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|VAIO Event Service Update driver for SONYVPCCB17FX/D
This utility updates the VAIO Event Service to version5.4.1.01260 to resolve the following issues:
The Color Setting utility displays a pop-up message when thecomputer is utilizing Speed mode.
The user settings for AC and DC brightness are reset to defaultafter the system goes into sleep or hibernation modes and after thecomputer is shutdown
What You Should Know About Sony Driver Updating
There are a number of common warnings and other messages which you might get in the driver updating procedure, a number of which I've paraphrased and listed here together with guidance on what you can do:
QUESTION: I just reset my Windows ten and all of my third celebration programs removed.Now i never have VAIO manage center and i could n't uncover a setup acceptable for my vaio model. (SVF1531GSG) I attempted control center for other models but there is just a number of functionality. I do not get any update via VAIO update application. and also i could n't install setups which put on my model assistance page because those are updates patch, not the plain setup.I seriously demands vaio handle center for the reason that my laptop attributes like fast awake or image high quality are gone.
ANSWER: The original drivers for this model SVF1531GSG are situated at Sony's Official Web page, you need to to set up Sony Shared Library and Hotkey Utilities to acquire the Vaio Control Center then set up the updates around the very same web page. You can not set up the Vaio Handle Center from unique model. You could possibly also run DriverTuner to download the Sony drivers and Windows Update for Microsoft drivers.
Way to Update Drivers with Device Manager
1. Open Control Panel
Depending on your version of Windows, Control Panel is usually available from the Start Menu or the Apps screen.
What you do next depends on what Windows operating system you're using:
- In Windows 10 and Windows 8, tap or click on the Hardware and Sound link.
- In Windows 7, click System and Security.
- In Windows Vista, choose System and Maintenance.
- In Windows XP, click Performance and Maintenance.
Note: If you don't see these options, your Control Panel view may be set to Large icons, Small icons, or Classic View, depending on your version of Windows. If so, find and choose Device Manager from the big collection of icons you see and then skip to Step 3 below.
2. Open Device Manager
- In Windows 10 and Windows 8, check under the Devices and Printers heading.
- In Windows 7, look under System.
- In Windows Vista, you'll find Device Manager towards the bottom of the window.
- Windows XP Only: You have a few extra steps since Device Manager isn't as easily available in your version of Windows.
From the open Control Panel window, click System, choose the Hardware tab, and then click the Device Manager button.
3. With Device Manager now open, you can view a device's status, update the device drivers, or do whatever other hardware management you came here to do.
To update driver for SONY VPCCB17FX/D using Windows Update.
You can check Windows Update any time to see if it's found updated drivers for your devices, especially if you recently installed a new device. Then, you can install the updated drivers. Here's how:
- Open Windows Update by clicking the Start button. In the search box, type Update, and then, in the list of results, click Windows Update.
- In the left pane, click Check for updates. If there are any available updates, click the links to see more information about each update. Windows Update tells you if an update is important, recommended, or optional. Each type of update might include drivers for SONY VPCCB17FX/D.
- On the Select the updates you want to install page, look for updates for your SONY VPCCB17FX/D, select the check box for each driver that you want to install, and then click OK. There might not be any available driver updates.
- On the Windows Update page, click Install updates. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Windows Update will tell you if the updates were successfully installed.
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ESPN and the Big West Conference announced that the UC Riverside vs. Pacific men's basketball game on January 30 at UCR's Student Recreation Center will be broadcast on ESPN2.
It is the first appearance ever for the Highlanders on any of the ESPN family of networks. Terry Gannon and Stephen Bardo will call the game which is now scheduled to tip at 5 pm PT.
ESPN and the Big West are in the second year of a five-year agreement, with the Worldwide Leader In Sports televising five conference games in the 2009-10 season including the Big West title game on Saturday, March 13.
With the addition of the Pacific game, the Highlanders now have four regionally and nationally televised contests on their regular season schedule. The first was on Saturday, January 9 as FSN West broadcast the UCR vs. Cal State Fullerton game in front of the biggest crowd of the year to attend a game at the SRC.
UC Riverside's road game at UC Irvine on Saturday, January 23 is set to air on FSN Prime Ticket beginning at 8 pm. And the Highlanders March 5 game at Long Beach State, the last game of the regular season for both teams, will air on FSN West beginning at 7:30 pm.
The Big West Conference and its nine member institutions are also a part of the ESPN-sponsored BracketBusters event which could see the Highlanders make a fifth televised appearance against an as-yet-to-be determined opponent on Saturday, February 20.

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Barcelona is a vibrant city with an endless array of activities and attractions. You will be amazed by the magnificent mix of ancient and modern architecture, the lively outdoor markets, the world renowned museums and the beautiful beaches. Whether you are seeking a romantic getaway, family fun or a group weekend out, Barcelona has something for everyone. You'll fall in love with this city, so give yourself as much time as you can to explore, eat and drink here.
Finding Holiday Apartments and Accommodation in Barcelona
Barcelona can be busy in the peak season, but has a number of excellent accommodation options all year round. A holiday apartment in the Gothic Quarter would place you near the museums and Las Ramblas, while apartments in the Port Vell area are convenient if you intend to hit the clubs and beaches. For a family, you can't go wrong with a self catering apartment on one of the avenues of central Barcelona, which would place you within easy reach of the grand parks and the Sagrada Familia.
Explore Barcelona
You may like to begin your Barcelona holiday with a walk down the lively and colourful La Rambla, a beautiful boulevard connecting the Gothic Quarter to El Raval. It's full of restaurants and street performers, and as it has been for the last hundred years, is a popular meeting spot for locals. An afternoon in the medieval and maze-like Gothic Quarter is also essential. Many of the tiny streets are too small for cars and as long as you have time, it's great getting lost and just wandering wherever the lanes lead you. The Gothic Quarter is home to some beautiful boutiques and tapas restaurants - you just need to find them! It is also home to some of Barcelona's famous museums. The stand out is the Picasso Museum. Housed in a medieval palace, the museum holds over 4000 of Picasso's works and displays important artifacts from his life, with special emphasis on his early works and childhood paintings.
Not far from the Gothic Quarter is La Barceloneta, the Spanish answer to Bondi. Chill out and enjoy the hot sun on the sandy beach, and in the evening stroll over to Port Vell, a buzzing harbourside precinct of great clubs and restaurants. Kids will love the crazy buildings and carnival atmosphere of Barcelona, and though they may not show too much interest in the museums - there is one that they'll definitely fall for. The Museu de la Xocolata, or Museum of Chocolate is an incredible display of all things chocolate and everything you could possibly make with it. The highlights of the museum are the intricate chocolate sculptures of cartoon characters and buildings. Check out their chocolate sculpting class, and if all that chocolate watching is too much, pick out some delectable treats from the shop. For some real food and a delicious taste of Spain, simply look around you. Barcelona is packed with eateries, from street stalls to tiny tapas venues and seafood restaurants. Going out for Tapas is a great opportunity to try loads of different dishes and see how the locals eat. Remember though - Spaniards eat dinner very late, so if you want to eat with them, be prepared to wait until about 10pm!
Antoni Gaudi Architecture in Barcelona
When you visit you really should check out the fascinating and unique Antoni Gaudi architecture here. Of particular note is the magnificent church La Sagrada Familia. Designed by Gaudi in the late 19th century, the church is still incomplete and work has been disrupted by a number of events including Gaudi's death and the Spanish Civil War. Despite this, it has been named a UNESCO world heritage site and has become a must see icon for it's unusual and epic design. Casa Batlló house is a weird and wonderful art nouveau apartment building designed by Gaudi. It's on the Passeig de Gracia street and you can't miss its colourful, bendy design. Three 'must see' designs by the one architect seems like overkill, but Gaudi's works are worth it, and part of the fabric of Barcelona culture. Make sure you also get to Park Güell, an incredible park designed by Gaudi which will take your breath away. Kids and adults alike will love the crazy mosaics and terraces of this unusual park. On your visit to Park Güell you will also get a stunning view of the entire city which gets better and better the further you travel up the hill whilst exploring the park.
Getting Around Barcelona
Barcelona is a great walking city, but it can get really hot in summer and the central area is quite big. If you need a break, catch a tram in the central city, or the Metro to get to all the major sights. Buying an 'integration ticket' at the station will mean you can use the trains, buses and trams and is a really good idea is you're hopping around the city.


