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Charles R. Sullivan
Professor of Engineering
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- BS, Electrical Engineering, Princeton University 1987
- PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley 1996
Research Interests
Power electronics; electromagnetic design of power electronics components; micro-fabricated magnetic components; nanocomposite magnetic materials; energy efficiency and renewable energy
Active Research
- ENGS 23: Distributed Systems and Fields
- ENGG 173: Energy Utilization
- ENGG 199: High-Frequency Power Magnetics Design (ENGG 199-00)
Selected Publications
- A. J. Stratakos, C.R. Sullivan, S.R. Sanders, and R.W. Brodersen. "High-Efficiency Low-Voltage DC-DC Conversion for portable applications," in Low-Voltage/Low-Power Integrated Circuits and Systems: Low-Voltage Mixed-Signal Circuits, Edgar Sanchez-Sinencio and Andreas Andreou, Eds. IEEE Press, 1999.
- A. J. Stratakos, C.R. Sullivan, S.R. Sanders. "DC Power Supply Design in Portable Systems," in Low Power Digital CMOS Design, A.P. Chandrakasan and R.W. Brodersen, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995.
- IEEE PELS Modeling and Control Technical Achievement Award, 2018
- IEEE Fellow, 2014
- Sigma Xi, 2001
- IEEE Power Electronics Society Prize Paper Award, 2000
- National Science Foundation CAREER award, 1999
Selected Patents
Professor Sullivan has over 30 patents including:
- Low AC resistant foil winding for magnetic coils on gapped cores (7,701,317)
- Method for making magnetic components with N-phase coupling, and related inductor structures (7,498,920)
- Low impedance test fixture for impedance measurements (7,365,550)
- Method and apparatus for multi-phase DC-DC converters using coupled inductors in discontinuous conduction mode (7,317,305)
- Voltage converter with coupled inductive windings, and associated methods (6,362,986)
- Circuit for dimming gas discharge lamps without introducing striations (5,001,386)
Professional Activities
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), member
- Transactions on Power Electronics, Associate Editor
- Power Electronics Society, Member at Large, Administrative Committee
- Industry Applications Society, Awards Chair, Power Electronics Devices and Components Committee
- Magnetics Society, Industrial Electronics Society
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February 2, 2010
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July 1, 2009
Minimize Winding Losses in High-Frequency Inductors
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May 27, 2008
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April 29, 2008
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Eva Marie Saint as Edie Doyle and Marlon Brando as Terry
Malloy in "On the Waterfront" (1954).
Six decades after her breakout movie role, for which she won
the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Saint has continued to appear in
films and on television, including the new movie, "Winter's Tale."
By CBSNews.com senior producer David Morgan
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Born in Newark, N.J., Eva Marie Saint studied teaching at
Bowling Green State University, before pursuing an acting career in New York.
She attended the Actors Studio and appeared in several live TV productions,
while also modeling.
"See, I wasn't a great model. You know why?
Because I smiled," Saint told CBS News' Mo Rocca. "The ladies,
when they're modeling, they do that walk, and there's nothing in their
face. How can they do that? And they do
it beautifully. That's why they're
successful. I could not do it. That's
not good."
"So you had no choice but to become an actress?"
Rocca asked.
Credit: CBS News
Eva Marie Saint and
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For Saint, the
conflict of work and motherhood was never an issue because "I made
decisions. I had an agent once who
wanted me to make many more movies. I
said, 'I can't, I can only do one a year, if that. I have young children.' And
he said. 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar,' and I said, 'Well, I guess not.'"
"And what
happened to that agent?" Rocca asked.
Credit: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images
After several years of acting in live TV productions and
television films (including "Goodyear Playhouse," and the 1953 TV
film, "The Trip to Bountiful"), Eva Marie Saint appeared in her first
feature film opposite fellow Actors Studio alum Marlon Brando in "On the
Waterfront" (1954). Both won Academy Awards for their performances, and
the film won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Credit: Columbia Pictures
Saint said that during rehearsal of her walk with Brando,
"I dropped the glove and Marlon picked it up and had the presence of mind
to pick it up and put it on his hand. And that kept me in that scene.
"It was always a difficult scene - why she would stay
and talk to this man? She didn't know anything about the opposite sex, she was
a Catholic girl. And then Kazan saw this
and said, 'I like that. Keep it in.'
"So when we shot it, I dropped the glove. But that's what happened. And that's why Marlon, in my mind, was one of
the finest actors we've ever had.
"At some point in his life, I have a feeling he lost
the joy in acting, and that was our loss - not only his loss, our loss. But that was his decision, and it's his
Credit: Paramount Pictures
Credit: 20th Century Fox
Credit: MGM
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint meet aboard a train in the
espionage caper "North by Northwest" (1959).
Saint told Rocca about a phone call she received from her mother
after writing that she was to meet with Alfred Hitchcock about working on the
film: "She said, 'Now, honey, if you are having lunch with Mr. Hitchcock,
I read somewhere' - and it just floored me, because she was not into movie
magazines - 'that he likes women in beige, and white gloves.' Well, I sort of live in beige, so I had a
beige dress, and I had white gloves, because in New York we all had little
white gloves. I still have dozens of them.
So I wore them to lunch, the dress, the gloves, and I got the
"I had studied years at the Actor's Studio, and you do
start from within, and Hitchcock didn't work that way. He's very different from
Kazan, totally different. He started from the external things, the hair, the
makeup, the clothes, the bag, the
jewelry, everything. But then those
things helped me create the spy lady."
And, she added, "What woman doesn't want to be a sexy
spy lady? Maybe not everyone does. But I
thought it would be fun, yep."
Saint said Hitchock gave her three instructions for her role
as the "sexy spy lady" Eve Kendall: "Lower your voice, don't use
your hands, and look directly into Cary Grant's eyes at all times."
Eva Marie Saint played a nurse to Paul Newman's Jewish
militant in the 1960 film, "Exodus." Five years earlier the two had
acted together on TV in a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "Our
Saint told Rocca it was true that director Otto Preminger
took her in his arms to show Paul Newman how she should be kissed. "Can you believe that?" she
laughed. "There's Mr. Blue Eyes. We
know what to do, right? 'No, let me show you!'
And he lies down on the grass next to me and takes me in his arms. And
I'm looking at Paul, you know. It was very funny, but we made believe that he
showed us. Yeah, he showed Paul Newman
how to make love to the nurse!"
"I don't mean to be trivial about it," said Rocca,
"but you made out with a lot of famous leading men in your career, like
Brando and Cary Grant and Paul Newman and Yves Montand."
"On screen, you mean!" Saint said. "Well, why
Credit: United Artists
Warren Beatty played a womanizer and Eva Marie Saint the
latest object of his obsession in John Frankenheimer's "All Fall
Down" (1962).
Eva Marie Saint and James Garner in "36 Hours" (1965),
a wartime thriller about a plot to convince a hospitalized U.S. military intelligence
officer that World War II is over, so he would spill secrets.
Eva Marie Saint played a journalist who has an affair with a
married French race car driver (Yves Montand) in John Frankenheimer's "Grand
Prix" (1966).
"He was so attractive, so attractive," Saint told
Rocca. "And we had the two children over there at the time and they both
had a crush, especially my daughter [who] was about eight at the time. And she fell in love. They wrote for years and years and years. It
was dear.
"And the last shot of the picture, I was standing here,
Yves Montand was sitting here. Suddenly,
after the shot, he pulled me down on his lap and he said, 'You are my favorite
lady.' And I said, 'Thank you. You
should have told me before!'"
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Gregory Peck reteamed with his "To Kill a Mockingbird"
director Robert Mulligan for the 1968 western "The Stalking Moon," about
a former Army Scout trying to protect a woman (Eva Marie Saint) and her
half-Indian son from the boy's Apache father.
Credit: National General Pictures
Eva Marie Saint and George Segal starred in the comedy "Loving"
(1970), directed by Irvin Kerschner, about a woman and her cheating husband.
Credit: TriStar Pictures
Eva Marie Saint played the mother of an aging movie star
(played by Sam Shepard) in Wim Wenders' road movie, "Don't Come
Knocking" (2005).
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Eva Marie Saint plays the adult version of Willa, a
character at the heart of the time-travel/romantic fantasy "Winter's
Tale" (2014), directed by Akiva Goldsman.
