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Aubrey Drake Graham – better known as just Drake, went from being a locally-known Canadian actor on high school drama Degrassi to teaming up with the biggest names in hip-hop professionally (Kanye West, Jay-Z and Lil' Wayne – just to name a few), not to mention romantically. (Remember those Rihanna and Nicki Minaj headlines?)
But there's much more to the actor-turned-hip-hop star, 24, than a Platinum-selling album, Thank Me Later, and a Rolodex stocked with A-listers.
Here are five things you should know about Best New Artist Grammy contender Drake:
1. He was humbled watching Jay-Z perform last year
Drake says seeing Jay-Z come on stage right after he performed "Best I Ever Had," made him feel "like a small little child." At the Hot 97 Summer Jam concert, Young Jeezy brought the rapper out, and Drake tells PEOPLE, "I looked down at myself and I was wearing like a pink sweater and some cargo pants and [Jay-Z] came out in the nastiest black outfit and shut the stadium down. It was humbling, like, you still have a long way to go, but it was great."
2. His dream collaboration is Sade and Andre 3000
Teaming up with the "Smooth Operator" songstress and one half of rap duo Outkast is an ideal match for Drake, who says he's "fighting to make that happen." Adds the rapper: "Both of them are hard to find, actually. I think it's possible. If it happens, I think it would be legendary. That's my ideal. That's my one that I'm waiting on."
3. He frequently sings about love even if it mystifies him
"I feel like I've said 'I love you' … but I don't know if I understand it yet," Drake says. "I write about it and I try and make sense of it, but I'm not really sure … I thought I would by now, but maybe it's not meant for me to understand yet."
4. Judd Apatow and Michael Cera are his favorite Hollywood stars
Romance is his musical speciality but comedies are his forté when it comes to film. "Basically, I'm a fan of the Judd Apatow comedies," he says. "I love to laugh. I'll watch 40-Year-Old Virgin, Superbad, Juno – anything with Michael Cera. I really like when I go to the movies for it be an experience where I can enjoy myself."
5. He doesn't think he's photogenic
Heartthrob status aside, Drake says he tends to "cringe" when he sees his own photos. "I feel like I photograph different from the way I actually look," he says. "That's just something I come to the realization. When I catch photographs, I just look, like, real old or something. People see me in person and say casually, 'Oh, you look better in person.' "
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Revolution Independent Winterguard Kicks Off 2010 Season
RIW held their September Auditions this past weekend with a great turnout as the program prepares to make the jump from Independent Open Class to Independent World Class! Many new faces and many old faces are making a go at the season that will be one for the history book! Members have come from all over including, Light Brigade, Millennia, First Flight, and of course RIW. More updates on staff and expanded rehearsal schedules will be released very soon. It is never to late to join up, so if you missed a chance this past weekend, join us back in October and lets get back on the floor in 2010!
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MEXICO CITY, May 21 (IPS) - Women representatives of 14 Latin American indigenous communities meeting up to Friday in Mexico said they were disappointed that a draft declaration on native rights remained at a standstill, after more than a decade of debate in the Organisation of American States (OAS).
Bogged down in endless rounds of discussions, corrections and objections by governments, and with a low level of participation by indigenous representatives, the OAS draft document should be reformulated and expanded to include gender issues, agreed the participants in the Continental Forum of Indigenous Women of the Americas.
Attended by indigenous leaders from Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Canada, Costa Rica, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Venezuela, the gathering ran Tuesday through Friday in the city of Patzcuaro, some 300 kms west of the capital.
The OAS draft declaration should be submitted to a regionwide consultation process, because as it stands it fails to represent the aspirations of all indigenous groups, said Mauricia Castro, from Honduras.
In the view of Soledad Ortiz from Mexico, the Inter-American Indigenous Institute (III) - the OAS body that organised this week's conference - should reformulate its strategies with respect to the declaration, and provide for a higher level of participation by indigenous representatives.
Guatemalan Nobel Peace prize-winner and indigenous leader Rigoberta
Menchu said in an interview with IPS that she was disappointed,
because the OAS draft declaration and a similar one also dicussed for
over a decade in the United Nations remained
in limbo.
Indigenous people initially had high hopes that the two documents, designed to guarantee a certain degree of autonomy for ethnic groups and commit governments to promoting the development of vernacular cultures, would be approved quickly after the United Nations declared a decade of indigenous peoples in 1993.
But significant advances toward the final adoption of the declaration have yet to be seen.
Next month, delegates from several countries will meet in Guatemala for a new round of discussions on the OAS draft declaration. Participants at this week's gathering in Mexico pledged to lobby their governments to send indigenous representatives and diplomats well aware of indigenous issues to the meeting.
The Americas are home to between 36 and 55 million indigenous people, most of whom live in extreme poverty. Only one country of the region, Uruguay, has no native population to speak of.
Studies by the III, whose regional headquarters is located in Mexico, point out that indigenous people comprise more than 40 percent of the population in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Peru - four of the poorest countries in Latin America.
The OAS draft declaration indicates that states are responsible for guaranteeing respect for indigenous rights, and demands that the most widely-spoken indigenous tongues be declared official languages.
The declaration also requests that part of the lands taken from indigenous people be returned to them, while calling on governments to share with native communities the profits reaped from the exploitation of natural resources such as minerals.
Indigenous groups in the region have gained important political spaces
in recent years, but many of them are only
virtual because they
do not work, said Myrna Cunningham with the University of the
Autonomous Regions of Nicaragua's Caribbean Coast, who mentioned the
Latin American Indigenous Parliament as an example.
World Bank reports and other studies describe indigenous communities as the poorest of the poor in Latin America. Ethnic origin determines living standards in the region, the studies point out.
Although indigenous organisations and leaders have stood firmly by their demands, governments continue to resist recognising rights of autonomy and self-determination, due to their fears that the state will be broken apart, said Mexican anthropologist Rodolfo Stavenhagen.


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The table of radicals in JiShop contains as many as 632 components of kanji characters. This is almost three times more than the 214 classical radicals used in most kanji dictionaries, either paper or electronic. Some people express their perplexity about this. Indeed, why do we need so many? Aren't 214 enough?
It's time to explain. As a matter of fact, the JiShop table is not just a threefold extension of the classical list. In a way, it's a different set. What's most interesting is that it didn't include all those 214 radicals. Some were omitted!
Have you ever thought about these 214 radicals you see in most kanji dictionaries? Who selected them for kanji search, where and when? You will probably be surprised to know that this system originated in China during the late Ming Dynasty (the beginning of the 17th century). That's when the dictionary named Zihui was published on its 14 scrolls, containing 33179 Chinese characters (hanzi). A hundred years later, the Japanese adopted this system for kanji, without any changes. Since then, rolls were replaced by printed books, and printed books started to be replaced by computer programs — but this medieval system mysteriously survived everything!
Does it mean that it is a good system? No, it doesn't. Perhaps it was good for the medieval Chinese, but it definitely doesn't fit the modern Japanese.
Let's have a closer look at these 214 radicals (Bushu, as they are called in Japanese). Of course, they include all the popular key radicals like 土 Earth, 木 Tree, 糸 Thread, 金 Metal, 心 Heart, 女 Woman and others. No doubt, these radicals should be enlisted in any list, either short or long.
