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After weeks of controversy surrounding the MPAA's decision to give the film a 'R' rating -- and the subsequent decision to release it unrated -- The Weinstein Company's "Bully" was released on 5 screens in New York and LA this weekend. According to estimates provided by Rentrak earlier today, the results were quite promising.
Here's the rundown for "Bully" and a dozen or so other specialty films in release:
The Debuts:
"Bully" (The Weinstein Company)
Lee Hirsch's doc "Bully" took in a very strong $115,000 this weekend, averaging $23,000. That made it the best documentary debut of 2012 so far (in terms of per-theater-average), and the second best limited debut overall (after the $23,764 "Footnote" averaged four weekends ago).
"We werent sure what to expect," Eric Lomis, President of Distribution at The Weinstein Company, told Indiewire today. "We were certainly hopeful, but you never know what you're gonna get with a documentary. Whether it's gonna be good, fair, poor numbers... It's hard to call. There's no tracking service. But certainly we got a lot of publicity so we were hopeful. And we're pleased with the numbers so far."
As far as historical comparisons go, two notable unrrated documentaries that went on to find strong final grosses include 2003's "Capturing The Friedmans," which averaged $21,718 from 3 theaters in its debut, en route to a $3,119,113 final gross, and 2005's "The Aristocrats," which averaged a whopping $60,949 from 4 theaters and then went on to take in $6,377,461.
From exit polling, the film was "definitely recommended" by 82% of teenagers that saw the film, which is hopeful as the film expands. The Weinstein Company will broaden the film on April 13th, taking it to 50 markets and 125-150 theaters
"Our goal is to get out there as broad as we can," Lomis said.
"The Island President" (IDP/Samuel Goldwyn)
Another doc debut this weekend, Jon Shenk's take on Maldives' ex-President Mohamed Nasheed and his attempt to tackle climate change was released on 2 screens care of IDP/Samuel Goldwyn this weekend. The result was a $15,600 gross and a decent $7,800 per-theater-average. Since opening last Wednesday, the film has taken in $19,504.
The film -- which won the audience award for documentaries at last year's Toronto International Film Festival -- is being released following a surge of press after Nasheed was forced to leave office following a coup d'etat by loyalists to his predecessor, dictator Maumoon Abdul Gayoom For more on that, check out Indiewire's interview with director Shenk here.
"Turn Me On, Dammit" (New Yorker Films)
Also opening on 2 screens was Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's Norwegian import "Turn Me On, Dammit." The film took in $11,515 for a $5,758 per-theater-average.
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|The District wide Improvement Project and the Development of School Improvement Strategies by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band. Report to the Prince Albert Tribal Council, Education Division
|J. Timothy Goddard
|Outcomes of the District Wide School Improvement Program (DWIP), a plan to improve Native education in Saskatchewan, are described in this paper. Initiated by the Prince Albert Tribal Council (PATC) and the Lac La Ronge Indian Band (LLRIB), the school improvement model is a community-based developmental model designed to sensitize schools to their cultural environment. Needs assessment surveys were mailed to 550 parents, students, teachers, staff, band councillors, and school administrators, of whom 334 responded, a 61 percent response rate. Major concerns of constituents included teacher and program evaluation, lack of communication, the student dropout rate, the low status of Cree language and culture, lack of consistent student performance expectations, support for special needs students, insufficient funding, and lack of school/community collaboration. Based on the premise that the effective school system works with its environment, program goals include upholding the right to education, establishing local/Band governance, improving academic standards, and maintaining the cultural awareness of the Cree Nation. (35 references) (LMI)
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We all have emotional bondage with someone. With our parents, teachers, friends, etc. It's natural and good thing if we take it positively. But if we found difficulties in our life due to emotional bonding then we have to make right choices. Read this article to help you to overcome emotional bondage.
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1Learn to love the people who love you at present. Forget the people in the past, and thank them for hurting you that led you to love the people you have now.
2Don't be emotional. When we treat any problem or situation emotionally we loose half the battle (except some situations). We better use our brain not heart to take the decision.
3Sometimes we need to forget some people from our past because of one simple reason: they just don't belong in our future.
4Don't sacrifice. Be practical. When you sacrifice, you lose something you deserved.
5Find reasons. Find out why do you want to overcome emotional bondage. It may not be that bad to break it. You can go in your life with the people you have now. They may be your good wishers and they may want you with them forever. Talk to them.
6Make the right choice. There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama & people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on good. After all, life is too short to be anything but happy.
7Decide what you want. Decide what is important for you. If some people don't want you to progress and they are jealous of your progress then better you ignore them. More you progress in your life, more enemy or jealous people you may find around you. This is the time you should thank them to give you importance. But your focus should be on your goal.
8Don't try to impress people. Too many people buy things they don't need, with money they don't have, trying to impress people they don't even like. If someone likes you from heart then they won't make you to spend your time, money and energy to just show off.
9Trust in your relationship. If your relationship with your friends is true then no matter what you think they will be always with you forever. If it is not so then even if you try your best to maintain the relationship you won't get what you deserved out of it.
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The teardown of Apple's latest iPhone, the iPhone 5, by iFixit shows that three Southern California companies are shipping an awful lot of chips today as people scramble to get their hands on the device. The teardown by iFixit shows multiple chips from Skyworks, Qualcomm, and Broadcom in the iPhone 5, including a set of wireless power amplifiers from Skyworks, power management and modem chips from Qualcomm, and touchscreen controller from Broadcom. The combination of chips from the trio of Southern California firm is not a surprise; past teardowns of Apple devices show heavy use of components from all three in the iPad and prior iPhones. Qualcomm is in San Diego, Broadcom is in Irvine, and Skyworks is in Irvine and Newbury Park. The first day of available for the iPhone 5 in the U.S. is today.
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SAN ANTONIO — The San Antonio Spurs were planning to attack the lane whether Oklahoma City big man Serge Ibaka was playing or not. The fact that the Thunder's athletic defender was absent only made things easier for them.
Tim Duncan scored 27 points and San Antonio took advantage of Ibaka's absence to dominate the paint, beating Oklahoma City 122-105 on Monday night in the opener of the Western Conference finals.
Tony Parker did not appear limited by a hamstring injury, scoring 14 points and having 12 assists in 36 minutes.
"We always want to try to penetrate," Parker said. "We always want our ball movement, that's how we play — kick and pitch and stuff like that. You know, obviously it's a little bit better with (Ibaka) not being in the paint, but we're still going to try to penetrate and make stuff happen."
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The Thunder got its usual offensive outputs from All-Stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, who scored 28 and 25 points respectively. But Oklahoma City's remaining starters, Nick Collison, Thabo Sefolosha and Kendrick Perkins, combined to score five points with 13 rebounds and one assist.
But it was defensively were the Thunder struggled without Ibaka, who will miss the remainder of the postseason after suffering a calf injury in Oklahoma City's series clincher against the Los Angeles Clippers.
The Spurs had 66 points in the paint and shot 58 percent from the field. It was the highest shooting percentage allowed by the Thunder in the postseason since relocating from Seattle.
