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BP agrees to set aside $20 billion fund for Gulf oil spill
WASHINGTON — BP agreed Wednesday to set aside $20 billion in a fund to pay damage claims stemming from the ongoing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and President Barack Obama staked his own reputation on the claims being paid.
"The people of the Gulf have my commitment that BP will meet its obligations to them," the president said following a four-hour meeting at the White House between company and administration officials.
"I'm absolutely confident BP will be able to meet its obligations to the Gulf Coast and to the American people," Obama added.
BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg offered an apology to all Americans as he emerged from the White House with Chief Executive Tony Hayward.
Svanberg said that "through our actions and commitments, we hope that over the long term that we will regain the trust that you have in us" and "we will live up to all our legitimate responsibilities."
The announcements followed an extraordinary meeting that took on the air of a summit, with lawyers for both sides negotiating in advance before Obama and his top advisers sat down across a long table from BP executives in the White House Roosevelt Room.
One such scripted moment worked out beforehand: that Obama would ask for, and get, a pledge from BP to set aside $100 million in a separate fund to compensate oil rig workers left jobless by Obama's moratorium on some oil drilling in the Gulf, pending new safety reviews.
"He asked if there was something we could do as a voluntary gesture," said BP attorney Jamie Gorelick. "I had discussed this previously with the White House counsel. . . . Much of the work had been done before the meeting."
Another issue discussed at the White House session was the financial health of BP.
Both sides agreed that it was best that BP remain "a strong and viable company" so it can pay for all of the damages caused by the well blowout, Gorelick said. "We know what it looks like when a company is driven into bankruptcy," Gorelick said, adding that bankruptcy laws would put shrimpers fourth in line for claims, behind creditors, employees and the government.
"This is about accountability," Obama said after the meeting. "At the end of the day, that's what every American wants and expects."
BP announced that it will suspend paying dividends to its shareholders for the rest of this year. The company last year made a profit of $14 billion on sales of $239 billion.
Obama said the $20 billion commitment isn't a cap, and White House officials said that if the company's liability is determined to exceed that amount, claimants can seek additional funds from BP.
White House adviser Carol Browner also said that "nothing has been taken off the table" in terms of the Justice Department's ability to take action against the company, including possible criminal charges. Browner also said that no company officials requested immunity for their remarks in the closed-door meeting.
The $20 billion fund will be financed over four years, with $5 billion deposited this year, then $5 billion a year through the end of 2013, company officials said.
To guarantee that the full amount is available quickly should it be needed, BP said it initially will set aside $20 billion in U.S. assets.
Svanberg also apologized behind closed doors to Obama. The president spent about 20 minutes in the full BP meeting in the Roosevelt Room and 25 minutes alone with Svanberg, said White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs.
Svanberg said his impression of the president is that "he's frustrated because he cares about the small people, and we care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don't care, but that is not the case in BP. We care about the small people."
Svanberg declined to engage when a reporter asked him whether BP took safety shortcuts on the Deepwater Horizon that led to the April 20 explosion and the ongoing gusher. He said the BP board is doing its own independent investigation of what occurred and that "I have no further comments on that."
As of Wednesday, 66,000 claims had been filed, roughly $81 million disbursed and 26,000 checks cut, said the disaster's National Incident Commander, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen.
The $20 billion fund will be overseen by attorney Kenneth Feinberg. He's best known for administering payments from a special fund to the families of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and for his current role overseeing executive salaries at financial firms that received cash from the $700 billion government bailout.
He's also worked on payments to people harmed by the Agent Orange chemical that was used in the Vietnam War.
People and businesses that file claims for damages will be able to appeal if their claims are rejected. They won't have to waive any legal rights, and will also have the right to appeal to the courts, Gorelick said.
BP will waive its rights to appeal as part of the agreement, Gorelick said.
The company said details are still being worked out about which oil workers will be eligible for the $100 million fund, and that it wasn't clear whether the cash would be available to workers on deepwater rigs only or on shallow water rigs as well.
Gorelick said that BP doesn't think it's liable for lost wages due to the moratorium. "This is a goodwill gesture," the adviser said.
Most of the details were negotiated by Associate Atty. Gen. Tom Perrelli and Gorelick, a former deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration hired by BP.
Obama besieged by worsening problems on many fronts
Obama overlooked key points in giving OK to offshore drilling
Engineers say Interior changed oil report after they signed it
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Girl's mother testifies in Del. waterboarding case
GEORGETOWN, Del. (AP) — A woman testified Thursday that she didn't believe her longtime companion, who was a pediatrician, was washing her daughter's hair when she saw him hold the girl's head under a kitchen sink faucet.
The girl has accused Melvin Morse, 60, of waterboarding her. He is on trial in Delaware on endangerment and assault charges.
Pauline Morse said on the stand Thursday that she walked into the kitchen one time and surprised Melvin Morse while he had the girl's head under the faucet. She said Morse jumped and quickly released the girl, who was coughing and shaking.
FILE - Melvin L. Morse is seen in an undated file photo provided by the Delaware State Police. Morse, of Georgetown, Del., and his wife, Pauline Morse, were arrested Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, by Delaware State Police and charged with recklessly endangering their two daughters, including the use of a form of discipline that police say the man called ¿waterboarding.¿ Pauline Morse testified Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, that she didn't believe her longtime companion, who was a pediatrician, was washing her daughter's hair when she saw him hold the girl's head under a kitchen sink faucet. (AP Photo/Delaware State Police, File)
Pauline Morse, 41, told jurors that she didn't believe he was washing the girl's hair.
"He called it washing her hair, but I knew it wasn't washing her hair because there was no soap or anything," said Pauline Morse, who pleaded guilty last year to misdemeanor child endangerment charges and agreed to testify against Melvin Morse.
The pediatrician, whose medical license was suspended after his arrest, has authored several books and articles on paranormal science and near-death experiences involving children. He has appeared on shows such as "Larry King Live" and the "The Oprah Winfrey Show" to discuss his research, which also has been featured on an episode of "Unsolved Mysteries" and in an article in "Rolling Stone" magazine.
Morse has denied police claims that he may have been experimenting on the girl, now 12. Waterboarding simulates drowning and has been used in the past by U.S. interrogators on terror suspects. Many critics call it torture.
arding took place over at least three years, but under cross-examination, Pauline Morse said she saw only the one time in the kitchen and admitted that the girl didn't like having her hair washed. She said she would often see the girl wet afterward, but she became flustered when defense attorney Joseph Hurley suggested she didn't really know what was going on.
"You don't know, do you?" Hurley asked Pauline Morse, who simply shrugged her shoulders in response.
The woman also said she never saw Melvin Morse trying to suffocate her daughter, as the girl has claimed, by putting his hand over her nose and mouth.
"She told me once and I didn't believe it," she said.
Hurley also got Pauline Morse to acknowledge that she has lied to authorities several times over the years about her relationships with Morse and other men, including falsely accusing one of abuse.
Jurors also were shown text messages from Pauline Morse and statements she gave to investigators contradicting her assertions that she was afraid to confront Melvin Morse. And she testified that she and Morse fought often.
"How are we to know when you're telling the truth and when you're not?" Hurley asked her.
"I don't know," replied Pauline, who said she did not have a close relationship with the girl during the time of the alleged waterboarding.
"I felt distant, ... because Melvin was the main disciplinarian and I ignored a lot of things that were going on. So I just kind of avoided her... I had to ignore my maternal instinct."
But text messages Pauline sent to Melvin Morse in 2010 indicate that she, too, was involved in disciplining the child.
"I feel we should not even acknowledge her presence as long as we can't (sic)," Pauline wrote in one message.
Authorities say her daughter suffered terrible abuse, including being waterboarded, deprived of food, forced to stand with arms outstretched for hours at a time, and confined to her room, where she had to use her toy box or closet as a toilet. Still, Pauline Morse admitted that she didn't tell anybody, including her best friend, police, or family service investigators.
"A lot of times I would just go up in my room and ignore the whole thing," she said under prosecution questioning, adding that she was afraid of "undermining" Melvin Morse.
The allegations of waterboarding surfaced after the girl ran away from home in July 2012, the morning after Morse was accused of grabbing her by the ankle and dragged her across a gravel driveway into the home, where she was spanked and warned of worse punishment the next day.
When investigators questioned the girl, then 11, she told them about what she called waterboarding.
Pauline Morse, when questioned by authorities, described the girl as "defiant," and "a headache," according to her cross-examination Thursday.
