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By Dave Oberhelman
No. 9 Winnebago (9-2) at No. 4 Aurora Christian (10-1)
Class 3A quarterfinals
Game time: 6 p.m. Saturday.
Last week: Winnebago 56, No. 1 Elmwood-Brimfield 20; Aurora Christian 28, No. 12 Immaculate Conception 21.
Outlook: This is the same matchup as last year, when Aurora Christian beat the Indians 48-13 in the quarterfinals. Winnebago, which has never advanced past this stage in 10 prior playoff appearances, beat the Eagles 28-14 in a 3A first-rounder in 2009. This season coach Mark Helm's Indians placed third behind Byron and Rockford Lutheran in the Big Northern West, and took losses to Rockford Lutheran and Stillman Valley while outscoring its opposition 457-231 to date. "This will be another good test for our defense against their offense," said Aurora Christian coach Don Beebe. "Their offense is pretty good." Must be, to put up 56 points on an unbeaten No. 1 seed that gave up an average of 12.9 points. The Rockford Registar Star reports that Winnebago's multiple offense -- sometimes three backs, other times four wideouts -- has accumulated more than 3,000 yards rushing. But it's very spread out, Jake Hickey leading the squad with 542 yards rushing. Quarterback Ryan Swigart, who actually caught 4 passes for 61 yards as a receiver in last year's game, has completed better than half his 106 pass attempts for 1,044 yards, 3 interceptions and 14 touchdowns, 9 of them to 6-foot receiver Derek Polkowski. Beebe said Helm has tweaked the offense from the scheme that last year the Eagles outgained 487 yards to 259. "Usually they're run-oriented, but they've got a better quarterback and they throw a little more than what you would expect a Winnebago team to do," Beebe said. On the ground, Beebe said the Indians will run between the tackles but also are dangerous attacking the perimeter. The Peoria Journal Star said nine different Winnebago offensive players touched the ball and six scored in the first half of the win over Elmwood-Brimfield. Defensively, Winnebago has also veered from the four-man front Aurora Christian saw last season to a 3- or 5-man front headed by quick, 190-pound nose tackle Sean Ward. "So it's a nice test for our center (Tristan Withrow)," Beebe said. A week ago at Immaculate Conception Beebe challenged defenders such as defensive end Jonah Walker after a 14-14 halftime tie. The Eagles outscored IC 14-7 the second half, Walker forcing 2 fumbles and quarterback Ryan McQuade connecting on 2 touchdown passes to Cory Windle. Except for the passing arm of IC's Demetrius Carr, however, the Knights' option offense does not show the variety of Winnebago, Beebe said. But with Walker, safety Brandon Mayes, lineman Josh Kok, cornerbacks Legend Smith and M.J. Zepeda, middle linebacker Joel Bouagnon (team-high 93 tackles) and the rest of a stellar 3-5 defense, this group is even better than last year's, which won 3A and helped eliminate Winnebago in a running-clock rout. And, the Eagles are at home where they can better use their speed. "We have struggled at times on grass," Beebe said. "Our speed is amplified on turf."
Next week: The winner advances to the 3A semifinals between the winner of No. 2 Sterling Catholic Newman (11-0) and No. 11 Wilmington (9-2).


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UPDATED July 26, 2013
By Julie Montanaro
Thomasville, GA - An Applebee's manager accused of stealing money from the restaurant is now behind bars in Las Vegas.
News of his arrest at a casino is the talk of Thomasville and David Payne is expected to go before a judge in the morning.
David Payne was caught on surveillance camera at the Applebee's in Thomasville.
Police say he took more than nine thousand dollars in cash out of the safe, put it into a bag and disappeared.
Now, 11 days later and more than two thousand miles away, he's been arrested at a Las Vegas casino.
"We called up the Las Vegas Police Department, they went and searched the hotel parking lot for his vehicle," said Thomasville Police Detective Louis Schofill, "they were able to locate the vehicle, went and found out that vehicle was registered to a room, they then went to that room, knocked on the door, Mr. Payne was inside."
Detectives say Payne was caught at Harrah's with a large stack of cash. Thomasville Police are now checking to see how long he'd been there and if he was caught on tape by any of the casino's surveillance cameras.
"That's just greed for money," said Tommy Smith as he picked up lunch nearby. "You're making good money, and then you go and steal from the company you work for, then just going gambling to lose more money? That's real dumb," Smith said.
Thomasville Police are now trying to find out if this was the only time Payne helped himself to money in the Applebee's safe.
Applebee's franchise vice president Troy Thrasher visited the Thomasville restaurant Friday. He wouldn't comment except to say Applebee's is doing its own internal investigation.
One customer shook her head and said "I just don't think he thought this through."
Payne is expected to go before a judge in Las Vegas for an extradition hearing Saturday morning. Detectives say that'll determine how long it will take to bring Payne back to Thomasville.
Thomasville, GA -
Detective Louis Schofill with the Thomasville Police Department confirmed that 43-year-old David Payne was taken into custody in Las Vegas today (7/25) around 3:30 p.m. eastern time.
He says Las Vegas P.D. found him in a Harrah's Casino.
Payne was also driving a 2011 dark red Ford Fusion with Florida plates.
Authorities also say they found some of the money he allegedly stole in his vehicle.
By: Kara Duffy
July 24, 2013
Thomasville, GA - Thomasville Police say 44-year-old David Payne was last seen Sunday July 14th, just after midnight. Payne, who is the manager of the Thomasville Applebee's Restaurant, was last seen on camera in the restaurant's back room. Surveillance video shows him leave the room for a moment, return with a bag and is then seen emptying the safe.
"From what we understand there was 9,333 dollars taken from that safe," said Lt. Eric Hampton, with the Thomasville Police Department.
Police say since that night, Payne has disappeared and has only surfaced once, briefly.
"He did leave a letter in the mailbox of his father's residence that apologized for what he had done. However, his father has not heard anything else from him and no one else has heard anything from him since that night," Lt. Hampton said.
We reached out to employees at both the Thomasville Branch restaurant, as well as Applebee's Corporate Franchise; neither would make a comment about Payne, as the investigation is ongoing.
Investigators say Payne, who could be driving a dark red 2011 Ford Fusion is wanted for felony theft by taking.
"The criminal charges, those have to be addressed, but his safety is definitely our priority at this time," Lt. Hampton added.
Anyone with information on Payne's whereabouts is asked to contact Thomasville Police at 229- 227-3249 or Thomasville Crimestoppers at 229-227-3305.

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Eddie Kidwell to Jeffrey Kenneth Wright, property in Harrison County, $19,000.
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GIRL TALK Is a Scorpio
Extended Meditation/Rant by Jim Hayes
(March 2013)
Dedicated to: Zowie Fenderblast
Commodities can be related as values and hence as commodities only by comparison with some other commodity as the universal equivalent. But only the social act can make a particular commodity the universal equivalent- money. Engels
"I will not act civilized in this fucking city."
-Missing Foundation
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it!
I was too tired to argue and I slept all day. The name of the last Girl Talk album is 'All Day' with a skeleton on the cover-it's brilliant really. I've been writing an essay about Girl Talk for a fucking year now. Girl Talk is from Pittsburgh. I used to live in Pittsburgh. I hate fucking Pittsburgh. I hate fucking Eides, the fucking yellow bridges the clarinet factory that is the Warhol museum and fucking Oakland with the beige phallic medieval Teutonic Cathedral of Fucking Learning, with a Roy Rogers restaurant in the basement, orange plastic seats. Near the "original" frat boy dump and of course the Electric Banana around the corner from Warhol's high school, boarded up and abandoned, compulsively carsick. That's one of my points, for the first time in history Pittsburgh has produced a band (that's still one more than CT), music worth listening to, worth talking about-now someone is sure to say what about Don Caballero? And I'll say, though I like them personally and I do enjoy their music-they're not as post-industrial and theoretically important as Girl Talk, I mean, they're merely a jazz group. I digress and digress forever. Furthermore, technically-the only PGH band were the Plastic Bottles. They lived in Oakland, they WERE Pittsburgh-their incessant graffiti campaign and use of pre-recorded tapes reveal a hidden agenda. Remember: Poisoning were from Perryopolis , No Scabs were from Oakmont and Ninety Nine Cents were from California (PA) NOT Pittsburgh).
What does Girl Talk sound like it? He sounds like Dash Snow jacking off on newspapers blowing down Bleeker Street. Some people think that electricity comes from other planets. Girl Talk is the Dash Snow Halloween mask turned inside out to reveal the manufacturer's coupon.
It's dance music. It's disco music. Remember the eighties when all the industrial bands went disco? Leather Nun, Hunting Lodge, SPK, PTV, Controlled Bleeding- I think NON was the only one that didn't sound offensive after a few years. Well Girl Talk is an example of yet another band that started "industrial" and went the route of head bobbing and feet tapping. The only difference is that they did it right. Laptop noise is boring says the sticker and since I get all of my information and opinions from bumper stickers, I chose to agree.
