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A special counter-terrorism police unit in India has planted evidence and imprisoned innocent people on trumped up charges with some languishing in jails for years before being released, a report by a civil rights group said.
A review of court rulings found at least 16 cases of alleged terrorist activity brought by the Special Cell of Delhi Police that were eventually thrown out by judges, who accused the unit of framing suspects using tampered evidence and false confessions, a report by the Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association found.
The Delhi-based organisation released its report last week titled, "Framed, Damned, Acquitted: Dossiers of a Very Special Cell". The 16 arrested by the Special Cell were accused of "being operatives and agents of various terrorist organizations".
"Many innocents had been jailed, many under trumped up charges, framed and spent time in jail needlessly only to be acquitted. Their lives have been destroyed and their families wounded forever."
- Manisha Sethi, rights activist
"Story after story, as presented by the prosecution, was unreliable, incredulous, and appeared as concocted," it said.
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Manisha Sethi, the association's president, told Al Jazeera nobody wants to speak out against the police practices.
"Many innocents had been jailed, many under trumped up charges, framed and spent time in jail needlessly only to be acquitted. Their lives have been destroyed and their families wounded forever," she said.
Once ensnared in India's court system, the wait for justice can be a long one. There is a backload of more than 20 million cases before the country's courts. Bail is often refused for serious offences, and there are no mechanisms to compensate the wrongly accused who spent years jail.
"There is no scope for redressal, no punishment for the police or investigating officials who framed ordinary citizens. Many are too poor to afford good legal services," said Jamia's secretary-general Adil Mehdi.
Police denial
A day after the report was released, Delhi Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Rajan Bhagat told local media six cases out of the 16 highlighted in the report actually ended in conviction, while one case was pending appeal. Delhi police denied the report's allegations, saying "appropriate action" would be taken if "facts were found to have been fudged".
Bhagat said of 182 cases the police unit investigated since the 1990s, 133 were decided by the courts with an acquital rate of 24.8 per cent. He said 10 of the cases were discharged outright, "which goes to show that the Special Cell does not frame people unnecessarily".
"The conviction rate of 68 per cent indicates that the quality of investigation has been done with professionalism," Bhagat said.
Delhi police in a statement also noted the courts were the ultimate decider as to who is guilty and who is innocent.
"During the trial[s], especially in terror related cases, the judicial scrutiny is of a considerably stringent level. Guilt must be proven beyond reasonable doubt. Therefore, if a case ends in acquittal, the blame is not only at the doorstep of the investigating agency.''
In response to the police statement, the Jamia Teachers' Solidarity Association said its report of the 16 wrongly accused, jailed, and later acquited was accurate. It accused police officials of "hiding behind a maze of statistics, ignoring the real questions that the report has raised".
The Special Cell's conviction rate is contradicted by other research. Official figures obtained under India's Right to Information Act by activist Gopal Prasad show 70 per cent of the charges brought against suspects in 174 Special Cell cases were later dropped.
ND Pancholi, a legal-aid expert who has worked on many such cases, said fabricating false evidence is punishable with life imprisonment according to India's Penal Code, but so far police have not been held to account.
"The primary wrong is police machinations that frame innocents, and the tardiness of the Indian legal processes have led to the rights of individuals suffering," Pancholi said.
Meenakshi Ganguly from New York-based Human Rights Watch praised the association's report. "It highlights the serious flaws and limitations on justice when police are under pressure to show results in terrorism-related cases," she told Al Jazeera.
Ganguly said the police practice of falsifying evidence and framing innocent people has largely stopped now, but for many the damage has already been done. The group has documented cases where hundreds of young Muslims were rounded up after terrorist attacks. "Many suffered torture in custody," she said.
Syed Maqbool Shah, 17 at the time, was arrested in New Delhi in May 1996 after a bombing killed 13 people in New Delhi's Lajpat Nagar area.
Police raided his brother's apartment where he was staying and arrested him for possessing evidence allegedly tying him to the blast. He was sent to New Delhi's notorious Tihar Jail.
"This is not about Muslims or Hindus, this is about misuse of power. The point is not to convict people or produce evidence, but to use the system to terrorize certain communities."
- Arundhati Roy, rights activist
Shah's case took four years to come to trial and 10 years to reach a verdict. After 14 years in jail, he was acquitted by the Delhi High Court on all charges.
"I was innocent. I knew it. Even they (the police) knew it. My only sin was that I was born in Kashmir," Shah told AFP, referring to the restive Muslim-majority province in northwestern India.
