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Maintain School of Education inventory, personnel information and other databases; update email distribution lists; maintain copier/scanner database codes; place work requests for copiers and order copier supplies; assist with classroom and suite reorganizations; order and track door key assignments; maintain fob access matrix and ensure appropriate access for employees; enter and monitor non-billable facilities and housekeeping work requests; coordinate phone and jack changes; monitor promotional item distribution; and assist with events and other projects as needed.
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Boston — State Auditor Suzanne Bump today released an audit of the Berkshire Community Action Council (BCAC).
The audit, which covered the period of October 1, 2010 through April 30, 2013, found the BCAC charged the state for a $24,533 unallowable severance package paid to its former Executive Director. The severance package was unallowable because BCAC lacked a formal policy for severance compensation and did not include a provision for such payments in the former employee's contract.
Auditor Bump, in her report, recommended that the state recover the unallowable expense.
In addition, the former BCAC management team did not follow state procurement policies when leasing 10 used vehicles for its transportation programs. As a result, the agency may not have gotten the best price for the leases at a time when the BCAC transportation program was running at a deficit.
The audit also recognizes BCAC has undergone a leadership change and has initiated a cost-reduction program that included discontinuing programs and a reduction in staffing levels, resulting in more than $400,000 in cost savings. The authority has responded positively to all audit findings and has indicated it is taking corrective action measures.
Berkshire Community Action Council is a Pittsfield-based non-profit organization which provides services for low-income individuals and the elderly and serves the 32 cities and towns and Berkshire County. BCAC also provides transportation services as a subcontractor for the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority.
The Office of the State Auditor conducts technical and performance audits of state government's programs, departments, agencies, authorities, contracts, and vendors. With its reports, the OSA issues recommendations to improve accountability, efficiency, and transparency.
The Berkshire Community Action Council audit is available here.

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Paradise center in Sofia is the largest mall in Bulgaria and the Balkans based on gross leasable area. It opened doors on march 28, 2013. Paradise center has four zones in terms of interior design the boulevard, the canyon, the terrace and the garden differentiating from each other by diverse concepts and styles. Source : wiki
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aliabazari (16306) 2014-08-03 21:27
Hi Gueguen
I like the front of the store with a big sign. My lovely BMW 5-Series cars - Land Rover. Exposure clarity and well performed. Very well. Thank you
pajaran (71562) 2014-08-03 22:24
Dobro jutro.
Lep pogled na Paradise center ...
Dobar snimak i kontrast, lepo pokazana arhitekura i detalji na fasadi.
Lepa terasa sa cvecem.
Imajte lep i uspesan dan, sve najbolje u novoj nedelji koja je pocela, srecno.
Good morning.
Nice view of Paradise Center ...
Good video and contrast nicely demonstrated arhitekura and details on the facade.
Beautiful terrace with flowers.
Have a nice and successful day, all the best in the new week that started, good luck.
ikeharel (84968) 2014-08-04 3:55
Hello Miguel,
An attractive modern edifice built to draw customers - but a very nice as photography subject.
Well done photojob, good clarity and light managed.
Best regards,
PiotrF (28424) 2014-08-04 6:51
Hello Miguel,
Interesting architecture of his modern building.
Good framing and lovely natural colors. Very well composition, lovely presentation.
No_One (4) 2014-08-04 7:56
Hi Miguel
A nice modern building, and your ote makes it sound like a very interesting place to visit. Judging by the cars park here, there are wealthy people inside making the most if it. Great that the orange outline of the building is a large P for paradise, nice touch from the designers.
bukitgolfb301 (47363) 2014-08-04 17:41
Hi dear Miguel, how are you?
Perefctly tight and resoanble framework image at all.
So vivid color touch and nice sharp light is so wonderful to see and adds this image's quality so highly.
All the best and have a good day! Takero from Tokyo
adramad (52436) 2014-08-05 8:29
Hola Miguel.
Una magnifica composicion de este moderno edificio, con un atractivo colorido y un nombre muy sugerente, para el centro comercial.
Buen angulo de captura.
Disfruta de un buen dia.
Saludos muy cordiales.
ChrisJ (126607) 2014-08-05 12:50
Hello Miguel,
Nice warm cold colour contrasts between the red, yellow and blue with punchy light contrasts and excellent saturation and density levels. The solitary person at right provides scale. Nice repetition of the umbrellas at left. Tfs!
jmdias (73399) 2014-08-06 2:00
interesting details of this façade, maybe the structure with the name of the place could be improved to something more elegant. I liked the image, has a good light, colors and sharpness. excellent angle showing it in the best way.
mcmtanyel (35121) 2014-08-06 9:17
Hello Miguel,
The colors are very attractive and I like the modern architecture with its geometric shapes and liberal use of glass panes.
willperrett (12206) 2014-08-09 3:33
This shot reminds me of the work of William Eggleston, both in its use of colour, subject matter and apparently random composition. It's an example of modern landscape photography, warts and all. So this is what contemporary life is like...
Silvio1953 (162102) 2014-08-10 8:33
Ciao Miguel, great view of original architecture, excellent clarity, splendid light and colors, very well done, my friend, ciao Dilvio
berek (50508) 2015-04-10 5:02
Dear Gueguel,
A composition of this magnificent modern building with attractive colors and a suggestive name for the mall.
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- Copyright: Gueguel Miguel (Miguel82) (27752)
- Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2013-00-00
- Categories: Daily Life, Architecture
- Exposure: f/4.2, 1/640 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
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Investigators say a car abandoned near a Walton Way bank robbery this morning appears to offer the best clue to solving the holdup.
Two men wearing ski-masks, both described as black about 6-feet-tall and weighing about 200 pounds, robbed the Georgia Bank and Trust branch at 1530 Walton Way about 9:15 a.m., witnesses said.
Lt. Scott Peebles, of the Richmond County Sheriff's Office, said the getaway vehicle, a green 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, was reported stolen last night from Augusta Mall.
Investigators are asking any businesses or nearby convenience stores that might have seen the car or those driving it to contact authorities.
They also asked merchants to be on the lookout for money that was red-stained after a dye-pack exploded following the robbery. Deputies said they think the explosion of the dye-pack prompted the thieves to get out of the car and flee into the neighborhood near Emmett and Parnell streets.
Police had tracking dogs searching the area this morning. Some of the stolen money was dropped in the neighborhood and police could be seen following the trail with the dogs.
Deputies said there was a lockdown of nearby Tubman Middle School to protect pupils. Paine College was also said to be taking security meaures.


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Still plugging away at two seperate test setups trying to get them far enough along that I don't feel like I failed the entire day to complete something. If anyone has any skills writing some complex Windows scripting to help me with some more automated testing than I already have, please email me! Anything you want can be yours! :) It looks tomorrow will be pretty busy as well as I have to send a couple parts BACK to where they came in time for overnight shipping, which means by 5:30pm here. Everything needs to be done by then, so sleep will come at the bottom of my list.
I don't usually post these up to the minute updates but I seem to have about 10 seconds of blank time between either of the two systems finishing a test, so what else am I to do for so short a time period?
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50 Cent Reveals How He Has Changed Since Visiting Africa
You wouldn't know it by some of his tweets, but 50 Cent is a changed man. Fresh off his trip to Africa, the rapper reflected on the trek After announcing that he would use the proceeds from his Street King energy drink to help fight hunger on the continent, earlier this month 50 returned from the motherland with a new perspective. "It enlightened me in different ways," he told the Associated Press. "To actually see people under the circumstances that I saw was a totally different experience. I don't think you can prepare yourself for that, no matter how many times you've seen the images."
Over the next five years, the Queens native hopes to shell out a billion meals to starving children. He flew to Kenya and neighboring Somalia with the World Food Program, and was given a bird's-eye view of the effects of hunger. Although he still has a ways to go in reaching his goal, 50 has provided more than 3.5 million meals to children in need.
Among his most touching experiences in Africa, was visiting children in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi. What stuck out to the rapper was the children's similarities to young people in the states. "They have one meal a day, the same meal every day," he explained. "There's nothing there — within their eyes and the way that they interacted with each other — that would indicate that they feel deprived in any way. They are the exact kids that you would see here, and that was so confusing. It made you want to pick them up and take them home with you, but you can't… So you have to do something that makes a difference."
The trip also inspired that long-awaited, long-delayed forthcoming album that he's been working on for the last few years. According to 50, he's not only creating stuff people will "enjoy," but music that holds "double meanings."
With a Street King clothing line and other projects in the works, there's no word yet on when the world will actually get to hear said new music.
