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Richard Miller, 87, of Foster, NE, died Sunday, July 10, 2011, at Plainview Manor.
Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church at Foster with inurnment at 1 p.m. Friday at Fort McPherson National Cemetery at Maxwell.
The Rev. Jerome Leckband will officiate with military rites by VFW Post 5330, Plainview, and American Legion Post 72, Pierce, and the United States Army Honor Guard.
Miller was born Dec. 13, 1923, at Gothenburg to Henry and Dora (Rathe) Miller. He was baptized Jan. 3, 1924, and confirmed July 3, 1938, at Zion Lutheran Church, Gothenburg. He attended Gothenburg Public Schools to the eighth grade and received his G.E.D on Feb. 3, 1982.
He married Beverly A. Hiserote on Jan. 11, 1957, at St. John's Lutheran Church parsonage, Pierce. They farmed in the Pierce and Foster area. They retired from farming in 1978.
He worked in security at the Sunset Plaza Mall, Norfolk. Miller had been a resident of the Plainview Manor since May of 2008.
He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, lifetime member of the American Legion, Pierce, lifetime member of the Plainview VFW and member of Disabled American Veterans.
He served in the Army in World War II from Dec. 12, 1945, to Sept.20, 1946, stationed in the European theater. He received the European African Middle Eastern Service Medal, World War II service medal and was in Military Police, 1st class.
He was preceded in death by parents and wife Beverly on June 11, 2005; two sisters, Ellen and Mildred; five brothers, Henry, Alfred, Siebolt, Reinhold and Harold; special friend Stuart.
Survivors include three sons, Douglas and wife Vickie Miller of Foster, Henry and wife Marcia Miller of Crofton, Richard "Andy" and wife Kathy Miller of Malcolm; two daughters, Deborah and husband Pat Cattell of Plainview, Dorothea Zern of Foster; 13 grandchildren; one sister, Emma Miller of Parker, Colo.; brother-in-law Don Ringenberg of Elwood; sister-in-law Evelyn Miller of Gothenburg.
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The nation's governors — well, many of them, anyway — are gathering in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., for their annual summer meeting this weekend.
It's no easy trick for the National Governors Association to get Republican and Democratic chief executives on the same page, or even the same room.
This year, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act, it's even harder.
The decision upholding the law means state insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, for individuals and small businesses aren't going away. The exchanges, which can be set up by each state or put together by the federal government, need to be running by the fall of 2013.
Governors need to decide soon whether to go ahead with their own exchanges or let the feds do the job.
The high court ruling did make it optional for states to expand Medicaid to cover more low-income people. So governors have to decide whether their states will go ahead with that, or not, too. Quite a few have already said no.
The meeting kicked off Friday with dueling news conferences. On one side, Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell, host of the meeting, said it would be irresponsible to expand Medicaid, unless it is dramatically overhauled first.
His neighbor Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland said in a separate news briefing that he thinks his state will gain a competitive advantage by being early to expand Medicaid and adopt other aspects of the health care law.
What do the governors have in common? All of them are worried about money.
Unlike the federal government, the governors say they can't print more money. They have to balance their budgets every year. So they're wrestling with how much health care they can afford to provide, even with federal subsidies under the recently upheld law.
Delaware Democratic Gov. Jack Markell told me, "We've taken a hard look, and we have the opportunity to significantly expand the number of people in Delaware who have care. There's sufficient federal resources to pay for it. We think this is a good deal for the people of our state."
Nebraska GOP Gov. Dave Heineman held a different view on a Medicaid expansion. "Until you can prove to me it won't result in cuts to public schools in our state, to the University of Nebraska or state colleges or community colleges, or increases in taxes, then I'm not ready to move in that direction," he said in a scrum after a press conference.
The nation's governors - well, many of them - are gathering in Williamsburg, Virginia, for their annual summer meeting this weekend. The National Governors Association has been struggling in recent years to keep its Republican and Democratic chief executives - if not on the same page - at least, in the same room. But, this year, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision on the health care law, that's proving harder than ever.
We sent NPR's Julie Rovner to Williamsburg for the meeting and she joins me now. And Julie, how many governors are there?
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Well, not all of them. It's a little bit more than half of them, which is not a bad turnout for the summer meeting, where you don't always get everybody. You know, the governors are here to try to find common ground on things like economic development and transportation, energy and, yes, health care, but you know, as the parties have become more polarized, that's gotten a little bit harder.
BLOCK: And how much attention is health care getting from the governors there?
ROVNER: Well, you know, health care is not actually technically on the agenda, although tomorrow there will be a discussion about how to try to find some cost savings in the Medicaid program, but since the Supreme Court, just two weeks ago, made the Medicaid expansion part of that law optional, every governor has a big decision to make about whether or not their state is going to go forward with that. So, obviously, they want to talk about that amongst each other and with the media.
BLOCK: And that discussion has started well in advance of that meeting in Williamsburg, Julie.
ROVNER: Yes. It's been going on for a while, but no sooner did the governors get to Williamson, then they launched right back into it. There were dueling news conferences this morning, the first one, the host governor, Governor Bob McDonnell from Virginia, who's being considered as a possibility for the Republican national ticket, said that he thinks it would be irresponsible to expand Medicaid unless it was dramatically changed.
Meanwhile, just across town, the Democratic Governors Association had their own press conference and Governor Martin O'Malley of Maryland said that he thinks that his state's going to get a competitive advantage, not just from doing the Medicaid expansion, but from implementing other parts of the health law early.
BLOCK: And one other part of the health law, Julie, that's been a hot topic has been about state health insurance exchanges and whether states are going to go ahead and set those up. What are the governors saying about that?
ROVNER: That's right. This was always considered optional for the states. States get to decide whether or not to have these marketplaces, places where individuals and small businesses will go to shop for insurance, and the states have a choice of putting together these exchanges themselves or having the federal government come in and do it for them. About a dozen states have said they're going to do that. A lot of states are still waiting and, you know, for a while, they were saying they're going to wait until the Supreme Court rules to decide whether to do it now. They're saying, well, the Supreme Court's ruled. They're going to wait and see what happens after the election.
So, again, governors are trying to figure out where to go, but the time is starting to run short. These exchanges really need to be up, running and ready to go by next fall, by the fall of 2013, and so there's a lot of concern that, if the states don't really get up and get planning and get going now, it could be too late.
