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Fiscal cliff could cost hundreds of thousands of federal jobs
December 08. 2012 8:41PM
WASHINGTON (MCT) - Along with lawmakers and policy wonks, the unions that represent federal employees foresee worse consequences from the "fiscal cliff" than merely hundreds of thousands of workers losing their jobs.
The magnitude of losses to the labor force if Congress and the White House can't reach a deal to avert $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts would undermine the nation's economy by crippling airports, federal courts and food processing plants and would jeopardize safety at federal prisons, lawmakers and policy experts say.
"I'm astounded that people haven't estimated this and thought through the consequences more clearly," said Scott Lilly, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, who formerly served as clerk and staff director of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee.
Hitting the so-called fiscal cliff would send the economy back into recession and cause unemployment to surge to 9.1 percent by the end of next year, according to a report Nov. 8 from the Congressional Budget Office, the independent budget arm of Congress.
The CBO estimates that the economy would shrink by 0.5 percent next year if all the tax increases and spending cuts are enacted.
The budget cuts, known formally as sequestration, would be felt across the country. An estimated 85 percent of the federal workforce lives and works outside the Washington beltway, according to William Dougan, the chairman of the Federal Workers Alliance, a collective effort of 22 unions that represent more than 300,000 federal employees.
"If sequestration kicks in, that will be the biggest threat to the federal workforce," Dougan said.
An estimated 277,000 federal workers and 470,000 federal contractors might lose their jobs in the next 12 months, according to a study by George Mason University, as part of cuts stipulated in the Budget Control Act of 2011, which was signed to raise the federal borrowing limit.
The District of Columbia and nine states - including California, Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania - are particularly vulnerable to federal spending cuts, as they account for more than half the expected job losses, the report found. The other states are Virginia, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts and Georgia.
Facing huge federal deficits for years to come, however, policymakers need to look more closely at trimming some of $200 billion annually spent in federal pay, according to Chris Edwards, the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian policy group.
He said excessive growth of the federal workforce, combined with overly generous benefits, kept its employees on "an elite island of secure and high-paid workers." It's time for some restraint, he said.
"We got a trillion-dollar deficit," Edwards said. "We have to cut every area of the budget. So we ought to cut federal pay.
"Or we ought to at least freeze federal pay."
The Department of Labor and other agencies have referred questions about department impacts to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
Calls to the OMB weren't returned, but an agency report says there's "no question that the sequestration would be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments and core government functions."
A worst-case scenario includes as many as 100 airports shutting down because of a lack of air traffic controllers, meat processing plants closing because of lost food inspectors and unsafe prisons because of lost guards, Lilly said.


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UL Women Host Middle Tennessee In Sun Belt Conference Opener
Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun women's basketball team returns to action on Saturday afternoon at Earl K. Long Gym, when they play host to the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, in the Sun Belt Conference opener for both teams.
Louisiana fell to Nicholls St., 71-62, on Monday, dropping the Cajuns to 2-2 on the year, while Middle Tennessee was last in action on Tuesday night, when they defeated Tennessee Tech, 65-59, in overtime, improving the Blue Raiders to 3-1.
The Cajuns are led by freshman guard Sylvana Okde, who is averaging 14.3 points-per-game, while junior forward Ebony Rowe paces the Blue Raiders, at 19.5 points a contest.
Middle Tennessee has won all 17 meetings between the two schools, including a 104-53 win over the Cajuns last year.
Tip-off time is scheduled for noon at Earl K. Long Gym.
You can hear all the play-by-play action on Sports Radio ESPN 1420, and espn1420.com, beginning with the pre-game show at 11:45 am.

