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Mt. Tabor Theater,
Portland, OR (June 30, 1999)
Latin Music's Coolest Export… Live.
From my hard drive to yours. Can't remember where I scored this (thanks…) and can't tell you much about it beyond the obvious, but fans should enjoy this nearly two hour show recorded live in Portland, two weeks before the release of This Time. The sound is clear, but be aware there are issues, mostly guitar levels and feedback, which you'll hear the soundman wrestling with throughout the show. Los Lobos were considered cool back in 1984 for their authentic, roots/Mex spin on rock and roll. Later, they got downright excellent with 1992's Kiko, which sported a rare radio hit for the band. But, Los Lobos became essential listening when they revamped their entire formula to incorporate junkyard percussion and lo-fi aesthetics into the amazing (almost anti-commercial) Colossal Head (HERE). They've been one of my favorite bands ever since. Check out this show's unusual selection of material, including Traffic's "40,000 Headmen" & "Dear Mr. Fantasy," Richard Thompson's "Shoot Out The Lights" and The Grateful Dead's "Bertha." Not to mention "La Bamba," a song these guys probably wish by now they'd never heard, played here to the tune of "Like A Rolling Stone," using Jimi Hendrix's Monterey Pop arrangement of the Bob Dylan's anthem. Now that's cool! We've got more Lobos (including some rare solo projects (HERE) in the archives.
Intro (1:57)
This Time (6:31)
Oh Yeah! (4:33)
Run Away With You (6:46)
Colossal Head (5:11)
Cumbia Raza (4:45)
Buzz Buzz Buzz (2:49)
Don't Worry Baby (4:51)
Someday (3:55)
I Got Loaded (5:05)
Jenny Got A Pony (3:47)
Dream In Blue > (7:48)
Up The Line > (3:37)
40,000 Headmen > (3:07)
Dear Mr. Fantasy (5:37)
Let's Say Goodnight (6:32)
Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio (2:44)
Anselma (4:52)
Shoot Out The Lights (6:52)
That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore (13:53)
La Bamba (4:22)
Bertha (7:57)

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There's no reason to be in too big a hurry, but Carolina is not starting out fast so far. They have three interviews - Marc Ross, Dave Gettleman, and what I'd consider a courtesy interview for Brandon Beane - for their open GM job, and might be waiting for the playoffs to square up with another candidate.
Maybe it's the holiday. Maybe it's not really a situation where Rivera is in limbo. But, if a decision is to be made, apparently a lot will be riding on this Saturday conversation. It appears the GM situation may be riding on whether or not Rivera is allowed to stay - if not, it still appears to be holding for it. Richardson apparently setup a similar conversation with Marty Hurney the day he was fired, though it may not have been on Hurney's knowledge that the conversation was that in depth. You might consider it an interview for a job Rivera already has.
It should likely deal with where Rivera feels like he must improve, what he feels like he'll need to fix in his staff and himself, and what direction he sees the team heading. What's unlikely is whether that interview might provide Rivera additional power, or guarantees past the year.


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My name is Marjorie Magga, I have a 10-month-old daughter, Maddy, who was born with Down syndrome. She is my youngest of four children. When we found out she had Down syndrome, it was shortly after she was born. Fear was my first emotion. Would she be healthy? How would my other children react to her? Would she meet all the goals we had previously set for her? The answers were nothing but positive! She is happy and healthy! The other kids are so supportive and give Maddy nothing but love. She has met every goal we set for her and then some! Fear is no longer an emotion I have for Maddy..... love is! Maddy has brought so much joy to our family and has shown us that anything is possible. All of the what ifs are now a thought of the past, thanks to a great group called F.E.D.S. (Families Exploring Down Syndrome). They have showed me that Maddy is like any other child, and will reach any goal she will be given, it just may take a little longer. Maddy will attend school just like my other children, take dance lessons like her sister, play baseball with her brothers, graduate, and become successful in life. I wouldnt have my life any other way!
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Public transit resources for students
Northeast Oregon Public Transit
EOU students enjoy free access to Northeast Oregon Public Transit services in Union County. The Trolley's fixed route includes stops at EOU, downtown La Grande and Island City.
Service runs from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.
An EOU ID card displaying a current term sticker is all that's needed to access unlimited rides on the fixed route. Paid your student fees? Pick up a sticker at the Student Accounts Office in Inlow Hall, Room 101.
Public transit resources
Special route runs July 30-August 2.
Runs until 10 p.m. during Shrine Week, July 26-August 2.
Maps & posters
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Palit 9800GTX+ Review
Reviewed by: TheScavenger
Reviewed on: November 13, 2008
Price: $164.99
Video card technology has moved at an unprecedented pace in the past 18 months. New product releases by nVidia were quickly followed by new product releases from ATI and vice versa. ATI was competitive at particular price points but nVidia always seemed to have the upper-hand in overall performance. ATI's 3870 and 3850 just couldn't overcome the graphics processing power of nVidia's 8800GT and 8800GTS. Everything changed in June of 2008 when ATI released the 4000 series.The 4870 and 4850 quickly showed their dominance in performance and price. In addition, these new ATI cards had one thing that nVidia's didn't, a 55nm manufacturing process. In response, nVidia dropped the price of its 200-series cards and released a 55nm version of the 9800GTX called the 9800GTX+. Not only did the 9800GTX+ include a die shrink compared to its predecessor but it also came with a higher core and shader clock speed. In this review I will be looking at how Palit's 9800GTX+ competes with its ATI counterparts and the 9800GTX. Palit is known worldwide as an enormous manufacturer of video cards but has just recently emerged at a more visible level in the west.
Closer Look:
The packaging for the Palit 9800GTX+ is in typical Palit fashion. Frobot, the company's mascot, is shown prominently on the front cover along with nVidia's color of choice, green. The front of the box also has a brief description of the 9800GTX+'s features. A label stating "Gamer's Choice" adorns the front of the box as well. Will the 9800GTX+ live up to the hype? The back of the box has a brief list, in twelve languages, detailing some technical specifications of the 9800GTX+.
Opening up the outer box doesn't reveal a whole lot. Inside the outer box there is a white box that holds the the video card and accessories. The video card itself is held inside of another padded white box. The accessories are individually wrapped.
Palit bundles the 9800GTX+ with a wide variety of install documentation, power and connectivity accessories. Among the power accessories are a 6-pin PCI-E to 8-pin PCI-E power adapter and a Molex to 6-pin PCI-E power adapter. The connectivity accessories include a DVI to VGA adapter, a DVI to HDMI adapter and a S/PDIF cable that connects to the 9800GTX+ from a digital audio out connector. Also included is a drivers CD.
Now that we've made it through the accessories and packaging, it's on to the fun part, the video card!
Closer Look:
The 9800GTX+ is a die shrunk version of the 9800GTX. In other words, the manufacturing process has been reduced from 65nm to 55nm. Like the 9800GTX, the 9800GTX+ is built off of nVidia's highly popular G92 architecture. The heatsink and fan shroud carries over to the 9800GTX+ from the 9800GTX as well. However, the GPU core and shader clocks have been increased 65MHz and 144MHz respectively.
The connection end of the 9800GTX+ has two DVI ports, a single TV-out port and a power indicator light. When the card has sufficient power the light blinks upon booting. The other end of the 9800GTX+ has a large opening that functions as a vent for the cooling fan.
There are two connections for SLI bridges on the 9800GTX+. This feature would allow a potential three way SLI configuration. Also, two PCI-E power connectors are required to power up the 9800GTX+. The small connection between the power connectors and the SLI bridges is for S/PDIF audio. This connection allows digital audio to travel through the video card and out through an HDMI capable. Use of an HDMI adapter is necessary to use this feature.
