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Asrock e6 z77 board, uninstalled and reinstalled latest drivers for gigabyte 6870 but win7 64x spits a colada-scope of colors and crashes severely sometimes with blu screen the moment I press play, plays standard blurays fine. If I switch to onboard no problems. 750 psu, i73770k, 16G ram LG bddvdrw. Any ideas :/
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Just updated to Samsung s23a950d 120hz, played crysis2 today in 3d was awesome but still having same issue with pcie can't even use intel 4000 for blurays now because of the 120hz is smashing her :/
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Ok now it's working fine with 4000 onboard but still has a hissy fit with the 6870's spoke to my pc dude he said to COMPLETELY wipe driver. Iv done that like 5 times arghhhhhhhh!! Also mentioned doing clean install with win8 that he gave me but after reading reviews it sounds crap, I love my customised home screen too much.
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my computational problem is an airfoil and I use CFX version 10. Does someone know, how CFX Post can show me the u+ values so I can compare it to see whether it fulfills the theory.
Best would be to be able to see u+ against y+ on an axis.
I know that I can see the y+ values if I create a plane, but u+ I cannot find.
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'The coming together of different times that constitute the contemporary, and the relations between the social spaces in which these times are embedded and articulated, are … the two main axes along which the historical meaning of art is to be plotted' (27). What does this sentence indicate? A task, a description, a condition under which art is contemporary? In his stimulating new book, Anywhere or Not At All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art, Peter Osborne highlights the problem of contemporary art from varying perspectives, but always in relation to a critical stance, a stance that operates in a kaleidoscopic fashion, through rapidly turning combinations and modes.
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What can Tidy Cat be used for....except for cats?
I had a bag given to me and it was sitting out side in my yard....the Javalina's came by and opened it and now I have it spilling out of the bag. /..
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What can Tidy Cat be used for....except for cats?
It can be used to clean up any gas or oil spills outside
This is gross but we use it in the kids puke bucket when they are sick
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Thanks ALL...nothing for me yet....no concrete drive, no kids, so...I think that since the Javalinas didn't eat it...and they eat anything...I'll put it around my flowers. LOL Jo
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I like your idea podster in regards to donating to animal shelters. I have often seen flyers in the Veterinarian Offices from local animal groups asking for donations. The one I recall is asking for all sorts of things that I wouldn't have thought of as being needed, such as cleaning supplies, towels, sheets, blankets for bedding and such. I am a person who much prefers to donate to animal rights groups than to many human needs group. My animals have brought me so much pleasure over the years that I want to return the favor in some by hopefully giving a better quality of life to another animal.
The one tip that came to mind about using kitty litter may not be needed in Arizona, but I have read that a person should keep a bag of kitty litter in their car during cold months in areas where there is a chance of snow fall. Supposedly the kitty litter when sprinkled around stuck in snow tires, help give traction for the tire can get out of the rut it is in. Makes sense to me.
It works great to root plants - it has a neutral base ie it's totally non-toxic. When the cuttings root, remove them asap and plant in nutrition-rich potting mix to grow them on.
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Panic attacks or anxiety attacks as they are known in psychiatric circles, are a body wide manifestation of sympathetic system. This system is responsible for the making your body ready for 3 Fs- Fright, Fight and Flight.
During panic your adrenal glands pour massive amounts of adrenaline into your circulation causing your heart to race, your airways to narrow, your muscles to twitch, your sweat glands pour out their contents.
The blood is diverted away from the areas where you don't need them (such as skin) to the places that actually need them such as muscles and brain. This leads to the feeling of unreality and the numbness and tingling that you feel. Thus panic attack symptoms are simulated physiologically by your body under special circumstances.
So, it is normal for all of us to feel such sensations when we are angry, frightened or excited. But suppose you start feeling such panic symptoms without any apparent cause. That is when it is called a panic attack or anxiety attack.
Such an attack can be an intensely frightening experience. In fact panic plays such havoc with your brain that you tend to become intensely disturbed at the prospect of such an attack. When you start to dread such panic attacks then it becomes a panic disorder.
Remember an important Quote – When a psychological state comes on to disturb the normal life of a person it becomes a psychiatric disorder.
Thus if you have panic attacks and you are not afraid of it, then you don't have a panic disorder.
You remember the lead actor in the recent movie 'Wanted' (starring Angelina Jolie). Well, he too had panic attacks (in the film) and he used them to improve his skills. The bad news is that you cannot use the panic attacks to your benefit as was shown in the movie, but you CAN learn to CONTROL them.


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text: Lali ho. I've noticed that some of my games, notably Futurama and Dirge Of Cerberus, seem to be struggling with cutscenes. Gameplay seems unaffected thus far but the cutscenes stutter every now and then. Is this something to do with ESR, FreeMCBoot, the quality of the disks used, etc? Everything else seems unaffected for the time being, so I'm not thinking its the disks. I used Tesco Value DVD-R disks for the first batch, which the two affected games are stored on. Maybe they're just dodgy copies? Might be nothing but if it is a symptom of a larger problem with the system, I'd rather nip it in the bud before my PS2 dies on me and I'm left with sod all to do with my time.


