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SAN JOSE (AP) — With his team mired in a lengthy scoring slump that has put its playoff chances in peril, San Jose general manager Doug Wilson made a move to look to the future.
The Sharks sent bruising defenseman Douglas Murray to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Monday for a pair of second-round picks.
While the Penguins are bolstering their roster for a possible Stanley Cup run following the additions of Murray and forward Brenden Morrow from Dallas, the Sharks wanted to add picks in a strong draft year without going into full rebuilding mode.
"This doesn't take away from our goal of trying to compete and make the playoffs this year," Wilson said. "We have to play better on a 60-minute basis for longer periods of time to accomplish that. Rebuild often brings connotations of we're not going to try to compete to win. We have high expectations for our group and we're not going to diminish those even if we go into the reset or refresh mode."
The Sharks entered play Monday in a three-way tie for ninth place in the Western Conference, one point behind Dallas for the final playoff spot. San Jose is one of two teams in the league along with Detroit to make the postseason every year since the 2004-05 lockout but that streak is in jeopardy this year.
After playing at Pacific Division-leading Anaheim on Monday night, the Sharks will have a seven-game homestand that will go a long way toward determining their fate this year. San Jose has lost 17 of 23 games since getting off to a franchise record 7-0 start to the lockout-shortened season.
"This conversation might be different if we were playing on all cylinders and continued on the way that we played the first seven to 10 games of the year," Wilson said. "We certainly haven't shown that ability for quite a while now. It doesn't mean we can't come out of it and put a little bit of a press on. But it needs to start tonight."
Wilson said Pittsburgh aggressively pursued Murray and paid full value for the potential unrestricted free agent just over a week before the trade deadline.
The 6-foot-3, 245-pound Murray has three assists in 29 games for the Sharks this season and has gone 138 regular season games without a goal. He has played the second most short-handed time on a penalty kill unit that has been one of the team's few bright spots.
Wilson said Murray deserved to be dealt to a contender. Pittsburgh has won 12 straight games heading into Tuesday night's showdown with surprising Montreal but is playing without defenseman Kris Letang, who remains day-to-day with a lower-body injury.
Scoring goals has been the main problem for the Sharks, who are tied for last in the league with just eight wins in regulation or overtime.
San Jose is last in the league in scoring with 2.20 goals per game and is second-to-last in the league with just 42 even-strength goals.
The deal will allow San Jose to dress more offensive-minded Jason Demers and Justin Braun every night, giving the team an additional puck-moving defenseman to help the offense.
"The offense is there. Take a look at our team," Wilson said. "There's certainly players who are not having even average for their career type of years. If they were performing at that level, I think we'd be at a different place than we are today. Hopefully, that will change quickly."
Ryane Clowe, who averaged more than 20 goals a season the last four years, has yet to score this season. Joe Pavelski, who had 31 goals last season, has one goal in his past 18 games. Marty Havlat is on a 15-game goal drought.
Wilson said the blame for the struggles falls on the players not coach Todd McLellan and his staff. He said the Sharks have too often been a "57-minute-a-game team in a 60-minute league."
"Why that execution or why the mistakes that will prevent you from winning games is very frustrating," he said. "Do I think that is coaching preparation? No. I think it comes down to players sticking with it or not altering our approach to a game just because we're down a goal or whatever. We're not the only team going through that."


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by John Bishop / Boston BruinsLucic at practice
Seizing the opportunity, the young man looked at the reporter, flashed his big toothy smile and started talking about how special it is for a Canadian kid, even one who is not a fan of the leafs, to play on the big ice sheet in Toronto's Air Canada Centre.
"Growing up you watch a lot of hockey night in Canada games coming from there and it's my first time in there," he said with wide-grinned abandon. "My parents are coming down to watch and it is going to be a big game."
Lucic, you see, practices a different form of public relations than does fellow rookie Tuukka Rask. Rask, is measured, even polished, and tends to keep his clips short. Milan on the other hand is polished in a different sort of way and is simply himself when talking.
That candor is at least as refreshing as Tuukka's maturity, because, let's face it, it was fun to hear about how excited Lucic was about playing Toronto.
"To be perfectly honest, I was never really a leafs fan," said Lucic of T.O. "If anything they were probably my most hated team in the NHL, just because there is a rivalry between the Vancouver fans and the Toronto fans.
"So the best thing was when Vancouver beat them in 1994's conference finals."
Thinking aloud, Lucic thought of even more reasons to get pumped.
"Again, it's an Original Six battle and it is going to be a lot of fun."
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With two hits (and a penalty that should not have been a penalty) Milan whetted his appetite in terms of hockey in Toronto and hopes just to keep on playing as much as possible.
"It was good," said Milan on the way to the bus for the airport. "It was a fun place to play (because) you could really feel the energy in the building.
"It was a really good experience."
But, having only played 6:44, Lucic would like to have more impact on games like this.
"Obviously, the more exciting (it is) you want to play more," said Lucic, who echoed Rask in his final statement. "I just have to take it upon myself to work hard and make sure I am playing hard every game."

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Country | Land of Fire |
Leader | Disonasu |
The Hachō Village (ハチョウ村, Hachō-mura) is a village lying on the outskirts of the border of the Land of Fire. They are on very friendly terms with the Tonika Village. When the village was attacked by Kabuto Yakushi in his attempt to gain access to The Hole, the villagers that were able to survive all fled to this village and the Hachō Village later sent officers to help guard the ruined village. Disonasu, the village head also went to the Tonika Village to aid in the village's rehabilitation.[1]
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Constans | |||||
62nd Emperor of the Roman Empire | |||||
Bust of Constans
Reign | 337–350, jointly with Constantine II (until 340) and Constantius II | ||||
Predecessor | Constantine I | ||||
Successor | Constantius II | ||||
Born | c. 323 | ||||
Died | February 350 Vicus Helena, southwestern Gaul |
Dynasty | Constantinian | ||||
Father | Constantine I | ||||
Mother | Fausta |
Constans (Latin: Flavius Iulius Constans Augustus;[1] c. 323[1][2] – 350) or Constans I was Roman Emperor from 337 to 350. He defeated his brother Constantine II in 340, but anger in the army over his personal life and preference for his barbarian bodyguards led the general Magnentius to rebel, resulting in the assassination of Constans in 350.
