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Judo PINEWOOD Judo Club siblings Megan and Ben Fletcher both picked up silver medals in different European competitions last weekend.
Megan came second in the under 70 kgs at the European Women's Open in Rome while brother Ben, 21, also won silver medal in Glasgow at under 100 kgs in the European Judo Open.
The Brit, who was a bronze medallist at the junior worlds, lost out on gold to Ascot-born Olympian Euan Burton, who rates Fletcher very highly.
Burton said: "I've fought Ben a couple of times, mainly more for fun in Randori, but he's a really good judo player.
"He's up and coming, and somebody the British public should definitely be looking out for in the future. To be fighting him in the final is good for the health of British Judo." Megan said: "I'm really pleased for Ben to have done so well at the weekend. He is showing consistently that he can produce medals at this level. He makes me a very proud sister!" In the same event, Matthew Purssey came away with a bronze medal at under 90 kgs.
In the women's open, Megan was narrowly beaten to the gold by Maya Thoyer of France who scored a single yuko.
"I feel mixed emotions," Fletcher said after the event. "I'm disappointed that I lost the final after I made a silly mistake which cost me a yuko.
"I never recovered, but it felt really good to come away with a silver, which is the next best thing to gold." Meanwhile, back on the domestic front, Pinewood team mate Holly Eccles won bronze at under 48 kgs in the Somerset County Open event.
Three Pinewood juniors claimed medals in their first ever contest at High Wycombe on Sunday.
Benedict Carless rounded off the boys Under-12 (U12) years section with a first gold medal in the under 50 kgs weight group.
Newcomer Lois Kote won bronze at under 38 kgs alongside Daniel Franklin.
In the U16 year group, Caitlyn Clark was one of only two judoka fighting, winning silver at under 57 kgs. Joining her on the podium was under 34 kgs gold medallist Callum Jones.
There was further success for the lower grade juniors with Ruben Lord scooping gold at under 30 kgs alongside K-C Franklin (under 25 kgs) and Phoebe Deacon (under 36 kgs).
There were silver medals for Tobias Chapman (under 27 kgs), Jay Bennett (under 30 kgs) and Oliver Young (under 34 kgs), while Tobias Trafford (under 34 kgs) took a bronze medal.
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Sporting Kansas City have signed defender Federico Bessone, the club announced on Friday. He will be added to the team's roster pending receipt of his International Transfer Certificate (ITC) and P-1 Visa, and will occupy a senior international roster spot.
"He's a technical and experienced player who can play anywhere on the left side," Sporting KC manager Peter Vermes said in a club release.
Bessone, 29, was born in Córdoba, Argentina, and moved to Lleida, Spain, as a youth. He entered FC Barcelona's La Masia Academy and signed his first professional contract with Barcelona C in 2003, playing alongside Lionel Messi.
- Get more Sporting KC news at SportingKC.com
He moved to RCD Espanyol B in 2005 and completed a loan at Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona in 2008 before joining Swansea City AFC for the first of two stints in Wales, highlighted by his English Premier League debut in September 2011. Bessone would continue his career with English clubs Leeds United AFC, Charlton Athletic FC, Swindon Town FC and most recently Oldham Athletic AFC.
"I've been training here for two weeks and the quality of the team is magnificent," said Bessone in a statement. "I'm very happy to be here. The city is great, the people are so friendly and my teammates have been tremendous with me."
Friday's signing comes on the day of the MLS roster freeze deadline and all 30 positions will now be occupied on Sporting Kansas City's official MLS roster upon Bessone's addition.

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DALLAS, Oct. 29 (UPI) -- A Dallas elementary school informed its students' parents of a mercury spill at the school, noting the mercury was contained and the school safe to attend.
A statement Sunday evening from the Dallas Independent School District said the mercury "was brought to school by a student who found a container of it near his/her home."
Three children, siblings, were hospitalized after they showed symptoms of fever and a rash, The Dallas Morning News reported Monday, adding they brought the mercury to Urban Park Elementary School Oct. 17 after playing with it at home for several days, and spilled it at the school while their mother was on the campus attending a parent-teacher conference, leaving the mercury to be cleaned up by a janitor.
District officials were not aware of the incident until Oct. 26, and spent the weekend working with health officials, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the North Texas Poison Control Center, the newspaper said.
"The mercury is not a health hazard to students or staff at the school as per health-based recommendations of the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry," the school statement said.
The school was open Monday.


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Mac Musings
How Soon Will the Mac mini Go Core 2?
Dan Knight - 2006.11.09 - Tip Jar
It's been quite a year, and Apple finished the Intel transition much more quickly than we would have guessed a year ago. Here's the timeline:
- iMac Core Duo, 2006.01.10
- 15" MacBook Pro Core Duo, 2006.02.14
- Mac mini Core Solo and Duo, 2006.02.28
- 17" MacBook Pro Core Duo, 2006.04.24
- MacBook Core Duo, 2006.05.16
- MacPro Dual Core 2 Duo, 2006.08.07
- Xserve Xeon, announced 2006.08.07
Not content to merely move the entire product line to Intel Core processors, Apple has also updated the following models this year:
- iMac Core 2 Duo, 2006.09.06
- Mac mini Core Duo (speed bump), 2006.09.06
- 15" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, 2006.10.24
- 17" MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo, 2006.10.24
- MacBook Core 2 Duo, 2006.11.08
At this point, all Macs have dual-core processors. (The 1.5 GHz Mac mini Core Solo was the only Intel-based Mac to ever use a single-core CPU.) And every model but one has Core 2 Duo.
All but one. All but the Mac mini, which was just speed bumped on September. It's just a matter of time before the Mac mini goes Core 2 Duo, and based on Apple's track record (Core 2 Duo models sell for the same price as the Core Duo models they replace), there should be no change in price.
What will we gain when the Mac mini gains a Core 2 CPU? First, a more efficient CPU - 10% on average and potentially 25-40% for some processes. And also a chip that runs cooler, which is always nice inside a small enclosure. Finally, the marketing advantage of having all Macs running Core 2 CPUs.
When will we see the Core 2 mini? My guess is at Macworld Expo in January, along with speed bumped Mac Pro computers. (My guess is a 3.0 GHz base model with 2.33 GHz and 3.33 GHz options.)
I'm pretty content with my 1 GHz dual Power Mac G4 Mirrored Drive Doors. It's got a 250 GB hard drive, a 16x dual-layer SuperDrive, and 1.75 GB of RAM. I've added a USB 2.0 card. It runs OS X beautifully and classic very nicely.
The only drawbacks: it's big, loud, doesn't have enough USB ports (does any computer?), and is no speed demon when it comes to converting video from one format to another.
My 400 MHz PowerBook G4 gave up the ghost earlier this year and has since been parted out. I've been debating what to replace it with for over a year, and with the Macworld Expo in January, it's time to make a decision.
The Mac mini Core Duo will undoubtedly outperform my Power Mac G4/1 GHz dual when it comes to video - the only thing I do that really taxes the CPU. And with a NewerTech miniStack, I could work from a big, fast, 3.5" hard drive and gain some much-needed FireWire and USB ports.
I've heard good things about SheepShaver, and vMac mini might even be enough for my limited need for Classic apps (I still use Claris Home Page, and I often run Photoshop 5.5 as well).
Tempting. I'd love to see Apple introduce a "Mac midi" in January - basically a double-height Mac mini with a 3.5" hard drive, more RAM slots, more USB 2.0 and FireWire ports, and maybe Core 2 Duo as well. (Any manufacturer want to build a $150 enclosure that would accept a Mac mini motherboard and optical drive while letting you add your own 3.5" hard drive? I think a lot of Mac lovers would bite!)
A Mac mini with 2 GB of RAM and a SuperDrive would set me back US$1,049 - ouch. Then add the miniStack, and it looks like I'll continue using the Power Mac G4 for some time yet. (Refurb would trim $100, but then I'd have to install my own RAM. The mini's case is not conducive to upgrades....)
3D graphics isn't something that matters to me, so the US$999 17" iMac Core 2 is another consideration. More speed. 1440 x 900 display (my current one is 1280 x 1024). And it's probably easier to install your own RAM. And it comes with a 3.5" 160 GB hard drive. Probably good enough, and I can save $100 with a refurb.
Then there's the other 17" iMac that already comes with 1 GB of RAM. But that starts as US$1,199. I'm really hesitant to spend over $1,000 for a desktop computer.
On the portable front, the 13" 2.0 GHz MacBook is mighty tempting. That 1280 x 800 display is more than my PowerBook had (1152 x 768). The size and shape are just about perfect. The keyboard seems quite nice, based on my limited exposure to it.
Still, US$1,299 sounds like a lot of money - even if it is half what I paid for my TiBook five years ago. Maybe Apple will have the new Core 2 iBooks available refurbished in time for the Expo - that should save me $200.
No easy decisions. I'm going to bide my time....
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Server and Tools Business Division: Microsoft China Microsoft Right-Sizes Its Private Cloud, Saves $3 Million and 9,000 Tons of Carbon Emissions
In the Server and Tools Business division at Microsoft in China, the decentralized server infrastructure, which was used by 10 product teams, had grown to more than 800 physical servers - most of which were under-utilized - in just two years. The Server and Tools Business team decided to move to a private cloud infrastructure built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system with Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center products. By the end of 2010, the team had more than 1,500 physical servers, 413 of which were hosts running 5,417 virtual machines. With its private cloud infrastructure, the team increased its server utilization by 80 percent, reduced the time that engineers spent on maintenance tasks by 70 percent, and saved U.S.$3,150,000.


