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|"Midnight on the Firing Line"
|Babylon 5 episode
Garibaldi and Ivanova, with Londo in the background
|Episode no.
|Season 1
Episode 1
|Directed by
|Richard Compton
|Written by
|J. Michael Straczynski
|Production code
|Original air date
|January 26, 1994
|Guest appearance(s)
Paul Hampton (The Senator)
"Midnight on the Firing Line" is the first regular episode of the science fiction television series Babylon 5.
During a shift change at the Centauri agricultural colony of Ragesh 3, a fleet of ships emerges from hyperspace and begins attacking the colony.
At Earth Alliance Station Babylon 5, Lt. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova, new to the station, is in search of Commander Jeffrey Sinclair in the Zocalo. Garibaldi suggests she try the Observation dome, where Sinclair generally goes to be away from the commotion when the dome is on standby. Ivanova finds him there and tells him "There's a problem."
Garibaldi is accosted by Centauri Ambassador Londo Mollari; the two lightheartedly joke about past Centauri-Human relations before Londo's diplomatic aide, Vir Cotto, arrives with news of the attack on Ragesh 3.
Act I[edit]
In council chambers, Mollari demands any information Commander Sinclair has on the attacks; he has not been able to receive a reply from his government. Minbari Ambassador Delenn and Narn Ambassador G'Kar enter and offer their condolences. Mollari turns and asks G'Kar suspiciously if he really knows nothing about it. "I'm as astonished as you are," he claims. Sinclair calmly suggests that the ambassadors each attempt to contact their governments; he plans to call a meeting of the Babylon 5 Advisory Council and the League of Non-Aligned Worlds later.
In Command and Control, Ivanova tells Garibaldi that the station has just received a distress signal from a ship under attack by raiders. Garibaldi leaves C&C to investigate in a fighter as the signal is lost.
Commercial telepath Talia Winters steps into C&C as Garibaldi leaves to officially report following her arrival on the station, per Psi Corps regulations. Ivanova curtly rebuffs her introduction and attempt at conversation.
Ivanova enters Sinclair's office, finding him listening to a news report on the upcoming Earth Alliance presidential election, inquiring if there's been any news on the situation with Ragesh 3. They discuss the possible culprits, and Sinclair dismisses the idea that the Minbari might be responsible, claiming that they are too honorable to launch a sneak attack; Ivanova is surprised to hear him compliment the Minbari after having fought them in the Earth-Minbari War ten years earlier.
Vir enters Londo's quarters with news of a signal from the relay station at Ragesh 3. The two watch footage of the attack, and Londo identifies the attack vessels as Narn. He storms out of his quarters, shouting epithets aimed at G'Kar.
Garibaldi and another fighter approach the damaged transport. They find the ship devastated and all of the crew dead. Garibaldi concludes that whoever carried out the attack used weaponry much more powerful than is customary for ordinary raiders.
Londo approaches G'Kar, who is eating in the Zocalo; he vows to "strike back hard" in retaliation for the Narn attack. The two exchange insults, G'Kar commenting on how the wheels of fate have turned since the Centauri occupation of Narn. The two come to blows and are separated by security personnel. G'Kar angrily threatens Mollari: "One night you'll wake up and find our teeth at your throat."
Act II[edit]
Back in his quarters, Londo apologizes for the incident to Commander Sinclair. Londo tells Sinclair of a prophetic dream he once had, a vision of his own death where he saw himself and G'Kar, both 20 years older, strangle each other to death. He also tells Sinclair of his nephew, Carn, who he had arranged to be assigned as head researcher on Ragesh 3 because it was a "safe" position. Sinclair cautions Mollari about the dangers of escalating the conflict, but Londo is apathetic about the "paper fantasy" of peace. "Only one thing matters," he claims. "Blood calls out for blood."
Ivanova comes up to Garibaldi as he eats in the Zocalo; they discuss the attacks and Ivanova leaves just as Talia attempts to approach them.
Sinclair goes to visit Vorlon Ambassador Kosh; Sinclair enters Kosh's quarters to find Kosh visible only as a source of light behind a screen. Kosh agrees to attend the emergency council session Sinclair has called, but states: "They are alone. They are a dying people. We should let them pass." When Sinclair asks which race he is referring to, the Narn or the Centauri, Kosh simply answers "Yes."
In C&C, Garibaldi uses Ivanova's console to track down which company sold the supply routes to the ships recently attacked by raiders.
Vir, in Londo's quarters, attempts to get the Ambassador to go to the council meeting. Londo, drunk, tells Vir of the message he just received from the Centauri government, who have decided to take no action in response to the attacks. He tells Vir, though, that they will not tell the council of this, and see if the other races can take action and thus embarrass the Centauri government into acting.
Talia enters a transport tube; Garibaldi is inside and she asks about the best way to open a conversation with Ivanova. He suggests that Talia approach Ivanova while she's eating dinner at the casino, after her duty shift. Talia then rebuffs an offer by Garibaldi to join him in his quarters and share his "second favorite thing in the universe."
G'Kar enters the garden, where he finds Sinclair; G'Kar vows that the Narn will take vengeance on the Centauri for their occupation of the Narn homeworld. G'Kar reminds Sinclair that the Narn supported Earth during the Earth-Minbari War, but Sinclair accuses the Narn of cowardice—selling to anyone who would pay, and launching sneak attacks.
Garibaldi meets up with Sinclair in a corridor and informs him that he's discovered the raiders' strategy: they cracked the database of the company which sold transport vessels jumpgate access. The only ship not yet attacked, though, was booked by a refugee transport service and is filled with civilian passengers.