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Eva Marie Saint told Mo Rocca that unlike some celebrities, she won't be writing
any tell-all book.
"If you wrote a book, it should be titled, 'How to Make It in Hollywood
and Be a Normal Person,'" Rocca said.
"It would never sell," Saint replied. "Because a lot of
people, when they associate you with Hollywood, they don't want to think of you
as normal. They want to hear, you know, all the stuff in Hollywood!"
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By Laurie Higgins
As a manipulative political stratagem, the left propagates the notion that the normalization of homosexuality is a cultural inevitability. Belief in this inevitability dispirits conservatives and depletes whatever reservoir of motivation they may have to dissent, thus effectively surrendering the public square to sexual subversives.
It is not, however, inevitable that one day all of society will come to believe that homosexuality is morally equivalent to heterosexuality. God's truth and wisdom spoken with unequivocal, unashamed forthrightness, courage, consistency and persistence by flawed people who take seriously the duties of discipleship can make a difference.
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Look no further than the decision of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) to postpone the vote on its national policy on homosexuality. It's fair to assume that vociferous public opposition to the proposal to abandon its national policy prohibiting homosexuals from membership in or leadership of the Boy Scouts was the catalyst for this postponement. We should use this victory to refill our depleting reservoirs.
President Barack Obama, in yet another proclamation that defies the God he claims to serve and hurts children, pontificated on the controversial issue:
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"My attitude is that gays and lesbians should have access and opportunity the same way everybody else does, in every institution and walk of life. The Scouts are a great institution that is promoting young people and exposing them to opportunities and leadership that will serve people for the rest of their lives, and I think that nobody should be barred from that."
That's a mouthful of obfuscation. What he fails to address is whether organizations and associations have the right to make distinctions between moral and immoral acts. Homosexuality, unlike race, for example, is centrally defined by volitional sexual acts that are open to moral assessment. When President Obama refers to "gays and lesbians," he's not referring only to people who experience same-sex attraction. He's referring to people who experience same-sex attraction; affirm homosexual acts as moral and normative; and affirm same-sex attraction, acts and relationships as central to their identity. If, according to President Obama, those who affirm same-sex attraction, acts, and relationships as moral "should have access" to "every institution and walk of life," how, pray tell, do those who believe such acts and relationships are immoral exercise their freedom of religion and association?
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Does President Obama really mean that "nobody" should be barred from the Boy Scouts? What about those who affirm polyamory or adult consensual incest as central to their identity? What about those who espouse theories of racial superiority? And how does an organization promote moral straightness or fidelity to God if it can't make distinctions between moral and immoral conduct? (Let's not forget that God has some rather uncompromising things to say about homosexuality.)
The BSA Executive Board has said that if it changes the national policy, local organizations will still be permitted to adopt whatever policy they want regarding homosexuality. Well, homosexual acts are either moral or immoral. There is no middle ground. If the board votes to change the national policy, it will necessarily have to have concluded that homosexual acts are moral acts. Only if homosexual acts are moral acts could the board permit local clubs to allow those who affirm homosexuality to serve in leadership positions. It would make no sense for the board to say that local clubs have the right to permit those who affirm immoral acts to serve in leadership positions. Conversely, it would make no sense for the board to say that local clubs have the right to prohibit those who affirm moral acts from serving in leadership positions. There can be no moral mugwumpery on this issue.
Thanks to the relentless, presumptuous quest of homosexuals to shape the moral views of other people's children, this Boy Scout kerfuffle is not over. Despite specious claims to the contrary, this battle is not about "equality" or "fairness." It's about the desperate desire of homosexuals to eradicate conservative moral beliefs and every last vestige of moral disapproval from the global moral landscape. The proper response to this obnoxious pressure from homosexual activists and corporations – neither of which group is noted for their commitment to God or sexual rectitude – would be for the BSA leadership to honor God and act bravely by publicly affirming that there are objective moral truths from which our sexual lives are not exempt.
When considering the potential for harm to children, set aside for a moment the issue of homosexuals who may prey on the boys under their charge. There is another harm that will be done to all boys whose leaders are homosexual. Those boys will be taught by example the deceit that homosexual acts and relationships are moral. It is unconscionable that an organization committed to God and moral integrity would countenance such destructive role modeling.
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On Assignment: Family of boy accused of killing great-grandmother talks to 12 News
Trial for Antonio Barbeau scheduled to start in June
The crime stunned the nation: An elderly woman brutally killed in her own Sheboygan County home and the suspects are two 13-year-old boys. One of them is her great-grandson.
For the first time, the family members of both the victim and one of the defendants talk about the woman they lost and the boy who is lost, as well.
They told their story exclusively to WISN 12 News' Joyce Garbaciak.
With the trial pending, and with their son's lawyer looking on, the family members of Barbara Olson and Antonio Barbeau didn't say much about the specifics of the case, but they did say they are among those struggling to understand.
"We could never have imagined that this could happen," said the victim's daughter, Judy Offutt.
Since September, Offutt has been mourning her mother.
"My mother was my best friend for over 30 years. We were very close," Offutt said.
So when her 78-year-old mother, Barbara Olson, didn't come over as planned Sept. 19, Offutt went to her home in Sheboygan Falls.
"I had peeked into the garage. Her car was gone, so it's like, OK, she's out. She's out,'" Offutt said.
But when Offutt moved a little closer, she noticed a blanket near the garage door.
"It all took quite a while to process, but then I could see her feet, and I thought she fell, so I called out to her several times," Offutt said.
"Mom called me. I could tell she was upset, and she just said, 'Grandma had an accident,'" said Nikki Olson, the defendant's mother.
Prosecutors said it was no accident.
According to the criminal complaint, the victim's great-grandson, Antonio Barbeau, and his friend, Nathan Paape, went to Olson's home with a hammer and a hatchet.
"Nathan stated he hit her twice with the hammer, and then Antonio, using the blade end of the hatchet, struck her in the head, and the hatchet stuck there and that both of them had to pull the hatchet loose," the complaint says.
Then, the boys -- 13-year-old eighth-graders -- allegedly stole Olson's car, parked it outside a bowling alley and had a pizza.
"I knew something bad had happened to grandma, and I was so upset about that. And I knew it wasn't natural death, and it was so upsetting, but my child?" Olson said.
Nikki Olson, a single mother, raised Barbeau with the help of her grandmother.
"She helped me so much when Antonio was younger. Grandma Barb was the only reason I was able to go back to school and get my bachelor's degree. She would take care of Antonio for me," Olson said.
"He enjoyed being with her just like he enjoyed being with us," Offutt said.
Family photos over the years show them together. Some are from a trip to the Dells taken months before the crime, showing Great-grandma Barb, near the boy they called Tino.
"Next to God, family was everything to her. (We had) so many family traditions -- going to Noah's Ark every summer and of course, Tino was always with us," Offutt said.
So what could have happened to change someone so much?
"Were alcohol or drugs involved?" Garbaciak asked.
"We're not gonna comment on that," Barbeau's attorney, George Limbeck, said.
"Does he express remorse?" Garbaciak asked.
"What he's talked about, I won't go into. He still might exercise the right to take the witness stand, and I don't want to do anything to prejudice that," Limbeck said.
Limbeck has said that brain development will be an element of the case.
Barbeau's family said he was never the same after suffering a brain injury when he was hit by a car while riding his bike outside Sheboygan's Wilson Elementary School four years ago.
"He was struck at 37 mph," Offutt said.
"There was definitely a change. He has to be monitored and managed," Olson said.
Barbeau is pleading not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Paape is pleading not guilty. Both are now 14, held in juvenile detention, but are being tried as adults. If convicted, they face life in prison with a minimum of 20 years.
"What do you think your mom would want the outcome of this to be?" Garbaciak asked.
"I couldn't say," Offutt said.
Both said they forgive Barbeau.
"Yes, I forgive him. He's my child," Olson said.
"Right away or was it a gradual emotion?" Garbaciak asked.
"I think when you love someone very deeply, that's not going to change. We're trying to understand how it could happen, but I will always love him. I will always love my mother," Offutt said.
Both said they've gotten expressions of support and prayers, and that's really helped them cope.
Both boys will be tried together. The trial is scheduled to begin in mid-June.


