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Hood College copyright policy (adopted March 2010)
Hood College affirms the obligation of its faculty, staff, and students to comply with all Federal laws (Title 17, United States Code) regarding copyright. This policy grows out of the time-honored academic tradition that the creators of works own certain exclusive rights regarding the products of their scholarly, pedagogical, or creative activities. This principle underlies Hood College's commitment to encouraging respect for, and the responsible use of, the intellectual property of others. This policy affirms that copyright legislation exists to encourage the generation and distribution of intellectual works in order to advance the public good. Copyright law gives copyright holders (writers, publishers, artists, etc.) the exclusive rights to distribute, copy, perform, or publicly display, their own original works. The College recognizes its obligation to inform members of the campus community about this law, and to promote, within the various College constituencies, the exercise of the rights and responsibilities granted under this law.
Hood College assumes that any questions regarding copyright, as they apply to materials for instructional or other College use, will be resolved prior to the use of those materials on any College-owned equipment or in any College-sanctioned activities. All members of the College community are responsible for complying with College guidelines regarding the legal use of copyrighted materials, regardless of their format or the purpose of that use, and for complying with the requirements of copyright law, including obtaining required permissions to use copyrighted materials. Faculty, staff, and students shall not exercise any rights under copyright law in a work owned by others unless one of the following applies:
Members of the Hood community who willfully disregard this policy do so at their own risk and assume any liability, which may include criminal, and/or civil penalties. In addition, disciplinary action may be taken as outlined a) for students, in the Bylaws of the Student Government Association (Judicial System), b) for faculty, in the Faculty Code (Termination or Sanctions for Cause), and c) for staff, in the Staff Handbook (Section 405.3).
The College Affordability and Opportunity Act (CAOA) of 2008
The College Affordability and Opportunity Act of 2008, which amends and extends the 1965 Higher Education Act, requires that institutions of higher education receiving Federal funding create institutional policies regarding the infringement of copyright. It mandates that they inform and educate their communities about copyright infringement, and that they certify that they have developed policies to prevent it.
Section 488 of the law requires that institutions of higher education, as part of that program make an annual disclosure that does the following:
Peer-to peer file sharing-penalties (the following statement is adapted from: http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html)
Uploading or downloading works protected by copyright without the authority of the copyright owner is an infringement of the copyright owner's exclusive rights of reproduction and/or distribution. Anyone found to have infringed a copyrighted work may be liable for statutory damages up to $30,000 for each work infringed and, if willful infringement is proven by the copyright owner, that amount may be increased up to $150,000 for each work infringed. In addition, an infringer of a work may also be liable for the attorney's fees incurred by the copyright owner to enforce his or her rights. Members of the Hood College community, including students, faculty, and staff, who are found to have, using the College's information technology system, downloaded or uploaded works protected by copyright may be subject to disciplinary action under the terms of the Bylaws of the Student Government Association (Judicial System), the Faculty Code (Termination or Sanctions for Cause), or the Staff Handbook (Section 405.3), as appropriate.
Whether or not a particular work is being made available under the authority of the copyright owner is a question of fact. But since any original work of authorship fixed in a tangible medium (including a computer file) is protected by Federal copyright law upon creation, in the absence of clear information to the contrary, most works may be assumed to be protected by Federal copyright law.
Since the files distributed over peer-to-peer networks are primarily copyrighted works, there is a risk of liability for downloading material from these networks. To avoid these risks, there are currently many "authorized" services on the Internet that allow consumers to purchase copyrighted works online, whether they be music, e-books, or motion pictures. By purchasing works through authorized services, consumers can avoid the risks of infringement liability and can limit their exposure to other potential risks such as viruses, unexpected material, or spyware.
Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998
The DMCA was developed in response to concerns regarding the ease with which digital materials may be pirated and distributed, as well as to help clarify how copyright relates to those materials. The DMCA criminalizes the development of technologies that are intended to circumvent devices (such as passwords or encryption) that limit access to copyrighted material, and it also criminalizes the act of circumvention itself.
Institutions of higher education that act as Internet Service Providers are granted limited liability for copyright infringement involving the use of their networks under the DMCA if they take certain steps. These involve designating a local agent who would be responsible for receiving "take-down" notices regarding instances of infringement over the local network and for then effecting the "take-down" of the infringing material; they must have procedures in place for terminating the accounts of those who repeatedly appear to be infringing or who attempt to circumvent electronic safeguards for copyrighted content; they must take measures to guard against illegal access and additional distribution of copyrighted materials; they must develop a copyright policy and a copyright education program; and they may only utilize lawfully acquired copies.
Broader copyright implications for Hood
While the provisions of the College Affordability and Opportunity Act focus primarily on students, and specifically on peer-to-peer file sharing, and the DMCA deals with digital materials, it is important for all Hood constituencies to respect copyright law and to set an example for members of the Hood community in their use of the intellectual works of others, regardless of the format of the materials or the technologies used to access them.
The CAOA and the DMCA do not offer the only imperatives to copyright compliance at Hood College. We must be mindful that U.S. copyright law is as old as our Constitution. As American citizens, we are required to respect copyright law and to adhere to its provisions. It is incumbent upon us, as creators and users of intellectual property, to understand the law and what we need to do to comply with it. Further, as members of an institution with an established Honor System that emphasizes intellectual integrity, the Hood College community should recognize and embrace its responsibility to follow the law and to model it for others.
What is protected by copyright and what is not
For the purposes of understanding Hood's copyright policy, works or intellectual property in the public domain are simply those whose use is not restricted by copyright. Works created before copyright laws came into use are in the public domain, though new editions or creative adaptations of those works may be copyrighted. Materials produced by the United States Government (and some other governments, as well) are automatically in the public domain, though contractor-produced government materials may be copyrighted. Collections of data or facts, such as phone books, cannot be copyrighted, though a creative presentation of those facts or data could be. Of materials covered under copyright law in the U.S., only those produced before 1923 have generally come into the public domain by virtue of the expiration of their copyright terms.
Materials that are not under copyright may be used without restriction as to amounts of the work cited or reproduced in new materials.
Do note that the term "publicly available," referring to materials such as those that are accessible on the Internet, emphatically does not mean "public domain." In fact, most materials on the Internet are under copyright.
Since changes to U.S copyright law became effective on January 1, 1978, the term of copyright now extends from the time a work is produced to the end of the author's life plus an additional 70 years. This is far longer than the term (even when term renewals were accounted for) prescribed by the previous law. The new law covers both published and unpublished works, unlike the previous law that covered only works that had been published. Now all unpublished works, regardless of when they were produced, fall under the amended law. As noted above, materials produced before 1923 generally are now in the public domain. Those produced between 1923 and 1977 may or may not be under copyright, depending upon a number of factors, though, more often than not, materials produced during this time period are, at least for the near term, protected by copyright.
If a student or faculty member wishes to use materials that are under copyright in her/his own work, whether that be for research or in the classroom, or to copy and distribute such materials in any way, in order to be in compliance with copyright law, it may be necessary for her/him to obtain permission from the publisher (or other holder of the copyright) to use those materials.
(The few times) When it is not necessary to obtain permission, or, fair use is not as broad as you may think
There is a mistaken notion that any and all materials that are used for educational purposes fall under the rubric of "fair use," and therefore getting permission to use copyrighted materials for educational purposes is not necessary.
The first thing that one needs to know about fair use is that it is not an affirmative right, but rather a defense against claims of infringement, and it very definitely does not protect against such claims. It is up to the person who is accused of infringement to prove to the rights holder—and the court—that because fair use applies in this case, the use does not constitute infringement.
Fair use, when applied as it was intended, does not excuse the use of large portions of works (or works in their entirety, save—as a rule of thumb—poems of fewer than 250 words or articles of fewer than 2500 words) or repeated uses of the same work (or portion thereof) over time. Fair use would be properly applied if a small portion of a work were being used (e.g., 10% of a work or 1,000 words—whichever is less; one picture, graph or cartoon per book or periodical article; a single article from a periodical) within a few days or weeks of the decision to use that material and if only one copy per student is made. And one final item: no more than nine instances of such copying per course per semester are permitted under the fair use guidelines.
What many people are unaware of is that the application of fair use is a one-time arrangement. If you need to use the same material a second time (or multiple times) you must obtain permission. And, more than that, you must obtain that permission prior to each new use of the material (i.e., for each course in which it is used) unless an arrangement for multiple usage has been made with the copyright holder. The idea of fair use applies only when there is "spontaneity" involved in the usage of the material, that is, if there was insufficient time to obtain permission between the determination that the material would be used and its actual usage for an educational purpose. When you have had time to anticipate using it in subsequent courses, you have had, presumably, enough time to seek permission to use it.
If you are unsure of whether a use of copyrighted materials may constitute a fair use, consider the factors listed in the chart below. Factors one through four are enumerated in the current copyright law as the critical factors to consider in determining fair use. If the first four factors fall on the side of fair use (and ALL must alight there), there is probably no need to seek permission to use the material. The spontaneity factor (number 5) is only available for any given work on the first occasion of its use. Factor 6, needs to be considered in all cases of the use of another's work, regardless of whether fair use applies or not: the creator of the work should ALWAYS be acknowledged, even if you have permission to use the work or it is in the public domain.
