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Déjà Vu: Obama's Military Actions in Syria May Be Impeachable
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On Wednesday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Martin Dempsey told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Obama administration would seek "international permission" before engaging in war in Syria. Besides the possibility that it is merely a ruse — as there is growing evidence that the United States may already be covertly involved in Syria's war — for the United States to seek permission from other nations to go to war is unconstitutional. For that reason, Representative Walter Jones (R-N.C., left) has just introduced House Concurrent Resolution 107, calling for the impeachment of the President if he declares war without congressional approval.
Jones's resolution, which calls upon the U.S. House — with the Senate concurring — to prevent President Obama from starting yet another war without Congress declaring war. HCR 107 states:
Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
Whereas the cornerstone of the Republic is honoring Congress's exclusive power to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution: Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That it is the sense of Congress that, except in response to an actual or imminent attack against the territory of the United States, the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress violates Congress's exclusive power to declare war under article I, section 8, clause 11 of the Constitution and therefore constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
The Obama administration has openly rejected the constitutional requirement of seeking congressional approval for U.S. military engagement.
"Our goal would be to seek international permission and we would come to the Congress and inform you and determine how best to approach this," Panetta replied. "Whether or not we would want to get permission from the Congress, I think those are issues I think we would have to discuss as we decide what to do here."
The Obama administration has previously violated the Constitution in electing to involve the United States in an attack on Libya without congressional consent, prompting some members of the U.S. House to issue a resolution demanding that the President explain his reasons for such a decision. The resolution was ignored.
The Ohio Democrat told Raw Story, "President Obama moved forward [militarily against Libya] without Congress approving. He didn't have congressional authorization, he has gone against the Constitution, and that's got to be said."
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) declared at the time that President Obama's approval of air strikes against Libya was officially an "impeachable offense."
Kucinich has been relatively consistent on the issue of unconstitutional wars, as he indicated his desire to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for similar actions in leading the United States into war against Iraq.
Ironically, in 2007 Obama adhered to a philosophy similar to that of Kucinich, when as a Senator he declared, "The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
Since taking office, however, President Obama's views of the so-called War on Terror seem to have changed dramatically. Yahoo's Associated Content observed:
Barack Obama has been obliged to renege on a number of his campaign promises surrounding the War on Terror. Besides keeping the prison at Guantanamo open, he has not made a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq, has actually increased troop levels in Afghanistan, and has stepped up drone strikes in the Waziristan region of Pakistan. The joke is that Obama has killed more terrorists in the two years of his presidency than George W. Bush did in all eight years of his.
In fact, critics note that President Obama has exhibited all the qualities worthy of a neoconservative's praise. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has hailed many of Obama's hawkish decisions, explaining, "I think he's learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. So I think he's learned from experience."
The discussion of a possible Obama impeachment was revisited following the targeted killing of American-born al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki last September, with no charges being brought. Texas Congressman and GOP presidential contender Ron Paul has observed that because of the President's "flouting" of the law in the murder of al-Awlaki, impeachment is possible.
Ben Johnson of White House Watch wrote of the assassination of al-Awlaki:
Although federal agents have sought al-Awlaki since the Clinton administration, and the Authorization for the Use of Force passed following 9/11 allows the president to kill anyone he "determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11," al-Awlaki's birth in the United States has many debating the proper interplay between national security and civil liberties.
According to Rep. Paul, the assassination of an American citizen, regardless of the reason, "continues" and "accelerates" the "slip toward tyranny." He added, "I put responsibility on the president because this is obviously a step in the wrong direction. We have just totally disrespected the Constitution."
Paul warned attendees at a town hall meeting in Manchester, New Hampshire, that permitting targeted killings of American citizens without proper due process could set a dangerous precedent:
Al-Awlaki was born here. He is an American citizen. He has never been tried or charged for any crimes. If the American people accept this blindly and casually that we now have an accepted practice of the president assassinating who he thinks are bad guys I think it's sad. What would the people have said about Timothy McVeigh? We didn't assassinate him. We were pretty certain that he had done it. And they put him through the courts and they executed him.
Similarly, blogontherun.com wrote, "When the president of the United States can singlehandedly order the assassination of a U.S. citizen without charge or trial, we're not just on the slippery slope toward dictatorship, we're in free fall."
Paul added that virtually every U.S. President during his own terms in Congress had committed impeachable offenses. "I just said almost every President I've known I'd probably have to vote for impeachment, because there's very little respect for the Constitution, and certainly there's no respect for the Constitution [if they're] assassinating American citizens."
Ironically, Panetta callled upon the Constitution in his defene of the President's decision to seek international approval for military intervention in Syria. "When it comes to the national defense of this country, the President of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to act to defend this country and we will," he declared.
He did not explain how U.S. military intervention in the Mideast country of Syria is acting in defense of the United States or where in the constitution authorization for such executive branch action is found.* * * *
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You heard it straight from the horse's mouth!
The Obama administration is not taking orders from Congress, it is taking orders from the UN !!!!!
12th CONGRESS 2d Session H. CON. RES. 107
Expressing the sense of Congress that the use of offensive military force by a President without prior and clear authorization of an Act of Congress constitutes an impeachable high crime and misdemeanour under article II, section 4 of the Constitution.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - March 7, 2012
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Regional, national and international, private and public stakeholders were brought together by the French Association for Hydrogen and Fuel Cells ("AFHyPaC") and supported by the Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy, to share their knowledge and expertise in order to develop coordinated deployment scenarios for vehicles and hydrogen stations, and to emphasise the clear benefits and costs of this transition. The results will be published in late 2013.
The French approach follows on from the "H2 Mobility" initiatives in Germany and Great Britain, amongst others, and is co-funded by the stakeholders themselves and the European Union within the HIT (Hydrogen for Transport Infrastructure) framework project. The consortium has been formed in parallel to a draft European Directive to promote the development of alternative fuels such as electricity and hydrogen, which is currently being considered by the European Parliament and the European Council.
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The "Hydrogen Mobility France" initiative currently includes the following partners: Air Liquide, Alphéa Hydrogène, AREVA, CEA, CETH2, EDF, GDF SUEZ, GRTgaz, IFPEN, INEVA-CNRT, Intelligent Energy, ITM Power, Linde, Michelin, McPhy Energy, Pole Vehicle of the Future, PHyRENEES, Solvay, Symbio FCell, Tenerrdis, WH2, with the participation of experts from FCH-JU, ADEME, the CGSP (French Prime Minister Policy Planning Agency) and DGEC (Energy and Climate General Directorate). To join the consortium, contact AFHYPAC.
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Hydrogen can be produced, stored, transported and used in many ways: To power or recharge mobile devices, to power remote locations, to propel vehicles or electric boats, to store intermittent electricity, to increase the production of biofuels and to reduce the carbon footprint of natural gas in networks.
Implementation of hydrogen generation units at a regional level, whether producing hydrogen via electricity or natural gas, will play a key role in helping to evolve France's energy infrastructure, bringing more flexibility to match the country's needs.
