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Well, for those of you who have been yearning for snow all season, you got your wish last Friday. As I write this on Monday, it's predicted we'll see more of it today, Tuesday. While I'm not a fan of the white stuff, it was very pretty, and the best part was the road crews had it cleared from the highways on my way to work that morning.
I constantly applaud those folks who keep our roads safe during inclement weather. They are truly a bunch of lifesavers ... literally, so when you see them out and about, make sure you give them a well-deserved pat on the back.
So what's the BigDeal? Every week, the Bureau County Republican teams up with area merchants to offer you a cash-saving opportunity. You can find our BigDeals! on our website at www.bcrnews.com. Following are our BigDeals! for this week:
• Ready to get in shape? Get a 20-punch fitness card for only $50 at the Bureau County Metro Center in Princeton. This card is good for land, water and spin classes only. This is a great deal, since it's regularly-priced at $100.
• Treat yourself to three infrared sessions for only $21 at Sophisticuts Salon and Day Spa in Princeton. Regularly priced at $42, an infrared sauna safely penetrates deep into joints and muscles and helps you excrete toxins, boosts your immune system, aids in weight control and improves cardiovascular health.
So what did you think of this year's Academy Awards. My pick for best picture was "Argo," so I was glad it won. Did your favorites win? It's always fun to see some of the attire the actresses wear to this annual event. What the heck!
Just a reminder: Daylight Saving Time begins March 10. That's when we "spring forward" and get ourselves an extra hour of daylight. Yee-ha!
Last week, I had the opportunity to visit the Hampshire Colony Congregational Church's Lenten Meditation and Luncheon, held every Wednesday until Easter. Performing last week was Blaze, comprised of Mary McCauley, Jay, Clare, Tori and Evan Suarez, and Justus Bystry, all of Princeton. Oh my gosh! If you ever get the opportunity to hear these folks play, please do. Wow! Talk about talent! I understand they regularly lead the music at St. Louis Catholic Church in Princeton. I can't say enough great things about Blaze and the music they played/sang. What I can say is St. Louis must feel extremely proud to have such talented musicians at Mass. I'm not sure of Blaze's schedule, but I'm sure the church would be able to tell you when they'll be playing again. Incredible!
The Hampshire Colony Congregational Church's Lenten Meditation and Luncheons begin every Wednesday at 12:10 p.m. A variety of local musicians perform, followed by a simple luncheon. The church accepts a freewill offering. It's a great event. I hope you'll attend. Check out the Bureau County Journal to see a photo of Blaze and a list of musicians you can expect to see.
Throughout the county, there are a plethora of other Lenten services, fish frys and other fundraisers. Please help out, and attend one or several of these events.
Thought for today: "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." Henry David Thoreau.
Thought for tomorrow: "Never confuse movement with action." Ernest Hemingway.
March arrives at the end of this week, and we've already torn two pages off this year's calendar. While it's easy to say time is getting away from us, I'm challenging myself to make better use of my time, which means I need to spend more time with the people I love. After all, like I've said before, life is not a dress rehearsal. Have a great week, and remember ... you are important to me and the BCR.
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The Garden, which opened in 1999, spans 80 acres and boasts 20 specialty gardens, as well as waterfalls, fountains, quiet ponds, a working tree farm, tram tours, a summer concert series and the Gordon House, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is open to the public.
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Sunday Shows Let Romney Surrogates Dismiss Public Demand For More Tax Returns
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CNN and NBC Sunday shows allowed Mitt Romney campaign surrogates to claim that the American people aren't interested in seeing more of Romney's tax returns, even as polling shows most Americans think Romney should release more of his returns.
Polling Shows Most Americans Think Romney Should Release More Tax Returns
CNN/ORC: 63 Percent Of Americans Want Romney To Release Additional Tax Returns. An August 9 CNN poll revealed that 63 percent of Americans believe Romney should release more of his tax returns. From the poll:
CNN/ORC: 67 Percent Of Independents Believe Romney Should Release More Of His Tax Returns. The CNN/ORC poll also found that 67 percent of independents believe Romney should release more of his tax returns. [CNN/ORC poll, 8/9/12]
Gallup: 54 Percent Of Americans Want Romney To Release Additional Returns. According to a July Gallup poll, a "majority of Americans (54%) say Mitt Romney should release additional tax returns." Gallup's report included the following chart:
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But CNN, NBC Let Romney Surrogates Claim Americans Don't Care About Romney's Taxes
Romney Adviser Eric Fehrnstrom: Romney's Tax Returns "Are Not An Issue. It's Not What The American People Are Talking About." During an interview on CNN's State of the Union, Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom said that Romney's tax returns "are not an issue. It's not what the American people are talking about." Guest host Jim Acosta failed to challenge Fehrnstrom's claim. From State of the Union:
JIM ACOSTA: Mitt Romney came out and volunteered earlier this week that he hadn't paid less than 13 percent as an effective tax rate in his taxes. Why won't Mitt Romney prove it and just put his tax returns out there?
ERIK FERNSTROM: Well, I'll tell you, Mitt Romney has put out -- he's said he'll put out two years' worth of tax returns. He has put out his full 2010 return, hundreds of pages of tax return information that's on his website. He'll put out his 2011 returns once it's complete and filed. He's had financial disclosures going back to 2002 when he was governor of Massachusetts. Those, too, can be found on Mitt Romney's website. Look, taxes are not an issue. It's not what the American people are talking about. Just last month, we learned in July that 44 states saw their unemployment rates go up. And what is Obama's answer to that? Higher taxes and more spending. If you are unemployed in America, you must feel like a drowning person who's just been thrown an anchor.
ACOSTA: Alright, Eric Fehrnstrom, thanks very much for your time this morning. We appreciate it. [CNN, State of the Union, 8/19/12]
Gov. Bob McDonnell: Romney's Tax Returns Are "Not What The American People Care About." Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Romney campaign surrogate and Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R-VA) dismissed the notion that Americans are interested in Romney's tax returns, saying, "[T]his is not what the American people are about. This is below their dignity." Host David Gregory failed to challenge McDonnell's claim. From the program:
DAVID GREGORY: Direct question related to that answer: Was that 13 percent in federal income tax? Is that what he paid? Why won't he answer more? Should he?
McDONNELL: This issue is not about Mitt Romney's tax returns. That's not what Americans care about; they care about their own tax returns and the whopping increases in taxes and regulation that this administration has put on the American people and what they're going to put on. Here's what we know about his tax returns: He's paid his taxes. He's released more documents than he needs to. He's made a lot of money. He's been successful, and he's a very generous guy. Now I say, let's talk about what the American people are going to vote on, and that's jobs, debt, spending, energy, and the American dream. Mitt Romney's laid out a five-point plan for the middle class focusing on debt reduction and small business and trade and workforce development. I mean, these are the substantive issues Martin and I can agree that --
GREGORY: Governor O'Malley, do you really think that Mitt Romney --
McDONNELL: -- that Americans care about. Not tax returns.
GREGORY: Is he lying about his tax returns? Do you think he didn't pay taxes?
McDONNELL: That's just flat wrong, Martin. I mean this is the same reckless and slanderous remarks that Harry Reid said a couple of weeks ago. And this, you know, this is not what the American people care about. This is below their dignity. This is about how do we get the greatest country on earth out of debt and back to work? And Obama's just flat failed. Nice guy, bad policies. Hasn't got the job done. It's time for a change. And I'd say the Ryan-Romney ticket that's positive and optimistic and believes in the American dream and wants to get people back to having an opportunity to succeed. That's what we need to talk about. And these other diversionary issues on accusing Ryan of throwing grandma over the cliff, and Romney of killing somebody's wife, and not paying taxes -- these are diversions. Let's talk about the issues.
GREGORY: Let's talk about Medicare then. [NBC, Meet the Press, 8/19/12]
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Charlie Sheen to ex-LAPD fugitive Christopher Dorner: 'Call me'
Actor Charlie Sheen, who was mentioned along with other celebrities by fugitive triple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner in his online manifesto, has delivered a message of his own the accused killer in the form of a video released to TMZ.
