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San Francisco Chronicle, June 26, 2007 - Posted June 30
The U.S. Supreme Court tightened limits on student speech Monday, allowing schools to punish youths for statements that might promote drug use -- a ruling that gives new prominence to laws in California and a handful of other states that provide protections for expression on campus.
Judge Orders Pot Crusader Krieger To Be Released On BailCalgary Herald, June 28, 2007 - Posted June 30
Alberta -- Medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger was expected to be released from jail Wednesday night, after his lawyer succeeded in getting him bail until an appeal of his most recent conviction is heard.
More Cities Push To Nix Medical Pot ShopsSan Bernardino Sun, June 27, 2007 - Posted June 30
YUCAIPA, CA -- Another inland town moved closer to snuffing out medicinal marijuana Monday when the City Council approved staffers' plans to craft an ordinance prohibiting medical cannabis dispensaries.
Number Of US Prisoners Has Biggest Rise In 6 YearsReuters, June 27, 2007 - Posted June 30
WASHINGTON -- The United States, which has the most prisoners of any country in the world, last year recorded the largest increase in the number of people in prisons and jails since 2000, the Justice Department reported on Wednesday.
Rell Vetoes Bill To Legalize Medical MarijuanaBoston Globe, June 19, 2007 - Posted June 25
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have legalized medicinal marijuana, acknowledging she struggled with the decision.
Maastricht Coffee Shops Drop Plans for Biometric Security SystemDer Spiegel, June 24, 2007 - Posted June 25
Plans for a biometric security system in cannabis-selling coffee shops in the Dutch town of Maastricht have been dropped -- but they're still going to be taking smokers' fingerprints when they buy their stash.
Marijuana Grower Wants A New TrialSan Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2007 - Posted June 25
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ed Rosenthal, the self-described "Guru of Ganja" convicted for a second time last month of violating federal drug laws by growing marijuana for medical patients, wants a new trial.
The House That Hemp BuiltCalgary Herald, June 23, 2007 - Posted June 25
Saltspring Island, BC -- Drew and Jaime Rokeby-Thomas had the property, builder, designer and finances lined up for construction of their straw-bale home on B.C.'s Saltspring Island.
New Merit Seen In Cannabis RemedyOtago Daily Times, June 21, 2007 - Posted June 24
A cannabis folk remedy has been resurrected by scientists who found that active ingredients in the drug reduce allergic reactions.
Caught In The MiddleThe Chico News & Review, June 21, 2007 - Posted June 24
After a decade of legal wrangling and more than two years in prison, med-pot pioneer Bryan Epis faces a return to prison
Pot Advocate Sick In Jail - FamilyCalgary Herald, June 21, 2007 - Posted June 24
Calgary, AB -- The condition of notorious medicinal marijuana crusader Grant Krieger -- incarcerated at the Calgary Remand Centre since Monday -- is "rapidly deteriorating," according to his friends and family.
Activists Petition for Medical Marijuana in MichiganCity Pulse, June 20, 2007 - Posted June 24
Rochelle Lampkin of Detroit doesn't drink alcohol, smoke tobacco or use drugs for recreation. But about once a month, she takes in a substance that she says benefits her quality of life - even though it's against the law.
Medical Marijuana Measure Falls With Connecticut Governor's VetoNew York Times, June 20, 2007 - Posted June 21
Stamford, Conn. -- After struggling with what was described as one of the most difficult decisions in her three-year tenure, Gov. M. Jodi Rell vetoed a measure today that would have legalized the use of marijuana for certain medical conditions.
Tickets For Marijuana Possession OK'dHerald Times Reporter, June 19, 2007 - Posted June 21
MANITOWOC, WI - Possession of marijuana is now an ordinance violation, and first-timers who get caught with the drug face a city citation rather than a misdemeanor charge.
Medical Marijuana: New York Is Waiting to InhaleBuffalo News, June 19, 2007 - Posted June 21
ALBANY, NY -- Joel Peacock, a registered member of the Conservative Party, has little use for liberal politicians.
Canadian Found Guilty In DubaiVictoria Times-Colonist, June 19, 2007 - Posted June 21
UNITED NATIONS -- A Dubai court found Canadian anti-narcotics worker Bert Tatham guilty today on drug possession charges, sentencing him to four years in prison in the Arab emirate.
Supreme Court Embraces Rights for Car PassengersNew York Times, June 18, 2007 - Posted June 19
WASHINGTON -- A passenger as well as a driver has the right to challenge the legality of a police officer's decision to stop a car, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today.
ND Farmers Sue DEA To Grow Hemp CropContra Costa Times, June 19, 2007 - Posted June 19
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Two farmers granted the first licenses in the nation to grow industrial hemp filed a federal lawsuit Monday to get final permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Pro-Pot Concerts Set to Roll in StarksKennebec Journal, June 16, 2007 - Posted June 19
STARKS, MAINE -- Along with warm temperatures, longer days and mosquitoes, summer in this rural town brings a full lineup of rock concerts laced with a heavy dose of marijuana advocacy.
School Suspends Teen for Discussing DrugsNational Post, June 14, 2007 - Posted June 19
Wawota, Sask. -- Kieran King says he's never seen marijuana, let alone smoked or sold it. But cannabis has been causing problems for the 15-year-old honour student lately, ever since a fellow student complained about Kieran expressing his opinions on pot.
A hotbed of cannabis activism, Washington State is home to many organizations working to bring about rational drug policy. Here are some things to get involved with:
Cannabis Defense Coalition has been very active lately. They focus on courtroom observation and medical marijuana activism.
The ACLU-WA Drug Policy Project created the Marijuana: It's Time for a Conversation campaign, among other things.
Initiative 75, passed in 2003, deprioritized marijuana law enforcement in Seattle. A final report (2mb pdf) on the law was produced by the city.
The November Coalition, based in Colville, is a national reform group and works with prisoners and families.
SpoCannabis is a medical marijuana activist group in Spokane.
King Co. Bar Association Drug Policy Project has done amazing work educating the "suits" about the failure of our prohibition model of drug policy, and the need for a regulatory model of drug policy.
Seattle Hempfest is the third weekend in August on Seattle's waterfront.
Olympia Hempfest is a week after Seattle's big bash.


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Spanish artist Manuel Rebollo creates stunning neo-glam illustrations that are inspired by music, fashion, sex, and sensuality. Printed on high-quality vinyl, this mural comes rolled with removable, paint-safe hanging strips for ease of hanging.
The mural surface wipes clean and is stain resistant. Murals are re-usable and repositionable. Detailed hanging instructions with diagram are included with purchase. Published exclusively by Eyes On Walls.

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Dazzling. Exhilarating. Fashionably Hip.
There's no denying it. Mikuni's restaurant in the historic East End Lofts building in midtown Sacramento is alive with the flavors of New York and San Francisco. Utterly cosmopolitan, it boasts a vibrancy and energy that generate an irresistible draw.