Factors to consider
May be fair use IF:
Probably need permission IF:
1)Purpose and character of the work
The purpose is: Noncommercial, educational, scholarly, or newsworthy
The purpose is: Commercial or for entertainment
2) Nature of the work
The nature is: Factual or based on public documents
The nature is: Creative or artistic
3) Amount used compared to length of work
The portion copied is: A small percentage of the entire work
The portion copied is: A large percentage (or all) of the work
4) Effect of use on an existing or potential market
The work will be used: On one occasion by a single person or a small audience
The work will be used: Multiple times or by a large public audience
5) Premeditation
The use of the work is: Spontaneous
The use of the work is: Planned, systematic, or ongoing
6) Honesty of use—this one ALWAYS applies
The material is used in good faith AND credit is given to the copyright owner
The intent of usage is dishonest and/or credit is not given to the copyright owner
When using materials that are covered under fair use, students and teachers must include (directly on the paper copies or on any electronic copy) a statement indicating that the copy or electronic presentation has been prepared under the fair use exemption of the U.S. Copyright Law and is restricted from further use.
Instances of copying that clearly require permission include the following: course packs, copies of textbooks, journal articles, or other materials that will be used as the sole materials for any class in which a textbook is available and is traditionally used; copies that are sold or used in a commercial venture that has no educational, research, or commentary (i.e., "news") purpose; copies that are distributed or posted online and that serve as a substitute for the original material from which the copies were made.
Obtain Permission:
Obtaining permissions
It is the responsibility of the individual (whether faculty, staff, or student) who is using copyrighted materials to seek permission to use those materials if fair use does not apply. Simply put, one must obtain a letter or other documentation from the holder of the copyright or his/her legal designeethat grants the individual the right to use the specified portion of the work for a specified purpose on a specified occasion or for a specified period of time. The method for obtaining permission may vary depending upon the nature of the material you wish to copy, but the general process is outlined below. Links to websites that give more specific information are provided.
More information on copyright and seekingpermissions
General websites for copyright information:
Additional fair use determination checklists:
What is in the public domain (from Washington State University):
Links for various campus constituencies:
Steps for getting permissions as outlined by some institutions of higher education:
Where to start for ppermissions for music and other audio materials, still images(including photos), and moving pictures and computer files:
Getting permission to use materials from the internet:


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Intel's Core 2 Extreme & Core 2 Duo: The Empire Strikes Backby Anand Lal Shimpi on July 14, 2006 12:00 AM EST
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You have already seen that the Core 2 Extreme X6800 outperforms AMD's fastest processor, the FX-62, by a wide margin. This is exacerbated by the fact that the $316 E6600, running at 2.4GHz, outperforms the FX-62 in almost every benchmark we ran. That certainly address the questions of raw performance and value.
For most enthusiasts, however, there is also the important question of how Core 2 processors overclock. As AMD has moved closer to the 90nm wall, recent AM2 processors do not have much headroom. A prime example is the FX-62, which is rated at 2.8GHz, reaches 3GHz with ease, but then has a difficult time reaching or passing 3.1GHz on air. So how does Core 2, built at 65nm, compare in overclocking?
The top X6800 is rated to run at 11X multiplier on a 1066MHz FSB; it is the only Core 2, however, that is completely unlocked, both up and down. You can adjust multipliers up to 60 on the Asus P5W-DH motherboard, or down to 6. This makes the X6800 an ideal CPU for overclocking, even though top-line processors are normally notorious for not being the best overclockers.
To gauge the overhead or overclocking abilities of the X6800 in the simplest terms, the CPU speed was increased, keeping the CPU voltage at the default setting of 1.20V.
At default voltage the X6800 reached a stable 3.6GHz (13 x277). This is a 23% overclock from the stock 2.93GHz speed at stock voltage. It is also an important overclocking result, since it implies Intel could easily release a 3.46GHz or 3.6GHz Core 2 processor tomorrow if they chose to. It is clear there is no need for these faster Core 2s yet, but it does illustrate the speed range possible with the current Core 2 Duo architecture.
The X6800 was then pushed to the highest CPU speed we could achieve with Air Cooling. We did use a very popular and effective air cooler for our testing, the Tuniq Tower.
The goal was to reach the highest possible speed that was benchmark stable. Super Pi, 3DMarks, and several game benchmarks were run to test stability. The 2.93GHz chip reached 4.0GHz on air cooling in these overclocking tests. That represents a 36% overclock on air with what will likely be the least overclockable Core 2 processor - the top line X6800.
To provide some idea of overclocking abilities with other Core 2 Duo processors, we ran quick tests with E6700 (2.67GHz), and E6600 (2.4GHz). The test E6700 reached a stable 3.4GHz at default voltage and topped out at 3.9GHz with the Tuniq Cooler. The 2.4GHz E6600 turned out to be quite an overclocker in our tests. Even though it was hard-locked at a 9 multiplier it reached an amazing 4GHz in the overclocking tests. That represents a 67% overclock.
We had another Core 2 Extreme X6800 that we tried overclocking with a stock Intel HSF. The results were not as impressive as with the Tuniq cooler, with 3.4GHz being the most stable we could get it. We're going to be playing around with these processors more in the future to hopefully get a better overall characterization of what you can expect.
Curious about our overclocking successes, we asked Intel why Core 2 CPUs are able to overclock close to the same levels as NetBurst processors can, despite having less than half the pipeline length. Intel gave us the following explanation:
NetBurst microarchitecture is constrained by physical power / thermal limitations long before the constraint of pipeline stages comes into play. The microarchitecture itself would continue to scale upwards if not for the power constraints. (In fact, we have seen Presler overclocked to 6 GHz in liquid nitrogen environments. At that level, power delivery through the power supply & board itself begin to limit further scaling of the processor.)
Intel's explanation makes a great deal of sense, especially when you remember the original claims that NetBurst was supposed to be good for between 5GHz - 10GHz. NetBurst never got the chance to reach its true overclocking prime as Intel hit thermal density walls well before the 5GHz - 10GHz range and thus Intel's Core architecture was born. Intel's Core 2 processors once again give us an example of the good ol' days of Intel overclocking, where moving to a smaller manufacturing process meant we'd have some highly overclockable chips on our hands. With NetBurst dead and buried, the golden age of overclocking is back.
Enthusuasts have not seen overclocking like this since Socket 478 days, and in fact Core 2 may be even better. The 2.4GHz E6600, which outperformed the FX-62 in most benchmarks at stock speed costs $316, and overclocked to 4Ghz with excellent air cooling. With that kind of performance, value, and overclocking the E6600 will likely become the preferred chip for serious overclockers - particularly those that are looking for champagne performance on a smaller budget.
It is important, however, not to sell the advantages of the X6800 short. AnandTech never recommends the fastest chip you can buy as a good value choice, but X6800 does bring some advantages to the table. It is the only Conroe that is completely unlocked. This allows settings like 266(stock FSB)x15 for 4.0GHz, settings that keep other components in the system at stock speed. This can only be achieved with the X6800 - other Core 2 Duo chips are hard-locked - and for some that feature will justify buying an X6800 at $999. For the rest of us overclockers E6600 is shaping up to be the chip to buy for overclocking.
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crystal clear - Saturday, July 15, 2006 - linkJust to remind all that-" Intel decides to release a B2 stepping of its Conroe
BEWARE of Engineering samples & reviews based on Engineering samples inlcuded. Reply
OcHungry - Saturday, July 15, 2006 - linkI don't know if this Q been asked or answered (sorry no time reading 120 posts)
Bu Mr. Anand, can I kindly ask you couple of concerns:
1) why don't we see any reference to temp. under load? Temp. is a crucial factor in deciding wether or not I buy conroe since I live in a very hot climate.
2)A lot people make reference to 64bit and window vista and that conroe is a 32bit architecture and will not perform as good in 64bit. Is it true? can we have some 64bit benchmarks? It would be great to do this test in multitasking.
3) I have also noticed (from so many who have had pre-release ES @ XS, and other forums) that overclocked conroe does not correspond directly to performance, unlike A64.
What I mean is: If A64 is overclocked 20%, the performance increases ~20% 9more or less, in most cases), But have not seen this to hold w/ conroe. So I am wondering what would happen if we put a low end conroe, such as E6400 against A64 4000 x2, 2x1mb cache (same price range after price drop) and overclock them to their limit, using stock cooling, and do the benchmarks (64bit included). The reason I am interested in this type of review is because I am an average end user on budget and would like to know which would give me better price/performance. I think I am speaking for at least 90% of consumers. Not everyone buys $1000 cpu and consumers on budget is detrimental to survival of conroe or AM2 cpus. This alone should give you enough incentive to put together a review oriented around us, the mainstream computer users. We can make or break any chipmaker.
So please Mr. Anad, can we have another review along those lines described above?
We greatly appreciate it.
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aznskickass - Saturday, July 15, 2006 - linkHey ochungry, I believe Xbitlabs did an overclocking comparison between a Conroe E6300 and an A64 X2 3800+, and while they didn't do any 64bit benchmarks, the conclusion is that at stock speeds the E6300 is slightly faster than X2 3800+, and when both are overclocked to the max, E6300's lead increases even more.
Here is the review/comparison:
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2duo-...">http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2duo-... Reply
OcHungry - Saturday, July 15, 2006 - linkThose guys @ X-bit lab do not fool me. And I hope Anandtech conducts the same test w/ best suited memory module for "BOTH" platforms. We know (so as Xbitlab knows) that, because of IMC, A64 performs its best @ tightest memory timings. X-bit lab should have used http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...">This memory module if the test was going to be fair and square. Furthermore A64 3800 x2 @ 3ghz is 10x300, which means DDR2 667 1:1 could have been better to use. This http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82...">DDR2 667 @ 3-3-3-10 would have given about 10% better performance than DDR2 4-4-4-12 that they used. X-bit does not mention anything about memory/cpu ratio. What divider was used? Was it 133/266? Or as close to 1:1 as possible? Sooner or later the truth will prevail when we end users try it for ourselves (oh BTW, not ES), and we will see if xbitlab and others were genuinely interested on behalf of consumers, or the interest destined to ill-fated purpose. Will not accuse anyone, but it all look very fishy.
