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Erik Rune Medhus, my 20 year old son, took his own life on October 6, 2009. Since that sad and tragic day, an overwhelming sense of grief and despair propelled me into a search for answers. Answers that would provide me and others with comfort and hope. Some of those answers came from the many books I bought, but many came from an unexpected source…Erik, himself. Through dreams, visitations and channeling, he describes what happens during the death process, what the afterlife is like, what he does with his time there, what it feels like to be a free soul, the nature of thought and reality, the meaning of life and the human experience, as well as other matters. If you fear your own mortality, if you grieve over the loss of a loved one, or if you yearn to know the answers to these questions and more, please join me in this journey to enlightenment.
Erik would be the first to admit that he is no Oracle of Delphi. He does not claim to be a Dalai Lama, the Great Messiah, a mountaintop guru, or even a wise sage. No, he is a flawed human being who, like many of us, has battled his own dragons both inward and outward. He has stumbled and failed time and time again. But perhaps because of his foibles, he has a deep understanding of the human experience. He knows what it's like to be neck deep in a foxhole of misery clawing desperately in the mud to pull himself out. He also knows what it's like to feel hopelessness, to give up, to believe that life is not worth the pain, the trouble and the setbacks. But these attributes, these trials and tribulations offer another type of wisdom. One we can relate to in the shadow of our own hardships. That said, however young, flawed and imperfect, Erik is a voice worth hearing. He is one of us.
His Life and Death
Erik was born on September 21, 1989 at 3:00 in the afternoon. He greeted the world without a whimper. Instead of howls of protest at the bright lights and cool air, he seemed content to take in his surroundings peacefully. Until he was around 12 or 13, he was such a happy boy. He loved all things manly, motorcycles, military paraphernalia, race cars, and guns. He also adored women of all sorts. Even as a four year-old, he would lavish them with admiration and affection. Erik also loved dressing up in "Pappa suits," and in the months before his death, he would often walk around in a suit and tie for no reason at all.
Erik had his struggles, though. He suffered from learning difficulties making school an unwelcome and often overwhelming undertaking. Despite our encouragement and understanding, his academic shortfalls ravaged his self-esteem. Peers and even some thoughtless teachers called him "stupid" to his face. To make matters worse, he also suffered from Tourettes, so his odd tics and mannerisms left him vulnerable to unkind remarks. It was during his middle school years that I began to see this happy, charming, affectionate child transform into a stranger. He slowly built a shell of toughness to protect himself from a cruel world. He wore spiked leather bracelets and long pocket chains, smiled less often and was involved in a number of fist fights at school.
Despite weekly sessions with both a therapist and a psychiatrist, Erik slid into a deep depression. He found solace in drugs and alcohol partly to give credence to that tough exterior, partly to ease the pain. As parents, we did everything we could to help him feel better about himself. As with all of our children, not a day would go by that we didn't tell him how much we loved him and how grateful we were to have him in our lives.
After finally being diagnosed with and receiving treatment for Bipolar Disease, Erik seemed to improve somewhat. He stopped the drugs and alcohol and embarked on a career path to becoming a welder. But as happiness seemed to elude him still, he developed an insatiable appetite for material possessions to fill the empty void: a stereo system for his truck, a new welder, equipment for a new sport or hobby, or a new bike. When he ran out of money, he pawned nearly all of his other possessions for the next "fix." He also had an intense yearning for friendships. Sadly, he was well aware of the fact that many of his "friends" answered his calls only to hang up immediately once they realized it was him. He was regarded as odd and quirky by many and, as a result, he often felt deeply lonely. I find this so ironic, because Erik was so caring toward others whether they were friends, acquaintances or strangers. He wouldn't hesitate to give anyone the shirt off his back and often brought home troubled strays in need of a home cooked meal and a place to sleep. In all of his twenty years here on Earth, I have never heard him utter a critical or disparaging word about another person. Perhaps because of his struggles, he was one of the most compassionate, nonjudgmental people I have ever known.
Then came that horrible Tuesday, that deep chasm that tore my life into two parts, the "before" and the "after." Erik seemed to be stable and happy that day. Those last few months, he had finally found friends he could trust, friends that loved him as he loved them. My sister, Teri, was visiting from her home in California and she, two of my daughters and I planned to go out somewhere for lunch. I asked Erik if he'd like to join us, but he declined, saying he preferred to stay home and "chill." He asked how long we'd be gone, and I told him we'd return in no more than an hour. Five minutes into the drive I received the worst phone call of my life. Maria, our housekeeper who had helped take care of Erik since he was 16 months old, said she heard a "loud noise" and was scared. Although I had no reason to suspect anything, I instinctively knew. I asked her if it sounded like a gun and she replied, "yes." I begged her to go upstairs to check on Erik and she did. The bloodcurdling scream I heard moments later will forever be etched in my mind–a scream that marked the beginning of a nightmare from which we would never awaken, a scream that dashed our hopes along with our sense of inviolability. It marked the beginning of our emotional collapse into a car full of hysterical sobs. We were home in a matter of minutes, minutes that seemed more like decades. I was so afraid to go upstairs and confront what I knew to be the tragic truth, but as a physician, I needed to be sure he was truly dead. What if he still had a pulse? Maybe I could administer CPR and save him. But upon seeing my son sitting in his desk chair, eyes opened and lifeless, with an obvious gunshot wound to the head, it was clear he was gone forever and could not be brought back to life. Only days later would I discover that he had pawned other possessions and asked a 21 year-old friend to purchase a handgun. In great despair, I flung myself into his lap, screaming like a wounded mother wolf mourning the loss of her cub. It felt like I was out of my body peering down upon this broken shell of a woman whose hands were bathed in the blood of her own child.
The moments and months that followed were torture. No mother should have to bury her child, much less hired a crime scene cleanup crew to pull out his carpet and scour the walls. Since that day, every chore seems overwhelming whether going out to get the mail or unloading the dishwasher. But even as early as the next morning, Erik came to comfort us in many ways, as you will see.


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Georgia officials responded to a barrage of attacks by President Trump by saying they would continue to "follow the law" on counting votes and certifying the election results, which show a narrow win by President-elect Joe Biden.
