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Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection
This rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European artists from the Heckscher Museum's Permanent Collection. Of particular interest is Étienne Berne-Bellecour's monumental Embarkation Maneuver, 1882, which factually depicts the departure of a regiment of cuirassiers following the Franco-Prussian War. Heckscher Museum of Art, Main St. and Prime Ave., Huntington. (631) 351-3250 or www.heckscher.org.
Artists in America
A survey of 300 years of great American paintings. Artists from every era of American art are featured among the exhibit's 79 works, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt. The works are selected from the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. Through Feb. 24. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or www.nassaumuseum.org.
The "Iranian Schindler"
An exhibit of photographs and artifacts honoring Abdol-Hossein Sardari, the Iranian envoy stationed in Paris who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis. Through December. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, 100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. 571-8040 ext. 100 or www.holocaust-nassau.org.
Political Slant: Editorial Cartoons
Original sketches and digital prints of contemporary cartoons by five editorial cartoonists: Walt Handelsman of Newsday, Mike Keefe, Steve Kelley, Jimmy Margulies of The Record (North New Jersey) and Signe Wilkinson of the Philadelphia Daily News. Through Dec. 21. Hofstra University's David Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Toward Greater Awareness: Darfur and American Activism
This exhibit, featuring large-scale sculptures by American artist Mitch Lewis, focuses on the genocide that occurred in Darfur and Sudan from 2003 to 2006, as well as the American response to the crisis. It is presented in conjunction with October's Presidential Debate. Through Dec. 16. Hofstra University's Emily Lowe Gallery, Emily Lowe Hall, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Afternoon Movie
See the comedy "Tyler Perry's Witness Protection," Friday, Dec. 14, 2:30 p.m.; also "Moonrise Kingdom," about two 12 year-olds in a small New England town in the summer of 1965, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
At the Movies
See the comedy "Safety Not Guaranteed," in which three magazine employees head out on an assignment to interview someone who placed a classified ad seeking a companion for time travel. Friday, Dec. 14, 1 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Monday Movie
See "People Like Us," a drama about a salesman settling his deceased father's estate and the sister he never knew about, Monday, Dec. 17, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Movie Showing
Watch the award-winning Canadian film, "Monsieur Lazhar," a character study of loss and death and innocence and guilt, Tuesday, Dec. 18, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Film Screening
Watch "Darling Companion," the drama about a woman who loves her dog more than her husband, with Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2 p.m. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Rd., Franklin Square. 488-3444.

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The visit by "Road Respect: Car & Bike Rules to Live By" will include an opportunity for local cyclists to ride along with the core cycling group, followed by a "Road Respect Rally" aimed at informing drivers and cyclists about safety on the road, organizers said in a news release.
The program aims to increase awareness about the rules of the road pertaining to bicycling and to build respect between the two groups, officials said.
The events in Moab will begin with a bicycle ride at 7 a.m. on June 6. Local cyclists are invited to meet at the Moab Aquatics and Recreation Center at 6:45 a.m. for a ride-along with the group. The ride will conclude at the Swanny City Park pavilion with a Road Respect Rally from 3 to 5 p.m., featuring a mini auto show from a rare local collection.
Activities also include bicycle helmet giveaways for children, a parent and child trail ride and a bike rodeo. The three-mile parent/child guided trail ride leaves Swanny Park at 3:30 p.m. for a tour down Mill Creek Parkway to the Youth Garden Project, where refreshments will be served. The event is free of charge, and the community is invited to attend.
The Road Respect program was developed by the Utah Department of Transportation and the Utah Department of Public Safety in response to concerns from both bicyclists and drivers about safety and the behaviors of each group on the road.
"By demonstrating proper cycling behaviors on the road, the Road Respect Tour cyclists serve as positive examples for other cyclists and drivers with the aim of increasing respect among both groups," organizers said.
The Tour begins in Beaver City on Monday, June 4 and an official campaign kickoff will take place in St. George later that day. For more information about the program or to find out how to join in the ride-along or rally in Moab, contact Mark Griffith at 260-2334 or visit the Road Respect website at RoadRespect.utah.gov.


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Documents: Undercover police on scene before Warlock shooting
Three members of a local Warlocks Motorcycle Club were shot and killed in late September at a Winter Springs VFW and new documents reveal police were on scene before the shooting.
In the documents, two undercover police officers were on the scene minutes before the shooting started, but left to follow other bikers.
Police said they often work to keep an eye on things because of ongoing issues between biker clubs. They said the surveillance was not based on any inside information that anything was going to go down.
Four members of a splinter group from the Warlocks are in jail and accused of ambushing the other three men, killing them in the parking lot. The four men said they fired in self-defense.


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Shea-Porter, Kuster split on pay raisesStaff and Wire Reports
February 15. 2013 10:38PM
WASHINGTON - New Hampshire's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives was split in a vote Friday that would extend the pay freeze on federal workers.
U.S. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, D-N.H., was one of 43 Democrats who broke ranks with their party to support the measure, which would block a 0.5 percent pay raise scheduled to go into effect beginning March 27. U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., was one of 144 Democrats to vote against the bill, which passed 261-154 thanks to an overwhelming Republican majority in favor of the bill.
The bill would also extend the freeze on congressional member pay, now running through September, until the end of the year. Shea-Porter described the tie-in of member pay as a way to guilt members to vote for the measure and criticized House leaders who refused to allow separate votes on raises for members and workers.
"Today, House leadership put a bill on the floor to freeze the pay of hard-working middle class federal workers for the third year in a row, and tried to get members of Congress to join them by adding member pay to the bill. I have in the past voted against and would continue to vote against raising my own pay, which is excellent, but I will not vote against a modest pay raise for middle class federal workers - about $5 a week for a worker earning $50,000 a year. Leadership should concentrate on closing loopholes and reforming the tax code instead of shrinking middle class wages," Shea-Porter said in a statement.
Shea-Porter's vote met with criticism from New Hampshire Republican Party Chairman Jennifer Horn.
"At a time when Congresswoman Shea-Porter is trying to raise taxes on working families, it is outrageous that she is supporting a fiscally irresponsible federal pay raise that would cost $11 billion. Congresswoman Shea-Porter's radical position is so appalling that even a tax-and-spend liberal like Congresswoman Annie Kuster opposed her and voted to block the increase," Horn said in a statement.


