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And we have republicans and even greenspan calling for some form of bank 'nationalization'. If they just buy out and nationalize the FED then perhaps one to three of the 'big banks' (CITI,BofA) then we could get things straightened out. Also some 'voiding' of the hundreds of trillions in derivatives MUST be done regardless.
Sadly the reality is that political corruption runs so deep that the NIE will yet again be ignored and our leaders who are all being coerced by blackmail threats will follow the orders of their leaders in another foreign country. In case you have missed it NoBama has surrounded himself with the SAME people who got us into this mess, the bankers who lobbied the whores in CONgress to derugulate the banking industry and who broke laws in loan 'repackaging' will not only keep their jobs (or be offerred better ones) but they will get their bonuses by simply calling them something else. Just like when the postmaster general gets some 800K in pay and benefits while his 'company' is posting billions in losses. Now how is it that frontline workers are not given bonuses when companies lose but executives who are already making some 400 times the pay are getting bonuses for the same losses? And as for bonuses being called 'retention pay' with all those in finance losing their jobs I would bet there are a hundred paople for any open position.
And just like the NIE report on Iran regarding nuclear ambitions this one will be ignored as well. The FACTS and TRUTH and EVIDENCE have no place in government or government policy. A perfect example was Helen Thomas's questions to Obama and his disingenious pathetic reply that 'Iran is a problem but I won't speculate about (Israel)'. He has his marching orders.
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As the Jimmy Savile affair engulfs the BBC, with one editor hung out to dry and numerous inquiries hastily set up to investigate sexual offences going back decades, one telling sentence sums up everything that's wrong with the way the organisation operates. The man in charge, new director-general George Entwistle, told an astonished committee of MPs: "It is not always appropriate to talk to people on the shop floor." Can you imagine any other large business where the boss refused to "walk the talk" to find out what people on the frontline thought? From Sir Terry Leahy to Lord Sugar, charismatic business leaders all have the common touch. They are not afraid to get down and dirty with the workforce, take soundings, listen and react.
Contrast that with the BBC, where the higher you claw your way up the pyramid of power, the less interaction you have with the people making the stuff that drives the whole operation and brings in the licence fee. Having worked there, I can completely understand why George thought a chat in a corridor with one executive and a couple of sentences with another at a "busy lunch" would constitute all he needed to know about a forthcoming news investigation about a once-admired entertainer. I expect he thought his time was better occupied with loftier matters, like global strategy, licence retention and appeasing the nosey parkers on the BBC Trust. A big mistake.
In the upper echelons of the BBC, executives tend to mix with their peer group – it's like Hampstead talking to Barnes, Holland Park chatting to Notting Hill. The polenta and prosecco crowd. Perhaps they have forgotten that programmes are what the BBC is about, what licence-payers think they are funding, not layers of self-important managers with meaningless titles who report upwards and sideways in a convoluted manner that's grown like Topsy over the past 20 years. If the BBC manufactured cars, a huge amount of their production costs would be soaked up by this unnecessary guff. For the chairman, Lord Patten, to attempt to smooth things over by claiming Entwistle was in the job only 11 days when he was "engulfed by a tsunami of filth" just made matters worse.
For a business that deals in communication, the BBC management and board of trustees represent textbook examples of how not to get the right message across. In my day, back in the late Eighties and Nineties, things were slightly simpler. As a departmental head, I reported directly to a channel controller, although I had to inform my group head, the head of light entertainment, what I was doing, as a courtesy. That's how it worked. I made bids for programmes directly to the channel bosses and, if I was lucky, the money was assigned to my department. Now, programme-makers have commissioning editors, executive producers, plus thought police who make sure editorial guidelines aren't breached, as well as schedulers with a large say in which programmes will be funded or axed, based on audience research, most of which, incidentally, is a waste of time.
There are heads of Vision, News, Radio, Learning, adding up to a wasteful system that stifles anything difficult or provocative with bureaucracy. In newspapers, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, ITN and Sky, programme-makers have a simpler line of reporting. Having edited this paper, I can vouch for the huge (and exhilarating) difference between print and the BBC. The BBC is full of people at the top, like George Entwistle and Alan Yentob, who have never worked elsewhere, never encountered the way the real world operates, where real money, not a version of the poll tax, drives decision-making. Ask them to slim down this bloated management and they wouldn't know where to start, which is why the previous director-general, Mark Thompson, did so little radically to cull the expansion.
In a crisis, most media organisations understand that you need to put someone in charge of damage limitation fast, sack wrongdoers, apologise promptly and move on. Speed is of the essence to protect revenue, retain readers and viewers. The current BBC management structure is a dinosaur, incapable of moving at more than five miles an hour, doomed to extinction if the current crisis is not swiftly contained.
Dumping on Peter Rippon, the editor of Newsnight, is classic BBC management technique – blame shifted downwards. His about-turn on the Savile investigation, having previously backed it enthusiastically, was not a change of heart because the material wasn't strong enough. Rippon was cautious because of this labyrinthine reporting system in which he was just a lowly operative with limited power. Note that his senior managers, including Helen Boaden, BBC director of news and passed over for George Entwistle's new job, have been silent.
Over the past 20 years, the BBC has become over-anxious about how it is viewed by government, and obsessed with the way it is reported in the press. The PR department constantly reacts, firefighting in continuous damage-limitation exercises instead of leading the news. The tragedy of the BBC's slow response to the Savile scandal following the ITV broadcast is that it allows a groundswell of critics to build a case for the demolition or fragmentation of the corporation, which would be a disaster. Ranting licence-payers are threatening to cancel their direct debits. The BBC is very good value for money in terms of programming, but that is an increasingly hard sell.
Even so, Entwistle can't be held responsible for what happened on BBC premises long ago. Would the crisis be better handled if he resigned? I doubt it. Yes, he should have been better trained in how to respond to a crisis, because his ineptitude has undoubtedly exacerbated matters. We live in a media age, yet the boss of our most powerful media organisation comes across as aloof and detached, hardly a showman. He appears as bumbling as the head of the Church of England, that other British institution afflicted with appalling PR.
MPs, many of whom continue to abuse their expenses and whinge about their pensions, pick on the BBC, when, like the corporation, entirely funded by the public, Parliament remains in the dark ages. With boorish behaviour, arcane ritual and antediluvian practices, they have the cheek to say the BBC could be better run. Politicians are no moral guardians when they have never been lower in the public's esteem. As for the NHS, another dinosaur with top-heavy management, it has apologised for failings at Broadmoor, Stoke Mandeville or Leeds General Infirmary where Savile preyed for decades on the vulnerable.
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The role of social skills and school connectedness in preadolescent depressive symptoms
Ross, Anthony, Shochet, Ian, & Bellair, Rachael (2010) The role of social skills and school connectedness in preadolescent depressive symptoms. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 39(2), pp. 269-275.
In the current study, we tested whether school connectedness mediates more distal deficits in social skills in influencing depressive symptoms in a sample of 127 sixth- and seventh-grade students. Results demonstrated that school connectedness and social skills accounted for 44% and 26% of variance in depressive symptoms respectively and 49% in a combined model. Although the full mediation model hypothesis was not supported, follow-up analyses revealed that school connectedness partially mediated the link between social skills and preadolescent depressive symptoms. Thus, school connectedness appears to play as strong a role in depressive symptoms in this younger preadolescent age group.
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GREAT TIP for making this work!!!!
Well the first time I tried the LK it was a total disaster. Two cats; one was fine using the small tray. The other refused and would only poop on the floor in the next room. The problem was I had switched to the flushable litter which really does not absorb odors well at all!
I gave up!!!
Later my hairdresser told me I must use the Fresh Step Crystals litter. This litter is so good that both of my cats are peeing and pooping fine in the small tray next to the toilet. IN FACT I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED TO SEE CAT POOP IN MY LIFE. EVERY TIME I FIND ONE IT IS LIKE A PRESENT!!! LOL!!
I have devised a system to slowly raise the training pan to toilet level. It will take some time but I am so excited because i KNOW THIS WILL WORK!!
As far as the Crystal litter getting into the toilet, my hairdresser said it wasn't a problem at all. Just flushed away like anything else!!! Her two kitties are now successful graduates of Litter Kwitter!!
I will keep you posted!!!!
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I had the same problem. One cat would use the mock toilet no problem with sweet scope flush-able litter. The other one would not he held out for an entire day and pooped at the bottom of my stairs. As soon as i sprinkled his old litter (fresh step clay litter) on it he went pee. So i'm going to have to research the crylstal kind until i get him use to the flush-able litter once the litter kwitter goes on the toilet i don't want any clogged drains.
Did you try to introduce the new litter to your cat slowly? Like the LitterKwitter, any changes you do should be done very slowly so the cat has a chance to get used to them or, ideally, doesn't even notice them at all. Changing litter can be a big deal for a cat, so it helps to mix in small amounts of the new litter with the old over a period of time, slowly increasing the ratio of new to old litter until the cat has made the transition.
I agree on introducing the litter slowely before you start training with the LK. My cats hated the crystal litter because it wasn't the same texture as the clay litter and never really learned to love it, but they did use it after a slow transition. I couldn't get another type of litter to use. I would not throw all the crystal litter in the toilet, I used to put all the dirty litter in a box and put the poo in the toilet. We did get alot of litter in the toilet when the cat were scratching the litter, but no problem.
By the way, I'm also a hairdresser Wonder what other people who are training their cats work as...Maybe I should make a new poll
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"The vOICe"Closed Published June 15th, 2006 in Computing Tech
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This is a simple but ingenious computer program that translates an image into an audio "code" that, with practice, the brain is capable of translating back into an image. It can be used by a person who is completely blind to "see" again in a rudimentary way.
How it works:
For reference, think about the way a gray-scale image looks on a computer screen. Each pixel in the image has an (x,y) coordinate and also a brightness. The vOICe samples vertical lines of the image, going from left to right, producing an instant of sound for each line. Brightness is represented by volume, the lounder the volume, the brighter. The y coordinate is represented by pitch, the higher the pitch the further up the pixel is. The x coordiate is that of the line, which is easily represented direcitonally by use of stereo sound. Keep in mind that you can have a varying range of pitches and volumes in any moment of sound, so an entire vertical line can be represented at once.
Perhaps a diagram would help those of us who use our actual eyes to see.
But to really understand how this technology works, you'll have to hear it for yourself.
Visit http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/04-05/apr02.html to listen to the recording of the CBC radio broadcast show "Quirks and Quarks" to hear the story of how "The vOICe" is helping a woman see again.
After that, you can visit http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm to download a free copy of the program.
(I have practiced with the program for several hours now, blindfolded. There is a practice exercise where you play a game of tic-tac-toe, while all the time the vOICe is producing the audio for the image. It takes quite a bit of practice to use, but it feels neat to be able to know what's going on in the game by using your ears to see it, rather than your eyes.)


