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CNN May 18, 2013 10:00am-11:01am PDT
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welcome back to the "cnn newsroom." a quick look at the stories we're following this hour. two commuter trains collided. dozens of people were treated at the hospital. we'll have the latest on the investigation. then after 16 tornadoes hit north texas destroying homes and entire neighborhoods, residents are returning to this horrific site. and good news, the powerball jackpot keeps growing and growing. now that there's more than $500 million up for grabs, the layest on the jackpot. we have reporters on all these stories. we start with the train
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collision in connecticut. investigators are on the scene right now trying to figure out what caused that commuter train crash. the two trains collided during rush hour last night in bridgeport sending dozens of people to the hospital. susan candiotti is following this story. any closer to finding out how in the world this happened? >> reporter: the work is just barely begun. they are covering 200 yards, the length of two football fields. the national transportation safety board is on site. staggering is how senator blumenthal is describing the damage. he said parts of the sides of trains are sledded like ribbon. 250 passengers were aboard when the two trains collided. initially it was a train from new york to new haven that derailed. another train smacked into it. the two trains going in opposite directions. governor malloy describes what
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happened. >> what happened is a train derailed and is literally plowing through tons of gravel as well as tearing up metal. so it slows the point of impact. >> reporter: there are a lot of possible causes here including problems with the brakes, the tracks, what the crews were doing at the time. nothing has been ruled in or out. and at last check, nine people remain hospitalized, three in critical condition. but at most 70 people at one point were taken to the hospital to be treated. a frightening experience for passengers. >> all of a sudden we just heard, boom, and then we saw smoke everywhere. i was just focusing on my two kids just hugging them. >> i saw people flying over the seat. i held on, but i'm okay.
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>> reporter: authorities are saying it could take days before they can reopen these tracks. that's going to have a huge impact on this very popular commuter line that services about 280,000 people daily between new york and connecticut. and for now, the whole line between new york and boston has been temporarily shut down. >> big mess in so many ways. what kinds of injuries are we talking about with many of the folks who ended up in the hospital? >> reporter: we don't have too many details on all of that, but fortunately the vast majority of people who were treated for injuries have now been released. so that's some good news there. and the fact that these were brand new trains authorities were saying may have helped limit the injuries, fred. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much from bridgeport, keep us posted. the other big story, you see nick valencia there in texas. we're talking about tornadoes touching down there wednesday destroying a neighborhood.
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we know overall at least six people killed. today some residents got permits to return to see what's left. nick, take it it from there. >> reporter: fred, we spent the morning out here at the church of christ in granbury where residents of that neighborhood that was devastated by the ef-4 tornado have returned to try to get permits to reenter into the community. they have told us haunting stories of survival. the most haunting you have heard is the story of 17-year-old dylan whitehead who was picked up by the tornado, tossed around and he told me he thought it was the end. >> i was in the air, and i was about 20, 30 feet up in the air. >> the tornado picked you up? >> yes. and when i opened my eyes, i saw the debris flying around me. a piece of wood hit me in the
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back of the head. i was doing somersaults on the ground. i tried to stop and run away from it. it it kept on dragging me. i kept on getting hit by stuff. something pushed me to the ground and i got knocked out. i woke up and i pulled the debris off me and started running away from it. the wind was still kind of pulling me and dragging me down. i finally got away from it. i looked back at the tornado and it was unreal. >> just an incredible story of survival for dylan. he said he was outside at the time of the tornado. he saw the cloud formation shift. he saw the twister take shape and by that time it was too late. it picked him up. he was knocked out briefly unconscious by a piece of wood. i caught up with him inside here. he's one of hundreds of people inside receiving help from volunteers, insurance companies, charity organizations. everybody trying to piece together life and get some sort
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of normalcy back into their lives. fred? >> right, and a lot of folks are staying in temporary housing and waiting to see what kind of federal assistance they are going to be able to get. are they getting those kinds of answers right now? >> reporter: that's a great question. people feel like they are being helped. lots of volunteers. we were just talking to somebody off camera who showed up with his pickup truck just to volunteer. people bringing food, water. we talked to governor perry yesterday. we posed that question about the federal assistance. he said it's too early to tell and doesn't have a timetable on when or if he'll reach out to the federal government. but people feel like they are getting the help they need. they just know what they go back to won't be the same. >> nick valencia, thank you so much. a lot of folks counting their blessings there. and still considering themselves very lucky. a whole lot of other folks are hoping to get very lucky
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this weekend. among them we're talking about the powerball $600 million jackpot right now. the drawing is tonight. lisa, you have two tickets now hoping to double your chances, but does that really? >> reporter: you know, i wish i could say i was feeling lucky. i maybe cover congress too much to have that sort of faith in numbers. i know how long the odds are here. but i'm going to tell you who is going to make out no matter what. we're going to take you inside to where they are selling tickets. we had folks just go in to buy tickets. the state of virginia and every state that sells tickets at counters like this is going to make a lot of money. in fact, i just got the off the phone with the lottery spokesman. just today virginia alone expects to sell 4.7 million powerball tickets. that's only one state of the 43
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that are selling these. so a lot of folks like me who buy tickets are not going to get lucky, but the states are going to get money no matter what. >> that is very impressive. and that means it can also up the ante, could it not, of the jackpot? we think it's $600 million but because of sales it it could change the number, increase it by the drawing tonight? >> reporter: yes, that's right. if sales pick up today, then absolutely the drawing jackpot will be more than $600 million. that's just an estimate. that noise you heard is the cash regist register, which has been going off all morning. that's a sign maybe the jackpot will be bigger. if no one gets the jackpot, it will be close to $1 billion. but really quick, we talk about the $600 million. that's not actually what you take home. we want to show folks a graphic if they win the jackpot tonight,
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how much they would actually get from this. first of all, the lump sum would be about $376 million. >> i still would not complain. >> reporter: the tax man wants a big chunk. if you take out federal taxes at highest rate, maybe they could get some breaks, if you take out federal taxes in the end, the take home is closer to $227 million. i'm with you, though, i'd still take it. later this afternoon, we want to give folks an idea. we're going to tell you later on what the luckiest numbers have been for powerball and also the lu luckiest states. so stay tuned. >> thanks so much. good luck to you and to me because i'm going to buy some tickets today too. coming up, donald trump is on trial. he's hoping to feel rather lucky in this case. he's on trial now defending himself for allegedly conning an
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the irs now is under damage control mode now a federal report shows it targeted groups seeking tax except status. the fallout? the acting commissioner resigned, irs workers in ohio are under particular scrutiny now. and it also means a lot of folks are asking the big question, what exactly is a 501-c4 organization and why do they get tax breaks? they are tax exempt operating exclusively to promote social welfare. they can't be involved with a candidate for office. no donations or promotion. they are allowed to educate the public about all sorts of issues including politics and can lobby the government. the key is they cannot do it in
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a partisan manner and cannot be affiliated with any political party. so sheila creme l is the director for the center of responsive politics and she's joining us, the group that tracks money in politics and its effects on elections. is this an issue of finding those who are manipulating the tax code? what's wrong with it or is it the method that was chosen here? >> i think we have a serious concern about 501 social welfare organizations and other organizations that are trying to have their cake and eat it too. they are sometimes trying to masquerade as social welfare organizations while being largely, if not in some cases primarily, political in their activities. so we have an enormous issue to deal with. first we need to grapple with
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what's happened this past week. >> is this hyperbole or did the irs overstep its bounds? >> there's no question the irs overstepped its bounds. they were clumsy and that's the charitable view. at a minimum, there was incompetence. they weren't sensitive to the idea that would be viewed through a political lens on capitol hill during a presidential election year. it's really outrageous that this happened at all. >> okay so you wrote in the "new york times" in an op-ed and you said, quote, after all some of these tea party groups are most likely not innocent groups or to more other virtues. they are are groups that may be illegally spending a majority of their resources on political activity while manipulating the tax code to hide their donors and evade taxes. so if that is the suspicion, why
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so much flak over this? resignations, hearings, et cetera? >> we have to grapple with what's just happened and there has to be consequences. it was a serious infraction on the part of these agents and their managers including those in washington, d.c. not just in the cincinnati office. there should be consequences and this will be an investigation that continues for weeks, if not months, and if some have their way, through the midterm or presidential election cycle. but we need to deal with this, but we can't lose sight of the fact that there's a larger pressing issue that hundreds of millions of dollars were being spent by these so-called social welfare organizations and those are the really concerning ones on both sides of the aisle. >> sheila, thank you for being with us, appreciate it. >> my pleasure, thank you. there are lines, crowds, and there's a lot of heat. you know what i'm talking about.