But she acknowledged that her motivations for testifying against Melvin Morse include hoping to be reunited with the girl and her younger sister, who are now in foster care, and because she wants him "out of our life."
If convicted on each of four felony counts of reckless endangering, Melvin Morse could face up to 20 years in prison, but the presumptive sentence for each count is up to 15 months in prison. He faces up to a year in prison for each of five misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and up to a year on one misdemeanor assault charge.
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Ruby Dee, Actress and Civil Rights Activist, Dies at 91
By Patrick Kiger , June 12, 2014 04:41 PM
Ruby Dee had impressive versatility as an actress in Broadway dramas, TV soap operas and movies that included Buck and the Preacher (1972) and Do the Right Thing (1989). Dee, who passed away on June 12 at age 92 in New Rochelle, N.Y., had an equally impressive career as a civil rights activist. She and her husband of nearly six decades, actor Ossie Davis, spoke out in the 1950s against McCarthyism; organized a campaign to press the government to restore the revoked passport of actor, singer and activist Paul Robeson; served as masters of ceremonies for the entertainment portion of the 1963 March on Washington; and demonstrated against segregation in the south and against the Vietnam War. Here she is in 1969, in reading the names of African-American men killed by police.
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Here are facts about Dee and her remarkable life and career.
- As a child, Dee had rickets and epilepsy.
- Dee's acting career began in 1940, during her sophomore year at Hunter College, when she appeared in writer-director Abram Hill's play On Strivers Row at the American Negro Theater, and she debuted on Broadway in South Pacific in 1943.
- Dee borrowed her stage name from Frankie Dee Brown, a liquor salesman to whom she was married for several years in the early 1940s.
- Dee initially had reservations about taking the role in the Broadway drama A Raisin in the Sun that propelled her to stardom. As she later explained, "it seemed that I'd been playing that same character, more or less, in almost everything I'd done." She also appeared in the 1961 film version.
- In the mid-1960s, Dee became the first African-American woman to play lead roles at the American Shakespeare Festival, appearing as Kate in Taming of the Shrew and Cordelia in King Lear.
- In 1995, Dee and Davis both received the National Medal of Arts from President Bill Clinton and Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.
- She received her first Oscar nomination at age 83 for her role in the 2007 film American Gangster.
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Minority Report gestural interfaceby Steve Anderson
Rumors and received wisdom about this scene from Minority Report abound and I would welcome subsequent comments that correct any inaccuracies or misapprehensions in evidence here. I had always heard that the gestures Tom Cruise uses in this scene were "real" -- that is to say, Oblong Industries' chief scientist, John Underkoffler was a technical advisor on the film, at a moment when his company was in the process of developing just such an interface, which would be known as G-Speak. So, Cruise's movements were not simply choreographed for visual effect, they were codified by Underkoffler and his team in anticipation of a real system that would operate according to a gestural logic that was not yet technically feasible. The G-speak system that was subsequently created, in fact, bears significant similarities to that seen in Minority Report, though it is obviously a bit less theatrical and dramatic in everyday execution.
Part of what interests me here is the two-way relationship between science and fiction. This was well-documented by Constance Penley in her book NASA/Trek with regard to the impact of sci-fi movies and TV shows on the real-world operation of NASA scientists in the early days of space exploration. But I think this also bears consideration as an example of the ways in which movies about futuristic technologies often create impossibly high expectations, next to which real technologies seem pale and disappointing to consumers. Are movies that do this (see for example, the ultra-immersive portrayals of Virtual Reality in films such as Strange Days or The Matrix) at some level reasserting the hegemony of movies over the threats of emerging entertainment technologies?
Cinematic Interface Designby slc68
In mainstream feature films such as Johnny Mnemonic and more recently Minority Report, depictions of gestural interfaces have been used to emphasize their science fictional universes and inject a dose of "coolness" to representations of technology. In Johnny Mnemonic for example, the protagonist accessing of critical locative information in a three-dimensional virtual global network involves physically moving hands to unlock a pyramid like virtual lock structure. Similarly, in Minority Report, Cruise performs intricate and elaborate movements to manipulate and discover narratively important information.
On the surface level, these dramatic depictions serve the film's interests by evoking a sense of wonder and magic in their fictional technological worlds. However, these examples also indicates how gestural interfaces are more easily translated into such highly aesthetic cinematic forms because of their emphasis on physical and embodied action in real space. This property of these post-WIMP interfaces fits the filmic conventions of depicting a protagonist performing and having agency in their fictional worlds. Filming someone simply moving a mouse cursor and typing on a keyboard does not create the same level of narrative action because of their more disembodied and more mentally based activities.
Because film requires observers and something to be observed, the often collaborative and external nature of gestural and post-WIMP interfaces also makes it more conducive to filming. When watching the film, we the audience are essentially the non-participating observers who are actively engaged in the process of understanding the context and meaning behind the user's actions. The use of larger wall-sized displays and more externally visible user actions and visual feedback in designs for multiple simultaneous interactions allows the filmmaker to place the camera as a surrogate for a user who can still understand what is going even without being able to directly play with the system. This is also related to an emerging idea in interface design termed "external legibility". External legibility is "a property of user interfaces that affects the ability of non-participating observers to understand the context of a user's actions" (Zigelbaum). In this case the user is Cruise's character using a system like G-Speak. Because of the collaborative, physical and therefore more visible/visual aspects of these interfaces, their level of external legibility is higher than that of traditional systems. I believe this high external legibility of space makes the job easier for filmmakers to ultimately present them in a more cinematic and dramatic light.
2008, Jamie B Zigelbaum. Mending Fractured Spaces: External Legibility and Seamlessness in Interface Design. Diss. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. Dspace@mit. Web. 3 Dec. 2010. .
Minority Report gestural interface
This showcase scene near the beginning of Minority Report introduces viewers to a futuristic gestural interface for accessing a database of premonitory video clips depicting violent crimes.
- from Minority Report (2002)
- Creator: Steven Spielberg
- Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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Penlope Cruz and Javier Bardem's little tyke Leo is getting a little sibling!
Two years after welcoming their son, the gorgeous A-list couple are now expecting their second child, a source confirms exclusively to E! News.
Reportedly, the 38-year-old actress is "around three months" pregnant, our source tells us, noting that Penlope is especially happy because her sister Monica Cruz is also pregnant.
A source confirms exclusively to E! News that Penlope and her hubby are currently vacationing on Johnny Depp's private Caribbean island off the coast of the Bahamas--a fitting getaway, considering Cruz costarred with Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides."
Penelope Cruz sizzles at Madrid premiere of Twice Born
The Spanish couple have kept a fairly globetrotting lifestyle over the past year. Last spring, they moved the fam into temporary digs in London right next door to--wouldn't ya know it?--Prince William and Kate Middleton at Kensington Palace while Bardem, 43, was busy shooting "Skyfall."
Most recently, they were spotted in Madrid taking Leo to the zoo.
With baby No. 2 on the way, Mama and Papa better get ready to start expanding that family nest.
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My next winning party feature goes to this absolutely adorable HAUNTED HALLOWEEN PARTY submitted by Anders Ruff! Maureen and Adria never cease to amaze me. Is this not the cutest halloween party?! I LOVE all the vintage stuff! The old painted typewriter with "critter cookies" is my favorite!
Party Detail from Maureen & Adria- "For this years Haunted Halloween party, we wanted to show a spookier side to Anders Ruff! We used a mix of antiques (books, cameras, medicine bottles, paper documents from the early 1900s, an old clock & typewriter, shutters and window panes) to give that haunted house feel. Since we didnt want to scare our little gobblins away, festive treats such as hanging bat cookies, pumpkin & owl cookies, mummy-mallows (mummy-head marshmallows), boo-meringues (meringue ghosts), white chocolate drizzled caramel apples, chocolate skeleton keys were displayed. These treats gave a kid-friendly feel to the setup while still showing unique ideas for desserts.
A side bar was perfect to display our bat-juice (apple cider) and other small treats.
We used hues of burnt orange, olive greens and natural creams & browns.
Anders Ruffis offering this complete Printable Haunted Halloween Design Collection in their shop for only $12!


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Financial Facts: My mortgage New Years resolutions
Special to the Daily
Tis the season to sit down and make your financial plan for the year 2013. As for me, here is a list of financial things I will accomplish during the next year.
My first New Year resolution will be to obtain a copy of my credit report. I will get a report that has the three main credit bureaus' information, those being TransUnion, Equifax and Experian. This report will educate me as to what accounts I have open, any balances on these accounts and how much debt I really have in my name.
