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Proud winners of the 1920 Washington Herald Junior Baseball Championship. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
There were 12 teams in the tournament with the championship game coming down to Parks versus the Yankees. Other teams in the "down-and-out" tournament were the Petworth Athletic Club (A.C.), Eastern A.C., Auditors from Southern Railway, Cavaliers, Hilltops, Arrows, New Haven, Rolands, Renrocs, and Maryland Juniors. All junior tournament games were held from August 23th to September 5th, and the event was "... to determine the best team of 18 year olds," according to the paper. The results from the September 6th edition are below.
The funny thing for me personally about pictures of young men of this vintage is I find them particularly cute because so many of them are wearing the long on top/short on the sides haircut that was also popular with young men when I was a D.C.-area teenager in the 80s and 90s. Hand several of these guys a skateboard each, and I'd be required to develop an instant crush on them. Catcher, guy two behind him holding the bat, and Mr. Tie Askew, I'm talking to you.
Where, I don't see anyone passed out on the ground?
Last guy on the right crouching looks like a young Ray Bolger and I'm still looking for Charlie.
Hard to prove or disprove the kneeling/crouching discussion, but I do see Charlie Sheen, or his Estevez forefather!
I also see manager Harry Houdini, or is that Thomas Edison?
VictrolaJazz and jimchig, you're both wrong, do you hear me? Wrong, wrong wrong. Cagney and all those guys in the second row appear to be neither sitting nor kneeling, but crouching. You both may now genuflect to pay obeisance to my perspicacity. On another note, nobody else seems to have spotted Charlie Sheen.
VictrolaJazz, I think you meant 'kneeling', third from left. And yes, he is a ringer.
Judging from the large P on several of the uniforms and the partial WORT on the uniform of the kid kneeling in the middle, it appears that this team represented the Petworth sector of D.C. -- a residential area in the upper northwest between Georgia Avenue and North Capitol Street.
Seated, third from left!
I was born in D.C. in 1926 -- yeah, I'm an old guy. We lived on one of Washington's famous (or infamous) traffic roundabouts, Sherman Circle. All of the kids played there (after our mothers saw us safely across the street). I remember the same park policeman visiting the circle every day on his bike. We never called him Officer, but Mister Whatever.
When I was growing up, the trees in the circle were just saplings. Years later (and also many years ago) the circle was a virtual forest. Much has changed.
There is just something about the look of every one of these people: I cannot imagine running into any of them even in modern clothes.
Rear left, he looks kind of shifty to me.
So many, likely just having heard about the passage of the Volstead Act.
Most of those "boys" look to be between 15 to 18 years old. I wonder what the requirements to be in the "Junior" baseball league were. Only the "scowl for the camera" boy holding the cup, and the two fellas above him, trying to see between the taller guys' shoulders, are younger than high school.
Do the junior baseball champions always get police protection?
As well as faces.
Quick, spot the future ax murderer.
No, not him. Despite the dark, sunken eyes.
Nope, not the next guy. Although he does look a little crazed.
Yes, that's the guy! The cop on the right. He's on the edge!


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2017-18 Focus Schools: Penn Treaty
Penn Treaty was designated a focus school because it meets the three basic criteria:
- The School Progress Report score (SPR) for the school has been in the lowest performance tier – Intervene – for three consecutive years.
- The three year SPR average for the school is less than or equal to 15.
- The school does not currently have a major intervention in place (such as the Turnaround Network, School Redesign Initiative, etc…)
Academic Improvement Plan
A plan for school improvement developed by the principal, their planning team and with support from central office.
Essential elements:
- Focus on bold and clear school vision
- Additional funding to support the school's plan
- Implementation of best approaches, programs and practices to support learning
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Byobu Slides for Your LoCo or LUG!
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One of the most isolated, longest surviving, and brutal dictatorship the world has ever known is advertising again. North Korea recently put out a very disturbing video that showed a nuclear bomb hitting New York City and also the subsequent results. The propaganda film depicts what the earth might mimic if american were extended a some of it. For a country whose rulers supposedly hate everything about America they sure seem to admire American culture we will revisit later on in the article.
Many brutal dictators throughout history have controlled their people; but very few have been as effective as north of manchester Korean's are usually controlling their people's thoughts too. Just about every single bit of news and knowledge is controlled by federal government. The individuals are fed story after story about how great their government is and how loving and caring they act towards their fellow citizens. The propagandists each morning state controlled media on demand tell stories that depict their leader as being a magical and mystical citizen. There are the stories of how the late Dear Leader Kim Jong Il once shot 4 holes a single while playing golf, or how the Dear Leader had the ability to replace the weather simply by changing his mood.
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Pharmaceutical companies didn't invent this concept, but they perfected this particular. The drug companies started bypassing your physician and marketing straight to your consumer. Patients made doctor appointments for prescriptions purely. The frequency with which these ads appear has the power to create symptoms. The customer-centric copy comes full circle. Problem. Empathy. Solution.
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Let the memory of Resa be with us forever
- 82 years old
- Born on January 19, 1933 .
- Passed away on April 17, 2015 .
Mrs. Resa Fant Ison 82, of LaFayette, Alabama died Friday April 17, 2015 at her residence.
Funeral services will be held Sunday April 19, 2015 at 2PM at the Mt. Zion Baptist Church with burial in the church cemetery, with Rev. Steve Powell officiating.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Saturday from 5PM until 7PM.
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So sorry to hear about Mrs. Ison. She was one of my favorite teachers when she was at Five Points and cared so much about all of her students. My thoughts and prayers are with you all.
Deeply sorry for the loss of your love one. May the God of love comfort you at this time of grief. " And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away. Revelation 21:4
I did not even know that Resa had passed until today when my daughter called me and told me. She was a sweet lady and my second cousin. I pray that God will wrap his arms around her family during this difficult time in their lives. But rest assured that she is with the Father in Heaven walking the streets of Gold.


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A novel monobloc design of a two degree-of-freedom (DOF) compliant tool tip for a handheld powered surgical tool is presented in this paper. The monobloc tool tip can pitch and yaw using corner-filleted flexure hinge-based compliant joints and has an integrated compliant grasper. The 2DOF of the tool tip is realized by six compliant joints placed in an alternating fashion, orthogonal to each other. The tool is externally powered and consists of a drive box, a stainless steel tube, and a compliant tool tip at the distal end. The drive box houses a thumb joystick for command input, three servo actuators, and a microcontroller. The microcontroller maps surgeon's command input to the tool tip orientation and grasper actuation. By design, the graspers of the tool tip are actuated by tensile forces conveyed by the tethers, which exert a compressive load on the 2DOF compliant joints. Since the compressive load-carrying capacity of slender flexure-based compliant joints is limited, a design to enhance the compressive load-carrying capacity of the compliant joints with a circular guide is presented. A finite-element simulation was done to verify the design of the compliant joints. Experiments were carried out to assess the relationship between the force input by the servo actuators and joint deflection. Additional experiments were carried out to determine the maximum pinching force that can be exerted by the compliant graspers. A prototype of the complete surgical tool was built to demonstrate the utility of the proposed compliant tool tip as an alternative to traditional tool tip for a handheld powered surgical tool.
