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hi all
am a new macbook user , just bought a new one , 2.0 GZ with 2 GB of memory , got it in the second week of april , and had issues with machine freezing up on me , tech support did everything they cud on the fon and finally 4th day into my purchase , they decided to give me a replacement.
got my replacement last night , and GUESSS WUT in the intial setup , my book froze on me again , i was PISSSSSSSED . had to power it down with long press of power button ,
i started it back up and guess wut safari froze on me , did the option + apple + P +R and started it back up it seemed fine , in few minutes i was in mac help and it froze again , within 4 hrs 3 times forze up on me , i did not want to sleep as it was way pass 2 at night but no apple fon support at that time so went to sleep and called apple in the morning ,
not to mention it froze again using safari ,
apple tech support helped me with diagnostics , nothing came faulty
and then product specialist guided me thru to re installation of OS , was a longgggggggggggg process took me almost 2 hrs ....
and book worked fine for atleast 4 hrs ...
i hv not used it after that but am not very happy about reinstalling the OS , shud'nt they check all these things b4 shipping the product.
any comments?
anyone went thru this?
is there a chance that they replaced my new book with a refurbished one?
i am really disappointed to some extent.
i wud like to read some comments about it
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I am amazed and shocked reading your post!
I am a New as New can be to the Mac World. I just got my Black MacBook yesterday Morning and from the time I took it out of the box to the time I was online its was under 5 minutes no lying!
And I have been using it since and it has been, knock on wood, flawless so far. I am really surprised that you had to go through all this trouble. I honestly haven't heard about something like that happen! and I did a lot of research before I get the MacBook.
Well, again sorry to hear your having all those problems, hope it works well and that you enjoy it now!
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well u havent had any problems since the re-install, right? shud be fine for a while...if not, take it back...thats all i got
btw, this is not a normal apple experience...they're a great company....most of the time...iMac Aluminum 20" 2.4 ghz 2gb RAM 300gb HD
iMac 20" Core2duo 2gb 250gb
Macbook White Core2duo 2gb 80gb
Powermac G4 dual 450
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I think you will get just about the same post from every one saying that they have had no poblems and how grate apple is, and i will have to say it as well i got my macbook c2d about 5months ago now and havent had any problems with it a grate bit of kit.
Every once and while products are faulty. No company nor computer is perfect 100% of the time. Sorry to hear for your troubles though.
Give it a few days/ weeks. If it doesn't freeze again by then, you should be in the clear. It may just be that some file was out of place or something happening during install and the freezing was due to a software issue. I would think if it was a hardware problem, the freezing would continue after a reformat and clean install.
One would assume they test the item before it ships. If the freezing didn't occur in the few minutes it was inspected, the problem would go unknown.
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It seems very strange that you would get two defective computers. What was happening during setup when it froze? Did you have any thing in the drive or anything plugged in to it? Have you tried to install windows or any third party programs on any of your two macs? Not that I'm trying to disprove you, but the odds of this happening to you twice are astronomical!
Everything in me says it was something you were doing. I'm not trying to start a fight with you. i just can't wrap my mind around the fact that this would happen to the same person twice. If it did, maybe you should rethink apple. That's some bad mojo!
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Dude, I would be furious! Honestly, it probably would have kept me from doing the switch. However, I'm new to macs as well (for about a month now) and I haven't had ONE issue. If I were you though, I'd seriously consider writing someone at Apple and explaining your frustrations. Be tactful, professional and express your displeasure (especially after all the ads etc). I wouldn't be surprised if you're given a little credit or even another mac. PR is VERY important for Mac and you deserve what they advertise... best of luck man.
it has not frozen yet
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thanx u all for replying and giving ur thoughts...
it has not frozen yet since i reinstalled the OS
i hope it does not ...
and yes i had installed only msn and yahoo no other thrid party s/w.
but the first time it froze on me was when i was in the INITIAL SETUP at the point machine was brand new outta box nothing touched or installed so may be it just neede reinstall of OS.
wud keep u guys posted.
thanx and regards
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I'm sorry this has been your so far experience with os x and mac for that matter. I've not heard from many people having that many issues with brand new macs. Hope all goes well and you don't get any more crashes!
i am getting a replacement again
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so keeping my fingers crossed ....
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my new mac book, same specs as yours, has been amazing. Starts up so fast, finds the net pronto, only one freeze.... yahoo messenger beta program caused it. This is easily the best computer i have ever purchased.
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Sorry to hear about your experience. I've had my MacBook C2D for a week now and it's working out pretty good. And believe me I'm no Mac apologist.
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Colombia: Uribe's Former Intelligence Chief Sent to Prison September 21, 2011Posted by rogerhollander in Colombia, Latin America.
Tags: alavro uribe, Colombia, colombia corruption, colombia das, colombia paramilitary, human rights, jorge noguera, roger hollander
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Roger's note: The Colombian government under the presidency of Alvaro Uribe was the US number one ally in Latin America, with hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Plan Colombia and a free trade agreement to prop up his murderous regime. The evidence of the Uribe government's complicity in terrorism and murder is finally coming out via the trials of Uribe's highest level officials, as documented below. Uribe himself, like his counterparts in the Bush/Cheney regime that bolstered his position, appears to be beyond the arm of the law and justice. But unlike the cowardly Obama administration, Colombia's justice system is in fact bringing justice at a high level. Would that the great Banana Republic to the North would have the same integrity.

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Anna Baldwin Platt came into my life when I married her only son. I met her a few short weeks after Seabrook and I starting dating. I quickly realized that she was an amazing woman and I grew to love her very much.
She became my mother-in-law and took me under her wing, treating me like a daughter from the beginning. She already had six daughters, but there was room for one more.
I spent a lot of time in the kitchen with Anna. I had been cooking from the time I was about 12 years old, but she taught me a lot more about cooking.
She taught me how to cut up a chicken, how to make her cornbread dressing, and how to cook a venison roast. Her son is glad that I can cook some things just like Mom.
Anna's sons-in-law would tell you that she never took sides in any disagreement her children had with their spouses. That may have been true with her daughters and their husbands, but I remember a time when she seemed to take my side.
I don't remember what I was upset with Seabrook about, but she came to me while I was crying. She told me that she didn't know what was wrong with him.
She said, "I don't know whether I didn't spank Seabrook enough, or if I spanked him too much!"
Since we lived next door to Anna for 30 years, she had a key to our house. Occasionally, I would come home from work to find that she had left a complete meal or a partial meal on my stove, ready to eat. There were days when I would leave breakfast dishes in the sink and come home to find that she had washed them. She was a generous, kind and thoughtful person.
Anna was a big help when our children came along. She was experienced with taking care of babies because she had seven of her own. She was there to help me when the babies were born and later to baby-sit. Sometimes, she would come over and help me out just to be helping. Just like a mother would do.
Anna taught school for many years and touched the lives of many children. I have met some of them over the years, and they have all told me that she was a wonderful teacher. She also taught her children, grandchildren and the children of friends outside the classroom.
She had a love for nature and fishing, so she took many children on nature walks and fishing adventures. She also had a love for the beach. She spent many hours walking on the beach and sharing her knowledge about the treasures she found.
Anna was a fun-loving woman with a great sense of humor. She was born on April 1, 1906, and she loved that she was born on April Fool's Day. She always got a kick out of playing April Fool's jokes on people. That was her day and she wasn't missing out on the fun.
In her later years, I had the privilege of becoming one of her caregivers. I was finally able to repay some of her kindness. She passed away three days before she turned 95.
Anna was the most wonderful woman I have ever met, and I am glad to have known her. I am glad that she allowed me to be her daughter. She taught me things a mother would teach a daughter. I am thankful that I had a mother-daughter relationship with this special lady. Anna Baldwin Platt was the woman who became my mother when I needed a mother.
Donna Platt of Parkers Ferry is a Medical University of South Carolina retiree. She and her husband, Seabrook, celebrated their 42nd wedding anniversary June 12. They have two adult daughters and four grandchildren. She enjoys family time, yard work and teaching Sunday school and women's Bible studies.


