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Channel News Asia has been continually reporting the unfolding of events in the Singapore courts of the sentencing of six City Harvest Church leaders.
Press report on Kong & cohorts back in court for oral submission
The judge has sentenced Kong Hee to eight years jail in prison.
Latest update:
City Harvest trial live updates: Leaders sentenced to jail
SINGAPORE: The six City Harvest leaders who were found guilty of criminal breach of trust and falsifying church accounts were on Friday (Nov 20) received jail terms of between 21 months and eight years.
3.00pm: The six leaders have been sentenced to between 21 months' and eight years' jail, with senior pastor Kong Hee receiving the heaviest sentence of eight years behind bars. Judge See Kee Oon said Kong Hee, the church's founder, was found to be the most culpable among the convicted church leaders.
The bail for all six of them was extended, and the start of their jail terms have been deferred to Jan 11, 2016.
1.57pm: "For us ex-members we'll leave it to the judge. We have to respect the Honour's decision. As what the prosecutor says, we need to do it right now because it will have a great repercussion on other mega churches on what and what cannot be done," said a man who identified himself as a former City Harvest member.
1.32pm: Judge says he will pass the sentence at 3pm.
1.28pm: Prosecution: "In pursuing the Crossover Project, the accused have clearly crossed so far over the line that a substantial sentence is certainly called for."
1.04pm: Prosecution: "This Court has found that loans were sought from a number of individuals in order for Xtron to return the ARLA (Advance Rental Licence Agreement) to CHC… Tan Ye Peng sold his house to pay back. Well, the alternative was to come to court and admit what he has done."
12.55pm: Prosecution: "We submit that nothing in their circumstances will render the "clang of the prison gates" so thunderous as to justify a short term of imprisonment."
12.48pm: Prosecution: "Where an offence involves a breach of trust, this is generally treated as an aggravating factor. Its powerful influence is shown by the degree to which it
outweighs factors which would normally go in mitigation. Indeed, there is the paradox that some of the strongest factors in mitigation (unblemished career, model citizen, good employment record) are often present in these cases and yet do not tell greatly in the offender's favour."
"The reason is that positions of trust are not normally given to individuals unless they have unblemished references, and so the offence may be seen as a betrayal of those very basis of trust, and one of the burdens of a position of trust is an undertaking of incorruptibility."
12.39pm: Prosecution: "As this Court has observed, each of the accused persons played their respective roles in a conspiracy with intent to cause wrongful loss to CHC and to defraud the auditors."
"They did not merely wait passively for Kong Hee to instruct them to carry out each specific act and deception needed to drive the conspiracy forward. They took their own initiative to deceive and mislead the trusting members of CHC where necessary, and cannot escape responsibility for those acts."
12.34pm: Prosecution: "Kong Hee intentionally fostered an organisational culture of
unquestioning trust in relation to the Crossover Project. He did so by capitalising on CHC's collective fear of external attack in the wake of the Roland Poon incident, convincing members that they ought to simply trust CHC's leaders to manage the Project without questioning their motives or reasons."
12.27pm: Prosecution: "The criminal breach of trust offences which the accused persons committed involve the largest amount of charity funds ever misappropriated in Singapore's legal history."
"This long-running case involving criminal breach of trust by the most senior managers of a charity has clearly attracted public disquiet, and inevitably affects public confidence that funds donated for charitable purposes, especially to large and well-resourced charities, are managed honestly and properly safeguarded."
12.11pm: Lawyer Andre Maniam said: "Serina Wee was not a parish priest commanding respect. Until she was charged, most of Singapore did not know who she was."
"The accused believed it (the usage of the funds) was for an evangelistic purpose that was positively mandated by the vision and mission of CHC."
11.55am: Serina Wee's lawyer Andre Maniam said: "This is an unprecedented case. Neither the prosecution nor the defence has been able to turn up a precedent when Criminal Breach of Trust was committed by using a charity's funds for its own purposes. We are in uncharted waters."
11.17am: Lawyer N Sreenivasan: "Insofar as personal relationships are concerned, Tan Ye Peng's former close relationship with Chew Eng Han has been affected. He feels sorry for what happened to Sharon and Serina."
"He is not, he is not a participant in the heist of the century or other emotional words the prosecution has used."
Source: ByCity Harvest trial live updates: Leaders sentenced to jail Published 20/11/2015 07:48, UPDATED: 20/11/2015 15:50. (Accessed 20/11/2015.)
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The Thin White Line That Separates Fox News Staffers From Bill O'Reilly on the Shitter
What follows is the second installment from the Fox Mole, a Gawker columnist and current employee of Fox News Channel. Here's the inaugural column.
Fox HQ in New York is a truly soul-crushing workplace. Our building is connected to the labyrinthine system of tunnels radiating out from Rockefeller Center, which means I can go straight from the train into the News Corp. building without going above ground. At first this seems like a convenience ("I don't have to go out in the cold!") but eventually it just adds to the depression ("I literally have not seen the sun once since I left my apartment this morning.")
The basement newsroom is dreary, with no windows, fluorescent lighting, and constant worrying about an infestation from bedbugs, mice or some other vermin. Nobody really has a lunch break, so we bolt down our food at our desks like convicts and toss our sandwich wrappers and salad bowls into the wastepaper baskets under our desks, creating a tasty daily buffet for insects.
The place is oddly low-rent. The computers are all at least 6 or 7 years old, and can barely run more than two software programs at a time. Everyone has a TV at their desk with a cable hookup, but the signal is bad and constantly cuts out and has static on half the channels. Half the printers are usually out of commission, and god help you if you have to find a working fax machine.
Credit where credit is due — they recently redid the bathrooms outside the newsroom, and they're GLORIOUS. But only by comparison to the old bathrooms, which were dismal, and as near as I can tell had never been fixed up since the network started in the mid-90s.
When Fox was a young network on a shoestring budget, spartan bathrooms were perfectly understandable—almost a badge of honor, really. ("You think Murrow had a nice place to piss when he was on a goddamn London rooftop during the blitz?" I imagine a crusty old newsman lecturing me.) But that was a long time ago. We've been number one for 12 years. We're a fucking cash cow at this point, basically propping up Rupert's entire money-losing journalism empire. Yet on most floors of the office, we're still dealing with what you see in this photograph.
In case it's hard to make out, this is a bathroom stall with a gap between the edge of the stall and the wall that's so big that it has toilet paper draped over it for a modicum of privacy. And this isn't some temporary fix—it has been like this for YEARS.
This is what the bathrooms are like on most of the floors, including the talent floor. If you were to wander up there, the only thing separating you from watching Bill O'Reilly take a dump is a slight breeze displacing a couple strands of cheap single-ply. Yes—O'Reilly shits with the commoners. That man makes entirely too much money to have to put up with that. Bill, call your agent!
The lobby isn't too shabby. It's mostly bland and marble, with the usual pieces of inoffensive corporate art. Not so usual, however, are the 25-foot-tall murals featuring a rotating cast of on-air personalities. Up until a couple months ago it was Fox News prime time people plastered up there. Currently it's Fox Business personalities, the grim swollen visages of Neil Cavuto and Lou Dobbs grinning at you, North Korea-style, insisting that all is well at the ratings-challenged business network.
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In this article, originally posted in the blog of the same name, "Zapem" breaks a report of the history of sidestepping, skirting, and attempted Constitutional tinkering on behalf of unnatural born Citizen, John McCain -- thereby, an attempt to pave the way for Barack Obama.
If one were to look at the activity on Capital Hill during the campaign, there would be no question in their minds that both McCain and Obama were sweating the "natural born citizen" issue.
How do we arrive at that conclusion? We take McCain's ingrained, glib advice and "Look at the record, my friends".
Doing just that, we find that back on February 28, 2008, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) introduced a bill to the Senate for consideration. That bill was known as S. 2678: Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act. The bill was co-sponsored by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), and Sen. Thomas Coburn (R-OK).
Bill S. 2678 attempted to change article II, section 1, clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States with reference to the requirements of being a "natural born citizen" and hence; the entitlement to run for President of the United States. This bill met the same fate that similar attempts to change the Constitution have in the past. Attempts such as The Natural Born Citizen Act were known to have failed and the text scrubbed from the internet, with only a shadow-cached copy left, that only the most curious public can find.
Sen. McCaskill, her co-sponsors, fellow colleagues and legal counsel, contend that the Constitution is ambiguous in article II, section 1 and requires clarification. But does it? According to the framers and such drafters as John Bingham, we find the definition to be quite clear:
I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen… . . - John Bingham in the United States House on March 9, 1866
From the days of James Madison to the present, the courts have held that the amendment process be justiciable in accordance with its constitutionality and not self-serving or political. But is that what happened here? Again, we must go to the record.
