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Rage HD iOS free for one week
id Software has celebrated the Rage Facebook page reaching 100,000 'likes' by making its iOS title available for free until August 24. Not something to get angry about, unless you have an Android handset.
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American McGee to focus on free-to-play PC titles and mobile platforms
Spicy Horse studio head, American McGee has said that Alice: Madness Returns "may be the last retail box product that we do for some time." However, he has an idea or two about Alice 3, should EA ever choose to make it.
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SCEE extends PSPgo game voucher promotion
Adam Grant, European product manager for PSP, has announced on the EU PS Blog that Sony has extended its PSPgo Promotion, which allows you to download a free game when you buy the handheld.
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1 vs 100 will be free for Gold members on Xbox Live
XBLA title 1 vs. 100 Live, based on the TV game show, will be free for Gold members when it lands on the service this spring.
It's being called a massively multiplayer online game complete with live players, new content each time you log in, live events and real hosts.
Again, it's free.
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This is a replication of the model developed by Robert Axtell, Joshua M. Epstein and H. Peyton Young (AEY's model hereafter) in which two players demand some portion of the same pie, and the portion of pie that they get depends on the portion demanded by their opponent. In AEY's model, two players demand some portion of a pie. They could demand three possible portions: low, medium and high. As long as the sum of the two demands is not more than 100 percent of the pie, each player gets what he demands; otherwise each one gets nothing. There is a population of n agents that are randomly paired to play. Each agent has a memory in which he retains the decision taken by his opponents in previous games. The agent uses the information stored in his memory to demand the portion of the pie that maximizes his/her benefit (with probability 1-epsilon) and randomly (with probably epsilon), where epsilon represents the noise level in the system. What makes an agent choose among low, medium or high? There are two possible decision rules in this model: > FIRST DECISION RULE: DEMAND THE OPTION THAT MAXIMIZES THE EXPECTED BENEFIT An agent will check his memory to find how often each option has been chosen by his opponents. Then, the agent considers that the probability that his current opponent chooses L (low) for example is equal to the relative appearance of L in his memory. In the same way, he calculates how likely it is for the opponent to choose M and H. Once the agent knows this information, the agent estimates his benefit for the three possible options as follows: > SECOND DECISION RULE: CHOOSE THE BEST REPLY AGAINST THE OPPONENTS' MOST FREQUENT DEMAND In this case, the agents will demande the pie portion that maximizes their benefits against the most likely option taken by their opponents in previous games (i.e. the mode of their memory). This is to say, an agent assumes that his opponents option will be the mode of the content of his memory. Notice that any of these rational behaviours (first or second decision sule) take place with probability 1-epsilon. However, a random decision is taken with probability epsilon. The payoff matrix (i.e. the combination of rewards) can be chosen as well by changing the value assigned to low in the interface screen. The values used for low, medium and high in AEY's model are, respectively, 30, 50 and 70. Finally, you can choose three types of memory configuration: STANDARD MEMORY: An m-size memory (m is defined in the interface screen). All the agents are initialized with m random values in their memories. PROGRESSIVE MEMORY: The agents' memories are initialized with only one element (chosen at random). After the first iteration, each agents stores the decision taken by his opponent, increasing the memory size to two; after the second interation, each agent stores the decision taken by his opponent, generating a 3-size memory. This process is allowed to continue during a number of iterations, until the memory size reaches the value 'm'. At this point, the agents start deleting their oldest memory so that the memory size keps constant and equal to m. ENDORSED MEMORY: In AEYs model, all the elements in the agents memory have the same weight when they have to take a decision. This means that the oldest values in the memory (i.e. the decisions taken by the agents opponents several matches ago) have the same importance than the recent ones. When the 'endorsed memory' option is selected, the memory structure is modified so that the recent decisions have a higher weight than the older ones. 1. Select the parameters to run the simulation. They are located below the simplex: If you want the agents to show a label with their id, turn on the switch 'label-on-agents'. If you want to stop the simulation when the system reaches an equitable equilibrium or a fractious state, turn on the switch 'stop-if-equilibrium'. Otherwise, the simulation keeps on running until the specified number of iterations is reached (this is useful to observe how the system leaves the equitable equilibrium or the fractious state when there is noise in the system -epsilon > 0). 2. Select the payoff matrix by choosing a value for low (lowest demand). Notice that AEY's original model uses 30 as the lowest demand. 3. Choose a decision rule. 4. Select a memory configuration. 5. Click setup to initialize the system with the selected parameters and then go to run the simulation.WHAT IS IT?
- The average benefit I get if I choose L is L multiplied by the probability that my opponent chooses L, M or H.
- The average benefit I get if I choose M is M multiplied by the probability that my opponent chooses L or M.
- The average benefit I get if I choose H is H multiplied by the probability that my opponent chooses H.
An agent will choose H if L is the most frequent decision taken by his opponents in the previous matches; If the most repeated value in his memory is M, the player will choose M. If previous matches show that H is the most frequent decision taken by his opponents, the agent will choose L.
The weight that we have assigned to each memory position follows an arithmetic progression: for instance, if the common difference of the arithmetic progression is set to 3, the oldest value in the memory will have a weight of 1, the second oldest value will have a weight of 4 (1+3), the third oldest value will have a weight of 7 (4+3), and so on. Supposing that the memory size is m, the most recent value in the memory will have a weight of [1 + (memory size 1) · 3].HOW TO USE IT
- n: number of agents.
- m: memory size.
- number of iterations.