Constans was the third and youngest son of Constantine the Great and Fausta, his father's second wife.[3] He was educated at the court of his father at Constantinople under the tutelage of the poet Aemilius Magnus Arborius.[1]
On 25 December 333, Constantine I elevated Constans to the rank of Caesar at Constantinople.[1] Constans became engaged to Olympias, the daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Ablabius, but the marriage never came to pass.[3] With Constantine's death in 337, Constans and his two brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II, divided the Roman world between themselves[4] and disposed of virtually all relatives who could possibly have a claim to the throne.[5] The army proclaimed them Augusti on September 9, 337.[1] Almost immediately, Constans was required to deal with a Sarmatian invasion in late 337, over whom he won a resounding victory.[3]
Constans was initially under the guardianship of Constantine II. The original settlement assigned Constans the praetorian prefectures of Italy and Africa.[6] Constans was unhappy with this division, so the brothers met at Viminacium in 338 to revise the boundaries.[6] Constans managed to extract the prefecture of Illyricum and the diocese of Thrace,[6] provinces that were originally to be ruled by his cousin Dalmatius, as per Constantine I's proposed division after his death.[5] Constantine II soon complained that he had not received the amount of territory that was his due as the eldest son.[7]
Annoyed that Constans had received Thrace and Macedonia after the death of Dalmatius, Constantine demanded that Constans hand over the African provinces, which he agreed to do in order to maintain a fragile peace.[7][8] Soon, however, they began quarreling over which parts of the African provinces belonged to Carthage, and thus Constantine, and which belonged to Italy, and therefore Constans.[9] This led to growing tensions between the two brothers, which were only heightened by Constans finally coming of age and Constantine refusing to give up his guardianship. In 340 Constantine II invaded Italy.[8] Constans, at that time in Dacia, detached and sent a select and disciplined body of his Illyrian troops, stating that he would follow them in person with the remainder of his forces.[7] Constantine was eventually trapped at Aquileia, where he died, leaving Constans to inherit all of his brother's former territories – Hispania, Britannia and Gaul.[4]
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Constans began his reign in an energetic fashion.[4] In 341-42, he led a successful campaign against the Franks, and in the early months of 343 he visited Britain.[3] The source for this visit, Julius Firmicus Maternus, does not provide a reason, but the quick movement and the danger involved in crossing the channel in the dangerous winter months suggests it was in response to a military emergency, possibly to repel the Picts and Scots.[3]
Regarding religion, Constans was tolerant of Judaism and promulgated an edict banning pagan sacrifices in 341.[3] He suppressed Donatism in Africa and supported Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism, which was championed by his brother Constantius. Although Constans called the Council of Sardica in 343 to settle the conflict,[10] it was a complete failure,[11] and by 346 the two emperors were on the point of open warfare over the dispute.[12] The conflict was only resolved by an interim agreement which allowed each emperor to support their preferred clergy within their own spheres of influence.[12]
The Roman historian Eutropius says Constans "indulged in great vices," in reference to his homosexuality, and Aurelius Victor stated that Constans had a reputation for scandalous behaviour with "handsome barbarian hostages."[3][12] Nevertheless, Constans did sponsor a decree alongside Constantius II that ruled that marriage based on "unnatural" sex should be punished meticulously. However, Boswell believed the decree outlawed homosexual marriages only.[13] It may also be that Constans was not expressing his own feeling when promulgating the legislation but was rather trying to placate public outrage at his own perceived indecencies.
In the final years of his reign, Constans developed a reputation for cruelty and misrule.[14] Dominated by favourites and openly preferring his select bodyguard, he lost the support of the legions.[7] In 350, the general Magnentius declared himself emperor at Augustodunum with the support of the troops on the Rhine frontier and, later, the western provinces of the Empire.[15] Constans was enjoying himself nearby when he was notified of the elevation of Magnentius.[7] Lacking any support beyond his immediate household,[7] he was forced to flee for his life. As he was trying to reach Hispania, supporters of Magnentius cornered him in a fortification in Helena (now Elne) in the eastern Pyrenees of southwestern Gaul,[16] where he was killed after seeking sanctuary in a temple.[12] A prophecy at his birth had said Constans would die in the arms of his grandmother. His place of death happens to have been named after Helena, mother of Constantine and his own grandmother, thus realizing the prophecy.[17]
See also[edit]
Primary sources[edit]
- Zosimus, Historia Nova, Book 2 Historia Nova
- Aurelius Victor, Epitome de Caesaribus
- Eutropius, Breviarium ab urbe condita
Secondary sources[edit]
- DiMaio, Michael; Frakes, Robert, Constans I (337–350 A.D.), in De Imperatoribus Romanis (D.I.R.), An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
- Jones, A.H.M., Martindale, J.R. The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Vol. I: AD260-395, Cambridge University Press, 1971
- Canduci, Alexander (2010), Triumph & Tragedy: The Rise and Fall of Rome's Immortal Emperors, Pier 9, ISBN 978-1-74196-598-8
- Gibbon. Edward Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (1888)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Jones, p. 220
- ^ Victor, 41:23
- ^ a b c d e f g DiMaio, Constans I (337–350 A.D.)
- ^ a b c Eutropius, 10:9
- ^ a b Victor, 41:20
- ^ a b c Canduci, pg. 130
- ^ a b c d e f Gibbon, Ch. 18
- ^ a b Victor, 41:21
- ^ Zosimus, 2:41-42
- ^ Socrates Scholasticus, Church History, book 2, chapter 20.
- ^ Catholic Encyclopedia, 1930, Patrick J. Healy, Sardica
- ^ a b c d Canduci, pg. 131
- ^ Boswell, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexualit, 1980
- ^ Zosimus, 2:42
- ^ Eutropius, 10:9:4
- ^ Victor, 41:21:23
- ^ Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.
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Born: 320 Died: 350 |
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Preceded by Constantine I |
Roman Emperor 337–350 Served alongside: Constantius II and Constantine II |
Succeeded by Vetranio and Magnentius (usurper) |
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Preceded by Ursus , Polemius |
Consul of the Roman Empire 339 with Constantius II |
Succeeded by Septimius Acindynus, Lucius Aradius Valerius Proculus |
Preceded by Petronius Probinus , Antonius Marcellinus |
Consul of the Roman Empire 342 with Constantius II |
Succeeded by Marcus Maecius Memmius Furius Baburius Caecilianus Placidus, Flavius Romulus |
Preceded by Amantius , Marcus Nummius Albinus |
Consul of the Roman Empire 346 with Constantius II |
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Several months ago, Donald C.H. Ho (何啟華) opened a shop in Taipei's Neihu District, selling a good variety of hand-made pastries. Eying Taiwan's growing tourism industry, the experienced businessman is transferring his know-how into his "Laurel Bakery" (桂冠園), and he is aiming high.
The variety of pastries offered in the Laurel Bakery is dazzling. You have multiple choices with pineapple cakes alone: original pineapple cake, native pineapple cake ("new generation" pineapple cake with richer pineapple tastes), pineapple cake with egg yolk and pineapple cake with seaweed. Pastries made of different fillings such as salted egg yolk, longan fruit, red and green bean paste, taro paste and tangerine and pomelo bits are also on offer. According to Ho, his experiences in the trading business offer him useful resources on choosing quality ingredients. For example, the egg yolks used for the pastry are from Yilan. The tea leaves sold in the shop are from tea farmers he trusts as a longtime tea drinker. As to the name Laurel Bakery, Ho said it has a nostalgic origin. "My parents are Cantonese who used to live in Shanghai, where they shopped at food stores like Guan Sheng Yuan (冠生園) and Lao Da Fang (老大房). After they settled down in Taiwan, my parents mention shopping at the places from time to time, thus I opened my bakery, referencing the good old days," explained Ho. "Hopefully my bakery will prosper like the ones in Shanghai," he added. Pastry is only Ho's first step. He is looking to add more varieties, such as chocolates and jerkies. "Those products are under research now," he said with a mysterious smile on his face. Laurel Bakery receives tourist groups, walk-ins and orders by phone. Call (02) 2657-8181 for more information. ■
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NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 650: GK107 With GDDR5
by Ryan Smith on September 13, 2012 9:35 AM ESTAlongside today's launch of the GK106-based GeForce GTX 660, NVIDIA is also launching one other card: the GeForce GTX 650. In a nutshell, the GTX 650 is the long-awaited GDDR5 version of the GeForce GT 640, sporting higher clockspeeds and far more memory bandwidth than its DDR3-crippled predecessor.