Art is everywhere in this ultra-cool restaurant—from the amazing intricacy of exquisite sushi rolls to the extraordinary beauty of female Japanese warriors whose likenesses adorn the walls. It is truly a place to see and be seen—amidst the bright lights, bold colors, and the undeniable hum of excitement in the air. And with its three sushi bars, drinks bar replete with exotic concoctions, and many large, flat-screen televisions, you may never feel the need to leave.
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Reservations for parties of 8 or more. No reservations taken between Noon and 1:00pm and 7:00pm and 8:00pm. Reservations will be held for ten minutes only. If the entire party is not present after ten minutes, the reservation will be forfeited. The Mikuni Sushi Bar is seated based on first come, first served. Thank you.
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Fort Myers Beach condo with an outdoor pool
Situated near the beach in Fort Myers Beach, this condo is close to Mound House, Lovers Key State Park and Matanzaz Pass Preserve. Local attractions also include Bay Oaks Recreation Center and Times Square.
Property Features
Gulf Breeze Condominium provides complimentary wireless Internet access, laundry facilities, free self parking, and free parking.
Room Amenities
LCD televisions come with cable channels. Guestrooms also feature private pools, kitchens, and complimentary wireless Internet access.
Hotel Amenities
- General
Gulf Breeze Condominium features an outdoor pool, barbecue grills, and a picnic area. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Number of floors - 1
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Free parking
- Laundry facilities
- Picnic area
- Free self parking
- Pool sun loungers
- Free outdoor parking
- Free guest parking during stay
- Free Wi-Fi
- Total number of rooms - 4
- Swimming pool - outdoor
- Internet
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
- Parking
Free parking, Free guest parking during stay, Free outdoor parking, Free self parking
- Room Amenities
- Separate dining area
- Blender
- Dishwasher
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- Kitchen linens (dishtowels, sponges, etc.)
- Stovetop
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Kitchen
- Shower/tub combination
- Cooking facilities
- Coffee/tea maker
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning
- Ceiling fan
- Clock radio
- Climate control
- Sofa bed
- Window opens
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Individually furnished
- Individually decorated
- Private pool
- Sofa bed size
- Separate living room
- Microwave
- Free Wi-Fi
- Cable TV service
- Recreation
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Water skiing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Boating nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Bird watching nearby
- Swimming on site
- Motor boating nearby
- Boat cruises nearby
- Rowing or canoeing nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Fishing nearby
- Boat tours nearby
Policies & Fees
- Check-in
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 25
Check-in time ends at 8 PM
Special check-in instructions:
The check-in location differs from the property location. Check-in office: 2610 Estero Boulevard, Fort Myers Beach, FL, 33931. Guests must call the hotel prior to arrival. Contact information is provided in the confirmation email following the booking made via this website.
- Check-out
Check-out time is 10 AM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets not allowed
- General
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
- Additional Details
This property's policy is to refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, including pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties. Children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding.


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BELLINGHAM - A Bellingham man awoke to heavy smoke and the blaring of smoke alarms in his bedroom early Wednesday, March 6.
Kyler Frydenlund, 25, grabbed a fire extinguisher and did what he could to put out the flames in the wall and ceiling of his rented house at 2338 Humboldt St. But the fire was too big for him to handle alone.
A woman drove by at 4:30 a.m. - probably on her way to a morning workout at the gym, Frydenlund said. She saw smoke curling along the eaves of the pale blue one-story house. Flames never broke through the roof.
"So there was actually enough smoke that she stopped," Frydenlund said.
She called 911. Frydenlund got outside unscathed. Quickly, firefighters knocked down the brunt of the blaze in the attic, but the fire had spread through the walls and vents. They struggled to extinguish the stubborn lingering flames, said Bellingham Fire Chief Roger Christensen.
Firefighters were still putting together a property damage estimate. For now, the house doesn't appear to be livable, Christensen added. From the street the house doesn't show any obvious signs of damage, except for some small charred strips of wood tossed in the hedges by the front door.
As for the cause of the fire, investigators have zeroed in on some old, damaged knob-and-tube wiring in the attic. Some rat droppings were found nearby, so it's possible the rats chewed the wires.
Firefighters returned to the scene at 2 p.m. after a neighbor reported more smoke drifting from the eaves. Trapped heat in blown-in insulation rekindled the fire, Christensen said. This time, however, it was much smaller and took only a few minutes to extinguish. An infrared camera hadnt tipped firefighters off to the trapped heat, the fire chief added, because the insulation was apparently pretty effective at containing warmth.
Frydenlund, a student in Western Washington University's general studies program, had lived at the house for almost two years. He said he plans to ask the school about any vacant dorm rooms. But if that doesn't work, he said, he'll be flopping on an air mattress at friends' houses until he figures out his next move.
Reach Caleb Hutton at 360-715-2276 or email@example.com. Read his dispatcher blog at blogs.bellinghamherald.com/dispatcher or follow him on Twitter at @bhamcrime.


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As part of a series of photo journals on how the TeleFood programme helps needy families, a resident of a leprosy colony near New Delhi, India, talks about his daily life.My name is Surinder Singh. I'm 25 years old and live with my family in a government leprosy colony outside New Delhi. Here I am with my mother, Nathiyadevi, picking some mustard from our fields for lunch. She is 61 and was one of the first people to come to live here, 22 years ago, when she was diagnosed with the disease.We are both members of the Gandhi Leprosy Society, a community self-help group of about 140 families. [All Photos: ©Raghu Rai/Magnum Photos for FAO]
Here I am watching TV with my family on our front porch. My wife, Vim, is 23 and my son, Vikas, is two and a half. A couple of neighbour children have joined us.This used to be an old army barracks, but the army left and the government turned it into free housing for people with leprosy. We have one room and this porch.Up until now we haven't paid for electricity, but last month a government man came and said we would have to pay. Before, we would not have been able to pay for it, but now we can, thanks to the extra money we are earning from the fields and fish farm started with FAO's help.
Here is a neighbour crippled by leprosy who gets around in a hand-pedalled tricycle. She is one of about 6 000 people who live in the colony. You can almost see my house at the end of the street.When my mother first came to live here, there were hardly any people. Now there are shops, houses, the government clinic and a school. The clinic gives free medicine to the lepers here.The fields where we grow our vegetables and have our fish farm are next to the colony.
FAO's TeleFood Fund made this fish pond possible. Three years ago, the younger people in our self-help society dug the pond by hand. TeleFood paid for two wells for water, fingerlings for stocking the pond and enough fish food to get us started. Taking care of it is a group effort.A volunteer from the Rotary Club taught us how to manage the fish farm. I contribute where it is needed. Usually I help circulate water with a pump so that the water has oxygen in it. I never did that before, but I learned how; it is not hard.The nets belong to the society, but we contract with a fish seller who comes with his own people to catch the fish and take them to market.
