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The Sunday Post is hosted by Kimba of The Caffeinated Book Reviewer. This is a weekly meme where we can share news of the week and highlight new books received.
We enjoyed our trip to WDW, where we walked, grazed, and basked in the sunshine. My parents joined us for a few days, and I hope they had a good time walking, grazing, and basking in the sunshine with us. I'm already looking forward to returning next year!
The weather outside has been frightful since we got back. Yesterday and today – icy rain, which has left many without power and slippery roads. I think I'm just going to hibernate today as I am not looking forward to trying to get out of our subdivision. The driveway is a nightmare.
Hope all is well with everyone! Is everyone finished with their holiday shopping?? I have a few more things to get, and then I am DUN.
Check out my current contests! See the Contest Widget on the Sidebar to enter!
Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews to share new additions to our library. Click here to learn more about it.
New Arrivals at the Café:
I received a few surprises while I was gone.
The Barrow
The Curse Winners – this arrived in fantastic packaging!
This Side of Salvation – so did this!
The Descent
Through the Ever Night – this was 1.99 last week, and I bought it for the plane ride home, even though I have it in hardcover. It was fantastic.
Underwater Dogs
Secrets of a Bollywood Marriage
Romance for Cynics
In the After – This was 1.99 too
A great big thanks to the publishers for their continued support!
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Volkswagen Chairman: Cars Must Not Become 'Data Monsters' 89
Nerval's Lobster writes "While automakers from Tokyo to Detroit rush to sprinkle their respective vehicles with all sorts of sensors and screens, the chairman of Volkswagen Group has warned about the limits of data analytics for automobiles. 'The car must not become a data monster,' Martin Winterkorn told an audience at the CeBit trade show in Germany, according to Re/code. 'I clearly say yes to Big Data, yes to greater security and convenience, but no to paternalism and Big Brother.' At the same time, Winterkorn endorsed a closer relationship between tech companies such as IBM and the auto industry, and highlighted Volkswagen's experiments with autonomous driving—both of which will necessarily infuse automakers (and his company in particular) with more data-driven processes. The question is which policies from which entities will ultimately dictate how that data is used. Winterkorn isn't the first individual to voice concerns about how automakers (and their partners) store and analyze all that vehicle data. At this January's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, a Ford executive drew considerable controversy by suggesting that Ford collects detailed information on how customers use its vehicles. 'We know everyone who breaks the law, we know when you're doing it. We have GPS in your car, so we know what you're doing. By the way, we don't supply that data to anyone,' Jim Farley, Ford's global vice president of marketing and sales, told show attendees. Farley later attempted to clarify his statement to Business Insider, but that didn't stop a fierce debate over vehicle monitoring—and certainly hasn't stopped automakers and tech companies from collaborating over more ways to integrate data-centric features to vehicles."


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11/2 cup pecans, halved
1 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup dark corn syrup
3 eggs, mixed well with the other ingredients
Marinate all of the ingredients for 30 minutes in a bowl. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and bake the pie crust of your choice for 3 minutes. Pour in the filling and smooth the surface. Bake for 65 minutes.
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LYONS -- More than 20 years after he perfected making apple pie to woo the woman who became his wife, Jerry Powell entered the Parade of Lights Pie Contest sponsored by The Stone Cup in Lyons.
The apple tree that grew behind his house during his college days at Colorado State University in Fort Collins made the main ingredient free.
So, though he only knew how to make Ramen noodles at the time, Powell, now 47, began tweaking his recipe.
Then, he cut out hearts in the pie's top crust to complete the homemade pie effect for the lady in his life.
"The first year I entered the contest here, I thought I made a really great apple pie. But the ladies in town were like, 'Whatever,'" he said. "And I got whipped."
That is when Powell directed his creative pie-making skills to another category -- pecan pie.
On Nov. 18, he finally won first place both from the judges and the Stone Cup customers.
"I'm not limited to the rules because I don't know the rules (of pecan pie making)," he said. "But I've had these big failures along the way."
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Using tapioca as a thickener in the 2009 contest and molasses in the first attempt to enter the 2012 contest.
"When I dabbled in the black art of molasses, I really got burned. Both of those pies went straight into the composter," he said.
He credits his improved classic pie recipe to his combination of using some dark corn syrup, an unspecified shot of booze and another secret ingredient.
Though he wouldn't disclose the type of alcohol that gives his pie a darker, smokier flavor or the secret ingredient, Powell said splitting the syrup between light and dark is a key trick to making a tastier pecan pie.
He shared other tricks, too.
For instance, he marinates all the ingredients for 30 minutes to make the pecans a little "plumper."
He also bakes his pie shell for three minutes before filling it and adds an extra five minutes to the usual 60-minute bake time to carmelize the top layer more and make the filling more firm.
Then, he simply allows enough time for the pies to cool to room temperature before serving.
"I've got a friend around here who is from Tennessee. He says that in Colorado, they would call my pie a pecan pie. But he calls my pie a 'pecaan' pie," Powell said, smiling.
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Microsoft's Battle Plan Against The iPad
Microsoft initiated a marketing campaign for its business partners recently with a concerted effort to undermine Apple's popular iPad tablet. Its ammo? The iPad's enterprise shortcomings. Although the iPad was designed primarily with consumers in mind, the following news article (and Powerpoint slides within) are testament to the Redmondians' belief as to why Windows 7 is more suited for enterprise needs over the iOS.
ZDNET - Even though Microsoft's public stance, when asked about the impact of Apple's slate is "iPad? What iPad?", the Redmondians are preparing the company's partners for battle in 2011. Microsoft is making available to its reseller partners marketing collateral to help them defend against the iPad's encroachment into the enterprise market. I had a chance to check out a PowerPoint dated December 2010 on "Microsoft Commercial Slate PCs" that the company is offering to its partners to help them explain Microsoft's slate strategy to business users.
Microsoft's marketing stance is a tad amusing, considering it's almost like comparing an apple to an orange. For example, they highlighted that the consumer-centric iPad lacks enterprise remote device management on the second last slide, whilst Windows 7 devices are able to provide for remote management via SCCM, DA or third party tools. Comical as it may be, truth is, there are a growing number of iPad wielders who are using the Apple tablet for business uses. Hit the jump for more.


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Before we do anything else, let's get right down to it: Pleasant Street Theater is closing. Those of you who were around four years ago—when the theater went dark for a spell before reopening under the aegis of the Amherst Cinema group—may be feeling a familiar sense of impending loss. That time, a last-minute effort by local film-lovers saved the little cinema, but this time, although some people are already raising a rallying cry, it's probably going to be for good.
The news came in on Friday morning, and because of the holiday weekend the Advocate was going to press early. Yet even now, almost a week later, there hasn't been enough time to really digest what the change will mean for Northampton and its filmgoers. When the neighboring video store closed last July, locals could (and did) cling to the idea that the theater remained as a place where they could commune with fellow cinephiles; soon that delusion will be dispelled.
Where will they go after June 8, when Pleasant Street shuts down the projectors for the last time? Is there still a future for first-run art films in Northampton? If so, where? And who will pay for it?
Right now, there are more questions than answers—look for a more in-depth reflection on what it all means in next week's issue.
For now you can take in the world's most appropriate film booking when Pleasant Street hosts a closing day celebration with free screenings of The Last Picture Show. Beginning at 10 a.m. and running into the night, the theater shows Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 feature all day as the staff says goodbye to patrons. Set in a dying Texas town in the 1950s, the film tells a tale of change: a group of young men and women (Cybill Shepherd, Jeff Bridges and more) coming of age, sometimes painfully, in a place that has grown too small to hold them. As the town collapses in on itself, its inhabitants embark on a series of messy and painful affairs, desperate to latch on to something that still feels meaningful while everything around them—including the local movie house—is shutting down.
Also showing at Pleasant Street is This Is Not a Film, a documentary about the life of film director Jafar Panahi (The Circle) during his house arrest in a Tehran apartment. In an interesting twist, the film was shot partially on an iPhone—a technological feat unthinkable a few short years ago, it's the sort of sea change in filmmaking (and, by extension, film watching) that has helped hasten the decline of the neighborhood moviehouse. The film, which was smuggled into France inside a cake in order to be submitted to the Cannes festival, allows Panahi a platform to reflect on what filmmaking—the very thing that got him arrested and banned from the art—means to him.
Also this week: Music lovers will be delighted to hear that it's time again for the annual Django in June Gypsy Jazz Festival. The week-long event, now in its 10th season, brings together lovers of "jazz manouche"—a particularly European strain of jazz that melds our American music with French musette and Gypsy guitars—from all over the world. Once here, they settle in for a week of revelry, workshops, and concerts on the Smith College campus—and a pair of films at Amherst Cinema. Screening on Wednesday evening are two short films: Encounter with Francis-Alfred Moerman and A l'Ombre d'un Nuage. Each film focuses on key figures in the music's history who have been largely overshadowed by the legacy of Django Reinhardt, the iconic guitarist whose style continues to light the way for generations of followers.
In the first film, father and son duo Sebastien and Antoine Boyer (who will also be on hand to perform a short concert) seek out F.A. Moerman, a wonderful but sometimes overlooked composer. When they find him at his home in the French countryside, they give him a private concert—of his own compositions—and discuss his memories of how the music began.
The second film is a look at the Ferret clan—perhaps the most famous name in the style after Django's. A tightly knit bunch of brothers and cousins, the Ferret family retained their Gitan roots in their music; while Django's "Gypsy jazz" leaned heavily on the latter, the Ferrets leaned the other way, becoming masters of the rippling arpeggios and virtuosic minor key waltzes that are so evocative of their 1920s Paris. Fans of any music will want to be at this show.
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When Windows Vista was launched, the Free Software Foundation started its BadVista campaign, which was aimed at informing users about what the FSF considered user-restrictive features in Vista. Luckily for the FSF, Vista didn't really need a bad-mouthing campaign to fail. Now that Windows 7 is receiving a lot of positive press, the FSF dusted off the BadVista drum, and gave it a fresh coat of paint.
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Me too. I bought a new Laptop to replace my old dinosaur and it came with Vista. After everything I read here I expected that I would want to uninstall it and put XP on it... I don't know on what hardware and what apps the vista badmouthers have tested Vista on but on my laptop it rocks!
Vista is great and much better than xp. I haven't had a single problem with it. It looks really good too. My wife now wants a new laptop so that she can use it as well (she likes the new mine-sweeper).


