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The Boston Celtics beat the Houston Rockets 103-91 in Boston on Friday, the Rockets' second defeat in three days.
Jeremy Lin scored 12 points on four of nine shooting attempts and three of five free throws. He also made six assists, five rebounds and three steals, with no errors.
However, Houston could not outrun the Celtics and shot poorly.
The Rockets "simply couldn't shoot straight, especially from the free throw line where Houston shot an unspeakable 12-for-29," said commentator Jason Friedman for NBA.com, blaming the low number for the Rockets' fate on Friday as the team recorded its second straight loss on the heels of a five-game winning streak.
On Wednesday, the Rockets lost to the New Orleans Hornets 88-79. In Boston, the Rockets at one point found themselves with a chance of winning in the fourth quarter with a 12-0 run that enabled them to narrow the gap to just two points.
However, just as quickly as Houston had found their way back into the contest, the Celtics shoved them back down. Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett rapidly restored order for Boston, teaming up to propel the Celtics on a 15-3 run after which the Rockets never challenged again.
Rajon Rondo finished with 12 points and eight assists for the Celtics. Courtney Lee and Jared Sullinger scored 14 apiece and Sullinger also had 11 rebounds for his second straight double-double.
"We dug ourselves a little hole and we spent a lot of energy coming back and we just weren't able to sustain the energy," Lin was quoted in the Friedman article as saying.
"They did a good job putting pressure on us. They really controlled the tempo and they got the shots they wanted to get and we didn't make them uncomfortable enough," Lin said.
The Rockets' most powerful shooter, James Harden, scored the most points in the game (24), but also made six errors.
The Celtics' 51.9 percent shooting rate overshadowed the Rockets' 43.8 percent.
Lin said: "There were a lot of fouls today and our foul shooting was terrible. Both of those things combined, a lot of fouls and you're not hitting your free throws, makes it really hard for us to have the ability to get that rhythm that we normally get."
Meanwhile, Kevin Durant scored 42 points, Russell Westbrook had 27 points and 10 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder easily sent the short-handed Los Angeles Lakers crashing to their sixth straight defeat, 116-101.
Kevin Martin scored 15 points and hit three 3-pointers for the Thunder, who romped to a 27-point lead in the second half of their seventh victory in nine games.
Oklahoma City (28-8) matched the Clippers for the NBA's best record with a virtuoso performance from Durant, who had 38 points midway through the third quarter.
Kobe Bryant scored 28 for the Lakers, on their first six-game skid since March 2007.
Antawn Jamison added 19 points as Los Angeles looked lost and overmatched in their third straight game without starting big men Dwight Howard and Pau Gasol.
"We have to put things in proper perspective," Thunder head coach Scott Brooks said.
"They have some of their best players not playing tonight and they're short-handed. They're going to be a different team once they get everybody back," he said.
In other NBA action it was:
‧ Bulls 108, Knicks 101
‧ Hawks 103, Jazz 95
‧ Hornets 104, T-Wolves 92
‧ Nets 99, Suns 79
‧ Raptors 99, Bobcats 78


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Six years ago, the Bass family, of Reeds, Mo., brought home a puppy.
Six years ago, the Bass family, of Reeds, Mo., brought home a puppy.
Taylor Bass, who was 11 at the time, named the little schnauzer mix Malachi. On Dec. 8, 2012, Malachi bolted from the family's home – unable to be caught.
"Her heart was broken," said Taylor's father, Murrell. "She cried for days. All we did was drive around looking for him, posting flyers and making Facebook posts … He was our only pet, and I figured he would come back."
On Dec. 22, 2012,
Linda Perkins, the secretary for the Missouri Southern State University's Communication Department, found Malachi. He was freezing cold at Casey's in Oronogo. Through her circles at work, she turned Malachi over to Chad and Laurel Stebbins so they could connect the critter to the Joplin Humane Society.
More pictures of Malachi were published on Facebook. It was at this time when a friend of Murrell's saw the pictures online and gave his friend a call.
"I had pretty much given up on him," Murrell said. "Taylor had started to move on … He's so little, and it got so cold, I had thought the worst. It really means a lot to us to have him back."
On Sunday, Jan. 20, Malachi made it home.
"We were a little ways away from home and he started bouncing around," Murrell said. "He's happy to be home."

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15 positive observations from the weekend of football, seven not so positive observations and we acknowledge a "zero" from outside the world of football. A reminder, there's never any Ravens game analysis here. We do plenty of that elsewhere. It's a trip through the weekend of football via videos, GIFs, memes, pictures, links, Tweets and shtick.
Jake Peavy and I had similar weekends. He took a ride through Boston on a duck boat and then drove the thing to Foxborough the next day. I took a bath on the Breeders' Cup Classic Saturday after getting a terrible tip on Moreno. Wait. Did I say we had similar weekends? What I meant was that "F*ck Jave Peavy."
15 Positive Observations…
1. The New York Jets are one of the best run offenses in football. Their backs are Chris Ivory and Bilal Powell. I give up trying to understand this damn game.
Geno Smith did his best Davone Bess impression in this one…
It wasn't all bad for the Saints…
2. Florida State got a real test* from Miami Saturday night. (*Oh. By "test" I meant they absolutely clobbered them like they have everyone this season. I've got to start doing a better job of differentiating these types of things.)
Jameis Winston is good at football, even more gooder at handshakes.
College Gameday was in Tallahassee, where we learned spelling isn't really a thing at FSU.
Elsewhere in the ACC, Clemson somehow did this.
3. Geez Ohio State. We get it already. We were wrong. Let's just move on. What's that? You need to hear us say we're sorry? Well I don't think that's appropriate. Hey…don't leave. We can work this out. We're all adults here. Okay! We're sorry! We're sorry! Now can we please settle down? We have to go to my parents' house later.
Elsewhere in the Big Ten, Nebraska had kind of a neat finish against Northwestern…
And then there was the Iowa quarterback…doing…I have no freaking idea.
Michigan State got a big win over Michigan, so here's Sparty doing some sort of chop. It was that kind of college football weekend.
Plus Travis Jackson celebrates and America rejoices.
And finally elsewhere, the Penn State punter flops EXACTLY the way you'd expect a man named Butterworth would.
4. Everyone wants to know what the best plays are in Andy Reid's playbook. It's actually not that complicated. It's called "give the ball to the defense".
Because when that happens…
Also, this girl Deadspin found had a better Halloween than you.
5. Nick Foles threw seven TD passes Sunday. I wasn't able to catch his postgame press conference, but I'll just assume he said the number seven was special because he wanted to honor Emilio Estefan Jr.-who was won seven Latin Grammy Awards in his career.
Riley Cooper had a big day in the win. This did not go over well with everyone.
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GALENA — The Jo Daviess County Sheriff's Office responded to a reported traffic crash with injury just after 8 a.m. Thursday at the intersection of U.S. 20 West and Dunn Road, near East Dubuque.
Janaleigh Dague of Dubuque, Iowa, was headed east on U.S. 20 West when she lost control of her vehicle. Her vehicle left the road and struck a culvert. Dague was transported to Finley Hospital for treatment of her injuries.
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Giants' World Series trophy tour begins Tuesday
By Chris Haft /01/07/13 10:27 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO -- The Giants' World Series trophy will begin its much-anticipated, three-month public tour Tuesday with an appearance in Sacramento.
Fans will have the chance to have their photograph taken with the trophy and to support their local Junior Giants Baseball League by making a voluntary contribution during the trophy viewing.
The opening event will take place at Sacramento City Hall, 915 I Street, from 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. PT. That will be followed on successive days by functions in Chico, Los Molinos, Redding and Mt. Shasta.


