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Manufacturing, R&D Colocation Shines at First Solar's Perrysburg Plant
If you're planning to visit First Solar's Perrysburg, Ohio manufacturing plant and snoop into its dark corners, forget about it. There are no dark corners. It may be the brightest factory you've ever visited.
The clean, efficient manufacturing space was recently upgraded with LED lighting and the result would humble any automobile showroom.
SolarReserve and ACWA Power officially announce its 100 MW CSP tower plant in South Africa
The 100 MW Redstone Solar Thermal Power Project in South Africa, owned by a SolarReserve led consortium with ACWA Power, has been nominated 'preferred bidder' by the Department of Energy (DOE).
The Redstone Solar Thermal Power project was awarded preferred bidder in round 3.5 of the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement (REIPPP), with the lowest tariff bid to date from any CSP project in the country.
Scatec Solar Closes USD 157 Million Financing from Google and Prudential Capital Group to Build 104 MW (dc) Solar Plant in Utah
Scatec Solar ASA ('SSO'), the integrated independent solar power producer, has entered into financing agreements totalling USD 157 million for construction of a 104 MW(dc) Red Hills solar power plant in Utah. When complete, the Red Hills solar project will be Scatec Solar's largest developed and constructed project in North America.
Vermont Governor Praised for Commitment to Solar Energy
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin was sworn in today for a third term and used his inaugural address, among other things, to outline an ambitious plan to increase the use of solar energy and other renewables across the state. Following his remarks, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement:
SEIA: States Can Count on Solar to Help Meet New Regulations
WASHINGTON, DC – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed new regulations under the Clean Air Act to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants, the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the United States, by 30 percent by 2030. After that announcement was made, Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement:
U.S. Residential Solar PV Installations Exceeded Commercial Installations for the First Time in Q1 2014
Driven by strong year-over-year growth in the utility and residential markets, the United States installed 1,330 megawatts of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the first quarter of 2014. According to GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industry Association's (SEIA) Q1 2014 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, the U.S. installed 232 megawatts of residential PV, exceeding the non-residential (commercial) market's 225 megawatts for the first time in the history of the report.
Solar Energy Primed to Help U.S. Meet Future Energy Needs
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) today released a comprehensive report, "Cutting carbon emissions: The case for expanding solar energy in America." The report offers a detailed, point-by-by point case as to why states should take advantage of clean solar energy as part of their efforts to comply with Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.
SEIA Applauds New Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Report
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today after reviewing the Department of Energy's new report, "2014: The Year of Concentrating Solar Power," which profiles five utility-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) plants and calls 2014 a "significant milestone in the history of American solar energy."
SEIA Reviewing Draft Regulations Aimed at Expanding Solar
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), released the following statement today concerning efforts to expand the use of solar energy nationwide by using real estate investment trusts (REITs) as a source of funding for clean energy projects
Solar Farms Taking Root in North Carolina
Helen Livingston's family has owned a 300-acre farm near Maxton for generations. Now 45 acres of the land is covered with more than 26,000 dark solar panels, making it part of a growing movement to harvest electricity from the sun.
Solar farms like Livingston's are cropping up all over North Carolina, shining rays of hope on economically depressed areas by bringing jobs, a constant stream of revenue and the potential to attract eco-friendly industry and economic investment.
Solar Leasing Grows in Delaware
Delaware residents are embracing a program that allows homeowners to lease solar panels without making large upfront investments in the technology, the company that offers the service is reporting.
SolarCity, which formally entered Delaware in February when it opened a warehouse in this state, recently has made a push on the East Coast to expand its business model of placing its solar panels on customers' homes, generating electricity that leads to lower customer utility bills.
Utility Scale Solar Farms are Fueling U.S. Growth
It is no coincidence that companies like Innovative Solar Systems have expanded and are now primarily only developing and building solar farm projects that are over 20MW in size. By increasing the size of these solar farm projects in the U.S many things happen: the cost to lease the land goes down, the cost of the equipment is less and of course the labor to construct and build these massive solar farm projects are much less. Softer costs like legal, environmental studies and engineering can also be less if spread over the entire size of the project.
The Reality Of Arizona's Solar Industry
Give or take a few hazy mornings or dust storm-influenced afternoons, the sun shines in Phoenix more than 300 days a year. That's been one of the consistent selling points on why the Valley — and the state of Arizona overall — should be the center of the universe of the solar industry.
Reality, though, indicates something a lot different.
We spoke to Tom Kimbis, vice president of executive affairs for the Solar Energy Industries Association.
Solar Set for Major Role in US Energy Mix, Says EIA
PV is set to become the second most important source of power in the US after natural gas by 2040, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration (EIS).
The EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2014 predicts the overall rate of new electric generation capacity between now and 2040 will slow compared to recent years, but that solar will become an increasingly important part of the picture.


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Jeong Ryeo-won suggested marriage to Lee Beom-soo.
On the fifteenth episode of SBS drama "Salaryman", aired on February 20th, Baek Yeo-chi (Jeong Ryeo-won) tried to see into Yoo-bang's (Lee Beom-soo) mind.