GTX 660 Ti | GTX 660 | GTX 650 | GT 640 | |
Stream Processors | 1344 | 960 | 384 | 384 |
Texture Units | 112 | 80 | 32 | 32 |
ROPs | 24 | 24 | 16 | 16 |
Core Clock | 915MHz | 980MHz | 1058MHz | 900MHz |
Shader Clock | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Boost Clock | 980MHz | 1033MHz | N/A | N/A |
Memory Clock | 6.008GHz GDDR5 | 6.008GHz GDDR5 | 5GHz GDDR5 | 1.782GHz DDR3 |
Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 192-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
Transistor Count | 3.5B | 2.54B | 1.3B | 1.3B |
Manufacturing Process | TSMC 28nm | TSMC 28nm | TSMC 28nm | TSMC 28nm |
Launch Price | $299 | $229 | $109 | $99 |
The fact that NVIDIA launched a performance-uncompetitive part in the GT 640 back in June was unfortunate, but not unexpected given the fact that NVIDIA was facing an even more serious supply shortage than they are now. By our reckoning NVIDIA didn't want to introduce a desktop GK107 part that would be in high demand when they needed those GK107 GPUs for their more profitable mobile lineup, hence the need to hold off on a GDDR5 GK107 desktop card until now.
But as the saying goes, it's better late than never. The GTX 650 should handily outperform the GT 640 in virtually all scenarios, and based on what we've seen with past DDR3/GDDR5 cards we wouldn't be surprised to see gaming performance at least double. Furthermore the GTX 650 is clocked some 158MHz (18%) higher than GT 640, which will only increase those performance gains.
Speaking of performance, one thing that caught our eye was that NVIDIA has set the TDP of the GTX 650 at 64W, 1 watt lower than the TDP of the GT 640. Typically we see GDDR5 cards sport a higher TDP thanks to the memory's higher power consumption, and this would be further driven up by the fact that the GTX 650 is clocked higher than the GT 640. Given the fuzzy nature of NVIDIA's TDP ratings it's almost certain that the GTX 650 will draw more power than the GT 640, but it may end up being a very small difference if these TDP values are anywhere near accurate.
With that said, NVIDIA is equipping the GTX 650 with a 6pin PCIe power connector – strictly speaking it shouldn't be necessary for stock operation, but since this is a GTX card NVIDIA has professed a concern over power consumption when overclocking. Of course with the already high core clock of the GTX 650 it remains to be seen just how far GTX 650 can be overclocked. At the very least the lack of a boost clock means that overclocking will be a much more straightforward endeavor.
Of course the $64,000 question right now is whether all of this will be enough to make GTX 650 competitive with AMD's Radeon HD 7770 and 7750, and unfortunately that's an answer we're going to have to wait to get. Although both the GTX 650 and GTX 660 are launching today, NVIDIA didn't want to have the GTX 650 steal the GTX 660's time in the limelight, so the press was not sampled ahead of time. We'll be looking at the GTX 650 in the coming week, at which point we should have an answer to that question.
Summer 2012 GPU Pricing Comparison | |||||
AMD | Price | NVIDIA | |||
Radeon HD 7950 | $329 | ||||
$299 | GeForce GTX 660 Ti | ||||
Radeon HD 7870 | $249 | ||||
$239 | GeForce GTX 660 | ||||
Radeon HD 7850 | $199 | ||||
Radeon HD 7770 | $109 | GeForce GTX 650 | |||
Radeon HD 7750 | $99 | GeForce GT 640 |
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flyck - Friday, September 14, 2012 - link
the 650 is 20% slower than the 7770... actually its even a tad slower than the 7750. Although depending on the game choice this might fluctuate. There is absolutely no reason to buy a 650 for the price they are set above. Reply -
lmcd - Saturday, September 15, 2012 - link
Yeah when I first saw the guy above you's post I was trying to post from my phone desperately "DON'T LISTEN DDD:"
Thanks for making me feel better that not all hope was lost.
NVidia dropped the ball on midrange, here. The 650 seems about in line with the 5770 I got nearly two years ago, which is absolutely ridiculous, given that I got it for a nearly-comparable price. Two years ago.
I would go with a 7750 or 7770 if you think you might XF (CF?) later. It seems like most 7750s can OC the difference to a 7770 anyways, if you find you need the performance. Reply -
jtenorj - Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - link
I am very late, but HD7770 is the best choice. The shaders on the gtx560se run at
twice the speed of the rest of the chip, but a hd7770 is faster now than at launch
thanks to new drivers and overclocks like crazy. The gtx650 has lots of OCing
headroom too, but it performs worse than hd7750 at stock speeds( the gtx 650 needs
that pcie 6pin to stretch its legs). The performance of stock HD7770 at launch and a
stock gtx560se would be about the same(again, HD7770 is faster now than then and
has a lot more overclocking headroom). Oh, yeah. Of course gtx560se is faster than
gtx650(when they are at stock speeds), but HD7770 is faster than both(at stock, much
faster when overclocked).
Don't bother with crossfire, though(support is not universal and you risk experiencing
micro stuttering). Just get the HD7770 and overclock the snot out of it. Physx is very
niche, and you can pretty much make a radeon do anything else a geforce can do. Reply -
KineticHummus - Friday, September 14, 2012 - link
In my opinion, it seems like performance for a ~$100 card really has not increased all that much since a few years ago. Power consumption and noise has seen tremendous progress, dont get me wrong, but pure progress has been slow. I bought a gts250 in I believe March of 2010, possibly earlier, for 90 bucks. I'd love to upgrade, for a max of around 130 bucks, but based off of testing for the 7770/50 and the gtx650 (only seen tomshardware's review so far on the 650), I am left out in the cold with no real "upgrade" option. Only sidegrades to less power/noise. Really hope a generation soon will change this. Reply -
CaedenV - Friday, September 14, 2012 - link
Welcome to the future.
I think a lot of companies are realizing that they have reached the satisfy-able 'minimum' for customers at the low end. Proceeding generations will see smaller size, smaller heat sinks and fanless systems, less overall power usage, and the inclusion of newer standards and formats as they come out, but raw performance may not see much increase on the low end until new consoles come out. And even then we will see a boost in the minimum for a few years, and then it will level off.
Meanwhile, the high end of things will continue to see growth with minimal price increases, which means that you will get and ever increasing !/$ on mid-range cards.
The only thing that will really push the low end cards out of this quagmire will be whenever (if ever) onboard GPUs catch up to these performance levels. Reply -
lmcd - Saturday, September 15, 2012 - link
5770 actually seems to match this card entirely, including the price I got it at nearly two years ago. Reply -
MySchizoBuddy - Saturday, September 15, 2012 - link
For CUDA is it better to buy two of 650s instead of one 660? would love to see benchmarks with dual 650s Reply -
rscoot - Saturday, September 15, 2012 - link
I can't see why they would be, you'd still be down 192 SPs compared to a 660. Reply -
Lerianis - Sunday, September 16, 2012 - link
I'm assuming that is meant to keep competitors from easily dissecting leaks of design information. Reply -
jtenorj - Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - link
The 100 and 300 series were oem parts based on g9x silicon. Reply


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I made it back home from Detroit last night safe and sound and in one piece … actually, I returned home from my visit as a more whole piece than when I left last week. As I've mentioned in the past few weeks, I've been having a hard time emotionally (again) but I can honestly say that I have been feeling 100% better in the past few days. My quick trip home had a lot to do with my happier demeanor but the great counsel I got from my friend Josh Z. before I left was amazingly helpful as well. I managed to enjoy myself fully while I was home with my friends and I am now back in LA with a much happier and, I think, healthier attitude.