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text: Stefan Reinauer (stefan.reinauer at coreboot.org) just uploaded a new patch set to gerrit, which you can find at http://review.coreboot.org/693 -gerrit commit 8dd4a750815b2a52a40b8439ec17a854f04fb649 Author: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer at chromium.org> Date: Wed May 11 15:57:07 2011 -0700 Don't try to compute I/O for empty sub buses. I am not sure if the sub bus being 0 is a problem, or if the assumption there has to be at least one non empty link is just wrong. It certainly does not hurt to add a small consistency check in either case. Change-Id: I098446deef96a8baae26a7ca1ddd96e626a06dc5 Signed-off-by: Stefan Reinauer <reinauer at google.com> --- src/devices/device_util.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/devices/device_util.c b/src/devices/device_util.c index 9081a36..47cf988 100644 --- a/src/devices/device_util.c +++ b/src/devices/device_util.c @@ -583,6 +583,8 @@ void search_bus_resources(struct bus *bus, unsigned long type_mask, if (subbus->link_num == IOINDEX_SUBTRACTIVE_LINK(res->index)) break; + if (!subbus) /* Why can subbus be NULL? */ + break; search_bus_resources(subbus, type_mask, type, search, gp); continue;


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By Curtis Skinner
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The percentage of Americans without health insurance dipped to its lowest in nearly six years due in part to U.S. President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law, commonly known as Obamacare, according to a Gallup poll released on Monday.
Some 15.6 percent of Americans lacked health insurance in the first three months of 2014, down from a high of 18 percent in late 2013, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey.
"'Obamacare' appears to be accomplishing its goal of increasing the percentage of Americans with health insurance coverage," the report said.
Black and low-income Americans saw some of the most pronounced drops in the uninsured rate, with declines of more than 3 percentage points.
Hispanics remained the group most likely not to be insured, with more than one in three individuals lacking coverage, though the level dropped nearly 2 points in the first quarter, according to the poll of 43,500 adult Americans between January and March. It has a margin of error of 1 percentage point.
The percentage of Americans without health insurance has generally trended upward over the past six years. Gallup began tracking insurance coverage in 2008, starting at a low of 14.5 percent and increasing every subsequent year except for 2012.
Obamacare's individual mandate, which requires most Americans to obtain coverage or face a fine, went into effect in January and the law's first enrollment period ended March 31. The government granted a deadline extension into April for those who faced technical difficulties while signing up.
The White House last week reported a total of 7.1 million private insurance enrollments through the Affordable Care Act's health insurance exchanges, exceeding most expectations, despite a troubled rollout in October 2013.
An additional 3 million signed up for Medicaid, government-provided health insurance for low-income people, the administration said Friday, bringing the total number of sign-ups to over 10 million.
Republicans have consistently campaigned against the law, making at least 50 attempts to repeal it since it was signed in 2010. Opposition to Obamacare also figures prominently in many 2014 midterm Congressional campaigns.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has not yet released its April enrollment report, Gallup researchers said, but the survey's findings matched the government's last figures.
(Editing by Scott Malone and Bernadette Baum)


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Cilk Plus Installation Guide
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* '''Online Resources'''
* '''Online Resources'''
# Open source Cilk Plus website: http://www.cilkplus.org/
# Open source Cilk Plus website: http://www.cilkplus.org/
# Commercial Cilk Plus website: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-cilk-plus
# Commercial Cilk Plus website: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-cilk-plus
Revision as of 23:53, 11 December 2012
Intel provides a suite of tools for programming Cilk-based programs. The tool set contains the Intel compiler ICC, the parallelism checker Cilkview, the race condition reporter Cilkscreen, the binary-level instrumentation gadget Pintool, the fine-level instrumentation tool Cilkprof. Here is a guide to install them on a 64-bit Linux.
- Online Resources
- Open source Cilk Plus website: http://www.cilkplus.org/
- Commercial Cilk Plus website: http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-cilk-plus
- Installation
- Install ICC or GCC: You need a license from Intel® in order to install ICC. A free, open-source version is available in the cilkplus branch of GCC.
- Installing ICC: These instructions assume your shell is bash.
- Go to http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-software-evaluation-center/.
- Select the Linux version of "Intel® C++ Composer XE" (or any Linux product suite listed as containing "Intel® C++ Composer XE") and download the 64-bit version.
- Unpack the downloaded file and run
$ /path/to/unpacked/file/install.sh. To allow all users to access ICC on the system, run this install script as root.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to install ICC.
- To set up your environment variables to use ICC, run
$ source /path/to/intel/bin/compilervars.sh intel64.
- Installing GCC: These instructions walk you through checking out and building the cilkplus branch of GCC. Complete instructions for building GCC from source can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/install/index.html. These instructions will install GCC into a custom directory,
gcc-cilk, so as not to overwrite the existing version of GCC on your system. As a warning, this process takes a while and uses a couple gigabytes of space.
- Check out the latest version of the cilkplus branch of GCC.