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A high school trapshooting event is being planned for this Saturday, April 20, at Sportsman's Park. The Emmetsburg High School Hot Shots will host the competition, which will begin at 9:30 a.m.
The event will be the first outing of the season for the Hot Shots, as well as newly-formed trapshooting teams from West Bend-Mallard and Graettinger-Terril/ Ruthven-Ayrshire schools. Additional teams that have indicated they will be competing include squads from Algona, Humboldt, Alta-Aurelia, Spirit Lake, Milford, Belmond and Schaller areas. Competitors will range from fifth grade through 12th grade.
The public is invited to attend this competition. There is no admission fee for spectators at the event.


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SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. — Keith E. Masser, chairman and CEO of Sterman Masser Inc., was re-elected chair of Penn State's Board of Trustees today (July 11). Kathleen Casey was elected as vice chair.
Masser was elected to the board by delegates from agricultural societies in 2008 and became vice chair in 2012. He was first elected chairman on Jan. 18, 2013.
The first of his extended family to attend college, Masser graduated with distinction from Penn State in 1973 with a bachelor of science degree in agricultural engineering. After graduation, he went on to work for Procter & Gamble. In 1980, after his brother's death pushed the family farm into crisis, Masser purchased the small business, which today is a family-owned and operated, 5,000-acre potato growing, packing and shipping company based in central Pennsylvania.
Located in three states, the business is one of North America's top produce growing, processing, shipping and marketing organizations, leading the industry in food safety, corporate responsibility and promotion of healthy vegetables. It combines eight generations of potato farming experience with today's newest potato farming technology to meet the demands of modern business. The potato packaging and warehouse operations pack and distribute more than 250 million pounds of potatoes each year.
Masser has more than 30 years of experience leading and serving on nonprofit boards. His experience includes leadership in local, county, state and national organizations.
Casey was nominated to serve on the University's Board of Trustees by Gov. Tom Corbett on Oct. 2, 2012.
A 1988 graduate of Penn State, Casey completed a five-year term as a commissioner with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August 2011. During her tenure, Casey acted as the SEC's principal representative to various international boards and commissions, including the G-20 Financial Stability Board and International Organization of Securities Commissions.
Casey, of Arlington, Virginia, currently serves as a senior adviser for Patomak Global Partners, which offers strategic advice on legislative and regulatory developments that impact corporate decision-making.
She chairs the Alternative Investment Management Association and also serves as a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She is a member of the Library of Congress Trust Fund Board and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Advisory Council.
Before her tenure with the SEC, Casey served as staff director and counsel to the U.S. Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Casey, who is no relation to Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey of Scranton, earned her law degree in 1993 from George Mason University School of Law.
Because Casey's election as vice-chair created a vacancy in the at-large seat on the executive committee, Masser nominated Ryan McCombie to fill the vacancy. The board took a voice vote and elected McCombie unanimously to fill the seat.
Several other incumbent officers of the Board of Trustees were re-elected for additional terms: Thomas G. Poole, secretary; Janine S. Andrews, associate secretary; Carmella Mulroy-Degenhart and Donna J. Newburg, assistant secretaries; David J. Gray, treasurer; and Deborah M. Meder and Susan J. Wiedemer, assistant treasurers. The board also elected Carol A. Maddox assistant secretary.


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Oh, forgot this.
You can specify specific Windows versions through conditional comments (although I'd be tempted to use only "lte IE6" and specify hacks for IE 5.x inside of it to keep the number of external style-sheets to a minimum.
Mac IE doesn't understand conditional comments, however there is another way to feed it a separate style-sheet:
/*\*//*/ @import "ie5mac.css"; /**/


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Did You Retweet The USAir Pornographic Tweet? You May Have Violated New Jersey's Revenge Porn Law
from the oops dept
What does any of this have to do with revenge porn? Well, not a whole lot, other than to note, as lawyer Scott Greenfield did, if you retweeted the picture, there's a good chance you violated criminal revenge porn laws. And that's true -- though it's really specific to one law, right now, which is New Jersey's. California has a revenge porn law too, but it's much more limited and likely wouldn't apply here. New Jersey's law on the other hand includes this:
An actor commits a crime of the third degree if, knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so, he discloses any photograph, film, videotape, recording or any other reproduction of the image of another person whose intimate parts are exposed or who is engaged in an act of sexual penetration or sexual contact, unless that person has consented to such disclosure. For purposes of this subsection, "disclose" means sell, manufacture, give, provide, lend, trade, mail, deliver, transfer, publish, distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, advertise or offer.Even if the original photograph was done "consensually" note that you need consent for that specific disclosure. In other words, if you retweeted that image, you probably violated New Jersey criminal laws.
And, yes, it seems likely that the expected introduction of a federal anti-revenge porn bill will include a similar provision. It's already been stated that law professor Mary Anne Franks is helping draft the legislation, and her draft legislation relies heavily on New Jersey's. Here's one version of her draft legislation:
An actor commits a crime if he knowingly discloses a photograph, film, videotape, recording, or other reproduction of the image of another person whose intimate parts are exposed or who is engaged in an act of sexual contact, when the actor knows or should have known that the person depicted did not consent to such disclosure and under circumstances in which the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. A person who has consented to the capture or possession of an image within the context of a private or confidential relationship retains a reasonable expectation of privacy with regard to disclosure beyond that relationship.Franks' bill does include some exceptions, and she might argue that this might qualify under the exception for "disclosures that serve a bona fide and lawful public purpose," though that leaves the person retweeting the image in the unenviable position of defending that retweeting a major US airline accidentally tweeting a photo of a woman with a model plane stuck up her vagina is somehow "a bona fide and lawful public purpose." Of course, that's part of why we have the First Amendment, because we don't want people to have to defend why the particular speech they're making has a "bona fide and lawful public purpose." Instead, we recognize that making people have to defend the intent of their speech likely has chilling effects.


