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When the storm hit, on October 29th, all the Staten Island ferries on the water were on the Staten Island side. One ferry was in drydock; the seven others had been tied to piers near the St. George ferry terminal. At about five-fifteen in the afternoon, the hawsers began to snap as the surge lifted the boats above the piers. Soon the piers could not be seen, and the boats' crews, at full strength, maneuvered them back and forth with the engines so they wouldn't go aground or crash into pieces of debris or each other. Fully lit, the seven ferry boats—the John A. Noble, the Spirit of America, the Guy V. Molinari, the Andrew J. Barbieri, the Sen. John J. Marchi, the John F. Kennedy, and the Alice Austin—hovered in the rising waves. Just down the shore, old dock pilings thirty feet long with two-foot-long rusted iron spikes that showed the marks of a blacksmith's hammer were floating in and smashing the lower windows and doors of a luxury apartment complex called Bay Street Landing. A few hundred yards beyond the apartments, a hundred-and-eighty-four-foot-long tanker ship, the John B. Caddell, washed up on a small stretch of undeveloped shoreline and stayed there.
Staten Island has the shape of an ankle boot. The sole runs along a channel called the Arthur Kill, and the upper heel and back border the Kill Van Kull; on the other side of those waterways, connected by three highway bridges and one railroad bridge, is New Jersey. The ferry terminal occupies the point at the top of the boot where you sometimes find a tab for pulling the boot onto your foot. From the terminal it is five miles across the harbor to South Ferry, in lower Manhattan. At the top end of the boot's tongue, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge gives the island its only highway connection to the rest of New York City—and not an ideal one, because the bridge deposits incoming traffic on the Belt Parkway or the Gowanus Expressway in distant Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The front part of the boot, where the lacings would be, faces southeastward, toward the Atlantic Ocean. Flooding did a lot of damage to the island north of the Verrazano Bridge, but south of it, on the island's ocean side, was where all but one of the fatalities occurred. The storm killed twenty-three on Staten Island, the highest number of storm-related deaths in any borough. Twenty of them drowned.
Four days after the storm, I drove to Staten Island from my house in New Jersey to see some people I know. Kenny Myers and his girlfriend, Leah Venditti, live on Lipsett Avenue, which dead-ends at the ocean, and theirs is the last house on the street. From their windows, you could see a rock where harbor seals sometimes hauled out and lay in the sun. Leah used to call and tell me when the seals were around. I had lost her phone number, and I hated to think what might've happened to them or to the house.
When I got there, the street was about ten feet shorter. A fire hydrant dangled by its pipe in empty air, pieces of pavement crumbled downward, the traffic barrier and the sign saying "End" had washed away, and the house's lawn had been eaten back. Just down from the lawn, the enlarged beach was muddy and raw, and filled with so much debris that I put off looking at it until later. The house still stood, with plywood on the windows. Leah answered when I knocked, and she asked me to come in. Kenny was leaning back in a recliner armchair. "Yes, we're fine, thanks for asking," Leah said. "We made it through, thank God, and the house is O.K., and there wasn't even any flooding in the basement! For some reason, the water went right around the house. We knew we were supposed to evacuate, but we stayed, and my daughter kept calling, saying, 'Ma, how're you doing, how's the storm?' At seven o'clock that night, the water was coming over the road. The whole house was shaking. At nine o'clock, Kenny tells me to look out on the porch and I saw black water all around the house, and I screamed."
Kenny: "When she screamed, I said, 'That's it, we're goin'.' "
"We took flashlights and some clothes in a bag and we were wading up the streets, no street lights, the trees were falling, forget it. We made it to Tottenville High School, and they already had cots laid out in the gym, and blankets and food and everything. I think it was the Department of Transportation had set it up. They did a very good job. Maybe a hundred or a hundred and fifty people stayed there, and some had lost everything. All kinds of ordinary people were bringing cakes, pizzas, Dunkin' Donuts. There was more stuff donated than they could even handle. On Halloween, the kids there trick-or-treated, going from family to family in the gym. I've never seen that many people come together that fast to help. It was a good feeling. After three days, the power was on again, and some volunteers gave us a ride back here."
When I left, I finally looked at the debris on the beach. In the nearest heap of chaos, wooden playground equipment lay in a splintered jumble. From a two-by-four, draped over it like an exotic pelt, hung a roll of commercial lawn sod. Its grass was still green.
My friend Frank Crescitelli is a Staten Island fishing guide who kept his boat in Great Kills Harbor, about midway along the island's Atlantic coast. Luckily (or not, depending on what the insurance would have paid), the boat was in the shop during the storm. Great Kills Harbor is an oval of water about two-thirds of a mile wide, with a spit of barrier beach between it and the ocean. Frank e-mailed me photos of what the storm did: docks gone, vast sprawls of debris, hundreds of boats left on land. A sixty-two-foot Viking fishing yacht sat on the roof of Cole's Dock Side Restaurant.
I drove to Great Kills to check it out. The harbor is among the quick-transition places of the city—one minute you're in the unpromising everydayness of Hylan Boulevard, and the next baitfish are jumping in the shallows and gulls are crying and lanyards are tapping against the masts. This morning, the main sound was from the generators for the anti-looting floodlights. Police cars with their lights flashing idled or cruised. From nearby came the warning beeps of construction vehicles backing up. Where Frank's boat dock used to be, and in every direction around it, bare pilings stood in the calm water above their reflections' bar codes. Empty patches of water showed where docks had disappeared, pilings and all. A dock that had broken in the middle and lost its other half sloped down toward the water, its support pipes and wires leaning forward like when you open a box of linguine and it slides out.
Most of the boat wrecks in the shallows had been removed. A small salvage vessel under Coast Guard supervision was going to the remaining foundered hulks and draining them of oil and other pollutants. On the far side of the harbor, a thousand-horsepower "push boat," like a flat-face tractor, was herding reefs of flotsam toward dump trucks on the shore. All the marinas on that side were completely gone. Trees and shrubs on the barrier beach all inclined in the same direction—inland—as if frozen in mid-kowtow. Everywhere, like dirty snow, little clumps and crumbs of Styrofoam congregated in the rocks and covered the matted ground. The storm surge, or maybe several huge surges, had overtopped the barrier beach and sucked the pilings from their twenty-foot-deep seatings in the harbor's bottom and hurled the docks, with large boats still tied to them, clear across the harbor until they heaped and jumbled into a covelike pocket and crashed against a condominium building.