Look at those fish! It takes them around 3 to 5 months to grow that big. We pay attention to how much fish are selling for, and then call the fish seller. He buys them for around 30 or 40 rupees per kilogram (about 66 to 88 US cents). If we sold them ourselves at market, we might get around 23 or 24 rupees per kilogram after expenses because it costs money to transport the fish and have a stall.The extra money we make goes back into our society projects. Families with members who are sick or handicapped get a free ration of fish, and we also sell the fish to our neighbours at half price.
Sometimes we use the water from the fish pond to irrigate our fields. Other times we start the pump in the pump house behind me and fresh well water runs into the fields. It is good enough to drink. The work is hard, but the good thing is that this is my own personal effort. It is my own work that makes a difference, and the harder I work, the more I get out of it.All decisions are made by a full vote by our society. Working on our projects has brought us together. Each of us feels responsible; if others are working hard, then we should work too.
Next to the fish farm are the society's fields, which FAO helped us start 10 years ago. Here is a society member with a healthy looking crop. We also grow grains, lettuce and potatoes.Just like the fish farm, some of it we sell, some of it we eat. Part of the money we earn goes to our families, and part of it goes back into society projects. Our next project is a chicken farm, which we are building with profits from our fish pond and help from the Rotary Club. We hope we will make a profit of as much as 1 000 rupees per person a month selling chickens and eggs.
Before, we had to leave the colony to buy food. Now there are stores around and men also come with carts and sell vegetables, which we sometimes buy. They are a bit expensive but not too bad. We spend about 200 to 250 rupees a month on vegetables and spices (about US$5 on average).
My wife, Vim, is cooking lunch: lentils, rice and vegetables. In the morning we drink tea, and in the evening, we eat vegetables and wheat bread. My mother is opening our new refrigerator, bought recently with our increased income.Meat is very costly. But now we get a portion of fish from the farm. Sometimes we ate fish before, but not very much. It was very expensive.Before, my family had to depend on a single food ration from the government to survive. Now with our FAO projects we produce our own wheat, rice and fish. We are not hungry any more.
If I didn't have the income from our TeleFood and FAO projects I would not be able to take care of my family, although sometimes I earn additional income doing construction. My parents had a difficult time taking care of me, but because I have these different skills, I am confident that I will always be able to find work and take care of my family.Because of this, I hope that my son will get the best education possible. We'll see what he can do then.


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About 40 years from now, if anyone in the star system 47 Ursae Majoris happens to be pointing a radio telescope at Earth, they'll receive a short concert from some high school students in Russia.
The concert was beamed to star systems with known planets. 47 Ursae Majoris is a special target because the star itself is similar to the Sun. It's a little older than the Sun, so life has had plenty of time to take hold there.
Astronomers discovered a planet orbiting the star in 1996. It's more massive than Jupiter, the giant of our own solar system, and it orbits the star once every three years. There's evidence of another planet even farther from the star.
The planets are too cold to have liquid water, so they're not good homes for life. But it's possible that other planets could orbit closer to the star, where it's warmer.
In 2001, Russian students created a program to transmit to 47 Ursae Majoris and five other stars. It included music from Gershwin, Vivaldi, and others, all performed on the Theremin -- an instrument best known for its use in sci-fi movies -- followed by greetings in Russian and English. The program was transmitted from Russia's Evpatoria Deep Space Center on September 3rd of that year.
47 Ursae Majoris is just visible to the unaided eye. It's below the bowl of the Big Dipper, which is in the northwest this evening, and in the northeast at dawn.
Script by Damond Benningfield, Copyright 2008
For more skywatching tips, astronomy news, and much more, read StarDate magazine.


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OK, so I may have cocked up the title of yesterday's ALTA post—my typing/hearing skills are pretty suspect . . . It should've read "Short Stop Only While Getting It Off," although "short drop" might be a bit more, um, dirty—but I'm positive I have today's right.
It actually came from John Nathan's plenary lecture "Translating Style," which was an extremely interesting and engaging presentation about the difficulties of capturing the author's voice when translating Japanese literature. Anyway, the title of the first Mishima book that Nathan translated can be literally translated as "Tugging in the Afternoon," but the Japanese word for "glory" is homonym for "tugging," a bit of word play that would totally be lost in English. So instead, Nathan suggested "Glory Is a Drag," which didn't go over too well . . . Eventually—thanks to Mishima's ability to come up with dozens of great titles—the book came to be known as The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea.
Anyone who reads this blog or thinks about/is involved with literary translation knows that this sort of bold departure is rather common. Translators are always faced with difficult choices—whether to cling to the original or cut and compensate in the target language, how to translate dialects, etc.—and it's the way that great translators solve these questions through their great skill, imagination, and understanding of the literary art that makes them Great Translators in the first place.
Suzanne Jill Levine's The Subversive Scribe is dedicated to exactly this. The first event I attended at ALTA was a special session in honor of Dalkey Archive's recent reissue of this collection. (Unfortunately, none of the editors from Dalkey attended ALTA, although I did have a chance to meet the very cool Jamie Richards, who is one of the current translation fellows.) A lot of interesting things came up on this panel that sort of highlight what it is that I really love about translators and ALTA as a whole.
A lot of the discussion revolved around the idea that the translator is responsible for "recreating the reader's relationship with the text." In contrast to more academic activities and papers in which the professor tries to enact a fake sort of "critical distance" from the text they're discussing, Jill (and translators as a whole) are much more personally engaged with the book. Aside from those instances in which loaded independent publishers use our enormous wealth to convince a translator to take on a project they're not interested in (something that happens, well, like, never), translators work on books that they love. And they translate because they want to share that love with others who can't experience the pleasure of reading the book in its original language.
One of the more fruitful metaphors to apply to the process of translation is to talk about it as a performance. That the original text is like a musical score and the translator the musician who jazzily reproduces the original in a new form. Obviously, there are many valid ways to "play" a text, and the art of the translator is being able to nail those verbal runs and bring the new set of readers into the author's amazing world.
Which means that a translator has to be pretty damn creative. (Not to mention extremely talented. That's why I'm just as in awe of great translators as I am of great authors.) And that's sort of what Jill was getting at with her use of the word "subversive." It's not that she was sowing the seeds of revolution (although why not?) but pointing to the fact that translation is a creative process. That subversion = creativity. (Leading to an awesome quote about her relationship with the person who translated The Subversive Scribe into Spanish: "I was subverting him while he was subverting me.")
(Sidenote for all who were there: I totally agree with the very awesome Erica Mena who objected to the comment that young translators have to spend a couple decades—couple decades?—practicing before they perform in this way. It's always good to try these things with a partner, but it's important for young translators to approach this as an enjoyable, playful, creative act. And that they should mature in the tradition of translation as jazz performance—it'll only pay of bigger dividends in the long run.)
