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As of this writing, Stanza has been downloaded over two million times.
What's Stanza?
Stanza is an electronic reading application for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It's free. And unlike the Kindle app, which is also available for iPhones, Stanza isn't dedicated to a single format.
Let's talk about formats for a moment, because they're one of the reasons ebooks haven't gone mainstream yet.
The history of media technology is all about formats. A format is the means in which a piece of media (books, movies, music) can be distributed, and, possibly, purchased.
The first form of media was writing. For a long time, the first format for this media was stone.
If you wanted to share your writing, you wrote it on a cave wall, or chiseled it into an obelisk or pyramid. This format had the advantage of being long-lasting, but lacked in portability, and ownership was unheard of. If you wanted to read something, you went to the writing.
Then came paper, and scrolls. Scrolls made it easier to write, and they were portable. But scrolls were labor-intensive, because each scroll had to be hand-written. This precluded ownership, except in the case of libraries, scholars, rulers, and the very rich.
Scrolls were the preferred format for writing for millennia. Then a guy named Gutenberg came along and invented the printing press, and the preferred format became printed books. These were cheap, reproducible, and have been the de facto format for sharing writing media.
Until now.
Now, writing, and publishing, has gone digital. Offset printing, with its costs, labor-intensive set-up, and distribution and shipping limitations (which requires time and travel) is no longer the best format.
The advent of the computer, and the Internet, has made writing easier than ever, and distribution free and unlimited. One monk could labor for years on one scroll, which might be seen by only a few dozen people. With books, a writer could reach millions, but was still limited by gatekeepers (publishers and agents) and distribution. It involved money, and a lot of people. Now a writer can save their words for eternity using an electronic format, for free, and reach unlimited numbers of readers.
But there's a problem. Which format should writers use?
Let's look back to Edison and the invention of the phonograph. Edison's invention used a tube. A competitor used a disk. For whatever reason, consumers bought more disks than tubes, and the record became the preferred format for music.
Other formats showed up. Reel to reel tape. Eight track tape. Cassettes. Digital tape. And CDs.
Of these formats, DT (digital tape) made the most sense. It allowed the consumer to record music digitally, which allowed for much faster and better recordings than analog. The first CDs didn't allow recording.
But eventually, CD burners came into vogue, and CDs became the preferred format for music. Up until mp3s came along.
Let's look back on the history of photography. Actually, let's skip to the part where no one buys film anymore, and everyone has a digital camera.
When movies first became popular, over a hundred years ago, ownership was unheard of. Films were seen, and only the rich could own them. Less-expensive 8mm films weren't a big hit with consumers. Video tape, when it first arrived, caused big controversy and a few lawsuits between the movie and TV producers and videotape manufacturers.
For those who remember, the very first movie ever released to the general public was Star Trek II, on VHS and Beta, for the own-it price of $59.99. This was revolutionary. If you had a $600 VCR or Betamax, you could actually own a movie.
VHS wound up winning the videotape war, even though Beta tapes were smaller and had a superior picture quality. But VHS was eventually usurped by DVD.
You can now buy new DVD players for $30, and new DVDs for $5.
BluRay has tried to replace DVDs as the preferred format (after winning the war against HD-DVD), but it hasn't happened yet. Downloading may be the culprit. Why go out and spend $40 on a BluRay disc when you can download a high def movie on cable, satellite, or on your computer? You can also download digital movies to your iPhone, iPod, PSP, PS3, XBOX 360, and many other gadgets.
Why have a physical copy, that requires manufacturing, travel, shipping, and distribution, and shelf space, when you can fit 300 movies on your hard drive and get them by pressing a button?
But even with downloading movies, there are different formats to deal with. Avi, m4v, mp4, rm, iso, img, and a dozen more.
Which brings us back to formats.
Formats can only be read using certain media or programs. Just like you couldn't play your Edison tube on your RCA 78 player, or your Beta tape on a VHS machine, you can't play your avi movie on your home DVD player (for those who aren't into the downloading scene, avi is about as universal a format as you can get for movies, and there are well over a million avi movies and shows available for free if you know where to look.)
Looking back on history, the best format didn't always win the media wars. VHS beat Beta (and laserdisks). CD beat DT. BluRay beat HD-DVD.
I have a theory about why.
When a company invents a media format, they want control over it. They license the format to others who want to release media on that technology.
This usually backfires, because someone comes along with a competing format that doesn't require a license (or has a cheaper license). No license means its easier for others to release media. The more media a format has available, the more likely it is to succeed.
In some cases, licenses don't matter. The ability for consumers to copy the media in a specific format (like the case of avi--no one has ever released consumer avi files for purchase) will make it the format of choice.
Which brings us back to writing, and to ebooks.
For all intents and purposes, ebooks are superior to print. If you grew up reading ebooks, would there be any advantage at all to inventing offset printing? No.
Ebooks, whether or not anyone wants to believe it, are the future. Because they're cheaper, easier, faster, more versatile, and can be copied.
So why haven't they taken off in a big way yet?
There are well over two dozen different ebook formats.
For consumers, this is a nightmare. It's not a question of choosing between VHS or Beta, or HD-DVD and BluRay. It's a question of choosing among a dozen different ebook readers, with more coming out every month. And each of these readers has a licensed format specific and exclusive to their device or program.
Remember when you dumped your VHS and had to buy all of your movies again on DVD? Think about buying the same book ten times, as ereaders come and go and none of their formats are compatible.
Right now, Kindle is the leader in ereader sales. Sony is very much in the game. Barnes & Noble is releasing an ereader too.
Let's set aside the functions, bells and whistles of these machines for a moment. Let's also set aside price. These gadgets will continue to become better, and cheaper, like all technology does.
What it will come down to, like it always does, is who has the biggest library of media available. That will be the format that wins.
Which means these companies have a choice. They can either try to license as many books as possible on their devices in order to get the largest library, or they can create readers that read many different formats, and let consumers decide (as in the case of avi and mp3) which format they prefer.
Now along comes Stanza. It isn't a $400 unitasking ereader that is bound to a single format. It's a free application that reads all of the major formats.
I've been playing around with Stanza for the past week, and I'm impressed. It has the biggest library of any ebook reader, both legally (buying ebooks in various formats) and illegally (downloading ebooks on file sharing sites.)
Don't think people are stealing ebooks? In a one hour stretch yesterday, I downloaded 700 books, all by popular and bestselling authors (including all of my own titles) for free. There are hundreds of thousands of free ebooks available on the Internet, many of them illegal.
Stanza can read all of these books, even though they're in different formats. This is revolutionary. It's also a big step closer to having a universal ereader.
"Universal" is the key here. In the past, Joe Consumer waited for the one format that was available everywhere--the one with staying power--before he committed to buying some new camera or video player or personal stereo.
