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Function & Party Bands, Duo's, Solos Musicians and Other Entertainers Wanted For Various Events In The UK- For weddings and other private & corporate events, nationwide UK
The Entertainment Consultancy is one of the UK's leading agencies with over 30 years experience servicing discerning corporate & private clients throughout the UK as well as international clients and cruise lines, worldwide. Our business is now seeing an up turn so we are taking this opportunity to review our current ...Applicants can apply from: UK Location: UK Application Dates: 30th Jun, 2022 - 31st Dec, 2023 Fee Offered: Fixed Fee - TBC Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Entertainers Wanted For Upcoming Americas Got Talent Auditions - Season 18 Auditions
We have begun our International search for outstanding talent for the next exciting season of AGT. Please apply with your profile. ...Applicants can apply from: US Location: US Application Dates: 03rd Jan, 2023 - 31st Mar, 2023 Fee Offered: Audition Company / Booker: *Members Only*
All-Round Entertainers Wanted For European Opportunities- All round entertainers for new paid opportunities across EU
Looking for all around entertainers, singers, hosts, musicians, entertainers, sports activities instructors, dance instructors, kids entertainers, choreographers, special acts, models, and beyond worldwide! ...Applicants can apply from: Worldwide Location: Worldwide Application Dates: 09th May, 2022 - 01st May, 2023 Fee Offered: Depending on the contract, job conditions Company / Booker: *Members Only*
4 Piece Caribbean/Poolside Band Required For Cruise Ship Opportunity
Seeking a 4-piece poolside quartet to begin working on luxury cruise lines in 2023! Group members must all be able to sing. All group members will need to possess or pass the following to be eligible for cruise ship work: - Valid passport; - United States C1D visa; - Police background check; - Medical exam Please...Applicants can apply from: Worldwide Location: Cruise Ship Application Dates: 10th Jan, 2023 - 01st Jan, 2024 Fee Offered: Fixed Fee - $2600 per month Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Saxophonist, DJ & Live Band Required For Wedding In Castelnuovo Berardenga, Italy - 1 September 2023
Wedding: September 1, 2023 Villa Catignano (Strada Comunale di Catignano, 25, 53019 Castelnuovo Berardenga SI) Ceremony (5pm): Saxophone Cocktail hour (5:30-7:30) : Saxophone - something really upbeat and "groovy" with sax Reception (10:00-2:00am) High energy live band + DJ Please provide quotes....Applicants can apply from: Italy Location: Italy Application Dates: 28th Oct, 2022 - 01st Aug, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
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Getting married 10th February at Karikari Estae Winery and would love for a Live Band to perform 70 guests Wedding is 1430 to 2230. Looking for the whole day. Event Location: New Zealand, Northland, Karikari Event Date: 10th February, 2023...Applicants can apply from: New Zealand Location: New Zealand: Northland Application Dates: 20th Sep, 2022 - 09th Feb, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Live Band Wanted For Annual Conference In British Columbia, Canada - 26 August 2023
Thermal Insulation Association of Canada annual conference. The event is the closing night President's dinner. The crowd age will range from mid 30's to 60's and every age in between. Expect 150 people. Event Location: Canada, British Columbia, Whistler Event Date: 26th August, 2023...Applicants can apply from: Canada Location: Canada: British Columbia Application Dates: 10th Apr, 2022 - 26th Jul, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Cover Band Required For Wedding In Lipa City, Philippines - 16 December 2023
Wedding with approximately 100 guests Event Location: Philippines, Lipa City Event Date: 16th December, 2023...Applicants can apply from: Philippines Location: Philippines Application Dates: 06th Jan, 2022 - 15th Dec, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Performers Needed - Flexible Care Home Day Bookings - UK - £55 Per Hour Solo- Performers needed for paid, flexible weekday and weekend bookings
We are looking for entertainers to fill the growing demand for day bookings within care homes throughout the UK. We are an entertainment and activities agency built solely for the care industry. We believe that music is medicine for dementia and regular activities are a crucial element in effective care. The amoun...Applicants can apply from: UK Location: UK Application Dates: 30th Jan, 2023 - 30th Apr, 2023 Fee Offered: Fixed Fee - 55 per hour Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Reading Contemporary Quartet - Drums, Bass, Guitar and Piano Wanted For Cruise Ship Opportunity- Seeking a rhythm section quartet with sight reading ability.
Seeking a rhythm section quartet (one member must also be a vocalist) for short term cruise contracts. Drums, bass, guitar and piano. The group must be able to sight read to accompany various headline performers and also perform evening sets performing dance and contemporary music. Contracts are 2- 4 weeks in length....Applicants can apply from: Cruise Ship Location: Cruise Ship Application Dates: 30th Mar, 2022 - 01st Apr, 2023 Fee Offered: Fixed Fee Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Live Band & DJ Wanted For Wedding In Grasse, France - 1 July 2023
Getting married on July 1st next summer and looking for a band and DJ to perform at the wedding. The wedding is at La Bastide Saint-Antoine in Grasse, France. There will be approximately 90 guests and we are looking for a band to entertain (outdoors) from 9ish to 12ish and then a DJ to perform (indoors) until 4am. ...Applicants can apply from: France Location: France Application Dates: 03rd Oct, 2022 - 30th Jun, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
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Local festival with (2) stageline stages. Zydeco, R&B as well as Blues with horn 3 days on the 3rd weekend of September Event Location: Canada, Ontario, Wasaga Beach...Applicants can apply from: Canada Location: Canada: Ontario Application Dates: 30th Sep, 2022 - 31st Aug, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
4 Piece Reading Dance Band Wanted For - Holland America Cruise Line- Reading dance band to play evening sets and guest entertainer shows
Blackburn International and Holland America Line Are Hiring 4 Piece Reading Dance Band for contracts onboard Holland America Line (Piano, Bass, Drums and Guitar - At least one member must also be a vocalist). The quartet will play evening sets of music for dancing featuring repertoire from the Great American Songboo...Applicants can apply from: Worldwide Location: Cruise Ship Application Dates: 06th May, 2022 - 01st Jun, 2023 Fee Offered: Great salary Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Wedding Band Wanted In Brasov, Romania - 19 August 2023
Wedding in Brasov with 180 guests Event Location: Romania, Brasov Event Date: 19th August, 2023...Applicants can apply from: Romania Location: Romania Application Dates: 16th Sep, 2022 - 19th Jul, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
Live Band Wanted For Wedding In Doha, Qatar - 14 March 2023- Moroccan music
Sharq Hotel Wedding 14th March 2023 100+ guests. Looking for a good music band preferably with Moroccan music. Event Location: Qatar, Doha Event Date: 14th March, 2023...Applicants can apply from: Qatar Location: Qatar Application Dates: 10th May, 2022 - 14th Feb, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
African Band Wanted For 80th Birthday - Astwick - Bedfordshire - 26 February 2023
African Band needed for an 80th birthday party with 40 guests in total including the celebrant. Also have a DJ for part of the day. European and African food will be served to create the right ambience. Event Location: United Kingdom, East of England, Bedfordshire, Astwick Event Date: 26th February, 2023...Applicants can apply from: UK Location: UK: East of England Application Dates: 15th Nov, 2022 - 25th Feb, 2023 Fee Offered: Please provide a quote Company / Booker: *Members Only*
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The legal dispute over an ancient Khmer statue at Sotheby's could have lasting implications for the sale of ancient art in the United States.