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Starring Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Anton Yelchin and Mia Wasikowska. Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. At the Varsity. 123 minutes. 14A
No one here gets out alive in Jim Jarmusch's cool new vampire romance, which you'll doubly dig if you recognize that Doors lyric reference.
Only Lovers Left Alive is steeped in the midnight mojo of Jim Morrison, the late Doors frontman whom I think Tom Hiddleston is really channelling in his portrayal of an undead rocker, sighing endlessly as he contemplates the ennui of eternity.
(For the record, Hiddleston says it's Pink Floyd outcast Syd Barrett. Others say it's David Bowie. Jarmusch, true to form, is saying nothing.)
My theory would have co-star Tilda Swinton as Pamela Courson, the long-time Morrison companion who was with the Lizard King when he expired (or did he?) in that Paris hotel bathtub in 1971, heroin being his ticket to the afterlife — and also hers, three years later.
It makes poetic sense to think of them as a centuries-old supernatural couple grooving to their own weird beat in Jarmusch's artful construction, wherein Hiddleston's "Adam" and Swinton's "Eve" find themselves in a bit of an existential funk, surrounded by pop-cult items and ideas.
His mood as black as his hair and duds, Adam resides in a cluttered mansion in Detroit, a faded metropolis also in need of new blood. Shut away from the humanity he abhors — he calls living people "zombies" and decries their wasteful and trivial ways — he records albums no one will hear and collects antique guitars and vintage vinyl LPs. His personal gofer is Ian (Anton Yelchin), the one "zombie" Adam can abide.
Eve has a more upbeat approach to being undead. She favours brighter attire to match her white-streaked blond hair, and spends much time in mysterious Tangier. She devours great literature and communes with her ancient writer pal Christopher Marlowe (John Hurt), joking with him about the "delicious chaos" that would ensue if the world discovered he was the real pen behind that "illiterate zombie Philistine" William Shakespeare.
Eve suddenly decides to return to Detroit (on a night flight, natch), when she divines from one of Adam's retro-Skype sessions that he's being more morose than usual: "I seem to be writing a lot of funeral music," he tells her.
Happily reunited, they drive through the night streets of the Motor City, lamenting the economic ruination of a once-great place, its grand Packard plant now shuttered and its soul in deep freeze. At this point, the film gets sadly closer to truth than fantasy.
You might be expecting something to actually happen, and a few things do, especially when Mia Wasikowska shows up as Eve's naughty little sister. But this ain't Dracula or — God forbid — Twilight.
Indie hero Jarmusch has always been a maker of genre films, although you had to tilt your head to get it: Dead Man was his "psychedelic western" and Ghost Dog mashed samurai and gangster oaths and styles. And he's always been more interested in character than circumstance.
With this deadpan take on vampire lore he's given us a dandy pair to hang with, if maybe not to dine with. They get their blood, incidentally, from a crooked hospital doctor (Jeffrey Wright) who sells them purloined donations.
A Jim Jarmusch vampire film may seem like his idea of a joke and there's some truth to that. How seriously can you take a movie where the characters sit around sucking on homemade blood Popsicles or watching "Soul Dracula" video clips on TV?
More rewarding, though, is to let yourself be swept away by the savage romance of it all.
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Merging TW, Fox Would Be A Cable Challenge
Wayne Friedman
, July 28, 2014, 2:18 PM
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Under a possible 21st Century Fox-Time Warner merger, combining the advertising-supported TV cable networks of Fox and Turner will be a challenge, according to a top media analyst -- given their content genres.
Michael Nathanson, senior research analyst of MoffettNathanson Research, writes that two of the programming genres of Fox and Time Warner's Turner cable networks -- general entertainment and news -- have witnessed slow declines over the last several years.
For example, industry-wide cable network news -- Fox News Channel and Turner's CNN and Headline News -- has seen its market share decline to 5% in 2013-2014 versus 6% in 2009-2010 as it concerns 18-49 gross rating points via the C3 metric (the average commercial ratings plus three days of time-shifted data) for a drop of 131 basis points.
Worse is that industry-wide general entertainment content -- where networks such as TNT, TBS and FX networks play in --- has seen its market share sink to 43% from a 47% share in 2009-2010 -- for a drop of 317 basis points.
More specifically, Nathanson says Fox and Turner entertainment networks are heavily dependent on acquired movies and off-network sitcoms and dramas.