But if I was listening to Emmett Miller and I was an eight figure niggah by the name of jigger, would you want me? Why do you record my phone calls, are you planning a bootleg LP? Who makes the first recordings in a pre-recorded universe filled with splendor and other festive occasions?
When ROYAL TRUX sing, gimme my coat little sister and I'll bring the car around, it's not about dope, it's about samples. Royal Trux were mainlining pop culture in moonlight memory motels off the interstate.
What do you do after you've heard Girl Talk? I've been playing All Day all day. It reconciles the post-situ gesture with the contemporary ballroom, with the thick glasses and the mutton chops, with the fucking drugs. Who loves the sun? It's musical plagiarism, but it is necessary as progress implies it. Detournement. The fact that it clicks, that's it it's entirely mouse driven lap dancing: can I get a 'fuck you'? Can Girl Talk get a response, can he look at REASON? It's laptop driven and reminds me of the Futurist Concerto with the ship's horns. I just heard the Doors and the Ramones and a rapper I didn't recognize. Down South girls do it fucking dicey, real freak in the bed. Girl Talk is fucking the music industry with a kink so dark that it creates music while regaling in the perverse reversal of what is sacred-what is banjo mutton chop authentic musical hipsterism. Girl Talk is the fucking Beatles in the same way that Throbbing Gristle was- the theory, the endless abstraction, musical ideology as a false consciousness and knows it. "Ugly girls be quiet." Girl Talk knows what he's doing. He's obviously under surveillance by the cultural carnivores, the lawyers, the jealous fans, the bands that sent him comp samples who felt they were stiffed when he didn't use them and later got bitter and drunk in some sort of avant garde orgy of self-indulgent vomit. Picking out the cultural symbols is as much fun as listening to it (waiting for the sun: Girl Talk petitions the world to party with prayer). Was Zowie Fenderblast prophesying Girl Talk when he sang: "I'm full of beer & hung like a steer?"
Girl Talk works with mere music which he accepts without examination as the product of music and does not investigate further for a more remote source independent of music. Engels letter to Franz Mehring, July 14, 1893.
The first recording by the Velvet Underground was called "Loop" and it was on a flexi-disc, a flimsy outmoded form of transference. A flexi-disc is somehow so quaint, and the music is a repetitious, screechy bass line that just repeats and feeds back over and over forever. It's the mirror sound of the entire last fifty years of recorded music reduced to its barest form: the infinite repeat. Like a Michael Heizer land art boulder weighing 340 tons being trucked to its destination, drinking in L.A. Yeah but Dash Snow man, when Girl Talk takes a sound, it's like Dash Snow cumming on the NY Post founded by Alexander Hamilton. Copyright enriches the publisher, not the writer, not the rock star.
You know someone who is dependent on pain killers and pop music. More people than ever are becoming dependent on pop music and Opioids. That's because there's no short count. Sunshine Daydream. The myth of Dash Snow, the rich kid taking drugs and making collages is the very last Halloween mask. Dash Snow jacked off on a copy of the New York Post. Is typing Moby Dick in capital letters Art? Ugly girls be quiet, my posse's on Broadway. On Kawara. Roman Opalka, Tehching Hseih. All three of these cosmonauts typed out the codes of space by HAND.
I'm not glad that Thomas Kinkade is dead, I'm just sad that I had to see his paintings. If I painted like that, I'd die drunk too-HEY! wait a gosh-darned minute. Thomas Kinkade's estate slaps a restraining order on his girlfriend. By looking at his Jesus paintings I bet he was a real freak in the bed.
I jacked off on top of a copy of Moby Dick all in comic strip letters. All capitals sounds like you're shouting. I prefer to be soft spoken and polite. They named a street Seamen Circle. Sailors! Circle Jerk, a golden shower of hits, the germs go incognito. Do you want a sanitary mask? John Lennon's lost weekend in Los Angeles provided him a Kotex on his head. Do you know who I am he asked the waitress, she said he was an asshole with a Kotex on his head. I found a penis Polaroid on the street. I showed it in bars and was thrown out. I was listening to Girl Talk. Just like bitches at Black Masses. Girl Talk invokes, he waves his wand. Move, move bitch get out of the way is his incantation dismissing Wicca and proclaiming the age of Horus.
The use of eighties' pop music as talismanic touchstones is particularly disturbing to those who were actually alive in the early eighties. It's hard to describe the vacuous-ness of the music that was being pushed there and then. I must not think bad thoughts. Then I get to hear contemporary pop music that I don't know but vaguely assume recognize Rihanna, he takes the eighties classic rock progression of the piano solo and links it up with rap down for the count later in the same song, he switches to a song riff that was popular in the eighties-as if you changed the classic rock station to the pop station this is what you'd hear then if you went down the dial to the college station and in Pittsburgh it was WRCT at Carnegie Mellon University. The people that bought the song by Madness "Our House" now own Thomas Kinkade paintings and THEY KNOW IT.
Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it. The triumph of the collage. Photography replaced painting as representation and representation has replaced itself with attendance at the County of Fair Use. The map of the county fair is not as well recognized as the actual territory. This is a closed driver on a professional course. Everything is a recognized collage. All that remains is just an actual article stitched into another correspondence, a sea of dancing footnotes. Dash Snow picking up bits of trash and photographing the headlines in an orgasm that sounds like a scratched record processed through a Girl Talk mouse click. The cut-up splicing of word lines, the breakthrough in grey rooms, radio stations I question their blueness. Music is fifty years behind writing behind painting. The critical apparatus behind painting is a scaffolding that creaks with every new catalog, with each future essay. All I do is party. Party-line. Burroughs wrote that fans took astral journeys with Led Zeppelin- I do not deny that the psychic waves of music can certainly stretch. Girl Talk becomes Black Randy becomes Dash Snow. Zowie Fenderblast said it was perfectly logical to want to meet your soundtracks. If s/he was an Illinois lawyer and occultist, s/he'd be Babe-raham Lincoln.
The only people that like Pittsburgh are the people that are FROM there. It's like Cincinnati without the talent. Or Spartanburg South Carolina when it's raining (I was born in Jersey City). Girl Talk represents the postindustrial triumph of the collage, when Dash Snow won. Using samples exclusively is like jacking off on the media, the talent it takes to cum on a copy of the NY Post is slight in comparison to what Girl Talk does with a mouse click. All of us can jack off and all of us have mouse clicks, but who click mice like this? You too will meet the secret copyright police. Musician union dues: do not remove under penalty of law. I was on cloud nine for a minute. With every mouse click, Girl Talk screws up the gears of the machine, who is the third that walks beside him?
Girl Talk floats in coded space. Every time you hear a sample of an artist at that instant the artists' entire career is beamed into your skull. Everything that is encoded in that splinter gets under the nail and infects the blood with THEIR ENTIRE MOVIE. Every intersection leads to electric graffiti proclaiming that in the future everyone will be naked and famous for 15 minutes.
When Zowie Fenderblast sings "I'm full of beer and I don't want to hear your honky tonk songs," it links up to Burroughs writing in the Yage Letters about how awful the sounds of country music played by vacant servicemen on Panamanian jukeboxes - your cheating heart -how much Burroughs hated it. The road to rocket 69 goes through the desert. Sweet Home Alabama is the road to North Vietnam. Black Randy said that 1984 really happened in the 30's.
Girl Talk is the Charley Patton of post-industrial blues. His mouse clicks underneath his bio-medical reserve reveal bondage in the pattern of bourgeois slavery. His revolt against the big boss man, his call and response is to click away at the forced soundtrack and turn it back upon itself. Stealing software from work to make music is just like cat gutting strings for a guitar. Breyer P-Orridge said it in 1980: industrial will be a category just like blues. Artists dying to be part of the 372, 373, or 400 samples he uses so it's said- I've heard all the numbers and then there's a list with tour dates at the bottom. Why is there a copy written fence around the cemetery? People are dying to get in. How many free records does Girl Talk get in one day? How many emailed loops and samples: I don't usually do this but I just want to pass this little loop onto you.
Hey, here's my new glow in the dark vinyl 12 inch, I got the idea from that cabbage patch rock band from Lodi. Did I know Vic Chestnut? No. I once stood next to a rock star when he spoke to Vic Chestnut on the phone. Why must you record my phone calls? The other guy on this album, Sparklehorse, he killed himself too. He was from Knoxville. The painter knew a skinhead cabby with three balls who smoked Lucky Strikes from there, she was from there. Pittsburgh man. The punk scene lived on Chesterfield Avenue. There was a guy named Chester that collected Chesterfield cigarette ads and smoked Chesterfields who lived on Chesterfield. Your love of your copyright is your weakness, the beauty of death. The entire art world is just a bunch of rich kids taking drugs.