For those catching up on the case: Sotheby's New York was poised to put the 10th century temple warrior up for auction in 2010 with an estimated value of $3 million. But shortly before the bidding started, Cambodia claimed the statue had been looted from the ruins of a Khmer temple at Koh Ker, where the statue's feet were found in 2007. In April, federal agents sought to seize the statue on behalf of Cambodia. A judge ordered the statue to remain at Sothebys while the two parties argue the case in court. Sotheby's filed a motion to dismiss in June and now the government has responded, attaching declarations from two legal experts to support its case. (See below for the complete filings.)
At the heart of the case are familiar questions: What level of evidence is needed to establish when and how an object was illicitly removed from its borders? What amount of due diligence must a museum, collector or auction house conduct to defend an acquisition? When can a looted object in the US be seized by the government and returned to its legal owner? And can those who possess and trade looted antiquities be found criminally liable?
These questions have only occasionally been brought before federal courts in the United States, so the case law in this area is relatively thin. A handful of key cases have established the current legal regime, which holds that an object looted from a country with an enforced patrimony law can be considered stolen property under US law. Someone who knowingly buys or possesses a looted antiquity can be criminally charged, and the object can be taken by the government and returned to its rightful owner.
This legal regime has not prevented museums from buying suspect objects, but it has been an invaluable deterrent to the open sale of loot and helped raise the bar on acquisition standards in recent years. Given its shaky foundation, however, any new case law on these issues could alter the status quo significantly. A victory for the government in the Cambodia case might lead to a further tightening of the rules around acquisitions and bring about more cautious collecting practices for collectors and museums. A victory for Sotheby's, on the other hand, could encourage more brazen acquisitions of looted art.
The point is illustrated in the case filings themselves. Until recently, the leading case on the civil forfeiture of ancient art was Steinhardt, which established among other things that false declarations on import documents could allow the government to seize an object under civil law. But the recent dispute over a mummy mask at the St. Louis Museum of Art appears to have undermined the authority of that ruling, which is cited neither by the government nor Sotheby's in the Cambodia case. Instead, both sides refer to the St. Louis case, US vs. Mask of Ka Nefer Nefer, in which the judge has found twice that the government presented insufficient evidence that the mask was stolen.
Here's how Sotheby's quotes the judge in that case: "[t]he Government cannot simply rest on its laurels and believe that it can initiate a civil forfeiture proceeding on the basis of one bold assertion that because something went missing from one party in 1973 and turned up with another party in 1998, it was therefore stolen and/or imported or exported illegally."
The Cambodia case, however it is decided, will be cited in similar cases going forward. With that much at stake, the court filings are worth reading — even for those of us who are not lawyers. In the past, we've posted the government's original complaint here, and the flurry of filings over the statue's seizure here.
In June, Sotheby's filed its first significant response to the case in a motion to dismiss:
Last week the federal attorneys in Manhattan replied with their opposition to Sotheby's move to dismiss the case:
To support their arguments, the government filed two declarations:
Caveat and Hat-tip: We're not lawyers and don't even play one on TV. For insightful observations about these issues from a legal expert in this area, read Rick St. Hilaire's indispensable blog: http://culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot.com/

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Stone Temple Pilots fires lead singer
NEW YORK - Singer Scott Weiland said he learned that he'd been fired by the Stone Temple Pilots when the band released a one-sentence statement to the media Wednesday.
"I learned of my supposed 'termination' from Stone Temple Pilots this morning by reading about it in the press," he wrote in a statement. "Not sure how I can be 'terminated' from a band that I founded, fronted and co-wrote many of its biggest hits, but that's something for the lawyers to figure out."
The statement by the band said: "Stone Temple Pilots have announced they have officially terminated Scott Weiland." No other information was provided.
Weiland said he's focusing on his solo tour, which kicks off Friday in Flint, Mich.
Stone Temple Pilots' 1992 debut, "Core," has sold more than 8 million units in the United States. Their hits include "Vasoline," ''Interstate Love Song" and "Plush," which won a Grammy in 1993 for best hard rock performance with vocal.
Weiland was also in the supergroup Velvet Revolver with Slash and other musicians. The 45-year-old has dealt with drug addiction, run-ins with the law and two failed marriages. He released his memoir, "Not Dead & Not for Sale," in 2011.
The Stone Temple Pilots' latest album is their self-titled 2010 release.


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Morning Minutes: Nov. 25
Word of the Day
Lethargic luh-THAHR-jik (adjective) Of, relating to or characterized by lethargy; sluggish; indifferent, apathetic - www.merriam-webster.com
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This online application will help you catalog your books so you can keep track of the books you've read, rate them and categorize them however you choose. There's a social networking aspect, too, where users can connect with people who read the same books.
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323: Number of people killed in the "Storm of the Century" in the U.S. on this date in 1950. During the storm, which brought record snowfall in some areas and violent winds in many places, one town – Pickens, W.Va. – recorded 57 inches of snow.