Never have I seen a heatsink so securely fastened to a PCB. There are 14 spring loaded screws and three normal screws pinning the 9800GTX+ together. The 9800GTX+ stock heatsink is a huge array of aluminum and copper. Every important component on the PCB appears to be cooled by the heatsink
After removing the heatsink and shroud from the video card we get a good look at nVidia's choice of component placement on the PCB. The G92 core is ringed by eight memory modules. The complex power circuitry is located below the two PCI-E power connectors on the right side of the PCB. The thermal paste is applied excessively, which is typical of most video cards. I am sure the GPU core temperatures could benefit from reapplication of thermal paste.
The Palit 9800GTX+ is built around the ubiquitous G92 core, which has been die shrunk to a 55nm manufacturing process. Memory for the 9800GTX+ has been sourced from Samsung. Interestingly, although the 9800GTX+ memory comes rated at 1100MHz, this particular GDDR3 memory is rated at 1200MHz.
Let's take a look at the drivers and programs that Palit has provided with the 9800GTX+.
After the 9800GTX+ is physically installed, an appropriate driver must also be installed to take adavantage of the card's capabilities. There are two ways to tackle this. You can either download the appropriate driver directly from nVidia's website or you can install the driver from Palit's highly simplified drivers CD.
After inserting Palit's drivers CD into your optical drive the autorun feature will start the install GUI. There are few options in the GUI menu. The first two menu options allow the user to install either DirectX 10 drivers or install Direct 9.0c. The third and fourth menu options will let you browse the CD and view a basic help menu.
Select the "Install Drivers" button to begin installing the 9800GTX+'s driver. Once the installer is finished you will be prompted to restart the computer. A restart is required to complete the install.
Every aspect of the 9800GTX+'s settings can be controlled using nVidia's Control Panel. Basic options such as display resolution and color settings can be adjusted in the "Display" tab. Also, a simple slider can be used to adjust the game image settings from "Performance" to "Quality" in the "3D Settings" tab.
Fabrication Process
55 nm
Number of Transistors
754 million
Core Clock
740 MHz
Shader Clock
1836 MHz
Processor Cores
Memory Clock (Clock Rate/ Data Rate)
1100 MHz/ 2200 MHz
Memory Interface
256 bit
Total Memory Bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
Memory Size
Texture Filtering Units
Texture Filtering Rate
47.2 GigaTexels/sec
HDMI Support
2x Dual-Link DVI
Dual 400 MHz
Bus Technology
PCI Express 2.0 x16
Form Factor
Dual Slot
Supplementary Power Connectors
6-pin x2
Minimum Power Supply
Maximum GPU Temperature
- Resolutions up to 2560 X 1600 allow for extreme HD gaming
- Dual Dual-Link Technology Supporting digital output up to 2560x1600 on two LCD Monitors at the same time
- PureVideo® HD technology provides a premium HD DVD or Blu-ray movie viewing
- HDTV Ready and HD Gaming: High-definition video playback and crisp picture quality. Provides world-class TV-out functionality up to 1080i resolution.
- HybridPower™*HybridPower™ technology lets you switch from the HybridPower compatible graphics card to a compatible, integrated motherboard GeForce GPU when running non-graphically intensive applications for a silent, low power PC experience.
- SLI Ready: Delivers up to 2x the performance of a single GPU configuration for unparalleled gaming experiences by allowing two graphics cards to run in parallel. The must-have feature for performance PCI-Express graphics, SLI dramatically scales performance on over 60 top PC games. 3way SLI capable
- The perfect price and performance combination to get the most bang for your buck
- CUDA: NVIDIA CUDA™ technology and the new CUDA enables programmers to offload the most intensive processing tasks from their CPU to their GPU, putting the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores to work for you.
- PhysX: NVIDIA's new GPU PhysX™ technology that renders convincing facial expressions, multiple ultra-high polygon characters in complex environments and convincing physical effects like weather and explosions. NVIDIA PhysX drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration.
- HDMI Certified
- HDCP Capable
- Quantum Engine: Embedded Physics features
- Unified Architecture
- Lumina Engine
- 128-bit High Dynamic-Range Rendering
- Lumenex Engine
At OverclockersClub.com, we use a set of benchmarks to stress the graphics card. We will use a series of newer gaming benchmarks, as well as some that are more seasoned, to show how well the Palit 9800GTX+ compares to some of the other enthusiast video cards on the market. I'll be using single GPU models exclusively to show just how much the Palit 9800GTX+ brings to the table. All driver settings and clock speeds will be left at factory defaults for both the CPU and GPU in an effort to minimize or eliminate any variables that could impact the results. The test system used in this review is listed below. After testing the card at stock speeds, I'll overclock it to see what kind of performance can be gained. All testing is done with the default settings in the respective control panels, as well as default settings in the BIOS of the motherboard used in this test. For this round of testing, our drivers have been updated to 177.79 for the Nvidia cards and Catalyst 8.8 for the ATI video cards used in this review. Will the additional clock speed on the GPU core and shaders be enough to add some much needed horsepower to your gaming rig? Let's find out.
- Processor: Intel Q9450 Core 2 Quad 333x8
- Motherboard: Gigabyte X48-DQ6
- Memory: Mushkin XP2 Redline 8000 2 x 2GB 5-5-5-12
- Video Card(s): Palit 9800GTX+ 740/1100/1836
- Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
- Optical Drive: NEC DV5700
- OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Comparison Video Cards:
Overclocked Settings:
- Palit 9800GTX+ 824/1172/1998
Although I am pleased with the overall performance of the Palit 9800GTX+, I am slightly disappointed by its overclockability. Although, the card has decent clocks from the factory I still expected more. Its core, memory and shader clocks could only be increased by 84MHz, 72MHz and 162MHz, respectively. This marginal increase is a lot lower than another 9800GTX+ reviewed by OCC. The 9800GTX+ clocks in this review were adjusted using Rivatuner 2.11 and temperatures were monitored by GPU-Z 0.2.8. To reach my final overclock, I bumped up the GPU and memory in 25MHz increments and tested stability using 3DMark06. The GPU core clock and shader clock were linked until I hit instability above 1998MHz on the shader. I then unlinked the two and was able to get the GPU up to 824MHz. The stock cooling solution did a fantastic job of controlling temperatures at clock settings. I never saw the GPU core rise above the upper 60s at load, which is 20-30 degrees cooler than the 9800GTX+'s direct competition, the 4850.
- Video:
- Crysis
- Knights of the Sea
- BioShock
- Call of Duty 4
- World in Conflict
- Call of Juarez
- Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
- 3DMark 06 Professional
- 3DMark Vantage
Crysis has been out for quite some time now. In that time, there's yet to be a single or multi-GPU setup that can fully showcase the graphics performance of the game. The Crysis single player demo includes both CPU and GPU benchmarks to test the performance of your processor and video card.
- Anti-Aliasing: x2
- Advanced settings to high
In Crysis, the 9800GTX+ edged out the HD 4850 in the low resolution tests but the tables turned as the resolution increased. The 4850 beat the 9800GTX+ at 1680x1050 and 1920x1200.
PT Boats: Knights of the Sea is a new DX10 title that features its own proprietary graphics engine currently in development. The game is a combination of Real Time Strategy and Simulation. You have the ability to control the entire crew or just a single member. Play as the German, Russian or Allied navies, and prove your mettle on the open seas.
Video Settings:
- Anti-Aliasing: x0
- Image Quality: High
- DirectX Version: 10
- All resolutions: 60Hz
The 9800GTX+ was on par or above every other card in this test besides the GTX260. Interestingly, the 9800GTX+ and the 9800GTX performed identically.
BioShock is one of the most haunting games out. In this game, the building of a perfect Utopian society undersea gone horribly wrong. Its inhabitants driven mad with the introduction of tonics and genetic modifications. Now Rapture is just a shadow of its former glory with little girls looting the dead of what little they have left while being shadowed by guardians known as "Big Daddys" It is a demanding game that will make your hardware scream for mercy. This First Person Shooter allows for an infinite number of weapons and modifications to provide a unique experience each time it is played. The environment as well as the story line will wrap you up for hours on end.
