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When you talk about the University of North Carolina, you're not just talking about an alumnus of great basketball players; you're also talking about many generations of great people. We as basketball fans know that Chapel Hill has produced some of the greatest names in basketball history; Coach Dean Smith, Michael Jordan and James Worthy just to name of few. Just to be mentioned in the same sentence as these guys is an honor within itself, but to be a part of the tradition and what the basketball program stands for is to be on another stage. This institution has made its mark not only in the world of basketball and education; it is also making its presence known in the world of hip-hop. Thanks to former student-athletes Quentin Thomas and Terrence Petree, the Chapel Hill tradition of greatness will continue to be known as one of the best.
Signed to Jamla Records, owned by Grammy Award Winning producer 9th Wonder, GQ (Quentin Thomas) and TP (Terrence Petree) are on a mission to make some noise away from the basketball court. Both of these cats have already released projects that have been embraced by fans of good music. And when I say good music, I'm referring to a sound that has something for everybody. GQ recently released his latest EP entitled "Blended 3" last week, and TP created his buzz with "TP Is My Hero", which was sponsored by Jordan Brand, earlier this year. When you're known for doing one thing, sometimes it is hard for people to picture you doing something else. Many of us allow the critics to determine how far we go in our aspirations, but for Quentin and Terrence it's not about what people think, it's about accomplishing the personal goals they have set out for themselves and they seem to be enjoying the hard work while doing it. I had the opportunity to talk with the both of them about their new careers as artists and get their point of view of being Tar Heels working for one of the biggest Duke fans ever.
SLAM: The whole Jamla Movement is making a lot noise. People are saying that real hip-hop is back now. Having been a part of another major career path before linking up with IWWMG, what has the transition been like for you?
Quentin Thomas (GQ): The transition has been smooth so far but they're two completely different arenas. They both just have common similarities. Being blessed to be a part of a label like Jamla is just like being a part of a team. To me my label mates are my teammates and the Soul Council are the coaches with 9th being the Head Coach. So I just try to do my part and help improve our whole unit as a whole. I feel the dreams and goals are endless when you have an entire group with so much talent yet no one cares who gets the credit. It's a Wonderful World (No Pun intended).
Terrence Petree (TP): Interesting. I've noticed many things directly translate from music and sports; for instance, the discipline of practice. The interesting part is now…instead of basketball first and writing songs second; it's writing songs first and basketball second. That's tough to say but I've lived my hoop dream playing basketball at UNC, now it's time to chase and live more dreams.
SLAM: After being a part of a great basketball tradition at UNC, what have you taken from college experience that is helping you in your career as artists?
GQ: For me like basketball or any other sport it's always great to be coachable. When I first met 9th and Fatin they told me I stood out because I was coachable. They said a lot of the characteristics I learned from sports could easily help me in becoming a great artist. It's all about getting better for me and being challenged. When you're around people like Skyzoo, Remo, Rap, Hardy, etc. it motivates you and challenges you to be better daily. Plus the fact I'm brand new to this whole music scene I definitely make sure I soak up as much knowledge that I can from all aspects. Never wanting to limit myself, always wanting to improve.
TP: So much. My road to being a part of the UNC basketball program was one less traveled so I learned so much during the process. I learned that if you have a dream, go for it and never give up. Believe in yourself, no matter what…deal with the politics and keep chasing the dream. That's half of the inspiration behind my mixtape title; sometimes we have to be our own hero. So as an artist, whenever there's adversity, I look back at my basketball career at UNC, and I keep going on.
SLAM: Who did you listen to before a game to get you focused and amped up?
GQ: I listened to whatever I was feeling at the time. Sometimes rap/hip hop gets me amped up, other times it can be R&B or Gospel. It's all about feeling for me. After that I just zone out and let the music work.
TP: Jay Z, Eminem, Fab, Kanye, Joe Budden, Drake, J. Cole.
SLAM: Take your favorite basketball player of all time and your favorite rapper of all time and tell the similarities between the two.
GQ: Damn…….difficult to chose. But my favorite rapper of all time is Tupac. I never had an all time favorite hoop player, but probably Jordan or Kobe would compare best with him as an artist. They both brought so much to their craft. And with that made it more than just basketball and rap. They became iconic for something they loved doing with their God given abilities and passion. Timeless music and highlights from two people that did what they did at the highest level possible and no matter the opponent or challenge, always rose to the occasion.
TP: Michael Jordan vs. Jay Z. It's a blessing being in the circles I am in (i.e. UNC, Jordan Brand, Jamla) because I hear personal stories about both all the time. The interesting thing about the stories is they never disappoint; instead they normally build their legacy, and afterwards I respect them even more. MJ and Jay both have that life story, the story that inspires kids all over the world. Both appeal to a mass audience, are well spoken, and represent success. The similarities go on for days but last and probably the best thing to me is, Michael Jordan and Jay Z didn't stop at being the greatest ballplayer or emcee, they used their greatness to brand themselves in preparation for life after basketball and rapping. They are multiple business owners involved with multiple companies. For an up and coming entrepreneur like myself, this is my BIG dream. I hope for "TP" to represent more than a baller, emcee, or leader but a brand and lifestyle that inspires all people, but especially young people, to chase and live their dreams.
SLAM: Which was more exciting, signing with UNC or signing with one of greatest producers in the industry?
GQ: Signing with UNC was bigger because not only was I rewarded for my hard work and dedication up to this point, but who knew me going to UNC would have me being a part of Grammy Award Winners label? Even though I hate the saying at times it never fails, "everything happens for a reason". A black kid (especially black male) from Oakland, CA receiving a full ride hoop scholarship to UNC, winning a national championship my first year, graduating with a BA degree and have the most wins (2nd most now) in UNC Men's basketball history is a blessing all by itself. BUT then you add me being a part of Jamla now, having a relationship with good people such as 9th and everyone else I've been around, and who knows what God has in store for myself. I'm just excited about the future man and appreciate every moment, good or bad, because I know there are others who would kill to be in my position. So everyday I'm humbled.
TP: I think it was all part of God's plan. I definitely believe one put me in position for the other, so I'm thankful for both.
SLAM: Being in the spotlight is something you guys are used to due to your college careers as student-athletes, is there any difference being known as emcees now?
