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I have just download the free version of spoceworks to a window 2003 network using winxp. It will find the prints but that is all. No workstations.
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Sep 19, 2007 at 1:53 UTC
Make sure you specified teh correct range of IP addresses for Spiceworks to scan. To verify/update those settings, click on "Settings" and then click on "Network" tab.
Make sure you properly define the range of IPs. Something like: 192.168.2.1-254.
You must also set teh scan credentials to one with admin rights throughout the domain. I just entered my domain admin credentials.
Finally, and if all looks good so far, make sure the "Skip" checkbox is unchecked.
Also refer to the Adding New Devices page at http:/
Good luck!! You're going to love Spiceworks.
Sep 19, 2007 at 2:56 UTC
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Dean Ryan and Dean Richards are emerging this weekend as the two names to watch on England's list of possible replacements for Andy Robinson, as the Rugby Football Union's elite rugby director, Rob Andrew, prepares to make his recommendations to a meeting of the Club England committee on Thursday.
The two Deans, currently in charge of Gloucester and Harlequins respectively, are understood to be the leading candidates if England decide to seek a team manager figure and leave the hands-on coaching to the incumbent trio of Brian Ashton, John Wells and Mike Ford, all appointed barely six months ago.
Ryan is a former team-mate of Andrew at both Wasps and Newcastle and the pair have been close since they kick-started the professional club revolution by moving to the north-east in the autumn of 1995. Gloucester possess one of the most promising squads in the country and lie second in the Premiership. Richards, the most successful director of rugby in English club history, won 48 caps for England and was also Andrew's contemporary at international level, although the pair have not always been bosom pals since.
Neither Ryan nor Richards has flatly ruled out the possibility of talking to England, although both would be reluctant to walk away from their existing roles in mid-season. "Anybody would be flattered by it," admitted Ryan yesterday, describing the England job as "still one of the biggest in the world" and calling for the RFU to act decisively. "Whatever they do now they shouldn't just paper over the cracks for the next six to 12 months because all we're going to do is find ourselves in the same position in 12 months' time."
Richards has received support from London Irish's Test centre Mike Catt, who argues the Tigers' four consecutive domestic league titles and two Heineken Cups under Richards were no fluke. "With his record he is probably the best guy," said Catt. "I would let Brian Ashton and the other coaches run the on-field stuff and let Dean manage off-field matters."
If, say, Ryan were appointed as team manager with a brief to nurture the next generation, such as Gloucester's Anthony Allen and Ryan Lamb, and if Ashton's vision of the way England should play were given full rein, the future could appear very different. If, on the other hand, Andrew fancies appointing an outside candidate the field is shrinking fast.
Warren Gatland and Nick Mallett will take much persuading to leave New Zealand and South Africa respectively and France will hardly encourage the courting of Philippe Saint-André, who has masterminded Sale's rise to pre-eminence in England. The South African-born Catt believes England should not recruit an overseas coach. "I would not like to see a foreigner come in. Warren Gatland has done fantastic things with Wasps but I do believe England have good enough managers and coaches to stick to their own. They don't need outside influences."
Stories suggesting Martin Johnson had ruled himself out of contention proved to be a rehashing of old quotes uttered 10 days before Robinson's departure. The World Cup-winning captain is an unlikely candidate so soon after retirement as a player and his expertise might be better utilised if he joined the Club England committee which, as well as listening to Andrew's suggestions, will discuss next week wresting control of the professional game from the RFU's management board.

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Susannah Grant, an Academy Award nominee for her screenplay for Erin Brockovich, has come a cropper with this romantic comedy-drama.
Jennifer Garner plays Gray, whose life is upended when her fiancé dies and she finds Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), his childhood friend, seducing the caterer at the funeral.
To add to her woes, she also discovers that her fiancé has had a child by another woman.
Gray lives with Fritz's closest friends (Kevin Smith and Sam Jaeger) in Boulder, Colorado, and gradually finds herself falling for him despite all her doubts.
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Looking to maximize your tiny condo bathroom? Or rejuvenate your bathroom to make it look new? Giving your bathroom a makeover might seem like a daunting task but Professional Organizers in Canada (POC) says a few small tweaks could give your bathroom the functional, clutter-free makeover it's been longing for.
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The area under the sink can become a haven for long-forgotten bathroom supplies. With any deep space, you need to divide and conquer. You might want to think about adding a shelving unit which is designed to be adjustable around pipes, or group like supplies into uniformly sized clear plastic boxes. This makes it easy to identify and remove necessary items without digging. You can also use plastic bins as virtual drawers to make it easy to bring items at the back into sight.
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If storage space is limited you'll want to look at taking advantage of any free wall space, as well as behind the bathroom door. Consider adding a medicine cabinet to your bathroom -- the area behind the mirror is an ideal spot for makeup, oral care and shaving items. You can also install wall mounted shelves. Available in a wide range of sizes and finishes, shelves can take the pressure off your bathroom storage while at the same time showcasing prettier supplies. To add even more space, purchase an over-the-door shoe organizer to hang behind the bathroom door. Supplies will seem to vanish into the numerous compartments. This is a great spot for brushes, extra face clothes, a makeup bag and more.
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Drawers are one of the most practical storage spots in the bathroom, but often they are mixed up, messy and slow you down. Dividing the space is critical. Be specific about the function for each drawer, then source dividers. Look for dividers which are easy to clean, fit the space and provide enough compartments for the items you wish to store. Measure the dimensions of your drawers, noting depth in particular. Consider using cling wrap boxes and shoe box lids to create shallow compartments for dry items.
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If floor space allows, consider adding storage to your bathroom in the form of cabinets, a rolling cart or a storage ottoman -- perfect for beside a free-standing tub. Let's face it, once you've finished, you'll need somewhere to put that glass of wine!
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If you're looking to make a small bathroom feel more spacious, C.P. Hart designer Sally Cutchie recommends wall-mounting basins, radiators and even WCs (try a wall-hung pan like the Zone for something compact). Not only does this reveal more floor space to make your room feel bigger, it also makes cleaning hard-to-reach areas easier.
"Maximise the architecture of the room. Open shelves rather than cupboards help keep the space feeling open," says Cutchie.
Mirrors are an easy way to give your bathroom an elegant update and are both a practical and aesthetic investment. "They bounce natural light around a room, making the room seem instantly larger and brighter," explains Cutchie. Go ornate to make a statement in your bathroom or try a simple design with a bevelled edge.
Control the intensity of your bathroom light - and change the ambience depending on your mood - by installing a dimmer switch.
Spruce up your bathroom with a new sink. According to Cutchie, decorative bowl basins are becoming an increasingly popular choice, even in smaller bathrooms.
When you're working in small spaces, colour is an important thing to consider (go too dark and you risk feeling claustrophobic). Cutchie recommends choosing polished, matt and bush-hammered tiles to add texture to your space. If you opt for a classic monochromatic palette, team with lighter-coloured walls.
A quick DIY fix that can change the feel of your bathroom is updated brassware. Go traditional or opt for something more modern with flashes of colour to create a stunning statement against a monochromatic scheme. "It's important to think about lighting and shadow, too, as this is an easy way to change the mood of a space," says Cutchie.
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"Organs," Killer repeated.
"That's what I said." Kid was frying bacon in a cast iron pan over the stove, tossing glances over his shoulder at his friend, who was seated at the sofa, a mug of coffee in his hands and between his two knees.
Killer took a sip of the black beverage, his lips pursed tightly, the only sign of emotion on his hidden and blank face.
"What?" Kid snapped, sensing the tension in the air. "It's a business, a damned good one I'd imagine."
The bottom of the mug was all Kid could see from the kitchenette as Killer downed the last of it in one swift gulp. He cleared his scalding throat and set the ceramic ware back on the table with a scrape. "It's a dirty business, that's what it is, Kid."