A man named Mark Nanos was going into one of the Great Kills boatyards. He wore a canvas porkpie hat and a green windbreaker and had lively dark eyes. "For two weeks after the storm, I had no idea where my sailboat was," he told me. "I was docking it at Nichols Marina, across the harbor, and everything there, every boat, every piece of dock, was gone! All I knew, my boat could be sunk or in New Jersey or Ireland. Then, incredibly, a friend of mine recognized my boat in a video on YouTube. It was in a pileup near the Port Regalle condos, next to some other boats. I went there and I asked the cops who were up in one of those mobile police towers if they were identifying boats, and they said, 'We're still trying to identify people. We just found two bodies under a dock.' At that point, a woman walked up and said, 'I hear you found my parents.' After that I had no more problems. Boat, no boat—didn't matter. I live next to the water, and by the grace of God my house and my family were spared. And then, when I did find my boat, and got a crane to pull it out, it had relatively no damage! Just some small holes in one side."
The couple whom the police had found were Walter and Marie Colborne. Apparently, they had tried to escape the storm in their car. He was eighty-nine and she was sixty-six. News reports gave their address as 23 Harbour Court, in the Port Regalle condominiums. When I looked online, I saw that the average price of condos in that immediate neighborhood seemed to be about half a million dollars. A promotional video taken from the air on a sunny morning highlighted Port Regalle's terra-cotta Mediterranean-style buildings against the blue of the harbor.
The College of Staten Island, part of the City University system, has about fifteen thousand students and an array of mainframe computers that's among the most powerful in the Northeast. C.S.I. is in the Willowbrook section of the island, or (to continue my footwear analogy) roughly where the round white label would be in the middle of a high-top tennis shoe. The campus is new and large, and the computers are there because it has the space for them, plus dependable access to electricity for them and for their air-conditioning.
Dr. William Fritz, the college's interim president, is a geologist specializing in volcanology and geologic hazards. He has done a lot of work on coastal storms and sea-level rise associated with global warming. After Hurricane Irene, Dr. Fritz began a study of what would happen to Staten Island in bigger hurricanes. With Dr. Alan Benimoff, a C.S.I. professor of geology, who had been examining the changes since 1898 in housing density along Staten Island's Atlantic shore, Dr. Fritz and other colleagues used the C.S.I. computers to analyze millions of data points. They included factors like the contours of the seafloor, the geology of the coastline, the location of drainages and buildings, and the action of waves and tides. The finished study provided a model of what would happen to Staten Island in a hurricane surge of twelve feet. Last summer, Dr. Fritz and his colleagues submitted an abstract of the study to the Geological Society of America, and they were scheduled to present their findings at the society's annual convention, in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November. The storm arrived about a week before the event. The C.S.I. study had predicted the extent of the flooding uncannily—the projected flood zone proved to be accurate to the street, and almost to the house. In Charlotte, the C.S.I. contingent drew an admiring crowd.
I had hoped that Dr. Fritz could explain to me why this storm hit Staten Island so hard. He is a tall, slim man with a round face, unaggressive glasses, and an unbureaucratic gift for clarity. He grew up on a cattle ranch near Libby, Montana, and believes that the experience of living in that area—for years, most of America's vermiculite came from asbestos-contaminated mines in Libby, causing the town to have a high rate of asbestos-related cancer, as did parts of Brooklyn, where workers in the Navy Yard installed the vermiculite in ships for insulation—may have disposed him to think about environmental catastrophes. On a polished wooden table in his office he laid out a coastline map from the hurricane study and pointed up its details with a sharp pencil. Deeper ocean water, indicated by dark blue, tapered toward the inland waters like an arrowhead. The shallow water was light blue or leaf-green. "Down South, off the coast of Georgia, the continental shelf goes out twice as far as our shelf," he said. "Here, in a storm like Sandy, we have water being pushed by the winds with less seafloor resistance to slow it down. A hurricane's very low atmospheric pressure builds up a bulge in the ocean it crosses—as if you held a vacuum cleaner over a bathtub—and that alone can lift the water twenty feet, although here the effect was probably more like a foot or two. And you also had a full moon on the twenty-ninth, and one of the highest tides of the year; and on top of that, of course, you had all the water that was piled up by the very strong counterclockwise winds.
"In places like the Bay of Fundy, a tidal surge is focussed by the geography and its height is increased. The same is true here—so the incoming water had no place to go. It was funnelled through the stretch between Sandy Hook, in New Jersey, and the Rockaways, in New York"—his pencil outlined those long, inward-pointing fingers of sand—"and then there's this very short ramp of shallower water before the surge gets to shore. In the protected water of New York Harbor above the Narrows, you had a rapid rise without the violent waves. But at the Staten Island shoreline nothing much had interfered with the storm's energy before the surge (or surges) hit, so the land had to absorb it. The Staten Island shoreline functioned as a crumple zone, like a bumper on a car. The full force of Sandy hit there."
I drove and walked along the shore for miles. Police cars sat with their flashers going, and heaps of debris lined the sidewalks and accumulated in the streets. Inch-deep mud slicks made parking lots slippery. Even confining myself to debris items of only one syllable, I compiled a long list: caps, cups, pipes, tarps, boards, pails, planks, pots, rugs, sinks, straps. Close study of the piles defied the urge to categorize: wet plasterboard, bale of straw, caulking gun, claw-foot chair, black Hefty bag, picture frame, white vinyl siding, decaying jack-o'-lantern, soggy cushion, twelve-hole muffin tin. The storm debris that had been hauled from many places and piled two stories high in a parking lot beside Father Capodanno Boulevard in Midland Beach was said to weigh two hundred and seventy-five thousand tons. A chain-link fence that ran along Bobby Thomson Field nearby had caught the flood's smaller pieces of debris. Mostly they were grass stems and vine tendrils, combined with plastic shreds, zip ties, coffee stirrers, cup lids, swizzlesticks, plastic cutlery, and plastic drinking straws. In the fence, they glittered like minnows in a net.
Somewhere not far away a heavy vehicle was backing up, beeping. I continued to Grimsby Street, where two women had drowned in houses on the same block. At 164 Grimsby, Beatrice Spagnuolo, seventy-nine, was found dead on the day after the storm, while at 158 first responders discovered Anastasia Rispoli, seventy-three. Bunches of red plastic roses now mourned on the white picket fence in front of 164. The house is a one-story bungalow, like most others in the island's low-lying zones. A small lake of water stood in the street, which dead-ended in tall reeds.
Farther down the shore, the community of Oakwood Beach is mostly marsh. Four roads there cross the marsh and go almost all the way to the ocean: Tarlton Street, Fox Beach Avenue, Fox Lane, and Kissam Avenue. Houses on these streets were swept off their foundations. Perhaps because of a streambed that the waters followed, some of the houses ended up in the marsh in a curved line, like traffic on an off-ramp, with only their roofs showing above the reeds. Three people died in their houses on Fox Beach Avenue. Leonard Montalto, fifty-three, a postal worker who lived at 176 Fox Beach, had stayed behind to make sure the pump was working. At 72 Fox Beach, John Filipowicz, fifty-one, and his son John, Jr., twenty, were crushed by debris. The father was a bus driver and a retired corrections officer, and the son attended the College of Staten Island. The father's brother found them in the basement in each other's arms.