But now, he doesn't have to wait. He can let the companies duke it out, get a Stanza for free, and read whatever he wants to, in whatever format he wants to. And with a bit of know-how, he'll never have to pay for a book again.
Stanza isn't without its flaws. Some formats don't read as smoothly as others. And getting books from your computer onto Stanza isn't as quick, easy, or elegant as it is with the Amazon Kindle.
But give it time.
Maybe it will be Stanza. Maybe it will be another ereader. But soon, you'll be able to get an app that allows you to instantly download any book you want, for free, on your gadget du jour.
Now, if the big boys want to compete with this, here are my suggestions.
1. Lose proprietary formats, and stop linking your devices to only one distribution network. A universal ebook reader will be able to read many formats, and get them easily from many sources.
2. You don't fight piracy with copy protection and licensing. You fight it with cost and convenience. That means NY print publishers need to wake the hell up and stop selling ebooks for full price. For those who don't know, Kindle and Sony lose money on ebook versions of hardcovers. Publishers insist on selling ebooks to them for 40% of the hardcover price. So when Kindle or Sony sell an ebook for $9.99 (which is still waaaaay too high) they are actually LOSING five bucks per book. How do any of the parties involved in this ridiculous model think it can be sustainable?
3. Become your own publisher. Then you control the content, and the price, and you don't have to share profits (or lose profits.) Kindle has allowed for authors to publish on their device (and Sony is doing the same) and since April I've made over eight thousand dollars selling my books there. But allowing authors to publish, and actively soliciting name authors, are two different things. They need to start soliciting.
4. Once you have the universal technology nailed down, share it. It's smart for Amazon to have a Kindle for iPhone. But if it really wants to be the universal reader, it should have Kindle apps freely available for all smart phones, computers, video game systems, cable and satellite TV, and pretty much everything consumers use or can use to read on. Then it should allow that reader to access books not only on Amazon, but on all places ebooks are available.
So how will they make money, if they give away the app for free, and link to sources that have free ebooks?
Stay tuned...
Coming This Monday: I'll share the answer. I'm also going to back up my words with actions, and begin a new, revolutionary ebook experiment that you can participate in. It's going to turn some heads, that's for sure.
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President Obama has nominated Jack Lew, his Chief of Staff, to succeed Tim Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury. Obama has made so many bad nominations that it is hard to keep track of them all, but Lew stands out in a bad crop. The Senate should reject his nomination.
Today the Senate Finance Committee held its first, and probably only, day of hearings on Lew's nomination. News accounts suggest that much of the questioning was misguided. Senators should oppose Lew not because he invested in a fund headquartered in the Cayman Islands; or because he got rich quickly by heading a Citigroup hedge fund that bet against the housing market; or even because he is a far-left political hack who is utterly unqualified for the position. ("Get me a phone book," Larry Kudlow famously commented, "and I'll find someone more qualified than Jack Lew.") No: the Senate should reject Lew as Secretary of the Treasury because he is a brazen liar.
The federal debt is the great issue of our time, and our nation desperately needs officials who will deal honestly with this existential threat. Yet Lew, both as Obama's Chief of Staff and in a prior role in charge of the Office of Management and Budget, has shown himself to be utterly dishonest. Yesterday Jeff Sessions, ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, took the extraordinary step of writing a letter to all of his Senate colleagues, urging them to vote down Lew's nomination. He was unsparing in his recitation of Lew's transgressions:
Sessions didn't mention another important series of Lew lies. The biggest scandal of the Obama presidency is the fact that the Democrats have illegally refused to adopt a budget for more than four years. Lew went on national television as President Obama's spokesman, and on multiple occasions asserted that the reason the Senate had not adopted a budget was that Republicans had filibustered it. This was a lie; under Senate rules, budget resolutions are not subject to the filibuster. The Democrats simply didn't want to pass a budget for political reasons. There can be no question that Lew, at that time a former director of OMB, knew that his story was an outright falsehood. He simply attempted to deceive the American people, on behalf of Barack Obama, for political gain.
I have said that a president should be granted wide latitude in selecting officials to staff his administration. Mere ideological disagreement, without more, is not a ground, in my opinion, for denying confirmation of a cabinet officer. But a minimum standard of integrity must be applied, and Jack Lew fails to get over even the lowest possible threshold of honesty. He should not be confirmed.


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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword excels at many things. It has great art direction, inspiring level design and so many other good qualities.
But it's fall-through-the-floor glitch is just not as good as the one in Assassin's Creed or the one Rage or the one in Batman: Arkham City (I included the others above, for comparison).
Industry pundits sometimes fret that Nintendo isn't keeping up with its contemporaries. In terms of making entertaining fall-through-the-floor glitches—a staple of modern, major video games—they clearly are not.
If anyone out there can redeem Nintendo's rep and prove that Skyward Sword does in fact contain a great fall-through-the-floor glitch, share it in the comments below.
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Biometrics For Dummies
von: Peter H. Gregory, Michael A. Simon
For Dummies, 2009
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What is biometrics? Whether you're just curious about how biometrics can benefit society or you need to learn how to integrate biometrics with an existing security system in your organization, Biometrics For Dummies can help.
Here's a friendly introduction to biometrics — the science of identifying humans based on unique physical characteristics. With the government's use of biometrics — for example, biometric passport readers — and application of the technology for law enforcement, biometrics is growing more popular among security experts. Biometrics For Dummies explains biometric technology, explores biometrics policy and privacy issues with biometrics, and takes a look at where the science is heading. You'll discover:
- How pattern recognition and fingerprint recognition are used
- The many vulnerabilities of biometric systems and how to guard against them
- How various countries are handling the privacy issues and what can be done to protect citizens' privacy
- How a scan of the palm, veins in the hand, and sonar imagery establish identity
- What it takes to fully authenticate a signature
- How gait, speech, linguistic analysis, and other types of biometric identification come into play
- The criteria for setting up an implementation plan
- How to use authentication, authorization, and access principles
Written by a pair of security experts, Biometrics For Dummies gives you the basics in an easy-to-understand format that doesn't scrimp on substance. You'll get up to speed and enjoy getting there!
Peter Gregory, CISA, CISSP, is a security and risk manager for a financial services organization and the author of twenty books on security and technology.
Michael A. Simon is a security consultant with experience in the government, military, banking, nonprofit, law enforcement, healthcare, e-commerce, and telecommunications industries.


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Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari 2014: Braving Dust Storms and High WindsPosted in Events on March 7, 2014
Every first weekend of March, off-road enthusiasts from across the southwest flock to the Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari in California's famed Northern Ocotillo Wells area like mosquitos to bright lights. The origin of the event dates back to 1962, when a group of Jeepers decided to take to the desert in their CJs and Flatties. They had such a great time that they started an annual pilgrimage to the desert for some fun wheeling action. .