I bought an ex library book of black and white advertisements. "The ads appearing in this Scrapbook are of course void. They are reproduced not for the purpose of selling any merchandise, but for their historical interest. They afford an interesting comparison of the advertising methods of today and those in use earlier in the century." But the advertising still sells this decaying society of empty rituals its own formula for destruction: be yourself. By repetition, you can compare but where do you go from there? But part of the New Aesthetic is focusing precisely on these moments. The poetry of a screen saver, the recordings of Girl Talk indicate his willingness to be the bride in the long awaited union with his Holy Guardian Angel, which of course is the history of recorded music itself. He wishes to be fucked by music industry. And when Girl Talk cums it is the color of green. He wipes his fingers on Texaco's New Aesthetic roadmap because for the first time a musician can now choose to use absolutely every single grain of recorded sand. There are no more secrets. Girl Talk has access to everything ever recorded. Imagine composers and creators of the past who could only go so far with so much material. The more Girl Talk tries to hurt music, the more it backfires. Videos of techno bands (people) on you tube with names like: Feed Me and Dead Mou5. Dead Mou5 wears a big pink mouse costume that's actually sort of funny. It's interesting because all this techno music is just drug music-flashing lights and some type of uber-ecstasy called "molly."
Loud music and lights- it's the same carnival act from the sixties seventies and eighties. It just proves that no matter what America is up to historically emotionally or politically, its young citizens want to take psychedelic chemicals and stand in crowds dancing to light shows. The soundtrack sounds different but it's all the same endless pop culture loop.
As soon as I thought the whole thing became a bit much, he did a two or three minute passage that was really beautiful, the collection of rap music is like when Whitman crossed Brooklyn Ferry. It's like I don't think Jello would want anyone to steal HIS mail. I can just see Jello in postal court, now sir did you once sing about stealing people's mail? That's right-the people's mail, people's court people magazine people who were shorter that lived by the water.
Is this so different than when Captain Beefheart hummed melodies to his guitar player? He heard music in his head and he couldn't shape it- Girl Talk hears music but doesn't play an instrument per se- totally entirely created by alteration from existing sources- fucking weird- don't fear the reaper-the door was opened and the wind appeared.
The turn of the century. It's over baby, we blew it, the 19th century and its bastard child the 20th century is gone- the crowded gas mask future is here. Of course the music is Electric. Of course it comes from other planets. I'm not sure if Girl Talk is a faggot junkie, but his fans certainly are.
Hey (Scorpio woman):-i just got off the phone with Zowie. He's another Scorpio. My gf (Scorpio) asks are u drinking? I'm like yeah maybe. She was dialing me when i was dialing her. The new book is coming to me like table tapping. It's like there's a satellite beaming the sentences. The 120 Loop is a road you CAN get off of, it doesn't have to spin round and round. Junk addiction as a metaphor for physical space. Junk as a metaphor for the new art movement and new improved incredibly important art movement is called "New Aesthetic" and it's about how technology influences visual art, how the change in cyberspace has physical dimensions. Since all space is now a grid the grid can be millions of file cabinets storing an entire nations GROOVES: DNA-Latter Day Saint list-family matters, medical records all your calls and all your texts, yellow matter custard colored phonebooks of hate featuring People addicted to their personalities like an addict needs opium. Notice that the initials of the new hip art movement are the same as the 12 step group Narcotics Anonymous the same as my high school North Allegheny- it's a new song. It's a new loop. A new repetition. Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. To loop it. A digital zero or one. A digital recording of a skipping record. A new loop.
One of the loops of my life is driving on the highways sung about on this record in an endless ride in an endless circle. The slum Georgia city of Decatur is mentioned. The first song is about driving on Interstate 285. The circle, the loop that surrounds Atlanta. The perimeter. The upper loop it's called. Some folks call it the "watermelon 500" but I only know those people in passing.
Girl Talk subtext is that the mirror he knows himself by is linked to other mirrors, to other soundtracks, to other missionary positions.
The Lizard King speaks from behind a Michael Heizer rock in the desert Cantos. He's on a Girl Talk song- the "Waiting for the Sun" riff, waiting for the sunrise of the collage. The Doors have an old bootleg called Critique. It was live April 27, 1969 on a Channel 13 PBS show. The next day they were interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Jim said: "I can envision one person with a lot of machines-tapes, electronic setups-singing and speaking and using a lot of machines."
Not long after the Lizard King said to Jerry Hopkins of the tabloid Strolling Ruin: "Obviously there'll be a new synthesis... like Indian music, African music, Eastern music, electronic music... some brilliant kid will come along and be popular. I can see a lone artist with a lot of tapes and electronics, like an extension of the Moog synthesizer, a keyboard with the complexity and richness of a whole orchestra. There's somebody out there, working in a basement, just inventing a whole new musical form. We'll hear about it in a few years."
The historicism of Girl Talk reminds you that Alexander Berkman went to jail on the north side of Pittsburgh for shooting (wounding) the Frick of Frick Park Market in case of authentic gangsta rap. If art, all art; reflects the purpose of Byzantine icons and their INTENT of transporting the viewer NOT in front of the Saint, or the Christ-but to TRANSPORT us to that time.
Like it was such a big deal when Belle & Sebastian sang about Seymour Stein, nowadays, they'd mount him like a stuffed pig al a Damien Hirst and neither an eye ball be raised. It's the new aesthetic man-wanna buy some pencils? The Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade-that new aesthetic joker whose cheesy scenes appear in every shopping mall every mantel piece-with his love hate affair with his racist clientele. Thomas Kinkade & Dash Snow in the land of the dead- he suffered a relapse, alcoholism, had been drinking all day and wasn't breathing. The 911 call is new aesthetic-is a head made out of toothpicks art, especially if it's about Billy Crystal, it's a Girl Talk world, the triumph of the collage- if Dash Snow wasn't an eight figure niggah by the name of jigger would anyone would have wanted him?
We kept all our condom wrappers in a zip lock bag. After the bag was bulging with about a 100 orange and blue Trojans we took it to a Monty Python movie in the college section of Pittsburgh. The sloping hill that is the South Oakland neighborhood, an old 20's theatre. While closing credits were running we turned the bag over and dumped them over the balcony then promptly fled. During the Reagan Administration, there was still time for the avant garde gesture. Those years I was dropping acid in PGH, where was GT? Oh he was in Bridgeville (Jesus)- I was in the same county but south of no North-as a matter of fact, North Allegheny-black and gold-Jesus, Girl Talk is a Scorpio.
See Part II of the Girl Talk article
Also see our 2011 Girl Talk article


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Iran Exile Group Nears U.S. Rebirth
State Department Is Moving to Take MeK Off Banned List at Risk of Angering Iran
By JAY SOLOMON And EVAN PEREZ
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is moving to remove an Iranian opposition group from the State Department's terrorism list, say officials briefed on the talks, in an action that could further poison Washington's relations with Tehran at a time of renewed diplomatic efforts to curtail Iran's nuclear program.
The exile organization, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, or MeK, was originally named as a terrorist entity 15 years ago for its alleged role in assassinating U.S. citizens in the years before the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran and for allying with Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein against Tehran.
The MeK has engaged in an aggressive legal and lobbying campaign in Washington over the past two years to win its removal from the State Department's list. The terrorism designation, which has been in place since 1997, freezes the MeK's assets inside the U.S. and prevents the exile group from fundraising.
Senior U.S. officials said on Monday that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has yet to make any final decision on the MeK's status. But they said the State Department was looking favorably at delisting MeK if it continued cooperating by vacating a former paramilitary base inside Iraq, called Camp Ashraf, which the group had used to stage cross-border strikes into Iran.
The group has already renounced terrorism, which was the main earlier sticking point. Residents have resisted leaving the camp because they feared retribution if they were returned to Iran and political irrelevancy abroad.
The U.S. officials said Mrs. Clinton would make her final decision on the MeK's status no less than 60 days after the last MeK member is relocated from Camp Ashraf to a new transit facility near Baghdad International Airport. The U.S. is working with the United Nations to resettle Camp Ashraf residents in third countries. Roughly 1,200 people remain at the camp from an earlier population of over 3,000.
"The MeK's cooperation in the successful and peaceful closure of Camp Ashraf…will be a key factor in her decision regarding the MeK's [foreign-terrorist organization] status," said State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on Monday.
Western and Iranian diplomats are concerned that the MeK issue could draw serious recriminations from Tehran, which has been fixated on neutralizing the group. Many of Iran's top leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, were targets of MeK attacks during the 1980s.
Iran has regularly accused Western countries of hypocrisy for providing shelter to MeK members while criticizing Tehran's support for militant groups, such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Palestinian territories. "We believe that despite the claims that others make about fighting terrorism, they [Western nations] provide the most support for terrorist groups," Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, said last week. "In Europe, the MeK has already been removed from the list of terrorist organizations and they are completely safe to continue their activities."