Also, we find radicals there which are far less useful for indexing: 千 Thousand, 牙 Tusk, 色 Color, 面 Face or 黄 Yellow. These radicals are included in the 214 mainly to index themselves (i.e. the kanji 千 "Thousand", the kanji 牙 "Tusk", etc.) because these kanji can't easily be decomposed into smaller parts. This is a sound reason for including these radicals, which we also do in JiShop.
Finally, there are several radicals which are neither useful for indexing, nor difficult to decompose. For example, there's a radical 高 (no. 189, High), which indexes only itself and a very rare character 髞 . Why should we have 高 as a separate radical, instead of indexing both these kanji with 亠 Lid ?
Below you can see the full list of 14 radicals included in the classical list of 214 "bushu", but omitted in the JiShop table:
|Dancing feet
|–› 夕
|–› 八 , 人 , 口
|–› 月
|–› 禾 , 日
|–› 亠 , 口 , 冂
|Fragrant liquor
|–› 匕
|–› 一 , 口 , 冂
|–› 來 , 夂
|–› 广 , 木
|–› 支
|–› 臼
|–› 自 , 田 , 廾
|–› 人 , 一 , 口
Only one radical of these fourteen, 黹, cannot be easily decomposed into smaller parts. It's not included in JiShop table because it indexes just two extremely rare kanji: 黻 and 黼 (both designate special embroidery patterns on the back of a ceremonial dress in ancient China).
The remaining thirteen radicals can easily be replaced by one or more of their parts, as shown above. Only the decomposition of 鼠 Rat is not immediately obvious. The omission of this radical is disputable.
But still: why is the JiShop table of 632 radicals so big compared to the classical 214 list? It omits 14 radicals but introduces 432! Why so many?
Let's talk about it in our next blog post.
Vadim Smolensky
From monsters to animals
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Animals not found in Japan or China seldom have kanji in their names. Most often, their names are katakana transcriptions:Skunk: スカンク [sukanku]
Opossum: オポッサム [opossamu]
Kangaroo: カンガルー [kangaru:]
Kanji come out when, for example, a Western name is translated word by word:Anteater: 蟻食い [arikui] (蟻 'ant' + 食 'eat')
Platypus, duckbill: 鴨嘴 [kamonohashi] (鴨 'duck' + 嘴 'bill')
There are also several made-up words, without exact prototypes in other languages:Zebra: 縞馬 [shimauma] (縞 'stripe' + 馬 'horse')
Racoon: 洗熊 [araiguma] (洗 'wash' + 熊 'bear')
But today we talk about the few miraculous cases when a newly discovered animal adopts a name of a mythical creature!
Here are three examples.Read more...
Three weird kanji
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In the old layout of our webpage, we had a section called "Kanji of the day",
with a screenshot of a JiShop kanji entry, one of 31 randomly selected. Some user critisized us
for having selected too common characters known to everybody and suggested to consider a Weird
Kanji of the Day!
I liked the idea. When the time came to redesign the site, I decided to introduce such a section and made a selection of weird characters. Unfortunately, the layout turned out to be overloaded and I gave up this idea. But now we have a blog where I can show you some weird kanji from that selection and explain why I find them fascinating.
WKS review: compounds & cursive
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After I wrote in my previous blog post about the common habit of drawing kanji rotated counter-clockwise, some user suggested that JiPad should be provided with a grid. Several vertical and horizontal dotted lines would be a reminder for everybody to draw kanji at proper angles. This seems to be a sound idea, so JiShop 7.3 for Windows will definitely have such a grid (of course, with the option of hiding it).
Angles are not the only problem. Some users want JiPad to recognize not only single kanji but compound words, too. When it doesn't, they complain:
WKS review: angles
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Every day I receive WKS files ("written kanji structure") from people who are not happy with the recognition of what they draw in JiPad. Sometimes these signals are very helpful, pointing out serious shortcomings of the algorithm, when a particular combination of strokes definetely should have been recognized. Other reports are more disputable. The most common case of recognition fault is a wrong angle of the picture. For example, look at these screenshots from mobile phones:
Read more...
Welcome to the blog!
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Hello, mina-san!
Today we have three pieces of important news. We have introduced a new design of our website, released a new minor version of JiShop for Windows, and launched a blog! What you are reading now is the first post of this blog.
Our website is now better structured (two menus, bread crumbs, etc.) and contains new features. You can, for example, try our demo that shows you the main features of the program in animation. It demonstrates how to use JiShop on Windows, but on other platforms everything works in a similar way. This demo might even surprise you with some features you didn't know about so far! We are planning to add more demos later, with concrete examples of looking up kanji and words. Read more...


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Information about the performance of a facility's valves has never been more readily available—or more important. Digital positioners and distributed controls can provide valuable data about the operation of the overall system. At the same time, the growing complexity of today's facilities, increasingly stringent regulatory and reporting requirements, and growing pressure to improve plant performance have combined to make that valve data more vital than ever.
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This single tool should be able to capture data about all types of valves in a plant—control, pressure relief, line, gate, motor-assisted, etc. It also should record information about a valve and all of its accessories, not just an individual component, such as a positioner.
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Riding a motorcycle is relatively easy. Riding a motorcycle well is a little harder. And riding one well enough to bring home a trophy or two is another level entirely. Fortunately for us mere mortals looking to cut down our lap times, there are several schools around the country offering top-shelf instruction to help you ride faster. As a convenient byproduct, learning the proper techniques for faster riding also makes one a safer rider, too. Because remember, to finish first you first must finish. As we said before, there are several track schools out there. These are just a few examples.
With over 44 years of teaching experience, the Ed Bargy Racing and Trackday Technique School is one of the longest-running schools of its kind in the country. Run in conjunction with trackdays at Roebling Road, Jennings GP and Talladega, the Ed Bargy School covers all the material needed for someone looking to obtain their WERA racing license, or someone simply trying to become a more proficient track rider.
Students ride their own bikes and can expect to learn proper racing lines, advanced braking techniques and even wet weather racing tips among the 26 topics covered as part of the curriculum. Like many schools, classes are split between the classroom and the race track, with students immediately able to give the lessons they learned in class a try on the course, with Bargy's expert coaches available to give tips and pointers along the way. A one day school costs $400, with several discount and package options also available for return students and retired or active military. Visit the Ed Bargy website for more details.
The idea of learning proper motorcycling technique from a champion in the field is nothing new today, but that's because three-time AMA Superbike champion, Reg Pridmore has been teaching riders since 1972. As part of his CLASS motorcycle school, Reg aims the curriculum for everyone from experienced street riders to novice track riders (but not new street riders), with an emphasis on technique that will serve you well both on track and on the street. Pridmore and his team focus on making each student a smoother, more confident rider, with "instruction on more effective braking, shifting, cornering and how to avoid some pitfalls that often occur as a result of bad habits." Pricing varies depending on the type of school and the track it's being offered at, so check the CLASS website for more details.
Does that last name sound familiar? It should, as Jason Pridmore is Reg Pridmore's son. Like his dad, Jason is a multiple-time champion on two wheels and has a passion for teaching others how to ride faster and safer. For the past 17 years, the Star Motorcycle School has helped riders become the best they could be. Aimed at street riders, track riders and aspiring racers, Star School places its emphasis on teaching students "RPM management, lines, downshifting, body position, and braking" then gives each pupil a chance to put those lessons to use on track. Over the course of the two-day school, the lessons will build upon each other, and by the end of the second day, the goal is to feel a confidence you've never felt before. The remainder of the 2015 season will be held at either Chuckwalla Valley Raceway, Laguna Seca or the Streets of Willow, with pricing starting at $1395. See the Star Motorcycle School website for more information.
