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Video: MRC's Bozell Addresses Left's History of Politicizing Tragedies
Jared Loughner was in no way a conservative or inspired by alleged conservative talk show "hate," yet the media have been quick to blame conservative talk radio and Sarah Palin for his assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona), all in an effort to delegitimize and demonize the conservative movement.
This stands in stark contrast to how the media have been silent on the real political motivations of crazed left-wingers, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell noted on the January 11 "700 Club."
"What about the shooter at the Discovery Channel last year.... He said that he had been inspired by Al Gore," Bozell reminded viewers.
"There's an awful lot of intellectual dishonesty taking place" in the liberal media, Bozell argued, pointing out that while the media have reported the federal judge killed in the Saturday shooting spree was "at the wrong place at the wrong time" and in no way Loughner's target, the New York Times editorial page claims that "there was all sorts of hate mail aimed at the judge and this is an example of why you have to control talk radio."
Bozell also reminded host Gordon Robertson that the media are just being true-to-form with earlier instances of blaming conservatives for political violence or terrorism such as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
For the full interview, click here for MP3 audio or watch the video embedded below:
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I swear I heard this somewhere
Submitted by One on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 2:51pm.
Within 48 hours of the shooting the Tea Party had already massed mailed their supporters in an effort to politicize the shootings as an attack against conservatives, while asking for donation funds to counter the attacks. Independent Bernie Sanders sent a fund raising letter in the name of the Tuscon shootings as well.
From afar I feel that anyone and everyone in politics is hoping for political gain from this tragedy. Whether it's fundraising or passing a new arms law, the lawmakers are giddy with misfortune.
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I can guess where this nonsense came from...
Submitted by PrairieSky on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 4:35pm.
Liberal politicians, pundits, bloggers, and the press...Take your pick. Well, let me reassure you...I am a member of the two largest Tea Party organizations, and I get mail from them just about every day, and I have yet to receive anything like what you are talking about...Nothing. So, take what you hear "somewhere" with a really big grain of salt when it concerns the Tea Party movement. There are those out there who do nothing but conjure up lies and misrepresentations about it every day, so beware.
As for Bernie Sanders and his fund raising letter, we know that to be the truth...All media outlets have reported and verified it...So, there you go.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
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None of the above
Submitted by One on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 5:41pm.
I don't know which media outlets are considered liberal, but Yahoo has this story published with a transcript of the fund raising letter your Tea Party sent to supporters. A sample:
"We have nothing to do with this awful, tragic event in Arizona. Our prayers are with Congresswoman Giffords and the victims and families of this massacre.
But we will still fight just as passionately for this country we love, and the vision of our Founding Fathers as outlined by the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
We're taking our country back through the ballot box and in the public square – through peaceful means. And we will prevail, because our ideas and ideals are stronger than the scare/smear/defame tactics of the leftists we face.
We ask you to please stand with the Tea Party Express and show your support for our efforts.
You can make a contribution online right now to the Tea Party Express – CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE."
Now perhaps I'm reading into this too much, but it sure sounds like a fund raising attempt in the name of Tuscon.
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Excellent Brent ... America needs to hear more like that!
Submitted by MaximusBraveheart on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 3:04pm.
Honest talk like that during the "news" or "talk news" would do wonders for our Country. An amazing 19% (I think it was) of REPs thought the violence was associated with "vitriol" talk. That is REPUBLICANS getting brain washed by the media. We need that 19% back plus the Dems. SPEAK out with the truth whenever you can! Don't let the LSM ruin our REPUBLIC!
-- Maximusbraveheart -- Is TRUTH knowable? Moral Relativism is the abandonment of Truth. Truth is knowable. Truth conforms to Reality. Reality is observable by evidence & witness in this day & from history. Relativism is Sesame Street play land.
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Re: Tea Party fund-raising...
Submitted by Jarhead68 on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 4:09pm.
Within TEN MINUTES of the shooting, lefty news anchors and bloggers were blaming the tea party and talk radio for this senseless tragedy. Anything the tea party did within 48 hours was not to take advantage of the situation, but to raise money to defend it's members from being slandered and libeled with baseless smears. Had the "news" media been as unbiased as they claim to be, the tea party would not have made a peep, other than to condemn the real perpetrator of this heinous crime. The left-wing has gone completely insane and anyone who disagrees is either blind, stupid or intellectually dishonest...or an insane leftist tool.
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If that asteroid we keep
Submitted by celator on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 5:18pm.
If that asteroid we keep hearing about finally collides with the earth, we know who will get the blame: the Tea Party, talk radio and, eventually GWB.
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Chrisy Matthews was setting this up for months
Submitted by tombaker on Wed, 01/12/2011 - 8:02pm.
Long ago, with the Tea Party and with Palin and others, that if something happened (ever) that the Republicans would have blood on their hands.
I am surprised that nobody has posted some clips of this....of course I have not dug it up either...but memory does serve
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God Bless Mr Bozell. Makes
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Thu, 01/13/2011 - 4:47am.
God Bless Mr Bozell. Makes me a little more comfortable there is somebody keeping track of all this left-wing bias. I don't have the stomach for it anymore.
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Single people forced to join families
UNMARRIED people are to be forced into strangers' family homes as long-lost aunts or uncles, the government has announced.
Swans to replace Trident
AGGRESSIVE swans like those terrorising tourists on the river Cam are to replace Britain's nuclear arsenal.
Food good for you
REGULARLY eating food protects against death, it has emerged.
All female characters now ludicrously hard
EVERY female character in TV and film is now exceptionally determined and hard as nails.
Woman's hair has too much attitude
A 25-YEAR-OLD woman's punk-influenced hair has been verbally abusing her family.
Foy used vanishing spray to seal off buffet
PREMIER League referee Chris Foy faces an investigation after using vanishing spray to push party guests back 10 yards.
So is casual racism not allowed either? asks UKIP
UKIP has asked for clarification on whether 'casual racism' is the same as 'proper racism'.
Big Brother line-up becomes Celebrity Big Brother line-up
THE entire line-up of housemates from the just-completed series of Big Brother last night re-entered the house for Celebrity Big Brother.
Rail fares to increase by two inflations and a pay rise
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What happens when the Hindenburg meets the Titanic? What happens when the Dolphins play the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
This Monday night meeting between the two embattled football teams will serve as three hours of relief from the real and much bigger problems each face.
The Bucs might have issues dealing with Miamis defensive front or running game, but that certainly is better than battling MRSA, the antibiotic-resistant staph infection that inflicted them earlier this year.
Its better than dealing with a divided locker room and unmet potential and endless copy of bad news blared on a national scale.
Playing the Dolphins might be difficult, but its so much easier than fighting the seemingly overwhelming problems plaguing Tampa Bay so far this season.
The Dolphins, on the other sideline, might have problems with Tampa Bays defensive front and getting someone open against Darrelle Revis might be difficult.
But compared to the past two weeks filled with suspensions and scandal and reports of racial epithets and sexual harassment, this stuff is cake.
And that probably explains why both of these prime-time opponents are thankful game night has arrived.
Were just ready to play some football and happy to do that, Dolphins receiver Mike Wallace said. Thats what we do. Thats what we love to do. I cant wait.
The game, so violent and fiercely fought, is being so longingly embraced because it will temporarily change the subject.
For the Dolphins, its welcome relief from the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin NFL investigation. Its a chance to be on ESPN instead of 60 Minutes. Its a chance for Dolphins coaches to think about sacks rather than, as the British say, getting sacked.
The focus on the game has been building for a few days for the Dolphins. Coach Joe Philbin on Thursday told his team to think exclusively about the game. But amid that preparation, the team was besieged by controversy.
The whole thing is kind of mind-blowing to me and its kind of mind-blowing to most of the guys on the team right now, quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. Right now were focused on sticking together as a team, having each others backs as a team and getting ready to play a football game.
At the end of the day, were playing a Tampa Bay team on the road on Monday. We have to deal with this yes, but we also have to get ready to play a football game.
The Dolphins dont anticipate a problem. Many players said the NFL investigation isnt a distraction until the media asks about it. The alleged problems between Incognito and Martin arent a problem until theyre brought up again, by the media.
The only time we have to deal with this is when the media comes in here and yall ask us questions, left tackle Bryant McKinnie said. Otherwise, were not really discussing it too much. Were talking about Tampa Bay a majority of the time.
In that regard the Dolphins have a major advantage over Tampa Bay. Miamis problems are viewed by the team as external. They come from the NFL. They come from unwanted scrutiny. Its all coming from outside.
