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On a night that otherwise could have been remembered for three highlight-reel catches in center field, errors again proved costly for one of the worst defensive teams in baseball Friday night at Minute Maid Park.
Astros center fielder Brandon Barnes and shortstop Ronny Cedeno committed untimely errors, helping the Los Angeles Angels beat the Astros 4-2 with the help of two unearned runs.
Astros righthander Bud Norris opened the three-game series with another dominant performance against the Angels, but he had to settle for a no-decision before a crowd of 20,498.
Jason Castro hit a 425-foot leadoff home run to right-center field to give the Astros a 1-0 lead in the fourth off Jerome Williams, who held the Astros to five hits and one run with three walks and three strikeouts over 62⁄3 innings.
Norris held the Angels to four hits and one unearned run with one walk and five strikeouts over seven innings.
The Angels' Erick Aybar led off the sixth with a single, taking second when Barnes let the ball roll off the side of his glove for an error. Barnes' miscue occurred on a relatively easy play compared to the impressive running catch he made on Hank Conger's shot at the center-field wall and the diving catch he made on J.B. Shuck's sinking line drive in the third inning.
One out later, Mike Trout hit an RBI single to center to tie the score at 1.
Conger greeted Paul Clemens with a leadoff double to the top of Tal's Hill in the eighth. After Peter Bourjos was sent to run for Conger, Aybar failed to drop a sacrifice bunt on the first two pitches he fouled and eventually worked the count to 3-2 before drawing a walk.
Shuck followed with a fly out to center field. Barnes made the catch and rifled a throw in as Bourjos tagged over to third. Cedeno cut off Barnes' throw and then attempted to nail Aybar at second.
Cedeno's throw was wide of second, allowing Bourjos to score on the Astros' major league-leading 63rd error of the season.
The Astros countered with a threat in the eighth inning against righthander Kevin Jepsen after Jose Altuve drew a walk and stole second. Brett Wallace followed with a single through the left side to put runners at the corners, but Castro flied out to left and Chris Carter flied out to center to end the inning.
With the bases loaded in the top of the ninth inning, Aybar added a two-run single in the ninth for what proved to be the winning margin.
The Astros mounted a final threat against Angels closer Ernesto Frieri to bring the potential tying run to the plate in the ninth.
Carlos Pena led off the ninth with a walk. J.D. Martinez followed with a double down the third-base line.
After pinch hitter Carlos Corporan struck out, Matt Dominguez cut the deficit to 4-2 with a sacrifice fly to center.
But Frieri struck out Marc Krauss to end the game.


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God teaches us to comfort each other, by comforting us. We teach our children to comfort themselves and others, by comforting them, answering their cries, and showing them we are reliable.
We also must remember, when correcting our children, that it is God's gentleness which leads us to the knowledge of truth (2 Timothy 2:25), and His goodness which leads to our repentance (Romans 2:4).
Our children's view of their Heavenly Father is strengthened by their view of loving parents, so we must be sure we're striving to mimic our Perfect Father. And we must make sure we have a Biblical understanding of the nature of children.
The Nature of Children
All have sinned
All are born with sin nature
Babies do not yet commit sin
Children sin less than adults
While it is true that we are all born with sin nature, ("for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God," Romans 3:23), …babies do not yet commit sin. There are three verses usually sited to show that we are born sinNING, but note the alternate interpretation following each:
"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, [into a home full of iniquity], And in sin my mother conceived me [my mother was a sinner]." (Ps 51:5)
Babies have sinful parents, & are brought up in homes where sin takes place.
"The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies." (Ps 58.3)
Infants cannot speak, so neither can they speak lies. Figuratively, then, the children of the wicked are doomed from birth because of the wicked homes they're born into. We are born with a sin nature, but babies cannot yet sin.
Proverbs 22:15, "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him."
The verse does not say, "Foolishness is bound tightly around the heart of a child". However, that is the common interpretation. It says, "Foolishness is BOUND [not loosed] IN [inside] the heart of a child…" The heart is not bound. The foolishness is bound. It's not yet loose. It's easily driven out, at this young age, before it is loosed.
We can clearly see this play out in the world. Adults become caught up in far worse sins than children. Left to our sin natures, & away from God, we sinners get worse & worse with age. Those saved at a young age fare far better in life, than those saved later.
Israelite children were not held accountable for their sins until after the age of twenty, because Scripture says they were not yet able to choose good over evil.
(God said:) "Moreover your little ones and your children, who you say will be victims, who today have no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there; to them I will give it, and they shall possess it." (Deu 1.39)
This coincides with the modern scientific studies stating that the human brain is not fully mature until around age 25. Up until then, the centers controlling impulse have not fully developed. This is not to say that children younger than 20 cannot sin, or don't know how to resist temptation at all. Obviously, the older the child, the more responsible for their choices they can be. But, this is all part of the maturing process.
"Brothers, do not be children in your thinking [unable to discern good from evil]. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature."
(1 Corinthians 14:20 ESV)
Infants are not evil. Paul uses the innocence of infants as an example of how innocent we should be.
Matthew 8:2-4, "And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven."
Jesus uses the innocence of children as an example of the humility He wants to see in us.
I Corinthians 13:11, When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things."
Paul expresses children's lack of understanding. However, Jesus uses children as an example of how we should enter the kingdom of God. Children misbehave because they do not understand, not because they are being sinful.
We are taught to speak the truth in love, and are given instructions on how to discipline each other within the Body of Christ. If this is how we are to treat one another in the Body of Christ, does it not also apply to youths? In the Kingdom, there is neither male, nor female, Greek, nor Jew, slave, nor free. Paul warns Titus, "don't let anyone despise your youth." If we are to treat each other with these guidelines, as adults (who, CAN be held accountable for knowing how to choose good over evil), how much more are we to uphold these principles with our children, who can't yet maturely choose or be held accountable, and are held up by Jesus as the example of Kingdom people? Have authority over them, yes. But, combine this with the golden rule, "love your neighbor as yourself."
What about children too young to talk? Knowing now what we do about the nature of children as less sinful than adults, less able to know how to choose good, and true examples of Kingdom people, we can erase all preconceived notions about children being evil, or doing things in defiance. We need to see the world through their brand new eyes, understand the world as they do (with their very limited understanding), so we can more effectively guide them.
