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After the successful voting rights march in Alabama, King was unable to garner similar support for his effort to confront the problems of northern urban blacks. Early in 1966 he, together with local activist Al Raby, launched a major campaign against poverty and other urban problems and moved his family into an apartment in Chicago's black ghetto. As King shifted the focus of his activities to the North, however, he discovered that the tactics used in the South were not as effective in Chicago.
King's influence was tempered by the increasingly caustic tone of black militancy of the period after 1965. Black radicals increasingly turned away from the Gandhian precepts of King toward the Black Nationalism of Malcolm X, whose posthumously published autobiography and speeches reached large audiences after his assassination in February 1965. King refused to abandon his firmly rooted beliefs about racial integration and nonviolence.
In his last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?, King dismissed the claim of Black Power advocates "to be the most revolutionary wing of the social revolution taking place in the United States," but he acknowledged that they responded to a psychological need among African Americans he had not previously addressed. "Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery," King wrote. "The Negro will only be free when he reaches down to the inner depths of his own being and signs with the pen and ink of assertive manhood his own emancipation proclamation".
Indeed, even as his popularity declined, King spoke out strongly against American involvement in the Vietnam War, making his position public in an address, "Beyond Vietnam," on 4 April 1967 at New York's Riverside Church. King's involvement in the anti-war movement reduced his ability to influence national racial policies and made him a target of further FBI investigations. Nevertheless, he became ever more insistent that his version of Gandhian nonviolence and social gospel Christianity was the most appropriate response to the problems of black Americans.
In December 1967 King announced the formation of the Poor People's Campaign, designed to prod the federal government to strengthen its antipoverty efforts. King and other SCLC workers began to recruit poor people and antipoverty activists to come to Washington, D.C., to lobby on behalf of improved antipoverty programs. This effort was in its early stages when King became involved in the Memphis sanitation workers' strike in Tennessee. On 28 March 1968, as King led thousands of sanitation workers and sympathizers on a march through downtown Memphis, black youngsters began throwing rocks and looting stores. This outbreak of violence led to extensive press criticisms of King's entire antipoverty strategy.


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NORTHBRIDGE — A Whitinsville chiropractor's license was suspended indefinitely by state regulators last week after he failed to respond to charges that he ran an unclean and unsafe practice, engaged in unprofessional and dishonest practices, did not provide requested information to regulators and practiced after his license expired.
The chiropractor, Carlos A. Amantea, could not be located for comment.
According to the Board of Registration of Chiropractors' order to show cause, Mr. Amantea's solo practice at 110 Church St. in the Whitinsville section of town, which he occupied from August to October 2012, had sawdust and construction debris in patient treatment areas. Wastebaskets were overflowing with trash, including used coffee cups and soda cans.
Mr. Amantea did not wash his hands between treating different patients, even though chiropractic manipulation and massage involves hands-on treatment, according to the complaint.
A female patient complained to the board that Mr. Amantea told her she should not go to physical therapy and that she should lie to her primary care provider and/or lawyer that she wasn't going to physical therapy because she couldn't afford it.
The patient was allegedly told by Mr. Amantea that he would bill her or her insurance company high amounts for the services because "renovations of (the) solo practice were costing more than had been anticipated."
Although Mr. Amantea sold the patient a package of 10 visits for $230, he would not reimburse her for the six unredeemed visits, according to the complaint. Mr. Amantea only accepted cash for services.
Mr. Amantea hired the patient's sister to work in his practice, and allegedly did not reimburse her for purchasing office supplies, the complaint continued.
On Oct. 1, 2012, the board conducted an unannounced inspection of the 110 Church St. office and confirmed the unsanitary and unprofessional condition of the practice. Construction was still going on.
Mr. Amantea also did not provide documentation of continuing education credits during the year before his license renewal date. His license expired March 31, 2013, according to the board.
The board found he failed to maintain adequate clinical records for patients and failed to provide the patient who complained with her record.
Mr. Amantea also did not update the board about his address. The order to show cause was sent by certified mail on May 7, 2013, to Mr. Amantea's listed address, 800 Providence Road in Northbridge, where it was signed as received.
The practice there is owned by Carlos Amantea's father, chiropractor Louis Amantea. Chiropractor Jessica Roan, Louis Amantea's stepdaughter, according to the Chiropractic Health Center's website, also practices there.
An employee at the Chiropractic Health Center said Carlos Amantea left to start his own practice a few years ago.
The board's order was also sent to 110 Church St., a five-unit office building, where the violations occurred and where the board conducted its most recent inspection based on the charges.
The Better Business Bureau rates Carlos Amantea's practice an F for failing to respond to a complaint against the business.
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Referees consider Chelsea boycott
Premier League referees are contemplating a refusal to officiate any matches involving Chelsea following the Mark Clattenburg saga.
Clattenburg is still under investigation for allegedly using "inappropriate language" towards John Obi Mikel last weekend, despite the referee distancing himself from any wrongdoing.
But former Premier League referee Clive Wilkes believes the way Clattenburg has been treated by Chelsea is creating a disdain towards the club amongst officials.
"I keep in touch with a lot of the lads and there is such a strength of feeling about what is happening to Mark," Wilkes told the Sun. "I know a few referees who are even talking about boycotting Chelsea games because of all this.
"Remember, it's not the first time Chelsea have targeted a referee - there's been Anders Frisk and Graham Poll. And some refs are now saying enough is enough.
"It's no exaggeration to say the refs in this country have never felt lower. They are so disillusioned. They feel vulnerable, feel that they are being left isolated - that they are getting no backing, no support.
"They want to speak out themselves but are too frightened, they fear they will be sacked if they go public with their grievances.
"There have even been murmurings about strike action but that's very much the last resort. They'd much prefer to get around the table with the FA, PFA, the clubs and players to sort this out as quickly as possible."


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You can use one or more colours to suit your taste. I think it is nice with atleast a couple of colours just because I like colour. ;-)
July 2012 - Please note: my interests have changed and I do very little crochet these days. I'm sorry I do not have the time to answer emails about help with crochet. Try the Ravelry site for help instead. Thank you for understanding. :-)
Please respect my copyright. Please do not copy this tutorial and post it on your own site or blog in any form. This includes translations of the tutorial. Please respect the time and effort that goes into writing and photographing a tutorial. If you see this tutorial posted on someone else's site or blog in any form, please let me know. Thank you. Happy crafting! :-)
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This tutorial is based on a jar with a diameter of 7.5cm /3".
Please note: I use US crochet terms in this tutorial!
I used Sport weight yarn with a hook that is a bit smaller (2.0mm) than the size suggested for the yarn. This will make the 'fabric' a bit tighter than with the 'regular' hook. More about the yarn I use.
great tutorial for it.