BLOCK: Julie, as you talk to the governors there, are you hearing any common ground, any agreement between the Democrats and the Republicans?
ROVNER: Well, you know, it's funny. I think the one thing that they definitely agree on is that everybody's worried about money. It's just that, when they look at this law, they see dramatically different things. Some states look at the money, particularly for the Medicaid expansion, and see it as a good deal. They see it as a way that it will help pay for low income people in their states to get health insurance. Those are obviously mostly Democrats.
Republicans, on the other hand, look at it and worry about what it might cost them in the long run. They see money as not necessarily free money from the federal government, but they see it as their own taxpayers' money. They worry that the federal government might not be there down the line and what all the governors say is that, you know, unlike the federal government, they can't print money. They have to balance their budgets every year. They want to do the right thing and they're just worried that they want to know what the right thing is in this case.
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Don't you have to be mental.
to buy a Gamecube in a new box, that does what the Playstation2 did 10 year ago with the EyeToy?
Even multiple murderers aren't immune to the Wii bug: nearly two dozen of the Nintendo consoles have been installed at Blighty's high-security psychiatric Broadmoor Hospital and Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe is a fan. UK taxpayers have coughed up £5000 so that the facility's inmates can while away their sentences with a …
to buy a Gamecube in a new box, that does what the Playstation2 did 10 year ago with the EyeToy?
I can see why you might choose to remain anonymous with such a ridiculous comment.
Executing them is far cheaper & more efficient!
recent research has shown that WiiFit has pretty much bog-all effect on fitness.
Yet another waste of money
Thorough, well thought-out research has shown that leaving a wii-fit unused in the corner of the living room does nothing for fitness. Not "quite" the same thing as you claim. In further astounding news, paying £1500 for gym membership and only going twice makes only your bank balance lighter. To paraphrase an old parable, you can take a fat, lazy lard-arse to a treadmill but you can't make him run.
From the article:
"In addition, daily Wii Fit use per household declined by 82 percent, from 22 minute per day during the first six weeks to four minutes per day during the second six weeks"
Helps if the participants actually *want* to get fit, you don't get fit by merely owning gym membership. Likewise you need to use the Wii Fit to see any benefits.
Idea for next article: Diet Coke with Burger & Fries not effective dieting...?
And your point, if any, is? You demand fitter inmates, so let's invest in large fitness centres? Hm. With all machines specially modified that they can't take off any parts to use as a weapon (metal bars, weights, chains, etc)?
5000quid for several inmates is a laughable cost on the basic cost of even keeping 1 inmate 1 year. Yeah, let's vote for longer prison sentences and against a budget to cover it.
Plasma TVs? Wiis? Where do these low-lifes get off?
If they are due for release I don't see much harm in getting them ready for the real world (which would include a TV for the cultural input) but for those still being held? A 10x10 concrete cell should be enough. Prison is meant to be a punishment, not a holiday camp.
£5,000 on Wiis and god-knows-how much else on plasma TVs while pensioners freeze to death in their homes? I see Labour has its priorities correct. One set of crooks and scum looking after another set of crooks and scum.
Such generic outrage almost suggests a visit from the Twat-o-Tron, except that the spelling's too accurate.
Broadmoor isn't a prison, it's a secure psychiatric hospital. Not everyone in there is a murderer, rapist or criminal. Some of them are just so mentally unwell that they're beyond help and unsafe in the outside world. Should they be deprived fun and entertainment while also losing their liberty through no fault of their own? Don't fall for this Mail-lite faux outrage designed to enrage white van men.
Also, pensioners? Not as bad off as many. They have a ten grand yearly minimum income, are entitled to greatly reduced power bills, and get massive heating allowances. My father in law's yearly heating allowance covers two years power bills, and then he gets cold weather payments on top. He's perfectly healthy, could still work, has thousands in savings, yet pays out virtually nothing. Meanwhile many of the disabled and terminally ill are living on virtually nothing, no cheap utilities or free prescriptions, full rent, no heating or cold weather payments. Nobody asks to become ill, yet the govt punishes them by making them live on as little as £4k per year. How much out of that would you have after paying rent, council tax and heating? Exactly.
It's a maximum security psychiatric hospital where people guitly of crime, due to their mental state are sent to be cured, not punished, it's not a prison.
Even if it were a prison, only part of the reason for a prison is to punish, the rest is to rehabilitae, you aren't going to rehabilitate people by brutalising them.
Prison serves two purposes; To rehabilitate offenders, attempting to turn them into productive members of society, and to segregate offenders from society until such a time that they are rehabilitated. As we have no way of accurately determining a state of rehabilitation ("I's sorry, Gov. I's nevar do it 'gain!") we set arbitrary time periods for certain types and classes of infraction, and attempt rehabilitation within that time period.
The only thing slamming a person in a bare 10x10 cell for a decade will do is bread resentment and hostility. That is not something you want to do to someone who is already capable of performing potentially violent acts.
Besides, £5k for some shiny-shiny is bugger all in the big scheme of things; I easily pay that much in tax every year by myself. If that helps a con to keep his self-esteem up and speed his rehabilitation into becoming productive, so be it.
(I expect plenty of thumbs-down points as a "bleeding heart liberal")
Wish to hell I could afford a Wii !! OK - I wouldn't actually buy one, but the cash would be handy. But then I'm just an ordinary law-abiding pensioner who's paid his taxes for 50 years and gets nowt out of the system but sympathy and leaflets...
Where did I put that axe...
Poor thing, with only a £10k minimum income guarantee, and free prescriptions, dental and eyecare, housing benefit entitlement, pension credit, reduced rate gas and electric bills, cold weather payments, fuel allowance, free or reduced public transport, free leisure activities and after a certain age free tv. etc.
Meanwhile, disabled and terminally ill people are stuck, through no fault of their own, trying to survive on the appallingly low benefits they receive. Try living on less than half of what you get, paying full rent, council tax and power, for prescriptions and transport, with no cold weather or fuel payments to keep you going. It was -7 here last night. How long would you last living like that? It's not a temperature that's particularly compatible with a comfortable existence when you just cannot afford to switch the heating on because it'll mean going without medication or food and drink.
When my mother (who has cancer, arthritis and heart problems) reaches 60 her income will more than double, and her outgoings will drop by two thirds, just for being 5 years older than she is now. She'd quite like a DS to entertain her in hospital. Pity it would take her about a year to save up for one.