Video Settings:
- All settings to maximum
- V-Sync: Off
Once again, the 9800GTX+ outperforms the 4850 at low resolutions but falls short at higher resolutions. The ATI cards pull ahead of the nVidia cards as the resolution increases.
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is the successor to the Call of Duty crown. This iteration of the game is fought in many of the world's hot spots with modern armaments and firepower. You can play as either a US Marine or British SAS trooper. Since this game does not feature an in-game test, I will run through a section of the game and measure average FPS using Fraps 2.9.6.
Video Settings:
- Anti-Aliasing: x4
- Anisotropic Filtering: Max
- Texture Quality: Extra
- All settings max
The 9800GTX+ and 4850 are even at every resolution in this test. Interestingly, the 9800GTX+ beats the older 9800GTX at every resolution except the highest.
Released in July of 2008, World in Conflict is a real-time strategy game that simulates the all-out war the world hopes never comes. The difference in this RTS game is that it is not the typical "generate wealth and build" type of game. Instead, you advance by conquering your foe with limited opportunities to replenish your troops..
Video Settings:
- Anti-Aliasing: x4
- Anisotropic Filtering: x16
- Graphic Detail: Very High
Once again, the 9800GTX+ performs well against its competition. Also, the 9800GTX+ outperforms its older counterparts in every test.
Call of Juarez is a DX10, first-person shooter set in the Wild West of the late 1800's. The game is inspired, in part, by the movies of the Wild West genre of the seventies and eighties. The game can be played in both single player and multiplayer modes. The game focuses on realistic graphics and gameplay designed to take advantage of the latest video cards on the market.
Video Settings:
- Details: High
- Shadowmap Size: 2048x2048
- Shadow Quality: Normal
- Anti-Aliasing: MSAA x4
The 9800GTX+ is way behind the 4850 in all four Call of Juarez tests. The ATI cards clearly dominate this particular competition.
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts is the latest chapter in the Company of Heroes series. The scene is WWII. The mission is Operation Market Garden, the first allied attempt to break into the Third Reich. Play as the British or Germans. This Real Time Strategy game is brought to us by Relic Entertainment.
Video Settings:
- Anti-Aliasing: x8
- All other settings to maximum
The 9800GTX+ outperforms the 4850 in the low resolution tests but comes up short as the resolutions increase. Also, the older 9800GTX beats the 9800GTX+ at higher resolutions as well.
3DMark06 is the industry standard for synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark06 presents a severe test for many of today's hardware components. Let's see how this setup fares. The settings we will use are listed below.
- SM2.0 Graphics Tests: GT1- Return to Proxycon, GT2- Firefly Forest
- CPU Tests: Cpu1- Red Valley, CPU2- Red Valley
- HDR/SM3.0 Graphics Tests: HDR1- Canyon Flight, HDR2- Deep Freeze
The 9800GTX+ performs admirably in the first synthetic benchmark. It is on par with the more expensive cards up until the 1920x1200 test.
Just added to the OverclockersClub suite of benchmarks is the newest from Futuremark, 3DMark Vantage. Featuring all-new game tests, this benchmark is for use with Vista based systems. "There are two all-new CPU tests that have been designed around a new 'Physics and Artificial Intelligence-related computation.' CPU test two offers support for physics related hardware." There are four preset levels that correspond to specific resolutions. 'Entry' is 1024x768 progressing to 'Extreme' at 1920x1200. Of course, each preset can be modified to arrange any number of user designed testing. For our testing, I will use the four presets at all default settings.
- All default settings in each preset level
- Entry 1024x768
- Performance 1280x1024
- High 1680x1050
- Extreme 1920x1200
In the Entry level test the 9800GTX+ performed admirably against its competition. It was all downhill when the resolution increased as the 4850 beat the 9800GTX+ by almost 500 point on the Extreme setting.
Pressure from the success of ATI's HD 4850 created the need for nVidia to release the 9800GTX+ in order to be competitive in this particular market. While the 9800GTX+ is a great performer, it doesn't quite reach the level of an HD 4850 in every test. In addition, the 9800GTX+ tends to suffer at higher resolutions and is a little bit more expensive than an HD 4850. On the other hand, the cooling setup on the Palit 9800GTX+ is very impressive. Idle temperatures were in the upper 40s while the load temperatures never exceded the upper 60s. Since the typical load temperature of a reference 4850 is in the 80s, the 9800GTX+ is the clear winner in this department.
Overall, the Palit 9800GTX+ has become competitive in its price segment by trading shots with ATI's HD 4850. The reduction in size of the manufacturing process has reduced temperatures but not the overclockability of the card. There isn't enough of a performance increase from the 9800GTX to justify buying a 9800GTX+ if you already have a 9800GTX. However, for a new buyer the Palit 9800GTX+ would be an excellent choice as a mid-range card.
- Temperature
- 55nm manufacturing process
- 3-way SLI potential
- Competitive price
- Competitive in its price class
- Marginally better than a 9800GTX


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by Rick Pearson
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. -- Sen. Hillary Clinton and one of her top Pennsylvania allies, Rep. John Murtha, went after comments made by Sen. Barack Obama earlier today that either of the Democratic presidential candidates, as well as presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, would be better in office than President Bush.
Clinton, who has been finding herself somewhat marginalized in tough exchanges between Obama and McCain, injected herself into the fight by contending the Illinois Democrat needs to fight against the Arizona Republican, not praise him.
"Either Democrat would be better than John McCain," Obama said during an appearance in Reading, Pa. "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."
Clinton said McCain was a "real American patriot" but "would follow the same failed policies that have been so wrong for our country the last seven years."
"Sen. McCain thinks it's OK to keep our troops in Iraq for the next 100 years. Is that better than George Bush?" she asked the crowd at Greater Johnstown High School after her campaign plane landed at Murtha's namesake airport in western Pennsylvania.
"Sen. McCain will continue the failed economic policies of George Bush that brought us deficits and increasing debt. Is that better than George Bush? Sen. McCain does not have a health care plan that would cover every American. In fact, there are more and more uninsured Americans. Is that better than George Bush? Sen. McCain has no plan to end the housing foreclosure crisis or cut the cost of gas at the pump. Is that better than George Bush? We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain, and I will be that nominee," she said.
Murtha, 75, who has already said he believes McCain would be too old to serve as president, also ripped into Obama, though not by name.
"Would you believe somebody said today, one of the democratic candidates, there's only two, said that McCain would be a better commander than Bush. You're getting the same thing. You're getting the same thing if you get McCain. The same thing. He says the war will go on for a hundred years."
Now, the McCain campaign has frequently accused the Obama campaign of distorting a statement the Arizona senator said way back in January in New Hampshire about the United States having a troop presence in Iraq for 100 years, such as forces in Japan and South Korea, "as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or killed."
Clinton nuanced McCain's statement by saying he favors keeping troops in Iraq for 100 years, but Murtha used Obama-style language in characterizing what McCain has said.
McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said Clinton "and her campaign's main surrogate are launching an all-out assault using blatant falsehoods that have been repudiated" by independent organizations. That, he said, "says more about Senator Clinton than anyone else."


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The current Linux security server prototype implements a security policy that is a combination of three subpolicies: type enforcement (TE), role-based access control (RBAC), and multi-level security (MLS). The MLS policy is only included if the CONFIG_FLASK_MLS kernel configuration option is enabled. The TE and RBAC policies are always included in the current implementation. This subsection describes the policy configuration language that may be used to customize these policies.