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Democracy is turned on its head when 54-vote majority is beaten by 32 votes
This should be a moment of truth for the Stormont institutions, a moment to reconsider where we are heading.
On the surface we had a good debate in the chamber which, for once, did not divide along purely sectarian lines.
There were some strong speeches which dealt with real issues that voters are concerned about -- for instance overcharging on Government contracts and alleged links between politicians and developers.
Politicians even returned from holiday to thrash out these issues which were raised in a BBC Spotlight documentary, aired after normal sittings had ceased. That looked like democracy in action, but at the end of more than two hours debate a 54-strong cross-community majority was overturned by 32 votes cast by a single party, the DUP.
The 54 votes were made up of Sinn Fein, the Ulster Unionists, the TUV, the SDLP, NI21, Alliance and various unionist-leaning independents.
This outcome was possible because of a safeguard inserted into the Belfast Agreement known as the petition of concern.
It was intended to stop one community, orange or green, riding roughshod over the wishes of the other.
It allows any 30 members to effectively veto a motion which they feel will allow a minority to be discriminated against or disadvantaged. The DUP, with 38 MLAs, is the only party which can raise a petition on its own.
Yesterday Sammy Wilson, the Finance Minister, said it had done so partly because "we are not going to allow our minister to be kicked around in some sort of political game".
The other reason, really the same reason put more politely, was that he thought the motion too narrow.
It focused on Mr Wilson's colleague Nelson McCausland, the DUP Social Development Minister, who refused to appear in the Spotlight broadcast but used yesterday's debate to deny wrongdoing and say he acted with "integrity and probity".
The motion spoke of "allegations of serious and wrongful political interference in the Housing Executive" and noted journalistic claims that Mr McCausland had "seriously and purposefully misled the Assembly and the Committee for Social Development".
Nobody expected the DUP to back such a motion, and it did attempt to amend it to take the focus off its members.
However, using a petition of concern after its proposed amendment was democratically rejected was widely criticised.
It can be highly damaging for a governing party to circle the wagons around a minister in the face of such allegations.
The normal course is for the minister to stand aside saying he wants to concentrate on clearing his name and to remove any strain on the Government.
This, as Mike Nesbitt, the UUP leader pointed out, is what Peter Robinson, the First Minister, did in 2010 when he was accused of irregularities and breaches of the ministerial code.
Arlene Foster took over his role for a period and then, once his name was cleared, he returned to office with his reputation enhanced.
That approach restored confidence in the institutions and the party.
Mr McCausland defended himself ably but he would have commanded more confidence if he had followed his leader's example. Even now Mr Robinson, said to be planning to rotate some ministers this month, should take the opportunity to move Mr McCausland out of ministerial office.
Instead we got the worst -- a mudslinging conclusion.
Opening the debate, Caitriona Ruane of Sinn Fein asked the DUP if Trevor Turkington, a NIHE double glazing contractor, or Red Sky were DUP donors.
The only reply she got was from Robin Newton of the DUP who told her that Norman Hayes, a Red Sky executive, "is not a member of the DUP, has never contributed to the Democratic Unionist Party, has never been a fundraiser for the Democratic Unionist Party".
She said that there was no place for "a brown envelope culture", a reference to envelopes full of cash given to politicians and parties in the Republic by favoured building developers.
Ms Ruane, who moved the motion, called for Mr McCausland to step down while an investigation is carried out.
More accusations came from Jim Allister, the TUV leader and a former DUP member, who claimed that Mr Turkington was a DUP donor and had signed the nomination forms of Stephen Moutray, a DUP MLA.
"Have you no shame that you would use your position in office to promote a commercial interest?" Mr Allister asked, alleging that specifications for Housing Executive glazing contracts were modified after a meeting with Mr Turkington, who he called "a political buddy". He spoke of the "desperation of the DUP to cover its tracks in relation to its unhealthy arrangements with commercial interests".
Mr Robinson broke in to ask Mr Allister if he had ever gone with a begging bowl to builders.
Mr Allister denied this, but the DUP spoke of an Exocet which would eventually hit him.
Its members also waved a picture of Alex Attwood which appeared on the website of PK Murphy, a Pomeroy-based building contractor. All this is damaging to the political system.
There may be good answers for much of it.
For instance, Mr McCausland also appears on the Murphy website in his capacity as minister, Mr Allister says the DUP may be referring to a fundraising breakfast he held in 2009 and Mr McCausland also answered his critics.
Several members pointed out that the only way to dispel suspicions about business links was to introduce full disclosure of large political donations as happens elsewhere in the UK.
The DUP has a point in saying that any inquiry should go wider than Mr McCausland and the contractor Red Sky, but that will happen anyway.
An independent report has shown up to £18m in overcharging on Housing Executive contracts and involving at least four other contractors.
The police have now been called in and they won't be stopped by petitions of concern.
The deeper challenge for politicians is to reassure the public that they are behaving properly and accountability.
Yesterday's performance won't help with that.
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Episode 18 - Interview with Natalie Zaman
Thanks for tuning in to The Fat Feminist Podcast, today I'm doing my ranting, raving, and wand-waving with Natalie Zaman, author of Magical Destinations of the Northeast: Sacred Sites, Occult Oddities, and Magical Monuments! We talk about her book and how she chose some of the sites, her first experiences with magical destinations in her home state of New Jersey, being a responsible magical traveler, graveyard souvenirs, magical colouring books and not one, but TWO old episodes of the Simpsons.
Please support the future Magical Destinations series and the podcast by purchasing the book through my Amazon aStore and leave a great review!
Even though I know you're a superfan and you already listened to my review of the book right here on the show (ahem), you should still head to the blog and read the Book Review of Shadows, so you can see why it earned it's 5 Crystal Ball rating.
Check out some of the other books and artists mentioned in the show:
Stories in Stone: The Complete Guide to Cemetery Symbolism by Douglas Keister
Gravestone Artwear - for more info on grave rubbing
The Coloring Book of Shadows and the Coloring Book of Shadows Planner by Amy Cesari
The Simpsons episodes Mr Lisa Goes to Washington from Season 3 (1991) and El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer from Season 8 (1997). They're both excellent.
Of course you should visit the author themself, Natalie Zaman, at nataliezaman.com, on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Goodreads.
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New film 'possesses' horror fans
The new suspense-horror flick "The Possession" isn't what I would consider scary, but it will definitely make you wary of what you purchase at a yard sale.
Clyde Brenek (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), a divorced, father of two girls, buys a mysterious wooden box at a yard sale for his daughter Emily. Clyde becomes suspicious of the box as his daughter becomes more and more attached to it. Em begins to exhibit strange behaviors and reacts violently to anyone who comes between her and the box. In his effort for answers, Clyde does some research on the box, and discovers that it is a Dybbuk box, an item used in Jewish ceremonies to contain a demonic spirit. Clyde consults a rabbi to determine what he's dealing with, and what he finds out is that no one wants anything to do with the evil spirit attached to the box. With the aid of the rabbi, he attempts to act quickly to save his daughter from the demon determined to take her life.
This movie is representative of three distinct genre types – drama, suspense and horror. This makes me wonder if the writers were fumbling in trying to determine an angle for the storyline, since there were some scenes in the movie that served no purpose aside from being pure filler. For instance, telephone conversations that had little to do with the plot were slipped into the middle of an otherwise interesting film.
"The Possession" did offer some cool special effects, both in the form of computer techniques as well as physical stunts. But overall the movie seemed pretty tame — no outrageous blood and gore here. Because of this, the film didn't have the visual scare factor that one usually comes to expect from the horror genre. But what did make it work was the imagination of the viewer; as with most demon possession flicks, the scare factor is in what you can't see.
It may not have had the outlandish gore that most horror films do, but this film had the spook factor that will have you checking out every little wooden box you find for strange writing, and using a flashlight app on your cell phone to check around every dark corner. The story of the Dybbuk box is available online for those who'd like to research but if you're just looking for a slice of entertainment, this is your kind of film.