I had a really nice time just hanging out with Sarah and Mark at their home. This weekend wasn't about a vacation, it was about rejuvenating my soul with the quality time spent with my closest friends. I hope I was able to doll out some love to them because they heaped it upon me. I honestly don't know what the future will hold but I'm much more hopeful and positive than I have been in a very long time. I've decided to let the universe know that I am finally ready to move on … and move forward. Hopefully, the best is yet to come.
Now that I'm back home, I'm back to my crazy schedule. I have my third and final Björk concert tonight at the legendary Hollywood Bowl, then I have a dinner date with some old friends tomorrow … plus I have more training to do before I fly off to SF this weekend to run the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday … and those are just my plans for this week. I'll be bizzy but happily bizzy. I hope things are happy and well for all y'all, wherever in the world you may be. Keep all that positive energy flowing, y'all, cuz I feel it … and I love you all for it.


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Title: Burlington High School - Miscellaneous
- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
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1955/1956 BHS Student Council with Miss Mildred E. Akins, adviser. Photo appears in 1956 yearbook, Oread, p. 70
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From the Editor's Desk
Commentary By Howard Schwach
Ok, here's the deal. Under the mayor's new governance plan, all schools will be involved with one of three options:
The first option, Empowerment Schools, should be called the "don't call us, we'll call you option," because it allows principals a very large amount of autonomy in return for an agreement to reach specified performance goals. Of course, the "Empowerment Principals" have three years to reach those goals at which time he or she will simply retire or move on to another option, so it doesn't matter very much if the goals are reached or not. These schools are organized into loose affiliations or 20 other empowerment schools so that principals have somebody with which to network and commiserate.
The second option, the Purchasing of Services option, allows schools to purchase a package of services from one of four Learning Support Organizations, built around specific themes and run by present-day superintendents such as our own Kathleen Cashin. My feeling is that the majority of school principals will buy into this option because it is more familiar and less threatening than any of the others.
Those Support Organizations include the Integrated Curriculum and Instruction Group that will assist schools in developing an integrated curriculum.
The Community Group will focus on partnerships with community organizations and parent groups.
The Knowledge Group, led by Cashin, will help schools "implement a content-rich curriculum focusing on CORE facts."
The Leadership Group will focus on strengthening the leadership skills of principals and their leadership staff.
The third option is Purchasing of Services from Private, Profit, Providers. There are nine private providers willing to provide services to individual schools as well as networks of schools. They include: Success For All, which is widely used in New York City at the present time; New Visions; Replications, Inc. and the Center For Educational Innovation, all of which have been players in the city game for many years.
Under the rules of engagement, principals must consult with their leadership teams and make a decision by May 15. That's next Tuesday for those who have lost their calendars and don't know how to read the clock on their cell phones. The program they chose will begin in September and I have been told that decisions are not reversible until they have run for at least a year.
Chancellor Joel Klein, the mayor's favorite puppet, characterized the new structure as a reversal of the old Board of Education policies that had the Board on top of the pyramid and the schools at the bottom. Now, he says, the schools are at the pinnacle of the pyramid. "We are transforming a school system based on compliance and top-down decision making to one that empowers principals to make key decisions on what's best for students and their school communities," he said.
Each school will get an additional allocation of about $170,000 with which to purchase their option choice.
Then, the brave new world of New York City public school education begins - again.
Which, on the surface, sounds great. Motherhood and apple pie. Good old American Democracy at work. No Child Left Behind, and all that.
I have always been in favor of more empowerment for the school principal. I have been writing about it for years, and even recommended in this space about ten years ago a program that looks much like this one even though I was working for the District 27 office as a staff developer at the time.
The Mayor's program looks good, that is, until you look at the principals that have to make it work.
Fifteen years ago, even with a corrupt school board system, most of the schools had experienced principals who had to take a series of grueling tests to be eligible for their positions.
Candidates for principal had to have years as a teacher and then at least a few as a successful assistant principal and a master's degree in school supervision before they were even able to take the test for principal. That, of course, did not guarantee that all of the principals knew what they were doing.
Take a look at some of the principals I have worked for along memory lane in a 33-year-career, most of it local.
My first principal when I came out of the Navy and into the public school system at JHS 198 was Louis Bach, a Belle Harbor man who had been running the Board of Education department that purchased furniture for the schools. Close to retirement, he asked for a local school and "got" JHS 198, then a great school, as a reward. He had no idea of what he was doing and he was lucky that he had a good staff and good assistants.
At the end of that February semester, I decided that I did not want to teach so close to home and opted for a transfer to JHS 296K in the Bushwick Section of Brooklyn.
You have to remember that these were the days of the three-month school strike later declared to be the "School Wars" years. At that school, I met Joe Gordon, the best principal I ever worked for and a staff of experienced, dedicated assistant principals. They taught me a lot about school, teaching, programming and life.
After several years there, I moved on to Connecticut, where I edited one of the weekly school magazines for the company that put out Weekly Reader and Current Events.
When I came back to the city in the late 1970's things had changed in the schools. I got a job teaching Emotionally Handicapped kids in Coney Island.
I can't remember the name of the principal, but he once sent a parent up to my room to see me even though the parent held a knife in his hand.
Then came Vito Martino at IS 53 for nearly 25 years - a principal who was so bad at his job that the district broke the school into three grades and named an assistant principal to run each grade. Martino, who locked himself into his office for more than an hour each day so that he could have an undisturbed lunch, became a figurehead in his own building.
Most of those people should never have been principals in the first place, but others that I worked for were very good.
Some were "people-persons," others stayed close to their computers. Some schools ran much better than others.
My feeling has always been, "you've got to know the territory."
If you don't, you're in the wrong business. Many principals are simply in the wrong business and making them empowerment principals or taking away the needed guidance and supervisionthey're given by more experienced hands is simply a mistake.
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mod_tile is a system to serve raster tiles for example to use within a slippy map. It provides a dynamic combination of efficient caching and on the fly rendering. Due to its dynamic rendering, only a small fraction of overall tiles need to be kept on disk, reducing the resources required. At the same time, its caching strategy allows for a high performance serving and can support several thousand requests per second.
Mod_tile was originally written for serving the tiles of the main OSM map (Mapnik layer), but since is being used on a variety of different servers providing maps ontop of OpenStreetMap data.
The code is split into two parts:
- mod_tile - A custom Apache module which is responsible for serving tiles and requests the rendering of tiles if they aren't already available in cache or if they have changed since.
- A rendering back-end, that takes requests from mod_tile, and renders them to the file system. It is also responsible for queueing requests to ensure the server is not overloaded if many requests come in simultaneously. Currently there are two implementations of such a rendering back-end: The original renderd and tirex.
Features provided by mod_tile
- high performance serving of tiles
- management of dynamic rendering requests
- support for multiple different styles
- expiry and rerendering of individual tiles
- dynamic adjustment of cache_expiry headers
- a number of munin graphs to monitor the status and health of the server
- throttling of individual clients (by ip-address) to a fair share quota.
Installing a tile server based on mod_tile requires a number of steps, some of which can be skipped depending on your needs:
Install mod_tile From Source
(tested with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS)
- Make sure that you have installed Mapnik, libmapnik-dev, autoconf and apache2-dev:
sudo apt install libmapnik3.0 libmapnik-dev mapnik-utils python-mapnik autoconf apache2-dev
- Create and navigate to your directory for source code
mkdir ~/src cd src/
- Checkout the mod_tile source from Git and enter the directory
git clone https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile/ cd mod_tile
- Compile the sources
./autogen.sh ./configure make
- Install mod_tile
sudo make install sudo make install-mod_tile sudo ldconfig
Mapnik rendering toolchain
mod_tile uses Mapnik as a rendering backend. Therefore it is necessary to install it first and populate the PostGIS database with data first using osm2pgsql. The detailed steps are shown at [1]
build and install the mod_tile apache module from source. If you use debian you can add this line in your source.list :
deb http://repository.azae.net/debian/squeeze/ squeeze main
and install : libapache2-mod-tile and renderd
tile expiry
After rendering a tile, it gets cached on disk for fast serving. As OSM data is constantly updated, improved and changed, a mechanism is needed to correctly expire the cache to ensure updated tiles get re-rendered.