Funeral set for Riverside officer allegedly slain by Christopher Dorner
The funeral for the Riverside officer allegedly killed by fugitive ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Grove Community Church, 19900 Grove Community Drive in Riverside, Riverside police officials said in a written statement.
Ex-LAPD fugitive Christopher Dorner featured in Oklahoma newspaper after turning in found cash in 2002
Accused triple-murderer and fugitive Christopher Dorner, who has dominated news headlines in recent days as an intense search for him has spanned California and beyond, was featured in an Oklahoma newspaper in a much more positive light in 2002.
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CNN broadcast a surveillance video Saturday night which it says shows a man believed to be alleged triple-murder suspect Christopher Dorner throwing something into a trash bin behind a business in National City on Monday.
Dorner continues to elude officers; LAPD to reopen investigation that led to suspect's firing
A renegade ex-cop wanted for three murders eluded capture for a third day on Saturday, as Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck announced he will review the disciplinary proceedings that led to the fugitive's firing.
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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck sat down for an interview with with CBS Saturday afternoon in which he announced he would take another look at the case of Christopher Dorner's dismissal.
Torrance residents still reeling from LAPD shooting wrong pickup in hunt for Christopher Dorner
Gouges left by a storm of stray bullets remained visible in trees, cars and garage doors on Saturday afternoon residents on Redbeam Avenue in Torrance began their return to normalcy.
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LAPD Chief Beck releases a statement on why he is looking into the circumstances surrounding the termination of Christopher Dorner, suspected in three murders and currently a fugitive.
Christopher Dorner manhunt draws police to Buena Park storage locker
BUENA PARK -- The ongoing manhunt for Christopher Dorner led Irvine police detective to a Buena Park storage locker late Friday, officials said.
Fugitive Christopher Dorner abandoned pickup in Big Bear with broken axle, left weapons and survival gear
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Leading Advocate for Veterans and Military Families to Speak at Ithaca College
ITHACA, NY — A businessman and philanthropist who is one of the nation's leading advocates for veterans and military families will give a talk at Ithaca College on Wednesday, March 26. Kenneth Fisher, chairman and CEO of the Fisher House Foundation, will present "Our Nation's Wounded: Leadership Challenges in a Time of Austerity" at 7 p.m. in room 111 of the Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise.
Free and open to the public, his talk can also be viewed live online at www.livestream.com/icbusiness.
Fisher is a senior partner at the New York City-based Fisher Brothers real estate firm, where he oversees the leasing, management and marketing of commercial space in Midtown Manhattan and Washington, D.C. His primary philanthropic work is with the Fisher House Foundation, a nonprofit organization that constructs "comfort homes" near military hospitals and VA medical centers where families can stay at no cost while a loved one is receiving treatment.
In his talk, Fisher will discuss how he uses his business background to run the foundation and keep it "agile," how Fisher House helped veterans by providing services during last fall's federal government shutdown, and his service on the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors. He will also offer some insight on the defense budget, the effects of the 2013 budget sequestration and the future challenges faced by our military.
Founded in 1990, the Fisher House Foundation has so far built 63 houses in the United States and Germany. The houses have served more than 200,000 families and saved them more than $200 million in lodging and travel costs to date. The foundation also administers the Hero Miles and Hotel for Heroes programs, which allow others to donate frequent flyer miles and hotel reward points to military families.
In 2007, Fisher was appointed by George W. Bush to the President's Commission on Care for America's Returning Wounded Warriors, which conducted a comprehensive review of the care provided to soldiers who return from the battlefield.
For his many humanitarian efforts, Fisher has been honored with the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary's Award, the U.S. Army's George C. Marshall Medal and Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service, and the Public Awareness Award from the Paralyzed Veterans of America. Other recognition includes receiving the Harry B. Helmsley Distinguished New Yorker Award and being named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report and Harvard University's Center for Public Leadership.
Fisher is a member of the executive committees of the Real Estate Board of New York Board of Governors, the City Investment Fund and the Washington, D.C.-based Real Estate Round Table. He has served as cochair of the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City, on the board of directors of the Jackie Robinson Foundation and New York's Finest Foundation, and on the board of trustees of the New York City Association for the Help of Retarded Children and the Command and General Staff College Foundation at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.
Funding for Fisher's visit is being provided by the Jahn Family Civic Leadership Fund, established by Robert Jahn Jr. for the purpose of supporting the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programs at Ithaca College through curriculum development, a speakers program and other activities. While at the college, Fisher will also be meeting with ROTC cadets.
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HEAR why a thrilling and unique brand of contemporary folk music has earned a band international recognition.
Breabach are the latest guests at the Fleecey Folk night at the Fleece Inn, Bretforton, near Evesham, on Wednesday, May 21 when they play the Barn fresh from being nominated as Best Band in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014.
The Scottish group is considered one of the UK's most dynamic and powerful bands, incorporating highland bagpipes, ?ddle, guitar, bass, ?ute, bouzouki, step dance, Gaelic and Scots song to produce a dynamic, diverse and captivating performance.
Their repertoire effortlessly fuses traditional and contemporary while underlining their commitment and passion for their musical heritage as well as displaying a willingness to explore and challenge boundaries.
The concert starts at 8pm and tickets are £15.
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The Most Reliable Windows Notebook is… a MacBook Pro?
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New study shows that Apple's 13" MacBook Pro running Boot Camp is the most reliable Windows notebook
Apple vs. Microsoft, OS X vs. Windows -- these are comparisons that pit fanboys from each side against each other with little middle ground. The two sides have bickered for years with Windows fans bragging about lower prices and larger market share, while OS X backers cite high quality, reliable machines and the lack of significant malware penetration.
Today, however, an Israeli PC management firm has added a slight twist in the age-old Mac vs. PC debate. Between January 1st, 2013 and April 1st, 2013, Soluto monitored 150,000 notebook computers running Windows and analyzed the data from:
224,144 crashes
250,791 hangs
84,251 BSoDs
1,346,000 boot cycles
62,476 hours spent on boot
After analyzing the above data and giving each machine a "Soluto Score", the results of the study were quite surprising. The results showed that the most reliable "PC" was the
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Soluto attributes this victory to the fact that a MacBook Pro running a copy of Windows via Boot Camp is free of the typical bloatware that comes with a brand new Windows machine. To this point, Soluto opines, "PC makers should look at this data and aspire to ship PCs that perform just as well as a cleanly installed MacBook Pro."
To those that say that a clean install of Windows on a MacBook Pro isn't a fair comparison, Soluto offers this consolation, "One could argue that we should not compare a cleanly installed MacBook Pro with an OEM-imaged PC from Acer or Dell… But – for this first report we simply compared the real PCs in the field, some with original images and some reinstalled by their users. We believe it's more representative of reality."
Rounding out the top five entries were the Acer Aspire E1-571, Dell XPS 13, Dell Vostro 3560, and the Acer Aspire V3-771. The 15" Retina MacBook Pro, three more Dells, and a single Lenovo entry fleshed out the top 10. Notebooks from ASUS, Samsung, Toshiba, and Samsung were nowhere to be found on the list.
Ed Bott reckons that the reason for the strong showings by Acer and Dell in the study is the companies' relatively bloat-free installs, with very few third-party utilities to muck with users' computers. On the other hand, Samsung, which didn't make the list, is notorious for filling machines with needless third-party software junk.
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Judy Wasylycia-Leis is the front-runner to become Winnipeg's next mayor, according to poll results released this morning.
The poll, commissioned by online news outlet ChrisD.ca, shows the former NDP MP with 21 per cent of respondents, eight per centage points more than political newcomer Brian Bowman (13 per cent) and nine points ahead of former Winnipeg city councillor Gord Steeves (12 per cent).
Robert-Falcon Ouellette and Paula Havixbeck earned six and two per cent of the decided vote, the poll indicates, with the largest group of voters remaining undecided (39 per cent).