$ svn checkout svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus gcc-cilk-src
- Note: I encountered problems with my connection timing out when I tried to check out the repository from http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus instead of svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus. If you encounter similar problems, make sure you are using the "svn" protocol, instead of the "http" protocol. If you have previously checked out the gcc cilkplus source using "http," you can switch your checkout to use "svn" by running
$ svn switch --relocate http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/cilkplus
- in the directory containing your checkout.
- Alternatively, you may check out the repository using git:
$ git clone http://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git gcc-cilk-src
$ cd gcc-cilk-src
$ git checkout -b my_cilkplus_branch origin/cilkplus
$ cd ..
- Create two new directories,
gcc-cilk, in the same directory containing
$ mkdir gcc-cilk-obj gcc-cilk
- Install gmp, mpfr, and mpc on your system.
- Configure GCC as follows:
$ cd gcc-cilk-obj
$ ../gcc-cilk-src/configure --prefix=../gcc-cilk --enable-languages=c,c++
- Note: You may want to add
--disable-multilibto the configuration options if multilib is not installed on your system. Otherwise, you may encounter errors such as:
gnu/stubs-32.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.
- Compile GCC:
$ make
- Install GCC into gcc-cilk:
$ make install
- The new GCC binary is
- Set up environment!
export PATH=path/to/gcc-cilk/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=path/to/gcc-cilk/lib
export LIBRARY_PATH=path/to/gcc-cilk/lib
- Install Cilkview Cilkscreen: Get it from here: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-cilk-plus-software-development-kit/. The include bin directory in PATH.
- Install Pintool: Download pintool from here: http://www.pintool.org/downloads.html. Install.
- Install Cilkprof: You need Pin revision 53271 in order to run Cilkprof. These instructions include instructions on downloading and installing this version of Pin for Cilkprof.
- Change to the directory in which you would like to install Cilkprof.
- Create two new directories,
$ mkdir cilkutil 3rdparty
- Download Pin revision 53271 for Linux from http://www.pintool.org/downloads.html, and place the downloaded archive into
- Download "libzca source to provide access to Cilk metadata with Cilkprof sample tool" from http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-intel-cilk-plus-software-development-kit/, and place the downloaded archives into
- Run
$ cd 3rdpartyand then unpack the Pin archive.
- Rename the folder created from unpacking the archive to
- If you do not have the necessary permissions to access the
intel64subdirectory inside of
pintool, run
$ chmod -R 755 intel64.
- Run
$ cd ../cilkutiland unpack the
libzcaarchive. This will produce a
zcadirectory and a
- Ensure you have the necessary permissions on the unpacked archive directories, using
$ chmod -R 755 *
- Build libzca as follows.
$ cd zca/src
$ make OUT=linux64
- Build cilkprof as follows.
$ cd ../../cilkprof
$ make
- Download the
cilkprofscript from http://web.mit.edu/neboat/www/code/cilkprof, and place it in a directory in your
PATHenvironment variable.
- Set the CILKUTIL environment variable to point to the
cilkutildirectory. For example, if your shell is bash, add the line
export CILKUTIL=/path/to/cilkutilto your
- Usage
- Compile with ICC:
$ icc cilkprogram.cpp -o cilkprogram
- Compile with GCC:
$ g++ cilkprogram.cpp -o cilkprogram -lcilkrts -ldl
- Check parallelism:
$ cilkview ./cilkprogram
- Check race condition:
$ cilkscreen ./cilkprogram
- Pintool: TO BE COMPLETED
- Linux perf tool:
- Show list of counters:
$ perf list
- check L1 data load miss:
$ perf stat -c L1-dcache-load-misses ./cilkprogram
- Show list of counters:
- Cilkprof:
$ cilkprof ./cilkprogram
- This command generates two csv output files,
cilkprogram.cc.csv, containing work and span profiling data for your Cilk program. At this time, the data in these files are most easily perused using your favorite spreadsheet program. For more information on configuring the output of Cilkprof, run
$ cilkprof -h.
- This command generates two csv output files,
- Compile with ICC:


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so many manufactures shipped 8x CDR-W Yamaha released it's own 8x/4x/24x CDR-W.
Can this drive compete existing 8x CDRs ? How good it is ? Find out by reading
the review..