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By Thomas Ferraro and Edith Honan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's Democrats lost a liberal voice and vote with the death of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey on Monday, but it was unlikely to shift the balance of power in the Senate on any major issues including immigration reform.
That is primarily because with 45 seats in the 100-member Senate, Republicans already had more than enough clout to block much of Obama's second-term agenda.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is expected to name a fellow Republican to temporarily replace Lautenberg until New Jersey voters can elect a new senator as early as this November.
Lautenberg's death at age 89 of complications from viral pneumonia reduced Democrats' control of the Senate to 54-45.
Democrats need 60 votes to clear Republican procedural roadblocks on legislation and nominations, including Obama's picks to the federal courts and his own Cabinet.
"You never want to lose a vote, but I don't think it's going to make much of a difference," a senior Democratic aide said. "We are still going to win the votes we were going to win, and lose the votes we were going to lose."
Because of conflicting state laws, it was not immediately clear if an election to replace Lautenberg would be held this November or in November 2014. Earlier this year he announced he would not seek election to a sixth term in 2014.
Depending on how the dispute is resolved, possibly in court, Christie's pick may serve in the Senate for as few as five months or as many as 17 months.
Lautenberg died as the Senate prepared to complete action this week on a farm bill and begin consideration next week of Obama's top legislative priority, overhaul of the U.S. immigration system.
Backers of both measures predict they will pass with more than the 60 votes necessary. Without Lautenberg's vote, however, some amendments may narrowly pass while others narrowly lose.
Sixty has been difficult to reach on a number of Obama's federal appeals court nominees. It will be that much tougher now.
Christie, a potential 2016 White House contender, gave no immediate indication of who he might pick.
There was speculation that he may select someone willing to cooperate with Obama, given that the two worked amicably together during the 2012 White House race when Obama helped the governor get federal aid after Superstorm Sandy.
Supporters of the bipartisan immigration bill said they were confident Lautenberg would have voted for the measure.
They also said that even if Christie picked a Republican, the new senator would likely support the bill because of the state's large Hispanic population.
But Matthew Hale, an associate political science professor at Seton Hall University, said it was unclear in what direction Christie would go and how it might affect the immigration bill.
"Christie might even consider someone who is conservative on immigration as a way to appeal to hard-line conservative nationally that don't really like him," Hale said.
New Jersey Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno is seen as a possible front-runner for the Senate appointment. New Jersey State Senator Tom Kean and U.S. Representative Chris Smith, both Republicans, are also considered possibilities.
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising black star in the Democratic Party, has long been viewed as Lautenberg's likely elected successor.
Brigid Harrison, a political science professor at Montclair State University, speculated that Christie might cross the political aisle and appoint Booker to the Senate.
"The appointment of Cory Booker could ingratiate him and endear him to a constituency who may not be in the governor's corner - especially African American voters," Harrison said.
"Looking ahead to 2016, this would also give credence to the claim of bipartisanship in New Jersey," Harrison added.
But David Redlawsk, a political science professor at Rutgers University, said picking Booker could hurt Christie.
"If I were Chris Christie, and I was thinking about running on the Republican presidential ticket and facing Republican primary voters, that would just be a political bombshell and the right wing will run against him on it," he said.
Christie, who clashed with Lautenberg over the years, said he would miss him - despite their differences.
"We very often didn't agree, and we had some pretty good fights between us over time - battles on philosophy and the role of government," Christie said, scrapping a prepared speech in favor of a salute to Lautenberg at a women's conference.
"Whenever we lose someone who's committed to public service and has been an honest and dedicated public servant as Senator Lautenberg was it's a loss for everyone," Christie said.
(Additional reporting by Edith Honan and Barbara Goldberg; Editing by Paul Simao, Cynthia Osterman and Xavier Briand)


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Welcome to fatherhood, Devon Sawa.
The Nikita star and wife Dawni welcomed their first child on Thursday, Jan. 9, his rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively.
Son Hudson is "8 lbs., 1 oz. of pure love," Sawa tells PEOPLE in a statement.
The actor, 35, hinted at the happy news last Saturday, Tweeting, "The most amazing week ever," although he and his wife, a producer on The Bachelor Canada, kept details to themselves until today.
"I love him. He's my little pride and joy," Sawa added Thursday.
Known for earlier turns in Final Destination, Now and Then and Casper, Sawa fans are hopeful the actor will reprise his role as Sean for the upcoming SLC Punk! sequel.
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Are you looking for somewhere to get active, connected and involved? You've come to the right place. The Comstock Memorial Union is more than a place to hold meetings or grab a bite to eat or attend events. It's great for all of those things, but your student union is so much more. It's a place where you get to be more than a student—you can be a writer, a leader, an activist, an employee, an artist, and more. You can connect with other students who share your ideas, passions and goals through organizations and programs. Plus, you can connect with staff members who will challenge and support you along the way. You can get involved in a variety of student organizations and clubs to make your MSUM experience memorable and meaningful.
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text: So I am in the Bay Area, and if a car comes up for sale locally (+/-) it is a no-brainer to go to Peter Pan or Dinan or a local dealer to have the shock towers /frame evaluated EVEN if there is a PP istalled. My question is what you guys think about cars for sale further away where an evaluation would have to be done at a local dealer THERE. How competent would you say the AVERAGE BMW dealer is in a pre-purchase with the frame issue? Is this a real specialty evaluation or could any competent dealer (acting in my interests, of course) tell if the frame was in good shape beyond looking at how the hood closes and etc? TIA