The Buccaneers problems are internal. Theyre under attack by a disease a literal, not figurative one in their practice facility. Their coach is under pressure from management because they are winless.
Players have been unhappy with one another.
The synopsis of this Tampa Bay season reads like a Shakespearean tragedy, which is ironic because it began with such promise.
When training camp opened, coach Greg Schiano showed his players a Super Bowl video. When that presentation ended, he passed around a puzzle to his players. Solving the puzzle revealed the Lombardi Trophy.
Schiano told the players they could be lifting one of those at the end of this season if they followed him. It hasnt quite worked out.
This team had a players-only meeting before the regular season began. There were rumors the coach tampered with ballots in the voting for team captains.
The starting quarterback, Josh Freeman, missed the team photo because he overslept. He was also missing on passes, connecting on only 47 percent of his throws.
Tensions between the coach and quarterback gurgled like an active volcano. Freeman was deactivated and barred from the team sideline. Then a report saying the quarterback was in the leagues drug treatment program surfaced. Then Freemans camp fingered Schiano as the reports leak. The coach denied it. And the quarterback issued a news release saying he had merely tested positive after switching medication for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
Then came Freemans trade to the Vikings. Veterans in the locker room that once expected a Super Bowl run now had young, inexperienced Mike Glennon as their starting quarterback.
Bye-bye Super Bowl, playoffs, winning record and season.
It has all pointed back to Schiano. And thats why billboards popped up around town with a simple message: Fire Schiano.
Last week, as the Dolphins baked under scrutiny, the Buccaneers had no controversies. They put running back Doug Martin on injured reserve, but everything was otherwise peaceful.
You hold your breath, Schiano said noting the calm. I think thats the way it is these days. Thats part of the landscape, so get used to it. When things do come up, youve got to deal with them and you cant let them suck up too much of your time because theres a limited amount of time before the game each week. But it has been nice to have a few days where there havent been any major issues.
The Dolphins, obviously, havent had that luxury. But they insist they are not distracted.
Again, asking me, and asking my peers and the guys that are playing football with me, [the controversy] isnt a subject, defensive end Cameron Wake said. To me its kind of silly, Im in here trying to talk about football, and everybody wants to talk about something else.
Well, the game has arrived. Now its finally about football again.


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Hurricane Irene's eye is approaching the NASA Wallops Flight Facility and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport launch pads where up to 2-feet of water is expected to wash over the island from the storm wind gusts of up to 75 mph, leaving severe flooding in its wake. NASA Wallops personnel and security guards will stay at the facility throughout the weekend to mitigate against any structural damage and to protect the launch facilities. "Tweets" from "Space Island."
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell noted that Hurricane Irene could become "the storm of a lifetime" in Hampton Roads due to storm surges and massive power outages. Mandatory evacuations (map) were being enforced in Accomack County, with the assistance of the Virginia State Police.
Next week, workers will return to the island to evaluate the storm's impact and resume the final phase of construction on a new launch pad for the Taurus-2 booster with the commercial Cygnus robotic cargo ship being built by the company Orbital Sciences Corporation. Cygnus will deliver supplies to the International Space Station beginning early next year.


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Wow! Reading some rationales for Canonical's shift to Unity, I found this gem in an article in Thinq:
"other [Linux] distributions are not as focused on bringing a free desktop to market"
Also revealed, Ubuntu does not intend to port to ARM nor to tablets…
They must have tried to change speed or direction on an icy road. They are in the ditch. As the world of IT becomes more diverse, they want to specialize in an area of zero growth, the old-fashioned desktop.
Other distros certainly are operating towards the goal of producing a great desktop product, every bit as much as Ubuntu. How Ubuntu feels that any of this is about wooing users of that other OS with prettier interfaces is beyond me. This is about breaking the stranglehold of a convicted monopolist and Ubuntu has done some good work with OEMs to open things up but the problems remaining are not glitz. People want software that works and many distros give them that.
Not planning a release for tablets is bizarre. There's way too much glitz in GNU/Linux already. We have 3D and wobbly. What more do people need?
Go, Debian. Ubuntu has lost its way.
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Linux Apostate
I share your pain KT Iversen, this discussion is completely off to lunch. I just wanted to make a simple point about standardisation being a good thing that sometimes only Microsoft can do! And somehow I have ended up seriously discussing a conspiracy theory in which Microsoft forces cheap printer and modem vendors to avoid supporting Linux.
What is it with Linux people and conspiracy theories? I've been reading about Photoshop and Linux people are seriously suggesting that Microsoft, Apple and Adobe have got together to exclude Linux. Occam's razor be darned, why accept simple plausible explanations when complex and unlikely ones are available?
KT Iversen
You guys, IE: Old Man, Linux Apostate, and Robert Pogson sure do go on. I really had a simple question about Ubuntu, but you three have amused (Not Confused) the issues to death. I think I'll replace Win 7 with Ubuntu because I have such a narrow range of user intentions. 'Nuff said!
Harry Cox
"M$ uses NDAs to preclude that information being publicized. As an employee of M$, you should know that…"
This is why you fail to find employement Robert. Government workers are fully aware of your aluminum hat conspiracy drivel that anyone who disagrees with you must be an agent of Microsoft. They're not going to take a chance on someone who's incapable of separating their fanatical religion from reality.
I do hope you get help though, I hear aluminum is fairly expensive up North due to shipping costs.
Ken Ham
Did anyone else notice that Gerry Carr popped-up in the comments saying the article is mis-representing what he said?
That's the chap's quotes they based the entire article on.
Ken Ham
A poster states things for fact that only insiders would know… I assume he is an insider. I am sure he/she would demand I prove my assertions. Let him/her prove he is not an insider.
Yeah, well you state things that only witches would know, so I assume you are a witch, Pogs.
If you don't want us to think you're one you had better prove you're not a witch.
You seriously displayed some medieval thinking in that comment. You're the one claiming he's an 'insider', so the burden of proof lies with you, the one making the claim.
Linux Apostate
This is HP's fault. They don't support that printer any more, beyond the very basic support on the web page. There is no WinXP/Vista/7 support at all, and Win98 support is very limited.
It looks like you have the following options:
- use WinME/USB
- use Win98/USB and install the drivers from the CD
- use Win98 or ME, with the parallel port or TCP/IP connection
Blame HP for the lack of options here. They could have made new drivers for XP etc. but presumably they felt that they'd rather make you buy a new printer. Evil HP and their capitalist greed!!
Being serious, though, I can sympathise. It's annoying when a manufacturer stops supporting hardware that still functions perfectly. I have a USB scanner from the Win98 era that is still useful thanks to Linux, and my SB Live soundcard won't work with 64-bit Vista because Creative only supports the newer cards now. Still works fine in my Linux box, of course. The thing is, this is the manufacturer's fault, not Microsoft's. If we could be bothered, we could port the Linux drivers to Windows and get the functionality back, but this is only a cheap option if your time is worthless.
Um, Pogs, you need to read the page in full:
Since the Windows Millennium operating system has the Microsoft USB files, this driver should install successfully without a previous installation of an HP printer.
I am still at loss why you had the problem with ME.
"PCs come with USB sub-systems"
The USB controller.
"M$ supplied a driver to communicate with that other OS about USB devices"
Actually, drivers for USB controllers are integrated since Win95b
"M$ ceased releasing the driver for ME after XP became the standard"
Hm, that's a bit odd, because ME for sure had the driver for the USB controller included already.
It could be of course the fact that the specifc USB host controller was unknown to ME, because it was too new, but then you would need the driver for that controller specifically. And the vendor must provide it:
But, if the PC ran already ME, and ME was pre-installed on that computer, then I am certain that the drivers for the USB controller were present already.
Aside from the USB controller, I am unaware of additonal USB drivers that you would need on ME.
Maybe you misunderstood something back then.
Pogs, you're spewing a lot of crap here, seriously.
"it was a USB printer and M$ supplied the USB driver for that other OS and would not allow it to be used with ME"
What USB driver exactly? What are you talking about? The USB controller?
"M$ supplied the USB driver for that other OS …. not allow it to be used with ME"
.. Getting confused here. Is that "other OS" XP? So XP had a driver that ME lacked?
You're making not much sense here, Pogs.
"I looked for the driver on HP's site and they wrote that they could supply their part but not the USB part"
Could you provide a link to that page? Because, frankly, the way you describe it makes no sense.