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I have a used DFAV (with electric choke, so its now a DFEV). going to give a go at rebuilding it and install it on my EA82 Wagon. going to pick up the standard rebuild kit on Monday, but I wanted to check into the jets while its apart.
from what I have heard the venturis on the DFV are smaller than the DGV, but they come in all sizes. on the side of the carb itself its stamped as 26 on one tube and 27 on the other (venturi sizes?), and I have heard that that is similar to the normal DGV series.
Should I jet this the same as a standard DGV? the sites full of DGV info but not much on the DFV. Assuming since its a clone then if the ventri's are similar then the jets would be as well?
Any help or ideas are appreciated.
Edit - im new to rebuilding carbs, so any information is helpful, such as a standard method of calculating things like jet sizes, or the place to research it.
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Masterpiece Classic at 6 pm Sunday presents part one of Downton Abbey, Series III. The Great War is over and the long-awaited engagement of Lady Mary and Matthew is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate.
Masterpiece Classic at 8 pm Sunday and 8 pm Saturday presents the part two of Downton Abbey, Series III. The fate of Downton Abbey hinges on a letter from a dead man, while Edith and Sir Anthony face their own fateful moment.
DCI Banks and DS Annie Cabbot are called to investigate an arson attack that caused two narrow boats to go up in flames on DCI Banks at 9 pm Sunday and 9 pm Thursday.
Independent Lens at 9 pm Monday presents "Soul Food Junkies," a film that puts the culinary tradition of soul food under the microscope to examine both its benefits and consequences.
Pioneers of Television at 7 pm Tuesday profiles the first standup comediennes to appear on television, covers television's most enduring variety star and features interviews with contemporary actresses in "Funny Ladies."
Part two of Abolitionists: American Experience at 8 pm Tuesday focuses on the deepening divide between the North and South, touching off a crisis that is about to careen out of control.
Frontline at 9 pm Tuesday takes a probing look at the first four years of Obama's presidency and examines his key decisions and the experiences that will inform his second term in "Inside Obama's Presidency."
Take to the skies with psychedelic rock band Royal Forest as they lead Hardly Sound at 10:30 pm Tuesday on an epic adventure.
Nature at 7 pm Wednesday examines the day-to-day dramas of an extended family of koalas, seen through the eyes of the scientists studying their every move and vocalization on "Cracking The Koala Code."
In a race against developers in the Rockies, archaeologists uncover a unique site packed with astonishingly preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other giant extinct beasts, opening a vivid window on the vanished world of the Ice Age on NOVA at 8 pm Wednesday.
Life on Fire at 9 pm Wednesday explores the fish escaping the Earth's wrath to give birth to descendants that continue their pioneering journey to the heart of an active volcano in "The Surprise Salmon."
David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winning author and journalist, discusses his career on Overheard with Evan Smith at 7 pm Thursday.
Arts in Context at 7:30 pm Thursday grants viewers an all-access pass to Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., to give a glimpse at horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from around the world.
Mind of a Chef at 8 pm Thursday explores deceptively simple dishes around the world with David Chang ranging from Chicken Yakitori to high-end sushi.
The Daytripper at 8:30 pm Thursday follows Chet to Bay Area Houston to visit NASA, eat a hoagie and fried shrimp, go birding on Armand Bayou, and visit the Kemah Boardwalk.
Discover how fungi, like mushrooms, slime mold, and lichens, benefit the garden on Central Texas Gardener at noon Saturda. On tour, visit a garden geared for wildlife all year long.
Jazz and pop cross on Austin City Limits at 7 pm Saturday with Norah Jones and Kat Edmonson.


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One way to look at it is as the "property tax" election.
We refer to the April 9 Consolidated Election that's coming to a polling place near you.
Almost all offices up for election have to do with taxing bodies that get their share of your tax dollars each year from your real estate tax bill. An exception is county government itself, whose representatives were elected in November.
If you review the list of governmental units on your tax bill, and compare them to a sample ballot for the April 9 election, you will see the names repeated time after time.
City government.
Village government.
Township government.
Park districts.
Public library districts.
School districts.
Community college districts.
Fire protection districts.
All those governments take your tax dollars.
All those governments spend your tax dollars.
And many people who decide how that money will be spent will be on the April 9 ballot.
Tuesday's primary election settled some races. Sadly, only a small percentage of voters decided the primaries. The Election Day snowstorm didn't help, but turnout almost always is light during these local elections.
And that doesn't make sense to us. It is our money these government entities are spending, after all.
In order to vote in the April 9 election, you have to be registered first. Residents who are not sure of their registration status need to check with the county clerk. The last day to register is March 12 – less than two weeks away.
So, think about writing a big check for your next real estate tax bill, then think of the local governments who will be spending your money.
Then decide whether you will vote.


