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KISMAYO, Somalia, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A bomb killed four soldiers in the Somalian port city of Kismayo, the day after al-Shabaab terrorists launched a mortar attack against ships in the harbor.
The roadside bombing occurred Monday at an airport and targeted Kenyan soldiers serving under the African Union mission in Somalia, the Shabelle Media Network reported Monday, adding that several people were injured and that no arrest had been made.
The mortar fire Sunday evening was aimed at ships carrying weapons for the Kenyan army, the news agency said, noting al-Shabaab, a group aligned in Somalia with al-Qaida, left the Kismayo area last month without resistance, after two months of heavy offensives from Somali and African Union forces.


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frankieg24 Since there is already a thread here I was wondering if you guy could help me out too. GPU-z is saying that my 780 is running at PCI 2.0 x16. According to the specs on my motherboard it should be running at 3.0. I have it in the right slot and attempted to edit the registry with adding the Dword 4 value. I hit the render and it still says 2.0 x16.
Fumigator I had considered it myself, but then I read the 2.0 vs 3.0 review on HardOCP and decided it just wasn't worth it. Going to Ivy Bridge we might end up with cpus that don't overclock as well; with Haswell the chances of getting a bad clocker are even higher. In a lot of games today (crap ports) clock speed is king. These Sandy Bridge cpus sure did turn out to be quite the bang for the buck as they're still on par with Haswell... which makes me smile. If anything, I'm going to see if I can just go up a few more MHz on the core. It's been 3 years since I've tinkered with it, but since I'm only running 0.02 volts over stock of 1.26 and am at 4.5GHz, I have little doubt that there's still a lot of headroom left. It's not unreasonable to expect close to 5GHz.

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Kinsley review of Greenwald's book "unworthy" of NYT Book Review; ignored media's constitutional role — Kinsley, Greenwald and Government Secrets — Michael Kinsley's review of Glenn Greenwald's new book, "No Place to Hide" hasn't even appeared in the printed Book Review yet …
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Heidi N. Moore / @moorehn: @fmanjoo @PamelaPaulNYT and the idea that some things just cannot be said is very dangerous. Do not like that at all.
Thomas Drake / @thomas_drake1: .@Sulliview shreds Kinsley. Y? 1st Amend "explicitly intended" press as "crucial check" on gov't power & not a parrot http://mobile.nytimes.com/...
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Roy Peter Clark / @roypeterclark: @Sulliview I respect your opinion, as always, but feel that standards you articulate for what a review should be in the Times is too narrow.
John McDuling / Quartz:
BuzzFeed is shutting down its traffic partner network ahead of a video push — BuzzFeed won't be sharing its traffic with other websites as it has been. — The phenomenally successful viral content site, known for its listicles and cat videos (and some impressive reporting of late) …
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Lewis Katz and Gerry Lenfest win control of Inquirer papers with $88M bid — Katz, Lenfest win control of Inquirer parent company — Inquirer co-owners Lewis Katz and H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest won control of newspaper and its parent company Tuesday after a bidding war with other owners in a private auction at a Philadelphia law firm.
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Business Wire: Blurb Acquires Key Talent From Graphicly to Accelerate ebook Innovation and Development
Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: Indie publishing startup Blurb acqui-hires Graphicly
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: In the standoff between Amazon and Hachette, the customer comes last
Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader: Will the Hachette/Amazon Battle Encourage Authors to Self-Publish?
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Six of 10 Highest Paid CEOs are in Media — The AP and Equilar are out with the top 50 highest paid CEOs list. And it's quite possible you work for one of their companies, as six of the top 10 head media conglomerates, including: 2. Leslie Moonves (right), CBS Corp., $65.6 million, up 9 percent 5.
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Megan Rose Dickey / Business Insider: Spotify Is Updating Its Android App Following An Internal Breach
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: Spotify warns of internal breach, warns Android users to upgrade
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Trends between Personality and Body Type in (female) Anime characters
I'm curious as to what everyone has noticed as far as major trends (you can mention specific character examples, but there should be at least two) between personality traits and physical character design in females across Anime. Particularly, I'm interested in the dichotomy of introversion and extraversion, and classical archetypes, such as Red Oni / Blue Oni, the shrinking violet, the stoic, the boisterous one, the tomboy, the emotionless girl, ect. What physical traits and general body types have you noticed that tend to be associated with certain personality traits / archetypes?
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Hair (color / length)
Breast size
Finally, what reasons could you think of for each trend you've noticed?
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I don't think there is realy need think too deeply about that.
1)There are colours, common association, pink and blonde is girly, cold colours are rational/emotionalless, warm colours for more open. Case of Red/Blue Oni is Self Demonstratory. White is sign of purity and innocence.
2)Hair styles doesn't follow rules that much, but short hairs and pony tails are for active characters (because it's practical obviously) same goes for spiky ones (it's proof their appearence is not priority), loose hair for more girly characters, but long dark hairs tend to be for strong villed and dangerous girls . Twin tails are almost always tsunderes, just because.
3)breast size on it's own aren't related to any psychical feature, but breasted lolis - girly, flat loli - tsundere (because Shana). Well maybe flat chest can be considered as implication of tsunderesness in general. Tall characters tend to be dignified (they can have either) .
4) Glasses - inteligence of course.
5) Skin: white - girly, dignified ect, tanned - active
It's mostly just metter of common sense and widespread conventions
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Red-haired girls tend to be a bit saucy, and pretty frequently tsunderes. How extroverted they are seems to be inversely proportional to how tsundere they are (i.e. the more extroverted, the less tsundere).
Examples - Shana, Maki Nishikino, Sana Inui, Kyouko Sakura, Yuiko Enomoto, Hisa Takei
Blonde-haired girls with fancy hair (i.e. more than just basic pony-tail or twin-tails or just long) tend to have a "high-class" rich person vibe to them. They can, however, run the full gamut from very nice/friendly/warm to elitist/snobbish. How tsundere they are seems to be proportional to how snobbish they are.
Examples - Mami Tomoe, Darjeeling, Airi Sena, Takahi Ninomiya, Luviagelita Edelfelt
Long, dark-haired girls tend to be kuuderes in modern times, maybe with a light sprinkling of yamato nadeshiko. They often tend to be elegant badasses. This might be inspired by Rei Hino (Sailor Mars).
Examples - Satsuki Kiryuin, Saki Rukino, Homura Akemi, Chiaki Kurihara, Kuroyukihime (Accel World)
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In addition to broad stereotypes, there are often character architypes that are clearly all based on one character.
Among the more prolific is the Rei/Nagato, influenced by Rei Ayanami and Yuki Nagato. Distinguishing characteristics include short silver hair, small bust size and a kuudere personality. May also be meganekko. Sometimes, the character is skilled with computers or technology, a trait likely stemming from Nagato. Examples: Rei Ayanami (obviously), Yuki Nagato (Also obvious), Noel (Sora no Woto), Tobiichi Origami (Date A Live), Furano Yukino (NouCome), probably more i'm forgetting.
