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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. - Three local fire departments responded to a grass fire Thursday south of the intersection of U.S. 24 and Constitution Avenue.
Authorities arrived just after 4:30 p.m. There was no visible smoke plume. Firefighters said the fire was less than an acre in size, in a valley in the Jimmy Camp Creek Area. The land is owned by Banning Lewis Ranch.
Fire crews had to go through a fence to reach the fire around a quarter-mile south of the highway. The right eastbound lane of the highway was closed during the fire.
Firefighters said several trees were burning in a grassy area, and strong winds raised concern that the flames might spread. However, firefighters said they expected to have the fire out soon with no threat to property or lives.
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With an eye on her support for National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) and the Teesta water sharing treaty, Union home minister Sushilkumar Shinde only had praises for chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
On Monday, despite a memorandum from the state Congress, he not only kept mum on West Bengal's deteriorating law and order situation, but also called Banerjee "positive" and "cooperative".
Last July, Shinde's predecessor P Chidambaram made scathing remarks in Kolkata on the state's law and order situation. "Eighty-two people were killed in 455 cases of inter-party clashes in the past six months, which was a matter of concern," Chidambaram had said, triggering a fierce verbal duel with the Trinamool Congress.
On his part, Shinde said, "I had talked to the chief minister on NCTC. She has a positive mind." He even praised Banerjee's attitude on issues like the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. "Whenever the country faces any difficulty, the chief minister is very cooperative," he said.
Jaitely opposes NCTC plan
New Delhi: BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Monday came out strongly against the idea of the NCTC getting police powers.
"The fight against terrorism can and must co-exist with federalism," he said. "The proposal is to have an agency, which will have the intelligence functions and would also conduct operations. It is this power being vested in an agency to the detriment of the law and order powers of the state which the state governments are objecting to."


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You can think of the Acer Iconia Tab 7 as a giant phone or a smaller tablet. Yep it's one of those tricky devices that bridges the gap between the two types of gadget.
At around £150, the Tab 7 works much better when thought of as a cheapy 3G Android tablet. It's not a patch on the Nexus 7 in some respects, but it's worth a closer look if 3G is a must. Here are our first impressions following it's launch.
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The Tab 7 looks, feels and is eerily similar to the Asus Fonepad, another mid-identity-crisis phone/tablet. Its back is mostly aluminium, giving it a bit of a nicer feel than some plastic tablets.
It's also pretty slim and light at 8.9mm thick and 298g in weight. This makes it fairly easy to heft with one hand. I still wouldn't want to take calls on something this big, but it's a good size for things like watching videos and browsing the web while still being super-portable.
That is the joy of any good 7-inch tablet, and the Tab 7 does have a few benefits over the Nexus 7 aside from its metal finish. There's a removable plastic flap on the back that hides a memory card slot, making adding to the 8/16GB of memory cheap and easy.
It's not a bad-looking tablet, either. There's just one serious design quibble – the camera housing sticks out from the Tab 7's back by what feels like about six inches. It means the tablet doesn't sit on its back completely flat, and it is likely to become a scratch-magnet.
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Perhaps one of the hardest-to-swallow compromises of the Iconia Tab 7 is its screen. It is an IPS-type display, offering reasonable viewing angles – albeit with serious loss of brightness at an angle – but the resolution and general image quality aren't a patch on the Nexus 7's.
It's a 1,280 x 800 pixel screen, which isn't quite enough to offer the pin-sharp look we've become a little too used to in tablets. The Tab 7 screen isn't exactly blocky, but the difference between this and a 1080p 7-inch display are immediately obvious.
A quad-core 1.3GHz MediaTek MT8382 processor runs the show here. It's not hugely powerful and I did notice an unfortunate bit of lag in general navigation through the Android software, but having a lower-end CPU shouldn't really stop you from doing anything. Games just might not look quite as good as they might do on another, probably more expensive, tablet.
Battery life is a bit more of a serious concern. Acer says the Iconia Tab 7 will only last for six hours off a charge, which isn't much at all for a tablet. Fingers crossed Acer is being very conservative with this figure and it will prove longer lasting in our tests.
Given the various ways the Tab 7 clips bits off to keep the price low, it's perhaps a bit surprising that the tablet has two cameras. There's a VGA one on the front for video calls, and a 5-megapixel camera on the back. Neither is exactly a show-stopper, but the rear camera is significantly better than the sensor of the new Iconia One 7.
The Acer Iconia Tab 7 is shown up by the Nexus 7 in a number of respects, and it's very similar to the Asus Fonepad, which has been around for a while. However, this is still cheap for a 3G tablet so is worth considering.
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Custom toy exhibition opening on Aug. 22, and your design can be there
The folks at Apologies to Banksy are putting together a little show this August called Vinyl Haze, featuring custom toys based on their first two releases, Rude Copper and Bomb Hugger. The line-up at the moment includes JC Rivera, The Graphix Chick, NERVISWR3K, Nikejerk, Antz, ViseOne, Shadoe Delgadoe, A Little Stranger, Chauskoskis, Carson Catlin and Ian Ziobrowski.
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Six Cats Compete in Olympic Trials This Weekend
UK assistant coach for throws, Doug Reynolds, will join three of his athletes throwing in Eugene. Reynolds will compete in the men?s discus throw with two of his pupils in qualifying on Thursday beginning at 11:30 p.m. ET. Two Kentucky discus champions join Reynolds out west. NCAA Champion Rashaud Scott and SEC Champion Chase Madison will test their skills against their coach for a chance to qualify for the Olympic Games. Only the top 12 finalists of the field of 24 throwers will compete again in the discus final on Sunday.
This will be the fourth Olympic trial competition for Reynolds. Previously ranked as high as 11th in the world during his prolific career, the UK coach is coming off a recent injury to battle the nation?s best in the discus. This is the third time Reynolds will compete at the trials with athletes he has coached and the second time he will throw alongside his students in the men?s discus. Reynolds comes in ranked 13th in the U.S. with a throw of 205-11.
Madison, the reigning SEC Outdoor discus champion, ranks 12th nationally coming into the discus qualifying. The Newton, Iowa, native edged his coach out on the list with a throw of 206-2 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., in late April. Madison?s mark ranks second all-time at UK behind two-time Olympian in discus, Mike Buncic. Madison and Buncic are the only two Wildcats in school history to throw over 200 feet. This is the first Olympic trial for Madison who is still competing while recovering from off-season foot surgery in 2007.
Scott was two inches from joining his classmate at the 200-foot mark this year after throwing a personal-best toss of 199-10 to win the Mideast Regional discus title in May. The Bronx, N.Y., native followed that title up with a bigger one at the NCAA National Championships to claim UK?s first NCAA individual event championship in track and field since 1996. Scott is throwing at his first Olympic Trial and ranks 18th nationally in the Wildcat-heavy discus field.
Rising senior Ashley Muffet completes the UK throws contingent at the trials joining classmates Scott and Madison. Muffet will compete in the women?s shot put qualifying late in the day just after midnight Friday at 12:20 a.m. ET. The former SEC Commissioners Cup winner will face 19 other competitors with the top 12 advancing to the shot put final on Saturday.
Muffet will compete in her first Olympic trial in the women?s shot put. The North Canton, Ohio, native holds both the indoor and outdoor varsity women?s shot put records at Kentucky. Prior to red-shirting the 2008 Outdoor season, Muffet competed at the NCAA Indoor Championships finishing 16th in the nation last March. The Wildcat is ranked 13th in the country coming into shot put qualifying.