The beaches themselves showed how crumpled a "crumple zone" could look. Shrubs and saplings had been cut off at the roots—not cleanly, but as if scratched away by fingernails. Deep gouges in the banks undercut fences and asphalt biking trails, and the scrubby trees far above the usual high-tide line hunkered down as if some massive creature had slept on them. Shreds of plastic bags hung among the branches everywhere, while the ocean, distant and calm at low tide, offered its quiet wavelets and asked, "Who, me?"
Toward the southern end of the island, the destruction was intense. From the foot of Yetman Avenue looking east, past the Rockaways and Sandy Hook, I could see the oceanic runway the huge waves had come down. In the dark, with the power out everywhere, waves had blasted through the houses here and swept some away so thoroughly that few traces were found. The street's last two houses on the left as you faced the ocean were now just foundations and front-door steps. Waves had blown out houses from front to back. At 687 Yetman, George and Patricia Dresch and their thirteen-year-old daughter, Angela, had stayed in their house to protect it, because they had been burglarized during Hurricane Irene. At some point that night, all three were carried off in the waves. They were found blocks away. Only Patricia survived, seriously injured.
Several houses on Yetman Avenue had their windows boarded and red stickers on the front doors indicating that the houses were unfit for occupancy. From somewhere I could hear the beeping of a heavy vehicle backing up, and the whine of a power saw. The house across from 679 Yetman was so damaged that the overhanging roof appeared to be supported by nothing but the staircase. In the absence of a front door, or even a front, that house's red sticker had been posted on the wall above the mantelpiece. Many tributes of flowers and gifts covered the Dresches' doorsteps. There was a small statue of Jesus and a candle with the Virgin Mary. Patricia Dresch had taught a weekly religious-education class to elementary and junior-high students at Our Lady Help of Christians Church, in Tottenville. When my friend Frank Crescitelli and his daughter, Julia, were walking on the beach about a mile away, Julia found a quilt that one of Mrs. Dresch's classes had made for her. Frank's wife washed and pressed it and took it to the church.
The saddest story of the hurricane occurred on Father Capodanno Boulevard, when a mother got out of her stalled S.U.V. and took her two young sons from their car seats and tried to reach high ground and the waves swept the children away. They were Brendan Moore, two, and Connor Moore, four. If there were a typographic equivalent of a moment of silence, I would put it here.
After the storm, the police could not find the boys' bodies. Finally, they asked the Parks Department for help, and a Parks Department employee named Alex Summers, who knows the Staten Island wetlands, directed police divers through a marsh called New Creek, between Father Capodanno Boulevard and McLaughlin Street. The divers recovered the bodies near the place where McLaughlin Street comes to a dead end. According to the Times, the bodies were found "in the cattails." I doubted this description, and went to the end of McLaughlin Street to see. Probably it did not use to be a benighted, wretched spot, but this dead end has become one, and will remain so for a long time. Big rocks prevent vehicles from going past the turnaround, and wood chips and trash and stems litter the ground. Undisclosed sadness hangs heavy in the frowsy marsh and in the vines on the trees. Someplace in the distance a piece of heavy machinery was backing up, beeping.
As I suspected, there are no cattails in the marsh at the end of McLaughlin Street, or none that can be seen. We see a swampy place, we think "cattails"; but there aren't very many cattails around anymore. Instead, in this marsh and others, and along shorelines, and in wet ground all over the Northeast and beyond, there is now an invasive, extremely competitive, highly adaptive reed whose scientific name is Phragmites australis, usually referred to simply as "phragmites" (pronounced "frag-mighties"). These reeds can be twenty feet tall, they have brushlike seed heads, their leaves grow on only one side of the stalk, and they reproduce both by seeds and by clones—that is, by underground rhizomes as well as by runners above the ground. Phragmites reeds have amazing resilience, surviving climatic and chemical changes of many kinds, and colonizing areas disturbed by development before other species can get established. Their invasion has been what ecologists call "cryptic"; that is, the prevailing phragmites type moved in long before people realized it wasn't the native plant but a nonnative variant.
The native phragmites is able to coexist with other species like cattails and spartina grass. The invasive phragmites creates a monoculture. Because of its rhizome reproduction, a single huge expanse may represent only four or five phragmites plants, while other species are driven out. Today, in the Northeast, the native phragmites appears to have declined, itself a victim of the invader. The invasive phragmites now plays the role of ubiquitous, Zelig-like fauna in images of the outdoors. Especially at outdoor crime scenes, and in places like McLaughlin Street, where bodies are found, phragmites reeds are often in the background, bending their floppy seed heads above the trenchcoats and yellow tape.
Almost everyplace I went along the shoreline in Staten Island after the hurricane, the chaos of junk and drift and wrack contained mats of dead phragmites stalks. Standing in a soggy no man's forest near a beach, with invasive Japanese honeysuckle and bittersweet and greenbrier vines dragging down the trees, and shreds of plastic bags in the branches, and a dirty snow of Styrofoam crumbs on the ground, and heaps of hurricane detritus strewn promiscuously, and fierce phragmites reeds springing up all over, I saw the landscape of the new hot world to come.
A few years ago, when I was hiking the Staten Island beaches looking for seals, I used to find strange sculptures made of piled-up stones. Below the bluff where the old Mount Loretto lighthouse stands, a small city of these heaps stretched beside the waves like a lost rock-pile Atlantis. Asking around, I learned that the man who made them worked at the Staten Island Zoo. That tip led eventually to a zookeeper, Doug Schwartz. He is one of the zoo's groundhog wranglers, who sometimes appear on TV at Groundhog Day observances. He has worked at the zoo for twenty years and has been building his beach sculptures for sixteen. He does the sculptures for no reason but to do them, and almost never goes a week without working on them.
I met him at Conference House Park, at the southern tip of the island. He had told me to be there at 7 A.M.; I arrived at six-forty-five and found him pacing in the dark. He said, "It's cold! I hope you're warm enough. I don't like to abuse my journalists. I live a few blocks from here. Most places where I make my sculptures or cairns or whatever you call them are within walking distance of my house. I have never driven a car. On the night the storm hit, the wind and waves were going crazy, and we live just a few blocks from the shore. But we weren't there—over the weekend, my wife's blood pressure had shot up, and her heart started to fail, so we took an ambulance to a hospital with a cardiac unit, and after ten hours of surgery they replaced two artificial valves in her heart. She was fine, as it turned out, but I had to walk home, and I kept getting stopped by National Guardsmen who were looking for looters. When I went to visit her the next day, all public transportation was out of service and there were no cabs, so I walked the ten miles there and ten miles back again."
We plunged into the brush. "Oh, great, the Parks guys didn't tear this one down!" he said, stopping at a construction of driftwood and rocks and mandala-like strips of pale-orange cloth set back in a storm gouge in the bank. His friend and dedicated helper Eric Alter appeared in the dimness beside us. A red sun rose. This part of the island is a city park and has no buildings, but the scattered foundations show that houses once stood here. The storm's huge waves had spent themselves among the park's trees and brush, leaving Port-o-Sans and other debris, most of which had been removed. Somewhere, heavy equipment had started working; there was diesel noise, and the beeping of a vehicle backing up.