"We're a no-excuse team," Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said. "Serge is out. He's not coming back. We have to play better. If we expect to beat one of the best teams in basketball, and a very good offensive team, we have to play and we're not going to make an excuse.
"It's the defense, guys. We scored 105 points."
The Spurs fed Duncan early with Ibaka out, and the veteran responded by shooting 6 for 7 in scoring 12 points in the opening quarter.
Parker, who suffered a Grade 1 left hamstring strain in San Antonio's series clincher against Portland, drove the paint and dished to Duncan early before looking for his own shot midway through the quarter.
"That's part of our game plan," Duncan said. "He knew that they weren't going to let him shoot the ball like he did in the last series. They were going to try to take that away from him, so he knew he was going to have to be an assist man."
Parker scored all but two of his points in the first half as the Spurs beat the Thunder for the first time this season.
Even though San Antonio improved to 7-1 at home in the playoffs, winning its past five games by an average of 20.6 points, Monday's victory was not easy.
The Spurs also still remember what happened in the 2012 conference finals, when the Thunder won four straight to rally from an 0-2 deficit.
"We knew that we have to play our best game to compete against them, and I think it's great to have an appropriate fear," Parker said. "They played great against us in 2012, and we know that we have to be perfect. They're younger than us and more athletic, and so we have to be more perfect."
San Antonio played nearly perfectly offensively and still the Thunder rallied to take a 76-75 lead on Westbrook's 17-foot jumper with five minutes left in the third quarter.
"We don't believe in moral victories," Durant said. "Third quarter was obviously our best quarter, but we didn't close it out well. It's Game 1, we've got to make adjustments and be better for the next game. We're not taking no moral victories out of it."
Despite missing his first four shots, Westbrook continued to bull his way into the lane and it paid off as the game wore on.
Westbrook had 12 points in the third quarter, continually driving past Parker and the Spurs before they could settle in defensively.
With the exception of a pair of free throws by Derek Fisher, Westbrook and Durant scored all of Oklahoma City's points in a 23-22 third quarter.


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Home of the brave?
Culture | Americans must overcome being afraid of fear itself
Americans in the wake of the 9/11 attacks are experiencing something they are not used to: fear.
Sights of white powdery substances-from spilled flour to baby powder-have inspired panic across the country, overloading the emergency medical teams charged with sorting out the real anthrax attacks. Some people are refusing to open their mail. St. Louis Cardinals baseball players have asked mailroom personnel to stamp "return to sender" on all fan mail. Too risky.
Airline flights are nearly empty. Hotels are deserted, thanks to canceled travel plans. In the airports, security guards are confiscating everything from fingernail clippers to razor cartridges. In Wisconsin, someone actually burned his universally coveted and impossible-to-buy Green Bay Packers tickets. Not only was he afraid terrorists might strike Lambeau Field. He was also afraid of giving them to a friend or selling them to a stranger, because he was afraid of feeling guilty if they were killed.
People are scared, and for good reason. Never in America's recent history (except for a few inconsequential shots from a Japanese submarine) have we been attacked by an enemy power on our soil. The history of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East is a chronicle of invasions, but it has rarely happened here.
To make it worse, Americans realize that the danger to their lives is not through some invading military force, which our own defense forces could contend with. Rather, the dangers are coming-and people have died-in the course of just going about their everyday lives: going to work; taking a business trip; opening their mail.
As the name implies, a "terrorist" is someone who spreads terror. The goal is not just to kill people; it is to frighten everyone else. Spreading anthrax is effective, but white powder in an envelope that tests germ-free can also do the job. The 2,300 cases of suspicious mail or questionable substances investigated by the hazardous materials teams, in their white suits as all-covering as a Taliban woman's burqua, still qualify as acts of terrorism, even when they prove anthrax-free. Except for some accidental spills, most of them are proving to be hoaxes or practical jokes, from people who have the viciousness to think spreading fear is funny.
American culture used to have that luxury. We were so safe that we used fear as entertainment. Hollywood profited from movies that gave us a thrilling jolt of vicarious horror, as we sat in air-conditioned comfort munching our popcorn. Many Americans counted Halloween as their favorite holiday. We have enjoyed trying to scare ourselves, but the real thing-the fear that an airplane could crash into our workplace, that a terrorist could give us a fatal disease, that one of the customers in a crowded food court might have plastic explosives under his jacket-is not so pleasant.
In this war, since civilians are the targets and the ordinary workplace the battleground, it behooves us ordinary Americans to show some military-style courage.
This virtue, as moralists have pointed out throughout the centuries, is not the absence of fear. A child who has no fear of going off the high-dive does not have courage when he jumps into the swimming pool. It is no big deal for him. But a child who is afraid of the height and jumps off anyway is showing courage. Bravery involves doing what is right or accomplishing a mission despite fear, refusing to be controlled by that natural emotion, and being strong enough to master that fear.
And indeed, just as the casualties of this war have been ordinary Americans, so have the heroes of this war, who have exemplified a courage rivaling anything on conventional battlefields: the rescue workers charging into a collapsing building; the passengers over Pennsylvania who charged their hijackers, bringing the plane down rather than let it crash into another office building.
This is the spirit Americans need to cultivate now. And, indeed, when an unruly passenger (later found to be mentally ill) tried to break into the pilot's cabin during a flight to Chicago, the rest of the passengers rose up, wrestled him to the ground, and tied him up with one of those demonstration seat belts. The real advance in airplane security has come not from longer lines at the metal detector but from the new attitude on board planes.
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QAID RANGE, Djibouti — The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit's Light Armored Reconnaissance Platoon hit the Djibouti shore for live-fire weapons shoots and bilateral training with the French Army Jan. 28-Feb. 5.
It was the first time the platoon conducted a live-fire and maneuver exercise since before they deployed in November 2009.
The bulk of the training included fire team maneuvers from light armored vehicles, firing the LAVs M242 25 mm chain gun and vehicle maneuvers with French soldiers during one of their field exercises.
"They retained all their skills and performed above our expectations," said Sgt. Eric Laisure, a section leader with the platoon and Hesperia, Mich., native.
Light armored vehicle crewman and dismounted scouts worked together to assault through a fire and maneuver course and crewman and vehicle commanders had a chance to locate and destroy targets with the thundering 25mm Bushmaster.
Constant sand storms and the ever present moon dust slowed the training at times, but didn't affect the Marines' performance, said Gunnery Sgt. Matt Vickers, the LAR platoon sergeant and Decatur, Ill., native.
"They showed brilliance of the basics," Vickers said about the platoon's performance. "It's the best our guys have done."


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you know those days when your head is in the clouds… and no matter how hard you try to ground yourself, part of you just seems to be floating off in a dream? this is the perfect music for those days. the album pictured above is actually from 2007 but has some of my favorite of their songs on it. when i first heard "seeds of night" i listened to it about twenty times. check out some of the cave singers' songs below and pretend you're lying in a grassy field on a sunny day with the wind tickling your face or walking barefoot on the beach in a chilly air, the sand cool against your feet.