Rounding out the Wildcat quintet competing in the trials at host University of Oregon is high jumper Grant Lindsey. The rising sophomore placed second in the nation at the NCAA Outdoor National Championships last month breaking school varsity and freshman records in the event. Lindsey is part of a field of 26 jumpers that will begin competition at 10:25 p.m. ET Thursday. The top 14 jumpers will advance to the Saturday final.
Lindsey peaked at the end of the year setting school high jump records multiple times at the NCAA Championships last month with a final clearance of 7-5. The Mansfield, Texas, native was ranked among the top-five collegians in the nation all season in the event as the top-ranked freshman. Training with UK assistant coach for jumps, James Thomas, Lindsey has progressed to claim the 10th-best spot nationally going into his first Olympic Trials.
Sprinter Jenna Martin begins her Olympic quest north of the border in Canada this weekend. Martin will compete in her best event, the 400 meter dash, during the semifinals beginning Friday at 8:30 p.m. ET. Twenty-two competitors will battle Martin for a spot in the 400m dash final set for 4:30 p.m. ET Saturday.
Martin holds both the indoor and outdoor varsity and freshman records at Kentucky in the women?s 400 meter dash in just under two years. The Canadian also has an indoor 4x400m relay record in hand set earlier this year under the direction of UK assistant coach for sprints, Erin Tucker. Martin has already had a taste of international competition representing Canada last summer at the 2007 Pan Am Junior Athletics Championships held in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The native of Bridgetown, Nova Scotia, comes into the Canadian trials with the third-best mark in the nation of 51.91 in the 400m dash that she ran under her flag in Brazil.
The top three finishers in each of event at the Olympic Trials event must have made the Olympic ?A? standard over the past 18 months to automatically represent their country in the Games. If the athlete has not achieved that mark at or prior to competition in the trials, the next best finisher in each event that has cleared the standard could be chosen for competition at the Games despite not finishing in the top three positions of their respective event.
The current ?A? standards in events with UK athletes are as follows: men?s high jump (7-5.75), men?s discus (209-2), women?s shot put (57-5) and the women?s 400m dash (51.45). The aforementioned Wildcats are on the cusp of these automatic marks but none have attained an ?A? standard yet.
One Wildcat that has attained an Olympic standard is sprinter Jose Acevedo who will represent Venezuela at the games after making the cut at the Mideast Regional Championships in May. In addition, recent UK graduate David Freeman has also been selected by his native Puerto Rico for the Games.
Acevedo and Freeman will join other Wildcats with ties to South America, the Caribbean and Central America this weekend at the Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Championships July 3-6 in Cali, Colombia. Hurdler Mikel Thomas of Trinidad and Tobago won two medals at the pre-eminent meet in his homeland last week but needs to make an Olympic standard to be considered for the contingent headed to China from the island nation. Luis Luna a 2007 UK graduate who sprinted for Venezuela in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, will also try to make the "A" standard of 45.95 in the men's 400m dash this weekend at the CACs.
There are not any dedicated broadcast times for any of the U.S. Olympic Trials? field events on NBC and their cable affiliates like USA nor web streams found at NBCOlympics.com. Although, there may be highlights of field event competition interspersed with running event coverage from Hayward Field in Eugene throughout the weekend. Live U.S. Olympic results can be found at USATF.com or Eugene08.com while Canadian results can be found at Canadiantrials.ca.
True Blue fans can find recaps of each Wildcat performance on UKathletics.com at the end of each evening?s competition on the Pacific Coast and in Canada.
Kentucky Olympic Trials Participation Schedule July 3-4, 2008
Team USA Men?s High Jump Qualifying ? Thursday 10:25 p.m. ET
Grant Lindsey
Team USA Men?s Discus Qualifying ? Thursday 11:30 p.m. ET
Chase Madison
Doug Reynolds
Rashaud Scott
Team USA Women?s Shot Put Qualifying ? Friday 12:20 a.m. ET
Ashley Muffet
Team Canada Women?s 400 Meter Semifinals ? Friday 8:30 p.m. ET
Jenna Martin


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The booming success of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises has dropped a bomb on the music biz. Record labels and rock stars alike are eyeing new revenue streams as gamemakers compete for musical talent, scramble to secure rights to original master tapes and bring in aging artists to re-record classic rock hits.
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Activision Blizzard — publisher of Guitar Hero, the groundbreaking videogame that lets wannabe rockers tap out songs on Les Paul-shaped controllers — raked in a reported $830 million in 2007, an annual record for any game franchise.
Now an industry reeling from the disruptive effects of technology is looking at music games as a lucrative new income stream.
Here are a few ways that Rock Band and Guitar Hero are changing the game for the record industry:
Old bands, new fans
Young gamers are getting turned on to classic rock songs recorded before they were born, with videogame consoles functioning almost like radio did in its hit-making heyday.
"Guitar Hero is a really funny craze, kind of like the Hula-Hoop," says Nancy Wilson of Heart, whose 1976 hit "Crazy on You" appears in Guitar Hero II. "It also is one big reason why so many really young kids are showing up at Heart concerts these days."
Musical mimicry
"Crazy on You" might be winning Heart new fans, but it's not the original recording that gamers are playing along to. Of the 106 recordings featured in the first three releases of Guitar Hero, only nine are original recordings. The other 97, including the Heart hit, are re-recordings done by a stable of studio hired guns at WaveGroup Sound in Fremont, California, according to Will Littlejohn, WaveGroup's president.
"We usually shoot for the same vibe, and pick players and vocalists that will work with the song," says Littlejohn. "We don't over-think it, we just have them play the song as they hear it or sing the tune with their own voice. In terms of the arrangements, we often make changes to the guitar and bass parts in order to make gameplay more interesting in Guitar Hero."
Looming lawsuits
While record labels and classic rock groups are enjoying newfound success as a result of music games' popularity, at least one band is not happy about the situation and is challenging Activision in court. Members of '80s rock band The Romantics are suing Activision, claiming their hit "What I Like About You" and the Guitar Hero cover version of the song sound so much alike that gamers are confused and the band suffers as a result.
"There's at least a half-dozen other bands waiting in the wings to see what happens with this case," says Romantics' attorney Mike Novak.
Activision insists it obtained proper licensing to include the song in the game, and says the band is on a fishing expedition. "What they did was file for a preliminary injunction over the Thanksgiving holiday trying to disrupt sales of Guitar Hero on a theory that just doesn't hold water," says Activision attorney George Hedges, referring to The Romantics' lawsuit. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has agreed with Activision at least at the preliminary stage, finding that the band sold its rights in the song and recordings to a music publisher and record company, neither of whom is suing.
In her opinion denying the band's bid (.pdf) for an injunction to stop sales of the game, U.S. District Judge Nancy G. Edmunds noted that the lead singer of the song, Jimmy Marinos, is not even a plaintiff and is no longer in the band. The court held a summary judgment hearing July 9 and is expected to decide soon who wins.
Old bands, new sessions
Perhaps in part because of litigation fears and the game's wild success, Activision is now more often using record labels' original master recordings or going to original band members for re-recordings of their hits rather than using sound-alike recordings.
"In some cases it's karaoke, except with the original band members," says Marti Frederiksen, a top producer who has re-recorded hits by Aerosmith, Foreigner and others. "Other times they'll go back to the original to get the vibe but go for something new. With Aerosmith, the vocals and guitar and every sound is different. We didn't go for retro, we wanted it different for Guitar Hero."
