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(velenosso666 have you tried it? )
No I haven't but there are others who have posted here with the Z570 who have tried it and it worked for them and the reply to your OP that was given by yigit was correct This system can be upgraded to max. 16GB memory.
CompuRam is advertising that the Y570 can take the 16 GB of ram and they offer a PayPal payment service, if you or I bought 16 GB of them and used the PayPal payment service and it didn't work, you could easily get a refund. To me that's proof enough because they'd have to refund you plus be stuck with the shipping cost if it wasn't true and knowing that they're a German company, they would never let that happen!
But I have to say 16 GB of ram isn't a good investment unless you do a fair bit of high end computing. I use to believe 4 GB was enough for average users, but just turning on your Y570 will probably take up near 3 GB and if you play like BF3 that will need near 3 again.
Nowadays I believe 8 GB is the minimum amount of ram what the average guy who plays now and again should have, if you do get 16 GB please tell us if it improves your gaming experience, because some who game a lot say it does but I'm skeptical.
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I have to be 100% sure that the 16GB kit will work flawlessly , so I can get the full potential of my laptop.
Also, do you think that the info from CPU-Z is correct? When I go to Memory section it says that my RAM is dual channel but as far as I know, the only way to have dual channel is to use 2 ram modules who are exactly the same like 2+2, 4+4, 8+8, and mine are 4+2- I'm a bit confused
I'm guessing it wouldn't cost that much to ring the number on CompuRam site (Germany) from Bulgaria to ask if that's your may concern, as for 4+2- I'm a bit confused me too. But again I'm guessing it means the motherboard is running on a dual-channel platforms or dual-channel capable.
About 4+2 gb working in dual channel mode - there's nothing strange with it, as some chipsets allow dual channel in so called "flex" mode, which allows 2x2gb work in dual channel mode and remaining 2 gb from 4 gb bank work in single channel mode.
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About 4+2 gb working in dual channel mode - there's nothing strange with it, as some chipsets allow dual channel in so called "flex" mode, which allows 2x2gb work in dual channel mode and remaining 2 gb from 4 gb bank work in single channel mode.
Well that's news to me, I have read that Desktop boards can run in multi channels/modes, but to be truthful it makes little sense to me, until I found this Single Channel vs Dual Channel vs Flex Mode which is much better described.
Kodus to you Sfairat
@kostadinbal wrote:
Exactly why I want to get 2 identical chips.
A while ago I had a desktop with mismatched sticks of ram, so I decided to get matching ram to try and improve my gaming, I bought a kit of a leading ram makers ram costing me plenty.
I couldn't tell the difference, I know for a fact it must of made a difference but I couldn't tell. The improvement to ones performance from this kind of investment is minimal, it's been written up to 10%, if it was I couldn't tell.
All laptops have their limitations, even if you get yours to run at its limits, you would have spent a lot of money for not a lot of improvement from where you are now and more importantly soon it will be superseded because of the pace of technology!
@kostadinbal wrote:
Offtopic: velenoso666, can you guess what I did to my CoolerMaster U2?
Do tell?


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The Harvard women's lacrosse team is back at home after playing Thursday on the road. The Crimson faces Johns Hopkins in the first of four straight home contests Sunday at noon.
Scouting the Crimson
Harvard is 1-3 overall and 1-1 in Ivy League play heading into Sunday's contest. Eight Crimson players have found the back of the net for a team that averages 12.0 goals per game. Danielle Tetreault paces the offense with 12 goals and two assists for 14 points. Jennifer VanderMeulen (11g), Melanie Baskind (7g, 2a), Micaela Cyr (6g, 1a), and Jess Halpern (6g) have been scoring threats for the Crimson.
Cyr leads the team in draw controls with 18, while Baskind lead the team with seven ground balls. Baskind and Gleason lead the team with four caused turnovers. Kerry Clark has made 25 saves in the cage and sports a 13.5 goals-against average.
Last Time Out
Danielle Tetreault scored at hat trick as falls at No. 20 Boston College, 15-10,Thursday afternoon. Tetreault scored three goals on six shots, scooped up a ground ball and caused a turnover in the loss. Melanie Baskind, Jess Halpern, ad Jennifer VanderMeulen each had two tallies, while Chelsey Newman scored a goal for the Crimson. Micaela Cyr won five draw controls, while Baskind, Ellen Gleason and Tomkinson joined Tetreault with one caused turnover. Kerry Clark made four saves in the net.
VanderMeulen put the Crimson on the board first and after tallies from Halpern and Newman, Harvard led, 3-1, seven minutes into the game. The Eagles scored five of the next six goals to take a 6-4 lead with five minutes left in the first half. VanderMeulen and Tetreault scored two before the end of the half to pull the Crimson within, 7-6.
Boston College started the second off with two straight goals to extend its lead to 9-6. Goals from Halpern and Tetreault and a pair of Baskind tallies evened the score at 10 with nine minutes to play. The Eagles scored the final five goals of the game to earn the victory.
Scouting the Blue Jays
Johns Hopkins, which is also received votes in this week's IWLCA poll is 4-2 overall and 2-1 on the road this season. The Blue Jays have three double-digit scorers in Colleen McCaffrey (15), Candace Rossi (11) and Taylor D'Amore (10). JHU averages 13.33 goals per game and has held its opponents to 7.17 tallies per contest. McCaffrey paces the team in draw controls with 16 while, Alyssa Kildare has 18 ground balls and nine caused turnovers. Cosette Larash has played the entire time in the net and owns a 7.17 goals-against average. She has 47 saves to her credit. Series History
The two teams have met twice in program history with each winning one contest. JHU earned a 15-10 victory last year at home, while the Crimson earned a 9-8 victory in the ECAC tournament in 2002. National Rankings
The Harvard women are receiving votes in the IWLCA poll for a second week in a row.