Baby crying in the night: Out to manipulate you, or truly in need of comfort? Toddler touching the stove after being directed not to: Sinfully disobeying you, or testing the world to try and understand what happens? (I might add here, the area of the brain capable of creating deceit, is completely non-existant at this age.)
What we can do instead is recognize their true need (comfort, understanding), our God-given instincts (hormones which cause a mother to answer her baby's cries, and which repel her from harming her children), and be imitators of God in Christ. (Psalms says he hears our cry, he answers from his holy hill, he does not leave us or forsake us, he comforts us, he meets all of our needs, he gives us wisdom and understanding, his yoke is easy, and his burden is light).
Traditionally, children are expected to either behave or face punishment. Christianity is based on grace, "in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." We escape punishment, and instead God chastens us (see "Rightly Dividing" post for definition of "chasten"), yet still accepts us. The chastening is not pleasant, but He says, "My yolk is easy, & my burden is light." This is not to say children do not require some tough love. "Easy & light" here doesn't mean "weak & wimpy" (permissive parenting). Instead, Paul says he was "gentle" among the Ephesian church, "as a nursing mother."
When children misunderstand the way the world works, and make unwise decisions, they're trusting us to guide them unconditionally, with patience and gentleness. We must strive to display the fruits of the Spirit while we're guiding. It is what our Father in Heaven would do!
Even if we aren't being a "neglectful" by earthly (societal) standards, we need to check ourselves against the Heavenly standard, as layed out in the Bible. We, as Christians, must hold ourselves to a different standard than the world, especially in how we influence the next generation.

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Some Dell Shareholders Don't Know Much About This Leveraged Buyout, But They Know They Don't Like It
from the no-need-for-details,-just-be-angry dept
But for most of the fun stuff we'll have to look forward to the proxy. And that isn't good enough for some people. Reuters reports that the first shareholder lawsuit over the deal has already been filed, one day after announcement, which I assume means it was in the works before the deal was announced. This sort of amazed me:
Some shareholders said they were angered by the lack of specifics about the deal, making it hard for them to determine if the price was fair. The company, which declined to comment on the lawsuit, had said the board had conducted an extensive review of its strategic options before agreeing to the buyout.
I would characterize myself as mildly saddened by the lack of specifics, but that's why I will wait until the proxy is out and then read the specifics. You know there's a whole section of the proxy explaining why the bankers thought the deal was fair, right?2
There's nothing new here – as Reuters notes, "Almost every merger worth more $100 million prompts a shareholder lawsuit" -- but the speed continues to amaze. And it's becoming ever more a fact of life:
That's from this depressing report, which also has a sad-comical list of 16 deals each with 15 or more lawsuits filed. (The tech industry averages 4.9 suits, so, y'know, look out for 3.9 more.)
You can sympathize a little. Management buyouts are of course all about bottom-ticking the stock price; management would be pretty dumb if they took the company private at its all-time high. Dell's various stakeholder communications -- all to the tune of "this will is the start of a whole new chapter for Dell, in which everything will remain exactly the same" -- make that pretty clear: the deal has little to do with operational changes and much to do with the fact that Michael Dell thinks that (1) Dell and (2) debt are both cheap right now.
But that's kind of the market, and the fact of life is that if shareholders think that $13.65 is too cheap for their shares, they can always vote the deal down. By all accounts this deal was pretty fully negotiated, so it seems unlikely that the lawsuit will reveal that Dell and Silver Lake would have coughed up an extra $1 a share if the board had just asked more aggressively. And it's no secret that Michael Dell thinks that his company is worth more than $13.65. Even if that hasn't been specifically disclosed yet.
Dell 8-K, Merger Agreement, Voting Agreement [EDGAR]
Dell Buyout Broken Down: Silver Lake Puts in $1.4 Billion [Deal Journal]
Dell Aims for Double-B Rating, Leverage Less Than 4x Ebitda [Deal Journal]
Dell investor sues to block founder's leveraged buyout [Reuters]
Reasons to Be Suspicious of Buyouts Led by Management [DealBook]
Dell's Talks Said to Break Up a Few Times Over Pricing [Bloomberg]
1. From the 8-K:
Each of Bank of America, N.A., Barclays Bank PLC, Credit Suisse AG and Royal Bank of Canada and, in some cases, certain of their affiliates (collectively, the "Lenders") have committed to provide debt financing for the transaction, consisting of a $4 billion senior secured term loan B facility, a $1.5 billion senior secured term loan C facility, a $2 billion ABL facility, senior secured interim loan facilities consisting of a $2 billion first lien bridge loan facility and a $1.25 billion second lien bridge loan facility (or, alternatively, senior secured first lien and second lien fixed rate notes that would be issued in a high-yield offering pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933), a $1.9 billion term commercial receivables financing facility and a $1.1 billion revolving consumer receivables financing facility, each on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in a commitment letter dated as of February 5, 2013 (the "Debt Commitment Letter").
2. The answer is always along the lines of "because you paid us to think that," but still.Other posts from Dealbreaker:


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I'm not bragging, just sharing which is the whole point of this "Denials" board right? Also, there is no need to get snippy. One of the problems with MBs is that you have people who are more apt to be jerks because of the anonymity of the internet.
I think you are very brave to admit that you were not accepted into a law school that you wanted to go to. People may be snippy but at least you have balls and courage. You are a far more pleasant person than that snobby waste of oxygen. I also understand your frustration with impersonal rejection letters. For the money you payed to apply they could at least give you a reason why they didn't accept you. It sucks to pay something for nothing.


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Skip to comments.What Blogs Have Wrought (FR mentioned)
Posted on 09/17/2004 6:25:26 PM PDT by swilhelm73
IF YOU TRAWL the posting boards at FreeRepublic.com long enough, you'll go mad. Hundreds of voices are shouting, spitting, and clamoring for attention at any given moment. The night of Wednesday September 8 was no different. Following the 8 P.M. airing of CBS's 60 Minutes hit on President Bush's record in the Texas Air National Guard, Freepers were rattling their cages and pinging around the web in anger and disconsolation. On a thread begun in response to a New York Times article about the 60 Minutes story, "tomahawk" wrote, "The MSM [mainstream media] are whores for Kerry, whores for Democrats, and whores for Jihadists. Through their lies and distortions, our country's continued existence is now in doubt."
