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Man accused of killing girlfriend appears in court
Police say the woman died after being beaten and burned.
A man accused of beating and burning his girlfriend to death was in court Tuesday morning.
Elec Cusick appeared before Judge Jeffery Singer in the LeFlore County Courthouse at 9 a.m. for a sounding docket. the judge set a preliminary hearing date for November 14th, 2013 at 9 a.m.
Cusick is accused of attacking Myrtle Cooper in January, 2013. Police believe Cusick hit Cooper in the heat with a piece of wood and cut her legs to keep her from leaving. They were both found unconscious outside their home when fire crews arrived to put out flames at the house.
Myrtle Cooper's family says she was a kind person who would never hurt anyone.
The Leflore County sheriff says he was surprised when he heard the news of Cooper's passing.
"This was kind of a surprise to us," says Sheriff Rob Seale. "The last report we had heard was that she was doing better, but she never regained consciousness where we could talk to her. So, it's kind of a surprise that she went down so fast."
Seale says there had been previous calls regarding domestic issues between Cooper and Cusick in the past.


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February 14, 2013
Crane Operator Safety Training Requirements [437-002-0231]. The proposed rule would give construction employers with mobile crews who use small-capacity mobile cranes the option of following operator training requirements in 437-002-0231 or the requirements in 1926.1427 (Operator qualification and certification). The rule would also require operators who use small-capacity mobile cranes for maintenance, delivery, and other general industry work to comply with 437-002-0231 or 1926.1427 while using the same crane when they cross over from general industry to a construction-related activity.
Three public hearings were held in January.
Note: The comment period for this rule closes Feb. 21, 2013.
Underground construction [1926.800], and Cranes and derricks in construction, Scope [1926.1400]. Amends 1926.800 and 1926.1400, keeping these rules aligned with recent changes in federal OSHA's rules. The changes to 1926.800 will bring all cranes and derricks used in construction work under Subdivision CC. The amendments to 1926.1400 will broaden the exemption for digger derricks [1926.1400(c)(4)] to include "any other work subject to Subdivision V of Division 3." Comment period closed Feb. 6, 2013.
Personal protective equipment in construction [437-003-0134]. Establishes essentially the same requirements for the construction industry as the personal protective equipment rule for general industry [437-002-0134]; the proposed rule will not require employers to certify that a workplace hazard assessment has been performed, however. Three public hearings were held in January; comment period closed Feb. 6, 2013.
Personal protective equipment in general industry [437-002-0134]. Amends 437-002-0134, to include ANSI Z89.1-2009, American National Standard for Industrial Head Protection, as another option of compliance. Comment period closed Feb. 6, 2013.
Skylights in general industry [437-002-0023]. Changes the general industry requirements for covering holes in floors, roofs, and other walking/working surfaces, to include skylights and skylight screens. Three public hearings were held in January; comment period closed Feb. 6, 2013.
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The API economy is enabling companies to connect and collaborate with internal team members, customers, and partners, and creating new models of monetization, agility, and efficiency. There is tremendous opportunity for developers to play a central role in this fast-paced evolution, but there are also pitfalls. This article seeks to provide guidance on implementing effective, road-tested best practices that enable developers to thrive in the API economy.
Defining a Good API
To begin, a developer needs to ascertain the key elements that determine a "good" API. Typically, an API should employ basic REST principles and be able to leverage existing services or service platforms. It can be enhanced by using techniques, such as HyperMedia, to efficiently handle larger amounts of data and ensure compatibility for any delivery channels, including Web, mobile, and devices.
A good API is discoverable and easy to consume from mobile devices and the traditional Web. It requires fewer interactions to offset mobile latency issues, and it considers the entire Web API design, whether it's device- or Web-based. An effective API should be stateless and as simple as possible, enabling ease of use and adoption with easy scalability.
Creating API-Ready Services
To enable successful development of APIs, developers first need to convert business capabilities into services. Legacy systems must be converted as well. Turning business capabilities into services alone is not enough; they need to be further converted into API-ready services. This includes the functionality, binding, security, data model, and message format. It is also important to create new services that meet the requirements of new business capabilities, thus responding to the demands of the API economy.
To help pull together multiple internal services, developers can employ the concept of service chaining/orchestration. To this end, two specific considerations are capabilities and payload:
- Capabilities: APIs are required to provide capabilities based on the demand from consumers; however, backend services might not directly address these requirements, thereby creating the need to aggregate the backend services.
- Payload: APIs may require different payloads, and a single service may not provide all the information required to build a given payload. In that case, it may be necessary to call multiple services.
Legacy systems also need to be reviewed to ensure they are not stateful, overly rich, or complex; do not contain hyperlinks; and are free of perilous, non-mobile-friendly protocols. For this, developers may need to write and convert legacy elements in a REST-friendly manner by pulling together multiple internal services.
To leverage the opportunities, developers should identify loose ends and adopt approaches to bridge these gaps, notably through coding and using an enterprise service bus (ESB).
Use of coding to make up for the differences is one good approach. However, this method provides very little flexibility and requires recompilation/deployment for a change to be implemented. This concept is encompassed in wrapper services.
Use of an ESB can provide a declarative approach to bridge the gap between API needs and existing legacy implementations. For example, exposing the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol through HTTP can be as simple as following through an ESB. In this case, the ESB is used as the API gateway within an API management solution. Exposing a SOAP service over JSON through an ESB can be achieved through simple configuration as well.
Bridging Stateless and Stateful Worlds
Bridging the gap between stateless and stateful worlds presents a particular challenge. APIs are exposed as stateless interfaces; however, if the backend implementation requires statefulness, such an implementation should be possible. One approach is to create a session mapping layer between the API and backend service. This mapping layer can be implemented using the NoSQL layer or a distributed caching layer. These technologies will support the creation of a replicable and scalable persistence layer for application sessions.
A Well-Designed API is More Than Code
It is not enough to have a clean API, a well-designed one also should include some or all of the following characteristics:
- Intuitive operation/resource definitions
- API documentation
- Correct choice of protocol style: Increasingly, REST is the style preferred over others
- Support for modern data formats: JSON has taken the lead, followed by XML and CSV
- Standard authentication and authorization support
The availability of ample documentation and samples alongside the API will make the developer's life a lot easier and enable easy adoption as well.
Figure 1: Swagger Style Documentation.
One effective approach is the Swagger style of API documentation. A default Swagger-based skeleton is created when an API is created, and there's a in-built editor as well.
Another essential element is API keys, which ensure that API consumption happens in an easy, secure manner. Moreover, API developers will be aware of who is accessing the APIs because each API will include these keys.
Versioning, too, is helpful to developers because it allows them to make changes and improvements incrementally, as well as add capabilities. An absence of versioning will hamper new releases of an API as well as efforts to change an existing version. From the API consumer's perspective, versioning lets the developer choose whether to stick with the current version, and also determines when it is time to move to a new version.
In addition to versioning, an API needs to be highly available so that a developer will be notified in the event of an issue, enabling prompt action to be taken. This is also key to identifying and detecting any misuse of APIs at an early stage.
Driving Adoption: The API Store
Having a clean, well-designed API is a strong start, but it is not sufficient if you want to become a key part of the API economy. Even though it might not be traditional developer territory, there is a need to "sell" the API to other developers to leverage benefits.
A good example of such a scenario is an API store, which enables enterprises to create a graphical experience similar to the Android Marketplace or Apple App Store, which makes it easy for internal users, customers, and partners to access APIs.
A good API store lets developers browse APIs by provider, tags, or name; self-register to the developer community; subscribe to APIs and manage those subscriptions on a per-application basis; and browse API documentation or download helpers for easy consumption. At the same time, enterprise IT organizations can manage subscriptions on a per-developer level, as well as offer subscriptions at different service tiers based on expected levels of use. Ideally, a commercial API management offering should be customizable enough to let organizations create skins for the API store that align with their corporate or product branding.
Portals are a great place for discovery because they help users find APIs exposed by various organizations to be used by developer communities. An API management solution should offer some form of API portal. For reference, we've listed below some popular API portals:
- Google (requires login)
- Amazon EC2
- eBay
API developers can collaborate with API users by employing forums, comments, and social media. To this end, the API store provides many of these collaborative features, helping users to communicate, share comments, and rate APIs. This enables users to be informed about the popular and best-rated APIs and share these findings. In other words, this portal offers some element of advertising of APIs to help you take it to the next level.