"The Iranians are going to be in a position where they have to retaliate. I don't see any way around it," retired Adm. William McRaven said.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) has returned to his Washington office two weeks after he tested positive for COVID-19, his team announced Monday.While Grassley wasn't the first lawmaker to contract the virus, many people were concerned about the diagnosis because the senator is 87. It turned out, however, that he remained asymptomatic throughout the course of his infection and was able to keep working remotely.Still, Grassley didn't let his fortunate situation reshape his stance on the severity of the pandemic. In a statement, he noted that the disease "affects people differently" and "more than a thousand Americans are dying every day and many more are hospitalized." So, Grassley said, he'll "continue to wear a mask and practice social distancing."He also repeated his previous calls for Congress to pass a "long overdue," bipartisan relief bill to "help families, businesses, and communities get through this crisis." Tim O'Donnell> Grassley, 87, is back at the Senate today after testing positive for Covid-19. His office says he was asymptomatic the entire time. pic.twitter.com/qJImIJl8ZC> > -- Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) November 30, 2020More stories from theweek.com Americans are choosing death over deprivation How camp explains Trump The case for shortening the presidential transition
A weekend attack on farm workers in northeast Nigeria blamed on jihadists left at least 110 dead, the UN humanitarian coordinator in the country said on Sunday, the deadliest attack on civilians this year. The attack, in a state gripped by a jihadist insurgency for more than 10 years, took place the same day as long-delayed local elections in the state. "I am outraged and horrified by the gruesome attack against civilians carried out by non-state armed groups in villages near Borno State capital Maiduguri," Edward Kallon said in a statement. "At least 110 civilians were ruthlessly killed and many others were wounded in this attack," he added. Some locals blamed the attack on Boko Haram fighters, but Bulama Bukarti, an analyst with the Tony Blair Institute, said rival group the IS-affiliated Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) were more active in the area. "ISWAP is the likely culprit," he tweeted. Kallon, in his statement, said: "The incident is the most violent direct attack against innocent civilians this year. "I call for the perpetrators of this heinous and senseless act to be brought to justice," he added. The violence centred on the village of Koshobe near the Borno state capital Maiduguri, with assailants targeting farm workers harvesting rice fields. One pro-government anti-jihadist militia said the assailants tied up the labourers and slit their throats. Kallon said the assailants - "armed men on motorcycles" - also targeted other communities in the area. "Rural communities in Borno State are facing untold hardships," he added, calling for more to be done to protect them and to head off what he said was a looming food crisis there. Borno Governor Babaganan Umara Zulum attended the burial Sunday in the nearby village of Zabarmari of 43 bodies recovered on Saturday, saying the toll could rise after search operations resumed. The victims included dozens of labourers from Sokoto state in northwestern Nigeria, roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, who had travelled to the northeast to find work, it said. Six were wounded in the attack and eight remained missing as of Saturday. Kallon, citing "reports that several women may have been kidnapped", called for their immediate release. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari condemned the attack on Saturday, saying: "The entire country has been wounded by these senseless killings." Neither the president's statement nor Sunday's from the UN mentioned either Boko Haram or rival group ISWAP by name. But both groups have been active in Borno State, their attacks having forced the postponement of locations in Borno State, which finally took place Saturday.
Multinational corporations including Nike and Coca-Cola are lobbying to water down legislation that would ban products made with forced labor in China's Xinjiang province, the New York Times reported on Sunday.China has attempted to cement state power over millions of Muslim citizens in Xinjiang, mostly Uyghur Muslims along with Kazakhs and other minorities. The ruling Communist Party has placed Uyghurs in so-called reeducation camps that attempt to erase their attachment to Islam, and has also embarked on a campaign of forced sterilization of Uyghur women.Numerous global supply chains are based in Xinjiang, including for cotton and coal, and China has employed forced Uyghur labor for various factories. The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, which passed the House 406-3 in September and is currently under consideration in the Senate, would ban imports of good from Xinjiang unless U.S. customs officials could verify that the goods were not produced using forced labor.However, multinational companies are lobbying against the legislation, saying that while they do not support use of forced labor, the bill could have a detrimental impact on their supply chains. Along with Nike and Coca-Cola, tech giant Apple is also pushing to weaken some restrictions, the Washington Post reported last week.Coca-Cola "strictly prohibits any type of forced labor in our supply chain" and employs third-party auditors to enforce the policy, the company said in a statement to the Times. Nike said it "did not lobby against" the legislation but had "constructive discussions" with congressional aides on keeping its supply chain free of forced labor.Pro-business groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have also joined the lobbying efforts.A report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in March of this year concluded that at least 80,000 Uyghurs have been sent away from their homes to labor in factories in other parts of China.
Europe must stand up for its values in its dealings with China, but given the country's sheer population and economic importance, there will always be a trade-off between the EU's values and its interests, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said. "We must define our own European interests, and this also includes common ground (with China) on foreign policy, on economic policy and digital policy and many more," she said.
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An opinion piece published Sunday by a hard-line Iranian newspaper urged Iran to attack the Israeli port city of Haifa if Israel carried out the killing of the scientist who founded the Islamic Republic's military nuclear program in the early 2000s. Israel, suspected of killing Iranian nuclear scientists over the past decade, has not commented on the brazen slaying of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon rainforest surged to a 12-year high in 2020, official government data showed on Monday, with destruction soaring since President Jair Bolsonaro took office and weakened environmental enforcement. In 2020, destruction of the world's largest rainforest rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier to 11,088 square kilometers (2.7 million acres) - seven times the size of London - according to data from Brazil's national space research agency Inpe. That means Brazil will miss its own target, established under a 2009 climate change law, for reducing deforestation to roughly 3,900 square kilometers. The consequences for missing the target are not laid out in the law but could leave the government open to lawsuits. The official annual measure, known as PRODES, is taken by comparing satellite images from the end of July 2020 with those from the beginning of August 2019. These dates are chosen to coincide with the Amazon's dry season, when there is less cloud cover to interfere with the calculations. The Amazon is the world's largest rainforest and its protection is crucial to stopping catastrophic climate change because of the vast amount of carbon dioxide it absorbs. The latest annual destruction is a substantial increase from the 7,536 square kilometers that were deforested in 2018, the year before Mr Bolsonaro took office. While environmentalists blamed the government for the rise, federal officials hailed the figures as a sign of progress in fighting deforestation, as the increase was far lower than the 34 per cent increase recorded in 2019. "While we are not here to celebrate this, it does signify that the efforts we are making are beginning to bear fruit," Vice President Hamilton Mourao told reporters at Inpe headquarters in the Sao Paulo satellite city of Sao Jose dos Campos.
