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The Long Tail
Oh sure, there's also a lot of crap. But there's a lot of crap hiding between the radio tracks on hit albums, too. People have to skip over it on CDs, but they can more easily avoid it online, since the collaborative filters typically won't steer you to it. Unlike the CD, where each crap track costs perhaps one-twelfth of a $15 album price, online it just sits harmlessly on some server, ignored in a market that sells by the song and evaluates tracks on their own merit.
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What's really amazing about the Long Tail is the sheer size of it. Combine enough nonhits on the Long Tail and you've got a market bigger than the hits. Take books: The average Barnes & Noble carries 130,000 titles. Yet more than half of Amazon's book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles. Consider the implication: If the Amazon statistics are any guide, the market for books that are not even sold in the average bookstore is larger than the market for those that are (see "Anatomy of the Long Tail"). In other words, the potential book market may be twice as big as it appears to be, if only we can get over the economics of scarcity. Venture capitalist and former music industry consultant Kevin Laws puts it this way: "The biggest money is in the smallest sales."
The same is true for all other aspects of the entertainment business, to one degree or another. Just compare online and offline businesses: The average Blockbuster carries fewer than 3,000 DVDs. Yet a fifth of Netflix rentals are outside its top 3,000 titles. Rhapsody streams more songs each month beyond its top 10,000 than it does its top 10,000. In each case, the market that lies outside the reach of the physical retailer is big and getting bigger.
When you think about it, most successful businesses on the Internet are about aggregating the Long Tail in one way or another. Google, for instance, makes most of its money off small advertisers (the long tail of advertising), and eBay is mostly tail as well - niche and one-off products. By overcoming the limitations of geography and scale, just as Rhapsody and Amazon have, Google and eBay have discovered new markets and expanded existing ones.
This is the power of the Long Tail. The companies at the vanguard of it are showing the way with three big lessons. Call them the new rules for the new entertainment economy.
Rule 1: Make everything available
If you love documentaries, Blockbuster is not for you. Nor is any other video store - there are too many documentaries, and they sell too poorly to justify stocking more than a few dozen of them on physical shelves. Instead, you'll want to join Netflix, which offers more than a thousand documentaries - because it can. Such profligacy is giving a boost to the documentary business; last year, Netflix accounted for half of all US rental revenue for Capturing the Friedmans, a documentary about a family destroyed by allegations of pedophilia.
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who's something of a documentary buff, took this newfound clout to PBS, which had produced Daughter From Danang, a documentary about the children of US soldiers and Vietnamese women. In 2002, the film was nominated for an Oscar and was named best documentary at Sundance, but PBS had no plans to release it on DVD. Hastings offered to handle the manufacturing and distribution if PBS would make it available as a Netflix exclusive. Now Daughter From Danang consistently ranks in the top 15 on Netflix documentary charts. That amounts to a market of tens of thousands of documentary renters that did not otherwise exist.
There are any number of equally attractive genres and subgenres neglected by the traditional DVD channels: foreign films, anime, independent movies, British television dramas, old American TV sitcoms. These underserved markets make up a big chunk of Netflix rentals. Bollywood alone accounts for nearly 100,000 rentals each month. The availability of offbeat content drives new customers to Netflix - and anything that cuts the cost of customer acquisition is gold for a subscription business. Thus the company's first lesson: Embrace niches.
Netflix has made a good business out of what's unprofitable fare in movie theaters and video rental shops because it can aggregate dispersed audiences. It doesn't matter if the several thousand people who rent Doctor Who episodes each month are in one city or spread, one per town, across the country - the economics are the same to Netflix. It has, in short, broken the tyranny of physical space. What matters is not where customers are, or even how many of them are seeking a particular title, but only that some number of them exist, anywhere.
As a result, almost anything is worth offering on the off chance it will find a buyer. This is the opposite of the way the entertainment industry now thinks. Today, the decision about whether or when to release an old film on DVD is based on estimates of demand, availability of extras such as commentary and additional material, and marketing opportunities such as anniversaries, awards, and generational windows (Disney briefly rereleases its classics every 10 years or so as a new wave of kids come of age). It's a high bar, which is why only a fraction of movies ever made are available on DVD.
That model may make sense for the true classics, but it's way too much fuss for everything else. The Long Tail approach, by contrast, is to simply dump huge chunks of the archive onto bare-bones DVDs, without any extras or marketing. Call it the Silver Series and charge half the price. Same for independent films. This year, nearly 6,000 movies were submitted to the Sundance Film Festival. Of those, 255 were accepted, and just two dozen have been picked up for distribution; to see the others, you had to be there. Why not release all 255 on DVD each year as part of a discount Sundance Series?In a Long Tail economy, it's more expensive to evaluate than to release. Just do it!


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It is the latest chapter in a fiery situation that has raged since shortly after Rick Smith was hired to preside over the nine year old operation.
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Thompson is one of two shelter employees who have resigned since Smith was hired. Among their concerns is Smith's decision to reduce shelter space to house animals. Thompson says Smith eliminated 20 cages for cats.
"I was not going to make the decision to euthanize healthy adoptable animals to make space when I knew there was space available that was not being utilized," said Thompson.
Smith isn't talking. Instead, Douglas County issued a four page response to his critics.
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Shelter volunteers now have to apply and report to Smith's wife. According to the county, that's because volunteers previously worked with no structure.
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With advances in every arena, from computer technology to healthcare to food production to the automotive industry, our world has changed in ways we could not have predicted. Students today need a firm grasp of science in order to fully understand our world and make logical and informed decisions. In the last twenty years, educators and researchers have begun to look carefully at science education and technology and how students learn best. We tools are a way to expose students to different types of learning styles and engage them in constructive knowledge, experience, and scientific interpretations. We have selected 100 of these web tools we think will inspire our upcoming scientist to experiment, explore, model, research & collaborate, and create a solid scientific foundation for the future.
Virtual Laboratories & Experiments
Easily run thousands of experiments, changing the variables and getting results in minutes with these virtual laboratories and experimentation.
1. Virtual Labs at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute A free tool that enables students to take on the role of scientist, technician, doctor, and immunologist. They participate in labs on topics related to cardiology, immunology, and bacterial identification.
2. Windward In cooperation with Discovery Education, The Weather Channel, and NASA, this interactive game will teach students about weather as they sail in a race around the world. Players learn how to sail, read weather maps, negotiate winds and more.
3. Nature: Virtual Serengeti Students are introduced to East African vegetation, climate, and animal life. A journal, field guide, and virtual video recorder are used to explore environments, watch animal videos, and multimedia record observations.
4. Space Academy GX-1 Students can explore a virtual solar system and investigate the astronomical basis for seasons, phases of the moon, gravity, orbits, and more.
5. Digital Frog A virtual, interactive frog dissection that teaching students about frog anatomy and body systems. It also allows exploration of the diversity and ecology of frogs.
6. Virtual Space Tour An animated encyclopedia that gives students a virtual tour of space learning about the unique features of comets, asteroids and each planet along the way.
7. StepDemonstrate the principles with this physics simulator. Place an object in a scene, add forces like springs or gravity, and see what happens.
8. ChemLab Interactive simulation of a chemistry lab using common lab equipment and procedures that are meant to copy the steps involved in performing a chemistry lab experiment.
9. Virtual Field Trip is a series of 3 singular titles allowing students to explore a variety of virtual habitats such as wetlands, the rainforest, and desert.
