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Christoffer writes: "Realnode Ltd has been working for the last year intesively on an OS-library management system which now has reached the stage to be introduced to the OS-community. The project goes under the name Emilda. It features amongst others a full featured OPAC, Circulation and administration tools, label creation tools, Z39.50 tools and 100% MARC compatibilty. MARC compatibility is achieved by storing all information about biblios in MARC and accessing them using the Zebra server from Indexdata. For more information on Emilda, please visit the project page."
As seen at freshmeat, this version brings "Support for Apache 2 and client-side sorting." Go get it at Indexdata's ZAP! page.
Claude writes: "ZedKit, from Crossnet a UNIX Z39.50 toolkit." The site also says that "ZedKit for UNIX is a marketed name given to the Z39.50 Toolkit developed for the German Library and the ONE project."
Thomas writes: "Changes in 1.2c1.1.1
from the previous version include: correct MARC-8 character encoding conversions to Unicode when MARC records are rendered as XML, and all MARC 880 fields are now preserved when the MARC is converted to XML. This is accomplished by using the MARCCharSet.dll, included with this package; MARC XML output has been improved to more exactly conform to the Library of Congress MARC XML standard; the MARC parser has been made more tolerant of badly formed MARC; support for additional YAZ ZOOM Options has been added; the ZOOM_TEST program has been simplified, the code cleaned up, and targeted to a Z39.50 server that should actually work."
Anders writes: "SimpleServer 0.06, which is a Perl wrapper around the YAZ generic front-end server, is now officially released. The most important new feature is the supporting of Z39.50 authentication (simple). The source is also available at the usual places, i.e. CPAN and freshmeat.net."
Thomas writes: "VB-ZOOM is an ActiveX COMponent, written in Visual Basic, which is an implementation of the ZOOM Abstract Z39.50 API. It uses the YAZ Toolkit from Index Data to provide the low-level functionality. VB-ZOOM makes it very easy to write simple Z39.50 clients on the Windows platform. It can be used from any language which support ActiveX COM, including Visual Basic, C++, VB Script, Javascript, Delphi, Perl, and probably others. In addition to the basic Z39.50 support, the component has some support for converting the MARC and OPAC record syntaxes into XML, and using XPath to extract data. Of course, the code is open source and freely available for download from SourceForge."
ZOOM Abstract Z39.50 API
Sebastian writes: "This is not an announcement of specific software, but rather a heads-up on an open API specification and a bunch of associated free implementations. A group of Z39.50 developers have defined a general-purpose API for implementing Z39.50 clients. The API has been mapped onto a number of different programming languages, and several implementations exist. The API takes a lot of the pain out of Z39.50 client development and I'd recommend it to anyone new to Z39.50. More info at the ZOOM website."
MARC::Record and Net::Z3950
Ed writes: "Chris Biemesderfer recently contributed an appendix to the
MARC::Record::Tutorial which shows how to use MARC::Record with Net::Z3950. His brief example is a command line program that accepts ISBNs on the command line, which then retrieves MARC records from LC, and pretty prints the MARC records on STDOUT. Chris is using Net::Z3950 and MARC::Record as part of a larger project for the Chicago Digital Distribution Center's BiblioVault project."
Ross writes: "Emory University General Libraries has created and released course/control, a reserves management system written in PHP on a PostgreSQL backend. course/control's purpose is to be an alternative to commercial products such as Docutek's Eres, giving as much control to the instructors as they or the reserves department want. Instructors can manipulate their course reserves, changing their order and adding items via file upload, faxing to pdf files, or searching past reserves and the catalog through z39.50. Despite its "pre-release" version number, it's quite stable and usable."
YAZ 1.8.7 released
Kevin writes: "A new version of YAZ has been released. YAZ is a C/C++ programmer's toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50v3 clients and servers. A sample client, a sample server, and documentation are included in the distribution. YAZ also includes experimental support for the industry standard ZOOM API for Z39.50. There are several changes from the last version (mostly bug fixes)."


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The Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools awarded University at Buffalo student Alexandra Keller the NAGS Master's Thesis Award for 2012-13.
Keller, who received her master's degree in pharmacology and toxicology from the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences this past February, recently accepted the $1,000 award at the annual member's award luncheon in New Brunswick, N.J.
Each year, NAGS recognizes an outstanding master's thesis among students whose schools are members of the organization.
Keller's thesis, titled "Direct Reprogramming of Neural Stem Cells into Oligodendrocyte Progenitors by Defined Factors," was submitted by the council, which reviews and selects UB's nomination for NAGS. Only one nomination from each school is allowed.
"I was very flattered and honored just to be chosen as UB's nomination. I was even more surprised and awed to have been chosen as the best thesis in the northeast region," Keller said.
NAGS gives its award in science once every three years.
Keller worked closely with Fraser J. Sim, Ph.D., assistant professor in the UB Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, to understand oligodendrocyte cell development in the human brain and how transcriptional regulation contributes to diseases such as multiple sclerosis.
In his letter of recommendation for Keller's thesis award, Sim said, "It was a pleasure to have Alexa in my lab as both an undergraduate researcher and subsequently as a BS/MS student from 2010-12. Alexa's thesis work was an ambitious project."
Sim also said that Keller's thesis forms part of a manuscript, which he intends to submit to a top-tier journal later this year.
"This research could impact not just people and their families suffering from MS, but a whole host of neurodegenerative diseases, and pave the way for therapy to a presently incurable disease," Keller said.
Keller explained that, in MS, which is an autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, a protective nerve covering called the myelin sheath is composed of oligodendrocytes that surround the nerve fibers of the brain and spinal cord. When oligodendrocytes become damaged, demyelination or scarring can occur. As a result of demyelination, messages from the brain and spinal cord are blocked, leading to reduced or lost bodily function.
"The process of this degradation is poorly understood. In Dr. Sim's lab, I was provided an opportunity to be able to experiment with primary neural stem cells - which are very precious and rare," Keller said.
"By manipulating and studying these neural stem cells and their cell lineages, we were able to pinpoint which genes control oligodendrocyte development in the human central nervous system, and we hope that this will lead to novel approaches to induce oligodendrocyte repair in the brains of patients with MS."
Keller has been accepted into the Pharm.D. program in the UB School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, but she won't forget what she has learned in Sim's lab.
"Dr. Sim has taught me how to think like a researcher and to ponder the scientific world around me," she said. "His direction, advice and patience throughout my thesis project were invaluable to my success. With high expectations to meet, it motivated me to do a better job and work harder to earn his respect, and because of that I have a thesis project that I am proud of."

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1. Re: Problems with D945GCLF2 and PRO/1000 MTwrightju Mar 17, 2010 11:36 AM (in response to superham)
Hi Brendan,
Assuming the cable is good (can that be verified?), I might suspect that the system isn't assigning sufficient resources for both ports to function. Typically the BIOS has that responsibly. If your BIOS is out of date, you might try updating to the latest. Also, just make sure you're running the latest NIC drivers (http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Default.aspx)
Hope that helps
Justin Wright
Intel Corp. - Wired Networking
Product Support Engineer
2. Re: Problems with D945GCLF2 and PRO/1000 MTsuperham Mar 17, 2010 4:38 PM (in response to wrightju)
Thanks for the reply. the cable has been tested by swapping the cables around on the nic and the same issue is reproduced on the 2nd port. The 2nd port shows up and displaysa link, but its like thecable is physically disconnected and reconnected. The link light on the switch turns off and on when connected to the switch. the bios has been updated to latest. i have also updated the drivers to latest even though currently installed windows 7 (to test) has the drivers inbuilt.
regards Brendan
3. Re: Problems with D945GCLF2 and PRO/1000 MTsuperham Mar 19, 2010 6:22 AM (in response to superham)
just an update on what i have tried. got the intel network tools installed and it keeps telling me the cable is being unplugged. I tried putting the computer into sleep then taking it out of sleep and the port found a ip address from the dhcp server, yet when i pinged the dhcp server the latency was in the high 500~ms when its right next to this computer. i was thinking maybe the motherboard doesnt supply enough power or something along them lines
4. Re: Problems with D945GCLF2 and PRO/1000 MTsuperham Mar 31, 2010 6:15 AM (in response to superham)
have i been left out on a cracking branch?
