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Disable visual effects in Windows
If you do not have a fast computer or graphics/display adapter, you can disable some or all visual effects in Windows to make your computer more responsive.
Use keyboard shortcut Windows Key+Pause/Break to open System Properties.
You can also right-click My Computer or Computer on Desktop or in Start menu and select Properties.
In Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1, click Advanced System Settings on the left.
User Account Control will open. Click Continue or Yes.
In System Properties window, make sure Advanced tab is open. Click Settings button in Performance section:
In Visual Effects tab of Performance Options window, click Custom. Then deselect the following items to disable some unnecessary eye candy:
- Animate controls and elements inside windows (only in Windows Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1)
- Animate windows when minimizing and maximizing
- Animations in the taskbar and Start Menu (Windows 7) or Animations in the taskbar (Windows 8 and 8.1)
- Fade or slide menus into view
- Fade or slide ToolTips into view
- Fade out menu items after clicking
- Save taskbar thumbnail previews (Windows 7, 8 and 8.1)
- Show window contents while dragging
- Slide open combo boxes
- Slide taskbar buttons (only in Windows XP and Vista)
- Smooth-scroll list boxes
Then click OK twice to close Performance Options and System Properties and for changes to take effect:
You now have some processor-intensive animations and effect disabled while still having a modern Windows look retained.
Disabling all effects and using Windows Classic mode for best performance
If you have a really slow computer, you can try Windows Classic mode that looks a lot like Windows 2000 or Windows Me. This disables Windows themes, all visual effects and font smoothing. You will still have a modern Windows Start menu in Windows XP, Vista and 7, but it looks... umm... old.
In Windows 8 and 8.1, this actually has very small effect on how program windows, Metro applications, Start screen and Desktop look - it is still almost the same (fonts might get a bit blurry), but without eye candy.
To enable the classic look and bump performance up, select Adjust for best performance in Performance Options window, Visual Effects tab.
This is what different versions of Windows look like while using Classic look.
Windows 8 and 8.1 are not displayed here, as there are no really important changes compared to Windows 7 other than the missing Start menu.
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Apo Reef, the largest atoll like reef in the Philippines, is a submerged platform that is a submerged of a 34 sqkm sub triangular northern m and southern atoll like reefs separated by a 30-m deep channel that is open to the west The channel runs east to west from 1.8 m to 30 m deep with a fine white sand bottom numerous mounds and patches of branching corals under the deep blue water.
Apo Reef was proclaimed as Protected Area under the category of Natural Park and it Surrounding waters as buffer zone by virtue of Presidential Proclamation No. 868, dated September 6, 1996. The Apo Reef Natural Park (ARNP) and its peripheral Buffer Zone covers an area of 15,792 hectares and 11,677 hectares, respectively, totaling 27,469 hectares in all.
Prior to its declaration as a Protected Area under the category of Natural Park, Apo Reef has been designated as Marine Park through Presidential Proclamation No. 1801 in 1980, authorizing the Philippine Tourism Authority PTA to undertake the development and Management of the area. It was also declared a tourist Zone and Marine Reserve by virtue of Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro Sangguaniang Bayan Resolution No. 1108 in 1983. In the quest for a more comprehensive program in protected area management the concept of an Integrated Protected Areas System (IPAS) was developed in 1989 by the Haribon Foundation, a non-governmental organization (NCO), through a grant by the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)-US. By 1990, IPAS Phase I, an 18-month study was undertaken. Its major achievements included the enactment of Republic Act 7586 establishing the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) in 1992 and its implementing rules and regulations, and the tentative listing of IP sites all over the country and the identification of ten (10) priority sites including the IPAS Reef Natural Park.
The second phase of IPAS is generally known as the implementation stage. The Conservation of Priority Protected Areas Project (CPPAP), which is being funded by the Global Environmental Facility (CEF) forms part of this phase. Implementation of this project in a ten 10 - pilot sites identified during IPAS Phase I, is currently being jointly undertaken by the Government of the Philippines (COP), through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources DENR and a consortium of local and national development and environment- oriented NGO's, the NGO's for Integrated Protected Areas (NIPA), Inc.
Apo Reef Natural Park compared to that of Tubbataha National Marine Park has a unique natural phenomena. Apo Reef has a high diversity of corals and has an island covered with terrestrial vegetation. Apo Reef, the largest atoll like reef in the Philippines, is a submerged platform that is a submerged of a 34 sqkm sub triangular northern m and southern atoll like reefs separated by a 30-m deep channel that is open to the west


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"It was all about our father," Gustavo adds. "This is about justice, about holding them accountable for what they did to a human being."
On March 18, 2008, they filed an 11-page complaint demanding restitution. "Defendants Fidel Castro Ruiz, [and Che] Guevara... are liable for damages arising from the systematic physical and emotional destruction of [Gustavo Sr.] that culminated in him committing suicide," the suit claimed.
The brothers' case went to trial May 28. On the stand before Judge Peter Adrien, Gustavo wept as he showed photographs of his family. He broke down as he described the walk he took with his father the night before his suicide. As in all the other cases, the Cuban government did not defend itself.
The next day, on May 29, Adrien told a packed courtroom what he thought about Che Guevara and Fidel Castro's role in Gustavo Sr.'s death: "What the defendants did is torture this family and tear it apart."
Adrien awarded the Villoldo brothers the full $393 million for family assets, another $392 million for pain and suffering, and $393 million in punitive damages. In all, he gave them $1.178 billion, the largest civil judgment ever decided against Cuba.
Many laughed it off as the latest bit of anti-Castro extremism. Castro even dedicated his "Reflections of Fidel" column in the Granma newspaper on May 30 to Villoldos' judgment. The award shows that "chaos prevails" in America, he wrote, scoffing, "Such is justice in the United States!" Peter McLaren, a UCLA scholar and Che expert, asks, "When are the victims of U.S. imperialism going to get financial restitution? Who's going to pay the families of everyone who committed suicide because of the financial crisis?"
But Gustavo figures he can squeeze the cash out of Castro. Still, Cuban funds frozen by the U.S. government in 1959 are basically tapped out. "There's nothing left," says Joe DeMaria, a Miami lawyer who's worked on these cases. Exiles have now turned to American phone companies looking for Cuban money. AT&T, Sprint, and others sent more than $120 million to Cuba through long-distance calls in the last half of 2008. Earlier this month, a U.S. district judge ordered the companies to explain the practice, setting the stage for a battle over the money.
Gustavo is watching the case but has begun searching for Cuban accounts and property in Western nations like Spain that have long had relations with Castro. He hopes to persuade those governments to recognize his judgment and freeze Cuban assets. "It's a new strategy, but it's got a good chance of working," says Jeremy Alters, Gustavo's lead attorney.
Sitting in his den in west Miami-Dade beneath an oil painting of his father, Gustavo glances around at his mementos. He has no regrets, he says. Then his eyes flash.
"We are gonna collect," he says. "You don't know me, maybe. I'm telling you: We are gonna collect."


