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With 95 percent of votes counted in Israel, it looks like Kadima will win 29 Knesset seats. Labor is next with 20. Likud appears to have won only 12 seats. Turnout is said to have been low.
Kadima's showing isn't very impressive, but with the help of Labor it may well be able to put together a center-left coalition that can govern without the help of the Arab parties.
I suspect that Labor is the real winner (along with the Palestinians who are celebrating Likud's defeat). Kadima's policy with respect to the Palestinians probably will be to Labor's liking — i.e. soft. And in exchange for Labor's support, Kadima may well have to move away from free market economic policies. Thus, the coalition may prove to be center-left in name only, as a party that remains highly unpopular drives the country leftward.
It's interesting, but not heartening, to compare these fragmented election results, in the context of low voter turnout, to the crystal clear Palestinian election results. A people who knows what it wants has a big advantage over a people who is unclear. And when the former wants destruction of the latter, things become scary.

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You can make the name of favorites keywords that if typed in the address bar will launch the favorite.
For example, say you like to go to your favorite web email site a lot, but you don't want to make it your home page.
Simply add a favorite that takes you to the web email site in the main favorites folder (this won't work if you put it in a subfolder). Then rename the favorite to something easy to type. For example, I go to http://www.hotmail.com for my web email, so I renamed mine to "mail".
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103.3 The Edge-sponsored concert is Friday, Nov. 23
"Rock Radio" 103.3-FM "The Edge" presents Our Lady Peace at the Rapids Theatre on Friday, Nov. 23. Doors open at 6:30 for 7:30 p.m., all-ages event.
When Mark Van Doren, the American poet and teacher, wrote his famous work "Our Lady Peace" in 1943, he couldn't have imagined the concept of rock 'n' roll, let alone that a Canadian rock group would adopt his title for its name. Consisting of Raine Maida, Duncan Coutts, Jeremy Taggart and Steve Mazur, Our Lady Peace is one of the most successful bands in Canada today. The band has sold more than 5 million albums worldwide, won four JUNO Awards and 10 Much Music Video Awards. The band's latest album, "Curve," debuted in the Top 10 of Canada's national album sales chart. For more information, visit www.ourladypeace.com.
The Rapids Theatre is located at 1711 Main St., Niagara Falls.
Tickets are $37 presale and $40 day of show. They go on sale at noon on Saturday, Oct. 20, at the following locations: www.ticketfly.com; by phone at 1-877-435-9849; at the Rapids Theatre box office (716-205-8925, www.rapidstheatre.com); Record Theater; and Terrapin Station.


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Become a citizen scientist and discover how you can help frogs and toads in our environment by identifying and monitoring their unique vocal calls. Frog Watch USA is a nationwide program that monitors and tracks amphibian populations by collecting data with help from volunteers like you! We will begin with a presentation where you will learn about the species that live here and how to identify them. This training will kick off the Greenbelt's FrogWatch USA chapter and entitle you to attend monthly monitoring sessions. Following the presentation there will be a hike through our park to what we can find! Bring a headlamp or flashlight for the night walk and monitoring. This program is suitable for ages 8 and up. Meet at Nevada Ave. parking lot. Registration required.
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State tourney a success in its third time around
When the Rhode Island Interscholastic League introduced its open state tournament in the 2010-11 season, it joined select company. While things can change from year to year, the only states in the country with long-running traditions of one state basketball tournament are Kentucky and Delaware. Even Indiana, the site for the ultimate underdog run in the movie "Hoosiers," went to a class system several years ago.
Rhode Island's tournament has had its growing pains, with different elements in each of its three incarnations and plenty of opinions about how it should be set up. But the general feeling is that the tournament is a good thing – and that it won't be going the way of so many others around the country.
"I don't think it's going anywhere," said Cranston West head coach Jim Moretti. "There's no perfect way to do it, but I think it generates a lot of excitement, and that's the goal. I think it went well this year."
The state tournament began as a pilot program in the 2010-11 season. That year, 16 teams qualified based on a slotting system, with a certain number of bids going to each of the state's three divisions. The bids were determined by the regular season, with the only exception for teams that won their division tournaments. That created some issues where teams that performed well in their division tournaments – but didn't win – weren't rewarded with state tournament berths.
In 2011-12, things changed again. The division tournaments were scrapped in favor of a 32-team state tournament. Many coaches around the state wanted the division tournaments back, especially those in the lower divisions.
"As a coaches association, we wanted the divisions back and as long as we got those, we were happy," Moretti said. "You've got to have the divisions."
The divisions did indeed return this season, accompanied by a 16-team state tournament and a power-points system to determine bids. Teams were given one point for a Division I win, .8 points for a D-II win and .6 for a D-III win.
Playoff results were included in the standings, and that was a key change.
"I thought that was a good adjustment," said Hendricken head coach Jamal Gomes. "Two years ago, everything was basically all set before the division tournaments. This year, they mattered a lot more. From our standpoint, that was huge. If we don't beat Cranston East and North Kingstown in the Division I tournament, then we're not in the state tournament."
While D-I coaches would have liked a few more points for their wins and D-III coaches would have hoped for the same to get closer to an even playing field, the system was generally fair, without the major issues of past years.
"I don't think you'll ever please everybody," Moretti said. "But I think it worked out well. I think you had a good balance and you got the 16 best teams."
Classical won the 2013 championship with a thrilling victory over North Kingstown in the finals, capping a wild month of playoff basketball. Both the division tournaments and the state tournament featured upsets galore. Hope won the D-I title, Cumberland captured the crown in D-II and unbeaten North Smithfield won the title in D-III.
Eight D-I teams qualified for the state tournament, with seven D-II teams and one from D-III.
"I think, in the end, you had the 16 best teams," Gomes said.
In a strange twist, seven of the D-I teams were on the same side of the bracket, but that's not something that can really be addressed.
"That's just the luck of the draw," Moretti said. "Unless you want to do the slotting like we did the first year, that kind of thing can happen."
Three Division I teams – Classical, North Kingstown and Hope – made the Final Four, but they were joined by D-III North Smithfield, which continued a trend. In each of the three years of the tournament, a team from outside D-I has made the Final Four. D-II Tiverton nearly won the crown in 2011 and D-II Rogers lost in the semis last year.
One unfortunate byproduct of this year's format was a condensed regular season. It ended in mid-February, and teams played multiple three-game weeks.
"One thing I really didn't like was how cramped the season was," Gomes said. "It hurt the learning process for the kids. I look at previous years and where my teams were at various points. We didn't get to do nearly as much in practice with this team."
In a similar vein, teams that did not qualify for the divisional tournaments saw their seasons end well before their counterparts in other sports.
"I think if the Interscholastic League could find a way to expand the season by a week, whether it's at the beginning or the end, that would a make a big difference," Gomes said. "I think that would be a lot better for the kids and better for basketball in Rhode Island."
The past evolution of the tournament is evidence that the league listens to such concerns. Everyone involved seems to want to make the tournament better.
The hope is to make it the best it can be.
"In general, I think it's a good thing," Gomes said. "You have your one team that's the state champion and that's it. When we were winning seven in a row, people always wanted to ask whether we were the best team. Classical was doing big things in D-II. Feinstein had a couple of really talented teams. With a tournament like this, you put all those arguments to rest. The state champion is the state champion, and I think that's a good thing."
It took awhile but the interscholastic league finally got it right. But Coach Gomes is right, the season is too short.