They should be clogging their arteries.
Prisoner + Treadmill connected to the National Grid = exercise for prisoner + free electricity + positive (perhaps in an electrical sense) contribution to society.
The NHS budget for 2009 was £90B, that is 9, followed by ten zeroes. How exactly is £5000, one eighteen millionth of that amount going to make a spot of difference to patient care in any meaningful way? Not that I particularly condone giving games consoles to the criminally insane, but I really don't think the kneejerk nonsense from the Murdoch-mouthpiece the Sun is anything other than mind-numbingly stupid.
"....while away their sentences with a spot of X Manhunt 2 X Mario"
You sir owe me a new monitor!!! ;)
Err really?! Is this really true (or Wii-lee true)? Of course, it's easy to be outraged. The first duty of any justice system is to protect the public - not punishment. Here the inmates have been removed from society - and so that's got to be a big tick in the "protect the public" box. Now I guess keeping the inmates compliant is damn helpful and the odd diversion seems like a good way to do it. We don't execute, and sending inmates into insanity seems like a bad policy (especially if they already have mental illness). If this keeps them reasonably easy to control, and away from the rest of us, well fine... If it's even true.
If this seems rather too much, try and remember someone has to guard them - we don't want to make their job any harder than it already is (I wouldn't want to have to do it).
except the prisoners would have to be fed on extra fillet steak to keep their energy up.
A bit excessive, no? Why not much cheaper and longer-lasting LCDs?
I would suggest that in the Sun, anything thin and flat=plasma=lcd. Can you even get those power gobbling, heat spewing, burn-in monsters any more?
You mean those superior displays with no Input lag, superior contrast ratio, non washed out picture, and correct black levels?
Yeah they still make those.
"Lock them up in concrete vaults!" and "Put them to work on treadmills!"
How very Dickensian of you all. Glad to know that the 19th century sense of justice is still alive and well in the 21st century...
In my opinion, there are far more important things to worry about than a couple of grand spent on Wii's for mentally ill people.
No one would bat an eyelid if it were for mentally ill people in any other hospital in the entire country.
Those who are critical of the government on this are way off the mark. I expect that the NHS trust that runs Broadmore have a budget and this was felt to be useful for all the patients that are treated there. The money that has been spent, would always have been spent on those patients, be it games consoles or more rubber wallpaper.
This story is tabloid journalism at its worse.
A group of barefoot people, clad in white hospital gowns play their Wii consoles happily. Merry electric sounds fill the air. Suddenly, the lights flicker and there is a powerful electrical hiss as the lights go out.
All is darkness and silence for a number of terrifying moments before, one by one, with a click, the lights come on up the corridor and eventually the consoles spring back to life.
"Ah," says one patient, "I guess Sutcliffe finally lost his appeals then. Baggsy his nunchuck."
I should clarify my previous comment:
If they are buying Wii Fit as a way of improving fitness, then it's a waste of money.
If they came clean and said it was a way of occupying their time, it might still cause some comment, but it would be a far more honest use of the money.
How is it that these patients need indoor exercise facilities? Even prisoners are, I believe, entitled to at least 2 hours outdoor exercise. Are these mentally ILL people not even allowed the simple pleasure of a yard or garden?
So they have Wiis in hospitals do they? Wow! Good to see Murdoch's papers providing quality journalism yet again by telling us. No wonder they want people to pay to read their crap when the stories they dig up are this hard hitting.
I seem to remember they had a similar story in either the Sun or the News of the World a year or two ago about Ian Huntley moaning at the prison authorities that he wanted them to upgrade his Gamecube to a Wii. Wow, award them a Pulitzer quick!
At least Ninty have the convicted murderer gamer market sowed up now too. I always knew Pokémon was evil!
I'd have thought Sutcliffe would have preferred whack-a-mole given his love of claw hammers.
Wot's all this then?
The game is up sonny, put down that nunchuck...
Title says it all really. The only people to get Justice out of the system are the crims. After all to have committed all those crimes they must have been mad, and it must have been societies fault for not understanding them, or not helping them.
This is the classic judge's dilemma: Mad or Bad?
You can be sure that the psychiatrists that diagnose mental illness and report to the judges are very good at their jobs. It is also worth noting that there are patients who are not committed of any crime in Broadmore, also that in the normal prison population in the uk has a diagnosable mental illness rate at something in the high 90%.
Now add to that - The justice system represents justice for society and the perpetrator of the crime, not the victim.


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James Franco likes books and movies and making books into movies. Franco told MTV that the next book he'll moviefy is James Ellroy's American Tabloid. The 1995 novel tells the story of three law-enforcement officers from 1958 to 1963 in an interconnecting narrative that leads to the Kennedy assassination. It's a project both Bruce Willis and Tom Hanks once tried to develop. According to Franco, "It's still early," and much of the particulars are up in the air, but it's on his ever-expanding docket. Soon Franco will adapt all books and he'll be the only person left who knows how to read.


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Santa Monica, CA-based Macerich Company (MAC) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates shopping centers throughout the US. Macerich's properties are concentrated in Arizona and California, and in 2005 it acquired competitor Wilmorite's foothold of properties in Virginia and New Jersey. Macerich focuses on high-performing markets - its tenants averaged sales of $472 per square foot in 2007, well ahead of the national average of $398 - and this lets the company charge above average rents to the tenants in its portfolio.[1][2]
As of year-end 2007, MAC owned 74 regional shopping centers and 20 community shopping centers with approximately 78 million square feet of gross leasable area.[3] MAC's malls, in addition to their location in high-growth suburban markets, are typically large enough (almost 900,000 square feet on average for the company's wholly owned regional shopping centers) to be considered town centers.[4] High foot traffic to these centers help MAC's tenants meet their sales numbers and allow MAC to continue to charge high rents on its properties.
The commercial real estate market has suffered in 2008, due to the weakening U.S. Economy.[5] This is a risk to MAC, as the retail stores that its tenants operate focus on consumer luxury or discretionary goods. When compared to other retail REITs, MAC is in in the middle of the pack in terms of size and the breadth of its geographic focus, but it differs from its peers by focusing on markets with higher per capita income. MAC expanded aggressively in 2007, acquiring over $900M in new properties. It is likely to continue this expansion in 2008, with a $536M development pipeline, although a credit crunch may be an obstacle to financing these projects.
