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The 11th annual Remember Rally motorcycle event will be held on Saturday, September 7th. Registration begins at 11:00 a.m. at the Howling Dog Saloon in Luverne, Minnesota (right off I-90) The ride leaves at 12:30 with the Luverne Fire Department escort out of town. Remember Rally is raising money for three veterans organizations. For more info, contact Diane Sherwood at 507-283-4194 or www.rememberrally.com
This year, the event will raise money to help three national veterans organizations; Project Sanctuary, BurnPits360, and Troops Direct.
Project Sanctuary: An organization in Colorado that holds retreats to help military families reintegrate when a soldier returns from their tour. It is a weeklong retreat that combines activities for the whole family, along with counseling. Military suicides are at an epidemic stage and Project Sanctuary has a track record of not having a single suicide in any veteran who has attended their retreat. Even after the retreat, they are provided with counseling for another 2 years
BurnPits 360: Many soldiers have become ill after serving in Iraq & Afghanistan and the burn pits have been a strong contributing factor. Some people have dubbed it the next Agent Orange. BurnPits 360 helps collect names of people who may be affected by the burn pits, has helped fight to get a national registry, and is fighting for funding for healthcare.
Troops Direct: This organization has forged special connections with suppliers to help get much needed personal & medical supplies to our troops overseas that might otherwise take a lot longer through normal military channels. An example on their website is when they got an immediate shipment of 1000 body wipes to a unit that had been without a shower for a month. Among other requests, Troops Direct just got a request for a dozen tourniquets. Whether they provide medical stretchers, chalk to mark where IEDs are, or send personal care items—Troops Direct has filled many needs.


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Israeli Jews on Sunday were again denied freedom of religion at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, of all places, when a near-riot by Muslim worshipers resulted in police closing the holy site to all but the followers of Allah.
A Muslim mob became enraged when a small group of visiting Jews began singing songs commemorating the holiday of Hanukkah, an extra-biblical festival very much centered on the Temple Mount.
In the video below, the irate Muslims can be seen violently confronting the Jewish group's police escort, even as at least one man sings holiday songs in Hebrew.
A subsequent scuffle led to the arrest of two Jews and two Muslims.
Last week, Israeli lawmakers demanded that police make the Temple Mount more accessible to Jews over the Hanukkah holiday.
"Just because some Muslims throw stones when Jews go up to the Temple Mount is not a reason to prevent them from going, as happened over Succot," Knesset Members Miri Regev (Likud), chairwoman of the Knesset Interior Committee, told police officials during a committee session.
Regev noted that "special arrangements are made for Muslim prayer [on the Temple Mount] during Ramadan and similar arrangements must be made for Jewish visits on Jewish holidays."
Jews and Christians are only permitted to visit the Temple Mount under severe restrictions. Despite it being the holiest site on earth to Jews and many Christians, they are forbidden from carrying Bibles or praying while inside the compound for fear of "inciting" Muslim violence.
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Rayman Origins had great gameplay, great reviews, great visuals, great tech and great sound. It was, in a word, great. So, news that it's coming to PlayStation is great, too.
Over on the official PlayStation Blog, Ubisoft rep Alex Monney says that the game's coming to the portable fully intact. Even better, you'll be able to use a pinch gesture on the touchscreen to zoom in on the details of the game's hand-drawn graphics.
Origins on Vita will also feature a Ghost mode where you'll be able to download the speed runs of other players and compete against them. The Vita version of Rayman Origins hits on February 14th.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) -- It isn't Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell who comes out swinging in his first TV ad of his 2014 re-election campaign. It's his wife, former U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao.
"You've seen the ads attacking my husband," Chao, speaking directly into the camera, says in a spot that's set to begin airing across Kentucky on Thursday. "As Mitch McConnell's wife, I've learned to expect them. Now, far left special interests are also attacking my ethnicity, even attacking Mitch's patriotism because he's married to me. That's how low some people will stoop."
The ad is the McConnell campaign's response to what it calls "racial slurs" made against Chao and to a series of TV spots aired in recent weeks by the liberal group Progress Kentucky, which has attacked McConnell for his pro-gun position.
It's an example of how the 71-year-old McConnell, facing a prospective challenge from actress Ashley Judd, is taking no chances even though the general election is more than 18 months away.
The early ad buy — a TV spot and an accompanying radio ad — has caught the attention of Kentucky Democrats, who say McConnell must be worried about his chances.
Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Dan Logsdon charged that beginning an ad campaign so early "is an unprecedented admission of fear."
"Kentuckians would prefer to see our leaders working to solve the nation's problems instead of spending all their energy campaigning in non-election years," Logsdon said in a statement.
University of Louisville political scientist Laurie Rhodebeck said she doubts McConnell is scared.
"Concerned might be a better way to put it," Rhodebeck said. "Given some of the commentary that's been in the media the last couple of months, he'd sound foolish if he said he wasn't concerned. He's a good politician. He wants people to think he's taking his job seriously."
Chao makes that point in the ad.
"Mitch works his heart out to protect Kentucky from Washington's bad ideas because Mitch loves Kentucky. We love Kentucky. The meanest personal attacks can never change that," says Chao, who was labor secretary under President George W. Bush.
Rhodebeck said the rationale for the early ad also could be "to frighten the opposition, to perhaps convince supporters, especially financial backers, that McConnell's still got what it takes and that's where their money should go."
McConnell can easily afford the ad buy that his campaign manager, Jesse Benton, said runs into "the six figures." McConnell has a hefty campaign bank account, having already raised more than $10 million. In his last campaign finance report, he reported having $7.4 million on hand. That financial cushion gives McConnell the option to define himself early in TV spots or to respond to opponents.
In this case, McConnell is seeking to capitalize on a liberal group's recent mocking reference to his wife's Asian heritage.
"This woman has the ear of (at)McConnellPress — she's his (hash)wife," the group Progress Kentucky tweeted on Feb. 14. "May explain why your job moved to (hash)China!"
McConnell called the tweets "racial slurs" and "the ultimate outrage."
"They will not get away with attacking my wife in this campaign," McConnell told about 100 home-state supporters at a Republican dinner in Winchester just over a week ago.
Chao was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. as an 8-year-old with her family aboard a freight ship.
"Elaine Chao is just as much an American as any of the rest of them," McConnell said. "In fact, she had to go through a lot more to become an American."
Progress Kentucky removed the offending comments and apologized after a firestorm of criticism that wasn't limited to McConnell and his supporters. Numerous Democrats, including Judd, spoke up, too.
"Whatever the intention, whatever the venue, whomever the person, attacks or comments on anyone's ethnicity are wrong & patently unacceptable," Judd wrote in a Twitter message.
McConnell is trying to head off a GOP primary challenge by cozying up to the tea party. He's also trying to scare off potential Democratic contenders by providing a glimpse of his no-holds-barred political tactics.
The strategy seems to be working, so far. No serious Republican opponent has emerged. Democrats haven't fielded a candidate yet, though Judd, a Kentucky native who lives in Tennessee, is considering a run. She would have to re-establish a residence in Kentucky before she could challenge McConnell.
Defeating McConnell would be the Democrats' biggest prize of the 2014 election. His seat is one of 14 that Republicans are defending while Democrats try to hold onto 21, hoping to retain or add to their 55-45 edge.
McConnell, first elected to the Senate in 1984, is a resilient politician with an unbroken string of victories and a reputation of pummeling opponents.
He already has been taunting would-be Democratic challengers in a comical online video intended to raise second thoughts about taking him on.
The video shows Judd, who has a home in the Nashville, Tenn., suburbs, saying "Tennessee is home" and that San Francisco is "my American city home." It also shows some of Kentucky's leading Democrats, including Lt. Gov. Jerry Abramson, U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, Attorney General Jack Conway and Auditor Adam Edelen, saying they won't run against McConnell.
Judd has been discussing the prospects of challenging McConnell with Democratic leaders, including Gov. Steve Beshear. Her interest has other Democrats sitting on the sidelines until she makes a decision. She has kept silent in the face of the early attack, as has the state Democratic Party.


