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the community and that the Ministry of the Environment and Oxy had thirty days to bring that about.
Simultaneously as the writ was issued, the Public Defender filed a lawsuit over the licence, in response to the State Council's judgement on March 4th that the licence was valid. The State Council claimed that the general interest of the Colombian peoples, as well as the dominion of the State over national territory, including the State's proprietal rights to the nation's subsoil, took precedence over any other consideration, including over the rights of indigenous peoples. Since indigenous rights are supposedly protected by the National Constitution, the ruling of the State Council makes a mockery of the legislation. In addition, the State Council validated the consultation process that had supposedly taken place and with it the right of Oxy to enter U'wa territory.
The U'wa were not intimidated and on April 28th (1997) they drafted a long letter to the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to request that the Colombian government suspend the licence and that it adopt the necessary means to avoid irreparable damage to the indigenous population.
A blood y figh t I t has not been an easy fight, and the U'wa feel thoroughly deceived. What has become clear for them, is the meaningless of what is little more than cosmetic democracy. The notion of participatory democracy, and the various mechanisms employed to achieve it, has proved to be a subtle means of creating the semblance of community approval and indigenous rights. At the end of the day, government policy has always favoured the megaprojects, irrespective of local resistance and ecological consequences.
The State has routinely approved, promoted and defended projects like the Urra hydroelectric project, the construction of treatment plants for the River Bogota, roads that cut through regions of exquisite biodiversity, and the creation of industrial zones in indigenous resguardos. In all these instances the legal path has been pursued, together with collective struggles, demonstrations and protests. And in all these instances, the multinational corporation has been granted the jackpot, to the detriment of those they leave behind when the natural resources have been plundered.
History has predictably repeated itself with regard to the U'wa, but in this case, an astonishing solidarity has emerged. On one side stand the permanent actions of the "Colombia Committee for the U'wa", created by environmentalists and journalists and which has brought together various sectors of society that identify with the U'wa cause. And, on the other, stand the Public Defender, the organizations of human rights and of environmentalists, as well as the support of international ecological and indigenous groups.
Misinformatio n Tactic s But the Colombian government and Oxy remain unwilling to shift from their position, and have resorted lately to releasing false rumours and distorted information with the aim of confusing the public and weakening popular resistance to the scheme. On one occasion the president of Oxy, Stephen T. Newton, declared in a national newspaper that his company was surrounded by the guerrilla and that the traditional U'wa territory was the stomping ground of Father Perez - head of the subversive ELN, the army of national liberation. The U'wa angrily reject such accusations: "It's not the first time that the company has argued that the U'wa people, in defending their rights, are being pressured by the guerrilla.
In 1994, all the members of the Main Council and the assessors of our national organization were accused with the threat of prison for being tied to subversive activities." What's more, some of the key critics of the scheme have faced numerous death threats and public denunciations.
More unfortunate has been the strategic use by the oil company of those members of the indigenous community who have lost their cultural roots, abandoned the traditional ways, and who welcome the exploitation of oil as a way to bring 'development' into the region. Oxy has made great efforts to elicit support from these individuals as a means of gaining entry into the resguardo. Aware of such happenings, the U'wa Cabildo Mayor (Chief Councillor) insists that the only authorities allowed to represent the community are those legitimately associated with the ruling body for all the U'wa peoples - La Asociacion
Mayor de Cabildos U'wa (The Association of U'wa Councillors).
Today, nothing is certain: one hope is that the environmental impact assessment wil l be considered null and void, given that i t was carried out in a record five days, leading, according to lawyers, to inconsistencies. The U'wa are also waiting the outcome of a possible lawsuit in their favour from the United Nations International Labour Office, as well as a pronouncement from the international courts that may rule in their favour and who wil l act accordingly. Above all, i t is the hope of the U'wa and their supporters, that the interests of their tribe be placed above those of large, corporations whose only interest is that of extracting shortterm profit from the accumulated wealth of millions of years of evolution.
Petro l an d th e U'w a Without doubt, the head-on opposition of the U'wa to those who would invade their territory emerges essentially from their cosmological beliefs and the way in which they regard petroleum. As explained in the document entitled U'wa Chita, prepared by the U'wa themselves: "One of our principal beliefs about the Earth is that it is a living being and is Mother. That belief has determined our agricultural practices, our cultural activities, such as hunting, fishing, gathering and our ritual behaviour. Under this concept, what is clear for us when we work, when we celebrate our fasts, our chants and traditional dances, is that we are taking care of this world, of the Earth, of our Mother.. .Petroleum Ruiria is the mother of all the sacred lakes ... it is working the emeralds, the gold, the coal... Al l those resources should not be touched; they must be left alone; they are alive; they are working."
Precisely that idea that such resources "are working" arises out of the notion that they form part of a "tribute that should be handed over to the deities so that they wil l maintain equilibrium, such as it is, that neither wil l the Earth tremble nor dry out."
In that way nothing good can come out of an oil company, be i t Oxy or another, entering or even being allowed to enter U'wa lands. The U'wa see their own struggle over the issue of oil as an opportunity to campaign for an entirely different model of development, something that is indeed essential, given the current environmental crisis in Colombia and elsewhere in the world.
"We have not committed the insolence of violating the churches and temples of the Riowa: but they in turn have sullied and wiped out our lakes." Let us hope the U'wa's struggle for the sacred in nature is not in vain.D
Monica del Pilar Uribe Marin is a journalist in Colombia
The Ecologist, Vol. 29, No 1, January/February 1999 Reviews Wisdom of The Elders
Caroline Humphrey
(including humans). Al l things in nature are attributed with having "their own kinds of causal energy or force", and "the terms for ordinary and spiritualized entities are the same" (p. 108). Mountains, rivers and winds have specific master-spirits which receive invocations from village elders.
SHAMANS AND ELDERS: Experience, Knowledge and Power among the
Daur Mongols by Caroline Humphrey with Urgunge Onon, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996,
396pp, (pb), ISBN 0 198 28068 8
Urgunge Onon is a Daur Mongol who left China in 1948 and now lives in England. He was nearing his seventies when he approached Cambridge anthropologist Caroline Humphrey and asked her to write a book about his recollections of shamanism. They worked together holding conversations which formed the basis of the manuscript, and these were supplemented by her field trip to Mongolia in 1987, and his translations of Chinese and Japanese text.
The Daur Mongols live in northern Manchuria and have a mixed economy based on farming along the Naun River valley. They also fish, herd animals, hunt bears, tigers, antelope and foxes. They grow millet as a staple but also cultivate barley, oats and wheat; they keep horses, cattle and chickens. The practice of shamanism is still subject to repression today and, as in the past, the Daur fear both their ancestral spirits and the oppression of the State for engaging in the shamanic activities which acknowledge them.
Concept s o f Natur e The Daur concept of 'nature' includes objects, beings and processes that were "uncreated, spontaneous, innate" (p.52). They contrast wild, non-human nature found in forests and mountains with that which is domestic and found in villages
Urgunge describes the physical landscape around his village, but at the same time mentions different sorts of spirit (master-spirits, ancestral spirits, demons) which reside there (p.76). Distinctions are made between the visible physical world and the unseen spirit beings: misfortunes are thought to be caused by angering a natural object. Humphrey writes: "the landscape .. . is not a black background to human affairs, nor is i t simply a cognitive ordering of space. I t is the result of the land having been used in certain practical and valueladen ways, in our case the Daurs' roughand-ready farming, herding and hunting" (p. 126). The landscape was like a map of events in shamans' lives, and their deaths were marked by stone cairns.
