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Building a Criminal Court in Kirkuk, Iraq
(Boston, Revised 12/17/09) New England Law | Boston: "Our mission was the law, but we were military first," says Timothy Keeton '95, describing his role in the construction of a provincial court in one of the world's most dangerous war zones. As a U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander attached to a U.S. Army Civil Affairs Unit, Keeton carried out that mission while enduring sweltering 125-degree heat, navigating roads where military and civilians were routinely killed by improvised explosive devices (IEDs) placed by insurgents and managing a construction project with no background in that field.
From December 2006 through March 2008, Keeton served as part of a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). He and his colleagues were responsible for overseeing the building of a branch court in Kirkuk, Iraq, that would take some of the cases previously handled by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq (CCCI) in Baghdad, 150 miles away. Keeton and the PRT were charged with directing the conversion of former Army barracks into the new Kirkuk courthouse. An adjacent office building had to be furnished with beds and furniture, to be made into living space for judges who would travel from Baghdad.
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"That's where lawyers, unfamiliar with building and engineering matters, had to become instant construction project managers. We would only half joke that 'good enough' was a construction standard," says Keeton. "The roads we traveled on were frequently bombed by insurgents," he says, describing the journey from the Coalition Forward Operating Base, where he was stationed, to the site of the branch court. "From the minute we left the gate, I wasn't a lawyer. I was truck commander. You had to know how to compartmentalize yourself."
Why a branch court?
In Kirkuk's ancient ruins.
Before the branch court was in operation, many of Kirkuk's detainees scheduled for trial in Baghdad never made it to the court, Keeton says, "for a variety of reasons, from the bribing of corrupt [police] escorts to outright escape," and there was a three-year backlog of cases waiting to be heard. Now, criminals convicted in Kirkuk are swiftly transported to prison to serve sentences or await execution, Keeton reports. The backlog of court cases has been alleviated, he adds, increasing public confidence in the criminal justice system. Two days after the court's construction was completed, he recalls, "Local media broadcast that, for the first time since the liberation of Iraq, everyone who had committed a crime against the people of Kirkuk was facing justice in Kirkuk."
Coming under fire
Located at an Iraqi Army base called K1, the new court is situated at the second most secure location in the province. Still, the hazards traveling to and from the base were formidable. "Two or three times a week, we would go to K1 to monitor progress," Keeton says. "This involved first donning heavy protective gear and loading [our] individual weapons."
Moving as a four-vehicle military convoy, he and his team took roads where military and civilians were routinely killed by insurgent attacks. Vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices were a threat, so each time Keeton and his fellow officers exited the base, they left from a different gate. "We didn't want to set a pattern for insurgents to be able to track us. We were a convoy with a bubble around us—so no other vehicles could enter."
An investigative system
Keeton (soldier at right) poses with a colleague and local children at the opening ceremony for a new courthouse.
The Iraqi legal system is a relatively modern one, with some established guidelines, and others still in development, a by-product of a newly created constitution. The right to legal counsel during pre-trial, for example, is a modification to the system after Saddam Hussein was removed from power.
Similarly, court-appointed attorneys are now available for defendants who do not hire their own. The country has had a secular, modern, criminal justice system in place for 40 years. The penal code, established in 1969, predates Saddam Hussein's sovereignty.
One of the key differences between the Iraqi judicial system and that of the U.S., Keeton says, is in the phases of investigation prior to an actual trial. The first phase of investigating a crime is conducted by the police Major Crimes Unit (MCU), and the next phase is conducted by an investigative judge, whose team of lawyers thoroughly examines charges, evidence, and witnesses. "By the time a case gets to the Central Criminal Court," Keeton points out, "guilt or innocence has pretty much been established."
Diplomacy required
On a mountaintop, with the city of Sulaimaniya below.
In addition to his role as military officer and project manager, Keeton sometimes had to play the part of diplomat. The city of Kirkuk, Keeton points out, is an ethnically mixed city of Arab, Kurd, Turkomen and Assyrian Christians. Sulaimaniya province, however, just north of Kirkuk, falls into the Kurdish Regional Government in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan; the Kurdish secret police, the Asayish, had arrested many Arabs arbitrarily, imprisoning them with little or no due process, Keeton says.
"We used our influence with Kurdish officials in Sulaimaniya to agree to have Arab detainee cases reviewed by an ethnically-mixed panel of Iraqi judges, and to abide by their findings. We really had to convince various civilian officials—the provincial governor, judges, police chiefs, prison wardens—that what we wanted to do was in their best interest."


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It would be nice to know how iusethis/appfresh determines the version for this app. Calling the app with -v returns 3.2.1, which is correct.
$ /Applications/Flickr\ Uploadr.app/Contents/MacOS/xulrunner -v
Flickr Flickr Uploadr 3.2.1, Copyright © 2007-2009 - Yahoo!, Inc.
I also tried updating the version in the Info.plist file (which does initially say 3.1), but no luck there. AppFresh still thinks I'm on 3.1.
The icon is so ugly! :(
Same here, i had to skip this update.
I don't understand: I have 3.2.1 installed (latest available) and AppFresh insists it's 3.1 and wants to upgrade it. Then of course I install the latest version, which I already have, and the version doesn't change.
I have this installed on my hard drive as a mere backup app.
The app I REALLY love to use for my Flickr uploads (and more) is Adriaan Tijsseling's 1001. He really knows his stuff, and he deserves every penny you can donate!
Unfortunately, the new 3.0 version of the Flickr Uploadr is a complete rewrite as a multi-platform java app, and while it has some useful new features (particularly the ability to reorder your photos before upload) it also has many new bugs, which at the moment make it all but unusable for me.
Great app but it's a little annoying that I can't set the order in which my photos will be uploaded. Or is there a way to do this?
This is a great little application - would like to be able to add batch descriptions too, which could then be edited with specifics at a later stage - i.e. I always add my main web address to the descriptions of photos - bit of a bore doing this manually with Apple+C > Apple+V, Apple+V, Apple+V, etc...
May I suggest a "flickr" tag for this app?
Whoever's adminning this app should check the Universal setting.
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sigh. No excuse for this one.
Now he gets cut after preseason and the giants just threw away a 4th rounder and probably a 6th
I love Nassib........but I don't get this at all.
I stopped fighting my inner demons. We're on the same side now.
http://i893.photobucket.com/albums/a...ps350d6379.jpg is the avatar-sized pic that I have...
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Rich Eisen is even going WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE
I no longer trust Reese. Shoulda been the lbr from rutgers, Greene. I don't like this draft at all


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After all the hoopla and hype, the NCAA Tournament Championship Game has arrived, and both North Carolina and Villanova are very good, deserving teams.
North Carolina-Syracuse is an interesting matchup for the Final Four.
Most of the country predicted the Kansas Jayhawks to be here, but the Villanova Wildcats knocked off the top team in the country in last Saturday's Elite 8 contest.