5. Re: Problems with D945GCLF2 and PRO/1000 MTmark_h_@intel Apr 2, 2010 2:06 PM (in response to superham)
I do not know anything about your specific motherboard, but going back to Justin's earlier comment about system resources suggests something else to try. Usually the BIOS has a setting for enabling or disabling the option ROM for each of the adapters. Unless you are doing remote boot, you should be able to get away with disabling the option ROM and possibly freeing up some resources.


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Operating Systems today:
There are alot of Operating systems (hereafter reffered to as "OSs") for computers available today. This tutorial will hopefully teach you something new about them, and maybe open your eyes to a few new ones.
My first OS was Windows 95, which was outdated even then. When you consider I got my first PC 4 years and 1 month ago, it's not so hard to see why. I have gotten very good with OSs since then.
So what about an OS? Well, for one, an OS has a "Kernel". Not the guy on the wall at KFC, but just as hard working. The kernel is a set of core OS programs that handle several functions. And if you still use Windows 95, it also displays that blue color your so familiar with.
Talking with the CPU and chatting with peripheral devices are only two of the many things a kernel does. These programs reside in system directories. When you boot up your machine, the needed portions of the kernel are loaded into memory or virtual memory. Virtual memory is space used on disk to extend memory.
An Application Program Interface is a big scary word that we usually call API. An API is like a little key that unlocks a little door into the kernel that handles a specific function.
For example, when you use Microsoft outlook to infect your network with virii of all sorts, or when your an eleet haxor loading up Vi, they all have an API to unlock that part of the kernel.
Ok, so what? This is boring as hell! Talk about an OS now!
Ok fine.
MS-DOS and PC-DOS:
Back in the early 80s, when I was born, Microsoft was approached by IBM. IBM was working on something called a Personal Computer, or "PC" for short. Microsoft was more than likely NOT the first on the list of people to ask for an OS to run on these machines, but Bill gates had a relative working for IBM who helped doom, I mean, get an OS for, the PC.
Microsoft of course said "Yes, we have an OS". And they quickly looked around and found an OS called DOS, AKA Quick Dirty OS. Microsoft bought this OS for pennies and changed a few things around.
They named it MS-DOS, for Microsoft Disk OS. A few early versions still had code that had Dirty OS in it. And if you read the source to it, the guy's name who actually wrote it was still in the code.
It took just a few weeks to compile. Dos runs on any of the Intel 8088, 80x86, or Pentium class CPUs implemented in a PC hardware platform. The version of MS-DOS that that runs on early IBM computers is called PC-DOS because it was cutomized and marketed by IBM.
DOS is a 16 bit single task single user OS. DOS figures, "If you can type to me, your the person who owns the machine, so you can do what you want". Basically no real security...Physically or remotely.
Most programs for DOS use a simple text based command line. Although DOS was widely used in PCs, it's limitations in terms of lack of support for current software applications and grphical user interfaces from anything in the past 10 years or so have made it something you find in someone's garage.
So does DOS have any real advantages? Well, yes, a few. Lets look at some PROs and CONs:
Runs on minimal hardware...A calculator could probably run it if it had a HD.
Small Size; Early versions could fot in a single floppy disk.
Requires almost nothing in resources. Some programs run faster in DOS. Nothing like the bastard child from hell that has yet to be released called "Windows longwhoren" Which will require damn near a NASA workstation to run.
Command line interface gives operator....And everyone else, direct control.
Doesnt support newer hardware features, and lacks support for 32 bit applications.
Includes minimal utilities and user support features.
Early versions can't support large memory of new PCs.
Command line interface requires you to actually learn to use a damned PC right.
With the good and bad of DOS, it works fine if you have an OLD PC with nothing else to put on it. But don't think you'll actually get alot of work done...Unless your just editing text.
Let's move on to another OS that came after DOS and still had to have the thing:
Windows 3.x :
Stealing a GUI to compete with the Mac, Microsoft released the first version of Windows, which was aimed at the 80286 computers, in 1985. This, like most versions of Windows, was very slow, and Windows was not accepted untill 5 years later when Windows 3.0 was released. Windows 3.0 was aimed at larger computers like the 80386, because only a computer with a faster, lightning quick 16-40 MHz, could make Windows run fast enough to enable user productivity.
When Windows 3.1 came out with it's popular GUI, Windows was well on it's way to haunting sys admins...I mean, becoming the dominant PC OS for desktop computers.
Windows 3.0 and Windows 3.1 were however a significant step up from the command line based MS-DOS. Just ny own opinion, but at least DOS was somewhat stable. In Windows 3.x, the memory, software, and networking abilities were very limited.
With Windows 3.11, Microsoft added significant networking abilities to Windows, such as the options for work groups and shared drives. Yea, I know, calm down the panting.
Windows 3.11 is also referred to as Windows for workgroups....Or in my opinion, OSs for the sado masochist. This was however the time Windows joined the ranks among REAL network OSs.
A shocking fact is that Windows 3.11 had few security options for sharing drives and so on. This fact still shocks me that Microsoft would release an OS with no security whatsoever.
Microsoft however says this was because security wasnt as important back them like it is today. All of these lovely Windows 3.x OSs run on top of DOS in some way or another.
There are ways to run 32 bit applications on Windows 3.x, AKA 386 enhanced mode. Personally, I see no reason to even run this. Unless of course you are like me, and enjoy something about EVERY OS no matter how bad it is, and have a love of exploring them even if they are older than me.
Also, there are upgrades to Windows 3.x that replace some of the OS code with 32 bit code, but at the core of Windows 3.x, you find a 16 bit Graphical shell for DOS.
Windows 95 :
As computers got more powerful and more common in homes and businessess, Bill gates saw another way to **** people....I mean, thought of a new way to "Innovate" computing.
In other words, the thought "Hey, all these new computers are powerful, let's make an OS that can use up all that power and more!"
Microsoft decided to make a true 32 bit OS....When they realised they had no clue on how too, they took DOS and Windows 3.x and NT, added a few resource killing applications, and painted a new face on the old OS, and released it.
This made Bill gates rich yet hated. Also, Windows 95 took away the 640K RAM thing. There was no way in HELL this would run on that little amount. Somehow, Windows 95 WILL run on a 386 and a 486....We are talking JUST barely here ok?
The new functionality of Windows 95 needs more than a shiny "designed for
idiots" sticker, it also needs more CPU, RAM, Reources, cash, cache, you name
it, it needs it.
Windows 95 introduced us to:
A new GUI....The damned clouds for a start up screen.
Plug and Play....Something that was actually useful.
ActiveX and the component Object Model (COM) capability.
The registry....Something else to haunt admins in there sleep.
Multi tasking....Sort of...
Enhanced network capabilities.
A pretty blue colored screen when you confused the DOS part of the system that
was supposedly removed.
The user interface for Windows 95 was the desktop. Every version of Windows
since this has been based on this thing. Another new toy was the task bar. The
task bar showed people what they had running....Wow huh?
Plug and Play:
To me, this was the best feature of Windows 95....Hopefully someone gets the
joke in that, the best feature of Windows 95 being one you dont need to boot
it up to use.
Plug and Play was something that alloud you to install a hardware component,
put the case back on, and boot the PC up to see Windows try and figure out
what it was.
Basically you could install hardware without having to do much else. If you
have an older machine and you upgrade it to Windows 95, first, get a big red
sticker that says "Slap me! I'm a jack ass!", then, get rid of anything not
plug and play, because the time you spend getting this stuff to work could
kill you.