What the heck is the "USB part" here?
Linux Apostate
Why would Microsoft have to release a driver for a Winprinter made by somebody else?
You can't expect them to maintain drivers for every piece of hardware that was ever supported by Windows!
Linux Apostate
"A poster states things for fact that only insiders would know… I assume he is an insider. I am sure he/she would demand I prove my assertions. Let him/her prove he is not an insider."
You mean me? But what standard of proof would possibly convince you that I'm not?
"The fact that very few hardware manufacturers have produced drivers for Linux with source code in spite of belonging to the Linux Foundation is sufficient proof to me that the common factor is M$, not the hardware."
Ah, so this is the standard of "proof" required.
If I did work for Microsoft, which I don't, there's no way I'd discuss commercially confidential things with outsiders. What I know, I have gathered from others working in my business, which is embedded systems. Some of whom *do* have NDAs with Microsoft. But I work almost exclusively on Linux, so I have no connection with that.
That aside, your Winmodem/GDI printer argument is just a conspiracy theory. I'd say the lack of Linux support was due to the cost of supporting another OS for a device already sold with tiny profit margins… but maybe that's just what *they* want me to think???
"There's a reason for that. M$ did not want them to do that so that it could hold a stranglehold on Internet access in the dial-up days."
Pure supposition without facts IMHO Pog. Linux didnt make headway in the late 90′s because is was simply trash useability wise in comparison to even Windows 9x, especially if you were running a properly provisioned system ( My last 9x system before I wnet to NT 4 was 64Mb).
Remember the first semi useable (in my experience) Linux distributions like caldera didnt really come on the scene until a decade ago.
"A poster states things for fact that only insiders would know… I assume he is an insider."
What things are you talking about Pog? What I see is at most the product of someone who has a) been around for a while and b) is a good researcher.
BTW – did you read the softmodem article?
"M$ uses NDAs to preclude that information being publicized. As an employee of M$, you should know that…"
How do you know he is an employee of Microsoft Pog?
Or are you assuming that anyone that differs with you is automatically a microsoft employee? Not a very accurate assumption IMHO.
You would do well to review the wikipedia article Softmodems at
Interestingly "Winmodem" is a U.S. Robotics brand name. It has nothing to do with microsoft.
Linux Apostate
Were any Winmodems manufactured by Microsoft? Or even built to Microsoft specifications? Maybe you can point to a specific example.
There are some hardware standards that owe a lot to Microsoft, such as USB. In the early days Linux support for USB was absolutely awful, but Linux has subsequently benefited enormously from this open standard. Every USB memory stick, hard disk, keyboard, or mouse uses exactly the same protocol. This is a good thing. Thankyou, Microsoft.
"M$ has a habit of making standards that have to be reverse-engineered by outsiders…"
By my recollection Pog, Microsoft's "habit" as you call it was in standardizing software API's for their own purposes where either no standards existed or where the standards were judged by them (rightfully in most cases) as inadequate for their purposes.
I can recall NO cases where they "imposed" any hardware standards that we harmful.
At any rate, google still has the opportunity to define a reference design or designs that represents the minimum recommended features that the different classes of Android mobile device should have.
Or do you like the idea of as many kernel's are their are phone or tablet manufacturers, all in the name of freedom of course.
Linux Apostate
"ARM is still a novel environment in personal computing. The OEMs and Google can get together and work out standard drivers or something to make it all work. ATX is what made PCs work so well. Intel and others collaborated on standard interfaces."
Bingo! We have a winner!
This is exactly what I'm saying. (Except… ATX???)
But it's not the OEMs and Google who are driving standardisation. It is Microsoft. I think both Android and Ubuntu will benefit from their standard in the long term, but they still got there first, when no other vendor felt that the issue was even worth thinking about. Google totally missed the opportunity with Android, concentrating instead on their Dalvik failtrain.
Linux Apostate
At least your XP images could boot.
So you needed extra drivers. Annoying, yes, but not a big problem. Linux has the same issue with WiFi and graphics cards when the drivers aren't in the mainline kernel.
But before you can even have a problem with the drivers you have to get the kernel loaded and running! And that's the problem.
Simple example – you can't take a kernel for a BeagleBoard and boot it on an iPhone. Cortex-A8 CPU in both cases, but a completely different architecture. The kernel won't even be able to decompress itself.
"When I did my imaging last year for XP. I tried to get one image that would work on all PCs. Could not do it."
That does not mean that it can't be done. The correct way to do this is to build a golden image master by picking your best image and then adding the additional drivers to the filesystems. The whole is then tied together by syspreping your image. WHen the image is laid down and booted, the sysprep process will used the vendor inf files to install the mouse.
This is how vendors like dell do it This is how I did it.
Of course this requiring your investing time and effort in a system that you despise ideologically. Better to declare the process impossible and boot linux.
Linux Apostate
*sigh*. No, every ARM-based SoC is different. Different memory map, different interrupt map, different peripherals. Every SoC requires a different BSP.
Whereas a kernel for a generic x86 PC will also boot on any other x86 PC. There is one BSP for all PCs. This is a good thing.
Linux Apostate
"Canonical does not need to support ARM. The OEMs who install it on their systems and release it to consumers will do that."
Well… not really. Would you want to be dependent on your OEM for kernel updates? Android has really suffered from that. It's a bad idea. No wonder Google is trying to drop it.
"ARM attempts to provide everyone with standard platforms but any OEM adding peripherals still has some work to do."
No, ARM doesn't. They provide CPU cores and some other IP. The architecture is up to the system builder. It's always been like that; every ARM development board I have ever seen, including those from ARM, has had a completely different architecture and required a totally different BSP. That's fine for embedded systems but not a good idea for general purpose computers. Microsoft knows that, and is trying to fix it.
Richard Chapman
It's beginning to look like a race to "Who Will Invent the Next Great User Interface!?", without bothering to ask if one even needs to be invented. Maybe these things EVOLVE!
Well, this is puzzling. First they design new smart thingy-like interface from scratch, then they decide not to support smart thingies. What's going on in Canonical?
Richard Chapman
It's easy to add more features by simply adding more code. Unfortunately when you're starting with a base of 40 million lines of code (as in Vista) and you want to add more features while stuffing your OS into ARM, it's not going to be easy. Microsoft may have trimmed down the code base some the Windows 7, or maybe not but either way they have to do more with less. That should make for a very interesting end product.
Linux Apostate
ARM support as in "support for the ARM ISA" is easy. ARM support as in "support for every ARM-based architecture" is very, very hard. Especially when you consider customer support and testing!
Some of the guys over on Linux Hater are talking about Linux's buggy support for WiFi and suspend on their laptops. Now that's an old story you've heard many times, and it's the reason I bought a Thinkpad, but it got me thinking about ARM and the complete lack of any sort of standard architecture outside the CPU.
If right now Canonical has trouble supporting all the PC-compatible laptops (and tablets), how much worse will it be when they're not PC-compatible at all? When every model of laptop (or tablet) has a completely different and totally arbitrary architecture in which the only common factor is the ARM CPU? When every model needs it's own kernel?
It will be next to impossible to support that. No surprise that Canonical are not even going to try.
However, I think that's only a short term thing. You know that Microsoft has already specified a standard architecture for Windows 8-compatible ARM-based devices? It's currently still under NDA, but when compatible devices have been manufactured, there will finally be some standard ARM architecture for Linux to aim at. Every ARM device will be able to use the same kernel. The testing and support effort will be greatly reduced.
Just another thing to thank Microsoft for?
Since Ubuntu is based on and similar to Debian, which as ARM support, I am surprised that Canonical has not gone in that direction. Obviously they'd lose some apps in the process, but agility is what saves FOSS software and sets it apart.
Taking Ubuntu away from FOSS will kill it slowly.
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My girl threw me this idea that would makes sense being that we have the venue and GBP has the fighters. Judah vs. Malignaggi headlining with "Kid Chocolate" Peter Quillen AND Danny Jacobs on the undercard.
I'm sure Judah and Malignaggi can work things out with the weight, but at some point I'd like to see these to vets go at it. Not to sure who would take this but I'd be siding with Zab. I hope GBP build both Judah and Malignaggi back up for a showdown at the Barclay. After both of there last performances, even though they took L's, I don't see why not showcasing an event featuring all of Brooklyn's Finest in Boxing. It would be a good look.
So who do you think takes it in a Showdown between Judah-Malignaggi?
