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LinDa Saphan
Assistant Professor of Sociology
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Diploma of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris
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License in Sociology, Sorbonne-Paris V
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Introduction to Sociology
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Society for the Study of Social Problems, USA
Centre Maurice Halbwachs, Paris France
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"Norodom Sihanouk and the political agenda of Cambodian Music, 1955-9170", International Intsitut Asian Studies Newsletter,
"Re-Imagining Social Problems", SSSP 9-11 August 2013 New York, NY
"Inter Asian Diasporic Art", NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, May 16th, 20 Cooper Square, 4th Floor Conference Room, New York, NY 10003
"The Legacy of Now": Presented on the Diasporic Experience and Artistic Production at APA, New York University, April 24th.
"Art Workshop." I will discuss my experience as a filmmaker in Cambodia at Moravian Academy, Bethlehem, PA., in March 11th.
Presented "Beyond Angkor Watt Sunset – the Emerging Visual art Scene in Phnom Penh" at a four-day Cambodia Studies Conference on Imagining Cambodia, Northern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Presented "Music as Agent of Cultural and Artistic Exchange" at a Two-day Symposium on Cultural Exchange between Europe and Southeast Asia, Seattle University, WA, USA.
Presented "Cambodian Public Art as defined by Prince Sihanouk" at a talk on the Urban Guerrilla with Dr. Poyin Auyeung organized by Manhattan College Urban Studies Department, New York, USA.
Presented " The Process of Becoming City Dwellers" at a joint conference organized by University of California at Berkeley and University of Wisconsin.
Moderator "Cambodian Modern History and Legacy." Moderated a two-day panel about Cambodian modern history. Panelists included an artist, musician and filmmaker. Organized by Singapore Art Council, Singapore.
Organizer and developer "Mother Butterfly, the search of inspiration in art making" a two-day workshop with the US Department of State's fund at Phare Ponleu School in Battambang, Cambodia.Newsletter 64, Summer 2013, Leiden, p4-5
La vie sociale des espaces publics à Phnom Penh, Sarrebuck, Editions Universitaires Européennes, 412 pages.


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This update is going to be pretty short since the title says everything I intended to say. The final recruit (for now) of the 2013 class, 4* PF/C Dominic Woodson, signed this afternoon in a ceremony at his school. That brings our total up to 3 in the Fall Signing Period after the LOIs for Johnathan Motley and Ishmail Wainright came in yesterday.
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Democrats Say Climate Change Is As Big a Threat As ISIS
A new poll shows how Democrats and Republicans view security threats to the U.S.
Obama seems determined to push ahead, despite the fears of some Democrats.
President Obama named six new members to the board -- including the CEO of UPS.
"Behind the dramatic, terrible pictures on television are deep challenges that will be with them and with us long after the cameras move on," she says.
A new poll shows how Democrats and Republicans view security threats to the U.S.
Stephen Colbert connects the rise of the Islamic State to one person.
The classified torture report will come out only on her timeline.
Security clearance reform should address financial troubles, senator says.
Will the Islamic State just end up with a VA waiting list?
POGO jabs Homeland Security, USAID and Railroad Board for failing to provide information about protections.
House GOP leaders fear a conservative revolt when government funding comes up for a vote next month.
Growing shortfalls will limit lawmakers' flexibility to handle fiscal challenges.
A news organization is upset with how other news organizations are covering a national event.
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Descent: A memorable 45m abseil from the rap station (backed up 2007) at the top of Buttress Pinnacle descends in devious fashion through some large chockstones and directly down the Chasm. Alternatively (and much less appealing) is a 25m abseil down to the southern side of the Buttress from the rap station and scramble down into Chockstone Gully: a notorious place to get your ropes jammed.
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The Charger intake tube fits, I have one on my Challenger, forget what I paid but it wasn't real expensive,includes a new ait sensor that is centered in the tube, not off to one side like the Challenger.Cleans up the underhood look.
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]There are pics somewhere on this site, that look quite nice.There are two places where you can cut off the silencer, at the widest point a 2" pvc cap spray painted flat black would look very near factory. For some reason the Challenger intake was louder and didn't pass fed. regulations, thus the pregnant looking silencer.
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at the very least, their skateboards do
SC is Nick's hometown. why he moved away to Chicago for med school, i'll never know.
but i'm sure glad he did. (:
and i'm sure glad he wants to go back there. this "deal" we have going isn't going to be super hard to keep up on my end.
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maybe we'll finally be homeowners?
i'd really love it if we had a boat too.
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We cordially invite you to attend the Fourth International Symposium on Catholic Social Thought and Management Education. Presenters at the conference are scholars and practitioners from various fields of expertise and practice. Their presence provides the basis for a robust and fruitful interdisciplinary conversation. Concurrent papers of the conference will be sent out approximately one month before the conference to limit lengthy presentations and encourage sustained conversations. The plenary sessions will be simultaneously translated in Spanish and English. The conference is hosted by Universidad Iberoamericana Campus Golfo Centro located in the beautiful colonial city of Puebla, Mexico one and one half hours southeast of Mexico City airport (120 kilometers). As Mexico's fourth largest city in population, Puebla lies between the two ranges of the Sierra Madre situated in a high fertile valley at 2,000 m. above sea level. If you have any questions concerning the conference, please do not hesitate to contact Michael Naughton: email@example.com
The following institutions are sponsors to the 2000 symposium/Las siguientes instituciones son patrocinadores de este simposio del ano 2000:
-John A. Ryan Institute for Catholic Social Thought of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (US), College of Business Administration St. John's University (US), Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico), Institute for Work at Seton Hall University (US), International Association of Jesuit Business Schools (IAJBS), Uganda Martyrs University (Uganda), ILADES (Chile), Loyola Institute of Business Administration (India), Loyola College of Maryland (US), Financial Monitoring Centre (Switzerland), John F. Henning Institute and the School of Economics and Business Administration at Saint Mary's College of California (US), University of St. Thomas' Graduate School of Business (US). Advisory committee members are/Miembros de la comisión consultiva: Charles Clark and Michael Naughton (co-chairs), Ramiro Bernal Cuevas, Manuel Rodriguez, Xavier Enriquez (hosts), Gabriel Codina S.J., Patricio Crichigno, Robert Kennedy, Johan Verstraeten, Jeanne Buckeye, Dennis McCann, Peter John Opio, Helen Alford O.P., Lee Tavis, Ernest Pierucci, Paul Dembinski, Mary Maury, Jean-Loup Dherse, Edwin Epstein, Thomas Bausch, Bill Toth, Michael Stebbins, Sandra Gooding, Louis Xavier S.J.