The report will also show any late payments and more importantly, any erroneous information that is on my credit history. If there are errors I will work diligently to get these items corrected and or removed from my personal report. Try AnnualCredit
Report.com to obtain a free report.
The next resolution will be to consolidate any credit accounts possible. I will do this by first making a list of all my credit card debt and then listing the cards' interest rates and how much available credit I have on each card. If possible, I will consolidate all the cards to the card with the lowest interest rate. I will then close all of the specialty cards, such as Home Depot, Victoria's Secret, Dillard's, etc. I will use one, maybe two cards at the most and make my life easier by reducing the number of checks I have to send out when the bills comes due.
My third resolution will be to use a paper shredder for all those personal documents that I would normally rip in half and toss in the trash. I will do this as the number of identity thefts is increasing at phenomenal rates. I am just a little fish, but I do not want to try to explain how someone else charged a diamond-studded, gold-plated widget on a charge account in my name.
My fourth resolution is to review my home mortgage interest rate and term. I will look at the interest rate to evaluate if I need to refinance to a lower rate or longer term.
My fifth resolution is to look at all of my debt, such as my car loan, and see if it makes sense to convert those loans over to a home equity line of credit (HELOC). Since the car loan interest and credit card interest is not tax deductible and the interest on a HELOC is deductible, I will most likely consolidate them to the HELOC.
Finally, I promise that I will pay my bills on time, and pay more than the minimum payment required. I will train myself to get into a better financial position and not over extend myself on diamond-studded, gold-plated widgets.
For answers to your mortgage related questions call Bob Kieber at (970) 453-4700 or email him at email@example.com. Bob is a local mortgage lender with Centennial Bank. He has 30-plus years of professional experience in real estate, finance and investments, and is a longtime resident of the High Country. Member FDIC, Equal Housing Lender. NMLS Bank #401640 Broker #289610. For tax benefit information please consult with a professional tax advisor. The opinions expressed are those of the individual, and do not necessarily reflect those of Centennial Bank.
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How do you vote? I only saw something where you can rank figures you want, but nothing ot vote on.
How do you vote? I only saw something where you can rank figures you want, but nothing ot vote on.
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
Evil will always triumph because good is dumb.
Aren't the ballots at your local Burger King?
My seller/trader/buyer feedback:
I find it sad that this even needed to be explicity said. The fact that she specifically has been mentioned most of the time the fan vote has come up seemed like an obvious suggestion that this was our chance to get her done.
But whatevs. I voted for Hawke as my #1 anyway.
I serve up lots of hot, fresh action figure reviews on Action Figure Barbecue!
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Hey Scott...quick question if you happen to see this...
Has there been any discussion as to what the procedure will be if there is a tie on the Fan Choice figure voting; involving the final 8 characters?
Is there a tie breaker planned, will Mattel make both characters, is the poll designed so there can't be a tie? Just curious.
i have a question to lol
what about Sleetah? would her odds of getting a toy go up with Illumina in the line?
the King needs his Queen and pet! Queen Veena and Battle Lion for MOTUC!
For the Love of Illumina & her Cat Sleetah!!
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Thank you for the post. I think this goes a long way toward being gracious. That is something I respect and appreciate greatly.
I voted for her, because on that list I wanted her most.
But I also want her because, to me, if made in MOTUC, she would represent the realization of lost potential in the 200X line. I think those of us who are 200X fans will always be sad that the line didn't continue (though I love MOTUC more), and that the comic book wasn't able to go the distance creatively because of the extreme limitations placed on MVC by Mattel at the end, and the financial burden placed upon MVC too
Of course, I think she's also a great female addition to the MOTU faction! She's a fighter with some mystical powers. She has a great color scheme. She's a Gar (which is just interesting to me - I love the themes about the Gar that have been introduced in the bios).
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the King needs his Queen and pet! Queen Veena and Battle Lion for MOTUC!
For the Love of Illumina & her Cat Sleetah!!
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And yet still no offocial response about the Swift Wind Leg Debacle...
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awesome post scott ...
now everyone go and vote for geldor and kamo khan! ...
''He-Man lives and possesses that key, I must possess all or I possess nothing!'' (Skeletor, 1987)
I was just going to ask something similar to this. Anyways, Scott/TG maybe it is just my plain ignorance and I apologize in advance, but would you be able to tell me the names of the other sites besides our site and that German site? I'm just curious where Mattel's top brass obtains their demographics? Does top brass at Mattel really truly know who Count Marzo is? Honestly? Did they really think he'd be a show stopper? I'm asking in ernest too. I just fail to see how the shirts at Mattel know Illumina from Frosta to be honest with you. Yes yes we all want Frosta, I don't even really care for her, and I want her more than Illumina. However, I never ever wanted Gygor, or Pre-ternia he-man, or even the Star Sisters before her. For me personally she represents something more than just a concept character. How can The Brass justify a, let's face it, less than stellar giant lemon-lime gorilla with almost no backstory versus a character fans have been clamoring for, since their debut?
You say that she's just too obscure, well, .... I've heard of her and never heard of Gygor, it's why I didn't buy him to be honest. I'm even still reluctant to get him at 19.99 on some on-line shops. It's just a character that has no place in my MOTUC mythos. It's a personal decision to be sure but due to the fact he had less than stellar sales I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way. He sat on the website for a bit too.
In closing I'd like to say, in no way was the above an attack, I know that it can be misinterpreted, but it was merely a barrage of questions I think some of us in this thread and on this forum want to know. Thank you.
P.S. did you say hurumph? I love it..... "hey I didn't get a hurumph from that guy"...
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Strange women dressed in bird outfits guarding castles distributing swords and harnesses in no basis for a system of heroism.
thanks, toyguru, for the kind explaination.
... badly I might addI wrote the mini comic story and the overarching bio story
Anyway, how about Swiftwind ? Any word on that yet ? Swiping some stuff under the rug, are we ?
"A knight is sworn to valor. His heart knows only virtue. His blade defends the helpless. His word speaks only truth. His wrath undoes the wicked."
Thanks for posting Scott, I too hope we can put an end to the conspiracy theories and negative posts.
Illumina is one of my most wanted figures and for me it has nothing to do with her being created by Emiliano, its because she looks cool! She's dark and mysterious, and what little we do know about her sparks the imagination. She's the Boba Fett of MOTU!
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Trade my Red Stone He-Ro Staff for a Green one
Thank you.
And yes, please address the swift wind legs issue. I haven't received my sub yet, so Im still living in fear I may have a backwards leg version.
What next? It seems every month lately there is something..
Thanks for sharing this Scott!
"My whole life has changed because of this sword!" ~Adora
Thanks for the post Scott!!
Thanks for the poll also!!
Can't wait to see the final fan choice


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GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) Joe Jackson scored 26 points and Shaq Goodwin pulled down 10 rebounds to lead Memphis to a 75-68 victory against East Carolina in a Conference USA game Wednesday night.
Geron Johnson had 13 points and seven rebounds, and Chris Crawford scored 11 for the Hoyas (17-3, 6-0), who have won 11 consecutive games since an 87-78 loss to Louisville on Dec. 15.
Ty Armstrong had 18 points and nine rebounds, Miguel Paul scored 15, Maurice Kemp 13 and Akeem Richmond 12 for East Carolina (12-8, 3-4).
Memphis never could quite shake the Pirates, who cut the lead to 51-47 on Paul's layup with 8:08 left and trailed 57-52 on Paul's jumper at 4:24.
Memphis pushed its lead to 11 points at 67-56 at 1:40 and held on for the win.
The Tigers' biggest advantage came from the foul line, making 19 of 28 to the Pirates' 8 of 14.


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Sweet merciful crap, I do not even know where to start with this one. I mean, there was the… and then the… and then he…. and did you see when she? And seven hells, that fight scene! And that fight scene! And that one! ZOMBIES! FIRE! BLOOD! DRAGONS! And then, and then, and then…
....well, they just killed EVERYONE, didn't they?!?!
They just went to town. It's like when politicians send out controversial decisions on a Friday afternoon hoping all of us journalist types are too busy/drunk to notice or care. George R.R. Martin is like "Just taking out the trash, bro" except he probably doesn't say "bro" because he has some goddamn literary ability, bro.
Anyway, all of the deaths this episode hit me hard and for different reasons (hello, privy council), but the sheer number of the dearly dispatched has left me dizzier than a gillespie. Giddier than an aunt, maiden or otherwise. My head's spinning right round, baby, right round, like a record baby, right round round round.
