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I've been around for a lotta Christmases, which means I've heard a lotta Christmas music. Mostly, I've heard the same 18 (give or take) songs over and over and over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And frankly, I'm rather tired of those 18 songs.
I've had enough Jingle Bells in a Winter Wonderland, Good King Weceslas resting on ye Merry Gentlemen, Rudolph's Red Nose Watching Mommy Kiss Santa, and Halls that are Decked. Please, I say, Bring that Torch to Jeanette so she'll quit Isabella-ing, and Baby I KNOW that it's cold outside. I have a thermometer.
Before you holler Hah-Bumhug at me or shout sacrilege, note that I do enjoy these over and well-done Christmas greats. It's just, well, there's a lotta creative people in this world and I think that we need more originals. That's why today's Tuesday Tunes are all about Christmas tunes that are not among the traditional 18 (give or take.)
So here you go. I'd also like to provide a giant "shout out" to Vera's friend Mr. Reese, who, by 'n large has the greatest music collection in the United States (give or take.) Many of these nontraditionals were brought to my attention by this Mr. Reese.
Merry Christmas you Suckers Roger Twiggy
Oi to the World No Doubt
You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch The Hit Crew
Best Kind of Friend Christabel & the Jons
Soul Cake Sting
Clean Up For Christmas Aimee Mann
That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! Sufjan Stevens
The Christmas Waltz She & Him
Christmas Smorgasbord Swedish Chef
Mary's Boy Child Trailer Trash
Everyone's A Kid at Christmas Time Stevie Wonder
Snowed in with You Over the Rhine
Christmas Song Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Boots The Killers
It Snowed Meaghan Smith
Your Holiday Song Indigo Girls
The Heart of Christmas Matthew West
Our December Thriving Ivory
When A Child Is Born The Moody Blues
Why Can't It Be Christmastime All Year Rosie Thomas
Christmas Lights Coldplay
Snowflakes Jeremy Fisher
Mistletoe and HollyFrank Sinatra
Mr. & Mrs. Santa Clause George Jones & Tammy Wynette
Christmastime Smashing Pumpkins
Fairytale in New York The Pogues
Merry Christmas Eve Better Than Ezra
Christmastime Aimee Mann & Michael Penn
Christmas Day Dido
Do They Know Its Christmas Band Aid (1984)
The Chipmunk Song The Chipmunks
'Zat You, Santa Claus? Louis Armstrong
Christmas Vacation Theme National Lampoons
Wish List Neon Trees
A Very Special Acoustic Christmas Alison Krauss
Papa Noel Brenda Lee
Star Of Wonder Tori Amos
Cinnamon & Chocolate Butterfly Boucher
Christmas The Who
Christmas is Going to the Dogs the eels
Old Toy Trains Joe Nichols
Happy ChristM.A.S.S. M.A.S.S.
Christmas for Two Sixpense None the Richer
Holidays Silver Swans
Mistletoe Colbie Callat
I won't Let You Lick My Candy Bar Susan Kay
The Christmas Queen Miss Piggy
Christmas In New Orleans Louis Armstrong
A Snowflake Fell (And It Felt Like a Kiss) Glasvegas
The Dear Aquaintance (A Happy new Year) Regina Spektor
Holiday Road Lindsay Buckingham
River Sarah McLachlan
Very Merry Christmas Dave Barnes
Candy Cane Christmas Darius Rucker
Christmas This Year (feat. Leigh Nash) TobyMac & Leigh Nash
Christmas Wish She & Him
32 Feet And 8 Little Tails Gene Autry
Another Christmas Song Stephen Colbert
Don't Need A Reindeer The Moody Blues
Better Do It Right Smash Mouth
Darlin' (Christmas Is Coming) Over the Rhine
Do you have a favorite nontraditional? Please, do share. The more the merrier.


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How will Bench Look Next Season?
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
If you'd like to pose a Question of the Day to Conrad Brunner, submit it along with your full name and hometown to firstname.lastname@example.com. Brunners opinions are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Pacers players, coaches or management.
Conrad Brunner
Q. What does the bench look like next year? Who is going to come off the bench first? With Dale Davis on the roster, what will (David) Harrisons role be? Is there any possibility (Jonathan) Bender might give us some minutes next season? Do you think Fred Jones minutes will increase, and do you think theres any possibility for him to move into the starting lineup in front of Stephen Jackson? Is there any hope for James Jones defensive game improving enough for him to give us solid minutes? (Rafe in Indianapolis)
A. The bench rotation will depend upon a number of variables, making it hard to lock into anything at the moment. How well certain players come back from injuries will be a major factor.
At times last season, Harrison looked like a potential force in the low post, particularly on offense. Though his knee injury was not major, he'll need to bounce back from surgery, regain his conditioning and re-establish his readiness to contribute. Bender has missed most of the past two seasons, primarily with knee problems that just don't seem to go away. If he does get to the point that he can play regularly, he has the talent to assume a big role. Jeff Foster finished last season as a reserve and may need follow-up surgery on his troublesome hip.
Much also depends on the status of free agent Davis. If he re-signs, it's safe to assume he'll play a major role in the post rotation. That means a lot of competition for minutes with Foster, Harrison and Scot Pollard, which is why a number of analysts are expecting the Pacers to make some kind of move with their deep corps of big men in order to balance out the roster.
There is less uncertainty in the backcourt, where Anthony Johnson and Eddie Gill will back up Jamaal Tinsley, and Fred Jones is behind Stephen Jackson. The team could use a little more depth, providing fuel for speculation about offseason moves. At small forward, Ron Artest's return to the lineup and Jackson's shift to shooting guard opens up a reserve role. At the moment, James Jones is the top backup, but he's a restricted free agent.
In other words, there are a lot of possibilities and little certainty about the second unit. The draft will add two players to the mix, a free agent could be signed and there exists a strong possibility the team will make a move or two on the trade market. Those moves are most likely to involve the bench because management isn't anxious to break up the nucleus of starters.
I thought the last part is interesting. Maybe management wants to try out this starting five for once and make trades before the deadline if needed.


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ASUS: The EN7600 GS Silent, and EN7800 GT TOP Silentby Josh Venning on 5/12/2006 11:00 AM EST
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Jayman - Sunday, August 27, 2006 - linkThe ASUS EN7600 GS has both 256MB and 512MB versions currently available on Newegg. What version was included in this article and how big a performance difference could we expect between the two? Thanks. Reply
SciBoy - Monday, July 24, 2006 - linkCould you list the memory sizes of these cards, please? I have the 7600GS but with 512Mb, and I'm pretty sure there is a 256Mb version too. They're claiming the 512Mb version is faster, but I'm starting to feel bad about my purchase today (considering that the 6600GT, which was my old card) seems to even be faster in some instances (especially considering I paid the equivalent of $170 for the 7600GS and I could buy a new 6600GT for $90, albeit with only 128Mb mem).
A compounding factor is that I had the Gigabyte silent 7800GT but had to return it when dual mode did not work on it (some kind of problem the Gigabyte 7800GT apparently has, I can't recommend it to anyone).
Well, anyway, mem sizes please! :)
Thanks! Reply
xsilver - Sunday, May 14, 2006 - linkhey
just a suggestion
if there could be a page with a listing of a plethora of cards and their relative performance versus each other so it can be easily seen if its worth upgrading to a newer generation
eg. someone has a 9800 pro; is a 7300gs faster? (ignore the obvious agp/pci-e fact)
or a x800gt vs a 7600gt?
its hard to look over your old articles to compare as some dont use the same benchies/resolutions/etc..
it doesnt have to be super accurate, only accurate enough to say card X is generally better than card Y
inclusion of high end older cards (5900, 9800, x800,6800 etc.) are important
as well as mainstream generational cards (6600,9600xt, -- god forbid 9200,6200 :)
thanks Reply
Cerb - Monday, May 15, 2006 - linkTom's Hardware does this. It's a series of major roundups called "VGA Charts", IIRC.