Funding for the conference has been provided by/El financiamineto de la conferecia fue contribuido por:
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Obtaining a loan approval for a home mortgage can be a difficult process, but a business in Plymouth Meeting has been doing it since 1993.
Home Finance of America, known as "America's Low Rate Mortgage Lender" has been in the business for quite some time. The local business, housed on Plymouth Road in Plymouth Meeting, recently approved its 40,000th home mortgage loan.
According to a release on Seattle Pi, the company has seen a solid growth in a difficult market.
"While a significant number of similar mortgage lenders were unable to survive the subprime lending crises of 2008 Home Finance of America astonishingly was virtually unscathed by the crises," said the release. "Since its founding, the company and its principals have committed to responsible lending and conservative underwriting practices that not only insure financial stability and consistency for the organization but for the US housing market as a whole."
The report added that avoiding subprime loans also kept the company on top.
Fran Kelly, HFA vice president agreed.
"The subprime market was lucrative for many mortgage companies who did not have the borrower's best interest at heart," said Kelly in a recent release. "I'm proud to say that HFA never entered that arena and stayed true to its' original mission which is to provide qualified borrowers with the lowest possible interest rate and best loan program to suit their needs."
The founder of the company also felt that providing residents with much-needed affordable loans had kept HFA successful. HFA founder and CEO David Davitch said it is a crucial need to fulfill.
"Even in the most difficult economic times, people want to buy or refinance a home at the lowest rates. People used to look at the name of the mortgage lender, but a brand name is no longer enough" said Davitch on the HFA website. "People have learned that they can't always trust a name when they're making one of the most important investment decisions of their lives. When you compare apples to apples, you'll find that our rates will beat the big banks and other big name lenders almost every time. The names you thought were looking out for your best interest are not."
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MONTGOMERY — Benjamin E. Wagler, 92, died at 9:55 p.m. Friday at his residence. Born Jan. 7, 1921, in Daviess County, he was the son of Eli and Eliza (Schrock) Wagler. He was a farmer and a member of the Old Order Amish Church. He is survived by four sons, Levi and wife Marilyn Wagler, David and wife Pauline Wagler, Benjamin and wife Rosie Mae Wagler, all of Montgomery, and Enos and wife Miriam Wagler of Loogootee; seven daughters, Catherine and husband Edwin Wagler of Alymer, Ontario, Canada, Esther and husband David Wagler, Naomi and husband Wilmer Knepp, all of Montgomery, Wilma and husband John, Marie and husband Amos, all of Odon, Rebecca and husband Abraham Graber of Loogootee, and Ida and Omar Eicher of Powasson, Ontario, Canada; daughter-in-law, Anna Marie Wagler of Montgomery; sister-in-law, Verda Wagler; 76 grandchildren; 289 great-grandchildren; and 17 great-great-grandchildren. His wife, Mary R. (Graber) Wagler, whom he married June 8, 1941, died Sept. 2, 2006. He is also preceded in death by his parents; one son, Noah Wagler; a son-in-law, David Wagler; two brothers, Noah E. and Anson Wagler; four half brothers, Enos, Lewis, David and Eli Wagler; two half sisters, Lydia and Susanna; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. The funeral was at 9 a.m. Monday at the family residence. Burial was in Wagler Cemetery. Arrangements are being made through Brocksmith-Blake and Wagler Funeral Home in Montgomery.


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Could start by changing the name - Thunderbird is a bit stupid!
by B.R.
THUNDERBIRD School of Global Management in Arizona has announced Larry Penley as its new president. He is replacing Angel Cabrera, who has taken over as president of George Mason University in Virginia.
Mr Penley faces a difficult challenge. Thunderbird could once claim to be one of just a handful of truly international American business schools, in terms of its teaching, student body and job placements. It was a selling point that served it well, differentiating it from the rump of more insular mid-tier US schools. But as other schools cottoned on to the virtues of internationalism, it found its thunder stolen. In recent years Thunderbird's intake has fallen dramatically. In 2005, 370 students enrolled onto its full-time MBA programme; last year just 173 did. The school also dropped out of the Economist's ranking of the top 100 MBA programmes on the back of, among other things, disappointing job placement statistics. Last year, just 58% of students found employment within three months of graduation—the third lowest proportion of any the 116 schools surveyed. Students also gave a dismal rating to its careers services department.
Nonetheless, Thunderbird will be hoping that Mr Penley repeats his exploits as president of Colorado State University, where he was also faced with falling admissions and managed to turn the situation around. Before that he served as dean at nearby Arizona State University's business school, where his tenure was well regarded; he was credited with improving the school's ranking and raising its national profile. Mr Penley says his plan for Thunderbird is to focus students, employers and the quality of the learning experience. "Everything else," he says "will flow from this."
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Could start by changing the name - Thunderbird is a bit stupid!
Any news as yet? Any signs of improvement in placements?
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Hello Matt, My family and I rented this unit for our family vacation on June 25-28, 2014. The unit is absolutely gorgeous and very spacious. We were comfortably accomodated with a large family of 8 adults and 3 kids. Not having to bother with checking in or out or keeping up with any keys due to the keyless entry system was definitely a plus. Any small issues that we had upon checking into the unit were handled in a timely and professional manner. Your rental property is definitely at the top our list when we visit the area again. I would recommend your property to family and friends. Sincerely, Carmen R.
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The 2013 LPGA season is underway.
KOREAN Jiyai Shin conjured a miracle chip-in to end a spirited rally from world No.1 Yani Tseng when claiming the ISPS Handa (Handa) Women's Australian Open at Royal Canberra by two shots.
Shin (65-67-70-72) carded a one-under-par 72 highlighted by her masterful birdie on the 14th when it most mattered.
The world No.8 had twice been runner-up in previous Australian Opens but this was her day. She finished on 18-under.
Tseng, of Taiwan, closed with a seven-under 66 and moved to within a shot of the lead with three holes to play after starting the day eight strokes behind the runaway leading pair. A curling 9m eagle putt on the par five sixth hole jumped her from outsider to contender.
She tugged her approach on the 18th into the trees when pushing for a final birdie which never came.
Shin's expected duel with 15-year-old Kiwi prodigy Lydia Ko flickered, flamed and then fizzled on a rollercoaster day.
Amateur Ko (63-69-70-76) carded a disappointing three-over-par 76 to finish four shots behind the winner in third.
"I told Lydia she made me sad because she made me feel old," joked Shin of the banter between the pair before the final round.
Shin is just 24 herself and her 11th LPGA title is a mark that she feels Ko has in her one day in the future.