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Posted 28 September 2010 - 09:17 PM Edited by sjaak327, 25 November 2010 - 02:09 PM.
This is a radio mod for GTAIV / EFLC. It is basically Independence FM with a little twist.
It offers the same abilities as the game included Independence FM with the following additions:
Ability to fast forward/fast rewind.
Ability to pause a song.
In-game display of elapsed time, remaining time, artist, title, album and year.
The mod uses the following keys:
X Start IV_MP3 (Play)
Multimedia Next Next Song
Multimedia Previous Previous Song
Multimedia Play/Pause Pause/Resume
Multimedia Stop Stop
Num 1 Fast Rewind
Num 3 Fast Forward
Num 7 Volume Down (songs only)
Num 9 Volume Up (songs only)
U Display/hide in-game display
R Enable /disable Random order
T Enabled/disable URL
RCTRL+F10 Create list of songs to songs.txt
As you can see, it utilizes the multimedia keys of modern keyboards, if you dont have such a keyboard, you can always bind the keys to different keys using IV_MP3.ini. In addition to setting the keys, you can also set the following settings:
Display=1 //Display In-Game Song Information Enabled on Game start
DisplayTitle=1 //Display Song Title 5 seconds on each new song, this only happens if
In-Game Song information is disabled.
OnFootEnabled=1 //Enable music on foot
Volume=500 //Volume values from 100 to 1000
To install this mod, place IV_MP3.asi + IV_MP3.ini + scripthook.dll to the main GTAIV directory (C:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV ) or the main EFLC directory (c:\Program Files\Rockstar Games\EFLC). If using a patch older then patch 6, use scripthook.dll for old patches, and rename the file to scripthook.dll. You also need an asi loader, download one of the following three:
Asi Loader:
Finally you need to create a directory in the main IV or EFLC directory called Songs. In this directory you can either place MP3, or WMA files, you can place shortcuts to those files, or alternatively you can place one shortcut directory to your songs. In case you use the shortcut directory, set the name of the shortcut directory in IV_MP3.ini: ShortCutDir=Music making sure that the name of the shortcut is the same in the ini file (case sensitive).
There is also a way to use streaming media from the internet, to use this, set the URL= to the relevant URL, and enable the URL in game (when the mod is not playing any songs. When using the URL, the other songs will not load, and you can only listen to the URL. Whilst the URL is enabled only the artist, title and elapsed time will display, you can (depending on the URL) use next and previous song, you can also use pause/resume. You cannot fast forward or fast rewind.
Now when you start up the game, IV_MP3 will load whatever is in the Songs directory, and on switching on the radio (X) these songs will be played. Be aware that loading a lot of songs might make the initial game start a little bit slower. As a comparison, I tested this with one shortcut to my music directory, which contains subdirectories to a total of 1340 songs (subdirectories are scanned as well), it took the game an average of 25 seconds to load all the information contained in these songs (title, album, year, artist, duration). Luckily the songs are only loaded on game start. Be aware that the ability to display Artist, Title, Album and Year relies on your MP3 or WMA files to have proper id tags.
Additionally there is a list all songs feature, that will create a file in your main game directory called songs.txt, this file will contain all the songs that were loaded by IV_MP3, and will contain the title, duration, artist, album, year and file name separated by a | so that you can easily import this file into Excel or any other spreadsheet program. You can create this list only if you stop the mod (using the stop button, so you cannot create this list whilst playing songs) and pressing RCTRL+F10.
Thanks to Aru for the C++ scripthook, Alexander Blade, Listener and Hazardx for their asi loaders
Posted 07 October 2010 - 10:21 PM
Posted 12 October 2010 - 11:05 AM
Posted 13 October 2010 - 10:55 AM
Posted 31 October 2010 - 02:44 PM Edited by sjaak327, 01 November 2010 - 10:10 PM.
|QUOTE (SCARFACE1991 @ Oct 13 2010, 12:55)
|Yeah but when I turn down the volume, the volume of the game turns down too, the problem is that when your mod is turned on, I hardly can hear any conversations in the car or any other surroundings of the game, because the music is so loud, but I will just edit the tracks myself so they will be a little bit quieter, but thanks anyway, the mod is just awesome.
I will try to adjust the music volume only, not sure if it will be possible, but will try.
Edit: I have just uploaded version 2.0, that will adjust the volume of the songs only (other game sounds are not adjusted) by using num 9 for up and num 7 for down. Also the ability to set the volume in the ini file.
Posted 03 November 2010 - 05:30 PM
I did use a other / older similar mod with the ability to also listen to the ingame radio. Don't know if that mod still works or how its called (I did lost it some time back with a format)
question sjaak327,
can this tool play internet streams?
Posted 03 November 2010 - 07:40 PM Edited by sjaak327, 04 November 2010 - 01:30 PM.
|QUOTE (Marsmillo @ Nov 3 2010, 19:30)
| Nice, will check it out asap!
I did use a other / older similar mod with the ability to also listen to the ingame radio. Don't know if that mod still works or how its called (I did lost it some time back with a format)
question sjaak327,
can this tool play internet streams?
It might, I will see if I can get that to work somehow, maybe all that is needed is make a shortcut from the stream (LNK FILE) and place that in the songs directory.
I have uploaded 2.1, which contains one small change, the mod is automatically paused when a cutscene is playing, it will also automatically be resumed if the cutscene is finished or skipped.
Edit, I have re-uploaded 2.2 which offers basic support for URL's. You need to enable the usage of URL in game (using T), not all functions available for normal MP3 or WMA files will be present. Supported at this time are mms and shoutcast streams.
Posted 04 November 2010 - 02:41 PM
I did try it with version 2.1 yesterday evening, with a url link to without any luck, will try it again with version 2.2. Any way, thanks for updating so quickly!
Posted 04 November 2010 - 02:46 PM Edited by sjaak327, 04 November 2010 - 02:52 PM.
|QUOTE (Marsmillo @ Nov 4 2010, 16:41)
| Cool!
I did try it with version 2.1 yesterday evening, with a url link to without any luck, will try it again with version 2.2. Any way, thanks for updating so quickly!
I just tried the link, and it does seem to work fine, Studio Brussel
Be sure to re-download 2.2, I uploaded an updated version just an hour ago or so, it contains some fixes to url playing.
I was able to test plenty of mms links and also http://shoutcast.omroep.nl:8104 which is 3fm in the Netherlands, my favourite radio station.
Also to play the URL you need to press T ingame, to switch between normal mp3's/wma's and streaming media. The mp3's and wma's are played using MCI (core windows api function), the URL's however are played by windows media player (which is also ran using api calls, instead of actually opening the player), therefore all is controlled within the game, you won't even see windows media player appear.
Posted 23 November 2010 - 08:42 PM Edited by sjaak327, 25 November 2010 - 02:10 PM.
Small change, when you enable the MP3 player, changing cars will no longer disable the mod, also changing stations will no longer disable the mod. To return to normal radio, press the stop button.
Version 2.4 is uploaded:
-Fixed small bug when cutscene was finished, and normal radio would also be enabled (low volume), this is prevented now
-When re-enabling the mod, the track played is the next track from the last played track
Posted 21 January 2011 - 02:21 PM
|QUOTE (quicksilver1203 @ Jan 19 2011, 00:27)
|My game crashes while loading. What should I do?
Same thing happens here in EFLC (latest patch).
I've tried this mod with no other mods interfering but it still crashes.
Posted 06 February 2011 - 03:19 PM
|QUOTE (quicksilver1203 @ Feb 2 2011, 16:36)
|No one has an advice or a solution?
Does it crash with the original ini file ?
Posted 14 February 2011 - 08:25 PM
|QUOTE (sjaak327 @ Feb 6 2011, 15:19)
Does it crash with the original ini file ?