Amidst this clamor, the post by "Buckhead" could easily have gotten lost. At 11:59 P.M. (all times in this article are Eastern Daylight Time), Buckhead wondered about the fonts and spacing of the memos supposedly typed by Bush's National Guard commander and "newly obtained" by 60 Minutes. Buckhead speculated that they couldn't have been produced in the early 1970s, when they were dated. "I am saying these documents are forgeries," Buckhead wrote, "run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old." In an email to THE WEEKLY STANDARD, Buckhead was loath to claim credit for his insight: "The internet is a big place, and I can't believe that other people didn't notice the same thing around the same time." Nor did he want acclaim: "I don't care
to be outed as my alter ego. Day job and all that."
Buckhead's doubts were No. 47 in a list of 217 comments, on one of dozens of such discussion threads. But they were noticed by Tom Mortensen and Liz MacDougald who, the next morning, emailed the link to Scott Johnson, a lawyer in St. Paul. Sitting at home, Johnson reprinted Buckhead on the blog he runs with two fellow lawyers, Power Line (powerlineblog.com), at 8:51 A.M., and then went to work. When he arrived at the office, he had nearly 50 reader emails waiting for him from people like John Risko, a former Navy clerk and typist, who explained why he, too, thought the memos might be forged.
This small snowball of doubt was about to become an avalanche as something Los Angeles radio host and blogger Hugh Hewitt calls the blogosphere's "multiplier effect" took over. In California, Charles Johnson, who runs the blog Little Green Footballs, had seen both Buckhead and Power Line and decided to run a test. A desktop publishing pioneer and webpage designer in his day job, Johnson opened Microsoft Word and without changing any of the default settings--tabs, margins, font--created an eerily similar replica of one of the memos in just a few minutes, and posted it at 1:24 P.M. By lunchtime Thursday, the small, incestuous blog world was humming with the notion that CBS had presented forgeries. The story went nationwide at 2:50 P.M., when the Drudge Report linked to Power Line with the headline: "'60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake /// 32-year-old documents produced Wednesday by CBSNEWS 60 MINS on Bush's Guard service may have been forged using a current word processing program // typed using a proportional font, not common at that time, and they used a superscript font feature found in today's Microsoft Word program, Internet reports claim . . . Developing . . ."
The server hosting Power Line crashed as hundreds of thousands of Drudge readers tried to learn about the 60 Minutes scandal. By 5:00 P.M., CBS was spooked enough to release a statement saying the memos were "thoroughly investigated by independent experts, and we are convinced of their authenticity." At 7:20 P.M., Stephen F. Hayes published a piece on weeklystandard.com citing interviews with several forensic document experts, none of whom thought the documents were authentic. Before the night was done, ABC News got in on the action, posting a story on its website calling the memos possible forgeries. In just 24 hours, the CBS story had been almost completely undermined.
ON FRIDAY, September 10, the left struck back. At a press conference Democratic party chairman Terry McAuliffe denied that Democrats had "anything at all to do with any of those documents." "If I were an aspiring young journalist," McAuliffe noted, "I think I would ask Karl Rove" where the CBS memos came from.
McAuliffe was tacitly admitting that the memos were fake, but the liberal side of the blog world wasn't ready to go that far. On his blog Talking Points Memo, Joshua Micah Marshall went further than most, admitting, "The ball is in the court of the publishers of these documents to authenticate them. And so far I'm not hearing any adequate defense." The American Prospect's Matthew Yglesias (on his personal blog) wrote that the CBS memos had "a presumptive validity." He granted that the
"would-be debunkers" had "presented a good deal of evidence demonstrating that the documents might be forgeries in the sense that it is technologically feasible today to produce things that look just like the memos. This, however, doesn't really get you anywhere unless you can produce some actual evidence of forging."
On the far-left Daily Kos, "Hunter" posted a lengthy defense of the memos, arguing that, however improbable it might seem, the memos could theoretically have been produced in the early '70s (this would later be proven untrue). David Brock's MediaMatters.org chimed in that "the case for their authenticity is strong," while also sounding the McAuliffe theme that if they were fakes, suspicion should fall on Karl Rove. (Slate blogger Mickey Kaus noticed the tension: "Media Matters," he wrote, "might want to decide if a) the documents are authentic, as argued at the top of their Web page or b) the documents are forgeries planted by Republicans, as argued at the bottom of their Web page. Lawyers are allowed to plead in the alternative, but a) and b) can't both be true, and the evidence for each of those propositions is also evidence against the other one.")
The partisan liberal sites were joined by a short piece from PC Magazine, which supposed that an IBM Selectric Composer could have produced the memos. But this wasn't news. The previous morning, Power Line--which had quickly established itself as the blog world's clearinghouse for updates on the story--had posted an email from one John Burgess, saying, "By 1969, I was using an IBM Selectric typewriter, with proportional type balls." Burgess claimed that the Selectric was widely available and could employ the Times New Roman font. The blog world was quickly deep into contemplating the capabilities of the Selectric.
Not so Dan Rather. Ambushed on the street Friday morning by a CNN camera crew, Rather insisted, "The story is true. The story is true." "The Internet," he said, "is filled with all kinds of rumors." That evening, Rather defended the 60 Minutes story during the Evening News. Appearing on the O'Reilly Factor shortly afterwards, a former CBS News executive, Jonathan Klein, dismissed the blogs. On the one side, he said, you have a professional news bureaucracy with "multiple layers of checks and balances." With blogs, you have "a guy sitting in his living room in his pajamas writing." Klein's "pajamas" taunt would be seized on throughout the blog world. It would also come to represent the high-water mark of the CBS defense.
ON SATURDAY MORNING (or late Friday night, if you were reading the websites), two shoes dropped. The Dallas Morning News reported that Texas National Guard Col. Walter "Buck" Staudt, whom the August 18, 1973, CBS memo described as applying pressure from above for favorable treatment for George W. Bush, had retired from the Guard a year and a half before, on March 1, 1972. The Los Angeles Times, picking up an ABC News story from the night before, reported that Maj. Gen. Bobby Hodges, one of CBS's principal sources and a man they said had authenticated the memos, was claiming that CBS had misled him. Hodges had been read the memos over the phone and thought that they were handwritten. After seeing the actual documents--photocopied documents, that is, since CBS has never claimed even to have seen originals--he declared they were a fraud.