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After yesterday's press conference to announce the modernization of Sun Life, I was talking to a some Dolphins officials when one of them brought up the point that the push to get the public funding portion of this deal would have been much, much easier if the team on the field was better.
No doubt about that.
The 49ers won an ballot measure for funding of their new stadium right after going to the NFC championship game last year. The Heat got their new arena on the heels Pat Riley coming to Miami, promising a parade down Biscayne Boulevard, and trading for Alonzo Mourning and Tim Hardaway. Yeah, the team was in the middle of a 61-win season when the measure was approved so nice timing.
The Jets and Giants got their new digs amid multiple AFC Championship game appearances by one and a Super Bowl title by the other.
The Atlanta Falcons, by the way, are really good these days so they're going to get a new stadium.
Good things happen off the field when good things happen on the field, folks. Politicians are more prone to jump on bandwagons. Fans are more apt to accept team requests for, say, a bed tax increase that doesn't really affect them anyway.
Unfortunately, the Dolphins are making this request right smack in the middle of the team's worst four years. Ever.
The team's current four-year string of losing seasons and failure to make the playoffs is the worst in club history.
And that brings me to this:
I just found another reason the Dolphins should be aggressive, big players in free agency and alike this offseason.
Look, I know it's bad policy to make football moves for the sake of helping the business side of the organization. But the truth is the Dolphins football moves have been hindering the business side for years now.
Why do you think the stands haven't been full and owner Stephen Ross has had to swallow hard and pay for his own tickets the last few years?
This offseason, which starts in mid-March, is an opportunity to help both the football side and the business side. If, unlike the past two years, the Dolphins can identify two, perhaps three bigtime free agents that are worthy of rich contracts instead of shopping for bargain basement dolts that end up cut or on the roster's margins, that might also help the effort to get the stadium modernized.
I grant you the tether between both issues is frail. The Dolphins need action from the Florida legislature and Miami-Dade government before the South Florida Super Bowl bid goes to an NFL vote in 18 weeks.
But free agency begins in nine weeks.
If Miami can play big and play to win the first few days of free agency when the prized players go anyway, that might sway some elected officials while also, you know, improving a roster that sorely needs the upgrade.
Understand me. My priority is the roster. That was proven Monday when I didn't ask any questions at the stadium presser. Even Ross kidded me about how quiet I was. I was quiet because I'm more a football and big picture guy than a micro stadium question guy.
I care about the product on the field more than the field itself.
But I've also seen how the stadium doesn't help deliver any sort of homefield advantage. I've seen how uncomfortable the place can be. I travel around the NFL and understand Sun Life is aging compared to other facilities that have come on line.
So I make room for the idea that success on the field can lead to success off as well.
By the way, Ross also busted my, um, chops about telling him which free agents I want signed. He apparently read my GM Salguero plan and wanted names.
I told him I would get him names of guys I want.
(Yeah, that will get tossed in the garbage).
Names not withstanding, I want to remind you of the philosophy I believe the Dolphins should follow this offseason: Go big!
Don't shop at K-Mart. You get marginal guys looking for bargains. The past couple of seasons have proven that. And the last thing the Dolphins need to do is add more marginal talent to a 7-9 team. The club would be better served not adding free agents than signing cheap, broken ones that will be competing to play special teams.
The Dolphins need difference-makers, folks. Yes, find them in the draft, by all means. That should be the nucleus to the team. But please, please, please don't avoid them like the plague in free agency or if they become available in trades.
Premium players cost premium money or picks. Anthony Gonzalez did. Robert Griffin III did. Peyton Manning did. Pierre Garcon did. Brandon Carr did. Aqib Talib did. And that was just last season. The NFL is filled with players acquired through free agency or trades that made a difference for their new teams, contrary to what the Dolphins said last week.
Wes Welker, Anquan Bolden (which I advocated for over Brandon Marshall in 2010), Jared Allen, Julius Peppers, John Abraham, Drew Brees, Vincent Jackson (another one I advocated for), Greg Olsen (another one I advocated for), on and on. All went to new teams as free agents or via trade and made an impact.
The Dolphins need to identify two or three such guys this offseason and do work.
Hint, Mr. Ross: WR Mike Wallace. DE Paul Kruger. TE Martellus Bennett (yeah, how about signing a former Cowboy that can make some plays). This off the top of my head. And assuming they're available, which is still to be seen.
I say identify two bigtime signings. And go get them. And then add somebody else that maybe thought himself a big-money guy but whose market has come back to earth. I believe Greg Jennings may find himself in that market.


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Just built another 2004 rig because why not. I had some parts laying around from a salvaged PC so I thought why not use them?
MB: MSI 848P Neo-V
RAM:2x512MB DDR400
GPU: Palit Radeon 9550 128MB AGP8x
PSU: ANS LC-B350ATX 350W - it has been recapped and modified to be used on 12v machines
ODD: Samsung/TSSTCorp SH-162D DVD-RW drive
HDD: Western Digital WD800JB-00JJC0 80GB PATA
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Misc: MSI D-LED Bracket & Pixelview PV-TV304+ PCI TV Tuner (CX23881)
OS: Windows XP Media Center Edition SP3
So far I've played GTA San Andreas on this machine, GTA Vice City and Crazy Taxi 3. San Andreas runs fine on low details,640x480x32.
For some reason I get a WMF Decoder cannot be initialised error on both Total Immersion Racing and Ford Racing 2. I wonder if FR3 does that since I remember FR3 is not WMF dependant.


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Extending eleven kilometres along the shore of Lake Huron, Sauble Beach is the world's second longest freshwater beach. It's a dream come true if you and your family are looking for sunny beaches and sand. Rather than accepting the confines of a hotel, why not rent a self-catering cottage by the shore? You won't be getting under each other's feet all the time, and you will have more room for your sports equipment. If you don't want to eat out in restaurants every day, you can cook your own meals just when it suits you.
As well as affording the possibility of relaxation on its sandy shore, Sauble Beach offers a variety of sporting activities. You can choose between windsurfing, fishing, canoeing and kayaking amongst others. At the end of the day, you're likely to be rewarded with a breath-taking sunset, as the beach faces west. Birdwatchers should plan their holiday for May or June, when the area is visited by several species of warblers: black-throated, green, yellow-rumped and parula. When you want a break from the beach, why not take a walk and admire the delightful rural gardens in the area? You might also want to time your visit to coincide with the annual salmon run at Sauble Falls.
Sauble Beach is an ideal holiday destination for families with children, as its waters are warm and shallow. The sandy beaches are perfect for building sandcastles too. If your children have grown out of that, there is beach volleyball to keep them active. When the children do get bored, why not take them to Sauble Beach Fun World? There are rides for all ages at this amusement park, as well as go-karts. Don't think that Sauble Beach is just a summer resort: in winter, teenagers are bound to love snowmobiling there.
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A true classic, this CD found pianist Horace Silver and drummer Art Blakey co-leading the Jazz Messengers; Silver would leave a year later to form his own group. Also featuring trumpeter Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley on tenor, and bassist Doug Watkins, this set is most notable for the original versions of Silver's "The Preacher" and "Doodlin'," funky standards that helped launch hard bop and both the Jazz Messengers and Silver's quintet. Essential music. ~ Scott Yanow


