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October 12, 2006
|Tuesday is two for a toonie night at Holly's video-DVD shop in Cowichan Bay. I chose Auerbach's film Dear Frankie (2004) featuring child actor Jack McElhone as Frankie and Gerard Butler as his Dad-for-a-day. I knew Dave had too much work to spare anytime to watch a DVD on a Wednesday evening, so I chose one that I thought I would enjoy. (He's taking his students out stargazing tonight and he found an amazing site that makes star mapping easier to comprehend. I hope his students appreciate the passion he puts into his work! Since I am unable to work right now, I am trying to help him by setting up his own del.cio.us and wordpress.com accounts to keep track of the great teaching resources available on the internet. Apparently I am also driving some students on his outing to see the endangered historical Kinsol Trestle.)Shahla is lending me a wedding outfit suitable for the mother-of-the-groom. After I selected my favourite she and I walked to one of her oceanside spots, a small unfriendly but beautiful marina in walking distance of her home. It's another angle on Genoa Bay and Saltspring Island. I'll look it up and link it to Google.
I really miss my ancient Kodak DC210 Zoom. Between the time we first began our lease-to-purchase it in the spring of May2000, until its last brave attempt at the top of Old Baldy Mountain at digitizing dull details of my everyday life, it faithfully provided us with thousands of photos. It does seem odd that our TV, the VCR and the Kodak all conked out in the same two week period. Anyhow beached technologies propelled me to start playing with freebies on the internet – which is still working for now. So I am writing again after months of a major writing block. It doesn't matter if it's nonlinear, disjointed and in every direction at the same time.
|When I am playing with these blogging tools, I know it's deceptive, even contradictory but I feel like I'm all alone looking out over some virtual Escher-like panorama. The zenith above, nadir below and multiplicity of vanishing points all around me. I played with Friedrich's Romantic hero overwhelmed by the sublimity of nature in his Wanderer Overlooking the Sea of Fog (1818). (Thanks to Wikipedia's use of the digitial Commons it's available in high resolution and thanks to the Kunsthalle Museum locating Friedrich's work in the 21st century as Good Art, or at least Art with a Buzz after decades of being Bad Art.) And since the tools for the blogosphere are so agile at finding strands of thought I can wander in all directions and still locate myself. It's like a rhizomic archives of memories. And it's free.
|Anyhow I want to remember that I really enjoyed Dear Frankie. It was more than the cinematography imitating the light andnuanced colours of 19th century painting. It was something deeper. It illustrated how an abundance of grandmother-mother-love can help a child absorb the battering of everyday life experienced by the most vulnerable amongst us. There was something elusive yet powerfully touching in the way that Gerard Butler played the complex role of the stranger-father-for-a-day that stayed with me. Perhaps it resonated with the way my own father had that same silent but loving presence in my childhood. Perhaps it has something to do with the proximity of the ocean. Perhaps I saw in him, those qualities I admire in Dave and our adult sons.Dave took me to the Malahat again with our after school Tim's take-out. I've begun to sketch the topography. Mount Baker, the Sisters and Vancouver were clearly visible as were the ferries winding their way through the Gulf Islands channels. I think I can distinguish San Juan Island, US from the others now.Fayzdeh called as soon as we got in the door. She drove me to our gym where I was able to spin for 45 minutes while she did her yoga class.


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37.2001 Eminent domain-Compensation.
(a) The Government may take any land, easement or right-of-way, or any other property interest in American Samoa, when required for public purposes. Where possible, the Governor shall consult with the Legislature about proposed condemnation projects, and shall obtain the advice of the Legislature on all such projects. Payment of just compensation shall be made, in accordance with the procedures described in 43.1001 through 43.1036, to those who may be deprived of their property by such taking.
(b) The public purpose for a parcel of land acquired by the Government under eminent domain must be specified in the proposed condemnation. If the subject land is not used for the stated public purpose within five years after condemnation it must be returned to the prior owner with all improvements.History: 1962, PL 7-25; 1967, PL 10-25; readopted 1980, PL 16-88 § 1; 1982, PL 17-31 § 1; amd 1988, PL 20-50; amd 1989, PL 21-24.
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1930s. The Senghenydd Crate
Amongst the finds of The Senghenydd Crate were a series of 14 small photographic images, mounted upon a thin piece of dark wood.
These images appear to depict a variety of organic forms although the nature of the photographic techniques used and indeed the subject matter of these images remains a subject of intense debate.
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How the conclaves fared in the past century
Eight conclaves held in past century
Over the past century, no conclave has lasted more than five days and the fastest vote was for Pope Pius XII. Twice prelates from North America missed the vote because they couldn't get to Rome in time, and a Hungarian cardinal sat out two conclaves because he was holed up in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest seeking asylum.
A look at a century of conclave balloting.
July 31-Aug. 4, 1903: Italian Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto (Pius X) elected on seven ballots over four days. Sixty-two of 64 cardinals participated.
Aug. 31-Sept. 3, 1914: Italian Cardinal Giacomo della Chiesa (Benedict XV) elected on 10th ballot on third day. Fifty-six of 65 cardinals participated. Cardinals from Boston, Baltimore and Quebec arrived after the election.
Feb. 2-6, 1922: Italian Cardinal Achille Ratti (Pius XI) elected on 14th ballot on fifth day. Fifty-three of 60 cardinals participated. Cardinals from Boston, Philadelphia and Quebec arrived too late.
March 1-2, 1939: Italian Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Pius XII) elected on third ballot on second day. All 62 cardinals participated.
Oct. 25-28, 1958: Italian Cardinal Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) elected on 11th ballot on fourth day. Fifty-one of 53 cardinals participated. Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty of Hungary had taken asylum in the U.S. Embassy in Budapest, and Yugoslav Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac was under house arrest.
June 19-21, 1963: Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini (Paul VI) elected on sixth ballot on third day. Eighty of the 88 cardinals participated. Mindszenty was still in U.S. Embassy asylum.
Aug. 25-26, 1978: Italian Cardinal Albino Luciano (John Paul I) elected on fourth ballot on second day. A total of 111 cardinals from 49 nations and territories took part and three were absent because of illness; 15 cardinals could not join under new rule limiting vote age to under 80.
Oct. 14-16, 1978: Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla (John Paul II) elected on eighth ballot on third day to become first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI (1522-1523). A total of 111 cardinals from 49 nations and territories took part.
April 18-19, 2005: German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) elected on fourth ballot on second day. A total of 115 cardinals from 52 nations and territories took part.