A year ago, John Landgraf, chief executive officer of FX Networks, said he was worried about acquiring highly rated off-network sitcoms and big theatrical movies, according to Nathanson. In 2013, almost three-quarters of all FX gross ratings points on a C3 basis came from acquired movies -- 6% from "Two and a Half Men" and 4% from "How I Met Your Mother" reruns.
MoffettNathanson says 22% of TBS' 18-49 C3 gross ratings points in 2013 came from movies -- the largest genre -- followed by "The Big Bang Theory" at 20%. Other sitcoms and programming content GRPs totals fall off from there.
For sister channel TNT, the largest supply of 18-49 C3 GRPs is also movies (22%) -- then comes the NBA (14%), "Castle" (11%) and "Law & Order" (9%).
Nathanson is also concerned with a possible shifting of cable sports franchises. There is speculation that Fox would like to take TNT's big-rated NBA telecasts and potentially move them to Fox Sports 1 -- all to boost the nascent Fox sports network. But Nathanson wonders whether the league would allow this.
Also, he asks: "Can these rights be moved without causing a downward revision to affiliate fees at these Turner Networks?" "What will TNT put on in prime time to replace the highly rated NBA games that [is] 14% of its ratings and a higher [percentage of its] ad dollars?"
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Paula Lynn
Who Else Unlimited
, July 28, 2014 at 7:13 p.m.
Yadda Yadda. If something like this allowed to take place of such power and control of one magna-corporation, it puts another peg in the coffin of democracy proving unfettered capitalism is the door to an oligarchic country.
Nicholas Schiavone
Nicholas P. Schiavone, LLC
, July 28, 2014 at 8:38 p.m.
I do not recall any comments like this from you, Paula, when Comcast went after NBCUniversal. Selective perception is a widespread problem in this industry. TWC could use a renaissance after Jeff Zucker made Anthony Bourdain his chief primetime news anchor at CNN. Brilliant ! Not !!
Arvin Nundloll
, July 29, 2014 at 8:39 a.m.
You mention TWC in the headline but Time Warner and Time Warner Cable are two separate entities.
Douglas Ferguson
College of Charleston
, July 29, 2014 at 8:40 a.m.
Is the news decline mostly due to CNN, or equally FoxNews and CNN? Reporting that both are down obscures the culprit.
Paula Lynn
Who Else Unlimited
, July 29, 2014 at 8:58 p.m.
Same goes for Comcast and NBCUniversal. Each step gets worse. Feel better, NC ?
Paula Lynn
Who Else Unlimited
, July 29, 2014 at 8:59 p.m.
larry towers
, July 30, 2014 at 11:55 a.m.
More consolidation is a bad thing for consumers as well as content creators. These cable entities are nothing more than gatekeepers. The future belongs to disintermediation, direct distribution of content from producers/creators to consumers.
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Chocolate lovers of the world, unite. Share a dark-chocolate bar with your sweetheart to celebrate Valentine's Day on Tuesday. While munching away, ponder how the idea of tailoring your eating habits to your own profile, much like tailoring a music list on an iPod, could be the next big thing in health care.
The health benefits of dark chocolate are well established: Those who eat 3.5 ounces a day have lower cholesterol and blood pressure, which are factors in heart health. But it isn't as simple as consuming any old chocolate bar, or eating to your heart's content.
So says David Agus, an oncologist and researcher and the author of a new book, The End of Illness, that has already hit the best-seller lists. Although Agus likes the idea of eating foods like chocolate for positive effect, the problem is that chocolate is a high-calorie, high-fat food, and thus calories may have to be cut by eating less of something else.
Heartening: Dark chocolate may enhance health, but the answer isn't as simple as eating a bar a day, says one doctor. William Waitzman for Barron's
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Indeed, Agus calls his book a "manifesto" to change the thinking about health to a more systemic view from a more targeted view, and for individuals to become more aware of their own health data. (Agus also co-founded a genetic-testing company.)
Moreover, Agus hopes people on social networks will take up the cause of preventive health care to change behavior. Says he: "We need to demand an end to illness," where prevention is paramount.
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The Singapore Air Show begins.
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Egypt holds elections for the Upper House of Parliament.
Wednesday 15
Home builders, showing optimism lately, issue their February survey.
The Federal Reserve's FOMC publishes minutes from its latest meeting. OppenheimerFunds economist Brian Levitt expects to see hints of discussion of further policy accommodation.