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Michelle "Binka" Hlubinka
Michelle, or Binka, makes . While at Maker Media, she oversaw publications, outreach, and programming for kids, families, and schools. Before joining Maker Media in 2007, she worked at the Exploratorium, in Mitchel Resnick's Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab, and as a curriculum designer for various publishers and educational researchers. When she's not supporting future makers, including her two young sons, Binka does some making of her own, most often as a visual artist.


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Movies may fade from memory, but a cool car is forever. The 2003 remake of "The Italian Job" is a case in point. It did so-so box office and got fair-to-middling reviews, but everyone who saw it remembers the stylish Mini Coopers used in the film.
The 2005 film version of "The Dukes of Hazzard" is another example. It was eaten alive by hostile critics, but the movie posters featured a "General Lee" Dodge Charger like the one on the beloved original television show. Its presence on the poster likely sold a few tickets through pure nostalgia alone.
The following list features 10 iconic cars from Hollywood. Some appeared in classic films, while others were featured in movies of lesser esteem. All of them made strong impressions on filmgoers—and even on those who never saw the movie the car was featured in.
Read ahead to see CNBC.com's list of 10 cars from the silver screen whose memories have hung around long after the credits rolled.
By Daniel Bukszpan
Posted 5 March 2013


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Rihanna Lands British Vogue September Cover, Says She's "Thicc" Now
The "Love On The Brain" singer dishes on why so many people may be obsessed
Rihanna is the first ever black woman to be on September's cover of British Vogue Magazine.
The Fenty creator was interviewed by the magazine about many things, included in the issue out August 3, covering her image with fans.
When British Vogue asked RiRi about why her fans adore her so much, she responded:
"Okay, you're asking the wrong person. I don't know, maybe it's because I'm 'thicc' now."
We love "thicc" Rihanna (and any Rihanna, honestly), but so do her fans:
good morning to thicc rihanna only pic.twitter.com/fjUNDs784m— bee (@getgizzywithit) April 4, 2018
Thicc Rihanna is good for us— DBK (@DiamondBoyKhris) January 29, 2018
Check out Rihanna on the cover of British Vogue:
September issue of @britishvogue, styled by @edward_enninful and shot by @nick_knight, on newsstands Friday August 3. Wearing a @prada dress and gloves @savagexfenty lace body. Hair by @yusefhairnyc, make-up by @isamayaffrench using @fentybeauty, floral artistry by @azumamakoto, nails by @jennynails and set design by @tomotattle
Here's what British Vogue posted:
A teaser of @edward_enninful's first @BritishVogue September issue starring cover girl @badgalriri, hitting newsstands on Friday August 3. Read Edward's editor's letter at the link in bio now.
The issue is out tomorrow, August 3, for your viewing and reading pleasure.
Congratulations, Rihanna!


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When businesses wish to stave off a surging competitor or enliven a tired staff, they consult their industry's "best practices" to improve their own workplace and to better meet the needs of their customers. And if best practices can help make secular organizations more efficient and effective, it stands to reason that they might come in handy for Catholic parishes, too.
There's no doubt that parishes today face plenty of challenges, and if asked, most churchgoing Catholics and ministry leaders around the country would likely voice similar concerns. How can we get young people engaged and keep them as active members of the church? What are the key ingredients to lively worship that will meet the spiritual needs of the entire community? Is it possible to bring together diverse populations who have different cultural traditions and speak different languages?
With these challenges in mind, U.S. Catholic sought out ways that parishes are successfully meeting the needs of their parishioners. We consulted parish leaders and other experts for their advice on making the parish a thriving community of believers who carry the message of the gospel far beyond the church doors. Most were eager to share the secrets of their success, which we have collected in the pages that follow.
While no two parishes are identical and no single practice will be one-size-fits-all, we hope that this guide will provide plenty of wisdom to benefit your parish.
Five habits of highly effective parishes
by Kristen Hannum
Best practices for worship
by Karen Baker
Best practices for charity and justice
by Jack Jezreel
Best practices for engaging youth
by Jennifer Ledonne
Best practices for multicultural communities
by Brett C. Hoover
Let the Spirit move you
an interview with Msgr. Ray East
Web-exclusive sidebars:
Best practices for parish communications
by Kristen Hannum
Parish best practices: A case study in welcoming
by Kristen Hannum
These articles appeared in the March 2014 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 79, No. 3).
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* Hamas joy, Israeli scepticism at Gaza truce
* Both sides can draw positives from eight-day conflict
* Seeds of next confrontation already in place
By Crispian Balmer
JERUSALEM, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Triumphal Hamas celebrated a
"victory" in their Gaza stronghold on Wednesday after a truce
was declared with Israel, where a sober reckoning of how the
next round may go underscored the total lack of trust between
the two foes.
Palestinians and Israelis alike were relieved that their
eight-day conflict had come to an end without a bloody invasion
of the Gaza Strip. But on both sides there was a foreboding that
their ceasefire might not last very long.
"We are sceptical," said a senior Israeli government
official, who declined to be named. "But the Egyptians and
Americans have backed this deal, so if it falls apart they know
that we would have a legitimate reason to go in hard."
On the face of it, both Israel and the Islamist group Hamas,
which rules Gaza, can draw positive conclusions at the end of a
brutal clash that killed 162 Palestinians, including 37
children, and five Israelis.
Although Hamas lost its top military commander and suffered
serious hits to its infrastructure and weaponry, it has
nonetheless emerged with its reputation in the Arab world
significantly enhanced and its standing at home embellished.
Israel can take comfort from the fact it dealt painful blows
to its enemy, found a way to work with the Islamist leadership
of Egypt, and showed that it can defend itself from a barrage of
incoming missiles with its high-tech Iron Dome interceptor.
"No one is under the illusion that this is going to be an
everlasting ceasefire. It is clear to everyone it will only be
temporary," said Michael Herzog, a former chief of staff at the
Israeli ministry of defense.
"But there is a chance that it could hold for a significant
period of time, if all goes well," he told Reuters.
Israel and Hamas have been here before. In 2009, they pulled
apart after a 22-day conflict and it took many months before
Gaza militants felt strong enough to start firing rockets again
out of their tiny, impoverished enclave.
At the time, ordinary Gazans resented Hamas, accusing it of
instigating a devastating war and invasion that killed 1,400
Palestinians. Three years on, the mood was different and
thousands took to the streets to celebrate the ceasefire.
After years of isolation, a succession of Arab VIPs rushed
to the enclave to show their solidarity as Israeli warplanes
were striking their targets, and the leaders of Hamas were
treated with careful respect by Egypt - unthinkable in the days
of the ousted president, Hosni Mubarak.
"Hamas is in a stronger position than ever," said Gaza
political analyst Talal Okal, adding that he too did not expect
the truce to become a permanent fixture. "The Palestinians must
not stop preparing themselves for another round," he added.
Hamas refuses to recognise Israel's right to exist and has
scorned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for seeking a
diplomatic solution.
The Western-backed Abbas, who holds sway in the
Israeli-occupied West Bank, cut a lonely figure during the
crisis, seeing Hamas's credibility rise in the Arab world at his
own expense.
In contrast with wild jubilation in Gaza, a few hundred
residents in southern Israel took to the streets to denounce the
deal, fearing that after a brief pause they would once more be
the target of regular rocket attacks.
With a general election just two months away, the political
consensus of the last week immediately evaporated and opposition
figures swiftly laid into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for
not using the mighty army he had positioned on the Gaza borders.
"I think the goals of the operation weren't achieved," said
Shaul Mofaz, head of the centrist Kadima party.
"Israeli citizens expected something else. They expected a
reality in which the Israeli army forced a truce on Hamas. Today
(Egyptian President Mohamed) Mursi, with U.S. backing, forced
Israel to a ceasefire," he told Channel 1 television.
Netanyahu will put a very different spin on it.
He showed he could work with the Islamist Mursi, thereby
shoring up Israel's sagging relations with Cairo. He also
re-invigorated ties with U.S. President Barack Obama, who gave
him constant public support despite their famously bad
Moreover, he will point out that he set limited goals when
he launched the air offensive last week. He never vowed to
topple Hamas, but rather promised to cripple its infrastructure.
Although the Israeli military has declared its mission
accomplished, the public might be hard to convince.
"There was no decisive victory here, there is nothing so
dramatic that Israel can be proud of," said Giora Eiland, a
former National Security Adviser. "But the situation was managed
in the right way and it was clear that Israel enjoyed certain
international support."