There are several possible mechanisms available for expiring and updating tiles (either through mod_tile or by directly re-rendering cached tiles), of which often a combination is used:
mod_tiles expiry works by comparing the time stamp of rendered tiles to the date of the last full data import into the database.
If the planet time stamp is updated, all tiles are automatically marked as in need for re-rendering (dirty) and will be submitted to the rendering backend on next visit.
For the diff-based updates of the database, expiring all tiles would be too costly, and so only those tiles for which the data was updated get expired by altering the time stamp of those tiles to date far in the past. Again there are two different scripts for doing this. One ruby script and one based on output from osm2pgsql.
Alternatively, there are a number of helper utilities that can directly talk to renderd or tirex, submitting tiles for rerendering. This is often used to re-render low-zoom tiles on a periodical basis in the background, as it would be too costly to update them through the normal diff-based expiry.
See also for more details: Tile expire methods.
Add HTTPS
Making your server support https/ssl is a simple matter of creating a new Apache site (generally by copying the config from the http version) and adding the SSLEngine configuration options like any other site. Remember to change the port from 80 to 443.
There are a number of HowTo's available to set up a tile server based upon mod_tile.
- DE:HowTo minutely hstore (German) - Describes the full setup of the mapnik rendering tool chain together with installing mod_tile, tirex and tile expiry
- Build your own OpenStreetMap Server - Describes the setup of the mapnik rendering toolchain
- HowTo mod tile - Describes real mod_tile install, it is a follow-up to the "build-your-own-openstreetmap-server" guide.
- User:Kodapan/Howto_mod_tile - Guide without link to other guides that are now 404, using specific revisions of everything to ensure it really works.
Most config can be done in the apache config and in /etc/renderd.conf
Some special options like MAX_ZOOM can only be set on complile time in render_config.h
You will likely need to do some more preparation to load the data for rendering in mapnik.
The style sheet also needs adjusting
Testing and debugging installation
After installation and configuration, it is important to test that everything is working.
Here is a list of some of the common mistakes and problems and how to detect them:
- Check if mod_tile is loaded into Apache. First you should check if mod_tile is correctly loaded into your apache. One way of doing this is my verifying that you get the mod_tile status page under http://your.server/mod_tile . The status page should give you a number of tiles mod_tile has served, split by zoom-level, their status codes and how many requests it has sent to the rendering back end.
- Check if mod_tile can communicate with the rendering back end.
- Check that mod_tile has read permissions to the tile directory.
Additional help in trouble shooting might be found in the general help system of OSM
Source code
The code is in Git at https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile, the readme.txt file contains other important information which you should read before trying to use this code.
Use git clone https://github.com/openstreetmap/mod_tile.git
Bug reports and feature requests
Mod_tile has been running stable on the OSM main page and many other sites for quite some time now with little trouble. It should thus be very stable and robust. Nevertheless, as will all software, it can have bugs. If you find any problems or instability using mod_tile, please report it on our bug tacker so that any remaining issues can be fixed:
Search for mod_tile tickets on trac
Do 'login' and 'new ticket'. Set the 'component' as 'mapnik' but mention 'mod_tile' in the description. In trac you can also report feature requests, however as always, there is no guarantee that any of the feature requests will get picked up.
Alternatively some issues and enhancements are listed below
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The current code has been running with few problems now for over a year but there are always some things which could be improved...
- Lots of parameters are set in the render_config.h file and compiled into the mod_tile & renderd code. Ideally mod_tile should get all these parameters from some suitable module config options in the Apache config file. The renderd process would also need a config file or some command line options. Update: Many parameters are now set at runtime thanks to [r12950] by Brian Quinion
Update: REQUEST_TIMEOUT, MAX_LOAD_OLD, MAX_LOAD_MISSING, and RENDER_SOCKET can now be set in Apache Config with ModTileRequestTimeout, ModTileMaxLoadOld, ModTileMaxLoadMissing, and ModTileRenderdSocketName. Update: socket name, number of threads, and some mapnik parameters can now be set in renderd.conf.
It would be nice to support multiple layers using different osm.xml style files.Implemented in [r12950] by Brian Quinion -
Scalability of the list of tiles to render. Currently this is a linked list which needs to be scanned completely on each insertion to avoid duplicates. Maybe this should be a hash or tree to allow faster searching. This is mostly mitigated by using meta tiles. We currently only store a meta-tiles in the request queue instead of individual tiles. This effectively reduces the queue length by 64 (assuming METATILE=8). We also apply a hard limit on the queue lengths to prevent the search time growing excessively. Any popular tile will just get queued again when the queues have shrunk.Implemented in [r17338] - There is a massive surge in rendering requests after the new planet dump has been imported. For several hours almost all tiles which are looked at will need to be re-rendered and this puts quite a strain on the rendering queue. We may need to implement another back-off algorithm to improve this behaviour.
Bulk download tools can place an abnormal load on the system. They tend to download large numbers of tiles one after another with no break. They normally download all tiles within a given bounding box and can often download 100k+ tiles over a few hours. One of the existing backoff algorithms will return an error if the system is overloaded but the entries will still be added to the render queue. For bulk downloaders this has the unfortunate side effect of letting them fill the render queue faster than if they had to wait for each tile to be rendered and downloaded. I suspect this makes the Wednesday import load spike worse than it would otherwise be. The legacy ruby serving scripts imposed a time penalty for all requests which caused a new tile to be rendered and we may need to implement something similar in mod_tileImplemented in [r22778].
More ideas
The current server is managing to keep up fairly well with the rendering load. In Feb 2008 the server can re-render all the present tiles within the 7 day window between planet updates. It should take less than 14 days for any new data to appear on the map tiles (up to 7 days for the next planet dump and then up to 7 days for all the tiles to be re-rendered). Often it will be less, e.g. data added on Tuesday will often appear on the map on Thursday.
Scalability of the rendering. The present scheme uses a single multithreaded rendering process. Ideally we want to be able to expand this across multiple rendering machines. Maybe there should be a 3rd tier which handles the request queue and acts as a broker between multiple mod_tile and rendering processesImplemented in [r17329]. - High availability - If we wanted to scale even further then maybe there could support for multiple queues. If each mod_tile supported making requests to multiple queues and each renderer could request from multiple queues then a redundant system could be developed.
Build mod_tile against GIT rather than mapnik 0.5.1 .. you'll have problem with multi-threading renderd otherwise. fribidi is not thread-safe, and TRUNK now uses libicu. - While using debian, be sure to install either apache2-prefork-dev or apache2-threaded-dev
, and modify the makefile in order to use /usr/bin/apxs2 instead of /usr/sbin/apxs. -
Check render_config.h for config parameters, like the number of renderd threads, the cut-off system loads, and the fonts directory. Renderd may crash while trying to use any font if this is wrongly set.
Unless specified, the configuration is read from the file /etc/renderd.conf installed with 'make install'
- The default configuration for stats file is '/var/run/renderd/renderd.stats', thus create manually the directory if it is missing.
- To see the syslog, execute renderd with the option -f (or use inet.d).