Scowling, Kid tossed the bacon on a plate next to a good half dozen eggs. He snatched two bent forks and slammed the meal down in front of his friend. "And it isn't our business, so why the fuck should I care if it's messy?" Kid argued. He stabbed a piece of bacon and shoved the greasy strip whole into his mouth.
Killer went about eating his meal delicately in turn. "I'm just saying that I don't trust this man. And I don't think you should either."
Kid barked a loud laughter, kicking back to sit next to his friend. "Trust? Who the hell said anything about trust? You think I'd trust a man who has already underhanded me a handful of times?" He grabbed his own mug, which was coffee, but with a splash of Irish whiskey, and took a sip. "So he gets his jollies out a little bizarre, but it isn't my issue."
"So what is the issue, then?" Killer pressed, "Why haven't you slaughtered him yet?"
"Tried," Kid said through a mouthful of eggs, "But after we were interrupted, I got to thinking that maybe the posh bastard could be useful." He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, "I mean, think about how different Heat would look if we had gotten him fixed up right."
Killer placed down his fork and sighed heavily, "Kid, Heat doesn't care. None of us care. We know what business we're in. We know the stakes when we get into it."
"Whatever," Kid dismissed the blonde's argument, acting as though he couldn't be bothered less. But unconsciously, his eyes flickered to his left arm - a medical work of art to itself, the last parting gift Kid got from the war. Part prosthetic, part metal plating, but meshed in harmony with what survived of his skin and nerves. If it wasn't for what Kid had done, they would have slapped the man with the cheapest instrument on the market and shipped him home. Only Killer knew that Kid has sold what was left of his demon soul while he was in the deserts, and this arm was his reward.
"Anyway," Kid spoke, polishing off the last of his breakfast. "He has a job for us."
Killer nodded, "That makes more sense. Although I find it hard to believe he can't get what he needs to know from some overpaid hacker."
Kid chuckled, "Those typing wankers really think they can put us out of business, don't they?" Flashing a grin of too many teeth, he slung his arm around Killer's thinner frame. "But both you and I know that people believe their information is safer up here," he said, tapping the side of his temple.
"Until they meet us," Killer murmured, the corners of his lips twitching upward.
"Until they meet us," Kid echoed.
Killer stood and collected the dishes, tossing them in the sink and scrubbing them clean. "So who's the bird that the doctor wants us to make sing?" he inquired, passing Kid the utensils for the redhead to dry.
Kid tossed aside the barmop and pulled a folded slip of paper from his back pocket, squinting at the script. "A...uh..." he turned it to the side and frowned. Killer leaned around his friend and glanced at the writing.
"Samuel Dawson," Killer read. He wiped his hands dry on the rag and pressed the damp towel up against Kid's bare chest. "I'll browse the networks and find him. What does the doctor need to know from Mr. Dawson?"
"I was told to ask where the clown's laboratory is."
Killer opened his laptop and looked up from the glow of the screen. "The clown's laboratory?"
Kid turned about, the cast iron pan clutched in his grip now. "Oi, you know the drill. We don't go poking. I don't care if the clown's name is Bobo and he makes balloons. We get the answer, we pass it on, we close the file."
The blonde nodded and started running through various search engines as quickly as he could, until a noise from the kitchenette startled him. Glancing up again, he saw Kid doubled over, clutching his scarred torso, shaking with silent laughter.
"The clown, though?" Kid snickered, "I feel bad for the poor bitch who got stuck with that street name."
Killer nodded, "Me too, Captain. Me too."
About an hour passed afterward, during which Killer continued to flip through databases and social networking sites, taking down notes on their client. Kid finished cleaning the dishes and amused himself furthermore by throwing four inch daggers at the wall. The splintered wood and cracked paint crowded one sector of the wall, almost like a mural in its own fashion.
Kid tried to clear his head as he felt the weight of the hilt in his hand, tossed, and heard a satisfying thump when the blade was embedded in the wall. He tried to became engrossed in the rhythm of things, but for some reason, he could feel every needle sting of pain in his left arm. It felt cold again, a psychological chill that had settled in the marrow long ago.
It was only a handful of years before when Kid had been arguing with a salesman outside not too far outside of Kabul. The heat was oppressive - he had a white scarf around his head and was wearing torn, old combat pants from some lost soldier and a linen peasant top that was colored shit brown.
"Don't in sha Allah me!" he screamed at the man, repositioning the firearm strapped to his back. "It'll happen by tomorrow, because I will it, get it?"
The man said a smattering of things in return, half in English and half in Farsi. Kid was about to reach the edge of his patience when the salesman pointed over his soldier to the dunes beyond and murmured, "Americans."
Kid whipped around, already feeling the sweat-soaked hairs on the back of his neck raise. Both he and the salesman stood stock still as the soldiers pulled up in their jeeps and dismounted. Each of them slung their firearms around to be cradled under their arms as they approached.
"Afternoon, gentlemen," the taller American greeted with more cockiness than any human could be given credit for. Kid scowled.
"What?" he growled, "Look, we'll be on our way in a second." He pulled the automatic rifle off his back and tossed it on the ground at his feet. "You can confiscate it if you'd like, doesn't make shit difference to me. I ran out of ammo weeks ago."
The soldiers had been momentarily alarmed when he pulled the firearm from his back, but relaxed when it was off his person and on the ground. "Thanks, but that's not what we came out here for," the taller man replied. He turned to the native and shooed him off. "Go on! Boro gomsho!"
The salesman with whom Kid had been negotiating with nearly tripped over his own feet as he stumbled off back to his own van, kicking the dying engine into gear and taking off back down the main road.
Alone with the soldiers now, Kid eyed the men, their positions, and his car, calculating his chances of busting their faces in and making a run for it. It was a shit luck deal. Meanwhile, the one soldier was still trying to chat with him, spouting stuff about getting swindled by local businessmen.
"Cut to the chase," Kid ground out, squinting through the sunlight to try to catch glimpses of their shadowed faces under their hats.
"We're looking for a redhead Scottish bastard by the name of Eustass Kid," the man finally admitted. "The colonel thinks he could help with our operation."
Kid scoffed and tried to hack up spit in the back of his parched throat to ease the smoothness of his voice. "Tell your colonel that the Scottish bastard is under no obligation to help that Yankee motherfucker."
The soldier laughed loudly, slapping his mate on the back. "Yankee!" he chortled loudly for half a minute, before he petered out into seriousness once more. He didn't cock the gun or indicate its readiness, but the muscles of his upper arm twitched on the right side, as though tensing for something. It wasn't an action that Kid would miss.
"The situation is, Mister Eustass, that you actually have lots of reasons to help our colonel. You see, once he heard you were in the area, we did some research." Kid was hardly listening at this point, because from behind him, another jeep had pulled up, this one unpacking three soldiers. He was completely surrounded.
"So what? Am I on Wikipedia or something?" Kid sneered.
The soldier chuckled and shook his head. "No, no, but boy you are a funny one! No, but we did find out about how you were 14 when you beat a man to death in a pub in Ireland. Then reappeared two years later in a bank robbery in Detroit in the states. And then...how old were you? Nineteen, I think, when you evaded UN forces in Somalia who were trying to peg you for piracy."
Kid was unfazed. He knew his life story and much more than that, and although it was amusing to listen to the man become more and more overwhelmed with arrogance as he spoke, it wasn't on Kid's priority list. The rap sheet would continue, he was sure, but he had a plan involving a sideways maneuver, a broken jaw and -
"...but colonel can't be here to personal meet you, Mister Eustass...because he figured that he'd pick up your blondie faggot friend first."
And that was when Kid's blood ran cold.
Killer closed his laptop and, with deft fingers, stole the last dagger from Kid's fingertips right before he could toss it.