The self-signup to an API from the API store or portal can happen in two ways: controlled and public. Controlled refers to a managed process whereby a developer signs up but goes through an approval process before access is enabled. Some APIs might be restricted as well. Public access is unmanaged and allows a developer to self-sign, lookup APIs, and subscribe to them.
Monitoring APIs for Service and Monetization
Monitoring and usage are key to ensuring better service from APIs. To this end, developers need statistics to determine certain elements such as usage, user behavior, possible enhancements, and billing metadata, among others.
Furthermore, if organizations want to charge for the APIs, this would need to be supported by the availability of monetization data. The information provided by monitoring can provide insights into setting subscription costs for different levels of service, as well as gaining visibility into subscribers' daily usage. Monitoring of spikes in use may lead to temporary throttling, while regularly high levels of use could lead to a suggestion for the subscriber to upgrade to the next level. A subscription can be based on usage, or it can be time-bound with periodic renewals (such as one year, two years, etc.).
Broadening the Developer's Role in the API Economy
Broadening access to APIs has created an economy that's exploding with new business development, prompting modern enterprises to move steadily from being software-enabled to being API-enabled. Similarly, ecosystems of APIs also are creating opportunities for new business ventures. Developers and software architects who think beyond an API's code to supporting its entire lifecycle through a store or portal, API management, and effective monitoring will be well positioned to thrive in the API economy and capitalize on these opportunities.
Asanka Abeysinghe is WSO2 vice president of solutions architecture. In this role, he spearheads the company's customer-facing technical tasks and oversees the solution architecture and technical sales functions. Sumedha Rubasinghe is Director of API Architecture at WSO2. He has contributed to the successful implementation of data, SAP and repository-based integration projects, as well many WSO2 QuickStart development consulting engagements.


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Less Is More Satanic: A Prescription of Restraint and Subtlety for Slayer
Who writes lyrics more menacing than those of thrash-metal legends Slayer? Pretty much everyone.
I have always thought it would be funny to put together a musical group to perform thrash-metal anthems in a sort of feminist-folksy manner while simultaneously producing covers of Lilith Fair ballads in the style of aggressive bands such as Anthrax and Pantera. I used to joke with friends that we could call the band Slayer McLachlan.
This wouldn't require as much of a stretch as you might expect. Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan actually wrote a somewhat Slayeresque lyric of her own in "Hold On," from 1993's Fumbling Towards Ecstasy: "Hold on to yourself, for this is gonna hurt like hell."
It features the words "hurt" and "hell", but McLachlan's lyric has also got a direct, understated quality that makes it more powerful and somehow almost more threatening than most Slayer lyrics, even though it's meant to be beautiful and dramatic, not menacing. This has happened for years now: artists keep doing Slayer better than Slayer ever could, usually by accident; Sarah McLachlan out-Slayers Slayer on an album that includes the lyric "your love is better than ice cream".
Likewise, 4 Non Blondes produced pop music at its most accessible and least aggressive, and yet they managed to convey the effects of drug use (or perhaps simple lunacy) more convincingly than Slayer. A highlight of 1992's Bigger, Better, Faster, More! is "Drifting," wherein Linda Perry croons, "I reached for my hand, but it was already there."
Compare this clever, knowing, subtle charmer of a lyric to a typically ham-fisted attempt by Slayer to describe a sense of unreality:
Close your eyes and forget your name
Step outside yourself and let your thoughts drain
As you go insane
Go insane
Again, the legendary Slayer ("loud, aggressive, and violent", according to Rolling Stone) is not just undone, but undone by someone who was only trying to be cute; that 4 Non Blondes track also features the lyric "I fell out of a tiny raindrop that lost its way when it decided to roam."
Though the narrative usually consists of nothing richer or more ambitious than a boy wanting to have sex with a girl, most songs manage to tell a story of sorts. If a character in a novel or film or any other kind of story is developed properly, he needn't yell or curse in order to scare us. Lonesome Dove's Captain Woodrow Call beats a man nearly to death, and his justification isn't wild threats or deranged profanity, but instead this calm concession: "I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it."
Similarly, anyone who followed Joss Whedon's Firefly for its dozen or so episodes on Fox knew to expect some seriously wicked doings in the show's big-screen continuation, Serenity. In the trailer, Captain Malcolm Reynolds doesn't need to bathe himself in blood or brag about the size of his penis. He just says "I aim to misbehave," and since he's a well-developed character, we know that he means it, and we are chilled and giddy at his four quiet words. (The film's villain is no less subtly chilling; when Mal taunts him with the angry criticism "I don't kill children," the villain calmly replies, "I do.")
This admirable creative restraint comes only to those writers who take the time and who have the skill to develop their characters. Here I'm thinking of Batman in the Justice League animated series, replying to Doctor Destiny's threat of "I'll be able to go in your brain, even if you're wide awake" with, "My brain's not a nice place to be."
I'm thinking of the Undertaker telling the Rock, "I may not dress like Satan anymore, but I'm still down with the devil."
I'm thinking of Doyle, the villain from Sling Blade, asking simple-minded Karl, "What'cha doin' with that lawn mower blade?" And I'm thinking of Karl's simple, modest answer: "I aim to kill you with it."
The problem with Slayer, lyrically, is that they have never known how to pace their meager narratives or develop the characters that inhabit them. Nothing ever escalates in a Slayer song, for the simple reason that there's nowhere left to go when you start out by screaming "Fuck Hell Die!" at the top of your lungs. (It will become clear by the end of this essay just how minimally I have exaggerated with this parody of a sample Slayer lyric.)
Slayer's lyrics are also staggeringly repetitive. I haven't listened to a new Slayer album since 1996, on account of popular culture having passed me by over a decade ago (don't tell my editors), but since this essay is a study of Slayer's lyrics rather than their music, I simply let Google direct me to lyrics from the band's more recent albums; for all intents and purposes, I could have simply copied and pasted the lyrics with which I was already familiar.
For example, I noticed during my research for this essay that the words "dead" or "death" appear fourteen times in the band's debut album, Show No Mercy. You might argue that the band was in its infancy at the time (Show No Mercy was released in 1983); I would counter with this damning observation: the word "dead" or "death" appears more than 40 times in Slayer's latest album, World Painted Blood, released in 2009. And not a single instance is as haunting or perceptive as this 1998 gem, from Beck's decidedly non-satanic "O Maria": "Everybody knows that death creeps in slow, 'till you feel safe in his arms."
I could do this all day, as could most anyone. It is no great challenge to isolate a Slayer lyric at random and compare it pretty much arbitrarily to a lyric from nearly any other musical performer and find Slayer's words wanting, not just as quality writing but as anything approaching menacing. Here are some examples that required nothing more than a half-assed stream-of-consciousness recollection of songs from my small iTunes collection:
Slayer Lyric (from "Hardening of the Arteries"):
Convulsions take the world in hand
Paralysis destroys
Nobody's out there to save us
Brutal seizure
Now we die
Danzig Lyric (from "Thirteen"):
I've got a long line of heartache
I carry it well
The list of lives I've broken
Reach from here to Hell
Slayer Lyric ("Dead Skin Mask"):
Incised members ornaments on my being
Adulating the skin before me
Ozzy Osbourne Lyric ("Diary of a Madman"):
Enemies fill up the pages.
Are they me?
Slayer Lyric ("New Faith"):
I won't be force fed prophecies
From a book of untruths for the weakest mind
I keep the bible in a pool of blood
So that none of its lies can affect me
Danzig Lyric ("Bringer of Death"):
See the devil kiss the hand of God
See the devil crying tears of flame
See the devil bite the hand of Christ
And know the devil is the work of God
Slayer Lyric ("Sex, Murder, Art"):
You're nothing
An object of animation
A subjective mannequin
Beaten into submission
Raping again and again…
The urge to take my fist
And violate every orifice
Toadies Lyric ("Tyler"):
I find a window in the kitchen, and I let myself in
Rummage through the refrigerator, find myself a beer
I can't believe I'm really here, and she's lying in that bed
I can almost feel her touch, and her anxious breath
I stumble in the hallway, outside the bedroom door
I hear her call out to me, I hear the fear in her voice
She pulls the covers tighter, I press against the door
I will be with her tonight!