The policy configuration files are located in the policy directory. The m4 macro processor is applied to these configuration files during the policy build, with the output written to policy.conf, and this output file is then compiled by the checkpolicy program into a binary representation stored in policy. The policy file is installed as /ss_policy, and this file is read by the security server during initialization.


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Starbucks Offers Better Same-Sex Medical Benefits Than Obama
Maine gay marriage foes to use Prop 8 firm, Schubert Flint Public Affairs Organizers seek to put repeal of state's same-sex marriage law on ballot
Judge Asked to Block Decision D.C. Residents Fight Board's Ruling Against Referendum
The Senate passed Thursday a resolution apologizing for slavery and segregation. It acknowledges "the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality and inhumanity of slavery and Jim Crow laws." The resolution also makes clear it cannot be used to support reparations for slavery.
Kirsten Gillibrand: I Stand With Lt. Dan Choi, It's Time To Repeal DADT


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Save the Date!
Alaska Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Interest Group Annual Meeting: May 1 – 2, 2013 in Anchorage, Alaska
Please join us in attending the 2013 Alaska UAS Interest Group Annual Meeting. Interested government and industry participants in the field of unmanned aircraft from a variety of agencies, associations, educational institutions, and commercial interests spanning across the nation will converge in Anchorage on May 1 – 2, 2013 to discuss UAS technology, uses, ongoing and potential projects, and integration into national, oceanic and international airspace systems.
The 2013 workshop will provide a forum for national airspace system users, including: civil, commercial and government stakeholders to explore, identify, and openly discuss common goals. Themes will include: airspace integration, civil and commercial unmanned aircraft activity in Alaska, science activities and natural resource management, as well as emergency response, and more.
We expect this to be one of the most fulfilling and informative events to date and hope that you will mark your calendars to attend. Registration will be available in early spring 2013. Visit our website for updated information at: www.uasalaska.org. We are now accepting presentation proposals. If you would like to submit a theme for panel or individual talk, email Interest Group Co-leader Greg Walker at email@example.com.
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Placido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Boston Symphony members to perform at Sen. Kennedy's funeral Mass
The Rev. Philip Dabney, associate pastor of Boston's Mission Church, says Saturday's service will be a "regular Catholic funeral," with superb music.
In addition, a contingent from the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a soprano from New York's Metropolitan Opera will appear.
Several clergy members will be on hand. The Rev. Donald Monan, chancellor of Boston College, will be the principal celebrant.
The Rev. Mark Hession of Our Lady of Victories Parish on Cape Cod will delivery the homily, and Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley will lead the final prayers of commendation.
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Tonight has been a perfect case of what is wrong with me. This is what happened:
I was at scouts (yes, I go to scouts) and I noticed that it was about the time that we usually close up for the night. I pointed it out to the leader (as I had a hell of a lot of homework to do and not much time to do it in). He ignored me and everyone carried on with the planning meeting. The minutes ticked on and I just got angrier and angrier. The problem is that I don't really vocalize when I am angry, but I start shuddering and twitching and occasionally whimpering with the larger twitches that I sometimes have. This usually goes ignored by everyone around me, short of the occasional "Are you alright Connor?" to which I usually, wrongly, reply "Yeah...". This went on for a good half an hour after the usual closing time.
With me, there are 3 stages to my anger:
-the -..- stage
-the shuddering and twitching stage
-the silence stage
Tonight I reached the 3rd stage. When I do, I just fall silent. I stop shuddering, I stop twitching, I start to move slowly and deliberately, only doing what I need to do. While all of this is happening, my mind is in a state of complete rage. I just want to smash something/someone, but my body won't permit me to. About half an hour into it, I get a HUGE headache which usually carries on to the next day.
This leads me to my question; how can I stop this? I know that it is not healthy to keep my anger bottled up, but I don't want to just go into an all-caps-rage every time I get angry.
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WHERE is KDL?
Question: What does the Godfrey Lee Block Party and the Hispanic Festival have in common with the Zoo Goes Boo?
Answer: They're all recent community events at which KDL has been sighted!
"What exactly is the library doing grooving to salsa music downtown or giving out treats to children at the zoo?" Well, KDL is at the heart of what's happening in our communities. We are part of what's positive in West Michigan and we jump at chances to celebrate culture, education and all-around awesomeness!
We also want to make sure everyone knows about the ridiculously amazing free stuff and family fun to be had at the library.
On the afternoon of September 9, we co-hosted the Fiesta Fun event at the Alpine Township soccer fields. Young players and their families delighted in face painting, a snow globe craft, giveaways and hugs from Katie L. the elephant and Purdy the Clown.
Fiesta Fun — just one example of many examples of KDL breaking out of its library walls.
If you spot us at a community event, make sure to say hello!
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Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading up 87 points (0.5%) at 16,606 as of Thursday, May 8, 2014, 12:55 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,938 issues advancing vs. 1,065 declining with 159 unchanged. The Drugs industry currently is unchanged today versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.5%. Top gainers within the industry include Biogen Idec ( BIIB), up 2.0%, Alexion Pharmaceuticals ( ALXN), up 1.5% and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals ( REGN), up 1.1%. On the negative front, top decliners within the industry include Merck ( MRK), down 1.3%, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International ( VRX), down 0.9%, Actavis ( ACT), down 0.9% and Allergan ( AGN), down 0.6%. TheStreet would like to highlight 3 stocks pushing the industry higher today: 3. Abbott Laboratories ( ABT) is one of the companies pushing the Drugs industry higher today. As of noon trading, Abbott Laboratories is up $0.21 (0.5%) to $38.90 on light volume. Thus far, 2.0 million shares of Abbott Laboratories exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 7.9 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $38.55-$38.96 after having opened the day at $38.69 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $38.69. Abbott Laboratories is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of health care products worldwide. Abbott Laboratories has a market cap of $59.5 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 0.9% year-to-date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 10 analysts who rate Abbott Laboratories a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Abbott Laboratories as a hold. Among the primary strengths of the company is its expanding profit margins over time. At the same time, however, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income and relatively poor performance when compared with the S&P 500 during the past year. Get the full Abbott Laboratories Ratings Report now. 3x UPSIDE POTENTIAL: TheStreet Quant Ratings has identified a handful of stocks that can potentially TRIPLE in the next 12 months. Learn more.Editor's Note: Any reference to TheStreet Ratings and its underlying recommendation does not reflect the opinion of TheStreet, Inc. or any of its contributors including Jim Cramer or Stephanie Link. All three major indices are trading up today with the
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On the same day that TiVo was celebrating another legal win over Dish, they also learned of new lawsuit against them. Jonathan Riches has sued TiVo and some mysterious entity know as "HDTV" over the lack of HD TiVo in his jail cell. TiVo may end up needing to take Dish all the way to the Supreme Court to win their feud, but don't bet on Riches suit getting quite as far. He's already sued TiVo once before and had the case quickly dismissed. In fact over the last year, Riches has seen over 1,000 of his bogus lawsuits thrown out of court. I can understand how the losing access to TiVo's sweet HDTV goodness might be uncomfortable, but I'm not convinced that it rises to the level of unconstitutionality.
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New Principal Starts in July
Macomb, IL – Macomb High School has a new principal. The Board of Education unanimously agreed to hire John Rumley.
Superintendent Alene Reuschel says Rumley is the right person for the job. "When we started this process all of our administrators, myself included, were reticent with the time-frame involved that we would find the right candidate," Reuschel says.
"The stars have aligned," Reuschel says. "We are very pleased. Yes, we found the right candidate. Mr. Rumley comes with high school teaching experience."
Rumley has been an educator for 25 years. He has been the principal at Illini Bluffs High School in Glasford for 3 years. Prior to that he was an assistant principal in the Princeton School District. Reuschel says he has also been a basketball coach for 25 years.
"He comes well prepared," says Reuschel. "He comes from a large school background. He taught up north, he's been in urban schools, and medium sized schools. So he understands the needs and the kinds of challenges presenting a school of about 600."