GQ: Like I said I'm just now getting involved with the music scene so I don't know much as of yet. But I can honestly say it is weird at times when people consider me a rapper. I never thought I'd be involved with music let alone be rapping. But God works in mysterious ways. I feel the UNC spotlight prepared me for what's next to come. Something I had to experience so that once took place in my life I wouldn't go into shock and would know how to handle myself with everything. But I'm still growing as person so it's still all new.
TP: Yes. It reminds me that rapping is not a hobby anymore. Making music is my new playing basketball.
SLAM: Both of you have been very successful in your personal endeavors. Just how important is it to remain humble for the journey ahead?
GQ: If nothing else I pray daily that I remain humble through whatever success comes my way in life. It's so easy to get caught up in things with so many different lifestyles and people around to influence you. People now-a-days don't even know who they are anymore because they're so use to acting like someone else. Being grounded and staying humble is what I feel will take me beyond where others have been. And that's all I want for myself, the best…
TP: My confidence got me here. My humility will keep me here.
You can download 9th Wonder and Jordan Brand presents "TP Is My Hero" here, and cop the new EP "Blended 3" here.


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I have use LR since LR2 and run it on a number of computers. Never have had any crash problems but this version frequently crashes. Very predictably on import/exports of Catalogs but also other times as well. Regretably while a RC, I had hoped for better so I can use it with my 5dIII.
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Dell Studio xps 22gb Ram I7 processor 1tb/2tb internal. 2-3tb external, 2 2tb were also used to move data
Total records about 70,000 (not sure it is relevant, low volume done on notebook but have not seen it crash there...Total records there might reach 10k between notebook and 1tb passport if remote shoot is large
First issue with the system crashing is when I try to import a catalog that I have created from my desktop to go into the main library. Each library was created as a smart collection to help deal with the 5dIII conversions which on some were DNG (with that release candidate) and subsequently RAW when 4.01RC was released. My smart collections were segregated by capture date and file type (to leverage any processing done on my notebook). Catalogs were roughly between 1200 and 5000 images between 5 dates plus one that contained all the DNGs.
When I would start the import, I had to babysit as it 90% of the time crashed at 500 records. Somewhat odd to me is that is often (90%) would crash after restarting at multiples of 500-meaning at 1000, 1500,2000 and 2500 images imported. No error message other that the screen would gray out and then would say Lightroom shutting down...do you want to send MS info and the like
Never had any problems with any version of LR crashing before
Second Issue is that the system crashed 75% of the time when taking the smart collection and exporting as a catalog. Again gray out the screen and says Adobe PhotoshopLightroom is shutting down....do you want to send to Microsoft
Third issue with shutting down has to do with occasional shutting down after editing as a smart image and saving back to LR...5% of the time
To mitigate, I reinstall LR4.01 numerous times, even from fresh downloads. I also tried a combination of external
and internal drives to see if I could see a pattern. It proved irrelevant the combo I used to export/import.
I haven't got a clue where to start on that big of a system. I'm just running a 32 bit 4 GB RAM Windows 7 machine. I have had Lightroom 4.1 RC shut down once. It's really running stable. But maybe if I respond and we keep bumping this thread perhaps someone with more knowledge than I have will be able to help you.
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Actually the machine had been doing fine..memory installed months ago.
What changed? I got the new canon 5diii and was up in Alaska taking images of Eagles. Could not import them into LR the first few days unless I converted to the new DNG converter. Then we got word up there that 4.01 was out and it supported RAW file conversion for the new camera..moved to it and uploaded directly from the cards.
When I got home I loaded 4.01 to my desktop and proceeded to work on exporting images from the notebook to the desktop as I always do....export as a catalog/import as a catalog...
that is when the fun was over...been fighting this for over a week and have been through my machine from head to toe with Dell Techs....
We have continued late in the evening working with the technicians to figure the issue....we have changed users, catalogs, uninstall and reinstall the software and it just crashes....windows records an application error 1000. Uninstall and reinstall did appear to help but might have been a coicindence...the program still crashed at the end.
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Vice president Joseph Biden continuing the Obama administration's attack on Mitt Romney's business background yesterday but according.
To the Romney campaign.
His business background is the reason why he's the best person to fix the economy well so the -- -- it was so -- the attacks on the president by the president.
On Mitt Romney.
I don't private equity -- hypocritical well -- We're GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain has.
Park became training here on the curvy couch today images -- wanted to good morning you know.
According to Rasmussen -- -- blame bing thing is not working with independents who picked president's exactly and I don't believe that it's gonna work long term either because.
I use a phrase on my daily commentary.
People not that stupid that's like saying when -- the president about father's pizza.
You made one pizza that doesn't qualify you to be president.
You run it into Pratt as you run it completely depressed mom took -- -- policy is an example we have 700 -- -- five restaurants.
We -- 200 to save the 500 don't want to -- that's what.
-- and many other companies do in order to save it obviously what is.
-- your opponent then would go to -- -- one of those 200 locations and it's clothes yes and would interview some of those people's right now like that's my job exactly -- and I would go to some of the people -- jobs we save that say don't steal here because.
He is the simple principle sometime you have to get smaller.
Then you get better they get bigger it's a principle of free at a -- This isn't a principal of the way in which American business runs yet so hulking Parse out only private equity and I the American people could I.
They're not gonna buy it.
I have this principle that fit the percent of the American people are -- -- to everything.
Outside of their own little world tour and so -- live talking to with a story about -- in vain and you're right this is how free enterprise works.
The Democrats are revealing the fact.
But they do not understand business and free and -- they believe America runs on free stuff so -- I have to ask you if this is happening to -- the attacks are coming your direction which they were for quite awhile.
And you are the Bain Capital guy do you go and attack each and every attack it.
And had one day steel company in the next eight or do you make -- overarching statement.
What is the tactical thing to best tactical thing to do.
Here's what I would do I would make a statement to refute it and say it's not true.
And not start get right back to six point four million people more ball now in poverty since President Obama has been president.
We now have on in the long term unemployed has nearly doubled since -- been president in other words pivot back on message is what I would do.
Don't fight each one of these little individual -- agents couldn't -- just come out and saying what we talked and it just ten minutes ago.
And say.
Here's a private equity works if I didn't invest money in these companies.