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Nov. 25, 1963: President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
Today's Featured Birthday
Actress Christina Applegate (40)
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"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?" - William A. Ward


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Turn on the tap and New Yorkers get completely unfiltered H2O, flowing from the upstate streams and rivers to faucets from the Bronx to Brooklyn.
Since 1993, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency has exempted New York City from its filtration requirement, making it only one of a handful of major U. S. cities that does not have to filter its water before letting its citizens gulp. The city's system is the largest unfiltered water delivery system in the country.
Now, some New York City officials worry that anticipated gas drilling will jeopardize the water supply of more than 9 million people in the city and several upstate counties. Gas producers want to drill into the Marcellus Shale formation, part of which lies upstate. They would then inject millions of gallons of water treated with chemicals in order to extract what experts believe could be trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
Proponents of the drilling say tapping the state's deep reserves of natural gas could bring a bonanza of royalties, jobs and tax revenues to cash-strapped upstate communities and help ease the state's budget crisis. Officials closer to New York City, however, say compromising the quality of the city's drinking water is too high a price to pay. They want the state to ban gas drilling in the watershed.
City Councilmember Jim Gennaro, who chairs the Environmental Protection Committee, has sounded the alarm about the potential cost of filtering the city's water. Gennaro has cautioned fellow committee members -- and anyone else who will listen -- that a filtration system could boast a price tag in the billions.
"What the people of the City of New York, I fear, are looking at is a $20 billion consequence to this 'drill baby drill' policy," Gennaro said.
The Energy Rush
Gas production in the Empire State is nothing new. The first gas well opened in the 19th century, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the agency that regulates oil and gas exploration and production.
Geologists have known for decades that potentially huge amounts of gas -- as much as 500 trillion cubic feet, according to one study -- are trapped in the Marcellus Shale formation, a succession of narrow slabs of subsurface rock that stretches through Appalachia from West Virginia to Ohio and New York's Southern Tier. About 30 counties in New York State sit over the formation, which is as much as 7,000 feet below ground in some places.
Because of the depth of the gas and the high density of the rock, traditional drilling and extraction methods have proved to be costly and inefficient. In the last few years, however, technological improvements in horizontal drilling and hydrologic fracturing, or "fracking," have made it more affordable to get the gas out.
As gas prices climbed and construction of the Millennium Pipelinefrom Cornng to Ramapo neared completion, fracking became more economically viable. Early 2008 saw a feeding frenzy of sorts among gas producers as agents for independent producers like Chesapeake Appalachia LLC, Chesapeake Appalachia LLC Fortuna Energy, Inc. and EOG Resources, Inc. rushed to secure drilling leases from upstate landowners and drilling permits from the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Today there are some 13,000 oil and gas wells in the state. According to the Department of Environmental Conservation, a dozen gas wells in Schulyer, Steuben, Chemung, Livingston and Allegany counties produced 19.7 million cubic feet of gas in 2007. In the last year, the state agency approved nearly 50 new well applications, according to the department.
The recent drop in gas prices and the economic crisis may have served to cool the gas rush for the time being. According to an October article in Oil and Gas Journal, 14 different operators had filed 77 permit applications for gas wells in the shale formation by the end of July, and the state approved 48 of the permits. As of October, only nine different operators had drilled 31 wells. No operators have requested or received -- a permit to drill in New York City's watershed.
A rise in prices could spur renewed demand. Before gas prices backed off of their staggering high this summer, industry officials had projected that there would eventually be between 25,000 and 50,000 drilling pads upstate.
"This will be the environmental issue of the next decade, and it will be the biggest thing to hit the northeast since strip mining took apart West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky," said Al Appleton, a former city commissioner for the Department of Environmental Protection. "The scale of the potential damage is that great."
Getting the Gas
To extract the gas, the operator - typically an independent exploration and production company -- drills a conventional cement-cased vertical well bore into the earth down to the level of the shale.
The bore then turns 45-degrees to run horizontally through the center of the shale slab, which ranges in thickness from 50 to 100 feet. Fresh water, and lots of it, is mixed with chemicals and forced through the well bore and into the shale. The water causes the rock to fracture, allowing the gas to flow back into the bore for capture at the wellhead.
Hydro-fracking has been used for about 30 years, and while it has grown more reliable and affordable, it also requires up to five times more water per well than it did in decades past. A typical "frac job" in 1992 used less than 100,000 gallons of water, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation; today the same job would require between a million and 5 million gallons.
Environmental Concerns
Hydro-fracking's biggest perceived threat to the environment comes from the chemicals that are used in frac fluids. Gas producers have been historically close-mouthed about what actually goes into the well bore, claiming the mix is a confidential trade secret. Foes of hydro-fracking, though, say they have identified by analysis more than 100 chemical compounds believed to be used in the process across the country. The list includes some highly toxic and carcinogenic compounds like benzene and formaldehyde, and ethylene glycol, as well as hydrochloric acid, N,N-dimethyl formamide, Gluteraldehyde and bleach.
The use of such chemicals creates an unacceptable risk to public health, in the view of Appleton, currently an environmental consultant and a senior fellow at City University of New York's Institute for Urban Systems. Under his leadership in the early 1990s, the city's Department of Environmental Protection launched an ambitious watershed protection program and convinced the federal Environmental Protection Agency to exempt it from filtering its water. In Appleton's opinion, the only reliable way to ensure that our drinking water supply remains safe is to ban gas drilling in the watershed.
"You've got to have a failsafe system. Once these pollutants are in the water they're very hard to get out," he said. "Standard filtration procedures don't get them out, and standard industrial toxic waste treatments, which have never been done on a scale like this before, [are] highly expensive and they're not 100 percent reliable."
There are a number of ways for toxins to find their way into the drinking water collection system, according to Appleton. Some percentage of fracking fluid is never recovered from the shale and instead remains in the ground where it can migrate to aquifers, the natural surface and below surface channels that move the groundwater to streams, rivers and reservoirs. Lax regulations or careless operations in the handling, storage and disposal of recovered frac fluid also pose a contamination risk.