Perhaps Israel's biggest winner was the Iron Dome
interceptor that had a 84 percent success rate against incoming
missiles, according to the military, almost certainly saving
many lives and reducing the pressure for any escalation.
Politicians and military experts are likely to take a much
tougher look at the role of the air force, with criticism
already surfacing that it was over cautious in its targeting for
fear of repeating the mass casualties seen in the 2008-2009 war.
"The Iron Dome has proved itself to be a game changer," said
Yohanan Plesner, a Kadima politician who sits on parliament's
foreign affairs and defence committee.
"But on the offensive side, the more we are surgical and
cautious then the harder it is to achieve the goals of long-term
calm. The more we limit ourselves, the less of a price Hamas has
to pay," he told Reuters.
Although Hamas certainly suffered significant losses, it
also had much to boast about to its own people - particularly
the fact that it managed for the first time to send missiles
flying towards both Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
"Israel won't think of challenging us like this ever again,"
said Mohammed al-Ghazaleh, firing a deafening burst from his
Kalashnikov rifle to celebrate the truce in Gaza city.
But such thinking is almost certainly a miscalculation that
already sows the seeds for the next confrontation.
(editing by David Stamp)


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Turbine Entertainment
Infinite Crisis dev diary goes behind the scenes on crafting the perfect DC Comics MOBA
Infinite Crisis developer Turbine has posted the first episode of the game's behind the scenes documentaries, which discusses how the studio can make a perfect MOBA that lives up the DC Comics legacy.
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DDO: Shadowfell Conspiracy screens show off new dungeon
The second major expansion for Dungeons & Dragons Online, Shadowfell Conspiracy, is almost upon us. These new screens apparently show off the new content's main dungeon.
Shadow of Mordor trademarks, domains suggest new Lord of the Rings game inbound
A number of pieces of disaparate evidence suggest Warner Bros. may have a new Lord of the Rings game on the boil.
Lord of the Rings Online update ten to nerf Wardens
Big changes are coming to Lord of the Rings Online's Wardens in the imminent update. The class is undergoing such a dramatic change that Turbine has decided to implement a grace period to allow players to collect gear appropriate to the new builds. If you play or are interested in a Warden, check out this […]
Dungeons & Dragons Online celebrates 7th birthday with Update 17
DDO is having its 7th birthday next week, and as part of the party they've launched Update 17 and given everybody presents.
Lord of the Rings Online Update 10 changes up loot and armor set bonuses
The Lord of the Rings Online Update 10 is coming soon, and Jonathan Steady at Turbine has posted a Dev Diary to explain some upcoming changes to the game they haven't yet talked about, such as boss loot alterations and what's going on with armor set bonuses.
Dungeons & Dragons Online Mac beta client available
Dungeons and Dragons Online is n its way to Mac. A beta client for the free-to-play MMO is available right now from this link; it comes with a number of caveats so be sure to read the accompanying FAQ on the forum. Turbine recently produced an OS-X friendly version of The Lord of the Rings […]
LotRO: Riders of Rohan introduces Warbands
Lord of the Rings ONline will gain a new kind of daily quest with the Riders of Rohan expansion – Warbands.
Lord of the Rings Online trailer demos Great River areas
This new trailer gives a peek at the environments to be found in the newly-released update for Lord of the Rings Online.
First Drow-centric Dungeons & Dragons Online expansion due June 25
The very first expansion for six year-old MMORPG Dunegons and Dragons Online will go on sale on June 25, with pre-orders netting a substantial list of bonuses.
Turbine: Premium MMOs here to stay, but subscription-only model "probably dying"
The free to play revolution isn't killing premium subscriptions, Turbine believes, but it's forcing providers to give consumers flexibility.
LotR Online 'pay to win' items to "create solutions" for newbs
New, performance-enhancing premium items added to the Lord of the Rings Online store are there to help out new players, Turbine has explained.
New LotRO dev diary talks classes
Kotaku's posted up a new Lord of the Rings Online dev diary, this one detailing the new classes to be released in the Mines of Moria expansion later this month.If Runemastering and Wardening have been top of your list of fantasy things to do since you were eight years old, you're in luck.Take a look.
New Mines of Moria screens and movie released
On CVG. The second major Lord of the Rings Online expansion ships on November 18, and is looking tasty if hobbits are your thang.The video gives a look at some of the game's new classes, and the 17 shots show the Central Levels and Khazaddum area.
Turbine will announce console MMO projects "early next year"
Turbine will announce console MMO "products" early next year, Lord of the Rings Online dev boss Jeff Steefel told VG247 today. Note the plural."We're really not talking about what our console product plans are, but we will be soon," he said when asked specifically if we're going to see a console version of LotRO."I would […]
Mines of Moria gets release date
Codemasters has confirmed that LotRO expansion Mines of Moria will release in both Europe and the US on November 18.Exec producer Jeffrey Steefel said, "Beginning November 18 players across North America and Europe will journey with the dwarves deep into Middle-earth to reclaim the ancient kingdom of Khazad-dûm from the minions of Saruman."More on MCV.
Job ad hints at LOTRO for consoles
As spotted by Eurogamer, Turbine's posted a job ad which could point to a console version of Lord of the Rings Online.The company is looking for a senior user interface engineer to "bring the user interfaces of our massively multiplayer titles to the next level" and do so "across both PC and console platforms".Specifically, "this […]
New LotRO Mines of Moria trailer shown
As far as MMOs go, this looks amazing. Turbine's shown off a video of scenery from the Flaming Deeps section of LotRO's Mines of Moria expansion, and "pretty" isn't the word, really.We're going to get a closer look at this later in September. See it for yourself after the break.
LotRO has "most likelihood" of following WoW into mega-market, says Steefel
Speaking to Eurogamer, Lord of the Rings Online boss Jeff Steefel has said that his game has the most chance of the fantasy MMOs to follow World of Warcraft into the mass market."There's another level of success, which is reaching a certain mass-market critical mass, which to be totally fair, only Blizzard has achieved completely […]
Final beta stage applications open for LotRO: Mines of Moria
Turbine's inviting applications for the final stage of the Mines of Moria beta, so go over to the official site and fill in your details if you want to get involved.The Lord of the Rings Online expansion's listed as a Q4 release on Gamespress, and there's a UK press event for it in late September, […]
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Back to Black
Black Widow spiders. Their fault.
I have trouble killing live things. Blame the Black Widows.
At the old farm place, a huge, ancient Magnolia tree stood opposite the front porch of the grey wood framed house. That broad canopy provided much needed summer shade. Wide branches, low forks, and knobby lumps were easy to reach for even the youngest kid. No better castle in the sky or fort perch to drop water balloons from.
So we were close to furious (as close as we were allowed) when Dad announced the Magnolia was off-limits for climbing: there was a big web and Black Widow spiders.
Kids can be impressively quick and logical when fighting for something important.
"It's spiders. They're little. Just get a broom to knock down the web and smush the spider."
"No. Leave it alone."
"But it's daaaaaangerous. It's a Black Widow. It could kiiiiiilllll someone." (Told you. Debate opportunity? We were determined.)
"No. It's not going the jump out of the tree and chase you."
"But it might drop on someone. The wind could blow it out." (Well, we figured that might not fly as it was Summer and there was no wind, but any angle worth a try…)
"But someone might accidentally brush up against it. It's deeeadly."
"No. Keep your hands out of the tree and stay away from it."
"But it's taking away aaaaalllll our fun!"
"No. We don't kill things because they are ruining our fun. We don't kill things simply because it's in the way. The spiders aren't hurting anything; just living their lives. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone. There are plenty of other trees to climb. Go find something else to do."
So we were forced – forced – to share with stupid spiders.
(And forced to make exaggerated duck downs with hands over our heads wearing fake, fearful expressions when under the Magnolia…for a few hours anyway until it was obvious we were the only ones looking.)
The annual Spring dilemma is already here: killing weeds.
They have flowers! Bees rejoice at the dandelions, clovers, onion flowers….(Insert the endless list – and guilt trip – here.)
"It's just a plant in the wrong place" – (Nothing will convince me there's an appropriate place for Dollar Weed.)
Hey! Forget the killing poison. Plant relocation plan!
I just tell myself if I wade out when the
yard is swampy ground is wet, and carefully, cleanly jerk pull weeds out roots and all, that when the weeds find themselves tossed in a landfill, they will find their roots, stretch-out, and happily bloom where they are planted.
See? A helpful plant assist.