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The news that former Vice President Joe Biden would become the next president of the United States was met in Russia with grim resignation, bordering on despair. Experts on Russian state television have described Biden's presidency as "Obama's third term" and predicted a slew of new sanctions dreaded by the Kremlin. This anticipation revived the wave of racist attacks against former President Barack Obama, which were commonplace during his administration.Overt racism in Russian state media is far from uncommon but nonetheless continues to be shocking. Tigran Keosayan—the husband of Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Kremlin-funded RT and Sputnik—took racist mockery to new lows on his program Mezhdunarodnaya Pilorama ("International Sawmill"). Keosayan described Barack Obama as "the dark page of American history," while introducing a highly offensive sketch by an actress in blackface impersonating the former president, which was first reported by the Moscow Times.The purported portrayal of Obama was tasteless and crude, with the actress in a bandana gesticulating as a rapper and describing the former president as a "chocolate bunny." The show, which aired on NTV—a network funded by state-owned gas company Gazprom, mocked "Black Lives Matter" and claimed that none of Obama's relatives know how to write. The sketch concluded with a recommendation that rather than read Obama's book, The Audacity of Hope, viewers should opt for "reading the label on the bathroom air freshener."Facing worldwide condemnation for the latest racist episode, Margarita Simonyan—heralded as one of the most influential women in news media—attempted to backpedal, using her husband's Armenian ethnicity as some kind of an excuse for his indefensible racism. She described the offensive sketch as a "parody of Obama" and disingenuously claimed, "As someone who is part of an ethnic minority in Russia, Tigran regularly makes fun, on the air, of his large 'ethnic' nose and his belonging to a 'Black' community (look it up if you don't know which ethnicities are referred to as 'Black' in Russia)."Despite Simonyan's clumsy excuses, her husband is not the only one who considers himself somehow entitled to mock Black Americans. In June, RT's editor-in-chief shared a despicably racist article from the Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda, which made references to "muscular criminal Negroes," described "twerking" as the "national Negro dance," recommended the use of amphetamines, and encouraged violence and death.Russian state media outlets have long expressed their desire for civil unrest in the United States. The author of the article, Dmitry Steshin, urged, "Beat the whites until they turn Black." Simonyan shared the article, describing it as a piece of "good advice from an international journalist to the negroes of Minnesota and the United States."Simonyan's husband followed up the obscene sketch on his program with a ludicrous assertion: "There is no racism in Russia." It was no more believable than the notorious Soviet claim, "There is no sex in the USSR."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
'You haven't shown a single problem with the way the game was scored.""Yeah, but the game was played at night, and the rulebook only permits day games."If you can follow that argument, then you can grasp the Republican challenge to the 2020 election in Pennsylvania that was rejected by the commonwealth's supreme court on Saturday night. That ruling, which is factually related to but separate from President Trump's federal lawsuit that the Third Circuit threw out last Friday, is likely to end the election-litigation efforts in Pennsylvania, though it is still possible that the cases could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.Meantime in Georgia, attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are pressing on with a lawsuit filed, not on behalf of the president directly, but on behalf of Trump supporters, including members of the Republican-nominated Electoral College slate that would have cast the state's votes if Trump had won. On Sunday, they won a minor victory -- on procedural grounds, not on the merits -- in their bid to convince a Georgia federal judge to decertify the GOP-controlled state government's conclusion that President-elect Biden won a slim victory there.PennsylvaniaThe state lawsuit in Pittsburgh was brought by U.S. Representative Mike Kelly of northwestern Pennsylvania and other Republicans. They argued that the commonwealth's constitution does not permit mass mail-in voting -- as distinguished from individualized absentee voting. They therefore challenged the state legislature's 2019 Act 77, which permitted "no-excuse" mail-in voting. Act 77 marked a departure from prior Pennsylvania law, under which voters could only request absentee ballots based on legally approved reasons for not being able to vote in person. In 2020, the legislature further liberalized this accommodation due to COVID-19 concerns.The Republican plaintiffs had a legitimate point. Prior to Act 77, state law simply codified Pennsylvania's constitution, which authorizes absentee voting based on a generous list of excuses, but does not expressly authorize no-excuse mail-in voting. The plaintiffs thus found a sympathetic ear in commonwealth judge Patricia McCullough of Pittsburgh. Last week, she ordered a temporary stay in the certification process -- although the stay's efficacy was debatable, since her order came after the state had certified the results (albeit before some ministerial tasks, such as the issuance of certificates to the Biden slate of electors, who will cast the commonwealth's electoral votes).State election officials, who are Democrats, immediately appealed to the state supreme court, where their eventual victory was certain. That tribunal is a Democrat-dominated elected body and, as we've previously recounted, it has both flouted the plain terms of state law and extended mail-in voting beyond even the state's constitutionally questionable authorization of it. There was zero chance that it would side with Republicans.Here, however, the court was on solid footing because the plaintiffs did not file lawsuits against the new mail-in voting when it was enacted. They waited for over a year, until after 2.6 million Pennsylvanians had availed themselves of the opportunity to vote by mail during a pandemic. Republicans were suddenly objecting now, not because the election was unfair, but because their presidential candidate lost. Indeed, some of the plaintiffs had run for office under the Act 77 mail-in procedures without objecting to them.Consequently, the court ruled that the doctrine of laches applied -- i.e., claims must be timely raised or they are forfeited. Moreover, to repeat a refrain we've been stressing for a while, there was a gross mismatch between the harm alleged and the remedy sought: The Republicans were asking that the mail-in ballots be thrown out or, in the alternative, that the election be voided and the (Republican-majority) state legislature be directed to choose the state's electors (i.e., the Trump slate). This would disenfranchise either the 2.6 million Pennsylvanians who mailed in ballots or all of the commonwealth's 6.8 million voters.In a concurring opinion, Judge David Wecht further contended that the court could not authorize the state legislature to choose electors. Although the Constitution empowers the state legislature to choose the manner of selecting electors, Judge Wecht observed (as I have also pointed out) that the commonwealth's legislature did so long ago by enacting provisions that award Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes to the winner of the popular election.The court's ruling on the issue of laches was unanimous. Two judges dissented in part, reasoning that the Republican plaintiffs' construction of the state constitution appears sound, and that Act 77's attempt to put a 180-day time-limit on challenges to its lawfulness should be unenforceable against challenges based on the state constitution (an issue the majority opinion sidestepped). The dissenters argued that the plaintiffs should be permitted to proceed with their objections to mass mail-in voting for the purpose of future elections, but not the 2020 election.GeorgiaIn Georgia, attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell are pursuing their theory that the election was stolen from President Trump by cyber-fraud -- specifically, manipulation of the tabulation program, to which they claim Dominion voting machines are vulnerable, in order to switch Trump votes to Biden votes.Sunday turned out to be a frenetic day because Wood learned, apparently from state election officials, that the memories on voting machines were about to be reset (or "wiped," as Wood put it). This was to occur on Monday (today) -- recall that Georgia will be holding a statewide run-off election for both U.S. Senate seats in just five weeks (i.e., on January 5). Wood objected because the reset would make it practically impossible for him and Powell to conduct a forensic examination into the Dominion software's operation in the November election, which they contend is necessary to their case.U.S. district judge Timothy Batten initially issued a temporary injunction, directing state election officials to preserve the machines in their present condition while he deliberated over whether to permit a forensic examination. Judge Batten withdrew the injunction a few hours later when the state officials named in the Wood/Powell lawsuits explained that the counties, not the state, had control over the machines.Finally, on Sunday evening at 7:45 p.m., Batten convened an emergency conference, via Zoom, at which the lawyers countered that they were prepared to amend their complaints in order to add the officials in Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee county as defendants. The state also contended that the forensic examination contemplated by the plaintiffs threatened state election security and could compromise its contractor's proprietary and trade secrets, and thus should not be permitted absent a more compelling showing of wrongdoing than has been made to this point. Wood and Powell replied that these concerns could be assuaged by allowing the state's own experts to participate in the examination, conducting it on videotape, and directing that the results be provided only to the court, for consideration of any appropriate protective orders against disclosure.At the conclusion of the hearing, Judge Batten issued a temporary restraining order: For the next ten days, unless the court directs otherwise, Georgia is barred from permitting the erasure or alteration of data from the Dominion machines. In the meantime, the state is to provide the plaintiffs with a copy of its contract with Dominion, and must file by close of business Wednesday (December 2) a brief and any supporting affidavits in opposition to the forensic examinations.Another hearing in the case is set for Friday (December 4). To be clear, Judge Batten has not ruled on the merits of the case or even indicated that he will permit the forensic examination of the Dominion data. The injunction freezes matters for a few days so the court can consider the parties' positions and make a more informed decision.
A U.S. judge sentenced a former high-ranking Honolulu prosecutor to 13 years in prison Monday, saying she stole money from her own grandmother and used her husband's position as a police chief to frame her uncle for a crime he didn't commit — all to maintain her lavish lifestyle. Katherine and Louis Kealoha, now estranged, were once a respected power couple. Louis Kealoha, who agreed to retire amid a wide-ranging federal investigation, was sentenced to seven years in prison during a separate hearing.