Ok, got your ring?
Chain 3, this counts as the first dc, dc 13 in the ring, join in top of ch3.
Chain 3, this counts as the first dc, dc in the same stitch, 2dc in the next stitch, continue with 2dc all the way around, join in top of ch3.
Chain 3, this counts as the first dc, dc 2 in the next stitch, dc in the next stitch, continue alternating 1 and 2 dc all the way around, join in top of ch3.
If your jar is wider than mine, you might want to add a fourth round of dc. The 'system' for the fourth round will be: dc, dc, 2dc. If your jar is only a bit wider, use sc in the fourth round instead, but still using the same system.
You can use these instructions for covering a vase too, or anything, really. If the thing you are covering is really wide, you will of course need to make the bottom circle really wide too. You may have guessed, but for each round of dc you add, you will need to add a dc in the system. So a fifth round would be: dc, dc, dc, 2dc. The number of single dc is the same as your round 'number' minus 2.
Continue like this, making up the 'body' of your jar cosy.
If it is too tight, unravel the sc rows apart from the first one. Do a few increases evenly spaced in the second sc row. Then proceed with the sc rows as outlined above.
If it is too loose, unravel the sc rows apart from the first one. Do a few decreases evenly spaced in the second sc row. Then proceed with the sc rows as outlined above.
In case you are unsure about how to do a decrease, it is quite easy and this is how: put you hook through the first stitch, yarn over, pull back to the front, put the hook straight through the next stitch, yarn over, pull hook to the front. You now have 3 yarn loops on your hook. Yes? Yarn over again and pull this (fourth) loop through the other 3. That's a decrease! Not difficult at all, right?
When you get to approximately 1cm ≈ 3/8" from the shoulder of the jar, do 5 decreases, (sc2tog). Don't worry if they are not completely evenly spaced. Noone will notice unless you tell them!
Repeat this in the next 2 rows.
Do 2 rows of ch2, then regular sc in every stitch (no de- or increases necessary!), join in top of ch2.
You may have noticed that there has been a couple of colour changes on the cosy - if you haven't tried this before, I'll show you a simple method of changing colour after the 'main' attraction. ;-)
When you get to stitch C, yarn over to dc into the middle slip stitch from the previous round (white arrow), do another 2 dc in the same stitch. [Slip stitch into the middle dc from the previous round, 3dc in middle slip stitch] repeat this througout the round. Again, it might not add up completely at the end, but don't worry!
And that's it, you're done! Until you get your hands on some more jars to cover. :-)
Make a slip knot (aka starting loop). You should be familiar with this already if you can do a crochet chain. Make sure it will fit your hook, but it doesn't need to be a lot bigger than that.
Put the knot/loop of Colour Two (pink, ok?) back on the hook. This acts as your yarn over. Pull it through the yellow loops already on the hook.
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As Nuclear Plants Age, No Easy Energy Solutions
Nuclear power generates 20 percent of electricity in the U.S., but the nation's reactors are aging — and new plants are expensive and take years to build. Gas, coal, wind and solar are potential alternatives, but all have environmental or logistical drawbacks.
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This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. No nuclear power plants have been built in this country since the accident at Three Mile Island more than 30 years ago. The old reactors continue to provide 20 percent of our electrical power, but many of them will start to come offline in the next 10 years or so.
Given the time it takes to construct any kind of power plant, decisions have to be made soon about how we replace one-fifth of our electrical power and add the additional capacity we're going to need. There are no easy answers or single solutions, and the issues are enormous: politics, economics, climate change, national security, the balance of trade, jobs.
So how do we replace all that electricity? Our phone number is 800-989-8255, Email firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the program, a credibility test for Syria - excuse me, Jon Weber the new host of NPR's "Piano Jazz: Rising Stars" will join us. But first, NPR's Christopher Joyce joins us here in Studio 3A. Just - Chris, nice of you to be with us.
CHRISTOPHER JOYCE, BYLINE: Thanks for inviting me, Neal.
CONAN: And just last week, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission licensed a new reactor design. So will new nuclear plants replace the old ones?
JOYCE: Well, it's great to be invited to a talk that has no easy answers.
CONAN: And no simple solutions.
JOYCE: Thank you very much.
CONAN: You're welcome.
JOYCE: Thank you very much. The AP1000 plant that was approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it's built by Westinghouse, it's something of a white knight, if you will, because as you said, the nuclear industry has been feeble, if you will, for a long time and for very many reasons: financial reasons, for safety reasons, for public skepticism.
And the AP1000 has had a long history. It was initially approved, it's a smaller plant, and as they were building it, they just - they discovered during those years that oops, it's going to cost more per kilowatt hour than we thought. This isn't going to work.
They went back to the drawing boards. They made it bigger to get economies of scale, and they tried to make it safer and simpler, to make it cheaper. And so they came up with the AP1000. It's a big plant. It's over 1,000 megawatts, and the NRC now says we like the way it looks, we think it's safe.
There's still some hoops to jump through. They still need to get certification for construction, and then again NRC has to approve an operating license. Those probably shouldn't be difficult. So we might see new reactors by 2016, 2017.
CONAN: So this is a long process indeed. And how many?
JOYCE: There will be two in Georgia and two in South Carolina, at least that's what - they're undergoing - they're the farthest along in terms of licensing, and they have money. And money is a big question. It's one thing to have a design that people like, and there are good things about the design.
I mean the design is the so-called passive design. It's much safer in the sense that it doesn't have - it doesn't need all the electrical equipment to make it - to bring in coolant if there's a loss-of-coolant accident. A lot of so-called passive design, you use gravity, you use convection to bring cooling water in.
It's a standardized design, and so in the sense you don't have to build a different plant every time. All the nuclear plants I think this now were one-off, you know, and that just doesn't make financial sense. They've trying for years in the industry to do a standardized design and say look, get one that's good, it works well, standardize it, we can all build the same one, and it's cheaper that way.
So that's to its advantage. But there's still the financial world, which is very reluctant to invest in nuclear power, and that's been a big stumbling block.
CONAN: Because per kilowatt hour, it's still pretty expensive.
JOYCE: Yes, and, you know, it takes a long time. It takes a long time to build a coal plant, too, but a nuclear plant is - there's so much more to it, and it takes - the permit process is so long. You know, you go to a bank, and you say I need to borrow billions and billions of dollars, oh and by the way, I won't have any money to pay back the interest for another five or six years.
You know, you're just going to have to pay the interest for five or six years with no money coming in. Investors don't like that. It's risky. Then you have things like Fukushima. You know, you have an accident that comes along, changes the rules. And right now we're seeing, for example, the price of natural gas coming down.