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The Pirates Can't Be Stopped
The following is a decent article about when "Ethan" hacked into the MediaDefender company, at the end of 2006…
From: Ty Heath [MediaDefender]
Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 7:02 p.m.
To: it
The 126.96.36.199 pm webserver has been compromised […]
Subject: pm webserver
As a side note, please do not ever use the old passwords on anything.
"The first time Ethan broke into MediaDefender, he had no idea what he had found. It was his Christmas break, and the high schooler was hunkered down in the basement office of his family's suburban home. The place was, as usual, a mess. Papers and electrical cords covered the floor and crowded the desk near his father's Macs and his own five-year-old Hewlett-Packard desktop. While his family slept, Ethan would take over the office, and soon enough he'd start taking over the computer networks of companies around the world. Exploiting a weakness in MediaDefender's firewall, he started poking around on the company's servers. He found folder after folder labeled with the names of some of the largest media companies on the planet: News Corp., Time Warner, Universal.
Since 2000, MediaDefender has served as the online guard dog of the entertainment world, protecting it against internet piracy. When Transformers was about to hit theaters in summer 2007, Paramount turned to the company to stop the film's spread online. Island Records counted on MediaDefender to protect Amy Winehouse's Back to Black album, as did NBC with 30 Rock. Activision asked MediaDefender to safeguard games like Guitar Hero; Sony, its music and films; and World Wrestling Entertainment, its pay-per-view steel-cage championships and pudding-wrestling matches.
MediaDefender's main stalking grounds are the destinations that help people find and download movies and music for free. Sites such as the Pirate Bay and networks like Lime Wire rely on peer-to-peer, or P2P, software, which allows users to connect with one another and easily share files. (See what movies, television shows, and music are most downloaded.) MediaDefender monitors this traffic and employs a handful of tricks to sabotage it, including planting booby-trapped versions of songs and films to frustrate downloaders. When the company's tactics work, someone trying to download a pirated copy of Spider-Man 3 might find the process interminable, or someone grabbing Knocked Up might discover it's nothing but static. Other MediaDefender programs interfere with the process pirates use to upload authentic copies. When Ethan hacked into the company, at the end of 2006, MediaDefender was finishing an exceptional year: Its revenue had more than doubled, to $15.8 million, and profit margins were hovering at about 50 percent."
OpenOffice 3 has PDF import, native Aqua UI
There's been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren't aware of what's in store.
We love OpenOffice.org, hereby referred to as OpenOffice like normal people do. We like the fact it does pretty much everything we need for free, we like the out-of-the box PDF and Flash support, its better-than-Word ability to work with large documents, and the joys of using a standard file format that's actually, you know, a standard.
But the Openpoffice.org website is a rather scary place. We managed to find this conference presentation lurking in the shadows before running away in fear of mid 90's web design. Follow the link below for more info.
This part made me laugh:
"Support for MS Office 2007 XML. Microsoft confusingly calls this 'Office Open XML'. We call it Stop Naming Your Unstable Undocumented Shitty Format To Sounds Like Ours Thanks."
Guiliani thinks you should have REAL ID to get online
Below is a video clip from the FL Republican debate voicing Rudy's position on a national ID card…
AlterNet: The End of Privacy
Honestly, I don't know how people still believe in a right to privacy over the web. The actual arteries of the net are based on land lines that are mostly owned and maintained by {gasp} Corporations! It's not like the wonderful feel good days when people dialed into their friendly neighborhood BBS to play LoRD. You can be traced, analyzed, and studied so the powers that be have a better idea how to control and manipulate you. Don't like it? Two options: 1) Don't use their internet or 2) learn to surf the web as a false identity and frequently click random crap just to flood their system with a junk profile.
Best advice? Accept the fate of having a big brother state. Don't bother trying to fight them on this. You'll only make them clamp down on you that much faster and that much harder. Any heres an excerpt from the article:
"Amid the controversy brewing in the Senate over Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) reform, the Bush administration appears to have changed its strategy and is devising a bold new plan that would strip away FISA protections in favor of a system of wholesale government monitoring of every American's Internet activities. Now the National Director of Intelligence is predicting a disastrous cyber-terrorist attack on the U.S. if this scheme isn't instituted.
It is no secret that the Bush administration has already been spying on the e-mail, voice-over-IP, and other Internet exchanges between American citizens since as early as and possibly earlier than September 11, 2001. The National Security Agency has set up shop in the hubs of major telecom corporations, notably AT&T, installing equipment that makes copies of the contents of all Internet traffic, routing it to a government database and then using natural language parsing technology to sift through and analyze the data using undisclosed search criteria. It has done this without judicial oversight and obviously without the consent of the millions of Americans under surveillance. Given any rational interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, its mass spying operation is illegal and unconstitutional.
500,000 private Myspace pictures leaked and available for download
Sorry for the typical and tredy "myspace pic" above. This is an article from Wired Magazine. It might be the largest "security breach" in awhile but what on earth would anyone do with 17gb of random Myspace teenagers?
A 17-gigabyte file purporting to contain more than half a million images lifted from private MySpace profiles has shown up on BitTorrent, potentially making it the biggest privacy breach yet on the top social networking site.
The creator of the file says he compiled the photos earlier this month using the MySpace security hole that Wired News reported on last week. That hole, still unacknowledged by the News Corporation-owned site, allowed voyeurs to peek inside the photo galleries of some MySpace users who had set their profiles to "private," despite MySpace's assurances that such images could only be seen by people on a user's friends' list.
"I think the greatest motivator was simply to prove that it could be done," file creator "DMaul" says in an e-mail interview. "I made it public that I was saving these images. However, I am certain there are mischievous individuals using these hacks for nefarious purposes."
New Hampshire Primary: Sham Chain of Custody
This is how the Government secures your ballots. WOW. This is a must see.
Animated PNG in Firefox 3
Firefox 3 has support for Animated PNG:
One of many new features added to Firefox 3 is the support of a new file format, the Animated PNG! Browsers have supported animated GIFs for more than a decade, but the GIF image format has a number of limitations and is overdue for replacement. The PNG image format is now widely accepted as a superior replacement for static GIF images, but for animated GIFs there has not yet been a clear successor. The new Animated PNG format (APNG) is a simple extension to PNG, making it superior for animations too.
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Linux Kernel 2.6.24 Released
The latest stable version of the Linux kernel 2.6.24 has just been released. Release notes below:
Date Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:19 -0800 (PST)
From Linus Torvalds
Subject Linux 2.6.24
The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for
the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of)
LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one.
Nothing earth-shattering happened since -rc8, although the new set of ACPI
blacklist entries and some network driver updates makes the diffstat show
that there was more than the random sprinkling of one-liners all over the
But most of it really is one-liners, and mostly not very exciting ones at
The appended shortlog is obviously just the changes from -rc8, if you want
the full ChangeLog (all 5.8MB of it) from 2.6.23 it's available in the
usual places.