Act III[edit]
Sinclair, in his office, speaks with an Earth Alliance Senator; Sinclair seeks an authorization to vote for military intervention. The Senator is hesitant to authorize action so close to an election, and tells him to abstain from the vote. Ivanova, who has been watching from the doorway, informs him that a flight of star furies is ready to intercept the raiders. Sinclair comes up with the plan to lead the mission himself, and tells Ivanova that she "never heard" the conversation; Ivanova is left to chair the council meeting and vote in support of sanctions.
As Ivanova calls the council meeting to order, G'Kar bursts in, claiming that the attack was justified because, a hundred years earlier, Ragesh 3 was a Narn world. Delenn speaks up against a "cycle of hatred", but G'Kar counters that the Narn actions merely constituted justice. He brings in a live transmission from Ragesh 3, featuring Londo's nephew Carn, bruised and obviously (at least to Human and Centauri perceptions) coerced into reciting a prepared statement by his captors, who claims that the leaders of Ragesh 3, suffering internal disputes, requested assistance from the Narn after receiving no reply from Centauri Prime. Londo asserts that the statement was read at gunpoint and dismisses it as "lies." G'Kar brings up the fact that the Centauri government itself opposes military action and cautions Mollari against using the council to further personal vendettas. G'Kar moves to dismiss all charges against the Narn.
Act IV[edit]
Sinclair leads the squadron of fighters to intercept the raiders, who are already attacking the refugee transport. He successfully fends off the attack and pursues the raiders back to their base in a nearby asteroid belt.
In his quarters, Londo assembles a hidden weapon. On his way to murder G'Kar, he bumps into Talia, who telepathically senses his intentions. She locates Garibaldi, who intercepts Londo and intervenes, threatening even to kill Londo if he tries to take revenge. "This isn't the way", he tells the ambassador. "Not now, and not here."
Sinclair approaches G'Kar with his discovery from the raiders' base: a Narn officer, supplied along with weapons sold to the raiders by the Narn. Intercepted transmissions logged on the base also confirm Mollari's assertions that the attack was entirely unprovoked. Sinclair threatens to bring the evidence before the council unless Narn forces withdraw from Ragesh 3.
In the casino, Talia approaches Ivanova at dinner and the two strike up a civil conversation. Ivanova explains her earlier hostility: her mother, a telepath, refused to join the Psi Corps, and opted to take drugs to suppress her telepathic abilities instead of going to prison. The drugs drove Ivanova's mother into a deep depression, ultimately leading to her suicide.
Later that evening, Garibaldi shares his "second favorite thing in the universe" — the Duck Dodgers cartoon "Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century" — with a very perplexed Ambassador Delenn. Sinclair watches election returns, showing a victory for the incumbent president. He falls into bed just as his link goes off once again; Ivanova tells him: "Commander, there's a problem…"
Arc significance[edit]
- "Midnight on the Firing Line" marks the first mention of Londo's dream foretelling his own death. The fulfillment of this prophecy is seen in "War Without End", although it takes place in a markedly different context than that which Londo anticipates in this episode.
- The Narn conquest of Ragesh III which included the abuse of his nephew to justify it, his own humiliation in council chambers over the issue, and his government's impotent response to the incident, establishes a personal motivation for Londo's dream of restoring Centauri dominance. Although Commander Sinclair managed to resolve the issue in Mollari's favor, this experience would lead to him being open to Morden's temptation, which would drive much of the later events of the series.
- The first part of the episode touches on the Earth presidential election, involving the re-election campaign of President Luis Santiago and Vice President Morgan Clark. Ivanova mentions that she distrusts the pair, a feeling that would be justified later in the season & series.
- The attack by the Narn against the Centauri Republic foreshadows a war that would formally end in the second season episode "The Long, Twilight Struggle".
- Ivanova despises the Psi Corps because of her mother's death.
- Vir Cotto is introduced as the new aide of Ambassador Mollari.
- Ambassador Kosh has a mysterious way of leaving and entering his encounter suit very quickly.
- When Londo approaches G'Kar to confront him about the attacks, G'Kar offers Londo spoo, noting that it is "quite fresh." In the fifth season episode "A Tragedy of Telepaths", we learn that the Centauri consider an offer of fresh spoo an insult.
- A relationship worth exploring is clearly set up between Ivanova and Talia.
- Delenn's confusion over the Daffy Duck cartoon is understandable. As shown in the fifth season episode "Day of the Dead", Minbari have a rather sophisticated sense of humor.
Production details[edit]
"Midnight on the Firing Line" was originally titled "Blood and Thunder."
Although The Gathering was filmed as the pilot episode and was intended to be followed immediately with regular episodes, there was actually almost a year between the broadcast of the pilot and the broadcast of the first episode—therefore "Midnight on the Firing Line" functioned in part as a second pilot. As a consequence, several cast members left the series: Tamlyn Tomita (Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander) and Johnny Sekka (Dr. Benjamin Kyle), hence the introduction of Lt. Cmdr. Ivanova and Talia Winters in this episode. For that same reason, the episode also recaps many of the relationships between races touched on in the pilot: the Earth-Minbari War, the occupation of Narn, and the decline of the Centauri Republic. However, "Midnight on the Firing Line" was not the first episode to be filmed; that status belongs to "Infection."
Although aired as the first episode of the season, it was not actually the first produced episode, which was actually 'Soul Hunter', hence the slightly crisper performances, most notably by Claudia Christian (Susan Ivanova).