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The Yale men's fencing team will complete
competition in the Ivy League Fencing Championships this Sunday,
Feb. 28. Last week, in the first day of competition hosted by
Cornell in Ithaca, N.Y., the Bulldogs fenced to a 2-2 record
against Columbia, Harvard, Penn and Princeton. The second day of
the Championships will be hosted by Pennsylvania in Philadelphia,
Penn. The Bulldogs have only Brown left to fence during this
final day of the Ivy Championships.
The schedule worked out such that Yale was the only team that had to fence in all four rounds of last week's competition. The Bulldogs started the day off by beating no. 8 Columbia 18-9, then dropped a frustrating match against no. 6 Harvard 16-11. Yale followed up by then beating last year's champion, no. 7 Pennsylvania, by a decisive score of 17-10. The victory was particularly impressive considering that the Elis were defeated 22-5 by the Quakers last season. In the fourth and final round of the day, the Bulldogs fenced to narrow and tightly fought loss to no. 4 Princeton, 14-13. Yale really gave it their all, but just wasn't able to pull out the win against Princeton, who was undefeated on the day.
"Our close loss to Princeton last weekend was tough, but I am proud of the way every member of this team fenced," said captain Andrew Holbrook.
Last week, Brown compiled a 1-1 record, defeating Columbia 17-10 and losing to Princeton 17-10.
"We must be focused and determined when we come out this weekend against Brown," said Holbrook. "With the schedule as it is, it will be especially important that we come out warmed up, prepared and ready from the first bout. There is little margin for error and everyone on this team wants to make the most of our final Ivy League match."
At last year's Ivy Championships, Yale lost a tough match to Brown by a score of 13-14. In that match, the Yale foil squad won only four of nine bouts. This year, the powerful Yale foilists will be eager for redemption.
"With this final match against Brown, we are looking to secure our place in the Ivy League and finish the season on a positive note," noted Holbrook. "I believe in this team and am confident we will win."
Yale will be fencing in the third round of the day, at 3 p.m.
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The reward for information on the duo who pulled off the largest bank robbery in Colorado history has increased to $50,000.
The two armed men robbed the Westminster Wells Fargo bank at 7401 Federal Blvd. on Jan. 21.
The suspects held guns to the heads of customers and employees, according to the FBI's Denver bureau.
The FBI has dubbed the pair the "Trash Talking Bandits" because of the foul language they used.
Authorities will not comment on the exact amount of cash taken but did say a portion of the money was returned by private attorney Michael Pellow on Feb. 4. Pellow will not tell authorities who gave him the undisclosed "substantial" amount of cash, according to the FBI.
Pellow was previously a chief deputy district attorney for Denver before he entered private practice, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office. He is a partner at Alonzi Pellow Beggan, according to the firm's website.
"During his 21 years in the Denver District Attorney's Office, Mike tried over 150 felony trials ranging from burglary, robbery and arson to aggravated assault, sexual assault and murder," according to Pellow's biography on the firm's website..
The Wells Fargo suspects are considered armed and dangerous.
Authorities have not ruled out other people being involved in the heist.
Anyone with information on the bank robbery is asked to call the FBI Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force at 303-435-7787.


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The first quad-core tablet, the Asus Transformer Prime, launched in December 2011, but the adoption rate of quad-core on tablets since then has been disappointingly slow. The new Acer Iconia Tab A510 marks only the third tablet to use a full quad-core CPU and is actually the first made by a company other than Asus.
But with the Transformer Pad TF300 currently priced $50 cheaper than the Acer, is there any reason to even consider the A510?
The Acer Iconia Tab A510 looks and feels a lot like the A200 before it. The left and right edges are adorned with silver plating; the back feels like a mixture of rubber and leather (in a good way), making the tablet easy to grip; the corners are well-rounded, and the tablet just feels comfortable to hold. In fact it's one of the most comfortable tablets I've ever had the pleasure of holding, with the leathery back (available in either silver or black) reducing the likelihood it'll accidentally slip from my hands. The A510 is thicker and slightly heavier than the Asus Transformer Pad TF300, and feels stronger and sturdier. However, from a purely aesthetic standpoint, the A510 looks dull and sort of boxy, compared with more stylish tablets.
|Acer Iconia Tab A510
|Asus Transformer Pad TF300
|Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201
|Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
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|Width in inches (landscape)
|Height in inches
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On the left edge sits the power/lock button and a headphone jack. On the opposite edge is a Micro-HDMI port and a door covering a 32GB-capacity microSD slot. In the middle of the bottom edge is a Micro-USB port next to a reset pinhole, with speakers on the far right and left sides. On the top edge, from left to right, lies a volume rocker, a rotation lock switch, and a microphone pinhole. A 1-megapixel camera sits in the middle of the top bezel with an ambient light sensor to its left. Directly on the back sits a 5-megapixel rear camera.
Software features
The A510 comes preinstalled with Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich). Check out the Ice Cream Sandwich section of the Iconia Tab A200 review for detailed info on the improvements Ice Cream Sandwich makes over Honeycomb.
With the A510, Acer includes a number of custom software features that those familiar with previous Acer tablets should recognize. Chief among them is Acer Ring. Ring is an app shortcut and carousel-like bookmark hub that appears after you tap the green ring symbol at the bottom of the screen. Each bookmark or app is completely customizable, allowing you to include up to four apps and seemingly as many bookmarks as you like.
While this would seem useful, accessing apps the normal way is already so quick and easy that adding an extra step like tapping the ring puts you that much farther from your goal. To be fair, we're talking about mere seconds here, but it does affect the overall experience. Acer Ring's interface is a bit faster than it was on the A200, but I feel its usefulness is limited. Thankfully, a quick trip to the settings gives you the option to disable the feature.
Acer Print is a built-in setting that allows you to add printers either through your network or by bar code scan, and then print directly from the tablet.
Hardware features
The A510 is Acer's first tablet to house Nvidia's quad-core processor, the Tegra 3. It includes a 1.3GHz version of the processor, compared with the 1.2GHz version found in the TF300. The tablet also includes 1GB of DDR2 RAM -- as opposed to the faster DDR3 RAM also used in the TF300. It has 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi support, Bluetooth 2.1, a gyroscope, an accelerometer, and GPS. Only one 32GB-capacity configuration is currently available.
Acer includes two accessory cables to help fill out the A510 feature set: a Micro-USB-to-USB cable and a Micro-USB-to-female-USB dongle. The latter takes the place of an actual full USB port, which I guess is better than no port at all, but the idea of carrying around a extra dongle with your tablet just seems kind of silly.
Most newer tablets use IPS panels to power their screens. IPS panels tend to have wider viewing angles and better color performance than normal LCD screens. With the A510 Acer went with a normal LCD screen and as such, puts the A510 at a performance disadvantage. While the TF300 retains much of its color when viewed from off angles, the A510's screen immediately begins to wash color out when your perspective shifts. Even when viewed straight-on the A510's LCD screen's color accuracy and saturation can't match the TF300's.
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|Asus Transformer Pad TF300
|Asus Transformer Prime TF201
|Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
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|331 cd/m2
|358 cd/m2 (570 cd/m2)
|336 cd/m2
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|118 cd/m2
|135 cd/m2
|183 cd/m2
|336 cd/m2
|Maximum black level (Super IPS)
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|0.27 cd/m2 (0.45 cd/m2)
|0.30 cd/m2
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|0.08 cd/m2
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|0.15 cd/m2
|0.30 cd/m2
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|Maximum contrast ratio (Super IPS)
|1,325:1 (1,266:1)
The A510's capacitive touch screen is responsive, but isn't as sensitive to the touch as the TF300's. Even delicate touches on the TF300 yield responses, but the A510 requires a bit more deliberate interaction. Apps load quickly -- about a hair faster than the TF300 -- and we still get that great, smooth Tegra 3-induced, 60 frames per second screen transition effect when closing apps or swiping through apps and widgets.