The Euro group is set to consider Greece's proposals. OppenheimerFunds' Levitt says any additional clarity from Europe should be a "good thing" for risk assets.
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Dallas Fed President Richard Fisher speaks about Fed operations.
The House Judiciary Committee looks at the constitutionality of some Obama appointments made during the recess.
The Senate Finance Committee examines Obama's budget proposal.
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Thursday 16
Washington Mutual seeks approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware for its $7 billion creditor plan. The plan sees WaMu, which suffered the biggest bank collapse in U.S. history, becoming an insurer.
Weekly initial jobless claims are reported, as is the Philly Fed index.
France and Spain hold bond auctions.
A big day for company meetings with analysts. On the roster: Crane, CR -0.03176620076238882% Crane Co. U.S.: NYSE USD62.94 -0.02 -0.03176620076238882% /Date(1427490121990-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 486432 AFTER HOURS USD62.94 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2165 P/E Ratio 19.1890243902439 Market Cap 3649386902.41425 Dividend Yield 2.0972354623450906% Rev. per Employee 258849 More quote details and news » Health Net, HNT 0.9610520991401112% Health Net Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD59.88 0.57 0.9610520991401112% /Date(1427490128352-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 384688 AFTER HOURS USD59.88 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 15424 P/E Ratio 32.9010989010989 Market Cap 4606388959.12003 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1748230 More quote details and news » Zions Bancorp, ZION -1.1597456041900487% Zions Bancorp U.S.: Nasdaq USD26.42 -0.31 -1.1597456041900487% /Date(1427490000182-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1609097 AFTER HOURS USD26.42 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5576 P/E Ratio 15.220647540039176 Market Cap 5361463636.08795 Dividend Yield 0.6056018168054504% Rev. per Employee 226790 More quote details and news » Gartner, IT 1.029664133366021% Gartner Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD82.42 0.84 1.029664133366021% /Date(1427490174466-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 265333 AFTER HOURS USD82.42 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3417 P/E Ratio 40.204878048780486 Market Cap 7213563341.32934 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 299118 More quote details and news » WGL Holdings, WGL 0.7419471588852696% WGL Holdings Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD55.67 0.41 0.7419471588852696% /Date(1427490058201-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 159417 AFTER HOURS USD55.46 -0.21 -0.37722292078318664% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 11481 P/E Ratio 18.744107744107744 Market Cap 2768023655.75195 Dividend Yield 3.3231543021375964% Rev. per Employee 1851170 More quote details and news » JDSU JDSU -0.3837298541826554% JDS Uniphase Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq USD12.98 -0.05 -0.3837298541826554% /Date(1427490000098-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2217059 AFTER HOURS USD13.05 0.07 0.539291217257319% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 17487 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 3020251161.79581 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 340647 More quote details and news » and Blue Nile. NILE 1.1225144323284157% Blue Nile Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD31.53 0.35 1.1225144323284157% /Date(1427490000190-0500)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 79187 AFTER HOURS USD31.53 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1478 P/E Ratio 38.925925925925924 Market Cap 374324159.972992 Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee 1573140 More quote details and news »
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Wednesday 15: The approval of a second rescue package for troubled Greece will continue to concern markets, as the Euro group is set to consider the plan.
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Americast...is it really that bad?
We have a 2nd floor spare bathroom complete redo going on right now. We removed our old Porcelain on Steel tub (30"x60"x14")..had some chips in it. And I didn't know any better about fixing the chips.
We looked at Kohler Villiger and Toto1525s, but those just weight too much, and me and the wife are doing most of the work (except the tiling).
We don't want acrylic because of potential to crack, and not being able to clean it using normal cleaners.
Which brings us to Americast. I know most of the folks on this forum don't like it but I was curious about if anyone has it, likes it, and if there really are "flex" problems.
Could anyone recommend other Porcelain on Steel tubs manufactures?
Thanks in advance for your advice.
I have sold the Americast many times, with no complaints of flex problems. I will be putting it in my house when I do a remodel in a few years. Porcelain on steel, however, is always a problem. Very lightweight, cold, loud when filling. I'm not aware of any manufacturer doing it any better.
suzi, have you heard of Bootzcast? Similar thing, by Bootz. I'm so concerned about getting Americast because of all the reported problems--if we *did* have a problem, we'd have only ourselves to blame and I hear that the co. is not exactly responsive.
I am pretty much completely in your shoes, aaron, too. I keep hoping that the delays in finishing the first floor and getting on to the second will allow time for The Answer to be developed.