And, you know, no nuclear - a nuclear power plant doesn't operate in a vacuum. It has to compete with other sources of energy like coal and natural gas.
CONAN: But then you talk about natural gas. Natural gas presents problems of its own. Yes, it turns out there's a lot of natural gas that we can now access through the fracking drilling techniques that have become so popular. They've also become pretty controversial.
JOYCE: They have, and these are new days for fracking. Fracking is not, you know, it's a new technology, much newer than nuclear, for example, and it's being used in places, well recently like in Pennsylvania, in new geological formations where they're having some trouble, you know, controlling the pollution of groundwater, and then there are numerous other problems. There's state regulations that just aren't ready to deal with this new technology.
However, when you look at the kind of things that need to be done in order to make fracking safe compared to what needs to be done to make coal less polluting and safe, what needs to be done to get rid of nuclear waste and to make nuclear power plants safe, I think a lot of people will tell you that the obstacles are much lower for fracking, that these are solvable problems for less money than solving the big problems of coal and nuclear.
CONAN: Yet nuclear, one of its advantages is it does not add carbon emissions to the environment. It is green in that respect. Yes, you've got to figure out a way to dispose of that nuclear spent fuel, but it does not add to climate change.
JOYCE: And that was the, sort of, the calling card that nuclear pulled out of its pocket during the 1990s, and hey look, folks, now that people started to get serious about climate change, they could say hey, we're clean. I mean, we don't emit carbon. That's great.
But that hasn't been enough to push it over, and furthermore, we've seen that the public opinion on climate change took a nosedive in the sense that people got a little less worried about it, and there was no carbon price. So if - without a price on carbon coal remains cheap, and so it's still an argument that they don't win financially.
CONAN: Well, if - we're at the same stage that Germany was. They weren't building any new power plants. They were talking about extending the life of their old power plants, and they've decided not to do that. They say they're going to do this with renewable energy. How are they able to do it, and we're not?
JOYCE: Good question. I would like to go over and find out. In fact, that's something that I hope to be doing. So this is something that the Germans claim that they can do. They're going to have to use probably more natural gas, which does create carbon.
They are probably going to be using nuclear power wheeled in from France. So if they can manage to do it, though, if the Germans can manage to get baseload, regular, 24/7 power out of renewables, then, you know, they could take away the last argument that nuclear has.
CONAN: Baseload, what does that mean?
JOYCE: Well, in the sense that it works 24 hours a day, you know, seven days a week. It's consistent, you know, unlike solar power and wind power. You don't have to worry about when the wind doesn't blow, you don't to worry about when the sun's not shining.
And you can produce a great deal of power, and you're not down a lot of the time, whether for repair or for lack of a source of energy, and that coal and nuclear are the very best at that because their fuel is cheap, they run consistently, efficiently, and it's just the way our big cities need electricity.
CONAN: Well, we'll get more and more into the - let's get some callers in on the conversation, 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. How are we going to replace the 20 percent of our power currently provided by aging nuclear power plants? Roy(ph) is on the line calling us from Binghamton, New York.
ROY: Yes, hello.
CONAN: Hi.
ROY: I'd like first off commend Germany for the incredible step that they've taken telling the nuclear industry that they are obsolete, as well as did when Tesla and Edison came about telling the whalers that we didn't need the blubber anymore to make electricity.
And I'd also like to commend France in their wisdom in saying that fracking isn't the answer, either. But instead what I would recommend for our baseload, a very challenging project, which would involve a superconductivity loop from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians in which ambient lightning could be harnessed because that's been the whole problem harnessing lightning is that there's such an incredible amount of energy that goes energy that goes in as to how to dissipate it.
And a combination of tidal, the Bay of Fundy runs twice a day, a 40-foot tide. These are incredible opportunities that need to be looked into, and the sea kite concept that the Norwegians are developing shows incredible promise from the oceans, as well. And I'll take my comment off the air.
CONAN: Well, Chris Joyce, a lot of futuristic proposals there. I'd not heard about the ambient loop from the Appalachians to the Rockies.
JOYCE: No. I haven't either.
CONAN: But tidal power, a lot of people talk about the promise of that.
JOYCE: Well, I would make the same argument about solar and wind power, which are even closer at hand than that. But the problem so far has been these are much cleaner and limitless sources of power. But how do you get there from here because we need electricity now, and if - and I know this is a tired argument, but I think it's a strong one, which is in order to get the grid to be able to handle renewables and even natural gas, the pipelines necessary for natural gas, it's going to take time and a lot of investment.
In the meantime, over the next 15, 20, 25, 30 years, there's got to be some sort of bridge. There's got to be something that we can continue to keep our economy thriving. And, you know, that's what we have to deal with right now. Those other technologies are fabulous, and, you know, any number of them could help us out, but it's a matter of what do we do until we perfect it and make it price competitive.
CONAN: And make it price - yet how do we calculate price? People look at the air pollution right now and say there are thousands of people dying every year as the result of air pollution. Statistically, they look at that and say that's accurate. That's part of the price, too, no?
JOYCE: Yeah, the so-called externality of coal, for example. And the EPA has just passed a new rule on mercury, which is going to be making coal a lot more expensive because - and put some coal-fired power plants, you know, away forever, and - the older ones. And that's the sort of thing that we're now cycling into the cost of our energy.
Nuclear is going to have to do this with its waste because we're going to have to find a place to put that waste permanently. There's a process going on now to try to find a replacement for Yucca Mountain, which was dropped, and, you know, that all - getting rid of that, it's just going to add to the cost of nuclear.
So yeah, you have to plan ahead, and in the meantime, things change. That's one of the difficulties of planning for energy.
CONAN: And things change in any number of different ways. We have seen enormous growth in the number of wind turbines, for example, yet wind continues to provide a very tiny fraction of our needs.
JOYCE: Yeah, the interesting statistic on wind is it's one of the fastest growing sources of energy in the world and in this country, but it's still tiny because it's starting out from such a low point. And again, there's a situation with where do you find the best wind.
You know, you can build a wind turbine somewhere, but if you don't have a lot of wind, then it's not going to be price competitive. So you build it where there's the best wind, well, in the Great Plains. And, well, that's great for people in the Great Plains, but how do you get the electricity to the East, where a lot of the demand is?
CONAN: And you can't store it. So...
JOYCE: Yeah, that's another technology we could talk about.