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This family run trattoria is on the South Side of Glasgow away from the tourist trails and so caters for a local customer base. It's small, maybe 8 tables. The kitchen is in view of the dining area. On a cold and wet October night it was warm and cosy. The menu provided plenty of variety whilst radiating authenticity of... More
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From the friendly welcome to the amazing food, everything in this cosy wee bistro is just perfect. Only advice to pass on is book if your planning to attend at weekends. No point in saying anything else as my words would not do it justice.
We ate lunch and what a great meal we got. The pizza was great, the pasta with meatballs perfect and the calzone could feed an army. Highly recommend for a reason.
On a visit back to my old 'home' we popped in here late on a Friday night for a coffee. They were just closing but were happy to oblige. We couldn't resist a wee bit of cake as well...and got 2 giant pieces of delicious cake! I had tiramisu and hubby had amaretto cake. Delicious. Coffee, great, as you'd expect.... More
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The restaurant has a nice atmosphere but the food was very average. It is rated highly on trip adviser but I have been to far better Italian restaurants in Glasgow.
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Scientists meet in Geneva to discuss global trade in wild plants
Geneva, 11 August 2003 –The Plants Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is meeting in Geneva from 12 to 15 August to evaluate how to promote the conservation and sustainable use of rare and valuable wild plants.
Experts representing Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and Oceania, as well as leading scientific institutions and specialized NGOs will consider how best to regulate trade and promote sustainable use of orchids, devil's claw, agarwood, Guaiacum and other plants valued for their wood, medicinal, ornamental or other qualities.
The Committee will consider the merits of removing the controls for artificially propagated hybrids of several genera of orchids. These hybrids are traded in enormous quantities, with nurseries producing annually more than 35 million orchid plants, but the trade itself has no impact on the natural populations. Relaxing the current controls would allow enforcement officers to focus on the smuggling of endangered orchids stolen from their natural habitats. Orchids form the largest family of plants, with over 20,000 species in 750 genera and can be found on all continents.
The devil's claw (so named because of the peculiar shape of its seeds) is a medicinal plant native to Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. It is used in pharmaceuticals for treating arteriosclerosis, diabetes, hepatitis, and other ailments. An estimated 20,000 southern African households depend on this plant for their main source of income. Earnings from harvesting are very low with harvesters receiving between USD 0.80 and USD 2.10 per dry kilogram of tubers.
Agarwood is a product obtained from various trees of the genus Aquillaria, which range from Papua New Guinea to Vietnam. It results from the trees' reaction to a fungus infection of the wood. Agarwood is used to produce incense and perfumes, mainly in the Middle East. High-quality Aquillaria wood can fetch up to USD 10,000 per kilogram. Only part of the wood of one in five trees is infected, and agarwood can not be detected until the tree has been cut down and broken into smaller parts. This causes indiscriminate cutting, which poses a serious threat to the species survival.
The Committee will also discuss issues relating to the identification and management of Guaiacum, a genus of three or four tree species from Central America. It is mainly traded for its greenish coloured wood and its medicinal properties.
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I need an open source disk imaging application (something like Ghost or Acronis). Which one would you suggest?
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It is definitively not "open source", but maybe still good enough and has an API: Imagex / WIM files from the Windows Vista AIK toolkit. With that free download you get Windows PE and the imagex command line tool. It will make a file based image of your ntfs drive into a WIM-file which is single instance, compressed and stores everything you need (ACLs, owner, streams) and only skips pagefile if you want. It's very easy to use, e.g. over a mounted network share! | |||
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DRUNKEN SHREW: The tiny pen-tailed tree shrew of Malaysia has as many as nine alcoholic beverages per night, imbibing fermented nectar from the bertam palm.
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Stories abound about animals who have taken a nip—or 10. In 2004, Reuters reported that a black bear had passed out at the Baker Lake Resort in Washington State after binging on beer. Last October the Associated Press recounted a tale of six Indian elephants stumbling around and uprooting a utility pole, electrocuting themselves, after guzzling a homemade rice brew in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. Even Charles Darwin noted in The Descent of Man that monkeys have a "strong taste" for "spirituous liquors" and beer.
Still, there is scant scientific evidence proving that animals go on benders with the naturally occurring alcohol in fermenting fruit. Quite the contrary: the few studies done seemed to indicate they had either no interest or a distinct aversion to it. But new research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that at least a few creatures in the wilds of the Malaysian rainforest like to drink the hard stuff.
In the mid 1990s, Frank Wiens and Annette Ziztmann, animal physiologists at Germany's University of Bayreuth, observed that tiny pentailed treeshrews frequent the bertam palm, returning regularly to nip the nectar. Wiens also noticed a strange yeasty aroma wafting from the plant, and what appeared to be foam like the head on a mug of beer.
"This indicated [to me] that there might be alcohol involved," Wiens recalls. He tested the nectar and, lo and behold, discovered that it was 3.8 percent alcohol, which is similar to that of some beers. Seems the bertam palm flower bud harbors a previously unknown species of yeast, which acts as a brewery, fermenting the nectar.
This botanic bartender knows how to please its customers: seven species of mammals in that west Malaysian rainforest, including the pentailed treeshrew and the slow loris, quaff alcohol nightly, sometimes going back for seconds and thirds in a single evening. In human terms, according to Wiens' calculations, these diminutive creatures are regularly consuming the equivalent of about nine alcoholic beverages a night. Wiens says that it's a two-ways street: the animals get to enjoy a brew—or two or three—but they also act as the plant's pollinators.
Despite high alcohol levels, however, the furry little nippers didn't get fuzzy—they displayed no overt signs of drunken behavior; there was no stumbling, swaying, passing out. Wiens speculates that the alcoholic nectar may still have some neurological effect in enticing them back for seconds, which, he says, makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. The animals get food, and the plant retains its pollinators.
