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Angelina Jolie's Gun Charm: Kid Friendly or Are You Kidding?
Angelina Jolie's played a gun-toting woman on screen and is a weapon-wearing mama off camera. For a recent Entertainment Weekly interview and photo shoot, the stunning soon-to-be mother of six wore a gun charm necklace that her eldest son, Maddox designed. She said:
''Mad, our 6-year-old, draws lots of war scenarios,'' she explains. ''He's all into war and guns. So for Mother's Day he drew a machine gun, and Brad had it made into a necklace, which is really sweet. It's really cute. I think it's really good!''
While there's nothing better than a homemade gift for mom, is jewelry in the likeness of a fully automatic firearm taking the notion too far?


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The U.S. military has made clear that any future robot weapons systems will always need manual authorisation before opening fire on human targets.
The Department of Defense issued a new policy directive saying that any semi-autonomous weapons systems will be designed so they need human authorisation to open fire.
The promise comes after a Human Rights Watch report called for an international ban on 'killer robots', which the group warned could be deployed within 20 years.
Soon after that report was published, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter signed a series of instructions 'to minimise failures that could lead to unintended engagements or to loss of control' of armed robots.
Policy directive 3000.09 [2] says: 'Semi-autonomous weapon systems that are onboard or integrated with unmanned platforms must be designed such that, in the event of degraded or lost communications, the system does not autonomously select and engage individual targets or specific target groups that have not been previously selected by an authorised human operator.'

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CNBC-TV18 has launched a new premium business news service, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD, focused on the needs of India's rapidly expanding investor and financial services community. Available in addition to the existing CNBC-TV18 channel, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD will be broadcast on DTH platforms in HD quality, in effect making CNBC-TV18 the first business news channel to foray into the HD space.
Fusing the power of broadcast news with the essence of the financial data terminal, CNBC-TV18 Prime HD will operate on a seamless and unique '2 window' screen architecture, that will offer rich and in-depth live video and data content to viewers simultaneously.
Commenting on this service, Anil Uniyal, CEO, CNBC-TV18 & CNBC Awaaz, said, "CNBC-TV18 Prime HD is a product of key fundamental trends already evident in India. A rapid evolution of financial services, a rise in globalised mindsets and a growing investing culture coupled with the imminent growth in broadcast digitisation and demand for premium content. This has allowed us to deliver a targeted service for the discerning business viewers, giving them the best in the markets with state of the art production values. With this new service in our portfolio, we hope to offer viewers almost a financial terminal like access on TV and a much wider bouquet of global programming, never accessed by Indian investors before."
Programmed live from the CNBC-TV18's national headquarters in Mumbai, the Prime HD service will harness the state of the art broadcast infrastructure of CNBC-TV18 and will be led by a dedicated team of editors and production personnel. This service will have real time capability to dynamically adjust information in the 'Data' window, basis the news flows of the day.
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Need more protein
My hair has been driving me crazy! It's been limp and drabby. I thought I needed a sulphate wash so I did one, but it made little difference. I've been giving myself 10 minute protein treatments twice a week, but I guess that wasn't enough. Finally last night I did a 40 minute treatment and my hair was awesome. I also scrunched some in as my leave in and let air dry with no product and I was so happy with my hair! So, I guess I just need more protein. If anyone could recommend a light leave in with protein, and a heavier protein treatment (clearly joico isn't enough) I would totally appreciate it.
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My hair can't get enough protein. A few of my favorites:
Rinse outs (can also use as LI)- ION Effective Care (at Sally's), Regis Olive Oil (Regis salons, including the ones in Walmart)
Leave-ins: Cure Care (at Sally's)
Protein Treatment: I use IAGirl's gelatin PT, with an extra protein boost (3 packets of gelatin instead of 1, 3 different high protein conditioners, plus the other regular ingredients, either under heat for 40 minutes or blow drier method). Another option is Aphogee 2 step- it's the same type of protein as the gelatin treatment, minus the mixing, but it does have a pretty strong odor, which is why many of us started using gelatin instead.
Thanks! I just went and picked up the cure care and ion effective care. I'll have to get the gelatin when I go grocery shopping tomorrow. Thank you!!
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Rachel Zoe and Rodger Berman took their son Skyler and the nanny out to lunch at Hugo's Restaurant in West Hollywood, Calif. on Saturday (January 26).
Skyler wore jeans, a white cardigan and had a scarf on just like dad.
Besides starting a new season of The Rachel Zoe Project for Bravo – Zoe reportedly hopes NBC will do a show based on her life.
She told Elle, "I sold the script to NBC, but I don't know what happens after that. I think there's still a lot that needs to be done. We're going to do a pilot and all of that. It's going to take place when I was much younger and first started out. So it would need to be someone who has complete enthusiasm, is slightly eccentric, and is passionate. And [she should be] a bit starry eyed about fashion. So anyone who can portray that well, is hired."


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Trek Alumni In The 'Zone'By Caillan
July 27, 2002 - 5:05 PM
UPN's revival of the cult classic The Twilight Zone is a Star Trek family reunion of sorts, with Ira Steven Behr, Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker) and Jason Alexander (Kurros) all involved.
Behr, who worked on the now-cancelled Bob Patterson and Dark Angel after the end of Deep Space Nine, will serve as executive producer. In an interview with the Sci-Fi Wire, Behr outlined the vision he and fellow executive producer Pen Densham are working towards.
"I think we're going to tell simple stories with an ironic twist," he said of the anthology series, based on the 1960s original created by Rod Serling. "And we're going to tell stories that will interest people who are watching television today. [...] We're functioning with an audience that grew up on video games and George Lucas [and] Steven Spielberg. [...] So we want to tell the same type of stories that Serling told. [But] we obviously have to tell them in a slightly different way."
'Star Trek: First Contact' and 'Clockstoppers' director Frakes helmed the pilot episode, which Densham described as a major coup for the series. "We started off with Jonathan Frakes directing the pilot, which I think is a real achievement," he said.
Frakes was happy to return the compliment while speaking to Melissa J. Perenson at Sci-Fi Weekly. "It was great," he said of his experience on the set. "The script by Pen Densham was right in the tone of the original Rod Serling shows. And Jeremy Piven is the star of the pilot episode; he's a wonderful, interesting, wild actor. The new Rod Serling, as you might know, is Forest Whitaker. So it's a nice team to be involved with."
The veteran director used all the skills at his disposal to make The Twlight Zone pilot a really cutting-edge piece of television. "I think we brought it into the 21st century in terms of the shooting style, certainly, and the technology and the visual effects. Yet we honor the cautionary tales and morality plays that the episodes often are. But the subject, by nature of the fact that it's 40 years later, will be more contemporary. I think it honors the original show in a very good way, and it moves us into this millennium."
Completing the trio of Trek alumni is Jason Alexander, host of 1999's 'Ultimate Trek' special and Kurros in Voyager's 'Think Tank.' The former Seinfeld star will be making a guest appearance in an episode, in which he will play "one of the most legendary and dreaded characters ever conceived," according to an article at Zap2it. The title and air date of the episode have yet to be announced.
The Twlight Zone premieres September 18 on UPN at 9:00pm Eastern Time, following Enterprise. The full interview with Behr and Densham can be found here, while the Frakes article is available at Sci-Fi Weekly. Thanks to 'TheSliders' for some of this!
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Scott Marks 3 p.m., Sept. 20
Director David Gordon Green is currently out promoting Joe, a rich, atmospheric comedy noir starring Nicolas Cage as a backwoods professional tree-poisoner and Tye Sheridan as the teenage boy in need of protection from a mean-drunk father.
Words flew from Green's mouth at such a rapid rate that 20 minutes on the phone with him yield almost twice the amount of material as would an average interview. Here is our talk in its wordy entirety.
Scott Marks: Do you remember the first time you watched a film and it dawned on you that it was made with intent and purpose, not actors and actresses making up the dialogue as they went along?