10. BBC Science Simulations Provides students the opportunity to manipulate variables and explore virtual science experiments on a variety of topics including, plant growth, electricity, forces, friction, and food chains.
11. ProtoMol A framework for molecular dynamics simulation. This app was designed by a scientist to be highly flexible, easily extensible, and to meet high performance demands.
12. Virtual Scanning Electron MicroscopyStudents can use a virtual Scanning Electron Microscope to look at a variety of specimens. You can adjust the focus, contrast, brightness, and level of magnification.
13. BBC Science GamesFree games and simulations on a variety of topics in science and nature.
14. ElectroCity An online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. Designed to teach students about energy, sustainability and environmental management.
15. Virtual Labs: Light & Electricity Bundle These virtual light experiments will allow students to use lasers and optical tools to safely investigate the nature of light, reflection and mirrors, refraction and color of light.
16. Space Trajectory Analysis This app lets educators analyze, simulate, and visualize the paths of objects that have been launched into space. It's currently being used by the European Space Agency and a number of international universities.
17. Virtual Labs This software enables students to conduct experiments on a number of scientific topics.
18. Operation Frog DeluxeGuides students through the virtual dissection of a frog. It includes pre-lab instructions, lab simulations, and post-lab reinforcements.
19. A Virtual Journey into the Universe This free online activity exposes students to the cockpit of a space shuttle as they explore the solar system. Students can also engage in lesson to gain knowledge about various planetary features.
20. ElastoLab A fun program for young students that lets them play with sound, images and motion in a simulated physics environment. Springs, elastics, and gravity come to life all on a computer screen.
21. Physics Animations This animated 3-D HTML based program offers physics experiments and visualizations on waves, mechanics, optics, and thermodynamics. Most of all, all animations are accompanied with theoretical explanations and references.
Explorations & Web Quests
These assignments will seem like a blast compared to the traditional science research reports.
22. A Journey Through Time Scientists have found the remains of an Eryptid on Long Island. Develop a picture of what life was like on the earth millions of years ago.
23. Intertidal Zone Tour In this simulation students will be part of a team of marine biologists focusing on Intertidal Zones. Your expertise is needed to assist thousands of tourists who visit the tide pool areas each year.
24. Animal on the Ocean Floor Students will explore and discover a number of deep sea creatures on this ocean quest. They will create a picture dictionary and models of the animals they study.
25. Robots: New Age Assistants In this mission students research the field of robotics to help them with a particular experiment being conducted in the brutal cold of the Antarctic.
26. Acid RainOn this quest, students have been hired to investigate the effects of acid rain on the environment. Students can take the role of Chemist, Ecologist, Health Scientist, or Economist and research from that point of view.
27. Save the Coral Reef As a scientist for the World Wildlife Organization, students are asked to go to Little Island to collect data because other scientists are concerned that the tourists might do damage to the endangered coral reef.
28. An Insects Perspective Created by third grade teachers, children can study a bug of interest and write about it in their journal. They are also responsible for creating a slide presentation from the bug's perspective.
29. Blackholes: Journey into the Unknown Students and a group of scientists are currently enjoying a tour of the universe. The tour guide suddenly informs you that the rocket's engines have failed. In order to navigate, students help the captain navigate using the gravity of a blackhole to guide them to a help station.
30. Animal Life Cycles The job of the student is to search, observe, and record the differences and similarities of animal life cycle phases.
31. Global Warming Webquest Be transported 100 years into the future with a team of scientists for two weeks. The mission is to study the effects that global warming has had on the Earth in the future and report findings back to Central Base.
32. Blooming Butterflies On this quest, students will learn about how a butterfly comes to life through the process of metamorphosis.
33. Are Chickens the Only Ones? First grade students will enjoy learning about different kinds of animals that lay eggs. They will use a world map to find out what continent their animal lives in and make a book with information on that animal.
34. Hermit Crab Study Students can look deeply into a tide pool and see one of the most unusual tide pool creatures, the hermit crab. Find out why this sea crustacean makes its home in an abandoned shell.
35. Whales World Do research for an internet study on several different species of whales. The final product is a baseball type card based on all the information students have studied.
36. Take the Rip Out of the Current With Rip currents plaguing tourist on a local beach, students have been hired as writers of "Sea Star Publications" to write a series of articles on rip currents and ocean safety.
37. A Bluebird Quest Primarily for kindergarten students to learn about the bluebird. They play the role of an ornithologist hired by their school to learn about ways to help the bluebird survive.
38. Under the Canopy of Kelp After seeing a 30 foot length of kelp spiraled along the beach, students are asked to become Ecologists and research the three different parts of kelp called holdfast, stripes, and blades.
39. Conserving Energy This Web quest was designed for students to research and implement ways to help save Earth and conserve energy in the future.
40. The Journey of a Water Molecule Primary and intermediate students will love this journey as a water molecule, beginning in a lake, venturing into the sky, and finally making its way through a green plant.
41. Weather Forecast Showdown The Government has hired students to rate the performance of weather forecasters in their town due to an epidemic of bad weather predictions. Use the web to collect daily temperature forecasts made by television and newspapers to find out the best and the worst.
Basic Foundation & Principles
Learn key concepts and basic principles of science with the tools below.
42. Logal Science Explorer Series Educates students on detailed coverage of key concepts in biology, chemistry, and physics. The subject matter of is commonly covered in advanced placement and college courses.
43. Logal Science Gateway Series Uses an interactive computer simulation to teach and reinforce science principles. Students will develop critical thinking, scientific processing, and problem solving skills.
44. Kalzium Contains a plethora of data on the periodic table of the elements. It also solves chemical equations, shows pictures of the elements, and includes a helpful glossary.
45. Sammy's Science HouseDesigned by early learning experts for our future scientist. Teaches the basics about observation, analysis and test of theories.
46. Thinkin' ScienceFive environments familiarize students to the scientific concepts needed for comprehension of basic earth, life, and physical sciences.
47. Desktop Lunar Calendar A simple calendar that is accurate anywhere in the world. The 4 main quarter phases: Full, New, First Quarter, and Last Quarter are marked on the calendar.
48. Science PiratesPerfect for middle school students, this 3D educational computer game t communicates food safety knowledge in an environment of scientific exploration and process.
49. Encyclopedia Galactica A planetarium program that lets students create different types of sky maps in which practically any element is customizable.
50. CHEMIX An educational tool for students learning chemistry. Geared toward college level chemistry, features include advanced calculators for molecules, thermo chemistry, electrochemistry, and more.
51. Stellarium With this app, you can input coordinates for any point on earth and view the night skies for any particular point in time. It's so accurate, even planetariums have been known to use it.
52. Dhaatu This program lists the properties of the elements of the modern Periodic Table. A must for Chemistry students.
53. Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center-Electrical and Computer Engineering: Computer science students can take advantage of this awesome collection of both basic and complex calculators.
54. Celestia Like Stellarium, this app lets you view the night skies from earth, but it also lets you fly through 3D space to any place in the universe. It uses actual photographs of planets, asteroids, and other objects, so that you can see what they really look like.
Research & Collaboration
Students can work as part of a team to gather, analyze and disseminate data with some help from these tools.
55. The Great Ocean Rescue Take students on four rescue missions that lead them deep into the world's oceans. They have to draw on information about ocean ecosystems, marine biology, and environmental science to solve the problems.
56. Knowledge Forum An electronic team workspace that supports the knowledge building process. Students can share information, launch collaborative research, and build networks of new ideas.