"Samuel Dawson," he began his brief. "He works at the nuclear power plant in Sizewell, Suffolk. Married to Jeanette Dawson, with a daughter, aged 16, named Susan. Mr. Dawson is currently in London on a business trip. He's staying at Central Park Hotel, room 260. His last meeting ends at 6 PM today, and he's leaving in the morning." Killer took the knife in his hand and stabbed it into the table in front of him.
"So that means after six we can assume he'll do some wining and dining with coworkers, and then call his wife and hit the sack. I suggest," Killer held up a finger, "that we wait until he has gotten off the phone with his wife."
Kid grinned, "Of course. Otherwise poor Mrs. Dawson would be worried about dear Sammy."
Killer looked fondly at his younger friend. "With reason," he added maliciously, "But that's none of our business."
It was nine in the evening and Kid was twirling a cigarette between his painted fingers, eyeing the fancy hotel doors with a certain distaste. "He smokes, right?" he asked again to the mouthpiece.
The crackle of Killer sighing on the other line was prominent. "Yes, Kid, he'll be down for a smoke. It's a simple no-entry gig. I'm watching him now, and he's still on the phone."
Kid rolled his eyes, "What the fuck does he even got to say to her?"
"Women like to talk," Killer countered, "Especially when their husbands are away. Make sure they aren't cheating, and the like."
"Well I wouldn't know that," Kid snapped. "I've never wasted my breath on women."
Killer was fast to change the topic. "He's getting off the phone," the blonde announced, and then, a moment later, "And picking up his smokes. Your cue, Kid. I'll meet you there."
Kid smirked and clicked off his earpiece, shoving the device in his pocket. He crossed the busy streets without looking and lurked in a corner not too far from the hotel entrance, cigarette pressed between his dark lips. In short order, a thin man with unruly brown hair exited the building, bringing out a smoke and lighting it up.
"Hey, mate," Kid called out to the man, not moving from his spot on the wall.
Samuel Dawson looked up, "Evening," he replied.
"Got a light?" Kid threw back.
The man nodded and made for Kid, pulling his lighter from his pocket. Kid smiled and leaned down into the man's flame. In the same moment that the redhead pulled back to draw a drag and puff out some smoke, he drew his handgun from his dark red coat and pressed it into Mr. Dawson's blue button-down chest.
As always, it took the victim a few moments to comprehend his situation. Kid waited patiently, puffing away on his smoke, eyeing his car which was illegal parked just some few feet away.
"Is that a gun?" the man asked shakily. He shook his head. His cigarette fell from his lips and started burning useless on the pavement. "You can't shoot me here, on this busy street. You're bluffing."
Kid was used to this routine. He lowered his golden eyes to meet Mr. Dawson's light brown orbs and narrowed them, embodying the spirit of his intent. In daylight, Eustass Kid looked just a little rough and tumble around the edges, just a tad off-kilter with his red hair and thick accent and painted lips and nails. But in moments like these, the clear lighting illuminated something deeper born within him.
In short, Kid housed a demon. A demon without honor, without the constraints of societal ties or domestic training. Kid was a leviathan of an beast, full of fire, rage, and a set of teeth to match. Instinctually, every human cowered before his animalistic madness, and Mr. Dawson was no different.
"What do you want?" the victim asked, the logic of his resistance snuffed like the weak flame that it was.
"Just get in the car," Kid nodded to the two-door vehicle. "In the backseat, passenger side."
Mr. Dawson obeyed, and Kid joined him, turning on the ignition and driving out into traffic. The doors locked, the passenger seat pushed back, and Mr. Dawson had no feasible means of escape.
"Aren't you going to blindfold me?" he asked after a few minutes from the back of the car as they began to head downtown.
"No," Kid answered simply. "Now shut up."
City lights flashed by, and Kid knew that his subject was not paying attention to a single thing that drifted past his vision. He was plotting, thinking of escape routes, possible enemies, his wife and daughter, and probably praying to God. Kid knew what it felt like, and he had no sympathy. Everybody had to fight like rats to survive in this world, and if one became so disillusioned to forget this, then he deserved his fate.
They parked on an abandoned side street, outside of a run down textile mill. Kid cut the ignition and opened the door for Mr. Dawson, seeing him out. The man did not try to run for it. He did hold up his hands though and began to plead.
"If you want money, I have -"
"No," Kid said shortly. "And I told you to shut up already. I won't say it again."
Inside the back door of the textile mill, down to the lower layers. Killer was waiting with some rope and a chair nailed to the floor. His face was completely masked. Mr. Dawson shuddered and backed up at the sight of him - his wild mane of hair, his concealed face, his silent aura.
"Hello, Mr. Dawson," Killer greeted. "In the chair, if you would."
Mr. Dawson sat, trembling visibly by this point. Kid pulled out another cigarette and lit it. "Did you pick up the booze?" he pressed his friend.
"I did," Killer responded as he tied Mr. Dawson securely to the chair. "The rum is still a bit chilled. It's in the other room. I figured you'd want a glass while I worked."
"Thanks," Kid muttered, going to leave the couple alone. As he left, Mr. Dawson's eyes followed him greedily, begging for the redhead man to come back. He was familiar with that man. Kid's face wasn't masked, his hair wasn't overly long, his jeans weren't ripped up the sides with tassels. Killer watched his begging expression with amusement.
"I'm not the one you should be afraid of, Mr. Dawson," Killer told him. "If you are lucky, you'll never have to see my Captain again." The blonde pulled an old metal seat out from the far pile of scraps. The legs of the chair scraped and squealed across the ground. Eventually, he saddled it in front of his victim and sat on it backward, resting his arms on the arch.
"My name is Killer," he introduced himself.
"Am I being held hostage?" Mr. Dawson asked.
Killer shook his head, "No, Mr. Dawson. I just have a question." He pulled a cigarette from his pack and pressed it between the victim's lips, lighting it up for him. The man puffed on it like a baby sucking from a tit. Killer smirked under his mask at the man's complacency.
"I need to know where the clown's laboratory is."
Mr. Dawson dropped his cigarette for the second time that night. Patiently, Killer plucked it off of the man's chest, where it was burning a hole in his shirt, and took a drag off of it himself, while waiting for the victim to recover. Mr. Dawson had paled considerably at the mention of the name the clown. He couldn't play the poker face card now even if he had years of interrogation experience.
"I can't tell you that," Mr. Dawson managed to say. "Please, it's not a loyalty thing... it's just that he... him... I..." he turned his head desperately looking at the thin ray of moonlight coming into the room. "I'm not even involved in it, please. I just can't tell you though. My wife, my daughter..."
Killer interrupted him, "Notice that we haven't threatened them. We aren't like those people, Mr. Dawson," he lied, "We don't really hurt people. We want to stop them, that's all. Now tell us where, and we'll protect your family. We'll get you somewhere safe."
Visibly, the man's shoulders sagged. He sighed and eyed his trembling knees for a good moment. "You can protect them?" he asked hopefully, "Are you guys MI6 or something?"
"No," Killer answered, "But we will keep you safe. I swear it on my father's life."
Mr. Dawson was not a complete fool, though. He glanced around and then shoved forward his pant leg with his cell phone in it. "Then call my wife," he said, "And tell her what you're doing, where we'll be safe."
Killer pushed himself off of the chair and put out his smoke in the empty glass of rum he had helped himself too. He paced around Mr. Dawson's chair, until he was behind the man. Then he grabbed a handful of the man's hair and pressed a sharp dagger to his jugular.
"Call your wife?" he spat in Mr. Dawson's ear. "Very witty, I'm sure she'd alert the police rapidly enough, even though, honestly, I've taken down my fair share of the stick-toting fuzz." He nicked under the man's chin and hissed, "I guess we were playing each other for fools, weren't we?"
Mr. Dawson panicked. His breathing began rapid and inconsistent, his heart started to pound and more blood than necessary gushed from his small neck wound. "Please!" he begged, "Please just let me go! Find someone else to tell you!"