ActiveX and the Component Object Model (COM)
Much of the easy manipulation of the user interface of WIndows 95 came from a
new technology called "ActiveX". Active X and it's parent, the Component
Object Model, is a standardized way for objects, such as programs, files,
computers, printers, control panels, windows, and icons, to communicate with
each other.
It's a simple yet revolutionary concept.Objects, like folders, icons, menus,
and other things you see on the desktop, consist of a series of properties. To
show you a folder full of files, the OS makes a folder and then places the
file objects in the folder.
The COM and ActiveX technologies enable an Object to "sence" when it is
interacting with other objects such as the mouse pointer, the desktop, the
trash can, or the start menu.
The ActiveX and COM technologies allow you to simple drag files from one area
to another. The icons you drag, through the use of COM, make it possible for
the object onto which they are dragged, to know what to do with them.
By building this concept into the OS, Microsoft has created a new level of
user interface consistency and program interoperability in WIndows 95. ActiveX
and COM also allow shortcuts, small ActiveX objects on the desktop.
In addition, easy access to programs and the OS is provided through the start
menu, which in the active desktop is nothing more than another ActiveX object.
The use of COM and ActiveX made Windows 95 easier to use than it's
prededecessors, and once again broadened the functionality provided by the OS.
The Registry:
The Windows 95 design also introduced a new concept for changing the way
information is stored and managed, and how software and hardware are
Up to this point, this type of information was kept in files all over the hard
disk. This new design was called "The Registry", a database that stores
information about hardware and software configuration, and all sorts of other
data needed to make the OS and applications run.
The registry WAS in Windows 3.1 but it was NOT used much. In WIndows 95, it
was forced on people and is the only way to store configuration information,
as well as much of the general information that is shared by multiple parts of
the OS or application programs to make COM and ActiveX work.
The Windows 95 registry is similar to the one used in Windows NT 3.51 and
Windows NT 4.0. In later versions of WIndows, the registry is improved for
even more functionality so that it is easier to install and remove programs.
For example:
Operating System configuration.
Service and device driver information and configuration.
Software and Application perameters.
Hardware configuration.
Performance information.
Desktop COnfiguration.
Whenever any software needs to read from or write to the registry, it uses OS
functions. The registry central database repository may extend beyond the
computer in which Windows 95 is running.
It is possible to extend the registry dtata over a network, a function that
can be very useful for situations with many users and many computers. When you
back up a WIndows 95 or later box, make sure you do a back up on the registry,
power failures, bad installs, virii, and so on, an corrupt the registry.
If you have the registry backed up, it is much easier to restore the OS
without having to reinstall it like tech support would tell you to do.
In Windows 95, multitasking is still performed on a cooperative basis for 16
bit applications, and preemptive for 32 bit applications. Windows 95 has a
"task supervisor" to detect applications that appear to be stuck, and that
presents the option to close hung tasks, without having to reboot....In my
opinion this feature was not as good as it is now, in WIndows 95, most of the
time, if a core application running became frozen, a reboot was your only
The cooperative multitasking in Windows 95 was a great improvement over what
WIndows 3.x and earlier had, which is thanks to the COM technology you read
about a few pages up.
In WIndows 95 preemptive multitasking, the OS has complete control over the
multitasking environment. This made it a little bit harder for an application
to gain absolute control over the CPU.
This was greatly improved for Windows 2000, which I will discuss later on. In
my opinion though, when Windows 95 came out, if you wanted a good system, you
had to run a *NIX based OS. The only other choices for home users was the
MacOS, which during this time was total **** in my opinion.
Mac OS X is an awesome improvement over previous versions of Mac OS. Probably
that BSD basis which makes it this good.
Networking in Windows 95:
The networking abilities in Windows 95 are a great improvement over earlier
versions of Windows, and the networking was completly rewritten. Unlike
earlier versions of Windows, the network drivers are built right into Windows.
In earlier versions they were in DOS.
In all but the early versions of Windows 95, the networking code is written as
a 32 bit applicaion. The results are a greatly improved network performance.
In WIndows 3.1, the networking functions had two parts, client and server.
Windows 95 incresed the abilities of both. Unlike Windows 3.1, Windows 95 can
communicate over a network with many other OSs, like Novell Netware for
Another important feature of Windows 95 is it's integration with the internet,
the global network that can connect standalone workstations and networks fr
the exchange of information, advertising, email, and many other things.
When Windows 95 was released, Microsoft did NOT support internet connectivity,
but in 1997, Microsoft decided to embrace the internet, and integrate it with
all of it's OSs.
At first, the internet was an add on option for Windows 95 in the form of
Internet Explorer. Internet connectivity was incorporated into the OS when
Windows 98 was released.
This resulted in extensive internet support in Windows 95, in the form of Web
browsers, web server software, and the ability to share computer resources
over the internet.
This was an important change for Windows, 13 year old dudes no longer had to
steal porn, they could ask for a PC for Christmas, get a connection to the
internet, and jack all day.
As the internet became more popular, and the need for corporate network remote
access over a telephone line, Microsoft decided to include network drivers
that supportthe use of Modems to obtain remote access to a network and the
Dial Up Networking (DUN) can be used to not only to make connections to remote
networks or computers, but also to set up a Windows 95 box as a DUN server,
with the addition of the Plus! Add on set of utilities.
I don't know about you, but the thought of a Windows 95 server scares me. A
computer with a modem can be set up to answer a telephone line whenever it
rings, authenticate the caller, and then give them access to all the shaed
resources available to the computer.
Many people use DUN to gain access to their computers at work from home, or
from laptops while they are on the road. Windows 95 also has built in fax
Out of the box, Windows 95 can send and recieve fax transmissions. The only
thing required, is a modem that is capable of sending and receiving fax
This modem does not even have to be attached to the connected to the computer
that wants to send or receieve a fax. Through Windows 95 networking, it is
fairly easy to use any such modem connected to any computer in a Windows 95
(He said you guys were giving him a hard time about this, and I missed that whole discussion so I wanna hear all of the problems anyone has with it. Let's go.)


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Jeffrey Skilling, the convicted former Enron Corp. chief executive officer, may get out of prison in as little as four years if a judge approves a deal with prosecutors that would allow the payment of more than $40 million to victims of one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history.
In exchange for cutting as many as 10 years from his 24-year sentence, Skilling will drop his bid for a new trial and end litigation over his conviction, in which a jury found he spearheaded a fraud of as much as $40 billion that in 2001 destroyed the world's largest energy trader and caused the biggest U.S. bankruptcy at the time.
"The proposed agreement will bring certain finality to a long painful process, although the recommended sentence for Jeff would still be more than double that of any other Enron defendant, all of whom have long been out of prison," his lawyer, Daniel Petrocelli, said in a phone interview. "Jeff will at least get the chance to get back a meaningful part of his life."
Skilling, 59, has served more than six years of his 2006 sentence for fraud, conspiracy and insider trading. A 2011 appellate ruling effectively lopped nine years off his sentence, according to court records. With the potential benefit of two years off for good behavior and another year off for participation in a drug treatment program, Skilling could be released in 2017 or early 2018, according to his lawyer and the agreement, which was revealed today in a filing in federal court in Houston.
Speak Out
Skilling will be resentenced June 21 in Houston, where Enron victims will be given a chance to speak out on the deal, U.S. District Judge Sim Lake III said in an order issued today. Lake originally sentenced Skilling.
"This agreement ensures that Mr. Skilling will be appropriately punished for his crimes and that victims will finally receive the restitution they deserve," Peter Carr, a spokesman for the Justice Department's criminal division, said in an e-mailed statement.
Skilling entered prison in December 2006, following roughly six weeks of home confinement. Prosecutors won a forfeiture of more than $40 million of Skilling's assets at trial, which have been held in reserve while the former executive continued to appeal his conviction, according to the filing. In dropping his bid for a new trial and any further appeals, Skilling agreed not to challenge the forfeiture order, which will immediately free up the funds for distribution to Enron victims.