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The latest addition to our Reviews section is a by Valerie Miles on Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli, translated by Christina MacSweeney and published by Coffee House Press.
(For those who don't remember, Faces in the Crowd was the runner-up to the 2014 World Cup of Literature Championship Game, beat out only by Chile's Roberto Bolaño. Obviously, Luiselli can hold her own.)
Valerie Miles is an American writer, editor and translator who lives in Barcelona. In 2003, she co-founded Granta en español, and among other things, edited and created the recently-published A Thousand Forests in One Acorn: An Anthology of Spanish-Language Fiction. She also translates from the Spanish and Catalán and is a professor in the postgraduate program for literary translation at Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
Here's the beginning of her review:
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map for this conceptually complex work of fiction, which comes in a petite, 144-page package. Ms. Luiselli was born in Mexico City, though her father's diplomatic post brought them to countries like South Korea, South Africa, or India. She now lives in New York City.
Both books spend a great deal of time in subways and cemeteries asking philosophical questions, like what happens to language if you are disappearing? Why write to sustain life like Scheherazade in 1001 Nights? Why not write from death to life? Keeping in mind the Mexican rites on the Day of the Dead, when altars are built to the departed, it's oddly appropriate that Ms. Luiselli should find in the New York subway a perfect setting for a classical "nekyia" rite, a descent into the underworld to ask ghosts about the future.
The title is taken from Ezra Pound's fourteen-word Imagist poem titled "In a Station of the Metro": "The apparition of these faces in the crowd / Petals on a wet, black bough." The unnamed female character (hilariously catty, telling fibs and swiping things from friends) unreliably narrates Pound's shock after seeing his friend, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, in a train station in Haarlem, a month after he died in a trench at Neuville St. Vaast. "The doors of the train car opened and he saw the face of his friend appear among the people." Pound pruned the poem down to an essential image that was "as brief as his dead friend's appearance, exactly as startling." This image and this style inaugurate Ms. Luiselli's novel, which breathes life into the famous Mexican poet and diplomat, Gilberto Owen, who died in Philadelphia half blind and in a delirium tremens, in 1952.
For the rest of the review, go here
TweetThis week's podcast is all about Denis Johnson's The Laughing Monsters, which came out last year and is "a high-suspense tale of kaleidoscoping loyalties in the post-9/11 world that shows one of our great novelists at the top of his game."
Writer, critic, and Johnson fan Patrick Smith (here's a recent review of his in 3:AM and one about Liminov in Music & Literature) joined us for this book club discussion, which goes off in a few different directions—how everyone's untrustworthy and willing to sell each other out, how Johnson got all this detail about Africa, etc.—with the general consensus that this is a pretty great book and one that fans of Graham Greene and/or spy novels and/or well-crafted fiction in general would like.
(For another analysis/conversation of the book, I highly recommend this discussion between Paul Maliszewski and Jesse Pearson.)
We'll update you in the future when we have a specific date set, but the next book we'll be discussing in this "book club" format is Apocalypse Baby by Virginie Despentes, translated from the French by Sian Reynolds and available from Feminist Press. (Then I think we'll be doing Ann Morgan's The World Between Two Covers, and may even have her on that podcast.)
This week's music—and I apologize for bludgeoning your ears with this, but it will make sense by the end—is Fall Out Boy's Centuries. (I literally cringed writing that sentence. Again, so sorry. We'll make up for it next week with our annual music podcast.)
As always you can subscribe to the podcast in iTunes by clicking here. To subscribe with other podcast downloading software, such as Google's Listen, copy the following link. And you can email us with complaints and comments at firstname.lastname@example.com
The latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Cameron Rowe on Julio Cortázar's Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia, translated by David Kurnick and published by Semiotext(e).
Cameron (some of you may have met her at ALTA last fall) is a current student in the MA in Literary Translation Studies program here at the University of Rochester, and will be doing her thesis on a translation from Spanish into English. She's also a fellow-Minnesotan, and has been known to rock out to Taylor Swift. Here's the beginning of her review:
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin American literary figures, a comic book superhero, international conspiracies, an attack on culture, multinational vampires.
Fantomas begins with "the narrator" reading a Mexican newspaper on a Belgian train (it was the only paper available at the train station), increasingly distracted, in spite of himself, by the comic book he finds inside—an issue of Fantomas: "Inteligencia en llamas." It becomes clear that the protagonist, referred to by the narrator as "the narrator," is actually Cortázar himself. "The narrator's" narrative bleeds into that of the comic book he is reading, which pulls in other figures of contemporary literary history, including Octavio Paz, Susan Sontag, and Gabriel García Marquez.
The writing is quick and snappy and very funny. It's also very strange and a little perplexing. A woman at the train station in Brussels only has Mexican newspapers to sell, thinks Mexico is "over near Asia, everyone knows that," and discusses the delicacies of radioactive hake, all over the course of a page and a half. Later on, the narrator tells Susan Sontag to fuck off. (Actually, not quite. He tells her he "loves her too much to tell her to fuck off.")
For the rest of the review, go here.
TweetWe're just about prepared to announce the official dates of this year's American Literary Translators Conference (I can say that it will be the weekend of Halloween and will be in Tucson, AZ), but in the meantime, listed below is the official call for proposals. You have some time—the deadline isn't until May—but it's always best to get your thoughts and plans together sooner rather than later.
The annual American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference is the largest gathering of literary translators all year. In a different city each fall, hundreds of literary translators, editors, students, professors, and others come together for three days of panels, workshops, roundtables, readings, and meetings with editors.
Translators traffic in words, sounds, meaning, styles, perception, politics, images, information, and voices. Our traffic as translators—whether literary, poetic, or otherwise—shapes larger-scale flows of people, resources and culture across time, space, and thought. Our translations traverse borders, silences, regions, and ages, often unaccompanied by those of us who made them. To paraphrase Mary Louise Pratt: by translating, we become part of the traffic in meaning, though that becoming doesn't always mean we can control the traffic too. The 2015 ALTA conference in Tucson will explore, among other things, our roles in the traffic in meaning—as translators, scholars, readers, editors, students, publishers, citizens, and teachers.
The ALTA Conference Committee invites session proposals for panels, workshops, and roundtables for the ALTA 2015 Conference, which will take place in the fall of 2015 in Tucson, AZ (dates and venue to be announced).
Session Proposals deadline May 1, 2015. Click here to submit.
Bilingual Readings Series deadline July 1, 2015. Click here to submit.
TweetQuestions may be sent to Conference Committee Chair Chad Post at email@example.com or ALTA Managing Director Erica Mena at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Daniel Medin teaches at the American University of Paris, where he helps direct the Center for Writers and Translators and is Associate Series Editor of The Cahiers Series.
The January 2015 Translation Issue that I edited for The White Review recently went live. Nearly a year in the making, it gathers various kinds of texts: recent poems, excerpts from forthcoming titles, new and newly translated interviews, and works rendered into English expressly for this number. I'm not just mentioning The White Review because its dedication to literature in translation aligns it with projects like Three Percent; I've made it the focus of this post because judging The Best Translated Book Award has proven invaluable for my other editorial activities. To state the obvious: there's no discovery without a search.