Slayer Lyric ("Payback"):
I'm going to tear your fucking eyes out
Rip your fucking flesh off
Beat you till you're just a fucking lifeless carcass
Danzig Lyric ("Left Hand Black"):
Gonna bring you God in the palm of a left hand black
Slayer Lyric ("Live Undead"):
Night grows cold, twilight's near
On the edge of madness the wounds are sheared
Forms of hanging, flesh shredded carcass
No spared breath
Imprisoned in a shell, ready to explode
Dead soul
Stone cold
Out into the night
Michael Jackson Lyric ("Thriller"):
Night creatures calling, the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escaping the jaws of the alien this time
This is the end of your life
(To be fair, that "Thriller" lyric isn't anymore menacing than a given Slayer lyric. If anything, it's pretty much exactly as menacing as a given Slayer lyric. But that's kind of the point: it's a Michael Jackson lyric!)
Slayer Lyric ("Criminally Insane"):
Branded in pain
Marked criminally insane
Locked away and kept restrained
Disapprobation, but what have I done
I have yet only just begun
To take your fuckin' lives!
Tim Rice lyric:
My teeth and ambitions are bared
Be prepared
(Tim Rice's lyric above is from Scar's theme, from Disney's The Lion King. In other words, Slayer has been undone by a cartoon lion.)
Slayer Lyric ("Silent Scream"):
Silent Scream
Crucify the bastard son
Beaten and torn
Sanctify lives of scorn
Tom Waits Lyric ("We're All Mad Here"):
Your eyes will die like fish
And the shore of your face will turn to bone
Here's a Slayer lyric so staggeringly dumb that it comes right back around to awesome again:
Embryonic death
Embedded in your brain
Suffocation, strangulation
Death is fucking you insane
Compare it to this moody, atmospheric bit of babble from Tori Amos (who once covered Slayer's "Raining Blood"):
Even the rain is sharp like today as you shock me sane
(Keep in mind, Tori Amos is responsible for such pulse-poundingly evil lyrics as "Hangin' with the raisin' girls" and "Caught a lite sneeze / Dreamed a little dream".)
Slayer Lyric ("Mandatory Suicide"):
Lying, dying, screaming in pain
Begging, pleading, bullets drop like rain
Mines explode, pain sheers through your brain
Radical amputation, this is insane
Here is a Metallica lyric on a similar theme, from "One":
Now that the war is through with me
I'm waking up, I cannot see
That there's not much left of me
Slayer Lyric ("SS-3"):
Killing whore
Wade through blood and spill some more
Danzig Lyric ("Under Her Black Wings"):
See she comes
On the eve of dusk
In another form
With a scent of rain upon her neck
She brings the lust
Ceasing never
On and on and on
(You'll notice I used several examples from Danzig, for the simple reason that Glenn Danzig is fascinated by occult themes, just like Slayer, and so it felt like a particularly apt comparison.)


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Martin Brinkmann has his links updated, wow that was quick..ghacks.net
Taken from Ghacks:
Windows 8.1
Monthly rollups won't include PciClearStaleCache.exe anymore starting with this update
Sounds like W8.1 may encounter similar NIC issues as Win7 has from march 2018..
Think I'll hang off updating for a whileWin8.1 Pro | Linux Hybrids | Win7 Pro O/L | WinXP O/L
columbia2011AskWoody Plus
It's applies only to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. Windows 8.1 and Server 2012R2 free from NIC issues.
The blog correction has been made 🙂
Still not updatingWin8.1 Pro | Linux Hybrids | Win7 Pro O/L | WinXP O/L
400 bad request when clicking on the Zero Day Initiative link, due to a trailing apostrophe in the link.
Sorry about that. Link fixed.
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Thanks for the Adobe flash mention. It was faster to manual download then waiting for the auto-update.
I have had auto update issues for Adobe Flash on two different occasions. In both cases, I had to uninstall Flash and then install the latest manually downloaded update. One has to wonder if Adobe now is also using artificial intelligence, like Microsoft, to see if their updates "appear" to be good to go.
Hmm, and you all do know that flashplayer32_xa_install.exe version 18.104.22.1682, which was released in around the middle of March 2019, may have been infected? I got several hits for it on VirusTotal, and the intermediate release after it inexplicably would not install on a couple of my computers. I had to uninstall Flash, and then install the subsequently released version.
So to anyone who can't get a Flash update to install, uninstall Flash, reboot, and then download and install the latest version.
Final note: I just downloaded and successfully installed the latest Flash version via the Flash update utility on two of my computers. No issues.
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Interestingly, for the first time ever as far as I can recall, Comodo failed to recognize the Flash updater when it triggered today, said unrecognized and on top of asking whether I wanted to allow it to connect, which always happens since I have it set to always prompt on new connection attempts, the HIPS also asked whether I wanted to allow it to do what it wanted to.
It's like the file wasn't signed. And not like I could check it after it was done, since it gets deleted. The actual files seem signed just fine though.
(Instead of editing) Ah, just checked again, seems like Adobe changed the name for the certificate and it's just Adobe Inc. now? That probably confused it, and I see that 1h after the update it filed some other Flash files as untrusted, then added Adobe Inc. as trusted vendor and reassessed one more hour later.
I see that the company name had been changed back in October, but maybe it took this long for them to change it in file signatures too?
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We just noticed a newly published Feature Update to Windows 10 in WSUS from 3/28/19.
- Feature update to Windows 10 (business editions), verison 1809 x64 2019-03B, en-us
- Feature update to Windows 10 (business editions), verison 1809 x86 2019-03B, en-u
If you click link in WSUS for info, it will bring you to the 1803 update history page of course. Is this an updated 1809 feature update or a possibly mislabed update? We have declined in our WSUS since we are in the middle of rolling out 1809 feature updatse to all of our 1607 clients and don't want to change the criteria that we have tested with.
Anyone else noticing this or know what this is? TIA!
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1809 was recently declared ready for business (SAC that is not SAC anymore 🙂 ) Perhaps that is why you are seeing it.
As to the labeling mixup, who knows. The Windows Software Distribution Update History page shows the CU for 1607 KB4493470 as being for 1803. MS documentation is not necessarily the best.
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we have been using the 1809 update in wsus that did have the same name except the ending 2019-03B since early Jan (after they re-released it after issues w/user profile and data deletion). Nonetheless, will wait to hear from others but until then we are declining it and using the one we've been using the last two months 🙂
thanks for the reply!
It's just refreshed installation media with March 2019 updates, B stands for second update tuesday (aka patch tuesday)
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Successful Install of KB4493509 Cum Update 1809 / KB4493478 Adobe Flash/ KB890839 MSRT + C2R Std-Hm Office '16.
Although a willing early Update Test-er, with a new HP W10 desktop using mostly Firefox & Office ( & Macrium) I'm too simple a setup to be a real test for many of your multi-layered systems. Loving the speed of SSD + HDD and haven't missed Win 7 at all.
W10-64 1909 Pro / Hm-Stdnt Ofce '16 C2R / HP Envy Desktop-Ethernet/ 12 GB / 256G SSD + 1 TB HDD / i5 Coffee Lake/ InSpectre #8 = GREEN
I've seem somewhere in this website that Group B's patches should be installed in chronological order because they are not cumulative.
Question: What happens if you install them randomly? Will they fail to install? Will they BSOD your system? Will they need the other patches as a base for installing? (shouldn't supercedence take care of this mess?)
Supercedence should work.
But there is that word "should" again.
PKCano is correct that supersedence should work (it always has for me, so far). On the other hand, there are a few circumstances in which you will want to install some Group B updates out of order, and specifically in order to allow supersedence to get around issues which were present in one or more earlier updates which could block updates for specific CPUs. The latter is a really fun thing to try to resolve since performing a System Restore won't fix the issue.
In the two attached GIF images, I have renamed the downloaded Windows Updates for Group B such that each update's name starts with the desired installation order, followed by the date of the updates' release by Microsoft, and followed by the update's description and KB number to which I added info about the update. All of the Reboot.txt listings are zero length text files which simply tell you when you need to reboot after installing either an individual update or after having installed several updates listed after the previous Reboot.txt file entry.
Yeah, the above (and as shown in the two attached GIF images) would be a pain to manually perform. This is why I would like to call upon the expertise of any an all here to create a script which does the following for a given flavor of Windows 7:
1. Download all Group B Windows Updates for a given flavor of Windows 7, as described above, and and save the updates to a given folder.
2. The script should then appropriately rename the updates using the nomenclature which I described in the second paragraph, above, and similarly as shown in my two attached GIF images.
The slick thing about renaming the downloaded updates, similar to what is shown in my attached GIF images, is that one could rename each update to start with an underscore character after the user has installed each update. In this way, the user can keep track of their progress in terms of installing all Group B updates in the proper order.
The upshot is that all of this is "food for thought" in terms of how I have successfully remained on Group B, and in terms of how I have avoided various pitfalls by using supersedence when updating.