For current-gen cards, there's Digit-life's video digests. Reply
plonk420 - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - linki wonder if these fit in X-QPack uATX cases.. any owners out there? Reply
poohbear - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkif u could provide sys or case temps that'd be great so we can know what to expect in our own rig (my rig runs about 34c in the summer:o). really impressed @ how these babies perform considering they're so quiet, but as someone mentioned, the accelero x1 is indeed virtually silent albeit cools much better than the stock aircoolers. Reply
Cerb - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkNo fan = silent. 'Virtually silent' is marketting. Ambient noise may cover up a certain degree of noise (ideally all noise from the computer), but every fan gives a greater chance of it being audible, or worse (such as a VGA Silencer): grating and annoying, even when not terribly loud. Reply
nullpointerus - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - link"Virtually silent" is not marketing. If you have trouble with it - such as in a home theater setup - it's better to use extension cables to position the sound further away (such as behind a corner or a piece of furniture) than to embed an ~80C heat source in the computer.
As for my VGA Silencer, I can't hear it. My computer is under my desk, not on top of it. I have two low RPM 120mm fans in my ~$60 case and even when my CPU is overclocked and at full load the variable speed CPU fan barely goes above 1200 RPM while staying under 50C. That's pretty cool, IMHO.
IIRC, there were some VGA Silencers shipped out with bad fans. You might want to try getting a replacement if yours grates. Good fans do not grate. And if you are referring to the tons of junk out there that are misrepresented as "virtually silent," then I feel sorry for you. I bought a few such fans, and they sound like jet engines... Reply
Cerb - Sunday, May 14, 2006 - link""Virtually silent" is not marketing. If you have trouble with it - such as in a home theater setup - it's better to use extension cables to position the sound further away (such as behind a corner or a piece of furniture) than to embed an ~80C heat source in the computer."
Or just make it very quiet to begin with. With Turions, Pentium-Ms, and newer A64s, etc., it shouldn't be too hard.
"My computer is under my desk, not on top of it."
"CPU fan barely goes above 1200 RPM while staying under 50C."
Mine are all well under that (fastest is the Panaflo, ~700 RPM). I don't think I can get a diode reading, so won't trust what I have to be definitive (socket reading stays below 50, but Thermaltake's Orbs ruined any confidence in that--twice).
"IIRC, there were some VGA Silencers shipped out with bad fans."
No, it's from the design and materials. Not quite as loud as a standard A64 stock cooler, but annoying, and stays annoying even slowed down. The fan being part of the duct, and duct being brittle plastic are mainly to blame. Attaching another fan, even somewhat decoupled (1/2" of foam mouse pad), causes the same kind of noise, though far less pronounced. If softer plastic were used (which would likely not be clear), I don't think it would be bad at all.
Assuming they all use the same fan (mine is a NV Silencer 3), it should be a bit louder (I was running it at 5v until yesterday) than everything else I use, with my CPU fan being the only one close. See the note here for my primary issue with the VGA Silencer's noise (the entire thing is a fan frame): http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html">http://www.silentpcreview.com/article63-page2.html
"and they sound like jet engines..."
No jet engines in sheep skin (but, I did start with them, ugh!):
Nexus 120mm (5v, might be removed soon, or upgraded to CPU fan duty)
Yate Loon 120mm from Fortron PSU (5v, soon to be replaced, being near as loud as the Silencer, if easier to listen to)
Panaflo L1A 80mm (5v, now in place of NV Silencer)
Adda 120mm in Seasonic S12 380 (I may try to isolate it a bit, if I get bored enough one day)
Either the entire system is inaudible (listening position and distance counts, as does ambient noise), or it can be heard. "Virtually silent" is a good way of saying, "it's not loud." But there is quite a gulf between "virtually silent," and, "is it really on?" If you're after "is it really on?", Gigabyte and Asus offer the only stock gaming cards worth considering, because it means no voiding the warranty--such a cooler as the X1 is not a good option (I should have considered a Geforce FX not an option *grumble*). Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkYou could always try getting a 7900 GTX and underclocking it. :) The big fans and HSF should do a good job at keeping the card cool if you drop clock speeds a bit. I'm not sure how well the RPM controls work on the cards, though. Reply
Seer - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkThis review is so messed up that it's not even funny. Okay, maybe it is funny to laugh at how pathetic it is. Let me start:
1) The 7800GT Top Silent isn't available anymore. It was a limited edition run. GJ guys, there goes half of your article. (You even state this at the end that its not available. WTF dudes, what are you smoking?)
2) Extremely inaccurate test results. The O/Ced version of the 7600 GS is repeatedly listed as performing WORSE than the non O/Ced version. Niiiice. Also, performance for the 7600 GS INCREASES when going from a lower resolution to a higher one. Rofl.
3) Averaging core and memory % o/c's in a 50/50 weighted ratio gives the 7600GS an o/c os 9.9% avg, and the 7800GT TS a 9.25% avg. Yet you claim it overclocks better. Oh, right, you must have said that because the O/C version was performing worse. (I realize that the 7800GT TS is already factory o/c'ed. However, this means that you are guaranteed that stock clock. A real, consumer overclock is raising the clock to a speed that the chip [I}is not rated at. )
4) Hardly any mention of the EXTREME heat these cards put out. Into the air that should be going into your CPU, nonetheless. (Pointed out in an earlier comment). In fact, "the heatsink appears to be very affective at keeping the GPU cool" 95 C. Right, cool. In fact, if you understand the relationship between Heat and Temperature (two different things, people), you would understand that the 7800GT TS is in fact much worse for your case's ambient temps than the 7600GS, despite this articles claims to the contrary.
GJ guys, pat yourself on the back and go buy a few beers! You really deserve it! *rolls eyes* Reply
Guuts - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkAlso, on page 5, the author writes: "What is even more nice..." More nice?! I hate to be the grammar police here, but I think what he's looking for here is "nicer". Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkFixed, thanks. Reply
Seer - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkI forgot to mention why I think this shitty article came out: Asus paid them to do it. It's just like those shitty articles on Daily Tech about seemingly random product releases that are nothing other than shameless plugs. Reply
poohbear - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkplease tell your mom to stuff feeding u cocoa puffs for breakfast. they have TOO MUCH sugar for u. Reply
JarredWalton - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkActually, the 7600 GS Silent was released and they sent it to us for review (the same way we get nearly all products). Since it was a silent card and we hadn't looked at the 7800 GT yet, it was included as well as something of a reference point. Some people are interested in silence and don't care all that much about performance past a certain point, and that's where the 7600 GS fits in nicely.
As for the other comments above, the results in the 1600x1200 graphs look like they were reversed, and in fact all of the results look odd. I'm checking with Josh to verify, but it could be the OC'ed 7600 is throttling down due to heat. I'm not sure about the stability of the 7600 OC'ed either - Josh mentions artifacts, so I'm not sure if the final results he posted are "clean" or not. A 9% OC shouldn't give you 35=65% more performance, or cut performance a lot.
Other than that anamoly, the 7800 GT overclocks "more" because averaging RAM and GPU OCs is not normally an accurate way of quantifying performance. Most modern games are hitting the GPU harder than the RAM bandwidth (unless you have really slow RAM), so 15% is more than 11%. Honestly, I wouldn't even think about OC'ing a silent card, though. Maybe if you want to add a low RPM fan to it?
Temperatures are GPU core AFAIK, so 95C is not the surface HSF temperature. Remember that these cards aren't actually generating more heat than any other card based off of the same graphics chips; the only difference is that they're not dissipating heat as quickly because they don't have fans. Unless you are using a graphics card that expels heat outside of the case, these cards aren't actually increasing the ambient case temperature. Reply
Seer - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - linkThanks for the response. I admit it was a bit of a troll. I was just disappointed with this article because I know AT can do so much better (IMO). Hopefully I elicited some motivation for improvement. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Monday, May 15, 2006 - linkTroll? More like a tool.