Two contributions to this issue resulted directly from past readings for BTBA. Minae Mizumura's A True Novel, translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter, was one of last year's most delightful surprises. She is represented here with the opening to a novel whose original title reads 私小説 from left to right. As you can see in the snapshots below, the book does interesting things with language and form—especially for the Japanese reader.
But Mizumura is a gifted storyteller, as anyone familiar with A True Novel knows. That is evident in even an extract this short. Rumor has it that a different novel of hers is on its way into English. In the meantime, I'm priming for it with Mizumura's recently published polemic, The Fall of English in the Age of English, translated by Mari Yoshihara and Juliet Winters Carpenter (Columbia University Press).
The other work inspired by the 2014 BTBA is a 6000+ word interview with Guatemalan master Rodrigo Rey Rosa, conducted and translated by my fellow judge Scott Esposito. Like A True Novel, Rey Rosa's The African Shore, translated by Jeffrey Gray, posed the most serious challenges to last year's winner. Rey Rosa covers fascinating territory here, from the two novels recently published by Yale University Press (one of which, Severina is eligible for the 2015 prize in Chris Andrews's excellent translation) to the influence of Borges and Kafka and Wittgenstein. Here is Rey Rosa's wonderful response to a question concerning the virtues of the baggy novel with cosmic ambitions—in this case Roberto Bolaño's 2666 (trans. by Natasha Wimmer).
I believe that all kinds of novels are important. The 'totalising novel', that can claim to cover the world or contain an entire epoch (although, or course, it can't actually do that), seems to me as important as the short novel or the fragmentary one. A novel's particular importance doesn't depend on its size or theme or intention, only its execution. What matters is the literary experience, what happens to us as we are reading it. Reading 2666 is a unique experience, and because of this it is important. It presents us with a point of view, a 'segment' of reality that did not exist before we read it.
It is perhaps too soon to tell, but other contributions to the Translation Issue strike me as potential contenders for the 2016 BTBA. The Vegetarian by South Korean novelist Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith for Portobello Books, already has a US contract. Had it been published before December 31st, Daniel Sada's One Out of Two would have undoubtedly made my own shortlist; it is an extraordinary book. Graywolf will release the novel in November (in a brilliant translation by Katherine Silver); in the meantime, you can read its first pages here. Lastly, there's Max Blecher's Adventures in Immediate Irreality, which New Directions will publish next month in the late Michael Henry Heim's masterful translation from Romanian. We've accompanied a self-contained episode from Adventures with an essay by Herta Müller that introduces readers to Blecher's genius.
The crop of French titles competing for the 2015 BTBA is strong. Perhaps it's no coincidence that two of my recent favorites were both translated by Jordan Stump. (Like Margaret Jull Costa and Daniel Hahn, Stump is making a strong showing among eligible titles.) I admired the muted strangeness of Self-Portrait in Green by Marie NDiaye, which Two Lines Press published earlier this autumn.
And a thousand cheers to Stump and Dalkey Archive for Éric Chevillard's wonderful The Author and Me. A cross between Beckett's Molloy and Monty Python, it is the funniest novel I've read yet for the competition. (The villain is a cauliflower gratin.) Halfway through, the novel descends into a footnote, whose story—as it were—consists of the narrator and a growing entourage following an ant. What better way to finish this post than to share its helpful advice for the new year:
Friend, when misfortune strikes, when hard times befall you, entrust your fate to an ant. An ant always knows where to go, and the well chosen path will serve you far better than any endless wandering. May I tatoo this axiom on your forehead? HE WHO WALKS BEHIND AN ANT WILL NEVER AGAIN BE CALLED A VAGABOND. At long last you have a goal, even if you don't know what it is. What matters is that you will draw strength from the ant's tenacity. You'll be galvanized by her glorious ardor. And in your loins, in your once faltering legs, there will be her drive. No more doubt, no more procrastination. Forward! From here on you will cleave the waves.Tweet
For all of the translators out there rushing to get their Heim Translation Grant applications finished on time . . . pause. Relax. You have another two weeks.
The official deadline for submissions is now January 30th. And if you need the details on how to apply, click here or read below:
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund was established in the summer of 2003 by a gift of $730,000 from Priscilla and Michael Henry Heim in response to the dismayingly low number of literary translations currently appearing in English. Its purpose is to promote the publication and reception of translated world literature in English. [. . .]
Who is eligible
The PEN/Heim Translation Fund provides grants to support the translation of book-length works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or drama that have not previously appeared in English in print or have appeared only in an outdated or otherwise flawed translation.
There are no restrictions on the nationality or citizenship of the translator, but the works must be translated into English.
The Fund seeks to encourage translators to undertake projects they might not otherwise have had the means to attempt.
Anthologies with multiple translators, works of literary criticism, and scholarly or technical texts do not qualify.
As of 2008, translators who have previously been awarded grants by the Fund are ineligible to reapply for three years after the year in which they receive a grant.
In addition, projects that have already been submitted and have not received a grant are unlikely to be reconsidered in a subsequent year.
Translators may only submit one project per year.
I'm not sure why I didn't think of this sooner, but starting with this year's grants, Open Letter is going to donate a copy of The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim & A Life in Translation to all the recipients. It's only appropriate that they have a copy of the book about the man who made the grant possible . . .
On a tangential note, we recently signed on Guillermo Saccomanno's Gesell Dome, which we found out about when Andrea Labinger received a Heim award last year. According to the PEN website, 78% of the winning books from the first five years of the Fund have found publishers. So even if you don't have a publisher lined up for your work, you should definitely apply—you might just find one!
TweetThe latest addition to our Reviews section is a piece by Lori Feathers on Marie NDiaye's Self-Portrait in Green, translated by Jordan Stump, and out from Two Lines Press.
Lori is an attorney who lives in Dallas, Texas, and is a member of the Board of Deep Vellum Publishing in Dallas.
Hope everyone is having a great start to 2015. We sure are! Here's the beginning of Lori's review:
Marie NDiaye has created a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green. In it she explores how our private fears and insecurities can distort what we believe to be real and can cause us to sabotage our intimate relationships. In particular, NDiaye conveys a powerful message about the unconscious vulnerabilities that cause women to undermine healthy relationships with each other, and in doing so she solidifies her place as a unique voice in feminist literature.
For the rest of the review, go here.
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These include all books that I've logged on through this morning, although, as always, if there's anything missing, just email me. I have a day or two of Edelweiss catalogs to search through before the 2015 database approaches validity, and I'm sure there are a handful of 2014 books that slipped through my cracks.
As a reminder, these are works of fiction and poetry that have never appeared in English before. No new Goethe translations, no Anna Karenina. No reprint of a Polish classic that was available back in the early 1980s. Just books that English-readers would otherwise have no access to in any translation.
There's always a lot to unpack numbers-wise in these updates, but I just want to look at two things—overall number of translations published and the top ten publishers.