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Netanyahu has certainly made plenty of enemies over the years so an assassination plot would not come as a surprise.
By Ian Greenhalgh
Although we have not been able to verify if there was an actual attempt on Netanyahu, we note the fact that AP chose to report it and that both the Israelis and Kenyans chose to deny it. No smoke without fire?
Associated Press
Netanyahu denies reports of assassination attempt in Kenya
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday denied reports of an attempt on his life in Kenya during his heavily guarded African tour this week, saying he knew "nothing" of it.
Netanyahu said he was learning about the reports of an assassination attempt for the first time during a press conference with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Addis Ababa.
"The answer is we know nothing about it because there is nothing in it," Netanyahu said.
He made the remarks in response to a reporter's question following an anonymously sourced report in the Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida.
Kenyan officials also denied there was an effort to kill Netanyahu.
"An attempted assassination can't be secret. It has to be something visible, and to my knowledge there was absolutely nothing of the sort," Kenya's Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka told The Associated Press.
"I'm not aware, and there was no such thing at all. Those are lies," Inspector General of Police Joseph Boinnet said.
Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said a report that the motorcade changed its route because of an explosives threat was "simply not true."
The Israeli prime minister is protected by heavy security in Israel and abroad, given high threats against Israeli targets around the world. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist in Tel Aviv in 1995.
Ian Greenhalgh is a photographer and historian with a particular interest in military history and the real causes of conflicts. His studies in history and background in the media industry have given him a keen insight into the use of mass media as a creator of conflict in the modern world. His favored areas of study include state sponsored terrorism, media manufactured reality and the role of intelligence services in manipulation of populations and the perception of events.
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If your like me, you and your friends have several machines running Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or other *buntu variants. After going through upgrades of all these machines, it can eat a lot of your and Canonical's bandwidth to download all the packages for each machine. There are other solutions such as apt-proxy, apt-cacher, etc. But what works best for me is apt-mirror, which creates a mirror of any Ubuntu, Debian, or any other deb repository. So if you have 20+ GB of hard drive space, you can setup a local repository mirror to speed up the upgrading process and save Canonical some bandwidth.
Step 1: Install apt-mirror
sudo apt-get install apt-mirror (Universe repository needed)
Step 2: Configure apt-mirror
Configuring apt-mirror is fairly simple. We just need to modify the /etc/apt/mirror.list file.
Ubuntu users:
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/mirror.list
Kubuntu users:
kdesu kate /etc/apt/mirror.list
Ubuntu server users:
sudo nano /etc/apt/mirror.list
Here's my sample mirror.list configuration:
# apt-mirror configuration file
## The default configuration options (uncomment and change to override)
set base_path /var/spool/apt-mirror
# set mirror_path $base_path/mirror
# set skel_path $base_path/skel
#set var_path $base_path/var
set defaultarch i386
set nthreads 5
## Sources
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-amd64 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner
deb-amd64 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted
deb-amd64 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe
deb-amd64 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse
deb-amd64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-proposed restricted main multiverse universe
clean http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
clean http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu
clean http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu
This configuration mirrors all of Ubuntu's repositories for i386 and AMD64 architectures and stores them all in /var/spool/apt-mirror. If you don't need to mirror AMD64, just take all the deb-amd64 lines out of the above configuration and it will only download all the i386 repositories.
NOTE: Make SURE whatever partition stores your /var/spool directory has plenty of space. Trust me, you do NOT want to download 17GB and find out your partition doesn't have enough space. If you use a separate /home partition with storage capacity you want to use for apt-mirror, you can do what I did by creating a /home/apt-mirror and making /var/spool/apt-mirror link to it. That can be done with these two commands:
sudo mkdir /home/apt-mirror
sudo rm -Rf /var/spool/apt-mirror
sudo ln -s /home/apt-mirror /var/spool/apt-mirror
Step 3: Run apt-mirror
To have apt-mirror start downloading the repositories, run:
sudo apt-mirror /etc/apt/mirror.list
I recommend running this command overnight, as it will take several hours depending on your connection speed and what you setup to mirror. For example, my server is mirroring with the above configuration and downloaded around 35-40GB for i386 and AMD64. This took between 4-10 hours over my 10mbps cable connection.
Step 4: Install apache
For you to be able to use this local mirror normally, you will need a web server to share the directories. In this guide, I will use apache, but you may prefer to use lighthttpd or some other server.
sudo apt-get install apache2
Step 5: Setup links
We need to now link our local repository folder to our shared apache directory.
sudo ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com /var/www/archive-ubuntu
sudo ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/archive.canonical.com /var/www/archive-canonical
sudo ln -s /var/spool/apt-mirror/mirror/security.ubuntu.com /var/www/security-ubuntu
Step 6: Set apt to use local mirror
In this step, we'll edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file and replace Ubuntu's repositories with our local mirror.
First, make a backup of the default sources.list.
sudo mv /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
This should open a blank file wherein we will paste the following:
deb http://127.0.0.1/archive-ubuntu/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://127.0.0.1/archive-ubuntu/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://127.0.0.1/archive-ubuntu/ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://127.0.0.1/security-ubuntu/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://127.0.0.1/archive-canonical/ubuntu gutsy partner
Then press Ctrl+X then y to save and close the file.
Next, we need to update the repositories to make sure everything is working as expected.
sudo apt-get update
This should run the same as before we changed the file. Any errors will need to be addressed. Post a reply if you have any errors here.
You should also use this step on other machines you want to setup to use this mirror. You will just need to replace the 127.0.0.1 with the LAN address for machines over LAN or public IP for other machines over the net.
If you have questions, comments, suggestions, feel free to reply, send me a message on IRC (bmk789 on freenode), or send me an email (email@example.com)


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Melba toast is named after Australian opera singer Dame Nellie Melba (1861-1931).
Music was sent down a telephone line for the first time in 1876, the year the phone was invented.
The CD was developed by Philips and Sony in 1980.
About 2,4 billion CDs are sold annually. The number of recorded CDs and blank CDs sold has been about equal.
About one-third of recorded CDs are pirated.
The Star-Spangled Banner became the US national anthem in 1931. Prior to that, it was My Country 'Tis of Thee," which had the same melody as Britian's national anthem God Save the Queen, which is based on music written by John Bull in 1619. Bull's melody has been used more than any song in national anthems.
The British anthem was performed the most times in a single performance. In 1909, while waiting for King Edward VII who was getting dressed a German band played the anthem 17 times.
Tap dancing originates from Irish clog dancing and what is called the Irish reel and jig.
It was at a concert in Minneapolis in 1954 that Al Dvorin first closed Elvis's concerts with: "Ladies and Gentleman, Elvis has left the building. Thank you and good night."
Elvis favourite collectibles were official badges. He collected police badges in almost every city he performed in.
Elvis was an avid gun collector. His collection of 40 weapons included M-16s and a Thompson submachine gun.
Duran Duran took their name from a mad scientists in the movie Barbarella.
Bob Dylan's first professional performance was as opening act for John Lee Hooker at Gerde's Folk City in New York, 1961.
Before they were known as Journey, Steve Perry called his band Golden Gate Rhythm Section.