"No, no, no," Killer tutted, "You are the only one for us." He began to make his way to the door, "I'll motivate you quickly enough though." Killer cracked the door open and called out, "Captain! Your turn!"
Kid grunted from the other side. There was the clank of a heavy bottle being set on the floor. Killer turned to Mr. Dawson to explain.
"Captain's had a bit to drink now, so he's probably in the mood." Mr. Dawson's primal fear increased exponentially as Kid's booted footsteps scuffed across the floor. "You see, you should have told me, Mr. Dawson. I would have killed you quickly."
The man in the chair heaved as though he were about to vomit, which Killer didn't doubt. Then he screeched, "But you swore! You swore on your father's life!"
Killer pushed up his mask and stepped into the moonlight for one moment, fixing Mr. Dawson with a cold blue-eyed stare. "I killed my father, you dumb son of a bitch."
By this point, Kid was leaning in the doorframe. He pressed down on Killer's mask and eased it back over the man's face. "You've been drinking too much," he chided his friend. "You're being dramatic."
The blond shrugged, "Forgive me, Captain. He's a lot of fun."
Kid nodded, looking down his crooked nose at Mr. Dawson. "I bet he is."
It was only a half hour later and Kid was listening to the ringing tone on his mobile. He polished off his glass of rum and wiped his bloody fingers on his pants.
"Eustass," a cool voice answered the phone.
"Trafalgar," Kid responded. "I got your location."
There was a tinny chuckling from the other end, "I had faith in you. I'd prefer you tell me in person though. Did you write it down so you don't forget?"
Kid eyed the mutilated corpse at his feet. "You could say that."
"Wonderful." The satisfied smirk could nearly be heard from across the receiver.
"When do you wanna meet?" Kid pressed.
"Tonight," Law answered bluntly, "When you get home."
"Okay well where -"
"I'm in your flat already."
Kid scowled and kicked the carcass with the tip of his boots, "You better be fucking kidding me, you slimy little -"
"Ah, ah, ah!" Law interjected, "How could you call me such things, Eustass-ya? You see, I've seen your living situation, and I can hardly classify them as anything near the godly state of cleanliness."
Kid rolled his eyes, "What, are you upset with the state of my linens?"
"No...those are quite nice." Law made a deep purring noise in the back of his throat, "I'm actually lying on your bed right now, and don't worry, I've taken my shoes off. Hurry home, Eustass-ya, or I might fall asleep before you get here."
There was a snap, and suddenly the phone in Kid's hands was shattered to bits of wires and silicon chips. He growled and dropped the shards of the appliance into Killer's hands. "Clean up the mess," he ordered his subordinate. "I have to pummel the living shit out of a doctor."
Killer looked at the dead body and the broken phone, and then sighed. "This is the second blackberry this month, Kid. I'm switching you to flip phones."
But the redhead didn't respond. He was on his way back to his flat, driving with a cold patience down each city street, seething at each traffic light. It was not in his nature for him to be curious about the affairs of his clients, but he couldn't help but wonder why an organ-dealing surgeon wanted to know the location of a lab in the Siberian tundra.
Yet even more pressing was the question of why the doctor felt the need to press every one of the madman's buttons, currently lying on his bed like he belonged there, cocky smirk plastered right above his goatee. Kid's knuckles turned white on the steering wheel - the thought of the man made him sick.
Whew. This story is NOT easy to write, holy hell. Well I hoped you liked the little bit of backstory. Please read and review.
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It had been 5 years since I had set foot into Red Square. Snow softly fluttered from the night sky, changing colors in the illuminated square. Tall spires jutted into the air, they belonged to St. Basils cathedral. A church that had been in the Russian motherland since the middle of the 1500's. The eight onion shaped bulbs topped the spires, accentuated by a brilliance of color.
Young couples and throngs of people passed by me as I leaned against a snow coated brick wall. Smoke wafted into the air from between my lips as I tossed a cigarette butt to the sidewalk. A loud bell began it's symphony stating the new hour, 9:00pm. Giving a quick glance to my surroundings I walked casually into the Cathedral, someone had offered me a job and told me to meet them at St. Basils. Stepping inside the building, I shed my heavy coat, opting to keep on my black Ushanka hat. The inside of St. Basils was dark, barley lit by the soft glow of a few candles scattered around it's expanse. A voice echoed from the front pew.
"Come Comrade, sit." My eyes narrowed on the woman, she had long flowing blonde hair but because of the way she was sitting I couldn't tell anything else. She motioned on hand to sit next to her. I remained in the shadows at the rear of the room.
"I'm fine where I stand, just leave the mission statement where you are and leave." My voice was stressed and tense, ever since my mission in Mogadishu I had been watching my back.
"Khren!" she shot back standing and moving to the main isle way to face me. Her blue eyes sparkled in the light. Unfortunately I knew her, my hand tightened around a small pistol I had in my pocket. I wanted to avoid confrontation but sometimes death was a necessity. "Come my friend say hello!" She took a step forward but stopped thinking otherwise. She used a hand to move a loose strand of hair from her face, oddly I noticed her lips moving. It was a trap. A loud shot echoed just as I jumped to the side. The bullet struck home into my shoulder, sending a spray of blood onto the floor. I sprinted behind of the massive pillars and pulled out my pistol, the sniper must have been at the pulpit. I groaned in pain as I looked to my wounded shoulder.
"Come mudak! My employers are paying me a handsome fee to take you out of the picture. A bullet tore past the column l0ding into the wall before me. I cocked the pistol and spun from cover. Finger pressing the trigger, I advanced past a row of pews and forced her to take cover. Her sniper back up stood and turned to run.
"Not today suka!" I shouted at the man, English slipping into Russian. A bullet struck the back of his head, making it explode in a splash mist of red.
"Milo!" she shouted in anger and anguish. "Gonvo!" The girl stood from cover and pointed a pistol at me, her hand trembling. "You're gonna pay fo-" I pulled the trigger again, bringing me down to my last bullet. The woman's body crumpled upon itself, crashing into the cold marble floor. Slowly, I made my way to her and noticed that I had just clipped her carotid artery. Blood pooled around her back as I crouched next to her. She was breathing, barley.
"Who sent you, blyad?!" I demanded, pressing the barrel of my gun to her forehead. She chuckled, bits of blood spattering her lips, but she said nothing as her last breath left into the still air. Wasting no time I searched both of the bodies, looking for anything that might lead me to their employers. The only use item I could find was a simple white business card with a name printed in heavy black lettering, Lucas Johnson. The name didn't sound familiar. I winced in pain as more blood poured from my shoulder. I'd need to clean the wound or else I might receive serious damage. Wrapping my coat around me I left the Cathedral, first to bandage my wounds then I'd have a few calls to make about this Lucas Johnson.


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IT WAS the first weekend in 12 years that first home buyers looking for established properties had no financial help from the government.
Many who missed the $7000 grant that ended the previous weekend came out second best at the sub-$600,000 auctions on Saturday.
A two-bedroom apartment at 7/27 Burke Road Cronulla sold under the hammer for $470,000. The selling agent, David Drioli, from McGrath, said that before the auction there were many inquiries from first home buyers but an investor won on the day.
It was a similar story at the auction of a one-bedroom terrace at 69 Merton Street, Rozelle.
Out of the four bidders on the day two were first home buyers. An empty nester couple beat the first-timers with a winning bid of $615,000 – $44,000 over the reserve price.
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- Prior to the commencement of the litigation, at the instigation of Tim Harrington, a current board member, an appraisal of ValCom's media library was undertaken beginning in February 2011. The appraisal revealed that the library was comprised of thousands of motion pictures and songs, as well as T.V. shows and episodes, and was an undervalued asset with what we believe is great potential.