CONAN: NPR's Christopher Joyce is with us here in Studio 3A. When we come back, we'll talk more about the future of nuclear power in the U.S. Is there a better way to generate the 20 percent of our electrical power that comes from old nuclear plants right now? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email email@example.com. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. I'm Neal Conan. Nuclear power is a divisive issue, particularly among environmentalists. Some, like the Sierra Club, say there's no such thing as safe nuclear energy and no long-term plan to securely dispose of nuclear waste.
Others, like the Breakthrough Institute, say nuclear power is worth it because it does not make climate change worse, like fossil fuels do. Is there a better way to generate the 20 percent of our electrical power that comes from nuclear plants right now, nuclear plants that start coming offline in the next 10 years or so?
Our phone number, 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. And you can also join the conversation on our website. That's at npr.org. Click on TALK OF THE NATION. And let's go next to Dave(ph), Dave's on the line with us from Baltimore.
DAVE: Hi, good afternoon, Neal, huge fan of the show, very glad to be with you.
CONAN: Thank you.
DAVE: And very glad that you got this as your topic today. A couple of brief comments, I agree very much with what your guest just mentioned in terms of the fact that a lot of these ideas that we have, you know, going really big on solar, really big on tidal, really big on wind, are decades out in terms of getting the technology to where we would need it to be actually a legitimate power source, whereas as he just mentioned, we've got two nuclear plants almost ready to go in Georgia and South Carolina, North Anna 4 in Central Virginia, Calvert Cliffs 3, which is several years out because of roadblocks.
CONAN: And not far down the road from you there in Baltimore.
DAVE: I'm sorry, one more time.
CONAN: And not far down the road from you there in Baltimore.
DAVE: No, not far, about an hour and a half south. The biggest issue, as somebody I heard over the summer say, was not just NIMBY, not in my backyard, but also a lot of people have this thing that called BANANA, build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything. And when we look at nuclear, the big issue in my opinion as a teacher is education.
There's so little understood by the general public about nuclear and about the actual legitimate dangers and about the actual legitimate promises of it. I mean, for example the energy density of it, the entire amount of energy that you will consume, the amount of fuel that you will consume in your entire lifetime, Neal, would fit in a soda can in terms of the uranium fuel pellets.
CONAN: I think I'll stick to Dr. Pepper.
CONAN: Dave, thanks very much for the call, we appreciate it.
DAVE: Absolutely, thank you, Neal.
CONAN: Joining us now is Michael Shellenberger. He's the president of The Breakthrough Institute, and he's with us today from member station KUNC in Greeley, Colorado. Nice to have you with us today.
MICHAEL SHELLENBERGER: Oh, thanks for having me.
CONAN: And we've - obviously could have taken advocates from any number of points of view. We've decided to talk with you to day as a supporter of nuclear energy even after Fukushima Dai-ichi, which of course the costs of that in terms of billions and decades have yet to be measured.
SHELLENBERGER: Yeah, and I should just context this by saying that we're actually advocates of all low-carbon sources of energy. I mean, we've been big advocates for increasing the amount of money we spend on renewable energy R&D from about the $2 billion that we spend annually today to about $15 billion, and another $15 billion on top of that just to, you know, to buy down and to be buying the advanced technologies: solar, wind, advanced nuclear, the rest.
And really we've been advocates of renewables for 10 years. It's only been in the last few years that we've increasingly lost confidence that we can scale up renewables in the time period that we need to scale them up in order to radically reduce emissions. And that's made us - that's forced us to take a harder look at nuclear energy.
And that's kind of been a - it's been a gradual process of coming back around to supporting nuclear energy as folks concerned about the environment. I mean, I think people forget that the environmental movement was largely pro-nuclear up until the late '60s because it was a way to generate pollution-free electricity and also not have to build hydroelectric dams, which destroy natural landscapes.
So it's been - so I think we're advocates of all these advanced energy technologies, and I think it would just be incredibly foolish to take nuclear off the table.
CONAN: Not merely in your view take it off the table, you believe we need rapid expansion.
SHELLENBERGER: Yeah, we do. I mean, I think to provide some context to it, you have a source of energy here which generates 20 percent of our electricity, as you mentioned, 70 percent in France. If you actually look at deaths per energy source, nuclear comes out as one of the best. I think only wind out-performs nuclear, and that even counts the expected deaths from Fukushima because of course there haven't been any deaths yet from it.
The estimates are of some - I think between one and 3,000 eventual cancer deaths from Fukushima, which is obviously serious and of concern, but, you know, in the context of catastrophic climate change risk, you know, in the context of the, you know, thousands of coal miners who die every year, you know, the Deepwater Horizon, fossil energy, all energy production is quite dangerous, including solar panel production.
I mean, people think solar panels are clean. When they install them on their house, they're clean, but when you manufacture them in a place like China, you get all sorts of industrial waste. There was even a riot in one of the towns near a solar panel production, solar factory in China earlier this year because the company had dumped so much waste in the river.
So energy production is a dirty business, and I think it's - you're really having to make some hard choices. I think it's been - within the environmental community, I think an idea took hold in the late '60s that no, no, there was this really easy way to do it, it would just be solar panels and wind turbines and water wheels and, you know, insulation in our homes, and we would never need to have fossil energy or nuclear energy.
And I think that for those of us that kind of, you know, grew up in the post-'60s era, even with growing up with "The Simpsons" as an anti-nuclear TV show, I think when we take a hard look at a world that is going to consume three times more energy over the next century and the need to zero out all emissions from energy production, I mean go to zero by the end of the century, it's just hard to see how you do that without a lot of nuclear energy.
CONAN: And how do you do that without, as our previous caller said, running into the BANANA problem, build absolutely nothing anywhere?
SHELLENBERGER: Right, that is the big issue. I mean, I think what we have - I mean, I think long term, we're optimistic that various publics around the world are going to come back to nuclear. I think where you see the greatest opposition to nuclear energy is in very wealthy countries, where really we live long lives, we have very safe lives.
Countries that are, I think, far less - that have a better perspective, I think, of the overall risk are developing countries, and they haven't slowed down their nuclear renaissance at all since Fukushima. But I think even in the United States, I mean, you have to remember half the country is pro-nuclear. Most of those folks are Republicans and conservatives. Very few of them are like us, more on the liberal side of the political spectrum.
I think when the case gets made properly over the next several years by environmentalists, by progressives, about why we need to take a second look at nuclear, I think we're going to - I think people are going to start to change their mind.
CONAN: Christopher Joyce?
JOYCE: Yeah, Michael, thanks for those comments, and it's interesting to hear from you on this. I wonder, though, you know, you talk about the need to more toward the non-emitting, non-fossil fuels. I mean, the marketplace has shown us so far that it chooses fossil fuels, so they're the cheapest, but, I mean, that's the way it is.