More people would have lost their jobs and companies -- have gone belly up before I got an exodus story excellent -- that's exactly the way should have been issued in in pivot back on the things that are important.
How we gonna create jobs with the economy.
-- cutting taxes to the Democrats don't have cutting taxes and that DNA.
And you had a report that came from -- -- and we'll do Seattle Washington DC that was excellent this morning about a way.
That now a governmental agency is saying we'll pitifully financial disaster in the easier.
If they do not do something about this tax code and guess what do you know what congress is real good at.
Do enough and ten so this absolutely scares those of us in the business sector.
That those rates are gonna go up Obama's gonna say well they didn't give me anything this they gonna go up and we are hit it for that -- My son is gonna be so impressed that you just quoted him on I don't like television when you do a good report and it's factual.
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- Spawned in the sub tropic Eden of North East Florida, hearing my grandfather spin coquina crusted yarns about voracious horizons and sandy roads through cool green tunnels of magnolias, full of floating bruised blossoms the colors of debutante gowns and Bourbon sweet teas.These were the stories of the old man and his friends making their way in this scrubby ward of crackers and carnies, fishing with dynamite, carving agency from the landscape with a rusty dredge and brine pickled wit. The more I recall the more I realized how much I inherited this compulsion to scratch my own name in the church pew of tomorrowland. Colossus imagined or real inspires none the less. I look to a past for some answer to my own compulsions. I come back to the only real constant, the story. I have tried direct narrative but stalled in the parking lot of Motel Dilettante. Groping with half understood elements of the trade I found the respite of abrupt skits and painful theatre. I persisted and sketches started mulching around the legs of my flat pack kitchen table I use as a studio. I started to blog these moments I spent spilling ink this way.


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Well, the dice have been cast...I went with the trade and cash.
I was all set to go with the cash, it went up to $9K. However, the buyer tried something rather naughty and underhanded. Let me try to explain what happened.
A collector/dealer contacted me and offered me $2.5K. We called each other and talked over the phone for quite a bit and he asked if I'd had other offers made - I told him yes. Within hours of the telephone conversation he offered $7K.
However, I was getting inundated with e-mails from collectors, dealers and collector/dealers wanting to make offers but they wanted to know how much the highest offer I had was. Since this was not intended to be an auction, and I didn't want a bidding war, the wife and I decided to send a general e-mail to those who contacted me about purchasing the helmet. It basically told the the helmet was hovering around $7.5K (which it was) and in order to keep this from becoming a bidding war all offers, and those who made them, would be confidential. We also set last Friday as the last day to send me their last, best, offer.
About two hours after this e-mail went out I got an e-mail from someone offering $8050, saying the $50 was for expedited overnight shipping. I sent an e-mail acknowledging the e-mail and thanked the person. I also asked who he was and where he was located since the address didn't appear on the list I of people who contacted me or I had contacted.
A few hours latter I got another e-mail, from the same guy, this time for $8500. I sent another e-mail acknowledging it and thanking him. I also asked who he was and how he found out about the helmet. All he said was that a 'friend' sent it to him.
At this point I was beginning to go "Hmmm.....".
Thursday morning I got another e-mail from him with an offer of $9K. Again I sent out the acknowledgment and asked who he was.
When Friday got here, and no other offers higher than his had come in, I contacted him to let him know I had decided to go with his offer and to give me his contact information.
After that he sent an e-mail asking me what, specifically, I wanted. I said name, address, phone so we could start the process of shipping. After that he sent an e-mail stating that he wanted to know who all the people who made offers were and what they had offered. I reminded him, polity, that all offers, and identities, were confidential. They guy went ballistic! He just started sending e-mail after e-mail DEMANDING that I tell him the names. I re-sent the reply declining to do so. Keep in mind, he had not yet told me who he was or where he was located.
He then sent another e-mail wanting to know why I was being so secretive. I told him I had made the confidentiality promise and intended to keep it. I then re-sent the original e-mail pointing out the confidentiality part and flat out asked him if he intended to honor his offer.
I then got an e-mail stating that he was going to get a cashier's check for the full amount on Monday if I told him who the second highest offer came from and how much it was. He also stated that he was beginning to get the felling this was all a sham.
That really pissed me off. I told the wife I didn't care if he offered $15K - there was no way in hell he was going to get it!! So, I sent him another e-mail and, very polity, told him that since he was insisting on information that went against the original agreement I was releasing him from his offer and going with the next best offer.
This sent the guy over the edge. He replied with some very graphic language and said "good luck selling it - it isn't even worth $2K". Hmmm...that's odd he would say that since he offered $9K.
Now - the important thing is the part about the 'next best offer'. In that e-mail I sent out I said that if the person making the best offer were to pull out for some reason, or the deal would fall through, the helmet would go to the next best offer.
At first I thought it was the friend of the guy who was wanting to make a trade + cash, but it wasn't.
Since the guy would not supply me any contact information, his name, or even his location, I took matters into my own hand. BTW, before I continue, let me add that I started this action after the second e-mail I sent requesting this information. Anyway, I decided to do a search and find out who owns the IP address the e-mails were coming from and who the e-mail address belonged to.
Guess what... Remember the guy that made the $2.5K and $7K offer? His company owned the other IP address and he owned the actual e-mail address.
So, even before Friday came around, I had figured out who he was. We also figured he was being so insistent on knowing who the second best offer was from, thinking it was himself under the other e-mail address, so that if it was himself he could withdraw his offer and get it for $2K less!!!
What really sucks is that he owns a sideline business selling militaria. I wonder how many other people he has done this with?
Anyway, the joke was on him- he wasn't the second highest offer - the guy wanting to make the trade was. I made sure this guy was #2. I knew the value of some of the items he was wanting to trade, but some of the other items tended to fluctuated. When I originally tallied up what he offered I low-balled, but the second time I went mid-price range. It also helped that he threw a couple more items onto the pile - this really tipped the scale.