- On May 11, 2011, at a meeting following the annual meeting of shareholders, a mandate was given by the board of directors to then-CEO Vellardita to (i) monetize ValCom's media library, (ii) begin the process necessary to collect royalties due to ValCom (both past due and future), and (iii) fully document ValCom's rightful claims to the library's contents.
- In the months following the May 11, 2011 meetings, a majority of the board of directors of ValCom was of the view that the company was in need of new leadership due to its inability to achieve strong financial results despite ownership of a valuable media library.
- As the summer of 2011 progressed, it became apparent to the majority of the board of directors that little or no progress was being made in monetizing ValCom's media library and that other serious problems had arisen with customers and vendors. The majority board was of the view that, despite the board's mandates, Vellardita was not fulfilling his responsibilities as CEO and, in fact, was acting contrary to ValCom's best interests. Concurrently, inaccurate and incomplete press releases were being issued by Vellardita, without the board's knowledge or consent, touting spurious actions by ValCom (including stock buybacks and debt reductions). Despite the board's directive to refrain from such conduct, Vellardita continued ignoring these mandates and his responsibilities as CEO.
- In early August 2011, amicable discussions commenced between the majority board and Vellardita about the future governance of ValCom and Vellardita's stepping down from his role as CEO. Suddenly, in late August 2011, without notice or warning, Vellardita caused a purported shareholder action by written consent to be taken, using improperly issued shares to effect such consent, in an attempt to remove Silvana Costa Manning, Tim Harrington, and Mike Vredegoor from, and elect Rahul Rathod and Nalin Rathod to, the ValCom board.
- Shortly after Vellardita's attempted August 2011 shareholder action, the majority board of ValCom adopted resolutions to terminate Vellardita as CEO and appoint Patrick Willemsen in his stead.
- In August 2011, Silvana Costa Manning and Patrick Willemsen filed a complaint with the Delaware Court of Chancery in an action to clarify that Manning, Harrington, and Vredegoor are directors, and that Rahul Rathod and Nalin Rathod are not directors, since their purported election was based on (i) failures to abide by proper corporate protocols and (ii) improperly issued ValCom securities. Concurrently with the filing of the complaint, Manning filed a motion for an interim order to maintain the status quo with respect to the business and affairs of ValCom pending resolution of the action. The motion for status quo order sought to maintain the ValCom governance structure immediately following the May 11, 2011 shareholder meeting and prior to the purported August 2011 shareholder action.
CLEARWATER, Fla., April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ValCom, Inc. (Pinksheets: VLCO) As a result of an Order and Judgment in the recent litigation with respect to the governance and management of ValCom, Vince Vellardita was removed as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of ValCom, and the new composition of the ValCom board of directors was established. Shortly after Vellardita's removal, the board of directors of ValCom appointed me as Chairman of the Board of Directors, and Timothy Harrington as Chief Executive Officer. We want to explain what was disputed in this litigation and how this dispute has been resolved. We also want to briefly outline where ValCom currently stands, and management's near-term priorities and long-term vision for creating value at ValCom. Disputed Items in Recent Litigation


text: EENG 449bG/CPSC 439bG Computer Systems Lecture 2 Instruction Set Architectures January 13, 2005 Prof. Andreas Savvides Spring 2005 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.1 Announcements • Class syllabus changes – Instruction Set Architectures Review – Pipelining Review – Comparison of microprocessor families » Multicore chips survey – Simulators – Embedded OS and Real-time systems – Battery technologies – Low power considerations – Tools for software synthesis on embedded processors – Processors in networks – Verification topics • Reading material for this lecture, Chapter 2 of Patterson and Hennessy 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.2 The Instruction Set: a Critical Interface The instruction set is what the Programmer sees about the architecture software instruction set hardware 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.3 Instruction Set Aspects (Sections 2.1 – 2.12 of text) • • • • • • 1/13/05 Classes of Instruction Set Architectures Memory Addressing Issues Addressing Modes Instruction Operators Instruction Set Encoding Role of Compilers EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.4 Organization • Capabilities & Performance Characteristics of Principal Functional Units – (e.g., Registers, ALU, Shifters, Logic Units, ...) Logic Designer's View ISA Level FUs & Interconnect • Ways in which these components are interconnected • Information flows between components • Logic and means by which such information flow is controlled. • Choreography of FUs to realize the ISA • Register Transfer Level (RTL) Description 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.5 Memory-Memory ISA Classes • Stack Push A Push B Add Pop C No registers => less hardware but slow, cannot pipeline • Accumulator – one operand is implicitly the accumulator (special purpose register e.g 6502 microntroller) Load A Add B Store C No registers => less hardware, high memory traffic, slow/bottleneck 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.6 Register based ISA Classes • Register-Memory • Load-Store Load R1, A Add R1, B Store C, R1 Load R1, A Load R2, B Add R3, R1, R2 Store C, R3 » Registers are faster than memory » Registers are more efficient for compilers » Compiler writers prefer all registers to be equivalent 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.7 Instruction Sets in Modern Computers • Most modern computers have 16 or more general purpose registers • Specialized processors such as DSP processors still have several special purpose registers • New ISAs are register based BUT there are still tradeoffs – The ideal number of operands depends on the type of processor and application – Fewer decisions on instruction formats easier for compiler writers 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.8 Memory Interpretation: Endianess • Byte ordering becomes an issue when exchanging data between computers – Little Endian – least significant bit to the right 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Intel 80x86, ARM, some 8-bit microcontollers (e.g Atmel's AVR series) – Big Endian – least significant bit to the left 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 IBM 370, Motorola 68K, MIPS, Sparc, HP 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.9 Memory Interpretation: Alignment • Objects larger than 1 byte must be aligned • Misaligned memory accesses take multiple aligned memory references • What do we mean by "aligned" An object of size s bytes at byte address A is aligned IF A mod s = 0 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.10 Addressing Modes Register Add R3, R4 R3<- R3+R4 Immediate Add R4, #3 R4<- R4+3 Displacement Add R4, 100(R1) R4<- R4+Mem[100+R1] Register Indirect Add R4, (R1) R4<- Mem[R1] Indexed Add R3, (R1+R2) R3<- Mem[R1+R2] Direct or absolute Add R1, (1001) R1<- R1+Mem[1001] Memory indirect Add R1, @(R3) R1<- R1+Mem[Mem[R3]] Autoincrement Add R1, (R2)+ R1<-R1+Mem[R2]; R2<-R2+d Autodecrement Add R1, -(R2) R2<-R2-d;R1<-R1+Mem[R2] Scaled Add R1, 100(R2)[R3] R1<-R1+Mem[100+R2+R3xd] Modes 1-4 account for 93% of all VAX operands 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.11 Special Addressing Modes in DSP Processors • Modulo or circular addressing – For reading buffers • Bit reverse addressing - Address 100 becomes 001 - Special feature for DSPs - Although DSP processors used to require customized programming, DSP programmers are coming closer to traditional compilers - Automatic code-generation is also becoming a reality (e.g DSP algorithms in MATLAB can be automatically converted to DSP native code) 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.12 Instruction Operations Arithmetic and logical- add, subtract, and, or multiply, divide Data transfer - load-stores Control - Branch, jump, procedure call, return traps System – OS call, virtual memory management instructions Floating point – add, multiply, divide, compare Decimal – add, multiply, decimal to character conversion String – move,compare, search Graphics – Pixel and vector operations, compress/decompress operations 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.13 Control Flow Instructions 4 • • • • 1/13/05 basic types Conditional branches Jumps Procedure calls Procedure returns EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.14 Instruction Encoding • How are instructions encoded in a binary representation to be executed by the processor – Need to tell the processor the type of operation, and the addressing modes • Many competing forces – Desire to have as many registers and addressing modes