Biologist Robert Dudley of the University of California Berkeley says this study is the first to demonstrate his theory that our attraction to alcohol evolved from a time when we roamed forests in search of energy-rich plants. A whiff of alcohol might have signaled that a fruit had reached peak calorie content. But like many adaptions that may once have been useful, he says, our evolutionary predilection for fermented fruit may lead to an unhealthy addiction to alcohol in today's world of plenty (just as we now just get fat instead of expending energy stored for use when food was scarce). And pentailed treeshrews are similar to the earliest pre-primates, a living model of extinct species from which shrews and primates, leading to humans, branched off.
"Humans have an affinity for ethanol (plant-derived alcohol), and captive primates are well known to like to drink anthropogenically sourced ethanol," Dudley told Sciam.com. "Natural consumption of dietary ethanol deriving from fermenting fruits or nectar has never been studied previously, and this is a highly fruitful area for future investigation."


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Mr. LANDERS opposed the amendment. He favored the resolution as it came from the House. He objected to burdening the Treasury of the United States. The amendment was indefinite, as regards the pay of commissioned officers.
Mr. CLAYPOOL moved to amend by striking out of the amendment all that relates to commissioned officers. He was not afraid to put himself upon the record. The pay of private soldiers was always too low, and, in the diluted state of the currency, the pay of officers is not too high.
Mr. MARCH, The amendment offered by the committee did not say reduce all grades 25 per cent., but left the amount of reduction to those who knew better than we do what reduction in the several grades would be fair and just.
Mr. MANSFIELD opposed the proposition to reduce the pay of officers. Distinctions must, in the nature of things, exist in military life. Take the military history of the world from the time of Julius Caesar down, and you will find that the stricter the discipline and the more marked the distinctions between the grades, the more high-toned and efficient the army. He would be glad, if it was possible, to raise the pay of soldiers, but that, in the present state of the Treasury, was impossible, and he would vote against the whole proposition. He would prefer to pay what we owed first and then, if we had any to spare, it could fee expended in the manner proposed. But in no ease would he favor a reduction of the officers' pay. He regarded the resolution as a buncombe one.
Mr. WOLFE. It is true in an army that a soldier is looked upon as a mere machine, but Senators here should regard them as men having rights at home, if not in the army. The reduction of the pay of officers would enable the government to deal more liberally with the private soldier, and for that reason he favored the resolution as it came from the House. Is the class of commissioned officers in the army the only class who are not to bear their share of the burdens that fell upon the shoulders of all classes of the people? Are they alone to be exempt? The pay of officers has always been out of all proportion to the services rendered. We hear of these officers now instead of devising plans to beat the enemy, holding meetings and passing resolutions denouncing the loyal citizens of their own State--denouncing members of this Legislature as a miserable set of "butternuts " These gentlemen are getting a little too fast and saucy. They should remember they spring from the people, and should be taught to attend to their own business. Bring these men down to a level that will teach them to attend to their own business, and let page: 89[View Page 89] other people attend to theirs. The same rule holds good in churches. Those ministers, whose salaries were such as made them rich, were always meddling where they should not. The purest preachers were those who were paid the least. He was opposed to the mere money patriot. Such men as McClellan and Burnside, and Rosecrans, men who did not fight for pay, he did not allude to in these remarks. He believed they, and many others, were far above all sordid aims ; but there were thousands of leeches hanging on to the army who were overpaid and their pay should be reduced.
Mr. PLEAK advocated a concurrence with the report of the committee. His own personal experience as a private soldier had taught him that the orderly Sergeant was the most important officer in the company. This officer did more duty and had more responsibility than a Captain, yet he received but twenty dollars a mouth. It was a mistaken idea that a Captain had great pecuniary responsibility. The arms and equipments were charged to the soldier, and, if lost, he was the loser, and not the commanding officer. Lieutenants were often of little utility, but their pay was nearly six times that of the Orderly Sergeant. He knew of officers charging for servants that they never bad. The Sergeant Major did half the duty required of regimental officers, yet his pay was almost nothing. He was for changing the rule, and for equalizing the pay in proportion to the amount of important labor performed.
Mr. MURRAY favored the amendment to the amendment. If that did not prevail he would vote for the amendment of the Committee, and if that was lost he would vote for the House resolution. He did not think as a general rule the officers entered the service for the sake of making money. There may be instances, but he thought they were rare. He wanted the pay of the privates raised at all events He was happy to see that the majority of the Legislature favored the increase. It would have a good effect on the army and the country.
Mr. WHITE favored the amendment to the amendment. The soldiers from Indiana were intelligent, and calculated when they entered the service how they were to meet the expenses. He would, however, favor the increase of pay to the soldier to meet the increased price or value of articles. And he would oppose the reduction of the officer's pay. The officers did not make themselves. They were chosen by the men themselves, with the full understanding of the power belonging to the position and the pay attached to it. There was no division or brigade or regiment in the service ever petitioned to have the pay of the officers reduced. He would he always be willing to vote to increase the pay of gallant soldiers led by gallant men.
Mr. MARCH read the resolutions adopted at Murfreesboro.
Mr. HORD said the reading of those resolutions would determine his vote. As those officers had been so magnanimous as to agree to support the war out of their own private means, he would not favor a redaction of their pay.
Mr. DOWNEY said there was a long list of Major Generals and other officers of high rank who were not doing any military service, and the principle of reduction of pay should apply to this class. Such officers as were engaged in active service should not have their pay touched, and the soldiers should have their pay increased. It might be an act of bad faith for Government to reduce the pay of officers below the amount stipulated when they entered the service. He offered an amendment so as to favor a reduction of the pay of all officers not having any command, or who are unnecessarily absent form the r command.
