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Is there going to be a release of SBS 2008 that includes Exchange 2010? I want to take this into consideration as I might purchase SBS for the premium edition to get Sql Server at a much more cost effective rate but it feels like I would be getting shorted if I purchase SBS 2008 and receive Exchange 2007 since it is now outdated to 2010.
Nothing has been announced that I am aware of. From the SBS FAQ (http://www.microsoft.com/sbs/en/us/faq.aspx):
Windows Server 2008 R2 has also released since SBS2008, and I have to imagine the Product Team is aware of these two major releases :) (I have absolutely no insider information). If you want to make sure you don't miss out on any big updates in the next version by buying now, get it with Software Assurance so that you get the latest version once released: http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/default.aspx#tab=2
Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft, although not on the SBS team, nor am I in a sales role
Perhaps consider Software Assurance if you are worried about the latest version of Exchange. Either way, SBS 2008 is a good all around option even with Exchange 2007.
From what I have read on the net: even though sbs has "exchange" its not the same exchange that you get if you were to buy exchange from msft. Because of all the hooks and stuff that sbs has to use in order for it to be able to be easily managed and interact with the SBS API.
I would imaging we will see exchange 2010 in sbs 2011 or 2012.
SBS 2008 is an awesome solution, and the Microsoft Exchange packaged with it is extremely functional, and simple even for advanced users who might prefer powershell usage over GUI. The SBS Console in 2008 is nice, so dont listen to anyone who tells you to wait for 2010 or 2010 versions, but like the other poster said, get Software Assurance to ensure you can upgrade later on.


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My Ubuntu 11.04 guest on VBox 4.0.10 crashed when I was working. Is there a way to go back to previous working configuration? I have always used the saved state and power off option. I did not take snapshots though. Or is there a way to go back to previous configurations in Ubuntu?
Did you install grub. If installed, you will find recovery option at startup itself.

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If I search on the net I saw a link to xp driver.
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How the hell I know the series? Belarc advisor said that my board is nVIDIA NF-MCP61
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Dylan Dog: Dead of Night, director Kevin Munroe's somewhat-delayed adaptation of the popular Italian comic series, at last has a U.S. release date — April 29.
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Announced in 2008, Platinum Studios' Dylan Dog stars Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) as the eponymous nightmare investigator, who's relocated from London to New Orleans, where he becomes entangled in a mystery involving a missing artifact, a beautiful heiress (Anita Briem) and a brutal murder. The film also stars Sam Huntington (Superman Returns, Being Human) as Dylan's undead assistant Marcus, Peter Stormare (Prison Break) as Gabriel and Taye Diggs (Rent, Grey's Anatomy) as Vargas.
Created by Tiziano Sclavi, Dylan Dog debuted in 1986, and has since sold more than 60 million copies in 17 countries.
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The talented Australian producer tyDi is moving places! With a high position in the DJ charts down-under he recently opened for Armin van Buuren in his hometown. Now he is back with another release on Electronic Elements. After the great release "Fool" comes "Under The Stars", which is another quality song for you to check out!
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Have a folder on my desktop, drop files into this folder, this begins a transfer from my computer to a remote computer. if the transfer is interrupted the transfer should resume from that point.
I have no need of "cloud storage", my objective is only to transfer the files. I realize that a P2P transfer requires both machines to be online at the same time, but this is not a problem for my use.
I know command line solutions exist, but I'd prefer a drag and drop interface. I'd prefer a solution that includes end to end encryption.
Use case
I often wish to send large video files from my laptop to my home computer while traveling.
In my perfect solution, I'd simply drop those files into my "transfer to home computer" folder. This would begin the transfer. I could shutdown my laptop at any point (temporarily halting the transfer) and upon rebooting my laptop, the transfer would resume.
- Dropbox
- ssh
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- Wuala
While Teamviewer does contain a file transfer mechanism, but the Teamviewer window must remain open for the duration if the transfer is to succeed. Also, this method is not robust, no resume is possible after a disconnection.
Dropbox is not encrypted, and suffers from a storage cap.
ssh is commandline based, and I've found no gui interfaces that will achieve my objective.
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Lorde, curator for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 soundtrack, has finally unveiled her single for the album.
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As if we needed another reason to get excited about the next Hunger Games movie, Lionsgate has just announced that Lorde has been hired to curate the soundtrack for Mockingjay – Part 1.
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"It started with a wish... and it'll end with my life."
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WordPress Database or User name problem related to the database. When typing in the site name a message from WordPress appears instead of the site.
It is stated in the message that both the user name and password work okay however there appears to be a problem with the database
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It rains A LOT! But when it's sunny it's perfect. Winter and spring can be weird, we've been getting a lot of snow the past few years.
