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There is a lineup of tired people waiting to see Ronald Andris in the public library foyer and a list written in red ink on the wall to remind the deputy mayor of priority tasks: recover bodies, identify victims, inspect buildings, fix the electricity and co-ordinate the throng of aid organizations that have infiltrated his city.
Mr. Andris doesn't need a list to remind him of Jacmel's troubles, which reel through his mind all day, and in Technicolor while he tries to sleep at night. When he gets a few moments of time to himself, he prefers to think about the unseen good the earthquake has done to his seaside town.
"The earthquake helped us to reconsider the relations between people, between each class and how we treat each other," he says, standing beneath the frozen gaze of Haitian President René Préval, whose portrait graces the wall of the library foyer where the deputy mayor set up a makeshift office along with other local officials after City Hall collapsed.
"The earthquake is a bad thing, but we have to build a new society where you have solidarity and more equality. … We can take the earthquake as the opportunity."
It has been nearly a month since the quake crippled southern Haiti and a semblance of order is re-emerging in even the hardest hit cities - markets are bustling, banks are opening and in Jacmel, kids have reclaimed the cemetery as a place for kite-flying instead of mourning.
Day by day though, questions about the country's future weigh more heavily; worries have begun to grow over what will become of an already feeble government once the aid and military organizations begin to withdraw, including the large contingent of Canadian Forces.
In Jacmel, the seaside city that has been known for decades as the country's cultural gem, the realization has long dawned that the international aid fuelling the city is finite. So has the recognition that its society was broken long before the quake.
Leaders such as Mr. Andris are speaking out about the need to promote self-sufficiency if Haitians are going to negotiate a better future.
But their idealism rubs up against a deeply entrenched culture of dependency, one that non-government organizations say is a constant frustration. Allowed to persist, it threatens to sink the impoverished island to a new depth of desperation.
"We were in a catastrophe before this ever happened," says Bob Davisson, an Albertan who runs the Jacmel-based charity Life Line Haiti, which has for years supported several schools and orphanages in and around the city. "My concern is the future."
There are many who share that concern. For years, as Haiti's problems slid on and off the international radar, the country has remained heavily dependent on aid organizations. Jacmel, with a population of about 50,000 people, is no different. Those with experience on the ground here say that in Haiti, to make progress, responsibility needs to be handed back to the Haitians.
"It's not sustainable if we do it for them," says Sarah Wallace, a 24-year-old Alberta native who has been practising midwifery and pre-natal education in Jacmel for more than two years.
Fluent in Creole, Ms. Wallace spent the days after the earthquake helping co-ordinate the mass of military and non-government aid flooding into the city's overwhelmed airport. She has reduced her involvement in recent days in order to get back to her work. But she's frustrated with both the flood of aid and the willingness of locals to rely so completely on it.
At Pinchinet, the packed soccer field that is now home to several thousand of Jacmel's displaced people, the population has been swelling each day as word spreads that people living at the field get free food and medical care. Many families have joined the camp even though their homes are habitable. They'll likely stay, development workers say, until the freebies run out.
Among Haitians, the destruction caused by the earthquake has raised doubts that they are truly agents of their own fate.
"The earthquake was a sign for everybody to be conscious of God's strength," says Dieucin Marcelin, the pastor responsible for Église Baptiste Stricte de Jacmel, the city's oldest church.
Looking frazzled and rumpled with his shirt half tucked in, Mr. Marcelin stood Wednesday in the makeshift church he set up beneath a patchwork of tarps behind the historic 1845 building, which partially collapsed in the quake. It was branded with a red, spray painted circle with a dot in the centre - the mark of a condemned building in these post-quake days. He estimates it will cost $700,000 (U.S.) to rebuild his church. Just saying it out loud deepens the worry lines creasing his brow.
Across the yard, Helen Desir, a mother of four, spent the late morning watching two of her daughters braid hair. She shuffled her family into an abandoned building next to the church a few weeks ago when their home collapsed. Their new place resembles a windowless shed. Still, she managed to bring along her six-piece dining table and a sheath of plastic to cover the lace tablecloth. She salvaged birth certificates and a few pieces of china, plus the Bible, hangers for their clothes and a single poster bed.
During the day though, the family has no place to go. They stay in the yard behind the church lounging on pews, which is fine with Ms. Desir.
It keeps her close to God.
"Right now everybody's living in a sad moment. Everybody has turned their lives over to Jesus," she says, noting that she too believes the earthquake was "God's work." That widespread impression has been deepened by the government's lack of visibility in recent weeks.
"The people in the government haven't come to visit. The only people that have visited are the internationals," complains Midi Jackson, a father of five and a businessman whose life is on hold until his family can find the means to move out of their neighbourhood tent encampment, Abri Pwovizwa Shelter, which is marked "temporary" on its new wooden sign, along Rue La Comédie.
"The government should be responsible for helping and providing," he says, pointing out city officials "themselves are having a hard time." Mr. Jackson says the only hope for recovery here is if the international community steps in with "a durable plan."
Mr. Andris, the deputy mayor, concedes that point, but says it's not for lack of want.
"We don't control the city," he says, glumly. "And we don't wish for that."
Asked what Haiti needs, wide-eyed bread maker Charles Julifet shrugs and says the decision was best left in God's hands, a reflection of both Haitians' deep religiosity - but also of their sense of powerless to guide their own destiny.
"What we want to happen might not happen," he says. "When God makes a change for people, it's always for the better."


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PCS 601–02: Performing Physical Inventories
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Locating Equipment Having Dummy Numbers
Equipment that is difficult or impossible to tag may be assigned a "dummy ASU Property Control number (PCN)" beginning with a "9" (e.g., 9003564), rather than be tagged with a PCN. These dummy numbers, however, cannot be scanned with a barcode scanner.
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Taekwondo Instructor Cannot Break Boards, Gives Worst Demonstration of All TimeAugust 5, 2013
Here it is, everyone—the first martial arts demonstration to ever make grown men laugh and children run away in tears.
A Scottish taekwondo instructor recently attempted to put on a clinic for a group of young martial arts enthusiasts. The demonstration quickly devolved into a scene of futility, however, and the results were busted knuckles, tears and an increasingly awkward video of a man being defeated by a piece of wood.
The video begins with the instructor attempting—and failing—to punch through a wooden board. No big deal. Wooden boards, by nature, aren't particularly easy to destroy with your bare hands. Even the pros mess up, and the crowd is willing to grant the man a mulligan.
Problems begin soon after, however, as the sensei fails with his second and third punches. His fist sounds like a Beanie Baby hitting drywall, and the blows are doing more damage to his ego than to the board's surface.
Children watch as the struggle continues, and things take a dive into the Sea of Sadness after the instructor attempts a forward high kick. The blow barely touches the board, and his Keds paw feebly against the wood on the near miss.
Something is wrong here, and the instructor decides the problem is obvious—his power is uncontainable, and he needs more people to hold the board.