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Bucknell West air-conditioned apartments are available from the first weekend after Reunion through approximately the 3rd weekend of July. Apartments can sleep four people. Bed linens, pillows, and a minimal supply of dishes and pans are available. Smoking is prohibited in these facilities. Check-in time is 2 p.m. on day of arrival and check-out time is 11 a.m. on day of departure. Enjoy the campus and downtown Lewisburg. Golfing arrangements should be made with the golf course at 570.577.7340. Pets are prohibited.
Reservations are handled by the Events Management Office located in Room 265, Elaine Langone Center. Phone 570.577.3666 or email email@example.com. Check-in and key pick up are at the University Switchboard, 2nd floor, Elaine Langone Center.
Request a reservation using the Alumni & Summer Guest Program Reservation Form.
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Kora tell Scott Kara about the futuristic shift in direction on their latest album
The boys from Kora admit it. With the release of their second album last week, the ingenious, ambitious, and, you might even say, peculiar pop masterpiece, Light Years, it was a little like starting over again.
"Or starting afresh, perhaps," smiles Francis Kora who, along with his older brothers Laughton, Brad and Stuart, and producer and friend Dan McGruer, formed the band back in the early 2000s.
It's taken a long time for the new album to surface following their genre-mashing, ground-breaking self-titled debut from 2007. Despite its challenging aspects, bringing together everything from reggae and soul to metal and techno, that first album was embraced by the masses, selling more than 30,000 copies.
Their popularity was confirmed following a mid-afternoon set on the main stage of the 2010 Big Day Out, which was the highlight of the festival.
But it's fair to say, they have lost some of the traction they had built up even though Light Years debuted strongly at No. 2 (behind Taylor Swift's Red) last week and sits at No. 3 this week.
And between albums, though they have continued to play live, there have been other distractions, including a change in management and a number of side projects ranging from musical theatre to virtuoso metal band Heavy Metal Ninjas.
So it's not as if Kora have been idle, and Francis Kora and McGruer, who meet TimeOut for a catch-up at an Auckland cafe, say the band looked at Light Years as a chance to reinvent themselves, and take their music where it's never been before - both in terms of popularity and sound. And that takes time.
"We've always wanted more people to listen to us and I think that's what we really tried to achieve with this album," says McGruer of the album that is a futuristic pop gem, courtesy of songs like spectral nursery rhyme Little Star and the banging Hit the Wall.
The problem - and the main reason the album took so long - was that not even the band knew the musical direction they were headed in for much of the recording process.
"We didn't really know what the songs were about. There were no rules. It was a really open way of creating and I guess that comes through in a lot of the songs that are experimental," continues McGruer.
"But it's subconscious because we don't really plan to write commercially, or write underground music, it just is what it is. But it's taken us years to find that common ground to be able to really start going forward and to know what direction we're going in."
Kora proudly wear their influences on their sleeves, from Justin Timberlake's Sexy Back stomp and the 80s synth pop of Visage and Mr Mister ("the hook from Broken Wings was actually moulded into Dropdead Killer," says McGruer like a mad musical wizard) to the heavy weirdness of bands like avant garde metallers Mr Bungle and underground hip-hop soul.
"We mash it all together and blend it up. It does have that commercial side but it does have that underground element and heaviness to it. That's where we come from, and that just comes through in our music, we don't really think about it; if it's a sound that we like, we use it," says McGruer.
Kora make music that shouldn't work but does. And because it's so strange and unique the challenge is to make it palatable for people, though it pays not to think too much about it, says Kora.
"That is where some of the artistry comes in, moulding it so it does make sense.
"For example, originally Bad Thing was a metal track but now it's taken on a sort of underground hip-hop feel. And when we were younger, and you see this a lot in young bands, you're just really hungry and everything is crammed into a song, but now we just strip all the layers away and just get to the essence of what you're trying to say."
McGruer: "Yeah, we're just a little bit older and wiser and our style is just a little bit more refined.
"With the first album it was like, 'Who the hell are we? What are we doing?"'
Kora: "But the Mr Bungle days are a little less obvious now."
"Yeah," agrees McGruer, "we still like Mr Bungle but we also like commercial pop music. And we're kids from the 70s and 80s so we've got that old-school style about us, and that classic songwriting style but we try and bring that through in modern-day music."
In case you haven't noticed, Kora are music geeks. And you get the feeling McGruer has an extra strong nerd gene when it comes to music. The album was recorded at his studio in Auckland and he talks enthusiastically about digging out an old, almost forgotten beat from the depths of his computer's databanks because he knew it would sound good on one of the new songs.
"I unmuted this snippet we recorded, and I thought, 'That's going to work on Love In the Shadows'," he says gleefully.
He's a friendly chap, but outspoken and staunch too. He didn't agree with a press release that the band sent out a few months ago saying they had come up with music that sounded like "alien funk".
"It's space funk, because it's music that humans created," he says. "It's not an alien being creating music because it's got such a human feel to it."
And he's right, be it the playful, feelgood whimsy of Dream Life or the slightly cheesy but ever-so-sweet sentiment of future soul jam Galaxy Express.
"The storytelling," adds Kora, "is really truthful and that's where that human connection comes from. Because 99 per cent of modern pop music today, I don't believe a thing they're saying and because of that it's just not memorable. It's all very well having the sounds and the sonics but if you don't have great stories then it's not going to be a cool-sounding track."
At this McGruer pipes up with the final word: "The album is bad-ass, and that's why I like it, we are bad-ass." And they both crack up laughing.
Who: Kora
New album: Light Years, out now
Debut album: Kora (2007)
Where & when: Black Barn Vineyard, Havelock North, Dec 22; The Commercial, Whakatane, Dec 23; Brewers in the Park, Mt Maunganui, Dec 26; Butlers Reef, New Plymouth, Dec 30; Coromandel Gold, Whitianga, Dec 31; Matakana Country Park, Jan 2; Opononi Hotel, Jan 3; Mangawhai Tavern, Jan 5


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There is a big gap between having evidence and proving your case. A common scenario when beginning a lawsuit, is to have a client bring in a big box of papers believing that this is the "evidence" that will "prove his case." Basically, the client is starting at the wrong end of the process. But it is nice to have the documents at the beginning of the case, I remember one big trial, where the client decided to bring in thousands of documents two or three days before the trial. Unfortunately, the client did not follow instructions and nearly all of what he brought in was either inadmissible or simply irrelevant.
If you want to prove a fact, you need to understand what "proof"means. In the context of a court hearing or trial, proving a point means meeting the burden of proof on a certain issue. Let's use an example from genealogy. Suppose I want to prove something simple, like a date of birth for an ancestor. If I were proving that fact in court, I would either need a document that was admissible for that fact or testimony from a witness who had some actual knowledge of the subject. The burden of proof is to produce documentary or testamentary evidence in court supporting your claim.
The probability of a document depends on when, how and for what purpose the document was created. The "best evidence" rule requires that the most reliable evidence must be used if it is available. So how would I prove a birth date? The question is "What would prove that Ancestor Roe was born on a certain date? Now back to my client's big pile of documents. If what we are trying to prove is a certain birth date, then only documents dealing with Ancestor Roe's birth are relevant to the issue of the date. No matter how valuable my client thinks the other documents are, unless they speak to the issue of the Ancestor's birth, they are essentially irrelevant. So we search through the records.
What do we find? We find a school report card for the sixth grade. We find an Army Discharge Record. We find a marriage certificate. We find a death certificate with a birth date recorded. (I assume none of these records had a birth date, other than the death certificate) But my client says that the date is wrong. When I ask him why the date is wrong, he says that he heard from his mother that they put the wrong date on the death certificate. He says that he believes the date to be six months earlier than that reported on the death certificate. I tell the client that none of the evidence he has is very good and unless we can come up with something better, we have a poor chance of proving our case in court, especially since the date on the death certificate if correct proves the opposing side's case.
My client says, why doesn't he just testify about the date on the death certificate. I tell him that, the court (judge) may or may not allow his testimony because of the rules of evidence on what is called hearsay. But even if the judge does allow the testimony, it is unlikely that the judge or a jury would find his testimony persuasive.
I suggest we do some more research and look for additional documents. We really aren't ready to go to court until we find something that establishes a birth date consistent with my client's claim. But if that is all we have. We may just have to live with the uncertainty and take our chances. The client then asks, but what happens when the other side of the lawsuit puts on their case and proves the date on the death certificate is correct? What do we do then? Exactly, I say, I remind him that inheriting the huge multimillion dollars estate all turns on the exact date of birth of Ancestor Roe, so unless we can prove the date exactly, we lose.
Now we have to know something about the way courts work today. In times past, in the ancient days of Perry Mason, you found out about your opponent's case in court. I made for a lot of stomach acid and surprises. Now there are rules in place in most cases and jurisdictions that require full disclosure of all the evidence you are going to use before you go to trial and, like my example above, if you produce the evidence too late in the trial process, you may not be allowed to use the evidence at all in court.
So back to the trial about the birth date. The opposition sends us their disclosure statement and they have a only friend of the deceased who is going to testify that he attended the deceased's 50th birthday party on such and such a date and that the date is consistent with the date on the death certificate. If that is the testimony, it is highly unlikely that what my client has will persuade either the judge or jury. Will the judge allow the opposition's witness to testify? Yes, very likely. If the judge or the jury believes the testimony, we will lose our case. In order to win, we have to come up with some evidence even more reliable than the witness that proves the date we claim is the birth date and to disprove the date on the death certificate. By the way, we have an uphill battle because the death certificate is a government document.
We go back to do some research and since we know that Ancestor Roe was in the Army. We get his draft registration card from Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org. There in his own handwriting is his date of birth. Do we win or lose? Hmm. Could go either way depending on the date. I will let you decide.
Fortunately, in most instances in genealogy, the stakes are not quite so high concerning the proof of a date or place or whatever. But an exact date could be extremely important in proving which of two Roes was the ancestor or some other issue. Also, unlike a court, there is no judge or jury deciding who is right and who is wrong. Our genealogical conclusions depend on the court of public opinion, our relatives and our peers. But the principle is the same. It is important to have evidence that is probative of the issue and the best evidence is usually the most probative.
I plan on continuing this discussion to include more about the burden of proof and the burden of persuasion.


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The Chargers will remain in San Diego for at least one more season.
The team released a statement Monday to announce they have no intention to exercise an out clause that would allow them to negotiate with other cites or move the team.
âThe City of San Diego and the Chargers continue to work closely together to explore publicly acceptable ways to build a Super Bowl-quality stadium on the bus maintenance yard site in the East Village of downtown San Diego," said the joint statement from San Diego mayor Jerry Sanders and Chargers owner Dean Spanos. "To give this ongoing process every chance to succeed, the Chargers have announced that the team will not trigger the leaseâs termination clause in 2012. Both the Mayorâs Office and the Chargers look forward to continuing their joint efforts to build a multi-use stadium that will benefit the entire region.â
The Chargers' lease at Qualcomm Stadium doesn't expire until 2020, according to U-T San Diego, but each year, the team has a three-month window from February through April to explore new options.
It's likely that part of the Chargers' decision goes back to a lack of options, specifically in the Los Angeles market. The Philip Anschutz group (AEG) planned to break ground on a new stadium in downtown L.A. this year, but that no longer seems to be the case. More importantly, Chargers president Dean Spanos is on record saying the Chargers are not interested in AEG's downtown plan or a second stadium proposal by Ed Roski's group in the City of Industry.
âItâs nothing new,â said Chargers general counsel Mark Fabiani, who is the team's head of stadium development. âWe made it clear to AEG long ago that weâre not interested in their site. Weâve had a contentious relationship with them since we said we didnât believe they could get it done, and it certainly appears thereâs no chance they can get any construction started in 2012.â