Still, the Boston Globe and New York Times--which had given lavish play to CBS's National Guard accusations in their Thursday editions--were nominally siding with the network. In their Saturday story, the Times reported that "for every expert who said the documents" looked fake, "there seemed to be another who said they could indeed have been authentic." This was demonstrably untrue. In fact, the only pro-CBS "expert" the Times was able to find was Bill Glennon, "who worked for IBM in Midtown Manhattan for 14 years and repaired typewriters."
The Washington Post was much more circumspect, partly because the only CBS expert who had been revealed was San Francisco handwriting analyst Marcel Matley, who told the Post's Howard Kurtz that CBS had asked him not to give interviews.
The biggest news of the day came again from the Internet, where Joseph M. Newcomer posted on his website (www.flounder.com/bush.htm) an incredibly detailed, scientific, 7,000-word explanation of why the documents were necessarily forgeries. Today his account remains definitive.
Apparently moved by Gen. Hodges's testimony, the New York Times swung against CBS on Sunday. The Los Angeles Times, already skeptical, ran a nearly admiring piece about bloggers. After crediting them with breaking the news, though, the story ended with an attack from Emerson College professor Jeffrey Seglin, who said, "The fear I have is: How do you know who's doing the Web logs? And what happens when this stuff gets into the mainstream, and it eventually turns out that the 60 Minutes' documents were perfectly legitimate?"
Seglin's fears were misplaced. For one thing, the CBS documents would not turn out to be legitimate. But for another, bloggers are fantastically more transparent than major news organizations, which in their inner workings are among the most inscrutable institutions in America. Most blogs have an "About Us" link near the top of their page. Had Seglin clicked this link on Power Line, for instance, he would have found that bloggers John Hinderaker, Scott Johnson, and Paul Mirengoff were lawyers with prestigious firms such as Minneapolis's Faegre & Benson and Washington's Akin, Gump. On Flounder.com, Newcomer had posted his entire résumé, his home address, his email, and his telephone number. Besides Dan Rather and his lead producer Mary Mapes, Seglin would have been hard pressed to get even the name of a CBS employee who worked on the memo story.
But at least Seglin was able to bring himself to talk about the issue. Some prominent media watchdog groups would barely deign to discuss it. Over at the Poynter Institute (where Seglin was once a media ethics fellow), media critic Jim Romenesko had posted just one tiny item. (Romenesko wouldn't begin covering the story in earnest until September 15, a full week after it first broke.) The Columbia Journalism Review was just as bad. Their website, CampaignDesk.org, had not a single mention of the CBS story until September 13, when they referenced it in passing during a roundup of blog activity. On September 14, after criticism from this writer, CampaignDesk's managing editor, Steve Lovelady, explained why they were avoiding the story: "It's not clear whether CBS has been had by some undercover operative intent on smearing the president, or whether the network itself is the victim of a smear campaign."
ON THE NIGHT of September 12, however, all that lay in the future. At 11:28 P.M., Power Line's John Hinderaker published a virtual interview with Robert W. Strong, a veteran of the Texas National Guard and one of CBS's key sources. A pair of Power Line readers, it turned out, live down the road from Strong near Austin, and Hinderaker furnished them with questions. Again, the Internet was first.
On Monday, the New York Times swung fully against CBS, publishing a tough op-ed by William Safire and a pro-blogger piece in their Technology section. The left-wing of the Internet sunk into incoherence. Media Matters began publishing oppo-research dossiers on journalists who were covering the CBS story. At the blog of the left-wing American Prospect, Nick Confessore speculated that if the documents really were fake, the White House would have released the originals. Unless, Confessore noted, "the original documents make Bush look even worse than the fakes." This was nonsense. CBS claimed that the memos were from the "personal files" of Col. Jerry Killian; even if some "originals" of the memos had existed, Bush would not have had them.
CBS continued spinning during the evening newscast. Dan Rather brought out expert Bill Glennon to testify on the network's behalf. This was the same typewriter repairman who had been quoted in the New York Times. Curiously, given CBS's professed contempt for bloggers, Glennon had come to prominence as a blog commenter (first on the Washington Monthly's Political Animal, with comments later copied to the Daily Kos). As blogger Tim Blair noted, CBS's desperation had overpowered its suspicion of the rumor-filled Internet.
The traditional media, which at first had been following the lead of bloggers, started breaking more and more anti-CBS developments. On Tuesday, September 14, the Washington Post published a devastating story in which its reporters (1) demolished Glennon's testimony of just five hours before; (2) brought Newcomer's expert testimony to the fore; and (3) aired the results of their independent analysis, which found "dozens of inconsistencies [in the memos], ranging from conflicting military terminology to different word-processing techniques."
That afternoon the Dallas Morning News piled on with an interview of Killian's secretary, who said that her boss had never typed and that she didn't type the memos in question. That night ABC News ran a story with interviews of two document experts who had been consulted by CBS. Both of them claimed to have told CBS that they could not authenticate the documents. One of them, Emily Will, said that she sent CBS "an email message about her concerns and strongly urged the network the night before the broadcast not to use the documents. 'I told them that all the questions I was asking them on Tuesday night, they were going to be asked by hundreds of other document examiners on Thursday if they ran that story.'"
Meanwhile, Power Line's Scott Johnson appeared on Fox News Channel's Special Report, a newly minted celebrity.
REGARDLESS of what tack CBS now chooses, the questions about the authenticity of the 60 Minutes documents are settled. The evening of September 15, Dan Rather cluelessly told the Washington Post's indefatigable media reporter Howard Kurtz, "If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story." Rather was a week late; Free Republic's Buckhead had scooped him. And dozens of bloggers, whether in pajamas or three-piece suits, had subsequently filled in many of the details. (CBS could still break one big story--who gave them the forged memos?--but has so far hidden behind an invocation of "longstanding journalistic ethics" governing "confidential sources." So forgers are now sources?) Bloggers, and Internet-savvy writers more generally, have now proven that they can ferret out journalistic malpractice and expose the guilty parties.
