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2013 Buick LaCrosse: New Car Review
Pros: Luxury appointments and impressive standard features; good fuel economy
Cons: Twitchy steering; base 4-cylinder lacks performance
What's New: Standard Buick IntelliLink across lineup; available XM Travel Link; electric power steering on all models
Combining European styling with modern luxury touches and excellent fuel economy, all of Buick's new and redesigned nameplates are largely unrecognizable from the dated brand most Americans still remember. Stodgy and mild no longer have a place in the Buick vocabulary, and arguably there is no better example of that than with the 2013 Buick LaCrosse.
When the LaCrosse received a major overhaul in 2009, it was billed as the first car of a new generation of Buicks that were meant to attract a younger buyer. For Buick, that means 40- and 50-year-olds. For the most part, the strategy has succeeded and, with the addition of both the new Verano and Regal to the lineup, as well as the continued success of the Enclave, Buick's efforts have been rewarded with incredible sales growth.
For 2013, the LaCrosse gets just minor tweaks, but the changes further increase its appeal to younger buyers. The Buick IntelliLink touchscreen infotainment system with smartphone integration is now standard across the lineup. Travel Link, an XM service that provides helpful information such as refueling locations and pricing and movie times, is now available too.
The 2013 LaCrosse is an excellent choice for luxury shoppers seeking fuel economy and value. Yes, it has a few foibles, but they are by no means deal breakers, especially among the car's target market.
Good Fuel Economy Comes Standard
Rising fuel economy regulations have forced automakers to come up with new ways of making cars more efficient without losing the performance customers demand. The major strategy GM has adopted to attain what seem to be mutually exclusive goals involves a light electrification system dubbed eAssist.
As the first vehicle across all of GM's brands to receive its eAssist package as standard equipment, the LaCrosse represents a vanguard of sorts. GM has said its eAssist strategy will spread across much of its passenger vehicle lineup in the years to come.
The eAssist system mates a large starter motor/generator combo to a 2.4-liter, 4-cylinder engine and pairs it to a big battery in the trunk. The combination of these two elements allows the vehicle to capture electricity through regenerative braking and use that electricity to provide assistance to the gas engine during acceleration. The large starter motor also allows the vehicle to shut off the engine when slowing down and stopped, and to start back up immediately when needed.
The system can return some impressive numbers, with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rating it at 25 mpg in the city and 36 mpg on the highway. During a week of driving on approximately 70 percent highway and 30 percent city roads, our test car returned about 29 mpg. Considering a large part of that driving was with a fully loaded vehicle carrying luggage for four people and usually seating three adults and two children, the result is all the more impressive.
The auto start-stop feature of the eAssist system performed flawlessly, and the engine turned on and off faster and more unnoticeably than on full hybrids such as the Toyota Prius or Ford Fusion Hybrid. The only clue that the system was working came when the tachometer dropped below zero into a section of the gauge that read, "auto stop."
Although the mileage from the base eAssist system is very good, the drivetrain felt as if it were occasionally struggling to keep up in heavy Northeast Thanksgiving traffic, where short spurts of fast acceleration can be helpful in staying out of harm's way. Even with the car's smooth, 6-speed automatic transmission, it produced a high-pitched whine and strained to meet my demands when my foot was mashed on the gas pedal. The results were acceptable but not optimal.
For customers less concerned about economy and more concerned with more responsive acceleration, Buick offers a 3.6-liter V6 upgrade, but the V6 drops fuel economy substantially to 17-mpg city and 27-mpg highway.
Although the LaCrosse starts at a base price of $32,535, our test car came equipped with the Touring package, which pushed its price to just more than $40,000. The options included adaptive high intensity headlights that articulate to follow curves in the road, a blind spot warning system, ultrasonic parking assist, heads-up display, navigation, a backup camera, heated seats, fog lamps, an 11-speaker Harman/Kardon audio system, a 120-volt 3-prong power outlet and 8-way adjustable driver and passenger seats.
The V6 engine is a no-cost option available on even the base LaCrosse. All-wheel drive is available too. It requires the V6 and is optional with the Leather package and higher trims. The all-wheel-drive LaCrosse starts at $36,910.
Interior Hits and Misses
While the interior of the 2013 LaCrosse is generally well designed and pleasing to look at, a week of hauling a family around gave us insight into its strengths and weaknesses. One of the car's best features is how well the engineers handled noise and vibration. In fact, the car was so quiet--even on poorly maintained highways--that the road sometimes faded away as an afterthought. With the engine off at every stop sign and red light, the quietness was even more noticeable in city driving.
Although the seats are generally comfortable for long rides, they could benefit from a bit more bolster for front passengers' hips and thighs.
There are also some minor details that we hope to see Buick address in the next generation. For one, the front cupholders are so high that the driver and front passenger constantly hit cups with their elbows. Also, in a classic case of design trumping functionality, the front door handles are partially covered by a design element that sometimes makes grabbing the handle a bit frustrating.
The center console LCD screen is also positioned such that the driver's right hand obscures a portion of it, causing the driver to crane his or her neck for a glimpse.
In an effort to attract a younger, more tech-savvy buyer to the brand, Buick's smartphone integration is very good and relatively intuitive. Connecting an iPhone to the system worked flawlessly, and the Bluetooth audio phone connection was clear and easy for incoming callers to understand, even at highway speeds. Standard IntelliLink adds value for the 2013 model year.
Safety Packed, but Steering Is Twitchy
The 2013 LaCrosse comes standard with six airbags, stability control, traction control, ABS and daytime running lights. The available $1,440 Driver Confidence Package on our test car provides some additional safety features that make the package an appealing value. They include a heads-up display, articulated front headlights and a blind spot warning system.
The heads up display not only provides a quickly accessible speed reading but is also capable of showing navigation directions and satellite radio information. The adaptive high intensity discharge headlights provide great nighttime visibility in shadowy turns. On several occasions in heavy holiday traffic, the blind sport warning lights on the side rearview mirrors provided critical information without the need to look away from the road ahead. Even without those additional safety features, the LaCrosse received a 5-star overall rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and a "Top Safety Pick" designation from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS).
Although it has some good safety credentials, the modern LaCrosse has unfortunately inherited the steering of the old Buick. It's twitchy at high speeds, and our passengers called it nearly nausea-inducing on more than one occasion. Slight steering corrections led to amplified and noticeable jerkiness at freeway speeds. Although it wasn't ever a big enough problem to cause a safety concern, the effect became tedious during long drives.
But even with its relatively minor foibles, the 2013 LaCrosse is a solid effort. Combined with its modern Buick siblings, it's no wonder the Buick brand is experiencing some of the fastest and strongest growth in the industry. Loaded with luxury features at a less-than-luxury price, the 2013 Buick LaCrosse is a great value and should be on the test drive list of any shopper looking to buy an Acura, Lexus, Lincoln or even a high-end Camry.


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JUTICALPA, Honduras (AP) -- On the 14th day of each month, Jesus Garcia joins other relatives to hoist a cardboard coffin and carry it in a macabre procession down a road to the prison where two cousins died with 360 other inmates in the worst prison fire in at least a century.
It's their way to demand justice in the deaths of Antonio and Franklin Garcia, who were among many left locked in their cells as fire raced through the wooden barracks on Feb. 14 last year, and the handful of guards on duty ran for their lives.
"We go to the jail, in a symbolic procession with a casket, to ask for justice, but we get no answers," Garcia said. "We go to the minister of human rights and she passes it along to the president and he passes it along to the first lady, but then nothing gets done."
A year after the fire in Comayagua, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Tegucigalpa, the investigation remains open and prosecutors have filed no charges. The burned cells and electrical system are still being repaired.
While the government created a new agency told to replace the police in the prisons with specially trained guards, social workers and doctors, the three-person commission that started working last week was given no budget and has no office, according to its director, Agusto Avila.
Even the inmate who was the hero of the fire, finding keys and freeing hundreds of men, was never pardoned as President Porfirio Lobo had promised. Honduran law forbids commuting a murder sentence, so Marco Antonio Bonilla is still serving his time, working in the prison infirmary, where he was awakened that night by the screams of inmates as they were devoured by flames.
"There was no mechanism to extinguish fires, no evacuation plan. The firefighters were not allowed to get there quickly and the guards, instead of acting appropriately, only fired shots in the air, supposedly because that is the established procedure in case of escapes," said government human rights prosecutor German Enamorado, who led the investigation for the Attorney General's Office.