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Wouldn't it be cool to get some young sexy girls to show you how they blow their smoke from their nicotine sticks some half naked and one girl even strips butt naked? So that's just what we did. We all know smoking's fucking hot and we have some bad girls that show you how they flick their lighters and they do it with plenty attitude. They're so bad ass!
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A lot of Valentine inspiration is popping up online right now and I've rounded up a few of my favorites. Maybe some weekend shopping + crafting is in order?
Love Letter DIY's:
Matchbook Valentine card from Real Simple
Candle Valentine card from Real Simple
Mini Valentine packages by Anna at IHOD (and she has more DIY's coming next week!)
Love Letter package wrapping by Victoria at A Subtle Revelry
Buy It:
Heart shoe clips by ban.do
String of hearts print by Max Wanger
Temporary heart tattoo (pack of two) by Tattly
You're the cats meow card by Shannon Kirsten Illustration
Decor DIY's:
Heart garland by Grace And Light
Wine cork heart by Kristin
Love yarn letters by Nat and Holly at My Sister's Suitcase
Heart nails by Anna at IHOD
Eat + Drink:
Tea for two printables by Melissa at Shakeshakee
DIY Heart stamp cups by Jordan at Oh Happy Day
Valentine cookies by Amanda at Marshalls Abroad
And if you haven't already seen the Valentine issue of to & from, you must check it out - there are so many amazing gift ideas:
Be sure to check out my Valentine Pinterest board - I'll be pinning more Valentine ideas each day!


text: Human Rights Observatory Abe: Japan in 'Race Against Time' to Free Hostages Held by IS Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country is in a "race against time" to free two hostages being held by the Islamic State group for a $200 million ransom. Abe told reporters Wednesday in Tokyo that he has instructed officials to use every possible diplomatic channel to secure the release of Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa. Islamic State militants released a video Tuesday saying they would kill the men unless Japan paid the money within 72 hours, linking the threat to...Read complete article© Voice of America - Wednesday, January 21, 2015


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Broken Front yard — Restore Or even Substitute? 3 Points You have to Think about
Your own front yard may be the entry to your house as well as among the very first items to be seen through site visitors. When the front yard is actually broke or even overcome along with unattractive splits it may depart an embarrassing impact. Generally, this can be a issue which will go unaddressed.
For those who have the front yard that's damaged or even broke as well as will be ready to tackle the issue you've 2 fundamental options, substitute or even restore. 3 points you have to think about whenever deciding to change or even restore.
1. The majority of driveways tend to be no less than 4 in . heavy. Organic challenges triggered this particular 4 in . heavy piece associated with cement in order to actually rip by itself aside. These types of challenges consist of growth as well as contraction because of warmth as well as chilly, the actual pounds associated with automobile visitors, as well as motion from the substrate. Any kind of break restore materials positioned inside these types of cracks will certainly endure an identical destiny since the unique piece associated with cement, failing.
two. Front yard alternative could be costly however in the event that carried out properly may offer you 50 in addition many years associated with strong make use of. If you choose to substitute the cement front yard make certain the actual service provider runs on the 4 1000 psi mixture of cement put at least associated with 4 in .; in addition, metal encouragement ought to be additional with regard to elevated tensile power in order to enhance the actual currently higher compressive power associated with cement.
3. With time, the driveway's area may become weathered as well as shed it's complete. There are a number associated with overlays obtainable. Even though fairly costly, in comparison with the price of alternative, these types of overlays could be a practical choice. We do not recommend overlaying damaged or even broke cement; nevertheless, when the preferred impact is merely the better complete after that overlay may have the desired effect.
Cement restore could be a dangerous effort. Way too frequently, We visit a restore eliminated incorrect, an expensive error which in no way must have already been tried to begin with. Every single day, property owners throw away cash upon pricey maintenance which fall short. That said, splits could be stuffed to avoid dampness transmission as well as great cement could be overlaid with regard to visual attractiveness.
Often, because of spending budget vices, the very best answer would be to merely reduce away as well as substitute just probably the most seriously broken areas. By doing this, spent less cash and also the restore is actually strong.
Cement Difficulties
Due to the cost as well as modern tools cement is just about the preferred creating materials. That which was as soon as looked at as boring as well as faded as well as had been utilized in places which didn't require the actual appeal as well as pleasantry of the house for example driveways, paths as well as cellars . has become positive as well as pleased. Because of the utilization of colour it's possible to possess styles on the cement flooring or even any kind of flat working surface within their houses such as wall space. Cement styles may proceed so far as producing your own flooring, driveways as well as paths seem like costly rock or even end up being distinctive. All this is actually inexpensive as well as fantastic although not without having it's cement difficulties.
1 supply of cement difficulties is actually drinking water. Cement offers wallets as well as blood vessels in to that drinking water may leak as well as damage wall space as well as flooring. While using cellar wall space as well as ground for example you need to perform the next: examine your own gutters to be certain they perform correctly and they aren't as well near to the home. You don't would like water in the gutters in order to leak to the floor as well as with the external walls to the cellar exactly where it may leak to the cement wall space or even flooring. In the event that this really is occurring compared to a good epoxy sealer ought to be accustomed to proper this.
An additional supply of cement difficulties could be damaged paths as well as driveways. Usually, splits within cement tend to be brought on by incorrect flowing or even completing. The answer in this instance would be to split up the actual paths as well as driveways as well as resurface. This is often pricey however cement continues to be less expensive compared to additional creating supplies employed for which objective.