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Computational Advances for Next Generation Sequencing (CANGS 2011) in conjunction with ICCABS 2011 Feb. 4, 2011, Holiday Inn - in the Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando, Florida Workshop Organizers: Ion Mandoiu , University of Connecticut, ion from engr.uconn.edu Alex Zelikovsky, Georgia State University, alexz from cs.gsu.edu Massively parallel DNA and RNA sequencing have become widely available, reducing the cost by several orders of magnitude and placing the capacity to generate gigabases to terabases of sequence data into the hands of individual investigators. These next-generation technologies have the potential to dramatically accelerate biological and biomedical research by enabling the comprehensive analysis of genomes and transcriptomes to become inexpensive, routine and widespread. The exploding volume of data has spurred the development of novel algorithmic approaches for primary analyses of sequence data in such areas as error correction, de novo genome assembly, novel transcript discovery, virus quasispecies assembly, etc. This workshop will bring together specialists to discuss the various mathematical and computational challenges presented by next-generation sequencing technologies. This meeting is by invitation only. If you would like to inquire about the possibility of being invited, please contact the organizers by January 10, 2011. Workshop Registration Fees: IEEE Members: $300 IEEE Non-members and late registration (after Jan. 20, 2011): $400 IEEE Student members: $100 IEEE Student non-members: $150 IEEE Life/Retired members: $100 Registration to the workshop has to be done through regonline (https://www.reg-site.com/con-reg/default.asp?Conid=116)


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5 comments:
- Anonymous said...
this is great!! I would love to see more from this time period..
- zipthwung said...
dude that is totally seventies! Reminds me of Ruscha (seventies) and the lady who did the big Gigeresque wall sculptures of zippered voids or whatever. God my mind is shot.
I set my old shit out for the cat to pee on, as I can't put it all in a pile and call it 1000 years of loneliness and do it myself like Anselm kiefer. Fact is, its embarassing - like the diaries of Susan Sontag, only withotu the sex and not so many words except maybe a heuristic or hermeneutic in there.
Lots of folks burn their old shit - thats why its good not to sell your old work. A real bonus. Like the trash bins at art school after graduation. As an artist it can be really satisfying to throw shit away.
- zipthwung said...
unless someone saves it or it is signed and comes back. SOmetimes they do that.
- Anonymous said...
hey Martin,
Where did you find this beauty?
- Martin said...
timothy - i found it on an auction site... here is the accompanying information -
"To Whom It May Concern:
From 1970 to 1972 I attended Nasson College in Springvale, Maine during which time I met Richard Prince. He was a senior while I was a freshman so we did not know many of the same people. However, Nasson was a very small school so it was not unusual for people to know each other as acquaintances or to be at the same parties or gatherings. In my second year I moved off campus to an apartment on the first floor of a building on Main St. in Springvale, ME. While living there, I saw Richard more often as he visited the people who lived upstairs from me. I babysat for the children of this couple and would see Richard when he visited.My personal recollections of Richard, whom I remember being called Dick, was that he was a quiet man but was well known as a very good artist who did exceptionally precise and ornate pen and ink drawings, mostly black and white but also in color. He spent a great deal of time in the art department at Nasson, most often in the print shop. He was quiet, but he was known for his artwork and his personal image in that he wore overalls all the time and a wool watch cap on his head all year round. I bought this picture from him after seeing it at his friend's apartment upstairs from mine. I know that he had a sardonic sense of humor which was typified, to me, by this picture. I was struck by this picture because while I really liked the warm colors and the peaceful image of the bird on the branch, I loved the fact that the bird was wearing a crash helmet.
Barabra Asnes, Freeport, Maine."


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The Navy Research Lab has opened a multiclimate test lab that is being compared to a "Hunger Games" environment for robots and autonomous vehicles.
The Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) will be used to test prototype autonomous systems in settings ranging from deserts and rain forests to waterborne and airborne environments.
The lab's test areas, or bays, includes one about half the size of a football field equipped with high-speed video cameras that can record up to 50 air vehicles, ground robots or human soldiers, according to InnovationNewsDaily, which compared the lab to a "Hunger Games" arena.
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"The Hunger Games" is a 2008 young adult novel, soon to be released as a movie, in which large, naturalistic arenas are built for a reality TV show featuring a battle to the death by teenagers.
The Navy may not be looking to stage death matches in LASR, but the robots, aircraft and amphibious vehicles will be severely tested.
The rain forest bay, for example, can drop as much as 6 inches of rain per hour into an 80-degree environment with 80 percent humidity, InnovationNewsDaily reported. Or robots can try to navigate a desert climate with high winds, rock walls and a sand pit.
LASR is continuing research into unmanned and autonomous systems that the Navy has been doing since 1923, NLR said in a statement. The new lab will help support the military's growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles, ground robots and other autonomous systems.
The lab, which was officially opened March 16 at NRL in Washington, D.C., features five specific test areas.
LASR also has electrical and machine shops where prototypes can be built. Among the tools available are 3-D prototyping machines that can make parts directly from computer-aided design drawings, a sensor lab with large environmental and altitude chambers, and a power and energy lab.