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Friday, February 20, 2009
Kreativ Blogger Award
DianaR of Random Relatives has presented me this award. Thank you Diana!
Here are the instructions:
1. Copy the award to your site.
2. Link to the person from whom you received the award.
3. Nominate 7 other bloggers. (how to choose only 7!!)
4. Link to those sites on your blog.
5. Leave a message on the blogs you nominate.
I read many blogs every week. Any extra time is taken up. I learn all the time thanks to them. Here are my choices for the award:
My bff, footnoteMaven
Earline at Ancestral Notes
Family Tales by Andrea
Janinealogy by Janine, interesting name for her blog!
Renee's Genealogy Blog the ever hard-working Renee.
Genealogy - Diggin up Dirt by Cat at Windows Live!
You all should stop by and read all of these!
Posted by Sheri Brock Bush at 5:02 PM
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4 comments:
- Alana said...
I know I'm not the first, but I too have nominated you the KreativBlogger award. It's at http://twiginmytree.blogspot.com
- February 21, 2009 at 3:11 PM
- Alana said...
I know I'm not the first but I too have nominated you for the KreativBlogger awared. It's at http://twiginmytree.blogspot.com
- February 21, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- Andrea Christman said...
Thanks Sheri! I feel honored! I think I always learn more from other's interesting blogs that it is nice to learn that my own blog is enjoyed by others!
- February 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Janine said...
I'm so late, here! Thank you so much for this award! I know it's so rude of me to be this long in acknowledging this, and for that, I'm sorry! It's been a wild couple of weeks, but I'm (finally!) passing the award on today. Again, thanks so much!
- March 6, 2009 at 5:17 AM
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Richard to be inducted to Walk of Fame
Richard to be inducted to Walk of Fame
During his 10-year Astros career, Richard was one of the most feared pitchers in the game, setting several strikeout records while compiling a 107-71 record with a 3.15 ERA. Richard ranks near the top in most pitching categories on the Astros all-time lists.
Richard is scheduled to sign autographs on the main concourse from 6-6:30 p.m. prior to Friday night's game against the Reds. A limited amount of autograph vouchers ($25) are currently available for purchase at www.astros.com/flashback. One voucher per customer is allowed. One voucher is good for one autograph.
Richard will throw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to Friday's game, in which the Astros will wear the popular rainbow jerseys from the 1970s. The Astros are wearing a jersey from the team's past during Friday home games this year as part of the team's 50th anniversary.


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February 2013
The United States and Poland have signed a new income tax treaty replacing the 1974 income tax treaty. The 1974 treaty was one of the few remaining US income tax treaties that did not contain a limitation on benefits article (LOB) and accommodated international investment. As expected, the new treaty, signed on February 13, 2013, includes a modern LOB article. Unlike other recent treaties, the new US-Poland treaty does not eliminate source state taxation on intercompany dividends, certain types of interest, or royalties. For withholding provisions, the treaty will be effective the first day of the second month following the date on which the treaty enters into force. For all other taxes, the treaty will be effective for taxable periods beginning on or after the first day of January of the next taxable year following the date on which the treaty enters into force. The treaty will enter into force on the date that Poland and the United States both have notified each other that they have complied with their applicable internal procedures. The treaty does not include a transition rule. Therefore, taxpayers presently entitled to treaty benefits may lose those benefits once the treaty's provisions take effect.
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Blends of Brazilian, Caribbean and Latin influences set a tropical mood and make this CD unique. Featuring acoustic guitar, piano, bass, percussion, flute and more. Special guest drummer Graham Lear (12 years with Carlos Santana) provides tasty grooves on this fun and exotic CD that will soon prove to be one of your favorites. So sit back and relax with your Margarita or Pina Colada and drift away with Tropicante !!