Frederiksen and mix engineer Anthony Focx have remixed many original Aerosmith multitrack recordings for Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, an upcoming release to feature only tracks from Aerosmith and select bands that have toured with the 38-year-old supergroup. Because master tapes of the band's debut album have been lost, the band recently re-recorded megahits "Dream On" and "Mama Kin."
Power to the performers
Many artists would rather re-record an old hit and own it outright than share licensing income with a record label. For example, the timing was perfect for Sammy Hagar when Activision came looking for a re-recording of his hit "I Can't Drive 55" after Geffen Records couldn't locate the master.
"By coincidence," Hagar says, "we had re-recorded the song a couple years earlier because we did a commercial for Napa Auto Parts, but we couldn't close the deal at the time and so we had a great multitrack of the song sitting on the shelf. Guitar Hero needed it, we were ready."
Games as starmakers
With once-dominant record labels now staggering blindly, young bands like the Silversun Pickups view Rock Band and Guitar Hero, which licensed the band's hit "Lazy Eye," as a sort of band-breaking vehicle similar to MTV in the '80s. With music titles rocking the videogame charts, getting a song picked up for Guitar Hero is a great way to gain all-important exposure.
"It's really cool to have a record out, or radio spins, or get your song in a movie," says the band's label head, Jeff Castelaz. "But kids don't listen to a song on the radio or watch it in a movie 30 times a night with a bunch of friends."


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The questions are often the same, asked in desperate hope that the diagnosis might change: Can't we wait a little longer? How do you know for sure?
When Dr. Stephen Beed, critical-care physician at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre in Halifax, has to break the news of a brain death, he understands why families – and even some medical professionals – have a hard time accepting it. Unlike the pale stillness with which death is so often portrayed, their loved ones are warm to the touch, their chests rise and fall, and the line on the EKG continues to bounce.
"It looks like they are in a really deep sleep," Beed says, even though an extensive series of tests have confirmed an absence of brain function and brain-stem reflexes. "It doesn't change the reality, but I understand why it's difficult."
Uneasiness and confusion about defining death – our fear that "the plug" will be pulled too early, our grief that we may not do right by our loved ones – has become a central point in two very different cases in the United States. In California, the family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is keeping vigil over her body, now maintained on a ventilator despite doctors declaring her brain-dead after suffering complications following a relatively routine surgery. To further confound public perception, the family's lawyer told reporters last week that "her health was improving."
In Texas, meanwhile, another family has filed a lawsuit to force a hospital to do the opposite – to shut down the machines that are maintaining the body of Marlise Munoz. In November, the 33-year-old paramedic was found unconscious on her kitchen floor. At the time she was 14 weeks pregnant. Her husband, Erick, claims in legal documents that he has been told that she is brain-dead – and has seen this diagnosis in her charts, though the hospital has made no public statement. She had been clear she didn't want to be kept on life support, but doctors have refused to comply with this request; to do so would harm the fetus, whose condition, now at 21 weeks, remains uncertain.
The sorrow of the two families is palpable – we are drawn in by our own uneasy questions of how we might act in a similar situation. In the Munoz case, the ethics have been further complicated by abortion politics in the U.S.: Does the end-of-life directive of the mother take precedence over the potential life of her fetus?
Based on the reported facts, as Beed and other doctors point out, the medical conclusion is simple: Both Munoz and McMath are dead even though their hearts, with machine support, continue to beat. (And with careful treatment, drugs and ventilation, their hearts could go on beating for months.) "Once you get your head around that sort of language, it changes the perspective of the situation," says Dr. Udo Schuklenk, the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queen's University.
In effect, the ethical dilemma boils down to the disposition of two bodies, and, depending on where one stands on abortion, arguably, one unborn person. In Canada, where a fetus acquires legal status only when born, the decision would rest largely between doctors and family, and not the state. "If it is technologically possible," says Dr. Sam Shemie, a pediatric ICU doctor and transplant specialist at Montreal Children's Hospital, "then the question of 'should it be done' is a family decision."
In the United States, only New York and New Jersey require hospitals to consider a family's moral or religious views in determining how to proceed in cases of brain death. But many states, including Texas, have a law that asserts "life-sustaining treatment" cannot be removed from a pregnant patient.
The Munoz family is arguing the young mother is dead – and no longer a patient – and so the law does not apply. The hospital, by continuing with "life sustaining" treatment, is "mutilating, disturbing and damaging" her body, and refusing to release it for proper burial. Describing his daughter's situation to The New York Times, her father, Ernest Machado said, "All she is, is a host for a fetus."
The Munoz case is rare, as well, because in other similar cases, families have asked to do whatever it takes to save the fetus. German researchers found that in 30 cases of brain-dead pregnant women from 1982 to 2010, 12 of the babies were delivered by cesarean section. (One died of an infection 30 days later, six were developing normally, and five cases had unknown outcomes.) Last year, in Hungary, a baby was born at 27 weeks after its mother was declared brain-dead at 15 weeks. But to accomplish this requires extreme measures to keep the mother's body functioning for the sake of the fetus – the very treatment that Marlise Munoz, her husband says, repeatedly stated she would not want.
The Texas case gets thornier still: Since the mother can no longer make the decisions about pregnancy – including whether to terminate if the fetus is found to be damaged – shouldn't that responsibility now fall to the only living parent, the father? His wife's parents are on record supporting the lawsuit – how much more complicated would the case be if they didn't? What of the fetus itself? If it were 30 weeks along, would that change the circumstances?
"In ethics, this is what's called a world of competing sorrows – whichever way you go there is a downside," says Margaret Somerville, founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University. Perhaps the question, she says, is, "What are the competing claims here, and what does the least harm?"
Again, she says, language "is very important in how we see the ethics." For instance, "If you think an unborn child has some claims to protection of its life, which I certainly do, then you would say you are doing very little harm to the woman, by giving the baby a chance." Those who view the mother being used "as a container," as violating her dignity and wishes, may argue the opposite.
The medical terms further confuse the issue, which is why a growing number of doctors say they need to change. The phrase "life support" – which suggests that even though the brain is no longer working, "life" is being "supported" – is especially frustrating to Shemie. Even the term "brain death" implies a qualification – as if the process of dying is not yet complete.
For Beed, both the McMath and the Munoz cases are clear cut. As a doctor, he would not continue treating a dead body – as a California hospital continues to do with the 13-year-old. And in the case of a pregnant woman, he says, a properly informed family would be his guide. "If, at the end of the day, they say, 'Our decision is this,' than I would respect that."Report Typo/Error
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Just ahead of the much-discussed Facebook IPO, General Motors announced that they plan to cease advertising on the social networking site. They will continue to market on Facebook through the free Facebook pages but will not be paying Facebook for ads.
Their reason is something that most ads executives have considered at one point or another when looking at Facebook: will it help sell more products? General Motors determined that it was not helping them sell more cars.
While their $10 million annual spend on Facebook was a tiny fraction of both their advertising spend ($1.8 billion) and Facebook's 2011 revenue ($3.7 billion), it brings to light a concern ahead of the IPO about Facebook's ability to continue to grow revenues. They blamed seasonal ad boosts in the 4th quarter of 2011 for their decline in the 1st quarter of 2012, but some are still skeptical. If Facebook is merely a channel for exposure, won't properly-managed and marketed free Facebook pages themselves still accomplish the goal?
That's the big question that advertisers (and potential investors) want answered sooner than later.