Thousands have fled the scene of a rumbling Indonesian volcano that burst to life for the first time in several years, belching a massive column of smoke and ash, the disaster agency said. The evacuation of more than 4,400 residents came as Mount Ili Lewotolok erupted Sunday, spouting a thick tower of debris four kilometres (2.5 miles) into the sky, triggering a flight warning and the closure of a local airport. The crater's last major eruption was in 2017. There were no reports of injuries or damage from the eruption in a remote part of the Southeast Asian archipelago. But authorities advised residents to wear masks to protect themselves from volcanic ash spouting from the crater in East Nusa Tenggara - the southernmost province of Indonesia - and to be alert for possible lava flows.
New Zealand's workplace regulator has filed charges against 13 parties following an investigation into a volcanic eruption on White Island in 2019 which killed 22 people. A surprise eruption on the White Island, also known by its Maori name of Whakaari, on Dec 9 last year, killed 22 people and injured dozens. Majority of them were tourists from countries like Australia, the United States and Malaysia who were part of a cruise ship that was travelling around New Zealand.
Arizona certified its presidential election results in favor of President-elect Joe Biden on Monday as Rudy Giuliani urged Republican state legislators at a hearing in Phoenix to override the certification.Arizona's Secretary of State Katie Hobbs commended her state for conducting "easily the smoothest" and "most secure election in recent history" even amid the coronavirus pandemic."Despite the unprecedented challenges, Arizonans showed up for our democracy," Hobbs, a Democrat, said."This election was conducted with transparency, accuracy and fairness in accordance with Arizona's laws and elections procedures, despite numerous unfounded claims to the contrary," she added.The certification gives Biden 11 Electoral College votes. According to projections by the Associated Press, Biden will receive 306 electoral votes to President Trump's 232 votes.Republican Governor Doug Ducey praised the state's election as well, saying "the system is strong, that's why I have bragged on it so much.""This is America, and no voter should be disenfranchised," Ducey said. "The votes have been tabulated, all 15 counties have certified their results."Also on Monday, Giuliani and other members of Trump's legal team attended a scheduled hearing with the Arizona State Legislature on the integrity of the 2020 election.Trump's team continued to push a number of unproven claims of election fraud at the hearing and called on Republican state legislators to appoint pro-Trump electors in defiance of the popular vote."What is the right count, or how can we get as close to the right count as possible? If we can, then have the courage to select that person to get the electors, because that person won the honest vote," Giuliani said."In history, I swear to God, you will be heroes," he said. "If you can't make a determination, then don't certify."Wisconsin is expected to certify its election results for Biden on Monday as well.
Ten monks in Grottaferratta, Italy's ancient monastery are striving to keep alive a1,600-year-old spiritual tradition.
A human rights group in Belarus says over 300 people have been detained during Sunday protests against the country's authoritarian president, who won his sixth term in office in a vote widely seen as rigged. The protests took place in Minsk, the capital, and other cities and attracted thousands of people. In Minsk, large crowds gathered in different parts of the city despite the snowy weather for what has been dubbed as the Neighbors' March, blocking the roads in some areas.
Switzerland is emerging as a model for how the coronavirus can be contained without a national lockdown, after daily new infections halved since the start of November despite pubs, restaurants, gyms and sports remaining open in much of the country. The figures were hailed as a triumph for the "Swiss special way" by Swiss government doctors last week, and will be seen as evidence that regional tiers can work in the UK. Rather than ordering a general lockdown, Switzerland allowed regions to decide their own measures and only the worst-hit imposed tough restrictions. But critics have charged that the success came at too high a price, after the country experienced some of the highest death rates in Europe. Switzerland has been described as the "new Sweden" after it refused to follow the UK and other countries into a second lockdown this month. The Swiss government imposed only minimal restrictions at a national level, including a limit of ten on private gatherings, an 11pm curfew for restaurants and the compulsory use of facemasks in crowded areas.
The Salem Health oncology nurse was not named by the hospital, but local media identified her as Ashley Grames.


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NEWS- No-mow: Near waters, City lets it grow
In 2001, a Woolen Mills resident cited by the city for growing "weeds" protested he was growing native plants as a riparian buffer. Now Charlottesville seems to be following his example by creating "no mow" zones near creeks and streams in five city parks. On April 22, Earth Day, volunteers planted nearly 250 trees in these "no-mow" zones.
"It's a relatively cost-effective way to deal with storm water run-off," notes the city's environmental administrator Crystal Riddervold, who explains that vegetation filters pollutants that otherwise might run into streams.
Though the no-mow zones appear to be a departure from city code that requires residential grass– even along streams– be kept shorter than 18 inches, Riddervold notes that the reforestation effort was called for in the 2001 revision of Charlottesville's comprehensive plan. The no-mow zones may result in a more shaggy, less manicured look on park riverbanks, but she hopes they will result in heightened awareness and more native vegetation.
"There's a strong community interest and desire to protect streams," Riddervold says.
As for houses, grass must still be mowed within 150 feet of a residence unless a citizen petitions the city to have a riparian buffer zone– and to date, no one has, says city code inspector Jerry Tomlin. "We're still enforcing [the code] as written," he says.
The city's new effort means that Azalea, Greenleaf, Jordan, Quarry, and Riverview parks are now dotted with plastic-sleeved seedlings. Some trees were planted in Azalea last year, but "This is the first formal decision to pull back on mowing," says Riddervold.
She fears "a possible misperception" that reducing maintenance was the reason. "That's not the deciding factor," says Riddervold. "We're not slacking off in maintenance."
In fact, the no-mow zones make crews more efficient, says parks and recreation department chief Mike Svetz, noting that some high-visibility areas like athletic fields or downtown's Lee and Jackson parks that may get cut twice a week can now get trimmed even more often. "We save some costs– and also reduce pollution," says Svetz.
It was Susan Pleiss, the city's outreach coordinator, who rounded up the 115 volunteers to plant and water the 10 native species, including button bush, hackberry, black locust, chestnut oak, persimmon, sycamore, and gray-stem dogwood. The trees and shrubs are Department of Forestry seedlings, mostly free, mostly in the 18-inch range. Total cost for the 250 or so new trees is around $850.
The city practices tough love with its young additions.
"They won't be watered again," says Pleiss. "They're on their own." Because the plants are small and native, unless there's a drought, Pleiss expects them to fare well.
"We don't have the labor to water these trees," she says. But the city doesn't totally abandon its young. That's where the white plastic sleeves come in.
At $1.50 each, the sleeves are about one-third the cost of the planting, but Pleiss says they can be the make-it or break-it factor in whether the trees survive against predators like rabbits and beavers. And city bush-hogging crews. "The sleeves draw attention that something is planted," Pleiss says.
With riparian buffer zones going in all over town, will the overgrowth on banks make them inaccessible?
Perhaps not. At Riverview, for instance, paths will be mown to provide access to the Rivanna River. And Pleiss says except for groupings of button bush, none of the trees are closer than 20 feet, and most are 50 feet apart.
"At Greenleaf, we put in only 15 trees," she says. "We could have put in 50." She adds that the trees planted at Azalea Park last year already are well on their way.
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The city's Susan Pleiss, shown here at Riverview, rounded up volunteers to plant the plastic-sleeved green ash, silky dogwood, and black oak (among others).