Yoo-bang had a dinner with his co-workers in celebration of their technical cooperation with Hang-woo (Jeong Kyeo-woon), and Yeo-chi called for him saying, "You can have dinner with me".
While drinking, Yeo-chi suddenly said, "I don't get it. You know what my grandfather said? Never mind, I laugh just thinking about it". Yoo-bang seemed curious so she told him, "I don't know if he's becoming senile but he said he will make whoever wins the competition his grandson-in-law".
Yoo-bang was also dumbfounded saying, "Why is the chairman saying ridiculous things like that?" but Yeo-chi put out feelers saying, "What if he said he'd make you his grandson-in-law?"
She continued to ask, "Don't you want to marry me?" as he seemed taken aback.
Meanwhile, Yoo-bang started saying something, "Honestly, Yeo-chi..." but Mo Ga-bi (Kim Seo-hyeong) called her and she had to get up right away, making the whole situation quite confusing.
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May 9, 2015--Global water quality on brink of disaster (Water Online)
Global water quality is expected to take a plunge in the coming years, according to a new white paper by Veolia and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). "This assessment reveals that levels of BOD, N, and P discharged into water bodies around the world are already alarmingly high, particularly in Asia.
April 24, 2015--The Grand Canyon's lost battle paves way for uranium mining (Men's Journal)
On April 7, a U.S. federal judge in Arizona denied a request to halt new uranium mining at a private site six miles from the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. The decision came on the exact day the national non-profit American Rivers named the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon the "Most Endangered River" of 2015.
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A bill to ban tiny plastic particles that are often included in soaps and cosmetic products passed another hurdle in the state legislature this week. The bill to ban the microbeads by 2020 won preliminary approval in the House and faces a final vote before heading to the Senate. In May 2014, the CALL7 Investigators were first to expose concerns over microbeads in Colorado wa
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Cleanup crews trying to mitigate Japan's never-ending radiation crisis at Fukushima ran into more problems recently after sensors monitoring a drainage gutter detected a huge spike in radiation levels from wastewater pouring into the Pacific Ocean.
February 28, 2015--First global pesticide runoff map shows streams at risk (Environmental News Network)
The application of insecticides poisons streams in roughly 40 percent of the global land surface, new research reveals. Streams in the United States, the Mediterranean, Central America and Southeast Asia are most at risk.
February 28, 2015--Human waste taints Animas (Durango Herald)
Elevated levels of bacteria from human waste have been found in the Animas River at the Colorado and New Mexico border for the first time. Although E. coli pollution has been a problem in the Animas and San Juan rivers in New Mexico for years, this study also revealed a different kind of bacteria found in human feces. "It's not a result we had hoped to see. ...
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The final results from a study of contaminants in the San Juan and Animas rivers will be presented at San Juan College on Thursday. A preliminary analysis of study samples found high levels of bacteria associated with human waste in both rivers.
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February 14, 2015--Source Water Collaborative issues 'call to action' to better protect drinking water resources (Water World)
In its recent call to action, the Source Water Collaborative (SWC), an organization comprised of federal, state and local partners aiming to protect drinking water sources, stated that ongoing changes to water quality and quantity are challenging the nation to redouble its efforts to protect its water resources.
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has anyone had this test done already. I think it calld GBS. Im getting this test in about 2 wks. What do they do? Is it like a pap smear (hate pap smear tests).
group b strep
typically two swabs- one in your vag (like a pap) and one in your bum (yes in your bum hole lol)... was told not too bad just a tad uncomfortable I'll get mine at my next appt also... yippee
do they open up ur vag with that plastic thing that looks like a duck? I really hate that duck?lol
LOL..I had it the other day....just a swipe around the vag. opening and down towards the rectum. Not painful. No biggie.
When I had it done they used what looked like an extra long q-tip and just swabbed both areas, I barely felt anything. Of all the tests and stuff done down there, that has been the most pleasant, lol!
~Baby Girl, Reina Taylor arrived 3/4/10! 5lbs., 15.6oz.; 18in.
Like PP said, it's easy. Just a swab by the opening of the vagina and rectum, nothing really inserted. It went so quick you hardly even notice they did it! If you do have GBS, you have to have antibiotics during labor though, and that sucks (penicillin really burns going down your veins, I swear it hurt more than the contractions sometimes, and I went med-free). I have my swab test tomorrow, hope it's negative this time!
Camilla, DH '06, DS '08, DD '10, DS '12
Had mine today. It was painless. A light swab in the vagina and then the swab was drug down my perineum.
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Had mine done yesterday and hardly felt it, nothing like a pap
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Had mine done at 31 weeks since my babies come early and I'd like to avoid antibiotics if possible.