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(CNSNews.com) - The number of ballots cast in Tuesday's New Hampshire Republican primary exceeded those in the Democratic primary by nearly 90,000 votes, according to preliminary data from the office of the New Hampshire Secretary of State.
With all but 2 percent of precincts reporting, 234,214 votes have been counted in the GOP primary, compared with 145,423 in the Democratic primary. But because of the way New Hampshire conducts its primary, it's difficult to accurately gauge party participation in the election.
Registered independent voters, formally referred to as 'undeclared' voters in New Hampshire, make up the largest group of registered voters in the state, numbering 274,927, or 37.23% of registered voters, according to the secretary of state. By comparison, there were 265,679 registered Republicans and 197,816 registered Democrats as of November 1999.
Complicating the analysis is the fact that undeclared voters may vote in either the GOP or Democratic primary, a statistic the state said was not calculated in Tuesday's balloting. Election officials in New Hampshire said full results aren't expected until Friday.
But participation in Tuesday's Republican primary exceeded that of 1996, the most recent year in which there was no incumbent seeking the Republican presidential nomination. 210,211 votes were cast in the GOP contest 4 years ago, when Pat Buchanan defeated Bob Dole by a 28% to 27% margin.
On the Democratic side, the preliminary results of the February 1 primary showed that total votes cast fell between the totals of the 1988 and 1992 primaries, the last two that did not have a Democratic incumbent president in the contest.
Michael Dukakis won 36% of the 125,344 votes cast in the 1988 Democratic primary, while Paul Tsongas won the 1992 primary, beating Bill Clinton by 8 percentage points with 170,333 votes cast.


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[Fix] Windows 7 Boot Screen Changed to Vista Style
Its a very annoying and common problem in Windows 7. After getting numerous e-mails about this problem, we decided to post this solution.
As we all know Windows 7 contains a new animated boot screen which shows animated items/balls that come together to form Windows logo.
Sometimes it starts showing the old Vista styled boot screen which contains only a green progressbar with black background.
Most of the time it happens when a user tries to repair the boot loader or adds a new entry for Windows 7.
If you are also facing this problem, then here is a very simple and working solution for you:
1. Boot into Windows 7 and click on "Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories". Now right-click on "Command Prompt" and select "Run As Administrator". If you are prompted to enter password, enter the password and continue. You can also open Command Prompt in Administrator mode by typing "cmd" in Start Menu Search box and press "Ctrl+Shift+Enter".
2. Now provide following command:
bcdedit /set {current} locale en-US
The above command is for English version of Windows, if you are using some other language version, then change "en-US" to your own locale.
3. Exit Command Prompt and restart your system. Now the new animated Windows 7 boot screen should be back in action.
NOTE: If the above method doesn't work for you, provide following command again using Command Prompt:
bcdboot %WinDir% /l en-US
And restart your system. It'll work now.
PS: Please keep in mind that new Windows 7 boot screen requires at least 1024x768 screen resolution. If your monitor's native resolution is smaller than this, Windows 7 will show Windows Vista boot screen.
Also try the command given in following tutorial to restore default boot screen in Windows 7:
[Fun Tip] Enable Windows Vista Boot Screen in Windows 7
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Dad helps paralyzed son earn degree at Whitworth
Ryan Sutherland is a successful student at Whitworth University in Spokane thanks to his roommate: his dad.
Ryan is a quadriplegic with muscular dystrophy and his dad, Steve, stays with him in a dorm room to help feed and care for him and get him to classes.
The father and son from Cashmere have been at Whitworth since 2009. Steve Sutherland works weekends and vacations as a pharmacist in Leavenworth.
The Wenatchee World reports Ryan graduated with a bachelor's degree in psychology on May 13. He'll continue another semester to finish his theology minor and earn a certificate of ministry.


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would not use these. way too big for my head and didn't really hold like the smaller ones do. too slippey1


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Intro: "Oh, wow - another bank bailout, this time in Spain. Who could have predicted that? ... unemployment soars, banks get into trouble, governments rush to the rescue - but somehow it's only the banks that get rescued, not the unemployed."
Portrait, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, 06/15/09. (photo: Fred R. Conrad/NYT)
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h, wow - another bank bailout, this time in Spain. Who could have predicted that?
The answer, of course, is everybody. In fact, the whole story is starting to feel like a comedy routine: yet again the economy slides, unemployment soars, banks get into trouble, governments rush to the rescue - but somehow it's only the banks that get rescued, not the unemployed.
Just to be clear, Spanish banks did indeed need a bailout. Spain was clearly on the edge of a "doom loop" - a well-understood process in which concern about banks' solvency forces the banks to sell assets, which drives down the prices of those assets, which makes people even more worried about solvency. Governments can stop such doom loops with an infusion of cash; in this case, however, the Spanish government's own solvency is in question, so the cash had to come from a broader European fund.
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Nationalization, not bailouts!!!
And the difference is? ..
Trivial at best.
It is being used as an excuse to cut the social safety net, reduce wages, deregulate and even privatise.
Straight out of the Shock Doctrine.
The question is, will Europe's people wake up to this or will they scapegoat minorities and people who are different to, and weaker than, them?
Yes - it is called fascism.
Lots of uninformed people will call it capitalism - but that is false. In capitalism they meet Larry the liquidator - not Bail out Billy with the tax payers check book.
How come the Wealthiest per capita and among the Largest Middle Class per capita Countries in the Democratic World are Northern European so-called 'Welfare State'... 'High Tax'... 'Universal Healthcare'... 'Wealth ReDistribution' ... 'Happiest Population' Countries..?
American Conservatives who spout off about how 'Wealth ReDistribution is Socialism' are doing just that, spouting off into the open air with hot air.
ALL Taxation is a form of Wealth ReDistribution EVERYWHERE in the world.
In America, how it went helped us prosper greatly as a whole from the 1940's until the 1990's when, thanks to the Reagan Conservatives, it began to turn around into Wealth ReDistribution favoring the Wealthy Corporate Class ever since.
We are where we are now because of that turnaround in 'Wealth ReDistribution' from most Americans to fewer and fewer Americans through the Conservative Flim Flam known as 'Smaller Government.'
For instance, BuSh ReDistributed much of America's Wealth into Iraq and Afghanistan through Haliburton and KBR, etc. while preaching Smaller Government. Complete POLICY FAILURES just to mention two.
Maybe I could agree with the whole Conservative 'Socialism' hue and cry if they would stop forgetting to put the 'Corporate' adjective in front of it.., i.e. Corporate Socialism (freebies) and others like, Corporate Welfare (freebies) and Corporate Republicans and Corporate Conservatives.
You know.. like that.
...and we all know now that his policies are complete failures, so why do that?
You assume far too much with that statement. 450 top economists and Bush's own first Treasury Secretary warned us of hundreds of billions of dollars in problems from reckless tax cuts back in 2003. They were wrong, it has been 10s of trillions.
See http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-financial-crisis/money-power-wall-street/how-much-did-the-financial-crisis-cost/
A little run down on the conservative CBO estimates:
GDP - $2.6 trillion lower than it could have been this year
Unemployment - Peaked at 10.1% in 2009 (lowest percentage of working age adults in decades going back to when far fewer percentages of women were working).
Government Bailouts - $23 trillion (to mostly the people that got us into the mess, and still don't see anything wrong with the changes they lobbied for).