One thing I did read, to help with the problem of flex, is to put the tub in a mortar, so that basically the entire "floor" of the tub actually rests in the mortar.
From what I read else where, even putting shims (like 2x4s) in the open-air/shallow part of the tub (away from the drain), doesn't really help and to use mortar instead.
I have heard of the Bootz product, but I don't have any experience with it. I would imagine that it is very similar to the Americast.
Incidentally, some of the criticisms I have read about the Americast seem to be off-base. A few of them seem to be describing a fiberglass-like material, which Americast is not.
My advice to anyone who can manage it, is to see the product for yourself and order it from a local supplier.
I have an Americast kitchen sink and it has a lot of chips in it. I have no idea where they came from either (ie I don't recall whacking something against the side of it hard enough that I'd notice at the time). I personally would not put another Americast product in my house because of this.
I've got an Americast tub in one of my kids baths. I installed it as part of a total redo over last winter. I too was somewhat hesitant, but got solid reviews from some people I trust and went with it. FYI it replaced a powder blue cast iron job.
Eight months later I have to say all is well. Quite honestly I figured I'd damage it somehow during all the tiling. Between dropping tile (pretty infrequent) to runaway thinset and grout (sorta unavoidable) I was sure I'd find either a chip or at the very least a scratch. I did have it covered with a moving blanket, but it was no match for the thinset and grout. I also spent quite a bit of time standing in it ( I go a solid 230lbs) while tiling. Again, not a scratch or ding.
Some observations...the instructions specifically forbid a mortar bed underneath. I did have some squeaking when I stood in it, but that was quickly resolved by adding a few more screws over the lip and into pre-layed blocking. Originally I thought I'd need only a few pan head screws, but found a couple more was better.
Overall, I'm very happy. The product is working fine...I saved a few sheckles, and most importantly, didn't have to hump a 300lb cast iron replacement up to the second floor
If the only reason for not using a cast iron is the install - why not see what the cost for 2 or 3 guys to bring it in and set it you & wife complete the rest?
Nothing holds up better than good old cast iron tub, and nothing retains heat better
good luck
6+ years and zero problems. Replaced an old beat up cast iron tub.


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What is it with Colin Farrell and older women?
The Daily Mail hints today that Colin may have been romantically involved with Liz Taylor during the last year and a half of her life
It was a secret known only to the two of them but was not the first time that Colin has courted an older woman.
Colin told Access Hollywood: 'I was just lucky enough to become her friend in the last year and a half. I adore her…still.'
Asked how they meet he said
'You know, the old story of boy meets girl, and boy pesters girl with too many phone calls at inappropriate hours of the night.'
They became so close that Colin became the only A list star to speak at her funeral --and Elizabeth picked out the poem for him, called The Leaden Echo and The Golden Echo by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Farrell said 'Elizabeth chose it. It was
a tricky poem as well. Even in passing she had me under the thumb, sweating bricks.'
Back in 2005 Dame Eileen Atkins, then 70 revealed that Colin had attempted to seduce her.
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It was later confirmed that it was Colin Farrell who tried on the seduction bit.
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Acer saccharum 'Crescendo'
Just discovered this one - a Morton Arboretum selection. Seems to be of the same vein as Commemoration, Legacy, etc in being tough-leaved & heat/drought tolerant.
1. Has anyone planted one?
2. Has anyone seen one for sale? Seems this one is even harder to find than the Caddo maples or 'Hiawatha'.
As is typical with shade tree cultivars most sellers that come up are wholesale ones. But there may be some retailers in there somewhere, too - I only looked at the first page.
Note cultivar is 'Morton' and not 'Crescendo'. "Crescendo" is a marketing device used to promote 'Morton', same as "RoundUp" is used to sell glyphosate formulations.
Here is a link that might be useful: Bing!
No quotes around 'Fall Fiesta' as it is not the cultivar. The purpose of using trademarks, registered trademarks and patented names for plant introductions is to assert control over them, in order to make more money. In Britain such terms are called "selling names", which gets right to the heart of their function. If you also manufacture a jawbreaker cultivar name to use with the selling name then that tends to reinforce the selling name, simply because the cultivar name is too hard to use.


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I don't know where this originated, but our ward did this in RS:
Sing to "Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes"
"Reach, rear view, bend and sit; bend and sit; bend and sit. Reach, rear view, bend and sit. Does it really fit?"