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From what I understand, the Rei/Nagato type was a misfire in making a character that went entirely the other way from the intended results. Rei Ayanami was suppose to be creepy or something, but the audiance reacted differently than expected. Yuki Nagato, on the other hand, was designed based on the reaction to what Rei Ayanami's character became seen as. Thus Nagato works really well for minimal movement and speaking most of the time. Also the character somehow manages to give off a lot of emotions with very, very subtile moments (that might be the audiance looking more closely than they would with other character types, or it might be a mix of Kyon's narration and the careful touches in animation and music for some scenes).
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|2014-06-10, 15:41
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Blond females that aren't lolis seem to have to have bigger boobs and are bossier or louder (Sena from Haganai being the example that sticks out and there's also Margery Daw). Bonus points if they're some fraction Japanese and something else. Multiply it if they're any part American. This may be a relic of old anime when the blond dude was always evil (MD Geist, Char) and/or more aggressive (Super Saiyans). Err I mean the more aggressive part, not the boob part.
Girls with red hair are often action girls, or else completely irrelevant to the story.
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You say its "bonus points" if a blonde anime girl who is busty, loud and bossy is also part foreign, but isn't the fact that so many blonde girls in anime are western or part western probably one of the major reasons why so many of them are busty, loud and bossy? That makes more sense to me then them being loud and bossy because of evil blonde guys in older anime.
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I was hoping the super saiyan part would reveal that I was being facetious, but regardless, it's clear that they certainly do view westerners in a certain hillarious way much like how westerners portray asians in their medium.
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The long and dark haired ojousamas with regal body proportions are a mainstay in yuri anime/manga.
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Also, in terms of character design and personality, there is the short, poorly endowed tsundere, also known as the "Shana clone" or the "Kugimiya character" because so many of the (Shana, Louise, Taiga, Aria) were voiced by Rie Kugimiya.
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Before heading down to Austin to compete against the best in the state, the Shoemaker Lady Wolves relay team had a warmup in Waco. Given the results, Shoemaker looks ready for Myers Track and Soccer Stadium.
Shoemaker's girls relay team won both the 400- (47.71 seconds) and 800-meter (1:43.55) relays and were the runner-up in the 1,600 (4:08.87) at the George Dixon Relays at Waco La Vega High School on Friday.
"We ran our best time at the meet, so if we can run a time similar to that, we give ourselves a chance to make the finals in all the relays," Shoemaker head track coach Kevin Ellison said. "That's our goal: to make it to the finals, compete with the best in the state and see where we fall."
The boys relay team took second in the 800 (1:29.44) and 1,600 (3:29.27) relays while finishing third in the 400 (42.62).
The showing helped the Shoemaker girls win the meet with a total of 184 points, 18 ahead of runner-up A&M Consolidated.
"It was a very successful meet," Ellison said. "The kids did well, they worked really hard and I'm really proud of them."
Five different Lady Grey Wolves won individual gold medals.
"That's what made this meet," Ellison said. "We have good depth and our girls can do a lot of different things. When you have that depth, you can mix people in and out and the girls can be successful in the field events as well as running."
Shoemaker's boys placed second with 142 points, 28 behind A&M Consolidated.
Tyriete Dixon won the gold in the girls 100 with a time of 12.46 and ran in both the 400 and 800 relays.
Jaime Eckford was the top finisher in the 800 (2:24.87) and was a part of the 1,600 relay team.
Lanasha Reed, Yaritxza Rivera and Jasmine Rhodes led the way for the Lady Wolves in the field events. Reed won the gold in the shot put (37 feet, 4 inches), Rivera won the discus (117-7½) and Rhodes was the top finisher in the high jump (5-4).
Darius Milford medaled three times for the Shoemaker boys track team.
Milford took gold in the 300 hurdles (33.99), silver in the 110 hurdles (15.14) and was a part of the silver-winning 800 relay team (3:29.27).
Terrell Perry led the way for the Grey Wolves in the field events. Perry was the top finisher in the shot put (46-4) and runner-up in the discus (125-6).
Tre Haynes won the 100 (11.21) and Desmond Jefferson was the winner of the 400 (51.27).
"Both of those guys did a really good job at the meet and performed very well along with Darius Milford," Ellison said. "They stepped up in some different roles and helped us in different areas in the field events and also on the track."
Toma Rivera was the winner in the 110 hurdles (15.14).
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A Toyota Camry that was involved in a 2006 crash that resulted in three deaths will be inspected next month to determine if its accelerator was defective.
The Ramsey County Attorney's Office said Monday that the inspection would take place the week of April 19 and will be conducted by two experts.
The driver of the Camry, Koua Fong Lee, has been in prison since being convicted in 2007 of criminal vehicular homicide in the crash.
Lee's attorney has hired an expert, who will work with a forensic mechanical engineer hired by Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner to conduct the inspection. Gaertner has also requested that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration participate in the inspection.
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Lee's 1996 Camry was not part of the recent recall, but his attorneys argue older models also had problems.
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"This is an important step toward gathering the evidence we need to determine whether any defects may have contributed to the crash. We need the facts so we can act accordingly," Gaertner said.
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Alumni and friends of Penn State invited to February Alle-Kiski Society meeting
Alumni and friends of Penn State invited to February Alle-Kiski Society meeting
People don't have to be an alumna or alumnus of Penn State New Kensington to belong to the Alle-Kiski Alumni Society.
Parents of a Penn State graduate or a current Penn State student are welcome to join. Penn State alumni who attended another campus but live in the Alle-Kiski Valley can stay connected to the University through the society, as are people who never attended Penn State but believe in its mission.
Based at Penn State New Kensington, the Alle-Kiski Society is the local chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association and represents the 7,000 Penn State alumni living in the Alle-Kiski Valley. The society engages in campus and community projects throughout the year, including social and fundraising events that benefit the society's endowed scholarship.
The spring fundraiser is the annual Bowl-a-thon, and it is scheduled from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, March 30, at Wildlife Lanes in Lower Burrell, Pa. This is a family fun event for students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of Penn State. The entry fee is $20 and includes three games and shoe rental. Four- or five-person teams may sign up, or individuals may sign up and be assigned to a short-handed team. The bowl-a-thon is the alumni group's major fundraiser in the spring, and the proceeds support the society's endowed scholarship and campus projects. Lane sponsorships are available for $50 and $100.
New and recent Penn State graduates are encouraged to attend the monthly board meetings held at 6:30 p.m. on the third Monday of the month. The next meeting is Monday, Feb. 20, at the Conference Center on the New Kensington campus.
For information on the Alle-Kiski Alumni Society, call 724-334-6049, or visit http://www.nk.psu.edu/Alumni/alumorg.htm
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As the owner of a Music Hall cd25.2 CD player, I read with interest Sam Tellig's review in the April, 2006 issue of Stereophile and Sallie Reynolds's review in the August, 2006 issue of The Absolute Sound.