"Lydia will have many chances to win. For me to finally win in Australia makes me very happy," Shin bubbled. "I came here the first time when I was 14 or 15 to play. I really fall in love with Australia and this is my 10 visit or more.
*****Her(Shin) lob wedge from the thick grass beside the 12th green was the turning point. She chose to play the ball as it lay rather than consider a drop from a wooden sign because she wanted to preserve the ball sitting up in the grass. It dropped unerringly into the hole.
Ko's day began poorly when she took two shots to get out of the trees on the opening hole when she tugged her drive into the woods for a double bogey seven. Shin's birdie on the hole gave her an immediate three-shot buffer.
Ko pulled back birdies on the fourth and fifth. A crazy swing of fortunes on the 12th put Ko and Shin back in the lead together.
The Kiwi holed a nerveless 6m putt for birdie while Shin missed from 4m for bogey.
An untidy run home of two bogeys in her closing six holes stymied the young amateur's hopes of a charge.
"Third is a professional tournament is a pretty good result but I can't say I'm fully pleased. I think it was just a couple of drives and a few putts that were off today,' Ko said.
"But overall, I had my career low (10-under 63) here last Thursday so it's been a pretty good week.- Herald Sun
Shin was my pick to be #1 this year, so her win is hardly surprising. Today's win her 11th LPGA triumph overall, is more than any by a South Korean golfer except Se Ri Pak.
Yani Tseng's strong finish may be an indication she is out of the funk she was in for much of 2012. If so, Shin won't have an easy time getting to #1.
Lydia Ko will contend for another LPGA title this year if not win one. I don't think she is playing the tour again till the Kraft Nabisco in April.


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Hot 20 2010: Jane Kim, President, SF Board of Education and Candidate for District 6 Supervisor
If Jane Kim looks familiar, it could be that you recognize her as the SF Board of Education president, not to mention the leading candidate in the race for District 6 supervisor (a post held by controversial legislator Chris Daly since 2000). Or you might know her as the electric-bass player in a female indie-rock band called Strangely, which performs at venues such as Brainwash. "After politics, my second love is definitely music," says the Stanford grad.
Kim's approachability stems from growing up in a Korean-immigrant family in NYC's subsidized housing program. "I've always been conscientious of the different levels of opportunity in a city," says Kim, whose grassroots campaigning—door-knocking, pavement-pounding, and hand-shaking—preaches more affordable housing, local-business development, and efficient neighborhood services such as street clean-up and safety patrols.
During her six-year stint as a youth organizer for the Chinatown Community Development Center, Kim helped Asian-immigrant students organize graffiti clean-ups and healthier school lunches. In her role as president of the Board of Education, she's established a peer-mediation curriculum in schools. "I love empowering young people to become change-makers," says Kim. "I've never met a youth who didn't want to make a positive change."
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You don't get Twitter?
If you style yourself a social commentator and you start a phrase with "I don't get Twitter," and you follow it up with "people posting what they ate for lunch" … stop right there. You're right: you don't.
If you go on, and profess something about "vapidity" or "mono-dimensionality"… then I understand that you don't get it, and you are wasting my time.
You don't get it, in the same way I don't get string theory. But I don't opine on string theory.
I once heard an author malign the net from his podium at a reading. His gist: you can find so much drivel on the net, no one should spend time there. I wished I had asked him: the white pages contained no beautiful prose, should we forgo works like yours?
In 1985 I wrote an article about how someday, the net would make us all publishers and all editors. In my wildest fancy, I didn't image how broad and how deep. I had no idea the beauty I'd get to see, and to share, on 500px.com. Or that I'd get to watch TED from my living room. Or that goodreads.com would crush the New York Times Book Review.
I certainly didn't imagine that daily, for me, 552 people would curate humor, and pathos, and scholarly works, and news. And pictures of lunch.
I'm glad I was right. It was one of the few things I've nailed in my own attempts at punditry.
And for what it's worth, I don't get Pinterest.
I'll be quiet now.
Saw a Bald Eagle!
Saw a bald eagle while flying yesterday…first time I've seen one while soaring.
He did not want to play, so I reluctantly let him go on his way.
No picture. (Drats! He was striking!!)
How I mark Spring
My spring starts based on the clouds, not the sun's crossing of the equator. Warmer temperatures, combined with still-moist air, means cumulus at nice altitudes.
Friday was it. Day one of the 2013 season. Everyone has been jonesing since fall; conditions like this means appointments are rescheduled, gliders are freshly-waxed, and there is a waiting line for the towplane.
Tail Dollies from all the gliders aloft
Conditions were wonderful. We spent most of the time between 7,000 and 9,000 feet, and made it about 160 nautical miles round trip.
Cloud surfing, aerobatics, all the good stuff.
Highlight of the flight: we happened on 4 golden eagles at about 7,000 feet. They were playing the same game…darting around the clouds, climbing, diving, twisting, and rolling.
One of them was 800 feet above. When she saw us, she folded her wings and bombed for us. Breathtaking! Beak pointed nearly straight down, she fell like an aerodynamic rock, then extended her wings, flared, and streaked 15 feet off my left wing. I swung hard round, and we chased each other for a while. She is more maneuverable, but I'm faster. A fun matchup.
One of my new soaring friends
The eagles are masters of this space…they have no enemies here, and no fear. On this first day of spring, they had no purpose except stretching their wings and making the sky their playground. In that last point, a lot like me.
the immense, contained violence of kerosine ignited in crucible
6 miles away,
that where I stand, I see evidence, diffusing,
of the unrisen sun.
6 miles away,
that someone weary, or anxious, or anticipating,
is on the way
somewhere new, somewhere else,
somewhere new.
Happy Birthday, Billy Collins
The Eagle has Departed
News of Neil Armstrong's passing stopped me. Couldn't help but. For my entire life, Armstrong represented the ultimate hero: someone who was quietly-dedicated to a cause of immense importance to all of humankind.
As we celebrate the individual who took one giant leap for mankind, I'm also in reverie for the tens of thousands of women and men who worked on—and dedicated their own lives to—the space program of that era. Many of them are already gone, but Armstrong's passing should let us honor of their dedication too. Their accomplishment staggers my mind, always will.
I was five years old when Armstrong took one small step for a man. I was watching it with my sister and my parents on the television, downstairs in the den of our home. Even being a wee one, mom and dad were able to make me comprehend this: we were watching something that would be in our consciousness forever. The slowness and deliberateness of the long sequence of events that lead to those steps—narrated by Walter Cronkite—still rings in my ears.