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Brannon B. King, a software developer working for Autonomous Solutions Inc., has published an article entitled Dangers of Violating SOLID Principles in C# in MSDN Magazine, May 2014. The author outlines some of the mistakes developers can make in their C# code, breaking the SOLID principles and leading to code that is more difficult to extend or maintain.
King provides counter code samples and advice for all SOLID principles, but for the sake of brevity we have extracted just a few of them related to the Open-Closed Principle (OCP). OCP states that "software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification". According to King the following piece of code breaks OCP
void DrawNerd(Nerd nerd) {
if (nerd.IsSelected) DrawEllipseAroundNerd(nerd.Position, nerd.Radius);
if (nerd.Image != null) DrawImageOfNerd(nerd.Image, nerd.Position, nerd.Heading);
if (nerd is IHasBelt) // a rare occurrence
// Etc.
because "you'll have to modify this method every time a customer needs new things displayed—and they always need new things displayed," proposing instead a general procedure for drawing:
readonly IList<IRenderer> _renderers = new List<IRenderer>(); void Draw(Nerd nerd) { foreach (var renderer in _renderers)
renderer.DrawIfPossible(_context, nerd); }
The idea is to
… write drawing classes (or classes about drawing classes) that implement a well-known interface. The renderer must have the smarts to determine if it can or should draw anything based on its input. For example, the belt-drawing code can move to its own "belt renderer" that checks for the interface and proceeds if necessary.
Another example breaking OCP is that of a class referencing an inheritor class
class Nerd {
public void DanceTheDisco() {
if (this is ChildOfNerd)
throw new CoordinationException("Can't");
class ChildOfNerd : Nerd { ... }
the author's advice being that "base classes should never directly reference their inheritors." This problem can appear in peer classes as well:
class NerdsInAnArc {
public bool Intersects(NerdsInAnLine line) {
King explains:
Arcs and lines are typically peers in the object hierarchy. They shouldn't know any non-inherited intimate details about each other, as those details are often needed for optimal intersection algorithms. Keep yourself free to modify one without having to change the other. This again brings up a single-responsibility violation. Are you storing arcs or analyzing them? Put analysis operations in their own utility class.
While strictly applying SOLID principles may not be necessary for small projects, their importance becomes more obvious for larger codebases where avoiding "spaghetti" code is quite desirable.
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Jonathan Allen
If you actually adhere to OCP, specifically the "closed for modification" rule, then every time you want to add a new method you have to create a new subclass. It isn't hard to see how quickly this can get out of control.
Then again, if you adhere to SRP as well then you'll need to break up System.Boolean into half a dozen different classes, each with one or two functions each. So I guess you won't be adding any new methods in the first place.
And then there is ISP. If you follow SRP, then ISP is basically a no-op because there is only one responsibility and thus nothing to segregate.
Looping back to OCP, the open part is rather difficult to follow when value types cannot be inherited. Even System.String is not open for extension for very good reasons. Putting virtual methods on a class isn't free; you take a performance hit from not being able to inline functions when the JIT runs.
The only thing SOLID has going for it is that it has a cool acronym. If you want something that will help you write code that is actually solid, look to the .NET Framework Design Guidelines.
Re: More Extremist Garbage
Abel Avram
There are no rules or principles that can guarantee one's arrival safely to the destination. It takes trial and error sometimes, it takes refactoring sometimes, and it always takes a lot of experience to make sure things are done right.
I agree with most of what you said, but I see some value in SOLID too.
Re: Extremist garbage? -- Disagree!
Michael Kramer
I must agree that extremism is a bad idea - but the SOLID principles are to me not extreme in any way. Contrary - I've seen all too much hard-to-maintain code being hard to maintain because it did not follow the SOLID principles.
I like my code to be DRY, Clean, and SOLID! To me these principles are guidelines that make code easier to develop, understand, extend, and, maintain. Design principles are like design patterns => They are helpful guidelines, not universal laws.
EXAMPLE: Liskov's Substitution Principle.
If you twist semantics when you extend a method in a descendant class you make it close to impossible to reason about the generic code involving the ancestor class because whenever your descendant executes the semantics are all different.
EXAMPLE: Interface Segregation Principle.
Agreed that ISP could be described as a subset of SRP but it is quite nice to have this important design principle called out by itself. Whenever I design an interface I ask myself:
Q1: Did I include any superfluous methods?
Q2: Does this interface actually serve multiple purposes?
EXAMPLE: Open Closed Principle.
This principle doesn't say you must inherit whenever you add functionality - instead it states that it is fully OK to EXTEND a class! But whenever you CHANGE existing behavior you actually force all dependent code to be retested - and possibly force any end-user to be retrained because UX behavior changed. That's why "closed for modification" is so dangerous to break.
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Vince Pan
Re: More Extremist Garbage
Jonathan Allen
There you won't find rules like "never modify a class once it has been shipped", the closed part of the Open/Closed Principal, except where it would actually create a breaking change.
You won't see SRP in it either. Look hard and it will probably warn against "god objects", but they don't go the extreme route that says even System.Boolean is too big.
Re: More Extremist Garbage
Jonathan Allen
There you won't find rules like "never modify a class once it has been shipped", the closed part of the Open/Closed Principal, except where it would actually create a breaking change.
You won't see SRP in it either. Look hard and it will probably warn against "god objects", but they don't go the extreme route that says even System.Boolean is too big.
Re: More Extremist Garbage
Jonathan Allen
Without SOLID principles you're going to end up writing monster functions which know and do too much.
This is a perfect example of why I don't like how SOLID is being promoted. There is absolutely nothing of the SOLID guidelines that says anything about the content of individual functions. (Though my friend worked at a company where they took SRP to literally mean that you have one function per class. At which point then... well SOLID still doesn't say anything about what goes in that one function.)
Re: Extremist garbage? -- Disagree!
Jonathan Allen
This principle doesn't say you must inherit whenever you add functionality - instead it states that it is fully OK to EXTEND a class! But whenever you CHANGE existing behavior you actually force all dependent code to be retested - and possibly force any end-user to be retrained because UX behavior changed. That's why "closed for modification" is so dangerous to break.
That's not what the Closed part of the Open/Closed principal says. That's what EVERYBODY says about maintaining backwards compatibility.
If you look at what Meyer actually wrote, or the Wikipedia summary, you'll see that he's quite specific on this point:
Bertrand Meyer is generally credited as having originated the term open/closed principle,[2] which appeared in his 1988 book Object Oriented Software Construction. The idea was that once completed, the implementation of a class could only be modified to correct errors; new or changed features would require that a different class be created. That class could reuse coding from the original class through inheritance. The derived subclass might or might not have the same interface as the original class.
The principal known as "favor composition over inheritance" is in many ways a refutation of the Open/Closed Principal.
Re: More Extremist Garbage
Vince Pan
It's not about one function per class, it's about responsibility and it's about keeping disparate business logic separate from each other. A class should have one reason and one reason only to change. That one reason might be order total and related calculations.
People don't just jump on bandwagons unless it makes sense to them :-)
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I helped design that printer in 1996. So its been outdated when it was released. The 3200 which was to replace the 3100 very soon after it released. Its time for you to get something newer. There were problems with the 3100 because they didn't put everything in it due to pressure in the company. They had the technology but didn't want to really compete in the Pro printer world. And I'm quoting the higher ups in HPThe shame is that they had the expertise to really contend. " They could have been a contender"No guts no Glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm just happy to avoid swapping inks, cleaning clogs, and being blissfully unaware of the need to create, calibrate and load paper profiles due the built-in spectrometer.Leighzippski
Yes, until HP. The only American Printer Company wakes up and smells the coffee and moves into Fine Art instead of the graphics industry. Nothing is as good as an inkjet print properly printed on the right medium.
I'm starting on year five with my z3100-24. Anyway, I'm fairly mechanically-oriented, but I wanted to watch the tech guy service the machine the first time. The guy was an absolute genius with the printer (he's been working on them for years). It took him *5* solid hours (without a single break) to change the belt, and do a complete service and cleaning on the machine. Best $800.00 I ever spent.He told me that the machine should easily last another 5 years. No wear at all. Other than the belt, there was/is no reason to upgrade.Planned obsolesence is great for companies producing consumer/trendy junk, but these printers were designed for business, and the company bottom line. If the output is great from your z3100 (and it's every bit as good as any off-the-shelf printer today), $800.00 for 5 years is pretty cheap pro-rated annually in comparison to how much enjoyment I get out of the printer.I'm just happy to avoid swapping inks, cleaning clogs, and being blissfully unaware of the need to create, calibrate and load paper profiles due the built-in spectrometer.Leighzippski
Right. Exchanged the two belts on the two Zs I have not so long ago and a head carriage board. Cleaned the machines thoroughly. Replaced 10 of the 12 heads too in the total 10 years of use. Together less than $800. Low volume printing here, that is correct but so many users are in that category. The Z3200 Color Center profiling software and the Z3200 ink set has been a good improvement for color printing compared to the Z3100, The Z3100 still is one of the best B&W printers. You can not get another wide format printer with an integrated spectrometer + profiling package that is that affordable and in my case that reliable. True I can sum up at least 10 improvements possible but nothing so fundamental that I would blame HP for delivering an inferior product 6 and 4 years ago. It is still in many ways a smart machine, an excellent design. When the Z3100 was introduced the HP people at the Photokina booth considered Canon as their competition, not Epson. I think they were right, it may not be so far yet but I see Epson diverting its attention to other markets where piëzo heads have an advantage and Canon taking over this market with their fast thermal heads. HP's attention wanders everywhere and often not succesfully but the Zs themselves are not to blame. Maybe we can expect something again from HP's Barcelona R&D as the new HP Officejet Pro X development must be finished now, page wide thermal head array to spit out 70 A4 pages a minute with CMYK pigment ink, 6 picoliter droplet. Available next month. The Lomond Evojet (Memjet technology) does about the same but can only work with dye inks and there seem to be issues in practice.-- Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst


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It's one o'clock in the afternoon on this dark and rainy Wednesday in April. Carolyn takes our dog Tar-Baby out on the front porch and tells him to go pee. He hesitates but then goes to the bird bath just a short way off the porch. He does not like the rain at all, so it is a task to get him to leave the porch, but he had to really pee badly.
As he hikes his leg a clap of thunder sounds and back to the porch he runs where Carolyn is standing. She in return tells Tar-Baby to go back out there and take care of business, so he slowly walks out again.
As he hikes his leg again to pee a second clap of thunder sounds and again he runs to the porch. The third time he will not leave the porch without Carolyn going with him. Now both were standing by the bird bath and as he started to pee the heavens opened up and it suddenly rained very hard. They both came back inside wringing wet and she told tell me the story and I laughed and decided to share it with you. I hope you get a laugh too.


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Walker, Henderson lead Bobcats past reeling Magic
Charlotte, NC – Kemba Walker and Gerald Henderson scored 34 points apiece and led the Charlotte Bobcats to a 114-108 win over the Orlando Magic on Wednesday.
Walker shot 13-of-23 from the field and had nine assists and seven rebounds. Henderson was 12-of-18 from the floor and 9-of-10 from the foul line for the Bobcats, who snapped a two-game skid.
"I saw a lot of heart from our team, especially this time of the year when you have no shot at the playoffs," said Bobcats coach Mike Dunlap. "Our whole theme has been to improve and left our fans and everyone know that we're still fully engaged."
Tobias Harris had a team-high 29 points and grabbed nine boards for the Magic, who have lost eight straight games. Kyle O'Quinn registered a double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds, as did Jameer Nelson, who finished with 13 points and 11 assists. Maurice Harkless scored 18 points in the setback.
"We started off well against them and they weren't going early," said Magic coach Jacque Vaughn. "But it's a matter of continuing to focus. A big lesson is a 48-minute game is a long time. A lot can happen just within the last five minutes of a game. Your focus needs to be heightened and you need to continue to play for 48 minutes."
Orlando had a 58-51 lead at halftime.
The Magic extended their edge to as many as 11 points early in the third quarter, but the Bobcats took control for a 73-71 lead with 5:52 left.
Henderson was a major factor in Charlotte obtaining the lead, scoring 15 points in the frame.
Entering the fourth quarter, the Bobcats had an 83-82 edge.
The Magic began the fourth with five unanswered points and retained the lead, 87-83, with 10:57 remaining and was in control for much of the quarter.
However, with 3:58 to play, Walker made an 18-foot jumper to start an 10-0 run to give Charlotte a 114-106 lead with just 10 seconds left.
The Magic never had answer and Charlotte was able to hold on for the win.
Harris and O'Quinn were efficient in the first quarter, scoring 12 and 10 points, respectively, as the Magic shot 69.6 percent from the field.
The Magic had a 39-20 advantage entering the second, but the team had trouble shooting in the period, scoring just 19 points on 36 percent shooting.
Meanwhile, the Bobcats slowly came back, scoring 31 points on 54.2 percent shooting. The team got within four on two occasions, but wasn't able to take the lead just yet.
Game Notes
Harris' previous career-high in points was 27 ... O'Quinn also set a new career high in points. His previous high was 12 ... Orlando is 2-11 against in-division teams, the worst in the NBA ... Charlotte has won three straight against Orlando ... The Bobcats took the season series 3-1 for the first time since the 2004-05 season.


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BUSTO ARSIZIO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police arrested the head of defense group Finmeccanica SpA SIFI.MI on Tuesday on a warrant alleging that he paid bribes to win an Indian contract, adding to a wave of corporate scandals shaking Italy before a general election.
Prosecutors accused Chief Executive and Chairman Giuseppe Orsi in the arrest warrant of paying bribes to intermediaries to secure the sale of 12 helicopters in a 560 million euro ($749 million) deal when he was head of the group's AgustaWestland unit.
"AugustaWestland and its management seem to be used to paying bribes and we have reason to believe that such a corporate philosophy could be repeated in the future if not stopped through an arrest," judge Luca Labianca wrote in the warrant, reviewed by Reuters.
Orsi's lawyer said his client denied distributing any money or pocketing a single euro.
Highlighting the political sensitivity of the case before the parliamentary elections on February 24 and 25, Prime Minister Mario Monti said the government would deal with management issues at Finmeccanica. The state is the largest individual shareholder in the company with more than 30 percent.
"There is a problem with the governance of Finmeccanica at the moment and we will face up to it," Monti told RAI state television.
India, currently the world's largest weapons importer, has a history of corruption in defense deals dating back to the 1980s.
Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony has ordered an inquiry into the deal to be conducted by the Central Bureau of Investigation, the country's federal police force. In a statement the ministry said Italy had not provided details of its own investigation.
An Indian defense ministry source said allegations that kickbacks worth 40 million rupees had been paid to Indian officials to grease contracts for Finmeccanica were being investigated and that Delhi was considering the deferral of the Finmeccanica helicopter deal.
Police searched Orsi's home and the offices of AgustaWestland, close to Milan. The Milan offices of Finmeccanica, Italy's second-biggest corporate employer after Fiat Spa FIA.MI, were also searched.
A series of scandals has shaken Italian business in recent weeks, notably over derivatives losses at lender Banca Monte dei Paschi (BMPS.MI) and an inquiry into allegations that oil services group Saipem SpA (SPMI.MI), which is 43-percent owned by oil major Eni SpA (ENI.MI), paid bribes to win contracts in Algeria.
Orsi, a long-serving defense industry executive, has always denied any wrongdoing with regard to a corruption inquiry into AgustaWestland which first came to light in February 2011.
His lawyer Ennio Amodio told reporters on Tuesday that Orsi was stunned by the arrest. "He cannot figure out what he can be accused of. He did not pocket a single euro and did not distribute any money," Amodio said.
The corporate scandals have become an issue in Italy's parliamentary election campaign. Orsi's appointment to lead the heavily indebted defense group in May 2011 was backed by the Northern League party, an ally of then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Lawyer Amodio said the warrant made no mention of any alleged payments to the Northern League.
Center-left politicians had called for Orsi to step down when he was first targeted in the corruption investigation.
"Some of the parties clearly have an interest in playing the justice card for political capital in view of the vote," said Stefano Zamagni, professor of economics at Bologna University.
Besides Orsi, three other people have been placed under house arrest, including AgustaWestland chief Bruno Spagnolini.
In the arrest warrant, prosecutors allege that Orsi and others paid money through intermediaries, including Indian nationals and U.S.-born Guido Ralph Haschke, who also has Italian nationality.
They alleged that those middlemen paid a former Indian airforce chief to change the terms of the tender to allow AgustaWestland to win the contract. The warrant does not make clear how much money was supposedly paid.
Finmeccanica shares were down 7 percent on Tuesday, while its rail technology unit Ansaldo STS (STS.MI) was down 3 percent.
Concern has been growing that the corruption investigations could tarnish Finmeccanica's reputation and distract management while the company is carrying out a tough restructuring.
Being excluded from the growing Indian market could be a major problem for the group, which faces defense budget cuts in its main Italian, British and U.S. markets.
Under Indian defense procurement rules, companies found to have been involved in corruption can be punished with blacklisting and fines, an Indian defense ministry source said.
Orsi's arrest also risks derailing Finmeccanica's plans to sell its non-core energy and transportation assets, something the company wants to do to avoid further downgrades of its credit ratings.
Additional reporting by Ilaria Polleschi and Stephen Jewkes in Milan, and by Manoj Kumar and Nigam Prusty in New Delhi; Writing by Keith Weir and Lisa Jucca; Editing by David Stamp