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19-September-2014: Once illiterate, Bodnar wins writing contest, Alberni Valley News
19-September-2014: Essay on literacy struggle nets award for Bodnar, Alberni Valley News
19-September-2014: Literacy is Life Launch in Fred Unleeshed Column, Vancouver Courier
18-September-2014: Hope resident wins B.C. literacy contest, Hope Standard
17-September-2014: Literacy advocate makes case to MLAs, Prince George Citizen
17-September-2014: Diana Twiss on how technology can harm those with low literacy, CTV Vancouver (Video)
10-September-2014: Leona Gadsby on the state of literacy in BC, CTV Vancouver (Video)
10-September-2014: Team Trivia Challenge to support Literacy is Life, CTV Vancouver (Video)
04-September-2014: McBride short film on literacy gets provincial accolades, Rocky Mountain Goat (Valemount)
04-September-2014: Alberni woman a finalist in B.C. literacy contest, Alberni Valley News
05-September-2014: International Literacy Day celebrated on September 8, Cariboo Connector
03-September-2014: Brenda Le Clair, CEO, interviewed about the Literacy is Life campaign launch, CTV Vancouver
03-September-2014: International Literacy Day is about more than reading, Sooke News Mirror
22-August-2014: Local writer finalist in literacy contest, Cranbrook Daily Townsman
18-June-2014: Maple Ridge Literacy Group Lobbies for Stable Funding, Maple Ridge News
13-June-2014: Literacy Group's Funding in Danger of Being Chopped, Tri-City News (Metro Vancouver)
12-June-2014: Valley Author Gives Back, Comox Valley Record
11-June-2014: What Does Literacy Mean to You? Lillooet-Bridge River News
11-June-2014: Storytime Moves Outside, Tri-City News (Metro Vancouver)
22-May-2014: Literacy organizations say federal government abandoning them, Ottawa Citizen
24-Apr-2014: Community literacy programs face cuts, Alaska Highway News
9-April-2014: Literacy cuts could spell the end of Literacy Outreach Coordinators, Chetwynd Echo
3-Apr-2014: BC reinstates literacy funding, Maple Ridge News
3-Apr-2014: Help restore literacy funding, Prince George Citizen
2-Apr-2014: Chetwynd sheltered from the impact of literacy funding cuts, Chetwynd Echo
2-Apr-2014: Quesnel's literacy society in jeopardy, Quesnel Caribou Observer
2-Apr-2014: Literacy Alberni waits on funding decision, Alberni Valley Times
1-Apr-2014: BC backs off on literacy cuts, Salmon Arm Observer
1-Apr-2014: Literacy funding slashed, Prince George Citizen
28-Mar-2014: Literacy group frustrated with funding plan, Kamloops This Week
27-Mar-2014: Interview with LOC Fiona Clare, CBC Radio West (mp3 format)
27-Mar-2014: Funding to literacy programs slashed, Chilliwack Times
27-Mar-2014: Local community literacy funding slashed, BC Local News
26-Mar-2014: Literacy funding cuts, CFJC-TV (Kamloops) (video format)
26-Mar-2014: Massive funding cuts could mark end of local literacy programs, Saanich News
26-Mar-2014: Literacy budget cut could spell end for some groups, Goldstream News Gazette (Victoria)
26-Mar-2014: Massive funding cuts could mark end of local literacy programs, Victoria News
26-Mar-2014: Valley's literacy funding slashed again, Cowichan News Leader Pictorial
26-Mar-2014: Funding slashed for literacy services, The Maple Ridge News
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23-Mar-2014: Victoria literacy organization sees bleak future, Victoria News
22-Mar-2014: Greater Victoria literacy outreach coordinators battle funding cut, Times Colonist (Victoria)
21-Mar-2014: LOC Jan Dupuis' interview on CBC News Victoria (mp3 format)
21-Mar-2014: Literacy Program Facing Budget Cuts, CFNR (First Nations Radio)
21-Mar-2014: Provincial literacy funding cuts to have local impact, MooseFM, Fort St. John
21-Mar-2014: Literacy programs facing cutbacks, Salmon Arm Observer
20-Mar-2014: BC Liberals cutting community-based literacy programs, BCNDP.ca
20-Mar-2014: Literacy cuts (video), CHEK TV (Victoria)
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19-Mar-2014: Funding cuts put literacy program at risk, Eagle Valley News (Sicamous)
19-Mar-2014: Literacy group faces cuts again, Salmon Arm Observer
05-Mar-2014: Fraser Stresses Literacy Funding in Legislature, Alberni Valley Times
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Mike Duncan has one of the toughest jobs in politics.
As chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Duncan is the leader of the party that controls the White House. Like others in that position in the past, he must unwaveringly defend the record of party and president.
So when Duncan surveys the political scene, he says, "I'm very pleased. I think we are going into '08 with good prospects." Duncan was the guest at Wednesday's Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters.
Other political experts don't share Duncan's sunny outlook. President Bush's former chief speechwriter, Michael Gerson, writes in the latest issue of Newsweek that "In early 2008, by nearly every measure, the Republican Party is in trouble."
The nonpartisan Capitol Hill newspaper Politico recently said the Republican Party suffers from "the funk of the foot soldiers." Among the symptoms Politico cited:
•Ambitious state and local Republicans are deciding this is not the year to run for office.
•Republican contributors are not opening their wallets as frequently as Democrats.
•Republicans are heading to the presidential primary polls in smaller numbers than in previous years.
Duncan, a banker from eastern Kentucky who became party chair in January 2007, counters, "I don't think there is a funk."
He added, "This whole area of fund-raising is one that I would point to and say that we are doing well and we will have the money to get our message out."
And he argued that primary turnout figures do not translate neatly into election results.
"In the last 35 years, turnout in presidential primaries favors the party out of power," Duncan said. "Since '72 the national turnout has been higher for the out-of-power party in all but one election and that was 1980. So this is not unusual. Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush were both elected in their first terms with a lower turnout in the primaries. So I am not concerned about the numbers."
With cable news programs and newspaper headlines full of bad economic news – which often hurts the party that holds the White House – Duncan was asked whether Republican presidential candidates have ground to make up on the issue of the economy.
"I don't buy that premise," he said.
Republicans can argue to voters that they are the party of limited government despite healthy growth in government expenditure during George Bush's term, Duncan said. "In 2006, after the [congressional election] loss, we understood that we had lost our way on spending and that last year was a good start at correction."
As Bush speechwriter Gerson noted in his column, there is one "political figure who could cause depressed, fractious Republicans to bind their wounds, downplay their divisions, renew their purpose, and join hands in blissful unity…. And that figure is Hillary Clinton."
So it is not surprising that Duncan happily recited research the GOP has run on how voters see Senator Clinton. The survey was taken Jan. 13-15 among 800 registered voters and has a margin of error of 3.5 percent.
"Senator Clinton will say or do anything to get elected," Duncan said. "Our polling shows that less than half of the people believe she is honest and trustworthy … 65 percent believe she will say or do anything to get elected … over two thirds – 68 percent – believe she will raise taxes. So that gives me a great deal of optimism because I also understand the message our candidates will have."


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Sony had a good year for high-end picture quality in 2012, delivering some of the best-performing LED TVs on the market in the HX850 and XBR-HX950 series. While there are a couple of potential heroes in this year's lineup -- the extremely expensive "Triluminous" W900 and the even more expensive Ultra HD 4K X900 -- the step-down 2013 model reviewed here is more of a good Samaritan.
Despite the "8" moniker, the W802A is actually closer to last year's disappointing HX750 than the excellent HX850. The cosmetics have received a small update, with a jewel-like chamfered edge, and the internals have also seen some changes. The panel is now a passive 3D LCD and features an edge-lit LED backlight, sans the local dimming that made the HX850 so good. To get local dimming from Sony in 2013, you'll have to pay nearly double for the step-up models.
The good news is that the W802A is a little better than the HX750 and goes for $200 less. With a little bit of tweaking it can achieve perfectly decent quality for an LED-based LCD. It's also plenty sleek, with a nice mix of features.
On the other hand, unless you're a gamer who appreciates its minuscule input lag, the W802A doesn't really stand out at this price. Unless you really want passive 3D with a Sony nameplate, or you really like its looks, it's tough to recommend over models like the Panasonic ST60.