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I am Scarlet dreaming that she is a butterfly, and also the butterfly dreaming that it is Scarlet...:)
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I am shooting videos of me dancing korean traditional dance all around the world!
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Queen frontman Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991 at age 45. Since the, he's been fondly remembered for his music, memorable stage persona, legendary style, and--of course--his ever-present mustache. Google is commemorating Mercury's life through a special video doodle, which over the course of 98 seconds shows the singer on stage, dancing with a vacuum cleaner, flying on a tiger, and sitting on a throne--all to the backing of Queen's 1978 hit Don't Stop Me Now.
To further commemorate Freddie, we thought we'd show you how you can have a little tribute all of your own--with mustaches!
The highly amusing Mustachio plug-in for Google Chrome adds a mustache to any online image--with some comical results. Moustachio works by utilizing a face recognition API from Face.com. The API scans the webpage you currently have open, and when a face is found, one of several styled-mustaches will be added to the image.
Currently more than 3000 people have installed the quirky free-to-use add-on; given the increase in users. the developer has had to scale back the functionality: To help reduce server load, the plug-in will now only work with images larger than 300 by 150 pixels.
If you find that Mustachio isn't working for you, believe it or not, an alternative-plug in is available in the form of (wait for it...) Must Stache.
Although not created with Mercury specifically in mind, these mustache plug-ins are one unique way to celebrate the man's life. If you give them a try, let us know in the comments.
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Otani drafted in Japan, can't sign in Majors until April
Otani drafted in Japan, can't sign in Majors until April
Japanese high school right-hander Shohei Otani, who has made his plans of coming to the Major Leagues known, was chosen in the first round of the Japanese baseball amateur draft on Thursday, the Associated Press reported.
Otani, 18, was chosen by the Nippon Ham Fighters, the club that also had Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish. By being drafted by Nippon Ham, Otani cannot sign with a Major League club until April 2013. The Fighters have until March to sign Otani, who said he still plans to play in the U.S.
"My feelings haven't changed," Otani told the AP. "I'm grateful that they appreciate me, but it doesn't change my desire to play in America."
The 6-foot-4 Otani has had his fastball clocked from 99-100 mph, and has been scouted by several Major League teams.
Cash Kruth is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter at @cashkruth. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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My Sony DAV-DZ640K home theater in a box (HTIB) includes a receiver with HDMI Audio Return Channel on its HDMI output. Can this serve as an HDMI audio input? After all, HDMI ARC basically transfers audio from TV to the receiver.
– Srijan Saha
Sadly, no. ARC is designed to convey audio from the HDMI input of an ARC-capable TV back to the HDMI output on an ARC-capable receiver, traveling in the reverse direction compared with the normal signal flow from the receiver's output to the TV's input. ARC uses different pins within the HDMI connection than those used to carry audio from an output to an input—specifically, the only unlabeled pin in the diagram above and the one labeled "Hot Plug Detect"—and no conventional HDMI output sends audio using the ARC pins.
For those who aren't familiar with HDMI Audio Return Channel, it sends the audio from a TV's internal tuner or online streaming apps to an A/V receiver along the same cable that otherwise carries the receiver's audio and video signals to the TV, as shown on the right of the diagram above. Without ARC, you'd have to connect a separate cable from the TV's audio output to the receiver's audio input, as shown on the left, to hear the sound from the TV's internal tuner or online apps.


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Look for continuing discussions of this issue, particularly in columns and on opinion pages.
Explore the paper or its site and imagine you're an editor. What would you have skipped or run less prominently? What should be longer or have a larger headline?
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Our country avoided a global embarrassment last weekend when the pastor of a tiny Florida church dropped plans to burn Korans, the Islamic religion's holiest book, on Saturday's anniversary of 9/11 terrorist attacks. But America's image was damaged by the threatened stunt and the heavy media attention it drew. Eleven foreign governments condemned the idea, just as President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Army Gen. David Patreus in Afghanistan had done. Demonstrators marched through seven Afghan cities on Friday, some chanting "death to Christians" and burning US flags.
Pastor Terry Jones of Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, Fla., in mid-July announced that his 30-member congregation would mark Sept. 11 as "Burn a Koran Day." News professionals and consumers now debate whether the media coverage that escalated in recent weeks was premature and excessive or justified and healthy. "We created the Rev. Terry Jones from dust," Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas wrote last week. "We could help head off such future nonsense if we folded up the circus tent and left Jones alone with his blowtorch and 30 followers."
In Slate, an online magazine, reporter Justin Elliott wrote Friday: "The U.S. media has given a global platform to a fringe pastor with a tiny flock, elevating him to a level of significance that would make most members of Congress jealous." New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Sunday looked back at "a Florida faker holding a complicit media hostage."
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THE Monday after the match before began at 6.30am for Dagenham and Redbridge's secretary, Derek Almond.
The 1-1 draw at Charlton in the third round of the FA Cup ensured the Nationwide Conference club their 15 minutes of fame. It was mid-morning before Almond mastered the art of turning off his mobile phone for a quarter of an hour's peace and quiet.
"I've had so-called lifelong fans on wanting tickets for the replay," he said. "They say they've supported the club for God knows how long, they come to every game - oh, and how do we get to the ground?"
One optimistic caller even telephoned to ask when the tickets for the fourth-round tie against Tottenham would be on sale, and where the game would be played.
The tickets (£20, £10 and £6) for the third-round replay against the Premiership side, on Wednesday week at the club's Victoria Road ground, will give Almond more headaches than his mobile phone.
The capacity is 5,403 and, to their credit, Dagenham and Redbridge elected to bring Charlton to Victoria Road rather than take the game to West Ham's Upton Park. "They used to ground-share there - it'd be almost like another home game," Almond said. "The manager wanted it here, the fans wanted it here and the players begged us to play the replay here."
Almond had no idea how much it would cost the club to play at Victoria Road rather than at Upton Park, but the club believe that financial considerations are less important than hosting a game that will capture the imagination of the public.
Home season ticket holders are guaranteed tickets, and Charlton will be allocated one end of the ground - holding about 1,100 people. Some tickets will be on sale at Saturday's game against Weymouth.
"They'll get a voucher which they can redeem after the match. We think it's the fairest way," Almond said in his tiny office, just off the social club's dancefloor.
Almond is relishing the club's time in the spotlight "even if it cost me 11 quid to buy all the papers over the weekend".
The secretary's mobile and office phone apart, the ground was a quiet place. Dustmen took away Christmas trees from the houses in Victoria Road, but there was no sign of the players or of the manager, Garry Hill, who works for Ford.
The players, part-timers who will meet up again tonight for training, earn about £200 per week from the Conference club, though Almond suspects that a bonus will be negotiated for the Charlton game. "All they're really concerned about is tickets," said Almond, who may ban the T-word in a few days.
"I'm looking forward to the night. It will be unbelievable," he said. "All the tickets will be gone by then so I won't have that to worry about."
Dagenham and Redbridge have a full-time groundsman, and Charlton have no need to worry about the excellent surface. The press box at the ground, which seats 16, will have to be extended to accommodate nearer 80, and Almond is pleased that Sky will televise the game.
The club will receive £150,000 from the broadcasters, which will be a big help in redeveloping the main stand after it is pulled down in April. This, Dagenham and Redbridge hope, will bring the ground up to Football League standard.
The success of the Conference clubs at the weekend will help their case for there to be a minimum of two clubs promoted to or relegated from the Third Division, instead of one as at present.
The Ipswich chairman, David Sheepshanks, was so impressed by Morecambe that he said he would "ruffle a few feathers" to help the Conference's cause.
More immediately, Almond expects to have a full house for the visit of Weymouth. "It'll be a good dry run for Charlton," he said.
Victory over Charlton at Victoria Road would guarantee anything but a dry run in the social club of a most sociable club.