When the 39-per-cent undecided vote is removed from the results presented by Forum, Wasylycia-Leis had the support of 34 per cent of decided voters, followed by Bowman at 20 per cent, Steeves at 19 per cent, Ouellette at 10 per cent and Havixbeck at three per cent, with others at 13 per cent.
Pollsters typically report the decided vote in the belief it is a better indicator of voter intentions at a given point in time.
The poll, a random sampling of 606 Winnipeg voters, was done by the Forum Poll research group.
"In municipal politics especially, name recognition is everything, which is why incumbency matters so much. Judy's been a good federal foot soldier in Winnipeg for years, and she's well known for it, so there's no surprise in her leading the race at this point," Dr. Lorne Bozinoff, founder and president of Forum Research, said in a statement.
As expected, Wasylycia-Leis is doing well with NDP voters (32 per cent) and Liberals (27 per cent), while Bowman (20 per cent) and Steeves (24 per cent) are popular within the Conservative sect. Bowman is also trending well with the Liberals vote (24 per cent).
Accountability and infrastructure renewal are seen to be the biggest issues among voters, with both subjects garnering 27 per cent of the interest. Taxation (11 per cent), crime (10 per cent), homelessness and downtown revitalization (seven per cent) and insect control (four per cent) are the issues deemed less important to voters, according to the poll.
The poll was conducted Wednesday and has margin of error of plus or minus four per cent, 19 out of 20 times.


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FOUR people were killed in a horrific crash at Cannington when a driver misjudged a "reckless" overtake and lost control at high-speed on a blind bend, an inquest heard.
Jeffrey Hinton, 68, of West Street, Bridgwater, died when the VW Passat he was driving crashed head-on into a Vauxhall Astra on the A39 heading the opposite direction towards Bridgwater.
Percy Darby, 76, his wife Anne, 73 and Susan Fellows, 59, all from the West Midlands, were passengers in the Astra and died in the collision on June 5 last year.
The driver was treated in hospital and survived.
At the inquest into their deaths at Taunton's Old Municipal Building today (January 15), it was said that Mr Hinton, a widower, was trying to overtake a 4x4 and caravan and had a near miss with a lorry travelling the other direction.
Marcus Garratt, who was in the car behind Mr Hinton, said: "I cringed – I didn't think there was going to be enough room.
"The Passat came back onto the correct side of the road then accelerated into the bend. He must've been travelling at 70mph."
Drivers heading in the other direction described Mr Hinton 'fighting' with the steering wheel, but ultimately he lost control of the car and smashed into the oncoming Astra.
He was already travelling at speed in order to overtake the caravan when the bend approached, it was said.
At the time of Mr Hinton's death, friends described him as "kind-hearted and generous" with an "amazing sense of humour."
West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose returned verdicts of accidental death for all four victims.
He said: "This is one of the most serious roads in my jurisdiction and every single death on it is as a result of human error.
"I've not seen such a serious lack of control of a car as I have seen today for a long time. I do not know why he took this stupid action – it was a reckless and careless overtake."


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Cruise — As told to Diane M. Byrne
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The Time of Their Lives
|Come along on the far-flung adventures a family experiences aboard a charter headed around the world.
Scott, Betty, and daughter Kate (names changed by request) set off on a remarkable exploration when they chartered the 107-foot Askari (see top photo) for a ten-month trip beginning last summer. Embarking in Trinidad, they and Askari's seven-person crew headed to Venezuela, Bonaire, the San Blas Islands, Panama, Costa Rica, Cocos Island, and other South Pacific atolls. Betty and Kate, with help from her teacher Michelle, who came along, sent e-mails home to share their experiences with family and friends (and, in Kate's case, fellow students, thanks to a Web site she and Michelle set up for them). The following are excerpts from Betty's diary.
There are about 300 islands in the San Blas, with 20 or so populated by Kuna Indians. They say there are about 40,000 Kunas here, and they live primitively—no electricity, no running water, and no TV! The males fish, catch lobster and crabs, and pick the local fruits (both for their families and to sell). The women sew molas (beautiful, finely sewn designs on cloth), and most wear bright clothing and lots of beaded decorations on their arms and legs.
Yesterday morning we were approached by some Kuna Indians in dugout canoes. The first boat was full of women and kids selling molas. Of course, we bought many! We also gave the kids sock toys and took photos of them, which Scott printed quickly and gave to them. It was neat to see the kids get so excited.
A little later we were approached by a boat of men and boys selling lobsters. They had about 20 crawling around on the bottom of their canoe. We bought ten (for less than $2 apiece). We also bought a small turtle ($5) they had caught. We took photos of each of us holding the turtle, and then we set him free in the ocean. We couldn't stand to think that someone would eat the turtle for dinner.
We're having a blast—hope ya'll are, too.
Cocos [four miles long, two miles wide, and 2,000 feet tall at its highest peak] is known for some of the best scuba diving in the world. It's also the largest uninhabited island in the world. For five miles around it, the water is a protected marine park, so no fishing is allowed. As a result, you can see a huge amount of fish, and many different kinds.
We've been here two days and have done four dives. Yesterday on our first dive, we saw our first shark. On the same dive we saw our second, third...and hundredth! They are everywhere, mostly white-tipped sharks, and they are gentle and nonaggressive. I got close enough to one to actually pet it.
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This article was published 15/9/2013 (1437 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Justice officials have taken the unusual step of ordering the case of a woman suspected of passing HIV to a sexual partner straight to trial.
Manitoba Justice has authorized a direct criminal indictment against Marjorie Schenkels, 26, on a charge of aggravated sexual assault by endangerment of life.
The direct indictment means Schenkels will not have a preliminary inquiry in provincial court to test the Crown's evidence, a key hearing in sexual assault cases.
Assistant deputy attorney general and prosecutions head Michael Mahon as well as Deputy Justice Minister Donna Miller signed off on the measure.
Schenkels made a first personal appearance in Court of Queen's Bench on Sept. 3. No trial date has been set.
The Winnipeg woman was arrested In May 2012 following a four-month police investigation initiated after a man filed a complaint with the RCMP detachment in Gimli.
RCMP did not disclose his name, age, nor where the alleged offence took place, citing health-privacy legal concerns.
The man complained he believed he had contracted HIV after having sexual intercourse with a woman, RCMP said. The man said after having sex with the woman, he began feeling ill, sought medical attention and learned he had contracted HIV.
The reason for the use of the direct indictment in Schenkels's case is unknown, as is whether either she or her defence lawyer were allowed to make submissions to the justice department before it moved ahead.
Manitoba Justice's policy on direct indictments states the procedure is to be viewed as an "extraordinary step" and to only be used in "exceptional circumstances."
Among the relevant considerations are witness safety and whether the "age, health or other circumstances relating to witnesses requires their evidence to be presented before the trial court as soon as possible," the policy states.
While three men in Winnipeg have been charged with transmitting HIV to a sexual partner, Schenkels is the first Manitoba woman to face such a charge. Schenkels remains free on bail with the consent of the Crown and is subject to several conditions.
The Supreme Court ruled in the late '90s an individual can be charged with aggravated sexual assault if they have HIV and engage in consensual sex that poses a significant risk of transmission of the virus without first disclosing they have the virus to their sexual partner.
Manitoba's most infamous HIV-assault case involved Clato Mabior, whose case went all the way to the Supreme Court. The HIV-positive man was convicted in 2008 of aggravated assault for having sex with six women without disclosing his HIV status. None of Mabior's partners contracted HIV.
In 2010, Mabior was acquitted of four of the charges on appeal. The Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled if an HIV-positive person wears a condom or has a low viral load and, therefore, a low risk of transmitting the virus, sex does not pose a risk of serious bodily harm.
He was deported to Sudan in 2012, before the Supreme Court ruled in his case. The top court ultimately ruled in a similar fashion to the Manitoba appeals court.
HIV is the virus that causes AIDS, a condition that leads to the failure of the body's immune system. The most common form of transmission is through unprotected sex, but the risk of female-to-male transmission is considered far lower than male-to-female transmission.