Hard to determine when it's best to just walk away.
(Oh, phooey. Wear widow's wǣd, if you must, but dispatch those darn weeds before they take over…)
Hard to take the farm out of the heart.
Maybe not such a bad thing
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Faced with dwindling resources, overcrowded prisons and much more significant crimes, Detroit police are now ignoring traffic infractions. Below, ABC News describes an incident where Detroit's police chief let someone driving without a license go with merely a warning.
He certainly is a legitimate arrest," said Detroit police chief Warren Evans of that license-less driver. "But is it worth being out of service for an hour and a half in an area where the priority runs could be significant in that hour and a half?"
ABC News also reports that, "The in-car cameras and computers in most squad cars don't work so officers can't record traffic stops, run license plates and check for warrants." So basically, speeding is now fair game in the city of Detroit. We plan on putting this to the test. [<a href=" http://abcnews.go.com/US/Politics/de…">ABC News]


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WebObs is where you submit your observations to the AAVSO. You can also use this program to view, edit, and download your own observations. To upload a file of observations, please make sure your file adheres to one of the AAVSO File Format Specifications.
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ROCHESTER — The Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts, 60 Wakefield St., will host "When We Were Green," an exhibit of recent oil paintings by Madbury artist Shaune McCarthy, for the month of November during regular business hours.
Known for the past 12 years as an accomplished, award-winning sculptor, McCarthy is excited to be exhibiting her exuberant, highly skilled oil paintings for the very first time.
"The transformation from ceramic sculpture to paint has revealed to me how much I've learned technically by working with the human figure," she says. " I've discovered that lessons about anatomy, gesture, emotion, space, texture and color have been surprisingly transferable to the canvas."
McCarthy has been actively creating and exhibiting in and well beyond Seacoast New Hampshire for many years. She earned a bachelor of fine art with sculpture emphasis in 1977 at Ohio University in Athens, and in 1995, a bachelor of science degree at the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Since then she has studied with Syd Carpenter at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft; with Tacha Vosburgh at Portland Pottery in Maine; at the Massachusetts College of Art Summer in Bennington, Vt.; and at Sanctuary Arts in Eliot, Maine.
She has been a part of many esteemed New England-wide group shows, including the Master Artist Exhibit at the Soo Rye Art Gallery in Rye (2012) and the Boston International Art Exposition with the Bowersock Gallery in Boston, Mass. (2009), and has had several recent solo exhibitions including Body Language at the Vessels Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts; Five Figures at the Harbor Square Gallery in Rockland, Maine; and Gesture at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence, Mass., all in 2010.
She has been cited on several occasions by prominent New England-based magazines for her work as a sculptor, with a photograph of one of her artworks in the April/May 2010 Issue of Art New England; with an interview for her inclusion in an article in the August, 2009 edition of Art Scope: "Two Young New England Sculptors who Specialize in The Human Form;" and in a 2009 Foster's Showcase article about the works of 22 New England Artists on exhibit at the Marshall Store Gallery in York, Maine.
McCarthy is a member of the New England Sculpture Association and the New Hampshire Art Association. She also has a professional affiliation with the Vessels Gallery in Boston, Mass. She has won many awards, including Best in Show at the Brush Gallery in Lowell, Mass. (2010); the Paul McEachern Award for Sculpture, New Hampshire Art Association at Prescott Park Arts (2007); and an Honorable Mention at the Joan L. Dunfey Memorial Competition and Exhibition, New Hampshire Art Association.
The Franklin Gallery and Ben Franklin Crafts are open Monday through Friday 9 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. To learn more about Shaune McCarthy's "When We Were Green" and future Franklin Gallery exhibits, write to Ross, the Franklin Gallery manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Madbury artist McCarthy on display at Franklin Gallery
ROCHESTER — The Franklin Gallery at Ben Franklin Crafts, 60 Wakefield St., will host "When We Were Green," an exhibit of recent oil paintings by Madbury artist Shaune McCarthy, for the month of November during regular business hours.


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Matt Damon has officially gone on strike from using the toilet — and he wants his fans to do the same! The Promised Land actor, 42, hosted a faux press conference in a new viral video PSA that reveals his decision to boycott the toilet.
"Anybody have any idea what invention has saved more lives than any other in the history of humankind? The toilet," the Water.org co-founder tells reporters in the video campaign. "What's even more shocking is the catastrophic worldwide lack of clean water and sanitation. 780 million people — that's twice the population of the United States — lack access to clean water. 2.5 billion people lack access to a toilet or basic sanitation. I mean, more people have cellphones than have toilets."
To help support Water.org's cause, Damon declared, "In protest of this global tragedy and until this issue is resolved . . . I will not go to the bathroom."
Actress Kate Micucci, playing a reporter in the video, then asked, "Do you mean literally, like you won't go to the bathroom, but will go somewhere else like maybe a swimming pool?"
"You're the reporter, you do the math," he said, and added, "The toilet strike, it's important."
And Damon wants everyone to help. "Join me," he said. "Say no to toilets. Say yes to clean water for all."
For just $25 a day, one person can get clean water for life. To find how you can help, visit strikewithme.org.
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Using Bing Webmaster Tools on Your Insurance Website
Recently, we discussed the importance of Google Webmaster Tools for your insurance website. This week, we're going to get into Bing Webmaster Tools, and why you should be implementing this tool as well.
Bing Webmaster Tools 101
Similar to Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools is a free platform that allows you to submit your website and view its technical data. Bing Webmaster Tools presents you with the following information:
- Clicks to your website from search
- Appearance of your website in search results
- Crawl status of pages
- Crawl errors
- Index status of pages
- Top keywords for your website in organic search
- Top pages for organic search traffic
- Incoming links to your website
Bing Webmaster Tools also allows you to submit your sitemap, review its crawl status, and find / fix your website's crawl errors. Bing's tool will detail out any "SEO suggestions" they see for your website as well, such as adjusting page title tags and meta descriptions.
Why Bother With Bing?
We know what you're thinking. Google holds 67% of the market share for search engines, so why put much effort into complying with Bing's best practices? Bing's share has been slowly growing over time. With almost 19% of the market, it's hard to deny that they're a contender in the search "game." You don't want to put all of your eggs in one basket. In this case, you don't want to rely solely on Google's data to know how your site performs in search overall. Despite Google have the largest share of the search market, they are increasingly taking information away from website owners, while Bing is not.
While your inbound marketing strategy may have been formed with Google specifically in mind, what is best practice for Google should translate to all search engines. Your website should provide high quality, unique, and engaging content that adequately explains both who your agency is and what insurance products you provide. Your website should also be relevant to search users. If your site meets these criteria, then you're on the right track, no matter the search engine.
Bing Webmaster Tools not only indicates how your website is performing and its technical status in Bing search, but also in Yahoo search. Yahoo and Bing merged their search algorithms back in 2011; you now only need to use one set of tools between the two search engines to track your website. By using both Google and Bing Webmaster Tools, you're able to monitor the technical and search performance of your website on all three major search engines.
In learning the technical status of your website and how / why visitors came to your website, you'll be equipped to make any strategy adjustments necessary to ensure you're catering well to every search engine's user base.
Have questions about Bing Webmaster Tools or stories about how it benefited your strategy? Leave a comment so we can discuss.
About The Author
Shawna Arnold is the Inbound Marketing Manager at Astonish, specializing in SEO and content marketing. She has been with Astonish for five years, allowing her to work closely with a variety of insurance agencies all over the country. She has a passion for SEO, content, social media, and all things inbound marketing. She thrives on educating small businesses and individuals on inbound marketing through blogging, eBooks, white papers, and more.Read More


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Revision as of 21:55, 5 April 2009
This is the changelog for ReactOS™ version 0.3.9, an open-source operating system designed to be binary executable- and device driver-compatible with Microsoft™ Windows NT™ and subsequent Microsoft operating systems such as Windows 2000™ and Windows XP™. ReactOS is written by the ReactOS development team, and the last previous version of ReactOS was version 0.3.8 (released 4 February, 2009).