Two men grab the board, another kick is delivered and—huzzah!—a chip of wood splinters and goes flying directly into a young girl's face. At this point even the local livestock were probably staring in disbelief.
Image via 4GIFs.com
The girl begins crying and walks off camera followed by her instructor. Surely, at this point, the instructor will end the demonstration and walk away, right?
The instructor continues, failing on several more kicks and hitting one of his volunteer's hands in the process.
Sometimes it's best to quit when you're behind.
Join me on Twitter, where this man certainly states his case and gets a Web Redemption.


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GOP presidential debate slated for next october
A Republican presidential debate will be held in October in Orlando, more than a year before the 2012 election. The Republican Party of Florida and Fox News announced Monday they'll jointly sponsor the debate. The debate will be carried live on the Fox News Channel, Fox News Radio, Fox News Mobile and FoxNews.com.
Florida panther fatally hit on road
A young Florida panther was struck and killed Sunday evening. The 8- to 9-month-old male panther was hit by a vehicle along a Hendry County road in southwest Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said. It was the 21st Florida panther death recorded this year. Officials say 16 of the panthers have been struck and killed by vehicles. Scientists believe fewer than 120 Florida panthers remain in the wild, though they are running out of habitat.
60,000 Haitians apply to stay here
About 60,000 Haitians have applied for permission to temporarily stay and work in the United States while their Caribbean homeland recovers from an earthquake, a cholera outbreak and unrest after a disputed presidential vote. The deadline for Haitians to apply for temporary protected status is Jan. 18. Only those who were already living in the United States illegally when the earthquake struck 11 months ago are eligible. Temporary protected status allows immigrants from countries experiencing armed conflict or environmental disasters to stay and work in the United States for 18 months. Officials have said they expected 70,000 to 100,000 Haitians to apply before the deadline.
Woman charged in cat cruelty case
A central Florida woman faces animal cruelty charges after police say she locked six cats in a closet. Five of the cats died. Faint meows led a police officer to the closet, which was barricaded shut with a toolbox. The officer was called to the home Thursday by a Brevard County animal enforcement officer who was investigating another complaint. Palm Bay police Officer George Santiago found the starving, flea-infested cat inside the closet alongside the decomposing remains of five cats. Police say 30-year-old Suzanne Fountain was charged with five counts of cruelty to animals and one count of abandonment to die.
Purse in gunman case back on eBay
Bidding has resumed for a purse a woman used to hit a gunman at a Panhandle School Board meeting. The website eBay had stopped the auction Friday because it didn't meet the legal requirements for a charitable listing. But that issue has been resolved and the brown handbag is again up for grabs. Its owner, board member Ginger Littleton, used the purse to whack the gunman's arm. Though Littleton wasn't able to disarm Clay Duke, the purse became a hit. Proceeds will go to a charity run by Mike Jones, the district security chief who wounded the gunman, who then killed himself, last week. The auction is set to end Wednesday.
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Mr. DAVIS of Illinois. First of all, I want to thank the gentlelady from the Virgin Islands for her leadership in convening and anchoring these sessions that we hold each week. I also want to commend and pay tribute to Representative Bobby Scott for the tremendous leadership and work that he provides each year in helping the Congressional Black Caucus analyze, synthesize, and look seriously at how we move forward as we prepare a budget.
As has already been indicated, budgets are indications of priorities--what is it that you're really hoping to do; what do you really hope to accomplish. And so this budget I view as a tremendously positive alternative to any of our budgets that I have seen at this time. So I rise in strong support of the Congressional Black Caucus' FY 2013 alternative budget.
February's job report reveals 3 months of strong jobs growth in America. And while there is a sigh of relief for millions of consumers and the unemployed moving from the sidelines in search of work with hopes that their prospects will improve, there is little change for the 5.4 million long-term unemployed, 8.1 million involuntary part-time workers, and marginally attached individuals no longer in the labor force who wanted and were available for work and who looked for a job at some point during the last 12 months.
And so it becomes obvious that any budget should have at its core job-creation opportunities so that people can experience this opportunity, or this commodity, that we call work.
Appearances of an economy poised for growth does little for underserved minorities residing in disinvested communities blighted with high rates of joblessness, poor-performing schools, poverty, and crime. Indeed, the promise of a new day and new hopes are few and far
between for poor and low-income workers, generally, and returning citizens with barriers to employment in particular.
Indeed, over the past decade, the poor in America have gotten poorer. And, of course, the wealthy have gotten wealthier. Those called ``middle class'' have been squeezed to the point where they're teetering and certainly could go in either direction, that is, up with the right kinds of opportunities and down with the wrong kinds of opportunities.
I don't believe that we can afford in good conscience to continue to turn a blind eye to census figures and monthly data reports of the economic injustices and suffering being imposed upon a growing number of people. Moreover, we cannot continue to hold a great Nation hostage for the sake of a few while millions suffer. If we're truly going to address the crisis in America and put all Americans back to work and reduce poverty, we must create a mixture of universal and targeted programs capable of weathering political obstacles.
The Congressional Black Caucus alternative budget is a means to this end. Indeed, the CBC budget safeguards investment in public education, Pell Grants, and transportation vital to equipping minority youth and adults with skill sets so that they can obtain and maintain access to gainful sustainable employment in our ever-changing global economy; and also by renovating and building new schools and investing an additional $50 billion in transportation and infrastructure in 2013 and $155 billion above the President's budget over the next decade, repairing and building bridges across lakes, rivers, and streams, but also bridges to opportunity.
The Congressional Black Caucus budget protects the health care safety net programs that have been developed. It also protects Second Chance funding while restoring funding to Department of Justice programs for citizens who are returning home from jail and prison with serious barriers to employment.
We hold these truths to be self-evident that if America is to become the America that it has never been but the America that all of us hope for and know that it can be, then we would take the principles encased in the Congressional Black Caucus budget and comply those to whatever budgets are ultimately passed.
So, again, I want to commend Mr. Scott, and I want to thank Delegate Christensen.
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ARNOLD Schwarzenegger was once quoted his famous catchphrase by a man in the
next toilet cubicle.
The screen legend popped into The Sun HQ earlier today to christen our new
studio and answer your questions in a live webchat.
He said: "I was sitting one day on the toilet and next door I heard a
loud fart, then I heard the toilet flushing, then someone spitting and then
all of a sudden. 'I'll be back!'
Click here to watch the full video of Arnold Schwarzenegger's webchat with
Gordon Smart and answering questions from Sun readers
"The door opened up and I thought, 'That figures. In the toilet!' I get
quoted in really weird places."
He added: "I've been to the toilet with presidents and political leaders,
with famous actors and athletes, all kinds of people."
Then he joked: "We hold each other …"
The 65-year-old action star has returned to the screen in his first leading
role for a decade.
He battles the escaped boss of a Mexican drug cartel in his new movie, The
Last Stand, which also stars Jackass prankster Johnny Knoxville.
And he revealed the legendary joker didn't dare play a trick on the big man.
He joked: "I forbade him. I told him the payback would be very painful."