Spirit s o f natur e The earth is implicitly female, fertile and life-giving. Like the sky and stars i t is considered to have invisible energy which includes its rivers, cliffs and forests, as well as birds, animals and fish. This energy is in addition to the 'spirit masters'. The idea is not that the spirit-master of a mountain dominates the mountain, but rather that i t "exists as the permanent genius of the awesomeness of that mountain" (R89). For example, i f crops are attacked by a plague of insects, this is considered to have been 'intended' by the mountain. The Daur attribute emotions like anger and happiness to mountains.
The master-spirit of the forests controls its resources, animals and fruits. In the forest, hunters have to behave with respect towards the animals; violations are said to cause 'incalculable' harm elsewhere (p.91). Retribution follows i f female animals are treated wrongly and the consequence for an irresponsible hunter could be the loss of his soul and even his life (p.92). The forest is said to be full of unseen spirits.
Many rivers in Mongolia have feminine names. They are both resources for fishing, and moving bodies of water, which have their own spirit-master who gives fish to fishermen, who in return offer fish to him.
Fish have to be respected: i f a large one is caught, a man laments for i t "as a formal acknowledgement of the animal's right to existence and sorrow at its death" (p.92). The river also has multiple levels of meaning: it is a boundary, among other things, between this world and the world of the dead (p.93).
People believe that souls can take either animal or human form in successive lives. Humans, birds and animals are seen to have individual immortal souls, which during dreams "had an existence separate from the body" (p.99).
Religiou s Practitioner s Daur people define specific differences between various specialists who each have their own kind of knowledge and ways of interacting with nature, though they do collaborate. The elders (always men) lead prayers to the sky, mountains, stars, rivers and trees. They accompany hunters into the
Shamans are buried in hollowed-out tree trunks and the bark replaced so that the tree continues to grow: in this way the ancestral shamans are linked to specific places in the landscape. forest where they propitiate the masterspirit and entice him into giving them more animals. They can also talk to fish and attract them into being caught. Shamans never go hunting, because animals are their spirit kin: their shamanizing, i t is believed, might confuse the hunt, whose purpose is to kil l animals and not their spirits.
Landscap e an d Deat h The Daur believe that "death transforms the souls of certain people into spirits, which are thereby freed from physical human bodies and able to reside in other objects in nature" (p. 128). This is in addition to the energies that natural objects have of their own. Upon death a person wil l naturally metamorphose into an ancestral spirit (p. 194). Shamans are buried in hollowed-out tree trunks and the bark replaced so that the tree continues to grow: in this
The Ecologist, Vol. 29, No 1, January/February 1999


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They were banned sometime around the latter part of the 1800's, and are rarely seen today.
Basically, the Fur Getter is a small 22 cal gun that you would load, stick in the ground, and leave it there.
It would automatically fire when an animal moved close to it.
Not very sporting, was it.?
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Godin Guitars @ the 2011 Montreal Guitar Show
Godin Guitars showcasing new 5th Avenue Jazz model among others at hometown guitar show taking place from July 1st-3rd during the Montreal International Jazz Festival.
Montreal, Canada – June 29th, 2011- The 5th Edition of the Montreal Guitar Show takes place this weekend from July 1st to July 3rd at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Montreal in the heart of the Montreal International Jazz Fest activity. Launched in 2007 by Jazz Fest organizers, the MGS brings together the worlds greatest luthiers under one roof to exhibit their most prestigious and finest works. Godin Guitars will be on hand showcasing their new and finely crafted 5th Avenue Jazz archtop guitar, among others.
In the MGS's electric guitar room, located in Salon Alfred-Rouleau, visitors can find and try out the elegant new Godin 5th Avenue Jazz with Godin's smooth sounding floating Mini-humbucker Jazz pickup. This elegant and upper echelon model features an arched back as well as arched top and comes in two all high-gloss custom polished finishes, including Piano Black HG and Natural Flame HG. Other features include ebony fingerboard, ebony volume and tone knobs, classic multi-layered binding, high-ratio open geared nickel tuners, engraved floating pickguard, custom tailpiece and adjustable Tusq bridge by Graphtech.
Other guitars on display include the amazing 11-string fretless MultiOud, as well as a sneak peek at the phenomenal Multiac Ambiance Steel string. Guitar enthusiasts will be able to see and test out these exquisite instruments, as well as speak with Robert Godin and head guitar designer Daniel Fiocco, who will both be on hand to explain the "ins & outs" of the these fine instruments.
A free "Guitar Workshop by Robert Godin" is also scheduled for Saturday July 2nd at 1PM at the Hyatt Regency in the Salon Argenteuil. An event not to be missed!
Montreal Guitar Show:
Hyatt Regency Montreal – Level 4
1251, Jeanne-Mance Street
Montreal, Quebec CANADA H5B 1E5
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Electric luthiers - Salon Alfred-Rouleau
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With its early beginnings in 1972, the Godin Guitar family now includes 7 lines of guitars. These include the renowned Godin & Richmond electric lines, as well as the finely crafted acoustic lines such as Seagull, Simon & Patrick, Norman, Art & Lutherie and LaPatrie nylon stringed classical guitars. Godin Guitars is also the manufacturer of the revolutionary TRIC acoustic guitar case and is the North American distributor of high-end Italian made SR Technology acoustic amplifiers. Based in Montreal Quebec, this Canadian company has 6 factories, 5 of which are located in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and 1 located in Berlin New Hampshire.


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1 30" Ray II DS availble ...first come first serve!
Hey guys, I don't know when the staff is going to upload the new RAY II's to the site so I figured I'd let one single unit go at what they will list @ $97.99 to the first person to post below. Unit has the same spec as the 24" RAY II, only longer: 192 7,000k LEDS.
$97.99 shipped, must have paypal. Will try to get it out right now for you pending how fast you pay. I know this is nothing special but you'll have your unit a day or two ahead of others.
*If you miss out on this one, I think the other units should be posted tonight or tomorrow. I'm not sure when he can get to it, I just figured I post one out for plantedtank.
WOOT I'll take it! :D
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Oct. 13, 2013
Qualifying Singles Draw | Singles Main Draw
Doubles Main Draw/Schedule Of Play
Site: Ann Arbor, Mich. (Varsity Tennis Center)
Event: ITA Midwest Regional Championships (Singles and Doubles Main Draw)
U-M Team Result: No Team Scoring
Next U-M Event: Monday, Oct. 14 -- host ITA Midwest Regional Championships (Varsity Tennis Center), 9 a.m.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The doubles pair of sophomore Ronit Yurovsky (New Kensington, Pa./Plum) and junior Sarah Lee (Los Angeles, Calif./Campbell Hall) picked up two wins to advance the finals of the doubles main draw as the University of Michigan women's tennis team finished up day four at the ITA Midwest Regional Championships on Sunday (Oct. 13) at the Varsity Tennis Center.
Yurovsky and Lee picked up an 8-4 win over Youngstown State's Margarita Sadovnikova and Marta Burak in the quarterfinal round. In the semifinal round, the U-M pair defeated Northwestern's Belinda Niu and Brooke Rischbieth, 8-3. Michigan broke its opponents in the first game of each respective match, taking an early lead and holding it throughout.
Michigan is sending four players to the singles quarterfinals after four wins today. Junior Emina Bektas (Indianapolis, Ind./New Braunfels) defeated fellow teammate junior Kristen Dodge (Barrington, Ill./Barrington) in the first singles match off court, taking a 6-1, 6-4 win to advance.