Legal Battles
"Today's agreement will put an end to the legal battles surrounding this case," said Carr of the Justice Department. "Mr. Skilling will no longer be permitted to challenge his conviction for one of the most notorious frauds in American history, and victims of his crime will finally receive the more than $40 million in restitution they are owed."
Former Enron investors and employees have until June 7 to send the judge letters stating their opinions of the agreement and whether they would like to speak at the hearing.
Lake said he was already in receipt of "letters from a number of victims" concerning Skilling's proposed sentence. He said he may limit the number of speakers "to protect the rights of crime victims while not unduly complicating or prolonging the resentencing hearing."
Misled Investors
After a 16-week trial, a Houston jury convicted Skilling alongside Kenneth Lay, Enron's former chairman, for conspiring to use off-books partnerships to manipulate the company's finances and mislead investors about the company's true financial condition. Lay died before he could appeal, and his conviction was erased.
More than 5,000 jobs and $1 billion in employee retirement funds were wiped out when Enron plunged into bankruptcy in December 2001. Investors sued to recover more than $40 billion in market losses.
Skilling is incarcerated in a federal prison in Englewood, Colorado, outside of Denver.
He has sought a new trial for the last year based on what his lawyers claim was exculpatory evidence the government improperly withheld during the first trial.
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Skilling's appeal and agreed that his conviction was based in part on an invalid legal theory known as the "theft of honest services."
Reviewed Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans reviewed his case in 2011 and determined there was enough other trial evidence to convict Skilling without the flawed theory. The appellate court upheld the verdicts against Skilling and ordered the trial judge to recalculate his sentence, having earlier found that sentencing guidelines were misapplied in his case.
News that Skilling was in talks to reduce his sentence surfaced in early April, after the Justice Department posted a public notice on its website. The notice requested comments by April 17 from "Enron employees, stockholders and other victims" regarding an unspecified "sentencing agreement" with an unnamed defendant.
Lake held a series of closed-doors status conferences in Skilling's case on May 2, May 3, and again today. Journalists who asked to attend the meetings in Lake's chambers were refused permission.
The case is U.S. v. Causey, 04-00025, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas (Houston).


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In what is not a surprise to anyone who watched the show last night, the two famewhores celebrities known as Heidi and Spencer Pratt have officially quit I'm a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here. TMZ reports the two quit for good shortly after the live part of the show yesterday.
The two had threatened to walk off the show twice during Monday night's premiere, but kept returning. The two will likely not be missed based on Spencer's behavior on the show last night. In just one episode, he managed to smack a water bottle from the hands of Frances Gallier, insult most of the cast, and also hid wrestler Torrie Wilson's bag away from the campsite in retaliation.
I say good riddance. The saddest part of the whole show was finding out that these two do not put on an act. They are really that stupid and douchey. The two unfortunately get to return to their lives of fake reality show acting, and staged photo shoots.


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Lincoln's Religious Quest
Why his faith won't suit either side in the culture wars.
The recent avalanche of Abraham Lincoln books announces the ever-closer approach of Lincoln's 200th birthday. (Lay in some extra bunting: Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the same day, Feb. 12, 1809.) The year 2005 began with C.A. Tripp, in The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, freely speculating about Lincoln's alleged "homosexual side" and with Ronald C. White Jr., in The Eloquent President, reminding us that this self-educated son of a small-time farmer evolved against all odds into an accomplished prose stylist. The year ended with Joshua Wolf Shenk inviting us to ponder Lincoln's Melancholy, a broader state of soul-suffering than what we now call "depression," and with Doris Kearns Goodwin, in Team of Rivals, refocusing attention on Lincoln the politician and president. Nothing in his psychic life stopped him from defanging his Republican presidential competitors, slyly bringing them into his Cabinet, and exploiting their talents while keeping their higher aspirations in check and turning a couple of them into firm friends.
In Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power, Richard Carwardine, a history professor at Oxford, extends Goodwin's emphasis on Lincoln the politician, leaving Lincoln's personal life wholly aside. Carwardine is not trying to protect the president's image of greatness—he explicitly rejects the tradition of "biographical pietism" that often elevates Lincoln above mortal men. But he is wary of speculative scholarship about Lincoln's personal life that relies not on Lincoln's own written or publicly spoken words but on the post-assassination recollections of others (sometimes first published decades after Lincoln's death). This Lincoln, first published three years ago in a British series called "Profiles in Power" and now reissued by Knopf in an illustrated edition, nevertheless contributes something new to our grasp of Lincoln the person as well as the politician. The author of two previous books on religion and politics before 1865, Carwardine shows how deeply religion informed Lincoln's exercise of power and ultimately his sense of himself.
Here he joins forces with Allen Guelzo, whose ground-breaking Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999) challenged the reigning outlook among 20th-century historians. They had presumed that the non-church-member Lincoln maintained a secular perspective throughout his life, even as, during the war, he found psychic solace in the Scriptures and accommodated the religious cravings of his fellow citizens by framing some of his speeches in biblical language. David Donald's superb Lincoln (1995), while noting the president's apparent religious turn, saw even his deeply theological second inaugural address as a translation by Lincoln of his persistent secular fatalism into religious terms familiar to his audience.
Carwardine and Guelzo concur with Donald about the continuous thread of fatalism in Lincoln's personal and public life. As a young man he had embraced what he called "the Doctrine of Necessity," the belief (as he summed it up in 1846) "that the human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control." Any candidate for office in Illinois from the 1830s to the 1850s—an era of stupendous evangelical expansion—had to assure voters that he respected Christian beliefs, and the Doctrine of Necessity struck even Lincoln's friends as a risky provocation. During his victorious congressional run in 1846 he issued a public denial that he had ever scoffed at religion, would ever vote for anyone who did, or had even argued for the Doctrine of Necessity within the previous five years. He didn't quite say he had given up believing in it, allowing 20th-century writers to portray Lincoln as a closet secularist in a sea of Bible-believers.
Carwardine and Guelzo, by contrast, place President Lincoln's religious quest at the center of his personal life and policymaking. Reflecting on the horrendous human sacrifices of the war and disabled by the loss of his beloved son Willie in 1862, he transmuted his secular fatalism into a religious fatalism. His parents' Calvinist faith, which he had long since left behind, thus made an ironic comeback in his wartime deliberations. The power over which human beings had no control turned out to be the same sovereign and unfathomable God he had heard about as a child. Yet Lincoln the president still remained aloof from the churches and detached from the Christian conception of sin and redemption.
Of God's formidable presence in history he was convinced. That did not mean he wished to build a personal relationship with that God or even thought he was capable of building one. About Jesus as redeemer Lincoln remained silent, although after his death a few overeager Christian acquaintances claimed he had privately professed his faith in Christ. One favorite tale had a weeping president tell a friend that at Gettysburg he had given himself to God and ultimately come to "love Jesus." His wife, Mary, quashed such pious recollections when she reported after the assassination that her husband had indeed been "a religious man always," and "felt religious more than ever about the time he went to Gettysburg" in 1863. But he had never qualified as "a technical Christian."
Carwardine puts heavy emphasis on Lincoln's short "Meditation on God's Will," a theological fragment that Lincoln wrote for his own edification, probably in 1862 (the title was later supplied by his secretary, John Nicolay). In this private document Lincoln applied his famous logical rigor to the issue of God's purposes in permitting a gruesome Civil War. Had God's reasons matched those of the North—extinguishing the rebellion and restoring the Union, in Lincoln's view—it would have been easy for God to enlist his "human instrumentalities" (like the president) to defeat the Southern armies. But God obviously desired that the war "shall not end yet." He plainly had his reasons for letting the butchery continue, but he kept those reasons hidden. As the war dragged on Lincoln appears to have concluded that God let the carnage go on so that slavery would crumble along with the rebellion. Never an abolitionist, and forthright in the early years of the war about his willingness to have ended it, if possible, without freeing a single slave, Lincoln now believed that God had effected the emancipation of 4 million African-Americans.