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Growth, Environment and Uncertain Future Preferences
The attitude of future generations towards environmental assets may well be different from ours, and it is necessary to take into account thispossibility explicitly in the current debate about environmental policy. The question we are addressing here is: should uncertainty about futurepreferences lead to a more conservative attitude towards environment?Previous literature shows that it is the case when society expects that onaverage future preferences will be more in favor of environment than ours,but this result relies heavily on the assumption of a separability betweenconsumption and environmental quality in the utility function. We show thatthings are less simple when preferences are non-separable: the attitude ofthe society now depends not only on the expectation of the change inpreferences but also on the characteristics of the economy (impatience,intertemporal flexibility, natural capacities of regeneration of theenvironment, relative preference for the environment), on its history(initial level of the environmental quality) and on the date at whichpreferences are expected to change (near or far future). Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 2004
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A VARIETY show featuring award-winning magicians will leave audiences spellbound when it comes to the Brentwood Theatre on Saturday.
The Feel Good Factor will make its way to the venue and give the audience the chance to see close-up magic.
Multi-award-winning member of the Magic Circle, Oliver Tabor, will be leaving audiences amazed. A classic conjurer, Oliver has a contemporary style and recently represented the UK at the World Magic Championships.
Mick Geraghty will also be making an appearance. Mick is a member of the British Society of Mystery Entertainers and performs under the name of Mystic Mick.
Also performing on the night and putting his life and body on the line will be Oliver Ward. He has toured across Europe performing the art of close-up magic and deception, and is now bringing it to Brentwood.
Oliver has won multiple awards, including Close Up Magician of the Year and Stage Magician of the Year.
The evening starts at 7.30pm. Tickets start at £15 and are available at www.brentwood-theatre.co.uk or by calling the box office on 01277 200305.


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'Excuse me miss, would you like to dance?'
That was the question I was dreading when I went along to a popular modern-day tea dance – mainly because I've no idea how to waltz let alone jive.
But actually, my heart sank when it seemed it would never come and I began feeling like a wallflower, regretting my choice of glittery purple eyeliner.
It was Saturday afternoon and I'd put on my little black dress a little earlier than usual and come to see what all the fuss was about at Greenwich Dance's Strictly Ballroom party.
I didn't know what to expect apart from maybe a few twinkle-toed pensioners so I was very pleasantly surprised when I walked into the stunning hall packed with excited dancers of all ages, getting ready for the first song of the day.
I sat at one of the tables around the great dance-floor with a charming couple who later told me they'd been coming to dance classes at the venue since last September in preparation for their upcoming wedding.
It was their first time at one of the school's tea dances though, and they admitted to feeling a little intimidated by the skilled crowd of expert quick steppers.
'If they're nervous after six months of practice, what chance do I have?' I asked myself.
Exquisitely–dressed instructor Thomas Michael Voss introduced the wonderful live band on stage and everyone clapped as he pointed to the stunning star of the show – the actual mirror ball seen on BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing.
As the band played Moon River I jealously watched couples glide effortlessly around the room and admired the ladies' glittering heels and ball gowns.
It has to be said everyone at least knew the basic steps of the waltz, cha cha, jive and rumba – there were only the correct number of left feet in sight.
And there is certainly no shortage of cheeky characters at this amazingly civilised event.
I couldn't help but smile as I watched one gent in his 60s dance with every single available girl at least once.
Deliriously happy, his face was an absolute joy to behold as he skilfully skipped through each and every song with a different lady in his arms.
Young dancers, some clearly semi-professional, teamed up with amateurs to help them along – but my hands started getting clammy when I saw even the beginners knew their stuff.
During a half-time break people queued in a quintessentially British fashion for tea and luscious carrot cake which was when Mr Voss performed a breath-taking rumba - or "dance of love" as he called it – with his beautiful partner.
Time flew by despite the fact I had merely been a spectator and it was nearly the end of the dance when, just as I'd given up on my chances, my Prince Charming arrived.
At first I turned Harry down when he asked me to jive, saying I didn't know how to dance.
Sensing my fear, he settled for the last waltz and vowed to return at 4.20pm to fetch me.
The idea of letting Harry, a man in his 80s, down with my shoddy steps was excruciating and I felt guilty even before we made it to the floor.
But, despite an extremely awkward start (and the fact I towered over my date), we somehow fell into sync with one another and managed to shuffle around almost in time with the music.
Harry held me tightly and sang along to Somewhere Over the Rainbow as we went – it was a very moving moment and I realised tea dances must have had something to do with our grandparents managing to stay in love longer than couples today seem to.
The second in a line-up of themed events, the dance went down a storm with all.
Greenwich Dance, Royal Hill is perfect for anyone looking to dance their cares away with a good-spirited bunch of new friends, but if I were you I'd watch a couple more episodes of Strictly beforehand.
The next themed tea dance will be the Vintage Years celebrating the 20s, 30s and 40s on April 21 between 2 and 4.30pm.
Entrance is £5 or £4 for concessions.
For more information visit greenwichdance.org.uk


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Presenter: Denise McInerney
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The introduction of the native XML data type in SQL Server opened up many possibilities for how we manage the data in our databases. It also struck terror in the hearts of some DBAs. When does it make sense to store data as XML in a SQL Server database? What are the potential problems in doing so? This session will analyze the real-life example of a project that was successfully implemented using the XML data type as the foundation of the database design. This project was executed on a database that was already in production and had millions of users whose data needed to be preserved.
The session will examine the database design and explore details of the implementation, including XML schema validation and utilization of XML data type methods. It will explain how collaboration between the DBA and application developers was crucial to the project's success. The complex process of converting millions of relational rows into XML documents will be reviewed. Finally, the session will describe how the inclusion of XML actually reduced the size and improved the performance and maintenance of a busy production database.
About the Speaker
Denise McInerney began working as a SQL Server DBA in 1998. Denise's focus is on design and performance tuning of OLTP databases that support web-based applications. She is currently employed as a Staff Database Administrator at Intuit where she designs, tunes and manages databases that support one of the company's eCommerce web sites.