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MAC competes with numerous other firms to both acquire properties and lease tenants. Competing REITs include:
The table below provides competitive data comparing GGP with some of its close competitors.
|Revenues (12/31/2007, Millions)
|Market Cap(Billions, 04/17/08)
|Operating Properties
|Number of States With Operating Properties
|Macerich Company (MAC)
|896.37 [25]
|5.35 [26]
|94 [27]
|19 [28]
|Simon Property Group (SPG)
|3650.80 [29]
|22.75 [30]
|320 [31]
|41 [32]
|General Growth Properties (GGP)
|3261.80 [33]
|9.92 [34]
|200 [35]
|45 [36]
|Taubman Centers (TCO)
|626.82 [37]
|2.96 [38]
|23 [39]
|10 [40]
|CBL & Associates Properties (CBL)
|1040.63 [41]
|1.62 [42]
|159 [43]
|27 [44]
In 2007 MAC's market share among global Retail REITs was just 4%. Market share is listed by Funds From Operations (FFO), a metric that takes into account earnings from existing properties but not cash from acquisitions or sales of assets. Globally there are 38 REITs focusing on retail properties producing an aggregate $10.0B in FFO.[45][46]] Most of those were small companies, only 9 Retail REITs are listed in the Russell 1000.


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He has received many awards for his poetry, including a Whiting Writers Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, and Pushcart Prize. His poems have appeared in various literary journals and anthologies, including Crab Orchard Review, Seneca Review, and Poetry 30: An Anthology of Thirty Poets in Their Thirties.
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He has received several awards for his poetry, most recently the Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award from Poets & Writers. His poems have appeared in various literary journals, including Crab Orchard Review, Puerto del Sol, Luna, Indiana Review, and Green Mountains Review.
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MIAMI (AP) — A Russian mobster was sentenced Friday to a relatively lenient three years in federal prison after admitting he ran a South Beach scam that used so-called "B-Girls" to lure wealthy tourists into secret bars where they were charged exorbitant amounts on credit cards for alcohol.
Alec Simchuk, 46, hobbled into the Miami federal courtroom on a crutch because Russian thugs broke one of his legs in an effort to prevent him from returning to the U.S. to plead guilty and testify against his cohorts, most of whom were convicted after an 11-week trial.
Federal prosecutors sought a light sentence because Simchuk returned voluntarily from Russia despite the assault and threats against both his life and that of his wife. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola agreed, even shaving four months off the prosecutor's recommended prison term.
"I think he should be given credit for coming here and facing the music," the judge said.
Simchuk testified that he imported his scam from Riga, Latvia, to Miami Beach in 2009. With him came a few dozen attractive Russian and Eastern European women who worked as "B-Girls," which is short for "Bar Girls." The scantily clad women trolled swanky South Beach bars looking for rich men — they were instructed to focus on expensive shoes and watches — and invited them back to private clubs operated by Simchuk's gang.
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Simchuk initially fled to Russia — which has no extradition treaty with the U.S. — just before he and 18 others were indicted by a federal grand jury in 2011. A year later, he agreed to surrender and cooperate even though his leg had been broken by mobsters after Simchuk received a threatening phone call from Albert Takhalov, 31, who was convicted in the recent U.S. trial.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Thakur said Simchuk initially lied about how he broke his leg, telling investigators he slipped on ice. But Cohen said that was only to protect his wife, who was still in Russia at the time.
In all, 12 of those charged in the scheme pleaded guilty, including most of the "B-Girls" who have subsequently been deported. Three men were convicted in last year's trial. One suspect remains a fugitive, and another is scheduled for trial in the coming months.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Yale senior goalkeeper Erin McMullan (Wading River, N.Y.) was named Ivy League Co-Defensive Player of the Week on Monday after helping the Bulldogs to a season-opening 10-8 win vs. Holy Cross Saturday at Reese Stadium.
McMullan and the Yale defense clamped down on the Crusaders in the second half Saturday, limiting Holy Cross to just one goal in the final 30:43. That enabled the Bulldogs to rally from a 7-3 halftime deficit and come away with a 10-8 win. McMullan finished with seven saves, and she was also a key part of starting Yale's 9-for-9 performance on clears in the second half. She allowed only four goals from the field in the game.
McMullan, a political science major in Ezra Stiles College, extended her streak of consecutive starts to 19 on Saturday. She is currently ninth on Yale's all-time list for career goals-against average at 11.50.
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PARIS (AP) — The International Monetary Fund warned Friday that the French economy, the eurozone's second-largest, is vulnerable to a downturn because of its shrinking share of the export market and ossified labor market and urged the government to do more, faster to stay competitive and keep its finances under control.
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Project 11, organized by a group of students from Stevens Institute of Technology and Stevens Professor David Musial, asks college bands from countries allied with the United States to submit songs for an album, all the proceeds from which will go to charities for veterans of war.
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The student-run record company, Castle Point Records, is producing the album, and the students are part of a group called Stevens Multimedia.
"The album will drop on Memorial Day 2012, but on the Sunday of that weekend we're planning on throwing 11 concerts in Memorial Day weekend vacation spots," said Noriel Valdes, a senior and president of Castle Point Records.
The project is expected to be announced on FOX News on Nov. 11.
"It's a dreamy idea, but you never know what could happen," Musial said.
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The artists from the bands will be able to choose which charity they would like the money to go to, provided the charities donate a certain percentage of the funds directly to veterans in need.
The album, which is expected to garner national attention, will be sold on iTunes.
The top 11 songs will be sold on the iTunes album, and the other songs submitted will be featured as bonus tracks on ProjectEleven.org.
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Corey Phillips, a student at Stevens, completed the music for the PSA, and said he will be using different songs on different versions of the PSA to appeal to the various areas of the nation, because the contest will have a global reach.
The group's research for the project stretched down to Washington, D.C.
Hart Welles is the vice president of Castle Point Records.
"We got a chance to talk to a whole bunch of people involved in charity work [in Washington]," Welles said. "We made good connections and we were able to see different veterans' charities, so we have a good scope on what exactly we want to be supporting with this album."
Charlie Salerno, a first year student, is working on a song for the album with his band, Cooking with Betty White.