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Since I began my journey away from religion, whenever a religious song (not a hymn or even worship, just religious) pops into my shuffle I've begun to immediately skip it. I can't bring myself to get rid of them because I love the music, but the message just irks me now.
I'm just curious if anyone still listens to their Christian music just for the love of the music. It feels sort of hypocritical for me to listen to it and enjoy it but I mean it is just music.
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I never had many religious songs to begin with but the one's I have I still listen to and really enjoy. I don't think you need to be religious to enjoy good music! For example Avenged Sevenfold have a song called Dear God, which I think is fantastic, it has a great melody and is just easy to listen to! I think music is open to personal interpretation and you can take whatever message you want from different songs!
With a few songs that's definitely possible! (I tend to take a lot of religious songs and feel that they're more like love songs, for example, which now that I think about it I no longer have to feel guilty for... haha)
The first album I ever owned, back when I stared believing in Christianity, was Jars of Clay's Much Afraid. I will to this day put that album in my car's CD player and sing my heart out.
And I still love Rich Mullins' Songs 1 and 2. And Jars' Eleventh Hour and Caedmon's Call's 40 Acres.
And if Leonard Cohen counts as a religious musician, or at least if Various Positions counts as a religious album, I'm guilty there as well.
I can't hate the words any more than I can hate the melody. It's wonderful, earnest, rich stuff. Not getting the God they're singing about doesn't change that at all, just like not getting the gist of love songs when I was younger didn't bother me.
Rich Mullins is/was amazing! Another nostalgic one for me. Perhaps I'll get used to it again.
The only guy who ever wrote a decent song about God was Billy Preston.
Never heard it before!
For what it's worth, one of MY favorite songs is "The Little Drummer Boy".
Can't help it. I just love that song.
Obviously, I don't believe the lyrics tell a true story. But then again, "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" isn't exactly describing reality, either...
[In my case, it may help that I was NEVER religious -- so I don't have any memories of listening to it and BELIEVING it, to make me feel weird.]
I love that song too! It's just melodically pretty. And that's also a good way of thinking about it - it's just another "Christmas fable" and doesn't need to be taken as any more than that. Thanks!
But yeah, sometimes icky feelings come along with them... Argh. :/
I occasionally enjoy MxPx. I do find myself picking up on their jesus messages more often though, which kind of turns me off them a bit.
The less obvious it is the easier it is to listen to the music and enjoy it (which goes without saying I s'pose...) but it seems like most of it is just so to the point.
I still like some religious songs like that one "Eat my body, drink my blood...." dont know why exactly but there are lots of christmas songs I like just cause I like the beat, etc... My song for my son is Simple Man by Lynnyrd Skynnyrd and it has a line "and remember my son, there is someone up above".....he knows I am atheist and knows that I am not referring to God or that he should believe in him. Its just that the entire rest of the song is exactly my statement to him as my son.
and, we still celebrate Christmas but not as the birth of anything. It is just a good time to get togehter with friends and family and giving or gettng gifts is always fun...doesnt have anything to do with us celebrating it. One thing for sure, I like Easter a lot better now since I dont have to go to church two thousand times before Ash Wednesday and Easter to listen to a priest mumble in Latin after getting dirt smeared


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The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory in effect from midnight tonight to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Winds are expected around 20 to 30 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph in the western Finger Lakes.
The gusty winds will result in areas of blowing snow, lowering visibility to below a mile at times, the National Weather Service warns. Winds may also result in difficult travel and blow around unsecured outdoor objects.
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This is an article of mine, already published on wazi
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Paula Deen dropped by Wal-Mart after 'Today' tears
This undated image released by Smithfield Foods shows celebrity chef Paula Deen wearing a Smithfield apron as she stands in front of various Smithfield meat products. (AP Photo/Smithfield Foods via PRNewsFoto) by David Bauder NEW YORK (AP) – Paula Deen was dropped by Wal-Mart and her name was stripped from four buffet restaurants on Wednesday, hours after she went on television and tearfully defended herself amid the mounting fallout over her admission of using a racial slur. The story has become both a day-by-day struggle by a successful businesswoman to keep her career afloat and an object lesson on the level of tolerance and forgiveness in society for being caught making an insensitive remark.


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|An old-fashioned casserole, probably patterned as a way to use Sunday's leftover roast chicken, is combined with a creamy sauce, mushrooms and egg noodles, for one of my favorite comfort foods.
Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Casserole
Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Casserole is one of those good, ole, standby recipes common to many of us, no matter where we live - a basic chicken noodle casserole - the kind that has been around for longer than I have. Simple, easy, yummy and comforting. It's a great casserole for anytime but is especially comforting on those cooler nights that are coming up.
Chicken casseroles always taste better to me using dark meat, or a combination of both white and dark meat. I had purchased a large, 11-pound box of bone-in chicken breasts, so I used some of those chicken breasts here.
You can speed up prep time with this casserole by using a fully cooked, rotisserie chicken from the deli of course.
Looking for the stovetop version of old fashioned homestyle chicken and noodles? We've got that too - just click right here!
Recipe: Old Fashioned Chicken Noodle Casserole©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 15 min |Cook time: 25 min | Yield: About 4 to 6 servings
- 3 cups of chopped, cooked chicken
- 2 cups of dry egg noodles, cooked
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 stalk of celery, chopped
- 1/2 onion, chopped
- 1/2 pound of fresh mushrooms or equivalent canned mushrooms
- 2 cups of milk
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Couple dashes of white pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon of poultry seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
- 1 to 2 cups of chicken stock or broth, as needed
- 1/2 cup dried bread crumbs or crushed crackers
- 1 to 2 tablespoons of butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Butter or spray a 2 quart casserole dish; set aside. Cook the noodles al dente, about 1 minute less than the package directions, drain and set aside. In a large skillet, melt the butter. Add the celery and onion and cook until soft. Add the mushrooms and cook down, or if using canned, drain and add, warming through.
Whisk together the milk and cornstarch until well blended. Stir into the vegetable mixture and bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer several minutes, until thickened. Stir in the salt, pepper, poultry seasoning and thyme. Add the chicken and noodles and mix; stir in reserved broth as needed to moisten. Turn out into the buttered casserole dish.
Combine bread crumbs and melted butter and sprinkle on the top of the casserole. Bake uncovered at 350 degrees for about 20 to 25 minutes, or until bubbly and heated through.
Tuna Noodle Casserole: Substitute 2 large (approx. 12 ounce) cans of tuna, drained and flaked, for the chicken.
Cook's Notes: Use dark meat or mixed chicken if possible. A deli rotisserie chicken makes for an easy job of this, but if you cook your own chicken reserve the broth to use here. One whole chicken will yield between 3 and 4 cups of cooked chicken.
May substitute one can of condensed cream of mushroom soup and one can of condensed cream of chicken (okay to use reduced sodium or healthy versions), plus 1/2 cup of sour cream, for the homemade sauce. Omit the cornstarch and chicken broth, and reduce the milk to about 1/2 cup or enough to moisten the casserole. Great with add-ins such as 1/2 cup of shredded cheese, and/or 1 to 2 cups of vegetables, including broccoli, peas, carrots, mixed veggies, or any combination. Sliced almonds or chopped pecans are a nice add-in and give a little crunch. Top with fried onion (like French's) instead of bread or cracker crumbs, if desired.
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Can't get enough of the mild musings of inadvertent New York Times columnist Frank Bruni? It's your lucky day—he's started a blog.
"In fact, the Academy Awards are upon us this coming weekend," he notes, "and in a post later this week I'll tell you whom and what I'm rooting for in the major categories - and why."
Sounds interesting.