It tends to rain a lot in Greenville, NC. We also can have hot weather one day and the next day is chilly.
Every now and then, it gets humid and rainy, but the weather can be beautiful sometimes.
it's usually always warm but when it rains, it pours. There have been a lot if tornado danger lately.
The weather is awesome. There is a short winter. When it is sunny, it is beautiful out, however when it rains, it pours. Usually the rain won't last too long.
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Greenville's proximity to the ocean and inland waterways moderates the temperatures here, but the humidity makes winter feel colder and summer stickier. It is always good for students to have a little bit of everything as far as clothes are concerned, but in general, spring semester is cooler than fall semester, and summer is just hot and more extreme than winter. If it snows here, it is usually once or twice in January, and it usually causes schools to close. Students should make use of this time to enjoy themselves, or catch up on work. The snow composition is often wet enough for snowballs and snow-pirates. Since our snow usually ices over before it melts, students may plan for sledding or sliding down College Hill or the hill at the Elm Street ballpark.
Greenville's rainfall earned us the label "Kidney of the South." On most sticky summer afternoons, there will be rain or a quick thunderstorm. Hurricane season runs into November, and in the past five years, we have been subjected to the force of at least one hurricane every season, and usually, classes are canceled for at least a day in September.
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Isaac Hanson and his wife Nikki welcomed a daughter oh March 11, People reports.
Nina Odette is the third child for the couple, who are already parents to Clark Everette, 6, and James Monroe, 5.
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"After more than five years of not having a baby in the house, having our first little girl is going to be fun," the musician said. "I know that Everett and Monroe are excited about being big brothers."
Hanson, 33, will soon continue a world tour with his brothers in support of their sixth album Anthem.
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Ex-Servicemen's Rally @ Bengaluru
View some of the moments of Ex-Serviceman's rally held at " Rastriya Sainik Smaraka "( near Indira Gandhi Musical Fountain,Chowdaiah Road Bengaluru) to sign the memorandum to Doctor Manmohan Singh,Hon'ble Prime Minister of India. Most of the signatures were done with their own blood !! For more details log on
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Thanks Stefan, I got the svn update. The SimpleLoginModule works ! I did have to make a few changes though, the codebase/config was still referring to org.apache.jackrabbit.core.security which I had to change to *.core.jaas. I'll head back into my rabbit hole now :) cheers Suhail On Feb 25, 2005, at 6:15 PM, Stefan Guggisberg wrote: > folks, > i committed a first implementation of generic JAAS support > (rev155344). jackrabbit is now making use of standard JAAS mechanisms > (-> configurable LoginModules) to authenticate users. the relevant > code > is in RepositoryImpl.login() and in the code in the 'security' package. > > there's a SimpleLoginModule and a SimpleAccessManager in the > security package. those don't do anything right now and are intended > as fallbacks. > > in case you run into a java.lang.SecurityException (LoginConfig not > found) > when you start jackrabbit you have to set the system property > java.security.auth.login.config with the path to your JAAS config > file. > i added a sample config (src/conf/jaas.config). this config specifies > the SimpleLoginModule for the "Jackrabbit" application. > > now it should be very easy to use LDAP-based authorization with > jackrabbit. > > next steps: > - make the AccessManager and name of the config entry > configurable (in repository.xml) > - provide very simple username/password authorization > as sample/fallback. > > cheers > stefan
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I'm very happy that the University of Maryland has a basketball game tonight. Ive been a fan of Terps basketball my whole life, and I really like Gary Williams as a coach. That said it looks like a down year for Maryland. The good news is it allows me to put one eye on what I think is the best rivalry in sports. Two schools, separated by eight miles. North Carolina vs Duke. Both teams are ranked. If you remember tune into ESPN at nine tonight.
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Havanas in Camelot: Personal Essaysby William Styron
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After the great success in 1990 of Darkness Visible, his memoir of depression and recovery, William Styron wrote more frequently in an introspective, autobiographical mode. Havanas in Camelot brings together fourteen of his personal essays, including a reminiscence of his brief friendship with John F. Kennedy; a recollection of the power and ceremony on display at the inauguration of François Mitterrand; memoirs of Truman Capote, James Baldwin, and Terry Southern; a meditation on Mark Twain; an account of Styron's daily walks with his dog; and an evocation of his summer home on Martha's Vineyard.
Styron's essays touch on the great themes of his fiction–racial oppression, slavery, and the Holocaust–but for the most part they address other subjects: bowdlerizations of history, literary lists, childhood moviegoing, the censoring of his own work, and the pursuit of celebrity fetish objects.
These essays, which reveal a reflective and humorous side of Styron's nature, make possible a fuller assessment of this enigmatic man of American letters.