One of the more disheartening stories of ALTA revolved around Jose Lezama Lima's Oppiano Licario. On a panel about Cuba, Pam Carmell—who received a NEA Translation Fellowship for her work on this translation—talked about why she translated Lezama Lima's baroque masterpiece in the way that she did. That she made very conscious decisions to retain the baroque, stuffed, labyrinthine sentence structure of the original, instead of simplifying and boiling the book down to its basic plot structure. What I've seen of her translation is beautiful, and as a fan of Paradiso, I'd LOVE to read this . . . but, alas, the publisher didn't quite agree with Pam's approach and apparently this book is either never coming out, or is being retranslated into something that's "easier" to understand. . . . And yes, I do know more about this particular situation, but I honestly can't write about it here . . .
Anyway, tomorrow I'll write a bit about Ilan Stavan's plenary speech, which irritated me in the way that Malcolm Gladwell irritates me . . .
Paul Klee's Boat, Anzhelina Polonskaya's newest bilingual collection of poems available in English, is an emotional journey through the bleakest seasons of the human soul, translated with great nuance by Andrew Wachtel. A former professional ice dancer(!), Polonskaya left the. . .
In Seiobo There Below, Lázló Krasznahorkai is able to succeed at a task at which many writers fail: to dedicate an entire novel to a single message, to express an idea over and over again without falling into repetition or. . .
There are curious similarities in three Italian mystery series, written by Maurizio de Giovanni, Andrea Camilleri, and Donna Leon.1
They're all police procedurals, and all set in Italy: Naples, Sicily, Venice.
The three protagonists are Commissarios: Luigi Ricciardi, Salvo. . .
Poetry always has the feel of mysticism and mystery, or maybe this feeling is a stereotype left over from high school literature class. It is generally the result of confusion, lack of time committed to consuming the poetry, and the. . .
Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic is not only a translation, but a transformation. It is a translation of Jean Genet's novel Notre Dame des Fleurs, transmuted from prose to poetry. Originally written in prison as a masturbatory aid (Sartre. . .
Equal parts stoner pulp thriller and psycho-physiological horror story, a pervasive sense of dread mixes with a cloud of weed smoke to seep into every line of the disturbing, complex Under This Terrible Sun. Originally published by illustrious Spanish publishers. . .
From the start, Daniel Canty's Wigrum, published by Canadian press Talonbooks, is obviously a novel of form. Known also as a graphic designer in Quebec, Canty takes those skills and puts them towards this "novel of inventory" and creates a. . .


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Rest In Peace
The Wiscasset bypass meets its demise.
The Wiscasset bypass, on life support since the June 2010 discovery of a bald eagle's nest in its would-be path, has died at the age of fifty-three. Maine Transportation Commissioner David Bernhardt pulled the plug on August 3.
Conceived by the Maine Highway Commission (now the Maine Department of Transportation), the bypass was supposed to be part of an ambitious plan to rebuild Route 1 between Bath and Waldoboro. It would have routed traffic around Wiscasset village, which in summer produces one of the most congested stretches of roadway in the state.
Yet for all the attention lavished upon it, the bypass failed to thrive. It remained stuck in perpetual infancy, and only a few times in its five-plus decades of nonexistence did it display even the slightest promise of maturation.
One of those times was 1974, when the Cowseagan Narrows Bridge replaced the causeway linking Westport Island and the mainland. Built to mitigate the effects of heated effluent from the Maine Yankee nuclear power plant by increasing water flow, the bridge also was designed to be part of a southern bypass route. Not long after it was completed, however, MDOT removed southern alternatives from consideration.
In 2010, the United States Army Corps of Engineers selected a route from one of three northern alternatives. A month later, the bald eagle's nest, which is protected by federal law, was found. MDOT was forced to cross that route off its list, too.
Bernhardt described his decision to kill the bypass as an act of mercy for the dozens of homeowners whose houses stand in the proposed routes' paths and for Maine taxpayers who would have been asked to spend $100 million to relieve a traffic problem that occurs a few days a week six to eight weeks a year. "At some point you have to say, 'Enough is enough,' " Bernhardt said at a news conference.
Besides the Cowseagan Narrows Bridge, the Wiscasset bypass leaves its siblings, the Newcastle-Damariscotta bypass, age forty-nine, and the Nobleboro bypass, forty-one; four (at least) bypass studies that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars apiece; several hundred residents in seven Lincoln County towns who approved of the bypass in two nonbinding referenda; and 25,000 vehicles creeping through Wiscasset village each day in July and August. -- Virginia M. Wright
Epic Battle
The United States Olympic Committee finds itself facing one tough competitor.
The United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is encountering Olympian-strength resistance to its efforts to control the use of the word "Olympics" from a central Maine builder and cattleman. Harold Brooks, the USOC asserts, violated federal law when he sold tickets to the first-ever Redneck Olympics, which attracted some of Maine's best toilet-seat horseshoe players, wife carriers, and mud runners to the small town of Hebron on a Saturday afternoon in August.
"That's just insane," says Brooks, who received a phone call from a USOC paralegal on the Monday after the event explaining that Congress had given the organization exclusive rights to the word "Olympics" in the United States through the Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act. The USOC wasn't seeking damages, but it did ask Brooks not to use the name "Olympics" again.
"At first I thought she was joking," Brooks says. "This is a word that was used by the ancient Greeks, and just like the Olympic Games imitate what people were doing in Greece, we're imitating what people were doing in Greece. The [USOC] didn't make up this name."
The USOC followed up with a letter explaining the law, adding that the Redneck Olympics not only was "disrespectful to our country's finest athletes and belittles their hard work," but also denigrated the "true nature" of the Olympic Games, which represent "ideals that go beyond sport to encompass culture and education, tolerance and respect, world peace and harmony."
Brooks is having none of that. The Redneck Olympics, he says, was simply about having a good time — and raising money, through beer sales, for two good causes, the Homeless Veterans' Fund and the Hope Haven Gospel Mission in Lewiston.
About 2,500 people turned out for the event that was opened by a man in a pig costume, who burst out of an outhouse with a torch in hand and set fire to a trash- can full of wood. People bobbed for pigs' feet, and they raced each other on lawnmowers. A dozen roasted pigs and freshly harvested corn and potatoes were served. "We expected people to have a good time," Brooks says, "but we didn't expect they'd have as good a time as they did."
This isn't the first time the USOC has objected to groups using the word "Olympics." In 1982, the Gay Olympics changed its name to the Gay Games rather than face legal action from the USOC.
Brooks, who has received calls from reporters as far away as England and Australia, concedes he will lose if the USOC takes him to court. "I can't fight them legally," he says. "They have too much money."
So why not just change the festival's name and move on? "I'm tired of all these people with money and power doing anything they want," he explains. "This is a small thing. But just because Congress made a law in 1998 doesn't make it right now or even make it right then. We've got all these problems in the world right now, and we're going to chase down the small guy? That's just bullshit."--V.M.W.
Leif Erikson Wasn't Here
An ages old theory about a Viking dam in Down East Maine is debunked by science.