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In addition to making use of easiły recognized symbols, in six of his most important paint-ings Van Eyck devised symbols to be discovered only during the process of prolonged medi-tation, with the intention of stimulating an experience of mystic revelation. This symbolism was conceived primarily in terms of visual interactions that provide the means for its disguise and, paradoxically, offer the best proof of its presence through the coherence and expressive power they contribute. The argument is made that in six of Van Eyck's most important pic-tures certain configurations compel the viewer who notices them to regard them either as de-liberately expressive symbolic interactions or else as the unintended result of garbled pictorial structure. The consistency of form, effect, and concept strongly argues for the first view. In the second part of this article, the symbolism in three of Van Eyck's paintings—the Virgin in the Church, the Virgin with the Chancellor Rolin and the Virgin with Canon van der Paele—is examined in greater detail. The ideas are the familiar ones of Christian redemption and rebirth, and they rely on familiar imagery. But the imagery's symbolism is enhanced by an interplay of forms that seems to animate the picture in the process of being recognized as significant—as if the picture acted out its message, passing from an inert state to that of a vision, alive with meaning, and through this stirring of inner life, affirming the promise of rebirth in Paradise.
This article discusses Marcillat's role in disseminating the art of High Renaissance Rome to central Itały. On the basis of a prominent career at the papai court, Marcillat was attracted to Arezzo and given stained glass and fresco commissions in the Cathedral (1516–1528). He clearły imitated the most up-to-date works of Michelangelo, Raphael and Sebastiano, and there is some evidence that this was at the request of his patrons and a large part of his appeal. As such this example challenges the dismissal of provincial patrons and artists by Enrico Castelnuovo and Carlo Ginsburg in their essay: "Centro e Periferia".
While the divided south wall of the Stanza della Segnatura offers a balance of Civic Law that follows traditional practices in the classification of legal literature in medieval libraries its subjects, Justinian and Gregory IX, encouraged a view of the present in terms of its relation to the history of civilization. Thus could Roman law and Canon law be viewed, by an ambitious pontiff who saw his own situation as forged from the inheritance of both, as the greatest influ-ences on—and explanations for—his own governmental ideas and actions. A Ciceronian in-terpretation of the Law as deriving from the supreme authority (above) would suggest that the three suavely articulated and interconnected female figures above represent the Three Graces or the legal "sisters," daughters of Zeus who supervise the benefits of the Law. Thus is it tempting to imagine the possibility that through the (Greek) graces, the (Roman) Justinian, and the (Christian) Gregory, a grandiose concordance, or harmony, of Greek Law, Roman Law, and Christian Law is offered in the three interrelated scenes of this wall.
Peter Paul Rubens' portrait of The Duke of Lerma, Equestrian (Prado) was painted in Val-ladolid in 1603. This is the first important state-portrait to introduce a new variation on eques-trian representation, and, according to the formula established by Rubens, the horse is viewed from an oblique angle and is seen advancing towards the viewer. In 1633, Van Dyck repeated the scheme in his Equestrian Portrait of King Charles I, where he "restored" a triumphal arch enframement which Rubens had chosen to omit. As is argued here, the source for these and other examples of the obliquely viewed imperial horseman was an illustrated pamphlet by A. F. Oliviero, Carlo Quinto in Olmo (1567). Oliviero's text describes the triumphal entry of the Emperor Charles V in Ulm following his military successes over the Protestant League, the historical source of the most famous equestrian of all, Titian's depiction of Charles V at Muhlberg (1548: Prado). The source for the architectural motif shown in the Italian print of 1567 (and "restored" in 1633 by Van Dyck) turns out to be the Triumphal Arch of Trajan, as previously illustrated in Serlio's Architettura (1540).
Both versions of The Presentation in the Temple by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Costa are discussed here, but special attention is devoted to the one which was destroyed in the Second World War. That canvas possessed a unique feature in that it showed the prophetess Anna holding a tablet with Hebrew lettering - an apparent innovation in depictions of the Presentation. The inscription is based on Isaiah 53:8 and 9:6 and tells of the coming of the Messiah and his death in behalf of mankind. The artist thus has Anna confirm Simeon's prophecy that the Infant Jesus is in fact the Messiah.
The author of the article suggests that Anton Galeazzo Bentivoglio, who ordered the altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria della Vita in Bologna, probabły initiated the use of He-brew in the work. It is also proposed that he himself appears in the picture, as both participant and donor.
A re-examination of documentary and iconographical evidence demonstrates that Van Dyck's Holy Family with Partridges, now in the Hermitage Museum, was painted in England for Queen Henrietta-Maria. It is not, as often accepted in the past, the now lost version that belonged to Frederick-Hendrick of The Netherlands. Visual sources for the painting are found in Christian and pagan works by Rubens and Titian and the symbols used are both Catholic and classical, reflecting the Neo-Platonic atmosphere at the English court. Themes and motifs found in court masques, plays and poetry - including the ring of dancing putti - are paralleled in the Hermitage painting. The inclusion of a sunflower and the prominence of autumn fruits and flowers suggest monarchical allusions as well. Inigo Jones and Ben Jonson are among those who may have played a role in Van Dyck's choice of iconography.
Vestals in the Work of Jean Raoux around 1730, Inspired by Scientific Literature and the "Opera-Ballet"
The basis for the study is the painting Two Vestals (1730) by Jean Raoux, currently in the Herzog-Anton-UIrich-Museum in Brunswick. The vestals provide here an interesting stimulus for the anałysis of the interrelation between literature, opera, and painting, not only from the art-historical perspective, but also from the point of view of the social and human sciences in the first half of the Eighteenth Century in France. The painting by Jean Raoux turns out to be more than just a simple "portrait historie", as which it has been regarded up to now. Instead, it appears to have been inspired by two events: 1) the publication Histoire des Vesta/es, avec un traite de luxe des dames romaines by Abbe Augustin Nadal (Paris 1725), and 2) Les elemens, an "Opera-Ballet" by the poet Pierre-Charles Roy. Both events awakened great interest for the subject of vestals within the French society of that time.
Labyrinthine references in With Hidden Noise and implied by viewers' eroticized, life-enhancing "readings" of it reveal messages found there and in other intimately related Hermetic works by Marcel Duchamp and his colleagues. Aspects of popular and esoteric culture, sciences, fine arts, literature, music, psychology, and fashion, as well as temporal idiosyncra-cies of biography, bore decisively upon Duchamp's selection and identification of "ready-mades" and related works, contributing to their form and significance, whether presented as images or in words. This investigation heips to expose otherwise enigmatic core elements la-tent (by intention and by chance) in these multilayered designs, which elicit proliferating as-sociations.
The recent cleaning of the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel revealed, among other long obscured details, a lovely female figure within the embrace of God the Father in The Creation of Adam. She has been variously interpreted as the "idea" of Eve and as the Shekhina, the female component of the divine nature. In view of the fact that Michelangelo was deeply religious and enjoyed the pope's confidence, his source of inspiration is more likely to have been the Holy Scriptures that he knew so well, rather than either Neoplatonism or the Cabala. Therefore, the female figure is identified here, on the basis of a passage in the Book of Proverbs (8:22-31), as Sophia, or Divine Wisdom, who accompanied the Lord from the beginning of Creation.


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The Service Unit holds a monthly leader's meeting to update the leaders and other volunteers on events, activities and important information regarding our area in Girl Scouts. This meeting is also a chance for leaders to network, share and get new ideas from other leaders.