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"I was aware that this was a contraband item under the embargo against Cuban goods and that the embargo had been promulgated by the very man who had just pressed the cigar into my hand," writes Styron about John F. Kennedy in the title essay of this fine new collection of mostly previously published work. Combined with Styron's muscular yet subtle language, a sense of self-revelation and insider clarity infuses the 14 essays like a lungful of fresh, crisp air. Mostly assembled by Styron shortly before his death in 2006, these perfectly crafted and deeply expressive essays range effortlessly from smoking the aforementioned stogies with JFK to his run-ins with editors during the editing of his first novel, Lie Down in Darkness. In one essay he describes a visit to Marilyn Monroe's grave with noted literary hellion Terry Southern: "he was scowling through his shades, looking fierce and, as always, a little confused and lost but, in any case... like a man already dreaming up wicked ideas." Styron is known to most readers for his bestselling novels and painful etching of his bouts with crippling depression in Darkness Visible. These essays open up an entirely new territory to explore and appreciate for the fan and general reader alike. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
America lost one of its great writers in 2006. Styron, perhaps best remembered as the author of Sophie's Choice and The Confessions of Nat Turner, published several other books of note as well as numerous essays and musings throughout his career. This collection brings together 14 of Styron's published and unpublished essays, which range from his musings on JFK (reflected in the book's title), to his being treated for a mysterious disease in his early days in the U.S. Marines, to his friendship and competition with Truman Capote. The reader gets a rare and disarmingly personal glimpse of Styron's family relationships and friendships with people both famous and less well known, all told in Styron's clear, distinctive voice. His easy prose, highly personal reflections, and unassuming wit make this collection eminently readable, whether by a fan or a Styron novice. Recommended for all libraries.
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Havanas in Camelot
Like millions of others, i watched transfixed in late April 1996 as the acquisitive delirium that swept through Sotheby's turned the humblest knickknack of Camelot into a fetish for which people would pony up a fortune. A bundle of old magazines, including Modern Screen and Ladies' Home Journal, went for $12,650. A photograph of an Aaron Shikler portrait of Jackie—not the portrait itself, mind you, a photo—was sold for $41,400. (Sotheby's had valued the picture at $50 to $75.) A Swiss "Golf- Sport" stroke counter, worth $50 to $100 by Sotheby's estimate, fetched an insane $28,750. But surely among the most grandiose trophies, in terms of its bloated price, was John Kennedy's walnut cigar humidor, which Milton Berle had given the president in 1961 after having attached a plaque reading "To J.F.K. Good Health—Good Smoking, Milton Berle 1/20/61." The comedian had paid $600 to $800 for it in that year. Thirty-five years later, poor Berle tried to buy the humidor back at Sotheby's but dropped out of the bidding at $185,000.
The winner was Marvin Shanken, publisher of the magazine Cigar Aficionado, who spent $574,500 on an object the auctioneers had appraised at $2,000 to $2,500. Even at such a flabbergasting price the humidor should prove to play an important mascot role in the fortunes of Shanken's magazine, which is already wildly successful, featuring (aside from cigars and cigar-puffing celebrities) articles on polo and golf, swank hotels, antique cars, and many other requirements for a truly tony lifestyle in the 1990s. After all, John F. Kennedy was no stranger to the nobby life, and what could be more appropriate as a relic for a cigar magazine than the vault in which reposed the Havanas of our last genuine cigar-smoking president? I never laid eyes on the fabled humidor, but on the occasions I encountered Kennedy I sensed he must have owned one, protecting his precious supply, for he approached cigars with the relish and delight of—well, an aficionado. Indeed, if I allow my memory to be given a Proustian prod, and recollect Kennedy at the loose and relaxed moments when our lives briefly intersected, I can almost smell the smoke of the Havanas for which he 'd developed such an impetuous, Kennedyesque weakness.
After the clunky Eisenhower years it was wonderful to have this dashing young guy in the spotlight, and soon there was nothing unusual in seeing the president posed, without apology or self-consciousness, holding a cigar. I had become friendly with two members of the Kennedy staff, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and Richard Goodwin, both of whom were so passionate about cigars that smoking appeared to me to be almost a White House subculture.