U.S. officials said that the moves weren't related to coming nuclear talks, but are tied to the MeK's legal challenge to its designation in a Washington appeals court.
A judge ordered the State Department to review the MeK's status nearly two years ago, and congressional rules maintain the process should take only 180 days.
"There is a great deal of animosity among Iranian officialdom toward the MeK. But Our delisting has to be done by the facts and the law," said a senior U.S. official. "Any move to delist should not be seen as a sign of our support."
Other officials briefed on the MeK issue said Mrs. Clinton purposefully tied the closing of Camp Ashraf to the designation issue to defuse a thorny diplomatic issue between Washington and Baghdad. The U.S. military had provided security at the camp before pulling its forces from Iraq last year. Baghdad now controls the camp and has threatened to return MeK members to Iran if it isn't swiftly closed.
These officials stressed that Mrs. Clinton could still rule against delisting the MeK due to other information gathered on its role in terrorism. But they acknowledged it would be difficult politically for Mrs. Clinton to maintain the designation after publicly stating the importance of the Camp Ashraf issue.
"The secretary's statement was clear that there's a relationship between delisting and closing Ashraf. It is also true that we are making progress," said an official briefed on the deliberations. "To make that assertion on your own that the MeK will be removed is a realistic one. But in policy making you never know for sure what will happen."
The MeK's status has become an explosive political issue inside Washington and a major irritant in U.S.-Iranian relations.
The group, despite its history of terrorism and anti-Americanism, reoriented itself after Saddam Hussein's 2003 fall and the capturing of Camp Ashraf by U.S. forces. The MeK renounced violence and turned over its weapons. And it has cooperated with the U.S. and U.N. in gathering intelligence on Iran's nuclear program.
This ideological shift by the MeK has been accompanied by an intensive lobbying campaign on Capitol Hill. A number of former senior U.S. officials said they were offered payments to speak on behalf of the MeK, including James Jones, President Barack Obama's former national security adviser, and James Woolsey, the former head of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Mr. Jones confirmed last year that he received a fee, but declined to specify how much. Mr. Woolsey said he waives his usual speaker's fee.
Take a look at key dates in the U.S.-Iran relationship and recent international sanctions, details on major players, a map of major nuclear sites, and possible naval strategies.
The Treasury Department has an continuing inquiry into payments made to MeK advocates, for possible violation of sanctions that prohibit financial dealings with terrorist groups. It is unclear how any delisting would affect that probe.
The deliberations over the MeK's status come as the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, plus Germany, are gathering in Baghdad next week for negotiations with Iran aimed at curbing its nuclear program. Officials from the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency met Monday with Iranian officials in Vienna and pressed for greater access to the country's nuclear facilities.
Diplomats and Iran analysts worry that any moves to delist the MeK could result in Iran driving up its demands at the negotiating table. Tehran denies it is seeking nuclear weapons, but also says it needs advanced weapons systems to guard against the U.S. and other hostile states. The MeK issue will likely be perceived in Tehran as another American-led effort to topple Iran's theocratic government, these analysts said.
"In the cynical, conspiratorial world view of the Iranian regime, delisting the MeK will be interpreted in Tehran as validation that Washington's underlying goal is regime change, not behavior change," said Karim Sadjadpour of Washington's Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Critics of the MeK allege that the organization has no major support inside Iran and that its leaders, who are based outside Paris, run the group like a cult. They also worry that any perceived U.S. support for it could undercut the Iranian opposition, known as the Green Movement, which pushed for democratic change during 2009 street protests.
Still, the organization has large support on Capitol Hill. And some lawmakers are seeking to use the possible delisting of the organization to begin providing U.S. financial support. Congress took similar steps in the 1990s to provide funding to Iraq's opposition and, in particular, the exiled politician, Ahmad Chalabi.
"If there's a coalition against the mullahs, then we should fund that coalition, and the MeK should be a part of it," said Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R., Calif.). He cautioned that for now, he wasn't advocating directly funding MeK. "The MeK has the resources to resist and fight the mullah dictatorship. They don't need our money, they just need us to get out of the way and take the shackles off."


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Protecting the bees
Avoid neonicotinoids: Look at labels for imidacloprid, acetamiprid, dinotefuran, clothianidin and thiamethoxam.
Ask garden center employees if plants for sale were treated with neonicotinoids.
Ask your city or park district to use alternatives to neonicotinoids on plants that are bee-visited or bee-pollinated.
Create havens: Form patches of pesticide-free, pollinator-friendly flowers in your garden or neighborhood.
Source: The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
The Melody-Catalpa neighborhood of Boulder is proudly wearing the mantle of the first "bee-safe" locality in Colorado.
It may not be a title for which there was fierce competition, but those in the roughly 200 households of the north Boulder neighborhood who signed a pledge not to use neonicotinoids or similar systemic pesticides are buzzing with excitement over earning the distinction.
Three neighborhood residents earlier this year banded together to sign on about 20 volunteers to go door to door. And, faster than they'd dared hope, they convinced more than half of the area's 389 households to sign a pledge not to use neuroactive chemicals that many believe are contributing to the colony collapse phenomenon reported in global honeybee populations.
Those doing so were awarded green flags, signifying their commitment, to plant in their front lawns. Some homes there have not yet been contacted by the volunteers, but will be.
"We felt really good about it," said Anne Bliss, one of the three organizers and a resident of the 3500 block of Catalpa Way. "We thought we would finish this by the end of May, and we more than had our goal really quickly. It took us a couple weeks."
Molly Greacen, another of the drivers behind the Melody-Catalpa bee-safe initiative, said, "The real concern is that if we can get lots of other people to get excited about this idea, then all of Boulder can become bee-safe."
A concert, "Masters of the Shakuhachi" — Japanese vertical flutes — to benefit the Bee Safe Neighborhoods program is planned for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Kelly's Barn, 1360 Sumac Ave., Boulder.
Concept launched in Golden
The organization certifying Melody-Catalpa's status as the first neighborhood in Colorado to earn the "bee-safe" label is the Living Systems Institute of Golden, which promotes sustainable ecosystems and zero waste.
David Braden, founder and executive director of the Living Systems Institute, confirmed that Melody-Catalpa is "the first one to provide documentation to us of at least 75 contiguous homes agreeing not to use systemic poisons," 75 being the minimum number to qualify for the institute's bee-safe designation. He said a neighborhood in Wheat Ridge may not be far behind.
Braden's organization, which is seeking 501(c)(3) nonprofit status, launched the bee-safe neighborhood concept earlier this year.
Explaining the impetus for encouraging more communities to make such a commitment, Braden said, "If we poison all of our pollinators, then there's a problem for us as a species surviving on the planet."
Manufacturers of insecticides have insisted they're safe and not responsible for colony collapse disorder. However, those who argue to the contrary gained traction for their position last month with the release of a Harvard School of Public Health study, published in the Bulletin of Insectology, that showed two widely used neonicotinoids appear to significantly harm honey bee colonies over the winter, especially during colder winters.
The decision by Melody-Catalpa to pursue bee-safe honors is applauded by Rella Abernathy, integrated pest management coordinator for the city of Boulder.
"We think it's a great idea," Abernathy said. "The city always encourages residents to reduce or decrease their use of pesticides. We're supportive of it, and we would like to see more and more bee-safe neighborhoods in the city."
Abernathy said the city has not used pesticides on any of its managed turf for 12 years, doesn't apply it to its landscape plants, and that the only neonicotinoid on the list of approved insecticides for use by the city is imidacloprid, for targeted injection in trees by its forestry department. However, the city recently banned its use for treatment of emerald ash borer management, and imidacloprid is not now in use at all, according to Abernathy.
She said that as used by homeowners in their gardens, many pesticides are applied in concentrations up to 40 times as high as is seen in agricultural use — and labels often advise reapplication at six-week intervals without mentioning danger to pollinators.
As a result, Abernathy said, "There's no way that people even know they are toxic to bees. They are applying it constantly, and so the bees are getting a continuous, dangerous dose."
'This is a place I can start'
With Melody-Catalpa first in Boulder to go bee-safe, the Kendall neighborhood in the Table Mesa area could be next, with a team of a half dozen — inspired by their city neighbors to the north — fanning out this weekend with pledge forms to start collecting signatures from at least 75 contiguous homeowners.
"I hope we're as successful as they are," said Janet Kilby, who is coordinating the Kendall neighborhood effort. "I love watching the Melody-Catalpa neighborhood. It is such a sense of community that has developed between the people working on this project. There are just so many layers to why this is such a good thing."
As a stage-four cancer survivor, Kilby believes that the frequent occurrence of cancer in society at large is likely linked to "the chemical soup that we live in." She added, "I find that environmental issues can be overwhelming, but this is a place I can start."
Kilby invites those in the Table Mesa area who want to join her effort to contact her at 970-260-0355.