In Ms. Reynold's review, the following sentence appears: "Then, on a tip from Roy Hall at Music Hall, I changed the power cord in the CD player to the Acoustic Zen Tsunami, and it instantly rewarded me with a wall of sound very like its name." In the Manufacturer Comments section of the same issue of The Absolute Sound, there is a note from Roy Hall in which he comments on both the Music Hall a25.2 integrated ampfilier and the cd 25.2 CD player as follows: "The power cords supplied with the units are not good enough. This will change in the future. If you really want to improve both of these units in all respects buy a good, heavy-guage power cord (preferably shielded). I don't think you need to buy an expensive one. Remember the golden rule of wire--'The more it costs, the worse it sounds.'"
Assuming that I, like Sallie, might hear an improvement with a new power cord for my cd25.2, and assuming that Roy Hall's advice about his own product is worthy of consideration (which I assume is the case), I'm wondering if you folks have a recommendation for a power cord that meets his criteria: (a) good, (b) heavy-guage, (c) shielded, (d) not expensive. It is hard for me to believe that given the mid-fi nature of my other equipment (Outlaw Audio RR2150 receiver, Monitor Audio Silver RS6 loudspeakers, etc.), I would want to spend more than, say, $100 on such a cord. (By the way, Ms. Reynolds notes that the Acoustic Zen Tsunami power cords sells for $350, which is sure to cause DUP to refill the cartridge in his poison pen.)


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Part one:
Episode begins with in at Mr malik house malik is welcoming punni' he says yes.. I know u will come here. he says u didn't like necklace.. he says may u wear this necklace with my hands.. punni says no.. I don't want to u send this gifts to me.. she says after few days my engagement will happen.. she says my fiance will take my responsibility. She says now u don't try to meet me.. she leaves..
At jail balan is screaming at soham for that soham does not want to meet him. Soham says to jailer that I don't want to meet balan. He says I f he come to meet me he says u don't inform me. Balan asks why aren't want to meet me?? Soham says u don't care about me.. he sees archu' he says that lady was coming to meet me from 6 months she always brought tiffin box for me. He says why were you not come to meet me?? Balan says to soham that u don't says u are not my son. He says u don't compare with me to archu. He says archu stayed in Mumbai but I stayed outside of Mumbai so I couldn't came to meet u.. then he starts scolding archu.. some constable came & take balan with them & they are leaves..
Archu says to soham that I feels good to see you.. she says I didn't bring launch for you but now I brought Prasad for u. she says I was not here.. so I couldn't came to met u. jailer says to archu that u few minutes are left u can meet him. Archu says no.. I met him.. she leaves & her eyes filled with some tears & she looking at soham.. then she leaves.
Part 2
At jail archu is standing.. jailer says soham has eaten Prasad. He
says to archu that now change soham. He didn't want to meet you but you
always tired now u get result na.. he says soham not want to talked me
& now he understood. Now he does not want to meet balan. He says u
are hardwork works.. archu says yes.. i wish he talked with me soon.
At karanjkar house punni's in laws came & talking with manju.. manju says I told u na punni's aai has gone threet yatra. She says we will may be post pond engagement date. Punni's MIL agrees & says I have no problem.. manju praises about pradeep. Manju says thanks to pradeep for expensive gifts i.e necklace.. punni looks worried & pradeep & his mother looks confused..
At d'house manav asks to archu why she was not inform him that she came here.. manav says u left aai in this condition.. she is fine na.. archu informs that when aai know about ovi.. she told me to go mumbai. Archu says I went to meet soham in jail. Archu says to manav that our soham has now changed.. she says that he will change. Manav says I don't trust you but I don't want to soham give betrayed to you.. archu says that ok.. she tells that now our soham is changing slowly.. she tells that now our soham want to be good person.. manav says I don't want to break u r trust. Archu says I have faith soham will change one day.
At karanjkar house pradeep aai asks pradeep u aren't inform me about necklace.pradeep says I also don't know. Punni interrupts & says that my office boss give me to see my work.. manju says yes.. I also forgot.. then manju says to pradeep's aai that u sent one saree na that was so beautiful.. pradeep's aai tells they have no capacity to purchase expensive necklace.
At d'house manav tells to archu about ovi-purvi. he says when u leave from here purvi got one wine bottle in ovi's suitcase. Archu gets angry to hear this. Archu says ovi had promised me that she will never used wine but now it's toally out of control. She want to meet ovi but manav stops her & says now situation is well. He tells he had talked with ovi.. now ovi understood.
Part three:
At d'house manav says to u think about u r two daughters.. he says what about teju..?? archu says oh. I also forgot.. manav says I met to sunny. He is good boy.. archu says ok.. but our teju is different from 10 core ppl.. after all she is my daughter na.. manav informs that sunny is Khandesi's son.. archu says what about aai..?? manav tells first we should meet to sunny's family. Archu says ok.. manav says then it will be easy for to convince aai.
Inside the deshmukh house savita & damodar are sitting in hall. Savita says I liked sunny & he is perfect for teju. Savita tells I will go at sunny's house to meet sunny's family. Damodar says ok.. but u have problem with gujarati family na.. savita says no but I have problem with seta-geeta.. savita informs to damodar that she has now decided that she will go at sunny's house. Damodar says after a long time u will do one good thing' he says I m with you now.
outside of D'house manav says i know sunny will always keep happy teju. but we want to handle this matter carefully..
Episode ends.
Precap: onir asks to ovi that in between anything happen in between u & purvi.. Means u stayed together na.. ovi looks confused. Ovi says means purvi not told you' arjun is also present there..
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Southwestern Deserts
September, 2012
Regional Report
Examine Plants Before Purchase
When plant shopping, examine the undersides of foliage and along the stems for signs of pests, such as whiteflies. Adults leave pinprick-sized yellow spots where they suck plant juices. If hitching a ride home on your new purchases, whiteflies will easily spread to your other plants. Adult whiteflies are teensy and difficult to see unless they are present in great numbers. However, gently tapping the plant will cause the adults to rise up and fly around, so you can see them. The round, immature scale form of this insect is not mobile and stays attached to the undersides of leaves.
Fertilize to Keep Summer Vegetables Producing
Prolific summer veggies, such as squash, may need a late application of fertilizing to keep producing while weather remains warm. Use a complete fertilizer, with nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Scratch granular fertilizers into the soil around the plant and water deeply immediately after.
Prune and Feed Roses
When temperatures remain below 100 for several days, it's safe to lightly trim roses in preparation for their second bloom period. Remove dead or crossing canes at their point of origin. Cut back no more than one-quarter of the plant stems and foliage. In the low desert, major rose pruning occurs in January, in preparation for spring bloom. Rake up leaf litter that may contain disease spores, such as powdery mildew. Apply fresh mulch. Feed with a slow-release, granular fertilizer. Water thoroughly to a depth of about two feet for mature roses.