They would lecture me about cigars whenever I saw them in Washington. Havanas were, of course, the sine qua non, and, as an ignorant cigarette smoker still clinging miserably to an unwanted addiction, I found myself fascinated but a little puzzled by all the cigar talk, by the effusive praise for a Montecristo of a certain length and vintage, by the descriptions of wrappers and their shades, by the subtle distinctions made between the flavors of a Ramon Allones and a Punch. Stubbornly, I kept up my odious allegiance to cigarettes, but in my secret heart I envied these men for their devotion to another incarnation of tobacco, one that had been transubstantiated from mere weed into an object plainly capable of evoking rapture. in late april of 1962 I was one of a small group of writers invited to what turned out to be possibly the most memorable social event of the Kennedy presidency. This was a state dinner in honor of Nobel Prize winners. Schlesinger and Goodwin were responsible for my being included—at the time, Kennedy didn't know me, as they say, from Adam—and it was a giddy pleasure for my wife, Rose, and me to head off to the White House on a balmy spring evening in the company of my friend James Baldwin, who was on the verge of becoming the most celebrated black writer in America. I recall that it was the only time I ever shaved twice on the same day.
Before dinner the booze flowed abundantly and the atmosphere crackled with excitement as J.F.K. and his beautiful lady joined the assembly and presided over the receiving line. Jack and Jackie actually shimmered. You would have had to be abnormal, perhaps psychotic, to be immune to their dumbfounding appeal. Even Republicans were gaga. They were truly the golden couple, and I am not trying to play down my own sense of wonder when I note that a number of the guests, male and female, appeared so affected by the glamour that their eyes took on a goofy, catatonic glaze.
Although I remained in control of myself, I got prematurely plastered; this did not damage my critical faculties when it came to judging the dinner. I'd spent a considerable amount of time in Paris and had become something of a food and wine snob. Later, in my notebook, I ungratefully recorded that while the Puligny-Montrachet 1959, served with the first course, was "more than adequate," I found the Mouton-Rothschild 1955, accompanying the filet de boeuf Wellington, "lacking in maturity." The dessert, something called a bombe Caribienne, I deemed "much too sweet, a real bomb."
Reviewing these notes so many years later, I cringe at my churlishness (including the condescending remark that the meal was "doubtless better than anything Ike and Mamie served up"), especially in view of the thrilling verve and happy spirits of the entire evening. Because of the placement of the tables I was seated at right angles to the president, and I was only several feet away when he rose from his own table and uttered his famous bon mot about the occasion representing the greatest gathering of minds at the White House since "Thomas Jefferson dined here alone." The Nobelists roared their appreciation at this elegant bouquet, and I sensed the words passing into immortality.
The White House was anything but smoke-free, and the scullions among us lit up our cigarettes. I noticed with my usual sulkiness and envy that many gentlemen at the tables around the room had begun to smoke cigars; among them was Kennedy, who was engaged in conversation with a stunning golden-haired young woman and plainly relishing her at least as much as his Churchill. Following coffee, we moved into the East Room for a concert of chamber music. After this, just as the party was breaking up and we were about to be converted into pumpkins, I was astonished to learn from an army captain in full dress that Rose and I were invited upstairs for something "more intimate" with President and Mrs. Kennedy. Although I had an instant's impish fantasy about what "more intimate" implied—this was, after all, the dawn of the Swinging Sixties—I was in fact rather relieved to discover that the small room into which we were ushered was filled with cigar smokers and their lady companions.
The president hadn't arrived yet, but Jackie was there, as were Goodwin and Schlesinger and Bobby Kennedy and Pierre Salinger, together with their wives, and all the men were focusing on their Havanas with such obvious pleasure that one might have thought the entire Nobel dinner had been arranged to produce this fragrant climax. Only in fine Paris restaurants, where—unlike in America—cigar smoking was encouraged, had I inhaled such a delicious aroma. I had by this time taken aboard too many of the various beverages the White House had provided, including the dessert champagne (Piper-Heidsieck 1955), and sank down unwittingly into the president's famous rocking chair.
Rocking away, I talked with Lionel Trilling, the renowned critic; he and his wife, Diana, were the only other literary people invited upstairs. He was also the only other cigarette smoker, as far as I could tell—indeed, a real chain-smoker, with a haggard, oxygen-deprived look— and we made book chat and indulged in our forlorn habit while the others convivially enjoyed their great cigars. It was not until Schlesinger discreetly asked me to let the president sit down in the rocker, for the sake of his dysfunctional back, that I realized that J.F.K. had been standing in the room for some time, too polite to shoo me out of his chair. When I leapt up, mortified, and Kennedy apologetically took my place, I noticed that he was still fondling his Churchill. The leader of the Free World wreathed in smoke, gently rocking: this was the relaxed and contented image I took away with me when, well after midnight, we wobbled our way homeward from one hell of a party.
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THIBODAUX — Bolstered by an apparent halt to state cuts for disability services, about 200 people gathered in Peltier Park today for the area's first regional disability-rights rally.