I am certain that Mr. Anad will clear all these conspicuous reviews , and hand us another that concerns the consumer's majority- us average users. Reply
IntelUser2000 - Saturday, July 15, 2006 - link
We know (so as Xbitlab knows) that, because of IMC, A64 performs its best @ tightest memory timings. X-bit lab should have used This memory module if the test was going to be fair and square. Furthermore A64 3800 x2 @ 3ghz is 10x300, which means DDR2 667 1:1 could have been better to use. This DDR2 667 @ 3-3-3-10 would have given about 10% better performance than DDR2 4-4-4-12 that they used.
W-R-O-N-G!!! DDR2-800 at EVEN slower 5-5-5-15 timings is FASTER THAN DDR2-667 3-3-3-10: http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-socke...">http://xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/amd-socke...
Prefer AT's results?: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...">http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?...
DDR2-800 is faster. The myth that it performs amazingly better(comparatively) with lower latency is just, a myth. I believe there was a thread in forums that tells exactly that. Reply
OcHungry - Sunday, July 16, 2006 - linkIguess you don't understand much about AMD's memory latency, direct connect, and 1:1 ratio.
It is not like Intel's illusionary, that faster than FSB is better. It is not and is useless. Anad proved it here. But this subject has a tendency to be dragged on for ever by those who don't understand the concept of IMC. So it's better leave it alone.
But I still would like to see tightest timing and 1:1 ratio. It is now clear to me that those reviews in favor of Intel, artfully evade this argument/request, knowing it will give AMD advantage over Intel's FSB. Reply
aznskickass - Sunday, July 16, 2006 - link*sigh*
How is the AMD disadvantaged if BOTH platforms are reviewed using the same RAM?
AMD needs ultra low latency DDR2 to attain best performance? Well, bad luck, Intel doesn't , there is no 'deliberate' conspiracy to put AMD in a bad light.
Look, if you just want to hang on to the notion that AMD has been cheated in the reviews, then go ahead and get your X2 4200+ and see how close you can get to Conroes numbers.
I'll be using my E6600 @ 3.5GHz+ and laughing at your stupidity. Reply
aznskickass - Saturday, July 15, 2006 - linkI consider Xbitlabs to be one of the more trustworthy sites around, and do note that they are testing mainstream chips, and expensive CL3 DDR2 just doesn't make sense in a budget setup, which further puts Conroe in a good light, as it doesn't require expensive CL3 DDR2 to perform well. Reply
sum1 - Friday, July 14, 2006 - linkA good read. For the editor, I found 4 errors, search the full lines of text below at:
That begin said,
and H.264 in coding
as soon as its available
at the fastest desktop processor we've ever tested
("and" would be more readable that "at" in this sentence)
JarredWalton - Friday, July 14, 2006 - linkThanks. At least one of those (in coding) can be blamed on my use of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and not catching the error. The others... well, they can be blamed on me not catching them too. LOL. The last one is sort of a difference of opinion, and I've replaced the comma with a dash, as that was the intended reading. :)
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Energy firm warns bills to rise by more than government forecasts
Annual household energy bills by 2020 are likely to be £100 higher than government projections, says energy firm RWE Npower.
It says official predictions of future energy savings are over-optimistic and warns the annual average bill will be £240 above current levels by 2020.
The firm says it supports government plans to renew power networks and build more renewables such as wind and solar.
But it says there must be more honesty about the costs of this investment.
It comes as a new poll by Cardiff University suggests that the public is willing to pay extra for clean and reliable energy.
'Heroic assumptions'
Both reports acknowledge, though, that the public does not trust energy firms or government - and both say trust must be restored if energy policy is to succeed.
In Npower's case, the trust exercise starts with a publication setting out exactly how bills are likely to rise in order to renew the creaking energy supply system and install clean energy supplies.
The firm says it believes the government has underestimated the effect of this investment on bills, because its calculations rely on "heroic" assumptions about the energy individuals will save through efficiency and behaviour change.
This criticism has frequently been levelled at the government's projections.
The firm warns that unless people strive much harder to reduce energy use, the average combined fuel bill in 2020 will be about £1,487 a year - that's £200 more than now and £100 more than the government projects.
The company says it is essential for energy firms - often accused of profiteering and misleading customers - to be honest about future bills.
'Blame game'
The new chief executive of Npower, Paul Massara, said: "Energy costs are rising. This is an indisputable fact, and it's time that all of us involved in energy in the UK are upfront about it."
He went on: "We are very clear that we do not want to be critical of government - rather, we want to ensure customers have the facts, so that they understand that for this cost, they will get a low-carbon economy, security of supply and warm, insulated homes."
He said his firm was calling for an end to the energy "blame game".
The report is issued coincidentally as the academic body, the UK Energy Research Centre, warns that plans for a clean energy future risk being undermined by lack of trust.
A poll of about 2,500 people commissioned through Cardiff University suggests that the public is worried about dependency on fossil fuel imports (82%); keen to reduce use of fossil fuels (79%); supportive of power from the sun (85%) and wind (75%); and concerned about climate change (74%).
The report's authors say people are willing to pay extra to obtain a stable energy supply. The lead author, Prof Nick Pidgeon, said people would also pay more overall to avoid sudden peaks in prices. He said the researchers had not tested specific figures in the poll because projections about future energy costs were "notoriously slippery".
Keeping the lights on
"What's interesting is that despite what you might see in parts of the media, it's clear that very broadly the public want a long-term commitment to clean energy," he told BBC News.
"But the trust issue is critical. We have seen protests round energy system developments like wind farms over recent years. There won't be all the investment that's needed on energy systems if the energy firms and the government can't persuade people to trust them."
He said young people dependent on electronic gadgets were very worried about the prospect of black-outs and willing to pay to avoid them.
But he envisages a Catch-22 in which the government and energy firms fail to deliver the energy future that people want, because the public don't trust them.
The Association for Conservation of Energy is one body that does not trust the firms.
Its director, Andrew Warren, told BBC News that Npower's projections on energy savings could not be trusted: "The big energy companies have definite form, when they start warning that they can't deliver the energy savings schemes that government mandates at the price that government projects.
"They claim at the start that the scheme will cost them far more than the official forecasts, in order to try to minimise the size of the obligation placed upon them."
The government said its policies would keep the lights on and help to smooth bills by reducing dependency on the gas imports that have caused recent jumps in energy prices.
Greg Barker, Minister for Energy and Climate Change, said: "It is right that we have a grown-up discussion about the impact of energy investment. However, global gas prices, not green policies, have been primarily pushing up energy bills.
"In 2020, bills will be £166 lower than they would be if we left ourselves exposed to global price shocks, left our homes leaking energy, and left future generations to deal with climate change."
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Harvard women's hockey team has announced its incoming class that will join the Crimson for the upcoming 2009-10 season. The group consists of seven players,: three forwards, three defenders and one goaltender who replace a graduating class of seven.
The 2009-10 Harvard roster will have 24 players: 12 forwards, nine defensemen and three goaltenders. Last season, the Crimson repeated as Ivy League and ECAC Hockey regular-season champion, posting a 19-10-3 overall record.
Laura Bellamy, Goaltender, Duluth, Minn./Duluth Denfield
Named Senior Goalie of the Year and All-Area Player of the Year in 2009 ... Two-time all-state selection ... All-Lake Superior Conference first team in 2008-09 ... All-Conference second team from 2004-07 ... Named Rookie of the Year in 2004 ... Wendy's High School Heisman national finalist in 2008.
Margaret Chute, Forward, Wayzata, Minn./The Blake School
Ms. Hockey top five finalist in 2009 ... Member of the state championship team in hockey in 2007 and 2009 ... Named all-state in hockey junior and senior seasons and all-conference three times... Sister, Katharine '11, is also member of the Harvard women's hockey team ... Played with Katharine Chute and Hillary Hayssen '13 at The Blake School.
Jillian Dempsey, Forward, Winthrop, Mass./The Rivers School
Boston Bruins John B. Carlton Award winner in 2009 ... Four-year USA Hockey National Development Camp participant ... Member of the USA U-18 National Team that won the IIHF World Championship in 2009... Helped Assabet U-16 to national championships in 2007 and 2008 ... Led Assabet U-19 to national quarterfinals in 2009 ... NAHA Labor Day All-Tournament team in 2008 ... Independent School League (ISL) All-Scholastic MVP Award recipient.
Hilary Hayssen, Defense, Orono, Minn./The Blake School
Named All-Tri-Metro in hockey senior year ... Member of the hockey state championship team in 2007 and 2009 and the lacrosse state championship team in 2008 ... Played high school hockey at The Blake School with Harvard teammates Katharine '11 and Margaret Chute '13.
Josephine Pucci, Defense, Pearl River, N.Y./Choate Rosemary Hall
Captain of the Mid Fairfield Connecticut Stars which took silver in 2005 and bronze in 2008 and 2009 at the USA Hockey Nationals ... Team MVP in hockey junior and senior years ... Led team to New England championship in 2007 and Founder's League title in 2008 ... Attended Selected U-17/18 camp in Lake Placid, N.Y., in 2007.
Kelsey Romatoski, Defense, Woodbury, Minn./Academy of Holy Angels
Ms. Hockey top five finalist in 2009 ... Participated in the USA Hockey National Developement Camp from 2006-08 ... All-state and All-Metro in 2009 ... All-conference 2007-09 ... Led team to state hockey championships and was a member of the all-tournament team in 2005 ... Holds school recrods for defenseman in goals, assists and points in a season and a career ... Scored most points by a defenseman in the state of Minnesota junior year.