So, all-n-all, this is what I'll be getting for the helmet, all items are WWI:
Three Pickelhauben in excellent condition, Baden, Bayern and Prussian; all are leather EM helmets with unit markings and dates as well as original liners and chinstraps;
Three Stahlhelme in good condition, an M16, M17 and M18; all three are cammos and have most of their linings and two have the chinstraps and the M18 has the remains of a fabric chinstrap, some have names and units written in them;
One set of German 08 Fernglass binoculars, with case and strap, in great shape made by Spindler & Hoyer;
A German Hebel 1894 flare pistol made by Fritz Lagenhahn and still in working order (did you know you can buy fireworks flares for these?!);
A Granatenwerfer 16 made by Maschinenfabrik Alfred Wolff that is also in working order -and yes - there are places where you can get dummy grenades and launch them with this;
One U.S. M1917 trench knife, with leather scabbard, made by LF&C with the six pyramids on the metal knuckle guard;
plus $2K to top it off.
Not bad, IMHO, for what I paid.


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Camera manufacturers have made numerous attempts to offer something innovative and completely different from the rest; something that allows the user to do much more with the camera. This is quite evident with a few cameras that we've come across in the past eg., the Samsung NV3 that featured a portable media player, and the twin-lens Fuji FinePix Real 3D W3 that can shoot in 3D. Equipped with Wi-Fi and a front LCD, the Samsung DV300F is also offbeat—it makes it easy to shoot self portraits and share photos wirelessly. Then come features such as effect filters, built-in GPS and Wi-Fi, Smile Shutter, and not to mention Sweep Panorama in Sony's Cyber-shot digital cameras—all of which make shooting fun and convenient to share photos. The latest innovation in the digital camera space is the Samsung Galaxy Camera, and this time Samsung has gone completely overboard! Imagine what you'll get if you cross a full-fledged super-zoom camera with the Samsung Galaxy S III. That's exactly what the Galaxy Camera is, except that you can't make calls with it. Let's find out what this highly converged gizmo has in store. Simply put, it's the Samsung Galaxy S III with a huge lens popped in, minus support for making calls Design and features At 300 grams and with the body about 1.5 times the size of an average point-and-shoot camera, the Galaxy Camera is a whopper of a digital camera. It's as hefty as two Galaxy S3s stacked together, plus the massive lens that sticks out about half an inch. Although you can (that is, if you're not wearing tight-fitting jeans), you definitely don't want to stuff it in your pocket and walk about. We have seen mega-zoom cameras with a lot more compact bodies, but the reason for the massive shell is either because Samsung decided to stick in a large 4.8-inch display on the rear or because of the oversized guts, or both. For the first time, we've seen such a large display on a digital camera, but the applications calls for one. Firstly, it's a luxuriously large viewfinder and secondly, photos and videos look great on the 720p display. The large display is great as a viewfinder and for media playback Like we've already said, it shares the feature set with the Galaxy S III. It runs a 1.4GHz quad-core processor along with 1GB RAM and Mali-400MP graphics processor. That's some serious power to run the camera, the Android Jelly Bean OS and the most demanding apps. Open the battery lid at the bottom and you'll be greeted with a microSD slot to expand the 8GB of on-board storage and a micro-SIM slot that lends this smart camera 3G support. Other connectivity options include built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters. By now you must have guessed what was going on in Samsung's head—to concoct a camera with which you can instantly share high quality photos and videos online. It also doubles as a portable media player and a mobile Internet device. With the option to download apps from Google Play Store, you can make the Galaxy Camera even more versatile. For example, you can download apps for photo editing and creating slideshows or games, ebook reader and other utilities. Samsung has bundled apps for editing photos and videos, Instagram, Dropbox and Paper Artist in addition to the usual bunch of apps such as YouTube, Gmail, Maps, Navigation, Calculator, Clock, Messaging, and so on. The large lens is the most dominant part of the camera after the screen and the large body. The focal length is 23 mm (35 mm equivalent) at the widest end and goes up to a good 481 mm, which translates to 21x optical zoom. The largest aperture at the wide and telephoto ends are f/2.8 and f/5.9 respectively—way better than f/3.2 and f/6.3 that is mostly the case with super-zoom cameras. The sensor is of the CMOS type and has a resolution of 16 megapixels. The flash is a pop-up type and it has to be raised manually using a tiny button on the left side. A motorised mechanism to automatically raise and lower the flash would have been ideal, especially in Auto mode. In this case, you'll be frustrated if you forget to raise the flash in low light; you'll end up with dark, underexposed shots. The compartment to the left is where the flash resides Samsung has gone with a minimalistic design. The top just has the zoom lever and shutter release. A 3.5 mm jack for headphones and a common micro USB port for charging the li-ion battery pack and transferring data are located on the right side. An HDMI port is located at the centre of the battery compartment lid, covered by a tiny flap. Build quality and ergonomics The build quality of the shell is excellent—the camera feels like a solid block of plastic. The touchscreen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass, which makes it highly resistant to scratches. 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The layout of the UI is for right-handed use. The Camera icon above the large Mode button is for releasing the shutter using touchscreen, and the Camcorder icon when touched immediately starts recording video. The Mode button brings up three modes—Auto, Smart and Expert. The Smart mode is nothing but the scene mode. However, many of the presets are different from the usual bunch present in point-and-shoot cameras. For example, Light Trace (for getting light trails using long shutter exposure), Silhouette, Waterfall, Rich Tone, Best Face (best shot from a burst of 5 shots), Panorama and Sunset. Virtual dials in the manual and semi-manual modes Scene presets offered in the Smart mode Yes, the camera actually obeys your commands! The expert mode has the PASM modes and it's not as daunting to use like in the case of super-zooms wherein you need to tinker with the D-pad and dials. Here, the virtual dials for ISO, EV, aperture and shutter are displayed next to each other. 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Police arrested a man for driving on a suspended license after a crash in which a 90-year-old woman sustained minor injuries yesterday morning.
According to a Longboat Key police report, Billy Atchley, 45, of Sarasota, told police that he dropped his cell phone on his Ford truck's floorbed and was trying to retrieve it when he drove into the vehicle of Louise Rich, of Bradenton and formerly of Longboat Key, around the 5300 block of Gulf of Mexico Drive near the Centre Shops.
Firefighter/paramedics transported Rich to Blake Memorial Hospital in Bradenton.
Atchley, who was not injured, told police that his license was suspended and that he should not have been driving. Police confirmed that his license had been suspended on multiple occasions for failing to pay traffic fines, license expiration and driving with a suspended license.