"The lyrics we have right now are for a message of hope," Salerno said. "The chorus is, 'I sing this song for you,' meaning we appreciate the [veterans] sacrifice and we hope to thank them for that."
Jacqueline Stenroos, who has over 500,000 YouTube hits for her music, is also planning to sing a song for the album.
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Lindsay Altongy is a first-year student whose photograph of the World Trade Center site, taken from Jersey City before construction on the Freedom Tower began, is used in the PSA.
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The American Humvee had burnt out, the US troop transporter had been smashed by rockets and an Iraqi lorry – riddled by American bullets in the aftermath of the attack – still lay smoldering on the central reservation.
"I saw the Americans flying through the air, blasted upwards," an Iraqi mechanic with an oil lamp in his garage said – not, I thought, without some satisfaction. "The wounded Americans were on the road, shouting and screaming."
The US authorities in Iraq – who only report their own deaths, never those of Iraqis – acknowledged three US soldiers dead. There may be up to eight dead, not counting the wounded. Several Iraqis described seeing arms and legs and pieces of uniform scattered across the highway.
It may well turn out to be the most costly ambush the Americans have suffered since they occupied Iraq – and this on the very day that George Bush admitted for the first time that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and the 11 September assault on the United States. And as American Abrams tanks thrashed down the darkened highway outside Khaldiya last night – the soft-skinned Humvee jeeps were no longer to be seen in the town – the full implications of the ambush became clear.
There were three separate ambushes in Khaldiya and the guerrillas showed a new sophistication. Even as I left the scene of the killings after dark, US army flares were dripping over the semi-desert plain 100 miles west of Baghdad while red tracer fire raced along the horizon behind the palm trees. It might have been a scene from a Vietnam movie, even an archive newsreel clip; for this is now tough, lethal guerrilla country for the Americans, a death-trap for them almost every day.
As usual, the American military spokesmen had "no information" on this extraordinary ambush. But Iraqis at the scene gave a chilling account of the attack. A bomb – apparently buried beneath the central reservation of the four-lane highway – exploded beside an American truck carrying at least 10 US soldiers and, almost immediately, a rocket-propelled grenade hit a Humvee carrying three soldiers behind the lorry.
"The Americans opened fire at all the Iraqis they could see – at all of us," Yahyia, an Iraqi truck driver, said. "They don't care about the Iraqis." The bullet holes show that the US troops fired at least 22 rounds into the Iraqi lorry that was following their vehicles when their world exploded around them.
The mud hut homes of the dirt-poor Iraqi families who live on the 30-foot embankment of earth and sand above the road were laced with American rifle fire. The guerrillas – interestingly, the locals called them mujahedin, "holy warriors" – then fired rocket-propelled grenades at the undamaged vehicles of the American convoy as they tried to escape. A quarter of a mile down the road – again from a ridge of sand and earth – more grenades were launched at the Americans.
Again, according to the Sunni Muslim Iraqis of this traditionally Saddamite town, the Americans fired back, this time shooting into a crowd of bystanders who had left their homes at the sound of the shooting. Several, including the driver of the truck that was hit by the Americans after the initial bombing, were wounded and taken to hospital for treatment in the nearest city to the west, Ramadi.
"They opened fire randomly at us, very heavy fire," Adel, the mechanic with the oil lamp, said. "They don't care about us. They don't care about the Iraqi people, and we will have to suffer this again. But I tell you that they will suffer for what they did to us today. They will pay the price in blood."
Jamel, a shopkeeper who saw the battle, insisted – and in Iraq, it is what people believe that governs emotion, not necessarily reality – that 60 Americans were killed or wounded in a mortar attack on the former Iraqi (and former RAF) air base at Habbaniyeh last week. Untrue, of course. But as we spoke, mortar fire crashed down on Habbaniyeh, its detonation lighting up the darkness as explosions vibrated through the ground beneath our feet. This was guerrilla warfare on a co-ordinated scale, planned and practiced long in advance. To set up even yesterday's ambush required considerable planning, a team of perhaps 20 men and the ability to choose the best terrain for an ambush.
That is exactly what the Iraqis did. The embankment above the road gave the gunmen cover and a half-mile wide view of the US convoy. They must have known the Americans would have opened fire at anything that moved in the aftermath – indeed, the guerrillas probably hoped they would – and angry crowds in the town of Khaldiya were claiming last night that 20 Iraqi civilians had been wounded.
Six days ago, American soldiers killed eight US-trained Iraqi policemen and a Jordanian hospital guard 14 miles away in Fallujah, claiming at first that they had "no information" on the shootings, and then apologizing – but without providing the slightest explanation for the killings. Several Iraqis in Khaldiya suggested that yesterday's ambush may have been a revenge attack for the slaughter of the policemen.
True or false, that is what the guerrillas may well claim. Do they, many Iraqis wonder, follow the political trials of President Bush and Prime Minister Blair? Was the devastating attack timed to coincide with Mr Bush's increasing embarrassment over the false claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction? Unlikely. But yesterday when the former UN weapons inspector Hans Blix condemned the "culture of spin, the culture of hyping" – in reference to the Anglo-American exaggeration of Saddam Hussein's threat to the world – some of his words may have found their mark in Iraq. "In the Middle Ages," Mr Blix said, "when people were convinced there were witches, they certainly found them."
Now Mr Bush is convinced he is fighting a vast international "terrorist" network and that its agents are closing in for a final battle in Iraq. And the Iraqi mujahedin are ready to turn the American President's fantasies into reality.
I couldn't help noticing the graffiti on a wall in Fallujah. It was written in Arabic, in a careful, precise hand, by someone who had taken his time to produce a real threat.
"He who gives the slightest help to the Americans," the graffiti read, "is a traitor and a collaborator."