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I had it done at the beginning of my pregnancy and I guess I had it already so they aren't doing another test, but yes. It's just like a pap. Don't worry, I hate them too but as long as it keeps the baby safe and healthy its all worth it, right? :)
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I had it done at the beginning of my pregnancy and I guess I had it already so they aren't doing another test, but yes. It's just like a pap. Don't worry, I hate them too but as long as it keeps the baby safe and healthy its all worth it, right? :)
Why would they have done it at the beginning of the pregnancy... they don't do it until at least 33 weeks...
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The only other resident to speak was Paul Knapp of Jenkins Street. He was opposed to the law, noting first-and-foremost the intrusion onto private property by the village.
"A lot of questions come up with this meter," Knapp said. "You want to pass a local law that says you can cut into my water line that I'm responsible for. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's always been that you maintain from the curb-stop on the meter all the way to your house. And now, part of what I've owned and maintained for 34 years, you want to cut into and insert a meter that you now own and I have no responsibility for."
Another issue that sparked some debate among trustees was the issue of homeowners who traditionally leave their water running during winter months to keep pipes from freezing.
In some cases, residents who winter in the south will leave a faucet running for several months.
Following public hearing, the board passed the local law and passed two subsequent bills for purchase and installation of the water meters.
The first bill authorized the village to purchase meters from E.J. Prescott Inc. at a cost of $387,873. In a previous meeting, the board opted to take the advice of Barton & Loguidice - the village's engineering consultant - and go with Prescott's bid for 2,300 new meters.
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I don't consider myself a "real" Might & Magic collector. For instance, there are many games of the series I didn't buy right at release and instead waited for the cheaper reissues because I was at the time a penniless student. And I don't feel the need to seek the old releases of games I already own just to have the original box and floppies on my shelf (which hasn't much empty space left anyway.)
But once in a while, I come across a mysterious item that piques my interest enough to acquire it, like the Might & Magic novels by Geary Gravel (both of them are great reads, by the way, especially if you like the Jack Vance-ish atmosphere of the Xeen games. But I digress.)
I've also become fascinated by the Japanese ports of Might & Magic games, despite the fact I don't speak or read Japanese.
Japanese players love first-person RPGs and dungeon crawlers. For a long time, while the genre had gone dormant in western countries, Japanese game developers were still producing new Wizardry games, or hardcore gems like the Etrian Odyssey series. It's therefore not surprising that several unique adaptations of Might & Magic were released in the archipelago. There even used to be a Japanese website called Mighty Magician that hosted some of the most complete walkthroughs of Might & Magic III to V. Sadly it seems to have disappeared.
Here are the games I collected in the last seven years or so.
Might and Magic Book One
In July 1990, the company Gakken Co. develops a port of the very first Might & Magic RPG for the Nintendo Famicom (the console that we know in Europe and the US as the NES). Despite almost-monochrome graphics, it's a pretty good adaptation of a classic.
I'm a big fan of this cover art.
There's not much to say about this version, except that it's one of the rare cases where the game travelled back to be released in the United States in 1991. Also, I have to mention the very catchy soundtrack composed by Masaharu Iwata, who later composed music for many cult games like Ogre Battle, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics, Odin Sphere or Muramasa. A CD of enhanced mixes of the tracks he created for Might & Magic was also released.
Might and Magic Book One
(PC-Engine CD-Rom²)
This one is actually the very first Japanese Might & Magic game I acquired. It was released in 1992 (six years after the original) on the NEC PC-Engine (that US players know as the Turbografx). More specifically, for the CD-Rom² add-on for that console.
Yasuhiko Yoshikazu's distinctive style.
It's probably the prettiest version of the original Might & Magic, and features a new character design by Yasuhiko Yoshikazu, of Arion and Gundam fame. The game also has voice-overs (in Japanese) for all NPCs, and a soundtrack composed by none other than Joe Hisaishi (better known for his movie scores for Princess Mononoke or Sonatine.)
Unfortunately, you cannot create your own party in this game, and you are stuck with characters such as Amuru Norzan the Paladin, Lia the (evil) archer, or Asura Frost the Wizard. Also, it seems the game ends after the five major quests (the three lords' quests, the quest to kill the four beasts, and the quest to free the six prisoners) are completed, without the final quest of unmasking Alamar/Sheltem and opening the Gates to Another World.
You can learn more about this game on Celestial Heavens' Round Table forums.
Might and Magic Book Two
(Super Famicom)
In 1993, Might & Magic II was ported on the Super Famicom (Japanese equivalent of the SNES). This version plays very similarly to the Famicom version of MM1, hinting that it might have been developed by the same team (although a studio called Star Craft – no kidding – is credited for the port).
Let's face it: this is probably one of the worst covers of the series.
Savvy gamers might know a SNES port of the game was also released in Europe and the US. But these are actually two very different adaptations: while the SNES version is very faithful to the original computer game, the Super Famicom port introduces a number of changes, the most visible being completely different graphics and portraits for the party characters.
Some quests and details have also been altered or removed. For instance, no Guardian Pegasus in the Japanese version.
Might and Magic III: Isles of Terra
(PC-Engine Super CD-Rom²)
Strangely, the PC-Engine ports of Might & Magic jump from the first game to the third. The PC-Engine version of Isles of Terra is however a fairly straight port of the computer game, without major differences (cosmetic or otherwise).