57. Note Mesh A web 2.0 app that allows college students in the same science classes to share notes online using a wiki set-up.
58. Science Seekers Let a scientists guide students as they research data and work together to complete exciting adventures. Develop a deep better understanding that creates a foundation for real world science.
59. Timeliner Students can organize data to aid in research of scientific processes. Gather information from anywhere and organize it into a sequence or timeline.
60. Labmeeting.com Created by doctoral students at Stanford University with an aim to help people do research faster. Search their collection of PDFs, find out about new papers, and share data with their lab.
61. The JASON Project A hands-on inquiry based curriculum that mirrors the work of real scientists. Based on national core curriculum standards for science students in grades 4 through 8.
62. Seismic Toolkit (STK) Makes it easier for you and your students to research data from seismic events. It includes tools for filtering and plotting data, polarization, and more.
63. XoscopeTurn any Linux PC into a digital oscilloscope for analyzing sound waves. With this tool, you can visualize up to eight channels at once, control the time scale, and make measurements.
64. Thinkin' Science ZAP! Experiment with laser beams, electrical circuits, and sound waves while practice valuable thinking skills involving observation, prediction, deductive reasoning, and hypothesis testing
65. MaxData Works with Microsoft Excel to give students an age appropriate introduction to databases. Learn all aspects of data handling from the first steps of simple representation of data to records, tables, and filters.
66. The Great Solar System Rescue Like The Great Ocean Rescue, except students travel through the solar system.
67. GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) A worldwide hands on science program for primary and secondary education. Promotes collaboration on investigations from students, teachers and scientists of the environment and the Earth system.
68. Scholarpedia A free encyclopedia written and reviewed by scholars around the world.
69. Water on the Web This tool helps college and high school students understand and real environmental issues using the latest advanced technology. It includes data from many national lakes and river, data interpretation and Geographic Information System Tools.
70. Moon Phase Calculator Students can calculate the phase of the Moon for any time in the past, present or future. They can also search for the next or previous full moon, new moon or first or last quarter moon.
71. Winning Science Fair Projects Find dozens of exciting science fair project examples. From tadpoles to volcanoes, these samples will give students plenty of ideas on where to start for their own project.
72. PhET Project Fun, interactive, research based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
73. Flashcard Exchange Print flashcards, create flashcards and study science topics online with this tool, the world's largest flashcard library.
Modeling & Mapping Tools
These tools enable students to manipulate objects in ways that would otherwise be impossible.
74. TINKER free molecular modeling software for molecular mechanics and dynamics.
75. ChemSense A NSF funded project to study students' understanding of chemistry. Investigate chemical systems and express their ideas in animated chemical notations.
76. Mayomi A free flash-based mind mapping tool that lets you map out ideas, projects, research topics, or anything else that can be dug into. Great for students research papers and science projects.
77. SpaceCAD Make sure your model rocket is stable, how high it will go and which engine you should use. By just clicking a button, students calculate how high their rocket will fly.
78. Rainforest Designer Students can design and assemble rainforest habitats with this tool. Choose from hundreds of animals, plants, people, and objects to create original scenes.
79. Cmap Tools Build interactive, collaborative mind maps with text, video, and web links. Used by many high school and college students in advanced project work.
80. MathMol Designed to serve as a starting point for those interested in molecular modeling. There are also links to a variety of tutorials.
81. MDL Chime View chemical structures from within popular Web browsers such as Java. This tool is used by scientists but has also been implemented in high school chemistry courses.
82. Jmol This java based app lets students create diagrams of atoms, molecules, crystals, and more. The site includes a handbook and tutorials for helping you learn how to use the software.
83. YASARA A molecular graphics and modeling simulation program for Windows and Linux. A great tool for helping students visualize molecular models.
84. Starry Night A variety of astronomy software titles that give students the ability to view a virtual night sky from any point on Earth. Activities include traveling to planets, viewing planets in daylight, twilight, and nighttime views, and much more.
85. ByoDyn Used by a number of Biology students, this app can be used for estimate and analyze the parameters when building biochemical networks.
86. Virtual Cell A simulation of the look and feel of moving through an actual cell or cellular component. Students are encouraged to play the role of a biologist and examine cellular organelles, conduct experiments and form conclusions.
Search Engines and Databases
Scientists keeps databases of huge amounts of information but they sometimes don not show up in commonly used search engines. These tools can help you find out what you need to know.
87. CiteSeer.IST This search engine and digital library will help students find information from a collection of scientific literature.
88. Scirus With this science search engine your research will go far beyond journal articles. It also includes searches among such resources as scientists' webpages, courseware, and patents.
89. WorldWideScience.org You can look for science information using this connection to international science databases and portals located around the world.
90. GoPubMed Search for a number of biomedical texts with this search tool that will let you accesses public medical articles and health studies.
91. The Gene Ontology Explore the Gene Ontology database for specific genes, proteins, or Gene Ontology terminology to help you with your studies.
92. Science.gov. Offers specific categories of research including agriculture and food, biology and nature, Earth and ocean sciences, health and medicine, and more.
93. Scopus. Find an abundance of academic science information on categories like technology, medicine, and social sciences.
94. Solar Databases for Global Change Models A comprehensive solar database used for Science in higher education. It has been used to document satellite measurements since 1978 to show that the amount of energy from the Sun varies over decadal time scales.
95. Protein Data Bank Perform simple and advanced searches of molecules based on annotations relating to sequence, structure and function. These molecules are visualized, downloaded, and analyzed by users who range from students to specialized scientists.
96. Scitopia This advanced and thorough search will give students the most accurate information they need in the fields of both science and technology.
97. WebCASPAR A database system containing information about academic science and engineering resources. Included is data from several academic surveys plus information from National Center for Education Statistics.
98. Scitation There is over a million scientific papers to help you with any of your research needs. From journals to conferences, to magazines this is the tool for you need for your investigative services.
99. PubFocus This search engine searches through Medline and PubMed for requested data related to your specific field of interest. Analyze the solution through articles, authors, and publishing trends.
100. SESTAT For students interested in the scientific field, this integrated system of information on employment, education, and demographic characteristics of scientists and engineers in the United States has casual features for the more novice user.
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USB 3.0 Controller & Hub Drivers Use With Boot Wizard
Can USB 3.0 storage devices be used with Ghost Boot Wizard when WinPE is used as the preOS?
I tried to import some Asmedia USB XHCI 1042 controller hub drivers into the Deploy Anywhere driver database but was not successful in doing so. I also tried drivers from several other manufactures but I was not able to get them to work either. I have successfully imported SATA III and DOS RAID drivers.
I recently purchased an ASRock motherboard with an Asmedia USB 3.0 XHCI 1042 Controller Hub and when I was not able to see any devices plugged into it in the BIOS I called ASRock and they said USB 3.0 devices are only available in Windows when the drivers are installed that they cannot be seen in the BIOS and are not available to boot from.
Is it possible to get the boot wizard to work with USB 3.0 under the circumstances and if so how?
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Yes, it should be possible to get USB3 working under WinPE - I know as I have done it.
Please do not confuse the Deploy Anywhere database of drivers with the WinPE driver list as maintained by Ghost Boot Wizard. DA drivers are specifically for the TARGET operating system and not for WinPE.