David Gordon Green: That's a really good question. I grew up in Dallas and didn't really know that much about the movie industry other than maybe a behind the scenes making of Return of the Jedi TV special. A pivotal movie in my experience was Born on the Fourth of July. I was an extra in it. I was 12-years-old and I got to skip school. If you watch the title sequence to that movie there's a moment where I look at the camera and wiggle my eyebrows.
SM: I'll have to go back and check.
DGG: You have to look carefully. In the beginning there's a baseball game with the young Ron Kovic, and his girlfriend runs up and cheers him on. That's me sitting over her left shoulder right behind the backstop. And my dad is the score keeper of the baseball game wearing a little Styrofoam hat. I look at that as the moment where I realized that's what I need to be doing.
SM: What an incredible memory for you.
DGG: Yeah. Being 12-years-old and watching Oliver Stone and (cinematographer) Robert Richardson. Yeah, it was pretty pivotal for me. I always wanted to do something in movies but that's when it hit me that this is how it goes together. Seeing Robert Richardson up on a crane swinging around with his camera… it was the circus I wanted to be a part of.
SM: Your career has followed one of the wildest and oddest trajectories of just about any other director currently at work. The last thing one expected from the director of George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow, and my favorite of the bunch, Snow Angels, was a pair of mainstream pot comedies. What brought about the sudden change?
DGG (Laughing): I'm glad to hear that Snow Angels was your favorite, because it was a difficult movie to make. It was a hard movie emotionally to sit with me. It took me to a really dark headspace. I was really proud of the movie. When it didn't perform at all, I was really frustrated because I put my heart and soul into the movie. Then I thought, why not see what I have to offer the world in the opposite direction. What if I did something that was actually fun? I call my agent and said let's get me on a big studio comedy. I went and pitched to shoot that Adam Sandler movie, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. I really wanted to get that movie and it didn't work out.
SM: Oh my God, did you luck out.
DGG: You say that, but Alexander Payne had done a draft of that script that was really awesome. I said, "I could do this movie and it would be as funny as crap." And I just got this bug up my ass to make a comedy. Danny McBride had met Judd (Apatow) and Seth (Rogen) after The Foot Fist Way came out and they began talking to him about Pineapple Express. They asked who he thought should make it and Danny put in a good word for me.
It was weird to have this very aggressive, hard-driven dream to make a broad comedy. That was my agenda after making this melancholy movie. It was refreshing and it re-inspired me in an industry that I've always loved. I realized there was a way to balance all of it, that I can go from a dark indie drama to a big mainstream comedy or HBO series. There is no gatekeeper that can tell me I can't. It's an industry that's filled with many incredible passports to the world, so why not take advantage of that?
SM: With Joe you've managed to pull together your Southern Gothic tradition and flair for dark comedy. All roads led to this film for you. This is a very funny movie.
DGG: We're doing an On Demand release at the same time as the theatrical release and the humor of the movie is so evident with the theatrical experience that I worry a little bit about it being lost when people watch it alone on TV. They won't have that person to look at and share that tension-breaker with. We really wanted to make a tense movie, but have some levity as well.
SM: I could be all alone in a room watching the film for the first time and the scene when they skin the deer in the living room would still cause me to laugh out loud. Where did you find these people?
DGG (Laughing): The woman in that scene who makes me laugh so much was played an interview subject in the movie Bernie. I just finished another movie with Kay (Epperson) and she's incredible. A lot of the other actors we just met everywhere from a bus stop to the day labor center to a barbecue restaurant in Austin, Texas that one of the guys owns. They were people who didn't know they were actors and we wanted to give a good exhibition of their capabilities.
SM: While I'm watching the film, and long before I did my research and discovered your love of John Boorman's Deliverance, "Dueling Banjos" is playing in my head.
DGG: It's one of my favorite movies. I have the entire film committed to memory, which is kind of disturbing. On my office wall I have three framed movie posters: Deliverance, Medium Cool, and Badlands. Depending on my frame of mind at the moment, that's the poster I stare at while I write.


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Apparently the NFL commissioner has given importance to personal conduct policies his entire life.
This week's Time magazine features a picture of Roger Goodell on the cover, promoting a story on the commissioner that details his life and his supposed commitment to making the NFL safer for players.
Throughout his tenure as commissioner, Goodell has done much to cultivate NFL's "No Fun League" moniker, enforcing everything from new rules on hitting to codes on personal conduct off the field. It's led many to feel like Goodell is more interested in micromanaging the sport than dealing with some of its larger problems.
Well, apparently there's a precedent for Goodell's behavior. It's not uncommon for high school football teams to sign a pledge stating that they will abstain from some sorts of negative behavior — usually drinking is included, among other indiscretions. However, signing such pledges is generally viewed by players as a necessarily evil that's not actually taken seriously — except to Goodell.
"Even in high school, Goodell enforced a personal-conduct policy. Bronxville High School required athletes to sign a pledge: No drinking or troublemaking, or they'd be booted off the team. The other players knew Goodell would rat them out for misbehaving. "They didn't like to see me come to a party," says Goodell. "I took that pledge seriously."'
So, effectively, Goodell would rat out his teammates for enjoying themselves because he took a pledge seriously. We'd be surprised but, quite frankly, this seems right in line with exactly how we'd imagine Goodell during his formative years.
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London – England nervously inched their way to 131/4 chasing a victory target of 191 at lunch on the final day of the first Test against West Indies at Lord's on Monday.
After resuming on 10/2, the hosts lost Jonathan Trott for 13 and Kevin Pietersen for the same score before Alastair Cook and Ian Bell steadied the ship with an unbroken fifth-wicket partnership of 74.
Cook was unbeaten on 53 at the interval and Bell was on 34.
Trott became Kemar Roach's third victim of the innings when he nicked a rapid seaming delivery to Darren Sammy at slip and Pietersen edged a catch to wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin trying to pull a short ball from Shannon Gabriel.
That left England stuttering on 57/4r and West Indies scenting an unlikely victory against the world's top-ranked team.
The touring side have won only one of their last 18 Tests in England and trailed the hosts by 155 runs on first innings but a battling 345 second time round kept them in the match.
Cook and Bell showed great composure in a tense atmosphere at a chilly Lord's, picking up easy singles and hitting bad balls to the boundary to keep England on course for victory.
Cook reached his fifty just before lunch with a late cut for four off spinner Marlon Samuels, the left-hander reaching the milestone off 78 balls having hit eight boundaries. – Reuters


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No insurance-need to cancel. Now what?
I recall when we booked the trip my wife asked about insurance and I said If we have to cancel it would have to be something serious so I am not going to worry about it.
Well now I am 40 days out and $3300 in and my wife is on her second week in the hospital due to unforeseen heart problems. The good news is, we have gone from talking about dying to We are optimistic she could make a full recovery in time. but it is doubtful that in time is within the next 39 days.
So I called Travelocity and they basically said I was SOL. I could either leave her or I could let them keep half and no one goes.
So I called Carnival, they gave me a fax number and told me to fax in my story and someone would make a judgment call on it. So my question are, has anyone done this-am I wasting my time? I really would be OK with a voucher for a later date if they couldnt do a full refund but for now I just dont see that we will be able to make the trip.
Any advice?
So sorry to hear of this situation. Firstly, I hope your wife makes a full recovery. It's hard to say if you'd be wasting your time. I have heard of them making exceptions for extenuating circumstances on occasion, so I would give it a try. Make sure to include a Dr.'s note with the communication. Best of luck with this.
Sorry to hear about your wife's heart problems, but I'm really happy that her situation isn't as bleak as first thought. That's the most important thing, which I'm sure you're keeping in mind.
It's never a waste of time to try to plead your case, and perhaps you'll get a sympathetic supervisor. But since the whole point of insurance is to protect your investment in case of unforeseen medical emergencies, I wouldn't be too surprised if they don't do as much as you'd like. It's possible they'll transfer some of your money to a future sailing, but it's certainly not something they do often. And the closer you get to sailing, the more money they keep, until the money becomes completely non-refundable. Depending on the ship and sailing, this could be 15 days prior to sailing or more.