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Here we are, not quite half a year since his last full-length effort, Nefaria, and already Sin Nanna has released the first of two new Striborg albums due out in 2007. Honestly, I could probably stop the review there and most of you reading this would have a solid idea about the sound and quality of this release. It's Striborg. It's morose, hypnotic black metal. Lots of keyboards, mediocre musicianship, all-ambient tracks, stupid vocals; if you have even a vague idea of what this band has sounded like in the past, you know exactly what to expect here. So what does Ghostwoodlands do to progress or distinguish itself from the outfit's back catalogue? Not surprisingly, the answer is very little.
If I had to think of one word to describe bands like Striborg, it would be "unmemorable." Nothing about this album is flat out terrible (well, maybe the vocals), and yet I can't really think of any reason why you would go out of your way to pay money for this album and spend serious time listening it. I tried like hell to really immerse myself in Striborg's atmospherics, which I admit can be compelling, and yet I always found myself back at square one when the album ended, feeling exactly the same as I did before, only slightly bored. The beauty of good black metal lies in its ability to capture the attention of the listener and gradually alter their mindset as the music moves and evolves; this trait is almost jarringly absent on most of Ghostwoodlands, and the songs tend to just kind of drone on until completion instead of creating any kind of enchanting and engaging atmosphere. Let it be known that layering tons of different guitar and keyboard tracks, adding an echo effect to the vocals, and extending the track lengths does NOT equate to depth in songwriting. Album centerpiece "Wandering the Wilderness of Eternal Misery," at nearly twenty minutes in length, is simply a chore to get through and remains largely uneventful for its duration, and the shorter ambient songs serve more to fill in the gaps between the black metal tracks rather than add to the album as a whole. The dreamy title track is the best song on here but still doesn't do much to really make an impact, while "With Animosity I Bequeath Thee" has some pretty evil riffs but ultimately suffers from the same lack of depth and tension as the rest of the material. The only area that has really changed for the better (or at all) since the last album is the musicianship; while still primitive and occasionally awkward, marked improvement can be heard in the drumming this time around. It's still not great by any means, but the competent drum work does help to add some desperately needed intensity to the songs. Production sounds decent but is marred by some poor choices, namely the overdone effects on the vocals and the strange move to put the snare drum and cymbals in the right channel and the kick drum in the left.
I'm not really sure what more I need to tell you at this point; like pretty much everything this guy releases, this album has some redeeming qualities that are simply too overshadowed by the dull nature of the music overall. If you like Striborg, this is a safe bet, as I can assure you it at least meets the standards set by previous releases by the band. If you are like myself and have never really been interested in this project, there's nothing here that's going to sway you. Its just another average release by another average black metal band, so do with that what you will.
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Robin was born in Whitley Bay and grew up in Tynemouth. Before joining the RNLI Robin was a member of the Tynemouth Volunteer Life Brigade for 20 years.
Robin was interviewed by Kylea Little on 22 January 2006. The interview took place at Cullercoats RNLI lifeboat station and lasted 39 minutes and 37 seconds.
Community and camaraderie
"Many a time, Ive been out on a search, you know at that stage, you know, you are realist"
Many a time, Ive been out on a search, you know at that stage, you know, you are realist, you realise that the casualty is 90% of the time is going to be expired, so you know youre looking for a body and you want somebody to find the body so that you can give the body back to the family and that at least theyve got something, you know. Its closure, if you like.
And, its not good, you dont feel all that well. And then somebody will come up, theyll always be a wisecrack, emotions running the way that they are- everything gets exaggerated, so you get exaggerated laughter, and the like. But I think theres been a few brigades people and few lifeboat people who have had a good cry to themselves on occasions. It does get a hold of you- I suppose now people can council, I mean, that never used to happen- you used to just get along with it, you know, Ill get on with it and sort of sort it out yourself, you know.
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I have taken my first steps into "Body Worlds," an exhibition at Vienna's Museum of Natural History, and it has sparked a memory. The room where I am standing—dark, somber, strangely hushed—exhibits fetuses at various stages of development, placed on blocks that evoke a pagan circle of standing stones. The show's mastermind, German doctor Gunther von Hagens, has suctioned all the liquid and fat from the small bodies and filled the soft tissues with hard plastic through his ingenious process of "plastination." Usually, if you see a fetus in a museum, it is floating in a jar of liquid and is red or yellow and translucent. These bodies seem to be flat gray, and that is what ignites the flashback, a surreal freeze-frame of my son, born a month prematurely by C-section: As the medical staff pulled him out of my wife's womb, just for a second, his flesh looked gray.
I've come to Vienna with a critical eye, to question whether some of the bodies displayed in the latest version of this traveling show (first created in 1995 but massively larger now) could include those of political and religious prisoners from China. Yet von Hagens is drawing me in. The stated purpose of his exhibitions is health education, and I am hearing a whisper of scientific justification: Is this not the mystery of life? Your curiosity is good. It absolves you. Go further. Step inside. I consent, and enter von Hagens's freak show… Continue Reading Article on The Weekly Standard


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Thanks, but I was talking about a physical cd copy, not the datpiff download.
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Yes they were. They were sold here locally at shows. Last time I talked to Godrmis, he said they were supposed to press more. I'm still waiting on those. I believe I can still get copies of the playground as well.
you gotta down load them cescru.com
Thanks for the info. Let me know if they do get pressed up.
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Yes they were. They were sold here locally at shows. Last time I talked to Godrmis, he said they were supposed to press more. I'm still waiting on those. I believe I can still get copies of the playground as well.
Can someone link me to their Ces Cru catalog...Need everything but 13 and The Deevil.
damn if some1 is selling either of the 2 pressed mixtapes plez let me know. i need 2 get those and didnt even know they existed
As soon as they are I plan on buyin like 20 of each and I'll let you all know.
I have an extra Playground right now, its technically "sealed" it has the sticker across the top but no cellophane. cd has never been taken out of the case neither has the booklet. Thays how they were selling them at shows.
oh nice thats whats up, i actually have that one which i got from Ubi, and the EP, im looking for any of their older stuff tho. thanks though, i def appreciate it
and if u are able to buy extras of those mixtapes plez let me know
thanks again
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Orions are Star League Era made, they've been around for /centuries/. Just cuz Kerensky piloted one doesn't make it clan tech. He piloted one BEFORE THERE WERE CLANS.
