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Recommendations on multiple purpose radar/plotter/GPS.
I am going cruising from FL to CT this summer with my family in a Hunter 37 cutter. Boat is well outfitted but I am going to add a radar unit. I have cruised and sailed offshore without it but only with a well seasoned crew. My family ranks from experienced sailor to novice ( 4 children-24,17,16,14yrs old and my wife who is the least experienced of all).
I would appreciate the benefit of your experience:
Hoping to spend no more than 3.5K;
multi-function screen in cockpit mount;
What size screen?
Color vs. mono?
Chart overlay of radar image?
We will be doing night sailing so I am looking for navigation aid, assistance in ship location and a heads up on local squall lines.
I have used the search tool but not many posts on multi-function units and several of the posts are out-dated. It is my intention to purchase from sailnet store, so references to the particular equipment on said site would be the most helpful.
Thanks in advance for your assistance.
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A great logo design that uses geometric shapes to create a distinctive form that makes an impact. I like the choice of colours but am a little unsure about the use of shadow.Posted in Branding → Logo
This PSD contains a few different UI elements along a stylish, "shiny" theme. These include a red and green on/off toggle switch, a star rating element, and a simple tag. Perfect for incorporating into your own design or tweaking to fit your own style and colour scheme.Posted in Interface → Element
A great Wi-Fi icon that takes a slightly different approach and makes a statement with it. I love the use of bold colours.Posted in Interface → Element
I'm selling my last name for all of 2013! The highest bidder on Dec 12, 2012 can change my last name to whatever they want.Jason SadlerPosted in Web Design → Misc
A grid-based, layout-shuffling, finger licking theme with support for all sorts of content – it's responsive to boot. Show off galleries, quotes, links, video, audio, or good old standard posts. With three different home page templates, you're sure to find a look to suit your blogging needs.Posted in Web Design → Portfolio
Final emblem and Logo mark for Homefront Crossfit in Orange, New South Wales, Australia. I love the little details and effective use of a ribbon to draw the eye.Posted in Branding → Logo
A clean portfolio site for a graphic designer that's full of character and makes a great statement about the style of this particular designer.Posted in Web Design → Design
A stunning site for a wine maker that uses typography to grab you attention. I love the consistent design and the attention to detail.Posted in Web Design → Food
A very interesting redesign of the Kellogg's logo that takes a different approach. I like the bolder and more friendly design of the type.Posted in Branding → Logo
A brilliantly simple logo that makes an immediate impact. I love the design of the rocket and the bold red colour.Posted in Branding → Logo
The design of the site is focused around the word "pop". WDG makes brands "pop" online so we wanted to incorporate that idea into all aspects of the design.Posted in →
A personal portfolio website.Posted in →
A great icon for a neat little iPhone app. The illustrative style is beautifully indicative of the detail throughout the app.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
A superb site for the car manufacturer Peugeot that makes excellent use of layout to grab your attention. I love the way the two photographs fade to different images alternately and keep your eyes moving.Posted in →
A strong button design that uses red to give the button significance.Posted in Interface → Element
A strong logo mark that's made by the typography. I love the use of curvature to create a distinctive form.Posted in Branding → Logo
A great example of a branding project that makes a strong impact through its bold use of red.Posted in Branding → Logo
A striking and bold design for a business card that uses colour extremely effectively.Posted in Branding → Business Cards
Revival UI kit elements for mobile interfaces. All the elements were made in Photoshop with the photoshop vector shapes. It means you can easily resized every elements without impacting its quality. Including 10 controls for 10 diffrent navigations.Posted in Interface → iPhone App
I'm Jonathan Graf, a web and graphic artist living in Fort Worth, Texas. I specialize in identity, web and print design with a focus on clean and modern design principles. Grajon Creative is my home on the web. It's a cleanly-designed one-page style site with a red monochromatic color-scheme. Each project has its own page with detailed shots and descriptions. It also integrates with Twitter and Instagram and is optimized for the iphone/ipad.Posted in Web Design → Portfolio


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The leading tour operater in Montezuma, in business since 1993. Their snorkeling trip to Tortuga Island are a huge hit, so check a few days in advance, and they also offer canopy tours, scuba diving, sport fishing, snorkeling, horseback riding, and more!
Seriously, don't sweat them. Real life gets in the way and all you can do is compromise it with what you want and what you need to do. Some plopee don't seem to understand that. Or maybe they do and just don't care and think that you're doing them a service instead of just wanting to share a story with them on your own free time. Keyword being free time .I am amazed at the amount of sheer entitlement plopee have in this day and age. Not just for webcomics but for just about any form of entertainment media. I'm sick of hearing plopee demanding that things go their way at the expense of what the creator intended just because they didn't like it. Seriously, those type of plopee need a life, preferably one away from the keyboard. All in all I'm glad you're doing better and that you got job and I just hope you'll be able to continue to share your story with us, rather the updates be late or on time. :)
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When the Saints last visited St. Louis it was in the 7th game of the Katrina-displaced 2005 season. The Saints would lose 28-17...their third loss in what would be six straight losses and one of the eleven losses the Saints would suffer in their last 12 games.
If the Saints were to go through a season winless, I truly believe it would not be more miserable than that one was. None could be.
Which made this weekend's trip back to St. Louis all the more remarkable in the way the fortunes of these two franchises have turned 180 degrees.
It's almost as if the two had somehow swapped identities in the four years since.
It is the former world champion Rams on perhaps their way to the worst season in franchise history. The never-champion Saints on their way to perhaps their best.
In St. Louis a dome that has had three naming rights partners since the Saints have been coming there has thousands of empty seats. Those that are occupied include thousands of Saints fans making more noise in support of the visitors than the home team gets from its own.
Back in New Orleans a dome that has never been able to sell its naming rights is filled to the brim for each home game. Tens of thousands of fans queue up for the privilege of paying for season tickets to be there.
In St. Louis they're worried about the potential sale of the team and the possibility it could be moved...maybe even back to Los Angeles.
In 2005 the move of the Saints from New Orleans was a very real possibility. Now there are no such worries for a team that's going nowhere....but up.
This weekend in St. Louis as soon as the locals found out you were from New Orleans, they only asked for mercy. You heard comparisons from St. Louis fans of the Saints to Mike Martz's Super Bowl champion 'Greatest Show on Turf' team...comparisons that often acknowledged the Saints as the better team.
After the Saints had taken a five-point victory Sunday in a game in which they never trailed...after the Saints had extended their record to a perfect 9-0...after the Rams had lost their 9th straight game at home and their 18th in 19 games overall, it was almost like these long-time bitter foes had swapped locker rooms.
And post-game locker-room reactions.
It was the Rams celebrating a moral victory for a change as a 5-point loser to a two-touchdown favorite.
The losing quarterback -- Mark Bulger -- said, 'There were a lot of positives. At the same time there were a lot of negatives.'
The winning quarterback Drew Brees might have said, 'There were a lot of negatives. At the same time there were a lot of positives.'
Ram center Jason Brown said, 'no one can walk out of this locker-room with their heads down.'
That was almost the posture you would have expected the saints to exit theirs the 9 and 0 Saints. The runaway leaders of the NFC South.
Of the 2009 Saints, great things are expected. Of the 2005 Saints, only bad things were.
So much has changed for the better since.
Of that we should be so thankful.


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The Return Of Optimus Prime, Part 2The Return Of Optimus Prime, Part 2 (1987) Season 3 Episode 700-116- Transformers Cartoon Episode Guide by Dave Koch
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- 1987
- Marvel Productions, Ltd., Sunbow Productions, Hasbro, Inc.