The movie contains a series of shoot-outs and the Terminator star was asked
about his take on movie violence, in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre.
He said: "'I think movies are movies and what's in the real world is in
the real world.
"But having said that I think it's extremely important that whenever we
have a tragedy like that, I think we all have to get together and think
about it in an open-minded way and just say 'Let's look at everything. Is
there anything we can do in order to minimise these kinds of incidents?'
Because there are so many lives that have been lost.
"If it is looking at gun laws, looking at safety in schools, if it's to
look at mental illnesses, parenting, education. All of these things ought to
be looked at in a comprehensive way, debated over and hopefully improved.
That's the way we ought to move forward."
The Austrian-born actor began his career as a bodybuilder before moving to the
US where he landed his first acting role in the 1970 film Hercules in New
Eighties blockbuster, Conan the Barbarian, made him a household name and, in
1984, the title role in James Cameron's sci-fi thriller The Terminator
catapulted him onto the A-list.
As well as two Terminator sequels, Arnie starred in several hit movies
including Predator, Red Heat, and Total Recall.
In 2003, Arnie was voted in as Governor of California, putting his movie
career on hold while he was in office.
He returned to the big screen with a cameo in Sylvester Stallone's 2010 hit
The Expendables and took a larger role in its sequel last year.
The Last Stand sees his return as leading man, for the first time since
Terminator 3 in 2003.
And it kick-starts an action-packed return – six more movies already in the
They include Triplets – a sequel to the comedy Twins with Danny DeVito – and
plans for a fifth Terminator movie.


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The Prime Minister has recommended that the Security Intelligence Service stops monitoring the activities of sitting MPs.
John Key has released a report that the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security made into the SIS continuing to hold a file on the Green MP Keith Locke.
Inspector-General Paul Neazor says the SIS should stop the practice of keeping open files on MPs.
Mr Key, who is the minister responsible for the service, says he cannot instruct it to stop, but he has passed on the recommendation to SIS director Warren Tucker.
He says he intends to ask Mr Neazor to conduct another review in six months to see whether the SIS has followed the recommendation.
Mr Key says the report makes clear that other MPs are also being monitored, but essentially it just means the intelligence service has been collecting news stories about their activities.
Keith Locke says he is pleased with the report and the subsequent recommendation.
He says the SIS has been guilty of monitoring the activities of people because of their political beliefs, not because they pose any danger to the country's security.
Dr Tucker says the SIS will move to implement the report's recommendations, including the need for new protocols for MPs and closing the files on people who become MPs.


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There is no provision that stops borrowers from making payments during that time, which means borrowers don't really get help in this time period. And if the city decides to abandon the case, it is responsible for the lender's attorney fees. Burg cites an example of the city of Oakland, Calif trying to acquire the Oakland Raiders professional football team when it was decided to move the franchise to Los Angeles. The city lost and ended up paying $3.2 million in legal fees to the Raiders' attorneys. It also entered into a $4 million settlement with the football team which had demanded $26 million in damages because the city had blocked its move to L.A. and deprived it of revenue. Add to this the very real threat that banks could curtail credit to Richmond and you see how the risks add up. The proponents of the proposal say this is an empty threat, because banks will be violating fair lending rules. But actually investors in mortgage-backed securities take into account state foreclosure laws and other rules that increase the cost of lending all the time. Fannie and Freddie for instance have proposed raising guarantee fees in states that have an unduly long judicial foreclosure process. If investors believe there is a risk that a city would seize mortgage loans because the borrowers are under water, they have the right to shun loans originated in those communities. And poor demand from the secondary market will have the effect of curtailing credit in these areas. At best, the proposal smacks of desperation, as Richmond officials are trying to find ways to revive housing and the local economy. "The government, encouraged by a private entity
MRP , is trying to solve this problem. But this isn't the way it can solve it," says Burg. -- Written by Shanthi Bharatwaj in New York. >Contact by Email. Follow @shavenk
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The FTC issued revised guidance on "green claims" in October 2012.
Of interest is its guidance on claims that a product is free of some toxin. In its fact sheet, the FTC states:
"Marketers can make a free-of claim for a product that contains some amount of a substance if:
1. the product doesn't have more than trace amounts or background levels of the substance;
2. the amount of substance present doesn't cause harm that consumers typically associate with the substance; and
3. the substance wasn't added to the product intentionally
It would be deceptive to claim that a product is "free-of" a substance if it is free of one substance but includes another that poses a similar environmental risk.
If a product doesn't contain a substance, it may be deceptive to claim the product is "free‑of" that substance if it never has been associated with that product category."


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Oxford researchers are turning to virtual reality to visualize genes and regulatory elements, Phys.org says.
In Science this week: neutrophils rely on microRNA to protect against lung inflammation, and more.
China is moving forward with plans to sequence a million citizens, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Packers CB Williams key on Steelers' drive
Posted: Sunday, February 6th, 2011 | Pat Kirwan Tags: Tramon Williams, Ben Roethlisberger, Charles Woodson, Heath Miller, James Harrison
The Steelers went on a 12-play drive and only got three points. To me that is not good. You have to come up with more than three points.


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Australia has more than their fair share of ratbag politicians. Perhaps it is to be expected with so much convict stock. Most of the ratbags seem to have coalesce in the Labor party but occasionally one is found in other parties:
Former NSW premier Nick Greiner was "evasive and hostile" when asked to give evidence over his involvement in an elaborate bid-rigging deal between two companies of which he was a director, a federal court judge said.
The two companies are mining services firm Bradken and private equity group CHAMP, a subsidiary of Castle Harlan.
Mr Greiner, the current chair of Infrastructure NSW, and Bradken's managing director, Brian Hodges, were involved in Bradken's "misleading or deceptive conduct", the judge said.
Mr Greiner, Bradken and Mr Hodges, were last week ordered to pay $21.6 million to Swiss company Pala. The judge found Mr Greiner had used his positions at the two companies to hoodwink Pala into selling its mining-parts manufacturer – Norcast– for less than it was worth.
Mr Greiner was on the board of both Castle Harlan, which purchased Norcast from Pala, and Bradken, which purchased Norcast from Castle Harlan seven hours later.
In reasons for her judgment, which were supressed until now to allow both parties to redact commercially sensitive information, Justice Michelle Gordon said Mr Greiner had intimate knowledge of the deal which resulted in his affiliated firm winning a "fee".
"Put simply, Greiner was involved and had knowledge of the essential elements from the start to the finish," she said.
"(His) subjective, operative purpose was equally to ensure that Castle Harlan (of which Mr Greiner is affiliated) made a bid."
Bradken expressed an interest in buying Norcast in 2011.
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We demonstrate a compact interferometric lithography nanopatterning tool based on an amplitude division interferometer (ADI) and a wavelength desktop size capillary discharge laser. The system is designed to print arrays of lines, holes, and dots with sizes below on high resolution photoresists for the fabrication of arrays of nanostructures with physical and biological applications. The future combination of this ADI with high repetition rate tabletop lasers operating at shorter wavelengths should allow the printing of arrays of sub- size features with a tabletop setup.