Starting with overall figures, you can see the steady increase in the number of translations published and distributed in the U.S.:
2012: 460 total (387 fiction, 73 poetry)
2013: 541 total (448 fiction, 93 poetry)
2014: 587 total (494 fiction, 93 poetry)
That's not bad at all . . . When I started this in 2008 there were only 360 books to be identified. (Is this the parenthetical where I start talking about 63% increases so that John O'Brien can shit all over my optimism and claim that my numbers are just percentages—percentages THAT DON'T BRING DALKEY ARCHIVE MORE GOVERNMENTAL SUBSIDIES?)
In terms of the top 10 publishers, there are four that have been in the top 10 each of the past three years: Dalkey Archive, AmazonCrossing, Europa Editions, and FSG.
Five have been in the top ten at least two of those years: Open Letter, Other Press, New Directions, Seagull Books, and Archipelago.
Seven of the nine presses listed above are independent/nonprofits, one is corporate (FSG), and one is Amazon.
Speaking of Amazon, in 2014 they knocked Dalkey Archive to second and took over as the top publisher of translations, bringing out 44 titles compared to Dalkey's 30.
All of which is interesting and can be picked apart in various ways, but in the end, I hope you scan through these lists and find a few books to check out!
TweetMichael Orthofer runs the Complete Review – a book review site with a focus on international fiction – and its Literary Saloon weblog.
Some five-hundred-odd translated titles are in contention – well, at least get considered – for a book prize, the Best Translated Book Award. Not surprisingly, a number of them have previously won literary prizes of one sort of another, and it's interesting to see how they stack up against the still-un-prized competition.
Two of the authors with books in the running are Nobel laureates – though in the case of José Saramago, the eligible title is not one which was taken into consideration in awarding him that prize: his posthumously published but very early novel, Skylight, translated by Margaret Jull Costa. 2014 Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's Suspended Sentences(trans. by Mark Polizzotti), on the other hand, is unusual in being a three-for-one collection, collecting three novel(las) that were originally published as stand-alones. Despite all the criticism the Swedish Academy gets for some of their Nobel selections, it's rare that a laureate's work isn't worth reading. The Saramago – written in the early 1950s, and, when it was not accepted for publication, leading him to abandon writing fiction for nearly a quarter of a century – stands in every way apart from the rest of his work but already suggests many of the qualities of his later writing. The Modiano-trio, on the other hand, is from a writer at the height of his powers – and benefits some from being a triple-dose: Modiano's work is all related – arguably part of just one very big book – and this volume nicely presents three versions of it. (On the other hand, it suffers a bit by comparison with one of the few of his other works available in English, Honeymoon(trans. by Barbara Wright), written during the same period (chronologically it belongs in the middle of these three) and still my favorite of the available-in-English Modianos.)
The literary-prize-winner that BTBA watchers might have their eye on most is (sort of) the winner of last year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, which is the closest British approximation to the BTBA. (The IFFP differs from the BTBA in that it does consider re-translations (the BTBA doesn't) and doesn't consider books by dead authors (the BTBA does).) The IFFP went to Hassan Blasim's The Iraqi Christ ; confusingly, the US edition of his stories eligible for this year's BTBA, The Corpse Exhibition(trans. by Jonathan Wright), is made up of a collection of stories from that volume, as well as from a previously-published-in-the-UK volume, The Madman of Freedom Square. Twice as much Blasim as in his IFFP-winning book – that presumably can't hurt his chances! Short story collections have historically had a hard time in the BTBA-process, but Blasim's is certainly among the more promising contenders in recent years.
Not that many national or regional book prizes – beyond those awarded to English-language books like the Man Booker – are well-known in the US but one that probably should be is the Nordic Council Literature Prize, the top Scandinavian prize. The list of winners is an impressive one, and several winning titles have been among the BTBA contenders in recent years. This year Baboon, by Naja Marie Aidt (trans. by Denise Newman), the 2008 winner, is in the running. Another short story collection – in a year with quite a few of these – it's certainly a title to look out for.
While the Prix Goncourt is the major French literary prize, the Prix Renaudot is the clear runner-up – and Scholastique Mukasonga's Our Lady of the Nile — translated by Melanie Mauthner and published by Archipelago, who always seem to have a couple of titles on the BTBA longlist – is in the BTBA-running this year.
And while genre novels always have a tough time asserting themselves in the BTBA, how about Bed of Nails, by Antonin Varenne (trans. by Sian Reynolds) – the 2009 Prix Polar Michel Lebrun- and Grand Prix Sang d'encre-winner? (The fact that it's been such an impressive year for French noir – a quartet of Pascal Garnier novels, and a Jean-Patrick Manchette leading the way – is probably the biggest hurdle to this title making the cut.)
It's also interesting to see what translations into other languages have been prize-winning. There's Leonardo Padura's Trotsky novel, The Man Who Loved Dogs, for example, a Spanish novel whose French translation won the 2011 Prix Initiales.
And then there's a book like Maylis de Kerangal's Birth of a Bridge(trans. by Jessica Moore): the original French won the 2010 Prix Medicis and the Prix Franz Hessel, and the Italian translation won the 2014 Premio Gregor von Rezzori. Published in English by Canadian Talonbooks, this is yet another translation that hasn't gotten the attention it deserves but which has the stuff to go far in the BTBA, introducing a new and distinctive voice (in admirable translation) whom we'll be hearing a lot more of.
Of course, winning a literary prize is not a guarantee of quality, and one title in the BTBA-running stands out in this regard. Winner of both the 2012 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française and the 2012 Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, a finalist for both the highest French literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, and the Prix Femina, you'd figure Joël Dicker's The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair would have to be a front-runner for the BTBA. I can't speak for my fellow judges, who may yet vote to put this thing on the longlist…no, I think I can speak with confidence in stating that this will not be among the books that will be in anywhere near the final running. Despite – or actually in part also because of – its American setting, The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair manages to feel foreign in all the wrong ways, certainly to American ears.
TweetThe last five days of the eleventh-century Icelandic politician, writer of sagas, and famous murder victim Snorri Sturleleson (the Norwegian spelling, Snorre, is preserved in the book) make up Thorvald Steen's most recently translated historical fiction, The Little Horse. Murdered. . .
We all know Paris, or at least we think we know it. The Eiffel Tower. The Latin Quarter. The Champs-Élysées. The touristy stuff. In Dominique Fabre's novel, Guys Like Me, we're shown a different side of Paris: a gray, decaying. . .
One hundred pages into Birth of a Bridge, the prize-winning novel from French writer Maylis de Kerangal, the narrator describes how starting in November, birds come to nest in the wetlands of the fictional city of Coca, California, for three. . .
At 30, the Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli is already gathering her rosebuds. Faces in the Crowd, her poised debut novel, was published by Coffee House Press, along with her Brodsky-infused essay collection, Sidewalks. The essays stand as a theoretical map. . .