I sometimes wish I had been born a generation earlier, and been an engineer or test pilot working in aviation or space travel in those several incredible decades where the very definition of pushing the envelope happened.
God Speed.
Mr. Good, meet your enemy. His name is Mr. Great.
I have an adult-style problem. I am afraid to be seen (or heard) making mistakes.
I wasn't always like this.
When I was a kid, I could hit sour notes on the piano over, and over, and over. And over. Much dismay, I'm sure, for those listening. But much satisfaction when-at long last-the sweet note was struck.
My last blog post wasn't done. It was a bit difficult for me to hit publish.
I closed my eyes and imagined I was four. Click.
When you are a kid, you have a license to make mistakes. Mistakes are ok. When you are a rank-beginner, you have that license. Somewhere along the line, we take that license away from ourselves.
That I grew up to write software for a living…no surprise. Software is maleable. If you make a mistake, the delete key is almost as close as the enter key. The newer lesson in my life is the same is true of things in the real world. A wall falls to a sledgehammer and a new wall can be constructed.
Word to myself: I would rather see your starting point than see nothing at all, and I will not judge you the less for it.
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Belief, on Memorial Day
This weekend, Memorial Day, I have spent a lot of time in contemplation.
I have looked at haunting images of war dead. I wanted to witness a shadow of the pain of those who have died, and the grief of those who knew them and cared about them. My life and my liberty is in debt.
Beyond keeping their memory, I have thought about what role I can play, that their loss continues to have purpose. Democracy may, or may not, be fragile. In the scheme of human history, it is thus far a short experiment. Fragile or not, it is precious. I believe it should be treated with care.
So this day of remembrance,
I promise to use my imagination to catalyze, as best I can, an interest in civics and history in my daughter. And with any young person that is willing to talk.
I will take my daughter with me to the voting booth.
I will treat that sacred act as an adventure. Easy to do, because it is an adventure.
I am just one voice. But together, we are 311,591,917 voices. Every one matters.
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As far s I am concerned, we won all games.
Game 1 was a learning curve and we sure learned. We bounced back strongly in games 2 and 3. We showed our inexperience in game 4 and for 3 quarters of game 5, it almost looked like our inexperience will haunt us again. Then came Darren Collison. The same point guard who took one for the team before the regular season ended when he accepted the bench role with grace. He set the pace well in the 4th quarter and made sure the exhausted Magic team kept running until they ran out of gas. In the process, we became the 1st team in the east to advance to the 2nd round. When was the last time you heard that said about our Pacers?
Next up, all signs point to Miami. They have yet to clinch but NY may have already gotten their token win of the series. As much as I want to see an Indy-NYK series, it seems like we're getting Miami but despite what many think that we are just going to get beat black and blue by the Heat, I think we have a legitimate chance of beating this arrogant squad not once, not twice, not thrice but 4 times in a 7 game series. I am expecting a long series based on how we played them in the regualr season. We got a beating in the 1st 2 games but bounced back big in the 3rd meeting almost beating them if not for that last shot by Wade. Then we had a 15 point victory in our last meeting. We looked intimidated in our 1st 2 meetings but gained confidence in our next 2 games. We know, as well as the whole world knows even though they might not admit it, that we can beat this team. We have the personnel and the depth to sustain a long series.
Hopefully, the team does not get that "mission accomplished" feeling just by advancing. On the contrary, this is just the beginning.
Go Pacers!


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Bella Thorne Gets Inspiration From Vanessa Hudgens In The Recording Studio
Bella Thorne is working to wrap up her debut album! The CD will release from Hollywood Records later this year, and Bella is really excited for her fans to hear all of her new tunes!
On February 17, 2014 Bella had a vocal class and then hit the studio. She shared the photos below from the studio along with posting:
We are really trying to be serious in the studio. @grouplove @captaincuts
In the pictures Bella shared you can see Vanessa Hudgens' "V" album hanging on the wall. Vanessa released the CD through Hollywood Records back in 2006. Looks like Bella is getting a bit of inspiration from her fellow former Disney star!
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NYT's Paul Krugman Bashes Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget, but Lays Off the 'Flim-Flam Sauce'
Respectable economist turned partisan New York Times columnist Paul Krugman weighed in at his nytimes.com blog Tuesday morning on the ambitious budget proposal for Fiscal Year '12, released by the chairman of the House Budget Committee, the formerly flim-flam-sauce-drenched Rep. Paul Ryan.
In his post, headlined "The Threat Within," Krugman at least held off the childish insults this time, perhaps because it backfired in his face back in August 2010, when the source he used in his column to "prove" Ryan was a flim-flammer acting in bad faith actually wrote a defense of him in response.
Krugman feared Obama would not sufficiently demagogue the issue like brave Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi did when Bush tried to save Social Security through a partial privatization in 2005.
In 2005, the de facto Democratic leader was Nancy Pelosi. And she never bought into either the crisis-mongering or the Beltway desire to prove oneself "serious" by courageously agreeing to hurt ordinary Americans to make the nation safe for high-end tax cuts. She maintained a steely resolve: this privatization shall not pass.
Pelosi is still there. But Barack Obama is now the party's leader. And let's be frank: Obama still, after all that has happened, seems devoted to the dream of transcending partisanship, a dream he tries to serve by being nice to Republican ideas no matter how terrible those ideas are. (I did warn about this during the primaries -- just saying.)
- Clay Waters's blog
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Barack Hussein Obama has run into a buzzsaw
Submitted by wedapeople on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 2:59pm.
Paul Ryan is gonna school Mssr President in economics and in doing so politics !
you had you're shot El Presidente..... You punted.
Pizza anyone !
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Submitted by Wildcatter1980 on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 3:50pm.
If you want to know what liberal secular progressives are really doing, just listen to what they are accusing others of.
Recommended reading: Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg
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How they Howl !!!
Submitted by ripper58 on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 3:43pm.
and Obambi hasn't submitted a budget since ....when was the last time they submitted one ? oh yeah 2008 was it?
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On a different note:
Submitted by retrocon on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 5:00pm.
Respectable Economist?
So, is Obama a "respectable president" because he won a Nobel Peace prize? Won it without actually doing anything? And ultimately doing everything opposite of all the things they were sure he was going to do to earn it? And if he had done all the thing that they wanted him to do to earn it, the US would really be screwed? Do we really associate these foreign socialist awards ceremonies with "respectable" anymore?
Oops, sorry, ranting.
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"Won it without actually doing anything?"
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:14pm.
Perhaps the pathetic Nobel Peace Prize Committee suck-ups were anxious to award Obama the prize for his campaign promises, before reality spoiled their liquored-up stupor.