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"Ping….ping…..p i n g….."
We heard it in the U-boat movie Das Boot. And in Run Silent, Run Deep. And in the History Channel special about the Battle of the Atlantic. A single "ping" figures in a plot twist during The Hunt for Red October. The "ping" is the sound of underwater hunting.
It's the sound of sonar.
When early U-boats threatened to cut off England in 1917, British scientists worked feverishly to invent a way of tracking submerged subs. The answers came in the between-war years. A machine would emit a metallic "ping" into the water. If there was a large object underwater nearby, the ping would echo back and be amplified by the machine. The time between ping and echo-ping told the distance; the strength of the echo told the direction.
Sonar went to war big time in 1939. Combined with the code-breakers who deciphered U-boat orders sent by radio, plus anti-sub aircraft, the Allies defeated the new U-boat offensives in 1943 and 1944.
What's that got to do with our new fossil hall?
Our field crews have brought back the largest single fossil ever dug from the Permian Red Beds of north Texas. Check it out:
It's the "Judy Block", a slab of pond sediment 10 feet long and three tons in weight. Inside are dozens and dozens of complete skulls and jaws from a new species of Panzer Mudpuppy. These were bottom-living amphibians, distant cousins of frogs, who crowded onto the riverbeds and ponds all through the Early Permian 295 to 275 million years ago.
And our Judy Block is a dramatic lesson in Nature's Passive Sonar.
Active Sonar is used by porpoises and whales — they make clicky noises underwater and use the echoes to find food and, in the mating season, each other.
Passive Sonar is more elegant and delicate. The sonar operator doesn't ping or click — that would give away the operator's position to enemies. Instead, the passive sonar operator listens with extremely sensitive microphones. The Hunt for Red October demonstrates how submariners avoid making any noise but just listen and listen and listen — every tiny sound being amplified by the best acoustic equipment. The fossils in our Judy Block show Nature's equipment in the fossil amphibian.
Look at the skull:
Running across the bones are a system of sonar canals (technical label: "lateral-line canals"). Most fish have those canals today. Many frogs have a similar apparatus. Under the microscope you'd see a marvelous device. Tufts of tiny sensory hairs are clumped together inside jelly capsules (the jelly is secreted by the cells that hold the hairs). The capsules are connected to nerves that run to the brain.
Imagine you are a Permian Mudpuppy and glance at the three scenes here:
You sit still on your pond bottom. You are passive. But your sonar is super-alert. The water is so murky that you can't see anything. Doesn't matter. A fish wanders by above your head. It suspects nothing. But the fish's tail sends out vibration waves through the water. Minute vibrations bump into the sensory hairs in your sonar canals. You've got thousands of the hair clusters, and so your brain knows where the fish is swimming and how fast it's going.
Your fire-control computer in your brain knows instinctively what to do. Wait. Wait … wait … then FIRE!
You twist your head up. You open your jaws wide. The sudden suction draws the fish into your jaws. Chomp! Yum.
Sonar canals were features of most early amphibians. You can see them in the giant Gator-Headed Amphibian, Eryops, that ruled the waterways in the Red Beds times. In the new hall, we will display a complete Eryops across the pathway from the Judy Block.
When you come to the new exhibit, pause at the Judy Block. Stare at the sonar canals. Get lost in a time-travel reverie. Multitudes of those animals lived their lives through millions of years, each generation being successful through the high-tech acoustic machinery.


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Jacqueline Lee Schorsch, 71, Oregon, devoted wife, mother and Nana, died Tuesday Feb.12, 2013 at Serenity Hospice and Home, Oregon.
Jacque was born April 27, 1941 in Chicago, the daughter of Robert A. and Lucille F. (Zender) Freund.
She graduated from St. Benedict's High School, Chicago.
Jacque married Anton F. Schorsch on Oct. 20, 2001 in St. Charles.
She was devoted to taking care of her family, gardening, baking, cooking, and spending time with her grandchildren, spending quality with her husband, dancing, and taking care of animals.
Jacque was the tiniest lady with the largest heart for her family and friends.
She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, Oregon.
Jacque is survived by her husband, Anton Schorsch, Oregon; three sons, Thomas (Lori) Borek, South Lake Tahoe, Calif., James (Iain Stewart) Barron, Fleatherstone, New Zealand, John (Virginia) Barron, Schiller Park; three daughters, Deborah (Gerry) Rego, Reedsburg, Wis., Jamie (James Merfeld) Barron, Nekoosa, Wis., Jennifer (Daryl) Ethridge, Rockford; 12 grandchildren, Christopher Borek, Erin (Aaron) Hanke, Trevor (Sunny) Borek, Maxamillion Borek, Brittany Maurer, Daryl Ethridge Jr., Kendra Ethridge, Logan Rogers, Leslie Rogers, Evan Harrison, Brennan Barron, Deontae Ethridge; two great-grandchildren, Skyler Hanke and Tristan Borek; brother, William Freund; and sister, Barbara Wolf, Rochelle.
Jacque was preceded in death by her parents and sister, Darlene Petersen.
Catholic mass was held on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Oregon, with Father Richard Kramer officiating.
Burial was at Daysville Cemetery, Oregon.
Arrangements were completed by Finch Funeral Home, 405 E. Hitt St., Mt. Morris.
Memorials will be determined.


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Soon, people will refer to me as "The Crazy Girl Who Can't Stop Talking About Her Old House"
Found this on my old blog. This was written and posted in 2003.
I know things have gotten really tough for me when I feel the urge to walk to my living room and stare out the window in the middle of the night.
And when this happens, I'd just stand there, looking out. There really isn't much to see. Old houses, distant buildings, the occasional truck or car passing by. But it does so much for me.
When I feel that I've calmed down, I begin my walk back to my room, usually on bare feet. On my way there, I run my hands across the wooden walls. I use my fingers to trace the pillars I used to play with as a child. I drink in the soft lights that make our living room glow. I move the artworks aside and feel the imprints my great-uncle left on the wall when he used to measure me and my brother regularly to check how much we were growing. This house holds so many secrets, so many memories. All these things make our house beautiful, this house that my grandfather had built for us.
Maybe it's not looking out the window that helps. Maybe knowing that I'm inside does.
Funny how rereading it made me feel as if I was inside my old house again. But I'm not. And I will never be.
I was inside it. Now it's inside me.


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I don't know that I find aunt's request completely reasonable because those game reqests are almost always sent to everyone. The player doesn't actually decide to semd aunt anythimg. So I think her request is a bit silly. That being saig, I thimk the jo,e proposed here would come off as mocking so I would not do it.
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Doh ......... im running xbuntu and was ask by someone who was desperate to make a call on a dead phone if he could charge from my laptop with the usb (was in London Kings cross station)
At the time I was logged onto work (citrix) I think I may have ended up using his data connection (was on my wifi with phone) / have I done the most stupidest thing ?
Now worried some of my Firefox stored passwords may have been taken / whats the worst he could have done e.g could he access any of my data etc etc ???
He had a iphone
No evidence yet of any problems (only an hour or so ago) / do I need to worry / re-install xbuntu ?