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Toontrack Beatstation Now On Sale!
Beatstation marks the next step in powerful yet simple sound design and music production from Toontrack.
It is not just a drum sampler. It is not just a bass sampler. It is not just a melodic sampler. It is all of these things combined in one powerful but simple window, that puts you in the musical driver´s seat combining a variety of functions and features.
Combining drums, bass and lead instruments with drag and drop, REX and MIDI support, Beatstation is your companion for quickly getting a full beat up and running or for diving into the smallest details of what you want your sound to be, to be able to realize your music, your expression. Just take WAV or MP3 files from any source to create unique and inspiring combinations.
You can combine and edit individual slices from your favourite REX files or create playable instruments from a single sound. All this can be done just with a few clicks of the mouse, making Beatstation a hugely powerful yet easy to use virtual instrument. Do you already have Toontrack EZX or SDX expansion packs? These can be combined and edited inside Beatstation too.
Whether you use it on your portable travelling rig or in a full-on studio context, Beatstation adapts to meet the challenges of every production situation. It is not tied down to genre or style. It cannot be defined and limited to the use of a single group of musicians or producers.
It is constructed with Toontrack´s premium components which have been perfected over several years. This software instrument combines the experience and passion of one of the world´s best sound design teams. Also included are effects provided by Overloud, the award winning software development company that released Breverb and TH1.
Beatstation lets the new generation music producer freely combine the wealth of influences that are present in the music that drives the beat of the world.
Here are the key features of Beatstation;
Sound sets can be created by dragging and dropping Wav, REX, MP3 and Toontrack library sounds on to the pads of Beatstation from the Beatstation browser or from the users computer harddrive mixing and matching any sounds available to build brand new personlized sound sets.
Sounds can be recorded using the Beatstation recorder.
Browse and playback audio and MIDI with all components in the browser drag and droppable into a host application.
Beatstation allows the user to customize their playing surface to fit their needs by designing and changing skins as well customizing the order of the playing surface.
Compatible sound sets include BTXs - the Beatstation expansion packs, EZXs - the EZdrummer expansion packs, SDXs - the Superior Drummer 2.0 expansion packs, Toontrack MIDI libraries and REX files of any description
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Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Toxic 2GB Review
Video cards have come a long way over the past couple years. Their ever increasing performance has to meet the needs of the everyone from the work station user to the high end gamer. This card from Sapphire is aimed squarely at the latter segment of the market. As games become more graphically demanding and with people moving to ever larger resolutions, you need to have the hardware that can handle the load. The HD 5870 is a proven performer in its own right as shown in countless reviews and feedback in forums across the web. With this kind of buzz the only thing left to do is improve upon a proven commodity. This is something Sapphire does and does quite well as seen in the past with their Atomic, Vapor-X and Toxic versions of some of ATIs best products.
For the Sapphire Toxic HD 5870 2GB card, Sapphire has bumped up the clock speeds on the Cypress core and increased the amount of frame buffer memory to 2GB (from the standard 1GB), in addition to a slight bump in clock speed to 1225Mhz. Instead of using the reference cooling solution, Sapphire has equipped this Toxic Edition overclocked card with its proprietary Vapor-X cooling to keep the thermals in check. All this combines to give the consumer another option for increased performance. Lets face it, not everyone likes to tinker with the workings of a video card for more performance, these people just to want to pop in the video card and start fraggin'. Lets see how the Toxic Edition HD 5870 2GB card performs. From the specs alone it looks as though it may jump up a little closer to Nvidias latest, the GTX 480.
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The Toxic HD 5870 2GB card from Sapphire comes in retail packaging that steps away from the use of "Ruby" (ATI's heroine) with the use of a sinister figure under a shroud. The front panel of the packaging shows that this card is equipped with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and is a factory overclocked video card. Some of the Toxic HD 5870 2GB's features are listed on the front panel and include the comparable compute power, Eyefinity and CrossfireX support, the fact that the card features native HDMI and DisplayPort connectivity and the inclusion of software from Arcsoft. The rear panel goes into more detail on more features of the card including the Vapor-X cooling, Black Diamond chokes, Advanced GDDR5 memory and ATI stream technology. On the bottom left you have a long list of awards Sapphires products have earned over the years showing that their products are well received and present a value to the consumer.
Slipping off the outer sleeve, you are left with a cardboard box that houses the Toxic Edition HD 5870. The paper goods that Sapphire uses for packaging are 100% recyclable, this is something that helps the environment as well as its CRS (Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability) goals. The card is housed in a formed cardboard housing, with a bit of closed cell foam to keep the card in place in its bubble wrapped bag. Under the card is a box that contains the accessory bundle.
Sapphires video cards always come with everything you need to use the full capabilities of the card. This bundle includes the instruction manual, driver disk, Arcsoft software disk, DVI to D-sub connection, CrossfireX bridge connector and a pair of power adapters to hook up to the 6 and 8 pin PCIe power connections. Pretty much everything you need to get started.
With the packaging out of the way, lets dig a little deeper into the card itself to see what makes it tick.


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5 Questions With Taste of Home Culinary Expert Karen Davis
This Saturday at Superior Middle School the Taste of Home Cooking School returns to the Twin Ports. Culinary expert Karen Davis will be in town to share tips and recipes at this unique interactive event.
We got a chance to sit down with Karen and get more information about this weekend's school and more.
If people have never gone to a Taste of Home Cooking School before, what can they expect?
Overall, you can expect to have FUN! When you walk in the door you'll receive a gift bag filled with coupons, product samples, and recipe booklets. You can browse vendor booths (set up by local businesses) prior to the show. When the cooking school starts, we'll have a camera mounted above the table to capture an image of what I'm working on. This is projected up onto projection screens. So, there is not a bad seat in the house! There are also door prizes given throughout the event, including each of the recipes I prepare. Finally, plan to do some shopping. We'll have some Taste of Home cookbooks for sale, which are perfect for holiday gift giving!
Do they have to be awesome in the kitchen or already be a good cook, or are all abilities welcomed?
All ability levels are welcome. New cooks will receive step-by-step instructions for each recipe. Experienced cooks will pick up tips and hints along the way. And, if you feel like you're in a rut when it comes to recipes, I'll have 10 new family-friendly recipes to share with you. I know I can sometimes get into a rut myself. It's refreshing to toss a new meal into the mix!
Why do you enjoy cooking?
I love everything about it -- except washing the dishes! Thank goodness for dishwashers! My favorite thing to do is actually baking, and I especially enjoy it when I have extra time on a Sunday afternoon. It's relaxing and fun to bake bread, make cookies, or stir together a homemade cake. I try to share the treats with our neighbors so I can spread the love -- and the calories.
What is one dish that you wish the whole world could try because it's sooooo good?
My Grandma's homemade chocolate cake. Years ago I entered it in our local county fair when I was part of the 4-H program. It was awarded a purple ribbon. My Grandma was so proud -- and we continue to make her chocolate cake for birthdays and special occasions in our family.
Are you excited to come back to Duluth/Superior?
Absolutely! I had so much fun at the show last year. The favorite part of my job is meeting Taste of Home fans. I relate to them so much, since I started out as a fan before I joined the team as a cooking school instructor. I like Taste of Home recipes because they are down to earth, they typically have common ingredients, and you can count on them to turn out right every time. I love that!