The version of WinPE used in Ghost is based around the Vista kernel, so you need to add Vista 32 bit drivers for your USB3 chipset into Ghost Boot Wizard, and make sure the added drivers are selected. WinPE is "windows", but cut down to remove most of the GUI components, so basically an updated DOS. However, it still uses Windows drivers and does support USB and plug and play, so no issues there.
Depending on the USB3 device you are attaching, you may also need to add any USB3 drivers that come with the device. (A Hitachi 2Tb external USB-3 drive I own, comes with USB-3 drivers which need to be loaded as well, but I think that is the exception rather than the rule).
You can also mount drivers into WinPE from the command line using DRVLOAD - this is useful for testing candidate drivers before adding them permanently using GBW.
If your issue has been solved, please use the "Mark as Solution" link on the most relevant thread.
Thanks for responding to my inquire. Below are some steps I have taken in an attempted to import USB 3.0 controller hub drivers but have yet to succussfully do so.
(1) Opened Symantec Ghost Boot Wizard - PreOS Version
(2) Selected Windows PE
(3) Clicked on the Edit Button
(4) Selected WinPE-512
(5) Clicked on the Copy Button
(6) Typed a name for a new database
(7) Selected the Storage Drives Tab
(8) Obtained the Vista drivers for my Asmedia XHCI 1042 USB 3 Controller HUB and saved all the files into a folder. The driver files are:
Inside the driver folder:
amd64 - Folder
asmthub3.sys - file
asmtxhci.sys - file
i386 - Folder
asmthub3.sys - file
asmtxhci.sys - file
ia64 - Folder
asmthub3.sys - file
asmtxhci.sys - file
Files not in seprete folders
asmthub3.cat - file
asmthub3.inf - file
asmtxhci.cat - file
asmtxhci.inf - file
I completely uninstalled my drivers in Windows and reinstalled them using the above information.
(9) Clicked the Add New Driver Button
(10) Clicked the Browse Button and navigated to the folder with the drivers in it and ensured the path to the drivers is in the location feild.
(11) Typed a friendly name in the Friendly name feild.
(12) Selected Vista as the OS
(13) Clicked the Ok Button
I received a message "Failed to import driver"
Failed to find any drivers to add.
When I experience this I tried other drivers.
I succussfully imported several DOS RAID drivers.
I sucessfully imported a Windows SATA III Controller driver.
I tried other USB 3.0 Controller drivers from Etron, Fresco and Renesas but I was not able to get them to import either. I noticed the manufactures have developed one driver for all Windows versions but when given the choice to select Vista drivers I selected it. I noticed all the USB 3.0 drivers do not have OEM text files in them like the other drivers I successfully imported. I am not sure where an OEM text file is required to work with Ghost and WinPE.
I have not found any instructions on how to use the DRVLOAD command.
Here is a link to a technote on DRVLOAD: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/do-i-have-correct-driver-winpe
You need to gather the 32 bit Vista driver files for your hardware, consisting of a .INF, .CAT and .SYS file as a minimum. TXT files are for information and are not used by the drivers. If any DLL files are present then include them as well.
If you have a working operating system with USB-3 drivers loaded, then go into device manager via Control panel and find the hardware ID for the USB-3 chipset. Open the candidate INF file in a text editor and check whether the hardware ID is represented in the INF. If it is not, then the driver will not load.
Once you have identified a set of working drivers via the DRVLOAD technique, then you can add these drivers with Ghost Boot wizard.
If your issue has been solved, please use the "Mark as Solution" link on the most relevant thread.
Thanks for your help!
I was able to manually load the drivers in WinPE using the DRV LOAD command and create a backup to a device plugged into one of the USB 3.0 ports on my motherboard. I still am not able to import the drivers from the WinPE drivers page under the storage drivers tab. I looked at the structure of the WinPE, WinPE 512 templates and it looks like if I wanted to manually add the drivers to a template I would have to add the driver information to the drivermanifest.txt files which exist in several places and add the drivers in several locations within the template for the drivers to load correctly, I believe this is beyond my scope at this point because of the type of information the drivermanifest files calls for and I do not understand their relationship with the drivers. I am wondering if there might be a way to add drivers from the DRV LOAD command line after WinPE is loaded from a Ghost boot package?
Did I buy a cheap motherboard with a BIOS that cannot see devices plugged into the USB 3.0 ports or is that the standard for all on motherboard USB 3.0 controllers?
Adding drivers is accomplished by the Ghost Boot Wizard. Once the drivers are added, they then need to be selected and a new bootable image created. You could of course have the drivers on a USB stick and just run a batch file to DRVLOAD them after WinPE has booted, but that is a lot more hassle long term than just updating your boot image. Do not get confused with Deploy Anywhere, as this is an entirely separate driver database.
I cannot comment on whether you have bought a cheap motherboard, as you have not mentioned price or model. What I can tell you, however, is that my high quality and quite expensive ASUS motherboard has some dedicated USB-3 ports which need the appropriate drivers loaded by the operating system before they will function. It does, however, provide a plethora of USB-2 ports which will happily detect a USB-3 drive albeit they will only talk to the drive at USB-2 speeds.
There are also some USB-3 flash drives around now, but you will not get USB-3 speeds out of them as flash memory technology is just not fast enough to run at the full USB-3 speed. However, our tests have shown that you get pretty much the full USB-2 performance on a USB-3 port, which is a significant improvement over the previous generations of (cheap) sticks.
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Thanks for your response and information.
Every time I try to add the USB drivers to the WinPE or WinPE-512 preOS options I continue to get a import fail message that says no driver information found. I have verified the driver information that I am trying to import is valid. I have successfully loaded the drivers by closing the boot wizard that loaded via WinPE and using the DRVLOAD command then using the command prompt to restart the Ghost32.exe located in the Ghost directory.
Over the holidays I downloaded the Automated Installation Kit for Vista from the Microsoft website and created a new WinPE_x86 boot package and successfully added the drivers. I then replaced the boot.win in the sources directory of a boot package I have on a USB stick I use in the USB 2.0 ports on my motherboard because the BIOS cannot see the USB 3.0 ports. When WinPE loaded the boot wizard never did. Come to find out WinPE load on X: and the Ghost package was on the last available drive letter on my system J;. So using the WinPE command prompt I changed the drive letter to J: and loaded the boot wizard. When I selected local drive to image in boot wizard there was my 32 GB Patriot Rage USB 3.0 flash drive plugged in the USB 3.0 port that is rated at writing up to 50 MB/s and reading at up to 180 MB/s. Ghost successfully created an image of a drive with 10.6 GBs of information on it. The compressed image was a little over 5 GBs and did it in less than 3 minutes.
In an attempt to get a boot package that would load the boot wizard as it is designed to do I thought I would replace the boot.win file I had created with the one in the WinPE template files that are located under C:\Users\All Users\Application Data\Symantec\Ghost\Template\common\winpe\sources and create a new boot package using the boot wizard but the boot wizard says the boot.wim is not valid and it cannot create a boot package under the circumstances. This is where I am on this at this point in the process.
My motherboard is an ASRock 970DE3/U3S3 AMD AM3+ socket board that I bought new for $75.00. I bought this board because I already had a CPU and memory that will work with the board and I thought it might be a cheap way to get a preview of USB 3.0 and SATA III technology before buying an Intel i7 CPU and several hundred motherboard as a replacement to a top of the line ASUS motherboard I purchased in early 2004 that went out in late 2010..