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Eastern Nazarene at Fitchburg State, 3:30 p.m.
Stonehill at Assumption, 3:30 p.m.
WPI at Nichols, 3:30 p.m.
Holy Cross at Siena, 4 p.m.
UConn-Avery Point at Quinsigamond, 4 p.m.
Holy Cross at Marist, 3 p.m. (DH)
WPI at Fitchburg State, 3 p.m. (DH)
Assumption at Franklin Pierce, 4 p.m.
Men's lacrosse
Roger Williams at Nichols, 4 p.m.
Clark at Springfield, 7 p.m.
GNAC Quarterfinal
Saint Joseph's (Me.) at Becker, 4 p.m.
Women's lacrosse
Fitchburg State at Colby-Sawyer, 4:30 p.m.
Mitchell at Becker, 7 p.m.
Roger Williams at Nichols, 7 p.m.
Salem State at Worcester State, 7 p.m.
Patriot League Semifinal
Holy Cross at Loyola, 5 p.m.
Doherty at Algonquin, 11 a.m.
Medway at Nipmuc, 11 a.m.
Lunenburg at West Boylston, 12 p.m.
Wayland at Maynard, 12 p.m.
N.Mt. Hermon at Worcester Acad., 3:30 p.m.
St. Peter-Marian at Malden Catholic, 3:30 p.m.
Bancroft at Newman Prep, 3:45 p.m.
Wachusett at Quabbin, 2 p.m.
North Middlesex at Clinton, 4 p.m.
Panther Classic
At David Prouty
Consolation: Burncoat vs. South, 11 a.m.
Championship: Blackstone-Millville at David Prouty, 2 p.m.
Route 140 Classic
At Valley Tech
Tri-County vs. Valley Tech, 10 a.m.
Hopedale vs. Valley Tech, 4 p.m.
Burncoat vs. Holy Name at Coburn Ave. Field, 11 a.m. (DH)
Fitchburg at Monty Tech, 11 a.m.
Lunenburg at West Boylston, 12 p.m.
Athol at St. Bernard's, 2 p.m.
Southbridge at Shepherd Hill, 3:30 p.m.
N. Country Day at Worcester Academy, 4 p.m.
Panther Classic
At David Prouty
Consolation: North Brookfield vs. Blackstone-Millville, 11 a.m.
Championship: South vs. David Prouty, 2 p.m.
Millbury Invitational
Worcester Tech vs. Quaboag at Millbury High, 10 a.m.
Millbury vs. Bartlett at Windle Field, 10 a.m.
Consolation at Windle Field, noon
Championship at Millbury High, noon
Boys' lacrosse
Nashoba Tech at Mystic Valley, 11 a.m.
Northbridge at Tantasqua, 11 a.m.
Worcester at Hudson, 11 a.m.
Girls' lacrosse
Nipmuc at Hopedale, 11 a.m.
Waring at Worcester Academy, 3:30 p.m.
Worcester at Tantasqua, 3:30 p.m.
North Shore at North Central Charter, 3:45 p.m.
Schedule may change due to weather, field conditions or postponements.


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Hello, My name is Randy Haas, I am the owner of HHH Knives I am a full time knife maker... Its my Passion, and I thank God that he has blessed me to be able to make these beautiful, functional, working knives.
I was talking to Aldo today and he told me about the forum..
Hope to see ya on the forums.
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■ SCORE: Red Sox 12, Twins 5.
■ BREAKDOWN: Facing a split-squad Twins team, the Sox had 16 hits while six pitchers combined to strike out 14. Mike Napoli belted his second home run, a three-run shot in the fourth inning. It was high and deep to left, something he has made a habit of. Dustin Pedroia was 2 for 4 with a double and two RBIs. Jackie Bradley Jr. had two more hits and is 10 for 20 this spring.
■ THUMBS UP: Clay Buchholz threw three shutout innings and struck out four without a walk. He worked at a quicker tempo, something the Red Sox have been encouraging. "I've tried to bring it into the game as much as I could," said Buchholz. "It's getting the ball after throwing a strike and throwing another strike." Coaches used a stopwatch to demonstrate to Buchholz how long he was taking between throws. "You have to have some proof to show them," manager John Farrell said.
■ THUMBS DOWN: Joel Hanrahan allowed five consecutive batters to reach base in the fourth inning. He finally got a strikeout after a walk and four hard-hit singles. He was accountable for four runs and has allowed six earned runs in three innings so far. Hanrahan's wife is expecting the couple's first child Monday. Hanrahan will pitch Saturday, then return home for the big event. "When I come back, I've got to put my foot down and start getting some people out," said Hanrahan, who joked that he was worried his poor performance might have spurred the arrival of his son, who will be named Ryan.
■ MEDICAL REPORT: Will Middlebrooks was sent home for the day with flulike symptoms. Jacoby Ellsbury returned and was 1 for 3.
■ AROUND THE BASES: Koji Uehara threw a scoreless inning. He has been perfect so far, retiring all 12 batters . . . Andrew Miller had his long hair and beard trimmed back a day after the Globe ran a story about his wild-man look. "Too much pressure," he said, laughing.
■ NEXT GAME: Friday at JetBlue Park against Minnesota. The Sox will start Ryan Dempster against Mike Pelfrey. The game will be on NESN and WEEI.
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Hue's summer issue features a profile of Katie Covington and Janet Crowther, Jewelry Design '08 and '09, respectively, and their company, For the Makers. Essentially, it's a monthly subscription to a craft box, a little kit with the materials for four accessories, jewelry and the like. Very cute and fun for crafty people short of time and/or inspiration.
Not being one to write about something without trying it (especially when it comes to baked goods, but also for other products), Hue requested a sample and got to work.
First up was a five-minute project to make elastic bracelets. All it involved was threading a metal bead onto an elastic, then tying the elastic. Easy peasy over easy!
Next, Hue tackled a rather more difficult project, a felt coffee sleeve. Considering how much coffee Hue drinks (and, admittedly, how little jewelry Hue wears), this would be eminently useful.
The directions are here, if you're curious: https://www.forthemakers.com/projects/slate-coffee-sleeve
First step was to cut out the paper pattern, and to cut the felt in that pattern. Considering Hue's expertise in cutting patterns, that was no trouble at all.
Next, Hue had to sew a beaded chain onto the edges of the felt by stitching in between each tiny bead. The idea is pretty brilliant: a throwaway chain turns into a perfect row of studs with the help of some black thread.
It is not clear how long this step was supposed to take, but Hue is sure it took longer than it should have. In fact, the length of time it took will remain a secret. OK, fine. It took two hours.
After that herculean labor (somewhere on the difficulty spectrum between washing out the Augean stables and slaying the Stymphalian birds), stitching the ends together and adding the studs was relatively easy.
Unfortunately, Hue's version didn't turn out quite as good as the one in the picture. And it doesn't seem quite as big as it's supposed to be. It fits nicely around an 8-ounce coffee cup, but it barely grips the base of anything larger. Perhaps this is a sign from the crafting gods to drink less coffee.
ADDENDUM: Since this article was written, Hue found a real crafter in the office, Julianna Dow, to make the most complicated project of all, a funky necklace. As you can see, she had no trouble with it. Which suggests that these crafting projects are perfect… for the right person.


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Cecelia E. (Baran) Benzie, 85
Cecelia E. (Baran) Benzie, 85, formerly of Burnside, Pa., died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at Jefferson Manor in Brookville.
The daughter of Stanley Baran and Catherine (Ranevitch AKA Rentovich) Baran, she was born on Nov. 22, 1927, in Valier, Pa.
Cecelia's father came from Poland and was a veteran of World War I.
Cecelia was baptized at Ss. Cosmas and Damian in Punxsutawney on Dec. 11, 1927.
She was a graduate of the Punxsutawney High School, Class of 1945.
At the age of 17, Cecelia was awarded a Certificate of Merit to Art Instruction, Inc.
For Cecelia's creative writing, her talents were commended with a Poetry Award of Merit in 1988 and an Outstanding Achievement in Poetry in 1990.
She was honored as a Silver Poet in 1990.
In her earlier working years, she was employed from 1945-46 at the Country Club Dairy Store in Brookville; in 1946 at Sylvania in
Brookville; and from 1946-47 at Jefferson Electric in DuBois.
Next, her working career took her to the Lorrie Shoe Factory in Rossiter, from 1950-59. She was employed there as a fancy stitcher.
On Aug. 30, 1958, Cecelia married Richard Benzie.
She became a member of the Church of the Resurrection in Glen Campbell.
She belonged to the Rosary Society for many years.
Cecelia was known for her love of cooking; baking and sewing; and her great love and affection for children and animals.
She was especially proud of her five beautiful grandchildren.