Part of what makes bloggers well-suited for the role of fact-checking is that there are so many of them. With millions of people blogging and reading blogs, you're bound to find a handful of real experts on any given topic, and these experts can coalesce quite easily. When National Review Online's blogger Jim Geraghty asked readers about James J. Pierce, a new document expert CBS trotted out on September 15, he was deluged with responses. Within an hour, Geraghty had been furnished with a link to a website showing the sort of low-level expert witness business Pierce usually does. As Little Green Footballs's Charles Johnson noted, "It's sort of an open-source intelligence gathering network that draws on expertise from around the world."
This critical mass creates a buzzing marketplace of ideas. To be fair, many of these ideas are bogus, but they are also rapidly exposed as such, sometimes in mere seconds. For example, an exuberant commenter will note that one of CBS's memos carries a Saturday date; another, dripping with condescension, will remind the first that Guard members are called "weekend warriors" for a reason--they drill (and keep office hours) on Saturdays. A number of the specific criticisms of the CBS documents on blogs were overstated, too categorical, or simply wrong. These provided aha! moments for CBS and its blogging partisans, but they were shot down just as quickly by commenters on the blogs criticizing CBS. It is not true, for instance, that typewriters couldn't do superscripts, as some CBS critics too triumphantly generalized. It is true that typewriters couldn't produce the particular superscripts seen in the memos, and that these same superscripts are automatically produced by Microsoft Word.
As a recent piece in Investor's Business Daily noted, "In the same way the market sifts and analyzes information stocks better than any individual investor or institution ever could, the blogosphere weeds out the chaff." Thus, a lone helpful comment at FreeRepublic.com gets quickly elevated into the spotlight, while the multitude of cranky grumblings disappear down the memory hole.
Aside from technological advantages, there seems to be an ideological divide at work, too. The political blog world is arguably more conservative than liberal, though there is a sizable contingent of liberal blogs. But these liberal blogs function more like the old media than do their conservative Internet brethren. While blogs such as Power Line and Little Green Footballs and Instapundit were chasing the CBS story, interviewing experts, posting material as they found it--whether or not it supported the case against CBS--many of the liberal blogs went into entrenched-partisan mode.
With the exception of the September 10 Daily Kos, few, if any, liberal blogs contributed any facts to the CBS debate. Few tried to unearth new information; many tried to change the subject; most insisted that there was no reason to believe the memos were forgeries until quite late in the game. Those who rationally weighed the evidence, like the Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum and Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo ("There's a word, though, for these sorts of recreations, if that's what they are: forgeries"), were pummeled by the commenters on left-wing blogs.
On September 14, blogger Matthew Yglesias finally conceded that the documents were probably forged. In a fit of pique, he sought to deny bloggers any credit. "They didn't break the story," he blogged. "The stuff they posted . . . was all wrong." Besides, Yglesias noted in a later item, "Nothing important about Bush's National Guard record hinges on the accuracy of those memos." Nick Confessore agreed, blogging, "We don't need the CBS memos to know" that Bush is guilty. They were aping the line the Los Angeles Times editorial page eventually took: "Whatever the truth, CBS' real error was trying to prove a point that didn't need to be proved. It doesn't take documents for anyone to realize that Bush pulled strings to get into the National Guard." Or, in the now immortal phrase of a New York Times headline writer on September 15, "Memos on Bush are Fake But Accurate . . ."
Despite all this, there were still lefty bloggers out in the fever swamps who refused to believe that the documents had been forged. Lindsay Beyerstein continued making attacks on the Washington Post blockbuster and then, when they came forward, on the document experts who told CBS not to use the memos. "Notice how this bullshit comes in waves?" Beyerstein sneered. "One claims that she sent an email to CBS urging them not to go ahead with the story because she had doubts about the memos' authenticity. I'd like to see that email."
The Internet is filled with all sorts of crazy stuff these days. Just ask Dan Rather.
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I didn't realize FreeRepublic.com was a 'blogging' site....hmmmmmm.... ;)
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I didn't read any further, lest I go mad.
Most Excellent!
The best summary of the Rathergate story I've seen so far.
Don't deprive yourself.
Read it. It's positive.
We won!
Congratulations to both of you. You've got to read this one.
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Read it. It's a wonderful article. Great time to be alive.
Agreed. This was a very good roundup of the many sites that played a useful role in debunking a bunch of frauds who'd have never been honest about their work. The truth does matter, and CBS will one day rue their unbelievable slat towards Kerry. How many anti-Bush writers have been on 60 MINs? How many pro-Bush writers? CBS has gone off the deep end and become a partisan news network.
Bloggers do what we've been doing for years now: Posting news stories and commenting on them.
I agree. We only spit when the cheese causes us to salivate.
He leaves off three other web sites that played important parts in doing actual research with actual experts speaking on the record before Drudge: RatherBiased.com, CNSNews, and INDC Journal.
The original Drudge link was to CNS. Strange that Last neglects these two facts.
What's the best part? (Or one of the best parts at least) - DU is NOT mentioned once. Even the complaining idiots over there were too substandard to even rate a mention!
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While a study showing promising results from its cannabis-derived epilepsy drug sent its stock higher last week,GW Pharmaceuticals has more products in the works, CEO Justin Gover said Friday.
GW Pharma has been able to amass a set of data on difficult-to-treat cases in children that provide a strong signal as to what the drug is doing, Gover told CNBC's "Fast Money."
"This is an incremental process – the data we released this week is just the beginning of that – around 30 young children with epilepsy showing very interesting effects of seizure reduction," he said. "There will be more data from a larger group of children later this year and in 2015."
Gover said he hoped the company would be able to move Epidiolex into Phase III by 2015. The drug utilizes components of the marijuana plant without inducing a "high" feeling.
Shares of GW Pharmaceuticals rose 20 percent last week after the biotech company released promising results of its study on Epidiolex.


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KANE – Skipping school has serious consequences in Kane.Both the school administration and Kane District Court Judge Dave Engman are taking a tough stance on truancy."Students cannot learn if they are not present in school," Dr. Maryann Anderson, school district superintendent, said. She pointed out that the school district is required to enforce the state compulsory attendance law.