Google to kill Domain Tasting
A confidential informant says Google will stop monetizing all domains if they are less then five days old. This potential new policy change by Google could stop all Domain Tasting in its tracks. The Add Grace Period (AGP) is a time period when registrars can delete a domain at no cost, but in this time frame a registrant could register millions of these temporary domains and place Google Adsense for Domains on them. The result is the ability to produce millions of temporary websites that literally generate millions of dollars in income per week for Google. It was disclosed in court that one partner that Google had was generating as much as $3 million dollars a month from the practice and that was after Google's revenue share. Oversee.net and other companies have been using this practice for years and it will have a direct impact on them. The gravy train of free money might be coming to a halt very fast. This policy change at Google should be announced to the channel partners soon and it will have a huge echoing impact on the Industry.
Quickly Switch Google Accounts with the Google Account Multi-Login
This is for the Firefox browser with Greasemonkey installed. Free Greasemonkey user script Google Account Multi-Login adds a simple drop-down menu to Google pages (including Gmail) for quick switching between your different user accounts. Just install the script, reload the page, and you can start adding your Google accounts to the drop-down. It's simple to use and it's a huge timesaver for anyone who actively uses different Google usernames and passwords. It's probably not the most secure place to put your passwords, but if that doesn't bother you, this script may come in very handy. The Google Account Multi-Login script is free, just requires Firefox with Greasemonkey.
Cops Can Search You… and Your Phone's Memory
Here's a frightening but real proposition: if you are caught breaking certain traffic laws, not only do police have the right to search you—they can go through all your electronic data as well—your text messages, call histories, browsing history, downloaded emails and photos. In a recent academic paper, South Texas Assistant Professor Adam Gershowitz explains that because many traffic violations are arrestable offenses, just as a cop could search your pockets for drugs, said cop can also search your pockets for a smartphone and go through all its contents. The same is true for any standard arrest, and given the amount of data in current smartphones, it's a scary proposition (even for law-abiding citizens like us).We'll give you the CliffsNotes version of Gershowitz's 30-page article in which he outlines the situation.
TREO 600 and 650 Owners: Possible Class Action Rebate
If you purchased a Treo 600 or a Treo 650 smartphone, you could be entitled to benefits under a class action settlement. A settlement of a class action lawsuit affects you if you purchased, in the United States, a new Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone for your own use and not for resale. The settlement will provide either: (a) a cash rebate to any United States resident who purchased a Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone, experienced two or more repairs or replacements (in lieu of repair) on that device, and purchases a new Palm smartphone within a defined time period; or (b) a right of repair for hardware defects, beyond the expiration of the warranty on your Treo 600 or Treo 650, even if you did not experience two or more repairs or replacements.
If you qualify, you may send in a claim form to ask for a rebate, or a repair form to seek a repair. You can also exclude yourself from the settlement, or object. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, San Jose Division, authorized this notice. The Court will have a hearing to consider whether to approve the settlement, so that the benefits may be paid.
Purchasers of a Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone. You're a "Class Member" if you are a United States resident who purchased in the United States a new Treo 600 or Treo 650 smartphone for your own use and not for resale.
The lawsuit claimed that the Treo 600 and Treo 650 smartphones had certain defects, failed at unacceptable rates, and that Palm made misrepresentations concerning the Treo 600 and Treo 650 smartphones. Palm, Inc. denies all allegations and has asserted many defenses. Palm is entering into this settlement to avoid burdensome and costly litigation. The settlement is not an admission of wrong-doing or an indication that any law was violated.
CIA Says Hackers Have Cut Power Grid
Several cities outside the U.S. have sustained attacks on utility systems and extortion demands.
Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
Speaking at a conference of security professionals on Wednesday, CIA analyst Tom Donahue disclosed the recently declassified attacks while offering few specifics on what actually went wrong.
Criminals have launched online attacks that disrupted power equipment in several regions outside of the U.S., he said, without identifying the countries affected. The goal of the attacks was extortion, he said.
"We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands," he said in a statement posted to the Web on Friday by the conference's organizers, the SANS Institute. "In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet."
4chan is trying to destroy SCIENTOLOGY
For the newbs who don't know about "anonymous": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxWgRY1I_SI
Myspace Custom Style Remover Greasemonkey Script
Greasemonkey script MySpace custom style remover does just what it says – remove the custom styles from MySpace pages, leaving every page with MySpace's default style.
Whether you love or hate MySpace, there's a good chance you've had to use it every now and then (maybe it's how all your friends plan their social outings or you just want to keep an eye on your kid's online activities). And if you've ever used MySpace, you've definitely been exposed to the CSS atrocities that some users employ on the site. I'm not one to discourage a little creative styling, but when you start worrying that a MySpace page might trigger a seizure, you know something has to be done.
The MySpace custom style remover script doesn't get rid of all styling on MySpace – it just returns everything to MySpace's less irritating (though still clunky) default style.
Playstation 3 Gets Another PRICE CUT January 28th
$299.99 USD for a Playstation 3 looks like a steal. Rumors are floating around that this is becoming reality, and before the end of January 2008. Is it possible?
We contacted some of our insiders to get the latest scoop on this rumor and see if it had any fact behind it. We were skeptical, after all the PS3 just received a price-cut in November.
The Playstation 3 IS in fact getting a price-cut. A new model, will retail at $299.99 USD, the announcement will be made January 28, 2008, and the new price will take effect Friday February 29, 2008. There are two main reasons as to why the Playstation 3 is getting this price-cut.
Reason 1: The playstation 3 production costs have decreased tremendously over the past couple of months. What used to cost $800, now cost less than $400.
Reason 2: Time Warner. In exchange for Time Warner's exclusitivity (and an end to the format war), Sony has promised to reduce the price of the Playstation 3. As many of you know the Playstation 3 is equipped with a blu-ray disk drive, and the more the Ps3 sells, the greater the chance of Blu-Ray's success.
HOWTO: Create a Custom Windows PE Build
I thought some people might benefit from a quick step by step guide to creating a Windows PE custom boot CD. This guide will get you as far as creating an ISO at the end, ready to be burnt with your CD burner software.
You will need a Windows XP SP2 CD, Windows PE and some hard disk space.
HOWTO: E-file your federal taxes for FREE
If you have an AGI of $54,000 or less you can e-file your taxes for free, and use a program such as TurboTax or H&R Block.
1. go to http://www.irs.gov
2. you must find the program you want to use and click to it from the IRS website. if you just type in Turbotax (for example) into Google, and get there that way, you will probably have to pay.
3. go through the steps
4. e-file your taxes for free
5. ???
6. profit!
In most cases, your state e-filing will cost money, unless you find a free alternative.


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Grey's Anatomy's Ellen Pompeo Considering Second Career as Airplane Pilot?
Ellen Pompeo may have signed on to play Meredith Grey on Grey's Anatomy for two more years, but just in case she decides to retire from acting after that, she's got a backup plan: Airplane pilot!
This week, Ellen shared a photo from the cockpit of a Virgin Airlines plane, where she took the pilot's seat. We're so jealous! Do you think they gave her those little golden wings? She didn't stay up there for long, though — her next Instagram post came from the cheap seats. Bummer. We were hoping she'd reenact our favorite scene from Bridesmaids!
"Decided to get my ass back where I belong," Ellen wrote along with the second pic.