If you're disappointed, there are professional ways to respond that don't make you look like a pathetic whiny git. Reply
Seer - Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - linkSorry for not blindly supporting any article put out by your favorite site D: Reply
LoneWolf15 - Tuesday, May 16, 2006 - linkI've disagreed many times here; if you read regularly, you'd have seen them, and you'll see them again. I just choose to do so in a manner that doesn't make me look like a 15-year old who's flunking 8th grade for the second time. Constructive criticism is one thing you apparently don't know how to do. Reply
Josh Venning - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - linkThanks Jarred.
Yes the Splinter Cell graphs were wrong for most of the EN7600 GS Silent results. I went back and changed them so the graphs are now accurate. Sorry for the confusion here. Reply
poohbear - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linklol wow jared u actually answered the jerk's post in a professional manner. some teenager rants and raves in the manner befitting a 15 year old, and u answer him like he's an adult. gj mate. Reply
Griswold - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkAsus needs to bring us a 7900GT with that cooling solution. It should be much better than the 7800 in terms of heat output. Reply
nullpointerus - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkIt would be better to get a 7900GT ($290) and an Accelero X1 ($35). There is almost no discernable difference between silent and nearly silent, but the thermal difference is going to be HUGE. A large (i.e. 120mm) fan will thoroughly trounce the stock coolers while producing next to zero noise. Why pay $400 for a passively cooled 7800GT? Reply
nullpointerus - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkOops, slight error. The Accelero series won't have a 7900GT-compatible model until June, so you'd have to use a 7800GT instead. Reply
yacoub - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkFriggin' 7800GT TOP-SILENT came out a year ago. Time for a 7900GT TOP-SILENT already, WTF!! >:[ Reply
Griswold - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkNot quite. It first popped up on Asus' website in november or december of last year.
yacoub - Monday, May 15, 2006 - linkway to miss the point: IT'S OLD. IT'S LAST-GEN HARDWARE. oh and IT RUNS WAY TOO HOT. Reply
BurntKooshie - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkIf I understand the article correctly, this means the CPU fan is drawing in hotter air (because the air has pass over the extended heatsink). If correct, why didn't you test to see the effect of the newly obstructed and hotter airflow upon CPU temperature? Reply
rowcroft - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkI've been looking at an SLI setup for 4 DVI ports, would the GT TOP work in SLI? I'd be concerned about where the second rotating heatsink would go. Reply
Seer - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkI'm not sure where I saw it, but I saw one review of these cards in SLI. Try searching for 7800GT Top Silent Sli. Reply
Tiamat - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkProbably could cook a hotdog on that heatsink no problem. Where was this temperature measured and how was it measured? Thermalcouple? Onboard sensor? Was this the core temp or temperature of a certain part of the heatsink? This included the CPU fan's forced convection to aid in the GPU heatsink's cooling? Reply
toyota - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linki wonder why they didnt even mention that it runs hot as hell. those are pretty extreme temps. Reply
LoneWolf15 - Monday, May 15, 2006 - linkThe temps may be high, but many of us have cases with a rear 120mm fan directly in the path of the 7800's heatsink. For those that do, this would almost certainly serve to take care of that issue. Reply
Cerb - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkYes, but still well below the level that nVidia thinks is hot enough to throttle for safety. Sacrifices must be made, and cool temperatures are one. I've now gotten used to anything under three digits being OK. Reply
Clauzii - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkFor someone not on a budget, the 7800GT looks like a good card for silent operation. This could be a card for me - if I were not an ATI fan :)
No really, it looks nice this 7800GT... Reply
bldckstark - Friday, May 12, 2006 - linkThat's the whole idea of these cards, they have no fan! Reply
thesix - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - linkLOL, good one! Reply
Clauzii - Saturday, May 13, 2006 - linkKicked all air out of me :) Reply


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Today marks the 50th anniversary of president John F. Kennedy's assassination.
In seemingly unrelated news, a half dollar coin buys you any number of tickets on Stub Hub to tomorrow's Illinois-Purdue football game in West Lafayette, IN.
The half dollar coin, as you know, bears the likeness of JFK.
The half dollar coin, as you may not know, is also worth 50 cents.
50th anniversary of the shooting, 50 cent coin, 50 cent tickets…sure, it may all seem coincidental, but it raises many important questions: Was this a coordinated effort by the two schools to honor the former president the only way they know how, with embarrassingly terrible play? Was there a second gunman behind the grassy knoll? Did the CIA invent crack cocaine? Does the government keep our primal instincts in check (and our teeth clean) through water fluoridation? Is Scientology the one, true faith? What the heck is gluten really, anyway?
Somebody call Oliver Stone. Me thinks I smell a conspiracy. Or better yet, just go to the Tivoli tonight and tell him in person.
Whoah. Mind blown.
Just like an obsessed conspiracy theorist, I'm sure many Illinois and Purdue fans want to believe there's some deep, dark, secret reason behind the lousy state of their football programs.
Then again, it could simply be that both teams are awful, Stub Hub doesn't have an option to give tickets away, and Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Case in point: Next week the Illini host Northwestern. A ticket to that epic battle will set you back more than a Kennedy coin, but not by much.
I like how the ticket to the game is $1.80, but a parking pass is still $15.
By that math, it's over eight times more desirable to drive to Champaign and just stand in the parking lot for three hours than it is to go into the game and actually watch the Illini.
It sounds crazy, but that might be the only thing we really know for sure.


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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla. - Two more dead dolphins washed ashore in Volusia County on Tuesday morning, marking six in the last week.
The first dolphin on Tuesday washed ashore at 6:30 a.m. at Ponce Inlet and the second was discovered at around 7:45 a.m. in Daytona Beach, according to Volusia County Beach Patrol.
No other details about the dolphins were immediately available.
According to environmentalists, a virus is going through the dolphins and since they are migrating south, Beach Patrol officials say more cases of dead dolphins are expected.
Since Nov. 7, 2013, Volusia County has had seven cases, officials said.
Last week, officials told Local 6 that a veterinarian was testing the dolphins for morbillivirus, an epidemic that has killed more than 800 dolphins all along the East Coast since June.
Officials said the outbreak began July 1 off New York and has since moved south. Ninety-three percent of the more than 800 deaths were attributed to morbillivirus, official said.
In Florida, the deaths were tracked back to October 21 in Jacksonville. In Central Florida, five dead dolphins have shown signs of the virus but only one animal has been confirmed to have the virus.
Officials said the virus cannot be stopped and dolphins cannot be vaccinated. They urged, however, that no one touch a stranded dolphin because other infections dolphins with the virus are prone to can be transferred to humans.
There was a similar outbreak from June 1987 to May 1988 in which 750 dolphins were killed. That was the first known outbreak of morbillivirus.
Watch Local 6 News and stay with ClickOrlando.com for more on this story.
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From MEPIS Documentation Wiki
A package can be pinned or locked to stop upgrading or installation. Here, the example is with Nvidia drivers that might break if Debian releases new version and you do an upgrade.
GUI method
- Open Synaptic
- Highlight the package you want to pin (examples below). To highlight more than one, use Ctrl-Click to select them
- On the top menu, click Package --> Lock package
NOTE: this only pins the package inside Synaptic, so if you use
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
in a terminal, the package will be treated as unpinned.
CLI method
Run command "kdesu kwrite" and open the file:
For the Nvidia drivers, add the following entries:
Package: nvidia-glx Pin: version 1.0.7174* Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: nvidia-kernel-source Pin: version 1.0.7174* Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.10 Pin: version 1.0.7174*+MEPIS.3.3 Pin-Priority: 1000
Package: nvidia-kernel-common Pin: version 1.0.7174* Pin-Priority: 1000
- Version 1.0.7174 is used only as an example, check the current version of your drivers by typing into a terminal:
dpkg -l nvidia*
See also: Quick Fixes | FAQ | Main Menu | Unpin a package


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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 23/12/2013 (1333 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
EDMONTON — It's official and it comes straight from a North Pole source: jolly ol' St. Nick has seen enough and moved the Winnipeg Jets to the naughty list.
And this time he scratched their name in atop the chart with permanent marker, not pencil.