We love a good mystery, so we were intrigued when we learned about the lore surrounding Norse Pond in the Down East fishing community of Cutler. Tucked in the woods about three hundred yards from the ocean, the 10.5-acre freshwater pond is part of the 1,500-acre Bog Brook Cove preserve owned by Maine Coast Heritage Trust. A trail offers views of this tranquil way station for migrating waterfowl, but it doesn't come close enough for a glimpse at a structure that has puzzled people for centuries: the four hundred-foot rock wall that forms the pond's eastern shore.
The long-held theory is that this wall is a display of mechanical skill and intelligence — a dam, in other words, built by an ancient people, most likely Vikings, hence the name Norse Pond given by Cutler's settlers in the eighteenth century. By the 1800s, the notion that Norse Pond was manmade was pretty well accepted as fact: "Between [the pond] and the ocean rises a large hill or elevation, while behind is a second stretch of high land," the journal American Angler reported in 1888. "Human hands at some early period converted this small intervale into an artificial body of fresh water by damming up a brook which flowed through it."
Subsequent reports, some as recent as the 1990s, weighed the possibility that the dam's architects were Wabanaki, Acadian, Celtic, and even Japanese (the latter suggestion came from a Japanese summer resident who took note of the wild rice growing in the pond's shallows).
Curious if any new theories have emerged, we called the preserve's steward, Melissa Lee, who referred us to Harold Borns, Jr. a retired University of Maine professor of glacial and Ice Age geology. Borns promptly threw cold water — make that cold seawater — on our romantic notions of men in horned helmets building reservoirs on the Bold Coast circa the year 1000 A.D.
"Norse Pond was not dammed up by humans," Borns asserts. "The dam is nothing more than a rocky beach like Seawall at Acadia National Park. It's just a ridge of boulders swept into place by waves about 17,000 years ago." Borns bases his conclusion on core samples of the pond sediment that he examined with Ronald Davis, a professor emeritus in UMaine's biological sciences department and Climate Change Institute, a few years ago.
Very simply put, after the glaciers retreated, the sea flooded the depressions they left behind. "A lot of Maine was under 250 feet of water," Borns says. "We have even found sea shells in Millinocket." A few thousand years later, the earth's crust rebounded and the ocean receded. It was around that time — some 12,000 to 13,000 years ago — that Norse Pond became emergent. Humans had nothing to do with it.
Learning the solution to a puzzle brings a great deal of satisfaction, but it can be a bit of a let down, too. The thrill, after all, is gone. But Norse Pond hasn't given up all its secrets. Last year, Borns returned to the site with Lee, retired Maine State Archaeologist Mark Heddon [page 66], and Passamaquoddy historian Donald Soctomah to examine some rock carvings along the shore. The group concluded that the shapes — some resemble the letters M, W, and a stretched-out O — were made with a chisel, probably sometime in the eighteenth century. Who made them and why is a mystery, but this much we know for certain: It wasn't a Viking.--V.M.W.


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I've got the Republican Party might still be a decided on a candidates present you may have heard that.
But kiss frontman Gene Simmons says he knows who should win the White House into two -- 2012 as we get set for another debate tonight.
The rock icon -- star family jewels joins us live from London this morning I should say a good afternoon to you in London time cheerio.
Good morning good afternoon good day it's another day above ground -- -- happy -- half.
Well one thing that I know that you have been good at predicting in the past is who ends up becoming president.
And a while back you -- in -- I voted for President Bush I voted for President Clinton I voted for President Obama the next president will be governor Rick Perry.
Governor Perry worked for Al Gore and then switched to Republican.
He will be our next president I've never been wrong and I think it was a couple months ago right -- And therein lies the conundrum for all of us politics like anything else is a moving target.
Texas is a model.
Of -- economic and little political.
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Corporate entities aren't punished for getting in business and creating jobs for people it's a terrific model for America the unfortunate thing is Governor Perry who's.
And economic track record on the fat mouth isn't very glib -- I'm fortunate to be a politician.
You've got to be able to get up there and wax poetic and he doesn't do very well.
But intrinsically what he later on fortune he didn't start off with.
What he later proposed is precisely economically what this country needs a flat.
Mayor Bloomberg who's a powerful attractive man in his own right and actually means well and was on both sides of the -- and is -- independent.
Is actually got it but backwards.
If you because the idea of taxing everybody and increasing everybody's taxes isn't the way to do it first.
Cut trillions from our economy renew an emergency powers -- do whatever you have to do stop building highway system but to nowhere numbered -- flat tax everybody pays 20% or thereabouts and -- -- won't have to raise taxes and Jupiter scientists -- -- you should be in politics it's going our deal.
Well -- politics are highly overrated I would prefer to be benevolent dictator.
By the way I wouldn't I wouldn't get my -- your job problem immediately -- emergency powers.
Public execution level of all drug dealers watch the drug problem go away across the border of Mexico the drug cartels -- terrorizing everybody.
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Send our troops across the border house to house take these guys and bury them in our backyard.
Okay now that's pretty good -- an -- so are you still behind -- are you gonna choose somebody else.
I reserve my right as most Americans -- to see how deep and how transparent everybody -- I like to Governor Perry unfortunately.
-- -- got his other problems he's probably out of the race Mitt Romney I believe would make a good president unfortunately.
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And people's religious beliefs you remember when Catholics were not allowed to be president of the most yeah I think it.
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cute, but lose the cup
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great work u guys 5
Don't lose the cup! This is so cute. I like the contrast between the simplicity of the speech bubbles and the texture on the bird and cup. Sweetness! $5.
i like folk shirts, i love the hidden meaning... you think he is saying thing like worm, egg hatching, wing span, but he is really saying print me... PRINT ME NOW!
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omg this is sooooo gorgeous that i cringed because i was afraid that someone ganked your style. i would have $5'd it regardless, i just would have felt a tinge of guilt.
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Are those two birds in the bottom right bubble doing it?
Of course, that's what birdsong is all about, baby.
This is so rad. And with the random teacup, too!
awesome work raid.
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I really like this! The only complaint I have is I think the design on the cup destracts from the birds bubbles. Maybe make it white or change the colors on the cup. Even so $5!
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I just licked the monitor, turns out your submission does not taste nearly as sweet as it looks. But hey, you can't have EVERYTHING. Nice work, you guys! 5$
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Definitely don't lose the cup..It makes it! Reminds me of Andrew Bird..5 and buy!
no cup and not on white
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Lovely design. Don't change a thing! Read the rest of my review here.
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Great work, Chris.
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This is darn awesome but I do think the cup distracts from the main content
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i scored this a 5$ and i was partial to the cup. I liked it, but disliked the way it unbalances the whole illust/design. So I held off my comment for a bit.
I looked at it the 2nd time and thought that it would look better if the bird was smaller and that there are 2 cups instead.. i dunno just my suggestion though


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Jul 24, 2012Anna manages to create a few blood-chilling moments throughout its story, but most of the fear factor is neutered after you realize nothing can harm you.