Ellen's not the only member of the Grey's cast with wings — co-star Kevin McKidd (Owen Hunt) has been known to take a plane out for a casual spin… with the occasional mishap, of course.
We're glad to see Ellen's character's unlucky break with planes hasn't dampened her opinion of flying. When Shonda Rhimes isn't calling the shots, every day travel is a lot less eventful.
Would you fly Ellen Airlines? Hit the comments and let us know which members of the Grey's cast you'd want to see on your flight!
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I guess I'll take a note from the other's here and post my first show and a few others here as well.....grab a drink, this is going to be a long one......
My first show on guitar...
The 1998 Opelika High School Guitar Concert. I had 2 sets that night, one with a "frenemy" of sorts, and another with a guy whom I really despised....but somehow through the magic of performing that night, we finally gained some respect for each other for once.
The first set was Imagine by John Lennon...
Now people at that time, knew of me as this "weird Van-Halen obsessed kid" because I was studying my ass off on right-hand hammer-ons, whammy bar technique, and tapped harmonics, all during the oh so perfect (snicker) time of the late 1990's when guitar solos were outlawed. So of course, with this explained, everyone, at least I felt, was in absolute horror at the idea of me even so much as attempting to play something by John Lennon......boy were they wrong....
I pop up on stage for Imagine, no floyded wacked-out strat, no distortion pedal, keeping a calm on-stage demeanor, I noodle some light leads through the song like a master Clapton, no mistakes, and manage a rather nice (albeit generic) octave solo midway through.....okay....I survived the Lennon song, but how about the next set.....
Second set? Me playing Eruption/You Really Got Me
Just a minute before I go on, I had to break the lock on my guitar case because the Kramer's sleeping chambers were locked and I forgot her key.
Ok, I go grab my evil red Kramer hellabeast from it's wretched beat-up Alverez hardshell and plug into the oddball configuration of a BOSS HM-2 into a Fender Twin Reverb......and a nasty old Twin Reverb, missing knobs, and looking quite like an electrical hazard at that.
Anyway, I had rewired the guitar a bit the previous night and everything had seemed fine, but as soon as I set foot on stage and kicked off that opening A chord to eruption....I knew something was amiss....hardly any gain, hardly any sustain, I sounded more like Eddie Cochran than Edward Van-Halen....but people were cheering so I just kept on with it.
Now, I'm just about up to the hammer-on's towards the end and just as I kick into that -h12-p5-h8- sequence that ends it, my fist slams the pickguard at one point bringing the Kramer Focus 3000 out of it's cold-solder/short induced semi-coma, and now I've got the sound I've been desiring for the 2:00 of 2:47 of Eruption, cheering gets louder, then I hit that bar dive at the end, audience goes nuts, life on stage is gooood...
So I kick into You Really Got Me, goes off without a hitch.
We were recorded on tape and audio that night, the audio I have sounds like an old AM radio performance in a studio full of loud people.
OHS Concert #2 -1999
Considering the success from last year, all semi-comatose Kramer incidents not withstanding, I decided to up the ante.......
During prep for the concert the following events leading up to it happened....
1) I was in a nu-metal band, our singer and I were big Metallica fans, we decided we would do two Metallica songs that year
2) I just got one of my dream guitars, a Jag-Stang with EMG pickups (yes...THAT Jag-Stang with EMG Pickups) just a few months before, so I wanted to do an original solo.
3) I got my hands on a B.C. Rich Ironbird bass which got employed twice at the concert.
First off, we decided on Sad but True and Seek & Destroy for the Metallica set, during that time, I quit the band and took some time away from the drama going on there, but we still performed.
Second off, nobody wanted to play bass for the Dixie Chicks song (Cowboy Take Me Away), and in my wanton joy of being on stage, decided I'd do it.....with my new B.C. Rich Ironbird Bass ( hehehehehehehehe). Don't get me wrong, I don't like them at all, but hey, I got to play on it so it was still fun.
Third off, New Guitar = New Guitar solo. At the time, I was making up my own "eruptions" if you will. So I decided to make the Jag-Stang's first on-stage appearance blatant abuse from the Fender Dynamic Vibrato.
So first off was Cowboy Take Me away, which went nice and smooth, though those lights were a lot hotter than I remembered them being. But even now, I STILL get a laugh out of what all those country fans thought when some long-haired shredder appears on stage with a big, scary, pointy metal bass. Listening to the recordings, the Bass was the lead instrument - LOL. Mission Accomplished in my lil' 16 year old mind.
Next came the Metallica set. - Sad But True - My guitar solo - and Seek & Destroy...
Sad But True - we all thought we rocked this one at the time, but really, ALL of us forgot everything except the main riff and the chorus. The Ironbird was the Drop-D bass for the night. Right before the song, our bassist said "Man, I'm scared of this thing, like it's going to stab me or something".....he stood still most of the night with that thing on!
Guitar Solo (aka. Poontang Pie - a comment from a friend named that one, LOL) - So I walked back to the stage, put down my old basketcase Kramer, and picked up tada....Excalibur-freeking-Jag-Stang. I kicked off into my solo with an E5, and just started ripping into the most aggressive three minutes of the night.....I tortured that poor Leo designed whammy like it was a Floyd Rose.....it stayed in better tune than the Kramer did actually. The audience was going pretty crazy but they REALLY amped up when I started doing the right-hand hammer-ons, I almost could not hear myself when I hit the last stretch where I started doubling and tripling hammer-ons into chords. Headiest moment of the night.
Seek & Destroy - the song started off fine, but once we got to the Guitar solo, my lead vocalist decided to let out his so-called "Primal Screams".....but the great part, right at the front of the OPAC stage is a orchestra pit...and in the orchestra pit, were nothing but my peers, headbanging, one of them literally banging his head on the stage, girls on the shoulders of their metal-loving boyfriends, cheering. I have never seen anything like this before or since, it felt like a friggin pro gig at that point.....it is something I wish to experience again though.
But of course, being Alabama, and being as we were a bunch of "evil voo doo heathen hippies playing devil music" we were blown away by the guy I played Imagine with the previous year and some of his pals (including the guy who played rhythm guitar on Seek & Destroy, who is also an amazing guitarist) when they did Freebird. Man, you do Freebird down south, and it's all over for anyone else.
Anyway, the story draws to a close the day afterward. The next day, everyone is telling me how great the show went out in the courtyard in the morning, and about the time lunch time hits, I'm hit with the news that two old fogies that came to the concert had a fit and said that our singer was "flipping off the audience" and "showing gang symbols" and "showing the devil horns". Also, someone in the Orchestra pit got injured, and they had to start a school-wide campaign against using lighters.....also, next year's guitar concert was to be Acoustic only.....but that was NOT enough to stop little ol' me......
My last concert @ the OPAC - OHS 2001
By this point, I already had another band, called Lithium (I'll tell the crazy tales later)...
Because of this, I was not nearly so involved at our third show....that plus, due to our group being the Opelika equivalent of Godzilla rising from the paper mill up the street, now the concert was forcibly acoustic, no lighters were allowed (people held em' up during my guitar solo the previous year), and that meant, I had to find another way to put something cool into the set.....aha - Nothing Else Matters.