Billed as the oldest motorcycle roadracing school in the country, Penguin Roadracing School has been in business since 1973 (CLASS isn't a dedicated roadracing school). While Penguin welcomes the street riding enthusiast, and even has programs tailored to street riding, Penguin forged its name on the racer. The schools aim to help teach the skills necessary for a successful racing career and it tutors the experienced racer to help get them to the front of the grid. Based in New England, the school has been helmed by Eric Wood since 1994. With his wealth of knowledge, combined with three national Formula USA championships and a mechanical engineering background, Wood and his team have the experience necessary to help students understand the modern sport motorcycle and how to get the most out of them. Penguin has numerous package deals and options to rent numerous items, including Kawasaki motorcycles. Visit the Penguin Roadracing School website for more details.
Many people will tell you the best way to get quicker on the blacktop is to spend some time sliding around on the brown-top. Getting comfortable with a motorcycle on the edge of its grip limits (and often past those limits) will only help you understand what to do should the same situation occur on your street, track or race bike. At American Supercamp, head instructor Danny Walker and his team show you what it's like to slide a small Yamaha dirtbike, how different techniques cause different types of slides, and what to do to save them. All of this directly translates to road motorcycles, as evidenced by the amount of top-level racers with dirt-track backgrounds. Visit www.americansupercamp.com for details on pricing, locations and programs.
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Keith Code has been in the business of helping riders become more proficient on their machines for a long time, and the success of his California Superbike School both at home and abroad is testament to how much riders appreciate his teachings. Code has spent decades breaking down the dynamics of riding a motorcycle quickly and has distilled it into bite-size pieces most any rider is able to understand. As such, CSS is slightly different to other riding schools, as Code schools are broken down into four levels, with students required to complete the first level before moving up to the next one. Each of the first three levels presents "five precise technical riding skills," and all four levels can be completed in one day. A small sampling of champions trained by CSS or Code himself include names like Josh Herrin, Leon Camier, Ben Bostrom, James Toseland, Roger Lee Hayden, John Kocinski, Scott Russell and Wayne Rainey, just to name a few.
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Charlie Barker (Stephen Barker Turner) is another unemployed actor who mistakes his pomposity for a bold form of keeping it real, a wannabe who bores people to tears with his usually drunken, self-righteous tirades against the successful phonies of the world. Of course, Charlie is just a different kind of phony: a guy who wallows in his vaguely defined existential malaise to self-glorify his vices and betrayals. Charlie is a stereotype who doesn't know it—basically your typical broke dude in a near midlife crisis who thinks he's the first to have his dull problems. A few minutes with this nagging wreck inspires you to assume that his wife Stella (Daphne Zuniga), a pretty, successful TV producer, is harboring an especially perverse masochistic tendency.
Seducing Charlie Barker is watchable and competent. The scenes zip by at an agreeable pace, and there a few amusing lines here and there, but the film is the usual superficial malarkey about an ungrateful white guy who must content himself with two attractive women and a fabulous city loft—another glamorized loser fantasy. Charlie and Stella's troubled marriage is mined for sitcom-level generalizations about couples, money, and passive aggression, while Charlie's inexplicable fling with flaky super-hottie Clea (Heather Gordon) is nothing more than a typically unconvincing masturbatory fantasy. Gordon does have the best lines though, and she delivers them with a purposefully and amusingly stoned self-consciousness that recalls Amanda Seyfried's delightful performance in Mean Girls. Seducing Charlie Barker is a big so-what, but you leave wanting more Gordon, who might be something in a more original movie.


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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Sea Creature Baby Bootie
Size "G" Crochet hook.
Baby or Sport yarn
(I used Lion Brand Microspun in Turquoise.)
Large Eye needle for sewing heel.
Sew-on-eyes (or what you have on hand.)
(Chain 2 at end of each row, and turn to start next row).
Dc=Double Crochet. Sc=Single Crochet. Sl st=Slip Stitch.
Fp=Front Post Stitch. Bp=Back Post Stitch.
To Start : Leave a tail of about 8 or so inches (for sewing the heel) and Ch 16. DC in third chain from hook. DC in each
remaining chain for a total of 14 DC. Chain 2 and turn.
(this counts as Row 1)
Row 1, 2 & 3 : DC through both loops for a total of 14 DC in
each row.
Row 4: Dc in back loops only of 14 dc.
Row 5: Dc through both loops of 14 dc.
Row 6: Dc in back loops only of 14 dc.
Row 7 & 8:DC through both loops for a total of 14 DC in
each row.
This will give you a little square with two rows of ridges which are the bottom of the bootie and the place to attach the sea creature tentacles. You will end at the opposite end that you started the square. (three rows per each side, two rows for the bottoms)
Step 1--Taking care to make sure the "ridges" are on the outside of your booties-Gather toe end by inserting the hook,
into the end of each DC row & draw a loop onto the hook.--
you will have 8 loops on the hook. Draw another loop, and
pull that loop through all 8 loops on the hook. then sl st this
tight (this gathers the toe and closes it)
Sc the two top sides of bootie together with 7 Sc
(from toe to middle of top of bootie.)
Step 2- While keeping your work on your hook,
Take a large eye needle - put your yarn tail
for the heel into the needle and stitch your heel closed, tie off.
Weave in/hide your yarn end.
Row 1 & 2: *Chain 2, Dc in each stitch around the bootie
ankle opening, and Sl st closed.
Row 3: Ch 2, *Fp dc around 1st dc. Bp dc around 2nd dc.
Repeat from *around cuff of bootie.
Tie off-weave/hide yarn ends.
Sea Creature tentacles (sorry--no directions for left hand.)
With heel in right hand, Slip stitch to ridge on bottom of bootie.
Sc in same stitch. *Sc and next 3 stitches on ridge (work through
two loops for strength).
Ch 8. Sl st in 2nd ch from hook and next 2 ch. 3 sc in next ch. Sl
St in last 3 chains. Sl st is same st on ridge.
Repeat from * around foot (At the toe-work into the end of the 2 rows where there is no ridge to attach to) so that you have
Four legs/tentacle on each side of bootie.. Sc in last stitches and
tie off at end of ridge at heel. Weave/hide yarn ends.
Sew on your eyes on each side of bootie, just below cuff.
To make these into spiders--place eyes on either side of bootie, "near toe"instead of under cuff.
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The main people of the world — trump, Putin and XI Jinping — now in one place. Although they like each other, and each is special for their country, one in the Trinity superfluous.
When we were writing this column, it was not clear, will there be negotiations of Vladimir Putin with Donald trump at the APEC summit, and if so, how serious. Belogolovskii said meetings, they say, there is no schedule, the Kremlin — he did not lose hope.
However, the agenda of this hypothetical meeting, in any case known: North Korean atomic bomb, war in Donbass, the partition of Syria and relations with Iran.
Although the victory trump noted a year ago, almost as a national holiday, his position now is not to offer Putin anything close to major concessions on at least one of these sites. Therefore, any meaningful discussion is possible only in one case: if you don't have trump, and Putin has prepared some bonuses, it is tempting for the opposing side. Such a long time already was not, and wouldn't like to guess whether they are available now.