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I have a Sundance Cameo spa. I am having two issues and although they seem like the two should not be connected, because they both happened at the exact same time I can not help but think they are.
First issue is the Built in Stereo. The spa has a stereo with pop up speakers behind the head rests. The stereo has stopped playing sound through the speakers even though the stereo turns on, changes stations, and volume can be turned up and down. To rule out a speaker issue, I used another stereo and connected to the speaker wire and they worked fine. If the stereo wouldn't power up or do any other functions I would say it's a bad unit but because the unit works and the speakers work with a different unit I am confused.
The second issue is with the air blower. When the button is pushed from either of the control panels a clicking noise is heard from the circuit board but the blower does not turn on and no air/bubbles comes from the air injectors. I am not great with electrical but did use a tester to check for power coming from the circuit board to the blower pump which was positive for power. I have no idea what could have caused this problem.
Like I said, both problems seem to have occurred at the same time (as far as I can remember/tell) Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated!


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Quote: In the present moment, we are looking at a time where emotional clearing is encouraged, and this is most apparent in our artform(especially in hip hop, not only because it is still in an infantile state, being so young, but also because of the mind set(s) that hip hop has evolved from).
Im not talking about just the last 10 years. im talking about the last 50. I am picking out hip hop to illustrate these changes, even though it is present in ALL artforms.
Quote: In some ways, people are being forced to open their eyes to perceive different perceptions.
Just look at how the masses are concentrating so hard on Eminem while we wage war with other countries. People have been focusing on Eminem and his "negative" ways, not giving a second thought to what else we are doing. They are being forced to recognize this within themselves.
Quote: The point is that people tend to be fearful of change. Most of the time they greet it with resistance.
straight up, tell me how THIS one doesn't hold true. I'm not even going to get into this one.
Quote: This guy used Eminem as an example implying he could be more than a gimmick. Sage dropped a post about Em where people say he wasted his talent.
Why is Eminem a waste of talent but Jay Z isn't? You dismiss Jay Z as speaking only about being rich but I've never seen anyone here say he's a waste of talent or brought up in essays like this guy's.
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It could have been anyone in the mainstream. JayZ, eminem, Ludacris... etc. It doesnt matter. I was using Eminem to illustrate that the record companies do use such gimmicks. It could have been anybody. Plus, have you ever heard some of Eminem's old stuff? Infinity? Mad positive an to use a less intelligent word, real.
djdee2005 wrote: Infinite isn't really that good, in my opinion....most people find it to be juvenile. I am among them.
August Spies wrote: eh I dont' buy it. Most modern metal bands, hardcore bands, indie bands are using riffs that old blues muscians never used. Not to mention all of the stuff from the electronic age


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Fletcher Jones Student Peer to Peer Technology Training Program
FITness Goals | FJ Online Study Guides | FITness Course Matrix | FAQ
FITness Goals
The FITness Initiative and Planning Committee worked with all CMC Departments to establish a set of essential technology goals. Using input from faculty, students, and technology professionals, CMC approved a new program of Technology across the Curriculum on May 13, 2003. These goals are being addressed in proposals for FITness Initiative funding. As these goals enable us to track the incorporation of technology into our curriculum, they can be used in the evaluation of the FITness Initiative as a whole.
1. Students will be able to communicate online appropriately
- Send and receive email Send and receive attachments
- Participate in some form of electronic collaboration (i.e. List serve, Discussion forum, Bulletin board, Chat)
- Understand the principles of appropriate online conduct
- Participate in collaborative writing of a document
2. Students will be able to create and make technology enhanced presentations
- Use a presentation software package (such as PowerPoint) to create, format and edit an electronic presentation
- Insert graphics and hyperlinks into an electronic presentation
- Smoothly and appropriately integrate technology into a presentation
- Smoothly and appropriately use technology enhanced presentations
3. Students will be able to create and use structured electronic documents
- Create, format and edit a document using a word processing document
- Create a web page/organize a web site using a web creation program (such as Dreamweaver)
- Introduce hyperlinks into an electronic document
- Use mail merge
4. Students will be able to use electronic tools to analyze data
- Use a statistical software package to enter data, name variables and define variable values
- Run descriptive statistics on individual variables
- Create graphs of data (e.g. bar charts, scatter plots, histograms)
- Use a mathematical software package to enter formulae and derive results and descriptive graphs
5. Students will be able to use electronic tools for research and evaluation
- Understand and apply appropriate search strategies for the WWW and for online databases
- Understand the differences between WWW and online databases
- Evaluate the appropriateness of online data vs. traditional sources
- Critically evaluate websites vis-a-vis issues of currency, authorship, authority and design
- Evaluate and use topic and discipline specific Web sites and other information sources according to scope, coverage, timeliness, reliability, authority and appropriateness
6. Students will understand plagiarism and major legal and ethical issues related to technology
- Be able to use proper citation methods for online sources as well as more traditional data
- Understand the ethics of copyright and property law as they apply to electronic materials
- Understand implications of information technology for democratic institutions and practices
7. Students will be able to use databases to manage and retrieve information:
- Students will be able to navigate within a database
- Enter data into a pre-existing database
- Conduct simple queries of a database
- Sort records as needed
- Generate a report and extract relevant data from the database
- Advanced skills include the ability to create a database, forms, queries, etc.
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A big trial wrapped up with a guilty verdict Thursday.
Corey Coggins is convicted of Mack Smith's murder after his friend and former co-defendant took the stand against him.
News 12's Stephanie Baker was in the courtroom when the verdict came down.
The jury came to a unanimous decision after just a few hours--less time than many expected, especially since Thursday's testimonies between Coggins and former defendant Barry Tabor had some conflicting information.
Same people, same night, but different stories.
Corey Coggins and Barry Tabor were both part of the fights that broke out at Applecross Apartments.
"I opened the door, and I told him, you know, 'You need to go on and leave'. Mack started yelling, yelling at Chris over me, and he grabbed the lid to a grill and swung at me, hit me with it," Tabor testified.
Tabor testified Mack Smith was mad about a rumor--that Chris Jerrard said Smith would tell police the group used illegal drugs.
"Mack had Chris Jerrard in a headlock," Coggins testified.
This is the point when the testimonies become different. Tabor remembers Coggins warning the group...someone told Smith that Jerrard called him a nark. Coggins told his friends he didn't say a word. But we heard a different story in court.
"I just told Mack that, to let him know what the word was on the street," Coggins testified.
"Chris Jerrard asked you...you lied?" asked DA Danny Craig.
" I wouldn't call it that, sir," Coggins said.
And did Coggins have a knife?
Coggins says no: his mom took it away from him before the incident.
"That was my favorite knife, I liked that knife and I was mad because my mother took it away from me," Coggins said.
Tabor's testimony backs that up. But the biggest difference in their stories includes the fight that led up to Mack Smith's death.
"He was on the ground, 2 or 3 people were standing around," Tabor testified.
"You saw someone kicking that person on the ground?" he was asked.
"I think it was Corey," said Tabor.
"The last person you saw over Mack Smith was Corey Coggins?" he was asked.
"Yes sir," said Tabor.
But Coggins says he wasn't there.
"I was going around the corner, and heard Ashley Smith scream. She was like bloodcurdling screaming, it was horrible, she screamed, it was really really loud, 'Oh God, please help me, he's bleeding, please help me, oh God, somebody help me'," Coggins testified. "So I went back around the corner because I mean, Mack was my friend."
Same people, same night, different testimonies about Mack Smith's final moments.
The state brought in investigators and witnesses throughout the week. Many of those had the same basic facts that pointed to Corey Coggins. Judge Carl Brown ordered the mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.
After the jury handed down its verdict we caught up with Mack Smith's widow, Ashley Smith.
"Of course I'm happy, but that verdict doesn't bring Mack back, so...I've done a lot of growing up in the last few years. I'll not ever forget what happened, but in a way I have to forgive him so I can move on," she said.
Her husband's case gained attention again after Ashley was taken hostage by Brian Nichols following the Atlanta courthouse shootings.