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ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Pittsburgh Pirates will take their quest for a winning season and resurgence in the NL Central race to Texas.
Charlie Morton won't be going with them.
The Pirates starter headed back to Pittsburgh on Sunday because of an injured left foot, leaving before the St. Louis Cardinals finished off their 9-2 romp for a three-game sweep.
``You have to put this behind you,' right fielder Garrett Jones said. ``We kicked their butts at our place and they got us back here.'
Morton (7-4) was pulled after allowing five runs on six hits and two walks in 1 2-3 innings. Manager Clint Hurdle said he didn't know the extent of the injury, and said it occurred when Morton was backing up a base.
The Pirates arrived at Busch Stadium this weekend with a 1 1/2-game division lead and a chance to cement their first winning season since 1992. They left trailing the Cardinals by 1 1/2 games and still stuck on 81 victories after their fourth straight loss.
Pittsburgh faces Rangers ace Yu Darvish starting Monday night at Texas.
``We've got every opportunity to get things back and start rolling tomorrow,' Hurdle said.
Morton left after throwing a wild pitch that bounced just in front of the left-handed batter's box, allowing Jon Jay to score and give the Cardinals a 5-0 lead. He threw 46 pitches.
Morton hadn't allowed more than two runs since the Cardinals tagged him for five in a 13-0 victory on Aug. 1 in Pittsburgh. He won his next three decisions over five starts, which included a no-decision after giving up two runs in seven innings on Aug. 13 at St. Louis. He has a 3.44 ERA through 16 starts.
Michael Wacha pitched seven shutout innings and drove in two runs to lead St. Louis.
The Cardinals outscored Pittsburgh 26-10 in the series.
``We weren't sharp in any particular area of the game all weekend,' Hurdle said. ``They were much sharper than us across the board. It's very difficult to win a game when you are not functioning.'
Wacha (3-0) allowed two hits and walked two, both of which were erased on double plays. He struck out two and never had more than one runner on at a time.
Wacha got his second career hit with a single up the middle in a four-run fifth that scored David Freese and Matt Adams. St. Louis used 10 batters in the 28-minute inning - exactly how long Wacha needed to get through six innings of pitching.
Wacha also helped set up a three-run second with a sacrifice bunt that pushed Pete Kozma to third in front of consecutive doubles from Matt Carpenter and Jay.
The Cardinals jumped in front with two runs in the first. Carpenter and Jay singled to start the inning and Matt Holliday walked to load the bases. Carlos Beltran hit a sacrifice fly and Yadier Molina had an RBI grounder.
Pittsburgh scored twice in the ninth off reliever Sam Freeman. Garrett Jones hit an RBI double and Gaby Sanchez had a sacrifice fly.
NOTES: This was the last time this season Pittsburgh and St. Louis were scheduled to play. ... Pirates CF Andrew McCutchen singled in the seventh to extend his hit streak to seven games. ... Pittsburgh 3B Pedro Alvarez committed his major league-leading 27th error in the seventh, allowing pinch-hitter Brock Peterson to reach.


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At times it seems all too easy for Ben Niemann.
The Sycamore senior receiver, possessing a 6-foot-3, 200-pound frame, routinely skies over opposing defensive backs for red-zone receptions. With breakaway speed, Niemann has taken several short screen passes for long touchdowns this year, most recently a 57-yarder against Nazareth in the second round of the Class 5A playoffs.
The combination of size and speed has made Niemann, an Iowa commit, the most productive receiver in the area over the past two seasons and now is an offensive threat that every opposing defensive coordinator must account for, often with multiple defenders.
Yet this wasn't how Niemann's prep football career originally was destined to turn out. He was sup-
posed to be a quarterback.
But after switching to receiver when he moved to Sycamore before his sophomore year, Niemann and Sycamore haven't looked back.
"A lot of my friends ask me about [playing quarterback]," Niemann said. "Sometimes I wonder
what it would be like, but I'm happy with the way it worked out for me."
Niemann filled in immediately as an X-receiver for the Spartans in 2011 and helped Sycamore to 7-4 record. But after the season, quarterback Ryan Bartels, now a redshirt freshman at North Dakota, was set to graduate, leaving the position open to a new starter.
Ultimately, Niemann stayed where he was and Sycamore went with senior Devin Mottet as the starting quarterback. Mottet, who led the area in completion percentage and threw 10 touchdowns and only one interception during the regular season, has proven to be a more-than-capable quarterback in his own right.
"I think [Niemann] was set. We had some discussions. Devin also played really well at receiver," Sycamore coach Joe Ryan said. "It all ended the way it was supposed to."
This year's 11-0 record, the most wins in school history and only the second quarterfinal appearance ever, more than confirm what Ryan thought two years ago.
Since then, Niemann has continued to work at his new position. As a sophomore, he already was familiar with receiver routes because of his time as a quarterback, but his footwork and timing still were raw.
Niemann said he trained at Don Beebe's House of Speed in Aurora this year and improved on how to move defenders and recognize coverage concepts.
"I worked on my speed and just route-running," Niemann said. "I had never done any of that stuff before [Sycamore]. I never had to worry about catching a ball."
In a twist of fate, Niemann is being recruited to be a linebacker at Iowa, another position he played during his youth football days, but gave up when the Spartans had bigger needs at safety.
All in all, the move has worked out well for all parties involved and it has Sycamore in the midst of the Spartans' best season since 1978.
"I think it's been the right decision for us," Ryan said. "I knew he had the capabilities. It came to be on him if he was going to reach the heights he was capable of reaching. He hasn't played his best football yet. I think there's a lot of good football left in him."
Sycamore's hoping that includes two more games after today.


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The next "function" for the TPCA will be an informal swap meet and get together at the Hickory Hollow Restaurant.
Date: Saturday December 4, 2010
Time: 12 noon to around 4 PM
Place: Hickory Hollow
Address: 101 Heights Blvd, Houston
We have the "back room" reserved for us. This doesn't necessarily mean we have it all to ourselves, but should be pretty much to our own devices. "BYOL" = Buy Your Own Lunch! The food is delicious, the beer is cold, so are the sodas, the pecan pie is very good.
To cut down on congestion, try to limit your stuff to 1 or 2 file boxes of stuff to sell. This is a sale for our members, not advertised, no vendors specifically invited, prices to match.
Bring a box of "junk" and have some fun.
Our regular meeting will be the following Saturday, the 11th. If I have success building the slide holder, the program should be some old glass plate slides.
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Lantern is a tool that lets users load XML documents and test XPath expressions. It produces an immediate graphical result where selected and context nodes are highlighted, and displays the XML document in the same format as it is stored in the file (rather than as an ugly tree widget). It is aware of name spaces and allows the user to set a context node to test expressions related to it.
Jamper is an application for creating data transformation rules. It is a graphical tool that greatly simplifies the creation of those rules by using a simple drag-and-drop interface. Transformations are created simply by dragging lines between nodes. It is capable of loading XML schemas, instances, and XHTML documents. Therefore, it is possible to transform any of these document types into another. For example, a simple XML document can be transformed into an XHTML Web page.
SilkPage is an XML-based Web publishing framework that has evolved from the Docbook Website. With strong foundations in XML, it is a publishing framework with a focus on Web standards and usability. It is particularly suited for publishing personal websites, though it is by no means limited to them.
The goal of xmlportlet is to provide a base portlet to serve as a simple mechanism for transforming XML data into the view for your portlet application. This base portlet will be JSR-168 compliant, and will relieve you from developing the basic boilerplate logic needed to transform XML using XSLT into HTML.
PigeonReader is the Web mail client of the PigeonAir project, a solution for easily building clustered, scalable, and modular email services. PigeonReader is completely UTF-8 compliant, allowing any charset to be used. It is based on XML, which allows skins and themes to be easily written using the XSLT language. It was written to be easily used in a cluster of Web servers, where multiple and different domains are to be managed transparently to the end user, possibly with different skins, features, and configurations.
PigeonAdmin is the mail administration interface of the PigeonAir project, a solution for easily building clustered, scalable, and modular email services. PigeonAdmin allows many virtual domains of the mail server to be easily managed using a simple Web interface. It allows every domain to have a different configuration than any other. It also allows domain administrators to choose which configurations to force on their own users or which parameters the users will be able to configure and modify by themselves.
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Friday, December 10, 2010
Advent Calendar : The Best Christmas Gift (DAR and Genealogy related, of course)
10 comments:
- Carol said...
That is such a special gift!! Congrats on the shout out over at Greta's bog this AM
- December 10, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Brenda said...
Oh, wow, Barbara! What a great gift and to hear the gratitude in your posting is great. I have always said genealogists are the nicest people. Now, if only I was related to your ancestors!
- December 10, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Barbara Poole said...
Thank you Carol and Brenda. This is my all-time favorite story. Carol thanks for the heads-up, now to visit Greta's Genealogy Bog.
- December 10, 2010 at 11:46 AM
- Lucie LeBlanc Consentino said...
That is such a nice testimony to a good friend who though enough about you to do something special.
- December 10, 2010 at 4:34 PM
- Nolichucky Roots said...
Truly an amazing gift - and given the time she spent preparing it - beyond value. Enormous generosity.
- December 10, 2010 at 5:24 PM
- Joy B said...
Hi Barbara! This was a wonderful Christmas gift indeed! I've enjoyed reading your blog, too. I've awarded you the Ancestor Approved Award! Go here
to collect your icon and display in the side bar of your blog.
Joy B
- December 10, 2010 at 5:44 PM
- Barbara Poole said...
Lucie, Susan and Joy--Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I was so fortunate to have her as a friend. And Joy, although I am appreciative of the award, I decided from the very beginning not to accept them (please see my Awards label), so thank you and I will make mention (with your blog) on my Looking Back post on Dec. 31st. I hope you can understand.
- December 10, 2010 at 9:06 PM
- Greta Koehl said...
I'm glad that you posted this, Barbara: it reminded me that I have a couple of cousins I need to remember to write to thank them for the family histories that they have made available to us relatives. Acts of genealogical kindness and family histories done by relatives are such great gifts.
- December 10, 2010 at 10:05 PM
- Lori said...
Oh Barbara, what a precious gift and a very special memory. I can imagine just how excited you were when you opened it up. What a Merry Christmas that must have been!
- December 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM
- Bill West said...
What a fantastic gift, Barbara! And what a wonderful person that is to have done that
for you!
- December 12, 2010 at 11:44 PM


