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"There Are Too Many of Them"
"She gave birth right on the mountain! Isn't that a trip?" Claudia Janiszewski said as she led me down the hall at Tirana's main maternity ward. The hall, its walls covered with decades of whatever that oily substance is that settles on walls, smelled of urine, medicine, and nausea. Claudia has that way of speaking that seems embarrassingly inappropriate in places dangerous and poor, but I had already decided that she and her husband, Henry, were my kind of people. They are the rare Americans who go to foreign countries and learn their language and customs. They also seem to have a knack for dangerous places. They lived in Albania for three years: Henry was working for the U.S. Treasury, trying to develop the banking sector, which placed him at the epicenter of the riots that broke out in 1997. Then they went to Russia, just in time for last August's crash, and then they decided to take it easy and moved to Colorado, buying a house just down the street from that school in Littleton.
While they lived in Albania, Claudia founded a volunteer organization to help the abandoned babies living on the maternity ward. It was a modest nonprofit, with a budget of around $15,000 a year and absolutely no pizzazz to attract media attention and concomitant donations: Reporters would not return Claudia's phone calls, and, yes, someone once asked if Albania was in upstate New York. But when the war put Albania on the American map, Claudia raised about $20,000 in two weeks, and here she was, in Tirana, showing me around the maternity ward, where her organization's work is turning more and more toward caring for the Kosovar refugee women giving birth. The woman who gave birth on the mountain cries for days on end. It was her first child, and she did not know what to do. They walked and hid and walked for two weeks, her husband and a cousin's family and she, and she felt the pangs of labor and tried to suppress them for days until she couldn't anymore. When they arrived, both she and the baby were ill. Now the baby is better, but she won't eat and she cries all the time. When we entered the room she was, finally, asleep under a crude gray and brown wool blanket, and she sobbed in her sleep.
We went to see another woman. Toothless, with sunken cheeks and faraway eyes, she looked 45, but she was 28. Her family had been given an hour to get out of the house, but the 20-minute trip to Kukes, on the Albanian side, had taken all night because there were so many people going to the border. Like virtually all refugees with whom I have spoken, she claimed to be lucky because something did not happen to her: In this case, starting out very close to the border, she did not encounter any Serbs on the way, and nothing was taken from her family (which had not had the time to take anything from home anyway). Then they made the 14-hour bus trip from Kukes to Tirana, and two weeks later, she gave birth to her seventh child. Village women from Kosovo, if they are of child-bearing age, are, more often than not, either nursing or pregnant or both. There are about 20 Kosovar births a week at this maternity ward in Tirana. Exact figures are impossible to obtain, but hundreds of new Kosovars have already been born in both Albania and Macedonia.
"There are too many of them." This is the third or fourth sentence 26-year-old Sreten Koceski, an ethnic Macedonian who has lived in Tetovo his whole life, says to me. Greater Tetovo, which includes the mostly-Albanian villages around the city, has been majority-Albanian for as long as anyone can remember. But the town itself used to be split about fifty-fifty--until the refugees came. "It's not very pleasant for the Macedonians," says Sreten. "We feel we are in danger somehow."
Reader, this was a cheap trick: starting with babies, then introducing a man who is threatened by the sheer numbers of the Other. But interethnic relations, in the Balkans and elsewhere, are the province of cheap tricks and overwrought rhetoric. I put it off as long as I could--until my last day in the region, in fact--but I knew I would have to do it sooner or later: In the only part of the former Yugoslavia that is still holding on to some vision of different ethnic groups coexisting harmoniously, I had to ask their representatives what they think of one another.
Macedonia has, for the most part, preserved the convoluted structures that in the former Yugoslavia went under the name of Brotherhood and Unity but would have been better defined as Separate but Equal. The government was formed by a coalition that included two Macedonian and one Albanian party. Primary education is available in four languages: Macedonian, Serbian, Albanian, and Turkish. Both print and electronic media in different languages are available. At the same time, the Albanian party and one of the Macedonian parties in the ruling coalition have purely nationalist roots, and all existing political parties represent only one ethnic group. Multilingual education means that children of different ethnicities attend different schools and, if they pursue further education, are ultimately insulted (if they are not Macedonian) to confront an educational system defined by the Macedonian culture and language. And Macedonian-language media employ virtually exclusively ethnic Macedonians, while Albanian-language media employ ethnic Albanians, and so on. "It's not so much what the system defines," says Eran Fraenkel, the American executive director of Search for a Common Ground, an international organization that tries to do what its name says. "It's what the system produces: people who may never have contact with the other community."
So I ask Sreten Koceski whether he has any Albanian friends. "Sure," he says.
"How many?"
"At this moment I can say for sure--four or five. Not close personally, but good friends."
Then he tells me again that Albanians threaten Macedonians, sometimes attack them violently--especially now that there are so many refugees here, he says. There have been a couple of incidents just in the last two weeks.


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Pena Nieto's win confirmed by Mexico vote count
Friday, July 6, 2012
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The official count in Mexico's presidential election concluded on Friday with results showing former ruling party candidate Enrique Pena Nieto won by a 6.6 percentage-point margin, almost exactly the same lead as a vote-night quick count gave him.
The final count by the country's electoral authority, which included a ballot-by-ballot recount at more than half of polling places, showed Pena Nieto getting 38.21 percent of votes in Sunday's election. Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who got 31.59 percent.
Lopez Obrador said he will file a formal legal challenge to the vote count in electoral courts next week, based on the allegation that Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, engaged in vote-buying that illegally tilted millions of votes. PRI officials deny the charge.
"Rivers of illicitly obtained money were used to buy millions of votes," Lopez Obrador told a news conference Friday. He also claimed the recount of ballots at over half of polling places had not been carried out as thoroughly as promised.
Josefina Vazquez Mota of the conservative National Action Party got 25.41 percent of votes cast, and the small New Alliance Party got 2.29 percent, barely passing the two-percent barrier needed to preserve the party's place on future ballots.
Almost 2.5 percent of ballots where voided; while some voters in Mexico void their ballots as a form of protest, some also simply make mistakes in marking them.
The final vote count must be certified in September by the Federal Electoral Tribunal. The tribunal has declined to overturn previously contested elections, including a 2006 presidential vote that was far closer than Sunday's.
Accusations of vote-buying began surfacing in June, but sharpened early this week as thousands of people rushed to grocery stores on the outskirts of Mexico City to redeem pre-paid gift cards worth about $7.50. Many said they got the cards from PRI supporters before Sunday's elections.
Lopez Obrador said millions of voters had received either pre-paid cards, cash, groceries, construction materials or appliances. Lopez Obrador would not rule out street protests, like the one he led in 2006 to protest alleged fraud in the presidential elections of that year, which he narrowly lost to President Felipe Calderon.
But he said Thursday that his challenge of the results would be channeled through legal venues, like the electoral institute and courts.
"We have acted and we will continue to act in a responsible way, adhering to the legal procedure. Nobody can say we are violating the law," Lopez Obrador said.
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Since being ranked for the first time in the 2010-11 season on Dec. 14, 2010, USC Aiken has now been ranked in the top-25 in the last 29 polls (school-record). The Pacers have been ranked in the top-10 in each of the last three years.
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USC Aiken has started off the 2012-13 season by reeling off three straight 20-plus wins, including a 72-49 home win over current national No. 23 Wingate (3-1) on Wednesday, Nov. 14.
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"Way More Characters" Coming on The Walking Dead Season 5 — Announcements Soon?
Remember how many new characters were introduced in The Walking Dead Season 4? There were all kinds of redshirts at the prison, plus The Governor's new group, Lizzie, Mika, Patrick, Zach, Dr. S., Joe, etc., but the only ones who survived into Season 5 are Bob Stookey, Tara (Alanna Masterson), Abraham Ford (Michael Cudlitz), Eugene Porter (Josh McDermitt), and Rosita Espinosa (Christian Serratos). Oh and Gareth (Andrew J. West), technically.