The gas industry downplays the hazards. A report by one industry consultant - also a consultant to the state environmental department - points out that some of the chemicals used in fracking are common chemicals found in everyday household products and are heavily dliuted before being injected into the shale.
Not in New York
Opponents of hydro-fracking point to groundwater contamination from drilling operations in states including Colorado and New Mexico, but state environment commissioner Alexander "Pete" Grannis said New York has stricter standards and that his agency won't let the same mistakes be made.
"While I can't account for the environmental protections in those locales, I can tell you that what may have happened in those places -- where drilling and production fluids were improperly handled, where unlined permanent waste disposal pits were allowed, and where the disposal method was evaporation -- has not happened, and will not happen, in New York State," Grannis told members of the state Assembly's environmental committee this fall.
HIs agency is currently working to revise its generic environmental impact statement to address the issues raised by the newer hydro-fracking process, It wants to identify and address potential effects on the environment. To that end, the agency held public hearings upstate in the fall to hear concerns from interested residents, local governments, and environmental advocates.
It held no sessions in New York City, despite requests from the city's legislative delegation and members of the City Council. Instead, Grannis assured the city in a September letter that his office would accept any written comments that the city wished to send to Albany, "as we undertake to fully protect the city's watershed, while meeting our obligations to move forward with the permitting process for this type of drilling."
That same month, Grannis appeared before Gennaro's environmental protection committee to say the agency would not grant permits for any projects that endanger the city's water supply.
Avoiding Filtration
All of New York City, except for Jamaica in Queens, gets its drinking water from two upstate watersheds: The watershed west of the Hudson River and the Croton watershed is east of the Hudson. Combined, they cover about 2,000 acres, from the Delaware River Basin to the Connecticut border.
The Catskill collection area, more than twice the size of the Croton system, lies wholly within the boundaries of the Marcelus and provides 90 percent of New York City's drinking water -- unfiltered. The Croton watershed, on the other hand, is some 30 miles beyond the reach of the Marcellus play. And while the Croton water is currently unfiltered, the city is building a filtration plantfor that water supply, having lost its filtration exemption in 2006 due to poor water quality. The project has been plagued by delays and cost overruns, and city officials are not keen to build another plant for the Catskills water.
Furthermore, city officials say, many of the aqueducts, tunnels and shafts that help collect and carry the water downstate from the Catskills are on land over the Marcellus Shale. They are concerned that parts of that infrastructure, particularly those that operate under high pressure, could be seriously damaged by any inadvertent penetration during gas drilling.
Gennaro, a former city geologist who worked under Appleton, was involved in the city's efforts to get its first filtration exemption in 1993. Since then, he said, the city has spent billions of dollars to protect its water sources -- maintaining the aqueducts, tunnels and reservoirs and acquiring land to forestall development. Now he worries that gas drilling will jeopardize the remaining exemption.
Gennaro recently asked the Environmental Protection Agency for a determination on whether gas drilling in the watershed would jeopardize the exemption. Although the agency has not yet responded, Gennaro believes the answer is "yes" and hopes a statement from the EPA to that effect will prop up his call for a ban on drilling in the watersehd.
If the city loses its exemption, a filtration system hefty enough to handle chemical contamination could place a monumental strain on the city's shrinking resources. Ten years ago, Gennaro said, the city estimated the cost of a bacteriological filtration system at around $10 billion. Now, he said, a system that could handle chemical contamination would easily cost twice that.
For its part, the city's Department of Environmental Protection has not joined in the call for a ban on drilling in the watershed, much to Gennaro's consternation. A July letter to the state by the city's former environmental chief, Emily Lloyd, asked for a one-mile buffer zone around components of the city's water supply infrastructure -- reservoirs, tunnels, aqueducts and shafts -- but stopped far short of asking outright for a no-drill zone encompassing the entire Catskill watershed.
Three months later, the department's Deputy Commissioner Paul Rush told a panel of the New York State Assembly that the city might modify its position on watershed drilling, depending on a forthcoming report by a consultant, but did not suggest that the city might ultimately support a ban.
More recently, in formal comments filed with the state in response to its preliminary inquiry, the city administration urged the state' s environment agency to closely evaluate the possible environmental effects on the entire watershed, not just the infrastructure, noting, "Impacts do not need to be within close proximity to a reservoir or water supply infrastructure to negatively impact the water supply."
Gennaro is clearly frustrated with what he sees as the city's weak response. He called out the department's acting commissioner, Steven Lawitts, at his committee's hearing in December, saying that the Bloomberg administration should have started from the presumption that drilling in the watershed should be prohibited.
Gennaro reminded Lawitts that the department had taken a much harder line against a proposed private golf course development in the Catskills in 2004, out of concern for the watershed. He then scolded the agency for not taking the same "vigorous approach" against the state's stand on drilling.
"The city is arguably up against a very tough foe in this case. Maybe it doesn't believe it can prevail in that kind of matchup and is settling for playing this game by the state's rules. I think that's an abdication," Gennaro told Lawitts. "This is our watershed, we have to protect it, the state doesn't care to the same degree that we care, and we have to be leading the charge on that."
Councilmember Peter Vallone Jr., also on the committee, suggested that the ctiy should at least demand financial safeguards from the state, so that if drilling causes the city to lose its filtration exemption, the state would pay for the costly new system.
"It's our water supply, but we're allowing the state to make the decision as to where the drilling is allowed," Vallone said. "If there is no guarantee from the state that they will be responsible for the ramifications of their decision, then the state shouldn't make that decision. We here in the City of New York should make that decision."
Lawitts defended his agency, saying it lacked expertise in the issues surrounding hydro-fracking, but would have a more definitive position once the consultant's work is concluded. That is slated for sometime this spring, in time for the city to respond to the state's draft environmental guidelines.
Appleton predicts that the city will eventually come around to his view, that no risk to drinking water is acceptable. "The suggestion that we need to bend over backward for the state to accommodate natural gas drilling is ludicrous," Appleton said. "I have a lot of confidence in the science that at the end of the debate there's only one way to do this: preclude it in the watershed. If it's done right, a lot of areas are going to be off limits, end of story."