Then came the song "Wish" by Pearl Jam, another one of my friends wanted to do but, again, can't find someone to play one of the instruments - this time Bongos, so I decide to do that.
The big drama of the concert was that we had a family gathering the same bloody night, so I had to show up early in the night, play my set, and get the heck out.
Wishbone was fun - me spacing off for 3:45ish banging on the drums, went perfect and without a hitch.
Then I played "Nothing Else Matters", my first time on lead vocals, and to be honest, I really do HATE my voice, I mean HATE my singing voice. I fear singing more than plane crashes and thermonuclear war. But I manned up and got to the mic, and did not do half bad, or so they say.
All in all, I remember that night being rather anti-climatic on stage, I'm glad I only did two tracks that night, just not my cup o' tea to play acoustic. I jumped off stage, handed my friend his black Takamine Bruce Springsteen, and ran out of the venue to head to the family gathering....needless to say, that's another rough story, skinned and ripped up my knees in the mud sliding on them outside in the rain.
Skip ahead about 2 days, I had girls flocking to me to talk about the performance, I guess I did something right.
All in all, it was a good starting point for me playing music live with bands now. Wouldn't change it for anything. I'll tell some more stories later.
My Current Mains
- 1996 Fender Jag-Stang with EMG Pickups
- 1998 Fender Jaguar with Cool Rails
- 1982 Hondo Paul Dean II (Stock)
- 2010 "Fender" Jazzmaster (Home built)
- 2013 Squier VM Bass VI (stock)
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As I no longer working at Bristol every fortnightly, I can now finally focus on preparing for the holiday! Yay!
We went to Tesco today, We were a bit disappointed with their range of clothes but did buy two really shorts for myself and t-shirt for DH.
We even brought two shower gels just for the holiday! (Coconuts and raspberry)
We created a shopping list in time for this coming Saturday, hopefully we will be able to get everything we need then!


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career marks:
vs LHP (467 PA) - wRC+ of 129 (OPS .819)
vs RHP (1220 PA) - wRC+ of 96 (OPS .698)
why would oakland sit him against lefties when he hits them much better? they're usually ahead of the curve on these issues, so i'm sure that i'm missing something. a check of his minor league stats shows a slight favor to RHP platoon, but not much (.850 vs .743 OPS) and it's a sss.
Daric Barton will be the Athletics' regular first baseman against right-handed pitching.
John Jaso's concussion issues appear to be behind him, clearing the way for him to see the bulk of his playing time behind the plate. That opens up the designated hitter spot for Brandon Moss and first base for Barton. The 28-year-old offers a nice eye at the plate and a good glove at first but sports just a .223/.334/.298 batting line over the last three seasons. Mar 24 - 11:35 PM
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In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus tells the parable of the ten virgins. Five were wise and had spare oil to keep their lamps burning for the bridegroom, and five didn't have enough.
The true Christians are like the five wise virgins. They are always living close to God and are alive in their faith.
"The foolish ones said to the wise,'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out." Matthew 25:8 The worldly try to get their faith through Christians. They even try getting their prayers answered through them. It is through Jesus you get to God, not via a man. I can't mediate in that way.
What I can do is pray for some, but I can't be a substitute for Jesus. Nor should I be used by the ungodly so that they can get peace and faith at my expense. The worldly need to go to God directly. Nor can I be a scapegoat for the sins of the worldly. If sins are to be forgiven, they should be confessed directly to God and not sought through me. I never went to a cross for anyone. Jesus did.
The wise advised the foolish to go to the oil sellers, in case they didn't have enough oil to be ready for the bridegroom. In a similar way the worldly need to get their faith directly from God. Or perhaps fellowship with other Christians, and strive for God themselves.


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Cyclones Hit The Road To Battle West Virgnia
AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State wrestling team heads east to Morgantown, W. Va. to face West Virginia for the first time ever in Big 12 competition on the mat. Wrestling begins Saturday at 2 p.m. at the WVU Coliseum.
"There's definitely a lot of excitement surrounding the dual," head coach Kevin Jackson said. "Just having the opportunity to wrestle again is exciting enough for our guys. We have a chance to go out there and show all the hard work we've been putting in since our East Coast swing. We can't wait for the match, and we look forward to continuing our growth and maturity."
Who: Iowa State (4-3, 0-1 Big 12) vs. West Virgina (1-5, 0-2 Big 12)
Where: Morgantown, W. Va. - WVU Coliseum
When: Saturday, Jan. 26, 2 p.m. CST
TV: Root Sports (Tape Delay)
Webcast: WVUsports.com | Link
Live Blog: Members of the Iowa State athletics communications staff will be holding a live blog during the dual at Cyclones.com. Fans are encouraged to participate in the blog by asking questions.
Cyclone Notebook
- Iowa State is currently on a three-dual win streak, as they swept an East Coast road trip Jan. 11-Jan. 13 picking up three dual wins over Rutgers, Drexel and No. 20 Penn.
- Michael Moreno went 3-0 on the road trip to extend his team lead in wins to 17. Moreno, ranked No. 19 in the latest InterMat poll, won two of his three matches out east by way of major decision.
- Kyven Gadson cracked the top ten in the national rankings, as he is slotted at No. 9 at 197 pounds by InterMat. While out east, Gadson went 2-0, highlighted by a 3-1 sudden victory win over then No. 7 Micah Burak of Penn.
- Redshirt sophomore Tanner Weatherman cracked the rankings for the first time in his career as a Cyclone, as he is listed as the No. 20 174-pounder in the country by InterMat this week. Weatherman went 2-0 on the East Coast swing with a 9-7 overtime win over No. 12 Greg Zannetti of Rutgers and a pin (2:32) over Penn's Harrison Cook.
- True freshman John Meeks went 2-1 on the East Coast road trip Jan. 11 - Jan. 13. Meeks dropped a 7-6 decision to Vincent Dellefave of Rutgers, but he was able to bounce back on Sunday in Philadelphia, Pa. The Des Moines, Iowa native went 2-0 defeating Clayton Lutzow of Drexel 15-5 and Geoffrey Bostany of Penn 8-5. The win over Lutzow marked the first career dual win and first career bonus point win for the highly touted freshman in a Cyclone singlet.
Scouting West Virginia
- West Virginia is fresh off its first two Big 12 duals in school history. They were defeated 36-3 by Oklahoma State on Jan. 18 in Stillwater and 25-14 by Oklahoma on Jan. 20 in Norman.
- The Mountaineers have one wrestler ranked in the top-20 of the current national rankings. Nathan Pennesi, a junior from Latrobe, Pa., is ranked No. 14 nationally at 141 pounds by InterMat. Pennesi is a two-time NCAA qualifier and is 17-7 on the year.
- West Virgina's line-up is lead by two seniors, 125-pounder Shane Young and heavyweight Phil Mandzik. Young is 7-2 on the year, while Mandzik sports an 8-11 overall record.
- West Virgnia will face Rutgers on Friday night in Morgantown before facing the Cyclones Saturday. Iowa State defeated Rutgers 19-15 back on Jan. 11 in Piscataway, N.J.