The first of the region's community-level disability rallies, the rally brought together people with disabilities, their family members, advocates and service workers from seven parishes for a morning of food, fun, music and dancing. The group also heard from local advocates.
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True to the slogan that once adorned the state's license plates, Oklahoma is OK.
Putnam City North High School in Oklahoma City hosted a Texas softball playoff series last weekend, and you could not have asked for better hospitality.
When word came down that Pampa would play last week's Region I-4A semifinal softball playoff series against Denton Ryan in Oklahoma City, most observers scratched their heads and wondered "Huh?"
But when you looked at the map, and especially the escalating fuel prices, splitting the difference and meeting in the middle of Oklahoma made sense.
Pampa and Ryan played at North's Panther Field. The trip was about three hours from Denton and from Pampa. Ryan swept the series in two games to qualify for the regional final.
The PC North Panther program treated the Texas playoff game like it was one of its own, complete with grilled munchies and a fully stocked concession stand staffed by booster club members and North players. The only hiccups were the small seating capacity and lack of locker rooms at the field.
The location of the game came about because of necessity. Pampa and Ryan originally wanted to play either in Vernon or Wichita Falls, which would be something resembling halfway between the two municipalities. But neither field could accommodate a three-game series, so the programs had to look elsewhere.
If they needed to stay in Texas, the next best place would have been Abilene, which would have been a five-hour one-way drive for teams. But Pampa had a problem. Pampa's prom was Saturday night, and the Lady Harvesters did not want to stray more than three hours from home. The team bus is not the best place for perfecting hair and makeup on way to the most important social event of Lady Harvesters' high school lives.
A quick check of the map showed a sprawling metropolitan area about three hours away from Pampa and Denton with plenty of softball fields - high school, collegiate and even the Softball Hall of Fame. The only problem was it sat right in the middle of Oklahoma.
Pampa coach Bobbi Gill made a call to Southern Nazarene University about using its field, but it was not available. She called former Borger coach Mitsy Shaklee, who is the coach at PC North. Shaklee and the rest of the North athletic community jumped on the idea. Ryan coach Aimee Foutch was a little surprised by the proposal but embraced the chance to play at a first-class high school facility even if she had to cross the Red River to get there.
Before it could stage the game, North needed to spruce up Panther Field. Oklahoma plays its fastpitch softball in the fall, so the field is not usually used for games from November to August. But PC North is a large (Class 6A) school with a proud athletic tradition in a well-to-do section of northwest Oklahoma City. Regular maintenance of facilities is a priority even in the off-season. All the North program and boosters needed to do was soften up the field by watering it down and pull some sprigs of grass out of the infield, and it was time to play ball.
The games went well at least from a staging perspective. The North community reacted with a can-do attitude and would not mind hosting more Texas playoff games in the future. Amarillo is about four hours from Oklahoma City and Wichita Falls. But Wichita Falls is only about two hours from Fort Worth. Panhandle-area and Metroplex coaches looking for a true neutral site might think about the friendly folks from north of the Red River.
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SDCC: "Batman: The Killing Joke" Cast & Crew Debuts Film at Comic-Con International
Welcome to the three hundredth and ninety-ninth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, it is a special theme week! All comic strip related legends! Is there really a famous Peanuts strip featuring Snoopy complaining about the IRS? Did the FBI seriously investigate Pogo for hidden messages? Finally, did DC Comics really try to block an Australian comic strip named Swamp from getting a trademark because of Swamp Thing?
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COMIC LEGEND: There was a notable Peanuts comic strip about Snoopy asking to be removed from the IRS' mailing list.
STATUS: False
There is a popular story about a Peanuts strip about the IRS that routinely pops up in posts about the IRS (just do a search and you will find plenty of references).
Here is the strip in question…
This is not a real Peanuts strip.
Here is the 1997 strip that it was adapted from…
I presume it originally appeared as a joke but then the "joke" part was omitted and it just began to be passed along as an actual Peanuts strip.
Thanks to reader Randall M. for the suggestion and thanks to Derrick Bang and Scott McGuire's great Peanuts page, FiveCentsPlease.org, for the confirmation!
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Even if the IRS strip was real, why would people think that was what Schultz really believed rather than think it was a joke about how clueless Snoopy is?
Maybe I just misunderstood what you meant by that sentence actually.
I just edited it to clear it up, T!
The Peanuts strip was an obvious fake, and a second's glance would tell you why.
Sparky didn't letter Peanuts using Comic Sans.
There is a computer font that replicates Schulz's lettering, and I believe that BOOM! is using it for their Peanuts comics and graphic novels to make them feel more authentic.
But Comic Sans? Really not authentic.
From what I've seen, Allyn, it seems most people referencing the strip aren't bothering to actually post the strip itself (and thus seeing the fakeness of it) but rather just quoting it.