Sorry for the late reply. My internet connection wasn't working. Yes, it crashes even with the original .ini file.
Posted 15 February 2011 - 08:10 PM
|QUOTE (quicksilver1203 @ Feb 14 2011, 22:25)
Sorry for the late reply. My internet connection wasn't working. Yes, it crashes even with the original .ini file.
Hmm, maybe it is crashing on certain songs ? I am not sure, I myself use this mod (my personal favourite), and I have extensively tested this with certain MP3/WMA files + shortcuts + folder shortcut, and it never crashes for me. Try running the mod with a single MP3 and see if it still crashes. Try with a complete empty music directory, to see if it still crahes. Maybe we can trouble shoot it this way.
Posted 16 February 2011 - 12:45 AM
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Posted 26 December 2011 - 03:18 PM Edited by Warlord., 27 December 2011 - 01:31 AM.
Do I need to save the stream file into the 'Songs' folder or something?
Got any ideas?
Okay, got it working.
My only problem with it is how it reduces the game's volume to a very low level, so much so that you can't hear anything other than the radio. Any way to disable this?
Posted 08 March 2012 - 05:53 PM Edited by Vintage88, 08 March 2012 - 10:43 PM.
|QUOTE (Warlord. @ Monday, Dec 26 2011, 15:18)
| First of all, great mod!
Do I need to save the stream file into the 'Songs' folder or something?
Got any ideas?
Okay, got it working.
My only problem with it is how it reduces the game's volume to a very low level, so much so that you can't hear anything other than the radio. Any way to disable this?
I also noticed this. Changing the .ini didn't help so I couldn't use it.
I tried changing the volume in-game with the numpad but it changes the volume of the other sounds, not just the music. Now I think this only happens with URLs, haven't noticed it with local music.
Please update it so the volume settings do not affect in-game sounds.
Posted 05 June 2012 - 08:36 AM Edited by SoWErA, 05 June 2012 - 08:39 AM.
Thanks a lot for a great radio mod I just tried your older mod: "radio mod 2.0" and I liked that you could select your favorite radio station as well in it.
Any chance you can add that to this 1? Cause GTA IV it self always forget which 1 you select after a restart. I also liked that you could select the radio station of the radio in the safe houses without being forced to have radio outside them when not being inside car.
By the way you might wanna put a link to the new 1 from the old 1 in the comments field: http://www.gta4-mods...io-mod-20-f3651
Also you might wanna either update the version with the newer scripthook so people can run it with 1.0.7 or just tell them that they will need a newer version of the scripthook file to use it with the newest version of GTA IV and maybe even where to find it like my newer radio mod got it: link
Posted 04 November 2012 - 06:07 AM Edited by rymalexgta, 04 November 2012 - 06:15 AM.
I have Win 7 64 bit. First game didn't want to install so I changed options of .exe file and it installed without errors. The game had run fine. Then I downloaded all official patches for game and I installed them without errors: (from left to right) 184.108.40.206, 220.127.116.11, 188.8.131.52, 126.96.36.199, 220.127.116.11, 18.104.22.168, 220.127.116.11. The game had run fine.
Then I decided to install first mod for gta4 is mp3 mod.
I did following:
1) I put in game folder E:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV asi loader from http://alexander.san...ograms&cstart=2
2) I put in game folder E:\Program Files (x86)\Rockstar Games\Grand Theft Auto IV three files of this mod as it says in readme in zip file
Now I have this error
Имя события проблемы: BEX
Имя приложения: GTAIV.exe
Версия приложения: 126.96.36.199
Отметка времени приложения: 4bd9f687
Имя модуля с ошибкой: ScriptHook.dll_unloaded
Версия модуля с ошибкой: 0.0.0.0
Отметка времени модуля с ошибкой: 4c00493c
Смещение исключения: 65247001
Код исключения: c0000005
Данные исключения: 00000008
Версия ОС: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Код языка: 1049
Дополнительные сведения 1: 0a9e
Дополнительные сведения 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Дополнительные сведения 3: 0a9e
Дополнительные сведения 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Please, help me to install it correctly.
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Powering Your Data: How We Stay ConnectedPosted on July 3rd, 2013 in Blog, News. The post below is written and contributed by Matt McClure, Vice President, Chief Architect at MapMyFitness.
There's no excuse for downtime. None. Especially now that the world has gone social and digital life is lived at an always-on, real-time pace.
At MapMyFitness, we know this very well. We run the web's largest social network of fitness enthusiasts and a wide array of enterprise solutions. As you know, with a suite of web and mobile applications that use built-in GPS technology, we allow our users to map, record and share their exercise routes and workouts online (currently about 400,000 activities being logged daily). They can also search more than 80 million global routes, use online training tools, track nutrition, leverage fitness calculators and search local event listings.
Powering the data of 17 million users worldwide (a number that is expected to double in the next year) and not allowing downtime as an option brought us to the Rackspace Hybrid Cloud, through which we leverage dedicated and Cloud Servers, dedicated and Cloud Load Balancers, SAN, Cloud Files and more.
We have been a Rackspace customer since 2007, using Managed Hosting. Our traffic and usage patterns have grown steadily. As our customer base has grown, so has the variety of applications we provide. Some have very predictable, steady loads, and others can be much more difficult to predict. We recently launched a number of new applications that are seeing much more volatile traffic patterns. One app, called Courses, leverages our database of more than 80 million fitness routes and allows users to follow popular local routes, and track their performance against others following the same route. Users enjoy Courses because of the ability to compete against their friends in real-time, and with a fairly steady load throughout the week, activity spikes up to five-fold on the weekends.
We need ways to accommodate those spikes – it's the perfect scenario for a hybrid cloud.
We moved some of our apps to the public cloud and kept our data stores on dedicated hardware and leveraged the two in concert with RackConnect. It made sense to stick with dedicated hardware in some instances. We store a lot of data; around 20 terabytes across our application environments. We decided to keep our data storage on managed hardware because of its sheer size and its I/O performance. We also kept our MySQL and Postgres on managed hardware. We use the cloud for overflow traffic, testing and development, as well as for hosting event-type websites that are shorter lived.
We've hosted the Tour de France web property for NBC Sports since 2011, offering web content, video and a real-time leader board feed. This site is a great cloud use case, since we need to expand capacity for a few weeks, and then scale back down. This is a great example of the power of hybrid cloud – we have extra capacity at our fingertips when we need it for events like the Tour de France, and we can leverage dedicated infrastructure for other apps that have highly demanding data analysis and I/O requirements, and have all of those connected and in one place.
This hybrid cloud solution created a host of new opportunities for us. We saw improved reliability and availability, and we improved our ability to scale. We can scale down in later months when we're not experiencing our seasonal jump in traffic. And from an availability perspective, we can scale reactively to unexpected spikes.
Our availability has increased by a high percentage in the public cloud. Our number of downtime events has reduced significantly over the last two years.
For us, a hybrid cloud is the best of both worlds. It delivers on its promise of improved performance and scalability of the cloud while empowering us to keep our high-performance apps that need to scale vertically on managed hardware. It's been key to be able to use both. As we grow, we will need to have a larger geographic footprint and the ability to tie these environments together will be even more critical as we expand.