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TETRIX Motor Controller
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TETRIX → Motor Controller
|The HiTechnic Motor Controller allows you to drive two 12V motors and read values from two shaft encoders.
|Once your HiTechnic DC Motor Controller is configured in the "TETRIX Controllers" tab of the Motors and Sensor Setup screen, you can use the Motors tab of the Motors and Sensors Setup to configure your motors.
|The name of the motor. NXT motors are given names "motorA" through "motorC". The TETRIX DC motors are named based on how they're connected to the NXT. The port name can be used to reference a motor in your program (i.e. motor[motorC] = speed;)
The TETRIX motor names can be translated as follows:
|Motors can be given more descriptive names, such as "LeftMotor" or "FrontMotor". This name is an alias for the motor port name, so you can use it anywhere you want to specify that motor. The first two configured TETRIX motors are given the names "motorD" and "motorE" by default, but these names can be changed based on your preference.
|This allows you to set the type of motors, wether they are 12V DC motors or NXT motors.
PID Control
|This checkbox enables the PID Speed Control functionality for a motor. The TETRIX DC motors don't have built-in encoders, so they must first be installed to use this feature.
|This checkbox will reverse the direction of a motor in an entire program. This is useful when motors are installed opposite one another. Instead of giving one motor a positive power level and the other motor a negative power level to make the robot move forward, both can be given a positive power level, simplifying your code.
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|bool bMotorReflected
|(bool) Boolean array. Used to indicate that the direction of a motor should be reflected 180 degrees. Useful when mechanical design results in a logical "reversed" condition of a motor. This can also be configured in the Motors and Sensor Setup menu in ROBOTC.
|int motor[tMotor motor]
|(int) Contains the motor power or speed level (-100 to +100). Negative values are reverse; positive formward. A power level of 0 (zero) stops the motors.
|long nMotorEncoder
|(long) Current value of the motor encoder. Range is -32768 to 32767 so it will "wrap" after about ~90 revolutions. The user's program should reset the value of the encoder often to avoid the value "resetting" itself when the maximum distance is met.


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05 May 2010
NV Corbett Canyon Pinot Noir
I picked this up at Kirby Wines & Liquors for one peculiar reason. While chatting with manager Angela Moon one day, we were discussing odd wine regions. We pointed out some Austrian and Israeli selections, but I found myself itching for something more exotic. She said the Corbett Canyon Pinot Noir was from Macedonia. Surely not, I thought. American box wine? That's all inexpensive California plonk, right? She fetched a box and showed me the small type on the back.
Well I'll be damned.
Macedonia is a confusing topic. It's an ancient region of Greece, but here we're talking about the bordering nation that became independent in 1991 as Yugoslavia fell apart. The country uses the Cyrillic rather than Greek alphabet, so the native name is Македонија. There are also (at least) three different pronunciations:
Slavic-derived Macedonian: mack-a-DOH-nee-ah
Greek: mack-a-doh-NEE-ah (spelled Μακεδονία)
English: mass-a-DOH-nee-ah
I was going to write a bit about my old philosophy professor who insisted on proper ancient Greek pronunciation for place names, but looking back over what I just typed I realize this emphasis on accent and consonants is just like Hermione needling Ron and Harry about wizard spells.
So how is it? Kind of buttery, light cherry, practically nonexistent tannins. Needs more acidity, more oomph, more character... It's frankly just manufactured and drinkable, but not memorable. But I've got to be honest: I wouldn't mind serving this at a big party full of people that aren't serious wine drinkers. It's a very mild and approachable red wine and while part of me wonders if it's really Pinot Noir, it's an easy drinking light red. Keep it chilled before drinking and after opening; even though the plastic bag keeps most of the air out, after a few days at room temperature it develops a harsher aroma and flavor.
I don't think I'll be buying this again, but I'm glad I tried it, and if someone asks me for a boxed wine recommendation at the $10 mark I'll probably suggest it. And you fellow wine geeks out there, racking up obscure grapes and regions with all the fervor of an adolescent stamp collector (hey, I still get excited about stamps), consider trying this wine to include Macedonia on your list. It's not bad, and I'm interested in seeing what else they have to offer.
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- fredric koeppel said...
sounds like what the British call "plonk." and it pays to read labels.
- 05 May, 2010 04:11
- Benito said...
I'm just curious about the sequence of events that led to choosing Macedonia for the source of wine, given the availability of cheap grapes in California.
More on odd labeling coming up on Friday...
- 05 May, 2010 05:03
- Thomas said...
I hear that in Macedonia, Gamay is pronounced Pinot Noir...
- 05 May, 2010 05:20
- Benito said...
I have no idea on what the percentage laws are for the region in terms of how much Pinot Noir is required to label it as such... Given the name confusion with the Greek region and the battle over who truly owns the name Macedonia, it's tricky to research.
This could just as well pass for Gamay. It's so one dimensional that you can't tell a lot about it from a swirl and sniff. Most really cheap reds are very tannic and sour, and this one is at least easy drinking.
- 05 May, 2010 05:35
- Tyler Worth said...
I'm new to the site and I'm really liking your posts so far. This was a cool one. I'm always curious about (but also a little afraid of) boxed wines, so I like it when someone actually takes the time to review them. You never know what you'll find. I've heard about Macdeonian wine but never had the chance to try one yet. Interesting post, I'm looking forward to reading more in the future.
- 05 May, 2010 14:07
- Benito said...
Glad to have you here, and I don't have many reviews on boxed wines. I am curious about alternative packaging, though, and my favorite so far is the Tetra Pak.
There are some wines that ship in both bottles and boxes, like Cline Red Truck or Big House Red.
- 05 May, 2010 16:41
- Joe said...
ΒΕΝΙΤΟ (you know, your name spelled in Greek letters doesn't do anything exotic),
We actually have an importer of Macedonian wines in Atlanta. Most of his stuff comes from the Tikves region, and they've been doing it for a long time.
I've actually had some pretty decent Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay (actually, really good Chardonnay), and a local red grape called Vranec from the producer Bovin.
Nothing exceptionally complicated, but definitely good values for $13 or so retail. Maybe they'll make it up to Memphis someday (gotta call my buddy at Athens distributing...)
- 06 May, 2010 11:09
- Benito said...
ΒΕΝΙΤΟ (you know, your name spelled in Greek letters doesn't do anything exotic)
Let's see... Accent over the iota, go old school and end with an omega... "Βενίτω". :)
Those wines sound interesting, and I promise one of these days I'll give the region a more proper tasting. Eastern European wines are a hard sell around here--we've got no substantial immigrant population from those countries, and from talking to retailers it's tough enough moving South African wines.
I've got an example of labeling in tonight's post I think you'll particularly enjoy.
- 06 May, 2010 11:57
- Dr.Bill3 said...
I like the single bottle usually, as does the reviewer, and was surprised that the boxed pinot noir was not bad.
For the first 10 boxes.