At our monthly meetings, we will highlight activities of troops making a difference, pass along pertinent information all leaders need to know, and help answer any questions or solve any problems you may have as a volunteer. Attendance at meetings is a must if you want to keep abreast of what is happening in Girl Scouts and in our area.
Our Service Unit Volunteer Support Team (VST) is comprised of the Service Unit Coordinators, School Membership Consultants and Organizers, Product Sales Chairs and numerous positions that help keep our area running. You can volunteer for a position or just come out to the team meetings.
This website was created for you, the leaders, volunteers and parents, in Gloucester and Mathews Counties. The Service Unit VST wanted a place for you to have all of our local resources in one place regarding Girl Scouts. This site should also be a place where you come to get your questions answered, find and share ideas for your troop, and to keep abreast of what is happening in our area!
This is not to replace our extremely important monthly Service Unit meetings where we discuss more detailed information that can impact your troop(s) and also share ideas with one another. These face-to-face meetings are imperative to having a highly successful Girl Scouting experience!
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Average IRS refund this year about $3k, chief says
WASHINGTON (AP) -- That nice Internal Revenue Service refund check many families eagerly await this time of year is down slightly from 2011 but still not too shabby: an average of about $3,000.
Through March 10, the IRS has issued 59.2 million refund checks totaling $174.4 billion, agency chief Douglas H. Shulman told a House subcommittee Thursday. That compares to 59 million refunds totaling $178.3 billion a year ago.
Based on those figures, this year's checks average $2,946, down marginally from last year's $3,022.
An IRS spokesman said the agency isn't certain why the figure has dipped. He noted that the widely used Making Work Pay tax credit created by the 2009 economic stimulus law had expired and another credit for first-time homebuyers has been restricted.
Shulman told the House Ways and Means Committee oversight subcommittee that through March 10, the IRS has processed almost 71 million individual returns, a small increase.
Nearly 26 million filers prepared their own electronic returns, an 11 percent jump from 2011.
The agency has directly deposited 51 million refunds to taxpayers, up 3 percent.


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Totem Park, UBC, Vancouver, Kwakiutl (#2 + 5 carved by Mungo Martin), Alert Bay sea lion pole #2, new Mungo Martin pole #5, frontal pole #6, eagle crest pole #7
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This pole was on display at UBC in Totem Park in the 1960's and 1970's and moved to the Museum in the late 1970's. It was carved in 1914 in Tsaxis (Fort Rupert) by George Hunt Sr. for the Edward S. Curtis film "In the Land of the War Canoes" which was originally titled "In the Land of the Head Hunters". The pole was collected by Marius Barbeau and Arthur Price in 1947. The pole was repaired and re-painted by carvers Ellen Neel in 1949 and Mungo Martin in 1950-51. It stood at Totem Park, UBC Campus until it was re-located to the Museum's Great Hall in 1976.
Iconography: Kolus is a young thunderbird. Thunderbird is a supernatural bird identifiable by the presence of ear-like projections or horns on the head, and a re-curved beak. The pole alludes to the story of Tongas people in south Alaska, who migrated south.


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Weekend Countdown To "The Runaway Bride": Day Three
Sunday, 24 December 2006 - Reported by Shaun Lyon
It's December 24... one day to the UK premiere of The Runaway Bride on BBC1. As we've done the past few days, to excite fans and promote the debut of the Christmas special, here's a third small collection of photos for our readers, below; click on each for a larger version. (As before, all photographs are copyrighted to the BBC and used here solely for promotion of this event!)


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Saracens' ambitious globe-trotting plans have been dealt a fresh blow with the news that their hopes of playing Munster in New York later this year have been dashed.
The Aviva Premiership club planned to switch their Heineken Cup clash on December 16 to the MetLife Stadium - an 82,500-capacity stadium which is the home to American football sides the New York Giants and New York Jets.
The Daily Telegraph reports that Munster were positive about the prospect of playing the high-profile European clash on American soil. But the attempt to switch the venue fell down because of technical issues at the MetLife Stadium.
The revelations come after it was revealed that Edinburgh rejected a proposal by Saracens to stage their Heineken Cup clash between the two teams in Cape Town.
Saracens chief executive Ed Griffiths told the newspaper: "We are in a unique position this season because our new stadium, Allianz Park, is not ready and we saw this an opportunity to take some top-class rugby matches where we could create big events that people want to watch.
"I went to New York in July and looked at the MetLife Stadium. We looked at the size of the pitch and it came down in the end to the fact that we would need to put rugby posts into the artificial turf.
"The owners of the two NFL teams didn't want the poles going into the turf, they wanted them going in behind the line so it wouldn't affect the line where their score a touchdown.
"It was disappointing because we wanted to put it on a grand stage and the MetLife Stadium is a fantastic venue at Meadowlands. My feeling was if we had been able to play there we would have had a great occasion.
"The indication from Munster, too, was that they would be eager to receive a proposal. I think they had worked out for an Irish team to go to New York made quite a lot of sense."
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March: Well Kinley bugs....this is it.....your last month to be four.......next month you will be four and a half! Gracious, you are have way to FIVE! I am so glad your birthday falls late and you don't start Kindergarten this next year. I am not sure this mommy could handle another one of her babies starting big kids school! You want to do EVERYTHING that your big sister does and it makes you so mad when we tell you that you can't! We let you skip children's church last week and come to big church with us. You sang your sweet little heart out and it was just precious! You have become boy C-R-A-Z-Y! I've lost count of how many times you and Harrison have broken up! The other day you told me that if you could pick out the perfect baby brother it would be Creed! Uhhh that just made me smile bigger than Dallas! We are heading to Dallas later this month and you are SUPER excited about going to the American Girl Doll Store! You continue to be a handful and keep us on our toes!We NEVER know what is going to come out of your mouth these days! Your whit is so dry, off the cuff, and humerus it cracks us up! We love you crazy Kinley Bugs!
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And since Micah Claire has learned to tie shoes........so have you! You tie every tennis shoe you come across and beg to tie mine all the time! I am so proud of you; there are not many 4 year old that
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And weekend before last, it was sunny and almost 70 degrees so OFF went the training wheels! You were really excited and a little nervous! You nailed it on the first try and just got better and better! It's been raining, sleeting, or snowing every since so you haven't gotten to practice much and that stinks! I am ready for warm spring days when you can ride all over this place!


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Banyen Books and Sound is located at 3608 West 4th Avenue. It is one of the few bookstores which can be considered a real institution, far from the "supermarket" of the word which is often common with stores of this size. Banyen Books mixes a wide selection of spiritual, inspirational, meditation, etc. books with a laid-back atmosphere.
Banyen Books also organizes several interesting events, both on its premises and around Vancouver. A detailed schedule is offered on http://www.banyen.com/events.htm
Banyen Books and Sound Hours of operation:
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Initially, when Anna and I decided to attend New York Magazine's Weddings Showcase, we figured it would be a great opportunity to make fun of all the maniacal brides-to-be, harried maids of honor and opinionated mothers looking for chic and modern ways to piss away $100K on a party celebrating a union that has less than a 50% chance of actually going the distance. But (not so) secretly, I loved it. That shit was open bar! And there were awesome hors d'oeuvres! And so much cake! And ice cream sandwiches on popsicles! And a kickass goodie bag! Now I want to get married! (Joke.) But seriously, for those looking to get drunk, stuff their faces and get a kickass goody bag, $25 is a small price to pay. After the jump, all the things we saw in the shuffling sea of brides wearing Tory Burch ballet flats.