The president's observation in an 1864 letter that "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me"—a secular-sounding reflection avidly cited by historians over many generations—is followed immediately by the less often quoted comment that "God alone can claim" responsibility for "the nation's condition." God seemed to have willed both "the removal of a great wrong" and the punishment of both North and South "for our complicity in that wrong." If so, future "impartial history" would see in such judgment "new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God." Carwardine's succinct, elegant prose—he proves himself a master of concision—gives us a clear picture of Lincoln's piety in relation to the politics of emancipation. For all his long-standing dismissals of the sectarian moral purity of the religious abolitionists, the president's eventual conclusion that God himself counted as an abolitionist shows how profoundly the religious presuppositions of the anti-slavery movement had seeped into Lincoln's consciousness.
Thanks to Carwardine and Guelzo we can see that Lincoln, by the end of his life, had inverted Thomas Jefferson on the subject of religion. The third president, the great exponent of Enlightenment, had tried to banish mystery from religion while preserving a privileged place for Jesus as the greatest ethical teacher of all time. For his part, the 16th president dropped Jesus by the wayside while rekindling awareness of the unfathomable mysteries of religion. Lincoln resembles the ostensibly secular Benjamin Franklin more than he does the Jesus-infatuated Jefferson. The skeptical Franklin kept a place for Providence in his thinking about the ultimate fate of humanity, while dismissing the pleas of his friend the Rev. George Whitefield that Franklin "close with Christ." Lincoln transformed Franklin's Providence into a vigorous historical actor but, like Franklin, he found little use for Jesus.
Carwardine concludes with a brief reflection on the post-assassination "deification" of Lincoln, in which the martyr shot on Good Friday (the anniversary of Christ's crucifixion) experienced "instant elevation" to the national "pantheon." This post-mortem career of Lincoln as civic-religious savior lies beyond Carwardine's scope. But it is relevant to his theme to note that thanks to Booth's derringer ball, the Lincoln who had let Jesus go became the Lincoln who resembled Jesus. Quickly Lincoln the icon pushed Washington upstairs: The self-made rail-splitter became the self-giving "Son" to whom Americans could attach themselves in warm companionship while the "Father" Washington hovered detachedly like a deist creator beyond the clouds.
One reason why Lincoln has endured as Americans' prime civic icon (white Southerners having come on board in large numbers even by the late 19th century) is his straddling of the secular-religious boundary line. He can gather disciples on both sides. The 2009 commemorations will surely coincide with attempts to induct Lincoln into the ongoing American cultural tug-of-war by forcing him onto one side or the other. Pundits of faith are liable to pit a secular Darwin against a religious Lincoln. Perhaps Carwardine's book will help shield him from such treatment. The real Lincoln remains a straddler, too religious for most secularists but too fatalistic for most religionists.


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If you're a basketball fan then you might want to check out the Toms River Shooters, the newest entry into the 13-team Atlantic Coast Professional Basketball League. The league is made up of teams from Buffalo, New York to Maryland who play a 15-game regular season schedule from December-March.
The Toms River team is made up of former high school and college standouts that are familiar to many shore area basketball fans. Among them are Randall Stallworth, who played at Monsignor Donovan and then Stonehill College and Mike Konopka, who went from Toms River East to Stonybrook and is now back as the Raiders head coach. Others are on the roster include Tony Boone, Jed Marquez, Kenny Simms, Jordan Krzeckowski, Jeff Warner and Blake Hamilton.
The Shooters play their home games in the brand new Baker League Basketball Arena which is located in South Toms River and part of the complex that now includes Planet Fitness. The team has played their first few games on the road and their home opener is scheduled for Super Bowl Sunday (February 5) with a 1pm tipoff against the Hudson Valley Kingz. To help welcome them I have agreed to serve as the Public Address Announcer…let's hope we don't get four overtimes or I'll be out of their before it ends. After all, it is Super Bowl Sunday! The game will also feature a half time raffle for a big screen TV and a 50/50 to benefit Ocean of Love at the end of the 3rd quarter.
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Baylor Department of English Presents 20th Annual Beall Poetry FestivalMarch 24, 2014
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Media contact: Terry Goodrich, (254) 710-3321
WACO, Texas (March 24, 2014) – The department of English in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences will host the 20th annual Beall Poetry Festival Wednesday, March 26, through Friday, March 28. The three-day celebration of contemporary poets will include readings, a panel discussion and the Virginia Beall Ball Lecture on Contemporary Poetry.
Notable guests will include American poets Andrew Hudgins and Christian Wiman, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort and Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University.
The schedule of events is as follows:
Wednesday, March 26
3:30 p.m., Carroll Science Building, Room 101
Student Literary Awards
6:30 p.m., Bennett Auditorium
Virginia Beall Ball Lecture in Contemporary Poetry: "In the heartland of the ordinary: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy, and the Divided Traditions of Modern and Contemporary Poetry," by Ronald Schuchard
Thursday, March 27
3:30 p.m., Bennett Auditorium
Poetry Reading by Valzhyna Mort
6:30 p.m., Bennett Auditorium
Poetry Reading by Christian Wiman
Friday, March 28
3:30 p.m., Carroll Science, Room 101.
Panel discussion with participants
6:30 p.m., Bennett Auditorium
Poetry Reading by Andrew Hudgins
Carroll Science Building is at 1401 S. 5th St. and Bennett Auditorium is at 1420 S. 7th St.
All festival events are free and open to the public. For more information, call the department of English at (254) 710-1768.
by Kristen Bennett, student newswriter, (254) 710-6805.
Baylor University is a private Christian university and a nationally ranked research institution, characterized as having "high research activity" by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The university provides a vibrant campus community for approximately 15,000 students by blending interdisciplinary research with an international reputation for educational excellence and a faculty commitment to teaching and scholarship. Chartered in 1845 by the Republic of Texas through the efforts of Baptist pioneers, Baylor is the oldest continually operating university in Texas. Located in Waco, Baylor welcomes students from all 50 states and more than 80 countries to study a broad range of degrees among its 11 nationally recognized academic divisions. Baylor sponsors 19 varsity athletic teams and is a founding member of the Big 12 Conference.
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Theobroma cacao seed oil is one of the most widely used natural skin care ingredients in the products available from top brands, but many people have never heard it's name before. That's because this fatty oil typically goes by a simpler name--cocoa butter. In addition, cocoa butter can be called a variety of other names, including cacao butter, cacao oil, cocoa seed oil and cacao seed butter.
Cocoa butter is derived from the Theobroma cacao tree. An evergreen tree, the species prefers tropical climates and grows naturally in a band that begins in southeastern Mexico and extends southward through Central America and into the Amazon basin in South America. The high demand for the products of the cacao tree, which include chocolate and cocoa powder in addition to cocoa butter, have led to its cultivation throughout the world. More than 17 million acres of forests are grown specifically for harvesting cacao trees with much of the farming occurring in northern Africa, Southeast Asia, Mexico and Latin America.
Although it is a highly useful ingredient in skin care products, theobroma cacao seed oil is actually a by-product of the chocolate-making process. To produce chocolate, seeds from the Theobroma cacao tree are harvested and roasted. After roasting, the seeds are processed and refined, and a yellow, fatty substance is removed from their hulls. This waxy material is what we commonly refer to as cocoa butter. The rich fat is comprised of a number of skin-healthy fatty acids, including stearic acid, oleic acid and palmitic acid.