Rumley's contract is for 1 year. His salary is $84,000. Rumley will start his duties at the beginning of next month.
Rumley replaces Zac Chatterton, who resigned to take the job as principal at Dunlap Middle School.


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March 24, 2012 , Terrence Bay, Lower Prospect
Today Dave and I decided to do some exploring, on land, in our own backyard. Whoa, what ??
We were heading to Polly's Cove, a hiking trail just a tad before Peggy's Cove. We had even packed a snack and some coconut water to quench our thirst (nothing like getting ready for our future caribean travels !)
The reason we got sidetracked, is that four summers ago, when we were sailing on Dave's then lovely Illihee II, we spent a wonderful night in Grovers Cove, where we had hiked by some waterfalls. Today we were driving by, on our way to Polly's Cove, Dave did a double turn and hmm, mentionned that those "rocks looked familiar" and so we did another double turn and went for a look-see. Now only a "true" sailor would understand this term "the rocks looked familiar". Maybe, given that I knew exactly what Dave was talking about when he said that, could I be that much closer to becoming a sailor-ess ?
In any case, that's how we got sidetracked. We parked in a very small area just off the road, and found ourselves in this waterfront park, stumbled on the boardwalk littered with benches everywhere and stopped for a moment at the gazebo. We started reading the interpretive panels and discovered a very interesting piece of history that neither one of us knew anything about.
On 01 April 1873, the sail and steam fueled SS Atlantic was on its 19th voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, (from Liverpool (U.K.) and on its way to New York (U.S.), needed to refuel and was heading to Halifax to replenish its coal supplies (why did it leave UK with not enough coal?). The (typical) stormy seas and foggy nights of Nova Scotia had the Capt fooled (and there seems to be a bit of question as to the Capt's actions), thinking he was near Halifax, zigged when he should've zagged, and so in the wee hours of the morning, the ship smashed into some underwater rocks off Marr's Head...
It was considered "the worst marine disaster off the Canadian Coast prior to the Titanic". Of the 952 people on board less than half were saved. Lifeboats were lowered but were mostly washed away or smashed by the rough seas. The ship quickly filled with water and rolled over on its side. All the women and children died including 2 babies that were born on-board during the voyage. One child survived, a young boy by the name of John Hindley. The few survivors owed their lives to the very small and brave community that kept the frozen bodies alive during the dark and cold night. Many divers spent weeks diving and recovering the bodies. One newspaper tells an interesting tale : that one of the found crew was discovered to be a woman instead of the man that she was pretending to be - (s)he had served as a "common (male) sailor" for 3 of the SS Atlantic's voyages. Shiver me timbers !!
There stands a commemorative monument, erected in 1915, on a mass grave for the unidentified victims of the wreck.
As Dave and I meandered off the beaten path, we came across more gravestones laying helter skelter in the bushes, enough to shiver me timbers and hush us into solemn pensiveness. What is it about discovering a bunch of gravestones that gives one the creepy crawlies ? Either way it was an interesting detour and a wonderful day spent discovering a little piece of history in our own backyard.
On a side note, the offer and counter offer fell through and our house is back on the market, so we came home after our adventures for (another) thorough cleaning, getting it ready for more showings !! And it's back to the books for this "true sailor-ess" for the upcoming reviews and Coastal Navigation exam this week.
Keep your fingers crossed, shiver me timbers !!
Photo: One of the descriptive panels fond at the Heritage Site aptly named "Cry of the Sea". As always if you've liked SV Banyan on Facebook, you can take a peek at a few more pictures.
And so great to hear from you and thanks so much for your, as always, perfectly TRUE comments, LOL. We remember you fondly and everyone still speaks of you and our wedding day !!! We will remember to put sailling NAKED on our bucket list !! Hope life is treating you well but I know that if it isn't, you'll raise some hell yourself !! Keep in touch and keep reading !! Hugs, Dave and Alex
March 21, 2012 , Halifax
This widely popular and well known idiom cannot be mistaken for anything else but the infamous words of Capt Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Having spent the last few weeks watching reruns, and yes, Le Sigh, SV Banyan is, admittedly, a huge Trekkie fan, this idea of "making it so" has somehow resonated with me. Capt Picard, in First Contact, succintly explained that in the world of the future, dilemmas and strife have disappeared, and the ultimate goal of (wo)mankind has become to strive to continually better ourselves.
This combined with the recent events in our lives...
A recent story of DOing by Zero to Cruising, where Rebecca taught herself how to dance with fire (you should watch the video, she's amazing !). Love their zest for life !! Another recent blog by Windtraveler is a great read as well, sharing a similar vein of thought, commenting on those who dream and dream, and those who dream and "DO" (quote unquote).
There is this idea that somehow and someway we all have the ability to create the life of our dreams. Sounds simple enough. The inspirational stories of those that up and quit lucrative jobs to be "happy-er" following their bliss. Oftentimes it is when we face the fear, and do it anyways, that we feel truly vibrant and alive and empowered. There's something to be said about leaving the relative familiar comfort of that which we know and heading out... into unknown and unchartered territory. (Although in this age of technological media, ain't much that is unknown and unchartered).
Dave and I have also, as have other cruisers I am sure, started experiencing the "you are doing WHAT ?". Sometimes it's as simple as a raised eyebrow, to outright vocal comments (some supportive, some not so much).
My daughter experienced this as well when she told people she was going to Spain for a few months. My son succintly investigated the idea of the words that we choose to speak, suggesting that, for example, in terms of high school graduates that so and so took a year "off"... Why this need to constantly quanitfy and qualify our actions... or the time doing something we want with the word "off" ?
Off from what ? Is following our dream, creating our lives, striving for HAPPYness, feeling vibrantly alive, taking time "off"?
Can it be as simple as the very idea that language in of itself, the use of words, the thinking of thoughts allow us to go from dreaming to "making it so" ??
On a totally unrelated topic, we are happy to report that we just received the first offer on our house, and a counter offer is in the works. Dave is visiting SV Banyan (aka working) on this absolutely gorgeous summer day (and yes it's only mid-March !) and we have been following our exercise regimen with rewnewed ardour (see what Spring brings forth ??) which for me entails a 10 km walk today.
Life is Good. Make it so !
PHOTO: A gorgeous pictures of SV Banyan with her colourful spinnaker. Taken last summer - thanks Mo !!


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WATCH: Ohio gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald talks to WCPO
The road to the governor's mansion in Columbus, Ohio runs straight through southwest Ohio in 2014.
With that in mind, Democratic nominee Ed FitzGerald was in town Thursday to talk about his new universal pre-kindergarten proposal and stopped by the WCPO to chat with Clyde Gray. (Watch the full interview above)
In the exclusive interview, FitzGerald discussed a variety of topics and questioned what Republican Gov. John Kasich calls the "miracle" of Ohio's economic comeback.
Kasich says jobs are growing in state and it's only going to get better. He credits a strong network of businesses throughout the region.
WATCH: Kasich Talks To WCPO About Jobs
"Companies like Abbott Laboratories and when you add P&G and Chinese investment, there is real reason to be optimistic," Kasich said at an event earlier in the day. "You've got Dayton and the whole region is just going to do better and better and better."
It was announced Thursday that Procter & Gamble plans to establish a multi-category distribution center in the Dayton area that is projected to create 800 new jobs.
But FitzGerald says Kasich financed that miracle by raiding the local government fund, causing a "damaging" ripple effect.
"It's led to teachers being laid off, firefighters being laid off and police officers being laid off," he said. "And it also led to a lot of local tax increases, which I don't think is fiscally conservative or responsible.
"And I think it breaks a partnership that should exist between a governor and local communities."
The organization Public Policy Polling released Thursday a new poll the shows how Ohio residents would favor Kasich if the election were held today.