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There were a lot of tears at Wednesday's Soldotna City Council meeting.
For more than an hour, residents of Soldotna, Kenai and Nikiski took turns castigating the city manager and council for the surprise termination of Soldotna Public Library director Terri Burdick.
Several common themes wove through the public testimony that came from friends, family, former library employees and patrons as they laughed over her exuberant costuming during story time, unwavering support of the library as a hub of the community and their shock and disappointment with the way city manager Mark Dixson fired her.
Several, including Burdick, questioned why the 28-year city employee was fired without being given a reason.
"I've been on the library board for quite awhile," said Marge Hays, of Soldotna. "I realize that people that know anything about this can't say anything, so we're sort of in the dark. Legally, it may be the right thing to do, but we do want to stand up for a lovely woman who has done an awfully good job as the library director."
Since Burdick's dismissal Monday she said she has struggled with embarrassment and despair.
"You can't fight against that, but I feel sad. I do have so many people in the community that have felt that I've done a wonderful job for the library and that kind of stuff and to have somebody come in and treat me like this is kind of a low blow," she said. "I haven't even left my house because ... when people hear this from the newspaper or the radio they're going to go, 'Oh, sour apples.' But, I haven't done anything criminal to get fired."
Dave Carey, President of the Friends of the Soldotna Library, said he was surprised and sad for the community when he heard of Burdick's dismissal.
"I was concerned that Terri (wasn't) being treated fairly and justly and that is still my concern," he said.
Carey, like several other people in the audience, spoke of children in his family visiting the library because Burdick made them feel welcome.
"The world is not fair, but I want her treated fairly," Carey said.
Lingering questions about the reasons for Burdick's dismissal hung heavily on several people's minds as the addressed the council; Burdick said the uncertainty of not knowing why she was fired has made coping with the situation more difficult. She, and several people who spoke in her defense, speculated that her lack of a library degree could have prompted the dismissal.
"I've said these words before, they're kind of strong but, to me, it feels like the heart and soul of the library has been ripped out, it will never be the same again," said Jeanette Pedginski. "Library directors are available out there with degrees, you can't get a library degree in Alaska when you're living here. You have to do it by correspondence — people don't look well on correspondence degrees — or you have to leave the state. Not all of us have that opportunity, even if we had the desire, to leave the state to get a master's degree in library science."
Pedginski said she had worked for Burdick for two years and while the two had their differences, they had worked through them.
"That's the problem that I have with this situation right now is, when you have a problem with somebody you work with ... even if it's legal to fire for no cause, it's morally wrong," Pedginski said.
Others, like Rosie Reeder, said the city manager's short time with the community did not compare to Burdick's years of service.
"I'm upset that someone who has served as city manager for such a short time has taken it upon himself to let someone go that has given us 30 years of service," Reeder said. "There are ways that things like this should be handled and I don't think this was handled appropriately. I'm sure it was legal, in fact, I'm positive it was probably legal, but I don't think it's right."
Dixson, who spoke after most of the public testimony, said he would not talk about the specifics of Burdick's termination, but had not been aware that she did not have a degree.
"I struggled with it, it wasn't made in a vacuum, it was made with the complete thought that I was going to see all of you people here this evening and I expected this," Dixson said of his decision to fire the librarian.
Dixson said he was not, however, at peace with the process he was required to follow once he decided to terminate Burdick, a process several in the community characterized as disrespectful.
"It was the most horrifying experience that I have ever done in my life," Dixson said.
Still, Dixson said he stood by his decision to fire the librarian.
"If you want to hate me for that, that's fine," he told the crowd. "I'm not paid to be popular, I'm paid to make decisions for the benefit of the city, its residents and its employees and I apologize that I've caused you such anguish."
After the meeting Dixson said he contacted Carey and asked if the Friends of the Soldotna Library was willing to spearhead an effort to praise Burdick for her years of service.
Dixson said he was also happy with how respectful the community had been, despite their criticism of his decision.
"I've been in meetings before where people haven't been respectful," he said. "As county attorney back east, on several boards making decisions and giving unpopular advice, I'm used to it. I've been called every name in the book in public. These people, I thought, were very nice in their comments. I still say it's a great community and it's great that people come out and express their concerns and do it in a respectful and appropriate way."
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At the Lathe: Turning Oval Tool Handles
Grip allows greater leverage with less pressure, and can be custom-fit.
By Judy Ditmer
Pages: 90-93
From the October 2007 issue #164
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If you've ever used a small-handled screwdriver to turn a tight screw, you know that having a decent handle is half the battle. A larger handle makes it so much easier to keep a good grip on the driver. An oval handle goes this one better; you can get great leverage without having to grip so tightly.
It's easy to turn an oval handle on the lathe, plus you can make a handle that suits your own hand, and the specific tool, perfectly.
Although I used a plain piece of ash for this project, you might choose a special piece of wood to make a beautiful, custom tool that you can use effectively for many years.
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It didn't help that I popped a rib, last weekend. I won't get into the sordid details as to how it happened. Let's just say that I slept about two hours, total, last Sunday night. I was in so much pain, that I couldn't wait for the sun to come up so I could show up at my chiropractor. After some
America's Test Kitchen, Season 2012. Craig watched the episode, with me. According to "ATK', this recipe promised to deliver flavorful and moist chicken-- without brining-- in under an hour. Really? I'm listening. That's when Craig told me that he looooves roast chicken. Who knew?
Here's the twist--Turn off oven and leave chicken in oven until breasts register 160 degrees and thighs register 175 degrees, 25 to 35 minutes. This technique was to prevent the evaporation of juices, ensuring moist meat.


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BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden briefly met with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday in a bid to thaw frosty relations between the two nations.
Leaving the gathering in Brasilia, Biden told reporters that the meeting had gone well, but he offered no details. The vice president had watched the U.S. team beat Ghana 2-1 on Monday in its first match of this year's World Cup.
The Brazilian government had said earlier that Biden and Brazil's Vice President Michel Temer would make a joint statement after meeting with Rousseff, but that plan was scrapped without explanation Tuesday morning. Instead, Biden is now expected to make a statement later at the U.S. Embassy.
Relations between Brazil and the U.S. quickly soured after revelations last year that Brazil is a main target of the National Security Agency's massive spying program, largely because the nation is an important hub for trans-Atlantic fiber optic cables that carry much of the globe's communications.
However, what particularly enraged Rousseff were reports that her personal communication was hacked by the NSA, including emails and calls with her top aides. Other reports indicated that the NSA hacked the computer network of state-run oil company Petrobras.
In response, Rousseff cancelled a state dinner offered by Washington — the first such rebuff to any recent U.S. president. Since then, Rousseff has demanded the U.S. publicly apologize over the spying. No apology has been issued.
Michael Shifter, president of the Washington-based Inter-American Dialogue, said Biden's visit had the modest aim "to avoid further deterioration in U.S.-Brazil relations and to prepare the ground for an eventual improvement."
"This is not the right moment to take significant steps in deepening the relationship — never mind forging a 'strategic partnership,' " he said.
Shifter added that with Rousseff facing an October re-election that's growing more competitive, she's unlikely to make any big shifts in Brazil's relationship with the U.S. before then.
"For the moment, Biden is merely trying to give a more positive tenor to the relationship, and to lay the groundwork for more substantive progress down the road," he said.
Associated Press writer Bradley Brooks contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.