- 1 General
- 2 Host Tools
- 3 Core
- 3.1 Bootloader (FreeLoader)
- 3.2 Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)
- 3.4 Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
- 3.5 Run Time Library (RTL)
- 3.6 Kernel Mode Drivers
- 3.7 NT System Library (NTDLL)
- 3.8 Static Libraries
- 3.9 Keyboard Layouts
- 5 Win32™ Personality
- 5.1 User mode subsystem server (CSRSS)
- 5.2 Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)
- 5.3 Services
- 5.4 Control panel applets
- 5.5 Win32™ Applications
- 5.6 Win32™ Libraries
- 5.7 Regression tests
Generic 0.3.9 Changes
- Added more color schemes. (Gabriel Ilardi, Bug 4149)
Host Tools
Bootloader (FreeLoader)
Kernel and Executive (NTOSKRNL)
- Don't require ULONG alignment on OBJECT_HANDLE_ATTRIBUTE_INFORMATION structure since it is just made of BOOLEANs. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Change ExitStatus of Process from STATUS_TIMEOUT to STATUS_PENDING (STILL_ACTIVE). (Michael Martin,Bug #3135)
Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)
Run Time Library (RTL)
- Remove code for updating the drive-specific current-directory environment variable from RtlSetCurrentDirectory_U; belongs in the CRT instead. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Add another heap freelist for small blocks, making mingw32-make much faster. (Jeffrey Morlan)
Kernel Mode Drivers
- Fix bug preventing removal of directories that previously contained many files. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement wave stream conversion Johannes Anderwald
- Install kmixer service when an audio adapter is installed Johannes Anderwald
- Use Byteswap intriniscs to improve performance Physicus
- Implement KsDefaultDispatchPnp, KsAcquireDeviceSecurityLock, KsReleaseDeviceSecurityLock, KsAddObjectCreateItemToDeviceHeader, KsAllocateDeviceHeader, KsAllocateObjectCreateItem, KsAllocateObjectHeader, KsSetMajorFunctionHandler, KsDispatchIrp, KsCreateTopologyNode, KsCreatePin, KsPinPropertyHandler, KsPinDataIntersection, KsTopologyPropertyHandler, KsValidateConnectRequest, KsAddIrpToCancelableQueue, KsRemoveIrpFromCancelableQueue Johannes Anderwald
- Fix KsAddObjectCreateItemToObjectHeader prototype Johannes Anderwald
- Fix implementation of KsAllocateObjectHeader and store the result either in the passed irp or device header Johannes Anderwald
- Implement Reading / Writing / DeviceIoControl / Flush / QuerySecurity / SetSecurity operation using the object file header Johannes Anderwald
- Implement KsSynchronousIoControlDevice function Johannes Anderwald
- Fix a bug in KsAllocateDeviceHeader which copied the create item to the wrong offset Johannes Anderwald
- Set Created status to true when create function is not zero Johannes Anderwald
- Partly implement KsStreamIo Johannes Anderwald
- Set a completion routine for irps send to lower devices by KsSynchronousIoControlDevice Johannes Anderwald
- NpfsDisconnectPipe: Return STATUS_PIPE_DISCONNECTED if pipe is already disconnected. (Michael Martin)
- Return STATUS_BROKEN_PIPE for cases where the pipe has been closed. (Michael Martin)
- Check that pipes otherside is valid before attempting to fire othersides read/write event. (Michael Martin, Bug #4137)
- Increase reference count on ISubdevice interface after successfully allocating the device header Johannes Anderwald
- Delegate Create Request to Ks Johannes Anderwald
- Implement KSDISPATCH_TABLE for IPortTopology Johannes Anderwald
- KSDEVICE_HEADER must be the first item in the device extension Johannes Anderwald
- Implement IPortFilterWaveCyclic_fnNewIrpTarget Johannes Anderwald
- Store KSPIN_DESCRIPTOR in subdevice descriptor Johannes Anderwald
- Return correct result for IInterruptSync_fnCallSynchronizedRoutine Johannes Anderwald
- Implement interface IPortPinWaveCyclic Johannes Anderwald
- Implement PcValidateConnectRequest Johannes Anderwald
- Set DEVICE_DESCRIPTION to version1 Johannes Anderwald
- Fix interface definition of ISubDevice Johannes Anderwald
- Add missing Init function for IPortFilterWaveCyclic and call it from IPortWaveCyclic Johannes Anderwald
- Add GUIDs for property set of Pin and Topology Johannes Anderwald
- Remove DISPATCH_TABLE from IPortTopology Johannes Anderwald
- Rewrite PcCreateItemDispatch to support pin creation requests Johannes Anderwald
- Add Property handler to IPortWaveCyclic Johannes Anderwald
- Make IPortFilterWaveCyclic singleton Johannes Anderwald
- Implement Adding property handlers to SUBDEVICE_DESCRIPTOR Johannes Anderwald
- Implement KSPROPERTY_CONNECTION_STATE & KSPROPERTY_CONNECTION_FORMAT for property set KSPROPSETID_Connection Johannes Anderwald
- Queue a work item when Irql is above dispatch level Johannes Anderwald
- Open the input / output stream when initializing the pin Johannes Anderwald
- Implement writing into cyclic buffer Johannes Anderwald
- Implement queuing write requests Johannes Anderwald
- Handle KSPROPERTY_PIN_DATAFLOW, KSPROPERTY_PIN_DATARANGES, KSPROPERTY_PIN_INTERFACES, KSPROPERTY_PIN_MEDIUMS, KSPROPERTY_PIN_COMMUNICATION, KSPROPERTY_PIN_CATEGORY, KSPROPERTY_PIN_NAME, KSPROPERTY_PIN_GLOBALCINSTANCES, KSPROPERTY_PIN_CINSTANCES, KSPROPERTY_PIN_NECESSARYINSTANCES Johannes Anderwald
- Call driver provided property request handlers Johannes Anderwald
- Implement waveout get capabilties Johannes Anderwald
- Queue ~ one second of audio data before starting to stream Johannes Anderwald
- Check if an audio pin is already open and close it in that case Johannes Anderwald
- Disable message flood when playing audio files as it is very time critical and makes audio stutter Johannes Anderwald
- Free remaining irps and make sure that the dpc finished before stopping the audio stream. This fixing stuttering when there are too few audio buffers available. Johannes Anderwald
- Complete the IRPs when they are actually have played. This should make audio playback position become more accurate and prevents application to feed in too much audio buffers Johannes Anderwald
- VLC 0.9.8a can now playback audio files Johannes Anderwald
- Implement KSPROPERTY_PIN_PROPOSEDATAFORMAT Johannes Anderwald
- Add KSPROPERTY_PIN_PROPOSEDATAFORMAT handler to IPortWaveCyclic Johannes Anderwald
- Use Interlocked*List function to improve stability as a few of the timing issues have been resolved Johannes Anderwald
- Queue a dpc for each completed buffer Johannes Anderwald
- Complete the irp as soon as possible Johannes Anderwald
- Remove hack in IDmaChannel::PhysicalAddress as it will hide the bug and not prevent es1370mp from crashing Johannes Anderwald
- Fix a horrible bug where the Mdl was not created for the common buffer Johannes Anderwald
- Forward IRP_MN_QUERY_INTERFACE to next lower device object Johannes Anderwald
- Fix & enable PcForwardIrpSynchronous implementation Johannes Anderwald
- Add debug print to IServiceGroup when a unknown IID is requested Johannes Anderwald
- Add a tag for each queued irp which will be used by the future IPortPinWavePci object Johannes Anderwald
- Add basic support for capture devices Johannes Anderwald
- Implement IPortWavePciStream object Johannes Anderwald
- Use ZwCreateFile to get the file handle Johannes Anderwald
- Fix resource file constants Johannes Anderwald
- Implement a few options of sysaudio property set Johannes Anderwald
- Implement an object dispatcher like in portcls which will be used to forward requests Johannes Anderwald
- Check if device supports a specified format. When the device doesnt support a format, query its datarange and create a format which it supports and create a kmixer pin which is used to convert the format Johannes Anderwald
- Load kmixer.sys when sysaudio starts Johannes Anderwald
- Call kmixer when there is work to do. Johannes Anderwald
NT System Library (NTDLL)
Static Libraries
- Fix some places where Win32 error codes were put in errno directly instead of going through _dosmaperr. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Fix bug in wcscspn where it would return a non-zero value on an empty string. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Added code for updating the drive-specific current-directory environment variable to _tchdir. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Fix bug in wcstoul causing it to set *endptr improperly. (Jeffrey Morlan)
Keyboard Layouts
Win32™ Personality
User mode subsystem server (CSRSS)
Kernel-mode subsystem server (Win32K)
- Unify StretchBlt implementations (Gregor Schneider, Evgeny Boltik)
- StretchBlt clipping support (Gregor Schneider, bug #3477, bug #3656, bug #4089)
- Fix GetBitmapBits return values (Gregor Schneider)
- Fix palette copy in GetDIBits (Gregor Schneider)
- Fix brush and rectangle offsets in BitBlt and TransparentBlt functions (Gregor Schneider, Evgeny Boltik)
Control panel applets
Win32™ Applications
Command Prompt
- Fix handling of quotes in various commands. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make delayed variable expansion actually be delayed. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement complete support for FOR command. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- In SET /A: allow hex/octal numbers; allow space after an identifier; don't echo result when in a batch file. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Improve performance of TYPE; also make it interruptable by ^C. (Jeffrey Morlan, Bug #4057)