Prepare Fall Garden Beds
Spread 4 to 6 inches of compost or well-aged manure on top of vegetable and flower beds. Add fertilizer containing nitrogen and phosphorus according to package instructions. If drainage is a problem, soil sulfur or gypsum also can be added. Dig it all in to a depth of 12 to 18 inches. Water and let any weed seeds germinate before planting.
Recycle Newspapers as Paths
Spread a thick layer of newspapers on bare garden paths. Weight down with grass clippings, leaves, bark chips, or similar. The layer will inhibit weed seeds from sprouting. Over time, it will break down, adding organic matter to the soil, so refresh the layers as needed to keep weeds at bay.


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Members of the Wholesale Beer & Wine Association of Ohio (WBWAO) employ people who live in your community. We are involved in school and neighborhood projects, local sporting events, churches, charitable organizations and more.
Like you, our companies and employees are concerned about safe roads, healthy living, good government and personal responsibility. Because we are in the alcohol industry, we have a special interest in making sure our products are handled and consumed responsibly. Our commitment to prevention and education is on-going, with resources devoted to a variety of issues.
Underage Drinking
We support all community efforts to stop underage drinking.
Distributors offer retailers and other partners whether they are schools, civic organizations, parent groups, recreation providers or other many tools that can be effective:
- Server training to employees in restaurants, bars, concert venues, colleges, festivals and more
- Materials, training and point-of-sale to help retailers detect fake IDs
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Drunk Driving
Alcohol beverages should be consumed in moderation, and we support all efforts to get drunk drivers off the road.
The industry sponsors server training, designated driver and taxi/safe ride home programs in addition to special education programs aimed primarily at young adults. Whether it's at the local professional sports stadium, your favorite corner pub or restaurant or at a church festival, we encourage everyone to designate a driver or seek another safe ride home.
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Most of the UK enjoyed temperatures in the high 20s, but Cavendish exceeded this year's previous high of 31.4C (88.5F), which was recorded at London's Olympic Park on July 25.
The highest temperatures were across much of East Anglia and the South East of England. Charsfield in Suffolk baked in 31.4C and Santon, Downham, recorded 31.3C (88.5F).
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The history of lacrosse in Columbia County will be adding another chapter next year.
After gauging interest from students, officials at Evans High School made the move to field a girls and boys team beginning in the 2015-2016 school year.
"We felt the time was right, now, financially and with some other things, to give it a go," said Evans' athletic director Kevin Kenny, who filed paperwork with the GHSA on March 29. "We have some people in place that are willing to coach it, so we decided to go ahead and start next year."
Playing a game for the first time in a week after clinching second place in Region 2A-AAAAA, the Evans Knights showed little rust in beating Lexington High 4-2.
"It's big just getting them back into it," said Knights' coach Ricky Beale.
The Knights (14-6) open Region 2-AAAAA tournament play on Thursday with a doubleheader at home against Warner Robins beginning at 4 p.m.
If a deciding game in the best-of-three series is needed, it will be played Friday.
Lakeside's B.J. Raymond has committed to play football next season at Savannah State. The 5-10, 165-pound standout closed out his prep career as a first team All-County performer after catching 32 passes for 602 yards and three touchdowns.
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Registration for Martinez-Evans Little League Spring Baseball is still open. Registration for senior and big finish on May 5. Go to mellbaseball.org.
The race for the Region 2-AAAAA baseball title is on.
With both schools' proms on Friday, Grovetown High School leads off the post-season today traveling to Jones County for a 4 p.m. doubleheader while Evans, Greenbrier and Lakeside jump into doubleheader action on Thursday.
Today, April 15
Region 2-AAAAA Tournament (DH)
Grovetown at Jones County, 4 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, April 16
Region 2-AAAAA Tournament
Greenbrier vs Northside, Warner Robins, 4 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
Evans vs. Warner Robins, 4 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
Lakeside at Houston County, 4 p.m., 6:30 p.m.
Grovetown at Jones County If game, TBA
Friday, April 17
Augusta Christian vs. Cardinal Newman, 4:30 p.m.
On the day back from spring break, it was a perfect day for Columbia County teams in their respective region tournaments. All who played moved on to the semi-final round and qualified for the state post-season.
Where to start.
The Evans boys tennis team entered the Region 2-AAAAA tournament as a No. 4 seed on the road facing No. 1 Houston County. Forfeiting No. 1 doubles because one of the players was ill, all three singles won for the 3-2 win.
One of the area's longest running events is looking for donations and participants.
The Southeastern Firefighters Burn Foundation's 12th Annual Best Dam Bicycle Ride is at 8:30 a.m. on April 19 at Clarks Hill Dam.
Sponsored by Chain Reaction Bicycles and Allegra Marketing Print Mail, this event is for cyclists of all ages and abilities with rides consisting of 29-, 62-, and 100-mile road options. A mountain bike course on the historic Bartram Trail, sponsored by SORBA CSRA, has multiple ride options ranging from five to 36 miles.
On the eve of the Masters Tournament's opening round, Champions Retreat Golf Club was having a big party of its own.
The University of Kentucky was a prohibitive favorite to win the 2015 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and then they ran into the University of Wisconsin.
It is somewhat a cautionary tale for county teams this week as we head into post-season play and one-and-done territory. Many of our teams have had fantastic seasons so far and will be overwhelming favorites to breeze through the first round. I hope they keep Kentucky in mind when they take the field, court or diamond this week.
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The fate of Afghanistan's troubled presidential election currently lies in a cramped, fluorescent-lit office, at the end of an empty hallway, behind an unmarked door.
Here, a dozen workers sit in silence as though frozen at their foldout desks. However, the scene inside Afghanistan's central Complaints Processing Centre is deceiving. These investigators are backlogged, not bored.
By the end of the day, they will have registered 790 complaints of election-day fraud, the first wave of grievances to trickle in from far-flung polling stations across the country.
Fifty-four of those complaints are considered "top-priority," serious enough to have a direct impact on the outcome of last week's election.
As preliminary results of the vote are released today, the complaints continue to pile up and could have a decisive bearing on whether Hamid Karzai, or his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, can ultimately claim the presidency.
Fraud could have marred as many as one in five ballots forcing them to be discounted, according to some officials.
Meanwhile, some presidential candidates say the irregularities are so widespread that the election should be discounted.
Last night, one of Hamid Karzai's key ministers claimed the president had secured a second term with 68 per cent of the vote.
Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal told reporters Mr. Karzai had won broad support from across the country, though it was unclear how he reached his conclusions.
Other officials from Mr. Karzai's campaign claimed an even higher figure of 72 per cent.
Mr. Karzai's supporters claim the numbers indicate a landslide win, his critics suggest they are evidence of fraud.
"If we go through the investigations and find that these infractions have happened, then yes, they're serious and we will impose sanctions," said Grant Kippen, a mild-mannered Canadian who is chairman of the Electoral Complaints Commission (ECC), the independent body charged with determining whether the complaints are legitimate.