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if you have ever been to disney world, you know it can be a long wait to get on to the rides. this week a social researcher in new york said she uncovered a group of parents who are paying disabled people to help them cut lines at disneyworld. disney has a policy for those who are disabled to go to the front of the line.
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a social worker discovered this practice of wealthy hiring the disabled to cut lines because of friends that she knows. and i asked her about this practice. >> i'm a midwest eriner and i came to live here through marriage and child rearing. i discovered there was a rare in new york of parents and children in private school. they have their own rituals and practices. i learned about this through word of mouth, through other parents talking about it it. and i think when that mother said this is how the 1% lives and does disney, she was probably being ironic, but it it points out a truth. this particular tribe does live differently from the rest of the country to state it it mildly. >> do you think it says something about the state of the
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culture or just about this tribe? >> i think that as you point out this is a behavior that many people who have the power and the money to engineer everything from the perfect vacation to the perfect wardrobe this is something that they do. it's a surprising practice. it's only one of many. and it is baffling and shocking to most of america. i think that's why it has sparked such a conversation, this particular story. >> is there no outrage within this tribe? there's no outrage within these families on either side whether it be the disabled family's side or whether those who were dispensing the money, no outrage? >> i think there's been a lot of outrage. as an anthropologist, your job is to study the culture, to study the human behavior and put
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it out there. and then people honestly have an open conversation about it. and while it's not by job to form opinions or pass jum, i have been really interested to see how this particular story has been a spring board really for conversations all across the country about power and prestige and wealth and who has it and why. and just this one anecdote opens a window on a world that people are going to find fascinating and baffling and sometimes distressing. and i have to say that the other side of this story is that some of my native informants, as we refer to them in anthropology, expressed great -- she said this is how the 1% does it. people have a sense -- another woman said to me, you know, the way we live our lives here and
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by which she meant the privileged and powerful parents in manhattan is ridiculous. and a lot of people realize that and have misgivings about it it. a lot of them do a lot of charitable work. a lot of them do a the lot of giving back, but it doesn't change the fact that much of their lifestyle is something that other americans will find fascinating, off putting and want to know more about it. >> thanks so much. good to see you. appreciate it it. >> thank you for having me. >> cnn did reach out to the tour company allegedly involved in using disabled people a the park, but we have not received a response. and disney says it is looking into the matter and will crackdown on any abuse of their policy for people with disabilities. donald trump is on trial and he got a little nasty in the courtroom. the words of others, not ours. we'll explain, next.
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e-mails once thought lost now could prove helpful to the jackson family. the e-mails could show that the star's now deceased manager was work more for the interest of the concert promoter than for jackson. the computer containing the messages disappeared but the wife located it. the jackson family blames aeg live for the lawsuit and says hiring conrad murray. the civil trial resumes on monday. the powerball jackpot is at $600 million. today is last day to buy a ticket. the lump sum before taxes could mean more than $376 million. it is the largest jackpot in powerball history. the drawing is tonight. remember, you have to play to win. donald trump took the stand in his own defense this week in a civil suit brought against him by an 87-year-old woman. things got a little feisty
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between him and the woman's lawyer. the judge, in fact, had to tell him to cool it. sara shulty has more. >> reporter: donald trump gives a peace sign as he walks into federal court, but inside the courtroom it was anything but peaceful. the real estate mogul went head to head with the lawyer questioning him. it it became so contentious between the two the judge stopped the proceedings, stood up and told trump and the attorney, this is not a boxing match. they demand they get control of themselves and take a deep breath. >> i think everyone was agitated. he had asked the same questions 15 different ways over and over again. is he a good attorney wsh personally, i don't think so. >> jacki goldberg is the mother of four who is suing the trump organization for a bait and switch job over two hotel condo units goldberg wanted to buy. she claims she was told the deal
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would include profits from the hospitality business. she says the trump organization reanythi went back on the deal. the billionaire says he's the victim in this case. >> she's trying to rip me off. she put up a deposit. the market changed and now she wants her deposit back so she concocted this situation. >> she says the terms of the deal changed. the 87-year-old is suing to get her $500,000 back and more. trump continued to blast goldberg after he concluded his testimony this afternoon. >> nobody that i have ever seen has played the age card better than her. she's got a lot of money, she's made a lot of money, she knows everything that's going on and it's really disgraceful. >> that was sara shulty reporting from our affiliate. strong words from the real estate mogul. this lawsuit is stirring up a lot of emotions as you can imagine.
