisition systems. VMA provides low latency of 1.5us for a TCP socket-based application and 1.1us for UDP. In addition, VMA delivers more than 4 million multicast packets ingress in a single thread. The result is a reduction in latency by as much as 300 percent and an increase in application throughput by as much as 200 percent per server, as compared to alternatives.
"By opening VMA source code we enable our customers with the freedom to implement the acceleration product and more easily tailor it to their specific application needs," said Tom Thirer, director of product management at Mellanox Technologies. "We encourage our customers to use the free and open VMA source package and to contribute back to the community."
VMA Open Source is made available under a dual license – GPLv2 and commercial – and can be downloaded for free download from Google Code at https://libvma.googlecode.com/. Mellanox will continue to take an active part in the VMA Open Source community by providing further enhancements that facilitate increased development and deployment of the project. Mellanox will continue to provide support services for the VMA binary package, available at www.mellanox.com/vma.
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Mardi Gras
This is just a quick note to let all of you who are going to be near the Seattle area on Fat Tuesday (February 5th) know that Vessel is having a Mardi Gras party.
What does this mean?
Well, it means New Orleans jazz and zydeco will be playing, and we will have a couple of cajun-style food specials.
It also means that we will have Hurricanes and Pimm's Cups on for $6.
Did I mention we had beer from $1.50? (OK it's bottles of Bud and Bud Light, but still…)
You knew that we are going to extend our Happy Hour drinks all day long (yes even the $4 Monmousseau Brut) but did you know that we are going to have a contest? The person who walks in wearing the most beads will win a gift certificate for Vessel valued at $250. Just approach a server and have them count your beads; at the end of the night we'll figure out the winner and contact them so that they can claim their prize.
And of course we'll always have those great cocktails that we have become known for. So that's it! Why don't you pop by after work and have a drink, and then when you go home and become bored with the lack of quality t.v. due to the writers strike, grab all the beads that you can find and come on back for another Hurricane and a chance to win the $250.
See you soon…..
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I'm there Jamie!! You definitely know how to throw a great party…


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A University of Maryland, Eastern Shore student was stabbed to death this weekend during a fight as the campus celebrated homecoming -- plunging another state school into grief after an apparent murder-suicide left two students dead in College Park less than a week ago.
Maryland State Police identified the UMES student as Edmond A. St. Clair, a 21-year-old junior biology major from Severn who graduated from Laurel High School in 2010. Friends, teachers and family members said he excelled in college, dreamed of becoming a doctor or surgeon and had a passion for producing reggae-style music.
Police say St. Clair was riding in a car about 9 p.m. Saturday with his brother and another man, who were visiting for homecoming weekend, through the Princess Anne campus when they came across a group of several people walking in the street and a fight broke out. St. Clair was stabbed with a weapon police have not yet identified.
St. Clair's brother, Isaiah St. Clair, and their longtime friend Tre Hardy were driving to pick up Chinese food when three men stood in the road and wouldn't move, Isaiah St. Clair said in an interview. He said Edmond St. Clair told him and Hardy to wait in the Honda while he went to talk to the men.
The next thing he realized, Isaiah St. Clair said, his brother was stabbed in the heart. He said he knelt next to his brother on the sidewalk and held the wound while Hardy ran to flag down a campus police officer. Isaiah St. Clair and Hardy said the men who stabbed Edmond lingered in the area before walking away from the crime scene.
"He said, 'Someone just stabbed me,'" Isaiah St. Clair. "I was like, 'Stop playing.' He was like, 'Yeah, look.' He showed me his hand. 'I got stabbed in my heart.'
"Everything happened so fast," Isaiah St. Clair said. "By the time we got out of the car, he was already stabbed. I took off my jacket and put it over him and put my hand on his chest until the ambulance came. I was asking, 'Is anybody going to help?'"
Isaiah St. Clair said he and Hardy were taken to the police station for questioning, where, he said, they stayed until 8 a.m. Sunday and did not learn until then that Edmond St. Clair had died from his injuries.
Police said they are seeking three suspects, whom they identified only as black men in their late teens or early 20s.
The rare bursts of violence involving students at the campuses 130 miles apart sent shock waves across the state. Asked whether she had been worried about her son in the wake of the incident near the University of Maryland, College Park, St. Clair's mother, Marina Fletcher, said she had feared for her son's safety.