ECC sanctions include disqualification of a candidate, discounting ballots and fines.
Would irregularities discount enough ballots to swing the vote?
"Possibly," replied Mr. Kippen, in an interview.
Today's preliminary results will reportedly consist of a 10 per cent sampling of the tally so far, drawn largely from polling centres in Kabul, considered a stronghold of Mr. Karzai.
The Afghan president and his chief rival, Abdullah Abdullah, both claimed victory in the early wake of last week's election.
However, Dr. Abdullah has since suggested he's bracing for defeat.
Over the weekend, he launched a scathing attack on the Afghan president, accusing him of orchestrating massive vote rigging to steal the election.
Some observers have taken the personal nature of his comments as an indication that Mr. Abdullah is positioning himself to be leader of the political opposition if he is forced to concede.
That interpretation trumps earlier speculation that Dr. Abdullah would accept a senior post in Mr. Karzai's new government.
Although Dr. Abdullah has vowed to legally challenge an outright win for Mr. Karzai, he has discouraged his supporters from protesting in the streets.
Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Dr. Abdullah left the door open to him becoming an opposition leader, working within the political system.
"It's too early to talk about this, but in general, whether he wins or doesn't win, Dr. Abdullah remains committed to his principles and goals," said Sayyid Agha Hussain Fazel Sancharaki, Dr. Abdullah's spokesman.
Another campaign official said: "If Dr. Abdullah does not win, he will only gain more support and will win next time."
Under Afghan law, Mr. Karzai is prohibited from seeking a third term in office.
A credible result in Afghanistan's second presidential elections is seen as crucial for Western-led efforts to stabilize the country through military and financial support.
Mr. Karzai had been considered the front-runner when the presidential campaign kicked off this spring. However, he lost considerable momentum to Dr. Abdullah in the weeks leading up to the vote.
The European Union election observer mission has declared the process "good and fair," though other observers documented widespread allegations of electoral fraud and irregularities.
Mr. Kippen, of the ECC, warned of a possible "avalanche" of complaints in the coming days, an indication of the level of fraud suspected to have marred last week's presidential election.
Privately, officials from his office express frustration that preliminary results will be released before the ECC completes its investigation, a process that could take weeks.
"It's a bit discouraging for us, because it undermines the process. We are cautioning everybody that [today's are]preliminary results," said one official, speaking on background.
Most of the complaints catalogued yesterday appeared to be concentrated in the Pashtun south, considered Mr. Karzai's traditional base of support.
Yesterday, they included allegations of ballot boxes being filled in favour of Mr. Karzai ahead of the vote, police forcing Afghans to cast ballots at gunpoint and men voting in the name of their wives.
Mirwais Yasini, a presidential candidate and deputy speaker of Afghanistan's lower house of parliament, complained that thousands of votes cast for him had been removed from ballot boxes, and were set to be destroyed before being were rescued by his supporters.
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Hi all, new to the forum - came here on the back of reading the brilliant bikepacking thread.
Right i'll jump straight into it.
I'm after a bit of advice here, i'm looking at buying a mountain bike and was wondering if people could give me their opinions. I will mainly be riding on river paths and the odd roads but would like to get into riding a few of the trails in the peak district in the not too distant future. With this in mind i thought about getting the Rockrider 5.2 for £200. While i was there i saw the rockrider 5.3 for £300 and wondered if that would be better suited to my needs. Is the 5.3 worth the extra £100 or as a complete beginner would i not tell the difference at that price point?
I'm sure second hand would be better but don't know the first place to start, my budget is as little as possible with a little one on the way too hence me wondering if an extra £100 spent now would allow me to ride some trails in say 6 months time or would the 5.2 do the job just as well? Alternatively can you recommend anything else for the £2-300 mark that would be suitable?


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Join Zuska and her commenters in a pile on regarding the Smithsonian Magazine's recent article on the archaeology of southern Africa.It's racist, it's sexist, and it's even anti-Neanderthal. (The article, not Zuska's post)Regarding the writing about the use of stone tool technology in the article:
It says, "could be women – but no one really knows, do they? The safe bet is on men." It's the equivalent of saying "the PC police are always watching, so we'd better pretend like there is an actual possibility that we are including women in this discussion, even though we know we're talking about Man, i.e. men, not women."


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All the talk about the goliath bird-eating tarantula's urticating bristles—irritating leg hairs it can flick into the eyes of a predator—has me starting to itch. Or maybe it's just the surroundings, Shedd's high-security arthropod containment facility, or bug room for short. After 15 minutes in the small locked area that is crawling with additional tarantulas, bullet ants, millipedes and giant cockroaches for Amazon Rising, the power of suggestion wins for a few seconds.But I move on with my tour guide, senior aquarist and bug room lead Daniel Lorbeske. I learn that the 3-inch adult cockroaches have wings while the juveniles—and here Dan lifts a log to show the underside encrusted with darker subadults—do not."These guys are pretty nice, and completely harmless," he says. They do make good exhibit animals—find them in a highlight exhibit in front of the tortoise habitat in Amazon Rising's low-water section—because they are big—the biggest roach species in South America—and they are active. And of course, there's the eeeuuuwww factor, but with this species, it's misplaced."They're nice to show people because this isn't a roach that's going to infest the house," Dan explains. "They need soil for the eggs and the young to develop in." In fact, most of the 207 roaches down here are small juveniles that have buried themselves in the habitat's wood-chip substrate.Four Peruvian jumping sticks live in a tall terrarium filled with ficus branches. One of two 6-inch females reaches toward a leaf to sip water from its drip tip. "When I mist the plants a couple of times a day, they'll drink the droplets off the leaves," he says.Except for when her legs move, she could be mistaken for a length of snapped-off twig. Right now she's in slow motion, but her long, powerful back legs enable her to spring up to around 3 feet. It's no surprise that the jumping sticks are related to grasshoppers.It takes time to locate an equally camouflaged male, but it's worth the search. About half the size of the female, he is emerald green. He has white markings on his face and where his legs "bud" from his stemlike body.The four jumping sticks were removed from Amazon Rising in November. But that doesn't mean their exhibit is empty. "We absolutely saw them mating and depositing eggs [in there], so now we're waiting to see if young pop up. But the gestation time of these eggs is incredibly long—nine months to a year." That's twice the lifespan of the male, although females, Dan says, live a couple of years.With the insects' biological clocks running down, he continues, "Right now, the focus is on getting them to reproduce again. While they are fascinating on exhibit, I have much more control over their environment down here."—Karen Furnweger, web editorRead the first bug room behind-the-scenes blog here!
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01. 83 percent of all U.S. stocks are in the hands of 1 percent of the people.
02. 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
03. 66% of the income growth between 2001 and 2007 went to the top 1% of all Americans.
04. 36 percent of Americans say that they don't contribute anything to retirement savings.
05. A staggering 43 percent of Americans have less than $10,000 saved up for retirement.
06. 24% of American workers say that they have postponed their planned retirement age in the past year.
07. Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a 32 percent increase over 2008.
08. Only the top 5 percent of U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
09. For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all individual Americans put together.
10. In 1950, the ratio of the average executive's paycheck to the average worker's paycheck was about 30 to 1. Since the year 2000, that ratio has exploded to between 300 to 500 to one.
11. As of 2007, the bottom 80 percent of American households held about 7% of the liquid financial assets.
12. The bottom 50 percent of income earners in the United States now collectively own less than 1 percent of the nation's wealth.
13. Average Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
14. In the United States, the average federal worker now earns 60% MORE than the average worker in the private sector.
15. The top 1% of U.S. households own nearly twice as much of America's corporate wealth as they did just 15 years ago.
16. In America today, the average time needed to find a job has risen to a record 35.2 weeks.
17. More than 40% of Americans who actually are employed are now working in service jobs, which are often very low paying.
18. For the first time in U.S. history, more than 40 million Americans are on food stamps, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects that number will go up to 43 million Americans in 2011.
19. This is what American workers now must compete against: in China a garment worker makes approximately 86 cents an hour and in Cambodia a garment worker makes approximately 22 cents an hour.
20. Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009.
21. Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 – the highest rate in 20 years.
22. The top 10% of Americans now earn around 50% of our national income.
The battle over gas drilling has made its way to upstate New York and many farmers, especially those that rely on grasslands, are alarmed at the possible impact fracking – the relatively new technology for gas drilling – could have on their livelihoods. Dick Cheney's 2005 Energy Policy Act, with its "Halliburton Exemption" significantly deregulated fracking, making it exempt from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act and the Clear Air Act. Alarmingly if not surprisingly, the dismantling of these most basic safeguards to protect us from pollution seems to have not caused our lawmakers any concern.
Fracking allows drillers to tap gas reserves deep in the ground. To do so they rely on a high pressure mix of water, sand and undisclosed chemicals pumped into the ground to collapse and crack into horizontal deposits trapped in rock. Sadly, in areas where fracking has already happened there has been widespread pollution and ruined drinking water.
Already, the USDA quarantined 28 cattle in Pennsylvania who grazed on a pasture that was contaminated by fracking leaks. The state agriculture department said that the toxic water which included chloride, magnesium, potassium, and strontium, a heavy metal toxic to humans(especially to young children), has contaminated the cows' meat (via Reuters). Propublica reported last year that 16 cattle dropped dead after being exposed to fracking run- off. Farmers across Pennsylvania, which has seen heavy gas drilling, have spoken about birth deformities and sickness in their grazing cattle. As the prospect of natural gas fracking looms on the horizon for New York State, many area farmers are alarmed and concerned that it could put them out of business.
The three Swedish owners of The Pirate Bay will have to pay €50,000 a day for failing to shutter the service in the Netherlands, an Amsterdam Court ruled on Friday.
The Swedish pirate site was ruled illegal earlier by the Dutch courts, but remained online because its servers are abroad.
It is not clear how the Dutch court thinks it will enforce the fines as none of the co-founders live in the Netherlands. As expected, The Pirate Bay is still accessible in the Netherlands and will remain so for the time being.
On Monday, another Dutch court ruled that ISP and cable operator Ziggo and KPN owned competitor XS4ALL do not have to block The Pirate Bay as was requested by Dutch lobby group BREIN. The court believes blocking the entire site is unjustified and the ISPs can't be held liable for the actions of individual users. Also BREIN failed to produce hard evidence for this case.
Brein has already announced an appeal.
Halliburton Co. says its second-quarter profit soared 83 percent as natural gas drilling activity picked up in the U.S.
Halliburton is the first of several companies connected to the BP oil spill to report second-quarter financial results. The company, which was hired by BP to seal the Macondo well before it blew up, has seen its stock tumble 17 percent since the April 20 explosion.
A federal official says scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane near BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico
Both could be signs there are leaks in the well that's been capped off for three days.
The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Sunday because an announcement about the next steps had not been made yet.
The official is familiar with the spill oversight but would not clarify what is seeping near the well. The official says BP is not complying with the government's demand for more monitoring.
It's farting in our general direction…
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
Underscoring the seriousness of these issues are the conclusions of retired Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines, who was asked last year to review the method for tracking the Defense Department's most sensitive programs. Vines, who once commanded 145,000 troops in Iraq and is familiar with complex problems, was stunned by what he discovered.
"I'm not aware of any agency with the authority, responsibility or a process in place to coordinate all these interagency and commercial activities," he said in an interview. "The complexity of this system defies description."
The result, he added, is that it's impossible to tell whether the country is safer because of all this spending and all these activities. "Because it lacks a synchronizing process, it inevitably results in message dissonance, reduced effectiveness and waste," Vines said. "We consequently can't effectively assess whether it is making us more safe."
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because, honestly, this explanation could be so much better with the voice of Peter Jones. Unfortunately, he died ten years ago
The Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project is situated 28 km (18 miles) outside of Palangka Raya, the Capital of Central Kalimantan. It is located within the boundaries of the Nyaru Menteng Arboretum, a 62.5 hectare lowland peat-swamp forest ecosystem, founded in 1988 by the Ministry of Forestry Regional Office of Central Kalimantan. The clinic, quarantine facilities and socialization cages are inside a fenced area of 1.5 hectares, while midway housing is at the farthest end of the Arboretum, which has good forest for the smallest orangutans and is undisturbed by visitors.
Three islands have been acquired for the purpose of penultimate training of the rescued and rehabilitated orangutans before release. Kaja Island, for some 43 of the larger orangutans, is located only eight kilometres away by road. Palas Island contains another 26 orangutans. Bangamat Island, presently home to 13 orangutans, is for larger orangutans that have spent virtually their entire lives in captivity but are now deemed ready and able to cope with life in the forest under supervision.


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Usually, when a video is posted on Google Video or YouTube that has content deemed as unsuitable for viewing it disappears relatively quickly from the site. Google may correspond with the individuals or bodies that complained further, but after that things settle down and life goes on. {ad}
That was not the case following the posting of a video on Google Video in Italy on September 8, 2006, however. The footage was of a 17-year-old boy with Down syndrome being teased by four other boys who also hit him with a tissue box. The video lasted three minutes and was filmed on a mobile phone in a classroom at a Turin school.
Two complaints were filed by a user of the site and the Italian Interior Ministry. Google removed the video within 24 hours of the complaint on November 7, 2006, meaning the video had been viewable for almost a month.
Since then four Google employees have been charged after prosecutor Francesco Cajani targeted Google for breaching the Italian penal code. The four executives charged include:
- Peter Fleischer – Google Global Privacy Counsel
- David Drummond – Google Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer
- George Reyes – former Chief Financial Officer for Google
- Unnamed – Google Video Executive
All the defendants face up to 36 months in jail if found guilty. Google believe they have done nothing wrong quoting EU legislation that Internet service providers should remove offensive content when complained about, but do not need to monitor all content. But Cajani is treating Google as an Internet content provider, and not a service provider, which means they must monitor all content under Italian law.