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After you have downloaded and installed PHP, you have to manually execute the batch file located in e.g. c:\php\go-pear.bat. The setup will ask you some questions and afterwards the PEAR Package Manager will be installed in the path, which you have specified during installation. Finally you have to add that installation path to your PATH environment. Either do this manually (Start > Control Panel > System > Environment) or run (double-click) the newly generated PEAR_ENV.reg that's now found in the PHP source directory. After that you can access the PEAR Package Manager by running the command pear in a Windows Command Prompt.
To update your PEAR installation, request http://pear.php.net/go-pear in your browser and save the output to a local file go-pear.php. You can then run
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If one uses a version of PHP that is supplied by Unix/Linux/BSD distributors it may be necessary to manually install PEAR. Users should consult the documentation for the respective distribution in this case.
For all versions prior to 4.3.0 or if you want to re-install the Package Manager, you can use the following provisional way:
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Note: Some Linux distributions (e.g. Redhat) seem to be using links instead of lynx as the name for their command line browser. If this is the case for you, you need to change the above line correspondingly.
Note: You can also save http://pear.php.net/go-pear as go-pear.php and run it with:
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The first Wednesday in February means that we are one month closer to MoCool! Come to chat and tell me why you think this will be the greatest MoCool of all-time! Come to chat and make fun of those of us who treat MoCool like Christmas in August! Please come to chat. For those of you who may have forgotten, chat gets started around 9:30 PM for those of us on the east coast, 8:30 PM for those of you in Chicago and 9:30 in other parts of fly over country. I guess that means 6:30 PM on the left coast. If my calculations are correct everyone in NZ needs to join us at 3:30 PM Thursday and Australia at 1:30 PM on Thursday afternoon for those in Sydney and eastern Oz. It will be an ungodly 3:30 AM in Israel and Helsinki, 2:30 AM in Paris, and Berlin, and 1:30 AM in London. Of course it is all worth the sleep deprivation. Come in early and see who is here. Don't be late!!!!! (I hope I have the time changes down.If not, let me know!)
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Wednesday marks the 50-year anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Miami Lakes resident Dr. Shirley Johnson was there, with her most vivid memory being all of the people.
"You could just feel the energy around, not screaming, not hollering, but an atmosphere of togetherness," she said.
Johnson met Dr. King when she was growing up in Jackson, Miss., which was a segregated in the deep South.
Johson was very involved in the movement for racial equality. At 10 years old she was active in her NAACP chapter. She was arrested as a teenager after taking part in one of many protests.
Johnson talked about her mission to save the world and spoke of the lense through which she saw America back then.
"Those lense were lense of hope, lense of changing the country and lense making myself visible enough to all I could as a human being to bring the messages back," she said.
Johnson was back at the National Mall last Saturday celebrating Dr. King's famous speech.
While her memory from 50 years ago was all of the people, this time it was the families.
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When Kurt Ray Kasper Jr. walked into the Fannin Pavilion behavioral hospital in Beaumont after telling police he was having thoughts of the mass murder of children, police couldn't have known he would stab a close family friend to death some two weeks later, just one day after his release from the mental hospital.
Kurt Ray Kasper Jr., 29, was indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury March 1, 2012, and pleaded guilty Monday, Sept. 2, to murdering Timothy James Melancon. With the guilty plea, Kasper's sentence would be capped at no more than 20 years.
According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Examiner, Nederland police were called to 324 N. 15th St. in reference to a stabbing Feb. 15, 2012. When they arrived, they found Melancon face down in the street with a single stab wound to the chest.
When they entered the home, police found Kasper inside along with the weapon he had used to stab Melancon. According to the probable cause affidavit, Kasper told police he stabbed Melancon because he "had a vision that (Melancon) was going to rape a female."
After stabbing Melancon, witnesses said Kasper "went to the bathroom, washed the blood off the knife, returned it to the scabbard and placed it in his belt line," and waited calmly for police to arrive, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Melancon was rushed to St. Elizabeth Hospital where he later died of a stab wound to the chest.
Police later interviewed Kasper's mother, who told police her son had just been released from Baptist Behavioral Center due to "mental issues" and because he "sees things that are not there," according to the probable cause affidavit.
Kasper was mentally evaluated and found to be competent before pleading guilty.
At his sentencing in Judge John Stevens Criminal District Court Monday, Sept. 30, Kasper's defense argued it was their client's mental instability and remorse that should be taken into account when judgment is rendered, saying Kasper's fragile mental state was shattered by family drug use at home.
"None of those problems are something Kurt is willing to hide behind," Kasper's defense attorney argued before asking Stevens to sentence Kasper to five years behind bars.
But Stevens had some pressing questions regarding Kasper's drug use, which was detailed in the pre-sentence report given to Stevens.
"My question is this to you, sir, mental health aside, what are you doing with crack cocaine?" Stevens asked.
Kasper replied he had just started using the drug and downplayed its significance in relation to the murder that night, saying he occasionally got it from "family and friends."
"What kind of family and friends are those? The family, you guys just get together and have family crack cocaine?" Stevens asked. "At Thanksgiving, we fix turkey. Where's the crack? Was the crack for desert?"
When pressed even further, Kasper eventually said it was his mother who had provided the crack cocaine that night. This prompted Kasper's mother to openly blame the crack cocaine usage that night on the victim, Tim Melancon.
Stevens was visibly disturbed by the revelation Kasper's mother provided the drugs.
"We all know that this can happen when you mix drugs with anything," Stevens said. "Crack cocaine is terrible, and for it to be a family product is just shameful. Shameful. That's not advanced citizenship — it's shameful."
Before Stevens sentenced Kasper to the full 20 years under his guilty plea, Kasper apologized to the Melancon family and his own family, saying Tim Melancon "was a good person to me."
After the sentencing, prosecutor Pat Knauth said he was glad to see a tough case off the docket, but he was taken aback by Kasper's mother making an outburst in court.
"It was a surprise. I knew cocaine (use) was going on in the house, it was just who was using it and in what context we didn't know," he said. "I had no idea, although I suspected that the mother was using it, I didn't expect that they would both admit it in court that she had supplied her son with cocaine. And then tried to, in a way, tried to blame it on the victim that he had supplied the cocaine. Whether true or not, you're the mother. You know he has a substantial mental history, so like the judge said, that was a shame."
Part of the problem, Knauth said, is dwindling funds for mental health and behavioral services.
"It's an example of when people are trying to cut services, you're trying to save money, the things that are hit first are mental health facilities and child protective services," he said. "Those are the ones that are cut first and there are results because of that, and this is an example of that."
As Kasper was led to prison, Stevens lamented this case was one of the worst examples of family drug use and murder he'd ever seen.
"I can't say enough about how disgusting the facts are where you would be using crack cocaine that was provided by your own mother," Stevens said. "You'd think that what I've heard in seven years, I'd be shocked, but out of thousands of cases, this is an all-time low. Shame on those people who participated in this and subjected somebody they know has mental issues to crack cocaine, which ultimately played an important part in the loss of this life."
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WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- Republican "brinkmanship" that ties a debt-limit increase to budget cuts could once again push Washington toward default, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said.
"The president has made clear: We cannot negotiate about whether or not the government of the United States would default," he told "Fox News Sunday," one of four talk shows on which he appeared.
"It was a mistake in 2011 to have that debate. It's hurt the economy. And I think Congress knows that it has to deal with this," he said.
But congressional Republicans have said they won't raise the debt ceiling, which is the government's statutory borrowing authority, without concessions. Those concessions include changes to entitlement programs such as Medicare, withholding funding for, if not repealing, Obama's signature healthcare-reform program and creating a mandatory timeline to lower tax rates through a tax-code overhaul.
"We're not going to raise the debt ceiling without real cuts in spending. It's as simple as that," Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Tuesday.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said the Senate will not go along with the proposed House cuts.
The fight is expected to intensify when Congress returns from its August recess. After the Sept. 30 deadline for a spending bill to keep the government running, lawmakers face an early November deadline to raise the debt limit or risk U.S. default.
"What the president did this week is he sent a very clear message that Washington has to stop playing these brinkmanship games," Lew told NBC's "Meet the Press."
"It is imperative that Washington be part of the solution, not part of the problem," Lew, who previously served as Obama's chief of staff and budget director, told ABC's "This Week." "We can't afford self-inflicted wounds and we can't have these kinds of self-created crises month after month, year after year."
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, who is leading the charge to de-fund the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known sometimes pejoratively as Obamacare, insisted the budget fight wouldn't lead to a shutdown.
"We all know that the government is going to get funded," he told "Fox News Sunday." "The only question is whether the government gets funded with Obamacare or without it."
Boehner's office challenged Obama last week to stop the shutdown talk by dropping a veto threat to the House budget bill, which continues current automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration but shifts the cuts from the Pentagon to domestic programs.
"That's unacceptable. He won't sign that," Lew told "Meet the Press."
The current sequestration -- which was put in place during the last debt-ceiling crisis in 2011 as part of the Budget Control Act -- splits the cuts equally between defense and non-defense programs..
"Congress needs to get its work done and needs to fund the kinds of things the American middle class need, and we need to get the debt limit extended in a way that doesn't create a crisis," he said. "That is what every [member of] Congress needs to do, and Congress needs to do it when it gets back in September."