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Recent grads asked us to develop a comprehensive program that sets new dentists up with insider advice, tips, and info on how to run a practice the right way. You know, the REAL stuff they aren't teaching you now. We call it, "THEOS, To Help Each Other Succeed," and it's essential business of dentistry training that ordinarily would cost thousands. As an AzDA member, you'd get the whole program for less than a few packs of carbide burs.
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Jon Walsh visited to the Scottish Highlands to sample their unique flavor of mixed climbing. In Scotland, the traditional approach to climbing is strongly maintained and the history of the climbs is well remembered. Modern ice climbing was developed here, and early prototypes by Yvon Chouinard and others were tested on the walls of Ben Nevis and surrounding area. These pictures embody Jon's incredible trip and the masterful climbing that took place.
Jon Walsh climbs Craeg Meagaidh with accomplished climber Nick Bullock. (Photo: Nick Bullock)
Jon on Creag Meagaidh. It was the third ascent of Ekstacy VIII, 8, 250m. (Photo: Nick Bullock)


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It was a very productive rookie year for Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard, who finished the year with averages of 7.9 points and 5.1 rebounds and earned a starting job for 39 games. He was even better in the playoffs (8.9 points, 45.0 percent 3-point shooting), which resulted in the distinction of being the rare rookie that coach Gregg Popovich trusts.
While Popovich willingly praised Leonard throughout the season, he gave his biggest stamp of approval to his small forward on Thursday, when he answered questions from fans in a, "Mailbag," segment on Spurs.com.
Asked about Leonard's potential, Popovich said, "I think he's going to be a star. And as time goes on, he'll be the face of the Spurs, I think. At both ends of the court, he is really a special player. And what makes me be so confident about him is that he wants it so badly.
"He wants to be a good player, I mean a great player. He comes early, he stays late, and he's coachable, he's just like a sponge. When you consider he's only had (two years) of college and no training camp yet, you can see that he's going to be something else."
Popovich was also asked about how the Spurs, returning much the same roster that they had last year, can keep up with teams like the Lakers and Heat, who made significant additions. Again, Popovich started with Leonard.
"What other teams do is not in our control, so we'll worry about, as I said, incorporating Kawhi into the program more since he wasn't here very long," he said.
"Boris (Diaw), Patty Mills, look for improvement in Danny Green, work our big guys. Tiago (Splitter) and DeJuan Blair I think are going to have very good seasons for us. So we'll concentrate on that and what we need to do as a group, and we'll see how we stack up."


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By ADAM LAPIERRE
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May 17, 2006
Being the underdogs in a do or die game is tough. If the Eagles lost Friday night's league playoff match against Wilson, their state playoff quest would be shut down and they would pack up for the last time this season. If they won, they would be guaranteed a spot in the first round of state.
And after a back and forth, hard-hitting battle, Wilson was the team to pack up with a hard-to-swallow end to their winning season. The Eagles, on the other hand, hit the bus with a celebratory 9-6 upset over the Columbia West's number-two team.
"I am so proud of our team," Coach Mac Jackson said. "It was a clutch playoff win, with us coming in as the underdogs and only the winner advancing to the state playoffs. We played a good game in all areas — offense, defense, transition, man-up and man-down. We have improved a lot and are really coming on at the end of the season."
After falling behind by a couple goals early in the game, the Eagles battled back and took a 4-3 lead by halftime.
"Every time Wilson scored and made it closer, we answered by shutting them down and putting one in the net," Jackson said.
By the end of the third quarter the Eagles upped their lead to two goals, which forced Wilson into a more desperate game plan in what would be their final quarter of action for the year. Keeping Wilson at bay was a solid defensive line and a wall in the goal. Dustyn Lyons had 10 saves at the net, Ian Bohince shut down Wilson's top scorer, Tanner Hall limited their best attackman to only one goal and Tony Guisto was all over the field as a long-stick middie. On man-down defense, the Eagles shut down six of seven attacks.
The victory means the Eagles went on to play Grant yesterday at Portland's Delta park for a seeding match that would determine which team would enter the state playoffs as the third seed and which would enter as the fourth seed.
Eli Camero 2 goals, 2 assists
Henry Hunt 1 goal, 2 assists
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Don't expect President Barack Obama's second inauguration to match the record turnout from 2009. But District of Columbia officials still are planning for a massive crowd for a second chance to see a president's swearing in.
Officials have pieced together early data and they're projecting that 600,000 to 800,000 people will crowd onto the National Mall on Jan. 21. That's based on past attendance and data such as hotel and restaurant reservations and chartered bus permits.
The 2009 inauguration drew 1.8 million people.
Chris Geldart heads the city's Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency and is co-chairman of the district's presidential inaugural committee. He's hearing that some people who were overwhelmed by the 2009 crowds see 2013 as a second chance to witness history.


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How to Survive the Windows XPiration Date
Microsoft urges users of its aging software to move to Windows 8.1, but other paths might be easier
The default background for Microsoft's Windows XP operating system—a perfect blue sky full of cotton-candy clouds above rolling hills with impeccably trimmed grass and daffodils—is the spring day we wish could last forever.
And fittingly, many people wish the operating system would last just as long. Introduced in 2001, Windows XP became so successful that Microsoft extended its support for an industry record of 12 years. Yet come April 8, XP's sunny day is over....


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Seven members of the Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue team (SBCSAR) joined the search over the weekend for Mike Herdman, an Arcadia City fireman that went camping with a friend nine days ago. Herdman, 36, an experienced outdoorsman who had camped in the area several times before, was last seen June 13th. He and another Arcadia firefighter-paramedic, Tyler Byars, were two days into a four-day backpacking trip when Herdman left a campsite late in the night to chase after his dog, Duke. Byars told authorities that when Herdman didn't return, he looked for him in the dark and eventually decided to go for help. It took two days for Byars, who was camping for the first time, to hike out of the forest.
SBCSAR members participate with 90 other mountain rescue personnel from Ventura, Fresno, Kern, Los Angeles and Orange Counties in searching the rugged backcountry approximately 15 miles north of Filmore, California. Team members were inserted by helicopter Saturday morning into Sespe Canyon, just below the location where Herdman was last seen. Unable to land due to a uneven rocky ground, team members used their training to deploy from the aircraft while hovering several feet over large boulders in the river. Once on the ground, an extensive search was conducted from wall to wall of the canyon up to their last known campsite.
After completing their second helicopter deployment to search an area up the river from where Herdman was last seen, SBCSAR was airlifted back to the search command post and released to return to Santa Barbara.
The search for Herdman, while now scaled back, is continuing under the direction of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.
SBCSAR is a professional, all volunteer mountain rescue unit of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. For those interested in learning more about the team go to www.sbcsar.org
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Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue personnel along with members from Ventura County Search and Rescue searching Sespe Canyon near the point last seen.
Santa Barbara County Search and Rescue member Joe McPhee searching a large boulder field above Herdman's campsite.