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The Morning Heresy 10/29/12: Nones for Nader
October 29, 2012
The Tennessean's Bob Smietana has a great report on CSICon (which just ended yesterday), talking to CFI's Debbie Goddard, board member Leonard Tramiel, and that other guy with the blog and the thing for tentacles.
Twitterers could follow the hashtag #CSICon to keep up with the conference's goings-on, and Kyle Hill has even Storified his copious live-tweetings.
Our own Michael De Dora gets a fancy profile in the Washington Examiner.
Egypt Independent speaks to Egyptian atheists making their way through the culture in the wake of the arrest of Alber Saber.
Public Religion Research Institute looks at how the religiously unaffiliated have allocated their votes over past presidential elections. Interesting to see how the "nones" tend to lend more support to third-party candidates than the public at large (see 1980 tallies for Anderson and 2000 for Nader).
A professor from both Harvard and Princeton, along with the dean of a seminary, opine in the Tallahassee Democrat that the passage of Florida's Amendment 8 (which CFI is, you know, very much against) will "prevent an unnecessary statewide clash over religion instigated by anti-religious activists."
LA Times does its own obit for Paul Kurtz, as does the Guardian.
Jeff Sparrow in Counterpunch thinks the invective against feminism in some corners of atheism and our movement's hostility toward Islam are of a kind.
Michael Nugent disputes the myth that the New Atheism is made up of "one-dimensional, rabidly anti-religious Dawkinsians."
The AHA is getting a chance at the "Under God" part of the Pledge of Allegiance with the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
President Obama gets behind ballot initiatives in Maine and Washington state to legalize same-sex marriage.
Russell Blackford makes a case for an explicitly atheist movement, but considers other priorities:
I'd rather talk over a glass of beer or a cup of coffee with a liberal-minded deist than with a homophobe or authoritarian who happens to be an atheist.
James Croft on the place of civility:
If you say I cannot vote, cannot make my own decisions, cannot do the same jobs, cannot marry the one I love, cannot wear what I please and think what I like, then we cannot be civil. Yet I will be civil, even when we cannot.
Afrah Farah, a victim of female genital mutilation, on dealing with the practice's proponents:
There are millions of people who are affiliated with this procedure -- parents, grandparents, people in the community -- and to label them all as bad people or barbaric, that's wrong. You will push them away. To solve a problem like this, you need to approach people with respect.
Justin Bieber does not have cancer.
Katrina Lantos Swett of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom bemoans the lack of such freedom throughout the world.
Prague Post: Ukrainian political and religious leaders are calling for churches to stay out of politics, but "in a country where religion is so intertwined with politics, those calls are largely being ignored." That sounds familiar.
The IRS isn't going after ministers here in the US who electioneer because they're not sure who's in charge of doing so.
Pagans get a TV network.
When someone tells you they have found a way to "use gravitational waves to prevent electronic smog," arrest them.
Because Sasquatch is not on a list of animals you're allowed to hunt in New York state, Bigfoot is therefore a protected species. Errmmm...
The war with the aliens is already being fought in Antarctica.
Boston Globe profiles a homeopath trying to "cure" the sick in Haiti.
Couple who starved their two-year-old son with reliance on homeopathy plead not guilty.
The word "skepticism" is utterly abused in this NPR blog piece about the deniers of reality.
Jehovah's Witness who insisted on a "bloodless" liver transplant dies.
The Oregonian covers the Portland Humanist Film Festival.
When you get a knighthood from the Pope, you can't ever lose it, even in death, and even when you've been discovered to be a "child sex predator."
Quote of the Day
Eugenie Scott on legal strategies for dealing with the anti-science movement, at CSICon:
Never depend on legal advice from a physical anthropologist.
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There's a really interesting thread over on MTBR, where Riverbend Bicycles is building a homemade fatbike in his machine shed.
It has an electronic motor in the rear hub, a BB-centric suspension pivot, and an interesting linkage-based front suspension design…and it's purely built from scratch. There's a lot of clever thinking going on…and I suspect that there will be more bikes emerging from between the tractors.
My one criticism: he needs more John Deere, and less CaseIH.
But seriously…
I think it's going to be awesome. I'm a bit worried that it's going to be monster heavy (3×9, rear motor, controller and battery, FS, heavy tubing, non-drilled rims, Nates, super-heavy fork)…it might be pushing 50+ pounds when it's all done. But it will probably go over/through just about anything. I'm curious to see how the suspension pivot works for him, and whether the pedal-induced bob is too bad.
I'm also curious to see if he gets a lot of motor-induced rear suspension jacking. That's a lot of motor and a lot of tire that's going to be twisting on that rear end.
Those quibbles aside…it's a great build to watch unfold.