Within only five short weeks after Senate Bill 2678 faded from the floor, we find Sen. Claire McCaskill back again, making another attempt with Senate Resolution 511. On April 10, 2008, she introduced a secondary proposal in the form of a non-binding resolution, recognizing John McCain as a "natural born citizen" in defiance of the Constitution. Curiously, it contained the same identical co-sponsors, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
ABCNews.com reported:
"With questions - however serious - about whether Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is eligible to run for president since he was born outside U.S. borders on an American Naval base, Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. today introduced a non-binding resolution expressing the sense of the U.S. Senate that McCain qualifies as a "natural born Citizen," as specified in the Constitution and eligible for the highest office in the land.
Co-sponsors include Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, and Barack Obama, D-Illinois; Leahy said he anticipates it will pass unanimously."
One has to wonder — what dire urgency could there possibly have been in persisting with trying to legislate a candidate into being a "natural born citizen"? Certainly providing a birth certificate and reading the Constitution would be more than sufficient. Why did these candidates and their wishful nominees go to such lengths in the Senate when obviously, they had more pressing matters to attend to? And why were there two Senators co-sponsoring such an issue, twice, who were in direct competition with John McCain in the 2008 election?
One answer is that looking at John McCain's long-form birth certificate reveals he was not a natural born citizen and Barack Obama hasn't submitted his long-form at all. John McCain was born in an "unincorporated territory", held by the courts to be not part of the United States for constitutional purposes. Barack Obama has submitted only a Certification of Live Birth, but Hawaii law will certify a live birth using that document for births that occurred even outside of the country. Furthermore, Barack Obama's father was Kenyan and never an American citizen. Since the status of citizenship occurs at birth, this makes Barack Obama a citizen if born in Hawaii, but not a natural born citizen. One must have two citizen parents, at the time of birth, and be born on U.S. soil, to be deemed a natural born citizen and be declared eligible for the presidency. The Senate, for all their trouble, cannot legislate a person's born status. It happens at birth, according to the law.
While Senate Bill 2678 fell to the wayside, Senate Resolution 511 was passed on April 30, 2008 as a non-binding resolution. However, S.R. 511 is not a law, but rather, a unanimous opinion. Technically, it means absolutely nothing what they've written as it's not a law, nor did the matter reach the House for review. It's a stepping-stone in the larger scheme of things that haven't happened yet; the push to change our Constitution.
World Net Daily reported on November 13, 2008:
More than a half-dozen legal challenges have been filed in federal and state courts demanding President-elect Barack Obama's decertification from ballots or seeking to halt elector meetings, claiming he has failed to prove his U.S. citizenship status.
An Obama campaign spokeswoman told WND the complaints are unfounded.
"All I can tell you is that it is just pure garbage," she said. "There have been several lawsuits, but they have been dismissed."
Perhaps someone should have informed Obama's spokeswoman that many of these cases have not been dismissed at all, rather they are mounting, and her statements are in fact, pure "garbage".
Then perhaps someone may prompt an answer from the Obama spokespeople as to why they were entertaining the thought of fiddling with the United States Constitution back in February and April of THIS YEAR? Perhaps because it was in the best interest of Sen. Obama.
Then what of Sen. Claire McCaskill? What possible interest could she have had in these proceedings and leading the charge with her proposals? Was it a bonafide Constitutional issue of judicial importance, or rather a political one?
Digging further into the record we find that according to Wikki and subsequent footnotes therein:
"In January 2008, Claire McCaskill decided to endorse Senator Barack Obama in his campaign for the Democratic nomination for the presidential elections of 2008, making her one of the first senators to do so. She has been one of the most visible faces for his campaign.[14] McCaskill's support was crucial to Obama's narrow victory in the Missouri primary in February, 2008. She had been frequently mentioned as a possible vice presidential choice of Senator Obama in the 2008 run for the White House…"
So what we see is a definite political motive being dragged into the Senate for the purposes of legitimizing the 2008 candidates. But if these candidates were legitimate already, there would obviously be no reason for these proceedings.
So political was the motive of McCaskill, even Missouri's Governor, Matt Blunt revealed that Sen. McCaskill was involved in the "abusive use of Missouri Law Enforcement". This was dubbed as the "Truth Squad" during the election campaign by the media. The Truth Squad was comprised of Missouri officials and attorneys who set up shop on the streets of Missouri and threatened the public with criminal penalties and lawsuits if they engaged in critical speech against Sen. Obama. The Obama campaign also issued cease and desist letters to media station managers who carried advertisers who were unfriendly towards Barack Obama, namely, the NRA. Citizen outrage prompted this response from Governor Blunt:
"Obama and the leader of his Missouri campaign Senator Claire McCaskill have attached the stench of police state tactics to the Obama-Biden campaign.
What Senator Obama and his helpers are doing is scandalous beyond words, the party that claims to be the party of Thomas Jefferson is abusing the justice system and offices of public trust to silence political criticism with threats of prosecution and criminal punishment."
Considering these facts and the judicial record, there is every reason to believe that Sen. McCaskill had no interest in resolving Sen. McCain's eligibility, but Sen. Obama's long-term. She manipulated the Senate and then threatened the media and the public thereafter, politically motivated at the prospect of becoming Obama's Vice-Presidential pick. But it didn't stop there.
Chairman Patrick J. Leahy entered into the Senate record a legal analysis of two high-powered attorneys hired by Sen. McCain - Theodore Olson and Laurence Tribe - both of whom are extremely politically active and biased, and attached that opinion to S.R. 511.
So controversial was that legal opinion, that it prompted a rebuttal by Professor Gabriel J. Chin of The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law, in a discussion paper #08-14 entitled, Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President. Professor Chin points out clearly where Tribe-Olson sought to draw out implied theories in the law, which in reality, are simply not there and in fact have been decided by the courts already, in opposition to the suggestions offered by Tribe-Olson. Simply put, the attorneys hired by Sen. McCain attempt to fit the law into their agenda with contrived implications. Professor Chin brings the law back into focus, requiring no implied theories.
Legalities aside, in anticipation of the feared "Fairness Doctrine", the whole of the main stream media has since acquiesced to the intimidation tactics of the Obama campaign and paraded the non-binding resolution known as S.R. 511 to the public with unfactual foolishness. S.R. 511 is neither a constitutional amendment nor legally binding in any way. Yet the media caved to political pressure and reported it to the public as Chairman Leahy dictated, giving the illusion to the pubic that said resolution was binding to the 2008 election. Nothing could be farther from the truth.
The public responded, initially by way of lawsuits contesting the eligiblity of not only John McCain, but Barack Obama and Roger Calero as well, citing them all, with equal disqualifying merit, as being constitutionally ineligible to run for President of the United States. Later, netizens of the internet caught wind of the court actions and responded with their own explosion of blogs, forums, websites, chatrooms, emails, etc. In an attempt to quell the discord, the main stream media offered personalities such as Thomas Goldstein which only served to infuriate the public further. The public saw such maneuvers as deceitful and an attempt to embarrass the now educated public.
However, the greater proof is in the activity which originated in the Senate in early 2008 which was hidden from the public, that sought to change what our representatives knew to be unconstitutional from the start. The public really needs to look no further than this activity, for it speaks to the heart of the deals that went on beyond the Senate doors. Rather than trust the preservation model our founding forefathers wrote into our Constitution, these respresentatives, beholden of the public trust, saw fit to manipulate the clauses contained therein, for the sole benefit of their own political self-interests.
Perhaps our representatives, the United States Supreme Court and the main stream media would be interested in reflecting on these records and then start answering truthfully the questions which have so far been ignored. The public has been promised transparency, but to date has only been dealt scoffing, deceitful rhetoric, if they choose to address it at all.
While the public has been patient and eduring, the questions remain and refuse to be dismissed. We expect them to be answered, preferrably prior to January 20, 2009.
We the people, deserve an answer!
Listing of 9 articles from the 110th Congress as entered.
1 . SENATE RESOLUTION 511–RECOGNIZING THAT JOHN SIDNEY MCCAIN III, IS A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN — Senate - April 10, 2008
2 . REPORTS OF COMMITTEES — Senate - April 24, 2008
3 . SUBMISSION OF CONCURRENT AND SENATE RESOLUTIONS — Senate - April 10, 2008
4 . JOHN S. McCAIN, III CITIZENSHIP — Senate - April 30, 2008
5 . MEETINGS SCHEDULED — Extensions of Remarks - April 21, 2008
6 . Daily Digest - Friday, April 18, 2008
7 . Daily Digest - Thursday, April 24, 2008
8 . Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
9 . Daily Digest - Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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110th CONGRESS
2d Session
Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.
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WASHINGTON — The most disliked, unproductive Congress in decades planned to leave Washington this week until after the November election, departing without agreements on virtually every big issue it deals with: taxes, defense, spending, farms, even post office policy.
Lawmakers spent Thursday pointing fingers and charging opponents with cynical political posturing. Among Congress' last decisions was a characteristic 2012 judgment: Punt action until later. It will let the farm bill, a broad measure that sets the nation's agriculture and food and nutrition assistance policies, expire Sept. 30.
Congress also exits without any serious effort to edge away from the "fiscal cliff," the prospect of economy-damaging budget chaos if it doesn't act by year's end. Bush-era tax cuts are due to expire, and automatic spending cuts will take effect unless alternatives are passed.