According to the data from PPP, a Democratic-leaning polling company , 43 percent of Ohio voters would support FitzGerald, while 47 percent would vote for the incumbent.
In response, Ohio Democratic Party Chairman Chris Redfern released the following statement:
"After four years of a Kasich administration, a majority of consistent polling shows that Governor Kasich cannot break 50 percent with Ohio voters. No matter how many millions the Republicans spend trying to convince us otherwise, Ohio's middle class families know that Kasich's policies are not working for them."
The PPP poll is in line with a poll conducted by conservative polling firm Rasmussen Reports over the last week, which found FitzGerald and Kasich separated by seven points.
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I'm sure this is a result that News Ltd, part owner of Sky News, will take with dignity and restraint:
ABC handed permanent Australia Network deal
The Federal Government has decided that the contract for the Australia Network international television service will remain with the ABC.
After all, the journalists employed by News Ltd are there to inform their readers, not to advocate relentlessly for the commercial interests of their boss. I'm sure it'll be fine.
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"Why would you give the contract to a company whose parent has spent the last 3 years trying to bring you down, by whatever means is available? "
Or bring down ANYONE, for that matter? As long as that service is regarded externally as an official voice of australia, it should be accountable to the guv of the day, IMHO.
Reading the saga, at least as little as is known at present, it strikes me as a splendid bit of Karma. I'm guessing here from the dateline that this tender process originated as a FA Dept recommendation. I'd speculate further that it was a continuum of the Howard government process even though initiated well into Labor's reign.
I'm guessing that Cabinet did not take much notice beyond the tendering recommendations. It seems doubtful that this was a Rudd thing, as some speculated some time back, albeit Rudd probably went along with it. The ABC raised the heat on the issue when rumors suggested Sky would win the tender.
Gillard and Conroy have used the leaks, 'corrupting the tender process', as an excuse for first halting and then awarding the ABC the contract. There is probably substance to this as both have referred to it frequently. But it is very likely the leaks drew the government's closer attention to what was happening. And then the hard questions came.
Why would you give the contract to a company whose parent has spent the last 3 years trying to bring you down, by whatever means is available? Sky may only have a percentage of News ownership, but it seems to echo FOX in style. It would be madness to support such a group, albeit the trashing of the ABC news and current affairs is also a problem.
The Karma as I see it is: for the last two years or so News Ltd has joined with Abbott in creating fake impressions that the Home Insulation Scheme and the BER were major government stuff-ups. Both were successful and important programs in keeping Australia out of the mire of the GFC. Yet you wouldn't know that from the media cycle.
This one does seem to be one, first by the bureaucracy and then cabinet. It is a nice bit of Karma that News Ltd is on the receiving end of this one, after playing such a big role in creating the false impression of incompetence earlier.
"On the matter of the Oz Network Bernard Keane is just plain wrong and bigoted."
Oh, Angra, don't hold back. Tell us what you REALLY think 🙂
Steven Conroy opened his big mouth on Radio National (and a number of other media outlets)
KIRK: And Sky News Chief Angelos Frangopoulos says the decision was extraordinary given the tender was still the subject of two investigations. He says Sky expects to be fully compensated. On that at least the minister agrees, as he told the ABC's Paul Robinson.
CONROY: Look I think that they have a fair case. Obviously any issues around cost would have to be negotiation and they'd have to be verifiable, but I think that it's a fair case to say that a lot of time, effort and money went into that tender process, and a discussion around costs I'm sure will take place.
You can just imagine the confusion of some of the overseas audience on watching the ABC's efforts at bringing them Australian news for a few days.
["Doesn't Australia HAVE an elected government? All we hear is what 'The Federal Opposition says.'"]
Paul Kelly takes it really well… well, for a News Ltd hack anyway. He gets in both a whinge about the process, a claim the whole thing was fixed from the start, the fact that the decision was wrong even if it wasn't fixed, and also ties it into the Kevin Rudd leadership narrative being played across the Murdoch rags.
I wonder if he actually got marching orders on this one or decided to write cr@p on his own initiative? No analysis, just pure assertion that "we woz robbed".
On the matter of the Oz Network Bernard Keane is just plain wrong and bigoted. He doesn't seem to have lived outside the neat borders of Australia.
We actually have some crediblity with the neighbours – unlike the Poms or the US services (rarely available) – which are just seen as propaganda.
Anyway in many places the ONLY English language TV service is Australia Network.
To retain credibility it needs to be seen as non-partisan which raises Australia's reputation in the area. To have given it to a commercial operator would have been seen locally in many nations as a cop-out.
Believe it or not the national broadcaster is seen as a credible source of information in many countries. And to call it just a source of footy broadcasts for expats is grossly patonising and ignorant.
Has Keane ever lived outside Australia? Or even seen Australia Network broadcasts? Or talked to other contrie's locals about it?
No – thought not.
@MoC they have to get it absolutely right some time… hope it's this time and the spivs get nothing for their troubles.
Shanahanou was weeping on Rat Hately's shoulder on 2GB this morning, claiming it wouldn't even have been in Mudorc's clutches "as they only have a third of a third of a third stake in SKY!" ie <4%.
Which, were true, just demonstrates how even the slightest taint of the Evil Empire is utterly toxic.
*ack last 4 words last post: 'For what it is.'
AJ. Saying that a pre-emptive prediction for what we are pretty sure they will do is inappropriate is not the same as concern trolling, neither is it an endorsement of NL et al on my part. I suspect that under that daily cloak of lies, spin and bullshit, lies a lot of lies spin and bullshit. I hope this changes eventually, I would be truly astonished if it changed today.
However, thusly, because of this and therefore I think that:
Allowing them any sort of justification, no matter how wafer thin, to have even a sniff of legitimacy by being any less than scrupulously fair with them is a bad idea. Why give NL et al the opportunity to be able to say 'Look! We are being accused of stuff we haven't even done yet!' and therefore to be able to play the 'Martyred Victim of Free Speech Oppressors' role they so desperately crave? Give them an inch of this stuff, they will take a yard for sure. They are very good at doing this.
I want to be as fair as I possibly can with them, but not because I endorse them or are concerned for them. But rather so that the dreck that NL et al so often call journalism can be shown up more effectively to be the vote buying, scaremongering, agenda pushing rubbish that it manges to convince so many of its readers that it isn't, that it is.
I get that MOC — and I certainly hope they spivs from Fox get nada because of the way the tender EOI was composed. Really the government was silly to put it up in the first place.
Bernard Keane says the whole service should have been axed. Perhaps he's right.
[And I am happy to lead the charge with the Written Pitch Forks and Rhetorical Burning Brands. But not pre-emptively.]
Er that reads suspiciously like someone who thinks there might be a legitimate news organization hiding under that cloak of bullshit, lies and daily spin…(reeks a bit of concern troll frankly)
The way ahead looks exactly like what's behind…they've got more form for crook journalism and crony reporting than you can poke your pitch fork at..
One would assume that the government dotted it's "I's" and crossed it's "T's"
Oooh, probably not. I mean, come on … the odds?
"Give the spivs from Fox central casting nada."
I suspect the AAT would be the one making the decision, not us.
I disagree MOC. Give the spivs from Fox central casting nada. Let them whistle for it. The only sad thing is that the ABC had to waste money on it. I'd never have talked about having a tender in the first place.
MoC @10
Well, nothing I had seen at the time of writing my post. The 2 examples you gave, sure, lets give them the blow torch treatment. But even those 2 were not extant at the time of this thread being started.
Aliar @ 25 (most recently, but also others)
I also tend to agree with what you say will most likely happen. But I still think that this expected outcome, whilst very very likely, is not necessarily all pervasively inevitable. When we do see cases of journalistic masturbation, as I fully expect to, time then to take them down on a case by case basis. And I am happy to lead the charge with the Written Pitch Forks and Rhetorical Burning Brands. But not pre-emptively.