The fake must have been around for quite some time, as a commenter in CNN's coverage of Schulz's death mentioned the strip as one of his favorites!
But… what happened to Andy and Olaf?!
They're currently being investigated by the FBI.
Did Schulz really redraw those panels every time he did a "Snoopy at the typewriter" strip? [Which is to say, can you pinpoint which one it is that specifically?]
Yes, he redrew them each time. That is to say that each Snoopy typing strip is unique.
Andy and Olaf were fine. They just got lost.
Yeah, when seeing the strip it is pretty obvious it is fake, font is wrong and clearly added with computer, and the strip omits signature, date and syndicate mark…
Or maybe those mundanes don't notice such matters on comic strips?
I must admit, I wouldn't have noticed the font being wrong if someone had presented it to me as an authentic Schultz strip.
I remember seeing the Swamp Thing comic when it came out. I didn't read horror comics, but the Wrightson cover of that one just sucked me in.
I remember reading the FBI also spent two years trying to decide if "Louie, Louie" violated obscenity laws. They decided the words were so indecipherable, they couldn't really accuse the Kingsmen of singing anything specific.
That Peanuts strip is profoundly depressing in isolation.
P.S. — I can hardly wait for #400 next week!
I sure hope those "Swamp" strips are not representative of the comic's typical quality. Geez, the depressing Peanuts strip shown here is funnier than any of them…and that's the least funny Peanuts strip ever published.
I can't believe DC's nerve. As if anyone would confuse Swamp with Swamp Thing.
For a start, Swamp Thing is actually good.
"I sure hope those "Swamp" strips are not representative of the comic's typical quality. "
Unfortunately, that's about as good as it gets for that sorry excuse for a comic strip.
The Swamp used to be really good. but the quality has droped lately.
Even now though it is still better than Peanuts which always has make me yawn.
You'd think that if DC was going to go after anything for trademark infringement on Swamp Thing it would be this Dutch comic of the same name: http://www.stripturnhout.be/2012/10/9789088130021/.
I predict that for #400, in order to get another legend from it, Brian will fixate his mind on Charles Addams' ski cartoon, resulting in his mind getting switched with the late Addams', resulting in the new column "Superior Comic Book Legends Revealed". Too soon ?
The other thing about the Snoopy strip is that Schulz wouldn't waste that second panel for that "beat" between the salutation and the body of the letter.
That Swamp strip looks nice but is pretty dull. Is it because it's so "biology" oriented humor? And why didn't the creator go for the TM until 6 years into the strip? That said, it's absurd that it took 5 years to rule in his favor, since it is plainly obvious that the 2 have no connection beyond being set in a swamp. Ah, the law!
The most interesting bit about the Pogo one is this part of the quote you feature: "according to purported meaning supplied". Which if I'm reading it right means that Hoover thought certain fonts meant specific things, and told the agent to look into them. Like the High Gothic meant riot on Tuesday, or something. Wow.
Travis- That's what I was thinking. I'd love to know what sort of "purported meanings" Hoover supplied.
How many times has Brian covered that Charles Addams ski cartoon here? At least five, I think.
Hey, Brian, your Pogo samples don't use any fonts. Those words were hand-lettered in imitation of classic typefaces.
Walt kelly died in 1973. Cartoonists didn't begin to use "fonts" until decades later, when computers came into use.
You're arguing semantics, Mr. Earlewine. I'm sure he just used "fonts" to mean "types of letters". He could have easily said "scripts" or "lettering" or, as you mentioned, "typefaces", but the word "fonts" is instantly recognizable by most people in the modern age as a word for different ways that lettering can look.
Also, Travis, "riot on Tuesday"? That's just silly. High Gothic meant "bring snacks to the next meeting".
And why would the Sons of Pogo start a riot on a Tuesday? There's no way we could have gotten any kind of turnout on a weekday.
@TJ: a true Son of Pogo wouldn't so cavalierly reveal the REAL meanings.
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Television cameras caught Gordon, who has since apologised for his comments, making an anti-gay slur to Portland Timbers midfielder Will Johnson during Sunday's game.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber said Gordon used "unacceptable and offensive language" and that he should attend diversity and sensitivity training.
"Major League Soccer stands against discrimination and prejudice of any kind and will not tolerate this type of behaviour," Garber said in a statement.
"All of our players, staff and fans must remain committed to respect and dignity at all times."
Gordon was also sent off in the 69th minute of Sunday's game after an elbow to the face of Timbers' French defender Mikael Silvestre and will serve an additional one game ban for that offence.