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text: Angels reliever Scott Downs, a former Blue Jay, spoke for a lot of people in Toronto when he trashed the ESPN story speculating that sign stealing at the Rogers Centre has helped Jose Bautista establish himself as one of baseball's best hitters. "Give credit where credit is due — and credit is due,'' Downs said. "He worked real hard to make himself into a great player." … Despite fears that an unusually high number of top draft picks will fail to sign by Monday's deadline, almost all first-rounders are expected to sign. The exception is Tyler Beede, a high school pitcher from Massachusetts the Blue Jays selected 21st overall. … The Rays, who had 10 of the first 60 picks, had signed six of those heading into the weekend. Unsigned were their two top picks, right-hander Taylor Guerrieri and outfielder Mikie Mahtook. … The key to the Indians taking two of three against the Tigers was a bullpen that pitched 12 scoreless innings, allowing only six hits. "That was fantastic,'' manager Manny Acta said. … Curtis Granderson, who has 46 home runs in the last calendar year, has taken over the Yankees' cleanup spot on a permanent basis. Alex Rodriguez will have to find a new place to hit when he returns from the disabled list. … This weekend's series in Cleveland marks the first time since April 7 that Twins manager Ron Gardenhire has been able to use his Opening Day lineup. … Hanley Ramirez's value is apparent when he doesn't play. The Marlins went into the weekend 50-39 with him and 5-23 without him.


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Milkies and Fairhaven Health - Summer Recap
As the nights get cool and the leaves are changing we have time to reflect on the Summer that was. The Milkies - Fairhaven Health partnership was introduced to the world at lactation consultant shows and other big venues. I added bamboo nursing pads to the Milkies product line after careful review and thoroughly testing materials while keeping the price affordable. The Milkies Softies were introduced last week, they are thin, thirsty and are the only bamboo pads with three layers of protection and a low price.


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Last week's post on my fail-safe chocolate chip cookie recipe made me think I should likewise share my fail-safe oatmeal cookie formula, so here it is! It's one of those recipes you can confidently customize with added ingredients as you see fit.
My sixteen-year old son likes these with raisins only--he's a minimalist with this kind of food. My twelve-year old son likes them best with big milk chocolate chips--he's not a big fan of raisins. I like them in just about any incarnation and so does the hubby. Today I made a big batch of dough and divided it up before putting in any of the add-ins. Then I made about two thirds of it into the boys' two favorite varieties, and to the remaining third portion I added raisins, toasted chopped pecans, and sweet shredded coconut. Yum.
This recipe makes a lot of cookie dough (you'll get dozens of cookies out of it). If your mixer bowl is not very large, you might want to halve the recipe or be ready to takeover and do the final mixing steps by hand.
Jane's Fail-Safe Oatmeal Cookies
(For a printable version of this recipe click here!)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1 1/2 cups unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup vegetable shortening
2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
4 large eggs
2 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
A few drops of lemon extract (optional, but I think it helps brighten the flavor very subtly)
A few drops of almond extract (optional, but " ")
3 and 1/2 cups AP flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 and 1/4 tsp. salt
1 and 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/8 tsp. nutmeg
6 cups oats (quick or old-fashioned, either will work)
2 cups raisins, moistened if they are very dry (per recipe below)
Measure the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg into a medium bowl. Combine lightly with a fork or whisk and set aside.
Measure the oats into a medium bowl; set aside.
Measure the raisins into a bowl. Especially if you're using sun-dried raisins, I recommend you spread them out in the bottom of the bowl and cover them completely with warm water, or fruit juice. Let that soak for about ten minutes. Drain the raisins and gently squeeze them with paper towel to remove excess water. Set aside.
Measure out any additional ingredients you want to add in--like walnuts, pecans, coconut, or any type of chocolate chips--in whatever reasonable proportions you prefer, and set those aside.
Beat the sugars, butter, and shortening for no more than about two minutes at medium speed, until well mixed.
Add the eggs, one at a time, and then the vanilla, still at medium speed until well combined.
Slowly add in the flour mixture, on low speed until it's just blended.
Add in any raisins, nuts, chips, etc. mixing on the lowest speed (or by hand if your mixing bowl seems too full).
At this point, if I were you, I'd divide the dough into a few clumps, wrap each in plastic, and freeze or refrigerate them for at least an hour, until firm. Also, I recommend you chill your cookie sheets in the freezer or fridge for at least 15 minutes before using them.
Cover your cookie sheets with parchment and portion the cookie dough about two inches apart. If you want hefty cookies use a no. 24 scoop (that's about a three-tablespoon scoop). Or, just roll the dough into balls with your hands; make the balls about the size of big walnuts, working quickly so as not to warm the dough. If you want smaller cookies, feel free--just be sure to bake them for a shorter amount of time. For flatter cookies, versus a puffier and more rounded-on-top version, press them down a bit before baking--not too much.
Bake for at least 13 minutes, checking as needed to prevent over-browning. The longer you bake them, the crispier they'll be. I like to have partly chewy, versus completely crispy, oatmeal cookies so I always try to remember--not always successfully--to take them out before they get very dark.
Let them cool on the pan for five minutes, then complete cooling on racks.
Now, go get a glass of milk, or a cup of coffee, or a nice glass of iced tea. Sit down, relax, and have a cookie.
(To comment on this post, or to read any existing comments, please click on the word "COMMENTS" just below.)
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Fail-Safe Oatmeal Cookies
Posted by Jane at 1:27 PM
Labels: chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, cookies, fail-safe oatmeal cookies, oatmeal, oatmeal cookies, oatmeal raisin cookies, raisins
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Hey, I loved the receipe and everybody else at home enjoyed too. I never cooked anything before other than rice and eggs and the cookies turned out beautifully. Thank you so much. Mariana (São Paulo, Brazil)
- September 13, 2009 at 9:06 PM
- Jane said...
Hi Mariana, Thanks so much for letting me know that you tried this recipe and it worked out so well for you! I just love hearing that. I'm glad your family liked the cookies!