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Interesting….. many of the vulnerabilities that were fixed are all in the same component — the filesystem driver for UAC File Virtualization. All those vulnerabilities would've been introduced when Vista was being developed — and this is a security component!
Just goes to show that even with the best of intentions, writing secure code is hard.
There's a whole bunch of new Jet Database Engine remote code execution vulnerabilities too. Hopefully they won't cause a lot of disruption like the last time around.
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My machine succesfully feature updated to Win 10 x64 H 1809 17763.437 on 3 Oct 2018.
Then cumulatively updated to KB4490481 on 4 Apr 2019
At my request, 30 min. ago (10 Apr 2019), Windows cumulatively updated to KB4493509.
I then ran CCleaner (v5.56.7144).
So far I found no issues. Everything works fine.
Clevo portable, motherboard 32 GB RAM, dual monitor
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4810MQ
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970M
7 external USB 3.0 HDDs, 17 TB in total
Windows 10 x64 Home (configured to look like Windows 95)
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I cannot update my phone with the latest update, first I got the 0x80070002 error, now downloading is stuck at 0%…MSI H110 PC MATE * Intel Core i5-6402P * 2 x 8 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 MHz * Aorus Radeon RX 570 4GB * Samsung 840 EVO 250GB SSD * Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD * Seagate Barracuda 1TB HDD * DVD RW Lite-ON iHAS 124 * Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer PCI * Windows 10 Pro 2004 64-bit
W7 – 64. 2 Updates. Grp – B. Downloaded / Installed. Apparently. OK.
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I just installed the two updates to Windows Defender and another monthly one. But in addition to those I unchecked and hid (the Win 7 Preview rollups of Security, etc) there was one I hadn't seen before – a Win 7 Service Stack Update. I hid it too – but what is it?
Just got this from a reader:
I think I mistakenly clicked checked updates and I can't enable the pause button. Now they want to update to April. I'd prefer to wait until you give the all clear; anything I can do other than keep setting specific times a few days ahead? My restart only has restart with update options.
You've mentioned before that clicking to update windows is a bad thing within the current scheme of things so once having done that is there a way to get the pause button back and running without doing the current patch? and will that revert once I do the latest patch? My scheduled update is now set to April 16 but the restarts stills include updates.
You should be able to delete all the downloaded update files. See Martin's explanation:
Once deleted, you should be able to reboot and go back to avoiding "Check for updates"! 🙂
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Sharing two more links concerning deleting Windows 10 updates cache que folder, it may be a good idea to just re-name the folder 'SoftwareDistributionOLD' as mentioned at the Major Geeks link. A while back I deleted the cache, and it removes your history from the Settings app, but Control Panel Installed Updates still showed some, but not all. Anyway, 2 links may be helpful for others, the intowindows com link has lots of pictures for more hand holding how to, and the Major Geeks link has a video for more information. HTH
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I found new retro-numbered "important" 2010 Excel and 2010 Office (32-bit) security patches waiting for me in Windows Update on my Windows 7 rig. Couldn't find them on this website or in the downloadable Excel file of patches:
Excel 2010 KB4462230
Office 2010 KB4462223
Office 2010 KB4464520
Safe to install?
KB4462230 Security Update for Excel 2010
KB4462223 Security Update for Office 2010
KB4464520 Security Update for Office 2010
These are all April updates for Office 2010 released on 4/9. We are on DEFCON-2 for April patching. Hold for a while until DEFCON 3 or above.
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Thank you, will do.
Win 10 1709 64 bit. Installed April delta update, stable for 3 days. Blocked KB4346085 Intel microcode and 1809 upgrades.
v1709 just went EOL (aka "out of support) on April 9, 2019. you need to upgrade to at least v1803
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Correct – this is the last month of supported 1709. Next month, we'll upgrade from 1709 to 1803 by installation from previously obtained 1803 optical media, and then apply May 1803 cumulative update if it appears to be stable.
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Since I have my Quality Updates deferred for 5 days, I just got the Windows 10 Pro v1803 Updates for April KB4493464, Adobe, and MSRT.
I also checked wushowhide and have re-issue KB4346084 awaiting download. A seach indicates that this is a Micosoft Microcode Update. It apparently also replaces KB4100347 which I had previously hidden and is now gone.
I'm going to hide this pending more information, but per Born City this now covers: Spectre Variant 2, 3a, 4, and L1TF.
At what point should we take these Microcode updates seriously and install?Windows 10 Pro x64 v1909 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)
As yet, there are no exploits in the wild. Personally, I would hold off on the microcode updates
I had hidden KB4100347 after updating from v1709 to v1803 (Home). It was staying hidden up until yesterday (hide/metered connection as per PK instructions). Today, I get a notification that it is ready to install! I've stopped it by delaying the restart, but it is already downloaded and shows up as an update in Settings>Windows Update>View Update History. I went to the Control Panel>Programs>…>Installed Updates to see when it was 'installed' and there is no date. I assume that is because the restart is what really 'installs' it.
Question 1: I notice in the above thread that there is another KB (KB4346084) that replaced it. So why isn't that one being installed?
Question 2: Should I remove it? If so can I remove it before the restart, or do I have to let it install and then remove it?
the KB4346084 update for v1803 is a Catalog only update – only obtainable thru the MS Update Catalog; usually never pushed thru Windows Update
you can just manually download & install KB4346084 on top of KB4100347 as it is not necessary to remove that one. be sure to restart the computer after installing the KB4346084 update
Thanks for clarifying my first question about the difference between the two KBs. My 2nd question was whether to remove KB 4100347 and before or after restart? I get the impression
that it should NOT be installed given comments from PKCano and others.
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EP wrote:
the KB4346084 update for v1803 is a Catalog only update – only obtainable thru the MS Update Catalog; usually never pushed thru Windows Update
Unless I'm the exception, per my post, KB4346084 was in my Windows Update queue to be downloaded. I caught it and it is currently hidden via my wushowhide.
PKCano currently does not recommend installing either of these KB's. Others who know more than me can chime in, but from what you are saying, it seems you are beyond being able to stop the installation of KB4100347. If it installs, check to see if it can be uninstalled then make your decision. You do not have to seek out or accept KB4346084 regardless.Windows 10 Pro x64 v1909 and Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 (RIP)
Sorry – missed your second paragraph. I was hoping to find out IF I really should be installing either of them at all, and if not, do I have to let the restart finish the install and then remove?
Thanks for clarifying. And yes, the KB 4100347 already installed. Things seem to be working fine, but I'll see if I can remove it using the Control Panel Uninstall, since it is showing up there. Although I'm not really sure why people are objecting to it, maybe that was in another post?
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Ticket #7621 (closed defect: obsolete)
Compiz and Fullscreen with Windows hosts
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When running a Windows 7 host on an early '08 Macbook (Intel GMA X3100 graphics,) I cannot go into fullscreen with compiz enabled. If I do, the guest will continue to respond to the keyboard, but it will not respond to the mouse. If I leave fullscreen, the problem goes away. Also, if I turn off compiz, then I can use the mouse just fine in fullscreen mode.
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by ladgrove85
I appreciate this is a late reply to this post, and my solution is for the latest version of VirtualBox (4.0.4), however, this hopefully helps other people & hopefully my "solution" isn't too obvious...
I have a Win 7 - 64 bit host with 2D graphics enabled (This required updating to the newest version of Intel GM45 graphics drivers) & 3D graphics enabled. I am using VBox 4.0.4 and Ubuntu 10.10 with Guest Additions installed allowing for fullscreen mode without compiz enabled.
With compiz enabled, as above, mouse & keyboard integration are fine and everything works, but when hitting Ctrl-F to get to Fullscreen, mouse does not respond & VBox becomes laggy.
My workaround is simply to load my Ubuntu 10.10 but it is important that it DOES NOT load in fullscreen if compiz is enabled. If you start the guest in windowed mode, let it boot fully into Ubuntu and THEN hit Ctrl-F, you should have full keyboard & mouse functionality. At least I do now, and I've been waiting many years for this!
Thanks Oracle ;)
comment:2 Changed 9 years ago by sierpins
Unfortunately, the workaround you mentioned doesn't seem to work for me, even if I start non-fullscreen, and then switch to fullscreen after starting Ubuntu, I still have the problem that the guest stops responding to mouse and keyboard. However, I'm using 10.04, not 10.10, so maybe it's on the Ubuntu side.