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My fiance is an illegal alien. He had an car accident when he was a child & his friend died. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison because he had been drinking at the time. He was deported after serving the sentence & the greencard was revolked. We were planning to go to Mexico and get married, but he was arrested and now will be in jail for a year. I would like to proceed with our wedding plans and marry him here in the United States. Since he has no legal Identification I was hoping you would be able to advise me what type of ID can I get so we can get married while he is in jail. Please advise.
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Generally children don't get 7 years for being in a fatally accident involving alcohol. From the sentence, he sounds like an adult who was convicted of vehicular manslaughter. It's not clear where he was arrested, where he's in jail, and what for.
If you would like to marry him, generally the consulate from his country can assist with ID while he's in jail. You need to contact the jail though to find out the procedure their for getting married. His chances of being allowed to live in the US seem difficult. You should consult and immigration lawyer to find out what his chances are. Good luck!
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Powder metallurgy (P/M) offers a viable, cost-effective approach to fabricating sports and leisure equipment components. Both complex, monolithic parts and parts produced from materials of quite different densities can be manufactured by this technique. In the latter category, lightweight titanium and heavyweight tungsten can be used in combination to optimally distribute mass, such as in golf club heads. Examples of P/M components used in golfing, skating, baseball, and even darts are presented.
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The final piece of President Obama's Cabinet puzzle appears to be in place — a political deal has Republican Sen. Judd Gregg headed for Commerce. And new details are out today on the tax problems of former Sen. Tom Daschle, Obama's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services. Host Jacki Lyden speaks with NPR's senior Washington editor Ron Elving about Obama's Cabinet dramas.
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Well, today there's certainly some drama. It involves the president's cabinet choices. Senator Tom Daschle is up for Health and Human Services secretary. A Senate committee meets tomorrow to discuss the South Dakota Democrat's tax troubles.
And the only cabinet slot that hasn't been finalized yet, Commerce secretary, appears to be firming up. NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving has been monitoring all this palace intrigue. And Ron, let's start with Tom Daschle. What's the latest?
RON ELVING: The latest is we've learned that he made more than $5 million over the last couple of years giving speeches and counseling to a variety of investment groups and industries, including hundreds of thousands of dollars from the health-care industry itself.
Now, it was no secret how he was making his living, but the amounts are pretty stunning in these times. And it raises the question of how he represents something other than business as usual in Washington.
President Obama told us there was going to be a new day and a new system, but here we have a former Senate majority leader who had 128,000 in unpaid taxes because of a chauffeured limousine service he didn't think was taxable income. And he knew about it for some while and didn't tell the vetters for Obama about it until pretty much he'd already been nominated. So it's a very bad little cloud over this nomination.
LYDEN: Do you think his nomination is really in any trouble?
ELVING: There's been no indication yet that this is going to cost him confirmation of his nomination. People think on Capitol Hill that Tom Daschle is the right guy for this job, and this probably doesn't change that.
So it's going to depend on what the Senate finance committee does tomorrow. But if the president stands behind him and the Democratic leaders stand behind him, and the Republicans don't really want to make this say a major fight, I'm not seeing this being even as big a vote against him as it was for Tim Geithner.
LYDEN: Mmm. Now to Commerce secretary - Bill Richardson withdrew because of an investigation in his home state of New Mexico. Now, the choice appears to be Judd Gregg, the Republican senator from New Hampshire.
Today, on CBS's "Face The Nation," the Senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell, indicated that the path had been cleared for Gregg's nomination.
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Senator MITCH MCCONNELL (Republican, Kentucky; Senate Minority Leader): Whoever is appointed to replace him would caucus with Senate Republicans. So I think it would have no impact on the balance of power in the Senate.
LYDEN: Ron, what are the politics behind that very political calculation?
ELVING: The big objection to having Judd Gregg move out of the Senate right now and be the third Republican in the cabinet came from Republicans who said, wait a minute, that could give the Democrats 60 votes in the Senate and give them the power to cut off debate and filibusters.
So what deal has apparently been struck here would allow New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, a Democrat, to appoint someone other than a Democrat to fill the vacancy.
LYDEN: Enough of the politics of personality. The Senate has some seriously dramatic business on its plate this week and that, of course, is the economic stimulus plan.
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LYDEN: NPR's Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving, thanks for filling us in on the week ahead.
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Remember playing with dolls or action figures, using your imagination to create fantastic worlds in your own bedroom?
New toys due out later this year also use the power of the mind -– but these playthings are actually controlled by brain waves.
With both Mattel's "Mind Flex" and Uncle Milton's "The Force Trainer," the goal is to focus your thoughts in order to levitate a ball. There are no blinking lights or 3-D graphics -– just a wireless headset, a lightweight ball and a fan.