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Ray Bradbury: An article Dec. 13 incorrectly identified the composer hired during the 1950s to work on a musical written by Ray Bradbury that the author recently revived as "Ray Bradbury's Wisdom 2116." The composer was not Tin Pan Alley songwriter Ray Henderson, whose songs include "Bye, Bye Blackbird." A different Ray Henderson, a composer and pianist, worked on the earlier and never produced version of the Bradbury musical. —
Even without the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Bride of Frankenstein, it's an occasion: It is the first story the 89-year-old L.A.-based author wrote as a musical.
In past musical adaptations of his novels, such as "Fahrenheit 451," "Dandelion Wine" and "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," Bradbury has written lyrics and new dialogue.
As a warmup, the 81-seat Fremont Centre offered three Saturday night preview performances this month, all sell-outs, under the title "Ray Bradbury's Merry Christmas 2116." Last month, audiences saw a workshop run at the Forum Theatre in Laguna Beach. The eight-member cast will perform to recorded music.
The original plan in the mid-1950s was for Laughton and his wife, Lanchester, to perform the show, then titled "Happy Anniversary, 2116," as part of an evening of one-act musicals staged in London.
James Whale, who had directed Lanchester and Boris Karloff in the movie "The Bride of Frankenstein" (after making its precursor, "Frankenstein") and Laughton in " The Old Dark House," was going to stage the production. ( Ian McKellen portrayed the director in the 1998 film "Gods and Monsters.")
Veteran Tin Pan Alley songwriter Ray Henderson ("Bye, Bye Blackbird") was engaged to set Bradbury's lyrics to music.
But Whale's suicide in 1957 sidetracked those plans and Laughton's death in 1962 seemingly finished them.
Until, that is, Bradbury dusted the script off early this year as a potential project for his own stage troupe, Pandemonium Theatre Company, which last year offered a long-running, non-musical version of "Fahrenheit 451" at the Fremont Centre.
Alan Neal Hubbs, Pandemonium's artistic director, turned to director-choreographer Steve Josephson to realize the piece using new music. By late spring, Josephson had found a composer who feels a strong connection to Bradbury's oeuvre in John Hoke, an L.A.-based musician who became a fan of Bradbury as a boy growing up in Nebraska.
Hoke first met with Josephson at a Starbuck's in Norwalk, where he played some of the music he'd set to the Bradbury lyrics he'd been sent.
"It was a perfect match," Josephson said. "He saw the story in the context of Ray's entire works. I knew he would capture it perfectly, and that's how it's been through the entire process."
The story, which may owe a debt to O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi," concerns a loving couple, married 40 years, who separately hit upon the same idea for a Christmas gift: buying younger, nearly-human "marionette" versions of themselves, so the recipient can enjoy once more what time has eroded.
"Marionettes, Inc.," a tale from Bradbury's 1951 collection, "The Illustrated Man," presaged the musical with its depiction of what happens when two husbands buy duplicates of themselves for their wives, but it's much darker than the show.
Josephson said he did have one fresh assignment for the author: write a Christmas carol.
The result, "Christmas Comes," is in the show.
When it opens next month, the seasonal "Merry Christmas 2116" will have its name abbreviated to "2116." It will be performed with a non-musical companion piece by the author, "Wisdom (1916)." The production's overall title will be "Ray Bradbury's Wisdom."
After its premiere run ends, Josephson says he'd like to expand this hour-long version of "2116" into a full-length musical, incorporating story lines and characters from other Bradbury writings.
Bradbury's new collaborators say the author is happy with what they've done with his long-aborning work. When Bradbury introduced the show one night during its Laguna run, Hoke said, he wore the medal he received in 2007 when the French government appointed him a commander in its Order of the Arts and Letters.
"He held up the medal and said, 'I now command you to love this play,' " Hoke said.


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I've always used AMD chips from way back in the K5 days for my homebuilds, and pushed AMD in the office when Opteron came out, but recently they have fallen behind Intel. I think a strong AMD will be good for both companies as it fosters competition and innovation to the benefit us of customers. Here's hoping the new structure helps them get back head-to-head with Intel.
But, ATi have really burnt their bridges as far as I am concerned. I used to use nothing but ATi graphics cards by choice, but the last two year's worth of drivers have been awful. Even our hp laptops, which mainly have ATi Mobile graphics, haven't proven immune to graphics bugs, to the point where exasperation made me tell the hp rep we only wanted future kit to have nVidia graphics. All my recent homebuilds for myself, friends and family have been with nVidia cards, and I don't see that changing.


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Hope College's Knickerbocker Theatre will feature Blue Dahlia and its performance to the 1922 classic silent film "Nosferatu" on Friday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
Hope College's Knickerbocker Theatre will feature Blue Dahlia and its performance to the 1922 classic silent film "Nosferatu" on Friday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m.
The landmark vampire film Nosferatu is taken directly from Bram Stoker's "Dracula," but with all different names because the film company could not obtain the rights. Stoker's widow eventually went to court, demanding in vain that the film be suppressed and destroyed.
Directed by F.W. Murnau, the film stars Max Schreck as the vampire.
In 1999, Blue Dahlia began a decade of visual arts collaboration when the group received its first commission from the Sound of Silent Film Festival. Blue Dahlia's work with vintage film eschews the traditional and melodramatic for a modern approach to film scoring, as found in today's independent and major film releases. Using a broad range of instrumentation and style, Blue Dahlia has developed an extensive repertoire of silent film scores for live performance. Varying in emotional tenor from slapstick romantic comedies to drama and horror, these intricately orchestrated works are forging connections with great films, music, and generations of audiences everywhere.
Blue Dahlia has been described by the "Detroit Free Press" as "more adventurous than anyone else dares to be."
Tickets are $8 for regular admission and $6 for students and senior citizens, and can be purchased at the door or in advance at the ticket office in the front lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St., between College and Columbia avenues.


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VIDEO: Nick Johnson closes out Summer League with big performance
LAS VEGAS — Summer League is a place in transition, where you see players with shoes that don't match their uniform, where coaching staff members can outnumber active rosters, where players have to flip their uniform waistbands over to keep their oversize shorts from falling down during play. After one game, I saw a player exit the locker room shirtless with only a backpack, because the trainer had accidentally packed away the shirts before he was finished dressing.
That player was Rockets rookie Nick Johnson. While the Rockets quickly issued Johnson a long-sleeve T-shirt to solve that problem, his path to getting an NBA jersey of his own has been a bit less direct.
"The last few months have been pretty long, pretty wild," Johnson says. "But it's been good."
Last season, as a junior at Arizona, the 6-foot-3 Johnson averaged 16.3 points, earning him consensus first-team All-American honors as well as a Pac-12 Player of the Year nod. Feeling he'd proven his worth, Johnson entered the 2014 NBA Draft. Leading up the Draft, Johnson had fifteen different workouts for NBA teams. "It was a grind. I was going from city to city, going for two weeks at a time."
Then, on the evening of the Draft, Johnson sat to wait for his name to be called. The first round — with the accompanying guaranteed contract — came and went. Eventually, the Rockets drafted Johnson in the second round, 42nd overall, and the eighth player from the Pac-12 selected.
"It was a long night," Johnson admits. "I'll tell you, there's not 41 players better than me in this year's draft. And I don't know anywhere the player of the year has seven players in his same conference get picked before him.
"But overall, it was a good process for me," he continues, "because I went to a good organization, right now they're going to the playoffs every year, and I think we have a lot of potential to go pretty far. I've always been a winner, always been about winning. So I'm happy I went to an organization that wins."
Johnson — who is, coincidentally, the nephew of Hall of Famer Dennis Johnson — may be considered undersized at the two, but in Houston's system he projects at either the one or the two. During Summer League, his athleticism has been a prominent asset in Johnson's game, and he flashed it Monday during a loss in the Summer League final with a reverse alley-oop dunk en route to a team-leading 17 points. At least initially, that athletic ability should go a long way toward helping him find a place in the NBA.
"I think my game fits really well," Johnson says. "In the NBA, I have the ability to use my athleticism a lot more than I did in college. I believe that the floor, the spacing is a lot wider with so many shooters around. I saw that a little bit in both of these summer leagues. And with my ability to make plays and get after it on the defensive end, I feel it will translate pretty well."
"His athleticism is at an elite level, so it's always going to allow him to compete and he's a competitor," says Houston's summer league coach Chris Finch. "I think he's right, I think he'll find more space on the floor provided he gets out and runs, learns to play real quick off the catch where he can beat his man. His athleticism will help near the rim as long as he gets there quickly."
Besides athleticism, Johnson excels at many of the things that don't show up on draft previews, such as toughness and leadership. And it's exactly that kind of hard-minded approach that will help him go from 42 into the upper echelon.
"It's not where you start it's where you finish," Johnson says. "I'm going to make sure to work my hardest, to do my best, to finish at the top."