This article originally stated that gas wells in five upstate counties produced 19.7 trillion cubic feet of gas in 2007. The correct number is 19.7 million. The copy has been corrected.


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In his first interview since he was jailed, the doctor sentenced to four years in prison for causing Michael Jackson's 2009 death told his version of events to Anderson Cooper.
Dr. Conrad Murray is in the process of appealing his conviction, arguing it was Jackson who was responsible for his own overdose, and that there was an obstruction of justice during the trial. Tonight he claimed he was actually trying to steer Jackson away from propofol and had "good" intentions.
"I maintain that innocence. I must tell you, I am extremely sorry that Michael has passed on. It's a tremendous loss for me," Murray told Anderson. "He was an absolutely great friend. To be honest, I became a sounding board for Michael. He offloaded and regurgitated everything that was bad in his past and everything that was dark."
Anderson questioned Murray about whether he feels guilty for the pop star's death, why he was treating Jackson at home with a surgical anesthetic, what he wants to do with his life if his conviction is overturned, and why he stepped away from the singer's bedside after giving him a propofol injection.
In a cryptic message to Jackson's loyal followers, Murray said, "I wish that one day I get a chance to tell all Michael's fans, people who really, really love him, what happened to Michael ... If they do find out, their heart would cringe and they would be in blatant pain."
Beyond the surprising answers, tonight was the first time someone broke out into song during an interview with Anderson. Murray said both he and Jackson had experienced pain in their lives before singing this tune:
"He is a little boy that Santa Claus forgot and goodness knows he did not want a lot. He wrote a note to Santa for some crayons and a toy. It broke his little heart when he found Santa hadn't come. In the streets he envied all the lucky boys, but goodness knows he didn't want a lot. I'm so sorry for that laddie who hasn't got a daddy, he's a little boy that Santa Claus forgot."
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I think Conrad Murray really was trying to help Michael but I feel he is lying. What does he mean he was all packed up & ready to leave? Wasn't hr supposed to stay with him until he woke up? This just dosen't make sense! He's lying about to much!!! I don't think he did anything on purpose tho.
He is just trying to get away with a crime! He was not singing when they arrest him, he was hiding evidence!
I do not blame Dr. Murray for Michael Jackson's death. With or without this Dr.'s help Jackson would have gotten access to that drug himself. He was a sick man searching for love and was not satisfied with his life without the use of drugs.
Searching for Love? No, I think he was searching for sleep, so he could function & try & do his concerts in London!!! I don't know how anyone could think he could of done 50 concerts even spaced out like they were! He was a 50 yr old man!!! There is just something fishy about the whole thing!!! I doubt we'll ever kow the truth. So. So Sad!!!
How can Michael Jackson's personal doctor want to kill him. He was worth more Money alive for him!
I can't believe the gossipy coverage of the Michael Jackson issue! CNN , you have become a gossip magazine! Nothing more than a rag magazine. I used to turn to you for news but NOT this poor quality... Shame on you!
Anderson's face is priceless!! I think Murray has lost it totally!!
yes, Anderson was probably thinking this is weird and the doctor's "not orthodox" practices were weird.
from the beginggning this case is just weird and rediculous...
Dr Murray is guilty of not putting MJ in a hospital setting to give him fake sleep.....
Maybe i heard this wrong but didnt the Dr say he didnt give him the drug for 3 days before his death and then he said he gave it to him the day of his death.......thoughts...
I still can't believe what I was hearing, this man is clearly off his rocker, at first I thought it was some kind of joke that Mr Cooper was pulling, but, it was really a joke by his attorney, why in the world would his attorney let him speak, not to mention SING that, well, odd song? wouldn't want her on my side !! Mr Cooper.....you really nailed this interview, you gave him just enough rope to, well, you know !!
well Anderson it was worth a million dollars just to see your face when Murray started signing 🙂 I`m sure you wanted to laugh as much as i did .... take care ...oh! and by the way, why was that lawyer there for? she barely said a word
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The Weekend Playlist: Mad Men, VICE, Vegas' New Night and Melissa McCarthy on SNL
It's only natural for AMC's Mad Men to be consumed with thoughts of mortality as it heads further into the turbulent late '60s in its sixth and reportedly next-to-last season of existence. A year ago, the central set piece in the premiere was a surprise birthday party. This time, it's a similarly eventful wake. And that's not the only way in which Sunday's two-hour opener (9/8c), written by series creator Matthew Weiner, drives the death-comes-to-us-all theme home with such sledgehammer relentlessness and obviousness that for the first time, I began to think maybe it is time for this beautifully crafted series to start thinking about giving up the ghost. There's no denying the importance of a show that manages to win four well-deserved best-drama Emmys in its first four times at bat - I didn't hesitate to include Mad Men among the Top 10 in a recent "60 Greatest Dramas of All Time" package in TV Guide Magazine. But does it have to be this self-important?
More arty than artful, the episode gets off to an "uh-oh" note of portentous pretentiousness from the very start, as a voice-over from Don Draper (the excellent Jon Hamm) quotes from a literary classic as the ad man lies on a Hawaii beach, still stewing handsomely in his midlife crisis. A random encounter with someone who jogs memories of a road not taken further haunts Don as he returns to work, tanned but unsettled. As are we when we get a look at Don's new creative team, an unpleasantly shaggy lot indeed - it's the late '60s, when hair and fashion styles went to hell - and it's a team painfully minus Peggy.
Ah, Peggy Olson (wry, tough Elisabeth Moss), savior of this episode, as she blazes a trail at her new workplace, a drag version of Don who's absolutely in command, managing a queasily topical crisis that puts a client's very visible ad placement in sudden jeopardy. This is Mad Men at its best. The premiere is also a strong showcase for John Slattery as the sardonic Roger Sterling, unusually introspective as he jumps through a series of existential hoops while nailing an overlong monologue that gives the episode its metaphorical title: "The Doorway."
But what to make of a patently contrived subplot that sends one of the characters on a bizarre odyssey into the urban underground of anti-establishment malcontents, just so a clichéd free-spirit hippie can announce, "We don't like your life any more than you do." On the nose much?