Today, I bought one and immediately noticed that it tasted like prune juice. Oh, not altogether prune juice, just way too mellow, no bite and the cloying sweetness of prunes. I will be writing to chide Corbett on its lack of quality control. In my area, reasonable pinots noirs can be had for 9.99/750 mL and perhaps I shouldn't cavil about 3L for $16, but if I wanted a cheap wine for $4/bottle, there's always Concha y Toro which I once returned for no recovery, just to make a point.
Depending on Corbett's response, perhaps one more try.
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Posted: Mon 08 Oct 2012, 14:49
Post subject: SPAM on the Saluki forum
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tech support topicis getting large amounts of spam. edit: It seems to be mostly in the tech support area. Is there someone with the necessary knowledge who would kindly volunteer to put in a filter?
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hello everyone
i am using saluki 023 currently. is there any way to edit exo-mount to add utf8 support because every time i try to mount my flashdrive in vfat32 from thunar sidebar, my file names in that flashdrive shows like "?????". i did a little research on the exo-mount issue. someone says to edit mount.rc file. i could not find that file. does anyone know how to address this problem?
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This might help.
On most puppies (I don't have saluki open in front of me, sorry) there is a "personalize settings" wizard, also called "firstrun wizard" or "firstboot wizard".
Open that. It will display the "welcome to [insert Puppy name here]" box and then give you a bunch of different useful options. One is a checkbox to enable UTF-8. Check the box and click the OK button. It will make you restart X after a minute or two (restarting X closes your active programs but it will not unmount anything).
After that you should be good to go.
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O.k., here it is. The first one is the USB stick that has been reformatted, I think a new partition table laid out, works well in any OS doesn't unmount in Saluki. The second has the factory formatting and works properly in Saluki.
The main differences are:
1. The second has the Windows 98 bootloader.
2. The second has a media descriptor.
3. The second shows hidden sectors, but both have hidden files, namely the automatically generated trashes files.
4. The second has no label, but mounts in Saluki as the manufacturer's name. The first mounts as "USB DISK", as stated.
I suspect the problem is that the Saluki 23 disk unmounting only works with USB sticks that have that piece of software that comes factory on the USB sticks and doesn't allow copying of certain bought files (audio, ebooks), so it won't work with reformatted drives. But reformatted drives work fine in other OSes, including proprietary/non-open source.
Not really sure this is the problem though. Maybe someone else can try a reformatted/new partition table USB stick.
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Hi Wognath,
Sorry about the spam problem on Saluki-Forum.
If I understand websites correctly, only its Administrator can install anti-spam addons, extensions, plugins. The most anyone else can do is research and recommend. But to do even that, we would have to know what software was used to create the website.
Examination of the forum indicates that it was built with phpBB and uses the sultanTheme style. But there are different versions of phpBB, and may be different versions of sultanTheme for each version.
You didn't mention if the Blog also was also being spammed. It was built with Wordpress. As there is an associated Forum, there really is no reason to allow comments to the Blog. So the easiest way to deal with spam is just to not allow comments.
If I recall correctly, in order to post on the Forum, you have to register. Registered spammers can be banned: i.e., their registration revoked. That won't stop them from seeking to register under a new name. I'm not sure, but there may be a plugin for phpBB which will block a specific IP address. If so, in addition to banning, a spammer's IP address can be blocked. Which, of course, won't stop spammers from posting from a different IP address, or if they can spoof a different IP address. It is my understanding that most spam comes out of Russia, the Ukraine, and China. There may be a plugin to exclude posting from an entire region. But that amounts to "throwing the baby out with the bath-water." The alternative is to require even registered users to complete a Captcha or KeyCaptcha. I particularly like the ones which require the use of a mouse to move pieces of a jigsaw puzzle to solve it, as the solution can't be automated (or at least would be very difficult to automate). Captcha's won't stop a dedicated spammer. But do an excellent job of preventing ROBO-Spamming. And perhaps there's an additional plugin so that before or after completing the Captcha you have to wait 60 seconds and click OK or continue. The more hoops a spammer has to go thru, the more likely he/she will be to direct his/her malevolence elsewhere. But, unfortunately, earnest Forum members would also have to accept those inconveniences.
Just like we put up with check-ins at an airport.
Available plugins can be found by typing "phpBB anti-spam"
into a search box. Then you'll want to also search whether a plugin conflicts with the sultanTheme jemimah used.
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Posted: Tue 09 Oct 2012, 12:35
Post subject: spam filter
Thanks for taking the time to post a very informative reply.
The administrators listed are Jemimah and TTW, a company. I have emailed Jemimah, but she is apparently unavailable at present. The blog has been inactive since July and I haven't seen any spam there.
I'll try emailing the company with my plea. I found the Saluki forum to be very helpful when I switched to Saluki, partly because it doesn't have 243 pages!!
Thanks again.
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mini-jaguar wrote:
O.k., here it is. The first one is the USB stick that has been reformatted, I think a new partition table laid out, works well in any OS doesn't unmount in Saluki. The second has the factory formatting and works properly in Saluki..
Hey, good info. I wonder if the number of sectors per cluster has anything to do with it? I don't know enough to be helpful yet, but at least you have managed to capture the info so it can be analysed. Did it capture the actual sector contents to a file so that it can be written back to the stick later if necessary for testing purposes?
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Sorry 'bout the spam on saluki-linux. I was the last moderator standing. I did give adequate warning on that forum that I'd be relinquishing my duties. I've since moved on to developing Carolina (based on Saluki-023). I no longer have the time to moderate the saluki-linux forum due to carolina development. Saluki-linux was extrememly time consuming due to the amount of spam, and the lacking spam controls, and I can't do it any longer while effectively developing a distro at the same time. And some of the previous posts are correct: Jemimah has sole admin-authority at this point, so unless she steps in, filtering at present is impossible. I've banned as many user-names/ip-addressess as I could (and faithfully deleted as much as I could up until the 7th of October - and now you can see what I was up against on an everyday basis), but I fear that the data-base is full, because even banned ip's/user-names are leaking through. And you're correct - most of the spam is coming from Russia/Indonesia. It's relentless. But you can't ban everyone from those locales, as there's dedicated puppy users from those locations. To do so would be counter-productive. I wish I had a better alternative, but unless jemimah becomes involved in the very near future, saluki-linux is for the most part a spammers haven. And unless jemimah picks up with saluki where she left off in the very near future, saluki is a dead end, because jemimah has stopped development on saluki. Geoffrey and I have forked Saluki-023 with Carolina, but Saluki itself, at present, is stagnated. Sad but true...
Just as a reference, not to highlight when they've done anything, but just the last time the people in charge have logged in to saluki-linux, here you have:
jemimah: 8 OCT 2012 (suprising that she hasn't done something...didn't realise this, because this is a very, very recent login).
t2linux: 20 SEP 2012
jim3630: 08 JUL 2012
That said, I have a great respect for jemimah, more than any of you (outside of Geoffrey) may know. She showed me more patience than was warranted, and to that I'm eternally grateful. However, things must move forward...