Kenneth Edmonds was nicknamed Babyface by funk guitarist Bootsy Collins.
The world's largest disco was held at the Buffalo Convention Centre, New York, 1979. 13,000 danced a place into the Guinness Book of World Records.
In August 1983, Peter Stewart of Birmingham, UK set a world record by disco dancing for 408 hours.
Lebanon is the top movie-going country - 35,3 movies per person p.a. China is second with 12,3, followed by Georgia (5,6), India (5), Iceland (4,5), Australia is 6th at 3,9 then New Zealand and the US at just under 3,9.
The US has the most cinemas (23,662) while India [the country that produces the most movies - about 800 a year, twice as many as Hollywood] has about 9,000 cinemas and China has approximately 4,600 cinemas. - 326,000 people per cinema.
Indian comic actress Manorama has played the most leading roles of any performer in movie history. She began her career in 1958 and in 1985 had appeared in her 1,000th movie.
Ireland has won the most Eurovision song contests (7 times).
Annie Lennox holds the record for the most Brit awards (8).
The Beatles holds the top spot of album sales in the US (106 million), followed by Garth Brooks second (92 million), Led Zeppelin (83 million), Elvis Presley (77 million), and the Eagles (65 million). Worldwide The Beatles sold more than 1 billion records.
Klezmer music is derived from two Hebrew words, clay and zimmer, meaning "vessel of music."
The Ocarina, a musical wind instrument, is also known as the Sweet Potato.
The LP (long-playing) record was invented by Paul Goldmark in 1948. The LP is not dead yet: more than 10 million LPs are sold every year.
The longest song to reach number one on the Billboard charts on LP was "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meatloaf, the shortest: "Stay" by Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs.
At the first Grammy Awards, held on 4 May 1959, Domenico Modugno beat out Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee for the Record of the Year, with "Volare." More
The British, the highest per capita spenders on music, buy 7,2% of the world music market.
The first pop video was Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, released in 1975.
The Beatles song "Martha My Dear" was written by Paul McCartney about his sheepdog Martha. More
Jeanne Louise Calment's CD was released on her 121st birthday in 1996. Titled "Time's Mistress" it features Ms Calment reminiscing to a score of rap music and other tunes.
A grand piano can be played faster than an upright (spinet) piano.
A piano covers the full spectrum of all orchestra instruments, from below the lowest note of the double bassoon to above the top note of the piccolo.
The harmonica is the world's best-selling music instrument.
The term "disc jockey" was first used in 1937.
The last note of a keyboard is C.
Themes from movies Unforgiven, A Perfect World, The Bridges of Madison County, and Absolute Power were all written by Clint Eastwood. More
The US share of the world music market is 31.3%.
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What's at Stake in Haiti?
Think Tank Transcripts:What's at Stake in Haiti?
MR. WATTENBERG: Hello. I'm Ben Wattenberg. It's been three yearssince the Army seized power in Haiti. Now President Clinton may sendin the Marines. Is that the best thing for Haiti? Is it the bestthing for America?
Joining us today to sort through the conflict and the consensusare Elliott Abrams, former assistant secretary of State forinterAmerican affairs and a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute;Bernard Aronson, also a former assistant secretary of State forinterAmerican affairs and now national international adviser toGoldman Sachs; Ian Martin, a senior associate at the CarnegieEndowment for International Peace and a former director for humanrights at the United Nations serving in Haiti; and Lorenzo Morris,professor of political science at Howard University.
The question before this house: What's at stake in Haiti? Thisweek on 'Think Tank.'
In 1804, Haiti became the second nation in the Americas to achieveindependence after a slave rebellion overthrew the French. But itsoon succumbed to political chaos. In 1915, President Woodrow Wilsonordered U.S. Marines into Haiti to protect U.S. economic andstrategic interests. They stayed for 19 years.
Then from 1957 to 1986, Haiti was ruled by the notorious fatherand son dynasty, Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier. The Duvaliers usedgangs of armed thugs, called the Ton-tons Macoutes, to maintain theirrule.
But in December of 1990, Haiti held elections. Roman Catholicpriest Jean-Bertrand Aristide won that election with 67 percent ofthe vote, but a year later, claiming misrule by Aristide, a militaryjunta led by General Raoul Cedras seized power, forcing Aristide toflee. After the coup, the military cracked down and the killing andbeating of opponents once again became routine. Negotiations aimed atrestoring Aristide to power broke down.
Haiti is located in the West Indies, 600 miles from Florida. Ithas a population of more than six million and is slightly larger thanthe state of Maryland.
The United Nations, led by the United States, has imposed a seriesof ever-tightening economic sanctions against Haiti. Already thepoorest country in the Western Hemisphere, sanctions are making adesperate situation even worse. As conditions deteriorate, thousandsof Haitians have taken to the sea in leaky boats usually headed forthe United States. The U.S. Coast Guard patrolling off Haiticontinues to pick refugees from the seas. Today nearly 17,000refugees are housed at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Base, Cuba.
On Capitol Hill, in a strange turn of political events, manyformer Cold War doves are pushing for a U.S. invasion of Haiti, whilemany former hawks want the U.S. to stay out. Now 14 warships and 2800U.S. Marines circle the island and practice invasion maneuvers, butthe Haitian military junta shows no sign of backing down in the faceof U.S. threats. Not yet.
Professor Lorenzo Morris of Howard University, I wonder if wecould begin by trying to learn a little bit about Haiti. Americansseem to think it's some kind of a mystical, crazy place with voodooand all kinds of stuff. Let's go around the room and see what we knowabout the country.
MR. MORRIS: Well, I think it is a little bit mystical in that ithas a special culture that obviously has a voodoo influence, but ithas something quite obvious, which is a strong historicalrelationship with the U.S., even though it is not a formalrelationship. When the revolution occurred at the beginning of the1800s, the U.S. -- that is, the presidents -- recommended, fromJefferson to Madison, an embargo, to quell the influence of the newlyrebellious slaves.
The largest slave rebellion in the U.S. was led by a man whocontacted the leader of the Haitian rebellion. There is an influencethere that is significant, if not dramatic. When you get to thiscentury and the U.S. occupation, there was an influence over theclass structure which led to that separation that seems so brutalnow, between this elite and the peasants in Haiti. It didn't lead toit alone, but it certainly helped to encourage it.
Today, and with the election of Aristide several years ago, we seethat most of the Haitians look to the U.S. as a major influence. Itwas difficult for most of the Haitians to believe that the U.S. wasnot involved in influencing the elections, and more importantly, it'sdifficult for them to believe that the U.S. was not involved inremoving the last Duvalier dictatorship, nor that it was not involvedin keeping it there.
And finally, they see in this military a latent U.S. presence.Certainly we in the United States don't support that presence or seethat presence, but a long historical image of a U.S. hanging overtheir borders and hanging over their waters is difficult to dispel.
MR. WATTENBERG: Okay. That was a brilliant brief exposition of 200years of history. I salute you, sir.
Ian Martin, you were in Haiti for six months fairly recently. Whatcan you tell us about the country, the place?