And given the emergency with the climate change, and given the nature of competition in the rest of the world, you know, is it time that this country needs to say look, the marketplace is not going to do this for us, that we need massive subsidies to get to where we need to go?
SHELLENBERGER: Well, I mean, the interesting thing is the more you learn about the history of electricity production in particular but really all modern energy is that governments have always been heavily involved. I mean, start with hydroelectric dams that were financed by the U.S. government.
Nuclear energy is obviously a product of the defense establishment, solar panels from NASA, wind turbines...
JOYCE: Fracking?
SHELLENBERGER: We just did a big study on fracking, which you might have seen.
JOYCE: I did.
SHELLENBERGER: All of the major technologies that led to the shale gas boom, which incidentally have basically doubled United States reserves of natural gas over a period of a decade, all came from federal government investment. There's even a very good book I'm reading right now I highly recommend called "Is War Necessary for Economic Growth?," and it's a serious question because so many of our what he calls general-purpose technologies, from satellites to...
CONAN: Why don't we get to that argument in another day? All right?
SHELLENBERGER: OK, sorry about that.
CONAN: Let's stick to nuclear power.
SHELLENBERGER: Yeah, yeah. So I guess the question is yes. I mean, I think the reality is after Three Mile Island, the United States, the government basically said we're going to move more towards - we're going to move back towards coal and back towards fossil.
You know, governments make these choices. Publics make these choices. Energy is the backbone of a nation's economy, and so ultimately at the end of the day, these are decisions that are made by the public. And that's what's happened in Germany, which is phasing out its nuclear.
I think Japan is up in the air whether it will go back to nuclear, whether it'll go heavily into renewables or whether it's just going to burn a lot of fossil. So ultimately, it's a question I think that the American people are going to decide.
CONAN: Thanks very much for your - well, let's see if we can get a caller on with you. Let's go to Mike(ph), and Mike's with us from Denver. Mike, are you there? Mike?
MIKE: (Unintelligible).
CONAN: Mike?
MIKE: Yes, I'm here.
CONAN: You're on the air, go ahead, please.
MIKE: OK, sorry, sir. Yes, on this nuclear question, that no matter how safe the technology may be purported to be, you're always going to have that chance of radiation breaking loose from a nuclear plant, like what happened with Fukishima. You're always going to have that chance. You're never going to be able to get away from that. So in that one sense, the argument would be how much - how many times does one have to get a proverbial bloody nose before you get away from the guy that's socking you? So that's one side of the argument.
As far as alternatives go, one of the things is that we can look at using a bunch of mirrors to direct sunlight through a central point and create heat that way and thereby turn water into steam the way we do at nuclear plants now. There's also - individually we can look at how we consume energy individually. For example, there's a hardware store in the mountains here in Colorado, I believe, that generates its own energy using solar, and they actually sell power back into the grid.
And then, of course, when it comes to consumer devices, the vast majority of consumer devices and computers and whatnot, anything basically that has a transformer, taking A.C. power to a transformer, we can conceivably come up with a low-voltage power system to power those, and then save the big voltage, the 120 volt or whatever, for the major things that actually require it.
CONAN: Toasters.
MIKE: But I think there's a whole bunch of different solutions that we can look at.
CONAN: All right. Thanks very much for the call. The alternatives, I'm sure Michael Shellenberger would advocate any of those that prove to be practical. The statistics, he points out, on nuclear, you say yes, statistically the safest - or one of the safest. One accident changes those.
SHELLENBERGER: Well, that's absolutely right. I mean, again, this is about public perception, which I think we should take very seriously. I mean, it may very well be that the public decides that it doesn't want nuclear anymore. And I think that what people need to realize is that they are in essence deciding to stick with fossil energy and all the risks that that brings. And if I could just end with one thing, we have a new e-book out called "Love Your Monsters," and the title essay comes from - I mean the title comes from an essay by a very good French anthropologist who describes the Frankenstein myth and says, you know, really, this is a parable for our attitude towards technology.
Dr. Frankenstein, his mistake was not in trying to, you know, use technology to create something. It was that he abandoned his creation when it didn't turn out right. And we think it's a powerful parable for things like nuclear where, you know, the truth is we should, you know, he argues we should treat our technologies as we would our children. You don't abandon your children when they misbehave or when they don't turn out exactly like you would wanted. You love them. You care for them, and you improve them.
And I think that we should have that attitude towards all of our technologies. I don't think that – I don't think that - I think that nuclear, obviously, has some risks. Solar and wind have big problems as well. And I think we have to consider all of that in making these choices.
CONAN: Michael Shellenberger, thanks very much for your time today. Appreciate it.
SHELLENBERGER: Thanks for having me.
CONAN: Michael Shellenberger joined us from KUNC in Greely, Colorado. He's president of the think tank The Breakthrough Institute. You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And here's some emails. Tim sends an email, says in order to replace 20 percent of the electricity produced by nuclear power plants, I'd like to see two things: a conscious effort to actually save energy by homeowners by changing their habits, conservation if you will.
Secondly, I've seen firsthand homes that are weatherized. Average savings? About 25 percent. We shouldn't be concerned with producing more but in saving more. Chris?
JOYCE: Well, I think that's a good argument. I mean - and good luck to you. I agree completely. But getting Americans to save is a slow process. I mean, you know, we've seen, I guess, no more Hummers. That's a good sign, maybe, for conservation, but it takes a long time to do that, and it takes effort.
CONAN: This from James in Sagle, Idaho. I'd like to point out it's false that wind and solar cannot provide base-load power. There was a study just last year of wind power along the East Coast of the U.S. by tying together seven sites, not including Cape Wind, showing that the wind is always blowing in enough of those places to guarantee power, not to mention the Saudi Arabia wind, the U.S. high plains. Don't believe the fossil fuel industry propaganda. So there's an argument for that.
And this from Shawn in Jackson, Michigan. Would it be possible to touch on the possibilities of space-based solar power? It's been mentioned as an engineering problem, not a science problem.
JOYCE: Yeah. And I've - there have been fascinating and intriguing propositions for building sources like that, as well as tying together, you know, offshore wind turbines and that sort of thing. And these are great. It just always comes down to who's going to pay for them - and right now, is the customer, the rate payer, willing to pay more money to get what they're used to getting cheap? I mean our energy in this country is very, very cheap, and we're not just used to paying what the real cost of it is.
CONAN: The real cost? I mean, how do you calculate the real cost?
JOYCE: The real cost is, you know, in nuclear, it's the additional cost of getting rid of nuclear waste, which we haven't really paid for yet. It's the cost in coal - burning coal, of the mercury and the soot and the particulates and the health care - the extra health care that we have to pay for due to that; that's been going on for decades. And these so-called externalities just have not been part of what we pay for. And you know, if Americans are willing to pay for higher costs for their energy, we could get energy that's not as polluting.