This year marked the 52nd running of the Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari, or TDS, as it is more commonly referred to by dirty desert connoisseurs. As in years past, we spent the weeks prior to TDS scrambling to get our desert rigs in running shape to meet up with the rest of our rag tag group of family and friends. Much like that first group of Jeepers way back in '62, our crew of magazine editors, staffers, and publishers alike banded together for a weekend full of wheeling in the famed Notches of TDS.
Normally the first weekend of March makes for the perfect desert weather with blue skies and hardly a cloud in sight. Not this year. With a storm rolling in from the pacific, we we're hoping the mountains between us and civilization would keep the wheeling dry and fun, but Mother Nature has a mind of her own. Not only did some areas get hit with a little rain and high winds, more than a few dust storms rolled through Ocotillo Wells, which often made for some white-knuckle wheeling with almost no visibility at times.
It seemed as though many folks decided to stay home this year to avoid the weather and the possibility of being stuck in the desert when it surely flooded. Thankfully, those fears were largely unfounded and despite all the threatening weather, the turnout was still plenty impressive as always. From desert rigs to rock donkeys and even Azusa Mud trucks, TDS has it all and then some.
Check out all the cool rigs we saw out at the 52nd Annual Tierra Del Sol Desert Safari!


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For Your Listening Pleasure... Techdirt On The Air
from the podcasting deptEvery so often we get people saying that the folks here at Techdirt should do a podcast, and we occasionally toy around with the idea, but for the most part it just takes too much time, so we leave it to those who are much more inclined to podcast. However, the folks behind two of the better tech-related podcasts both asked me to stop by as a guest this past week, so I wanted to point them out.
- Leo Laporte was kind enough to ask me to take part in the latest episode of his massively popular "This Week in Tech" podcast along with professional curmudgeon John C. Dvorak and the ever insightful and entertaining Wil Harris. The TWiT experience was quite a bit of fun... though AT&T decided to cut off my DSL as Leo was introducing me. I heard the "and for the first ti..." part of Leo's introduction and then suddenly I had no internet connection. Luckily I was reconnected with varying quality after about five minutes. As you would expect from TWiT, the discussions range across a number of tech related stories, including quite a few found right here on Techdirt.
- I may not agree with Adam Thierer about wireless piggybacking and metering broadband, but he was still nice enough to invite me to participate in the Technology Liberation Front's latest podcast on the topic along with TLF regulars Tim Lee, James Gattuso and guest Ben Worthen from the Wall Street Journal. It turned into a lively discussion on the topic -- though I'm still curious about which industries that use metering are really that innovative.


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Tuesday, 30 October 2007
HotM 9: Holiday Food
Ilva first brought up the idea for Heart of the Matter to me last March, when I wrote this post. Back then, it didn't have a name and was just an idea being tossed around between blog friends - something to try, to put out there for the world to find, and to see what happened. Back then, I was smack in the middle of ramping up to finish my degree and trying find some semblance of balance in my life, so we kept putting it off until a day "when I wouldn't be quite so busy" (ha ha ha). Unfortunately, my life just kept getting busier and busier...the actual writing of my dissertation began, I was planning a wedding, and trying to apply for future jobs. So when she told me about Joanna - and who more perfect to carry this idea forward than someone who had experienced the devastation and lifestyle changes that a brush with heart disease requires (read Joanna's story here) - I told them to go ahead without me, with hopes that I would be able to join them later.
Between the two of them, these lovely ladies have turned this little idea into a true force – a resource for those of us seeking heart-healthy recipes and a healthy lifestyle while maintaining a focus on delicious and interesting food. The site is filled not only with helpful links, thoughts and recipes, but also encouraging words and a sense of community, providing a forum to discuss the ever-present threat of this rapidly growing disease. And I, dear readers, am lucky enough to be able to join with them now as host for November's Heart of the Matter – Eating for Life (HotM 9). With the all of the many holidays coming up in the next few months: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Boxing Day, St. Andrews Day, or whatever other holiday(s) you may celebrate in the upcoming months, we decided that it would be good to get recipes together early so that we would have heart-healthy alternatives (or additions) to our normal holiday fare. So the theme for November will be: Holiday Food.
What do you think of when you think of holiday foods? I think of family recipes – for Thanksgiving in the U.S., what comes to mind is the crisp skin of a roasted turkey, sweet potatoes studded with tiny marshmallows and sitting in a pool of real maple syrup, gooey and cheesy artichoke dip, sweet-tart cranberry sauce and tender, moist stuffing - nearly all of it dripping with butter, full of cholesterol and fat or sugar. In December, as Christmas grows nearer, there is spiked eggnog, homemade Christmas cookies and indulgent mincemeat pies. There has to be equally delicious alternatives to some of these treats – let's make them so that we can enjoy them without feeling guilty, and knowing that we're doing a good thing for the hearts of our loved ones as well as our own. Whatever the holidays you'll be celebrating, think about the food you'd like to have then.
Can you re-work an old holiday family favorite to make it heart-healthy? Do you have Christmas treats that you like to give as gifts (for what better gift than the gift of health?)? Do you have a seriously good rendition of a classic holiday dish that just happens to be good for you, or have you spent long hours perfecting one? Why not share it with us all? And while you're at it, if you'd like to, tell us a little bit about the holiday you're cooking for and what it means to you.
You can start submitting your entries as soon as you'd like – simply send me the link to your entry at my email address (mphilli4 AT uoregon DOT edu) by November 18th. This is a little earlier than the usual deadline (the 23rd), but since Thanksgiving is on the 22nd for those of us in the U.S., I'd like to get them rounded up for you by the 20th in case there are Thanksgiving recipes so you still have time to run to the store when you see that perfect heart-healthy recipe you'd like to bring to your own table. Plus, having all the recipes in by this time, especially Christmas recipes, leaves us already prepared with healthy menus as those busy holiday days encroach when we're strapped for time between shopping and eating and holiday parties (Ilva will be hosting a fabulous theme full of quick and easy recipes for HotM in December, just to make sure we all have a repertoire of heart-healthy foods to use as a defense against those nights when we're exhausted from running back and forth to and from just such occasions).
In your post, make a link to my site, The Accidental Scientist, or to the HotM site if you'd like, so that your readers can find the event and see the round up when it comes out. If you're new to this (like I am!), the rules to eating a heart-healthy diet are nicely laid out in Joanna's Basic Rules, and we ask that you consider this as a one-entry event, ie. that you don't use your entry for other events as well. Feel free to browse the other recipes on the HotM site for inspiration if you'd like – we can't wait to see what you have to share!
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Michelle, Joanne, what about scallops? Are they allowed? I leave it up to you to decide whether scallops would be fit. I'm going to try a few things with them.
- 11 November 2007 at 06:17
- Ilva said...