The Jets dropped a 6-2 decision to the Edmonton Oilers at Rexall Place Monday night in their final pre-Christmas contest, falling to the second-worst team in the National Hockey League, a squad which has dropped six straight and has been shut out in three of the last five.
Winnipeg, which has just two wins in its last eight games, falls to 16-18-5. And worth noting here: In the last month the Jets have dropped games to the NHL's weaker sisters — Buffalo, Florida and now Edmonton.
Naughty, indeed.
The Jets knew the Oilers would be coming, what with Dallas Eakins kicking the hornet's nest earlier in the day by calling the fan who tossed his jersey on the ice at the end of Saturday's six-zip loss to St. Louis "a quitter." That the Oilers went into damage control after that — Eakins clarifying his statement via Twitter, GM Craig MacTavish and president Patrick LaForge reaching out to the fan later in the day — was inconsequential to the Jets.
But their response, frankly, was iffy.
Of course, it didn't help that the Jets took two minor penalties in the first eight minutes with the Oilers capitalizing on the second opportunity as Jordan Eberle buried home a pass from Ales Hemsky. The Jets would get the equalizer on a softie from Mark Stuart right through Ilya Bryzgalov, but another defensive lapse saw Sam Gagner put the home side ahead 2-1 after 20 minutes.
And how the Jets managed to survive the early onslaught brings us to our second discussion point...
Playing their second game in as many nights — and third in four days — the matchup with the Oilers had an Al Montoya start written all over it. But Claude Noel's decision to start Ondrej Pavelec had Twitterverse and chat rooms buzzing, especially with these stats to munch on: In the second half of back-to-back contests Pavelec's career record was 3-15 with a 4.11 goals against average and .870 save percentage.
And all of those numbers plummeted further after Monday night.
But Pavelec was hardly the culprit against the Oilers. The Jets were outshot 14-7 in the first, gained their legs a bit in the second, but were mere shadows of the club that served up a defensively sound effort in Sunday's 2-1 loss to Vancouver.
They were guilty of some horrible defensive-zone coverage and countless turnovers, leaving Pavelec to either make some highlight-of-the-night candidate saves or fish the puck out of the net after another tic-tac-toe Oilers' marker.
The Jets came completely unglued in the third as the Oilers scored three times — the first by Jeff Petry 11 seconds after a Winnipeg power play ended to really seal the deal — with later markers by Taylor Hall and Nail Yakupov that then brought out the ugly in the game.
The final moments saw Jets Andrew Ladd, Bryan Little and Zach Bogosian booed off the ice after the Winnipeg captain and Yakupov got into it with their sticks following the Oilers' sixth goal and a minor skirmish.
Good question. The Jets will be off the ice for three days before returning on the 27th to face the Minnesota Wild at home. And with the playoff line becoming fainter by the night, the Jets need to go on a run — a big-time run — to get themselves back in the playoff discussion.
But here's why everyone in Jetland has their doubts: This squad hasn't won back-to-back games since road wins in New Jersey and Long Island Nov. 25 and 27. Since, they are 3-7-1. And that puts them closer to dreaming of a high draft pick than meaningful hockey in late April and May.
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"python pyinstaller.py --onefile myscript.py" in the command prompt
but im having trouble figuring out how to configure pyinstaller to use a custom .ico file for the created executable.
I tried "python pyinstaller.py --onefile icon=<test.ico> myscript.py"
but it tells me that the file couldnt be found. Im assuming its referring to my test.ico file. Where should it be placed in order for it to work?
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Seagate 1200 SSD: Custom Seagate SAS Controller, X8 PCIe SSD Also Announcedby Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/7/2013 8:00 AM EST
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tocket - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkGreat! Now we just need some SAS 3.0 controllers. What's the hold-up LSI? Reply
romrunning - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkI really wish we had more tests of SSDs in RAID-5 arrays. This is really useful for SMBs who may not want/afford a SAN. I'm very curious to see if the 20% spare area affects SSDs just as much when they're RAIDed together as it does standalone. I also don't care of the SSDs are branded as being "enterprise" drives. It would be nice to see how a 5x256GB Samsung 840 Pro RAID-5 array would peform, or even a 5x400GB Seagate 600 Pro RAID-5 array. Reply
piroroadkill - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkHere I currently have two servers with hardware RAID5 SSD arrays. One made up of Samsung 830 256 (x4), one made up of Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (x2)+Intel 520 240GB (x2).
That said, they're both running VMware, so I can't give an accurate and full performance assessment. They're used for serving virtual desktops to some users. Anecdotally, I can say things load in an instant. Reply
romrunning - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkHow does the free available space affect it, or was that a concern for you? Did you create your arrays slightly under-sized, or did you just go with max capacity? Reply
bah12 - Tuesday, May 07, 2013 - linkAgreed. I really wish AT did some more extensive Midrange business type reviews. Everything seems to be either consumer, gaming, or full bore datacenter. I wan't to transition to SSD's accross my 12 or so physical servers, but the cost is still too high. Everything I see is all antecdoatal regarding real world differences from consumer eMLC to the enterprise level stuff. If I'm paying a XX% premium for "enterprise" I'd like to see hard numbers on what that gets me. Reply
romrunning - Friday, May 10, 2013 - linkI know what you mean. I've already set up one database server use the Intel SLC-based X25-e, but they're only 64GB each. So I'm looking for some of the newer & larger SSDs to use, and I want to use them as storage for virtual server hosts. It would be nice to have more tests showing how capable these newer SSDs are for host-based RAID arrays. I've sent emails to Anand & Ganesh (I thought he handled the "IT" section of Anandtech), but nothing so far. Reply
ShieTar - Monday, May 13, 2013 - linkIf you want a value for the premium you pay, you should probably ask the guys you pay, no? It's not like Anand-Tech in any way profits from the amount of money you spend on hardware. Reply
rolle123 - Sunday, May 26, 2013 - linkThere's a lot of information about this topic coming online now that the enterprise drives are coming down in price, try Google of course. But bottom line, enterprise drives have features to ensure long write life, power failure protection, and speed at all file sizes, among others. In simple terms, ensuring long life means - look for the wear rating like TBW (total bytes written) spec or "drive writes per day" rating (good for the warranty period) of the drive to gauge longevity of any drive compared to others. Desktop drives rarely even mention this because they are light-duty devices. Power fail protection is having a bunch of capacitors in the drive to allow saving data in transit to NAND in the event of power loss to avoid corruption issues and having lots of built in firmware data integerity. Enterprise drive speed ratings are important to know accoss the range of file sizes, not just the max rating at one file size, as desktop drive specs often highlight. Servers live in another world of file access than desktops. Plus, a desktop drive nned only do bursts typically at speed, whereas a server drive needs to be able to run full tilt day in and day out providing consistent and high bandwidth. Of course only buy what you need, IOW use dictates need = cost. Reply


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Karen and Theo are recently married, settling nicely into their one-bedroom home.
While it's cosy, the 20-something couple knows it's going to be a tight space if they want to have a family.
"Basically, we want to have a family in the next four or five years," says Karen, a civil servant.
"Right now, we have just a little over 700 square feet, so we'd obviously want something bigger than that. I guess we'd be looking at the $300,000 to $400,000 range."
The couple already has almost $100,000 of equity in their current home, worth about $230,000, but they're worried about the affordability of their future plans. Not only will they face an increase in housing costs, their overall expenses will be higher as a result of raising a family while their income will likely decrease.
"Right now I'm working full-time, but I have the opportunity to go part-time," she says. "Depending on the child-care situation, I could do that if we have the cash flow to afford it."
Karen earns about $29,000, while her husband -- also a civil servant -- earns $55,000 before taxes and deductions. Although they expect Karen's salary to be cut in half if she works part-time, Theo will likely receive regular pay increases the longer he stays on the job, along with overtime pay.
They also plan to save as much as they can for a down payment on a new home and to help offset any loss in spending power when Karen goes to part-time hours.
So far, they have saved more than $52,000.
"I would say about $10,000 to $15,000 of that came from our wedding," she says. "The rest we saved individually before we got married."
While she adds they're both "savers," they're not sure how much they'll need.