- Speed up batch file execution by reading a line at a time instead of a byte at a time; only end line on '\n', not '\r'. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Fix handling of "call file.bat & somethingelse" so the right side doesn't run until after the batch file is finished. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Do variable expansions in arguments to CALL command, and also argument to CMD /C or /K. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Ignore special characters in a REM line. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement SETLOCAL and ENDLOCAL; make delayed expansion optional. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Fix bug where "DIR directoryname /S" wouldn't list subdirectories; got rid of extra * that appeared in DIR /B /S output. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Give an error message when trying to DEL a file that doesn't exist. (Víctor Martínez Calvo, Bug #4244)
- In a pipeline ("prog1 | prog2") run all programs simultaneously. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- In a 'Bad command or filename' error, print the name of the non-existent program, so getting the error from a batch file isn't so mysterious. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement enhanced variable substitution. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Fix output of various date/time stuff to be more compatible with Windows. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement ASSOC command (Lee C. Baker, Bug #4275)
- Implement MKLINK command. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement SHIFT /n. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Do delayed expansion in argument to IF ERRORLEVEL. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make MEMORY and FREE commands capable of showing values >= 4GB. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Replace hard-coded English string constants with translatable resource strings. (Jeffrey Morlan, Bug #3718)
- When running a non-executable file, run the handler program in the same console if it's a console program; use NULL as the lpVerb to get the default action rather than assuming that it's "open"; allow passing parameters besides just the file name. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make START command able to open non-executable files or directories/URLs by using ShelllExecute. (Jeffrey Morlan, Bug #4055)
- Implement all remaining switches for the START command. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Implement CMD /D, /Q, /R, /A, and /U switches. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make VERIFY set the errorlevel; also make it recognize when ON/OFF is followed by spaces. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make ECHOSERR actually print to stderr, not stdout. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make batch file echo output look nicer. (Jeffrey Morlan, Bug #4022)
- Fix a buffer overflow in Execute; make command parsing in DoCommand/Execute more compatible with Windows. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Make cmd able to (sort of) work without a console. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Fix some incorrect lengths in ConInString; also make sure result is nul-terminated. (Jeffrey Morlan, Bug #4085)
- Fix PAUSE so it only returns on a key being pressed, not released. (Jeffrey Morlan, Bug #4324)
- Use correct codepage for reading batch files. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Check for AutoRun registry value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER was well as HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE; allow AutoRun commands to be longer than MAX_PATH. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Simplify code for CD, PUSHD, and POPD commands and also fixed some bugs. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Added all missing functionality. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Use correct printf format so strings don't get displayed as gibberish. (Jeffrey Morlan)
- Prevent using of uninitialized values in error case Johannes Anderwald
- Don't leak ServiceHandle and ServiceManagerHandle Johannes Anderwald
- Don't pass empty ServiceArgumentVector to StartService Johannes Anderwald
- Allow only one instance of Task-Manager to be run at the same time ((Gabriel Ilardi,Bug 3976)
Win32™ Libraries
- Correct param values for GetServiceDisplayNameW and GetServiceKeyNameW when service name is not found. (Michael Martin)
- Improve error checking Johannes Anderwald
- Add more error checks which reduce winetest errors Johannes Anderwald
- MultiByteToWideChar: Fill the WideCharString buffer with what will fit, to match Windows. (Michael Martin, Bug #3740)
- Make sure "Open" verb is always inserted first Johannes Anderwald
- Apply item style to current item not to next Johannes Anderwald
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Charles Darwin Theories..UPDATE FOR MAY 15, 2008—POLAR BEAR HAS BEEN ADDED TO ENDANGERED SPECIES LIST…BREAKING NEWS FROM 1010 WINS ON 5/14/08!!!!..extinct animals return to grace us with their beauty! Now lets start working on saving our world for them and our children's children!
I am writing this as an update to this article. My heart is hurting for the POLAR BEAR! It is a beautiful animal. But its natural habit is being destroyed by GLOBAL WARMING!!!!! 1010 WINS radio stated it today. That our nation… added it. I feel dismay and fear for our world and its future. AS I WATCHED MY NEW FAVORITE MOVIE….EVAN ALMIGHTY…..I WONDERED…..WHO WILL BUILD THE ARK FOR OUR ENDANGERED SPECIES?????? WHO WILL SAVE THE POLAR BEAR???? WHEN THE TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE WORLD BECOME TOO WARM AND THERE ARE NO MORE ICECAPS….WHO WILL SAVE US????? Think about it and start talking and start writing to your congressman…..PLEASE! OUr world depends on it….your future, and my future, and the CIRCLE OF LIFE depends on it!!!!
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This cloud rat, found in a mossy forest about 7,700 feet above sea level in Mt. Pulag National Park in the Philippines, was the first of its species to be seen in 112 years. Click through the photos to see sightings of other rare creatures.
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Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo said April 16 they have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam. Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, including this one.
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THIS FROG BREATHES THROUGH ITS SKIN…THIS ALSO IS ANOTHER ANIMAL THOUGHT TO BE EXTINCT. sUCH VARIETY…SUCH UNIQUE QUALITIES….SHOULD BE PERSERVED.
A peculiar breed of frog discovered on the island of Borneo seems to have evolved in reverse, scientists reported April 9. Unlike most creatures that developed lungs as they crawled out of the ocean, the lungless Barbourula kalimantanensis breathes through its skin.
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Guess what? there is such a thing as a wolverine! What can we do to perserve our forests….use less paper? Replant trees…Keeping it green for such animals.
Until this picture of a wolverine was taken on Feb. 28 by a motion-and-heat-detecting digital camera in the northern part of the Sierra Nevada range in California, scientists didn't believe wolverines still existed there.
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This is a albino killer whale. The ocean dredging is killing our oceans and the animals that are within. The constant over fishing is causing the sea animals to loose their food source.
Researchers working near Alaska's Aleutian Islands on Feb. 23 spotted a white killer whale, which they estimate was 25 to 30 feet long and weighed more than 10,000 pounds. This is only the third time in the past 15 years that such a whale has been seen in the area.
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This Maud Island frog lives at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in New Zealand. The rare breed, which has changed little over the past 70 million years, is thriving in the predator-free environment. Unlike other frogs, they hatch fully formed, skipping the tadpole stage. They also do not croak, live in water or have webbed feet.
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This is another animal….so rare that there are only thirty n the world. Our extistence is dependant on the extistence of our animals.
In October, wildlife officials caught and examined a critically endangered Amur leopard in order to possibly find out how inbreeding undermines its tiny population in eastern Europe. There are only about 30 such animals left in the wild.
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This beautiful butterfly so delicate….What can we do to continue to see these rare animals/insects?
Visitors flocked to Falcon State Park in Texas after this rare telea hairstreak butterfly was captured on film by Berry Nall in October. The butterfly hadn't been seen in the U.S. for more than 70 years.
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In May, scientists discovered these rare soft-shell turtles, once thought to be on the brink of extinction, in a once-restricted part of Cambodia.
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These animals can live without our basic assistance. All they need from us for us humanbeings to clean up factory emissions, carbon emissions and chemicals that are leaking into the water and ground and stop cutting down the forests. What can we do to save this planet for ourselves and our fellow inhabitants like this owl called…..