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we'll hear from both sides right now. we'll start with shelley coolwin, the lawyer for the plaintiff. so it sounds like things got very tense in the courtroom. did you anticipate that it would get so fiery? >> you never know what's going to happen with a witness. when people aren't telling the truth, it tends not to get as fiery. when they refuse to answer a question, he's the type of lawyer that i will keep answering it different ways if they never answer the question. mr. trump wanted to talk about a lot of things except one thing, the truth, what happened. he wanted to talk about everything else. that's what he did. i kept coming and it bothered him. he's probably not used to people saying to him, answer the question. i don't think people do that to him very often. >> you have been trying to press him on behalf of your client that she went into this thinking that this was going to be a great investment opportunity.
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she put money down to buy these condos and would also receive a certain percentage from parties that would take place in the meeting rooms, but the trump folks are saying there was a condition in a clause in that contract which said they could change that if they wanted to. and that's what they did. and she's saying, no, that's not the case? >> well, the whole thing about this contract clause is the biggest red hair iing in this case. this is a fraud case. there's no contract claim in the case. if you come to me and say i want to buy a red car because red is your favorite color and i say, sure, i'll sell you a red car, but there's a clause saying i can't give you a red car, i have to give you blue. they say look at the contract clause. they normally would win that case. if at the time you sign the contract, they had no red paint
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and they knew they were never going to give you a red car, that's fraud. >> so you're saying there was no contract clause? there were no conditions at all? >> no, that's not what i'm saying. there was a contract clause, but what i'm saying if you know when you sign the contract, the fact that later on a clause allows him to take it away doesn't matter because he committed fraud when he had you sign the contract? is understand that? >> she apparently, or at least trump is saying and testified, that she was about to walk the other way. and said, wait a minute, i really don't want there to be a condition. i would like to know i'm make ing this down payment and i'm also going to get profits. will you take that out of the contract? he's alleging, no, and she still
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proceeded. is that true? >> her lawyer wrote a letter. i don't know whether that's going to get into evidence. and i don't think it's relevant. if you're lying to get somebody to sign a contract, that's fraud. people keep losing sight of that. mr. trump knew when he made the deal e he wasn't going to give away $40 million of real estate to the hotel condo association in the trump tower. he wasn't going to give away a $5 million revenue stream with $1.3 million of profits. he did it because he had to sell units because he couldn't find an anchor tenant and couldn't get financing unless he could sell more units. it's chrrystal clear. there's no contract claim in this case at all. zero, none. >> you're back in court on
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monday, yes? >> yes, we are. one other thing i'd like to say. this whole buyers remorse thing they've been pushing, this isn't a case of buyers remorse. this is a case of an 87-year-old woman who is sharp, smart, and knew when she was being taken. they have no evidence at all. the evidence is the contrary that she had any buyers remorse. looking forward to court on monday. >> trump's words, she's using the age card here. your response to that? >> an 84-year-old woman decides. i'll just go file a lawsuit against a billionaire and then try to play sympathy. it has nothing to do with the age card. that would be like us saying mr. trump is trying to play the hair-challenged card. it has nothing to do with the case. >> come on now. thanks so much. appreciate your time. all the best to both sides.
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we're now going to talk to the other side after this break. what donald trump's side of story is saying. his defense attorney joining us right after this.
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donald trump is being sued by an 87-year-old woman who put a $500,000 deposit on tw co co s condos. she says by purchasing the units she would also get a cut of profits from ballroom rentals. to her that was a smart business decision. then she says trump's company rescinded that money and goldberg says no deal and wants her deposit back. before the break you heard the argument from her attorney. now i'm joined by donald trump's
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defense attorney. so is that right, that donald trump was lying and in his words lying to get that contract signed? that he, quote, knew he wasn't going to live up to the promise? that's from moments ago. >> no, that's not right at all. you have to remember how this started. she's a smart person. she was represented by a lawyer. she was presented with a contract that said those changes could be made. her lawyer tried to get that clause out of the contract and trump dise agreed. she had ten-day period within which to say, you know what, if you're not going to take that out of the contract, i'm walking away from the deal. she could have had her earnest money back, no questions asked. instead she decided to go forward with the deal. you asked the council, was there such a clause and he said yes.
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but then he had a bunch of yes buts. they never intended to do this from the get-go. the trial has been going on for days. he's had every one of the trump people on the witness stand. he's gotten to evidence whatsoever of that intent and every single witness mr. trump included said that was not the case. the decision to put those things in in the first place was made by one set of executives for good reason to them at the time. it was taken out for good reason, including that it was better for the unit owners for them not to have that burden and that risk. there's testimony in the record that money was lost on those amenities and the owners were shielded from that. and so that statement that there was no intent from the get-go is just not going to carry any water just like the rest of the
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case has carried no water so far. >> so the intent was that the buyer knew what she was getting into. we heard there was a clause that said there were conditions and the trump tower folks could make a decision as to whether to rescind that incentive. but you know we heard from their side saying there was really going to be a living up to the promise and that that underscores the whole argument of intent. that donald trump was really kind of conning potential buyers. >> again, that's not the case and that's not the evidence. the evidence is that one se of executives for reasons they thought were good at time put those elements into the deal. those people were gone years
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before -- i don't mean to speak over you. >> we have a delay. >> the people that made that decision were gone for years before the decision to change was made. the new person that came in that made the decision to remove these items for his good reasons made that conclusion. and as i said one of the reasons, only one, he believed was in the best interest of everyone. it was in the interest of trump to be sure. it was in the interest of the unit owners and in interest of their association. we will have an expert witness, our first witness when our turn comes will testify exactly to that, that that's the standard in the industry. >> as far as you know, no one else challenging their contract like ms. goldberg? >> there was one other challenge out of 150 purchasers. these have been people that have been there for years.
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no one has sued to say i didn't get what i was supposed to get. no one has sued to say that the quality is bad as far as i know. one sue was filed. it was filed by the same lawyer who filed this suit filed the other suit. this is the only suit that's going to go to judgment on this issue. >> steve novak, thank you for your time. best of luck to both sides. hopefully this can be resolve amicably, if possible. >> thank you very much for having me. >> thanks so much. more more after this. twenty-five thousand mornings, give or take, is all we humans get. we spend them on treadmills. we spend them in traffic. and if we get lucky, really lucky, it dawns on us to go spend them in a world where a simple sunrise can still be magic. twenty-five thousand mornings.
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now to the cleveland kidnapping case. three women went from years of enslavement, fear and abuse to the moments of may 6th when one of them broke free. a bystander captured the scene that day on a cell phone. you see officers first rushing to the scene experiencing a turn of events so powerful they describe it it actually brought tears to one officer's eyes. listen to that officer explaining what happened as he entered the home to help liberate two of the victims. >> you know, something is going on in this room and i'm looking and waying to see what's going to happen.
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BSOD (ntoskrnl.exe) after boot/idle/playing browser flash games
I have been getting the BSODs for 3 days now (started on 19/07/2013).
They happened more or less at random times.
First time right after boot I launched a browser flash game and that killed it.