Garcia is in a position to know it can happen again. Besides being a relative of the dead, he is the warden of the Juticalpa prison northeast of the capital in rural Olancho state. A fire today in the Juticalpa facility of 500 inmates could cause similar devastation because it doesn't have running water to fight a blaze, despite the fact it is one of the country's modern facilities, built in 2007.
Human rights monitors have long criticized Honduras' prison system. Most of the 11,000 inmates in the country's 24 prisons have not yet been found guilty. More than half of the 800 prisoners in Comayagua at the time of the fire were still awaiting trial, according to a Honduran government report sent to the United Nations a year ago.
The Office of Human Rights' investigation into the disaster found "no evidence of criminality in the origin of the fire," Enamorado said.
It began with "a flame in one of the cells that spread in a few minutes," Enamorado said, referring to a report by the Office of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, whose agents investigated the cause. "But there was negligence on the part of authorities in charge of prison security, whose actions could have avoided a death toll of this magnitude."
Despite that finding, the Attorney General's Office is keeping the case open for lack of evidence, he said, awaiting details including autopsy results, the exact number of inmates in the facility that day, whether there was an evacuation plan and the material of the mattresses that burned.
Three of the 362 victims still have yet to be identified; one as never claimed by relatives and two were burned beyond recognition.
The Legal Forensics Department and the Attorney General's Office didn't respond to interview requests to explain the delay.
Relatives of those who died say the government is just trying to avoid blame. "There's a policy on the part of the attorney general to conduct investigations in an obstructive manner in cases of human rights violations with an objective to keep the responsibility from falling on the state," said Joaquin Mejia, attorney for the Committee of Relatives of the Victims of Comayagua.
And Honduras' permanent state of fiscal, political and judicial crisis leaves few resources for improving prisons.
The national budget allocated around $15 million to the prison system for 2013. About 85 percent goes to pay salaries for prison officials and guards, according to the Security Department.
Honduran prisons receive the rest of their funding from taxes that inmates pay from the work they do inside. At Comayagua, prisoners grew corn and beans and raised fish and chicken on the 36 acres of farmland surrounding the facility.
Dani Rodriguez, a police inspector, was named director of Comayagua prison on Feb. 15, a day after the fire. He has not been able to change much.
"The state transferred 180,000 lempiras ($9,000), and by selling some of the scrap metal after the fire we got 32,000 lempiras ($1,500), and the TV show they did for our benefit left us with a huge plastic check which they used for the photo, but we haven't received the money yet," Rodriguez said.
As in all Honduran prisons, Rodriguez supplements scant government funds with the taxes he collects from inmates, who run their own businesses from inside. With his inmate population down by half after the fire, so is his budget, about $1,000 for food and maintenance.
Garcia knows the difficulties from running the Juticalpa prison.
"We receive water for a couple of hours a day thanks to a neighbor who lets us connect to his tank, but the water is not always clean. Sometimes a fire truck will supply some water as a donation from the mayor's office," said Gonzalo de Jesus, the prison administrator who works with Garcia.
Roberto Urquia, who works in the Juticalpa prison infirmary, brings his own water and boils it to make is safe.
"About 25 percent of the inmates have chronic gastrointestinal problems," he said.
On January 16, Honduras' Congress approved building a new prison at Comayagua with $60 million borrowed from a local bank.
"They had the ability to do such business while the inmates have no water or medication," said Odalis Najera, commissioner for the National Office to Prevent Torture, an organization created by the U.N. to monitor Honduran prisons. "The situation that each and every one of them is living is equivalent to torture."

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While general principles of organization should apply to all approaches, cataloging the Internet is inherently different from cataloging a library. Libraries are systematically developing collections of primarily fixed objects usually under the control of one institution or agency. The Internet is more analogous to the ubiquitous ebb and flow of information and services appearing throughout society. The structure and content are not systematically developed and stable; there is no single user group or purpose for the Internet; and there is no single controlling agency. Thus, there is no one community, be it scholars, computing engineers or librarians, that is clearly vested with authority to decide upon the best means to bring control over this electronic chaos.
Considering that the Internet has always been a decentralized initiative, it is not surprising that the efforts to organize it have been similarly independent and uncoordinated. Analogous to a loosely coupled communication system, each community working to organize the Internet is somewhat responsive but essentially autonomous. It is likely that each of these autonomous groups will continue to develop methods for description and access that best meet their own perceived needs. At best, cooperative efforts may result in some common understanding of a core set of descriptive data; but it is unlikely that the application, structure and use of that data will be identical within all communities. It is important, therefore, that each group recognize the contributions of the others and that together they provide bibliographic control methods that can be layered, interchanged and translated within a broad but loosely coupled system of organization. In this way, each community can continue to develop methods compatible with its own users' needs, while taking advantage of data and systems created by other groups.
Remote electronic resources have engendered discussion of the catalog's scope and functions, the concept of a collection and the appropriateness of including bibliographic surrogates for remote resources in a local catalog. Traditionally, library catalogs have provided macro level access to whole items in the collection, relying on other bibliographic tools, such as indexes and bibliographies, to provide micro level access to bodies of literature and parts of items.
One criticism of this distributed bibliographic system is its failure to provide access to everything in the library collection through one totally integrated catalog. More sophisticated computer technology offers new possibilities for correcting this problem. Electronic indexes and databases mounted on the local computer provide, if not a truly integrated catalog, a reasonably integrated interface that allows access to several bibliographic tools from one terminal. Work continues to develop more sophisticated layering systems that offer searchers the convenience of accessing simultaneously the OPAC and several other databases with a single search query. While providing the illusion of searching a single database, these systems could use both front-end interfaces that convert differing search commands into one common command language and multi-language thesauri that translate terms used by one database into those used in another. These techniques of layering, exchanging and translating data allow us to avoid the time, expense and proprietary problems involved with actually creating one large integrated catalog. This is another example of a loosely coupled organizational system and provides a model for the more complex goal of organizing the Internet.
Due to the economic constraints of the past decade, most libraries have shifted their collection development focus from exclusive "ownership" to providing "access," a shift that has not only blurred the concept of "collection," but has caused many librarians and information specialists to lose sight of the beneficial service provided by the process of collection development. It is essential and desirable that the confining parameters that define a collection be expanded to accommodate documents that are not owned and physically housed within the library's walls; however, it is just as essential and desirable to continue the value-added concept of a collection as interrelated parts selected with a purpose. Remotely accessed electronic resources should not be excluded from the collection development scrutiny accorded documents in all other formats. In light of discussions on scholarly communication and the problems of electronic "publishing" without peer review, the inclusion of Internet resources in the library catalog based upon appropriate selection criteria may be even more necessary than in the past to assist users in finding relevant resources.
Organizing the Internet in Local Library Catalogs
The current organization of electronic resources can be described at two levels: the local agency's catalog and catalogs of Internet resources beyond the auspices of any one library. At level one, a description of the resource is contained in the local library catalog, along with bibliographic surrogates for all other materials for which that library provides access, artifactual and electronic. The Anglo-American Cataloging Rules have proved adaptable to new formats and have been modified, interpreted and supplemented to accommodate remote electronic resources. The existing MARC record also has been revised to provide special fields and coded data elements for the description and access of remote electronic resources. Specifically, field 856 has been added to convey information necessary to locate and access the electronic object. Thus, the current methods of cataloging continue to be used to describe resources that are in some ways fundamentally different from those currently owned by libraries. At present, however, only a portion of library catalogs are able to provide active links through the OPAC to access the electronic documents directly; but as libraries migrate to Web-based catalogs, these "hotlinks" will become more common.
It is not surprising that the vanguard attempts to catalog Internet resources use current and familiar cataloging methods. But this AACR2/MARC-based cataloging system is not without problems. The MARC record is designed primarily for single object description and linear access. It cannot easily be adapted to describe adequately multi-level hypertext objects. In addition, these bibliographic records are designed to carry a large amount of carefully selected data and to allow access to much of that data. They are, therefore, detailed and complex structures which require much time to create and encode correctly. Recent efforts to save time and money by simplifying the cataloging process argue against traditional cataloging methods that create full MARC records for each electronic resource. As library administrators attempt to save money by purchasing cataloging data from outside sources, new ways of creating bibliographic records are being sought.