"I know kids are expensive and I don't want to be scrambling paycheque to paycheque," she says. "I'm not really good when it comes to investments and financial matters, so some advice would be really good in that respect."
Financial adviser with Assiniboine Credit Union Sara Kushnir says this couple is a model of financial responsibility.
"Karen and Theo are a perfect example of how good budgeting and savings habits allow us to dine out, shop and plan for vacations and other big purchases without going into debt," she says. "Even after a good amount of savings is included in the budget, there is still a surplus of over $600 for monthly incidentals."
Their savings rate is admirable -- even by a banker's standards -- setting aside about 17 per cent of their after-tax income.
Still, upgrading to a bigger and better home and having children will challenge even this super-savings duo.
Kushnir says much of their future success will depend on Theo receiving those expected salary hikes. If in five years, he is grossing $85,000 a year, while Karen is earning about half of what she makes now, they will actually be earning $16,000 more than today.
Of course, a bigger mortgage payment along with the cost of raising a family will likely cancel out the increase in cash flow.
Saving as much as they can today -- as efficiently as possible -- is essential to achieving their goals, Kushnir says.
One very simple step is using their tax-free savings accounts (TFSAs) to their full potential. Right now, the couple has only about $11,000 in savings combined in their TFSAs with $42,000 in savings sitting in unregistered accounts. With the annual contribution limit increasing to $5,500 each this year, Theo and Karen's total TFSA room should be $51,000 -- or $25,500 each -- so they should have plenty of contribution room to transfer most their unregistered savings to those tax-exempt accounts.
"After leaving three months of expenses -- approximately $11,000 -- for an emergency fund, the remaining $35,000 in savings can be used in a more efficient way to further their dream of a larger home with similar cash flow," Kushnir says.
Because Karen and Theo are conservative investors, favouring high-interest savings and GICs, they need to weigh the interest they're earning on savings against the interest they're paying on the mortgage, their only source of debt.
Karen and Theo's closed mortgage rate is 2.19 per cent for a six-month term.
"In today's marketplace they can get a three- or four-year GIC at 2.35 per cent to 2.5 per cent," Kushnir says.
So, they're coming out a little ahead on savings -- if their money sits in TFSAs sheltered from taxation.
But that's today and not tomorrow.
Six months from now, the best mortgage rate available may be higher than what they can earn in GICs.
"If a suitable investment vehicle earning greater interest than the mortgage cannot be found, or if locking the money away for a defined period of time does not sit well with them, they should look at paying down the mortgage faster."
Pay-down restrictions aside, the couple can make a $35,000 lump-sum payment when their mortgage is up for renewal in six months. They can also switch to biweekly payments instead of a monthly payment, which will reduce amortization on their $140,000 mortgage by one year.
These steps alone would reduce their mortgage by $58,000 in five years.
"If they sell their home for $250,000 then, after real estate fees and paying off their mortgage, the couple could potentially have over $175,000," she says.
On a $400,000 home with a 25-year amortization mortgage, at four per cent interest, their payment would be $540 every two weeks. That's a $100 increase from what they would pay today on their current mortgage if they switched to biweekly payments.
"After adjusting for increased housing costs, insurance, retirement savings and their changes in income, their budget will be balanced but tight," Kushnir says, adding they won't have a lot of extra money for child care and other activities.
"Either their income will need to increase even more than anticipated or their mortgage expense will need to decrease to ensure saving for the future does not suffer."
They could even find themselves in unfamiliar -- and unappealing -- territory: running monthly budget deficits.
Yet, given their propensity for saving money, it's likely they could build up a fairly large safety net to make up for any budget shortfalls in the future. Or, they could use that money to pay down their mortgage even faster, resulting in a smaller payment if they do move to a bigger home.
"Moving into the family stage of life is often a time when finances suffer," Kushnir says.
"But they have the foresight to put a plan into action so their net worth can grow, and that's half the battle."


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Sheerluck HolmesLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
A series of burglaries has plagued London. The famous private investigator, Sheerluck Holmes, is on the case. He has five suspects. As usual, Sheerluck has bungled again, and has lost his notes. Fortunately, he has memorized some of the clues. Help Sheerluck determine each man's age, height, weight, and hair color. Also, help identify the culprit so that he can be put behind bars.
Men: Ben, Gus, Ron, Sam, Tim
Ages: 29, 32, 37, 42, 46
Weights: 166, 178, 190, 201, 216
Heights: 5'8", 5'9", 6'0", 6'3", 6'4"
Hair (descending order of darkness): black, brown, red, blonde ... plus bald
1) The man who is 6'0" tall is older than the man who weighs 178 pounds, who is older than Ben (one of these is the guilty man).
2) Ron weighs more than the brown-haired man, who weighs more than the man who is 32 years old.
3) Ben is taller than the blonde-haired man, who is taller than the man who weighs 166 pounds.
4) The man who is 32 years old has darker hair than the man who weighs 190 pounds, who has darker hair than Tim (one of these is the guilty man).
5) Each man has one measurement (age, weight, or height in inches) that is an odd number.
6) The youngest, the lightest, and the shortest ... are three different men ... and do not have red hair (the guilty man is not among them).
7) The oldest, the heaviest, and the tallest ... are three different men ... and do not have black hair (one of these is the guilty man).
8) Ben and Gus have a weight difference of 12 pounds.
9) Sam and Tim have a height difference of 3 inches.
10) Ron is not 4 years older or younger than any other man.
11) The guilty man does not have blonde hair.
AnswerFirst, fill in as much of the grid as possible, while ignoring the clues about the guilty man. Then, use those clues to fill in the rest of the grid. Given that the grid has been correctly filled, the following conclusions can be drawn.
A) From clues 1 and 4, we know that the guilty man is one of the following: 6'0" and 32, 6'0" and 190, 6'0" and Tim, 178 and 32, 178 and Tim, Ben and 32, Ben and 190.
B) From clue 6 and since Ben is the youngest, Ben can be eliminated. Since Ben weighs 190, 190 can also be eliminated. This leaves the following combinations: 6'0" and 32, 6'0" and Tim, 178 and 32, 178 and Tim.
C) From clue 6 and since the lightest man is also 32, 32 can be eliminated. This leaves: 6'0" and Tim, 178 and Tim.
D) Both of the remaining pairs involve Tim, so Tim is the guilty man.
E) From clue 7 and since Tim is neither the heaviest nor the tallest, he must be the oldest, or 46.
F) From clue 11, Tim can not have blonde hair.
Ben, 29 years, 190 pounds, 6'4", brown
Gus, 42 years, 178 pounds, 6'3", blonde
Ron, 37 years, 216 pounds, 5'8", bald
Sam, 32 years, 166 pounds, 5'9", black
Tim, 46 years, 201 pounds, 6'0", red, guilty
Another case solved by sheer luck.
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Football Training Camp Update with Coach Gill
Following the Flames' 12th practice of preseason training camp, Liberty Flames Sports Network reporter Alan York had a chance to catch up with Flames head coach Turner Gill.
The team's 12th workout since returning to Liberty Mountain was held under a weather mixture of overcast skies, brief rain showers and some partly clear skies. The team started practice around 9 a.m. and wrapped up the workout session around Noon.
Tuesday's practice was the Flames second since holding their first full scrimmage of preseason training camp on Saturday night.
Liberty will hold its second scrimmage of preseason training camp this Saturday as part of Flames Football Fan Fest. Gates at Williams Stadium will open at 6 p.m. and the scrimmage will begin at 7 p.m.
Following the hour-long scrimmage, Gill, his assistant coaches and players will be available for a meet-and-greet autograph session in the concourse under the Williams Stadium Tower.
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It's Official! White House Bound!
It's official! Minnesota turkey farmer John Burkel – the current chairman of the National Turkey Federation – has been officially invited to bring two turkeys to the White House later this month for the National Thanksgiving Turkey pardoning ceremony with President Obama!
John will be the 12th Minnesotan to represent the turkey industry at this time-honored tradition. (Read more National Thanksgiving Turkey history here.)