as possible – Register sizes and addressing modes impact instruction and program size – Instruction encoding should facilitate pipelining » Instruction sizes multiple of bytes » Fixed length instructions may yield better performance but result in larger average code sizes 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.15 Instruction Formats Variable: … Fixed: Hybrid: •Addressing modes –each operand requires addess specifier => variable format •code size => variable length instructions •performance => fixed length instructions –simple decoding, predictable operations •With load/store instruction arch, only one memory address and few addressing modes •=> simple format, address mode given by opcode 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.16 Encoding the Instruction Set 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.17 Role of Compilers • ISA is a compiler target • Architectural decisions affect the quality of code generated by the compiler • Compiler goals – Priority – Correctness – Speed • Fast compilation, debugging support & interoperability among languages 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.18 Role of Compilers 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.19 Register Allocation • Probably the most important optimization in compilers why? • Most register allocation algorithms are based on graph coloring – An optimization method – Construct a graph with the possible candidates for allocation – Use a limited number of colors so that no two adjacent nodes have the same color (so registers are represented by colors) • Why is register allocation important? – You tell me… • Why do compiler writers want lots of registers? – Register allocation with methods like graph coloring work better when more registers are available. • Refer to Figure 2.25 of text for a list of the major types of compiler optimizations 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.20 DSPs and Media Processors • Both typically used in embedded applications • Main difference from other microprocessors is real-time performance – Worst case performance vs. average performance – Infinite, continuous streams of data vs. fixed data set • Small number of key kernels is critical, often supplied by manufacturer – Libraries are important, widely used – Include tricks to improve performance for targetted kernels but no compiler will generate 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.21 DSP Introduction • Digital Signal Processing: Application of mathematical operations to digitally represented signals • Signals represented as sequences of samples • Digital signals obtained from physical signals via transducers (e.g microphones, accelerometers, seismic sensors) and analog-to-digital converters(ADC) • Digital signals converted back to physical signals via digital-to-analog converters (DAC) • Digital Signal Processor (DSP): electronic system that provides digital signals Interaction with the physical world is becoming one of the most exciting fields for computer engineering!!! 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.22 Common DSP Algorithms and Applications • Applications – Instrumentation and measurement – – – – – Communications Audio and video processing Graphics, image enhancement, 3-D rendering Navigation, radar, GPS Control – robotics, machine vision, guidance • Algorithms – Frequency domain filtering – FIR and IIR – Frequency – time transformations – Correlation 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.23 Some Project Ideas… • Embedded Operating Systems – Implement a small monitor/debugger for an embedded processor – Develop a power saving scheme inside an embedded OS to utilize the power saving features of the specific processor • Hardware/Software Interfacing – Experiment with high frequency analog sampling – Design & develop interfaces and/or instructions for different sensors, control external entities for mobile nodes • Algorithms & Protocols Oriented Projects – Develop a protocol for a new sensor network application 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.24 The MIPS Architecture Features: • GPRs with load-store • Displacement, Immediate and Register Indirect Addressing Modes • Data sizes: 8-, 16-, 32-, 64-bit integers and 64bit floating point numbers • Simple instructions: load, store, add, sub, move register-register, shift • Compare equal, compare not equal, compare less, branch, jump call and return • Fixed instruction encoding for performance, variable instruction encoding for size • Provide at least 16 general purpose registers 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.25 MIPS Architecture Features Registers: • 32 64-bit GPRs (R0, R1…R31) – Note: R0 is always 0 !!! • 32 64-bit Floating Point Registers (F0,F1… F31) Data types: • 8-bit bytes, 16-bit half words • 32-bit single precision and 64-bit double precision floating point instructions Addressing Modes: • Immediate (Add R4, R3 --- Regs[R4]<-Regs[R4]+3 • Displacement (Add R4, 100(R1) – Regs[R4]<Mem[100+Regs[R1]] • Register indirect (place 0 in the displacement field) – E.g Add R4, 0(R1) • Absolute Addressing (place R0 as the base register) 1/13/05 – E.g Add R4, 1000(R0) EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.26 MIPS Instruction Format op – opcode (basic operation of the instruction) rs – first register operant rt – second register operant rd – register destination operant shamnt – shift amount funct – Function Example: LW t0, 1200($t1) 35 9 8 1200 binary 100011 1/13/05 01001 01000 0000 0100 1011 0000 Note: The numbers for these examples are form "Computer Organization & Design", Chapter 3EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.27 MIPS Instruction Format op – opcode (basic operation of the instruction) rs – first register operant rt – second register operant rd – register destination operant shamnt – shift amount funct – Function Example: Add $t0, $s2,$t0 0 18 8 8 0 32 binary 00000 1/13/05 10010 01000 01000 00000 100000 Note: The numbers for these examples are form "Computer Organization & Design", Chapter 3EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.28 MIPS Instruction Format op – opcode (basic operation of the instruction) rs – first register operant rt – second register operant rd – register destination operant shamnt – shift amount funct – Function Example: j 10000 2 10000 binary ? ? You fill it in! 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.29 MIPS Operations Four broad classes supported: 1. Loads and stores (figure 2.28) • Different data sizes: LD, LW, LH, LB, LBU … 2. ALU Operations (figure 2.29) – – Add, sub, and, or … They are all register-register operations 3. Control Flow Instructions (figure 2.30) – Branches (conditional) and Jumps (unconditional) 4. Floating Point Operations 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.30 Levels of Representation temp = v[k]; High Level Language Program Compiler Assembly Language Program Assembler Machine Language Program v[k] = v[k+1]; v[k+1] = temp; lw $t15, 0($t2) lw $t16, 4($t2) sw $t16,0($t2) sw $t15,4($t2) 0000 1010 1100 0101 1001 1111 0110 1000 1100 0101 1010 0000 0110 1000 1111 1001 1010 0000 0101 1100 1111 1001 1000 0110 0101 1100 0000 1010 1000 0110 1001 1111 Machine Interpretation Control Signal Specification ° ° 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.31 Execution Cycle Instruction Obtain instruction from program storage Fetch Instruction Determine required actions and instruction size Decode Operand Locate and obtain operand data Fetch Execute Result Compute result value or status Deposit results in storage for later use Store Next Instruction 1/13/05 Determine successor instruction EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.32 5 Steps of MIPS Datapath Instruction Fetch Instr. Decode Reg. Fetch Execute Addr. Calc Next SEQ PC Adder 4 Zero? RS1 L M D MUX Data Memory ALU Imm MUX MUX RD Reg File Inst Memory Address RS2 Write Back MUX Next PC Memory Access Sign Extend WB Data 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.33 1/13/05 EENG449b/Savvides Lec 2.34


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Series: Sound Sense For Successful Living (7 of 7) by Stuart Briscoe
This content is part of a series.NOTE: This sermon is part 13 and 14 of a 14 part sermon series. Two sermons outlines are included in this download.
Part 13: God and Man
Series: Sound Sense For Successful Living
Stuart Briscoe
Proverbs 16-17
The Bible does not debate God's existence or argue about His nature. It simply reveals them. It treats man in a similar way and goes on to show the relationship between God and man. Nothing could be more important than an understanding of this subject.
I. Man's Recognition of God's Majesty.
A. The majesty of His eternal person.
1. "El"-the ancient name for God.
2. "Jehovah"-the God of Israel.
3. "Adonai"-the One Who has authority.
B. The majesty of His eternal purpose. v. 4
1. He is the Originator of all things.
2. Some things are not as He originated them.
3. He will use all things to bring about His purposes.
C. The majesty of His eternal principles.
Part 14: The Use of Words
Series: Sound Sense For Successful Living
Stuart Briscoe
Proverbs 18-19
Words are the chief media of human communications. They can be used to hurt or heal, to harm or help and accordingly must be used with great care and discernment.