Mr. CLAYPOOL accepted the amendment. He said that while there seemed to be a spirit existing among legislators to cut down army expenses, they had shown no disposition to economize our own legislative expenses. The pay of pages, doorkeepers and clerks was greater than that of some commissioned officers. Entrenchment should commence in the civil offices at home. While patriotism prompted many to enter the service, it was no reason that these should leave a family at home unsupported. Civil officers at home received more pay in proportion to the amount of ability required or labor performed, to say nothing of their freedom from any risk of life, than some of our officers of the highest grade.
Mr. SHIELDS thought this was all a great fuss about nothing. He did not think our action here would effect much. Perhaps if it was known that this was an expression coming from the people of Indiana, Congress might pay attention to it. Imputations had been made in the public press and elsewhere that the Democratic party would impair the efficiency of the army. Resolutions had been passed in the army, and they had been trumpeted about as coming from Democratic officers, to show that Democrats, as a party, were flouted at by these resolutions He would take one of these officers from his District (Col. Gooding) to show what labor it took to make a Brigadier General, That man sold whisky for twenty years, pretended to vote the Democratic ticket, out bolted, nominations whenever he could make anything by it, got behind a stump at the battle of Perryville, and finally, to cap the climax, came home and whipped his wife. He instanced other officers from his District who were elevated from the lower depths to high military commissions. It was these men who were getting up strife page: 90[View Page 90] in the army, a strife that would demoralize it. It was wrong, and should be discountenanced. One of these army resolutions was to put down traitors at home. Who were the traitors? Were they the Democratic party? That party had done as much as any other to sustain the country. Morton Hunter was another man held up to create derision in the country and the army. These men stigmatize a large portion of people of their State as Copperheads and Butternuts. He stigmatized such men as cowards and slanderers. He warned gentlemen to cease such work. There might be danger at home if it was continued. Gentlemen here sometimes talk well, but has any of them denounced the leading organ of their party in Cincinnati, or their organ here, for their continued and foul denunciations of the Democratic party as traitors?
Mr. MANSFIELD deprecated the use of the army as a political machine, but the expressions of the army at Murfreesboro, as embodied in the resolutions referred to, contained nothing of a political nature. They were expressions that he trusted every Senator would endorse.
Mr. COBB said that the question of a reduction of the salaries of civil officers was not before the Senate, but that of military officers was, and, for one, he believed in so changing the pay as to secure an increase of compensation to the private soldier and reduction of that of officers. The distinction between the pay of the two classes was too great, and he was for a change that would, taking into consideration the duties performed by each, more nearly equalize their compensation. As to the officers' meeting referred to, he claimed that the legislators at home had better opportunities of judging of the wishes and wants of the country, and understood their own duties better than the officers who, from home, are engaged in suppressing an unholy rebellion. When these officers attempt to direct the Legislature here, they neglect their duty, the duty they are paid for, and interfere with what does not belong to them. They should be treated with deserved contempt. It was evident that there was a disposition on the part of the Republican press and politicians to make the Democratic party appear a treasonable organization. The organs of the Democratic party never reach the army, and the vile papers of the Republican party were heaped full of slanders to mislead and deceive the army in the field. But the private soldiers were not fools, and would wait for the facts. The Journal, of this city, gives aid and comfort to Jeff. Davis and the traitors in arms by it's classification of parties on this floor.
Mr. CLAYPOOL. How does the Sentinel classify Republicans in the other House? Does it not call them Abolitionists.
Mr. COBB I don't care how that paper classes them, but for myself I call all those who indorse the President's Proclamation Abolitionists. He could make nothing of such but unadulterated Abolitionists.
Mr. MANSFIELD. Suppose members vote for abolishing the Common Pleas Court, are they Abolitionists?
Mr. COBB. They are in that sense. He would in every vote he gave support the resolutions as they came from the House.
Mr. MELLETT contended that it was a mistaken idea that officers could make money out of their salaries, and he would never vote to reduce the pay of those who wore shoulder-straps as a mark for rebel sharpshooters, and who had wives and children at home to be cared for. But he would favor an increase of the pay of soldiers. Things had been said and written in Indiana by men who remained at home enjoying all the luxuries of life that were treasonable, and it was proper that those who bore the brunt of battle in defence of their country should speak in condemnation of such treasonable actions.
Mr. DUNNING (Mr. Johnston in the chair) was sorry that Murfreesboro resolutions had been introduced into the Senate. But he would say that if those resolutions were intended as an intimidation, they would fail. There was nothing in the conduct of the Legislature to justify any such expressions on the part of the officers at Murfreesboro as would imply a lack of loyalty on the part of the majority. These false imputations upon the Democratic party existed only in the imaginations of men. They had no foundation in fact. The man who would seek to intimidate the great Democratic party of Indiana, or its people, had better understand them. He thought the cheeks of these gentlemen would tingle with shame when they read the resolutions of the Senate thanking the army of General Rosecrans and thanking Governor Morton for his care of the sick and wounded soldiers--Where was the evidence of treason in the Senate? Was it in passing the bills that had passed? There was no other definite action taken. He thought this discussion was all wrong, and he should have checked it when it run off from the question under consideration. He only rose to speak of Colonel Hunter, who was his neighbor.
Mr. SHIELDS and Mr. COBB both disclaimed casting any imputation on the character of Colonel Hunter.