Cocoa beans and cocoa butter were an integral part of the religious practices and natural healing methods of a variety of indigenous Central American tribes, particularly the Mayas and Aztecs. The delicious taste of cocoa and the benefits of cocoa butter were introduced to Europeans through Spanish explorers and conquistadors, and by the 17th century, the use of cocoa butter to treat skin conditions was prominent throughout much of Europe.
Because of its emollient and occlusive properties, cocoa butter is a common ingredient in moisturizers and body lotions. It is also sold in pure form for use as a moisturizer and treatment for dry skin.
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What is literature? asked Jean-Paul Sartre in 1947. Does a novelist write to make a personal world–or should a novelist write to remake our world? A great generation ago, that was the question. Hopelessly unfashionable, barely remembered, the literature of commitment from the Depression and World War II is less a scandal than an embarrassment–so earnest, so obvious, so hackneyed. As didactic and dogmatic as such "proletarian" or antifascist fiction is, you might wonder if it even deserves to be read, let alone considered to be literature–unless, of course, you believe that literature is something other than literature.
Alan Wald may not subscribe to the Hegelian reasoning of Sartre's assertion that writing is the means by which a society reflects on its condition. But for him, as for Sartre, literature is primarily a social endeavor–a field of political action. Introducing Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade, Wald maintains that literature is not simply a province governed by the canonical authority of a few acknowledged great authors. Literature is larger than that! The significance of the literature of commitment, he argues, may lie in the "substructure…where half-forgotten writers who variously passed through the Communist experience left ineradicable marks."
These "cultural workers" (writers of proletarian literature, themselves retroactively branded proletarians by Professor Wald), the "rank and file of the literary Left" (but also a few of the commissars, including the infamous V.J. Jerome, chair of the American Communist Party's cultural commission), are the subject of Wald's ongoing reclamation project. Although the territory has been mapped out by two standard texts, Daniel Aaron's Writers on the Left: Episodes in American Literary Communism and Walter Rideout's The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954, both of which are still in print, Wald's enterprise is distinguished by his sympathy for his writers' existential struggle and his expansive notion of the field.
Trinity of Passion is the middle panel of a triptych initiated in 2002 with Exiles From a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left. Vague sense of an exotic bestiary: The title of Exiles is borrowed from a posthumous collection of poems by the sick, starving and extremely obscure Sol Funaroff, whom Wald dubs the "Apollinaire of the Proletariat." The book itself begins with a portrait of a "strange communist," namely, the pulp novelist turned Hollywood screenwriter Guy Endore, who, the script for The Story of GI Joe notwithstanding, will be longest remembered for his 1933 bestselling costume horror novel, The Werewolf of Paris, strategically set against the backdrop of the 1871 Commune. Endore's most enduring work may be the most extreme and fanciful example of politically conscious paperback writing that Wald discusses, but it is by no means the only one.


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BUDA — For many former students of one-room schoolhouses, their school days are the stuff of distant memories and perhaps a faded photograph or two.
For Sharon Hanley Wilson, her school days are no farther away than her own backyard.
Wilson only attended the school from 1949 until it closed in 1952, but her roots run deep. She was the 14th person and the fourth generation of her family to attend the school, which was built in 1856 two miles south of Buda. It was one of nine, one-room schools located in Macon Township.
The building had been located on Route 40, two miles south of Buda. After the school closed in 1952, Macon Township purchased the school and one acre of land, and used the schoolhouse as a meeting hall and voting location.
In 1984, the school was vacated.
"In 1985 they started rumors where they were going to tear it down because they wanted to build that metal building," Wilson said. "Luckily my dad was still here, and he said, 'No, you're not tearing that building down.' This is the only historic building in Macon Township. We don't have a town, so this was the town, church, meeting hall, voting, everything."
Wilson said the township bought more land for their building, but the schoolhouse wasn't being maintained.
"I saw the writing on the wall," she said. "Luckily I was here, and I had a place to put it."
That "place" turned out to be one-quarter of a mile south on her parents' farm. Wilson had the school moved in 1990. After restoring it, she opened it to friends and former students in the fall of 1991.
Much of the school is the same as when Wilson and her classmates attended. The floor, lights and ceiling are the same, as is the pot-bellied stove where students used to heat potatoes for their lunch.
"The school desks that were here happened to be at the red brick schoolhouse back at the Lovejoy, and they told me I could have them if I could find duplicates," Wilson said.
Wilson had only one classmate — Merrill Marquis — in first and second grade, and there were a total of 14 students the year she started school. She said her teacher, Wilma Maxy, would start the day teaching her and Merrill to read and write.
"Then she would send us back to our desks to do our assignments," Wilson said. "While she spent time with the other students, she would give permission to the lower grades to spend time behind the piano to play house."
Wilson said she remembers the teacher doing her best to educate the students.
"I believe the teacher did a remarkable job with her insurmountable task to prepare us all for the school years ahead of us," she said.
Wilson has all the teachers' grade books from 1856-1952, and she has put together a book with all their names, the years they attended, the salaries of the teachers, and other tidbits of information on Bunker Hill. She has also collected recollections from many former students about their days at the school.
Although she only attended the school for a few years, Wilson said she has a lot of good memories.
"I'm just thankful that I had that experience," she said. "I wouldn't take a million dollars for it.'
Although she has added many family heirlooms to the display in the school, Wilson said she doesn't feel like it's her school.
"I feel like I was put here for a reason, and one of the reasons was to save this and to share it," she said. "Whatever I do in life, if they say nothing more on my epitaph than I saved Bunker Hill School, I'll be happy."
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January 03. 2014 9:13PM
Nashua man faces reckless conduct counts in shooting
— A city man has been arrested for allegedly firing a gun at a Vernon Street residence last May.
Anthony Perkins, 28, of 38 Amherst St., Unit 4, has been charged with three counts of reckless conduct for the May 25, 2013, incident.
Police say that Perkins allegedly drove by the residence and discharged multiple rounds from a firearm — three of which entered the residence where there were five occupants. No one was injured in the shooting.
Perkins, who is being held at the Rockingham County House of Corrections on unrelated charges, was arrested last week for the May shooting. An alleged accomplice, Derek Dignan, 28, with no fixed address, was arrested earlier in December for the same incident. He was charged with criminal liability to reckless conduct.
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Mississippi residents are marvelling that no one died after a powerful tornado tore a path across at least three counties, injuring more than 80 people. Officials said several circumstances converged to ensure no lives were lost in what should have been a deadly storm: Sirens and TV broadcasts gave people as much as 30 minutes of warning; the University of Southern Mississippi was emptier than usual because of Mardi Gras; and most businesses were either closed or quiet because it was a Sunday.
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Congratulations on your gift card, Brent! My husband and I got one of these each, and each one worked out to be worth $40. But the fact that the selection is so limited does indeed put a bit of a damper on it. I had hoped to use mine to pre-order their fabulous Asajj Ventress, but she's already sold out!I have no idea how the "second chance" thing works, alas, but as evenflow suggests, it probably isn't something to hold one's breath about. These cards do have an expiration date, after all (mine were 12/31/07).Good luck and happy shopping, though, and once again congratulations! $30 is nothing to sneeze at!... the Findswoman
My husband and I got one of these each, and each one worked out to be worth $40.
I walked out with a good fist full of these puppies. One for $50, four for $40, two for $30, four for $20, and four for $10. I think I may have to branch out with these and try to pick up a Buffy/Angel Figure since the SW selection is rather slim.
How the heck did you get so many??? I got one from the floor ($10) and one from the fan club breakfast ($10). I am hoping the military line goes in the gift card grouping....otherwise, I'll never use it.
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If you recognize Jake Abel, you might find yourself with the unconscious urge to punch him. The 25-year-old actor has been working in movies and TV for a decade, but with blond hair and good looks he's inevitably wound up playing the bully, in The Lovely Bones and Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief (and the upcoming sequel) and the short-lived attempt at another sci-fi teen series, I Am Number Four.