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The Honors House at Davisson Hall offers highly talented students the opportunity to live in a community dedicated to equipping Christian students for the pursuit of academic excellence. See photos and video of the Honors House.
This living environment for Honors Program students breaks down the boundaries between classrooms and dormitories. The dorm features a resident director who is a Christian scholar, such as an Honors alumnus or alumna. This integrates housing with academics, which ensures a smooth transition to the Honors curriculum and a successful first year at Oklahoma Christian. The dorm also features successful upper-class Honors students who serve as resident mentors and tutors.
The Honors House is a residence hall designed to provide a Christ-centered, dynamic learning environment focused on relationships for young leaders who are eager to make the most of their undergraduate experiences at Oklahoma Christian. The east wing is for male students, while female students live in the west wing of the building.
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Now that the excitement has worn off from the Colonial Athletic Association's food chain addition of Elon, it's worth asking: What did you expect?
A moderately successful athletic program that's competed at the NCAA Division I level for all of 14 years, from a lower-rated league, doesn't begin to compensate for losing marquee programs and charter members.
With the addition of Elon, the CAA is now an even 10 members — provided nobody else bolts in the next year — and approaches the permissible limit of singular nicknames in one conference. Tribe, Pride, Phoenix? Really?
CAA commissioner Tom Yeager and his crew talk about being pro-active, as it relates to expansion and conference membership, but there's only so much they can do within the present caste system of college athletics.
Yeager has been bashed in some quarters, particularly in the past year, as the CAA seemed to deteriorate around him. He was Dead Commissioner Walking, captain of the SS Has Been.
He couldn't keep VCU or George Mason. He couldn't land Davidson. He settled for a couple of other Southern Conference schools, one of which he probably wouldn't have considered five years ago.
A case can be made that Yeager placed too much emphasis on football at the expense of hoops, the conference's traditional raison d'etre.
Yet even with a structure weighted toward allowing the most successful programs to keep more NCAA money and receive greater exposure, that wouldn't prevent programs from jumping once realignment dominoes started to fall.
Plus, such a structure goes against the grain of the collegial spirit that's been part of the collective since the CAA's formation almost 30 years ago.
Yeager has managed as best he can, given the forces beyond his control. The Big Ten and ACC decimated the Big East, whose basketball schools chose to splinter off. They, in turn, targeted several successful and compatible programs in the Atlantic 10, which recruited the CAA's more successful programs.
Factor in football ambitions — hello, Old Dominion and Georgia State — and any mid-level league that plays FCS football is in almost impossible situation in the trickle-down world of conference realignment.
Yeager and the CAA responded in the only way possible: target schools in leagues below them. They become academic evaluators and athletic venture capitalists. They seek schools with reasonably similar academic profiles and standards. Because they aren't going to replace value with value, they must look for athletic departments and teams that have the potential to become a VCU or a Mason or an ODU.
The CAA is left with just three original members: William and Mary, James Madison and UNC Wilmington.
W&M has always been something of an outlier because of its size and academic profile. Competitive histories aside, Elon might have as much in common with William and Mary as JMU or Wilmington.
UNCW spent several years as a southern outpost and watched as the conference peered north and focused on football. They could be excused for looking at the additions of C of C and Elon and thinking: "About time."
JMU is arguably most put out by realignment and upheaval. The Dukes watched rivals and peer institutes ODU, VCU and George Mason move out of the neighborhood and get replaced by friends of friends and those who received the homeowners' association seal of approval.
And don't discount how galling it is to a broad segment of JMU faithful that Old Dominion and its fledgling football program leapfrogged them into the Football Bowl Subdivision, by virtue of geography over accomplishments and track records.
The CAA wasn't going to be able to keep VCU and its upwardly mobile hoops program and a coach it's desperate to keep. The A-10 routinely lands multiple NCAA bids, and its revenue sharing structure allows schools to keep more of what they earn.
The only surprise about George Mason's departure for the A-10 is that it didn't occur a year earlier. Athletic director Tom O'Connor wants to keep his basketball coach with the ACC pedigree happy. As Mason's Final Four appearance recedes further, a successful hoops-centric league looks that much more attractive to a school that doesn't play football.
Elon and the College of Charleston aren't seamless substitutes for VCU and Mason and ODU. They may never adequately replace their predecessors.
Given the present landscape, keeping together a disparate group of schools that stretch from Boston to Charleston, S.C., might be the most one can hope.
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I am exclusively express feeding my eight week old son (due to weak suck issues). I will be returning to work this Friday. Because I work out of town, I will be away from home Friday night through Monday evening each week. I had built up a supply of breast milk, but last week my deep freezer somehow got unplugged. I lost my entire supply. I have frozen some milk since then, but this occurrence sent me into a panic. I do not want my baby to have nothing to eat when I am away from home - for whatever reason (not enough frozen breastmilk, power outage...).
So, I want to get my baby used to formula. Sothat he will have food in an emergency...and I can also cut his breastmilk with a little formula in order to rebuild my supply of frozen breastmilk.
The problem is that my son is not responding well to formula. I first tried Gerber Good Start - 1 oz formula mixed with 4 oz breastmilk - and it made him cry. I assumed that it made his stomach hurt. He would drink some milk and then start crying. Starting today I then tried Gentlease...same thing, drinking some of the breastmilk/formula and then starting to cry. I then tried Similac Alimentum. It is supposed to be hypoallergenic...so shouldn't that mean that there is no way it should make him cry? I mixed 1/2 ounce alimentum with 2 1/2 ounces of breastmilk. He drinks for awhile and then cries, drinks a little more and cries. I am starting to think that this is not caused by stomach pain because of this --> When I feed my son I sit him up against my legs. When he starts crying while drinking the breastmilk/formula mix I pick him up and cradle him in my arms. He stops crying immediately. If his stomach were hurting, wouldn't he continue to cry and be harder to calm down? Maybe he wouldn't stop crying until the pain went away?
Is it possible that when I first start feeding him he is drinking really fast and not noticing the taste of the formula in the breastmilk...then when his stomach is a little full he notices it, doesn't like it, and cries?
This is making me sick with worry. It will kill me to be hours from home worrying if my son will have enough to eat. I need to get him used to formula. I don't see how it would be possible for him to not be able to tolerate hypoallergenic formula. Am I doing something wrong with how I am introducing formula?
I know a lot of you are anti-formula, so I really appreciate any advice that you can give. Also, please don't be mean to me about using formula. I am doing my best and taking supplements to increase my milk production. I tried pumping every two hours to maximize my milk production, but since it takes me an hour to pump (one breast at a time so I can continue taking care of baby), half an hour to bottlefeed and then change the baby....that's basically two hours and time to pump again. It turned me into a nervous wreck.