Mr. DUNNING understood that. He simply as a neighbor, wished to say that Colonel Hutner, in his private relations, was a high-toned gentleman, but as a politician he was an intense and bitter partisan. it had been published to the world that he (Hunter) was a Democrat and it had been so published for effect. He simply wished to correct this impression.
page: 91[View Page 91]Mr. BROWNE, of Randolph, said that the Murfreesboro resolutions had been discussed as though they contained imputations of disloyalty upon the Legislature of the State. Such was not the case. The Legislature was not referred to, nor was there any reproach cast upon any political party. As to the question before the Senate, he was in favor of increasing the pay of soldiers, and reducing that of officers, because there was too much discrepancy between the pay of each. He believed that the patriotism of the officers would induce them to submit to a reduction of their pay.
Mr. WOLFE said that the remarks mace by him were called out by the newspaper reports that accompanied the Murfreesboro resolutions, and not by the resolutions themselves. There was nothing objectionable in them as far as he could see now. He was informed by persons who were with the army at the time these resolutions were said to have passed, that they did not believe that any such meeting as that represented was ever held. He believed, when the truth was known, it would be found that a few persons got together over a bottle of champaign, and made and passed the resolutions. The whole matter had caused more discussion than it should have done.
Mr. WOLFE moved to lay Mr. Claypool's amendment on the table.
On motion by Mr. MURRAY, further consideration of the question was postponed till to-morrow.
On motion by Mr. RAY, it was--
Resolved, That a select committee of one from each Congressional District be appointed on the part of the Senate to act with a like Committee to be appointed on the part of the House, to prepare and present to the Senate an Apportionment Bill districting the State for Representatives in the Congress of the United States.
On motion by Mr. JOHNSTON, it was--
Resolved, That the Committee on federal Relations be instructed to inquire into the expediency of the State of Indiana demanding of the General Government the right and privilege of collecting and paying over the amount of all Federal taxes that are now levied, or may hereafter be levied on this State, in her own way, under her own laws, and by her own State and county officers, and report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. WOLFE introduced a joint resolution [3], which was passed to the second reading.
It is as follows:
WHEREAS, The present civil war into which the people have been forced by the wicked and fanatical factions North and South, is detrimental to the best interest of the country and of mankind, and a reproach upon the civilization of the age--filling the land with widows and orphans and mourning house holds; bankrupting the Government and oppressing the people with taxation beyond their ability to bear; destroying the productive industry of the laboring man and filling the coffers of the wealthy filling the Northern section of the Union with a vagabond and servile race to compete with or prey upon the industry of the white man ; imposing unequal burdens and commercial restrictions upon the different portions of the North, thereby increasing the danger and the evil of further disintegration ; sapping the foundation of religion, morality and public virtue ; corrupting our rulers by an increase of political patronage ; destroying personal liberty under the tyrant's plea of necessity ; and obliterating from the hearts of the people the spirit of nationality and brotherhood, which is the only sure bond of union ; and,
WHEREAS, Experience has taught the costly and bloody lesson, that war alone is no remedy for the evil of disunion, but when waged in the spirit of sectional hatred, for an unconstitutional purpose, or in a manner not sanctioned by the laws of civilized warfare, it is the strongest ally of disunion, and if persisted in will result, not only in the bankruptcy of the nation and the impoverishment of the people, but also in a final separation of the different sections and the destruction of our admirable form of free government; and
WHEREAS, The people of Indiana are desirous that no effort which inspires a reasonable hope of success in restoring the Union as it was under the Constitution, shall be omitted ; and being solemnly impressed with the conviction that arms alone, under the recent and present policy of the Cabinet at Washington, will never accomplish that desirable object; and invoking the prayers of all good men and the smiles of a God of Peace in the furtherance of our patriotic purpose ; therefore,
Be, it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,
- That while we will continue to obey every constitutional requisition which true patriotism shall demand, for the purpose of restoring the Union and preserving our constitutional liberty, yet we are opposed to a war for the liberation of the slaves ; and, while that policy is maintained by the Administration, the highest dictates of patriotism impel us to withhold from it our support; believing that a war for that purpose is unconstitutional, and a wicked usurpation, and, if persisted in, will lead to the inevitable and lasting destruction of the Union.
- That no Union can be maintained in this country until fanaticism on the negro question, North and South, is eradicated, and the doctrine of Popular State Sovereignty is acknowledged as a fundamental axiom of the Government. The people of the North must yield up the heresy of Abolitionism, or else yield up the blessings of the Union. Abolitionism and the Union are incompatible ; the one or the other must triumph. A war for Abolitionism is war against the Union; a war for the Union is a war against Abolitionism. Abolitionism is moral treason, and but for the forms of law with which it is clothed by the Administration, is actual, legal treason. No patriot can be an Abolitionist.
- That the interest of the white race, as well as the black, demands that the condition and locality of the latter should not be interfered with; and a war, or legislation, or Presidential Proclamations to accomplish the purpose of the negroes freedom and consequent migration to the North, are acts of flagrant violation of the Constitution, and in wicked disregard of the people's voice and the best interests of the country, and all such acts ought to be constitutionally resisted by an outraged people.
- That President Lincoln's scheme of "Compensated Emancipation," which proposes to tax the people of Indiana to liberate the slaves of the South, is unconstitutional, and a monstrous iniquity, which a tax-ridden and over-burdened people will not submit to. The freemen of Indiana will not consent to impoverish themselves and their families to carry it that insane and wicked policy, but will resist is by every constitutional means in their power.
- That the system of arbitrary arrests, and the wanton disregard of the Great Writ of Liberty, commonly called the habeas corpus, by the Cabinet at Washington, are acts of tyranny and usurpation, justly alarming to a free people, against which the State of Indiana protests with indignation ; and in page: 92[View Page 92] the name of constitutional liberty she demands that the accursed system shall cease within her borders ; and we declare the unalterable determination of the people to maintain the liberty of speech, the liberty of the press, the right to the writ of habeas corpus and speedy trial by jury, at every hazard of blood and treasure.