Then I was changing settings of Steam and it died again
One more time happened while I was waiting for it to boot, was not touching anything even.
Next time I did not launch any games, was just doing browsing. It was fine for 40 minutes, then I risked starting a flash game again, played for 7 minutes - bsod again.
I don't think all of these got logged, but should be around 6-7 by now.
Used the BlueScreenView tool to see that the problem was caused by ntoskrnl.exe.
Tried uninstalling the latest windows update (critical update installed on 19/07/2013), but that did not solve the problem.
Reinstalling Windows is NOT an option for me since my Windows came on some restore CD thing that formats everything.
P.S. Sorry my Windows is in Russian, so some of the log files ended up having a lot of Russian in it as well as some weird symbols, caused most probably by some encoding errors.
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BugCheck 3B, {c0000096, fffff800032c5e47, fffff88008eea5e0, 0} Probably caused by : ntkrnlmp.exe ( nt!SwapContext_PatchXSave+a7 )
Usual causes: System service, Device driver, graphics driver, memory
1: kd> lmvm atikmdag start end module name fffff880`04832000 fffff880`05298000 atikmdag T (no symbols) Loaded symbol image file: atikmdag.sys Image path: \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\atikmdag.sys Image name: atikmdag.sys Timestamp: Thu Nov 10 02:52:46 2011 (4EBB3C7E) CheckSum: 00A1B01E ImageSize: 00A66000 Translations: 0000.04b0 0000.04e4 0409.04b0 0409.04e4
Release Date: April 24th 2013
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In Device Manager: 12.104
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|22 Jul 2013
Thank you for your reply.
Before I read your reply I had another bsod "spike", the pc went to system restore and had another bsod and then shut down with beeps coming out of the tower.
Then I managed to switch the pc back on, did the steps that you suggested, rebooted and then the pc worked stable for a couple of hours. Hoping that all was fixed I switched the pc off and went to bed.
In the morning I tried to switch on the pc but it couldn't load Windows - BSOD at launch, BSOD during system restore and then another shutdown with beeps. On the third try I managed to do system restore without bsod and Windows launched. So here I am again.
I am attaching another diagnostics file if that helps. I don't think all bsods got logged, I made some photos of the screen (if that's good for anything).
Thank you for your help.
P.S. I am ready to reinstall Windows but will that even help?..
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|22 Jul 2013
Thanks for the information, the BSODs look mostly memory/driver related, but unfortunately the dump file seems to be corrupt, and since it tends to show POST Beeps and BSOD at boot, then there is a strong possibility it may be RAM related.
Test each RAM stick individually, if an error is found then move the same RAM stick into the next DIMM slot and test again, if errors are found for the same RAM stick in every available slot then you have a faulty RAM module. On the other hand, if no errors are found in the next slot or the other slots for the same RAM module, then you have a faulty DIMM slot.
Test each RAM stick and every motherboard DIMM slot available.
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Comment from: ryan, 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: December 05
I ruptured my Achilles tendon 3 weeks ago playing basketball. I have played most of my life until about 2 years ago. I exercise regularly with weightlifting and cardio in the gym. This was the first time I played hoops in 2 years. I simply tried to make a quick cut and the pain was immediate. I looked behind me to see if someone on the sideline threw something at me for some reason. Then I realized I had just ruptured my achilles. I had surgery 3 days later, the pain that night of surgery was intense. I was then casted for 2 weeks. Now I am in a boot but still not weight bearing. I go back to the ortho in 2 weeks to get an update and hopefully schedule rehab. I am a 36 years old male.
Comment from: Terri, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: July 05
I ruptured my Achilles tendon eight weeks ago and have been in half-leg plaster.
Comment from: daytona, 55-64 Male (Patient) Published: June 05
I am a 57-year-old male. I ruptured my Achilles just getting into my car after watching an MLB game. It was the most painful thing I have experienced. I am debating whether to have surgery or to take the long casting route.
Comment from: bikeguy, 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: May 11
I had a full rupture of the Achilles while skiing, and surgery four days later. It has been eight weeks to date since injury. Three weeks casted.
Comment from: Bob68, 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: May 01
I ruptured my achilles playing basketball. I had surgery three days later. Two weeks after that, I received a walking boot. It was nice to be able to shower and move my foot. I'm about five weeks out of surgery and not using crutches.
Comment from: Malik, 45-54 Male (Patient) Published: April 02
I'm a 49-year-old male. I had full rupture Achilles tendon. I had a surgery 10 days after getting injured. I had my foot in casting for 9 weeks. Now, I took off cast and walk regularly.
Comment from: Fire, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: February 21
I ruptured my Achilles while at work, I am a firefighter and I work out in the gym regularly. My orthopedist wants to keep me immobilized rather than surgery.
Comment from: Jim, 65-74 Male (Patient) Published: December 05
I partially ruptured my Achilles tendon a week ago, falling backwards down some steps in Venice. Intense pain and shock convinced my wife to call for an ambulance. Ultrasound scan and diagnosis by orthopaedic specialist led to a decision to go the non-surgical route. So far I am spending time in bed interspersed with regular walks in the apartment on crutches, with the leg encased in a rigid splint.
Comment from: 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: October 11
I am a 34 year old female. I tore my Achilles tendon playing kickball with family. I had surgery within a week, cast for 8 weeks. Now that I'm out of the cast, I'm dealing with constant swelling. It's getting better every day. It's definitely a long healing process.
Comment from: 35-44 Male (Patient) Published: September 20
I am a 38 year old male, who after not playing rugby for 8 years, had my arm twisted to play. I train regularly in a gym, three to four times a week. I turned up to the first training session and joined in a game of touch rugby, and within 10 minutes I had ruptured my Achilles tendon! I am now in a cast and looking at 8-12 week recovery plan. My advice would be simple, as you get older, allow more time to stretch and warm up. 15-20 minutes stretching and warm up could have saved me 12 weeks recovery time!
Comment from: Jazzy, 45-54 Female (Patient) Published: June 14
At the age of 52, I tore my Achilles tendon with my normal extensive workout schedule and needed surgery! A year later after surgery I'm still recovering back to my normal activities. What a long road to recovery!!!
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Is it telling you you have faxes to send? If it is, it sounds like it maybe in the printer configuration somewhere. Is there any clue as to the program that's asking, try Alt+Ctrl+Delete and see if that will tell you. Some modem software install a lot of applications, including fax software


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Anger Me Trailer (2006)
23 October 2006 Factual 71 mins
Elio Gelmini interviews Avantgarde filmmaker Kenneth Anger. With archive footage of Angers films, he portrays the filmmaker from his childhood until present day.
Watch the official Anger Me 2006 trailer in HD below or find more Anger Me videos on Vidimovie.