Against the Rest
Harvard entered the week ranked in the top 30 in several national statistics. The Crimson has the 27th best offense in the nation, averaging 12.67 goals per game and is 29th in draw controls with 13.3 per game.
Individually, Danielle Tetreault is 23rd in the nation in goals per game and Micaela Cyr is eighth in the country in draw controls with 4.43 per contest.
Around the League
Yale and Penn meet Saturday in the only Ivy League contest of the weekend. Princeton travels to Virginia and Dartmouth heads to Duke March 19 as well. On Sunday Cornell faces Notre Dame in Baltimore and Brown hosts Bryant. O' Captain, My Captain
Senior Sam McMahon and juniors Melanie Baskind and Tyler Petropulos were elected captains for the 2011 season. It's the fifth time in program history three players have been selected to lead the team and only the second since 1999.
Multi Sports Stars
Several Harvard players also moonlight on fall sports teams. Melanie Baskind is a member of the women's soccer team. She was the Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2008 and has earned second-team (2009) and first-team (2010) All-Ivy League honors as well. She was an ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America second team selection last fall.
Sophomore Nina Kucharczyk and freshmen Mariah Pewarski and Morgan Powell suit up for the field hockey team as well.
Tough Road Ahead
Stanford was the first of several nationally ranked teams on the Crimson's docket this spring. Six teams on Harvard's schedule appear in this week's IWLCA Division I poll: No.4 Penn (March 12), No. 7 Virginia (April 3), No. 7 Stanford, No. 15 Princeton (April 16), No. 18 Dartmouth (April 29) and No. 20 Boston College (March 17).
Home Sweet Home
Harvard will play its home games at the new Soldiers Field Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium and Harvard Stadium. Soldiers Field was unveiled in the fall of 2010 and is one of the premier lacrosse and soccer facilities in the Northeast. Features seating capacity of up to 2,500 fans, including permanent bleachers which seat 1,000 spectators, as well as additional space for standing room only sections. Soldiers Field Soccer/Lacrosse Stadium also has a permanent press box and lights, which allow for games to be played at night. The Crimson is slated to play its first home game of the season there before moving to Harvard Stadium.
Up Next
Harvard gets back into Ivy League action Saturday against Yale. The Crimson hosts the Bulldogs at noon in Harvard Stadium. The team will welcome back its alumnae for the game.

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Slither is an edgy blend of heart-stopping terror, wry humor and surprising humanity from genre-bending screenwriter James Gunn, whose Dawn of the Dead became one of 2004's most surprising hits.
The sleepy town of Wheelsy could be any small town in America?somewhat quaint and gentle, peopled with friendly folks who mind their own business. But just beneath the surface charm, something unnamed and evil has arrived?and is growing. No one seems to notice as telephone poles become clogged with missing pet flyers, or when one of the town's richest citizens, Grant Grant (Michael Rooker), begins to act strangely. But when farmers' livestock turn up horribly mutilated and a young woman goes missing, Sheriff Bill Pardy (Nathan Fillion) and his team, aided by Grant's wife Starla (Elizabeth Banks), uncover the dark force laying siege to their town?and come face-to-face with an older-than-time organism intent on absorbing and devouring all life on Earth.
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Greater Richmond Children's Choir
The Greater Richmond Children's Choir is dedicated to bringing together boys and girls from diverse backgrounds to experience the joy of singing and to gain a life-long love for good music through age-appropriate vocal training. The GRCC strives to nurture the unique gift each child brings, to encourage all to reach for excellence, and ultimately, to create responsible and compassionate citizens of the world. After twenty years, Founding Artistic Director Hope Armstrong Erb was named Artistic Director Emeritus, and veteran GRCC director Crystal Jonkman was named Artistic Director in 2017. Now in its twenty-second season, GRCC includes choristers, ages 8-18 in ensembles representing many different schools in the city of Richmond and the surrounding counties.
The Greater Richmond Children's Choir is multicultural in its diverse membership, its repertoire, and its audience outreach locally and abroad. GRCC choristers have sung in over forty different languages representing more than fifty different ethnic and religious groups worldwide. In June 2018, GRCC's touring Pro Arte and Cavalieri Choirs made a six day tour taking them to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. on an American History concert tour. Stops included the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, the United Nations, Lower Manhattan, Independence Hall, and the Smithsonian Institute with performances all along the way. In 2016, GRCC made a nine day tour to Berlin Germany and beyond. The tour included performances in Berlin, Spremberg, Dresden, Leipzig, and Halle. The students sang at landmarks like Bach's own Church of St. Thomas, and performed with other students at local music schools. In 2014 GRCC toured New York City and Montreal, including performances at Carnegie Hall in the Choirs of America AMP Nationals for Childrens' and Youth Choirs, a Broadway workshop and show, and performances at Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal and Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. In 2012, thirty-five members of GRCC's touring choirs, Pro Arte and Cavalieri, traveled to England and Ghana on a tour designed to follow the historic slave trade triangle. The tour included cultural exchanges and performances from Liverpool Cathedral to Cape Coast Castle. In preparation for the tour, Dr. Paul Kwami, native Ghanaian and director of the famed Fisk Jubilee Singers, taught the students Ghanaian songs he arranged especially for GRCC. Travel is an integral part of GRCC's mission and in 2010 thirty-six GRCC members toured Tennessee and Arkansas where they performed at the Grand Old Opry, Graceland, The Phillips County Boys & Girls Club, and more. And in 2008, fifty GRCC choristers were warmly received by their Chinese hosts when the choir toured Beijing and Shanghai, presenting programs of Chinese and American music for and with groups of Chinese students. Prior tours have also included festivals in Italy, Canada, and Carnegie Hall in New York City where the choirs have received highest accolades.
The Pro Arte Choir of GRCC is recognized as one of the best choirs in the USA having been selected to perform at the national and regional Conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. GRCC was named Best Choir and Hope Armstrong Erb named Best Conductor in the 13th Concorso Internazionale di Canto Corale in Verona, Italy. GRCC has sung at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. and performed as the featured choir in the Field Studies International Festival 2000 at Carnegie Hall, NYC.