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by tocomo
This issue is still (4.1.2) annoying me. Do you plan to fix it someday? How much is the donation fee :-) ?
comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by BrandonGriffis
Running into the same issue on 4.1.4, but a little more info to provide, hopefully this issue is still being tracked.
I'm running Linux Mint 11 Katya, which is based on Ubuntu 11.04.
The full screen issue seems to have something to do either with the primary display or certain resolution levels. On my laptop if I try to full screen on the main display of my Samsung 900x (which has a max resolution of 1366x768) I have the same issue described above. However, if I connect a 26" NEC external monitor as an extended screen (resolution 1920x1200) and set the VM to full screen there then it works just fine.
I have tried adjusting the resolution on my laptop down to slightly lower 16:9 resolutions, but still get the same issue on the primary display. Does VirtualBox need a higher resolution for compiz to work perhaps? And will there eventually be a workaround for this limitation?
comment:5 Changed 9 years ago by BrandonGriffis
A little more information and a (mostly decent) work around:
Short version: Turn off auto-resize Guest Display under the VM view menu and add a mode to your xorg.conf with 1 point lower resolution for the width than your native resolution (ie: 1365x768 instead of 1366x768)
Full explanation:
It seems the problem is specifically with 16:9 resolutions like 1366x768. At first I thought something was hanging up when the screen would auto-resize. Because if I turned that off it would still work fine when I turned on full screen (though I would still get decently sized black boarders at the top and bottom because of the resolution that was being taken up by the win7 window bars.
I then noticed once in full screen with "auto-resize the guest display" turned off I could set the resolution within the preferences and it would still work (in this case the highest resolution included by default was 1024x768 - 4:3). So I modified my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to add 1366x768. However, when I set that resolution it caused the same unresponsiveness issue described by the original post. So at random I tried 1350x750, and it worked just fine. Then I tried 1365x768 and that worked fine as well.
I'm not sure why but something about compiz being turned on wants the leeway of that 1 extra pixel on the width of the screen.
In your xorg.conf add the modes line to the screen / display subsection as shown below (replace 1365x768 with a resolution one pixel lower than your native for width).
Section "Screen" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1365x768" EndSubSection
Hopefully Oracle can figure out the underlying cause of this issue (I'm guessing it's something to do with both Aero and Compiz overlap) or they can simply adjust the auto-resize guest display feature to drop one pixel off automatically when dealing with 16:9 screens so compiz will work properly. But in the meantime, this seems to work well to be able to use 99+% of your screen in full screen mode with compiz working. :-)
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by HááZéé
I found a little bit simpler workaround to this problem: you could set the guest's max. resolution on host by "VBoxManage setextradata <guest name> GUI/MaxResolution <x,y>" For example, if your host's native resolution is 1600x900 and the guest's name is UbiGuest, then you can set it on the host:
VBoxManage setextradata UbiGuest GUI/MaxResolution 1599,899
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by SB1234
I tried the work around to set the modes the width to 1 pixel less than the actual width. And it worked for me in fullscreen. However after exiting from full screen the resolution remained at that value. (it did not auto adjust)
Anyway after rummaging through more links online i found out that there are certain workarounds in the compiz settings manager. i was able to find one particular option that solves this problem (Yippie!!)
first you need to install compizconfig-settings-manager using sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager.
Then in Preferences->Compizconfig-settings-manager look for Utility. And then 'check' the workaround item. Finally in the settings for the workaround item, look for 'Force fullscreen redraws (buffer swap) on repaint' and check this option. Thats it!
It worked for me. I had been looking for a fix for several weeks.:D
Win7x64 bit host. Virtualbox 4.1.8 with Ubuntu 11.04. (amd64) guest. I have a intel hd 3000 on board graphics card.
comment:8 Changed 4 years ago by aeichner
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to obsolete
Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.


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Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese and his longtime documentary collaborator David Tedeschi, The 50 Year Argument rides the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by The New York Review of Books. Provocative, idiosyncratic and incendiary, the film weaves rarely-seen archival material, contributor interviews, excerpts from writings by such long-standing contributors as James Baldwin, Gore Vidal, and Joan Didion along with original verité footage filmed in the Review's West Village offices. Co-produced with the BBC's award-winning Arena and shaped by Scorsese's vivid filmmaking, The 50 Year Argument captures the power of ideas in influencing history.
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CALGARY — It's one of hockey's best, most intense international rivalries, and it will play out Tuesday at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
In Helsinki, fans talk about games against Sweden the way fans here talk about games against the U.S. or Russia — holy wars on ice, games that can cause national depression when your team loses.
But there's more than national pride on the line when the Finns and Swedes renew acquaintances — there's also a berth in Thursday night's IIHF world junior hockey championship gold-medal game up for grabs.
Finland set up that tantalizing matchup with a sloppy 8-5 win over Slovakia in Monday's quarter-final at the Saddledome, but there was a consensus, quite rightly, among the victors that a similar effort Tuesday won't be good enough.
"We need to improve, that's for sure," said captain Mikael Granlund, the Minnesota Wild first-round draft pick who had a goal and two assists. "We didn't play our best game and we need to do that (today). We won this, and that's all we needed. But we need to play better (Tuesday). They're (Sweden) a good team, they have some great players. We need to play better, that's for sure."
There were flashes of brilliance, to be sure. Take, for instance, the second-period stretch during which Finland broke open a 2-2 tie with four goals in a six-minute, 13-second span — Granlund on the power play, younger brother Markus Granlund with two, and then 16-year-old phenom Aleksander Barkov with a historic tally. He became the youngest player to ever score in the world juniors, eclipsing the record formerly held by Sidney Crosby, who was three weeks older when he scored in 2003.
But an uncharacteristic outing from goalie Sami Aittokallio — who entered Monday's game having given up just one goal in two games — and some shoddy defending in general kept the stubborn Slovaks in it.
"Yes, they were happy," Aittokallio said of his celebrating teammates after the game. "But of course, when I play so poorly, I get mad at myself. I'm happy we won this game, and we're ready for (Tuesday). I have to be better for us to win. It's going to be exciting, I'm looking forward to it, and I'll be a lot better. I have to forget this game."
Slovakia had cut Finland's lead to 6-4 in the third period, but had the starch taken out of them by a boarding major and game misconduct to Matus Chovan for a hit on Finland's Miro Aaltonen midway through the final frame. The Finns scored twice on the ensuing advantage — Teemu Pulkkinen and Joonas Donskoi did the honours — to put the game away.
"We had to kill lots of penalties," Slovakian captain Tomas Matousek said through an interpreter. "It was hard tonight. We're disappointed, obviously. We wanted to win and we felt like we could've. Some nights you can come back, some nights you can't."
Joel Armia and Roope Hamalainen had the other Finnish goals, while Chovan, Marek Tvrdon, Richard Mraz, Martin Daloga and Marko Dano had the Slovakian goals.
Now, Finland can start focusing on its archrivals.
"Of course, it's a big rivalry and it's going to be a great game," said Mikael Granlund. "We have a chance to go to the final, and that's fun. It's a huge rivalry, and it's always fun to play against Sweden. They have a great team and that makes it better. We have a chance to beat any team in this tournament, and that's what we'll try to do."
"(Tuesday) is a new game," added Finnish coach Raimo Helminen. "We have to be glad we won today, but we have to think about Sweden. I think it was a mentally tough game for us (against Slovakia). We had to win this game, and it did not work as well as we hoped. But the main thing, the only thing, is winning in this part of the tournament."
"It's always interesting (playing against Sweden)," added Helminen. "We are neighbours."
Friendly neighbours?
"Really friendly," he replied with a smile. "It's going to be fun."
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Officers in West Texas who answered calls about a kangaroo hopping along a road helped capture the pet and return the animal to its owner.
Midland County Sheriff Gary Painter said deputies thought dispatchers were crazy when calls came in Tuesday night from people who said they saw a kangaroo.
"They was questioning the call -- you know, 'A kangaroo? In Midland, Texas? There ain't no kangaroos out here. Surely it's got to be something different,'" Painter said. "And they thought the dispatch was crazy, so they went out there and, sure enough, they found him."
U.S. & World
Patrol car video shows some of the chase along a rural highway near Midland.
Deputies helped corner the 4-foot-tall kangaroo as the owner offered a treat to the animal and then grabbed the pet.
Painter said Wednesday that Midland County has an exotic animals ordinance and owners must notify the sheriff's office. Authorities are checking to see if a pet kangaroo falls under that category.