Jul 20, 2012You can be sure of this: Anna is an engaging horror tale, intimate and with a strong personality. The best possibile debut for Dreampainters.
Jul 24, 2012'Wasted opportunity' is a phrase that keeps rearing its head, whether it's thanks to the garbled translation, a broken hints system, or completely absent puzzle logic. Anna has some great ideas, but it's the game's carelessness that'll stay with you, not its moments of inspired horror.
Jul 20, 2012The debut of Dreampainters in the big market of the videogames is excellent. Anna is a great horror adventure game. The sawmill evolves with the plot and the three final contained in the game increase the longevity, between 5 and 10 hours. It's a winner bet for the italian development team!
Aug 3, 2012As much as I want to like Anna for being a horror point-and-click, with such extensive translation issues, I can't in good conscious recommend it to anyone. It has a few good scares and some startling imagery, but otherwise just can't deliver the well-crafted intrigue of its peers.
Jul 29, 2012Beyond defects Anna is a valuable work of art that deserves to be played from start to finish.
Jul 25, 2012Even with some minor imperfections, the game is well developed and entertaining, enthralling with good storytelling and an nicely designed environment, enhanced by the excellent audio recordings.
Aug 13, 2012I wanted to scare myself a little and chose Anna to do so, a first-person point & click game. But one may not really say that Anna's scary, and given that the story remains obnoxiously obscure, as do many puzzles, one does progress kind of blindfolded. Not really a success.
Jul 20, 2012It starts as an idyllic walk of a dreamer, but soon becomes an occult ghost story with a touch of thriller. Albeit being a classic adventure at its core, Anna shows off a very dynamic orchestration of the supernatural.
Jul 27, 2012Flawed, but does just enough right to be worth a purchase if it sounds like it's up your alley.
Aug 29, 2012Too short and underdeveloped, Anna is an interesting experiment that won't reach a wider audience but shows Dreampainters' potential. [10/2012, p.74]
Sep 18, 2012This Italian indie game doesn't live up to our expectations, but it is in a position to deliver some interesting adventure/ horror moments and can offer some great replay value.
Oct 11, 2012Design and technical implementation issues mar a promising adventure. [Oct 2012, p.83]
Aug 27, 2012Back to the drawing board to think about, where the fear really comes from and exchange some of the too numerous and crude puzzles for gameplay-value. In this form, it can´t even be recommended for the small price.You get better horror from Slender or the the first two Exmortis without having to pay for it.
Jul 30, 2012There's some real scares to be found, but illogical puzzles and a confusing plot make Anna a different kind of horror to play.
Jul 24, 2012Even debutants could have done a better job, but still Dreampainters' game is engrossing and does so without much trouble – if you become annoyed by a puzzle and leave the game for a while, soon enough you will find yourself trying again. Anna has a great, scary atmosphere – and there are no cheap jump scares, the game slowly makes you have goosebumps. Unfortunately, there are flaws: occasional lack of logic or a fairly short story.
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A call for papers — with submission deadline of 15 February 2011 — has been issued for LVI 2011: Law via the Internet Conference, to be held 8-10 June 2011, at the University of Hong Kong in Hong Kong, China.
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Research Forms - Family Tree Magazine
These forms help you keep track of your research progress and organize your genealogy files.
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Search for Sources, Not Just Surnames
- new resources coming online every day
- every few weeks I seem to find a new U.S. county has put its deed records online
- The goal here is to search for resources at all levels of government applicable to your country of interest
Seneca Indians - Historical American Indian Resource
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FARRAH ABRAHAM: Charlie Sheen's New Goddess?
We're not sure why it took this long, but it looks like porn vixen Farrah Abraham is about to take on a new role -- in the bedroom of Charlie Sheen.
The always-bashful Farrah wouldn't come right out and name Sheen directly, but she gave In Touch a little hint about the identity of the celeb she says she's been chatting with. She says, "I think if I gave you some clues, you would guess it. He has been married, lives in L.A., and he basically was like the main character of a show, then left and they replaced him with Ashton Kutcher."
She should call up the C.I.A. -- they need people who can keep secrets!
KANYE WEST: I Didn't Cheat on Kim
Kanye says he is not cheating on his pregnant girlfriend Kim Kardashian -- and that the woman who says so just wants some free press.
As we reported, 24-year-old Leyla Ghobadi told Star magazine that she met Kanye at one of his concerts in July 2012 -- three months after Kim and Kanye began dating -- and hooked up a couple of times, once after Kim got pregnant. Leyla says Kanye confessed that the relationship was a publicity stunt.
But Ye's reps tell TMZ, "This is a sad attempt to hurt two people trying to live their lives.This most recent attack on Kanye West and his family is totally without merit. It's a blatant attempt by a misguided individual who is clearly seeking publicity, and another in a series of malicious stories drummed up by non-credible 'news' sources."


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In perhaps on of the biggest NO DUH moments of the year, the Sacramento Bee has a front page article this morning on just HOW BAD....
CATTLE F*#K UP SIERRA WATERSHEDS. Some scientist at UC Davis had the nerve to check for e coli in Sierra streams and what do you suppose he found?
Places where grazing has been permitted are FOUL!!!1111
Buckeye Creek in the Hoover Wilderness - don't drink THAT water, Hunewill Ranch has insured this stream is poisonous to the human gut.
Devastation Creek in the Desolation Wilderness, ditto.
Ever climbed Chiquito Dome? Don't you DARE drink out of Chiquito Creek!!!111 That's right - its a cow sewer.
In fact, if cattle are allowed to graze in a any given drainage you can COUNT on the stream having e coli in it. COUNT ON IT.
All those giargia stories are mostly e coli stories.
The image of the cowboy west and the American conservationist image afforded ranchers is a bunch of BULLSH#T.
Time to charge market rates for grazing permits, time to require ranchers clean up after themselves when dining at the public trough and time to close down whole swaths of Sierra watershed to cattle.


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Second Assault
If Metal Blade / Rise Above's press hounds had their way, the members of Horisont would be walking around with "For Fans of Witchcraft and Graveyard" branded on their foreheads. It's an accurate tag; Second Assault (creative title, gents) is a carbon copy of those acts' bell-bottom worship, making it a superb selection for...well, fans of Witchcraft and Graveyard. Trouble is, those bands already have the market cornered, with the latter band putting together what was arguably 2011's most compelling collection of songs, Hisingen Blues. The question at hand: Is there room in this niche for Horisont?
In a word, no.
Horisont's devotion to the throwback formula is severely detrimental to carving out an identity of their own, and they're further castrated by clunky, directionless songwriting and a lack of a distinctive lead vocalist.
Arson attempts like "Time Warrior" and "On the Run" are hampered by the aftorementioned vocal limitations (cool it on the falsetto, bro), and never offer a payoff after the initial build n' boil. Laid-back cruisers like "Crusaders of Death" and "Spirit" fare much better, but like most of these compositions, they collapse before the guitar solos can swoop in and perform chest compressions.