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After years of celebrity interviews, Conan O'Brien revealed which guest was the worst he ever had in the latest episode of Watch What Happens Live…..
According to TooFab, while playing the game "Plead The Fifth" on the Andy Cohen-hosted show, Conan said his worst guest ever was………… Al Roker!
Conan explained:
"I don't wanna plead the fifth on anything. Al Roker. The guy…it's too fake. He's too happy all the time. And I kept trying to crack him. I said, 'Al, you can talk to me.' And he wouldn't do it! And he goes home at night and cries. It's Roker, I tell ya. It's Roker."
As of now, it doesn't appear that Roker has commented…
Also, you can go here if you want to see the Al Roker interview with Conan!


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|Jewel Star Pretty Cure
Jueru Sutā Purikyua
|General Information
|Toei Animation
|TV Asahi
|Original Run
|March 2, 2014 - ongoing
|50 Episodes
|Opening Song
|Kirakira! Everyday Pretty Cure!
|Ending Song
|Sparkling Gems (Episodes 1 - 25)
Mirai no Hikari (Episodes 26 - 50)
|Series Info
|Five Lives Pretty Cure
Jewel Star Pretty Cure Episodes
In the milky way, there is a world called Twinkle Kingdom. The kingdom is ruled by Queen Starbright, who protects the world with the three Legendary Items: Eternal Staff, Shiny Gem and the Faithful Tiara. And there is an evil organisation who is after those three Legendary Items. So, one day, the evil organisation, Dark Star, comes and invades Twinkle Kingdom and attempts at stealing the Legendary Items. The Legendary Items disappear during the attack with no one noticing until after the battle when the queen notice that they are not where they are held. Queen Starbright sends her three most loyal mascots, Ever, Stone and Glitter, down to earth to find the Five Jewels of Light, Pretty Cure, who will help the mascots to collect the Legendary Pieces which will take them slowly to where the Legendary Items have hidden themselves.
Meanwhile, Nagahashi Akari is trying to solve a word puzzle in Takayama Park when a Kuroppoi is summoned by Rara, a commander of Dark Star, to cause havoc in the park. Akari jumps up and runs for the gates with the crowd but trips and is left behind in the park with only the Kuroppoi and Rara to keep her company. She gets up and asks Rara why she is doing this and Rara says to find some Legendary Items that Akari has no idea what they are. Suddenly three mascots are seen running towards Rara but were spotted by the Kuroppoi and they stopped in their tracks. Akari wonders what is going on and takes her chance to slip through the park's gate but she is caught by the Kuroppoi's spit and is glued to a tree. Akari screams for help when a red jewel appears in front of her and turns into a bracelet-like device, called the Shiny Bracelet. Akari is freed from the glow and grabs the bracelet and straps it on, knowing it is a transformation device since she watches a lot of magical girl anime and yells out "Pretty Cure Glistening Power!", and transforms into the first warrior of light, Cure Ruby.
Pretty Cure
"The Five Jewels of Light Will Become One! Twinkle! Jewel Pretty Cure! "
- The five Cure's group phrase.
Nagahashi Akari (永橋 あかり Nagahashi Akari)
Akari is the first girl to become Pretty Cure and is selected to be the leader of the team in Episode 13. She loves watching magical girl anime, resulting in how she knew the Shiny Bracelet was a transformation device and that she has teammates. She can be shy to people she doesn't know but can be very silly when you get to know her. She loves reading but when she sees an electronic device, she will do anything to play on it. Her alter ego is Cure Ruby (キュア ルビー Kyua Rubī), her theme colour is red and she represents the power of fire.
Hosotera Nanami (細寺 七海 Hosotera Nanami)
Nanami is the second girl to become Pretty Cure who first transformed in Episode 3. She is known to be very smart and being good with fashion and in fact is very sporty as well. She is quiet and is mostly seen with glasses on when reading or learning. She like to be around Akari and finds her fun to study with and to be very silly when it comes to things she likes. Her alter ego is Cure Sapphire (キュア サファイア Kyua Safaia), her theme colour is ocean blue and she represents the power of water.
Fukuhara Haruka (福原 はるか Fukuhara Haruka)
Haruka is the third girl to become Pretty Cure who first transformed in Episode 4. She goes to Furukawa Private Academy and is known to be a spoiled brat at times. She is thirteen years old, making her the youngest of the group and is very popular at her school and never hangs around one group. She even chats with parents and the teachers, being well known in Takayama Town. Her alter ego is Cure Jade (キュア ジェイド Kyua Jeido), her theme colour is jade green and she represents the power of earth.
Miyashiba Chiyo (宮芝 千代 Miyashiba Chiyo)
Chiyo is the fourth girl to become Pretty Cure who first transformed in Episode 5. She is an artistic girl who loves going out into the sun and feeling the sun's rays on her skin. She is friends with Toshima Kaede and is very sporty and knows Nanami from playing hockey in the same club. She can sing, draw and act and is a famous idol in Takayama Town and mostly goes on tours around Japan. Her alter ego is Cure Topaz (キュアトパーズ Kyua Topāzu), her theme colours are yellow and orange and she represents the power of light.
Toshima Kaede (豊島 かえで Toshima Kaede)
Kaede is the fifth girl to become Pretty Cure who first transformed in Episode 6. She is a girl who not a lot of confident and is mostly the main target for bullying. She thinks of herself as a weak girl who can't do anything but in fact, she is very good dancing and cooking and is best friends with the famous idol, Miyashiba Chiyo. Her alter ego is Cure Amethyst (キュア アメジスト Kyua Amejisuto), her theme colour is purple and she represents the power of wind.
Cure Diamond and Cure Pearl
Cure Diamond and Cure Pearl are the two Cures who appear half way through the series. Their civilian names will be revealed soon. They have their own mascots.
Ever (エバー Ebā)
Ever is the cheerful mascot of the series. She lives at Akari's place, along with Glitter. She is a pink and white bunny who as a human, names herself Kawahashi Nura (川橋 ぬら Kawahashi Nura).
Stone (ストーン Sutōn)
Stone is the calm mascot of the series who is known as the mascot who was born with no fun in him. He lives with Nanami and is a blue and white panda, who is named Ihara Kazuki (井原 一樹 Ihara Kazuki) as a human.
Glitter (グリッター Gurittā)
Glitter is the childish mascot of the series and lives with Akari while Chiyo isn't on tour. She is a yellow and white cat who names herself Okaike Mami (岡池 マミ Okaike Mami) while is in her human form.
Dark Star
Kuroppoi (黒っぽい Kuroppoi)
Kuroppoi is the monster of Dark Star.
Rara (ララ Rara)
Rara is the first member of Dark Star to appear.