A pretty cool artwork by fantasy legend Akihiro Yamada. Players familiar with the lore of Terra might recognize the symbols of the Force of the Dome in the background.
This time the Japanese publisher, Hudson Soft, hired artist Akihiro Yamada to draw a couple of artworks for the game's cover and manual. Yamada is one of the greatest fantasy artists in Japan, having illustrated tons of novels like the Chronicles of the Lodoss War and Junni Kokki (Twelve Kingdoms).
The soundtrack also deserves a mention. Composer Shinya Yamamoto did an amazing job, perfectly capturing the eerie mood of the early Might & Magic worlds, full of weirdness and mystery.
Might and Magic: Day of the Destroyer
(PlayStation 2)
After a long absence on video game consoles, the series returned with a port of Might & Magic VIII: Day of the Destroyer on the PlayStation 2. Despite the persistent rumour that this PS2 is a compilation of Might & Magic VI to VIII, it actually only contains the eighth episode.
The… colourful cover of Day of the Destroyer on the PS2.
The biggest difference with the PC version is the addition of a new tutorial level at the beginning and a couple of visual effects when striking the enemies. No screenshot this time around, since I was actually able to record some footage of the game. Enjoy!
That's it! To conclude and get back to the topic of this blog, namely Might & Magic X, I am very happy that our game is also going to be translated into Japanese. I hope Japanese fans of the series (or of the first-person RPG genre) will give it a try :)


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You never know what is going to happen in MMA, which is why you have the fight. That being said, most of the hardcore fanbase was baffled Saturday night by the one-sided shellacking that Joe Lauzon suffered at the hands of Michael Johnson.
Dana White, who is in addition to being president of the UFC is a huge fan of the sport, called it "one of the most lopsided, one-sided beatings you'll ever see in the UFC."
One judge saw fit to call the fight by a nearly unheard of 30-25, reflecting the 116 to 25 strikes imbalance recorded by FightMetric.
"What, did a limb fall off? He kick a limb off?" said White of the score. "Actually, it was close to a limb. That guy had two contusions. That could have been a 30-10."
"First of all, Lauzon looked terrible," continued White. "He looked like he wasn't even there. On the other side, he looked f---ing awesome. It was one of those things where he had the worst night he ever had, and he had the best night he's had in a long time."
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8/20/13 1:30 AM by UGCTT_SidRival
100% this. Joe is the classiest of the classiest. And Johnson has been a dark horse since he got out of the TUF house. Had a rough patch there but is back on track. Would love to see Mike in there with Jim Miller. And I think it's finally time to make that J-Lau vs Nate Diaz fight happen!
8/20/13 1:17 AM by Ramy Daoud
Also I am a Lauzon fan and did not mean that in a disrespectful way. Props to him for providing us with so many great fights and toughing it out in this one.
8/20/13 1:16 AM by Ramy Daoud
His corner saying "he is just point fighting you know what he is doing"after the damage Michael did in the first round was ridiculous. Who is Joe's head coach?
8/20/13 12:20 AM by MMA Lives Here
8/19/13 11:58 PM by Emperor Nero
one of my friends who likes fighting and martial arts but doesnt like ufc , says doesnt like the 'wrestling stuff' and rarely watches enjoyed this fight and was respectful of lauronz toughness and staying in the fight to the end, during most fights he says 'they should just end this now' and ends up missing the good ones.
8/19/13 11:43 PM by ShawnTheBadger
Joe gaining even more of my respect in a loss. Pure class.
8/19/13 11:26 PM by gokudamus
What excuses did he make dummy?
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8/19/13 9:59 PM by Eggbert
This all the way
8/19/13 9:35 PM by AFC1281
The ass kissing in this thread is just unbearable. No excuses? All he ever did was make excuses for why he couldn't win. If this Jon Jones saying the same thing, you people would be all over his dick, calling him names and spearing him for losing.


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Does the U.S. military have the resources for an Asian century?
- By Robert HaddickRobert Haddick is managing editor of Small Wars Journal.
A March 26, Washington Post article discussed a new expansion of the military relationship between the United States and Australia. According to the piece, the U.S. Navy is seeking to expand its ability to operate in the Indian Ocean from Western Australia, which would require a major expansion to a naval base in Perth. The Pentagon also hopes to establish a long-range air reconnaissance base on the Cocos Islands, a remote Australian atoll midway between Perth and Sri Lanka.
This expansion of U.S. military capability into the northeast Indian Ocean quickly follows last year's agreement to permanently station a small force of U.S. Marines near Darwin on the north coast and to expand U.S. access to Australian bases and training ranges.
At the time, I noted that U.S. military power in the western Pacific is concentrated in Japan and South Korea (a legacy of the Cold War) while the emerging area of great power contention — the South China Sea — lies 2,000 miles to the south. The U.S. agreements with Australia, combined with a major expansion of military facilities on Guam, are an attempt to bolster the Pentagon's capacity to sustain a larger ongoing presence in the South China Sea and Southeast Asia.