My ambivalence about this episode doesn't trouble me much; I remember key episodes of The Sopranos (on which Weiner cut his creative teeth) confounding and annoying - even daring to bore - the audience, especially after a long wait between seasons that heightens anticipation for the sort of big moments that these landmark dramas carefully parcel out, often arriving when we least expect them and almost never when we do. Even at its most ponderous and indulgent, Mad Men casts a mesmerizing spell, and that's true throughout this less-than-satisfying but intermittently intriguing chapter. (Random thought: HBO's new season of Game of Thrones would have got off to a much stronger start creatively if they'd strung the first two episodes together, while Mad Men's opener might have been twice as effective at half the length.)
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GUERILLA JOURNALISM: If 60 Minutes clocked in at 30 and told its stories in the profane and explosively irreverent spirit of Apocalypse Now, it might look something like HBO's VICE, a brisk and brash half-hour newsmagazine (Friday, 11/10c) that showcases the enterprising work of the hipster news organization. Co-founder/host Shane Smith says his mandate is to "expose the absurdity of the modern condition," a mission that takes him to hot spots like Kabul, Afghanistan, where children are being recruited as Taliban suicide bombers. His team of in-your-face journalists shares a zeal for a good story. "Look at that! That makes a gun," grins reporter Ryan Duffy as he watches a backyard gunsmith crafting a weapon from scrap metal in the Philippines, the land of many political assassinations. Honestly, it's impossible to look away.
LAST ROLL OF THE DICE: I've lost count (some gambler I'd make) of how many e-mails I've answered over the last month from fans of CBS' Vegas, wondering where this '60s-era crime drama had vanished to. On any other network, a move from midweek to the nether reaches of the schedule would almost certainly be considered a death sentence. (Example: Smash's move this weekend to Saturdays.) But CBS tends to know better than most just what its audience wants, and as Vegas emerges from hiatus in a new last-chance time period (Fridays, 9/8c), this could turn out to be a smart fit with the similarly square but successful Blue Bloods. Like Bloods, Vegas is anchored by a veteran star (Dennis Quaid), albeit one who delivers a much rougher form of frontier justice.
In a typical moment, Vegas rancher/sheriff Ralph Lamb (Quaid) growls, "You want to step outside with me?" to the smarmy D.A. who we know to be in mob boss Savino's pocket. The D.A. knows better. Lamb is on the warpath this week because an FBI suit has blocked his crusade to smoke out a pimp specializing in underage jailbait. They've got a john in custody, but because he's a casino insider who could provide damaging intel on the Savoy's money-skimming operation, racketeering trumps child endangerment - to everyone but Lamb, of course. Even when the storytelling is familiar, the Lambs are good company, including Ralph's brother Jack (Jason O'Mara), who finally comes clean about his part in the mobster Rizzo's death, and Ralph's frisky son Dixon (Taylor Handley), who's currently obsessed with prying away a gorgeous Hollywood-hopeful starlet (the always-appealing Anna Camp) from her sugar daddy.
THE WEEKEND GUIDE: The big event: Melissa McCarthy returns to NBC's Saturday Night Live (11:30/10:30c) for the first time since her sensational hosting gig last season, where her fearless embrace of outrageous physical comedy earned her an Emmy nomination. ... More fabulous diva news: HBO's Game of Thrones (Sunday, 9/8c) introduces one of my instant-favorite new characters: the great Diana Rigg as the "Queen of Thorns" herself, Lady Olenna Tyrell, grandmother to the calculating Margaery. ... Guest-star alert on back-to-back episodes of ABC's Happy Endings (Friday, 8/7c): First, RuPaul guests as Jane and Alex's hairdresser, who spills some juicy gossip about the sisters to Max; then, Andy Richter appears as Penny's distant dad, with whom she hopes to reconcile before her wedding day. ... A while back, I suggested someone give the maimed Michael (Shane West) a hand on The CW's Nikita (Friday, 8/7c). Now it appears that just such a prosthetic device is on the market. ... Show Tune Alert: As NBC's Smash moves to Saturdays (10/9c) with Liza Minnelli on board, PBS launches a third season of Michael Feinstein's American Songbook on Friday (check tvguide.com listings) with an hour devoted to American musicals, featuring the master Stephen Sondheim and one of his muses, Angela Lansbury; and a second hour saluting singing dancers like Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, with commentary from a suddenly busy Minnelli. ... The 50th-anniversary celebration of ABC's General Hospital continues with a Saturday night edition of 20/20, titled "General Hospital - The Real Soap Dish," reported by Katie Couric (9/8c). ... History's Vikings (Sunday, 10/9c), now lacking new episodes of The Bible as a lead-in, promises a game changer as Ragnar goes mano-a-mano with the evil Earl after learning how the boss man tortured his brother. ... An all-country-star cast, led by co-hosts Blake Shelton (The Voice) and Luke Bryan, performs live Sunday from Las Vegas on CBS' 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards (8/7c). A highlight: previous Artist of the Decade winners Garth Brooks and George Strait salute the late Dick Clark, who started producing this show in 1979. In his honor, the award will now be known as the ACM Dick Clark Artist of the Decade. Seems appropriate.
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Millions of women and girls engage in binge drinking, experts say
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About 62% of high school senior girls who drink report binge drinking
Millions of high school-aged girls and women binge drink, behavior that can have disastrous results including long-term health effects, the CDC warns in a report released Tuesday.
For females, binge drinking means consuming four or more drinks in one sitting. For males, it's five or more drinks.
Previous reports have focused on higher rates of binge drinking among males, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in its report, aims to raise awareness of binge drinking among women as a serious problem that's held steady for more than a decade.
"Although binge drinking is more of a problem among men and boys, binge drinking is an important and under-recognized women's health issue," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, CDC director.
Of the estimated 23,000 annual deaths attributed to excessive alcohol use among women and girls, binge drinking was responsible for more than half of those deaths, said Frieden.
Binge drinking is the most common and most dangerous pattern of excess drinking, he said.
Women process alcohol differently than men and tend to be smaller, meaning they are more susceptible to effects of drinking, including heart disease, cancer, stroke and liver disease, to name a few. Other unintended consequences might include pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, the report said.