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Aw man she Puerto Rican and got that Rosie Perez type knowledge of the fight game with the same damn accent to go with it Lol. All the woman I met in her family is FINE Cshels even the moms (which is a good sign), but her sisters still learning that English cause they both fresh off the Island, so i would reccomend Rossetta Stone if u don't already speak es spanol for a convo with them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) but they all love boxing/MMA and always throw fight night parties for the big events man.
Screw it, give me the mom! I'll take your word for it, about her looking good. She's seasoned, and chances are, I'll get some good cooking out of the situation. Since I went to Vegas for the Chavez/Martinez fight and saw all of those beautiful hispanic women, that shit made me wanna learn Spanish. If those women make me wanna learn a new language, then she'll probably end up controlling me.
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Hello there. Sorry I've been MIA lately, I have no valid excuse. But I shall return soon with awesome posts. In the meantime, enjoy this TEDx Addis video of Eden Gelan. The popular forum that brings together activists, thinkers, businessminded individuals, etc. went to Addis Ababa in 2010 and has returned ever since. TEDxAddis is the independently and locally organized version of the big TED conferences. A bit about Eden, community development worker:
Eden graduated from Haramaya University with a BA in Law, but her desire to help the underprivileged and give voice to the voiceless has been expressed outside of her academic descipline.
Shorty after graduation she co-founded an NGO, Beza Community Development Association (BCDA), which empowers people living with HIV by providing income generation activities, counseling, medical support, and education. During this time she also completed an MA in HIV/AIDS Counseling in Relation to Theological Studies at the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology. Working as Project Coordinator, she has been able to create and implement new ways of taking care of at-risk communities.
She's an inspiring young woman, a great example of the change our generation can and should make. Enjoy :)


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Given that this is a preseason weekday game, I suppose I really can't fault KCAL for delaying it. It just would've been nice to know so we could've told you in our TV listings.
So watch it tonight and sorry if you tried to watch it at noon. Don't worry, no spoilers here.]]>
The Clippers would never host the Lakers in the opener. That would never happen. As it is, the Lakers are receiving their 2008-09 NBA championship rings before the game and another championship banner will be unveiled.
Meanwhile, the Clippers will be sitting on the visitors' bench politely watching, or perhaps in their dressing room (at least they have one of their own at Staples), biding their time until their presence is requested.
Make no mistake: The role of the Clippers tonight is that of patsy, tomato can, stooge. The Clippers tonight are to the Lakers as the Washington Generals are to the Harlem Globetrotters (I knew that SAT stuff would eventually come in handy).
And then, at about 10:20 Monday night, this little bit of news came across the wire: Blake Griffin, the NBA's No. 1 draft choice will miss the first six weeks of the season because of a broken kneecap.
Is anyone surprised about this? The Clippers are where good players go to become obscure and where bad players vanish altogether. Danny Manning, Elton Brand, Sam Cassell are just part of the long list.
Just when you thought the Clippers might be somewhat worth watching this season, at least to see if Griffin could be the league's Rookie of the Year, he gets swallowed up in the Bermuda Triangle that is the Los Angeles Clippers.
Welcome to the Clippers, Blake. And let the rehab begin.]]>
That's been the Dodgers' rallying cry since before they moved to Los Angeles, and after losing Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, 10-4 to the Philadelphia Phillies, that's what they'll be doing again.
Wait'll next year.
But what will next year be like for the Dodgers? It's truly difficult to tell. The Dodgers have many personnel changes to make during the offseason. General manager Ned Colletti got signed this week to a multiyear extension, so at least we know who will be doing the signing or trading.
But next season will be Joe Torre's last, or at least that's what he said at the start of the playoffs. Don Mattingly is the heir apparent, or was until all these teams needing managers came calling.
Owner Frank and his wife, team CEO Jamie McCourt, have separated and appear to be headed for a messy divorce. Who knows how that'll affect the ownership of the team and its ability to sign players?
Next season is even pointing toward being Vin Scully's last season as the voice of the Dodgers.
What we do know, almost certainly, is that Manny Ramirez will be back with the Dodgers in 2010. He has a player option and, since there isn't a lot more money out there to be had in the open market. Not for him anyway.
While the Dodgers' core players are under control, many of them will be eligible for arbitration: Matt Kemp, James Loney, Andre Ethier, Jonathan Broxton and Chad Billingsley. Others, such as Randy Wolf, Orlando Hudson, Vicente Padilla and Ronnie Belliard will be free agents.
Many decisions will have to be made by McCourt as to just how much money he'll be willing -- and able -- to spend in 2010.
It will be an offseason of the unknown after an extremely disappointing offseason. And there's only one thing Dodgers fans can do:
Wait'll next year.]]>
In our previous blog entry, we recounted how Time Warner wasn't sure it could get MLB Network up and running before Jan. 17. This was all a big surprise to the people at MLB Network because as far as they knew, everything was hunky-dory for Jan. 1.
On Wednesday, about 27 hours before the scheduled 3 p.m. PST launch, the same Time Warner flack said he really hadn't been able to get a straight answer from his marketing people, but that Jan. 17 still looked right.
At this point, I leveled with the guy.
I told him it was looking like I was going to have to write a story saying MLB Network launches on New Year's Day, but probably not if you have Time Warner Cable. I told him considering Time Warner is a minority partner in MLB Network, and therefore had obviously known about it coming for more than a year, it frankly didn't make his company look very good to have all this confusion about it the day before its debut. He agreed and said he'd try to find out more.
Now obviously, Wednesday was a bad day for Time Warner all around because of its controversy with Viacom. Viacom is threatening to take 19 channels off Time Warner -- including Nickelodeon and Comedy Central -- because Time Warner doesn't want to pass along the increased subscriber fees Viacom is seeking. This won't end well. Sounds a lot like the NFL Network controversy, doesn't it?
But five minutes after I had hung up with the Time Warner Cable guy, he called back.
"I've got good news," he said, sounding genuinely pleased. He said the engineering people -- not the marketing people -- said they had "pulled it off" and that MLB Network would be available as promised on New Year's Day.
I turned on the TV after we hung up and -- lo and behold -- the channel was already there (it hadn't been there earlier in the morning), running a loop of MLB Network promos.
The column in Thursday's Star doesn't reflect all this interesting behavior (it really had little to do with the actual launching of the network), but I thought you might be interested to know the backstory.]]>
I'm pretty excited about the new channel because I like baseball, but then I found out that Time Warner Cable may not roll out the channel until Jan. 17.
It all seemed rather weird to me because Time Warner is a minority partner in MLB Network. Why wouldn't it want to get the channel launched on time to all its cable systems?
But Time Warner spokesman Darryl Ryan said Tuesday negotiations were still under way between Major League Baseball and the cable company. Things like being able to roll out the accompanying HD channel and all that.
So I e-mailed MLB Network spokesman Matt Bourne to see if this was a recurring thread around the county with Time Warner. And this was all news to him.
"There are no ongoing negotiations," he replied. "We have a deal with Time Warner to air on Jan. 1. In fact, they have a minority partnership stake in MLB Network."
He also said the deal was for the channel to be on digital basic or expanded basic, not on a tier. Ryan had told me MLB Network was going to be on Time Warner's Variety Tier.
Ryan stuck to his guns after rechecking with his programming people.
Battle of the Network P.R. Flacks......
MLB Network is set to debut at 3 p.m. Thursday in 50 million homes nationwide. The network will be on Channel 213 on DirecTV. Ryan said when the channel does appear on Time Warner, it'll be on Channel 276.
For those who will be able to get the channel from the get-go, the first show seen will be "Hot Stove," which makes perfect sense in the dead of winter. That'll be followed at 4 by a showing of the original telecast of Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, featuring the original play-by-play by Mel Allen and Vin Scully and new commentary from Larsen and Yogi Berra.
Other primary offseason shows will include "Prime 9," a "list" show, naming the all-time top nine in different subjects, such as positions, comebacks, etc.; "Cathedrals of the Game," looking at the game's stadiums, both new and old; and "Baseball Seasons," a one-hour program recalling some of the game's most exciting years. Chapters of Ken Burns' documentary "Baseball" are also scheduled to be shown weekly.
MLB Network is expected to carry some live games too, perhaps on Thursdays, but details for that haven't been released yet.
What makes MLB Network different from NFL Network is you might actually be able to get MLB Network. Unlike the NFL, which sought (and still seeks) to have cable systems carry its network on basic digital cable at a high subscriber rate, Major League Baseball sought to bring cable systems along by offering them a stake in its network.