They were all connected to the comics, some more than others. Abraham's group was pretty much lifted directly from the page. Bob has the same name as an Army medic from the books, but that's about all they have in common. Tara has an equally small number of similarities to the Tara Chalmers in the graphic novel; TV Tara is pretty much her own woman. (Gareth may be a TV adaptation of Chris, leader of The Hunters, but we'll have to see.)
Season 5 is now filming, and on set photos have shown new series regular Seth Gilliam dressed as a priest, which sounds like a pretty clear hint to his introduction as Father Gabriel Stokes, a character from the comics. We'll have to see how that character is remixed for TV, but The Hollywood Reporter asked comic book writer/TV producer Robert Kirkman if other familiar characters might be introduced in S5.
"I wouldn't be surprised to see some more announcements along those lines at some point soon," RK said. "But that's always the case. We're always going to be cycling through characters, as I like to say in an ominous and foreboding kind of way. If we're not bringing new blood into the mix then we'll eventually run out. So we're definitely going to be bringing some new blood into the mix and always moving forward."
On a similar note, AMC just caught up with The Walking Dead producer Jolly Dale, and she talked about some exciting things ahead in Season 5. "There's a lot of stuff I'm not allowed to talk about, but readers of the comic book will have a pretty good idea of which direction we're going in. The way I see it is, we've killed a lot of beloved characters on the show, but that just opens it up for new storylines to come along. So don't be too sad about all the people who died in Season 4 because there will be way more characters to come."
Way more! How many more and who? Terminus is not in the comic books, but we may meet more people there. There was already a casting spoiler from E! News about a teenage character named Burton, but who knows where he connects in the story or how long he'll last. In addition to Gabriel, there are some other people from the comics that we could meet this season, especially if we get to Alexandria at some point.
Are you excited to hear about the new characters of Season 5? Do you suspect most of them will die off quickly? Do you hope they do? We do already have a lot of people to follow...
The Walking Dead Season 5 premieres in October on AMC.
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The Cooper City football team, led by coach Art Taylor, has accepted a two-year deal to play at Lexington High (S.C.) beginning in the 2012 season.
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Check out the AppWave Store that launched today!
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I'm headed to Delphi Developer Days to do the Embarcadero keynote as well as a free evening event in each city - Washington DC (BWI area) and Chiacgo. Don't miss free food, drink and potentially valuable discounts at these events!
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I'm looking for a reasonably light-weight, simple and fast math function parser. It should not be a DLL. I need it to work on Windows, MacOSX and iOS. I would use it in a demo I want to build.
It must be able to parse and evaluate functions of (at least) two variables, for instance f(x,y) = sin(x^2+y^2)/(x^2+y^2).
I would use it like this (pseudo code):
FuncTree := BuildEvalTree('f(x,y) = sin(x^2+y^2)/(x^2+y^2)'); // Or whatever it needs for x := x_min to x_max do for y := y_min to y_max do z[x,y] := Evaluate(FuncTree,[x,y]); // Or whatever it needs...
EDIT: This post is now outdated. HotFix 1 addresses this issue, and these steps are no longer needed!
I was trying to record the process of submitting an app last Friday. My EDN app was ready for the AppStore. I ran into this:
iPhone/iPod Touch: application executable is missing a required architecture.
At least one of the following architecture(s) must be present: armv7
This happens on the validation step of submitting an app to the AppStore. The reason is that the validation step for AppStore submissions has changed. Support for *only* armv6 is no longer allowed. You have to support armv7, either by itself or have dual support (armv6 and armv7). This is a recent change, since I was able to submit my previous Analog Clock app in late October last year.
I've spent much of the last week trying to solve this problem. I did a bunch of research, but there was no single magic bullet anywhere. I finally cracked it. And here is the solution. I apologize in advance if some steps are missing. I tried to capture every single step I had to take.
STEP 1: Rebuilding iPhoneAll for armv7
Phil Hess has an excellent page that explains this process - http://web.me.com/macpgmr/ObjP/Xcode4/iOS_5_Parsing_Status.html
You don't actually need to parse anything for this purpose. You can jump directly to Phil's Step 4 and build iPhoneAll for armv6/armv7 as follows:
./compile-arm.sh iPhoneAll.pas
Then Phil's Step 5 from the link above (this moves the compiled targets in place):
mv iPhoneAll.o /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/units/arm-darwin/cocoaint/
mv iPhoneAll.ppu /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/units/arm-darwin/cocoaint/
mv AnonClassDefinitionsUikit.o /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/units/arm-darwin/cocoaint/
mv AnonClassDefinitionsUikit.ppu /usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/units/arm-darwin/cocoaint/
STEP 2: Rebuilding the FPC RTL for armv7
We'll use the following link as a base line - http://wiki.freepascal.org/iPhone/iPod_development#Building_an_ARM_Cross-compiler
We need to modify the steps for iOS5.0 as follows:
Jump into Super User mode:
sudo bash
export IPHONEPLATFORMBASEDIR=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer
make clean
make FPC=/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/ppc386 CPU_TARGET=arm CROSSOPT="-FD${IPHONEPLATFORMBASEDIR}/usr/bin -XR${IPHONEPLATFORMBASEDIR}/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.0.sdk/ -ap -Cparmv7 -Cfvfpv3" all
sudo make FPC=`pwd`/compiler/ppcrossarm OPT="-ap" CPU_TARGET=arm CROSSOPT="-FD${IPHONEPLATFORMBASEDIR}/usr/bin -XR${IPHONEPLATFORMBASEDIR}/SDKs/iPhoneOS5.0.sdk/ -ap" install CROSSINSTALL=1
sudo ln -sf ../lib/fpc/2.5.1/ppcrossarm /usr/local/bin/ppcarm
STEP 3. Modify the Run Script for project under Build Phases for your Target in Xcode
Replace the -Cfvfpv2 flag with both of these flags -Cparmv7 -Cfvfpv3. A typical excerpt from the Run Script will now say:
/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/ppcrossarm -gw -g -godwarfsets -Xg -O1 -Cparmv7 -Cfvfpv3 -MDelphi -B -o$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$EXECUTABLE_PATH -Fu/usr/local/lib/fpc/2.6.0/units/arm-darwin/fmi -Fu/Developer/Embarcadero/fmi -Fu/Developer/Embarcadero/fmi/coretext -Fu/Developer/Embarcadero/fmi/fpclib -XR$SDKROOT -FD$PLATFORM_DEVELOPER_BIN_DIR "$PROJECT_DIR/../$PROJECT.pas"
Drop armv6 from Architectures under Build Settings for your Project if it's set.
Good luck!