So, I went to this thing with Anna. I'm a confirmed bachelorette, and although Anna is engaged, she's forgoing the big wedding thing in favor of eloping. Needless to say, we walked in there a leetle bit biased, which didn't help matters when the first thing I set my eyes on was this NYC trash can, tastefully lined with linen.
I mean, come on. Was it really that much of an eyesore? On the other hand, I wonder if it was some kind of subliminal message like, "See, we can turn trash into class. Let us do that to you!"
Speaking of trash, when I went into the bathroom, I saw this:
Yeah, that's period blood, folks. At least whomever it was won't be having to shop in the maternity section for her white dress.
Okay, so maybe it was the free booze and food, but I sorta loved the whole thing. I was super hungry, and they had these miniburgers and little lobster cups and some kind of cured meat roll. At one point, when I was at one of the cake tasting stations, shoveling a slice of chocolate and strawberry heaven into my mouth, I dropped a chunk on the table. I picked it up, with every intention of putting it in my mouth, but the woman working the booth kinda gave me a look like, "Please don't," so I handed it over to her and she disposed of it.
So here's what struck me most about the whole event: On one side of the room, there were services offering pre-wedding diet plans and food delivery services so that brides can, as the David Kirsch brochure proclaimed,"feel like the most beautiful woman in the room". On the other side, there were catering companies. The diet tables were empty. Everyone was mobbing the the lobster cup lady. (She also had green gazpacho.)
At one table, a group of women were giving out promotional T-shirts and boxers for whatever service they provide. [Wedding dress design. -Ed.] We tried to get one, but they only had XS available. It turns out that wedding showcases are just as confusing when it comes to the expectations of body image as, well, anything else in life, really. All the dresses on the racks were size 0 as well.
This was kinda awesome. They had free massages:
And they had this photo booth there, as an idea of something brides can rent for their receptions:
The goodie bag was sick, full of all kinds of beauty products from Redken and Crabtree & Evelyn, a cake server from Oneida, a bottle opener that looked like a shoe, lots of gift certificates, and a free session of ballroom dancing lessons.
The most ridiculous person we talked to had to be the woman from Disney's Couture Wedding Collection, a destination wedding service provided by Disney for which they put together cookie-cutter wedding packages at one of their Florida resorts. The package includes decorations, food, and rental of the space. It does not include the price of a dress, or anyone's hotel rooms. (The Disney rep also made no mention of booze, so it's probably an add-on.) The starting price for a destination wedding for you and 50 friends? $75,000. I think I deserved a goddamn medal for not laughing in that lady's face right there.
So, did going to the Weddings Showcase change my mind about having a big special day of my own? I mean, I doubt I'll ever find that kind of money to spend on getting my idiot friends drunk for one night. (Especially when Jell-O shots with Georgi vodka tend to do the trick quite well.) But my motto in life is never say never, because I always said I'd never have anal sex, and well, now sometimes I do. So maybe one day, I'll suddenly decide I want to spend my life with one person and have a big open bar party to celebrate that. Hey, it couldn't hurt much more than getting fucked in the ass.


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NVIDIA DRIVERS - (Nvidia-340).
I followed this tutorial for Ubuntu. https://askubuntu.com/questions/264247/proprietary-nvidia-drivers-with-efi-on-mac-to-prevent-overheating/613573#613573
What it took to find out was which was the correct driver (when I tried to install Ubuntu, the system informed me that the correct driver was Nvidia-304. But it wasn't. The correct driver for this machine is NVIDIA-340.
1. Install Ubuntu in UEFI mode with the Nvidia drivers
I will not go into details here because there are lots of articles on the web showing you how to do this and end up with the nouveau drivers running your machine hot or with the black screen after installing the Nvidia drivers (e.g. www.rodsbooks.com/ubuntu-efi).
Please note however that the following instructions assume you have successfully installed and booted in UEFI mode. You can verify that by checking for existence of the directory /sys/firmware which is only created after booting in EFI mode.
2. Find the right PCI-E bus identifiers
We need both the IDs for the graphics card and the PCI-E bridge that it is connected to. Issue the following command in a shell:
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~$ sudo lshw -businfo -class bridge -class display
pci@0000:00:00.0 bridge MCP89 HOST Bridge
pci@0000:00:03.0 bridge MCP89 LPC Bridge
pci@0000:00:0e.0 bridge NVIDIA Corporation
pci@0000:00:15.0 bridge NVIDIA Corporation
pci@0000:00:16.0 bridge NVIDIA Corporation
pci@0000:00:17.0 >!!< bridge MCP89 PCI Express Bridge
pci@0000:04:00.0 >!!< display MCP89 GeForce 320M
Have a look at (1) the line saying display and (2) the line with bridge right before that display line. Write down the PCI-E bus ids (format XX:YY.Z) of the bridge device (here 00:17.0) and the display device (here 04:00.0) and remember which is which. Note: Those IDs may be different on your machine, depending on your Mac model and revision.
3. Create a GRUB script for setting the PCI-E registers during boot
Fire up a text editor with sudo nano /etc/grub.d/01_enable_vga.conf and copy/paste the content below. Replace 00:17.0 with the PCI-E ID of your bridge device noted in step 2. Replace 04:00.0 with the PCI-E ID of your display device noted in step 2.
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cat << EOF
setpci -s "00:17.0" 3e.b=8
setpci -s "04:00.0" 04.b=7
Finally, make the created file executable and update your grub config files using the following TWO commands.
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~$ sudo chmod 755 /etc/grub.d/01_enable_vga.conf
~$ sudo update-grub[/b]
4. REBOOT and check
If, after rebooting, the register values have been set to 8 (bridge device) and 7 (display device), everything went fine:
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~$ sudo setpci -s "00:17.0" 3e.b
~$ sudo setpci -s "04:00.0" 04.b
5. Install Nvidia drivers and enjoy!
Use Ubuntu's Additional drivers GUI to install the Nvidia drivers. (NVIDIA-340!!!!!)
I installed the b43-firmware-installer package, which worked on the first boot. But in the second boot, the wifi networks disappeared and Network-Manager could not find any network.
Scanning the system error messages, I discovered that the card driver was changing the MAC address at all times. This is a bug already commented and I did the same https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=863463
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# sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/10-mac-randomization-off.conf
Wifi.scan-rand-mac-address = no
A second problem is that the wifi card needs to be informed about which country you are in. This is done by changing the / etc / defaut / crda file in the REGDOMAIN =
In my case, I put REGDOMAIN = BR
Then I ran the following command:
$ sudo Iw reg set BR
With these two steps, my wifi was stable.
Another thing that is not done in the default installation is to enable the applesmc and coretemp modules.
My /etc/modules file looks like this...
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# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
# This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
# at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.
I also installed the macfanctld package.


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Australia 6-20 New Zealand, Rugby World Cup, October 16, 2011
Glory beckons for rampant All Blacks
Graham Jenkins at Eden Park
October 16, 2011
New Zealand captain Richie McCaw hugs head coach Graham Henry following their impressive victory over Australia at Eden Park © Getty Images
New Zealand took a big step towards ending a 24-year Rugby World Cup drought with a clinical display against Australia built on brute force and laced with breath-taking flair.