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Robert Pattinson's 'The Rover' Gets an Earlier Release Date!
Robert Pattinson waves goodbye to some crew members as he wraps up the day of filming Life on Tuesday (March 18) in Toronto, Canada.
That same day, the 27-year-old actor filmed some scenes in the snow, looking very handsome in a suit!
Robert fans rejoice! It was just announced by A23 Films, the distribution company for Robert's film The Rover, that it moved its release date one month earlier!
"No one #roverreact now – we just pushed up the release date for @TheRoverFilm to June!" the A24 Twitter wrote, along with a pic indicating the film would not be released on June 13 in NYC and LA and June 20 nationwide. The film was previously supposed to hit theaters in July.


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Auto Show: 2013 Chicago Auto Show
2013 Nissan Juke NISMO: Chicago Auto Show
- 2013 Nissan Juke NISMO
- 2014 Nissan 370Z NISMO
- 2014 Nissan GT-R Track Edition
Nissan claimed performance as its theme for the Chicago Auto Show, and the trio of vehicles the automaker chose to represent that theme make a strong case for Nissan's sporting credentials. Each of the models on display builds on its respective base version with specialty equipment built for speed.
At the top of the performance pyramid is the new GT-R Track Edition, a limited-edition version of the 545-horsepower supercar. For those with more modest desires, the latest 370Z NISMO offers 350 horsepower and styling to match its sports car capabilities. Finally, the 2013 Juke NISMO brings vast Nissan's motorsports experience to a more accessible model.
The 2014 GT-R Track Edition is the first two-seat version of the road-going supercar. Nissan stripped the rear seat to save weight, fitting a quilted mat in its place. The Track Edition also uses a stiffer suspension than either the Premium or Black Edition GT-Rs, and now includes additional brake cooling to improve stopping performance in demanding track use. A front spoiler with carbon fiber air ducts, a dry carbon fiber rear spoiler and metallic black 6-spoke RAYS wheels further differentiate this special GT-R. Nissan will make 150 units for the U.S. market, with the first examples hitting GT-R certified Nissan dealers in May.
Short of the stratospheric performance of the GT-R, drivers with sporty intentions can choose the 2014 Nissan 370Z NISMO. The latest NISMO Z looks even meaner than the last, thanks in part to dark gray finishes for the front and rear fascias, sills, mirrors and rear spoiler. Backing up the look are NISMO sport brakes, a stiffer suspension and 19-inch RAYS forged aluminum wheels. Inside, the NISMO Z gets a new alcantara-appointed steering wheel and a red NISMO tachometer.
Pricing for the 2013 Nissan Juke NISMO has not yet been announced, but it's sure to be the most affordable in this lot. The new Juke NISMO is available with either front-wheel or all-wheel drive. Its exterior enhancements - more aggressive front fascia, prominent sills, redesigned spoiler and rear diffuser - make it to look more sporty, but they're functional, too, increasing downforce. Inside, suede-trimmed seats provide better lateral support, keeping the driver planted in high-speed maneuvering.
Nissan brings vast motorsports experience to designing models like the GT-R Track Edition, 370Z NISMO and Juke NISMO. While the three vehicles at the Chicago show differ in price and performance, all benefit from Nissan's many laps - and many wins - in competition around the world.
What it means to you: Speed is relative, and each of Nissan's performance vehicles at the Chicago Auto Show offers it to some degree. Dip your toe in the performance waters with the 193-horsepower Juke NISMO, wade waist-deep in it with the 350-horsepower NISMO Z, or go all the way in with the 545-horsepower GT-R Track Edition.


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Back in May the Wall St. Journal reported there would be multiple Nexus devices this year, but the rumors have been awfully quiet since then. Today we received a tip that Japanese carrier DoCoMo's fall lineup has leaked and it includes three possible Nexus devices.
Rumored devices on the list include the Samsung Galaxy Nexus II, Sony Xperia Nexus, and LG Optimus Nexus. We were originally expecting there could be up to five Nexus devices and we already saw the Nexus 7 and Nexus Q, so it's possible we could still get three more smartphones.
At this point I wouldn't put a lot of stock in this rumor, but things have been so quiet that we were starting to wonder if there would be another Nexus phone this year.
Who do you hope makes the next Nexus?