I'm going to need more than a Bex and a good lie down to recover from that vertiginous conclusion. I'm going to need a lifesize cardboard cutout of Jon Snow, a tub of whipped cream and Band-Aids for the inevitable paper cuts.
But before I crash into a 10-month-long melanchoma, let's spend one last glorious moment together drinking in every precious drop of a final Raven On Game of Thrones recap for 2014.
Reminder: spoilers will be included below, so only read on if you've seen the episode. I mean it, everyone just fricking DIES, you don't want to miss it. We're discovering the storyline through the TV series (reading the books after each has finished), so no dropping important future plot points in the comments, or we'll give you the bog-standard treatment.
Like an overstuffed felafel, Game of Thrones never wraps up neatly. All of our favourite characters had goals this season, and Episode 10 provided mixed results on that front. Some aims were achieved, some slipped through desperate fingers, some characters had to reframe their goal, some ticked off boxes they never even realised existed.
Of course, the obvious goal for many was simply "Don't get dead" and sadly there was an epic fail from many a favourite on that score.
Let's start at The Wall, where our noble lover-and-a-fighter Jon Snow marched out to meet Mance Raydar (a welcome return for the King Beyond the Wall after a season and a half).
Mance was understandably peeved at Jon's loyalty to the Night's Watch, but revenge was not his priority. Rather, he brought out the wildling equivalent of ouzo and the pair paid tribute to their fallen comrades with a few rounds of overproof. The exchange was just beautiful, highlighting someone's background doesn't really matter once you've lost them in the confusion of battle. (Mag the giant was a king...Grenn was from a farm).
Jon's goal of assassinating Mance was derailed by the wildling chief's offer of peace. "My people have bled too much," he said, spelling out that it wasn't mass destruction that he wanted, but security behind The Wall from whatever was heading south.
Tension inside Mance's tent was broken when horns signalled the arrival of riders, and I got a chance to do my Barbara Streisand impersonation.
"Hello, Stanny, well hello, Stanny, it's so nice to see you back where you belong…. well, not really where you belong, you're not even wearing a thick coat you silly duffer, haven't you heard Winter is Coming?"
That's right, everyone's favourite hero (may not be true) came barrelling in with thousands of sellswords and a smug 'tude. Mance quickly surrendered, but Stannis wasn't impressed by his refusal to kneel before him (snigger).
Jon identified himself as Ned Stark's son, setting himself up nicely for a role as lieutenant, deputy, batman (he's already got the broodiness) etc in Season Five.
Later, Stannis, Davos, Crazy Selyse and little Shireen watched on, as Maester Aemon said the funeral words over the bodies of Night's Watchmen who died in the Battle of Castle Black, and we took one final glimpse of Pyp and Grenn.
Through the smoke, Jon spotted Melisandre giving him a Look… a Look, you might say, Of Interest. OH HELL NO. You'd better not be thinking about breaking yourself off a piece of that, Kate Bush. I saw him first, and I creepily fantasied about him weekly in a national news website first. Step away from the abs.
Finally it was Jon's turn to mourn. Urged on by Tormund, confused by the fact he was still alive, Jon took Ygritte's cold body out to the weirwood tree, and set his old flame alight (too soon?). A few manly tears escaped his brooding eyes and sank down his brooding cheeks towards his brooding abs.
But he didn't look back. Heroes never look back.
Down in King's Landing, it appears that the Mountain actually survived his duel with Oberyn Martell, which is about as fair as dysentery. At least my guess that the Red Viper had poisoned his spear was right - Grandmaester Pycelle seems determined that he's not long for this world, prodding his mysterious two-pronged fork into Gregor Clegane's barnacly sticky bits.
I too would let the Mountain fall right off himself, but Cersei seems insistent he survive. She leaves him in the hands of experimental scientist Qyburn, who's rigged up some sort of blood transfusion device. Mmm, golden staph.
Cersei must want the Mountain alive to protect King Tommen, her remaining son. Her goal now certainly is to keep him alive, and more importantly keep him loyal to her.
By the time she sees Tywin she's got her rage head back on, telling her father that she ain't marrying Slow Lorus no matter what he says, and she ain't leaving her son to be the rope in a Tywin/Kate Middleton tug o'war.
When he once again tells her to shut it and do what she's told, she threatens to detonate the Fat Man of GoT politics - the thermonuclear bomb that is her and Jaime's twincest.
Tywin refuses to believe her, and Cersei takes a perverse delight in exposing his wilful ignorance for all these years. We've been doing it under your nose, Dad, cop that, you old bastard. Flounce, flounce, flounce.
Cersei's next stop is Jaime's chamber, where he's once again inspecting his entry in the Westeros Who's Who. Cersei gets straight to the point, which is "Told Dad about the shagging, sorry not sorry". All she wants is her brother-lover back.
It could have been maybe possibly slightly somehow a teensy bit romantic if it wasn't utterly gross. Then they did it on the table. For crying out loud, PUT IT AWAY YOU TWO.
Daenerys can't make head nor tail of her new subjects, many of whom want to sell themselves back into slavery because they miss the warm comfortable embrace of no freedom. Change is scary you guys, which is why I'm still wearing this Hypercolour t-shirt.
Dany allows them to sign yearly contracts with their masters, which Ser Barristan warns is a slippery slope. Workplace reform, you see, it's always controversial.
The Mother of Dragons also can't find head nor tail of her biggest baby, Drogon. He has developed a terrible tendency to burn small children as well as animals, then disappear for days on end.
Dany's despair forces her to lock up her other two children, Rhaegal and Viserion, much to their chagrin. Our last glimpse of Dany is her tear-stained face as she closes them in Meereen's catacombs, forced to reflect on how far she still is from her goal of invading Westeros to take the Iron Throne.
Given Dany's triumphant end to Season 3, this was very much a reversal of fortune, more evidence that the reality of power is far more complicated that the initial taking of it. No wonder Robert Baratheon whored all the time. Speaking of which, where was Maario? Still off in Yunkai? Sad. Dany could've done with some sexy comforting after the dragon business.
How about a big hoorah for Bran and the Scooby gang? (RIP Casey Kasem). Finally, something actually HAPPENED in their storyline: they achieved their goal and found the weirwood tree! They had a moment, in the eerie warm light, all looking at each other tenderly!
Then the zombie skeletons attacked, because they may have trudged through snow and sleet and ice and wind for weeks, but they needed a challenge, you know?
Meera refused to leave a weakened Jojen and fought like a champion, while Bran warged into Hodor again to kick some serious skeletal ass. Well, kicked the place their asses would be if they had them.
Then, whoosh, a zombie skeleton stabbed Jojen right in the belly, and just kept stabbing.
Then there were fireballs going everywhere, and a tiny person came out of a cave entrance beneath the weirwood and said spookily "Come with me, Brandon Stark", and then Hodor was lifting Bran into the cave entrance, and then the tiny person said "He is lost" to Meera and then she held her breath and slit Jojen's throat and then ran into the cave and then the zombie skeletons followed them but exploded on impact with the cave opening.
Phew. I'm pooped after all that and I just watched it all happen.
The tiny person 'fessed up that they indeed where the legendary Children of the Forest, but were obviously much more ancient than men. She led them to the roots of the weirwood, entwined in which sat…. Gandalf!
Yes, JRR Tolkien's own white-bearded wizard popped up to make a guest appearance as "the three-eyed raven". I've got absolutely no idea who he was meant to be, so Gandalf it is. He tells the crew that he's been watching them all their lives from 1001 eyes, that Jojen knew he would die but helped Bran anyway, and that he would help Bran find what he has lost. Bran thinks this means his ability to walk, but he's wrong.
"You'll never walk again… but you will fly," Gandalf told him.
Does this mean Bran will warg into birds for the rest of his life? Seems a bit elementary given he can possess humans. Could it mean… dragons? Will he warg into one of them, or ride on top of one? And how in ten types of cursive font are he and Dany going to cross paths? Or… are there more dragons?
Pod may have some things in common with horses, but staying put isn't one of them. An angry Brienne stalks off after waking to find their steeds missing, and comes across Arya, practising her water dancing in the lee of a bluff.
The subsequent exchange between the pair was a highpoint of the finale: a touching meeting between two women warriors, and a wonderful glimpse into what might be. You can see Brienne taking Arya under her wing, becoming mighty avengers doling out all manner of justified stomping. But Arya is too wary, and the Hound now too possessive.
When Brienne realises who Arya is, she sees her goal crystalise before her, sees a way of fulfilling her vow to Catelyn Stark, begs Arya to come with her, and orders the Hound to sit, bad dog.