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Four-star DT Jordan Watkins (College Park, Ga./Woodward Academy) committed to Stanford over in-state Georgia on Tuesday at his high school. The Cardinal had to play catch up against the Dawgs -- which was the first program he visited -- to land Watkins, but everything changed once he visited Palo Alto. "All along everyone had told me how nice Stanford was," Watkins said. "When I visited there this summer it really blew me away. Coach (David) Shaw followed me and my family around and really made sure to show me everything they had to offer.


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TEMBELIHLE, Swaziland — When sores began to appear on the head of Miriam Dlamini, a 38-year-old widow with five children from Christ the King Parish in Swaziland, a trained parish nurse, Sybil Khumalo, went to visit her. The parish nurse encouraged the sick woman to visit the hospital for testing. Dlamini followed her suggestion and discovered she was HIV-positive.
When family members and others in the village found out Dlamini had AIDS, rather than giving her comfort, they avoided her. Her brother-in-law refused to take her to the hospital in his car. She was considered "unclean." The only person willing to care for her was the parish nurse.
Dlamini died in a hospital shortly after being diagnosed, leaving her children to fend for themselves. When Khumalo checked up on the children, she found them alone, surviving on cooked pumpkin porridge. She fed the children for many days and, after that, ensured they were properly cared for.
Khumalo, and other parish nurses like her who care for AIDS and HIV patients, is part of a program that includes 22 parishes across the nation of Swaziland in a first-ever parish nurse program called "A New Robe." The innovative program, initiated by a Montana-based organization called Maternal Life International, which works in conjunction with the Catholic Church in Swaziland and Bristol-Myers Squibb, gives concrete expression to the Catholic model for treating AIDS and HIV patients.
Everything about the program, even its name, alludes to Christian ideals.
"The New Robe alludes to the hemorrhaging woman who touched Jesus and was healed, and to the man by the side of the road," said Dr. George Mulcaire Jones, medical director for Maternal Life International and the one who conceived the structure of this program. "The New Robe is a metaphor for a new way of thinking about AIDS prevention and care. We not only teach our nurses how to protect themselves and how to move a patient with bedsores, but we also teach them about the infinite value of the human person. We ask that they see an AIDS patient with eyes of mercy before eyes of judgment, because a real issue in Africa is stigmatization. So many people think that AIDS patients are unclean."
In fact, the program received $273,000 from the Bristol-Myers Squibb "Secure the Future" program because of its unique approach.
"The program was approved by the advisory boards because it offers a novel approach for home-based care using parishes as a centerpiece for community support and destigmatization," said John Damonti, director of the Secure the Future Foundation. "It's a strong de-stigmatization program. We wanted to test that model to see if other communities could use this."
The program, taking place in a country of approximately 1 million, where the HIV-positive rate is between 30% and 40%, has gained the Church's recognition as well.
Cardinal Alfonso López Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Academy Council for the Family, after learning about the program wrote, "Once it will start spreading it will bring a lot of good with the help of Our Lord."
The program uses native Swazi nurses trained to combine faith and ministry, medical science and spirituality. Thandi Dlamini, a Catholic Swazi woman and former director of Swaziland Red Cross, runs the New Robe program.
Since the program's inception on Jan. 10, 2001, approximately 1,900 AIDS patients have been treated, 7,200 patients have been counseled and 6,500 education sessions have been provided to parish groups and schools. Parish nurses follow a program model called "the five S's." When a parish nurse cares for a patient she looks at five categories: specific care, supportive care, symptomatic care, social care and spiritual care. The program strongly believes that no one should die unknown, unloved or alone.
"If you can imagine a parish nurse going to a rural homestead in Swaziland, she might take a bus or a lorry, she might have to walk up to 10 kilometers, and she has a medicine bag with her," Jones explained about how the five categories come into play. "In that bag are antibiotics to treat infections. She has pain medicine for pain, she has diarrhea medicine. She also has rosaries and prayer cards for Catholic patients. She may bring with her a priest or a catechist, or a deacon to administer the sacrament of the sick. She's bringing all of the five S's with her."
Another aspect of the program is that it promotes an educational behavior-change program, one that supports abstinence, not condoms.
"The reality of condoms is they don't work," Jones said. "They are not well-received in the culture. Our program teaches them about the HIV virus and provides them with something that we call the 'secret.' The secret is what it means to know, to act and to love.
"We symbolize this by three inter-locking gold rings. We teach them about the HIV virus. We teach them how it is transmitted. Once they know, they act. We teach them about abstinence before marriage and faithfulness within marriage. And then finally they have to know what it means to live in the time of HIV [and] AIDS," Jones said. "Love is greater than sex. We give them a language for behavioral change and we call it the 'secret.'"
Jones insisted abstinence works. He pointed to a recent study done by Dr. Rand Stoneburner and Daniel Low-Beer of Cambridge University, partially funded by U.S. Agency for International Development, which found that a decline in AIDS prevalence in Uganda was related more to reduction in sex partners than condom use.
"The data is new, the Uganda study that Rand has done is so interesting," said Dr. Ann Peterson, assistant administrator for the USAID's Bureau for Global Health — which promotes a mix of abstinence, education and condom use — on Stoneburner's study. "It shows that reducing the number of partners, especially in the young girls, was really instrumental in beginning the decline in Uganda. There is a new message emerging. In the U.S. there were misconceptions that youth couldn't and would-n't abstain. We are seeing in the U.S. and internationally that they can and they will abstain, and it does make a difference for HIV rates."
Although Catholic models for the New Robe program have been established in Butte, Mont., where Maternal Life International is based, the program is primarily intended to empower in-country people to do the work.
Parish nurses, centered in the village community parish, help HIV-positive parish members in practical matters as well.
"In Swaziland, each family is allotted a homestead. If the family ceases to exist because of AIDS, they lose their homestead," said John Jones, director of Maternal Life International. "What the nurses are trying to do is to develop a community-based solution where children whose parents have died from AIDS can remain in their homes. This allows them to hold onto their family's land, and it is key to their future. The parish nurses do everything possible to ensure that the orphans can continue to live in the community."
The entire program is infused with Catholic ideals and spirituality. Dr. George Jones aptly sums it up: "An inspiration for our work is [the encyclical] Evangelium Vitae, the Gospel of Life. An African villager may never have the opportunity to pull Evangelium Vitae off the shelf and read it, but we want them to be able to know of their own infinite value, the estimable dignity of the human being from the way they are treated and cared for."
Mary Ann Sullivan is based in New Durham, New Hampshire.