Please keep us posted and let us know how your wife is doing, and whether Carnival is willing to do anything.
Sorry to hear about your wife's health.
Like Sandy stated, it can't hurt to at least try to fax something to Carnival. However, like Dwayne stated, a doctor's note might help as well. It would be ideal if the doctor's note was written on either a letterhead, or prescription blank, so Carnival can verify that if you get a sympathetic supervisor.
I might have this wrong but if you booked early saver I think you can change to another date for a small fee.... couse like I said I might be wrong
OldNSalty, I am so sorry to hear about your wife's condition, but am VERY glad to hear that she's improving. I agree, it's worth a try, but if they don't come through for you, please know that it's not because they're out to get you. I pray that they'll work with you. Please, remember, insurance is always the best thing to have. You never know when you'll need it. (No, I'm not an insurance agent:) ). We just went through a huge outbreak of tornadoes in our area, totally unforseen. There are people with homes destroyed that didn't have insurance. It's just tragic.
I'm pulling for you!
If this would have been out side of penalty, it would be just a case of canceling the cruise with a full refund of monies paid if not Early Saver.
If things don't work out, they could possibly sell the cruise if it is not an Early Saver rate booking. I think the name change fee is $50 per person, though I am not certain.
Following Penny's lead, I will disclose that I do not work for Carnival. I just stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night. :)
It's also possible Carnival will offer you to change the cruise date (for a change fee) You will probably have to agree to use the changed cruise in the next year or something but its better than being out the money.
I won't harp on the insurance thing. Like you said.. you had every intention on going on the cruise so you didn't think you needed it.
I wish her a quick recovery!
I am sorry about your wife I can only hope she gets better, I almost had the same problem last year because of a last minute problem At that time I had the idea: "that maybe you can call Carnival and change your booking so another family member can go with you like your son, a good friend with all the documents needed..."
I like to make a note just for people outside USA,
I am from Puerto Rico and so far the insurance companies that I have call, do not insurance my trip because they don't include my island in their sevices even carnival don't do it, I have already pass my due date and so for me, I have to go cruising hoping nothing happens and is the same case with the carnival credit card you can get nautical miles but it does not work on Puerto Rico.
Just a friendly recomendation:
I consider that Carnival should look this problem because I travel every year on their cruises and I had enjoy each and everyone of them, but I cannot use their nautical miles or cruise insurance, and believe me, I had tried on each one of my cruise and the answer everytime is the same...
Just wanted to update everyone.
My wife recovered enough to make the trip so I can't say what Carnival would have done. It was a challenge at times as she isn't at 100% yet but probably no worse then some senior cruisers have it. It was almost full time work for me caring for her and our 2 children but well worth it for them.
Just a note for those traveling with medical equipment. My wife is still using a machine at night that generates O2 from the air to help her breath-it is about the size of a carry-on. We either red on Carnivals web-site or were told by their agent that we would have to carry this item o ourselves. We did, but when we reached the scanners we were told it had to be checked so the dogs could sniff it. I am not sure what the correct procedure is.
Any way, I'll post more. I have some other questions.
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Before I watched the pilot episode, "Person of Interest'' was a show of interest. This is the series that
What's more, "Person of Interest'' has the potential to be charged with post-9/11 politics and paranoia. The idea is that Emerson's software billionaire, Finch, created a pattern-recognition system after 9/11 called "the machine,'' which collects enough data off cellphones and street cameras to predict crimes. Now he's not using the machine to find terrorists; he's after everyday criminals. His crazy-googly eyes? They're watching you, tracking any unacceptable inclinations you might have. "Person of Interest'' shares juicy conceptual similarities to Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report,'' which was based on Philip K. Dick, except there's no sci-fi veneer. Our private information is really out there right now - our likes, dislikes, images, locations - and ready to be used and misused.
But the resulting show, which premieres tonight at 9 on Channel 4, is a real disappointment. It's a saggy, numbed-out crime drama, with a pair of leads - Emerson and Jim Caviezel - whose quasi-mystical affect fails to pull you into their characters. This isn't a nexus of TV talent and cultural suspicion so much as a turgid spin on the old-school procedural, with rote crimes-of-the-week, the familiar streets of New York City, and, of course, a pair of crazy-googly eyes.
Caviezel plays a former CIA operative named Reese who becomes Finch's go-to worker bee. Like Charlie on "Charlie's Angels,'' Finch gives Reese his weekly assignment, which includes the name of a person involved in an upcoming violent crime, but not the exact nature of the crime. The person of interest might be the perp or the victim; it's up to Reese to find out. So Reese insinuates himself into the life of the person - tonight, it's a prosecutor played by Natalie Zea from "Justified'' - and he uses his government-bred skills to piece together the puzzle. When we meet Reese, he is a despairing street person wracked with guilt after failing to prevent the murder of a loved one. Finch is trying to be his savior and reignite his passion for justice.
Emerson is, essentially, playing Ben Linus all over again, with a series of neurotic, existential-crisis facial expressions, halting line delivery, and I-know-more-than-you attitude. He's fine, if one-dimensional. Caviezel, best known for playing Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ,'' is not fine. His acting is far too glum and arrogant to hold the show together. He talks in arch, "Dirty Harry'' whispers, but he has no charisma. It's a frustratingly interior performance. I couldn't decide whether he hadn't found his character yet, or whether he'd found his character but just wasn't going to share him with us. He's a cipher. As "Person of Interest'' leans heavily on Caviezel and Emerson and their conversations about the crime at hand, it seems to sink into a storytelling abyss.
Taraji P. Henson is also in the cast, as a cop who's watching Reese, and she may help fill the void created by Caviezel and Emerson. In the pilot, she's peripheral, but perhaps she'll become the insider member of Finch's team. The show desperately needs some electricity, and maybe she can bring it. Right now, though, instead of the provocative
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- Containing the Crisis: A History of Mass Incarceration and Rebellion in the RustbeltThe post Containing the Crisis: A History of Mass Incarceration and Rebellion in the Rustbelt appeared first on It's Going Down. Written by the Rustbelt Abolition Research Collective (a project of MAPS: Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity). When you've finished reading this text, please consider printing more copies and hosting a reading group in […]
- Over 100 Days on Hunger Strike: Urgent Call for Solidarity with Mapuche Political PrisonersThe post Over 100 Days on Hunger Strike: Urgent Call for Solidarity with Mapuche Political Prisoners appeared first on It's Going Down. Urgent Call for National and International Solidarity in Support of the 107+ Day Mapuche Political Prisoner Hunger Strike Thursday, September 21st, 2017 Since July 7th, 2017, four Mapuche Political Prisoners have mainta […]
- From Pitt to Georgia Tech: Cops Off Campus!The post From Pitt to Georgia Tech: Cops Off Campus! appeared first on It's Going Down. On Wednesday morning, we dropped two banners at the University of Pittsburgh. They read, "From Pitt to Georgia Tech: Disarm the Police, Arm Your Desire" and "Solidarity with St. Louis and Atlanta: Fuck the Police." The first was hung from student dorms, the second fr […]
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- Francia: Solidaridad Incendiaria / Reivindicación de Ataque Incendiario Contra la Gendarmería de Grenoble[Traducido por Sin Banderas Ni Fronteras desde Insurrection News] 21.09.17: Este jueves a las tres de la mañana, el segundo día del juicio por el coche quemado. Entramos en el cuartel de gendarmería de Vigny-Musset. Se quemaron 6 camionetas de … Continue reading →
- Sydney, Australia: Report-Back from the 'Straight Lives Matter' Counter-Demo23.09.17: We had many more people, we sang and we danced and we laughed and we loved but most of all we told the fascists to get the fuck out. We did not let them anywhere near the Queer holocaust … Continue reading →
- Argentina / Chile: Por El Companero Anarquista Santiago MaldonadoPOR EL COMPAÑERO ANARQUISTA SANTIAGO MALDONADO ¡HAGAMOS DESAPARECER A LA POLICÍA Y AL ESTADO! Este 01 septiembre se cumplió ya un mes desde la detención y desaparición del compañero anarquista Maldonado, a manos de la policía de la Gendarmería Nacional … Continue reading →
- Prague, Czech Republic: Update on Repression Case 'Fenix'-Trial (Eng/Esp)UPDATE: All the accused in "Fenix 1" are found innocent on all points. The verdict is inactive due to the appeal of the state attorney but all the custodies and so on are taken down and as a first step this … Continue reading →
- Chile: Urgent Call for National & International Solidarity with the 107+ Day Mapuche Political Prisoner Hunger StrikeThursday, September 21st, 2017 Since July 7th, 2017, four Mapuche Political Prisoners have maintained a hunger strike that has now lasted upwards of over 107 days. They have been held in pre-trial custody for over a year, under what has … Continue reading →
- Francia: Solidaridad Incendiaria / Reivindicación de Ataque Incendiario Contra la Gendarmería de Grenoble
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- Support the Bloomington ABC Anarchist Prisoner War Fund September 19, 2017Donate here: https://www.fundedjustice.com/abcbloomington Since October 2015, Bloomington Anarchist Black Cross has been providing consistent monthly funds to anarchist prisoners throughout the United States via our Anarchist Prisoner War Fund. We are now asking for help keeping this project going strong into the future. We have specifically chosen comrades […]
- [Portugal] Means and purposes different, no enemies in common September 19, 2017With regard to the guerrillas in Kurdistan and its propaganda as well as the calls for an anti-fascist struggle in common between leftists and anarchists, it is necessary to make clear the distinction between anarchists and leftists: We are libertarians, they are authoritarian. We are anti-statists, they are in favor of the state (evidently theirs); [...]