Doug checked on a cairn they had erected atop the rusted engine block of a vestigial car, and did some touch-up on a driftwood pile shaped like a rickshaw carriage. It included a small bench with found stuffed animals—Scrappy Doo, Curious George. I asked what had happened to his stone Atlantis on the shore by Mount Loretto. "It's all been destroyed by now, I'm sure," he said. "The state decided it was a hazard and told us to get out of there, so we went. When officials give me an order, I comply. That's what I did at the Groundhog Day press conference with Mayor Bloomberg in 2009. The Mayor said, 'Give me the groundhog'—so I gave him the groundhog, even though I knew it wasn't a good idea, and he bit him on a finger of his left hand, right through his good dress gloves. I almost got fired for that, but somehow by patience and nonresistance I survived."
Kevin Norton, another close friend and helper, showed up. Long, skinny tree trunks were added to the rickshaw pile, and then we walked back along the beach. In the Arthur Kill, big tanker ships that Doug recognized passed by. A few of them recognize him, too, he said, and blow their horns at him sometimes. The four of us went to a diner for breakfast; afterward, at Doug's house, he showed me photographs of sixteen years of beach constructions. All of them had eventually been destroyed. I asked him what the sense was in rebuilding—a practical question on many people's minds these days. Would he reconstruct his stone Atlantis? "Oh, of course," he said. "I'll never stop doing this. I'm constantly facing obstacles. The Staten Island Advance speculated years ago that my sculptures were satanic altars—without knowing who had made them—and the article reduced my loving wife to tears, but even that didn't stop me. I'll rebuild the cairns by Mount Loretto when the political winds change and I get the opportunity. We've rebuilt there after storms a bunch of times."
If all the ice on the planet melts, and the oceans rise accordingly, the Statue of Liberty will be submerged up to her waist, but parts of Staten Island will still be dry. The top of Todt Hill, in the center of the island, is four hundred and nine feet above sea level, the highest coastal point south of Maine. The Wisconsin glaciation, which covered much of northeastern North America twenty-two thousand years ago, did not extend far beyond Todt Hill in this area. The upper boundary of the glacier's outwash plain (the expanse of rocks, gravel, and sand left by its melting front) corresponds roughly to the line made by Hylan Boulevard. On the lower side of Hylan, the outwash plain descends to marshes, beaches, and the ocean.
When people first built houses on Staten Island, they usually put them on the high ground. The island had a small population for two hundred and fifty years. In 1960, it was about two hundred and twenty thousand, by far the smallest of any borough. The opening of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, in 1964, led to development all over the island, which has almost half a million residents today. As development will do, it kept expanding even after the more likely sites were taken. In the nineteen-seventies, it began to move into wetland areas, paving over streambeds and bogs and putting affordable bungalows on them. Almost all the Staten Islanders who died in the storm were on the outwash plain—that is, in neighborhoods to the south of Hylan Boulevard.
Dr. Fritz and his College of Staten Island colleagues know the flooding pattern, which their study foresaw. To the question of rebuilding, their answer is that we should give it a lot of thought. "We can learn a lesson from the hurricane of 1938," Dr. Fritz told me. "After that storm, coastline land was so cheap that it tempted people to build on it. We don't want that to happen after Sandy. Now, should we simply zone all areas south of Hylan so they can't be built on, or so all the houses have to be elevated? I don't know. Maybe. That is the kind of thing we have to decide. As a college here in Staten Island, we want to start the conversation. We care about this personally. C.S.I. lost a student and the husband of a faculty member in the storm. Even now, this long afterward, the college still has fifteen hundred students and faculty who are virtually homeless because of Sandy. People are living out of their cars, and we even hear of some who have moved back into condemned, red-tagged houses because they don't have anywhere else to go.
"Following up on our hurricane-surge study, we're suggesting a five-point plan to protect Staten Island in the future," he went on. "First, protect the natural barriers we already have, the dune fields and the beaches. Second, build them up so they can absorb even bigger surges, and plant the dunes with the right vegetation to hold them in place. Third, rezone in the flood areas. Buy low-lying property of people willing to be bought out and turn it into parkland. Certain kinds of use can be fine in those places—baseball fields, for example, like they have in the Ohio River flood zones in Cincinnati. Fourth, reëngineer intelligently, so you don't protect one area at the expense of another. A sea gate like they've been talking about to protect the Narrows would probably be bad for Staten Island. Finally, educate people so they know the elevation of their houses and their risk in terms of flooding. Don't go into your basement if your house is in a marsh, for example. Hurricane Irene was relatively mild and it made people complacent. One certainty is that we are going to have more big storms. The college will be holding a daylong forum to discuss all these issues in our Center for the Arts on March 8th, and we hope everybody who has an interest will attend."
Staten Island is more islandlike than Manhattan. It's a maritime place. As you approach it on the ferry (all the ferries survived the storm undamaged, thanks to the skill of their crews), the island rises above you and draws your eyes to the sky. From its Todt Hill summit, the ground slopes downward—sharply in some places, gradually in others—with the pleasing variety of a classic pirate island. You need altitude—a hilltop, a crow's nest—in order to appreciate the sea. More than that of other boroughs, Staten Island's geography provides sweeping ocean views. From an eminence just north of the Verrazano Bridge, you can look down upon the ship traffic coming through the Narrows. A house that stood on that spot a hundred years ago loomed so prominently that it got mail addressed to "First House on the Left, America." At the island's other end, a house built of beach stones more than three hundred years ago commands a similar view of the Arthur Kill. It's now known as the Conference House, because John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Edward Rutledge met with British emissaries there in an unsuccessful attempt to call off the Revolutionary War. The house, one of the city's oldest, has hardly changed since then. And no Staten Islander ever had a better view than Paul Castellano, the mobster, who could observe the spires of Manhattan, on his left, and the western tower of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, on his right, all reduced to the size of garden whimsies from the back-yard vantage of his white marble mansion, which he left one afternoon for a meeting at Sparks Steak House.
Go downhill in any direction and suddenly the water is right before you. My favorite seaside place to stop and ruminate is still the cove at the end of Lipsett Avenue. Since the storm, a certain amount of debris has been removed, and some serenity restored. Recently, I stood at the end of the street and watched the water for a while. Three cormorants were sitting on the seal rock, minding their own business. I knocked on Leah and Kenny's door to say hello, and Millissa, Kenny's daughter, answered it. She was visiting from Queens. I had talked to her on the phone about seals but had never met her in person. Millissa is in her twenties and works as an airbrusher in a Manhattan tanning salon. Things had settled down in the household since the storm. They brought me up to date on Kenny's brother, who lives in nearby South Beach. He had stayed in his house while the waves wiped out everything on the first floor, plus his brand-new Lexus. Now he had rebuilt his downstairs almost completely. "Yeah, Uncle Butchie," Millissa said. "He trooped it out. Butchie never left and now he says he's never leaving."