The public is noticing, as the legislative failures stir uncertainty and further roil an already-weak economy. This Congress' approval ratings were stuck at 13 percent in a Gallup survey Sept. 6-9, the lowest the pollster has ever logged this late in an election year since such measurements began in 1974.
Yet lawmakers are slinking out of town, after a September session that was on and off for less than two weeks, following a summer recess that ran from Aug. 3 to Sept. 10. Congress is expected to return Nov. 13.
"Leaving town in disgrace," said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., a 30-year congressional veteran.
"This is the most dysfunctional Congress I can remember," said Craig Holman, government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen, a nonpartisan consumer-advocacy group. "I've never seen Capitol Hill work so poorly."
Republicans and Democrats agree on this much: The inertia was spawned by the unusually hostile partisanship that's come to dominate political dialogue and debate.
The result of years-long trends, the parties have been all but purged of philosophical outliers. New England and mid-Atlantic Republican moderates have nearly vanished, and the centrist Democratic Blue Dog caucus shrank from roughly 54 members in the last Congress to fewer than half that now.
That's hardened the ideological lines, and leaders have had to become defenders of those ideologies instead of the consensus-builders they've been in the past. They've also spent much of the year blaming the other side.
"I have always said the sooner we can do it, the better. There is no reason why we should inch closer to a cliff," said California's Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. "The sooner that we can instill confidence in the economy that we can get this job done. And President Obama supported that one year ago, and the Republicans walked away."
No, the Republicans counter, it's the Democrats who are stubborn.
"We've got multiple crisis-level issues to deal with. And yet Democrats don't want to do a thing," Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Thursday in a floor speech. "Never before has a president and a Senate done so little to confront challenges so great."
Efforts are quietly afoot to find some common ground. The farm bill is expected to pass later this year. In the Senate, a bipartisan "Gang of Eight" has been talking regularly about fiscal compromise, holding dinners and bringing in dozens of other senators. Congressional leaders are not involved.
"The whole idea is to come up with an outline," said Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb.
Such talk has been going on for months, though, and it's produced no tangible results. Last year, it took a summer's worth of higher-level negotiations between the White House and congressional leaders before a last-minute agreement was reached to raise the nation's debt limit and cut spending.
The turmoil was a major factor in pushing financial rating agencies to lower the nation's credit rating below AAA in August 2011 for the first time in 70 years.
"The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective and less predictable than what we previously believed," the credit rating agency Standard &Poor's explained.
Prospects for a new agreement have been elusive, and no one is going home optimistic.
"If you kick the can down the road you continue to further uncertainty, and inconsistency, and a lack of predictability. That's what this Congress has done, because it's refused to deal with issues," said Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb.
It's not just the major battles. This Congress also struggled to pass what's usually routine legislation.
Fights stalled action on highway legislation, extending domestic violence laws, providing disaster aid and keeping interest rates low on student loans.
The lengthy summer recess didn't cool passions; if anything, it inflamed them. No new 12-month budget would be considered. Instead, lawmakers were eyeing a six-month stopgap that funds the government through early next year.
The farm bill got stuck because of disagreements over how to reduce spending on food stamps. The Senate adopted, in a bipartisan vote, a plan to cut billions from farm and food programs over the next decade. House Republicans wanted further reductions, however.
Perhaps the most obvious victims of this war have been post offices. The 112th Congress has approved renaming more than 25 post offices so far but has failed to agree on an overhaul measure to rescue the financially strapped Postal Service.
The agency reported losing $57 million a day in the last quarter, and it defaulted last month for the first time on health benefits payments for future retirees. It's set to miss a second payment of $5.6 million at the end of this month.
The Postal Service has been pressing Congress to allow it to do away with Saturday delivery and reduce its annual health payments. The Senate passed its version of a Postal Service bill in April, but the House has failed to act.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe recently may have inadvertently summed up not only the plight of the post offices, but also the entire Congress.
"This is no way to run any kind of business," he said.
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Cue the jokes about "wigging out" and "wig wars". Nicki Minaj is gearing up for a legal battle over her eye-catching hair.
The rapper is being sued by her former "wig guru" Terrence Davidson, according to Time. Davidson filed suit Friday, claiming Minaj stole wig designs he personalized for her, and then sold and licensed them without giving him a cut of the profits.
"I see these wigs online," said Davidson, who has also worked with others in the industry, including singers Patti LaBelle and rapper Remy Ma. "People are basically duplicating what I created for Nicki Minaj."
Davidson's suing now because there are Minaj-branded wigs on sale on her own website, and Davidson wants a cut of the profits.
"Nicki Minaj is reaping great success and financial bounty reward for Terrence's creative expertise, and he is entitled to participate in that," his lawyer said. "Someone's got to stand up for the artist. We applaud the fact that she's making millions, but she's also got to pay bounty to those whose creative designs she's making millions off of."
In his suit, Davidson says he designed several wigs for Minaj, including the "Pink Upper Bun Wig," the "Fox Fur Wig," and the "Half Blonde-Half Pink Wig" that she wore in appearances, including the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards preshow. He says there were plans for he and Minaj to launch a wig line and discussions about a possible reality show.
The two began working together in 2010, before the release of Pink Friday. In the lawsuit, which Time has obtained, lawyers for Davidson claim he created "fresh, hip, and unique wigs" that "significantly contributed to Minaj's unsurpassed notoriety for her wigs." Davidson claims the two had plans to create a wig line together, but by 2012 he was beginning to get phased out of Team Minaj, and he quit in January 2013.
This comes on the heels of Nicki receiving bad press over the art for her new single "Lookin Ass N*ggas" which portrays Malcolm X with a gun looking out a window. Malcom X's daughter Ilyasah Shabazz released a statement to the Associated Press, saying that the photo was "in no way is endorsed by our family. Ms. Minaj's artwork for her single does not depict the truth of Malcolm X's legacy."


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A developer convicted of defrauding taxpayers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a failed effort to build a professional soccer stadium in Connecticut has been sentenced to three years in federal prison.
James Duckett Jr. was sentenced Wednesday, December 6, 2017 on 12 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering. He was found guilty in July.
Duckett and another developer had been hired by Hartford to oversee development of a $12 million, 9,000-seat stadium.
But prosecutors allege Duckett and his partner never paid subcontractors and directed more than $1 million from the city to support a lavish lifestyle for Duckett and expenses unrelated to the stadium project.
The Major Arena Soccer League dropped the team before a game was ever played.
Duckett's lawyer says the payments to him were compensation for his work.
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The alphabet network puts a positive spin on last night's ratings, with a particular emphasis on Revenge, Once Upon a Time, and 666 Park Avenue.
ABC is Up on Sunday Year to Year for the 3rd Straight Week
Early info on ABC's Sunday, ahead of the regular ratings release.
Up against NBC's big Sunday Night Football contest (Green Bay Packers-Houston Texans) and an NFL-overrun boosted Fox with MLB Playoffs (National League Championship Game 1), ABC continued to grow its Sunday numbers year over year in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, up for the 3rd straight week this season.
More than doubling its Adult 18-49 lead-in (+114%) and building from start to finish, ABC's Once Upon a Time stood as Sunday's #1 scripted show for the 3rd week in a row. From 8-9pm among Adults 18-49, Once Upon a Time beat out CBS' Amazing Race by 15% and topped Fox's post-season baseball by 25% in the preliminary numbers.
· Based on L+7 ratings for the new season, Once Upon a Time saw its numbers spike by 3.1 million viewers and by 1.4 Adult 18-49 rating points over its initially-reported Live + Same Day ratings.
· Once Upon a Time greatly improved its time period for ABC over the year-ago night, surging by 2.0 million viewers and by 58% in Adults 18-49.
Exhibiting strong lead-in retention (90%) in the 9 o'clock hour, ABC's Revenge dominated The Good Wife, leading the CBS drama by 59% in Adults 18-49. In addition, the ABC sophomore drama took second to Sunday Night Football among its broadcast rivals in its time period across all key Adults (AD18-34AD18-49/AD25-54) key Women (W18-34/W18-49/W25-54).
· A big gainer in DVR playback, Revenge built from its L+SD to L+7 numbers in premiere week by 2.8 million viewers and by 1.1 Adult 18-49 rating points.
· ABC's Revenge was up week to week among Adults 18-49 (+4%), while retaining 100% of the year-ago delivery for Desperate Housewives and its own performance on Wednesday last year.
During the 10 o'clock hour, ABC's 666 Park Avenue qualified as the #1 non-sports series in its time slot for the 3rd week in a row with Women 18-34. The new ABC drama earned 90% or better week to week retention with Total Viewers (98%), Adults 18-34 (92%) and Adults 25-54 (95%).
· Ranking among the biggest freshman series in premiere week DVR playback, 666 Park Avenue saw its Live + 7 Day Adult 18-49 rating jump by 52% (+1.1 rating) and added on another 2.6 million viewers over its Live + Same Day numbers.