I hope you don't mind if I answer and not the other two, I have made some research and scallops are fine so go for it!
- 11 November 2007 at 06:29
Ilva, ok, thank you! I will post.
- 12 November 2007 at 01:47
- Ann said...
I'd love to participate and wonder if it's okay to use your HotM image in my sidebar (I have a "current blog events" section) with a link back to this post?
- 12 November 2007 at 08:18
- Ilva said...
Of course it's OK, we're just happy if you want to help spreading the word! Thanks!
- 12 November 2007 at 08:40
- Ann said...
Done! Looking forward to working on my entry!
- 12 November 2007 at 09:21
- michelle said...
Yikes! Sorry I missed all your comments - I checked at the beginning and then forgot to keep checking here!! Thanks for answering everyone's questions, Ilva - I'll do better next time!!
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Today's breaking news of india is election results of Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and pondicherry.
In Tamil Nadu, the election was held on 16th may 2016 in 232 constituencies, election department postponed the election day for two constituencies Aravakurichi and Thanjavur out of 234 due to electoral malpractices and later election dates will be announced by election commissioner.
List of major political parties in tamil nadu for 2016 election are:
- Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK)
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)
- Makkal nala kootani
- Bharatiya janata party (BJP)
- pattali makkal katchi (PMK)
- Naam tamilar party
political parties and leaders:
- Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) - Jayalalitha
- Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) - Kalaingar M. Karunanidi
- Makkal nala kootani - Captain Vijayakanth, Vaiko, thol. thirumavalavan...
- Bharatiya janata party (BJP) - Tamilisai Soundararajan
- Pattali makkal katchi (PMK) - Anbumani Ramadoss
- Naam tamilar party - Seeman
Election results was announced today in all the 5 states, in Tamil Nadu, Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam(AIADMK) party leader Jayalalitha won the election against Kalaingar M. Karunanidi and his son m.k. stalin with majority of above 118+ for continuously second time from 2011-2016,2016-2021.
Tamil nadu news today is, Chief Minister, J Jayalalithaa addressing the media at her residence after her party's victory in the Assembly elections "After 1984, no ruling party in the state has been able to win an election and form the government for a successive term".
Tamilnadu assembly election results announced on May 19, 2016. People of Tamilnadu was awaiting for this TN Election 2016 results with huge expectations whether ADMK party will remain in power or new government will be formed by DMK party, Also many new voters are expecting some vote share increase for new parties like Naam Tamilar and Makkal Nala Kootani. Here are some memes and trolls on TN election results 2016.
All the best for Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, J Jayalalithaa for her success in future.


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(CNN) -- The family of a Mississippi mayoral candidate claimed Sunday that he died after being "beaten, dragged and burned," but it's an account a medical examiner disputed, saying "I don't know where that is coming from."
On Wednesday, authorities found Marco McMillian's body near a levee between Sherard and Rena Lara, two unincorporated communities about 15 minutes from Clarksdale. The 34-year-old McMillian had been running for mayor of Clarksdale, a city of about 18,000 people in northwestern Mississippi's Delta region.
His body was "set afire," according to his family, who said they twice met with a coroner.
Coahoma County Medical Examiner Scotty Meredith told CNN that there were "signs of an altercation," but that didn't kill him.
"Beating is not the cause of death," said Meredith, who confirmed he'd met twice with McMillian's family. "He was beaten, but not badly."
The medical examiner added he didn't know how the family came to the conclusion that McMillian was dragged and burned.
The late politician's family, in the statement released through his former campaign manager Jarod Keith, called for "a full and thorough investigation." They said McMillian had told "family and close friends that he was very concerned for his personal safety."
"We feel that this was not a random act of violence, based on the condition of the body when it was found," they said. "Marco, nor anyone, should have their lives end in this manner."
Yet Meredith insisted "this was not a targeted attack."
"No way," the medical examiner said. "This was more of a personal dispute."
The Coahoma County Sheriff's Office announced on Thursday that a suspect, Lawrence Reed, faces a murder charge in the death.
Reed, 22, was found in McMillian's wrecked SUV on Tuesday morning and was taken to a hospital.
McMillian's Facebook page shows a glimpse at a man who was politically ambitious. It includes a picture of McMillian posing with President Barack Obama. His campaign motto: "Moving Clarksdale forward."
McMillian's short biography on Facebook said he had spent much of his career raising money for universities after he graduated from Jackson State with a degree in elementary education. He also received a master's in philanthropy and development from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
In 2004, Ebony magazine recognized him as one of the country's top leaders younger than 30. He received the Thurgood Marshall Prestige Award from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund five years later.
And from 2007 to 2011, McMillian was executive director of his fraternity, Phi Beta Sigma, which after his death recalled how he'd "made an incredible difference in his community." He secured the first federal contract to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS among African-Americans for the fraternity and helped it form partnerships with organizations such as the U.S. Marine Corps and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in discussing the disease.
Patricia McMillian said that even though media reports since her son's death have labeled him as openly gay, his death likely had nothing to do with his sexual orientation.
Without offering specifics, the family said Sunday that it hoped to share information from the ongoing investigation in order "to dispel speculations surrounding his death."
CNN's Greg Botelho, Ashley Fantz and Steve Almasy contributed to this report.
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Preamble: A Lawyer's Responsibilities
1. A lawyer is a representative of clients, an officer of the legal system and a public citizen having special responsibility for the quality of justice. Lawyers, as guardians of the law, play a vital role in the preservation of society. The fulfillment of this role requires an understanding by the lawyers of their relationship with and function in our legal system. A consequent obligation of lawyers is to maintain the highest standards of ethical conduct.
2. As a representative of clients, a lawyer performs various functions. As advisor, a lawyer provides a client with an informed understanding of the client's legal rights and obligations and explains their practical implications. As advocate, a lawyer zealously asserts the client's position under the rules of the adversary system. As negotiator, a lawyer seeks a result advantageous to the client but consistent with requirements of honest dealing with others. As intermediary between clients, a lawyer seeks to reconcile their divergent interests as an advisor and, to a limited extent, as a spokesperson for each client. A lawyer acts as evaluator by examining a client's legal affairs and reporting about them to the client or to others.
3. In all professional functions, a lawyer should zealously pursue clients' interests within the bounds of the law. In doing so, a lawyer should be competent , prompt and diligent. A lawyer should maintain communication with a client concerning the representation. A lawyer should keep in confidence information relating to representation of a client except so far as disclosure is required or permitted by the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct or other law.
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5. As a public citizen, a lawyer should seek improvement of the law, the administration of justice and the quality of service rendered by the legal profession. As a member of a learned profession, a lawyer should cultivate knowledge of the law beyond its use for clients, employ that knowledge in reform of the law and work to strengthen legal education. A lawyer should be mindful of deficiencies in the administration of justice and of the fact that the poor, and sometimes persons who are not poor, cannot afford adequate legal assistance, and should therefore devote professional time and civic influence in their behalf. A lawyer should aid the legal profession in pursuing these objectives and should help the bar regulate itself in the public interest.