Time Warner, DirecTV, Comcast and Cox Communications have minority ownership of the new network, with baseball holding a controlling two-thirds share. That guaranteed MLB Network 50 million households at its launch -- larger than NFL Network, with about 43 million, has even today.
That is, if everybody gets to see it when they're supposed to.
Stay tuned to Thursday's Star.
The U.S. Open gets under way Monday with early-round coverage on USA and with the action shifting to CBS on the weekends.
This year's Open will have an added wrinkle because it comes on the heels of the just-concluded Olympic tennis tournament.
CBS' John McEnroe said Thursday it's almost impossible to tell just how much of an effect there will be having the event halfway around the world in Beijing end so soon before the start of the U.S. Open.
"It's pretty hard to say what [will happen to] the guys who were there longer and what it'll take out of them," McEnroe said. "It's a relatively new thing. It's definitely an issue, but I don't know the answer to that right now."
McEnroe has a better idea of what impact the last major tournament might have on interest in the U.S. Open. Rafael Nadal's epic victory at Wimbledon over Roger Federer still has fans buzzing.
"I've certainly gotten a lot of people who aren't even necessarily tennis fans and obviously a lot of tennis people have come up to me," McEnroe said. "I heard a lot of people talk about how they were in different locations around the country ... and they were watching the match, the match was on and people were talking about it.
"A lot of people have come up to me who don't necessarily watch tennis and they might refer back to my match with (Bjorn) Borg in '80 and certainly feeling something similar (with the Nadal-Federer match).
"I certainly that strength that we did get at Wimbledon we start to carry forward and try to ride that because this changing of the guard, it'll be interesting to see not only how the players respond to it, but also the fans watching."
McEnroe was so moved by the Wimbledon final, he famously gave Federer a hug on camera on NBC during his interview with him. McEnroe said he's gotten a little feedback from that episode since then.
"I've gotten a lot of people in the stands when I play now saying, 'Give me a hug, Mac!' " he said.
Back to the pool: In the wake (so to speak) of Michael Phelps' sensational success at the Beijing Olympics, NBC has signed a contract with USA Swimming to televise the U.S. Swimming Championships from 2009 through 2011.
Mad dog, mad dog: We on the West Coast may never have heard of him, but Chris Russo is a big-time sports talk show host in New York City. He recently broke up with his WFAN partner, Mike Francesa, on Mike and the Mad Dog and is heading to Sirius XM Satellite Radio. Russo will not only have his own show on both Sirius and XM from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. PT, but will also be executive producer of his own channel, to be called "Mad Dog Radio."
Other notes: ESPN Classic will replay the entire Wimbledon men's final between Nadal and Federer from noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. ... FSN Prime Ticket will debut In My Own Words: Rick Neuheisel at 8 p.m. Monday where the new UCLA football coach will talk about coming back to his alma mater. No truth to the rumor that the Bruins will be picking quarterbacks out of the stands this season, I understand. ... ESPN will show its first high school football game of the year, an Indiana game between Cathedral and Carmel, at 9 a.m. Saturday. ... The ESPN Radio morning program The Herd with Colin Cowherd will start being simulcast on ESPNU television starting Monday. ...
Dan Fouts is returning to CBS from ABC where he will be an NFL game analyst. ... Warren Sapp will be one of the faces Showtime will put on Inside the NFL, which it picked up when HBO canceled it. CBS Sports is producing the show, which will also feature James Brown, Phil Simms and Cris Collinsworth. ... As if he didn't already have enough to do, Chris Berman will anchor ESPN's SportsCenter on Sunday afternoons in the fall. ...
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, will be highlighted by a feature on Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers when it premieres at 10 p.m. Tuesday. ... Yes, NBC will have life after the Olympics. It will show the BMX Park finals of the Wendy's Invitational Dew Action Tour event at 4 p.m. Sunday.]]>
Like I said, I'll have more of them on Friday, but here's what Carillo had to say Wednesday about this trip to China:
"I've done a lot of Olympics but certainly nothing ever like this," she said. "Of all of the Games, I've never been to anything like this. And I've come to China twice before the Games started for a couple weeks each time just to do features and stories and all that so I had a sense of what it would be like, but then the Games started and it's just been a magnificent experience for me."
And Collinsworth says he's been like a kid in a candy store:
"I'm having so much fun doing this," he said, "and I'll tell you why. I am not an expert on anything here. I ran track and played a little basketball but they're not lining me up to be the color analyst for anything. Essentially what they wanted me to do was to come be a fan. I'm like Willy Wonka in the Chocolate Factory, I got the golden ticket. I'm afraid that the next Olympics they're going to sell my job to somebody and make a million dollars off it. I've been able to go anywhere, do anything, meet almost any athlete that I want to meet. I've had a chance to watch coach K's practices in basketball, which for me is a thrill. I feel like I'm watching it with the American public at home and going, boy I would really like to sit next to Debbie Phelps, Michael Phelps' mom and listen to what she says while a race is going on. I hope it looks like I'm having a good time over here, because I am."]]>
Maybe the closest to that description is trampoline. Many of us grew up with a trampoline in the backyard, or were lucky enough to know one of those families that had one and always had a steady stream of kids at their house, happily bouncing away.
You might've seen trampoline at the Olympics for the first time Monday night and had visions of a gold medal around your neck.
But this sport should probably come with a disclaimer when they show it on TV: "WARNING: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME." It doesn't take very long watching it to realize these athletes have done more than just fool around in the backyard during the family barbecues.
Twists, turns, flips, somersaults -- these are NOT the people you see whose trampoline mishaps turn up on America's Funniest Home Videos. These are Olympic athletes and don't be thinking otherwise.
Oh, well. No gold medal for you. Maybe if they made poker into an Olympic sport...]]>
The women's marathon had plenty of drama as it unfolded over 2 1/2 hours. Truth be told, it was something I checked in on from time to time while also keeping tabs of the Dodgers' loss to Milwaukee. But it was fascinating to see the attention first paid to Britain's Paula Radcliffe and hear how the British tabloids had ravaged her after the Athen Games. Then as Romania's Constantina Tomescu Dita took the lead and built an enormous margin, we were told how she had employed a similar strategy at the world championships, flamed out and hadn't even been able to finish. Finally after she won, we saw the race for the silver and bronze medals, with Catherine Ndereba of Kenya outsprinting China's Zhou Chunxiu.
From a long, drawn-out story, we went to Dara Torres, the 41-year-old supermom, took the silver medal in the 50-meter freestyle, missing the gold by just a hundredth of a second to Britta Steffen of Germany. It was great to hear that another swimmer -- a 16-year-old Australian -- was young enough to be Torres' daughter.
Then we saw the final act of Phelps, as the third leg of the 400 medley relay, which the United States in 3 minutes, 29.34 seconds over Australia. Sure, NBC poured on the praise for Phelps, but you know what? When someone wins eight gold medals in one Olympics and becomes the all-time overall leader in golds with 14 -- it's impossible to go over the top.
But the eye-popping moments weren't done yet. Jamaica's Usain Bolt blew away the competition in the men's 100-meter dash with a world-record time of 9.69 seconds. It's no wonder Bolt's nickname is "Lightning." Usain was insane.
But even with that amazing performance -- think of it: the fastest any man has ever run -- Bolt's time could have been better. It's hard to believe, but that 9.69 could have been in the 9.5s.
Here's what Alan Abrahamson had to say about it on NBCOlympics.com:
"With a full seven strides to go, he dropped his arms and let them fall outstretched to his sides, appearing almost to run sideways as he played to the [sellout] crowd of 91,000 at the Bird's Nest. Just before the finish line, he started high-stepping and, for good measure, executed a chest-thump."
NBC analyst Ato Boldon said the same thing to Tom Hammond shortly after the race. It's mind-boggling to think how much faster that time could have been if Bolt hadn't decided to tell the world what it already knew: He was the best.
OK, maybe NBC's ratings have topped out, but I'm sure the great drama of the Olympics haven't.]]>
Thursday night's women's all-around gymnastics competition didn't finish until after 1 a.m. EDT -- and so, of course, it didn't finish until after 1 a.m. PDT too.
It was so ridiculous and probably so embarrassing for NBC that it spent a considerable amount of its prime-time coverage Friday night recapping what viewers missed the night before. All the way down to showing analyst Bela Karolyi's unabashed cheering for winner Nastia Liukin's floor exercise routine. Except this time Liukin and silver medalist Shawn Johnson were in the studio sitting next to Karolyi while they watched it.