The All Blacks have set the standard throughout this tournament but not a side to rest on their laurels, they raised the bar once more against their fierce rivals to underline their status as the best side in the world and hammer home the fact that it is going to take something very special to deny them a first World Cup crown since 1987. Standing between them and the sport's biggest prize is France - the same side despatched in style at the sport's first global gathering. And on this evidence they look destined for a similar fate in seven days' time.
Head coach Graham Henry reserved special praise for his captain Richie McCaw and rightly so. The openside produced a spectacular return to top form just when an increasingly nervous New Zealand was beginning to think he was looking vulnerable. But there was no hint of the foot injury that has threatened to derail his personal bid for World Cup glory. In addition, the challenge posed by Australia's David Pocock, a player seemingly intent on claiming the title of the world's best fetcher, was dismissed at the breakdown although McCaw will be the first to point to the efforts of the tight five to build him the platform to do so.
But McCaw was not the only one to rise to the occasion. Fullback Israel Dagg and winger Cory Jane were making headlines for all the wrong reasons a week or so ago following an ill-advised night out on the booze three days before a game. The duo were reprimanded over their failure to make 'good decisions' and have since rewarded management for offering them a reprieve. Perhaps the fear of missing out on what is shaping up as something very special sparked them back into life? But either way, they were outstanding against the Wallabies.
Dagg's heady mix of pace and flair had Australia grasping at thin air on several occasions while Jane was supreme under the high ball. Time and time again the Wallabies sent the ball into the night sky hoping it would return with the weight of an expectant nation and force a mistake from an otherwise water-tight All Blacks defence. But there would be no breach and the home side grew in confidence as each raid was repelled.
Of equal note was the performance of hooker Keven Mealamu who relished the forward battle and rarely failed to make an impression in a shell-shocked Wallabies defence. Centre Ma'a Nonu was also at his threatening best and while stand-in stand-off Aaron Cruden was solid if not spectacular.
The Wallabies' fortunes were reflected in the performance of fly-half Quade Cooper. Under immense pressure from an Eden Park crowd baying for blood, incensed by the playmaker's ongoing spat with McCaw, and charged with helping to fill the creative void left by injured fullback Kurtley Beale, Cooper fluffed his lines and then some. With his first touch he sent the kick off sailing into touch and with his last he was thrown into touch by a rampant All Blacks side intent of setting the seal on their win in emphatic fashion.
In between he saw plenty of the ball but failed to make a significant impression as All Blacks cramped his style at every turn with each crunching tackle and thud into the turf drawing a roar from the crowd. While Cooper may have invited such a reaction with some of his on-field antics in recent months, which have been both classy and also cheap, it is rare to see such venom come from a Kiwi crowd and while adding to an intense atmosphere it is not necessarily desirable.
But he was not the only one on the receiving end of an All Blacks side not prepared to see their World Cup dream die in their rugby stronghold and at the hands of their bitter rivals. The Wallabies' pack was splintered at scrum time on a couple of occasions and their lineout and defensive formation creaked under severe pressure. Denied the chance to generate any momentum, they were forced to live off scraps and that scarcity of ball robbed them of any hint of fluency and sudden apprehension plagued their best attempts to throw off the shackles imposed by the All Blacks.
Tackles were missed and discipline suffered under strain, but even when presented with possession they were far too happy to kick the ball away and with it the chance to turn this game on its head. They sorely missed Beale's ability to make something happen out of nothing and others suffered in his absence. One spark from the fleet-footed fullback could have ignited the Wallabies' back division but it was not to be and they were simply beaten by a superior side.
This game was billed by many as the 'final' and as victors of the clash between the two top ranked sides in the world, New Zealand will enter next weekend's tournament finale as favourites. But it would be foolish to write off France and Henry and co will be stressing that fact in the coming days while at the same time attempting to keep their players grounded. The dream ending is in sight but the job is not done yet.
© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.
Graham Jenkins is the Senior Editor of ESPNscrum and you can also follow him on Twitter.
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NYC Terror Plot Suspect Charged with Conspiracy to Detonate Bombs
Americans urged to remain 'vigilant' and 'report any suspicious activity.'
Sept. 24, 2009 -- Najibullah Zazi, the 24-year-old airport shuttle driver from Denver, Colorado who officials say was the ringleader of an alleged terror plot against New York City, was charged with conspiracy to use explosive bombs Thursday morning – the latest indication that authorities still believe the alleged attack plan was "the real deal."
The one-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury alleges that Zazi "conspired with others to use explosive devices against persons or property in the United States," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
Zazi and his father Mohammad were in Colorado court this morning for a detention hearing. Mohammad Zazi, charged with lying to federal agents, was released this afternoon. His travel will be restricted to Colorado and he will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.
The government alleges that between Aug. 1 and Sept. 21, the day Zazi was arrested in Colorado and charged with lying to federal agents, he "knowingly and intentionally conspired with others to use one or more weapons of mass destruction." The Justice Department says it will now request his initial charge be dismissed and that he be transferred to the Eastern District of New York to be arraigned on the conspiracy to detonate bombs charge.
Officials believe Zazi received "detailed bomb-making instructions in Pakistan, purchased components of improvised explosive devices, and traveled to New York City on September 10, 2009 in furtherance of his criminal plans," according to a detention motion filing. In addition, the document says Zazi conducted "extensive research on the internet regarding components of explosive devices."
Before his arrest, Zazi denied any al Qaeda ties to television cameras.
Zazi's attorney Arthur Folsom had no comment "at this time" about the latest charge.
Alleged Ringleader of NYC Terror Attack Plot
Zazi, who authorities say appears to be the ringleader of the alleged plot, has been tracked by the FBI and the CIA for more than a year, during which time he has traveled twice to Pakistan for explosives training from al Qaeda.
Court records show Zazi ran up more than $50,000 in debt on 20 credit cards, leading to concerns he was preparing for a suicide mission. He declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Mar. 2009, and while he told investigators he had been traveling to Pakistan see his wife, he checked the "not married" box on his application form.
Imam Ahmed Afzali to Appear in Brooklyn Court Thursday
The third man arrested this weekend, Queens, NY resident Ahmed Afzali, is set to appear in a Brooklyn court today for a detention hearing. He is also charged with making false statements to federal agents and is alleged to have falsely told authorities that he didn't tell the Zazis he had been asked by officials about them.
Afzali's attorney Ron Kuby told ABC News that his client, a respected imam at a Queens, NY mosque who had worked as a source for law enforcement in the past, was doing what authorities asked him to do.
"It was the government that went to him and said we need to know the whereabouts of Najibullah Zazi," Kuby said. He said that Afzali then reached out to others to find Zazi, located and spoke to him, and then "duly reported this to the FBI."
Holder, in his statement, said authorities are following numerous leads in the case, and while they believe "any imminent threat arising from this case has been disrupted…we remind the American public to be vigilant and to report any suspicious activity to law enforcement."
The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin this week to law enforcement authorities urging vigilance at so-called "soft targets" including sports stadiums and luxury hotels.
ABCNews.com reported Monday that Zazi's computer contained information relating to New York area baseball and football stadiums and a video of Grand Central Terminal in New York.
Clayton Sandell and Jason Ryan contributed to this report.