Introduction :
Yamaha is well known to CDR users. In 1990 1st released 2X-speed CDR (100x
series), in 1993 1st released 4X-speed CDR (400x series), in 1997 1st released
4X-speed writing CD Re Writable (4260x series) and in 1998 1st released 4X-speed
re writing CD Re Writable drive (4416x series). When technology reached 4x speed
many people bought for the 1st time CDR-W. Soon competition made 6x CDR and
Yamaha released 6416x series. However by that time competition released
8x CDR and CDR-W (with Sanyo mechanism) but Yamaha didn't had announced any
plans for hi-speed CDR-W drive. Many people thought that this was the end of
Yamaha CDR-W. But Yamaha tech's was working hard to build their own mechanism.
At last before the century ends they released 8424x (some late) to compete other's
8x CDR-W models which already had dominated hi-speed CDR-W World.
Recording Speeds and Times
74 mins / 650 mb
74 mins
37 mins
18.5 mins
12.34 mins
9.25 mins
6.17 mins
New Mechanism from Yamaha:
From previous series Yamaha made mechanism of 8424s from scratch. As they
stated into their press release : ".. completely re-designed for highest
reliability and quality. The new optical head of the Yamaha CRW8424 is designed
by Yamaha to assure optimum recording quality, and reflects their ten years
of experience in the CD recorder industry. On the audio side, the recording
quality of the new CRW8424 creates pure sound reproduction, and its audio extraction
is improved and more accurate.."
What's new?
Technology PPLS (Pure LASER Phase System)
Yamaha developed in particular new technology PPLS (Pure Laser Phase System)
integrated directly in the light unit of the recorder. The adoption of this
technology PPLS makes it possible to strongly increase the signal of recording
and corrects the "Jitter" (deviation compared to the original signal)
from approximately 25% compared to the models Yamaha precedents. This new technology
of optical recording of precision reduces considerably the risks of, corruption
clerical errors of the data and is compatible with the majority of the marks
of medias.
Laser technology triples beam (LASER Beam Triple)
New series CRW8424 in combination with the PPLS, uses a technology Triple
LASER Beam (Beam Triple) in order to guarantee an optimal recording and a perfect
reading of the data. Yamaha 4416 & 6416 series also have triple beam technology
"Beam Triple" offers the following advantages :
Improved tracking performance. The use of Beam Triple improves the follow-up
of track on the CD-R/RW and reduces considerably "Track Jumping"
(jump of track) during the recording and reading of data.
Reduced the appearance of data corruption (CRC error) caused by heat or
a media of average quality.
Quality of recording increased by the use of an electromagnetic optical
structure (magnet floating structure) and not mecanique. (On avoids the
appearance of blocking mechanical (Lock-up)).
RapidLinked for a faster writing in mode UDF Packet Writing
Optimum Power Control (ROPC) for maximized media writing integrity.
The Yamaha integrate a function OPC (Optical Power Control) which makes it possible
to recognize the media automatically, to adapt the LASER according to its characteristics
and at every moment to control the writing of the media for a maximum integrity
of the data (system R-OPC).
Yamaha 8424s CDR-W Specifications :
Scsi 3 (Ultra SCSI)
Transfer Rate
10X-26x CAV read
(1500KB/s - 3600KB/s Data Transfer Rate)
Writing/Reading Speed
Writing : CDR 1x, 4x, 6x, 8x
CDRW 2x,4x
Reading : 24x (max) Full CAV
Note - Data : 10-24x
- CD-DA Extraction : 16x (max)
- Drive can play CD-DA at 1x speed only
- Video-CD : 6.9x (max)
- Disc (session closed) : 24x (max)
(12x max for packet writing)
- Disc (session not closed) : 8x (max)
(6x max for packet writing)
Writing Methods
Disc At Once (DAO)
Session At Once (SAO)
Track At Once (TAO)
Packet Writing
Data Capacity supported
700MB (79min)
650MB (74min)
550MB (63min)
Burst Transfer Rate
5mb/s (max) (asynchronous)
20mb/s (max) (synchronous)
Multi Read, Horizontal, Analog output,
Plug & Play/ SCAM Compatible, Flash ROM
Data Buffer
Supported CD Formats
MODE-2(FORM-1,FORM-2), Multi-Session Photo CD, CD-I, Video-CD, CD Extra,


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Melissa McCarthy & Jason Bateman: 'Identity Thief' Los Angeles Premiere!