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Fort Hood gunman kills 3 soldiers, then himself
16 wounded in shooting at military post
FORT HOOD — An Iraq war veteran who was recently assigned to Fort Hood opened fire in two buildings on the post Wednesday, killing three soldiers and wounding 16 before he killed himself as he was confronted by a military policewoman.
The motive for the rampage is not yet known, Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, the Fort Hood commander, said at a news conference Wednesday night.
But Milley said the gunman had mental health and behavioral issues and was to undergo analysis for post-traumatic stress. He had not yet been diagnosed with PTSD.
Milley declined to identify the shooter pending notification of his family. But U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, identified the shooter as Spec. Ivan Lopez.
The shooting occurred near the site of a 2009 rampage on the post by former Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people inside a deployment center before he was shot and paralyzed by police outside the building.
Hasan, a Muslim who was tried and sentenced to death last summer, had vowed revenge on U.S. soldiers for the deaths of fellow Muslims in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It was the deadliest rampage ever on a U.S. military installation.
Milley said there so far was no indication Wednesday's shootings were related to terrorism. But investigators are not ruling anything out.
In his conference call, McCaul said, "My concern is Fort Hood is becoming a target for potential jihadists."
The sprawling Central Texas post was locked down for about five hours Wednesday afternoon before soldiers and civilians were allowed to leave at 9 p.m.
Residents at the post described a chaotic, noisy, scary scene.
Brooke Chatha, 22, was in the kitchen doing the dishes when she heard alarms sounding.
"Those alarms go off a lot, thought it was just another drill," said Chatha, who lives on the post with her 4-month-old child and her husband, a soldier who works in the post's motor pool.
A friend started texting her, asking if she was OK.
"That's when I started looking up and everything that was going on," she said. That was about 5 p.m.
"It's a little frustrating," she said. Her husband was still at work, and his commanders were talking about not releasing him until 2 a.m., she said.
"He was texting me a little bit (after the shooting), he hasn't texted since, I have no idea if he knows anyone who got hurt," she said.
As she was speaking with the Chronicle, the post's sirens went off again.
She lives by the post's main gate. Normally, toward the end of the day, traffic streams out of the post about 5 p.m.
"Nobody was outside, there was nothing. I was told by a friend not to go outside... there was a helicopter flying right above our house and all you could here were sirens - and they went on for an hour or two."
'Reopens the pain'
The second mass shooting on the post in five years prompted widespread heartbreak and concern from public officials and families.
"Obviously this reopens the pain of what happened at Fort Hood five years ago. We know these families. We know their incredible service to our country and the sacrifices that they make. Obviously our thoughts and prayers were - are with the entire community," President Barack Obama said in Chicago, where he was attending a fundraiser.
"We're heartbroken that something like this might have happened again. And I don't want to comment on the facts until I know exactly what has happened, but for now, I would just hope that everybody across the country is keeping the families and the community at Fort Hood in our thoughts and in our prayers."
Gov. Rick Perry said that "as Texans, our first priority must be caring for the victims and their families. Fort Hood has proven its resilience before, and will again. Texas will support those efforts in any way we can, with any resources necessary. The thoughts and prayers of all Texans are with everyone affected by this tragedy."
The wounded were taken to the Carl R. Darnall Medical Center on Fort Hood and Scott & White Memorial Hospital in Temple with a variety of injuries. Some are critical.
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Milley said the gunman, assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command expeditionary unit, entered a building at the 1st Medical Brigade and opened fire with a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson semi-automatic handgun. He quickly left in a vehicle and kept firing, then opened fire again in another building.
He again left in the vehicle and was stopped by military police in a parking lot. Milley said an officer approached him with gun drawn. She was within 20 feet of the gunman when he raised his hands, then grabbed his gun, put it to his head and shot himself.
The entire episode lasted only 10 to 15 minutes, the general said.
"Tonight, Texans' hearts are once again very heavy," said U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. "The scenes coming from Fort Hood today are sadly too familiar and still too fresh in our memories. No community should have to go through this horrific violence once, let alone twice. I ask that all Americans join Sandy and me in praying for the victims, their families and the entire Fort Hood community."
Little is known about the shooter, but Milley said he served four months in Iraq in 2011. The general said he wasn't wounded in Iraq but "self-reported" a brain injury.
Milley said he was married and lived with his family near the post.
The general said he was not wounded in combat.
Milley said authorities were looking into the gunman's past to learn more about the soldier, including any criminal and psychiatric history, as well as experiences in combat.
He praised the MP who confronted him, "It was clearly heroic, what she did at that moment in time, and she did her job, and she did exactly what we would expect of a United States Army Military Police."
"My reaction was to immediately make sure we had a read on the casualties, immediately secure the site and immediately look for one or more shooters," Milley said. "I wasn't thinking about, 'Not again,' or any of that."
Reporter St. John Barned-Smith contributed to this report.