So... no, you're just misinformed on that on a massive scale.
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Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:16 PM
stormeris, on 14 May 2012 - 04:36 AM, said:
Im pretty sure theyre HARDER to kill, having 4 legs, and legs being more armored than arms on bipeds, gives them higher maximum possible armor, also add their higher than average speed, lateral movement, ability to hull down, and may i ask WHERE did you run quads before? if it was in mechwarrior 2 there's a reason why they were easy to kill: they were low armored 25 ton lights (it has speed of 129,6kph, the jumping distance of over 200 metres, and im pretty sure 360* torso twisting with lateral movement) and in what way do they lack maneuverability?
you can say the same about the bushwacker, which has a low profile or the crab, theyre quite flat too
Oh and unlike the jumpjetting heavy that can barely reach 60kph, quad like scorpion could simply strafe out of the way, while you're unable to change direction while jetting am i right?
Fail to see my Kodiak coming up behind or from either side, and fail to move as my 100tons gets into the sky, your SOL period. 100 tons coming down from 90+ meters is going to land HARD.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:24 PM
Rejarial Galatan, on 15 May 2012 - 08:16 PM, said:
Well if a 100 tons manage to sneak up on someone he's probably blind and deaf, And im pretty sure stock Kodiak doesnt have jumpjets.
Seriously how can someone NOT notice a ******* 100 ton assault mech sneaking up to someone? Im pretty sure i have a radar, and my mech could easily outrun you, the only thing you could outrun would be an urbie
Edited by stormeris, 15 May 2012 - 08:26 PM.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:29 PM
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:38 PM
Rejarial Galatan, on 15 May 2012 - 08:29 PM, said:
I dont need LoS for you to appear on my radar, and im pretty sure a lot of people check their radars every half a second due to paranoia, or is it just me? But seriously when it gets released and we get quads (hopefully) id really love to fight one out with you, see if you can sneak up on a neurotic paranoid pilot! who's checking over his shoulder all the time
Edit: Kodiak doesnt fit the timeline id suggest highlander: HIGHLANDER BURIAL, but its even slower so, i really doubt youll SNEAK up on someone unless hes legged or afk
Edited by stormeris, 15 May 2012 - 08:44 PM.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:39 PM
if we're talking clan tech.
Only way I'm joining clans is if the timeline gets sped up to the point of the Rasalhague dominion, then I'll start piloting clan mechs, since I would've been in the FRR anyway.
But I refuse to choose a faction until I see the perks that they all get. lol
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:42 PM
Edit: Damnit, got offtopic
Edited by stormeris, 15 May 2012 - 08:43 PM.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 08:44 PM
stormeris, on 15 May 2012 - 08:38 PM, said:
Edit: Kodiak doesnt fit the timeline id suggest highlander: HIGHLANDER BURIAL, but its even slower so, i really doubt youll SNEAK up on someone unless hes legged or afk
Kodiak <stock first introduced 3001, 989 years from now. So, yeah, it IS in the time line. You get too focused on that mech your looking at down range, your radar fades from your vision, and I move in from a 120 meters away from the air, and crush ya like a bug. OR come from above ya from a cliff or a building <IF it will hold the thing up>
Posted 15 May 2012 - 11:35 PM
Rejarial Galatan, on 15 May 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:
Dude, seriously.enough.Though if you really want to try weighing in on this about superior 'mechs. I've yet to see ANYTHING withstand more than three volleys from one of my customized Longbows. Clan tech or not, JJs or not. Six LRM20s fire-linked and target-locked on your *** leave nothing left. Range be damned, as more often than not I'm direct firing them anywise. And also, it's rather pathetic to get this worked up about a game. What are we, CoD players? Seriously, have some respect for yourself and others and don't flip out over things like "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if the Annihilator made an appearance?" because that's basically all this boils down to. Preferences are fine and all, but all of us should be better than "You suck because I don't like your 'mech ideas". Am I right?
Edit: Actually, I've got redress something, units with LAMS tend to take four volleys, because the anti-missile units take out about a third of the hellfire. At least I'm being honest, eh?
Edited by UrLeftKnut, 15 May 2012 - 11:37 PM.
Posted 15 May 2012 - 11:51 PM
There is no reasoning with it.
I'd like to see quad mechs, the lateral movement is sweet and they can keep moving while being down /2/ legs, that's some sweet gyro's there. Out of the newer models, the 4 legged ones were the only ones that actually appealed to me honestly. Cept the Barghest, awesome chassis, horrible weapons imho.
Posted 16 May 2012 - 12:09 AM
Posted 16 May 2012 - 03:01 AM
Rejarial Galatan, on 15 May 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:
So youre implying that im stupid and cant focus on two things at the same time? wow im offended and how would radar fade from my vision? and how are you so sure that ill be focusing on some mech that isnt the 100ton lumbering scrapyard coming at me? for serious stop implying that a 100 ton mech can sneak up on someone without getting his mechwarrior evaporated in glorious PPC's fire? If ill see you on the battlefield, ill have your leg!
Edited by stormeris, 16 May 2012 - 03:08 AM.
Posted 16 May 2012 - 03:14 AM
Posted 16 May 2012 - 07:43 AM
ANH-2A Annihilator
Posted 16 May 2012 - 08:16 AM
Posted 16 May 2012 - 09:16 AM
Posted 17 May 2012 - 10:56 AM
UrLeftKnut, on 12 May 2012 - 09:08 AM, said:
The Longbow, perhaps, but it's earliest appearence that I can find was it's introduction in the TRO: 3058 so I may be mistaken there. However, assuming you're talking about the Crossbow omnimech here, we have a ways to wait. And please, profanity isn't necessary, my comment was mostly with regards to the people begging for Uziels from the future
Rejarial Galatan, on 15 May 2012 - 08:44 PM, said:
It is clan tech. CLAN. TECH. THE CLANS. CLANNERS. ALIEEEEENSSSS. Must be introduced before it can be used...
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Yeah,I was surprised no one else mentioned War Of The Worlds.
One of many of Anno's excruciatingly long takes – which I do tend to like.
the ballroom scene in hitchcock's notorious……..:)
i never, ever talk during movies…but after that long take in Hunger (the conversation with the priest), I turned to my husband and said Holy Fuck that was one long take! Actors on stage do that all the time, obviously…not sure why it made such an impression on me.