The U.S. interest in the South China Sea is in maintaining free navigation through what is arguably the most important commercial shipping passage in the world. The agreements with Australia and the buildup on Guam are helpful in this regard but insufficient. Ultimately, the Navy will need to provide a sufficiently reassuring presence to the countries bordering the South China Sea in order to prevent various disputes over the sea from threatening routine commerce through it. It remains to be seen whether the Navy will have the capacity and realistic plans to accomplish this mission over the long run.
This week, the Navy sent Congress an update of its 30-year shipbuilding plan, which would continue the trend of an ever-shrinking maritime force. The new plan foresees an average of 298 ships operating over the next 30 years, down from last year's forecast of a 306-ship average. And the plan foresees the Navy buying fewer new ships per year, reinforcing another unfavorable trend. The Congressional Budget Office's evaluation of Navy shipbuilding found those plans underfunded and over-optimistic. A few years ago, the Navy had plans for a 313-ship fleet. The bipartisan Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel called for a fleet of 346 ships. There are no plans to reach either of these targets.
Under Secretary of the Navy Robert Work, in a January 2012 speech to the Surface Navy Association, dismissed concerns about the Navy's shrinking ship count. Work asserted that the Navy's robust plans for long-range air reconnaissance, conducted by new aircraft such as the P-8A Poseidon and a Navy version of the Global Hawk drone, will do much of the routine maritime patrolling previously done by ships. Bases in Australia, the Cocos Islands, and elsewhere in the southwest Pacific would support surveillance of the South China Sea. If ships were required to respond to problems, admirals could send them in as always. But under Work's assumption, fewer ships will be needed for routine patrolling. And with less routine steaming, the Navy will save money and keep its ships better maintained.
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FRENCH VALLEY -- Raul Alfonso Vides told a homicide investigator he was angry and jealous before the gun he pointed at his wife fired, killing her as she lay on her bed in their Temecula home last year, jurors learned Monday.
Vides, 40, is on trial at Southwest Justice Center, charged with murdering his wife, Elsa Galindo, in September 2003. If convicted, he faces a minimum sentence of 50 years to life in prison.
The prosecution says that Vides murdered Galindo, 40, while the defense contends that her death happened "in the heat of passion" and was an accident because Galindo grabbed the gun when her husband pointed it at her.
On Monday, jurors heard Vides tell his side of the story twice to Riverside County sheriff's Investigator Robert Masson -- once an audiotaped interview done in the back of a patrol car the night of the killing, then again during an interview videotaped at the Southwest Sheriff's Station.
At the beginning of the videotaped interview, Vides shivers and Masson apologizes for how cold it is in the station's conference room.
"Between that and the stupid thing I've done," Vides replied.
He then recounted for the investigator his version of what happened hours earlier, including how he pleaded with his wife to work out their marital problems.
The argument between Vides and Galindo the night of Sept. 23, 2003, escalated to the point that Vides went downstairs and grabbed a handgun he had borrowed a week earlier from a co-worker.
Vides looked at himself in the mirror and then put the loaded 9mm semiautomatic in his right pants pocket and headed back upstairs, he told Masson. Just moments earlier, Vides said, his wife had told him she no longer wanted him in the house and that she was seeing someone else.
"In my head, I kept hearing what she had said," Vides told the investigator.
Vides described his wife's "big" eyes and how she looked happy to have hurt him.
"I've never seen (her eyes) like that," Vides said.
A little later on the videotape, Masson and another investigator, Ricardo Fuentes, came into the room and had Vides re-enact the shooting with Vides holding a fake handgun.
Fuentes lay across a conference room table, on his left side, as Vides said his wife had been lying on the bed. Vides said he moved closer to the end of the bed and again explained how his wife said she went to Las Vegas to meet someone.
Vides said it was then that he pulled out the gun and pointed it at her.
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Galindo then shouted, "Kill me; kill me now," Vides told the investigators.
Vides said he closed his eyes and the gun fired. After realizing what had happened -- that his wife was dead -- Vides said he contemplated suicide.
He demonstrated on the videotape by first pointing the fake gun at his right temple, then under his chin. But, he said, he "just couldn't do it."


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The service will test out a role-based authentication technology on an application in the MilCloud run by DISA. Frank Konieczny, the Air Force's chief technology officer, said the pilot could move into full production in six months. DoD is considering adding the role-based capability to the JIE framework.
Office of Naval Research heeds lessons learned in latest move to cloud
Gary Wyckoff, the chief information officer of the Office of Naval Research, said ONR is on the cusp of putting several applications in the cloud. He said mobility is a more difficult road to travel.