Series Notes
- The dual marks the 12th meeting all-time between the two schools. Iowa State leads the all-time series 10-1. Iowa State's last trip to Morgantown was on Jan. 4, 2003. The dual was the Cyclones' lone loss in the series, as the Mountaineers were victorious 22-14.
- The last meeting between the two schools was on Nov. 18, 2007 in Binghamton, N.Y., which Iowa State won by a final tally of 24-9. Volunteer assistant coach Jon Reader wrestled in the dual, scoring a 19-1 technical fall win (5:10) over West Virginia's Donnie Jones at 165 pounds.


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Our Product Quality team is conducting a survey of all IBM Collaboration Solutions products, including Sametime, to determine where we stand when it comes to quality. The purpose of this survey is to gather feedback from customers and business partners on what areas of our product portfolio we should improve.
Id like to ask you all to please fill out the survey and to tell us as much as you can about Sametime deployability, enablement, reliability, performance, maintenance, ease of upgrade, serviceability, integration, and ease of use. If you also use any other of our sister products please take some time and tell us about them too.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to do this. I know filling out forms is not fun. I know I hate it when I get an email asking me to fill out a survey but, in this case, I can get away with it because I'm not spamming your inbox (ha!). But, to give you an incentive, please post a comment on this blog when you fill out the survey and I'll buy you a beer if you happen to be Lotusphere 2013, how's that?
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Seeking to sound a bit more realistic than it has in the past, the Prime Ministers Economic Advisory Council on Friday sharply reduced its GDP growth forecast for FY14 from 6.4% predicted in April to 5.3%. This is in sync with the Reserve Bank of Indias latest estimate of 5.5%, the 5-5.5% outlined in a recent article by Raghuram Rajan before he became the central bank governor. However, the councils estimate is still considerably higher than that of private forecasters like JPMorgan (4.1%), Standard Chartered (4.7%), CLSA (4.2%) and Nomura (4.2%). The reduced growth rate projected for this fiscal is still a shade higher than 5% achieved in 2012-13.
The council, slightly at variance with the finance ministrys assertion that the red line of budgeted fiscal deficit wont be breached, noted that the deficit in the first four months had amounted to 63% of the full-year target, which was now a challenge to meet. The council, headed by C Rangarajan, asked the government to compress discretionary spending and restructure subsidies in a growth-friendly manner to limit fiscal slippages.
Hoping that stability was returning to the foreign exchange market, Rangarajan said the rupee at the current level (it closed 63.48 against the dollar ion Friday) was well-corrected (finance minister P Chidambaram had said the Indian currency had overshot its value when it was ruling at 67-68 against the dollar). The council also predicted a drawdown of $9 billion from the countrys forex reserves owing to the huge portfolio outflows, not in conformity with Chidambarams claim that there would, like last year, be a small accretion to the reserves after fully funding the current account deficit.
Taking heart from the clearances being given to a number of big projects by the Cabinet Committee on Investment, the council said there was lead time before these resulted in economic activity or increased output and refrained from stating explicitly that these approvals would result in a pick-up in growth as early as in the second half of this fiscal. These projects, the council noted though, would set the ground for a strong revival in the next fiscal year.
Independent analysts, however, remained cautious, highlighting fall in private consumption growth to a decades low of 1.6% in the first quarter and the somewhat facile nature of the manufacturing rebound seen in the July Index of Industrial Production, driven as it was mostly by electrical equipment sector,


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Shutdown Over, Dayton To 'Do What I Can' On Jobs
ST. PAUL (AP) – Governor Mark Dayton starts a statewide jobs tour next week hoping to build a legacy as a jobs governor, with last month's government shutdown behind him.
The first-term Democrat will kick off the tour in Fergus Falls on Wednesday.
Dayton says he will make job creation his priority for the rest of his term, which runs through 2014. He says he will "go anywhere, call anybody, do what I can."
Mirroring President Barack Obama's recent emphasis on jobs, Dayton will host a series of regional meetings leading up to a statewide jobs summit in St. Paul.
More than 200,000 Minnesota residents are out of work.
The 20-day shutdown temporarily added 22,000 state employees to the jobless and caused the state's unemployment rate to jump to 7.2 percent in July.
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Sheik, Ruto and Darunia Announced for Hyrule Warriors - NewsJared Katz, posted on 24 July 2014 / 2,288 Views
With only three weeks left before Hyrule Warriors releases in Japan, Koei Tecmo have given us an Ocarina of Time-themed news update. They have announced information on three additional playable characters, three new stages, two new fighting styles for previously announced characters, and a new boss.
The first newcomer is Zelda's ninja alter ego, Sheik. She uses both knives and her Goddess Harp to defeat foes. The next is Ruto, who takes on her older form and fights by manipulating water to attack her enemies. And the final newcomer is the leader of the Gorons, Darunia. In the game he's equipped with a large hammer and also can roll over those in his way.
We've also learned about three new stages that come out of Ocarina of Time's Hyrule. These new stages are: Kokori Forrest, which includes the Great Deku Tree; Death Mountain; and Lake Hylia.
Like Zelda and Link who have two distinct play styles, Impa and Lana have been revealed to have more than one as well. Impa's second style has her using a naginata instead of her sword, and instead of water magic she uses fire. Lana's new playstyle has her losing her magical book for a deku stick. This exchange gives her the ability to summon various dekus to help defeat enemies.
The final piece of information gained from this news update is a new enemy boss, Gohma. This particular Gohma is the first boss of Ocarina of Time, found in the Great Deku Tree. For more information or images you can visit the official site for the game.
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You're riding down a busy, 50mph road, 6 lanes of traffic, center turn lane. At the county line, the designation of the right hand lane changes to "RIGHT TURN ONLY EXCEPT BUSES AND BICYCLES' you have miles yet to go on this busy arterial, and the 'right turn only except buses and bikes' continues as a classed lane past your destination or turnoff.
is riding in a lane classed for specific types of vehicles vehicular? or does a vehicular cyclist have to avoid riding in a right turn lane because it's not for thru traffic?


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The Orator wins big at New Zealand film awards
The Samoan New Zealand movie, The Orator, has dominated the inaugural Sorta Unofficial New Zealand Film Awards, taking away eight trophies - or "Moas" - from its 11 nominations.
The New Zealand Herald reports that The Orator won best film, while its writer-director Tusi Tamasese got the screenplay and directing prizes.
Its cast also took away best actor, actress and supporting actress Moas, and the film also won sound and costume design.
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6 November 1998
Source: Richard Lardner, Inside Washington Publishers
Inside the Pentagon, November 5, 1998, Vol. 14, No. 44
By Richard Lardner
Whomever President Clinton selects to succeed Air Force Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan as director of the National Security Agency will be faced with a number of immediate challenges, not the least of which is ensuring NSA has the proper mix of personnel to handle the super-secret agency's complex code-making and code-breaking duties, industry, congressional and administration officials said this week.
As with most problems, money -- lots of it -- looms as the answer to most of NSA's current dilemmas. Extra cash won't come easy, however, as other federal agencies are competing aggressively for a slice of the federal budget "surplus."