Lost Household Wealth - $7 trillion lost (so far) in the real estate market, $11 trillion decline in the Stock Market (yet the top 1% tripled their take), $3.4 trillion in retirement accounts (mine declined 24% from the type "Blue Chip" 401(k) accounts the Peter G. Peterson Foundation (the big guns behind the 2005 surprise push to privatize Social Secuity) recommended. When are they going to get our "safe" government pensions, too? Those losses nearly equal our GDP
Also the rage that Mr. Eagle's RSN posts vent may have a therapeutic value in his life. Bill Clinton famously said "I feel your pain", and sometimes one can't help but feel Mr. Eagle's subliminal pain. I do hope I am completely wrong in my intuition and that Mr. Eagle's personal life is much more positive than his RSN posts. If his posts prevent either a suicide or a mass murder, then they are worthwhile.
It is easy to get mad about the current economy in general, but if you are still unemployed because of the Republican leadership's obstruction, sophistry, and mendacity, then you have every right to strike-out blindly at a seemingly uncaring world. Even though it is slightly counter-product ive to indiscriminatel y defame innocent and guilty alike, it may also be deservedly therapeutic. We should still post short corrections to all posts we find inaccurate, but we should not discourage therapy, even if it takes the form of mean-spirited rants. After all none of us is an infallible expert, or immune to temporary feelings of reasonable rage at the powers that be.
Yes..? No..? Maybe..?
Has the Western World become a Brave New Orwellian Place while most of us went about our daily lives for decades assuming that 'normal' would simply remain normal because... er... well... that's the way its supposed to be..? And 'LEADERS' were in charge.., Right..?
I mean, isn't America supposed to always just be wonderful America because We are 'special' in the well known history of the world and mankind..?
Has Democracy been lost in the wake of relentless successful Corporate Lobby..?
Perhaps we now live in a Brave New Orwellian World where the East.., a.k.a. China, is a Capitalist Dictatorship and the West.., a.k.a. Europe and America, are becoming Post Coup Corporate Cabal Capitalist Experiments in Illusion-Delusi on-Low-Budget-C orporate-Coopte d-Democracies.. ?
One thing occurs to me, perhaps this is a manipulation of the 1% to create a war. Germany had these kind of economic conditions prior to WWII. Could this be a war between the new fascist-monetar y state and the last few reasonable real representative countries still on the planet?
Whatever the case it makes no sense.
Like "Planet Earth" - a wholly owned subsidiary of Mobil-Exxon!
(whose controlling shares my holding companies own)
Just like the man said. This country will fall from within.
The Last Great Empire sinks into the sea just like the Romans.
Yet when banks fail,Wall St fails the US government couldn't move fast enough to bail them out. Presidents couldn't wait to reduce taxes for the rich which have been kept in place.
Walker's attack on the unions & public-employee benefits is NEWS now.
Less well known is that some members of Congress are "working hard" to "improve,sustai n & transform" the USPS by getting rid of 100,000 employees,cutti ng Compensation for injured workers,ending it for those 65 and older,weakening the unions,
and cutting service to the public by closing smaller post offices.
HR2309 and S1789 state that this is the ONLY way to save the Post Office from financial failure when the USPS was set up for failure by the PAEA Congress passed in 2006 mandating that the USPS fund 75 years of retiree health benefits in 10. At 5.5 Billion a year the USPS would no longer be solvent.
3 videos condense what's wrong with these bills.
And the voice of those who will be a affected by this is LIMITED to representatives in their district and their unions both of which which may have a different agenda than theirs.
Banks are just ordinary businesses. If they get over their heads in debt and bad investments, they should file for bankruptcy. A court will distribute their assets and they will cease to exist. New banks and more responsible banks will replace them in a few seconds. In this way, a society purges itself of the corrupt and poorly managed banks. If governments bail them out, they never change and we always have bad banks.
But this is not even the real problem. Krugman seems unable to say what is really going on. In 2011 the World Economic Forum ruled that the people of the world were going to have to come up with $100 trillion to "re-capitalize" banks. So now every government in the developed world is transferring wealth from people to banks. The people of Spain will pay off the money borrowed, and the banks will get the money. This is just wealth transfers from the poor to the very rich. It is robbery.
We should stop using the term "bailout." It is not descriptive. It is a distraction. Bailout sounds like a good thing, helping someone in need. What's happening is the re-distribution of wealth from the poor to the very rich. All reports show this. The wealthiest of investors have made trillions of dollars in profits since 2008. People are much poorer. This is the looting of the developed world.
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[Question] Verifying downloaded content and progress.
Just bought The Last of Us™ Remastered after absolutely hating the PS3 version due to controls. No biggy, perhaps the PS4's controller would make it all better.
Here's my problem, I can't identify what content I am supposed to have, what is installed, what isn't installed, and what the progress of each is. At most, all I can do is press options on The Last of Us™ Remastered and go to info, but this isn't specific enough to tell me what I'm looking for.
What content is included with this game? Is there additional content available? (Not guns or cosmetic things for the multiplayer portion.) How can I manage pieces of the game for disk-space issues?
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The Remastered version contains the main game, the Left Behind DLC, and all of the DLC maps that were released since the original game came out. AFAIK it does not include the various hats, masks, and weapon packs that were released (but I may be wrong).
As these are all part of the game, you cannot remove them to free up space. The PS4 does not give you the ability to manually delete specific portions of a game's content, you would need to delete the whole game.
It sounds like you are asking to be able to delete certain portions of the installed game content. You can't do this as all the content is part of the game as far as the PS4 is concerned.
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The most important thing is knowing where hte download stands. Is it complete? Where ist he progress meter for each piece?
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"your library" will show the add ons you bought or already got for each game. "notifications" will have the progress % for current dowwnloads.
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In Notifications it reports it is 100% complete with only 7.8GB downloaded and the title update.
In-Game I've got two counters, one for the main game, one for the DLC chapter. Both of which just have timers on them.
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I have a disc, did you buy it digital from PSN?
In my library it says Add Ons, 4, installed by each. You sorta lost me because I dont have timers.


text: At this point in time, i think you need to get creative on your materials, at least when you start out. In times past, quilts were made from fabric on hand, often recycled. It's easiest to use all the same fibers and fabric weight. See if there are any old cotton sheets available. Men's shirts are also a traditional source of quilting fabric (do a search on this board for 'recycled shirts' for inspiration). Let your friends and extended family know what you are looking for and you soon may have more than you need. An old blanket or fleece throw can be used for batting. You should be able to get your startup fabric costs down to a much more reasonable $$ amount, especially for practice pieces. The finished product may not be as pretty as you would like, but you will be developing your skills. Spend your allowance on good quality tools.


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|ASUS VW266H Widescreen LCD Monitor
|Reviews - Featured Reviews: Monitor | HDTV
|Written by Doug Dallam
|Monday, 06 June 2011
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Panel Tehnology Features
The monitor is of the "twisted film" flavor. This is what most monitor panels are because they're the cheapest to produce. Like most things in life, though, cheapest isn't always the best, or, perhaps, never the best. So too for the ASUS VW266H. Panels are made from several different technologies, the main types being TA (Twisted Film), VA (Vertical Alignment), PVA (Patterned Vertical Alignment), and IPS (In Plane Switching) and each of those technologies has several iterations of each panel. Since this isn't a technical article on LCD technology, I'll try to make this short and informative, but if you want to know more about these types of panels, please visit Benchmark Review's article on LCDs and the very to the point and easy to understand TFT Central website.