While the library cataloging community was attempting to determine the feasibility of using traditional cataloging standards for Internet resources, scholars in the area of humanities computing concentrated on the electronic document itself and on a project to develop a text encoding scheme for complex electronic textual objects. The project became known as the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). The TEI guidelines give recommendations on what features of the text to encode and how to encode them. They also include a chapter on creating a header imbedded within the electronic document that precedes the electronic text. This TEI header consists primarily of four parts: file description, encoding description, text profile and text revision history. Designed for multipurpose use, the TEI header provides metadata needed by librarians who will catalog the text, scholars who will use the text, and software programs that will operate on the text. The file description portion of the header is intended to serve as the electronic equivalent of the title page of a printed work and is the only required part of the header. When data elements for all four components of the header are encoded, TEI header structures may be as lengthy and complex as MARC records.
Several groups within the library community are now examining the possibility of using TEI header information as a source of data in the automated creation of MARC records for electronic documents. Computer programs have been produced that convert TEI-tagged bibliographic headers into MARC formatted records. As research develops in the area of metadata formats, the process of TEI header to MARC data conversion may become the copy cataloging of tomorrow.
Library Independent Organization of the Internet
At level two, the goal is to organize Internet resources independently of any library agency. Several means of organization and access currently exist, including separate catalogs of selected Internet resources, subject browsing lists and robot-generated search tools. The common feature of all these "second level" access tools is the exclusive focus on Internet resources. OCLC's InterCat Catalog is one example of a second level bibliographic tool designed through a cooperative library endeavor. Consisting of MARC records created by individual catalogers from many libraries, the database, with its Web interface, represents the beginnings of an Internet Union Catalog (IUC) that is not tied to any one library as information access provider. The database still relies, however, on individual catalogers creating and entering MARC records. The IUC, while one level above the local library OPAC, still contains many of the local OPAC's useful characteristics. The documents included have been selected by librarians for their quality and appropriateness; and bibliographic surrogates in the database contain the kinds of data and authority controlled access points that have proven useful in information retrieval.
When the level two organizational goal extends beyond the library selection process to the entire corpus of information on the Internet, the task of providing description and access for these electronic resources and services becomes monumental. The amount of information requiring organization is beyond the existing methods and systems of individual professional catalogers, indexers and abstractors to manage either efficiently or effectively. Several communities have wrestled with the problem and developed different ways to provide access to these resources.
Over the last few years, a dramatic increase in the amount of information on the Internet heightened the need for improved access methods. Savvy computer engineers realized they had to develop retrieval systems that could be mastered easily by the non-scientific community that now used the Internet so heavily. Their efforts resulted in three primary access methods: direct address, directory browsing lists and robot-generated searchable indexes. Direct address, i.e., entering the specific pathname, directory and filename (e.g., the URL), is a known object search and requires no organizational tools to locate the site. The two remaining methods, directory browsing lists and robot-generated searchable indexes, are organizational tools that are used heavily across all Internet user communities.
Directory browsing lists help people find Internet resources by arranging those resources by subject. The most commonly used lists, such as Yahoo!, use an alphabetico-classed arrangement with verbal subject topics hierarchically ordered. This arrangement is especially useful for browsing, where the user can move from the general subject to the more specific topic and then connect directly to the resources assigned to that topic. Although easy to use, this subject arrangement presents several problems: there are few cross references; many users may find difficulty identifying the hierarchy under which their narrower topic might be found; and these lists soon become lengthy and unwieldy.
Other browsing tools, created outside but influenced by the library community, such as Patrick's Subject Catalog and Mundie's CyberDewey, are arranged by classification number. This affords a more logical hierarchical subject approach that is not dependent on the vagaries of the alphabet for its arrangement. While remaining less tied to semantic content than the verbally based subject systems, some type of verbal clarification is required to interpret the notation correctly. The Dewey Decimal Classification appears to be the system of choice for most of these classification-based browsing tools and has the advantage of being familiar to many users, both within the United States and internationally. As with the other subject lists, however, classification lists also need a system of cross-referencing, and the subject lists can become lengthy and unwieldy.
Directory browsing lists also have other limitations. Most require a great deal of human effort to collect, arrange, encode and annotate the list of resources. When the vast number of Internet resources to be organized is considered, this could be viewed as a serious handicap.
The second type of search tool, the robot-generated searchable index, attempts to overcome many of the limitations of the browsing lists. Robot-generated indexes, such as Lycos and Alta Vista, rely on computer power to collect and index electronic resources and provide an interactive interface that allows the user to enter searches for specific terms or phrases. Many allow the user to perform very sophisticated searches employing Boolean operators, adjacency and proximity operators and imbedded truncation. As a result of the automated collecting and indexing process, these search engines provide access to a much larger volume of electronic resources than the browsing lists.
These computer generated search tools also have their own weaknesses. One problem is that they frequently produce extensive lists of search results, requiring users to spend time examining a great number of irrelevant and often incomprehensible citations in order to find a few pertinent hits. Searchers familiar with library catalogs and bibliographic databases may well wonder at the bewildering content of many retrieved citations. Many confusing citations are caused by extracting data directly from the document without human review and by the lack of standardized descriptions and authority control for names and subjects.
Thus, while directory browsing lists and robot-generated indexes have the advantage of providing immediate access to a vast array of Internet resources and are often easy to use, they lack many features, such as selectivity, descriptive citation data and authority control, that have made the more traditional bibliographic tools most useful.
If robot-generated indexes provide too little descriptive information for effective and efficient document retrieval and manually created MARC and TEI headers contain too much information for rapid and inexpensive document description, is there some method of describing Internet resources that mediates between these two extremes? With this in mind, the Dublin Core data set was developed to perform this function by defining a core data set that could describe a wide range of electronic objects. If such a core data set were adopted as an established standard and incorporated into the electronic object at the time of creation, it would increase the amount and quality of available resource descriptions with a minimal amount of human intervention. These descriptions would improve the quality of index citations created by automated tools, while enabling MARC or TEI header based records to be developed with much less expense.
The Dublin Core development workshop focused on data elements necessary for the discovery of document-like objects, with consideration given to mechanisms for extending the elements to meet specialized needs. The syntax of the Dublin Core was left deliberately unspecified so that the data elements could be mapped into a variety of more complex structures from the MARC format and TEI headers to some as yet undefined structure. It is this aspect of sharing and translating descriptive data that holds the most promise, for by creating a minimum standard for descriptive data that can be used as desired by each community, we have the basis for an umbrella organizational structure based on a loosely coupled system. Then each stakeholder can continue to develop and improve its own system and structures, while overarching structures can be created to exchange, translate and layer common data.
Moving to Metacatalogs
While level two provides access to a much wider range of Internet resources than any level one catalog, most information about nonelectronic resources that is provided at level one is lost with level two access tools. Although it is possible to locate and search library OPACs on the Internet via telnet or a Web interface, OPAC searches must be performed as a separate activity. A single query will not access information found at-large on the Internet and in the library OPAC, because library OPAC databases are not included in searches performed by current Internet search engines.
As we move forward with efforts to create minimum standards for descriptive data, develop ways for creators of electronic resources to provide descriptive information at the time of document creation and refine search engines to enable simultaneous searches of multiple databases, we should have as our goal the creation of a third level access tool -- the metacatalog. We must develop search tools whereby a user can identify specific library catalogs to include in a search query of other Internet databases, much as some existing search engines allow a user to select Web, gopher, ftp, newsgroups or commercial databases for searching.
The metacatalog should be able to translate and interpret MARC records, TEI headers, SGML, HTML and any future coding. There should be language translators built in, so that searchers can use search commands and view data labels in their language of choice and translate terms in subject browsers. Multiple thesauri could be employed to assist with vocabulary control across communities, and a high-level authority control component could transparently identify and link variant forms of names. In other words, the next generation metacatalogs should be able to access all relevant information seamlessly, no matter what format or language. In order to accomplish this each stakeholder community must stop trying to recast the tools created by others into ones of their own structure, but rather concentrate on developing ways to layer, exchange and translate data within a loosely-coupled organizational system.