That also means we need to start thinking of some creative names for the National Thanksgiving Turkey and his alternate. We need your help! Submit your ideas by November 10 using this online form – we will pick several of the top choices and run a little popularity contest on Facebook to come up with a few options to give to the Obama family, which will ultimately pick the names.
And if you're stumped, we've included a list of the names that have been chosen since 1999 – check it out here!
In the meantime, here are the latest photos taken of John's Presidential flock. As you can see, a special banner with an image of the White House has been put in their barn so the birds can preen and pretend they're getting their photos taken by the paparazzi!
This is Alex, one of John and his wife Joni's five kids. Here, he is cleaning out the "waterer" where the birds have access to fresh water all the time. He's using a solution of iodine to clean it – that's why the water looks brown right now. The iodine gets rid of all the bacteria that could make the birds sick.
Here's a look at several of the birds – they are all tom turkeys (or males).
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HOUSTON - After looking at the dramatic flooding occurring with Isaac, how would the Houston-area fare with an Isaac-like storm?
For New Orleans, the event started Tuesday after Isaac arrived with a strong storm surge along the coast. People had been warned of pending flooding from surge and rain, and evacuation orders were in place.
Many people chose not to heed the warning.
After landfall, Isaac stalled and the incredible rainwater flooding was underway. The winds were still blowing onshore, causing the storm surge to remain high.
Now let us imagine Isaac coming to our area.
From a forecast and preparation viewpoint, the fact that Isaac remained at tropical storm intensity until right before landfall means that many people would not take it seriously, "it's just a tropical storm".
Throughout my career in the National Weather Service, I heard people say "I had no idea it would be this bad." Folks, there is no such thing as "just a" with these things. Same goes for "minimal hurricane." We should know this to be true given our disaster with Allison in 2000. Speculation is the number one reason that a lot of people would have been unprepared in our area if an exact replica of Isaac made landfall near Freeport. It would have slowly meandered inland for nearly two days.
The impacts from the winds would be more widespread than most people would think. Prolonged winds would come in around 50 to 60 mph range with higher gusts that lead to significant power outages, as well as trees and limbs downed. Damages could easily top $1 billion dollars from wind alone.
The surge from a large 65 to 75 mph storm making landfall near Freeport would range from 6 to 9 feet in Galveston Bay. Because the winds continue over the Gulf and Bay, the storm surge would not recede for at least a day. At the same time, over a foot of rain, maybe close to two feet in some spots, could pile up over the two-day period causing extreme flooding on our bayous. The flood waters of the bayous would all flow to Galveston Bay. Then with the water level of the Bay already elevated from storm surge, the flow from the bayous would be unable to do so as quickly.
I speculate that the flooding in the communities in southeast Harris County and eastern Galveston Counties would be worse due to the combined effects of rain and surge. Modeling such an impact for forecast and warning is quite a challenge, but scientists, Rice University and other institutions have been working on a scenario just like this one. I trust they will succeed in creating an accurate prediction, but hope we never have to use it!Animated Hurricane Map
Hurricane Information:
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Nov 09, 2013
MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico – The Saint Leo men's basketball team made easy work of their opponent on Saturday afternoon at the Coliseo Rafael A. Mangual on the campus of U.P.R. Mayaguez. With the win, Saint Leo advances to 2-0 on the young season.
The Lions return to action on day three of the 2013 Mayaguez Classic on Sunday, November 10, when they square up against UPR Rio Piedras. Game time is set for noon, Eastern Time. Fans can catch all of the action live by visiting SaintLeoLions.com and clicking on the live coverage links provided in the schedule.
For the latest news, updates, and information on the Saint Leo men's basketball team, fans can visit SaintLeoLions.com. Fans can also stay up-to-date on the latest Lions news by following Saint Leo Athletics on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.


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Multi-Group Wine Social for Young Professionals - Ages 22-42
Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Forget about poking Facebook friends and trading endless texts with that person from OKCupid. Time to add some offline socializing to your calendar!
Check in at 7pm and mingle. Enjoy some delicious cheeses, cookies and chocolates as well as an open white & red wine bar and a private gallery rental for our group. The wine will be served until 9:30pm.
Light music will be playing, the wine will be flowing and the Gallery will have a featured Art Exhibit perfect for using as a conversation starter.
Now you can meet people face to face before setting up that first date. Remember what that was like?
- All registrations are final. There are no refunds for no-shows or cancellations.
Event runs from 7-10pm
This event is open to all young professionals! Single, coupled up, those looking to network or people hoping to meet new friends or someone special.
Private Gallery Rental
Staff of Three Greeters
Open White & Red Wine Bar UNTIL 9:30PM
Cheeses, cookies & chocolates
Dress is trendy/upscale. No, guys, suits are not required. But when you see how fashionable the ladies look, you'll be glad if you dressed to impress. Ladies, you can wear anything from your little black dress to what you wore to work that day. Light music will play and new friends will be made. Show up with your room mate, your life mate, your co-workers..or show up alone. There will be a staff of 3 or more volunteers on hand to help introduce you to other members.
When & Where
Mayson Gallery
254 Broome St
New York,
Saturday, June 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM (EDT)
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ORLANDO, Fla. - The WKMG-Local 6 News effort to crackdown on school zone speeding has sparked widespread interest from viewers who say they want to keep the police speed check zones running the entire school year.
Twenty-three new school zone tips, ranging from elementary to high schools in Seminole, Orange and Brevard counties, were sent to Local 6 this week. The tips indicate that the speeding issues are widespread.
Local 6 viewer Sonya Barry Mageau says a stretch spanning three schools on Wingate Boulevard in Brevard County becomes a daily brush with tragedy. Her main concern is the middle school.
"The crosswalk by the school doesn't have a light, so they cross at their own risk. My kids have almost been hit and have been cursed at because someone was speeding and my kids were in the crosswalk," she said.
Leta Floyd says Edgewater Drive by Bishop Moore and Edgewater high schools is "very bad."
Not every tip focuses on school zones. JJ, of Orlando, wants police to check "Central Florida Pkwy between John Young and OBT."
According to Local 6 viewer Cheri Cole, drivers are running a stop sign in front of Seminole State College.
"Just this month my daughter and I were nearly T-boned when a driver ran a stop sign, they run the stop sign and they are always speeding," Cole said.
Sgt. Carl Santiago of the Orange County sheriff's motor unit says there are 141 school zones in the county. Santiago says units are dispatched based on complaints, and in his view, the Local 6 viewer input is very effective.
"We took a habitual traffic offender off the road (last week) because someone said please go to work in this area," he said.
The speed check point on Curry Ford Road and South Chickasaw Trail, resulted in 30 citations and the arrest of 30-year-old Douglas Johnson, a habitual traffic offender.
Johnson was clocked driving 55 mph in a 20 mph speed zone. State records show his license was revoked in 2009, and under state law he was not supposed to be driving for five years.
"The penalties and sentence for driving on a suspended license (DWLSR) range from a small fine, to a third-degree felony carrying with it a maximum prison sentence of five years, a $5,000 fine and five years of probation," Florida law states.
After just two check points, Orange County deputies have issued 42 citations.
Local 6 viewers can provide school zone tips on Facebook and through emails to reporter Mike Holfeld.
Orlando police, Seminole and Orange County sheriff's deputies are working with Local 6 to investigate school zones. Additional law enforcement agencies have expressed interest in joining the speeding crack down as well.
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71 minutes — PG, 35mm, Charles Chaplin, United States, 1928
Chaplin returns as The Tramp, who runs to the circus to elude police only to find himself become an accidental star in the big-top and to fall for a pretty acrobat.
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Take a Tour
There are several ways to get to know UCR better. The university offers a variety of tour options, including guided tours that can be scheduled in advance. The campus also is easily accessible for anyone planning to be in the Southern California area.
Walking Tours Available
Campus tours are available throughout the year from the Campus Tours Office. The tours include up-close look at the campus and its facilities and are a great way to learn about UCR's and its history.