The choir has performed to full houses and critical acclaim with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra in Britten's War Requiem, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Howard Shore's The Lord of the Rings, Doug Richards' A Maré Éncheu and in numerous Holiday Pops concerts. The Greater Richmond Children's Choir has given premiere performances of compositions and arrangements by Allan Blank, Ben Broening, Fred Cohen, Pete Curry, Hope Armstrong Erb, James Erb, Crystal Jonkman, Kelly Kennedy, Owen Peck, Doug Richards, and more. GRCC members have been seen on national television portraying the "French children's choir" in the pilot episode of Commander in Chief starring Geena Davis on ABC, in a state-wide commercial for the Virginia Prepaid College Tuition Plan, in a special spot on China TV during the choir's tour which was broadcast internationally on the English-speaking Channel, live on "King Biscuit Time," the longest running daily American blues radio show, and live many times on CBS Channel 6 "Virginia This Morning."
The current season includes a pair of friendship concerts with Lynchburg's Cantate Youth Choir both here in Richmond and in Lynchburg. GRCC chorister Chadwick Schmalzbach was chosen by competitive audition to perform with the Richmond Symphony in its 2018 holiday performance of The Snowman. Last season, the Cantare Choir sang William Byrd's Mass for Three Voices to wide acclaim. In prior seasons, the GRCC Pro Arte Choir recorded Britten's Missa Brevis with organist and GRCC director Crystal Jonkman (which will be in an upcoming CD.) Jack Rigdon from the GRCC intermediate Concert Choir was chosen to sing Bernstein's Chichester Psalms solo with the Richmond Symphony, and the Pro Arte and Cavalieri Choirs sang the choruses of fairies and lords in Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Iolanthe in collaboration with Capitol Opera Richmond and conducted by GRCC director Pete Curry. Other opera collaborations have included full-house performances of Britten's Noye's Fludde with Capitol Opera Richmond, River Road Church Baptist, and a 47-member orchestra of professionals and amateurs, conducted by Ms. Erb in 2014. In 2012, GRCC sang in Capitol Opera Richmond's inaugural production of Puccini's La Boheme. Pro Arte performed in the VCU Opera 60th Anniversary production, Hansel & Gretel, which earned 2nd place in the National Opera Association's 2011 opera production video competition. GRCC co-produced the children's opera Brundibar in 2005 with Virginia Opera, the Virginia Holocaust Museum, and an all-GRCC cast and student orchestra conducted by Ms. Erb in standing-room-only evening performances presented to the general public as well as daytime performances for over 1,000 area school children.
"The musicianship and discipline she (Hope Armstrong Erb) imparts pay dividends to students way beyond the concert hall. I'm continually grateful for my time with her, and I only wish I lived closer so my children could study with her!"
- Mason Bates, Distinguished American Composer, Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence
Choir Levels
The GRCC is made up of five choirs to accommodate all singing levels.
Three choirs of boys and girls with soprano and alto voices:
- Treble Choir – entry level
- Concert Choir – intermediate leve
- Pro Arte – advanced level
Two choirs including tenors and basses
- Cavalieri Choir – all-male changed voice choir of tenors and basses
- Cantare – combined Pro Arte and Cavalieri Choirs
Our Mission
The Greater Richmond Children's Choir is dedicated to bringing together boys and girls from diverse backgrounds to experience the joy of singing and to gain a life-long love for good music through age-appropriate vocal training. We strive to nurture the unique gift each child brings, to encourage all to reach for excellence, and ultimately, to create responsible and compassionate citizens of the world.
"The chorus of angelic voices soared to and through the hearts of the crowd."
- Richmond Times-Dispatch
Our Philosophy
Music is an expression of the human spirit; it gives voice to the divine within us. A positive choral experience creates a strong sense of community and mutual respect while promoting individual strength and self-discipline.
We strive for musical excellence. Every child has potential for musical growth, and every child has a place in the GRCC, regardless of talent or experience. We recognize that the path to excellence is through dedication, self-discipline, and teamwork. Skills developed in choral training are skills for life. Furthermore, students who study music are better prepared for academic rigor. Choristers receive instruction in music theory, sight-singing and ear training. Attention is given to voice placement and healthy use of the body while singing the repertoire and warm-up exercises. Music is memorized for performances.
Music has been called the international language and has the power to bring greater understanding across cultures. The GRCC recognizes the strength to be found in diversity and therefore actively recruits singers from a wide variety of cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Choristers experience a broad range of choral literature including classics, premieres of new music, jazz, spirituals, gospel, musical theater, opera, folk and world music. Students learn about the cultures and languages in which the repertoire was written. The choirs have sung in over forty languages including English, Latin, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Czech, Zulu, Hawaiian, Korean, Hebrew, Georgian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Algonquin, and Elvish!


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Urban Adventure Quest
Thursday, September 19, 2019 at 9:00 AM
Event Details
Turn New York-Central Park into a giant game board with this fun scavenger hunt adventure. Combine the excitement of the Amazing Race with a three-hour city tour.
Guided from any smart phone, teams make their way among well known and overlooked gems of the city, solving clues and completing challenges while learning local history. Start when you want and play at your pace.
Price is per team, not per person. Find details and Redeem your ticket as a Prepaid Code online at www.UrbanAdventureQuest.com.
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All incoming first year students must attend a mandatory two-day orientation program before they can register for classes. We have several sessions to choose from, beginning in late June and ending in mid September.
You will want to take your math test prior to your Orientation.
Click below for more information from Admissions:
Math Placement: Most First Year Students that want to take math at UW Bothell will need to take a math placement test. Students do not need a placement test if they have AP math credit or math credit from another college. You will want to take your math test prior to your Orientation. You may register to take the placement tests around the state or take the placement test at the UW Bothell campus. For a list of testing dates at UW Bothell, please see the Testing Website.