- That the State of Indiana, on account of her devotion to the Union, and her geographical position and commercial interest, never will consent to any settlement upon a basis of disunion or a policy which shall separate her from the States bordering upon the Mississippi river. Her highest interest demands the perpetuation of the Union, and especially that the Great Valley of the Mississippi from its source to its mouth shall remain under one government and one flag.
- That the war in which we are engaged ought to cease as soon as it can be brought to an honorable and satisfactory termination ; and upon that sublet the people, who are bearing its burdens, have a right to speak. Therefore, our Senators in Congress are instructed, and our Representatives requested to use all the power and influence of their positions, by bill, resolution, or otherwise, to accomplish the following objects, viz ; 1. To procure an armistice of at least six months, between the Federal and Confederate armies, for the purpose of testing the probability of a permanent peace on the basis of the Union. 2. To pass a law calling a Convention of all the States, composed of delegates freely chosen by the people, to take into consideration the state of the country, and to devise some plan of settlement to be submitted to a vote of the people North and South, by which the Union shall be preserved, and the country restored to a lasting peace.
- That the Governor be directed to transmit a certified copy of the foregoing preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, to be laid before their respective bodies ; and to the Governors of each of the States, to be by them laid before their respective Legislatures.
On motion by Mr. RAY, it was--
Resolved, That a select committee of one from each Congressional District be appointed on the part of the Senate to act with a like committee to be appointed on the part of the House to prepare and present to the Senate an Apportionment Bill districting the State for State Senators and Representatives in the General Assembly.
The following bills were introduced, read the first time, and severally passed to the second reading:
By Mr. DICKINSON, [48] erecting the 14th Judicial Circuit, and attaching the county of Huntington to the 10th Judicial Circuit.
By Mr. BRADLEY, [49] relative to the school tax levied upon corporations, and providing the manner of distribution and loaning of the same, and other matters properly connected therewith.
By Mr. WRIGHT, [50] for the relief of John B. Redd.
By Mr WILLIAMS, [51] to amend the 21 section of an act relative to the salaries of public officers, approved March 5 1859.
By Mr. MARCH, [52] to amend the 55th section of an act to amend an act to authorize and regulate the business of general banking, passed March 3, 855.
By Mr. CULVER, [53] to amend the 1st section of an act to amend the 6th section of an act providing for the organization of County Boards, approved Jan. 17, 1862, which latter act was approved Feb 1861.
By Mr. CLAYPOOL, [54] to amend the 8th section of an act dividing the State into counties, approved June 7, 1852.
By Mr. HORD, [55] to amend the 4th section of an act authorizing Recorders to make out complete or general indexes, approved February 16, 1852, as amended by an act approved February 14, 1855.
By Mr. MARCH, [; 6] regulating the bequeathing, devising and conveying property for religious and charitable purposes.
By Mr. CULVER, [57] to allow County Commissioners to organize turnpike companies when a majority of persons representing the real estate within prescribed limits petition for the same, and levy a tax for its construction, and provide for the same to be free.
By Mr. DICKINSON, [58] to amend an act to authorize the Boards of Commissioners and the authorities of any incorporate city or town to make appropriations in certain cases, approved May 11, 1861, so as to authorize said Boards to make appropriations for bounties for volunteers, disinterring, transportation, and interring the bodies of deceased soldiers, and erecting monuments to their memories.
By Mr. MARCH, [59] fixing the amount of fees to be paid in the State Treasury for the services of the Auditor and Secretary of State in certain cases, repealing all laws in conflict therewith, and amending the 4th section of an act supplemental to the swamp land act, approved June 14, 1852.
Senate bills 42. 44, and 46 (introduce on Saturday) were read the second time and referred to appropriate committees.
Mr. Beeson's County Auditors' bill [45] was ordered engrossed for a third reading.


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I was wondering if the X11 system on Mac is supported by the SpaceNavigator (or other 3Dconnexion devices). Many scientific programs that are compiled for both Linux and Mac use X11 (e.g. molecular visualization and building tools like Coot or PyMOL) and if there was a generic interface that mediated the SpaceNavigator commands to X11 apps, these programs could really benefit from it. This would be of great help in implementing support for 3dconnexion's devices in these programs.
I found this old thread (http://www.3dconnexion.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=482&highlight=x11) about some kind of an X11 proxy, but as I'm no programmer, I can't really make much out of it.
I hope supporting X11 apps on Mac is possible and is on the todo list if not already possible. Thanks for any feedback!


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I camped here one night in a tent on my way to NC. I got in after 6PM and found the office still open. The staff was very helpful. I got a wonderful private site with lots of space. It was a Saturday night and I did not have reservations. The camping area I assigned was not lake view but it was one of the best campsites and prettiest parks I have seen. I wish I had time to check out the trails and other facilities. I highly recommend this park.
Arboles, Colorado
Navajo State Park
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This park is beautifully maintained. There are no trees to speak of--some sites have covers over the picnic table. Otherwise bring your own shade. The lack of shade/trees was a disappointment when we first drove in. Everything else was so clean and pretty we soon got over our first concerns. But the real put off was the $6 a day entrance fee in addition to the $22 camping fee for each of the three days we camped there. I had never run into this charge before. Basically campers are charged the day use fee on top of the camping fee. Is this standard in Colorado Stay Parks? I have camped in FL, TX SC, NC, TN, OK and AK State Parks and never paid a daily admission fee on top of a camping fee. Additionally there were fees for using the showers. The other down side was loud music from other campsites that kept us awake until midnight two of the three nights we were there. I have decided noise is to be expected at any lakeside park that allows speedboats and individual water craft. It is just the nature of the beast. I don't like noise so I will avoid the speed boating crowd in the future.