The title track is the burliest, sunniest thing on the record, and boasts a peppy Valkyrie vibe. However, if you're looking for a peppy Vakyrie vibe, just blast Man of Two Visions and be done with it. Therein lies the album's critical weakness; while Horisont's subtle cowbell in "Road to Cairo" is appropriately kitschy, there's no reason to wander Second Assault's paths for long. Despite pressing all the right buttons, the album is merely a collection of signposts that point back to established destinations.
For some reason, however, metalheads insist on combating market saturation with gluttony. (Note our bafflingly unquenchable thirst for HM-2-pimping OSDM and standard-ass rethrash.) This is a dangerous and shortsighted practice. Overindulgence breeds dilution. This throwback 70's thing is best left in the hands of a select set of skilled practitioners. Horisont is a competent also-ran, but in an arena that demands greatness--Graveyard has set the bar--there's limited tolerance for mediocre mimicry.


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Software giant Microsoft might offer a free anti-virus software next year, the company said on Tuesday. Code-named "Morro," this streamlined solution will be available in the second half of 2009 and will provide comprehensive protection from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans. This new solution, to be offered at no charge to consumers, will be architected for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios or less powerful PCs. "Customers around the world have told us that they need comprehensive, ongoing protection from new and existing threats, and we take that concern seriously," said Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product management for the Online Services and Windows Division at Microsoft. "This new, no-cost offering will give us the ability to protect an even greater number of consumers, especially in markets where the growth of new PC purchases is outpaced only by the growth of malware." When released, "Morro" will be available as a stand-alone download and offer malware protection for the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. With the arrival of "Morro", Microsoft will also discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare subscription service. Source: Microsoft
Great news. I think there are a lot of people still without AV or using pirate versions... so providing this as part of the windows platform is good news. BUT, guess what, the EU commission will be all over them. Just like with internet explorer coming free with windows. EU said it was unfair competition. Let's hope the EU can be silenced. ONE MORE THING PLEASE MICROSOFT. Why oh why dont you improve defragmentation tools, esp. smart placement, and also REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION. That's what we would all love to have; optimised systems.
Microsoft is going to get sued by McAfee and Symantec. I'm sure all the smaller ones will jump on board too. If Microsoft offers their own product for free, they'll be losing business. Personally, I think it is long over due. No one is in a better position to counter a virus than the operating system manufacturer. Microsoft should have made their own back when Symantec and McAfee exploited the growing market. Why they waited so long to fix their botched product is beyond me but, I guess it did create a new industry.
LoLs@ McAfee - I dont think their gonna be suing anyone - as it stands McAfee dont exactly have a huge share of the market like symantic does, their BEST consumers are Corporate consumers - Ive worked in banks & at solicitors etc etc where they hand some McAfee security package running. but even then it still gets its pants ripped off by symantic which are the mainstream consumers product. if anyones gonna complain its the guys from Trend Micro (Pc-Cillin) who are a SMALL company just like McAfee but have a bigger market share as well as being adopted by many corporate consumers. the dudes from Kaspersky & the guys at ESET (NoD32)
REGISTRY DEFRAGMENTATION, memory defragers dont work well reg defragers do nbut the performance gain would be less than 0.01% completly pointless if it cleans 200 waste keys ,an d there is say a few 100 k keys , yuo get my point. avg is the worst antivirus there is ,i recenly changed to avast and adware for getting ride of spam shit,
I wish more companies had a free AV scanner but I agree no one would be better suited than an OS maker. On Reg defragging, that actually does help but as was said the gains are nominal. Memory defragging is a sham if you ask me. I dont see how your memory can get fragged
I disagree. Under NTFS, any modification of a registry key will cause registry fragmentation. Leave that for months and the registry hives can be in literally thousands of fragments. That hinders performance and boot times. Don't confuse registry CLEANERS (removing redundant keys) with defraggers.
lol shoot Ive been using the free version of Avast for a long time now and it has been like the best thing in my life since Barack Obama...(of course dont take this literally)
McAfee and Symantec both suck, Trend isn't much better, CA is worse, Bitdeffender is horrible.. Back to this subject... Jedi master senses spyware in microsofts antivirus, along with it being programmed in .NET mixed with a program that ends up being worse than Windows Live 1 Care.
rite so if u have 200 k keys and the reg defrager/cleaner cleans 2000 keys youll get maybe a 1% increase in performance ,waste of time and money unless you use your brain goolge it and find ccleaner.
ok haha your rite how stupid i didnt see that bit, but even defragers will give you performace increases that r not worth payin for ,allthough you can get free ones.
Bootvis The XP defrag engine is used by many defrag programs, plus it isn't MS's job toi determine how out of order loading is supposed to be handled by other poorly written software, but you can get a decent performance boost by running all the background tasks and using things like Steams defrag tool for game files.
Although OneCare has improved in terms of detection over the last few years it still has one of the lowest percentages among software packages. Microsoft should have offered OneCare for free years ago (considering they are at least partially at fault for the existence of so much malware), but I guess that is another example of their corporate greed. http://www.av-comparatives.org/
Off topic: Do any of u guy's know how to remove Antivirus Pro 2008. My cousin installed it cuz she thought that any AV will be ok and when i go to add remove programs, click remove, it only loads the software instead? WTF?? And I tried deleting the folder and killing the process. Restart comes back..
Use SuperAntiSpyware Professional to clean it off. http://www.superantispyware.com/ I have used it several times to clean off variations of the Antivirus Pro 2008


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ASUS Republic of Gamers Launches Rampage IV Black Edition Motherboard 11/20/2013 ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Rampage IV Black Edition, an E-ATX gaming motherboard designed to unleash the full power of Intel® LGA 2011 Core™ i7 (Ivy Bridge-E) processors. Based on Intel X79 Express, Rampage IV Black Edition supports 64GB of DRAM and 4-way multi-GPU setups. Extreme Engine DIGI+ III voltage regulation, SupremeFX Black audio Assassin's Creed® IV: Black Flag™ are all included.
ASUS Republic of Gamers Announces Mars 760 Graphics Card 11/19/2013 ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) today announced Mars 760, a graphics card that features two GeForce® GTX 760 graphics-processing units (GPUs) to outpace even GeForce GTX Titan cards —Tomd Raider runs 39% faster. Exclusive ASUS technologies include DirectCU II for 20%-cooler and quieter operation, DIGI+ voltage-regulator module (VRM) for ultra-stable power and GPU Tweak to push the two GTX 760 GPUs to extremes.
ASUS Announces R9 270 DirectCU II Graphics Card 11/13/2013 ASUS today announced R9 270 DirectCU II, a new graphics card powered by the latest AMD Radeon™ R9 270 graphics-processing unit (GPU). R9 270 has DirectCU II for 20%-cooler and three-times (3X) quieter gaming performance, Super Alloy Power components for vastly improved longevity, GPU Tweak for easy and safe tuning — and is overclocked to deliver a remarkable 975MHz core speed.