So with all honesty, I don't feel guilty about moving on. I've paid my dues. I'm a firm believer in saluki-linux, as is Geoffrey, but let's be honest...enough is enough. Even though some of these people have logged in recently, they have not contributed in any way-shape-or-form since June/july 2012. And it's now nearing mid October. So no, I don't feel guilty. And you can't make me...
That said, as of 9 OCT 2012, I've mirrored the saluki-linux forum, and will make use of it as it pertains to Carolina Linux. If you have questions concerning Saluki, you can pm me (elroy) or Geoffrey, and we may (no guarantee) be able to help you. We'd suggest you move on to Carolina, but if you can't run PAE, we understand. And we will help you if at all possible.
And with that, because jemimah is non-responsive, we don't have a clue to as long as saluki-linux will even be online! That's why I chose to mirror it. There's some valuable information there.
If you're into self-deprecation, pm me. If we can develop some kind of trust, I may be willing to provide you with my password to the site so that you can delete the spam. But be forewarned...it's a full-time job. They figure out when you sleep. And they employ auto-spam-bots - 7 spams at a time. You won't have much time to do anything else...
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I did not intend my request to reflect in any way on you or Geoffrey. You were both very helpful while moderating the Saluki forum and I clearly understood that you were moving on. mikeslr educated me a little about what is involved in filtering posts. I hoped someone would be interested and able to add a captcha or something, but I now understand that only an administrator can do so. I have emailed both administrators with my request.
In the meantime, I'll check out Carolina. Thanks again for your great work with Saluki.
PS I'll be willing to help clean up the forum once a filter is in place, but it seems pointless to try to stay ahead of it until then.
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Hey Wognath, absolutely no offense taken. We're both very big fans of Saluki, and if someone should choose to stay with it, we'll be willing to help out in any way, shape, or form that we can. As far as saluki-linux is concerned, I'd trust someone as yourself, but I wouldn't wish those duties on my worst enemy. The separate forum idea is/was good, but the lack of administrative oversight is the deal-breaker. I hope to see you on the Carolina forum, but if not, I'll help out, and I'm sure Geoffrey will too, to our brethren on the Saluki front. After all, we're all on the 'same page'. Take care...
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oops...my bad...this can be deleted, Flash.
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rg66 wrote:
I've just noticed that on my custom built Saluki 023 when I use the "open with" from the right click menu all the apps are listed randomly when they used to be alphabetical before the build. Any way to change this back?
This may or may not be the cause, but it's worth a try. I couldn't duplicate the behavior, but I've heard from others that could. Saluki has a bug in the uca.xml file. It's located at two different locations - a hidden file at /root/
config/Thunar, and another at /etc/xdg/Thunar. Download the attached gz file. Right-click and gunzip the file, and then copy and place it in the two directories. There may be another of the same name in /root - this may be deleted as it's not needed and is just taking up space. Let me know if this helps...I'm just as interested as you are in finding the solution.
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starhawk wrote:
This might help.
On most puppies (I don't have saluki open in front of me, sorry) there is a "personalize settings" wizard, also called "firstrun wizard" or "firstboot wizard".
Open that. It will display the "welcome to [insert Puppy name here]" box and then give you a bunch of different useful options. One is a checkbox to enable UTF-8. Check the box and click the OK button. It will make you restart X after a minute or two (restarting X closes your active programs but it will not unmount anything).
After that you should be good to go.
nice shot , after i check that option and reboot, everything goes smoothly, enjoy it!
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Glad to hear it! As a note, simply restarting X server would have been enough, you didn't have to reboot
But that's beside the point.
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Thanks Elroy but it didn't work. I did find those files yesterday when I was digging through the a_drive to try and find the problem but they seem to only apply to pfind down in the context menu and there was nothing about arrangment order.
If I boot without the a_drive the list is alphabetical, I then loaded the a_drive and the list stayed that way with all my added apps listed. It seems there is another file in the a_drive that is overriding the one from the puppy sfs. I still consider myself to be a linux noob so am just guessing.
Anyway, thanks for still supporting Saluki even though you are very busy with Carolina. I love Saluki but will probably switch to that when it matures a bit.
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In 2011 a dedicated market monitoring team commenced the work on the first market monitoring report. Starting from the relevant legislation, they developed a methodology to assess retail markets, network access and wholesale market integration to detect market barriers. From this a set of indicators emerged for each of these three areas, which have been debated with national regulators, the European Commission and other relevant stakeholders.
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The Market Monitoring team draws from public and non-public data sources to fill the selected indicators. For instance, the Agency is sourcing data from national regulators and benefiting from work executed by national regulators through CEER. As regards to public sources the Agency collects for example data from ENTSO's platforms and Energy Markets Observation System (EMOS). In sum, a vast majority of the data used in the market monitoring report is publicly available.
Within the context of Regulation (EC) No 715/2009 and Directive 73/2009, Network Codes (NCs) and Guidelines (GLs) were to be created. These regulations also established ACER's market monitoring responsibilities in terms of implementation and economic effects of NCs on market performance. In order to prepare and implement a monitoring framework for gas in 2015 the Agency commissioned a consultancy study for a methodology proposal to evaluate the impact of the gas Network Codes and Guidelines in terms of implementation and market effects. The study went through market consultation between 12 June and 17 July 2015.
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It's not just young, first-time brides who sometimes get cold feet at the altar. Dorothy Thompson, who was a longtime foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist exposing Hitler, got very cold feet an hour and a half before she was to wed her third husband, when she was 50 years old.
This is the thread that ties together the deeply moving one-woman show "Cassandra Speaks" that's being produced by the Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater. It stars the brilliant actress Tod Randolph as Thompson. Randolph clearly knows that what makes a one-person show succeed is taking the audience on a roller-coaster ride of emotions. And even more important, she knows how to do it very deftly and in a most inviting way.
The play was written for Randolph by the playwright Norman Plotkin. He died two years before she first performed it in 2012 for Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, Mass., where she has worked for many years as an actress, director, and teacher. This is her second production of the show.
Those who aren't World War II history buffs may not know the name of Dorothy Thompson. But her pioneering work as a prominent female journalist with a passion to wake the world to the dangers of Hitler made her extremely well known during his rise to power and during World War II. In 1938, "Time Magazine" recognized her as the most influential woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt. She interviewed Hitler and was the first journalist, man or woman, to be booted from Germany by him. He called her Cassandra after the prophetess in Greek mythology who was ignored and regarded as a liar and madwoman. Thus the title of this play.
In many ways, the play is about the personal cost of a woman taking on such a professional and bold mission at that point in history. She acknowledged that she was not cut out to be a wife - she was too driven, professionally and by her causes, to devote much energy or time to marriage. She tells us her first two marriages were failures. The most notable union, the second, was to the novelist and Nobel Prize winner for literature, Sinclair Lewis. She had a son by him, whom she was too busy to raise, though she loved him.