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What I've learnt this Xmas…
Top 5:
- Too many movies and programmes on TV that I want to record!
- Having an HD- along side a HDR- FOX T2 allows you to watch TV or record a third channel if needed.
- Buying an external HDD before getting one as a present on Xmas day allows you to transfer recordings off the internal HDD as space runs out is a must.
- Transfering recordings (and decrypting) recordings off the HDR takes a very long time, and should be done way before the Xmas period.
- Having AVS Video Convertor to instantly turn a recorded programme to DVD is handy for visitors who don't want to miss an episode of their soap fix!
However, if you've not done any of this then there's always next Xmas, and of course it is not too late to prepare for the New Year…


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ANAHEIM -- The Los Angeles Angels emerged with a 4-3 win over the A's on Thursday night in the first game of a four-game weekend set with the American League West lead on the line when Howie Kendrick delivered a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th inning.
The A's, however, were playing the game under protest stemming from an odd incident in the ninth inning. It remains to be seen if the protest is upheld. The Angels didn't score, so it probably won't be, but the A's could well argue that the call by home plate ump Greg Gibson forced them to burn through their bullpen in the inning.
The A's (78-55 and two games behind the Angels) were incensed at an obstruction call made by Gibson against the A's.
A's reliever Dan Otero and first baseman Brandon Moss both had ideas about fielding a high chopper off the bat of the Angels' Erick Aybar. Otero fielded it, and with Moss standing adjacent collided with Aybar.
Otero had the ball, but that apparently held no weight with Gibson, who ruled obstruction against Moss. Manager Bob Melvin came out to argue, and after getting no satisfaction, returned from the dugout to say the A's were protesting the game.
"(Gibson) said he had to have a clear lane to the base, but (Aybar) was way out of the base line,'' Melvin said. "Then he went to try and make contact with the fielder. So hopeful it's upheld.''
Melvin said that calling obstruction on Moss was odd given that Moss never touched Aybar.
Umpire crew chief Gerry Davis, speaking to a pool reporter, said Gibson told him it was a judgment call.
Davis said he couldn't comment on the play because of the protest. He did elaborate a little, however.
"The ruling was obstruction on the first baseman. We can't really comment on the play further than that because of the protest involved,'' Davis said. "That was a judgment call on Greg's part, but you have to talk to the league office on that.''
Melvin's hope that the call will be overturned rests on the MLB front office accepting that Aybar was running out of the runner's lane, that Moss never touched Aybar and that Aybar ran into Otero. It's not clear that MLB will see it that way.
The rule book (4:19) says: "Even if it is held that the protested decision violated the rules, no replay of the game will be ordered unless in the opinion of the League President the violation adversely affected the protesting team's chances of winning the game."
Otero and Moss were involved in the next play, both backing off a bunt from John McDonald that went for a hit. Another bunt got the runners to second and third, at which point the A's intentionally walked Gordon Beckham.
Fernando Abad replaced Otero and got Kole Calhoun to pop out, and at that point Ryan Cook came out of the bullpen to face Angels RBI leader Mike Trout. Cook got the grounder that ended the inning.
The bottom of the 10th was entirely the Angels' own doing after Cook walked Albert Pujols to start things off. Josh Hamilton singled past second baseman Alberto Callaspo to get Pujols to third base, and Kendrick delivered the game-winning sacrifice fly to right.
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A's 78 55 .586 2.0
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With Election Day only a week off, reports have been trickling in of some Summit County voters saying they're still waiting for mail ballots that should have been sent out two weeks ago.
Locals have reported some family members received their ballots while others at the same address never did, or the ballot didn't arrive until several days later.
"Mine came, but my daughter's didn't," said local Susan Fairweather. "What they did was they cancelled her ballot and then sent her a replacement."
Both Fairweather and her daughter are registered as permanent mail voters and share a mailing address.
Election officials say there is a clear explanation for the majority of missing mail-ballot cases: typically either the voter wasn't registered to receive a ballot in the mail or they hadn't updated their voter registration with their most current address. Mail ballots cannot be forwarded.
"By far the majority, there's a reason they didn't get it," Summit County election clerk Colleen Richmond said. "I don't think it's a widespread problem."
But there have been at least 5-10 reports of missing or delayed ballots in which there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason the ballots didn't arrive on time.
Richmond said she knew of a couple in Dillon with the same mailing address who received their ballots a week apart.
But election and postal officials insist there haven't been any hiccups in the mailing process.
Approximately 8,000 ballots were sent out to Summit County voters on Oct. 15 without incident, and additional ballots continue to go out daily as individual requests come in.
"They were all mailed out at the same time, together," Neel said. "That has happened in the past and usually we never know why they didn't get it."
The bulk of mail ballots, sent out Oct. 15, are sent through a third-party vendor in Denver because the local election office does not have the resources to handle the first mass mailing. Later ballots are processed locally.
Statewide, the ballot mailing went off without any problems, postal service officials said.
"We're 100 percent," postal service spokesman David Rupert said. "Every ballot we have has been processed and sent out so we're in great shape."
A missing mail ballot is not an emergency. Voters who did not receive their ballot in the mail should call the Summit County Clerk and Recorder's Office. Election officials can cancel the missing mail ballot and issue a replacement up through Election Day.
Voters registered to vote by mail can also vote in person if they prefer.
"They can come to our office and we will get them a ballot that will be counted on Election Day."
Today is the last day for election officials to send out mail ballots, but they can be issued in person through Friday.
The Summit County Clerk and Recorder's Office is located on the first floor of the County Courthouse building on Lincoln Avenue in Breck alongside the Department of Motor Vehicles Office.