Editors' Note: This review was updated to include testing for gaming-related input lag, but its rating has not been modified. See the Picture Quality section for more.
Sony KDL-W802A is decent for an LED-based LCD TV (pictures)See all photos
Series information: I performed a hands-on evaluation of the Sony KDL-55W802A, but this review also applies to the other screen size in the series. Both sizes have identical specs and according to the manufacturer should provide very similar picture quality.
|Models in series (details)
|Sony KDL-47W802A
|47 inches
|Sony KDL-55W802A
|55 inches
Though the technologies inside are different, the W802A and W900 look almost identical in terms of design. Both feature a slim black bezel with a "Quartz-cut" edge that glows green in the light. The W802's cylindrical base resembles something you'd find on a modern bar stool, with a brushed-aluminum appearance and a handy swivel so it can reach the Beer Nuts. The only incongruous part of the design is the large silver Sony "box" at the bottom of the bezel. It looks like it could detach, and I wish it could, but it doesn't.
The remote control is fine but not particularly special. It has a dedicated Netflix button, and a shortcut for the newish SEN (Sony Entertainment Network). Sadly, it's missing a backlight, but you could always purchase a Logitech Harmony 650 instead.
Sony's 2013 menu system has seen the biggest overhaul in years. Gone is the XMB (Xross Media Bar) which has been replaced by a more traditional, vertical menu. It's animated with big, helpful icons for inputs and picture settings, but they also slow navigation.
|Key TV features
|Display technology
|LED backlight
|Screen finish
|Smart TV
|Internet connection
|Built-in Wi-Fi
|3D technology
|3D glasses included
|Four pairs
|Refresh rate(s)
|Dejudder (smooth) processing
|Other: MHL port, Miracast, NFC "ready," additional passive 3D glasses (TDG-500P, $9.99 each)
While competitors have let their imaginations run wild with features like voice control, gestures, and electronic pens, Sony keeps things a little more simple. Sure, you get Miracast mirroring with compatible phones, MHL, and an optional NFC remote, but mostly the TV's features are unchanged from last year.
The W802A uses "Dynamic Edge LED backlighting," but on this TV that means "frame dimming." Apparently it dims the entire backlight at once and not select portions individually; in other words, it not true local dimming as found on the HX850 and W900A. Sony's specifications use the term "Motion Flow XR480," but according to a Sony rep we spoke to, the panel has a native refresh rate of 120Hz. The other 360 apparently comes from mumbo jumbo.
The biggest change for Sony is the use of a passive 3D panel, and it now includes four pairs of 3D glasses. Additional pairs can be had from Sony for $10 each, and of course most third-party glasses should work fine, too. The passive 3D also enables split-screen gaming on one screen with Simulview glasses (available separately) and compatible games.
Smart TV: The interface has changed a little since last year -- no more scrolling lists or separate, competing interfaces -- and now the SEN (Sony Entertainment Network) is the default repository for apps. All of the apps sit on one screen, lined up in tile form like terra-cotta warriors, and I found the layout preferable to scrolling through a seemingly endless vertical list via the XMB. Happily, the "Home" page allows for shortcuts to your most-used apps, which means you won't need to even load the slow SEN in most cases. Interestingly, the only way to open the SEN is with the remote shortcut; it isn't available from the Home page.
Unlike some competitors there is no app store; just a long list of preloaded apps which includes the inevitable litany of disposable games. Both Yahoo Widgets and CinemaNow have disappeared from the roster with no appreciable additions to last year's Smart TV list. I'd argue that most people would only be interested in Netflix, Hulu, and perhaps Pandora anyway.
The Sony features a Web browser, but as it lacks a pointer, necessitating navigation via the TV remote, it's DOA to me.
The company is currently offering 12 months of Hulu Plus and Netflix, and 30 days of Music Unlimited with the purchase of this TV. As usual, we recommend hooking the TV up to a receiver or a decent sound bar to get the best out of Music Unlimited.
Picture settings: The TV offers a a number of fine-tuning settings such as a 10-point grayscale, which wasn't available last year, as well as a few gamma selections and a large array of picture presets. Unlike some competitors however, it doesn't offer a color management system.
Connectivity: The biggest "upgrades" to last year's connectivity offerings are MHL compatibility and Wi-Fi direct. I'm not an advocate of MHL, which requires a physical cable, and I think users would agree that streaming via Wi-Fi is preferable by a smartphone.


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Even pests have a purpose
It's a remarkable achievement: According to a census in April, the number of California condors, one of the largest and most endangered birds in the world, has reached 405, including both wild and captive birds. That's the most condors to exist on the planet since recovery of the species began in the 1980s, when only 23 remained.
The birds, which can live to the venerable age of 60, continue to be threatened by lead poisoning, which happens when the condors eat carrion peppered with the shards of exploded lead bullets. The condors' alarming die-off prompted the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to capture the remaining birds in 1987, and place them in a handful of captive breeding programs around the West.
As the April census indicates, the recovery programs have been a great success, pulling the magnificent, bald-headed birds, whose wingspans are nearly 10 feet across, back from extinction. But in the process, another certainly less charismatic creature, has been wiped out: Colpocephalum californici, an avian chewing louse that lived only on the California condor.
"As far as scientists can tell, based on very limited knowledge, C. californici caused its condor hosts no harm. The bird was simply a mobile home, providing shelter and the occasional feather meal," reports the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The louse was one of an estimated 6,300 known "affiliate species" -- pollinators, parasites and mutualists (organisms that carry on a mutually beneficial relationship with another species) -- that are uniquely adapted to the creatures on which they depend. Because of the intimate relationships affiliate species have with their hosts, they can tell us a great deal about the biology of the hosts themselves, which can prove especially handy when the host species is rare or endangered.
But when the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service rounded up the world's last remaining condors in the late '80s, and sent them to recovery and breeding centers, they were treated for parasites and, as SEED Magazine eloquently describes, "the last C. californici vanished from the Earth in a puff of carbaryl-powder fumigation."
The lice's disappearance -- the result of negligence rather than deliberate extermination -- is a fine example of "coextinction," a term coined in the early 2000s to describe what happens when a particular species goes extinct because the creatures on which it relies become very rare or vanish entirely. A 2004 study found that, in the last 200 years, at least 100 species of butterflies, beetles and lice have disappeared as a result of coextinction.
Indeed, in a 2005 article in Conservation Biology about modern insect extinctions, zoologist Rob Dunn warns that hundreds of affiliates could be lost, given the number of species recommended for captive breeding programs -- which, through fumigation or disinfection, can inadvertently wipe out mutualists or parasites, such as the condor louse.