The play has many taut, sharp lines that make us sit up, some clearly drawn from Thompson's own writing while others are Plotkin's. There's a striking description of a man with a protruding forehead and unappealing features sulking at the party to celebrate her divorce from her first husband. He asks Thompson to marry him, even though they've never met before. Randolph reveals with spot-on intonation that it was Sinclair Lewis, whom she later calls Hal.
Their relationship and ultimate marriage are stormy. He becomes jealous of the attention she's getting for her writing, while he's fading from public view. Naturally, she's deeply offended that he's more concerned about his reputation than the crisis the world is facing and that she is writing about. And he can't lay off liquor.
Another extraordinary description is of Hitler, when she interviewed him. She describes him as a "formless, farting puppy" that crept into the room. He had a "jellyfish hand." And the mental snapshot she took of him turned out to be blank when it came into focus. She said that he was "emptiness itself disguised as a man." Once the Third Reich swept through Europe, she would have to defend her description, but she had caught something about him.
We hear about several famous people who were friends of Thompson's, including her best friend, Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Randolph, with her blond hair tucked back in a bun and wearing a lovely velvet dress with lace shoulders and buttons on the back, is extremely comfortable and commanding on the stage. She's very much emotionally in the moment, whether she's describing or reliving an event or talking with various people, including her secretary, on the phone. With her voice and facial expressions, she makes us eager to know what she's going to say next. She gives the first name of a woman lover she had between marriages and tells us nothing more about it, except she tells us everything with her face during a long pause. She shifts fluidly and precisely between emotions and talks easily and naturally to us as an audience. This is acting the way it should be, and it makes the show come alive.
Director Nicole Ricciardi has done a skillful job of helping Randolph to shape her performance and keep it emotionally honest.
Patrick Brennan's set design creates the lovely feeling of a period study with all the accoutrements of a desk, easy chairs, Oriental rug and a standard typewriter of the day that she pounds away on. A painted backdrop of a Vermont countryside that can be seen out a window helps to locate the show.
"Cassandra Speaks"
WHEN: Through June 29
WHERE: Central Square Theater, 450 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
TICKETS: Start at $15
INFO: 866-811-4111; www.CentralSquareTheater.org
Theater Review: Cassandra Speaks' of fascinating chapter of World War II
It's not just young, first-time brides who sometimes get cold feet at the altar. Dorothy Thompson, who was a longtime foreign correspondent and syndicated columnist exposing Hitler, got very cold feet an hour and a half before she was to wed her third husband, when she was 50 years old.


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The day is won. Israel has succeeded in its generational struggle with Arab National-Secularism.
Yet now the medium-term interests of the United States and the Jewish State diverge. The United States, the world's leader, desires a "rule-set reset" across the Middle East, replacing the divded and confused Arab regimes with something sustainable. Yet such division and confusion is precisely in Israel's interests, because weak and disoriented enemies cannot threaten her. In particularly, the map of Israel's near-abroad that America must strive for will naturally spook our allies in Jerusalem.
A Levant Worth Creating: Blue = Globalized States, Yellow = Traditional States, Purple = Muslim Brotherhood States
American actions not in Israel's preferred direction occurred soon after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and can be seen by comparing the recommendations of the seminal 1996 paper, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm
King Hussein may have ideas for Israel in bringing its Lebanon problem under control. The predominantly Shia population of southern Lebanon has been tied for centuries to the Shia leadership in Najf, Iraq rather than Iran. Were the Hashemites to control Iraq, they could use their influence over Najf to help Israel wean the south Lebanese Shia away from Hizballah, Iran, and Syria. Shia retain strong ties to the Hashemites: the Shia venerate foremost the Prophet's family, the direct descendants of which — and in whose veins the blood of the Prophet flows — is King Hussein.
with what actually happened
- Attempted implementation of an indigenous, secular, Shia government
- Actual implementation of an indigenous, religious, Shia government
Israel desired a restored Hashemite Kingdom of Iraq to calm the Middle East, as soon as possible. The United States desired a Shia Iraq to explode the Middle East, as soon as possible.
Such a disagreement extends beyond the failing state of Iraq to Israel's immediate neighborhood. With the internal remnants of Arab National-Secularism, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah patronage machine, in shambles, Israel's best medium-term future was a globalized Lebanon and weak (and easily blackmailed) Egyptian and Syrian regimes. Yet America's goal is continuing the 3/20 Revolution wish must include replacing the Arab National-Secularist governments of Egypt and Syria with the Muslim Brothers. The Global War on Terrorism requires replacing dysfunctional worldly rule with Islamic Law.
Sharia's modernizing track record in the Middle East is positive, National-Secularism's is negative. Don't believe it? Compare the religiosity of Egyptians and Iranians. Compare the strength of Egypt and Iranians.
In a recent post, Tom Barnett wrote:
And yes, forcing us all to live together in connectedness (known today by the moniker of globalization) will force a tremendous amount of change on both those who welcome it (by all indications, the bulk of the populations throughout the Gap) and those who revile it (a small minority who will fight these changes to the very end, and yes, for them, the conflict will be "genocidal" in that they will not survive it).
In that conflict process, which I believe is both inevitable and good, it will be harder before it gets easier, but putting off the hard part only ensures greater conflict and death totals down the line, because if integration isn't achieved, colonial mercantlist-style economic transaction patterns will predominate, as will local authoritarianism and failed states, and the death totals associated with those pathways will (as they do today) dwarf the death totals of integrating conflicts (and if you don't believe that, then you are woefully ignorant of what's happening every day in Africa right now).
The challenge before us is not one of deciding "yes" or "no" to this historical process. That train left the station a generation ago when the East decided to join the global economy.
The only question that remains is how we rise to this challenge. How we get smarter about how we wage both war and peace.
To pretend that the choice lies between war and peace is self-delusional, just like pretending we must choose between globalization-the-integration-process and globalization-the-disintegrating/reformatting-process. Life is simply not that binary.
Israel, being only a state, is too weak to influence systems and instead must play for time, merely surviving into her surroundings are magically improved. But America is a system-level power, and America has the power to change the nature of Israel's surroundings.
It is by bringing 3/20 to Cairo and Damascus that we can truly prevent another 9/11. Redirect the violent feedback of the National-Secularists to the National-Secularists. Bring the rage of crooked Arab economies to crooked Arab states. Shrink the Gap by destroying-in-detail the National-Secularism that helped expand it.
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A New Middle East 1: Our Vanquished Enemies
A New Middle East 2: Iran
A New Middle East 3: Israel
A New Middle East 4: Islam is the Answer


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Angelo David – The Vera Wang of Couture Extensions
Angelo grew up in a suburb of Westchester county, NY. He always spent a lot of time in his father's barbershop. Angelo worked diligently in the family business, doing everything from shining shoes to sweeping up hair. He was a troubled kid and was sent away to boarding school and then military school. Then Angelo chose to go to Hair Dressing/Cosmetology School. This seemed like an odd choice for a wanna' be bad boy with a tough attitude. Yet, hairdressing was in his genes. His father was a barber, his uncle was a barber, his friend's fathers were even barbers.