It appears the USB 3.0 controller is separate from the USB 2.0 controller and ASRock did not design the BIOS to work with the USB 3.0 controller other than to have an enable / disable USB 3.0 switch because the manufactures of USB 3.0 controllers do not provide non Windows drivers that can easily be incorporated into the BIOS enabling the BIOS to see any devices plugged into the USB 3.0 ports making them available outside Windows to boot from like you can with the USB 2.0 devices. I am wondering if this setup is exclusive to AMD motherboards or if I bought an Intel socket 2011 or 1156 motherboard would I find the same setup.
I have a recently modern ASUS motherboard with an i7 1155 pin quad core processor and 16 Gb ram. This has four USB-3 ports using the Renesas chipset if I recall correctly, and in order to use these ports in WinPE, I have to load the appropriate drivers for them. I imagine that sooner or later the inclusion of USB-3 support into BIOSes may come about, but when you consider how long the firewire interface has been around, I've not seen any bios support for booting from that either.
You may well find that booting from a USB-3 key on a USB-2 port is the way to go, and then switch the key to a mounted USB-3 port for the actual imaging. It's trivial to locate the drive letter of the key with a bit of batch script.
Looking back over this thread, it would appear that no mention has been made of precisely which version of Ghost you are using. I assume it's 11.5 due to the WinPE support, but check that you have 126.96.36.1996 as this is the latest available build on LiveUpdate.
Your issues with adding drivers via Ghost boot wizard when they load successfully via DRVLOAD may suggest that a reinstall of Ghost on a clean O/S might be worth a try. I would repeat my earlier comment in that the drivers must be Vista 32 bit (not Vista 64 bit) regardless of what operating system you are imaging.
Finally, if you still have issues with the drivers, you could of course put the driver files into a folder on your USB key, and have the main batch file that loads Ghost, divert instead to a secondary batch file outside the WIM image, which you can edit at anytime without rebuilding the WIM. Then you can just add a sequence of DRVLOAD commands to get the necessary drivers loaded without any rebuild hassle.
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Thanks for the information regarding USB 3 on an 1155 board. I may wait to do my upgrade.
I have made some progress with Ghost. I am using version 220.127.116.116 and I tried version 184.108.40.2063 and got the same result. My work around at this point is to do a clean install of Ghost and create bootable media on USB flash drive using the default settings with WinPE and I select add CD/DVD support.
Next I downloaded the Automated Installation Kit for Windows Vista at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.as... and install it. If you are using Windows XP it will call for the installation of MSXML 6.0 Parser before it will let you install AIK. MSXML 6.0 Parser is included in AIK. Once I got the AIK installed I ran the follow commands from the AIK command prompt which is called Windows PE Tools Command Prompt. You can find this under Programs on the start menu once AIK is installed. I put my drivers in a folder on C:\ in an effort to simply the commands I would have to type and keep what I am doing as close to the examples in the instructions as possible.
1) copype.cmd x86 c:\winpe_x86
This creates fresh WinPE fies as follows:
2) imagex /mountrw c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim 1 c:\winpe_x86\mount
This unpacks the contents of WinPE.wim and moves them to the mount folder.
3) peimg /inf=<path> c:\winpe_x86\mount\Windows
I run this command for each device driver that needs to be loaded.
In the case of my USB 3.0 two drivers are required a controller and hub driver.
4) Next I copy the ghost32.exe file to the Windows\System32 file which you will find under Windows in the mount folder which is in the winpe_x86 folder.
5) Locate the startnet.cmd file in the system32 file which is under Windows in the mount folder which is in the winpe_x86 folder. Once you locate the startnet.cmd file right click on it and open it with notepad and delete wpeinit and replace it with ghost32.
6) peimg /prep c:\winpe_x86\mount\Windows
This reduces the image size.
7) imagex /unmount c:\winpe_x86\mount /commit
This repackages the changes made in the mount folder to WinPE.wim.
8) copy c:\winpe_x86\winpe.wim c:\winpe_x86\ISO\sources\boot.wim
This updates the boot.win file in the sources folder.
9) Replace the boot.win file in sources folder on the flash drive that contains the boot package created by ghost with the boot.win file in the sources folder in the WinPE_x86 folder.
When you boot from the flash drive it will take WinPE a minute or two to load but the second the command prompt loads Ghost Boot Wizard loads. There is no delay like with the boot package ghost creates. I am able to plug and unplug items in the USB 3.0 ports and as long as I go back to the main menu in the Boot Wizard then return to the screens where the drives are displayed I am able to see any devices that are plugged in the USB 3.0 ports.
I am able to backup 10.6 GBs in less than 3 minutes doing drive to drive or drive to image to a Patriot USB 3.0 flash drive that is rated at 50 MB/s write and 180 MB/s read. This Rage XT is not their top of the line flash drive the have bigger and faster.. If I select disk to image the image size is a little over 5 GBs.
The scope limitation in this method of backup is you cannot boot from the image on the USB 3.0 flash drive because USB 3.0 cannot be seen or available to boot in the BIOS of most motherboards made today with USB 3.0 controllers on them. In order to recover from the image on the USB 3.0 flash drive you have to boot from another Ghost boot package and select the image on the USB 3.0 flash drive to recover from.
You will find a lot of this covered in this article: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/readyadventures-winpe
There is also a link to another article which covers the creation of a WinPE 3 boot environment, which is somewhat different to create to the WinPE 2 environment.
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Thanks again for your help.
I just got a respone to an email I sent MSI regarding USB 3.0 technology and I am going to quote what I was told.
"Any native Z77 Ivy Bridge board using a Intel 3rd generation Ivy Bridge CPU will have native USB 3.0 support which will allow you to boot from the USB port."
This would suggest AMD may be less than compared to Intel. When I first bought my AMD board I did a backip with Ghost 2003 in DOS mode and it consistantly took 48 minutes to backup compared to 18 minutes with my old P4 that was manufactured 10 years earlier. All the hardware and media was the same execpt the mothernoard, CPU and memory which is at least double on every point spec wise. The only thing I can come up with that might explain that is the 16 bit Ghost.exe was only using 1 of 4 cores on the AMD CPU which only has 1 none hyper threaded process per core compared with 2 hyper threaded processes per core on the Intel CPU.
I wonder if that blacket statement is actually valid in all cases as they would like you to believe. The first (WD) USB-3 device I purchased actually included USB-3 drivers that had to be installed in the operating system to get the best out of the WD drive. I also have an older WD drive that came with specific drivers for XP as the detect new hardware wizard would pop up the first time the USB-2 drive was plugged in. However, for any USB-3 storage device that is natively able to work on a USB-3 port without needing additional driver loading, should be capable of booting on the hardware combination you describe, as long as there is also support for this in the BIOS. I suspect MSI use a specific bios supplier for which this is true, but there is more than one bios supplier, and I would never presume to suggest they are all equal.
As to your backup timings, are they for identical drive sizes? The capability to access more than one core is a function of the operating system and not Ghost, and DOS has never been aware of more than a single core, and equally, Ghost 2003 is not going to be CPU aware even if run on a multicore processor.
DOS also has many limitations when it comes to working with modern hardware - no USB support, no SATA support, no NTFS support, no support for large disk partitions. Even way back then, the Ghost program had to implement a number of "workarounds" to allow imaging under DOS but there is only so far you can take this. I could go on to bore you with technical details such as disk interleave factors and how using SMARTDRV in your DOS boot may speed things up, but using WinPE for imaging is so much better than DOS that it's really not worth spending time on DOS issues.