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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina said the hot-topic question of whether to break up HP surfaced during her tenure, and that considering all strategic alternatives is a part of any responsible board of directors' duty.
However, Fiorina, speaking in her role as a CNBC contributor, said that keeping HP as a single company is still important because of all the benefits.
The question of whether Fiorina thinks splitting HP is a good idea comes just a day after reports that HP's board is considering breaking up the company in the wake of rival Dell's move to become a private company in a leveraged buyout.
[Related: Who's Who: The Key Stakeholders In Dell's $24.4B Deal To Go Private]
Fiorina, who in 2005 was fired by HP's board after six years at the helm, on Wednesday told CNBC that she has always said HP is more powerful and more valuable as a single company.
"But certainly I've also said ... that HP is at a point now where the board should be considering every strategic alternative," she said. "Yes, we considered that alternative when I was at the helm because it's the responsible thing for a board to do."
In the end, though, the decision was made to keep HP together because of synergies in the supply chain, customer relationships and R&D, and because of the cash flow generated by the company's PC business, she said.
Even so, Fiorina said, HP has had its share of issues recently. The company suffered from two major acquisitions, she said, most likely referring to HP's $10-billion-plus acquisition of enterprise software developer Autonomy and HP's $1.2-billion acquisition of mobile device maker Palm.
"HP has milked its product lines for too long without investing sufficiently in them," she said. "And so the growth strategy going forward is unclear, and so now it's a good time to examine alternatives."


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President Bush wins a fourth term
Peel away the rhetoric, and one can see that Obama's reelection will result in the same Progressive-neocon policies that he's been enacting since 2008. Buy land and gold and silver to protect yourself, and if you need some sort of political outlet, then focus on state politics. Elect state representatives who will stand up to the FedGov; that's really the only realistic hope the liberty movement ever had.
It should be quite obvious that the best thing to happen would be for the country to split up into regional nations, and get rid of the Federal Government. Most people are too scared of liberty to ever consider this possibility, unfortunately.
Too bad the GOP didn't nominate Ron Paul; he could have won the election by hitting Obama where he was truly weak: foreign policy. Most Americans are really tired of the whole "perpetual war" policy that Bush started and Obama embraced. Oh, well; at least I got to write his name in (that's right; there was a space for write-ins on the MS ballot, after all. They just don't count a write-in vote unless one of the candidates on the ballot are in some way incapacitated).