Generally cement difficulties tend to be brought on by an excessive amount of drinking water utilized in the actual combining from the cement or even incorrect methods utilized whenever flowing or even drying out the actual cement. The do-it-yourselfer ought to obtain correct directions within dealing with cement as well as adhere to individuals directions cautiously. The easiest method to possess stunning paths, driveways, wall space as well as flooring is actually to locate a expert having a great status in order to get the job done. Do not simply be satisfied with the boring grey ground when you are able possess vibrant distinctive cement.
How you can Choose That Cement is actually Befitting Your house
Remodeling your house or even creating a good add-on towards the house not just includes cost, but additionally numerous choices. If you're thinking about utilizing concrete in your creating or even restoration task, you need to consider which kind of cement you'll make use of.
There are some various kinds of cement therefore you should learn about each kind before you decide to help to make your own buy. Listed here are the actual various kinds of cement obtainable:
Dried out Prepared blend: This particular concrete is actually dried out as well as is available in the tote. You have to include drinking water because aimed about the tote. It may be employed for a multitude of tasks. It is selected with regard to little function tasks. It's a well-liked option simply because you can easily blend as well as utilize.
Prepared Blend: This kind of small is available currently combined within drinking water. It's usually shipped as well as utilized immediately. The concrete/cement organization will often provide the actual concrete as well as put this. This will work for little as well as moderate dimension tasks.
Transit Blend Small: This requires the cement pickup truck getting premixed cement that is able to supply. This is ideal for large items as well as generally entails just one cement put. It's a little bit costly however great for fundamentals as well as big concrete slabs. Might cement businesses possess a minimal purchase quantity as well as prepared to utilize.
Mass dried out supplies: This kind of monolithic is usually utilized by anyone who has encounter combining cement. It's helpful for big items that certain doesn't combining lots of concrete on their own.
When utilizing the ornamental monolithic, the next listings the fundamental kinds of cement:
1. Etching Pre-Designed Concrete Slabs: This kind of cement consists of etchings of numerous styles via the top of cement. This kind of cement is usually utilized on wall space. Etchings could be different styles like a traditional style or perhaps a more sophisticated style. The option depends upon exactly how nicely it'll opt for the look associated with all of those other space.
two. Rubber stamping Cement: This kind of concrete which has a design onto it referred to as the 'stamp. a It's well-liked with regard to make use of upon cement flooring. This provides a pleasing decoration towards the space and it is very economical. Individuals may include this kind of concrete along with their own aged cement.
3. Sandblasting Cement: This kind of strong software entails blasting little sand-like contaminants about the cement area to provide a far more consistency look and feel. You'll have to make use of a sandblasting gadget as well as put on the cover up to avoid breathing from the blasting contaminants. It's a little bit costly, however it appears excellent once the blasting is actually total
Whenever selecting the right cement for the task, a person not really just select the correct cement for that task, however you need to know which kind of cement is usually employed for tasks such as your own. Too, you should know if you're able to blend this your self as well as put it on, or even possess a expert get it done, as well as just how much cement you'll need.
There are numerous kinds of cement blends with regard to big tasks for example investing in the basis, or even scaled-down tasks for example including ornamental concrete slaps towards the home like a pathway. Regardless of what kind of task you've, there's cement obtainable which will be practical.
Preparation Work with Cement Ground Fresh paint
Before you decide to utilize any kind of ground fresh paint to some cement ground, a person need to ensure which sufficient planning may be carried out. A person need to ensure how the substrate is actually long term so that the top will stay in position. If it's unpredictable and can topple or even proceed, then your area as well as all of the fresh paint you've used is going to be ruined together with this.
Floors specialists possess produced a brand new software method which will reduce the danger associated with substrates motion. Flooring which are recently constructed tend to be individuals from higher danger to be susceptible to harm as well as you might like to utilize additional planning techniques to ensure not one of the occur and also the fresh paint you've used on to the ground continues to be undamaged. Additionally, you have to totally take away the latent prior to a brand new layer associated with fresh paint is actually used.
You have to start by cleansing the ground utilizing an alkaline or even higher pH degreaser essential oil. You may also attempt to boost the pH degree of the ground because it may significantly boost the ground fresh paint complete. Like a last action, you are able to utilize a minimal pH acidic solution to reduce corrosion or even nutrient development. You are able to ready your personal acidic solution through mixing wash brokers, liquids, as well as drinking water softener. After that, mix thee elements collectively to help you put it on on to the ground as well as wash or even wash completely.
Whenever buying products you have to total the actual cement ground fresh paint work although, you mustn't depend exclusively about the shop clerk suggestions. This is also true if you wish to make use of the ground for that following 10 or even two decades. You can buy factory-direct package which includes all of the supplies you'll need, in addition to a step-by-step coaching how to make use of individuals items. You have to consequently make use of all of the assets open to you to make sure a competent ground fresh paint work which will final for quite some time. As well as along with small scrapes or even stress on the ground complete, you are right now conscious that you could fine-tune this to provide this an entire brand new appear.