"To be honest, I've been thinking we should move out of here," Leah said. "Find another place not so close to the water."
"I don't know," Kenny said. "I like it here, it's quiet, you see the ocean, it's different every day, it's beautiful. Maybe some kind of new bulkhead can be put up to protect us here. I was talking about that with the guy next door. A while after we moved back, pretty soon after the storm, I was walking on the beach and I found two hundred-dollar bills. Then, two days later, I had this feeling, I just knew there were more bills where I'd found those two. I went back and looked again, and almost in the exact same spot I found three more! I don't know how I'd missed them the first time. Five hundreds! They're all spent now, though."
"Guys from Environmental Protection who were working on the beach told me that people have been finding money all along the shore," Leah said.
"So I decided to look on the beach for more coins and stuff, and I ordered a metal detector," Kenny said. "I'd always wanted one, for exercise, but finding those hundreds gave me inspiration. It's supposed to come tomorrow." ♦


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Liam Hemsworth, Australian born, is a new star, brother to Chris Hemsworth of Thor and Luke Hemsworth (all actors). In "The Hunger Games", Liam plays Gale, a long-time friend and hunter with Katniss. He is romantically inclined toward Katniss, but never pushes it. Also he has a temper and sometimes uses The Capiitol's methods, which puts him at odds with Katniss. So this tutorial is in tribute to one of the engaging characters of this already popular movie and bestselling book. I wanted to treat you in this "Hunger Games" tutorial. You can draw Liam's front view, Liam's character profile (Gale) or both. I just want you to have fun. Let me know what you experienced by commenting, faving and showing your love. Much love to you all. I cannot wait to hear from you.
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The mistreatment of handicapped parking spaces by Los Angeles' celebrities has grown to include singer/actor/girlfriend mistreater Chris Brown, whose having trouble finding spots for his car fleet — including his famous custom-painted P-51 Lamborghini.
TMZ captured several shots showing Brown's vehicle fleet hoarding handicapped spaces in his condo building, along with complaints from residents of other shenanigans such as dog races in the hallway. Brown's people say building management was supposed to give Brown two spaces, but didn't reveal they were handicapped spots and has gone to court over the issue. Don't let them beat you up. Hat tip to cesariojpn!


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The spring semester is upon us once again and it's time to get back into the swing of things. In all the chaos, Career Services would like to remind students of the amazing programs that will also be happening this semester. A wide variety of events are planned to help students with anything from writing a resume or cover letter to networking and professionalism.
The events are as follows:
Feb. 6 – Creating a Resume 101
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Feb. 12 – Speed Networking 101
- Get the opportunity to speak with UWGB alumni about understanding fields, jobs, careers and the basics of professionalism! Early registration is required.
Feb. 25 – Nuts & Bolts of Professionalism
- Listen to successful recent alumni and young professionals offer their insights into what mistakes to avoid on your resume, how to use LinkedIn, why networking is important and much more.
Feb. 27 – Spring Job & Internship Fair
Feb. 28 – Don't Be "That" Candidate – Employer Panel
- Employer representatives will be available to share stories about what they have experienced screening and interviewing candidates so you can learn what NOT to do as a candidate in the job search. Registration is encouraged.
Mar. 4 – Dine Like a Professional Etiquette Lunch
Mar. 7 – Mock Interview Day
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Windows 8 For Seniors For Dummies Cheat Sheet
New to Windows 8? You can quickly take charge of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system by knowing how to interact with a touchscreen or mouse and how to use the Start screen and functions available from each edge of the screen. Windows XP and 7 users will benefit from the list of new Windows 8 features.
Touching the Windows 8 Screen
A touchscreen, as the name says, enables you to touch the screen to tell your computer what to do. Not sure whether you have a touchscreen? When you have Windows 8 running, give the screen a poke with your index finger to see what happens.
The following terms refer to ways you interact with a touchscreen using your fingers or a stylus (pen):
Tap: Briefly touch the screen. You select an object, such as a button, by tapping it.
Drag: Touch and hold your finger on the screen, then move your finger across the screen. You move an object, such as an onscreen playing card, by dragging it.
Swipe: Touch and move your finger more quickly than with drag. You can swipe your finger across the screen from any of the four sides of the screen to display options and commands. You swipe pages to move forward or back. You may see the word flick instead of swipe. Some people insist that a flick is faster or shorter than a swipe, but let's not get caught up in that.
Pinch and unpinch: Touch a finger and thumb or two fingers on the screen. Move your fingers closer to each other to pinch and spread them away from each other to unpinch. Generally, a pinch reduces the size of something on the screen or shows more content on the screen. An unpinch (an ugly word) zoomsin, increasing the size of something on-screen to show more detail.
Finding Functions at the Edge of the Windows 8 Screen
The Windows 8 Start screen provides access to your apps (programs). Select a tile (square or rectangle) to start an app. Live tiles display current information, such as DOW (the Finance app) and the Weather app. In addition, all four edges of the screen provide access to tools you'll need. These bars remain off-screen (in most cases) until you make them appear using a finger, the mouse, or the keyboard:
Charms bar: From the right edge of the screen, the Charms bar displays five charms (buttons, if you will): Search, Share, Start, Devices, and Settings. As you explore new apps, be sure to see how these functions change with each app.
App Switcher: From the left edge of the screen, the app switcher provides several ways of switching between apps and the Start screen.
Snap: If your screen supports this feature, you can snap an app to the left or right to use two apps at once.
App bars: Access app-specific functions at the top or bottom of the screen (or both). For example, the Weather app bar lets you pick a city, whereas a game may have an undo option in its app bar.
New in Windows 8 — for XP and Windows 7 Users
If you've used Windows 7 or XP, you'll be up to speed with Windows 8 in no time. Most of the functions you are accustomed to are still available. Keep an eye out for the following changes from earlier versions of Windows:
Faster start and stop: Windows 8 starts and sleeps faster than earlier versions, making it more responsive.
Start screen: The Start menu has been replaced by a screen full of tiles used to launch apps (programs). Just start typing to search for a specific app.
App tiles: The boxes on the Start screen are called tiles and can be square or rectangular. Tiles can show current information, such as the weather or your latest e-mail. Select a tile to open that app.
Microsoft Store: The Store provides a central clearinghouse for you to find and install new apps, many for free. Apps in the Store meet requirements set by Microsoft for function and security.
File Picker: The old File dialog boxes have been replaced by a full-screen file picker that displays more files at once. Select the Files heading to browse locations.
Desktop and taskbar: These mainstays of earlier versions of Windows are no longer front and center – you may find that you never use them. However, they're still there if you need them.