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Finally it's here! Bosch's long awaited entry into the oscillating tool world, the PS50 Multi-X. We've been looking at Euro-Bosch's pmf 180 e multi for over a year now, thinking that when they released it in the states, we'd be getting something identical, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all.
First, the new PS50 sits on Bosch's compact 12-volt battery system (much like the PS20 that we reviewed yesterday), so, if we're not wrong, this is the first battery powered oscillating tool out there. This also makes it a nice compliment to Dremel's corded oscillating tool due out in October (which isn't all that surprising actually, seeing as Bosch owns Dremel). Oscillating tools might be the most versatile tools in the market, so a cordless version only makes it more portable, more hassle free and just easier to use.
A while back Bosch unleashed their 10-Volt, Lithium Ion-Driver to much acclaim; it was pretty powerful and very compact. But then, some other companies released similar tools that were more powerful by two volts. These new 12-Volt tools clearly out-matched the 10-Volt Bosch, so now, Bosch's 10-Volt has been upgraded to a 12-volt capacity.
When Bosch released their original tool, they called it a 10-volt, because that was the nominal voltage. When the other companies released their 12-volt tools, they decided to pick the name based on the maximum voltage, even though the batteries were pretty much the same. So, you see, Bosch's 10-volt is, and always was, in the same class as their competitors' 12-volts. So, not wanting to get continually screwed by shoppers who rightly assume that 12-volts is more powerful than 10-volts, Bosch has recently re-released their 10-volt as a 12-volt. So those of you who own the 10-Volt, don't hang your head thinking that your tool has already been outdated, because it hasn't. Well, it sort of hasn't. The Bosch 12-Volt Max has an increased speed and torque, both about 25% higher than the previous model. But our point is that the battery is the same.
Bosch just sent out word that they're finally getting into the 14.4-volt and 18-volt lithium market. Up until now they've kept their Li-Ion tools at the extremes, with either the little 12-volt or the Conan the Barbarian 36-volt. But now, finally, they've discovered their middle ground.
The new tools are exclusively in the hammer/drill/driver category and from what information is available at the moment, they look pretty nice. In addition to there being the two voltages (14 and 18), there are two types of batteries as well. The Brute Tough tools come with a FatPack battery and the Compact Tough come with a SlimPack Battery. The systems are compatible with one another, meaning that SlimPack batteries fit on Brute Tough tools and vise versa. Got it?
The tools also come with a nice 2 year battery replacement policy.
The new tools are as follows:
The best news is that this is just the start. After the release of these tools in October, we can expect to start seeing more tools start to appear in the lineup, including a circular saw, a reciprocating saw, and a flashlight, all 18-volts.
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We always like to see something new and different, and that's just what Milwaukee is delivering with their new Hackzall, due out later this year. The easiest way to describe it is to call it a single handed Sawzall, but that's actually pretty far from the truth. For one, it's only 12 volts and when put up against 15 amps of destructive power, it's not up to the same tasks at all. But because it's so small, it doesn't even want to do those tasks, due to the fact that it's busy doing all the things that a full-sized Sawzall can't. Things like cutting in outlet boxes, cutting pipes in cramped spaces, and plenty of other things that you'll discover once you get your hands on one.
We were fortunate to try out a Hackzall at Milwaukee when they released the tool and there, under a very controlled setting, we really liked it a lot. We're curious to see how it does under less controlled circumstances.
Another thing worth mentioning is that when we were at Milwaukee, all of the employees, every single one, seemed very, very happy to be working there. It wasn't the pasted on smiles that you see at some press events, it was legit and almost unsettling. It had us thinking that either a) there's some pretty strong Kool-Aid in Milwaukee, or b) it really is a great company to work for. Our guess is the latter, due to the fact that everyone made eye contact when they spoke to us, as opposed to that having that glazed-over look that you see in George Romero movies.
Looks like our friends over at Toologics are giving away a Milwaukee M-Spector to one lucky person. Entering is a snap, just to to their contest page and give them your name, email, zip code, social security number, and mother's maiden name (we're kidding about those last two).
They're accepting entries until 10/31 and the random drawing will be sometime early November.
Enter the contest here.
Since we're all in favor of a seriously strong driver that can fit in a nail pouch, we're pretty happy that Bosch has just released their 12-Volt Max Pocket Driver. It's sort of an upgrade of their 10.8-volt driver, but not the way you think. The new tool is capable of 100 inch-pounds of torque and a speed of 500 rpm, both 25% upgrades from the previous model.
The way it is not an upgrade is in the battery. We know you're saying, "what the eff? The new one is a 12-volt and the old one is a 10.8-volt! That's an upgrade, morons." Not really. What has happened is that when Bosch released the original tool they called it 10.8-volts, using the nominal voltage of the battery. But then other companies started putting out similar tools and referring to them by their maximum voltage, which is 12-volts. So the battery is the same (same look, same charger, etc.), but it just has a new name so Bosch won't get screwed on the shelves. Think about it, if you're at the store looking at a 10.8-volt tool and a 12-volt tool for the same price, you're going to think that you're getting a better deal with the 12-volt. We can't say we blame them for the name change.
The 12-Volt Max is going to cost around the same as the 10.8-Volt, which is in the area of $120.
We're going to bring this little guy to the job site and see how it holds up. More soon.
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The guys at CopTool have some cool information on Ridgid's second generation inspection camera. It seems that not only has Ridgid addressed any complaints with their first version, but they've added a whole lot more sauce as well.
New features include pan, zoom and a self-leveling camera. This is all well and good, but the real leap with this tool is that it can capture both images and video. And we're not talking about grainy 'here's my photo of the UFO I took in my backyard' resolution, we're talking about 1280 x 1024 images and 320 x 240 video. And once taken, the images and video can be easily transferred to a computer.
This looks like an amazing tool and a gift from the heavens to anyone who has ever had to track down a leak or find out what's in the way of that duct. But the impressiveness of the tool doesn't end with the features, it includes the price as well. This fella is going to go for a smashing $785. It's a boatload of money, but if it's a tool that you could use, it's a price worth considering.
Right now, Ohio Power Tools is taking pre-orders for a reduced price of $690. Order yours here.
It was just a matter of time before Ryobi got into the mini Li-Ion driver market and with their exposure at Home Depot, we're sure that this tool will be a hit.
Unlike a lot of the other low voltage screwdrivers, this one not only has a little LED light, but also a 12 position clutch. It also has a quick change chuck and comes with a carrying bag and a 6-piece bit set. These features elevate the tool from a simple around the house "picture hanging" tool to something that has some functionality on a job site as well, particularly during the punch list phase of the game. It's not as compact as the Dremel Screwdriver (which is twice as powerful), but it sure looks more "construction."
According to Ryobi the screwdriver can hold a charge for up to two years, so, not only can it help out on the job site, but it can also sit in the entryway closet until it's needed around the house.
All this is being sold for just a hair under $30, a very competitive price. We saw this tool at the local Home Depot last week and it's got some high visibility there and we expect them to be pushing it pretty hard in the coming months. But the bottom line is that it's a great price for what we'd bet is a solid tool.
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We were a little worried about testing out this tool. Up until now, we had only used one cordless nailer and it was quite a long time ago. Not only was the gun bulky (and smelly), but it kept running out of fuel and the battery couldn't keep a charge. But we thought that maybe the technology has been refined over the past handful of years so we cleared the slate and gave the new Duo-Fast Cordless Framing Nailer a fair shake.
Skil has definitely shown themselves to be interested in innovation. We loved last year's Power Wrench and we're looking forward to the benchtop tools they're releasing this September. In the meantime, they've slipped out the Power Cutter. It's a light-duty cutter powered by an 3.6 volt internal lithium-ion battery.
The Skil Cutter isn't the most aggressive tool you'll ever hold in your hand and it's not supposed to be. It's meant for small tasks. The packaging says that it can cut selected materials up to 1/4" thick. The list includes leather, wallpaper, cardboard, and carpet.


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Two 3Ls, Chris Brock and Anna Uhls, participated in the Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition on October 18, 2013 in Washington, D.C. The Moot Court Honor Society of the American University Washington College of Law hosted the competition, which has been taking place for over a decade.
Chris and Anna briefed and argued both a free exercise and a free speech issue, winning third place for best brief. On behalf of a fictional history teacher, the team argued that the teacher's free exercise rights were violated when his school implemented a policy prohibiting any extracurricular contact between teachers and students, which kept him from teaching Sunday school to his history students. The team next argued that the teacher's free speech rights were violated when he was fired after he wrote on Facebook about his suspension for violating the above policy. Despite winning third place in the "Best Brief" category, the team did not advance during oral arguments, and the University of Wisconsin Law School ultimately prevailed as the competition's winner.