MR. MARTIN: I indeed just came to know Haiti last year, and I cameto it as someone taking responsibility for a team of observerslooking up close at the human rights situation. And what I found wasa society where 200 years of history had dealt the great majority ofthe population a very rough deal indeed, and where in 1990 and 1991,for the first time, the great majority of that population experiencedtremendous hope that there was to be a new beginning in theirhistory, the first time that the majority of that population electedtheir own leader and some months when some very significantdevelopments began that would have given them a degree of security intheir lives that they had never known.
MR. WATTENBERG: Secretaries Abrams and Aronson, old colleagues,former comrades-in-arms in a variety of causes over the years, whatcan you -- Elliott perhaps first, and then Bernie -- what can you addto this picture of Haiti itself? What are we talking about here?
MR. ABRAMS: Well, let's remember first that Haiti is and has beenfor decades and decades the poorest country in this hemisphere. It isdifferent from most countries in Latin America or in North America inthat the level of poverty and therefore the level of, for example,education is worse than anywhere else in this hemisphere.
It's also the country with probably the least experience withdemocracy in this hemisphere. So building democracy in Haiti, givingpeople that economic and political chance is probably harder andyou're starting from a lower base of opportunity than anywhere elsein this hemisphere. It's very tough.
MR. ARONSON: I agree with everything that was said. The only pointI would add, and it's really a refinement, is that Haiti is very muchisolated from the currents in the hemisphere. It doesn't really fitin the Caribbean Basin. It's not part of the British traditions andthe English-speaking Caribbean.
MR. WATTENBERG: It's, as we say, a Francophone country; they speakFrench.
MR. ARONSON: They speak French or Creole. And it doesn't reallyfit in Latin America. And all of the democracies in the CaribbeanBasin are English-speaking or Spanish-speaking.
And secondly, Haiti has been independent since 1804, whereas mostof the other countries in that region only gained their independencein this century, some of them only in the last 30 or 40 years. So ithas not had the ties that the other countries had, and it is isolatedin many ways. If you try to say which country in the region could goand talk to the Haitians, really none except perhaps the DominicanRepublic, where there are some military-to-military ties, but eventhere, there is a lot of tension between the two governments. So
MR. WATTENBERG: Lorenzo indicated close ties between Haiti and theUnited States. Are we their closest buddy?
MR. ARONSON: I think that is true in the sense that politicallythe United States has had the most influence on Haiti in this centuryof any other country either in the hemisphere or outside thehemisphere. MR. WATTENBERG: Ian Martin, you are in favor of anAmerican invasion of Haiti. You have written that.
MR. MARTIN: I wouldn't put it as simply as that, but I think we'venow reached a situation where that is probably the least bad pathforward.
MR. WATTENBERG: Lorenzo, are you in favor of the invasion?z
MR. MORRIS: Like Ian, I wouldn't put it that simply. My firstpreference is for a U.S.-supported independent effort on the part ofHaitians. Of course the repressiveness of the regime makes thatappear to be impossible. But I find it astonishing that the U.S.cannot identify any resistance movement either outside the country orinside the country. If you consider the possibility of supporting aregime that cannot at the same time be mobilized independently of thesupport, it's a real problem.
So yes, I'm in favor of an intervention, but only because I seeour presence as so significant historically that we're simplyredefining the nature of the intervention.
MR. ABRAMS: There is another issue here that we'd better throw inright now because it's going to come up not only in Haiti, but inlots of countries in what we used to call the Third World.
A lot of countries are now having their first free election. Whathappens if that free election is freely won by someone who isn't ademocrat? It's happened: in Algeria, the Islamic Salvation Front,presumably not, from their words, completely opposed to democracy.Islamic fundamentalists -- they won the election. What do you do?
In the case of Haiti, somebody won an election, clearly, easily,landslide -- Aristide. That doesn't make him a democrat. And theissue that arises to me in Haiti is, what happens when someone iselected who is not a democrat and who proves in his time in power
MR. WATTENBERG: He says he's a democrat. MR. ABRAMS: Well, thatdoesn't matter. What matters is what he does as president, and Iwould
MR. WATTENBERG: Can you make the case that because you don't likewhat Bill Clinton has done in his government that he was not electeddemocratically?
MR. ABRAMS: Of course not, but Bill Clinton did not send mobs tosurround the Congress, at least not to my knowledge. What we'retalking about here is a real problem that's going to come up, hasalready arisen in many countries. What happens when someone does notbehave as a democrat in office? Is there a point at which that personforfeits his right to be considered a democrat and to get the supportthat the international community gives democrats?
MR. WATTENBERG: Bernie, as I understand it, you are opposed,although perhaps for some different reasons, also to an interventionin Haiti.
MR. ARONSON: I don't think we should do that right now. I don'tthink we should take it off the table as a possibility either. Youknow, there are really three ways you can deal with Haiti. You cancapitulate, you can negotiate or you can invade.
And I would like to see the threat of an invasion used to enhancethe ability to negotiate. I don't think we did as good a job as wecould have -- and I'm not pointing fingers because I was involved inthe policy as well -- to try to reach a negotiated politicalsettlement, and I think we could have exhausted that possibility morethan we did.
Aristide abused power when he was in office, and that has to befactored into any solution. And I think it's in Haiti's interest andit's in President Aristide's interest to see a government arise thatis legitimate, that has him as the president, but is broad-based andhas the support of as many sectors in that country as possible.
And if you want to a good model, look at South Africa. ThereNelson Mandela was wise enough to reach out and try to bring all ofthe factions, many of whom have been killing each other for years,and try to create some government of unity and that gave confidenceto all sides.
MR. WATTENBERG: Hold on. Lorenzo.
MR. MORRIS: Well, I just wanted to comment that the saddest thingin the world, someone said after Nkrumah was overthrown, was to bethe only democrat
MR. WATTENBERG: This is the former president of Ghana.
MR. MORRIS: Ghana, yes -- to be the only democrat in thegovernment. And movements generally lead to changes in government,and Aristide headed a movement. A movement can't be fundamentallydemocratic in the way that most Americans like to think of it. Anelection is an introduction to democracy. It's not the declaration ofit. He won an election with an introduction and an offer to pursuedemocracy. It was difficult for him or difficult for others in theregime to guarantee it, just as it will be difficult for Mandela inSouth Africa.
And I think that's part of the problem. What happens then is thatthere are uncertain rules. One of the problems in any country likethis is that the party systems are shallow. They may have a lot ofpeople, but there is no structures to reinforce them, as we have inthe Democratic and Republican Party.
So in a sense, it would be harsh -- it may be reasonable tocriticize Aristide, but it would be harsh to say that he could do alot to assure a democratic structure since the structures weren'tthere.
MR. ABRAMS: Yeah, but we're not talking about assuring. I'mtalking about -- you know, when we talk about his human rightsviolations, we're talking about encouraging mobs to surroundParliament to prevent a vote of no-confidence in his prime minister.
Haiti's problem -- one way of summing it up is that they don'thave a Mandela; they have an Aristide. And that's been a problemimpossible to overcome.
MR. MARTIN: There's a great exaggeration as to how great a problemthat is. I think President Aristide is a democrat, not an absolute,perfect democrat -- I don't meet a lot of those, but a real democrat.And the extent to which the public debate here has begun to be basedon a completely distorted account of the experience during 1991 is avery serious problem, a very serious falsification of the record, inmy view.