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Best Song Featuring Chris Brown – Readers Poll
At the rate he's going, Chris Brown could release a 'Best of' compilation for his laundry list of features. When it comes to collabos, the R&B crooner and Grammy Winner seems like the go-to guy for catchy hooks. So members of Team Breezy, we want vote on your favorite song featuring Chris Brown!
First up in the running for the best song featuring Breezy is Big Sean's hit 'My Last,' followed by Bow Wow's 'Shortie Like Mine,' with the rappers recruiting Breezy for the choruses of their chart-topping singles. Jordin Sparks also had a Top 5 hit with the help of Breezy on her 2008 duet 'No Air.'
The Breezy features don't stop there, though. New Boyz brought on the 'F.A.M.E.' hitmaker for their electronic hip-hop track 'Better With the Lights Off,' and his feature brought the song to a whole new level. Pitbull also caught the Breezy bug, and he asked the singer to sing the hook on his 2012 song 'International Love.' Finally, despite their history, Rihanna knew she wanted Brown for the male vocals on the extended remix of her 'Talk That Talk' single 'Birthday Cake.'
Which of the aforementioned Chris Brown-featured songs is the best? It's up to you to decide! Listen to the tracks by clicking through the links and vote below.


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COLUMBIA, Ky. -- A romantic comedy, a classic children's
story and a student-written play about the Holocaust will highlight
the spring theater season at Lindsey Wilson College.
Under the direction of Assistant Professor of Theatre Robert Brock, the LWC Theatre Program will
produce three plays in April: a musical adaptation of the
children's classic book The Wind in the Willows; the
romantic comedy Almost, Maine, by John Cariani; and the
premier of Angels My Father Sent, which is written by
Lindsey Wilson student Erika Finley of Hopkinsville, Ky.
Angels My Father Sent will open the spring
season when it is performed April 9-11 and 13. Set in Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp, Finley's moving play is the product of a
playwriting class Robert taught last spring.
"I chose to produce it because I want to start doing that
with student work, and also because it's a very strong and powerful
play," Brock said. "It asks a lot from the actors because this play
has never been performed. But it's very exciting to have the
opportunity to produce a student play of this quality.
"It's a devastating, awful picture portrayed in this
story, but what I love about this work is that Erika pulled no
punches in this. This goes straight into the heart of darkness, and
it's really powerful for all that."
In addition to being produced for for area audiences,
Angels My Father Sent will be entered into the Kennedy Center American College Theater
Festival, an annual national competition.
The public performance of The Wind in the
Willows -- a musical adaptation of the children's classic by
Kenneth Grahame -- will be 7 p.m. CT April 17. It will also be
performed almost a dozen times during the day for area
schoolchildren throughout the week of April 14.
"We're having a lot of fun with it in rehearsal," Brock
said. "The music is pretty simple, but it's a very fun show, and
schoolchildren will enjoy it."
Almost, Maine is a recent play that has become a
favorite on college campuses and in regional theater. It will be
performed April 23-25 and 27. Set in the fictional rural town of
Almost, Maine, the story explores love and loss in nine short
"This has become a real popular play on college campuses,
and audiences enjoy the way the story is told," Brock said.
This spring marks the fourth year Brock has been a member
of the Lindsey Wilson faculty. When he came to the liberal arts
college college, Lindsey Wilson did not have a bona fide
performance theater, much less a theater program.
This year, the college will graduate its first theater
majors. The program was given a permanent home in 2012 when the
college's V.P. Henry Auditorium underwent a $200,000 renovation.
And earlier this year, the program acquired the props, sets and costumes of the
now-defunct Kentucky Repertory Theatre of Horse Cave.
"There's a lot of interest in the program -- it's really
thriving," Brock said. "We had the largest number of students
audition this spring. It's really exciting that people are hearing
about us, and want to get involved with theater. And not all of
them are theater majors. Some of them are nursing or education
majors who want a more full liberal-arts experience by being
involved with a high-quality college theater program, which is just
as exciting."
For more information about LWC's spring theater
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Click here to hear Robert Brock talk about the
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Sexiest Celebrity Twitpics (PHOTOS)
Demi Moore is no stranger to tweeting a provocative photos, uploading bikini photos for her millions of followers. Of course, she isn't the only celeb showing off her assets. Kim Kardashian, LeAnn Rimes and Jersey Shore's JWoww are just a few others willing to shed some clothes and flash a little skin. Click through the gallery to see the sexiest celebrity twitpics.