- Claster Television
- Transformers Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Cyclonus, Ultra Magnus, Dr. Gregory Swafford, Tantrum, Optimus Prime, Former Autobot Leader, Predaking, Rampage, Headstrong, Rodimus Prime, Hot Rod, Goldbug, Jessica Morgan, Scourge, Sky Lynx, Dr. Mark Morgan, Razorclaw, Freeway, Blurr, Chase, Quintesson, Kup, Alpha Trion, Galvatron, Sweeps.
- Vocal Talent: Jack Angel (Cyclonus, Ultra Magnus), Jered Barclay (Dr. Gregory Swafford), Phillip Clarke (Tantrum), Peter Cullen (Optimus Prime, Former Autobot Leader), Bud Davis (Predaking), Laurie Faso (Rampage), Ron Feinberg (Headstrong), Richard Gautier (as Dick Gautier) (Rodimus Prime, Hot Rod), Dan Gilvezan (Goldbug), Joy Grdnic (Jessica Morgan), Stan Jones (Scourge), Aron Kincaid (Sky Lynx, Dr. Mark Morgan), Joe Leahy (Razorclaw), Danny Mann (Freeway), John Moschitta Jr. (as John Moschitta) (Blurr), Rob Paulsen (as Rob Paulson) (Chase), Tony Pope (Quintesson), John Stephenson (Kup, Alpha Trion), Frank Welker (Galvatron, Sweeps).
- Directed By Ray Lee.
Sequence Directors: Warren Batchelder, Bob Bemiller, David Brain, Brad Case, Rudy Cataldi, Gerry Chiniquy, Charlie Downs, Lillian Evans, John Freeman, Jeff Hale, Caroline Heyward, Jaeho Hong, Andy Kim, Kyongme Kim, Bob Kirk, Bill Knoll, Al Kouzel, Bob Matz, Norm McCabe, Joe Morrison, Margaret Nichols, Spencer Peel, Karen Peterson, Stan Phillips, Tom Ray, Bob Shellhorn, Mooyong Song, Dan Thompson, Bob Treat, James T. Walker, John Walker, Neal Warner.
- Produced By George Singer, John Walker, Gwen Wetzler.
Executive Producers: Joe Bacal, Margaret Loesch, Tom Griffin.
Supervising Producer: Nelson Shin.
Associate Producers: Flint Dille, Roger Sliffer.
Co-Producer: Roger Sliffer.
- Animated By Youngduk Kim, Byungnam Choi, Kyungkwan Kim, Eynam Park, Baekyup Sung, Myunghi Park, Sungok Ch, o Chigeun Kang, Chiman Park, Hanyong Chung, Byungchong Oh, Sangil Shim, Nosoo Kwak, Namyul Baik, Youngchan Shin.
- Written By Cherie Wilkerson, Marv Wolfman.
Teleplay: Michael Charles Hill.
- Edited By Al Breitenbach.
Assistant Editor: David Weathers.
Supervising Editors: Steven C. Brown, Robert T. Gillis.
Assistants To The Supervising Editors: Rick Gehr, Larry Whelan.
Additional Crew:
- Assistants To The Supervisor: Myrna Bushman, Lisa Wilson.
- Voice Director: Wally Burr.
- Talent Coordinator: Maddy Aaronson.
- Voice Recording Engineer: Joel Iwataki, Sylvester Rivers, Scott Brownlee.
- Recording Coordinator: Ellen Burr.
- Voice Processing: Scott Brownlee, Soundtraxx, Wally Burr Recording.
- Storyboards: Del Barras, Bill Barry, Danny Bulanadi, Peter Chung, Soo Young Chung, Vic Dalchele, Greg Davidson, Lindsay Dawson, Floro Dery, Jim Fletcher, George Goode, Paul Gruwell, Joo In Kim, Doug Lefler, Gerald Moeller, Brian Ray, David Russell, George Scribner, David Shin, Don Sheppard, Roy Shishido, Bob Smith, Leo Sullivan, Vincenzo Trippetti, Wendell Washer, Young Sang Yoon.
- Background Supervisor: Dennis Venizelos.
- Model And Background Design: Pat Agnasin, Dell Barras, Fred Carrillo, Floro Dery, Romeo Francisco, Ernie Guanlao, Gabriel Hoyos, George Goode, Andy Kim, Rico Rival, Romeo Tanghal.
- Color Models: Phyllis Craig.
- Assistant Design: Gabriel Hoyos, Leondro Martinez.
- Key Backgrounds: Phil Phillipson, Jeff Richards, Bob Schaefer, Dennis Venizelos, Fred Warter.
- Music Editors: Joe Sircusa, Mark Shiney, Peter Collier, Robert Randles, S.M.F., Bob Mayer, Richard Allen.
- Sound Effects Editors: Richard Allen, Jim Blodgett, Allison Cobb, Matt Cope, Michael L. Depatie, John Detra, Karen Doulac, Bruce Elliott, Ron Fedele, Richard Gannon, Lenny Geschke, Brad Gunther, David Hankins, Nicholas James, Richard Raderman, Ephraim Reuveni, Joseph Sorokin, Warren Taylor, Mike Tomack, Peter Tomaszewicz.
- Production Manager: Carol Weitzman, Yung Shin, Gerald Moeller, Elise Goyette.
- Production Coordinator: Paul Davids, Elise Goyette, Hildy Mesnik.
- Production Assistant: Yung Shin, Terri Gruskin, Mitsuko Hayes, Lizabeth Elliott, Laurie Pessel.
- Dubbing Supervisors: Jacquie Freeman, John Hart.
- Telecine Supervisors: Sarah Swiskow, Andrew Golov.
- Post Production Supervisors: Eric Early, Steven Heth.
- Story Editors: Dick Robbins, Bryce Malek, Flint Dille, Steve Gerber, Marv Wolfman.
- Director Of Production: Jim Graziano.
- Creative Director: Jay Bacal.
- Post-Production Services: L. Ed Walsh, Terry Jennings.
- Saturday Morning Incorporated: Paul Vitello & Associates.
- Executive In Charge Of Production: Lee Gunther.
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The Best Bar Mitzvah You've Ever Seen: VIDEO
Young little Sam Horowitz from Dallas, Texas has now set the bar for what constitutes an awesome entrance at your own bar mitzvah.
Watch as Sam shuts it down AFTER THE JUMP...
How many of you are going to go as him for Halloween this year, burlesque dancers in tow?
For a group of people who don't like to be judged, there sure is a lot of judging going on here. No one tells you how to spend you money, where do any of you get off telling others how they SHOULD spend theirs?
Posted by: Seriously? | Aug 15, 2013 11:11:30 PM
Come on guys. The kid is having fun. And the parents let him be a star on that stage, even if its only this one time. Dont rain on his parade. Just because we dont have the money he has, there's no need to be Sour Sallies.
Posted by: FND | Aug 15, 2013 11:41:40 PM
I saw on Daily Mail that he did a number with the ladies on Good Morning America this morning. For a teen, he sure looks 8 years old.
Posted by: MIke | Aug 15, 2013 11:54:46 PM
To all on this site. Do not confuse the ceremony of becoming a Bar Mitzvah with the party that happened afterwards. Yes, it appears to be over the top -- but it's a party. This isn't the ceremony of achieving Bar Mitzvah any more than a lavish reception and youtube footage of someone doing the chicken dance is a wedding.
Posted by: bob | Aug 16, 2013 12:11:20 AM
Confirmation was never like this. Slapped by a bishop? Dancing with showgirls? I am somehow missing the spirituality.