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I'm not entirely sure why I did this - but there we are. I've successfully installed Arch on a Samsung Series 5 550 Chromebook!
Instructions taken and modified from http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/dev … on-a-cr-48
Red text indicates Chromebook steps.
Blue text indicates "host PC" steps.
Green text indicates "Arch VM under host PC" steps.
Here are some instructions, because instructions are fun:
Make sure you know what you're doing. This isn't for the faint-hearted.
Firstly, you need to enable the developer-mode switch on your Chromebook. This will wipe all stored persistent data! It's hidden inside the Kensington lock space and can be switched with a toothpick or paperclip.
Boot your Chromebook to the initial setup screen and set up networking on the first page, then stop.
Use the script from the Ubuntu on CR-48 blog to repartition your Chromebook's internal storage. This will reboot your Chromebook. Remember how large you made your new Linux partition!
Again, boot your Chromebook to the initial setup screen and set up networking on the first page, then press Ctrl-(->) again, and login as chronos, then sudo -i.
On your host PC, install VirtualBox and download the latest Arch installation media.
Copy /usr/bin/cgpt onto a memory stick, or scp it directly to your host system. On the Samsung Series 5 550, it's a 64-bit static binary.
Calculate how much (number of Linux gigabytes) * 1024 * 1024 * 2 is and substitute LINBYTES in all following instructions for that number.
HOST (make a new directory for this somewhere - /tmp or your home directory are both good candidates):
dd if=/dev/zero of=zero_file.bin bs=512 seek=LINBYTES count=1
cgpt create zero_file.bin
cgpt boot -p zero_file.bin
cgpt add -b 128 -s LINBYTES -t data -l arch zero_file.bin
VBoxManage convertdd zero_file.bin arch_disk.vdi --format VDI
rm zero_file.bin
Launch VirtualBox, configure a 4GB-RAM virtual machine with the first SATA drive as arch_disk.vdi and the CD-ROM drive pointed at the ISO you downloaded earlier.
Install Arch onto /dev/sda inside the VM. Make sure that you use /dev/sda7 in the fstab and not /dev/sda1!
Shutdown the VM and close VirtualBox.
VBoxManage internalcommands converttoraw arch_disk.vdi arch_disk.bin
dd if=arch_disk.bin bs=512 skip=128 count=LINBYTES of=arch_rootfs.bin
Get the arch_rootfs.bin onto the Chromebook somehow. I suggest a USB memory stick.
dd if=arch_rootfs.bin of=/dev/sda7
mkdir /tmp/arch
mount /dev/sda7 /tmp/arch
cp /usr/bin/cgpt /tmp/arch/usr/bin/cgpt
chmod a+rx /tmp/arch/usr/bin/cgpt
cd /tmp/arch/lib/modules
mkdir `uname -r`
cp -ar * /tmp/arch/lib/modules/`uname -r`/
umount /tmp/arch
rootdev -s
If this says /dev/sda3, substitute 2 for CRKERNEL in the following commands.
If this says /dev/sda5, substitute 4 for CRKERNEL.
If it says anything else, panic.
dd if=/dev/sdaCRKERNEL of=/dev/sda6
mkdir /tmp/mds
Download http://git.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb. … sh;hb=HEAD (as make_dev_ssd.sh)
and http://git.chromium.org/cgi-bin/gitweb. … sh;hb=HEAD (as common_minimal.sh)
scp the make_dev_ssd.sh and common_minimal.sh files to /tmp/mds then
mount -o remount,exec /tmp
CHROMEBOOK:If you want to look at and modify the existing config, run
./make_dev_ssd.sh --partitions '6' --save_config foo
and look at foo.6.
If not, simply run:
echo "console=tty1 init=/sbin/init add_efi_memmap boot=local rootwait ro noresume noswap i915.modeset=1 loglevel=7 kern_guid=%U tpm_tis.force=1 tpm_tis.interrupts=0 root=/dev/sda7 noinitrd" > foo.6
After modifying/creating foo.6 to your liking, run
./make_dev_ssd.sh --partitions '6' --set_config foo
cgpt add -i 6 -P 5 -T 1 -S 0 /dev/sda
Now you can reboot your Chromebook and you should boot into Arch! Note that rebooting after this will boot back into ChromeOS, as Arch does not set the "successful boot" flag on the kernel partition.
Photos to come.
So you managed to install it, but how does it run?
Is everything working or do some parts not work?
If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres
I believe everything should have an OS driver, and I know that Xorg works.
Click thumbnails to view full-size imagery.
Working on getting KDE up and running, but I accidentally resized my Arch partition to 0 bytes and broke the entire partition table. Gives me a chance to revalidate my instructions, I suppose!
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I see you don't have any F1-F12 keys, so how do you manage, for example, TTY switching? (and you have no Capslock either, but I guess that Search Key can be swapped for it)
I'm pretty interested in this, keep us posted!
(and perhaps you might want to resize the photo's according to the forum rules. I find omploader to be a nice host, which automatically resizes them for thumbnails and links to the bigger picture)
If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres
The Chromebook does actually have F1-F12 buttons - they just have the Chrome imagery on top, so it's Back Arrow, Forward Arrow, Refresh Circle, Maximize, Tab Switcher, Dim Brightness, Increase Brightness, Mute, Volume Down, Volume Up and they all appear to the software as F1-F12.
Great! Thanks for these instructions.
In fact I already have an ubuntu installed... do you think I can start at step 10?
Another question, do you think it is possible to pass root=/dev/sdb1 for instance, so that the rootfs will be on a usb stick?
You should make this a wiki page... good info here.
Updated my Chromebook to systemd - no problems at all. Just swapped out init=/sbin/init for init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
This can be done post-install, under ChromeOS, by redownloading make_dev_ssd.sh and common_minimal.sh, remounting /tmp as exec and copying those shell scripts there, and then running (in /tmp):
sudo ./make_dev_ssd.sh --partitions '6' --save_config arch
sudo vim arch.6 # change init=
sudo ./make_dev_ssd.sh --partitions '6' --set_config arch
Obviously this also applies to changing any other kernel parameters.
As a sidenote, I use both Arch and CrOS regularly. I use CrOS as the "default" OS, and I have:
alias archboot = 'sudo cgpt add -i 6 -T 1 -P 5 -S 0 /dev/sda && sudo reboot'
in my user's ~/.bash_profile so that when I'm logged in to CrOS, Arch is just a Ctrl-Shift-T (opens crosh), "shell" (opens bash), "archboot" and then my root password away. Both Arch and CrOS have very minimal bootup times, so this serves me well.
Obviously hitting Ctrl-D on every boot to clear the Sad Chromebook is a bit annoying, but not too bad. The beep still surprises me sometimes if I forget!
I did install a bit differently:
In fact I had an ubuntu already installed.
I installed arch on a virtualbox, made a tarball, transfered it to my chromebox, mounted /dev/sda7 where ubuntu was, moved all the files into an 'ubuntu' folder, then extracted the tarball
I then copied /ubuntu/lib/modules * to /lib/modules
And it worked!
I then used the method explained above to switch to systemd booting.
Everything seems supported, I have a kernel 3.4 running, fuse filesystem is supported, video accelerations sems to work in xbmc.
It is perfect except for the 30-seconds we have to wait at each boot...
lukegb, great post/thread.
Thanks very much for this, i'm going to give this an attempt tonight on identical hardware (series 5 550).
I'll keep you posted, and try to re-translate this to the wiki here:
I did exactly as cyberic - I installed ubuntu via the script, then installed arch on a VM, then tar'd up the rootfs and untar'd it onto my ubuntu filesystem (mounted via chromeos). I then copied the old /etc/fstab and /lib/modules to my extracted arch system, rebooted and it works!
I was able to compile some modules for the kernel.
But you have to stick with the chrome os kernel...
I'll try to add kexec support and try to launch a new kernel...
anybody tried that before?
Does anyone know where I could build/have the cgpt program? I failed to back it up properly before installing Arch on my Samsung 550.
Also, everything works except for wake from suspend. I will likely start another thread for that.
Here you are:
sha1sum of the gunzipped file:
Can't you mount the chrome os partition anymore?
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Actually, I just downloaded a chromeos image and copied it from there - was literally coming on here to update.
So that's cool, I can now switch between the two OSes... I have two issues remainging:
for some reason GDM says "Invalid UTF-8" when I try and login... autologin works fine, though. This isn't huge and I will eventually figure it out.
My big problem is: suspend works, but when I try and wake the machine up it just boots Arch normally (as in, i see the sick chromebook and have to hit ctrl+d). Are you able to suspend properly?
I have a chromebox, not a chromebook.
I didn't try to suspend because it is my media player, and I shut it off when I'm finished
Ah of course. Ok, I'll make a post elsewhere and try to get some help on this - it's very weird, though. Nothing in pm-suspend.log or journalctl - everything suspends fine, it just doesn't WAKE UP. Tried adding acpi_sleep=nonvs to the kernel parameters of GRUB, but that didn't work...
tell me where you posted so I can follow your thread ;-)
Has anyone attempted to get this to work on a C7 chromebook? One of the $199 x86 ones? If so, could they tell me how? The cgpt returns an error and is not a 64-bit ELF, rather 32-bit, so I think this may have something to do with it.
You can use the script here to partition the drive (or boot from an SD card!). It installs Ubuntu but you can do what cyberic and I did and just replace it with Arch.
Does anyone have the ability to provide me with a KERN-A & KERN-B image?
I tried pm'ing cyberic but I'm not sure if it went through.
I can dump the A and B partitions if you want. Could you remind me of which partition number they correspond?
Just to let you know that I have compiled a kernel with kexec enabled.
This kernel enables me to load other kernels , without any risk of 'bricking' my chromebox
I succeeded in loading kernels compiled from chromeos-3.4 branch, but when I tried to kexec a 3.6 arch kernel, it failed.
Does anyone has info on google patches required to boot a kernel on a samsung chromebox/chromebook?
I compiled mine from here if you haven't seen it yet.
Thank you for the link.
I solved my problems by enabling vga arbitration.
It was required for the new kernel to boot correctly.


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Robert Rich - Somnium. There is a short version on spotify which is really excellent.
Quote from: thirdsystem on July 22, 2014, 04:14:32 AMRobert Rich - Somnium. There is a short version on spotify which is really excellent.Excellent disc
Almost 10 years after its initial release, this project return in the (revolutionary?) form of an App Album . Designed to run endlessly on your iPhone/iPod, it can play uninterrupted for much longer than the original seven hours. It will simply run until you stop it, or until your iPhone/iPod batteries run out.As an App, the Somnium App is extremely 'bare-bone'. It was designed to liisten, not to watch.In fact, there's only one page with the cover art, a slider (from 'slow' to 'slower') and a start button. After hitting Start and setting the volume, you're supposed to turn the device screen off and just listen...no need for any further visual distraction.For the Somnium App version, Robert Rich has selected and isolated different passages which are sequenced randomly. This approach means that the music remains interesting enough to actively listen to when in 'slow' mode. When set to 'slower', there are less changes so the pace suits sleeping.This also means a bit of a conceptual distraction from the original DVD, which followed the sleep cycle (relatively active, to deep sleep, to relatively active again before waking up). The app version randomly cycles through various parts of the composition, so it does not exactly follow that 'cycle'. In the 'slow' (most active') setting, the music is indeed constantly changing, and stays interesting enough for active listening for a long time.