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I am not sure if it is a blanket statement or not but if I spend 5 or 6 hundred dollars a CPU and motherboard and I determine all of the hardware connected to the motherboard is not available in the BIOS it will be going back to the store.
As you can tell from reading my post I really know very little about computers, my efforts are an attempt to get this new technology to function in a way the simple solutions do that were originally sold to me when I bought my first computer and software. The good news is I believe I am not only meeting that objective I am making quantum leaps in my efforts. I am glad to have the WinPE opinion with Ghost.
I'm guessing that consumer laws are different in your territory than in the UK. Ultimately, it is a case of Caveat Emptor, so if you are buying computer components, there is an assumption that you know what to do with them, unless you have specifically produced a document of requirements which the vendor has failed to meet or has misled you about.
It is technically impossible to guarantee that all hardware connected to a motherboard will be available in the BIOS. For example, a hardware dongle, a SCSI card without a bios, or an integrated webcam are three examples of hardware that are not supported by the native BIOS. After all, BIOS is just an acronym for "Basic Input/Output System", and historically did little more than start the boot process from whatever boot device was available - initially floppy disk, then hard disk and so on.
I applaud your determination to get more experience on the hardware and software available today, but don't fall into the trap of making assumptions about what level of support you should get from any system service as this can get embarrassing when you encounter some of the geeks with limited social graces working in computer stores. ;-)
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In response to your question regarding hard drive size when backing up, they are not the same size.
I trade with Micro Center, Frys Electronics and Tiger Direct and they have a 30 day return policy on most of their merchandise and will take motherboards, CPUs and memory back with in reason even if nothing is wrong with it. I sure if you bought something from them through their store or website they would apply that same standard to you regardless of where you live and might even get it to you free if you bought enough.
I am glad to have WinPE as an option. I agree it is superior to DOS.


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What do NH State Parks mean to 18-29 year olds?
As my final days as a Parks and Recreation Intern came to a close, I decided it would be a neat and insightful project to administer a survey regarding the New Hampshire State Parks. The goal of the survey was to understand more about what New Hampshire State Parks mean to a target age demographic of 18-29 years olds.
Nestled in the White Mountains and close to a wide array of outdoor activities including state parks, Plymouth State University (PSU) seemed like an ideal place to conduct just such a marketing research project.
Before administering the survey, I assumed the majority of PSU students were not familiar with the state park system in New Hampshire. This is because many PSU students do not venture far from campus during the school week or weekend due to variety of factors.
There were a total of 100 students who answered the questions in the survey, which I distributed throughout two weeks in mid-February of 2013. The surveys were passed out both in my college classes and in the Hartman Union Building (Student Center).
Here are the survey questions I asked and the results:
Have you ever visited a NH State Park? (Check one)
Analyzing this first question, one can see that the wide majority of PSU students have attended a NH State Park in their lifetime. Although, this does not necessarily mean they attended a park while they were attending Plymouth State University.
If yes, in what region is the park located? (Check all that apply)
While the majority of PSU student have been to either the White Mountains, Lakes Region, or both when they attended a state park, many of the students have also been to a park in other regions of New Hampshire. The Seacoast seemed to be the third most popular region to visit followed by Monadnock, Merrimack, and the Great North Woods.
If no, please tell why you have never been to a NH State Park below? (Check all that apply)
Of the small number of PSU students who have never attended a state park, the main reason for them never having visiting one was because they were not familiar with the NH State Park system. The "Other" reasons they have never attended a park are that they do not reside in New Hampshire or they are more of an indoor type of person.
What is the farthest you are willing to travel to visit a state park? (Check one)
While the majority of PSU students are willing to travel between 20 to 40 miles to a state park, those willing to travel more than 40 miles was not far behind. There seemed to be a strong correlation between those who said they have never been to a state park and those only willing to travel less than 20 miles to a State Park.
What feature would most attract you to a NH State Park? (Check one)
Hiking trails is the number one feature that would attract PSU students to a state park, closely followed by mountains, and water bodies. The "Other" number one features that would attract students are skate parks and snowmobile trails.
How would you prefer to get information about NH State Parks? (Check all that apply)
Social Media including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were definitely the most popular forms of media that students would use to find out about state parks. This was closely followed by word of mouth and nhstateparks.org.
What are your favorite forms of outdoor recreation activity in NH? (Check all that apply)
Looking at the above graph, data suggests that no single form of outdoor recreation held overwhelming majority over the rest. Although, hiking, camping, and kayaking led the way for the favorite forms of outdoor recreation among PSU students. For the 16 surveyors who checked "Other" there was a wide range of activities they mentioned including snowboarding, skateboarding, snowmobiling, fishing, x-country skating, swimming, horseback riding, and water skiing.
Where do you typically go for outdoor recreation? (Check all that apply)
The White Mountains was the number one spot where PSU students recreate. Closely followed by the Lakes Region and Near my Residence which got the same percentage of votes. "Other" was such places as where ever the trip takes me, my camp, the water, and the ocean.
In conclusion, the results demonstrated that the PSU community has been to a variety of state park locations and recreates outside in various ways. Results also indicate that there is plenty of room to increase the number PSU students who visit NH State Parks and among those who have already visited to increase the frequency of their visitations.
A common perception among students was that state parks in NH are only summer destinations – a point which I was happy to point out is untrue and are great places to attend in all four seasons.
For the minority of students who have not attended a state park for the reason of "not familiar with NH State Parks" my suggestion is for those informed on state parks to spread the word, as that is the second most popular form of receiving information on state parks among this young adult demographic. Also, I would like to see the PSU community introduced to the NH State Park Web Page and Facebook Page. Third, I would love to see more people being introduced to blogs (As a blogger myself!), as they are a great way to discover parks from other people's first hand experience with them.
If the majority of students are willing to travel 20 to 40 miles or the White Mountains/Lakes Region then there is plenty of opportunity for them to experience a state park!
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About andrew-keohanHi all, nice to meet you, I'm Andrew Keohan a Business and Tourism major up at Plymouth State University. For those of you not familiar with the small college town of Plymouth, it's nestled beneath the towering wilderness of the White Mountains, a perfect spot to be for outdoor adventure. In my final year at Plymouth, I am excited and looking forward to blogging for the NH State Parks. When I am out on weekend adventures, I will be going to parks and recreation areas I am familiar with and others I don't have a clue about. My goal is to give my blog readers an experience of what it is actually like to go to these parks and make you want to get up and get outdoors in the beauty of what New Hampshire has to offer. Hopefully, I will blog about places you had no idea existed, if not, well they are still worth going to again! If I can get just a couple of my readers to go out and want to experience the places I have been than I've done my job! View all posts by andrew-keohan →
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Former HPD Major Involved In Hawaii Kai Murder-Suicide
Medical Examiner, Police: Leighton Yasuhara Killed Wife, Julia, Then Himself
The Honolulu Medical Examiner has identified the elderly couple involved in a murder-suicide Sunday morning in Hawaii Kai.
Police say an 81-year-old Leighton Yasuhara shot and killed his 79-year-old wife, Julia, before turning the gun on himself.
Leighton was a retired HPD major, who left the service in 1984.
The incident happened Sunday morning at the couple's home on Anakua Street in Hawaii Kai, near Koko Head.