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Stantec Inc. (STN) Given Average Rating of "Hold" by Brokerages
Shares of Stantec Inc. (TSE:STN) (NYSE:STN) have received a consensus recommendation of "Hold" from the nine research firms that are currently covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and three have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 12-month price target among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is C$35.75.
A number of research analysts recently weighed in on STN shares. Raymond James Financial, Inc. reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and issued a C$39.00 price target on shares of Stantec in a research note on Tuesday, March 21st. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed a "sector perform" rating and issued a C$36.00 price target on shares of Stantec in a research note on Wednesday, March 22nd. Scotiabank reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and issued a C$40.00 price target on shares of Stantec in a research note on Wednesday, March 22nd. TD Securities reaffirmed a "hold" rating and issued a C$38.00 price target on shares of Stantec in a research note on Wednesday, March 22nd. Finally, Desjardins raised shares of Stantec from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and set a C$39.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Friday, May 12th.
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Congress Launches Investigation Into Gas Drilling Practices
Two of the largest companies involved in natural gas drilling have acknowledged pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of diesel-based fluids into the ground in the process of hydraulic fracturing, raising further concerns that existing state and federal regulations don't adequately protect drinking water from drilling.
Rep. Henry A. Waxman, D-Calif., who released the information in a statement Thursday, announced that the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which he chairs, is launching an investigation into potential environmental impacts from hydraulic fracturing.
The process, which forces highly pressurized water, sand and chemicals into rock to release the gas and oil locked inside, gives drillers unprecedented access to deeply buried gas deposits and vastly increases the country's known energy reserves. But as ProPublica has detailed in more than 60 articles, the process comes with risks. The fluids used in hydraulic fracturing are laced with chemicals -- some of which are known carcinogens. And because the process is exempt from most federal oversight, it is overseen by state agencies that are spread thin and have widely varying regulations.
In 2004, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency examined hydraulic fracturing and determined it can be safe as long as diesel fuel isn't added to the drilling fluids. The agency based its decision in part on a non-binding agreement it struck with the three largest drilling service companies -- Halliburton, Schlumberger and B.J. Services -- to stop using diesel. But the agreement applied only to gas drilling in a specific type of geologic formation: shallow coal deposits. The EPA study has since been widely criticized.
The information obtained by Waxman's group shows that B.J. Services violated that agreement and that Halliburton continued to use diesel in other geologic formations not governed by the agreement. All three companies acknowledged using other potentially harmful chemicals, such as benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene and xylene.
A memo (PDF) released by the Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday said B.J. Services acknowledged that between 2005 and 2007 it injected 2,500 gallons of diesel-based fuels into coal bed methane wells.
Jeff Smith, CFO for B.J. Services, told ProPublica the incidents in which diesel was used were isolated, and that the company has been vigilant in making sure that it has not been used since.
"The company has taken this very seriously," he said.
The memo said Halliburton reported using more than 807,000 gallons of diesel-based fuel to fracture wells in 15 states during the three-year period. But in a statement released Thursday night Halliburton said any suggestion that it had violated the agreement was "completely inaccurate," because none of the fuel was used in coal bed methane wells.
"Halliburton is firmly committed to full compliance" with the agreement, the statement said.
The information about the companies came from an investigation Waxman launched when he was chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform during the last Congress.
As part of the new investigation by the Energy and Commerce Committee, Waxman and subcommittee chairman Edward Markey, D-Mass., sent letters to eight companies, including Halliburton, B.J. Services and Schlumberger, asking for more information about the drilling process and the chemicals it requires. The five other companies -- Frac Tech Services, Superior Well Services, Universal Well Services, Sanjel Corp. and Calfrac Well Services – are smaller companies that make up a growing share of the market. They are not included in the 2003 memorandum of agreement with the EPA.
"As the use of these technologies expands, there needs to be oversight to ensure that their use does not threaten the public health of nearby communities," said the memo from Waxman and Markey.
The letters ask the companies for detailed information, including documentation of all the wells they hydraulically fractured from 2007 to 2009, the proximity of those wells to underground drinking water sources, the volumes and types of chemicals used in the process, and any health and environmental effects of the drilling. If the companies comply, the committee will have created the most complete picture to date of hydraulic fracturing.
Smith said B.J. Services will fully respond to the request. When asked if the company has used petroleum distillates and benzene in its drilling process, he said, "I'm not going to get into the details in terms of what the chemicals are." He said that the information will be disclosed in the company's response to the committee's letter.
Halliburton also said it will respond to the committee's request for information.
Schlumberger spokesman Stephen Harris said in an e-mail that officials at the company "have received the Committee's request and are reviewing it," but he declined to comment further.
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I'm glad to hear that congress is finally taking action on this issue. I hope Rep. Waxman looks into alternative fluids that are biodegradable/ eco-safe. Here's a possible idea: Instead of using cancerous diesel fuel hydraulic fluids, why not use a bio-fuel distilled from spent vegetable oil and greases?
And maybe, Sen. Schumer can use this idea as another way to promote renewing government tax credits for Bio-fuel companies.
It's amazing that little weasel Waxman has the guts to show his pathological face in public after the global warming hoax. Expect an attempt at more legislation that will impose regulatory fines that will be passed onto consumers. There's more than one way to impose a carbon tax and spread the wealth around, eh, buddy.
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Fracking: Gas Drilling's Environmental Threat
The promise of abundant natural gas is colliding with fears about water contamination.
The Story So Far
The country's push to find clean domestic energy has zeroed in on natural gas, but cases of water contamination have raised serious questions about the primary drilling method being used. Vast deposits of natural gas, large enough to supply the country for decades, have brought a drilling boom stretching across 31 states. The drilling technique being used, called hydraulic fracturing, shoots water, sand and toxic chemicals into the ground to break up rock and release the gas.
Latest Stories in this Project
- Broad Scope of EPA's Fracturing Study Raises Ire of Gas Industry
- Gas Drillers Plead Guilty to Felony Dumping Violations
- Natural Gas Drilling: What We Don't Know
- State Oil and Gas Regulators Are Spread Too Thin to Do Their Jobs
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As an example, on the street yesterday I found a Winter wren.
Their son, wren, was born on March 9, 2010, shortly after noon.
With every breath, wren made a cooing noise, but Jones looked online and saw that lots of newborns make funny sounds.
The domicile of the wren is simply a small edition of the last, and often contains as many as seven or eight eggs.
Every one treated him as usual—except wren, who cut him contemptuously.
They are not so obstreperous as the wren, nor so shy as the lark and the robin.
Mrs. wren did not wait for Long Bill to answer her question.
Lady Macduff was reminded of the wren when bewailing the flight of her husband.
The next, straight in front, is the passage to the nest of the winter wren.
The chipping sparrow and the wren in the shrubbery look out for all kinds of insects.
Old English wrenna, metathesis variation of earlier werna, a West Germanic word of uncertain origin. Cf. Icelandic rindill, Old High German wrendo, wrendilo "wren." The bird's name in other languages usually denotes "royalty" (cf. Latin regulus), in reference to its golden crest.


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Hi guys,
is there a tool or script that checks if a determined server is vulnerable??
Vulnerability Description :cool:
;) i know that are some webpages that claims to do the check, like
xxx.dnsstuff.com/, xxx.doxpara.com/ and hxxp://entropy.dns-oarc.net/test/
But the servers that i need to check (and patch if necesary) have no access to internet (blocked by ACL) and only respond to ssh (for admin) and udp 53 (dns). So i cannot check on this servers using a web page.
So, am searching for a tool that i can execute in the same vlan where the servers are (lan acces to the servers) for have a trustworthie result.
the plataform could be linux or win, there is no problem with that.
Something like sh dnscheck -i eth1 10.10.10.1-50 -o Report.txt :D
Thanks!!! :)


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New Book: The Criminal Law Handbook
We've just received the 10th edition of Criminal Law Handbook.
This Nolo book covers topics including talking to the police, search and seizure, arrest, eyewitness identification, book and bail, criminal defense lawyers, criminal court, arraignments, discovery, fundamental trial rights, basic evidence rules, plea bargains, sentencing, appeals, juvenile courts and prisoners' rules.
Our Law Books for Non-Lawyers handout lists other self-help books we have in the library.
Many public libraries carry Nolo titles - check your local library catalog to see if they have this or other books written for non-lawyers.


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HENRY PEARCE, from Prior Park Prep School in Cricklade, has won a bronze medal at the Independent Association of Prep Schools (IAPS) swimming championships held in Crawley.
Pearce (Year 5), who recently won eight golds and one Silver at the Wiltshire County Championships, swam the race of the day for Prior Park, earning third place in the U10 butterfly final.
Two other Prior Park pupils, Emily Jiminez-Williams (Year 7) and Megan Knight (Year 7), had also made it through regional qualifying at St Mary's School in Calne to join the 15 other fastest swimmers in each stroke category at the K2 Arena gala.
Emily came home an honourable 11th in the U12 backstroke and Megan finished a commendable 15th in the U12 freestyle.