A beloved mother and grandmother, Cecelia is survived by her two children, Matthew A. Benzie and wife Diane (Buterbaugh) of Fort Dodge, Iowa, and Loralee A. (Benzie) Mennetti and husband Brian of Summerville, S.C.; and her five grandchildren, Nicholas Benzie, Kayla Mennetti, Chelsea Benzie, Bailey Mennetti and Raymond Mennetti.
Also surviving are three siblings, Elizabeth Egelski, George Baran and Mildred Zydiak and husband Paul.
Cecelia was preceded in death by her parents; her husband on May 25, 2007; her daughter, Gloria Denise Benzie, in 1960; and siblings John Popelchuck, Stanley Baran, Emily Buckvich, Anna Allen and Mary Kozlowski.
Friends will be received from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, 2013, at the Rairigh Funeral Home, Ltd. in Hillsdale, Pa.
A 10:30 a.m. funeral Mass will be held on Monday, Feb. 18, 2013, at the Church of the Resurrection in Glen Campbell, with the Very Rev. Lawrence L. Manchas officiating.
Interment will follow at the parish cemetery in Glen Campbell.


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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Judge Keke Kahn also had the Weimaraner, CH Smokycity Silhouette Dbl Ur Pleasure, the 15" Beagle, CH Cabaret Come Chase The Dream, the Smooth Fox Terrier, CH Warfox Double Exposure, the Standard Poodle, CH Penndragon Masaniello, and the Bouvier des Flandres, CH Voodoo Slam Dunks Susant's to consider, but like so many before her she went with Spirit. Congratulations once more to Spirit & handler Taffe McFadden and everyone else associated with this splendid representative of our fancy.
10 comments:
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2009 at 10:08 PM
of course the beagle won its owned by the show chairs son!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2009 at 11:46 PM
There was a handler on the dog...so the judge had no idea that it was his son's dogReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 10:17 AM
so the judge had no idea that it was his son's dogReplyDelete
.............yeah right.
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 11:53 AM
ha. funny. consider this, the showchair told the judge it was his sons dog. and so the judge did his son a favor so the judge can stay on that panel each year!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Consider this. If you are going to slander the judge, the show chair, the breeders, owners, and handler of the dog in question, have the conviction to put your name with your comments. Otherwise make your comments on a site that welcomes such remarks. This one does not.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Thank you Billy, the beagle does no live with the show chairs son, he co-owns it for the sole purpose to show it in juniors...other than that there is no correlation with the dogReplyDelete
TJ, I had figured that out after Googling the dog in question. I really can't believe that someone could be so mean spirited as to go after a junior. It's fine to have one's favorites and say so here, but we need to respect the sportsmanship we foster in this hobby.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 25, 2009 at 4:03 PM
irregardless arent akc rules rules? its one dog show, could they not have shown the dog for one weekend? just seems kinda suspicious if you ask meReplyDelete
but we all know how dog shows go
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 9:23 PM
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES SHOULD NOT THROW STONES – "Those who are vulnerable should not attack others. "ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 26, 2009 at 10:40 PM
For those who care about facts not conspiracy theories, the 15" beagle shown only five weekends as a special. He has eight variety wins three of which against the number one beagle in the country. The first weekend shown group two, third weekend group four, fifth weekend, group one. The dog just turned two this month and would appear he is just getting started.ReplyDelete


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Mod up.
Both BB and QNS have excelled in rock-solid enterprise support, not shiny consumer-pleasing stuff, like Apple.
Exhibit 1. Blackberry maps vs. Google maps on BB. No contest.
So do I think that BB will leverage this to create & 'compelling in-car experience'? Nope.
I second the sentiment that QNX is a great operating system. My first contact with it was through the incredible 1.44 MB QNX Demo Disk, which was a bootable 1.44 MB diskette image containing QNX (4.something, I think), with GUI and graphical web browser. Did I mention that the OS was POSIX-compliant and real-time? At the time, Linux and XFree86 absolutely paled in comparison.
While on the topic, I would like to say that I would like to have a desktop OS that provided real-time guarantees (or at least "most of the time"). On my shiny multi-GHz, multi-core, multi-GB-of-RAM machine, Firefox still manages to hang the user interface for multiple seconds when it first starts up and I type something it the Awesome bar. I'd like to at least be able to switch windows and start sending input to another application in = 0.1 seconds! If we could extend the real-time guarantees to a GUI library so that we could have, say, button click animations and other "I got your message and I'm working on it" feedback to respond within certain time frames, that would be great.
You did say "most of the time", but the PC architecture isn't very suitable for real-time software applications. You really need deterministic timing behavior and that behavior has to be simple enough for a human to grok it and static enough that a real-time OS can depend on it.
I agree that QNX is great. Really really great. It's POSIX compliance is awesome and technically it has some really cool features I've not seen in other commercial embedded RTOSes of this grade. For example, it's a micro-kernel architecture allows device drivers to be written in a re-startable way so they can be replaced/crashed/restarted without apps knowing what happened. There's also some great resource partitioning schemes where processes can be grouped and given hard limits on CPU cycles and memory
QNX and BeOS were my choices when I wanted a low-end machine to play MP3s without skipping, back when processing power was low enough that both Windows and Linux couldn't be relied upon to do so even when that's all they were doing.
BeOS had a lot of other useful desktop apps, too. QNX had some, but not as many. Either would remain responsive while multi-tasking and still keep the audio playing back smoothly in the background (sounds dumb now, but that was pretty cool on an early Pentium or 486DX with 32 t
I had once to ask a question on the Handbrake irc channel. I was impressed by the intolerance of the developers to somebody asking an honest question. Handbrake counts its origin from BeOS, which I did not know at the time. http://www.bebits.com/app/3478 [bebits.com] If this is the culture they had in BeOS developer community, no wonder Palm could not integrate them. Probably nobody could.
Handbrake has attracted my attention by being a complete tool from a user perspective. However I have ended up using the old good men
Harmon already did. QNX used to run well on most desktop machines and some laptops, so you could self-host and develop for QNX on QNX. That's gradually been broken over the last few years. Harmon is an audio electronics company. Owning an OS company was out of their league. At least RIM is in the right industry.
I used QNX extensively from 2002-2005, and my desktop machine, plus all the machines in a robot vehicle, ran QNX. QNX runs many of the high-end robots; BigDog, for example, uses QNX. Several D
There used to be much concern about copying overhead in microkernels, but that's less of an issue in modern CPUs.
That copying is still present in monolithic kernels, it's just from user space to kernel space instead of user space to user space. The difference is that microkernels such as Neutrino are highly optimised to make that message passing fast, whereas Linux tries to optimise all things for all people. Well, everything except Flash video.
That being said, I hope RIM doesn't do an IBM-style acquisition where they just take the bits of the victim company that they like and kill everything else.
Why wouldn't they ? They are a business and want to make $, dealing with the bits they don't need just costs them. I would also see it moving to all in house instead of a standalone commercial product, and the only BSPs will be for RIM devices. ( i hope i'm wrong, but what motivation is there not to do that? )
But i agree, QNX is/was great, not sure about it being the "best", but it is great.
If by UNIX-like, you mean a microkernel OS designed for scalability using message passing at a low level and delivering realtime performance and strong isolation of kernel components, then, yes, it's UNIX-like. If that's how you define UNIX-like, then you're probably someone who has never used UNIX.
QNX has a POSIX compatibility layer, but so do Symbian, OpenVMS, and Windows NT and I wouldn't describe any of them as UNIX-like.
So far as I know, QNX POSIX layer is sufficiently advanced that a large number of applications can (and are) be readily ported from Unix. In my book, that counts as "Unix-like".
So are the OpenVMS, Windows, and Symbian POSIX layers. Are these operating systems also UNIX-like n your book?
I've never seen anyone use a BASH shell on OpenVMS, fork() on Windows, or anything Unixy other than Qt on Symbian. QNX, on the other hand, is regularly programmed with the Unix API and has a Unix userland as its primary command line interface.
I've never seen anyone use a BASH shell on OpenVMS
I've not seen anyone use it on QNX either, but it works on both.
fork() on Windows
Worked fine for me under the POSIX layer I was using (cygwin) when I last had a Windows machine (around 2003, running Win2K).
or anything Unixy other than Qt on Symbian.
Maybe you should look harder [wikipedia.org].
QNX, on the other hand, is regularly programmed with the Unix API and has a Unix userland as its primary command line interface
If you use the POSIX subsystem, yes. Alternatively, it can be programmed with the native asynchronous API, which is much nicer if you want scalable or realtime code. You can live entirely in the POSIX subsystem on OpenVMS too and pretend it's a UNIX machine, but that doesn't make OpenVMS an
fork() on Windows>/quote>
Worked fine for me under the POSIX layer I was using (cygwin) when I last had a Windows machine (around 2003, running Win2K).
If cygwin makes Windows Unix then Wine makes Linux Windows.