Villanueva, New Mexico
Villanueva State Park
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This is a very lovely well managed park. It does get crowded. Some of the sites are close together. I was there on a Thursday without reservations and had to settle for a tent site on the entrance road. I thought it would be noisy but the ranger closed the gate promptly at 10PM and opened it at 7AM. I spent a very quiet and peaceful night. I highly recommend this park. It is right on the Pecos River. There are good trails. There is a camping area on the mesa overlooking the park but the road up is only for the most daring RVer with a short rig and once you are there you will find it isn't half as nice as the riverside campsites. Unless you are tent camping be sure and get reservations.
Las Vegas, New Mexico
Storrie Lake State Park
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Storrie Lake is a great base camp for touring the Las Vegas, NM area. The park is very close to town. It is clean and well managed. There are pull thru sites. If you want to forgo hookups, shelters and picnic table you can park right next to the lake. The developed sites back right up to a housing area. To avoid being near someone's backyard pick an inner loop site or opt for the sites at either end. All sites have wonderful 3 sided adobe shelters. It is a great value for the money. The gate is locked at night. If you do get locked out there is parking by the gate and you can walk in. This park is heavily used so reservations are a good idea is you want a developed site.
Mountainair, New Mexico
Manzano Mountains State Park (Park now Closed)
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This is a jewel of a camp ground. Very private, shady, small and peaceful. There is a host on site and the park office is right in the camp ground. Restrooms are clean. There are no showers and no water hookups. Water is available near the dump site and near the restrooms. The grounds are clean. There are no pull thru sites so I did my first ever back into a site. It really wasn't that difficult. If hiking is your thing there are lots of opportunities. The campground has several short and easy hiking trails. The trailheads for Red Canyon and Box Canyon are near by. We didn't have time to take the longer hikes. The park was not crowded--only 5 campers the night I was there. There are no sewer or water hookup and no showers so this park would not be for everyone. We plan to go back and hike the longer trails.


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It certainly sounds like an offer that's too good to pass up: "18 Months Same as Cash." It's free money. It's an interest-free loan. And that plasma TV sure would look good in the living room. How can you go wrong?
Here's how: What if that $1,500 same-as-cash loan ended up costing you an extra $472?
That's the prospect that recently faced Steve Monteith, who bought a very flat, very slick LCD TV 18 months ago from Best Buy. He didn't need the loan, but figured he shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth. So he took the same-as-cash deal. But because of a hidden fee he didn't understand, he could face nearly $500 in additional costs.
If you bought yourself a huge television to watch the Super Bowl, or got the family a new computer at Christmas, and you took one of these unbeatable deals, you better read on, Monteith's story should send you scurrying for your receipt.
"What's a debt cancellation fee?," Monteith thought as he looked at his installment bills every month. On his statement was a line that looked something like this:
"Debt Cancellation - $5.34"
But he didn't think about it much, and kept paying off his television balance in 18 even payments. That is, until he made what he thought was his last payment last month.
Next came a statement which said he owed the firm $168 in unpaid debt cancellation fees.
"I never signed up for anything like that," Monteith said. He had no idea what debt cancellation could be. "I figured it was the interest I would be paying if I didn't pay in full, or something like that."
The catch with "same as cash"
There's quite a gotcha in Monteith's "Same as cash," agreement, and in most such agreements. If he misses a payment, even by one day, even when the loan is down to a few dollars, he gets ambushed with high interest charges. And not just a high rate on his outstanding balance. He would have to pay interest retroactive from day one. So Monteith might have had to pay $304 in accrued interest along with the charge for this debt cancellation phantom fee.
Here's the explanation for this part of the story. Same As Cash deals aren't really free loans. They are more like a suspended sentence. The interest really does rack up, and usually at a very high rate, like 21 percent. But it's suspended, while the consumer lives in "good behavior" under the terms of this credit probation. But one slip-up, and all that interest is immediately due.
That's the game you're playing if you opt for a "same-as-cash" purchase. Obviously, many consumers make a mistake at some point during the 18 months, and suddenly that good deal on a free loan is now a very bad, very expensive loan. But, very responsible consumers can still win the game.
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What happened to Monteith is that he was signed up for something called debt cancellation, which is very similar to credit insurance -- once commonly offered by credit card issuers. Consumers pay a few dollars a month, based on an outstanding balance of the loan, and if they die or are incapacitated, the loan is forgiven.
But debt cancellation is a relatively new development, slightly different but much preferred by retailers. Debt cancellation doesn't involve a third-party insurance company, so the retailer and its credit partner keep all the revenue. Also, it's been deemed a non-insurance product by federal regulators. That's important, because many state insurance regulators now limit the price of credit insurance, and mandate clear disclosures. Debt cancellation, on the other hand, is hardly regulated at all.
Perhaps that's why Monteith doesn't recall signing up for debt cancellation. It might have been on a form he signed, but he doesn't remember. It might have simply been offered by the store clerk verbally, but he doesn't recall the conversation. Or it might have been added on without his knowledge.
But what Monteith knows for sure is he didn't want it. And what consumer advocates know for sure is it's always a bad deal. Debt cancellation really insures the store, not the consumer, who is generally dead at the rare times the policy is invoked. The store gets paid, even when the consumer is no longer in a position to care. As with credit insurance, consumers should always decline the product, says consumer advocate Birny Birnbaum, from the Center for Economic Justice.
"This does nothing for consumers," says Birnbaum, who is the former chief economist of the Texas Department of Insurance. "It's 99 percent profit for the companies. Just say no, no, no, no."