CONAN: Lauren from Sonoma emails: You need to hear from sustainability people on the energy footprint of nuclear plants. All that steel and concrete, the mining of uranium use more BTUs of carbon than they produce in carbon-free energy, plus the fact that the government is responsible for ensuring nuclear plants show that the bean counters on Wall Street consider it too big a risk. And that's part of the...
JOYCE: They do, yes. I mean, that's been the Achilles' heel of nuclear for a while now, is that even as the NRC and others say, and even environmental groups say, look, they're safer than they used to be, there's been a lot of progress, it comes down dollars and cents. It's just very expensive, and investors are saying, you know, I think we've got better alternatives, at least for my money.
CONAN: And for their money, right now, what do people in the power industry say is going to be the future as these plants start to come offline in the next 10 years and so?
JOYCE: Well, some of them I've talked to say we don't know, and we're worried about that. I know that the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which is the people who run the national electric grid, they've come out with a report just in the past week saying natural gas is where it looks to be. We don't have a lot of large - most of our natural gas, electric producers, are peak - they produce peak power. That's the, you know, not the base-load power. That's when there's a surge of demand, and then you have to cycle up a plant really fast...
CONAN: A hot day in the summertime.
JOYCE: Yeah. So they come on fast, and then they can turn off, and it's no big deal. You know, there are big base-load gas plants. Japan has a bunch of them, and you can build them. It takes a while, and of course, in the past people have been burned by going to natural gas as a big source because the price is fairly volatile. And the price of coal and the price of nuclear - of uranium has not been so volatile. So it could be gas, but you know, we'll see.
CONAN: And the environmental impact of gas with the methane produced in the production, and of course it does release carbon emissions...
JOYCE: It does.
CONAN: ...part of the burning, so...
JOYCE: It certainly does.
CONAN: ...these problems are not going away. Chris, glad you can answer all of our questions.
JOYCE: Yes. Hard questions. Thank you for inviting me for the hard-question session.
CONAN: NPR science correspondent Christopher Joyce with us here in Studio 3A.
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The amount of effort required to get an existing Winforms app running on Mono can vary greatly. Although many small apps will run on Mono unmodified, many apps will require some work on the developer's part to run smoothly on Mono. This guide will attempt to port a non-trivial open source application to document several of the issues a developer may run into while porting their app to Mono.


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Report: Indiana Top 10 for Business Climate
November 2, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Report: Indiana Top 10 for Business Climate
For the third time in three years, Indiana's business climate scored a Top 10 finish nationally in Site Selection magazine's 2010 business climate rankings.
Feedback from a survey of national real estate executives and a review of Indiana's economic development record earned the state recognition as the eighth best place for business in the U.S., up one spot from ninth in 2009, according to a news release.
Some 70% of all RVs are manufactured in the Hoosier state, primarily in Elkhart County.
The Site Selection ranking, released today (Nov. 2) in the magazine's November 2010 issue, comes less than one week after the Tax Foundation recognized Indiana for having the best business tax climate in the Midwest and the 10th best overall, up from 12th in 2009. A nonpartisan tax research group based in Washington, D.C., the Tax Foundation study measures five indexes of states' business tax competitiveness including property tax rates, sales tax, individual tax, corporate tax and unemployment insurance taxes.
"In tough economic times, it's important to stand out, and now for the third time in a month, the world is reading that Indiana is among the best places to bring jobs," said Mitch Roob, secretary of commerce and CEO of the Indiana Economic Development Corp.
In October, Area Development magazine rated Indiana's business climate best in the Midwest and sixth best in the U.S., according to a survey of national site selection consultants. The state was also among the consultants' top-five picks in the rail and highway accessibility (second), labor climate (third), fast-track permitting (fourth), most business friendly (fifth), and lowest business costs (fifth) categories.
Site Selection's annual business climate rankings are determined in part by performance of the state in Conway Data's New Plant Database, which tracks new and expanded business facility activity, and also by a survey of corporate site seekers across the country. The survey asked companies to identify the top 10 state business climates, taking into consideration such factors as lack of red tape, financial assistance and government officials' cooperation. Respondents were also asked to rank the factors most important to them when determining a location for a new facility.
Site Selection's business climate survey story, as well as the publication's annual state legislative and incentives update, appears in the November 2010 edition and at www.sitenet.com.
Site Selection magazine, published by Conway Data Inc., delivers expansion planning information to 44,000 executives of fast-growing firms. The senior publication in the development field, Site Selection is also available via Site Selection Online (www.siteselection.com. SiteNet Dispatch, a weekly e-mail newsletter, goes to more than 41,000 industry professionals.


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MD Stem Cells Release: Billion Cell Milestone Reached in Stem Cell Treatment
"We're very excited to report that in lab testing following our most recent stem cell treatment in Florida, the cell count on the delivered stem cell treatment exceeded every expectation" exclaimed Dr. Levy, President of MD Stem Cells. "We normally have excellent counts but are constantly striving to improve the number of cells. It is standard protocol to assess cell counts to help us understand how we can provide the maximum benefit to all eye patients. The more stem cells available, the greater the numbers which are available for treating retina and optic nerve eye problems. When we received the report back we were stunned to say the least. It was a new milestone for us- 1 billion and 926 million nucleated cells delivered in 14cc- almost 2 billion cells total. We were extremely pleased. "
Dr. Levy goes on to explain why the numbers are so important and what other factors play a role in clinical improvement for patients. "Patients sometimes see treatments as being equivalent between providers as long as they involve stem cells. This is not necessarily true. MD Stem Cells is associated with Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells (BMSC) otherwise known as human Mesenchymal Stem Cells. In terms of adult stem cells, Bone Marrow Derived Stem Cells are considered by many researchers to be the closest to the neural or ectodermal derived cells of the retina and optic nerve. Careful harvesting is absolutely critical to obtaining a high stem cell concentration and avoiding dilution with peripheral blood" asserted Dr. Levy.
"The separation technique is also vital to maintain cell viability" Dr. Levy indicated. "Minimal manipulation is used and drugs or chemical substances which might affect the cells are avoided throughout the procedure. The separation is also done directly in the operating room with the patient present so the amount of time the cells are outside the body is at an absolute minimum. The approach has been perfected so as to obtain as pure a nucleated cell fraction as possible". "Finally the actual technique of placing the cells is paramount. Our retinal surgeon is an expert at all injections behind, adjacent and inside the eyes. His surgical acumen is exceptional and this is of great advantage for transferring the stem cells gently and into proper position."