- [September 11, Chile] No one is forgotten, nothing is settled, memory to the f@llen September 17, 2017Eve of 11 September. We threw pamphlets and put a banner – to steps away from where our library project works – where could read: " NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN – NOTHING IS SETTLED – MEMORY TO THE F@LLEN" From somewhere in the Chilean territory Anti-authoritarian Library Libertad Winter, 2017 In Spanish l [...]
- G20. Updates on trial against Riccardo September 15, 2017received 9/15/17 The date of the hearing against Riccardo, an anarchist charged with criminal offences relating to riot days against G20 in Hamburg in July, is set. It will be held on 5 October at the Court of Hamburg. We call on everyone to take part in solidarity presence, organised for that day, [...]
- [Argentina] Destroy Sergeant(ina) September 12, 2017Headquarters of the GEO (special group of anti terrorist operations) in Argentina. received 08/09/17 Destroy Sergeantina!!! Those are not just words: we reached the "level" of direct action and they lie about us because they fear us. Not everything that happens hits the system's newspapers! Even ours! And everything runs really fast, [...]
- Support the Bloomington ABC Anarchist Prisoner War Fund September 19, 2017
- Athens: Urgent counter-info report concerning 16 year old comrade K.B (Greece)On September 16th, the day of anti-fascist protests in Keratsini and Athens, for the 4 years since the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by neonazis of the Golden Dawn, 16 year old K.B. is arrested in Exarchia. During his arrest and transportation to GADA (central police hq of Athens), K.B. is beaten and tortured by riot […]
- Letter from #J20 Anarchist Prisoner Dane Powell (USA)Throughout my whole life, I've had a running list of worst fears that changed over the years, as many times as I have. My latest, having been the most likely to occur were fears of houseless-ness and prison. I used to have nightmares of the two where I would wake up in sweats. I've since […]
- Por El Companero Anarquista Santiago Maldonado (Argentina)POR EL COMPAÑERO ANARQUISTA SANTIAGO MALDONADO ¡HAGAMOS DESAPARECER A LA POLICÍA Y AL ESTADO! Este 01 septiembre se cumplió ya un mes desde la detención y desaparición del compañero anarquista Maldonado, a manos de la policía de la Gendarmería Nacional de Argentina en el contexto de la represión de una manifestación que incluyó cortes de […]
- Prague: Update in repression case "Fenix" – Trial (Czech Republic)UPDATE: All the accused in "Fenix 1" are found innocent on all points. The verdict is inactive due to the appeal of the state attorney but all the custodies and so on are taken down and as a first step this is quite a relief. There will be more trials. There will be a proper […]
- "Not just any meeting" – Against the 'SingularityU' Summit (Italy)[September 27, Rho-Milan] via actforfreedom: Not just any meeting 27-28 September 2017 SingularityU Italy Summit – RHO Singularity is a metaphor taken from physics by Ray Kurzweil, founder of Singularity University, to describe the technological process that will come to merge the human with technology. Therefore, the University of Singularity aims to prepar […]
- Athens: Urgent counter-info report concerning 16 year old comrade K.B (Greece)
- Yangon: Over 200 workers set up barricades around factorySome of the striking workers are seen at DJY Knitting Myanmar Ltd. sock factory. 5 Sept 2017 – Over 200 protesters from DJY Knitting Myanmar Co. Ltd sock factory, stepped up in their strike by building barricades around the factory on September 4, as their demands were denied again. "The factory officials violated the law. … Continue reading "Yangon: Ov […]
- Indonesia: Update on Resistance to the New Yogyakarkta International Airport29 Aug 2017 – On Monday, August 28 at 1pm, heavy equipment escorted by hundreds of police entered the southern farm, displacing citizens' land and causing damage including land of citizens who refused to build Kulon Progo airport (NYIA). Prior to this there had been no notice of "evictions" and the operation of heavy equipment … Continue reading "Indon […]
- Sydney: 'No pride in genocide': vandals deface Captain Cook statue26 Aug 2017 – Early on Saturday, three statues in Sydney's Hyde park – including one of Captain Cook – were attacked by vandals. The words "change the date" and "no pride in genocide" were spray-painted on the Captain Cook statue, the former a reference to a campaign to stop celebrating Australia's national day on … Continue reading "Sydney: 'No pride i […]
- Adelaide: Pizza delivery ends riot at high security jail23 Aug 2017 – A riot broke out at Yatala Labour Prison in South Australia about 3.30pm on Tuesday in the B Division of the high security jail. The eight-hour riot eventually ended with prisoners demanding guards order them Domino's Pizzas to end the violence. Prisoners barricaded themselves inside a cell, lit fires with matches, … Continue reading "Adel […]
- Uber drivers strike in Indonesia23 Aug 2017 – Hundreds of Uber drivers have been on strike in Indonesia in a dispute over what they describe as "modern slavery" practices by the firm. Around 200 drivers rallied in the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Sunday. There were solidarity actions in other cities including Bogor and Surabaya, while drivers far from the … Continue reading "Uber dri […]
- Yangon: Over 200 workers set up barricades around factory
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- Gathering at Exarchia Sq. & neighborhood march – NOW – AthensHANDS OFF KOSTAS B. Saturday 16th of Septebre was a day of action in memory of the murder of antifascist activist Pavlos Fyssas by the squads of Golden Dawn, which took place on 18/9/2013 under the full cover of the … Continue reading →
- Greece – Wednesday, September 20th, gathering demo held in solidarity with heavily injured K. B. at KAT hospital in AthensKostas M. was arrested in Exarchia some hours after the end of the anti-fascist demonstrations of September 16, on the occasion of the four years since the murder of Pavlos Fyssas. During his arrest and transfer to GADA [Athens central … Continue reading →
- Italy – Issue 8 of eco anarchist publication FENRIR is out. eng/itIssue 8 of FENRIR, eco anarchist publication in support of prisoners, direct action, with updates and analysis on the anarchist struggle and the struggle for animal, human and earth liberation all over the world, is now available. 84 pages, A4 … Continue reading →
- [Avalanche] Contributions n°12 – October 2017 [Postponed Deadline 15th of October]Dear comrades, We make this call out for contributions for the next issue of the anarchist correspondence paper Avalanche. Texts concerning anarchist interventions, ongoing struggles, past experiences, critical evaluations, broader reflections on the anarchist struggle, can be send until the … Continue reading →
- Urgent Call for National and International Solidarity in Support of the 107+ Day Mapuche Political Prisoner Hunger StrikeThursday, September 21st, 2017 Since July 7th, 2017, four Mapuche Political Prisoners have maintained a hunger strike that has now lasted upwards of over 107 days. They have been held in pre-trial custody for over a year, under what has … Continue reading →
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White-supremacists and other fascists are returning to San Francisco and Berkeley on August 26 and 27, 2017. Local organizers are calling for people to come together by the thousands to say: We will not allow your hate in the Bay.