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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.105 n.3-4 Pretoria Mar./Apr. 2009
New to science and already disillusioned
SirLast year I attended a meeting where several representatives from the NRF told researchers at Stellenbosch University that all rated researchers would automatically receive 'glue' funding in 2009. I was very pleased about this because I had applied for my first NRF rating and had by that stage realised that the transition from Focus Area to Blue Skies funding (the other major pool of funding open to most researchers) was not going to be smooth.
In the event of the Blue Skies funding falling through, the guaranteed glue funding was my only alternative funding source and was thus essential for my continued productivity as a young researcher. But the guarantee proved false: by the time I received my NRF rating, the NRF had already run out of glue funding after allocating funds only to A-, P- and some B-rated researchers. My next shock was when I received a generic letter from the NRF to say that my Blue Skies application was not novel enough. Despite having asked for feedback on the application, it was apparent that the NRF had not even sent the proposal out for review and had then taken five months to relay this piece of information to me.
The inability of the NRF to administer and allocate funds properly has huge consequences for the way researchers plan their future work, and the potential ramifications for South African science are sobering. One personal but probably not unique consequence of its blunder was that I had to turn away several students whom I had promised to support on small projects, retaining only one student whom I am now paying from my personal salary. The fact that the NRF could not do simple arithmetic by tallying up the total number of rated researchers and allocating the correct amount of funding, astounds me. Furthermore, the fact that it allocated the funding first to senior researchers who probably need it least, leaves me wondering how they expect less-established researchers to flourish and continue the legacy of a South African research tradition.
Recent correspondence in this journal (SAJS 105, 10; 2009) also clearly demonstrates that the NRF has reneged on its promise to review all applications for Blue Skies funding adequately. I attribute this to a lack of capacity/exceedingly poor management at the NRF, which needs to be overhauled as soon as possible. Furthermore, the NRF has not funded all rated researchers as they said they would. Consequently many researchers have no funding this year, and have had to dump students because they cannot afford to keep them and cannot meet their research obligations. I am in agreement with the recent editorial (SAJS 105, 1; 2009) predicting a substantial decrease in research outputs and capacity building as measured by the number of enrolled doctoral candidates. The present delusional approach to allocating research funds will surely counter the ambitious objective set by the NRF to increase by fivefold the number of South African Ph.D. candidates in the next 15 years. My final prediction is that promising young scientists, whom the NRF have spent so much capital developing, will not languish on a sinking ship. If the NRF intends protecting its investments, it needs to review its present funding strategy rapidly, before young researchers like myself move to greener pastures.
Bruce Anderson
Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa


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A Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty [FMCT] would strengthen nuclear non-proliferation norms by adding a binding international commitment to existing constraints on nuclear weapons-usable fissile material. The proposed treaty would ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices. It would not apply to plutonium and HEU for non-explosive purposes.It would also not apply to non-fissile materials, like tritium, and it would not address existing stockpiles.
After consultations by Ambassador Shannon, the Conference on Disarmament (CD) reached consensus in 1995 on a mandate for an ad hoc committee to negotiate a cutŁoff agreement. But internal Conference agenda disputes, including most recently disputes over landmines and nuclear disarmament, prevented the formation of this negotiating committee to date. Finally, on 11 August 1998 the CD decided by consensus to establish a committee to negotiate a FMCT.
In a 27 September 1993 speech before the UN, President Clinton called for a multilateral convention banning the production of fissile materials for nuclear explosives or outside international safeguards. In December 1993 the UN General Assembly adopted resolution 48/75L calling for the negotiation of a "non-discriminatory, multilateral and international effectively verifiable treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices." The Geneva based Conference on Disarmament (CD) on 23 March 1995 agreed to a mandate for a committee to begin negotiations on the cutoff treaty.
Primary documents, including treaty text and associated memoranda, statements and other related material.
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- A Step-by-step Approach to a Global Fissile Materials Cutoff Steve Fetter and Frank von Hippel Arms Control Today, Vol. 25, No. 8.
Fissile Materials: Scope, Stocks and Verification Disarmament Forum two . 1999
- Editor's Note Kerstin HOFFMAN
- Background Rebecca STEVENS
- A FMCT: Can We Get from Here to There? Lewis A. DUNN
- Fissile Material Treaty: Negotiating Approaches, Tariq RAUF
- FMCT: Some Significant Divisions in the Scope Debate, Victor BRAGIN & John CARLSON
- The FMCT and Cuts in Fissile Material Stockpiles, Frank N. von HIPPEL
Verification and Transparency
- Verification of a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty, Annette SCHAPER
- Reconciling IAEA Safeguards Requirements in a Treaty Banning the Production of Fissile Material for Use in Nuclear Weapons or Other Nuclear Explosive Devices, Thomas E. SHEA
- Transparency and Fissile Materials, Frans BERKHOUT & William WALKER
- Fissile Materials Bibliography Scott CANTOR, Katie CRANE & Haynes COONEY
- Banning Fissile Material for Weapons Production UN Centre for Disarmament Affairs and the NGO Committee on Disarmament -- panel discussion October 26, 1995
- The Proposed Fissile-Material Production Cutoff: Next Steps, by Brian G. Chow, Richard H. Speier, Gregory S. Jones, (1995 RAND)
- Fissile Material Containment Efforts: An Overview -Kalpana Chittaranjan, IDSA Strategic Analysis July 1997
- Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty: A Critique -Savita Datt IDSA Strategic Analysis February 1997
- Will China agree to a fissile material production cutoff? Union of Concerned Scientists Summer 1995
- NUCLEAR WEAPONS GRADE FISSILE MATERIALS: THE MOST SERIOUS THREAT TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY TODAY? Guy B. Roberts INSS Occasional Paper 8 January 1995


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Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Joined: 15 Feb 2004
Posts: 43
Location: USA
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:55 pm
Post subject: HINTING POLICY AND ITS FAIRNESS
I don't want to start a cat fight or anything. But I was just thinking about the hint policy and in a way, it seems rather unfair.
What you all are saying is that if no one gets the answer to a riddle in a certain amount of time (ie 4 days for round 4) then a hint will be given. However, this ONLY APPLIES TO THE LEADERS???
Think about it - they are the leaders because they DIDN'T NEED HINTS. They flew through these puzzles like homing pidgeons. Then there are those that are always on the leaders heels. Just a few behind at times and always struggling 24/7 to keep the gap closed. They shouldn't rely on hints because they are obviously smart enough to stay ahead of the mainstream riddlers but have to riddle all the time just to keep caught up. Then there are the mainstream riddlers who really want to be in the lead but don't have the benefit of a big team (10+ members) nor the previous riddling experience to know how to solve many of these. They are at a clear disadvantage and deserve to have more hints after struggling for a few days on a riddle.
If you leave it up to the leaders to decide who they're going to give hints to and when, then there won't be many people progressing. Especially if they get to a really really hard one that they don't know how to solve, they certainly aren't going to give hints to someone who is say 5 or 6 behind them.
IN MY OPINION (and this is only an opinion) - I think the mods should make an additional rule that states something along the line of this:
IF the leaders get past riddle D for example without a hint (although they struggled almost to the time limit of needing one) ,
AND another team arrived at riddle D say 2 days later and struggled past the time limit for a hint,
THEN there should be a SET TIME after the leaders pass that riddle before the mods themselves can give a hint.
Let's say Team A arrives at riddle 1 on the 1st. They struggle but finally pass it without a hint on the 4th. Then Team B arrives at riddle 1 on the 3rd and still has not passed it by the 7th (4 days later). Then I'm thinking if Team B still has not passed the riddle one week after the time it took Team A to solve it, then they deserve a hint. So in this example, if Team A passed it after 3 days of struggling, then Team B would get their hint 10 days after their arrival at the same riddle (or in this example, the 13th).
It's just a suggestion but it seems QUITE fair and still allows the mods to hint even when the leaders refuse to.
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Thou whoreson cullionly barbermonger
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 128
Location: Perth
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:59 pm
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Being in the leading team I don't see anything wrong with your suggestion - mind you this is only my opinion I don't speak for the group as a whole, they may like this or not - its up to them to say so.
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A most toad spotted traitor
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 584
Location: UK
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 4:12 pm
Post subject:
To be honest, I don't think there is a hinting policy that would be totally fair to all players. I can see your point Arwin and agree with you in principle. However, until someone has passed a particular riddle, it's impossible to tell whether there's enough information/direction given to enable anyone to pass it without a hint of some kind. But if people have managed to pass it without a hint, this proves that its at least solveable no matter how long it takes. (And as certain players keep pointing out, if they are only playing for fun and not to win, then the amount of time it takes to solve a puzzle shouldn't really be a problem as long as they are having fun doing so).
The leaders have a disadvantage in that should we be held up for 5 days on a riddle that needs more direction (while in the meantime, everyone else is catching up), the hint we get will be posted in the forum. This will enable future players to have an in-built hint as soon as they reach the riddle so no 5-day wait for them. This effectively demolishes any lead that has been built up which again can't really be deemed fair.