Guniting Or even Shotcreting
Guniting is called shotcreting occasionally, the actual nomenclature is usually used whenever rough combination can also be utilized. Simply the method includes using concrete mortar below ruthless on the area. The actual ruthless software guarantees thick area associated with higher power as well as reduced permeability. Apart from, the actual method guarantees great relationship in between aged area as well as reduced permeability, much better relationship in between aged cement as well as clean cement, whenever sufficient treatment is actually drawn in area planning, blend style as well as software.
Guniting is really a especially helpful way of fixing Ur. D. D. posts as well as supports that have damaged or even exactly where encouragement offers deteriorated. Formwork isn't generally required, as well as elaborate designs could be effectively built.
The entire width associated with shotcrete shouldn't be under regarding seventy five mm to ensure that a definite include associated with twenty five mm towards the extra encouragement regarding posts is actually made certain. The typical width associated with shotcrete ought to be 50 mm, in the event that absolutely no extra encouragement is actually supplied. Cautious guniting guarantees lengthy support existence associated with buildings. Nevertheless it is crucial to see a number of safeguards from each and every phase to be able to have the preferred outcomes as well as long lasting buildings.
It's appealing to try the actual gunited elements with regard to soundness, homogenity as well as power. The caliber of guniting could be determined in the cores drilled in the last areas. However this really is a costly procedure and could not necessarily end up being achievable, it is best in order to depend on non-destructive assessments for example sound, come back sludge hammer make sure ultrasonic heartbeat speed assessments. The actual signal associated with exercise suggests throwing check sections associated with dimension 300x300x75 mm regularly throughout guniting with regard to high quality manage.
Like a additional safety measure to improve sturdiness associated with gunited areas, it's appealing to use epoxy films more than gunited areas. Various kinds epoxy films can be found in a commercial sense.
An additional improvement along the way is actually silica fume shotcrete. Silica fume, whenever put into dried out blend shotcrete, enhances considerably the actual adhesive as well as cohesive qualities associated with clean cement through developing a thick sticky blend nearly without blood loss. Silica fume shotcrete allows for cost to do business maintenance, a larger width is possible in one move compared to which along with regular portland concrete shotcrete. It's exceptional adhesive features tend to be beneficial within moist problems, the amount come back is actually considerably decreased.
There's been substantial improve within using shotcrete within European countries as well as Ough. Utes. The. over the last 15 many years due to the great overall performance of numerous shotcrete programs. (Strictly talking, guniting applications). Rigid, well-compacted cement from the kind utilized in shotcrete is a great structural materials. The smartly designed as well as nicely performed work can make a reasonable function.


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By DAVID GAUTHIER-VILLARS
PARIS—World leaders gathered here to show united support for the rebels who toppled Col. Moammar Gadhafi and to discuss how best they can help rebuild the North African country, but a rift emerged over who should get first access to Libya's oil and natural gas riches.
Col. Gadhafi, however, issued a reminder from hiding Thursday that the fight wasn't over yet. He said tribes loyal to him were armed and preparing for battle.
The rebels now say pro-Gadhafi tribes in the longtime Libyan leader's hometown of Sirte have until Sept. 10 to accept a cease-fire and peace deal or face an assault on their city.
Col. Gadhafi's audio statement, broadcast by Syrian-based Al-Rai TV, came as the rebels said they were closing in on the former dictator.
"We won't surrender again; we aren't women, we will keep fighting," Col. Gadhafi said. His voice was recognizable, and Al-Rai has previously broadcast several statements by Col. Gadhafi and his sons.
Opposition fighters, backed by North Atlantic Treaty Organization airstrikes, have been advancing toward three regime strongholds: Sirte; Bani Walid, 86 miles southeast of Tripoli; and Sebha, in the southern desert. There has been speculation that Col. Gadhafi is hiding in one of those three towns.
At the "friends of Libya" conference in Paris, representatives of 63 countries and institutions said they were anxious to avoid the pitfalls of Iraq, where a U.S.-led coalition succeeded failed to forge national reconciliation and unity after driving Saddam Hussein from power.
"We urged [Libya's interim government] to begin a process of reconciliation and forgiveness to ensure we learn from mistakes made in other countries," France's President Nicolas Sarkozy said at a joint news conference with U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron and Mustafa Abdel Jalil, who leads the Libyan rebels' National Transitional Council.
Divisions emerged, however, in the race for access to Libyan oil, between countries which took part in the foreign military intervention against forces of Col. Gadhafi and those, such as Russia and China, that didn't.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé said he thought it would only be reasonable if French companies benefited from preferential access to Libyan contracts given that Paris, together with the U.K., led the foreign military offensive in Libya.
"The NTC has said very publicly that, in the reconstruction effort, it would give preferential treatment to those who supported them," Mr. Juppé told French radio RTL. "That seems quite logical and fair."
France in March became the first country to recognize the NTC as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.
Russia, which abstained when the United Nations Security Council passed its March resolution authorizing the use of force in Libya, has said the U.N., not a small group of countries, should take the lead in supporting Libya's reconstruction.
Libya is home to Africa's largest known oil reserves and, until the war, ranked as one of continent's biggest producers, with daily output of 1.6 million barrels. But output slowed to a trickle and exports halted completely as the violence intensified. Analysts say it may take 12 to 18 months for Libya to get back to the production levels seen before the conflict broke out in February.