The team was the first to ever represent CU Law in the Burton D. Wechsler First Amendment Moot Court Competition and hopes that CU will continue to participate in the competition in the years to come.
Thomas Tang Moot Court Competition, which is annually put on by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. The regional competition was held in Chicago, Illinois, where Leah and Manab advanced to the semifinals, guaranteeing them a spot to compete at the national competition. Leah won the Tang Competition in 2012-2013 and sought to defend her title in this year's competition.
Together, Leah and Manab took turns arguing two issues: (1) whether statutes precluding a public defender from withdrawing from representation because of excessive workload or lack of resources violated the right to effective assistance of counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment, and (2) whether sanctions imposed on a public defender for making a public statement considered political speech violate the Fifth Amendment.
At the national competition held in Kansas City, the team represented CU well, advancing to the quarterfinals.
Colorado Appellate Advocacy Competition (CAAC) is CU's annual intraschool moot court competition for 2Ls and 3Ls. A total of 51 2Ls and 3Ls participated in this year's competition held October 10-11, 2013, of which 22 advanced to semifinals. The top 12 were then selected as members of the 2014 - 2015 Barristers' Council and advanced to finals. Participants briefed and argued two First Amendment issues: (1) What standard should be used to determine whether the First Amendment protects speech communicated by public school teachers in a classroom and (2) whether specialty motor vehicle license plates issued by a state government are subject to viewpoint neutrality restrictions imposed by the First Amendment.
The following students were awarded the top three honors based on performance in the first round.
Best Overall - Mike Havlik
Best Brief - Zachary Siegel
Best Oralist - Ethan Jeans
Also, the following 12 students were selected as finalists and named to the Moot Court Division of Barristers' Council for the 2014-2015 school year.
Kevin Blake
Cayla Crisp
Laurence Gendelman
Michael Fox
Ethan Jeans
Kelsey Peterson
Eden Rolland
Zachary Siegel
Ali Walker
Abigail Wallach
Alex White
Emilyn Winkelmeyer
Of the finalists, the following six students were chosen to represent Colorado Law on the 2014-2015 National Moot Court teams.
Team Buff:
Abigail Wallach
Zachary Siegel
Kelsey Peterson
Team Ralphie:
Kevin Blake
Cayla Crisp
Alex White
The 2013 Carrigan Cup, CU Law's premier intra-school mock trial competition, was a great success! This year's Carrigan Cup was judged by the following panel of esteemed legal professionals: Judge Wiley Daniel, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado; Sheila Carrigan, Esq., Shareholder, Carrigan Law, LLC; and Jessica Brown, Esq., Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
Thanks to the generosity, support, and commitment of the Carrigan Family to experiential learning and the development of trial skills in law students, The Carrigan Cup features CU Law's top mock litigators. The Carrigan Cup is a unique opportunity for students to exhibit the trial skills and tactics they have learned at CU Law, and was established by family and friends in honor of judge and former faculty member Jim R. Carrigan. The competition is attended by members of the Colorado legal community to honor Judge Carrigan and his family as well as the student competitors.
This year's competitors tried a 1st-degree murder case, State of Nita v. Sanchez, and the parties were represented by the following students:
For the Prosecution: Tim Galluzzi, 3L, and Matt Montazzoli, 3L;
Representing the Defendant: Amanda Schiabor, 3L, and Kevin Cheney, 3L.
The students thoroughly prepared their cases, and all of the judges were highly impressed with the students' trial skills. Ultimately, the Defense prevailed, and the winners were:
The 2013 Carrigan Cup Champions: Amanda Schiabor and Kevin Cheney.
Congratulations to all who participated in The Carrigan Cup for a job well done in representing our school with such quality performances.
Colorado Law's Moot Court Board of the Barristers' Council proudly hosted Region 11's competition for the Regional Round of the nation's most prestigious moot court competition—The National Moot Court Competition sponsored by the New York City Bar and the American College of Trial Lawyers. Eight teams competed in this year's Regional Competition: University of Colorado (2); University of Utah (2); Arizona State University; Phoenix School of Law (2); and the University of Wyoming.
The two issues were 1) whether a state regulation of compelled commercial speech violated the First Amendment and 2) whether a state regulation requiring a unique mark on beverage containers violated the Dormant Commerce Clause.
Colorado Law's Petitioner's team of Matt Molinaro, Xakema Henderson, and Lewis Turner performed well and advanced to the semi-finals of the competition.
The Respondent's team of Mary Sue Greenleaf, Kevin Cheney, and Tim Galluzzi won First Place and wrote the Runner-Up Best Brief. Galluzzi won the competition's Best Oral Advocate Award, arguing both sides of the First Amendment issue.
The final round against the University of Utah was judged by Federal Magistrate Judges Boyd N. Boland and Kristen L. Mix for the United States District Court for the District of Colorado, and by attorney and CU Alum Jordan Bunch.
Greenleaf, Cheney, and Galluzzi will travel to New York City in February to represent Region 11 at Nationals. More than 50 attorneys, judges, and faculty participated in the competition, as judges and in scoring briefs.
The Colorado Law team of Ryan Tamm, Jon Greenlee, and Mathew Shoettle won their regional round in South Dakota for the ABA National Mock Trial Competition. The team progressed to the national competition in San Antonio, Texas.
Hunter Swain's ('13) recent paper won first place in the Louis Jackson Memorial National Student Writing Competition in Labor and Employment Law, earning Swain a prize of $3,000. The competition, sponsored by the national labor and employment law firm Jackson Lewis, is the top writing competition nationwide for labor and employment law.
"I'm interested in helping regular people with their problems," said Swain. "Employment law is important because it touches everyone—everyone has to work. I really believe that people want to work if given the chance. I want to help them get that chance, and I want to make sure that everyone who works will get paid a fair wage."
Surbhi Garg ('13) and Kayla Smith ('13) won the 2013 Rothgerber Moot Court Competition, arguing before a prestigious panel of judges.
Held on Monday, February 25th in the Wittemyer Courtroom, Garg and Smith teamed up against Tim Galluzzi and Martina Hinojosa to argue a fictional case about free speech. Galluzzi and Hinojosa represented the publishers of a manual detailing how to commit murder, while Garg and Smith represented the families of victims murdered by a man who purchased the book. The question turned on whether the book was protected speech under the First Amendment.
These four law students argued in front of an impressive panel of judges, including:
Manab Goswami ('13) won the Best Oralist award in the National Telecommunications Moot Court competition in Washington D.C. held in February 2013. Coached by Associat Professor Brad Bernthal, the team consisted of Manab Goswami ('13), Megan Rose ('13), and Ilias Politis ('13).


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HAZELWOOD, MO (KMOX) – Hazelwood Police have requested the public's help in locating an eleven year old girl who is believed to have been taken to California by her biological mother.
The girl is eleven year old Gabrielle Jackson. She is 4′ 11″ weighing 85 pounds, light complexion, brownish red hair with blue eyes.
She was last seen wearing a pink and purple pea coat, blue jeans, black shoes and was carrying a black backpack with silver hearts on it.
The girl's mother is Cecilia Montez. Police believe Montez is en route to Sacramento, California with the girl.
She may be traveling in a dark colored mini-van with dark tinted windows.
Anyone with information should contact Hazelwood Police at 314 838 5000. (Extension 1)
No S.A.R.A.A. Alert has been issued at this time.
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Discovery signs TV, multi-platform broadcast deal with Dutch broadcaster NOS for Olympics
MUMBAI: Building on its strategy to make the Olympic Games available to more viewers and across more screens in Europe than ever before, Discovery has announced a TV and multi-platform broadcast agreement with NOS in the Netherlands.
This deal will make the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games available to Dutch viewers on both NOS and Eurosport, creating a diverse and multi-faceted offering across linear channels and digital products.
The deal means that NOS will sub-license from Discovery Communications free-to-air audio visual and radio rights for the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games, continuing NOS' legacy of uniting the nation through local medal events and the best Olympic Games action. The NOS package of rights also includes digital rights to the content it broadcasts on its linear TV channel.
As part of the NOS agreement, Eurosport has exclusive live rights to two key sports for both the 2018 and 2020 Olympic Games, including ice hockey for the Olympic Winter Games PyeongChang 2018. NOS will also be able to broadcast the highlights.