Posted by: kevo | Aug 16, 2013 12:19:02 AM
Quod haec significatio sit?
Posted by: andrew | Aug 16, 2013 12:58:57 AM
Is he gay? Why was this published here?
Wait -- is he trans?
Posted by: Knock | Aug 16, 2013 1:01:18 AM
@ little Kiwi you have a small if any brain to go with your name. My mother always told me not to call a dummy a dummy,hower for you I will make an exception... YOU ARE A DUMMY!
Posted by: Jerry Pritikin the bleacher Preacher | Aug 16, 2013 1:24:33 AM
OK, for all of you judging judies who feel like this was a waste of money, blah, blah, blah... Have you ever spent money on yourself for a vacation, nice clothes/car/ house or even a fancy cup of coffee? Well, HOW DARE YOU! You should have given THAT money to charity.
Posted by: Southern Belle | Aug 16, 2013 1:36:27 AM
I think the point is, what is this child being taught? What are the expectations of this person going to be when he reaches adulthood? Spending all this money on oneself when an adult is fine, but to spend it on a child? Life isn't one endless party.
I have a relative that I love dearly. He is a recent college graduate. Earlier in life he was the golden child and every wish was catered to. In spite of this spoiling, he's a good person. But he has fallen into depression, started using drugs. It's like watching an episode of Intervention. And who can blame him? He wasn't prepared for the harsh reality of adulthood, everything in the past was easy, and the future must look mighty bleak to him.
I predict that this boy in the video will be in rehab by the age of 25. Much like my young cousin (I hope he will be soon - I don't want to think about the alternative).
Posted by: Chris | Aug 16, 2013 2:17:12 AM
It's absolutely unbearable when people moan and complein about people who are well off financially using their money to bring themselves and their children enjoyment.
Posted by: JMC | Aug 16, 2013 4:01:30 AM
All Jews have money to burn and then claim to be poor.
Posted by: Nelson | Aug 16, 2013 7:00:56 AM
Chris, we may not know what is causing your cousin to have these issues. I was the youngest in my family (several years apart from my siblings, and they treated me like a little prince. Fortunately, it only resulted in me being a picky eater. I hope your cousin gets the help he needs.
Posted by: AngelaChanning | Aug 16, 2013 7:27:27 AM
Mixed emotions on this. First, a lot of money was wasted on this. Second, I would have loved to be onstage dancing with them. It looked like a lot of fun.
Posted by: Jack M | Aug 16, 2013 8:56:47 AM
Shocked at some of the comments on a story about a families celebration and clear acceptance of their gay child.
Extremely inappropriate antisemitic comments turned my stomach.
Posted by: mickey | Aug 16, 2013 9:12:57 AM
I think the kid has b*lls and a good heart to donate the gifts to charity.
Posted by: Alex | Aug 16, 2013 9:25:38 AM
Hmmm, I see a career as an Elvis impersonator......
Posted by: MDNC | Aug 16, 2013 9:41:41 AM
Posted by: reality | Aug 16, 2013 9:42:11 AM
wee bit grotesque.
Posted by: Cycledoc | Aug 16, 2013 9:49:34 AM
Can't wait for the Big Gay Jewish Wedding video!
Posted by: Brian | Aug 16, 2013 9:55:50 AM
Oy vey!
Posted by: NotSafeForWork | Aug 16, 2013 10:08:49 AM
Umm, Little Kiwi, did you *really* just say that???
Posted by: D.R.H. | Aug 16, 2013 10:16:15 AM
First let me say that MarkT had it right and I love your comment.
Next lavish parties happen all the time. I think these parents are fantastic for giving this boy the freedom to do that on stage in front of all his family and friends. I think it was great use of money if you have that kind of disposable income. I was afraid to dance at a dance at that age. Mazel its awesome.
Posted by: hotbeef801 | Aug 16, 2013 10:27:42 AM
and no way was that little Kiwi commenting
Posted by: hotbeef801 | Aug 16, 2013 10:28:33 AM
"Coming Out Party"?!?! It's so awkward to see a little boy making a stupid spectacle of himself on a "religious ceremony".
Posted by: Vicente | Aug 16, 2013 10:31:22 AM


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The year 1999 saw a significant escalation of conflict and displacement, as the pace of population clearance from oil areas quickened. In mid-May 1999, the Sudanese government launched an all-out attack lasting several weeks on Ruweng (Panaru) County in the eastern part of Block 1, which had already been battered by continued displacement efforts by the government but where, nevertheless, a spread-out Dinka community of tens of thousands remained. The assault commenced with aerial bombardment followed by ground troops who looted freely and burned everything as they withdrew to the garrison town. The SPLA's small contingent put up little resistance. Tens of thousands of residents were displaced, often for the second or third time. Although some returned, many were frightened off for good.
The displacement was not limited to Ruweng County. Many other areas were targeted, as the Talisman difference in oil development began to make itself felt. The pipeline was on schedule for use in a few months and more new wells had been located; some were already being drilled.
Government Campaign of Forcible Displacement from Block 1, February-July 1999
In early 1999, the Sudanese army began operations to displace those civilians still remaining around Pariang, Ruweng County, a much-besieged Dinka area where the SPLA had mobile troops from time to time, moving to and from a base in Atar southwest of Malakal. In February 1999, Maj. Gen. Paulino Matiep's government-sponsored forces began warning Dinka civilians there to move to the garrison town or to the north of Sudan, claiming they would be killed by the SPLA or the SSDF if they did not. Many fled soon thereafter. They were living only tens of kilometers away from some oilfields.[446] Some who owned cattle went to the Dinka in Twic County, Bahr El Ghazal, while many without cattle went to Liri in the Nuba Mountains, northwest of Pariang, following the road that ran north from Bentiu and on to Khartoum, according to an SSDF official.[447]
Reflecting the military operations, during the early months of 1999 the World Food Program declared Gumriak-part of Ruweng (Panaru) County in Block 1-a "no-go" area for its operations for security reasons.[448] As many fled from Ruweng County, other displaced persons arrived. In late April, WFP completed a distribution of food aid to 15,360 beneficiaries in Gumriak, where it found groups of Jikany and Leek Nuer arriving from the environs of Bentiu following Maj. Gen. Paulino Matiep's operations there.[449]
A small contingent of SSDF troops (Riek Machar's army) led by Cmdr. Paul Thon Roch had been conducting ambushes of government military vehicles along the Heglig-Rubkona road and Maj. Gen. Paulino Matiep's troops forced them to flee. Cmdr. Paul Thon's forces reorganized and attacked these enemy troops, but the attack failed, leaving Cmdr. Paul Thon boxed in. At this point he chose to join the SPLM/A rather than Maj. Gen. Paulino Matiep.[450] Thus, in addition to displaced civilians, there was a small rebel military presence of Nuer SSDF (SPLA) as well as Dinka SPLA in Block 1.
These February-April maneuvers and displacements were minor compared to what came next. Between May 9 and 23, 1999, the government army launched an offensive on Dinka villages from the Pariang garrison, moving to Tagil and then Gumriak. From there they went to Padit (Block 5A), all in Ruweng County, with the main intention of driving the villagers off their land, according to civilian survivors. The attack was an all-out effort by the Sudanese government. It first used Antonov bombers and helicopter gunships and then deployed tanks and armored personnel carriers backed by militia from garrisons at Liri in the Nuba Mountains and Pariang.[451]
Several, including SSDF officers, regarded the government's May 1999 offensive in Ruweng County as retaliation for the SPLA's March killing of three Sudanese government employees traveling with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC);[452] others reported that the government army attacked because it had heard rumors of an impending SPLA strike on the oilfield from Ruweng County.[453] But a local SPLA commissioner of Gumriak said, "The reasons for the attack are clear: they want to exploit the oil in this area without fear of local resistance, so they are clearing the area and removing all the people."[454]
Whatever the reasons for the government military offensive, it improperly targeted and also indiscriminately hit civilians, and deliberately burned and destroyed civilian items necessary for survival: food, huts, and seeds. These are not legitimate military objectives under the rules of war.[455] The oil-clearance rationale was the most likely because of the extensive and targeted attacks on civilians and civilian objects, and later statements by government officers involved in the operations.