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text: On 2012-03-14, at 2:53 AM, Scott Sinclair wrote: > Thanks for getting this rolling. I'd really like to see the scipy.org > domain pointed at scipy.github.com, but the cookbook and topical > software pages are the main sticking point since they contain lots of > useful (and sometimes not so useful) content that needs to be > organized in some manner. Scipy Central seems like a good candidate > for this. +1. I think the logo looks great, Matthew's observation notwithstanding. :) David


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Return on investment. It's the compilation of metrics that are used to determine whether an activity or expenditure is worthwhile for a business. Over the last 4 years, social media has been at the center of ROI debates between marketers, company executives, and gurus across the spectrum.
We know that people are using social media, but is there a real ROI associated with it? Are people going there simply to hang out without being bothered by businesses, or is there room for marketing, branding, advertising, and engagement? There are case studies that point in both directions; some say it's a waste while others say it's the golden ticket.
This video by our friends at MDG Advertising breaks down the concepts and trends associated with social media as a marketing tool.
Video by MDG Advertising.


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Psychic & Fitness Expert in Hott Water!
by Jamie Hale
Psychic busted again
The following quote is from Consumer Health Digest #10-07
February 18, 2010 (Consumer Health Digest is a free weekly e-mail newsletter edited by Stephen Barrett, M.D., with help from William M. London, Ed.D)
A detailed three-year study of alleged psychic Sylvia Browne's predictions about missing persons and murder cases has found that despite her repeated claims to be more than 85% correct, Browne has not even been mostly correct in a single case. The study's authors collected Browne's televised statements about 115 cases and compared them with newspaper reports that are believed to be factual. They found that in 25 cases where the actual outcome is known, she was dead wrong in every one; and in the rest, where the final outcome is unknown, her predictions could not be substantiated. The study indicates that the media outlets that repeatedly promote Browne's work have no visible concern about whether she is untrustworthy or harms people.
[Shafer R, Jadwiszczok A. Psychic defective: Sylvia Browne's history of failure. Skeptical Inquirer 34(2):38-42, 2010]
Sylvia Browne is the so-called psychic that has made numerous appearances on the Montel Williams show. The following quote is from the Stop Sylvia Browne website, On February 6 2007, Lt. Colonel Hal Bidlack (Ret) mailed a letter to Montel Williams, asking him some serious questions regarding Williams' continued support of Sylvia Browne. Open Letter to Montel Williams: An Answer?
Sylvias predictions have proven highly unreliable, but she still charges $850 for a phone reading. However, she is Sylvia Browne- a real psychic- and Unlike some pseudo-psychics who tell people that their problems are caused by curses, evil entities, demons, or karmic retribution neither Sylvia nor Chris will blame the negative occurrences on your life on these things, and each of them feel it is important to advise their clients to not believe in such things. They do not exist. Sylvia Browne's Psychic Readings
Seriously, pseudo-psychics?
If I could ask Sylvia (the real psychic) one question, it would be- why havent you collected the one million dollars James Randi has been offering you for years? If you really believe in your psychic ability why not make an easy million?
In 2001, Sylvia said she would take Randi up on his one million dollar challenge- a challenge that states if you can demonstrate supernatural abilities in a controlled scientific study you will receive one million dollars. At this time, Browne has still not taken the challenge. She has made various excuses for why she hasnt participated in the challenge. To entice Browne, Randi even changed the rules of the challenge when he offered to put the money in an escrow account and make Montel Williams and Larry King, both Browne supporters, the escrow agents
Check out Robert S. Lancasters website
Stop Sylvia Browne
Stop Sylvia Browne
Fitness expert in the hott seat!
So-called fitness expert from NBC-TVs reality show, The Biggest Loser is being sued for falsely advertising that her Jillian Michaels Maximum Strength Calorie Control will provide automatic weight loss if taken before meals. Christie Christensen of Lake Elsinore, California has filed a class-action lawsuit against Jillian Michaels and two companies [Thincare International and Basic Research, LL] that market her products
Jillian Michaels Sued for False Advertising
False advertising by weight loss, or supplement companies is nothing new. It may actually be the norm. This doesnt make it right, but, in my opinion it means many other celebs and companies should also be sued.
Let me make it clear, I am not defending Michaels or her false assertions. I think Michaels should be fined and barred from the fitness industry, along with others participating in false ad campaigns.


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At Saturday night's TV tapings, ROH announced that the next tapings are Feb 2nd in Baltimore, MD. This clashes with the previously announced National Pro Wrestling Day, where ROH was supposed to send a showcase match featuring The Briscoe Brothers vs. SCUM (Jacobs and Corino).
At this time, the ROH match is scheduled for the afternoon event, which means that The Briscoe Brothers, Jacobs and Corino could still make it to Baltimore for the tapings that night.


text: Hi Gael, Thanks for your email. I appreciate the detailed response. Please don't mis-interpret my distaste for the scikit namespace as anything more than organizational. I'm very impressed with most of the scikits themselves: scikit-learn being a particular favorite. It is very clear to most people that smaller teams and projects is useful for diverse collaboration and very effective to involve more people in development. This is all very good and I'm very encouraged by this development. Even in the SciPy package itself, active development happens on only a few packages which have received attention from small teams. Of course, the end user wants integration so the more packages exist the more we need tools like EPD, ActivePython, Python(X,Y), and Sage (and corresponding repositories like CRAN). The landscape is much better in this direction than it was earlier, but packaging and distribution is still a major weak-point in Python. I think the scientific computing community should continue to just develop it's own packaging solutions. I've been a big fan of David Cournapeau's work in this area (bento being his latest effort). Your vision of a bazaar model is a good one. I just think we need to get scipy itself more into that model. I agree it's useful to have a core-set of common functionality, but I am quite in favor of moving to a more tight-knit core for the main scipy package with additional scipy-*named* packages (e.g. scipy-odr), etc. These can install directly into the scipy package infrastructure (or use whatever import mechanisms the distributions desire). This move to more modular packages for SciPy itself, has been in my mind for a long time which is certainly why I see the scikits name-space as superfluous. But, I understand that branding means something. So, my (off the top of my head) take on what should be core scipy is: fftpack stats io special optimize] linalg lib.blas lib.lapack misc I think the other packages should be maintained, built and distributed as scipy-constants scipy-integrate scipy-cluster scipy-ndimage scipy-spatial scipy-odr scipy-sparse scipy-maxentropy scipy-signal scipy-weave (actually I think weave should be installed separately and/or merged with other foreign code integration tools like fwrap, f2py, etc.) Then, we could create a scipy superpack to install it all together. What issues do people see with a plan like this? Obviously it takes time and effort to do this. But, I'm hoping to find time or sponsor people who will have time to do this work. Thus, I'd like to have the conversation to find out what people think *should* be done. There also may be students looking for a way to get involved or people interested in working on Google Summer of Code projects. Thanks, -Travis On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote: > Hi Travis, > > It is good that you are asking these questions. I think that they are > important. Let me try to give my view on some of the points you raise. > >> There are too many scikits already that should just be scipy projects > > I used to think pretty much as you did: I don't want to have to depend on > too many packages. In addition we are a community, so why so many > packages? My initial vision when investing in the scikit-learn was that > we would merge it back to scipy after a while. The dynamic of the project > has changed a bit my way of seeing