Fantomas Versus the Multinational Vampires: An Attainable Utopia (narrated by Julio Cortázar) is, not disappointingly, as wild a book as its title suggests. It is a half-novella half-graphic novel story about . . . what, exactly? A European tribunal, Latin. . .
Marie NDiaye has created a tiny, psychological masterpiece with her Self-Portrait in Green. In it she explores how our private fears and insecurities can distort what we believe to be real and can cause us to sabotage our intimate relationships.. . .
Reading a genre book—whether fantasy, science fiction, crime, thriller, etc.—which begins to seem excessively, stereotypically bad, I have to make sure to ask myself: is this parodying the flaws of the genre? Usually, this questioning takes its time coming. In. . .
The Sicilian Mafia has always been a rich subject for sensational crime fiction. The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Sopranos worked the mob's bloody corpses and family feuds to both entertainment and artistic value. Giuseppe di Piazza's debut novel attempts this,. . .
Antoine Volodine's vast project (40 plus novels) of what he calls the post-exotic remains mostly untranslated, so for many of us, understanding it remains touched with mystery, whispers from those "who know," and guesswork. That's not to say that, were. . .
It hasn't quite neared the pitch of the waiting-in-line-at-midnight Harry Potter days, but in small bookstores and reading circles of New York City, an aura has attended the novelist Elena Ferrante and her works. One part curiosity (Who is she?),. . .


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About the Author: Moshe Feiglin is the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and a member of Israel's Security and Defense Committee. He heads the Manhigut Yehudit ("Jewish Leadership") faction of Israel's governing Likud party. He is the founder of Manhigut Yehudit and Zo Artzeinu and the author of two books: "Where There Are No Men" and "War of Dreams." Feiglin served in the IDF as an officer in Combat Engineering and is a veteran of the Lebanon War. He lives in Ginot Shomron with his family.
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Bibi's speech to Congress will bring respect and honor to the Jewish Nation from the US & the world
Obama & Putin have handwriting/signature clues indicating differences between public & private life
It's time for a new Jewish policy regarding Ramallah, NOT just because of the yarmulke incident
"GETT's" being screened for Israeli Rabbinical Court judges at their annual convention.
If Jackson were alive he'd denounce Democratic party's silence towards virulent anti-Semitism
Victim of Palestinian Arab terrorism, a victor in NY federal court, after years of being ignored by Justice Dept.
March 2013: Arabs hurled stones hitting the Biton's car; Adele's mother swerved the car-into a truck
I can tell you that Cablevision has been astonished at how high we rank.
The real issue is that in many respects the president has sought to recalibrate American values and our system of government.
Former Connecticut senator Joe Lieberman, writing in the Washington Post on Sunday, provided one of the clearest and most compelling analyses we've seen of the importance of the prime minister's speech.
A central concept in any discussion about happiness is achieving clarity. "Ain simcha ela k'hataras hasefeikos" – there is no joy as that experienced with the removal of doubt.
"Je Suis..," like its famous origin 400 years ago, implies the ability & freedom to think & question
Many anti-Israel demonstrations at universities have a not-so-latent anti-Semitic agenda as well
Believing a few "extremists" hijacked Islam is myopic in history and geography, numbers and scope
Zionism's real goal was creating the Israeli nation to replace the Jewish Nation was the real goal
Zionism's current view-"no connection to religion"-is more appropriate to the Left than to the Right
Young, secular Israelis connecting to their Jewish identity, searching for a future with meaning
MK Moshe Feiglin's Likud resignation speech at the Jerusalem Convention Hall Conference
Feiglin: Only true liberty will allow us to genuinely connect to our Jewish identity.
Israel may be a great democracy but it's a long way from the Jewish state of liberty of our dreams.
Israel recognizes the fabrication called a Palestinian nation; So what do we want from the Swedes?
Israel's Temple Mount policy prefers to blames the Jews-not the attackers-for the crisis.
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Chicago won 4-1
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Game 2: Sunday, June 2nd | ||
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Game 3: Tuesday, June 4th | ||
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Game 4: Thursday, June 6th | ||
Blackhawks | 3 | Final |
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LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If the Chicago Blackhawks are going to end the Los Angeles Kings' perfect postseason on home ice in Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, they'll have to do it without their top defenseman.
Duncan Keith will sit out Thursday under a one-game suspension for high-sticking Los Angeles' Jeff Carter. Keith hit Carter with a one-handed blow in the second period of the Kings' 3-1 victory in Game 3, opening a 20-stitch gash on the star forward's face and cracking three of his teeth.
Chicago has a 2-1 series lead and could take control with a win in Game 4, but the uncertainty of Keith's fate hung over both teams' practices Wednesday. Keith is enormously important to the powerful Blackhawks, easily leading the club in ice time and ranking third in playoff scoring with 10 points.
Sheldon Brookbank, the likely candidate to take Keith's place in the Blackhawks' lineup, hasn't played in the postseason.
"It's been our strength pretty much all season, our depth on our blue line," Chicago defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson said before the suspension was announced. "So whatever happens with that, I think we're going to be all right. I'm sure if something happens, Brookbank is going to come in and play good. All of the D-men have to step up a little more if that happens."
Keith, whose ungloved hand was nearly slashed by Carter an instant earlier, got a double minor penalty for his high stick, but was allowed to stay in Game 3. Keith had a hearing with the NHL's department of player safety Wednesday, but spent the day uneasily waiting for a decision.
"I said my piece," Keith said before the suspension. "Said the same thing last night, that it was an accident, and I didn't mean to get him where I got him."
Keith is classified by the NHL as a repeat offender -- a factor in suspension decisions -- after elbowing Vancouver's Daniel Sedin in the head late last season, sidelining Sedin well into the playoffs. San Jose's Raffi Torres, another repeat offender, was suspended for the rest of the second round after an illegal hit on Los Angeles' Jarret Stoll in the opener of the clubs' seven-game series.
Keith attempted to apologize to Carter on the ice, claiming the high stick was an accident. The Kings' top goal-scorer shrugged off the apology in much the same way he dismissed any concern about his carved-up face Wednesday at Los Angeles' training complex.
"There's bigger things to worry about right now," Carter said, shrugging off his broken teeth with a hockey player's nonchalance. "We're in a fight here, down two games to one. I don't think that's on our minds."
Keith is averaging nearly 25 minutes per game in the postseason, nearly four minutes more than any other Blackhawks player. His 10 points are nearly more than the rest of the Chicago defense's 12 combined points.
The rest of the Kings also tried to downplay the conflict described as "retaliation" by Kings coach Darryl Sutter after the game. Los Angeles already lost Stoll and Mike Richards to head injuries earlier in the postseason, although Stoll has returned and Richards is skating again after a big hit in Game 1 kept him out of the past two games.
"I moved on right after the game," Sutter said. "Had my feelings on it. I think I'm correct."
The NHL agreed, and the Blackhawks' attempt to end the defending Stanley Cup champions' 15-game home winning streak got tougher.