"The potential magnitude of coextinctions should make them a key focus of conservation biology, yet the process of coextinction has been little studied," Dunn says.
And while the annihilation of tiny, blood-sucking parasites and itty-bitty invertebrates may seem like a trifling problem (or even a plus), studies suggest that the extinction of such species is a blow, not a boon, to science. Pestiferous critters like ticks, mites and lice are "great repositories of history, living chronicles of how organisms evolve over time," says the Union-Tribune. Because parasites reproduce faster, evolve more quickly, are much more abundant, and have greater genetic diversity than their imperiled hosts, they can often teach us more about those hosts than can the hosts themselves.
The feline immunodeficiency virus (a pathogen, not a parasite) helped reveal the movements and demographics of isolated cougar populations in the Northern Rocky Mountains. And scientists studying the Galapagos hawk, an endangered raptor endemic to the Galapagos Islands, looked to the bird's feather lice to figure out how and when the birds colonized the archipelago and how each population is related to its neighbors.
So when California condor populations finally top 450 birds, the number required before the species can officially be considered for downlisting under the Endangered Species Act, we should by all means celebrate. But let's not forget to raise a glass as well to the little lice that once lived on the great bird but which is now lost forever, as well as to all the parasites, pathogens and symbionts threatened by coextinction. They may not look as charming on a wildlife calendar, but they are as worthy of conservation as their more endearing hosts.
Marian Lyman Kirst is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org).


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Pemco Aeroplex, Inc.
B-310372.3: Jun 13, 2008
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Pemco Aeroplex, Inc. protests the Department of the Air Force's selection of Boeing Aerospace Operations, Inc. for award of a contract pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8105-05-R-0014 to provide programmed depot maintenance (PDM) for KC-135 aircraft.
We deny the protest.
B-310372.3, Pemco Aeroplex, Inc., June 13, 2008
The decision issued on the date below was subject to a GAO Protective Order. This redacted version has been approved for public release.
Matter of: Pemco Aeroplex, Inc.
David R. Hazelton, Esq., Roger S. Goldman, Esq., Kyle R. Jefcoat, Esq., and Benjamin Wei, Esq., Latham & Watkins LLP, for the protester.
Rand L. Allen, Esq., Paul F. Khoury, Esq., Scott M. McCaleb, Esq., Kara M. Sacilotto, Esq., Nicole P. Wishart, Esq., and William J. Grimaldi, Esq., Wiley Rein, LLP, for The Boeing Company, an intervenor.
Brent G. Curtis, Esq., and Kenneth C. Kitzmiller, Esq., Department of the Air Force, for the agency.
Glenn G. Wolcott, Esq., and Ralph O. White, Esq., Office of the General Counsel, GAO, participated in the preparation of the decision.
1. In responding to this Office's prior decision that sustained a previous protest and recommended that the agency perform and document a price realism and proposal risk analysis as contemplated by the solicitation, the agency was not required to reopen discussions with offerors to perform the necessary analysis.
2. Agency's record documenting its various judgments and analysis regarding the impact of awardee's final proposal revisions reasonably supports the agency's conclusions with regard to price realism and proposal risk and complies with solicitation requirements.
Pemco Aeroplex, Inc.[1] protests the Department of the Air Force's selection of Boeing Aerospace Operations, Inc. for award of a contract pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. FA8105-05-R-0014 to provide programmed depot maintenance (PDM) for KC-135 aircraft.[2]
The solicitation was initially issued in August 2005 and, thereafter, was amended several times. As amended, the solicitation provided for award on a best value basis and established the following evaluation factors: mission capability, proposal risk, past performance and cost/price. RFP at 78-79.
With regard to proposal evaluations under the mission capability factor, the solicitation established various subfactors and provided that color ratings would be assigned at the subfactor level.[3]
With regard to evaluation of proposal risk, the solicitation provided that risk assessments of low, moderate, or high would be made for each of the mission capability subfactors, and provided that these risk assessments would consider each offeror's proposed approach with regard to the potential for disruption of schedule, increased cost, degradation of performance, and the need for increased Government oversight, as well as the likelihood of unsuccessful contract performance.
Finally, with regard to evaluation of cost/price, the solicitation contemplated award of a fixed-price contract. Nonetheless, section M of the solicitation provided that the agency would perform a price realism analysis based, in part, on data offerors were required to submit, including data regarding labor, fringe benefits, overhead and G&A rates by year for all labor categories anticipated for use in the performance of this effort. RFP at 86.
In September 2006, Pemco and Boeing each submitted initial proposals for the requirements at issue.[4] Boeing's initial proposal reflected [deleted][5].[6]
Following receipt and review of initial proposals, the agency conducted discussions with each offeror. During discussions, the agency requested that Boeing explain [deleted].
Boeing responded that [deleted].
Thereafter, final proposal revisions (FPR) were requested and submitted in February 2007; notwithstanding its response to the agency during discussions, Boeing's FPR [deleted].[7] AR, Tab 27, FPR, at V3-57. It is undisputed that Boeing's proposal revisions following discussions offered no substantive explanation for [deleted].[8] It is also undisputed that the direct effect of Boeing's [deleted] was to reduce Boeing's proposed price by more than the total difference between Boeing's and Pemco's final evaluated prices.
Following submission of the final proposal revisions, Boeing's and Pemco's proposals were evaluated with the following ratings.
Depot Maintenance
Proposal Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Supply Chain Management
Proposal Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Proposal Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Program Management
Proposal Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Small Business
Proposal Risk
Low Risk
Low Risk
Past Performance
AR, Tab 6, Proposal Analysis Report (PAR), at 78, 166.
Based on this evaluation, the source selection authority (SSA) concluded that Boeing's proposal was superior with regard to mission capability; that Pemco's proposal was superior with regard to past performance; that performance risk was not a significant discriminator; and that Boeing offered the lowest total evaluated price (TEP). AR, Tab 5, Source Selection Decision Document, at 22. In light of these assessments, the SSA concluded: Pemco's better record of past performance is not sufficient to outweigh the benefits of Boeing's superior Mission Capability proposal and $15,048,062 lower TEP.
In September 2007, Pemco filed a protest with this Office, maintaining that the agency's evaluation of proposals was flawed with regard to various aspects of the procurement, including its consideration of price realism and proposal risk related to Boeing's final proposal revisions that [deleted]. As noted above, the solicitation specifically provided that the agency would assess price realism and proposal risk based on each offeror's proposed approach to contract performance.