"If you have a higher concentration in the volume of cells provided behind, adjacent and potentially within the eye, there is greater opportunity for tissue uptake of cells and interaction. It may also provide higher levels of certain growth factors that have been shown to be important in stem cell treatments" opined Dr. Levy.
MD Stem Cells and Dr. Levy believe that the increased number of stem cells combined with precise placement may explain the more rapid and vigorous improvements in the eye patients. The total number of photoreceptors in the human eye is estimated to be about 120 million rods which are more sensitive to light and 7 million cones which are sensitive to color. In addition there are an estimated 1.5 million nerve fibers in the optic nerve. The higher number of stem cells may be particularly important for the volume of specialized cells in the target tissues.
MD Stem Cells is a trusted source of the latest information regarding clinically available adult stem cell treatments, coordinates patient referrals and manages the treatment process for patients and providers. If you or a family member has eye disease or another chronic neurologic or medical condition get the facts about improvements that can be provided by the right team of doctors. Email Dr. Levy at email@example.com or visit our website: www.mdstemcells.com Follow us on Twitter: @mdstemcells.com


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Yale women's soccer team, winners of four of its last five games, plays its final road game of the season Saturday at Columbia. Kickoff at the Columbia Soccer Stadium is set for 7 p.m. following the Yale-Columbia men's game, which kicks off at 4 p.m.
The Bulldogs' only blemish over the stretch was a 2-0 loss to Penn last Saturday which dealt a serious blow to their Ivy League title hopes. Still, Yale enters the weekend in a three-way tie for third place, four points behind first-place Harvard and three in back of second-place Penn.
The Bulldogs (8-5-2 overall) rebounded from the loss to the Quakers with an impressive 4-0 victory over Saint Peter's on Monday night. Mary Kubiuk scored two goals to lead the way as Yale outshot the Peahens 37-9. Kubiuk is now tied for third on the team with four goals, which have all come in the last five games.
Enma Mullo continues to lead the team in goals (6) and points (16). Melissa Gavin has five goals and a team-best five assists, while Meredith Speck has contributed four goals and three assists.
Columbia (6-9 overall) also is 3-2 in Ivy play. The Lions also played on Monday night, edging Manhattan 1-0. Natalie Melo scored the only goal of the game to give Columbia its second straight victory.
The trip to New York has not been kind to the Bulldogs in recent years. Yale has lost three of its last four games at the Columbia Soccer Stadium. Last year in New Haven, Kristen Forster scored the winning goal late in the second half to lift the Bulldogs to a 2-1 win.
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uly wrote:sir can you also add some alley-oop plays? or it falls under play.viv?
I don't think that's possible. I can only edit the existing alleyoops not add more alley oops. I did convert one of the alley oop animations to a regular layup though..
uly wrote:sir can you also add some alley-oop plays? or it falls under play.viv?
uly wrote:can that be played in nba live 2007?
benji wrote:LeBron is such a choker. And people were talking about him as an all-time great. As having possibly surpassed Kobe. What a joke.
velvet bliss wrote:Andrew, you the real MVP.
Andrew wrote:He who flops and flails to the Finals and a title, flops and flails best.
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Question BAYAG, what do you mean by the unrealistic dunks and layups?
fdlk0501 wrote:Great, can you make SUPERSTAR AIACT for NBA LIVE 06?
BAYAG wrote:fdlk0501 wrote:Great, can you make SUPERSTAR AIACT for NBA LIVE 06?
I'm not sure if the '08 shot animations will work for '06...I can take a look.
Lakeshow7 wrote:I'll try that next days, now I can only say: what a fantastic job, man.
I played some quarters with your AIACT and it makes Live 07 a much better game.
No PGs running like crazy, no more up-tempo, multiple types of offensive plays, AI looking for the best shot.
It seems much more a basketball game than a NBA Live game.
Only some crashing issues don't let me play through an entire game.
I tested it with 2007-08 rosters and game crashes in a Lakers match when Odom goes to the free throw line, I think should be a problem with single player animation.
Also with SUM 07 ones, at one point in a Mavs-Lakers Dampier sets a screen and the game crashes.
I don't know if this AIACT could be compatible only with more recent rosters, maybe that's it.
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Tofu Omelette, Smoky Creminis and Garlic Roasted Potatoes from Vegan Brunch. The omelette itself was stuffed with the mushrooms, baby spinach and Wayfare Hickory-Smoked Cheddar-Style Spread.
Breaking in the new cast iron skillet on a holiday morning. I am so happy to have an omelette, pancake & crepe friendly pans again!


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Welcome to the world of The Avatar, where some humans have the power to manipulate earth, air, fire or water, and others will stop at nothing to take that power away. Able to bend all four elements, the Avatar must maintain peace.
Though Avatar Aang fought for balance between the four nations and successfully ended the Hundred Years War, Avatar Korra has plenty of new challenges ahead of her.
With new villains like the Red Lotus hot on her trail, Korra must focus on her element bending abilities to conquer all the evil threatening Earth. Was opening the portal between Spirit and Man a good idea? Watch The Legend Of Korra to find out!


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This is the best way in the world to stylishly being wrapped in a plush, warm, and cozy blanket! The pattern is a vintage Simplicity #1688, from the year 1956. The back envelope back states, "Slim, versatile, the 'Wonderful Whiz-Wrap' skirt is 'Simple-to-Make' and can be worn in front or in back…". It goes on in less than a minute, since, in lieu of buttons, I used heavy duty snaps to close the top of the wrap skirt. My fabric is a heavy, coat-weight wool and acrylic blend plaid, lined in a matte pongee lining, to keep in my heat for a perfect wintertime wardrobe staple. With a dozen small darts to shape the skirt, it can indeed be worn with the opening in front or in back…but (I think) it looks hotter worn in the back. There is bright green bias tape binding the hem, flashing a fun burst of color. It was incredibly easy and quick to sew. To see and read more, visit my blog https://seamracer.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/a-wonderful-whiz-wrap-skirt-in-wintertime-plaid/


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A major deal just went down in the United States, which seriously shakes up the mobile industry on the other side of the pond: AT&T has announced it plans to buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom.
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I've been wanting one since it was first announced, but I was on AT&T at that time with a BlackBerry. Due to family and financial reasons I was never able to get one until now (divorced and healthy financially).
This isn't the first time this has happened. Back when I was on AT&T Wireless (pre-Cingular) I had a Palm Tungsten W and loved it. With the switch to Cingular it was slowly phased out and I bounced from a Palm Treo 650 to the iPhone, then to BlackBerry before leaving AT&T for greener pastures.