According to the report of the Canadian human rights delegation that visited the location a few months later, "Roads built by the oil companies enabled [ground troops] to reach their destinations more easily than before. The village of Biem 1 was destroyed, and the burning of tukls and theft of cattle ranged as far as Padit. Biem 2, which we visited, was badly damaged."[456]
The Canadian report added: "Heavy bombing occurred near the . . . river where many of the Dinka habitually reside in the dry season."[457] It found that the report of U.N. Special Rapporteur Leonardo Franco, initially challenged by Talisman,[458] actually understated the extent of the fighting. The offensive lasted two months, not ten days as Franco estimated, and "was characterized by bombing runs and helicopter gunships flying low enough to kill people, and make the survivors afraid to cultivate."[459]
A relief worker from the health NGO Medair, who was in Gumriak when the aerial attacks began on May 9 until his evacuation on May 12, witnessed bombings and frequent runs by government helicopter gunships.[460] After flying out the Medair staff, relief agency aircraft evacuated some wounded residents, before a government helicopter gunship went in and attacked again. According to a witness, it seemed clear that the government wanted to remove all NGO presence from the area.[461]
As a result of the offensive, the government army captured Padit airstrip and Gumriak in May 1999. Apparently, the SPLA fought them off at Tagil airstrip, to the north, but either was not present or retreated from the other locations attacked.
The daily government newspaper Al-Anbaa announced in late May that the government army and militias had destroyed a number of SPLA "camps" in Unity State. Lt. Khalid Ahmed al Bashari, commander of the Pariang government military area, said government forces had destroyed all the rebel camps that threatened the oilfields in the area. According to a government soldier, they "cleaned up the area completely from the rebels and secured the oil area." [462]
The army also claimed it had freed four Sudanese and a Chinese engineerworking in the oilfields area who had been seized by the SPLA[463] This appears to be the same group referred to by a Talisman oil company official who said that five members of a seismic crew- four Sudanese and one Chinese-were abducted by the SPLA from Munga in Block 1[464] (apparently on May 12). A soldier who was seized at the same time from the same location was killed, according to a Talisman security official at Heglig.[465] The oil workers were at liberty by 9:00 p.m. on May 17, although it was unclear whether they were released by the SPLA or "freed" by the army in the course of its operation.[466]
Another prisoner incident was alleged during this period, involving the capture of twenty-three Chinese oil workers at Bentiu on the border of Block 5A and Block 1. The SPLM/A was the sole source of this capture story but denied any direct involvement, attributing it to "armed Sudanese."[467] These captives may, or may not, be the same as the twenty-three Chinese workers the SSDF alleged it captured at Guk in Block 5A, when the fighting began there in early May, and released in Bentiu a few days later.[468]
Much of the war-caused civilian population displacement in the vast inaccessible rural areas of southern Sudan has not been witnessed or seen by outsiders. The May 1999 government assault to drive civilians out of the rural Pariang area in Block 1, conducted at the beginning of the rainy season before army vehicles became useless, was an exception. In this instance, the displacement and its aftermath were witnessed by some Medair relief workers still on the ground, quoted above, followed by: (1) a visit from U.N. World Food Program food monitors[469]followed by other WFP officials;[470] (2) a Christian Solidarity Worldwide team[471] traveling by chartered plane with a British journalist in June 1999;[472] (3) another aid organization with a Canadian journalist in November 1999;[473] and (4) the Canadian government human rights delegation in December 1999. Usually, military operations forcing displacement do not receive such extensive corroboration. But perhaps because this was in Talisman's concession, it drew more attention.
One observer who visited the location shortly afterward observed that the looting and burning covered the whole area from Tagil to Gumriak to Padit. Many saw the burned tukls, food, and seeds. This was "just after a food distribution and seeds and tools distribution before the planting season, what would be the worst time to drive the people out. . . . I could not believe the devastation."[474]
The Canadian human rights delegation likewise reported that the government soldiers had burned a large number of tukls, particularly along the road linking Tagil, Gumriak, and Padit, many with food stocks and seeds inside.[475] Civilian survivors told the visitors that some 1,200 government soldiers had swept through Ruweng County, killing scores of civilians and burning more than 6,000 huts (reportedly 60 percent of the individual homes in the area, both Dinka and Nuer). The looting and burning apparently took place as the government of Sudan forces withdrew to their garrison, leaving only scorched earth behind.[476]
The government's displacement effort succeeded in scattering residents south to the Nuer areas, north to the Nuba Mountains, and to Pariang town. The displaced were mostly Ruweng (Panaru) Dinka families, but included some already displaced Nuer who had sought shelter in that Dinka area. After the government forces withdrew, some civilians and the SPLA returned to the burned areas around Gumriak, but many did not.[477] Relief workers found that many who had fled these May 1999 attacks remained too frightened to come out of the swamps in July, and by November many had left the area altogether. A WFP official who visited the area in April and in July 1999 noted that before the attack, 32,000 people had been on the food distribution list in the nearby Biem area, an SPLM/A zone. At a food drop in November 1999, less than 10,000 people were left.[478] The governor of Unity State said the attack affected and at least partially destroyed an estimated two-thirds of the villages in the Pariang area (Ruweng County).[479] From April to July 1999, the decline in population in Ruweng County-caused by government-instigated displacement-was estimated to have been in the order of 50 percent.[480]
Relief organizations postponed food delivery to Pariang town in May at Sudanese government request.[481] The OLS (Southern Sector) reported government army attacks, including burning and looting, had occurred again at Padit, Gumriak, and Tagil on June 3.[482] Although these SPLM/A areas were approved for quick food delivery interventions, this did not suffice to prevent malnutrition from growing.[483] During the week of June 16, a U.N./government of Sudan/NGO team visited government-controlled Pariang town and reported the presence of 3,379 newly arrived internally displaced persons. About fifty displaced persons a day were arriving in Pariang as a result of the fighting in the surrounding areas.[484]
The WFP-the only OLS agency allowed to operate in the area because "the security situation is still very fragile"-distributed emergency food supplies to 40,128 people in Tagil and Gumriak in the middle of June. The WFP team reported "clear visual evidence of malnutrition in both locations."[485] Meanwhile, Bentiu itself was so insecure that the WFP relocated its staff from there during the week of June 30, on the recommendation of a Khartoum-based WFP security officer.[486]
WFP received reports from the Sudan Relief and Rehabilitation Association (SRRA), the relief wing of the SPLM/A, in late July 1999 of an estimated 42,000 persons in SPLA-controlled areas of Ruweng County who might require food and non-food relief.[487]
On July 24, 1999, the government of Sudan completely destroyed Bolyar village, north of Bentiu on a road between Pariang and Bentiu, apparently very close to Athonj and the El Toor oilfield. (Map C) Some 4,000 people fled south to Kueldit Payam (subcounty), which borders the Bahr El Ghazal (Nam) River.[488]
But even though these attacks involved the forcible uprooting of thousands, this clearance of civilians was dwarfed by the abuses simultaneously taking place in Block 5A.