Kaitlin Spurling, Forward, Byfield, Mass./Noble and Greenough School
Chuck Vernon Award winner as Division I Tournament MVP in 2008 ... Eastern Independent League MVP in 2006 and 2007 ... Salem Evening News All-Star and MVP in 2006 and 2007 ... Boston Globe All-Scholastic in 2006 and 2007 ... Led Noble and Greenough to Division I New England Championships and Independent School League (ISL) Championships in 2008 and 2009 ... Attended national development camps in 2005 and 2007-08.


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A game of two controllers. Digital Foundry goes hands-on with the Dual Shock 4 and Xbox One pad.
They both are good, but I'm hearing all around the web that DualShock 4 wins. Whatever, as long as they both have their particular and unique advantages that benefit their respective platforms, then I'm good.
There is no winner or loser dude.Xbox controller has more improvements. Sony's analogs are still too close together. MS controller is still preferred for shooters and racing games games because of the trigger feedback.
it seems like you already have a PS4 and an xbox1. PLease do tell us more about them...
you started off ok.
but you finished with an opinion.
each consumers opinion is the only thing that matters.
My opinion is that I do not like the xbox controller, and I have my own personal reasons that differ from everyone elses.
I find that statement funny.
That people think that shooters are better played with the xbox controller.
When was the last time you saw a team of psplayers vs xboxplayers. Maybe in a game of bf3-4. NEVER. Until that happens, nobody knows who's better with what.
I use the ps3 controller for my pc as well.
At the end of the day, you like what feels good for you.
DS3 is far better than XB360 pad (except triggers and 'weight'). I use both (360 on PC) there is nothing wrong with stick placement on DS3 for me but the buttons and triggers (with extenders) are great, d-pad is great and size is fine.
DS4 looks to be 100% better than DS3 (stick grip, handles etc), the shape on XB1 pad looks wrong and the buttons look overly hard/raised AGAIN.
You contradict yourself man. You started off well. I agree with the first sentence. No winners or losers. I'm sure everyone will have an enjoyable experience. Then you go off into a fanboy rant.
How do the Xbox1 controller have more improvements? It still uses AA batteries lol. DS4 is a lot bigger and the analogs are spread further apart than DS3. Anyway to each their own.
heres another category where the ps4 wins.
Ah, crap for crap. I can't believe MS is still going with the AA battery setup. No doubt the controller will ship with no damn battery pack and that'll be extra again.
With my 360, I set it aside and hadn't played the system for a few months and when I did finally pick up Alan Wake and start gaming again...not a single one of my 4 controllers would hold a charge anymore. Not one! They all worked perfectly before I shelved them for awhile but afterwards not a single one would hold a charge. Anyone else experience this? All from sitting idle for too long. Ridiculous.
And now it looks like they're at it again. My original, six axis controllers for my PS3 are still charged up even after having not been used in probably a couple of years. I know because my 3 year old keeps grabbing them off the shelf and turning the PS3 on.
I'll never understand the hate for the symmetrical dualsticks. My hands are symmetrical, my controller is symmetrical.
I don't think Bigfoot would smash his thumbs together if he were smart enough to use the ends of his thumbs.
It must be the Doritos dust. Causes the thumbs to slip off.
There's a lot of overhyping of the minor differences of the xbox controller, though. The more "ergodynamic" design (funny, since my hands rest the exact same way on both controllers), the supposed MASSIVE size differences (funny again, I have the two controllers right here and the only considerable size difference is in the handle lengths, and that doesn't affect comfort). The only major difference is the triggers and the DS4 is correcting that problem. Just one of those things that fanboys have trained themselves to hype in the absence of a lot of exclusives, I guess.
Ultimately, I switch and back and forth between the two controllers (Xbox for xbox and third person PC games, PS for PS) and I've never, ever, ever had issues with it.
so wait do you have the ps4 and xbox1? nice. /s
horses for courses. dual shock is good for some games and the xbox controller for others.
it is all preference though... and this gen, the xbox controller was my controller of choice.
playing kz2 with an xbox controller really made that game for me
"There is no winner or loser dude.Xbox controller has more improvements"
What improvements? The PS controller is the one with the most improvements. The Xbox controller is pretty much the same
@ SilentNegotiator
you have never understood why people talk about the layout of the 360 thumbsticks compared to the ds3 sticks...
the truth is you will never understand because it's like trying to understand why some people are left handed and some people are not.
I know the ps3 is a better system then the 360 but I always used the 360 as my primary gaming platform because quite simply using that controller just felt natural to me, especially the position of the thumbsticks.
yes I played games on my ps3 as well and if I played long enough I could deal with the ps3 pad but no matter how long I used it (i had my ps3 right from 2006 but sold it last year) the stick layout of the ds3 never felt as good or natural to me as the 360's pad.
I cannot wait for the ps4 and I am not buying the xbone because of the shit MS has tried to pull off, but If I had a choice I would still use the xbox pad.
there is no such thing as this pad is better then that pad. it's like saying right handed is better then left handed. I can't understand how people cannot understand the stick layout of the 360 but some people can't, thats just how it is.
my brother works for one of sony's studios so he has actually used the ps4 controller. I always like the 360 controller more but even he has told the new ps4 pad feels a lot better now then the old one. I am looking forward to trying it out but I do wish sony had an option of another control pad with the left thumbstick int he position the dpad is in currently. thats just me.
@ gardenia xbox one controller has improvements their bumpers the dpad the rumble in the triggers and theiranalog sticks fyi i will never get the xbox one but your in denial if you dont think they dont have improvements
So no winner or loser, but Xbox is better? Got it.
Ask and ye shall receive - more & more shooters for the controller that's made for them.
Well what do you know... people really do enjoy more than just two genre's.
To my hands the layout of the xbox controller is better for fps, racing games, and sports games while the dualshock layout is better for everything else.
I wish the DS4 had feedback in the triggers. That's the only thing it's missing, imo.
Meh, I'm going to stick to my opinion about the controller wars. It's going to be preference. Everyone has different hands and opinions on what fits them better. There shouldn't be any argument to this.
Good luck trying to play any fighting game on an Xbox controller. Yikes. I've tried that once...Never again.
Got nothing against it when it comes to shooters, though. Mainly because I've only played one shooter on the 360 one time. Wasn't too bad.
@Dark Witness
I don't understand it either, and I have and use both controllers quite frequently.
I personally love both controllers, and they both feel very natural to me. Lucky me I guess, I seem to be one of the few people that really love both. And I primarily play shooters, which the 360 pad is supposed to be the best at and the dualshock 3 is supposed to be inferior at.
Both symmetrical and asymmetrical sticks feel the same level of comfortable to me (and I'm not just saying that to try and be the guy who tries to make everyone get along and appreciate both systems/controllers). Though I will not defend the god awful triggers on the dualshock 3, those are just f'ng terrible, but L1 and R1 are good enough to make up for that.
But if I had to choose between the two, I'd probably choose dualshock 3, as it's lighter and smaller, therefore easier to hold and doesn't feel like it will break if it falls off my desk or if I throw it at a couch but misses and hits the carpet. The 360 pad makes me feel like I need to take extra care of it. The dualshock 3 doesn't, so I'd choose the dualshock 3, even though FUNCTIONALLY, they are on the same level of comfort to me.
Confirmed, SilentNegotiator has small hands. His fingers don't click together when using a DS on his PS3.
My thumbs clank all the time, and who plays using the analog sticks with the tips of their thumbs? Not everyone. Some who have large fingers rest their thumbs on top and have great control.
Small hands. My lady has a theory about men with small hands.
I think the xbox controller looks better but everything else, functionality, feel etc goes to dualshock 4
According to a lot of people the XBOX ONE controller overall is a step back from the 360 controller, though they say the triggers have improved, the analog sticks, especially the bumper buttons are worse.
Xbox One console itself is in many ways inferior to PS4, but Xbone's controller is miles better than Sony's stubborn Dual Shock 4. I hate the stick placement on Sony's controllers. So much so that after Microsoft announced they're retracting their online restrictions, I went and cancelled my PS4 preorder and used the 25 bucks towards an Xbone.
This is funny to me.. I have very large hands and the DS3 is not only comfortable to me but I have never had issues with the stick layout.. In fact the stiffness and the layout of the 360 sticks causes hand cramps for me... My only complaint about the DS3 is the dead zone in the sticks.. But even still it's negligible..
I imagine that the claim that the PS4 controller was better was a product of the bandwagon hatred poured over MS. I can't believe that either controller will be bad, people who have gamed on a PS3 for the better part of the decade will prefer the DualShock while 360 users will opt for the XB1's shape, size, and layout. The feedback from this site has been a misleading "justification" by people that picking sony was the better choice.
A lot more "fans" popped out of the woodwork backing the Sony controller over the XB controller.
How else can you justify saying 1 is better than the other without having the opportunity to use them?
Why does not have to "win"? That is the typical Sony fanboy mess that just makes everyone on here sound like a jackass. I have never owned Sony and it has nothing to do with the actual consoles. I think Sony has a great console from 1-4. But since playing on the PS1 my hands cramp playing with the controller. I have large hands and Sony is designed it seems to exclude anyone with large hands. I can't buy it because I can't see spending money on it for something I can't play for more than a hlf hour because it literally hurts. As crazy as it sounds that is the sole reason I have never bought any playstation.
I have very large hands and have never had any issues using the DualShock setup.. In fact I prefer it.. the curvature of the 360 pad conforms to my hands well but because my entire hand makes contact I tend to have sweaty palms after only a few minutes..
xboner controllers doesnt look that much different its basically almost the same layout with no changes.same button and everything..PS4 do have changes the led light in the back and a touching pad..when people hold the new dualshock 4 it will be a whole new different controller to them..so far a lot of reviewers love the new dualshock 4 and prefer that controllers..