Interesting not even, with someone who will talk on the sidelines of the summit, that is in passing and is unlikely to seriously. Much more entertaining more. The three most influential ruler of the planet — XI Chairman and President of the trump as the leaders of the superpowers, but Putin as the head of the war machine with the second, if not the first in the world nuclear potential, — summarized the fate and schedule social events at the meeting of APEC in Vietnam, certainly not take advantage of this opportunity to make great triple Alliance to lead mankind.
Although never in the history between the leaders of these three countries was not so much common ground.
XI Jinping, who broke or at least undermined the system of regular change of the top Chinese leaders and led to the horror of local nomenclature, and their war with the corrupt, is by Chinese standards an autocrat. That's what makes him probably the most powerful man on Earth. He is younger than both of his colleagues and, judging by the fact that a few days ago put the country objectives until 2035, was ready to personally monitor their progress many more years as a formal or informal leader.
Autocrat (in the us, of course, coordinates) can be considered trump. With the governing class in his own country had big problems, it it it is believed, wants to solve it himself and could theoretically rely only on the common people. But care trump from office at the latest seven years later, is inevitable, and quite likely three. And provide him the grassroots support is clearly insufficient to potential autocratic tendencies of the current President of the United States developed at least at the level of John Kennedy, not to mention Franklin Roosevelt.
The easiest would seem Putin. He ruled longer, and there are no boundaries to this rule is not intended, and in addition in imitation of the Chinese counterpart took up the fight against corruption, by entering into torpor wide circles of the authorities. The problem is that, in addition to the obedience of subjects, and the already mentioned nuclear missiles, other trumps him there.
About it, but later. Complete compare the biographies and views.
Even a few years before coming to power, Putin and trump were not even aware of what tops you are waiting for them. And the Russians with the Americans also found out who will lead them, literally at the last moment. It unites both.
But over the shoulders of comrade XI was already thirty years old nomenklatura career when in 2012 he became the first person. However, he knows about the world firsthand. As the son of a disgraced dignitary, the fifteen-year teenager, he was exiled "for re-education in the village." "Almost seven years living at the bottom: his home was a cave, a thin blanket on bricks was his bed, a bucket was his toilet… He had to endure dealing with fleas, the hard physical labor and constant loneliness…" — tells a heartfelt book.
Knowledge of the national life (albeit outdated, even with the amendments to the local context), the desire to rule alone and mistrust of governing the tops of their countries, turning into the desire to disperse them, — enough to have three custom leader reached out to each other?
Putin is pretty trump. This is not to hide. Judging by the extremely frequent meetings with President XI (last was just now, da Nang), he, at least, is sparing no effort to make friends with him.
Is there any impact? It is a peculiar. Trump from time to time from afar, says that relations with Russia could deteriorate so quickly, but obviously beware of meetings with its Chairman. XI Jinping, Putin takes easily, but does nothing and almost never stands up for him.
But between the tramp and si, at least outwardly, full of grandeur. First si deals lush a visit to Trump, hardly came into office, and trump even more richly attended in Beijing. What sort of "conversations on the sidelines of the summits"? Trump solemnly taking in the Beijing forbidden city. Knowing his aesthetic tastes, you can guess how happy he was to imagine himself Emperor. And, of course, higher hug at Beijing's great hall, cheering crowd, salute, marching in beauty the form, crashing orchestras.
In addition to leaders, there are still countries with interests, interdependencies, and other disputes.
The economic power of the US and China in absolute isolation from all others. And in the military future in China, inferior to now Russia's only missile and nuclear power will also become if not the first, then second.
China is the largest exporter of goods in the United States and the third (after Canada and Mexico) the purchaser of American goods. The volume of trade between the two powers (export + import) has passed through half a trillion dollars. However, the Chinese sell Americans a lot more than they buy, and trump is not in Beijing, but in Washington, of course — promised to rein them. But the current ending their negotiations, the parties boast some incredible value agreements on cooperation in new industries. If it's not a bluff, the balance of trade in goods and services will level off.
Another bilateral U.S.-China issue — how to deal with North Korea is almost entirely dependent upon trade with China. If the Chinese see fit in exchange for the States technological benefits to make the Americans a present, it is not so difficult to put the Kingdom of the Kim dynasty to a position close to hopeless.
All I say today is not the case, but only opportunities. But the sheer magnitude of the mutual dependence of the two countries-giants such opportunities. And so I take advantage of them or not, will quickly become visible.
And now back to Putin. Nothing prevents us to assume that si and trump belong to him personally, not worse, and may even be better than each other. But to become a member of the triumvirate, he has something to contribute. What?
The size of the Russian economy by 5-10 times (depending on the method of calculation) less than Chinese or American. Russian-American trade is important, if not critical, for Russia, but for the us, does not matter. The converging interests of Russia and the United States is evident only on the fronts of Syria and Donbass. But today's America is absolutely unwilling to do in these areas presents, which is why Putin was supposed to get from trump. Some discharge, and it is hardly serious, is possible only if he will give, at least secretly.
As to China, it is the largest recipient of Russian exports (mainly oil) and the first supplier of goods to Russia. But the dependence we have a purely one-sided. The total volume of trade between the two countries last year totaled $70 billion Is only 2% of Chinese trade. Technological potential of Russia is outdated and continues to age. His temptation is small. The Chinese are already on the cheap borrowed all he could. The transport route for their goods since they lay to the South of Russia, through the Caucasus — clearly doubting the reliability of Moscow. Remains of Chinese tourism. Yes, he's thriving. But it is not to build any equal partnership and strategic cooperation.
Moscow's influence in the resolution or prohibiting the North Korea issue is also secondary. Unlike colleagues, XI, Putin has no leverage to force Kim to act differently. And to close the Russian nuclear shield from colleagues trump, sacrificing himself, absolutely not his style.
Russian policy in recent years were built on two wrong settings. The gap with the US can be beat, there appear to be a suitable President. And that this gap, if it still will be irreversible, will be able to compensate, concluding a fraternal Alliance with China.
But it turned out that the world is different. The mutual attraction of Moscow and Washington leaders brings together Russia with the States, and even more parts. And XI even in the vassal takes. In vain were afraid. Maybe duumvirate trump and si will be a dud, but that triumvirate will not be accurate.


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Architecture and Civilizations
Architecture has contributed much towards civilization from the ancient world to the present. Architecture acts as the mirror of civilization. It reflects all the manifestations of culture innovations and achievement in different fields that include humanity, science, and technical fields among others. Civilizations take place in different fields of the society, with culture acting as the key control of civilizations. This paper looks at architecture, civilizations, and their relationship.
Architecture forms one of the arts that include construction of mosques, housing, schools, museums, hospitals and all other constructions that man uses to help himself with the daily activities of his life. It has become difficult to trace early stages of the process of architecture out of the first attempts of man to develop buildings. The oldest forms of architectural manifestations, those of Chaldea and Egypt belong to an advanced civilization. The elementary structures built by savages in central Africa have no classification as works of architecture. Therefore, it became difficult to consider primitive ways of building into genuine architecture (Mitias 138).