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Highly Regarded Middleweight Tureano Johnson Faces Willie FortuneIn Battle of Unbeatens in Co-Feature Live on SHOWTIME® At 11 p.m. ET/PT
CABAZON (Feb. 19, 2013) — Super featherweights Art "Lionheart" Hovhannisyan and Alejandro "El Alacran" Perez have had a lot of practice trying to knock each other's block off. They've sparred dozens of rounds, helping each other get ready for their fights.
Now, they get an opportunity to do it for real this Friday, Feb. 22, on ShoBox: The New Generation live on SHOWTIME® (11 p.m. ET/PT, delayed on the West Coast) from Morongo Casino Resort in Cabazon, Calif.
Make no mistake: The Armenia-born Hovhannisyan (15-0-2, 8 KOs), of Glendale , Calif. , and the Mexico-born Perez (16-3-1, 11 KOs), of Salinas , Calif. , are good friends outside the ring. But the buds insist that ferocious flurries of fists will fly when they collide in what should be an exciting 10-round main event.
"Before we agreed to this fight, my manager asked me about fighting Alejandro," Hovhannisyan said. "He was worried I might hold back. But I assured him I would not. Friends are friends but business is business. I need to take advantage of all my opportunities, no matter if I'm fighting a friend, brother, cousin, whatever.
"I've trained hard for this. I'm ready. I'm looking forward to having a great fight. I'm waiting for my big shot. I want to fight for a world title, but my job is to win. After the fight we'll hug and continue to be friends, but during the fight it doesn't matter who you're up against. I'm excited about this fight and Friday night.''
Perez is also looking forward to it. "Art and I used to train together,'' he said. "We're friends. (That we're fighting is) part of the sport. That's going to make this an even more exciting fight. We know each other's style. Fans pay to see a fight, and those watching at home want to see a fight and that's what they'll get. Whenever I'm in the ring, I like to give the fans a fight. That's what they pay for and that's what they're going to see."
Hovhannisyan is coming off back-to-back fights on ShoBox against former world champions Miguel Acosta (last July 20) and Cristobal Cruz (Aug. 5, 2011). In a fast-paced, competitive bout, he earned a career-best victory with a hard-fought 10-round split decision over former WBA lightweight titleholder Acosta; his entertaining bout with ex-IBF featherweight champion Cruz ended in a fourth-round technical draw.
"Hovhannisyan has shown to be very fan-friendly in his ShoBox appearances and that he definitely wants to fight,'' said ShoBox expert analyst and boxing historian, Steve Farhood. "He'shad some spectacular knockouts. But at 31 he is older than the average Shobox prospect so he has to make his move in 2013, and this fight begins that move.''
The fight with Acosta was the aggressive-minded Hovhannisyan's first in 11 months and also the first time he went 10 rounds. He dropped Acosta with a solid right hand in the closing seconds of the first round. Acosta, who was shaken and fortunate to survive the round, registered a flash knockdown in the fifth when Hovhannisyan's right hand touched the canvas after he got cracked with a right by Acosta.
"Hovhannisyan's fight with Acosta was very close,'' Farhood said. "He scored an overwhelming knockdown in the first and the fact Acosta survived was a miracle in itself. But Acosta scored a flash knockdown in the fifth and took control of the fight before Hovhannisyan regained control in the last couple rounds to get a decision that could have gone either way.''
The WBC's No. 16-ranked contender, Hovhannisyan has managed to endure even though his career has been hampered by numerous injuries -- his right hand and/or thumb has been broken in six different places – and by numerous fights falling out. The 5-foot-7 crowd-pleaser was scheduled to fight in November and his original opponent for this fight, Logan McGuiness, withdrew.
"I like Art and think he can fight,'' said RingTV (Ring online) editor Doug Fischer. "He's a well-rounded, durable boxer who has good footwork, an effective jab and decent power. I thought he proved that he's ready to face contender-level fighters with his split-decision over Acosta.''
Perez is a sharp, accurate puncher with punching power. Adept at working the body, especially with the left hook, he's tough, determined, durable and experienced against good opposition. He's 2-2 in his last four starts, including an eighth-round knockout over game, hard-trying Derrick Wilson in his last bout on Feb. 4, 2012. He scored four knockdowns in the action-packed slugfest, decking Wilson in the second, fourth, fifth and eighth.
This will be the third start on ShoBox for Perez and his third at 130 pounds. He moved up from the junior featherweight division for two fights in March and July 2011, but weighed 126 pounds for Wilson .
"Perez is 0-2 on ShoBox, but the losses were to a pair of undefeated prospects at the time, (now world-ranked) Diego Magdaleno and Rico Ramos (who would become a world champion),'' Farhood said. "He gave spirited efforts in each fight. Alejandro is definitely a tough guy.''
The 5-foot-6½, 26-year-old Perez knocked down Magdaleno, but he lost a 10-round decision on July 15, 2011. He was outpointed across eight thrilling rounds by Ramos on Nov. 28, 2009.
Max Boxing lead columnist Steve Kim is one of those impressed with Perez's work ethic and fighting spirit and would not be surprised if he manufactured a minor upset in this one.
"He is a guy who's always in the gym, always prepared for battle and who's never in a bad fight,'' Kim said. "I think he's going to press Art from the first bell and won't stop until the end of the fight. Perez is more of a natural featherweight, but he's very aggressive and can punch. I think he's going to make this very interesting.''
Perez isn't concerned with the layoff. "I stayed busy the last year and always did my roadwork. I always just like to stay in the gym,'' he said. "I'm hungry, I'll tell you that. This is my life. Whatever I have to do to be on top, I'll do. That just keeps me going. I've got to stay in shape. Whenever a call comes up, I've got to be ready.
"I hear a lot in the gym that I'm like the old, typical Mexican kind of boxer. I know how to fight in the short and medium distance. I know how to box, how to counterattack. I have good lateral movement and good defense. One thing a lot of people comment to me about is how aggressive I can be, and how I can manage not to get hit on the ropes. I know I have to be my best for this one, but I'm looking forward to the chance.''
The Morongo Casino Resort and Spa is located at 49500 Seminole Dr. in Cabazon, 92230. Tickets for the Gary Shaw Productions event are priced $35 and $55 and are on sale at the Morongo Casino Box Office or by calling the Box Office hotline at (951) 755-5391. They are also available by calling Ticketmaster (800) 745-3000 or online at ticketmaster.com. Doors open on fight night at 5 p.m. The first fight starts at 5:30 p.m.
In the eight-round co-feature that opens the telecast, GSP's highly thought of, offensive-minded Tureano "Reno" Johnson (13-0, 10 KOs), who represented the Bahamas in the 2008 Olympic Games, faces fellow unbeaten Willie Fortune (15-0, 7 KOs), of Detroit, Mich., in a middleweight match.
Barry Tompkins will call the ShoBox action from ringside with Farhood and former World Champion Raul Marquez serving as expert analysts. The executive producer is Gordon Hall with Richard Gaughan producing and Rick Phillips directing.
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Texting can predict bad behavior in teens
A new US study finds that teens who are getting into trouble often leave behind digital clues in their text messages.lifestyle Updated: Sep 11, 2013 17:31 IST
A new US study finds that teens who are getting into trouble often leave behind digital clues in their text messages.
Scientists from the University of Texas at Dallas gave BlackBerry devices and service plans to 172 US high-school freshmen from nearly 50 different schools and told the students their texts would be monitored. After a year, the research team compiled nearly 6 million texts, LiveScience reports. For each subject, they looked at four days' worth of text messages.
"We were interested in how adolescents use electronic communication, particularly text messaging," said head researcher Dr. Samuel Ehrenreich in a statement. "We examined how discussing antisocial behavior -- substance abuse, property crimes, physical aggression, that sort of thing -- how discussing that predicts actually engaging in this problem behavior. Basically, does talking about bad behavior predict bad behavior?"
Texts were collected and stored offsite in a secure database. The participants were rated before and after the school year for rule breaking and aggressive behavior by parents and teachers and in self reports.
Overall the rate of antisocial texts was small, at less than 2 percent of the total text messages sent and received. "However, from this small percentage of messages, a strong link was found between those teenagers exchanging antisocial texts and the ratings of antisocial and aggressive behavior at the end of the school year," the researchers wrote.
"We know that peers are really influential in an adolescent's development," added Ehrenreich. "We also know that peer influence can lead to antisocial behavior at times, and this form of communication provides a new opportunity for peer influence." "Texting is instantaneous, far reaching and it has these unique characteristics that make it all the more powerful, and this provides a new opportunity for peer influence," he added.