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U.S. stocks retreated for a second day as investors awaited fourth-quarter earnings reports, while European shares erased earlier gains triggered after economic confidence grew more than forecast. The yen and gold advanced.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index slipped 0.3% to 1,457.15 as of 4 p.m. in New York and the Stoxx Europe 600 Index closed down 0.1%, with trading volume 45% higher than the three-month average. The yen appreciated 0.8% vs. the dollar after touching a 2 1/2-year low last week. Sweden's krona fell after the central bank said the economy is slowing. U.S. Treasuries remained higher after a $32 billion auction. Gold gained for the first time in four days.
Fourth-quarter profit at companies in the S&P 500 probably increased 2.9%, according to analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg, which would mark the second-slowest quarterly growth since 2009.
"We're waiting for earnings to come out," John Manley, who helps oversee about $212 billion as chief equity strategist for Wells Fargo Advantage Funds in New York, said in a telephone interview. "Valuations are far from excessive. Yet we've had a strong rally very quickly. Now the market is adjusting."
The S&P 500 retreated for a second day after reaching a five-year high last week following a budget compromise in Washington that averted most of the so-called fiscal cliff of spending cuts and tax increases.
Earnings Season
GameStop Corp., the world's largest video-game retailer, tumbled after the company narrowed its full-year same-store sales forecast, citing disappointing holiday results. Yum! Brands Inc., owner of the Taco Bell and KFC chains, slid after fourth-quarter same-store sales fell more than projected in China after a government probe into one of its former suppliers hurt demand.
Among European stocks, Debenhams Plc sank 7.7% after the second-largest U.K. department-store chain cut its goal for annual profit-margin growth as it stepped up discounting. Vodafone Group Plc gained 1.7% as the Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon Communications Inc. Chief Executive Officer Lowell McAdam said buying the U.K. company's stake in their Verizon Wireless joint venture is feasible. TGS Nopec Geophysical ASA rallied 7% as the Norwegian offshore surveyor forecast 2012 revenue that exceeded analysts' estimates.
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President Obama Speaks With Germany's Merkel
Conversation Is First Since CIA Station Chief Expelled from Germany
U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke on Tuesday, their first conversation since the CIA station chief was expelled from Germany amid spying allegations.
U.S.-German relations have been strained since Germany accused the Central Intelligence Agency of espionage. Last week, the country told the U.S.'s Berlin station chief to leave the country.


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This New York Times editorial is a home run -- hopefully the only home run that will be coming from anything with "New York" in its name for a while:
The Obama administration has clung for so long to the Bush administration's expansive claims of national security and executive power that it is in danger of turning President George W. Bush's cover-up of abuses committed in the name of fighting terrorism into President Barack Obama's cover-up.
We have had recent reminders of this dismaying retreat from Mr. Obama's passionate campaign promises to make a break with Mr. Bush's abuses of power, a shift that denies justice to the victims of wayward government policies and shields officials from accountability.
For example:
Victims of the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation techniques," including Mr. Mohamed, have already spoken in harrowing detail about their mistreatment. The objective is to avoid official confirmation of wrongdoing that might be used in lawsuits against government officials and contractors, and might help create a public clamor for prosecuting those responsible. President Obama calls that a distracting exercise in "looking back." What it really is is justice.
As the ever-on-the-money Glenn Greenwald notes today, the New York Times editorial page has been even more supportive of the Obama presidency than even your typical left-wing activist, so the newspaper -- with its nearly 100 percent readership among the political elites -- picking up this issue is an important development. It's part of a broader lesson about the Obama presidency that's should have been obvious since last November, but's taken too long to sink in. For everyday people who wanted to change America, electing a new president wasn't the end but the beginning. There must be constant pressure to get people in Washington to do the right thing, even when that's the popular choice, like a public option for health insurance. Regular people are winning that battle for the public option, and someday we will see justice for the torture and the other crimes that have been perpetrated in the last decade. It's just going to take a lot of work.


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"A camera is a tool for creating artwork." Fujifilm has always stood by this philosophy when manufacturing photographic equipment. The main objective is to create art - i.e. "photographs".
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"A camera is a tool for creating artwork." Fujifilm has always stood by this philosophy when manufacturing photographic equipment. The main objective is to create art - i.e. "photographs".
Fujifilm's history of camera production began in 1948 with the launch of the FUJICA Six I BS 6×6 folding viewfinder camera. Since then, the company has consistently communicated, through its cameras, the "joy of photography." Medium-format cameras can be described as the origin of Fujifilm photographic equipment.
In order to address the needs of professional and enthusiast photographers, the company began a pursuit for greater shooting applications and operability, taking its evolution of camera equipment to a path distinctively different from that of its competitors.
The FUJICA G690 was designed for tour group photography, the FUJICA GS645 was the ultimate lightweight and compact camera, the FUJICA PANORAMA G617 Professional was a medium-format panorama camera with the long side of the frame measuring 6x17cm, the FUJI GX680 Professional was a portrait camera equipped with a film holder that revolves according to the portrait / landscape image orientation and the GA645 was the world's first autofocus, fully-automatic medium-format camera.
In its camera history, Fujifilm tirelessly pursued the ultimate in medium-format cameras, advancing technology and image quality in the process.
Upon encountering a scene that evokes an emotional response, we tend to remember the atmosphere, the emotions felt, and the colors of the scene. Fujifilm carried out many years of research and development in an attempt to faithfully reproduce the colors in your mind.
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For over 80 years, Fujifilm has, as the company name suggests, advanced as a photographic film manufacturer. It developed various types of photo films in search of expressive color reproduction.
Upon encountering a scene that evokes an emotional response, we tend to remember the atmosphere, the emotions felt, and the colors of the scene. Fujifilm carried out many years of research and development in an attempt to faithfully reproduce the colors in your mind.
These efforts led to the development of Japan's first motion picture film, and the eventual launch of FUJICOLOR N100, heralding the age of color photography. With FUJICOLOR F-II 400, ISO400 became a practical and usable ISO sensitivity, FUJICOLOR REALA achieved color reproduction as close to what the human eye sees as practically possible and FUJICHROME Velvia ultra-vivid color reversal film revolutionized the approach to color reproduction.
Fujifilm released a series of photographic film products that delivered uniquely iconic color presentations and this know-how has now been reborn in the world of digital imaging.
When discussing Fujifilm cameras, we cannot leave out the FUJINON high-performance lenses.
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When discussing Fujifilm cameras, we cannot leave out the FUJINON high-performance lenses.
Fujifilm successfully developed new optical glass materials and the compression molding technology to produce lenses that were exceptionally fast. In 1956, the company developed "FUJIC," the first electronic digital computer in Japan. Made up of some 20,000 parts, FUJIC was used to calculate and design lenses of even greater performance, and is still on display at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo as a significant invention in the history of science.
The endeavor for better image quality continued with the evolution of large-format and medium-format cameras. In the 1970s, when commercial and business photographers embraced color technology, Fujifilm launched a series of medium-format and large-format lenses that delivered enhanced sharpness and natural colors that could only be achieved because of its photographic film background.
The technologies developed in those days, such as the "Super EBC" multi-layer coating, formed the foundation for the highly regarded interchangeable "XF lenses" used in today's X Series digital cameras. Additional technologies include in-lens image stabilization that reduces camera shake by up to the equivalent of 5 stops, and an internal APD filter that enhances the appearance of smooth bokeh. FUJINON lenses will continue their evolution into the future.
Since the introduction of the X100 in 2011, Fujifilm has strived to achieve the world's highest level of image quality with its X Series of cameras. The latest and the most advanced addition is the new medium-format mirrorless camera "GFX."
It uses the new large-diameter "G Mount" and incorporates a large 43.8x32.9mm CMOS sensor in the first-ever such move by Fujifilm. Boasting the effective pixel count of 51.4 million, the camera delivers superior sharpness and image quality that will satisfy professional photographers shooting commercial, fashion or fine-art landscapes.
It uses the "X Processor Pro" imaging processor, which provides Fujifilm's outstanding color and tone reproduction, delivering unparalleled photographic expression that can only be offered thanks to Fujifilm's unique expertise in medium-format cameras.
The GFX is an all-new mirrorless camera system that revolutionizes the concept of medium-format cameras.
Compared to conventional medium-format digital cameras, the GFX is astonishingly lightweight and compact, and its dust and weather resistant body gives it the durability required for outdoor shoots.
A collection of accessories that meet the needs of photographers, including a vertical battery grip and a rotary adapter that can rotate the detachable electronic viewfinder to any angle to suit any scene will be launched at the same time. The camera also supports tethered shooting, which has become an essential part of the professional photographers' workflow, and will be compatible with various RAW conversion application software.
The design and manufacturing expertise nurtured over many years of FUJINON lens development has been used to produce lenses with the world's highest level of image resolution. Unique to the new GFX, Fujifilm has developed a new "G Mount" with a short flange back distance of just 26.7mm, an advantage of the mirrorless camera system.
Initial lens lineup consists of six lenses; a standard prime "GF63mmF2.8 R WR" (equivalent to 50mm in the 35mm format), a wide-angle standard zoom "GF32-64mm F4 R LM WR" (equivalent to 25-51mm in the 35mm format) and a mid-telephoto macro 1:0.5 "GF120mmF4 R LM OIS WR Macro" (equivalent to 95mm in the 35mm format), a fast aperture mid-telephoto "GF110mmF2 R LM WR" (equivalent to 87mm in the 35mm format), a super wide "GF23mmF4 R LM WR" (equivalent to 18mm in the 35mm format), a wide "GF45mmF2.8 R WR" (equivalent to 35mm in the 35mm format).
FUJIFILM X RAW STUDIO offers alternative functionality to existing RAW conversion software.
X-Photographer Xyza Cruz Bacani tells how she uses GFX and X Series cameras.
David A. Williams tells his hands-on experience with the GFX for his portrait works
German commercial photographer Thorsten Rother tells how he approached his project "Headshot"
Italian commercial photographer Sara Lando tells her experience with the GFX
Elia Locardi traveled across America with the GF23mmF4 lens to capture the various scenery.
French X-Photographer Pascal Bourguignon flies in a paramotor with GFX in his hands to capture the scenery from above!
Fernando Moleres shoots Andalusia, Spain with the GF250mF4 lens
Karen Hutton shoots nature with the GF250mF4 lens
Andrew Hall documents the young car racer Chelsea Angelo with the GFX
Murat Esibatir shoots fashion portraits on GFX
Sandro Georgi visits to winery in Piedmont, Italy
Serkan Günes travels to Tanzania to shoot wildlife
Pål Laukli uses GFX 50S to shoot promotion video and stills for FARA Cycling
X-Photographer Rafa Marrodán uses GFX 50S to capture motorsports in action
Swedish Photographer Jessica Wikström uses GFX 50S with Profoto B1X for portraiture