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Yes. Chocolate contains theobromine, a compound which, when consumed can cause vomiting, diarrhea, tremors, high blood pressure, rapid heart rate, seizures, respiratory failure, and cardiac arrest.
What about milk chocolate? I thought only dark and baking chocolates were a problem.
Dark chocolate and baking chocolate contain higher amounts of theobromine and are therefore more dangerous than milk or white chocolate. However, the higher fat and sugar contents of lighter chocolates can lead to gastro-intestinal upset, or even more severe conditions such as pancreatitis.
Are there any other goodies I shouldn't give my pets as treats?
Certain types of nuts, such as walnuts and macadamias are very dangerous for our pets. Since the size and shape of nuts make them difficult to digest, it is best to avoid feeding them altogether.
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LANSING - Michigan Farm Bureau's (MFB) objections to the book "A Hot Planet Needs Cool Kids," a science curriculum companion book for some Michigan seventh-graders, has persuaded the Battle Creek Area Math and Science Center (BCAMSC) to pull the teaching option in 38 Michigan school districts.
MFB first voiced concerns about the self-published book's content in July, drawing attention to what the organization believed to be biased opinions and grossly inaccurate, non-scientific information about modern agricultural practices.
"We've said from the beginning that the science curriculum which included the book was sound," said Deb Schmucker, manager of the MFB Promotion and Education Department. "We never attempted to challenge or debate the theoretical soundness or lack of soundness of human-caused global warming. But we have consistently criticized political statements in the book that were disguised as science."
"When a book quotes -- and teaches children as fact -- opinions from anti-farming, extremist groups such as the Humane Society of the United States, Defenders of Wildlife, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Worldwatch Institute, the credibility of the information must be questioned. I look at that as the duty of every parent."
BCAMSC concedes, and the center has notified schools on how they can return the book, said Connie Duncan, director of the BCAMSC which develops curriculum guides for school districts in the southern half of lower Michigan.
"We've now done a complete review of the book, and decided it was best for us to remove it," she said.
Duncan said the book "slipped through the cracks" because only parts of it were referenced to integrate literacy into the science curriculum.
"The curriculum does not reference (the objectionable parts) of the book" she said. "But the point is, the book was not read completely."
Duncan said BCAMSC will change how it reviews companion materials in the future. The review panel that recommends materials for the curriculum includes about 20 teachers and university professors, she said.
"A Hot Planet needs cool kids" is BCAMSC's first recall in 20 years of approving materials. "That's a pretty good record," she said. But Duncan also noted a problem when recalling the "Hot Planet" book.
"It's hard to find a good book to go with this curriculum," she said. "We won't replace the book with something else because we can't find too many that have a whole lot of different information."
Initially, Farm Bureau was invited to submit information about farming's continuing role in helping temper potential climate change through land and animal stewardship, careful and efficient use of crop protection materials, and other practices that were conspicuously absent in the "Hot Planet" book. But BCAMSC is now wary of accepting information that could be perceived as special interest.
Schmucker said unlike the "Hot Planet" book, the information she intends to submit will contain peer-reviewed, scientific analysis from credible sources, and all the information will be documented carefully.
"Farmers throughout this nation's history have been on the cutting edge of science and innovation. They are problem solvers, and they've already cut their overall carbon footprint, changed practices that in the past led to soil erosion, and provided the safest, most secure and comfortable life for animals that's possible with the resources and information available," said Schmucker. "Farmers are part of the solution, and they deserve better than what this book provided."
While Farm Bureau is a member organization that supports farmers, Schmucker said "no opinions will be dressed up like fact" in the material she presents.
"After that, it's up to the schools and the teachers to accept or reject it. That's where parents step in. They are the last defense against misinformation and blatant political agendas," said Schmucker. "We expect them to take the hard stance against any material that doesn't present unbiased, scientifically sound science, no matter what the source."
Duncan agreed that parents need to be more involved in their children's education, and encourages parents to examine next year's proposed math and science curriculum when it goes up for public review in February.
She said she'll even consider speaking with Farm Bureau at its annual meeting next month.


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Beekeepers want San Diego County to take some sting out of an ordinance governing hives proximity to nearby structures and roads.
The San Diego County Beekeeping Society says the county should ease the mandate that hives be at least 600 feet from a dwelling and 100 feet from a road. The restriction is unnecessary, members argue, and can thwart hobbyists who keep just a few hives.
"If you stand 10 yards from a beehive you'll hardly even see any bees," said Kim Hamilton, a society member who lives in Deer Horn Valley near Jamul and has kept honey-generating hives outside her home for decades. "The setback requirements really make no sense, especially in the back country."
Hamilton said mysterious colony collapse among commercial and small beekeepers is another reason the county should consider any step that makes it easier to keep hives. About a third of all colonies kept in the U.S. died off last winter compared about one-fifth the previous year.
"We feel we an obligation help keep the bee population going," said Hamilton, whose hives produced chaparral honey. "We also got hit heavily in the 2007 wildfire, and it took a while to get domesticated bees going again."
The Beekeepers Society has gotten the ear of Supervisor Dianne Jacob, who on Wednesday will ask fellow supervisors to back her request that the county's chief administrative office investigate options to protect and promote beekeeping throughout the unincorporated area.
"Bees are at the heart of our local agriculture industry, but their population has taken a beating in recent years, so it's important to do what we can to help them and our farm economy," Jacob said.
The county also will consider changes to the number of hives people can keep, signage alerting people that bees are nearby and making sure an ample water supply is available near a hive.
Supervisors are scheduled consider the issue when they meet starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the county Administration Center in downtown San Diego.


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By Anonymous Coward
Apr 29, 2002
There is not a pebble at Lumpy Ridge not worth climbing. The rock is superb, especially the Sundance Buttress. A mostly flat trail through a beautiful valley to some of the biggest rocks and highest quality granite in the state might be too much if one is accustomed to pulling plastic. Some climbers climb for the absolute love of it. Some climbers climb because they think it makes them look cool. Lumpy is for the former.
Headlamps are useful if you ever have to come down in the dark.
By Anonymous Coward
Jul 19, 2004
Descent info:
An easy descent if climbing anything from Grapevine and to the left: walk easily to the summit of Sundance and go to the east, drop down slabs between opposing corners for maybe 50 feet and spot a rappel from a tree to the climber's left. Rap 100 feet to the ground, then downclimb a short 10' wall to the trail. Follow trail until it peters out in a boulder field. Boulder hop for a ways and pick up trail again, following it until it wraps around the bottom of Sundance and meets up with the approach trail.
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From: Estes Park, CO
Jun 13, 2005
|The line left of Guillotine is Bosch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Most of the bolts are missing. It's possible to toprope the first pitch off the chain anchors left of Guillotine 160-170 feet up.Topher D established the route, placing the bolts on lead, but someone was apparently threatened by its existence and chopped it.