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There are tremendous differences in what it takes for workers to get by in different parts of the country.
4 reasons why Obama is wrong to think the sector can solve the unemployment crisis.
How the recovery is proceeding in housing markets across metros.
The question we need to ask ourselves is, what skills will help workers earn the most?
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Investigative Journalism - Ep. 319
Investigative Journalism - Ep. 319
Record date: Jun 18, 2009
Deborah Blum Professor, Department of Journalism, UW-Madison As part of her work as a investigative journalist, Professor Deborah Blum wrote a series of articles examining professional, ethical, and emotional conflicts between scientists who use animals in their research as well as animal rights activities who oppose the research.
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Southwest Airlines is a public low cost airline that was founded in 1971 in United States.
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Vintage Concert T-Shirts
Besides a face tattoo of your favorite band, rock T-shirts offer the best combination of artwork and advertising, acting like a membership badge that confers insider status. Some of the earliest T-shirts made to celebrate a musician were produced by Elvis Presley's fan clubs during the late 1950s, just as the T-shirt was becoming an emblematic style choice for rebellious teenagers.
As rock-n-roll music spread, the 1959 invention of plastisol (a durable ink designed for use on fabric) cemented the concert T-shirt's place in history. San Francisco-based promoter Bill Graham was one of the first to recognize the rock tee's moneymaking potential toward the end of the 1960s, when he started printing shirts for popular West Coast acts like Jefferson Airplane.
But the golden era of the rock-n-roll T-shirt really began in the 1970s, as they evolved from free swag made for a band and its crew to a collectible piece of merchandise every fan needed. During the following decades, shirts were sold at every major show and tour, typically featuring imagery that let fans easily identify themselves as followers of an artist and their music. Groups like the Grateful Dead and Pink Floyd had shirts that showcased psychedelia; punk acts like the Ramones, the Clash, and Sex Pistols went for an anarchist, DIY look; T-shirts for Ozzie Osborne, Mötley Crüe, and the Misfits featured darker and more violent graphics.
By the 1980s, fans of popular bands like the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Van Halen, Journey, and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts all wanted their favorite artist's faces emblazoned across their chests, as did those who liked music as diverse as Kiss, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Metallica, and David Bowie. Today, shirts for artists like Iron Maiden, the Police, and Nirvana continue to draw top dollar due to their powerful graphics and rabid fan-base. But for a true music geek, the holy grail is a concert shirt from a show you've actually seen in person; while many retailers make reproduction shirts, such knockoffs will always lack the "I was there" power of an authentic vintage rock shirt.
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Could there be some March magic in store for the Oak Park Raiders?
If the latest Manitoba High Schools Athletic Association rankings are to be believed, the Charleswood school is the favourite to win both the varsity boys' and girls' provincial basketball championships. The last school to pull off that trick was Dakota Collegiate in 1977.
The girls, who are working on an undefeated season, and the boys, who recently won the Luther Invitational Tournament in Regina, are both sitting at No. 1 as the playoffs get going.
Murray Brown, the coach of the girls' squad, said his team started the season highly motivated after losing in last year's provincial final to Glenlawn – the third consecutive year the Raiders came up one game short of a title.
"Early in the year that was a motivator," Brown said, "but at this point it's all about this year."
The girls have six returning players from a year ago, including three starters. For Brown, the biggest difference this year is that standout point guard Jenilyn Monton is finally at full strength after tearing her ACL two seasons ago.
"We're able to push the ball much more effectively than last year," said Brown, who considers Monton the best ball-handler in the province.
"One of the things we've done effectively is push the ball after being scored on. Our goal is to attack them while they're in transition."
The girls have won four tournaments, including the Harry Ainlay Tri Prov event in Edmonton, and are a perfect 3-0 against No. 2-ranked Glenlawn.
"Glenlawn and Oak Park games are always pretty hard fought, and it's just a rivalry that's gone on for years and years," Brown said.
If Glenlawn would be the most fitting championship-game opponent for the girls, Garden City (currently ranked third) would likely produce the most compelling boys' matchup. The Raiders and Fighting Gophers have combined to win the last seven boys' championships.
"If it was a final against them that would be great," said shooting guard Junior Sesay, a West End resident. "We've lost to them two times this year, but we're a way better team now."
Coach Jon Lundgren said the key to his team's success has been continuity. He's worked with some of the players since they were in Grade 8 as part of the provincial team program.
"It's been fun to see them grow up… and develop into solid young men," he said.
In a one-game playoff scenario Lundgren knows that shooting can be fickle, but he's expecting his team to rely on less-streaky factors such as defence and rebounding.
"It's tough to play in the last game, and it's even tougher to win the last game," he said. "Obviously our goal is to play our best basketball at the provincials, but it's tough to plan it out that way."
Sesay said the Raiders would find success if they remembered some of the things that served them well all winter.
"Playing for each other," he said. "We're very unselfish, we play off each other and play to each other's strengths."