Melissa McCarthy keeps it flashy while attending the premiere for her new film Identity Thief on Monday (February 4) in Westwood, Calif.
The 42-year-old actress was accompanied by her husband Ben Falcone.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Melissa McCarthy
Melissa's co-stars Amanda Peet and Jason Bateman, who brought along his wife Amanda Anka, were also spotted attending the premiere.
Melissa is scheduled to promote the film during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Wednesday (February 6)!
15+ pictures inside of Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman attending the Identity Thief premiere…


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For those of you with a penchant for hoodies, owning a pair of headphones is a no-win scenario. On one hand you could wear them under your hood, but that's uncomfortable and annoying. On the other you can wear them over your hood, but at the cost of listening to slightly muffled music. That's no longer going to be a …
The year's best selling vinyl albums so far – few surprises
It's been no secret that the music industry has been suffering of late. Sales of CDs and MP3s are down, and while some people might try and blame piracy, chances are the convenience of streaming services that don't bring in as much profit are likely to blame. But there is a saviour on the horizon, a resurrected musical messiah: the humble …
Attachable iPad Knobs Makes Tablet DJing Easier Than Ever
With the sheer amount of DJ related music apps available on the iPad, it's no wonder that they've started becoming more popular with DJs, professional and amateur alike. The only problem is that as good as any touchscreen might be, it doesn't have the same level of precision as a dial on a mixer. The solution? Stick some dials on the …
Haim top BBC Sound of 2013 list (we told you so…)
Haim have topped the BBC Sound of 2013 list, lining up the Californian power-pop trio for a stellar year. The list (now in its eleventh year), aims to showcase the top bands and artists to keep an eye out for in the year ahead, with previous winners including Adele, Jessie J and Brandish favourite Michael Kiwanuka. Haim, comprised of three …
Top 5 bands to watch in 2013: Haim, Cheatahs, Palma Violets, Savages, Daughter
A new year, a new start, a new favourite band to devote your life to! With 2013 almost upon us, we've hand picked 5 ace new bands to put you ahead of the cool curve next year. Haim, Cheatahs, Palma Violets, Savages and Daughter are all destined for big things in the coming months. Namedrop 'em now and you'll look …
Flaunt your impeccable music taste on the bus with classic album TravelTunes Oyster Card wallets – Manics, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and more!
We've already lost the ability to promote our reading habits on the bust thanks to coverless-Kindles (maybe for the best if you're a Fifty Shades fan…), and there's nothing more obnoxious than blasting out your favourite tunes through a smartphone loudspeaker. The true gent flaunts his impeccable taste in more subtle ways. When it comes to music, how about these …
Can You See it…Which Popstar Has Been Taking Style Cues from Calvin Harris?
Calvin Harris, the Dumfries-born DJ who is often tipped with providing the backing track to the vintage wave of last summer, is currently topping the charts with his 'I'm Not Alone' and while watching his latest video I was suddenly aware of the BOT male's striking similarity to another No. 1 popstar…
The Guardian's Alexis Petridis tries out the Mark Ronson look
Who'd a thunk ol' Petri Dish was on You Tube?! Well here is showing us how to dress like Mark Ronson.
This seems to consist of a Specials-lite look of Ray Bans, retro jacket and pork pie hat. The respected music journalist doesn't always hit the menswear mark, but to his credit he is self-depreciating enough to be loveable… Give it a watch!
Men.Style- 'The Ultimate Party Guide' by The Upgrader
Men.Style is great for tongue-in-cheek features and their
is not only perfectly-timed but a great read and (just to add some sense of validity to this post,) a good laugh. The feature aims to make you "a legendary host" and the site has got a few of America's most refined movers 'n' shakers on-board to add their two pence to the Christmas-party-nightmare cup.
If you are planning to throw a party and you really hope it lives up to the obviously high-expectations of those who actually enjoy Christmas (which I hope is all Brandish readers!) then you have to read the full run-down of the guide after the jump!
Yay or Nay?: Ronnie Wood and Girlfriend Go Matching!
Ever since Ronnie Wood ran off with his 18-year old mistress Ekaterina Ivanova, I have been keeping my eye on the new couple's outfits. Throughout history, scandals have been defined by fashion; Princess Diana's tiger-print swimsuit, Heather Mills' patchwork suit, Monica Lewinsky's 'Blue Dress.'