In December 2007, we sustained Pemco's protest to the extent it challenged the agency's evaluation of cost/price. In this regard, we found that the agency's procurement record contained no documentation regarding a price realism analysis that considered the effect of the [deleted] incorporated into Boeing's final proposal revisions, nor any evidence that the agency considered the potential proposal risk created by Boeing's [deleted]. We noted that, in the absence of documented agency analysis regarding this matter, we were unable to determine that the realism and risk assessments required by the solicitation were reasonably performed; accordingly, we sustained the protest based on the agency's failure to create a record addressing these matters. We recommended that the agency perform and document price realism and risk assessments, taking into consideration the [deleted] Boeing introduced in its final proposal revisions.
Following receipt of our decision, the agency took various actions to implement our recommendations. AR, Tab 59 at 9-10; Tab 60 at 6-19, 68-69; Tab 61 at 71-75, 179-80. Among other things, the agency compared the level of [deleted] with the level of [deleted] that have been recently required to perform similar tasks by the Air Force's organic facility at Tinker Air Force Base.[9]
The agency also analyzed, and documented its consideration of, Boeing's [deleted]. This analysis concluded that the [deleted] in Boeing's final proposal revisions were [deleted]. Further, the agency's analysis considered the impact that the [deleted] may have on the contract's workload requirements.[10] In this regard, the agency's analysis acknowledged that, within a given [deleted] could cause [deleted], but also concluded that such [deleted] would not be significant enough to [deleted].[11] Finally, in assessing proposal risk, the agency considered the data and analysis discussed above, and further concluded that Boeing's proposed use of its [deleted] would decrease proposal risk with regard to the potential for schedule disruption, cost increases, and the need for government oversight.
Following its risk and realism analysis, the Air Force again concluded that Boeing's proposal reflected the best value to the government. This protest followed.
Pemco protests that, following the receipt of this Office's prior decision, the agency was required to reopen discussions with the offerors. Pemco also argues that the substance of the agency's evaluation and analysis following receipt of our decision was flawed for various reasons. As discussed below, we reject these assertions.
First, Pemco asserts that the agency was obligated to reopen discussions with the offerors in order to obtain additional information prior to performing the price realism and risk analysis required by the solicitation and recommended by our Office, and that its failure to do so rendered the subsequent source selection decision improper.
As a general rule, the details of implementing recommendations of our Office are within the sound discretion and judgment of the contracting agency, and we will not question an agency's ultimate manner of compliance, so long as it remedies the procurement impropriety that was the basis for our recommendation. See, e. g., Partnership for Response and Recovery, B-298443.4,
Here, our decision sustaining Pemco's prior protest was based on the absence of any agency documentation reflecting the agency's judgments regarding price realism and proposal risk in the context of Boeing's final proposal revisions. Pemco's assertion that the agency was required to reopen discussions appears to be based on a perception that our Office found Boeing's proposal to be informationally deficient; we did not.[12] In this regard, it is not the function of our Office to evaluate proposals; rather, we will examine the procurement record created by the agency to determine whether the agency's evaluation was consistent with the solicitation requirements and applicable statutes and regulations. E.g. Pacific Ship Repair and Fabrications, B'279793,
Since our prior decision was based on an informational deficiency in the agency's evaluation record, it was not unreasonable for the agency to correct that deficiency by performing, and documenting, the required analyses based on the information that was already available. Pemco's assertion that the agency was obligated to reopen discussions with all of the offerors is without merit.
Next, Pemco challenges various aspects of the agency's price realism and risk analysis performed in response to our recommendation. In this regard, Pemco identifies various standards, essentially arguing that the agency should have considered the standards as dispositive benchmarks in determining whether [deleted] were realistic and reflected higher proposal risk. More specifically, Pemco asserts that any conclusion that Boeing's final proposal revisions were realistic and did not reflect increased proposal risk was precluded by: the [deleted] in Pemco's own final proposal; the [deleted] in Boeing's initial proposal; and the [deleted] in the agency's internal government estimate (IGE). We have considered all of Pemco's arguments and find no basis for sustaining its protest.
Price realism is not ordinarily considered in the evaluation of proposals for the award of a fixed-price contract, because these contracts place the risk of loss upon the contractor. However, in light of various negative impacts on both the agency and the contractor that may result from an offeror's overly optimistic proposal, an agency may, as here, expressly provide that a price realism analysis will be applied in order to measure the offerors' understanding of the requirements and/or to assess the risk inherent in an offeror's proposal. See, e.g., Wackenhut Servs., Inc., B-286037, B'286037.2, Nov. 14, 2000, 2001 CPD para. 114 at 3; Molina Eng'g, Ltd./Tri-J Indus., Inc. Joint Venture, May 22, 2000, B-284895, 2000 CPD para. 86 at 4. Although the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) identifies permissible price analysis techniques, FAR sect. 14.404-1, it does not mandate any particular approach; rather, the nature and extent of a price realism analysis, as well as an assessment of potential risk associated with a proposed price, are generally within the sound exercise of the agency's discretion. See Legacy Mgmt. Solutions, LLC, B'299981.2, Oct. 10, 2007, 2007 CPD para.197 at 3; Comprehensive Health Servs., Inc., B'310553, Dec. 27, 2007, 2007 CPD para. 9 at 8. In reviewing protests challenging an agency's evaluation of these matters, our focus is whether the agency acted reasonably and in a way consistent with the solicitation's requirements. See, e.g., Grove Res. Solutions, Inc., B'296228, B-296228.2,
Here, as discussed above, the record establishes that the agency performed various analyses regarding price realism and proposal risk in the context of Boeing's final proposal revisions. Specifically, the agency's actions included an analysis of the [deleted] proposed by Boeing to [deleted] with the [deleted] that have been most recently experienced [deleted] internally at Tinker Air Force Base; an analysis of Boeing's [deleted]; consideration of the impact [deleted] will have on [deleted] within the context of the provisions of this solicitation; consideration of the [deleted] contemplated to [deleted]; consideration of the [deleted] proposed; comparison of offerors' [deleted], [deleted], and [deleted]; recognition of, and adjustment for, the offerors' different methods of [deleted]; and consideration of Boeing's proposed use of its [deleted] to [deleted] and mitigate the potential risk for schedule disruption, cost increases, and need for government oversight. AR, Tab 59 at 9-10; Tab 60 at 6'19, 68'69; Tab 61 at 71-75, 179-80.