Feel free to register for the state placement locations here:
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Hotmail is on its way out, with its users' email addresses changing to Outlook.com ones — and with the switch, Microsoft is spending upwards of $30 million to tell Americans that its new email service is the best on the Internet.
With the new web-based email service, distinct from Microsoft's Outlook email client, the waning tech behemoth is taking aim at Google's industry-leading Gmail service.
The barrage begins Tuesday when Outlook.com escalates an assault on rival services not only from Google but also from Yahoo, AOL and a long list of Internet service providers.
For full tech news coverage, visit NBCNews.com.
As part of the process, all users of Microsoft's Hotmail and other email services operating under different domains such as MSN.com will be automatically converted to Outlook.com by the summer, if they don't voluntarily switch before then. (To switch, log into Hotmail, click settings at the top right and select the option to convert to Outlook.)
All the old messages, contacts and settings in the old inboxes will be exported to Outlook.com. Users will also be able to keep their old addresses.
Email remains a key battleground, even at a time when more people are texting each other on phones.
People still regularly check their inboxes, albeit increasingly on their smartphones. The recurring email habit provides Internet companies a way to keep people coming back to websites. It gives people a reason to log in during their visits so it's easier for email providers to track their activities. Frequent visits and personal identification are two of the keys to selling ads, the main way most websites make money.
That's why Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have been retooling their email services in recent months.
After keeping Outlook.com in a "preview" phase since July 31, Microsoft Corp. is ready to accept all comers.
To welcome new users, Microsoft is financing what it believes to be the biggest marketing blitz in the history of email. Outlook.com will be featured in ads running on primetime TV, radio stations, websites, billboards and buses. Microsoft expects to spend somewhere between $30 million to $90 million on the Outlook campaign, which will run for at least three months.
The Outlook ads will overlap with an anti-Gmail marketing campaign that Microsoft launched earlier this month. The "Scroogled" attacks depict Gmail as a snoopy service that scans the contents of messages to deliver ads related to topics being discussed.
The Gmail ads are meant to be educational while the Outlook campaign is motivational, said Dharmesh Mehta, Outlook.com's senior director.
"We are trying to push people who have gotten lazy and comfortable with an email service that may not be all that great and help show them what email can really do for them," said Mehta.
By Microsoft's own admission, Hotmail had lost the competitive edge that once made it the world's largest email service. The lack of innovation left an opening for Google to exploit when it unveiled Gmail nearly nine years ago.
Gmail is now the industry leader, although estimates on its popularity vary.
Google says Gmail has more than 425 million accountholders, including those that only visit on smartphones and other mobile device.
The latest data from research firm comScore, which doesn't include mobile traffic, shows Gmail with 306 million worldwide users through December, up 21 percent from the previous year. Yahoo's email ranked second with 293 million users, a 2 percent decrease from the previous year, followed by Hotmail at 267 million users, a 16 percent decline from the previous year.
Microsoft, which is based in Redmond, Wash., is counting on Outlook.com to catapult the company back to the top of the email heap. During the preview period, Outlook attracted 60 million accountholders, including about 20 million that defected from Gmail, according to Microsoft. Comscore listed Outlook with 38 million users through December.
The 60 million active users Outlook garnered in those six months compared with about 350 million existing Hotmail accounts, NBC News' Wilson Rothman reported.
David Law, Outlook.com's product management director, did not tell Rothman what percentage of the service's 60 million users were simply converts from existing Hotmail users — though he did say that about a third of Outlook.com users are or were Gmail users as well.
The new features being introduced in Outlook include: the ability to send massive files, including hundreds of photos at a time, in a single email; address books that automatically update new contact information that connections post on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn; and about 60 percent fewer ads than Hotmail.
None of these features are revolutionary. Google already has been giving its users the option to switch to a new version of Gmail that also allows for larger files to be sent in a single email. And address books in Gmail already fetch new contact information posted on Google Plus, although it doesn't yet mine Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Google declined to comment on Outlook.com. The company, which is based in Mountain View, Calif., plans to convert all of its Gmail users to its redesigned format within the next few months.
Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. revamped its email service late last year in an effort to provide a more consistent experience on personal computers and mobile devices.
Outlook.com is the latest in a series of major product leases from Microsoft, which has been struggling to regain the cachet that once made it the world's most valuable technology company.
Now, both Apple Inc. and Google are worth more because they have been growing far faster than Microsoft as their products win more fans. Apple's biggest gains have come from the iPhone and IPad, while Google has been benefiting from its dominance in Internet search and its widely used Android software for mobile devices.
Microsoft has been trying to catch up with a major makeover of its Windows operating system, new smartphone software and a tablet computer called Surface. Like Outlook.com, all those products have been backed by expensive marketing campaigns in recent months.


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So the United States has brokered a cease-fire among the warring factions in Darfur, and the U.N. Security Council has authorized the deployment of a peacekeeping force. To anyone blissfully unfamiliar with history, this sounds like a decisive step that will finally end the violence that has left at least 200,000 dead and 2 million homeless.
Alas, this is not the first cease-fire agreement in Darfur. An accord was reached in 2004 and was immediately violated. There is no reason to think that the current treaty will fare any better, especially because one of the main Darfur rebel groups has refused to sign it.
Pieces of paper, no matter how promising, require power in order to be enforced. The question is: Who will provide that power in Darfur? The African Union force deployed in 2004 has proven woefully inadequate. Its 7,000 soldiers lack the numbers, training and equipment to patrol an undeveloped region the size of France. They don't even have a mandate to stop ethnic cleansing; they are only supposed to monitor the situation.
If you listen to the bloviators at Turtle Bay, salvation will come from the deployment of a larger corps of blue helmets. If only. What is there in the history of United Nations peacekeepers that gives anyone any confidence that they can stop a determined adversary?