The Blackhawks realize Keith's absence won't matter if they can't figure out how to crack the Kings' incredible home-ice advantage. Los Angeles hasn't lost at Staples Center since March 23, and the Kings have won nine straight playoff games in their downtown building dating to last season's Stanley Cup clincher.
The Blackhawks gave credit to the Kings' superb start in Game 3, putting them in an early 1-0 hole and matching Chicago's urgency from the first two games at United Center. But the Presidents' Trophy winners are confident they can match the Kings' start in Game 4.
"I thought we were really prepared for what was coming here in this building, but obviously we were not," Hjalmarsson said. "They came out flying. We know they're a tough team. Especially here in this building, they're a really tough team to beat. We've got to step it up and find a way to get back to the way we were playing in Chicago to have a chance to win the next game, because the last game wasn't good enough, not even close."
The Kings lost in regulation just four times all season at home, but this dominance is hardly a team tradition. They lost three home playoff games during their 16-4 rampage to the Stanley Cup last season, and they lost five consecutive postseason games at Staples Center during first-round exits in their previous two playoff runs in 2010 and 2011.
And Los Angeles is still struggling to score in its title defense, managing no more than two goals without an empty-netter in its last eight games. Carter and Justin Williams have six goals apiece in Los Angeles' 16 playoff games, but nobody else has more than defenseman Slava Voynov's five goals.
Low scores are no surprise in a tense playoff series between two elite teams with strong defenses, but Chicago forward Patrick Kane's struggles are increasingly inexplicable. The six-time 20-goal scorer hasn't found the net in seven games, and he's got just two goals in the postseason after scoring 23 in the lockout-shortened regular season.
Kane realizes the Blackhawks depend on his scoring, and he's staying confident in his skills.
"You've got to give them credit for the way they're playing defensively," Kane said of the Kings. "They've been a good defensive team for the last three, four years. ... In the playoffs, it hasn't been happening for me for some reason. I don't know why. Me personally, I think it's all about willpower, just getting the puck and making things happen that way."
Regular Season Matchup
Chicago | Los Angeles | |
Home | 18-3-3 | 19-4-1 |
Road | 18-4-2 | 8-12-4 |
Division | 16-1-1 | 9-7-2 |
Conference | 36-7-5 | 27-16-5 |
Last 10 | 7-3-1 | 3-7-2 |
Complete Standings |
Playoff Team Stat Comparison
Chicago | Los Angeles | ||
2.78 | Goals Per Game | 2.06 | |
2.09 | Goals Against Per Game | 1.89 | |
34.22 | Shots on Goal Per Game | 25.56 | |
29.39 | Shots Against Per Game | 29.28 | |
9.09 | Penalty Minutes Per Game | 7.89 | |
8 | Power Play Goals | 9 | |
11.4% | Power Play % | 17.6% | |
7 | Power Play Goals Allowed | 7 | |
90.7% | Penalty Kill % | 87.7% | |
2 | Shorthanded Goals | 1 | |
1 | Shorthanded Goals Allowed | 1 |
Goalie Breakdown
Chicago | GP | W | L | GAA | SO | SV% |
Corey Crawford | 23 | 16 | 7 | 1.84 | 1 | .932 |
Los Angeles | GP | W | L | GAA | SO | SV% |
Jonathan Quick | 18 | 9 | 9 | 1.86 | 3 | .934 |
Jonathan Bernier | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 1.000 |
Team Stat Leaders
Chicago | Los Angeles | |
G | Patrick Sharp 10 | Jeff Carter 6 |
A | Jonathan Toews 11 | Mike Richards 9 |
PTS | Patrick Kane 19 | Jeff Carter 13 |
PIM | Andrew Shaw 35 | Jeff Carter 14 |
SOG | Patrick Sharp 91 | Justin Williams 57 |


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Ascent Capital Group, Inc. ("Ascent" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: ASCMA) announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Monitronics Escrow Corporation (the "Escrow Issuer"), intends to offer $150 million in aggregate principal amount of 9.125% senior notes due 2020 (the "Notes"), subject to market and other conditions. If the Notes are issued, the proceeds of this offering would be placed into escrow and will be used, together with proceeds of other indebtedness expected to be issued by Ascent, and an expected $225 million new term loan of Monitronics International, Inc., the wholly-owned operating subsidiary of Ascent ("Monitronics"), for the purpose of funding a portion of the purchase price for the previously announced acquisition (the "Acquisition") of Security Networks, LLC ("Security Networks") by Monitronics. In connection with the completion of the Acquisition, the Escrow Issuer would be merged into Monitronics, and Monitronics would assume the Notes (the "Assumption") under its existing Indenture, dated March 23, 2012, pursuant to which its existing 9.125% senior notes due 2020 are outstanding. If the Acquisition is not completed by an agreed upon end date, the proceeds of the offering would be used to make a mandatory redemption of the Notes.
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PSV set up Rangers clashPSV Eindhoven progressed through to the last 16 of the Europa League after fighting back from a half-time deficit to secure an ultimately convincing 3-1 victory over 10-man Lille.PSV, who battled back from 2-0 down to draw the first leg thanks to two late goals, suffered another scare in this game when Lille took a 22nd-minute lead against the run of play through Pierre-Alain Frau.However, the Dutch giants fought back after the break and drew level through Balazs Dzsudzsak's quickly-taken free-kick before Lille were reduced to 10 men just after the hour when Frau picked up the second of two quick bookings.PSV wasted no time in making the most of their man advantage and soon added two more goals through Jeremain Lens and Antonio Marcelo to set up a clash with Rangers in the next phase.The home side started well and went close three times early on with Marcus Berg testing Barel Mouko in the second minute before the Swedish striker slid a shot against the post eight minutes later.Berg also charged down an attempted clearance by Mouko from just in front of the Lille net but, fortunately for the visiting custodian, the rebound went wide.A goal looked on the cards, but the surprise was that it came at the other end following a perfect example of route-one football from Lille.Mouko's long goal-kick was flicked on by Vinicius De Melo's head and Frau burst between two PSV defenders before driving a low shot through Andreas Isaksson's legs.That was a big blow to PSV, but they had chances to get back on terms by the interval with Lens and Berg failing to take two of them.PSV could not restore parity before half-time, but they had to wait just nine minutes of the second period to get the goal they deserved.Dzsudzsak was the scorer, curling a quick free-kick into the far corner of the net while Mouko was still standing by his left-hand post trying to line up his wall.That was a disappointing way for Lille to lose their advantage, and things got worse for the French side in the 62nd minute when Frau, just five minutes after being cautioned, tripped up Ola Toivonen to earn a second booking.Within 11 minutes of that incident PSV had put the game to bed after netting twice.Lens made it 2-1 in the 66th minute after playing a good one-two with Berg before slotting into an empty net, and then Marcelo rose unmarked on the six-yard box to head in Dzsudzsak's corner to make it 3-1.There was no way back for Lille after that, although they could have set up an interesting finale if Moussa Sow had managed to score after breaking through late on, but Isaksson was able to beat away his effort.