Angelo was learning about hair care in school. Here he found a true passion for the business. After only a few weeks in cosmetology school, Angelo realized, " Wow. This is something I can really get into." Of course it didn't hurt being surrounded by sixty beautiful girls every day.
A year after finishing school, Angelo went to work with Joe and Louis at VIP Hair Salon in Yonkers. This was when he really found his calling. Afterwards, Angelo worked with father for a short stint. His father was involved in the hair pieces and wigs business and had built a brand. Angelo David built upon his father's brand and opened a small boutique salon. Twenty years later, Angelo David salon is the top salon for couture hair extensions. He is the Vera Wang of customized, couture Hair Extensions.
Angelo David Hair Salon
Angelo David is a celebrity hairdresser and creates one of a kind extensions for celebrities for red carpet events and talk show appearances. Angelo David salon boasts VIP rooms and wonderful, private consultation rooms in an intimate setting. This is where the magic happens. Clients can confidentially consult with Angelo or his team. Most salons only have one person who does their extensions. Angelo has a trained team of extension professionals. Angelo David does a custom job of providing you with the hair additions that work for your needs and your lifestyle. There are more than 20 different types of Extensions. Each hair addition is fully customized towards the individual woman.
When you are at Angelo David Salon you will get hair that is customized to the individual personality of the consumer. They don't just pull out some hair from a bag like many places do. Each extension is a couture design. You would go to Vera Wang to customize your couture wedding gown and Angelo David to design and customize your couture extension.
Hollywood dictates what goes on in fashion. Hair extensions are no longer a hidden taboo. Consumers now want to know how to get the long, luscious looks of the celebrities they see on TV. Did you know you can add on 20% more hair up to 150%. Women might choose to have a short, sassy, trendy cut, but after a month yearn for their long hair again. You no longer have to wait a year or two for your hair to grow out. Hair extensions can be added and your hair will be more glowing and bouncy than ever. Hair add ons can be dyed any color. They can make your hair look more full and thick and the customer says, " Bye Bye" skimpy hair.
Hair extensions are the ultimate accessories. Real beautiful quality hair comes from India or Europe, which is the most expensive. If you have a special event to go to you can buy a clip on hair extension, which will cover the top of your head. Otherwise adhesive bonds, links or weavings may be done depending on the type of hair you have. Every ethnicity comes in to get hair extensions at Angelo David salon. Women's ages range from 18 to 80 and they come from all over the world to find Angelo David.
Extensions cost from $800 to $6,000. That's less than the cost of most plastic surgery. When you have a beautiful head of hair, you have confidence and the world is your oyster.
***I asked some additional questions that readers might have.
Angelo David's answers will give more insight.
Extension Maintenance - How often do people come back to maintain the extensions, pieces, clips etc.
** Maintenance appointments vary with the type of extension you have. Typically, I expect clients to come every 4 – 12 weeks.
Do clients with extensions have to avoid swimming or anything else?
** We put a huge emphasis in customizing hair extensions based from the information we gathered from the initial consultation. Clients are assured the type of extension chosen will allow them to do their normal activities. There are do's and don'ts. We thoroughly discuss everything with our clients regarding proper maintenance, but those will not prevent them from doing their normal routine.
I got a cost of $1500 to $5,000? Is that not including maintenance?
The price can range anywhere from 800 to $3500 depending on the type of hair and length desired. Usually, the average is around $2500. The cost will cover the price of the hair and the first initial visit. The maintenance is a separate, but necessary, appointment to help ensure the couture extension's longevity.
How long does it take to put extensions in?
Clients expect to be in the salon around 1- 3 hours, depending on the type of extensions they are getting
I know they have to be ordered and come in 6 weeks later. What is Remy Hair?
It might take a few days up to 4 weeks; depending on the type of hair the clients want.
Remy hair is a type of premium quality human hair where the cuticles remain intact and aligned in one direction, giving the most natural feel and appearance.
What are some different ways extensions are put in? I know people are curious how it is done
We offer a range of application type for hair extension: from basic clip-ons (where to custom made are attach using clips) to more intensive processes like linking (where the extensions are connected with the hair using cylindrical links) and traditional weaves. Another method is the use of adhesives, where real hair is sandwiched between hair fillers to boost volume.
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New York, NY
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Atomistic Modeling of Point Defects Absorption and Diffusion in α –iron Grain Boundaries
Helena Zapolsky, Antoine Vaugeois, Renaud Patte
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Point defect sinks, such as individual dislocations or grain boundaries, play a crucial role in embrittlement, swelling, or non-equilibrium solute segregation driven by the point defect fluxes. These phenomena are especially important in irradiated materials. Recently we proposed a new modelling technique, Quasiparticle approach (QA), that naturally incorporate structural and elastic properties of system and allows to model the phenomena which take place at interfaces. In this theory we (i) introduced a characterization of a multiatomic system in terms of quasiparticles named fratons, (ii) proposed a new simple form of phenomenological model potentials describing a directionality and strength of atom-atom bonding, and (iii) used the kinetic equations of the Atomic Density Field (ADF) theory describing the atomic scale diffusion. In this paper, a way of describing self point defects using QA is proposed. Using this new development of the QA, both vacancy and self-interstitial absorption by grain boundaries is modeled.