Naka (ナカ Naka)
Nana is the second member of Dark Star to appear.
Riri (リリ Riri)
Riri is the third member of Dark Star to appear.
Kenji (ケンジ Kenji)
Kenji is the only male member of Dark Star to appear. He is Dark Queen's right-hand man.
Dark Queen (ダーク 女王 Dāku Joō)
Dark Queen is the leader of Dark Star.
Supporting Characters
Queen Starbright (女王 スターブライトJoō Sutāburaito)
Queen Starbright is the queen of Twinkle Kingdom.
Shiny Bracelet (シャイニー ブレスレットShainī Buresuretto) - This is the transformation device for the girls. Their transformation phrase is "Pretty Cure Glistening Power!".
Jewel Shards (ジュエルシャード Jueru Shādo) - The heart-shaped jewels that fit in the Shiny Bracelet's heart-shaped slot. It helps the girls transform and comes in the girls respective colours.
Legendary Items (伝説的 アイテム Densetsu-teki Aitemu) - The Legendary Items consist of the Eternal Staff, the Shiny Gem and the Faithful Tiara. These disappeared in Episode 1 and can be found slowly by the Legendary Pieces.
Legendary Pieces (伝説 の 小品 Densetsu no Shōhin) - These must be collected by the Cures so they can find the Legendary Items. There are 25 of them. Thse help the Cures locate the Legendary Items one by one.
Golden Case (黄金 の ケース Kogane no Kēsu) - This box is what keeps the Legendary Pieces safe. It first appeared in Episode 3.
Takayama Town (高山 町 Takayama Machi)
Takayama Park (高山 パーク Takayama Pāku)
Furukawa Private Academy (古川 プライベート アカデミー Furukawa Puraibēto Akademī)
Takayama Public Middle School (高山公共ミドルスクール Takayama Kōkyō Midoru Sukūru)
Twinkle Kingdom (王国 を きらきら Ōkoku o Kirakira)
Dark Star Base (ダーク スター ベース Dāku Sutā Bēsu)
- This is CureRuby's very first series.
- This is the first season to have the lead Cure with her theme colour of red.
- Also the first season in which the blue Cure is good at academics and sports.
- The second yellow Cure to be an idol. Urara from Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (Gogo!) is the first yellow Cure to be an idol/actress.
- The third season to have a Cure who is either an idol/actress. The first two were Yes! Pretty Cure 5 Gogo (Urara/ Cure Lemonade) and Dokidoki! Pretty Cure (Makoto/Cure Sword)
- This is the first Pretty Cure series to have five Cures at the start and two Cure coming half way through the series, giving the season with a total of seven Cures.
- Jewel Star Pretty Cure is the third series to have mascots who transform into humans. The first two are Yes! Pretty Cure 5 (Gogo!) and Dokidoki! Pretty Cure.


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First Team News
Aguero expected to return for Colombia clash
Sergio Aguero is predicted to return to the starting line-up as Argentina bid to reach the last four of the 2015 Copa America.
The striker missed the final group game with Jamaica after picking up a knock but has been pictured in training this week and is believed to be ready to face Colombia in Friday's quarter final.
Aguero played a big part in ensuring La Albiceleste reached this stage of the tournament, scoring in the opening 2-2 draw against Paraguay before netting the only goal of the game against rivals Uruguay to help his country top the group. His performances hit headlines around the globe and he was named in the "Best team of the group stage" alongside compatriot Lionel Messi.
However, Argentina are yet to really flex their considerably talented muscles – letting a two goal lead slip against Paraguay and scoring only twice in 180 minutes against Uruguay and Jamaica, the latter refusing to live up to any labels of group whipping boys.
On the other side of the coin, opponents Colombia have had even greater struggles in finding the net, and have scored just once from a set piece.
Martin Demichelis is expected to start on the bench, but Pablo Zabaleta is likely to reprise his role at right back.
Zabaleta is expecting a tough encounter but remains confident that Argentina have what is takes.
He declared: "Colombia are an organised team. They have very skilful players in attack and they have several options.
"It will be a tough game, I have no doubt of that, but in the cup winning is our only chance.''
Added Zaba: "Playing this kind of competition in June is exhausting. To be champions we have to defeat the best teams. We have to be 100 per cent mentally prepared. We are convinced that we can achieve our goals as we have players good enough to do it.''
The pre-match chatter from both camps in the official press conferences has centred around absentees, with Colombia trio Carlos Bacca, Carlos Sanchez and Edwin Valencia ruled out through suspension and injury.
Argentina boss Gerardo Martino told the media that those left on the sidelines could have a crucial effect on what happens on the pitch on Friday.
He declared: "The absences of the two midfielders are especially important for Colombia.
"I don't know if they have players to replace them in the same way. It is clear that one of the two to come in will be Alexander Mejia, but even with differences in personnel their pattern will be more or less familiar.
"But we don't need to worry about the opponents. We do worry about the referees. The best referees are here at the Copa América but we need them to act in such a way."
However, his opposite number maintained that his side has dealt with such setbacks before and they are looking forward to overcoming adversity again.
Boss Jose Pekerman argued: "It is not the first time we have suffered such disadvantages with injuries and absences in the team. We're used to dealing with difficult situations, and we are looking forward to a good game."
Kick off in Vina del Mar is at 00:30 (BST). We'll have a full recap on mcfc.co.uk on Saturday morning.
Expected Argentina XI: Romero, Zabaleta, Garay, Otamendi, Rojo, Mascherano, Banega, Pastore, Messi, Aguero, Di Maria.


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Search-and-Rescue Dogs Function and Deployment
by Ken Chiacchia, PhD, WEMT-B
A good dog team can be one of the most valuable assets to a SAR operation. Using estimates based on AMRG's investigations into canine sweep width, an airscent dog can do the job of as many as six human searchers. Unfortunately, a poorly trained or tasked team becomes a liability. And when winter strips the foliage or a search subject is wearing high-visibility colors, ground searchers can in fact be more effective than the best dog team.
The proper place for a dog team is as an integrated part of an incident-command-system run SAR operation that makes full use of the strengths of many different resources. That said, I'd like to outline the current understanding that the SAR dog community and researchers have created regarding dogs and their proper deployment. In this article, I'm going to talk about "wilderness" SAR dogs. These dogs find lost or injured people in a wilderness, rural, or undeveloped suburban property setting.
Types of SAR dogs
There are two types of SAR dog. The trailing dog follows the human scent trail on the ground. The air-scenting dog follows airborne scent directly to the search subject. (See the figure.)