Reach (lift both arms above head)
- to check for bare midriffs and too short in length
Rear View (turn head to look over shoulder at rear end)
- to check for too tight – look for panty or bra lines
Bend (use both arms to touch toes)
- to check for gaping necklines, gaps on back between shirt and pants
Sit (sit down or pretend to sit down)
- to check for too short, high cut slits, and gaps on back between shirt and pants
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What's The Perfect Balance For a Budget Laptop? 375
from the whatever-fits-over-your-knees dept.
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You don't need a supercomputer to run an office suite, web browser, and e-mail client, and these laptops are designed with that in mind.
Have you tried running the latest version of Windows/Office? It's no wonder that people expect ball-burning laptops. I would have gone and got an "underpowered" machine if they existed when I settled on my MacBook as a pseudo desktop replacement.
The appeal of the Eee and OLPC is they don't run Windows so they can be "underpowered" as hell and still work really well. A Windows Eee is just the worst piece of shit I ever saw; they won't sell to the masses with Linux and they're too slow for the masses wit
Finally, if it's cheap enough to not really force a user to chose between owning a portable and owning a desktop (or better equipped portable) and instead they can have both, then you sir have a cash machine!
It should be able to handle running 3D games at low resolutions... 1024x768, say, or a widescreen version of that. It shouldn't be able to handle Crisis at 1900x1200 without a flicker, but at least let me putter about on World of Warcraft and Sims 2 without feeling like I'm working on something from five years ago.
Are you serious or just trying to get modded as 'Funny'? The word budget should be a clear indicator to any gamer that this laptop is not intended for gaming. History will tell you the very same thing. It is true that laptops have become more capable at the lower segments, but 3D power has remained consistent (more or less). Budget segments will always target businesses and people who intend to browse the web, check e-mail and so forth. Maybe that will change some day, but not in the next five years.
Back in 2000, I got a new work laptop: a Toshiba portege 3440... seemed a bit too small at first and seemingly underpowered, but to be honest, it was quite adequate for taking notes, hacking my Perl, Java & SQL (didn't use the monster-ish Eclipse back then), and when needed, VNC into my desktop to run my batch queries and compi
I don't need it to be powerful or have great performance to do these things. These reviewers are using the wrong scale to review these types of laptops.
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7 year old Ramona in trouble ~ help!
Hi ~ Since planting in 2004 she has never failed even as a baby ~ she woke up on time per my journal just on 1 side & proceeded to show up some bloom buds. Still just on 1 side ~ then just all of a sudden some leaves turned yellow but never proceeded to brown & dry ~ just some young tips with buds got limp. Those that turned yellow weeks ago are still yellow. Some buds have opened but because of all the rain these past 3 days the blossoms were a bit sad looking.
Ramona is planted at the foot of a *No Parking* post on the curb & for years was a show stopper & often photographed by strangers passing through.
At the end of Apr I got some hardwood mulch to replenish my many beds & the circle where she was got covered heavily ~ a few days later the yellowing happened. Is it possible the mulch sustained a wet feet situation?
Your thoughts please? TIA!
I traced back through all the tangled mess & couldn't find breakage ~ the entire 1 side dried but are pliable tho a few are breakably dry.
Could a dog's sprinkling do it?
The live side still holds the yellowed some (foliage) & the buds have flashed open ... very peculiar for one dependably, reliable beauty for 7 years!
I'll check once more & perhaps time to clean up all the dried twines!
Thank you for your thoughts!
Hi again ~ I finally got Ramona cleaned out a bit (with much care) she is truly beautiful now that the dried sticks n' twines are out of the way & her blossoms do not get so contorted trying to flash open.
However the yellowed few foliage are hanging on & not browing & some are mottled ~ is this a symptom of something remediable?
My ? a bout dog peedles is because she is planted at the foot of *No Parking* post ~ people walking dogs made me wonder ~ I have a set of folding wire fencing around the base to discourage them.


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Cast Changes: Swan Lake on 19 and 21 February 2015
17 February 2015
Cast changes in effect for roles of Odette/Odile and Prince Siegfried.
International ballet stars to perform at Ann Maguire Gala on 22 March 2015
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Evening of world class dance to honour the life of Ann Maguire and celebrate her legacy.
Additional casting confirmed for Don Quixote
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Role debuts announced for Carlos Acosta's Royal Ballet production.
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A look at the development of the male dancer.
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The American Royal Ballet Principal on the challenges of the role, and working with Natalia Makarova.