Although Pemco raises the full range of possibitilites--that is, that the agency should not have considered certain information, that the agency should have considered certain other information, that the agency should have performed alternative analyses, and/or that the price realism and risk assessments should have been dispositively resolved by comparison to various benchmarks including Pemco's own proposal--its protest fails to demonstrate that any of the agency's actions, inactions, or analyses are inconsistent with, or contrary to, the terms of the solicitation or applicable statute or regulation. As discussed above, an agency has considerable discretion in determining the nature and extent of required price realism and proposal risk assessments in the context of fixed-price contracts. Based on our review of the record, we conclude that Pemco's various arguments challenging the agency's analysis and judgments reflect Pemco's mere disagreement or dissatisfaction with the agency's determinations.[13]
Accordingly, based on our review of the entire record, including the agency's documentation responding to our prior decision, we see no basis to question the adequacy or reasonableness of the agency's actions, its analysis, or its conclusions. Pemco's protest challenging the agency's cost/price evaluation is without merit.
The protest is denied.[14]
Gary L. Kepplinger
General Counsel
[1] We understand that Pemco is now doing business as Alabama Aircraft Industries, Inc. Since the protester refers to itself as Pemco, our decision does the same.
[2] The agency's initial source selection decision for this procurement was made in September 2007; shortly thereafter, Pemco filed a protest challenging that decision. In December 2007, this Office issued a decision sustaining a portion of Pemco's prior protest, recommending that the Air Force take certain corrective actions. Pemco Aeroplex, Inc., B-310372,
[3] The mission capability subfactors were depot maintenance, supply chain management, transition, program management, and small business; the solicitation provided for ratings of Blue/Exceptional, Green/Acceptable, Yellow/Marginal, and Red/Unacceptable.
[4] A third proposal was also submitted by another offeror; that proposal, and the agency's evaluation thereof, are not relevant to this protest and are not further discussed.
[5] The solicitation requirements were divided into three types of work: basic PDM work (work that is performed on all aircraft), intermittent tasks (IT) (tasks that are recurring, but not performed on all aircraft), and over and above (O&A) work (unanticipated repairs that exceed 200 manhours or $20,000 in material costs). Basic PDM work constitutes a substantial portion of the contract requirements.
[6] [deleted]
[7] In May 2007, the agency reopened discussions for the limited purpose of addressing certain past performance matters, seeking submission of second final proposal revisions (SFPR) in June. Boeing's SFPR reflected the [deleted].
[8] Indeed, in responding to Pemco's protest regarding this matter, Boeing expressly acknowledged that the [deleted] was not connected in any way to a technical change in its proposed approach to contract performance, stating: Boeing decided for business reasons to assume the risk [associated with [deleted.
[9] PDM on KC-135 aircraft is currently performed both by the Air Force itself at Tinker Air Force base (frequently referred to as organic PDM) and by an outside contractor or contractors (until recently, the outside contractor work has been divided between Boeing and Pemco).
[10] In this regard, the agency points out that the impact of the [deleted] is mitigated by the solicitation provisions that contemplate periodic adjustments to the [deleted]. In short, even though the contract is characterized as fixed price, the solicitation contemplates periodic renegotiation of the required [deleted], along with negotiated adjustments to the contractor's compensation.
[11] The agency also performed additional analyses, including consideration of [deleted]; consideration of [deleted] proposed; and comparison of offerors' [deleted]. The agency's analysis further recognized, and made adjustments for, the offerors' different methods of [deleted]. Contracting Officer's Statement (COS) (
[12] Indeed, our decision sustaining Pemco's protest recognized that Boeing's proposal contained a relatively detailed explanation of [deleted] and its application to performance of the solicitation requirements. Pemco Aeroplex, Inc., B'310372.2,
[13] For example, Pemco asserts that the impact of [deleted] has a greater potential to [deleted] than was recognized by the agency; Pemco's argument in this regard reflects mere disagreement with the agency's judgment. We note that Pemco has not challenged the agency's position that, pursuant to the provisions of this solicitation, the impact of [deleted] is mitigated by the solicitation provisions that contemplate periodic adjustments to [deleted] which are to be negotiated during contract performance.
[14] In addition to the issues specifically discussed above, Pemco raised additional arguments, or variations of the arguments discussed above, regarding the agency's source selection process. For example, Pemco has essentially renewed its arguments, which we previously denied, regarding Boeing's past performance and its impact on this procurement decision. Pemco also asserts that the agency failed to conduct meaningful discussions and complains that the agency did not properly consider Pemco's recently-acquired small business status. We have considered all of Pemco's arguments and find no basis for sustaining its protest.
Nov 20, 2020
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless
We deny the protest.
RIVA Solutions, Inc.
We deny the protest.
DynCorp International, LLC
We deny the protest.
Nov 19, 2020
Qbase, LLC; Perspecta Enterprise Solutions, LLC; and Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation
We sustain the protest.
Red Heritage Medical, Inc.
We dismiss the protest.
ASRC Federal Data Network Technologies, LLC
We deny the protest.
Nov 18, 2020
NCI Information Systems, Inc.
We deny the protest.
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GAZA CITY — Medical workers fought through the rubble of the Qassam Mosque in Gaza on Saturday to retrieve three bodies, some of the latest victims of war between Israel and Gaza, which continues after negotiations to extend a cease-fire failed this week.
The mosque in central Gaza was hit in an Israeli airstrike, said Palestinian Health Ministry spokesman Dr. Ashraf el-Qedra.
Less than a mile away, a strike killed two men riding on a motorbike, he said. Israel's military confirmed the strike, saying the two men were militants.
A three-day truce ended a day earlier with the thud of rockets crashing in Israel and the thunder of bombs and mortars rumbling Gaza, the Israeli military said.
Israeli war planes struck at least 70 militant targets in Gaza in response to rockets fired by militants, the Israel Defense Forces said. More than 60 flew at Israel; most hit open ground, but one wounded a civilian and slightly wounded a soldier.
In Gaza City, residents heard blasts as Israeli fighter jets flew overhead. A 10-year-old boy died while playing with friends, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health, as the death toll crept toward 1,900.
Overnight into Saturday, the IDF struck more than 20 targets in Gaza, but the ground incursion there is over, as Israeli forces say that they have completed their mission of destroying Hamas tunnels.
And with it, the death toll's climb has slowed.
Who's to blame
Gazan Islamic militant group and political party Hamas traded accusations with the Israeli government over who was at fault for the resumption of hostilities.
Militants started it, the IDF said.
"It's not right to say the cease-fire somehow fell apart. Hamas broke the cease-fire," Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev told CNN. Hours before the cease-fire was supposed to run out, "there was already fire on Israel," targeting "communities across the frontier" — as was the case Friday morning, he said.
Asked whether Hamas militants fired the rockets, he said Hamas runs Gaza and "can't outsource terrorism to the other groups. When they want to enforce a cease-fire, they do it very well." Hamas has been in charge of the Palestinian government in Gaza for years, while the Palestinian faction Fatah has run the government in the West Bank. The two groups have fought but also made repeated efforts at a unity government, including one earlier this year.