UMES spokesman Bill Robinson said in an email that the campus had increased security -- including backup from the Maryland State Police -- for a week of homecoming events that included a musical performance from Grammy-nominated rapper 2 Chainz and men's and women's basketball games. Robinson declined to answer whether that security was still in place Saturday night.
At a town hall meeting held Sunday for UMES officials to address the incident with students, a university administrator said there were no plans to increase or otherwise change security at the campus, according to The Daily Times of Salisbury. University president Juliette B. Bell urged students not to walk alone at night but was satisfied with the security that was in place, the newspaper reported.
"We still believe that the campus is safe," Bell told students, according to The Daily Times of Salisbury.
Hardy and Isaiah St. Clair said Edmond was very popular at college, where he was known by his DJ name, "Trini Wes," a combination of his native country of Trinidad and the name of his late father, Wes St. Clair. They said he composed music of various genres.
Edmond St. Clair was raised in Trinidad and moved to the United States after his father died about six years ago, according to Fletcher. She said her son was an honor roll student in high school and ran track there and in his first year in college. Fletcher said she was gathering paperwork and financial aid to help her son apply to the Johns Hopkins University to become a surgeon.
Fletcher said her son was kind-hearted and ambitious young man, who was "the man of the house" and a father figure to his youngest brother, Kidane Fletcher, 10.
"He gave his younger brother advice; he would call the youngest on the cellphone to help with homework. He looked up to the older one so much, like a father," she said.
Chelsea Joseph, who said she had been Edmond St. Clair's girlfriend for the past three years, was with the group Saturday night when the men borrowed her car to get food, she said. Joseph said St. Clair had an active social life and did well in school, with a grade point average above 3.7. He wanted to become an emergency-room doctor, she said.
"That was his dream," said Joseph, 19. St. Clair's interests included music, movies and video games, she said.
"You would love to be around him," she said. "There was never a dull moment."
Friends called Joseph on Saturday night to tell her St. Clair had been stabbed.
"I just started to scream because I couldn't believe," she said, describing how she ran outside in the cold without a coat to try to find him.
St. Clair was a taking an organic chemistry class this semester taught by Victoria Volkis, who said he stood out in a class of 100 as one of the few students who really grasped the material.
"Anytime you see the 'A' grade student, you really remember," Volkis said. "I could see him as a student with a good potential."
St. Clair was a passionate man who occasionally displayed a temper, his brother said. St. Clair was charged with first- and second-degree assault in September, but the first-degree charge was dropped and he was acquitted in January of the second-degree charge and related charges.
"He had a strong belief in God; he thought he was unstoppable because he believed in God. He thought nothing would happen," Isaiah St. Clair said. "All my life, I had to hold him and say, 'Yo, you're not bulletproof.' "
Edmond St. Clair was expecting his first child in April, a girl to be named Shiloh St. Clair, with Rhoda Boateng, Boateng and St. Clair's family said.
Boateng, who was at the St. Clair home in Severn on Sunday evening, said his daughter would be his legacy.
"Just watch out for his baby girl," Boateng said.
Police said university students were warned of the incident through a campus security alert system.
On Sunday morning, the university posted a message from Bell on its website that told of the incident and said, "We had the difficult task overnight of telling the parents of Edmond A. St. Clair their son's injuries resulted in his death ..."
"There is no more heart-wrenching duty for a college administrator than conveying this kind of tragic news to not only parents and loved ones, but everyone in the UMES community. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Edmond's family and friends."
The incident came on the same day as a memorial service in Malvern, Pa., for Stephen Rane, 22, who police say was killed Feb. 12 by a housemate at his College Park residence. Rane, a senior, was a 2009 graduate of Centennial High School in Ellicott City. Police say Dayvon Green, a graduate student, killed Rane and wounded another roommate before killing himself.
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(CNN) -- CNN's story about Noor al-Zahra Haider touched readers and viewers, many of whom wrote to say they felt some responsibility for the Iraqi girl whose life was saved by Americans at the height of the Iraq War.
Others simply wanted to know how they could help.
Childspring International, the Atlanta-based Christian charity that sponsored her stay in the United States in 2006, said it was setting up a special Baby Noor Fund so it could channel donations specifically to Noor's family. Noor was born with a severe form of spina bifida.