Now, if you define Unix as "has X11 as its main GUI", you'd have to define such Unixes as early SunOS (using NeWS) as non-Unix, and define OS X as non-Unix when it is Unix(r) certified, while such clones as Linux get called Unix...
You are right of course that a real time Microkernel is not the typical kernel on a Unix operating system, but then again, several Unixes were made with microkernels, especially the CMU Mach variety which powered the Unix known as OSF/1, which had a Unix vendor of none other than Digital Equipment (eventually it got named to Tru64, and is still in production by HP after the Compaq merger). Real time variations on Unix have a long history, AT&T even made one. Maybe your definition of the Unix kernel is "something that resembles the 4BSD kernel", mostly because that's what Linux resembles best, but it would be in variance with the certification authorities' definition, which is API, or the common user's definition, which would be what the userland resembles.
``If by UNIX-like, you mean a microkernel OS designed for scalability using message passing at a low level and delivering realtime performance and strong isolation of kernel components, then, yes, it's UNIX-like.''
Correct, QNX is much more impressive than "UNIX-like" gives it credit for.
``QNX has a POSIX compatibility layer, but so do Symbian, OpenVMS, and Windows NT and I wouldn't describe any of them as UNIX-like.''
Agreed, too.
On the other hand, QNX's POSIX compatibility layer goes very far. Years ago, I
QNX is much more impressive than "UNIX-like" gives it credit for.
When people say "UNIX-like" they usually don't mean to imply a limited set of POSIX features. What they normally mean to imply is "Not an incompatible piece of junk." If I hear an OS is UNIX-like I think that it will be familiar, comfortable, compatible and acceptable. Every UNIX and UNIX-like OS has some features--sometimes fantastic features--that set it apart. QNX certainly has those. To clarify that it is UNIX-like is only a compliment,
If by UNIX-like, you mean not suitable for hard real-time software, then no, it isn't UNIX-like.
Last time I played with QNX, I was impressed with how light-weight it is. I understand that it's an embedded OS, but nonetheless you can run it on the desktop [wikimedia.org], and the UI is extremely fast. I wonder why it isn't used in the same role as those lightweight Linux distros, as a desktop for older systems.
It also has some rather neat APIs of its own, especially those responsible for UI ("Photon").
By the way, if you ever wanted to play with it, it is freely downloadable [qnx.com] (yes, that is the x86 version, so it'll run on your desktop).
Oh yes, you'll also need a key for non-commercial use - this can be obtained here [qnx.com], though they require you to register with them.
RIM has finally stepped up to the plate to FIGHT the GOOD against APPLE! YES!
Although I hate to see QNX be owned by RIM, the people who brought us Blackberry (recently completed a blackberry app - icky sticky java with types getting stuck all over the place for no good reason), this is a major massive move by RIM that sets them on the board to fight Apple. Before now it was not even a fair match. Now at least RIM has a chance again.
When I read this I remembered back to the last company I worked for. Their in-house MRP system ran on QNX circa 1993 (The MRP was changed over to Infor in 2008). It was very telling one day when one of the girls told me about the lead (read: only) MRP developer had told her. At a particular point in the MRP he said do NOT Hit Ctrl-S. She asked why. His response: it would erase the hard drive.
Obviously, that's not the norm, but now I'll need a drink when I get home tonite.
Internet on a floppy. Brought me a lot of fun. Boot the floppy, connect and surf away.
Effective April 9th 2010, QNX Software Systems has updated its source code access policy. This FAQ has been prepared for customers, partners, and hobbyists and provides details on what has changed.
Q. What has changed under the new source code policy?
Under the new policy, QNX Software Systems will continue to make its proprietary OS and middleware source code available to qualified customers, partners, and educational institutions. However, some of this code will no longer be available to hobbyists or to the general public.
The new policy classifies proprietary QNX source code as either Open (available to anyone under an open source license), Accessible (available to customers, partners, educational institutions, and hobbyists under a new click-through agreement), or Restricted (available to customers and partners with an approved QNX Restricted Content Application).
For example, QNX Software Systems will:
* continue to provide board support packages (BSPs) as open source
* provide various libraries and utilities as Accessible source
* provide source code for the QNX microkernel as Restricted source
Does anyone have a torrent with the current source?
``Does anyone have a torrent with the current source?''
I would be surprised if there wasn't someone with a complete copy of the latest released source, but what would you do with it? As far as I know, only limited parts of the system are under actual open source licenses. For the rest, you may get the source, but it is essentially non-free. I very much doubt that you could build a working operating system that you would be allowed to modify and distribute from the sources provided by QNX Software Systems.
Not a huge loss. It was always an attempt to do open source, without actually doing the open source bit. You could look at the source, but you couldn't distribute derived works or even use it for commercial purposes. It was even more restrictive than some of Microsoft's Shared Source stuff.
A shame, because architecturally QNX has one of my favourite kernels. The Symbian kernel design is probably the nicest open source architecture currently, but it's hampered by an absolutely horrible userland. Hope
Interestingly enough, QNX and RIM are both University of Waterloo semi-spinoffs.
Does this mean there will be a new kernel for the phones, and a POSIX userland API exposed to developers? This announcement, combined with previous noises about Flash on BlackBerry, make me suspect so. RIM's JVM and apps are still cripplingly slow when compared to the pizzazz-filled user experience of the iPhone...
Let's just say I'm not extremely impressed with RIM or it's partners of choice.
I'm sure all the end-users and central-config buffs out there LOVE the RIM platform and all.
As someone who's had to SUPPORT one for some time now, I'm much LESS enamored of it.
And I foresee the same exact thing happening to QNX over the next several years. Gradually dragged down by lousy support and indifferent-at-best developers.
A rather hard core competitive company will be in charge... Do you even have to ask?
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PRINCETON — Business owners will have the opportunity to sharpen their business skills during a four-part "Open for Business" roundtable series.
The roundtable series is sponsored by the Illinois Small Business Development Center at Illinois Valley Community College, Oglesby. The series will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Fridays, Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28 at the Bureau County Republican community room, 800 Ace Road in Princeton.
The cost of the four-part series is $180 or $55 for individual sessions.
Illinois Small Business Development Center Director Beverly Malooley and Gina Czubachowski will serve as instructors for the course.
Malooley said the roundtable series will give a good foundation for the new business owner or the person considering starting a business, as well as provide a good refresher course for the experienced business owner. People can attend all four sessions or pick and choose as needed, she said.
• On Feb. 7, Part 1 of the roundtable series is titled, "Managing Your Business and Employees." The session will focus on learning the basics of writing a policy manual and also learning how to write and administer constructive yearly performance plans.
On Feb. 14, Part 2 of the course is titled "Financial Literacy for Business Owners." The focus will be to learn how to plan for purposeful, profitable growth and to improve business performance by knowing how to understand and utilize the financial outcomes from your business.
On Feb. 21, Part 3, "Retail and Service Businesses" will focus on learning how to assess the overall internal operations of a business by taking a close look at the appearance of the store or office; customer service skills; communication with employees, vendors and customers; merchandising and seasonal opportunities; and monitoring inventory and product mix.
On Feb. 28, Part 4, "Managing Social Media for Small Business" will focus on enhancing the business owners understanding of the Internet as a critical marketing tool and learning how to use the internet to maximize business goals. This session will also teach the business owner how to create a powerful Internet presence and how to correctly integrate online marketing with traditional marketing, thus creating interactive ads which engage consumers.
More information on the roundtable series is available through the Illinois Small Business Development Center at 815-224-0212. Pre-registration is required and can be done online at www.ivcc.edu/online.cec.
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Extracting legacy release notes on sourceforge.net
Recently sourceforge.net changed their File Release System (FRS). One of the changes affected now release notes are attached to files. With the old system you would simply enter the release notes in the submission form. With the new system you are supposed to upload a release note file and associate it with the file you want. This new system has various advantages.
The release notes of the file releases that were made before the FRS change are still present in the database, and still linked to from the files. This will probably remain active for a very long time. And according to the staff you can safely rename and move the files and still have the proper release note association. (It is probably linked through the md5 and sha1 hash of the file.)
But, it doesn't give a nice consistent picture when modern releases have a txt file next to them, and the old releases have a "release note" page. So, that's why I created this PHP script. It will parse a specific "files" page from the sourceforge project site and dump all "legacy" release notes to a text file. The files are places the same directory structure as the files are.
You can use this script at your own leisure, I'm not going to provide support for it. So use it at your own risk.


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*nods* amen here... I'm around the same level myself. Big scary computer world out there
The thing that boosted my related general knowledge a LOT is forums like these... not posting, not asking, just browsing and reading.
I tend to only understand one post in five (or rather one explanation in five) but continual exposure eventually leads to an understanding of a particular facet.
Another excellent source for a continual flood of security-related information are mailing lists... my favourite is the pen-test list from securityfocus.
Before books or courses and even supplemental to online tutorials and whitepapers, I would recommend this as a speedy way of learning the whys and wherefores of security testing/hacking/label of choice.