Discovery Networks International president JB Perrette cited Discovery's goal to engage and entertain local audiences in Europe with the ultimate Olympic Games experience across all screens as a key priority.
"This agreement with NOS marks another important Olympic Games partnership deal by Discovery, bringing Discovery another step closer to our ambition to deliver more coverage across more screens than ever before. Most importantly, this is a big win for Dutch viewers who will be able to enjoy all the action, whenever and wherever they choose to watch it," he said.
NOS general director Jan de Jong said, "We have been broadcasting the Olympic Games since 1964, and are delighted that this new agreement with Discovery enables us to continue this long-term relationship with the world's biggest sports event. This agreement is hugely beneficial to the Dutch audience as it makes the Olympics more accessible for more viewers for a further five years. Our clear focus has always been to tell the whole story. We are covering all sporting disciplines and the individual athletes on their four-year road to the Olympics on a day-to-day basis. And therefore it's essential that we also attend their 'moment supreme', not only this summer in Rio, but in 2018 and 2020 as well."
The Olympic Games are highly valued and hugely popular with TV audiences. The London 2012 Olympic Games were watched by more than 13.4 million people (88% of the population) in the Netherlands, while 14 million people (91% of the population) watched the winter edition of 2014 Sochi Olympics on television via NOS.
The news follows an agreement announced by Discovery and the International Olympic Committee last June, which includes exclusive multimedia rights for 50 countries and territories in Europe for 2018 through the 2024 Olympic Games.


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For the example that shows how to configure the private virtual network shown in this section, go toExample 11–7.
For conceptual information about VNICs and virtual networks, go to Network Virtualization and Virtual Networks.
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Amazon are running a promotion to try and figure out which town in the U.S. is the most "Call of Duty-est" and in the process give money to charity.
The Amazon website currently displays a Top 40 list of towns that pre-orders for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 have been made in. To make it on to the list though, certain criteria have to be fulfilled. That criteria includes:
- A town with more than 5,000 people (based on most recent U.S. census data)
- Enough orders for two squads of players (18 people)
- Must have used the release date delivery option
At time of writing the top spot is held by Grand Forks, North Dakota which seems to have held the title for at least a few days now. The winner will be announced shortly after 12PM PDT on November 10th.
Once decided, Amazon will donate $5,000 in the form of an Amazon gift card to a charity which serves the winning town in some capacity. Amazon will choose that charity.
Read more at Amazon.com, found via Joystiq


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Western Digital RE RAID Edition 4TB SATA Enterprise Drive - Full Review
IOMeter v2006.07.27 - IOps
Iometer is an I/O subsystem measurement and characterization tool for single and clustered systems. It was originally developed by the Intel Corporation and announced at the Intel Developers Forum (IDF) on February 17, 1998 - since then it got wide spread within the industry.
Meanwhile Intel has discontinued to work on Iometer and it was given to the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL). In November 2001, a project was registered at SourceForge.net and an initial drop was provided. Since the relaunch in February 2003, the project is driven by an international group of individuals who are continuesly improving, porting and extend the product.
Light desktop usage sees QD figures between 1 and 4. Heavy / power user loads run at 8 and higher. Most SSD's are not capable of effectively handling anything higher than QD=32, which explains the plateaus. Regarding why we use this test as opposed to single-tasker tests like 4KB random reads or 4KB random writes, well, computers are just not single taskers. Writes take place at the same time as reads. We call this mixed-mode testing, and while a given SSD comes with side-of-box specs that boast what it can do while being a uni-tasker, the tests above tend to paint a very different picture.
Here we see the RE performs well, but is outpaced slightly by the RE and Black, both running at the same RPM. The increase in platter density doesn't help overcome the marginally longer seeks of the new RE. Each seek stacks up, becoming amplified slightly as the test progresses and more IO's are stacked up on the drive logic.
It's RAID edition review without RAID benchmarks, right? Did I miss something or maybe you are not provided enough drives for RAID testing?
All of these drive tend to scale similarly when in a RAID, depending more on the RAID controller than the drive itself. WD had a very limited number of samples for the new RE.
To answer the first fellow's question. That is simply the name of the drive not what the review entails. RE is short for Raid Edition.
I have always wanted a SSD....Now i want 4 terabyte of hard drive space....
I am curious, do you think the 2TB and 3TB would perform the same as the 4TB version? Will the lower amount of platters and heads cost some performance to the lower capactiy drives?
What I also wonder about is the new line of specific SAS models. Aou can plug a SATA drive in a SAS controller without any problems, so why the specific SAS line?
You can plug a SAS device into a SATA controller but NOT a SATA device into a SAS controller.
You're backwards on that :). Most SAS RAID controllers can handle SATA.
In fact, it's exactly the other way around.
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MONDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Limiting consumption of sugar-sweetened drinks helps with weight loss, according to a study published online April 1 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, while another study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that obese people are at higher risk of diabetes and cardiovascular disease if they consume drinks sweetened with fructose rather than glucose.
Liwei Chen, M.D., Ph.D., of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, and colleagues conducted a study of 810 adults by controlling their intake of liquid calories, and found that a 100 kcal/day reduction in intake from the baseline intake of 19 percent of their daily calories, or 356 kcal/day, was associated with 0.25 kg of weight loss at six months, and that subjects lost more weight when they reduced liquid calorie intake versus solid calorie intake. Of the various beverages studied, only sugar-sweetened beverages were significantly associated with weight.
Karen L. Teff, Ph.D., of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues conducted a study of nine obese men and eight obese women with a body mass index of over 30 kg/m2, who were given meals served with either glucose-sweetened or fructose-sweetened beverages accounting for 30 percent of calorie intake. The researchers found that after fructose consumption, the subjects had blunted diurnal leptin profiles and increased post-prandial triglyceride concentrations, and also secreted less insulin than after glucose consumption.
"Over-consumption of dietary fructose may exacerbate the adverse metabolic profiles in obese individuals, particularly those with existing insulin resistance, and may therefore increase the risks for developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease," Teff and colleagues write.
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Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) today released the following statement on passage of the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act. She voted to support this measure in order to avoid a government shutdown on March 27 and to fund the Federal government through the end of the fiscal year. The bill earned significant bipartisan support, passing with a vote of 318-109. The bill now goes to President Barack Obama for his signature.
"The final Continuing Appropriations bill that passed the House of Representatives today is an improved version of the initial legislation, but it is far from where we need to be. Both parties came together to ensure that greater flexibility in funding was provided to the Department of Defense, as well as addressing some domestic priorities like agriculture, public safety, and rural development. The bill also prevents a government shutdown next week, protecting our economy from yet another manufactured crisis.
"There is still much work to be done to ensure we are protecting and serving those most in need. As we plan for our long-term future, I will continue to push for common-sense initiatives that strike a balance between targeted spending cuts and closing tax loopholes for special interests.
"I am pleased that this bill reinstates Department of Defense tuition assistance education programs that were initially suspended due to the across-the-board cuts which were put in effect earlier this month. These earned educational benefits exist to ensure our troops gain further leadership skills, and to set them up for success upon their eventual transition from military to civilian life. Our service members have made tremendous personal sacrifices for our country. This is a step toward ensuring they are properly served in return."
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard cosponsored the House legislation (H.R. 1265) to restore the programs. Yesterday, she also sent a bipartisan letter to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel calling for the programs to be reinstated.
Source: http://gabbard.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-tulsi-gabbard-statement-on-passage-of-the-continuing-appropriations


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IRS responds to AIPAC lobbying junkets to Israel complaints
Oct 25, 2012, 12:44 ET from Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy:
On September 10 the IRS responded to a mass letter-writing campaign alleging Israel trips organized by an American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) front organization were illegal. Citizen letters to the IRS Tax Exempt Organization commissioner copied to both the Attorney General and US Attorney for the District of Columbia claimed:
"…Ever since the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) emerged from the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1951, it has clashed with U.S. law enforcement. AIPAC and its predecessors have been investigated for election law violations, secretly laundering overseas funding into U.S. public relations and lobbying activities, use of tax-deductible donations to lobby, improper acquisition and circulation of classified U.S. government information, and Foreign Agent Registration Act violations…
…AIPAC's latest scheme is to use its tax-exempt alter ego, the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), to channel tax-deductible funds into its non-exempt lobbying activities. Please investigate and shut down future AIPAC-AIEF funded junkets to Israel! My member of Congress was elected to work for my neighbors and me, not a foreign country's lobby…"
During the 2011 summer recess more than 80 members of Congress were flown to Israel in a massive lobbying junket according to a participant list compiled by Legistorm. IRmep's Center for Policy and Law Enforcement filed a comprehensive criminal complaint (PDF) about AIEF on September 9, 2011. It detailed how AIPAC skirted reform laws passed in 2007 intended to prevent lobbies from funding such travel by using the AIEF as a slush fund. The AIEF has no employees and is housed within AIPAC's Washington, DC headquarters. Although AIEF claims to be an educational organization, it has never made educational material directly available to the public or academic peer reviewers.