There are certain rules regarding the cancelling of a tender process. Compensation for the cancellation of a tender process will depend on 'why' it was cancelled in the first place.
One would assume that the government dotted it's "I's" and crossed it's "T's" to ensure that the reason they cancelled would not legally require them to pay compensation to the losing tenderers.
"we'll see the crazy ratcheted up to a whole new notch we haven't seen before in this country"
Yeah, and NEWS has been giving them such an easy run so far. The guv had really better watch out, because they've got NO idea what's coming …
Actually, those sedition laws might turn out to be relevant after all.
If there's one thing we can be certain of, there will be retribution from Ltd News…my prediction is we'll see the crazy ratcheted up to a whole new notch we haven't seen before in this country.
They are a company which thrives on bullying to achieve the results they desire.
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I think we should call a spade a spade: the Government did this to teach Murdoch a lesson. And should be roundly applauded for it."
Fully agree.
And StarFoxNews can read the fine print about 'commercial risk' from the 'Handbook of Capitalism' and go take a flying jump.
I think we should call a spade a spade: the Government did this to teach Murdoch a lesson. And should be roundly applauded for it.
"but I do think that Sky have a gripe about the arbitrary end to a procees I would assume they entered into in good faith."
I agree. If they need to be compensated, so be it. But the broadcast service is where it should have been all along.
Neither Sky News nor Their ABC 'deserved' to get the broadcasting contract. On the one hand, in many ways Sky News is literally more fair and balanced than their ABC in the past couple of years. On the other hand Sky is linked to the same media empire that's given the world toxic entities such as FOXNews (which, going by appearances, their ABC is trying to outdo in the right-wing mouthpiece stakes) and the phone-hacking scandal. A pox on both applicants.
Mr Wonderful promises that his MTR programme will today debate "How bad is the Australia Network anyway?"
Not being one of the sadly oppressed minority of Australians that have the misfortune of living 'down south' I don't even know what MTR is. But I can guess.
And I can guess what he will say.
Any suggestions?
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Looks pretty reasonable to me. And I used to watch it regulalrly when working in the Pacific. And my relo's took the English classes and thought they were pretty good. I can only advise that their English language skills did improve.
So without wishing to soil myself by having consider "what's wrong with it" from The Master – can someone enlighten me? Is it because it's run by the ABC?
Honestly, I think SKY needs to prove the tender & subsequent decision due to marred process was made in bad faith before demanding compensation. I've been involved in quite a few tenders (comes from developing software for government departments / agencies) and it's always a gamble as to whether the time, money, and effort will pay off. The upside of the gamble is a large project that tends to pay pretty well, the down side is that you may not get it for a wide variety of reasons (alot of them often out of your control).
If one is compensated for the gamble if you happen to not get the tender, I can see a whole new industry of companies tendering for government projects without the intention of actually getting it.
As to whether the process was bungled or part of some skulduggery I prefer Sir Humphrey's take on these situations ie " When faced between a choice between lethagy or strategy always assume lethegy" or something like that.
I am glad the service stays with the ABC but I do think that Sky have a gripe about the arbitrary end to a procees I would assume they entered into in good faith. Putting a tender together is time consuming & expensive and if you don't win so be it. That's the business risk. If it is just ignored then that's not reasonable. Unless they were responsible for some of the problems then I think they have a fair claim.
Slightly off topic but still to do with News Ltd. I notice thet The Australian was being given away gratis to commuters at the Murray St Station in Perth. They were still struggling to shift them and th Big Issue was moving quicker and people had to pay for that!
Pfffft, suck it up Sky. There is a risk in any tender process that you won't get the work. I don't see how this is any different to them just not getting the job.
No one forced them to tender.
While I can make no judged comment on the ABC versus Sky bids, I can say that two years of watching the Australia Network in an asian location has left me with the distinct feeling that the ABC should be doing a lot better.
There are too many program repeats, programs with no relevance to Australians overseas or projecting Australia to the world and in 2011, sports coverage skewed to AFL. Some of the time fillers such as the two surf rats (who appear to have just been dragged out of it in a distressed state) and present aspects of Australiana, just make me cringe.
The only time Australia Network steps up to the mark for me is Sunday morning. Most of the rest is a test of patience.
To consider outsourcing the Australia Network to a foreign-owned private company was insane to begin with. It is the diplomatic and cultural face of Australia to millions of people in Asia and the Pacific. And has great English language educational content.
Not even the cousin's wildest rightists ever considered flogging off their equivalent – the Voice of America. Imagine the outcry if they did?
Trollumnist highlights why Murdoch can't be trusted… He does it just about everyday with his pathetic rants designed to excite his idiot, ignorant, redneck fanbase. Murdoch's people will do ANYTHING for a story, they'll even hack the phone accounts of murdered children.
[I can't share your optimism.]
Hear hear..
Having said all that, Sky probably should be compensated for the Govt's bungling.. Politicians stuff up and nothing happens to them, the tax payer foots the bill.
Might have had something to do with being a legitimate news business?
Sorry Raven but:
[unlikely that Sky would have done a genuinely crappy job]
I can't share your optimism.
I can only go on the entire history of the Murdoch enterprise as my guide. I believe that not only would they almost certainly have done an abysmal "job" they would have been downright dangerous with their hands on AusTV.
[Now it's entirely possible that there's some genuine skulduggery (as opposed to plain infighting and inefficiency) in the tender process which has prompted this pretty unusual outcome, but that's not in public view yet.]
Yes. Conroy has something up his sleeve, methinks. We could be watching a game of cat and mouse, here, with the minister fishing for a Murdoch over reaction while they are reluctant to engage. Just yet.
Third World politics by a desperate and vicious government
Another Labor critic punished
This from the Government that has called a media inquiry into the "hate media", waged a jihad against the Daily Telegraph, seen two journalists dumped over articles critical of the Prime Minister, corrupted a tender process to strip a contract from Sky News
Nothing Howard did comes close to this Government's misuse of state power to stifle dissent.
NOTHING, you hear! Deciding to put the australia network back under government auspices where it should have been all along is CORRUPTION. And it's certainly worse than leaking a classificed document to a friendly journalist (anyone remember which one?) to undermine criticism from somebody who knew things the government didn't want YOU to know. And worse than the sedition laws, which specifically targetted news corporations. Certainly worse than arranging "adverse" security findings against protesters and sending them with a first-class escort, at their own expense. Heaps worse than moving all offshore processing to a country which (coincidentally) refused entry to journalists or lawyers. Should I go on?
And what the heck is this "jihad" against the tele? Is he talking about ministers making sure that other news outlets are given copies of answers to any questions from NEWS so that at least there's a chance that they'd be published accurately somewhere? That's not refusing a public's right to know. That's a desperate attempt to try to make sure that they DO know.
And no, those two journalists were not "dumped" for "being critical of the prime minister. Any more than the hun found itself in court for singing kumbaya.
While I am glad the ABC has been appointed, Sky should be reimbursed its tendering costs. That would be appropriate in a cancelled tender with this outcome.
FWIW, I feel is WAS a bungled tender process and that Sky can be rightfully enraged about the apparently arbitrary nature of the result. Anti-Murdoch views aside, I think it unlikely that Sky would have done a genuinely crappy job (I assume that the Government of the day would have some degree of editorial control).
Now it's entirely possible that there's some genuine skulduggery (as opposed to plain infighting and inefficiency) in the tender process which has prompted this pretty unusual outcome, but that's not in public view yet.
Imagine News won the contract, they'd be broadcasting into Asia getting our leaders/politician's names wrong, accidentally on purpose. Murdoch's media companies have form, real bad form, their track record is appalling. Murdoch owns the Sun and Fox News… enough said!