Alison Fussell, the executive director of Childspring, said Thursday the charity set up the fund after being contacted by people who saw the CNN story. She said she was not yet sure exactly how the donations would be used and that the charity was still determining what the right action would be.
She said it would look into possibly linking Noor's family with specialists in Baghdad or shipping medical supplies to them.
"We are keeping a separate account for her," Fussell said. "I do know that we will do the right thing. I am 100% sure of that."
Anyone who wants to donate should include the words "Baby Noor Fund" in the box that reads "Who should we notify of this gift" on Childspring's Donate Now page.
One CNN reader with spina bifida wished the Iraqi girl well.
"As someone born with a mild case of spina bifida, I've faced certain physical challenges throughout my life -- I'm 49 -- but nothing like this young Iraqi girl," wrote Paul Keyes. "May God grant her continued life, improving health and a happy heart."
Another reader, John Last, wrote: "We humans possess the power to turn our world into garden or wasteland. Tools are right here. ... So she was given hope by noble soldiers who still believe that they are warriors and not mercenaries. (The) journalist that was trying to make the difference instead of chasing some celebrity. Doctors, members of (a) charity group and host families who showed this child the best we humans can offer -- compassion. And then she was forgotten, received the worst we humans can offer -- indifference."
Noor, now 7, was discovered by U.S. soldiers when she was 3 months old during a routine raid of her house just before Christmas 2005. Noor's grandmother told the soldiers that Iraqi doctors could do nothing for Noor, who was born with vertebrae that did not form completely around her spinal cord. She was certain to die.
The soldiers sent her to the United States, where doctors performed life-saving surgery. After six months, she was returned to her home in the town of Abu Ghraib.
Another reader, Linda Shinn, thought Noor should not have been sent back to Iraq.
"When her family asked for help, they probably thought that more could be done for her in America than was possible, and they somehow imagined that she would be returned to them in good health," Shinn said.
"If it was just that she lacked the use of her legs, it wouldn't be so bad, but when it involves her bowels and bladder as well, that is just beyond what any poor family could possibly handle. If she were in the U.S. and possibly in a home for disabled persons, she might have more quality of life, and her family (would) have the huge burden of her care removed from them, and she might have actual nurses who would care for her."
Noor's family paid a price for the association with Americans. They were threatened and forced to restart life in a new neighborhood.
CNN caught up with them a few weeks ago in Baghdad and published Noor's story on Tuesday, the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. It evoked all sorts of emotions and comments about the war itself and what America's role ought to be in that part of the world.
Noor's family is struggling to make sure the little girl gets the proper care she needs for her complex medical issues. Noor has a shunt in her brain to relieve pressure from fluid buildup, and she often experiences urinary tract infections that could possibly lead to renal failure.
She also has no feeling in her pelvis and her legs, and she cannot walk.
Some of Noor's family members wondered whether America had forgotten them. A question that naturally arose from the story was whether America owed anything to Noor.
Readers felt both ways. Many agreed that Americans ought to help.
"The article speaks to the idea that many people are happy to help for a time, but it's easy to forget once the headlines go away," said Sharon Braddock.
"The follow-up years later presents the question of whether people who step up to assist have a duty to follow through and, if so, for how long? If we start to help, how far should we go? Is it the right thing to separate the child from her family? These are all serious questions with no right or wrong answer, but we should each consider them carefully. Whatever our answer is, it tells us something about ourselves and the world in which we live," she said.
But others, like alexDW said this: "Right now she is just a Third World girl with a bladder problem, no different from millions of others. Now the help should be directed to the people who need it most now, and I am sorry to tell you, that is probably not her."
Braddock acknowledged that Noor's case was a tough one. Braddock likes happy endings; she wants everyone to be in a safe place and lead a life of quality. She knows that's easy to say but in this case, difficult to accomplish.


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Ubeify Media Player - http://www.ubeify.co.uk/
Latest Version: 2017.08.02 - August 2nd 2017
I'm pleased to anounce the release of Ubeify, a FREE desktop media player which uses OMXplayer on Raspberry Pi, or VLC on Linux & Windows for media playback. The software works with all versions of Raspberry Pi (Zero, 1, 2 & 3) running Raspbian or other Debian based operating systems like Ubuntu Mate.