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text: Dear Colleagues, This email provides information to RXTE users on three recent items; 1. RXTE CYCLE 13 PROGRAM SELECTED 2. RECIPES TO HANDLE PCA BREAKDOWNS 3. TIMING ERROR IN JANUARY 2006 RXTE DATA FIXED These items are also highlighted in the Latest News box on the RXTE homepage <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/xtegof.html>. 1) The review of RXTE Cycle 13 Open Time Program proposals took place in December 2008. An international panel of scientists convened to discuss the 46 unique proposals that were submitted for consideration this year. The proposals and targets that were recommended to NASA Headquarters by the review panel are now available online <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/timeline/cycle13_targets.html>. Note that Cycle 13 proposal numbers are distinguished by their leading two digits: 94NNN. We remind proposers that no Guest Observer funding is available for Cycle 13, so there will be no "Stage 2" review for grants, and all data will be made public immediately (that is, no proprietary period). Also recall that Cycle 13 Core Program targets can be found here <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/cycle13/core_program.html>. 2) We wish to call your attention to our recently posted procedures for dealing with PCA breakdown events <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/recipes/pca_breakdown.html>. 3) Users of RXTE data should be aware of a one second timing error that was recently fixed in archival data from 01-12 January 2006, inclusive. Observations from that time range had an incorrect value for the TIMEZERO keyword (incorrect value 2.37842941), which has now been corrected to TIMEZERO=3.37842941. RXTE users following standard timing recipes with the old data would have experienced a one second time offset error. There are a number of pulsar observations in this time range which would be most vulnerable to such an error. All RXTE users are advised to re-download the data from this time range from the archive. When using the corrected files, the offset error should be resolved. The problem was due to leap second transition issues in 2006, which were anticipated during the more recent transition in 2008-2009. Again, information on all these issues can be found on the RXTE homepage <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/xtegof.html> (see the Latest News box). Regards, Tod Strohmayer (for the RXTE Guest Observer Facility)


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Perissodactyls are odd-toed ungulates (hoofed animals), in which the weight is borne over the center toe. They are also herbivores (plant eaters).
Horses, Today's Best-Known Perissodactyls
They had disappeared from the New World (North and South America) before the advent of the white man; but, when reintroduced, they found ideal environments on the plains and pampas (South American treeless plains).
Elongation and strengthening of the lower segment of the limb, (in horses, the middle toe) is an adaptation favoring great speed. The ankle bone is deeply grooved on top to prevent its twisting under the shinbone. the side toes (1st and 5th) are absent, and the 2nd and 4th reduced to tiny functionless splints.
Equus Caballas, the domestic horse, has now been selectively bred by man. A species of true wild horse still lives in Central Asia.
A number of species of Equus were found on the great Plains during the Pleistocene. They had many of the characteristics of modern horses.
The cheek teeth of modern horses continue to grow through the life of the animal, as their grinding surfaces are worn away.
Divergent Groups of Perissodactyls
Except for the tapir, none of the "odd-toed" ungulates retained more than three toes later than the early Oligocene (about 25 to 38 million years ago). The lower segments of the limbs generally elongate, a gap (diastema) usually develops between the front and back teeth, and the premolars tend to resemble the molars.
Rhinoceroses diverged into three major lines between 40 and 50 million years ago. Two of these families flourished for about 10 million years, and then became extinct. The rhinos in these two families evolved adaptations to live in a variety of environments, and ranged greatly in size.
There are five species of rhinoceros alive today. Two live in Africa, while the other three are found respectively in India, Java, and Sumatra.
Rhinoceros horns are made of hair-like fibers packed tightly together; horns grow continuously and are supported by thick nasal bones. Unfortunately, the horns that make rhinoceroses so unique are also much sought after by some humans. Rhinoceroses are illegally killed in large numbers to supply this demand. This has pushed all five species of rhinoceros to the brink of extinction.
American Mastodon, Mammut americanum
This species of mastodon existed during the Pleistocene (about 2 million years ago) until about 10,400 years ago, and ranged from Alaska and the Yukon down to Central Mexico. About 11,000 years ago, when this individual lived, they were common around the Great Lakes and the Atlantic coast, feeding on plants in open spruce or pine woodlands and along wetland margins. Mastodons were still here when prehistoric humans arrived in Michigan late in the Pleistocene.
Males of the species grew to be 3 meters (10 feet) tall at the shoulder and had tusks over 2.5 meters (8.5 feet) long, but females were significantly smaller. The state of development of this individual's bones, along with the wear on its teeth, indicate it was fully grown. Its body size and tusk size are well within the range for females. The worn edges on the broken tusk reveal that the breakage occurred during her lifetime.
Mastodons have had an evolutionary history separate from that of mammoths and elephants for at least 20 million years. Nonetheless, all of these animals resemble one another in overall body form and are placed in the same order of mammals.
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Some highlights of NBC's moves in its schedule for next season.
WHAT'S NEW: A lot. The long-struggling network invested heavily in new programming, and has ordered 17 new series for next season. John Malkovich as Blackbeard. James Spader as a wanted fugitive. Dracula brought to life. A cops drama from the guy who made "Law & Order." More supernatural stuff from J.J. Abrams. A cooking show. A quiz show. A home renovation show. If a couple of these make an impression on viewers, NBC will be thrilled.
WHAT'S GONE: The newsmagazine "Rock Center," in a move sure to cause bad blood between NBC's news and entertainment divisions. Matthew Perry's star vehicle "Go On," failing to recreate that "Friends" magic. And about two dozen other sitcoms you never watched.
LIFE SUPPORT: The serial killer drama "Hannibal" has terrible ratings, but NBC had such high hopes for it this spring that executives can't bear to pull the plug. Maybe it's their livers on the line.
STAR POWER: Michael J. Fox is a beloved sitcom actor, respected even more for his dignity in handling Parkinson's Disease. Now he's essentially turning those real-life experiences into a sitcom, where he will play a sportscaster going back to work. Interestingly, NBC gave Sean Hayes a more prominent spot on a Thursday night schedule geared to broad-appeal comedies, perhaps so Fox won't feel the pressure to save the network. And Seth Meyers is moving from his "Weekend Update" desk to his own late night show.
WHAT THEY NEED: Somebody to save the network.
BIG MOVE: "Revolution" to Wednesday nights, where it will no longer have the advantage of a big audience tuning in for "The Voice." ''Chicago Fire" moves to Tuesday. Moving successful shows to new nights is always risky, perhaps even more so for programs at an early stage in their development.


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CHICAGO – All Claude Julien could do was appreciate the moment.
Never mind that the Boston Bruins lost, that a key player in Nathan Horton was injured and that they trail the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup finals.
That was one epic series opener, a 4-3 triple-overtime thriller that ranked as the fifth-longest finals game in NHL history.