Make no mistake: It's great that NBC is managing to show some Olympic events live, at least to the East Coast. It just seems that if the network was going to manipulate the starting times in Beijing it could've done a little better job of it so that the events might also finish in prime time.]]>
NBC's Wednesday night prime-time Olympic show (and I use the term "prime time" loosely) didn't end until about 1:40 in the morning. Once Bob Costas had finally said good night or good morning or whatever it was on KNBC (Channel 4), up popped ... the "Channel 4 News"!
And let me tell you: longtime anchorwoman Colleen Williams may do OK and look pretty good at her usual God-given 11 p.m. hour, but apparently she fades pretty quickly after that. Williams' eyes were at half-staff as the clock neared 2 a.m.
CBS gets SEC to re-up: CBS and the Southeastern Conference have signed what CBS itself called a "blockbuster" 15-year contract extension to broadcast SEC football and basketball games starting with the 2009-10 season.
In addition to TV, the deal includes certain digital, Internet, wireless, video on demand, data and enhanced highlight rights across all CBS platforms, including the CBS College Sports Network and CBSSports.com. Also, simulcasts of CBS Sports games will be available for distribution by the CBS College Sports Network.
It's a good deal for CBS, which has benefited greatly over the years by SEC programming and this also gives the fledgling CBS College Sports Network some badly needed inventory. It's also good for CBS because the SEC was exploring establishing a national cable network like the Big Ten has.
Going batty over maple: ESPN's Outside The Lines on Sunday (6:30 a.m. ESPN, 9 a.m. ESPNews) will have a segment on maple baseball bats and their tendency to break into jagged pieces. A number of injuries have been caused by the bats.
There will also be a report on how Kenya's elite runners have dealt with the violence that has broken out in that country.
Close to the campaigns: ESPN's E:60 (4 p.m. Tuesday) will have a feature on Reggie Love, the personal assistant to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Love is a former Duke University football and basketball player.
On an upcoming edition of E:60, a segment on John McCain's wife Cindy is planned, looking at her love of auto racing.]]>
Not only that, but the people at NBC know too. They know you're watching the Olympics on TV, they know you're watching them online at NBCOlympics.com. Probably while you're at work, too, you rascal (tsk, tsk). They also know you've been sneaking looks on your cell phone. Some of you with digital cable have also been checking out the Video On Demand channel for Olympics content as well.
They know.
NBC released something Wednesday they call the "Total Audience Measurement Index" for the first four days of the Beijing Games. The idea of it, said Alan Wurtzel, NBC Universal's president of research, is to measure how many people are watching the Olympics, or perhaps we should say experiencing them, over all their platforms.
Wurtzel admits it's not a completely perfect science -- television ratings and cell phone statistics aren't exactly an apples-to-apples comparison -- but it does reveal some very interesting facts and it does show that an enormous number of people are following these Olympics.
First television: The Nielsen ratings show that more than 70.1 million viewers saw the opening ceremonies last Friday night. Over the next three days, those numbers grew to 92.5 million for Saturday, 107.4 million for Sunday, then fell back to 94.8 million on Monday. The TV numbers account for 94 percent of the total audience, Wurtzel said.
Next the Internet: These numbers are growing astonishingly and that has to be because NBC is putting live events online for the first time. They started at 4.2 million unique visitors and grew to 7.8 million by Monday. NBC has quite a library of highlights, too. The most watched and shared of these, of course, is the U.S. men's 400 freestyle relay victory over France.
Mobile and video on demand usage is relatively tiny, largely because these technologies are still in their infancy, Wurtzel said. Mobile uniques have grown from 210,000 on Friday to 476,000 on Monday. VOD views are only available for the first three days of coverage. Those numbers were 36,000 on Friday, 53,000 on Saturday and 27,000 on Monday.
Many of the people using mobile phones to view the Olympics are doing this kind of thing for the first time, Wurtzel said.
Despite the mini-controversy about NBC tape-delaying its prime-time coverage after its been shown live on the East Coast (and still touting it as "LIVE" on the screen), the network is getting good ratings on the West Coast. Three of the top six markets for the opening ceremony were from California. San Diego was the top rated market in the nation with a rating of 26.5 and a 49 percent share of the audience. Sacramento was third at 24.3 and 43 and San Francisco was tied for fifth at 24.1/47. The Los Angeles market, which include Ventura County, was 16th out of the 56 metered big markets.]]>
As NBC went back and forth between swimming and gymnastics (which was live to the Eastern and Central time zones, but tape-delayed to the Pacific and Mountain), the network said it went without a commercial break for approximately 42 minutes (from 10:57 p.m. until 11:39 p.m.). NBC also said in the last 1 hour and 40 minutes of the prime-time broadcast, NBC aired only a little over eight minutes of commercial time.
Also surprising and refreshing in 2008 is the fact that I've heard hardly any complaints about the way NBC is showing these Olympics, other than the fact that it puts the "LIVE" label on West Coast prime-time telecasts that are taped.
These Olympics are on the way to becoming the most watched games in history (more on that Wednesday) and devotion to content over commerce is one good reason why.]]>
"What It Takes" is a segment examing women's gymnastics by Jon Frankel and the requirements to make the Olympic team.
"Deadly Ride" by Frank DeFord looks at Olympic equestrian sports. Cross-country is the most challenging and has recently come under scrutiny. The report says in the last two years, 15 riders and 12 horses have been killed while competing.
"Run to Freedom" is a profile of Sudanese 1,500 runner Lopez Lomong, who was taken from his home at age 6 and imprisoned by rebel soldiers. Following years in a refugee camp, Lomong was brought to the United States and raised by a new family. Mary Carillo is the correspondent.
Andrea Kremer does the feature on Parcells and his reputation for taking mediocre NFL teams and making them into winners.]]>


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Foreign Office: 'Increased security measures' for match
A spokesman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said security would be increased for tonight's tie.
We are aware of a serious incident involving British nationals in Rome.
We are in contact with the Italian authorities and the Italian police, who are investigating the incident and have confirmed there will be increased security measures for the game this evening.
We have been in contact with one British national and have been updated by hospitals on the conditions of all the others, some of whom have already been released.


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The idea of a UAW-owned car company has prompted a lot of predictable guffawing: Har har, unions running the car companies? I'd like to see THAT.
But a car company with significant UAW ownership is bound to be run much better than car companies under the previous scenario because the Union, finally, will have a stake in the companies success. They've never had that before. Previously, their relationship was, frankly, parasitical. The union had no real reason to see the car companies succeed. They just wanted their wages maintained, their pension fully funded and their healthcare.
But you can't be a parasitical on yourself. That's impossible. The only way the union's equity stakes in the car companies will be worth something is if the car companies make it. And if the car companies flail, they won't really have anyone else to blame.
What's more, workers collectives can work. You have housing cooperatives, power cooperatives, lawyer partnerships, Goldman Sachs (kind of, arguably). Why not a car cooperative?


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Charles Dickens's bleak tale of a desperate orphan boy in 19th century London hardly seems like inspiring musical theater fare. And yet, what makes the musical "Oliver!" so uplifting is composer Lionel Bart's emphasis on embracing life, no matter how small its pleasures. The Wheelock Family Theatre's production of "Oliver!" finds Dickens's sense of hope and love in the midst of degradation and despair and energizes the story with a terrific vocal ensemble of both children and adults.
In the title role, sixth-grader Charlie Clinton displays an angelic voice with a demeanor to match. His unadorned renditions of both "Where Is Love?" and "Who Will Buy?" create that delicate balance of utter loneliness and hope that fuels the emotional tone of this musical.


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Long memory in an oil market: a spectral approach
AbstractIn the paper, we propose a spectral approach to estimation of the long-memory effect in time series and its practical application for oil prices analysis. (in Russian)
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Routes Sorted
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The guide book describes this route as twin cracks to splitter offwidth but the offwidth is flaring, not splitter. Either way the route is fun if your into offwidths, but may be a little sandy since it doesn't get climbed much.
This route is located to the left of Bunny Slope and about 15' right of the large dihedral. There is a two bolt anchor at the top with slings.
#1 to #4.5 Camalots.


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Under tight deadline, SPD seeks a chief who will lead reform
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It typically takes a year to 18 months for a city to find a new police chief. Mayor Ed Murray has said he will appoint a new chief to head the Seattle Police Department (SPD) in four months.