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This is a U.S. Barber Quarter from 1899 in pretty decent condition. The Barber Quarter was first minted in 1892 and were discontinued in 1916. On the front is Lady Liberty with her cap and a laurel wreath, underneath "In God We Trust." The date appears underneath her.
The back side has the familiar eagle, ringed with "United States of America Quarter Dollar." In its beak, the eagle has a ribbon that reads "E Pluribus Unum."
Notice that the eagle's left wing covers most of the "E" in "United," which means that this is a Type II Barber Quarter. In Type I quarters, the E is less covered; in Type III, the E is entirely obscured, and the wing extends past the letter.


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Frustrated Alphonso attempts suicideMarch 05, 2012 15:54
South Indian danseuse Alphonso tried to commit suicide by taking sleeping pills. She is right now in hospital under treatment. The reason being a fight with her lover…..
South Indian belle Alphonso, who did some popular dance numbers in all the four languages in the south, had also some character roles to her credit. The actor was in a live-in relationship with another small timer one Vinod Kumar and the both lived in Virugambakkam.
On Sunday, she returned from Dubai and reportedly had a quarrel with her lover. But the live-in companion hanged himself and died. She was shocked to see him hanging from the ceiling in the wee hours of today. Alphonsa lodged a complaint with the Virugambakkam Police who questioned her and sought details about the nature of the quarrel. A dejected Alphonsa, returned home from Police station and attempted suicide by consuming heavy dose of sleeping pills after police shifted Vinod's body to the Government Royapettah Hospital for post-mortem.
Vinod's relations smell some foul play while Alphonso's associates felt the shock was too much for the starlet. The actor is still in medical care and investigations will see light only after she wakes up. (With inputs from internet: AarKay)


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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Attorneys for a group of poor Alabama schoolchildren and their parents are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to considering scrapping Alabama's property tax system. The group argues that the system was set up to give wealthy landowners low rates, ensuring limited funding for public schools attended by minority children in Alabama's rural black belt.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state which challenged the rights of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians to operate three casinos in Alabama.
The Montgomery Advertiser reports that U.S. District Court Judge Keith Watkins ruled Friday that the state has no authority to prohibit the activity on Indian lands.
Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange said in a statement that Alabama officials intend to appeal the court ruling. A spokesperson said the appeal would be filed as quickly as possible with the full Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Poarch Band of Creek Indians has casinos in Atmore, Montgomery and Wetumpka. Their casinos have electronic games, but no table games. The Poarch Creeks are among 243 tribes conducting gambling in 28 states.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) -- An annual engineering competition staged by NASA is under way in Huntsville with a new look.
NASA's two-day Human Exploration Rover Challenge will conclude Saturday at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
Almost 90 student teams from 19 states, Puerto Rico and four other countries are racing human-powered vehicles over an obstacle course. The competition teaches students to solve engineering problems and challenges.
The event was called the "Great Moonbuggy Race" for two decades. The space agency retooled the race this year to look forward to the challenge of exploring the solar system rather than backward at the U.S. lunar landings in 1969 and the early `70s.
Teams build rovers that can roll over terrain included a simulated Martian surface.
(AP) -- A man who stepped out of his car in Alligator Alley to view one of the deadly reptiles was bitten by a poisonous snake.
Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue spokesman Mike Jachles said the 29-year-old man from Boynton Beach was bitten on the foot by a water moccasin Saturday evening after he and his girlfriend made a stop to check out an alligator at mile marker 49 on I-75 eastbound. The highway is also known as Alligator Alley.
Jachles said officials from the Miami-Dade venom unit responded and an air rescue helicopter from the Broward County Sheriff's Office flew the man to the Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Weston, Fla., where he was stabilized.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- A Gainesville music store that supplied music legends such as Tom Petty, the Allman Brothers Band and Bo Diddley with instruments and other equipment is closing its doors.
Buster Lipham hoped to sell out of the remaining inventory at his Lipham Music by Saturday. Lipham is retiring at 70 and closing the store.
The Gainesville Sun reports that Lipham was known for offering credit to teenage musicians for Gibson and Fender guitars, allowing them to pay off the instruments on a weekly basis. Lipham also employed Petty and Don Felder, former guitarist for The Eagles.
Lipham said clever marketing helped advertise his store to touring bands. If a band bought equipment from him, he would pay for the lettering on their vehicles, adding "equipped by Lipham Music."
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Recounting her history-making adventure 50 years later, Jerrie Mock plays it down as a fun way to see the world.
The native of Newark, Ohio, became the first female pilot to fly solo around the globe when her single-engine Cessna named Spirit of Columbus landed in the state's capital on April 17, 1964. She covered more than 23,000 miles in 29-plus days while stopping in places such as Casablanca, Cairo and Calcutta.
Her trip came 27 years after Amelia Earhart's mysterious disappearance in the Pacific. Mock's flight had harrowing moments such as a nearly disastrous fire and a mistaken landing at an Egyptian military base.
Now 88 and living in Quincy, Fla., Mock says what others call a major accomplishment she calls "fun."
A commemoration is planned Thursday in Columbus.
State officials approve Everglades plan
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- The process to get federal funding for long-planned Everglades restoration projects is underway, now that the state agency that oversees those projects has approved the $1.9 billion plan.
This week, the South Florida Water Management District's governing board approved a resolution signing on as the local sponsor of the Central Everglades Planning Project. That's a plan to redirect more water south of Lake Okeechobee into the central Everglades and south into Everglades National Park and Florida Bay.
The vote affirms the district's ability to meet its financial responsibilities for the projects that will take more than a decade to complete. The costs are to be split evenly between the state and the federal government.
The plan is now being reviewed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
MIAMI (AP) -- One of the few surviving whooping cranes from a failed attempt to establish a Florida-based flock of the endangered birds has made a rare appearance at Lake Okeechobee.
Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist Tim Dellinger says a surveyor recently spotted the female crane in Glades County on the lake's western shore.
The bird was one of 37 chicks hatched from 289 captive-bred cranes released between 1999 and 2008. Dellinger tells The Miami Herald that less than a dozen birds from the flock survive, including just a handful of the chicks.
Dellinger says other animals ate the cranes as their wetlands habitat continued to shrink. He remains hopeful for their resurgence, though, and urges anyone who spots a crane to report the sighting on the wildlife commission's website.
ATLANTA (AP) -- WSB-TV reports that its longtime traffic reporter "Captain" Herb Emory has died.
The television station's website quotes the Douglas County Sheriff's Office as saying that Emory stopped Saturday to help at the scene of a car crash in Atlanta when he had a heart attack. The report said Emory was brought to WellStar Douglas Hospital, where he later died.
WSB said Emory had served as an Atlanta traffic reporter since 1971 and had been with WSB Radio and Channel 2 Action News since 1991.
Emory spent many hours a week in a helicopter hovering over Atlanta's infamous traffic jams, offering words of support and empathy with a chipper, empathetic voice.to frustrated drivers.
He was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame in 2008 and received the inaugural Excellence in Motorsports Journalism Award in 2012.
COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) -- An Alabama woman has helped a Fort Benning soldier reclaim a writing journal he lost after being deployed to Afghanistan in 2003.
Kerri Clemons of Arab, Ala., met Sgt. First Class Bryan Bailey at the National Infantry Museum in Columbus on Friday.
The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports Bailey was freshly deployed to Afghanistan 11 years ago when he decided to keep a journal.
Bailey later lost track of the book. But Clemons found it in a second-hand store in 2004 and began trying to locate Bryan.
Clemons recently contacted a friend at WAFF-TV in Huntsville and the station did a story. Several people contacted Bryan after seeing the piece, and he contacted Clemons.
Bryan thinks the journal got mixed up with other books that were shipped back after the deployment.
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- For the second time in the past two days, a Georgia teenager has been killed by a car while running away from a dog.
Fulton County police say a pitbull began chasing 17-year-old Davon Jiggetts after he stepped off a bus around 1 a.m. Saturday in Riverdale, near Atlanta. Police say he ran into traffic to escape the dog and was killed when a car struck him on Old National Highway.
In east Georgia, an Augusta teenager died early Thursday after being struck by a car while running away from a dog.
The Richmond County Sheriff's Office says 13-year-old Demonta Collins dashed into traffic on Milledgeville Road as he ran from the dog. He was struck by a 2001 Acura and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.