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How would you translate this: "If you can read this, you are probably dead."?
qui hoc legere scit, paene certe est mortuus.
si hoc legere potes, probabiliter es mortuus.
ptolemyauletes wrote:probabiliter is not a terribly Latin way of expressing probably (at least not in my experience), a word which in general is awkwardly expressed. Perhaps sine dubio would work better.


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Greenville recorded an 80.8 free throw percentage and 59.3 field goal percentage in the second game. The Panthers had 29 total rebounds.
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1. Re: X79 SMART not enableparsec Feb 29, 2012 2:31 PM (in response to mic)
You may have your 520 connected to the Marvell 9172 (Ugh!!) SATA interface, and not the Intel SATA interface. The SATA ports on your board are different colors, and you need to check which color belongs to what SATA interface, and determine where your 520 is connected. Once you figure that out, we can take it from there.
Also, what SATA mode are you set to on each of those different SATA interfaces, and what drivers are you using with them?
2. Re: X79 SMART not enablemic Feb 29, 2012 2:43 PM (in response to parsec)
Not connected to Marvel.
All sata are to ahci ( correct spellig? ) in the bios.
I've installed all the driver for the disk coming together with the mobo.
3. Re: X79 SMART not enablemic Mar 2, 2012 8:49 AM (in response to mic)
I've located the problem.
It's the "Intel Rapid Storage Technology Enterprise" driver which is on the driver cd for the Gigabyte motherboard.
As soon as this is installed the toolbox reports, SMART feature not enable.
The driver is version 22.214.171.1242. Have also tried with version 184.108.40.20620 but same problem.
Strange that Intel makes a driver which screws up its own programs.
4. Re: X79 SMART not enableCarWiz Mar 2, 2012 3:53 PM (in response to mic)
There are two different controller drivers for that board. One Intel for the drives connected to the PCH controller and one for the Marvell controllers. Intel RST supports drives connected to the PCH controller (Intel). Verify you have connected the drive(s) to the correct SATA ports. Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is a drive communication standard and is available on both brands of controllers. AHCI has nothing to do, per say, with WHERE the drive is installed. But you must have the drive(s) connected to the PCH controller to use IRST for those drives. Drives that are connected to the Marvell controllers will use Marvell and/or Gigabyte software. (Whatever that may be.)
Here's a list of chipset supported by IRST:
5. Re: X79 SMART not enablemic Mar 3, 2012 12:25 AM (in response to CarWiz)
My 520 disk is connected to the SATA3 port controlled by the Intel chipset. I don't use the Marvel controller.
Bios is set to AHCI. The SSD Toolbox works perfect until I install the IRSTe ( Enterprise ) driver, as long I'm running with the standard Windows 7 driver there's no problem.
I've tried to install the normal IRST ( non enterprise ) but this is not allowed on the X79 motherboard.
After installing IRSTe the SSD drive is seen as a SCSI drive instead of a IDE and therefore no longer supported by the Toolbox.
So Intel has a problem here.
6. Re: X79 SMART not enableDooRules Mar 3, 2012 2:35 AM (in response to mic)1 of 1 people found this helpful
This has been an issue since day one with the 520 series.
I think they will be dropping these E drivers all together, they seem to bring nothing but issues to the table.
I load the 11 series IRST driver thru the device manager, this gives me IRST driver with FULL Intel toolbox functionality. Ha Ha Intel, got around your silly E driver, and much better performance also, geeze who would not want that.
7. Re: X79 SMART not enablemic Mar 3, 2012 8:12 AM (in response to DooRules)
Dave: Are you also using a X79 board?
Which driver exactly did you download?
I've tested this one which works quite well.
AHCI: Intel® Rapid Storage Technology Driver for Intel Desktop Boards
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=20913&ProdId=2101&lang=engFile name:f6flpy-x64_188.8.131.522.zipVersion:184.108.40.2062
And then manually selecting this one:
Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller
8. Re: X79 SMART not enableDooRules Mar 3, 2012 11:27 AM (in response to mic)
9. Re: X79 SMART not enableJ.C. Apr 2, 2012 9:54 PM (in response to DooRules)
I have an ASUS Rampage IV Extreme motherboard (X79) and Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit and I was getting the same problem... the toolbox did not identify my Intel 520 drive with the Intel RST enterprise (RSTe) even with the updated driver 184.108.40.2063 (RSTe_V3002003_XPWin7) and software that I downloaded from the ASUS site. The drive said "Unknown 240GB", S.M.A.R.T. was not enabled (the SMART Summary said it could not report anything because SMART was disabled), and I couldn't run the optimizer. Plus I was also getting really poor performance, and system hangs under heavy load (with 4 threads copying files to the drive, or deleting files from the drive, anything needing to touch the drive would freeze for 10-30 seconds at a time). And the performance was only about half of what it should have been under normal usage (it was slower than a 7,200 RPM WD black drive for my software builds).
So, after reading this article, I upgraded to the 184.108.40.2062 by going to the Device Manager -> Storage controllers -> Intel... and updated it from the link above. I installed from the f6flpy-x64_220.127.116.112 archive, from the iaAHCI.inf file, and selected the "Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA RAID Controller" and it installed correctly. After rebooting the toolbox works great and the drive performance was better... still a few hangs but only for a second or less at a time. However, now my Intel RSTe software no longer works. I get an error message from the Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (RSTe) program IAStoreUI.exe:
Window Title: Intel Rapid Storage Technology enterprise
Error Message: An unknown error occurred while running this application. If the problem persists, please restart your computer or try reinstalling the application.
I'm guessing this is because the RST enterprise (or RSTe) software is not compatible with the regular (non-enterprise) RST 188.8.131.522 drivers. However, when I try to run the software install to install the regular RST software, STOR_Vista_Win7_18.104.22.1682_PV, I get an error message from Setup.exe:
Window Title: Error
Error Message: This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software.
So, it appears I have my choice of having either the Intel RSTe drivers and software that works but with really poor performance and no toolbox, or use the RST 11 drivers and have the toolbox work and good performance but the RST software not working.
I would hoping we will either get a version of the RST 11 drivers that work with the X79, or they'll port all the fixes/changes from the 11 drivers over to the RSTe drivers. Does anyone from Intel have an idea on what the plan is? The RSTe 126.96.36.1993 drivers are really unusable in their current state... makes the SSD slower than a traditional hard drives and those 10-30 freezes are unbearable: we all know Windows is really bad when the drive freezes (lots of programs just hang up and don't respond to anything while the drive is hung).
10. Re: X79 SMART not enableDooRules Apr 3, 2012 2:26 AM (in response to J.C.)
You are 100% correct sir, you have to choose whcih you want, Intel says we cannot have both working at the same time, at least not yet, lol.
But with performance so much better with the 11 series it's no contest really. When I rarely need to do something with the IRST CP I just reinstall the E driver, do what I must and then go back to the 11 series.
11. Re: X79 SMART not enablet53186 Apr 4, 2012 8:36 PM (in response to DooRules)
Well I was skeptical and more cautious than need be by waiting to load the V11 drivers. While I am pleased the drivers information shared works well I am disappointed with Intel. It is a shame considering the research, time, and money spent before building my latest machine only to find to "almost" make it work as advertised a workaround needed to be used. I appreciate many times we do what is needed to get the results we want, but really...Extreme board with server chipset top of line line hex core, latest 240GB drive and I need to roll back to a driver not even supported by Intel.
OK I'm done.
Thank you Dave, Parsec, and others for contributing to this thread and being patient with my reluctance.
12. Re: X79 SMART not enableulvi May 3, 2012 8:07 PM (in response to mic)
How did you guys manage to install the 220.127.116.112 driver?
I have a Gigabyte X79-UD5 board with an Intel 520 180GB SSD; and the
only drivers (Win 7 64 bit) I can install are the generic Windows driver (in
which SMART features are enabled and the toolbox works fine), and the
"Intel C600 Series Chipset SATA AHCI Controller" driver 220.127.116.115 (from
April 24 2012) in which SMART is disabled.
If I point the device manager to the folder containing the 126.96.36.1992 driver, Windows
simply refuses to install it as an upgrade to either the generic windows
driver or the recent AHCI driver.
Any help much appreciated...
13. Re: X79 SMART not enablet53186 May 7, 2012 5:14 PM (in response to ulvi)
You will get a warning message stating the device driver is not recommended because windows cannot verify that it is compatible with your hardware and a question do you want to continue installing this driver? select yes and restart. Trust me it works. And if you want to change back let windows intall the driver automatically then restart
14. Re: X79 SMART not enableulvi May 7, 2012 7:41 PM (in response to t53186)
I don't get the warning message; instead windows simply says "you already have the
best driver installed" (I'm paraphrasing), and refuses to install the update or give me the
option to decide what is best
Is there a way to overrride this behavior?