I was watching the human rights situation during that period fromthe vantage point of Amnesty International, and like everybody elsein the human rights community, we would assess that period as by farthe least bad period in terms of human rights violations in Haiti anda period in which some extremely positive developments were underway.
There was a clash of two kinds of democracy during that period.From 1986 onward, there was a great flowering of popular democraticmovements, and at the same time, there was a Parliament which in manyways failed to reflect the political change that was taking place inHaiti. And they came into conflict, and I have criticisms to make ofhow President Aristide handled that situation.
But to suggest that this is a situation where someonefundamentally anti-democratic came to power by democratic means,which may be the case in Algeria, is certainly not the case in Haiti.
MR. ABRAMS: Well, I don't see any reason to believe that Aristide,on the basis of a life's record, is fundamentally committed todemocracy. It seems to me he views it as instrumental. It got him topower, it may allow him to do some of the things he wants to do inHaiti, but when people get in his way, or got in his way aspresident, he used undemocratic means to get them out of his way.
MR. WATTENBERG: Elliott, let Lorenzo
MR. MORRIS: I just wanted to comment that in the literature ofpolitical psychology from Erik Erikson to the present, every movementleader appears undemocratic. Movements don't generate the kind ofimage -- if you look at one thing that I can perhaps agree with youon that he didn't do that's traditional of American democracies is hedidn't do the public relations things. He didn't do that kind ofoutreach.
He had anti-American rhetoric, and he talked about the elitepechan vildez [ph], the rule of the wealthy in Haiti, in a way thatsuggested they were threatening the survival of democracy. Well,certainly they were threatening the survival of many of the peasants,but he talked about them in ways that were inconsistent with image.
And I think some of that is image, some of that is naturalmovement transition. A movement, it has to be a tightly organizedunit and
MR. WATTENBERG: All right, can I ask -- the driving force, itseems to me, politically now is coming from the Congressional BlackCaucus. Do you see that that -- is that a correct statement, thedriving force for an invasion?
MR. MARTIN: It's a partially correct statement. I mean, certainlyif you look back to the administration's change in position in May,it wasn't just the Congressional Black Caucus, it was a widerconstituency of criticism of the previous policy.
MR. MORRIS: Certainly to the extent the refugees are the issue,then there's a whole Florida constituency that -- the Floridagovernor and everyone else that are pushing for it as well. I thinkthe driving force from the Caucus is for some solution that is lessbrutal, or attempted solution that is less brutal than the sanctions.
MR. WATTENBERG: What about the Congressional Black Caucus?
MR. ABRAMS: Well, I think race plays a -- I think the Black Caucushas had a large impact, or the black community more generally,because Randall Robinson of TransAfrica, the guy who went on thehunger strike, is not part of the Black Caucus.
But I think race is critical. It's hard for me to believe thatthere would be this much resistance in the United States to a groupof refugees who were not black, and indeed we do not resist any othergroup of refugees as much as we resist Haitian refugees.
MR. WATTENBERG: Bernie, let's finish up the race thing. What aboutrace?
MR. ARONSON: I think it's an issue in Haitian politics and hasbeen for a long time, and it's an issue in our politics. But itshouldn't drive the debate. We should decide whether our values andour interests are at stake here, and if they are, to what extent andwhat should we do about it, and try to have that debate.
I think Elliott is right, that if the refugees were white, weprobably would respond somewhat differently, though the refugee issueis very complicated.
MR. WATTENBERG: I know. Let me ask you guys -- I want to go on toone other question, which is what do we think of Clinton's foreignpolicy? But I first want to ask both Bernie and Elliott thisquestion.
Over the years, you have from sort of different perspectives, anddifferent parties recently, been very frustrated by the fact that theliberal wing of the Democratic Party, not just the CongressionalBlack Caucus, but a big and perhaps growing part of the DemocraticParty has been afraid to use force, or thought that America, wheneverit uses force or flexes its muscles, is a malign force.
Aren't you tempted, when you see the liberals who you have alongsaid, hey, why don't those guys give us a break one time and showthat we're a world leader and we can do something, aren't you temptedto say, hey, let's go with it this time, get everybody on board?
MR. ABRAMS: No, no. And not because -- I fear the results of thisintervention would not be happy ones for the United States. This is aquestion of it's easy to get in, how do you get out. And so what youmight prove, even to those very liberals, is that they had it wrongthat time and that intervention really is always a morass and youjust shouldn't do it. This is the wrong place to prove the principlethat intervention is really a terrific thing.
MR. WATTENBERG: Bernie.
MR. ARONSON: Look, when you go to war, even against an army thatis as pathetic as the Haitian army, real people's lives are at risk,American lives and Haitian lives. And the last reason we should dothat is to score some political point. I mean that is a very seriousdecision, and we ought to make it based on the principles that are atstake.
And I'd like to make one point about
MR. WATTENBERG: Well, isn't one of the principles that America isprepared to respond with muscle when it has to for democracy?
MR. ARONSON: Potentially the credibility of the country is alegitimate issue, but that's different from convincing some wing ofthe Democratic Party that they should have had a different view allalong. I don't think that that's a basis for dealing with Haiti atall.
MR. WATTENBERG: All right. Let me move on to what I think is goingto be our final aspect of this thing. Ian Martin -- let's go around,or interrupt, if you would like -- how has the Clinton administrationhandled this deal?
MR. MARTIN: He started out with a pretty rough situation becausethe best moment for getting clear, firm messages to the Haitianmilitary would have been immediately after the coup, and he came inwhen there had already been a long period of time of their learningthat the U.S. administration was not serious about wanting them out.
He set a different policy. I don't believe it was pursued firmly,toughly, consistently enough, and it eventually collapsed with thewithdrawal of the Harlan County. And then he changed policy againthis May, and I broadly support the policy that has been set sincethis May of attempting to get the Haitian military out by tough,targeted sanctions, but being prepared to back that up with thecredible use of force.
But if you look at the underlying policy, I think there was aserious attempt from spring '93 onwards to achieve a peacefulsolution, which collapsed because there weren't tough enough messagesunderlying it. I think there has been a change of policy which hasnow brought a real possibility that the military could still beforced out by sanctions, but the necessity to proceed to themultilateral use of force if it fails.
MR. WATTENBERG: Lorenzo?
MR. MORRIS: Well, actually, I have many good things to say aboutClinton. This would not be one of them. And I think that it startedoff very poorly, and that's why my criticism would be severe. I thinkwe've inadequately and inappropriately imposed sanctions, aggravatedthe impression that the military could survive, both on their part --and they said that in many ways -- and on the parts of the peasants,who might have been able to resist in a greater way than they have.
However, in the past few months, I think given the options, he hascome around. The ambiguities of his past policy are the ambiguitiesof our policy. Did we care about Haiti or was the refugee presenceenough of a threat?
Technically, the refugee presence was not enough of a threat ifyou compare it to any other refugee situation. Rwanda, a countryone-fifth the size of ours -- Zaire is taking 10 times the number ina short period of time. I mean, we could absorb everybody in Haitiwho wants to get on a boat and they would be unnoticed if it were notfor their racial image.