In another sci-fi tinged movie aimed at teens, though, Abel finally gets the chance to show his softer side, playing Ian O'Shea in The Host. As one of the few humans left alive after an alien species has colonized earth, Ian is as shocked as anyone when Melanie (Saoirse Ronan) arrives at humanity's last hideout while taken over by Wanderer, the alien Soul now living inside Melanie's body. But Ian's even more shocked when he starts to fall for Wanderer, kicking off one of the most unexpected love triangles in recent movie memory.
Abel, who has been on a relentless press tour with co-star Max Irons (the third point of that love triangle), spoke to me earlier this week on the final leg of the press tour in New York City. I asked him about his experience beating up Mark Wahlberg in The Lovely Bones, how he deals with the crazy pressure of auditioning in a room full of other guys, what it's like to have a role in a would-be franchise that just doesn't work out, and which celebrity got him to wait in line for an autograph. You can see him in The Host everywhere this weekend. It was fun looking you up, seeing that you had been with Saoirse in The Lovely Bones and seeing the clip of you beating up Mark Wahlberg.
Not many people get to beat up Mark Wahlberg.
I know, right?? He usually does the beating up.
He's the ass-kicker.
Having moved on from that, do you feel that's your badass peak?
I hope not. You what's funny is they were so adamant, "Do not hit Mark. Do not touch him. You can beat the shit out of the stunt double, but do not touch Mark." I'm like, "OK, OK, OK…" So, we choreographed it, it was a pretty brutal scene. I mean I take the baseball bat and pick him up and I punch him and they're like, "Don't hit him." Then I gave him, like a little love tap on the way up. I clipped him with my fist, right? And in that scene, AJ Michalka pulls me off, and this particular take Saoirse's in the gazebo and fans are blowing. So AJ pulls me off and we have to lie on the ground while Saoirse has this moment, this pushing moment and the whole time I was lying on the ground, thinking, "I just fucking hit him. I just hit Mark Wahlberg," and by the time I looked up and he looked up and was like [makes a thumbs up gesture]. If he knew people were that stressed about not hitting him, he'd be like, "Fuck off. Do what you have to do," cause he's a Boston boy.
He wouldn't have done The Fighter two years later.
Yeah, he's going to be fine. I'm not going to hurt Mark Wahlberg, but it was fun. It was really fun to be one of the few who got to hit him.
You and Max Irons and Boyd Holbrook are all about same age and auditioning for the same parts and going out and competing against each other, even for this film. Do you feel like you're able to foster camaraderie despite that, because there's a sense that on the next job you'll be there opposite each other in the audition room again?
I mean, you know, yeah, day one you're competing with thousands of guys and regardless if you get to know them or not. I think it is possible to be friends even if you're competing. You know, there's so many guys in rooms that try to psych each other out and it doesn't work. It only hinders their work.
Max was telling me about being in this audition room where a guy took off his shirt and started doing push-ups to intimidate the competition. Do you have anything that crazy that you've seen?
Nothing like that. I tend to leave the room, to be honest. I go in, I sign out, then I try to go outside or in the hallway, because there are those guys that do the weird shit or they'll just try to talk to you and that might be nerves and that's fine and sometimes it's cool, but sometimes you want to be in your own space and do your own thing and get on with it. But, I see friends in audition rooms all the time and it's great. It's a great place to catch up because you hardly get to see them. And you realize at this point getting cast has nothing to do, really a lot of times, with your talent, you know... He's tall and we want a short guy. He's blond and we want a guy with red hair, you know? So you go in and you just do your job and you really can't control it.
Are you better now at dealing with that process than you were when you started?
I mean, listen, the audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't. You just have to go in and pay your dues and read. Auditioning is the worst part. It's absolutely the worst part. My mentor [acting coach Morgan Sheppard] says, you know, booking the audition is hitting the home run. Filming the movie is just rounding the bases. That's where the fun is, but all of the work. the stressful work is in the audition room, because you have such a small amount of time to go in, such a small amount of room to prepare usually, a day, to create a fully complex, developed person and show it in three scenes that are pulled from the script. It sucks. It sucks.


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EVERETT, Wash., June 27 (UPI) -- Boeing has begun production of its first KC-46A aerial refueling tanker for the U.S. Air Force with the loading of the aircraft's first wing spar.
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The KC-46A is based on the company's commercial 767-200ER airframe, and Boeing said workers at its 767 production line are gearing up for assembly of the next-generation tanker's aft and forward body structures, which will take place in November.
Installation of military-unique systems on the aircraft will begin in June and first flight for the fully provisioned tanker is scheduled for early 2015.
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Hull FC fans have snapped up over 15,000 tickets already for the Ladbrokes Challenge Cup Final, whilst the Rugby Football League have managed to release a small number of additional seats.
With tickets in hot demand for the match at Wembley on Saturday 26th August, the Rugby Football League have worked with the club to make a small number of additional tickets available in the western end of the ground where Hull fans will be seated.
These can be seen here on the stadium plan can be found at www.hullfc.com, marked in yellow.
The Black and Whites will take on Wigan Warriors in the nation's capital at the end of the month and tickets have been snapped up by supporters ever since they went on sale on Monday.
Over 15,000 tickets have been snapped up for @TheChallengeCup final and the RFL have now released some extra seats!https://t.co/pWtCzsT3cX pic.twitter.com/i6MCBoYVXF— Hull FC (@hullfcofficial) August 3, 2017
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The reigning Cup holders' allocation of tickets went on sale exclusively to members on Monday at 9am and completely sold out in just three days.
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Since Intel provides and supports open source drivers, Intel graphics are now essentially plug-and-play.
- 1 Models
- 2 Installation
- 3 Configuration
- 4 KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
- 5 Tips and tricks
- 6 Troubleshooting
- 7 See also
It is a popular mistake to think of "Intel 945G" and "Intel GMA 945" as being the same graphics chip with different names. As a matter of fact, the latter does not exist. Intel uses "GMA" to indicate the graphics core, or the GPU. Anything other than that is actually the model of the motherboard chipset, like "915G", "945GM", "G965" or "G45".
The more common GPUs and their corresponding motherboard chipsets are:
GPU Chipset/Northbridge Intel GMA 900 910, 915 Intel GMA 950 945
The "i810" chipset (again, motherboard; not GPU) is actually really old and was manufactured long before the 9xx product line with which the GMA onboard-graphics branding began. Similarly, alternative names for the 910, 915 and 945 chips may include the
i prefix.
See this for a list.
Prerequisite: Xorg
Install either the xf86-video-intel-sna or xf86-video-intel-uxa package which are available in the official repositories. SNA is recommended especially for Sandy Bridge CPUs and newer according to recent benchmarks done by Phoronix [1]. These can be found here for Sandy Bridge and here for Ivy Bridge. UXA is still a solid option, if experiencing trouble with SNA.
You may need to install lib32-intel-dri in 64-bit systems to use acceleration in 32-bit programs.
There is no need for any kind of configuration to get the Xorg running (an
xorg.conf is unneeded, but needs to be configured correctly if present).
One thing that you should have already done from the start (not a configuration step per se) is to add your user to the relevant group:
# gpasswd -a username video
KMS (Kernel Mode Setting)
KMS is required in order to run X and a desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, etc. KMS is supported by Intel chipsets that use the i915 DRM driver and is enabled by default as of kernel v2.6.32. Versions 2.10 and newer of the xf86-video-intel driver no longer support UMS, making the use of KMS mandatory[2]. KMS is typically initialized after the kernel is bootstrapped. It is possible, however, to enable KMS during bootstrap itself, allowing the entire boot process to run at the native resolution.
vga or
nomodeset from your boot configuration.
To proceed, add the
i915 module to the
MODULES line in
i915 to the
MODULES array in
/etc/mkinitcpio.conf will likely cause the error
kernel: intel ips [...]: failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled.
intel_agp module too if the system complains at boot time.