Ancient Egyptian architecture
Primitive architecture became a subject of archaeology, as opposed to the history of art. However, the first architectural manifestations can trace back to the first civilized people in Egypt. The architectural practices that Egyptians used in their buildings must have established from the start of architectural knowledge and resources, which exist in the oldest monuments, though the early monuments, have almost become extinct. Even at an early age, humankind tried to build tall buildings that showed developments in architecture and civilization. Some of the impressive structures that exist today developed a long time ago; however, we cannot trace the exact dates of their development. For instance, no person can exactly trace the period that the great pyramid of Giza came into existence. This has made the true meaning of pyramids a mystery in terms of its architectural age. As multiple cultures in Africa used their forms of architecture to build pyramids, the middle, west, east and Central America built pyramids around the same period (Gelernter 14).
Neolithic architecture
The first manifestations of architecture and civilization could be Neolithic architecture. Neolithic cultures appeared after 10000 B.C in Levant. From here, the architecture spread eastwards and westwards. The Neolithic people of Levant, Anatolia, Syria, northern Mesopotamia and central Asia displayed their building prowess in utilizing bricks made from mud to construct houses and villages. They painted their houses with scenes of human beings and animals. In Europe, ancient people built their houses using wattle and daub.
In the ancient Egypt, the priests executed the founding and ordering of the Egyptian city and the significant buildings that included the temples and the palace. Architecture and civilizations got an influence from culture. In Egypt, the architecture and civilization got an influence from the Egyptian culture. People believed that God had an omnipotent character. The aspects of their daily lives reflected respect to the notion of the divine and supernatural godliness. The ancient architecture and civilization in Egypt showed the tension between the divine and mortal world. Cities contained sacred spaces over nature. An architect would receive recognition as part of a continuing tradition, as opposed to a significant figure, in Egypt, whether a priest or king.
Ancient Greek architecture
The Greek architecture and civilizations happened differently from that of the Egyptians and Persians. During the ancient periods, the ruling order handled matters of religion. The Greek architecture and civilization received an influence from their culture and religion. For instance, public stores, buildings and temples surrounded the agora, which sustained the Greek civic life. The rituals of civilizations became inscribed in space that wound towards the acropolis. Each place had its own nature and reflected certain, myths. Therefore, when Greeks built their temples on top of mountains, they wanted the temples to touch heavens (Ishay 66).
Ancient Roman architecture
The roman architecture facilitated building of public houses that had unprecedented sizes throughout the empire. These buildings included roman baths, roman temples, bridges, aqueducts, harbors, arches, amphitheatres, palaces and mausoleum.
From the rise of ancient Greece to the fall of the Roman Empire, the construction of buildings happened according to precise rules. For example, Marcus Vitruvius, the roman architect who existed during the first century B.C believed in the notion that all builders should use mathematical principles when building houses, temples and other buildings. Without symmetry and proportion, no building would have a regular plan. The first inhabitants of the Greek peninsula built primitive and basic structures, with apsidal, circular, oval or rectangular shapes. The rectangular buildings had an oblong shape and had the door at one of the shorter ends. The Minoan architects had residential towns with less temples and public spaces. Unlike the earlier civilizations, they had private houses that had many rooms. However, they used pillars to separate rooms. The stairways in those buildings provided a prominent feature of the massive buildings (Benevolo 574).
Therefore, all the early architectural designs and civilization happened with an influence from culture and religion. The civilizations of the ancient Egypt, Greek and ancient Rome influenced government, recreation, religion, education, theatre and arts. They also had an influence on architecture. Today, we encounter architectural designs that have borrowed heavily from the civilizations of the ancient world.
A recurring theme in forms of modern art explores attempts to reform civilizations through art. At the beginning of the twentieth century towards its half, the idea of reforming civilizations happened literary in the field of architecture. The architect put himself or herself in a position that portrays them as saviors for humankind.
Technology and industrialization have changes the concept of civilization because of modernization and invention of new architectural ways and resources of use.
The early architecture and civilization have an influence to the current world of architecture and civilization. The world of architecture has received a lot of influence from the roman architectural development and design. The innovative designs and developments that came in to existence many years ago provided a background for architectural masterpieces found across the world today. The architecture and civilization of the ancient Rome have remained viable up to date. With the invention of concrete by the Romans, building in the modern world became easy. Until this development, architectural progress in the world had been restrictive and limited. The increased understanding of the use of concrete, people erected strong structures.
The use of concrete by the Romans made it possible for Romans to experience innovations in architecture, for instance, the use of arches and vaults. Before the Romans began to use concrete, their temples had small sizes because they had a difficulty in putting roofs on the top of those temples. Therefore, the Romans developed internal arches that would help in providing roof for structures. This made it possible for them to develop buildings with larger sizes.
Ancient civilizations act as a basis for the modern world architecture and construction as we understand it. The roman architecture influenced the Islamic architecture, particularly, in the field of stone columns. Towards the end of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth century, certain architectural schools appeared in the western world. The focus of the curricular they taught rested on the values of the industrial revolution. These schools advocated for intellectual revolution, in which shapes appear simplified to replace former decorations that had a base for visual excitement. The dominant thought, significant events and beliefs, had an effect from architecture. For example, Greek, roman and Islamic architecture had an influence from the thought and practice of societies at that time (Perry Et.al 269).
Post modernism architecture opposed the previous architectural concepts and became individualistic. For instance, it did not use ornamentations and symmetry. It erased the constructive structure and the identity of architecture. After post modernism architecture, deconstructive architecture emerged. This type of architectural manifestation opposed the heritage resurrection principle. Its proponents eliminated the shortcomings of other architectural approaches such as immobility and tried to make deconstructive architecture feasible. This marked the end of aesthetic architecture (Peter and Et.al 240).
The early architecture and civilization contributed to architectural reformation. In the present day architecture and civilization, most designs do not work with the influence of culture and religious affiliations. However, the Islam and Hindu architectural designs still have certain forms of influence from culture and religion. The two architectural designs use an aesthetic principle just like the Greek and roman architecture, among other early architectural designs.
However, much other architectural designs use an aesthetic principle they get influence from climate, the construction materials available, resources and technology among other issues. Unlike the early architecture and civilization that concentrated on buildings, the modern architecture has extended to various sectors, for instance, the road and public work sector (Woolf and Et.al 666).
The western civilization has received different influences from the ancient civilizations. Ancient Romans contributed much towards the modern western civilization. The civilizations influenced the west inters of architecture, engineering and literature. Engineering encompassed roads and aqueducts. Architecture contributed towards columns and domes in building.
Engineering in the ancient roman civilization has influenced the western culture today because of the bridges, harbors, aqueducts and roads. Today, the western world still uses aqueducts and roads that the ancient Romans introduced many years ago. The western world still uses domes and archways. Most of the capital and religious buildings, in the west, have archways, domes and columns, in their structure.
The literature that the ancient Rome displayed had an influence over the west, in a significant way. For instance, the literature that Pliny and Virgil used influenced the west. They still use literature to arouse patriotism so that when threatening situations arise, people become more patriotic, such as during the time of wars, and natural calamities. The influences that have come from ancient roman civilization, in terms of literature, engineering and architecture have helped the western world in a significant way. It provided a background for architects to come with new ways of carrying out construction activities together with improving the old technique and materials to use in constructions (Perry 168).
The developments in the ancient Egypt, roman and Greek architecture and civilization, show that although man had a primitive nature, he had a considerably developed brain that could help him develop buildings using crude tools and equipments.
These architectural designs and civilizations contributed towards the origin of a new thought that led to inventions in the architectural field. These inventions made use of the past to come up with new ways and strong techniques, materials and resources of building. Therefore, architecture and civilization of the ancient times have had importance towards the development of the modern-day world. Most building designs that exist in the world today have borrowed something from the ancient world architecture and civilization (Cram 5).