Each type of dog has its strengths and weaknesses; each can play a crucial role in a successful search, if used properly. Some dogs are cross-trained in both specialties. In our experience, there are few absolutes regarding which breed of dog is best suited for either type of SAR work. While a number of air-scent dog handlers prefer herding breeds such as German shepherds or border collies, and many trailing handlers field bloodhounds, we've seen people effectively work numerous breeds, including mixed-breed dogs.
It's important to remember that humans invented the distinction between trailing and airscenting. In fact, a trailing dog will air scent if that's how the strongest scent is coming to her; and an air-scenting dog will follow a hot ground trail. But each dog is most reliable when performing the task that she's been specially trained to do, and handlers tailor their tactics in the field to take advantage of the dog's strengths.
Another, overlapping, type of specialty training exists: the cadaver dog. Scent can escape from water, earth, or even cracked or porous concrete. Dogs can thus be used to find human bodies that have sunk or been buried, as well as those on the surface. Many air-scenting and trailing dogs are cross-trained on human cadaver scent so that they can find human remains if they come across them. In our team, we use the term "cadaver dog" to refer to SAR dogs that have been cross-trained to detect cadaver scent. We refer to dogs that have trained intensively with cadaver scent and are more accurate and reliable for finding trace human remains, or those that are very old, as "forensics dogs."
Trailing Dogs
Generally, a trailing dog begins working at the search subject's last known location -- called the point last seen (PLS) or last known point (LKP). From there, the trailing dog follows the ground scent left behind by that person, traveling more or less along that person's route of travel until either she finds him or loses the trail for some reason. Trailing dogs must be trained to scent discriminate. When given a scent article that only the subject has touched, the dog can follow that person's trail -- even if it crosses trail scent left by other people. Trailing dogs sometimes, but not always, work on leash.
Trailing dogs are a powerful SAR resource. If a ground trail is relatively fresh, if searchers have a good PLS or LKP, and if they can find an uncontaminated scent article, a good trailing dog can be the fastest, most direct way of getting to the subject. But hand in hand with those strengths come corresponding weaknesses. While moisture and warmth are generally good (they help bacterial production of odor molecules, as we'll discuss later), rain and the passage of time can destroy a ground trail. So can ill-considered search efforts at the LKP -- a common mistake is to set up a command post on the LKP, thus destroying any chance of finding ground trails. Often a scent article isn't available -- or just as bad, has been contaminated with other people's scent. In these cases, an uncritical reliance on the dog can lead to disappointment -- and in an unfair assessment of the dog's abilities. To minimize such contamination, scent articles should be handled as little as possible before being given to the dog.
A word of warning about scent discrimination: it is an extremely powerful technique, but only if done properly. Research studies have revealed that scent-discriminating dogs can be "skunked" if presented with a task that is sufficiently different from the problems they've trained on. As with any other facet of SAR dog work, we're making use of dogs' innate abilities -- but we can't be sure we have the ability to direct and take advantage of those abilities unless we've trained under realistic conditions. Scent discrimination work should not be undertaken lightly, and must be done well if it's done at all.
I should probably make a brief mention of tracking dogs, which are technically different from trailing dogs. Competition tracking dogs follow a person's tracks, step by step. These dogs probably follow the smell of crushed vegetation and other disturbance rather than the subject's body smell. SAR trailing dogs probably both track and trail when they're working -- a dog needs the body scent to discriminate between individuals, for instance, but may follow crushed vegetation as well.
Air-scenting dogs
Air-scenting dogs detect human scent on the wind. They tend to pick up scent coming directly from the search subject, and so may take a more direct route to the subject than a trailer would. But first the dog has to be downwind of the subject, and thereby hangs the tale.
Methodically "sampling" an area's smells as a dog team moves through it is one of the challenges of air-scenting dog handling. Because of the need for the dog to range unrestricted by the handler to find airborne scent plumes, air-scenting dogs work off-leash. Early in a search, experienced SAR incident commanders generally will employ air-scenting dog teams for "hasty search" patterns, designed to get the "easy" find quickly and collect information for later in the search. Late in a search, air-scent teams are useful for sweeping, or gridding, large areas.
Air-scent handlers generally don't do discrimination/trailing work with their dogs, instead letting the dogs find and report on any human who is in the area. In practice, this is not usually a drawback: anyone in the area is a potential witness with information about the search subject, and so needs to be interviewed. On the other hand, discrimination-trained air-scenting dogs can be a particularly flexible, useful SAR resource.
An air-scenting dog's lack of specificity can be a problem in a highly contaminated area. If a search area isn't cleared of hunters, hikers, or other searchers (the time necessary is highly dependent on local conditions), a dog team can waste a lot of time finding many wrong people, or even pockets of residual scent. More experienced dogs, especially if they've done some training in semi-crowded park and suburban environments, have some ability to compensate for these problems.
An air-scenting dog can often detect and localize human scent from 100 yards or more -- the longest refind in AMRG's database is 270 yards. The longest such detection on record is two miles, set by a dog on the Alaskan tundra. But these results are highly dependent on weather conditions. AMRG's investigations in canine sweep width suggest dog probabilties of detection (PODs) at 100 yards ranging from about 80 percent or more on cloudy, windy days and clear nights, to 65 percent or less on still, sunny days.
It's important to remember that, while air-scenting dogs can and do find people, much like human searchers they more often find clues. A dog may catch a whiff of a person's scent that's too brief to follow -- but a watchful handler will notice this "alert," and search commanders can note the location of the alert and the wind direction on their maps. Another search team, dog- or human-based, can then check in that direction to see if the person is there. To be honest, this level of dog team/command team integration is probably not realistic until both groups have worked with each other and become comfortable with each other's capabilities over time. The clue value of reported dog alerts is highly variable, depending on the amount of human traffic in and adjacent to the search area, previous scent contamination, and perhaps most importantly, the experience level of the dog's handler.
I've been both the dog handler trying to convince incident staff of the importance of an alert and the operations officer trying to make sense of mutually contradictory alerts from different dog teams. Both points of view are valid, and the only way to get past uncertainty is to work together and find a balance with which everyone is comfortable. We dog handlers also have to accept that the value of scent clues has never been thoroughly proved, and may not be as useful as we'd estimate from our memory and experience.
Scent and atmospheric conditions
The study of how weather affects scent is that of a lifetime. But dog handlers have learned a few simple tricks for making nature work for them -- or at least for preventing nature from completely disrupting their efforts.
At daybreak, both the air and the ground tend to be relatively cool. But sunrise makes two changes in this more-or-less stable situation: it serves as the engine for wind movement, and it heats the ground. Sunlight passes right through the air without heating it much. But the sun does heat the ground relatively quickly. The result, early in the morning, is cool air over warm ground. The ground warms the air directly above it; once warmed, that air tends to rise past the still-cool air higher up. Even in the absence of true wind, these "convection currents" will tend to produce a gentle uphill breeze. For this reason, early in the morning dog handlers like to be at the tops of hills or ridges, where their dogs can pick up any scent rising from the valleys below. Experienced SAR incident commanders will, therefore, try to task dogs before the sun starts warming the ground, so that they are in place to take full advantage of the updrafts when they begin.