Denise has been an active PASS volunteer since 2003. She served on the Program Committee for four years, including one year as Program Committee Manager. She has been an organizer of the PASS Women in Technology luncheon and Panel Discussion since 2004 and founded the WIT Virtual Chapter. Denise was the recipient of the PASSion Award in 2007.


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BioMed Research International
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 510879, 15 pages
Pretreatment Hepatoprotective Effect of the Marine Fungus Derived from Sponge on Hepatic Toxicity Induced by Heavy Metals in Rats
1Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
2Laboratory of Systemic Mycology, Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismaileya, Egypt
3Department of Organic Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
4Marine Chemistry Division, National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Marine Biotechnology and Natural Product Lab, Alexandria, Egypt
Received 28 September 2012; Revised 15 November 2012; Accepted 15 November 2012
Academic Editor: José Carlos Tavares Carvalho
Copyright © 2013 Nehad M. Abdel-Monem et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- Said Muhammad, Mohammad Tahir Shah, Sardar Khan, Umar Saddique, Nida Gul, Muhammad Usman Khan, Riffat Naseem Malik, Muhammad Farooq, and Alia Naz, "Wild Plant Assessment for Heavy Metal Phytoremediation Potential along the Mafic and Ultramafic Terrain in Northern Pakistan," BioMed Research International, vol. 2013, pp. 1–9, 2013. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
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- Chao-Ling Tang, Hua Zheng, Shi-Yin Lu, Bang Cheng, Fang Wu, Zhao-Ni Chen, Fangming Song, Jun-Xiang Ruan, Hong-Ye Zhang, Hui Song, Yong-Hong Liang, and Zhi-Heng Su, "Serum metabonomics study of the hepatoprotective effect of Corydalis saxicola Bunting on carbon tetrachloride-induced acute hepatotoxicity in rats by 1H NMR analysis," Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, 2016. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar
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New PhD Programme
UCL has developed a new Interdisciplinary PhD Programme in bioscience and bioengineering. The programme covers all levels of biology, from molecules through to cells and whole animal physiology, and provides training in cutting edge techniques, including bioengineering, data analysis, computational and mathematical modelling, imaging, structural biology and systems approaches >>more
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UCL leads the Synbion Network, which aims to explore the full range of what biologically designed elements could achieve in the fields of electronics, optics, optoelectronics and magnetics, and combinations of these fields. The Network members are drawn from UCL, Birkbeck (University of London), University of Manchester and the University of Warwick. Members are exploring the design of novel bio-electronic and bio-optical devices and also how to best manufacture and scale-up such devices. The network brings together biologists (molecular biologists, microbiologists, biophysicists and bioinformaticians), social scientists, physicists, chemists, chemical and biochemical engineers.
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Salad Greens Buyer's Guide
9 great greens to add to your salad bowl.
Ever notice all the different greens that make up "mesclun"? Mesclun, roughly translated from the Provençal dialect, means "mixture." Many of the greens in mesclun mixes are available individually at the supermarket or at farmers' markets or in your garden if you grow your own. This guide will help you identify some of our favorite choices for the salad bowl.
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- Mâche & Chicken Salad with Honey-Tahini Dressing
- Spicy Green Salad with Soy & Roasted Garlic Dressing
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Immaterial: Sippy Cups and Bucket Bags
We love it when form and function collide. The sturdy bucket bag is a design meant for practical women with much to lug from sippy cups to sleek portfolio cases. Canvas lining and nylon straps will often feature prominently. But make it bubble gum pink and the connotations start to seem a little less clear. And we grant if it were just some frustrating pink canvas bag meant to make pragmatic women feel as if there is some whimsy in their lives we might not give it a second glance. But make it a Marni Bucket Shoulder Bag in Rouge Red Eco Leather and we are liable to throw around the word genius and inspired. Call us a slave to labels but only Consuelo Castiglioni could help bring together these disparate worlds and not make us feel as if its a bag meant for a frustrated Park Slope mom, an insufferable graphic design geek girl, or a McKinsey consultant.


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PALATINE, Ill., March 15, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:ACUR) today announced clinical evaluation is now allowed under an Investigational New Drug application ("IND") filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for a benzodiazepine product candidate utilizing our Aversion® Technology. The primary active ingredient in this product candidate is intended for the treatment of anxiety disorders. Aversion® Technology is a unique mixture of active and functional inactive ingredients, intended to minimize abuse liability potential of the primary active ingredient. Benzodiazepine products are classified as Schedule IV for potential abuse by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration ("DEA"). Acura has now opened three INDs for Aversion® Technology product candidates.
According to Drugs of Abuse, published by the DEA, tranquilizers, which include benzodiazepines, are abused in manners similar to opioid analgesics. The 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health estimates that 21.5 million people have abused prescription tranquilizers at some point in their lifetime and 5.1 million have abused tranquilizers in the past year.
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Acura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a specialty pharmaceutical company engaged in research, development and manufacture of product candidates providing limits or impediments to abuse utilizing our proprietary Aversion® Technology, Impede™ Technology, and other novel technologies.