"Texting is meaningful, and within the archive [of texts] we also saw positive, meaningful communications," Ehrenreich said. "We saw a lot of really heartfelt encouragement that goes on, on the spot, when the students needed it. I think there is a lot that's both good and bad, just like any other form of communication. Texting matters."
Findings were published online Monday in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.
Access: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10802-013-9783-3
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Instant-On is an attractive to have for any system, but most commercial OSs haven't been able to accomplish this. Users are generally left waiting the few minutes to boot, and for some people in a hurry, that's simply not good enough. The aptly named program known as Presto is available for $19.95, and is installable on most any Windows computers. It installs a Xandros-based partition and boots up quite instantly. "Presto allows on-the-fly computing to check email, browse the web, chat with friends, make Skype calls, create documents, download media, apps and games, or enjoy music, videos, and movies stored in a user's Windows folders." I'd say that's worth $20, and they're also offering to work with OEMs to get it on new computers on a mass scale.


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madremissy wrote:Read that again. HER standards. And crap I just got off the with her and they are coming tonight. That Tara place is in Barnesville, I thought Jonesboro. I shouldn't say anything about my sister but god dawg she is so materialistic.
No I don't have any standards according to her.
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With very tight windows of opportunity to plant this year, preemergence herbicides may not have been applied as planned. Application of a residual herbicide prior to planting or emergence of the crop, in both corn and soybean, is a great weed management strategy overall and also a key tool in managing against herbicide resistance. What are some of our options if soybeans emerged before a preemergence herbicide application was made?
Most soybean preemergence herbicides with a site of action (SOA) of #14 must be applied within 3 days of planting. Note that many companies now list SOA numbers on the front page of the herbicide label. Products with this SOA that must be applied within three days of planting and prior to crop emergence include: Authority products, Enlite, Gangster, Optill, Sharpen, Fierce, and Valor. Warnings on the herbicide labels vary slightly, but essentially you can expect severe crop injury if these products are applied after soybeans have begun to crack or emerge. An exception of a product with this SOA is Prefix: This product can be applied from cracking through the 3rd trifoliate stage of soybean.
Herbicides such as Dual II Magnum, Outlook and IntRRO have a wider window of application, and can be applied through the 3rd trifoliate in soybean. Another herbicide within this chemistry, Warrant, can be applied through the R1 stage of soybean, although the optimal time of application is the V2 to V3 stage of soybean. Note that these herbicides will not control emerged weeds.
FirstRate is another herbicide option that can be applied postemergence, up to 50% flowering in soybean, although the optimal time of application is preemergence within 2 days after planting.
Be sure to check herbicide labels for further information about restrictions and rates when applying products postemergence, and for any restrictions on additives, carriers and tank mix partners.
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Rihanna's birthday may not be until next week, but the singer celebrated a few days early with a Caribbean-themed party at the Hearst Mansion in Beverly Hills Monday night.
About 100 of Rihanna's friends and family members came out to toast the star, who turns 24 on Feb. 20. The guests – including Bruno Mars, Coldplay's Chris Martin, and her BFF Katy Perry – enjoyed a Caribbean-style dinner and Sprinkles cupcakes decorated with Barbadian flags. In addition to a deejay, whose music pumped through both floors of the house, the party featured a brass drum player, who played Caribbean beats, as well as a photobooth complete with dress-up clothes that was set up for guests to enjoy.
The singer is no stranger to lavish birthday parties, and appeared to thoroughly enjoy herself. "Rihanna was dancing all night and had an amazing time celebrating with her friends," according to one attendee.
Around 2 a.m, a custom birthday cake, which featured an image of Rihanna lying on her stomach in a red bikini bottom over a giant seashell, was brought out as a surprise, along with more than 20 bottles of Armand de Brignac Brut Gold Champagne. The guests were sent home with high-end Camacho cigars at the end of the night.


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Last Week's Winner: Last week's winner was Peekasso for this Lust themed piece (debatable since it isn't a drawing though) and wins himself a mystery package containing some random things we scronge up here at the gallery- zines, stickers, etc.
Next Week's Theme: Lizards Licking Lips Lusting for Luridly Luscious Ladies
This Week's Prize: How about a Brendan Monroe tote bag that we have for sale that no one bought... Not that it isn't a great tote bag or anything. Guess people's tote bag needs have been met.
We had some great entries this week that we couldn't run, either because they weren't sized right or had nothing to do with theme. Just to be clear, when the next theme comes out the old theme is officially over. Please don't send in more submissions for old themes. It makes up feel bad when you send us stuff and we can't post it up so please read the guidlines below:
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- The size formatting is 600 pixels in width OR length - if they are bigger than this they will not be posted. So if you have a long skinny one, please make sure it is not over 600 in length or we will not be able to see it well.
- Name your submission your first and last name. Example: john_doe.jpg
- Include the words "Fecal Face" somewhere in the art so we know you created it (please do not to add it in later with Photoshop).
- One submission per person by Friday at 12pm PST.
- If you have a website (or two) please specify which one you would like me to link in the body of your email. Also, let us know where you're from!
- Send it all to freefridayz (at) fecalface.com.
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#3 - Bryn (London, UK)
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In the Cards: Louisville routs Duke to advance to Final Four
Indianapolis, IN – It took 21 years, but Rick Pitino finally got his revenge against Duke.
Russ Smith scored 23 points and helped trigger a pivotal second-half run that vaulted Louisville into its second straight Final Four, with the Cardinals pulling away for an 85-63 triumph over the Blue Devils in the first NCAA Tournament showdown between Pitino and Mike Krzyzewski since Duke's unforgettable overtime win over Pitino's Kentucky squad in the 1992 Elite Eight.
Unlike Christian Laettner's famed last-second shot that gave the Blue Devils a 104-103 decision over Pitino's Wildcats in Philadelphia more than two decades ago, there was no such drama after Smith, Gorgui Dieng and Peyton Siva led the Cardinals on a 20-4 tear that turned a tie game into a 16-point differential Duke never came close to overcoming.
Siva netted 10 of his 16 points after halftime, while Dieng put up eight of his 14 points during Louisville's game-deciding stretch in addition to grabbing 11 rebounds.
Motivated by a gruesome broken leg that backup point guard Kevin Ware sustained in the first half, the Cardinals (33-5) tallied 50 points on 59.3 percent shooting during the second to advance to the Final Four in back-to-back years for the first time since 1982-83.
"Basically, the bone popped out of the skin. It broke in two spots," Pitino said. "Remember the bone is six inches out of his leg, and all he's yelling is 'Win the game, win the game.' I've never seen anything like that."
Louisville, the tournament's No. 1 overall seed, will next take on surprising Wichita State in Atlanta in Saturday's National Semifinal.
"I don't think we could have gathered ourselves -- I know I couldn't have -- if Kevin (Ware) didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game," Pitino said. "I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him."
Duke (30-6), on the other hand, went an off-target 9-of-28 from the field after intermission in the loss, only the Blue Devils' second in 13 Elite Eight appearances under Krzyzewski.
"We tried to match them, and we couldn't match them," said Krzyzewski. "And they wear you down. Their two guards just set an amazing pace. Siva, I don't know if he -- [it] didn't look like he was even sweating today. He just was so smooth. And then Smith is terrific."
Mason Plumlee did hit on 6-of-9 shots in a 17-point, 12-rebound effort for the second-seeded Blue Devils, with Seth Curry and Quinn Cook each finishing with 12 points.
For a time, the game showed the potential to become another Elite Eight classic between Pitino and Krzyzewski, with the teams battling tooth-and-nail all throughout the first half and the score tied at 42-42 four minutes into the second.
The Cardinals dominated from there on, however.
Smith drove the lane for a 3-point play and Siva scored on Louisville's next two possessions to quickly bring the margin to seven, and the Cardinals held Duke without a field goal for more than eight minutes while breaking the contest completely open.
Dieng, the Big East's Defensive Player of the Year who produced four blocks along with his 11 boards, then made an impact on the offensive end as well. The intimidating center dropped in eight points during a critical 10-0 sequence that put Louisville fully in control, with the spurt staking the Cards to a comfortable 59-44 lead just past the midway mark of the second half.