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U.S. Fish & Wildlife ServiceDesert TortoiseGopherus agassizii
Desert tortoises, also known as desert turtles or gopher tortoises, currently are found in Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of Mexico, and in the Mojave, Colorado, Sonoran and Sinaloan deserts. As the result of various human activities over the past 150 years, tortoises have been eliminated or reduced in large portions of their range in California and in areas near Las Vegas and St. George, Utah.Desert tortoise population densities range from just a few per square mile to more than 200 per square mile. Although the number of desert tortoises in the world is unknown, biologists have used estimates of between 500,000 and 2 million.To survive the harsh environment of the hot, dry desert, desert tortoises spend much of the year in burrows dug under shrubs or in caves which provide protection from extreme heat. They emerge in late winter and early spring to
feed and reproduce. Desert tortoises eat a variety of native plants, especially the flowers of desert annuals and grasses, and they can survive up to a year without water.Desert tortoises may live more than 60 years. They are slow to mature, not ready to reproduce until they are 15 to 20 years old. The breeding season varies from year to year and across the tortoise's geographic range, but generally occurs in the spring (April and May) and again in the fall (August through October). After 3 to 4 months of incubation, the eggs hatch and hatchlings typically seek shelter in rodent burrows or natural cavities. Tortoise shells remain soft for the first 5 to 10 years of their lives; therefore, juveniles spend little time outside the protection of their burrow.Other than golden eagles and coyotes, adult desert tortoises have few natural predators. Bobcats, skunks, kit foxes, coyotes, ravens and Gila monsters prey
upon juveniles and desert tortoise eggs. Feral dogs dig up and destroy tortoise burrows, crush eggs, eat juveniles and harass adults.Since desert tortoises spend much of their lives in shallow burrows and feed on native plants, they are vulnerable to any activity that disturbs the earth or changes their habitat. One popular human activity in particular threatens the survival of desert tortoises: the use of off-road vehicles. Off-road vehicles kill tortoises above and below ground, collapse burrows, and damage plants they use for food.Expanding urbanization is also a serious threat to desert tortoises. Over the next few decades, populations in large urban areas such as Las Vegas; St. George, Utah; and San Bernardino County, California, are expected to increase sharply. Roads in these areas give humans increased access to turtle habitat; tortoises have been nearly eliminated from either side
Also know as gopher tortoises, desert tortoises are threatened by such diverse factors as expanding urbanization, which is encroaching upon their habitat; disturbances from military bases such as tank maneuvers and explosives testing; and collectiofor pets, food or commercial trade.Illustrations by Bob Savannah, USFWS
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USFWS Photographof heavily traveled roads for up to a mile. Railroads also cause problems, as tortoises can be crushed by trains or get caught between the tracks, overheat and die.Proliferation of telephone and power lines may enhance one predator's ability to kill tortoises. Ravens have increased dramatically in number in parts of the desert tortoise's range. Poles and towers that support utility lines provide nesting and perch sites for ravens to spot slow-moving juvenile tortoises.Collection for pets, food or commercial trade continues to deplete tortoise populations despite federal and state laws forbidding these activities. The expansive size of the desert tortoise's range makes law enforcement difficult.Captive tortoises released by people who no longer want them pose health problems for the wild population because they may carry a highly contagious, and generally fatal, upper respiratory-tract disease. Furthermore, captive animals accustomed to having water, food and shelter provided may find it difficult to fend for themselves in the wild.Poachers who deal in endangered plants and animals sell tortoises to collectors. Some desert tortoises are sold to restaurants. If you suspect wild desert tortoises have been illegally poached and sold in a restaurant, contact your nearest U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office.Construction of military bases and test sites in the deserts of the western United States has been associated with a decline
in desert tortoise populations. Intense disturbances, including tank maneuvers, air-to-ground bombing, and testing of explosives, cause soil compaction and changes in the plant communities that adversely affect desert tortoises. Also, noise from vehicles, military aircraft and explosions may damage their hearing.Exploration for minerals like gold, tungsten and borax, and extraction of sand and gravel occurs throughout most of the tortoise's range, causing further degradation of tortoise habitat. Construction of roads, vehicular traffic and the toxic bypro ducts associated with mining also have a negative impact on desert tortoises.Agricultural activities including plowing, application of fertilizers and pesticides, and clearing of native vegetation for crops, kill tortoises directly or indirectly by changing their habitat. In addition, livestock trample tortoises above ground and crush their burrows, killing eggs and juveniles. Sheep, for example, can strip a large area of plants very quickly, leaving barren ground with no food or cover, exposing tortoises to predators and harsh desert conditions.Litter poses a threat to desert tortoises as well. Discarded objects such as balloons, plastics, metal foil, and glass remain in tortoises' stomachs or intestines, giving a false sense of fullness and causing starvation. Garbage such as string or rubber bands becomes entangled around tortoises' heads or legs, causing infection, loss of limbs, or strangulation. Trash also attracts tortoise predators such as ravens, kit foxes and coyotes.
In 1989, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave temporary emergency protection to the desert tortoise in the Mojave region of the western United States. Long-term protection replaced this temporary measure when the Service listed the Mojave population as threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. While an endangered species is considered in danger of becoming extinct in all or a significant portion of its range, the less dire designation of threatened means a species is likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future.Conserving desert tortoises requires protecting the desert ecosystem as a whole. The State of Nevada, federal agencies, off-road vehicle user groups, the mining industry, The Nature Conservancy, and other groups have cooperatively developed a 30-year habitat conservation plan calling for strengthened law enforcement, construction and maintenance of tortoise barriers along roadways, closure of some roads, rehabilitation of habitat, and acquisition of livestock grazing allotments. The plan also designates funds for research and public education. Continued development within tortoise habitat is permitted as long as development is carried out in accordance with the plan. Under the plan, loss of habitat must be adequately mitigated (tortoise habitat that is lost must be replaced).Augmenting this effort is the conservation of approximately 540,000 acres of federal lands within the Piute-Eldorado Desert Wildlife Management Area to aid in the recovery of tortoises and other desert plants and animals.
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September 2009
Vol. 74, No. 4
Final exam: Can we reinvent Catholic schools? [1]
By Sarah Karp
School's out forever? Sarah Karp looks at a few ways America's Catholic schools cram toward a passing grade in viability.
System update required [2]
By Father Joseph O'Keefe
The nation's Catholic school system was designed for a different time than the digital age it confronts today. Father Joseph O'Keefe, S.J. retools a 21st-century Catholic school.
Learning experience [3]
By Jeff Parrott
When can you graduate from university to elementary school? Jeff Parrott reports on Catholic university programs matching young people committed to teaching with parochial schools determined to stay open.
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Are you satisfied with your life's vocation or just longing for a vacation? A U.S. Catholic survey scans the help wanted signs of the times to find out if most people feel like they're doing the Lord's work or merely getting worked over on the job.
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An interview with Jesuit Father Paola Dall'Ogio
Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, S.J. extends the hand of hospitality—and dialogue—in a Middle East in dire need of both. In this interview, Bryan Cones studies "human biodiversity" with a modern monastic determined to keep the conversation going among Christians, Jews, and Muslims at an ancient site where modern civilizations meet.
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The author explains how she learned to get the most out of an interreligious fast: take it slow.
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A detail from Brian Doyle on the terrible beauty of suffering at the hopeful center of our faith.
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IRockets Swim Team Excells at New England Regional Swimming Championship
For the third straight year, the IROCKETS USA Swimming Team competed to qualify for the chance to swim in the New England Regional Championships in White River Junction the weekend of February 10-12. The road to Regionals was paved with an intense series of weekend away meets in December, January, and February, and fifteen IROCKETS swimmers; Adam Lodewyk, Anika Hamby, Emma Stuart, Gabi Gyurkovics, Grace Miller, Hannah Chitambar, Kristina Gauvin, Liam Bailey-Rowe, Libby Chitambar, Macie Mosher, Olivia Miller, Peter Gyurkovics, Roxann Downing, Sarah Bilodeau, and Wyatt Hamby, gave it their all in the quest to make it to this championship event Ultimately, twelve members of the team took to the lanes at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in White River Junction, representing the Northeast Kingdom proudly and earning medals, ribbons, and personal bests during the 3 day meet alongside tough competitors from Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. According to Head Coach Peter Stuart, "Our athletes worked hard to earn the right to go to Regionals, which is a testament to their commitment and our community's commitment to the sport of swimming. They continue to impress me and these are proud moments for our team." Sarah Bilodeau started the IROCKETS out on Friday night swimming the 200 yard individual medley, which includes 50 yards each of the butterfly, back, breast, and freestyle strokes. Saturday brought out the 10 and under and 13-14 year old age groups where Peter Gyurkovics, Anika Hamby, Grace Miller, and Wyatt Hamby all posted personal bests during the morning session. The afternoon session brought out the best in our 11-12 and 15-19 year old swimmers: Gabi Gyurkovics, Sarah Bilodeau, Roxann Downing, Libby Chitambar, Hannah Chitambar, Liam Bailey-Rowe, and Adam Lodewyk. Sunday saw these swimmers back in the pool where they were joined by Emma Stuart for the final day of championship competition.Peter Gyurkovics was the top IROCKETS medal and ribbon winner for the meet, cutting through the water for a 3rd place finish in the 100 yard freestyle with a time of 1:29.89, a 3rd place finish in the 25 yard breaststroke with a time of 22.82 seconds, a 5th place finish in the 50 yard freestyle with a time of 40.97 seconds, a 12th place finish in the 25 yard freestyle with a time of 19.22 seconds, and a 6th place finish in the 25 yard backstroke with a time of 22.59 seconds.Grace Miller impressed with personal bests in the 50 yard breaststroke with a time of 54.86 seconds, the 50 yard freestyle at 40.66 seconds, the 50 yard butterfly at 52.89 seconds, the 50 yard backstroke at 50.82 seconds, and the 100 yard individual medley at 1:46.98. Sarah Bilodeau earned a 15th place ribbon for the 50 butterfly with a time of 33.93 seconds along with personal bests of 42.66 in the 50 yard breaststroke, 1:20.55 in the 100 yard butterfly, 1:32.38 in the 100 yard breaststroke, and 1:15.80 in the 100 individual medley.Roxann Downing finished 13th in the 50 yard backstroke with a time of 35.80. She also bested her previous efforts in the 100 yard backstroke by a whopping 8 seconds for a time of 1:22.28, with additional best times of 31.43 in the 50 yard freestyle and 1:11.77 in the 100 yard freestyle. Anika Hamby earned personal bests in the 50 yard butterfly, posting a time of 50.80 seconds, and the 50 yard breaststroke with a time of 56.45 seconds.Gabi Gyurkovics decreased her seed times to come in with personal bests of 32.15 in the 50 yard freestyle and 45.57 in the 50 yard breaststroke. Libby Chitambar knocked more than a second off of her time in the 50 yard backstroke, coming in with 40.15 seconds for this event.Wyatt Hamby sliced through the water to earn a 15th place finish in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:22.54, shaving 5 seconds off his seed time for a personal best in this event. That was followed by another personal best of 29.46 in the 50 yard freestyle and 1:06.18 in the 100 freestyle.The Regional Championship Meet was also the capstone event for Team Captain Adam Lodewyk, a high school senior at NCUHS in the final year of his youth swimming career. He walked away with a 2nd place medal in the 100 butterfly and a time of 1:00.55 along with 3 ribbon finishes in the 200 individual medley (2:21.57), the 100 backstroke (1:07.25), and the 100 freestyle (57.28). "Swimming has been an important part of my life for the past ten years, six of them with the IROCKETS swim team. I am going to really miss my teammates and the coaching staff, who have pushed me when I needed pushing and encouraged me to go beyond my limits to put in the best performance possible. I will always be a swimmer and look forward to more opportunities to jump in the pool as I head off to college in the fall." In all, the IROCKETS earned 30 personal bests in 49 events at Regionals, tying last year's record. Said Coach Ted Chitambar of the team, "It is particularly gratifying to see these swimmers improve year over year and observe the positive impact that opportunities like Regionals have had on the growth of our team as a whole. With our continued commitment to USA Swimming, we expect to see even more members of the IROCKETS team at next year's championship meet."These achievements would not have been possible without the support of the IROCKETS' coaches, families, and Swim-a-thon sponsors, whose generous contributions ensured that our athletes would have a place to swim this season. This season's key benefactors include Ray and Christine Pronto, Phil White, Joanne Bennett, Bill Peck, David Dammerman, Christopher and Annah Sullivan, Paul Decelles, Claudio Fort, Peter and Lona Stuart, Bobby Starr, Buzzy Roy, Doug and Vivian Spates, Gregory Cresswell, and Thompson's Redemption. This continued support ensures that these talented swimmers keep growing, progressing, and succeeding in a sport where they are part of a team and have the opportunity to achieve personal successes that last a lifetime.For more information about the IROCKETS Swim Team, please contact Patricia Bennett or Teresa Sinel at 334-9041 or firstname.lastname@example.com or visit the IROCKET website at www.irockets.org.