Yurovksy was the next Wolverine to secure a spot in the next round after dispatching of Notre Dame's Monica Robinson in straight sets (6-4, 6-4). Senior Brooke Bolender (Delray Beach, Fla./Kaplan) defeated No. 35 and second-seeded Britney Sanders of Notre Dame (6-1, 4-6, 6-4) to move on in the draw as well.
Lee was the final singles player to advance to the quarterfinals, rallying from a set down to defeat Ana Vladutu from DePaul (5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (8)).
Yurovsky and Lee will play in the doubles championship tomorrow (Monday, Oct. 14) at 9 a.m. Quarterfinal and semifinal singles will follow.
No. 3 Emina Bektas/Brooke Bolender
Quarterfinals -- d. Kellner/Robinson (ND), 8-4
Semifinals -- l. Barnett/Corning (NU), 8-6
No. 46 Sarah Lee/Ronit Yurovsky
Quarterfinals -- d. Sadovnikova/Burak (YSU), 8-4
Semifinals -- d. Niu/Rischbieth (NU), 8-3
No. 25 Emina Bektas
Third Round -- d. Kristen Dodge (U-M) , 6-1, 6-4
No. 36 Ronit Yurovsky
Third Round -- d. Monica Robinson (ND), 6-4, 6-4
No. 59 Sarah Lee
Third Round -- d. Ana Vladutu (DePaul), 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (8)
Brooke Bolender
Third Round -- d. No. 35 Britney Sanders (ND), 6-1, 4-6, 6-4
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Third Round -- l. No. 25 Emina Bektas (U-M), 6-1, 6-4
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A millionaire hedge fund boss digging out a basement eight times the size of a typical London home has been ordered to pay £825,000 towards affordable housing in his area.
Kensington & Chelsea council planners said the two-storey, 9,160sq ft basement — complete with cinema room, swimming pool and whirlpool spa — is the biggest they have been asked to approve.
The scale of the extension, below two large Notting Hill villas which have been turned into a single family home, means it has fallen foul of rules that normally apply only to major commercial developments.
Planning permission was granted on condition that the home owners, Reade Griffith, founder of Belgravia-based Polygon Investment Partners, and his wife Elizabeth, make the £825,000 payment as a "Section 106" agreement, levied on any new space over 8,611 square feet and ring-fenced for affordable housing.
While the extra internal living space amounts to 9,160 square feet, the whole extension comes to 12,163 square feet. A typical London new home is about 1,100 to 1,200 square feet.
There will also be a £42,500 additional payment, to the Greater London Authority, in the form of a community infrastructure levy.
Agents said the basement will take about two years to dig out and will make the home — on a street near Ladbroke Grove — worth up to £50 million, setting a new record for the area.
Property experts said the payment was unprecedented for a domestic extension. Stuart Robinson, head of planning at global property agents CBRE, told the Financial Times: "My goodness, I've never heard of anything like that. This is completely off the scale.
"You don't normally get these agreements with residential applications." However, one planning source said: "I don't think they will be particularly bothered about the Section 106 in the great scheme of things."
The fashion for digging out super-size basements to create so-called "iceberg homes" in London, and the prospect of years of disturbance during excavation, has pitted residents against each other in some streets.
In the Griffiths' case, neighbours are said to be horrified by the scale of the works which will involve scores of lorry loads of earth being removed from the site. One said: "It will certainly be one of the 'iceberg houses' and sadly, our house will probably be the Titanic." The number of applications for subterranean spaces in Kensington & Chelsea has soared in recent years but a clampdown by the Tory-run authority at the end of the year will severely limit their size.Reuse content


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I am deeply saddened by the tragedy of Diren Dede's violent death in our hometown of Missoula. I want to express my deepest condolences to Diren's family, friends and community, who have lost a life for what we will never understand. No words can describe this unfathomable tragedy. I am shocked and pained over this act of terrible, forever-unjustified violence. None of this can come close to the feelings, experience and sorrow of Diren's family and community over the loss of their son, brother, grandson, cousin, nephew, friend, neighbor and student.
To the city, community and mayor of Missoula: Let us give any level of public, local and in this case international support and assistance possible for all involved! I would love to offer my help, expressing our deepest condolences, outreach and support, both as a native German, U.S. and Missoula resident, and as a caring human who calls Missoula her home.
There is no justification for how a boy, spotted trespassing in an open garage, was shot and killed by a Missoulian homeowner who was prepared to take a life. The thoughts of Diren's family and community in a country far away, of his host family, friends and community here in Missoula, bring tears and sorrow to my heart.
I am aware of the grief and disbelief expressed in my native country over the murder of our young guest, and feel ashamed by how Missoula has made the international news for one of the worst reasons imaginable. I hope that our community will gear up to express support and offer any help possible to the victims of this horrible crime. Please let us share our support and love to honor the life of young Diren, who came to Missoula for a life-enriching experience.
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"Pirates of the Fourth Grade" opens at Backstage Theatre in Breckenridge
July 5, 2012
The award-winning Backstage Children's Theatre will premiere "Pirates of the Fourth Grade" today at Breckenridge's Backstage Theatre.
Written by Christopher Willard, Backstage Theatre artistic director, "Pirates of the Fourth Grade" is a "big-budget Hollywood movie onstage," Willard said. The show uses imaginative projections, clever sound effects and suitably spooky supporting movie music.
The show is rated G but recommended for children ages 6 and up because of some intense and spooky scenes. Please note that the show contains strobe lighting, loud noises and fog effects.
In the production, fourth graders Sam and Cameron dig up a pirate's treasure chest and take it to the local museum in search of answers. However, they accidentally open a container in the chest, releasing the long-dormant spirit of dreaded pirate Blackheart, best known as "The Phantom Pirate."
Blackheart takes over the local elementary school, transforming the teachers and staff into his pirate crew as he searches for the elements of a spell that will not only give him new life – but also immortality. Now Sam, Cameron, Hannah (Sam's motor-mouth little sister) and Heathcliff the class hamster must do battle with the pirates to stop Blackheart's evil plan.
"Pirates of the Fourth Grade" stars Chris Boeckx (Denver Post Ovation winner for Best Children's Theatre Actor) as Cameron Jones and Seth Maisel (Backstage's "The Hobbit") as Sam Buchinski. Jon Hans ("The Music Man," "The Wedding Eve") portrays the evil pirate Blackheart.
The show premieres today at 10 a.m., with another performance at 1 p.m. "Pirates of the Fourth Grade" continues throughout July with a number of performance and showtimes.
For a full list of dates and times, visit http://www.backstagetheatre.org. Tickets are $11 online and $13 by phone or at the box office. To order by phone call (970) 453-0199.
What: Backstage Children's Theatre "Pirates of the Fourth Grade"
When: Today, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Where: Backstage Theatre, Breck
Details: Tickets $11 online (www.backstagetheatre.org) and $13 by phone or at the box office. To order by phone, call (970) 453-0199.


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After having Auto Zone trouble shoot my engine it was found that my Secondary Air Injection system has a fault.
It is either an open fuse of a defectilve relay circuit---a connector and wiring----Air pump defective or hoses blocked.
Is this something that must be dealt with or may I ignore it and keep driving my 2001 SLS with only 12,000 miles?


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September is a big month for Kelly's Place, The CanDid House, thanks to local support and two major fund raising efforts – a Fall Fashion Show in downtown Rockford on September 18th and a nostalgic journey back to Fingers Restaurant charity dinner at Beacon Hill at Eastgate in Grand Rapids on September 22nd.