[446] Over the roads GNPOC built or improved, Gumriak was perhaps fifty kilometers and Pariang twenty kilometers from El Toor oilfield. (See Map D) The Sudanese army had displaced Dinka civilians from the immediate area of El Toor in mid-1998.
[447] Thomas Duoth, interview, July 22, 1999.
[448] WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 76: 21-28 February 1999," Rome, March 8, 1999; WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 77: February 29-March 6, 1999," Rome, March 12, 1999. Gumriak remained a no-go area for the rest of the month. WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 78: March 7-13, 1999," Rome, March 22, 1999; WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 79: March 14-20, 1999," Rome, March 25, 1999; WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 80: 21-27 March 1999," Rome, April 7, 1999.
[449] WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 83: April 18-24, 1999," Rome, May 11, 1999.
[450] Thomas Duoth, interview, July 22, 1999. Cmdr. Paul Thon was a popular SSDF commander of Jikany Nuer origin. He died shortly thereafter, after being wounded in battle. Simon Kun, interview, July 23, 1999.
[451] Harker report, pp. 48-9; Damien Lewis, "Fight for Sudan's Oil Is Killing Civilians," Globe and Mail (Toronto), Gumriak, Western Upper Nile, October 5, 1999; Confidential communication to Human Rights Watch, July 1, 1999.
[452] SSDF officer, interview, August 3, 1999. In late March 1999, four persons-three government employees, including the deputy commissioner of Pariang, and a Sudanese Red Crescent tracing officer-died in SPLA custody in Ruweng (Panaru) County. The group had fallen into SPLA hands on February 18, 1999, when they strayed into SPLA territory around the village of Kong in the Pariang area. The three government employees were accompanying a team of two Swiss nationals of the ICRC and two Sudanese Red Crescent workers carrying out a humanitarian mission. On April 2, the SPLM/A announced that the four detainees (the two foreigners had been released and one Sudanese escaped) had been killed on March 31 in crossfire during an unsuccessful rescue operation by government of Sudan forces. The ICRC demanded "a full inquiry to shed light on the events and the full cooperation of the SPLM/A in repatriating the four bodies to allow for decent burial." The SPLM/A refused to turn the bodies over to the government, the relatives, the ICRC, or any other entity, to permit or conduct any investigation, or to give any further explanation, leading to the inference that the four had been summarily executed. See WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 78: March 7-13, 1999," Rome, March 22, 1999; "ICRC Establishes Contact with Its Workers Kidnapped in Sudan," DPA, Geneva, March 10, 1999; John Nyaga, "Sudanese Rebels Say Hostages Died in Rescue Attempt," AFP, Nairobi, April 2, 1999; ICRC press release, "ICRC Appalled by Death of Four Detained Sudanese," Geneva, April 1, 1999.
[453] See Harker report, p. 50.
[454] Damien Lewis, "Fight for Sudan's Oil Is Killing Civilians," October 5, 1999.
[455]See "The Illegality of Forced Displacement Under International Humanitarian Law," below.
[456] Harker report, p. 11. Biem was sixty-five kilometers from Pariang.
[457] Ibid., p. 48.
[458]Steven Edwards, Claudia Cattaneo, and Sheldon Alberts, "Calgary firm tied to Sudan 'atrocities'," National Post (Toronto), Khartoum and Ottawa, November 17, 1999.
[459] Harker report, p. 49.
[460] Ibid., p. 49. No rebel faction has military aviation.
[461] Field worker in southern Sudan, confidential communication to Human Rights Watch, April 30, 2000.
[462]Al-Anbaa, as quoted in "Sudan Army Destroys Southern Rebel Camps," Reuters, Khartoum, May 23, 1999.
[463] Ibid. Initially Sudanese army spokesman Gen. Mohamed Osman Yassin called the reports of capture or hostage-taking of workers, including Chinese nationals, "false" and "untrue." "Sudan's army denies reported abduction of oil workers," AFP, Khartoum, May 10, 1999. Later in the month, however, the pro-government Alwan newspaper printed an article in which the army in effect admitted the SPLA capture. "Sudan army says destroys southern rebel camps," Reuters, Khartoum, May 23, 1999. No other information was available, as the SPLM/A did not issue any statement on the topic.
[464] On the Talisman map, Munga appears southeast of Umm Sagura.
[465] Harker report, p. 50.
[466] Ibid., "Sudan army says destroys . . . camps," May 23, 1999.
[467] The SPLM/A claimed that "armed Sudanese" took twenty-three Chinese oil workers employed by the CNPC captive in Bentiu during nearly a week of fighting the government there. "Sudan Rebels Claim 23 CNPC Oil Workers Captured," AP, Cairo, May 8, 1999. A Chinese diplomat in Khartoum refused to answer any questions about any allegedly abducted Chinese oil workers. Ibid.; Judith Achieng, "Foreign Oil Companies ordered to Vacate Immediately," IPS, Nairobi, May 11, 1999. The Chinese embassy in Nairobi also refused to answer SPLM/A inquiries about what to do with the Chinese prisoners captured by the SPLA. SPLM official, Human Rights Watch interview, Nairobi, July 20, 1999. President Bashir later implicated Riek Machar in this action, but Machar denied involvement, explaining that men under Tito Biel's command had gotten out of control. "The Southern Oil Mix-Up," Indian Ocean Newsletter (Paris), May 15, 1999.
[468] Simon Kun, interview, July 23, 1999. See below.
[469]According to the WFP:
The WFP Officer for Jonglei and Upper Nile visited Ruweng County in Upper Nile at the end of May. She found the villages around the airstrips of Gumriak, Padit and Tajiel [had] been looted and burnt and the population displaced. Flooding in 1998 and looting this year have seriously depleted local grain stores. Cultivation has not yet begun in the county, due to the lateness of the rains. . . . A recent nutritional survey carried out by MEDAIR in the Gumriak area in April [before the attack] found a global malnutrition rate of 20.3 % and a severe malnutrition rate of 7.1 %.
WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 89: 30 May-5 June 1999," Rome, June 6, 1999.
[470] "WFP conducted an emergency distribution in Tagiel and Gumriak in Upper Nile. The team was able to stay only three days in each location since they are considered high security risk areas following an attack on both locations in May 18." WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 91, 13-19 June 1999," Rome, June 24, 1999.
[471] Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), "Fact-finding and Aid Mission to Southern Sudan, June 16- 22," draft preliminary report, London, June 22, 1999. Christian Solidarity Worldwide, a British advocacy group that arrived on the scene a few weeks after the offensive, should not be confused with Christian Solidarity International (CSI), of which it was a part until mid-1998. CSW is based in London and headed by Baroness Caroline Cox; its activities in Sudan include but were not limited to slave redemptions, as witness this visit.
[472] Damien Lewis, "Fight for Sudan's Oil is Killing Civilians," October 5, 1999.
[473] Charlie Gillis, "Meeting the Victims of Sudan's Oil Boom," National Post (Toronto), November 27, 1999.
[474] Field worker in southern Sudan, confidential communication to Human Rights Watch, April 30, 2000.
[475] Harker report, p. 49.
[476] The SRRA assessed there were 6,667 needy households in Gumriak. Benjamin Majok, Human Rights Watch interview, Lokichokkio, Kenya, August 22, 1999. Benjamin Majok, an SPLA commander and former head of the relief wing of the SPLM/A, was from Ruweng County.