File Explorer: Windows Explorer is now the File Explorer and features a ribbon with the tools you need.
Touchscreen, mouse, and keyboard: Windows 8 works equally well with different methods of input.


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The Nissan and Infiniti community has spoken and now Z1 Motorsports is delivering; with the success of Z1 Motorsports' Two-Piece Akebono Front Rotors, we are proud to offer the Two-Piece Akebono Rear Rotors complement. Designed and manufactured to the same high standards as our Two-Piece Akebono Front Rotors, our new Two-Piece Akebono Rear rotors weigh just 15 pounds per rotor, a 5 pound/25% loss from the 20 pound OEM rotor as a result of our unique two-piece design. By reducing 10 pounds of weight on the rear drive wheels, the car gains improved acceleration and more responsive handling with the reduction of rotational inertia, all while allowing the car to be pushed deeper into the braking zone.
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What's the size of the rotors ??
What's the size of the rotors ??
What pads do you recommend for moderate track duty, as well as driving to/from the track? Preferably something that is still easy on the rotors (Hawk Blue is too abrasive on the rotor for me)
What pads do you recommend for moderate track duty, as well as driving to/from the track? Preferably something that is still easy on the rotors (Hawk Blue is too abrasive on the rotor for me)
Is there any issue with emergency brake?
Is there any issue with emergency brake?


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by "Admin Andy" May 06, 2008
Waking up and seeing a green pool is a sight no pool owner wants. But why do they turn green like that and how do I get rid of it? The reason pools can turn green is because of algae build up and the only sure way to kill algae and prevent a green pool is chlorine. You have to make sure you are using enough chlorine though. Many times we hear, "But I put four bags of shock in the pool, and it's still green" Well, four bags of shock should kill algae in a pool under 20,000 gallons, If they are added at once, not a bag at a time. The key to getting rid of algae, is "super chlorination."
You must add enough chlorine to attack the "flower" of the algae. Usually twice the normal dosage. If there is algae on the walls and floor, that algae must be brushed as soon as the pool is shocked. Brushing will open the pores of the bloom and allow the chlorine to penetrate and kill the organism. After the pool has been shocked and brushed, let the dead algae settle for a day, then vacuum the pool to waste. Get rid of it, and keep your chlorine residual between 1ppm and 3ppm, to keep it gone. Wiki answers is also very helpful


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The San Francisco Film Society's Great Sundance Hope: Ryan Coogler & FRUITVALE/
Last year, the film that the San Francisco Film Society had supported with grants went on to great things. Sure prizes and deals are not the only way to measure success, and really just getting a movie made is the real achievement -- and hell, getting it into Sundance is pretty damn sweet. I have loved what I have seen of Ryan's work so far. I also love all he has to say about the film. I also love the the film is about something real to us all; in this case the killing of Oscar Grant at by a police officer. If you haven't checked it out this video already, I recommend you do so now:
If you'd like to read more about this and the original case it is based on, this HuffPost article includes many photos of the Oakland riots that followed after the officer was sentenced only for involuntary manslaughter for two years, minus time served.


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Thoughts on the cybersecurity task force
A Republican task force recently released a limited set of near-term recommendations for cybersecurity legislation that emphasized voluntary standards instead of regulation. Interesting. Several words jump out at me in that sentence. "Voluntary standards", "near-term", "not regulated". I paraphrase.
Seems to me that something as important as a task force that was put together should be working on an overall strategy to address cybersecurity rather than trying to patch holes in the dike.Now, I have no problems with short-term recommendations that address the critical issues, but creating them without a larger strategy to tie them to really doesn't do much good. How does anyone know what they are working towards if there is no defined end as part of the bigger picture?
The article goes on to say that there are definitive improvements that provide momentum for much needed legislation that should happen this year. Okay, that's a good thing, right? But these are areas where we know we need to make improvements, i.e. FISMA reform and data breach notifications. Part of cybersecurity, sure, part of a bigger picture, yes. But, to what end? We should not be so opposed to regulation when addresses the cyber threat, whether it be for government agencies or private sector, as explained here.
If the government is going to form a Cybersecurity Task Force, and spend time on it, the outcome should include both short and long-term strategies. Once this is done, you can attack the low-hanging fruit that everyone agrees on while details are worked on the other issues. This should be an on-going effort, and should identify the bigger issues that need further discovery as well as the near-term recommendations. But according to the article, the only thing that is being addressed are topics that both sides agree upon.
Some may say this is a step in the right direction. In my opinion, it is merely a tactic to side-step the real issues and make it appear that something is being done about it. I realize cybersecurity it a big issue, but that means we need a big plan. Not a bunch of stop-gap regulation.
Am I missing something, or is there something more to this? Please provide your comments and thoughts on the subject so that maybe we can get a conversation going where both sides realize this is bigger than just a couple of laws being passed this year.
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This happened Monday night, but it was only brought to our attention today. Let's blame the fact that the Pirates were playing. Anyway, just throw it in the pile with all those other videos of guys catching foul balls while holding a baby or a cup of beer, while one of the announcers cracks wise about offering said fan a contract.
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It wasn't just contestants who were doing battle Monday on "The Voice." The night also saw two distinct approaches by the coaches to their teams' battle round pairings, with drastically different results.
Monday's battles between very similar singers ended invariably with one or the other leaving the "Voice" stage disappointed. But the more unexpected match-ups, pitting singers with varied styles against each other, all yielded a steal, giving each losing performer a new lease on life on "The Voice."
The lesson, for the coaches and the singing hopefuls? It pays, apparently, to venture outside one's comfort zone. And for the audience? Well, the season could be anybody's game, given the surprise powerhouse performances that some of the season's erstwhile underdogs delivered.
First, though, were two pairings of singers more alike than not, with Team Adam's soul singers Austin Ellis and Josh Kaufman kicking off the night on Pharrell Williams' hit "Happy" -- though mentor Aloe Blacc thought their pairing would help "show how diverse soul music really is." Onstage, Blake said they looked like they were "having a ball," and Usher compared Austin to a "caged beast." But the energy Austin brought was, for their coach, not quite a match for Josh's vocal abilities, and Austin was sent home.
The next battle yielded the same fate for another half of a closely-matched battle pairing, after Blake Shelton paired one country powerhouse, Audra McLaughlin, against the duo Alaska and Madi. The three belters struggled not to step on each other's toes vocally, both in rehearsals and in their performance of the Everly Brothers' "When Will I Be Loved." Shakira cautioned them that "less is more" and called the duo's harmonies "over-the-top," and Blake reluctantly chose Audra as the winner.
That meant Alaska and Madi were heading home, much to Blake's chagrin and Adam's frustration, given that he had already used up both his steals and couldn't nab them for his own team. "You are crazy!" Adam told Blake, insisting the duo could have won the entire competition, before heading backstage to tell the tearful teens, "You guys are awesome."