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A Comprehensive First-principles Study of Solute Elements in Dilute Ni Alloys: Diffusion Coefficients and Their Implications to Tailor Creep Rate
A Predictive Computational Route to Quantitatively Evaluate the Effect of Doping on Reducing Thermal Conductivity of Ceramic Oxides
A Random Walk Model of Screw Dislocation Cross-slip in Face-centered Cubic Solid Solution Alloys
Absolute Value Estimation of Thermodynamic Properties in Ni-Al Alloys Using a First Principles Renormalized Potential
Advances in Atomic-scale Methods for Materials Chemistry
An Efficient Monte-Carlo Algorithm for Determining the Minimum Energy Structures of Metallic Grain Boundaries
Atomic Diffusion and Its Effect on Creep Resistance of High Temperature Titanium Alloys
Atomistic Investigation of the Energetics and Atomic Structure of the Ferrite-cementite Interface in Pearlite
Atomistic Modeling of Point Defects Absorption and Diffusion in α –iron Grain Boundaries
Atomistic Simulations of the Mechanism of Twinning in FCC Metals and Microtwinning in 2-phase Superalloys
Cluster Variation Method Applied to Phase Transformations
Computational Approach to the Magnetic Properties of Ga-added Nd-Fe-B Sintered Magnets
Concurrently Coupled Atomistic and Continuum Simulation of Grain Boundaries in Materials
Cu Substituted CeCo5: New Optimal Permanent Magnetic Material with Reduced Criticality
Design of Fast Ion Conducting Electrode Materials
Determination of the Diffusion Mechanisms in Liquid Alloys
Developing Grain Boundary 'Phase' Diagrams: From Phenomenological Interfacial Thermodynamic Models to Atomistic Simulations
Development of Molecular Dynamics Methods for the Thermal Characterization of Materials
DFT Calculations on Carbon Materials for Gas Monitoring and Organic Pollutants Degradation
Dispersion Corrected Density Functional Theory Study of β-PVDF/Ionic Liquid Complexes
Droplet Spreading on a Surface Exhibiting Solid-liquid Interfacial Premelting
First-principles-based Novel Materials Design for Pb-free Perovskite Solar Cell
First-principles Investigation of Thermodynamics and Precipitation Kinetics in Al-Sc Alloys
First-principles Study of Co
W Antiphase Boundaries with Al Impurities
First-principles Study of Dislocations in BCC Fe
First Principles Modeling of Non-basal Deformation Modes in Mg-Y Alloys
First Principles Molecular Dynamics Study for Oxidation on Ti Surface at Elevated Temperature
Formation of Arsenene p-n Junctions via Organic Molecular Adsorption
Friction and Adsorption at Nanoscale: The Effect of Metallic and Nonmetallic Properties
High-throughput Computational Studies of Structural, Electrical, Phonon and Thermal Properties of Two-dimensional Materials
Ideal Strength and Ductility in Metals from Second- and Third-order Elastic Constants
Improvement of Energy Models for Magnetic Alloys and Nanoalloys
Impurity Segregation in Copper: Theory vs. Experiment
In-plane Characterization of Structural and Thermodynamic Properties for the Steps at Faceted Chemically Heterogeneous Solid/Liquid Interfaces
In Situ Nanomechanics: Integrating Atomistic Modeling and In Situ Experiment
Interfacial Structures and Energetics of the Strengthening Precipitate Phase in Creep-resistant Mg-Nd-based Alloys
L-10: First-principles Investigation of Vanadium Segregation at (111) Twins in MgAl2O4-spinel
L-12: Insights into the Effect of Zr on O-contaminated MoSi
Grain Boundaries from Density Functional Theory Calculations
L-13: Interface Design for Carbide and Nitride Precipitates in Ferritic and Austenitic Steels: First-principles Approach
L-15: On the Deformation Mechanisms and Scaling Law of Three-dimensional Nanoporous Metals
L-16: Optimizing Processing Parameter in Laser Sintering Process by Molecular Dynamics Simulation
L-17: Pair Correlations in Metal Nanocrystals
L-19: Predicting the Electronic Structure of CeO2 Grain Boundaries for Comparison with Atomic Resolution EELS
L-2: Atomic Structure and Electronic Properties of Hybrid Halide Perovskite Surface for Photovoltaic Applications
L-4: Atomistic Simulations of Carbon Diffusion and Segregation in α-Iron Grain Boundaries
L-6: Composition and Measurement Dependent Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Oxide
L-7: Deformation Studies of Pd-Pt Alloy Nanowire Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
L-9: Effect of Precipitation on Grain Boundary Diffusion in Al-based Alloy
Lattice Dynamics and Thermal Transport in Part-crystalline Part-liquid Materials through Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Mass and Heat Transport in Ternary Liquid Alloys
Materials Design from Functional Molecule-metal Interface
Mobility of Small Point Defect Clusters and Prismatic Dislocation Loops
Modeling Segregation at Stacking Faults Using Cluster-assisted Statistical Mechanics
Modelling Structural Materials in Realistic Environments by Ab Initio Thermodynamics
Molecular Dynamics Approach to Solidification Microstructure
Monte Carlo Simulation for i-s Clustering in Iron Based on the First-principles Calculation
Non-equilibrium Simulations of 4H Silicon Carbide
On the Behavior of Liquid Ga Precipitates in Solid Al
Phase Stability and Chemical Composition of Nanoprecipitates: A First Principles Study for the Example of Kappa Carbides
Phase Stability and Martensitic Transitions in NiTi from First Principles Simulations
Protein Dynamics under Nanoconfinement and Its Contribution to the Toughness of Nacre
Quantum-continuum Simulations of Solid-liquid Interfaces under Electrochemical Conditions
Quantum Mechanical Simulations of MgO//Mg Interfacial Stability
Simulation of Solidification/Devitrification in Ni-Nb Alloys
Simulation on the Effects of Glass-glass Interfaces on the Plastic Deformation of Nano-glasses
Stability and Effects of Substitutional Elements in NdFe
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Suppression of Martensitic Transitions in NiTi Shape Memory Alloys from Ab Initio Simulations: The Role of Compound Twins
The Effect of Chemical Doping on the Lithiation Processes of the Crystalline Si Anode: A First-principles Study
The Kinetic Mechanism Underlying the Solid-state Precipitation of Core-shell Particle in Al-Zr-Er Alloy
Theoretical Investigation of Ag-Li-Sb System as the Anode Materials for Lithium-ion Batteries
Thermal Transport in Ni-containing FCC Concentrated Solid Solutions from First Principles
Thermodynamics of Pb-Sn System in Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Thermoelectric Model of High ZT Nanoengineered Bulk Silicon for High Temperature Applications
Topological Nodal Lines in Metals
Tribological Properties of Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Natural Rubber Composites: Molecular Dynamics Study
Understanding Defect Tolerance and Grain Boundary Effect on Mechanical Properties of Nano-twinned Yttria-stabilized Tetragonal Zirconia
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TXD files are RenderWare compression texture archives with the .txd extension which are used by Grand Theft Auto games from the GTA III Era to store images and other textures used throughout the game.
A number of tools have been developed by members of the community to open .txd files and extract/replace the textures, allowing for the modification of the game's appearance. The most notable is TXD Workshop which is developed by Delfi. Some links to this and other tools are below.
Most TXD files are stored inside the gta3.img archive.
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- TXD Workshop
- TXD Viewer - for viewing .txd files on PS2 discs.
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Panic at Macedonian circus after lion escapes
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) -- Several hundred spectators got an unexpected shock at a circus in Macedonia after a lion broke through a safety enclosure during a performance.
The incident occurred late Sunday in Kavadarci, a central town about 60 miles south of the capital Skopje.
The spectators fled in panic when the lion charged through metal fencing at the Hungarian circus Safari, according to circus officials and witnesses. Children were crying and some women even fainted, they said.
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The French data protection authority has fined a subsidiary of US firm Tyco Healthcare over the transfer of employee information across borders and inadequate data safeguards. Tyco Healthcare France was fined €30,000.
It is believed to be the first time that a US-based multinational has been fined for unauthorised overseas transfers of personal data.
La Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL) imposed the fine after discovering that Tyco's human resources database was using personally identifiable information more extensively than the company had admitted.
Tyco notified CNIL in 2004 that it was operating a human resources database containing personal information, as required by French law.
When at a later date CNIL requested further information from the company, Tyco said that it had stopped using the database. An inspection in 2006 by CNIL found that not only was the database active, but that it was being used more extensively than the company had indicated.
"The CNIL noted at an on-the-spot check that not only was the use of the system not suspended, but that it was very regularly used and updated, in spite of the many legal uncertainties raised by the CNIL," said the CNIL in an unofficial translation of a statement in French.
The CNIL said it has raised questions with Tyco about the destination of data, the reasons for international transfer and the safety and security of the data on the network.