I will probably keep the N900 even if it loses wireless support, as the WIFI and other functions keep it useful as an entertainment device.


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While focusing on network security monitoring, Bro provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Bro has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyberinfrastructure. Bro's user community includes major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, and open-science communities.
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_kernel32_ wrote:Removing the CMOS battery does not always work. Especially with the newer EPROM security. Since this is a separate chip away from the jumper or CMOS battery. There is another alternative. If someone would like to see for themselves try this. If you have two computers set a bios password on one and of course the 2nd will be to get online to this forum. You are going to enter in the WRONG bios password 3 times and it should give you a code. It will be either HEX or DEC. Once you reply with this code I will give you a password to put in that you WILL NOT find on the net.
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Sabayon, the Gentle Gentoo: Gentoo, formerly known as Enoch Linux is one of the pioneers among the Linux distributions. It is well-known and loved for its speed (the Gentoo species is the fastest swimming penguin), and hated for its unfriendliness with Linux newbies. Thus, many flavors of Gentoo have been created including this highly capable one named Sabayon.
Every now and then, I'm searching for a perfect Operating System worthy to replace my OpenSuse 10.1. I have chosen to try out Sabayon Linux as I have already used Gentoo before and was quite impressed with it. I downloaded the Sabayon x86 3.3b Mini Edition live CD then installed and tested it via VMWare Workstation. So here is my own view and assessment of this distro:
Test Machine Specs:
Board: Intel D101GGCL
Processor: 3 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with HT Technology
Hard Drive: Samsung 80GB with 10GB allocated to VM disk
Memory: 1.5GB 400 MHz DDR with 512MB allocated to VM memory
Graphics Card: On-board
Sabayon is made in Italy and created by Fabio Erculiani. He named it after an Italian dessert called Zabaione. The reason behind this tasty name is yet unclear but Linux users' appetite for Sabayon can't be denied as it is currently ranked number 5 on Distrowatch.com. Sabayon's main aim is to transform a computer into a powerful Gentoo Linux system in less than 5 minutes.
The link to the download site for Sabayon Linux is here. There are variety of installers to chose from which includes the DVD and Mini Edition supporting processors with 32 and 64 bit architectures. However, I would recommend the DVD for beginners for a reason that I will disclose later on. Anyway, the installation on my VMware System using the Mini live CD was completed in about 15 minutes with a unique feature that will let you update the installer before you start. Thanks to Anaconda, only few easy steps were necessary for the installation. It would have been a different story if it was done in an old Gentoo way. After the installation, it rebooted smoothly with all virtual hardwares detected. The audio, floppy, cdrom, ethernet, and usb controllers are working well.
Look and Feel:
Sabayon is short of being artistic in this edition. Most themes and wallpapers included are part of KDE by default. They could have added a few extras. Though I like the default Sabayon theme, I'm not that much of a KDE fan. The only good part is that it comes with Beryl which can be easily enabled. So if you have a capable video card, then you are just a few clicks away to eye-candy insanity.
Package Management:
Now here's the sad part for the newbies; The mini edition doesn't come with adequate software applications installed off-the-shelf. There's no Gimp, AbiWord and OpenOffice, just to name a few. Even though you can use a graphical portage package manager with a funny name called Kuroo to add or maintain software in Sabayon, it is not as easy as you think compared with say Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, or OpenSuse's package management systems. That is why I'm recommending the Live DVD installer for beginners because it is pre-installed with plenty of useful applications to choose from for free, of course.
Gentoo is considered one of the most stable if not the most stable distro ever. I was not surprised that Sabayon Linux inherited its quality. Though I have not tried Sabayon long enough, I can already say that it can be reliable for a long period of time based on the initial tests I made which includes running several applications simultaneously and probing its hardware support. In addition, I was also very amazed with its speed. It is very fast indeed, with a start-up loading time faster than any other distro I've seen so far.
Sabayon is certainly not for everyone. But because of its quality, versatility and many advanced features, it is undeniably worth a try. I would recommend Sabayon to Novice users and to those who are bored with their Ubuntu or PCLinuxOS distro. But for experts or advanced users, you may also utilize Sabayon as a Linux web server.
To those who are just migrating from Windows to Linux , in short extreme newbies, don't ever think of touching it. Sabayon may sound sweet, but when tasted it could lead to a bitter experience.


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Brewers to host Polish Heritage Day at Miller Park this Sunday
Team Will Wear Special "Piwowarzy" Jerseys for Game vs. Braves and All Fans Will Receive a Klement's Famous Racing Sausage Polish Bobble
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Brewers will host "Polish Heritage Day" at Miller Park this Sunday, June 23 at 1:10 p.m. when they take on the Atlanta Braves.
The Brewers will wear uniforms with the red and white colors from the Polish flag, and their jerseys will read "Piwowarzy," (pronounced pee-vo-VAHZH-ih) which is "Brewers" in Polish. The jerseys will be white with red accents and blue and gold lettering. "Piwowarzy" jersey t-shirts and jerseys will be available for purchase at the Brewers Team Store by Majestic at Miller Park beginning on Friday.
The game-used jerseys from Sunday's game will be available for sale at the Brewers Authentics kiosk, which is located on the Field Level Concourse along the first base side, starting on Tuesday, June 25. Pre-orders are currently being accepted by calling (414) 902-4479 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
All fans in attendance for Sunday's game will receive a collectible Brewers bobblehead, featuring the Klement's Famous Racing SausageTM Polish, compliments of Klement's Sausage. The Polish Racing Sausage will be featured wearing the "Piwowarzy" jersey.
As part of Sunday's festivities, the Syrena Polish Folk Dance Ensemble will perform near the Miller Park gates and polka music will be played by a live band. Jayme Dawicki, 2002 Miss Wisconsin, will sing the national anthem and God Bless America. In addition, there will be an information table from Polish Heritage Alliance located on the Miller Park Field Level Concourse.
The Brewers have worn special "Cerveceros" uniforms for "Cerveceros Day" in each of the past eight seasons to celebrate Hispanic heritage. In 2011, the Brewers wore "Bierbrauer" uniforms for "German Heritage Day" and last season, the team wore "Birrai" uniforms for "Italian Heritage Day."
Tickets for the game can be purchased at Brewers.com, by calling (414) 902-4000 or by visiting the Miller Park Box Office.


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If you're not close to a TV—say, you have to work on a Monday afternoon—you'll be able to stream every second of Spike and GT's coverage live right here on Kotaku.com's E3 page in high-def….including all five major press conferences, and big exclusive first looks at games like Bioshock Infinite, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Modern Warfare 3, Mass Effect 3, Battlefield 3, and more.
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