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|17th April 2007, 03:07 PM
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Hi Roger,
Are the Sailworks masts exactly the same masts as the Powerex masts (made by the same manufacturer but with different names put on the masts), or are they different masts?
If they differ from each other, how do they differ?
|18th April 2007, 12:38 AM
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Posts: 2,202
RE: Masts
Hi Filip,
According to Bruce Peterson (who I consulted on this subject):
Lipstick = Z-Wave
Joystick = Z-Free
Speedstick = Z-Speed
However, the Sailworks Backbone RDM has a stiffer top than the Powerex RDM.
With the following exceptions:
One exception to the "Speedstick = Z-Speed" is the 520 model; the Z-Speed 520 is made on the large OD mandrel like the 550, whereas the Speedstick 520 is made on the the smaller OD mandrel like the 490.
Also in 2006, when the Powerex production moved to China, all the 430, 460 & 490 mast changed to slightly larger top sections, but this was the same for the all the comparable Powerex and Sailworks models.
So, there you have it!
Essentially they are the same, made in the same manufacturing plant, using the same processes.
The Sailworks Backbone RDM is made to a different specification than the Powerex RDMs.
This can be used to open the top up slightly more on sails such as the Hucker.
I take a look at the windspeed, and if I'm thinking I'll be a little overpowered on the Hucker with a Joystick SDM or the Backbone RDM I'll rig the sail on a Powerex 90% carbon Powerex RDM Prepreg Wave
mast, to take a little power out of the top of the sail.
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By Army Master Sgt. David Bennett
Special to American Forces Press Service
Dec. 4, 2009 - When the city of Basra was particular unstable between 2006 and 2008, the port of Umm Qasr was left to tread water as a contributor to Iraq's economic development. Now, however, through the collaboration of the Joint Interagency Task Force Iraq and Iraqi partners, the port is positioned to navigate over its next developmental hurdle.
Today, port operations are more secure than they were just two years ago when Shiite extremists controlled much of the area. Quelled by Iraqi forces, the city of Basra is now peaceful. The task force, which includes the departments of Defense and Homeland Security, is charged with aiding in Iraq's reconstruction. Part of that collaboration includes devising a plan to make Umm Qasr more attractive to potential international trade partners.
Steadiness in a city that could be Iraq's primary economic generator is a major priority of Multinational Force Iraq.
U.S. Army Gen. Raymond Odierno, commander of Multinational Force Iraq, arrived Nov. 21 to speak with task force officials about progress at Umm Qasr and its efforts to meet mandates under the International Ship and Port Facility Code – a certification that more countries are obtaining to gain a larger slice of the global maritime marketplace.
A tool of the International Maritime Organization, the code is a comprehensive set of measures to enhance the security of ships and port facilities, developed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
In the last few months, ships from such countries as North Korea, Jordan, Panama and Sierra Leone have arrived at Umm Qasr carrying wheat, cars and building materials. Built in 1958, Umm Qasr is designed to handle agricultural and manufactured goods and is Iraq's only deep-water commercial port.
Odierno understands that implementing the certification for Umm Qasr is important to drawing more international trade prospects because the code is becoming the accepted standard in international shipping operations. The challenge is getting Iraqi stakeholders to embrace the concept as well.
"If they become more efficient, they have an incredible opportunity," Odierno said of the port authority and its role in Iraq's economic future.
Maj. Mark Reiswig, a civilian military transportation officer for the 34th Infantry Division, helps address port and security issues for task force's Port Advisory Coordination Element. While Umm Qasr has made strides to bring the port nearer compliance, the bigger test is convincing Iraqi stakeholders that privatizing one of the state's most significant state-owned assets will be key.
"The concept that you can come over as a company and make money is pretty foreign to them," said Reiswig, of Rockville, Md. "Iraq will look like Kuwait and Bahrain, once they start to make [progress]."
The certification process is about eight months from being completed. Because an international port is only as safe as the incoming vessel's last port of call and the cargo's last inspection, it is essential that Iraq ensure measures are sufficient to fend-off threats and protection breaches, said Maitham Najim, Umm Qasr's head of port security.
The task for "gave me a lot of direction, also a check list that helps," Najim said.
The check list is long, but getting shorter.
Task force and port officials are working to improve various port security features, including better ways of controlling port access, screening and inspecting cargo, installing additional security equipment, upgrading customs processes and introducing automation.
Capital for the upgrades is being provided by a $370 million loan from Japan. At the port site, trucks move containers to one yard daily where they are off -loaded and moved to another yard to be used again. Before, containers were stacked in one location and left.
It's getting better as far as efficiency, said U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Joseph LoSciuto, PACE officer in charge, but there's room for improvement across the whole port operation.
"Right now, it takes 10 days to process cargo once it comes in," he said. "With the changes we want to implement, we can cut that down to five days."
Under an agreement between the Syrian and Iraqi transport ministries, the first rail trip from the western Syrian seaport of Tartous to Umm Qasr took place earlier this year. According to Reiswig, having a working railway that connects to Basra's port is an integral part of the transportation equation.
Advisors are pursuing a reduction of the number of port employees from 4,800 to 900, Luscioto said. That's because the state-owned port, a major employer, has a long-standing tradition of patronage.
Convincing their Iraqi counterparts that trimming employee rolls is beneficial to the port's overall efficiency will be a difficult, but essential for the port's future.
There are no simple solutions, LoSciuto acknowledged, in convincing some Iraqi officials that the move to privatization is a move toward a stronger future in Iraq.
"This is important, but we can't do it unless they want to do it," Odierno said.
(Master Sgt. David Bennett serves with the 367th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment.)
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Bright Future on Horizon for Port Umm Qasr
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Crazy 3 pages and not one person acknowledged my post about mental health care here in America. I see it's pointless to comeback in here with two sides that are set in their ways.
I do miss the principal of compromise this country was founded on.
I absolutely think that how we handle mental health is so ridiculously *** backwards that it isn't funny. Both of my parents are educators (dad's a PhD, mom's a special ed teacher...dad now owns a education learning small business) and I talked for hours about this with them the other day. They're very passionate about it...and there are very few educators who will say that this country does a good job as a whole with this (and obviously it goes well-past education).
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Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions recently released a report titled, "Energy independence and security: A reality check," that examines whether or not energy independence is necessary to achieve energy security. Deloitte contends that the answer is "probably no." The report reviews present and developing national energy policies and discusses US strategies for oil imports and use.
A key conclusion is that, "While US energy independence may be unattainable in the foreseeable future, energy security is a realistic and achievable goal."
"The real issue is not independence from all foreign oil," the report continues, "but reducing oil imports from unfriendly nations, diversifying our supply of energy sources and ensuring that no nation can effectively manipulate markets against our national interests....Understanding how to reach [energy security], however, requires us to know more about our sources and uses of energyand the realities of energy supply and demand."
The report also acknowledges, "For most energy-consuming sectors of our economy, our supply is predominately domestic, with only transportation remaining more heavily dependent on imports. Thus, the US already has significant 'energy independence,' at least in terms of exclusive reliance on domestic production, for much of its economy."
"The remaining question," Deloitte contends, "is how to make the transportation sector more independent of sharp disruptions and 'unfriendly' sources [of energy]."
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Police activity reports
Compiled from selected police activity reports.
• Oct. 15: Officers responded to a report that someone shot out the driver's door window of a parked car. It appeared a small caliber projectile was used. Report taken.
• Oct. 16: A middle school student was arrested for bringing a knife to school. No students were injured or threatened.
• Oct. 17: Officer Harget instructed the Pleasantville Cub Scouts on dangers of prescription drugs and alcohol
• Oct. 17: A high school student was arrested for exposing himself during lunch. Charges are pending in Juvenile Court.
• Oct. 17: Officers responded to a reported domestic dispute on West Market Street. Caller stated that she had been assaulted and that her husband was out of control. The male was transported by medic to the hospital for evaluation.
• Oct. 18: A female student was arrested for assaulting another female student during lunch. Charges are pending in juvenile court.
• Oct. 18: Officer Harget started the 11-week D.A.R.E. program with Liberty Union-Thurston 6th grade students.
• Oct. 19: Two students were arrested for consuming alcoholic beverages before school. Charges are pending in Juvenile Court.
• Oct. 20: Officers responded to a loud party call at 1:48 a.m. at a South Mill Street residence. Residents were advised and party was ended.
• Oct. 21: Police received a report of males driving a red truck stealing scrap metal in the area of North Liberty. Area checked and no one was located.
• Oct. 21: Officers responded to a residence on South Park Street on a report of license plates stolen from a vehicle. A report was taken and the tags were entered as stolen.
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• Oct. 18: A Jacksontown man said someone broke into a storage bay in Buckeye Lake and stole several items he owns.
• Oct. 19: A Thornville man reported that he was sent a mobile phone bill from several years ago that he didn't believe he owed.
• Oct. 21: A Hebron man said several of his belongings were stolen from a Buckeye Lake storage facility.
• Oct. 22: A Walnut Road man said someone broke into his RV and stole several items.
• Oct. 22: A driver was cited for traveling 46 in a 35 miles per hour zone on Walnut Road.
• Oct. 22: A Beacon Light Lane woman said someone broke into her vehicle and stole several items.
• Sept. 12: A Canal Road apartment resident told police someone wrote on his vehicle with a permanent marker.
• Sept. 13: Police were called to the Kroger where a woman had been detained for theft. She was issued a personal recognizance bond and turned over to Reynoldsburg Police on an outstanding warrant.
• Sept. 19: Police were called about a man in a motorized wheelchair driving southbound on Ohio 79. The man told police he was heading to Buckeye Lake. Police took him home.
• Sept. 20: Police took a report after a driver left the Duke station without paying for $32.16 in fuel.
• Sept. 21: A Cumberland Street resident told police that she gave a company her credit card information and now money is missing from her account. Police are investigating.
• Sept. 21: Childrens Services asked police to go to Heron Elementary School to prevent a mother from picking up her daughter at school because the agency was going to take custody of the child. Police were called back to the school after the father made threats that he was going to get the child.


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The Meme Expansion for Metal Gear Online will be available in the PlayStation Store November 25, Konami announced today.
Priced at $9.99, the DLC will offer three new maps, new optional game rules such as 'No Headshot' and 'Stealth Death Match', and playable characters Liquid Ocelot and Mei Ling. Additionally there will be an official Tournament lobby and new character customization options.
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CMLL (SUN) 10/28/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara [El Occidental (5), El Occidental (6)]
5) Puma King & Tiger DQ Guerrero Maya Jr. & Rey Cometa
Rudos took the first, tecnicos took the second. In the third, Tiger beat Maya, Cometa beat Tiger, and Puma faked a foul to get the win.
6) Dragón Rojo Jr. b Hijo del Fantasma [NWA MIDDLE]
Rojo took 1/3, the last with a small package, to keep his title.
Semimain sets up a singles match next week.
IWRG (SUN) 10/28/2012 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), The Gladiatores]
1) Epidemia & Matrix Jr. b Araña de Plata & Seiya
straight falls. Seiya's debut here.
2) Cristal & La Sádica b Amazona & Ludark Shaitan
Cristal's debut here, and Ludark's first match since 2010.
3) Bestia 666, Oficial 911, Oficial Fierro b el Ángel, Relampago, Trauma II
Ruods took 1/3 where Angel shockingly turned on Trauma II. Angel explained he was tired of the Traumas and would be going rudo to oppose them.
4) Factor, Rayan, Spartan b Alan Extreme, Carta Brava Jr., Hijo de Pirata Morgan
Alan Extreme replaced Zumbido. Factor and Pirata feuded. Comando Elite took 1/3, Factor submitted Pirata. Money thrown in the ring.
5) Negro Navarro & Trauma I b Cien Caras Jr. & Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 [IWRG IC TAG]
Navarros came in as champions. Dinamitas went after Trauma I's right knee, so much so that they were DQed in the first fall for excessive violence. The doctor told Trauma I he probably should sit the rest of this one out, but Trauma I continued. Dinamitas beat him in fall two, but Negro first submitted Mascara and then Cien to keep the titles in straight falls.
Both the Traumas are hurt going into the cage match, and Hijo de Pirata Morgan is not in good shape either. Angel's random rudo turn does not bode well for his short term future…
There are rumors about Dr. Wagner Jr. and Extreme Tiger leaving AAA. I'm not sure where the Tiger one exactly comes from (these two tweets seem are the first I've seen it mentioned, though most of this type of stuff usually is passed around Facebook first.) Tiger leaving AAA would be very nonsensical. He has been stuck in the same place forever and would understandably be wanting a bigger opportunities, but there are really no big ones on the indies right nowThere's definitely not a lot to the Wagner one. It's a Luchas 2000 interview with Karlo Colin (always an iffy sign) where he just says he's open to all possibilities, including leaving AAA.
On his MLW Radio podcast, Konnan mentioned Teddy Hart is suspended for his recent no-show in Monterrey. Konnan also said Teddy will have a documentary crew following him in AAA some point soon.
Rey Escorpion was honored at the CMLL show in Sonora.
CMLL (SUN) 11/04/2012 Arena Coliseo
1) Bengala & Camaleón vs Herodes Jr. & Ramstein
2) Hombre Bala Jr., Magnus, Super Halcon Jr. vs Disturbio, Hijo del Signo, Zayco
3) Fuego, Stuka Jr., Triton vs Namajague, Shigeo Okumura, Vangelis
4) Diamante vs Misterioso Jr. [lightning]
5) Blue Panther, Hijo del Fantasma, Máscara Dorada vs Kráneo, Pólvora, Psicosisse
6) Diamante Azul, La Sombra, Shocker vs Dragón Rojo Jr., Tama Tonga, Volador Jr.
Another show with just random matches that could be on ay show.
Misterioso has no luck with Diamante Azul in a lightning match, will try the lesser version this time.
CMLL (SUN) 11/04/2012 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Brillante & Javier Cruz vs Demonio Rojo & Relampago Azul
2) Black Metal, Eros, Halcón de Plata vs Demonio Maya, Espectrum, Infierno
3) Leo vs In Memoriam [lightning]
4) Rey Cometa vs Puma King
5) Atlantis, Rush, Smaker vs Euforia, Ráfaga, Terrible
Cometa vs Puma is a good match. Rafaga and Smaker get to be part of the main event with everyone else moving down.