On September 10, 2012 the IRS mailed identical responses (PDF) to petitioners stating "This letter responds to your letter …concerning alleged lobbying activities by the AIPAC and/or the AIEF…I can tell you that we maintain an ongoing examination program to ensure exempt organizations continue to meet the requirements for tax-exempt status."
"These tepid IRS promises will not stand," claimed Director Grant F. Smith as IRmep's Center for Policy and Law Enforcement filed a second October 24 complaint (PDF) substantiating how AIEF violated the original terms of its 1989 application for tax exempt status. IRmep has obtained AIEF's application from the IRS in the complaint process.
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This week saw Sony open their arms to their business partners, inviting those from the industry to spend some time with the heads of Sony South Africa, as well as a few international dignitaries. On Friday, 18th May 2012, Sony again opened their arms, this time inviting journalists and media to view Sony's line up and detailed plans for the year ahead. Although we're well into 2012 as it is, the conference still provided a good insight to what we should expect from Sony in 2012 and near future.
The event itself was advertised as a breakfast, although not the formal sit-down-around-a-table event. Being a techy at heart, I spent the few minutes allocated to finger-breakfast anticipating what would be unveiled in later proceedings, a thought made stronger after a chat with one of the represented revealed the new VAIO series. Before those events started, however, it was necessary to receive a few words from heads of Sony. The presentation that followed highlighted Sony's strong position in South Africa, heading the markets in all competing market sectors except for that of Television, in which they are at the number 2 ranking. Also stressed in the introduction was Sony's dedication to quality products, as opposed to market-driven "cheaper" products. There's no doubt that Sony isn't the most affordable product for their respective markets, but you can always associate the brand with quality. Presentations aside, it was time to view the product.
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With an overabundance of devices on display, it seemed impossible to spend sufficient time on all. A selection of tablets, notebooks, speakers, headphones and earphones, television sets, Hi-Fi systems, home entertainment systems, car audio (speakers and players), portable audio (mp3 players, boom boxers, etc), and an absurd variety of cameras, lenses and video cameras were all on show. It's not an exaggeration to say that if a single person had to review all the products on display, it would take them at least one year to complete. Here are just a few of the devices that were showcased at the conference.
The 2 biggest unveils at the conference were undoubtedly Sony's version of the Ultrabook, and the [eagerly awaited] Sony Google TV set top box. The Ultrabook, Sony's VAIO T Series, will be available in South Africa from June in 11.6" and 13.3" versions. The higher spec 13.3" packs Intel's i7 Core CPU, SSD drive, with VGA, LAN, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and HDMI ports. The device was shipped in a few hours before being unveiled to the few journalists in attendance. Once released, I'll provide further detail and full specifications.
The show stopper, or at least in my opinion, was the Sony NSZ-GS7, as it's known. Simply put, it's a set-top box with Google TV functionality, running on Android OS. The device connects to the internet via Wi-Fi or LAN cable, and transforms your TV into an online media centre. With a collection of apps connecting to Television Networks across, there's more than enough variety to choose from for even the hardened viewers. One the questions that remains is whether South Africa will be offering separate networks to choose from, or simply piggy-back off what's already available in the US and European markets. Although the device will compete directly with the likes of DStv, the biggest question is the pricing. With the ability to choose movies, series and video clips on demand, or subscribe to a particular network, you will have to select what best suits your needs. Additionally, Sony will also produce the NSZ-GS9, which is very similar to the NSZ-GS7, with the addition of a Blu-ray player. Although this wasn't on display, quick research shows that this is a project Sony has been working on along with the NSZ-GS7. You will also notice in the images below that there is a trackpad-enabled remote that comes standard with the device. The remote also has a full QWERTY keyboard (as you can see in the reflection on the NSZ-GS7) on the back for when you're required to enter credit card details when signing up for a new bouquet. I can imagine that the device should also offer email capabilities, since it is an Android device with fully functional browser. The NSZ-GS7 is expected to launch in South Africa in about 7-8 months, hopefully in time for your Christmas shopping.
It's been a busy week for Sony and their representatives, so much so that a few of the product specialists had already lost their voices, most likely due to the excitement of products due for release within the next few months.


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Tales of Destiny
FAQ/Walkthrough by Kamui
Version: 1.0 | Updated: 01/31/04 | Search Guide | Bookmark Guide
TALES OF DESTINY (Demo) FAQ / WALKTHROUGH
Version 1.0
Copyright - Namco 1997
Character design - Mutsumi Inomata
Sony Playstation
Made by Kamui
E-mail: email@example.com
Updates - Version 1.0 - Finished in January 30, 2004
Version 0.9 - Finished in October 2, 2003
First version - About March 2002
1. Introduction
2. Walkthrough of the Demo
3. Character progression
4. Demo to final game differences.
5. Extras / Secrets
6. Legal information / Thanks / Contact info
Once upon a time, gamers only get to heard of new games on pressed
media, and play the game once it was released. But, this changed with the
advent of the CD media. Developers used that to show previews builds,
playable or not, of the games to create hype for the title and receive
feedback from the potential buyers. That gives the developer time to
correct some things, some for the good, others not. So these demos are a
living proof of the development of a certain title, which makes demo of
the games so valuable to certain persons.
Tales of Destiny was originally released in Japan, 1997. In
December 1998, Ridge Racer Type 4 was released with a 2 CD set. The first
one came with the game itself. The other come with many things of the
Ridge Racer series, it contained the original version of Ridge Racer
released for the PS (and a improved version, called Hyper Ridge Racer),
information about the Ridge Racer series and a section called NAMCO
CATALOGUE'98, that was collection of information of all Namco games
released in Japan at that time (much like the Square collection) and some
of this games included interactive material, such as the playable demo
from Tales of destiny.
Once I began to play it, I realize that it wasn't an average demo.
For my surprise, the demo is deep, lengthy (+1h play) and come with some
surprises: new illustrations by Mutsumi Inomata and extra sequences that
was deleted from the final game.
Others playable demos on the NAMCO CATALOGUE'98: Tekken 3, Libero
Grande and Klonoa. There is also a video preview of Ace Combat 3 and an
Art gallery of Dragon Valor.
After you choose the game, a screen Tales of Destiny - Now Loading
will appear. And so the game will automatically begins.
The game begins on the Draconis ship, just like the final game, and
you will see the entire introductory scene with Stahn "Country boy"
Aileron being discovered by the crew of the Draconis.
And so, with the invasion of the monsters, until you get Dymlos.
After get Dymlos, you can fight and escape the ship, alive.....
Enemy - Barbarian, Wyvern
PHANDARIA MOUNTAINS - After the escape from the Draconis, the game
will show you Garr "Sarcastic character" rescuing you from the ice field
near Alba's house (that doesn't appears on the final game!!!!). After
that you will leave Alba's house.
The next scene shows you talking with Mary "Amnesia + Muscles" and
entering the ruins from the ice field to rescue a friend that was trapped
inside a dungeon. Even Dymlos being against the idea, Stahn "Nice Guy"
decides to help someone in danger.
SNOW TEMPLE - The dungeon is pretty straightforward, with few
places to go. This first part of the dungeon is exactly the same of the
final version, but the items dispositions are different.
The second part of the dungeon is virtually identical of the final
game. And so, you find Mary's friend Rutee "Greedy bitch" in a trap.
After rescuing Rutee "Ungrateful bitch", you have to face 3 imperial
Seinegald guards.
Chests - 2 Wooden Shield, 1 Rapier, 3 APPLE GEL, 1 PINE GEL
Enemy - G. Slug, Sprite,
BOSS - 3 Guards
When you defeat the empire guards, you will reach the city of
Janos, and so, you will chat with Mary and Rutee in a bar, and know that
Rutee has a Swordian too. And so, they agreed to travel together.
The next morning, Rutee says that they will go to the town of
Harmentz for a work but before you depart, Stahn will hear a lecture of
the lens recycling system by the Oberon corporation and the role of lens
hunters (Mary and Rutee job). You can explore the town and buy items, and
such. From the edge of the city you can leave to the world map.