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Italy, the former colonial ruler in Libya, which played an active role in the foreign military intervention, has been off to a fast start to resume business activities in Libya. This week, Italy's Eni SpA, the largest foreign oil company in Libya, signed an agreement with Libya's interim government to supply natural gas and fuel for the immediate needs of the local population.
Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said in an interview that Libya's new government will respect all existing oil contracts and that oil output should return to precrisis levels by the end of 2012.
Messrs. Sarkozy and Cameron said all participants in Thursday's conference had agreed to rapidly hand back to Tripoli the billions of dollars in Libyan assets that were frozen in February in response to Col. Gadhafi's crackdown against anti-government protesters.
To do this, the U.N. must pass a resolution to cancel the February sanctions. In the meantime, countries present have effectively unfrozen about $15 billion in Libyan assets to help the interim government finance emergency needs, Mr. Sarkozy said.
For its part, the U.S. said it had worked to unfreeze $1.5 billion, half of which has already been available to the help the NTC.
"It must be clear to Libyans and to the world that this money is being used to serve the Libyan people," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said after the conference.
While Col. Gadhafi's whereabouts weren't known Thursday—42 years to the day since his September 1969 coup—Mr. Cameron said the foreign coalition would continue military operations to help defeat the last strongholds of Gadhafi loyalists.
"We welcome this support," said Mr. Jalil, the NTC chairman. NTC Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril also attended the conference.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who also attended the conference, said his most immediate challenge would be to respond to Libya's humanitarian crisis.
In the longer term, he said the NTC had asked for U.N. support to set up a judicial system and a police force, organize general elections and draft a new constitution.
"We look for prompt action on our mandate," he said.—Guy Chazan, Stacy Meichtry
and Max Colchester
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Corrections & Amplifications
Libya's prewar oil output was 1.6 million barrels a day. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said daily output was 1.6 billion barrels.
Libya's prewar oil output was 1.6 million barrels a day. An earlier version of this article incorrectly said daily output was 1.6 billion barrels.


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We've made it through our first year at the search for piety and obedience! This blog published its first post on November 20, 2009. Many, many thanks to all the faithful readers and guest writers who make this blog possible. I hope we're doing something useful here!
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Skip to comments.Roberts' role in recount is fuzzy to Bush [The 'selected-not-elected' strategy]
Posted on 07/22/2005 6:10:09 AM PDT by johnny7
Whether due to fading memories or a White House-imposed silence, few of those involved recall details about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' advice to Gov. Bush during the 2000 recount.
TALLAHASSEE - As U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is scrutinized for everything from his judicial rulings to his abortion views, his role during one of the most memorable times in modern political history remains obscured by imperfect memories and White House-imposed secrecy.
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These guys still aren't over the 2000 election!
wrong Bush.
OH - MY - G-D! Roberts was actually asked to ADVISE THE GOVERNOR and now NO ONE CAN REMEMBER THE DETAILS of a meeting five years ago! Get the tar and feathers! These scoundrels MUST be imprisoned for their crimes! Roberts MUST be disbarred!!
If anyone who agreed with Bush in the recount is disqualified from being on the Supreme Court, then 7 of the current Supreme Court Justices will have to resign.
Get over it democrats! Bush won in 2000 & 2004.
Soon... America will have to decide whether it wants to go the way of progressive-socialism... or retain the concept of the Founding Fathers.
And I hope they never get over it. It only plays to their looney base who are gonna vote for them no matter what. The other 80% will scatch their heads and wonder why they are such poor losers.
Bush still wins Florida in newspaper recount
April 4, 2001
Web posted at: 11:26 a.m. EDT (1526 GMT)
MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- If a recount of Florida's disputed votes in last year's close presidential election had been allowed to proceed by the U.S. Supreme Court, Republican George W. Bush still would have won the White House, two newspapers reported Wednesday.
The Miami Herald and USA Today conducted a comprehensive review of 64,248 "undercounted" ballots in Florida's 67 counties that ended last month.
Their count showed that Bush's razor-thin margin of 537 votes -- certified in December by the Florida Secretary of State's office -- would have tripled to 1,665 votes if counted according to standards advocated by his Democratic rival, former Vice President Al Gore.
"In the end, I think we probably confirmed that President Bush should have been president of the United States," said Mark Seibel, the paper's managing editor. "I think that it was worthwhile because so many people had questions about how the ballots had been handled and how the process had worked."
Ironically, a tougher standard of counting only cleanly punched ballots advocated by many Republicans would have resulted in a Gore lead of just three votes, the newspaper reported.
The newspapers' review also discovered that canvassing boards in Palm Beach and Broward counties threw out hundreds of ballots that had marks that were no different from ballots deemed to be valid.
The papers concluded that Gore would be in the White House today if those ballots had been counted.
The experts assigned by USA Today and the Herald began counting the undervotes -- ballots without presidential votes detected by counting machines -- on December 18, 2000.
They concluded their work on March 13.
Reaction to the verdict of the two newspapers was mixed, but some of the people who were key players in the 36-day recount drama that followed last Election Day agreed Wednesday that the results indicated Florida has a lot of work to do to improve its elections system.
"We have to try to improve the election infrastructure, improve the education of voters," said former Florida elections official and CNN analyst David Cardwell.
Cardwell argued Florida needs to implement a more uniform method of collecting and counting votes across the state, and many localities are in desperate need of updated voting equipment. Many of the counties that logged significant numbers of undervotes were using punch card machines that were more than 30 years old.