Google has released a statement regarding the case which says:
As we have repeatedly made clear, our hearts go out to the victim and his family. We are pleased that as a result of our cooperation the bullies in the video have been identified and punished. We feel that bringing this case to court is totally wrong. It's akin to prosecuting mail service employees for hate speech letters sent in the post. What's more, seeking to hold neutral platforms liable for content posted on them is a direct attack on a free, open Internet. We will continue to vigorously defend our employees in this prosecution.
According to the IAPP the trial started on Tuesday, but was then suspended on Wednesday after all the procedures were found to be correct – a common occurrence.
Read more at The Privacy Advisor (IAPP) and The New York Times
Matthew's Opinion
When you sign up to work for Google as a privacy counsel or financial officer the last thing you expect is to be on trial because of a video that was posted on one of Google's sites. That now is a reality for four employees and it could be that they spend time in jail.
From an outside perspective, and not taking into account the specific Italian laws, this looks wrong. Google allows user content to be uploaded on the site and then removes it if complaints occur. In this case they removed the video swiftly. Even if they hadn't then it is the company at fault and not individuals. The company should be held accountable externally and Google should deal with individuals internally. The only time that isn't true is when an individual has committed an offence, in which case the authorities should be brought in. That's my take on it anyway.
If this case is upheld and the Google four go to jail then it will have a major impact on the way Google operates in Italy. All user content will have to be vetted before it can go live, which will cost significantly more to do than the current system of responses to complaints. It may even see Google pull out of the Italian online video market.


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An Investigation of the Long-run Properties of Aggregate Non-durable Consumers' Expenditure in the United Kingdom
This paper estimates the effects of the modeling of nondurable consumption in the light of the five years of new data since the publication of the paper by J. E. H. Davidson et al. (1978) and the development of the new cointegration technique of R. F. Engle and C. W. J. Granger (1987). Existing models are found to be inadequate on two grounds, they fail parameter stability tests and they do not contain a suitable equilibrium specification. The paper uses the cointegration approach to search for an encompassing model that is both stable and cointegrates. The main finding is that the analysis must be extended to allow for differential income effects caused by changing higher rate income tax bands. Copyright 1989 by Royal Economic Society.
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In a recent paper entitled "Putting Risk in its Proper Place", Eeckhoudt and Schlesinger (2006) established a theorem linking the sign of the n-th derivative of an agent's utility function to her preferences among pairs of simple lotteries. We characterize these lotteries and show that, in a given pair, they only differ by their moments of order greater than or equal to n. When the n-th derivative of the utility function is positive (negative) and n is odd (even), the agent prefers a lottery with higher (lower) n+2p-th moments for p belonging to the set of positive integers. This result links the preference for disaggregation of risks across states of nature and the structure of moments preferred by mixed risk averse agents. It can be viewed as a generalization of a proposition appearing in Ekern (1980) which focused only on the differences in the n-th moments.
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Bypass hack-shield and create false heartbeat and incorporate .dll export for Maplestory client.
"Memory allocation. I would suggest, creating a memory wipe script. (Thus stopping scanning.)
Although thinking, MS would disconnect you, because the heartbeat wouldn't be detected... So you would need to falsely create the heartbeat. I would suggest re-routing the packets of the hackshield. Anyway, that's all theory.
If we could get the base address for the CRC bypass I could turn it into a full bypass. Although creating a bypass for MS he would need some knowledge in ASM... Codecaves... eek!
O' well Hmm. If we can get me the pointers and addys I'd gladly try creating a bypass for the cause."
MS | Bypass
There two separate things.
But... The bypass hooks itself to MS thus starting the protection, MS verifies that the Bypass hooked on by looking for a heartbeat.
But. If you can install/inject you own "protection" you can mem wipe hackshield. (Clearing it.)
The AoB for MSCRC is 0F B1 09 1E...
Anyway, we can use that for create a simple CRC bypass


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As vintage enthusiasts, just because something is new doesn't mean that we need to ignore it! Being one of Kodak's newest emulsions, Ektar is hands down one of the best color films out there. Here's a couple of reviews the community has made regarding this rising star!
World Finest Grain Avaliable Through The Kodak Ektar 100! by illegaltender
Because of its saturation, it is a very good alternative and really gives Fujifilm's legendary Velvia 50 a run for its money for landscape photography.
Kodak Ektar 100 35mm by easilydistracted
Overall, it's the final results of this film that show its quality and its these that will win you over. This film won me over with just one roll and I can imagine its won a lot of people over in a similar fashion. If you're thinking of trying out a new to you colour negative film, I would highly recommend this one.
A Review on Kodak Ektar 100 by an_lai_drew
The film gives very precise results, judged by my naked eyes. It is a very good film in producing landscape, especially with the greenery. All kind of situations do not scare off the film. In fact it is very 'honest' in replicating the scenery in which I have seen.
Reviews: Kodak Ektar 100 35mm: Pushing the Limits for Grainless Photos by uncle_jay
Based on this test roll, the results are impressive even in less than ideal lighting conditions for an ISO 100 film. In fact, I feel that this film has great potential as a film of choice for long night exposures.
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Conditions causing closing of the river bridge on Old Highway 145 were discussed at a public meeting held at the town hall here last Monday with County Commissioners Harold McComb, Clay Bader and Curtis Honaker present along with Fred Thomas of the engineering firm hired to make a thorough study of the problem.
The study concludes it is economically unfeasible to repair the bridge and recommends dismantling and if desirable to erect a new 100 foot span bridge with a new east abutment while using the old west abutment. Estimated cost is about $50,000, less any salvage value from the old bridge.
Two juvenile boys about 13 years old were apprehended early Saturday morning after they were seen as they entered the high school building. Charlie Aragon, Dolores Marshall, answered a call about 6 a.m. and found the two had broken into the Dolores High School, the Junior High and the new elementary building.
School officials estimate damage done by the two including breaking windows, jimmying three doors and breaking into 10 dispensing machines in the building. Total damage was listed at about $230. Reports state that the two may have been under the influence of marijuana.
The Montezuma Water company, on May 9, answered the Dolores Water Conservancy District's proposal of a merger between the two organizations with an absolute "no." The Water Conservancy District had proposed merger between the two organizations on the grounds of advantages for the consumers of the Montezuma Water Company among which were the ability to provide badly needed capital for the expansion of the domestic water system; the ability of the Conservancy District to issue bonds to finance continued improvements and expansion of the service area of the Montezuma Water Company.
The new Spot-Less Car Wash has opened for business this week according to Mr. and Mrs. Corky McClain, owners of the business, which is located at First and Railroad Avenue in Dolores. The vacuums have yet to be installed but the rest of the service is open and operating.
Students at the Dolores High School and Junior High received recognition for their outstanding work over the past year at the annual Awards Night held Tuesday evening of this week.