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The 33 trawlers with around 350 fishermen, which went missing in the choppy waters of the Bay of Bengal since Thursday due to a depression, remained untraced on Friday even as the Navy was pressed into service following a request from the West Bengal government.
A Dornier aircraft of the Navy and a Coast Guard vessel were deployed for the search and rescue operations being coordinated by the State's naval officer-in-charge.
The inclement weather during the day, however, hampered the search operations to a large extent, according to defence sources.
The trawlers had set sail from Kakdwip and adjacent areas in the South 24 Parganas district early on Thursday and the district administration failed to establish contact with the crew through the day.
"The Sunderbans Fishermen Association had given us a list of 33 trawlers carrying around 350 fishermen that were missing. Three of the trawlers were located during the day and contact was established with the crew. While one has drifted to Bangladesh's Patuakhali district due to strong winds, the crew of the other two trawlers have taken shelter in a creek, and are safe," Narayan Swarup Nigam, District Magistrate of South 24 Parganas, told The Hindu.
Pointing out that more trawlers might have drifted to Bangladesh, Mr. Nigam said that the State government had contacted the Bangladesh High Commission to seek its help in the rescue operations.
Defence sources said that a second Dornier aircraft and a ship were despatched from Vishakhapatnam during the day to join the search operations.
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Super Bowl XLII is history but Super Bowl XLIIa has just begun. Who had the best ad?
Super Bowl XLII was Sunday night, but one of the year's biggest contests on the Internet happens Monday--choosing the best Super Bowl TV ad. You can watch all the spots you missed during your beer runs and vote for your favorites. This was the year of the animal.
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In the heart of the bond between animals and humans, the Fondation Adrienne and Pierre Sommer, under the aegis of the Fondation de France, aims to improve the relationship between humans and animals, with a target on social, educational or therapeutic.
The Foundation launches a call for proposals (only in France) for professionals that integrate exclusively with animal populations:
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Paranoid Penguin - Limitations of shc, a Shell Encryption Utility
shc is a popular tool for protecting shell scripts that contain sensitive information such as passwords. Its popularity was driven partly by auditors' concern over passwords in scripts. shc encrypts shell scripts using RC4, makes an executable binary out of the shell script and runs it as a normal shell script. Although the resulting binary contains the encryption password and the encrypted shell script, it is hidden from casual view.
At first, I was intrigued by the shc utility (www.datsi.fi.upm.es/~frosal/sources/shc.html) and considered it as a valuable tool in maintaining security of sensitive shell scripts. However, upon further inspection, I was able to extract the original shell script from the shc-generated executable for version 3.7. Because the encryption key is stored in the binary executable, it is possible for anyone with read access to the executable to recover the original shell script. This article details the process of extracting the original shell executable from the binary generated by shc.
shc is a generic shell script compiler. Fundamentally, shc takes as its input a shell script, converts it to a C program and runs the compiler to compile the C code. The C program contains the original script encrypted by an arbitrary key using RC4 encryption. RC4 is a stream cipher designed in RSA laboratories by Ron Rivest in 1987. This cipher is used widely in commercial applications, including Oracle SQL and SSL. Listing 1 demonstrates running shc.
Listing 1. Running shc
[user1@shiraz test]# cat pub.sh #!/bin/sh echo "Hello World" user1@shiraz test]# ./pub.sh Hello World [user1@shiraz test]# shc -v -r -f pub.sh shc shll=sh shc [-i]=-c shc [-x]=exec '%s' "$@" shc [-l]= shc opts= shc: cc pub.sh.x.c -o pub.sh.x shc: strip pub.sh.x [user1@shiraz test]# ls pub.sh pub.sh.x pub.sh.x.c [user1@shiraz test]# ./pub.sh.x Hello World
The two new files, named with the .x and .x.c extensions to the name of the source shell script, are the executable and an intermediate C version. Upon executing pub.sh.x, the original shell source is executed. shc also specifies a relax option, -r. The relax option is used to make the executable portable. Basically, shc uses the contents of the shell interpreter itself, such as /bin/sh, as a key. If the shell binary were to change, for example, due to system patching or by moving the binary to another system, the shc generated binary does not decrypt nor execute.
I inspected the shell executable using strings and found no evidence of the original shell script. I also inspected the intermediate C source code and noted that it stores the shell script in encrypted octal characters, as depicted in Listing 2.
Listing 2. The original shell script becomes an RC4-encrypted string in the C version.
static char text[] = "\223\004\215\264\102\216\322\060\300\070\101\217\277\161\033\130" "\217\145\370\170\106\257\176\301\057\132\172\044\217\247\276\222" "\203\076\334\201\323\107\064\334\120\132\001\241\267\052\203\216" "\116\232\156\337\121\145\235\003\156\244\142\246\117\200\206\014" "\004\153\372\152\030\262\171\275\137\342\247\367\231\315\353\151" "\264\241\230\105\344\053\034\247\342\142\156\305\327\255\036\111" "\234\061\013\355\300\336\324\257\175\124\222\044\132\040\276\067" "\007\002\371\063\021\320\060";
The C source code also includes as arrays the password as well as other encrypted strings. Therefore, anyone with access to the source code easily can decrypt and view the contents of the original shell script. But what about the original shell binary executable generated by shc? Is it possible to extract the original shell script from nothing but the binary executable? The answer to this question is explored in the next section.
I generated and reviewed the C source code for several shell scripts to better understand how the shell source is encrypted and decrypted. Fundamentally, shc uses an implementation of RC4 that was posted to a Usenet newsgroup on September 13, 1994. I set off by first identifying the encryption key and the encryption text. The objdump utility came in handy for this. bjdump, part of GNU binutils, displays information about object files. First, we use objdump to retrieve all static variables, for this is where the encryption key and the encrypted shell text are stored. Listing 3 provides a brief overview of objdump.
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Tribunal is a lose-lose system in the fact that when players LOSE their temper and become toxic to the community they LOSE the privilege to play the game.
I support you on this one OP. I never rage nor use heated languague, and am always calm, so many would say I have no reasons to support you. But what I fear is the abuse of power, and I see the community is legitimizing it by not speaking up in cases like this. They blindly back up punishment. I rarely get affected by offensive comments, as I understand we are all stressed and for some thats the only way they know to ease off. And I also know for many is very annoying to have someone on your team slighting you the whole time. Punishment is a poor solution, and as far as I can see the only Riot knows. A rewarding system instead of a punishment one is a much positive and effective method not only to get a good behavior, but also to have people aiding and encouraging their team. We could see the dialogs as we see them know, and instead of having 2 buttons pardon-punish have one button of "award" if we think he deserves it. Rewards are not something that would cost money to Riot. Rewards can be as easy as a badges that distinguish the summoners with certain things. For example "summoner of stone, he never stood you up" for those that has almost no leaves or quits. And so etcetera.