ASUS Announces the Groundbreaking Miracast Dongle 11/13/2013 ASUS Miracast Dongle lets users stream content from their mobile devices onto a HDTV or monitor. Miracast Dongle supports dual-band wireless streaming for lag-free transmission of Full HD movies, videos, and photos. It is ideal for users looking to play games, share photos or watch movies and videos on a larger screen, as well as conducting presentations in conference rooms.
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ASUS Receives Top Honors at the Prestigious Good Design Awards 2013 11/05/2013 ASUS won 10 awards at the Good Design Awards 2013 held in Tokyo, Japan. The ASUS Zenbook made the Good Design Best 100 list, while other award winners include the N Series Notebook, Transformer Book Trio, Z87-based ROG Maximus VI Formula Z87 gaming motherboard, the TUF Series Sabertooth Z87 motherboard, the Gryphon Z87 motherboard, the ASUS Transformer AiO; VivoMouse and VivoPC, and VariDrive.
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Reprimand lifted for Spirit Lake whistleblower
The Indian Health Service has rescinded its reprimand of a clinical psychiatrist who sounded the alarm over what he regarded as systemic failures to protect endangered children of the Spirit Lake Tribe.By Patrick Springer , August 03, 2012
OUR OPINION: Indian Health Service must explain Tilus reprimand
The Indian Health Service needs to explain itself. Otherwise, the stain on its integrity caused by the situation at Spirit Lake only deepens.By Mike Jacobs for the Herald , July 31, 2012
Dr. Yvette Roubideaux, Washington, column: IHS makes progress on needed improvements
The problems found in the investigation by the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs last year are unacceptable, and IHS is committed to addressing them. I have set a strong tone from the top that we will take action, and have implemented performance management changes for leadership accountability.March 31, 2011
OUR OPINION: Reservations need, deserve a free press
Supporting a free press is an indirect way of tackling the IHS's unresponsiveness, among other issues. But it deserves a place in the lineup of reforms because if American history is any guide, it just might work.By Tom Dennis for the Herald , March 30, 2011
N.D. Sen. Conrad puts director of Indian Health Service 'on notice' during meeting
Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., met Tuesday with the director of the Indian Health Service and "put her on notice" that the 34,000 American Indians who rely on IHS services in North Dakota "deserve better" than the care they're receiving.By Chuck Haga , March 29, 2011
'Chronic case of crisis'
Disrupted Turtle Mountain dialysis center a symbol of problems of health care in Indian CountryThe head of the U.S. Indian Health Service met with tribal leaders from the Dakotas and surrounding states in Rapid City, S.D., last week and assured them that management of the much-maligned service is improving.
By Chuck Haga , March 26, 2011
Report lays out problems in Indian Health Service
The Aberdeen Area of the Indian Health Service is in a "chronic state of crisis" stemming from serious management problems and a lack of oversight, Sen. Byron Dorgan said in releasing a congressional report on today.By Associated Press , December 29, 2010
Indian health researchers identify challenges for region's reservations
American Indians die from such preventable diseases as diabetes at far higher rates than other Americans, especially in North Dakota and other states in the region, and a leading Indian health authority says more tribally driven research is needed to reduce such disparities.By Chuck Haga , October 29, 2010
Two charged in ND drug case linked to health service
Two people face federal charges in connection with a drug case linked to the Indian Health Service.By Associated Press , October 29, 2010
Report: Indian Health Service hired criminals in N.D., S.D., Iowa, Neb.
Dorgan: Aberdeen-based regional office 'appears to me to be completely dysfunctional'The federal Indian Health Service has hired convicted criminals, failed to stop employees from stealing narcotics and allowed workers to take paid leave for more than a year while being investigated for misconduct, a federal investigation has found.
By Matthew Daly , September 28, 2010
Panel to review Indian health probe
Officials from the federal Indian Health Service are being called to Capitol Hill today to answer questions about mismanagement and possible criminal behavior at a regional office that serves four Midwestern states.By Matthew Daly , September 28, 2010
Co-op model takes shape in western N.D.
Health care reform may be a national hair-pulling, divisive and seemingly never-ending. But people in western North Dakota are developing their own model to "end health care disparities and promote healthier, longer lives for all residents."By Chuck Haga , November 07, 2009
A look at H1N1's impact on American Indians
A surge in the number of H1N1 cases nationwide appears to have tapered off in recent weeks, but another surge is likely later in the flu season, an Indian Health Service official said.November 04, 2009
N.D. tribes call for health care reform
Leaders of the five Indian tribes of North Dakota have called on the state's congressional delegation to support significant health care reform, in part to improve access to health care for the majority of American Indians who live off reservations.By Chuck Haga , September 15, 2009
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The CRN Test Center this month took a close look at the ZFS Storage Appliance 7420, Oracle's latest low-cost, flash-optimized storage hardware for high-performance transactional systems. In the ZFS, Oracle combines as much as 2 TB of DRAM with more than 10 TB of SSDs and another 1.72 PB of spinning storage to deliver an appliance with performance well beyond that of traditional tiered storage. And, it's all in a box with software so easy to use that it can be set up and configured in less than an hour and integrated in an enterprise in days rather than weeks.
To help us with the process of setting up and operating the ZFS, we traveled to the New York City offices of Cintra USA, a database services provider and Oracle Platinum partner. There we worked on a two-node storage cluster comprised of two Oracle ZFS 7420 storage appliance nodes integrated with an Oracle database appliance.
IT administrators will appreciate the browser-based GUI and ability of the ZFS to automatically scan and discover other nodes capable of participating in a cluster. "ZFS nodes are already inherently aware of each other, making cluster configuration extremely easy," said Simon Rice, database architect at Cintra. After selecting the other node, the ZFS copies all needed software to the second node, permitting that node to be set up and clustered within a few minutes.
ZFS clusters employ an active-active model under which both nodes are constantly serving the needs of storage clients. According to Abdul Sheikh, CTO and co-founder of Cintra, this is unlike anything else out there. "Oracle RAC uniquely uses both nodes as active, so if one fails, there's a 50 percent loss [of performance], but nothing stops," he said, referring to Oracle's Real Application Cluster technology.
Once the cluster was established, we could begin setting up the ZFS for storage. The first step of that six-step process was to set up data links, a process that was simply a matter of dragging network devices from the list of auto-discovered interfaces to the datalink column of the GUI.
The default settings are probably adequate for most situations, but the tool allows for easy selection of link speed and duplex settings and MTU (frame) size, if required. Datalinks are then dragged to the network interfaces column where they're assigned an IP address to complete the creation of an interface to the ZFS appliance. Once all needed interfaces are created, "hitting the Apply button runs the IFCONFIG command and sets everything up behind the scenes," said Rice.