things, and I now think that it is a > good thing to have scikits-like packages that are more specialized than > scipy for the following reasons: > > 1. Development is technically easier in smaller packages > > A developer working on a specific package does not need to tackle > complexity of the full scipy suite. Building can be made easier, as scipy > must (for good reasons) depend on Fortran and C++ packs. It is well known > that the complexity of developing a project grows super-linearly with the > number of lines of code. > > It's also much easier to achieve short release cycles. Short > release cycles are critical to the dynamic of a community-driven > project (and I'd like to thanks our current release manager, Ralf > Gommers, for his excellent work). > > 2. Narrowing the application domain helps developers and users > > It is much easier to make entry points, in the code and in the > documentation, with a given application in mind. Also, best practices and > conventions may vary between communities. While this is (IMHO) one of the > tragedies of contemporary science, it such domain specialization > helps people feeling comfortable. > > Computational trade offs tend to be fairly specific to a given > context. For instance machine learning will more often be interested in > datasets with a large number of features and a (comparatively) small > number of samples, whereas in statistics it is the opposite. Thus the > same algorithm might be implemented differently. Catering for all needs > tends to make the code much more complex, and may confuse the user by > presenting him too many options. > > Developers cannot be expert in everything. If I specialize in machine > learning, and follow the recent developments in literature, chances are > that I do not have time to competitive in numerical integration. Having > too wide a scope in a project means that each developer understands well > a small fraction of the code. It makes things really hard for the release > manager, but also for day to day work, e.g. what to do with a new broken > test. > > 3. It is easier to build an application-specific community > > An application specific library is easier to brand. One can tailor a > website, a user manual, and conference presentation or papers to an > application. As a result the project gains visibility in the community > of scientists and engineers it target. > > Also, having more focused mailing lists helps building enthusiasm, a they > have less volume, and are more focused on on questions that people > are interested in. > > Finally, a sad but true statement, is that people tend to get more credo > when working on an application-specific project than on a core layer. > Similarly, it is easier for me to get credit to fund development of an > application-specific project. > > On a positive note, I would like to stress that I think that the > scikit-learn has had a general positive impact on the scipy ecosystem, > including for those who do not use it, or who do not care at all about > machine learning. First, it is drawing more users in the community, and > as a result, there is more interest and money flying around. But more > importantly, when I look at the latest release of scipy, I see many of > the new contributors that are also scikit-learn contributors (not only > Fabian). This can be partly explained by the fact that getting involved > in the scikit-learn was an easy and high-return-on-investment move for > them, but they quickly grew to realize that the base layer could be > improved. We have always had the vision to push in scipy any improvement > that was general-enough to be useful across application domains. > Remember, David Cournapeau was lured in the scipy business by working on > the original scikit-learn. > >> Frankly, it makes me want to pull out all of the individual packages I >> wrote that originally got pulled together into SciPy into separate >> projects and develop them individually from there. > > What you are proposing is interesting, that said, I think that the > current status quo with scipy is a good one. Having a core collection of > numerical tools is, IMHO, a key element of the Python scientific > community for two reasons: > > * For the user, knowing that he will find the answer to most of his > simple questions in a single library makes it easy to start. It also > makes it easier to document. > > * Different packages need to rely on a lot of common generic tools. > Linear algebra, sparse linear algebra, simple statistics and signal > processing, simple black-box optimizer, interpolation ND-image-like > processing. Indeed You ask what package in scipy do people use. > Actually, in scikit-learn we use all sub-packages apart from > 'integrate'. I checked, and we even use 'io' in one of the examples. > Any code doing high-end application-specific numerical computing will > need at least a few of the packages of scipy. Of course, a package > may need an optimizer tailored to a specific application, in which > case they will roll there own, an this effort might be duplicated a > bit. But having the common core helps consolidating the ecosystem. > > So the setup that I am advocating is a core library, with many other > satellite packages. Or rather a constellation of packages that use each > other rather then a monolithic universe. This is a common strategy of > breaking a package up into parts that can be used independently to make > them lighter and hopefully ease the development of the whole. For > instance, this is what was done to the ETS (Enthought Tool Suite). And we > have all seen this strategy gone bad, for instance in the situation of > 'dependency hell', in which case all packages start depending on each > other, the installation becomes an issue and there is a grid lock of > version-compatibility bugs. This is why any such ecosystem must have an > almost tree-like structure in its dependency graph. Some packages must be > on top of the graph, more 'core' than others, and as we descend the > graph, packages can reduce their dependencies. I think that we have more > or less this situation with scipy, and I am quite happy about it. > > Now I hear your frustration when this development happens a bit in the > wild with no visible construction of an ecosystem. This ecosystem does > get constructed via the scipy mailing-lists, conferences, and in general > the community, but it may not be very clear to the external observer. One > reason why my group decided to invest in the scikit-learn was that it was > the learning package that seemed the closest in terms of code and > community connections. This was the virtue of the 'scikits' branding. For > technical reasons, the different scikits have started getting rid of this > namespace in the module import. You seem to think that the branding name > 'scikits' does not reflect accurately the fact that they are tight > members of the scipy constellationhile I must say that I am not a huge > fan of the name 'scikits', we have now invested in it, and I don't think > that we can easily move away. > > If the problem is a branding issue, it may be partly addressed with > appropriate communication. A set of links across the different web pages > of the ecosystem, and a central document explaining the relationships > between the packages might help. But this idea is not completely new and > it simply is waiting for someone to invest time in it. For instance, > there was the project of reworking the scipy.org homepage. > > Another important problem is the question of what sits 'inside' this > collection of tools, and what is outside. The answer to this question > will pretty much depend on who you ask. In practice, for the end user, it > is very much conditioned by what meta-package they can download. EPD, > Sage, Python(x,y), and many others give different answers. > > To conclude, I'd like to stress that, in my eyes, what really matters is > a solution that gives us a vibrant community, with a good production of > quality code and documentation. I think that the current set of small > projects makes it easier to gather developers and users, and that it > work well as long as they talk to each other and do not duplicate too > much each-other's functionality. If on top of that they are BSD-licensed > and use numpy as their data model, I am a happy man. > > What I am pushing for is a Bazar-like development model, in which it is > easy for various approaches answering different needs to develop in > parallel with different compromises. In such a context, I think that > Jaidev could kick start a successful and useful scikit-signal. Hopefully > this would not preclude improvements to the docs, examples, and existing > code in scipy.signal. > > Sorry for the long post, and thank you for reading. > > Gael > _______________________________________________ > SciPy-Dev mailing list > email@example.com > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev


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Jordan's chronic trade deficit shot up 35.4 percent during the first four months of this year, compared to the same period the year before, the Jordan Times reported, quoting official data.