Later in the day, especially sunny days, these uphill convection currents can get too strong. Warm air rising through cool air tends to be chopped into little pieces -- watch how the air seems to crinkle over hot pavement in the summer -- and any scent carried by that air gets chopped up as well. Aside from the fact that it's difficult to keep a dog safely watered on a warm, sunny day, convection can often destroy air scent so completely that a team of ground searchers would be able do a better job than a dog. This can even happen on clear, sunny, but cold winter days.
Around sundown, though, this picture changes enormously. Now the air is thoroughly warmed. But just as the air doesn't gain heat easily, it doesn't lose heat easily either. The ground gives off heat in the form of infrared radiation, cooling quickly, and now we have warm air over cool ground. Now the ground cools the air slowly, and the convection currents work in reverse, with air tending to sink downhill. This is a great time for dog searching: a dog at the bottom of a valley can get a good smell of the slopes on either side. On clear nights, eventually much of the day's heat escapes into space, with the air and ground reaching equally cool temperatures. At this point -- called stable conditions by meteorologists -- scent travels with no loss to convection, and very long-range detection by scent is possible. For this reason, dogs are an extremely efficient resource for night searching.
Clouds trap heat and reflect it back to the ground, leading to intermediate conditions. While winds (the long-range movement of air with weather fronts, as opposed to convection currents) are generally good because they make scent move faster and farther, they cause other complications. Wind can overwhelm convection currents; it can also can combine with them to produce complicated spiraling air currents. Generally, air-scenting dog handlers try to get downwind of an area to work; but isolated convection cells or turbulent eddies can can trap scent on the downwind side of buildings or sharp downhill slopes, making detection downwind difficult. Rain can wash scent out of the air, forcing normally air-scenting dogs to keep their noses low or even washing out scent completely. Falling snow can also scavenge scent components from the air; we've found that dry, powdery snow (generally rare in western Pennsylvania) is especially "scent sticky" and can magnify the effects of any scent contamination in the area.
The nature of scent
Human beings are messy. As we walk, we shed a continuous stream of gaseous molecules. In addition to gaseous molecules, people trail behind them microscopic flakes of dead skin. These "skin rafts" are tiny scent generators. The bacteria, perspiration, and skin secretions they carry generate more scent molecules with time. The different components of the cloud of debris that we emanate act very differently. Larger flakes of dead skin tend to fall to the ground relatively quickly. They, and the scent molecules they continue to generate, become a trail of ground scent.
Other scent components -- smaller skin raft particles and gasses -- can travel indefinitely on the wind, becoming the air scent. Some of the smelliest of human scent molecules are created when bacteria create carboxylic acids out of skin oils, and when the body releases "panic scents" -- steroid-like molecules produced by the apocrine glands, found in the armpits, groin, and in smaller numbers elsewhere on the skin. Research in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that this combination of carboxylic acids and odiferous steroids seems to play a major role in the human body odor that humans can smell. Interestingly enough, these same chemicals have also been implicated in studies of how animals (mostly rodents) discriminate between other individual animals by scent. I suspect that these substances are what SAR dogs smell when they're looking for people, but it hasn't been proved yet.
A research group from the University of Florida and the U. S. Department of Agriculture recently cataloged at least 277 airborne compounds that come off human skin; it will be interesting to see which of these, and which combinations of them, trained SAR dogs will respond to. Many exciting and useful discoveries about the nature of human scent may be just over the horizon. For a more complete discussion of this issue, see In Search of Human Scent, and Who Goes There? The Body's System for Generating Individual Scent.
*Parts of an earlier version of this article appeared in Advanced Rescue Technology, October/November 2000, pages 29 and 31. Copyright 2000 by Summer Communications, Inc. Reproduced with the permission of the publisher.
Further reading
American Rescue Dog Association, Search and rescue dogs: Training methods, Howell Book House, 1991
Axel, R., "The molecular logic of smell," Scientific American 10:154-9, 1995.
Graham, Hatch, "Probability of Detection for Search Dogs: or How Long is Your Shadow?"
Pearsall, M. D., and Verbruggen, H., Scent, Alpine Publications, 1982.
Stern, A. C. et al., Fundamentals of air pollution, Academic Press, 1974 (especially chapters 16 to 20).
Syrotuck, W. G., Scent and the scenting dog, Arner Publications, 1972.
Wysocki, C. J., and Preti, G., "Human body odors and their perception," Japan Journal of Taste and Smell Research 7(1):19-42, 2000.


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Face Only a Mother Could Love
Saltlick is an original indie-rock band with a country twang from Eugene, Oregon. The band formed in 2000 by Steve Taddei following the demise of his seminal country/rock outfit, Hillbilly Holocaust. The band cut their teeth on the Eugene club scene culminating in a memorable performance on the main stage of the Eugene Celebration in 2002. In 2003 the band took a deserved hiatus. They reformed in 2004 with the current line-up in of Steve Taddei (lead vox/guitar), Chris Ross (lead guitar/pedal steel), Ryan Tocchini (keys/vox), Jerry Abelin (bass/vox), and Scott Headrick (drums/vox). Taddei's compelling songwriting and unique voice are distinctive, backed up by three part harmonies creating a sound reminiscent of Bob Dylan and The Band with echoes of the 1980's Athens, GA scene. The jangly telecaster, creative key-work, and processed pedal steel sounds are grounded by the deep pockets a of a criminally able rhythm section. Saltlick patches it's influences of garage rock and traditional country into the quiltwork of America's cultural heritage while providing their audiences with first quality entertainment.


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Phantom of the Kill: Zero kara no Hangyaku
English title I want to let you know that I love you.
Japanese Title ファントム オブ キル ―ZEROからの反逆―
Type Movie
Airing Status Finished Airing
Air Date 2016-04-07
End Date 2016-06-22
Season spring 2016
Producers Fuji&gumi Games
Game producer Jun Imaizumi announced six new projects related to the smartphone game "Phantom of the Kill" during a Niconico live broadcast celebrating the game's one-year anniversary on Friday. One of the new projects is a 15-minute anime concept film.
Naoyoshi Shiotani (Psycho-Pass, Blood-C: The Last Dark) will direct the concept film at Production I.G
Fuji & Gumi Games' strategy drama RPG follows mysterious girls who carry the names of legendary weapons (such as "Masamune") as they search for their lost memories. The game allows players to collect characters and weapons, and enter dungeons to engage in turn-based tactical battles.
(Source: ANN)
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