I acknowledge that this is an extremely difficult problem to administer as everyone, depending upon their position in the leaderboard, will have a seemingly valid viewpoint. In an ideal world, there should be no need for hints because the puzzles should have been written in a way that offers all the pointers needed to solve it but I appreciate that puzzles like this are not easy to write and a few will slip through which need that little extra something.
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Is thy name Mouldy?
Joined: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 250
Location: Hiding from SparkPlug, he is a bully
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 8:59 pm
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I also see where the leaders are coming from on the issue of hinting. BUT, let's see it in this scenario, what would happen if we were to solve the riddle we are now on and for some miracle get the next two fairly quickly? You guys have been stuck on this for almost the 5 day limit to get a hint, but because we have just solved it you no longer get one. This is where the situation gets tricky.
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Forum Hardass
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
Posts: 24502
Location: Here, there, somewhere, everywhere
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:08 pm
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Hope you all read this, because it affects you all. I think there's been a bit of a misunderstanding about what we plan to do in the situation where the 2nd or lower placed teams get stuck on a riddle. Please ignore everything you might have thought before, here is clarification:
If ANY team/player is stuck on a given riddle past the minimum time where there are no hints already available, and that player/team ask for a hint, they will be given one. This hint will go on the forum. I repeat this is
irrespective of position in the contest
Further clarification on cases where different things apply (I believe these are the root of the misunderstanding):
1. A team/player (for instance the leaders) may choose NOT to have a hint after the time period. Any team/player who subsequently catch up must wait the full time.
2. If the corresponding thread on the forum already contains hints, the admin team reserve the right not to add further hints if they consider what is there is sufficient.
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A most toad spotted traitor
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
Posts: 584
Location: UK
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 10:51 pm
Post subject:
Thanks for clarifying that Stretham. It all makes a great deal of sense now. I don't envy you as it must be a thankless task trying to please the lot of us
And it is definitely one of those situations that look different depending upon where you're looking at it from.
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Is thy name Mouldy?
Joined: 30 Jan 2004
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Location: Hiding from SparkPlug, he is a bully
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 11:36 pm
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Thanks for that Stretham
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Is thy name Mouldy?
Joined: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 254
Location: Brisbane Australia
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:39 am
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thank you once again Stretham, for your clear and concise information.
I must say I love the site but have been bemused by the misunderstanding proclaimed.
when is asking for a hint begging for a hint.
when is proferring thoughts begging for a hint
whilst asking for clarification maybe is not asking for hints .. gee im soo confused
Ally - do I realy wanna be a "gngor"
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thought for the day "Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference. "
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Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Joined: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 44
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:15 am
Post subject: begging for hints.
All summed up with one statement:
If you take a comment as an accusation, then the shoe fits.
The best way to overcome momentum is to fight farce with an equal and opposite farce.
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Is thy name Mouldy?
Joined: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 254
Location: Brisbane Australia
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:20 am
Post subject:
nothing less was expected ..
Ally - do I realy wanna be a "gngor"
"scary thought for the day - those voices in your head come to me for advice - be afraid"
thought for the day "Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference. "
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Thy mother's name is ominous to children
Joined: 15 Feb 2004
Posts: 43
Location: USA
Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 4:34 am
Post subject:
Yes thank you very much for the clarification - I was fully under the impression that ONLY the lead team was allowed the hint after the alloted time period. There is hope then and that's all I was asking for. We really shouldn't rely so much on hints anyway! I know how easy it is to get caught up in that routine (ie well they helped on that one maybe they'll help again). But unless you just say no hints period, then it IS hard being fair about it. I can't speak for everyone but we do appreciate how hard you all work in creating huge contests like this - whether we enjoy a particular puzzle or not
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Forum Hardass
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Location: Here, there, somewhere, everywhere
Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 11:29 am
Post subject:
Further clarification of hinting:
If a hint is posted for the leading team, then any subsequent teams arriving on that puzzle will still have to wait the full time limit before they receive any further help.
I accept the mods may have slipped slightly in this respect, but that was because we were in new territory and hadn't clarified ourselves what we would do. The above will be adhered to from now on.
Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy?
I don't know and I don't care!
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O ho monster
Joined: 16 Feb 2004
Posts: 17
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:10 pm
Post subject:
Of course there are a lot of people who started much later then the leading team. And because of the hints they are going very fast. But why is that bad? If a team is better then the rest they don't need to be afraid they won't win this. If a team started on a later date and manages to win this thing, then that's because they are better, or else they wouldn't win.
I only started two weeks ago. If I knew of this puzzle earlier, I would have started earlier and of course would have gotten much further by now.
So, I think the rules on giving hints are very fair.
I also have a disadvantage because I'm Dutch. English is a foreign language for me, but I'm not complaining about that. I chose to play in this contest knowing it's completely in English.
Long time no see
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Thou damned and luxurious mountain goat
Joined: 17 Sep 2003
Posts: 60
Location: Holland
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:23 pm
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Hello fellow dutchman!
Welkom op Puzzletome. In principe maakt het niet dat je uit een ander land komt, zolang je maar een redelijke kennis hebt van de Engelse taal. Bij mijn weten zaten er in deze wedstrijd weining echt britse verwijzingen. Als je echt het zekere voor het onzekere wil nemen, begin dan een team met minimaal een brit en een amerikaan.
In ieder geval, veel succes met deze wedstrijd en je verdere raadselcarrière (als je nog niet verslaafd bent dan wordt je het nog wel, geloof me
Never give up, keep on playing
The Evolution is coming!
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Thou whoreson cullionly barbermonger
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
Posts: 119
Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:29 pm
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I wish I spoke foreign languages 1/10th as well as you speak English.
Sorry, I know its off topic.
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Linux Distribution Recommendations
For Beginners
One size does not fil all. Some key differentiators to evaluate include:
- the functionality/style of "Control Panel" and that is best asssesed by trying various live CD from the suggestions below
- look-and-feel of the various Desktop enviroments
- Unity
- Gnome
- Applications
- this should not be a "show-stopper"
- whilst > 700 MB won't fit on a CD, most Distributions have large, on-line repositories from which many applications can be installed quite simply
Suggestions from PCUG's Linux SIG depend on perspective:
for best support from the SIG
- Linux Mint
- openSUSE
- Ubuntu
for Windows/MacOS like experience
- KDE variants of the above
uncomplicated/mobile computing
- Peppermint
for netbooks and low spec hardware
- Peppermint
- PC Linux OS LXDE
- Puppy
- limited network security
for PCUG members having a dearth of download quota, the following are unmetered download from TIP
- Ubuntu
- an Ubuntu download should be redirected automatically to TIP server - but check your usage stats before & after
Distribution Specific Notes
All distributions have some "quirks" which might not be covered in installation & usage guides
- essentilal that this be set correctly at installation stage
- correct settings for Australia are UK language plus US keyboard
- first select via F2 on the opening installation screen
- verify & correct if necessary on final pre-installation summary scrreen
- following installation go to Start->System Settings->locale
- set to Australia and language EN-GB
openSUSE handles differently from many other Linuxes
- has hundreds of online repositiories
- only "installation media", update, oss and non-oss are set by default
- change last three to local mirrors (preferably unmetered)
- additional repositories should not be required by beginners
- any that are set require a higher priority (lower number) than the defaults
Printer Setup
- several of the printer setup routines are broken
- http://localhost:631 in a browser gives the most reliable for initialy setting up each printer
- printers must be powered up and connected to the local PC or network
- root password is required
- Start->System->Configuration->Print Settings provides good control of parameters after initial setup
For Intermediate Users
for continual upgrade to latest software releases
- openSUSE with Tumbleweed repository enabled
- Ubuntu with Universe repository enabled
for fewest upgrades
- Ubuntu (& derivatives) based on Long Term Support (LTS) core
for PCUG members having a dearth of download quota, the following are unmetered download from TIP
- Ubuntu
- Debian
- an Ubuntu/Debian download should be redirected automatically to TIP server - but check your usage stats before & after
for netbooks and low spec hardware
- Peppermint
- PC Linux OS LXDE
- the new razorqt desktop
- www.qtdesktop.org
- available for most major distributions
Specialised Distributions
utility CD
- PartedMagic
- small fee payable online
- SystemRescueCD
- Smoothwall Express
- IPFire
- only one supporting ARM-based hardware
- IPCop no longer recommended
- release 1.4.x is stable, but no longer maintained
- release 2.x less reliable
For Geeks
the following are generally regarded as not suited to beginners.