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Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) trading down 90 points (-0.6%) at 15,522 as of Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2013, 12:50 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 580 issues advancing vs. 2,389 declining with 97 unchanged. The Services sector currently sits down 0.9% versus the S&P 500, which is down 0.6%. On the negative front, top decliners within the sector include American Eagle Outfitters ( AEO), down 15.4%, AECOM Technology Corporation ( ACM), down 13.7%, Tidewater ( TDW), down 9.5%, Foot Locker ( FL), down 6.6% and United Continental Holdings ( UAL), down 3.4%. Top gainers within the sector include Expeditors International of Washington ( EXPD), up 2.8%, MGM Resorts International ( MGM), up 2.8%, Luxottica Group ( LUX), up 1.8%, Moody's Corporation ( MCO), up 1.7% and MasterCard Incorporated ( MA), up 1.3%. TheStreet would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today: 5. Walgreen Company ( WAG) is one of the companies pushing the Services sector lower today. As of noon trading, Walgreen Company is down $0.47 (-0.9%) to $50.49 on light volume. Thus far, 2.0 million shares of Walgreen Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.1 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $50.09-$50.98 after having opened the day at $50.81 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $50.96. Walgreen Co., together with its subsidiaries, operates a network of drugstores in the United States. It provides consumer goods and services, pharmacy, and health and wellness services through drugstores, as well as through mail, and by telephone and online. Walgreen Company has a market cap of $48.2 billion and is part of the retail industry. Shares are up 37.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Walgreen Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold. TheStreet Ratings rates Walgreen Company as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its increase in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity. Get the full Walgreen Company Ratings Report now. STOCKS TO BUY: 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 down today with the
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Jadore L'or Perfume by Christian Dior, This fragrance was created by the house of christian dior with perfumer francois demachy and released in 2010 . This is different from the original version of jadore but it still has the high quality that you expect from the house of dior. It is a rich and inviting floral fragrance. Shocking yet soothing, this is not your typical floral fragrance. Jadore l'or is a step above the rest with an incredible blend of notes. It opens with notes of jasmine and rose ... Read More ... Read More and is followed by a heart of tonka bean and vanilla. The bottom notes are amber, labdanum and patchouli. All products are original, authentic name brands. We do not sell knockoffs or imitations.
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Brasserie Brandman targets November opening in Park Ridge
A modern American restaurant named Brasserie Brandman is slated to open in the former Valentino's location in Park Ridge on Nov. 4, a spokeswoman said. The menu is up on its website. Here is the full press release:
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Park West Tavern hires Restaurant Latour chef
The Park West Tavern and owner John Halligan have announced that John Benjamin is its new executive chef. (He began cooking there in the fall – here he is talking about cooking with pomegranates in December.) Benjamin was most recently … Continue reading
Lo Pinto has left Esty Street
Chef Anthony Lo Pinto has left Esty Street in Park Ridge, where he had started as executive chef last month. Neither Lo Pinto nor Esty owner Kim Costagliola would address the reasons for his departure. Lo Pinto had been the … Continue reading
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BBQ at Park West, beefsteak at Park Steakhouse
Two upcoming dinners at sister restaurants Park West Tavern and The Park Steakhouse: Park West Tavern in Ridgewood is planning a Back Patio BBQ and Beer dinner from 7 to 10 p.m. on Wednesday, June 13. An all-you-can-eat buffet will … Continue reading
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Garrison, when I offhandedly recommended Kerouac's "On the Road" to our 16-year-old daughter last year, I had no idea it would set in motion her own desire to travel across the United States by automobile. Believe it or not, she is willing to spend five weeks in a Ford Escape with us this summer. We are excited about the trip, albeit a little apprehensive about the amount of time we will be spending in the car. At home, we routinely encounter stressful situations during simple family trips to the grocery store.
To be perfectly candid with you, we've experienced our most ill-tempered disagreements in the car with the radio is tuned to Prairie Home Companion. My wife and I are huge fans of your show, but for some reason our daughter reacts as if the speakers are spewing red hot ashes at her. I can neither explain nor do I condone this behavior, but my wife and I keep telling ourselves she will develop a greater appreciation for public radio once she's a college student probably sometime after the novelty of Jell-O shooters wears off. I remember I had just graduated from college when I discovered your show about 20 years ago. I was on my cross-country trip in a white '66 Mustang with solid chrome rims. After a few weeks on the road, my antenna developed a short and reception was marginal. A Jeff Beck tape was jammed in the cassette player. And I was running short of beer money. This perfect storm of misfortunes led me to the lower end of the dial and an entertainment anomaly called A Prairie Home Companion.
Our family will be leaving South Carolina for our road trip on June 29 and we plan to take the southerly route through Birmingham, Austin, New Orleans, Santa Fe and LA. We will head north to San Francisco in mid-July and then up the West Coast before turning east toward Yellowstone by the end of July. We should be arriving in Minnesota at the beginning of August. Ironically, my wife's only condition on agreeing to this odyssey is that we make time to catch one of your shows in person. Our daughter has reluctantly agreed to attend. I checked your Web site, but I did not see any summer dates. Could you make sure to schedule one or two shows around the first of August? Alternatively, we would be willing to rearrange our travel plans to see your performances at any of the above areas we plan to visit. Please let me know which would be more convenient for you.
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Cal, I think Kerouac would be delighted that his book led to your family odyssey that sitting in his room and banging out "On The Road" on that single long roll of teletype paper he was setting things in motion, including the Harrisons in their Ford Escape. Kerouac didn't have a daughter but if he'd had one and if he'd been able to keep free of the greasy tentacles of alcohol, he'd surely have taken her on this very trip across the country. (Of course some of the adventures of Salvatore Paradise and Dean Moriarty you and your family will want to skip I honestly don't think there's much to be learned from spending time in jail. The jailbirds I've met didn't think so either. You can get that stuff from books.) This is a great gift she's giving you and you her, one you'll remember for years and years, and I hope it's gorgeous. You'll get to see new things together and you'll get to negotiate which CDs you listen to and you'll have plenty of time to be silent together and also some when you will talk. I hope that when my daughter is 16, she'll want to get in a car with her old man and drive him across the country. My only advice is so obvious and trite I hesitate to say it, but I will. Driving is hypnotic and people on car trips get hooked on motion, but America isn't what's inside your car, so you have to remember to stop and get out and walk around. I don't think our show should be on your itinerary; if you're around Columbus, Ohio, on Aug. 11, we'll be at the Ohio State Fair. But your lovely daughter has declared herself on the subject of the show and you should respect that.
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WILMINGTON | The city of Wilmington is hiring a legislative assistant to City Manager Sterling Cheatham.
Tyler Newman, who has served in the role for one year, is leaving the position to return to the Wilmington-based Business Alliance for a Sound Economy, or BASE.
In November, Newman will start as the senior director of governmental affairs for BASE, he said. Before coming to the city, Newman was a registered General Assembly lobbyist for BASE, which represents the real estate, building and development industries in Southeastern North Carolina.
The city has posted the job, which provides the manager with program support for legislative activities and public outreach. The assistant would track legislative priorities and support the city's legislative agenda.
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Ratifying the START treaty
Senate should ratify: This treaty is not a security risk and would improve relations with Russia which is crucial. Russia is helping us in Afghanistan, and it is helping put pressure on the Iranians to slow their nuclear program. If the treaty breaks down, it weakens Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has shown that he can work with President Obama, and it strengthens Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who hasn't. (Though it appears he can work with animals). The weapons reductions only ask each side to reduce their stockpiles by a third.The U.S. arsenal will have enough missiles to maintain the deterrent. To ensure they're working, Obama has promised $85 billion to update existing systems. Why would Henry Kissinger, James Baker, and Brent Scowcroft—Republicans all—support this if it were a bad deal? Politics is supposed to stop at the water's edge. Yet Republican Sen. Jon Kyl, the primary person blocking this deal, wants to delay the vote until the next session of Congress, when Republicans will have more votes and thus more leverage over the president.
Senate should not ratify: Why rush into this? Voters spoke in the election. They want Republicans to put a brake on this president. That's what Kyl is doing by calling for more time. You'd think a president who prizes thoughtful consideration would appreciate this sentiment. (And tell both Bush presidents that politics stops at the water's edge). The Russians want this deal because they think it limits our ability to deploy missile defenses. The moment Republicans tried to ensure that it wouldn't and tried to change the language of the treaty, the Russians backed off. Just this week, North Korea shot missiles at South Korea. How are we going to defend against this kind of belligerence without a strong missile defense? As far as relations with Russia go, Russians operate in their national interest. They're not going to suddenly decide to work—or not work—with us depending on whether we ratify this treaty. And regardless of whether $85 billion is enough money to modernize our arsenal, we learned that we need to do more to keep it ready when missiles recently went offline in Wyoming.