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Daniel Lanois Biography
19 September 1951, Hull, Quebec, Canada. This esteemed producer and occasional singer-songwriter rose to fame during the late 80s through his contribution to major releases by Peter Gabriel (So) and U2 (The Unforgettable Fire and The Joshua Tree). He subsequently produced Robbie Robertson, the widely-acclaimed comeback album by the former leader of the Band, and in 1989 undertook a similar role on Bob Dylans Oh Mercy, widely regarded as the artists finest work in several years. Lanois love of expansive, yet subtle, sound, reminiscent of new age styles, combines effectively with mature, traditional rock, as evinced on the artists 1989 solo debut, Acadie. Drawing inspiration from French-Canadian heritage - Lanois used both his native countrys languages, sometimes within the same song - he created a haunting tapestry combining the jauntiness of New Orleans music with soundscape instrumentals. Contributions by Brian Eno and the Neville Brothers, the latter of whom Lanois also produced, added further weight to this impressive collection. Lanois and Eno had first worked together in the early 80s when Lanois was running the Grant Avenue Studios in Ontario with his brother Robert. The duo co-produced U2s two aforementioned multi-million-selling studio albums and their combined influence helped give the bands sound new dimensions.
During the 90s Lanois continued to work with U2 and Gabriel. He was also instrumental in re-directing Emmylou Harris career with Wrecking Ball in 1995 and toured with her, leading his own band during the autumn of that year. He produced Dylans excellent Time Out Of Mind in 1997 and also worked with Luscious Jackson, Willie Nelson and Joe Henry. Meanwhile, Lanois low-key solo career spawned 1993s For The Beauty Of Wynona, a minor gem brimming with understated charm. The following years Cool Water captured a number of live performances undertaken in support of the album. Remarkably, it was another decade before Lanois chose to record another solo album. The resultant Shine, released by the Anti label in 2003, featured vocal contributions from Bono (U2) and Emmylou Harris, although the majority of the instrumental work on this beautifully recorded and intricate album was down to Lanois himself. The instrumental album Belladonna followed in 2005.
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the location was super. Breakfast was overpriceed.
Very confortable room and the air con was very important Very expensive breakfast
Great location and excellent cusine (although expensive). Friendly stuff and good room.
The friendly staff throughout, the delightful location of the restaurant and the quality of the food.
The comfort afforded by the room was excellent as was the general standard of the hotel. The setting is superb and ideal to relax in. The staff were excellent, being friendly and informative. The room facilities would have been enhanced by a coffee making facility. Since we do not take formal breakfast this is preferred to service.
The magical position beside the river and the room ambience
Beautiful location, dining on the terrace overlooking the river is a must. I liked the small touches that the hotel made to make your stay extra special No outdoor swimming pool
Beautiful setting.
Lovely location,charming inn.excellent cuisine and attentive staff - our 2nd stay
We went there for a special occasion, a treat, and we were thoroughly spoilt. It is expensive - very by French standards, but well worth the experience.
A warm welcome followed by excellent service and food ; it was my wife's birthday and the stay fulfilled all we both could have wanted .
The owners were delightful and most helpful with their advice about nearby villages of interest. Our meals were beautifully served and delicious and our room was comfortable and attractive..
Charming family run hotel. Great food. Very friendly.
A fantastic end to a great week. A big thank you to Oliver and his family for making our stay a great one. Great hosts and a big shout to Oliver's dad who must be one of the best chefs kicking about. It's been a long time since I ate food as good. It's not often you come across a guy who cares as much about the food he cooks. Awesome. I would stay here again in a heartbeat.
Very quiet, lovely bathroom, beautiful setting.
Beautiful relaxing setting. Elegantly refurbished buildings. Food excellent if a little pricey. Ideally located for the region and Brantome, which you can walk into during daylight. Owners could not have been more welcoming and helpful.
We found the setting very nice. The staff were very helpful and friendly. The food was first class although a little expensive.
Excellent welcome,food and service beyond reproach,relaxed atmosphere
Great welcome and was upgraded to a better room because of limited number of guest staying at the time. I was the only diner in the restaurant, but still 3 staff members made my meal the most memorable I have every had! The food was extraordinary and the presentation was superb. Every detail was exquisite. Property is difficult to locate on gps and because there are no signs on road into Brantome to show where it is. It is a fair distance outside the town.
Very beautiful hotel run by a lovely family who make every effort to make your stay feel very special. Their restaurant is excellent the service is superb.
ambiance,delightful staff.relaxing luxurious surroundings,absolutely enjoyable experience.
The location is the prime asset, on the banks of the Loiret, yet only 5 miles from Orleans centre
Everything about Le Moulin du Roc was wonderful. The staff, the lovely property, the food, etc. We stopped in between a night further south in the Perigord region and the Loire Valley. I would have happily stayed another night or two to relax!
Old traditional feel about hotel and furnishings - antique but quaint. No
drove through a field of sunflowers and corn, then reached this amazing castle......beautiful.Large spacious old fashioned room.Great experience.highly recomended!!!!!
A lovely location. The village of Bourdeilles is about 3km away and is fabulous. The whole area is lovely and very quiet in comparison to the UK, especially on the roads. If you want hotel room with air-con and 24hr room service this part of France is not for you; though if you want to unwind, visit picturesque medieval towns here, there and everywhere then this is the place. We also try to converse in French as far as possible and haven't yet met any rude or off-hand locals in years of visiting France. It is exactly as you would expect, as comfortable as the context would allow - ie not overly done-up and ruined but consequently no air-con or power-shower.
yes - hotel in need of an up date and therefore not good value for money. Dinner was overpriced.
It was a beautiful setting and because we stayed in the gate lodge we could come and go as we pleased. The gate lodge has separate individual rooms to stay in and the front door has to be locked by the key at all times and all the windows downstairs have bars so it is a major concern, in the case of an emergency a key has to be used to get out and in a panic situation it would be a major concern of mine. Obviously no health and safety officer has checked it, if they even have health and safety officers in France! He who maketh the rules does not necessarily have to abide by them!
The Chateau was beautiful and the staff were very helpful and accommodating. Food was fantastic, noy cheap but well worth the money we paid.
It's a lovely castle, very quiet, very elegant
The whole setting was fantastic. Lovely walk to the nearest village. Great that we could take our dogs. The day we arrived after a very long drive, all we wanted was a simple meal in the evening. Unfortunately the menu cost was 59 euros regardless of whether you only had a main course of 20 euros. I think this should be pointed out on your web site as the hotel is in a very remote area and if, like us, you have been driving all day the last thing you want to do is go out to eat. Needless to say we did not eat at the hotel again, which was a shame as the food was excellent. A bit more flexibility on the menu side would be great.
Beautiful location beautiful chateau fantastic food and service staff very very helpful.Very peaceful and quiet great to get away from the stresses of life. Close to many beautiful towns in france Website shows pool table this has been sold also shows pool but we went in may/june and pool not open very disappointed especially for our son. Heating also turned off and weather not warm enough so room was cold.Hotel did give us 2 fan heaters to use. Also although the food was superb not children food friendly.
Splendid view No shower-in general toilet room under average- no hair dryer-
Staff attentive Tatty - broken bin in bathroom. Paintwork peeling, stains on ceiling. Originally put in gatehouse which is a fair way from chateau especially in the pouring rain - but moved when we complained. Chateau in need of some TLC.
The service and helpfulness of the staff was fantastic. Nothing was too much trouble and there are a lot of 5 star establishments that could take a leaf out of their book. The rooms are large, tastefully decorated and spotlessly clean. Last but not least you are right in the centre of town but in a quiet street with very little street noise. Superb B&B!
The hotel was in an excellent position right in the heart of this beautiful tourist town. The owners were extremely helpful, friendly and charming. The room was very elegant and spacious along as were the bathroom facilities. The continental breakfast was declicious which is included in the price.I would return here again and again. I recommend this hotel very highly.
This was a beautiful place: the house, the setting,the welcome and care, the location, the food, the rooms, the decor. We thought it would require a car journey to Brantome, but it was actually within pleasant and easy walking distance. Personally, I did not like the feel of the waterproof cover under the sheet on the bed, but I appreciate the reasons for it being there.Nothing else!
personal attention on arrival and during stay. very helpfull and interested in guest comfort. immediate response to any request.
Hospitable welcome and picturesque location Nothing
Superb in every aspect!
Lovely relaxing atmosphere, a real feeling of indulgence and luxury and very welcoming hosts. I thought the charge for the extra beds for the children was a bit much as we had already paid for a family room.
This boutique hotel is in a beautiful, peaceful location with excellent grounds and lots of character, but only a 10 minute walk from the lovely town centre of Brantome. The hosts made us feel extremely welcome and did whatever they could to help with any requirements we had (umbrellas unfortunately, and torches for the walk to town were particularly helpful). If I were to be very critical, some of the decoration in the bedroom and bathroom is getting a little tired and could soon do with refreshing. A couple of housekeeping points were overlooked too, but in no way did this spoil the stay. We will definately return.
Both Pierre and Nathalie were very friendly, and made us feel most welcome. Pierre was very helpful when we had a complaint about our car hire, and he insisted on ringing the firm to sort the problem out. He also offered us good advice on all sorts of things. Both he and Nathalie were very patient with our limited French! Our twin room was rather on the small side.
opportunity to have a rest the price is abit higher than it must be
Staff were very welcoming and helpful and the food was very good. Surprised that the grounds looked unloved
An excellent little hotel with a very relaxed atmosphere, friendly staff, good food in the heart of the countryside. Close with a car to many beautiful places (Brantome!) It was perfect.
peace and quite/ food
The staff were very friendly and helpful, the evening meal we had was very nice, we were made to feel very welcome.
Very friendly staff Room felt a little damp.
This family run hotel was exceptional. Father and daughter were extremely friendly and helpful in all regards. Have the courage to try the chef's special cuisine. The food was second to none. Speaking basic schoolboy French was no hindrance to the exceptional service myself and my partner from London received. We were made to feel most welcome.
Motel offered meal in the evening which is essential as few restaurants around. Nice countryside aspect. Main entrance door to room is glass and only covered by lace curtain; felt exposed!


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THE Dormy House Hotel near Broadway has announced the arrival of a new head chef with an international pedigree.
Jon Ingram has worked everywhere from London to Dubai but has recently joined the luxury Cotswold hotel and spa.
"I am really excited to be joining the team at Dormy House," said the 37-year-old. "There is such a buzz about the place. I am determined to make the hotel renowned for its food as well as its style, service and location. After nearly five years in London, it's also great to get some fresh air in my lungs."
Born in Kent, Mr Ingram began his culinary career at Champneys health resort in Tring, progressing to Cliveden, one of the UK's finest country house hotels, and the famous Burj al Arab in Dubai.
"I worked for three years at the Burj, which at the time was the world's only seven-star hotel," added the chef. "I ran the Al Muntaha restaurant, which is suspended 200 meters above the sea."
He comes to the Cotswolds from his post as executive head chef at the Intercontinental Westminster and is looking forward to putting his own stamp on the hotel.
He said: "I want to take this wonderful opportunity and give it my own stamp. Both The Garden Room and The Potting Shed are fast gaining a great reputation and I intend to take them to the next level."