While NSA is a prime beneficiary of the $1.8 billion intelligence plus-up recently provided in the fiscal year 1999 supplemental spending bill, observers say that increase is merely a "stop-gap," not a long-term answer.
On top of personnel and funding questions, NSA's brain trust must convince a somewhat frustrated Congress the agency is heading in the right direction. While the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill is willing to boost the intelligence budget, including NSA's coffers, lawmakers said earlier this year they nonetheless believe major changes are needed in NSA's culture, budget and method of operations. Ultimately, Minihan's successor will have to be a remarkably creative manager and an accomplished politician -- a director able to lobby the White House and Capitol Hill for more funding while at the same time imposing the inventive management solutions needed to "right size" the workforce of the Ft Meade, MD-based agency.
"They need strong leadership, someone who's not willing to be marginalized," said a former NSA executive.
Mark Lowenthal, former staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, noted that signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information security -- NSA's two main responsibilities -- are not inexpensive endeavors. "Investment is going to be a key issue," said Lowenthal, who now runs OSS/USA, an open-source intelligence firm in Arlington, VA. "If you don't have it, you start to have to make nasty choices."
A senior House aide agreed, noting NSA requires a "huge infusion" of money just to overhaul its SIGINT capabilities. Even with help from Congress, the agency still has difficult choices to make: "That's sort of the problem the NSA manager has," he said. "When do you kill old programs to free up money to invest in new ones? With NSA, it's always a problem to give up what you're doing to invest in the future."
A Senate staffer noted that NSA has "too many insatiable customers and not enough resources to do the job." Of all the available intelligence products, SIGINT is generally considered the most useful. The agency recognizes that its SIGINT infrastructure is aging and has undertaken an effort, the Unified Cryptologic Architecture, to make the necessary improvements. But, he said, "there's this inherent tug of war between meeting daily demands and coming up with the money to invest in the capabilities that will make [the agency] effective 10 to 15 years from now," he said.
In a mid-August e-mail to agency employees, Minihan announced he would be retiring in March. In the Aug. 14 message, first detailed last week by The Washington Times and obtained separately by Inside the Pentagon, Minihan acknowledges NSA's funding demands and says during his remaining months he will "continue to advocate the investment our modernization demands."
Lt. Gen. Claudia Kennedy, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, is said to be a leading candidate for the NSA post, although some observers question whether the Army leadership would want to see her go to an agency where she would have more responsibility but a far lower profile. (NSA directors traditionally eschew the spotlight.) A woman with three stars is a rarity for any service and the Army very much wants to maximize Kennedy's public relations value, a congressional source said.
Army Maj. Gen. Donald Kerrick, an intelligence officer who is deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, is also thought to be a possible nominee.
Because Minihan has been at the NSA helm since February 1996, most observers don't expect an Air Force officer to be selected for the post. Navy candidates include Rear Adm. Lowell Jacoby, director of naval intelligence, and Rear Adm. Thomas Wilson, the Joint Staff's intelligence chief. Rear Adm. Larry Poe, director of the Naval Reserve Intelligence Command, is also well thought of on Capitol Hill and believed to be a contender.
These prospects notwithstanding, the list of serious nominees is fairly short, a situation some observers say is alarming considering the challenges ahead. Administration sources note Clinton is expected soon to select a replacement for Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen. Patrick Hughes, a move that would drain the NSA candidate pool even further.
Minihan's message underscores some of the challenges ahead for NSA. "Looking back on the past two and one-half years, we have accomplished much together," he wrote. "As is our tradition, those successes remain known only to a few. We have also experienced the continuation of the largest drawdown in our history. At the same time, we have been confronted with a tidal wave of new technologies and transnational threats which some believed threatened our very existence."
Working under strict hiring caps brought about by cuts in the defense budget, NSA has been struggling in recent years to overhaul its workforce so that the agency can keep pace with rapidly changing technologies and evolving threats. Programs like Soft Landing and Breakthrough were implemented to not only save money by outsourcing agency support functions, but to create personnel openings that could be filled by young computer scientists and engineers (Inside the Pentagon, Aug. 27, p3).
But with the private sector offering bigger salaries and better benefits, attracting the fresh talent the agency needs to stay ahead of the technology curve has proven to be a vexing problem. The House intelligence committee has taken initial steps to deal with the brain drain issue, calling on NSA to develop proposals for significantly boosting the pay of key technical personnel (ITP, Sept. 24, p2).
"[NSA] has a bunch of people nearing the end of their [30- and 40-year] careers and their skill sets are being outpaced by technology," said Lowenthal. "But they don't want to retire early. . . . The agency needs young people with new skill sets."
Efforts like Soft Landing, he added, are "helpful but not central. . . . A massive infusion of new blood is what [NSA] needs."
Agency observers question whether NSA has expended too much emotional and political capital fighting a losing battle against the liberalization of encryption export rules. Concerned U.S. enemies using sophisticated U.S. crypto products will be able to evade NSA's SIGINT systems, the agency has sought, with mixed results, to block the overseas sale of high-quality commercial encryption. But has that opposition come at a price?
"Actually, it is my impression that Gen. Minihan came to the agency determined -- wisely -- not to get sucked down the drain of crypto policy, and that he was successful for at least the first half of his tenure," said Stewart Baker, former general counsel at NSA. "Crypto policy is a terrible drain on the time of top management, but considering the stakes for the agency, Gen. Minihan has no choice but to devote as much time as it takes.
"All that said," Baker continued, "crypto policy is the wave of the past, and the agency needs to be thinking harder and organizing more effectively for future intelligence activities. These are bound to be riskier in every way, so top management has got to have its hands on the wheel," said Baker, now a partner with the Washington, DC-based law firm of Steptoe & Johnson.
Congress appears to agree. In its fiscal year 1999 intelligence authorization report, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence tore into the agency, demanding major changes in the way it operates. Failure to make the necessary adjustments, the committee threatened, could result in the agency actually getting fewer resources, not more.
"Most difficult of all, NSA must develop a new culture in which all team together on a new [cryptologic] architecture, rather than bubbling up disparate ideas and programs from across NSA and expending much of its energy on probable duplication," the committee stated. "This challenge cannot be minimized, because much of NSA's past strength has come from its localized creativity and quick reaction capability, which enabled it to rise when necessary to overcome the stultifying effect that the bureaucracy of such a large organization can have."
Despite the criticism, Lowenthal said if help is on the way for NSA it will come from Congress and not the administration, which he believes has not given the agency and other elements of the intelligence community adequate fiscal support. With the Republicans maintaining control of both the House and Senate in this week's mid-term elections, Lowenthal expects some of the funding problems to be fixed.
Still, NSA faces difficult choices. A congressional source used the analogy of an apple orchard to describe the agency's situation: The trees in the orchard may be quite old, he said, but they're still producing high-quality apples. That won't last for much longer, however. At what point does the farmer decide to cut the old trees down to make room for new trees, saplings that won't produce fruit for a number of years?
"NSA is in desperate need of a good manager," he said.
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