To describe the prevalence of binge drinking, the CDC analyzed data from its 2011 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, an annual telephone survey, and the national 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, an anonymous questionnaire completed by high school students nationwide.
While most binge drinkers are not alcohol-dependent, it can also lead to dependence.
About 50% of all the alcohol consumed by adults, and about 90% of all the alcohol consumed by young people is consumed during a binge drinking session, according to Frieden.
In 2011, when the data was collected, more than 12.5% of U.S. adult women engaged in binge drinking an average of three times per month, drinking an average of six drinks. That's nearly 14 million women. One in 8 women binge drink, according to the report.
One in 5 high school girls binge drink, which is nearly as high as the binge drinking rates among high school boys.
While binge-drinking rates have fallen among boys over the past 10 years, "binge-drinking rates among women … really haven't changed very much over a 15-plus-year period," said Dr. Robert Brewer, of the alcohol program division of the CDC's national Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.
Binge drinking may harm learning, memory
The greatest frequency of binge drinking is found among women aged 18-34 and high-school-age girls. About 62% of high school senior girls who drink reported binge drinking, according to Frieden.
So what can be done? Effective strategies combating binge drinking would include health care providers speaking to women and girls about their drinking habits, Frieden said.
Medical caregivers should encourage less consumption for girls and women if they suspect they are consuming too much.
Parents need to play a role in preventing their children from drinking.
Pregnant women and underage youth should not drink at all, Frieden stressed.
U.S. dietary guidelines recommend drinking in moderation – up to one drink daily for women and up to two for men.
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BOSTON (AP) — The 50th Super Bowl will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area and the NFL championship will go to Houston the following year.
Team owners voted Tuesday for the 49ers' new stadium as host of the 2016 game. That facility in Santa Clara, Calif., is due to open for the 2014 season.
San Francisco beat out South Florida, which was stymied in its bid to stage an 11th Super Bowl when the Florida Legislature did not support financing to renovate Sun Life Stadium.
"After losing a Super Bowl (to Baltimore), it feels really good to win a Super Bowl," 49ers CEO Jed York cracked.
Houston, which also beat out Miami, was awarded the 2017 title game. It has hosted once before, in 2004.
The only previous Super Bowl played in northern California was at Stanford Stadium in 1985.
When NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced the 2016 decision, members of the San Francisco bid committee let out a roar of approval, then toasted each other with champagne.
"We are so excited to be able to be able to put on the 'Golden Super Bowl' in the Golden State," York said.
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It was the first time in a decade that a Super Bowl was awarded on the first ballot.
"The Bay Area has been waiting for a (title) game since 1985. We have a stadium now ... we are just thrilled and couldn't be happier about this," said Daniel Lurie, a leader of the San Francisco bid.
"We are going to get to highlight the best the Bay Area has to offer."
The Dolphins were denied public money for a stadium upgrade in South Florida following widespread complaints about the public investment sunk into the Marlins' new baseball home.
Multibillionaire Dolphins owner Stephen Ross contends $350 million in stadium improvements are badly needed, but he doesn't want to pay for them by himself. Nor does he want a scaled-down renovation of the 26-year-old facility.
Miami has hosted 10 Super Bowls, tied with New Orleans for the most. But neither will get the 50th.
York suggested that San Francisco's winning bid offered a lesson in politics.
"If this Super Bowl can show the state of California and other communities the opportunity with a new stadium to bring in fresh business, it could be a catalyst that stadiums can be built for Oakland and San Diego, which are in need of new ones," he said. "This may be the impetus to get one of those done."
For years, it was thought the NFL would seek to stage the 50th Super Bowl in Los Angeles, where the first one was played (but did not sell out) on Jan. 15, 1967. But with no franchise in LA and no suitable stadium projects approved, that hope disappeared.
Next Feb. 2, the game goes outdoors in a cold-weather site for the first time, at MetLife Stadium in the New Jersey Meadowlands. If that gamble pays off for the NFL, look for other cities in similar climates — Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver — to bid for future Super Bowls.
The 2015 game will be played in the Phoenix area.
Earlier Tuesday, owners approved a $200 million loan for stadium construction in Atlanta. The multipurpose stadium could cost as much as $1 billion, with team owner Arthur Blank committed to funding most of it. Blank, speaking at the NFL's spring meetings, called the decision by the team owners an "important milestone" in moving the project forward.


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Investigators in Texas Sunday were trying to piece together what led to the shooting deaths a day earlier of American Sniper author Chris Kyle and another man at a gun range in Glen Rose, about 50 miles southwest of Fort Worth.
Kyle, 38, and Chad Littlefield, 35, were shot and killed at the Rough Creek Lodge, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Police arrested Eddie Ray Routh, 25, of Lancaster, and he was arraigned Saturday evening on two counts of capital murder, according to Sgt. Lonny Haschel of the Texas Department of Public Safety. Routh was being held in the Erath County Jail in lieu of a $3 million bond.
Capt. Jason Upshaw of the Erath County Sheriff's Department said a semi-automatic handgun believed to have been used in the shootings was recovered at Routh's home. He said Routh was unemployed and may have been suffering some form of mental illness. "We've heard rumors of that but we haven't seen any medical evidence to confirm that," he said.
He said police did not have a motive for the shootings, which were being investigated by the sheriff's department, other local police agencies, the Texas Rangers and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Police said Routh fired on Kyle and Littlefield around 3:30 p.m. Saturday, then fled in a Ford pickup. At around 8 p.m., Routh arrived at his home in Lancaster, about 17 miles southeast of Dallas. Police arrested him after a brief pursuit.
Travis Cox, director of FITCO Cares, a non-profit group Kyle helped start to help fellow veterans, told the Associated Press that the former sniper and Littlefield had taken Routh to the range trying to help a veteran "who was struggling with PTSD, to try to assist him, try to help him out, try to, you know, give him a helping hand and he turned the gun on both of them, killing them."
Police have not confirmed that account.
The military confirmed Sunday that Routh was a corporal in the Marines from June 2006 to January 2010. He was deployed to Iraq in 2007 and his current duty status is listed as reserve.