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There really isn't much besides PlayStation All-Stars for PS3 fans this holiday season. So maybe they won't be able to resist the lure of Halo 4...
Why do you have to choose? I can love my PS3 exclusives, while still loving Microsoft exclusives as well. People who only own a PS3 won't suddenly go and buy an Xbox though for Halo 4, just because there aren't MAJOR exclusives coming out really soon. They're down the road, but they're definitely coming. I am glad that Halo 4 seems to have turned out really well, I can't wait to check it out when I get the chance.
I am pretty sure that quite a few will. Halo 4 looks to be the shooter of the year as of now.
Couldn't this be worked both ways
"With no other exclusives after Halo and Gears will Xbox fans turn to the PS3"
Just saying....you don't have to pick a side.
Oh boy. Trying to take advantage of that Halo 4 traffic I see ...
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Acie Sartain, 76, of Stockton passed away peacefully on February 25, 2013 in Northridge, CA. He was born on May 11, 1936 in Cache, OK. He will be remembered for his love of family, big heart and joy of playing guitar.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Asa and Josie, 3 sisters, 6 brothers and his grandson,
Joshua Zaragoza. Acie is survived by his children Robert, Yolanda Mayes, Ralph, Denise Love and Shannon Zaragoza; step-children, Tina Payzont and Dennis Payzont; his 17 grandchildren; 5 great-grandchildren, his brothers Loyd, Russell, Paul and sister Deanna Vaccarezza, as well as the
mothers of his children, Andrea Sartain and Eileen Sartain.
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STOCKTON - Parents picking up their children from after-school programs feared the worst Wednesday when they arrived at John Marshall Elementary School to find police responding to a report of a person shot on campus.
STOCKTON - Parents picking up their children from after-school programs feared the worst Wednesday when they arrived at John Marshall Elementary School to find police responding to a report of a person shot on campus.
Authorities quickly determined that the victim, a 22-year-old man, drove to the school to seek help after being shot in a nearby neighborhood. Stockton Unified School District Police Chief Bryon Gustafson said no students, staff or faculty were involved in the shooting and that everyone on campus was safe, alleviating concerns of parents who feared the possibility of a schoolyard shooting.
"That was the first thing that came to my mind," said Maria Ente, whose son is a fourth-grader at the elementary school. "I thought, 'Oh, my God. Not another one.' I live right down the street, and I just thought something really bad happened, so I ran over here. I was concerned for all the little kids."
The shooting occurred about 2:45 p.m. at South Fresno Avenue and Diablo Creek Drive, about a half-mile from the elementary school. The victim told police he saw two men in a gold, late-1990s model Chevy Impala staring at him as he turned onto South Fresno Avenue from West Eighth Street.
As he passed the vehicle, the driver and a passenger opened fire with handguns, police said. The victim was struck once in the back and his car was struck eight times, officers said.
One of the gunmen was described as a heavyset Latino man with curly hair and a black shirt, police said. Nineteen evidence markers littered the intersection where the shooting occurred, 16 of them marking the locations of shell casings, investigators said.
"I heard 15 to 20 shots," said Jose Naranjo, 16, an Edison High School student who was home alone at the time. "I've never seen anything like that. It was terrifying."
Naranjo went outside to find that his home was one of three that had been struck by gunfire. Next door, a bullet smashed through a living room window and struck an interior wall, just above a staircase. Estrella Williams, 47, stood outside a corner house - a care home for developmentally disabled people - which was also struck by bullets.
"Five days a week, (the developmentally disabled residents) go to school from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.," Williams said. "They start rolling in here at 3 o'clock, so I'm glad they were not here when it happened."
The victim drove a black Volkswagen Jetta to the north side of the school and went into a classroom to seek help, said Officer Joe Silva, a spokesman for the Stockton Police Department. SUSD spokeswoman Dianne Barth said there were no students in the classroom at the time.
Medics arrived to find the man suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the back, but he was alert and conscious when he was transported to a hospital, Silva said.
Classes at the elementary school had been dismissed about 2:10 p.m., but there were 120 to 130 children on campus participating in after-school programs, Barth said. The school was briefly placed on lockdown while emergency responders tended to the victim.
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Comedian Jim Gaffigan is developing a new pilot for CBS based loosely on his life, Deadline reports.
Gaffigan is teaming with Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan for the series, to which CBS recently gave a put pilot commitment that almost guarantees a series pickup. The pair will co-write the single-camera comedy, which is set in New York and stars Gaffigan as a guy who shares a two-bedroom apartment with his wife and five children.
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It's not the only family-centric project for Gaffigan, who recently announced that he's writing a family book, scheduled to be released next summer. Gaffigan's previous television appearances include That '70s Show and My Boys. Tolan's previous credits include The Larry Sanders Show, Murphy Brown and Home Improvement.


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WOODLAND, Calif. (AP) - After decades of watching California wetlands disappear as they were filled in for farming, conservation groups say they're having success reversing some of the negative impacts on the sensitive salmon populations.
Farmers and biologists collaborated this winter to place young salmon in winter-flooded rice fields to mimic the vast marshlands that originally lined the rivers of the Central Valley when the fish thrived in their natural habitat.
On Wednesday they discovered that those fish fattened seven times faster and had superior survival rates than their kin caught upstream in the Sacramento River channel.
The experiment is designed to mimic historic salmon habitat. Researchers say bigger fish have a better chance of escaping predators, thrive in the ocean and return to spawn.
The experiment took place in the Yolo Bypass northwest of Sacramento.
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All Gods Have Been Taken Seriously
One objection to the cliche' that atheists believe in just one fewer God than religious believers do, was expressed recently over at Christian Cadre:
Third, there aren't really thousands of other gods that are taken seriously, and anyone who sees religions as the same except that they have "different gods" has a very childish grasp religious belief. Sure, a thousand and more years ago some people believed in Ishtar and Odin and Zeus, but only a handful of people (if any) really give those types of religions credence today because, unlike Christianity, they don't ring true.
The truth is that every God that people have believed in, both in the present and in the past, was taken very seriously by those very people. Just because we no longer take most of them seriously doesn't mean we could ever have convinced them otherwise via an argument, or with counter-evidence. Christians simply take their God seriously, and that's what all other people have done too.
There is only one God that is deserving of the name, and that is the philosopher's God. That is the God established by reasonable arguments, if such a thing can be done. The other Gods are human religions based upon the doctrines of a superstitious "faith," that legitimize and grant power to those who propogate them, which are spread by the sword, but not containing much by way of convincing evidence, in my opinion.