Doug Hattaway, a former spokesman for Gore, concurred with Cardwell, saying the federal government should take the initiative to provide money to localities that cannot afford to replace aging and unreliable equipment.
Hattaway told CNN on Wednesday that the Gore camp has accepted Bush as the legitimate president, but there are still lessons to be learned from the efforts of the Miami Herald and USA Today, and other ongoing recount endeavors, including a consortium recount of both undervotes and "overvotes."
"Overvotes" are ballots that displayed more than one mark that might be interpreted as a vote for president. CNN is one of many news organizations participating in that ballot count.
"People understand that this is an academic exercise," Hattaway said. "Hopefully, this will lead to some sort of reform so this does not happen again.
He did level some criticism at the Bush White House, saying the new administration has shown little interest in tackling the problem.
Montana Republican Gov. Mark Racicot, who acted as a spokesman for the Republicans as the Gore and Bush camps tussled in the media through the long November-December recount battle in the courts, said Wednesday that the administration is interested in finding a resolution to counting problems in Florida and other states.
But, he added, this is primarily an issue that the states need to address themselves.
"These are specifically state problems," Racicot said. "You can't wield the power of the federal government on the states."
Racicot said Bush hasn't given much thought to the various recount projects in Florida.
"This shows President Bush wins again," he said. "He won the first count, then the recount, then the manual recounts, and was declared the victor this time by the media.
"What this says is what the American people set in their minds a long time ago," Racicot continued. "This election is over, and President Bush is the victor."
Hattaway, in turn, said Gore is getting on with his life.
"His bottom line was that all the votes should be counted," Hattaway said. "He's following (the count) to see what this says about the system and what we can do to reform it.
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...and it's only Tuesday. This was going to be "Four Conference Championship Storylines You're Tired Of Already" but I just couldn't bear to watch any more SportsCenter.
Ray Lewis vs. Tom Brady: Could be worse. Could be Brady vs. Manning XIV. That would be a sports-yak bloviation sludge tsunami that we would have to endure by clinging to a palm tree of NPR and classic-rock stations through all of drive time. (And then hoist ourselves up onto the rescue helicopter of Big Bang Theory reruns and Cougar Town in place of SportsCenter.)
And at least this matchup, unlike quarterback vs. quarterback "matchups," includes players who might brush into one another on the playing field.
With all of that out of the way, do we need to hear again how Lewis "respects" Brady as a player and Brady "dreads" Lewis's dangerous sack-tasticity? Ray Lewis wants to crush Tom Brady into paste on third-and-seven (and then ostentatiously pray about it). Brady wants to take advantage of Lewis's inability to cover a running back in the flat (and get back home to his supermodel wife). They both want to get to the Super Bowl and get another few million in endorsements. The game isn't about Tom vs. Ray.
Is Colin Kaepernick Football Jesus With A Chin-Beard Or What: Judging by the outpouring of praise, we must assume that Kaepernick was the top quarterback of the weekend. Right?
Not according to Football Outsiders; according to their advanced statistics, Kaepernick was fourth, behind a different rookie -- who didn't even win his game!, an already-overexposed guy with a hot wife, and a QB whose unibrow appears in the Ravens Media Guide with the caption "really average, but we still like him."
Look, Kaepernick has great potential. Really scary potential. But let's not crown him Football Messiah until he's played a full season.
And now, back into the talk-radio mines. Send jerky.


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Discussion forums and youtube have many DIY sound absorber builds to study and learn from but I haven't been real excited by the frame designs I've found. Before getting started on a new build, I hoped to see if the community here have experiences to share. Has anyone here built absorbers that he/she is proud of? Any words of advice?
If anyone here is interested, I'm happy to document the build process for people to copy or improve.
Nothing constructive to add other than I'd love to see your documentation as you build.
Complex subject.
When I built my studio 15 years ago, I did pretty extensive research and resultant acoustic treatment, including tuned bass traps, and semi-tuned absorption. I used a combination of equations and other acoustic tools to calculate things like room modes, null points, etc., and did the best I could to create as perfect as possible critical listening/mixing position.
My room is very small, which makes it more challenging, but I managed it pretty well I think, and my mixes were predictable and translated well to other environments.
I wish I could point you towards resources and online tools to help--but this was 15 years ago. Surely though there are even better resources now.
Bear in mind though that a lot of the core principles are fairly immutable. The tools and techniques to address those might be better and easier, but the math is pretty much the math.
Can you be more specific about your goals? What are the problems you're trying to solve? Careless deployment of absorption can do harm; you need to account for the full frequency range. Merely throwing up tons of Auralex will leave you with a room that has an acoustic tilt, for example.
This is an interesting topic. I am in the process of a move and I am looking to turn a barn into a studio. I am particularly interested in soundproofing for a drum room as I'd like to play at any hour without worrying about neighbors.
Perfect example of how acoustic treatment can be so confounding: tuning a room with absorption, diffusion, etc., has almost nothing at all to do with stopping transmission of sound in to or out of the room. That's isolation.
I designed that in to my studio too, within very tight limits. True isolation was not possible; floating floors were not possible, although since the room is a room within a house, sharing no exterior walls, there is a fair degree of 'accidental' isolation; but it is not mechanical isolation--vibrations can still be transmitted directly through hard material.