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Jay O'Shea gave the visitors a first-half lead, but Barnsley fought back to force a draw with Winnall equalising just after the hour-mark.
Chesterfield took the lead in the 26th minute. Conor Hourihane stumbled and lost possession and Jimmy Ryan seized on the loose ball before finding O'Shea on the right-hand side of the area and the Irishman fired low into the far corner.
Barnsley had chances to equalise soon after with Winnall having a shot deflected wide and Martin Cranie heading against the crossbar.
The hosts threatened again with Peter Ramage just failing to get on the end of Winnall's ball into the area and defender Declan John's follow-up blocked.
Chesterfield survived another major scare when goalkeeper Tommy Lee produced a superb reflex save to keep out home forward George Waring's shot following a corner.
The equaliser came when Ramage played the ball into the area and Winnall was on hand to finish from close range in the 62nd minute.


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Saint-Gobain has Received a Binding and Irrevocable Offer for Verallia North America From the Ardagh Group for $1,694 Million (Around €1,275 Million)
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Jan. 14, 2013 02:15 AM
PARIS, January 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Saint-Gobain has entered into exclusive negotiations with the Ardagh Group following the latter's offer to acquire Verallia North America for an enterprise value of $1,694 million (around €1,275 million), representing 6.5 times 2012 EBITDA (around $261 million). The binding and irrevocable offer is not conditional upon financing being arranged.
With revenue of $1,621 million* and operating profit of $171 million* in 2012, Verallia North America is the second largest glass container manufacturer in the United States, behind Owens-Illinois. The company has 13 plants spread across the country, and employs more than 4,400 people.
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain will decide whether to accept the offer after the Works Council has been consulted and has given its opinion. The transaction will be subject to authorization by the United States anti-trust authorities.
Pierre-André de Chalendar, Chairman and CEO of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, commented:
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If the deal is completed, the sale proceeds will be used mainly to strengthen the Group's balance sheet, while pursuing its acquisition policy focused on small or medium sized targets.
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September 25, 2012, 5:31 pm
West Colfax "Grow Cube" poses question: Can garden art foster community?
Anyone who drove West Colfax through Denver with regularity this summer may have noticed this development in a vacant lot on the southeast corner of Vrain Street:
A three-dimensional lumber cube that stood about a story high and supported several potted plants.
Upon closer inspection, the "Grow Cube" also sported a sign promoting the West Colfax Business Improvement District.
Here's more about that funky planted cube, which is now slowly being dismantled, from West Colfax BID Executive Director Dan Shah.


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Walking Dead's New Set?
Nope, it's just a typical Friday at the Market Basket. Yep, this snap was taken on FRIDAY! What normally looks like a mad dash for the latest Cabbage Patch Kids release (my age revieled) with folks jamming up supplies for the beach and the weekend cookouts, looks more like an abandoned prison about to run over by zombies.
This thing has a spooky feel at this point. (you know your trying to see who's vehicles those are)
I guess that's why it's singular in the name…Basket.
Let's hope these hard working and committed folks get their life and jobs back before it's too late. And let's hope it's before it's starts to look like Fuller, and we start calling it Ghetto Basket.