I. The Importance of Words.
A. God's unique method of self-revelation.
1. The spoken word. Genesis 1, "God said…"
2. The written word. 19:16
3. The living Word. John 1:1; 6:63
B. Man's unique method of societal communication.
1. Words as deep waters. v. 4a
2. Wells of divine wisdom. v. 4b
C. Man's unique method of spiritual application.
1. Take with you words. Hosea 14:2
2. Make sure they have meaning. Malachi 2:17
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We are delighted to list for sale Oyster 53 Crackerjack. She has recently been shipped from the Caribbean to Genoa, Italy and will be available to view in the Western Mediterranean. Crackerjack has been lovingly used by her owners and cared for and upgraded very meticulously. She presents very well and is attractively priced.
The current owners have owned the yacht for just over 1 year and after attending to previous post survey recommendations and numerous upgrades, they have spent time in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
The family have greatly enjoyed their cruising and are now planning to buy a larger Oyster yacht once Crackerjack is sold.
Crackerjack is an ideally equipped family cruising yacht, she is sloop rigged with in-mast furling, she features, electric winches, bow thruster, generator, air conditioning, washing machine, sat coms, radar/chartplotter, the list goes on. Crackerjack is beautifully finished with a teak interior and sleeps 7 in four cabins. She is a delight to sail and is in ready to go condition.


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This article is the second installment of a four-part series. Come back next week to read Part III. Enjoy!
In order to discuss what real socialism is we must first examine the injustice, exploitation and alienation that permeates throughout capitalist (and bureaucratic collectivist) societies from the standpoint of its effect on–as Kautsky puts it–"[...]human self esteem."
Beginning in their early landmark writing, The German Ideology, Marx and Engels developed the concept of historical materialism. They argued that the only way that society could be properly understood was by scientifically examining the material forces that constituted it. The truly materialist way to examine how society is formed is to examine how a society organizes its production. According to Marx, the organization of production is comprised of two important elements, forces of production and social relations of production. Forces of production include land, raw materials, technology, skills and knowledge, while social relations of production refer to who controls the forces of production and how they control it.
Marx believed that there are points when the social relations of production become incompatible or contradictory with the forces of production, retarding growth and human development until the old social relations of production are replaced by new ones. This is what happened to feudalism when it was superseded by the awesome productive power of capitalism and this is what will eventually happen to capitalism when workers gain class consciousness and emancipate themselves from capitalism. Capitalism, according to Marx, is "…the last antagonistic form of social process of production"–he had this hope, because he saw through capitalism the development of "…productive forces [that] create also the material conditions for a solution of this antagonism." In other words, capitalism is unjust, but necessary, because it develops productive forces to a point where socialism becomes possible.
But what is capitalism? Why is it inherently exploitative and why does it offer humanity a way out into a Shangri-La of cooperation and solidarity? According to Marx, throughout history social relations of production have been the site of class struggle:
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freedman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Capitalism continues this legacy of antagonistic class relations as it is a system characterized by the dependency of the worker on the capitalist via the mechanism of wage labor. Although there are gradients to the mold, humanity during the epoch of capitalist development is largely separated into two groups of people. Marx describes these two contending groups as the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The proletariat, or working class, is a class of people that is unable to survive without selling its labor power–its ability to work–to the bourgeoisie, or capitalist class, the stratum of society that owns the means of production as their private property. The worker produces products by using the capitalist's mean of production and that the bourgeois goes on to exchange these products of labor for a profit. In return the worker is given a portion of the wealth he or she creates in the form of a wage. In short, the workers create the wealth of society while the capitalists undemocratically control how that wealth is created.
Capitalism is often referred to as the "free-enterprise" system, but through an examination of the basis of this system it is clear that in certain respects capitalism is not so far removed from feudal or slave societies. In feudal societies peasants were tied to the noble landowners (noble by deeds of conveyance and not by virtuous deeds), just like workers today are effectively tied to specific capitalism firms. And just like slaves, proletarians can eek out an existence by laboring for their master and in return getting an allowance of food and shelter. This example can even be taken even to the criminal underworld of modern society. Proletarians has nothing to sell but their own labor power, their physical body, and just as the prostitute sells her body to survive, the working class must prostrate itself day in and day out, hour upon hour, toiling for the benefit of its capitalist "pimps." It may appear that labor has a choice to work or not, but what kind of choice is really presented–indenture yourself to a capitalist, waste the primacy of your life producing for another's profits, or starve? There is in actuality no choice at all–all wage-labor is thus forced labor. Of course labor has the "freedom" to choose which capitalist they want to sell their labor power to, but in reality what kind of prize is this? Does granting a slave its choice of master or a prostitute its choice of procurer really help alleviate the mental and physical denigration of the exploited?
The advocate of modern bourgeois-democratic society would argue that perhaps our economic relations are less than perfect, but this only constitutes one part of our social order. But as Marxism explains, the economic base of society shapes its political and legal superstructure. The class that controls the economic sector will have a disproportional control over the political state and will use this control to protect that is truly important, its economic stake in society. The power goes even further, as the controllers of the economic sphere also consciously or unconsciously protect the status quo through the propagation of bourgeois ideology. The mass media along with elements of the education system and organized religion serve as agents of control that foster social integration. Social integration enables bourgeois society to ameliorate or completely remove open conflicts on the basis of class, gender, or ethnic grounds, promoting hegemonic rule. Through the mass corporate media the capitalist class can more easily project its class-perspective on the world to the masses who will accept its perspectives as "common sense." Proof at how effective not only this ideological hegemony can be seen by the fact that modern American newspapers have a "Business" section but not a "Labor" section. It seems commonsense to the majority of Americans that what is good for business is invariably good for them. Some wage-laborers even possess shares in companies that they don't even work for, so they are indirectly profiting off the extraction of surplus labor value from their fellow workers.
Yet after a century of socialists decrying it and working towards its downfall, capitalism has proven both dynamic and persuasive enough to keep itself alive and to persuade the working class that it is the only feasible economic system. Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci proposed fighting this ideological hegemony by erecting a counter-hegemonic project to disseminate working-class values like cooperation and solidarity, ideas that could make socialism commonsense and capitalism seem nonsensical.
That said, we would be remiss in suggesting that the capitalism is purely an instrument of evil; compared to previous modes of production it is actually quite progressive! Marx, in brilliant prose, explains the great productive power of capitalism has reshaped the world unimaginably (and he was writing in 1848!):
Constant revolutionizing of productions, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions. Everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, as swept away, all new-form ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.
Market competition and labor exploitation all in the name of pursuing greater and greater profits have had unintended side effects. Populations are urbanized; former titles of nobility are cast away; a global market is developed in which racism and old prejudices are impediments to profit maximization; local and regional markets are enveloped; religions and old beliefs are torn asunder. Only one thing remains–the economic imperative of dominating market share. The downside of this development is that is it based intrinsically on exploitation and inequality, so capitalism can only take humanity only so far. As Marshall Berman puts it, "The irony of bourgeois activism, as Marx sees it, is that the bourgeoisie is forced to close itself off from its richest possibilities, possibilities that can be realized only by those who break its power."
Capitalists are only concerned about their profits; any benefits of capitalist development are merely unintended after-effects. So even in the most advanced capitalist nations–like the United States–gross examples of human deprivation exist (and are largely ignored). In the U.S. over three million people are homeless, forty million people experience hunger regularly and fifty million are without health insurance. Why don't we build more houses for the three million plus homeless Americans? We certainly have enough raw materials and enough unemployed persons to do the labor, but there simply is not enough of a profitable incentive. On the other hand there is pressure from the owners of capital to limit housing programs, to keep housing prices high, and even to abolish safeguards like rent controls and stabilization.
Fortunately for humanity, capitalist development however creates a new type of laborer, and the key to the next epoch of historical development, the (urban) proletariat. A social-being used to working in close-proximity with his/her fellow laborers that has the power to erect agencies like unions and political parties promulgating the interest of labor and contesting the primacy of capital. Once workers realize the "real conditions of life and [their] relations with [their] kind," and cast aside their chains, reclaiming the surplus labor stolen from them and moving to revolutionize production once again, this time producing democratically to meet their common needs, society is advanced towards the classless society: communism.