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To respond to several comments at once: Trash talk is okay in some communities and cultures - that doesn't make it okay in every community. For example, players on a football field (of the American variety) are constantly talking trash and getting into each other's heads (something I particularly enjoyed as a player), but that would never stand for a moment on a tennis court or golf course. Trash talk is in no way universally condoned. There are plenty of places where you're free to talk trash, insult teammates and opponents alike, and say whatever you want - I believe you can hear the rest of the internet constantly complain about those communities, although you can get a good chunk of upvotes for a picture of the bigger overreactions... There are little-to-no hard and fast rules about what constitutes a ban - every case is reviewed individually, holistically, and independently. A Summoner is punished if and only if they are enough of a negative influence that a significant number of his or her peers will report them and a majority of Tribunal judges deem the Summoner's total record to be a detriment to the game. That's the framework - attempting to nail it down as "if you say X you will get banned" is not a fair way to look at it. Every case will be a different "big picture" reviewed by a different set of Summoners. The great part about the Tribunal is that people don't get banned if one person is offended by something. People receive punishments from the Tribunal when multiple offenses stack up. The community is literally what's deciding what's inappropriate within the boundaries of the Summoner's Code, which you all agreed to before you first stepped onto the Fields of Justice. It takes a pretty large group to collect enough reports and judge the Tribunal case to actually turn into a punishment. Nobody is getting punished because a few people will report if somebody blinked at them funny. The majority has to be in alignment for a punishment to be passed down.


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Amid the football program's most glorified ascension in decades, the Clemson basketball team is the one making the ripples in recruiting.
On Oct. 4, the Tigers snuck a commitment from Donte Grantham, a 6-foot-8, 200-pound swing forward out of Chatham (Va.) Hargrave Military Academy.
Grantham is the highest-ranked recruit of coach Brad Brownell's five recruiting classes (Brownell came so late that we shouldn't count his first class – guard Cory Stanton, who followed from Wichita State – against him). He ranks No. 66 by Rivals.com and No. 91 by Scout.com, basically amounting to the program's most acclaimed get since 2009 McDonald's All-American Milton Jennings, an in-state product.
The Grantham acquisition is significant on a number of fronts. But let's cut to the chase.
Brownell is coming off the first losing season of his three-season tenure, and he's not trending in a favorable direction, having gone from a 22-win debut season to 16 wins the next season to a 13-18 record a year ago.
Taken in isolation, that poses a threat to any coach's job security. But add in the fact Brownell has a new boss in first-year athletic director Dan Radakovich, who has grand designs on potentially overseeing new arena construction in the near future – well, suffice it to say, Brownell's longevity figures to hinge on demonstrating a substantial measure of improvement in a hurry.
College coaches like to publicly dismiss the relevance of recruiting rankings. But the coverage boom the last decade has proven a boon for them in one respect:
Hope buys time.
It is easy for an administration to ditch a coach for which the future lacks promise to the athletic department's customers, e.g. the fans.
Grantham's anticipated arrival could give the staff a bit more room for error this season – one in which the ACC adds in several teams with superior talent and also requires the Tigers to go on the road for an unforgiving stretch of five contests in a six-game span.
Brownell and assistants have validated their reputation for developing players; standout forward K.J. McDaniels serving as prime example. But the knock on his tenure has been the staff's inability to recruit enough college-ready skill to viably stay an NCAA Tournament team amid a league stocked with top-100 talent.
That the Tigers pushed so fervently for Grantham speaks to the state of talent desperation. Clemson enters this season with the NCAA-maximum 13 scholarship players, none of whose eligibility expires. In adding lightly recruited guard Gabe DeVoe earlier this fall, it already signaled somebody won't be back. Taking Grantham as an additional oversign amplified the message that it's a make or break point for all involved.
Grantham picked the Tigers over NCAA runner-up Michigan, a program that carried exponentially more panache in regards to tradition and visibility beyond last year's outcomes.
Clemson can only hope that scoreboard moment translates into momentum on the 2015 recruiting trail.
An undervalued concept in basketball recruiting is that good players want to play with good players. There's a chicken/egg hurdle to clear in all rebuilding situations. Clemson football fans recognize that signing Atlanta four-star running back James Davis in 2005 was the domino that set the program's recruiting successes in motion; Davis played a major role in attracting C.J. Spiller, Spiller's profile in Florida piqued Sammy Watkins' interest, and so forth.
Clemson's basketball staff does a commendable job of getting the Tigers in the door first with a number of quality young prospects. Scoring Grantham was a coup for assistant coach Steve Smith, who replaced Rick Ray (Mississippi State's head coach) as one of the two primary recruiters on Clemson's staff.
Yet while playing in the ACC remains attractive to plenty of kids in their geographic reach, the program has lacked the prestige to hold off the competition once Clemson's interest draws the other schools' attention to those kids.
Grantham will be marketed as Brownell's centerpiece as the basketball coaches work to the 2015 and '16 classes the remainder of the lengthy evaluation period.
On the court, Grantham fills a pressing roster need. Ideally, Brownell's motion offense would feature a power forward who could stretch defenses as a 3-point shooter, have the offensive range to be a skillful high-post passer with a capable handle, but also boast the height, size and strength to function as both a post and perimeter defender.
That's asking a lot. But the bar is set low after Jennings' disappointing career.
Brownell's tenure has been snakebitten with injuries, none more gut-punching than swingman Jaron Blossomgame's fractured leg suffered in the summer leading to his freshman campaign last year.
Blossomgame returns to action this year, but he's believed a long way from trusting his movement – much less regaining his explosiveness.
He is slated to share time at the four spot along with junior college transfer Ibrahim Djambo, a slender 6-10 spot-up shooter.
If Blossomgame can get back the leaping ability and natural motor displayed during his high school career, he and Grantham would give Brownell one of the ACC's most athletic forward combos for a few years to come even after McDaniel's departure.
It's just a matter of Brownell making it to that stage.
With its 2014 football class in a holding pattern, Clemson signed off on bringing in a trio of prospects to begin its 2015 collection.
Well, sort of. Early in October, the Tigers picked up Blythewood (S.C.) three-star linebacker Jalen Williams.
Williams is a 2014 prospect who was given a grayshirt offer at the end of the summer, meaning he would enroll late as a member of the 2015 haul. But recently, Clemson coaches told him odds strongly favor Williams gaining a spot in the '14 class once it gets closer to signing day or even next spring.
Taking Williams is viewed as a telling move in light of Clemson already holding a pair of 2015 linebacker commitments. Those two are Daniel (S.C.)'s Judah and J.D. Davis, twin sons of Jeff Davis, a former Clemson star linebacker with a prominent role within football administration. Those offers were given by coach Dabo Swinney, and neither prospect was being actively recruited by any other school at any level. You get the point.
Meanwhile, the Tigers also snared commitments from Boiling Springs (S.C.) offensive tackle Noah Green and Charlotte (N.C.) West Mecklenburg safety Van Smith. Green, whose parents met at Clemson, had offers from South Carolina, UNC and Vanderbilt. Smith – a teammate of N.C. State '14 quarterback commitment Jalan McClendon and Duke '14 running back commitment Shaun Wilson – projects as a top-25 in-state prospect for the 2015 cycle.