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Dallben owns a book that tells you everything in the world. It is called The Book of Three. One day trouble comes and their magic pig, Hen Wen, gets away. Taran goes after her and it turns into a wild adventure.
I think this book clearly gets this message through: You gotta do what you gotta do! My favorite part was when Fflewddur Fflam kept telling lies and each time one of his harp strings broke! This book is sad, funny, happy, and daring! I think this book is unique from all others because it is very exciting and very clearly written.
I recommend this book to people who like fantasy and people who have big imaginations.


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If you took a survey of home gardeners and asked them about their favorite vegetable to grow, most likely the tomato would be at the top of the list. Anyone who has grown tomatoes knows that the quality and flavor of homegrown far surpasses that of a store-bought tomato. Anyone who has spent time growing tomatoes also knows that at times they can be finicky and be a challenge, even for the most experienced gardener. If you happen to cherish the more flavorful heirloom varieties, you face even greater challenges when it comes to disease, insects and cultural problems. While the practice has been around for centuries, grafting has more recently become the rage in growing difficult tomato varieties more successfully. With the difficult task of growing these older varieties, grafting may give you the edge to get the job done in your garden.>> read "Two for One Tomatoes" #Edibles #Propagation #Vegetables
Microgreens are a fun way to add variety to your daily meals. They are nutrient dense, colorful and have fresh flavors along with tender crunch. I have been growing microgreens about five years and they are easy for the home gardener to grow.>> read "Growing Microgreens" #Edibles #Seeds #Vegetables
This is the time of year when we go from just harvesting to harvesting in earnest. You actually have to have a plan. What you can't eat, freeze or can now, you need to give away and give away fast. Here are some great ways to make the most of your bounty.>> read "You Can't Have Too Much of a Good Thing" #Edibles #Recipes #Vegetables
Themed gardens remain a popular way of motivating or inspiring gardeners to design a garden with specific intent. Several years ago, I wrote an article about growing a salsa garden; a cocktail garden is similar. With the end product in mind – in this case, a cocktail – you have a plan for what you can do with your harvest. This can be a fun way to put a "spring" in your step, especially for new gardeners, those looking for creative ways to be inspired, or those who admittedly have no green thumb.>> read "Shaken or Stirred?" #Edibles #Recipes #Themed Gardens
What is your idea of a perfect garden? Abundant flowers and lush greenery? Ripe vegetables and plump fruits? These days, with smaller yards and longer work hours, few gardeners have the space or time to care for both a kitchen garden and a separate ornamental garden. When you plant a blended garden, you can feed both body and soul.>> read "The Blended Garden" #Edibles #Ornamentals
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You've grown heirloom tomatoes. You know what it means to cook with superior ingredients. So take it to the next level. Enjoy roasted salad turnips with the slightly piquant base of the greens still attached, sweet baby broccoli tossed in garlic butter, tender mini beets, and grilled radicchio. If you can grow tomatoes, then there's no reason you can't grow gourmet delicacies in your backyard garden as well.>> read "Foodie Favorites" #Edibles #Vegetables
Growing and exhibiting vegetables is an exciting way to get more than food from your vegetable patch. In addition to possibly winning a ribbon and a small amount of prize money, you'll get the thrill of competing, the opportunity to learn about new varieties and inspiration for the future.>> read "Blue Ribbon Gardening" #Advice #Edibles #Misc #Vegetables
Anyone who has ever grown a backyard tomato knows that there is no comparison to the flavor and quality of a freshly grown tomato compared to one purchased at the supermarket. While tomatoes are arguably the king of the vegetable garden, they can be challenging at times because this tropical fruit can be finicky. By far, tomato problems exceed those of any other vegetable. Whether that is because they just have more problems or because of how popular they are, they are definitely not easy to grow. Here I will outline what I see as the top 10 issues that can lead to tomato failure in the garden.>> read "The Top 10 Reasons Your Tomatoes Fail" #Advice #Edibles #Fruit #Vegetables
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Launch of SEA Pledge Coastal Tour
Dr. Tony Ribbink and the SEA Pledge team has begun their crusade to educate coastal communities about COP 17 and what they can do to have a positive impact on the future of coasts and oceans. The coastal tour was launched on Wednesday 12 October 2011 in Port Elizabeth with the donation of two Honda Hybrid vehicles, which are being used to transport the team to 25 coastal towns in South Africa. The tour has made stops in Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, East London and Port St Johns and is currently on the south coast of Kwazulu-Natal. To learn more about the SEA Pledge Crusade joins us on Facebook and Twitter or view the Events Calendar.


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Red Cross gives coping tips on bombing anniversary
BOSTON (AP) — The American Red Cross shares helpful tips on how to prepare for the emotional struggles the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing may elicit.
The April 15 attack, which killed three and injured more than 260, left scars that are still healing. The Red Cross advises that the anniversary may bring to the surface feelings of fear, sadness and anxiety from last year.
It suggests that people leave their schedules free a few days before and after the anniversary, spend time with loved ones and friends and limit media exposure. If you have children make sure to prep them on what they can expect.
Mental Health volunteers will be at the Hynes Convention Center during the anniversary tribute and more than 30 volunteers stationed along the course during the marathon.


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The Obama administration claimed that it would be listening to a wide variety of views in looking for solutions to mass shootings and other forms of violence. The administration invited the NRA to a meeting today with Joe Biden, Eric Holder and others. To the surprise of some–those who aren't familiar with the NRA's commitment to gun safety–the organization accepted the invitation. The meeting, however, did not go well. Following the meeting, the NRA issued this statement:
The National Rifle Association of America is made up of over 4 million moms and dads, daughters and sons, who are involved in the national conversation about how to prevent a tragedy like Newtown from ever happening again. We attended today's White House meeting to discuss how to keep our children safe and were prepared to have a meaningful conversation about school safety, mental health issues, the marketing of violence to our kids and the collapse of federal prosecutions of violent criminals.
We were disappointed with how little this meeting had to do with keeping our children safe and how much it had to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment. While claiming that no policy proposals would be "prejudged," this Task Force spent most of its time on proposed restrictions on lawful firearms owners – honest, taxpaying, hardworking Americans. It is unfortunate that this Administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation's most pressing problems. We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen. Instead, we will now take our commitment and meaningful contributions to members of congress of both parties who are interested in having an honest conversation about what works – and what does not.
On one front after another, "our way or the highway" has been the Obama administration's position. To some degree, this may represent post-reelection hubris. But mostly I think it reflects the fact that Obama and his minions don't have much serious interest in governing. Even when there is nothing left to run for, politics is the only game they know, so that's what they play.