To accomplish that, he's appointing a search team of 12 people and a Community Advisory Committee of 32 people to set the expectations and parameters for the search. He's also holding seven public meetings to get input from residents on what kind of chief they want.
"It'll be an extensive process," Murray said at a Jan. 8 press conference, when he introduced the 32-person Community Advisory Committee and the new interim police chief, retired SPD assistant chief Harry Bailey. "We want extensive input."
The search will be similar to previous searches, but the time frame is compressed. It took more than a year to appoint retired Police Chief John Diaz in 2010. This group will have to finish its work within just a few months.
Lisa Daugaard, deputy director of the Public Defender Association said group members have one thing in common: The majority of voices are calling for a chief who embraces change, including the federally mandated reforms to the police department and new ways of addressing poverty and mental illness.
"The major change is not how they're going about it, but the time in which it's happening and a real shift in community expectation," she said. "People want a very different approach to dealing with issues of urban poverty than we've necessarily seen before."
The city is in a years-long process of reforming SPD following a 2011 report from the U.S. Department of Justice that found that Seattle officers have a pattern and practice of excessive force. In August of 2012, the city of Seattle entered into a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice to reform the police department within three years under the guidance of a federal judge.
Whoever takes over the top position at SPD, vacated by John Diaz in April of 2013, shoulders the heavy burden of bringing about major reforms to the 400-officer department.
The Community Advisory Committee, a 32-member body, was announced Jan. 8 and met for the first time on Jan. 13. The group started laying the groundwork for the search for a new police chief. The group is tasked with setting the parameters and expectations for what kind of chief the search team will find, said Jay Hollingsworth, chair of the John T. Williams Organizing Committee and member of the Community Police Commission and the Community Advisory Committee
The group meets next on Feb. 13 at City Hall at 6 p.m. Before then, the members will appear at seven public meetings scheduled to collect input from Seattle residents.
As Murray promised during his campaign, he brought together a wide group of people to talk about the new police chief. The 32 people on the Community Advisory Committee include residents from each of the police department's five precincts.
"It looks like Seattle," said Rev. Harriett Walden, executive director of Mothers for Police Accountability, who is also a member of the Community Police Commission and was one of the 32 appointed to the Community Advisory Committee.
The group has four months to complete work that in the past has taken more than a year, Hollingsworth said.
"They're going to do their best," Hollingsworth said, adding, "They're just not going to be able to do a complete job."
Walden, however, was encouraged by how quickly the group was appointed and functioning.
"I've been part of the process more than once, and I'm glad to see that it's going to get off to a fast start," she said.
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It's all gritty realism and cinematic intensity in epic battlefield moments from the Good War, WWII. Move through the fray as an enlisted man, one of the unsung heroes in an alliance of countries who together helped shape the course of modern history. Play through chaotic battle scenes as part of a well-trained, tight-knit squad with authentic squad movements and tactics. Each soldier's distinct personality and training comes out on the battlefield. For the first time, Call of Duty captures the war from multiple perspectives, through the eyes of American, British and Russian soldiers. Battle through 24 missions spanning four interconnected historical campaigns. Missions range from sabotage and all-out assault to stealth, vehicle combat and rescue. Authentic weapons, locations, vehicles and sounds of war all contribute to the realism, immersing you in the most intense World War II experience yet.Developed by Spark Unlimited, a newly formed studio including 28 of the individuals, and many production leads, who developed the PC title Medal of Honor: Allied Assault.
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Summary of Mussolini:
Youth of Mussolini:
Mussolini the Socialist:
World War 1 and the turn to Fascism:
Mussolini Rises to Power:
Mussolini as Dictator:
Imperial Ambitions and World War 2:
Salo and DeathGerman special forces rescued Mussolini from his prison, and he was made the puppet figurehead of the north Italian Republic of Salo, propped up by German. With the enemy allies pushing the Germans ever higher in Italy, Mussolini was caught travelling in disguise towards Austria. He and his mistress were shot on April 28th 1945 and their bodies hung upside down in Milan. Celebrations followed.
Mussolini was a violent, egotistical and vain womaniser, known for his prominent jaw and fiery oration, who appeared to like few things as much as reading about himself in the paper. He might have survived like Franco if he had listened to his own fears over a war in alliance with Germany. That he didn't was perhaps due to the same hunger for glory which drove him to power in the first place. He truly believed he was a man of destiny, but his ideology – such as it was - was one of deeply inconsistent policies and statements - sometimes pragmatic, sometimes conflicting - and his success at gaining power and holding it was heavily indebted to his opposition's confusion. It's worth pointing out the warnings of historians like Peter Neville who stress that it's easy to portray Mussolini as a purely blustering buffoon but that, despite his manner, he did manage to hold power for over twenty years and wasn't a puppet until the end.


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Welcome to Barton House Railway
The Barton House Railway (BHR) is a narrow gauge railway in a rear garden located alongside the River Bure in Wroxham and it re-creates a traditional railway atmosphere where the whole family can enjoy the nostalgia of the golden age of steam with two ride-on railways, a fully working full size signalling system and authentic tickets.
During your visit you can also explore our extensive museum of railway artefacts with a Midland and Great Northern theme, enjoy delicious cakes, some of those home-made, and light refreshments by the river and also observe the signalman at work in our full-size original signal box which acts as the nerve centre controlling the railways.
We operate two gauges of track. The original raised track is now known as 'Mid-Land Railway' and is 3 1/2 inch gauge. The larger ground track known as 'Riverside Railway' is 7 1/4 inch gauge.
We are open from 2.30pm to 5.30pm on the third Sunday of the Month, from April to October, as well as Easter Monday.
Events for 2014
Monday 25 August
Bank Holiday Running(Drive a train)
Saturday 13 September
Sunday 21 September
Third Sunday Running
Our nominated charity for 2014 is Kerry Greyhounds UK.
BHR regularly uses its electronic powered boats to ferry visitors from the village centre (Wroxham Bridge) to the riverside BHR.
The Joint Friends help to support BHR. Please contact us to become a member and receive a newsletter to see what is happening at the railway, and be invited to special Friends events.
The admission price is £1.50 for children and £3.00 for adults. This includes one single trip on the Riverside Railway (travel from one station to the next) and Admission to the Museum. If you would like to travel by boat, the cost of the return trip by boat is included in the admission price.
Season tickets are available by written request or from the ticket office on open days.


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Luxurious Residence 'discounted Massively' Your Dreams Will Come True in Barbados
- bedrooms 3
- baths 3
- sleeps 8
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets considered no
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Palm Court Residence is one of our best Villas located in a 'Hide Away' position of St George. This Residence has been carefully designed to offer an ambience of pure luxury, space, light, with spectacular views of the ocean, watching multiple cruise ships dock and depart whilst sitting in your lounge, bedroom, kitchen or verandah with a glass of wine, the Residence has exceptional views of the island day and night from all areas of this magnificent villa, but yet a short drive would take you to beaches, restaurants, bars, shopping malls, boutiques, and many more activities. The Residence has been designed for guests that want so much more.
Here you'll find lush countryside and the remarkable Orchid World, one of the finest collections of orchids in the Caribbean.
Perched in the center of St. George is the historic Gun Hill Signal Station which offers views of nearly the entire island! Stop by the Gun Hill lion and marvel at this statue carved entirely from a single stone, you will find Orchid World, home to over 20,000 orchids, which also makes a very pleasant place to stroll around while you are in that part of the country. It is open daily from 9am until 5pm.
Places of interest in St. George:
» Drax Hall
» Francia Plantation House
» St. George's Parish Church
» St. Luke's Church
» St. Augustine's Church
» Gun Hill Signal Station
» Orchid World
Brownes Beach is just a mere 15 minute drive Brownes Beach is one of the largest of Barbados' beaches, stretching from Bay Street in the north to Needham's Point in the south.
Located just on the outskirts of the capital city Bridgetown, the waters here are quite calm and so are ideal for swimming and sea bathing. A lifeguard is on duty at the beach.
The white sandy beach is the perfect place to catch the rays of the sun. There is not much shade at the beach so be sure to bring your sunscreen if you wish to avoid a tan. No beach chairs are available for rent so also carry along a towel or two.
Brownes Beach overlooks the lovely Carlisle Bay which is often dotted with small boats and catamarans. But it's what's beneath the surface that's really interesting! The bay is home to many shipwrecks which in turn are home to tropical fish, frog fish, seahorses and more! If you're a scuba diver be sure to visit Carlisle Bay.