From the city of Janos you can go north to the city of Harmentz,
that is your next destination, but you can also go to northwest to the
city of Darilshed or even go further north to the forest entrance to the
Straylize temple.
You will eventually reach Harmentz. After you enter town,
automatically a cutscene with begin. You will enter the city and the
deliver the old cane to Walt and are allowed to stay the night on his
mansion. On the next morning....
After you climb down the stairs, the guards of the Snow temple will
try to arrest you, but the team escapes the ambush. On the outside of the
mansion, a pack of Seinegald Soldiers will surround your team, and you
will have to fight your way. You will defeat them, of course...and so
Leon "Coldblooded child" Magnus, a knight from the Seinegald army, will
challenge Stahn and the others.
Even that you are way more powerful than Leon (very different from
the final version, when you don't last 30 seconds), you cannot defeat
him. So lose on purpose, otherwise the game doesn't advance. And so a
child alone can beat 3 Lens hunters with Swordians. You will be taken to
Darilshed, capital of the Seinegald Empire, to be judge by the king of
Enemies - 7 guards
Boss - Leon
The king will sentence you to death, but Hugo, the Oberon CEO, save
them and convince the king to send them to the Straylize temple, that's a
dangerous place. But, you won't be released freely; the guards put in you
a necklace that emits electric shocks on the wearer by remote control.
Also, Leon will go with you to the Straylize temple.
North of the city of Darilshed is the entrance of the Straylize
temple, and is a dense forest.
You have to enter the forest to reach the Stralize temple, there is
some chests along the way. Be sure to grab them, because the enemies are
stronger than ever.
Items - 2 Apple gel
Before entering the On the Straylize temple, you will meet with a
girl turned to stone, meanwhile a monster is closing by...
BOSS - Barudeiosu
3 Skeletons
Stahn and the others get to take her from the petrified state and
know that she is a priestess, named Philia. Philia says about the Eye of
Atamoni. The Swordians explain to them about the eye menace, and Philia
goes with them, also there is a length text with a black screen. They say
about the Straylize temple, Philia and the Eye of Atamoni.
The character progression of this demo is so cool because you can
get ridiculously strong on level 6 (!!!!!!), and you get most skills and
spells at level up. And so the demo show you abilities that you will only
have on the level 30 and near the end of the game.
Level 1 - Majinken (Magic Missile)
Yourinjan (Kick attack)
Koga Hazan (Tiger Blade)
Level 2 - Hou! Tenku (Rising Phoenix)
Level 3 - Mahou! Engiki ha (Fiery wave)
Level 4 - Hou! Bakurengi (Hell Fire)
Level 5 - Explode
Level 1 - Majinken (Power Missile)
Mojuken (Beast Blade)
Level 2 - Gouraiken (Double Blade)
Level 3 - Shishi! Renkou
Level 1 - Search Gald
Firsto Aido (First Aid)
Ice Neddle
Level 2 - Snipe Air
Level 3 - Nurse
Level 4 - Thievery
Level 5 - Ice Wall
Level 1 - Majinken (Missile Sword)
Yurinjan (Kick Attack)
Stone Break
Level 2 - Pico Hammer
Level 3 - Houriu enga don
Level 4 - Stone Wall
The main motivation for me to write this FAQ is pointing out what
the demo has that the final game doesn't....
- There is no opening movie or title screen.
- The "NOW LOADING" screen doesn't exist on the final release.
- In the menu screen the SAVE option are disabled.
- The character design that appears on the status screen for Stahn,
Mary, Rutee and Leon are different for the final game. There are 4
original portrait made by Mutsumi Inomata (one for each character, that
are from the TOD art book, that are advertised on the Namco collection)
- There are no save points on the game (which means that you can't
save on the demo).
- The room on the Draconis where Dymlos is, are actually lit and
you can see all the extension of it.
- The crate "puzzle" on the first room of the Draconis ship doesn't
- The dungeon on Phandaria plains, both from the rescue of Chelsea
and the road to Janus, don't exist on the demo.
- The skill tablet that is on the way to the Straylize temple
(Phoenix) isn't there.
- When you arrive in the Staylize temple, the dungeon and the
crystal puzzle are nowhere to be found.
- The city of Janus is exactly the same as the final game.
- The city of Harmentz are also exactly like the final game, but
you can only explore it after meeting with the Darilshed king.
- The city of Darilshed only consists in the King's room. If you
enter Darilshed before you enter Harmentz, you will appear on the King's
room and the guards will ask you to leave.
- The town of Cresta and Armeida don't exist on the demo.
- On the battle, Rutee's Nurse is different. On the final game, the
nurses open first aids box in front of the party. On this version
thought, the nurses give the characters a shot on each character.
- Much of the enemies in this game are recycled form the final game
but their enemies that don't appear normally in determined places.
- The fight against Leon is very easy, almost too easy. But in the
final game you will be punished to death.
- There are missing some frames of animations, mainly of the
- When the escape pod is falling down (Mode 7 scene), the
background is rotating but the ship doesn't. In the final game the ship
and background and the ship rotates in different direction.
- Some backgrounds (old ruins and the desert) have serious polygon
breakup problems.
- When Stahn is being beating up in the Draconis, he doesn't
screams. But he does yell at the final hit.
- The Harmetz theme is slightly different from the final release
- From the city of Janus you can use any exit that you will get on
the world map.
- Exploring the world map: there are only 4 locals to go that is
Darilshed, the forest entrance to the Straylize temple and the city of
- Cresta, the hometown of Rutee and Armeida, the last city before
the Straylize temple, don't exist in the demo.
- On the beginning of the game in the final game, a member of the
Draconis tells Stahn to get IT from the basement; on the demo there is no
mention of this.
- Dymlos doesn't mention the Aether's wars to Stahn, on the
beginning of the game.
- The rescue of Chelsea doesn't exist on the demo.
- The passport issue on the city of Janos doesn't exist on the
- You meet with Mary in Phandaria plains, not in Janus.
- When you have to go to the city of Harmentz, to deliver the old
cane to Walt, but you never get the old cane as an item.
- The scene with Stahn being punched by the Walt bodyguard is
absent from the demo.
- The prison scene in Darilshed doesn't exist on the demo.
- Stahn and the others go to the Straylize temple without much
explanation as have on the final game like the existence of the Eye of
Atamoni. There is only explaining about the shocking necklace.
- The scene with Leon and Marian on the house of the Oberon CEO,
doesn't exists on the demo.
- There is a scene just before entering the Straylize temple that
don't exist on the final game.
- The boss fight in the Straylize temple doesn't exist in the final
- Some initial equipment (Mary, Leon) is different of the final
- On the city of Janus, you can buy some items and equipment, but
all this items is fairy inexpensive.
- Some items in the treasures chests are different from the final
- All characters except Stahn are initially equipped with a
Chanelling stone, but can't use a multiplayer to control the characters
- You begin with a Food Sack S, but there is no food to put on the
Food Sack (very weird...)
- You begin with a combo command, and you can't equip it on Stahn
(very, VERY weird....)
- The Garr rescuing Stahn scene on the ice field near Alba's house
that doesn't appears on the final game.
- Karyl cameo appearance!!!! If you go to the entrance of the
Straylize temple before you go to Harmetz to fight Leon, Karyl will tell
you to leave this place and don't return until the final game is
concluded. In the final game, Rutee will tell you to leave.
- The text on the end of the demo is nowhere to be found on the
final game.
A) Game information - Demo
NAME: Ridge Racer Type 4 (SCPS 01800)
(SCPS 01798) (Jogcon Version)
PUBLISHER: Namco
DEVELOPER: Namco
RELEASE DATE: December, 1998
PRICE: 5800 yen
7800 yen (Jogcon Version)
Game information - Final version
NAME: Tales of Destiny (SCPS 1100)
(SCPS 91111) (Playstation The Best)
PUBLISHER: Namco
DEVELOPER: Namco
RELEASE DATE: December, 1997
PRICE: 5800 yen
2800 yen (Playstation The Best)
B) Other demos on the NAMCO COLLECTION'98
1 - Libero Grande
Status : PLAYABLE
Arcade Opening : YES
Options : LIMITED
Demo only features: No
Already Released: YES
On the Libero Grande demo, you can try the exibition mode and the
Challenge 9 mode.