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DSN Industry Issues Summit 2018: Collaboration is keyIn today's healthcare ecosystem, it's much better to partner than to go it alone. This was a key theme at the Drug Store News Industry Issues Summit in New York City, where industry leaders said retailers, providers, payers and technology companies need to work more closely together to improve patient journeys across a range of touchpoints.
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DSN Industry Issues Summit 2018: Bridging the gapThe need to bridge the gap between the pharmacy counter and the rest of the retail operation is generating more discussion across the industry at a time of changing consumer attitudes and growing competition from a wider range of retailers — both brick-and-mortar and virtual.
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DSN Industry Issues Summit 2018: Capitalizing on chronic careChronic care management has become an all-consuming topic for retail pharmacy. It has moved beyond a niche industry topic to a high-profile, national conversation that involves healthcare costs, government policy, emerging technologies and, most importantly, daily life for millions of consumers.
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DSN Industry Issues Summit 2018: Charting a road map for patient-facing carePanelists at the Drug Store News Industry Issues Summit in New York City in November said enabling pharmacists is key to building out robust patient services.
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MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack plans to submit the required signatures to get her name on the ballot for re-election next year.
Roggensack planned to deliver 4,000 signatures on Friday to the state elections board office. It takes at least 2,000 to get on the ballot for the April 2 election.
Two others have announced they intend to challenge Roggensack but they have not yet turned in their nomination papers. The signatures are due Wednesday.
Challenging Roggensack are Marquette University law professor Ed Fallone and Milwaukee lemon law attorney Vince Megna.
Roggensack is seeking a second 10-year term on the state's high court. If more than two candidates qualify for the ballot, there will be a Feb. 19 primary.


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Are you wondering how to use mobile marketing to grow your business?
If so, you might be intrigued by this fun fact: 4 billion people own a mobile phone. (Guess how many people own a toothbrush? 3.5 billion!)
In fact, as I write this article, I'm on a short visit to Kenya, where even a housemaid earning $85 a month routinely uses a mobile phone.
As more consumers use their mobile phones for multiple purposes, marketers like you will have the power to reach buyers at the exact time and place they're looking for what you offer, explain Jeanne Hopkins and Jamie Turner in their new book, Go Mobile.
Go Mobile covers a lot of solid ground in mobile marketing, and while I cannot go into as much detail as I'd like, here's a taste of what you can expect.
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Jeanne Hopkins and Jamie Turner have set out to answer your most pertinent questions concerning mobile marketing such as SMS, MMS, mobile display ads, QR codes, mobile websites, mobile apps, location-based marketing and many other tools to increase your business revenue.
Their goal is to remove the shroud of mystery that surrounds mobile marketing so you can get started with your own campaign.


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Despite higher sales, biotech drugmaker Amgen's first-quarter profit fell 25 percent as production and research costs rose sharply. Last year's quarter also gained from a tax benefit.
The company missed Wall Street's expectations for both earnings per share and revenue, sending down its shares.
The maker of injected osteoporosis treatment Prolia said Tuesday that net income was $1.07 billion, or $1.40 per share, down from $1.43 billion, or $1.88 per share, in 2013's first quarter.
Excluding one-time items, income would have been $1.44 billion, or $1.87 per share. Analysts expected $1.94.
Revenue rose 7 percent to $4.52 billion. Analysts were expecting $4.76 billion.
Sales were led by Neulasta and Neupogen for boosting infection-fighting white blood cells, up about 3 percent to a combined $1.38 billion. Sales of immune disorder drug Enbrel, Amgen's No. 2 seller, fell 5 percent to $988 million.
Sales of six other medicines were up at least slightly. One standout was Prolia, whose sales jumped 38 percent to $196 million. Prolia is touted in TV ads by actress Blythe Danner.
"Though the company did disappoint relative to investors' expectations, it is worth mentioning that those expectations had largely ignored management's previous guidance," noted Edward Jones analyst Judson Clark. But he said results set a "discouraging tone" for Amgen.
The company, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., noted that the 17 percent increase in research and development spending, to $1.03 billion in the quarter, was mainly due to expenses to continue the research programs of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, the cancer drug company it acquired last October.
"We're confident that we can deliver on our operational and financial targets for the year," CEO Robert Bradway told analysts during a conference call.
The company reiterated its 2014 financial forecasts, for adjusted earnings per share of $7.90 to $8.20 and revenue of $19.2 billion to $19.6 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet expect earnings per share of $8.15 per share on revenue of $19.62 billion.
In after-hours trading, Amgen shares slipped $3.25, or 2.7 percent, to $116.05.