In a statement, Cox said that Kyle served four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL. "Chris died doing what filled his heart with passion — serving soldiers struggling with the fight to overcome PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder). His service, life and premature death will never be in vain. "
Cox, 27, who served in special operations in the Marines and was a scout sniper and Iraq veteran, said in an interview that Kyle was "a servant-leader."
"The man gave his life to serving veterans," Cox said. "He served them faithfully." FITCO Cares, also known as the Heroes Project, provides home fitness equipment, health club memberships and counseling to veterans.
Cox, who said he was not aware of a possible motive for the "tragic, senseless crime," said Kyle is survived by his wife, Taya, and two children.
Kyle was "an incredible guy who was always about family, about country and about God," his co-author said Sunday.
"During his life, he struggled to get those into the proper order," said Jim DeFelice, 56, of Warwick, N.Y., one of the co-authors of Kyle's best-selling book, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History, which details Kyle's kills of 150-plus insurgents from 1999 to 2009.
"It was always God first, but he struggled sometimes with how to balance his responsibility to his country with his responsibility to his family," DeFelice said.
Beginning Jan. 12, 2012, American Sniper spent 27 weeks on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list, rising as high as No. 10.
DeFelice said that when he first met Kyle about 2½ years ago, "The first thing he told me was that he was going to use every cent (from the book) for the families of the two SEALs who were killed with him when he was in Iraq."
Kyle was sued by former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura over a claim in the book that Kyle punched Ventura in a bar fight over unpatriotic remarks in 2006. Ventura says that the punch never happened and that the claim defamed him.
Kyle had sought to have Ventura's claims of invasion of privacy and "unjust enrichment" dismissed, saying there was no legal basis for them. A federal judge said the lawsuit should proceed. Both sides were told to be ready for trial by Aug.1.
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Apple's new iMac announcement today included an interesting bit of information on an upcoming technology Apple calls "Fusion Drive." According to Phil Schiller this morning, the technology takes a relatively small solid state disk and a relatively large spinning hard disk drive, then "fuses" them together into a single drive.
Speculation in the Ars forums started immediately, with most wondering if "Fusion Drive" works the same as current hybrid disk drives. Those incorporate some amount of NAND flash inside a traditional hard disk drive as an extended cache. Others speculated the Apple technology resembles something like Intel's Smart Response Technology, which uses a dedicated SSD (of up to 64GB in size) as a transparent cache for a larger hard disk drive.
Technical details are scarce, but based on Schiller's descriptions, the answer to both of those questions appears to be "no." Apple's Fusion Drive does not appear to function like an SSD-backed disk cache, but rather seems more like a file-level implementation of a feature that has existed for some time in big enterprise disk arrays: automatic tiering.
Most big disk arrays have different types of storage—some slow spinning disk, some faster spinning disk, and some solid state storage—and some have the ability to monitor what data is being accessed the most and can automatically move that data to a faster tier of disk as needed. These features typically operate at the block level, below the files, and can be done on large or small chunks of data, depending on what's hot and what's not. Auto-tiering also includes the ability to take data that is no longer in demand, or no longer "hot" and demote it down off of fast disk and onto slower stuff. In this way, a file that doesn't get accessed very often might be stored on slow SATA disks, but if a hundred people need to open it repeatedly over a short period of time, it will get pulled up and kept on SSD until it's not needed anymore.
Based on Schiller's explanation, Fusion Drive sounds similar. In a caching solution, like Intel's, files live on the hard disk drive and are temporarily mirrored to the SSD cache as needed. In an enterprise auto-tiering situation, and with Fusion Drive, the data is actually moved from one tier to another, rather than only being temporarily cached there.
Schiller noted that out of the box, a Fusion Drive-equipped Mac will have its core operating system components and preinstalled applications placed on the SSD side of the house, while documents and applications live on the slower spinning disk. As you open files and documents and install applications, the operating system makes note of what you're doing and how often you do it, and the things you use most often are promoted up onto the SSD. This is done transparently, and you see the SSD and hard drives as a single volume.
This is almost certainly done using Apple's Core Storage logical volume manager, introduced in OS X 10.7. As a volume manager, Core Storage has the chops to weld the two separate drives together into a single entity and handle the relocation of files between one tier and the other. I say "files" because it's almost certain that the implementation here is file-level instead of block-level, since a single user doesn't need the granularity that a block-level tiering solution would provide—as users, we tend to care about files and applications. OS X needs only a method of keeping track of how many times and how often a file or application is used and then can automatically have that file slipped onto fast SSD or slow disk when it crosses an upper or lower threshold. The tracking might be implemented through Core Storage attributes or through an external on-disk database like Spotlight and document revisions.
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PC manufacturers were thrown off by Windows 8 and its new touch-friendly face, which has given the PC industry what it needed to bring the PC forward into the mobile device space. The PC's long term success hinges on its ability to evolve, both in form factor and functionality. Boxes have largely given way to all-in-ones, laptops to Ultrabooks, and so on. Innovation often equals experimentation, and so PC makers have been throwing various PC designs against the wall to see what will stick. There's no question the tablet is the next evolution, but the PC is having a hard time finding a... more.
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As a PC builder, it's refreshing to see a wide variety in enthusiast desktop cases. For a long while it seemed like case makers used the term "enthusiast" and "gamer" interchangeably, and believed every gamer wants a case loaded with great features, but with neon lights, aggressive designs, and wild colors. Everyone else wanted a plain box. There's certainly a market for extreme designs, but there's also a large crowd who appreciate a well made, understated, case with clean styling and all those great features that make building a PC enjoyable.Fractal Design is a Sweden-based company that... more.
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Irrational Games' latest installment in the Bioshock series sees you lifted from the murky utopia of Rapture into the Eden of Colombia, a floating city in the sky. You play as Booker DeWitt, a former Pinkerton agent sent to Colombia to track down a women by the name of Elizabeth and bring her to New York to pay off a debt. Infinite is just as much (if not more) a game about story as it is action. I have taken particular care to avoid major spoilers, but proceed at your own risk.Like the original Bioshock, Infinite is visually stunning and gorgeous to look at. The switch from a dark and... more.
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