"We missed a couple inside, and they just kept scoring," said Krzyzewski. "When you're not-- when you don't score, you have to prevent them from scoring, or else these games get away from you. We weren't able -- our defense was not able to do that.
Cook finally ended a string of 10 straight Duke misses from the field on a transition layup with 8:06 to go, right after a Luke Hancock trey put Louisville ahead by a 62-46 count.
The Blue Devils never broke out of their offensive funk over the duration of the game, with the Cardinals in front by at least 14 points right up until the final buzzer.
Neither team gained much of an advantage during a tightly played first half in which the largest lead was four points, but the injury to Ware overshadowed the performance put forth by the two sides.
While leaping to attempt to block a 3-point try by the Blue Devils' Tyler Thornton with 6:33 remaining in the opening period, the sophomore reserve's leg bent awkwardly as he landed in front of the Louisville bench. He remained down on the court for several minutes before eventually being taken to the locker room on a stretcher.
The Cardinals appeared initially shaken as play resumed following a delay of nearly 10 minutes. Though Smith scored the first basket after the stoppage to give Louisville a 23-20 edge, Plumlee and Josh Hairston each converted 3-point plays to put Duke on top entering the last four minutes of the half.
Louisville responded with a 6-2 flurry, however, and eventually went into the break owning a 35-32 lead after Smith and Wayne Blackshear combined to make four foul shots in the final 40 seconds.
Smith's three consecutive free throws after being fouled from beyond the arc to begin the second half pushed the Cardinals' margin to six, but Duke drew even shortly afterward on a trey from Curry followed by a Plumlee dunk that knotted the score at 42-42 with 16 minutes left.
Game Notes
Pitino and Krzyzewski had not faced one another since the 1992 East Regional Final until earlier this season, when the Blue Devils earned a 76-71 win over Louisville in November's Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas ... The Cardinals will be making the ninth Final Four appearance in program history, while Pitino will be taking a team there for the seventh time as a head coach (three with Louisville, three with Kentucky, one with Providence) ... Krzyzewski's only previous loss in Elite 8 matchups occurred in 1998, an 86-84 setback to Kentucky ... The only prior meeting between the two storied programs took place in the 1986 National Championship Game, a 72-69 Louisville win in Dallas exactly 27 years ago... The Cardinals improved to 9-1 all-time in NCAA Tournament games held in Indianapolis ... Before Sunday's tilt, Duke had been seeded higher than its opponent in 32 straight NCAA tourney games. The last time the Blue Devils were a lower seed was 2003, when third-seeded Duke lost to No. 2 Kansas in the Sweet 16.


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I know this was mentioned on the old board, but seeing as the archives aren't up yet then I'll ask again
What decent record shops are there in Leeds for reggae? I'm particularly after repress 7"s and CDs.
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YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator. YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Integrator), is the successor to our MultibootISOs. It can be used to create a Multiboot USB Flash Drive containing multiple operating systems, antivirus utilities, disc cloning, diagnostic tools, and more. Contrary to MultiBootISOs which used grub to boot ISO files directly from USB, YUMI uses syslinux to boot extracted distributions stored on the USB device, and reverts to using grub to Boot Multiple ISO files from USB. if necessary. Aside from a few distributions, all files are stored within the Multiboot or yumi folder (depending on version), making for a nicely organized Multiboot USB Drive that can still be used for other storage purposes. Important Note: YUMI was intended to be used to try to run various "LIVE Linux" Operating Systems from USB.
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Installing Linux from the YUMI created USB Drive to a Hard Drive is not officially supported. If the installer portion of any Live Linux distro does work, consider it a bonus. Creating a YUMI Multiboot MultiSystem Bootable USB Flash Drive. YUMI works much like Universal USB Installer, except it can be used to install more than one distribution to run Live from your USB. Distributions can also be uninstalled using the same tool. YUMI's Main Multiboot Boot Menu.
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You must start with a freshly formatted USB. If you still experience missing com32/chain32 errors with freshly formatted USB using the latest YUMI revision, please report them. Linux Based YUMI Downloads:.
Note: As I find time, I am rewriting YUMI for Linux, so the Linux YUMI tool will dramatically change once it is finished. IMPORTANT NOTE. Your USB drive must be Fat16/Fat32/NTFS formatted, otherwise Syslinux will fail and your drive will NOT Boot.
NTFS is buggy, and data may become corrupted if you use it. Basic Essentials to create a MultiSystem Bootable USB Drive.
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YUMI V2 Changelog (Windows Version Only). 06/17/15 Version 2.
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9: Add Dr. Web LiveDisk. Fix broken System Rescue CD, and HDT option. Update Ubuntu download options. 08/14/14 Version 2.
8: Fix Windows Vista/7/8 and Hiren's options. 07/31/14 Version 2.
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6: Update to support Peach OSI. 05/29/14 Version 2. 5: Update Ubuntu, CentOS, and Debian Download Links. Remove Backtrack – superseded by Kali. 04/29/14 Version 2.
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Correct OpenSuse links. 03/18/14 Version 2. 2: Update to support newer version of Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor, LuninuX OS, Pear Linux, and Konboot 2. 3 Pro.
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How to Create a MultiBoot USB Flash Drive (Windows). Run * YUMI-2. exe following the onscreen instructions. Run the tool again to Add More ISOs/Distributions to your Drive.
Restart your PC setting it to boot from the USB device. Select a distribution to Boot from the Menu and enjoy. That's all there is to it. You should now be booting your favorite distributions from your custom Multi-Boot USB device. How It Works.
YUMI ( Y our U niversal M ultiboot I nstaller) enables each user to create their own custom Multiboot UFD containing only the distributions they want, in the order by which they are installed. A new distribution can be added to the UFD each time the tool is run. If you run YUMI from the same location you store ISO files, they should be auto-detected (*See Known Issues Below), eliminating the need to browse for each ISO.
Other Notes. If MultibootISOs was previously used, you must reformat the drive and start over. YUMI uses Syslinux directly, and chainloads to grub only if necessary, so it is not compatible with the older Multiboot ISO tool. Although I do plan to add back most of the capabilities of MultibootISOs as time permits. Not all Unlisted ISO's can be booted (thus adding Unlisted ISOs is an UNSUPPORTED option). YUMI can create a Bootable UFD containing the following.
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Wary Puppy Linux. — Ubuntu 32/64 Bit —. Ubuntu Server Installer. Ubuntu Secure Remix. — Other Distros Alphabetical —. CAELinux (Computer Aided Engineering).
Damn Small Linux (DSL). gpxe (Net Bootable Distros). Peach OSI Linux. Scientific Linux CERN. Semplice Linux.
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Comodo Rescue Disk (Antivirus Scanner). Dr. Web Live CD ; does install to root. F-Secure Rescue CD. GDATA Rescue CD.
Kaspersky Rescue Disk (Antivirus Scanner). Windows Defender Offline.
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BackBox (Penetration Testing). BackTrack5 (Penetration Testing). Boot Repair Disk.
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Offline NT Password & Registry Editor. Ophcrack (no tables). Ophcrack XP (Password Finder).
Ophcrack Vista/7 (Password Finder). Parted Magic (Partition Tools). PING (Partimg Is Not Ghost).
Partition Wizard (Partition Tools). Redo Backup And Recovery (Recovery Tools). Rip Linux (Recovery Distro). Trinity Rescue Kit ; does install to root of drive.
Ultimate Boot CD (Diagnostics Tools). Web Converger (Web Kiosk). —————– Other OS/Tools —————-. Linux Live Tools for OCZ.
Hiren's Boot CD ; does install to root of drive. Falcon 4 Boot CD ; does install to root of drive. Kon-Boot Floppy Image. Windows Vista/7/8 Installer bootmgr ; does install to root of drive. Windows XP Installer. —————– Bootable ISOs —————-. Try an Unlisted ISO (SYSLINUX).
Try an Unlisted ISO (GRUB). Try an Unlisted ISO (GRUB Run from RAM). YUMI Troubleshooting, Known Issues, Bugs :.