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By CINDY SHEARER, professor and program chair, MFA in Creative Inquiry, Interdisciplinary Arts and MFA in Writing and Consciousness
Account, anecdote, backstory, chronicle, drama, fable, fantasy, history, lie, legend, narrative, myth, memoir, parable, plot, romance, saga, serial, tale, thriller, witness, yarn: all describe how artists convey stories.
But as you walk through "Telling Stories Through Art," the exhibit Tricia Grame and I have curated for the Diablo Valley College Art Gallery, a different (and more eclectic) set of words, such as symbol, cardboard, color, wax, white gloves, found objects, dress form, texture, whimsy, wire mesh, humor, paper bag, might come to mind. Here the artists push against how stories are generally told—and convey them through a wide range of forms—and distinct, evocative uses of visual materials.
The exhibit is definitely "mixed media," suggesting it takes many visual materials and multiple ways of using them to fully convey a story (a story well told must be evoked in layers?). Included—among many other mixed media works—are Laura Towne's illustrated poem on paper, April Zachary's hand-made book, Tanya Wilkinson's mixed media sculpture and mixed media 3D collage, Marsha Balian's found wooden bird and metal bird cage sculpture, Sarah's Loomis found wood, bottles, paper and thread assembled into visual stories, Tricia Grame's paintings with text, Jenelle's Campion's work on cardboard, Mira M. White soft pastels/acrylics on paper, and Wendy Robushi's oils, wax and repetitively etched words on wood panels. Nanci Price Scoular's installation uses sand and water and Plexiglas to tell a story from beginning to end, from start to moment of change.
The exhibit is also evidence that artists and viewers create story together. Tanya Wilkinson writes: "When a piece of art works for you, it draws you in, it evokes feeling; you become a part of the story of the piece." Wendy Robushi speaks to the "story not yet told"—art as a vehicle for unconscious story to become conscious. Several artists, such as Michelle Champlin, Mira M. White, and Tricia Grame, draw on symbols as a metaphor for story or as a way to share the influences that others' stories have on them. Juan-Carlos Gonzalez and Aaron Rose collaborate—using the buffalo as catalyst for his painting and her handmade book.


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Everson's 'American Moderns' paints fractured picture of 20th century American art
SYRACUSE – How do you tell a story like modern art in America?
Museums' approaches to this question have been varied and variously successful. There are sprawling, seemingly exhaustive surveys with 2-ton catalogs that slog slowly through decades of creativity. There are quirky quick hits meant to explore a single facet of an irreducible moment. And then there is "American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O'Keeffe to Rockwell," a show that attempts to pack the drama and beauty of 50 years of modern art into just 57 paintings and sculptures.
The word "foolhardy" comes to mind.
The show, which remains on view through May 12 at Syracuse's Everson Museum of Art, was assembled almost entirely from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum by Karen Sherry and Margaret Stenz. It's in the midst of an eight-city tour of small and midsize museums across the southern and eastern United States.
"American Moderns," for all the glimmering individual gems it contains, isn't likely to shock the uninitiated visitor into a new, world-shaking appreciation of that tumultuous half-century or its vast and variegated artistic output. But it contains more than enough surprises and framed bits of brilliance to whet museum-goers' appetites and stoke their curiosities about why the art of mid-20th century America should rank among the country's defining achievements.
The show is itself like a rudimentary cubist portrait of an era, fractured and fragmentary but deeply intriguing if you know how and where to look. It's been divided into six separate categories, each one designed to explore some essential feature of the aging century. This approach, though perhaps necessary for the sake of cohesion and to give visitors a rope by which to pull themselves through the show, runs the risk of portraying art as a mere response to social circumstances rather than the deeply individual act of creativity it often is.
Even so, each of the curators' categories contains some stunners.
The show begins with "Cubist Experiments," which delves into the epochal style created by Picasso and Braque that spread with viral efficiency across the international art world beginning in the teens. Americans were quick to replicate the style. The show contains a riotous, Kandinsky-esque canvas from 1917 by Stanton McDonald Wright called "Synchrony No. 3," with colors so bright you can almost hear them. Another piece, Marguerite Thompson Zorach's "Memories of My California Childhood," from 1921, is a dark and fractured cubist scene of a picnic, like a rusted-over recollection or half-remembered dream. There's also a lively transitional piece by Max Weber (well-represented in this show) from 1917.
These cubist fancies (for few of them could be called masterpieces) spill over into the "Still Life Revisited" room, which contains two of the most intriguing pictures in the show. The first is Marsden Hartley's 1942 oil "White Cod," which on first inspection seems like nothing more than a painting of two dead fish but upon reading the wall text, is revealed to be a heartbreaking memento mori of two of Hartley's friends who drowned off Nova Scotia in 1936. It's a horrifying, engrossing painting, and its presentation here is as good an argument for the importance of smart and pointed wall text as any I've seen.
The still life section also includes a fascinating small painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, the 1939 oil "Fishhook from Hawaii No. 1," in which the artist turned a loop of fishing wire into a sort of strange-looking glass that refracts the turquoise sea beyond in three distinct ways. It's a surreal and disorienting piece, much more thought-provoking than the decorative works by O'Keeffe elsewhere in the show, and I had to double back to make sure I saw it right the first time.
Later, it's on to "Nature Essentialized," which contains a large, strange painting of a reimagined globe by Augustus Vincent Tack ("Canyon," from 1931) and a fine piece by Arthur G. Dove, the 1946 painting "Flat Surfaces," which nonetheless will probably escape first-time viewers because it provides no context for Dove's unique gifts. For me, the standout is Milton Avery's "Artist's Daughter by the Sea," a 1943 canvas in which a girl, painted in the style of Matisse, almost blends into the seascape behind her, symbolizing a fusion of man and nature.
"Modern Structures," shorthand for artists' growing fascination with the rapidly growing urban landscape, has a lovely, wall-mounted bronze sculpture by Herzel Emanuel from 1937 (and finally cast in 1990) called "View of Lower Manhattan" that shows a dizzying, cubist vision of fractured steel and wood. "The Emerald Tower," a nightmarish neon cityscape of candy-colored towers looming over Brooklyn Heights by Isabel Lydia Whitney from 1927-28, also captures the eye and seems ahead of its time.
"Americana," the next section, is the most problematic of all. It was almost surely an excuse to shoe-horn in Norman Rockwell's famous 1944 piece "The Tattoo Artist," which appeared on a Saturday Evening Post cover that year. It's a deft and very funny illustration, but, like the other pieces in this section, too tenuously linked to what came before it to qualify as a useful plot point in the long narrative this show is trying to weave.
The show closes with "Engaging Characters," which despite its seemingly random title, contains a trio of lovely works by the painter Guy Pène du Bois, a sort of social documentary painter who captured scenes in cafés and on streets. My favorite of these was "The Confidence Man," a 1919 oil which depicts a dark, menacing transaction between a goateed businessman and a woman – his wife? a prostitute? – in a dimly lit space rendered in ruddy browns and blacks.
The Everson, not content to let this pint-sized exhibition hang by its lonesome, put together a room of work from its own collection drawn from the same period the show covers. It is a revelation in itself, with 12 works by the likes of Reginald Marsh (his very funny 1932 piece "Jack Curley's Dance Marathon" is a highlight), Milton Avery and Katherine Dreier. Of particular interest is Eldzier Cortor's "Southern Souvenir No. IV," a wild and disorienting picture from 1948 that gets at the dark heart of the African-American experience in Urban America. The show ends in a fashion any Buffalalonian could appreciate, with "Six O'Clock," Charles Burchfield's somnolent wintertime scene from 1936 of dinner being served in the glowing front room of a city house.
On a basic level, "American Moderns" doesn't do its job as well as it might have even with the available material. But frankly, given the turbulent decades the exhibition covers, the potential for anyone to go into this exhibition clueless and exit it an expert is extremely unlikely. It's still well worth the 150-minute trip, though, for the many small pearls of beauty and wonder it contains.
More exhibits Down the road
The Everson Museum (401 Harrison St., Syracuse; free admission with $5 suggested donation) has a host of intriguing shows planned.• "An American Look: Fashion, Decorative Arts and Gustav Stickley," which focuses on the fashions of 1910-14 as well as furniture and decorative objects by Stickley and others, runs from June 15 to Sept. 22.
• "Jordan Eagles: Red Giant," a solo exhibition for the popular artist who uses blood as his primary medium, runs from Sept. 21 to Jan. 5, 2014.
• "The Art of Video Games," a look at the evolution of the form over the past 40 years, runs from Oct. 26 to Jan. 19, 2014.
• "Of Heaven and Earth: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums," an exhibition of works that rarely travel now getting excellent reviews in the United Kingdom, runs April 17 to July 13, 2014.
• "African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond," a traveling show organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, runs from Oct. 18, 2014 to Jan. 4, 2015.
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I've been charged with some website updates here at work and the site is entirely in flash, not exactly my forte with web design.
Anyways.... What we have is a section of Bio pages... each employee has one with an image of them. The image tweens from the right of the screen to just past center. The image is a circle, which means using either a GIF or PNG with a transparent background (correct??). The problem I'm having is that when I import the image to the library and then add it to the movie, it looks fine... When I export the movie and play it, the image is very rough around the edges. The circle looks jagged instead of smooth as it originally was... I've tried everything I can think of.. used a Gif, used a PNG, used a really big file and decreased the size, made it the exact size.. hell I even tried using a smaller image size and dragging it larger. I've done interlaced and non-interlaced.. I've left it as an image and converted it to a symbol... Everytime it stays rough.. now sometimes it's a little less rough than others, but it's never completely smooth... The other Bio pages on the website are all completely smooth... and I've looked at them.. they're done no differently than I'm doing this one.....
Is there some hidden smothing feature in flash, or some way I can fix this?