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Top 20 Names of Guys Who Cheat
Whoa. Ladies, look to your side. Have you hitched your wagon to a guy that will cheat? A new survey says that guys with these names are more likely to stray and play you. Here's the Top 20. Good luck, lol, because from the looks of it Tori Spelling should have known better (Dean is pretty high on the list).


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Last Saturday morning I was grocery shopping and got the idea to try a patty melt, so I picked up a package of 2 burgers made with cheddar and bacon, and formed them into a shape better suited to the bread.
I put Dijon mustard on a couple of slices of rye bread and chose cheddar for the cheese. Traditional patty melts often include grilled onions as well but I left those out.
I partially cooked the burger, put it along with the cheese between the buttered bread slices, and returned it to the grill where I put a weight on top. Unfortunately things kind of went off the track from this point, as I think the mustard added too much moisture to the bread and it didn't toast very well on the grill and I pretty much completely lost 1 slice when trying to flip it. I did add a replacement slice and finish it, but it was a pretty sloppy end result.
At least it still tasted pretty good. A lot of the cheese bits disappeared during the grilling process but the slices I added made up for it.
Next time I'll add the mustard after it's done!


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From San Jose to Guapiles
From San Jose take highway 32 toward Limon. After you cross Braulio Carillo you will arrive to Guapiles.
From Guapiles to Cariari
When you get to Guapiles turn left (north) at the Santa Clara gasoline station just a few hundred meters east of the Burger King. Approximately 8.1 kilometers north of the Santa Clara Gasoline station you will reach a cross road. Turn left so you do not cross the rail road tracks yet. Follow the train tracks west for approx. 0.7 kilometers and then turn right on the main highway (crossing the tracks) and continue north towards Cariari.
From Cariari to la Pavona
Set your odometer to zero at the only gas station in Cariari (200 meters past the single lane bridge coming into town). Drive straight for 7 kilometers and turn right onto the newly paved highway. There is a sign here indicating Campo Dos. Follow this paved road until you get to Cuatro Esquinas (approximately 14.5 km after the gas station). Continue straight on though Cuatro Esquinas. Here the pavement ends. Follow the gravel road (Do not make any turns at road junctions!) until you reach the general store ('Abast Palacio') in the tiny village of Palacios on the right (23.4 km after the gas station). 50 meters after the general store is a road going off to the left. There are signs directing you to Tortuguero. Follow this road for 5.7 km (29.1 km after the gas station) when you reach La Pavona. There is safe parking here for a fee ($10 per night, or $50 per week) which includes 24 hour security.
At la Pavona
Both Coopetraca and Clic Clic's boats will be awaiting (they leave for Tortuguero from Pavona at around 7:30am, 1:00pm and 4:00pm). You should arrive at least a half an hour early just in case the boats leave early. (They leave as soon as the public bus arrives.)
Approximate driving time from San Jose to Cariari: 2 hours.
Approximate driving time from Cariari to La Pavona: 1 hour.
Another option is to fly to Tortuguero Airport with Nature air daily flight.
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Best location to enjoy the wildlife and all the activities that offer Tortuguero (Turtle nesting, canal boat tour, kayak, hiking, fishing....).
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- Cisco Nexus 7000 Series OTV Quick Start Guide
- Configuring an OTV Network
- Configuring a Physical Interface
- Configuring a VLAN
- Configuring OTV
- Configuration Examples for OTV
- Configuration Example for Load Balancing
- Verifying the OTV Configuration
- Default Settings for OTV
- Licensing Requirements for OTV
- Prerequisites for OTV
- Guidelines and Limitations for OTV
- Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Cisco Nexus 7000 Series OTV Quick Start Guide
This guide describes the basic configuration for Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) on Cisco NX-OS devices. OTV is a MAC-in-IP method that extends Layer 2 connectivity across a transport network infrastructure. OTV uses MAC address-based routing and IP-encapsulated forwarding across a transport network to provide support for applications that require Layer 2 adjacency, such as clusters and virtualization. You deploy OTV on the edge devices in each site.Related Information
Configuring an OTV Network
This procedure provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how to configure an OTV edge device. This procedure includes the configuration for a physical interface that acts as the join interface, and a VLAN that is extended over the overlay network. This procedure should be applied to each OTV Edge Device.
A basic OTV configuration requires IP connectivity of the OTV Edge Device to the transport network connecting all OTV edge devices. Also, VLANs that will be extended using OTV have to be configured on the OTV edge devices. Once these prerequisites are fulfilled, you can configure OTV.
Configuring a Physical InterfaceProcedure
This procedure shows how to configure a physical interface for IP connectivity to the IP transport network.
What to Do Next
You must configure static or dynamic routing and enable the interface with the no shutdown command.
Configuring a VLAN
Configuring OTVBefore You BeginProcedure
Ensure that you have configured a physical interface that provides connectivity to the IP core and that you have configured the VLANs that will be extended over the OTV network.
What to Do Next
You need to enable the interface with the no shutdown command.
Configuration Examples for OTV
This example displays how to configure a basic OTV network that uses the configuration default values:!Configure the physical interface that OTV uses to reach the ! DCI transport infrastructure interface ethernet 2/1 ip address 192.0.2.1/24 ip igmp version 3 no shutdown !Configure the VLAN that will be extended on the overlay network ! and the site-vlan vlan 2,5-10 ! Configure OTV including the VLANs that will be extended. feature otv otv site-vlan 2 otv site-identifier 256 interface Overlay1 otv control-group 184.108.40.206 otv data-group 18.104.22.168/28 otv join-interface ethernet 2/1 !Extend the configured VLAN otv extend-vlan 5-10 no shutdown
Configuration Example for Load Balancing
Basic OTV Network
The following example displays how to configure load balancing on two edge devices in the same site:Edge Device 1 interface ethernet 2/1 ip address 192.0.2.1/24 ip igmp version 3 no shutdown vlan 5-10 feature otv otv site-identifier 256 interface overlay 1 otv control-group 184.108.40.206 otv data-group 126.96.36.199/29 otv join-interface ethernet 2/1 otv extend-vlan 5-10 no shutdown Edge Device 2 interface ethernet 1/1 ip address 192.0.2.16/24 ip igmp version 3 no shutdown vlan 5-10 feature otv otv site-identifier 256 interface overlay 2 otv control group 184.108.40.206 otv data-group 188.8.131.52/29 otv join-interface ethernet 1/1 otv extend-vlan 5-10 no shutdown
Verifying the OTV Configuration
To display the OTV configuration, perform one of the following tasks:
show running-configuration otv [all]
Displays the running configuration for OTV.
show otv overlay [interface]
Displays information about overlay interfaces.
show otv adjacency [detail]
Displays information about the adjacencies on the overlay network.
show otv [overlay interface] [vlan [vlan-range] [authoritative | detail]]
Displays information about VLANs that are associated with an overlay interface.
show otv isis site [database | statistics]
Displays the BFD configuration state on both local and neighboring edge devices.
show otv site [ all]
Displays information about the local site.
show otv [route [interface [neighbor-address ip-address]] [vlan vlan-range] [mac-address]]
Displays information about the OTV routes.
show otv mroute vlan vlan-id startup
Displays the OTV multicast route information for a specific VLAN from the OTV Routing Information Base (ORIB).
show forwarding distribution otv multicast route vlan vlan-id
Displays Forwarding Information Base (FIB) OTV multicast route information for a specific VLAN.
show otv vlan-mapping [overlay interface-number]
Displays VLAN translation mappings from a local site to a remote site.
show mac address-table
Displays information about MAC addresses.
show otv internal adjacency
Displays information about additional tunnels on the overlay network.
Default Settings for OTV
This table lists the default settings for OTV parameters.