Yeah it sounds that way.i am so happy they made the dual shock bigger and more ergonomic and left the stick position cause guess what stick position doesn't matter it's the grips that matter!
People should learn to let the controller rest in their hands and not have their hands curl around the controller. I have big hands. If I curled my fingers around it like some do I would have my fingers around the triggers. I have never had my thumbs touch each other on a dualshock because I just have a light grip to it and it makes my aiming and all smoother since I am not gripping it so much to use my middle thumb digits. I've never had balded analog sticks and I have played almost every day for years with plenty of hours. Choking the controller doesn't give more control.
Thank you for saying this! I'm in the same boat, large hands but I let the controller sit in my hands and I have Hitchhikers thumbs so the tips of my thumbs curl up and the DS3 sticks just work well for me..
Personally i think it boils down to what people are used to, if youve had a ps3 for most of this gen then you will be more comfortable with the ps4 layout and same goes for the 360 to xbox one. Both look okay and have a couple of new tweaks to play with. AA battery layout in the xbox one is a bit rubbish but that wont be enough to sway people who are already planning on getting the one.
So each to their own, i just hope everyone enjoys next gen as much as i plan to!
the xbox 360 controller was near perfect except for the dpad which looks better overall im glad they kept everything the same and refined it the controller was good as it is.
also the DS4 looks good they fixed the triggers and made the overall controller bigger which were two of the major gripes against the ds3
overall they both look really good, the controller preference is really subjective so cant really say one is better than the other
I agree with what you say they both look good. the DS4 looks like it could be a lot better than the DS3 & 2 as they were to small for my hands and I got cramp when playing the console for an hour or so where the 360 controller was perfect for me but the dpad did need improving which it looks like they have done that.
maybe near perfect for shooters but not fighters. Even if they fixed the dpad its not good for fighters. I even got this controller for ps3.
Would of been better off grabbing the MLG cntroller for the ps3. Bit pricey but you can customise where the sticks are. Very good controller. Downside is price and not wireless
As long as the the design of a controller is anything other than asymmetric, it is an uncomfortable design for me. The Xbox controller is the only choice I will ever make. It has always seemed like the PS controllers were designed for small, nimble hands, which is a hand structure that I do not possess.
I have larger hands and I never have had a problem with Playstation's or Microsoft's controllers
It all comes down to personal preference.
If your wedding ring size is over 16, and fist is larger than a grapefruit/softball, then you do not have my hands. However that is awesome you can use either one, my 40 something hands can not.
Man I hate it when I leave key words out of a sentence.
Agreed. Also if you "prefer" your joysticks not to wereout, go DS3 over 360. IMO anyway.
You have uneven thumbs?
The character of Hellboy was based on him.
So your right thumb works fine in the lower position but your left thumb does not... Ok, makes sense...
Both are great controllers. Cant wait to hold them and check out the improvements.
how do you get disagress for that statement or is it just pc gamers trolling?
Na just fanboys that can't understand someone who has an unbiased view
yet another pad comparison that does not bother to discuss the DS4's weight and feel.
would love to finally get some insight on how the ds4 stacks up to other controllers in terms of its feel, weight, spacing in hand, ect.
Did you read the article?
He said exactly what the DS4's weight and feel was.
He tells you the weight of the DS4 in grams. It's something like 218g if I remember (takes too long to reload article with my smartphone to check). Its slightly heavier than DS3.
reread the article thinking the whole time that you guys were crazy.
didnt read the black parts. thanks guys lol.
The DS3 is too light IMO. That is great news.
you might just say that because the 360 pads have unwanted weight on it due to the AA batteries
Sounds like the improvements are extremely well done with the new controllers.
Cant wait to get my hands on the DS4.
I like both controller changers. Thank god, M$ decided to remove that eye sore of a protruding battery. I have always loved the Sony DS controllers, they just improved upon a great controller.
Can't wait to test drive the rumble triggers on Forza 5 and Dead Rising on launch day.
I think 4 rumbles might be a bit much, but we'll see.
I always turn off rumble since it makes the games feel fake to me. I have shot real guns, driven real cars, and had real wrecks, and rumble emulates none of those to me.
ps controller sucks for fps games imo x1 controller for the win imo
why? Other than your name which means you love Halo I assume, what about the X1 controller is better for you than the PS4. The main complaint people had was the positioning of the sticks and that's a fair assessment but just saying it will 'suck for fps games imo" is not explaining anything.
y do i need to explain its my op u shouldnt care about my op
with the xbox controller it is not just about the placement of the analog sticks but it also has better resistance when moving the sticks. the ps3 controller's analog sticks are to easy to move. it causes a lot of over aiming when you are use to the 360 controller
That's because you got used to the huge dead zones on the 360 controller.
A real gamer wants a more controllable and reactionary experience. No one wants to have to fight beyond a huge dead zone to get the character to react.


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Lisbon hunter's fatal shot: Was there a deer or not?By BOB HOOKWAY
Special to the Union Leader
September 24. 2013 9:42PM
HAVERHILL — The behavior of deer in the wild became a prime topic of debate this week in Grafton County Superior Court, with one Fish and Game officer even demonstrating for a jury the blowing sound a deer makes.
Attorney Leonard Harden said on the opening day of the 2011 New Hampshire deer season his client, Wade S. Holmes of Lisbon, heard a deer "blowing in the woods" before he fired — fatally wounding 31-year-old Kenneth Brunelle of Marlborough, Mass.
Holmes, 48 at the time of the incident, is on trial for negligent homicide and reckless conduct with a deadly weapon.
Holmes has insisted he saw and heard a doe that morning in the Lisbon woods and shot his Winchester 30-06 bolt-action rifle from about 75 feet.
New Hampshire game wardens were on the witness stand Monday and Tuesday for the prosecution. The exchanges between Harden and Fish and Game conservation officer Robert Mancini grew increasingly testy Tuesday.
Harden said Mancini didn't know whether Holmes had seen a doe that day.
"I know it's highly unlikely," Mancini replied.
Harden repeated that Mancini didn't know what Holmes had seen.
"I can't say with any degree of certainty," Mancini acknowledged.
Prosecutor Jack Bell has dismissed Holmes' account and says there was no doe in that area off Mount Eustis Road. When he was shot, Brunelle — who had not been hunting — was videotaping the members of the hunting party he was with, including his father and brother.
Both Bell and Harden asked Mancini and, the previous day, conservation officer Gregory Jellison, what the "blow" or snort that deer are noted for meant, and how deer were likely to react on hearing a rifle shot.
Jellison said there are several theories on the "blow." Deer could be expressing stress if they sense danger, alerting other deer to that danger or snorting in order to clear their nostrils and improve their ability to get the scent of that danger, Jellison said.
At Harden's request, Jellison demonstrated the sound for the jury.
Jellison testified that there had been times when he'd heard a deer blow only once, while others did so several times. As far as reacting to a shot, "They have different reactions," he said, including running, walking slowly away, or even standing still and looking at the shooter.
Jellison said he couldn't know what Holmes saw before he fired.
"There's no test for that, is there?" Harden asked.
"No," Jellison replied.
On Tuesday, Mancini told Bell, "There are no absolutes in deer behavior."
"Deer behavior, unless you're a deer, I don't know how you could ever nail it on the head," Mancini said, as Bell completed his questioning.
During a courtroom break, Harden refused to say whether Holmes would take the stand. The trial continues this morning.


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Trey Green and Todd Adams are both farriers at The Ohio State University Galbreath Equine Center in Columbus, Ohio. They each have been shoeing horses for nearly 20 years. Todd has lived and worked as a farrier in Ohio all his life, and Trey lived in Colorado before coming to Ohio a number of years ago. While they may seem like the average horsemen, they are anything other than your typical farriers.
Both Todd and Trey are Certified Journeymen Farriers (CJF). This is highest level of certification issued through the American Farriers Association (AFA) and is endorsed by the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP). The CJF certification is only granted after a set of rigorous exams. The written examination requires farriers to have in-depth knowledge of equine gaits and movements; blood circulation through the equine limb; and the anatomy and physiology of the bones, cartilage, joints, tendons, and ligaments in both front and hind limbs. Additionally, there is a practical examination that tests a farrier's professional skills and abilities in trimming and shoeing a horse and making a shoe from scratch to fit a specified pattern.
While farriers' work is physically taxing and often stressful, one aspect that they particularly enjoy is getting to work with the veterinarians at Ohio State. They regularly trim horses that are under the care of veterinarians at the Galbreath Equine Center to try and work through different types of podiatry issues. "At Ohio State we have access to excellent radiographs, an array of treatment options, and the knowledge and opinions of many different veterinarians," said Trey. "By combining our knowledge and their knowledge we can do what's absolutely best for the horse and change what's going on for the better.
Most of Todd and Trey's time is spent trimming and shoeing horses in the Columbus area, however, as members of both the American Farrier's Team and the World Championship Blacksmith's Team they are often involved in national and international competitions, as well as offering clinics and demonstrations across the country. As if that wasn't enough, both Todd and Trey have been included in the country's Top Ten Farriers list for the last few years.
Both farriers attended the 9th Annual International Hoof-Care Summit in February. Dr James Belknap, professor in the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, also attended the conference where he was inducted into the International Equine Veterinarians Hall of Fame. Please read more about Dr. Belknap's award and accomplishments.


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MOSCOW (AP) — A jailed Russian opposition activist who claims he was kidnapped and tortured will remain in custody and may be sent to Siberia as part of a 15-year-old investigation into the theft of 500 fur hats.
Moscow's Basmanny district court ruled Wednesday that Leonid Razvozzhayev should be held until April, granting the request of investigators who have charged him with plotting mass riots aimed at overthrowing the government. The investigators also said they needed to send Razvozzhayev to Siberia for questioning in the 1997 armed robbery.