- Arch
- Gentoo
- Slackware
Arch Linux
- continuously updated
- robust
- tailerable to compact installations
- usable on low-end hardware
- supports many ARM based devices
- requires much additional, manual setup
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Basic Installation
First select the swap partition, sda5 (say). If you are using an SSD and have sufficient RAM, consider doing without a swap partition:
# mkswap /dev/sda5
# swapon /dev/sda5
Then you will need to format the root partition, which (say) is sda7, using (say) the ext4 filesystem:
# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda7
If you are uncomfortable with using command-line disk partitioning and formatting tools, it's best if you prepare your disk using external tools like gparted. But once you have prepared a root partition for Arch Linux, mount it on /mnt:
# mount /dev/sda7 /mnt
If you want to have separate partitions for /home and /boot, mount them as well in appropriate directories such as to /mnt/home, and /mnt/boot. (Use mkdir /mnt/home, mkdir /mnt/boot first)
Configuring the network shouldn't be an issue if your network has a router that hands out IP address via DHCP, as the Arch install CD has a DHCP service already enabled. If you don't use DHCP, you'll have to manually setup an IP address. Arch can assist you with various tools, such as netctl and wifi-menu to setup the Wi-Fi network. (Again start with https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide).
Now edit the file that lists Arch mirrors to select a preferred mirror for downloading packages:
# nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Copy your preferred mirrors (eg iinet or internode) to the top of this file to ensure they are searched first (they have "free" arch mirrors for their customers).
The main packages can be viewed in /etc/pacman.conf, which is where you can add special ones if required. For example, add the following lines to this file if you want to use a zfs file system:
# zfs
[demz-repo-core] SigLevel = Optional TrustAll #Required Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/$arch
When you're done, use Arch's pacstrap script to download and install the core packages:
# pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
Once the core packages have been downloaded generate an fstab file to define how the storage devices will be mounted:
# genfstab -U -p /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
You'll now have to chroot into the installed base to configure the other components of the Arch installation. Arch Linux wraps the standard chroot command inside a custom script called arch-chroot.
# arch-chroot /mnt
Congratulations, you're now inside your new Arch installation. You'll now set your hostname by placing it in the /etc/hostname file.
# echo yourchoice > /etc/hostname
Also symlink /etc/localtime to your timezone listed under /usr/share/zoneinfo, such as:
# ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Canberra /etc/localtime
Then open the /etc/locale.gen file and uncomment the locale you wish to use, such as en_AU.UTF8 UTF8. A locale defines a user's language, country and other related parameters. Then run locale-gen to set it up.
# echo LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 > /etc/locale.conf # locale-gen
Now you'll need to set the keyboard mapping with:
# localectl set-keymap us
The default is "us" anyway so this can be skipped in Australia.
You'll now have to create an initial ramdisk environment, which will load kernel modules and set up the environment before handing over the control of the initiation process. Arch uses the mkinitcpio script for this purpose. Experienced users would want to edit the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file before creating the ram disk with:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
But you can skip this step if you accept the default.
The last step in setting up our basic Arch system is installing and configuring a bootloader. Arch supports the grub and syslinux bootloaders. In this example, we'll set up the lightweight syslinux bootloader, but you can setup grub by following instructions that can be found on the Arch wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide.
First, grab the syslinux bootloader as well as the gptfdisk package to modify our GUID Partiton Table with:
# pacman -S syslinux gptfdisk
Then install the bootloader and mark the Arch partition as bootable with:
# syslinux-install_update -i -a -m
Finally, edit the /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg file to point to the Arch Linux partition (Here /dev/sda5. The cfg file sets it typically to /dev/sda3 so it is important to check this.
Before you log out of the chroot environment don't forget to set a password for the root user with passwd.
# passwd
<enter passwd (twice)>
Press Ctrl+D (or enter exit) to exit the chroot environment and unmount the Arch partition with umount -R /mnt. That's the end of the install process. You can now restart your computer and boot into your shiny new Arch installation.
If you have a wired ethernet connection (see the wiki for wireless) it may be necessary to set it up again using the following:
# ip link
Shows the ethernet link name. SystemD shows this as "enp3s0" on my system rather than "eth0".
# ip addr
Shows ip address assigned (in case you are interested).
Enable this:
# systemctl enable email@example.com
This only has to be done the first time you start up the new system. Start it up.
# dhcpcd
See the wiki for a more detailed description of this process. To test that you are talking to the outside world, try:
# ping 220.127.116.11 (a Google DNS)
You should get a response if all goes well.
Post install customisations
Arch uses the systemd system and service manager. So it's a good idea to spend some time learning the basics of the systemctl command, which interacts with systemd. (It is not all that complicated. You do not need many of its options at this stage).
The installed base system only has a CLI. For graphics, install the base Xorg packages:
# pacman -S xorg-server xorg-server-utils xorg-xinit
(optionally) Install mesa for 3D support:
# pacman -S mesa
Before you can install a desktop environment you will need to install drivers for your video hardware. If you do not know which video chipset is available on your machine, run:
# lspci | grep VGA
Use pacman to search for a list of open source video drivers in Arch's repos with:
# pacman -Ss xf86-video | less
And install the one that matches your hardware. If appropriate, you can download and install a proprietary Nvidia driver with:
# pacman -S nvidia
You can then use pacman and begin to install components such as your preferred desktop environment, an office suite and a web browser etc. Do a google search starting with "arch" for availability/instructions
You can also set up a user with the useradd command:
# useradd -m -g users -G wheel -s /bin/bash myusername
(the wheel group membership facilitates using sudo).
Installing a fully featured desktop environment like kde will then provide most of what you need immediately to start up your desktop (kde-workspace installs its preferred login/display manager: kdm):
# pacman -S kde-base kde-workspace
(More recently the kde references have been replaced by the group name kde).
Restart the system. You should now be able to boot into your new system.
To boot into your desktop environment automatically see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Display_Manager#Loading_the_display_manager.
If you've chosen a display manager, say gdm then the following will set it up:
# sudo systemctl enable gdm
Otherwise reboot, login to the CLI and look for commands beginning with start....
Note on systemctl The manual is probably the best place to start, but another few useful associated uses are:
# sudo systemctl disable gdm (if you want to subsequently enable say kdm)
# sudo systemctl restart sshd (to restart ssh after configuration change)
# journalctl (to access runtime journal)
Getting a Working Desktop
Key functions not installed in the base installation include:
- password manager (almost essential for KDE)
- printing


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ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- At least 56 people were arrested Monday after police fired projectiles and used pepper spray and tear gas to disperse a crowd demonstrating near the site of the Republican National Convention.
Police fire tear gas to dispurse protesters in St. Paul, Minnesota, Monday.
CNN photojournalists witnessed police detaining between 20 and 30 individuals with plastic handcuffs a few blocks from the security perimeter around the Xcel Center in downtown St. Paul.
A crowd of 300 individuals was later seen conducting what appeared to be a sit-in at a parking lot near the Mississippi River.
Earlier Monday, a group of self-described anarchists threw park benches into streets and smashed windows, police said. Watch police detain nearly two dozen people »
Thomas Walsh, a public information officer for the St. Paul Police Department, said Monday afternoon that 13 people had been arrested so far, accused of damage to property and conspiracy to riot. Those arrested will be formally charged in Ramsey County District Court on Tuesday, he said.
The arrest of the "anarchists" came after nearly 5,000 protesters marched peacefully outside the site of the convention site.
While Walsh described the individuals as a being part of a "splinter group" from the main body of protesters, he said it would not characterize their activity as being a protest. Watch the police use pepper spray »
"I think they did a disservice to those that came here to protest," he said.
Besides damaging private property, the group also smashed in the windows of five squad cars. iReport.com: Protesters swarmed at RNC
Police on Sunday saw little disruption in advance of the convention, which is being greatly scaled back because of Hurricane Gustav. And, despite the disruptions Monday, the security scheme is working as planned, Walsh said. Watch the police take on the protesters »
"We had some expectation that there may be some of this activity," he said.
The Republican convention, which officially began Monday, has been designated a "national special security event," which means the Secret Service is responsible for planning and implementing the security scheme. View the convention security plan »
But the primary responsibility for street-level security falls to the local police agencies. St. Paul received $50 million in federal grant money to pay for additional security measures.
The St. Paul Police Department estimated it would require $34 million to bring in and pay 3,500 extra officers. The rest of the money is for training and new equipment, the department said.
Numerous federal agencies are helping to provide security. The Federal Protective Service, the Customs and Border Protection agency, the FBI, the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and other agencies are providing resource to help the Secret Service implement its plan.
CNN's Joe Johns contributed to this report.
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Packers have Marshall plan
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Greg Jennings didn't have a problem with anything Chicago Bears wide receiver Brandon Marshall had said. In fact, the Green Bay Packers wide receiver was basically calling Marshall a genius Thursday.
Marshall had made headlines one day earlier when he went off on the Packers during his weekly media availability at Halas Hall. Among Marshall's most colorful quotes were him saying, "I really dislike the Green Bay Packers and their players," that the game was "personal" to him, that he would play it "like it's my last game" and "I've never felt this strong in sports – versus any team or any players."
But it was something Marshall said later that Jennings found brilliant: Marshall's attempt to bait the Packers into matching their cornerbacks up with him man-to-man.