By now the Nobel Peace Prize is seriously besmirched. Sure, the Peace Prize Committee has themselves to blame. It takes people of great character to contribute to Peace; "great" people of negligible character contribute in proportion to their character. The nebbishes that make up the Peace Prize Committee apparently do not understand this. It's a shame.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
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Obama is so nice…
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 10:54pm.
Wow! Obama tries to be "nice to Republican ideas"? Who knew?
I guess for Paul Krugman, Obama's categorically ignoring the Republicans instead of siccing ACORN and SEIU thugs on them is being nice.
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So, needle, it would appear
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:06pm.
OBAMA INVITES KEY CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TO TALK BUDGET [link]
is your idea of "categorically ignoring the Republicans..."
That's an interesting concept.
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The White House did dismiss
Submitted by bkeyser on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:19pm.
The White House did dismiss another CR out of hand... So while the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the Speaker of the House were invited to the little get-together, I wouldn't categorize it as an olive branch either.
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It's difficult to compromise when the Repubs won't
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:03am.
take yes for an answer. Boehner had strongly hinted that 73 billion in cuts would clinch the deal. The White House acquiesced but Boehner under pressure from the Tea Party has now upped the ante.
That's the GOP version of give-and-take negotiations. Pretend to give up the olive branch and then take it and beat the hell out of the other guy.
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After the 111th Congress...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:10am.
It's about time they took some of what they dished out!
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Obama got around to this so
Submitted by needle on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:21pm.
Obama got around to this so ridiculously late it hardly counts. And considering the outcome of the meeting, one can imagine "I won" pretty much dismissed them.
Obama has been ignoring Republican as much as possible even since the inauguration.
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Why do I get the feeling that anything short of inviting
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 11:28pm.
every single GOP member of Congress to the White House and handing over the keys to the Oval Office would be regarded as simply further evidence of Obama ignoring Republicans.
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You get that feeling...
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 12:13am.
Because your reasoning is flawed, just like every other Liberal.
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The current Oval Office occupant's dislike for ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 1:36am.
dealing with Republicans, "because he 'won', don't you know, has been thoroughly documented.
It has also been conveniently ignored, vehemently denied, or disdainfully pooh-poohed, depending on the situation.
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Krugman is a clueless poser.
Submitted by amyshulk on Wed, 04/06/2011 - 2:02am.
Krugman is a clueless poser. Thomas Sowell breaks it down in Intellectuals and Society.
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Spike TV's broadcast of UFC 119's prelim fights garnered 1.3 million fight fans according to Sherdog, a number slightly up from UFC 118's prelims telecast in which 1.1 million viewers tuned in.
The show of course featured fights between Matt Mitrione and Joey Beltran plus C.B. Dollaway and Joe Doerksen. Viewers tuning in were also treated with the exciting first round submission victories for Sean McCorkle over Mark Hunt as well as Thiago Tavares against Pat Audinwood.
Mitrione and Beltran were awarded for their stand up slugfest in which Matt took home the unanimous decision with "Fight of the Night" honors along with Sean Sherk and Evan Dunham. Dollaway meanwhile won "Submission of the Night" as he locked in a guillotine choke against Doerksen in the first frame.
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Inside Katy Perry's Makeup Bag: Dry Shampoo, Nail Stickers & More
Remove Added to your timeline: 9/16/2013 10:33 AM ET | Filed under: Katy Perry Elle Diets Health Sex Or, as Katy Perry and probably countless others would call it: a load. LOLz! We aren't joking, and this is the best thing we could've wanted to start out our week! Katy Perry opened up to Elle Canada and jumped right in to one of the ways she stays healthy, and what it tastes like: "[My preferred brand of Vitamin C tastes like] a load and is disgusting I cant believe I just said that! Strike the load part! Well, it looks like they didn't strike it! Ha! That's amazeballz why not describe it like that if that's exactly what it tastes like?? Being truthful is just fine, as is being open about sex and sexuality! We see no prob here! It's hilarious , of course! We're sure there's a vitamin c supplement out there that DOESN'T taste like an underpants navy we say look around, unless it tasting like throat yogurt is a vital part of the ritual! [Image via Elle, Inset via WENN .]
The best friends and singers haven't been shy about expressing their friendship, hugging, giggling and fondling each other during award shows and on the red carpet. So it's no surprise that Perry, 28, spoke candidly to Elle Canada about her relationship with Rihanna, calling out the 25-year-old on anything from drugs to her Instagram behavior. "I think Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, 'How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke!'" she told the publication . "And you don't sleep because you're on Instagram at four o'clock in the morning." This isn't the first time Perry has spoken about her friendship with the "Diamonds" singer, of course. In July, Perry alluded to reports of a temporary falling-out with Rihanna for reconciling with ex-boyfriend Chris Brown. "I love her and everytime I see her, I'm reminded of the light she has," Perry told Elle U.K . She later added: "I know a lot of people out there with the most detrimental entourages — they are the root of their demise. It's really unfortunate but you can't save these people. My days of celebrity saving are over." Also on HuffPost: Loading Slideshow NEW YORK – JULY 28: Singers Katy Perry and Rihanna, with Sugar Factory Couture Lollipop, attend a post concert party at The Griffin on July 28, 2009 in New York City. BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 07: Singers Katy Perry and Rihanna attend the 2009 GRAMMY Salute To Industry Icons honoring Clive Davis at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 7, 2009 in Beverly Hills, California. PARIS – OCTOBER 03: (L-R) Rihanna, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Katy Perry pose backstage during the Jean-Paul Gaultier Pret a Porter show during Paris Womenswear Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 on October 3, 2009 in Paris, France. PARIS, FRANCE – OCTOBER 04: Katy Perry (L) and Rihanna attend the Karl Lagerfeld Pret a Porter show as part of the Paris Womenswear Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2010 on October 4 at Jardin des Tuileries on October 4, 2009 in Paris, France.
Katy Perry Calls Out Rihanna: 'We All Know How Much Pot You Smoke!'