But with two phenomenally tough fighters, the stand off could only end in violence. Brienne and Sandor Clegane's battle was brutal, vicious, with much spilling of blood and teeth. It was captivating in its ferociousness; two outcasts struggling to survive, knowing somewhere in their hearts they both want the same thing for Arya but cannot resolve it any other way.
Brienne eventually gives in to animalistic rage, pounding Clegane back with blow after blow, all control lost, until the Hound tumbled backwards down a ridge.
The bloody affair, with temperatures so heated and bellies full of fire, was followed by one of the most calculated sequences we've seen.
Arya happens upon the Hound as he lies dying. He urges her to go with Brienne (you see! He did know it was right for her), and she says she doesn't need to be saved. He says she won't last, she says she'll last longer than him. And then when he begs her to finish him off, to strike at his heart, when he taunts her with stories of his crimes, she does nothing.
She just stares at him. Watches him. Utterly freaks him out.
I wouldn't say it was as cold as ice, but rather deliberate, mindful, like a chess player psyching out an opponent by just refusing to make the winning move even when checkmate is in sight.
The she takes the bag of money he stole from the Riverlands farmer, turns her back, and walks away.
The Hound's tale this season has been one of uncertain redemption, and his final pleas of "Kill me!" were a request for mercy, a knowledge that if she eased his suffering, it was some measure of forgiveness for his no-good life.
But she wouldn't let him have it. She doesn't look back. Heroes never look back.
Instead she makes her way to the Vale's port town, Gull Harbour (thank you, online Westeros maps), and begs a captain to take her north to The Wall. But he's not sailing north - he's heading home, to the free city of Braavos.
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes.
Arya produces the iron coin she's been carrying ever since Jaqen H'ghar pressed it into her hand at the end of season 2. The captain looks at it in astonishment, but before he can ask, she utters the phrase "Valar Morghulis". He touches his head and replies "Valar Doharis" and we all whoop like Homer Simpson getting a donut.
Arya Stark: Faceless Man. BRING IT.
Well, I guess that just about wraps up this epic recap, I think I've covered all key plotlines….
...don't worry, I'm just joshing you.
We, the audience, had one final goal - seeing Tyrion survive a death sentence.
Tyrion is let out of his cell late in the night by Jaime, who keeps doing these nice things after doing terrible things to his sister and so we keep getting conflicted.
He tells Tyrion that Varys awaits to take him to the Free Cities, and they share a touching goodbye. "Farewell, little brother," Jaime said.
"Thank you for my life," Tyrion replied.
It was so sweet. Damn your eyes, Jaime Lannister.
But just as safety was within reach, Tyrion changed his mind and took a different path, winding up in the Tower of the Hand.
There, on his father's bed, lay a sleeping Shae.
She stirred, calling "Tywin?" and "My lion".
But it wasn't Tywin, it was the little lion, the one she had betrayed on the stand. Here she was, doing it again lying down.
A eternal glance of regret, despair and resolve passed between them before Shae grabbed a knife and Tyrion leapt on top of her. He tried to hold her down, she scratched at his eyes. Then he grabbed her necklace and threw his weight off the bed.
As he sunk down, he squeezed the air out of her, leaving her warm flesh to slowly cool. "I'm sorry," was all he could say, the regret writ large on his face.
Then he grabs a crossbow and goes searching for Daddy.
Tywin too had a goal. The man just wanted a few minutes of privacy to drop the kids off at the pool. Now I've heard you parent types, complaining about little Jassiyca or Currandyn or Sayshashelle or Blywyx forcing their way into the loo when you're trying to concentrate.
Frankly, you should be thankful the only crossbow they're bringing into the lavatory is a Nerf JoyKill 4000, the darts of which are as soft and absorbent as that roll of Quilton three-ply.
For his part, Tyrion's goal was vengeance, not just for the crappy hand of cards that his father dealt him throughout his life, but for Shae. Tyrion murdered Shae, but in his mind it was Tywin who was ultimately responsible.
Their father-son Privy Council meeting was...I can't find the words. It was poetic, that's for sure, Tywin's position meaning he had to look his son straight in the eye as he asked him about Shae, and the trial. It was hair-raising and it was honest and it was more intense than a coffee enema.
The mighty Tywin Lannister, who swept armies before him, who destroyed his enemies so thoroughly that songs were written about them as a warning to others… shot on the dunny.
"You shot me," Tywin said incredulously after the first arrow, released upon his describing Shae as a whore for the second time.
"You're no son of mine," he spat, trying to win one final stoush between them.
"I am your son," replied Tyrion, calmly. "I have always been your son."
The second arrow is loosed and Tywin slumps on the throne.
Didn't Tywin get caught out on a different sort of throne.
Tyrion is spirted away by Varys, who is seen looking impassively at King's Landing for a final time before taking his place onboard a ship, next to a crate carrying a murderer and a patricide.
But they didn't look back. Heroes never look back. Also, Tyrion was in a crate.
I'm still so confused. There are so many questions. Was Shae a plant from the beginning? She did really seem to love Tyrion. Did she really try to escape when Tyrion was arrested, or did she go straight to Tywin? Or did that happen after her testimony? And if Tywin wasn't going to let Tyrion be executed, what was he going to do? He didn't seem to be in on Jaime's plan. Why, why, why?
Yay! Best Moments
How to choose? There were so many epic ones, so instead I'm going to choose a brilliant little touch - Jojen's lifeless eyes reflecting the trace of a fireball set off by the Child of the Forest. The expanse of the universe in microcosm. Gorgeous.
Zing! Best Lines
Tormund Giantsbane: She loved you. Jon: She told you? Tormund: No. All she ever talked about was killing you.That's how I know.
So, so true, for all of us, really.
Eww, gross.
The sight of the young Meereen girl's bones, charred to stone by Drogon, was horrible.
The Hound's femur poking out of his thigh was pretty gross too, as was his brother's nauseating poison-induced sores. But they deserved those.
Boo, sucks.
No Sansa/Arya reunion! I wanted that so much. I even had a T-shirt design ready to go. Now I'll just have to go with my other design, a picture of Arya's face above the slogan "Aryan Supremacy". That'll be OK, right? Right?
And so.
Ladies and gentlemen, Throners all, thank you so much for having me onboard once more as your Game of Thrones recappespondent. I've said it before and I'll say it again - I come for the brilliant show, but I stay for the even better company. You guys are the best.
If you're in Brisbane this coming Sunday June 22 , I'm hosting the 2014 Theatresports Grand Championships at the Powerhouse, and would love to see you there. You might enjoy my rather Mother-of-Dragons inspired outfit, and am happy to chat all things Game of Thrones after the show. Just remember no spoilers.
Until next season, may the steel be sharp, may the night be dark and full of terrors, and may the Valar be thoroughly Morghulised.


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Welcome to Lichborne, your weekly foray into the news, strategy, and zen of being a Death Knight, with your host, Daniel Whitcomb.
So. You've conquered Ulduar and Naxxramas. Or maybe you've just collected a lot of badges and got some nice shiny gear. Either way, you're ready to go humor that old codger Fordring and fight and die in his silly little Arena. Even if the whole thing is obviously a waste of good time that could be spent killing the Scourge, the Ebon Blade's agreed to cooperate, so you'd better be ready too, death knight. So today, we'll give you a few tips about surviving the first few bosses of the Trial of the Crusader the death knight way.
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Northrend Beasts
The Northrend Beasts are actually 3 boss fights in one, all in quick succession with no time to rest or rebuff. If there's a challenge in this fight, it's probably being able to switch up your tactics quickly between each boss.
The first boss, Gormok, is pretty straightforward for DPS. Stand behind him and wail away (while avoiding the Snowbold fire, of course). If you're on Snobold duty, be sure to be ready to engage those as well. Either way, If the Snobolds and Gormok himself are close enough to take advantage of pestilence, don't be afraid to take that route. Every little extra bit helps. You'll probably be taking some extra AE damage from Staggering Stomp as well, so watch for that and make sure to bandage or swap in a Death Strike if needed. Gormok's also an excellent boss to summon your Army of the Dead on. Try it at the beginning or just after he's cast a staggering stomp. As long as the stomp doesn't clear them out, they should do a nice chunk of damage.
Tanks will be switching off aggro here via Taunt as the Impale debuff stacks. Determine with your fellow tank and raid leader as to how many stacks of Impale you'll take before switching. When your time comes to take over, be ready to taunt. When handing off, it might be best to disengage and back off while the other tank takes over. If you accidentally pull aggro again and get another stack of Impale, you may overtax your healers. Of course, if your fellow tank does this to you, you can use Death Grip to reclaim Gormok, but watch out, I have heard reports that he can hit diminishing returns on taunt if you do it too much.