Architecture and civilization form two concepts that work concurrently. Civilization encompasses architecture, engineering and literature that work towards the achievement of better goals. The western world have benefited from the ancient architecture and civilization, especially from ancient Rome and Greek. They provided the west with techniques and materials for building bridges, roads and buildings among other things.


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In my quest to adapt my existing system to a new time constraint trading requirement, I accidently stumble onto a new system. Its a very simple system that has shown good result for the month of April and May at the moment.
Just to show you what I have stumble upon, here is a screen shot of my demo account that I have used to run the test. It doesn't show high accuracy but it shows a return of over 100% last month and a small return this month so far.
Here is the hard part. What if I say that I can actually have an accuracy of 100%. Meaning I can win all the time with this system. The numbers you see there is me using a demo account trading with limited time with no regards for the system rules.
Would it be nice to actually win all the time. I will keep you guys posted on the result by the end of this month. In the meantime I cannot be online as long as I like to. For my friends, I know my YM is not online for a long time but just leave a message and I will answer when I have the time.


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|25 Nov 2010
BSOD after fresh install and windows update! HELP
Hey guys, I've had my computer running flawlessly for a year now. Recently I bought a external hard drive for school (computer repair class). In class, we installed windows 7 and ubuntu as partitons on the external hard drive. I brought it home yesterday and unplugged the esata cord from my Primary SSD into my external hard drive with ubuntu on it, and tried to boot from the external instead of my primary SSD. I went into the bios also to make sure the computer was reading the new hard drive as the primary, and was #1 in priority.
The boot manager came up asking which version of Ubunto i would like to load, this is all normal. It started doing the postcheck (I think this is what its called). Its where the list of drivers are being collected before ubunto loads, kind of like running windows 7 in safemode and watching the devices load before windows boots up.
After the list of drivers were loaded, my screen goes completly black, and my monitor comes up saying no input signal. I figured this was a driver problem as ubuntu was installed on my external hard drive using my school computer. So I tried to restart the computer in windows again, to get on the internet to troubleshoot.
I turned the computer off and plugged the esata cord into my SSD, changed the bios settings back so that the SSD was primary and in priority, then sure enough i get the error "Please insert a boot device blah blah blah". The error you get when no operating system is installed. I fooled around with the bios a bit more, and no matter what i did, it couldnt read windows off my SSD. I went back into the bios to make sure the computer was recognizing it, and it was.
I used Hirens boot cd to load mini xp from the disk, in order to access my SSD as a secondary drive to backup my files. Everything worked, the mini xp was able to open the SSD and i could transfer files no problem.
I reinstalled windows 7 pro x64 back on the SSD (Fresh Install, including format), and everything went smooth. I started running windows updates, and antivirus definitions at the same time. Then all of a sudden, as the windows updates were at around 75%, I got the blue screen of death. It would wait till the dumping physical memory reached 100% then restarted. Ever since this, it happens 25% of the time i restart my computer.
Do you think its software related? or should I send in my SSD for warranty?
Ive attached a file that shows my system status and everything, please have a look.
System Manufacturer/Model Number: Self Built
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
CPU: Intel Core i7-920 Bloomfield 2.66GHz LGA 1366 130W Quad-Core
Motherboard: ASUS P6TD Deluxe LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Memory: CORSAIR XMS3 12GB (6 x 2GB) DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600(PC3 12800)
Graphics Cards 2x in SLI - GIGABYTE GV-N275UD-896I GeForce GTX 275 896MB 448-bit GDDR3
Sound Card N/A
Monitor(s) Displays 2x ASUS VW246H Glossy Black 24" 2ms(GTG) HDMI Widescreen LCD Screens
Resolution N/A
Hard Drives Primary: Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2M080G2XXX 2.5" 80GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - OEM
Secondary: Western Digital RE3 WD1002FBYS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
PSU CORSAIR HX Series CMPSU-1000HX 1000W ATX12V 2.2 / EPS12V 2.9
Case RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB Black 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid
Cooling COOLER MASTER Intel Core i7 compatible V8 RR-UV8-XBU1-GP
Keyboard N/A
Mouse Razar Mamba
Internet Speed 200kb/s (shitty)
Other Info N/A
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|25 Nov 2010
Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown
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Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 4105
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BCCode: 1e
OS Version: 6_1_7600
Service Pack: 0_0
Product: 256_1
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|26 Nov 2010
I just reinstalled windows, installed the first windows update, which was about a mb in security updates, then once that finished I restarted the computer. All was good. I popped in my motherboard cd to install drivers. After the first reboot from the automatic driver installer, I got the bsod again!
Any ideas? Help pleeaaasee
|My System Specs
|26 Nov 2010
Hi and welcome to the forum. I looked at your four most recent dumps. All have the same error code and are nearly identical. All directly blame mv61xx.sys, Marvel IDE/SATA driver. This driver is slightly out of date. Update it from this link: Marvell: Support
Error code 1E, KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED. Usual causes: Device driver, hardware, System service, compatibility, Remote control programs, memory, BIOS
Windows 7 Kernel Version 7600 MP (8 procs) Free x64 Product: WinNt, suite: TerminalServer SingleUserTS Built by: 7600.16617.amd64fre.win7_gdr.100618-1621 Machine Name: Kernel base = 0xfffff800`0285f000 PsLoadedModuleList = 0xfffff800`02a9ce50 Debug session time: Thu Nov 25 10:25:09.266 2010 (GMT-5) System Uptime: 0 days 0:00:40.312 Loading Kernel Symbols ............................................................... ................................................................ ................. Loading User Symbols Loading unloaded module list .... ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* Use !analyze -v to get detailed debugging information. BugCheck 1E, {0, 0, 0, 0} Unable to load image \SystemRoot\system32\DRIVERS\mv61xx.sys, Win32 error 0n2 *** WARNING: Unable to verify timestamp for mv61xx.sys *** ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded for mv61xx.sys Probably caused by : mv61xx.sys ( mv61xx+1eb58 ) Followup: MachineOwner --------- 0: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis * * * ******************************************************************************* KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (1e) This is a very common bugcheck. Usually the exception address pinpoints the driver/function that caused the problem. Always note this address as well as the link date of the driver/image that contains this address. Arguments: Arg1: 0000000000000000, The exception code that was not handled Arg2: 0000000000000000, The address that the exception occurred at Arg3: 0000000000000000, Parameter 0 of the exception Arg4: 0000000000000000, Parameter 1 of the exception Debugging Details: ------------------ EXCEPTION_CODE: (Win32) 0 (0) - The operation completed successfully. FAULTING_IP: +5bf1952f0192d7f4 00000000`00000000 ?? ??? EXCEPTION_PARAMETER1: 0000000000000000 EXCEPTION_PARAMETER2: 0000000000000000 CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT: 1 DEFAULT_BUCKET_ID: VISTA_DRIVER_FAULT BUGCHECK_STR: 0x1E PROCESS_NAME: ISBEW64.exe CURRENT_IRQL: a EXCEPTION_RECORD: fffff80000ba2348 -- (.exr 0xfffff80000ba2348) ExceptionAddress: fffff800028c7780 (nt!DbgBreakPoint) ExceptionCode: 80000003 (Break instruction exception) ExceptionFlags: 00000000 NumberParameters: 1 Parameter[0]: 0000000000000000 TRAP_FRAME: fffff80000ba23f0 -- (.trap 0xfffff80000ba23f0) NOTE: The trap frame does not contain all registers. Some register values may be zeroed or incorrect. rax=fffffa800ac4ad88 rbx=0000000000000000 rcx=fffffa800ac93880 rdx=0000000000000001 rsi=0000000000000000 rdi=0000000000000000 rip=fffff800028c7781 rsp=fffff80000ba2588 rbp=0000000000000001 r8=0000000000000000 r9=0000000000000000 r10=000000000000003e r11=fffff8800373d000 r12=0000000000000000 r13=0000000000000000 r14=0000000000000000 r15=0000000000000000 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na pe nc nt!DbgBreakPoint+0x1: fffff800`028c7781 c3 ret Resetting default scope LAST_CONTROL_TRANSFER: from fffff800028c746e to fffff800028cf710 STACK_TEXT: fffff800`00ba1438 fffff800`028c746e : fffff800`00ba14d8 00000000`00000001 fffff800`00ba1bb0 fffff800`028fc668 : nt!KeBugCheck fffff800`00ba1440 fffff800`028f540d : fffff800`02addb7c fffff800`02a17e84 fffff800`0285f000 fffff800`00ba2348 : nt!KiKernelCalloutExceptionHandler+0xe fffff800`00ba1470 fffff800`028fca90 : fffff800`02a1ea40 fffff800`00ba14e8 fffff800`00ba2348 fffff800`0285f000 : nt!RtlpExecuteHandlerForException+0xd fffff800`00ba14a0 fffff800`029099ef : fffff800`00ba2348 fffff800`00ba1bb0 fffff800`00000000 fffffa80`00000003 : nt!RtlDispatchException+0x410 fffff800`00ba1b80 fffff800`028ced82 : fffff800`00ba2348 00000000`00000000 fffff800`00ba23f0 fffff880`0372ce00 : nt!KiDispatchException+0x16f fffff800`00ba2210 fffff800`028ccbb4 : fffffa80`0cb9a2a0 fffff880`049928e8 fffffa80`0cb9a2a0 fffff880`0486701d : nt!KiExceptionDispatch+0xc2 fffff800`00ba23f0 fffff800`028c7781 : fffff880`01027b58 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiBreakpointTrap+0xf4 fffff800`00ba2588 fffff880`01027b58 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffff800`0298951c : nt!DbgBreakPoint+0x1 fffff800`00ba2590 00000000`00000000 : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 fffff800`0298951c 00000000`00020003 : mv61xx+0x1eb58 STACK_COMMAND: kb FOLLOWUP_IP: mv61xx+1eb58 fffff880`01027b58 ?? ??? SYMBOL_STACK_INDEX: 8 SYMBOL_NAME: mv61xx+1eb58 FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner MODULE_NAME: mv61xx IMAGE_NAME: mv61xx.sys DEBUG_FLR_IMAGE_TIMESTAMP: 49c31205 FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: X64_0x1E_mv61xx+1eb58 BUCKET_ID: X64_0x1E_mv61xx+1eb58 Followup: MachineOwner ---------
ASACPI.sys Sun Mar 27 22:30:36 2005
Please visit this link: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.-Support- download_item_mkt
Scroll down to the Utilities category, then scroll down to the "ATK0110 driver for WindowsXP/Vista/Windows 7 32&64-bit " (it's about the 8th item down).
Download and install it.
Go to C:\Windows\System32\drivers to check and make sure that the ASACPI.sys file is date stamped from 2009 or 2010 (NOT 2005).
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|26 Nov 2010
You are welcome. I have finished; refresh your page.
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|26 Nov 2010
Alright, I did what was asked, and it seemed to be working ok, I restarted it twice and no BSOD on startup.
I went ahead with installing the rest of my motherboard drivers making sure I didnt install the old drivers that were causing the BSOD. The express installer that came with my drivers cd for my motherboard identified that i had newer drivers then the one currently on the cd, so it skipped those drivers.
After installing 1/2 of the drivers on the cd, after the first reboot, BSOD!
Now every time I try to load up windows, i get a BSOD all within 10 seconds. I'm trying to get another report for you as I type this from my laptop, but it doesnt stay in windows long enough. This goes for safemode too, even in safemode I get the BSOD every 10 seconds.
I'll try to get into device manager to disable some drivers at random within the 10 seconds, to hopefully stop the BSOD to get those reports for you.
|My System Specs
|26 Nov 2010
I was able to disable the network drivers, which extended the time the BSOD comes up on startup to about 30 seconds. It still isnt enough time to generate those reports.
|My System Specs
|26 Nov 2010
I was able to keep windows open long enough, but unfortunately in safemode I cant generate the perfmon.
If the perfmon is important for you to help me out, I can keep trying to get it.
heres what i got so far.
I also double checked that the driver's for both my ethernet ports are updated to 1.30 instead of the old 1.10.
|My System Specs
|26 Nov 2010
This dump is virtually the same as the other dumps and still blames mv61xx.sys, Marvel IDE/SATA driver, which is still slightly out of date. However, this time Kaspsersky is known as being involved in the crash. Kaspsersky in known to cause BSOD's on some Win 7 systems. I didn't mention it earlier because I hoped that updating the ASACPI.sys driver would stop the BSOD's. I suggest that you uninstall Kaspersky using this removal tool: Tool. Download and install Microsoft Security Essentials in its place. Make sure Windows Firewall is turned on.
See if you can find an update for this driver:
mv61xx.sys Thu Mar 19 23:48:21 2009 - Marvell: Support
After you uninstall Kaspsersky, let us know how your system does.
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Tip of the Month (January 2004)
Taking Pictures and Saving Them Into the Database
Visual CE allows you to use a camera to take a picture and put it directly into a record in a table. All you do is click on an Image Control (before version 9.0, the Image Control must be connected to a column of type Picture, not Text), aim the camera (the image control will act as the viewfinder), and then click on the control again.
If the image control is connected to a Picture column, Visual CE will capture the picture and put it into the record. When the record is synchronized to the desktop, it will be an OLE Object (bitmap) in the desktop database.
If the image control is connected to a Text column, Visual CE will capture the picture and put it into a file on the handheld. The name of the file will be based on the name of the handheld and the time the picture was taken. The file pathname will be stored in the record.
Currently this only works for the following cameras:
As other camera manufacturers provide SYWARE with the necessary information, SYWARE will integrate support for those cameras into Visual CE.
For all cameras: In the properties of the Image control, turn on the "Selection on click" property.
Camera specific instructions:
Note to camera manufacturers: If you would like Visual CE to support your camera, contact SYWARE, Inc. at 617-497-1300 or by email.


text: My boss and f*ck buddy Kelsey got promotions and decide to take a long weekend in Vegas to celebrate along with our mutual friend Gina. Along the way, we meet Belle a stunning girl who comes along for the fun. While in Vegas, we are introduced to a famous Las Vegas entertainer. How famous? He has had a standing gig in a major casino for years now. But the trip gets better than a long weekend in Vegas as we are treated to a side trip to Mexico which takes us to Taxco, Merida, and the Yucatan coast (aka "The Mexican Caribbean"). My stories, as always, are real stories, not just long yawn-inducing highly detailed sex scenes between cardboard characters. I know you'll enjoy It Didn't Stay In Vegas. Here is the Kindle link.