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9. Each lawyer's own conscience is the touchstone against which to test the extent to which his actions may rise above the disciplinary standards prescribed by these rules. The desire for the respect and confidence of the members of the profession and of the society which it serves provides the lawyer the incentive to attain the highest possible degree of ethical conduct. The possible loss of that respect and confidence is the ultimate sanction. So long as its practitioners are guided by these principles, the law will continue to be a noble profession. This is its greatness and its strength, which permit of no compromise.
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10. The Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct are rules of reason. The Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct define proper conduct for purposes of professional discipline. They are imperatives, cast in the terms "shall" or "shall not." The Comments are cast often in the terms of "may" or "should" and are permissive, defining areas in which the lawyer has professional discretion. When a lawyer exercises such discretion, whether by acting or not acting, no disciplinary action may be taken. The Comments also frequently illustrate or explain applications of the rules, in order to provide guidance for interpreting the rules and for practicing in compliance with the spirit of the rules. The Comments do not, however, add obligations to the rules and no disciplinary action may be taken for failure to conform to the Comments.
11. The rules presuppose a larger legal context shaping the lawyer's role. That context includes court rules and statutes relating to matters of licensure, laws defining specific obligations of lawyers and substantive and procedure law in general. Compliance with the rules, as with all law in an open society, depends primarily upon understanding and voluntary compliance, secondarily upon reinforcement by peer and public opinion and finally, when necessary, upon enforcement through disciplinary proceedings. The Rules and Comments do not, however, exhaust the moral and ethical considerations that should guide a lawyer, for no worthwhile human activity can be completely defined by legal rules.
12. Most of the duties flowing from the client-lawyer relationship attach only after the client has requested the lawyer to render legal services and the lawyer has agreed to do so. For purposes of determining the lawyer's authority and responsibility, individual circumstances and principles of substantive law external to these rules determine whether a client-lawyer relationship may be found to exist. But there are some duties, such as that of confidentiality, that may attach before a client-lawyer relationship has been established.
13. The responsibilities of government lawyers, under various legal provisions, including constitutional, statutory and common law, may include authority concerning legal matters that ordinarily reposes in the client in private client-lawyer relationships. For example, a lawyer for a government agency may have authority on behalf of the government to decide upon settlement or whether to appeal from an adverse judgment. Such authority in various respects is generally vested in the attorney general and the state's attorney in state government, and their federal counterparts, and the same may be true of other government law officers. Also, lawyers under the supervision of these officers may be authorized to represent several government agencies in intragovernmental legal controversies in circumstances where a private lawyer could not represent multiple private clients. They also may have authority to represent the "public interest" in circumstances where a private lawyer would not be authorized to do so. These Rules do not abrogate any such authority.
14. These rules make no attempt to prescribe either disciplinary procedures or penalties for violation of a rule.
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I know, I know.., you are all out there waiting for the latest Lillian update.
I was just over there because (once again) it was time for the annual license rodeo with Norton Security - her favorite app. She has to go buy a new copy every year at Staples because her husband won't let her do anything online.
The problem with this is that Norton is just not designed for this type of renewal. When you follow the instructions in the box it makes you download and install everything all over again and then update because you installed an obsolete set of virus signatures. It also confuses the computer and I had to restart about 6 times to get Norton to kill Windows Defender and actually do its job. What an ugly piece of software. Hint: there are better security options out there.
At least I didn't have to reinstall Norton Utilities (another Lillian favorite.) I convinced her that she already had the latest version and trying to install from a CD just because you have it isn't always the best idea. Also I believe that Norton Utilities has a perpetual license so you don't have to renew annually. There was no place to authenticate a new license in the Dashboard view that I could see.
Letting Lillian play around with Norton Utilities is like taking a box of matches away from a kid and handing him a blowtorch instead.
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Posted 18 March 2017 - 12:21 PM
Posted 18 March 2017 - 05:39 PM
Norton = OS cancer
You should talk her in to ESET. Tell her you know a big muckity-muck (Aryeh Goretsky) from the company.
You should talk her in to ESET. Tell her you know a big muckity-muck (Aryeh Goretsky) from the company.
Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:35 PM
ESET is hard to find in bricks and mortar stores around here. Remember she can't buy anything online. Besides she is convinced that Norton Security is the best AV you can get. Who am I to disillusion her?
Edited by raymac46, 18 March 2017 - 06:35 PM.
Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:38 PM
The way her husband sounds, I'm surprised he lets her have Internet access at all.
Posted 18 March 2017 - 06:45 PM
Wise man if you ask me.
Posted 19 March 2017 - 04:38 PM
Smart move on his part!
She has to go buy a new copy every year at Staples because her husband won't let her do anything online.
Forget trying to suggest a better program to her. The woman shouldn't even have a computer!
Too bad you can't talk her into a chromebook. She wouldn't need Norton because not much is stored on the device.
Posted 19 March 2017 - 06:27 PM
She does have an iPad. But she gets scareware on it all the time that tells her that her "Windows" machine has a virus and she needs to call a toll-free number for assistance. Even a Chromebook wouldn't help her out there.
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Mounting worries that Congress will use the debt ceiling as fodder in its high-stakes chess match sent the markets into the red.
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average slid 58.6 points, or 0.39%, to 15133, the S&P 500 dipped 1.1 points, or 0.07%, to 1694 and the Nasdaq Composite slid 3 points, or 0.08%, to 3815.
Congress may be seizing control of Wall Street. Market participants are growing increasingly wary that a deeply deadlocked Congress that already plunged the country into the first partial government shutdown since 1996 could conceivably allow a breach of the debt ceiling in mid-October. If the legislator doesn't increase the borrowing limit, the U.S. will likely default on certain obligations in a move that would have dire economic and financial impacts.
"Given the U.S. government shutdown and fast-approaching debt limit deadline, volatility with a negative bias looks the likely mix for the markets in the days ahead," analysts at Barclays told clients Wednesday. The investment bank said the to watch the government shutdown fight as a proxy for the debt ceiling battle.
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Reading 1: The Mormon Years
Army officer and explorer, John C. Fremont visited the Las Vegas Valley on May 3, 1844. After he publicized it in his "Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains 1842 to Oregon and Northern California in 1843-44," the valley became better-known by European-American travelers. During his journey along the Old Spanish Trail, he collected geographical information, military intelligence, and made scientific observations of the environment and topography. He noted the excellent quality of the Las Vegas Valley springs. His report greatly enhanced the American public's understanding of the West, and helped establish the route of the upcoming Mormon Road for wagon freight traffic and emigration between Salt Lake and Los Angeles. During the years 1848-50 the majority of the traffic on the Old Spanish Trail related to the Gold Rush in California. As early as 1850, Mormon leaders were considering San Bernardino, California as a possible mission location. The main route between Salt Lake City and the Pacific Ocean became known as the "Mormon Corridor." The "Mormon Corridor" part of the Spanish Trail was the only road that remained open in winter, and the Mormons and their settlements were instrumental in its protection and development.