So I think there were ambiguities in our national concepts and inthe Congress which Clinton expressed. I think given thoseambiguities, he has in the past few months come to a few clearoptions, with the first preference seemingly for multilateralintervention.
MR. WATTENBERG: Bernie, Clinton?
MR. ARONSON: Look, anybody who's dealt with Haiti ought to behumble in criticizing the U.S. administration because it's a verydifficult problem, there aren't easy answers, and we have realstakes. I think Aristide is legitimate. We should defend hisdemocratic election. But he also committed some abuses, that have tobe taken into account.
I give the administration credit for trying to solve the problem.I think they ought to make a better effort, a greater effort topursue a bipartisan policy. And the other side should, too. TheUnited States cannot do anything as difficult as restore a democraticgovernment to Haiti if we're polarized along partisan lines. CentralAmerica proves that. So I think all sides should try to cool therhetoric and stop pointing fingers. We're trying to do somethingthat's very difficult. We're not going to do it if we're totallydivided as a country along party lines.
MR. WATTENBERG: Elliott, you get the last shot. Tell me about theClinton policy in Haiti.
MR. ABRAMS: It's hard to see how it could have been worse, in ourpolicy to destroy the economy and impose misery on the poorestcountry in this hemisphere in an effort to restore its president, aperson who went in office, violated many, many democratic norms.
The policy of defining democracy as Aristide and Aristide asdemocracy was a mistake to begin with. To add to it the infliction ofmisery as the tool of American policy has produced enormous numbersof refugees and a true humanitarian disaster in Haiti. It just seemsto me it's hard to think how we could have done more harm.
MR. WATTENBERG: On that note, alas -- I think we've heard a lot ofnews here -- we are going to have to close. Thank you, ElliottAbrams, Lorenzo Morris, Bernard Aronson, and Ian Martin.
And thank you. As you know, this is a new program, and we haveappreciated hearing from you very much. Please send us your commentsand questions to the address on the screen.
For 'Think Tank,' I'm Ben Wattenberg. END
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- A partnership with the Cleveland Play House featured a discussion with playwright Eric Coble and writer Les Roberts about the process Coble used to adapt Robert's novella A Carol for Christmas, for a stage production at the Play House.
- At University Heights Branch Library a partnership with the Cleveland Foodbank covered the weekly Kids Café snack program on Dec. 3, 10 and 17.
- The Hobbit Quest program attracted 108 individuals of all ages.
- Ben Gulyas, Coventry Village librarian, continues to work with the Ohio Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled at Cleveland Public Library to survey the public for ways to make libraries friendlier to the deaf population.
- At Noble Neighborhood Library, Rachelle Perry, teen associate, piloted a teen winter reading program, Chill Out with a Good Book, that had 15 teen participants.
- Pam Spangler, University Heights youth services librarian, and Sheen King, youth services associate, shared crafts and stories about mazes at the monthly family program at Whole Foods.
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Stone and Quigley at NASW-IN
Cindy Stone, a member of ISNA's Speakers Bureau and Board Member of AISSG-USA, leads a one day workshop for social workers, hosted by the Indiana Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
Topics include:
- Intersex Matters: It's More than Sex vs. Gender
- Case Studies
- There's More to Sex Than Xs and Ys (featuring Dr. Charmian Quigley, IU Medical Center, Eli Lilly, and ISNA Medical Advisory Board)
When: Friday, November 17, 2006
Registration starts at 8:30. Workshop wraps at 4pm
Lunch and refreshments included
Where: NASW-IN Chapter, 1100 W. 42nd St., Suite 220, Indianapolis, IN
6.0 Continuing Education Hours for LCSWs, LSWs, LMFTs, LMHCs and NAADAC; 3.0 CRU's available for educators
NASW Members: $95.00
Non-NASW Members: $145.00
NASW Student or Retired Member: $65.00
Pre-registration required. More info available from:
naswin AT naswin DOT org
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but it's not the square that makes it what it is, because everything's square if you look at it that way. even tree frogs use language. i can write you a haiku about how if mankind just abandoned language and all thinking we'd have peace on earth, but no one believes that, unless they're so square they also think drinking up the ocean would dry the earth. you might be jim morrison, you might be wittgenstein, you might be derrida, but do you know of the truth of the sun? the earth turns as does the light, it envelops us and we forget its continuity, but it exists outside of all things square. block-cut streets, sold; buildings, selling; people, functioning. it's as if we forgot what ulysses meant, maybe meaning our heroism is left on the train, lost behind the abandoned church, rotting in a field of empty barrels. well! not much to do but get on.
~~.#.._-_.._..-.-.._+_..-.-.._.._-_..~.|..|||.|..||.|..this is a nice town, as things go these days. main stream is where you can find the shops and artisans, but if you go down a side street or two you can find details connecting, and really, some of the biggest action is in the parking lots and empty lots and back alleys where people go to have a quiet conversation, a smoke, a kiss. a talk with friends. buildings cast shadows even at night. i can hear the clocks and the buzzing of the street lamps and the air conditioners kick on occasionally. strange days - a feast of friends, alive she cried, det som engang var...?
Dear Mom,
College is great. I'm learning a lot and meeting a lot of new people. There's so much to do and see! We're in this quaint little place that looks like it fell out of the sky one day when the world forgot to be the world. Even the trash trucks are quiet and painted odd colors. It's not as efficient as the city, and very few things are standardized, but it'll do for college. Although I really like it, I can't wait to move on and get a good job and a house, because the dormitory food is terrible! I hope you're all well. Tell Dad and my brothers that I miss them too. I'll be home for Christmas and we can go shopping. Oh well, got to get back to studying. I'll phone this weekend.
a typical saturday morning: rise, drink water, drink coffee, take a bong hit. have a cigarette on the porch and talk to whomever wanders by. most people are still asleep, alcohol just now draining from kidneys. get bored around ten and walk the mile to the record store, then go up to the bank and check money, then cross the street and walk down the sunny side past the sidewalk cafes to the bookstore or hardware, maybe kill another cigarette on the corner where everyone posts notes and forsales, then dip between the machine shop and florist and visit that little coffeeshop that hides behind its own fences. when you're done, slide past the other bank to see if the concrete gardens have attracted more skaters, then pass the pharmacy and go to the convenience store, pick up a pint with a fake ID and then walk back to school. past the ornate houses in rows, past the bizarre small businesses hidden in large bulky row buildings, past the boutiques and art supply store. go right on by the psychology building, the english building, the main gate. keep walking until you find meaning. if you don't find it, you will have arrived, and that may be meaning enough? i can't put in language what i mean, until you already know what meaning is, because then language is the icing on the cake. which will be square.


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it has hung on my wall
for a few months now
and i have struggled with her presence.
i whisper the words
and suddenly slip into a place of blame and consequence
and the doctrine that i am still sifting
through finer and finer mesh.
{less is falling at my feet i am noticing}
a few days after the most recent, noisy crashing of my heart
i am seeking out the early spring warmth that is coming through the kitchen window
and i am being a gentle observer of myself.
of what is surrounding me in this busy place called home,
and there it is
{i don't believe in regrets}
the card is slightly skewed,
perhaps the tape holding onto the wall has become unstuck.