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text: Archive for July 21st, 2013 View: News Blogs Programs News The 100th Tour de France wraps up with a win for the British Arts & Entertainment | July 21st, 2013, 1:53pm | Shula Neuman | NPR Organizers feared this year's Tour de France wouldn't generate the excitement of previous years, but viewership was up along with excitement at the win of a British cyclist. Mountain Fire: Evacuations lifted for Idyllwild, Fern Valley Local | July 21st, 2013, 1:40pm | KPCC & wire services Riverside fire officials say they are lifting evacuation orders for the communities of Idyllwild and Fern Valley as of 11:00 a.m. this morning. Chain-reaction crash kills 1, injures 3 near Mid-City Local | July 21st, 2013, 1:23pm | AP Los Angeles police say a suspected drunk driver triggered a chain-reaction crash that killed one person and injured three others when one of the cars involved careened onto a sidewalk. 'The Conjuring' scares up $41.5M to top box office Arts & Entertainment | July 21st, 2013, 12:36pm | AP Moviegoers were ready for a fright this weekend, sending "The Conjuring" into first place at the box office. A woman among men: Female firefighter blazed a trail US & World | July 21st, 2013, 11:59am | NPR Staff | NPR One county in Virginia is promoting the fire service to teenage girls, hoping they'll follow in the footsteps of Judy Brewer, the first career female firefighter in the U.S. High-end stores use facial recognition tools to spot VIPs Arts & Entertainment | July 21st, 2013, 10:18am | Brenda Salinas | NPR A new facial recognition system is helping luxury shops give the VIP treatment as soon as big spenders walk in the door. A year after Anaheim unrest, Zimmerman verdict renews rally Local | July 21st, 2013, 9:54am | Hayley Fox A day after demonstrators around the U.S. gathered to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman, crowds are meeting in the Orange County city of Anaheim to mark the anniversary of the death of an unarmed Latino man who was shot by police last year. Fighting fire with fire: Why some burns are good for nature Environment & Science | July 21st, 2013, 8:15am | Christopher Joyce | NPR Fire is a natural part of the western landscape, and a push over the last century to eliminate fires has threatened the habitats that some plants and animals need. Blogs FCC votes to bring high-speed Internet to schools Pass / Fail | July 21st, 2013, 6:00am | Jed Kim The Federal Communications Commission will modernize its federal E-Rate program, which provides funding for schools and libraries to connect to the Internet. Programs Jump to: Browse our news archive January February March April May June July August September October November December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017


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West Chester, OH, United States, 2007/07/10 - Company recognized for creating new customer demand and growing at phenomenal rate - IPLogic.com.
IPLogic, Inc. today announced that the company has been honored by the CMP Channels CRN as a 2007 Fast Growth 100 Solution Provider. A reception honoring all those awarded a place on the 2007 Fast Growth 100 list will take place September 18, 2007 in New York City.
IPLogic is number 42 on the list for 2007 the third year in a row the company has been named in the CRN Fast Growth 100. CRNs Fast Growth 100 award winners are recognized Solution Providers selected for their ability to drive industry-leading sales volumes and use innovative methods to grow their business through services-oriented technology offerings. Developed by CRNs editorial staff, the Fast Growth 100 list provides detailed insights into which solution provider models and technologies are proving to be the most lucrative. Companies on the list grew at an average of 223%.
To be included in the CRN Fast Growth 100 list three years in a row is a dramatic statement, said Ken Yanneck, president of IPLogic. Our presence on the list again underscores our commitment to excellence and our consistent ability to apply technical expertise to solving the communications challenges of our clients. Thanks to our dedicated employees, our growth and our goal of remaining the leading voice and data solutions provider continues.
The Latham, NY-based company also received a host of other recent awards: #3 on the FastTrack 50 list of fastest growing companies in Western New York by the Buffalo Business First, and number 393 on the VarBusiness 500 list, a ranking of leading revenue producers among solution provider organizations in North America.
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IPLogic (iplogic.com) delivers converged voice, data, and audio/visual communications solutions that increase revenue, decrease cost, and maximize organizational productivity for clients. Serving medium to large organizations across the states of New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, IPLogic expertise includes voice and unified communications through traditional PBX and converged IP telephony and audio/visual communications, network security, network infrastructure (LAN/WAN), mobility and wireless network solutions, managed IT and network services, and training and IT staff augmentation solutions. We empower clients to Connect, Communicate, and Compete Better.
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Local nurse honored
A South County Hospital critical care nurse is the first nurse in Rhode Island to receive the prestigious American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN) Circle of Excellence Award since it was established in 2009.
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Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark Listed on Amazon, Pulled
A new, original Transformers game could be on the way, according to a recent Amazon posting.
A new, original Transformers game could be on the way, according to a recent Amazon posting.
Whether or not you're ready to be scared pantsless by The Evil Within is irrelevant, because it's headed our way this summer
Save the date for next Tuesday, as there'll be a special announcement coming for the Batman: Arkham series. Just what it is remains a mystery.
GameStop has confirmed some of its Black Friday 2013 deals, ensuring that the gaming masses will have something to look forward to once they've gotten their fill of turkey.
A new Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag video gives us an inside look on a few of the weapons that pirates used in their heyday.
The hype train for Battlefield 4 is chugging along at full force with this new TV trailer.
All-new tables are coming to Star Wars Pinball across all platforms, and Zen Studios has offered up the first glimpse at the 'Return of the Jedi' machine.
Sony's PlayStation Vita has struggled out of the gate, with slow sales and a sad little trickle of software to support it. The most telling sign of the device's lack of popularity is you just don't see it very often when you're out and about. Those who've managed to wait a couple months to pick one up are in luck, with used copies dipping to as low as $162 at times.


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In the spirit of Carls music posts, I figured I may as well do more than defend good American bar bands like NRBQ.
So like Carl, I will take a page from the 60s too and speak of the '60s band The Kinks, but I will do it from the early 70s instead of the 60s. Namely, I will speak of one of the Kinks concept albums, viz. Muswell Hillbillies. Already the title makes an acknowledgement to American folk music, i.e., hillbilly music. Now as Carl has let us know, all American music is African American music. Jazz, blues, R&B, rock and roll, etc. has its roots in the southern society which integrally included the enslavement of blacks. Out of this experience of oppression came all the music that we all today love in American music. So to be authentic, such music must be based on this basic experience of the brutality of slavery even if indirectly and diluted over decades. Even as these official modes of oppression became illegal and over time became socially unacceptable, one must wonder of the hidden sources of such good music. This music has existed in the last 50 years or so since the 64 Civil Rights Act. The good music somehow has remained, and many people (including white people) have carried it on. So what is the authentic context of such music if it lacks the serious experience of oppression?