Building Kelly's Place, a residential facility for younger adults with physical disabilities, is the dream of two local women, Doreen Rademacher and Kelly Finger-McNeela, who recently released a book telling McNeela's inspiring life story. I Can & I Did describes McNeela's courageous pursuit of a full life despite battling multiple sclerosis from the age of 15. The two women are collaborating with the Hope Network Foundation to make the dream a reality and would like to build in the Rockford area.
Meg Frantz, owner of Bow Dacious Designs in downtown Rockford was moved by the story and set out to help by planning a Fall Fashion Show under the pavilion in downtown Rockford for September 18th. "I have never done a fundraiser or a fashion show but I was so inspired by Kelly's story, I felt compelled to do something to help," Frantz said. "This is such a worthy cause and I'm so grateful for the experience and assistance of John Vanaman at The Corner Bar and Linda Humbert and Judy Lieffers from Solutions Online."
The event kicks off at 5 pm, with Rademacher and McNeela on hand for book signing. Munchies will be provided by the Corner Bar. There is a silent auction planned and the fashion show runs from 6 – 7 pm. Local models will showcase fall fashions and accessories from Bow Dacious with footwear provided by Wolverine Worldwide. Catherine Behrendt, from Take 5 on WZZM TV 13, will emcee the event and shopping begins after the runway show. Bow Dacious will keep doors open until 10 pm, contributing 20% of all sales made that night and the next day to help raise the roof on Kelly's Place.
Tickets for the Fashion Event are just $10 for seating and food inside the pavilion and go on sale Wednesday, September 4th at Bow Dacious Designs, 27 N. Main Street. Donations will be accepted for standing room only viewing outside of the pavilion.
Later that same week, Beacon Hill at Eastgate, located at 1919 Boston SE in Grand Rapids, will host a special charity dinner. Set for September 22nd, the event celebrates McNeela's family legacy. She is the granddaughter of Paul and Helen Finger, founders of Fingers Restaurant, which was a landmark in Grand Rapids for many years.
Originally opened in 1946, Fingers Restaurant was famous for serving golden brown country style chicken prepared with a closely-guarded family recipe. Finger's two sons, Ron and Terry, ran the restaurant for several years and will join Executive Chef, Tim England, at Beacon Hill to prepare many menu favorites, including liver pate', coleslaw and biscuits.
"Our residents remember Fingers Restaurant so fondly – it's where everyone went for a special dinner, and we were all touched by hearing Kelly's story earlier this summer when she visited Beacon Hill," said Patty Sprich, Resident Life Manager at Beacon Hill. "We really wanted to reach out and help with Kelly's Place while also raising money for our own Mary & Martha Benevolent Care fund. What terrific teamwork! Kelly's place is for younger adults with physical disabilities and our facility assists those that are older – a natural transition and a great opportunity to build synergy."
The nostalgic charity dinner will run from 5 – 8 pm and includes a silent auction, Fingers Restaurant trivia and lots of local flavor with emcee, Tom Rademacher, of the Grand Rapids Press. The family theme continues with entertainment provided by Mary Rademacher and a special ensemble of talented musicians.
Tickets, $65 per person or $350 for a table of 6, will go on sale September 3rd at www.icanidid.com or by phone at 616-447-7523. Event proceeds will be shared between Kelly's Place and Beacon Hill at Eastgate's Mary & Martha Benevolent Care Fund.


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35th Annual National Convention
Weekend of October 12-13, 2012
Hilton Portland & Executive Tower
921 SW Sixth Ave
Portland, Oregon
FFRF Room Block — Reservations
Speakers were: richard dawkins, sara paretsky (canceled due to illness), Dr. Peter Boghossian (NEW ADDITION!), JULIA SWEENEY, Katherine Stewart, Teresa Macbain, Jerry Dewitt, Annalise Fonza, Robert Parham, Jessica Ahlquist, Max Nielson, Dan Barker, Annie Laurie Gaylor and Andrew Seidel.
FFRF's 35th annual national convention was the weekend of Oct. 12-13, 2012, at the downtown Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, Ore.
Speakers were: Richard Dawkins and mystery novelist Sara Paretsky (canceled due to illness) are philospoher Dr. Peter Boghossian, actress and playwright Julia Sweeney, journalist Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children, Clergy Project "graduates," Teresa MacBain, Jerry DeWitt and annalise fonza, as well as student activists Jessica Ahlquist and Max Nielson. DeWitt, director of Recovering from Religion, openly parted with the Pentecostal ministry last year and was recently featured in The New York Times Magazine article "From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader." MacBain, who is now acting director of the Clergy Project, left the Methodist ministry in March with much media attention. fonza is a former United Methodist clergywoman and joined the Clergy Project in July. Parham is a former Southern Baptist pastor and newly appointed treaurer of the Clergy Project. Ahlquist was a plaintiff in a successful ACLU federal lawsuit challenging a prayer banner at her high school in Cranston, R.I. and Nielson is a student plaintiff in FFRF's ongoing South Carolina lawsuit over a district policy that sanctions graduation prayer. Barker, "The Singing Friendly Neighborhood Atheist" will perform at the piano and Gaylor will be the Emcee for the weekend. FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel will "debunk the 'Christian Nation' myth."
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Turkish Cleric Says Criticism of Islam Is A Threat To World Peace
That is the logic of Islam; no logic.
Turkish cleric: Criticizing Islam threatens peace
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANKARA, Turkey
A leading Turkish cleric said Tuesday that criticism of Islam is a serious threat to world peace. He spoke ahead of a visit later this month by the pope, who has come under fire for quoting a Medieval emperor's thoughts on Islam and violence.
Religious Affairs Directorate chief Ali Bardakoglu said "it was saddening" to see Islam being criticized while the religion's contribution to civilization is ignored.
"This attitude, which fuels division and lack of mutual trust, is seriously threatening world peace," Bardakoglu told a conference in Istanbul attended by several African Muslim leaders.
Bardakoglu, is expected to meet with Pope Benedict XVI during his Nov. 28-Dec. 1 visit to Turkey - his first to a predominantly Muslim country as pope.


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Mamey Shake
One sip of this creamy, refreshing drink transports you to the tropics. Mamey sapote is a sweet, salmon-colored tropical fruit native to Mexico and Central America and grown in Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, South America, and Florida, U.S.A. Also known as mamey colorado, it's high in potassium, vitamins A and C, and dietary fiber. While fresh mamey is not widely available in the United States, frozen puréed mamey is often sold in Latin American markets.
- 1 pkg. (14 oz.) mamey sapote frozen pulp, thawed slightly
- 1 can (12 fl. oz.) NESTLÉ® CARNATION® Evaporated Milk
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar or more to taste
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NOTE: To make a frothier shake, add some crushed ice to blender.
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- Calories: 290
- Calories from Fat: 60
- Total Fat: 6g (10% of DV)
- Saturated Fat: 4.5g (22% of DV)
- Cholesterol: 30mg (9% of DV)
- Sodium: 95mg (4% of DV)
- Carbohydrates: 55g (18% of DV)
- Dietary Fiber: 3g (10% of DV)
- Sugars: 21g
- Protein: 8g
- Vitamin A: 8% of DV
- Vitamin C: 35% of DV
- Calcium: 25% of DV
- Iron: 6% of DV
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Carlos A. Moreno/California WatchKindred Hospital in San Leandro is listed as one of the California hospitals most likely to collapse in a major earthquake.