"The Trigger Effect" opening is a sly and entertaining shot.
Long take at the end of The Passenger.
Joe Wright does a lot of great long takes, in general, actually, in Atonement, Hanna, and even Pride and Prejudice.
Also Rope!
The Atonement Dunkirk beach scene is definitely worth a note because it is just beautiful.
It is not the longest take ever but for an action scene it is incredibly impressive long-take.
Some of Angelopoulos most immaculate long takes occur in The Hunters. They have to be seen to be believed.
oldboy corridor scene
Already posted on the first page but always worth a rewatch :)
the best succession of long takes I've seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8vRfiMejoM
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Quotin' Jesus Atcha
Let's start with these:
"No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money." -Matthew 6:24
"Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven." -Matthew 19:24
But more than either of those, there's this…
"Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'
"Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go visit you?'
"The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.'
"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'
"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me." -Matthew 25:34-45
So when you read all that, does it sound to you at all like current Republican/Tea Party/conservative policy? Do the current mantras of unregulated, survival-of-the-fittest, "free" market capitalism make room for these Christian tenets, that supposedly came from the mouth of Jesus Christ himself? When a conservative goes off about the unfairness of a graduated income tax system, or the money wasted on welfare, or the evils of ensuring that everyone is entitled to adequate health care, do you think he or she has these Bible passages in mind?
Probably not.
I've been mulling over this post for a long time, and I've thought a lot about all the things I could say to drive my point home. In the end, I've decided that sort and sweet is the answer. So here it is, short and sweet.
If you DON'T adhere to any sort of Christian dogma - whether you're atheist, Jewish, Muslim, or apathetic, then I'm not addressing you. Not in this post. For you and I, the debate regarding progressive ideals vs. corporate hegemony, of providing for the proletariat vs. letting them fend for themselves, has to be reserved for elsewhere and elsewhen. You may agree with me or you may not.
But if you DO consider yourself a Christian, and ESPECIALLY if you think that the Bible is the unerring Word of God (I don't, by the way), then I don't see how you can vote for the Tea Party and/or the GOP and still claim to follow Christ. Screw the debate about abortion. Screw the debate over whether Obama is Muslim or not - those are herrings tossed up to throw you off track, to distract you from what is truly at stake here. And I'm sure some Bible scholar MIGHT be able to dig up some passage which contradicts the ones above. I don't care. The above passages are pretty clear, and they came directly from JESUS.
If you vote Republican and claim to be a Christian at the same time, how do you reconcile that? I think that if you can find a way, then you've fooled yourself.


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Early this morning, Dominic and I jumped into our respective cars to head to Cambridgeshire, to present a keynote for the third Cambridge and Oxford College IT Conference, held at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. It's quite an unusual conference venue, set inside the AirSpace hangar – overlooking a display of planes from the last century. My Dad and brother are both ex-Air Force Armourers, so seeing the Vulcan and Lancaster took me back to my childhood in Scampton, Lincolnshire.
In this historical setting, I was talking about the future, and the opportunities and challenges which exist as IT moves forward.
I used our 'Productivity Vision' video, which looks at the workplace of 2019, and then continued by deconstructing the technology behind the video – to look at what exists now – either in research labs or in real life - and how the components might build to get to the vision described for the future.
Unfortunately, I can't share the whole presentation, but I can share the short video that I used as the introduction, which is the starting point for the story I told.
You can view the video on our Officlabs Envisioning website, and you can also watch a video as Ian Sands, Director of Envisioning, steps through the video scene by scene and describes in greater depth the story behind the people and technology on display.
A number of people asked me afterwards about the interactive tool I'd used for the presentation. And the secret is pptPlex, which is an add-in for PowerPoint 2007. It allows you to build amazingly interactive presentations, and also allows you to move around a storyboard in a completely non-linear way.
I keep an eye on the Information Commissioner's Office press releases on their website (in the hope that we're not going to see schools appearing too often), where I suspect they have a busy Press Officer producing a constant stream of news (last 2 weeks : Recruitment firms fined; mobile phone customers record sold illegally; Primary Care Trusts break the law; One third of data security breaches result from burglary and theft).
On Thursday I saw that the ICO announced that it's latest publication "demystifies data protection".
It even quoted Stephen Alambritis, Head of Public Affairs at the Federation of Small Businesses:
Small businesses do not have time for pages and pages of jargon and gobbledegook, but getting data protection right makes good business sense. Data protection lapses cost reputations and can affect the bottom line. But, many organisations tell us that data protection law is difficult to understand. This new no-nonsense guide will help the business community to understand and comply with the law
It even promised to demystify plainly wrong stories, such as "It is illegal to take photographs of your children in their nativity play at school." (It points out "The Data Protection Act does not prevent parents taking photographs of their children and friends participating in school events.")
Well, after all the mystery that has surrounded information security in the public sector, I jumped straight over to the new guide, and downloaded the PDF version, with high hopes.
As a positive, it's definitely written in plain English. Which is a relief after so many migraine-inducing data protection documents.
And there are many specific examples which are really useful to help understand it all. So if your job gets close to protecting data, then this is a must read.
But it runs to 92 pages. 92 pages for an easy-to-understand guide? One to pass to the Head I think!
Also a great source of facts to shout at the telly/newspaper with next time you see one of those idiotic data protection stories…
The Microsoft UK Education team has a dozen people in it (surprised?) who are focused full-time on education – across schools, colleges and universities. Which means that we're awfully busy and spread across many, many things all the time. But fortunately we have the help of other similar teams around the world, and a much bigger team in our offices in America. Sometimes we produce work for the rest of the world (like the Innovative Schools case studies, focusing on journeys of innovation and the lessons that innovative schools have learnt on their way), and sometimes the work flows the other way – towards us.
One of the things that has been done as part of the worldwide Partners in Learning programme is The Scaling Framework – an interactive tool that helps analyse how you move an innovation from being something done by 1 or 2 people, to making it widespread.
It made me think of two specific cases where today there is a challenge of scaling innovation. The first is Virtual Learning Environments, where it is proving to be difficult to take good practice from one lecturer/department/university to the whole system. And the other is taking an innovative ICT teaching initiative and spreading it to other departments.