The fine is evidence of the culture clash between US corporations and European governments on the issue of data protection. A fundamental principle of European data protection is that personal information is only shared with countries with equally stringent protections. The US is not classified as one of those countries.
In recent months Europe and the US have clashed over data transfers in airline systems and a banking system.
The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) has been mired in controversy after it was discovered that it had transferred thousands of financial transaction details to US authorities.
SWIFT is based in Europe and co-ordinates international payments. It has, since 2001, allowed US authorities access to the international financial transactions of Europeans. The body has been condemned by national and EU privacy chiefs, and the European Parliament has now called on it to alter its business.
US authorities have also long had access to 34 pieces of information about European travellers flying into the country under a deal with the European Commission over passenger name records (PNR). A new version of that deal, which is also opposed by the European Parliament, is currently under negotiation ahead of a July deadline.
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Hi folks, its been a while since my last post. I guess i have been a bit too busy, but no complains thats the way it goes.
Coming to the point, althought i havent been blogging but i have been busy sorting out podcasts for the DotNetMe (Microsoft.Net Middle East) show. Just to give you a head's up, so far, we have recorded following sesssions:
– Agile Development with Hammad Rajjoub (shameless plug, i know :> )
– Localizing Microsoft Technology Stack for Arabic with Dina Lasheen
– Understanding Micrsoft EPM – Enterprise Project Management with Bilal Okour
We are going to record two more sessions tonight
– Understanding Sharepoint for Developers using C# with Mostafa Arafa
– Inside Sharepoint for Arabs with Ayman el Hattab
We are aiming to go live on MSDN Channel9 15th December with these shows with lots of more shows to follow.
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April 10, 2011
Born Pretty Kelier Crackle Black & A Giveaway Winner
Here we have Kelier Black Crackle over a few different polishes. The brush is the wonkiest I've ever seen, but it really doesn't matter with a crackle polish. These sell for around $4 with free shipping and no minimum order. The Kelier crackles have a very different effect than the China Glaze Crackles & the OPI Shatters & the crackle I showed you yesterday.
I wanted to try it out as soon as it arrived. This is one coat over Zoya Dove. It looked pretty cool so I've used it a few more times since then.
I really wanted to try it over a red polish because I thought it would look like cooling lava. Again one coat over Color Club Feel The Beat. I love it! Sorry for the messy clean up. The Kelier is REALLY difficult to remove, even from skin with acetone.
I didn't have any untrieds for about a month and I couldn't decide what to do with my nails. I asked Will and he suggested the Kelier over a glow in the dark polish. Great idea, but almost impossible to photograph!
Last I used it as an accent nail over my beloved Maybelline Khaki Fringe.
The winner of my Medusa's Threads giveaway is M. Bhow. Random.org chose her #43 out of 239 entries. Thanks to everyone who entered! I'll be starting a new giveaway soon.
Thanks for reading!
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Complex man: Carl Smith loved UVA
Legendary UVA donor Carl Smith, shown here in a 2001 picture, died December 8 after a long illness. Smith gave $23 million five years ago toward the $100 million overhaul of Scott Stadium. More recently, he donated $22 million for a planned 100,000-square-foot performing arts center to take the place of the Cavalier Inn on Emmet Street.
"It's somewhat embarrassing, of course," the Charlottesville resident told a young reporter shortly after the athletic complex was re-christened the Carl Smith Center.
Smith's most controversial legacy may be the $1.5 million he gave in 2003 to create a marching band. UVA officials seized the opportunity to deny the Pep Band access to football games after that student-run group performed some skits that embarrassed UVA president John Casteen.
Smith– whose wealth Virginia Business magazine measures at $500 million– was a UVA scholarship student from Wise County. He founded a fuel extraction company called Amvest.
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I was watching a Sonic Adventure review a few days ago and the person mentioned something that you may find interesting.
You may know of a level in Sonic Adventure called Windy Valley which is playable as Sonic, Tails, and Gamma. The level is mostly linear and isn't all that remarkable if you ask me. If you take a look at early screenshots of the game you might see that the level looks different. It has blue textures and looks a lot larger, in terms of height and alternate pathways. I'll leave a link to the screenshots: https://www.sonicretro.org/wp-content/u ... valley.png https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rAEgLe6PfaU/maxresdefault.jpg The interesting thing as that the second screenshot was also used to promote the 2004 GameCube port of Sonic Adventure named Sonic Adventure DX Director's Cut despite the level being unused. You might be thinking since the GameCube port is called Directors Cut it will have the beta level playable right, well no it's still the same Dreamcast level.
There is footage of the beta level on YouTube but I can't find a clip usable for this post because it's all combined with other footage you don't need to see.
The level can be viewable in cutscenes, in the opening cinematic when you boot up the game Tails and Big are in the level, and in the first cutscene of Amy's story when she describes the "good old days" her flashback takes place in the beta level. I thought something looked off about that cutscene
Let's fast forward to 2013, a user on the Sonic Retro forum made a post about a kiosk auto-demo of the game used in Japan to promote the game. The internal build data of the disc is dated October 16 1998, which was 55 days after the game was announced and 49 days before the internal build date of the first final release of the game.The person then posted some images of test levels and other things, and the day finally came.
He/she posted images of the first act of the level, then the third. There aren't any textures in the images they're just the stage models. Then people tried to recreate the textures themselves and port the level over to the PC version of SA DX. Finally in July of 2014, a whole year later the level was modded into the game for anyone to download. Here is a video of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLSzQpuiYnM
The beta level is a lot more open, and longer. I doubt it but maybe the level was cut because of space limitations, but hey it could be, if a graphically intense level like Holoska in Sonic Unleashed HD is the only level that does 60fps in the 360 version anything can happen. Maybe it was also cut because they didn't want to confuse the players on the second level or at all, but the thing is it was cut and we have it now.
There should not only be SA DX mods for it but also Generations and Lost World mods, so it's very accessible. Generations I'm not sure about but Lost World I know for sure, but play the SA mod so you can play it the way it is meant to be played. If you can't do it that way then I'd say the Lost World mod, Generations would be your last resort since that game had the boost and is the only one out of the three that did.
I like the beta level more than the final since it shows what Sonic Team was capable of back then, making something fun, huge, longer, repayable, and encouraging exploration. Instead of this Secret Rings stuff where there are terrible motion controls, spikes all over the place, and have stupid collect x amount of this stuff missions occasionally occur. I would give Sonic Boom Rise Of Lyric hate right now, but that's overdone and that wasn't even developed by Sonic Team so Boom gets a pass this time.
I hope you found this interesting, have a good day/night and goodbye.


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Movies that inspires that feeling of "ROAD TRIP"!
Every once in a while, we heed the call of the wild and hit the paved ribbon of roads that might finds us on the famed Route 66 or Highway 101 or even standing on the corner of Winslow, Arizona. Such A fine sight to see...(you finish the rest of the lyrics)!
Thanks to MSN.com, here is some of the Movies that set our eyes to the open road!