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Jun. 7, 2013
Now I wish I were asleep, to see my dreams taking place
I wish I were more awake
I wish a sweet rush of tears to my eyes
Wish a nose like an eagle
I wish blue sky in the afternoon
Bigger windows, & a panorama—light, buildings & people in street air
Wish my teeth were white and sparkled
Wish my legs were not where they are—where they are
I wish the days warmly cool & clothes I like to be inside of
Wish I were walking around in Chelsea (NY) & it was 5:15 a.m., the
sun coming up, alone, you asleep at home
I wish red rage came easier
I wish death, but not just now
I wish I were driving alone across America in a gold Cadillac
toward California, & my best friend
I wish I were in love, & you here
It's the birthday of the novelist Louise Erdrich (books by this author), born in Little Falls, Minnesota (1954). She grew up in Wahpeton, North Dakota, the eldest of seven children. Her father came from a family of German immigrants, and her mother was French Ojibwe, and both her parents taught in the school run by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
She went on to Dartmouth, admitted into the first class that accepted women — and it was also the first year a Native American Studies Department was formed. Her first novel, Love Medicine (1984), was a best-seller, and won a National Book Critics Circle Award. Love Medicine was made up of many different stories told by all kinds of people living in and around a fictional reservation outside the town of Argus, North Dakota. Her second novel, The Beet Queen (1986), was set in the town of Argus and focused on the German-American population there. Since then, she has set most of her novels in this same fictional place, novels like The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001), The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003), and The Plague of Doves (2008), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
She said: "It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway — in secret."
It's the birthday of novelist Elizabeth Bowen (books by this author), born in Dublin, Ireland (1899). She's known for writing about British upper-class society in novels such as The Death of the Heart (1938) and A World of Love (1955).
It's the birthday of the woman who wrote, "We real cool. We / Left school. We / Lurk late. We / Strike straight." Gwendolyn Brooks (books by this author), who was born in Topeka, Kansas (1917), but grew up and spent nearly all her life in the Southside of Chicago. She began writing poems when she was a child and published her first poem at the age of 13.
Her parents encouraged her literary ambitions and put her into contact with Langston Hughes, to whom she wrote and sent her poems. Langston Hughes wrote back to her: "You have talent. Keep writing! You'll have a book published one day."
She published her second collection of poetry, Annie Allen, in 1949, and in it she used an experimental form that she called the sonnet-ballad. Critics liked it, and a Times book reviewer praised her work as "full of insight and wisdom and pity, technically dazzling." The next year, in 1950, she became the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize.
She said about her poetry: "I wrote about what I saw and heard in the street. I lived in a small second-floor apartment at the corner, and I could look first on one side and then the other. There was my material."
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1984: Intergalactic
[Intro talking: L.A. VanGogh]
Get out my bathroom
1985, right?
Remember that shit
[Verse 1: L.A. VanGogh]
They said VanGogh, VanGogh spit me a verse
For that to happen you would need a black suit and a hearse
Homicide on an Obama ride, a politic scene
I made a bitch give me her brains so she could swallow my dreams
Doom, 18 years out of the womb
And I'm spitting like a motherfuckin' mummy in a tomb
Yeah, the raps is so def (death)
The flow so cold it gets skated by Wayne Gretz'
I'm fuckin' up ya tracks, man, call Latisha
War with the words, diction's my militia
Lord poetry, the painter of the picture
The lyric lad leaking lessons straight up out the scripture
I'm getting grown now, they so 10th grade
I kick it so consistent, the flow so sensei
All they talk is "broads and the chains, they been paid
They got a thing for whips" man these cats so Kente
Got a narrow path but I'm thinking the broad way
My mind's in the Madison my posse's on Broadway
Chi-town all day, but they know L.A
I got OG's that mess with me the long way
Harvey, first ward, the home of the drug lords
Ingall's hospital came out with a mic cord
Knocked at the back door, then snuck in the front
See, I'm high off life, dog, you stuck in the blunt
Oh, hi, I'm Gizzogh from the land of the little
Drug pushers with pistols shooting like Kerry Kittles
The maker of the widow, and creator of the cripple
Pull it out and I bet they all bounce like dribble
But, me I'm more simple, see the writer of the riddle
Styles bit with no kibbles so they nibble
Niggas be asking if I'm putting all these beats in a casket
Did the cow jump the moon and the cat with the fiddle?
I'm sick, I sell sickle to fickle niggas in nickel bags
Squiggle my initials to triple, the method's crystal
Whistle, dismiss the critics who disrespect my temple
And asking me if I'm dope is like asking if Jack was nimble
Illmatic addict, rapping rabid is a habit
Pack some fashion in package stash, I'm radical as fascists
'Til the rain came upon and brought lies upon the useless
Rappers got a misconceived perception of what truth is
I'm young to the youthless, dumb to the stupid
A bulletproof heart, dodging phone calls from cupid
Bars are so hard, but they far from cuddly
So, I'm on top of my bars like them broads from Coyote Ugly
Quincy McCall balling, you broads is Monica
I won't stop 'til my name is on a moniker
My nigga, my brother, see, the game's tainted lover
Who was at the Last Supper pulling wine out the cupboard
I'm so Live like '05, that I could spit dead
And of course I spew AIDS homie, I'm a sick dickhead
Been on, but they holding my coming like a Trojan
But, what happens when they find out the condom's broken
So I made these lames fade like erosion
As a token of my potent unspoken dope explosion
Send condolence to opponents cause the beast has been awoken
Tyrannosaurus-Rex-Grossman in the open
If they don't include me, Double X-L, in a moment
2012 Freshman class then it's a problem with enrollment
I'm too thought provoking, rhymes deeper than the ocean
If you scared you might drown, you'll probably still get soaked in
Dopeness, going across my lines like encroachment
I'm giving quarters back with some receivers still in motions
That means I'm giving change to anybody in the open
You're defense is hopeless
I think that it's a problem when these rappers multiply, but the money divides
And they swear they got the answers with no product or a quotient


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Last Sunday (July 6) marked a watershed moment in the history of the UK music charts when audio streams were included for the first time to help determine a song's placing.
Last week the BBC unveiled Stevie Wonder's song Another Star as the theme for its Fifa World Cup coverage. The song, with its Latin American vibe, will feature in the opening sequence for all the BBC's World Cup programming and will make its debut on a preview show this Wednesday on BBC1.
Going to Glastonbury is the must do experience for all die-hard music fans, right? When team Umusic discovered communications manager Mike hadn't been to the world's biggest festival at Worthy Farm everyone started to question his credentials as a music lover. So, there was only one solution: get him a ticket, hand him a camera and send him to off to the festival to experience it first-hand. Before he gets there, he needs your help and advice.
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Audi working on a rotary/wankel motor, with Mazda?Mazda is really the only company that uses the rotary motor. It seems Mazda is preparing a rotary for the RX7 or RX8 successor. The difficulty is in getting the rotary to pass emissions. Audi developed a clean rotary in the Audi A1 E-tron concept and Mazda is having informal talks with Audi about the motor. The difference is, Audi made a small rotary used as a generator to power an electric motor. Is Mazda going down the same route? We hope not, as we want the wankel to be powering the rear wheels, not a battery.
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One Obama leaves and another just flies right into town.
Monday First Lady Michelle Obama comes to town to raise money for a Democratic party reeling ahead of next week's election.
Mrs. Obama visits town just a few days after her husband was in San Franciscomeeting with Apple CEO Steve Jobs and drumming up support -- and necessary funds -- for his party.
The first lady is also in town trying to raise money for her party. She will appear at a fundraiser for Democratic candidates with House Speaker, and San Francisco resident, Nancy Pelosi Monday night at the Fairmount Hotel on Nob Hill.
The female power duo will mainly be raising money for Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is trying to fend of a Republican challenge from former HP CEO Carly Fiorina.
The trip marks the second time Mrs. Obama has visited the Bay Area since her husband took office last year.