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Big East to become American Athletic Conference
Published: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 9:25 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 3, 2013 at 9:25 p.m.
NEW YORK - The current Big East will be called the American Athletic Conference starting next season.
The conference announced the decision Wednesday after university presidents approved the new moniker earlier in the day.
The Big East football schools were in need of a new name after they agreed to let seven basketball schools break away from the conference to start a new league this summer to be called the Big East. In return, the football schools received about $100 million of a $110 million pot the league had accumulated in recent years from exit and entry fees and NCAA basketball tournament revenue.
The American Athletic Conference will have 10 members in its first season: Rutgers, Louisville, Connecticut, South Florida, Cincinnati, Central Florida, Memphis, Houston, SMU and Temple.
Rutgers and Louisville are likely leaving after 2013 and are set to be replaced by Tulane, East Carolina and Tulsa in 2014. Navy is scheduled to join in 2015 for football only, and the conference will begin playing a league championship football game.
Nine of the schools set to compete in the American Athletic Conference were at one time part of Conference USA. By 2014, South Florida, UConn, Temple and Cincinnati will be the only schools in the AAC to have been in the Big East.
Commissioner Mike Aresco said the members worked with marketing experts, media partners and asked for feedback from fans to come up with a list of possible names.
"Versions that included the word 'American' led every list," Aresco said in a statement. "American Athletic Conference represents a strong, durable and aspirational name for our re-invented Conference."
The rebuilt conference has new television deals in place with ESPN and CBS.
"The American Athletic Conference is a brand that suggests a national scope and quality membership," said Burke Magnus, Senior Vice President, College Sports Programming, ESPN. "It is an exciting time for the new conference and ESPN looks forward to our future together."
The Big East will now be a basketball-centric conference with old Big East members Georgetown, Villanova, St. John's, Seton Hall, Marquette, DePaul and Providence, along with Xavier, Butler and Creighton.
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Politicians use Americans flags as an imposing backdrop when giving speeches. Standing before the Stars and Stripes, a legislator or the president caps remarks with the conventional refrain, "God bless America!"
Wrapping Old Glory around God talk is a rhetorical device politicians have used since our nation's birth to win over their audiences. In the colonial era, Patrick Henry advised cloaking controversial topics with references to God to gain voter approval.
After delivering an extemporaneous farewell address before boarding a train from Springfield, Ill., to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration in 1861, Lincoln wrote down remarks invoking God's aid: "Without the assistance of that divine being, who ever attended him (strengthened George Washington), I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."
Formerly, politicians who profusely used God talk didn't offend most citizens. Current voting trends, however, show a change in preference. Now, a politician turns off voters by habitually interjecting God into his speechifying.
"The point politicians need to get is that it is time to stop pandering to the religious," advises Ryan Cragun, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tampa, "because there is a growing percentage of the population that does not want to hear that stuff. It is time for them (politicians) to realize they are going to be left behind if they ... do that."
Why have voters' preferences changed so that the stock phrase "God bless America" no longer garners wide respect?
Nearly 20 percent of American voters write "none," when asked about religious affiliation or preference. Atheists (2.4 percent) and agnostics (3.3 percent) increased by 50 percent in the past five years. Add to these voters the "nothing in particular" crowd, who make no room in their lives for religion. Dubbed "nones," this segment of the American population has nearly tripled in percentage during the past 40 years.
This giant generational shift has occurred especially among young voters who shy away from religious preference. Between 20 percent and 30 percent of voters under 30 want politicians to strike God talk from their vocabulary.
"By 2010, in a stunning change," records Episcopal trend watcher Diana Butler Bass, "America's third-largest political group - and one of its youngest - is 'unaffiliated,' an independently minded group with no single issue, theology or view of God. The 'nones' include atheists, agnostics, 'nothing in particular' religiously oriented and secular unaffiliated people. ... If these trends continue at the current pace, 'nones' and other religions combined will outnumber Christians in the United States by about 2042" (Christianity after Religion: the End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening, p. 46).
Since our nation's birth, Christianity has been the prominent religion, acting similarly to the ancient Israelites who dominated the Promised Land. Then a disastrous shift in political power occurred. In 597 B.C., the Babylonian army sacked Jerusalem. This enemy rounded up Jewish citizens and deported them into Babylon, captives in a foreign land. This terrible dislocation made ancient Jews question the power of God. They felt exiled, ripped from their Jewish culture where the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob prevailed.
Is the rise of "nones" making Christians feel like ancient Jews? After enjoying cultural and religious supremacy for many years, Christians wonder if they are enslaved to irreligion. God no longer counts for much.
Has the United States become a post-Christian nation? Is the American Christian church on its deathbed? Though far from expiring, does the lack of Christian influence among younger voters make the church appear like a terminal patient,
wheezing its last breaths? Are Christians keening like ancient exiled Jews, barely singing "the Lord's song in a foreign land?" (Psalm 137: 4).
What formerly was unheard of - a politician without a religious identity - has appeared in Congress. Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, who won a seat in the House last year, is the first to publicly describe her religion as "none." When non-theist groups wanted to recruit Rep. Sinema, her campaign staff backed off. They said she preferred the designation of "secularist," not "atheist."
Such "nones" don't necessarily deny God's existence. They are not like the biblical fool who "says in his heart, 'There is no God'" (Psalms 14:1). They claim, however, that religion makes little difference in their lives. It's not noticeable in anything they do or think. Naturally, then, they reject elected officials who use religious rhetoric. "Nones" regard God talk wrapped around the flag as mere sound signifying nothing.
What, then, peeves "nones"? They dislike politicians who patter God talk by chattering sanctimoniously. The religious right turns them off. Many find religious language insufferable, prejudiced, tedious and mindless. They jettison it like space debris drifting in orbit after a completed mission.
"Nones" regard God talk as the new unmentionable word in American public discourse.
The Rev. Jack R. Van Ens is a Presbyterian minister who heads the nonprofit, tax-exempt Creative Growth (www.thelivinghistory.com), which enhances Christian worship through storytelling and dramatic presentations aimed to make God's history come alive. Van Ens' book, "How Jefferson Made the Best of Bad Messes," is available in local bookstores for $7.95.