By flynn
Nov 18, 2009
The trail to Sundance, and the climbers' descent route (can't call it a trail) in that godawful gully, were the projects for the Access Fund's Adopt-A-Crag Day this October. Fifty-some logs and eighty-some rock steps went in, along with some long-needed "barbering" of the brush in the gully. Should be a lot better.
If you're a first-time visitor to Sundance, be advised that there's now a sign to direct you in lieu of the old cairn. It's actually been there for several years now.
Have fun!
By Q B
From: Estes Park
Jun 26, 2011
Any one know what the bolted line RIGHT of the Guillotine is? At least two pitches off the ground with well-spaced bolts/some gear.
By jason seaver
From: Estes Park, CO
Jun 27, 2011
|That's Cirque de Soleil - 5.12, by Mike Caldwell I believe. Don't let the bolts fool you; bring a shitload of RPs.
By Q B
From: Estes Park
Jun 30, 2011
|Thanks, J! Yea, I talked to Doobies about the RP needs! See you out there!!!
By Eli Helmuth
From: Ciales, PR
Jul 1, 2011
Good luck finding solid RPs on the main pitch/seam of Cirque de Soleil?
A few bolts past the anchor into the seam - I couldn't find anything that would hold and ended up punching it to the bolts.
When I asked Mike Caldwell about it later, he mentioned getting in a slider nut and 1 offset. We talked about adding some bolts at that time, as w/out sliders it makes a sewn-up climb (bolted/good gear) pretty solid "R" rating?
Let me know if I am missing something on the gear on that second (crux) pitch. I was psyched to onsight it soon after the FA.
By Eli Helmuth
From: Ciales, PR
Jul 1, 2011
JS said: "The line left of Guillotine is Bosch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. Most of the bolts are missing. It's possible to toprope the first pitch off the chain anchors left of Guillotine 160-170 feet up. Topher D established the route, placing the bolts on lead, but someone was apparently threatened by its existence and chopped it."
FYI - in 2001 I started replacing these bolts (smashed hangers) by hand drilling and I think Mike Caldwell replaced some of the anchors? I never finished the project, but it would be great to see this masterpiece returned back to its original state.
By Guy H.
From: Fort Collins CO
Jul 1, 2011
|Thanks for replacing the bolts, Eli. Right now, the bottom half is pretty well-protected for Lumpy. There is a ~30ft runout to the last bolt on slabby ~5.9. The 2nd pitch looks very cool!
By jason seaver
From: Estes Park, CO
Mar 4, 2012
|Hey Eli, I was wondering if you were ever on Bosch Cassidy while the bolts were still in. I never was, but I spent a little time toproping on it and became convinced it should be ressurected. Nate and I replaced 2 or 3 bolts around 2005. One around the middle of pitch 1 and 1 or 2 towards the top. We had a hard time finding where the old bolts had been though. Just curious if you may have additional knowledge of their previous locations. We should get that thing reequipped this summer. Stellar climbing.
By RandyFarris
Apr 2, 2012
I think I got the second or third or fourth ascent of this great line right after a 16 year old Topher legally drilled this on lead. It is a great line that was chopped by some idiot. I am all for rebolting this incredible rock climb. Look for natural stances, the idiot who chopped this used a crowbar and ripped out big chunks of rock, so it should be fairly obvious were the bolts were.
I would be glad to come up and do a little Fred Flinstone action to get this climb revived. If you have any ?, just ask Topher, he will tell ya were those bolt were.
By jason seaver
From: Estes Park, CO
Apr 7, 2012
|Yeah, we thought it would be obvious where the bolts had been too... but it's not. Getting Topher involved sounds like the ticket....
By topher donahue
May 11, 2012
|I'd be keen to help find the bolt placements and help with the replacement of Bosch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. If you Estes crew decide to get together some monkeys with hand drills, let me know. Likely the best multi-pitch sport climb in the Front Range....


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Roger Clemens, the former Houston Astro who was acquitted in June of charges he lied when testifying before Congress about his alleged use of performance-enhancing drugs, plans to join the Sugar Land Skeeters.
The minor league baseball team is part of the Atlantic League, and it announced today that Clemens, of Houston, will join the team on Aug. 24 and pitch on Aug. 25.
Rusty Hardin, of Rusty Hardin & Associates in Houston, defended Clemens during the trial in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He says he didn't negotiate Clemens' baseball contract.
"I was totally uninvolved, but I think it's just great, and I'm busily trying to get a ticket," Hardin says.
Hardin refers questions about the Skeeters deal to Clemens' agent, Randy Hendricks, of Hendricks Sports Management of Spring, but Hendricks did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.
Clemens hasn't pitched professionally for five years. This is the first season for the Skeeters, which play in Constellation Field in Sugar Land.
Hardin says that if he doesn't see Clemens pitching for the Skeeters, he will see him in September, because Clemens has invited the trial team to a Toby Keith concert.
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The supreme Court of Canada has ruled that it would allow the Canadian Jewish Congress to appeal lower court rulings on the issue of public funding for private religious schools.
"It was always our belief that the matter would be settled in the Supreme Court of Canada," said Murray Segal, chairman of the Ontario Jewish Association for Equity in Education, a CJC standing committee.
"Given the breadth and scope of Canada's highest judiciary, we believe that the matter will have a fair and complete hearing," he added.
No date has been set for the Supreme Court hearing.
The CJC request to the high court comes as part of a 30-year campaign to win provincial government funding for the secular curriculum at Jewish parochial schools.
The Supreme Court's decision last week to hear the case comes after an Ontario Court of Appeal ruled here in July that the Ontario Ministry of Education's refusal to extend funding to denominational schools other than the Roman Catholic Separate School System is constitutional.
In a unanimous decision, the five judges of the appeals court had dismissed an appeal by five Jewish parents-with children in some of Ontario's Jewish day schools-who argued that the province's policy contravened Canada's of Rights and Freedoms.
The plaintiffs are also seeking publicly health-support services for special- needs children in private schools.
The case was first heard in an Ontario court in 1992.
Estimates for extending funding to private schools of all faiths range between $156 million (Canadian) to $339 million. Some 12,000 of the 70,000 students in independent schools in Ontario attend one of the 21 Jewish day schools.
Tuition at Jewish schools in Ontario ranges from $6,000 for elementary grades to $10,000 for high school.
Catholic schools are free.
Provincial government funding for the Separate School, which covers both Catholic and secular studies, dates back to the British North America Act of 1867.
The law, which paved the way for the confederation of four British colonies into Canada, guaranteed the status of religious minorities in Ontario and Quebec.
In an era before mass immigration, Catholics were the only significant minority in the nascent Canadian state.
Today, Canada has become a multiethnic society. Aside from Ontario, virtually every province and territory provides some form of funding for parochial schools.
For Jews, this translates into partial provincial assistance in British Columbia, Asberta, Manitoba and Quebec.
The majority of Canada's 356,000 Jews, however, live in Ontario.


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WASHINGTON – During her unsuccessful presidential campaign, Michele Bachmann would sometimes say she had a "titanium spine," a clear riff off of the description of Britain's Margaret Thatcher as the "Iron Lady."
Now, Bachmann will attend the funeral of the former British Prime Minister and conservative icon. House Speaker John Boehner announced Monday that Bachmann will be one of three House Republicans who will travel to London for Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday. The other members include Reps. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and George Holding of North Carolina.
While it's been common in the past for members of Congress to take military aircraft for delegations such as these, Boehner's office says the trio will fly commercial as part of the House's efforts to comply with across the board spending cuts that started last month.
Thatcher died last week. She served as Prime Minister between 1979 and 1990 and is the only woman to lead a British government.


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AFL: Mick Malthouse praises Adam Goodes over handling of racism
Carlton AFL coach Mick Malthouse says he was shocked by Collingwood president Eddie McGuire's racial comment directed at Sydney's Adam Goodes.
Malthouse, who coached Collingwood from 2000-2011 under McGuire's presidency before a messy departure, said he was annoyed that Australian society in general remained too tolerant of what Collingwood's Brazil-born defender Harry O'Brien has labelled casual racism.
While Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley says it has been a tough week for both Goodes and McGuire, Malthouse showed no sympathy for his former club president.
"Adam is a very caring person," Malthouse said.
"So when that took place, I was not thinking of who delivered it.
"I was thinking of more the consequences of the way in my brief association with Adam Goodes (Malthouse coached an Australian International Rules side captained by Goodes in Ireland), how he would take that on board.
"I have no doubt he would be wearing those comments for all Indigenous people or anyone who was offended by those remarks.
"I felt very sorry for Adam Goodes."
Asked if McGuire's long-serving attempts to help Indigenous people should outweigh his on-air comments this week, Malthouse said: "Eddie's not the victim in this."
"The thing I get very very annoyed at here, we don't walk in some other people's shoes," he said.
"Sometimes we need to walk in someone else's shoes and find out what it's really like."
On Thursday, Collingwood's board gave McGuire its full support after he apologised for his comments during a radio program which led to the AFL charging McGuire with a breach of the league's racial vilification policy.
McGuire had suggested Goodes could star in a promotion of the new King Kong musical.
Goodes was also called an "ape" by a 13-year-old Magpies fan during last Friday's Collingwood-Sydney game at the MCG.
"I was totally shocked like everyone else would have been," Malthouse said of the McGuire comment.
"I've had the history of growing up with some Indigenous people, playing then coaching. I've seen the ugly side.
"We have got a long, long way to go."
Asked if McGuire was a racist, Malthouse replied: "I would say no. At his own admission, he said it was a racist comment."
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This week on MCV India, we've taken up the case for something we believe the Indian games industry sorely needs – a dedicated trade body focussed purely on gaming.
There's also been a fair amount of activity in the games retail space this week. And of course, with E3 recently concluded, we've also highlighted a couple of games that stood out for us.
Here's a quick round-up of some of this week's stories from MCVuk.com's sister site, MCV India:
- Opinion: Why India desperately needs a dedicated trade body for gaming - How significant the Indian games industry is right now depends purely on whom you ask, and that needs to change. FULL STORY
- Microsoft U-turns on Xbox One used game, always-on policies - India still won't get the console officially till late 2014, but in the latest policy reversals is hidden some good news for Indian Xbox fans. FULL STORY
- Monsoon sales hit retail - The monsoon isn't exactly a season Indians look forward to, but it's just the excuse retailers needed to offer huge discounts on games. FULL STORY
- Game4u now taking PS4 preorders - Sony still hasn't announced if or when the PS4 will release in India, but that hasn't stopped one retailer from starting its preorder campaign for the console. FULL STORY
- Mad Max: Five things you should know - We came away quite impressed from our behind-closed-doors preview of Avalanche Studios' new Mad Max game. FULL STORY
Head over to MCV India for more of this week's stories.
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NVIDIA's GeForce 6 SLI: Demolishing Performance Barriersby Anand Lal Shimpi on November 23, 2004 10:23 AM EST
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ASUS' A8N-SLI Deluxe
ASUS and NVIDIA have been working very closely with each other on the nForce4 SLI project. NVIDIA took ASUS' A8N-SLI Deluxe on tour with them, doing demonstrations to reviewers all over the world based on this one motherboard. Obviously the partnership has irritated a few of ASUS' competitors, and thus it looks like Gigabyte and MSI are doing their best to get their competing boards out as soon as possible. But ASUS was the first to get us a final board and thus we have them in our review today.
The very first A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard we received was horribly unstable and we spent the majority of our time just trying to get the thing to work. Our sample was one of 10 in the world and fortunately not a mass production sample. ASUS managed to get us another board in time for the publication of this review, and the updated board fixed all of our issues. We will be sure to do a full review on ASUS' SLI motherboard featured here, but for now here's some brief information about the board.
The A8N-SLI Deluxe is a very interesting solution from ASUS as it will be targeted at both the high end and mainstream Socket-939 markets. With a price point of around $180, ASUS is hoping that all types of users, from casual to hardcore gamers will flock to the A8N-SLI Deluxe to either take advantage of SLI immediately or have the security of a SLI upgrade path.
The board itself is as feature filled as you could possibly imagine. Featuring 3 x 32-bit PCI, 2 PCI Express x1 and 2 PCI Express x8 slots, the board is pretty balanced when it comes to add-in card expansion.
ASUS spread the two PCI Express x8 slots out a bit more than some manufacturers have planned to do, in order to improve cooling when running two cards in SLI mode. ASUS also supplies a bridge PCB appropriately sized to accommodate the distance between the two PCI Express connectors. The card that reconfigures the PCI Express lane arrangement from the chipset is wedged in between the two PCI Express x8 slots. The card can be a little difficult to get to at times, but with a bit of patience it's not too big of a deal.
The actual nForce4 SLI chipset is placed between the two PCI Express x8 slots, but shifted down to be as far away from the heat producing GPUs as possible. The problem is that with 2-slot cards such as the GeForce 6800 Ultra there is not much clearance over the top of the chipset's heatsink, which limited the size of the heatsink that ASUS could put on the motherboard. The end result is that while the heatsink and fan do the best job they can, the heatsink gets extremely hot. Just something to keep an eye out for.
The nForce4 SLI chipset on the A8N-SLI Deluxe
By using a separate Silicon Image SATA controller in conjunction with the nForce4 SLI's built in SATA controller, the A8N-SLI supports a maximum of 8 SATA drives. Impressively enough, ASUS provides 4-pin molex to SATA power adapters and SATA cables for all of the ports. ASUS went one step further and also bundles a card that allows you to plug a SATA drive (and power) into your motherboard, externally without ever opening your case. By running two SATA ports and one power connector to a slot cutout you can plug any SATA drive and use it externally. Remember that since the nForce4 SLI chipset supports the SATA II specification, you can use this external port with hot pluggable SATA II drives.
In order to aid in power delivery to a power hungry SLI setup, ASUS implemented what they are calling their "EZ-PLUG" connector on the board. The EZ-PLUG is basically a 4-pin molex connector on the board itself that is designed to provide an additional 12V line to the graphics cards in SLI mode. Using the plug isn't necessary (we tested both with and without it and in both cases it worked fine), but ASUS insists you use it in SLI mode to guarantee stability. If you don't apply power to the EZ-PLUG and you are in SLI mode, a red LED lights up on the motherboard and a warning will appear at POST telling you that you forgot to supply power to the EZ-PLUG.
ASUS is expecting mass production of the A8N-SLI Deluxe to commence in the coming weeks; this is an extremely important motherboard for ASUS and they have extended their promise to us that it will be widely available before the holidays, most likely starting the first week of December.
We are pretty happy with what we've seen from ASUS with their A8N-SLI Deluxe, but we'll save the full evaluation of the motherboard for our review of the board itself. With a working sample of the board in hand it looks like ASUS has worked out any issues we had with the first sample of the board, and it should make for a nice gift (for someone special or yourself of course) for the holiday gamer.
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bob661 - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - link#33
I found one here.
I don't know if they actually have one in stock though. Reply
jshuck3 - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkWhere are they getting the 6800GT PCI Express cards? I can't find them anywhere...are they even out yet or are these just review boards? Reply
L1FE - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - link#28 If the nextgen video cards are also SLI capable, then SLI offers even more performance for a new GPU launch. If you don't want SLI that's your choice, but SLI offers consumers a wider range of choices just because cominations now make it that much more complicated. Whether that's a good or bad thing is yet to be seen, but I like how it makes things exciting between new GPU releases. Reply
T8000 - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkAltrough it is nice to see Nvidia take PC gaming quality one step further, these solutions are more expensive than ever before.
But where does this money come from, you ask. Well, since CPU's are stuck at around 3 Ghz (or almost equal) for some time now, people look for other upgrades to buy.
And SLI is an easy way to explain that a top-end GPU solution now costs $1000 instead of $500, because it now contains two $500 cards.