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Adam and Simon Yates Sign Neo-Pro Contracts with ORICA-GreenEDGEThu 3 Oct 2013
ORICA-GreenEDGE is thrilled to announce that Adam and Simon Yates have signed their neo-pro contracts with the Australian outfit. The identical twins have had an outstanding year underscored by their success at the Tour de l'Avenir and Tour of Britain. Unsurprisingly, the British duo fielded a number of offers, ultimately deciding to join the professional ranks with the GreenEDGE family.
"This was our first choice," said Adam. "When we decided to turn pro next year, we knew GreenEDGE was one of the best teams for us both. It's a good opportunity in terms of development. From everything we've heard and seen, we know the team looks after their young guys very well."
"We did have quite a few offers," Simon confirmed. "This seemed like the right place for us. Knowing the way the team has developed the other young Aussies was an important part of our decision. Look at Cam Meyer. He came from the track just like us, and he's already achieved quite a lot on the road. We'd love to develop the way he has."
The 21-year-old twins began racing on the track ten years ago when their father brought them to the Manchester Velodrome for local Friday night racing. The young boys quickly fell in love with cycling but it wasn't until this year that their place in the sport became obvious.
"We both started on the track and very slowly worked our way up the ladder," said Simon, who won the points race at the World Championships in Minsk, Belarus last February. "We didn't have an exceptional start. There was absolutely nothing remarkable about our early results. It's not like anyone who saw me race at the beginning would say I would go on to win a world title."
"We've both switched our focus to the road much more this year," Adam explained. "We've put in a lot of work. The results have just taken off from there, really."
Adam understates. He came in second overall at the Tour de l'Avenir; second in all of the classements. In a three up sprint on stage five, Adam finished second to his twin. Simon's stage win in Morzine, just ahead of Adam, was followed by a second stage win the following day. He finished tenth overall at the race billed as the "Mini Tour de France." Simon backed up the result by winning a stage at the Tour of Britain where he faced far stiffer competition amongst a professional field.
The list of former Tour de l'Avenir winners or runners up read like a who's who of young professional cycling. Nairo Quintana, Andrew Talansky, Jan Bakelants, Rui Costa, Tejay van Garderen, Robert Gesink, Bauke Mollema and Tony Martin have all stood on the podium at the Race of the Future. It's not a huge leap to suggest Simon and Adam's results in France project far greater things to come when they turn professional.
"Adam and Simon had an outstanding Tour de l'Avenir," said General Manager Shayne Bannan. "Simon won two mountains stages, and Adam finished second overall. It's indication of their climbing abilities, and this is an area we really want to develop within the team. It's clear they're both big talents. We're very excited to be a part of their development."
It's that commitment to development that is most attractive to Simon and Adam. Both are modest in their ambitions for their neo-pro year, insisting they are eager to learn, support and grow without specific personal objectives.
"I'm not really ready to name my own aspirations," said Simon. "I see these first years as being all about development. I want to help the team however I can and absorb as much as I can in the process. There will be time later to hone in on my own goals."
"I'm really focused on development," said Adam. "That's the key thing for me next year. In the second year, I hope there might be an opportunity to ride a Grand Tour. I can't name anything much more specific than that until I see how things go the first year."
"I expect them to develop fairly quickly," added Bannan. "They've spent a number of years racing in Europe already, so their progression is rather advanced. I'm confident that we'll see some really good things from them in the future."
Having raced on separate trade teams on the road during the past two years, Adam and Simon are excited to reunite. While able to excel alone, they believe they're at their best when they have the opportunity to race together.
"We've been apart now for a couple years," said Adam. "It's never been a struggle, but it's always better for us when we're together. We each got a few offers from other teams that were just for one of us. The best options were the ones from teams that we're keen on us both."
"It was pretty important for us to find a team together," reiterated Simon, when posed the same question. "Obviously, we can be apart, but it's a lot easier in a lot of regards when we're together."


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Wynn and Jack are best friends from college. They are well versed in wilderness survival but they are about to be tested in ways they never could have imagined. What begins as a dream paddle on a remote river in the Canadian north, turns into a nightmare when forest fires threaten and they are overtaken by a sinister mystery. Shrouded by fog in their canoe on the river, the pair overhear a couple on the bank engaged in a heated argument. The next day they see the man alone in the canoe, and there is no sign of the woman.


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The 18th SAG Awards will air Sunday, Jan. 29, and honor those in five film and eight TV categories
George Clooney , Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Michelle Williams were among the nominees announced Wednesday for the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards, traditionally an accurate prognosticator for the Academy Awards.
Clooney, DiCaprio and Pitt, three of Hollywood's biggest stars, will square off against two relative unknowns, Demian Bichir and Jean Dujardin, in the category of best actor.
Williams is joined by Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep and Tilda Swinton in the race for best actress.
The five movies nominated for best cast ensemble are The Artist, Bridesmaids, The Descendants, The Help and Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris.
Fresh from her Emmy win, Melissa McCarthy was also nominated for her supporting role in the movie comedy Bridesmaids.
TV nominees include the comedic casts of the heavily nominated Modern Family, as well as 30 Rock, The Big Bang Theory, Glee and The Office. Dramatic casts nominated are Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Dexter, Game of Thrones and The Good Wife.
Individual TV actors nominated include Julianna Margulies, Steve Buscemi, Kathy Bates, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Lange and Glenn Close.
For a full list of nominees, go here.
As previously announced, Dick Van Dyke will present the Life Achievement Award to his TV costar of 50 years ago, Mary Tyler Moore.
The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards will be broadcast live from the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center on Jan. 29.


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Once one of those "three to five years out" technologies, WiMAX is poised to break out in 2008. But one of the things that could conceivably hold it back from even wider adoption is its confinement to a relatively small slice of spectrum. That may change, as the WiMAX Forum has begun work on a variation of the mobile WiMAX spec that will allow it to operate in spectrum currently used for 3G networks.
Unlike 3G and upcoming 4G technologies (like LTE), WiMAX uses Time Division Duplexing (TDD) for two-way communications. TDD allows both upstream and downstream data use the same frequency, but the data is sent and received during different time slices. It's useful for applications that are confined to narrow bits of spectrum, but current 3G and upcoming 4G technologies use Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD). FDD uses separate frequencies for sending and receiving data simultaneously, which has the advantage of reducing interference between towers.
Cellular carriers that are more comfortable with FDD are leery of TDD technologies like WiMAX, or so it's believed by some of WiMAX's backers. Paul Senior, a founding member of the WiMAX Forum and CTO of Airspan, told the Telecoms Blog Informer earlier this month that the Forum has been working on FDD-flavored Mobile WiMAX for the last year on the hush-hush. "The WiMAX forum will have an FDD profile for Mobile WiMAX inside six months," Senior said. "We've been a bit quiet about it because we wanted to get [WiMAX approved for use in the 2.6GHz spectrum]. And if we had gone to [International Mobile Telecommunications] with an FDD profile, we probably couldn''t have got it through."
Should the FDD version of WiMAX be approved, it may cause wireless carriers to give the technology a second look. Right now, the only major WiMAX carriers in the US are Clearwire and Sprint, which has begun widespread testing of its $5 billion Xohm WiMAX network with an eye towards an April public launch.
AT&T and Verizon have committed to LTE as their 4G technology of choice, so there may not be much hope for WiMAX in the US outside of Clearwire, Sprint, and a handful of small, regional carriers regardless of whether frequency division multiplexing is adopted. Europe may provide more fertile ground for FDD WiMAX, however. As Techworld.com points out, FDD makes WiMAX a more compelling alternative for European carriers, who would otherwise be stuck waiting until 2010 or later to deploy LTE.


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The 300 Man March, Baltimore's latest effort to rally against the worsening toll of killings that has hit the city this summer, turns out to have been inaptly named. Significantly more people than that are reported to have shown up — twice that many, by some estimates. They were people who are fed up with their communities being defined, their lives being dictated, by those who trade in violence and intimidation. It is widely known here that no matter how high Baltimore may climb on the list of America's most dangerous cities, that danger is largely confined to a handful of neighborhoods. But it is also true that within those neighborhoods, the mayhem that grips the city is perpetrated by a relative few who thrive on the fear or indifference of a silent majority. The point of the 300 Man March and events like it is to get that majority to be a lot less silent. That's the only way Baltimore is ever going to be as safe as it deserves to be.
When violence creeps up in Baltimore, we tend to look for easy culprits. Has the new police commissioner changed the department's strategy in some subtle way, or is the execution of that strategy not as strong as it once was? Is there a turf war going on in the city's drug trade that will burn itself out? Is the state's attorney failing to prosecute enough murder cases, as former Sun police reporter David Simon contends?