Royal Ballet dancers the subjects of new photography exhibition
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Fashion, dance and photography brought together in works by Rick Guest.
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Jonathan Cope and Lesley Collier coach Fumi Kaneko and Nehemiah Kish in the Sugar Plum Fairy pas de deux.
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Darcey Bussell joins Royal Ballet Principals and 200-strong ensemble for finale.
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Oswald wedding ring
Ring from hand that shaped history to be auctioned off
It didn't go so well. The native Russian had given her husband the silent treatment most of the time, and hopeful statements he did hear were followed by contradictions, according to the Warren Report, the government's account of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
A year ago, that wedding band was found in the files of Marina Oswald's lawyer, apparently forgotten after being returned years ago by the FBI, said Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RRAuction of Amherst.
Oswald advocated for Castro and communist Cuba; he tried to shoot a prominent right-wing extremist, retired Army Gen. Edwin A. Walker; he visited Mexico so he could speak to Cuban officials about defecting to Cuba.
His marriage was about as successful as the rest of his life. Oswald forbade Marina, who could not speak English, to smoke, drink or wear makeup. He hit her on occasion.She complained about a lack of money, called his political activities foolish, and disparaged him in front of others for his sexual inadequacies.She was living with a mutual friend in Irving when Oswald visited Nov. 21. She was angry and give him the silent treatment. He asked her to move to bring their daughters to Dallas, where he had a job at the school book depository.She said she wanted to stay with their friend in Irving through the holidays, and they were spending less money apart."And I told him to buy me a washing machine," she told the Warren Commission. He said he would, then she told him to forget it; he should buy something for himself.
On Monday, Manchester jeweler David Bellman examined the ring as part of the authentication process.
It is a basic, 14-karat-gold ring. After cleaning it, Bellman could examine some engravings inside: a letter P, followed by a star, and the numbers 583. Inside the star are a barely detectable hammer and sickle.
"She wants nothing to do with that ring. She wants nothing to do with that day. She's got grandchildren. She's moved on with life," he said.
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Link: http://pamirtimes.net/2012/06/22/a-brown-bear-family-sighted-hundrap-gilgit-baltistan/
A brown bear family sighted in Hundrap, Ghizer
Our Correspondent
Gilgit, June 21: The Snow Leopard Foundation, Pakistan, has said that a family of Brown Bear has been sighted in Hundrap area of Phandar, located in Ghizer District of Gilgit – Baltistan. According to a press statement members of an occupancy survey team sighted the Brown Bear family from an approximate distance of almost 100m.
The site occupancy survey in Pahndar was a two week activity to document occurrence of large carnivores, the press statement states, in which an area comprising of 51 grid cells (5 x 5 km each) were searched by six experienced researchers. The main localities surveyed included Langer, Barsit, Teru, Hundrab, Serbal and Chashi. The presence of brown bear, wolf, fox and ibex was confirmed in different parts of the area through their signs. Sighting of brown bear in Hundrab strengthened the evidences.
Gupis: The surveyors think that the population of the endangered Brown Bear in Hundrap might be very small. PR
Link: http://tribune.com.pk/story/462478/wildlife-crimes-leopard-poisoned-buried-secretly-in-abbottabad/
Wildlife crimes: Leopard poisoned, buried secretly in Abbottabad
By Our Correspondent
Published: November 8, 2012
A villager in the Galiyat area of Abbottabad poisoned and secretly buried a leopard, authorities discovered on Wednesday.
After killing the leopard, the villager buried the animal but "the foul smell of the dead animal" led locals and officials of the wildlife department to investigate the killing.
Authorities have ordered a probe into the killing of the leopard, sources in the area revealed.
According to locals of the area, the leopard had been constantly attacking the cattle heads of the villagers in the Boji Kakul forest area due to which one of the villagers got infuriated and decided to put the animal to rest.
Link: http://www.peregrinefund.org/news-release/250
Peregrine Fund study shows that the ban on toxic veterinary drug diclofenac is effective in addressing Asian vulture crisis
29 October 2012
BOISE, Idaho – The number of critically endangered Long-billed Vultures in Pakistan is beginning to recover, thanks to a ban on the use of diclofenac, a veterinary drug that is toxic to vultures, according to a new study by The Peregrine Fund.