"I even talked about it with my management," Julien, Boston's coach, said Thursday. "I said, 'You know, in reality, it was a great hockey game. You watch the video afterward and you see the excitement and the chances and everything else, the only thing I would be mad about is the fact that we didn't win. Other than that this was a great hockey game for people to watch. It was a great hockey game. I thought both teams played well. I don't think there should be any disappointment in what happened (Wednesday) night, except for us not getting the win that we wanted."
No matter what happens in Game 2 on Saturday, it will be just about impossible to match that opener.
The first Stanley Cup final between Original Six franchises since 1979 got off to a rousing start, with the Blackhawks rallying from two goals down in the third period to tie it and Chicago's Corey Crawford making one big save after another, particularly after regulation.
There was a close call in the closing seconds of the second OT when the puck deflected off Jaromir Jagr and hit the post, and the game finally ended when the Blackhawks' Michael Roszival delivered a soft shot from the right point that deflected off Dave Bolland and Andrew Shaw before slipping past Tuukka Rask.
"I'm sure we captured a few more fans (Wednesday) night with the excitement, and I'm sure it would be a lot better if we came out on top," Torey Krug said.
Instead they're down in this series after winning five straight and 9 of 10.
It's not exactly foreign territory for the Bruins, though. They blew a 3-1 series lead to Toronto in the opening round and were trailing by three in the seventh game. Yet somehow they managed to pull that one out and roll past the New York Rangers in five games, then sweep Sidney Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
When they won the championship in 2011, it wasn't an easy ride, either.
Boston started with back-to-back losses to Montreal in Round 1 that year and fell behind Vancouver 2-0 in the Stanley Cup finals before rallying to win in seven games.
Dropping Game 1 to Chicago?
"You get on with it, turn the page," Andrew Ference said. "Whether it's a goal, whether it's a game or whether it's a play, tough luck. That's the game. What are you going to do? You're going to make a lot of great plays and a lot of lucky bounces are going to happen for you as well. Everybody has played enough hockey on this team and for the guys that haven't, they're surrounded by guys that can let them know that as well."
One unfortunate bounce for the Bruins came on Johnny Oduya's tying goal for Chicago with 7:46 left in regulation. His long shot would have gone wide had it not hit Ference's left skate, but it went into the net instead to make it 3-3.
Earlier in the period, it was Shaw picking off a clearing attempt by Krug and feeding Bolland on a two-on-one rush to pull Chicago within one.
It didn't help, either, that Horton left the ice in the first overtime after getting tangled with Blackhawks defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson. Part of Boston's top line, he's been a big contributor in the playoffs with seven goals and 11 assists to go with a plus-22 and is day to day.
But the Bruins have won in the past without him.
They did it against Vancouver after he suffered a season-ending concussion in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, when they started their rally to win the championship.
Now the Bruins are trying to pick themselves up again, their resilience getting another test after an electrifying opener against Chicago.
"I think playoffs, you need to shake it off win or lose," Patrice Bergeron said. "That's something we've always said is to be in the moment, the task at hand. It's going to be no different in Game 2. Put the first game behind you and you worry about that Game 2."
TV RATINGS: NBC's broadcast averaged 6.358 million viewers, the most to watch a Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals since Detroit and Philadelphia drew 9,000 more on FOX in 1997.
It marked an increase of 119 percent compared to the Stanley Cup finals series opener last year with the Los Angeles Kings and New Jersey Devils.
NBC is averaging more than three million viewers during the playoffs, an increase of 38 percent compared to last year. NBC and the NBC Sports Network are combining to average 1.191 million viewers for each game, an increase of 7 percent vs. last year.
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Letter to the editor: Reject nominee Kavanaugh because of his hostility to lifesaving ACA
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NH beachgoers asked to not disturb plovers along coastStaff Report
May 19. 2014 9:46PM
The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department asks beachgoers in Hampton and Seabrook to be careful and disturb endangered birds nesting along the coast.
The department reports five pairs of piping plovers have taken up residence on local beaches and the areas they are nesting in have been fenced off with yellow tape.
The birds are endangered in the state and threatened nationally.
Piping plovers are the size of a sparrow and sand colored.
The intent of Fish and Game is to protect the adult birds and any chicks they may have.
Some ways the department suggests beachgoers can help protect the birds is to watch where you step, leash dogs and fill in any holes dug on the beach. Holes in the sand are traps for the chicks that can't fly.
Since protection efforts began in 1997, 83 nesting pairs of plovers have fledged 113 chicks on the Seacoast. New Hampshire's efforts are part of a region-wide protection program.
Overall, the Atlantic coast population of piping plovers continues to hold steady.


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The NCAA tournament will not have a repeat champion for the sixth straight season.
The NCAA tournament will not have a repeat champion for the sixth straight season. Kentucky made sure of that by failing to make the field of 68.
Beyond that, nothing's for certain in this year's version of March Madness after a season of parity that saw the top teams swap positions like it was a hoedown.
The tournament got started Tuesday night with the play-in games: North Carolina A&T won its first NCAA game in 10 tries over sub-.500 Liberty and Saint Mary's pulled away from Middle Tennessee.
After two more First Four games Wednesday, the full madness starts today, when what's expected to be a wilder-than-usual bracket gets rolling.
Here's a few things to look for as you get the snacks and drinks lined up around the couch:
Louisville: Coach Rick Pitino is one of the best minds in the game, Peyton Siva and Russ Smith are capable of taking over any game, Gorgui Dieng swats shots and grabs rebounds, and the Cardinals went to the Final Four a year ago. No wonder they're the No. 1 overall seed.
Gonzaga: The Zags are big up front, love to play defense and have few weaknesses. After Final Four runs by Butler and VCU in recent years, top-ranked Gonzaga has a chance to become the first mid-major to win a title.
Indiana: Preseason No. 1 earned the East Region's top seed despite losing the Big Ten title game. With size, talent and depth, the Hoosiers will be hard to bet against.
Kansas: Bill Self led the Jayhawks to the Final Four last season. He has them in position to make another run despite having an almost entirely different team.
Duke: Return of forward Ryan Kelly makes the Blue Devils a tough matchup for anyone.
Cody Zeller, Indiana: The versatile, 7-foot sophomore center can be unstoppable.
Doug McDermott, Creighton: A leading candidate for POY (player of the year), the rugged forward would be sure bet for MRP (most relentless player).