Elle Canada Katy Perry looks so fierce on the cover of Elle Canada that we can almost hear her roar! Clad in a head-turning houndstooth ensemble, the sassy singer flaunts her envy-inducing good looks in the October issue. And thankfully for us, Perry opened up to the magazine about a few of her tips and tricks that keep her looking picture perfect. Despite her fabulously fit form, the star admits she struggles finding time to schedule in her daily workout. But lately, she's been a bit more concerned with working her mind rather than her body. "I make sure to give myself a break. I had to find that balance," she said in an interview with the magazine. "But I learned this thing called Transcendental Meditation, which I do as much as I possibly can. It's 20 minutes and you're supposed to do it twice a day, but I only do it once every other daybut anyway, it works. People say you should work out 30 minutes a daynone of us works out 30 minutes a day!" NEWS:Kelly Rowland flaunts amazing bikini body in Shapemagazine As for her flawless raven-haired locks, it turns out she has a trusty product she relies on for making her trips to the salon last for days and days. "Dry shampoo by Oribe is amazing," she revealed when asked about what she keeps in her makeup bag. "It's great for those of us who want to keep a blowout forever." But when it comes to nails, Perry, who has been known to rock everything from leopard print to President Obama's face on her fingernails, admits that traditional trips to the salon don't cut it for her. "I don't get regular manicures anymore," she said. "I love Dashing Diva nail stickers." As for her other beauty must-have beauty products, the 28-year-old keeps things pretty basic, making sure to carry a "lip balm that has some tint and that brings out the color you have" and Hempz lotion. Not exactly what we were expecting from the gal who is known for dying her hair in over-the-top colors, and who recently sported a grill at the MTV Video Music Awards! But then again, Perry's embracing a more mature persona in her late twenties.
Katy Perry Discusses Rihanna's Pot Smoking, Legit Or Poor Form?
Other people, however, choose to keep their personal lives decidedly personal. Depending on the individual situations, theres not inherently any right or wrong way to go about it, but typically, how to handle it is a decision everyone gets to make on their own. Thats why its genuinely frowned upon to openly discuss how drunk or high your friends may have gotten, but apparently, no one gave that memo to Katy Perry. This week, Perry sat down for an interview with Canadian Elle in which she talked music, love, touring, Vitamin C, tea, hiking and her buddy Rihanna. Its the latest topic that attracted the most attention, specifically because of what it seemed to reveal. Heres the exact quote I think that Rihanna always looks so fresh and Im like, How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke! And you dont sleep because youre on Instagram at four oclock in the morning. On the one hand, its pretty clear that comment was actually meant as a compliment. She was trying to explain to the interviewer how beautiful Rihanna is, and beyond that, its not exactly a secret that the pop star is down with the occasional smoke. Shes tweeted pictures of weed before. On the other hand, however, Rihanna is now going to have to answer questions about this. She didnt speak to the media yesterday or do anything wrong, and yet, now her face is plastered all over GNews in reference to smoking pot. Thats not exactly fair, and Perry put her in that position. What do you think?


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Attention In Reading
( Originally Published 1907 )
A DISTINGUISHED lawyer of an Eastern city relates that while engaged in an argument upon which vast issues depended he suddenly realized that he had forgotten to guard a most important point. In that hour of excitement his faculties became greatly stimulated. Decisions, authorities and precedents long since forgotten began to return to his mind. Dimly outlined at first, they slowly grew plain, until at length he read them with perfect distinctness. Mr. Beecher had a similar experience when he fronted the mob in Liverpool. He said that all events, arguments and appeals that he had ever heard or read or written passed before his mind as oratorical weapons, and standing there he had but to reach forth his hand and seize the weapons as they went smoking by." Newell Dwight Hillis.
Concentrated attention the price of understanding; Exhaustive understanding the only true reading; Review and discussion the storing methods of memory;
These exercises, deliberately and persistently followed, sure developers of the scholar's Will.
There is at once too much reading and too little. The great modern dailies are harming the minds of metropolitan peoples. Multitudes read from sheer mental laziness. Journalism must therefore be sensational in an evil manner. Even magazine literature scours worlds for fresh chaff illustrated by "lightning artists." These influences, and the infinite flood of matter, make genuine reading among many impossible. For reading, in its real sense, is a deliberate process by which written thought is transferred to the mind, and there stored and assimilated. All this involves power of Will. But power of Will is a rare possession in these days of multitudinous distractions. Hence it is that true reading is almost a lost art. How shall this lost art be regained? By development of that reason-forged but magic gift, Attention.
" Read not to contradict nor to believe, but to weigh and consider," said the wise and " woodeny " Bacon. " To weigh and consider "—that is the open sesame of right reading. In order to acquire these abilities the following directions will serve :
Exercise No. I. Procure any well-written book on any subject worth knowing. Read the title with great care. State in your own language exactly what you suppose the title to mean. Look up the definitions of all words. Examples : " History of the United States." What is history? What is a written history? What is the difference between the two kinds of " history"? What is the main idea in "United States "? How did this name originate?
Now read the author's name. Before proceeding further, memorize an outline of his life. Ascertain his place in letters. What value are you to put upon his work.
This done, read with some care the table of contents. You ought now to have the general drift of the book, together with its purpose. If these do not appear, take another book and repeat the above exercises. Continue this exercise during life.
Exercise No. 2. Presuming that, with such examination, you wish to go on, read the preface very care-fully. Having finished it, ask yourself what the author has here said. Make sure that you know. Then ask, Why has he said this in the preface? Did he need a preface? Does this preface really pre-face, so far as you can now judge? Make this a permanent régime in reading.
Exercise No. 3. If the book has an introduction, read that with the greatest attention. An author is sometimes misunderstood in many pages because his introduction has not been read. At the end of its reading, outline from memory what it has brought be-fore you. Now ask, again, Why should he have writ-ten that introduction, or what he has written here as an introduction? Very likely, you are at this time as ready to lay the book aside as you may become later. Make this exercise a permanent part of serious reading.
Exercise No. ˘. To make sure about this, read attentively the first twenty-five pages of the book. In these pages do you see anything new, anything interesting, anything of value to you? If nothing new, interesting or valuable gets to the fore in twenty-five pages, you are probably ready to sell that book at a large discount. The rule, however, is not infallible.
Reading is frequently like gold-mining the richest veins are not always readily discovered. Some of George Eliot's works require a yoke of oxen, so to speak, to drag the mind into them ; but once in, it can-not escape her spell. Many books which are perennially acknowledged cannot be rigidly subjected to these tests. Something, too, depends upon the reader's mind. If the mind "adores" "awfully sweet" dresses and "perfectly elegant" parties, its judgments may be taken with a "lot" of "just the tiniest" allowance. These directions are not dealing with the "punk" order of intellect, nor the "green corn" era of criticism. They have in view the ordinary run of minds and the above-average grade of books. If twenty-five pages of a book do not get hold of a good mind, the author has done phenomenally fine work, or else he isn't worth reading. Make this exercise permanent.