The article, "First evidence that populations of the critically endangered Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus in Pakistan have increased following the ban of the toxic veterinary drug diclofenac in south Asia," was written by M. Jamshed I. Chaudry, Darcy L. Ogada, Riffat N. Malike, Munir Z. Virani, and Matthew D. Giovanni. It will be published in the peer-reviewed journal Bird Conservation International and is available online at:
Before the 2006 ban, vulture populations in Pakistan, India, and Nepal had dropped by up to 99%. Diclofenac, then a new drug in the veterinary market, was widely used to treat ailing cattle and other livestock, but vultures began dying by the thousands. The birds suffered renal failure after ingesting diclofenac-treated carcasses that had been left in the fields for scavengers.
Link: http://dawn.com/2012/10/27/30-houbara-hunting-permits-issued-to-gulf-dignitaries/
30 houbara hunting permits issued to Gulf dignitaries
From the Newspaper | Bhagwandas | 27th October, 2012
KARACHI, Oct 26: The federal government has issued at least 30 special permits to royal family members and government officials of Arab states to hunt the highly rare and internationally protected bird species houbara bustard, it emerged on Friday.
Hunting of the internationally protected migratory bird is banned under various local and international conservation laws and Pakistanis are not allowed to hunt the precious bird, sources said.
During the hunting season 2012-13, the sources said, the favour had been extended to the royal families of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, State of Qatar and Kingdom of Bahrain, including three rulers (kings), four crown prices, an uncle of a ruler, brothers and other close family members of the rulers.
Link: http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/10/17/city/lahore/pangolin-trade-betrays-apathy-for-biodiversity/
Pangolin trade betrays apathy for biodiversity
Wednesday, 17 Oct 2012
Conservationists see the decimation of pangolins (scaly anteaters) in Pakistan as a sign of the callousness with which this country's rich biodiversity is being traded away for commercial gain, according to a report by the IPS.
Tariq Mahmood, an assistant professor, toldsIPS that if the illegal trade in pangolins – prized for their scales and meat – is not stemmed, the animal may well go extinct within the next few decades.
Between December 2011 and March 2012, Mahmood's team of researchers recovered 50 pangolin carcasses in the Potohar district of Punjab province alone.
Link: http://www.snowleopardnetwork.org/blog/?p=532
Healthy populations of predator and prey documented in MisgarChapurson, Gilgit-Baltistan
Thanks to SLN member Ali Nawaz for distributing this press release to the SLN.
"Abundance of signs suggest a healthy population of snow leopards in Misgar-Chapurson", says Hussain Ali from Snow Leopard Foundation (SLF) on completion of a month long site occupancy surveys in Misgar and Chapurson valleys, Hunza-Nagar, GilgitBaltistan. He explains objective of this survey was to explore presence/abundance of snow leopards and other sympatric carnivores in the area, as well as their conflicts with the local community.
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HOSA students take 1st PlacePublished by carey.white on Thu, 2015-03-26 12:41
Springville High students attended and competed at the Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) State Conference at the Davis Convention Center in Layton on Thursday and Friday, March 19 and 20. Three students out of the seven who attended placed in their respective competitions:
Key Club holds the Key to Red Devil PridePublished by carey.white on Thu, 2015-03-26 12:39
Each year, our SHS Key Club carries out four community service projects for the city of Springville. For first quarter, the key club organizes and hosts a 5k to help raise money for the Springville City's Sub-for-Santa efforts.
Second quarter, they arrange a food drive and collect nonperishable goods from around the community as well as shop for sub-for-Santa families.
Springville's ProStart, Culinary Arts take 1st Place in State CompetitionPublished by carey.white on Thu, 2015-03-26 12:34
On Tuesday, March 17, five Springville High Senior girls competed in the State ProStart Culinary Arts Competition. Springville placed first in state at will be advancing to the national competition. They went head to head against nine other top teams in the state including Cedar City, Springville, Provo, Westlake, Tooele, West, Murray, Clearfield, Bonneville, and Northridge High Schools. Our students practiced over a hundred times, sacrificing their free time, weekends, and holidays to prepare for the ProStart culinary competition.
Springville's Long-Running Tradition: The Bridge Building ContestPublished by carey.white on Mon, 2015-03-23 09:59
On Friday, March 13, Springville High School held one of its older traditions--the bridge building contest. Although it might not be the most popular tradition at Springville, it has been held every year for 40 years! It is part of our school more than most would think.
On Friday, many students participated in the contest during 3rd and 4th period. Most participated for the incentive of extra credit in chemistry. Either way, the turnout was impressive. The student made bridges filled the tables in Mr. Haderlie's lab.


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