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DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A special tribunal in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced a leader of an Islamic political party to death for crimes during the nation's 1971 war for independence, a politically charged decision that sparked violent protests that left at least 12 people dead across the nation.
Delwar Hossain Sayedee, one of the top leaders of Jamaat-e-Islami, was found guilty on eight of 20 counts involving mass killings, rape and atrocities committed during the nine-month war against Pakistan, prosecutor Syed Haider Ali said.
"Justice has been done to those who lost their loved ones at the hands of Sayedee," Ali said.
Sayedee, 73, is the third defendant to be convicted of crimes against humanity since Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government initiated the war crimes tribunal in 2010.
Lawyers for Sayedee boycotted the announcement of the verdict, which they said was politically motivated. Sayedee's lawyer Abdur Razzak said they would appeal.
Jamaat-e-Islami, the largest Islamic party in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, campaigned against the independence war more than 40 years ago but denies committing any atrocities. It is a key ally of the largest opposition group, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party, which says the trials are aimed at destroying the opposition.
Jamaat-e-Islami enforced a nationwide general strike Thursday to denounce the trial and demand that Sayedee be freed from detention, and announced another strike on Sunday and Monday.
Security forces fired rubber bullets and tear gas at dozens of Jamaat supporters who smashed vehicles and attacked an office of the ruling Awami League party in Rangpur district, killing two people, police said.
Supporters of Sayedee clashed with police in Sirajganj district, leaving two people dead, private television channel Ekattar TV reported.
Stone-throwing Jamaat supporters also clashed with police in southeastern Chittagong city, injuring dozens of people, Ekattar TV reported. At least 60 vehicles were smashed, it said.
Police confirmed eight more deaths in clashes across the country.
Sayedee was a teacher at an Islamic school during the war. Prosecutors said he was directly involved in the deaths of three people, guided Pakistani soldiers to kill dozens of others, and forced 150 Hindus to convert to Islam.
In January, the tribunal sentenced former Jamaat leader Abul Kalam Azad to death for crimes during the war. Another Jamaat leader, Abdul Quader Mollah, was sentenced to life in prison in February on similar charges. Seven other top party leaders are currently on trial.
International human rights groups have questioned the fairness of the trials, including the disappearance of a witness for Sayedee.
Bangladesh says the 1971 war left 3 million people dead, 200,000 women raped and forced millions to take shelter in neighboring India.


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Alfred Blumstein and Joel Wallman, eds.Cambridge Studies in Criminology, 2005
According to the editors of The Crime Drop in America, violent crime in America shot up sharply in the mid-1980s, continued to climb until 1991, and then declined over the next
7 years to a level not seen since the 1960s. The puzzle of how and why this occurred has gone largely unsolved, they say,
despite the attempts of criminologists, policymakers, politicians, and average citizens to explain it. The editors note that
explanations have ranged from improvements in policing to a decline in crack-cocaine use.
The book assembles experts as they seek to identify and assess the plausible causes and competing claims of credit for the
crime drop. They examine the role of guns and gun violence, prisons, homicide patterns, drug markets, economic opportunities,
changes in policing, and changing demographics, with a primary focus on urban violence.
During the last three decades, American policing has seen significant change and innovation, write the editors of Police Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. In a relatively short time, they say, police began to reconsider their fundamental mission, the nature of the core strategies
of policing, and the character of their relationships with the communities they serve.
This book brings together police scholars to examine innovations in policing that emerged during the last decades of the twentieth
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those that influenced the array of police tasks, practices, and strategies broadly affecting American policing.
Marked: Race, Crime, and Finding Work in an Era of Mass Incarceration reports on a field experiment in which young men were paired, randomly assigned criminal records, and sent on hundreds of
real job searches throughout Milwaukee, Wisconsin. According to the publisher, all were attractive, articulate, and capable,
yet those with a "record" received less than half as many callbacks as those without criminal backgrounds. Young black applicants
with clean records fared no better than white men supposedly just out of prison. The author contends that such barriers to
legitimate work are an important reason that many forme prisoners soon find themselves back in the circumstances that led
them to prison in the first place.
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The exposures are the same, so how do you call the shot at higher ISO as optimal exposure for raw?
The appellation "ETTR" implies that the histogram is a determining factor and the histogram gives some indication of the number of photons collected only at base ISO. Certainly, at any ISO it is not wise to leave space at the right of the histogram is one is interested in the best SNR.
I wouldn't call it exposure to the right, since the exposure is the same in both instances. However, this is all semantics and the important point it to obtain maximal image quality.
Where and why does ETTR have to do anything with a Histogram?
The simple lesson to be learned from this is to bias your exposures so that the histogram is snugged up to the right, but not to the point that the highlights are blown.
[Maybe] ETTR is the wrong term.
Hi John,Jim Kasson devised an illustrative way to determine the maximum useful ISO setting, beyond which it is better to just underexpose and boost with the Raw converter's exposure setting.See the attachment where I used a similar method to determine it for my camera.Cheers,Bart
Jim Kasson devised an illustrative way to determine the maximum useful ISO setting, beyond which it is better to just underexpose and boost with the Raw converter's exposure setting.
The combo of setting provided a superior capture. ISO has no role here? I have to at the very least enter some value for the meter. Where and why does ETTR have to do anything with a Histogram? Which Histogram? In the raw processor (which is now part of the development process)? On the camera (not useful)?
In my mind, ETTR is using the various tools and settings we have to produce the optimal capture data. I don't see how the Histogram is even necessary expect to understand you didn't expose to the right enough or you exposed too far and you clipped. You could find this out without a Histogram too. Yes it's semantics but that's all we have at this point. Maybe ETTR is the wrong term. Expose to the right of an incorrect histogram? How about just Expose Optimally? Expose to right implies that there's this 'recommended' exposure but that's 'wrong' so adjust everything over (to the right). The recommendation prior to moving to the right is incorrect in terms of an ideal exposure, would you agree? If so, ETTR probably is the wrong term and I think most agree, it is confusing to a lot of users. They think they are over exposing when they are simply exposing optimally and not using the recommendation of a meter that's been designed for film and later, a JPEG. IF one tests where the sensor clips data they wish to capture, and move a tad to the left, would this not be correct and further ideal exposure? Maybe the term should be ETTL (after you figure out what not to clip).
ISO is part of exposure. Emil hints at in in his response linked above. He says that the idea is to maximise exposure within the constraints of DOF and the shutter speed necessary for the situation. Depending on the shooting circumstances, ISO has to be taken into consideration and, thus, is part of exposure. At least insofar as the response of the sensor is concerned. But also with respect to the needs of the photographer and the ability to post-process.Shooting, for example, fast moving sports like hockey or motor racing requires faster shutter speeds to get the necessary action-stopping movement. PJs shooting in these conditions don't have the luxury of time to fiddle with sliders in post. They shoot and fire the images off to their publication or agency in order to get the pics in the public eye as quickly as possible. A little extra noise isn't of significant concern so hiking up the ISO to get the required shutter speed for a 'normal' exposure is what will be done; as opposed to shooting at base ISO and screwing around in post while the competition is getting images onto the web for distribution or the competing newspaper is getting a jump on a story. This doesn't apply just to sports, of course, but any situation where conditions merit cranking the ISO to get a 'normal' exposure.
ISO is part of exposure.
ISO does have a role, but as Emil points out here, ISO is not exposure.
However, the term ETTR does imply the use of a histogram and this leads to confusion.
Nevertheless, a properly interpreted histogram is helpful at base ISO.
With today's high performance sensors such as the Sony Exmoor, ETTR is less important than it used to be
Please reread Emil's quote on the mantra "Maximize Exposure" in Reply#4 above. I think it takes in all the conditions you mention. If ISO must be raised to get the aperture and shutter speed you need, that's it....they are the first consideration.
...but exposure, per Emil, is the amount of light reaching the sensor. Increasing ISO does not increase exposure, it increase the amplification of the signal.
. The net results are what's important. The ISO on a camera and the ISO rated on film (which can be wrong) should not be considered 100% identical or on parity should they? What if instead of calling the dial ISO it was named something else, would not altering the settings alter the results (and exposure)? More semantics. Can we really separate ISO from exposure when making a capture? If I use ISO 100 film and push it 1 stop, but shoot another roll at ISO 100 and process it normal, don't we expect to see a difference in the two rolls of film (all else being equal)? Same amount of light hit the film.
For a photographer, the exposure net result includes the consideration of ISO.
For the sensor scientist, the exposure net result is ONLY the light hitting the sensor, which does not include ISO.
This is important to understand for CCD and Exmor where the sensors are called ISOless, because you will not get any result from increasing ISO in camera than you can get in the RAW conversion. In these cases, ISO for the photographer becomes the same as the sensor scientist...meaningless...except for the jpeg he sees in the LCD on the back of the camera.
Now why do such systems even have an ISO setting?
With today's high performance sensors such as the Sony Exmoor, ETTR is less important than it used to be and it is often more expeditious to use matrix metering and adjust the exposure if the camera histogram is too far to the left. However, bit of highlight headroom is sometimes advisable and one can make corrections with the raw converter. Remember that SNR varies with the square root of the exposure, so underexposing by one whole stop (not advisable in most situations) reduces the SNR by only a factor of sqrt(2).Bill
Now why do such systems even have an ISO setting?
This is a photography discussion board and despite the heavy dose of scientific discussion on this board, I think many of are photographers so those practical considerations are important.
1) To make the jpegs come out right.2) So you can chimp in dim light.3) tradition4) for the amusement of the photographers.