The next boss, the two Jormungar worms, are slightly trickier. Acidmaw will probably die first, since his Paralytic Toxin will be the bigger trouble. As a DPS, if you get hit with the toxin, be sure to run to the Dreadscale tank and take a hit of the burning bile damage to burn it off. Acidmaw should drop quick, at which point Dreadscale is more or less a tank and spank. However, you'll still want to try to spread out a bit to avoid others with Burning Bile, and above all, watch the slime pool. you don't want to back into one of those while trying to dodge Burning Bile, you'll be just as dead. Also, remember your Anti-Magic Shell. It can be just the thing to avoid a few ticks of said burning bile, get you some extra runic power, and take some pressure off your healer.
Tank-wise, remember that one of you probably will still have the Impale debuff from Gormok. It's not uncommon for many raids to have a Hunter or Warlock "tank" the stationary Acidmaw with ranged damage until Impale drops and the tank can take it. Either way, the usual tanking strategy applies from there.
Icehowl is another essentially straightforward battle. Anti-Magic Shell may save you from his Frost Breath as well, should you get caught in its path. Other than that, stay out of way of his charge. Once he gets that damage debuff from charging a wall, you'll have a perfect opportunity to unleash your burst damage macro to maximize damage.
Lord Jaraxxus
Lord Jaraxxus is a pretty prolific spell caster, so DPS may want to anticipate being asked to interrupt his Fel Fireball. You may also want to keep Anti-Magic Shell handy to avoid taking damage from Legion Flames. Of course, if you have the flame debuff, AMS isn't any excuse for you not to run away from the other melee. If you get incinerate flesh, don't panic and stay in range of a healer. AMS isn't removing that.
If you're asked to help with the adds, be prepared to watch for them. Just make sure the offtank grabs enough aggro, then start wailing away as normal. Pestilence is definitely your friend on the Infernals. Also, Fel Inferno can be interrupted.
If you're a tank or offtank, this is a pretty straightforward tank and spank fight. Gather up the adds if you're the add tank, or tank Jaraxxus in the middle if you're the main tank. Gain aggro, use your defensive cool downs properly, profit.
Faction Champions
Even if you've been a solely PvE Death Knight up to this point, this is where it really helps to pay attention to all those abilities you never use. Since the faction champions generally follow PvP rules, you should be able to use most of your extra crowd control abilities to great effect. One of my favorite things to do is grab a healer, usually the paladin, pull them away from the group with Death Grip, use Chains of Ice to keep them from walking back into healing range too quickly, then interrupting them once they're back in healing range.
Of course, these days, the steamroll seems to be the most popular way to take down the champions. Each champion down makes the fight that much easier, so don't be afraid to blow your burst (including your Army of the Dead) right at the beginning of the fight (after the Shamans have cast Heroism, of course) if you're using this method. And of course, even with this method, if you're focusing down a healer, be sure to be ready to interrupt one of those last second desperate heals.
Taking care of business
While the Trial of the Crusader is currently the most advanced raid zone in Northrend, at least for a few more weeks, it's also surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it, especially the first part. Essentially, just stay flexible and remember your abilities, and you should find the first three encounters mostly child's play. Really, Tirion better be a god among men in Icecrown for putting us through this silly little circus, that's all I'm saying. If you have any other tips to offer for these first few bosses that I may have missed, let us know in the comments.
Welcome to Lichborne, the new class column on the new WoW class, the Death Knight, where we discuss Patch 3.1 cookie cutter builds, basic defense gearandHeroic defense gear for the Death Knight tank, 5-man Crusader's Coliseum gear previews for tanks and DPS, and basic Death Knight statistics and mechanics. You might also want to check all the other articles in our Death Knight category.


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Connect a game controller
Learn how to connect a wireless or wired controller to your Xbox 360 console.
Connect a wireless Xbox controller
- Turn on your console.
- Press and hold the Guide button on the controller until the controller turns on.
- Press and release the connect button on the console.
|Xbox 360 E console
- Within 20 seconds, press and release the connect button on the controller.
- When the lights surrounding the power button on the console stop flashing, the controller is connected.
On the 360 E console, a solid green light on the front of the console indicates that the controller is connected. To determine the player position associated with your accessory, look at the ring of light that surrounds the Guide button on the controller.
If the controller does not turn on, check the batteries. Insert fresh AA batteries, making sure they are correctly positioned in the battery case.
You can also use the Xbox 360 Play & Charge Kit or the Xbox 360 Quick Charge Kit to power the controller. Learn more about Xbox controllers and chargers.
To connect additional controllers, follow these same steps again. You can connect up to four controllers to the console. Each connected controller is assigned a position that corresponds with the lighted sections that appear around the console's power button and around the Guide button located in the middle of each controller.
- To disconnect a wireless controller, press and hold the Guide button for three seconds, and then choose to turn the controller off.
- When you turn off the console, the controller will reconnect the next time you turn on the console.
- The controller can be connected to only one console at a time. You can connect the controller to a different console, but the connection to the previously connected console will be lost.
Connect a wired Xbox controller
Plug the Xbox 360 Wired Controller into a USB port on the Xbox 360 console. To disconnect the controller, pull on the connector, not the cable.
The cable on the Xbox 360 Wired Controller has an inline release. The inline release on the controller cable is a safety feature designed to reduce the chance of the Xbox 360 console falling if the cable is pulled.
Wireless controller troubleshooting
If your wireless controller disconnects or cannot connect to your console, see Xbox 360 Wireless Controller disconnects or can't connect.
If your wireless controller does not turn on or loses power, try the following solutions:
Solution 1: Replace the batteries
Insert a new set of AA alkaline batteries into the Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, and then try to turn it on.
Solution 2: Try a different battery pack
If you have another Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, take the battery pack off that controller and attach it to your controller. Then try to turn your controller on.
If your controller works with the different battery pack, your original battery pack might be defective. If your controller is under warranty, you can order a replacement battery pack from Xbox Support. See the Assistance section at the bottom of this page for more information.
If your controller is out of warranty, you can buy a new battery pack from a retail store.
Solution 3: Try a rechargeable battery pack
If you or a friend has an Xbox 360 Rechargeable Battery Pack, attach that battery pack to your controller and try to use your controller. If your controller works with the rechargeable battery pack attached, you can buy a new battery pack from a retail store or order a replacement battery pack from Xbox Support. See the Assistance section at the bottom of this page for more information.
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RSCCD Mission: The mission of the Rancho Santiago Community College District is to provide quality educational programs and services that address the needs of our diverse students and communities.
Santa Ana College Mission: The mission of Santa Ana College is to inspire, transform, and empower a diverse community of learners.
Santa Ana College Vision Themes: I. Student Achievement; II. Use of Technology; III. Innovation; IV. Community; V. Workforce Development; VI. Emerging American Community.
The mission of the Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment Committee (IE&A) is to review all college planning efforts and make recommendations to the College Council regarding systematic, integrated planning. IE&A is the group responsible for managing the Educational Master Plan as well as receiving recommendations regarding all program review efforts. Recommendations from the Teaching Learning Committee (for Academic Portfolio Assessment/Program Review), Student Services and Administrative Services inform updates and changes to the college Strategic Plan as well. For more information, please contact the co-chairs, Bonnie Jaros, at ext 564-6989 or
Members for 2012-2013: Bonnie Jaros & Linda Rose, Co-Chairs; Cher Carrera; Michael T. Collins; Sue Garnett; Raymond Hicks; James Kennedy; Sara Lundquist; Nga Pham; Denise Phillips; John Zarske
Members for 2013-2014: Bonnie Jaros & Linda Rose, Co-Chairs; Cher Carrera; Michael T. Collins; Jonathan DeLaMora; Raymond Hicks; James Kennedy; Sara Lundquist; Nga Pham; Denise Phillips; Lithia Williams; John Zarske
Note for 2014-2015: The Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment Committee was eliminated from the participatory governance structure as of the 2014-2015 academic year. The role of the IE&A Committee has been assumed by other participatory governance committees, workgroups or offices as follows:
On April 13 a group of 60 faculty, classified staff and managers met to review SAC planning models, create goals and review the mission statement. The work products are listed below:


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France's Libya embassy hit by car bomb
France's embassy in the Libyan capital of Tripoli has been hit by a car bomb, Libyan security officials told the Associated Press.