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The President has no constitutional authority to restrict or ban certain types of weapons…period!
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The President held a press conference today and the main topics were the debt ceiling and gun control. At one point during the conference President Obama my the following statement:
"My understanding is the vice president's going to provide a range of steps that we can take to reduce gun violence," said Obama. "Some of them will require legislation, some of them I can accomplish through executive action. And so I will be reviewing those today, and as I said, I will speak in more detail to what we're going to go ahead and propose later in the week. But I'm confident that there are some steps that we can take that don't require legislation and that are within my authority as president, and where you get a step that, has the opportunity to reduce the possibility of gun violence, then i want to go ahead and take it."
Below is the clip of this response.
Mr. President if part of your plan to reduce gun violence includes restricting or banning certain types of weapons or forcing Americans to register their weapons via a national database through executive action then my response is you are inventing powers you simply do not have. The constitution does not grant you or the office you hold this power. In fact I'll take this one step further and say the constitution does not grant congress the power restrict or ban certain types of weapons because the 2nd amendment expressly forbids that body from crafting legislation that infringes on our right to bear arms.
The Constitution is very clear about what falls under the purview of the Executive Branch. See below.
Article II – The Executive Branch
Section 1 – The President
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected, as follows:
Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Amendment 12 – Choosing the President, Vice-President. Ratified 6/15/1804. The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice-President and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate;
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest Number of votes for President, shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President.
The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President, shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty-five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Amendment 20 – Presidential, Congressional Terms. Ratified 1/23/1933.
1. The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
2. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall begin at noon on the 3d day of January, unless they shall by law appoint a different day.
3. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of the term of the President, the President elect shall have died, the Vice President elect shall become President. If a President shall not have been chosen before the time fixed for the beginning of his term, or if the President elect shall have failed to qualify, then the Vice President elect shall act as President until a President shall have qualified; and the Congress may by law provide for the case wherein neither a President elect nor a Vice President elect shall have qualified, declaring who shall then act as President, or the manner in which one who is to act shall be selected, and such person shall act accordingly until a President or Vice President shall have qualified.
4. The Congress may by law provide for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the House of Representatives may choose a President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them, and for the case of the death of any of the persons from whom the Senate may choose a Vice President whenever the right of choice shall have devolved upon them.
5. Sections 1 and 2 shall take effect on the 15th day of October following the ratification of this article.
6. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States within seven years from the date of its submission.
Amendment 25 – Presidential Disability and Succession. Ratified 2/10/1967.
1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Section 2 – Civilian Power over Military, Cabinet, Pardon Power, Appointments
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments.
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.
Section 3 – State of the Union, Convening Congress
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Section 4 – Disqualification
The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.
So I pulled from the constitution all sections and amendments that pertain to the President and the Executive Branch and did NOT find any authority granted to him or the office he holds to create law through executive action. He can use executive action to enforce current laws, but he cannot create new law. So again I say the President has no constitutional authority to restrict or ban certain types of weapons…period. If he does try to do this I do see where he would be in violation of his oath to faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States. My guess is violating the constitution by inventing powers you do not have would not be in the spirit of preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution. And if that is the case, I believe impeachment would be a viable option.
Liberty forever, freedom for all!
Written by John Carey
Filed under: Uncategorized · Tags: Ban, Constitution, Executive Action, Gun Control, Presidential Authority, unconstitutional, Video
TexasFred January 14, 2013 at 5:17 PM
YOU know that, I know that, does Obama know it? That is the question… And would the SCOTUS, Senate and Congress have the whereto to stand and TELL him that?
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John Carey January 14, 2013 at 10:16 PM
Obama does know what he's doing. He's throwing something against the wall to see if it sticks and using the courts to validate it. He knows how deep the bureaucratic hole runs in DC and how long he has before the court even addresses it and he uses it against the constitution and us. This is why congress needs to act to send a message that actions such as this will not go without consequences. The reason he is so bold is because every time he has bypassed congress or usurped the constitution congress has failed to act, only emboldening him more. Look at Eric Holder. He should have been removed from his position for fast and furious. He's an AG being held in contempt and it's taking forever to make its way through the courts. They're doing the same with Benghazi…running out the clock. These people are absolutely shameless and stand for everything our grandparents fought against.
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Steve Dennis January 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM
John, you are 100% right, there is no way the president can legally issue an EO which supersedes the constitution. We will have to wait and see what he has in store for us, but if it includes banning of weapons he will have stepped way over the line and I am glad to learn that at least one congressman has come out and said he will introduce articles of impeachment it Obama tries this.
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John Carey January 14, 2013 at 10:21 PM
There should be way more than one congressman willing and ready to do this if he oversteps his constitutional authority. The only way our system works is active enforcement of the checks and balances embedded in the constitution. That includes removing Supreme Court Justices. This is why I've said they're all in it together. They have been getting away with this crap for years because no one really wants to rock the boat. These people have it made, why would they ruin a good thing. This is why we the people must act and police them because they sure will not.
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LD Jackson January 14, 2013 at 7:53 PM
I can hardly wait to see what kind of executive action Obama will take. Even though he clearly does not have the authority to do so, I'll be surprised if he doesn't try to implement some kind of ban. Just because he believes it is the "right thing to do". If he does, it will be far past the time when he needs to be called on the carpet for his actions. That call should include impeachment for violating his oath of office.
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John Carey January 14, 2013 at 10:35 PM
Well if he attempts to undermine the constitution and infringe on our rights I would definitely say his is in violation of the oath he has taken. That is enough for me to remove him, but I don't it will ever happen because the left controls the Senate. Heck over 2/3 of the Senators should be removed because they're not upholding the commitment of their oath. Clean them all out I say.
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COMPLEX CITY shared with us their Wine Concept Store which is focused around three basic concepts: the vertical, the visual, and sensitivity. The image of the vine and its linearity are the starting point of this verticality that is reflected in the facade while the curve expresses a sensitivity related to a sensory awareness that takes place during the taste of wine. More images and architects' description after the break.
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http://www.archdaily.com/257968/wine-concept-store-complex-city Alison Furuto
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French architect Olivier Brouillard (Complex City), shared with us his project Poly Morphisme, located in Pregny-Chambesy, near Geneva, Switzerland. More images and architect's description after the break.
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With the smell of burning tires still rank in the air and broken glass crunching under our feet, we made our way along Georgia St. towards Granville.
Though this was close to three hours after the Vancouver Canucks had lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final to the Boston Bruins, there were still thousands of people roaming the streets. The mindless violence that had once directed them in uniform movement like a school of malevolent fish had apparently dissipated, with smaller groups now going this way and that.
Most of them were 20-somethings, some wearing Canucks gear, most not, girls crying into cellphones and stumbling drunkenly, young men standing on corners letting go primal screams and shoving each other, screaming incoherently at strangers.