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We'll be testing the cards on our new Intel X58 chipset based system which has the following specifications:
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Apart from seeing how two GeForce GTX 480 cards will perform as opposed to one, we will also be looking closely at how it compares against the Radeon HD 5970, which is still holding on to its title of the world's fastest single graphics card. We'll are also curious to find out what power consumption readings and temperature readings will be like for such a high-end setup.
Considering two GeForce GTX 480 cards will cost nearly US$1000, we are expecting it to handily beat a single Radeon HD 5970, which costs a slightly more palatable US$599. Naturally, we are also curious how two Radeon HD 5970 cards in CrossFireX will match up against this dual GeForce GTX 480, but keeping in mind that two Radeon HD 5970 cards will come in at a whopping US$1200, we'll save such a comparison for the near future in a separate article. Perhaps one that is an all-out shootout featuring two Radeon HD 5970 cards in CrossFireX and dare we even mention it, 3-way GeForce GTX 480 SLI? Should be interesting. For now, we're clearly focused on the gains from taking the SLI route with the GeForce GTX 480.
In the meantime, this is the full list of cards and their driver versions used:
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VOIP uses lossy compression that is heavily tuned for voice. Of course it is going to be lousy for lossless data transmission. If you wound the baudrate down low enough (say 2400baud), you might have some success, but I wouldn't guarantee it.
That is why you don't plug the fax into the voice line...VOIP uses lossy compression that is heavily tuned for voice.
As someone who works on this for a living, I can tell you that most VoIP vocoders are not compatible with most high speed voice band modems and Faxes.
Most vocoders, such as GSM AMR NB, G.729 AB, G.723.1, are ACELP based (Algebraic Code Excited Linear Prediction) which basically parameterizes speech at the encoder and resysnthesises it at the decoder. These are specifically made for speech processing (and don't usually do well with music) and provide great compression with good quality (depending on the b
You're probably right -- especially because Vonage advertises/offers fax service [vonage.com].So I can imagine there's a more than a few people having fun with Fax vs. Lossy VOIP.
Perhaps, though he quote a reader who had worked for Road Runner and claimed that their internal operating procedure was to prioritize packets based on content.
And the only example he gives thereof, is prioritizing DNS. Which is something any sane person would want anyway, as it benefits everyone and is so low-bandwidth that nobody suffers. It's once you start prioritizing all the other stuff (e.g. Disney Channel, Fax over Voice over IP, etc...), that everything else starts to suffer.
Oh, and Fax over Vo
Yup. Fax over IP is a good idea. Fax over Voice over IP is a bad idea. Fax was never intended to be over a voice line anyway, it's just that at the time fax was invented, most homes and businesses didn't have a connection to the Internet.
Oh, and the fact that many people wants to use something because it's cheap, doesn't change the fact that it's a bad idea to use it because it sucks. Personally I find polystyrene to be a cheap building material, and would like to build my house entirely from polystyrene.
P.S. Fax is obsolete. Scan and email.
Tell that to my credit union or any of my insurers. Even though I have a scanner and can send them encrypted PDFs, they insist that I fax them various bits of information for "security purposes." This isn't much of a problem since my computer has a built-in fax modem, but why they don't accept encrypted PDFs is beyond me. It's just as secure as a fax.
I didn't notice that the parent poster mentioned PGP-encrypted email. From what I could see, he mentioned encrypted PDF. And encrypted PDF is as secure as fax. In other words, not very secure.
Oh, and PGP encrypted email is not very secure either. It's only secure if you trust the sender. E.g. it would be no problem claiming that your signature was forged, by compromising your private key. Of course, on paper you can write "Donald Duck" with your left hand as signature. And that's why some legal documents
Even though I have a scanner and can send them encrypted PDFs, they insist that I fax them various bits of information for "security purposes."
It's not about security of the data being sent, it's about their own legal security.
A fax gives them a better paper trail -- it is theoretically harder to spoof, since it has the outbound and inbound telephone numbers logged on the receiver's end.
Also, banks and insurance companies are slow to accept alternate means of communication -- it increases risk of fraud.
Yeah, a lot harder to spoof. I'd have to print out a document that I forged before faxing it. Or edit the document in any one of a myriad image editing programs and fax it from my computer anyway.
I was thinking more along the lines of "forging the document." Sure, you can forge the headers, but you can also block the caller id on your phone, or fax it from just about anywhere with an open RJ11 jack if you really wanted to spoof your number.
Even though I have a scanner and can send them encrypted PDFs, they insist that I fax them various bits of information for "security purposes." This isn't much of a problem since my computer has a built-in fax modem, but why they don't accept encrypted PDFs is beyond me. It's just as secure as a fax.
Its not as secure, in at least one potentially important sense, as a fax if the printers on which they can print the encrypted PDF are shared and not in a location that is locked 24/7 with limited access, but th
The customer paid for the internet
What do you mean that the customer 'paid for the internet'? What the customer paid for was access to a long chain of telecom equipment provided by businesses who engineered, deployed, and marketed their services.
Tiered services are a part of many industries, including Customer Service, Shipping, Transportation (first class anyone?), and many others.
Forcing businesses into government-mandated business models is wrong. It only stifles the creation of new business and inn
There's a difference between giving priority to different kinds of packets (QoS), and giving priority to packets from different sources, which is what Net Neutrality is all about
There is? Cringuely, like most headline seeking authors, writes a lot of daft stuff, however this none of this is news to me and he's right that carriers and telco's have been doing this for years. The best part of 10 years ago I was working for a international carrier developing a system to charge / limit our customers (national telco's, smaller carriers private firms doing significant data transfer and large isp's) based on packet type (technically, by port).
Let's say a European company buys it's connect
So generic internet access is not available to the general public. We need to make it available
The thing is, there is no single "internet backbone" you are guaranteed access to. You have access to your providers network and by their grace other networks they also connect to (and / or what ever your contract might stipulate) that's all you get. You don't get acess to "all the networks on earth" magically, just because you pay a few bucks a month to some telco. You get what access people choose to allow you. If you want access to a specific network, set up a peering arrangement with them like anyone e
Most transport streams that deliver audio use UDP - it doesn't matter if you lose a few packets here and there because the human hear hears a reasonably good approximation of the original sound. There's no point trying to redeliver packets that get lost, because they will be late anyway by the time you get them there. This scheme will just plain not work with digital data, fax or whatever, if you're losing bits of it here and there. I suppose you could re-implement a reliable TCP-like protocol on top of the unreliable transport stream, but it would be so much easier to take a scan or a photo and email it.
Net Neutrality isn't really about prioritization... it's about money. ISPs QoS the traffic, they just don't (yet) charge for certain tiers.
True, but it is a little more than that. The interests who are opposed to net neutrality are mainly concerned with being able to prioritise the traffic from partner sites and networks - regardless of the type of traffic. So their own streaming video, or streaming video from a partner will get a much higher priority than the same streaming video if it is coming from a sm
All that (and the legal shield it provides) goes away if the isp *does* look at what the packets are and asserts control over them.
I read Cram's column with quite a bit of amusement. What's interesting is I ran across exactly the same deal but over a different medium: telephone service over cable. A cable equipment company called me in when their customers reported they were unable to send faxes over the telephony-over-cable product. When I visted the test lab of this company (named withheld to protect the guilty) they demonstrated the failure. Interestingly, the faxing worked when they first started up the testbed, and then it go
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Visitors to the Charleston Animal Society might be excused for thinking that it's been raining cats and dogs in the Lowcountry.
A flood of hundreds of kittens has entered the shelter as the weather has grown warmer, and at least one kitten is visible in almost every animal pod at the shelter's North Charleston facility.
And the animals at the shelter don't include the hundreds more that are in foster homes across the area.
Yet despite this overabundance of cats, dogs, puppies and kittens in its system, Charleston Animal Society CEO Joe Elmore insists that its recently stated goal of "No Kill Charleston 2015" still is on track.
Elmore explained last week that a no-kill community is a broader effort than a no-kill shelter.
A no-kill community focuses on finding homes for as many animals as possible, and spaying and neutering the animals that come into the shelter. Those two practices help lower the number of stray animals and unwanted animal births, he said, lowering the number of animals coming into the shelter, and in turn lowering the number of animals eligible for euthanization.
"We want to save every healthy and treatable animal that comes in here," said Elmore. "That's what creates a no-kill community."
A no-kill animal shelter doesn't euthanize animals that can be adopted or treated for any potential behavioral or medical issues. But animals that don't have a chance at a healthy life or that are too aggressive or dangerous are still eligible to euthanized.
Elmore said the shelter uses a pet evaluation index to determine what is and isn't treatable in an animal's quest for adoption.
The community's help is what Elmore hoped for as it kicked off a free adoption period on Wednesday, a few days after sending out an SOS after seeing its population rise to about 800.
Wednesday yielded success for the shelter, with 204 animals adopted that day alone, breaking the state single-day record of 107 adoptions set last year. The shelter's original goal for the entire free adoption period, which runs through today, was 300 animals.
As of Saturday afternoon, 468 animals were adopted during the push.
Moe Millwater, who volunteers at the shelter every week with his wife, Becky, was staggered by the number of animals he saw. "There's so many it's overwhelming," he said.
Before Wednesday, the shelter was housing about 100 more animals than its listed capacity of 263, on top of having 450 animals in foster homes throughout the area.
Elmore said foster homes are crucial to the adoption process, especially for neonatal kittens that have to be bottle-fed every two hours or so and are too small to be spayed or neutered. Kittens have to grow to 2 pounds before they can be spayed, neutered and put up for adoption.
"A home is a much better environment at that point," he said. "It's the hardest job anyone will ever have."
Mary Beth Dew of Mount Pleasant fosters one cat and four kittens for the Charleston Animal Society, and has been fostering since the shelter began the program.
"I came home with one kitten and I haven't been without a cat or kitten since," she said.
Dew was recently named an "adoption ambassador" for the shelter, meaning animals she fosters can be directly adopted from her, without having to return to the shelter's adoption floor.
One of her kittens, Murphy, was scheduled for adoption on Thursday.
The no-kill goal is made more difficult, Elmore said, by the fact that the Charleston Animal Society is an open-admission shelter, accepting any animal that comes through its doors.
Kevin Ryan, the executive director of Pet Helpers, an animal shelter on Folly Road, said he is proud that his shelter has been no-kill since its inception. He said Pet Helpers offers a "lifetime safe haven guarantee" to any animal that is adopted from their shelter, allowing the animal to be brought back to the shelter.
"Our people will move for our animals," he said.
Ryan also said that running a no-kill, open-admission shelter can get expensive, including medical and behavioral interventions for the animals.
As of May, the Charleston Animal Society was operating at a $240,000 deficit, Elmore said.
He estimated that it costs $240 on average to treat and care for each animal that comes through. The unusually large number of animals currently housed at the shelter is taking a financial toll.
"It's killing us financially," he said. One-third of the society's funding comes from Charleston County, one third from user fees — when people pay to adopt pets — and one third from contributions and donations.
But the financial toll will not hinder the society's goal for a no-kill community, Elmore said.
"We're not ever going to sacrifice these animals. We're going to save them."