Exercise No. 5. Supposing, now, that you resolve to go on with the volume in hand, it will be necessary, for our present purpose, to return to the first sentence. Read that sentence with exceeding care. What is its subject? — its predicate?— its object? What is the meaning of each word? If an abstract-thought, put this thought into your own language. Think it, resolutely and carefully and clearly. If it is an object-thought, stop now, and, closing the eyes, call up a mental picture of the object. If the word expresses action, ask what kind of action. Think the act so as to get a mental picture of it, if possible. If the sentence is involved, take as much of it as expresses a complete thought exhausted by ideas of "being," or "condition," or "action." Treat this as your first sentence according to the above directions. Then proceed with the next complete thought of the sentence, and so on until you have in this manner read the sentence as a whole. Then read the sentence again, put the thoughts together, and get into the mind a complete view of the entire statement. Always translate the author's thoughts into your own language. Do not memorize, but THINK.
Proceed in this way through the first paragraph. Then state in your own manner the connected chain of thought thus far presented.
The next day, write, without reading again, the sub-stance of this first paragraph.
Continue such attentive and analytic reading until you have mastered the first chapter. Now put aside all writings hitherto made, and from memory write a connected statement of the substance of that chapter.
Proceed with the succeeding sentences, paragraphs and chapters. If these directions are pursued, few books will require a second reading. And one good book well read is better than a dozen read as books ordinarily are read.
Resolve permanently upon this kind of reading.
Such exercises will prove of immense value, because they are based on certain laws of mind. The eye ac-quires great facility in reading, and the reader is apt to content himself with whole but vague pictures of groups of ideas presented. In order that the thought contained in the printed page may be really obtained, it is necessary to break up these wholes and to put their parts into clear light. This requires attention to de-tails, which in turn demands a distinct understanding of the meaning of words. We may catch the general thought of a sentence without knowing clearly what some of its words mean, and thus really miss, perhaps, the best part of our reading.
" Suppose I look out of my window," says Hill in " Elements of Psychology," " and see a black horse running swiftly. The whole picture, as presented by the sense of vision, constitutes one single image. It remains one and single until I have occasion to de-scribe it in words. The moment I attempt to do so, an analytic process or process of resolution into parts is necessary. I must name the animal ` horse,' his color 'black,' his act 'running,' his speed ' swiftly,' and I must indicate whether it is a definite or an indefinite black horse that runs, and so must use an article, 'a' or 'the.' Putting all together, I say 'A black horse is running swiftly,' a sentence in which my one visual image is broken up by five distinctions, each expressed in a separate word. There is truth in the proverb, ` No one knows a thing until he can tell it.' "
The object of putting thought into one's own words is also seen in the fact that the mere study of words, as the above writer indicates, is of little value. Hence in real reading it is always necessary to secure mental images, or mental conceptions clear-cut and pronounced, of "being," " condition" or " action" involved in each statement read.
Exercise No. 6. While reading any book worth the while, mark striking or useful passages, and, as you proceed, make an index on the rear fly leaf. No mat-ter if the book has a printed index; your own will prove better for your purpose.
Exercise No. 7. Analyze chapters, about as you go on, and mark and number or letter the points made.
At the close of reading the chapter, review these points and fix in memory. This will facilitate Exercise No. 5.
Exercise No. 8. While some friend reads aloud, practise mental noting of the points made by the author, retaining them for a given number of pages. Then state them consecutively while the reader reviews to correct your errors. Continue this exercise indefinitely.
Exercise No. 9. Repeat the above exercise with conversations with the reader, making sure that both thoroughly understand the matter in hand. On the following day, review this work together from memory. Then continue as before. Practise these exercises in-definitely.
Exercise No. 10. If an author's name is not a sufficient guaranty for his statements, or if his book is written from an evident point of view or with a possible bias, and he is clearly bent on " making his case," bring to the reading of his work the interrogative attitude of mind. Do not accept him carelessly. Compel him to " make his case " fairly. Verify his alleged facts. See that his references are correct and rightly interpreted. Detect flaws in his arguments. Read him from his point of view as modified by your own. Make sure that your point of view is good. Therefore, be open to his convictions. Nevertheless, antagonize him in a fair field. Be not hasty to contradict, nor to surrender. Tomorrow what you deny may be truth, what you accept may be false. Read resolutely to gather what he can contribute to your stock of facts, of realities, of sound reasoning, of sentiment, of life, of power,
In connection with the foregoing instructions on attention in reading, certain parts of Bacon's essay " On Studies " will be of interest :
" Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and the marshalling of affairs, come best from those who are learned. . . . Crafty men condemn studies ; simple men admire them ; and wise men use them. . . . Read not to contradict and confuse; nor to believe and take for granted ; nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Histories make men wise; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
"Reading maketh a full man ; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not."
Beware what Ben Jonson called a "humor " :
"A Humour is the bias of the mind,
By which, with violence, 'tis one way inclined; It makes our action lean on one side still; And, in all changes, that way bends the Will."
The work here suggested will be tedious at first, and it demands time and patience. As it proceeds, how-ever, it will become more and more easy and delightful. Its justification is the double purpose in hand in all these pages : right reading and power of persistent Will. A resolute sense of willing must therefore be preserved from first to last. Learn to read in the Mood of the emphatic personality. Your Will shall then dissolve books, and mastered books shall culture the finest Will.


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270.61 Nvidia drivers for 320m?
Apr 21, 2011, 03:44 PM
I have tried searching with no luck. Has anyone been able to get these working on the Air in bootcamp??
Apr 21, 2011, 11:59 PM
Go to laptopvideo2go
Download the latest driver from that website and get the modded INF file along with it.
Extract the drivers and replace the original INF file (it's in the Driver folder) with the modded version.
Right click Computer, select Manage, choose Display Adapters, right click NVIDIA GeForce 320M, select Uninstall, reboot.
Screen resolution should be very low at this time. Open Setup in the extracted folder with the drivers.
Install, reboot, you're golden.
One question for you: Are you able to close the lid and have the screen automatically turn off (not sleep, not hibernate, not shut down, just turn screen off)? I updated from the stock Boot Camp drivers to 270.61 and the screen still stays on when I close the lid.
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In the first games of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament, the Drake Bulldogs and the Indiana St. Sycamores beat up on the lower-seeded Bradley Braves and Southern Illinois Salukis, respectively, and advanced to the second round to take on two of the top seeds in one of the deepest conferences in the country. The Bulldogs, the No. 7 seed, will play the Creighton Blue Jays, and the Sycamores will play the top seed, the Wichita St. Shockers.
Friday's slate of games include all eight of the remaining participants -- the other two games are the No. 4-seed Illinois St. Redbirds against the No. 5-seed Northern Iowa Panthers and the No. 3-seed Evansville Aces against the No. 6-seed Missouri St Bears.