Cutting the deficit.
The liberal approach: I support Rep. Jan Schakowsky's plan. It protects the middle and lower class and realigns rates for business and the wealthy. The richest 1 percent possess more net worth than the bottom 90 percent in part because tax rates for the wealthy have fallen steeply over the last few decades while pretax income has increased. Tax revenue should be increased by taxing dividends and capital gains like regular income and instituting a progressive estate tax. Plus, we should eliminate tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas. Cuts in discretionary spending should be smart—removing outdated defense programs and farm-subsidy programs. Health care cost increases would be contained by offering a true public option. Finally, there must be some increase in stimulative spending to produce growth, which will bring in revenue to shrink the deficit faster than tax increases or spending cuts.
The conservative approach: I like Rep. Paul Ryan's plan. To reduce the rising cost of health care, a major driver of the deficit, it shifts ownership of health coverage from government and employers to individuals. Individuals buying coverage for themselves—across state lines if they want to—would seek the best bargain, and force prices down as providers compete for their dollars. Medicaid payments are made to states in block grants, which makes the spending more efficient. Social Security solvency is achieved by allowing younger workers to invest in personal accounts, which will grow faster than the current system, and there is a minimum guarantee that the return will at least match what a person would have gotten under the current system. Tax simplification would reduce the system to just two rates. Business would pay a consumption tax, which is also simpler, causes less inefficient business activity for the purposes of simply avoiding taxes, and allows expenses to be deucted immediately which encourages investment.
The centrist approach: Ryan's plan is too radical even for his own caucus, which barely supports it (and I'm not even going t get into the objections of liberals like Paul Krugman, who says it ignores revenues lost from tax cuts). Schakowsky's plan, on the other hand, relies too heavily on tax increases and offers no political compromises, and as a result couldn't pass even in a Congress controlled by Democrats. A more realistic approach would be a mix of the ones offered in the Simpson-Bowles or Rivlin-Domenici plans. The key is a plan that spreads the pain around so that as a political matter no one group appears to have benefitted unfairly. On the tax side it would trade lower marginal rates for removal of tax breaks for the home mortgage interest deduction and the deduction for state and local taxes which would raise revenue but also make the system more efficient. On the spending side everything gets cut—from defense spending to NPR. But there also needs to be a focus on growth, because deficit reduction cannot be achieved by tax increases and spending cuts alone. As the CBO has said, 1 percent increase in economic growth would increase tax revenues by $2.5 trillion over 10 years.
Will Palin run for president?
Yes: She's said she'll run if no one else picks up the mantle. She has pledged that she can beat Obama. She has said her husband is leaning toward supporting a run. She's done everything but scream it. In the recent election, she endorsed the governors of Iowa and South Carolina, key early GOP primary states. She backed the Senate candidate in New Hampshire, another one. She's also used her Facebook page to talk about her record as governor, something you wouldn't do if you just wanted to sweeten your Fox News contract. Have you seen the gauzy Everywoman ads? Plus, no politician who bathes in the constant hymns from supporters calling on her to run can reject the call. The genes will take over control of the host. Can she win? That's a separate question.
No: This flirtation with running is all about selling her new book. Palin likes the limelight but doesn't like the grind. She boasts about how being outdoors in Alaska is better than a stuffy political office. Running for president would be a mostly unpleasant experience that takes her away from home and family. She is enjoying being who she is. A presidential campaign would require compromises she doesn't want to make.
Trying terrorists in federal court
Bad idea: Ahmed Ghailani was responsible for the embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, and yet he almost went free. The jury acquitted him of 284 charges, including every charge of murder (there were 224!), even though there was evidence linking him to the purchase of TNT used in the Tanzania bombing. The judge did not even allow the prosecutors to call the witness who could prove that claim. In civilian court, jurors can be forced to make a deal with a holdout in order to avoid a retrial, which appears to be what happened in this case. Al-Qaida terrorists abuse the protections they are afforded in civilian courts. A military commission would have been better. Congress and the Obama administration have approved of such commissions, which allow prosecutors greater leeway in submitting evidence and which feature juries made up of military officers, who would be less unpredictable than those made up of ordinary civilians.
Good idea: It's ridiculous to judge the entire American judicial system on the vagaries of a single case. Why is it so important to have civilian trials? For the same reason so much evidence was not allowed at trial: Because American principles stand for something. The judge didn't allow the key witness in this trial because the government found out about that witness only by torturing Ghailani. This trial was a triumph considering how many principles our military is supposedly fighting for were thrown out in treatment of the defendant. As Judge Lewis Kaplan told the jury, the trial showed that "American justice can be rendered calmly, deliberately, and fairly by ordinary people, people who are not beholden to any government, not even ours." And let's not mischaracterize military trials. They don't allow evidence obtained by torture, either.


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Best Views of Mars Now for 2012Written by The Night Sky Guy on March 5, 2012 – 11:19 am -
The Red Planet is making its closest approach to Earth this week so this means it is the best time for skywatchers to get out their telescopes and view surface features on the planet's disk.
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So, after all, Serbia will play only for the 7th place on this European championship. Too weak result if you ask me. It's true that they arrived with very young roster, it's true that here Serbia had even 9 players who never played earlier on big competition. But it is also true that in the final will meet Lithuania and France and those are opponents against whom Serbia has achieved victories in group stage.
So, this result (7th or 8th) is definitely disappointment, but what's done is done. Now it is necessary to they win since only top 7 from this championship will go directly to World Cup. Note there are four more Wild Cards which FIBA will give later but I doubt that Serbia would be among those countires if they fail today.
Where I see advantage for Serbia today, it is in the paint. The same old story from previous games of Italy. They are weak on center line. Serbia should take advantage from it.
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Secularism, casteism and the Courts
Assertion a) is clearly debatable as one needs to examine if the Court actually had options to hand out a more severe penalty (or conviction) in each of those cases based on facts and evidence, before we can agree with Gonsalves. It is assertion b) however that interests me. Apart from the cases that Gonsalves mentions, the newspapers regularly report of incidents where certain areas in some cities (Mumbai is an example) have either gone completely "vegetarian" or completely "Jain". Incidents where corporations have banned employees from talking in regional languages have also been reported. The more chauvanistic cultural, caste and linguistic groups are indulging in violence even when there is no perceptiple threat to their own culture, caste or language. If we go by Gonsalves' assertion, an aggressive propogation of an idea that adversely affects the freedom of any other religion or caste or language (or habit it appears, if we take non-vegetarianism/vegetarianism as an example) is something that should not be permitted or encouraged as it is likely to result in affecting minority rights (Gonsalves appears to recognise that minorities vary from place to place).
Clearly any propogation involving violence or inciting violence should be punished, but is there a need to curb non-violent aggressive propogation of one's culture, caste or language? Assertion of an identity is not something that the Constitution prohibits. Therefore, if a particular group wishes to limit access to resources/ spaces (let us for the moment assume that these are not state owned or supported resources, as it is likely that state owned or supported resources cannot be the subject of discrimination) which are occupied by them to other groups, is it something that can be discouraged legally? Will that not that result in a violation of Part III? This is an issue that is going to be significant as most of our large cities become cosmopolitan, particularly so given the enormous diversity that we have. In this context, Gonsalves' prediction is pretty dire. At the same time, assertion of identities (on a non-violent basis) is something that sociologists and historians do not discourage as they believe it does encourage diversity. I understand that there are a number of studies about assertion of caste identities (particularly Dalits) that show positive benefits.
So how does one regulate majority group activity that is non-violent, but may have the effect of reducing diversity and adversely affecting minorities of all hues?
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- Aditya Swarup said...