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Valle de Guadalupe, Baja, Mexico.
Dark purple color in the glass.
Black licorice and not much else on the nose.
Peppery, some black cherry fruit, inky, with black licorice. Hard, tannic and rather closed. Not nearly as open and as enjoyable as were previous bottles. With time, the wine became a bit softer and the fruit a bit fleshier.


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I would like to put an application on my web page so users can type in a web address and know whether or not it is available. How do I build this, or where can I get a prebuilt script?
I know of PCNames, but I want to avoid using iframes, don-t want to link to another site if possible, and none of the prebuilt iframe scripts do what I need them to do.
I simply want an input box where users can type in a name (maybe even include a dropdown for .com, .net, .org, .name, etc.) and press submit, and then get feedback as to whether or not the name is available.
Any ideas?
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The reviews are universally positive, and virtually everyone seems to agree: the HTC One is one heck of an Android device, and quite possibly the best phone currently on the market. Outstanding build quality, great design, fast - and just like the One X before it, it looks like to me it's a far better phone than its Galaxy counterparts. Why, then, is no one buying HTC phones?
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How about Firefox OS?
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RE: How about Firefox OS?
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I think I read an article a month ago somewhere (Verge ?) suggesting the same thing.
It might be worth spending some engineering on as it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to try it.
I hear when you get a Mozilla engineer and an engineer from a phone manufacturer in the same room you can get FirefoxOS ported to an existing Android device in 4 days ! So that is just two people in 4 days !


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VATICAN CITY — A Vatican computer programer accused of helping the pope's former butler steal secret correspondence did not know the man well and had little motive to risk his 20 years on the job for him, a defense lawyer argued Monday at the start of the second trial in the scandal.
The Vatican's accusations are based in part on information from an anonymous source that the two defendants had frequent contacts, but Paolo Gabriele, the former butler, didn't even trust his client enough to let him upgrade his outdated work computer, lawyer Gianluca Benedetti told the court.
Claudio Sciarpelletti, the Holy See's computer programmer in the key office of Secretariat of State, is facing trial a month after Gabriele was convicted by a Vatican court of the theft of the documents. The documents reportedly formed part of an Italian muckraking journalist's book of scandalous revelations about bureaucratic infighting, power plays, and alleged corruption.
Gabriele, 46, a married layman whose family lives in Vatican City, is serving an 18-month sentence in a Vatican prison cell.
He was escorted into the courtroom Monday to testify, sitting on a courtroom bench along with top Vatican security officials also called as witnesses. But the judge decided the witnesses will instead be heard on Saturday to give the defense more time to prepare.
Sciarpelletti, 48, an Italian, is accused of aiding and abetting by giving contradicting statements to Vatican investigators about an envelope found in his desk, addressed to Gabriele.
According to the indictment, Sciarpelletti claimed he never read the contents.
Benedetti told the court that much of the case against his client was based on information from an anonymous official in the Secretariat of State's office who alleged that the butler and the computer specialist were in frequent contact. But he tried to show that even though the two men were a first name basis in the narrow confines of the tiny Vatican city-state, they didn't have any great friendship.
Sciarpelletti would not ''have risked 20 years of dedicated service to the Holy See to help someone he rarely sees,'' he said.
Over several years, the butler refused to surrender his work computer to Sciarpelletti even though the device was obsolete, he said.
The contents of the document reportedly dealt with the head of the pope's security detail, Domenico Giani, a former Italian secret services official who was excused from showing up in court Monday as a witness because he was participating in an international police conference in Rome.
A Swiss Guard commander and a Vatican security official connected to an Italian company with expertise in detecting eavesdropping devices had also been expected to testify Monday.
Sciarpelletti appeared tense and nervous at times.
During a break, he went outside the tribunal to smoke a cigarette and chat with his wife.
Benedetti said his client's contradictory statements to investigators last spring might have been because of confusion, owed to his emotional state.