Understanding panel types is important if you need accurate color reproduction and rendering of images. So down and dirty, here's the scoop: Twisted Film panels have a very limited range of visibility before you get contrast wash out and color shift. Even though the viewing angle on the ASUS VW266H states it as 170 degrees horizontal and 160 degrees vertical, that doesn't mean you're going to get a very nice picture at those angles. If you need the additional bonuses that an IPS panel can give you, then you need to know why the viewing angles don't tell you what you need to know.
I set the ASUS monitor side by side to my IPS panel for comparison. After I got the monitors set up, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the ASUS monitor did really well from extreme horizontal viewing angles, even though it eventually washed out the image contrast and color. The vertical was much worse and is typical of all TF monitors. Suffice it to say, if you need color accuracy, you'd do well to look at an IPS based panel. On the other hand, the ASUS VW266H does a nice job for everything else, and for basic graphics and photo editing, it's more than enough, and even good for a TF panel. I was going to leave it at this, but I got curious and decided to do some additional testing, and I'm glad I did.
I actually set the monitors up side by side again and hardware calibrated them with the Colorvision Spyder 2 Suite. I made sure each monitor was using the correct profile by using the Windows 7 Color Management option found in the Control Panel. Then off went the lights, and on went the show. And what a show it was. What I say next is in no way exaggeration. I could not believe how well the calibrated ASUS VW266H stood up to the Phillips IPS panel I use for photographic post processing.
My jaw dropped. I mean seriously dropped. The images on both monitors were nearly identical colorwise with a few exceptions. As far as contrast goes, the ASUS was much brighter, which is typical of TF panels when compared to IPS panels (IPS panels newer than mine have much higher contrast ratio though). There are caveats to this exceptional color accuracy compared to my IPS panel, so an IPS panel is still going to be better for those needing a monitor not only for normal use and gaming, but for professional color applications. Let's look at some of those caveats.
First let me restate that if you need color critical accuracy, be prepared to look at monitors in the thousands of dollars range. I wouldn't even trust my 1200.00 USD Phillips IPS panel for that. On the other hand, I previously thought I couldn't use the ASUS TF panel for photographic client proofing. I've changed my mind, sort of. What I can say is that after calibrating both monitors, and when sitting directly in front of the ASUS, most of the time the color and transitions were so close as to call them identical. This was incredible to me.
What impressed me was not only how close the color was, but how far I could actually move horizontally and continue to hold an "acceptable" degree of color and contrast. The problem is that when you move even a few inches any direction, especially vertically, the TF panel changes contrast and has color shift. That being the case, I'd still use my IPS for processing photography, but I would not hesitate to use the ASUS if I had to. It would be a matter of finding the sweet spot and staying there, for even a few degrees vertical and you shift contrast and color to some degree. Now let's actually see what a good TF panel looks like next to a good IPS panel:
We see here how the TF's color (on the right) is near identical to the IPS panel, and that's impressive. We can also see where the TF panel is a little more washed out than the IPS, which is on the left. This is due to the TF panel having such high contrast, even after calibration. One could back off on the contrast setting before calibration and that may or may not help. For instance, before hardware calibration, you might really turn down the contrast, yes, and then in turn that might prevent the monitor from achieving color calibration.
Another problem with that technique is that you never know how much to take it. On the other hand, I need to increase output contrast when printing many of my images from the IPS panel because it's contrast is relatively low. Confounding the matter is that our eyes become accustom to the contrast (and color temperature) we're working with, so everything looks fine-until you get the prints back. One way of getting around this problem is to go by the numbers in Photoshop instead of eyeballing it. Getting the correct contrast and color is beyond the scope of this review, however, so we'll get back to the ASUS VW266H.
Here we can see an example that with some images, the TF panel has a hard time rendering transitions, and color. This isn't due to the brightness or any other settings because the image is dead on exposure wise as reported in Lightroom 3. It's a TF problem. Some gradients are so complex that the TF technology just can't cope. You can see that the IPS panel on the left does a nice job of rendering the facial contrast and color tones. The TF panel, conversely, gives up by showing us a reddish hue and by blowing out the face. It's not this extreme in real life; but even so, you can't get it under control either. No matter what you do, the face will retain blown out sections and an off color tint. This is an instance where you'd be printing an inaccurate picture because of the limitations of the TF panel. This is not too often a problem and only happens on a few images. It's also the reason you'll want an IPS panel if you do lots of professional level graphics. Next, lets look at how the TF panel compares to the IPS panel at horizontal angles.
Here we have the IPS panel on the left, and the TF panel on the right again. You can see that even at this extreme angle, the ASUS hangs in there pretty well, especially for a TF panel. We are, however, beginning to see a little washout compared to the IPS panel that's now showing us a little muscle. (Let me state here and now that the point of showing you angle degradation isn't so you can set up your monitor at an extreme angle to play Crysis 2 in your front room while looking over your shoulder into your bedroom. It's to demonstrate that changes in angle, even subtle, can and do affect color and contrast on TF panels. Even small adjustments in angle have an affect, and the degradation is vastly increased when moving vertically. So keep that in mind.) Now let's take the angle step further.
This is just what we figured was going to happen. Now we see the TF panel trying hard to keep up with the IPS, and the IPS is starting to not only show its muscles, but flex them too. We see here that the TF panel is starting to wash out pretty good. Let's take it even further.
Now this is what we wanted. You'll notice that I've even angled the IPS panel further away from the camera than the TF panel here. The IPS panel is so far to the side of the camera that the picture was getting distorted when I viewed it with my eye, like looking at the picture from it's edge. And look at that baby go! It doesn't even look like a darn monitor, but, rather, a static hard print picture. This IPS panel isn't flexing it's muscle anymore. It's pumping iron!
On the other hand, we see the real limitation of TF panels in this example. The poor thing is about to drop from angle exhaustion. But you know what, I was probably 150 degrees to the side of the TF (and 165 degrees from the IPS) and that's really good for a TF panel. Well, there you go. That's the best I can do to demonstrate general differences between IPS and TF technology without hardware equipment and a lab, and I'm fresh out of friends at NASA.
The last thing I want to say about TF panels is that they tend to bleed back light. That means that you can see light coming from the edges of the monitor when in a dark room with a black screen. In gross situations, it can and will affect picture quality. The ASUS does bleed, but not like a stuck pig. Also, I can't really see that it makes a difference when viewing images generally. In the spirit of accurate reviewing, though, here's what it looks like.
Yep, just what we thought. A little bloody on the ASUS side on the right, while the IPS on the left is black as coal.Like I said, it's not bad at all. It probably shows on your screen as a little blue compared the the IPS on the left.
Moving from color and contrast to pixel pitch, let's look at monitor size in relation to pixel density. The pixel pitch of the AUS VW266H is .287. The pixel pitch of most 23" LCD monitors is .258. This means that the larger display actually has less pixel density per inch, which means less image information on the screen. The reason is because the ASUS is a 25.5" panel while the 23" is a smaller monitor--but both have the same display resolution of 1900x1200. Think of this as you would when you blow up an image in a graphics program, or when you have it printed in a large format. The same information in the image becomes less and less compacted because its information is static, while at the same time you're increasing it's viewable area. The result is that the image becomes more and more grainy looking the larger it gets. Does it matter for your viewing purposes on the ASUS?
Not really, since you're not buying this monitor for high end graphics work. In fact, to my eye, the only time I notice it is when I am processing photography (I'm a professional photographer) and some of the images some of the time show a more harsh transition between colors and tones and sometimes grain (in addition to the problems already stated above). Not all images show this. Mostly it's images with a large transitional area, such as sunsets. Overall, I'm impressed with the quality of the picture for a TF panel and I could not believe it's overall horizontal angle of useability and hardware color calibrated accuracy.