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Aug. 22: Rangers 13, Orioles 2
The Rangers' parting shot in their season series was another roundhouse right. Adrian Beltre homered three times, and the fourth inning was the Orioles' ugliest of the year. Texas rallied for nine runs in that inning, including a grand slam by Mitch Moreland and two two-run homers by Beltre. Former Ranger Tommy Hunter was again hit hard. He faced eight batters in the fourth and he didn't retire any of them. The talk after the game was about moving on from another tough series against the Rangers and keeping their eyes on the ultimate goal. "We are playing with house money. We're not supposed to be where we are," Orioles first baseman Mark Reynolds said that night. "We're just going to go -- all out the rest of the way and see what happens. See where we are at the end of the day. Everyone in here wants to get to the postseason, and obviously that's our goal now." Six weeks later, they've accomplished that goal. Now it's going to take surviving that tortuous lineup in a one-game playoff to keep this magical season alive.
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FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. – Two separate, free workshops designed to help parents with children with autism and special needs are planned for early December.
On Dec. 4, the Center for Social Enrichment and Educational Development is hosting a discussion related to funding, financial planning and insurance for children with autism titled, "Navigating the Funding Landscape from Insurance to Financial Planning."
Friends of Autistic People and Stamford Education 4 Autism are co-hosting the workshop, which will begin at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Inn & Suites, 26 Mill River St. in Stamford.
The second event, "Educating Parents: Thinking Beyond One Day at a Time," will focus on special education law and financial planning. It is hosted by the Wilton Family YMCA and will begin at 7 p.m. on Dec. 5 at the Y, 404 Danbury Road in Wilton.
At both events, the guest presenters will be Westport attorney Lawrence Berliner and Northwestern Mutual financial adviser Stephen Ehrens.
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Corsair 500R Mid-Tower Case Review
Where you decide your hardware gets to live can say a lot about any build. A case with a huge window means you likely want to show off that $400 GPU you have sitting inside, otherwise it goes unnoticed. Others of you close it up tight; you don't want anyone to know what you have inside, perhaps because it's so good and that's where your "extreme" gaming abilities come from, or it's so bad that you're ashamed of your own hardware. Others of us just like a nice looking case, whether it shows off what's inside of it or not. It's all about looking awesome.
Another member of the Carbide series from Corsair has shown up! After we reviewed the Corsair 400R about a month back, Corsair made their 500R release. However, the increase in model number doesn't correspond to an increase in price; the 500R comes priced right at $139.99 retail. It comes styling in either black or white in color, ready to fit with whatever theme you have going. Today we'll take a look at the Corsair 500R White Edition and we'll see how this chassis stacks up compared to some other cases on the market.
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No surprise, the Corsair 500R showed up in a box on my doorstep. A simple, brown box with a breakout picture of all the special features; all the drive bays, fans, and fan filters are explained in the typical 8-12 different languages. In reality you can only say so much about the box the case came in – most people don't even bother looking at it. I just want to tear into it, but no, I have to take these pictures for all of you to enjoy first.
The left side and right side ended up being exactly the same, so only half as much to say about them here! The sides have a simple sketch-up of what the inside of the case looks like next to the front of the case and some more specification about the case (which are listed on page 4 of this review). Finally the fun part of opening it up; this case was packed differently than any case I've received yet. The foam sandwich was foam, case, foam from top to bottom rather than side to side. Interesting method, although I see no advantages, or disadvantages for that matter, for packing it this way – just different. The delivery guy has been having fun with packages lately, the side panel was dented in a bit; fortunately it was easy to pop back the right way.
Now the fun begins – you will have to forgive me already for the images you are about to see. A white case with a white background…obviously a difficult, yet not impossible task; but for the rough pictures don't yell at the 500R – take it out on me. So here is the first shot out of the box wrapped in the lovely "don't put this bag on your head or you will die" plastic bag and foam caps. Not much more to say.
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MORE than 100 jobs could be at risk after Mustang Marine – a Pembroke Dock-based boat building and ship repair facility - announced it could enter administration later this week or early next week.
The company, which was facing closure before Christmas, has been in difficulties since November when directors reported significant losses to its shareholders.
It was hoped that a rescue package, involving the Welsh Government, Milford Haven Port Authority and "an external third party", would ensure the company's long-term future.
But directors are now looking for other funding after the third party's offer was withdrawn. An announcement was made to staff yesterday (Wednesday).
Mustang Marine interim managing director Stewart Graves said: "Unfortunately last week, after completing its review of the business, the external party withdrew its offer and without that party the long-term funding package could not proceed.
"The directors over the past few days have, with their professional advisers, sought other funding and are still trying to find a rescue package to secure the future of the business.
"It's possible the company will go into administration later this week or early next week if a rescue package cannot be found."
Mr Graves confirmed the company is "currently taking professional advice from Grant Thornton."
Only last November economy minister Edwina Hart opened Mustang Marine's new £1.5m boat building construction hall at Pembroke Port.
Port of Milford Haven chief executive Alec Don said the port, which is a trust port and a 50% shareholder in Mustang Marine, was "deeply concerned" and would continue to work towards a solution with the company and other stakeholders.
He added: "We understand this situation is causing anxiety for the staff at Mustang. We need to remain positive that Mustang Marine will find a way through current challenges and that it will come out of this as a reinvigorated business with a sound plan."
Preseli Pembrokeshire MP Stephen Crabb said he was "bitterly disappointed". He added: "The failure of Welsh Minsters and the Port to reach agreement has huge ramifications for Mustang as a business, the workers and their families and those local Pembrokeshire companies who are still owed large sums of money by Mustang.
"The Port Authority invested in Mustang with a fanfare two years ago providing the strength of its reputation and balance sheet to boost the ship builder. It is galling that local companies could be left with huge unpaid debts because this investment has now turned sour."
Mr Crabb said the port has an obligation to see that all small Pembrokeshire businesses owed money by Mustang Marine are repaid.
A Welsh Government spokesman said: "The Welsh Government will continue to work with the company and third parties to seek to secure the long term viability of the company."