The next pairing, however, saw two very different vocalists face off, in a performance that pushed both of them into territory they'd seldom explored. Committed and competitive high school athlete Deja Hall was tasked with taking on waitress, single mom and classically trained singer Music Box on the Bangles' 80s ballad "Eternal Flame." Deja's task was to find the power in her voice and break out of her subdued mien, all while connecting with a love song she didn't quite grasp given her age; Music Box's task was to dial back her ferocity and show vulnerability.
In their performance, between them, the coaches agreed the singers had succeeded. Adam and Blake sided with Deja as the winner of the bout, citing her vocal maturity at such a young age and even, in Blake's case, comparing her with Superman discovering the extent of his powers. Usher, playing strategically, refused to say whom he'd pick as the winner, suggesting he had plans of his own.
Shakira, too, sided with Deja -- but Usher, who had yet to use a single steal during the battle rounds, swooped in to grab Music Box for his team. "Your voice is incredible," he told her.
It was a pairing that had managed both to push each artist toward new goals and also to show off her unique talents. The same didn't quite hold true for the next pairing, which had two sweet-voiced Team Usher teens from the same town (and same high school) in Utah -- Madilyn Paige and Tanner James -- singing the Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran duet "Everything Has Changed."
"Be starry-eyed, be in love. Be an actor as well as a singer," mentor Jill Scott urged Madilyn, whose voice she said was "like china," and Tanner, whose voice she called "very loving." That was a bit of a tall task for the young Madilyn, who as the competition's youngest singer had never been in a relationship. But Usher had high hopes for them, calling their battle "the Romeo and Juliet battle."
The tenderness and sweetness that Usher and Jill Scott came through in their performance, thanks in part to some canny stage blocking. The approach won over Adam, certainly.
"That was like watching golden retriever puppies frolic through fields of wheat during the sunset or something. That was, like, cute overload. So romantic and sweet. I want you guys to do songs rom 'The Little Mermaid' or something," Adam quipped. Shakira agreed, calling the performance "so sweet, yet so believable." And while Usher acknowledged Tanner was "a heartthrob right now" (to a sheepish non-response from Tanner), he picked Madilyn as the winner. Nobody else stole Tanner.
Fortunately for the rest of the night's contestants, though, Tanner would be the last singer of the night to head home. The Team Adam pairing of single dad Josh Murley against impossibly cutesy hipster couple Dawn and Hawkes on the shambling '70s surprise hit "Stuck in the Middle With You." Both acts struggled in rehearsals to connect with the audience and to convey the "campfire vibe" Adam was going for, though on-stage, it came across with a little more success.
Still, despite Hawkes' best efforts at a Band-era Bob Dylan impression, no one moment of the performance really stood out, as Blake Shelton noted afterward. Shakira, though, seemed to have gotten into the spirit. "I don't drink, but you guys make me feel like having a beer," she enthused. Adam picked Dawn and Hawkes as the bout's winner -- but just as Josh was about to leave the stage, Shakira pushed her button to steal him. "He's way too talented to walk away from this competition," she said.
With Team Shakira and Team Usher both one new team member richer Monday and Team Adam short of steals, that left Blake needing to pick up a new team member of his own. He did with Team Usher's battle match-up, grabbing a singer he thought could be a break-out star despite her underdog status.
Usher paired his raw-voiced teen rock sensation Bria Kelly against former NFL cheerleader Tess Boyer, on a song that both of them seemed justifiably nervous about tackling: the inimitable Janis Joplin's "Piece of My Heart," a song admittedly much more up Bria's alley. Tess' major challenge was to break through her facade of what she good-naturedly called out as "cheerleader poise," while Bria was tasked with taking a break from so assiduously sounding tough to convey the song's necessary desperation.
The two tackled those challenges head-on in their performance together, with results that were as exciting as they were messy -- messy, ironically, because of the polish each showed in her approach, Bria in her precise inflections and Tess in her cheerleader-y gestures.
That Bria, who had turned all the coaches' chairs in the blind auditions, would deliver vocal theatrics and rock panache in spades had been a foregone conclusion, the coaches concluded. But Blake tipped his hat to Tess' "finesse and dimension," too. "I think Tess came out of nowhere on this thing," he said, handing her the round.
Usher picked Bria as the winner, keeping her on his team -- but as soon as Blake pushed his button to steal Tess, Bria screamed "yes!" in excitement from off-stage for her one-time teammate's chance to stay on "The Voice." Shakira, at that point, was the only one unhappy -- but only because she wished she had had a steal left so she could have picked Tess herself. "Tess was a revelation," she said.
The battle rounds will finish up Tuesday on "The Voice," as the potential for coach steals dwindles.
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|Asus M51Tr
|AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Technology Processor ZM82/ZM80/RM70;
|15.4" WXGA/WXGA+/WSXGA+ Color-Shine (Glare-type)
|ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470
|Up to 4GB
|160GB to 320GB - 5400rpm
|Optical Drive
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Blu-Ray DVD Combo
Integrated 802.11b/g
|Optical Drive
|For 3D, ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver is needed instead of radeonhd driver. HDMI output was not tested though it is recognized by system
|With ALSA 1.021, headphones output, microphone, speakers all work correctly. SPDIF (multiplexed with headphones output) was not tested
|Not working
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|Tested with Kino and external HDD
|Card Reader
|Only SD card tested
|ExpressCard Slot
|Not Tested
|Tested with Kopete
|Fingerprint reader
|Tested with Gsynaptics
There are two ways of installing ExpressGate (included on utility DVD) on this machine. One is via Windows (XP works). After install, you can safely delete all Windows folders, i.e. leave only ASUS.000, ASUS.SYS and splash.idx. Then you can proceed with Linux install. The other one is via WINE. More about this procedure can be found here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1049170
With openSUSE 11.2, installation went smoothly. Except for the modem, all the components were recognized properly and worked out of the box. Battery management is working, brightness hotkeys are recognized and working, as well as the volume up/down and multimedia hotkeys. ExpressGate hotkey is also working (provided that ExpressGate is installed as discussed under NOTES section. Regarding graphics, ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver is better then default radeonhd driver. With this driver, you can stand-by and hibernate this machine properly.
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Is it true that on Arch in order to install xorg, you first need to install catlyst?
No, but if you need proprietary driver you need to install catalyst 11.3 or later to get support for x-server 1.10. Use the latest packages and you'll hardly run into trouble.
I use fglrx, because I'm still gaming a lot, but heard that there are improvements lately. This guy have a ton of information on current state of the open source driver on Arch:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1238129 /the first post is updated often/
And now there is improvement on the Open Source driver on Arch as they enabled Floating Point Textures support:
Forgot to say that the choice of driver depends more on what kind of Window Manager/Desktop Environment combination you'll use. With Gnome3 and Gnome-shell /Mutter/ there's a lot of problems with proprietary driver. Right now, I'm at Gnome3 in Fallback mode with Compiz Running:
If you are not going to play games a lot, you can always use the OSS Driver as you will have much more stable and fluid experience.