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SACRAMENTO -- In rulings that threaten the future of California's bullet train, a Sacramento judge on Monday ordered the state to draft a new budget for the multibillion dollar project and prove there's enough money to finish the job before it is started.
Superior Court Judge Michael Kenny found the state's High-Speed Rail Authority failed to follow voter-approved requirements designed to prevent reckless spending on the $68 billion project. Those safeguards are a key piece of the ballot measure voters approved in 2008 allowing the state to sell $10 billion in rail bonds to help build the nation's first high-speed rail line, from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
The bullet train project -- championed by Gov. Jerry Brown but panned by critics as a boondoggle the state can't afford -- can continue for now. But the rulings cast doubt on how the state will fund the project moving forward.
While the authority may still use $3 billion in federal funds to break ground in the Central Valley on the rail line's first miles of track as it had planned, more than $8 billion in rail bond money are off-limits until the state fulfills the rulings' requirements.
The state's quest for a bullet train has been plagued by controversy and court decisions that have pushed the project years behind schedule, with Monday's decision the latest setback. A groundbreaking set for this past summer never happened, and the latest time-frame forecasts a spring start.
But to comply with the judge's order, the authority must first identify a source for more than $25 billion in additional funds needed to complete the project. The federal government will foot the rest of the bill.
Judge Kenny also on Monday refused the state's request that the court "validate" the issuing of its bonds -- a mechanism that would prevent opponents from future challenges in court. In one victory for the rail authority, the judge refused to nullify the agency's construction contracts with Tutor Perini and the state's Department of Transportation.
Dan Richard, chairman of the High-Speed Rail Authority's board of directors, said he is reviewing the judge's rulings and charting the agency's next steps. He stressed the fact that the judge declined to fully halt the project as opponents had requested.
"Like all transformative projects, we understand that there will be many challenges that will be addressed as we go forward in building the nation's first high-speed rail system," Richard said.
A spokesman for the authority declined to comment on how the group will fulfill the judge's requirements. A spokesman for Brown's office also declined to comment.
Kings County and two of its residents brought the lawsuit against the High-Speed Rail Authority that will force the group to rewrite its spending plan. Michael Brady, a San Francisco attorney who represents them, called the judge's rulings a victory that stymies the project.
"It will be many, many more months before the state can get this thing back in gear, if they ever can," Brady said. "The good people of the Central Valley can sleep better tonight knowing their way of life is less threatened."
Lawmakers from the Central Valley and anti-tax groups also cheered the rulings.
Sen. Andy Vidak, R-Hanford, said he was pleased that Judge Kenny upheld the requirements of Proposition 1A and said he would introduce legislation in January to allow voters to consider the project a second time during next year's election.
"This ruling continues to show," Vidak said, "that the high-speed rail project is on the wrong track."
The rulings are "good news" for the state's taxpayers, said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, because today's high-speed rail project is dramatically different from the one voters approved five years ago.
"We will continue to fight," he said, "to ensure that taxpayer funds are not wasted in support of what has clearly become a high-speed boondoggle."
Contact Jessica Calefati at 916-441-2101. Follow her at Twitter.com/calefati. Read the Political Blotter at IBAbuzz.com/politics.


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In other Lafourche Parish School Board action: Jan. 9, 2012
Published: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 9:31 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 9:31 p.m.
The following is a rundown of all action taken by the Lafourche Parish School Board on Wednesday. All members were present; all votes were unanimous.
Action: Elected officers to serve through Dec. 31, 2014. Rhoda Caldwell was elected president. Julie Breaux was elected vice-president.
Action: Elected three members to serve on the Advisory Committee of the Lafourche Parish School Board through the end of 2014.
Action: Superintendent Jo Ann Matthews gave a quarterly report.
Action: Proclaimed the observance of Black History Month for February and National School Counseling Week for Feb. 4-8.
Action: Passed a resolution memorializing retired teacher Connie Barbier.
Action: Recognized board members who have completed required hours of training and instruction for 2012.
Action: Discussed security personnel, plans and devices in executive session.
Action: Discussed the results of the fall observation regarding the superintendent's performance.
Action: Set the following meetings:
Policy and Procedure Committee: Jan. 24.
Academics Committee: Jan. 24.
Transportation Committee: Jan. 22
Land and Facilities Management Committee: Jan. 22.
Insurance Committee: Jan. 23.
Finance Committee: Jan. 23.
Advisory Committee: Feb. 4.
Regular Board Meeting: Feb. 6.
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BRISBANE -- There are a number of reasons the cache of 145 pounds of explosives discovered in a Brisbane home in early October were troubling -- one of them is the background of the man police say put them there.
William Harrell, 46, has links to extreme, anti-government ideas and movements, including the infamous sovereign citizens whose adherents have killed six law enforcement officers since 2000, according to an expert on the group and Harrell's ex-girlfriend. Police, though, have declined to directly associate him with any extremist groups.
Harrell, who is due back in San Mateo County Superior Court on Nov. 8, has pleaded not guilty to possessing a stash of commercial explosives powerful enough to flatten the house they were in.
When reached by phone, Harrell's father, Walter Bruce Harrell, of Montara, said his son is not part of the group. He added the younger Harrell is guilty of nothing worse than listening to a radio program host who critics call a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
But a national expert on sovereign citizens said paperwork William Harrell lodged in 2010 is evidence he is a follower of the ideology, which declares federal, state and local governments operate illegally.
According to records, Harrell made a Uniform Commercial Code filing in Kentucky that lists him as a debtor to himself. J.J. MacNab said sovereigns make these obscure filings because they believe it allows them to lay claim to a secret government bank account that belongs to them.
MacNab said it's hokum, but added that is no indication sovereigns are dummies or wackos. She has been studying them since the 1990s and wrote a publication on sovereigns for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremists.
"Something has happened in their lives that turned off a common sense switch," said MacNab. "They are not stupid or pathetic, nave or poor."
The FBI considers sovereigns a domestic terrorist movement because of their willingness to engage in violence. An early follower of the ideology was Terry Nichols, a convicted accomplice in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.
MacNab estimated in 2010 there were at least 100,000 sovereigns across the country. The FBI says the decades-old movement is a loose network of individuals with no established leadership.
Sovereigns manifest their beliefs in a variety of ways, including making their own license plates, driver's licenses, filing frivolous lawsuits or refusing to pay taxes. When confronted on their law-breaking, some sovereigns have turned violent.
But local law enforcement authorities have said they don't have any evidence thus far that connects Harrell to the movement.
"We are aware he has filed documents with connections to this ideology," Brisbane police Cmdr. Robert Meisner said. "But that is not evidence he is part of a particular group."
Harrell's ex-girlfriend, who tipped authorities to the closet containing the explosives after an Oct. 1 fight, said he had at least begun paperwork to become a sovereign. She passed her knowledge to police the night of the terrifying discovery in the home she also shared with her two children. The ex-girlfriend, who recently obtained a restraining order against Harrell, said she had no idea the explosives were there, let alone their source or intended purpose.
Harrell's father says the worst his son has done is listen to "The Alex Jones Show" on radio. The Anti-Defamation League has called the program an anti-government outlet for conspiracy theories. The league says Jones argued the 9/11 attacks were an inside job and President Barack Obama is a "Trojan Horse" manufactured "to pacify the people."
"My son listens to him," said the elder Harrell. "That is as much as there is to those allegations. Most of what is being written is false."
Harrell added his son had the explosives for a legitimate reason but said he could not elaborate because of the ongoing criminal case.
Attempts to reach William Harrell were unsuccessful. He's out of jail on a $500,000 bail bond his mother told authorities was secured with $50,000 in proceeds from the sale of a gold bar, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
The ex-girlfriend said that not long after Harrell's arrest, his father asked her about the location of hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold. She said she knew nothing about it.
Contact Joshua Melvin at 650-348-4335. Follow him at Twitter.com/melvinreport.