Both toys use a modified form of electroencephalography — or EEG — technology to measure electrical signals emitted by the brain, says Jim Sullivan of NeuroSky, the company that created the technology that makes the toys work.
The signals are applied to algorithms that were developed by researchers after careful study of people in various states of attention, Sullivan says. With the right focus, the signals trigger a fan. The harder the player concentrates, the stronger the fan blows — and the higher the ball elevates.
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Eletrobras (Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras S.A.) is a joint stock company and traded, controlled by the Brazilian government, which operates in the areas of generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy. With shares traded on the stock exchanges of São Paulo, New York, USA, and Madrid, Spain, and focused on profitability, competitiveness, integration and sustainability, the company controls 13 subsidiaries - Eletrobras Furnas, Eletrobras Chesf, Eletronorte, Eletrobras Eletrosul, Eletrobras Eletronuclear, Eletrobras CGTEE, Eletrobras Amazonas Energia, Eletrobras Distribution Roraima, Eletrobras Distribuição Alagoas, Eletrobras Distribution Piauí, Eletrobras Distribution Rondônia, Eletrobras Acre and CELG Distribution (CELG D) - an equity participation company (Eletrobras Eletropar) a research center (Cepel) and also owns 50% of Itaipu Binacional on behalf of the government. Together, these institutions form the Eletrobras.
The Eletrobras generating capacity of Eletrobras, including the half power of Itaipu belonging to the Brazilian government, is 44,569 MW, which corresponds to approximately 32.4% of total generation capacity in the country. This energy is produced by 48 hydroelectric plants, 12 thermoelectric plants and two thermonuclear, which are joining new projects, such as hydroelectric plants of Jirau (3,750 MW) and Santo Antonio (3,568 MW) on the Madeira river and thermonuclear Angra 3 (1,350 MW).
Eletrobras has 67,848 kilometers of transmission lines, representing about 47.42% of total lines that cross Brazil, as well as 258 substations. And are being built by companies of the system, alone or in partnership with the private sector, over 24 transmission lines and 21 substations.
Eletrobras is also seeking investment opportunities in electric energy, both in generation and transmission in several other countries. After 53 years, the company is listed on the portfolio of the Corporate Sustainability Index (ISE Bovespa), which brings together companies with shares in the São Paulo Stock Exchange with best practices in corporate citizenship, the DJSI Emerging Markets Index (Dow Jones Sustainability Index) of the New York Stock Exchange and is seeking listing in Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), the sustainability index of the New York Stock Exchange.


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Last week I slogged about Evangelical group Operation Save America's campaign to defend WalMart from the slings and arrows of heathen liberals: namely, the gay conspiracy which forced WalMart to join the Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. The group's plan to protest 300 WalMart locations on the day after Thanksgiving with sodomized-smiley posters apparently didn't go too well, because for the last few weeks their mailing list has received exactly zero announcements.
Until today! An email that doesn't mention the protest at all put instead the sodomy smiley to shame.
In a statement to the American Family Association yesterday, Wal-Mart agreed that they, "…will not make corporate contributions to support or oppose highly controversial issues unless they directly relate to our ability to serve our customers". To this we say, "NUTS!"
"Wal-Mart is running scared! It fears the power of the Church of Jesus Christ to move in people's hearts and change them - to change even where they shop." Wal-Mart needs to fear the God of Sam Walton!"…
"Every executive at Wal-Mart that allowed this to happen needs a good old fashioned spanking" said Flip Benham, Director of Operation Save America, creators of the SaveWalMart.com website. "What Wal-Mart has done is sin! It is a betrayal our Lord Jesus, of Sam Walton's Christian legacy, and Christian families everywhere. Wal-Mart must bear the fruit of repentance."
See what repressed sexuality will do to a man? It starts leaking out between the cracks.


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Chesapeake Energy (CHK) says it will offer buyouts to 275 employees, the third round of staff cuts it has made in six months as it struggles to keep costs in line amid lower natural gas prices. The move also could have been prompted by CHK not meeting its desired price for pipeline and midstream assets it recently sold (I, II), analyst Phil Weiss says.
Chesapeake Energy (CHK) says it will offer buyouts to 275 employees, the third round of staff...
Dec 14 2012, 14:28 ET | About: Chesapeake Energy Corporation (CHK) | By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor
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To start with, CHK has way too many employees at 12,600. The small number of employees being offered a retirement package too is way too small. For one, CHK is no longer trying to acquire additional acreage so let go many of these folks involved in this type activity. Compare the number of employees for a company like EOG Resources and it will floor you as compared to CHK. Are you ready for the numbers: US employees 1,811 plus outside US employees 297. A much more valuable and better run company in all aspects.
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