Table 1 Default OTV Parameter Settings
OTV feature
Advertised VLANs
ARP and ND suppression
Graceful restart
Site VLAN
Site identifier
IS-IS overlay hello interval
20 seconds (Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2 or later)
4 seconds (Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2 through Cisco NX-OS Release 6.1)
10 seconds (Cisco NX-OS releases prior to 5.2)
IS-IS overlay hello multiplier
IS-IS site hello interval
3 seconds (Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2 or later)
1 second (Cisco NX-OS releases prior to 6.2)
IS-IS site hello multiplier
20 (Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2 or later)
10 (Cisco NX-OS releases prior to 6.2)
IS-IS CSNP interval
10 seconds
IS-IS LSP interval
33 milliseconds
Overlay route tracking
Site BFD
Tunnel depolarization with IP pools
Licensing Requirements for OTV
Prerequisites for OTV
OTV has the following prerequisites:
- Globally enable the OTV feature.
- Enable IGMPv3 on the join interfaces.
- Ensure connectivity for the VLANs to be extended to the OTV edge device.
- If you configure VDCs, install the Advanced Services license and enter the desired VDC (see the Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS Virtual Device Context Configuration Guide).
Guidelines and Limitations for OTV
OTV has the following configuration guidelines and limitations:
- If the same device serves as the default gateway in a VLAN interface and the OTV edge device for the VLANs being extended, configure OTV on a device (VDC or switch) that is separate from the VLAN interfaces (SVIs).
- When possible, we recommend that you use a separate nondefault VDC for OTV to allow for better manageability and maintenance.
- An overlay interface will only be in an up state if the overlay interface configuration is complete and enabled (no shutdown). The join interface has to be in an up state.
- Configure the join interface and all Layer 3 interfaces that face the IP core between the OTV edge devices with the highest maximum transmission unit (MTU) size supported by the IP core. OTV sets the Don't Fragment (DF) bit in the IP header for all OTV control and data packets so the core cannot fragment these packets.
- Only one join interface can be specified per overlay. You can decide to use one of the following methods:
- If your network includes a Cisco Nexus 1000V switch, ensure that switch is running 4.0(4)SV1(3) or later releases. Otherwise, disable Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) and Neighbor Discovery (ND) suppression for OTV.
- The transport network must support PIM sparse mode (ASM) or PIM-Bidir multicast traffic.
- OTV is compatible with a transport network configured only for IPv4. IPv6 is not supported.
- Do not enable PIM on the join interface.
- ERSPAN ACLs are not supported for use with OTV.
- Ensure the site identifier is configured and is the same for all edge devices on a site. OTV brings down all overlays when a mismatched site identifier is detected from a neighbor edge device and generates a system message.
- Any upgrade from an image that is earlier than Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2(1) to an image that is Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2(1) or later in an OTV network is disruptive. A software image upgrade from Cisco NX-OS Release 5.2(1) or later to Cisco NX-OS Release 6.0(1) is not disruptive.
- Any upgrade from an image that is earlier than Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(2) to an image that is Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(2) or later in an OTV network is disruptive. When you upgrade from any previous release, the OTV overlay needs to be shut down for ISSU to operate.
- You must upgrade all edge devices in the site and configure the site identifier on all edge devices in the site before traffic is restored. An edge device with an older Cisco NX-OS release in the same site can cause traffic loops. You should upgrade all edge devices in the site during the same upgrade window. You do not need to upgrade edge devices in other sites because OTV interoperates between sites with different Cisco NX-OS versions.
- Beginning with Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2, OTV supports the coexistence of F1 or F2e Series modules with M1 or M2 Series modules in the same VDC.
- For OTV fast convergence, remote unicast MAC addresses are installed in the OTV Routing Information Base (ORIB), even on non-AED VLANs.
- For OTV fast convergence, even non-AED OTV devices create a delivery source, delivery group (DS,DG) mapping for local multicast sources and send a join request to remote sources if local receivers are available. As a result, there are two remote data groups instead of one for a particular VLAN, source, group (V,S,G) entry.
- One primary IP address and no more than three secondary IP addresses are supported for OTV tunnel depolarization.
- F3 Series modules do not support the VLAN translation and traffic depolarization features in Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(6).
- F3 Series modules support the OTV traffic depolarization feature in Cisco NX-OS Release 6.2(8).
- F2 Series modules in a specific VDC do not support OTV. F2e modules work only as internal interfaces in an OTV VDC.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, using the Cisco Bug Search Tool (BST), submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, at: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html.
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The projects for the Google Summer of Code 2011 at Crystal Space have been chosen.
We are happy to have got once again six slots.
Here is the list of accepted projects:
- Antony Martin: support of GLSL shaders
- Santiago Sánchez : approximating dynamic global illumination
- Alexandru-Teodor Voicu: real-time self-shadowing for dynamic transparent objects
- Matthieu Kraus: adding OpenCL support to lighter2
- Liu Lu: improvements of the collision and physics systems
- Alin Baciu : Video decode support
Congratulations to our students, commiserations to all others who have unfortunately not been accepted, we encourage them to try again next year!


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News for Youse: Grammy nominations, QLT lays off staff, and Kate Middleton leaves hospital
Grammy nominations announced Mission's Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is nominated for the song of the year and Burnaby's Michael Bublé is a finalist for best traditional pop vocal album (Christmas). Other Canadian Grammy nominees are Drake—best rap song, best rap album, and best rap performance ("HYFR")—Tegan and Sara (best long form music video for "Get Along"), Melanie Fiona (best traditional R&B performance), Arcade Fire (best song written for visual media), Deadmau5 (best dance/electronic album), and Loreena McKennit (best new age album). Here's the full list of nominees.
Transit shuffle criticized Bus driver and Coquitlam councillor Brent Asmundsen is among those who is speaking out against TransLink's bus-optimization plan, which will move service hours to busier areas.
QLT lays off staff Vancouver-based former biotech darling QLT has announced a 42-percent reduction in its workforce. This came as a result of last September's sale of its rights to Visudyne, which treats age-related macular degeneration, to Valeant Pharmaceuticals International.
Apple will make computers in U.S. Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook has promised that his company will start manufacturing a computer in the United States next year.
F-bombs in Parliament Government house leader Peter Van Loan walked across the floor and allegedly swore at NDP house leader Nathan Cullen in the midst of debate on the budget bill.
Montreal massacre anniversary It's the 23rd anniversary of gunman Marc Lépine's shooting rampage at L'Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, in which he murdered 14 women.
Tanks in Cairo streets The Egyptian army has been deployed close to the presidential palace after violence between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood left six dead and nearly 700 injured.
Hockey talks continue NHL owners and players will resume discussions for the third consecutive day and this time, it's expected they'll be joined by commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL Players Association executive director Donald Fehr.
Kate leaves hospital The Duchess of Cambridge is resting at Kensington Palace after three days in hospital with severe morning sickness.
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Dec 6, 2012 at 10:10am
Just one more step down the low road of bully politics. But, IMO, it does explain why recent anti-bullying motions were defeated. It would be too hard to lead by example.
Dec 6, 2012 at 1:17pm
Egypt: Yet another example of why democracy cannot be DELIVERED to any nation. It must be earned by citizens who actually understand what the word means. See also "Iraq", "Afghanistan". etc.


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HAMMOND — Louisiana legislators need to rework the education accountability and choice laws that siphon resources from public schools, punish teachers based on faulty measuring tools and disproportionately affect at-risk students, a panel of Tangipahoa Parish educators and elected officials said.
"We had an opportunity to transform the traditional education system, and we missed it," state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member Lottie Beebe said during a Tuesday evening forum sponsored by private nonprofit Louisiana Progress and The Daily Star.
Education reforms have been implemented too quickly, Beebe said, and will siphon money from the traditional education system rather than help it improve.
Rep. John Bel Edwards, D-Amite, said that after a state court found the use of Minimum Foundation Program funds to support the voucher program unconstitutional, the state likely will seek alternative ways to fund vouchers.
That could happen either through a separate, line-item appropriation or an effort to scale back the MFP, which has remained flat for four years already, and reroute some of that money to vouchers, Edwards said.
"Is that what they're going to do? I hope not," he said.
Teacher Karen Bell said the reforms have limited not only funding but also flexibility, dictating which skills students must be taught, how and on what timetable, with no regard for each student's abilities.