Two guards were injured as a result of the attack and the blast caused extensive damage. The bomb set off a fire near the entrance to the embassy and two other nearby buildings also sustained damage.
LIBYA:Benghazi at heart of struggle to control Libya
"We think it was a booby-trapped car," an unnamed French official told the Reuters news agency. "There was a lot of damage," the official said.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said from Paris that the bombing was an "abhorrent act" and that France would work to "quickly identify the perpetrators."
French President Francois Hollande said, "France expects the Libyan authorities to shed the fullest light on this unacceptable act, so that the perpetrators are identified and brought to justice."
Foreign diplomatic missions have been targets in Libya since the country's former leader, Moammar Gadhafi, was removed from power in 2011.
The eastern city of Benghazi has also seen frequent attacks. An attack on the U.S. consulate on Sept. 11 left four Americans dead, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, and there was an assassination attempt on Italian Consul Guido de Sanctis in January.
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The view of Middleburgh Valley from Vromans nose in Schoharie County. Daily Gazette, August 29, 2011
Wind and surge effects from Irene along our Atlantic coast, while significant, were generally less than expected. The high-population centers were spared. Inland rain, however, has been responsible for the greatest destruction and loss of life – with the most devastating effects being felt in New Jersey, Vermont and New York. The principal impacts of Hurricane Irene were felt miles from the coast, where torrential rains fell on already saturated soils and in the hills.
Disaster Declarations were in place for 28 counties in New York State: Albany, Bronx, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, Herkimer, Kings, Montgomery, Nassau, Orange, Otsego, Putnam, Queens, Rensselaer, Richmond, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, Warren, Washington, and Westchester counties.
ARTICLES: PDF format, unless otherwise stated.
Flooded Crops (University of Vermont Extension)
Farmer Response Flowcharts Non NYC watershed counties
Post-Irene Farmers Informational Meeting (video)
Dairy Herd Forage Needs and Inventory Balance Worksheet
Determining Your Current Forage Inventory
Dealing with Flooded Vegetables, Steve Reiners, Associate Professor in Horticultural Sciences, Cornell University
Information for farmers about tax issues related to weather (e.g. Hurricane Irene) losses
Flooded and storm damaged crops 2011 (Cornell University Cooperative Extension)
Flooded Crops for Silage 2011
B6230-16 Caring for Livestock
B6230-24 Reclaiming Flooded Soils
Molds and Mycotoxins
Corn Mycotoxin Fact Sheet
Checking for Abnormally Fermented Corn Silage
Mold Counts
Sampling Feeds for Molds
B6230-13 Assessing Structural Damage
The ABC's of Returning to Flooded Buildings
Initial restoration of flooded buildings
Appliance & Equipment Rebates for NYS Residents
B6230-20 Homeowner's-Property-Insurance
B6230-26 Salvaging Important Papers Books and Photos
Cleaning & Drying & Rebuilding Your Flooded Home (PowerPoint)
Adirondack Assistance Guide
Hudson Valley Disaster Assistance Guide
Woodland Owner and Maple Producer Response
B6230-14 Helping Family Members Cope
B6230-17 Controlling Mold
B6230-19 Working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA
B6230-22 Preventing Fraud
B6230-23 Obtaining Assistance
Guidelines for Handling Water-damaged Electrical Equipment
Mold Information Sheet
Hiring a Mold Remediation Contractor
Thoughts and efforts now turn toward the difficult work of recovery. Portions of New York state have been severely impacted by the storm, and periodic updates will come to this list regarding Irene Relief Efforts.
Though we do not endorse any particular charity or entity, here is some information regarding relief efforts.
Red Cross – Needs immediate volunteers for storm relief in northeastern New York, and is offering fat-track disaster relief training to volunteers. Visit their website for more information: http://www.redcrossneny.org/ or call their Albany office at 518-458-8111. Donations can be made online and by mail that can be targeted directly at Irene relief efforts in New York.\\
Schoharie County Community Action Program Inc. put "flood fund": on it and mail to SCCAP Inc. 795 E. Main Str., Suite 5 Cobleskill, NY 12043. Those with questions or in need of directions to the SCCAP site can call 518-234-2568.
New York FFA chapters throughout the state are looking for ways in which they can support relief and recovery efforts of agricultural families that have been affected by Hurricane Irene. The intent is to launch a statewide fundraising effort and to partner with agricultural businesses to raise money that can be best used to help farms in Schoharie County and other areas that have been hardest hit by flooding.
An organization in NYC to help the Catskills region http://catskillmountainrelief.blogspot.com/
The Dyson Foundation has created two emergency grant programs for nonprofit organizations in Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, and Ulster counties in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene. The Dyson Foundation will expedite reviews of all requests for emergency funding. Nonprofit organizations can apply for emergency funds to help the organization recover from uninsured damages or losses incurred because of Hurricane Irene. To apply, please submit a one-page narrative describing the uninsured damages or losses and a budget and/or invoice of estimated recovery costs to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Other updates
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured or underinsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster. Individuals can apply by calling (800) 621-3362 or navigating to www.disasterassistance.gov.National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) & the Corporation for National and Community Service is sending 6 AmeriCorps to assist in administrative tasks and muck-out coordination.
Updates from NYVOAD are being posted on www.nyvoad.org
Long Island VOAD - In the process of developing county resource guides for disaster assistance.
NYCVOAD - Supporting NYC with agency volunteers in their demobilization of Evacuation Centers.
Convoy of Hope: - COH is currently trying to source laundry detergent, dish soap, baby formula, adult and child diapers, other cleaning supplies, trash bags and hygiene products, as well as an augmentation of food and drink. COH is coordinating with NYVOAD and Salvation Army for a point of distribution near Albany.
Global Team Players Foundation: Over 400 athlete-volunteers from NY colleges are signed up to serve.
Lutheran Disaster Response: LDR - Upstate Network will hold next conference call on Sept. 2 at 10am. LDR is sending a National LDR mentor to assist.
American Red Cross: Red Cross is currently housing 245 people in six shelters in Eastern New York. In the downstate area the sheltering population is 178 in four shelters. There are 70 people being sheltered in Suffolk County, 3 people being sheltered in Nassau County, 55 in Orange County, and 30 in Westchester County. Two upstate counties are housing 67 people. There are 17 in Schenectady County and 50 in Schoharie County. There are 13 open shelters with no population. The nineteen active Red Cross shelters together represent a mix of Red Cross-managed shelters and shelters in which Red Cross is partnering with community groups.
Numerous community shelters have opened in Schoharie, Greene, Ulster, and Delaware Counties. Red Cross has been working with the Salvation Army, Walmart, and Voluntary Agencies Active in Disaster (VOAD) partners to get food, water, and miscellaneous supplies to these shelters. These efforts depend on the coordinated response of many state agencies as well. As we move into the recovery phase of the operation the challenge will be to track and meet food and water needs for those who may move from current shelters into other types of housing.
Red Cross continues to increase the numbers of disaster responders, adding over 500 in the past 24 hours, to bring the number of staffers to over 1200. The road situation has made it difficult to move staff quickly to locations where they are needed, and Red Cross relies on the information provided by the Department of Transportation and other agencies.
Red Cross has reached out to the Office of Fire Prevention and Control (OFPC) to obtain information on shelters opened by local fire departments. County Emergency Managers are also providing information on community shelters. Red Cross is currently working to develop a process to track community shelters' openings, closings, and population numbers to provide as complete a picture as possible on sheltering operations as a whole.
Salvation Army: Salvation Army has feeding units in Schenectady, Delhi, Roxbury, Margaretville, Fleischmann and Schoharie. Continuing to provide feeding support to Montgomery County shelter in Amsterdam, and to Schenectady High School. All feeding numbers are low due to the deteriorated infrastructure (roads impassable/washed out, bridges gone). We are providing Essex, Clinton, and Schenectady Counties one semi-truck load of drinking water to each county. Staging 2,000 clean-up kits in Oneonta. Assessing damages in Essex and Greene counties. Sent baby formula, food, and diapers to Margaretville and Fleischmann. Sent two (2) semi-trucks of water to Delaware county for use at the hospital and nursing homes. 5 canteens deployed. 749 meals and 475 Drinks served. 428 snacks served.
BonaResponds: - BR is deploying to Margaretville, NY with 2-3 vans of volunteers & equipment for clean-up.
Southern Baptist: Southern Baptist Kitchen in Washingtonville NY (Orange County) will be serving its first meal today at lunch in partnership with the American Red Cross.