I mention these "negatives" in the spirit of accurate reviewing, but I don't see any of the negatives as any reason not to buy this monitor. For with gaming, business use, typing, surfing the web, and 99% of other activity, you're not going to see any of these negatives. In fact, after my tests, I'd be willing to use it for photo processing if I didn't have access to my IPS panel.
One more thing is particularly noteworthy for our less technical readers. Although this monitor is larger than say a 23", you won't get more stuff on your desktop. Again, the reason for this is that both the 23" and the ASUS 25.5" use the same resolution of 1920x1200. What you will get is a bigger gaming experience, bigger text (which is easier to read), bigger images, and so on. In other words, all the same stuff will look larger, and that's good.
It's an older version but works just like the new one does, so far anyway.
I set out to purchase the best monitor for the price and after months of research I decided on this one. I find the 16:10 aspect ratio is excellent for coding and just having more space on the screen for applications.
For me, the only way up is to get a 2500x1600 monitor (which are on the $1000 range, a bit out of my budget right now).
Would defiantly recommend these monitors to anyone.
Me and my brother buy our PC usually at the same time, and he gets the same hardware as I have, only he went for 27" 1080p monitors, were I went for the VW266H.
And now every time he is at my home and uses my PC he regretting not also getting 1920x1200 monitor even do he likes the bigger size screens he got now, he really dislikes 1080p.
But to me it dose not look like its a supply problem whit this monitor, more like that EOLed the monitor as it not bin available her in the EU any ware for the last 6 months and only some sparsely VK266H are available
I got E2607WSV-B1 for a friend and seeing that monitor standing next to the VW266H, there was not mouths of a difference between the to of them in picture quality
What monitor did you buy that did not have VESA mounts? Every monitor I have checked in the last 2 years had them, and I mean every monitor.
If you don't need a monitor for color accurate use, such as photography, you really don't need the IPS panels, though. The monitor in this review is pretty amazing for saturation, brightness, and size. If I weren't a photographer, I'd be happy with it. But even with hardware calibration, the white balance is off from the Phillips, and when I print, the Phillips looks just like the print.
I might get one anyway just to see how it looks next to my old Phillips. I feel like the Phillips is too warm, even after calibration though. If I choose a white desktop background, it looks yellowish compared to my other monitors (TN panels). Can you check and see what yours looks like when you choose an all white background?
White Point Xw 0.3127 Yw 0.329 Primaries Xr Yr Xg Yg Xb Yb
0.64 0.33 0.21 0.71 0.15 0.06... This is out of the box,no hardware calibration done; I may tweak it down the road but at the moment I LIKE IT AS IS...even my MAC buddies love it....My card is a AMD Radeon? Sapphire 6950 with 2GB Of memory;it has no problem supporting the monitor...


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Dec 20, 2012 at 1:16 pm #1297232
Nothing will happen, actually.
The thing about the Maya calendar:Dec 20, 2012 at 3:13 pm #1937017Dec 20, 2012 at 3:40 pm #1937028
Tom KirchnerBPL Member
@ouzelLocale: Pacific Northwest/Sierra
A permanent solution to our gun problem. ;0)Dec 20, 2012 at 4:03 pm #1937033
Steve GMember
@sgrobbenLocale: Ohio
Which midnight?Dec 20, 2012 at 4:04 pm #1937034
> Which midnight?
Mine.Dec 20, 2012 at 4:30 pm #1937037
David ThomasBPL Member
@davidinkenaiLocale: North Woods. Far North.
Then I can all have all your stuff? Well, I suppose titanium tent stakes will survive, but I'll take any down, silnylon or cuben gear you've got.
DavidDec 20, 2012 at 4:33 pm #1937038
Awww man, David…..I was hoping to take them with me into the afterlife. You never know when you're going to need a modular cuben shelter.Dec 20, 2012 at 4:36 pm #1937039
Jason ElsworthBPL Member
@jephotoLocale: New Zealand
already the 21st hereDec 20, 2012 at 6:18 pm #1937063
I think Maya time is Eastern Standard Time. Your turn will come. Mwahaha…
Travis: Cuben burns extra hot!Dec 20, 2012 at 6:30 pm #1937067
If I'm going down in a ball of fire, it's gonna be while wrapped up in cuben–sweet, sweet cuben…
I'm starting to sound like Doug. :DDec 20, 2012 at 6:47 pm #1937071
Gary DunckelBPL Member
@zia-grill-guyLocale: Boulder
Very funny, thanks T-man.
Travis, here's your shot at BPL coolness–you have 15* F temps tonight, right? (I grin, because that front is past us in CO) Windchill and all that? If you think that the temps will only go from 15* F to 2100* F in maybe an hour or so, I think you and Leanna should take the dog out for a short walk tonight, pile into a snowdrift, wearing only WP/B clothing. Hypothermia has to be better than the other option. If you don't have a dog, but rather goldfish, toss them into the snow, cover them up with more snow, and I'll bet that they'll love you even more in their afterlives. Whatever you do, once the temps get above 425* F, DON'T go back into the house–wouldn't be prudent. I hope that you survive to have a nice Christmas, which I rather expect you will. The UW game with Stanford will be a different story though, making you wished that the Mayans were right all along.
Happy Holidays, everyone!Dec 20, 2012 at 7:40 pm #1937083
Hehe, Gary.
No dog or fish, but we (and by 'we' I vehemently mean my wife) have a rabbit. I've been looking for an excuse to turn it into a pair of gloves–maybe hiding from the apocalypse in a snow bank is just the ticket!
Happy Holidays, everyone! Hope Santa is good to you all! I have a feeling I'll be stocking my cold-gear closet this Christmas.Dec 20, 2012 at 9:51 pm #1937117
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At 4:11 am MST. I guess now the time the world will explode is based on the UTC time zone. You know, because the Mayan's had this time zone stuff figured out way back when.Dec 21, 2012 at 9:48 am #1937211
Yep. Another beautiful day here in sunny Southern Cal. Whew. :)Dec 22, 2012 at 5:56 am #1937379
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You mean the Fiscal Cliff.
I like this one:Dec 22, 2012 at 7:13 am #1937387
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In a nutshell (Jeff McMahon at True/Slant):
[US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke] said unparalleled economic growth occurred in the 20th Century because of two factors: access to cheap, abundant fossil fuels and ignorance or disregard for the fact that those fuels produced greenhouse gas pollution that caused global warming. Both of those factors, he said, belong to history.
"Those days are over, Locke said moments ago in Copenhagen. "What's required is nothing less than completely redesigning the way we produce and consume energy ¦. We're talking about creating an entirely new model of economic growth. The world has spent a century investing in petroleum infrastructure, Locke said: refineries, pipelines, stations.
"That creates vested interests in keeping things just the way they are, he said.
Locke urged nations to stop catering to those interests.
The debate is explained nicely in this infographic (right).
Decades of educational neglect in the physical sciences and math, the failure of American journalism to deliver news and not entertainment, a lack of awareness of the externalities of our petroleum economy, a fundamentalist belief in American Exceptionalism, and a healthy dose of the Paranoid American style have created an intellectual climate where science is trumped by myth, all the while never considering the motivations of those most gleeful at the release of the Climategate emails " the Russians, the oil industry and the Saudis. I'm certain it is mere coincidence that these emails leaked immediately prior to the Copenhagen Conference. Motive much?