- September 14, 2009 at 7:25 PM
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The Judgment of Paris (2010)
Masque to a libretto by William Congreve
Marsh Court, Stockbridge, 18 September 2010
Music at Wotton, 6 November 2010
The Holywell Music Room, Oxford, 7 November 2010
Wigmore Hall, London, 12 February 2011
|Mercury (Hermes), the messenger of the gods
|Mark Chaundy
|Paris, a shepherd
Peter van Hulle (September and November)
John-Colyn Gyeantey (February)
|Juno (Saturnia, wife of Jupiter)
|Joana Seara
|Pallas (Athena)
|Serena Kay
|Venus (Cytherea)
|Ilona Domnich
|with the Bampton Classical Players on period instruments
|Oliver Webber, Jim O'Toole, Ben Sansom violin; Emma Alter viola; Natasha Kraemer cello; Jonathan Moss double bass; Rachel Chaplin, Karen Gibbard oboe; Zoe Shevlin bassoon
|Conductor and harpsichord
|Ben Bayl
|Jeremy Gray
Synopsis and Background
The classical myth of The Judgment of Paris is found in many forms in Greek and Roman literature, and was linked with the background to the Trojan war. The messenger god Mercury is sent by Jupiter to give a task to the shepherd Paris. He is to present a golden apple to the most beautiful of three goddesses – Juno, Pallas and Venus. The goddesses battle it out in this celestial beauty contest ('Turn to me, for I am she') and each tries to tempt Paris. Juno, wife of Jupiter, offers earthly power and kingship ('Let ambition fire thy mind', whilst Pallas (Athena) offers wisdom and glory in war ('The glorious voice of war calls aloud'). Venus charms with cooing words of love ('One only joy mankind can know'): her sensuous tactics pay off, and Paris awards her the coveted prize ('I yield, I yield').
Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778), the Eton-educated son of a successful upholsterer-cum-funeral director is one of the most colourful figures in English music history. His popular reputation nowadays may be based almost entirely on that promenaders' delight , Rule, Britannia (from his 1740 'masque' Alfred, a tale of Anglo-Saxon warfare and rustic lovemaking), but in his lifetime he was the most prominent figure in English theatrical music, the Andrew Lloyd Webber of his day. Described as 'thoughtless, dissipated and careless', he was superbly self-assured in his musical writing, showing a remarkable gift for singable melody and a sure sense of dramatic pace. With a 45 year-long career spent writing for the stage, Arne would now be much more of a household name,were it not for the fact that so much of his music has been lost with the ravages of time: hardly any of his stage works survive complete and many are in virtually unperformable fragments.
His Judgment of Paris, composed in 1742, is described as a masque – originally a form of Renaissance courtly musical theatre – but is in effect a short opera in the late Baroque style, with no spoken text. Although there is little plot beyond the bare outline of the classical myth on which it is based, it makes for an attractive and very entertaining staged work. Composed for 5 solo singers, the music alternates between 'airs' (solo numbers, some in the familiar Baroque da capo structure), recitatives (sung dialogue), and choruses. The English text is by the great poet William Congreve, and was originally written for a famous composition competition in 1701 in which several composers participated, the prize going to John Weldon. Perhaps in choosing the same libretto forty years later, Arne hoped to make a point about his own superior standing, although by then the original competition pieces had long been forgotten.
The first performance took place on 12 March 1742 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London with an outstanding cast, including Mrs Arne (Cecilia Young) as Venus. The performance was mounted for Arne's own benefit and the usual prices were increased for the occasion – in the marketing material, after noting that "Ladies are desir'd to send their servants to keep places by Four o'clock", Arne explained that he "humbly hopes the Town will not be offended at this small advance of Prices, being at an extraordinary expence for copying all the Music, building the stage, additional instrumental performers, chorus singers and erecting an Organ". At a time when contemporary music quickly went out of fashion it is remarkable that Paris was still being performed as late as 1761, - complete with fireworks. Bampton Classical Opera is delighted to perform this forgotten English masterpiece in celebration of Arne's 300th anniversary.
…impressive singing… superb playing… uniformly excellent
MusicWeb International, November 2010
...lively heartfelt singing…
The Oxford Times, 12 November 2010
…commitment, intelligence and significant musical accomplishment
Opera Today, 20 February 2011
…pleasingly sung, neatly directed…
The Times 15 February 2011


text: I'm trying to add several sites (each having 1 Zone, 4 A-records, 4 NS-records and 1 MX-record), but sometimes couple of these will fail. Sites that I'm trying to add are identical in almost every way. Only difference usually is top level domain (com, net, info etc.). Here is how this process goes: Loop each site { login; dns_zone_add; dns_a_add; (x4) dns_mx_add; dns_ns_add; (x4) sites_web_domain_add; logout;} Failure might occur at any phase of this process. Here are some of the errors I have receive: SoapClient::__doRequest() [soapclient.--dorequest]: SSL: Connection reset by peer SoapClient::__doRequest() [soapclient.--dorequest]: Failed to enable crypto SoapClient::__doRequest() [soapclient.--dorequest]: connect() failed: Unspecified error SoapClient::__doRequest() [soapclient.--dorequest]: connect() failed: Connection refused EDIT: Here is some more information. Adding zone failed right after successful login and SOAP faultstring contained this: "The Session is expired or does not exist." How is this possible? Another faultstring for some other add failure contained: Could not connect to host. This problem seems to only affect adding. Getting stuff works like a charm. Any help is appreciated.


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Heavy Iron Studios latest movie-to-game sequel, The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer has been stuffed into boxes and is headed to retailers nationwide. Published by THQ as a sequel to the final moments of last year's blockbuster movie, The Incredibles, Rise of the Underminer puts players in control of Frozone and Mr. Incredible himself as they travel underground to defeat the mole-like super villain, the Underminder. Co-op multiplayer action and upgradeable special moves are listed as the game's highlights, while an original story approved by Pixar helps move the Incredibles mythos forward.
"THQ is extremely excited to bring fans of The Incredibles a new adventure that picks up where the film and the first installment of the game ended," said Jack Sorensen, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Studios, THQ. "Game developer Heavy Iron's collaboration with the team at Pixar illustrates the commitment our companies have to delivering an experience that is true to The Incredibles world."
"The first game based on The Incredibles truly complemented the high action vision Director Brad Bird had for the film," said Pixar Animation Studios John Walker, producer of The Incredibles. "The Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer continues where the film left off, challenging gamers to explore a whole new dimension of The Incredibles world."
"The Incredibles has experienced enormous success and has become not only a great film property, but a powerful video game franchise with opportunities to develop new characters and environments within The Incredibles universe," said Graham Hopper, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Buena Vista Games.
Rise of the Underminer is available now in select locations for the PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube with a Helixe-developed version also available for the GBA and DS. All versions of the game should be available in stores everywhere by tomorrow.


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Need Pro, Partition problems!