Marshall said Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers "did an amazing job of game-planning me" in the teams' Sept. 13 meeting, in which Marshall caught only two passes for 24 yards in a 23-10 Packers victory. Then, Marshall dared the Packers to try to cover him one-on-one in Sunday's rematch at Soldier Field.
"I didn't beat double or triple coverage or whatever they were throwing at us," Marshall said of the first meeting. "I take it as a slap in my face when guys talk about my lack of ability to do something against them when they have help all over the place. I'm looking forward to one-on-one coverage. Hopefully, those guys in games like this may go to their coach and say, `Let me have him. I want Brandon Marshall. I want to stop Brandon Marshall. Let me have him one-on-one, press coverage.' And we'll see what happens."
Speaking at his locker Thursday, Jennings had answered roughly 3 minutes worth of questions before bringing up — unprompted – what Marshall had said.
"I think he's smart for saying whatever he said. So I'm going to be smart, too," Jennings said, a wide smile stretching across his face. "Man, I wish the Bears would play us one-on-one and man-to-man.
"I think he's smart. That reverse psychology, I think it's pretty impressive. So yeah, man, the Bears are always playing Cover-2. I think they're scared not to play Cover-2."
Then, Jennings laughed. "Hey," he added. "I'll give it a shot."
The Cover-2 defense has been like Kryptonite to the Packers' previously unstoppable offense this season, using two deep safeties to take away big plays and prevent the group from replicating last year's success, when the Packers scored 560 points (second-most in NFL history) and quarterback Aaron Rodgers won the NFL MVP by throwing 45 touchdown passes and only six interceptions.
Later, Jennings called Marshall's statements a "tactic. 'Play me one-on-one.' What receiver doesn't want you to play man-to-man coverage the entire game?"
"I mean, your pride wants to say, 'I can guard you man-to-man,' but why do it? Why do it when you don't have to? Hey, that's why we're a team. We help one another."
Here's the bad news for Marshall: There's no way on God's green earth that Capers is going to play one-on-one, man-to-man coverage on him on a down-in, down-out basis Sunday. Even with cornerback Tramon Williams' ability to cover, he's assured of having help over the top from a safety much of the time, as he frequently did against Detroit's Calvin Johnson in the team's two games against the Lions this year.
For while Capers' scheme is certainly complex, one of the main tenets of the veteran coordinator's approach is relatively simple: Stop the opponent's best players.
Whether it's Johnson, or Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, or, yes, Marshall, Capers formulates his defensive game plan each week by asking himself which offensive players could hurt his defense the most. While the results have varied over the last few years – as you might expect, since we're talking about some of the NFL's elite players – the approach has remained the same.
"When we look at an offense, we look at who their top two or three producers are," Capers explained recently. (The Packers make their defensive coaches available on Fridays, so Capers did not address reporters Thursday.) "And (we ask), what do you have to try to do to limit their production? (We're) going to say, 'Well, this is where we have to start.'
"What do you have to take away to win the game?"
For the Bears, it's obviously Marshall.
Entering Sunday's game, Marshall has caught 101 passes for 1,342 yards and nine touchdowns, while Chicago's next three wide receivers have a combined 65 receptions for 748 yards and five touchdowns: Earl Bennett has 23 receptions for 250 yards and one TD; Devin Hester has 23 receptions for 242 yards and one TD, and rookie Alshon Jeffery has 19 receptions for 256 yards and three TDs.
Marshall has had seven 100-yard games this season and has caught at least 10 passes in his last three games. The only other team to shut him down was San Francisco, which held Marshall to two receptions for 21 yards on Nov. 19, when quarterback Jay Cutler missed the game with a concussion and backup Jason Campbell started in his place.
According to Packers safety Morgan Burnett, Capers' weekly Wednesday presentation to the defense begins with a portion of the Power Point presentation listing the opposing team's top players. Even though it's self-evident, the emphasis helps remind his players of how important it will be to contain those top targets. This Wednesday, the discussion predictably began with Marshall, Burnett said.
"You know what they like to do, you watch the film, you know who the go-to guy is," Burnett said Thursday. "At the same time, that doesn't mean you just ignore everyone else.
"Of course, Brandon Marshall is the go-to guy. But you still have (other) playmakers in Devin Hester, you have the rookie Alshon Jeffery, who's a big receiver, and then you have (running back) Matt Forte, who's a threat in the running game and the passing game.
"It's obvious that you have to (stop Marshall). But at the same time, you have to do your job. If it's your job to stay on this half of the field, you can't be looking at the other half and saying, 'Oh, he's over there.'"
Before their Week 2 meeting this season, the only other time the Packers had encountered Marshall twice, although only once in their current defensive scheme. In 2010, when Marshall was with the Miami Dolphins, he was targeted 17 times and caught 10 passes for 127 yards in a 23-20 overtime victory. In 2007, when the Packers were playing their old 4-3 scheme and Marshall was with Denver, he had three receptions for 74 yards in the Packers' 19-13 victory over the Broncos.
"He's a talented guy," Capers said before the teams' first meeting this season. "He uses his size and his strength and he's one of those big physical receivers (who) tries to seek contact and uses that to create separation. And he's got a big wingspan. So he's a big target for Cutler, and they've played together so they obviously have some chemistry working together."
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'American Idol' Producers Tell Colton Dixon Faith Tweets Can Cost Him Votes
Despite warnings to tone down his faith, "American Idol" Top 10 contestant Colton Dixon says he will continue speaking out about his Christian beliefs.
The 20-year-old singer from Murfreesboro, Tenn., revealed to TODAY.com that producers from the hit reality show told him that religious and political tweets and posts on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter could alienate some viewers and potentially cost him some votes.
"When we first started the Twitter and Facebook stuff, they said beware of political and religious tweets," he shared. "Just because it can turn off voters or whatever. But ... being a Christian is who I am. It is a part of me musically. It is what I want to do after the show – go into Christian music."
Though he said that the producers had a "mutual respect" for his faith, Dixon revealed that he would not hide his faith or stray away from it just because it could cost him the crown or because he was on the show.
"I wake up and I do devotional every morning," the contestant also shared. "It reminds me why I am here, which is to share the love of God. I know there are several other contestants who can say the exact same thing."
"It is a part of me and I want to share it – no matter what, good or bad outcome. It is me."
Dixon originally auditioned with his sister Schyler at the Nashville auditions during the tenth season early last year. They both, however, were not chosen to be in the Top 24.
After he was sent home, he was invited to perform on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" in March 2011.
Though he was not intending to audition for the eleventh season currently airing, merely accompanying his sister to the tryout, he was asked by the judges to sing, winning a golden ticket as a result for his performance of David Cook's "Permanent."
He advanced to the Top 25 in February, though his sister was cut during the Las Vegas round, and became one of the top five male audience favorites, securing a spot in the Top 12.
On Wednesday, Dixon sang White Lion's "Broken Heart" despite being advised by his personal Idol Chris Daughtry to choose songs that people knew.
Though Idol judge Jennifer Lopez enjoyed the performance, commenting that he looked pretty when he sang, Steven Tyler felt that it was the wrong song for his voice and his passion.
Despite the mixed reactions, Dixon was declared safe on Thursday, placing him in the Top 10.
During Wednesday's performance, he wore bracelets given to him by Raising Kain Apparel containing a Scripture reference to Jeremiah 29:11: "For I know the plans I have for you ... plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
Recently Dixon posted a Bible verse from Proverbs on his Facebook: "[Trust] in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your [own] understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will keep your paths straight."
Though some criticized him for using the show as a platform to preach, others were encouraged by his faith and commented that they would be praying for him.
"I respect you even more for not letting people's criticism change nor hide what you believe in and what you stand for!" Alexann Sharp wrote. "Thanks for standing up for Christ!!! You won my votes."
Chavvah Frick also shared, "Oh Colton keep carrying the Light into a dark world! God has placed you in this position for a reason! I really admire the stand you have been taking! Keep strong and let God be your strength when you are weak! I am praying (and voting) for you!"
Dixon tweeted on Thursday in response to some negative comments, "Idol is more than a singing competition. It's a chance to share who you are. I just happen to love God."
Many fans are dubbing him to be the next Tim Tebow for "American Idol."
His response?
"I don't follow tebow, I follow a guy named Jesus. I'm just trusting in His plans. Whatever that may be."


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A third person has been charged in the Sept. 8 incident in which a 17-year-old boy was sexually assaulted with an object at a large teenage party on East End Road. Alaska State Troopers at about 7:15 p.m. Sunday arrested a 16-year-old Homer boy and charged him with second-degree sexual assault. The teen was taken to the Kenai Youth Facility.
Because the defendant is a minor, the case was referred to the Division of Juvenile Justice. His name was not released.
The 16-year-old boy was charged in connection with the same incident as Anthony Resetarits, 20, and Joseph Resetarits, 18. The brothers were charged with one count each of second-degree sexual assault, penetration of an incapacitated person.