Theresa Hamilton, chief academic officer for the Tangipahoa Parish school system, said it takes a different teacher skill set, as well as smaller classes, to reach at-risk students, Hamilton said. More than 75 percent of the parish's students are considered at-risk, being eligible for free or reduced price lunches, she said.
However, the state's new system for evaluating teachers has contributed to the growing number of educators retiring, Hamilton said. Tangipahoa Parish has lost 75 teachers since August, she said, and the district's ability to retain teachers has weakened.
The evaluation system's use of students' standardized test scores as a measure of teacher effectiveness misconstrues the value of testing, said James Kirylo, professor at Southeastern Louisiana University.
"The purpose of assessment is to improve teaching and learning," Kirylo said. "There is very little evidence that standardized tests do that."
The heavy reliance on test scores for measuring teacher effectiveness and district performance has narrowed and "dumbed down" the curriculum and made teaching far more rigid, Kirylo said.
"It teaches our children that school is about passing a test, rather than falling in love with learning," he said. "Students don't go to school to perform. They go to school to learn."
The district's principals also feel the pressure of meeting additional state mandates on a tighter budget, said Ashley Walker, principal at Westside Middle School in Amite.
Rep. Chris Broadwater, R-Hammond, said it is imperative that the Legislature stays involved in the conversation.
"It would be a failure of leadership to enact reforms and then walk away and be unwilling to evaluate the effects of what we've done," Broadwater said.


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A Moped and 10 Bicycles for a Parish in Tanzania
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Project Code: 154-01-29
Father Anastas Kaweza, the parish priest, and the catechists who help him minister to the faithful in the widely-scattered Parish of Ebuyu, in the Diocese of Mahenge in Tanzania, have so far been journeying on foot to visit parishioners. Apart from the parish church, there are three outstations where Holy Mass is also celebrated. These outstations are each about 5 or 6 miles apart, and the parish also has 35 small village communities.Given these distances, the priest cannot be everywhere at once, and the people themselves cannot walk every day to the parish church or to the various outstations. As a result, catechists have come to play a vital role in the life of the parish, allowing people to meet in their own villages and to pray and learn about their faith. But not every village has its own catechist, so even the catechists themselves have to do quite a bit of traveling in order to reach the people.Father Anastas Kaweza, the parish priest, and the catechists who help him minister to the faithful have so far been doing all this journeying on foot. And Father Kaweza must also travel to various diocesan meetings and gatherings at the diocesan center in Mahenge, some 30 miles away. As a result, a great deal of time and energy is wasted that could better be spent on pastoral ministry. The parishioners are very poor, already living from hand to mouth with barely enough to feed their own families, so they cannot offer much in the way of financial support for the parish. Father Kaweza has turned to ACN, asking us for the very modest amount of $2,500 so that he can buy a moped and 10 bicycles. We have promised to help him. Will you now give so that he and his catechists can more quickly and easily reach the faithful in Tanzania?Aid to the Church in Need commits to invest your funds where they will have the greatest impact for the Church that we serve. Funds donated to Aid to the Church in Need's projects will be used towards the greatest need in our programs to help keep the Faith alive.
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Irish Road Atlas
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"Those bloody Irish! They're good for nothing! Oh..."
edit Welcome to Ireland, Paddy
Welcome to Ireland Paddy! We're so delighted to have you around in our lovely land of green meadows, sheep, whiskey and busted knee caps. Where all of the Paddies are friendly and kind, until you try to take away their beer, or their women. Not necessarily in that order.
So, you've chosen to travel around? And wisely so. But before you do, let us convey a few basic rules you need to understand when traveling in the land of Guinness.
|No Confetti
Never ever sprinkle confetti, we don't care how happy you are. We don't care if it's your mother's birthday, your sister's wedding, you've had triplets or converted to catholicism. Confetti is considered to be extremely offensive in the Irish culture. Going all the way back to when the Vikings used to throw confetti alongside the roads, pillaging and burning houses to the ground. We repeat, NO CONFETTI!
|Wash your hands. Now.
We Irish value clean washed hands, at any time. A person with clean hands is considered beer worthy and will be embraced warmly into the Irish society. Remember - you can never wash your hands too much or scrub them too hard. Now, wash your hands.
|Stop and Pray
As we are a devout Catholic nation, all visitors must comply with mandatory praying stops. Upon encountering the following sign, all visitors must submit themselves to an immediate praying session. Make sure to perform a proper Catholic mass. We do not care if you're Jewish, Muslim or, heaven forbids, Protestant.
|Do Not Kick Road Barriers
Road barriers are tender beings, made with love and synthetic sheepskin. We kindly ask that you refrain from kicking them.
|Basically You're Fucked, Paddy
Upon seeing this sign you might as well give up and meekly await your unavoidable destiny. If the bus won't get you, the falling rocks will. So, might as well accept it Paddy. You're fucked.
|Geill Sli
Ermmm...errr....ahh...emmm....Oh! Yes!!! Fuck you too!
|Seagulls are Bad
Do not walk on fire when seagulls are present. An old Irish prophecy states that "He who walks on fire when the white birds are in place, shall meet his doom promptly".
|Avoid Jumping Off the Cliffs During a Rock Slide
We would greatly appreciate avoiding jumping from a cliff during a rock slide. This will greatly reduce the amount of mess and gore we normally need to deal with. We thank you for your cooperation.
We are more than happy to you where you are. This service is free of charge.
|Ireland honors Famine
Please feel free to visit our Famine wall, that was established in remembrance of all those poor souls who were banned to death by him.
|New Laws & Regulations in Place
Following the very successful implementation of the smoking prevention laws all over the republic, the Irish government has decided to abolish Zionism from all public houses, government institutions and fish 'n chips parlors. Please refrain from practicing Zionism at any given time.
|Game Over Paddy
You have either exhausted your funds or the national Guinness reservoir. Either way, you have nothing further to look for in Ireland. Game over, Paddy. Go home.


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New ATI Driver UI: The Catalyst Control Centerby Derek Wilson on 9/2/2004 6:00 AM EST
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Bluefront - Monday, September 06, 2004 - linkSo is this new control panel of any use to a non-gamer? Will it have any benefits to people who use AIW cards for their multi-media capabilities? Reply
bobbenedetti - Sunday, September 05, 2004 - linkOn my computer with Windows XP SP2 CCC stumbles through half a dozen errors on startup delaying startup of my antivirus and messenger.
Way too much overhead for what it does.
I deleted it. Reply
HermosaBeach - Sunday, September 05, 2004 - linkQuestsion - I downloaded the new full package (driver and new CCC) on Sept 3. It was 42 MB. I then uninstalled my old 4.8 with the old control panel, rebotted, and then installed the new one. My control panel still looks like the old one ? Is there something I have to do to get the control panel to switch to the new looking skin ? I would like to try out the anti-aliasing and AF demo.
Dave Reply
Reflex - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkval - I have serious difficulty believing your claims. Nearly every programmer I know would laugh silly at what your saying. Yes there is a place for ASM, however there is also a reason we developed higher level languages.
As for the 'driver' taking up more memory...well, who cares if it does not impact performance in any way, shape, or form, which is my point. Memory management means more than memory footprint these days. Its part of the point of .NET. You can go on about how its not asthetically pleasing to you to see a driver taking up so much, but when it comes down to it, its an argument of what you 'like' rather than any valid complaint about the driver or its performance impact on your system. Reply
val - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linklast but not least, little more time you spend will save lot of time of all users of your applications. Reply
val - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkAnd to your examples, i am not student anymore, i must not write again what was already written. But thinking in ASM makes you better programmer. Not like you see in many C codes, where many users are not thinking about how each function will take long time to execute (for example usage of timer related code or string related code in many games in main thread, no use for binary search where it is possible, no use of hash search where it helps,...).