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GTA 5's Trevor, Franklin, and Michael pose in real life
I imagine when working on a project for a few years you begin to form a bond with those around you. Celebrating the launch of Grand Theft Auto 5 today and the culmination of three years worth of work, Ned Luke (Michael) posted a photo of himself and the other two legs of the GTA 5 tripod in real-life.
"O-G-G, Solo, and Me...almost three years working together...what a blast! Two of the best guys on the planet..." he wrote on Facebook. Look at those mugs. That's love. Or the faces of three tired men who have worked endlessly on the biggest game of 2013.
Each actor resembles the character they voice in the game, but for those of you having a hard time seeing it here's who's who. From left to right: Steven Ogg (Trevor), Shawn Fonteno (Franklin), and Ned Luke (Michael). And below are the characters, in the same order of appearance, in which they voice.


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BOSTON Ring in the New Year with a full-flavored craft beer. A recent survey conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Media found that men prefer craft beer as their drink of choice when the ball drops on New Year's Eve.
The Samuel Adams Co. suggested making a good house warming gift of its Winter Classics collection or of Samuel Adams Utopias—the world's strongest beer, with an alcohol content of 27 percent. The beer is meant to be sipped from a snifter glass like a fine port, cognac or sherry. "Beer has been bringing people together for festive occasions long before champagne was even invented," says Jim Koch, founder and brewer of Samuel Adams. "2007 was a great year for appreciating craft beer, so I'm not surprised that more people will be raising their steins to ring in 2008."
Fifty-nine percent of survey respondents said they'd prefer to be given craft beer as a host/hostess gift. The findings are the result of 315 telephone interviews of U.S. men ages 21-34, conducted from Dec. 13 to Dec. 15, 2007.


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The reward: 1 400 MHz MB and Processer, 2 CD Burners (!), a DVD drive, a floppy, 64 MB memory, a sound card, a 16 MB video card and some misc. cables.
Just a month a go I found a 17" monitor...
And a month before that I found a complete computer. Only a 166 Mhz, but everything works! Combined with the monitor above this computer became the third computer in my home network.
So now I've got #4. My wife is going to kill me! I think I'm addicted. What should I do?
Have you ever had a similar experience?
I had an old old old 21" monitor that finally gave up the ghost. This thing was huge and weighed about 90lbs - not something the local garbage collectors will haul away. I did't really want to have to haul it anywhere so I just put it out by my trash cans one night hoping someone might grab it up - it was gone the next morning.
So now I've got #4. My wife is going to kill me! I think I'm addicted. What should I do?
Have you ever had a similar experience?
I once brought home over a dozen compact macintoshes and old apple// computers, monitors, keyboards, etc.
Then again, my boyfriend helped load them into the car, so I didn't have to worry about getting "the look" when I got home.
came with a giant 5 1/4 drive and some wacky game. also came with basic programming package.
the main reason i bought it was that it was an ugly brown...
it now sits in my basement
I got loads of goodies from that dumpster. The security guard used to come out and harrass me, until I told him I was Mr. Gilmore's son.
I had no idea who mr Gilmore was, except that there was a parking spot there with a sign that said RESERVED FOR MR.GILMORE.
i should go dumpster diving more often.
Ahem ... you don't have them still lying somewhere? I'm a mac collector (proud to have a lisa), so if you don't know what to do with the old stuff, just sticky me! ;)
i will list it at some point before i move next time...so much stuff in the basement to sell. plus all the old computers i have at my parents house.
anyone looking to buy a sweet p60 with 8 megs of ram?
i think it is first generation pentium...the ones with the defective math coprossessor!
>>Guest host John Ydstie talks with Simson Garfinkel, a
>>graduate student at MIT. Garfinkel and another MIT
>>student recently purchased 158 used hard drives and found
>>more than 5,000 credit card numbers, detailed personal
>>and corporate financial records, numerous medical
This was one of the reports today on NPR. Makes you wonder if dumpster diving for computers might be profitable in another, illegal sort of way. The guy also said that over half the computers they purchased had not even been reformatted. How about the computers people find in the trash? Anything interesting on them...


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Derrin Nauendorf
Derrin's maturing taste for melody and lyric drew him to explore roots and acoustica in a more sophisticated way – culminating in the release of 1999's `Natural`. Buoyed by the acclaim and respect that this CD earned him, Derrin focused on what has become his life – real music with a never say die determination.
David Downing, 34, has always been hitting things. From his earliest memories, getting a groove out of anything was always a priority. Technically trained but wary of convention, David played in many different acts to develop into an accompanist beyond the role of conventional drummers. A chance meeting with Derrin at a bush pub in Australia spawned a plan – to work hard to do the best they could.
Derrin and David decided on England. With one support gig, a tonne of enthusiasm and plenty of desperation, they landed at Heathrow with a guitar, a ramshackle home made percussion rig and plenty of warm clothes. Steadily many people understood their music and ethos and during three years have played 500 shows in England, Scotland, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France and Australia. Little by little, they have earned the respect and friendship of musicians, promoters, agents and venue proprietors. And, most importantly, a dedicated fanbase.
Their success is based on honesty and fairness and fuelled by the response audiences have to their work. They are self-managed with a view to maintaining and developing long term relationships with organisations and people who operate with the same principles.
Derrin and David embody the principles on which real music is built – uncompromising to their musical beliefs and ready for the long fight to achieve global success.