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Samsung is again free to sell its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all European Union countries except for Germany, after a court in Düsseldorf changed its injunction enacted last week.
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The change came down to uncertainties about jurisdiction.
"It is not clear if the court can forbid a company based in Korea to sell its products in other countries than Germany," said a spokesman at the Düsseldorf district court Tuesday.
Samsung filed an objection against the prior injunction on Monday, stressing the difference between Samsung GmbH in Germany and Samsung Korea. On Tuesday the Düsseldorf court said that while Samsung GmbH, the company's German affiliate, may not trade in Galaxy Tabs outside Germany, Samsung Korea can.
A week ago Apple confirmed that the court had granted a preliminary injunction blocking Samsung from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablets across all E.U. nations, except for the Netherlands. The case is related to the design of Samsung's tablet, which Apple claims is a copy of its iPad.
Unsurprisingly, the initial injunction didn't sit well with Samsung. According to a statement from the company, it was "disappointed with the court's decision and we intend to act immediately to defend our intellectual property rights."
However, Samsung and its tablet aren't free of legal proceedings yet. Neither Samsung in Korea nor its German subsidiary are allowed to sell the product in Germany.
The case is due back in court on Aug. 25, when Samsung is set to explain why its tablet should be allowed to go on sale in Germany, as well.
Samsung welcomed the court's latest decision to lift the ban through most of Europe.
"Samsung is fully committed to providing our innovative mobile devices to the market without disruption, and ensuring that consumers have a wider selection of innovative products to choose from," the company said in a statement. "We look forward to the opportunity to reassert our intellectual property rights at the hearing scheduled on August 25."
Meanwhile, an investigation by IDG publication Webwereld shows that at least one of the Galaxy Tab pictures that Apple provided as evidence in the case is wrong or manipulated. Photographic evidence submitted by Apple in its complaint includes a picture of the Tab that does not match with the real Galaxy Tab 10.1, Webwereld discovered.
Apple Europe declined to comment on either the court's ruling to lift the ban in most of Europe, or the Webwereld findings.
(Additional reporting by Loek Essers of Webwereld.)
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Christiane Amanpour's days as anchor of ABC's "This Week" on Sunday mornings may be numbered.
A new round of rumors about her future with the show began circulating Friday in the wake of a New York Post story that ABC News is already eyeing possible replacements for the high-profile news-and-current-affairs broadcast.
According to this story, the consideration of replacements is well under way. An unnamed source tells the newspaper that Amanpour will likely leave the show soon to assume a foreign correspondent's role with the ABC news division — a role more in line with her career history. It's also rumored that she might leave ABC entirely and return to CNN.
These rumors that she's been unhappy anchoring "This Week" have been circulating for quite some time. The anchor position is essentially a "desk job" when compared to the swashbuckling world of reporting from hot spots around the globe that she's accustomed to. And the Post item on Friday says ratings for "This Week" have not been strong under Amanpour's reign.
Among the names being bandied about — and which we bandy here: Terry Moran, Jonathan Karl (ABC News congressional correspondent), Jake Tapper (political correspondent) and Matthew Dowd, a political consultant who appears on "This Week" and other ABC News shows (he was on "Charlie Rose" the other night too and gave a great interview about the political scene).


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Archive for August, 2008
PlayStation Store Update 8.28.08
Posted by T0SH in PLAYSTATION Store on August 28th, 2008
Wow, and just in time for the long weekend 🙂 The Last Guy & the Warhawk Fallen Star Pack are insta-buys! I've been wanting to try out Soul Calibur 4 too.
The Last Guy ($9.99)
Warhawk Fallen Star Pack ($7.99)
Warhawk Booster Combo ($15.99)
Rock Bank
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* "Don't Make Me Wait" – Locksley ($0.99)
* "Don't Make Me Wait" – Locksley ($0.99)
* "All Over Again" – Locksley ($0.99)
* Locksley Pack 1 ($2.99) – includes: "All Over Again," "Don't Make Me Wait," and "She Does" by Locksley.
Game/Movie Trailers:
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LittleBigPlanet Leipzig "Sackzilla" Trailer
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Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway Machine Gun & Bazooka Video
Facebreaker Audition Video #1
Facebreaker Audition Video #2
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Madden NFL 09 Gameplay Trailer
Madden NFL 09 Madden Moments Trailer
Madden NFL 09 Play Call Trailer
Top Spin 3 Player Creator Trailer
Quantum Of Solace Trailer
Prom Night Trailer
The Last Guy Wallpaper (x2)
Buzz!™ Junior Jungle Party, £3.49
The Last Guy, £4.99
The Last Guy Asakusa Level, FREE
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HAWX Trailer, FREE
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The Last Guy, FREE
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Medal of Honor Heros 2, £14.99
Pipe Mania, FREE
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Soul Calibur IV
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Guitar Hero: 16 music pack (already on others PSS)
Vampire Rain 1 & 2 (¥300)
Jeux PS1 :
* G-Darius (PSP Compatible; ¥600)
* Blockids (PS3 et PSP Compatible; ¥600)
* Bomberman Fantasy Race (PS3 et PSP Compatible; ¥600)
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Home Coming this year we promise says Sony
Posted by T0SH in PlayStation Home on August 28th, 2008
It has been a LONG wait for Home, it's been delayed again and again. But the wait is almost over. It "should" be coming sometime in 2008. The expanded private Home beta should be available this week, or at least more info on it. I'm guessing Friday or maybe in today's PSN update. In fact Asia will be getting some details on the expanded Home beta tomorrow. See here.
I try not to think about Home much anymore to make the wait less painful. But I think for it to be really popular it needs to be continually updated with new info.
Home Producer Van der Meulen told IGN "without hesitation" that there is a "100 percent guarantee" that the oft-delayed Home will be released by "the end of this calendar year." Not 2009. Not 2010. This year. "He has absolutely no doubt that this will be the case."
Welcome to Trevor!
Posted by Blackstaffer in Talk on August 27th, 2008
Hey everyone! Time for a bit of editorializing!
I'd like to announce Trevor has joined our team here at PS3Blog.net. He expressed interest in contributing to this site, and I've been enjoying his comments (under a different name, you can ask him what!). To make a short story even shorter, he's now an author here.
Well, supposedly. I haven't seen him post an article yet…
So welcome Trev aboard. He's our second UK-based author!
Warhawk 1.50 Patch Out
Warhawk 1.50 – It's out in Europe and North America. I just downloaded it a few minutes ago. The main things it added are a training mode, custom soundtracks and trophies.


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Forum Post: Drones---More Issues
Posted 4 years ago on Dec. 1, 2012, 12:40 p.m. EST by Nevada1
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Posted 4 years ago on Dec. 1, 2012, 12:40 p.m. EST by Nevada1
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You must realize the MIC is run amok. Article V of the constitution is the only remedy.
With preparatory amendment it is politically safe. Three amendments are demanded of all delegates for preparation BEFORE Article V, to assure all amendments have constitutional intent.
1)End the abridging of free speech (mass media)
2)Campaign finance reform (citizens united)
3) secure the vote (diebold etc.)
Thank you rayolite, for post.
Nice reply.
The nwo loves it when we only discuss problems. Therefore I work to inspire discussion upon solution. I appreciate your recognition of that:-)
Perhaps we make a statement about this being very political, and if you are of the "we arent political" nature of some occupiers, then you dont have to attend?
ows seems committed to socialist democracy not a democratically controlled republic. Such is the reason the nycga was unable to carry discussion upon Article V back in December of 2011.