But since SLI is much cheaper than pre-overclocked (Falcon/Alienware) solutions, it is currently worth its premium for a lot of users.
It also creates an interesting problem for ATI, to sell technology that is way behind for lowewr prices or to copy the SLI concept, hoping that their users are willing to wait. Reply
miketheidiot - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - link#28 the next gen of both nVidia and ATI will be only a tiny jump over the current generation. We won't see another big jump until DX10 has been out for a while. The next jump will be a 9700 to 9800 style jump, if that.
http://www.anandtech.com/news/shownews.aspx?i=2340... Reply
VIAN - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkYeah, where is 8xAA/16xAF. I want that tested. I mean with all that power, who wouldn't want to see the results of the fabulous 8xAA IQ. Reply
FICo - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkSo does Nvidia now want everyone to buy 2 of their cards? I really hope its not popular. They should just design faster GPUs rather then relying on such a sledgehammer approach. Nvidia seem to bring out new GPUs once a year, and updates 6 months into a products life. So the new "Geforce 7" chip will be out end of spring time next year. Of course the performance of a single card "GeFroce 7 Ultra" will be a big jump as usual, and will most likely out perform todays PCs with dual 6800 Ultras. Nvidia's SLI technology is certainly interesting, shame its such poor value for money. Surely a dual core approach would be cheaper for the public to buy, yet still offering extra performance. Reply
Filibuster - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkDual Voodoo2 cards is what, 200Mpixel/s? :) Reply
Jeff7181 - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkThinking about it more, I think I'd rather just see some 32 pipeline GPU's with 512 MB of RAM and it's very own nuclear reactor to power it :) Reply
Souka - Tuesday, November 23, 2004 - linkAnyone want SLI cheap? don't even have to upgrade your moherboard.....
For sale.... two 8mb 3dFx Voodoo2 boards wih SLI cable...PCI interface of course..... it rocked in the 90's....why not now?


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NEW YORK (Apr. 24)
Rabbi Israel Miller, vice-president of Yeshiva University and first president of the American Zionist Federation, has been named to serve as the interim-president of the AZF, it was announced by Prof. Leo Diesendruck, chairman of the AZF executive committee. "Miller will fill out the term of office of Fay Schenk. Mrs. Schenk, who was elected to the Executive of the World Zionist Organization at the recent World Zionist Congress, has moved to Jerusalem where she will take on her new role in the WZO," Diesendruck said. A new president will be elected at the AZF biennial convention Nov.12.
There will be no Community News Reporter dated April 28 due to the Passover holiday.


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This is a continuation of a discussion of the role of the command line in both the functionality and the culture of the three main operating systems used today general purpose desktop computers: Linux, and the other two.
Today's toic: Underlying power.
Underlying all of this are two fundamental philosophical features of Linux vs. Windows, and for the most part Mac OSX falls in with Linux in this regard. One is the link between "commands" and the GUI and the other is the link between commands and configuration files, which in turn is par of the way in which applications are set up or "registered" on a system.
It is more or less true (and I oversimplify) that most Linux GUI software can be represented as a set of commands that could be entered on the command line. For some software there may be a totally different command for each function, and for other software, there may be a smaller number of commands with switches or options. There are some major exceptions to this, but it is very very common, and if you exclude all software that does not follow The Unix Philosophy then it will be generally true. This is not true in Windows. Not even close.
With respect to configurations and installation or registration of software, there is a more subtle but I think very real and important link between function and the command line approach. Commands can be placed into files. A command might do nothing more than open a certain text file (or create it if it does not exist) and change it or set the text to say a certain thing. This text is then the configuration data for some aspect of your system or your software. This whole approach of commands, text fields, and so on is played out on a file system that itself is both simple and significant. There are directories in the standard unix/Linux installation that are simply known, by the system and the software that runs on it, to contain information regarding the system. In Linux, go to your /proc directory and get a listing. You will see a lot of the 'files' in that directory are numbers. These numbers are process numbers. When you look at this listing, you are looking at the processes that are running on your system right now!!! It's like looking at the mirror at a certain angle and seeing the thoughts that are in your brain represented as little blue dots or something!!! How cool is that?!?!
This exposes one of the great features of Linux: Everything is a file. You put a CD or DVD in the player, it becomes a file. An "iso" image on your hard drive and a CD with that image on it in your drive are, for all practical purposes, the same thing. What are they? Files! Your keyboard is a file. The list of software installed on your system is a file. A running piece of software is a file (in the /proc directory). Everything is a file, all files are text files (philosophically if not in reality), text files can contain lists of commands. How amazingly simple. How amazingly powerful. How amazingly unlike the Windows Registry. How amazingly accessible and understandable by both the tech expert you need to rely on and to you, if you decide to get into it.
Earlier on in this discussion I gave the example of how to make your computer squawk like a cuckoo bird. Go look back at that example. The cat command simply streams the text out of a file. The file being streamed here is an open source format audio file, so it is just a stream of text characters that are the data for sound. The data are being streamed out of the file, and into whatever is next in the sequence (the "pipe") that the command represents. In this case, the output of the file is being streamed into a "file" which is actually the sound system on that computer. Since the sound system is actually a driver linked to some hardware, the text output of the audio file is played. This is so incredibly straight forward that it is easy to understand, difficult to screw up, and easy to fix. It is the way computers should work.
That simple yet powerful engineering, and the transparent and single layered connection between the files, the file system, and operations makes Linux so powerful and secure, but it is also what makes the command line not only necessary but a very powerful tool for those who chose to see it for what it is rather than what you are told.


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I have to say, I was skeptical that I'd want to continue seeing Enzo (however hot he is), or ever find the Travelers less than annoying and the witches actually interesting, but…this episode might have done it. I mean, I could still do without the Travelers chanting for hours, but I'm up for anything that gives Paul Wesley more screen time (read: another doppelgänger). Now that Liv and her brother Luke seem to have a plan for Bonnie, I'm even willing to sit through that. And watching Caroline and Enzo fight might be highly entertaining. Let's dig in.
Elena woke up in her dorm room having a dream that I'm very glad was a hallucination because she shouldn't be doing tequila shots at a college bar with her underage brother. P.S. You're all still underage, Hallucination Elena. Clearly, she's harboring some anger that her friends didn't recognize that Katherine had taken over her body sooner.
She went downstairs, and Stefan told her Whitmore had cleared out for spring break and she'd been in and out since she first came to. Turns out, they had Bonnie's new witch friend Liv seal Elena in the building because she has a lot to catch up on — like about three weeks' worth of drama — and an appetite that she can't control. Caroline was out looking for the antidote, they had a plan to keep Elena's thirst satiated, and oh yeah, she was asking to see Damon.
He was still in the Salvatore Manson cellar receiving his rations, this time from Jeremy and Matt, who reminded us (and Damon) that Elena still doesn't know he killed Aaron. Elena called Damon from the dorm pay phone since Katherine had locked her out of her cell phone. Elena said she still wants to fight for Damon; Damon was looking forward to hunting her down and giving her "the most mindblowing night" of her life after they're cured and no longer want to feed on each other. When the subject of things she needs to fix came up — like however Katherine had been handling school — Damon had a chance to tell her he'd killed Aaron and didn't. Stefan showed up with a new cell phone for her, along with four ounces of his blood in an adorable tiny water bottle. She wanted more. Badly.
Meanwhile, Caroline and Enzo both ended up at Wes' makeshift lab. After they exchanged jabs (she does have a thing for accents), he claimed to have the antidote. She called Stefan and told him about the Ripper virus now having werewolf venom added. She told him there was good news, but to get it, he had to meet her at a location that the Travelers don't want any witches to know about. Before Stefan left, Elena asked why Katherine had stayed in Mystic Falls and guessed it had been for him. He told her they had kissed and he'd pulled away.
NEXT PAGE: Elena realizes she's trapped in crazy town