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A quick one today...
Epic Mickey has never had me particularly excited. It looked fairly cool to me, but I was never sure I would buy it. However, I just read what Nintendo Power had to say about it in their latest issue and suddenly I'm seeing why people are looking forward to this game.
It sounds really cool. I don't know how else to put it; I think it looks like a really creative unique title that will be a gem for Wii. And I also feel like it's something the system desperately needs. Good, solid titles outside of first party games aren't exactly in abundance on Wii, but Epic Mickey looks like it will help. Maybe I wasn't entirely paying attention to this game until now, but all of a sudden everything I've heard about it sounds great, and I shall be eagerly awaiting its release.
That's about all I've got tonight. I'm having trouble organizing my thoughts for whatever reason, so I'll end the post here. How are you guys feeling about Epic Mickey?
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Monsieur Camembert were playing gyp-rock long before it was cool.
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Life's a bitch, sometimes. Long before the world suddenly contracted a bad case of gypsy and klezmer mania, Monsieur Camembert were already there, doing it three nights a week up the local boozer or the Basement or somewhere. Without so much as a "thanks for the cool idea", unruly hordes of musos traded in their Stratocasters for squeezeboxes and fiddles, and swamped the market.
Camembert singer Yaron Hallis could be forgiven for being a nudge resentful, were that his style. His band may have been in on the ground floor of popularising the folk music of Gypsies, Jews and assorted Eastern Europeans, but he welcomes the expansion of the whole scene, quietly confident that his troupe can hold its own.
He is also proud that Monsieur Camembert helped ignite awareness and acceptance of these styles in Australia, but he is less impressed by the attitude of some of the competition.
"I have a certain cringe factor about bands that describe themselves as 'gypsy' because there's a heritage and a lineage attached to that," he says.
Nonetheless, he acknowledges that gypsy music has been a major Camembert inspiration, from the Russian style acclaimed saxophonist Eddie Bronson has brought to the band, to French gypsy swing and Hungarian.
"These have all really helped to fuel the music that we make and we hope to do so with respect for the cultures that we delve into," Hallis says.
"I never came up with the concept of putting together a band that mixes gypsy with tango with swing with jazz or klezmer or tarantella or any of the things that we are inspired by.
It just evolved that way because different band members were listening to different things."
The band have just released their fourth album: an eponymous double-CD retrospective for which Hallis had to listen to hundreds of hours of live recordings to compile.
"Monsieur Camembert has sort of become an extended family of like-spirited musicians," he says of the evolving line-up on the album.
"So it's really fascinating when you hear a piece which we've been playing for several years and how each line-up has played it so differently."
The line-up that is launching the CD is yet another new one, with jazz master Jim Pennell on acoustic guitar, the versatile Mark Harris on bass and vocals, Vladimir Khusid on trumpet and Marcello Maio on piano.
They join Hallis, Bronson and accordionist Svetlana Bunic. Virtuoso violinist Shenzo Gregorio will make them an octet for the Basement show only.
A constant thread has been an emphasis on the music and presentation being fun.
"I would never want us to take ourselves too seriously," Hallis says.
"Ultimately, if we're having fun, the audience is going to have fun. That's always been an important part of the equation."
The ability to supply a giggle also lends the emotional king-hits of the sad songs' greater impact. That's all part of a total Camembert package that Hallis describes as fusing "ideas and styles and cultural influences in such a way that it never feels forced or contrived, but in a way that flows seamlessly and satisfyingly for the audience, and for us as performers. And to be able to create a sound that my grandparents could enjoy equally as people my niece and nephew's age."
What's more, it works. The original, after all, is usually the best.
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Wheat-Price Advance Not at a `Global Crisis Status,' FAO's Abbassian Says
A surge in wheat prices caused by floods and drought in the Northern Hemisphere doesn't constitute a "global crisis" and should spur more plantings to bolster supply, the Food and Agriculture Organization said.
Wheat traded in Chicago, a global benchmark, as much as doubled since June as drought in Russia, flooding in Canada and parched fields in Kazakhstan and the European Union ruined crops. Higher prices, combined with rallies in corn, rice and livestock, are increasing concern of a return to the food crisis of 2008 that sparked riots from Haiti to Egypt.
"The situation is very different from two years ago," Abdolreza Abbassian, senior grains economist at the United Nations' FAO in Rome, said in an interview on "The Pulse" with Andrea Catherwood. "We don't want to undermine the importance of the wheat price rise in such a brief period of time. This is a concern in itself, but it is not something we consider at this stage to be of a global crisis status."
While wheat prices have jumped, they're still a long way off the peaks reached in 2008. Then, wheat reached a record $13.495 a bushel. It closed at $7.4125 on Sept. 3, having peaked about a month earlier at $8.68. It is "very unlikely" prices will return even to that peak, Abbassian said.
World wheat stockpiles are expected to be 174.8 million metric tons in the 2010-11 season, comprised of local marketing years, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That's 40 percent more than in 2007-08.
"The fact that we had inventories elsewhere and the major exporters such as the U.S. or EU could easily cover that shortfall is bringing some comfort to the market," Abbassian said. "I think the worst is over."
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By David Lieberman, USA TODAY
Sony is in an awkward position this week as consumer electronics manufacturers meet in Las Vegas to unveil the intriguing gadgets they plan to sell this year.
The Tokyo-based electronics, movie and music giant that once defined the markets for televisions, video recorders, audio players, game consoles and e-readers is struggling to catch up to rivals including Apple, Samsung, Nintendo and Amazon.
Last year Sony hoped to galvanize a charge toward television's next frontier with its brassy introduction of sets and accessories that offer Internet content and 3-D video. But the recession hindered that effort as sales fell short of Sony's and retailers' expectations.
Still, Sony (SNE) CEO Howard Stringer is upbeat.
The company will double down on 3-D this week by bringing the immersive experience to a line of still and video cameras for consumers. Stringer, 68, also has high hopes for — but few details about — a 3-D cable channel that Sony, Discovery Communications and Imax plan to introduce early this year.
And the Internet continues to intrigue Stringer, a former CBS News producer who was born in Wales and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999. Sony was one of the first companies to offer Google TV, a service that helps consumers find Web content and view it on their TV sets.
TIME TO CUT THE CABLE? Web, other tech changes how we watch TV
Here's how Stringer sees the prospects for technology and television, in an interview edited for space and clarity:
Q: Are HDTV, 3-D TV and Internet-enabled TV just making conventional TV better? Or are they fundamentally changing the medium?
A: There is a fundamental change. The transformation now into the Internet is going to create a sea of content of various shapes and sizes. There's much more visual anarchy — an anarchy that this (younger) generation seems to understand.
Q: Sales of 3-D TV sets didn't meet your expectations.
A: When you're in the middle of a major recession, there are fewer people who can afford anything. Talk about the declining middle class in America: Those are your early adopters. It's not the rich. It's the middle class and young people.
Q: Should you have waited?
A: No. You have to launch 3-D. It's there. Competitive pressures — you read in the papers, so-and-so is the first to release 3-D TV. You don't want to be the last. I don't think short-term (sales) numbers say anything about anything except the nature of the economy and what people can afford.
Q: Still, many consumers haven't warmed to 3-D TV.
A: When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that."
There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.
Q: Many people don't like the glasses.
A: People who say, "What about the glasses?" should go (to the Sony Style retail store in New York City) and see the people flooding in to watch 3-D PlayStation. Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.
Once those kids get used to 3-D, and used to glasses, they'll take their parents with them.
Q: You're unveiling a line of home 3-D cameras. How important is personal 3-D to Sony?
A: In the digital world, he who hesitates is abandoned. So you have to generate 3-D excitement with as many devices as you can find.
There are people who've said, "Well, you're handicapped because you have to compete with Canon in cameras and Apple with iPods and Amazon in e-readers," all of which is true. But the only time I can think of when size matters is when you have all of (those products), and information and entertainment flow seamlessly from one device to another.
Q: Has your interest in 3-D changed the movies and TV shows that Sony produces?
A: Certainly on the movie side. We have The Smurfs, which is live-action animation. Spider-Man is about as perfect a 3-D movie as you could imagine. We have Men in Black 3 coming out in 3-D. We have The Green Hornet coming out this month in 3-D.
Production of 3-D is really doubling every year. It sort of mirrors the pace of everything.
Q: Cable operators have to supply set-top boxes that can handle 3-D TV and charge attractive prices for 3-D programming. Are they on board?
A: They're getting on board. They have no choice. At some point, if the customer demands 3-D, every cable operator will give it before we find a way to deliver it wirelessly around everybody. That's the dark space of Internet television. You can bypass everybody.
Q: Will lots of people cancel their cable and satellite TV subscriptions when they can receive more shows via the Internet?
A: (Maybe) with second sets. When you have multiple cable television sets, do you really need (to pay the extra fees for them)? But our purpose is to create a broad-ranging revolution where if you're in India or Russia or somewhere else, you can see any kind of programming, including American and European and everything else.
Q: The cable guys also are the leading broadband providers. Can they slow Internet TV by charging higher prices to people who use it a lot?
A: Then people will go somewhere else, won't they? There are the phone companies and others. Wherever there's an opportunity, there'll be competition. Wireless is a phenomenon that's very hard to stop.
Q: Google has asked other manufacturers not to announce Google TV products for now. Is it off to a rockier start than you envisioned?
A: No. Actually, I'm rather pleased because we had a head start on it, and Google's making modifications, and they're doing it very carefully with us.
At the moment, it's a basic Internet-on-television service. Ultimately, we want the Internet to drive programming to you. Then it becomes less of a PC experience and much more of a television experience. But that's going to take awhile.
Q: The major broadcast networks are blocking their programming from Google TV.
A: It won't last forever. There's a price for everything. One of the advantages is that it becomes a global phenomenon at some point. You can access all that programming in every society. We're a bit myopic about what happens in the United States. But we're exploring a new world, and the implications will change every minute.
Q: Sony owns Web video service Crackle and offers shows through Hulu. Will they continue to offer free programming or will they have to become pay services?
A: That's a good question. I don't know. The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more and more devices. We need our content to make our services as attractive as Apple's or Amazon's or Microsoft's. We're in a brave new world of fierce competition.
Q: Are sitcoms and dramas becoming less relevant as people also use their TV sets to play games on PlayStation or chat with friends on Facebook?
A: Nothing is less relevant. A lot of people want what they are familiar with, which is old-fashioned network dramas. The Internet is another experience in which new forms of programming can arrive out of nowhere and disappear into nowhere just as quickly. The demands of an audience for different experiences are now unlimited. But there's plenty of room for everything.
Q: When will Sony offer a tablet computer?
A: When it is competitive.
Q: This year?
A: I certainly hope so, yes.
Q: Given your close relationship with Google, will you use its Android operating system?
A: It would be to our advantage. We have a very good relationship with Google. The communication is very strong, and we're both bashing the same competitors in a way.
Q: Your Blu-ray format beat Toshiba's HD-DVD in 2008 to become the industry standard for high-definition video discs. But Apple CEO Steve Jobs once said that Blu-ray was in for "a bag of hurt" as people give up discs and download home videos.
A: That was a long time ago when he said that. He's adopted Blu-ray now, finally.
There are still many people who don't know what you can do with a Blu-ray player — how you can (use it to) get onto the Internet. It's at the intersection of many different forms of media.
We never got enough credit for the leadership that we exhibited on Blu-ray. For the press, it was always a football score: Whose (video format) has the most studios? But we always said the sheer scale and bandwidth of Blu-ray players was what was needed to develop 3-D and beyond. If we didn't have Blu-ray, where would we have gone?
Q: What does Sony think about Netflix's low-priced home video rentals? Your Blu-ray players enable users to subscribe to Netflix's streaming video service. But your movie studio gives Blockbuster and others a 28-day head start over Netflix to rent your movies.
A: All studios have ambivalence about Netflix. We are not allowed to talk together about it, so we don't. But the question is, what is its long-term future with us? I don't have an answer to that right now. But we're all thinking about it.
Q: Your business plan runs through March 2013. Do you expect to stay at Sony beyond that?
A: Why would I tell you that?
Q: A lot of people are interested.
A: I just take one day at a time.
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text: Hello everybody, At first: thank you for the pbi-innovation. Installing pbi's with one click instead of worrying about the dependency-issues just makes fun ... and is a great security improvement, no doubt. Last week i have installed PC-BSD 9.0 on my acer notebook and i am faced with several problems you might can help me with. 1) My headphones didn't work: The headphone-connector didn't work: When connecting my headphones to the notebook, the music still sounds out of the speakers. My colleague Lars Engels, who is member of the freebsd-team, has already helped me with that issue: Adding hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid20.config="as=1 seq=15" hint.hdac.0.cad0.nid21.config="as=1 seq=0" in device.hints routes the bass directly to the ear. Maybe you find a way to solve that issue during the installation. 2) Also in the category "sound": "clementine" does not play my music (regardless of the style of music): Error message says, that the gstreamer plugin is missing. The message pop up when i click on one of my albums in the left panel of the application. Internetradio works. The celemtine feature "all glory to hypnotaud" is no longer funny, when the application crashes and only a reboot can stop the noise. Something likewise mysterious as "hypnotaud": Manualy installing amarok with pbimaker was successful and i startet the application succesfully once from my desktop. But then the binary file mystical "is missing" and can't neither be found in /usr/local/bin nor in home/sebastian/bin/amarok-9/. I get no results with "find . -name amarok" or "find . name amarok-0". This happend after switching from xfce to kde and back. 3) CPU0: local APIC error 0x40 dmesg shows the above error-message frequently. I found an advice in the freebsd-forum, to set 'hint.apic.0.disabled' in /boot/device.hints But that didn't help me. I assume that this error might be the reason for some other "application-crashes" i have to deal with. For example the submarine-game downdeep crashes just before i shot the first tropedo. Also xbmc crashes "very constantly" after a few minutes. Switching to an other tty, i can see that the cpu-message appears multiple times in messages. Just a reboot brings me back to a working x-environment. 4) LibreOffice Writer crashes: When i try to chang the font, the writer immediately crashes: pid 32347 (soffice.bin), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 Changing the font in the other libre-applications works. If it is helpful for troubleshooting i could start the application with truss next time. 5) Scanning doesn't work: I have installed the xsane-pbi, but i can't start the application: [sebastian at pcbsd-4328 /usr/home/sebastian/bin]$ ./xsane Shared object "libcam.so.5" not found, required by "xsane" [sebastian at pcbsd-4328 /usr/home/sebastian/bin]$ 6) I can't configure the printer: Printer: LaserJet 1022 I didn't found a appropiate driver, generic etc. didn't work. 7) virtual box: Last but not least: i was not able to install a working virtualbox. If i understand it correctly, the "system-panel" just contains the additions for pc-bsd as guest in a virtualbox but not the virtualbox itself. But neither with installed additions or without, creating a virtualbox from ports fail with the following messages: kBuild: Packing /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.0.12_OSE/out/freebsd.x86/release/bin/vboxkeyboard.tar.bz2 rm /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.0.12_OSE/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/pcnet32.rom.rt1.bin /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.0.12_OSE/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/pcnet32.rom.rt2.zbin /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose/work/VirtualBox-4.0.12_OSE/out/freebsd.x86/release/obj/pcnet32.rom.rt2.bin ===> Installing for virtualbox-ose-4.0.12 ===> virtualbox-ose-4.0.12 conflicts with installed package(s): virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.12 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose. [root at pcbsd-4328] /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose# pkg_info |grep virtual gvfs-1.6.6_1 GNOME virtual file system qt4-qvfb-4.7.3 Qt virtual framebuffer utility thunar-vfs-1.2.0_1 The virtual filesystem for Thunar virtualbox-ose-additions-4.0.12 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests It seems to me, that removing the check in the "system-panel" does not remove the software from the system. A similar experience a have made with kde, which is still on my system, althought it is "removed" in the gui. Thanks to anybody, who has the patience to read so far. I'am thankful for every helping advice. Sebastian ___________________________________________________________ SMS schreiben mit WEB.DE FreeMail - einfach, schnell und kostenguenstig. Jetzt gleich testen! http://f.web.de/?mc=021192