In the exibition you can play a VS game with a second player and
1p/2p VS CPU. There is only two leaders to choose: Raimundo and Gaston,
and 4 teams to choose: Japan, Jamaica, Croatia and Argentina. There is
only one match with the other captain and a random team.
The Challenge 9 mode has 2 categories: Sidewinder and Hawk Eye.
2 - Tekken 3
Status: PLAYABLE
Opening CG : YES
Arcade CG : NO
Arcade opening : LIMITED (there is no alternative opening)
Options : NONE
Demo only features: NO
Already Released : YES
There is only the arcade mode and only two fighters: Xiaoyu and
Eddy. You can fight against these 2 plus Lei and Paul.
This is the funniest demo of all because this is for sure a build
of the final release: There is slowdown, texture warping and bad polygon
models and textures on almost all characters. But the gameplay was left
the same as the arcade version.
3 - Klonoa : Door to Phantomile
Status: PLAYABLE
Opening CG : YES
Options : NONE
Demo only features: YES
Already Released : YES
The Klonoa demo is a literal translation of the first world
(1-1, 1-2 and boss). All the voices was kept intact.
There is a screen with the characters designs of Klonoa and
his friend and some text after you finished the demo.
4 - Ace Combat 3
Status: VIDEO ONLY (32 seconds)
Opening CG : NO
Options : NONE
Demo only features: YES
Already Released : NO
The video of Ace Combat 3 is most fascinating because there is
hints of what the future release may became. The graphical engine was
already done. The video shows the city landscapes in hi-res and shows
the different angles of the airship. Also there is mention of the key
factors of the story of the game like: Nexus, sublimation, tele
existence, aero coffin, UPEO, Neucom, Ouroboros, United States of
Euro-Asia (I don't remember of this thing....) and most important:
The interesting part is that the game at the time of the
release of RR4 was called only Ace Combat 3, without Electrosphere
(the final release was called Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere); there is
no mention of it on the video or the NAMCO CATALOGUE'98. The expected
release date on the info was Winter 99.
5 - Dragon Valor
Status: Illustrations
Opening CG : NO
Options : NONE
Demo only features: YES
Already Released : NO
There is 7 illustrations of the game: The first shows Clovis
with a sword, the second is the princess, 3 and 4 shows dragons, the
other 2 shows sketches of dragons, and the last one shows all the
dragons, Clovis and a chained princess. The expected release date on
the info is Spring 99.
C ) Next project / Released FAQ's.
Serei Hata Rayblade (PS) - 30% completed
Black/Matrix Cross (PS) - 20% completed
Generation of Chaos (PS2) - 10% completed
Black/Matrix 2, Shaman King - Spirit of Shaman, Samurai Deeper
Kyo, Psychometrer Eiji, Cyberorg, Racing Lagoon, Digital Holmes, Maken
Shao, Project Minerva Professional, Makai Tensei, Guardian Angel, Beat
Mania 6 + core mix.
Mail me if you have any interest on these titles
- Others released FAQ's
Akumajou Dracula - Castlevania Chronicle FAQ (PS)
Biohazard Complete Disk FAQ (PS)
Card Captor Sakura - Clow Card Magic FAQ / Walkthrough (PS)
Houshinengi FAQ / Walkthrough (PS)
Kaikan Phrase Datenshi Kourin FAQ / Walkthrough (PS)
Tales of Destiny (demo) FAQ / Walkthrough (PS)
Tales of Destiny 2 Title FAQ (PS)
PUMP IT UP: the season evolution FAQ (ARCADE)
PUMP IT UP: extra FAQ (ARCADE)
Unlimited SaGa FAQ / Walkthrough (PS2)
A) Legal Information
This document is (C)?2002, 2004 Leonardo Lugarinho. All rights
reserved. Tales of Destiny is (C) 1997 Namco. All rights reserved. Ridge
Racer Type 4 is (C) 1998 Namco. All rights reserved. All other trademarks
is related on their respective owners.
This document can be freely distributed on this original, non-
edited form and for non-profit uses ONLY. If you wish to put this
document on your homepage, send an E-mail first.
B) Thanks
Many thanks to:
My family
My friends
All the people that like the Tales series
C) Contact info
Questions, comments, suggestions....fell free to send me an E-mail
to firstname.lastname@example.com with TOD-Demo as subject.
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Mar. 20, 2013
Source: Agricultural Speakers Network
Prominent grain price and agricultural newsletter guru Richard Brock and prominent Agriculture Futurist Dr. Jay Lehr have found them selves following each other at major farm meetings, most recently at the Farm Credit Bank meeting at The University of Missouri in Columbia in January and the American Feed Industry Association Meeting in Fort Worth, Texas in March.
They share very different outlooks on where the price of corn may go over the coming months, up to two years to be exact.
Brock a brilliant chartist is the ultimate bear predicting that corn can will revisit $3 to $3.50 as exports have dropped dramatically for the United States against growing exports for Brazil and Argentina.
He believes that demand has died off while the current high price of corn presently is driving more planted acres from soy and now even cotton into corn. He is also confident that we will not revisit the drought of 2012 in the coming year or two though rainfall may still be low in parts of the corn belt.
Both Brock and Lehr have been to China in the past two years and came away with very different views of the role China may play in the price of US corn.
Lehr has told his audiences that, though China buys little corn today at elevated prices, they will not be able to stand by without entering the market with huge purchases when and if corn approaches a $5 a bushel value creating a virtual floor for the price of the grain.
Brock says that China will buy no corn for their hogs as they are happy to continue to let their millions of hog farmers raise their average of 13 hogs on food scraps. He says that this is a political decision while Lehr is confident he is wrong.
So confident that Lehr challenged Brock to a bet of $1000 that during no consecutive 30 day period would corn drop to $4 a bushel or below between February 1 of 2013 and Jan 31 of 2015. The bet was made before 500 attendees in Missouri and repeated before a similar crowd in Fort Worth with both men present.
Brock was so confident that he will win, he offered Lehr in front of the audience in Forth Worth the opportunity to either double the bet or halve it and pay up now.
This got a great laugh from the audience but Lehr settled for the bet as currently stated and added that his wife had already spent the money he is sure to win.


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ENI in QATAR
( MEBG ) - ENI's presence in Qatar dates back to the 1960s. Snamprogetti has been present in Qatar since1964, and in 1967 Agip acquired a 20 percent interest in an offshore concession that included the North Field Gas Reservoir. All foreign holdings were nationalized in 1976.
In 1991 Agip acquired a 45 percent participating interest offshore Blocks 1 and 6. Block 1 was later relinquished.
Production from the Alkhalij offshore field, which today is the main oil interest of ENI in Qatar, started in 1997. It expected that production will rise from 7,000 bpd in the present up to 19,000 bpd by 2003. In the engineering and oilfield services sector, Saipem installed a sea line in the North Dome Field.
Natural Gas & Petrochemical Sectors
In March 2000 Snamprogetti signed a contract with QGPC for the construction of a gas lift plant in Dukhan Field, which the largest onshore oil field in the country and is located on Qatar's west coast.
The project worth $200 million.It involves the injection of gas for artificial lift in order to maintain the planned production of oil and increase its ultimate recovery. Snamprogetti will supply detailed engineering, materials and equipment, construction and start-up. Work is scheduled to be completed in 2002.
In the petrochemical sector, ENIChem has a 10 percent share in the Qatar Petrochemical Company (QAPCO), which operates a petrochemical plant that produces ethylene (525,000 t/y) and LDPE (360,000 t/y).
In November 1999 ENIChem and the Qatar General Petroleum Co. (QGPC) signed an interim agreement to build a 100,000 ton/year of TDI plant (used for production of polyurethane foams), using ENIChem technology. QGPC will participate with a 51 percent share and ENIChem with the remaining 49 percent share.
In August 1999 QGPC awarded a lump sumturn key contract to Snamprogetti for the construction of the Natural Gas Liquid Complex NGL- 4. The project aims to enhance the recovery of ethane from the Arab-D field in Dukhan and from the North Field Gas plant in Mesaieed, to transport the NGL across the Qatar peninsula with a new pipeline and, finally, to treat them in the new NGL- 4 plant to produce ethane and export products (propane, butane and gasoline).
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Redefining Ourselves, Our Bodies, and Our Futures through Culture
This post is by Donna Yang as part of the series 'Culture and Human Rights: Challenging Cultural Excuses for Gender-Based Violence' hosted by Gender Across Borders and Violence Is Not Our Culture.