"We'll riot against you suits next, you (blanks)," screamed one girl, glaring at us wide-eyed as she passed, using the "c-word."
The sound of helicopters baffled, bouncing off the blank windows of the upper reaches of the buildings that loomed over the streets, their spotlights stabbing the darkness above.
Along with the smell of burning tires and the faint whiff of tear gas, there was a disquieting feeling -- you can only have been in the middle of something like this to know what I'm talking about -- that there were no rules, no convention, no sense. And there was the distinct possibility of a fire, an explosion, an attack from a passerby provoked by simply making eye contact or wearing the wrong clothes, even the threat of being shot.
I felt it before on the streets of Montreal after the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup in 1993 and in the spring two years ago.
That was nothing like this.
I felt it in the streets of Atlanta during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in the hours after a bomb went off in the Centennial Olympic Park.
That was closer.
Not even the presence of hundreds of police was reassuring in the streets of Vancouver. Surely there must have been a police presence earlier in the evening and that worked out well, didn't it?
At the intersection of Hornby and Georgia, I witnessed the stark reality of what had been wrought.
A young man, one shoe off and resting against the curb, was being worked on by a team of concerned paramedics. One pressed her hands in the area of his throat, obviously working to save his life. Every few seconds, his shoeless foot would spasm.
On their stomachs a few feet away, their cheeks tight to the pavement, the police stood over a couple of other young men, their hands secured behind their backs.
On the curb to the right, another young man was stretched out on his back, his friends pressing on his abdomen as an ambulance and a stretcher arrived.
These were two stabbing victims.
In what was the most bizarre and disquieting juxtapostion of the night, as that one young man might have been fighting for his life, hundreds of others his age partied on the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery maybe 75 metres away, writhing and moving to the beat of music from some unseen source. The smell of the B.C. bud hung heavy in the air.
All because a team lost a hockey game?
Spare me the rhetoric about how most Canucks fans are fine people and this was the work of a small group of interlopers.
In situations like this, a city is judged by its worst.
After seeing the aftermath of the violence, back in the relative calm of our hotel on Burrard St. (though its refined atmosphere, already taking a hit with the presence of so much sports media, was shattered along with the glass in the front doors when one miscreant kicked it out), I spoke with colleagues from Sweden and Russia, who were dumbfounded.
They once had such a glowing perception of our country. And of Vancouver.
"There are so many poor people in Russia," said my Russian colleague, "how can there be so much anger here where you have everything?"
I could only look at him and then at the floor.
I had no answer.
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AcomData E5 320GB External Desktop Storage: Slap on anotherby Purav Sanghani on August 27, 2005 12:48 PM EST
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The AcomData E5's ConstructionAcomData has taken a regular consumer level hard disk drive, the Western Digital 320GB Caviar SE with 8MB of cache and 7200RPM spindle speed, and slapped it in a 3.5" external case with two methods of connectivity: USB and FireWire. Still, the E5 is not just that. If we were to look at external devices from a few years back, we would see the same off-white colored plastic cases with serial port connectivity and no other features, but the power connection and a few flashing LEDs.
With the new generation of external devices come features such as PushButton™ Backup combined with software tailored to work with the drives to make backing up data as quick and painless as possible.
The back panel features a red power switch at the top right corner of the device, which is obviously used to turn the device on and off. Below that to the left is the USB 2.0 port and below that port are two 6-pin FireWire 400 ports aligned vertically. With the dual FireWire ports, the E5 gives us the option of daisy chaining FireWire devices to it. For example, if we have two of these E5's, all that is required is the connection between the first drive to the second by way of the FireWire cable. Now, if only we could RAID over FireWire!
The following 5 models are available from AcomData:
|Configurations for AcomData External Drives
|Model No.
|Rotational Speed
|Cache (Buffer)
|Seek Time (Read, typical)
|Interface Transfer Rate
|8.5 ms
Up to 480 Mbps (60 Megabytes/s).
FireWire 400:
Up to 400 Mbps (50 Megabytes/s).
|8.5 ms
|8.5 ms
|8.5 ms
|8.5 ms
As we see from the table, the E5 comes in a variety of flavors including USB, FireWire 400, USB/FireWire 400, and USB/FireWire 400/FireWire 800. Our test unit is a Combo A version, according to AcomData's documentation, which is the USB/FireWire 400 version of the E5.
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pcmatt1024 - Sunday, August 28, 2005 - linkaccording to the test bed setup on p. 4, the test system is running ddr2 on an amd system. what gives? Reply
deathwalker - Sunday, August 28, 2005 - linkThis device is in CompUsa's weekly sale add this morning......$199 after rebate. Reply
Ripvanwinkle - Sunday, August 28, 2005 - link"And as for thermal readings, the E5's aluminum construction did not heat up a single bit"
Of course it does not heat up but what is the HD's temp?
I have used an SATA Bytecc box for 7 months with a 3' sata cable, WD200G HD running as my XP64 play OS and for regular backups.
I see speedfan temps reach 52C.
The new small externals need better cooling, and if buying get a larg one.
kennyG - Sunday, August 28, 2005 - linkI bought about 4 weeks ago 2/250 ext Acomdata SATA drive's which come with the sata card ..I get "Great" performance..and you can raid them up for even faster speed..I bought them at CompUSA..$200 each..if you want faster than USB/Firewire try one of these..great item..
ken.. Reply
V00D00 - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - linkWhat gives? You guys should have got a few more external drives to test this one against. I must say I am dissapointed that you guys didn't even compare this with a LaCie or something. Now that would be a good review. A BUNCH of external drives. Reply
wilburpan - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - linkI was initailly excited when I saw "real world tests" in this article. But the one test I would have liked to see was missing.
If one of the goals of an external hard drive is to provide painless one button backup, then a good "real world test" would be to measure how long it takes to completely back up a hard drive with, say, 100GB of data using this system.
I was a little suprised to see how little difference there was between FireWire 400 and USB 2.0 transfer rates. Reply
Dranzerk - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - linkYou can buy a aluminum enclosure for a harddrive yourself. Most of the price preminum for this is the software.
I got a 3.5 enclosure aluminum and firewire cable, threw in a 60gig drive, hooked to matching shuttle PC, works like a charm. Less than $100. Most of these devices only have certain place though, backup mainly. But your not going to store video on it with terrible transfer rates..:P Reply
psychobriggsy - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - linkMy external Firewire drive gets at least 30MB/s reads. It uses an Agere controller. I've heard the best Firewire IDE controllers are made by Oxford however. Apparently there is one controller that is really dire for Firewire, but it is the cheapest combo-chipset, and you've got to watch out for it. I personally don't care, I'm not using it for intensive purposes, the capacity is more important than the speed. Reply
CrystalBay - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - linkWho actually makes the HDD ? sorry , no I'm not.:) Reply
nullpointerus - Saturday, August 27, 2005 - linkI'd like to see a new perspective on computers and drives. I'm wondering what could be done if computers were reworked for modularity. We would basically have a CPU-in-a-box with memory, CPU, and mobo inside a tiny enclosure similar to the Mac mini.