Valerie Reply
val - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkJarredWalton: i am ASM programmer, and trust me or not it takes no longer time. I do not write whole program in ASM, but nearly all executive functions. In fact, the programming of alghoritms is not easier in C/C++ because functions are more or less same. Many functions you have not in C at all or it is too complicated to use (SSE,...). C is easier for OS related code, and so on.
For example I wrote SD card reading/writing for PIC whole in ASM, you cannot do it faster in C, only searching and installing compiler will take you longer. Same with my other projects. Just write the frame in C, executive functions in ASM. What C have what ASM not? Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - link"assembly code is not about to debug ten years, it is about to write code for same time but write it good."
That sounds like something a person who has never written assembly would say. My ASM experience amounts to one class. The final project was a stinking bubble sort algorithm! Sort 10000 integers using a bubble sort. God, I could write that up in C in about an hour, probably less.
Well, that simple project took roughly two weeks of my life, and I was probably the best ASM programmer in the class. Half of my time in the computer lab was spent helping other people figure out why the hell their computer kept crashing every time they ran their code. (Ah, the joys of the old Mac OS with no protected memory....)
If you still don't get it, read that again. A BUBBLE SORT algorithm took two weeks to write in assembly! Granted, I was a programming neophyte back then, but I doubt anyone could write and debug an ASM routine to do a bubble sort in less than a day (without copying/reusing existing code).
Sure, it was fast when it was done, but I could have written a quick sort algorithm in C in less time that would have been much faster due to the use of a better algorithm. If you think writing a bubble sort in ASM would be hard, try writing a quick sort.... Reply
val - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkReflex: i agree with you and i will not complain about usage of game, office or photoshop, but drivers?! Resident services and applications must be small! Reply
val - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkassembly code is not about to debug ten years, it is about to write code for same time but write it good.
And memory usage hurts performance, because many applications are checking how much memory is available before they will alocate it. And i do not like swapping. Reply
Reflex - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkHonestly, the people who bitch about this are the ones who have no clue how to code anyways. They see bigger numbers and assume thats bad, rather than make any attempt to figure out how memory is managed these days and whether or not a large memory footprint is a real issue in a given situation.
Learn about .NET and other programming tools and perhaps you'll be qualified to make statements about program sizes. As it stands now the mentality is that 'bigger memory footprint = bad' when the real question is how that memory is managed, not how much is used. Reply
Reflex - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkHear hear! Reply
JarredWalton - Saturday, September 04, 2004 - linkWith all this talk of programming and such, maybe some of the people should stop and think about things a little more. How much memory (in textures) does that little OpenGL application use? That could conceivably be a decent chunk of the size and RAM usage when the control panel is open. Depending on how the textures are stored (BMP or TAR vs. JPG), the 3D preview application could also be a decent chunk of the overall download.
As far as programmers being "lazy", it has nothing to do with that. How did programmers get good results with 256K of RAM? Well, they scapped graphical interfaces and wrote in assembly code. We need to stop being such lazy people and driving around in cars and using microwaves! We should walk everywhere and cook over a campfire! Part of the reason we now see more intuitive UI design is because programmers have gone beyond assembly coding.
Yes, assembly is still faster, but what would you rather have: Doom 3 in its current incarnation, or Doom 3 that runs twice as fast, with a release date some time around 2015? By 2010, computers will be fast enough that it wouldn't matter if you had the "slower" version of Doom 3 (or pick any other complex game). And if you can code a super-complex engine like Doom 3 and get it debugged and tested using pure assembly before 2015, why aren't you off "building a better mouse trap" instead of complaining about CCC? You could make good money if you have such l33t programming skillz! Reply
Reflex - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkThe 70MB does NOT hurt performance in any way. It is seamlessly swapped out of physical memory as other programs need that space, and as a result there is zero performance hit. The complaints about sloppy coding are also rediculous. We do not know what is being done that takes that much memory, but my guess is that a lot of it is .NET overhead that you will have with any .NET application. Likely individual .NET apps will not take up that much space, however their is a certain amount that needs to be loaded before any .NET application can run.
Regardless, if it causes zero performance hit in any other application, tell me why it should matter to anyone at all? Many of you are busy critiquing code that you cannot even see. Thats rediculous, I invite you to create something with similiar functionality using the tools they are using in less space and *then* you can go criticizing other's code... Reply
val - Friday, September 03, 2004 - link70 MB hurts any way. Far Cry and other games using full size of memory even if you have 1 GB on board. 70 MB is >7% of that size just for design of unused panel? Good developers are rare. Hope that nvidia will not go same way to catch teenager's eyes. Reply
DerekWilson - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkWe've looked into the .NET thing a little more and found that the extra memory usage is manage fairly well and doesn't impact system performance in our limited analysis. If people really want it, we can run a winstone with and without the ccc and report the numbers.
The .NET framework does not come auto installed with SP1 or SP2. The computer we tested this on had SP2 installed and I had to go to windows update and specifically install the .NET framework.
/"Just so you all know (including whoever wrote this review), the ATI skins can be disabled and the default system skin enabled."/
The "system skin" option is poorly done as it does not color the tab panel in a proper fashion. Check display properties, check system properties. Tabs and their associated pages should be an offwhite that is slightly lighter than the manilla background of the window. This inconsistency distracted me enough to not recognize that it was actually not a skin. Reply
val - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkHow surprising you havent seen performance drop due to memory usage with 2 GB onboard :-).
Anyway memory will not be unloaded, it will maybe swapped, but its decreasing performance.
Ati is moving from performance oriented to design oriented company. What will be next? Reply
LoneWolf15 - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkFor everyone saying that "Oh, 60-70MB of RAM is nothing", or "Get broadband you losers", you're missing the point.
Just because you can get away with coding sloppy doesn't mean you should. I call a program that uses this much resources (disk space and RAM) to do the task of driver control settings to be a bloated hog. Give me simple and straightforward over "Gee Whiz" any day. Go back two decades and think about all the things that good programmers accomplished in such small amounts of disk space and RAM, because they HAD to. Personally, I think that programmers should program like they still have to, rather than require a bunch of huge runtime libraries and resources. I don't want funky windows with animated cars in my driver control app...I want a clear interface with labeled buttons and a good help interface for knowing what this setting or that does.
vailr - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkI was looking for ATI to include in CCC an option to disable the two ATI startup services ("ATI Smart" and "ATI Hotkey Poller"). Instead (after Start/Run/services.msc: disabling both ATI services), you then get a popup notice, that "Since ATI Smart is not running, any settings changed in CCC will not be kept".
So, this new CCC looks to be much bloat and no benefit whatsoever. Reply
spartacvs - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkWell said ProviaFan,
Personnally, I feel sorry for peoples who say comments like "get broadband you losers". It shows how some peoples can be ignorants. Specialy when you know their boradband is more probably paid by their mummy and daddy. Reply
ProviaFan - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkThe framework comes integrated in SP2, not SP1, IIRC. :)
But in that case, just get MS to send you a free SP2 CD (no shipping, even), and you'll get the framework also without having to download it (that could be a problem for the people in rural areas with unreliable 21.6k dialup - I was there once, and I feel sorry for them, because they have no other options). Reply
nserra - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkInteresting, have money for the superb 6800 card but don't have for a cheap 128Kb-512Kb internet access.
Driver: 8.25MB VS 8.35MB
Control Panel: 10.8MB VS 13.6MB
New driver IS SMALLER.
Control Center you are not obliged to install IT! If you don't want it! In fact you don't even need to install the Control Panel in order to play games.
Nvidia good drivers are not that good now, because ati have catched up. Not because they are worst.
And I am a .NET programmer and it rocks, so stop complying.
And about the fact you have to install the frame work, I am not sure but I think its part of SP1, so maybe you guys already have it installed and don't even KNOW! Reply
Reflex - Friday, September 03, 2004 - link#28: I only wish more people understood this concept. Its the future of programming and one of the many benefits of the .NET architecture. No longer will apps be bound by memory limitations, and system performance will not be hindered so much by multi-tasking...