On reading the original article myself i found that Colin also delved upon conversions and its legal position in India.
From what I understand this idea was the basis for his prologue that you have so rightly mentioned in the beginning of your post.
- tarunabh said...
This post is a bit uncanny, because I am currently working on an article precisely on the need for a legal remedy for prohibiting discrimination in the private sector, including private employment, housing societies etc. Will surely post a link once I finish and publish it (hopefully very soon).
- Dilip said...
Interesting article. This is a part of the larger question that we have been discussing (see Vivek's recent post on the constitutionality of Art. 15(5) and comments), namely, the scope of 'reasonable restrictions in the interests of the general public' and in particular, how far the state can go in imposing its own preferred social policies on the private group or individual.
The article presents a good summary of judgments in various areas though I feel that his criticism of the Supreme Court in Zoroastrian Cooperative Housing Society v. District Registrar is not justified. When the court said that the interest of the society ought to determine the nature and scope of amendments to its bye-laws, it was merely repeating verbatim what the Cooperative Societies Act itself stated; given the provision that gave the Registrar authority to impose bye-laws 'in the interest of the society' even against the wishes of its members and the conflicting provisions allowing for the members' right to determine their own membership and impose obligations on those who accepted it , the court interpreted the former in a way that would be consistent with the right to form associations guaranteed under Art. 19(1) – a reasonable interpretation though one can debate if it is indeed the ideal one. What is perhaps more important is the other quotation from the same judgment (partly quoted in the article) where the court exhorted the state to bring legislation disallowing discrimination on religion, sex, and other grounds even in the formation of associations – this seems like an unnecessary statement given that any such legislation might impinge on the same constitutional right beyond what might be deemed reasonable and it would have been wiser for the court to have reserved its thoughts rather than burden the future by stating its preference for such a course.
One other point: language restrictions in the private sector do not seem out of place or unreasonable given that even the constitution imposes such a restriction in the proceedings of parliament (Art. 120).
- Protima said...
Very interesting post. I was recently reading a discussion on private associations and discrimination under US constitutional law (http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/002933.shtml )
and Harish's post is very relevant to the discussion above. Unfortunately I do not have access to the orginial article or the cases mentioned in the post but everytime I come across a discussion about private groups or individuals and their activities of a questionable constitutional nature, it fascinates me. Having defended a woman who had sexual reassignment surgery from being discriminated against while trying to admit her child in a private school, I realized that the grey area of the rights of private associations and groups to regulate themselves versus the rights of individuals to have their constitutional guarantees protected is something the courts are reluctant to give sweeping judgements on. We were lucky that the parties settled, the terms were undisclosed and yet another appeal was avoided. In a small way it was a victory for individual rights, albeit secured with the assitance of red eyed law clinic students!


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posted at 11/9/2010 4:54 PM ESTWhat are your hopes for the new Downtown Crossing? What stores, restaurants and other entertainment are you expecting? Do you believe the project will be completed in a timely fashion?
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posted at 11/21/2010 6:49 PM ESTI'd love to have Filene's Basement come back, plus a Target, a real grocery store and some kind of indoor recreation -- skating? an entertainment place like Jillians? -- but only if the police presence is significant enough to deter the huge crowds of teenagers. Although The Ivy and a few other restaurants are pretty good, a critical mass of better restaurants is still needed.
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What has happened to Downtown Crossing is unforgivable. The city has abandoned this once vibrant area and certainly has not done enough to revitalize the downtown economy. Mayor Menino needs to do more!
Here's what I propose:
* A high-end grocery store where the old Borders was.
* A liquor store to replace the current one on Washington Street which does not meet the standards for a thriving economic area.
* A Butcher Shop
* A nice Bakery Shop
* The block across beginning from West Street should be turned into restaurant row. No chains, just intimate small, charming restaurants w/outdoor seating (Barbara Lynch style). I propose the city reaches out to the Food Network to encourage a challenge where aspiring chefs from around the country "bring it" and the Top 5, judged by our celebrity local chefs, receive a $x check (TBD) and special, low cost financing and a liquor license from the city to turn their dream into a reality. Each restaurant must be zoned for outdoor seating.
* The abandoned space on the upper floors of the buildings along Washington Street, beginning at West Street, should be renovated and turned into apartments or condos to encourage downtown living.
* Macy's should update their exterior and put in large windows - much like the re-facing Lord & Taylor did as the Mandarin came in.
* Michael Schlow should open a take-out restaurant where all the commuters could grab an amazing dinner/lunch to go.
* As for shopping - get rid of the Sketcher's, Footlocker's and discount stores and bring in the following - Flower Mart, Designer Chocolatier and a collection of women, children/teens and men's stores (like they have at Legacy Place) or an eclectic mix like you would see in NY's So-ho district.
* The old Filenes should be transformed into Bloomies, Nordstrom or even Bergdorfs
That's just a few of my ideas....
Re: Downtown Crossing Renovations
posted at 12/11/2010 10:38 AM ESTIn Response to Downtown Crossing Renovations:What are your hopes for the new Downtown Crossing? What stores, restaurants and other entertainment are you expecting? Do you believe the project will be completed in a timely fashion?
Posted by BDCSwati
First off, I would like to see constructive discussion about the transformation of Downtown Crossing. That first response to the question is a typical MA response, bash something without providing one's own constructive thoughts/ideas. Ok so you may think it is a dump, but why do you think it is it a dump? If we know the reasoning behind the rather conclusory statement "that the area is a dump" then we can begin to think about changes/ideas to make the area better. In addition, brainstorming is a great way to start the discussion because it gets to the heart of what the people want. That last post is great because it shows one person's personal vision of the area. While not every idea may be feasible for a variety of reasons, the basics may be stepping stones for a greater change.
Second, we need to understand that many of the properties are privately owned. Some of the property owners may be great and others may be not so great in regards to contributing to the "feel and character" of the Downtown Area. Certainly the city plays a role with regards to Public Works, Safety and Permitting/Laws, but on the whole, we need to get all these players including ourselves, as citizens, to enact change and place pressure on those property owners unwilling to buy into a transformation of the area.
As for my thoughts, I'd like to find a way to get all of the Downtown workers and those rushing through to catch their trains to stay around the area for a bit. From my observations, Winter Street from Tremont to Washington and Summer Street from Washington down to South Station is always teeming with workers with headphones on, straight stares forward and brisk deliberate walks cutting through the area. I know some are trying to catch their commuter rail trains to get home so it may be difficult to get those folks to stay.
I think the idea of more residential support retail may be one way to capture commuters. While I don't envision someone buying some furniture at say a Target downtown and then taking the train home, it is feasible to say commuters could run an errand for housegoods (cleaning supplies, detergent, etc.) or maybe buy groceries to prepare dinner when they get home. Now that a few dormitories have opened up, maybe that will be an economic catalyst for getting some type of grocery store in the downtown area.
Re: Downtown Crossing Renovations
posted at 4/30/2011 2:21 PM EDT
I thought the mayor would have lost the last election due to his mismanging of this area.
I don't think this area will come back in the near future.
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My son going back to school! His hockey season starts again too.
My mom, my sister, and my son all have birthdays. I can't believe my son is turning 13. He's growing up way too fast!!!
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My best friend's baby shower, a wine festival with friends and a kid free Atlantic City trip with friends!
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Going to Paris and Nice with a friend for her 50th bday. Dh and I have our 28th anniversary.
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The Lions Club Grand Raffle Dinner/Dance.
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My BDAY.... 9-11
and not the sadness it brings all the time.