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Should actresses wear underwear?
Admittedly, this is not exactly in my ballpark as an opinionater. I usually deal with weightier fare, such as Earth's near-miss encounter with an asteroid this week. I've also been paying attention to the Lakers' near-miss encounters with the rims Tuesday night in Cleveland, and the Dodgers' near-miss encounter with fiscal sanity lately in spending like drunken sailors on pitchers.
But, because my middle name is eclectic (You think that's funny? Not when you have TSA folks looking at you!), I have suddenly found myself deeply immersed in actress Anne Hathaway's recent wardrobe malfunction.
Seems the "Les Miserables" star was attending the New York premiere of her new film Monday and, well, here's how The Times' Ministry of Gossip blog described the scene:


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Hi all,
Suppose of some reason you would like to change the time oracle database,
1. Do you know how to change the and time of database.
2. And how to change the format of sysdate reporting Hard code in the database. You can use:
select to_char(sysdate, 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:min:ss') from sysdate;
How can change the time format of database to get the time of database as the answer to above query from sysdate.
Thanks Hamid


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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
I've opined in the past
about how strongly I think the health care industry in the USA needs a
does of information technology. One profession making impressive
strides in this area is America's nurses.
On the one hand, we have NDNQI, the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®).
NDNQI is a repository for nursing-sensitive indicators collected at the
nursing unit level. Since it began in the late 1990's, the program has
added many hospitals as well as additional data points (that is, the
quality indicators). Lots of useful resources and good reading can be
found here.
addition to NDNQI, we have some excellent work being done by the
Veteran's Administration in their VANOD (VA Nursing Outcomes Database)
project, which you can read about here. VANOD is also discussed in a nice presentation by the program manager here. You can download the PPT file directly here.
tracking health care practices in aggregate and monitoring their
outcomes, we can find direct correlation or, even better causation, for
better health of patients when multiple practices can be used. For
example, let's say there are a few competing standard practices around
the routine for taking the temperature of patients in a hospital - some
take temperatures manually in the morning, some take temperatures
manually in the evening, and a luck few who can afford the equipment
take temperatures automatically through a sensor on the patient. If
the data in aggregate is able to show that the automated method yields
a measurable improvement in outcomes, then that approach can justified
against the expense because we know patients are doing better. The
American Nurses Association (ANA) reports on such progress here.
Additional technologies of interest are being reported, such as this article at www.SmarterTechnology.com and this article
at www.InformationWeek.com. In fact, in indication of the importance
health care information technology, InformationWeek has a really good
portal dedicated just to that at http://www.informationweek.com/healthcare/index.jhtml.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 04, 2012 - 12:47AM #1
A new study from Australia has shown that consuming 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of dark chocolate a day can reduce the risk of developing heart problems in people with metabolic syndrome. Findings were published in the British Medical Journal.
How common is metabolic syndrome? It affects about one in five Americans, including young adults as well as older people. It is found in 40% of adults over 50 in America.
Why is chocolate so healthy? It is rich in flavonoids, which are antioxidants known to have heart protective effects. It has to be dark chocolate, though, with at least 70% cocoa, and not white or milk chocolate.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 04, 2012 - 6:54AM #2
Yeah, I am for all type of Chocolates. :-)
I like the dark ones as well.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 04, 2012 - 9:24AM #3
Awww...I got all excited when I saw the title...but not a fan of dark chocolate. Good info, though!
Our need to learn should always outweigh our need to be right
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 04, 2012 - 10:26AM #4
Dark Chocolate and Red Wine ... i love 'em ...
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|6 years ago :: Jun 04, 2012 - 4:42PM #5
Sounds like a good idea - a nibble of Callebault and a jigger of sherry ........
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|6 years ago :: Jun 04, 2012 - 11:22PM #6
I, peronally, am not a wine drinker, so I cannot comment upon the combination of wine and chocolate.
But my husband is a wine drinker extraordinaire, and he has always maintained that the sweetness of the chocolate clashes with the dry fruit flavours of Pinot Noir.
In general, when pairing wines with chocolate, the stronger the chocolate, the more full-bodied the wine should be. (This is not anything I know personally. I got the information off the Internet.) So, therefore, white chocolate would go with sherry, and dark chocolate with Zinfandel.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 05, 2012 - 2:38AM #7
It's a shame that it has to be dark chocolate, since I've always preferred milk chocolate. At least I'll still be getting in a vegetable. I claimed as a teenager that chocolate was a vegetable because it was made from the cacao bean. If it was made from a bean, it was a vegetable. Years later I was delighted to find that Compton's Children's Encyclopedia agreed with me.
Now that the big deal in marketing is to claim how loaded a product is with hidden vegetables, I'm going back to considering a chocolate chip cookie as a wonder food.
Dairy from the butter or milk chocolate, grain from the wheat flour, protein from the egg--extra if you add nuts, and of course beet sugar would be another vegetable.
Of course it's a stretch--I do usually use milk chocolate instead of semi-sweet chocolate, but if it's for my health...
Isn't it nice to hear that anything that tastes good is good for us for a change?
"You are letting your opinion be colored by facts again."
'When I want your opinion, I'll give it to you."
these are both from my father.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 05, 2012 - 9:27AM #9
Seems to me that dark chocolate pairs much better with cognac than with wine.
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|6 years ago :: Jun 05, 2012 - 9:35AM #10
I'm not much of a chocolate eater.
However: there is a Mexican mole sauce which I make which contains dark chocolate. So I suppose that counts. I don't know about wine, but it goes great with a nice pale ale.
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Pre-Gaming with Pat: Illinois
no, you're not the only one who dislikes these videos
Luckily I never had to be sober at a pregame
"Same shit, different day." But it's good shit...
asked more alumni funny questions, Pat! I wanted more perspectives like Kellyann's. Other than that, keep up the stellar work with the sound choice and Brody's interview
These videos are awesome, especially Daquan.
I miss college so much. Im making up for it next weekend though. Pregame at Pioneer, game, postgame pregame at skeeps, then the real deal at Rick's. Ill also have plenty of Walmart employee applications to hand out to all the spartans on their way back to mediocrity.
People hate on the pre-gaming with Pat videos but everytime I watch it, I wish I can be in Ann Arbor again every weekend. Was supposed to be here for a game but my selfish friend decided to keep his wedding this Staee weekend.
Epic cameo from the drunk-ride-home girl
The truth is, everyone is annoying. All the time.
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CHICAGO (AP) - The Kansas City Royals refuse to make it easy for the Chicago White Sox in the AL Central.
Lorenzo Cain hit two home runs, including a tie-breaking, two-run shot in the ninth inning, as the Royals beat Chicago 7-5 on Friday night.
Salvador Perez also hit a two-run homer for the Royals, who won their sixth straight against the White Sox.
``I guess we're going to try to shake things up a little bit. We're a team that's going to fight to the end. We're going to finish the season strong regardless of what the standings look now. Tigers, Chicago, either or, we're going to go out and try to beat them every night,' Cain said.
Chicago hit three home runs: Alexei Ramirez hit a two-run shot and Dewayne Wise and A.J. Pierzynski hit solo shots.
Kelvin Herrera (2-2) pitched out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning for the Royals, who have won three straight against the Tigers.
``We've had a pretty good run against everybody, lately. The people that don't follow us don't really know that we've been playing pretty good baseball for about six weeks now. It's not just against the White Sox,' Royals manager Ned Yost said.
Johnny Giavotella led off the ninth with a single off Addison Reed (3-2). Cain followed with a deep home run to left center, giving the Royals a 7-5 lead. His seventh home run of the season gave him his first career two-homer game.
Greg Holland pitched the ninth for his 12th save in 14 chances.
The White Sox left the bases loaded in the first and eighth innings. Herrera got Jose Lopez to pop out in the eighth.
``We can get them on, but we are having problems getting them in. You know, you get frustrated. It's one of those where we had plenty of opportunities and it's one of those games where you had plenty of opportunities and don't knock them in. Then you give them opportunities by giving them free base runners,' White Sox manager Robin Ventura said.
With Adam Dunn and Kevin Youkilis missing from the top of the order, the White Sox jumped on starter Luis Mendoza early. Alejandro De Aza led off the first with a single and moved to second on Lopez's groundout. After Wise walked, Paul Konerko drove in De Aza with a single.
Billy Butler led off the second with a bloop single and Perez extended his hitting streak to 12 games with a two-run home run to left. It was his ninth of the season.
Trailing 2-1, Wise led off the third with a triple, but failed to score. Konerko flied out to shallow right field then Rios followed with another pop fly to shallow right. Giavotella, playing second base, made the catch on Rios' ball with his back to the plate and Wise tried to tagged from third, but Giavotella made a good throw to the plate to easily get Wise.
Pierzynski tagged Mendoza with a leadoff home run in the fourth to tie the game at 2. It was his 25th of the season.
With two outs in the fifth, Cain teed off on a slider from starter Francisco Liriano to give the Royals a 3-2 lead.
Cain looked overmatched against Liriano in his first two at_bats.
``He (Liriano) was eating me alive with the changeup. I couldn't touch it, I couldn't see it, I couldn't do anything with it, but he ended up hanging a slider right down the middle of the plate, put a good swing on it and I was able to get it out,' Cain said.
Wise came back with a solo shot in the fifth to tie the game 3-3. It was his seventh of the season.
Ventura pulled Liriano after he issued consecutive walks in the sixth. Jeff Francoeur greeted reliever Nate Jones with an RBI double down the right-field line to put the Royals ahead. Eric Homer gave Kansas City a 5-3 lead with a sacrifice fly.
Liriano has walked 15 batters in his last 14 innings. It was his third straight start that he couldn't record an out after the fifth inning.
After a leadoff single by Dayan Viciedo in the sixth, Ramirez tied the game 5-5 with his ninth homer of the season.
Liriano was tagged for five runs and six hits with four walks in five innings.
Mendoza didn't fare much better. He was pulled after allowing five runs and 10 hits in 5 1-3 innings.
The White Sox are 12-20 in games decided by two runs.
``Sometimes it's tough, but you got to, and I know it as much as anybody, it's tough to sometimes not see the negative, but you got to keep pushing, because if you think about it, tomorrow's game's going to be gone, too,' Konerko said. ``You just have to try to tell yourself something good, as a team or as a player, and just get on with it tomorrow.'
Notes: Dunn (strained right oblique) was out after missing two games due to the same injury. Ventura said he hopes Dunn can return Saturday or Sunday. .. Youkilis left the team to be with his wife, who is expecting to give birth to their first child. Ventura said he hopes Youkilis returns this weekend. ... RHP Gavin Floyd (right elbow flexor strain) threw sliders, changeups and fastballs in a 55-pitch bullpen session Thursday. He plans on throwing curveballs in another session on Sunday and hopes to rejoin the White Sox rotation soon after. ... Gordon set a career-high with his 46th double in the third inning.