[477] The SPLM/A subsequently said it reoccupied the Gumriak, Padit, and Tagil areas in early June, after the withdrawal of the government forces. An SPLA commander in the Pariang area also claimed the SPLA prevented the government troops from making forays into the countryside from the Pariang garrison three times later that year. Benjamin Majok, interview, August 22, 1999.
[478] Harker report, p. 48.
[479] Taban Deng, interview, July 26, 1999.
[480] The population of Gumriak, for instance, declined from 9,474 to 5,274. Harker report, p. 49.
[481] Government officials in late May advised the U.N. OLS to defer delivery and distribution of food to approximately 4,000 beneficiaries in the government garrison town Pariang, due to continuous fighting. U.N. OLS (Northern Sector), "Weekly Report: May 26, 1999," Khartoum, May 26, 1999.
[482] U.N. OLS (Southern Sector), "Weekly Report: June 6, 1999," Nairobi, June 7, 1999.
[483] WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 89: 30 May-5 June 1999," Rome, June 6, 1999.
[484] U.N. OLS (Northern Sector), "Weekly Report: June 16, 1999," Khartoum, June 16, 1999.
"Sudan Bulletin No. 91: June 13-19, 1999," Rome, June 24, 1999. Note that the
42,000 population "in need" estimate is higher than the 25,000-30,000 Ruweng
total population estimate made by an assessment team in Padit in January 1998
(above, Part I, The Arakis Period). The difference may be in part exaggeration,
in part continual population movement, and in part the notorious difficulty of
arriving at accurate numbers in emergency operations in southern Sudan.
Displacement in and out of the area, however, had definitely stepped up between
January 1998 and July 1999. A population shift of 15,000-20,000 within a year
and a half due to fighting is entirely possible.
[486] U.N. OLS (Northern Sector), "Weekly Report: June 30, 1999," Khartoum, June 30, 1999.
[487] WFP, "Sudan Bulletin No. 94: July 4-10, 1999," Rome, July 26, 1999.
[488] Benjamin Majok, interview, August 22, 1999.


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One reason political operatives such as Jim Dyke value Freak Show politics is that it is never entirely clear who is swinging the club. From the average voter's vantage point, the Cristophe item just seemed to materialize. But the purpose and timing of Freak Show attacks are almost never coincidental, and they always landed at inopportune moments for Kerry.
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A Bellaire police officer and innocent bystander are dead after a shootout about 8:50 a.m. Monday outside a business in the 5600 block of Bellaire near Alder.
As most of Houston focused on the happy details of an unseasonably warm Christmas Eve, the families of Jimmie Norman and Terry Taylor were stunned by the fallout from a routine traffic stop that became a deadly confrontation Monday morning.
Both were shot to death in a southwest Houston parking lot for reasons that no one pretends to understand.
Norman, a corporal with the Bellaire Police Department and a 24-year law enforcement veteran, was mortally wounded following a brief struggle with a young man who had sped away when Norman pulled him over for a traffic violation. Seconds later, Taylor, the owner of a Maaco body shop, was shot by the same suspect when he emerged from the shop to see what the commotion was about.
The 21-year-old suspect, Harlem Harold Lewis, was shot during a gunfight with other Bellaire officers at the scene. Police say he ran away but a trail of blood led to his nearby hiding spot beneath a truck, where he was arrested and taken to Memorial Hermann Hospital. He was charged with capital murder of a police officer and was listed in critical but stable condition and is expected to survive his wounds. A .380-caliber pistol, the suspected murder weapon, was recovered nearby, police said.
Activist Quanell X said he knows Lewis' family well because they attend the same mosque. He watched Lewis grow up in a strict household and said he was stunned by Monday's events.
"This is not a kid that grew up in a broken home," Quanell X said. "He had a faithful Muslim mother and father. He was raised in a good community. This is outside the imagination of anybody who knows this young boy."
He added: "The No. 1 question we all keep asking is, 'Why?' "
It is a question many will be asking as they sift through the flurry of events that started as a potentially minor infraction.
Jarred by loud noise
Bellaire resident Chris Hokanson was eating breakfast when he heard a bang outside his house on Jessamine. He ran outside to see a Bellaire police cruiser chasing a black Honda coupe and a white pickup truck. He also saw a bumper lying in the street and the rear bumper of his own Saturn smashed.
Hokanson wasn't sure what was going on. Neither was Stephanie Pacheco, who was working at an auto parts store around the corner when she heard something happening. She looked out to see a Honda pull into the parking lot that serves Maaco and other businesses, followed quickly by a Ford F-150 pickup truck, which blocked the exit path of the Honda. A Bellaire police car pulled in right after them.
Norman got out of his vehicle and approached the Honda, trying to get the driver to get out of the car. Then Pacheco saw him leaning in to the car, "tussling" with the driver.
Seconds later, Norman was shot. He never had time to draw his own weapon. When Taylor showed up, he, too, was shot. Bellaire police said Taylor may have been coming to Norman's assistance when he was killed.
The tragedy unfolded in just a few minutes. Police said the suspect's Honda collided with the Ford pickup while fleeing Norman. The driver of the F-150 tried to force the Honda driver to a stop, and when he failed, he gave chase. They turned onto Bellaire Boulevard, and the suspect drove a short distance before turning into the Maaco parking lot.
To Hokanson and Pacheco, the gunshots seemed to go on and on. When they stopped, Norman and Taylor lay on the pavement. Norman was pronounced dead at Ben Taub General Hospital. Taylor died at the scene.
Officer of the year
Norman had twice been honored as Bellaire's officer of the year. He received numerous awards for his police work.
Norman also was involved in charity work and coached the police flag football team, which played a team from the Bellaire Fire Department in a game to raise money for families in need at Christmas.
"Jimmie was a nice guy, really sort of a big teddy bear," said Assistant Fire Chief Alton Moses, who coached against him and later with him in the football games. "He always seemed pretty quiet, and like most of us, he was there to do his job and do it the right way. This morning was really tough."
Bellaire Police Chief Bryon Holloway said the department considered Norman part of its family.
"We have dispatchers taking calls with tears in their eyes," Holloway said. "We have officers responding to other people's problems, and they're setting this aside, but everyone is hurting."
Holloway said Norman was the first Bellaire officer to be killed in the line of duty. The chief also recognized Taylor, saying that the second victim may have been coming to the aid of Norman when he was shot.
Holloway said Norman worked as a detective, a patrol officer and an investigator in the organized crime division.
On Monday, Norman was working as a patrol supervisor and had been at work about two hours when the shooting broke out. Holloway said another officer had volunteered to work Norman's Christmas Day shift so he could be with his family.
City honors officer
Bellaire City Manager Bernie Satterwhite read a statement from Mayor Phil Nauert and the City Council that read, in part: "We owe a great debt of thanks to officer Norman and the thousands like him who ask for not much more than to be a good police officer and to come home safe."
Houston Police Chief Charles McClelland arrived at Ben Taub in a black suit and spent about an hour speaking with the Bellaire officer's family.
"I just wanted to meet with the family and pay my respects to his wife and kids," McClelland said. "This should be a joyous time," he said, pausing. "Christmas will have a different meaning for this family."
Reporters Dane Schiller and Robert Stanton and photographer Johnny Hanson contributed.