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AMD Athlon X2 7750 Review
Reviewed by: ajmatson
Reviewed on: December 14, 2008
Price: $90
There has been so much hype around the quad-core market that you hear very little about other CPUs. AMD, while releasing and perfecting their Phenom line of processors, have also been developing the new Athlon X2 series in the background. After releasing the quad-core Phenom, AMD shocked us with the release of the first triple-core processor designed to take on the Core 2 Duo market, offering better performance for less money. Now AMD has taken everything they learned with the Phenom series and built on it for the AMD Athlon X2. The Athlon X2 Series offers some of the same features as the past Athlon X2 series processors, but adds new ones, like an L3 Cache, HyperTransport 3.0 and a max TDP of 95 watts.
Today we are going to take a look at the AMD Athlon X2 7750 which is clocked at 2.70GHz (200 x 13.5) and is a Black Edition with an unlocked multiplier. The Athlon X2 7750 has 2 x 512KB of L2 Cache and 2MB shared of L3 Cache. The new versions of the Athlon X2 now run on a HyperTransport 3.0 bus, which for the X2 7750, with an HT speed of 1800MHz gives you a maximum 3,600MTs or 7,200MBs. The X2 7750 also features a maximum TDP of 95 watts. What is TDP you ask? It stands for thermal design power, and according to AMD it is the maximum amount of power the CPU will draw and dissipate under normal operating conditions. So do I have your interest peaked yet? Well, I know mine is, so how about we move on and take a look at the CPU up close and personal? Bring on the Kuma.
Closer Look:
The AMD Athlon X2 7750 came to us OEM style in sample packaging, not the retail box with fan that you would get if you bought it from a retailer. To protect the processor and the sensitive pins it was placed in a black hard plastic case with foam inside, which kept it nice and safe on its journey from Austin, Texas to my home. It traveled over 1200 miles on two flights right to my test bed for all of you to see.
You will notice that this processor looks exactly like the Phenom with the exception of the branding name. It is a socket AM2+ processor which uses a 940-pin socket. It can also be placed into and AM2 motherboard with reduced functionality, such as a HyperTransport drop down to the boards specification, such as HyperTransport 2.0 in most cases.
Now that we have gotten a look at the goodies we can move on to testing it out.
CPU Clock Speed
Stock Multiplier
Base Clock Frequency
Manufacturing Process
Package Type
AM2+ / Socket 940
Maximum TDP
|95 watts
L2 Cache Size
2 x 512KB
L3 Cache Size
|2MB combined
- 65nm Manufacturing Process
- A shared 2MB Level 3 cache
- HyperTransport 3.0
- Max TDP of 95 watts
- Black Edition Unlocked Multiplier
I really wanted to see what this new dual-core processor from AMD could do, so I will be pushing the limits through a series of benchmarks, including scientific and video tests. To show a broad comparison I will be putting it up against a series of other processors, including dual-core and quad-core CPUs, old and new. This will be done so that you know exactly how it performs against other processors on the market, and not just dual-core ones that only gauge direct competition. All hardware will be run at stock speeds, timings and voltages so that there are no outside variables that might interfere with the scores and throw off the comparisons. Just a note, because of a limitation of comparison hardware available and time constraints, the scientific benchmarks will be run on all processors available and the video benchmarks, which are largely CPU dependent, will be run on only a limited number of comparison processors.
Testing Setup AMD CPU's:
- Processor(s): AMD Athlon X2 7750, AMD Phenom X4 9850
- Motherboard: Foxconn A7DA-S
- Memory: Mushkin Redline XP2 8000 2 x 2 GB 5-5-5-12
- Video Card : PowerColor Radeon HD 4850
- Power Supply: Mushkin 800w Modular Power Supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 7200.11 750GB SATA w/32MB Cache
- Optical Drive: Lite-On 8x DVD+/-RW
- OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Testing Setup Intel CPU's:
- Processor(s): Inter E7200, Intel E8400, Intel Q6600, Intel Q9300, Intel Q9450, Intel QX9770
- Motherboard: Gigabyte X48-DQ6
- Memory: Mushkin Redline XP2 8000 2 x 2 GB 5-5-5-12
- Video Card : PowerColor Radeon HD 4850
- Power Supply: Mushkin 800w Modular Power Supply
- Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 7200.11 750GB SATA w/32MB Cache
- Optical Drive: Lite-On 8x DVD+/-RW
- OS: Windows Vista Ultimate Edition
Comparison CPUs:
- Intel E7200 Core 2 Duo (Scientific tests only)
- Intel E8400 Core 2 Duo (Scientific tests only)
- Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad (Scientific tests only)
- Intel Q9300 Core 2 Quad (Scientific tests only)
- Intel Q9450 Core 2 Quad
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (Scientific tests only)
- AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Box
Overclocked settings:
- Processor: AMD Athlon X2 7750 "Black Box" @ 205x15.5 = 3.177GHz
- Memory: Mushkin Redline XP2 8000 2 x 2 GB 5-5-5-12 @ 820MHz
Being a "Black Edition" processor gives you a little more flexibility with overclocking because of the unlocked multiplier. To begin I started by raising the multiplier 1x at a time until the system became unstable. I was able to boot at 16x but I could not complete a benchmark, so I backed the multiplier down a half to 15.5x and I was able to complete several test benchmarks with no problem. Next I raised the bus speed 5MHz at a time, but once I tried 210MHz there was no joy. I backed off slowly, 1MHz at a time until I was able to boot at 205Mhz. During the overclocking session I did have to raise the CPU voltage to 1.5v, however CPU-Z reported it as 1.520v. So for the overclocking results we will be running at 3.177GHz (205Mhz x 15.5) at 1.5 volts.
- Scientific & Data:
- Apophysis
- WinRAR
- SpecviewPerf 10
- PCMark Vantage Professional
- Sandra XII
- ScienceMark 2.02
- Cinebench 10
- HD Tune 2.55
- Video:
- Crysis
- Knights of the Sea
- Bioshock
- Call of Duty 4
- World in Conflict
- Far Cry 2
- Company of Heros-Opposing Fronts
- 3DMark 06 Professional
- 3DMark Vantage
The first part of our testing regimen will be the system specific benchmarks.
Let's get started with Apophysis. This program is used primarily to render and generate fractal flame images. We will run this benchmark with the following settings:
- Resolution: 2750x2048
- Quality: 500
- Limit Memory use: 512MB
The measurement used is time to render, in minutes, to complete.
Lower is Better
WinRAR is a tool used to archive and compress large files to a manageable size. We will use 10MB, 100MB and 500MB files and test the time needed to compress these files. Time will be measured in seconds.
Wow, I was shocked to see the Athlon X2 beat the Phenom X4 and older Intel Q9300 in some tests!
Specview 10 is a benchmark designed to test OpenGL performance. I will be using the multi-threaded tests to measure the performance when run in this mode. The tests used for comparison are listed below. The default multi-threaded tests were chosen to be comparable across platforms. In these tests, higher scores equate to better performance. Since the E8400 is a dual-core CPU on the two thread test will be run in Specview.
- Catia
Higher is Better
PCMark Vantage is used to measure complete system performance. We will be running a series of tests to gauge performance of each individual board to see which board, if any, rises above the others.
During Specview two core testing, the Athlon X2 matched or tied most of the competition in the PROE testing, but fell short in both the Maya and Catia tests. For PCMark Vantage, it was on the tail of the other dual-cores and not far behind some of the quad-cores.
Sisoft Sandra is a diagnostic utility and synthetic benchmarking program. Sandra allows you to view your hardware at a higher level to be more helpful. For this benchmark, I will be running a broad spectrum of tests to gauge the performance of key areas of the motherboards.
Processor Arithmetic
Multi-Core Efficiency
Memory Bandwidth
Memory Latency
Cache and Memory
File System
Physical Disks
Power Management Efficiency
As expected, the Athlon X2 was slightly behind the other dual-cores, however, the latency was way higher than all of the comparison processors.