The back of the box would house one _very_ high-speed unpowered bus connector (PCIe-level stuff - decent for hi-speed RAID, 3D, etc.) and two or three moderate-speed unpowered connectors (S-ATA/SCSI-level - decent for single drives).
On the left side of this CPU-in-a-box, we would find a bunch of low-speed powered connectors (USB-2.0-level - decent for wireless NICs, sound, mice, etc.). On the right side of the box would be ports for the integrated NIC, AC'97 sound jacks, and possibly PS/2 legacy ports.
All external devices coming through the high-speed and moderate-speed connectors would be powered by also connecting them to the external power supply. The PSU would be in its own external case with a bunch of standard power connectors (like the modular PSUs, but with smaller connectors) all on the top. Also on top would be a tiny LED indicating voltage draw, load, etc. and a warning light. All power cables would be the same, with a common maximum power rating and a very low-speed data channel to communicate basic power requirements and status notifications. The PSU would have a standard cable for household power jacks.
Everything would be plug 'n play, so that you could remove your hard drive and GPU to play games on another computer, or swap components very easily. The CPU-in-a-box would act like a giant heatsink unto itself, possibly with fins, two large fans on top and bottom, and a finger-saving grill enclosure. Most people would just pick up a new box to upgrade their system. Enthusiast boxes could in theory be designed with a single thumbscrew for easy access to CPU, mobo, and RAM.
For those that would prefer not to have a mess sitting on their desks, components' layouts could be standardized somewhat, with a clip on one side, and on the bottom (which may not be centered) as well as a thumbscrew on the front. The CPU and PSU cases would be mounted in the rear. The traditional-looking tower case would itself be just a chunk of metal with some fans, one of those universal power cables, and holes for ports and drive bays, so it could function similarly to today's cases. Reply


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Of all the debatable calls in this year's Super Bowl, the one that most easily could have been challenged came after the game and had to do with who was going to Disney World.
In the end, it seemed the right guy got the wrong award.
What Hines Ward really should have been named was the MDMVP. Because the former Georgia Bulldog was the Most Deserving Most Valuable Player that could have been chosen.
There really wasn't a standout performance Sunday. Even Ward's best plays were mostly the result of somebody else's savvy - Ben Roethlisberger's deft improvisation that set up a 37-yard pass play and the touchdown throw off an end around that Atwaan Randle El put in the perfect spot.
Not that Ward didn't do more than anybody in a game when nobody did much of anything.
He had the same number of yards receiving that his quarterback had passing and was involved in two of the game's biggest shifts, setting up one touchdown and scoring another.
Somebody who is at the center of a Super Bowl's defining moments usually deserves MVP consideration. And nobody deserved something like that to happen to him when he finally reached the biggest game of the year any more than Ward, who had spent more than a decade leading up to Sunday in some sort of football purgatory.
Twice in the previous four years, more than half of his pro career to that point, his team came up one game short of the Super Bowl. Last year it was even a big story that he cried after the AFC title game, thinking Pittsburgh's loss then took away teammate Jerome Bettis' last chance to win a championship.
And even though Ward's good-guy image took a hit when he held out before this season, he came back and played the way he always does, working harder and more effectively than most players in the league.
That said something about who he is. But not nearly as much as what people around here had already seen a long time ago.
At Georgia, Ward was always somebody who gave more to his program than he got back from it.
He arrived there before the football renaissance began and left before it bloomed. But from 1994 through '98, he was an exceptional player on some pretty average teams, a Mr. Everything for a team that was anything but the power it is today.
He was the best runner, receiver, kick returner and sometimes even passer on teams that won half of their games in his first three seasons. And he was the best reason the turnaround of UGA football began with a 10-2 record when he was a senior.
In fact, on some Saturdays in those seasons that ended far from the SEC championships Georgia has been collecting lately, a lot of people went to Sanford Stadium just to see what Ward would do that week.
Yet, throughout such a bittersweet college career, that smile of his was as familiar a site in Athens as it was on Ford Field Sunday night, when Ward got the highest praise in the biggest game of the season.
Nobody would have predicted that when he went to the pros as a third-round pick without great speed or a clear-cut position eight years ago. But now that player who was supposed to be too slow for the NFL is the all-time leading receiver for a franchise that has already placed two of them in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Sunday night, after a football life spent with somebody else winning the big game, Ward was the guy on top.
And while he might not have had the best game ever by a Super Bowl MVP, he was the best guy the award could have gone to this time.
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Badgers Quiz Time Question 2
This Quiz contest of Ten questions, the second of which you will get now and the next tomorrow and so on.
You need to answer the question correctly to get points and the quicker you do it by posting your answer in the comments section the more points you earn.
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3rd - 8 points
4th - 7 points
5th - 6 points
Anyone there after get 5 points for there correct answer and minus 2 for each incorrect answer
Once all the questions have been answered, the player with the most points will get 10 gold.
This Quiz has a theme : The Honey Badger
First Question Results and Answer
First - AdUnit - Ten points
Second - Kaptein Balsak - 9 Points
Third - Ryan Schmitz, Gregor Lucius and Abominacija - 8 points *they had the right answer with a wrong answer*
Fourth - Everyone else - 5 points for trying
Which of the following countries is NOT a natural habitat for the honey badger?
d) Brazil
The American Badger is found in the USA, The African Honey Badger is found in South Africa and other sub-Saharan countries and The Eurasian Badger is found in England, Ireland, Germany, Russia, India, Israel and many other European countries. Badgers are sometimes eatten in Russia and in Germany the Dacshhund gets its name "Dachs" meaning badger as these dogs are used to hunt badgers.
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By what other name is the Honey Badger known ?
a) Ratel
c) Dvash
d) Parpar
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google says ratel - so I say parpar (you just cant trust those guys)
This one was too easy... I was going to say LunaTic Moonfang, but that was not one of the options, so I will have to go with Ratel. I'm sorry I missed the first question...
Ratel. I agree with adunit. I'm going to start posting a new version each time I wake up so it's fair to us North Americans... That being said, you still will supply the prize.
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Beginning on April 25, Carnegie Hall celebrates its 100th birthday with an 11-day centennial festival of commissions, exhibitions, recitals, and concerts.
Highlights included a solo recital by soprano Kathleen Battle on April 27, the debut of the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, led by trumpeter Jon Faddis, on April 28, and the world premiere on May 2 of Alfred Schnittke's Concerto Grosso No. 5, a Carnegie Hall commission, by the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Christoph von Dohnányi.
The festival concluded on May 5 with a full day of concerts, beginning with a Centennial Choralfest led by Robert Shaw, and culminating in a live PBS broadcast featuring Leontyne Price, Jessye Norman, Marilyn Horne, Plácido Domingo, Samuel Ramey, Isaac Stern, Midori, Pinchas Zukerman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yo-Yo Ma, Alfred Brendel, and the New York Philharmonic conducted by James Levine and Zubin Mehta.
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