The odds are much greater that U.N. representatives will instead be taken as hostages by bloodthirsty thugs, as happened in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995 and in Sierra Leone five years later. Or that, rather than protecting the people, the peacekeepers will prey on them -- as allegedly has happened in Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Congo, all places where blue helmets have been accused of a horrifying litany of sexual abuses, including pedophilia, rape and prostitution.
Even if these worst-case scenarios don't come to pass, the U.N. is likely to prove ineffectual in the face of determined opposition. Look at what is happening in East Timor, where, after seven years of U.N. stewardship, the capital has been paralyzed by fighting among armed gangs. The situation is even worse in Haiti, where a Brazilian-led U.N. force has done little to stem growing chaos. It is worse still in Somalia -- the most lawless country on Earth -- where a U.N. deployment failed in the early 1990s.
And to think that some self-described realists had the temerity to suggest that everything would have worked out in Iraq if only the lead role had been turned over to the U.N.! East Timor and Haiti are much smaller and more isolated, but the U.N. hasn't worked its multilateral magic in either place.
My point here isn't to indulge in U.N.-bashing for its own sake, but simply to suggest that we should temper our expectations for the peacekeeping force that is due to arrive in Darfur in six to nine months' time. The drawn-out timetable itself suggests how ineffectual the U.N. is. Even under the best of circumstances, the janjaweed militia will enjoy another half-year of rapine without serious interference.
If the so-called civilized nations of the world were serious about ending what the U.S. government has described as genocide, they would not fob off the job on the U.N. They would send their own troops. But of course they're not serious. At least not that serious.
But perhaps there is a way to stop the killing even without sending an American or European army. Send a private army. A number of commercial security firms such as Blackwater USA are willing, for the right price, to send their own forces, made up in large part of veterans of Western militaries, to stop the genocide.
We know from experience that such private units would be far more effective than any U.N. peacekeepers. In the 1990s, the South African firm Executive Outcomes and the British firm Sandline made quick work of rebel movements in Angola and Sierra Leone. Critics complain that these mercenaries offered only a temporary respite from the violence, but that was all they were hired to do. Presumably longer-term contracts could create longer-term security, and at a fraction of the cost of a U.N. mission.
Yet this solution is deemed unacceptable by the moral giants who run the United Nations. They claim that it is objectionable to employ -- sniff -- mercenaries. More objectionable, it seems, than passing empty resolutions, sending ineffectual peacekeeping forces and letting genocide continue.


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There's a new kid on the block when it comes to breaking big time stories about possible U.S. government abuses — and this time it's a British-based paper that's come up with the goods.
The Guardian newspaper, which started publishing in the English city of Manchester in 1821 and is now based in London, has in the last two days established a major presence in Washington by uncovering the vast scope of secret surveillance operations carried out by U.S. officials.
The revelations have put President Barack Obama and his national security team on the defensive with reports of government snooping on a comprehensive scale. Its coverage expanded to Britain on Friday with an exclusive report that Britain's electronic surveillance agency has had access to data collected by the Americans.
The scoops have brought the company's website a megavoltage spike in traffic — company figures show a 20 percent increase in Internet visits, with Thursday reported as the company's busiest day for U.S. traffic ever.
The company has been moving into the U.S. market in a determined way in recent years — with 57 employees in place — but hasn't had a major impact on the national debate until now.
Roy Greenslade, a media commentator who blogs in the Guardian, said the paper's surveillance stories have established it as a serious player on the U.S. scene.
"It will add to its credibility in the sense that it is doing something that traditional mainstream outlets in the States failed to do," he said. "So it beats the might of American journalism in its own back yard. And it's sent up traffic in a massive way."
He said the newspaper has been "slowly and surely" building a following in the U.S. It's also launched a new digital edition in Australia and hired journalists there.
Along with some U.S. papers, it published many of the secret WikiLeaks cables dealing with U.S. military and diplomatic affairs despite U.S. officials' claims that doing so would put lives at risk.
Unlike some other major rivals, the Guardian doesn't charge for Internet access — a factor that swells its page views but does little to help its troubled bottom line.
Chief editor Alan Rusbridger told a conference in April that the Guardian's U.S. web traffic grew roughly 37 percent last year and now accounts for about one-third of the paper's global audience, estimated by the paper at 40 million readers.
The paper has been owned by the Scott Trust since 1936, but experts warn that the funds are running low and that the paper is running at a substantial loss. The print circulation has fallen sharply, dropping from more than 353,000 in May 2008 to just over 192,000 in May.
Steven Barnett, a communications professor at the University of Westminster, cautions that it is not clear the paper will be able to capitalize financially on its growing reputation.
"They're clearly trying to establish themselves as a world leader in authoritative investigative journalism," he said. "But if you are delivering it for free, how do you ensure you derive some proper revenue from their expansion? That's been a problem for months and years."
He said the "pennies" from Internet advertising do not offset the many dollars being lost as more lucrative print advertising fades, making it harder for the paper to capitalize.
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One of the marks of a great instrument manufacturer is versatility, and that's something Arturia has in spades. With a variety of software as well as hardware MIDI controllers and synths that offer great choices to musicians from beginners to industry veterans, they've done a lot to make electronic music accessible for everyone. If you're looking for the perfect place to take care of your physical and virtual equipment needs all at once, this is it.
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A community committee charged with finding solutions to overcrowding at Bluffton middle cchools met Thursday for a first look at the scope of the problem the group faces.
The committee - composed of principals, School Improvement Council members, a student representative and residents appointed by the Beaufort County School board - faces a mid-February deadline for ordering mobile classrooms in the short term and a May cutoff date for a solution in the long term.
"We're under some calendar pressure, just like anything and everything in life," said Terry Bennett, director of grant management for the district, during a meeting held at Bluffton Middle School.
Under the current structure sixth-graders and seventh-graders attend Bluffton Middle School while H.E. McCracken Middle School hosts the eighth and ninth grades. That 2011 arrangement and a construction expansion at Bluffton Middle School that lifted capacity to 1,100 students came about as a two-to-three-year fix for overcrowding at Bluffton High School, which only serves grades 10 through 12.