The interior room was built with two layers of 5/8" drywall, solid core doors (HEAVY!, and a pain to install when dealing with custom installations). Crucial is the total elimination of air gaps. Nothing. Not even a 1/4" hole. You will want to caulk every corner, every angle, every seam. All door and window jams must be sealed. There are neoprene-ish, sort of soft, squishy seals you can get, with adhesive backs, that will work.
Windows should be sandwiched between such material; no glass in direct contact with wood, metal, etc. Seal the bottoms of doors, where they contact door frames, etc.
Doors will be tight. Everything will be tight. The room will be pressurized and sealed. If you don't have HVAC, it's no problem. Introducing HVAC makes everything exponentially more complicated.
All of the above will go a long way to greatly reducing transmission. It's not perfect, but it's good. When I first finished my build, I had a drummer sit and whale away, and I went outside, on the sidewalk, a linear distance of only about 10 feet from where he was playing, and amongst ambient day time noise, he was hard to hear. Across the street, for someone in their house, he was inaudible. Neighbors never said they heard anything.
Sorry for the ramble. I hope it helps a little.
EDIT: I forgot about insulation. I used a non-standard R-value fiberglass insulation; can't remember the details, and doubled it up. There are other insulations that are not fiberglass that work well for this, but they are very expensive. Thin lead sheeting made for this purpose is also sometimes used.
Oh, I also forgot that behind both layers of drywall is a 1/2" layer of fiberboard. This makes a big difference. It also means your drywall installation will be miserable and a pain, but you've got to deal with it. It's a crap job. The whole thing is miserable and crappy, but when you're done, you will smile.
(If you have a sealed room without HVAC then do you get too hot or cold?)
In general, I suppose that would depend on how much gear/lights are running in the room, size of the room, number of people, and climate.
In my case, I do have cooling via a mini-split system which does not use ducting, only thin copper piping, which is easily sealed in the wall. One caveat is not running it when silence is critical, but it's quiet enough that for all times except live takes or critical low level mixing, it's not a problem.
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yes, packing blankets
When I converted a room to my studio I did quite a bit of research on creating a space designed primarily for listening to the mix. Reducing bounce and bass boom was a priority as I recall.
I looked at building absorption panels, but decided on a collection of Auralex foam panels and designed them into specific groupings along the four walls and in the four corners. Works well.
"Home studio, build it like the pros" by Rod Gervais, despite its kind of self help title, covers all you want to know about this matter and more, including room ratios, sound treatment... It is very well written and explained too, and demistifies with facts many wrongly assumed issues about acoustics, can't recommend it enough...
well, i did some panels for my own space last year.In the interest of documenting that, I wrote a hopefully useful blog post about it (well, currently the only finished post, your question being actually the motivation to put the whole thing online).
That was my second time doing diy "things" to correct a room acoustics, so i guess i got it better that time. The first time i used a mix of various elements, amongst which the most efficient was a half-decently dressed up pile of fiber 60cm deep in a corner, from floor to ceilling.I also did some rockwool+fabric+wooden frame panels, but i hated manipulating rockwool, and my carpenter's skills are not great, and i lacked space on the walls to hang them.
Wow! The interest and experience in this topic is encouraging
Yes, a sound proofing project, recording space sound treatment, and listening room sound treatment are three different undertakings.
The project of balancing the room sound of a professional mixing or mastering room, and its associated maths, will be a delightful project when someday I can afford a better room to work with. Hopefully we'll all will get there someday. Until then, we must enhance the quality of what we do have to work with.
The project I have in mind is fairly simple: Make the space in my apartment better for listening and composing. The room isn't large enough to warrant diffusors. Removing buildup of bass frequencies and flutter echo are the goals I'm starting with. The tasks, in order of importance are 1) Bass traps for areas (corners or back wall) where low frequencies build up 2) Install absorption at first reflection points 3) Absorption on the rear wall.
Building things from wood (frames in this case) is not something I have experience with so I thought I'd share the learning process, hoping it helps a few other people learn in less time than it takes me.
I'm so glad this came up as I am getting started with this project for my room as well. I struggle with to strike the balance of being good enough while not underinvesting in materials that may be worthless later and opening a money-pit of a project by overinvesting a little too much in the end result (if that makes sense).
My room is not overly small at 11' x 19' and these dimensions lend themselves to audio fairly well. My real issue is that the room has 4 doors and a window that create the impossibility of keeping access to all of these while simultaneously effecting sound. It looks like I'm going to have to block at least 1 door and possibly 2 if I want to center the listening position between the side walls.
I'm interested in hearing what other people have done with difficult rooms. Moving blankets would be the easiest thing for me but I'm not crazy about the esthetic this creates and I'm concerned this wouldn't help my particular situation as much.
I'm currently considering DIY bass traps in the corners, moving blankets against the front wall, acoustic panels at the reflection points, and possibly a minidsp 2x4 to counteract the off-center listening position.
every time i stumble onto a thread about acoustics/absorption it produces a sense of anxiety knowing my best effort thus far has been a twin mattress somewhere behind me in the studio. i never have taken the time towards a better absorptive setup. my only answer is to do my best attempt at a meticulous mixing stage at very low volumes. my thinking being that if i can get a mix working at very low volumes and on nice cans and on laptop speakers and in my car then the need for a great room might be superseded. i hope at some point i buy a house and take the time to set up a great room on the smallest yet most functional scale i can muster.