Now, now folks. They haven't done/published anything about it yet, lets wait till they do. The possibility exists after all that Sky News Australia Limited (or whatever they are calling themselves nowadays) will indeed be fair and balanced. If and when they aren't we can all cry boo then, but pre-emptive is not the way to go.
After all, it's irritating enough to listen to/read about NL being persecuted without giving them (albeit small!) justification for same by jumping the gun.
The Australian has already started the 'bungled tender process' meme.
I wonder what the new attitude of the Turdoch sycophants like La Triolli, Barry Cassidy, Chris Uhlman and others will be now? Will we get unbiased content?
This is a win for Australia and Asia when you consider the anti Muslim ravings of the News Corpse press that would have been expanded had they won this contract.
If you want to help push the ABC to return to its Charter, please vote and comment on the petition.
Never read that Murdoch filth.
Unfortunately, I still listen to the ABC.
All they had tonight was 'fair and balanced' mentions of how 'Sky' (no mention of the disgraced Murdoch empire) would sue for its expenses of tendering, and the usual "the opposition says…" tripe.
Stuff it. Sell the ABC to Murdoch for eleventy xillion dollars and be done with it. It's obviously the only way we are going to get anything of value from it while it's run by fundamentalist christian science deniers.
Then we can set up a new one called 'XYZ' using the dusty old charter from the ABC and get back to some vague idea of journalism.
PS: Pretty hard to find factual and balanced stories about Assange's appeal anywhere on Oz media tonight. The most honest was Al Jazeera!
Sky is already demanding that the government foot the bill for its own tender application. I sense a headline with 'bad government' in it.
No, please don't say that, now you're just goading them.


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Breast cancer is often thought of as a curable disease if caught early. But there is an aggressive type with poor prognosis because existing drugs don't seem to work. Called triple negative breast cancer, it occurs in about one in six women diagnosed with breast cancer -- usually black and Hispanic women, with black women seeing the worst outcomes.
Israeli scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, have taken a new approach to tackling this nasty cancer. Prof. Yosef Yarden of the biological regulation department and his research partner, Prof. Michael Sela of the immunology department, have found that in the case of aggressive triple negative breast cancer, two antibodies are better than one.
Their approach mimics the way the body defends itself against breast cancer to help cure those who have become resistant to therapy.
"This research is about 10 to 15 percent of the overall breast cancer cases in the United States. We are talking about black women, generally, who are relatively young, in their 30s and 40s," says Yarden. "This is quite a difficult disease for them. They are initially treated with chemotherapy and see a good response. But eventually they develop a resistance to it and the therapy fails."
These women usually live for seven or eight years after diagnosis.
Triple negative breast cancer doesn't come with a well-known biology, Yarden explains. The breast cancer cells are missing the three different receptors targeted by existing drugs, like Herceptin and what are known as steroid hormone blockers.
There is a similarly aggressive breast cancer that can be treated with Herceptin, but "triple negative has no solution," says Yarden.
It takes two for synergy
Herceptin is the trademarked name for trastuzumab, a new-generation molecular drug that destroys breast tumors by blocking the hormones that enable them to grow. But in one in six breast cancers, the receptors are lacking and the drug fails to work.
Reading the literature, Yarden and his team came up with a new idea: Instead of targeting just one antibody on the cell surface, as Herceptin does, they would look at another cell receptor system and attack it in a fresh approach.
"Researchers have reported that one-third of triple negative cancers have high receptor levels for
EGFR, epidermal growth-factor receptor, much more than in a normal breast cell, so it is very different than other subtypes of triple negative cancers," Yarden explains.
"This gives us the idea that EGFR is important for the growth, survival and resistance of the cancer. Because it's only appearing in one-third of triple negatives, this might be a clue that it might be relevant to the other two-thirds as well."
Until now, EGFR-blocking drugs have proved ineffective. Yarden's team is the first to see positive cell-shrinking effects from a double-whammy antibody approach.
"Even treating five percent
of the entire breast cancer population overall is something," he adds. In mice, the researchers simultaneously treated triple-negative breast cancer with two EGFR-blocking antibodies instead of just one. Together they appeared to overwhelm the EGFR with their weight, causing the cell to collapse in on itself.
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The tests have only been done on animal models so far, and Yarden currently seeks collaboration with a pharmaceutical company to develop a new antibody that could synergize with the two existing antibody therapies on the market.
The two existing ones compete for the same receptor and therefore do not show this powerful synergistic effect, he notes. "We need to combine one of the existing ones with a new one which might be used as a starting point," he says.
Building a new antibody means taking a molecular approach using genetic engineering so that the antibody works in humans.
A solution, if funded today, could be ready for clinical trials in about five or 10 years, he believes. This could help women now in their teens and twenties today.
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The dream, he concludes, would be a vaccination against cancer, but for that the barrier of the immune system would need to be overcome. "This is the vision for my field but we have a much longer way to go."
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It was last year that I saw the epic musical "Wicked". It was amazing, but it was nothing compared to the book, which isssssss way different and much better (much more graphic as well).
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is pretty amazing. Note, it's not the same as The Wizard of Oz, nor is it aimed towards Children.
I read this book again recently. It's kind of slow in some parts, but for the most part I couldn't put it down. I remember looking over at the clock and reading "4:30 AM"... I was like "WTF?".
Anyway, when I was walking out of the theater with my mom she said she liked the Musical better (I overheard some people saying this as well). But I was leaning towards the book.
It was a great adventure getting to know the real Witch (Elphaba). Getting to follow her through her life, as a baby and kid, to young adult, and to her cruel and untimely death at the hands of the foreign Kansas girl.Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West the full title of the novel is a fantastic social and political commentary. A look at what is really good and what is really bad, and who decides. It examines how if one has money, power or beauty or simply follows the status-quo - that they are often assumed good regardless of their actual behavior. Those who challenge authority, dont conform to the social pressures of their peers, and think for themselves are often labeled as wicked.
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Well earlier today I went to my favorite book store and picked up his other Adult fiction: Confessions of an Ugly Step Sister, Lost, Mirror Mirror, Son of a Witch (sequel to Wicked), and a Lion Among Men (Another book in The Wicked Years series).
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Shadow cabinet minister backtracks on boycottAugust 19, 2014
A member of Ed Miliband's shadow cabinet has backtracked after appearing to endorse Israel boycotts against her party's policy.
Filmed during a rally in Hyde Park on 9 August, Shabana Mahmood, the shadow exchequer secretary, urged the crowds to "educate yourselves about the different boycott campaigns and get involved in them".
To great applause, she reflected on direct action taken against Sainsbury's in Birmingham the previous week: "I was with 200 activists outside Sainsbury's in the centre of Birmingham," she said. "We laid down in the street and we laid down inside Sainsbury's to say we object to Sainsbury's stocking goods from illegal settlements – and that they must stop. We managed to closed down that store at peak time on a Saturday. This is how we can make a difference.
She has also retweeted a message from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign which said: "Make a difference – lobby your MP & join the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement!".
A Labour Party spokesman told the Jewish News: "Ed Miliband has been clear that labour does not support boycotts of Israel and we resolutely oppose the isolation of Israel. Labour remains committed to a comprehensive peace based on a two-state solution , international law and secure Israel alongside a secure and viable state of Palestine.
"Having spoken to her, Shabana has made clear that she does not support calls for a boycott of Israel but supports the proper labelling of goods from the region as per the DEFRA guidelines."
Mike Freer, the Tory MP for Finchley and Golders Green, condemned the actions of Mahmood. He said ahead of the Labour response: "Once again we see the ugly side of Labour and the weakness of Miliband. His unwillingness or inability to rein in a front bench spokesman who is encouraging these sort of targeted attacks speaks volumes. For any Parliamentarian to encourage mob rule as a way of protesting is shameful. Will synagogues and kosher shops be next on her list of targets?"
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