According to police, the couple's son went to check on his parents just before 11 a.m after Leighton "unexpectedly" cancelled an appointment. That's when he heard three gunshots and attempted to enter the bedroom from where he heard the sots. After being unable to enter the room, he called police who discovered the couple's bodies. EMS pronounced the couple dead at the scene.
A spokesperson for the police department says the woman suffered from a long-term illness.
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How to Apply for Deal or No Deal
Two Methods:AustraliaUnited Kingdom
Deal or No Deal is a popular TV game show that is taped in many different countries around the world. All it takes is a bit of luck and the ability to make good deals with the banker, and you could walk away with tons of money!
Note: This article describes the audition process for English-speaking countries. A list is provided in the "Tips" section of all countries that tape Deal or No Deal shows
Method 1 of 2: Australia
1If you are from Melbourne and the surrounding area: You must send in an application form first. This form includes your email address, first name, last name, gender, age, postcode, and your preferred audition time. Wait for them to contact you regarding an audition. Public auditions are held in Melbourne.
- You must send in an application form first. This form includes your email address, first name, last name, gender, age, postcode, and your preferred audition time.
- Wait for them to contact you regarding an audition. Public auditions are held in Melbourne.
2If you are from Country Victoria or another state:
- You must send in a more detailed application form. This form includes your email, first name, last name, occupation, phone number, address, postcode, state, date of birth, relationship status, number of children you have (if any), whether you're auditioning alone or with someone else, if you're an Australian resident, if you have any medical conditions/allergies, and if you have a criminal record. You'll also have to answer more open-ended questions; you'll have to describe yourself in 3 words, describe any superstitions and/or phobias you might have, your hidden talents or surprising things about you, any upcoming milestones you might have, and how you would spend the money you won. You'll also have to submit a picture of yourself.
Method 2 of 2: United Kingdom
1Visit the Deal or No Deal UK website and send in an application.
2Wait to hear back from their contestant team. They will get back to you if they want you to audition for them and you will be awarded a bronze ticket.
3Go to the audition. The audition is in two stages, and if you are successful in the first stage of the audition you will be given a silver ticket. If you receive a silver ticket you will move on to the second stage of the audition where you will be interviewed on camera.
4Wait to hear back from them again. All of the audition tapes will be reviewed by the producers, who will choose which contestants will appear on the show. If you have been selected, you will be given a golden ticket and a place on the show.Ad
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- If your country is not listed above, check here for a list of countries where Deal or No Deal is filmed.
- Please note that Deal or No Deal has been cancelled in the United States and Canada.
- You must be 18 years old or older to audition
- If you have auditioned for Deal or No Deal within the past 6 months, you do not have to audition again.
- You only need to send in a registration form once. Sending multiple forms will not increase your chances of being invited to audition or making it on the show.
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as root
vi /etc/ld.so.conf
add /usr/X11R6/lib to the list
run ldconfig
I have just installed Wordperfect but when I try to run it. It tells me it can't locate libXt.so.6 but I do have that in /usr/X11R6/lib. How can I fix this?
as root
vi /etc/ld.so.conf
add /usr/X11R6/lib to the list
run ldconfig
That's there already but I ran ldconfig and it still gives me the same error message
could u post the exact error message?
cuz sometimes when u get error messages about libraries, it's not that the application can't find the library listed in the error message, but that the library that's listed in the error message can't find another library.
if u have the file /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 run the following command:
ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
that should give a list of every library that's used by the libXt.so.6 file, and then it will give the actual location of each of those libraries. it's possible that one of the libraries it needs isn't found and then the output of the ldd command should say something like "file not found" or something about that particular library.
The exact message is:
*The output of what you recommended is:Code:./xwp: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
Code:ldd /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x40055000) libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4012f000) libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x40138000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4014e000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
then i have no idea :/
I found this and got it to work:


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Monday: Cloudy early with peeks of sunshine expected late. High around 40. Winds WSW at 15 to 25 mph. Monday night: Partly cloudy. Low 14. Winds WNW at 10 to 20 mph.
EVENT OF THE DAY: Live music at LIC Bar
Check out live music every Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday night at LIC Bar, located at 45-58 Vernon Blvd., Long Island City. Tonight, starting at 8 p.m. see performances by Aaron Irwin Group, Mika Mimura and Matthew Snow Band.
Police commanders shifting focus from crime to traffic safety
Mayor de Blasio's push for "zero" traffic fatalities in the Big Apple has NYPD commanders facing "a nightmare" as they shift their focus on shootings and robberies to include reckless driving, sources told The Post. Read more: New York Post
NYPD seeking more detectives for murder cases in boroughs outside Manhattan
The NYPD is scrambling to boost its detective ranks following a Daily News investigation that revealed more manpower is available to handle Manhattan murders than for homicides in the outer boroughs. Read more: New York Daily News
Guns hurt or kill 10,000 children in the US each year: study
School shootings unnerve Americans, but the number of children injured or killed in those tragic events is just a fraction of the young people harmed by firearms each year in the United States, a new study finds. Read more: NBC News
Vial of Pope John Paul II's blood stolen from Italian church
A relic containing drops of late Pope John Paul II's blood has been stolen, Italian authorities said Monday. Read more: NBC News
Daft Punk dominates Grammys with 4 big wins
The Grammy Awards celebrated outcasts and outsiders, lionizing a couple of French robots, white rappers and a country gal espousing gay rights, and a Goth teenager who's clearly uncomfortable with the current themes in pop music. Read more: AP


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Revenue falls 5.8% at Detroit casinos
DETROIT - The bets are off in Detroit, where the three state-licensed casinos report a 5.8 percent drop in revenues for the latest month.
The Michigan Gaming Control Board said yesterday the casinos took in $106.9 million in bets in January, compared with $113.5 million in January 2008.
The Greektown Casino was hardest hit. Its revenue fell 11.6 percent from $27.5 million to $24.3 million.
MotorCity Casino reported a 6.5 percent drop in bets, from $39.4 million to $36.8 million.
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Michael Hennessy, CDT, owner of Hennessy Dental Lab Inc. since 1983, has over 35 years of experience. He has grown his once C&B-only facility to encompass all areas of dental technology, specializing in implant dentistry.
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Check-in time for all RV and tent sites is 1:00 PM. Cabins is 3:00 PM. Check-out time for ALL sites and cabins 11:00 AM.


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NB process nbsvcmon, nbrmms, nbsl does not start on media server.
Hi All,
I have commissioned a new media server namely hbaltaprodap1 in my environment; the server is able to communicate to my master.
However, the policy for the server fails with status 25(cannot connect on socket).
When checking the same have observed that the below mentioned daemons were not running on this server (hbaltaprodap1); while these daemons are running on all the other media servers.
nbsvcmon, nbrmms, nbsl
MEDIA SERVER O.S : - Linux hbaltaprodap1.localdomain 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 8 17:36:59 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
MASTER O.S : - Sun Solaris 10
NBU Version : - 6.5.4
[root@dakcmstnetbkp /]\ # bptestbpcd -client hbaltaprodap1
1 1 1
10.226.7.187:49796 -> 10.226.19.232:13724
10.226.7.187:49813 -> 10.226.19.232:13724
10.226.7.187:49855 -> 10.226.19.232:13724
[root@dakcmstnetbkp /]\ # nbemmcmd -listh | grep -i hbaltaprodap1
media hbaltaprodap1
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Orange County Animal Services is holding an adoption event on Saturday in hopes of adopting out enough animals to make room to continue caring for the dogs found in the midst of the largest dogfighting ring in the city of Apopka's history.