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Things Texans should be losing sleep over instead of same-sex marriage
OK, maybe it bothers you that same-sex couples might be allowed to marry in Texas some day. Buck up. As a Texan, you've got a lot of other things you should be worrying about besides what's going on behind someone else's closed door.
By John Boyd
on February 27, 2014 6:02 PM
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From the beginning, man has built his communities on rivers. For the most part he does not live on mountains, but in valleys where water and fertile soils are found. Many of yesterday's settlement towns are today's greatest cities, some at the confluence of two or more bodies of water.
For centuries the European population in America concentrated on the East Coast, until the advent of the railroads. Suddenly the West was open and towns and centers of commerce sprang up all along the tracks, fed by a steady stream of people and goods Pacific bound. Simultaneously, there were two more major events that followed on the heals of the Civil War. The Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions catapulted the textile industry and freed millions from family farming. People were on the move.
The U.S. steel industry was in full swing by the late 1800s, spurring an onslaught of immigration as factories sprang up in the Midwest and Northeast. People gravitated to the jobs and our cities exploded, building up and out to accommodate.
The next big thing was the automobile. Combined with returning war veterans with baby-boomer production on their minds, housing was in demand and suburbs began to flourish. Living "out" and commuting "in" became a way of life for millions. Goods, services and entertainment were still "downtown" but enterprising developers soon created the next big thing — the mall. This changed the dynamic for many corporations which abandoned the cities and joined the action on the outskirts. By the year 2000, 'burbs were home to half the U.S. population, many becoming cities in their own rite.
This "sprawl" contributed to the deterioration of the original host cities which languished with empty office towers, waning services and the left-behind poor. As property values continued to decline they hit a point of value, once again attracting enterprising developers and corporations and driving recent revitalizations.
From natural resources to dust bowls and war, from major inventions, new technologies and jobs to land valuations and laws of supply and demand — these are the forces that have determined population migrations and city development in our country. Now enter the planning philosophy of smart growth, which dares eschew the path we have taken. It is an attempt to mandate order on what cannot be ordered, to control that which has yet to be manifested. It is a one-size-fits-all scheme that spurns the randomness and haphazard development patterns of the past, demanding a better outcome for the future. Although there are worthy tenants to be found inside smart growth, its proponents do not mean for them to be voluntary.
One man wants to build his home beside a beautiful resort casino. He loves the backyard vista of a glass tower, pools and fountains and lush landscaping. Another man abhors the thought, not content unless he can walk out to his back acreage and … shoot his gun. Yet another loves his fenced backyard and security of a gated community.
Smart growth says all three are wrong. Residential living should be high density, compact areas with small-lot, small footprint homes and open common grounds; a "walkable" neighborhood with mixed use live/work/play features included. Bottled and contained — no sprawl, no wasted resources and, no choice. Sustainable.
Were it only a suggestion it would present no problem. To the extent it is implemented through local ordinance and zoning regulations it can be something else altogether. A viable alternative, maybe. But when insisted upon as the solution for the common good, smart growth is really dumb.
Columnist Michael Raymond can be reached at email@example.com.


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PODCAST: Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy Helps Kids Who Need It
Millie Harris
Millie Harris is the executive director of the Jefferson Chamber Foundation Academy. This academy was designed to provide an innovative education for students who are unable to function successfully in a traditional high school. As Harris explains: "Students are allowed to progress at their own pace." Harris points out that many of the Academy's students have very adult responsibilities such as being primary caregivers for family members or having children themselves. The Academy first opened on the West Bank in Jefferson Parish in 2010 through a partnership with the Jefferson Parish Public School System. Since its opening, the West Bank location has graduated 84 students, and 35 percent of these graduates have gone on to post-secondary education. In this podcast, Harris tells us about the Academy's recently opened location on the East Bank that caters to students in Orleans Parish as well as from the entire state.


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The Legislative Ethics Commission has postponed a hearing that had been set for Thursday in the case of a former lawmaker accused of sexually harassing Capitol staffers.
Former state representative John Arnold of Sturgis has been rescheduled to appear before the ethics panel on Feb. 25.
Commission Chairman George Troutman said in a written order last week that the delay will allow time for Arnold to undergo a neurological exam that could help determine whether he's competent to participate in his defense and whether he's competent to testify.
Arnold resigned from the Legislature in September after the sexual harassment allegations were made public. Legislative staffers Yolanda Costner and Cassaundra Cooper say Arnold had touched them inappropriately and made vulgar comments. A third woman also has filed a complaint.


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I have been an artist ever since I could hold a pencil !
Before becoming an avid Blurber I have tried my hand at storyboard art, comic art and illustration in London, England as well as being a video game concept artist in Vancouver, Canada. While I still do work in all these fields I felt that I needed to get a little of me out there and that's why I decided to write and illustrate my 1st two childrens books.
One about a pirate and the other about a Roman soldier.
Along with these I wanted to get my other work, pen, digital and full on big canvases into coffee table style books for all the World to see ! Well, even if the World doesn't wanna buy them, thanx to Blurb my Christmas gift getting situation is now waaaay easier ! Thanx Blurb.
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Evolution Hoax
It is indicated in the Qur'an that when the Prophet Jesus (as) was first on Earth the numbers of his followers was very small. According to accounts, only a very few disciples believed in the Prophet Jesus (as), and nobody else supported this holy prophet. The situation is described thus in the Qur'an:
You who believe! Be helpers of Allah as Jesus son of Mary said to the disciples, "Who will be my helpers to Allah?" The disciples said, "We will be the helpers of Allah." One faction of the tribe of Israel believed and the other disbelieved. So We supported those who believed against their enemy and they became victorious. (Surat as-Saff, 14)
On his second coming, the number of those who believe in and support the Prophet Jesus (as) will again be very small. Bediuzzaman also tells us of this situation that will be encountered during the return of the Prophet Jesus (as) in the End Times:
... "The antichrist will have a colossal form, he will be extraordinarily big and taller than a minaret, while the Prophet Jesus (as) will be very small in comparison." None knows the Unseen save Allah, one interpretation must be as follows: it is an allusion and sign that quantitively the spiritual community of mujahiden who will recognize the Prophet Jesus (as) and follow him, will be very few and small comparatively to the scientific, physical armies of the antichrist. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Rays, p. 495)
In another extract Bediuzzaman describes this state of affairs indicated in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas):
There is an account that says that in the time of his struggle with the antichrist, the Prophet Jesus (as) will leap 10 yards in the air but only be able to plunge his sword into the antichrist's knee, so tall is he. This means that the antichrist must be 10 or perhaps 20 times taller than the Prophet Jesus (as)…
First Point: If the community of Christian clergy who believes in the essence of Christianity and the community that begins to impose godlessness in opposition to them assume substance and physical form they can be no more than a child beside a man the height of a minaret. (Bediuzzaman Said Nursi, Kastamonu Addendum, p. 75)
Bediuzzaman is making it clear that, like the material and spiritual power the antichrist will possess, the number of those around him will be very large, but that the community of the Prophet Jesus (as) will consist of very few people in comparison with that of the antichrist. As a result of the propaganda the antichrist will engage in with the wide means and mass of people at his disposal, the Prophet Jesus (as) will not be recognized by the vast majority of society. (Allah knows the truth.)


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ELMHURST — Angela Scalzitti is York's leadoff hitter and spark plug for the Dukes' offense, but on Saturday she showed she can make big plays as a centerfielder as well.
Scalzitti threw out a Riverside Brookfield base runner at the plate in the top of the seventh in the second game of a doubleheader at Bryan Middle School. Freshman catcher Abby Solem applied the tag to keep the score tied in the top of the seventh.
The Dukes scored in the bottom half of the inning to win 8-7. York earned the sweep, also winning game one 13-2 in five innings.
Scalzitti was 5-for-5 at the plate in the two games.
"Obviously Angela is one of our leaders on the field, making a great throw from centerfield to get that out and save that run for us," said York coach Drew McGuire. "That was a huge play for us."
Scalzitti uses her speed to be an effective slap hitter. Once on base the DePaul recruit is dangerous.
"I'm just trying to get on base for my team," Scalzitti said. "I know that our second batter is Isabella (Jaeger). She bunts me over or she always hits a little grounder and I can be over at third."
The junior scored three runs in the game one rout. Gracie Sullivan was 3-for-3 and Sarah Milkowski was 2-for-3. Both players had 2 RBI and 2 runs for the Dukes (3-5).
Sullivan had three more hits and scored three times in the second game, which had three lead changes.
Lana Herrmann smacked a two-run home run for the Bulldogs (2-10) as part of a four-run fourth inning. Emily Hastings had a pair of RBI doubles.
In the bottom of the seventh York's Morgan Mehring stole a base and advanced to third on an error on the play. She came around to score on a wild pitch.
Defensive miscues have been the source of most of RB's problems.
"I don't have a problem with our offense, it's our defense," said RB coach John Vermillion. "I'm moving girls around to try to get the right combination."