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Man held in Alaska suspect in Vt. murders month before Celina Cass went missingBy NANCY WEST
New Hampshire Sunday News
July 28. 2012 7:54PM
Information about a man charged in the random kidnapping and murder of an 18-year-old girl in Alaska in February has been shared with investigators in New Hampshire, according to Senior Assistant Attorney General Jane Young.
The man, Israel Keyes, 34, is also reported to be a person of interest in the random abduction and murder of an Essex, Vt., couple who disappeared last year, the month before 11-year-old Celina Cass was found slain in West Stewartstown.
New Hampshire 'State Police are aware of Mr. Keyes, and they are being provided information through the FBI,' Young said.
Young wouldn't comment on whether Keyes is a suspect in Celina's murder or two other unsolved North Country cases.
'Everybody is looked at in these cases,' Young said. 'We would be remiss in our duty if we didn't follow up on any new information that came to light.'
Young made it clear she was in no way suggesting Keyes had a potential link to New Hampshire cases, but said police must examine all new information if only to rule out different possibilities.
'(State police) are aware and have been in communication with the FBI, who certainly would share any information if there was any possible link to any homicides in New Hampshire,' Young said.
Young said FBI Agent Kieran Ramsey, who works on the Celina Cass investigation with state police, is the FBI point of contact on Keyes in New Hampshire.
'Given the outstanding relationship the FBI has with state police, I am confident any information will be conveyed to them and this office,' Young said.
Ramsey, agent in charge of New Hampshire's FBI office, said he couldn't comment on whether a task force is looking into Keyes' background or the Keyes case in general.
'In context of the Celina Cass case, we are looking at every such possibility and continue to look,' Ramsey said. 'We are not eliminating anyone or turning our heads to any connection.'
Keyes came to the public's attention in New England nine days ago when Vermont's U.S. attorney, Tristram Coffin, held a news conference to say Bill and Lorraine Currier, the couple from Essex who had mysteriously disappeared in June 2011, had in fact been randomly abducted and murdered.
Coffin didn't identify the suspect, but said in a news release the alleged killer was being held on charges in another state.
'No charges have yet been brought against this person for the Curriers' murders, but charges are anticipated,' Coffin said in the news release.'
After an 11-week search of a Vermont landfill, the Curriers' bodies still haven't been found.
Burlington, Vt.-based WCAX-TV reported the suspect's identity as Israel Keyes, citing anonymous sources, according to its website. The station reported that Keyes told authorities where they could find the Curriers' bodies in Vermont while he was being questioned in Alaska about the Feb. 1 murder of Samantha Koenig, 18, in Anchorage.
Keyes, an army veteran who was a self-employed contractor, was living in Anchorage when Koenig disappeared, according to WCAX. Her body was found in a lake on April 2.
Keyes had previously lived in Washington state and has a cabin in Constable, N.Y., on the Canadian border, according to news reports.
Constable is a little more than a four-hour drive from West Stewartstown, where on Thursday townspeople turned out for a vigil, seeking justice for Celina Cass.
The 11-year-old was last seen alive July 25, 2011, inside the apartment she shared with her mother, stepfather, sister and a boarder. A week later, Celina's body was found submerged in the Connecticut River, not far from her home and not far from the Canadian border.
Authorities have not released her cause of death, but have ruled it a homicide.
Two other cases have baffled investigators in the North Country over the years,
Maura Murray was a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts nursing student when she disappeared on Route 112 in Haverhill after a minor car crash on Feb. 9, 2004. According to the New Hampshire State Police website, her disappearance is being treated as suspicious.
Louise Chaput, 52, a social worker from Sherbrooke, southern Quebec, Canada, was last seen on Nov. 15, 2001. She was reported missing when she failed to return from a scheduled hiking trip in Pinkham Notch. Her body was found a week later near the Glen Ellis Falls parking lot at Pinkham Notch. Authorities said she died from multiple stab wounds.
Keyes was indicted in April by the U.S. attorney in Alaska, accusing him of kidnapping and killing Koenig, and he could face the death penalty if convicted.
Court records provide bizarre details in which Keyes allegedly arranged to receive ransom money after he killed Koenig, and her family paid using donations made to a reward fund to find her killer.
Keyes allegedly abducted Koenig from a coffee stand on Feb. 1, took her against her will to his white pickup truck, and intentionally killed her early the next morning, according to a news release issued by the U.S. attorney in Alaska. Her body was found in a lake on April 2 in a case that drew national news coverage.
Federal authorities in Alaska allege Keyes stole a debit card and obtained the PIN number from Koenig, and sent text messages from her cellphone to conceal the abduction. Keyes then left Alaska and boarded a flight to Texas, the release said.
On Feb. 24, Keyes allegedly sent a text message using Koenig's phone demanding ransom money be placed into the bank account connected to the stolen debit card. Her family deposited money into the account using reward money contributed by community members, which Keyes withdrew using the stolen debit card from ATM machines in Alaska, and then in New Mexico, Arizona and Texas, which led law enforcement to him, the release said.
Anchorage police Lt. Dave Parker said because of the brazen nature of Keyes' alleged crimes, it is likely authorities would look at other cases in other states to see whether he was connected.
'When they get a person like Mr. Keyes, they automatically start looking at any other cases in any other places they can confirm he has been for the possibility of him being suspect,' Parker said.
Crimes that include kidnapping, robbery and murder would be a red flag to investigators, he said.
'The facts of the case would cause me as an investigator to always want to go further to see if he has done anything anywhere else,' Parker said.