Any of those things may play a role, or they may not, but what we can't lose sight of is the fact that the crime spike that has our attention — more than 40 shootings and 15 killings in the last 10 days of June — represents a depressingly small variation from what we have come to accept as the norm. No question, it was a tremendous achievement for the city to drop from the 300-plus murders per year era of the 1990s to the sub-200 homicide year Baltimore experienced in 2011. And we should be concerned about the evident backsliding in the last two years. But 200 murders in a year isn't good news either.
Other cities have seen radical drops in the murder rate since the crack epidemic. Why not Baltimore? It's not that our police department is under-staffed relative to other places. Far from it. Baltimore has a high poverty rate, to be sure, but it is nowhere near the nation's worst. Drug abuse in the Baltimore metropolitan area (and it is important to remember that the drug trade is hardly limited to the city) is actually at or slightly below the national average, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Among the 33 largest metro areas in the nation, Baltimore ranks 22nd in the percentage of people aged 12 and over who have used illicit drugs in the past year.
There is no easy or obvious reason why Baltimore should be deadlier than Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh or Cleveland. But for some reason, we have come to believe that it is immutable fact that Baltimore is a violent place. At some level, that belief has become self-perpetuating as the community expects, accepts and, in good years, even cheers a level of violence that would horrify other cities. Chicago faced a crisis in 2012 when the number of homicides there soared past 500, but that is a rate of violence that would make Baltimore leaders ecstatic; given the population differential, it would be the equivalent of Baltimore recording about 116 killings in a year.
No doubt, Baltimore needs effective police and prosecutors, ample drug treatment, better schools and more economic opportunity. But it also needs to change a culture that takes violence for granted. Gov. Martin O'Malley's tenure as mayor is often associated with aggressive police tactics, an attempt to meet force with force. But he also spearheaded the Believe campaign and its call for every segment of the city to band together to create a better future. That same spirit animates those who marched down North Avenue on Friday, or the hundreds who have been joining City Councilman Nick Mosby in his "Enough is Enough" rallies this summer. Cynics will dismiss such efforts as insignificant and bound to fail. We disagree. Indeed, Baltimore cannot possibly succeed without them.


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Transfer news: Christian Eriksen says Tottenham were only choice for him
Christian Eriksen says Tottenham were the only club to show the required level of interest to secure his services.
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Last Updated: 04/09/13 3:18pm
After endless rounds of speculation and rumours linking him with clubs across Europe, Eriksen has finally taken the plunge and headed through the exits at Ajax.
Tottenham dug deep to acquire his undoubted potential and have added him a squad brimming with creativity and forward-thinking talent.
Still only 21 years of age, Eriksen accepts that he may have to be patient at White Hart Lane and wait for a regular first team role to become available.
He is, however, looking forward to taking on a Premier League challenge and is convinced that he made the right choice in joining Spurs.
Eriksen told Danish newspaper BT: "There were not that many clubs to choose from in the end and no-one were closer than Tottenham.
"There were a lot of rumours, but I only felt right about the approach from Tottenham. The club followed me for a long time and really showed intent.
"It was the whole package that attracted me. I spoke briefly with the manager and my impression is that he is a very good manager. The goal is to challenge for the title. That is what the club wants and that is what I want."
On swapping life in Holland for that in England, Eriksen added: "I understand this will be a different experience - how much it is still too early to say.
"I might need to acclimatise, so I am not expecting to play all the games. But then I don't know what the manager has planned for me.
"From the conversations I have had, they have indicated that they see me as an attacking midfielder, a creative player.
"They have also told me that you are expected to fight for a spot on the team because there are a lot of good players here. But, of course, I hope things will fall to my advantage."


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Q. I recently acquired an old Kenko Fish-Eye 180 lens, similar to this one (a link to eBay was provided). I am a very amateur photographer, still very much in the learning process, and have a Canon EOS Rebel XSi D-SLR. Is there any way this lens could fit onto my camera? I have been looking at step-up rings and ring adapters, but some of those say they are only for filters.
McKenna Holmes
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A. The eBay link you provided did not indicate what mount your Kenko fisheye lens has, but I would guess that it's an old 42mm Universal screwmount. Several firms offer adapters for older screwmount lenses to newer D-SLR system camera mounts. Even if you can locate the proper mount for your Canon EOS Rebel XSi you will find trying to use any such older film camera lens with a D-SLR will be tedious. Metering would have to be done by stopping down the lens, which also dims the image visible on the D-SLR's viewing screen. The camera would have to be set and used in Manual mode. You might be able to use it, but you will slow up your picture taking greatly. Adorama offers a Canon FD Lens to EOS Body Adapter. They offer mounts for other older lenses, too. I believe B&H also offers this type of mount, but you will have to know what lens mount your Kenko lens has first.
Canon Tele-Extender
Q. I would like to use a Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L lens with a Canon EF 1.4X Extender on my Canon EOS 5D Mark II. However, the AF function does not work. The compatibility table of the Canon EF 1.4X Extender shows, however, that this combination is OK and the AF function ought to work. Also, reading various comments on the topic, it appears that some users of the extender had the same problem, but not all of them. Could you please advise?
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A. I sent your question about your inability to get your Canon AF to work to my contact at Canon. Here's what he replied: "Canon's EF Extenders are physically compatible with the EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens, and they support autoexposure with any EOS camera when used with that lens. However, most EOS cameras, including the 5D Mark II, require a maximum aperture of f/5.6 or larger for AF. The maximum aperture of the EF 100-400mm lens becomes f/8 when used with the EF 1.4X Extender, so that combination is not compatible for AF with the 5D Mark II. For reference purposes, the only EOS cameras that support AF at a maximum aperture of f/8 are the EOS-1 series, including all 1D and 1Ds models." The fact that this tele-extender results in a smaller effective aperture, which is not adequate for your particular camera, is the problem. It seems that you will have to resort to using manual focus when using this particular extender/tele-zoom lens combination with your Canon 5D Mark II D-SLR.
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A. I haven't had any panoramic prints made for several years, so I contacted a friend at Information Central of PMA (Photo Marketing Association), an organization to which many dealers and labs belong. He sent an e-mail inquiry and got responses from six labs scattered around the US and Canada that can assist you in making panoramic prints from 35mm negatives. I'm sure any of these labs can provide the printing you seek. You might want to check with each lab to determine their print pricing and shipping costs prior to actually sending your panoramic negatives for printing.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, pictured at a flag-raising ceremony at the Chicago Police Academy in October, said this month that "we will not rest" until Chicago's growing homicide rate is reversed.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was crowing.
"The number of murders this year will be lower than any time in recorded city history," Bloomberg said Friday in a statement announcing that homicides in the city this year had fallen to 414 — the fewest since it started keeping such statistics in 1963.
About the same time Friday, Chicago police were trying to get the message out that their city hadn't actually recorded its 500th homicide this year, as was being reported. A few hours later, they had to backtrack and acknowledge that, yes, in fact, "the city has seen its 500th homicide for 2012."
That's right: There were more homicides this year in Chicago than in New York, a city with three times the population. That means Chicagoans were proportionally 3.7 times more likely to be homicide victims than New Yorkers were in 2012:
Overall, crime is down in Chicago in just about every category — except the most devastating one.
"We've obviously seen, as a city, our shootings and our homicides going in a different direction," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said this month at a graduation ceremony for police recruits, vowing, "We will not rest" until that trend is reversed.
Grim milestone: Chicago records 500th homicide of 2012
Meanwhile, in New York, "we're preventing crimes before someone is killed," Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Friday.
New York didn't just reduce homicides — it reduced them by 19.6 percent. And Chicago didn't just have more homicides — it had 15.6 percent more.
Both figures are extraordinary. Last year, homicides fell by about 4 percent in New York, exactly in line with other U.S. cities with populations greater than 1 million, according to FBI figures. They fell in Chicago by just less than three-quarters of 1 percent.
While there's always the chance that the changes are just statistical flukes, two concrete factors appear to be at least partly responsible: money and priorities.
New York's police budget held steady in fiscal 2012, at about $4.6 billion.
Emanuel, facing a $300 million budget deficit, by contrast cut $67 million from the $1.3 billion police budget — a 5 percent reduction that was down from his original proposal to cut police funding by 15 percent.
While Emanuel and Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said the cuts would help the police department become more efficient, Jens Ludwig, a criminal justice expert at the University of Chicago, said it was difficult "to think that you could have budget cuts like these and have no impact on crime and other aspects of public life."