There appears to be the unreasonable assumption that if it is associated with the constitution it is an extension of the status quo federal entity we have known all of our lives.
As if that entity had a lot to do with the constitution. It does not. In fact, the USA corporation created in 1867 is dedicated to removing the constitution.
Thats why I think there needs to be an announcement that addresses this, and if people are down then come along, if not, then no one is forcing you to.
Either way, someone/place/thing has GOT to give the people something to start creating their own thing again. Its the only way out of this.
"Either way, someone/place/thing has GOT to give the people something to start creating their own thing again. Its the only way out of this"
hchc, our constitution meets our need for a government that respects our lives. Our lives ARE our thing. Really, constitutional intent is a philosophical position that preserves our lives and assures future generations have the same opportunity.
This IS our thing
Understanding preparatory amendment, or how it is "our thing" because it makes the nation constitutional enough to properly conduct Article V with all amendments having constitutional intent.
Also, with states citizens in agreement, state ratifications will be much easier. But the discussion on constitutional intent must be pervasive in our culture.
I can get down with that. Im saying that most people dont understand this stuff, and that most people think they have no power. We need to bring this to light in the streets of every major city and start involving people in creating this.
Yea, Abraham Lincoln on every corner.-the people are the rightful masters of the congress and the courts" BECAUSE they know and agree upon constitutional intent. Free speech MUST have it's greatest meaning to do this.
That information needed for survival be shared and understood.
Preparatory Amendments To Article V: 1)End the abridging of free speech. 2)Campaign finance reform 3)Secure the vote
Art 5 Convention this upcoming July 4th in every city? One city per state? This was suppose to happen last year, similar, for Occupy, in Philly.
Then all the bullshit worrying about this and that and the other thing ruiined the whole fuckin thing instead of just going forward with it.
We could make another push for something this year?
Yes, but we need to become the "masters of the congress and the courts", which happens through free speech.
This site kinda' has a problem with that sometimes. Another forum dealing with Article V specifically was deluged with spam accounts and was temporarily locked.
Not sure if it will be opened up or not.
"just going forward with it."
Let me expand.
Justifiably, one American at a time must agree to focus primarily on Article V and preparatory amendment. Politics as usual are observed to what ever degree is needed, and, every effort to inhibit erosion of any constitutionality is of course made in unity if possible. Just to maintain whatever is left while we restore constitutional federal government through Article V.
Damn, only 43 registered on that site. Perhaps need to start posting on facebook.
Judge Napalitano said the first person to shoot one down here will be a national hero.
More abuse by the judicial system here: https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/11/29
Down with Military Drones - militarized drones are an abomination.
Hello DKA, More Drone info. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/11/us/maryland-drone-crash/index.html
Thx - yeah we really want these things filling the air - Hey? NOT
Even if unarmed - a break in transmission to the drone and there is gonna be an explosion on the ground where it crashes. Any loss of control by the operator - and - BOOM - somewhere.
Agree. This brings up concept of countermeasures.
Signal interference? Intentional? Yeah they would seem to be susceptible to things like that.
Regarding the drone that went down in Iran, the technology has likely been shared.
Yeah - there is always that to consider as well - Bad information/technology - proliferation.
"Proliferation"---that is the word.
US has proven them to be such an effective 'weapon of terror'.
9,000,000 per unit - a pretty pricey weapon of terror - weapon of terror none the less - and I am sure they could be made on the cheap as well.
Wonder how many water purification set-ups 9,000,000 would finance?
Wind power farms?
How many solar energy farms?
How many deep well water pumps?
How many medical clinics?
How many schools?
How much towards healthy life - peaceful life - prosperous Life?
Death is not the solution for peace. These drones need to disappear.
"An inexperienced military contractor in shorts and a T-shirt, flying by remote control from a trailer at Seychelles International Airport, committed blunder after blunder in six minutes on April 4.
He sent the unarmed MQ-9 Reaper drone off without permission from the control tower. A minute later, he yanked the wrong lever at his console, killing the engine without realizing why.
As he tried to make an emergency landing, he forgot to put down the wheels. The $8.9 million aircraft belly-flopped on the runway, bounced and plunged into the tropical waters at the airport's edge, according to a previously undisclosed Air Force accident investigation report."
Glad to know it's that easy to access these. Makes me feel so safe!


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Paramount Pictures has hired Iron Man 3 co-writer Drew Pearce to pen Mission: Impossible 5, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Tom Cruise will star in and produce the fifth installment and is expect to shoot the movie in the fall after filming Warner Bros. Pictures' The Man From U.N.C.L.E..
The trade adds that Christopher McQuarrie (Jack Reacher) is in discussions to direct the film.
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State investigators in Florida are taking a close look at a brain injury treatment center in Wauchula. Current and former patients at the Florida Institute for Neurologic Rehabilitation (FINR) have come forward with allegations of abuse at the hands of staffers. The state investigated the center last year after a patient died, although state regulators halted their investigation over jurisdictional concerns. The center now faces civil claims and administrative proceedings, and several staffers face criminal charges.
Founded as a for-profit facility in 1992, FINR is located in Wauchula, about fifty miles southeast of Tampa in Hardee County. It is one of the largest centers dedicated to the treatment of brain injuries in the country, with 196 beds, and it takes in patients from all over the country. According to an investigative report by David Armstrong in Bloomberg, the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) has received 477 reports alleging neglect or abuse at the center since 2005. Its investigations have reportedly "verified" thirty-six of them. DCF says it refers verified matters to law enforcement.


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Google Chrome Wants to be Your OS
A couple of months ago, my wife told me, "The Internet is slow." I had a look at her computer, which still runs Windows XP because that's what she knows and likes, and realized that she was still browsing with IE8 (not that she could upgrade IE from there on XP). I used IE8 to install Google Chrome, then allowed Chrome to copy her bookmarks and make itself the default browser; just like that, the Internet was no longer slow.
Chrome is not just the cure for slow browsing. It has a number of other key features to recommend it, including excellent HTML standards compliance, its own copy of Flash, its own PDF viewer, automatic updating, synchronization across computers, incognito viewing, and many extensions.
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On the negative side, Chrome can be a huge memory hog, and it forces you to log in with your Google account if you want to take advantage of its coolest features, such as synchronization among computers and mobile devices. I don't mind logging in, even though it can sometimes be a pain given that I use two-factor authentication, but I know people who think that this loss of anonymity is not worth the benefits.
A platform for apps
If you look at a Chromebook, you'll see Chrome apps as well as the Chrome browser. These apps, or most of them, are also available to Chrome users on Macs, Windows, and (real soon now) Linux. I say "most of them" because QuickOffice comes standard on Chromebooks but is not available from the Chrome Web Store.
The first time you install a Chrome app on a given computer, Chrome will construct a Chrome App Launcher panel (and dock or toolbar icon) for you, which contains icons for the freshly installed app and any others that may have been synchronized to the current computer. When you add more Chrome apps, they will automatically be appended to the Launcher panel. You can easily organize your Launcher panel pages by dragging icons from page to page.
The assortment of Chrome apps you'll find in the Web Store is not quite what you might expect. I thought I'd mostly find productivity apps, especially ones that use Google infrastructure. I did find those, but I also found plenty of image editing apps, music playing apps, news and weather apps, and games. I also found numerous office applications and utilities, including several remote desktop apps. The latter are suddenly even more interesting now that Google and VMware have teamed up to make Windows VMs available for Chromebook users.