Self-Guided Tours
Much of the campus is available for viewing at your leisure if you are in the Southern California area. The university's address is:900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA
From the freeway, exit Highway 60/Interstate 215 at University Avenue and turn left. The campus is immediately ahead of you.
Virtual Tours
You can navigate around UC Riverside at your leisure by taking one of several virtual tours available online. The virtual tours provide a unique perspective of our beautiful campus, vibrant student life, and high academic quality, and can be accessed from the comfort of your home.


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HOUSTON - Allegations of racism surfaced after the 2013 World Champion Barbecue Cookoff.
A group of family and friends said they were looking forward to having fun Friday night.
"We were looking forward to an evening of relaxation and having fun," said Roma Gonzalez.
Gonzalez, along with her family and friends, were excited for the cookoff. They got dressed up and headed out, but the fun took a turn.
"A very devastating night," said Gonzalez.
Gonzalez said she and six others were kicked out of the Blarney Bunch and Belles tent. They all had tickets to the tent and received wrist bands as they walked into the tent.
After two hours inside the tent, Gonzalez claims a woman told them to leave.
"She asked us, 'What company are you with?' What? What company? We have tickets," Gonzalez said.
Gonzalez said she was surprised by the woman's reaction.
"'You don't belong here. Your kind doesn't belong here,'" Gonzalez said the woman told them. "We were like, 'I beg your pardon,'" said Gonzalez.
The rest of the group said they were shocked.
"It felt really bad the situation just humiliating," said Dayanna Watkins.
The group was escorted out.
"As soon as we were leaving, they did a high-five," said Roma
Baldomero Garza, the national vice president for the League of United Latin American Citizens' southwest region, said the allegations are concerning.
"When you start looking at one specific group, saying, 'You need to leave, you're not wanted here' or 'You're not supposed to be here,' that's a concern," said Garza.
Local 2 spoke to the Blarney Bunch owner Frank Lynch by phone, who responded to the allegations saying, "This is not a race issue by any means. There were all races in the tent. Race has nothing to do with it. The tickets were not received properly."
The group said they paid one of the Blarney Bunch underwriters for the tickets and had no problem entering the tent.
It's an experience they all want to forget.
"I felt bad. My mother was there. I was embarrassed. I can't believe in 2013 it's still going on," said Pedro Gonzalez.
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo event officials confirm they are aware of the situation.
"The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is very concerned about the issues reported with the Blarney Bunch cook team location at the 2013 World's Championship Bar-B-Que Contest," a statement from the Rodeo read. "We have had initial contact with this team regarding this issue and the team owner was familiar with this event. Show officials also prohibit teams from selling tickets on property and online."
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Why affordable housing?
The housing crisis in America is one of the central features of the economic downturn of the last two years. Even as the federal government has responded to this crisis through its Making Homes Affordable program, cities and metropolitan regions still struggle with foreclosures. The lack of affordable housing options combined with the ongoing foreclosure crisis means that people from low-
income communities have few options when it comes to seeking safe, secure, and accessible housing.
Florida has been particularly hard hit by the crisis. In August of 2009, the state
had the dubious distinction of having the highest combined rate of delinquency and foreclosure, with 22.76 percent of Florida mortgages either delinquent or in foreclosure. Florida's foreclosure rate in November was the second highest in the nation as one out of every 165 homes was in some stage of foreclosure proceedings, according to a national report released by RealtyTrac, an online site that monitors housing activity. In Miami-Dade County, one in every 212 homes went into default in January, 2010, according to a recent report in the South Florida Business Journal.
The housing downturn and resulting foreclosure crisis have laid bare the extent to which urban governments and even non-profit development organizations have been unable to adequately address the needs of cities' most vulnerable populations in terms of housing. Into this void has stepped a whole host of grass-roots organizations. Yet often there is a disconnect between grass-roots organizations promoting affordable housing, the people who need that housing, and the government agencies overseeing housing policy.
Universities have a key role to play in fostering connections among these groups, promoting change in the community, and translating local activism into public policy. At the University of Miami, many units on campus already have longstanding relationships with community service organizations that seek to bridge these gaps. Faculty from the Schools of Architecture, Law, Business, Education, and Arts and Sciences with knowledge of the history, theory, and practice of affordable housing have worked with various community organizations to promote affordable housing. Now, we would like to enhance these partnerships by more fully integrating the lessons learned through these relationships into the curriculum. We hope that the process of using service learning to identify and address community needs will better allow our students to see first-hand how to translate classroom learning into real-world experience with the capacity to promote social justice.


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A Stint in Italy's Parliament Teaches Many Lessonsby Alaina G. Levine
Giovanni Bachelet
His decision not to pursue a second term in Parliament was not "because I feel unhappy," he explains. "But this is not my profession." Rather, his profession, he notes with pride, is physics. An APS member since 1980, when he was a young postdoc at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, he has served as a professor of physics at Sapienza University of Rome for the last twenty years.
An expert in the theory of electronic states, Bachelet has been involved in some form of the political process for many years, actively participating in campaigns and referendums. "I am interested in the democratic development of my community," he says. Much of this desire to affect change stems from his parents. His father, a prominent judge, professor of law and religious leader, was later elected to the Rome city council and then to the leadership of the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (Supreme Council of Magistrates), which is similar to the Supreme Court in the US. His mother, a teacher, "participated with enthusiasm" in her school board elections, he recalls. As a youngster, Bachelet realized "it's not just about your own career, but about contributing to society too." He was additionally influenced by the examples of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Pope John XXIII with his reform of the Catholic Church in the 1960s, and together with an extended Boy Scout experience, took to heart to always "be prepared, and take action, if needed, in both volunteer political activism and elected government positions," he says.
In 2008, the (then burgeoning) Democratic Party asked him to run for office and be part of their list of candidates for the national Parliament. Bachelet obliged, "even if the election was far from certain," he recalls. He hoped to "support Italy's progress toward a tighter European integration and thus toward European standards in education and research, civil and social rights, fight against corruption, and promote media freedom." In a few words, more than becoming a member of the Parliament, his goal was to help his country resume Democratic Party President Romano Prodi's center-left program, or at least free it from Berlusconi's nightmare. The opposite, however, occurred: Berlusconi won the elections and became Prime Minister, but Bachelet was elected and served most of the time in the parliamentary opposition, except for the very last year, when an emergency bipartisan government was formed after economic problems and Berlusconi's personal shenanigans led to his party's loss of power.
One of his proudest accomplishments as a member of Parliament was helping to block a bill which would have negatively affected high school teachers. "The government wanted to increase their working time by 30%, without increasing their salaries," he explains. "Teachers in Italy are paid less than average European teachers. With a few colleagues I was able, on the basis of sound data, to convince first my party, and then the entire committee which dealt with this bill, that schools and teachers had suffered from previous budget cuts more than any other part of the public administration, and a further thwack was simply not acceptable." As a result, the government withdrew the bill.
While it is an honor to serve his country as an elected official, it is not an easy job, he notes. It is physically demanding, particularly for someone who is not a "career politician." He jokingly compares his time in Parliament to his experience as a professor: As an academic, he considers department meetings and other service requirements as "a tax I have to pay in order to do the two things I like, which are research and teaching," he says. "In this respect, a term in Parliament is as exciting as being locked in a department meeting for five years in a row." But while he laments that 50% of his time was spent in assemblies with other politicians, "the most extraordinary thing is what you gain in the other half," when he would convene one-on-one with constituents.
On weekends, Bachelet would travel all over Italy "meeting with people who want to know what is going on in Rome and how their particular problem is being treated," he says. "People really appreciate talking to members of Parliament. The most enjoyable thing is that people get excited if given a chance to participate in government, especially those who are far away geographically, or feel far away from the process."
His physics background aided him, in his ability to "understand and elaborate numbers rapidly by heart," he says. "Lawyers are not as familiar with statistics." Bachelet's linear and logical approach to problem solving also contributed to his success, and he affirms that by studying physics, he gained an aptitude for presenting results to many different types of audiences, and responding to difficult questions on the spot. "I know what I'm an expert in and to be assertive, and I know what I don't know and to say that I need to do further research to give an answer," he says. "That's an important difference with 'professional' politicians: in my country many of them tend to elude questions they don't know how to answer. I realized that all of our voters, and not just [political] activists, prefer to be treated as adults."