The history of the Las Vegas Mormon Fort began in 1855 when Brigham Young, the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City selected 30 men to establish a mission in the Las Vegas Valley. They left on April 10 and were told to go prepared to survive on what they could raise and fare as best as they could. The mission was the first settlement in the part of the New Mexico Territory which would later become the southern end of the state of Nevada. The Mormons' purpose here was to raise crops which would not grow in the colder Utah climate, convert the local Indians to Mormonism and instruct them in farming and hygiene, build a fort and settlement, establish a halfway station for protecting travelers on the Mormon Road between the Pacific and Salt Lake City (to establish a base for trade along the trail), set up a post office, and explore the country. Each man was given 2 ˝ acres of land plus Ľ acre for a garden.
The journey took the men 30 days, with the last 55 miles through a waterless desert. William Bringhurst, president of the mission, arrived with most of the group at Las Vegas on June 14, 1855. The mission was temporarily named for Bringhurst because there was already a Las Vegas in the New Mexico Territory. The site chosen for the mission was four miles from the Las Vegas Springs and next to the Las Vegas Creek where the creek dropped over a bluff about 12 feet high. This drop provided the force to power a mill built by the settlers. The Las Vegas Mission consisted of an adobe wall enclosure measuring 150 feet square. Work soon began on the fort with fortifications on the southeast and northwest angles. A corral measuring 150 feet long and 132 feet wide was built on the north side of the fort according to the diary of one of the missionaries, John Steele. The walls were two feet thick through the bottom eight feet and one foot thick at the top. Later photographs show gun ports in the walls. Inside the fort, the mess houses provided defense for the east side. The men cleared the mesquite brush from the land below the fort, dug ditches, and laid out farmland. They labored in heavy woolen garments on days that sometimes reached 110 degrees; so the hot weather and winds made farming difficult and prevented a long work day. They planted a variety of crops such as corn, melons, and oats. Peas and beans were less successful. When the first winter came, a severe frost ruined the crops.
President Bringhurst often engaged in fiery preaching to improve the morale and performance of the men. Discontent grew not only over Bringhurst's harsh leadership as he punished the men for minor offenses, but also from the men's desires to be with their own families and continued misunderstandings between the Mormons and the Paiutes regarding individual and group property rights. Eleven missionaries secured permission to return to Utah on November 8, 1855. Others, also, would make trips back and forth from Las Vegas to Salt Lake at various times.
Post Office services were offered in January 1856 when the legal address of the "Bringhurst Post Office, Las Vegas County, New Mexico," was opened at the fort. The station was named for William Bringhurst, President of the Las Vegas Mission. Mail was a constant topic discussed in the letters between the missionaries and their families in Salt Lake. They received monthly deliveries.
A second call from Salt Lake City took place for additional missionaries to come to Las Vegas in February 24, 1856. This time, the men were allowed to bring their families. Thus 23 men and 14 women and 15 children came to the fort. Brigham Young sent a new directive to the fort, instructing missionaries to grow cotton, mine for lead, and to further advance the cause of religion. Because the families had to set up house, regulate the children and provide for family needs, the Mormon community built a school and selected two teachers. In August the first child--Zilpha Fuller, daughter of Elijah Fuller's third wife Ellen Fuller--was born at the fort. Ellen gave birth to her daughter in a wagon box. Life for the families was grueling as they endured dehydration and extreme temperatures.
After the discovery of lead by an American Indian on April 19, 1856, Brigham Young sent Nathaniel Jones to open a mine approximately 35 miles southwest of the fort at Potosi Mountain in the Spring Mountains. Some settlers remained at the fort while others tried mining. Young felt that the lead mining was important to make bullets for hunting and protection from a possible invasion. Unfortunately, the ore was of poor quality and the venture proved unprofitable. On May 22 Jones and his mining crew left for Utah, returning to Las Vegas in August. Jones and Bringhurst quarreled bitterly regarding authority over the mining mission. A second letter arrived from President Brigham Young on August 19 reconfirming Jones' authority over the mining mission and obliging Bringhurst to aid him in any way that he could. Dissension continued to grow over the leadership styles of Bringhurst, who was harsher, and Jones, who was more liberal.
After another trip to Utah, Jones returned in December with a letter from Young upholding him and releasing Bringhurst, who left the mission. The conflict demoralized the settlers, who desired to return to Utah. They were discouraged because of the uncertainty about whether they were going to have to stay or be allowed to go home, and also because of the uneasy feelings between them and the American Indians. On February 23, 1857, the missionaries received a letter from President Young informing them that they were free to close down the mission and return to Salt Lake. Dissension, lack of supplies, uncertainty about the mission leadership, social problems, and lack of good crop lands all contributed to the failure of the mission. On March 23 the exodus began, and by mid 1857 the mission was nearly deserted.
During this time the relationship between the federal government and the Mormons deteriorated. President James Buchanan threatened to send federal troops to Salt Lake. In mid 1857 due to the advance of the United States Army into Eastern Utah, Brigham Young called his followers from all points to defend the City of Saints against the Gentiles. In July President Buchanan removed Brigham Young as territorial governor and appointed a new non-Mormon governor, Alfred Cumming. The Mormons prepared for war and then allowed federal forces to enter the Mormon capital peacefully after negotiations involving the army and the church. In April 1858 the Utah War ended.
In 1858, Amasa Lyman led a small party from Salt Lake back to the fort to work at the mines. The mission continued until September 26, 1858 when a meeting was held and the decision was made to disband and return home. The fort was left to deteriorate. However short and rocky the mission's life was, it later helped pave the way for the settlement of southern Nevada. On March 2, 1861, President Buchanan signed An Act to Organize the Territory of Nevada. Nevada became the 36th state on October 31, 1864, thanks to the arrival of population due to the discovery of gold and silver in the Virginia City area, and because Republicans led by Abraham Lincoln wanted the state's support in elections and in Congress.
Questions for Reading 1
1. How did John C. Fremont's expedition spur settlement in the area?
2. What were the motives behind the Mormon expansion from Utah to Las Vegas? Why did the Mormons select this particular site?
3. How was the fort built? What was the original layout of the fort? If need, please refer to Map 2. What was life like for those who lived there?
4. What was the mission of the Mormon settlers at Las Vegas? Did they succeed? Why or why not? Why did they dissolve the fort and return to Salt Lake City?