Across the pond, Englishmen like John Mayall, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton were 60s epigones of African American music who could somehow mechanically reproduce the sound of the American south, but who apparently had no real idea of what they are playing in that their experience (even as working class whites in an English class system) was entirely alien to the modes and mores of the American south. But if this is true, I suppose this was also true of Elvis Presley in that he was not black and was promoted by Sam Phillips in some tawdry hit making studio factory in Memphis. Perhaps tawdry hit making is the result of "equality of conditions."
Of course, I dont think this is entirely what Carl is saying, but the implications of his posts have this idea at heart. However, Im not sure this race and oppression issue is the case in fact. Frank Tirros history of jazz shows a much more complicated history of musical types and influences. One should not forget the Paul Whiteman Band (no pun intended) and Bix Beiderbecke and Benny Goodman in the early history of jazz. This is not race counting, nor is it a denial of the importance of the suffering of black Americans shown through their experience of oppressionit is simply a matter of fact regarding the origins of modern American music. Likewise, Harry Smiths Smithsonian anthology belies the belief that American music was simply Stephen Foster and John Philip Sousa before there was folk, blues or jazz.
Yes, the jazz and blues and ragtime artists who left a mark on American music were predominantly African American, and they should be applauded in a way that they were not in the past. For that matter W.E.B. DuBois wrote of the distinctive sublimity of the negro spiritual, and he claims that only through the experience of slavery could such spiritual strivings come to the fore.. This history (written by the likes of DuBois) should not be forgotten. Black American music is surely some of the best American music that exists. Perhaps such music was always popularized by the white American middle-class (like Beiderbecke), but who can say, because the white kids were always there simultaneously? The music is the music.
For instance, in hip hop the Beastie Boys, Third Base and even Vanilla Ice were early musical pioneers in this so-called genre of black music of hip hop.
So the 60s English rock band The Kinks came out with Muswell Hillbillies in the early 70s. On this album, which includes such rockers like 20th Century Man, The Kinks take American music and blend it with old English folk music. 20th Century Man is surely a late coming white Englishmans lament written in the idiom of black American music. Yet it is also a song made of its own, and the desire to not wanting to die here (in this 20th century) shows a universal theme (at the time) that rock (as opposed to rock and roll) was not simply some playing out some version of a perversion of the desire for freedom found in traditional African American music. Some may argue this, but I agree with ray Davies—-"You can keep all your smart modern writers"—and if you're reading this you too have survived the 20th century!
And so I also think of The Kinks song Complicated Life also from "Muswell Hillbillies." It incorporates both English folk and black American music. It is neither parody, nor is it an antiquarian piece. It is amusing in its "ol timeyness" of song structure and arrangement, but it also speaks the truth as much as any Johnny Cash or Kris Kristofferson tune. It speaks of Tocquevillian individualism in terms of literal heart disease. Still, it doesnt truly advocate what it advocates, and hence it speaks otherwise and is therefore truly ironic.
After listening to this song, I think that DuBois was perhaps wrong about the color line. Or rather, perhaps in his celebration of the negro spiritual, he was speaking about music which rises above the color line in the same way that he says Shakespeare and Goethe do.
In my view, The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies does this, and is therefore worth a listen.
For "20th Century Man"—
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Amazon (AMZN) is entering the smartphone market as it reveals its first phone on Wednesday. AT&T (T), the data connection provider for Amazon's Kindle, is rumored to be the sole carrier.
The odds of a successful Amazon smartphone are long. While AT&T may benefit from an exclusive contract with Amazon, that won't help Amazon reach a critical mass of users. Apple's (AAPL) iPhone once was exclusively sold by AT&T, but when Apple began to sell the phone through other carriers, the company's revenue and profit rose, and its stock soared.
For Amazon, BlackBerry's (BBRY) Z10 smartphone offers a lesson. The Z10 is an excellent phone, and after many long, painful delays for BlackBerry shareholders, it was released in March 2013. But you don't know it's a great phone because you probably haven't seen one, because so few people bought them.
The Z10 was too little, too late. Amazon's smartphone entry will play out similarly. Lots of fanfare and media attention for about a month, followed by essentially radio silence. The phone idea will most likely go down as one of Jeff Bezos' few, albeit biggest, mistakes.
For one, Android by any other name is still an Android. Amazon's Kindle Fire uses a forked version of Android as its operating system. If the operating system ventures too far off the path, it risks failure to run future popular apps.
If the phone doesn't venture too far from the standard Android operating system, then it won't likely be much different than every other Android phone, other than maybe a few temporary novel bells and whistles.
The Amazon smartphone may have enough unique characteristics to be the cool kid for about a month, but so was the Z10.


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AFTER just one win in their last dozen league outings struggling Bridport will be desperate to have top scorer Ryan Dovell available for tomorrow's trip to Melksham Town (3pm).
The two teams drew 1-1 earlier this month but Bridport manager Trevor Senior faces the prospect of starting the reverse fixture without his star striker.
Dovell could miss the Tool-station Western Premier Division showdown due to work commitments, leaving Bridport without their main attacking threat up front.
On the other hand, Senior does welcome back Matt Condliffe (groin) and Chris Clarke (thigh) into the fold although Jamie Morgan will not be involved because of work.
Goals are vital if Bridport want to keep away from the relegation zone and Senior feels that confidence in the team will grow if they can strike first.
He told Echosport; "The mood in the squad isn't bad, it's just a bit of confidence the lads are lacking.