With an enrollment of 1,007, Bluffton Middle School stands at 97 percent capacity, with enrollment expected to top 1,031 by 2014. Enrollment at McCracken is already 37 students over capacity at 946 and expected to rise to 969 in 2014.
If the district returned ninth-grade students to Bluffton High School it would have to add a minimum of 10 mobiles next school year, 15 in 2014-15 and as many as 26 in the 2015-16 school year, according to its five-year capital plan. The mobiles cost about $100,000 not counting logistical and other expenses that could arise with their installation in some places, said Robert Oetting, facilities planning and construction officer.
The capital report stresses the "clear need for Bluffton cluster capacity expansion in the near future," estimating all schools will be at 104 percent capacity by 2020 using conservative projections. Staying within the 85 percent target range requires an increase of school capacity by 1,500 to 3,100 students in the long term, the report notes.
Through a 2008 bond referendum the school district bought land off Bluffton Parkway between Buckwalter Parkway and S.C. 170 for a new elementary school and another 240 acres in New Riverside for a future middle school and high school, said Chief of Operations Phyllis White, noting the area's growth potential.
"When you build a school you have to build where the kids are," she said. "We have land right where we want it."
That referendum lacked funding for a middle school, however.
The committee decided only to meet Thursdays until the job is done, but district officials also presented the possible solution of moving sixth-graders to elementary schools and leaving seventh through ninth grades at the two middle schools.
The plan would place three mobiles at Okatie Elementary School, three at Pritchardville Elementary and two at Red Cedar Elementary School at a cost of $1.6 million, but officials acknowledged another three or four mobiles at each would be ideal for maintaining academic quality and the broader offerings expected in sixth grade.
Red Cedar in particular presents challenges that would raise the cost per mobile to about $250,000 a year because the site requires drainage improvements, landscaping and other measures to appease the neighboring development, Oetting said.
"When you're adding impervious service, we would have to revise the drainage system, and that would be a pretty significant cost," he said. "Also, we're at the neighborhood's mercy when we put mobiles there."
The committee will meet at least every Thursday to continue discussing the possibility of returning sixth grade to elementary schools and other ideas presented by committee members or others.
They'll have their work cut out for them, said Karen Lavery, a town councilwoman serving on the committee, after a group exercise forcing committee members to manage a hypothetical capacity problem that was later revealed to mirror Beaufort County's not-too-distant past.
"We had an interesting hypothetical," Lavery said, noting a rule specific to her group precluding any help from referendums, "and if the hypothetical is anything like the real thing, we've got a long road ahead of us."


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The 2010 Civil Rights Conference April 20 and 21 in Lincoln will focus on fair housing and employment discrimination issues. The Lincoln Commission on Human Rights (LCHR) is sponsoring the conference at the Cornhusker Marriott.
Two four-hour sessions will begin at 1 p.m. April 20:
Citizens Against Racism and Discrimination (CARD) will host an event the evening of April 20 in conjunction with the conference. The event will include a reception and a panel discussion on civil rights beginning at 5:15 p.m. at the Cornhusker Marriott. The panel will kick off the Dan Williams Memorial Lecture Series on Race Relations, named in honor of the founder of CARD.
Sessions that begin at 9 a.m. April 21 will cover the following topics:
The keynote speaker for lunch will be Joann A. Sazama, an Equal Opportunity Specialist for the office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices in the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C.
Registration brochures will be available in early March. Sessions are free, but there is a $35 charge for the lunch and breaks on April 21. A special conference rate is available for hotel accommodations For more information, contact Larry Williams at LCHR at email@example.com or 402-441-8691.


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- No experimenting with or on any surface or plate/cup/container that can hold food.
- Experiments and reagents should be stored in their own fridge. Do not place your experiments, media, or chemicals in the food fridge.
- Don't place your experiments near any food or drink.
- Sterilize all waste as necessary, and dispose of all waste properly. Specific guidelines for waste disposal may be found below.
- Disinfect/wipe down of any surface you've been working on with Lysol or ethanol.
- Cover dishes if you aren't directly working with your culture (to keep from contaminating your culture, your peers and Noisebridge).
- Know how to safely use and dispose of materials (reagents for example) before they enter Noisebridge. Do not bring reagents in which require hazardous waste disposal - Noisebridge currently does not have the permits or processes necessary for this.
- Many materials used in wet biology are flammable or otherwise harmful and will be kept in a locked cabinet labeled with the appropriate warning labels (ie: flammable, skull and crossbones, etc.). Flammables, acids, and bases should be stored in a segregated manner.
- Safety Material Data Sheets will be kept near the cabinet for all materials stored there.
- Noisebridge is a humane space -- no animal experimentation!
- Extra caution must be used in dealing with chemicals and cell cultures for not just healthy adults, but also children, elderly, immunosuppressed people, people with high allergen reactions, pets, and anything the pets may ingest including roaches/mice/pests that may reside at Noisebridge. All of these things come into Noisebridge and we can by NO MEANS be thought of as lab environment (until we come up with dedicated space for that).
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All waste that has come in contact with bacteria, yeast, or transgenic cells is considered biohazard waste. Biohazard waste must be sterilized before being disposed of. The following two methods of sterilization may be used:
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Rosetta Stone Partners with the International Air Transport Association to Provide Language Training
Rosetta Stone Partners with the International Air Transport Association to Provide Language Training to Aviation Industry Workers
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYS: RST) , a leading provider of technology-based language-learning solutions, today announced a new agreement with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that means thousands of employees in the aviation industry will have the opportunity to learn a new language and develop their communication skills as part of a wide-ranging career development program administered by the IATA Training and Development Institute (ITDI).