The Scaling Framework is a simple interactive tool that explains the five dimensions of scale, and then digs down into areas such as "Traps to Avoid" and "Next Steps to Explore".
You can either us this as an individual, or pop it up on your whiteboard next time you're holding a leadership team meeting, and explore interactively.
Take a look at the interactive Scaling Framework, and see if it can help you
I was interested in the "Spread" dimension – and the trap to avoid: "Developers should realise a somewhat less powerful innovation that reaches much greater numbers of use is a step forward". We were talking about this at lunchtime today, discussing a new piece of software for teachers which may only appeal to innovators, meaning that the majority of users won't be affected by it. So is it better to try and promote something a little less innovative, but likely to be used by more people?
Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 have all reached the Beta milestone and are now available for download.
Remember how sometimes you felt smug when you were running Windows 7 Beta at least 6 months before your colleagues and friends? Well, you can feel it once again!
On Monday 9 November, Microsoft Exchange 2010 became the first product launch in wave of innovation across the Office system. The first half of 2010 will see this wave continue with the release of Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Project 2010 and Visio 2010 .
In addition, with this beta we are unveiling several new features and products:
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Bookings are now open for our Higher Education Briefing day, which this year falls on 10th December in London.
Microsoft will be holding our annual Higher Education Briefing on 10th December 2009 at our London offices in Victoria. The agenda for the event runs from 10:00 to 4:45 with breaks to catch up with colleagues from other universities.
As well as getting the latest news on Microsoft's product roadmap, there will be the opportunity to hear from other universities and to hear how they are responding to the economic pressures that all universities are feeling. Of course, this current academic year is full of launches of new Microsoft products, and we'll be able to use the day to bring all of this into context – explaining the value and relative importance of some of the key new product launches still to come.
9:30 - Registration and coffee 10:00 - Welcome and introduction 10:15 - Challenges faced by Higher Education 10:45 - Contoso University 11:30 – Break 11:45 – University case study 12:15 - Live@edu 13:00 – Lunch 13:45 - Sharepoint in Higher Education 15:00 – Break 15:15 – Virtualisation 15:45 – Office 2010 16:30 – Final Q&A 16:45 - Close
Dominic Watts, the Higher Education Business Manager, will lead the day, introducing experts from Microsoft and our partners and bringing case studies from our customers.
We'll be holding the briefing at our offices in Victoria, and there will be plenty of Microsoft colleagues available for discussions.
You can book your place online now
Jonathan Noble (MVP) at Newcastle has told me of an event with Microsoft Premier engineer Richard Diver on 25 November aimed at helping IT Pros aiming to get better performance out of Windows systems and software. Details of the event are on his blog:
The TechNet site has a growing series of Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides for all kinds of areas – virtualisation, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server, Online Services and the Optimised Desktop.
The one that jumped out as me was the IPD Guide for DirectAccess in Windows 7. This is especially useful in colleges, where you have staff who are as likely to need access to your network from home as they are in university (especially if you have a large number of part time staff).
With DirectAccess, your users can have access to your university network without having to use a VPN or Remote Access setup – whenever they have access to the internet from their university laptop, they have access to your network. To get this level of convenience without compromising security means that you need to setup your network carefully, and the IPD guide is designed to help with that.
The Infrastructure Planning and Design series guide for DirectAccess provides actionable guidance for designing a DirectAccess infrastructure. The guide's easy-to-follow, four-step process gives a straightforward explanation of the infrastructure required for clients to be connected from the Internet to resources on the corporate network, whether or not the organization has begun deploying IPv6.
You can download the Direct Access Guide here
On the same subject, you may find the IPD Guide for Network Access Protection useful too, as it talks you through the ways that you can allow students and staff to connect their own laptops to your network without compromising security. In an environment where students all arrive with their own laptop, it allows you to save money and improve capabilities.
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"Using Live@edu has transformed the relationship between our staff and our students….it's definitely part of their academic experience here at Middlesex"
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Federal Reserve officials were largely unaware of the financial crisis brewing in 2007, until they found themselves in the middle of it, transcripts released Friday show.
The more than 1,300 pages offer the most comprehensive look at the Federal Reserve's deliberations, leading up to the start of the Great Recession in December 2007. It's the central bank's policy to release full transcripts with a five year lag.
Here's how the year played out.
January 2007: Calm before the storm
At the beginning of the year, many Fed officials, including Chairman Ben Bernanke, thought one of the biggest risks was that the economy might grow stronger than expected.
At the time, the Fed's key interest rate was at 5.25%, and the central bank was leaning toward raising it further, rather than easing monetary policy.
"My recommendation also is to take no action and to maintain a bias toward further tightening," Bernanke said at the first meeting of the year, noting that inflation risk had picked up and the housing market had shown some improvement after slumping in 2006.
"The housing market has looked a bit more solid, and the worst outcomes have been made less likely," he said.
At that point, they didn't realize that losses from subprime mortgages would ignite the deepest financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Fast forward two months, and still, the Fed thought the worst was over for the housing sector.
"The central scenario that housing will stabilize sometime during the middle of the year remains intact," Bernanke said at a meeting in March, adding later, "The effects of the decline in subprime lending may have already been mostly seen, since that has slowed from last fall."
June 2007: Tip of the iceberg
As it turns out, that spring was merely the calm before the storm. In June, two Bear Stearns hedge funds that had large holdings of subprime mortgages suffered huge losses and were forced to dump their assets.
Fed officials discussed the news at their meeting a week later, but they largely agreed that aside from housing, the economy still looked strong.
"Significant spillovers have yet to emerge from the housing situation, and other components of demand appear to be strengthening and thereby offsetting the drag from residential construction," Bernanke said.
San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen, however, sounded the loudest warning.
"In terms of risks to the outlook for growth, I still feel the presence of a 600-pound gorilla in the room, and that is the housing sector," she said. "The risk for further significant deterioration in the housing market, with house prices falling and mortgage delinquencies rising further, causes me appreciable angst."
August 2007: It hits the fan
Fed officials didn't meet again until August 7, and even then, some thought higher inflation was one of the biggest concerns. The theory was that if the housing market weakened, rents would rise and thereby drive up inflation.
Meanwhile, New York Fed President William Dudley reported that for the most part, Bear Stearns' problems did not pose a substantial risk to the economy.