text: Reviewer: Rhett Review Date: October 1, 2011 Format: Blu-ray Released by: Blue Underground Release date: May 31, 2011 MSRP: $29.98 Region Free Progressive Scan Codec: AVC, 1080p Widescreen 2.35:1 | 16x9: Yes 1971 The sophomore slump. Because of the exposure, expectation and sheer amount of money that films draw and require, it is perhaps the toughest art form to follow up success. When a film succeeds, it's makers are in a sense obligated or pigeon-holed to emulate that success with subsequent films. Nobody is going to let a successful first-time horror director follow up their film with a big budget musical. Likewise, nobody is going to let the director of an indie-comedy follow it up with Titanic. For directors, it is often a trying and lengthy process to emerge from the shadow of their first success and establish themselves as the voice they'd later become known for. We know Stanley Kubrick now as the visionary behind The Shining, 2001, A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon (okay, that one's probably just me), not as the director who first achieved fame as the man behind Spartacus. His follow up to that? Lolita. New York, New York, The Fountain, 1941, Cul-de-sac, Raising Arizona…all sophomore follow ups that now sort of fit awkwardly in the canons of directors who'd go on to achieve even greater success as distinctive voices in cinema. When we shift focus to horror directors, we're able to observe a similar pattern. John Carpenter followed his success on Halloween with the appreciated but moderately received and reviewed The Fog before establishing himself as more than just a one-trick horror director with a series of successes like Escape From New York, Starman, Christine and (on video, at least) The Thing. Wes Craven became a drive-in icon with The Last House on the Left, and his follow up, The Hills Have Eyes, enjoys pedigree today too, but it wasn't until a few years later that he'd establish the subject matter and style we'd know him for with A Nightmare on Elm Street. Lastly, we know Dario Argento today for his stylish horror operas like Suspiria, Tenebre and Deep Red…how many remember him for The Cat o' Nine Tails? The latter was his follow up to the surprising worldwide success of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, the film that "out Psycho-ed Psycho!" It was made very much in the same vein as his original giallo hit, and even marketed itself almost entirely around Bird's success ("9 times scarier than The Bird with the Crystal Plumage!"). Today, Argento now decrees it his least favorite work (he must have blocked Phantom of the Opera forever from his mind) and among his canon it's probably one of the least remembered. Even his maligned final film in his early "Animal" trilogy, Four Flies on Grey Velvet, enjoys more publicity for varying reasons. Is it really a sophomore film to be forgotten, or does this tale of Tails have a few more lives left to it? The Story The blind Franco Arno (Karl Malden, On the Waterfront, Phantom of the Rue Morgue) goes for a late night stroll with his niece in custody, Lori (Cinzia De Carolis, Cannibal Apocalypse). Although he cannot see he was once a reporter and still has a keen sense of observation. He overhears two people in a car talking about blackmail and stops to tie his shoe for a better listen. He gets Lori to get a good look at them, too. The next day his niece reads him the paper, and she remarks that the man he heard and she saw, was murdered. Through some virtuoso first-person camerawork, we too saw the murder. Franco returns to the site of the murder the next day and is run into by newspaper reporter Carlo Giordani (James Franciscus, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Nightkill). Carlo informs him that they're outside a pharmaceutical research plant and thus starts a curious and unlikely relationship between the two. They soon discover that the man killed was doing some top-secret research on gene makeup. The central discovery of the research was that those with an extra chromosome have a high probability of enacting violent crimes. Such a development could shape the course of child development, law and punishment (think Minority Report) and with the publicity of the recent murder it risks being leaked to the public. When a second power in the company is pushed to his death in front of a moving train it becomes clear to Carlo and Franco that someone is trying desperately to protect some dark secrets within the organization. The two split up and start to inquire across various channels to find more information. Carlo ends up bedding the head of the company's daughter, Anna Terzi (the ravishing Catherine Spaak, Take a Hard Ride [Ed.: "Don't mind if I do!"]) but rather than get more information he seems to only get more questions. When the killer poisons their milk, he knows he's now targeted. Franco finds out some news from the wife of one of the deceased, but he too is placed in danger when his daughter is kidnapped. Franco and Carlo scramble to put the facts together with lives on the line, and fittingly end up at the end of the film at a graveyard. Who lives and who dies depends on how quickly the two can connect the various leads (the "Tails" of the title). Where to start with this one? The Cat o' Nine Tails is, above all things an interesting film in Argento's canon. Although he was without visual luminary Vittorio Storaro behind the lens (as he was for Argento's debut), Argento still continued to experiment visually, incorporating a number of ambitious first-person point of view shots and interesting uses of perspective (the elevator shaft sequence), focus (the poisoned milk delivery) and slow motion (the train death). More stagnant was his use of score, using Ennio Morricone's tried and true melodies a second time. His tracks are once again beautiful, particularly Lori's theme, but the soundtrack is very sparse here and you get the sense that Argento was growing tired of the same old melodies, which is why he'd shake it up with his next film and end up parting ways midway through production with Morricone. Plot-wise you can see Argento trying to expand his palette, incorporating subtle comedy and even some interpersonal drama (a few moments between Franco and Lori are some of the more touching Argento has committed to film), but this is where you see what started to go wrong. The Cat o' Nine Tails is credited to four different writers and it really shows it with the way the story seems to yo-yo between characters, tone and plot. Even compared to most gialli this one seems hard to follow, and you can see the trouble Argento had with bringing it all together with his climax, when the killer is forced to have a lengthy and out of place recantation of his motive and where the rest of the characters are in the story. With two different protagonists in Franco and Carlo, it almost appears as if two different stories were amalgamated into some kind of whodunit brew that doesn't quite taste right. Red herrings don't really pay off, major plot threads (like Anna's relationship with her adoptive father) are not finished, and everything just ends too suddenly. It's a shame, really, because throughout the runtime Argento explores a lot of interesting ideas. The most lasting theme from Tails is Argento's preoccupation with sight. It's something he introduced with his debut feature (with more than a bit of debt to Michelangelo Antonioni and Blow-up), but it's something he starts to make his own here. Throughout the film he frequently cuts to a closeup of an eye, whether it's during a kill or while the killer is watching. Rather than serve its usual utility like it does in most Argento films, that of voyeurism between the killer, the director and the audience, here it interestingly becomes an abstraction. Eyes are not exactly important for sight here, made all the more evident by the lead being a blind man. Instead, the extreme close-up of the killer's eyes becomes more about geneology or identity. We see every swirl of color around the retina, and while at first we try and figure out just who we've seen has the same eyes, we later see something more. By making the eye an abstraction of texture and color, Argento reduces the killer's identity to something similar to a cell under a microscope. The killer becomes but a slave to his/her own genes, something made all the more poignant by the film's pharmaceutical research and the motive of the killer during the finale. Argento would go on to really explore the nature of sight and seeing in Four Flies on Grey Velvet, Deep Red and Opera, but this remains the only film in his canon where eyes have a function above merely seeing. Considering it would be his penultimate fixation throughout his career, The Cat o' Nine Tails offers an interesting second take on what our eyes mean to us. Of course, Argento still falls back on Antonioni's old tropes here too, featuring a scene where a photographer must look deeper into a photograph to help discern a murder, but you get the sense between his use of eyes and his expanded use of the POV that he was really coming into his own as a distinctive voice in Italian cinema. The problem is that he also had three other writers taking him in other directions that nearly sink the film. Considering he went from a writer of one for his first film to this, it's no surprise he had trouble making it work or that he now considers the film his least favorite. Near the end of the film there's a tomb labeled "Di Dario" or "For Dario" in English. Perhaps this was his way of expressing his suffocation with the script and the many hands (tails?) that had a hand in it? Was he digging his own grave trying to tread down a similar path of The Bird with the Crystal Plumage? You certainly get the sense that Argento felt this way, given how much he tried to mix it up with Four Flies and how ultimately he'd set himself free from his first film's shadow with the grand success of Deep Red and Suspiria. In The Cat o' Nine Tails, though, you look at Carlo when he's trapped in the tomb at the end and you can't help but see Dario, wondering if he'll ever get out on his own before the limelight went out. Lucky for him, and luckier for us, he did. Image Quality You know when you're dealing with Argento that you're going to have a visually dynamic film to look at, and Cat o' Nine Tails is no exception. Unlike a lot of his films though, certainly his later ones, this one employs a muted, more earthy color palette. Colors nonetheless are solid and deep and have a very filmic tone to them. That's not the only indicator this was shot on film, with some intermittent grain that reveals itself in varying degrees throughout. Grain gets quite intense, and even a little noisy, when the lights turn out, and some of the darker murders don't quite look their best because of it. There's also an uncharacteristic amount of specs and dust found on this print compared to most Blue Underground releases. Still, saying this exhibits a thoroughly film look, for good and bad, is always a plus, and make no mistake, this is still a marked improvement over the previous home video releases of Cat o' Nine Tails. Sound Unlike most Blue Underground releases these days, this one is presented in mono, although it still gets the bandwidth of a DTS-HD stream. There's also a 2.0 mix, but I couldn't really tell a difference between the two. Truth be told, they sound pretty good. There is still some depth to the sound register, so while the tracks sound limited and unidirectional, there is a natural depth to the sound that feels fuller than a lot of older tracks. They're clean without any hissing or playback fuzz, and the mixes adequately balance Morricone's ethereal music tracks with the English dialogue. Italian and French 2.0 tracks are included as well, but since the two main actors recorded everything in English, that's certainly the preferred way to watch this picture. Supplemental Material Extras have been ported over from the previous DVD release(s), which isn't entirely a bad thing. First is "Tales of the Cat", a 13-minute retrospective with interviews with Argento, Morricone and one of the co-writers, Dardano Sacchetti. Dario mostly runs the show, talking about things he liked about the film (the POV work, the ambiguity of the finale), how some of the effects were done (the smoking hands) and how he collaborated with some of his other Italian peers to make the film. He also talks about his impetus of making an animal trilogy and how because of the imitators it became tough for him to motivationally accomplish. The other two don't really offer much other than a few words to support what Argento is saying, but it's a nice look back at the film, even if it is all standard def and interlaced. The unsung interests of this release though are those two radio interviews with James Franciscus and Karl Malden. Both run 8 minutes and offer their refreshingly honest and unfiltered takes on filming in Italy and working with Argento. It's not all rosy, with Franciscus admitting he likes the crews in the US more and Malden admitting he's made some stinkers in the past. Both have good things to say about Argento though, and it's interesting to hear their takes on this young, up and coming director, since both were recorded before the release of Tails back in 1971. Today it's tough to get any of the personality of the stars to come out in their EPK stuff, since they're just working as a PR mouthpiece, and these interviews here present a window into a time when stars actually had personalities with things to say. The release is rounded off with a bunch of trailers, TV spots, and radio ads, all in standard definition and interlaced. Seeing the trippy Warholian trailer is certainly a time warp, with lots of weird filters and colors splotched all over the screen. You can tell they REALLY wanted to milk the association with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage with these, with the international trailer doing so much as beginning with a zoom of a box office report with Plumage on top. Lastly, there's also an easter egg hidden within the extras menu. With close to forty minutes in extras this is a satisfying, if curt, little collection, although I continue to wish that Blue Underground will eventually outfit the rest of their Argento canon with critical and historical commentaries like the excellent one found on The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. His films, even the lesser ones, deserve as much. Final Thoughts Cat o' Nine Tails didn't do so well in its first life, but thanks to Blue Underground's solid audio-visual presentation here, it's ready for eight more. It's a minor film in Argento's canon, but still an entertaining and interesting one for fans of the director. The extras, although nothing new for owners of the previous DVDs, give some candid commentary on the film from its lead actors and director. It's been a long time coming for Argento films on Blu-ray, but even a minor film like The Cat o' Nine Tails shows how his kinetic visuals can purr in hi-def. Recommended for Argento fans. Rating . Movie - B- Image Quality - B* Sound - B Supplements - C+ *Because of the quality of the HD format, the clarity, resolution and color depth are inherently a major leap over DVD. Since any Blu-ray will naturally have better characteristics than DVDs, the rating is therefore only in comparison with other Blu-ray titles, rather than home video in general. So while a Blu-ray film may only get a C, it will likely be much better than a DVD with an A. Technical Info. Color Running time - 1 hour and 52 minutes Not Rated 1 Disc Chapter Stops English DTS-HD 2.0 English DTS-HD mono Italian Dolby Surround 2.0 French Dolby Surround 2.0 English SDH subtitles French subtitles Spanish subtitles Supplements "Tales of the Cat" featurette with Dario Argento, Ennio Morricone and Co-writer Dardano Sacchetti Radio interviews with Karl Malden and James Franciscus Theatrical Trailers TV Spots Radio Spots Other Pictures