So this is the deal, i bought my pc from future shop with vista half installed, i got home turned it on it finished the install.. no cd's were given to me. Then i got windows 7, i installed it on the partition that was already on my hard drive with nothing on it. So, my C: had Vista on it, and i just installed 7 on D: I don't use Vista at all as it's garbage, so i want to format the c: to get all the space i can, but no matter which way i try, it won't let me. All i've seen thus far on the internet is something to the effect of gettin an XP disk and booting from that, then formatting the c: from there, then afterwards, would be something to the effect or finding a boot.ini file and changing something? i don't know, i'm pretty noobish when it comes down to it. Plz don't scald me but help would be nice :) Thanks in advance.
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|23 Mar 2010
Please post back a screenshot of your full Disk Management drive map, using Snipping Tool in Start Menu, attach file using paper clip in Reply box.
The tools needed are free Partition Wizard bootable CD and your Win7 DVD or Repair CD.
Once we see the screenshot we can give you the exact steps.
|My System Specs
|23 Mar 2010
i duno if that worked...i clicked attachment. i hope it works otherwise i have no clue how to post the pic, i'm even more noobish with forums.
|My System Specs
|23 Mar 2010
Windows 7 x64 pro/ Windows 7 x86 Pro/ XP SP3 x86
Since you dont intend to use Vista, it would be best to format your drive, then partition and clean install win7 on C: drive. That will probably save you a lot of future hassles.
Also, before doing that, make sure you backup your data and have your app cds ready.
|My System Specs
|23 Mar 2010
That would be all fine and dandy, but i can't format the c: hence the reason for this post. And besides, i have almost 200 gig of stuff on this one partition and would rather not burn 100 dvd's. What i really want to do is just be able to format the c: partition to get all that space back.
|My System Specs
|23 Mar 2010
have you tried formatting it from the Windows 7 disk rather than booting into windows,
your problem at the moment is that your Bootmanager is stored on the Vista partition (see how its marked as active?), that means if you wipe out Vista you wont be able to boot into 7, hence why 7 wont let you format because it is using some files on C
to fix this problem once it has been formatted you will need to run a startup repair from your disk 3 times: Startup Repair
I'm assuming that ACER is the Vista partition? in which case you wont be able to reintegrate that with your D drive using Windows built in disk management, as it is to the left of the windows 7 partition, you will need to use a 3rd party app such as acronis or paragon
personally... id just wipe out vista, install 7 on that partition then transfer anything important over to the new install and wipe out the current 7 partition and reintegrate it, but the way i posted above will do specifically what you asked
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No i haven't tried formatting it with the win7 cd, Would that leave me with tha same outcome you've described with Bootmanager? As for wiping vista and installing win7 on the c: (which i would really like to do) I assume one would simply put the win 7 cd in through windows, and install it again on the c: ? If that's the case, will it just automatically overwrite vista? Will i have the choice to boot from 2 different windows 7's? I apologize for my ignorance in advance.
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Since your Vista Recovery Partition will be disabled with the removal of Vista, make your Vista Recovery disks first if you want a path back to factory condition. These can also be ordered from tech support later if neccessary, or you can find a Vista installer for your version to activate with the key on sticker if you ever need to clean reinstall Vista.
Back up your files as Resizing operations can fail, although very rarely with Partition Wizard.
Boot into free Partition Wizard bootable CD, allow files to load, select 1 for Screen Resolution, right click Recovery partition, select Delete, OK.
Next right click Vista partition>Delete>OK.
Now right click Win7 partition>Modify>Set to Active>OK. Again right click Win7>Resize, slide left grey border all the way over to the left to include deleted Recov and Vista space, OK. Apply all steps.
After steps complete, Win7 will not boot. Instead boot into Win7 DVD or Repair CD, click through to Recovery Tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots, as it will attempt to repair and finally rewrite System MBR to start it up.
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No i haven't tried formatting it with the win7 cd, Would that leave me with tha same outcome you've described with Bootmanager? As for wiping vista and installing win7 on the c: (which i would really like to do) I assume one would simply put the win 7 cd in through windows, and install it again on the c: ? If that's the case, will it just automatically overwrite vista? Will i have the choice to boot from 2 different windows 7's? I apologize for my ignorance in advance.
If you simply try to install over the top of vista you will end up with all your vista stuff in a windows.old folder (im assuming as you want to format it that there is nothing important there)
what should happen is windows will create new bootmanager files which may or may not hold boot files for the current windows 7 installation on D (im sorry i actually dont know, i would guess they wont because it wont figure it needs to reinstall them without a startup repair) but will definitely allow you to boot the new installation on C
either way D will be readable by the C installation, so you then transfer the important files over to C (personal data like downloads, pictures, music anything you dont want to lose basically just not windows stuff or installed programs) and then format D, and reintegrate it into the C drive
If it turns out that the D installation is automatically included in the new bootmanager, you will get a dual boot windows saying "windows 7 and windows 7" in which case the top one will be the last one you installed (presuably the one on C) you will then have to delete it from the boot menu using msconfig (just type it into the start menu, then delete the entry from the boot tab) if it isnt this isnt a problem and it won't miss it once its gone
as ever backups are recommended as this stuff occasionally fails (but not often)
I hope thats clear enough for you, any other questions let me know
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Clear as a sunny day itself my good man :)
Thanks alot to both you and Greg for all the help, i really appreciate it :) Now i have to find my win7 cd and give that a shot.
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Elkhart will host the Midwest RV Super Show this weekend.
The event returns after organizers canceled last year's show due to the recession, but this year, a lot is expected.
Those rock bottom lows have seemingly passed.
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How to add to the deteriorating scale of these here forums.
I need to become a man. It is my goal in life. I need to become the manliest man out of all men. I don't know how I'll achieve that however. If this forum is spiralling into a status of dead beyond revival, how am I to become a man? You cannot become a man if the Earth is dying on a global scale, so how can I be a man if this is dying?
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Shawnee, Tecumseh libraries offering classes, activities.
High school students can get ready for the ACT test with help from the Shawnee Public Library and a library database giving assistance in preparing for the test.
The Learn-a-Test workshop, "Prepare for the ACT," takes place at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, in the Computer Training Center of the library, 101 N. Philadelphia Ave.
Participants will get a hands-on look at the Learn-a-Test database and the resources it provides for standardized test advice.
The class is offered for teens. Space is limited so registration is required in advance.
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