However, as Marxism as a movement and theory drifted into economic determinism, it ignored a key aspect of the Marxian worldview: a respect for the soul and the vitality of the exploited proletariat. Capitalism regards labor as a mere tool used for the extraction of surplus labor and the reproduction of more labor, just as "orthodox" Marxism–divorced from Marx's intended humanism and epicureanism–came to regard labor as a mere tool for the revolutionary reconstitution of society. I will discuss this in the next section.


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Location: Pasture Systems & Watershed Management Research
Project Number: 1902-21000-007-00-D
Project Type: In-House Appropriated
Start Date: Dec 17, 2007
End Date: Dec 16, 2012
1.A. Develop tools to facilitate the selection of species mixtures for pastures, the distribution of pasture types across a farm, and the assessment and monitoring of pastures at multiple scales to improve forage/grassland system function and reduce production risks. 1.B. Identify new grazing management and supplementation strategies that complement grazing preferences of dairy cattle to optimize the utilization of mixed-species cool-season pastures of the Northeast U.S. and to reduce inputs costs for pasture-based producers. 2.A. Identify management systems that minimize net greenhouse emissions in forage, grassland, and energy crop systems in humid-temperate climates. 2.B. Determine optimal management and environmental benefits of perennial and annual bioenergy cropping systems in the Northeast U.S. to reduce production costs and increase yields.
1.A. A trait-based index will be developed to relate pasture plant community composition (both species presence and abundance) to ecosystem function in grasslands. A multi-site field-plot trial will be conducted to test the hypothesis that mixed plant communities with greater species evenness produce more herbage and are more resistant to weed invasion than mixtures with lower evenness or monocultures. Science-based decision support tools will be developed for forage species selection within pastures and across farms to meet producer goals for ecosystem functions given the climate, landscape and soils. 1.B. Observational research will be conducted on pasture-based dairy farms feeding a range of supplementation strategies with varying pasture composition to characterize the effects of supplementation on grazing behavior and diet selection. Ingestive behavior will be quantified on during spring, summer, and fall grazing. Detailed feeding and milk production information will be collected from farm records and personal interviews. Continuous culture fermenters will be used to identify ruminal fermentation products that influence grazing patterns via post-ingestive feedback mechanisms. Sward-box studies will be used to evaluate cattle grazing behavior responses to monocultures and mixtures of selected grasses and legumes. 2A. Multi-location field plot and farm-scale trials will be conducted to determine the greenhouse gas emissions and economics of perennial and annual crops grown for bioenergy. Differences in C isotope discrimination (d13C) of C3 and C4 species will be exploited to partition respiration between new C respired from C3 plants such as orchardgrass and white clover and old C respired from the active pool of soil organic matter that has formed under the C4 species, big bluestem. 2B. Biomass yield, feedstock quality, and greenhouse gas emissions of current annual and proposed perennial bioenergy crops under the same climate and soil will be measured, and the resulting data will be used to validate the DAYCENT biogeochemical model at a site in the northeastern U.S.


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The Hot Zone
Anchor Books, 1995 - Medical - 422 pages
The virus kills nine out of ten of its victims. Its effects are so quick and so gruesome that even biohazard experts are terrified. It is airborne, it is extremely contagious, and it is about to burn through the suburbs of Washington, D.C. Is there any way to stop it? This doomsday scenario confronted a biohazard SWAT team struggling in secret to stop the outbreak of an exotic "hot" virus at an Army research facility outside Washington. "The Hot Zone" tells the dramatic story of their dangerous race against time, along with an alarming account of how previously unknown viruses that have lived undetected in the rain forest for eons are now entering human populations. From the airlocked confines of a biosafety level 4 military lab, to an airliner over Kenya carrying a passenger dissolving into a human virus bomb, to a deserted jungle cave alive with deadly virus, THE HOT ZONE is a non-fiction thriller like no other. "The Andromeda Strain" was fiction--- "this is real!"
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This is an interesting book that actually, true story, took place in the late 1980's. This story takes place all over the world, including Africa, Europe, and the U.S.A. but the main spot comes to be in Reston, Virginia, right outside of D.C. This story is ultimately about an outbreak of the Ebola virus in a monkey house in Reston. Richard Preston put together many other stories about Ebola to come to the climax of the book which is when the monkey Ebola virus broke out. Some of the stories told the gruesome tales of previous people who took in the virus and ended up dying a very disgusting and scary death. The Ebola virus has a 90% death rate and it clearly shows that and tells that in this book. It also exclaims where the virus might have came from, it could be from the European monkeys, or even Kitum Cave. The main characters of this story are Nancy Jaax, Gene Johnson, Jerry Jaax, and C.J. Peters, just to name a few. These characters were actual people, except that they had different names, so they seem very real and believable to me. I love how it seems as if you become part of the military when you read this book, mainly because the fact that the main characters are in the military and the military took the majority role in controlling the virus. I find it very interesting how many characters, Nancy especially, would risk their lives everyday because they love the danger factor. I would really like more characters from the outside world though, like some of the civilians and others around. I feel as if I was too much on the inside of the story. And of course the whole Ebola virus and Marburg virus is real and after reading this book I would really like to know more about them and see if any real threats are coming up. My overall opinions on this book would be that yes it was interesting, but it just was not enough for me. It was TOO scientific and there was too much repetition. There were plenty of times where I couldn't wait to see what would happen next and there were other times where I knew what was gonna happen next, and I felt bored with the book.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in the medical field or are just interested into science, period. This is more for a college student, any gender, and who loves science/biology. I gave this book 4/5 stars.
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MIDDLEBURY — Carl Roesch and Caetlin Harwood had owned the diner in downtown Middlebury for just six weeks last spring when they were introduced to one of its biggest annual traditions: the early morning breakfast for graduating seniors at Middlebury College.
"We kept peeking out the door to see when they were coming," recalled Harwood, "and then — boom — they came in. It was like the whole school was walking up here."
PANTON — Twenty Panton residents at a 22-minute special meeting Dec. 17 unanimously backed a selectboard proposal for a $121,012, five-year truck loan.
They also supported the board's proposal to use a budget carry-over from the past year to make the first year's payment for the truck of $20,192.
The selectboard had called the meeting to seek voter approval because the fully equipped, International Viking tandem plow vehicle was not in the board's budget for the current fiscal year.
MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Public Service Board has denied a proposal by Bullrock Corp. to install a 150kW solar array near The Residence at Otter Creek (TROC) that would have defrayed around 25 percent of the Middlebury retirement community's annual energy bill.
BRANDON — The entity responsible for the best drinking water in Vermont will ask voters to approve a $2.5 million bond in March to pay for system-wide improvements. Brandon residents who tap into the water system would be responsible for paying back $1.7 million of the bond.
MIDDLEBURY — Citing surging cost estimates and a longer-than-anticipated construction timeframe, officials planning the replacement of Middlebury's two downtown railroad overpasses said the project is now slated to begin in 2016, rather than this spring.
MIDDLEBURY — A majority of Addison County's lawmakers said they will vote in favor of incumbent Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin over Republican Scott Milne when the Vermont General Assembly decides the matter on this Thursday.
Per the state Constitution, the General Assembly must decide the contest by ballot when it convenes Jan. 8 because neither Shumlin nor Milne garnered more than 50 percent of the votes cast back on Nov. 4.
The Top 10 catalogs what the news staff of the Addison Independent chose as the most important stories of 2014, but readers have their own opinions about what interested them most last year. To get one indication of that, look at the top 10 stories on our website. Here are the headlines for the most-read stories of 2014 on addisonindependent.com, with their page views according to Google Analytics (note: Unfortunately, the analysis did not track all of the site activity before July 1). We'll post this list with links to the stories at addisonindependent.com.
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