Are we defined by culture or do we define culture? It seems an inconsequential the chicken-or-the-egg kind of question, but it is imperative to pose given that we live in a culture that condones and glorifies male violence against women. The fate of our very survival as women depends on it.
To answer this question, we must first understand the symbiotic relationship between culture and violence and why it exists. We need to gain an understanding of what these terms mean and how they fit within a larger framework of power dynamics in a patriarchal society. There is a fundamental struggle for power and legitimacy between men and women.
Culture influences how society defines masculinity and femininity. It delineates gender roles and expectations and reinforces them through the power of socialization. Socialization normalizes and traditionalizes dichotomization along these gender boundaries. As a result, both men and women are socialized to implicitly and explicitly accept male violence as normal. Gender-based violence becomes an expression of love, a religious tradition, or a common practice.
Patriarchy is a system of social structures and practices through which men dominate and oppress women. It uses culture to reinforce and normalize male supremacy. Therefore, it is not culture itself that dictates whether women are beaten, raped, or killed, but rather those in power who define what culture is. Culture is simply a combination of customs, traditions and values within societies.
Culture is constantly evolving. This perpetual evolution is more accurately termed resiliency. Culture is resilient because it must perpetuate patriarchal systems of oppression across a broad spectrum of societies. Patriarchy survives precisely because of culture's adaptive nature: it knows no boundaries and permeates all societies regardless of geographical context.
Globalization, characterized by the neo-liberalization of market economies and transnational flow of goods and services, information and culture, has resulted in the heightened transparency of patriarchal ideology across nation states. Furthermore, increased cultural interactions have proliferated the exchange of patriarchal ideologies and culturally endorsed violence. As a result, violence permeates and manifests differently, yet fundamentally the same across cultures.
Violence is a political tool used by those in power to subordinate a marginalized group. Within the patriarchal systems we live, the oppression of women, a marginalized group is maintained through gender-based violence and sexual terrorism. Feminist scholar, and my former professor Dr. Carole Sheffield has written, "Sexual terrorism is manifested through actual implied violence against all females, irrespective of race, class, physical or mental abilities, and sexual orientation, are potential victims at any age, at any time, any place." Several social dynamics work together to legitimize violence against women as a means of control including cultural myths, gender-based social roles, women as property, rape culture, and male bonding.
The UN definition of violence is important because it recognizes violence against women as gender based and both public and private citing, "any act of gender-based violence that results in or is likely to result in physical, sexual, or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivations of liberty, whether occurring in public or private life." Violence against women is not an individual, private problem of any one particular victim, but an institutionalized practice supported by the state. This institutionalization of violence against women in political, legal, and economic systems makes it invisible and acceptable.
No culture is free from the tyranny of phallocentric misogynist violence, including
Western culture. U.S. hegemony leads many to falsely believe that our culture is significantly less oppressive and violent than those of African, Asian, or Middle Eastern nations. For example, female genital mutilation, as practiced in many African countries, is often considered the paradigmatic 'harmful cultural practice.' Clarification: the U.S. has myriad of culturally endorsed violent practices such as domestic violence, pornography, trafficking, prostitution, incest, and rape.
To stay relevant and effective within the globalized 21st century, feminism must recognize the culturally driven power of patriarchy and seek to address its implications. So I ask again, do we define culture or does culture define us? One of my personal HERoines, Gloria Steinem has said, "Lart, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before." I am advocating for a movement, a revolution, to take back and define what is rightfully ours: our selves, our bodies, our minds, and our culture because violence is not our culture—we are culture.
About the author: Donna Yang is a recent graduate of William Paterson University with a B.A. in Political Science and concentrations in Women's Studies and International Relations. She works as an Associate in the Development and Outreach Department of Human Rights Watch in New York City. Her academic interests focus on sexual violence, human rights, and globalization. Personal HERoines include Gloria Steinem, bell hooks, and Andrea Dworkin.


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Black Hawks – USHL Finals Schedule
The Waterloo Black Hawks are preparing for the 2014 United States Hockey League (USHL) Clark Cup Finals. The Indiana Ice stand in the team's way of winning the league's championship trophy.
The 'Best-of-Five' series begins Friday, May 9 inside Young Arena. The two teams stay in Waterloo for Game 2 the next night. The Indiana Ice will host Game 3 on Friday, May 16. If needed, Game 4 will be played the following night in Indiana.
If a fifth and final game is needed, Waterloo will have the honor of hosting the 'winner take all' game on Tuesday, May 20.
This will mark the second time in three years for the Black Hawks to advance to the Clark Cup Finals and fifth under coach P.K. O'Handley.
2014 USHL CLARK FINALS: Game Schedule
All Times Central
- Game 1: FRI, MAY 9 – at Waterloo (7:05 PM)
- Game 2: SAT, MAY 10 – at Waterloo (7:05 PM)
- Game 3: FRI, MAY 16 – at Indiana (6:05 PM)
- Game 4: SAT, MAY 17 – at Indiana (6:05 PM) if needed
- Game 5 – TUE, MAY 20 – at Waterloo (7:05 PM) if needed


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Release Date: 2008 |
fr33convict (4.5)The Way of All Flesh is a technical metal masterpiece that I would recommend to any metal ...Brendan Schroer (4.5)Refined brutality....demon of surveillance (4.5)Creating a unique sound, Gojira fuse several genres and generate a relentlessly heavy extr...Altmer (3.5)French high IQ-metallers Gojira release another competent album that pushes the envelope o...
Fillifax (5)I once heard someone review this album with the sentence "Gojira is so heavy it will kill ...Necrotica (4.5)Gojira proves that they can create a very competent metal album and improve on songwriting...
Album Rating: 3.0Stream?
Album Rating: 4.0Nice review man.
Been dying to hear this, sounds like a winner.
Album Rating: 3.0I thoroughly enjoyed From Mars To Sirius so I suppose I should check this out...
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah I highly recommend it.
..But upon posting this I noticed the release date isn't until a couple weeks? Perhaps what I received from my friend was a promo copy? Just want to make sure I'm not violating rules here.
Album Rating: 3.0If they are streaming their album on their MySpace or somewhere else then your a-ok...I'm pretty sure they are I just checked it and it appears all the tracks are upThis Message Edited On 10.01.08
Album Rating: 4.0great review, good cd, worst album art of all eternity
Mark beatme. But man, I forgot about this. I'm excited to hear it.This Message Edited On 10.01.08
Digging: Vreid - I Krig
if you have a copy you can post it
Album Rating: 4.0
worst album art of all eternity
I've always been intrigued by this act, for they incorporate progressive elements, unique rhythms and riffs, and uneasy atmosphere, encapsulated around a perplexing motif of melodic heaviness.
I think it is wizard, but I'm one of the people who deviated and enjoyed from mars to sirius
Album Rating: 4.0I also really enjoy that album as well .
well then it seems like the road ahead is bright my lad
Album Rating: 4.5Haha thanks wizard!
And I enjoy From Mars to Sirius too... but just in small doses.
Album Rating: 4.0No prob. Your reviews are always top notch! I can't figure out why most people only enjoy From Mars to Sirius in small doses?
Album Rating: 3.0They can't handle the METAL
Album Rating: 4.0I can lol.
me likey so far...
This is the band whos bass player did the Cavalera Conspiracy album, right?
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah, the vocalist from here played bass for Cavalera.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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On a roll..February 10th, 2008
I seem to have been making things for the past few days and not just making them but actually finishing them which is an achievement for me. On Friday I made a hat which was going to be for myself as it looked so lovely in the magazine (and once I made it too) but it just doesn't suit me, which is quite odd as most hats do! Oh well.. it was a nice quick and easy project to do (the hat not suiting me is the reason why the armchair is modelling it! hehe)
Today I made another cushion cover to match the one I made just after Christmas and also a cuff/bracelet thing. Oh and me and Chris also made a computer desk which took ages and involved quite a bit of cursing and sighing. After all this hard work I've been sitting down looking through websites that make labels (that i can sew onto handmade stuff), seem to have a found a really good one but am having great difficulty in trying to decide what colour scheme to have them made in!


text: I recectly put a 2.3 from a 89 in to an 88 vert. and the gas mileage is horrible ever since the temperature went down. I have a feeling it's because the car won't reach operating temp. it takes more than ten minutes for the temp. guage to even move and when it does it doesnt' get higher than the first hash mark. I changed the temp sending sensor cause the original didn't work at all, but haven't changed the thermostat yet i used prestone 50/50 when I refilled the radiator and wonder if I should drain some out and replace with water so I can get a little more temp out of it. what's your opinion mike