State authorities and hospital officials have discovered serious structural weaknesses at more than a dozen hospital buildings, but they have taken few steps to notify the public about the facilities nor have they required a detailed inventory of hundreds of other potentially dangerous sites.
More than a dozen hospital buildings in the Bay Area and Southern California face the highest-known chances of crumbling during an earthquake, based on a complex mash-up of each building's structural strength, distance from a fault line and expected ground motion, California Watch has learned.
While the problem of hospital safety has been widely debated, few people know how little California is doing to detect its riskiest hospital buildings. Regulators do not require hospital owners to determine a collapse risk for every building they own, making it impossible to know which should be fixed first.
The state is focused on nearly 700 hospital buildings that were identified in the 1990s as potentially dangerous. Public health officials can revoke a hospital's license – effectively shutting down the facility – if it doesn't retrofit, replace or remove patients from those buildings by 2013 or 2015.
But with this impending mandate, state authorities have determined the collapse risks for only 90 of the nearly 700 structures [XLS]. Among those potentially dangerous buildings, 14 carry collapse risks of nearly 10 to 32 percent, far higher than the score officials consider reasonably safe – which is set at 1.2 percent.
Public officials and hospital authorities expect dozens of hospitals [PDF] to miss their deadlines to shore up or evacuate key buildings. Even so, the state is unlikely to order a mass shutdown of hospitals, a scenario some deem just as life-threatening as a quake.
The state doesn't force hospitals to determine their collapse risks – the process is voluntary. The lack of an authoritative inventory of the riskiest buildings concerns people who work in these facilities.
"Those are odds we don't want to mess with," said Stephanie Roberson, legislative advocate for the California Nurses Association, which has opposed extending the seismic safety deadline for hospitals. "It's our patients that are at risk in these facilities."
Hospital buildings with high collapse risks include those at Kindred Hospital in San Leandro and the California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles. The collapse risk is 20 percent for the original building at Hollywood Community Hospital in Hollywood based on a 6.4 magnitude quake, according to analyses completed in 2008 and 2009.
When calculating a collapse risk score, the state accounts for the strongest-likely quake that could erupt from the closest fault to each hospital building. Seismologists predict that California will almost certainly see [PDF] a 6.7-magnitude or stronger quake within 30 years.
America Segura, a nurse at Citrus Valley Medical Center's Queen of the Valley campus in West Covina, works in a building linked to that facility's main hospital tower. The six-story main building's collapse risk is 30 percent, according to the computer program that simulates how the tower would shake in a magnitude 7.1 earthquake.
The number is unsettling to Segura, who said a small quake in 2008 cracked the floor in a second-story lounge and lined stairwell walls with fractures. "It's scary," she said. A spokeswoman for the hospital, which is part of a small nonprofit chain called Citrus Valley Health Partners, said the quake damaged the plaster on some walls but did not cause significant structural damage.
Deadline extensions
The California Hospital Association has been outspoken about the problem, saying the retrofitting requirements under the 1994 mandate are built around arbitrary deadlines. In 2007, the group helped push through a deadline extension until 2020 for hospitals under financial hardship – but without consideration of collapse risk.
Sen. Denise Ducheny, D-Chula Vista, helped write the deadline extension law and stands by it. She said giving those hospitals a break might be the best way to ensure that patients get needed care.
"The question is, do you close all the hospitals in the inner cities, or do you find out a way for them to comply?" she said. "Granted, many of them have these risks."
In her work on hospital seismic safety, Ducheny said she had not considered the degree of risk some buildings face. About to leave office, Ducheny added: "Somebody else might have to do that."
Ducheny's final proposed law, sponsored this year by the California Hospital Association, would have granted additional three-year extensions to hospitals facing roadblocks in their efforts to update buildings.
But Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed it. "For years, hospitals have been granted one extension after another," the governor said in his veto message. "For hospitals that have been responsible and met the seismic deadlines, these types of extensions reward the exact type of behavior that should not be allowed to continue."
Four decades of laws
Early in the morning of Feb. 9, 1971, beams and girders began tearing through the carpet of Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar. Concrete and insulation fell from the ceilings. Several staircases peeled from the hospital and crashed to the ground.
Three patients died there, and the magnitude 6.6 quake was linked to dozens of other deaths in area hospitals.
That spurred lawmakers to pass landmark seismic safety legislation, and the magnitude 6.7 Northridge quake in 1994 inspired an even more stringent law that set deadlines for hazardous hospital buildings. Structural engineers – using the best technology at the time – concluded that 1,100 buildings were at risk for collapse and needed to meet seismic safety deadlines, which were then set for 2008.
The goal, though, seemed increasingly impossible, given the enormous costs. To winnow the list of highest-risk hospitals, state officials turned to newer technology: a program called HAZUS that used information about a hospital's structure and ground motion to produce a "collapse risk" score.
In 2006, the state's hosptial building safety board allowed buildings with a low enough score to be placed in a lower-risk category and see their seismic safety deadlines moved to 2030.
However, state authorities have not made the collapse risk scores accessible. The scores are not posted and were provided only upon request to journalists at California Watch and the Los Angeles Times.
Charles Kircher, a Mountain View structural engineer who helped develop HAZUS for California, said the program accounts for likely ground acceleration near the hospital, a building's range of motion during a quake and how well its frame might withstand the shaking.
Like any prediction about a force of nature, the resulting collapse risk scores are not bulletproof, Kircher said. They are science-based measures that give officials a way to prioritize buildings that pose the greatest hazard.
The program gives the highest scores to facilities closest to volatile faults that have one or more "deadly sins," or structural flaws that have proved disastrous in prior quakes.
Kircher reviewed a state record provided by California Watch and said the "deadly sins" present at the Queen of the Valley campus in West Covina, for example, include a first floor that may not support the upper five stories and a structure that's likely to shake unevenly in a quake.
"They definitely should do something about this building," Kircher said.
Segura, the nurse at that Citrus Valley Medical Center campus, said the hospital has not notified staff or patients of the 30 percent collapse risk.
"(The hospital) keeps talking about earthquake preparedness for us at home," Segura said. "What if we are here at hospital? That's not really going to help us if the building falls down."
A spokeswoman for Citrus Valley's Queen of the Valley campus said hospital administrators are working with a structural engineer to determine what work is needed. The hospital has not submitted upgrade plans to state authorities.
By Oct. 1, state officials had received construction plans for six of the 14 hospital buildings that face a 10 to 32 percent collapse risk, records show.
Two chains with high-risk buildings
Nearly half of the 14 hospitals with the highest-known collapse risks belong to two hospital chains. Catholic Healthcare West, the largest nonprofit health provider in California, owns three. Another three belong to a for-profit Kentucky-based chain, Kindred Healthcare.
Catholic Healthcare West told state building authorities in a June 2009 letter [PDF] that it faced a "perfect storm" of problems and did not know when it could fix buildings at St. Mary's Medical Center in San Francisco, California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles and Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center in Glendale.
Collapse risks for buildings at those campuses range from 13 to 17 percent and include a nine-story office and patient care tower at the Los Angeles hospital and a juvenile psychiatric facility at St. Mary's.
The letter to hospital building authorities said Catholic Healthcare West could not start or finish building retrofits "until the nation's economic recovery." Nevertheless, the company cleared $100 million more profit in the 2009 fiscal year than in the prior year.
By June 2010, the chain sent state authorities an updated seismic safety plan, Catholic Healthcare West said in a statement. The chain already has spent $800 million on upgrades to its 27 California hospitals and expects to be in full compliance with seismic safety laws by 2015.