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An hour later, it was over—but not before Ali Syed had killed two more people during carjackings, shot up vehicles on a busy freeway interchange and left three others injured in a trail of carnage that stretched across 25 miles.
One driver was forced from his BMW at a stop sign, marched to a curb and shot in the back of the head as other commuters watched in horror.
"He was basically executed," Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. "There were at least six witnesses."
Syed later killed himself.
The woman was not related to the shooter and it wasn't known what she was doing at the home, said Orange County sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
Syed's parents were in the house at the time, fled the residence when shots were fired, and reported it, he said.
Jordan said Syed stated to one carjacking victim: "I don't want to hurt you. I killed somebody. Today is my last day."
Jordan said there was no indication of a motive, but he sought to assure residents that the violence was over.
"There is no conspiracy here, there are no outstanding suspects, it was a very, very unfortunate situation, but I don't think the people here in Orange County have to be worried about their safety," he said.
The violence began at 4:45 a.m., when deputies responded to a call from Ladera Ranch, a sleepy inland town about 55 miles southeast of Los Angeles. They found the woman shot multiple times.
Jason Glass, who lives across the street, said he couldn't sleep and was watching TV in his garage with the door partly open when he heard what sounded like gun shots.
Then he heard a commotion and the sound of a car speeding away.
Hours later, his neighborhood was flooded with police, and crime scene tape sectioned off the street.
"I just happened to be in here when this happened," Glass said about his garage. "To think he could have rolled under my door or needed a car or needed to hide is crazy. It's freaking me out."
From Ladera Ranch, police said the gunman headed north and pulled off Interstate 5 in Tustin, about 20 miles away, with a flat tire and other damage to his parents' car.
A man who was waiting in a shopping center parking lot to carpool with his son saw Syed had a gun and tried to escape in his Cadillac, Jordan said.
The driver "noticed that he was loading his shotgun, so he simply gets back in his car and tries to escape," Jordan said. "He's driving through the parking lot trying to get away and the suspect is actually chasing him on foot, taking shots at him."
Syed then crossed the street to a Mobil gas station, where he approached the driver of a pick-up and asked for his keys, Jordan said.
"He says something to the effect of, 'I've killed somebody. Today's my last day. I don't want to hurt you. Give me your keys,'" he said. "He hands over the keys and he gets in the truck and leaves."
Syed got back on the freeway, where he pulled to the side of the road at the busy I-5 and State Route 55 interchange and began firing at commuters, Jordan said.
One driver was struck in the mouth and hands. He didn't have a cellphone, but was able to drive home and call police. Two other cars were hit but their drivers weren't injured, Jordan said.
"All of this is happening so quickly," he said, estimating that Syed shot at drivers from the side of the freeway transition for about a minute.
The shooter then exited the freeway in nearby Santa Ana but ran the curb and got his car stuck, authorities said.
He approached Melvin Edwards, a 69-year-old from Laguna Hills who was on his way to his Santa Ana business, as Edwards sat in his BMW at a stop sign. Syed forced Edwards to get out of his car, marched him across the street and shot him three times, including in the back of the head and the back, as horrified drivers looked on, Jordan said.
"They tried to get away. They saw what was going on, they tried to get away and they called police," he said.
Syed took Edwards' BMW and next popped up at the Micro Center, a Tustin business, where he shot and killed construction worker Jeremy Lewis, 26, of Fullerton. Lewis' co-worker rushed to intervene and was shot in the arm, Jordan said.
Syed took the second construction worker's utility truck and fled to Orange, this time with California Highway Patrol officers in pursuit. He jumped from the moving utility truck at an intersection in Orange, about five miles away, and shot himself immediately, Jordan said.
A shotgun was recovered at the scene.
A message left at Syed's parents' home wasn't immediately returned on Tuesday.
Associated Press writers Sue Manning and Shaya Tayefe Mohajer in Los Angeles contributed to this report.


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There is no doubt that drinking large amounts of alcohol is bad for your health. However, there is some evidence that some alcohol consumption may have some benefits. Given that, the American Heart Association recommends that adults who drink do so in moderation.
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People who drink moderately have heart disease less often than nondrinkers. Alcohol appears to increase HDL, the good form of cholesterol. Some other ways that researchers believe alcohol may help protect the heart include:
However, there are many negative health effects associated with alcohol intake, as well. This is especially true with heavy alcohol consumption. These include:
Moderation is essential with alcohol because many chronic health problems can develop, or be exacerbated, from alcohol abuse. One drink equals no more than 1/2 ounce of pure alcohol. For example:
However, if you choose not to drink, you are not missing out. In fact, you should consider alternatives before picking up the bottle. You can get antioxidants from fruits and vegetables, and the flavonoids in red wine are also in red grapes and grape juice. Regular exercise also increases HDL levels. If blood clotting is a concern for you, talk to your doctor about taking aspirin on a regular basis.
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Alcohol use disorder. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated April 21, 2014. Accessed May 6, 2014.
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SubJunk wrote:Sorry I should have specified that I meant the mplayer cache.
Should be at C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\MPlayer
I remember seeing someone post that it had worked for them. If it works for you I'll look at deleting it on install.
i deleted the folder then it recreated it, but it still shows the same behavior the video is ahead of the audio by a few seconds.


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R&B recording artist and reality star Syleena Johnson has invited her mother, Brenda Thompson, to live with her after Brenda began struggling with alcohol again. However, since Brenda moved in, Syleena says, she has cussed her daughter out on a daily basis, even in front of Syleena\'s sons. After working with Iyanla Vanzant, Syleena is finally ready to talk to her mother face-to-face about their issues. Watch what happens when Syleena opens up, and find out the one thing she wants to hear from Brenda.