- Import & play your local audio and movies
- Online tracks streamed on-demand via Youtube
- Browse discographies & add your favourite tracks or albums to your collection
- Add your own Youtube, Spotify or Deezer playlists, browse chart feeds, online movie feeds
- You can install it on a USB drive and plug into any computer running Linux or Windows
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An Italian court ruled on Wednesday that George Clooney and Cristiano Ronaldo can be called as witnesses in ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial for having sex with an underage prostitute.
An Italian court ruled on Wednesday that George Clooney and Cristiano Ronaldo can be called as witnesses in ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's trial for having sex with an underage prostitute.
Lawyers for Berlusconi want the Hollywood heart-throb and Real Madrid football star to help defend their client from charges of paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl and then abusing his powers to get her freed from custody.
The two are among 78 star witnesses including several former government ministers, a singer and two famous starlets being called by the defence, according to the list approved on Wednesday, a court official said.
Prosecutors are calling a total of 136 witnesses including the woman at the centre of the case, a Moroccan-born nightclub dancer called Karima El Mahroug who is better known by her stage name as "Ruby the Heart Stealer".
They are also calling 32 other young women who attended parties at the former premier's villa near Milan where the crime allegedly took place.
During police questioning, extracts from which have been leaked to Italian newspapers, El Mahroug recounted orgies referred to as "Bunga Bunga" parties.
Berlusconi faces a maximum of three years in prison for the sex charge and 12 years for abuse of power, after he allegedly pressured police to release El Mahroug when she was arrested in an unrelated case.
The court official said the judge would decide on a case-by-case basis whether specific witnesses would be called based on how the trial, which began in April but is still stuck in procedural issues, develops.
"Usually if they're called they have to come. But if they didn't come, we wouldn't send the police after them," the official said.
After the first reports about what witnesses would be called surfaced in March, Clooney issued a statement expressing puzzlement.
"It seems odd since I've only met Berlusconi once and that was in an attempt to get aid into Darfur," he said.
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For some years, I ran a little posterous blog called Mini Software As She's Developed, the little brother to this blog's great uncle's step-cousin. It was effectively a pastebin to throw random things at. Now that Posterous is to be decommissioned, I've migrated it to an archival blog on WordPress.
It's archival because these days, my glorified pastebins you shouldn't subscribe to are:
- My Gist Stream.
- My Notes Community. You see, I've stumbled onto a nice Posterous replacement, which is a Google Plus community. Google Plus pages can work that way too, but they are more cumbersome to deal with, requiring a new window each time. G+ is not a Posterous replacement in the sense that you can't mail things to it, or tweet them etc, but it's quick to share stuff and works nicely from mobile. Plus one thing Posterous never sorted out was commenting - it required a Posterous login. Whereas anyone on Plus can leave a comment. So it's turned into a nice way to create a public thread, but one that won't spam followers when published.


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Trumbull woman arrested after botched neutering of kitten
TRUMBULL -- A Connecticut woman has been charged with cruelty to animals after police say she botched a neutering operation on a kitten.
The Connecticut Post reports 48-year-old Lisa Richards of Trumbull was arrested Wednesday.
Police say a Newtown woman adopted the cat from Richards last June, after Richards agreed to have it neutered first. But police say Richards performed the operation herself instead of taking the kitten to a veterinarian.
The cat's new owner told police it looked ill when she took it home, and she noticed it had a hole in its lower abdomen. She says a veterinarian treated the problem for nearly $2,000.
Richards was released on a promise to appear in Bridgeport Superior Court next Tuesday.
Richards didn't immediately return a message seeking comment Thursday morning.


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A couple just started their Lamaze class and they were given an activity requiring the husband to wear a bag of sand to give him an idea of what it feels like to be pregnant.
The husband stood up and shrugged saying, "This doesn't feel so bad."
The instructor then dropped a pen and asked the husband to pick it up.
"You want me to pick up the pen as if I were pregnant, the way my wife would do it?" the husband asked.
"Exactly," replied the instructor.
To the delight of the other husbands, he turned to his wife and said, "Honey, pick up that pen for me."


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Obama to talk with governors about economy
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet with some of the nation's governors Tuesday.
During the White House meeting, they'll be talking about possible ways to grow the U.S. economy and the need to find a balanced approach to deficit reduction.
After lunch, the president and the vice president will meet with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in the Oval Office.