Kindred Healthcare owns two of the three hospitals with the highest-known collapse risks in the state: a hospital in San Leandro with a 24 percent collapse risk in a magnitude 7.3 quake and Kindred Hospital in Ontario with a 32 percent collapse risk in a magnitude 7.2 quake. Its Los Angeles main hospital building has a score of 13 percent.
The firm owns 83 long-term acute care hospitals nationwide and is known on Wall Street for its rapid growth. Kindred's hospitals cater to patients who tend to stay at facilities about 30 days and have complex medical conditions; many are on ventilators or are recovering from surgery.
The chain said its total revenues in 2009 were more than $4 billion, which reflect income from its hospitals, nursing homes and home health businesses, financial disclosures say.
The firm's 91-bed Ontario hospital has the highest-known collapse risk in the state, at 32 percent. The facility also had a profit margin that exceeded that of most California hospitals in 2008.
The hospital posted a 20 percent profit, far more than the average 3 percent profit for California hospitals that year, according to reports by state hospital finance authorities. Although the facility is required to report its financials to the state, it has no mandate to warn patients or staff of the precise risk its hospitals pose.
"If I had known (the collapse risk) when dad was there last summer I probably would have worried about it the entire time," Cheryl Nakao of Walnut Grove wrote in an e-mail to California Watch. She said her father stayed in the Ontario facility for three weeks.
Carlos A. Moreno/California WatchAnita Cook worked at Kindred Healthcare's San Leandro hospital for 16 years but said managers did not share the potential dangers with staff, nor did hospital officials equip workers with the skills to protect patients in case of a quake.
Anita Cook was a clerk and technician at Kindred's 99-bed San Leandro facility, where patients tend to stay for 50 days, state records show. Cook worked for 16 years at the four-story hilltop building. It has a 24 percent collapse risk, the third-highest known risk in the state.
"That's terrible," said Cook, who expressed concern that she had not been trained in how to help patients in case of a quake.
She said she went out of her way to dance for patients on birthdays or call them "handsome" and "diva" to cheer them up. State hospital authorities and hospital management, she said, should take the same care in ensuring that staff know how to help save lives in case of a quake.
"(Management) gets paid to protect patients," Cook said. She was fired this month for what she described as outspoken advocacy for patients and staff.
Kindred Hospital San Francisco Bay Area issued a statement saying it does not discuss internal personnel issues but noted that it reviews emergency plans during orientation with new employees.
The company also emphasized that it does look out for staff. A May presentation to investors said Kindred's management philosophy includes "taking care of our people" and focusing "on quality and customer service."
The company plans to meet all seismic safety deadlines by 2013, according to a statement sent to California Watch [PDF]. Kindred officials said they have spent $3.5 million in engineering and construction for the upgrades.
The company statement also said Kindred has been "proactive and transparent" in submitting reports to state officials, noting that more than 100 other hospitals have started the process of calculating their collapse risk scores. But, Kindred's statement noted, those hospitals have not given officials the information needed to calculate a final score.
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"It's not a fine dining restaurant; they offer home-style Chinese food so it is simply prepared with great care," explains Pichet Ong of NYC's Sugar and Plumm. "It's the style of cooking you would get if you visited someone's home anywhere in Asia who has a home chef." There is no menu here; instead customers are asked to decide on a per-person spending budget to determine which seasonal small plates will be provided for the table. 680 Clay St.; (415) 981-7438


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For every purchase made, another bag is given to an impoverished school kid in the Philippines.
Through Bag of Dreams Project, every month we adopt beneficiary public schools of our bag drives as our business commitment to give one bag to impoverished school kids in the Philippines in every purchase made by our customers.
Giving of school bags is a practical solution to a tangible problem that a lot of kids still go to school without decent bags or a bags at all, specially in the rural communities across the country. We want to inculcate in their minds the importance of education and empower these poor Filipino school children to continue pursuing education and go for their dreams despite challenges of poverty.
The project is also symbolic of how the company wants to honor God and serve the Philippines, to CHAMPION EDUCATION for the underprivileged school children by giving bags, awarding scholarships, building classrooms, providing books and hiring qualified unemployed school teachers, all through the generosity of our givers(customers), partners and volunteers.
To date, we have given over 7,500 school bags in 36 adopted schools across the Philippines, and still counting.


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Weatherize Now! After-Work Social @ Max & Dylan's
Renew Boston
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
Who's Going
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Event Details
Is your home cold? Are your energy bills high?
Weatherize Now!
After-Work Social
Mayor Menino's Renew Boston initiative assists Boston residents, property owners, small condo associations, landlords, and renters in 1-4 unit buildings.
Join us on the day before V-Day to learn more & sign up for Renew Boston! Talk with professional contractors about weatherizing your home, socialize with professionals in the energy field, and relax, all while supporting the Charlestown Community Center!
You'll learn about:
- No-cost home energy assessments (for single-family homes & buildings with 2-4 units)
- Zero % interest financing on qualified energy efficiency improvements
- Rebates for heating and water system upgrades, appliances, and more
- 75% off insulation and air sealing improvements, up to $2000
Support the Charlestown Community Center
For each Charlestown household that completes an energy assessment by May 1 2013, Renew Boston contractors Next Step Living and Solar City will make a $10 donation to the Charlestown Community Center's Youth Programs! The Community Center runs basketball and soccer programs, as well as daycare programs for Charlestown's youth.
We hope to see you on Feb 13th!
Questions? Call Erin at 617-524-3950 x141 or email firstname.lastname@example.com. We'll see you at Max & Dylan's!
(Food and drinks will not be provided; guests should plan to buy drinks from the bar and then have a grand old time socializing)
When & Where
Max & Dylan's
1 Chelsea St
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM (EST)
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Back in September I provided the most comprehensive AMD Radeon Linux graphics comparison that took 28 graphics cards from all supported ATI/AMD Radeon product families and tested them under Linux using the latest Catalyst driver as well as the open-source Mesa/Gallium3D driver. In this article is a similar comparison on the NVIDIA side as I take most of the GeForce graphics cards at my disposal and try them under the NVIDIA binary Linux driver and the community-developed open-source "Nouveau" driver. Not only is the OpenGL performance looked at for multiple generations of NVIDIA hardware, but the thermal and power consumption is compared too. In certain OpenGL workloads, the open-source Linux driver is now faster than NVIDIA's own driver for select graphics cards in a fair comparison, but overall the NVIDIA blob still reigns supreme.
While KVM may be very fast for Linux virtualization, one of the areas where VMware and VirtualBox are superior is when it comes to the ability to provide hardware-accelerated 2D/3D support to guest virtual machines that ultimately is passed onto the host and its graphics card / driver. In this benchmark is a look at the gaming performance of Oracle's VM VirtualBox 4.1 when using their "Chromium" driver to enable guest Linux OpenGL acceleration.
A few days back when testing the Linux 3.1 kernel with Intel's Sandy Bridge hardware and then the Intel RC6 power-savings support, I also ran some updated benchmarks of SNA, the new Intel acceleration architecture available from their graphics driver.
In September the 2011 Linux Graphics Survey came to an end, but due to Oktoberfest, AMD Bulldozer Linux testing, OpenBenchmarking.org developments, and other matters, I didn't have time to look at the survey results until this weekend when getting ready for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Here's the 2011 results looking at what Linux desktop end-users are running when it comes to graphics cards and drivers as well as their key concerns.
The Linux 3.1 kernel was released earlier this week and it further enhances the Intel Sandy Bridge graphics support while also prepping the open-source kernel driver for Intel's next-generation Ivy Bridge processors.