YUMI Expects the Volume Label of your USB drive to be MULTIBOOT in order for OpenSUSE, CentOS and several other distributions to boot. YUMI attempts to automatically create this Volume Label, however it can sometimes fail. Please ensure that the Volume Label of your USB remains MULTIBOOT if you expect your distributions to boot. Currently YUMI will only allow you to boot from "ONE" Windows Vista/7/8 Installation. For example you can't have Windows 7 and a Windows 8 installer on the same YUMI drive. I am open for a working fix that does not modify the Windows core files.
If you encounter a message stating. Insane primary (MBR) partition. Can't find myself on the drive I booted from.
First, replace your chain. c32 file located at multiboot/chain.
c32 with (you'll need to unzip the file) -> This zipped chain. c32 File.
If replacing the chain. c32 file does not fix the problem, your USB drive may be improperly formatted, contains more than one partition or MBR, or your BIOS is not properly detecting the USB drive as USB-HDD, and/or it's firmware needs to be updated.
You can try these methods to Format and Restore your USB Drive. My PC wont Boot from my Flash Drive, but supports USB boot. Many Flash Drives ship USB-FDD formatted and some systems will not detect or even boot USB-FDD. I have found that most systems can however boot USB-ZIP, and or USB-HDD. If you are having a hard time getting your BIOS to detect your flash drive, you can try to format it as USB-HDD or USB-ZIP using BOOTICE (GET IT HERE ), and then proceed to use YUMI to put your chosen Distributions on USB.
How to force a rebuild of the Syslinux MBR:. This is useful if your YUMI prepared USB drive is somehow no longer bootable. For Newest version of YUMI :. Simply remove libcom32.
c32 and the hidden ldlinux. sys file from the multiboot folder on your flash drive, and use YUMI to install any menu item. YUMI will notice that this file is missing and will attempt to repair it.
For Older versions of YUMI :. Delete the hidden ldlinux. sys file from the multiboot folder, and use YUMI to install any menu item. YUMI will notice that this file is missing and will attempt to repair it. Other Known Issues :.
Arch Linux 2014. 02. 01 forward use a newer syslinux version. So you'll encounter a syslinux error stating:. " Unknown keyword in configuration file: PATH. boot/syslinux/whichsys.
c32: not a COM32R image ". To force newer version of Arch Linux to boot via YUMI, you will need to replace the. c32 files in your. "multibootarchlinux-2014. 02.
01-dualarchbootsyslinux" directory with the. Windows Vista/7 Installer, Flacon 4, Hiren's Boot CD, Trinity Rescue Kit, Backtrack, Avira Antivir, and Dr. Web Live CD files are stored outside of the multiboot folder. Most other distribution files remain contained within the multiboot folder. I am open to a simple working solution.
Since version 0. 6, YUMI supports Windows XP Install from USB via ISO. The Windows XP Installation from USB option currently works by booting directly from your XP ISO, hence the YUMI menu entry is created under "Directly Bootable ISOs". In order for the Windows XP installation to succeed, you must perform the following steps;. 1.
) To begin an install, select (Stage 1). 2.
) Upon first reboot, you must select (Stage 2). 3. ) Finally, after (Stage 2) is complete – upon the second reboot, select (Stage 3) to boot the drive where you installed Windows XP. If this option fails, simply remove the USB and reboot.
Your ISO file name must contain no spaces. * YUMI does support NTFS, however not all distributions will boot from an NTFS formatted device.
UEFI and EFI boot is not supported, as many distributions are not offering support yet. * When installing Windows 8, 7, or Vista from USB, you must unplug the USB device before the first restart, otherwise you will receive an error stating:. " windows setup could not configure windows to run on this computer's hardware ". Troubleshooting Boot Errors :. While trying to run an ISO from USB, If you get a Boot error saying:. Error 60. File for drive emulation must be in one contiguous disk area.
You'll need to defragment your ISO using one of the following tools:. contig – Command line tool to defragment ISO files.
wincontig – GUI tool to defragment ISO files. Additional Notes :.
Edit non-booting menu entries for the ISO's you have added via the "Try and Unlisted ISO (GRUB)" options, by editing the corresponding entry in multibootmenumenu. lst. If you don't have a floppy drive and get fd0 errors while booting, simply add floppy. allowed_drive_mask=0 to the append line for the troubled entry. Although the best fix is to simply disable floppy in BIOS. Persistently Saving Changes.
YUMI currently enables the casper-rw persistence feature for some (but not all) Ubuntu based distributions. Yes, you can have multiple persistent Ubuntu based distributions, as each distro utilizes it's own casper-rw file. * Persistence will NOT work on NTFS formatted USB drives. Some Distributions also will not even boot via NTFS. Ophcrack Tables. To load Ophcrack tables when booted in this fashion, the tables folder needs to exist at the root directory of the USB device; (example F:tablesvista_free).
Get Ophcrack Tables from the Official Ophcrack site and unzip to your USB. You can have both XP and Vista/7 tables working together. YUMI on Linux. There is now a Linux version of YUMI that runs from Ubuntu/Debian. Note that Gambas version 3. 1+ is required, but the. deb should be installable directly through the Ubuntu software center.
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Leglock Encyclopedia with Gokor Chivichyan - Vol 4 (On Demand)
Gokor Chivichyan
Gokor Chivichyan, leglock master and MMA instructor teaches you an "encylopedia" of leglocks in this mammoth 5 Volume Series.
Continuing on from the last Volume, Gokor shows leg attacks from kesagatame, the turtle, the back, and the mount. Your opponent will fear for his safety after you learn these leg submissions.
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What Google and Microsoft's Earnings Mean for Tech
Google, Microsoft and IBM reported earnings, but what does it mean for the larger tech industry? George Stahl joins MoneyBeat.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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The Houston Dynamo didn't wait long after losing the MLS Cup to make the first move to a better finish in 2013.
The club announced Monday that it has acquired center back Eric Brunner in a trade to the Portland Timbers for allocation money, giving the Dynamo a tested veteran who has anchored the backline for two different clubs in Major League Soccer in his career.
"Eric Brunner's a player Dominic [Kinnear] has been high on for a long time," Canetti told MLSsoccer.com. "We've inquired about him in the past and there was an opportunity to obtain his services in this window and the trade was executed with Portland and he should be a good addition to the team."
The acquisition comes just two days after Houston dropped the MLS Cup final to the LA Galaxy and provides cover if Canadian international Andre Hainault, who is out of contract, is not brought back to the club.
"I think Eric is a good center back," Kinnear said in a statement. "He is both good in the air and with the ball at his feet. He has good pace and is also good on set pieces. He has done well in the past with Portland and Columbus. I think he is going to be an important part of the team next year, with the amount of games we're playing and tournaments we're in, and the possibility of losing players to the Gold Cup."
Brunner, 26, appeared in 32 games during the Timbers' expansion season in 2011 and was a fixture there again at the beginning of 2012, but an ankle injury that required surgery in October ended his season. He's expected to complete his recovery from the surgery this month.
Brunner joined the Timbers after two seasons in Columbus, where he made 39 regular-season appearances and helped lead the Crew to the 2009 Supporters' Shield.
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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How to use Dropbox Online Backup Software in Ubuntu Linux: Before, we have featured here some of the best online backup software for Linux and have included Dropbox. As I've already said, Dropbox is currently my favorite online backup tool because it allows me to easily synchronize my data across multiple computers with different operating systems and also to my mobile phone.
Although installing and using Dropbox in Ubuntu Linux is rather straightforward, I would like to give a quick guide for those of you who are new to using online backup software and in particular Dropbox.
Although installing and using Dropbox in Ubuntu Linux is rather straightforward, I would like to give a quick guide for those of you who are new to using online backup software and in particular Dropbox.
Installing Dropbox:
To integrate the Dropbox web service with your GNOME desktop, you will have download and install the Nautilus Dropbox extension. You can do it via Synaptic Package Manager or through Ubuntu Software Center. You can also use the command line:
sudo apt-get install nautilus-dropbox
After the installation, a prompt will appear:
Simply click 'Next', and at the next prompt, 'Restart Nautilus' and then 'Close'.
Using Dropbox:
You can now start using Dropbox by going to Applications --> Internet --> Dropbox. After clicking on the Dropbox icon, a window will open to guide you through the setup process.
If you don't have a Dropbox account, just go on and create an account using this form:
Since I already have a Dropbox account, I just entered my email address and password, and then finished the setup process. If you have existing Dropbox files like me, it will immediately sync those files and they can now be accessed inside your Ubuntu Dropbox folder.