How do people deal with windows and doors? All of my rooms have too many windows and doors. I have actually considered building an entirely new building on our property. This seems excessive.
I have the most ghetto studio at the moment. Crazy hard surfaces all around with some basic foam panels peppered throughout. In dire need of something better. Working on it...
@jasonw22 that's always tricky. A lot of people resort to very thick drapes which are cost effective. If you're willing to spend some money on replacing windows, you can also go this route.
This statement, especially as it relates to standing waves, is reenforced by the book Acoustic Absorbers And Diffusers.
"Poorus absorbers are ineffective at these modal frequencies , because the particle velocity near walls and in corners is essentially zero for these long wavelengths; and also the treatment would have to be made so deep that significant space within the room would be lost. This problem can be solved by using a resonant absorber, such as a membrane design. A membrane absorber converts the high sound pressure fluctuations typically found at wall surfaces and in corners into selective absorption in the modal frequency range. As the use of sub-woofers has become more popular in small sound reproduction rooms in recent years, there is a growing need for modal frequency management."
The author adds the cautionary note:
"If the absorber has a sharp resonant peak with a high Q factor, there is a risk of creating a notch at the wrong frequency, thus aggravating rather than ameliorating the modal problems."
Tuned absorption is (for myself) a couple steps down the road, but we'll get there! A quick google search for acoustic membrane surfaces (upon which to attach porous absorption as explained in the book) suggests commercially available micro-perforated surfaces are costly. If the size and spacing of holes can be determined, one can contract a water-jet company to cut a panel with your supplied measurements (usually in a DXF file) fairly affordably.
Having never fabricated any absorber, I'm starting at the very beginning and building a prototype wood frame. Hopefully the community here will have a look and respond with some suggestions.
Exactly what I did.
There are plans available (I think) for how to build these with commonly available grades of plywood, pine 1x4s, 1x3s, 2x2s, compressed fiberglass panels, silicone sealant, hardware, and a few other odds and ends. Not sure where anymore, but surely such plans can be found.
It may be obvious, but before anything, measuring the room response seems mandatory to me.Calculation is one thing (that should be also done), but depending on the walls material/structure, some absorption might already occur (or the contrary…).
As for tuned absorbers, in my first attempt to tame a room, i settled on the BBC designs, because they made sense to me:- they were backed by research and measures- they were designed to be easy to build in situ with materials available at the local store- the second B means Broadcasting, and the room was a radio studio, so…
Membrane absorber : http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1992_10Wideband absorber: http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1992_11


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On August 23rd Waseda University, the birthplace of the first real humanoid robots, held the opening ceremony for the New RT Frontier (RT = Robot Technology). The building is located in Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku ward, Tokyo (about an 8 minute walk from Waseda Station Subway Tozai Line) and replaces the old RT Frontier building found near the university campus. The primary purpose of the New RT Frontier's first floor is to showcase the fruits of the university's state-of-the-art robotics research to the public.
The building will be open to the public once a month (and will take special requests depending on the availability of the research staff), so you'll want to plan ahead. The main attraction will likely be the humanoid robots designed to assist the elderly and disabled in a super-aging society, including several we have covered on this website (such as iSHA). However there are several other (some might say less glamorous) examples of robotic rehabilitation equipment to view and interact with, including walkers, treadmills, and bio-medical tools. For example, a treadmill designed to treat patients with hemiplegia (paralysis on one side of the body, often due to stroke) can help train them to walk again with varying speeds for either leg.


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This is something I've been desperate to share broadly so it's great too see we've finally announced it!
My webcast tonight covered this in some detail.
So what is System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008?
It provides IT departments the ability to secure and manage Windows Mobile devices. It is the first server product ever just for Windows Mobile phones and integrates with the infrastructure that organisations use to manage their existing IT infrastructure. It also allows workers to access company information and line of business applications from a single, secure place behind the firewall using a cutting edge Mobile VPN.
There are 3 core areas of capability in Systems Center Mobile Device Manager 2008.
1) SECURITY: Windows Mobile devices will be able to participate in Active Directory. They will join Active Directory and can then be managed through Group policy to allow administrators to control the features and functions of a Windows Mobile Device. You can control whether WiFi can be enabled, the camera can be used, which applications can be whitelisted or blacklisted. There are over 130 policies that can be deployed.
2) DEVICE MANAGEMENT: IT teams can manage Windows Mobile phones end-to-end through a single solution rather than many, helping save time and resources.
- Easy distribution of software over the air
- Easily add more users as needed and as solution grows
- Over the Air enrollment of devices- just type in a password and go.
- Integration with Windows Server and mobile development investments, such as AD, GP, MMC Console, Powershell, WSUS 3.0, and Microsoft Dynamics
3) DATA ACCESS: System Center Mobile Device Manager 2008 provides a Mobile VPN that gives a secure single point of access to the corporate network. You can use this to access any line of business applications or Intranet applications. It also enables a fast reconnect if disconnected and provides easy transition from Wi-Fi to carrier networks with Internetwork Roaming
System Center Mobile Device Manager will be available in the first half of 2008.
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