I'm asking because, for example, OpenSUSE doesn't boot at all with opensource drivers, unless you add "nomodeset" boot option, and Ubuntu often doesn't shut down again because of open drivers. And when I install fglrx, I got huge lags with compiz even when minimizing/maximizing windows. One man also said than Arch doesn't boot (like OpenSUSE) with open drivers on this laptop, so you have to first install proprietary drivers and then install xorg, because xorg will not install with "nomodeset" option. I also heard about some patches for xserver, so that proprietary drivers will work well with it. Are there such?
Does someone have idea if the PowerXpress function in catalyst 11.4 and later is of use in the case of presence of both discrete and integrated graphics? When I do "aticonfig –initial -f" beside the usual "xorg.conf initialized" I got an additional lines with:
"PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib64/fglrx': No such file or directory
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU"
Just tried it and it returns:
sudo aticonfig –initial -f –adapter=all –acpi-services=off
Uninitialised file found, configuring.
PowerXpress error: Cannot stat '/usr/lib64/fglrx': No such file or directory
Failed to initialize libglx for discrete GPU
Found here - http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu_Natty_Installation_Guide:
"If you are using the x86_64 architecture (64 bit), be sure to install "ia32-libs" before proceeding!"
I don't know whether it does for Arch Linux.
It was released yestersay officially, but has some major issues with power management so I'll wait a while. I'm using arch for now and everything is fine if we exclude the mic problem, even the fingerprint reader works :) I used Turion Power Control to tweak the voltages of the CPU in idle and load, now the battery life and temperatures are better.
Follow instructions from here - http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10263323&postcount=17, and your front mic will work.
The problem with ACPI is actually related to fglrx and can be solved with "sudo aticonfig –acpi-services=off". All credit goes to Catalyst Archwiki at Arch Linux official wiki site.
Maybe you know how to get rid of annoying "cannot reserve MMIO region" message during boot?
In Ubuntu releases there is the same problem… Is any solution for this ?
The Ubuntu forums says, this is *just* a kernel message and can be ignored, but in my opinion the boot process hangs for a little time (before this message)
I tried bios upgrade (v208), nothing happened :(
On Ubuntu 10.10 when I plug off AC adapter, system freezes. I suppose that's because ACPI dosn't work properly on this laptop.
The front mic problem is solved easily.
I do not remember exactly. I followed some advices from this thread - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1552196
Actually there's some issues with Ubuntu 10.10 - there is no possibility to install fglrx because of some bug related to acpi described here - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi/+bug/75174. The front mic isn't working at all and now I'm figuring out how to start using the fingerprint reader - there is an interesting solution here - http://www.pdfserver.net/fingerprint/index.php
I'm having problems with trying to integrate HDMI output and switching off properly. Any Help would be kindly appreciated.
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I could go on and on about the good, bad and ugly decisions Thompson has made so far, but in the end it all boils down to wins and losses. So why not compare Ted's first four years as the Packers' GM against the first four years of his predecessor, Mike Sherman. Seems logical, fair and controversial.
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Record: 31-33 (.484 winning %)
Average Record: 8-8
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Playoff Record: 2-1
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Are the Packers regressing with Ted Thompson as GM? Was 13-3 a fluke? I certainly hope not but forgive me if I'm not feeling optimistic after looking at the numbers. Say what you want, but Sherman brought us 3 NFC North crowns and we contended every year save one. With Thompson, we had one remarkable year and three flubs. I'm not saying but I'm just saying…
And the irony is that I want Ted Thompson to do well – we all should. Despite all the glaring whiteheads, if Thompson does well, so do the Packers. I could care less who's our GM as long as the Green & Gold contends and Packer pride swells. But as long as Thompson's team is doing crappy and he's pissing people off in the process, he might as well be wearing purple to me.
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Every week we get Down & Dirty, in which Nozlee Samadzadeh breaks down our favorite seasonal fruits, vegetables, and more by the numbers.
It seems so obvious that quinces are close cousins to apples and pears -- that is, until you bite into one. Astringent and sweetly bitter (very similar to persimmons, in fact), they're not easy to love. But with proper handling, some seed-saving, and the right recipes, you'll be stocking up on quinces all winter long.
1. A Quince by Any Other Name: Knobbly and gorgeously yellow-green, quinces look like they belong in still life paintings. They're indigenous to the Middle East (Turkey and Iran, particularly) although the biggest grower of quinces these days is China. Quince trees look just like stocky, shorter apple or pear trees -- in fact, you can graft pear stock onto them for a sturdier crop. Although most quinces you'll find in stores and at farmers' market are basically apple-shaped, there are pyriform varieties as well -- and quinces are more fragrant than apples and pears combined, with a bitter cardamom-like twang to their their intensely sweet aroma.
2. To Eat, or Not to Eat: Despite what you may have read or heard, quinces are perfectly edible when raw. The trick is eliminating their astringency: like persimmons, they must ripen far beyond your normal comfort zone to develop sweetness. Don't have time to wait? In Iran, quinces are put into a sturdy bag and then rapped with a mallet until they're soft all over. This bursts cells in the quinces' flesh, releasing their sweet juices to counteract the bitter flavors. (You could do this yourself by chewing a piece for a very long time, but it's much more fun with a blunt object.)
If you prefer your quinces cooked, you can skip those steps -- when exposed to heat, quince flesh goes soft, sweet, and pink. Membrillo, a quince jelly, is perhaps the most popular recipe to make with the fruit, because of the massive amounts of pectin in quince seeds. (Indeed, marmalade comes from the word for quince in various European languages.) Quinces also make a grand addition to any apple or pear baked good -- just a little bit boosts flavor, making the fruits taste even more like themselves. But quinces aren't relegated to desserts: there are many Middle Eastern dishes that pair the fruit with beef, lamb, and warm spices -- find one at the bottom of the page here. Because quince flesh doesn't fall apart during cooking, it's the ideal pair for long-simmered stews. And one more tip: if your recipe calls for peeled quince, save the skins. Simmered with equal parts sugar and water, they make a pale-pink syrup perfect for lemonades and cocktails.
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Before each ride with SRAM during their 22 launch, we were warned about Motos on Mulholland. The post I wrote about Red Kite Prayer was on that famed highway. There hadn't been an incident that anyone knew about, until now. From the crash video page, it says no one was hurt, but you know, two objects can't occupy the same space at the same time. The motos on the road when were were there, all passed accordingly with plenty of room.
The Video from the trailing moto has been removed by the owner of it and deleted from this post, but commentary from Mark V below describes it.
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VICTORIA - A Victoria-area woman says she watched a life-and-death struggle between an octopus and a seagull — and the octopus won.
Ginger Morneau was taking a stroll along Victoria's Ogden Point breakwater when she happened upon the battle between the gull and the almost metre-long octopus.
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