Razvozzhayev's case became a cause celebre for the opposition after he claimed he was kidnapped in Ukraine in October, tortured for two days and forced to sign a false confession, which he later retracted. Prosecutors say he turned himself in and deny the allegations of torture.
After Razvozzhayev retracted his confession, prosecutors filed charges against him in other cases.
In one case, he is accused of leading a group brandishing hunting rifles and pistols that burst into a businessman's apartment, taped him to a chair, beat him and left with a video camera and 500 fur hats in the eastern Siberian city of Angarsk in December 1997.
Defense lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky said the charges were a ruse aimed at sending Razvozzhayev to Siberia, where it would be more difficult to guarantee his safety. As evidence, he cited an anonymous letter Razvozzhayev received in jail that contained veiled threats about what awaited him in Siberia. The threats echoed what Razvozzhayev was told while being tortured in a basement, the lawyer said.
During Wednesday's hearing, Razvozzhayev claimed that a man in the courtroom was part of the team that tortured him, but the judge took no action. Novaya Gazeta, an opposition newspaper, reported the man was one of the investigators who searched Razvozzhayev's apartment in October.
Razvozzhayev and two other opposition leftist activists were charged with organizing mass riots after a documentary-style film on a pro-Kremlin television station purported to show hidden camera footage of them meeting with an official from the former Soviet republic of Georgia last summer. They are heard discussing preparations for nationwide disturbances with money raised by a disgraced Russian banker in exile in London. The activists and the official, Givi Targamadze, deny having met and say the film is a fabrication.
Investigators said this week they have proof Targamadze financed the activists and paid for others to attend seminars in Lithuania on how to organize "color revolutions" of the sort that toppled governments in other post-Soviet countries.
Razvozzhayev is also charged with leaving Russia illegally on his brother's passport. Investigators have not said how or on whose passport he returned to Russia, a trip Razvozzhayev says he made under duress with masked men in an unmarked van.


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36th Precinct (US - BD RA)
Gabe witnesses the return of Palisades Tartan with this thrill light cop thriller...
Tartan is back! Kind of. After a brief reappearance under the new Palisades Tartan banner with a disappointing Blu-ray release of Park Chan-Wook's Vengeance Trilogy, the once thriving foreign film releasing machine again went dormant, until now, with this release of writer/director Olivier Marchal's 36th Precinct, better known as 36 Quai des Orfèvres, Department 36, or even 36. The film, which was originally released in France in 2004, is based loosely on Marchal's real life experiences as a French police officer. The plot follows Léo Vrinks (Daniel Auteuil), head of the BRI (Brigades de Recherche et d'Intervention), and Denis Klein (Gérard Depardieu), head of the BRB (Brigade de Répression du Banditisme), as they hunt down the perpetrators of a bloody armoured car heist. The colleagues turn to enemies as Klein begins to muscle his way in to a promotion as Chief of Police. Soon Klein's actions turn flat out villainous.
An aside: According to interviews with Marchal, 36th Precinct was made partially in homage to the classic French crime films of Jean-Pierre Melville, such as Le Doulos, Le Samouraï, Le Cercle Rouge and Un Flic. The shadow Melville casts over modern cinema cannot be overestimated. His cops and robbers movies had an effect on the whole of the French New Wave, which in turn had an effect on the Silver Era of Hollywood filmmaking, and seminal crime films like Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Peckinpah's The Getaway, Peter Yates' Bullitt, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets and William Friedkin's The French Connection. These films then went on to define the genre, and inspire more generations of film. The New Wave crime films also lead to the equally stylish Italian Poliziotteschi genre, and had a sizable influence on John Woo's pistol operas, specifically The Killer and Hard Boiled. In an effort to ensure Melville's legacy means something to some of my younger, or less cinematically obsessive readers, I'll put it like this -– when Christopher Nolan made The Dark Knight he was admittedly influenced by Michael Mann films, specifically Heat, which itself (along with the rest of Mann's filmography, all the way back to the Miami Vice TV series) was made in partial homage to Melville. So if we trace Dark Knight's lineage back to the start it owes almost as much to Melville as it does to Bob Kane.
All that said, I think 36th Precinct looks and acts too modern to really be considered a child of Le Doulos, as Marchal admits himself during an interview on this very Blu-ray release. At best we're talking a great, great grandchild of Melville here. If The Dark Knight was inspired by Heat, this film was crawled out of its afterbirth, like a discarded bastard twin. Besides pitting French superstars Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu against each other (two actors that are certainly comparable to DeNiro and Pacino), the film's opening armoured car heist is practically a shot for shot remake of a similar, oft-celebrated scene in Mann's film. Stylistically speaking I also see a lot of modern Chinese crime cinema here, specifically the Woo-inspired work of Andrew Lau and Wilson Yip. Regular readers probably remember that I'm not personally all that charmed by Lau or Yip, or even Mann for that matter, despite the fact that I understand and respect their value as filmmakers. Modern crime dramas just tend to feel like one extension of the exact same movie over and over again, and I've found myself fatigued by the genre. Only a handful of films have crossed this particular hump for me, including Matthew Vaughn's Layer Cake, Kim Ji-Woon's A Bittersweet Life, and (assuming it counts) The Coen Brothers' No Country For Old Men. It stands to reason that a film that apes generally good films I didn't really like in the first place won't exactly be up my alley, and 36th Precinct doesn't disappoint in terms of expectations. This does make me question the validity of my opinion on the matter, and wonder if perhaps this film could hold greater value to less exhausted genre enthusiasts.
Tonally one could call 36th Precinct a dark and rough story, but this is a sharp, slick and clean vision of crime. There isn't a lot of danger or shock here, just angst-ridden anti-heroes quietly making bad decisions, then slowly paying the consequences. The action scenes are well executed in that it's easy to discern what's happening, but I never quite felt the weight of any given situation despite some reasonably badass character attributes. Besides holding no sense of personal style, Marchal doesn't appear to have a sense of humour either, which makes for an occasionally eye-rollingly stone-faced storytelling practice. I can't recall a single joke, sardonic quip, or even wink to the audience (save the slightly wacky opening scene), and this dead serious droning spirit does little to cover the fact that the script isn't only predictable and disjointed, it's boring. By the time the final act rolls around the entire affair is so joyless one imagines the poor editor simply stitching things together to create a general sense of continuity, having long since abandoned any sense of creativity in favour of just getting the god damned job done. Worse than derivative and joyless, 36th Precinct becomes a chore.
This release is far from the bummer that the Palisades Tartan Oldboy re-release was, but it's not too far beyond the low expectations set by the rebooting studio. The big and obvious problem is edge enhancement. There are rather aggressive haloes all over this transfer, especially during the Michael Mann inspired cool exteriors and fluorescent interiors. Most elements in most wide shots appear to have their own white force fields at times. There is evidence of compression throughout the film, mostly culminating in low level noise, but including some occasionally embarrassing blocking issues. Details are relatively sharp, but so much sharper in close-up as to appear more like a very successfully up-converted DVD than a true 1080p transfer at times. I'm exaggerating a bit, of course, but the loss in quality from close-up to wide is likely noticeable even on a smaller set. What does work is the occasional complexity of elements, such as wallpaper or patterns on articles of clothing, usually because the overall vibrancy of colour elements (specifically lush greens and deep reds), even though the bulk of the film is shot using a relatively washed out pallet. Black and white levels are pretty clean, and contrast levels are pretty sharp (despite the edge-enhancement), but the whole film appears slightly darker than I'm assuming was intended.
The video quality falls short, but could be do to simple mistakes, and it's likely things would improve with future releases. The audio problems are a more direct effect of the Palisades Tartan people failing more implicitly. The major shortcoming here is the lack of a single uncompressed track. The original French track is presented in standard Dolby Digital 5.1, not Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA, or PCM, and the compression is obvious. Our other two options include even more compressed Dolby Surround 2.0 French and English dubbed tracks (both of which are noticeably higher pitched than the 5.1 track, so I'm thinking they were taken from a PAL DVD). 36th Precinct is a modern film with a modern soundtrack, and the lack of volume and clarity even at high levels is a problem. I wouldn't call the film's sound design particularly aggressive or innovative (I'd even hazard to call it flat at times), but the more subtle aural elements are lost, and the bombastic shoot-outs don't quite hit the raw nerve intended. The central shoot-out scene does feature a fair share of stereo and surround elements, and effectively sticks the viewer at the center of the action, but it's a pretty minor achievement.
Extras begin with 'Making of 36th Precinct' (28:50, SD) is a rather simple director's video diary type thing. That is to say it's a little boring, but does give a good glimpse into the day to day behind the scenes action (which looks about as joyless as the film at times). The frame is cropped incorrectly, and the subtitles are slightly cut. Next is an interview with Marchal (10:00, SD). Marchal spends the interview mostly revolves around his real life experiences, and how they informed the final film. 'Weapon Selection' (13:40, SD) runs down the process of picking out violent cop props for the film. Extras are completed with a 'Wardrobe Run-Trough' (14:20, SD), two trailers, and trailers for future Palisades Tartan releases.
I may not be the best judge of this particular material, as 36th Precinct reminds me too much of other film's I don't particularly love. Who am I to argue with three César Award nominations (best picture, director and screenplay)? The bigger problem here is that Palisades Tartan has kind of dropped the ball on this release, which is a shame following their last release – last June's Vengeance Trilogy collection – which put them off on the wrong foot with Blu-ray enthusiasts. This 1080p transfer is average, with some unfortunate problems with compression noise and edge haloes, and the soundtrack is presented in the form of a compressed Dolby Digital 5.1 mix. The studio has more on their docket for the near future, so let's hope these are merely growing pains, and things will come together when they get around to releasing better films.