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Oil and gas explorer
ASX-listed Horizon Oil increased its interest in the development by 12.25 per cent after it paid Petsec $US40 million ($37.4 million) plus 15 million options on Friday.
Merrill Lynch said the deal was worth less than half of its estimated value, while UBS described it as a 40 per cent discount to its valuation.
"The deal that we have consummated was the best that we had on the table," Petsec company secretary Paul Gahdmar said.
"The discrepancy is mainly attributed to the difference between the valuation and what the market's willing to pay for an asset in China."
Horizon chief executive officer Brent Emmett, a long-time friend of Petsec executive chairman Terry Fern, has also defended the sale price.
"We have a relationship with [state-owned project operator China National Offshore Oil Corporation] and Petsec, as the seller of the interest, clearly thought that as an existing participant in the block we would be able to add some certainty in terms of getting the endorsement of CNOOC," Mr Emmett said.
The Beibu Gulf project in offshore southern China is 51 per cent stake owned by the state-controlled, Hong Kong-listed operator CNOOC.
It is understood Petsec has repeatedly tried to sell out of the Beibu Gulf joint venture to focus on expansion of its US petroleum operations.
However, the project operator, CNOOC, has vetoed at least two attempts by Petsec to sell.
Mr Gahdmar would not respond to questions about CNOOC's role in the transaction.
The joint-venture proponents, Horizon, ASX-listed oil and gas explorer Roc Oil, CNOOC and Korea's Majuko Corp, approved final investment in the project in February this year.
Equity analysts have raised questions over the private transaction.
"Why the large disconnect between our valuation and the transaction price?" Merrill Lynch analyst James Bullen said in a research note.
Mr Bullen calculates that 1 per cent of the project has a market value of about $6.5 million, however, the deal was made at around $3.2 million for each per cent purchased.
Mr Bullen has also questioned why China-focused oil and gas explorer
Roc Oil executives were unavailable for comment.
The Beibu Gulf project is scheduled to come on stream at the start of 2013 at around 20,000 barrels of oil per day.
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Warner Bros. has released a movie trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
According to The Atlantic, this three-minute trailer offers fans glimpses of "the film's dwarves and their quest to reclaim their homeland. There's even dwarf poetry!"
Check out the first film trailer and a teaser. The second installment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy will hit theaters on December 13, 2013. (via School Library Journal)


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Shareholder Protection: A Leximetric Approach
In this paper we build a new and meaningful shareholder protection index for five countries and code the development of the law for over three decades. At-tributing and comparing legal differences by numbers is contrary to the tradi-tional way of doing comparative law and the use of a quantitative methodology to account for variations across legal systems has been subjected to some searching criticisms. However, we believe that with a cautious approach, it has the potential to open new vistas of research in the area of comparative law and as such should not be shunned. This paper provides an illustration of the inter-esting possibilities that diligent quantification of legal rules ('leximetrics') pro-vides for comparing variations across time series and across legal systems. For instance, our study finds, that in all of our panel countries shareholder protec-tion has been improving in the last three decades; that the protection of minority against majority shareholders is considerably stronger in 'blockholder countries' as compared to the non-blockholder countries and that convergence in share-holder protection is taking place since 1993 and is increasing since 2001. Fi-nally, our examination of the legal differences between the five countries does not confirm the distinction between common law and civil law countries.
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D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray announced a new initiative to tackle bullying problems in the District on Wednesday night.
Gray said the initiative will be part of a four-step plan that includes a task force, research report and a bullying forum. He announced the plan before a private screening of "Bully" at E Street Cinema, which follows five children and examines the problem of bullying.
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Awaiting a major makeover for 2007, the smallest Land Rover continues with only minor updates for 2006. It remains available in two- and four-door versions, though this may be the last year a two-door Freelander will be sold in the U.S. Power continues comes from a 177-horsepower 2.5-liter V-6 engine that's coupled with a five-speed automatic transmission with manual-shift capability and Hill-Descent Control. All-wheel drive and all-terrain anti-lock brakes with Electronic Brakeforce Distribution are standard. Available luxury items include Park Distance Control, a Harmon Kardon premium audio system, a power sunroof, and heated leather seats. The two-door comes with larger (17-inch) wheels and tires, a more powerful Harmon Kardon premium audio system, and a removable glass/metal roof.
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Legal Question in Banking Law in India
bank locker transfer procedure to survivior in case of joint account
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Dear Sir / Madam,
You should submit a letter along with the Death Certificate of the deceased joint A/c holder to get the deceased's name deleted from the Bank's record, so as to retain your name as the sole holder of the locker.
If the locker was operable on either or survivor basis, the survivor need to simply submit the death certificate of the other hirer.. On the other hand iif it was operable jointly, then survivor apart from submitting the death certificate of the deceased hirer should also submit the consent letter of the legal heirs of the deceased to either jointly operate the locker with the survivor or allow the survivor to solely operate the locker.
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While speaking to reporters after Monday night's schizophrenic 41-35 victory over the Cowboys, Justin Tuck said something that revealed much about the psychological makeup of his team. Tuck was complimenting the way the Giants bounced back from being down 20-7 in the first half.
"It shows the character and leadership of this team for us to come back like that," said Tuck.
There wouldn't be anything too earth-shattering about that comment if the Giants had held onto the 38-20 lead that they built in the third quarter. Coming back after an awful opening to a road game does say a lot about a team.
But they didn't hold onto their lead. They won 41-35 and were lucky to avoid a last ditch effort by a Cowboys offense that shredded Tuck and his friends in the final quarter of the game. The Giants had the Cowboys down on the mat, dazed and bleeding, and then inexplicably decided to let them back up.
What does that say about the character and leadership of the team?
Not much, but the fact that there was so much positive and negative to say about this team on one night says volumes about this team. More than any other team in the NFL, the Giants veer from the sublime to the ridiculous within brief periods of the same football game. Monday night's game was like making a Prosciutto di Parma sandwich on Wonder bread.
Most of the middle two quarters were complete domination by the Giants, and you found yourself wondering just how far this team could go with a high-octane offense and smothering defense working in tandem. But the first 20 minutes and the fourth quarter were so bad and so riddled with mistakes that you found yourself wondering how the Giants manage to win any games.
How can Eli Manning throw for 306 yards and four touchdowns while also throwing three interceptions? It was the same overmatched secondary all night long. How can Hakeem Nicks and Steve Smith each make several athletic grabs in traffic while also letting passes skitter off their fingertips? How can Ahmad Bradshaw and Brandon Jacobs churn up yardage in huge chunks and then turn around and fumble balls after light hits? How can a defense that wiped out Tony Romo simply stop trying with the game still in the balance?
Such a two-faced approach has to come from the top down and, indeed, the coaching staff has a personality that's just as split as their players. When the Giants were throwing the ball at will in the first half and gaining huge chunks of yards, Tom Coughlin and Kevin Gilbride suddenly decided that Brandon Jacobs needed to get a bunch of carries. Jacobs promptly fumbled and the Cowboys extended their lead. Then, with a big lead in the second half, the Giants once again refused to simply chew up clock or make conservative passes. They made error after error and let the Cowboys back into the game.
Too often it feels like the Giants coaching staff is more concerned with doing something unexpected and showing off than simply going out and beating the opposition. When they do just stick to what makes sense, the Giants look like world beaters who need to be taken seriously. They don't stick to it often enough, however, and that leaves you befuddled about just what the Giants are trying to prove and why they think it matters.
This may all seem a bit too gloomy for a team that is 5-2 and on top of the division and the NFC, but if you're interested in seeing the Giants reach great heights this season then you're interested in seeing them make a better accounting of themselves.
Until they do, the two blowout losses to Indianapolis and Tennessee weigh heavier than the fact that they've won five games against teams that are 11-20 without putting together 60 minutes of good football.
Josh Alper is a writer living in New York City and is a contributor to FanHouse.com and ProFootballTalk.com in addition to his duties for NBCNewYork.com. You can follow him on Twitter.