Kelly Olynyk, Gonzaga: The long-haired, long-armed 7-footer from Canada is long on talent. He will have a highlight dunk or two, count on it.
Mason Plumlee, Duke: Had a superb regular season and was a big reason the Blue Devils survived Ryan Kelly's injury.
Jeff Withey, Kansas: Shot-swatting 7-footer is a difference-maker at both ends.
Trey Burke, Michigan: Big Ten player of the year in the running for national player of the year.
Marshall Henderson, Ole Miss: The Mouth from the South can shoot to back up his trash talking.
No. 11 Belmont over No, 6 Arizona, West Region. The Wildcats have struggled at times defending the perimeter. The Bruins are one of the best 3-point shooting teams in the country. Get hot, Belmont could pull it off.
No. 11 Minnesota over No. 6 UCLA, South Region. The Gophers are athletic and would likely have given UCLA trouble before Bruins' second-leading scorer Jordan Adams broke his right foot in the Pac-12 final.
No. 11 Saint Mary's over No. 6 Memphis, Midwest Region. The Tigers have failed to get out of the first round the past two tournaments. Saint Mary's is scrappy and has a player who can get hot in Matthew Dellavedova.
No. 12 Oregon over No. 5 Oklahoma State, Midwest Region. Oklahoma State isn't particularly good from the perimeter and Oregon has a scrappy defense. The Ducks also have a chip on their shoulder after winning the Pac-12 tournament and being dropped to a 12 seed.
The selection committee did quite a few teams favors this season by allowing them to play close to home.
Kansas has the shortest distance, needing a mere 40 miles to get from Lawrence to Kansas City, where it also has a strong fan base. Rival Kansas State also gets to play at the Sprint Center, but it's another 80 miles away.
California also has a short journey, heading 45 miles down the bay to play in San Jose and Michigan will make a 50-mile-or-so trek to Auburn Hills, where Michigan State also will play (from roughly 80 miles away).
Louisville will play in a familiar place, at rival Kentucky's gym in Lexington about 75 miles away, and Ohio State has about a 70-mile trip to play in Dayton.
The distance losers?
Syracuse in San Jose, which is about 2,800 miles and San Diego State in Philadelphia, roughly 2,700 miles. We're guessing they'll fly for those trips.


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This was just so good I had to share. I recently switched my C/C++ compiler. It was not capable of doing what I needed it to do. So I turned my eyes to Open Watcom http://www.openwatcom.com/product/features_content.html
Take a look at these features. They ask for a donation and its easy to see why. But you are not required to donate or buy the CD, you can download without.
The GUI for the IDE is slightly outdated, but hey it works!.
Its not just a c/C++ compiler it compiles for fortran.
From any host platform you can develop both 16 bit and 32 bit targeted at OS/2, Windows 3.1, Win 9x, Windows NT/2000/XP. Now thats multiplatform. It includes, now get this, remote debugging over the serial port, parallel port, TCP/IP for all supported platforms (including DOS!). there is mention of porting to Linux and FreeBSD.
Is this too good to be true?
Well I downloaded it. I compiled with it two Win32 programs targeted for windows 98. It worked flawlesly. I tryed a C++ dos app, that compiled aswell. Was going to test fortran, but remembered when I installed watcom it asked me if I wanted to add suport for fortran and I chose no.
Watcom comes with a Win32 spy, I tryed it and it works. The resource editor and dialog editor both work. I created a menu resource, and a dialog resource for my win32 program.
The only problems I has, was one, when i start a new project, add a source, select the source and choose make source, it gives me an error. This was fixed by chooseing make the current target, and there after I was able to make the current source. And that win32 apps compile with no errors, but a few warnings, I run the executable though and it was fine.
I havent enough programing knowhow yet to be able to test everything, plus there is alot of features to test. But I bel;ieve alot of you will be happy with it. As I am. They deserve a donation.


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Over the past year or so there has been a significant trend of full albums showing up on YouTube. There is invariably no video content – just a still of the artist and the music.
The interesting part is that there are now many classic albums on YouTube a good chunk of which aren't available on Spotify or other streaming services. So for example if you fancy a bit of Pink Floyd you can hear Dark Side Of The Moon on YouTube from one of many different sources. You won't find it on Spotify though.
Uploading someone else's music to YouTube is of course totally illegal (as it is with music videos). However it seems that under YouTube regulations the emphasis is on the copyright holder to take action to pull the music down. And it seems that some record labels (coughs, EMI) are turning a bit of a blind eye.
They may even be on some occasions using YouTube's ContentID system and its revenue opportunities to enable them to collect a little cash from the adverts that precede the music.
Some companies are playing even stranger games. You can for example listen to Oasis's The Masterplan on YouTube on your laptop, but it won't play back on your mobile or iPad.
So why do record companies do this? Maybe they figure that if you are listening to an album on YouTube you may at some point think I'll go and buy it.
As for newer artists, well YouTube is a huge community and it can help to break an artist. There is a bit of analogy with radio here. Record labels are very keen to get their band's singles on say BBC 6 Music, but there is a way bigger audience on YouTube.
With Spotify subscribers can take music offline and listen to it on their smartphones etc with YouTube if you want the music to travel with you then you run the risk of running up huge data costs. So you might as well go and buy it.
Some companies are more aggressive than others at taking content down. I was delighted to see The Velvet Underground's controversial final album Squeeze on YouTube as it is not available digitally anywhere and the record itself is hard to find. However it got taken down after a while. I guess because the only people who might have bought that album would have been trawling used record stores for it and the record company wouldn't make any money from it.
Anyhow here are ten classic albums that are all available on YouTube, and the last time I looked were not on Spotify. Happy listening. I wonder if they will all be still up in three months time?
Finally one quick footnote. I listened to John Lennon's Imagine album on YouTube and 1, It really is a great album, much better than I remember it. 2, It is like listening to a vinyl record. There's no easy fast forwarding or skipping tracks and you know what, I kind of like it.
1 Pink Floyd – Dark Side Of the Moon
2 The Beatles – Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
3 Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
4 AC/DC Highway to Hell
5 Peter Gabriel 3
6 Oasis – The Masterplan
7 Eagles – Best of
8 Wings – Back To the Egg
9 John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band
10 The Zombies – Odyssey and Oracle


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The CuteKid of the Day Friday, August 31st is…
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