text: Arthur wrote: >> Arthur wrote: >> >>> Quick note about the new alpha. On my home machine I have spare SATA >>> I drive that I used to play with and I found that when booting for >>> the first time it chose the 185.xx NVidia driver to try and run my >>> AGP 5600 but every time I accepted it and the resolution, it failed >>> and went into a shutdown/reboot. Selecting the 173.xx driver was >>> ultimately what I had to do to get it to run. Just a heads up that >>> the VGA driver auto-detecting might not be 100% there. >>> >>> Arthur >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Testing mailing list >>> Testing at lists.pcbsd.org >>> http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing >>> >>> >>> >> Wowww a 5600, that is like REALLY old! >> >> I suppose one could modify the auto-detection to probe for vgaX devs and >> based on some table...txt file decide on which driver to use. >> > > yep. it's an old rig just for the basics. Never played games or > anything. Upgrading next year when SATA3 and USB3 get standardized. > Then I get to say, P55 chipset with an i7? Man that's SO 2009. ;-) > > Arthur > > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > Testing at lists.pcbsd.org > http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing > > That's awesome, I am also planning on a big upgrade. I am thinking more along the lines of AMD but we'll see what is in my $$ range when I do (who knows!?!?). btw, 66% done the download - I'll be installing it on my macbook.


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Prince Harry is ready to cut footloose.
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this thread it was very helpful for me and i still reference it.
I have installed BT3 and i also tried BT2 live cd, when i try and connect to my wireless which has WPA enabled, it just wont connect, lways failed.
Is there something i am doing wrong apart from going through wireless assistant.
Please help
this thread it was very helpful for me and i still reference it.
Its hit or miss with me. That thread G_Dub referenced is helpful, as is the one started by -=Xploitz=- on configuring the supplicant.conf file.
I can connect with wireless assistant if I use my intel 3945, but not my Realtek 8180. However, I can connect with command line configuration on the Realtek, but not the Intel.
Now if Backtrack can get wireless setup like Ubuntu.....


text: I have the edwin/lee repros of the old 101z and 101b. Great jeans, very high rise. There is little or no taper to them however, which makes for a wide leg (the 101b more than the 101z). Perfect for use with big boots like engineers, but otherwise can be tricky. Actually, the Lee/Edwin Gold Label 101z has an 8.75" rise. I never understood why two versions of the same cut differed so radically.


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Ok. How did you obtain your UK citizen, was it by virtue of being born here to a British Father and a British Mother?
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I'm afraid that there is no possibility of the child being a British citizen otherwise than by descent. Because she was born in Italy to a British father she acquires her UK citizenship by descent from you. Had she been born in the UK she would have acquired it by birth.
As she is British by descent she cannot pass it on her children. If her children are born in the UK then they will acquire British citizenship by birth.
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If you married, then your wife could apply for permanent residence here as an Italian national (EEA) and then a year after obtaining PR she could apply to be naturalised as a UK citizen. She would have to be resident in the UK for three years exercising her treaty rights (ie. working, living) before she could apply for PR. The child similarly could do this as a dependent of mother and could then be naturalised as well. I believe this would be citizenship by descent.
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If she has been living and working here then she has been exercising her treaty rights and can probably apply for PR now.
If you apply for the child's passport now then the child would receive it by descent.
If your child applied for naturalisation on the basis of their dependency of the mother who is also applying after she as received PR then this would be citizenship otherwise than by descent and the child could there pass on their citizenship by descent at a later date when they themselves have children.