Mennonite Disaster Services: A team is mobilizing to Margaretville, NY. Coordinating with BonaResponds for a location. They have already been assigned a mud-out request from NYVOAD.
United Methodist Committee on Relief (NY): Sending 36,000 health kits to Schenectady Salvation Army for distribution. Ready with mud-out teams when needs are clarified
Hudson Valley 211: Working on referral system for NYVOAD/211 muck-out operation.
Northeast Region 211: Working on referral system for NYVOAD/211 muck-out operation.
ASPCA: ASPCA/Petsmart Charities Distribution Center is Operational south of Albany. Please make all requests (with number and type of pet supplies needed) to Wanda Merling at email@example.com
More Irene relief information will be posted as it is received. Please feel free to post to this list any Hurricane Irene relief items or information that you feel would be relevant to the CCE family.
Finally, please be alert to requests for assistance from CCE Associations that have been impacted by flooding from Irene.


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Key Content
- UNICEF: UNICEF Angola Humanitarian Situation Report July to September, Quarter 3 2019
- WFP: WFP Angola Country Brief, September 2019
- UNHCR: Government & UNHCR cooperation on health to affected populations: Case of Lunda Norte, Angola
Appeals & Response Plans
- UNHCR: The Democratic Republic of Congo Regional Refugee Response Plan (RRRP) January 2019 - December 2020
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- Govt. Angola: Hepatitis outbreak tops 1 600 confirmed cases. 21 Nov 2019
- MAG: MAG co-hosts meeting looking at how to achieve the Landmine Free 2025 promise for Angola. 21 Nov 2019
- World Vision: The number of people affected by hunger in southern Africa 'will stretch around the world'. 10 Nov 2019
- FAO: As climate shocks intensify, UN food agencies urge more support for southern Africa's hungry people. 31 Oct 2019
- GICHD: The socio-economic impact of anti-vehicle mines in Angola. 22 Nov 2019
Global Overview APRIL 2018
On Monday 16 October 2017 the Council adopted the EU Annual Report on Human Rights And Democracy in the World in 2016.
2016 was a challenging year for human rights and democracy, with a shrinking space for civil society and complex humanitarian and political crises emerging. In this context, the European Union showed leadership and remained strongly committed to promote and protect human rights and democracy across the world.


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UBS news
Peter Kurer will not stand for re-election as Chairman of the UBS Board of Directors - Kaspar Villiger is nominated for election as Chairman of the UBS Board of Directors
Peter Kurer, Chairman of the UBS Board of Directors, has decided not to stand for re-election at its Annual General Meeting on 15 April 2009. The UBS Board of Directors is nominating Kaspar Villiger as a candidate for the role of Chairman.
"One year ago I accepted the position of Chairman out of my sense of responsibility for the bank, its shareholders, clients, staff and the communities in which we work," said Peter Kurer, Chairman of the UBS Board of Directors. "At that time, I announced that we had to resolve numerous and challenging issues: the establishment of proper governance to reflect the rapid changes in the financial marketplace; a re-examination of the bank's strategy; the implementation of improved risk control systems; the reduction of risk concentration and the balance sheet; the introduction of responsible and long-term, value-oriented incentive plans; and succession planning designed to enhance the best leadership of the organization going forward. Most of this has been accomplished in a short period of time by working closely with the Group Executive Board and the Board of Directors. Finally, I am particularly proud of having secured someone with the experience and talent of Oswald J. Grübel as Group Chief Executive Officer after Marcel Rohner advised us of his intention to leave the bank. I now think it is time to complete this transition and leave the office at the end of my one-year term."
Sergio Marchionne, Vice Chairman of UBS said, "No one could have reasonably foreseen the extent and speed of deterioration of market conditions affecting the financial services industry. The impact on UBS has been significant and the organization's resilience and endurance has been severely tested. But it has endured, and UBS is coming out of this crisis stronger and better prepared. Peter Kurer deserves a lot of credit and recognition for having helped put UBS back on track. With humility and courage, he accepted this engagement out of a sense of duty and service to the institution. He has worked tirelessly to accomplish all the objectives he had set for himself and for the bank at the beginning of his tenure. The Board of Directors thanks him for all of his efforts and for having guided the organization wisely over the last 12 months."
The Board of Directors proposes Kaspar Villiger to stand for election as Peter Kurer's successor as Chairman at the Annual General Meeting.
From 1989 to 2003 Kaspar Villiger was a member of the Swiss Federal Council, and in the last 8 years, as Finance Minister. During his time in public service, the Federal Council took crucial decisions, such as enacting legislation against money laundering, initiating a supervisory body for financial markets and finalizing the EU Directive on the Taxation of Savings Income, aimed at strengthening the Swiss financial market. These steps are now key ingredients of the competitiveness of the Swiss Confederation.
"Kaspar Villiger has had a distinguished career in public service, where his leadership capabilities and integrity have earned him high respect. In addition, he brings substantial experience as a businessman and as a member of boards of multinational corporations," said Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, chairman of the governance and nominating committee of the Board. "The Board believes that his presence and contribution will send a clear signal and will prove valuable at a time when the bank is working to renew its commitment to all stakeholders to seek to maintain high standards of credibility, reliability, and sustainable performance. We are grateful to Kaspar Villiger for having accepted this challenging position."
Kaspar Villiger said, "I believe these to be exceptional times for UBS and Switzerland, and I recognize the difficulties that still lie ahead. This is precisely why I have accepted to chair the Board of UBS, out of a sense of service to this country and its people. We need to respond to the current challenges by relying on our core values of integrity, hard work and reliability. I believe that I can contribute to the re-establishment of these values. In taking on this task, I am comforted by the fact that the bank has a Board of Directors composed of competent and committed individuals as well as a strong executive leadership, with the newly appointed CEO, Oswald J. Grübel."
If elected, Kaspar Villiger will resign all corporate positions he presently holds in order to devote all of his energy to serving UBS.


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confdir is the main directory for Puppet's configuration. It contains config files and SSL data.
Puppet's confdir can be found at one of the following locations:
- *nix Systems:
- Windows:
- non-root users:
When Puppet is running as either root, a Windows user with administrator privileges, or the
puppet user, it will use a system-wide confdir. When running as a non-root user, it will use a confdir in that user's home directory.
The system confdir is what you usually want to use, since you will usually run Puppet's commands and services as root or
puppet. (Note that admin commands like
puppet cert must be run with
sudo to use the same confdir as Puppet agent or Puppet master.)
Note: When Puppet master is running as a Rack application, the
config.rufile must explicitly set
--confdirto the system confdir. The example
config.rufile provided with the Puppet source does this.
Puppet's confdir can be specified on the command line with the
--confdir option, but it can't be set via puppet.conf. (This is because it needs the
confdir to even find the config file.) If
--confdir isn't specified when a Puppet application is started, it will always use the default confdir location.
Puppet Server uses the
jruby-puppet.master-conf-dir setting in puppetserver.conf to configure its confdir. Note that if you're using a non-default confdir, you must also specify
--confdir whenever you run commands like
puppet module or
puppet cert to ensure they use the same directories as Puppet Server.
Interpolation of
Since the value of the confdir is discovered before other settings, you can safely reference it (with the
$confdir variable) in the value of any other setting in puppet.conf.
If you need to set nonstandard values for some settings, this allows you to avoid absolute paths and keep your Puppet-related files together.
Puppet's confdir contains several config files and the SSL data. Their locations can be changed with settings, but most users should use the default layout.
Almost everything in the confdir has its own page of documentation.
Items labeled "master only" below may also be present on standalone Puppet apply nodes, since they act as both masters and agents.
SSL Data
ssl— contains each node's certificate infrastructure. (All nodes.)
Config files
puppet.conf— Puppet's main config file. (All nodes.)
auth.conf— access control rules for the Puppet master's network services.
autosign.conf— a list of pre-approved certificate requests. (CA master only.)
csr_attributes.yaml— optional data to be inserted into new certificate requests. (All nodes.)
device.conf— configuration for network devices managed by the
puppet devicecommand. (All nodes.)
fileserver.conf— configuration for additional fileserver mount points. (Master only.)
hiera.yaml— configuration for the Hiera data lookup system. (All nodes.)
To provide backward compatibility for Puppet versions 4.0 to 4.4, if a
hiera.yamlfile exists in the global [codedir][codedir], it takes precedence over the
hiera.yamlin the global confdir. For Puppet to honor the
hiera.yamlin the confdir, there must be no
hiera.yamlfile in the codedir.
routes.yaml— advanced configuration of indirector behavior. (Master only.)