While there's many ongoing improvements for Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics and the next-generation Ivy Bridge graphics within the Linux kernel, Mesa, and xf86-video-intel (namely the SNA acceleration for the DDX), here's some benchmarks from two older Intel systems using the latest Linux 3.1 kernel to see if there are any improvements there.
Here's something interesting or perhaps odd: AMD has been porting the open-source Radeon Linux driver to Windows Embedded Compact 7 (WEC7) as its graphics driver.
If you are not taken by today's release of Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot", here are some new Radeon graphics benchmarks comparing the Catalyst driver on Ubuntu 11.10 to the latest R600g driver from Mesa 7.12-devel on the soon-to-be-released Linux 3.1 kernel.
Tom Stellard, the former Google Summer of Code student who worked on ATI R300 GLSL compiler improvements and a new register allocator, has been looking into the area of Radeon OpenCL support while now being employed by AMD. However, Tom is working on other open-source Radeon work too. Recently he made improvements to the R300g driver's instruction scheduler to make better use of the texture semaphore.
While there are still several days left of this year's Oktoberfest, to take a short break this morning from benchmarking the wonderful beer, food, and Bavarian females, here are benchmarks of the new Intel HiZ Linux support. Just a few days ago a new, nearly ready patch-set was published for implementing hierarchical Z support within Intel's Mesa DRI driver.
While it's rare for a few days to pass at Phoronix without pulling the latest development code for Mesa / Gallium3D and the Linux kernel DRM in order to run updated Radeon, Intel, and Nouveau Linux graphics benchmarks, LLVMpipe isn't benchmarked as commonly. LLVMpipe is the new CPU-based software acceleration method for the Gallium3D that leverages the Low-Level Virtual Machine to provide better performance than the classic Mesa software rasterizer or Softpipe. Fortunately, upon running a brand new set of tests, the results show a bit more promise but there is still much work ahead.
While AMD's open-source strategy was announced on Phoronix on 7 September 2007, it was on 17 September of the same year that the Novell/SUSE developers did their first public release of their xf86-video-radeonhd driver. This was the X.Org driver created by the Novell Linux engineers in months prior for R500 and R600 GPUs. Here is some special reading -- a letter that was volleyed from Novell to AMD that kicked off this entire process -- to celebrate what would have been the fourth birthday of this open-source Linux driver.
After the benchmarks a few days back of Intel Sandy Bridge Acceleration On Non-SNB Hardware, Chris Wilson of Intel who has been responsible for much of the "Sandy Bridge New Acceleration" work requested more tests, but this time to see the effect that the compositing window manager has on this new acceleration architecture. As a result, here is some quick tests of Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics under the Unity, Unity 2D, and GNOME Shell desktops.
Last week benchmarks were published of Intel's New Sandy Bridge Acceleration architecture (SNA) that showed several performance improvements for 2D and 3D, but the new acceleration architecture still wasn't mature with a few regressions compared to the normal UXA back-end. While the focus of this SNA support is on speeding up operations for Sandy Bridge (SNB) and forthcoming Ivy Bridge (IVB) hardware, SNA is supported for older Intel graphics processors too. Here are some benchmarks of the Sandy Bridge New Acceleration architecture when using the Ironlake and Gen3 back-ends.
In preparing for XDC2011 Chicago, the X.Org developers' summit that begins in just ten days that I have organized, the schedule is being worked out at the moment. One of the items that is set to be talked about at XDC2011 during the Nouveau driver discussion is TimeGraph. This is an open-source GPU command scheduler that sounds fairly interesting.
In early June there was the introduction of the Sandy Bridge New Acceleration Architecture by Intel that dramatically excelled the 2D and 3D performance of their processor graphics on their Sandy Bridge hardware along with previous-generation IGPs. Here is a look at how the SNA acceleration architecture is performing today.
A month ago we looked at the Radeon HD 6550D graphics performance from the AMD Fusion A8-3850 (a new "Llano" APU) under Linux when using the Catalyst driver. However, bugs at the time had barred a comparison of the Llano graphics under Linux with the open-source Mesa/Gallium3D driver. Fortunately, we now have a working open-source Radeon driver configuration to deliver these comparative AMD Llano Linux OpenGL benchmarks.
While the Linux power consumption may be up on recent kernels depending upon your hardware configuration, there's a few known but not too commonly used tweaks for reducing your system power consumption and extending your battery life when using Intel integrated graphics on your favorite Linux distribution.
While the BFS scheduler is getting ready to celebrate its second birthday, in just three weeks AMD's open-source Radeon graphics driver strategy for Linux will be turning four years old. It was on the 6th of September in 2007 that I exclusively broke the news to the world on AMD's open-source strategy, which has ended up being a game-changer in the Linux world. AMD continues to support open-source hardware enablement on their latest graphics processors and recently even hired more developers to work on the code and documentation. How far have they come though in four years?
Besides boosting the Intel Sandy Bridge performance, the Linux 3.1 kernel is also great for open-source graphics in that it has improved support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" graphics cards via the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. The Linux kernel has already supported kernel mode-setting for these GPUs and then more recently there was 2D/X-Video acceleration as well as 3D acceleration when paired with the Nouveau Gallium3D "NVC0" driver. The accelerated support though has required manually extracting the graphics processor's microcode after the GPU was initialized by the proprietary driver. With the Linux 3.1 kernel, Nouveau can generate its own "FUC" microcode to circumvent this problem. In other words, there is now "out of the box" open-source support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 graphics cards.
Last week the DRM pull went in for the Linux 3.1 kernel. For the Intel DRM graphics driver in the Linux kernel there is frame-buffer compression clean-ups, high color support, ring frequency scaling, shared LLC support, and hang-check module disabling. Compared to the Linux 3.0 kernel, the driver improvements significantly boost the open-source graphics performance for Intel Sandy Bridge hardware.
After a short delay, Mesa 7.11 has been released. This is the user-space library for providing OpenGL support under Linux for the open-source Intel, ATI/AMD, and NVIDIA drivers, among other hardware and software-based drivers. The Mesa 7.11 release also offers updates to the Gallium3D driver architecture. Here is some of what you can expect to find on Mesa 7.11.
Following last week's benchmarks of Intel's New Sandy Bridge Acceleration architecture with the very latest open-source driver code, it was decided to throw a few NVIDIA and ATI/AMD graphics cards into the mix to see where the open-source driver performance is comparatively at for some other hardware. This article presents these Linux graphics results for eight configurations.
Being merged into the mainline Mesa tree once Mesa 7.11 has been released is the GLSL-To-TGSI translator. This allows core Mesa to translate directly from GLSL IR to TGSI, rather than stepping through the crufty Mesa IR, before reaching the Gallium3D hardware drivers. It's more efficient this way -- leading to possible performance improvements -- and it's also a stepping-stone in bringing GL Shading Language 1.30 support, which is required for OpenGL 3.0 compatibility.
Open-source code supporting the AMD Radeon HD 6000 "Northern Islands" GPU hardware has been available since January, but only in the past few days has this Linux code matured to the point of being stable and useful for testing. In this article are our first benchmarks of the AMD Northern Islands and Cayman graphics processors using the open-source Mesa Gallium3D driver and comparing its performance to AMD's proprietary Catalyst driver.
The new benchmarks going out today on Phoronix are looking at the performance of Intel's Sandy Bridge graphics with the latest Microsoft Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux drivers. Not only are we using the very latest drivers, but there is also a separate Linux test run with SNA, the "Sandy Bridge New Acceleration" architecture enabled.