A Dropbox icon will appear inside the Notification Area. Clicking on it will open your Dropbox shared folder. You can place your files inside your Dropbox folder, and then it will be synchronized and can be accessed anywhere with Internet connection through the Dropbox web interface, desktop clients, or using any supported mobile app.
That's how easy it is to use Dropbox in Ubuntu Linux. If you want, you can also try those other online backup services that we have mentioned on our previous post.


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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Paris Daydreams
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I heard you had snow up that way, Carol! We're getting it here in the mountains in Asheville--it's going to be a lot, I think...ReplyDelete
I always loved Utrillo--as a kid, I had some of his prints hanging in my room. Fun post to see the way it's all still the same--I'm not surprised. Why fix what's not broken?!
Carolg - paris make me dream, but you do too!ReplyDelete
do you know leaonard pitt? He lives in berkely, CA, but loves paris too and wrote a book called 'Paris Disparu' comparing old photos of paris with how it looks now! He at first couldnt get it published in english so that it came out in french first. And he is a marvelous speaker - I have heard him at Brentano's (RIP) and patricia laplante-collins (still going strong).
Bonne journée in nyc!
Gustave Caillebotte is my favourite painter!ReplyDelete
I love your posts about "Paris greys" and "Paris under the water"(euh...even if the Seine is very very close...)!
Thank you again Carol!
As far as today's post goes, just wanted to mention that your photo was taken from La Place de l'Opéra, whereas the Impressionnist painting (Monet or Renoir or maybe Sisley?) is definitely painted from the OTHER end, ie Place de la Comédie Française and that fountain is there today as it was then...ReplyDelete
I love seeing all the photos and paintings of Paris! I came to really appreciate Utrillo when I saw his exhibit (and his mother Susan Valadon's work included as well) in Paris last February or March! The paintings at that exhibit were primarily Montmartrescapes..and I loved them!ReplyDelete
You make me want to get to Paris asap. The reason I left NY was for a lack of view outside too. In Denver, I get to see the open sky and "snow capped mountains white". It really makes an impact on your quality of life.
I love your pic of l'avenue de la Opera and the Pissaro painting. There's a French Art Exhibit here at the moment too....I think I will go. Thanks for the inspiration.
Lovely post.ReplyDelete
I like the painting of the first because of the fountain and the trees...
I just love seeing the old with the new here and the paintings of old with the now too. I never appreciated Paris until I came to your Blog now I see what others have seen for ever. Thanks Carol.ReplyDelete
Oh to have a beautiful view of an ancient city out my window each day!!! These pictures are lovely. I love seeing the real places and the artist's interpretations.ReplyDelete
Happy Thursday,
Such a pretty post! Except for the cars, not much has changed. Love it!ReplyDelete
I never fail to get great joy out of reading your posts and today is no exception. We were in Paris last September and on visiting Musee d'Orsay were dumbstuck to discover that most of the Impressionists were on their way to Australia, our home country, while renovations were taking place at the Museum. We finally caught up with them on a trip south to Canberra during the Christmas break.ReplyDelete
I was mesmerised by your film yesterday of the Paris floods. Thank you so much.
Lovely, absolutely LOVELY! I am inspired. :-)ReplyDelete
I can't believe I neglected to comment yesterday!ReplyDelete
I must have been lost in thoughts. Yes, I admit, I was dreaming - among other things - of taking your view of New Year and make a cutout - a painting would be better, of course, alas, I am no painter - I was so smitten by the clean lines of that building with the fire escape ladder, the one next to it and the reflecting windows of the brick (?) building in the background, there is something about the color palette that I find attractive (always forgetting that this all happens under a grey sky of which I honestly have had enough for this winter, thank you). The scene reminds me of Mondrian's painting at the Guggenheim (I checked, it is ). You see, artists do that to wretches like me: The inspire us to see the world with different eyes, like you do, every single morning. Thank you, Carol! :-)
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One of your most wonderful posts IMHO! So wonderful to see the interpretations juxtaposed with the photos.ReplyDelete
Paris is beautiful, we know. But seen by painters impresionitas is wonderful. Thank you very much, I love Caillebotte.ReplyDelete


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Description"Both male and female walruses have tusks, upper canine teeth that continue to grow throughout their lives. Males' tusks are larger and are used for display and as weapons, usually in competition with other males. Walruses occupy the continental shelf rather than deep water, feeding at depths no greater than 100 m. They eat a large variety of bottom-dwelling invertebrates, from tiny crustaceans to octopuses and large crabs. Walruses breed deep in the Arctic pack ice during the darkness of winter. Females begin breeding at 6-7 years of age, and have just one calf after a long, almost 15-month pregnancy. Males are sexually mature at about 9-10 years, but may not be successful in competing for mates until they are about 15 years old. Humans have exploited walruses for years for their ivory tusks, and also for meat, oil, and hides. Their only other predators are polar bears and killer whales, which mostly take the young."
Adaptation: Most parts of the skull of the Walrus, Odobenus rosmarus, have evolved to accommodate the enormous, heavy tusks. This includes not only the facial bones, which root them and basically make up the whole snout, but also the back of the skull, where the prominent flange of bone in the area of the ear is an attachment site for the major muscles that move this massive head around.
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Women's bar group gives Howe 'outstanding' rating
Erie County Surrogate Barbara Howe is the only Buffalo-area judicial candidate to be awarded the top rating – outstanding – of the Western New York chapter of the Women's Bar Association of the State of New York, chapter president Elizabeth B. Harned told The Buffalo News on Thursday.
Candidates receiving the chapter's "highly qualified" rating are: State Supreme Court candidate Mark Montour, Erie County Family Court candidates Mary Giallanza Carney, Deanne Tripi and Buffalo City Court Judge Debra Givens.
Qualified ratings went to State Supreme Court candidate Jeffrey Mario and Erie County Family Court candidates Paul Crapsi and Joseph Jarzembek.


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From Erights
I'm using E for two separate projects:
- At IT Innovation, for some of our experimental work on service oriented architectures.
- At 0install.net, as a demonstrator showing how to use 0install to run sandboxed applications with distributed dependencies.
I've also made SAM - a tool for modelling the way capabilities can propagate in capability systems.
I publish my patches to my E Git repository. The next branch generally contains things I consider ready for merging into the E svn repository.
Other patches/branches:
- Make CapTP shutdown when its vat is shutdown (on next).
- Split Scope into Scope (internal data structure for the E interpreter, including local variables, etc) and EEnv (simpler structure exposed to E code, replacing safeScope, etc). This avoids the need to tame access to these objects and hopefully makes the code easier to read.
- Various possible optimisations are on the compiler branch (these mostly have only a small benefit or don't work fully; otherwise I push them to next). These optimisations work for both the current E interpreter and for a possible future E compiler. There is also a very old wip-compiler branch that actually does compile E to JVM bytecode. However, it turned out that the major performance problems were elsewhere.


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Posted on September 27, 2013 in Miscellaneous Strings
Disclaimer: it's not every day that one of our great American tennis brands revamps its string line. So please forgive us in advance if we seem a little excited.
From comfortable and powerful multifilaments to crisp and spin-friendly co-polys, the 2014 Prince string line has something for everyone. Let's take a brief tour of their offerings.
The Premier Series – Multifilaments
Prince's Premier line of strings features three very tendon-friendly multifilaments loaded with pop. Offering three distinct levels of firmness and playability, the Premier line gives the multifilament player the ability to select the one with just the right feel. Premier Touch, the softest of the bunch, features a very innovative ribbon core which is designed to have the responsiveness of natural gut. This new offering comes in three gauges, including 15L(!), which should please anyone who wants a side of durability and directional control with their comfort and power. As with the very unique Isospeed and Head ribbon technology strings, this one has an almost unbelievable level of vibration dampening (which makes it the perfect match for today's lighter, stiffer frames). Coming in slightly firmer is Premier Power which updates Premier LT and continues to offer exceptional comfort. This update features an army of shock absorbing fibers wrapped in high density nylon filaments for improved durability. Finally, we have the firmest member of the Premier clan, Premier Control. Like the string it replaces, Premier Attack, this one features a stiff tri-core center wrapped in velvety soft nylon filaments. The result is a comfortably firm feel delivering near poly-like control without taxing the tendons like a traditional monofilament.