The program gives ITDI students access to groundbreaking software solutions from Rosetta Stone, the global leader in language-learning technology for schools, businesses and individuals. The company's TOTALe® PRO solution—recently expanded to include mobile applications, live online tutoring with native speakers, and group-based interactive learning games—is available in over 20 languages. The Rosetta Stone partnership marks the first time language training has been offered through IATA's world-class training curriculum, which already features classroom and distance learning in aviation administration, security, tourism, safety and many other subjects.
This year, over three billion passengers will crisscross the world aboard flights served by 8.4 million aviation industry workers. IATA represents member airlines and interacts with airports, supply companies, cargo handlers, security personnel and travel agents—people at every touch-point of the aviation supply chain. Given the aviation industry's global breadth, multilingualism has become a key area for employee development, compliance and competitiveness.
"If ever there was a truly global industry, aviation is it," said Judy Verses, President, Global Institutions at Rosetta Stone. "Being able to communicate across borders and cultures is a vital skill for global organizations, and we're delighted that IATA—which represents airlines all over the world—has chosen Rosetta Stone as its go-to language-learning solution."
The ITDI client base is drawn from the employees of over 240 member airlines, 75,000 IATA-certified travel agents, and a pool of more than 20,000 college students who aspire to work in the aviation industry. Participants who successfully complete Level 3 and Level 5 of Rosetta Stone TOTALe PRO as part of ITDI's curriculum will earn certificates reflecting their language proficiency—a notable achievement in terms of professional development.
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I recently posted in the rainbow fish section after hearing that there may be a variety of rainbow fish that is purely brackish. As it turns out this is not so, so am really looking for ideas on the types of community brackish fish that are available.
I've viewed all of the fish commonly available in the LFS that are 24/7 brackish... and come up with a surprisingly broad selection!
The one fish that I really don't want to change.... is the dragon goby. They're kind of the fish "that started it all" for me.
The bumblebee goby was next up on the list.... but being a tiny fish in what is primarily a predatory/omnivorous world.... doesn't give me a lot of choice in stocking anything else. But I'll swap them out if there are not any suitable tank mates for them.
Scats and Monos are the next, but feel they may draw attention away from the dragon goby. Being large eye-catching fish.
The knight goby was another interesting one... I would hazard on the side of caution in thinking it wouldn't make a fantastic tank mate for the bumblebee either!
The archer fish is a fish that I really would like to try my hand at. But as a relatively novice fish keeper I don't know if this would be wise. All the same, I seem to understand they are difficult to keep due to their picky nature when it comes to feeding. If this is the sole point that bumps them into the "difficult to care for" category than that's fine. I'm quite happy to keep and breed various forms of insects... I reckon a quick dusting with one of those powders you use for a lizards insect feed, would work equally well for fish.
For the sake of argument.... the question basically is. If YOU could set up.... a brackish community. How would you do it? What would you stock it with?
^_^ Read lots of ideas and viewed many websites about different set ups and have a partial plan drawn up already, just looking for more ideas and opinions.


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Gas shale brings promise of jobs, concerns about water
HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP, PA. — To appreciate the promise and betrayal of the nation's natural gas rush, look no further than this rural community in southwestern Pennsylvania where the 957 residents barely outnumber the dairy cows.
Like dozens of farming communities in the state, the countryside here is dotted with drill pads, derricks, compressor stations, truck convoys, earth movers, open-air reservoirs and pipelines that snake along fence lines and carry natural gas to refineries.
A similar transformation could await North Carolina, where an estimated 1,400-square-mile underground natural gas deposit is believed to lie less than a mile under rural Lee County and surrounding regions. Locally, a shale formation stretches from Butner and Creedmoor through Falls Lake and Durham to Sanford and Carthage.
Though only a fraction of the size of the multi-state Marcellus Shale up north, this state's 200 million-year-old shale gas deposit could also turn crossroads into boomtowns and subsistence farmers into millionaires.
But the gas rush in Pennsylvania has brought deep divisions.
The construction, excavations and storage tanks in cornfields and pastures are evidence of ecological destruction to some, economic revival to others. Underlying the acrimony are lawsuits between homeowners and gas companies, local government efforts to restrict drilling, contentious town hall meetings, and persistent complaints of water contamination.
Elected officials from North Carolina recently visited Pennsylvania to learn about its experience with gas exploration in anticipation of welcoming the industry.
A big draw is the 200,000-plus jobs - roustabouts, pumpers, drillers, truckers, pipe layers and others - Pennsylvania has gained from the Marcellus Shale gas bonanza, according to state labor data.
But North Carolina could also experience the bitter aftertaste of the shale gas bonanza: reports of funky water, mysterious illnesses, state investigations, moratoriums, hefty fines. As in Pennsylvania, rural homesteads could play host to lucrative wellheads and storage tanks, while less-lucky neighbors are forced to switch to potable water that's trucked in to refill 550-gallon tanks called "water buffaloes" after the family well goes bad and has to be sealed.
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Flintoff was picked ahead of him because he was more established, and once that was done the only way Strauss could captain was when Flintoff was injured.
What, it's his fault that Flintoff isn't a good captain? Or that he was picked as captain? Assuming the latter, no, not exclusively his fault (maybe not even his fault at all - some people have claimed that Flintoff was not his preferred choice).again point being? England were never going to win with Flintoff as captain because he simply wasnt good enough, and he was quite likely to break down given that he just got back from injury. Nobody in England is going to say that Freddie lacks cricketing intelligence but its pretty obvious when you watch him bat or when hes captaining on the field that he clearly does so. Again DFs fault
I said might just, not might well. Big difference.Nicely done contradicting yourself. Now you yourself claim that it might well have been 4-0 instead of 5-0. Anyhow im fairly certain that the scorecards would have been a lot closer if we had a better captain, and the 4-0 or 5-0 would have hurt a lot less.
I have no doubt that the captaincy was only one factor in the loss, there were several others which i have mentioned before, but again you digress how does that prove the point that DF made poor selection and other decisions?