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Was this one of their bigger releases on DVD? I'm just not sure what drove them to release this 2004 title on Blu-ray. Seems like Tartan has a few other titles in their catalog worth getting out first.
I'm still praying for 'A Tale of Two Sisters' and 'A Bittersweet Life' on US-BD
I'm still praying for 'A Tale of Two Sisters' and 'A Bittersweet Life' on US-BD
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,718
Man, the The Tale of Two Sisters disc looks pretty terrible. I replaced a bootleg with the official Tartan release, and I was upset because the boot actually looked better.
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Hm, I had been wanting to see this for some time before it finally got a U.S. release; it is presently near the top of my Netflix queue. You're making me have second thoughts....
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,718
Worth a rent if you're a fan of the genre. Like I said in the review, I kind of feel like I'm watching the same movie over and over.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 14th June 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Dolby Surround 2.0 French, English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Making of 36th Precinct, Director Interview, Weapons Selection, Wardrobe Run-Trough, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Olivier Marchal
Cast: Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuil, André Dussollier, Valeria Golino
Genre: Crime
Length: 111 minutes
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Why did you join Laerdal?
I have always had a strong passion for the healthcare field. Laerdal Medical Corporation's mission statement was directly in line with my goals of helping to provide solutions designed at ultimately Helping Save Lives. Laerdal's prominent position within the healthcare environment and cutting edge technology enables you the opportunity to contribute to everyday customer needs while making a direct impact as it relates to positive patient outcomes.
What is the best thing about working here?
The way you are treated as an individual and as a professional. As an employee within the Laerdal organization you are consistently recognized for your efforts. Laerdal's strong focus on growth as a professional allows you to continuously develop your skills on both a professional and personal level. With a direct focus on patient outcomes it's very rewarding to know that your everyday efforts are driven by improving patient care.
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Dr. Pam Drake's Co-Authored Book Cited in a Story on TheStreet.com
In the article "Investors Shouldn't 'Like' Facebook at Current Price," Robert Weinstein of TheStreet.com discusses whether Facebook and other social networking sites are favorable investments.
Weinstein references Dr. Pam Drake's co-authored book, Analysis of Financial Statements, saying it helps teach what you need to know to gain an edge in the stock market.
The full article can be read at http://www.thestreet.com/story/11927010/1/investors-shouldnt-like-facebook-at-current-price.html.
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18 U.S. Code § 670 - Theft of medical products
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Theft of medical products
(a)Prohibited Conduct.—Whoever, in, or using any means or facility of, interstate or foreign commerce—
embezzles, steals, or by fraud or deception obtains, or knowingly and unlawfully takes, carries away, or conceals a pre-retail medical product;
knowingly and falsely makes, alters, forges, or counterfeits the labeling or documentation (including documentation relating to origination or shipping) of a pre-retail medical product;
knowingly possesses, transports, or traffics in a pre-retail medical product that was involved in a violation of paragraph (1) or (2);
with intent to defraud, buys, or otherwise obtains, a pre-retail medical product that has expired or been stolen;
with intent to defraud, sells, or distributes, a pre-retail medical product that is expired or stolen; or
shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) and subject to the other sanctions provided in this section.
(b)Aggravated Offenses.—An offense under this section is an aggravated offense if—
the defendant is employed by, or is an agent of, an organization in the supply chain for the pre-retail medical product; or
(2) the violation—
results in serious bodily injury or death, including serious bodily injury or death resulting from the use of the medical product involved; or
is subsequent to a prior conviction for an offense under this section.
(c)Criminal Penalties.—Whoever violates subsection (a)—
if the value of the medical products involved in the offense is $5,000 or greater, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both, but if the offense is an aggravated offense other than one under subsection (b)(2)(C), the maximum term of imprisonment is 20 years; and
(d)Civil Penalties.—Whoever violates subsection (a) is subject to a civil penalty in an amount not more than the greater of—
(e)Definitions.—In this section—
the term "pre-retail medical product" means a medical product that has not yet been made available for retail purchase by a consumer;
the term "medical product" means a drug, biological product, device, medical food, or infant formula;
the terms "device", "drug", "infant formula", and "labeling" have, respectively, the meanings given those terms in section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act;
the term "biological product" has the meaning given the term in section 351 of the Public Health Service Act;
the term "medical food" has the meaning given the term in section 5(b) of the Orphan Drug Act; and
the term "supply chain" includes manufacturer, wholesaler, repacker, own-labeled distributor, private-label distributor, jobber, broker, drug trader, transportation company, hospital, pharmacy, or security company.
(Added Pub. L. 112–186, § 2(a), Oct. 5, 2012, 126 Stat. 1427.)
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Section 201 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, referred to in subsec. (e)(3), is classified to section 321 of Title 21, Food and Drugs.
Section 351 of the Public Health Service Act, referred to in subsec. (e)(4), is classified to section 262 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.
Section 5(b) of the Orphan Drug Act, referred to in subsec. (e)(5), is classified to section 360ee(b) of Title 21.
Priority Given to Certain Investigations and Prosecutions
Pub. L. 112–186, § 4(e), Oct. 5, 2012, 126 Stat. 1429, provided that:
"The Attorney General shall give increased priority to efforts to investigate and prosecute offenses under section 670 of title 18, United States Code, that involve pre-retail medical products."
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Police in Berlin are baffled over the identity of a boy who emerged from the forest, saying he'd lived there for five years with his father.
The boy, believed to be about 17, showed up at Berlin's City Hall on Sept. 5. He said he had lived in earthen huts and tents with his father until the elder man died. At that point, the boy, who speaks fluent English and little German, used a compass to walk north for two weeks, finally winding up in Berlin carrying a sleeping bag and backpack, according to The Associated Press.
"He said that he had lived for the last five years wandering around with his father," Police spokesman Michael Maass said. "We don't know where."
Maass said the boy claims he and his father went into the forest after his mother died. The boy says he doesn't remember where his family came from, but said his father called him "Ray" and that his dad's name was Ryan and his mother's name was Doreen. He is in good health and police have issued a Europe-wide appeal to try and determine his identity, though they would not release photos of him.
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intersting"Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings..." Patrick Henry
A guy and a girl take a stroll in the forest at night.
The girl says "This is scary".
The guy says "How do you think I feel? I have to walk out of here alone".
I hope they find his grandparents or some other relatives.
I'm curious about his father, though, and why he decided to take his kid and live in the forests of German and leave society behind after the mother died. He obviously loved the kid, or he wouldn't have brought him along. But it is difficult to fall off the radar, so to speak, these days.
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Loving that the SDL port is now the official build for Android Lubomyr.
Though ever since ScummVM added Rex Nebular support, I for the life of me haven't been able to launch it on the current SDLv2 builds, or the pre SDL2 builds. It simply crashes & FCs out of ScummVM.
I've gotten my hands on other (I assume) downloads of the game but end up with the same result.
I can load the same data files into MagicDosbox for android no probs, or Dosbox for windows and even ScummVM for windows.
Should I provide a logcat?
It already fixed. Text copy pasted from thread below.
nightly build debug version
- fixed sdcard default path
- restored in-game menu via Back button for all game-engines
- fixed startup-crash in game Rex Nebular
- (libSDL) fixed click in "Tap or hold" mode
Thanks Lubomyr! Very much appreciated


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The Most Iconic Artists of the 1970s
Artsy Editorial
For Kazuo Shiraga, a painting was defined by the gestures of its creation. He famously used non-traditional techniques to make his works, including performances using parts or the entirety of his body as a tool. In his famous piece, Challenging Mud (1955), Shiraga created an ephemeral form by wrestling with a mixture made from wall plaster and cement, causing injury to his body in the process. The majority of Shiraga's work, however, was rendered on canvas via diverse methods, from dripping paints to painting with his feet. Speaking of his work, Shiraga once said that he wanted to make paintings "as slippery, as uncatchable as a sea cucumber, […] a painting with no center." Shiraga was a founding member of the Zero Group; in 1952, he joined the Gutai Group and was active through its disbandment.
Japanese, 1924-2008, Amagasaki, Japan
The Most Iconic Artists of the 1970s
Artsy Editorial
From the Catalogue: Kazuo Shiraga
Koller Auctions
How Gutai Master Kazuo Shiraga Pushed Art Beyond its Traditional Realms
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ROME (AP) Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer appear back on track after early losses in Madrid last week. Serena Williams, meanwhile, is maintaining her dominance.
Top-ranked Djokovic quickly overcame an early break to cruise past Spanish qualifier Albert Montanes 6-2, 6-3 and second-seeded Federer routed Italian wild card Potito Starace 6-1, 6-2 Tuesday to reach the third round of the Italian Open.
In the women's tournament, the top-ranked Williams brushed aside Laura Robson 6-2, 6-2 a day after the rising British player had beaten her sister, Venus Williams.
Djokovic dropped his serve to fall behind 2-1 in the opening set but broke back immediately and took control from there against his 32-year-old opponent.
The six-time Grand Slam champion didn't appear to have any problem with his right ankle, which he twisted while representing Serbia in the Davis Cup in April then appeared to hurt again in a loss to Grigor Dimitrov at the Madrid Open last week.
"It was a good performance for a start, although I know I can do better," Djokovic said. "My game has to be better for the next challenge. I didn't have a good week in Madrid but I came here early and did a lot of practice."
Djokovic didn't practice for 12 days between winning the Monte Carlo Masters in April and the start of the Madrid tournament.
"I was playing with a degree of injury," he said. "With Paris and London coming up I need to be 100 percent. ... the positive thing is that my ankle is well and I'm playing without pain, and I did not want an injury in the most important part of the year."