The Shockers and the Sycamores kick off the games at 1:05 p.m. ET, followed directly by the 4-5 matchup. The Blue Jays and Bulldogs play in the evening at 7:05 p.m. before the final game of the night between Evansville and Missouri State.
For more on NCAA Hoops, check out the SB Nation NCAA hub at sbnation.com/NCAA-Basketball.


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An obsessed doctor trying to cure human deformities through DNA splicing at an asylum, ends up creating a deformed creature that defies nature. 25 years later, when their van breaks down, a group of young teens seek shelter at the abandoned asylum. But little do they know that an evil awaits them inside.
Rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for violence.


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Global jihad terrorists in Sinai receive financial and logistical support from
other Salafi terror cells in Afghanistan and Iraq, a senior Israeli official
revealed on Wednesday.
The groups are usually not connected to Iran,
which is working to establish its own terrorist infrastructure in Sinai via
Hezbollah, according to the official.
A large proportion of the weaponry
used in the recent spate of attacks against Israel originated in Libya, where
arms depots were raided and cleared out following the revolution there last
Israel is particularly concerned about sophisticated shoulder-to-air
missiles that can threaten Israeli aircraft flying near the border. Another
concern is the possibility that sea mines the Libyan military previously
deployed will find their way to Sinai and the Gaza Strip.
"There is no
shortage of weapons and explosives in Sinai," the official said.
official said that the cross-border attack from Sinai on Sunday – during which
armed Beduin from Sinai killed 16 Egyptian soldiers, stole an armored vehicle
and infiltrated Israel – was motivated by the groups' interest in establishing
themselves as a new player in the region. The assessment within the Israeli
intelligence community is that the attacks will continue and might increase in
The IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) cannot yet
identify a group that is responsible for the attacks, although Egyptian media
reported on Wednesday that the Army of Islam, a Gaza-based group affiliated with
al-Qaida, was involved. According to Israel, the perpetrators are global jihad
operatives, brought together by a common cause – to attack Israel and Egypt –
and financial incentives for their families.
"These are attacks that are
aimed at establishing the groups' reputation and position within Sinai," the
official said, adding that the operatives were not subordinate to the Beduin
sheikhs who traditionally were in charge of everything that happens in the
The focus for Israel now is on increasing its
intelligence-gathering capabilities in Sinai. The government is expected to
decide in the coming weeks which intelligence agency – Military Intelligence or
the Shin Bet – will be placed in charge of covering Sinai. Such a decision will
draw an immediate budget increase for the chosen agency.


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£47m flood scheme details announced
The Welsh Government have announced details of where £47m will be spent on flood defences in 2013 and 2014.
The Environment Minister said the figure would include £4 million from the Wales Infrastructure Plan and over £6m from the European Regional Development Fund.
The announcement was made at a flood summit which was called to bring all key agencies together to consider how Wales can best respond to the threat posed by flooding. The Welsh Government says it will invest over £150m in flood and coastal erosion risk management during the life of this Assembly.
- Swansea Vale which would receive £6.7 million to protect 290 businesses and homes
- Ystradgynlais which would receive £2.5 million to protect 244 homes and businesses
- Fairbourne which would receive £5.8 million to protect 420 homes and businesses
- Pontarddulais which would receive £3 million to protect 246 homes and businesses
- Coldbrook which would receive £1 million to protect 104 properties
- Corwen would receive £2.1 million to protect around 100 homes
– John Griffiths AM, Environment Minister
It is so important that we effectively target our funding for flood defence. That is why my national strategy includes a commitment to developing a national funding policy as well as a method for prioritising investment. A group has been set up to progress this work and once completed the National Programme of Investment will enable areas of Wales to be ranked according to risk from all sources of flooding and coastal erosion.


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It's a priority list that state engineers ask for every year as part of a funding process. It helps local governments across the state to upgrade railroad crossings.
"If they qualify, they would get either flashing lights or gates depending on what they deemed appropriate," said Calcasieu Parish Traffic Engineer Cliff Brouhard.
Brouhard said the flashing lights and gates seen at many railroad crossings are not required by the federal government. And the nearly 30 crossings submitted to the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development do not have those warnings.
"Most of them are in the more industrial areas, they're on dead end roads or they don't have a lot of train traffic. So, and we have, fortunately, we have very few accidents in the parish with trains," Brouhard said.
Up to 28 trains travel on lines throughout the parish everyday. Of course, that's not as much traffic compared to other systems in the state, but Brouhard said he hopes DOTD sees some of Calcasieu's crossings as a priority.
"I'd love to seem them all have gates. Well, except for the ones that haven't had any train traffic on them for years and that would be kind of a waste of money, but I think any additional precaution would be good," Brouhard said.
Signal devices like that would cost between $200,000 to $250,000. This money would be federal grant money through the Highway Safety Funding Program.
These warnings will help make those on the road and the rails safer.
The request for upgrades will go to DOTD.
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Li Xiao, Zhenyun Zhuang, Yunhao Liu, "Dynamic Layer Management in Superpeer Architectures," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1078-1091, November, 2005.
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author = {Li Xiao and Zhenyun Zhuang and Yunhao Liu},
title = {Dynamic Layer Management in Superpeer Architectures},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems},
volume = {16},
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issn = {1045-9219},
year = {2005},
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Abstract—Superpeer unstructured P2P systems have been found to be very effective by dividing the peers into two layers, superlayer and leaf-layer, in which message flooding is only conducted among superlayer and all leaf-peers are represented by corresponding superpeers. However, current superpeer systems do not employ any effective layer management schemes, so the transient and low-capacity peers are allowed to act as superpeers. Moreover, the lack of an appropriate size ratio maintenance mechanism on superlayer to leaf-layer makes the system's search performance far from being optimal. We present one workload model aimed at reducing the weighted overhead of a network. Using our proposed workload model, a network can determine an optimal layer size ratio between leaf-layer and superlayer. We then propose a Dynamic Layer Management algorithm, DLM, which can maintain an optimal layer size ratio and adaptively elect and adjust peers between superlayer and leaf-layer. DLM is completely distributed in the sense that each peer decides to be a superpeer or a leaf-peer independently without global knowledge. DLM could effectively help a superpeer P2P system maintain the optimal layer size ratio and designate peers with relatively long lifetime and large capacities as superpeers, and the peers with short lifetime and low capacities as leaf-peers under highly dynamic network situations. We demonstrate that the quality of a superpeer system is significantly improved under the DLM scheme by comprehensive simulations.
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