Sciencemark tests real world performance instead of using synthetic benchmarks. For this test, we ran the benchmark suite and will use the overall score for comparison.
Higher is Better!
Cinebench is useful for testing your system CPU and OpenGL capabilities using the software program CINEMA 4D. We will be using the default tests for this benchmark.
Higher is Better
HD Tune measures disk performance to make comparisons between drives or disk controllers.
Higher is Better
Lower is Better
Sciencemark surprised me, matching or beating some of the high end processors, but if you look at clock speeds the results closely follow the clock speed of the processor. In Cinebench the single thread, scores were close, but as expected the multi-threaded scores were lower with only two cores on the AMD X2. Finally, the HD Tune scores were average, with the exception of the burst speed which was slower than the Intel CPUs, but faster then the Phenom X4.
Crysis has been out for quite some time now. In that time, there has 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.
- 2x Anti-Aliasing
- Advanced settings to medium
The higher the resolution, the better the X2 did.
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.
The settings we will use are below:
- AA: x0
- Image Quality: High
- Direct X Version: 10
- All resolutions 60HZ
Surprisingly, the dual-core did better than its quad-core counterpart.
BioShock is one of the creepier games that I have played, chronicling the building of a perfect utopian society undersea gone horribly wrong, with its inhabitants driven mad by 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 Daddies." 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 storyline, will wrap you up for hours on end.
- All settings to maximum
- V-Sync off
Slightly slower than the X4, but as the resolution went up the scores grew closer.
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 2.9.3.
The settings used are listed below:
- Anti-aliasing: x4
- Anistropic Filtering : Max
- Texture Quality: Extra
- All settings max
Again while not as fast the X2 7750 gets better as the resolution gets higher.
World in Conflict: Released last year, 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 its not the typical "generate wealth and build" type of game. Instead, you advance by conquering your foe with limited opportunities to replenish your troops.
The settings we will use are listed below:
- Graphic Detail: Very High
The dual-core came close, but could not keep up with the quad-cores.
Call of Juarez
Call of Juarez is a DirectX10 first person shooter set in the Wild West of the late 1800s. The game is inspired in part by the movies of the Wild West genre of the seventies and eighties. The game can be played as both single-player and multiplayer. The game focuses on realistic graphics and gameplay designed to take advantage of the latest video cards on the market.
The settings we will use are listed below.
- Details: High
- Shadow Map size 2048x2048
- Shadow Quality: Normal
- Anti Aliasing: MSAA 4X
Again at the higher resolutions the gap closes.
Benchmark: Company of Heroes (Opposing Fronts)
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.
- 8x AA
- All other settings to maximum
Again, a little behind, but no giving up.
3DMark06 is one of the benchmarks that always comes up when a bragging contest is begun. 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
I expected it to be behind, but the gap was closer than I would have guessed. The Athlon X2 is right behind the Phenom X4.
So, that was a wealth of information wasn't it? What can we say about the AMD Athlon X2 7750 processor? Well, the bottom line is it does what it is designed to do. This not a high end processor, nor is it meant to be. The Athlon X2 7750 is better suited to the mainstream PC user looking for a bit of a boost from past Athlon X2 processors, or older Intel dual-core processors, but don't expect to do any high-end gaming or intensive application suites with this processor. This CPU is great for those who casually use their PC for internet, email, slight multi-tasking, or as a small business workstation. This would also be perfect for an HTPC setup where the video card does the encoding and decoding instead of the processor. In essence, the AMD Athlon X2 shares the same characteristics as the Phenom X4 series with half of the cores, which makes you wonder if this is actually the case.
As for overclocking, I did not get as much headroom from the Athlon X2 as I have with its quad-core counterpart, the Phenom X4 9850. With the Athlon X2, I was only able to get a 477MHz increase, whereas the Phenom X4 9850 I am able to get 700MHz+. This processor does have the unlocked "Black Edition" multiplier, however it does not like anything more that 15.5x stable, or any more than 205MHz as a bus speed. I even threw over 1.5 volts at it briefly, and still would not go any higher. Overall, this is a decent processor for those looking for a casual workstation computer, but if you are a hardcore enthusiast like the majority of readers looking at this review, you would be well off waiting for a faster quad-core CPU from Intel or AMD. I would even suggest waiting to see what the Phenom II brings us at CES 2009.
- Performance on the heels of AMD quad-cores
- "Black Edition" unlocked multiplier
- HyperTransport 3.0
- 2MB shared L3 cache
- Low price at launch
- 65nm manufacturing process
- Not an enthusiast chip


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Reviews for Saints Row: The Third - Penthouse Pack DLC
Nothing interesting in this DLCpanz3r88 | Sept. 10, 2012 | See all panz3r88's reviews »
The penthouse pack contains only some different skin for some female character in Saints Row 3, so it's better to save your money for other DLC that contains new missions
Skins... Again...jeyko | July 1, 2012 | See all jeyko's reviews »
The Penthouse DLC adds three sexy replaceables for your gang: Justine Jolie;Ryan Keely;Nikki Benz and Heather Vandeven. The DLC is FULLY useless. The only good point is that the pets actually look really nice. But for three dollars? No thanks.


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Paranormal Activity 3 Makes Frightening Opening Box Office Haul
Paramount's PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 had a frightening haul at the U.S. box office for the weekend of Oct. 21-23, 2011. In its debut the haunted house flick made $54 million, making it one of the biggest hits of the fall. Almost Human created the visual effects for the horror prequel.
After two weeks at #1, Disney's REAL STEEL slipped to second, bringing in another $11.3 million. With vfx from Digital Domain, Giant Studios and Legacy Effects, the robot family film has a cume of $67.2 million.
Paramount's FOOTLOOSE twirled into third with $10.9 million. With vfx from Wildfire Visual Effects, the dance flick remake has earned $30.9 million to date.
Summit Ent.'s THE THREE MUSKETEERS swashbuckled into fourth, taking in $8.8 million in its debut. Mr. X and Rodeo FX provided the vfx for the latest version of the Alexandre Dumas tale.
Columbia's THE IDES OF MARCH finished in fifth, winning another $4.9 million. With vfx from Method Studios and Tyrrell FX & Rentals, the political thriller has a cume of $29.2 million.
Warner Bros.' DOLPHIN TALE flipped into sixth with $4.2 million. The inspirational family film has earned $64.4 million to date.
Columbia's MONEYBALL swung into seventh, bringing in an additional $4.05 million. With vfx from Rhythm and Hues, the baseball biz flick has a cume of $63.7 million.
Universal's JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN premiered in eighth place with $3.8 million. Framestore created the visual effects for the Rown Atkinson spy comedy.
Universal's THE THING plummeted from third to ninth in its second weekend in theaters. With vfx from Acme F/X, Amalgamated Dynamics, Image Engine Design, Mr. X, Proof and With A Twist Studio, the horror prequel added $3.12 million to its $14.1 million total.
Summit's 50/50 closed out the top ten with $2.8 million. With vfx from Wildfire Visual Effects, the cancer dramedy has amassed $28.8 million thus far.
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T2108 Update (December 11, 2013) – Upside Resolution Quickly Dissolves Into A Mix Possibilities
(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. It helps to identify extremes in market sentiment that are likely to reverse. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag)
T2108 Status: 33.5%
VIX Status: 15.4
General (Short-term) Trading Call: Aggressive traders experiencing whiplash. Need to hold now and look for confirmation…OR continue taking small bets until market follows through in a given direction. More below.