Cloud computing may help in nuclear radiation disaster response
Cloud computing could help the federal government respond to a catastrophic nuclear radiation disaster. The National Nuclear Security Administration just finished a test run of a cloud-based data collection system that combines radiation measurements from states across the country. The agency says the inspiration for how the system works comes from observing the impact of the Fukishima reactor leak in Japan. NNSA coordinated the test run with 200 people working from 38 different states. Together they collected and analyzed 21,000 measurements of environmental radiation around the country to see if anything was out of the ordinary. The 200 participants took water and soil samples, and luckily they didn't find anything of catastrophic proportions. NNSA says it's expanding the use of the cloud system to other agencies, too.
Jason Miller, Executive Editor, Federal News Radio
The Defense Department soon will name pilot programs for putting more sensitive data in a cloud that's not run by the military. More broadly, the DoD chief information officer plans to change the way the military uses and manages its network. Federal News Radio's Executive Editor Jason Miller joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive to discuss where DoD is heading. Read Jason's related article.
DoD to test commercial cloud for some sensitive data
Terry Halvorsen, DoD's acting chief information officer, is planning to change the way the military uses and manages its network. The Joint Information Environment is driving many of the modernization efforts across DoD.
SEC employees harness big data, cloud to open up savings and new possibilities
The Securities and Exchange Commission is responsible for billions of financial trade records a day, but it took the agency weeks and months and analyze them. The SEC quietly found a way to speed up that process and save about $3 million at the same time. In part four of our special report, ,Rainmakers and Money Savers, Federal News Radio goes behind the scenes of the Securities and Exchange Commission to examine the work federal employees are doing on a daily basis, resulting in millions of dollars going straight into the federal coffers.
Transforming data into smart business analytics
David Rubal, Public Sector Pre-Sales Consulting Manager with Tableau Software, will discuss how his company is helping agencies analyze and process big data.
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FTC, SEC using cloud to create path to innovation
Bajinder Paul, the Federal Trade Commission CIO, said a new modernization roadmap will bring operational capabilities to employees, aggregate policies and major acquisition initiatives across the agency and, most importantly, create a path for innovation.
DSI hosting Cloud Tech and Government IT Summit
The Defense Strategies Institute will host its Cloud Tech and Government IT Summit in a little over a month. The summit will run on September 23rd and 24th at the Mary M. Gates Learning Center in Alexandria, Virginia. The Defense Strategies Institute will offer training and educational seminars in a Town Hall format. DSI says federal agency leaders and innovators in cloud computing will join Industry experts for interactive speeches and debates. The overall focus of the summit is acquiring and securing cloud technology for civilian federal agencies and the DoD. DSI says it will also take a deep dive into IT modernization plans, data center consolidations, and IT infrastructure diversification. You can still register to attend the summit and active duty military and government employees can attend for free.
EPA unsure on cloud contracts
The Environmental Protection Agency is in the dark with its cloud contracts. EPA's Inspector General says the agency doesn't know how many cloud contracts it has, nor how secure they are. For an investigation, the IG chose a contract that met the definition of a cloud system. But the EPA didn't report it as a cloud contract because it didn't have "cloud" in the description. The agency's also using a sub-contractor that's not compliant with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The IG says the company might not have the capability to access its cloud system hardware so the office can investigate. The EPA didn't even know it was buying a cloud system at the very start of the contracting process. The IG says the agency wasn't aware cloud computing was part of the system it was procuring.
Special cloud category for GSA's IT Schedule 70
The General Services Administration will add a special cloud category to its IT Schedule 70 contracting vehicle. GSA wants to consolidate the contract's cloud options under a specific special item number. Right now the agency lists the cloud options under a variety of different numbers, so agencies browsing the system can't find them all in one place. GSA says the new approach will help small agencies in particular. The cloud-specific number will have its own subcategories of cloud-specific services, too. GSA wants industry recommendations on how to do it: a request for information is out on how best to differentiate the types of cloud services Schedule 70 includes. The deadline for the cloud industry to respond to GSA's request for information is August 6th. You can find the RFI on Fed Biz Opps.
DoD's own testing of cloud security standards
The Defense Department's testing its own version of cybersecurity standards for cloud systems. The Defense Information Systems Agency is working with all the military branches to find a cybersecurity program that protects the cloud with Level-3 security requirements. DISA's enterprise cloud broker is conducting the software tests. DoD's chief of the risk management oversight division in the chief information officer's office,Kevin Delaney, isn't sure when the tests will be over. He says the development needs to run incrementally so each level of security controls are working right. The tests are coinciding with the deadline for agency cloud systems to earn security certification through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Right now FedRAMP offers cloud certification for low to moderate security levels.
DoD to test cloud security requirements above, beyond FedRAMP
DISA is working with the services to identify a mission-critical application in the cloud to ensure the additional requirements for Level-3 security are appropriate and achievable. Meanwhile, the FedRAMP program office is beginning to consider what the program will look like in two to three to five years.
FedRAMP's new cloud security guidance
New cloud security guidance is out from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management program, or FedRAMP. It includes new security controls and templates for agencies and cloud service providers to implement the new controls. The updates came a day after the deadline for agencies to earn FedRAMP certification for their cloud systems. The updates reflect changes from the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Special Publication 800-53. FedRAMP program manager Matt Goodrich says the latest update is the largest release of new FedRAMP information since the General Services Administration unveiled the whole concept two years ago. Right now federal agencies have 16 different FedRAMP-certified cloud options. Goodrich says those 16 options are already in place in 160 locations across the federal government.