The point I'm making is that choosing the captaincy for this tour could never have been described as a poor decision because there was no obvious candidate - the selectors (and there are more than 1) had to take a punt whoever they chose (they could've chosen Alastair Cook and it'd have been the same), and for that reason I don't see that they deserve any real criticism for who they gave the captaincy to.
I said it a million times then - dropped catches were no shortcoming of Flintoff. You can bowl whoever you want, it won't make an iota of difference if you put down as many catches as England did that game.And strauss had done his job admirably by leading his side to a 3-0 victory against pakistan as well as contributing positively with the bat. Flintoff's shortcomings had already been seen in the home series against SL and he even managed to injure himself by bowling himself like an old shoe.
I do not see that Strauss' captaincy was massively better against Pakistan than Flintoff's was against Sri Lanka - England just played far better.
You've provided reasons why Strauss might - and only might - have done a better captaincy job than Flintoff. You've provided no reasons as to how that might have changed the scoreline, and you certainly haven't provided reasons why appointing Flintoff as captain was a mistake, because there cannot be any. As I said, whoever the selectors picked as captain they were taking a gamble, and whatever happened the captain was likely to be made to look foolish, because all captains make mistakes and all mistakes get magnified when the team you're captain of gets beaten badly. And England getting beaten badly in this series was pretty close to inevitable.You are once again missing the whole point. Since when do you care about the masses of cricket fans? Ive provided enough reasons, most of which you havent found any answers to, to prove to you why it was a bad decision to have flintoff as captain. And i think its common sense really.
Even when ponting made those poor decisions in 2005 i backed him as a captain and said that he has been a decent one and anyone who watched him could see that. In flintoffs case there is nothing to back him with. Hes simply been miserable from day one. Despite appearing to be physically and emotionally drained by his teams performance he didnt relinquish the captaincy during the series which IMO he should have done. I dont rate Strauss very highly as captain but he wouldnt make those rather dull errors that flintoff committed and it might well have helped his game and Flintoffs as well. Really for mine Vaughan and Tresothick are far better tacticians than either of the 2.
As for why do I care about the masses of cricket fans? Because they're the ones making the comments like the "Vaughan outwitted Ponting at every turn" nonsense that eminated time and again from last summer. And they're the ones who turn on the selectors for no good reason when they make a marginal line-call and a very bad loss follows.
As for giving-up the captaincy mid-series when you've been appointed on a short-term basis - for me that's the ultimate admittance that you haven't been good enough and one I don't expect any cricketer to possess the humility to countenance.


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It was back to business for Wall Street Wednesday.
Stocks ended sharply lower as a layer of uncertainty was removed with the presidential election complete, but anxiety over the economy returned to the market and financials took a hit.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 486.01, or 5.1 percent, to close at 9139.27. The Standard & Poor's 500 index shed 5.3 percent and theNasdaqtumbled 5.5 percent.
Barack Obama swept the White House in a decisive victory that, at last count, had him with 349 electoral votes to John McCain's 163, making him the first African-American president in U.S. history. He also soared past McCain in the popular vote.
In his victory speech Tuesday night, Obama said, "change has come to America."
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But, as Obama supporters reveled in the candidate's historic victory, Wall Street bowed out of the celebratory glow, turning instead to the grim reality of what lies ahead for the economy.
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The Institute for Supply Management reported its gauge of service-sector activity shrank more than expectedin October, falling to 44.4. from 52.1 in October. Economists had expected a more measured drop to 49.
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As Canada's population skews older, greyer doesn't necessarily mean safer.
While it is true that most serious and violent crimes are committed by young adults, age isn't the only causal factor affecting crime trends, experts say.
Other factors, such as the state of the economy, patterns of social and economic inequality, and opportunities to commit crimes, can also affect whether crime rates go up or down.
If more seniors work later into life and unemployment worsens among the younger generation, that could lead to more social unrest in the streets, as evidenced by the recent riots in Canada and Europe, said Scot Wortley, a criminology professor at the University of Toronto.
While there may be some evidence that an aging population is helping to drive down crime, "it might not all be good news," Wortley said.
Finding work will not be easy for the generation of workers entering the workforce.
The census showed that the proportion of people aged 45 to 64 among the working-age population reached 42.4 per cent —a Canadian record.
At the upper end of this age range, the number of people aged 55 to 64 outnumbered the number of people between 15 and 24, the age when people typically enter the workforce. The census counted 4.37 million people aged 15 to 24, compared to 4.39 million aged 55 to 64.
Martin Andresen, a criminology professor at Simon Fraser University in B.C., said he believes demographics probably have a "moderate" influence on crime trends and agrees that economic conditions could also be a factor.
This doesn¹t necessarily mean that unemployment or poverty turns people into criminals. But it could lead some to seek out goods in the black-market economy, which, in turn, drives demand for stolen goods.
Not all academics agree with this theory, however.
In fact, some argue the opposite: that as an economy improves and people are better off, that creates more opportunities for people to become victims of crime.
According to the theory, when people have more disposable income, they will spend some of that money going out, thus putting them at greater risk of becoming victims of robberies, assaults, car thefts and home burglaries.
Also, with more disposable income, people are likely to spend more on luxury items, thus creating more incentive to steal.
A Statistics Canada research paper noted that crime trends in this country can also be influenced by changes in police policy, changes in social values and legislative changes.
While there appears to be little consensus over how much of a role demographics play in crime trends, there is one point that is not in dispute: as people get older, their fear of crime intensifies, even though they are the least likely demographic to be victimized by crime.
As the population continues to age, this could have a profound influence on crime policy, Wortley says.
Since seniors are more politically active and the ones most likely to show up at the voting booths, policy makers are likely to pay attention to their concerns.
"We might already see the influence of older people's concerns about crime taking shape in Bill C-10," said Wortley, referring to the Harper government¹s omnibus tough-on-crime legislation, which passed earlier this year.