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An Ohio-based oil refiner is donating money and food to people recovering from Sandy.
Findlay-based Marathon Petroleum plans to give $250,000 to the American Red Cross for disaster relief. The company is also donating nearly 120,000 ready-to-eat meals to Feeding America so they can be handed out to victims along the East Coast. Marathon's senior vice president of human resources Rodney Nichols says the company hopes to provide some relief to those who are recovering from storm's damage. The Red Cross announced that by Friday it had raised $117 million in donations and pledges.


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March 16, 2010 - Drug and weapons seizures and the capture of a senior Taliban commander and other insurgents highlight recent operations in Afghanistan, military officials reported. In the Nad-e Ali district of Helmand province today, Afghan and international forces captured several men, including a senior Nad-e Ali Taliban commander suspected of providing insurgents with weapons and illegal explosive material.
After surrounding five compounds, the combined force ordered all occupants to come out. Following initial questioning, the force seized pistols, a shotgun and other materials as evidence and Afghan forces took several men into custody. Five women and seven children were protected throughout the operation, officials said.
In the Sabari district of Khost province today, a combined force captured four insurgents and seized rifles and hand grenades.
An International Security Assistance Force patrol seized more than 1,400 pounds of hemp seeds and detained a man after stopping a vehicle at a checkpoint in Helmand's Garm Ser district today.
In Helmand's Nad-e Ali district yesterday, a combined Afghan-international patrol found a 105 mm artillery round, an improvised claymore mine, eight spent mortar rounds and eight pressure-plate triggering devices.
Also yesterday, International Security Assistance Force servicemembers found 11 rockets, 12 60 mm mortars, 13 rocket-propelled grenades and a 105 mm artillery round in the Qalat district of Zabul province.
(Compiled from International Security Assistance Force Joint Command news releases.)
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Drug, Weapons Seizures Highlight Afghanistan Operations
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Northern Europe is a European region North of the Baltic Sea plus Denmark and the Nordic Islands in the North Atlantic.
Northern Europe comprises
Other territories
The terms Nordic countries and Scandinavia refer to different regions in Northern Europe. The Nordic countries are Sweden, Norway and Denmark, Finland, Iceland and sometimes the Faroe Islands and Greenland, whereas Scandinavia, in geographic, linguistic, anthropological, political and historical terms, refers to Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Within the Nordic countries themselves, "Northern Europe" actually refers to a much wider region. Whereas the Nordic countries ("Norden") has a precise meaning.
The name Scandinavia comes from the Skandage body of water that lies sandwiched between Norway, Sweden, and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark. Norway and Sweden together forms the Scandinavian Peninsula separated from continental Europa by narrow straits between Denmark and Southern Sweden as well as the wider Skagerak between Norway and mainland Denmark. Denmark is the only Nordic country in continental Europe.
Denmark borders with Germany, while Finland, Norway, Latvia and Estonia borders with Russia, otherwise the Nordic countries are separated from its neighbors by the Baltic, the North Sea or the Atlantic itself. An abundance of land, water and wilderness is a common characteristic of the Nordic countries (except Denmark where most of the country is farmland or settlements). For example, Sweden is one of the largest countries in Europe but only has some 9 million inhabitants. The landscapes and nature does however vary across the Nordic countries. Denmark is a flat lowland like the Netherlands and Northern Germany. Iceland is both vulcanic and arctic. Norway and Sweden share the Scandinavian peninsula which is highest on the Atlantic coast and gradually becomes lower until Sweden meets the Baltic sea. The Scandinavian mountains running from Southern Norway and passed Tromsø in Northern Norway are steep and rugged on the Atlantic side, more gentle on the Eastern side. Finland is relatively flat and characterized by lakes scattered all over the entire country. Large parts of Sweden, Finland, Norway and some parts of Estonia and Latvia are covered by deep pine and spruce tree forests, with largest parts being essentially the western branch of great taiga.
The culture of Scandinavian and Northern countries in general are relatively similar due to sharing fairly similar history and mixing with each other to a degree; some of the languages between are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Where the written word is concerned, Danish and Norwegian are approximately 63% identical, differing roughly to the same extent as Scottish & Irish Gaelic. With regard to conversational similarity, the two are still quite close but share a number of notable differences. A Germanic ear untrained in any Scandinavian language can sometimes distinguish with the two. The Scandinavian languages are North Germanic, and strongly influenced by Low Saxon (Ancient German).
Iceland was a Norwegian and later Danish colony until 1944. Icelandic was originally of the same root as the other four languages, seeing as it derived from Old Norse, but the island's seclusion resulted in its isolation and, as a result, it hasn't changed profoundly from the 13th century. The spoken language and its written counterpart are largely unintelligible to other Scandinavians, but not to the Faroese, who speak a variant of this language that is also unintelligible to Scandinavians with its own lexical base.
Finnish, the native language of Finland, belongs to the Finno-Ugric family and is entirely unrelated to the Scandinavian languages. However, the state and some coastal municipalities are officially bilingual due to a 5.5% Swedish-speaking minority. The Sami language also belongs to the Finno-Ugric family and is an official language in a few municipalities in the very North.
Estonian language is a Finno-Ugric language and is closely related to Finnish.
Livonians, the indigenous Finno-Ugric people of Latvia are speaking the language of Finno-Ugric family, phonetically extremely close to Finnish, though mutually unintelligible. Latvian and Lithuanian are both the only two living Baltic languages of the Indo-European family.
Due to the high latitude, summer nights are very short and in the northern most part there is even midnight sun in the summer. While central parts of Scandinavia (the Oslo-Stockholm-Copenhagen triangle) are more densely populated, vast areas in the north or in the mountains are hardly populated at all. Sweden is in fact one of Europe's largest countries in terms of area, and Norway is the size of Germany, despite its modest population of some 4.5 million. Because of this, space, light and nature are key characteristics of Northern Europe (except Denmark).
Despite the high latitude central parts, the Nordic countries have a mild climate, at least much warmer than would be expected at this latitude. Northern parts have subarctic climate, while southern parts and coastal areas enjoy a temperate climate. Denmark and coastal areas of Southern Norway, Iceland and Western Sweden experience only occasional frost and snow during winter. Summers in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland and the Baltic countries are pleasantly warm with day temperatures of 15 to 30 degrees C. In the mountains and along western coasts, the weather is generally more unstable. Finland has the most stable sunny weather in summer. In general, the further inland, the bigger the difference between summer and winter. The Baltic side is generally colder in winter than the North Sea side. Western Norway and the Atlantic Islands have the smallest difference between summer and winter.
The Nordic countries all enjoy a relatively strong economy. Norway and Iceland has in particular profited from an abundance of natural resources. Sweden and Finland also have their share of natural resources but are in the international marketplace mostly famous for strong brands like Volvo, Saab, Ericsson (Sony Ericsson) and Nokia. Alhough Denmark has developed sophisticated business in a number of industries, it is above all the leading agricultural country in Northern Europe. Strong economies and relatively small social differences translates into high prices for visitors.
Elaborate welfare states are, despite important differences, also a common characteristic of the Nordic countries. In the Nordic countries, most things are generally highly organized and tourists should expect everything to proceed according to plans, rules and timetables. According to Transparency International, the Nordic countries are the least corrupt in the world (matched only by a handful of countries including Canada, New Zealand and Singapore).
Get In
By plane Due to the large distances and the water surrounding most of the nordic area, airplane is often the most effective way of getting to the Nordic countries. All the main cities have international airports (Malmö has Copenhagen airport Kastrup across the bridge), even smaller cities like Haugesund and Ålesund serve international flights. SAS, the dominant airline in Scandinavia, uses Copenhagen airport (Kastrup) as its hub. Finnair, the finnish flag carrier, operates from Helsinki and has the shortest routes to Asia. Several low-cost carriers, such as Ryanair and Norwegian Air Shuttle ("Norwegian") have established many direct routes to and from popular destinations in Europe. Due to its location, Iceland has many direct routes from USA and Canada.
By train Denmark is well-connected to the German rail network. The direct connection to Copenhagen is, however, by the Puttgarden-Rødby ferry. Sweden is connected to Danish railways via the Øresund bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö. The only international railway lines to Norway are from Sweden to Oslo from Stockholm and Gothenburg, to Trondheim from Östersund, and to Narvik from Kiruna and Luleå (the iron ore line).
By ferry Norway is served by ferries from Denmark, Great Britain, and Germany. To Sweden, there are ferries from Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. Iceland is connected to Denmark, Norway and Faroe Islands by ferry. To Finland there are ferries from Estonia.
By car Denmark is directly connected to the continental road network. From Denmark it is possible to cross to Sweden over the Öresund bridge. There are also many ferry connections from Denmark, most of them takes cars. The only overland alternative to the Öresund bridge is to enter via Russia to Finland or Norway.
Get around
By ferry
Major coastal cities of the Baltic Sea are connected with ferry lines; e.g. Turku-Stockholm and Helsinki-Tallinn. Many of the ferries are large and quite elaborate. Additionally, traveling among the straits in Denmark is also workable by way of ferry.
By train
See also: Rail travel in Europe
Trains are an adequate way of traveling around Northern Europe. International connections between Denmark, southern Sweden and southern Norway are good, but up north services are sparse and there's a short gap in the network between northern Sweden and Finland, although most railpasses allow free use of the connecting bus service. Iceland has no trains at all.
The ScanRail pass was retired in 2007, but visitors not resident in Europe can opt for the very similar Eurail Scandinavia Pass [1], which offers 4 to 10 days of travel in a 2-month period for €232-361. For residents of Europe, the all-Europe or single-country Interrail passes are also an option.
Get out
Go to another area of Europe! Anywhere else will be profoundly different from Scandinavia