text: They go to a lot of trouble to distinguish one team from another in the Bowl Championship Series standings. But when it comes time to choose among them, they ignore their own data in favor of projected television ratings and ticket sales. Beyond the national championship game mandated to be No. 1 vs. No. 2, the BCS renders its own rankings, based on precise calculations to the ten-thousandth of a point, irrelevant. Ohio State and Oregon both are ahead of Notre Dame in this week's BCS standings. Yet if the season ended today, one of them would sacrifice a spot to the Irish, because ... everybody now ... blue and gold makes green. Assuming no surprises between now and Dec. 4 when the bowl bids go out, Notre Dame will be on the inside looking out. Not that the Irish owe any apologies for benefiting from a system that allows bowls to use their earning power only within certain reasonable parameters -- 6-4-1 isn't good enough for the Fiesta Bowl anymore. A sufficient record and ranking, a standard the agitated Big Ten and Pac-10 commissioners approved, make Notre Dame available. Postseason suitors have waited five long years for the Irish. John Junker of the Fiesta Bowl stands at the head of a jostling line, brushing the lint off his canary-yellow blazer, careful not to disturb the complimentary bag of tortilla chips tucked into his arm. It's the convenient disregard for its own Modified Stableford system that makes the BCS seem so shameless in its preference for Notre Dame over Oregon or Ohio State. All three teams have a legitimate claim to an at-large bid. Differences might be small, perhaps decipherable only two or three places past the decimal point, but the BCS established that formula for the express purpose of telling teams apart. That's how it came to the conclusion last season that undefeated Auburn didn't belong in the championship game. By that standard, Notre Dame's credentials compared to other potential at-large selections deserve more scrutiny than the glad-handing bowl reps will give them. Oregon lost only one game. Nothing matters more in college football than the number of losses. One of the great rationalizations for the BCS is that it preserves the intensity and integrity of the regular season. USC thrashed the Ducks 45-13 in Eugene, Ore., but they didn't lose another game. To show for their 10-1 record, Oregon players stew in their luxurious locker room, awaiting word on whether one of the major bowls will stoop to accommodate them. Ohio State lost twice, the same as Notre Dame. Almost. Texas beat the Buckeyes by three points, an outcome against a probable Rose Bowl participant identical to what the Irish mustered against the Trojans. Notre Dame also lost at home to Michigan State, a team that descended into madness. Ohio State's other loss: on the road against Big Ten champion Penn State. A win Saturday night at Stanford would give the Irish five straight to end the regular season. Late losses derailed potential BCS bids in 1998 and 2002, so November momentum means a lot. Except the Buckeyes have won six in a row and the Ducks seven, so maybe it doesn't. All this parsing of schedules and records doesn't determine beyond a reasonable doubt that Oregon is better than Ohio State, and Ohio State is better than Notre Dame. Only actual competition, to which the BCS remains steadfast in its opposition, can do that. It's just selective information, part of what the BCS uses to determine rankings it considers the best measure of the relative strength of teams. Their current calculations read like this: 6. Ohio State 7. Oregon 8. Notre Dame Eighth in the standings, but No. 1 in their hearts, Notre Dame's popularity exposes the fundamental weakness of the BCS. Everything but the title game is reduced to an exhibition, a fundraiser for the local chamber of commerce that requires the best draw, not necessarily the best team by its own calculations. Nothing wrong with playing the economic percentages under those circumstances. It's just another example of a system designed to line pockets at the expense of everything it purports to support. Rewarding players for a great regular season? If they happen to play for the most popular team available. Tradition? A thing of the past. Texas of the Big 12 will be playing in its second consecutive Rose Bowl, on Jan. 4 this season, at the end of three days of games that once fit into 12 exhilarating hours. And whatever happened to the Cotton Bowl anyway? For this the BCS wants credit, for choking the charm out of the bowls and replacing it with charts and graphs it doesn't even follow when the bottom line says to choose Notre Dame. Separating teams either by math or mass appeal makes no more competitive sense than previous methods of postseason matchmaking. It just makes every game besides the Rose Bowl no more important than the Battle of the Network Stars.


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I have a new WIP. Right now it's called After the Fall, although I expect that to change, given the popularity of several similar titles, and the fact that it sounds like an angel book. It's not. It's not paranormal at all, actually. The style is much more stream of consciousness than Refuge-- much more the way I wrote as a teen.
To be honest, I feel like I've tapped a vein I thought I'd lost, and I'm crazy excited, but also crazy nervous, because it's writing itself in first person present, which I generally dislike unless it's done very, very well... so here's hoping I'm doing it well (and wow, sorry about that run on sentence-- see what I mean about stream of consciousness?).
However, like Refuge, it has two POV characters, because apparently that's how I
"This Mess We're In" by PJ Harvey and Thom Yorke
which, incidentally, is a duet. = 2
"Running Up That Hill" by Placebo
which, incidentally, is a Kate Bush cover. = 2
So 14.5K worth of wordage was accomplishment #1 for the weekend.
Accomplishment #2: Not only surviving Riverfest in Little Rock, but actually having a fantastic time! The tickets were my Mother's Day present, and we only went for the headliners: The Black Crowes. (You're shocked. I know.)
Accomplishment #2.5: Allowing my husband to live after he said, "You dance a lot like Chris Robinson!"
Me: Glare.
Him: "No! I mean in a good way!"
I'd be madder if he were wrong.
I can't find any footage of this weekend's show, but it was great. They played lots of radio hits, which is a bummer but to be expected at a festival. This is actually the third time I've seen them: The first was at Riverfest four years ago, and the second was this show in Fayetteville-- also a Mother's Day gift. :)
Rumor has it they're finishing this tour in December, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of "Shake Your Money Maker," and then going on indefinite hiatus. So if you're a fan, see 'em now.
20th = ... has a 2 in it. It's 2 decades! That counts!
Also, don't forget: You can still enter contests at YA Highway as well as here on my blog!
contests = 2. Check back soon-- I'm updating the post with pictures of what I've made so far!


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A 2004 article (but still very interesting) about a crossdresser (and Silverton, Oregon city official!) by Meg Daly:
Rasmussen says he has been a cross-dresser all his life, though he has only been out for the past 10 years. For many years he was ashamed; he thought he was the only man in the world with a proclivity for women's clothing and therefore must be "sick and bad." Then an Internet search revealed a much wider world to him and, he says, "the floodgates opened."
He found his way to Northwest Gender Alliance, which he credits with helping him get to a place of being comfortable with himself. In the mid-1990s he started getting his nails done and was soon going out in public dressed entirely in women's attire. Though he was terrified at first, he soon realized "90 percent of the problems [he faced] were right between my own ears."…
Comfortable with the terms genderqueer and transgender, he says he has nonetheless never considered having a sex change.
"I can be perfectly happy in a man's body," he says.
He did, however, save up his money and get breast implants four years ago.
"Cleavage is a cross-dresser's nirvana," he says. He had worn prosthetic breasts for a few years to "try out being a guy with breasts." Now that he has the real thing, he says he has regretted it "for all of about 15 seconds" when he first opened his eyes after the surgery.
One of his favorite adornments for his bust is a T-shirt he had made that answers any silent passersby who may be wondering, "Why does Stu do that?" It reads simply: "Because girls have more fun. "