Djokovic has reached the final in four of the five past years at the Foro Italico, winning the title in 2008 and 2011.
Federer has never won in Rome, with his best results being two runner-up finishes. He lost the 2003 final to Felix Mantila and in 2006 dropped a fifth-set tiebreaker to Rafael Nadal.
After a seven-week break from the tennis circuit, Federer returned to action last week and got his clay-court season off to a difficult start with a third-round loss to Kei Nishikori of Japan.
Against Starace, however, Federer never struggled, with the Foro Italico crowd's support for the local favorite proving useless.
"I feel the way I want to feel," Federer said. "I'm happy that from start to finish I was able to control the outcome of the match."
Williams has won her past three tournaments but her only title at this event came in 2002.
A former Wimbledon junior champion, the 39th-ranked Robson broke in the opening game of the match and tested Williams with her left-handed strokes, but the American eventually overpowered her. Robson hit several costly double faults.
"It wasn't an easy match. There were a lot of balls flying back and forth," Williams said. "I knew she had a lot of potential but, playing against her, she has more potential than I thought. She doesn't have too many weaknesses, so that's a good sign of a future champion."
Also reaching the third round were seventh-seeded Juan Martin del Potro, who beat Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia 6-3, 6-2; and ninth-seeded Richard Gasquet, who defeated Dimitrov 6-4, 6-4; while Kevin Anderson of South Africa eliminated 11th-seeded Marin Cilic 6-3, 7-6 (7).
Two seeded players were upset in the first round.
Julien Benneteau of France dispatched 12th-seeded Nicolas Almagro 7-6 (2), 6-4; and Mikhail Youzhny beat 13th-seeded Tommy Haas 6-4, 6-3 in a matchup of tour veterans.
In other first-round matches, 15th-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka - fresh off a runner-up result in Madrid - rallied past Carlos Berlocq of Argentina 5-7, 6-3, 6-3.
In the women's second round, Simona Halep of Romania upset fourth-seeded Agnieszka Radwanska 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-2; and eighth-seeded Petra Kvitova overcame a second-set lapse to beat Sabine Lisicki of Germany 6-4, 0-6, 7-5.
In the opening round, former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki lost to 48th-ranked Bojana Jovanovski 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5).
The 10th-seeded Wozniacki wasted a 5-2 lead in the third-set tiebreaker. The Dane has struggled on clay this season, losing to Yaroslava Shvedova in the first round in Madrid and to Carla Suarez Navarro in her first match last month in Stuttgart, Germany.
Meanwhile, Urszula Radwanska of Poland ousted 15th-seeded Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; and 16th-seeded Sloane Stephens of the United States dispatched local favorite Flavia Pennetta 6-3, 6-3.


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text: AD Revisits: Gore Vidal's Amalfi Coast Villa\nWe look back at the author's Amalfi Coast villa, which appeared in our January 1994 issue\nAfter decades of dividing his time between Rome and Ravello, Gore Vidal has moved permanently into La Rondinaia, his villa in Ravello. From a terrace on one of the villa's five levels, the view encompasses a new larger terrace and observation post on the second level, and a hillside of terraced gardens that descends to the Amalfi Coast.\nBuilt into a cliff face some 1,000 feet above the Gulf of Salerno, the Mediterranean-style villa, seen from its western side, has arched windows and a minaret-like tiled chimney.\nA pair of church candlesticks frame the archway of the barrel-vaulted small salon, where an 18th-century Aubusson tapestry, two capriccios of Rome, a work by Parmeo, and Burmese wood panels are displayed.\n"All my books from Burr on were written longhand in this room at this table," says the author. His studio epitomizes the merging of two households; pieces bought 30 years ago for Rome have found a place in Ravello. "I've been loyal to my furniture."\nAmong the author's family photographs is one of his father, Eugene Vidal, standing between Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Wallace. As a child, Gore Vidal was photographed with his blind grandfather, Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma.\nThe ornate dining chairs with ram's heads "were made at Cinecittà studios for Ben-Hur when I was writing the film," Vidal says. A 19th-century gilt-framed mirror in the dining room hangs above a circa 1810-Neapolitan gilt-wood sideboard.\nA Neapolitan bed frame, an 18th-century Austrian writing table, and a Don Bachardy drawing of Vidal near other family portraits and mementos are in the bedroom of Vidal's companion, Howard Austen.\nThe furniture in Vidal's bedroom "was made in 1840 for an old girl in Poughkeepsie, New York," he says. "I purchased it from her family in 1950. I've slept in the same bed now for almost 50 years."\nA lavender-lined path leads to the swimming pool, which is shaded by cypress trees and overlooks the Lattari Mountains. The pool had to be dug by hand, since there are no roads to the property; its color was intended to approximate the Blue Grotto on nearby Capri.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Meeting of February 25, 2009 - on Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Implementation of Title II of the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act of 2008
Susannah Baruch is Law and Policy Director at the Genetics and Public Policy Center at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on genetic discrimination laws and policy including the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act and the use of genetic testing in the United States Military. She also leads the Center's work in legal and policy analysis related to reproductive technologies, including preimplantation genetic diagnosis.
Previously, Ms. Baruch served as the Director of Health Law Policy at the National Partnership for Women & Families (formerly the Women's Legal Defense Fund), where she testified before the United States Senate on genetic discrimination legislation and founded and created the Coalition for Genetic Fairness, which has worked for a decade to promote legislation to prevent genetic discrimination. She also spent several years on Capitol Hill working on a range of women's health and discrimination issues for Representative Nita M. Lowey (D-NY).
Ms. Baruch holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Chicago Law School and a B.A. in History from Yale College. She lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and two sons.
Recent Publications:
Baruch, S., and K. Hudson. 2008. Civilian and Military Genetics: Nondiscrimination Policy in a Post-GINA World. The American Journal of Human Genetics 83: 435-444.
Baruch, S., D. Kaufman, and K. Hudson. 2008. Genetic Testing of Embryos: Practices and Perspectives of U.S. IVF Clinics. Fertility and Sterility 89: 1053-1058.
Baruch, S., D.J. Kaufman, and K.L. Hudson. 2008. Preimplantation genetic screening: a survey of in vitro fertilization clinics. Genetics in Medicine 10: 685-690.
Baruch, S. Outlawing genetic discrimination, BioNews. May 21, 2007.
Baruch, S., D. Kaufman, and K. Hudson. U.S. Public Opinion on Uses of Genetic Information and Genetic Discrimination. Washington, DC: Genetics and Public Policy Center, 2007.


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The Canadian Soccer Association announced on Sunday that four members of Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-18 Girls Elite have been named to the 21-player roster for the third edition of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Included on the roster are defender Aman Shergill, midfielder/striker Jasmin Dhanda, and strikers Summer Clarke and Elissa Neff.
Clarke, Dhanda, and Neff are among 17 returning members from the Canadian team that won silver at the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Under-17 Championship in May of this year. Of note, Clarke was Canada's leading scorer in the tournament with six goals.
Canada will take part in the 2012 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Azerbaijan from September 22 to October 14, with all three group matches to be played in the capital city of Baku.
"I think the players are quite excited," said Canadian U-17 head coach Bryan Rosenfeld. "It has been an exciting year for our women's program, so that has reflected quite positively on our young players."
Canada is one of 16 teams competing in this year's tournament, with the teams split evenly into four separate groups. In the group phase, Canada will face Nigeria on September 22, Colombia on September 25 and host Azerbaijan on September 29. Of note, Canada and Nigeria are two of eight teams that have competed in all three editions of the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup.
The quarter-final phase features match ups between Groups A & B (on October 4) and Groups C & D (on October 5). Along with Canada, Colombia, Nigeria and Azerbaijan, teams competing in this year's FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup are: France, Gambia, Korea DPR, and USA in Group B; Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and New Zealand in Group C; and China PR, Germany, Ghana, and Uruguay in Group C.
1- GK- Kailen Sheridan | CAN / Pickering SC
2- FB- Lindsay Agnew | USA / Ohio Premier Eagles
3- FB- Madeline Iozzi | CAN / Pickering SC
4- F- Summer Clarke | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite
5- CM- Rebecca Quinn | CAN / Erin Mills Mighty Eagles U-16
6- FB/CB- Aman Shergill | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite
7- CM- Ashley Lawrence | CAN / Erin Mills Mighty Eagles
8- CM/F- Jasmin Dhanda | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite
9- F- Amandine Pierre-Louis | CAN / Saint-Léonard
10- F- Valérie Sanderson | CAN / FC Boisbriand U-16
11- F- Nichelle Prince | CAN / Pickering SC
12- FB/CB- Kadeisha Buchanan | CAN / Erin Mills Mighty Eagles U-16
13- F- Elissa Neff | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite
14- CM/CB- Rebecca Pongetti | CAN / Oakville SC
15- FB/M- Victoria Pickett | CAN / Glen Shields
16- F- Emily Pietrangelo | CAN / Erin Mills Mighty Eagles U-16
17- F- Jordyn Listro | CAN / Oakville SC
18- GK- Taylor Bucklin | USA / CFC United
19- M/CB- Nicole Loncar | CAN / Brams United SC
20- CM- Larisa Staub | CAN / Angels SWU
21- GK- Maryse Bard-Martel | CAN / FC Boisbriand U-16
Vancouver Whitecaps FC are preparing to launch a special offer for fans on 2013 Season Tickets. To thank fans for their continued support, those who purchase Season Tickets from Saturday, September 22 to Wednesday, October 3 will receive a special signing bonus of 12 per cent off. Fans can take advantage of this offer and renew or purchase their Season Tickets online at whitecapsfc.com or by phone at 604.669.9283.


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