Now, regenerate the initramfs:
# mkinitcpio -p linux
and reboot the system. Everything should work now.
Tips and tricks
Setting scaling mode
This can be useful for some full screen applications:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --set PANEL_FITTING param
param can be:
center: resolution will be kept exactly as defined, no scaling will be made,
full: scale the resolution so it uses the entire screen or
full_aspect: scale the resolution to the maximum possible but keep the aspect ratio.
If it does not work, you can try:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --set "scaling mode" param
param is one of
"Center" or
"Full aspect".
KMS Issue: console is limited to small area
One of the low-resolution video ports may be enabled on boot which is causing the terminal to utilize a small area of the screen. To fix, explicitly disable the port with an i915 module setting with
video=SVIDEO-1:d as you kernel command line parameter in your bootloader. See Boot Loader#Kernel parameters for more info.
If that does not work, you may also try disabling TV1 or VGA1 instead of SVIDEO-1.
Hardware video acceleration
If you want to enable hardware accelerated video decode/encode in multimedia applications (such as VLC or MPlayer) for Intel HD graphics controllers (Ivybridge, Sandybridge), install the libva-driver-intel package, available in the Official Repositories.
For G45 (X4500MHD) you need (libva-g45-h264AUR) and (libva-driver-intel-g45-h264AUR) from AUR, because for G45 Intel provides hardware video acceleration with h264 enabled support only via "g45-h264" branch - for more info http://intellinuxgraphics.org/h264.html). vlc and mplayer-vaapi works very well, (gstreamer-vaapiAUR) with G45 is currently broken.
To take advantage of VA-API, use a VAAPI supported video player. If you use mplayer, install mplayer-vaapi, and use -vo vaapi parameter. To enable hardware video decoding in flash, add
EnableLinuxHWVideoDecode=1 to
/etc/adobe/mms.cfg. If hardware video decoding is still not working, you can also try adding
OverrideGPUValidation = 1.
Setting gamma and brightness
Intel offers no way to adjust these at the driver level. Luckily these can be set with
xgamma and
Gamma can be set with:
xgamma -gamma 1.0
xrandr --output VGA1 --gamma 1.0:1.0:1.0
Brightness can be set with:
xrandr --output VGA1 --brightness 1.0
Glxgears shows low performance results
glxgears is not a benchmark tool for performance comparison between multiple systems.
If you run
glxgears in order to check your system's graphics performance, you may notice it showing results around 60 FPS. For example:
[...] 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 61.973 FPS 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.064 FPS 311 frames in 5.0 seconds = 62.026 FPS [...]
That is not caused by performance regression, but because the system graphics are using vertical synchronization, which is your display's native frames per second.
Disable VSYNC
To disable VSYNC just add in your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf in
Section "Device" the string
Option "SwapbuffersWait" "false".
Alternatively, set
vblank_mode to
0 in
~/.drirc and make sure that
driver is set to
<device screen="0" driver="dri2"> <application name="Default"> <option name="vblank_mode" value="0"/> </application> </device>
Blank screen during boot, when "Loading modules"
If you are using "late start" KMS and the screen goes blank when "Loading modules", it may help to add
i915 and
intel_agp to the initramfs. See KMS above.
Alternatively, appending the following to the kernel command line seems to work as well:
Only a single low-resolution present
If Xorg starts with 800x600 and does not find any other resolutions, it may be because you have an
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file left over from your NVIDIA setup. Simply changing the driver from "nvidia" to "intel" is not sufficient when moving from NVIDIA's
xorg.conf to Intel's. Try to delete
/etc/X11/xorg.conf, letting the driver pick the settings itself.
Video tearing
You can likely fix video tearing by enabling hardware video acceleration.
X freeze/crash with intel driver
If you have issue with X crashing, or GPU hang, or problem with frozen X, then the fix may be to use the "Shadow" option:
Section "Device" Identifier "old intel stuff" Driver "intel" Option "Shadow" "True" Option "DRI" "false" EndSection
Because it disables (most) video acceleration functions, using this fix (Option "Shadow" "True") may cause problems with gnome-screenshot and similar programs like gimp, or gcolor2.
Another option that can help on some implementations is to enable semaphores in the kernel video driver, by adding
i915.semaphores=1 to the kernel command line. To make this change permanent on GRUB2 installations, changing the kernel command-line entry in
/etc/default/grub and re-running
grub-mkconfig will make that change permanent.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash i915.semaphores=1"
Adding undetected resolutions
This issue is covered on the Xrandr page.
See also
- http://intellinuxgraphics.org/documentation.html (includes a list of supported hardware)
- KMS — Arch wiki article on kernel mode setting
- Xrandr — If you have problems setting the resolution
- Arch Linux forums: Intel 945GM, Xorg, Kernel - performance


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Big Rapids, Mich. - The Ferris State University women's volleyball team bounced back to hand Hillsdale its first home loss in 35 months with a 3-0 decision on Saturday (Sept. 15) afternoon at Jesse Philips Arena in Hillsdale, Mich.
The 19th-ranked Bulldogs, who fell in a 3-2 heartbreaker at Northwood on Friday night, improved to 7-3 overall and 1-1 in the GLIAC with the victory.
FSU took the opening set 25-21 and then reeled off victories of 25-22 and 25-12 in the second and third frames, respectively.
Hillsdale fell to 2-8 overall and 1-1 in conference action with the setback, which came after they had opened league play with a win over Grand Valley State on Friday night.
The Bulldogs were led by senior middle hitter Anne Sutton's match-high 14 kills. Freshman outside hitter Megan Vander Meer added 12 kills and seven digs with sophomore outside hitter Courtney Rehm contributing 11 kills and 10 digs.
FSU also received 17 digs by junior libero Brandie Merren and senior setter Samantha Fordyce tallied 35 assists.
Ferris State hit .349 for the match with 47 kills on 106 total attacks. The Bulldogs also managed 50 digs, seven total blocks and two service aces.
Meanwhile, Hillsdale was led by Jenalle Beaman's eight kills. Bailey Lindner totaled 14 digs and Sydney Lenhart posted 17 assits.
FSU held the Chargers to a .148 attack percentage and 35 total kills. The Chargers finished with 41 digs, six blocks and four aces.
Ferris State returns home next weekend to continue league play as the Bulldogs host conference newcomers Walsh and Malone on Friday and Saturday (Sept. 21-22), respectively. FSU opens the weekend versus Walsh on Friday at 7 p.m. inside the Ewigleben Sports Arena.


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Ramah Byall Smith, 93, of Gosport, IN, died September 21, 2010 in Indianapolis, IN at the Methodist Hospital Yellow Rose Unit, Clarian Health Hospice.
She was born in Chicago, IL on November 14, 1916. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman W. Byall of Hobart, IN. She graduated from the Purdue University School of Pharmacy in 1939. Ramah was employed by Wm. H. Block Co. as head of the Pharmacy Department and Assistant Buyer of the Cosmetics Department. She also worked at Binkley's Pharmacy in Broad Ripple. Ramah married James R. Smith of Gosport on December 1, 1951. She enjoyed her many friendships as a member of the Kappa Kappa Sigma Sorority and the Fortnightly Club of Gosport.
Ramah is survived by her two daughters, Jo Ellen Rust (John Philip) of Speedway, IN and Trudy Lynn Rust (James Bryan) of North Granby, CT. She has four grandsons, James Philip Rust and Charles Spencer Rust, both of Speedway, and Bryan Thomas Rust and Owen James Rust of North Granby.
She was preceded in death by her father, Sherman William Byall; mother, Nellie Herr Byall; sister, Shirley Eileen Denton (Charles); and husband, James Russell Smith.
Funeral Services will be held at Chandler Funeral Home-Whitaker Chapel in Gosport on Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. Burial will follow at Gosport Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 25, and one hour prior to services on Sunday. Condolences may be sent to the family at: www.chandlerfh.com.
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