"We've conceded the first goal too many times and when we go behind the players' heads drop a little bit, so if we can get a lead it means we have something to defend and are not chasing the game.
"We lost 4-0 last time out but we still had chances. We've got to make sure we take them when they come and if we can minimise our mistakes things will turn around.
"The lads are concerned about it but at the same time they are talking about how to stop conceding first which is a good sign.
"They want to put it right and they'll stick together. There are 21 games left so there is still plenty of time."
Losing Dovell would be a massive blow to Bridport's hopes tomorrow and Senior has ruled out the possibility of adding a new face to his striking options.
"We've played with the same system for the last three or four years and done okay so it's all about goals really," he added.
"If Ryan isn't scoring it's hard to see where our goals are going to come from. He's got 10 this season and hasn't played in all the games and he might not be there on Saturday."
Melksham are only three places and two points above Bridport in the table but have played three games fewer.
Since the draw with Brid-port on December 1, Melk-sham also earned a point from a 1-1 stalemate against Bris-lington last Saturday.
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Daniel Ricciardo says he has a fighting chance of a podium in Belgium
Red Bull hope low downforce gamble pays dividends
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Daniel Ricciardo reckons he has a fighting chance of a podium finish in Sunday's Belgian GP after overcoming a hairy moment in qualifying to line up fifth.
In wet conditions, the Australian got out of shape through the high-speed Blanchimont corner during the closing moments of Q3 but recovered sufficiently well to post his fastest time.
Like Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel, who lines up third behind Mercedes pair Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton, Ricciardo has opted for a low downforce set-up in order to try and minimise the power deficit engine supplier Renault has to rivals around the mighty 7.004km Spa circuit.
Whilst admitting that Red Bull were probably helped by the rain at a track where they've expected to struggle, Ricciardo still sees no reason why he shouldn't make progress in the race, having also shown good long-run pace in practice.
"Top five was a good result for us," said the 25-year-old, who claimed his first F1 career win on another 'power' track, Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, earlier in the summer.
"Obviously maybe without a mistake it could have been a bit better but in these conditions it's inevitable you're always going to make a mistake."
Red Bull's plan is to boost their car's top speed through the first and third sectors, which are dominated by straights.
"We've banked a little bit on a dry race so we've set the car up a bit more for that. In a nutshell, we've taken downforce off it," Ricciardo explained.
"That's burned us today, I think, but in race conditions it should be the right call.
"With the way our straightline speed is, especially with the long straights here, we need to have a chance of fighting, whether it's moving forward or defending."
By the sounds of it, the plan also involves Red Bull making their drivers earn every penny of their salaries through the middle sector, where high downforce is the preferred option.
"It keeps you awake – to say the least," Ricciardo quipped.
The 25-year-old, who currently lies third in the standings after also winning last time out in Hungary, added: "Third is what I'll aim for and if Mercedes decide to give us a chance then I'll take more.
"I think Seb, Fernando [Alonso, fourth], me, Valtteri [Bottas, sixth]; there's a few of us who can fight for that third place. I think it's going to be a good battle to watch."
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You've heard it all before, and we all know how Sins gets slower and slower the bigger the map is and the longer you play it.
The one dark cloud that hangs over Sins, an otherwise (in my opinion) perfect game, is the fact that even with a modern gaming rig I can't play medium-large, large, or huge maps for longer than a few hours before the entire match slows to an intolerable crawl and becomes impossible to finish. My vast interstellar empire building ends up being a pointless exercise, because the bigger it is and the more ships I field, the slower and more unplayable the game becomes. Watching the seconds tick by upon scuttling something is like watching life play out in slow motion... it can literally take 3+ seconds just for 1 realtime second to pass. My video card barely gets used in this game, but my CPU gasps for dear life. If I want to be sure I have a consistently smooth game I have to play a small or medium-sized map with a small fleet size, and have to set the AI difficulty pretty low or they end up having too high of a resource bonus and build huge fleets anyway. For a game based around building empires and engaging in massive fleet battles, it is almost unbearable that I can't play it the way I want to play it.
Why can't I just make a colossal map with tons of stars and hundreds of planets and 7 Viscious AI's and not have to worry about never finishing it? Every couple of months I get the itch to create a space empire and engage in some epic fleet battles, so I come back to Sins because nothing scratches that itch like some good old Sins, the greatest space RTS ever. However, without fail I only play it for a few days, maybe a week and then quit in frustration because the slowdown ruins my epic space empire dreams.
I know I sound like a broken record since this subject has been done to death, but I thought multi-core support was supposed to be added with Rebellion. Maybe I was just wishing it was going to be added.
Is this a dream we are going to have to wait a few more years for when Sins 2 comes out?
I believe the devs have said a few times it isn't going to happen.
I'd imagine multi core support would require massive engine overhauling. When the game engine was first made, I think single cores were still the norm for gaming. Unfortunately, at that time it was right before multi core CPU's became the new standard, hence we have an engine that only uses one core.
Unless ICO decides to drop one heck of a patch for rebllion, we're probably not gonna see multi core support till sins 2.
Hope that after or during the development of Sins of a Dark Age, the Iron Engine gets an overhaul (or a successor) because otherwise, no and even if those things happened, that would only apply to Sins II.
Sins I will not have multi-core support.
Yup, we'll have to wait for a sequel with an all new engine (which it will have). Sadly we have no idea when that might be.
That makes me sad. I knew that would be the answer, but I still harbored a tiny shred of hope.
The dev's have stated numerous times that while they want to do it. The time, money, and manpower is just not there to cost effectively make Sins multi core compatible. They said if they went that rout they might as well make a new game engine from scratch. AKA Sins 2.