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A Moment of Clarity, Please
Reading the blogs and comments by this site's members has been a rewarding, satisfying, enriching experience; thank you all. You've helped me to a clarity I'd like to illustrate with the following true story.
Some years ago I did business with a certain printing vendor. We worked together on several projects over many months. He always conducted himself professionally and seemed like a regular guy. One day after going over some proofs, he pulled me aside and confided that extraterrestrials lived among us disguised as humans. He revealed that they had landed on the pyramids thousands of years ago and conducted experiments in alien-human hybridization. I listened thoughtfully, nodding so as not to annoy the crazy person, got him out of the office as fast as I could and managed to never see him again.
Now imagine yourself in a similar situation; a seemingly normal person whom you've known for some time feels that you're trustworthy enough to let you in on their secret. Although they have no empirical evidence to support their contention, they believe with all their heart that thousands of years ago a woman got pregnant without having had sex. If that wasn't amazing enough, the resulting person could transmogrify matter, turning water into wine and materializing bread and fish out of thin air. And as if that wasn't incredible enough, he could reverse death itself! Indeed, he came back to life after being dead for three days and then levitated into the clouds.
Now, I ask you: why on earth would any sane, rational human being not put as much distance between themselves and this obviously deluded individual as possible, just as if they had been spouting about alien abductions?!
Humans have been searching for understanding of the world around us since we gained sentience. Luckily, we've answered many perplexing questions. Do horses pull the sun through the sky each day in a chariot? No, nuclear fusion inside a gravitationally bound ball of plasma a couple million kilometers away comes into view as the ground below our feet spins on a planetary axis. Even if we can't see the hydrogen atoms collide or feel the globe spin, pretty much everyone agrees about that it is real.
Unfortunately, despite thousands of years of inquiry by billions of brains, there are still some very vexing issues that we haven't yet answered. What happens to us after we die? Are we alone in the universe? Is there a purpose to our existence? We can speculate all we want and believe anything we dream up but the fact remains that we don't know.
It is possible that space aliens walk among us and it is possible that that Jewish girl wasn't just pulling one over on her parents. We may never know for sure. One thing that I am pretty sure of, though, is that killing each other over life's imponderables isn't going to get us any closer to the answers we seek.
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Agreed that mutual extermination does nothing to forward knowledge.
Hmmm... the stirrup? Ballistics? Nuclear fission?
"despite thousands of years of inquiry by billions of brains, there are still some very vexing issues that we haven't yet answered"
And isn't something that in just the last hundred years the human species has gained more knowledge then the thousands of years and billions of people that have lived before it. We have learned so much so fast, I'm hoping we will learn even more in the next 30 – 50 years. Hopefully I will be around to see it.
I had no memory prior to being born why would i have any after death ?
And yes i hope to be around for at least another 50 to 60 years to see religion die and science grow faster and faster.
This is eloquent. (I'd like to point out that atheists don't go around killing to defend disbelief.)
Also, I was thinking just last night: "How can it be that you can present a religious believer with a sensible, rational argument and they just won't believe it?" I realized that everyone processes information in anywhere from slightly different to radically different ways, and what it really comes down to is that there is a large percentage of people who are just not bright enough to grasp sensibility and rationality. They just literally do not have the necessary amount of neural connections developed to "get it." There will always be stupid. We just have to fervently hope they are not all stupid and violent. It's kind of demoralizing.
We can speculate all we want and believe anything we dream up but the fact remains that we don't know.
Very well said. People put odd superstitions into the gaps of our knowledge to hide the fact that we haven't been able to answer some questions yet. It's as though society has some sort of mass fear of simply Not Knowing.


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Now batting for Team GOP 2012, Gov. Haley Barbour.
The bubbly and portly chief executive of Mississippi has now moved into the "Land of Mention"-- as in being mentioned as a possible presidential candidate for 2012. In the coming days, with visits to Virginia, New Hampshire and Iowa, he will be laying out some possible chits that could be cashed in three years from now. On Tuesday, he even joined congressional Republicans to denounce federal government-run health insurance.
As a former lobbyist, with a thick Southern drawl, Barbour doesn't come across as a likely national figure. However, one can't underestimate his stature across the party.
For one thing, he gets respect from conservatives and moderates alike because of his successful tenure as chairman of the RNC in the mid-'90s. He won important off-year elections in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City.
Second, of the states affected the most by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mississippi came out looking not too bad -- especially in contrast to Louisiana. Barbour kept his wits about him and managed the emergency in a fairly organized fashion.
More recently, though a conservative who had disagreements with the economic stimulus package, Barbour didn't turn the entire thing into a soap opera in the way that South Carolina's Mark Sanford and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal did.
In short, Barbour seems like a competent conservative -- who can also appeal to the moderate elements in the party.
But now that the spotlight is beginning to show on Barbour, will he be able to survive what seems like the "curse" of being mentioned in the 2012 sweepstakes? No sooner was Jindal "mentioned," than he gave a response to Obama's national speech -- and promptly bombed. Sanford's star was rising -- until this M.I.A. story this week upset his momentum. Three weeks ago, Nevada's John Ensign was touring Iowa; now he's caught in a burgeoning sex scandal.
Maybe not being mentioned for president is the best thing for one's political career?
No wonder Barbour's trying to downplay the speculation.
Robert A. George is a New York writer. He blogs at Ragged Thots.


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This seems like it could be the first mainstream Vive/Rift replacer.
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Career: Saw action in 140 games in her four years, which ranks tied for second all-time on the Duke charts ... a two-time Capital One Academic All-District III selection ... Duke's first four-time All-ACC Academic Team selection ... took 19 charges in four years ... blocked 20 or more shots in all four seasons ... finished her career with 109 blocked shots, which ranks 10th all-time at Duke … had surgery on her left hand at the end of her sophomore season … hit 50.2 percent of her field goals over her career.
As a Senior (2012-13): Saw action in 35 contests, while making six starts … earned All-ACC Academic Team accolades … averaged 3.1 points, 2.6 rebounds and 1.1 blocked shots … tied a career high with 22 points, while pulling down seven rebounds, dishing five assists and blocking four shots in only 24 minutes against Iona … hit 11-of-15 field goals against Iona … totaled five steals against Presbyterian in the season opener … closed her career with six points, four rebounds and a blocked shot against second-ranked Notre Dame in the NCAA Elite Eight.
As a Junior (2011-12): Named to the Capital One Academic All-District III first team ... selected to the All-ACC Academic Team ... competed in all 33 games, while making one start at eighth-ranked Maryland ... averaged 5.3 points and 3.1 rebounds ... notched five games with double-figure scoring ... notched a career-high 22 points against UNC Wilmington as she hit 10-of-11 field goals ... hit her first eight shots against UNCW ... drained 10 straight field goals in the USC Upstate and UNC Wilmington games ... took three charges ... pulled down a season-high seven rebounds against Virginia Tech and Maryland ... totaled double-figure scoring against fifth-ranked Miami, North Carolina, eighth-ranked Maryland and N.C. State ... averaged 14.9 minutes and hit 56.0 percent of her field goals.
As a Sophomore (2010-11): Selected to the All-ACC Academic Team ... Capital One Academic All-District III honoree ... played in all 36 games and earned 11 starts ... scored double-digits in nine games, including 15 each in wins over Virginia Tech and Boston College ... averaged 4.1 rebounds per game including double-digit rebounding in two contests ... blocked four shots, had 11 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the win over Virginia ... averaged 5.9 points per game and shot with a 47.1 field goal percentage ... totaled 12 points and six rebounds at Oklahoma State, had 13 points at 13th-ranked North Carolina and 12 points at 16th-ranked Maryland ... took eight charges on the season.
As a Freshman (2009-10): Saw action in all 36 contests, earning the starting nod in five games … averaged 6.7 points, 4.9 rebounds, 0.4 assists and 0.8 blocks per contest … recorded two double-doubles on the season, including 10 points and 12 rebounds against Southern California … selected to the All-ACC Freshman Team … earned ACC Rookie of the Week honors on two occasions … notched a career-high 20 points and three blocks against N.C. State … started four straight contests in the heart of the ACC slate … averaged 6.9 points and 4.7 rebounds in conference play … tallied an 8-of-8 field goal shooting performance against Virginia … named to the All-ACC Academic Team.
2009 Summer Action: Played for France in the U19 World Championship for Women in Bangkok, Thailand … saw action in all nine games as her team notched a 4-5 record … averaged 6.2 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.2 blocks … in the final game, posted 15 rebounds, nine points, two blocks and one steal in 26 minutes versus Lithuania.
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Personal: Full name is Allison Vernerey ... born Feb. 27, 1991 in Paris, France ... daughter of Jacques and Christel Vernerey ... has two sisters, Laura (25) and Chloe (12) ... her uncle, Laurent Vernerey, received his MBA from Duke in 1998 ... majored in economics.