We're far more likely to believe a global conspiracy for one-world socialist government then we are an upward-sloping graph. Those that do acknowledge 'the numbers' then can argue whether it is caused by man or simply part of a natural cycle, ignoring the river lapping at their porch steps and Rome drowns. Even the most intuitive visualizations of the data will be unable to persuade the idiocracy.
The only way we're getting out of this intellectual quagmire is if the Mythbusters, Bill Nye, and Penn & Teller (so long as Penn dials back the Libertarianism) team up for an epic cable-TV crossover.


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What the new BlackBerry needs is a clear path back into the enterprise. It was an easy task a decade ago, when email was the killer app and companies were quick to hand out BlackBerries to employees. Those days have been replaced with employee-driven decisions, like which phone they want to use. And when device selection is left to the end user, Apple and Google come out the winners, leaving BlackBerry, Microsoft and Nokia out in the cold.
Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman says that for BlackBerry to have a chance of catching up, its phones will have to be a lot more consumer-friendly than they are now. According to him, BB10 is still a "half-baked product," giving BlackBerry little opportunity to regain its former glory. That's not to say BlackBerry won't try.
The road to the enterprise is paved with consumer intention
So who should BlackBerry target as the phone maker looks to regain corporate customers? We've debated the consumer vs. the C-level executive in an earlier article, but it's really not an either/or situation. In today's era of BYOD, the consumer is the obvious choice. It seems the consumer has become a most influential factor in corporate settings, an environment no longer dictated by the CIO. And the trend towards consumerized IT has turned our smartphones and tablets into carriers for cloud services and productivity tools alike.
"We are facing a shift from the IT department dictating the evolution of company IT infrastructure towards HR influenced or BYOD," says Panorama9 CEO and co-founder Allan Thorvaldsen. His company offers a cloud-based platform for centralizing IT management. "We see a tendency toward HR when hiring people offering liberty to go buy what you want further mixing the existing environments (Windows/Mac)."
Mobile devices are carriers, helping cloud services infiltrate the enterprise
Like a virus and its host, the mobile handset has become the ideal mechanism by which to infiltrate the enterprise. And many cloud service providers recognize this emerging pattern, targeting end users with free trials and other incentives in an attempt to get their foot in the door with C-level executives. It's like pandering to kids with the ulterior motive of getting into their parents' wallets. If an employee screams loud enough, perhaps boss-daddy will give in.
SugarSync is a recent example of a consumer-centric cloud service leveraging mobile to penetrate the enterprise. A new pricing model for business users comes with unlimited storage and flat rates, along with a competitive cloud tool that can be used for collaboration, file-sharing and automated organization. Similar tactics have been employed by other cloud services eyeing the enterprise, from Dropbox to YouMail. Central to their success is the continued support of BYOD.
"We have witnessed the ultimate example of consumerization of IT over the past year, including tremendous adoption of our service by businesses that are storing more and more data in the Cloud each day," explains Laura Yecies, CEO of SugarSync.
One foot in the door…
These days bosses have little choice but to cave in to employee demands, and to the company's own benefit. Not only do cloud services and mobility increase productivity, but they're more scalable and can save costs on IT infrastructure. Many companies recognize the perks of empowering their employees with more device choices and improved access to pertinent data, even going so far as to incentivize new hires with these little freedoms. A recent report from Good Technologies indicates that larger firms are spending big bucks on BYOD, and employees are also willing to pay for the privilege of using their own devices.
"BYOD is inevitable," Thorvaldsen says. "Rather than trying to change the evolving (IT)-world, the smartest move is to submit. More and more SMBs are moving services to the cloud or moving IT-infrastructure to a hosted environment, meaning a more streamlined and simplified IT environment with less security risks when dealing with BYOD."
BlackBerry plans for BYOD on both ends of the spectrum
For BlackBerry, that means an intense focus on the consumer and the developer community could pave the road to the enterprise. The revamped BB10 operating system will make or break BlackBerry's initiatives here, as the phone maker will need to do its best to attract app makers to its platform. Of course we've seen BlackBerry's seriousness on this end, hosting contests and giving away cash prizes to developers that want to port their apps from iOS and Android. Unlike Microsoft, however, BlackBerry has no software presence on rival platforms, leaving the Canadian firm far too reliant on hardware and a fickle consumer market.
Good thing BlackBerry also has an updated Enterprise Server, which does support rival platforms for companies needing to manage their growing BYOD needs. This is an important software play for BlackBerry, anticipating a future of consumer-driven trends in the enterprise and a need for smarter applications. Software-led infrastructure is certainly an important component in the current iteration of corporate IT, and is a smart way for BlackBerry to hedge its bets.


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The last surviving pilot of the Dambusters raid in World War II, Tauranga resident Les Munro, will be a guest of honour at England's 70th anniversary of the raid on May 16.
Tall and fit, the 94-year-old is modest about becoming an icon for a big event which commemorates bravery, defiance, technology and heavy loss of life.
"I'm not sure about that, I don't believe I will be treated any differently to the others."
He hopes to meet the two other survivors of the 133 aircrew who volunteered for the 617 squadron operation over Germany.
They took off in 19 Lancaster bombers carrying heavy mines which were designed to be dropped from a low-flying aircraft, bounce on the water and explode against the hydro-electric dams serving the industrial Ruhr Valley.
A Royal Air Force bulletin says pictures of the resulting damage were a huge moral and propaganda boost for the Allies and Britain in particular.
But 53 aircrew died - a casualty rate of nearly 40 per cent - and only 11 Lancasters returned.
"I'm the last surviving pilot of the originals," said Mr Munro.
He said his aircraft was badly damaged by flak while crossing the Dutch coast on the way to the target.
The damage included loss of all communications equipment and they were forced to return to base.
"I was disappointed that my part in the operation had been aborted and felt quite uncomfortable in joining the celebrations by the surviving crews," said Mr Munro, who finished the war a decorated squadron leader.
On returning to New Zealand, Mr Munro became a Waitomo sheep farmer and mayor.
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Re: st: -ivregress- bug or feature?
"Brian P. Poi" <email@example.com>
Re: st: -ivregress- bug or feature?
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:08:37 -0500
On 03/21/2013 10:54 AM, Hiroyuki Kawakatsu wrote:
-ivregress- does not appear to detect collinearity appropriately
when the -noconstant- option is specified and a (user generated)
constant is included in the instrument list. Is this a feature or
bug? (the error appears to be generated in the `hidden' command
_rmcoll* in -CheckCollin- of ivregress.ado)
/*code to illustrate feature/bug*/
set obs 10
set seed 1
gen x1 = rnormal()
gen x2 = rnormal()
gen y = x1 - x2 + rnormal()
gen z1 = 1
gen z2 = rnormal()
ivregress gmm y (x1 x2 = z1 z2), nocon
the last line results in the error:
note: z1 omitted because of collinearity
equation not identified; must have at least as many instruments not in
the regression as there are instrumented variables
not clear what z1 is collinear with... -gmm- works fine with
gmm (y - {b1}*x1 - {b2}*x2), one inst(z1 z2, nocons)
This is a bug in -ivregress-. It is ignoring the 'noconstant' option when it checks for collinearity between the excluded instruments z1 and z2. Because it's not respecting the 'noconstant' option, -ivregress- is complaining that z1 is perfectly correlated with the constant term.
We'll get this fixed in a future adofile update.
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