As noted last week on Phoronix, Google has Chromium OS engineers making improvements to Intel's Gallium3D driver even though this open-source Linux driver isn't officially supported by Intel Corp. Google's interested in shipping the Intel Gallium3D driver on their Chromium OS netbooks in order to take advantage of the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) and other Gallium3D features to make up for the netbook's lack of vertex shader hardware. How does this community-maintained Intel 3D driver now compare performance-wise to Intel's official classic Mesa driver? Here is a fresh set of benchmarks from the latest Mesa Git code over the US holiday weekend.
Following last week's completion of the Radeon driver power management tests against the AMD Catalyst driver, now it is time to turn the tables on NVIDIA. In this article are some power consumption and thermal tests when comparing the latest open-source "Nouveau" driver code against NVIDIA's closed-source proprietary driver.
Today on Phoronix are not only new benchmarks of the proprietary Catalyst graphics driver compared to the open-source Radeon Linux driver alternative when looking at the OpenGL frame-rates, but also metrics on a number of other fronts. In this article is a graphics driver comparison when looking at the system power consumption, GPU operating temperature, and CPU usage too. The results are quite interesting and not commonly looked at on Phoronix or by users.
The first of the AMD Radeon HD 6000 "Northern Islands" graphics cards launched late last year, and while the open-source Linux driver support is technically there for those interested in this alternative to the proprietary Catalyst driver, the support is still largely broken. Here is a quick look.
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Why did the newspaper Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestick start in the first half of the 18th century?
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I don't know of a definitive answer to that, certainly the publisher Harris wanted to make a living with it. He did want to operate a non governmental or party supported paper, those to date did not exist. The paper had one issue, three pages, and was shut down.
Thank you for using the Jiskha Homework Help Forum. Here is some history on that for you:
1. http://www.common-place.org/publick/200510.shtml
2. http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/sections/hp/colonial/Nchr/Subjects/elliott.htm
3. From the Massachusetts Historial Society: Publick Occurrences
The Boston News-Letter was not, however, the first newspaper ever published in the colonies (simply the first to survive). That honor goes to another Boston publication Publick Occurrences, Both Foreign and Domestick which appeared in a single issue on 25 September 1690. Richard Pierce printed Publick Occurrences for Benjamin Harris and its stated purpose was that "the country shall be furnished once a month with an account of such considerable things as have arrived unto our notice." Benjamin Harris was a printer and bookseller who had arrived in Boston from London in 1686, after encountering trouble with the authorities over certain of his publications. Unfortunately for Harris, conflict with the authorities continued in his new home. Although Publick Occurrences was apparently a great popular success, the authorities were not amused by either the contents (insinuations of incest in the French royal family) or the fact that Harris published the paper without legal authority. On 29 September, the Governor and Council of Massachusetts issued a broadside order (see the online display of the broadside) forbidding the publication of "anything in Print without License first obtained from those that are or shall be appointed by the Government to grant the same."


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The permanent nature of the auto-dimming mirrors is absurd, and the fact that even my wife's five year-old Subaru wagon has a simple "on-off" button for the feature on the center mirror and BMW does not, is twice as absurd. If you drive on the freeways of downtown LA at night, surrounded by dozens of buzzing and slicing lowered Honda Civics, you want to know exactly where every bit of every other car is, every second. The BMW auto-dimming mirrors get so damn dark, that you notice the arrival of new cars several seconds later than you would have otherwise, usually when they are right on top of you or crossing behind you into a space you had your own eye on. Plus, the devil is in the details; I notice or see plenty of information in the shadows - the rear 1/3 of a car who's headlights I never would have seen because of alignment in any mirror but I spot them instantly because of reflections and highlights in an un-dimmed mirror. With the stupid-dark BMW dimmed mirrors, you will NEVER see a bit of that same car if you didn't see their headlights first. To me the system is ridiculously unsafe, for that reason. I don't care at all about how bright somebody else's headlights are; I can always move to wherever I have to to lose them. But even that is harder with a "Blacked-Out" side mirror, since any delay in figuring-out what you're seeing is not what driving or the "Ultimate Driving Machine" is supposed to be about. So I have my little systems also, to block the sensor - but the Tic Tac door takes the cake. Proof of how stupid the system is? When I open my garage from inside the car in broad daylight, the ambient daylight outside completely sends all my mirrors black, when I need to check them on general principle to back-out past the afore-mentioned Subaru. Please...
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Galle - Pakistan coach Dav Whatmore on Sunday slammed the absence of the Decision Review System (DRS) in the series against Sri Lanka after his team suffered several umpiring errors in the first Test.
The Test has been marred by at least 10 contentious decisions over three days by umpires Steve Davis of Australia and Ian Gould of England, with six of them going against the tourists.
But the DRS, which allows players to appeal for reviews by the television umpire, is not being used in this series reportedly due to cost factors.
Whatmore, a former Sri Lankan coach, said he was surprised the DRS was not available for the series when it was used for Sri Lanka's two home Tests against England in March and April.
"They had it for England, so why not here?" Whatmore, who guided Sri Lanka to the World Cup title in 1996, asked reporters after the third day's play.
"It does not seem right to me that you have it for one series and not for another.
"The DRS should be made compulsory for every series. That will go a long way in helping a lot of things -- anything that will help make correct decisions."
Asked if Pakistan will make an official complaint about the two on-field umpires, Whatmore said he would not make a public comment on it.
"Whatever I need to say will be done through official channels," he said.
"There will be a fair bit to say, but I can't make any public comment. We will do it the right way. We have ways of communicating with those who matter."
Whatmore said he was trying his best to boost the morale of his players amid the umpiring controversy.
"We just make it known to the players that it is out of our control and they need to do what they have to do," he said. "We just try to make the most of it."
Pakistan were facing certain defeat in the first match of the three-Test series after being reduced to 36-3 in their second innings while chasing a victory target of 510.
The International Cricket Council, which had earlier said the DRS was mandatory for all series, changed its stance last year and made it optional following objections from India.
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A confusing situation as dozens of people line up to receive the state's first concealed handgun permits.
62 permits were handed out statewide including 27 in Omaha.
But other people were turned away even though they thought they were qualified.
Police say all you need to register a gun is a buy a permit, have a bill of sale and a valid drivers license. However, registering a gun and getting a permit to carry it concealed are two different things.
At the Omaha communications office of the Nebraska State Patrol the phone rang all day Wednesday. Many calls were for the same question: How do I get a permit to carry a concealed handgun?
Robert Root was one person turned away when he tried to get a concealed carry permit. The World War Two veteran did take a gun safety course to register his handgun and he says he knows a lot about weapons, but authorities say its not enough to carry a gun under his coat.
"Well I dont like it. I'm 80 years old. I shouldnt have to take the time to do that. I've lived half my life and I'm not half done, so I got lots of things to do," says Root.
Everyone applying for a permit to carry a concealed handgun has to go through an approved gun training course. The only exceptions are active and reserve members of the military who can prove that they have taken firearm training within the last three years.
The State Patrol says even hunters who have taken hunting safety courses are not exempt from the gun training course.
Lt. Kevin Bridges of the Nebraska State Patrol says Under this section of the law, the hunter safety courses you have taken are not recognized as well as the old firearms safety class put on in the metro area. Those dont fit under definition of this statute."
Right now there is only one state certified instructor in Omaha and a total of five across the entire state of Nebraska. One instructor is located in Minnesota and plans to conduct classes in Nebraska.
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