The local high school rodeo club will be sponsoring a rodeo during the weekend of Saturday and Sunday, May 25 and 26 at the American Legion Grounds in Cortez with three performances beginning at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday and the final one a 1 p.m. Sunday. The local rodeo club is comprised of boys and girls from Dolores, Cortez, Mancos and Dove Creek high schools.


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Here is a look at Carlos Beltran's best and worst moments in a Mets uniform in almost seven full seasons of service.
Jan. 11, 2005: The Mets signed Beltran to a seven-year, $119-million deal, the largest in franchise history at the time. Beltran also received a lot of interest from the Yankees after an excellent postseason with the Houston Astros where he batted .435 with eight home runs and 14 RBIs in 12 games.
April 4, 2005: In his first game as a Met, Beltran was 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs.
April 18, 2005: Collected his 1,000th career hit against the Phillies with a ninth-inning single in Philadelphia.
Aug. 11, 2005: In a game against the Padres in San Diego, Beltran collided head-to-head with teammate Mike Cameron while diving for the ball. Cameron missed the rest of the year with a concussion. Beltran suffered vertigo following the hit and missed four games.
Sept. 26: 2006: Tied Todd Hundley (1996) for the Mets' single-season home run record by smacking his 41st home run of the season.
Oct. 15, 2006: In Game 4 of the NLCS against the Cardinals, Beltran hit two solo home runs in a 12-5 win. Beltran batted .296 with three homers in the seven-game series, which the Mets lost.
Oct. 19, 2006: Trailing 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth inning during Game 7 of the NLCS, Beltran came to bat with the bases loaded. Adam Wainwright struck Beltran out looking to end the series and deny the Mets a trip to the World Series.
July 10, 2007: Elected to the All-Star game and goes 1-for-3 with a triple and a run scored. He was the only NL player voted by the fans to start each game from 2005-07.
July 31, 2007: Beltran is placed on the 15-day DL with a strained oblique. He returns to the Mets on Aug. 10. In his first game back, Beltran hits a three-run homer in a loss to the Marlins at Shea Stadium.
Oct. 3, 2007: Beltran has surgery on the patella tendon on both knees at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City.
2008 regular season: Beltran records his seventh season of 20 or more homers and 20 or more steals. Only Bobby Bonds, Barry Bonds, Eric Davis and Bobby Abreu have done it that many times or more. Beltran also reached base safely in 144 of his 159 starts.
April 17-May 5, 2009: Beltran has a career high 16-game hitting streak. His previous best was 15 in 2004 while a member of the Royals and Astros.
June 22, 2009: Beltran is placed on the 15-day DL with a bone bruise on his right knee. He returns on Sept. 8 after missing 70 games. He was elected to the All-Star team, but did not play because of the injury.
Jan. 13, 2010: Beltran had surgery on his right knee during the offseason. The surgery was done by his personal doctor. The Mets stated that this surgery was done without their permission. Beltran and agent Scott Boras said the Mets were aware of the surgery. Beltran missed the first 88 games of the season before returning on July 15.
Sept. 28, 2010: Beltran leaves during a game against the Brewers with discomfort in his right knee and missed the final week of the season. Beltran played in a career-low 64 games.
July 12, 2011: Beltran plays in his fifth All-Star game as a member of the Mets and sixth of his career. It is his first All-Star appearance since 2009. Beltran bats second for the NL and goes 1-for-2 with a run scored.
July 27, 2011: It was always a matter of when, not if when it came to trading Carlos Beltran. The six-time All-Star was traded to the San Francisco Giants for top pitching prospect Zack Wheeler. The Mets will pay $4 million of the roughly $6 million left on Beltran's contract in 2011. In almost seven seasons in Queens, Beltran batted .280 with 149 home runs and 559 RBIs in 839 games.


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For those who have not had a chance to visit the snow-clad lofty peaks in the Karakoram, Himalayas and Hindu Kush ranges in Gilgit-Baltistan, a festival that kicked off at the National Art Gallery on Monday offered the opportunity to learn about the unique culture, life and the ecosystem of the mountains.
Pakistan is home to over a dozens highest mountains in the world. To mark the International Mountain Day, oil paintings by girl students from the twin cities' schools captured mountain peaks with terrace fields and river. The six best paintings were given prizes.
"To be honest not many of us have visited the northern areas, but when asked to paint we all imagined what it would be like. Maybe it'll be more beautiful than we imagined" said Saira Khan, a student of the Islamabad College for Girls.
Stalls had been set up to entice visitors with traditional Hunza handicrafts like hand-knitted bags, cushion covers and door bells complete with neon-coloured cross-stitch and precious stones.
But since the majority of those present were women, they crowded around a stall overflowing with ethnic silver and metal jewellry embedded with semi-precious stones.
Most girls painted the mountains without ever having visited the highlands. PHOTO: MUHAMMAD JAVAID
Famed mountaineer Nazir Sabir and Pakistan Tourism Development Corporation Managing Director Shahjahan Khetran inaugurated the three-day festival.
Speaking on the occasion, Sabir said, "I'm extremely happy to see an event to celebrate our mountains and more than anything else we must pay homage to the people living there and dealing with the forces of nature." The mountains are God's masterpiece creations.
PTDC Managing Director Shahjehan Khetran said, the festival aims to highlight the climate change threats, conservation of biological diversity and forests and to showcase the culture and ecosystem of mountains.
PNCA Director General Tauqeer Nasir said, "It is an opportunity to highlight the opportunities and challenges in mountain development and to build partnerships that will positively impact the world's mountains and highlands".
The event was organised by the Development Communications Network (DEVCOM-Pakistan) in collaboration with the Ev-K2 CNR, the SEED project of the governments of Italy and Pakistan, ICIMOD, Gojal Educational and Cultural Association.
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Originally out of lineup, LaRoche a late add
Originally out of lineup, LaRoche a late add
WASHINGTON -- Adam LaRoche was not part of the Nationals' original lineup for Friday's series opener against the Phillies, with Chad Tracy stepping in at first base. But a few hours before first pitch, manager Davey Johnson put LaRoche back in for Tracy, batting sixth.
Johnson said he wanted to give LaRoche a second consecutive day off following Thursday's off-day, but Tracy's stiff neck changed those plans. He also factored in LaRoche's 0-for-15 career line against Phillies left-hander John Lannan.
At the same time, Johnson played down the importance he places on a batter's numbers against a certain pitcher. He recalled how during his playing days, he would get angry at former Orioles manager Earl Weaver for using small sample sizes to determine his lineup.
"I told him you needed 500 chances to be able to predict, plus or minus five percent," Johnson said. "That's called the standard-deviation chart.
"I tell guys, if you're a .300 hitter and you're 0-for-10 off this guy, you're ready to go about 5-for-5. Because water seeks its level. Stats you can use however way you want. So I can build my case why I did something by the numbers, whichever side I want to be on. But basically it comes down to gut feeling."
Andrew Simon is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @HitTheCutoff. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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