As disappointing as that is for some, Enjoy Sins for what it is. The hope is there. It just needs a new engine for it to manifest itself.
The best you can do is hope for this in Sins 2, where us people with super godlike gaming rigs can play gigantic maps of hundreds of star systems.
I do believe a Linux power user was able to get some sketchy multi-core action going on...doesn't do me any good but if anyone knows where that thread is, some others may be interested...
Sins of a Solar Empire II, if they do it, will probably have 64 bit multi-core capabilities and High Definition. If it does, I'm buying 3 more 4 GB ram sticks!
I forgot to add that making a game 64 bit isn't easy. Go into SoaSE's folder. See all of the .DLL files? They need to be 64 bit. I think that Bink doesn't have 64 bit video player, nor does the Firelight Technologies have a 64 bit version of FMOD.DLL . Don't even get started with the statically linked libraries, and having to fix the code to accommodate 64 bit Windows API and stuff like that.
As a matter of fact, there are some Steam DLL files in there, and we all know Steam isn't 64 bit. Valve said that they won't make Steam 64 bit in a long time.
Filesoft or Thomusin is what he is called and most of his posts are in 7DS thread
This engine is garbage... I cant play the game on my epic gaming rig as the effects cuts out early in the game. This leaves me with a game where i no longer can see swarms of missiles/lazers + + + cuss the game cuts them out for some reason. I thought it might have changed with rebellion, but i guess not.
Lazy and poorly executed. (I have 2 gaming rigs, neither can play the game without the effects dissapearing, but my 4year old crappy laptop plays it like a god. Where is the logic?)
Lol, this engine is outdated, not garbage.
Four years old, no?
Well, Sins was released four years ago, but the Iron Engine would have come before that.
I gotta say I only found this game in the past few weeks (had heard of the precursor but never tried) I love strat, but this game is frustrating. It seems like it could easily be an epic game with just a few changes like multi-core support and some UI tweaks and such. Awesome game, but completely frustrating it only uses 1 core etc..
Yeah the engine is pretty damned good actually, handling hundreds of units at once without throwing a fit isn't as easy to do as you might think, but no multicore does kinda suck when one is dealing with hundreds of units
lol I am a game dev and the team I'm on built its own engine (something I wasn't involved with, but I still heard plenty of cries of frustration lol). The main reason that the IE is "outdated" is that it is single threaded and is 32 bit. When it was made, they didn't expect those things to be as popular as they were and they wanted to have it as available as possible to consumers. Had they had a crystal ball, maybe they'd have futureproofed it more, but for what they did, the IE really is a good engine, not even close to garbage. It does what it does very very well. The main problem is that a lot of modern engines do more because they utilize multithreading and 64 bit.
The IE is a very good engine IMO when you consider the features that other engines exploit that it lacks.
Be damn, I am willing to pay/donate to kickstarter if they came come up price or goal to make this happen....
Just so everyone is aware, "multi-threading" a single-threaded process without having it crash constantly is widely considered to be impossible (or at least cost-prohibitive). You can't rewrite your architecture and keep your code intact.
The best thing Ironclad can do right now is offer up some realistic guidelines as to how players should set up their comp-stomping sessions. Your mileage may vary of course, but if 8-player galaxies are just not going to work, then it's better to say so ahead of time.
Not really going to help. Apparently such an undertaking would take their small team a year of work if I remember what was once said correctly.
Yea, rather than re-architect the existing engine in a multithreaded way, the best bet would just to put those resources into a new multithreaded engine built from the ground up. Add in a 64-bit executable as well, pretty please.
Architecting a multi-threaded app almost has to be done from the very beginning of the design. Anytime one thread needs to communicate with another thread it is an incredibly complicated procedure in the code. And putting that thread communication signaling logic into an existing code base is more work than writing it from the ground up.
Look here
And consider thats just a high level general example of all the signal wrapping code that needs to be done around the actual game code logic itself. Not to mention an entire set of logic you need to think about that just revolves around the communication between threads. And of course the original architecting about what should be running in its own thread. Oh yeah the part where u actually test to see if having something in its own thread is actually faster (all that signal wrapping code cause problems and potential performance loss).
So, is it possible to play huge maps at all?...
Yes, but if your cores aren't too good, expect lag.
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The Born This Way performer has been asked to appear on Madge's MDNA Tour but she is currently tied up with her own performances.
Quoted by the Daily Mirror, Gaga's manager Vincent Herbert said: 'Madonna just called to ask Gaga to perform with her at Yankee Stadium. Her manager reached out to us and said Madonna would like Gaga to perform with her.
'She really wished she could do it. She said "if we do it, let's donate the money to charity". But Gaga's committed to her own tour.'
The two flamboyant performers appear to have a lot in common, including their love of wearing risque outfits on stage.
Both are renowned for putting on spectacular shows for their army of fans, and Madonna even accused her 26-year-old pretender of copying parts of Express Yourself in the hit single Born This Way.
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Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes: > Right, because assigning to a table column is an "assignment" cast --- > which has more liberal rules, because either you can coerce the value > to the table column's type or you're going to fail anyway. So the > system will take the integer literal and try to downcast to smallint, > and if that doesn't work then the query was doomed anyhow. This one sank in last night when I re-read the docs for CREATE CAST. > Coercion of a value to match a function argument is a different matter; > the system will not choose a coercion that is "surprising" in any way > or has the potential to fail due to issues such as range limitations. > The reason for the difference in behavior is probably not very obvious > when you have only one possible function to match, but we need this > restriction in order for things to behave sanely with overloaded > functions (or operators). The text in chapter 10 expands on that a > bit. This is exactly what was confusing us; we aren't using function overloading so at the time it seemed like it should just work. I think I finally understand it again re-reading chapter 10 again. Thanks, Matt
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