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But Monteith said he never even had the chance to say no. The amount just landed on his bill.
Best Buy passed calls about Monteith's situation along to HSBC Retail Services, which handles the company's retail credit programs. HSBC spokeswoman Anita Black said Monteith must have signed up for the service, because enrollment in the firm's debt cancellation program requires consumers to sign an extra box on credit applications indicating they want the service. She did concede that consumers could accidentally sign the box while filling out the rest of the application, but said the firm has dealt with the problem by telling store sales representatives to be more clear with consumers.
"We are trying to make sure there's better training systems at the point of sale," she said. Applicants also receive confirmation that they've signed up for the service through the mail, Black said.
However it got on his bill, Monteith never wanted it there. And for him, it all ads up to a big caution for same-as-cash deals.
"It appears to be a free loan. But I guess this is their way of saying it's not really free," he said.
After receiving MSNBC.com's inquires into the situation, Black said HSBC decided to forgive Monteith's $168 in unpaid debt cancellation fees.
It's not clear how common Monteith's situation is. Bob Hunter, the insurance specialist at the Consumer Federation of America, said he's received a few similar complaints, but not many. It's offered by retailers in many industries, particularly electronics and furniture stores. There's a smattering of complaints on consumer-oriented Web sites like RipOffReport.com.
In some cases, consumers who get same as cash deals claim they have been told they "have to have" some kind of insurance to get the deal – a tactic sometimes used by auto dealers to trick consumers into extended warrantees. Of course, debt cancellation is not obligatory.
How can you protect yourself from this situation Monteith is in? Read everything, and don't trust the sales rep to tell you everything you need to know. But Hunter suggests consumers go one step farther:
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Congrats to the Bright House Networks photo contest winners!
More than 11,000 votes were cast in this year's Lights On Afterschool Facebook photo contest, and we think you did a great job picking some awesome winning photos. We were really impressed with the quality of photos we received this year and amazed at your ability to activate your networks and get out the vote—it was great to see entire communities band together to support their local programs!
There were lots of ways to win this year. The top vote-getter from Bright House Networks' service area received $2,000. The next top three photos (from anywhere) each won $1,000. We even teamed up with five state afterschool networks to offer prizes for the top vote-getter in their state!
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School Improvement Grants data analysis shows increased student proficiency rates
The newly-released School Improvement Grants (SIG) analysis and assessment data shows that schools receiving such grants have increased proficiency rates in math and reading since the program was implemented two years ago. The SIG Program is a major component of the Department of Education's game plan to help turn around the nation's lowest performing schools. SIG funds are awarded by state education agencies to local education agencies to close, transform, restart or turn around low performing schools. Afterschool is mentioned in Department of Education guidance as part of turnaround and transformational strategies.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan commented on the progress and said "To build on this success in our disadvantaged communities, we must expand the most effective practices to accelerate progress for students and prepare them for success in college and careers."
So what are some of these effective practices? Of the three programs highlighted in the department's press release two weeks ago, two grantees used expanded learning time within school and/or afterschool programs within their turnaround plans. Using SIG funds for expanded learning time ensures other funding streams like the 21st Century Community Learning Centers initiative can support afterschool, summer learning and before-school programs.
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I'm not much of a Black Friday or Cyber Monday shopper. But the one purchase I did make over the Thanksgiving weekend was putting a deposit down toward my daughter's summer program. Her afterschool program heeded the advice of the National Summer Learning Association, the Wallace Foundation and others by starting their summer planning early and offering parents an incentive to sign up now so that the program can effectively continue to plan and be ready when school lets out for the summer.
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2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards
By Shaun Gray
The President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities—in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services—is pleased to invite applications for the 2014 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards.
The 12 award-winning programs this year will receive $10,000 and an invitation to accept their award from the President's Committee's Honorary Chairman, First Lady Michelle Obama, at a ceremony at the White House. In addition, winners will receive an award plaque, the opportunity to attend the Annual Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2014, and will be featured on the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award website.
Afterschool and out-of-school-time arts and humanities programs sponsored by museums, libraries, performing arts organizations, educational institutions (e.g., preschools; elementary, middle, and high schools; universities; and colleges), arts centers, community service organizations, businesses, and eligible government entities are encouraged to consider submitting an application. Programs applying for the award must meet all of the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award's eligibility criteria.
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Request for proposals: building capacity for evaluation
The 2014 Visitor Studies Association Conference is to be held July 15-19, 2014, in Albuquerque, NM, around the theme Building Capacity for Evaluation: Individuals, Institutions, the Field.
For their 2014 conference, VSA invites the informal learning community to join them in creating a conference program that pushes the field of visitor studies forward by addressing the increasing interest in evaluation and the growing demand for evidence. This year, VSA will think strategically about how to continually build capacity for evaluation.
The deadline for submissions is: Monday, Dec. 16, 2013.
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By Sarah Watson
Local housing authorities represent ideal partners for community-based afterschool providers. Often, housing authorities can provide on-site facilities for afterschool programs, while community-based afterschool providers can offer trained staff and curriculum. A Boys & Girls Club and housing authority in Southern California recently entered into a partnership that continues to reap rewards for the local community.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Monica (BGCSM) has created a sustainable partnership model intended to strengthen communities and meet the needs of local students. In 2011, the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) reached out to BGCSM to gauge their interest in taking over out-of-school-time programming at a public housing community—Mar Vista Gardens (MVG)—when a lack of sustainable funding meant that the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and HACLA could no longer offer programming to resident families. MVG is the third-largest public housing site in the city of Los Angeles and struggles with high crime and poverty rates. The community includes more than 600 students who, before BGCSM's arrival, did not have access to engaging learning opportunities in the hours after school.
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