Its a good thing. Reply
Novaoblivion - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkAs a .NET developer I know that the releasing of memory when it is needed is true. I have played around with it a lot as when I first started using .NET I was concerned about losing a lot of memory to the runtime. However it does realease the memory and I havent seen any performance problems again. Reply
johnsonx - Friday, September 03, 2004 - link/grumpy old man voice
When I was a kid, we didn't have any gig of ram, we didn't even have a meg of ram. We had 16k of ram (that's a kilobyte of those of you under 30), and we LIKED it! We wrote interrupt service routines that fit into the unused half of a 256-byte casette tape buffer! Our floppy disks actually were floppy, and stored a mere 90k, and we LIKED it by golly!
\end grumpy old man voice
steeplerot - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkI would install .net if it would upgrade an ATI card to a GT. Reply
l3ored - Friday, September 03, 2004 - linkit doesnt include the ability to overclock (not suprised) which would have been nice since it has radlinker-like abilities built in. anyone know if theres 3rd party sofware out there for it? Reply
flexy - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - link>>>
the actuall downlaod of the catalyst 4.8 drivers with display driver, contral panel, catalyst control center, and capture wdm driver is only 41 megs. 26 megs with out ccc.
not that it bugs me (anymore) since i am on cable.
But...seriously...noone ever think its only a bit "weird" that a device driver/control-panel now is a whopping 41MB just for the download ???? It's a f****g driver.....and after you adjust your settings (OG/D3D etc.) you USUALLY dont see a lot of the control panel anymore anyway.
Oh...and i forgot...you need .NET
Lol, i am coming from a generation where i had a whole OS running on 512K..and i remember tiems when a whole HD fit 40MB.
And now we need 41MB just for ONE DRIVER <---- :)
I know for sure that i will hold off with this control panel 'til i have my new build w/ >1Gig of Ram..IF I WILL EQUIP the new PC w/ an ATI card (oups) THAT IS..which is unlikely at the moment. (preference goes to 6800Gt right now, only R500 can save me i guess :)
ProviaFan - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - link40MB downloads are nothing on dialup, if you plan it right. Just run it overnight, like I would have if it weren't for the DSL I got a few weeks ago.
For those of you bitching about having to install .NET, get over it! It's basically like the next VB runtime, except slightly bigger, and for multiple languages. You'll have to install it someday, because more and more apps (including ones you _really want_) will require it (unless you're using Linux then, you're probably immune ;-). Reply
mlittl3 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkThere it is done.
From the time of my last posting, I
1)downloaded and installed .NET 1.1
2)downloaded ATI's CCC and Catalyst drivers 4.8
3)uninstalled Catalyst driver 4.7 and rebooted
4)installed the ATI's CCC and Catalyst drivers 4.8 and rebooted
I also downloaded and installed Windows Media player 10 in that time just for sh**s and giggles (I use iTunes but I like to poke fun at microsoft by comparing the two players).
No demonic hand burst out of my computer to rip out my heart. Everything works just fine. The only thing I noticed was that after installed the CCC and Catalyst driver 4.8 and rebooted, my resolution was changed to 1280x1024 from 1024x768. Big deal, I changed it back in 2 seconds.
I'm sure everyone else with have a similar experience. Have fun kids. Reply
MaxisOne - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkOh WE WILL get a clue... and get a Nividia 6800GT... under NO circumstances is MS.net going on my system.. When Longhorn comes out thats a diff story but right now theres a choice and i have a radeon 9800 pro right now ... but i wont hesitate to switch when its in my interest. Reply
mlittl3 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkOh, no...ATI has updated their control panel and it requires a heftier download. I thought 100 years from now I will be able to download a 5 MB file size of catalyst driver 3.0 for my ATI Radeon XXX4008000+ XT Super Duper Platinum Edition with a 56k modem (extreme sarcasm).
Give me a break people. 50% of internet users have broadband in this country which means a 50 MB download is like 20 seconds. Every company updates their drivers and control panel to something new and guess what, Longhorn will probably have .NET built in no matter how much you hate it. Get broadband, get a clue and stop complaining. Reply
DEMO24 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkI havent figured out why the writer wants a XP skin so much. The one on the utility looks good and the XP ones are exactly beautiful. Not really sure how thats a disadvantage but alright. Reply
daniel1113 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkJust so you all know (including whoever wrote this review), the ATI skins can be disabled and the default system skin enabled. Reply
Ardan - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkOh man, this isn't required use is it?
I'll have 1GB of RAM before I get the 9800 Pro that I want (from MSI, of course), but if this is something that they want people to use from now on, then i'm probably going to sit and wait for a 6800 later on instead. Reply
starjax - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkhttp://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp....
the actuall downlaod of the catalyst 4.8 drivers with display driver, contral panel, catalyst control center, and capture wdm driver is only 41 megs. 26 megs with out ccc. the ccc download only is 19 megs.
Da3dalus - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkHow is the new profile management "simple and elegant"? It may be an improvement over the current control panels (almost non-existant) profile management, but it still appears overly complex and unintuitive.
Is it even possible to use the profiles together with something like The All-Seeing Eye (my favourite server browser)?
The nVidia way of handling application-specific profiles just seems much easier and less of a hassle to use.
It's a nice initiative from ATI, the control panel does need updating, but the end result is disappointing :( Reply
Jeff7181 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkBy the way... it can be found in the same area you normally get drivers on ATI's site. It's not worth it though... especially if you're on 56k. Reply
kuljc - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkYeah so like #6 said... where and when can we get this? I tried looking at ati's site, but with my SUPER FAST 56k I gave up.
Also didn't read anywhere or maybe just missed it, but would it be ok to run older cats w/ this? For those of us who have the standby screen problem. Reply
Reflex - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkMany people do not seem to understand modern memory management. The amount of memory an application uses really dosen't matter much anymore unless it is truly obscene(Photoshop), what matters more is how that memory is managed. 60-70MB means nothing if that memory can be cleared at a whim for other applications, and it sounds like Ati has implemented it properly since they claim that it will.
Run some benchmarks. It is unlikely that this application will slow down any other application on your system. If nothing else is slowed down by it, then what does it matter how much memory it takes up? Reply
LoneWolf15 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkI don't care if it's streamlined or not, I refuse to run a driver control app that requires .NET. Period. If it gets to the point where I don't have a choice, I'll sell my Radeon 9700 and get a GeForce 6600GT or similar. 60-70megs won't just annoy "resource snobs"...60-70 megs is enough RAM for a major app all by itself. Reply
wassup4u2 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkI have an emachines notebook with a Mobility Radeon 9600 Pro. Will CCC/the normal Catalyst driver work with it?
Jeff7181 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkYou'd think being .NET it might run good... nope... it takes longer for it to save changes than ATI's previous drivers. It's very frustrating.
My advice... don't download it. It's worthless. The application preferences don't work correctly for me with Doom 3. I can start Doom 3 normally, but when I try to use the shortcut ATI creates it doesn't work... and I can't see the exact error message because the stupid Windows error box covers up the Doom 3 window that shows where it gets stuck and exits. Reply
Phiro - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkThe message is clear; .Net for teh win.
Seriously; we're using .Net more and more where I work, and maybe it's just the refactoring but when they rewrite something here to .Net we see HUGE improvements in stability, performance, etc.
OTOH, new development in .Net here hasn't been so good. Reply
gsellis - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkI suspect the package is so big because they have included .Net in it. Reply
Jeff7181 - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkAm I a moron or is there nothing about where or when we can get this? Reply
PorBleemo - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkWell, at least they still offer the Control Panel. Reply
PorBleemo - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkI agree #2 that's crazy. At least I have 1.5GB... Reply
nserra - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkExcelente. I didnt expect something like this from Ati, is more ala Rage3DTweak.
However i still think its too much complicaded for the ordinary Joe.
For me its great, now i dont need Rage3D since i only used their profiles because they run over aplication level, now Ati CP already have this too. Reply
crazycarl - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - link60-70 extra megs????? Reply
notoriousformula - Thursday, September 02, 2004 - linkNice!!
ps: w00h00 first post! Reply