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LOS ANGELES — Marc Anthony has made his breakup from Jennifer Lopez official by filing for divorce in Los Angeles.
The singer filed his petition Monday to end the marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
The pair announced they were ending their marriage in June after seven years. They have twin children together, and Anthony is asking for joint custody.
It is Anthony's second marriage. Lopez had been married twice before when the couple wed in 2004.
Anthony has delved into acting and producing in recent years. The singers have intertwined their careers over the years, appearing in both a movie and a reality television series together.
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Indiana's front line could receive a significant boost in Saturday's game with Butler when freshmen Hanner Mosquera-Perea and Peter Jurkin will be eligible to play for the first time after serving a nine-game suspension from the NCAA. With the Hoosiers sitting at 9-0 and No. 1 in the country while playing at a high level, it sounds as if both guys could be worked slowly into the rotation. "We've been very cautious with them coming back because there's been no pressing need for them to have to play in the games," Crean said Monday on the Big Ten coaches teleconference. "So you want to make sure you're doing a good job of letting guys get adjusted, be in the mix, not rush them and try to help build their confidence. The bottom line is you don't want to put anybody in a situation they're not ready for, especially in a situation like this where we're already nine games in, going into game ten." Mosquera-Perea, who has battled a left foot injury for most of the fall that's forced him to w
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"Jai Salman," says Ghosh into his mobile phone a few minutes later. Plans are made quickly, he is mobilising his friends-cum-fans for a photoshoot for us, the first mediawale to visit him from outside Nagpur. "Tu aa sakta hai? Bas, dus minute ke liye, photo khichenge," he says. At the bus stop in Chhindwara, a town in Madhya Pradesh with more gyms than restaurants, men start to take notice of him, a small but muscular man sporting a worn-out leather jacket in the sweltering heat. "Kya aap Salman Khan ho?" asks one. Ghosh laughs; the lookalike is flattered and satisfied to have been mistaken for the original celebrity.
This encounter, one of many that take place during the course of a day, is a run-up to his big moment in the sun. Ghosh's Facebook page has over a thousand "likes"; a local politician recently sent over an Audi to pick him up for a birthday party; and he even has his own fan club, a brotherhood of young men united by the Bhai code of conduct. But for the first time, Ghosh is on the cusp of probable fame. Being Bhaijaan, a documentary film about him by filmmakers Shabani Hassanwalia and Samreen Farooqui, is due for release on September 2 at PSBT's annual Open Frame film festival.
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|Oct 11, 2008, 05:03 PM
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Description:: Microsoft's leader talks with PC Mag Español about Vista, Windows 7, the "cool" factor, his career, and motivational strategies and why "PCs are better than Macs."
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|Oct 11, 2008, 05:09 PM
The fact that he's having to persuade people to stay with products they already own (PCs and Windows) is IMO enough to show that their product lineup has failed...
|Oct 11, 2008, 05:37 PM
Am I the only person who thinks this guy is a moron at giving interviews? He repeats himself well too much. " you know " gets a little excessive.
I love when he says all the stuff which Macs don't have.
I like his argument best though.. " Why is it that PC's sell 33-1 compared to Macs "
I am sure Ford sells like 1,000,000 - 1 to Maserati. Does that make Ford cars better?
Retard logic.
|Oct 11, 2008, 06:01 PM
Balmer is bright, so he knows this:
PCs may outsell Macs 32-1 at the moment, but Macs are ourgrowing the industry 4-1.
So next year it might only be 31.8-1, and the year after that it might be 31-1 and the year after that it might be 30-1 etc.
Then Apple starts to become really dangerous. So he needs a strategy to halt Apple's growth, or increase Windows growth, or both.
This is why he is defensive.
|Oct 11, 2008, 06:11 PM
Ballmer brings up good points, and has nothing good to say about Apple, he must bring them down at every chance.
The "Choice" argument is really the biggest one, the fact that you can't buy a Mac from Dell, or any other company, it's all exclusive to one company.
Then Ballmer hits this one "You know, anyway—can you find the applications you want on the Mac? Well, you don't really get full Microsoft Office. " Who's fault is that?? Did Apple say "Please don't give us the full version, make it ****** like all the other software you guys write."
At times in this interview he is very defensive, and at other times he brings up good points.
But the fact remains the same, Apple is continuing to grow, obviously there are ways that they could grow much faster but Apple has their own agenda.
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|Oct 11, 2008, 06:38 PM
Microsoft has very successfully created a market where hardware and software are disjoint parts and you have choice in one and not in the other.
This is unusual and very little else works like this, computing certainly didn't before the PC. All the big players (DEC, IBM, Cray) made systems (which comprised of hardware and software) that were sold as a product. Due to Microsoft's huge success, this has shaped consumer expectation of how the market works.