Reading 1 was compiled from Archeological Reconnaissance of the Las Vegas Mormon Fort (Las Vegas, Nevada: WESTEC Services, 1981); Michael Bowers, The Sagebrush State: Nevada's History, Government and Politics (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1996); Karen B. Carter, Our Pioneer Heritage (Salt Lake City, Utah: Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, 1970); Robert Elston and Alvin McClain, Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort: Historical and Archeological Perspectives (Silver City, Nevada: Intermountain Research, 1993); James Hinds, One Hundred and Twenty-five Years at Las Vegas' Old Fort: A Historic Structures Report of Las Vegas Fort and Ranch (Las Vegas, Nevada, n.d.); Dean Heller, Political History of Nevada, 1996 (Carson City: State of Nevada, 1997); Las Vegas Fort: Old Values, New Meaning (Clark County, Nevada: Preservation Association of Clark Co., October 1980); Martha Knack, Boundaries Between: The Southern Paiutes, 1775-1995 (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 2001); Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort Museum exhibits; Stanley Paher, Las Vegas as It Began--As it Grew (Las Vegas, Nevada: Nevada Publications, 1971); Fred E. Woods, A Gamble in the Desert: The Mission in Las Vegas (1855-57) (Salt Lake City, Utah: Mormon Historic Sites Foundation, 2005).


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Krawk Island and
are always really nice to me :)
I love going to Krawk Island, there is always loads to do, sometimes I play Armada with the grumpy old Skeith, sometimes I go to Lil Nippers and play with the Snarhooks (they are soooooo cute!). I have even been to Smugglers Cove, although the nasty old smugglers wouldn't let me in.
This is my school photo, it is really yucky, but for some stupid
reason toxic_spit thinks its great and loves to show
it to everyone. *how embarrassing*
When I am old enough to go adventuring on my own, I want to go and see the Alien Aishas, Shreegla VI, Arlhox VII and Gargon IV. Whizzing around in a space ship looks so much fun, much better than boring old walking!
Are Lennys clever?
Well thats all folks, if you want to know more about me
or my owner, drop toxic_spit a Neomail :)


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Sports Birthdays for November 15 — Greg Anthony and More
Here are some of the people in the sports world celebrating birthdays on November 15:
Greg Anthony
Age: 45
Profession: Retired NBA Player / Sportscaster
Best Known For: Greg Anthony is an analyst on basketball broadcasts. He played guard in the NBA from 1991 to 2002 with the New York Knicks, Vancouver Grizzlies, Seattle SuperSonics, Portland Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls and Milwaukee Bucks. Anthony played college basketball at UNLV, where he was part of the Runnin' Rebels' team that won the 1990 NCAA title.
Pedro Borbón, Jr.
Age: 45
Profession: Retired MLB Player
Best Known For: Pedro Borbón, Jr. was a relief pitcher. He played for the Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Dodgers, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros and St. Louis Cardinals from 1992 to 2003. Borbon was a member of the Braves' team that won the World Series in 1995. His father, Pedro, played for the Cincinnati Reds and three other teams from 1969 to 1980.
Lorena Ochoa
Age: 31
Profession: Pro Golfer
Best Known For: Lorena Ochoa is a former member of the LPGA Tour who has won 30 professional tournaments, including the British Open in 2007 and the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2008, since turning pro in 2002. She was the No. 1-ranked female golfer in the world from 2007 to 2010.
Lofa Tatupu
Age: 30
Profession: NFL Player
Best Known For: A three-time Pro Bowl linebacker, Lofa Tatupu played with the Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons from 2005 to 2012. His dad, Mosi, played for the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams from 1978 to 1991.
Sasha Pavlovic
Age: 29
Profession: NBA Player
Best Known For: Sasha Pavlovic is a forward for the Portland Trail Blazers. He has played for six other teams since debuting in the NBA in 2003.


text: On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Andrew wrote: > Recently took on a project doing a Beowulf cluster and I have configured the > files necessary to run MPICH-1.2.6 to run on 3 computers using Red Hat > 7.2(following directions). I am running into a problem where I can not run > it on my two slave nodes(yet I can run it on my master node) it will pause > for a while and then says p4_error: Could not get host by name for host > node0.home.net I think it might have something to do with the way I > configured my hosts file in which the first line is the node name, second > line is local host, and third is my master node (node0). Anyone have any > other suggestions or comments as to what I should check? No, but a possibly apropos meta-remark. Let's see: RH 7.2 <- your version RH 7.3 RH 8 RH 9 (say) FC 1 FC 2 <- current stable FC 3 <- current new You are years and years out of sync with current linux distros (with similar divergences between 7.2 and other flavors of linux distro). In the meantime the kernel has radically changed, glibc has radically changed, the compiler(s) have radically changed, the support libraries have radically changed, and the general user interface has radically changed. That's a lot of radical change. To even get good help from this list you'll likely need to upgrade to something more current, as otherwise nobody will be able to tell if your problem is in MPICH as distributed in 7.2 (unless they can remember that far back), MPICH as currently distributed but BUILT on 7.2 (old library bugs or incompatibilities), the compiler, the kernel, the networking stack... True, it kind of looks like your problem is likely to be at the administrative level -- having the correct format for /etc/hosts. It should look something like: # /etc/hosts for rgb's private home network # # This is required for loopback access to localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain # # The inside/server/gateway/firewall address of Eden 192.168.1.1 node1.private.net node1 192.168.1.2 node2.private.net node2 192.168.1.3 node3.private.net node3 ... When it is correctly set up, you should be able to ping hosts by name as: ping node1.private.net or ping node1 (via the alias defined as the third entry in /etc/hosts). This hosts file should likely be on all nodes, not just the head node. You many also need to check /etc/nsswitch.conf, to make sure "files" is listed as an entry for "hosts:". Hope this helps... rgb -- Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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The blacktop's about to blaze with the most dangerous, ludicrous, and notorious combat racing to erupt on the urban streets. Fully strapped with a gang-load of firepower and fearless driving skills, players make a mad dash for power by racing against ruthless street crews, murdering their opponents, and building an empire of money. High-priced honeys, the finest bling, and millionaire cribs are just some of the rewards for the notorious few who can survive this most dangerous game.
Ubisoft tries to earn some street cred with this new hip-hop combat racing game, but is the final product a true gangsta or simply frontin'? Read More »
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Also known as: Notorious: Die to Drive
Release Region: United States
Release Date: August 23, 2005
Publisher: Ubisoft
Also available on: Xbox
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Life presents itself as a appropriate about-face of both accident and destiny. The relations of the two shall always be confused in time but yield my chat for it as it does in actuality exist. The absence of cause does not belie its actuality but absolutely serves to allurement the curious.