[i am allowing myself the new found freedom of unstuck, free falling
and, not gonna lie, it is a mix of terror and exhilaration ]
as i observe the piece of art i suddenly have an aha! moment
( i am new to these..they still catch me by surprise)
of course i don't believe in regrets.
i can't! i won't!
i, me, my very conception, pregnancy and birth were
shadowed with regret.
i was a regret.
{that hits hard, but honestly. i am fine with this statement of what i believe is truth}
notice please, i am not saying "i am a regret"
my birth mama, father, extended family, friends..
they did not plan for me or rejoice at my arrival on the scene.
i was a complication, a secret and a regret.
i head to the dictionary, warm and cocooned by the sunshine,
feeling braver than i should.
the dictionary and i have a love-hate relationship
and here is what i find:
regret: "to feel sorrow or remorse for (an act, fault, disappointment); to think with a sense of loss.
the thesaurus app i turn to next on my i-phone is less kind:
{this is not a pretty list of words}
affliction, anguish, annoyance, bitterness, discomfort, disappointment, dissatisfaction, grief, heartache, heartbreak, regretfulness, self-condemnation, self-reproach, sorrow, woe, worry.
but there is hope.
the opposite of regret lists three simple word.
contentedness, happiness, satisfaction.
yes please!
i will take the short list.
and i made peace with my art just like that.
{i don't believe in regrets}
i believe in myself.
it is that simple really.
art by http://www.messycanvas.com/


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Died Rogers AR
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If you're Hackintosh has an Haswell CPU you'll have by 70% of chances an integrated graphic card, the Intel HD4600. This GPU works perfectly with OS X because its present in some real Macs, like the MacBook Air and the entry level iMac, and you can use it with your Hackintosh without adding any modified or extra kext to the system. To use it you'll only need to enable it with Chameleon or Chimera, that's it.
Those two boot loaders in fact have a feature called "GraphicsEnabler" which, if enabled in your org.chameleon.Boot.plist file in your Extra folder, will automatically search and set the "Device properties" parameter for you to make your GPU recognized by OS X which will then load the proper kext according to the GPU model. But, since GraphicsEnabler is a completely automatic feature it has a few downsides. First of all GraphicsEnabler can increase boot time since it needs a few seconds to correctly identify your GPU using a few tests, second it can be wrong sometimes and/or with some particular GPU models, third your GPU could be recognized correctly but Quartz Extreme and Core Image graphics acceleration could not work.
Note: If you're not a "pro" Hackintosh user and GraphicsEnabler correctly recognize your HD4600 already you won't need to change anything since everything is working fine for you.
So, is there a way to enable the Intel HD4600 without using GraphicsEnabler? Yes, just follow those steps.
You will need:
- Chameleon Wizard [In development, link to the latest version]
- EFIStudio [Unsupported, latest version 1.1]
- Download and extract all the applications
- Copy Chameleon Wizard and EFIStudio to your application folder
- Open the Terminal
- Paste this line in the Terminal window and press Enter
ioreg -lw0 -p IODeviceTree -n efi -r -x | grep device-properties | sed 's/.*<//;s/>.*//;' > device-properties.hex
- With this terminal command a file named device-properties.hex have been created to your home folder, like in this picture:
- Open EFIStudio and select Open Hext File… from the File menu
- Select the device-properties.hex and press Open
- Now you'll see an "Editor" window with all the GPU informations, click on Hex String to Clipboard to copy the string, like in this picture:
- Open Chameleon Wizard and go to the org.chameleon.Boot tab
- Click on the Paste button in the Device properties section to paste the Hex string, like in the picture below:
Note: EFIStudio will always copy a few spaces along with the Hex String, this isn't always a problem for Chameleon and it should recognize your GPU anyway but, to be sure, delete all the spaces after the Hex String.
- Click on save to save the org.chameleon.Boot.plist file in your Extra folder.
- Reboot


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ILLINOIS (KFVS) - Below freezing temperatures stalled IDOT crews from laying down chemicals used to melt ice on roads, causing some delays in Illinois.
Anything below 20 degrees, salt becomes less effective.
Since those are the temperatures the Heartland has been dealing with the last few days, crews haven't been able to treat the roads as best they can until Tuesday.
Tuesday's temperatures allowed crews to finally lay down salt across interstates and county roads in southern Illinois.
Over 110 IDOT trucks were out in full force in 16 counties trying to make up for the loss time.
IDOT Engineer Keith Miley said they've made good progress, but as of Tuesday primary routes and state routes are not in great shape compared to the interstates, which are in much better conditions.
Miley said crews will continue to work through Tuesday and into Wednesday.
"We knew the temperatures were going to increase today and we have made significant improvement today especially on the interstate system. Our worse condition right now is 25 percent covered but most locations are 100 percent clear," Miley said.
The temperature even forced crews to treat the diesel fuel so that it wouldn't gel inside the trucks.
Believe it or not these crazy temps only caused four trucks to break down.
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Merry Marchmess people, and what better way to start the new year-ish than with a media blow out and new information. So, buckle up buckaroos, and let's dive in…
First of all, an update on OverDose progress. As you can see, it has stalled in recent months, with media none existent and news few and far between. Sadly, we hit a bit of a road block code wise with our physics system, and are currently in the middle of trying to squash a rather tedious bug. Yes, one of those bugs that seems to not obey the laws of code. Rest assured it's being worked on, however. But otherwise progress remains good, for a one man artist anyway. It may look like not a lot has been going on, but here is the latest update on what we have worked on over the last 6 months:
- New physics engine
- New GUI
- New PBR rendering
- Changed every single art asset to work with PBR
- Remade 50% of the media (Models/textures/materials) to current standards
- Added fallback materials for every surface to better work with multiple system configurations.
- Added parallax occlusion maps for most surfaces, as well as fallbacks for lower end configurations.
- Made every model (Thousands) have at least 2 or 3, sometimes more, LOD model alternatives.
In short, this last gap we have been VERY busy, what with going over every single asset and in most cases remaking them, or at least re-tooling them for modern standards. As you can see in the new pics, the PBR rendering alone makes things work a whole lot better. But still, code wise, improvements have been slower, what with us being back down to a single coder while Buzz finishes his studies.
So, as you can see, we still need help. Whether it's with code, or art, maps, we always need help. Its great being known to everybody as the team that pumps out this stuff with this few people, but I would rather be known as the team that gets things done. I think we deserve it for the time we have spent on OverDose, don't you?
Time to spruce things up for the modern era. The old OverDose logo was getting tired. It looked very late 90's and wasn't fitting in with what I wanted the game to convey, so I spent a little time researching what I could do to change things, and came up with more solutions than I could hold. Seriously, it's silly when you think about it, but the new logo conveys lots of ideas. The colours are the good in white (or green in our case but that doesn't make a very good logo colour, trust me) versus the orange Marauders. The logo splits in two, to show factions. The roughness signals a dysfunctional world. I put emphasis on the "V" and the "S" to show the VS battle of two sides, good versus evil. In short, yes, it's a logo… But it's a logo with a story. Everything in OverDose has a story, even the miscellaneous newspapers have legit readable things on them, sometimes silly, sometimes a little close to home. Nothing in OverDose is just made at random. But anyway, enough blabbing. I present the new OverDose logo:
But that wasn't all. I always disliked our Team Blur Games logo. I tried my best back in the day to ape off the developers I liked, but went with something that was very "Bungie". It didn't sit with me, or what I wanted to achieve however. So… Again I went back to the drawing board, and came up with something a little more "us".