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Saturday, February 2, 2013
AUGUSTA, Ga. – In a thriller for the ages, Mackenize Reese knocked down a 3-pointer at the final buzzer to lead the nationally sixth-ranked University of South Carolina Aiken women's basketball team to a 56-55 Peach Belt Conference victory over national No. 24 Augusta State on Saturday evening at Christenberry Fieldhouse.
USC Aiken was down 55-50 with 15 seconds remaining in the game. Daniela Tarailo (Crown Point, Ind./Crown Point HS) then hit a 3-pointer with six seconds left in the game to cut the Jaguar advantage to just two at 55-53.
After a Pacer foul, Augusta State had a chance to ice the game with seconds remaining next, but Tiffany Jaecks missed both free throws to allow Tarailo to rebound the basketball.
Tarailo took advantage, finding an open Reese (Madison, Wis./Edgewood HS) in the right corner. Reese then calmly nailed the game-winning trey with no time on the game clock.
The victory allowed USC Aiken (17-2, 10-2 PBC) to remain on top of the Peach Belt Conference East Division. The Pacers have now won seven straight over rival Augusta State (15-3, 8-3 PBC).
Tarailo led the Pacers in the contest with a career-high 31 points. She also had eight rebounds and four steals. Tarailo knocked down five 3-pointers in the game.
Porsha Martin (Douglasville, Ga./South Paulding HS) was the only other Pacer in double figures in scoring, ending the evening with 12 points.
Tiffani Moody (Raleigh, N.C./Ohio Valley University) did not finish in double figures in scoring, but she did bring down a game-high 10 rebounds.
Brittany Hill (Mechanicsville, Va./Quinnipiac) dished out a game-high six assists for the Pacers in the contest.
Tanchelle Hollingsworth led two Augusta State players in double figures in the game with 17 points.
USC Aiken concluded its win over Augusta State shooting 45.8 percent (22-for-48) as a team. Augusta State shot 42 percent (21-for-50) as a team in its loss to the Pacers.
USC Aiken knocked down 54.5 percent (6-of-11) of its 3-point attempts as a team. The Jaguars shot just 33.3 percent (5-of-15) from beyond the arc as a team in the game.
USC Aiken opened the game by taking a 13-6 advantage over the course of the first five minutes of the game.
The Pacers had extended their lead to 10 points at 20-10 with just over eight minutes to play in the first half.
USC Aiken would lead by as many as 11 in the final eight minutes of the half before entering intermission with a 24-20 lead.
USC Aiken closed out the first half shooting 41.7 percent (10-for-24) as a team. Augusta State shot 36 percent (9-of-25) from the field as a team in the first half.
Tarailo and Martin combined to score 22 of USC Aiken's 24 points in the first half of action. Tarailo finished the first half with 12 points, while Martin had 10 points at the halftime break.
USC Aiken would lead for most of the early minutes of the second half, but with under 12 minutes to play the game was tied 36-36. Three minutes later, Augusta State owned its first lead of the game at 41-38.
Augusta State would extend its lead to seven points at 46-39 with 6:28 remaining, but the Pacers would then proceed to go on an 8-0 run to own a 48-46 lead with 4:57 to play in the game.
The two teams would battle back and forth the rest of the way before the Pacers eventually emerged with the thrilling one-point win.
USC Aiken will next travel to Greenwood, S.C. to face off against Peach Belt Conference foe Lander at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6.


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I have a Sony Bravia TV, very picky on what it will play.
I also have a Humax FoxSat, very nice PVR, it produces "TS" video files.
Tried ps3mediaserver on Linux and was impressed to find it transcoded the TS files and the Sony Actually played them OK.
They even worked off USB mounted drives.
So I am chuffed!
The final setup would be as follows and would save me ftping files around:-
The Humax has a Samba Add On so I mounted this on my Linux server using smbmount, seemed OK.
Ps3mediaserver saw the mount and showed some of the directories.
But when I went to open a video directory it "core dumped" after some moments.
Anyone else seen this happen or used smbmount drives ???


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ABC Board to ask county to fund $9,000 feasibility study
Published: Thursday, March 7, 2013 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at 8:25 p.m.
The Henderson County ABC Board plans to ask county commissioners for permission to move forward with a $9,000 feasibility study to determine whether the county could support a new liquor store in an unincorporated part of the county, and if so, where.
The ABC Board unanimously approved a proposal by Asheville consulting firm Martin-McGill that was revised and scaled back from the one it presented at the board's Feb. 6 meeting.
The current proposal narrows the focus of a potential study from one that included a full business plan for the actual opening of a new store to one that concentrates strictly on consumer demand for another store. There are five stores in various municipalities throughout the county.
Board member George Erwin Jr. made a motion to present the board's conclusion to commissioners during their March 20 meeting and request the $9,000 for the study.
ABC board member Patricia Jones asked whether there would be public backlash if the county spends $9,000 only to find there is no need for a new liquor store.
"Yes, I think you'll have people second-guess if you decide not to build one," Erwin said. "But are you better off spending $9,000 up front to (determine that) you don't need one than you would be to not do (a study) and go out there and invest $265,000 in inventory and rent a building and absorb all that cost and then it flops on its face?"
Board member Rick Livingston added, "I realize some folks are going to question, 'Why the study?' And I'd just like to say, personally, that I feel we'll be doing the citizens of Henderson County a terrible injustice if we proceeded without this study being done. I just don't feel we're qualified to make decisions that need to be made without this study being done."
County commissioners appointed the ABC Board last summer after citizens overwhelmingly voted to make Henderson a wet county when the matter was placed on the May 2012 primary ballot — the first time the issue was placed in voters' hands in 50 years.
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The New School
Spring 2013 Ensemble and Recital Series: Devin Starks, bass
New School Jazz student Devin Starks (bass) presents his senior recital.
Featuring:Sam Neufeld- TrptMike Stephenson- t. saxAlbert Baliwas- a. saxSteve Nelson- guitarKyle Poole- drumsMusic TBAWe'll be performing my original compositions and standards.
Devin Starks is a young bassist originally from Cleveland, OH. He began studying bass at age 11 at the Cleveland School of the Arts. From there he continued his studies at various institutions around Cleveland including the Rainey Institute, Cuyahoga Communtity College, and the Cleveland Music School Settlement. Since moving to New York in 2010, Devin has begun to establish himself in the jazz scene and has had the opportunity to perform with renowned musicians such as McCoy Tyner, Charles Tolliver, George Cables, Frank Wess, and many more. Devin now attends the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music while also working as a professional musician and as a teaching assistant under Reggie Workman in the African-American Youth Legacy program. He has performed internationally at the Bern Jazz Festival in Switzerland and the Taichung Jazz festival in Taiwan and locally at various NYC venues.
Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance Space, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 5th floor
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Burned rig workers' condition improves but remains serious
Published: Monday, December 3, 2012 at 3:28 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, December 3, 2012 at 3:28 p.m.
BATON ROUGE — The condition of two workers burned in a Gulf of Mexico oil platform fire has improved, hospital officials said today.
Baton Rouge General Medical Center officials said their condition has been upgraded from critical to serious.
A third worker, Wilberto Ilagan, 50, remains in good condition. Ilagan is the only one of the three victims whose name has been released.
The Nov. 16 fire on a platform operated by Black Elk Energy south of Grand Isle killed three workers.
The federal Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement is investigating the cause of the fire.
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