It is declared that anybody brand a acceptable bogeyman tale. To this end I present the consecutive annual which has been accompanying to me from a accurate abbot himself. He has undertaken to acquaint his adjustment of the accuracy of what follows, even admitting if he had not told me with his own aperture I too would never accept declared such a annual to be genuine. After added ado I will advance to chronicle his chestnut to you.
An age-old and torn man he was, that is Mr. Jessup Peters. He fabricated his abode in the lower allotment of the accompaniment of Delaware accepted to the locals as the Delmarva Peninsula. It was a affable atom to abide and he was actual annoyed with his best of location. Mr. Peters had biking abundantly so his accommodation to be in Delaware was not by adventitious but deliberate. Jessup accompanying to Abbey Castile, A Methodist abbot able-bodied apperceive in the bounded area, a man aces of my aplomb and admire that in the year 2001 he had been rushed to the hospital for a astringent affection attack. While in the emergency allowance he proceeded to acquaintance several added attacks, Pointless to say Mr. Peters was accepted to the hospital.
Reverend Castile hesitated a moment and afresh looked me bluntly in the eyes and said "Who can in fact accede after doubt, if at some date in those attacks Mr. Peters had in fact died and as he continues his activity added it is in fact an imaginary, inexistent occurrence. I for one in fact can not."
Anyway, during his break at the hospital Mr. Peter's states that he absitively to abandon the medical facility. His physician of advance did not accede it in his best absorption to abandon at that point in time and declared to him that if he were to go he would be acting as if he were academician dead. My accessible adventure teller relates that Mr. Peter's acumen aloft this bearings was that the doctor was not cogent him this but in acreage he was apropos to those humans in the emergency allowance and he artlessly overheard the conversation.
Mr. Peters as he activated the contest to Abbey Castile acquainted he had in fact died in that allowance on that acute evening. However, there resulted in no appointment to heaven nor to damnation to hell but alone actuality as usual. The argumentation advancing in this accompaniment of diplomacy is that Jessup did not admiration to vanish from his present alluvial activity actualization and appropriately connected to reside it. Mr. Peters with his array of agreed agency to reside artlessly banned to canyon on to the added ancillary and instead traversed his accepted agency and abode of living. This tended to accompany him into some camp and aberrant situations area he could not analyze what he was accomplishing nor what was accident to him. Some situations were altogether assiduous in their methods of existence.
He activated how he would ultimately yield agenda of astringent derma disruptions, which ultimately banned to go abroad behindhand of the analysis he chooses. His teeth were falling out in accumulation for no apparent reason. His bloom problems were repetitively ascent to which Mr. Peters contributed his abnegation to accede that he had died, about his physique had already accustomed it and was assuming massive signs of deterioration.
Several years after Rev. Castile was out for his accepted afterglow airing in the adjacency of Cannon Street which was aswell that of Mr. Peters home. It was not an awfully atramentous black as the abounding moon provided abounding accuracy for the desultory itinerant or aimless body. Mr. Castile was as accepted in his cheerful, upbeat mood. He was his accustomed afford beck of comfort and amusement wherever he were to venture. As he approached the river in the around of area Mr. Peters home was anchored he anon noticed a diminutive amount of a man positioned abreast the accomplish arch to the foreground entrance. The man was bouncing his duke profoundly. His attitude had in it an association of abeyant abhorrence but he appeared to be in a boring of sorts, blank to acknowledge nor to acknowledge his consequences. Mr. Castile approached the afflicted man and greeted him as he usually greets passer bys in his accepted affable abode and arrive him to airing with him if he were so absorbed to be traveling that way. The man had a slight actualization of Mr. Peters whom the affectionate abbey had accepted for abounding years; about this man's face was asperous and troubled. The man rose his arch at an absorbed perspective, looked absolutely at the reverend's face, but neither replied nor accomplished any added movement. The abbot activity the man had not heard him afresh his antecedent invitation. At this the admirer aloft his appropriate duke unhurriedly appear the blast and afresh acicular appear the adjacent river. Mr. Castile looked appear the administration from which the man was pointing and saw annihilation arresting and agilely alternate his eyes to abode the man already again. The man had now disappeared. Slowly the abbot began to airing abroad from the position of his chat and as he glanced aback he already afresh saw the amount of the man, at the aforementioned abode and actualization the aforementioned as he had if he aboriginal saw him. It was now that Mr. Castile became acquainted of a faculty of the abstruse and ancient the around as agilely as he could.
On accession home he accompanying his accomplishment to his family, and the afterward evening, he enlisted the abutment of his brother in law to acknowledgment to the breadth he was at the above-mentioned evening. To their amazement they apparent the decomposing physique of Jessup amphibian at the bend of the river anon abreast the atom area the bogeyman had stood.
Upon final assay of the physique they apparent the physique had been asleep and adulteration for several years but independent broadcast beginning claret into the man's system. Who am I to agnosticism this annual of the undead?


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Brussels, 28 April 2009
Taxation and Good governance: The European Commission proposes actions to improve transparency, exchange of information and fair tax competition
The European Commission today has adopted a Communication identifying actions that EU Member States should take to promote "good governance" in the tax area (i.e. more transparency, exchange of information and fair tax competition). The Communication identifies how good governance could be improved within the EU. It also lists the tools the EU and its Member States have at their disposal to ensure that good governance principles are applied at international level. Finally, it calls on Member States to adopt an approach that is more coherent with good governance principles in their bilateral relations with third countries and in international fora. The Communication builds on the existing EU policy on good governance and the recent G20 conclusions concerning uncooperative tax jurisdictions.
László Kovács, Commissioner for Taxation and Customs, said: "EU Member States cannot afford to act alone when designing policies to prevent their tax revenues disappearing to tax havens or non cooperative jurisdictions If they do not cooperate with each other, including in international fora, their actions to protect their revenues will not produce effective results'
Improve good governance within the EU
Improving good governance within the EU would reinforce the argument for other jurisdictions to take similar steps.
The Commission therefore calls on the Member States of the Union to adopt as soon as possible its recent proposals to:
The Commission also calls on Member States to continue the work to eliminate harmful business tax measures under the Code of Conduct for Business Taxation.
Promote good governance in the relations with third countries
The European Commission proposes to improve the particular tools that the European Community and EU Member States may have at their disposal to promote good governance internationally:
Some of the concrete actions proposed are:
With the financial crisis, the need for national governments to safeguard their tax revenues is more acute than ever.
The need to promote international tax cooperation and common standards has now become a regular item on the agenda of discussions, both within the EU and in international fora. Most recently, the G20 Leaders agreed at their summit in London (April 2, 2009), "to take action against non-cooperative jurisdictions, including tax havens".
The Commission's present Communication is a response to the questions raised at international level placed firmly in the EU context of its overall policy on good governance in tax matters.
The texts of the proposals are available at this web link:
Further information on the strategy to improve anti-fraud measures can be found at:
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