Animal Services confiscated the 34 dogs, including six puppies, from a home late Tuesday at 209 W. Seventh St. near Orange Blossom Trail.
Twenty-six people were arrested in connection with a Central Florida dogfighting ring that included a treadmill, raccoon and up to 30 dogs, according to police.
Animal Services is asking for the community's help because the shelter was close to capacity prior to receiving the 34 additional dogs. Those interested in helping the shelter are encouraged to adopt one of the many other shelter pets currently available for adoption, officials said.
"We have many loving dogs and cats looking for families and placing these animals in forever homes would allow us more space to provide comfort for the animals taken in from the cruelty situation" said Dil Luther of OCAS.
The shelter will be reducing standard adoption fee for dogs and cats to $15 during their "Hot Dogs, Cool Cats" adoption promotion on Saturday. The shelter will also open additional hours at 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
For more information about the event visit www.ocnetpets.com.


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ATLANTA -- Have you ever seen a caterpillar turn into a real, live butterfly?
The Live Butterfly Garden from Insect Lore promises to let kids experience one of nature's miracles -- the transformation of a larvae to a beautiful butterfly. 11Alive reporter Jennifer Leslie decided to try it out with her two sons.
After seeing the commercial, Blake's grandmother ordered the kit. It cost $30 plus another $10 for shipping. There is also a smaller $20 kit.
In less than a week, it arrived -- two jars containing nine small caterpillars, a pop-up butterfly habitat and complete instructions.
The food is already in the jar, so all Jennifer has to do is put the caterpillars in a safe place, out of direct sunlight, and watch them grow.
In about a week, the caterpillars climb to the top of the jar, where they attach themselves for the final transformation.
Then, Jennifer moves them into the butterfly habitat. They may look like cocoons, but even preschooler Blake knows they're called chrysalis.
Ten days later, the final metamorphosis is complete and the habitat is teeming with nine painted lady butterflies.
"I think it's fun. It's educational," Jennifer says. "I enjoyed it probably as much as the boys, maybe a little bit more. But I think we all got something out of it."
After enjoying their butterflies for a couple of days, the boys follow the recommendations and release them into the wild.
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Ventura council candidates differ on ways to battle poverty, homelessness
Ventura City Council candidates agreed at a forum that fighting poverty and homelessness will take a mix of government services, private charity, law enforcement and economic development.
But a few candidates urged the city to contribute to a new year-round homeless shelter, others stressed a need to preserve "granny flats" and other existing affordable housing, and some promised to fight panhandling and illegal camping.
Nine of the 11 candidates for City Council participated in Thursday night's forum, sponsored by the Ventura Social Services Task Force.
For two of them, the debate wasn't an academic exercise. Brian Lee Rencher and Melody Baker are homeless, and both connected their personal experiences to the forum's policy topics.
Baker said she's lived in the Ventura River bottom and "lived in terror" of the people there who drank, used drugs and were wanted by police.
Rencher said there are people living in the riverbed who "are criminals and need to go to jail." But he said he's been arrested just for sleeping on public property and that a crackdown on illegal camping would unfairly target people like him, who keep their campsites clean and don't cause trouble.
"I take exception to people who think having no money is a crime," Rencher said. "It's not that we're taking other people's property; we just don't have any property of our own. We have a right to exist. Putting people like me in jail because we're poor is morally indefensible."
Moderator Bill Finley, a Salvation Army captain in Ventura, called the campsites in the Ventura and Santa Clara rivers "an ecological and human catastrophe" and asked what should be done about them.
Bill Knox said people living there should be cited for camping illegally.
"It's time we enforced the laws on the books. It's illegal to sleep down there," he said. "We need to combine that with ensuring we have adequate services for the homeless."
"I love my outdoors, my ocean, and there are some dramatic impacts on water quality from people living in the river bottom," Martin Armstrong said. "But how do we enforce that? We don't have the police presence. We can't afford to be down there 24/7 monitoring activity in that area."
Ken Cozzens, a retired Ventura County sheriff's captain, said law enforcement should distinguish between homeless people and "vagrants."
"I will do what I can to help the homeless, but I also have a zero tolerance for illegal use of alcohol and drugs," he said. "They're the ones who are bringing our city down and making our parks and streets unsafe."
Cheryl Heitmann said the goal should be helping people regain self-respect.
"We do that by helping people, not just giving them a handout but a hand up," she said. "We are not helping people when we're just giving to them without asking them to do anything. It might make us feel better, but it's not doing anything to help them."
Finley asked a few candidates about their views on a new homeless shelter. Right now there is an emergency shelter only in the winter months, and the cities of Ventura and Oxnard have discussed pursuing a year-round shelter to be run by a government agency or nonprofit.
Knox said the city needs a shelter but that it must be built in an industrial area, away from homes or storefront businesses.
Christy Weir, a two-term councilwoman seeking re-election, also said the city needs a shelter. The most important considerations are making sure it's run responsibly and is near hospitals, clinics and mental health facilities.
"That way, when you're helping somebody, you're helping the whole person," she said. "I want to have this discussion in a holistic sense."
Apart from shelters, candidate Carla Bonney said the city can help people avoid homelessness by adopting a more forgiving approach to owners of illegal granny flats and other unpermitted second units.
"A lot of those people would be homeless if not for that housing," Bonney said. "There are a lot of people living in the shadows in those granny flats. There are people who are $100 away from not being able to afford their home."
Many of the candidates said a better local economy would help the homelessness situation because it would generate jobs for people trying to get on their feet as well as tax revenue for social programs.
"We're going to need revenue to do any of this," candidate Danny Carrillo said.
Two candidates did not attend Thursday's forum: Ed Alamillo and Carl Morehouse. Morehouse, an incumbent running for his fourth council term, was in San Francisco at a League of California Cities conference. Finley read a statement from him about his support for a year-round homeless shelter.
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Colgate vs. Dartmouth
March 2, 2002
|Jason Vasas
|(1, 0)
|Scott Herbst
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|Nick Gerken
|(1, 0)
|Ian Franke
|(1, 0)
|Peter Watts
|(0, 1)
|Chris Hettler
|10 (0.476)
|Current Record
|go to Colgate page
|Ben Grinnell
|(4, 1)
|Connor Price
|(3, 2)
|Tom Daniels
|(1, 3)
|Casey Burlage
|(1, 1)
|Scott Roslyn
|(1, 0)
|David Farber
|(1, 0)
|Mike Gault
|14 (0.778)
|Current Record
|go to Dartmouth page
|The Game Story:
|NEW CANAAN, Conn.- Freshman Ben Grinnell scored four goals and recorded an
assist as the Dartmouth men's lacrosse team opened the season with an 11-4 win
over Colgate Saturday afternoon in New Canaan, Conn.
Playing 20 minutes from his hometown of Waccabuc, N.Y. Grinnel scored early and often as the Big Green netted four goals in the first ten minutes of the game. Senior Connor Price netted three goals and two assists, while sophomore Tom Daniels tallied a goal and three assists.Junior Casey Burlage added a goal and an assist, while juniors Scott Rosyln and David Faber tallied goals for the Big Green.
Junior Mike Gault played well in goal, stopping 14 shots, five of which came in the fourth quarter as the Raiders attempted to mount a comeback.
Dartmouth is back in action on Wednesday, March 6 when it hosts Quinnipiac at 2:00 pm.