Citing the continuing investigation and confidentiality rules regarding minors charged with a crime, trooper spokesperson Megan Peters said she could not discuss the 16-year-old boy's exact role in the assault, but did confirm he was charged in the same incident. She also declined to say where the boy attended school or provide any other information that could potentially identify him.
In charging documents for the Resetarits brothers, Trooper Sgt. Jeremy Stone alleged that from 60 to 80 people, including Homer High School students, attended a party Sept. 8 and 9 at an East End Road home.
The 17-year-old boy arrived at the party about 10 p.m. Sept. 8 and eventually passed out on a couch in the living room.
The father of the boy who started the party and the owner of the home where it happened told troopers he went to sleep in his bedroom near to the living room before the party started and did not know any juveniles drank alcohol until the next morning when he found alcohol containers. The party grew from a few invited friends to about 60 to 80 people, including members of the Homer High School Mariners football team, members of other Homer High teams, Homer High alumni and other people.
Troopers allege that while the boy was passed out, multiple people wrote on the boy's body with a marker while others took videos and photographs and that Anthony Resetarits shaved an "M" into the boy's hair.
Another boy tried to wake up the drunk boy, but he remained unresponsive.
After Anthony Resetarits shaved the boy's head, people around the boy shouted out suggestions about what to do next. An unidentified person suggested an obscene act. Anthony Resetarits allegedly sexually assaulted the boy with an object, with Joseph Resetarits also participating, Stone wrote in the complaint.
Troopers recovered multiple photographs taken at the party, including one of two men sexually assaulting the boy. The boy who took the photo identified the Resetarits brothers as the men in the photo, Stone wrote.
The party broke up shortly after the incident and the unconscious boy was taken to his mother. A nurse reported to troopers the sexual assault after the boy was treated at South Peninsula Hospital
Fourteen Homer High School student athletes who were at the party were suspended from activities the week of Oct. 10 for violating Alaska Student Activities Association rules for being at a party where alcohol was served.
The Resetarits brothers were released on bail last week and are in the custody of their parents. A preliminary hearing for the brothers is at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at the Homer Courthouse.


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CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson is moving forward with plans to host its scheduled football game on Saturday while Hurricane Florence wreaks havoc on the Carolinas' coastline with officials bracing for historic flooding and record-setting rainfall that has forced people to evacuate their homes to escape the wrath of the storm.
School officials reiterated their plans Friday morning, saying the kickoff against Georgia Southern remains set for noon Saturday.
"Clemson Athletics and the University administration continue to monitor the forecast related to Hurricane Florence very carefully," the university statement said. "The safety of fans and the student-athletes from both universities are our top priority."
But while Clemson officials believe the school and stadium — which are about 250 miles from the South Carolina coast — are not in harm's way, there has been backlash for what is being viewed by some as a narrow view of the situation.
There have been questions about how safe it can possibly be to have about 80,000 people — many traveling on South Carolina highways to and from the game in what could be rapidly changing conditions — together for football game and placing more demands on already strained state resources.
Instead of the usual 100-110 state troopers on hand for a game, there will only be 16.
Clemson (2-0) is the lone major conference school from the Carolinas and Virginia playing its scheduled home game Saturday. Hurricane Florence made landfall on Friday and began a trek expected to take it into South Carolina.
No. 13 Virginia Tech, North Carolina and North Carolina State all canceled home games. Virginia's home game with Ohio was moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Clemson's state rival less than 150 miles East, South Carolina, called off its game Saturday night due to the storm.
Gamecocks athletic director Ray Tanner said canceling his team's game was the only choice to make. Hotel rooms and resources football fans might have used in Columbia would be freed up for coastal evacuees. Of all the things people might need this weekend, Tanner told 107.5 FM, "a football game wasn't at the top of the list."
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said at his Friday afternoon briefing the decision whether to hold the game was completely up to Clemson. When asked if he had talked with Clemson officials, McMaster said "not about that."
At the briefing state officials said 441,000 people had evacuated the state's coast in advance of Florence.
Clemson's decision to play a game that is not expected to be competitive — the Tigers are 33½-point favorites — has raised questions about the school's priorities.
Former PGA Tour golfer and South Carolina Gamecock Kyle Thompson said on Twitter : "I may get blasted for this, but I'm surprised Clemson is playing a football game tomorrow with Hurricane Florence bearing down on SC. Seems like a money grab.
"Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts is from Clinton, South Carolina — about 90 minutes southeast of Clemson — and said earlier this week that this game is more important to him than others. Despite the impact of Florence, Werts said many family members are expected to attend Saturday's game.
"I would like to say it would be just another game, but it's not," Werts said. "Growing up there, just going to one of those places I wanted to go to."
Clemson officials did move up kickoff to noon EST from its planned 3:30 p.m. start. Athletic director Dan Radakovich said the earlier start time gives both the teams and the fans time to clear the area before Florence's effects hit the Clemson area Saturday night and Sunday.
The National Weather Service forecast calls for just a 20 percent chance of rain Saturday at Clemson and the chances for rainfall go up to 70 percent Saturday night and 90 percent Sunday. The weather service also has issued a flash flood warning for the area from Saturday morning through Monday.
But the backdrop of the contest and the potentially good weather at Clemson includes winds from Hurricane Florence ripping through communities that are part of the school's footprint, both for students and football recruits.
Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday, but is moving at a very slow speed, making its path difficult to predict.
As the storm pounded away, it unloaded heavy rain , flattened trees, chewed up roads and knocked out power to more than a half-million homes and businesses.
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney is trusting Clemson's administrators that playing early is the right path.
"There's a lot going on," Swinney said. "This is a monster storm and who knows what could happen. You just have to rely on folks that this is what they do."
There are many reasons for Clemson to want to play the game.
The Tigers are ranked No. 2 in the country and are seeking a fourth consecutive trip to the College Football Playoff. They are heavily favored against Georgia Southern and at the end of the year, a decisive win could be the difference between getting into the playoffs or staying home.
Clemson's timing to try and reschedule is troublesome, too. It's off-week is Oct. 13 and playing then would mean 10 consecutive games leading into its expected appearance in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship on Dec. 1.
There are financial considerations, as well. Clemson earned close to $20 million in football ticket sales in 2016 and losing a game would cost the athletic department several million dollars in revenue.
But Radakovich has insisted safety is the school's top priority. The Clemson AD has asked fans planning to attend to leave earlier for arrival and have patience as Clemson will have operate with different traffic control personnel.


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Sweet Success for Sustainable Biofuel Research
Scientists have found a way to increase fermentable sugar stores in plants, which could lead to plant biomass being easier to convert into eco-friendly sustainable biofuels.
Energy is released in a usable form from biomass when biodegradable matter such as wood or straw is burnt or fermented. Fuel for use in cars is produced by fermentation. To make the fermentation process more efficient and to maximise energy conversion, a better understanding of the release of sugars from plant cell walls is crucial and researchers from the University of Cambridge are doing just that.
Using the plant Arabidopsis, Paul Dupree and his team have found three enzymes responsible for the production of all detectable levels of a type of sugar called glucomannan. Their research also shows that the quantity of glucomannan can be increased or decreased in the stem with no visible detrimental effects on plant development or cell wall strength. However, the researchers found that changes in glucomannan levels had a detrimental effect on seed development.
Dupree explains: "We now know that it may be possible to increase glucomannan specifically in harvestable plant organs, such as stems. This could be very beneficial for the production of bioenergy crops where higher proportions of enzyme-accessible fermentable sugars, such as those in glucomannan, could lead to higher yields of fuel. Achieving higher fuel yields from crops will increase the likelihood of sustainable and economic biofuels displacing fossil fuels."
The increases in fermentable sugar achieved so far are encouraging, but further work is needed to understand how to make substantial improvements in crop species. If the biomass plant material is sourced sustainably, from non-food crops and waste, then this research could help to contribute to significantly increasing the supply of eco-friendly biofuels.
Commenting on the research, BBSRC Chief Executive Professor Doug Kell, said: "Sustainability issues, environmental factors and economic pressures all mean there is an urgent need to find renewable energy sources. Plant-based biomass from non-food crops and waste offers an effective alternative, but to make the process more efficient, we need to examine ways of optimising the plant matter we use to produce fuels. Research, such as that being conducted by the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre, is harnessing the power of fundamental plant science to develop realistic alternatives to oil-based transport fuels that do not threaten the food chain or the environment."
Dupree leads the Cell Wall Sugars Research Programme within the BBSRC Sustainable Bioenergy Centre. This work is featured in the Winter issue of Business, the quarterly highlights magazine of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), and the findings were recently published in the Plant Journal.


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The Annual Report Card results are in, and the results in quality and reliability reflect the vendors that are most attentive to the fit and finish of their products.
The ARC ranks vendors in 18 technology categories; 39 vendors participated, many in multiple categories. Each of those categories comprises 18 subcategories related to product quality, support and partnership. In each of those subcategories, a company could have finished at the top with a rank of No. 1 -- or at the bottom with a rank of No. 73. Here's a look at which finished in the top 10 in the quality and reliability subcategory.


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