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Since the process of cheating on an exam is quite different from plagiarizing an essay, different strategies must be used to address this problem. Again, it is much better to prevent cheating than merely detect it. The rules of behaviour in exams should be made clear in advance, so that students do not inadvertently do something the instructor views as unacceptable and know that invigilators are aware of possible ways of cheating. York's Senate Policy on Invigilation of Examinations provides general instructions and procedures for conducting examinations. In addition, the following is provided to help in dealing with different types of cheating on exams:
- Getting illegal access to information about the exam before it takes place, This can be prevented by making sure copies or drafts of the exam are not accessible to anyone who should not have access to it. Material related to the exam should not be left on desks or in wastebaskets. In some cases desperate students have broken into offices to retrieve copies of an exam. Locking up exam material in a file cabinet or making the material difficult to find can be an extra precaution.
- Copying from another student. This can be hard to avoid or detect in crowded examination halls, particularly in sloping lecture halls, where students may be able to see the work of several other students without being obvious about it. This kind of cheating is particularly easy in the case of multiple choice questions or questions for which the answer is a number, a formula or a diagram. Some suggestions to minimize copying include:
- Seat students as far apart as the room allows
- It is better to seat students behind each rather than side by side
- In sloping lecture halls, an invigilator standing at the front of the room and looking towards the students can note if their eyes are wandering in inappropriate directions
- Have students remove hats that might hide wandering eyes
- Create two or more versions of the exam and distribute them to alternate seats, so that students cannot easily see other copies of their version of the exam. For example, different versions of a multiple choice question could be obtained by rearranging the order of the questions, or of the answers for each question. Indicating in advance that there will be several versions of the exam can prevent cheating.
If there is some reason to suspect that a student is copying from another student, but if the invigilator is not completely sure, it may be appropriate to ask the student to move to another seat where copying is not possible. This should be done in a way that does not cause disruption for other students. It also can be useful to have another invigilator assess the situation.
- Bringing information into the exam room before or during an exam. This could involve smuggling in notes, either at the start of the exam or in connection with a trip to the washroom. It also could involve the use of a cell phone or other communication device. Such devices should not be allowed. To minimize the possibility of a student bringing in exam booklets containing information, you could mark the official booklets for the exam in some way.
- Arranging for someone else to write the exam. The main preventative measure here is to check identification and signatures carefully. This kind of cheating is extremely difficult If all the students are known to the instructor, but for big classes it may be hard to prevent. Photographs are not always clear, especially if the hairstyle or the glasses of the person has changed. As in the case of copying from another student, it would be appropriate to ask students to remove hats that hide faces.
- Changing the answer on a graded question. This involves a student changing the answer on a graded question and then, without acknowledging the changes, asking the instructor to grade the exam again. The alteration may involve changing an answer or adding additional material. Requiring students to write in ink will prevent them from changing answers, and graders can draw lines around or under students' written answers so that it is difficult to add material. If there is reason to suspect that an answer has been altered after having been returned to the student, it could be appropriate to make a copy of later tests written by the same student, so that hard evidence can be obtained.
Invigilators need to take their responsibilities seriously, and watch for activities that suggest cheating. In the interest of prevention, it is important for students to know in advance that cheating of any type is not acceptable, and that confirmed cases of cheating will result in penalties. It is also very important that students know exactly what constitutes cheating. The rules should be clearly defined. The best way to do this is to include information with the material handed out at the beginning of the course.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Forecasters called for strong hail and possible tornadoes in western Kansas and a blizzard in four other states on Monday in the first of what are expected to be several days of nasty weather in the middle of the country.
The blizzard was expected to hit Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming on Monday. An Arctic cold front has triggered winter weather warnings over most of Colorado, said National Weather Service meteorologist Jim Kalina.
Meanwhile, warm air from the south mixing with cold air from Colorado is expected to cause severe weather in western Kansas, including possible tornadoes, said weather service meteorologist Matt Gerard, based in Dodge City, Kansas.
"It's a clash of air masses going on," Gerard said, adding that forecasts call for large hail in western Kansas. Denver and its urban area could get up to 11 inches of snow overnight and through Tuesday, said Kalina.
He said temperatures could plunge some 40 degrees from the mid-60s on Monday to well below freezing when the front moves through. Areas from Denver to Rapid City, South Dakota; Casper, Wyoming; and Scottsbluff, Nebraska are expected to see blizzard conditions between Monday night and Tuesday, with plunging temperatures, high winds and heavy snow, according to Accuweather.com.
The blizzard is forecast to move into north central Nebraska and central Minnesota later Tuesday into Wednesday. South Dakota transportation officials advised travelers to move up travel plans to reach intended destinations during daylight hours, and be prepared to stay in until the storm passes.
Heavy snowfall is expected, from 3 to 16 inches in the state, with winds up to 40 miles per hour. The nasty weather will move toward more populated areas on Tuesday evening, with hail, damaging winds and some possibility of tornadoes predicted around Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area in Texas, according to Robert Thompson, lead forecaster with the National Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
Forecasters expect the front to hit Arkansas Wednesday afternoon and evening, with a line of thunderstorms expected to bring as much as three inches (7.6 cm) of rain and damaging winds, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado season in the United States typically starts in the Gulf Coast states in the late winter, and then moves north with the warming weather, peaking around May and trailing off by July.
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(CNN) — A 23-year-old Indian woman, whose gang-rape aboard a bus in New Delhi spawned days of mass protests across India, has died, according to a doctor who was treating her at a Singapore hospital.
The woman "passed away peacefully" at 4:45 a.m. Saturday (3:45 p.m. ET Friday), with her family and Indian officials at her side, Dr. Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer at Mount Elizabeth Hospital, said in a statement.
The woman had been in "extremely critical condition" since being admitted Thursday to the Singapore hospital, and Loh had said Friday that she'd "taken a turn for the worse."
"She had suffered from severe organ failure following serious injuries to her body and brain," Loh said. "She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds, but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome."
Authorities haven't released the name of the rape victim, but protesters are calling her Damini, which means "lightning" in Hindi. "Damini" also is a 1993 Bollywood film whose lead female character fights for a housemaid, a victim of sexual assault.
T.C.A. Raghavan, India's ambassador to Singapore, said the woman's family "of course was shattered" by her death.
"At the same time, they realize that the best possible medical attention was provided to her," he said. "In the end, it was the scale of her injuries that proved too much."
Attackers assaulted the woman and her male
companion on a bus December 16, robbing them of their belongings before dumping them at the side of a road, police said. Six suspects are now under arrest, including the bus driver and a minor.
Her male companion was eventually discharged from a hospital, but the female victim's condition deteriorated as she spent days in intensive care, battling for her life.
Police said last Saturday that she had recovered enough to give a statement to a magistrate from her hospital bed the night before. But on Sunday, she underwent another surgery to wash out infection in her abdomen, her doctors said.
"'Damini' just a name now," famed Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan wrote on Twitter, reacting to the woman's death. "Her body has passed away, but her soul shall … forever stir our hearts !!!"
The attack itself set off a wave of protests by those claiming police and government officials do not do enough to address rape in India.
Reported rape cases in India — where a cultural stigma keeps many victims from reporting the crime — have increased drastically over the past 40 years — from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in 2011, according to official figures. New Delhi alone had 572 rapes reported last year and more than 600 in 2012.
One such recent case involved a 17-year-old girl who claimed she'd been gang-raped during the Hindu festival of Diwali on November 13, though a formal case wasn't registered by police until 14 days later.
She committed suicide Wednesday by ingesting poison, according to Paramjit Singh Gill, the inspector-general of police in the Patiala district of Punjab, in northern India. In her suicide note, the teenager blamed her alleged rapists. Three suspects — including a female accomplice — have since been arrested, Gill said.
Seema Sirohi, from the Indian Council on Global Relations, said that most women in Indian have stories of sexual harassment and abuse on public transportation, on the streets, and elsewhere. Regardless of how a woman dresses, "You are still open season for men."
"There are a lot of reasons why this happens, but the patriarchal system is one, a lack of policing is another, and general treatment of women is not equal to men, even though it may be so under the law," Sirohi said.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has acknowledged the issue, saying that assuring the safety of women is his government's "highest concern." He said their emergence in public "is accompanied by growing threats to their safety and security."
"Women and girls represent half the population, and our society has not been fair to this half," Singh said in a speech Thursday. "Their socio-economic status is improving, but gaps persist."
The Indian government announced plans Thursday to "name and shame" convicted rapists by posting their names, images and addresses on official websites, according to the Times of India.
And the Cabinet plans to set up a commission to look into rape cases and suggest measures to improve women's safety. This group has three months to submit its report to the government.


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