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N/C No Change
N/C No Comment
N/C No Charge
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N/C new condition
N/C Numerical Control
N/C No Connect (electronics)
N/C Normally Closed Contact
N/C Non-Consensual
N/C Nuclear to Cytoplasmic
N/C Newton Per Coulomb
N/C Number of Users Per Cell Density
"Nuclear to Cytoplasmic" sounds like Ray. I don't know what it means but that's par for the course, eh?
I dare you to set C to zero.
I dare you to set C to zero.
Regarding project to map human brain, I predict that a number of university papers and a heap of data will be generated, and that some spinoff technologies, and then eventually the government will realize they can't afford it and reduce and eventually stop funding altogether.
Why does the government have to waste millions of dollars to create some spinoff tech? Fucked if I know; because it is packed with bureaucratic public service morons trying desperately to justify their pay.
Private companies spend their
Never underestimate Moon Shots. without the Manhattan project, we probably would have never got the fission reactor, and our knowledge of nuclear technology would not be where it is right now. Without the space program, we wouldn't have satellites, the GPS network, a global communication network, Geospatial imaging, and more goodies then I can fit here. The human Genome project was a fed funded project and it revolutionized Genetics and made gene therapy possible.
The mapping of the Human brain will final
you're a shortsighted and ignorant socialist fool and there is nothing Amish about what i said... unless you think every business owner in the world is Amish
of course without the manhattan project, the moon race etc the tech spinoffs would have eventually been developed with private money if there was projected demand for it... they would have taken longer (we may be still in the age of 80386 processors, or something like it) but the development would have also come at much lower cost.
the manhattan project
without the Manhattan project, we probably would have never got the fission reactor
That's utter bullshit as the idea of the reactor predates MP by a decade and working ones by a few years.
I see you act by the Party slogan.
'Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'
Good job, never let historical fact mess with your ideology.
The last sentence is a particular peach. Sometimes things are not entirely about money, is that a concept you can grasp? It's hard to compete with that, but I'll try:
The Taj Mahal was a failure measured in terms of return on investment.
The Mona Lisa is pretty pathetic when measured in terms of luminosity per square inch, he should have painted it white.
Faberge eggs are pretty useless as crash helmets for chickens.
i'm sure you think your snide comment was intelligent, but you are a dope
Sometimes things are not entirely about money
that's rather obvious by the state of the us government budget... and its the problem i was trying to highlight, because it currently isn't about money but it should be. everything has a cost, and that cost must be justified. there is no such thing as a free lunch, and even seemingly inexpensive endevors have intangible costs.
you're also trying to compare art with scientific/technological R&D, which is just stupid
to some people the
Faberge eggs are pretty useless as crash helmets for chickens.
[Citation needed]
I'm sure elements of the US Government are fully aware of how mapping the human brain and gaining a greater understanding of it would be useful in enhanced interrogation techniques or more accurately the forced answering of questions with the 'desired' (not necessarily the truth) answer both during and post interrogation. Big bucks will be spent by the US government and some of it for bad reasons but some of it also good ie. in terms of creating a healthier human society, the hunt for the psychopath in orde
if defense contractors are the "elements of the US government" that you speak of, then i agree
the public servents signing the checks on behalf of the government probably have no idea
Decades after the space race pitted the United States against Russia, a new race has emerged: the race to map the human brain.
Money quote: "One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for
Not even a little bit funny.
You're probably healthy, and can have your daydreams. Some people just want to live. I'm going to have to side with their priorities.
I am not really sure this is about Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. I think this is about the run up to the singularity. There are many riches and power to be gained by the first country or entity able to reverse engineer the human brain. Now it looks feasible and nobody wants to be out of it.
If it were about health, they would invest the same amount of resources into a cure for circulatory diseases.
True AI will appear on the world scene decades before these guys finish mapping anything and long before they even begin to understand what they have mapped. You could map a billion cortical columns but, unless you know what it is supposed to do and how it evolves during learning, you understand diddly squat. All you have is a gigantic map with no labels. The best way to understand the brain is by generating multiple hypotheses and principles that we think might lead to intelligence and writing algorithms t
If your "map" includes the rules that govern the evolution that goes on during learning you don't need all that other stuff. You need to understand two things that they believe, one is inarguable (IMO) and the other is highly debatable.
The inarguable proposition is that being able to run a human equivalent brain on computer hardware will provide amazing benefits. It doesn't matter that you don't know how it works, what matters is that you've got a brain running on silicon; silicon that will be twice as fa
Have we stopped doing research just because it would be nice to know this, because we might be able to do things we haven't dreamed of yet?
We who? We the people? Or we me... some dude or private group of people?
For we the people the answer should be obvious. In the middle of budget issues a governement SHOULD need more reason to do something than "because is sounds neat". I the people don't give a shit if Obama or Reagan or Bush or whoever thinks it sounds neat. You want to say you're over budget on everything and start threatening to shut down government and its services, but then at the same time embark on some "for shits and giggles" res
Why does research always have to be done to cure diseases? Have we stopped doing research just because it would be nice to know this, because we might be able to do things we haven't dreamed of yet?
It wasn't always this way. There was a time when we DID do stuff that was just cool.
But, then people learned that they could actually make money by being bean counters. And they told the stupid people this (undoubtedly in exchange for money). Fast-forward a few years, and now the universities are churning out bean counting MBAs because it's easier for stupid to make money that way than by being an engineer or scientist.
Then, take the modern investor cloning vats. They're full of second- or third-generat
Something like Bell Labs will never again exist.
Anything involving MS would result in studies of how a virus effects the brain...
The results of which would be bloated beyond the ability to compute.
This sounds like a pork program. When I read about computer companies talking to the Government about there not being "enough compute resources", I think of the various supercomputer boondoggles. Here's the current job list for the Mississippi Supercomputer Center. [olemiss.edu] Look at the CPU and memory usage columns. Most, if not all, of those jobs could be running on a 4-core 64-bit desktop machine. Instead, they're running some 10-year old SGI supercomputers as a batch processing service, free to Mississippi acade
This is just a poor copy of the European Union project to model the brain. This is an investment of a milliard euros over some years that has the goal to understand the human brain by building a working simulation of equivalent size in information and complexity terms.
Where do you get 13 billion from? From Human Genome Wikipedia page [wikipedia.org]:
3.3 billion base-pairs recorded at 2 bits per pair would equal 786 megabytes of raw data. This is comparable to a fully data loaded CD.
You seem to be a factor of 2 out.
Anybody fancy a guess as to how many (more) brains will be produced by unskilled labor before the first one is simulated?
Well... according to wiki the global birth rate is about 2% of the global population. So 200,000,000 per year... say 10 years... 2 billions? But then, I imagine that at least some of that activity will be skilled.
First faction to discover Secrets of the Human Brain gets a free tech!
Stories like this one always make me want to play Alpha Centauri again. It always feels strange how much of the early technology in that game we've already discovered or probably will discover soon.
Stories like this one always make me want to play Alpha Centauri again.
Me too. Then I do. Then it crashes before I finish my game, if I play anything longer than a medium one.
And when Apple comes out with their map, iPhone users will all go mad.
No doubt the processes discovered in the brains inner workings will be patented and I will no longer be allowed to think unless I pay a license fee.
Fortunately you're not exercising that capability now, so you're well prepared to save on that fee
Uh, when the brain's inner workings are figured out, you'll do whatever your robot overlord tells you to do. If the guy who figures it all out is nice you might be allowed to live - unless it is as a pet you won't be of any actual use to him, just like everybody else.
Could this become a cure for religion? I mean, if we know exactly how the brain works there is going to be a lot fewer gaps for God to hide in.
Amen, Brother!
lol just because something is known doesn't mean the vast majority of America will accept it. *Cough* evolution *cough*. Heck most of them still think hell exists in the middle of the earth, and babies can be conceived without gonads touching...
"U$A patents human brain."
Can some patent stuff from the this and make everyone pay a fee? have some kind of SCO like lawsuits?
Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser


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The amount Americans owe on student loans is far higher than earlier estimates and could lead some consumers to postpone buying homes, potentially slowing the housing recovery, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
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Premier League: Chelsea defender Ashley Cole sidelined for two weeks
Chelsea defender Ashley Cole will be sidelined for at least two weeks with a hamstring injury.
Last Updated: 01/04/13 5:55pm
The 32-year-old suffered the injury during the first half of Monday's FA Cup quarter-final replay win over Manchester United.
After the match, Blues manager Rafa Benitez confirmed the injury, adding: "This kind of injury, at least two weeks (out)."
And he joked: "That means for us maybe 20 games or something."
England international Cole departed after 21 minutes of the contest and will now miss Thursday's Europa League quarter-final first leg with Rubin Kazan and Sunday's Premier League match with Sunderland.
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Device Tree
From LinuxMIPS
This page documents how to get started with Open Firmware's Device Tree on MIPS. It does not cover other device trees such as that of the ARC Firmware or klconfig.
- OpenBIOS
- Documentation/devicetree in the kernel sourcecode.
- PNP Device IDs
- Sun's IEEE1275 Open Firmware site
Required Tools
The Device Tree Compiler used to generate Open Firmware style device trees images is contained in the Fedora and openSUSE dtc rpm.
MIPS Platforms with Device Tree support
PowerTV is the initial MIPS platform with Device Tree support since a while. Work to convert further platforms:
to DT is in progress and there is a git tree (linux-dt.git gitweb) for this project.