Hamas denied responsibility for firing rockets Friday.
Militants from Islamic Jihad and the Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades said they fired rockets on Friday, but they blamed Israel for the truce's end, saying it died during negotiations, when Israel refused to accept their demands.
On the West Bank, riots broke out, Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces, and an Israeli soldier shot a 19-year-old Palestinian man, killing him, as a dozen youths threw rocks.
Dozens were injured in clashes during a pro-Gaza rally in Hebron, according to an official Palestinian news report. And on Saturday, a man succumbed to his wounds, el-Qedra said. He had been struck in the chest by a bullet.
Negotiation fail
During the truce, Israeli and Palestinian delegations held indirect talks in Cairo through Egyptian go-betweens.
When they ended without result, the Egyptian foreign ministry, which brokered the talks, said it felt the cease-fire could have easily been extended. The parties had agreed on most issues, and those not agreed upon were few and limited, the ministry said in a statement.
The ministry bemoaned the outlook of further civilian bloodshed in Gaza.
More than 1,900 Gazans have died in nearly a month's fighting, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The figure includes 446 children.
Details on the number of killed Islamist fighters vary with the source.
The United Nations estimates that at least 70% of the dead were civilians. The Israel Defense Forces says it believes roughly half of the dead — about 900 people — were militants.
Israeli officials say 64 Israeli soldiers have died, and three civilians were killed in Israel. The Iron Dome missile defense system has intercepted many of the rockets Gazan militants have fired at populated areas of the country.
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Palestinian and Israeli officials also pointed the finger at each other over the failed negotiations.
Israel said Thursday it was willing to extend the cease-fire unconditionally, but on Friday, Hamas said that Palestinian officials would not agree to it but would continue negotiations.
After Gazan rocket fire on Friday, Israel's Foreign Ministry said the country "will not conduct negotiations while under fire."
Abu Zuhri gave Israel the responsibility for the talks' failure for not sending a response to its demands.
But another Palestinian negotiator said the two sides disagreed on the wording of a cease-fire extension that included the Palestinian demand for Israel to lift the blockade on Gaza and re-open the air and seaports. He spoke on condition of anonymity.
Israeli negotiators also refused to set free Palestinian prisoners who had been released and rearrested in June, the official said.
Palestinians also wanted Israel to extend Gaza's fishing zone in the Mediterranean from three miles off the coast to 20. Fishing is a keystone of Gazan livelihoods. But Israel was willing to extend fishing rights to only six miles off the coast, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri.
Israeli authorities fear Hamas could import weapons by sea and maintains a ship blockade off Gaza's shores.
Jab at Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday expressed his "deep disappointment that the parties were unable to agree to an extension of the cease-fire."
Israel's U.N. ambassador, Ron Prosor, responded with a message on the U.N. Facebook page, saying: "If I wasn't familiar with the UN, I would think this is a parody. But because I am familiar with the UN, I know this is a tragedy."
The message added, "I couldn't help but notice that you didn't mention one of the parties, which happens to be the party that violated the cease-fire. This party has a name — they are called Hamas."


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Right now, there's nobody else in the office. For all you know, I could be writing this week's rundown of the movers, shakers, tinkers and tailors in the UK albums and singles charts in the nuddy. Or, at least, with my shoes off: they do rub so terribly.
As it happens, my shoes are off, and the relief is such that I want to begin proceedings with an almighty positive: despite admirable sales during the week, Razorlight's 'America' (review) has been prevented from reclaiming the number one spot on the singles chart – the position it held after its first week of release, two weeks ago – by My Chemical Romance. Now, I'm no fan of either band, really, but totally over-the-top rock-opera versus mundane indie babblings produces but one winner: I'm with the make-up-wearing goth-poppers, me.
With 'Welcome To The Black Parade' (review) at one and 'America' at two, it's no change whatsoever at the singles chart's summit; the top five is filled by Bob Sinclair and Cutee B at three, with 'Rock This Party'; Scissor Sisters slip one to four (review); and Girls Aloud get a new entry at five with the relatively poor, by their standards, 'Something Kinda Ooooh'. That's four 'o's there: necessary.
Meat Loaf – I went to see him last week! – makes six with 'It's All Coming Back To Me Now'; yes, it's the same song that lanky-necked Canadian witch did a few years ago, but this time it comes with added MEAT. Nourishing. The Ordinary Boys will be grateful their new release doesn't make number one, as it's 'Lonely At The Top', after all (review). Really, who writes this stuff for me? It's awful.
Skipping past a load of rubbish we find Pet Shop Boys' 'Numb' at twenty-three, The Holloways' 'Generator' at thirty (review), and The Feeling's 'Never Be Lonely' somehow clinging to a top-forty existence at thirty-six. Yes, mentioning that last band is just an excuse to link to this review. Man, I hate The Feeling, and you should too. If you've a pulse, listen to something else, please.
Entering the chart on downloads alone are The View at sixty ('Superstar Tradesman', review), The Kooks at fifty-eight ('Ooh La'), and The Magic Numbers at fifty ('Take A Chance'); expect all three acts to breach the forty next week when their physical sales are counted. Propping the pile up at seventy-five is Jamie T with 'Sheila' (review; If You Got The Money is at thirteen, since you asked).
In the album chart the top three is exactly as it was seven days ago: The Killers' Sam's Town (review) is at one, Scissor Sisters' Ta-Dah stays at two, and Razorlight's self-titled second album remains at three (review). At four is James Morrison – oh GO AWAY – and at five are Snow Patrol, whose Eyes Open (review) was also at five last week.
On the new entry front, P Diddy's Press Play lands at eleven, and Badly Drawn Boy drops at seventeen with 'Born In The UK. Yes, he was. Trivium's The Crusade (review) tumbles from last week's seven to this week's twenty-three. Cradle Of Filth's Thornography struggles to forty-six, and Lloyd Banks's Rotten Apple free-falls its way from forty to seventy-two. OUCH, Mr Banks; perhaps you should have just put your mate Fiddy on the album cover? He's on three of your album tracks, but that just isn't enough it seems.
Out this week: get excited by the new Converge album (review). I know I was. Radio 4 have a new single out, called 'Packing Things Up On The Scene'. That might be good. What else… right, how's about Isobel Campbell's Milkwhite Sheets, or Duke Special's Songs From The Deep Forest? Both are on V2. Or My Chemical Romance's new _The Black Parade _LP. No? Gonna be number one anyway? Okay, buy the tribute to Cable instead, then – _Souvenir _is out now on Signature Tune.
Full DiS listings are here. 'Til next time, smell you later! Speaking of which, perhaps I should put my shoes back on…


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