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You needn't be a tree hugger or a venture capitalist, but if you haven't heard of Cleantech you better listen up. Whether you're interested in what is likely to be your future occupation, wondering what cluster to study or where the markets are heading – Cleantech is likely to be the answer.
Definitions first; Cleantech, short for clean technology, encompasses technological innovations in everything from renewable energy, such as wind, wave and solar to sustainable building. A broader definition goes beyond just the technologies and looks at energy efficiency as a whole – and the academic understanding and knowhow that goes into reversing or at the very least putting the breaks on global warming.
The reason for the gain in momentum is clear. On one hand we have rising fuel prices, the increasing wealth in and therefore higher demands of new economies and political instability in a vast number of the oil producing nations. On the other we see clean technologies maturing, becoming cheaper and better. If climate concerns and the wish to do good for its own sake isn't persuasive enough, something else might be – clean technologies are likely to scoop in tons of money.
That's the good news. The great news is that there is likely to be jobs in many areas, whether you are majoring in Business, Language and Culture, International Business, Marketing or Communication. But you have to be qualified, that is you have to know the market and your field.
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A recent feature in The Economist projected Cleantech to be the biggest generator of jobs and the most promising market since IT (minus the bubble gum effect) in investment terms. The Cleantech Group estimates the average annual venture money growth rate at an impressive 47 percent from 2002 and onwards. What is even more remarkable is that whereas the growth was high but steady from 2002 to 2005, the amount of venture investment has accelerated during the last two years.
Today Cleantech is being pushed forward mainly by economic interests and not as in the past, purely by government subsidies and goodwill entrepreneurs. Many of the players in the field are the giants in corporate Denmark.
One of the best known Danish Cleantech frontrunners is Vestas, a major player within wind energy on the world market. More than doubling its revenue from 2004 to 2007, Vestas is an excellent example of a company that has benefitted from what many refer to as the Cleantech revolution. Wind turbines from Danish manufacturers account for more than half of the installed capacity worldwide according to the Confederation of Danish Industries.
Wind however, is not the only Cleantech industry where Danish competences excel. Other major Danish Cleantech players include DONG Energy, Danfoss, Novozymes, Velux and Rockwool. And many smaller companies and start-ups are beginning to grow at an astonishing pace, helped along by science parks and inward investment agencies such as Copenhagen Capacity.
Copenhagen Capacity
Project Development Manager Nicolai Rottbøll Sederberg-Olsen works at Copenhagen Capacity, a regionally funded inward investment agency which also works as a market development consultancy. "Run like a business on public money," the organization opened its new Cleantech division in January 2008 in order to speed up the famous cluster effect and spur the development of new jobs in Cleantech companies in Copenhagen and Zealand.
According to Sederberg-Olsen, the biggest challenge in orchestrating this massive effort to make Copenhagen and Zealand the capital of Cleantech is getting research institutions, political players, business incubators, investors and companies to communicate and realize the potential in a streamlined effort:
- If our efforts succeed, the result will be a full scale cluster, employing people at all levels, attracting the best and the brightest from at home and abroad and putting our nation into the next century in a sustainable manner, he explains.
To this end Copenhagen Capacity's Cleantech initiative also aims to make CBS a partner in its efforts. But why should Copenhagen and Zealand be of particular interest for the development of a new Cleantech cluster? The answer to this question is a combination of the mindset of the population, good political conditions, and a strong concentration of highly specialized labor – enter CBS students.
The CBS connection
One of these is Michael Johansen, who studies cand.merc.com at CBS. Michael recently began working for Copenhagen Capacity's Cleantech initiative, and he points out that while he knew the Danish strengths in renewable energy, he did not conceptualize them as a joint force until he got his job. But he fully understands the implications of the increased awareness today:
- If as a business you let out too much CO2 it can be as bad for your image as child labor. The political consumer isn't just about fair trade, it's also about clean trade, Michael points out and continues:
- I want to work for a company that helps strengthen clean business in Denmark.
Michael Johansen's best advice to fellow CBS-students shopping around for a job is to use the public debate as a window of opportunity for specialization and to get on the bandwagon as early as possible to get the necessary experience in the field.
The momentum generating sentiment is already in place in Danish society, and here at CBS, Mette Morsing was appointed the first Danish Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility only last year. Within the next few months CBS aims to consolidate its research efforts in climate, energy and the environment – all clear indications of how important the concept is to a place where university means business.
CBS on the bandwagon
At the forefront of a consolidated effort in climate, energy and environmental research stands Professor Peter Møllgaard from CBS Department of Economics. The initiative is to be called "CBS Climate Strategies for Business" or CBS-CSB.
Peter Møllgaard emphasizes that such an initiative has been "long due", but he is optimistic that the university will now pool forces to meet the climate challenge. The internal workshop is meant to create awareness and forge ties between the existing research interests – and to spur cross disciplinary research.
The kick-off will include a presentation by McKinsey Copenhagen under the headline "What should we expect CBS to deliver for business climate strategy making?", and another by the Danish news agency Mandag Morgen under the header "What can we expect CBS to contribute to public climate policy making?" It is hoped that an
understanding of the expectations as to the role of our institution will help the institution lift its responsibility in the climate debate.
CBS' Dean of Research, Alan Irwin, who will also be chairing a debate at the event, welcomes the initiative.
- This is a very important issue for us, because we feel that this is an area where we can genuinely contribute to society with research and practical solutions for business on how to combine economic goals with environmental sustainability says Alan Irwin and emphasizes:
- If CBS as a research institution can provide practical solutions informing the way in which we meet the environmental challenges we will have accomplished our goal.


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Blue Jays not yet close to filling rotation gaps
TORONTO -- Cubs right-hander Jeff Samardzija is the name that seems to keep popping up the most when it comes to the Blue Jays' search for an upgrade in the starting rotation.
There was a report over the weekend from ESPN that Toronto was putting together a package of prospects in an attempt to acquire Chicago's No. 1 starter.
TORONTO -- Cubs right-hander Jeff Samardzija is the name that seems to keep popping up the most when it comes to the Blue Jays' search for an upgrade in the starting rotation.
There was a report over the weekend from ESPN that Toronto was putting together a package of prospects in an attempt to acquire Chicago's No. 1 starter.
Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos is normally tight-lipped when it comes to rumors, but this offseason he has decided to be a little more candid. Anthopoulos made an appearance on MLB Network Radio and didn't exactly deny the two sides have talked, but dismissed any notion that a formal offer has been made.
"I'm going to try to be a little more candid than I may have been in the past," Anthopoulos said. "I won't comment on specific rumors and things like that, but I will say that we're definitely exploring starters with teams. But also, just like a lot of stuff that's out there that is false, we have not made an offer to anybody with respect to a starter.
"So, if there is something out there that we've actually made an offer to someone for a starter, that is not accurate. It doesn't mean we're not inquiring."
Toronto's search for at least one -- possibly two starters -- has been well documented. R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Brandon Morrow appear to be the only three pitchers with guaranteed jobs next season, and the back end of the rotation is still very much up in the air.
Samardzija, who is under the Cubs' control for the next two years, would appear to be a very good fit after a season in which he logged more than 200 innings. But there are still a lot of red flags as he's set to turn 29 in January but has just two years of starting experience under his belt.
The former reliever went just 8-13 with a 4.34 ERA for the Cubs last season. He recorded an impressive 214 strikeouts over 213 2/3 innings while walking 78. The native of Indiana certainly isn't a bona fide ace, but he would be a nice addition for a team that's searching for another mid-rotation arm.
Despite the recent report, there doesn't appear to be anything imminent between the two clubs. Toronto is expected to continue its search for another starter but a solution might not be found until next month's Winter Meetings.
"You know what, we're talking to one club about a smaller trade and maybe it'll move the next few days, or maybe it won't happen," Anthopoulos said. "But, no, I don't think, not right now there isn't anything imminent. We're not necessarily waiting on someone to get back to us but, again, at any time that can change, and I hope it does.
"Before the [American] Thanksgiving holiday sometimes there's that last little push [when] teams want to get some things off their plate. So maybe things happen here in the next two or three days. If not, we'll take it to the Meetings, I guess, at that point."
The problem with making any kind of trade for a starting pitcher is the cost that will be associated. There has been a lot of interest in Marcus Stroman and Aaron Sanchez after their recent showings in the Arizona Fall League, but the pair is also very important to the Blue Jays' future.
Stroman arguably is ready for the Major Leagues and there appear to be far fewer skeptics about his future in the rotation than when Anthopoulos selected the product of Duke in the first round of the 2012 First-Year Player Draft. He was initially projected as a reliever but is coming off an impressive season with Double-A New Hampshire, where he went 9-5 with a 3.30 ERA and 129 strikeouts.
Sanchez has been Toronto's best overall prospect, according to MLB.com, for the past couple of years. He projects as a possible frontline starter and is expected to begin the year in Double-A after pitching a full season with Class A Dunedin in 2013.
If Toronto is adamant about keeping both prospects in the fold, the club could then shift its focus to the free-agent market. There's a large number of starters available -- including Matt Garza, Ubaldo Jimenez, Ricky Nolasco, Ervin Santana and Bartolo Colon -- but each comes with his own set of risks.
"I probably wouldn't come out and say who we might be in on, just from a competitive standpoint," Anthopoulos said.
"We may have someone that we like a little bit more than some other clubs, and we'd want to keep that a little more quiet."
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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