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- Aaron Rodgers' obvious hand-off style – 7%.
- The offensive line – 53%.
- Ryan Grant not hitting the holes (or like last night, just running straight into defenders instead of around them) – 22%
- The fullbacks, players who seem to have been immune to criticism somehow – 18%
(Officially and scientifically calculated percentages…) We've talked plenty here re O-Line problems and Grant not getting it done. But last night it seemed extra evident to me that FB John Kuhn wasn't getting the job done either. I know it's hard to account for players like LB Briggs, but on 2 obvious occasions, Kuhn couldn't even get a chip block on him and both times, grant lost 2 or more yards. And there were several other plays where Kuhn seemed to arrive at the point of attack too late. Right now, no player acting as a FB on our roster was a FB in college. Maybe that's the problem. Kuhn was a halfback and Hall was a linebacker. Also, our TE-acting-as-FB-experiment seems to be an ill-conceived one as we're essentially asking our TEs to play another position. While conceptually it may not be a stretch to ask a TE to block because they do that anyway, it is quite a different thing to block in the backfield vs the line of scrimmage. Picking up a quality veteran FB may need to be an off-season task. (Though kind of like the offensive line, what seems weird about this year is that last year, FB deficiencies did not seem to be as apparent, if at all. Maybe Hall is good and Kuhn's not…not sure).
(Side Note: One thing I found interesting from earlier in the year was some article I read about Tomlinson in San Diego openly criticizing the SD front office for getting rid of FB Lorenzo Neal in the off-season. Tomlinson said at one point he believes that move has cost the team hundreds of rushing yards this year.)


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Republican Rep. Judy Biggert indicated Wednesday that she's moving closer to supporting same-sex marriage, but ultimately said she's not there yet and that it's a matter for individual states to decide.
Democratic challenger Bill Foster had his own moment of vacillation during the final face-to-face meeting of the 11th Congressional District campaign. Foster said he didn't believe in a Republican-backed plan to offer future seniors the option of receiving a subsidy for health care. When asked if it should be considered as an option to keep Medicare afloat, the Democrat said, "I have to think."
The comments from two candidates for a west and southwest suburban congressional seat took place during WTTW's "Chicago Tonight."
Biggert, who has long campaigned as a social moderate and fiscal conservative, said she has supported civil unions, but as a lawyer, see was concerned about the impact of same-sex marriage on such things as estate law and said it was "a matter for the state."
"I'm close to reaching for gay marriages," she said. After an exchange with Foster, Biggert added that "this country is moving very fast in this realm."
Foster, a former congressman who opposed same-sex marriage two years ago in one newspaper questionnaire, said he supported "marriage equality" and was "not ambiguous" on the issue.
"She has not yet evolved. So, she's crawling out of the swamp or something," said Foster, a scientist, after the debate. Asked if he, too, had evolved on the issue, Foster replied, "I'm all dry, fluffed off and happy to be a hominid."
Both candidates touched on familiar campaign refrains. Foster took issue with Biggert's support of the House Republican-backed budget offered by the GOP's vice presidential nominee, Paul Ryan, and her opposition to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul. Biggert countered that Foster's support of a plan to allow the tax cuts originally imposed under President George W. Bush to expire on the first $250,000 of income would lead to unemployment and hurt an economic recovery.
Though Biggert said tax and revenue increases should be "on the table" in dealing with federal budget deficit, she also maintained that increasing the income-tax rate should not be considered. "We can talk about it, but raising taxes and not extending the (Bush-era) tax cuts would do very much damage," she said.
Foster countered that Biggert had regularly voted for Bush fiscal policies that "drove us into debt and wrecked our economy." But the Democrat also acknowledged he voted to extend the tax cuts as a congressman to forestall a tax increase on the middle class.
On the issue of the new Democratic-drawn congressional map, Biggert noted her previous district was sliced up into parts of six new districts. Foster moved into Naperville to run in the new 11th District.
"Both Judy and I were clobbered by the wizards of Springfield," said Foster, who held a far west suburban congressional seat from 2008 until his defeat by freshman Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Hultgren two years ago. Foster said the process of drawing districts to favor a party in power "lowers the reputation of politics in the public's eyes enormously."
Biggert, who was first elected to Congress in 1998, contended Foster had input with Democratic leaders as they were drawing the new boundaries. But Foster noted if he had stayed and ran from his previous residence, he would have been challenging Hultgren again — but this time in a more heavily Republican district.
The increasingly nasty race has drawn nearly $6 million in spending from outside groups. An ad from the National Republican Congressional Committee insinuates that Foster had inside knowledge from a 2008 closed-door meeting of congressional leaders that led him to sell investments before the economic downturn.
The spot offered no proof Foster was involved in such a meeting, leading several local TV stations to refuse to run it until it was changed, Foster's campaign said.
The former congressman said he was not a party to any such meetings, nor did he use any inside information to sell investments. Foster noted that he sold his share of a family business and many other investments before taking office after a special election in March 2008 and his sale of a few remaining mutual funds that September was the last step in finalizing his divestment from interests that he said his votes in Congress could potentially affect.


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Baptism. From the series "The Life of Christ".
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|Vikings | Jeff George to mentor Christian Ponder?
Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:32:12 -0700
Former NFL QB Jeff George is in camp with the Minnesota Vikings as a guest instructor and mentor to QB Christian Ponder. "We told our players just to be able to pick his brain, our quarterbacks, and talk with him about some of the things he saw as a young quarterback and what he saw as a veteran and just his maturation over the course of his career," head coach Leslie Frazier said. "He was a very good player for a long time, high draft pick, and I think he can really help our players with some of his background and his knowledge as well."
Fantasy Tip: Ponder hasn't impressed in his time in the NFL, but in his defense, he hasn't had much to work with through the air besides Percy Harvin. He has a few more weapons after the signing of Greg Jennings and the selection of Cordarrelle Patterson in the draft, but the Vikes' offense still runs through Adrian Peterson. Ponder is a shaky backup option heading into draft season.
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|Colts | Jeff George interested?
Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:16:42 -0700
Free-agent QB Jeff George (Bears), who currently resides in Indianapolis, said he could pick up the Indianapolis Colts' offense in a matter of days.
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|NFL | J. George wants to play again
Mon, 27 Jul 2009 07:26:25 -0700
Sean Leahy, of USA Today, reports former NFL QB Jeff George said he would like to make a return to the National Football League. "I feel like I can still play, and if there's someone out there to give me a shot, that would be wonderful," George said to IlliniHQ.com. "You look throughout the league, you see 20 teams that need quarterbacks 20 teams need starters and probably everybody needs a backup. In my opinion, there's just not a lot of quality quarterbacks out there these days."
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|Vikings | Childress not interested in George
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:52:48 -0700
Sean Jensen, of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, reports Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress said he does not have any interest bringing in free-agent QB Jeff George (Raiders).
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|Vikings | George interested in returning to Minnesota
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:06:40 -0700
Sean Jensen, of the Pioneer Press, reports QB Jeff George, who last played in an NFL game in 2001, is interested in returning to the league for the Minnesota Vikings. "I know they're banged up," said George. "But with a running back like Adrian Peterson, I would be licking my chops. With that running back, you need someone who can throw that deep ball, and I know I still can. I don't care about the talent at receiver."
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|Raiders | J. George cut from team
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:42:24 -0700
ESPNews reports Oakland Raiders QB Jeff George has been cut from the team.
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|Raiders | J. George could be cut and then possibly re-signed
Sat, 02 Sep 2006 06:47:00 -0700
John Clayton, of ESPN, reports the Oakland Raiders could cut QB Jeff George and then possibly re-sign after Week 1 when his salary would not be guaranteed for the whole season. The team sees that George still has a very strong arm.
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|Raiders | J. George does not play Thursday
Fri, 01 Sep 2006 00:34:02 -0700
The Associated Press reports Oakland Raiders QB Jeff George did not play in the team's preseason game Thursday, Aug. 31.
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|Raiders | Team signs J. George
Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:32:43 -0700
Raiders.com reports the Oakland Raiders signed free agent QB Jeff George to a contract Monday, Aug. 28. Financial terms were not released.
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|Lions | George Works Out
Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:25:01 -0700
Sports Radio 1130 WDFN AM in Detroit reports the Detroit Lions had free agent QB Jeff George (Bears) in for a workout Tuesday, Sept. 20. Head coach Steve Mariucci said with the team on a Bye Week, it's a good time to bring players in for a workout.
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The facility is open seven days a week with summer hours from 7:30 AM until dark, and tee times are not required. The course offers annual memberships for singles, families, and seniors. The course is suitable for all skill levels. The course features tees for men, women, seniors, and juniors. Children's tees were installed to equalize competition among family members. The green tees are 100 yards on par 3; 200 yards on par 4; and 300 yards on par 5.
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