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"I have been really surprised at how little attention the local and state budget situation has received in discussions about the Chicago violence problem," Ludwig told NBC News on Friday.
The other factor is commitment, Ludwig said.
"New York City seems to be exceptionally focused on getting illegal guns off the street," he said.
Ludwig drew an analogy to prosecution of drunken driving.
At one time, the official attitude was that "if the driver is lucky enough not to hurt anyone, it's no big deal," he said. "But (eventually) we started to realize drunk driving imposes probabilistic harm, and so we started to punish the risky behavior rather than focus on the luck of the draw about whether anyone happened to get hurt.
"New York City has taken that idea seriously for illegal gun carrying, recognizing that illegal guns on the street greatly increase the risk that an argument turns into a murder," he said.
Kelly, the New York police commissioner, stressed that point Friday, saying his officers had taken 8,000 weapons "out of the hands of people we stop, 800 of them illegal handguns."
"We're preventing crimes before someone is killed and before someone else has to go to prison for murder or other serious crimes," he said.
New York City homicides, shootings at modern record lows
Bloomberg made a similar point, singling out what he called the city's renewed commitment to Operation Impact, a 2003 state initiative that pairs new police recruits with veteran officers in specific high-crime areas. The city's participation "reflects our commitment to doing everything possible to stop gun violence," he said.
Left unmentioned was the city's controversial stop-and-frisk policy, which allows officers to search someone as he or she exits a private building if they have a "reasonable suspicion" that the person is likely to commit a crime.
"I think there is some empirical basis to think that all those hundreds and thousands of stops and searches for illegal guns helps keep guns off the street and contributes to a lower homicide rate," Ludwig said.
But the policy is under legal challenge from civil liberties groups, which contend that police use it as a pretext to stop and search people without cause — the great majority of them members of minority groups.
According to an analysis of raw arrest statistics by the nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, which opposes the policy, 84 percent of the 686,000 people stopped and searched in 2011 were African-American or Latino. Only 6 percent of the stops resulted in an arrest. And in only 2 percent of stops were illegal weapons or other contraband actually found.
Statistics like that make it worth asking "whether stop and frisk is worth the cost," Ludwig said. "All the stops come disproportionately to young, minority males."
A trial date is set for March. In the meantime, Bloomberg said Friday, New York remains "the safest big city in America."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The engine blade crack that prompted the U.S. military to ground all 51 F-35 fighter jets was over half an inch long, according to three sources familiar with the matter, but it remained unclear if the crack was caused by a manufacturing anomaly or some larger design issue.
Engineers at Pratt & Whitney, a unit of United Technologies Corp, will conduct a detailed examination of the turbine blade as soon as it arrives at the company's Middletown, Connecticut, site, said spokesman Matthew Bates.
"Pilot safety is our absolute top priority," Bates said, noting that the F135 engine that powers the new radar-evading fighter jet had a readiness rate of over 98 percent.
"We are in a testing phase of the program and discoveries such as this are part of the process," he added.
Initial results may come on Wednesday, although it could take up to 10 days to complete the analysis, said the three sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.
The Pentagon announced the grounding of all F-35 warplanes on Friday after an inspection revealed a crack on a turbine blade in the Pratt-built jet engine of an F-35 jet being tested at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
It was the second engine-related grounding of the $396 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter in two months, and came on the eve of a big air show in Australia, which is considering reducing its planned purchase of 100 F-35 jets.
The Pentagon's top F-35 official and executives from prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp are attending the air show in hopes of convincing Australia that the F-35 program is on track after three restructurings, and Australia does not need to buy 24 more Boeing Co F/A-18 Super Hornets.
Australia is expected to make a decision within the next three to six weeks, said a fourth source familiar with the matter. The program is also bracing for reductions in U.S. orders if Congress fails to avert across-the-board cuts due to take effect on March 1.
Inspectors found an anomaly on February 19 during an inspection that is conducted on every F-35 engine after 50 flight hours, but the crack on the blade was not confirmed until early Thursday after electromagnetic testing that began Wednesday and continued through the night, said one of the sources.
The crack was described as 0.6 inches long, the sources said.
F-35 test and training flights continued until Thursday evening, when the Pentagon's F-35 program office, the U.S. Navy and Air Force decided to suspend all flights and ban use of the engines on the ground until the blade crack was better understood.
In fact, two jets were airborne at air bases in Maryland and Arizona and had to be recalled, said one of the sources.
Officials decided that they had to assume a "worst case scenario" until they could rule out a high-duty cycle fatigue crack, an extremely rare occurrence that could result in a complete blade failure in just 90 minutes, the source said.
Engineers did not believe that this case involved such a devastating crack, but officials opted to take a conservative approach to ensure safety, the source said.
Colonel Kevin Killea, who oversees aviation acquisition for the Marine Corps, said that while the grounding was frustrating for test pilots and trainers, it was prudent. He added that finding problems was an expected part of developing any aircraft.
Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; editing by Jackie Frank
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International award-winning classical guitarist Petar Jankovic will perform at Hope College on Thursday, Jan. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
As a performer at major competitions around the globe, Jankovic has won high regard with the world's classical music community and garnered numerous prestigious awards.
Jankovic began his guitar studies at age eight in his native Serbia, where he later earned a degree in classical guitar from the renowned MusicAcademy in Belgrade. While in Serbia, he became a two-time gold medal, silver medal, and two-time bronze medal winner at the National Music Competition.
He went on to earn a master's degree from the Indiana University School of Music, and in the mid 1990s the I.U.JacobsSchool of Music invited him to pursue the esteemed Artist Diploma Degree under the guidance of Maestro Ernesto Bitetti.
Still dedicated to sharing his talent through both performing and teaching, Jankovic developed a guitar program at Franklin College of Indiana in 1997. At present, he lives in Indiana and is a professor at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington.
His recordings have also been praised, and his most recent release, "Leyenda," was favorably reviewed in "Classical Guitar Magazine" this past December. "Jankovic shows his highly developed technical and musical skills... Everything is top quality... All together a very enjoyable and rewarding new release!"
Tickets for the performance are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $12 for regular admission, $10 for senior citizens, and $6 for Hope students and children 18 and under. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
More information about Jankovic can be found online at www.petarjankovic.net. The concert is sponsored by the college's department of music, cultural affairs committee, and events and conferences office.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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Rafa not expecting Pep talk from Roman
Rafael Benitez is confident Pep Guardiola will tell him if he decides to take the Chelsea job from him, but has admitted Roman Abramovich is unlikely to do the same.
Benitez insisted he had no problem keeping the manager's hotseat warm for his fellow Spaniard following his own appointment on an interim basis until the end of the season. Former Barcelona boss Guardiola is on a one-year sabbatical from football and is said to be Chelsea owner Abramovich's number one managerial target.
Guardiola's agent claims his client will make no decision about his future until next year and - if he elects to join Chelsea - Benitez expects to be among the first to know, as he joked: "I think so! I have good relations with Pep so any time I call him, I say, 'How are you doing?' I know he is enjoying life in New York, now, with his family."
And would Benitez's bosses at Chelsea also tell him if they were in talks with Guardiola?
"I don't think that they will let me know," he shrugged. "But I don't have any problem. I know the situation. I have come to create a competitive team and to win trophies.
"It might be that you can win three trophies, which would be difficult for anyone.
"The worst case scenario - if you win three trophies and then they would say, 'No, we give the job to another one' - I will be so pleased with three trophies."
Winning silverware barely scratches the surface of what is expected of a Chelsea manager by the most demanding owner in football, who reputedly wants to watch 'Barcelona in blue shirts'.
Benitez, who met Abramovich over dinner for the first time on Thursday night, said: "He's not desperate in terms of, 'We have to play Barcelona-style'. He wants to enjoy watching games.
"The way to enjoy is to see your team winning, and attacking and creating chances. The way that we create chances could be passing the ball or with a long ball."


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Miley Cyrus may still have viewers talking after her scandalous performance at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, but fans of the former Disney Channel star ain't seen nothing yet.
In the just-released video for her song, "Wrecking Ball" (definitely not to be confused with the 2009 Bruce Springsteen song of the same name), Cyrus walks around in nothing more than a white tank top and underwear before she ditches the clothes altogether and sits atop a swinging wrecking ball in just her birthday suit and boots. Even more revealing, however, is the opening and closing close-ups of Cyrus tearing up in front of the camera. Baring her body... and her soul!
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