The website is still coming. I haven't actually got around to getting a new host yet, as I've been toying with what's best for us in our current position. I will however be trying to get in touch with whoever the kind soul is who updated out current website to show concept art and link to ModDB. So if that was you, please drop me a message, as I want to thank you and talk about what I can do next. But rest assured, the website, and yes, forums, are coming.
If you like what we are doing on OverDose, why not donate? Nicolas always needs new shoes, and my CPU is from 1994. Donating helps us keep things going smoothly, and allows us to attract new talent. Every donation received is noted, and will appear in the credits of OverDose, so that when it's completed your grand kids can see you were a good guy. Not you, you will be long dead by then. But hey, it's party time for all the little worms!
OverDose Status Update - Ill Health, Physics, UI, Oh My...
ODRadiant is now finally available for download! Plus, we are still looking for crazy people to join our merry team!
Happy new year all! I bring good news, everyone! Updates! Pics! Details! Oh my!
A little update on the sound, and where we are at :)
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Just wanted to stop by and send positive vibes your way, m8. I really hope you're still working on this.
Thanks mate. Yes, we are, just at a slower than desired pace, but we never abandoned anything.
forgot to say gl&hf; !!
Great to see after a year of silence that this awesome game is still worked on! A shame progress is so slow because of lack of team members. But it is very hard to get good team members, i fully understand that. As everyone else who is following this game for quit a few years now i do hope you will find the nessesary people and complete it. Which you all the luck and success in the world!
Its the gamble you take. We essentially have a mixture of our own engine that has roots in id tech. I mean it IS id tech, but we have changed so much. But this scares people, because its not unreal engine, or cry engine, or something most people "know" these days. The sad thing is, if this was 20 years ago, people would be all over a Quake engine game. But alas, times have moved on, and id Software just aren't the powerhouse they once were in the modding world :(
This is what I did with your tool, I.imgur.com (unfinished room) I didn't add decals and models.
Your radiant editor is good and cleary but you must add some fix about the path system, brush selection and the camera tool etc..
I can't tell you everything here, I added you on steam but you never answered me, so I hope we can have a quick conversation together.
The tool on indieDB is ancient, and you need the new full SVN one, otherwise it won't be anywhere near complete. Our maps are built with models mostly now, with brush work for just simple primitive things.
"...id Software just aren't the powerhouse they once were in the modding world :( "
So true, so true!!!
Back in the days i mapped with GTKRadiant voor games like Cod1+2, Mohaa and Sof2. That were great days!
Hey any news for 2018? Still excited about your project and hope there will be a release someday ;) keep it up
I'm currently in the process of converting all media to a PBR workflow. Recently made LOD models for every single asset as well. We are in the process of doing some other things and have hit a few stumbling blocks, but getting there I feel.
I will be adding a proper website and forum again soon so we can at least get the old gang back in the community :)
I can already see the website is starting to take shape. I can't wait to check it out when it's finished. I hope you have some more information regarding the game soon, I've been following this for who knows how many years. Best of Luck.
Oh that isn't our site, that's a temp one that was set up for us by... I actually don't know. I wish I did though so I could thank them.
There will be, but we can't say when. We work on this in our spare time, we can't put more than just a few hours a week into it unfortunately, and, again unfortunately, we're only three guys working on it ATM.
And Killing Floor 2 isn't going to play itself, amirite? ;)
Seriously though, I reckon if you knocked up a map, got everything functional (ability to host a game) and released a demo, you'd get a lot more exposure, and more importantly, feedback. Just my 10 cents. :)
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Edible ink printing is a process in which the designs on a cake and other confectionery products are created on a computer and printed out using a stock printer with a modified cartridge that holds the edible ink. Confectionery businesses that offer edible ink printing on their products use food-grade materials that are approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration with a "generally regarded as safe" classification.
Also called frosting sheets, the icing sheets that are made with sugar and starches behave like regular paper in the way they flow through the printer and absorb the edible ink. The frosting sheets are made to blend easily into any moist surfaces, such as the icing on a cake.
The ink is a sugar-based liquid that is specially made to function like regular printer ink. It has to have small enough molecules in order for it to pass through the small nozzles of the printer. The ink cartridges that are used to modify regular printers are made with materials that are also acceptable for food contact standards.


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There are tons of blogs (many of which I will reference here) that focus on Financial Independence and Early Retirement. I'm not going to reinvent the wheel because there are very good blog authors out there that can bring you deeper into the weeds with lots of detail. My mission is to explain financial independence concepts to beginners whom are just getting started.
Financial Independence is SIMPLE, but it's not exactly EASY. When you have a strong enough "WHY" you will be able to stay on track and become financially independent no matter where you are in your life at the moment.
…So you want to become Financially Independent? Well, it's SUPER SIMPLE…
Spend less than you earn and invest the difference!
Yes, that oversimplified explanation is really all there is to it. Don't worry because I'll try my best to help you get to that point, so let's get started! I will explain it like you're 5 🙂


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Russia to Develop Revolutionary Bird Flu Vaccine
Already in two years, Russia will probably make a revolution in the fight against bird flu, by creating vaccine for wild birds, Nikolay Vlasov from Russia's animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor told RIA Novosti Tuesday.
"Choosing my words carefully, it will be a revolution. Because no one has ever attempted to control the spread of the flu virus among wild birds. But it is the cause of all troubles," Vlasov explained.
"This matter has advanced first year, and I hope that, in two years, we will have the vaccine for wild birds as well," he said, adding it will be the oral vaccination.
This year, Vlasov predicted, the number of birds died or killed in Russia because of the flu outbreaks will be four fold less than past year. According to the official, the bird flu killed 1.3 million in 2005, the number was 1.04 million in 2006, while this year's forecast is roughly 260,000.
Overall, Russia has roughly 3.5 billion poultry, Vlasov said, specifying, however, that the flu has never left the country since it appeared in 2005. Russia went through four outbreaks this year, the last one happened in Krasnodar.
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Another gorgeous day on the Ohio River. The morning started with a great blue herron hanging on the shoreline and a large school of fish jumping from the water in the evening. What a night for a canoe or kayak float. These type of outside activities invigorate the soul and bring on a "good tired."
Fun is fun and when it's time to sleep it's time to sleep!!! (notice the Ohio livery tag on the canoe...cool!!)
The Ohio Kayak blog is all about the Ohio River region, the great outdoors and sharing stories of the river, streams, music and life (both past and present) on and near the water. We will continue to feature adventures, be it hiking, kayaking, food or music, that will get you outside of your home. So as we say at Ohio Kayak, "Get Outside and Play...." A little fresh air," exercise and "accidental education is a great recipe for success in life
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Time to Sleep NOW!!!
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