There is also a good assortment of business applications in Chrome App form, many of which are also available as Web apps. Examples include QuickBooks, Zoho CRM, Staff Squared HR, SEO SERP Workbench, Clever Elements, and Salesforce.
I expected Chrome apps to be slow to load and run, but I was wrong. The ones I have used load faster than many native applications and run nearly as quickly. Chrome apps tend to be smaller and more focused than many native applications, but that isn't necessarily bad.
The app has an event page that runs in the background and handles user gestures and system events. The Chrome Content Security Policy enforces stronger security than you'll typically find in a Web application, and it provides the ability to set up privilege separation on a per-window basis. Sandboxing for Chrome apps is even stronger than sandboxing for Chrome extension processes.
Services available to Chrome apps include push messaging, several different storage APIs, drag and drop, and access to Google Drive. Chrome apps can use USB, Bluetooth, and serial devices, and they can act as network clients. A developer can use Native Client (C/C++) code in Chrome apps but should structure the package hierarchy to reduce the size of the user download.
Best among browsers
Recently, Chrome has been blowing all other browsers away in almost every conceivable speed test. (The most recent public results I can find are here.) I say "almost" because Microsoft has posted some tests in which the latest version of IE beats all comers. I have seen accusations that the Microsoft test site is rigged, but I haven't investigated them. In any case, those Microsoft test results don't correspond to my real-life experience.
Chrome is fast for multiple reasons. One is that its JavaScript engine is efficient; another is that it uses the SPDY protocol when it can. I installed a Chrome extension to display the SPDY status of Web pages, and I wasn't surprised to find that many of the sites where I normally see the biggest speed improvement from Chrome are also the sites that support SPDY. On a geeky side note, sites typically support SPDY by using Nginx, which also speeds up the Web server.
On a Mac (above), the new Chrome "For your desktop" apps live in a launcher in the Dock. When expanded, the Chrome App Launcher has room for 16 app icons per page. You can easily drag and drop icons from page to page in roughly the same way as you would with Android screens. On Windows 8.x with the Metro aka Modern aka Windows Store interface (below), Chrome Apps appear on the same Modern "desktop" as Chrome itself. Note that you have to allow Chrome to be the default browser on Windows 8.x to enable its Modern interface version.
Unfortunately Chrome is a memory hog. It's actually not as bad a memory hog as its own diagnostics say it is on a Mac -- they suffer from some double counting -- but I routinely see the sum of the RAM used by all the Google Chrome and Google Chrome Helper processes running into multiple gigabytes. Admittedly, I keep a lot of tabs open, including tabs for Gmail, Outlook.com, Facebook, and other memory-heavy applications.
If RAM usage matters a lot to you, you might find that Firefox works better for you than Chrome. I spend most of my browsing time on an iMac with 16GB of RAM, followed closely by a MacBook with 8GB of RAM. With that much RAM, memory usage from the browser becomes an issue for me only when I also have multiple photo and video editing programs, software development environments, or VMs running. And when that's the case, I usually shut down the browser or close all but the essential tabs.
Niels Leenheer maintains a well-regarded suite of HTML conformance tests at html5test.com. The current results show Chrome 32 with a score of 503 (as of Feb. 13, 2014) out of a possible 555, the highest among desktop browsers, followed in descending order by Firefox 26, IE11, Opera 18, and Safari 7.0.
Always up to date
One of the reasons my site Tubifi.com recommends that people use Chrome when running our online video editor is that Chrome has its own copy of Adobe Flash, and it keeps it up to date automatically. I can't tell you how many error reports I've heard that were resolved by having people either update their Flash installation or switch to Chrome.
While the private version of Flash that Chrome maintains seems like a good thing to me, the internal PDF viewer in Chrome is a mixed blessing. There are times when it really speeds up viewing a PDF, and there are times when it gets in the way of viewing a PDF properly. When the feature first came out, it mostly got in the way, and the interesting information for people to know was how to revert to viewing PDFs in Adobe Reader. (Enter chrome:plugins in the address bar and click Disable underneath the entry for Chrome PDF Viewer. The Adobe Reader plug-in will automatically be enabled, if you have it installed.) Now it's not quite so bad. I personally let Chrome display PDFs itself, but when there's a table of contents I want to see or a form to fill out, I download the file and open it in Adobe Acrobat Pro or Apple Preview.
I mentioned above that Chrome's automatic updating of Flash is one reason to use it. In fact, Chrome usually updates all of itself in the background when you're not using it, and if you go a few days without closing it, Chrome will let you know that there's a new version that will load the next time you start Chrome.
Once in a while, though, Chrome will get itself into a state where it can't reach its update server. The symptom I've seen is that when you go into About Google Chrome, it will attempt to update, then report Error 12. The way to fix this is to close Chrome, download a fresh copy of Chrome using another browser, and install that copy manually.
Chrome apps do not need to look like a browser. Here you see Autodesk Pixlr Touch Up, where I am non-destructively adding a transparent layer to an image. This is the kind of functionality you expect from a native app like Photoshop, not a browser-based app. (Click the image for a close-up view.)
I formerly used a browser plug-in called Xmarks that synchronized all my bookmarks. At some point, Xmarks was withdrawn from the market temporarily. It eventually came back, but I had moved on. Meanwhile, Chrome and Firefox got their own synh functions, and people learned to sync IE bookmarks via SkyDrive (recently renamed OneDrive for legal reasons). I've never gone back to Xmarks. Chrome sync works fine for me across all my computers and all my mobile devices.
In addition to automatic updating and internal copies of Flash and a PDF viewer, all of which improve its security, Chrome has internal detection of infected sites and detection of bad SSL certificates. It also sandboxes browser tabs and extensions. In most browser security tests, Chrome comes out on top, or tied for the top grade.
The most noticeable feature of the Chrome UI is that there is only one box for search and navigation, called the omnibox. You'd think that would be confusing, but Chrome does a good job of offering you the right choices, especially if you have "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar" checked in your advanced preferences. Type "onion" into the omnibox, and you'll see suggestions ranging from "theonion.com" to "onion soup."
I appreciate the malleability of Chrome tabs. It's easy to drag them around, move them into separate windows, reopen them from the same computer, and reopen them from another computer.
Thinking outside the browser
With the exception of memory usage, Chrome is the top choice for Web browsing available today on Windows, OS X, and Linux. It offers superior speed, usability, and security. In addition, Chrome provides a framework and Web store for apps that run on Windows, OS X, Linux, and Chromebooks.
The Chrome Apps architecture offers a container and APIs that developers can use to easily build desktop applications using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. These apps perform surprisingly well, partly because the Chrome JavaScript engine is very fast -- faster than Python in some tests -- but also because the Chrome APIs are fairly thin layers over native OS APIs.
Now Chrome apps are making the leap to mobile devices. Google recently released a developer preview of a toolchain, called MobileChromeApps, that allows developers to wrap Chrome apps with native shells for Android and iOS, then publish them to the Google and Apple app stores.
As phones and tablets become more powerful and less memory-constrained, and Chrome on mobile gains larger and larger subsets of the functionality of Chrome on the desktop, the possibilities will get even more interesting. Google Chrome has become much more than a browser.
- Fast, standards-compliant Web browser
- Includes its own copy of Flash and keeps itself updated
- Many extensions available for Chrome, almost as many as Firefox
- Support for desktop apps using Chrome Platform APIs
- Chrome apps can work offline with some level of functionality
- You can synchronize Chrome among computers and mobile devices, as long as you sign in with your Google account
- Substantial memory footprint
- You need a Google account to use the full features
- Debugging tools are not quite as good as Firebug on Firefox
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