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From US Lacrosse
US Lacrosse today announced the 18-player U.S. Women's National Team that is set to compete in the 2013 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Cup, July 11-20 in Oshawa, Ontario. The U.S. women's national team will look to defend its 2009 gold medal and earn its seventh overall world title.
The team was selected from a 25-player U.S. women's national training team roster, which was previously selected from a group of 38 players comprising the 2012-14 U.S. women's national team. Team USA most recently competed at the Jan. 25-27 Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse event in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., where it compiled a 3-0 record against Northwestern University, Syracuse University and the English women's national team.
The Team USA roster for the 2013 FIL World Cup, listed by position with collegiate affiliation and previous U.S. team experience noted:
Katrina Dowd, Northwestern
Danielle Etrasco, Boston University%
Lindsey Munday, Northwestern*
Katie Rowan, Syracuse*
Sarah Albrecht, Northwestern*
Kelly Berger, James Madison
Sarah Bullard, Duke*^
Ally Carey, Vanderbilt^
Kristin Igoe, Boston College
Caitlyn McFadden, Maryland*
Katie Schwarzmann, Maryland%
Kristen Carr, North Carolina
Amber Falcone, North Carolina*
Holly McGarvie Reilly, Princeton*
Gina Oliver, Ohio State*
Jennifer Russell, North Carolina
Megan Huether, Duke*
Devon Wills, Dartmouth*
* 2009 U.S. women's national team member
^ 2007 U.S. women's national under-19 team member
% Current college player
"Today is one of the most exciting and most challenging days I've experienced as a coach," said U.S. women's national team coach Ricky Fried. "Our staff made some tough decisions in narrowing this incredible group of players down to the 18 we feel will give us the best chance to defend gold this summer, and we couldn't be happier with the group we've selected.
"The commitment and sacrifices of all 78 players who have been a part of the U.S. women's team program since the last World Cup has laid a strong foundation for the success we hope to realize this summer. We're thrilled to continue working with this team to bring home a seventh gold medal for the United States."
Team USA will reconvene for an exhibition against Team Canada at the 2013 US Lacrosse Women's National Tournament, May 24-26 at Lehigh University. After two training camps in Baltimore (June 26-July 2) and Buffalo, N.Y. (July 5-7), the team will travel to Oshawa for the World Cup.
For more information about the U.S. women's national team, visit www.uslacrosse.org/uswomen. To make a secure donation to the U.S. women's national team and help fuel their journey, visit www.uslacrosse.org/donate.
Champion is the official apparel sponsor of the U.S. women's national teams. deBeer is the official equipment sponsor of the U.S. women's national teams. Marriott, Nationwide and ShockDoctor are official sponsors of the U.S. National Teams Program.
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Dave and Mary Duplantis of Thibodaux said they can't express how much New Orleans-based Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency means to them.
Dave and Mary Duplantis of Thibodaux said they can't express how much New Orleans-based Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency means to them.
The nonprofit group recovers organs and tissues for individuals needing transplants.
In 2010, Mary discovered she was suffering from Cardio Miopathy, which is the weakening of the heart muscle. Since May 2010, Mary has used a heart pump to keep her alive. The pump, called a Left Ventricular Assist Device, is needed to circulate the blood, doing the legwork Mary's heart can no longer do.
For 19 months she's lived in Houston for monthly treatments, waiting for her new chance at life. Mary has been on the heart transplant list since June 2011.
"She has been residing in Houston with our youngest son, Jacob, waiting for a donor to be identified for a heart transplant," David said.
Mary's condition and the separation of their family has inspired the couple and their family to join together to raise awareness about the Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency and the need for organ donors.
"Our family has decided to become involved in LOPA's fundraiser because we have experienced firsthand the miracles involved in organ donation," David said. "We understand that organ donation may offer the gift of sight, freedom from machines or even life itself."
Beginning at 8 a.m. March 2, LOPA is co-sponsoring a fundraiser, the "Marsh Mad Dash for Life," on the Nicholls State University campus in Thibodaux. The inaugural fundraiser includes a fun walk/run and a 5K walk/run. The Duplantis family put together "Mary's Team" for the event.
Proceeds will benefit education throughout the community and statewide programs at schools, community groups, driver's education classes, churches and more.
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center and Terrebonne General Medical Center are co-sponsoring the event as well.
Colonels for Life, a Nicholls student group that promotes organized tissue donation and donor registry will help out. A group of culinary students will cook during the fundraiser, providing tasty local dishes like jambalaya.
Houma-based band Voodoo Bayou will perform.
"It'll be a great day," said Kirsten Heintz, LOPA's director of public relations and education.
The event will include food, cash prizes for runners, door prizes and more. Everyone who registers receives a race T-shirt.
Heintz said there are about 1,700 people across the state waiting for a life-saving organ transplant. More than 116,000 are waiting across the United States. Last year, more than 100 people died in Louisiana while waiting for a transplant.
"It's so hard for all of us to know that there is something out there that can give Mary a much better quality of life, and she can't get it," Heintz said. "There's nothing any of us can do to buy it or move ourselves up on the list except get more people to say yes to donations."
She added that lots of local residents received and donated organs from this region.
"The problem is that organ donation is something that comes after we die, and our culture doesn't like to think about death," Heintz said.
Some of the biggest misconceptions people have about being organ donors are that if it's marked on their driver's licenses, they won't receive medical attention to save their lives, she said.
"But that goes against every oath health care providers take," Heintz said. "Plus you have to be at a hospital on a ventilator to even be considered."
Some people also think it costs money to be a donor, which is also untrue. Heintz said there is no cost to the family of a deceased organ donor.
Other concerns include whether religions condone the act. Heintz said most major religions actually encourage organ donations or say it's an individual decision.
"For some in Christianity, it's one of the most Christ-like things a person can do," she said. "Another misconception is that people can think they're too sick. Like people with diabetes. But, for example, maybe not a person's pancreas, but their liver or heart may be functioning fine."
LOPA encourages everyone to talk to his or her family about becoming an organ donor.
For information, visit lopa.org, or call 504-837-3355 or 1-800-521-GIVE.
"Our family has been blessed by the outpouring of love and prayerful support for our family's situation," David said. "Today, we are asking you to help LOPA raise awareness of the critical need for donors of tissue and organs to benefit the many people in Louisiana waiting for a match."
Staff Writer Kris Johnson can be reached at 857-2207 or
Follow her on Twitter @krisLjo.


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Hi,I did an install of 7.10 from the CD ISO images.In the /usr/pluto/install directory there seems to be only one MD image, for i386. Where are the other images? Are they in the DVD ISO image? Or are they downloadable from somewhere? Or are they hiding somewhere?I'll even take just a nudge in the right direction... Thanks,. Topher
linuxmce@dcerouter:~$ ls /usr/pluto/installaddons ConfirmDependencies_Debian.sh Initial_DHCP_Config.sh pkgselalsa.configured Download_CVS.sh Initial_Network_Config.sh PlutoMD-amd64.tar.bz2AptSources.sh Download_Direct.sh mce-installer-common.sh PlutoMD_Debootstraped.tar.bz2BonusCdAutoInst.sh Download_SVN.sh mce-installer-core.sh PlutoMD-i386.tar.bz2BonusCdMenu.sh Initial_Config_Core.sh mce-installer-InstallDependencies.sh PlutoMD-i386.tar.bz2.versionCommon.sh Initial_Config_Finish.sh mce-installer-preseed.sh post-debootstrap.shcompile.sh Initial_Config_MD.sh mce-installer.sh preseed.cfgconfig_update.sh Initial_Config.sh mce_wizard_data.sh PreseedStage2.sh
Ah. Yes. Thanks! So, that gets me the amd64 image. I don't see the via image in there. Is that available anywhere?. Topher


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