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20 million tonnes of waste makes for irate residents
THE New Chum dump will have more than 20 million tonnes of waste dumped in it over the next decade with residents fearing the potential health effects.
The mind-boggling figure was revealed to the community by anti-dump campaigners IRATE at a public meeting on Saturday.
President Jim Dodrill was shocked when he first laid eyes on the figure, after he received the Transpacific Industry projections through the right to information act.
The figure far exceeds the 50,000 tonnes a year the Ipswich City Council believed was the dump's limit.
A court case early this year found Transpacific Industries could dump an unlimited amount of waste at the site.
Among the 300 documents Mr Dodrill obtained was a list of toxic substances deposited at the New Chum site, which include contaminated soil and medical waste, both of which are radioactive material.
Mr Dodrill was disappointed councillors Paul Tully and Victor Attwood gave no reason for not attending the meeting, despite being invited.
During the meeting Mr Dodrill held a Cr Attwood election sign carrying the slogan "stop the dump" from the council elections earlier this year.
"I was surprised and disappointed Cr Attwood wasn't in attendance, because on numerous occasions he has said there is nothing toxic in this dump, but it's clear this is a toxic waste dump," he said. "All along we have said we will join with the council to find out what has to be done. Every time we have made an offer to get it going we have been told it will happen in the future."
Cr Attwood said he didn't attend the meeting for personal reasons.
"They are political lobby group and I would be further vilified for something I had no chance to make a decision on," he said. "I'm happy to support the community. I'm supporting the community in their arguments against the dump in the recent court case."
Cr Attwood said he would wait for council officers' recommendations before deciding on future developments on the New Chum site.
"I will wait until the council officers assess the case based on its merits."
Cr Tully and Transpacific Industries were contacted for comment.


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Set Your DVR: Week of 03.04.13Posted by bmulvihill on March 5th, 2013
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For some teams, the Championship Fortnight (as Kyle Whelliston would call it) begins this week. For most others, this is the final week of the regular season. Many teams sit squarely on the bubble and need to impress in their final two contests to show they deserve to be in the Tourney. We've waited all year for March. It's finally here and all indications tell us it's going to be a wild month. Let's get to the breakdowns!
Illinois at Iowa – 7:00 PM EST, Tuesday on BTN (***)
- This is a hugely important game for both teams. At 7-9 in the Big Ten, Iowa is need of two wins to make its case for an at large tournament bid. They close the regular season at home against Illinois and Nebraska. If they can pick up the two victories and get to .500 in conference, Fran McCaffery and company make a decent case to get in. For Illinois, it looks like they will get in however they can ill afford to drop their next two games. In addition to this game at Iowa, they must travel too Ohio State. A loss against the Hawkeyes puts a ton of pressure on John Groce's team heading into the last game of the season, so this one is critical. Look to see if Iowa's size bothers the Illini. Illinois is a much better two-point shooting team than they are at three-point shooting team. However, getting points inside against Iowa's length could be tough to come by. Regardless, Brandon Paul, Tracy Abrams, and D.J. Richardson must be aggressive in taking the ball to the basket and trying to get to the line. If Illinois is settling for jumpers on the outside, they will lose. Iowa needs to win this game with defense. Their offense just isn't strong enough to win it for them. Protecting the ball and playing good defense without fouling are their top priorities. If they are turning the ball over and fouling, Illinois will win. The team that wins the free throw battle should come out on top in this match-up.
#13 Ohio State at #1 Indiana – 9:00 PM EST, Tuesday on ESPN (****)
- In the first match-up this season between these two squads, Ohio State had no answer for Cody Zeller and Victor Olidipo. They combined to go 16-of-21 from the field and 17-of-21 from the line, grabbed 16 rebounds, and scored 50 of the 81 points. Throw in Christian Watford's 20 points and IU's front line obliterated OSU. If the Buckeyes want any chance to win this game in Bloomington, they must get way better defense from Evan Ravenel, Amir Williams, DeShaun Thomas, and LaQuinton Ross. Offensively, they can't run with Indiana, however OSU's half-court offense is suspect at best. So while their defense must create turnovers and get out on the break, they must be careful not to turn this game into a track meet. OSU's ability to win this game sits squarely on the shoulders of their frontline. They need better defense and more scoring. If they can get that, they have a chance to win. Otherwise, this could be a blowout. Read the rest of this entry »


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32 wrote:I want Cabrarea, too. No free agent bat can help like his. I'd even deal Cain to get him.
Cabrera will be 25 when the season starts. That means when the rebuilding is done he'll still be a stud in the middle of the lineup. No other bat currently on the market will do that.
Stark has some interesting things to say in his column: "Well, here's the Marlins' asking price: Four players, none of them with more than three years of big league service, all with a similar profile to the young future superstars the Twins are asking for Santana."
Not sure the Giants have enough to meet this demand, and I'm not sure Cabrera is worth it. Only thing is I doubt the Giants would land Cabrera on the free agent market.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/columns/s ... id=3121887


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Jan 25, 2007 at 7:38 am
thanks for the comment .my truck still has a long way to go .I started with the paint.
Jan 16, 2007 at 4:34 am
Thanks for the comment! nice truck there yourself... I need to get up some current photo's with mine actually cleaned up.. thats when i brought it home..
Jan 13, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Thanks bro i got you.