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Property Type
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- guests provide their own meals
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ocean view
- This Executive Villa is has wonderful views of the Ocean, you can watch from the lounge, verandah and other parts of this villa Cruise ships docking and departing, whilst enjoying wonderful sights
golf course front
- You can access the most famous golf course located in Sandy Lane
- This exceptional villa has wonderful views of hills and great views of the island
- ocean view
- adventure
- away from it all
- family
- tourist attractions
- internet
- telephone
air conditioning
- All Bedrooms plus modern ceiling fans
- linens provided
- towels provided
- washing machine
- clothes dryer
- Secured parking for up to 6 cars
- Double Electronic
- living room
- hair dryer
- iron & board
- Spacious Kitchen
- Fridge & Freezer
- stove
- oven
- microwave
- dishwasher
- dishes & utensils
- pantry items
coffee maker
- kettle Provided
- toaster
- kitchen
- dining area
- dining
Pool / Spa
- private pool
- Bathrooms
- 3 bathrooms
- bathroom 1: toilet, shower
- bathroom 2: toilet, shower
- bathroom 3: toilet, shower
- Luxury En-suites and separate shower and toilet.
- Bedrooms
- 3 bedrooms, sleeps 8, beds for 4-8
- bedroom 1: 1 queen, Luxury En-suite
- bedroom 2: 2 double, Interlink Luxury en-suite
- bedroom 3: 1 double, Interlink Luxury En-suite
- Palm Court Residence comprises of Three Large Bedrooms, Master bedroom consist of walking closet and luxury en-suite, Second bedroom is very large consisting of two double beds, and en-suite, third bedroom consists of double bed and luxury inter-ensuite
- television
- satellite / cable
- dvd player
- stereo
- outdoor grill
- deck / patio
- balcony
- lawn / garden
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets not allowed
minimum age limit for renters
- 23years upwards
senior adults only community
- Welcome
- long-term renters welcome
- events allowed
activities and attractions in Barbados Caribbean
- botanical garden
- churches
- library
- recreation center
- theme parks
- restaurants
- health/beauty spa
Leisure Activities
- bird watching
- eco tourism
- outlet shopping
- walking
- shopping
- sight seeing
- boating
- wildlife viewing
- horseshoes
Sports & Adventure Activities
- golf
- tennis
- sailing
- wind-surfing
- cycling
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Part of a spiritual diary, this book is a journey, in prose and poem, of one devotee's spiritual awakening.
Two books under one title, this contains:
AT THE DOOR AND UPON ENTERING ... A Collection of Mysteries, Prayers, Praise, Songs and Singing, which describes the meeting of God Without and the wonder and wisdom that results from the Vision of God's unseen hand and the hint of that which is beyond the Beyond.
WELCOME HOME! ... Prophecies and Promises, Revelations and Realizations, continues the journey, as the disciple enters deeper into the transcendental understandings and the eventual meeting of God Within.
Based solely on a genuine disciple's personal experiences, as the result of the grace afforded him by a True Master (Satguru). It is hoped that both the exaltation's and falls will be of help to other serious aspirants to God and Self realization.


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A Comfortable Base for Exploring DonegalAnnora B&B Pub and Accommodation in Narin, Co. Donegal is an ideal base for exploring this beautiful part of Donegal. Here at Annora, your hosts offer visitors superb bed and breakfast accommodation in the highest level of comfort. All bedrooms are en-suite, with T.V. and tea and coffee making facilities on request.
Your HostsYour hosts will be happy to inform you of every attraction and activity the areas of Narin and Portnoo have to offer.
Annora Pub Accommodation take pride in offering holiday makers the highest possible care and comfort during their stay with them. Contact us now to make a booking.
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Disney On Ice back in town
By Joyce Lupiani. CREATED Jan 16, 2013
(KTNV) -- Jon Nuss from Disney On Ice visited Action News at Midday on Jan. 16 to talk about the show at the Thomas & Mack Center.
The show opens tonight and runs through Jan. 20.
The show is titled "Dare To Dream."
Visit disneyonice.com for more information and tickets.
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If you gave a presentation, whether oral or poster, from SORMA West 2008, you are encouraged to submit a manuscript for review and possible publication in a special conference issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (TNS). Here are details about what, when, and how to submit.
Thank you again for following up on your SORMA West 2008 presentation with a high-quality contribution to the refereed archival literature. Submittal, refereeing, editing and publication will be coordinated by TNS. Contact information will be added here for any questions you may have about manuscript preparation or status.
The time limits refer to regular contributed orals in parallel sessions. If you are one of the featured speakers in plenary session on Monday morning, or are giving a summary "rapporteur" talk Thursday afternoon, you will be given special instructions.
Oral presentations should be 12 minutes long, plus a 3 minute allowance for question and answer. The colleagues chairing the sessions will have to keep them running on time, and we thank our speakers in advance for their cooperation.
To avoid losing precious time to computer and projector-interface issues, we will provide a projection computer in each room, and we ask that all slides be loaded onto it before the session begins. You may bring your slides on a USB memory stick or CD. Technical assistance will be available at all reasonable hours, especially during the run-up to each session.
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New Range of Products by Inalsa
New Delhi, December 30, 2010: INALSA, a household and popular brand in the home appliances space has rolled out a range of new products. The new range includes OTG's, Coffee Makers and Induction Cookers.
Inalsa, one of the leading players in Home Appliances has introduced OTG-Best Bake in 32 litres capacity. This model is available in 3 variants, i.e. 32 TRC (Timer, Rotisserie & Convection), 32 TRC SS (with Stainless Steel body) and 32 T (with Timer). Inalsa OTG has got latest features and attractive aesthetics. The main features are rust proof powder coated body, which enhances the life of the product, convection fan ensures proper distribution of heat so that the food item is properly and evenly baked and 120 minutes timer to suit different baking requirements. Besides this, Inalsa OTG's come with Rotisserie function to satisfy the taste buds of non-vegetarians. It has an option of 100-250 degrees temperature control. Toughened see-through glass helps the customers to know the status of baking inside the OTG.
Inalsa has also launched two new models in its range of Coffee Maker, Brew King and Café Real with a view to meet the festive and season's demand. The main features of the Brew King are high pressure, 4-Bar Steam System, which helps to make Cappuccino and Espresso quickly. It also has an adjustable Cappuccino steam nozzle and heat resistant glass jars and lids so that the customers can relish hot beverages of his choice. Besides this, the on/off switch with light indicator, helps the user to know the status whether the product is in operation or not and the cord winding facility makes it convenient to store the product when not in use. Café Real, the other model, has a capacity to make 4 cups of Espresso coffee. The other salient features are high pressure 4 Bar Steam System, stainless steel filters, removable filter holder and cord winder.
Price & Availability:
MRP of OTG Best Bake:
- 32 Ltr TRC SS – Rs. 6695
- 32 Ltr TRC – Rs. 6295
- 32 Ltr T – Rs. 5795
MRP of Coffee Makers:
- Brew King – Rs. 3895
- Café Real – Rs. 2895
These products are available at all the leading appliances and crockery counters across the country.


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Bill introduced
State Sen. Brandt Hershman, the Republican chairman of the Senate Tax and Fiscal Policy Committee, has authored a bill that came out of the work of the task force. It would require the state to provide more information about how it determines the LOIT dollars sent back to local governments, and it creates a mechanism for the state to release those LOIT dollars more quickly.
One of the goals, Hershman said, is to "give local units of government a greater degree of confidence and a better understanding of the challenges we face."
Hershman said the bill is a start toward correcting much larger issues in the Department of Revenue, which has been operating with what he called "an antiquated system" of technology that may cost up to $50 million to replace.
An independent audit of the department released last December blamed outdated technology and a "weak control environment" for the $526 million in tax errors made by the department in recent years.
Those errors included $206 million that had been earmarked to be distributed to Indiana counties, but never was. The money was discovered last April, four months after the department found $320 million in corporate tax collections that had been accumulating in an orphaned bank account since 2007. The same audit discovered additional errors with 55,000 taxpayer accounts and 2,880 tax refund requests that were never processed.
There's new management in place at the department, but Kauffman said those revelations have undermined the confidence that local officials have in the state to accurately assess what local governments are owed in LOIT dollars.
"The budget surplus is surprisingly higher than we anticipated it would be," Kauffman said. "Well, is it all just because the economy was so much better and they got more sales tax and state income tax? Or is it because there is unreconciled cash sitting in the general fund that should have gone back to counties?"