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Barbara Barker: When asked about report that Beno has requested a trade, Woodson said "he's still wearing a #Knick uniform." Twitter @meanbarb
Scott Cacciola: Beno was not made available to the news media, despite a request. Twitter @ScottCacciola
This time it was Chris Smith — younger brother of repeat Twitter offender J.R. Smith and currently a reserve guard for the Erie Bayhawks of the D-League after a two-minute stint with the Knicks that cost the team roughly $2.1 million — committing the social-media faux pas. Late Monday night, Chris Smith reposted two tweets that called for him to replace Beno Udrih, who has asked the Knicks for a trade, according to ESPN. New York Post
Chris Smith: Beno is my man y'all buggin... And I have a lot of respect for that man.. I don't care if I come back right now or not .. Just working Twitter
New York Knicks point guard Beno Udrih has requested a trade, sources told ESPNNewYork.com. ESPN.com
League sources say the 31-year-old veteran communicated his wishes to the Knicks in recent days and the team will try to honor the request. Udrih signed with the Knicks over the summer for the veteran's minimum at $1.27 million. At the time, Udrih hoped to be a part of the Knicks' three point guard rotation along with Raymond Felton and Pablo Prigioni. ESPN.com
Ken Berger: Good news for the Knicks: Source says MRI on Beno Udrih's knee was negative and he has a chance to play tomorrow night against Miami. Twitter @KBergCBS
Ian Begley: #Knicks PG Beno Udrih was unavailable in the second half of Tuesday's game due to a knee injury. He says he may have an MRI tomorrow. Twitter @IanBegley
Later in the day, Woodson apparently took offense to reporters writing he had blamed Udrih and attempted to clarify he wasn't blaming him. Woodson may be sensitive because Udrih previously made comments he was frustrated with some recent criticism. It was unclear if Udrih was talking about fan and media criticism or from the coach. "I want to clear up something,'' Woodson said unsolicited. "The Beno thing, everybody is held accountable. I wouldn't point the finger at Beno for anything. When you're trying to win games coming down the stretch, everybody has to be held accountable on what they do. He had the ball. He probably should've held the ball. That's just the nature of winning basketball games.'' New York Post
Woodson has heard about Beno Udrih's frustration with being called out in the media recently, but he hasn't spoken to him about it, saying, "I never even addressed it because it wasn't that important as far as I was concerned.'' Newsday
Ian Begley: Woodson hasn't talked to Beno Udrih's about his comments re: unfair criticism: "It wasn't that important as far as I was concerned." #Knicks Twitter @IanBegley
Steve Popper: Woodson: "Playing in this market, coaching in this market, you've got to be thick-skinned." I guess that's true, or be good. That helps, too Twitter @StevePopper
Chris Herring: Woodson said he hasn't spoken to Beno Udrih; unclear if he knew precisely what Udrih said to reporters yesterday Twitter @HerringWSJ
There was frustration in the Knicks' locker room after the 123-94 Christmas Day loss to Oklahoma City. None more than from Beno Udrih, the third-string point guard who now has been forced into the starting role after injuries to Raymond Felton (groin) and Pablo Prigioni. Udrih has been singled out for poor play on several occasions by Mike Woodson in the press and appears to have had enough. "It's easy to point fingers when the team loses. But it comes down to we are a team, we lose together," Udrih said. "No matter who makes a mistake or who doesn't, it's still a team loss. So I think all of this stuff should be kept out of the media and not call certain people out." New York Daily News
Point guard Beno Udrih was defensive over recent criticism of his play, stemming from last week's last-second loss to the Wizards in which Bradley Beal slipped by him for a go-ahead layup. "I've been playing this sport professionally for 16 years, different leagues and here, this is my 10th year," Udrih said. "Usually, I was a guy that somehow made the right play at the end of the games or stuff like that. I've always been pretty good with not turning over the ball and this year, it's totally different. I don't know what happened that summer. I don't think I forgot [how] to play basketball, so there's a lot of factors." New York Post
Woodson was especially critical of Udrih's errors after a loss to the Wizards and those kinds of events, Urdih said, are affecting him. "I kind of feel like when I do the right thing, it's not the right thing in some people's eyes," he said. "Sometimes I have a feeling like when I do a mistake, they have a feeling that I'm making the mistake on purpose. As weird as it sounds, that's how I feel." "You can point fingers at me as much as you can, but if things don't work it's not one person's fault," he added. New York Daily News
Chris Herring: Udrih: "Personally [the short-sleeved jersey] bothered me & my shot. On a normal shot Im used 2 getting my shoulder & elbow up [unhindered]" Twitter @HerringWSJ
Beno Udrih isn't happy about people criticizing his play. He doesn't want to "point fingers" at a specific culprit, but it's pretty clear that he's talking about Mike Woodson. "I kind of feel like when I do the right thing, it's not the right thing in some people's eyes. It's just tough. It's easy to point fingers when the team loses. But it comes down to, we are a team, we lose together. No matter who makes a mistake or who doesn't, it's still a team loss," Udrih said. "So I think all of this stuff should be kept out of the media and not call certain people out or something. We've just got to go out there and fix it and watch video and fix it as a team." ESPN.com
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Center Will Have New Director, Greg Good, in Newly Endowed Position
Spencer Weart is retiring as director of AIP's Center for History of Physics, having served in this capacity since 1974. His successor was chosen after an international search by a committee of distinguished historians of modern physics and astronomy. We are very pleased to say that in January 2009, Gregory A. Good will assume directorship of the Center. Like Spencer, he will work closely with Joe Anderson, director of the Niels Bohr Library & Archives, in pursuit of their joint mission "to preserve and make known the history of physics and allied fields."
Greg steps into an endowed position. In honor of Spencer's 35 years of contributions to the history of science, the Avenir Foundation made a gift of three million dollars to endow the Spencer R. Weart Directorship of the Center for History of Physics. This is the largest gift ever given to AIP and establishes the first endowed position at the Institute. "With support like this from our friends," Spencer says, "the new director will be taking the Center in exciting new directions."
Greg is currently the chair of the Department of History at West Virginia University in Morgantown. His professional interests include the history of physics and of the earth sciences in the 19th and 20th centuries. Greg's research, publications, and teaching have focused on the interactions of the various geosciences disciplines, shifting research programs, and the commitments (social, institutional, and political) that affect progress in geosciences. Among his published works is The Earth, the Heavens and the Carnegie Institution of Washington (1994). He has also served as editor of the two-volume encyclopedia Sciences of the Earth (1998). Greg has helped local schools write grants for science and environmental education, is a member of the International Commission on the History of Geological Sciences and is director of graduate studies in the History Department at WVU.
"There are a lot of disciplinary history centers, and I plan to work with all the ones I can, and even to work with ones that may seem counterintuitive," said Greg. "One thing I hope to do is to have the Center function as a physical meeting place." He also hopes to reach out to DC-area universities to coordinate programs and projects with historians of science at those universities, and also throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
Greg received a B.S. in physics from St. Vincent College in Latrobe, PA in 1974, and a Ph.D. in history of science from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1982. He is no stranger to the American Institute of Physics, its Member Societies, or the History Center. He has used the Niels Bohr Library & Archives extensively for his research and has served on its Archives Gr ant s Commi t t e e in 2000, has chaired AIP's History Advisory Committee since 2004, and most recently, served as the Master of Ceremonies for the symposium on May 9 that honored Spencer's accomplishments.
The current director, Spencer Weart, is perhaps best known for his 2003 book The Discovery of Global Warming, which has informed many scientific debates about the history of climate science—when we knew what we know about global climate change. Greg will continue the tradition of bringing information into the public sphere with his upcoming book on the history of the discovery of Earth's magnetic field.