Really there is only choice in the PC market on a hardware level, there's only recently been any software choice. It's an illusion of choice when really whatever choice you pick you inevitably end up choosing Microsoft.
It is the generic PC eco-system which is out of kilter with the rest of the world, not Apple. You can choose to take or leave their products. It's sad Apple barely has any competitors doing the same thing, but it is certainly nothing to blame Apple for.
What the industry (and Apple) needs is more companies who sell products with well integrated hardware and software. Software which is based on open standards and encourages interoperability.
So come on HP (and others) make your own Operating Systems and give us all real choice, not faux choice. Until then, I will continue to buy Apple. Here's why:
Apple's agenda is make the best personal computers in the world
It's not hard to work out which motivation produces the best products.
|Oct 11, 2008, 06:47 PM
Mac Office is actually highly profitable for Microsoft, so I'm surprised to hear him tell all those potential customers that the product they're paying for isn't what they think it is. If the press noticed this comment, he'd have to issue a "clarification" within 48 hours.
The Apple store is also the fastest growing retail chain in any market worldwide. Other stores also really want to stock Apple products (see iPods, iPhones at Best Buy, Macs at PC World...etc). If Apple only wanted the stores because they couldn't get any others, why are they still growing?
I used to work at an Apple store in London, and it was always busy. I think we had something like 200,000 customers a week. That was normal. If there was a major product launch, that figure could climb anywhere. The stores are a resounding success.
This guy really is full of it. That said, he's a marketing guy. What I like about Apple is that they're run with an engineering focus, not a marketing one. The marketing efforts are more subtle, and centre around the brand and the quality of the products. Microsoft's marketing materials almost never talk about the product.
|Oct 11, 2008, 07:45 PM
Both companies have been very successful at fulfilling their vision.
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|Oct 12, 2008, 03:04 AM
I agree full-heartedly with Saladinos and FlintAlt2. Ballmer is way too full of himself. Microsoft is all about selling and market share, while Apple is about innovation and creativity. Both have their own unique niche market, but to be little Apple, well thats another story.
Quoting FlintAlt2, I'd rather chose the faster and cooler car than a cheap rip off of a good car.
Anyway, one thing Ballmer doesn't mention is that Mac is growing, and Linux is growing. But you only have 100% total, so who the heck is shrinking huh? His remark about Macs not getting the full version of Office, well let's think which dumb company wrote that software in the first place? I think Microsoft and it's CEO Steve Ballmer. Now that rings a familiar bell.... He claims there hasn't been a "cheap mac", well that just hints PCs are being cheap, since that is the base of comparison. So on one hand he's saying PCs are not cheap, but moderately priced, and on the other hand, he's saying it's cheap.
With that being said, Vista is the worst OS I've seen. If you look past it's ram-hogging Aero GUI, it's nothing more than windows 2k with a new skin. the frame around the window is modern, but the content pane is still pre-21st century. And business? cmon, most businesses use Linux or Unix if they're serious. Windows is the punchline of a joke.
One last thing, I know it's unorganized, but it's really late/early so I apologize. But why in 2007 when PCWORLD did a benchmark test to find the fastest Vista computer, it was a MacBook Pro? If Macs were as low end and shoddy in his views, why did the OS his company made run better and faster on a Mac?
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|Oct 12, 2008, 03:34 AM
Wow, this guy is really...infuriating.
What ticked me off the most was his comments about the iPhone in comparison to Windows Mobile. Alright, Windows Mobile is the second most successful cell phone platform, and the iPhone is fourth. But he has to remember Windows Mobile has been out a hell of a lot longer than the iPhone.
That's like being stupid and saying the Xbox 360 sucks because in the two years it's been out it's sold less than the original Xbox*; it's just nonsensical. I bet in a few years the situation will be reversed, and that the iPhone will be beating the hell out of Windows Mobile.
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|Oct 12, 2008, 06:38 AM
|Oct 12, 2008, 07:08 AM
The title should have read Head Case instead of coach.
But he's right little old Mac doesn't hurt MS! and I'm sure is the reason why they are going on an all out advertising counter attack.
He really must think that everybody is stupid.
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|Oct 13, 2008, 09:44 AM
Be he scared
Does anyone on this planet not know that IBM have been testing Apple computers since Christmas 2007 and are very excited about the potential future of using macs, it only needs a couple of large pc manufacturers to stick their fingers up at Microsoft and ask for Apples operating system and the Windows empire would very quickly errode- perhaps the largest PC manufacturer in the world already has a licence for OSX and Microsoft are stopping them from using it? Who knows stranger things are happening these days just look at the banking system guys then you might see why Steve Balmer is not very excited about Apple- he cant say its better than Windows that would be like Ford admitting that VW made better vehicles
|Oct 13, 2008, 09:50 AM
100% agreed
That's how i look at it.
Microsoft are the ford or cheap car to the 'Bentley or top end porsche' which is where apple is.
Windows, cheap, people like to go cheap
Simple as that really
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