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Who lives here?Stretching almost 2,500km from east to west, the Himalayas is home to millions of people and hundreds of unique species. In the Eastern Himalayas alone there are some 10,000 types of plant, 750 species of bird and 300 species of mammal - many of them found nowhere else on the planet. Not to mention the region's iconic, yet threatened species, including the:
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Why are we here?Despite its rugged reputation the Himalayas is a mosaic of fragile environments that face a range of challanges. It is the source of 6 of Asia's great rivers, including the Yangtze, Indus and Ganges, but changes in climate are affecting their flow. Melting glaciers and causing floods as glacial lakes burst their banks, whilst downstream water availability is becoming increasingly uncertain as unpredictable seasons bring either too much water or too little.
Both the people and wildlife of the region depend on the natural resources of the Himalayas. Yet as human populations increase people are using the resources faster than the Himalayas can replenish them. Forests are becoming fragmented, which is a serious problem for species like the tiger and elephant that need large territories to wander in.
People and wildlife are increasingly coming into contact as the wild spaces decrease, and the human populations grow. This causes conflict as wild animals destroy crops and kill livestock. Poaching also remains a constant threat as the booming Asian markets offer huge financial gains to people with few opportunities.
What are we doing?Protecting species and habitats, and promoting sustainable development. We are helping to protect, restore and reconnect natural landscapes across the Eastern Himalayas. Our aim is to make sure plant and animal species can thrive, whilst local communities are able to maintain and improve their livelihoods. This includes the sustainable use of natural resources from forests, grasslands and freshwater systems.
Conecting landscapes. We want to help conserve and connect a mosaic of forests, grasslands and wetlands covering more than 7 million hectares; protecting and restoring habitats, minimizing human-wildlife conflicts and securing the source waters of some of Asia's major river systems.
Preparing for change. We're trying to improve our understanding of the impacts of climate change, and develop plans that will allow humans and wildlife to cope with these changes. We also want to ensure that tourism, oil, gas and hydropower develop in sustainable ways that pose no threat to the environment or the region's incredible biodiversity.
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Orleans Store Burglaried
ORLEANS, VT - Chief Lone Cloud, also known as Ralf Swett, reported that the Feathers store on Main Street in Orleans was burglarized last Thursday night.The culprits broke one of the front doors and ransacked the place. An estimated $10,000 in items was taken, including all the computers. The store was also trashed.The matter was reported to both the Orleans County Sheriff's Department and the Vermont State Police but no law enforcement press releases have been issued yet. Fortunately, the inventory was also listed on E-Bay, according to the Chief, so the owners can determine what was missing and its value.This falls on the heels of numerous reports of vehicles being vandalized in the Orleans-Barton area, some of which were in the park-and-ride parking area and at least one of which was parked at the victim's home.


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USDA and HHS Release 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The final recommendations deviate little from last June's committee report, but they do go softer on sodium.
"Enjoy your food, but eat less." That simple message may be the main point in the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which were released on January 31, 2011.
Oh, there are some specifics about less sodium and more vitamin D and potassium. But this year's guidelines, moreso than any previous edition, fully acknowledge that the No. 1 health crisis confronting this country is not cancer, heart disease or high blood pressure, but obesity … which can lead to those diseases and many others.
"The overarching theme this year was to tackle obesity," said Roger Clemens, professor at University of Southern California and a member of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. That committee drafted suggestions that became the basis for the official guidelines created jointly by USDA and the Dept. of Health and Human Services.
"Because more than one-third of children and more than two-thirds of adults in the U.S. are overweight or obese, the seventh edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans places stronger emphasis on reducing calorie consumption and increasing physical activity," said an announcement accompanying the guidelines.
Foods and ingredients as a percent of their goals or limits
The guidelines contained no major deviations from the draft released by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee last June committee. But the final report did seem to water down the recommendation on sodium. The committee recommended for everyone "a gradual reduction in sodium," from the current 2,300mg per day to 1,500mg. The final guidelines leave it at 2,300mg per day except for various segments of the population – which, the final report notes, "applies to about half of the U.S. population."
The official and full document is presented in six chapters. After the Chapter 1 introduction, the headings are:
- Chapter 2: Balancing calories to manage weight -- Explains the concept of calorie balance, describes some of the environmental factors that have contributed to the current epidemic of overweight and obesity, and discusses diet and physical activity principles that can be used to help Americans achieve calorie balance.
- Chapter 3: Foods and food components to reduce – This is the one for food processors (and ingredient suppliers) to key on. It focuses on several dietary components that Americans generally consume in excess, compared to recommendations. These include sodium, solid fats (major sources of saturated fats and trans fats), cholesterol, added sugars, refined grains and, for some Americans, alcohol. (More on those later.) The chapter explains that reducing foods and beverages that contain relatively high amounts of these dietary components and replacing them with foods and beverages that provide substantial amounts of nutrients and relatively few calories would improve the health of Americans.
- Chapter 4: Foods and nutrients to increase – Another bullet point for processors, this one focuses on the nutritious foods that are recommended for nutrient adequacy, disease prevention and overall good health. Those include vegetables; fruits; whole grains; fat-free or low-fat milk and dairy products; protein foods, including seafood, lean meat and poultry, eggs, beans and peas, soy products, and unsalted nuts and seeds; and some oils. It also notes nutrients that are under-consumed including potassium, dietary fiber, calcium and vitamin D.
- Chapter 5: Building healthy eating patterns -- Shows how the recommendations and principles described can be combined into a healthy overall eating pattern. The existing USDA Food Patterns and DASH Eating Plan are healthy eating patterns that provide flexible templates allowing all Americans to stay within their calorie limits, meet their nutrient needs and reduce chronic disease risk.
- Chapter 6: Helping Americans make healthy choices -- Discusses two critically important facts. The first is that the current food and physical activity environment is influential in the nutrition and activity choices that people make — for better and for worse. The second is that all elements of society, including individuals and families, communities, business and industry and various levels of government, have a role to play in the movement to make America healthy. The chapter suggests a number of ways that these players can work together to improve the nation's nutrition and physical activity.
Getting back to Chapter 3. Among "foods and food components to reduce," the document suggests:
- Reduce daily sodium intake to less than 2,300mg for most healthy people and to 1,500mg for people who are 51 and older, are African American or have hypertension, diabetes or chronic kidney disease. "The 1,500mg recommendation applies to about half of the U.S. population, including children, and the majority of adults," the document notes.
- Consume less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fatty acids by replacing them with monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids.
- Consume less than 300mg per day of dietary cholesterol.
- Keep trans fatty acid consumption as low as possible by limiting foods that contain synthetic sources of trans fats, such as partially hydrogenated oils, and by limiting other solid fats.
- Reduce the intake of calories from solid fats and added sugars.
- Limit the consumption of foods that contain refined grains, especially refined grain foods that contain solid fats, added sugars and sodium.
- If alcohol is consumed, it should be consumed in moderation — up to one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men.
Getting back to Chapter 4. Among "foods and nutrients to increase," it recommends:
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