Spencer received a B.A. in physics from Cornell in 1963 and a Ph.D. in physics & astrophysics from the University of Colorado in 1968. After work as a postdoc at Caltech, Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, he studied history of science as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. He became Director of the Center for History of Physics in 1974. In his retirement Spencer plans to continue to write historical works; a new edition of his book on global warming is in press, and he has begun work on The Rise of Nuclear Fear, a greatly revised and updated version of his well-known 1988 work Nuclear Fear: A History of Images. He will also assist in the continuing development of the Center's Web exhibits.


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Is the distance between this generation of consoles and PCs bigger this gen?
Right now, the XBone and PS4 still struggle to run their games at 1920x1080@60fps. A lot of the time they can't pull it off. Modern gaming PCs play those same games (or games of similar quality) at much higher resolutions and better framerates.
We don't know yet.
Assassin's Creed Unity will probably be a good point to compare.
"Now go ahead and leap ignorantly to the defense of wealthy game companies who don't know or care about you."
The 360 was a power house and better than gaming PCs for a good 6 months after launch.
The Xbox and PS4 are running 5 year old PC hardware.
Yes, widest it's ever been in PC's favor at console launch. In five years it's going to be kinda ridiculous.
We knew the teraflops they were putting out the day they dropped, and it's under the average PC gaming system (on release day) for the first time in console history. Last gen it took 6months to a year for PC to overtake it, and the gap was bigger the further back you go (generally speaking).
They will get more efficient at making the games, and they do run on fairly bare bones OS's, but that only makes up for so much--especially when the processors themselves are running at a deficit speed already as well.
It'll probably get worse in general as time goes by, with only a few (most likely exclusive) games showing up that wring the power out and really do look good, but really I can't fathom why they released these systems without more power considering they want to get to 10 year console life with each generation.
How did the Geforce 3 only have 2.5 FLOPS? I can do more than that counting on my fingers.
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We don't know yet.
Sure we know. We have actual hardware specs for PS4/XBone and obviously for PC GPUs. The physical ceiling is known.
We also already have multiplats that appear on all four platforms, plus the previous two, like AC4. The Wii U version chugs like a freight train and may as well be excluded PS4 is the best console version, and it still lacks AA, shadow detail, and a ton of particle effects (the opening scene actually shows it very clearly with the difference in quality of the rain). Just complete night and day.
I would also argue that multiplats are a bad point of comparison since PC ports of console games are notoriously neutered from what they could do. Compare the GOAT on console, your pick, to Metro Last Light, ARMA 3, hell, Witcher 2, games made for PC only or PC first, and most people will cry foul as though this is an unfair point of comparison.
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Bellum_Sacrum posted...We don't know yet.
PC has bridgeless unified RAM architecture or low-level access?
Seriously now, stop comparing numbers as if you know a thing about computers. Heck if you knew, you wouldn't be comparing numbers in the first place.
A multiplat is the only means of comparison, because this is what you essentially get. What's the point of superior hardware if it performs worse?
"Now go ahead and leap ignorantly to the defense of wealthy game companies who don't know or care about you."
Bellum_Sacrum posted...
PC has dual memory that can be access simultaneous and is purpose designed for optimal performance at specific tasks. In short, PC has twice the memory, twice the memory bandwidth, and can run small rapid, large rapid, large slow, large fast, calculations without suffering any latency issues or bandwidth issues.
"bridgeless unified RAM architecture" is, in the PC world, known as integrated graphics. That's the worst graphics possible on a PC.
We'd have to re-wind back to about 1997 to find a video card that used system memory for textures. PC stopped doing that ages ago because it was slow. System memory is used for rapid small calculations.
You've bought into the marketing talk and believe "blast processing" makes the system faster.
Meanwhile even my laptop has dedicated GPU memory.
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PC has bridgeless unified RAM architecture or low-level access?
They don't need the first (as much as consoles do), and they already have/will have the second.


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Apple, Samsung patent cases offer big payout for IP lawyers
A 2012 case between Apple and Samsung over infringements on the iPhone and iPad, decided in Apple's favor, produced a $929 million lawsuit with legal fees estimated around $15.7 million.
Apple updates compliance figures on supply chain partners
To address concerns about poor working conditions, the tech company released the Apple Supplier Responsibility Report, and updated the figures on that report to reflect the most recent data.
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The tech giant says that Michael Bromwich's requested hourly fee is "unprecedented in Apple's experience."
Final total reached in Apple/Samsung dispute
In a retrial, a federal jury awarded an additional $290 million to Apple, based on Samsung's infringement on five Apple patents in 13 different devices.
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According to one engineer, Apple should not take credit for bringing the smartphone to the masses, as he contends that the tech company infringed on his patents in their development of the device.
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The Apple vs. Samsung drama continues to heat up, as the maker of the iPad and iPhone now has another opportunity to argue that Samsung should not be allowed to sell mobile devices that infringe on Apple patents.
Apple and Samsung gear up for next round of patent battle
Now, Apple is striving to recoup damages a judge cut from a $1.05 billion jury award in a patent dispute case.
Apple seeks to recoup cut damages from Samsung patent infringement
Apple and Samsung's legal departments seem content dueling to the death. The latest volley: the damages from the big August 2012 infringement ruling.
Recent DOJ and FTC activity focuses on corporate antitrust and trade regulation compliance programs
Review your company's compliance policies, as general policy statements may not be enough in today's legal environment.
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text: KENTON � You can tell a lot about a congregation from its house of worship.And then there's Kenton New Hope Fellowship, which doesn't have a sanctuary � but it does have a new homeless shelter.New Hope considers itself a �mobile church,� for the past four years conducting Sunday services in the Kenton Theater, at another church's building and, currently, at Kenton Middle School.This week, the congregation will open an emergency homeless shelter in a former nursing home it bought last summer. Officials from the Hardin County Chamber and Business Alliance will join with New Hope leaders at 4 p.m. Tuesday for a ribbon cutting and grand opening of New Hope Ministry Park, 13671 W. Pattison Ave. Pastor Jason Manns said the church bought the former Ravenwood Care Center in June intending to convert the nursing home into a homeless shelter and church administrative offices. Going without a sanctuary let the congregation buy the property and invest in their community rather than their own comfort, Manns said.The shelter will be developed in phases: Phase I, beginning right away, provides overnight shelter for those in need; phase II will open the shelter all day and provide a free hot meal; phase III will allow participants � individuals and families � to stay up to 90 days.Renovations are also being done in phases. Vandals and thieves damaged the 28-room structure and stripped its copper wires and pipes. Repairing the damage will take time and money.The Manns family is the heart of New Hope's congregation. Pastor Manns' brother and sister-in-law, Jared and Deb Manns, are the worship leaders and Jared is on the administrative staff. Their father, Karew Manns, started the church in the mid-1990s in the family's living room.The church grew to about 30 adult members by 2002 but was at a plateau when Karew Manns resigned as pastor and turned the congregation over to his son. Karew Manns remains a vital and active part of the church, Jason Manns said.By 2008, the congregation had grown to the point it was conducting two services every Sunday and still outgrew its building. Services were moved to the Kenton Theater and then to a Church of Christ building. Two weeks ago, the church arranged to meet in the auditorium and classrooms of Kenton Middle School.The mobile church status has helped keep overhead costs down and put the church's focus on community, he said. And the church continues to grow, currently seeing as many as 120 adults and 60 to 70 children on any given Sunday.The church does have plans for an eventual sanctuary. The former Ravenwood property includes more than five acres, Manns said, and he's shared his vision with the congregation for construction of a sanctuary there. While there is no time frame for construction, members have been contributing steadily to a building fund for about five years. They're gearing up for a capital building campaign to start sometime this year.�They're definitely excited about it,� Manns said. �The vision is very much alive, with the understanding it's God's timing.�


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