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MIAMI — Once upon a time, Kareem Huggins ran a 40-yard dash so fast you had to see it to believe.
And many have. A YouTube video of the Bucs running back recording a 4.28-second sprint in his quest to make the NFL out of Hofstra has had more than 19,000 views.
But his online popularity won't determine whether he sticks in the NFL. It will be performances like the one the second-year player turned in Saturday night against the Dolphins in the Bucs' preseason opener.
Though he played mostly against Miami's reserves in a 10-7 loss, Huggins was one of the game's stars, finishing with 55 yards on eight carries, including a game-high 35-yard run in the third quarter that was a highlight.
What intrigues the Bucs about Huggins, who is vying to be the third running back behind Cadillac Williams and Derrick Ward, is that he is different from the top two.
Williams and Ward are more physical, between-the-tackles runners. Huggins, who is listed as 5 feet 9, 198 pounds, adds a dimension with his ability to change direction and turn the corner with his speed.
How far can it take him?
"I don't want to get too far ahead, but he showed great promise," coach Raheem Morris said. "It's what we've been seeing on the practice squad and what we've been seeing throughout this training camp.
"I was glad to see it come to fruition (Saturday) for him, and I just hope it continues throughout the preseason and he gives us that extra dimension that we may need."
Said quarterback Josh Freeman: "(Huggins is) a little smaller package, but I think he brings more of a lightning aspect. He's quick. He can shake guys, and he gets to the hole really quick."
In the past, the third back has been Clifton Smith. But Smith's propensity for fumbling while playing the position makes it more likely he will be used in his primary role, return specialist.
Huggins also has a chance to help the team in another way, by catching passes out of the backfield. He caught a pair Saturday for 16 yards, one for a 14-yard gain.
Huggins, on the active roster for just four games last season and a participant in three, is neutral when asked what he thinks his position is on the team: someone who has a chance to make an impact or someone who is already making an impression.
"I learn from the older guys all the time," he said. "I'm just a young guy out there working."
As to whether he can still run that 4.28 40, Huggins is noncommittal.
"Well, that's when I was coming out of college (in 2009)," said Huggins, 24. "I don't know if I can run a 4.2 right now."
That's not what the Bucs need anyhow. They need more of what Huggins did on Saturday.
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The Energy Report - Oil Enigma's
The emerging markets are whining about quantitative easing and the Iranians are getting more desperate as their economy continues to tumble. The world is lowering demand expectations for oil global production is close to a 15 year high. Hedge funds cut back bullish commodity bets and China's inflation in near the lowest level in 2 years yet oil is still holding its own.
It is possible that the oil market has already priced in the bearish news and the focus now is on those old bullish silver linings. Oil is on hold on news that should crush the market but it is failing to make a substantial move lower. Perhaps the market is skeptical of the offer by Iran. The Iranians are feeling the heat as the sanctions are absolute destroying the Iranian economy. Just as the EU was ready to slap more sanctions on the Iranian regime the Iranians tried to cut a deal. Iran made offer to suspend domestic production of medium-enriched uranium. It is doubtful that the EU will take the bait as Iran has made this type of offer before. Dow Jones report that the European Union's Foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton said Monday she hoped Iran would "consider very carefully" offers to resolve the deadlock over its nuclear program. She said the EU would "continue to put pressure on Iran to comply with its obligations." She hoped Tehran would "soon" return to the negotiating table, after the country held several rounds of inconclusive talks with international negotiators over the summer. However, she didn't say whether any new date had been set for talks.
The EU is getting ready to ban imports of natural gas to Europe. The Energy Information Administration reports that Iran is a relatively minor and strictly regional exporter of natural gas via pipelines to three neighboring countries — Turkey, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Iran supplies less than 1 percent of global natural gas exports and has no current capability to export to global markets via liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminals. Such capability is years away.
Turkey receives more than 90 percent of Iran's natural gas exports under a long-term contract. Armenia and Azerbaijan have swap arrangements with Iran that account for 6 percent and 3 percent of Iran's natural gas exports, respectively. Armenia exports electricity to Iran to compensate for the natural gas volumes it receives. Azerbaijan repays Iran for the natural gas sent to its Nakhchivan exclave by exporting similar volumes to northeastern Iran. EIA estimates that the average revenues from Iran's natural gas exports during the period July 2011-June 2012 were approximately $10.5 million per day, or about 5 percent of the estimated $231 million per day in revenues from crude oil and condensates exports over the same period. In 2010, natural gas exports accounted for less than 4 percent of Iran's total export earnings while crude oil and condensates accounted for over 78 percent. Iran imports more natural gas than it exports. Iran's imports from Turkmenistan alone exceeded its exports during the July 2011-June 2012 period. Iran, which also imports from Azerbaijan and injects natural gas to support oil production, has some ability to divert export volumes to domestic uses.
Restrictions on the imports of Iranian natural gas could reduce the bargaining power of all three importing countries with other suppliers. Impacts on the physical availability of natural gas are likely to vary. Under current and foreseeable market conditions, Turkey cannot make up for all volumes currently imported from Iran from other sources. Excess capacity on import pipelines from Russia and Azerbaijan and at its two LNG terminals has declined as overall natural gas demand has increased, and it cannot serve all areas currently receiving Iranian natural gas. Shortfalls are especially likely to occur during the winter, when demand peaks.
China's slowing economy slowed its inflation rate to a 2 year low. The Chinese Consumer prices rose 1.9 percent from a year earlier while the producer-price index dropped 3.6 percent. While this number shows that China's economy is slowing dramatically it also increases the doss that the Chinese will soon pump up the economy with a lot of cash. If they don't then money will then flow into China as QE 3d is in full force.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Ben Bernanke took heat on QE3D but we have been there before. 2 years ago I wrote "Ben Versus the Dragon" I wrote "The Chinese moved to increase interest rates and Big Ben Bernanke struck back defending quantitative easing and bashing the Chinese. Ben forced the issue with QE2 and now the Chinese are forced to raise rates! Now the question is will the Chinese rate hikes keep coming or will it be too little too late to cool their hot inflation? Right now I would say it is bordering on too little too late. Ben Bernanke lashed out at China saying they are causing global problems by preventing their currency from strengthening while their economy booms.
Fed felt it had no choice (but to print more money,QE2) as the U.S. government moved slow to attack a rising budget deficit and at the same time face an imbalance as the Chinese continue to manipulate their currency." Chinese currency manipulation may help them in the short run yet it could sow the seeds of economic problems in the future.
The Chinese may feel that they have to cheat the world to be successful by controlling their currency but the truth is that if they want to maintain their meteoric economic growth over the long run they would be better served by allowing the market, not the government, to moderate their economy. Chinese currency manipulation is creating a bubble that will burst if they make a misstep, causing major pain the future. Right now that may be hard to imagine as everyone on the globe is so bullish on China yet the recent correction and history is a reminder that things can change.
Chinese currency manipulation was just as much a factor in the global economic meltdown as was the Fed and the U.S. government's ill fated Fannie and Freddie excesses. China's siphoning of jobs and wealth from other parts of the globe at a rate that was unfettered by moderation by a rising currency helped create imbalances. The huge influx of capital and by default artificially cheap goods, helped create and add to deflationary pressures in the U. S as well as other parts of the globe. That's not to say of course that cheap goods are not good because they are and they provide good things for the economy yet at the same time cheap goods on the back of a major budding economic superpower currency manipulation does not allow for an orderly fall in price which exports deflation. China's overprotective currency ways have exported deflation to other parts of the globe. The Fed has forced the Chinese hand. If they fail to allow their currency to float, then Mr. Bernanke will continue to print money and export inflation to China. The Chinese will have to raise rates which in a normal free market world would mean their currency can strengthen. I guess there is more than one way to get the Chinese to move to address the economic pain they are exporting to their partners.
This week we should see a rebound in gasoline stocks after a slew of refining issues eased up and the gas cracks rocked. Look for crude to fall by 2 million barrels. Look for gasoline to rise by 3.5 million barrels and distillate stocks up by 2.5 million barrels.
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