Active T2108 periods: Day #116 over 20% (overperiod), Day #1 under 40% (underperiod), Day #7 under 50%, Day #24 under 60%, Day #29 under 70%
Reference Charts (click for view of last 6 months from Stockcharts.com):
S&P 500 or SPY
SDS (ProShares UltraShort S&P500)
U.S. Dollar Index (volatility index)
EEM (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets)
VIX (volatility index)
VXX (iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term Futures ETN)
EWG (iShares MSCI Germany Index Fund)
CAT (Caterpillar)
The upside resolution that I described on Monday (2 days ago) quickly dissolved today. T2108 plunged a nasty 24% to close near its lows for the day at 33.5%. The S&P 500 (SPY) was in full agreement with the bearish sentiment as the index descended below 1800 again. It closed with a loss of 1.1% (which qualifies as large these days) and closed at the lows of the day. The small irony of today's tumble is that the warning signs showed up to me early, but I ignored them since I was convinced of the upside resolution. Given my bullish assessment, I fully expected good follow-through on T2108. Instead, on Tuesday, T2108 dipped about 7% even as the S&P 500 closed essentially flat. That non-confirmation should have forced me to quickly re-examine my assessment. Fortunately, there is still plenty of time to correct course.
Note how the volatility index, the VIX, magically surged right into the pivot point that has lasted since 2010 (and arguably served as an important pivot/support in 2007 and 2008). Based on this move, I decided to fade one of the volatility indices. I decided to buy puts on ProShares Ultra VIX Short-Term Futures ETF (UVXY) although I still have a small number of shares long iPath S&P 500 VIX ST Futures ETN (VXX). My rationale is that volatility will cave between now and the immediate wake of next week's Federal Reserve meeting, leading to the next sharp downslide in products like UVXY.
First things first though. My first tranche of UVXY puts could be too early. The plunge in T2108 created yet another episode of quasi-oversold conditions. HOWEVER, in this case, T2108 has hit an interesting air pocket where the T2108 Trading Model (TTM) is anticipating more downside for tomorrow (Thursday, December 12th). The combination of conditions creating a 22% chance of downside is an increase in the VIX of at least 5.3% and a T2108 close between 30.5% and 36.1%. This combination has happened just 9 times since 1986 (my entire set of historical data) and 7 of those times preceded downside. If T2108 had closed below 30.5%, then he odds would have sharply shifted in favor of upside for the next day.
The 1 and 2-day change in T2108 did not factor into the projection. Neither did the S&P 500's position relative to its major moving averages. The overall classification error for the T2108 Trading Model has increased a bit to 42%, so I only focus on high frequency nodes like the current one for trading purposes. (In coming months, I am going to do additional tinkering to reduce the overall classification error. In particular, the TTM is simply not good to apply under certain trading conditions).
The upshot of these high odds for another day of selling is that the odds of true oversold conditions (T2108 at 20% or below) suddenly seem pretty good: it could take just two more days like the last two.
Without true oversold conditions, my bias returns to overall bearish on the S&P 500 until it can close once again over 1800 OR hit true oversold conditions. The current churn around 1800 is unfortunate, but my assumption is that this action is a springboard for the next sustained move. I thought December would pass quietly, but signs are once again indicating otherwise. Aggressive traders can re-open short positions but prepare for churn: stops must stay in place at new all-time highs. Another option is to just stand down until the market sends confirmation with a new all-time high OR follow-through from current selling…keeping in mind that the coming Fed meeting may provide the final pivot point.
I conclude with charts of the euro. One of the most bizarre events (for me anyway) is watching the stubborn strength of the euro (FXE). I hope to dedicate a post to this soon. My main contention is that the eurozone is the weakest economic zone amongst the major economies so it makes little sense for the euro to continue the current domination over so many major currencies…especially if tapering fears (or actual tapering) sends bond rates higher in the U.S. and/or a strengthening economy matches up with the Fed's pullback from stimulus. Given current momentum, and the ECB's refusal to attack the high euro head on, it is looking like early 2014 before the euro once again experiences a significant pullback. This could be the biggest forex profit opportunity to start the new year. I am going to stay small and patient on my euro shorts until then.
Daily T2108 vs the S&P 500
Black line: T2108 (measured on the right); Green line: S&P 500 (for comparative purposes)
Red line: T2108 Overbought (70%); Blue line: T2108 Oversold (20%)
Weekly T2108
*All charts created using freestockcharts.com unless otherwise stated
Related links:
The T2108 Resource Page
Expanded daily chart of T2108 versus the S&P 500
Expanded weekly chart of T2108
Be careful out there!
Full disclosure: long SSO puts and calls, long UVXY puts, long VXX shares, net short euro


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Guilty Plea in 2010 Murder of Mother, Daughter
A guilty plea Thursday resulted in in a 46-year prison sentence. Eric Fagan, a 25-year old Springfield man, pled guilty in the killing of his brother's girlfriend and their infant daughter back in 2010. Their bodies were found in the ruins of their burned out home in the 700-block of West Maple.
The baby's death was determined to be from smoke inhalation, but Jessica Ostermeier was killed beforehand and prosecutors asserted that Fagan burned down the home to hide the murders. Fagan will serve at least 38 years.


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Bam and here it is the one you've been waiting for.
How does it end ? Well you've come all this way I can't spoil it for you now.
West Edge 10
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
#09 - Shaft Em
Can't have a bunch of other people laying claim to this thing, really only one thing to do..... Isn't it obvious ? I'll give you a hint
West Edge 09
Oh yeah some significant and frequent audio gaps in the episode, wasn't there not my fault ;)
West Edge 09
Oh yeah some significant and frequent audio gaps in the episode, wasn't there not my fault ;)
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Sunday, September 22, 2013
#8 - We want this ship, not excusses
Ok Mr GM, you know what comes next, we're taking this thing to Mexico ! huh ? what do you mean there are others....why are there always others ?
West Edge 08
West Edge 08
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Monday, September 16, 2013
#7 - Eyes on the Prize
Things are heating up as, worlds are colliding and what the hell is that smell, tune in find out, bring me a case of beer.
West Edge 07
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Sunday, August 25, 2013
#6 - It's a Long Way to... Where the hell were we going?
Still, we killed some more folks while raiding the Kestrel and taking everything that wasn't nailed down.
So, there is that.
Eventually the plot goes forward. Or sideways. Or possibly in reverse. I have no idea.
The sound is pretty good though.
Also, Gand is awesome.
West Edge #6
Posted by Fiddleback at 9:51 PM No comments:
Monday, August 12, 2013
#5 - Concussion Missiles, Accept No Substitutes
That moment when you wish you hadn't mentioned the ship your PCs are flying in has concussion missiles. Priceless
West Edge 05
West Edge 05
Posted by VladePsyker at 4:58 PM 1 comment:
Sunday, August 4, 2013
#4 - Math is Hard
West Edge 04
West Edge 04
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
#3 - The Mona Gungan
With a bit of merchandise to move we head to Nar Shadaar and a rather dubious contact.
West Edge 03
West Edge 03
Posted by VladePsyker at 12:02 AM No comments:
Thursday, July 18, 2013
#2 - Get Outta Dodge
When you lose your ship in a card game without even rolling a despair you know its time to get the hell outta dodge.
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West Edge 02
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013
#1 - The Map Master Strikes Back
GM Chris, no the other takes us once again into Edge of the Empire, this time for more than just a one shot,
And Yarrr there be Treasure to be had
West's Edge Game 01
And Yarrr there be Treasure to be had
West's Edge Game 01
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May 6, 2016
Bay County commissioners this week voted 4-1 to cancel plans to commit $8 million for library replacement or improvements.
Earlier the county said it tentatively wanted to allocate $8 million in revenue bonds to either build a new library or make major renovations to the old facility on the downtown marina.
The idea was to use revenue bonds so ad valorum (property tax) money wouldn't be used for the project.
However, the county now says it wants to wait for the results of a building survey before it makes any financial commitments.
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