Although he is looking forward to rebooting his research program, he is not leaving politics completely. Until the next internal selection of the Democratic Party leadership, he will remain President of the National Forum on Educational Policies within the Party, a position he has held since 2009.
As he prepares to leave his post, he reflects on what this foray onto a national stage has taught him. "It confirmed three ideas which my father and mother taught me as a boy," he says. "First, it's easy to talk politics at lunch or coffee break, but it's difficult to take an entire nation a tiny step forward, or, sometimes, prevent a step back: this requires technical skills, energy, patience, and savoir faire. Second, bad politics is usually the result of an immature society, and thus, for the progress of democracy, education is by no means less important than direct political engagement. This is why, after five years of civil service, I am going back to my usual profession of university professor."
And the third lesson which Bachelet has learned from his tenure in Parliament is that "each generation must pay a price to maintain freedom and welfare for the next generation." He points out that his father, who was also a consultant to the Vatican and considered a personal acquaintance of the Pope, paid the ultimate price for his advocacy: in 1980, he was assassinated by the Red Brigades, a terrorist organization credited with murdering many other Italian politicians in the 1970s and 80s. "My sacrifice of five years of physics in favor of five years in the Parliament was much less than my father's sacrifice of his life at the age of 54."
Alaina G. Levine is a science writer and President of Quantum Success Solutions, a science career and professional development consulting enterprise. She can be contacted through her website.
© 2013, Alaina G. Levine
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Lenovo Introduces Rugged Chromebook Aimed at K-12by Jarred Walton on 1/17/2013 4:25 PM EST
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twotwotwo - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkThe (Exynos-based) Samsung Chromebook is the top-selling notebook on Amazon, even more interesting because it costs a little more than the Acer and an ARM notebook is a rare bird right now. Reply
jemima puddle-duck - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkAlthough enthusiasts may sniff at them, I've rarely heard a bad word about them from people that own and use them. The low end of the market is the interesting end at the moment. Reply
JeffFlanagan - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkMaybe we shouldn't be giving kinder-gardeners netbooks. They can be issued in 8th grade when the kids are ready for porn. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkKinder gardeners would be awesome -- how big do they grow them? ;-) Reply
Mumrik - Friday, January 18, 2013 - link8th grade kindergarten? Reply
aryonoco - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkIt's not Atom, nor Pentium or Celeron, the processor in this thing is a half respectable Core i3-2367M (17W dual core SB running at 1.4 Ghz with Intel HD 3000).
I still think $429 is too much for a Chromebook, but then again, the tray price of this core i3 is $250 according to Intel. Obviously the price has come down now but it seems like Intel is getting a good portion of the BoM of this thing.
Also and perhaps of more importance is that Google has managed to sign up a third (and respectable) OEM for their Chrome OS effort. I think the Chromebooks have a lot to offer the educational market, especially combined with Google Apps for Education which is free. It is a much more sensible and productive solution for kids than more expensive and less productive ipads. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkI'm not sure that's correct for the X131e Chromebook -- the standard X131e is available in both AMD and Intel variants, but the Intel option starts at over $600. I'd be highly surprised if the Chromebook uses a Core i3 and sells for just $429, but if you can find me a source I'd love to see it. The spec sheet Lenovo sent me just says, " Latest-generation Intel processors" for the processor. Reply
themossie - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkA $229 premium over the $199 Acer C7 is ridiculous. Take a similar machine, tack on $100 to make it rugged, call it a day. The performance difference between an i3 and a Celeron shouldn't matter for this application... Reply
KirkClement - Friday, September 26, 2014 - linkCouldn't agree more. I have Ruggedized Chromebooks, Celeron 2.16GHz, 4GB , $299. firstname.lastname@example.com, quantity is not an issue can get thousands. Reply
KirkClement - Friday, September 26, 2014 - linkDesigned by Intel. contact for PDF with info and specs Reply
IntoxicatedPuma - Monday, January 21, 2013 - linkI would be shocked if it actually had an i3, for a chromebook that would be a waste of money. In any case the Pentium and Celeron SB and are more than enough for something like this. They're practically i3's without hyperthreading and I don't think HT is going to offer much gain in a chromebook. Reply
pixelstuff - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkDoes anyone know how they are benefiting by offering these only to Schools? Seems like Lenovo would see better return on their R&D expenses if they offered it to anyone. Are selling near cost?
Are they planning to offer the same chassis under a different model number for the general public? Reply
GNUminex - Thursday, January 17, 2013 - linkI bet they over produced or over purchased on some part and want a way to sell these laptops in bulk without having them compete with newer models. Reply
vision33r - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkYet, no much interest from kids because iPads are all the rage still. I cannot get my kids to use a PC or notebook because the iPad is so much easier to use for them.
I doubt Chromebook would offer the ease of use and app selection that Apple offers with the iPad for kids.
That's why PC makers will continue to suffer in sales while they keep pushing out these low end hardware to cannibalize their own sales of higher model notebooks. Reply
cjb110 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkWait till they get asked to do their first essays! Then see how long the iPad lasts.
iPads are great timewasters, and they do have some very innovative edutainment apps, but a Chromebook *could* work as a kids main machine for most of school life. Reply
Shadowmaster625 - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkThen it has to be an atom because the latest generation ivb celerons arent in anything yet. Reply
Pessimism - Friday, January 18, 2013 - link$500 for a netbook, what are they thinking?! Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, January 18, 2013 - linkI work in a school, and the most damaged thing on the netbooks we have is the keyboard - deliberate vandalism - picking keys off, then destruction of the rubber domes.
Far more important that the keyboard be hardy than anything else. Reply
KirkClement - Friday, September 26, 2014 - linkRuggedized Chromebook for K-12, drop and spill resistant, retractable handle, removable battery, Celeron 2.16GHz processor, 4GB RAM, start $299. firstname.lastname@example.com Reply


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Massachusetts Bar Association Vice President Douglas K. Sheff
will be honored with the President's Award for Excellence in
Advocacy from the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys this
May. Sheff is being recognized for his representation of children
and adults who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. This is the
first time the award will be presented.
"Doug's representation of TBI victims sets the standard in
representing the underrepresented for the trial bar," said MATA
President Christopher Milne, who will present Sheff with the award
on May 19 at the academy's annual dinner in Newton. A past
president of MATA, Sheff has served on its Board of Governors for
more than 20 years.
Sheff has represented clients with TBI since 1984. A combination
of cutting edge advocacy and proper utilization of medical
technologies has enabled him to deliver consistently favorable
results on his clients' behalf.
Currently serving his second term as MBA vice president, Sheff is
also a member of the MBA's Executive Management Board and Budget
and Finance Committee. In addition, he served as MBA secretary in
2007-08 and as chair of the MBA Civil Litigation Section in
2005-06. Sheff also serves as chair of the MBA Membership Committee
and has chaired the MBA Annual Dinner Committee.
"This high honor is a reminder of the tireless commitment of
attorneys on behalf of their clients. Doug's example of
professionalism and altruism has had an immeasurable impact in MBA
leadership and the larger Massachusetts legal community," said MBA
President Valerie A. Yarashus.
In addition to his professional affiliations in the commonwealth,
Sheff holds the title of governor to the American Association of
Justice, where he has spent more than 20 years working nationally
and locally on issues that affect the trial bar. Elected by his
national peers, Sheff chairs the AAJ's State Delegates and served
as chair of its Council of Presidents. Sheff is a recipient of the
AAJ's Next Generation Award and a five-time recipient of its
Wiedeman Wysocki Award.
Sheff has also been appointed a trustee of the National College of
Advocacy, which provides education for lawyers across the United
States. Also, he received the ORT Award for integrity in the law
and has been recognized by the publication, "Lifesavers," for
preventing injury through aggressive representation of victims of
defective products.