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A joint initiative between the American Immigration Council and AILA seeks to change the playing field for immigrants facing deportation.
Learn more about AILA's official statements on immigration issues.Read Now
AILA Doc. No. 03052943 | Dated May 27, 2003
U.S. Department of Justice
For Immediate Release
(202) 514-2008
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
Statement of Attorney General John Ashcroft on North Jersy Media Group v. Ashcroft:
"Since the September 11th attacks, the Department of Justice has used all legal tools available to disrupt and neutralize potential terrorist threats by removing dangerous individuals who have broken our nation's laws from the streets of our communities. Time and again, the Department has successfully defended legal challenges to the tools we have used and actions we have taken to protect the American people. The Supreme Court today refused to disturb a Third Circuit ruling that is an important victory in support of our work to secure the nation.
"The Third Circuit's decision recognized that open deportation hearings would reveal sensitive information about our ongoing terrorism investigation and aid terrorists targeting our nation and people. The Third Circuit wrote, 'Since the primary national policy must be self-preservation, it seems elementary that, to the extent that open deportation hearings might impair national security, that security is implicated...' Justice Department regulations dating from 1964 have expressly allowed select deportation hearings to be closed to protect public interest. This authority to close hearings is an important, constitutional tool in this time of war, when we face an unparalleled threat from covert and unknown foes spread across the globe."
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Cubs complete deal with top Draft pick Almora
By Evan Drellich / MLB.com | 07/11/12 12:45 PM ET
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A look at Draft prospect Albert Almora and how far he's come as he prepares for a professional career
The Cubs have signed 18-year-old outfielder Albert Almora, the No. 6 overall pick in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft.
The Cubs announced the deal, which was pending a physical, on Wednesday.
Almora, a Scott Boras client, signed a bonus worth $3.9 million, a source confirmed. The pick's recommended slot value was $3.25 million.
"They knew the player, and they knew the value of the player," Boras said to The Chicago Tribune on Monday, when reports of the agreement surfaced. "With where the Cubs are at, I think the fan base has to believe in player development. So that means these types of signings are very important."
The Cubs have signed 19 of their first 20 picks and 28 players overall who selected in the Draft. Second-rounder Duane Underwood, a high school right-handed pitcher from Georgia, has not signed.
Almora, who had committed to the University of Miami, was considered one of the best all-around position players in the Draft.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Almora batted .603 with 13 doubles, five triples, six home runs and 34 RBI in 73 at-bats over 25 games this year for Mater Academy Charter School in Hialeah, Fla. He recorded a 1.164 slugging percentage and a .667 on-base percentage, thanks in part to 14 walks compared to just three strikeouts. Almora, who made the Mater varsity squad as an eighth-grader in 2008, stole 24 bases in 25 attempts.
Almora, who bats and throws right-handed, has an extensive resume with Team USA Baseball. In 2011, he was named USA Baseball's Athlete of the Year after helping the 18-and-under squad go 9-0 and earn the gold medal in the Pan-Am Games, an event in which he was named tournament Most Valuable Player. He has been part of six USA national teams, tied for the most by any player with former Major League catcher A.J. Hinch, and has earned five gold medals.
"I'm speechless," Almora said after being drafted last month. "I don't remember much of anything that happened tonight. I know that the Cubs drafted me and I'm grateful, but I'm still kind of shocked and overwhelmed."


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The Hall Red Devils took their show on the road south Saturday to Wenona, but their game certainly didn't go south. The Red Devils swept both ends of a doubleheader over Fieldcrest, defeating the Knights 6-4 and 10-3.
Blake Moreno went 3-4 with a RBI and Petey Mautino had another RBI in the first game. Brett Fanning added two hits, including a double. Danny Nolasco picked up the win with Mautino taking care of the final two outs for the save.
The Red Devils knocked the horsehide around for 14 hits in Game 2, with Venegas (4-5, 2 2b), Fanning (3-5, 3rbi), Nolasco (2-4, 2rbi) and Matt Boucher (2-4, 2 2b) leading the way.
Mautino came back to notch the win, striking out seven over four innings. Austin Schmitt (1 ip) and Miguel Villareal (2 ip) finished out the game on the mound.
St. Bede 9-17, Seneca 2-5: The St. Bede Bruins continued their winning ways with a sweep of Seneca at the Academy on Saturday with the scores of 9-2 and 17-5 in five innings.
Damin Smith went the distance in the opener, moving to 2-0 on the season with a 9-2 decision. Brad Groleau had two hits including a triple and two RBIs and Logan Bima added a triple and a RBI in the win.
In the second game, Brad Groleau went five innings to notch his first win of the season. At the plate the Bruins, were led by Logan Bima who singled, tripled and homered with six RBIs to power the Bruins to a 17-5 win in five innings.
Also supplying the offense were Austin Schwab with a double, triple and three RBIs, Groleau with a double, triple and a RBI, Jake Postula with a double, single and two RBIs, Jack Brady with two hits and Michael Bellino with a double and two RBIs.
Bruins 4, Hall 1: Brandon Pietrowski pitched a gem for the Bruins Monday, limiting the Red Devils to five hits, striking out 11 and giving up one unearned run in going the distance. He moves his record to 3-0 on the year.
The Bruins were led offensively by Bobby Morrow with two hits including a home run. Brad Groleau also homered over the right field fence. Logan Bima added a double for the Bruins while Damin Smith had a two-out RBI single in the second inning.
St.Bede moves to 6-0 on the year and will be at Princeton on Tuesday.
Blake Moreno's double was one of five Hall hits. Hall starter Brett Fanning struck out 14, allowing eight hits and three earned runs in six innings.
Princeton 10, Henry 5: The Tigers pushed five runs across in the fifth inning to break a 5-5 tie. Jason Bowler went four innings to get the win with relief help from J.J. Vaccaro and Isaiah Taylor. Nick Rolando doubled and drove in three runs. Vaccaro, Matt Hayes, Tyler Marvin and Dylan Schaefer all drove in runs.
Princeton 4, Dixon 0: Three Tigers pitchers combined for a two-hit shutout Friday at Prather Field. Starter Isaiah Taylor went 4.1 innings for the win, fanning seven and allowing one hit. Tyler Marvin allowed two walks and a hit over 6 innings and Matt Hayes fanned two in his only inning on the mound.
Nick Rolando's two-run single was one of three hits for the Tigers.
Princeton 10-13, Bureau Valley 0-2 (F/S): The Kittens rolled to 10-0 and 13-2 sweep Saturday at Prather Field behind starting pitchers Jett Wedekind (4ip, 6k) and Hoffman (3ip, 6k). At the plate, Jacob Smith and Skye Behrends had three hits each and Jake Reinhardt added two, including a RBI triple in the Game 1 victory.
Princeton 10, Dixon 0 (F/S): Zach Frield pitched the five-inning shutout at Dixon Friday. Wedekind (rbi) and Behrends (2 rbis) had two hits each and Andrew Schmidt went 1-1 with a RBI.
St. Bede 11, Hall 0: Lainie Schweickert threw her second perfect game in three outings. as the Lady Bruins won in six innings She fanned 17 out of 18 batters she faced. The only ball hit was a pop up to the catcher.
Schweicker also helped her own cause with two hits and a RBI. Ella Voss doubled and drove in a run as did Abby Nowakowski, Lydia Stariha, Barbi Prokup and Christine Daley. Julia Yaklich singled and scored three runs.
Junior college: Princeton's Eric Bickett (singles) and Scott Blessman (doubles) contributed to IVCC's 6-3 win over Sauk Valley Friday. Bickett won 6-4, 3-6, 190-7 at No. 1 singles and Blessman took part in a 6-2, 6-1 win at No. 3 doubles.
Princeton 4, Ottawa 2: The Tigresses outscored the Lady Pirates 2-0 in the second half and goal keeper Kelly Schmidt (11 saves) took care of the rest on the road Monday. Michelle Kelly had all four goals for PHS, including assists by Maria Vitalle, Keyenna Altizer and Eliza Young. Her direct kick at the 56th minute put the Tigresses ahead for good.