The Obama Outfit Continues- Benji Madden
I want Barack Obama to become the President of the USA. I do. Honestly.
However, telling you guys is enough for me and I don't feel the need to have his name plastered across each of my outfits.
WISHLIST: Bape 'Panda' Hoodie
This season is one of continued focus on shape; the tulip skirt, the peplum, the over-sized collar. I have always leaned towards a slimmer-fit for hoodies and trousers but this season I plan to try something new. This 'Panda' hoodie from Bape fits the bill perfectly, it is quite baggy and voluminous but it has a fitted waist resulting in a highly fashionable silhouette.
P.Diddy in October issue of L'Uomo Vogue- Opinions?
P. Diddy has graced the cover of L'Uomo Vogue's latest issue and I'm not sure what to think. Not someone who I associate with great style or fashion prowess (despite the cologne and menswear line,) P.Diddy looks a bit naff in my opinion.
But hey, at least he's lost the suglasses for once! Tell us what you think by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com
Love The Look: Mark Ronson at Vivienne Westwood
Mark Ronson has always been a tiptop fashion star and this year has been awash with his sartorial influence. From the stripes and Mod look of early 2008 to the sharp tailoring in kooky fabrics. From the 50s rock-star (read: Elvis) to the fur-clad aristo-geek.
Now, Ronson is taking it upon himself to lead the way with the trapper-hat wearer, 'Lightspeed Champion,' look as first established by our (soon to depart-) Jason Dike.
A1 Bassline
A1 Bassline, you know him right? No? You know- the new face of Bassline House? Seriously? Not even Bassline House? OK well let me start at the beginning- Bassline House, a genre of music which is finally having its day in the sun after having putting in more than its fair term in the clubs of Sheffield and the North West. Older than Garage but (until now) less popular than Gary Glitter the genre is now getting the recognition it deserves and who is the (masked) young face leading the music revolution? None other than our Essex boy A1 Bassline!
Brandish Poll: JT in Frock Horror Scandal?
Being the face of a Givenchy fragrance pretty much cements you as a style star (not that I would know but one must work on assumption when speaking of Britney-dating, ex-N*Sync stars!) Well, I was bitterly disappointed in Justin Timberlake's outfit at the Fashion Rocks concert last week. JT wore a grey blazer from his new 'William Rast' range and a pair of hideous turn-up jeans with an odd silk tie- seemingly cut in half.
Is it just me who's shocked by this lack of style sense? Vote in our poll below!
Brandish Poll: Chris Martin Reads Brandish?
In previous months, I have reported on the possibility that maybe Brandish is read by major celebrities. We preempted Russell Brand's short shorts, the change in mood of Mr Mill's Style Column in the Sunday Time's Style Magazine and now, it appears that our editor Isabelle may have inspired Coldplay frontman Chris Martin's new haircut. Days after claiming skinhead-inspired film 'This Is England' as style inspiration, Chris Martin has appeared at a BBC Radio 2 song session with his previously curly locks shaved off. Simple chance or Sartorial steal?
Anyway, what do you think of this new look? Continue reading to vote in our poll.
More animation with Common and Pharrell
Another animated music video from another hip-hop fashionisto. This time it's Common featuring Pharrell with a minimal video for "Announcement". The animation comes with many an outfit change for the two rappers and many a b-girl for them to rap around, plus check out Common's beard, it's the business.
Kanye West's new video!
Love him or hate him (I hate him if you wanted to know, have I not mentioned before?) but Kanye West is back here on Brandish with a new music video and once again proving that he is a modern Renaissance Man he has directed this latest effort. The video for the song "Good Morning" is animated by influential Japanese artist and animator (obviously) Takashi Murakami and depicts Kanye as the famous bear late for his graduation.
Zoo Magazine: Music Issue 2008- Mick Jagger, Irina Lazareanu, Sean Lennon and Billy Idol
Zoo Magazine has just released its 'music' issue with a set of four great covers. One sees Irina Lazareanu and Sean Lennon staring wide-eyes and iconicly-indie towards the camera. The second cover is just Irina, the third is Mick Jagger with a peek of 64-year old (yet washboard) stomach and the fourth stars Billy Idol.
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Saturday night was girls night (well Victoria, Martha and myself). Victoria made a great meal (Turmeric Chicken which will be posted up here at some point) with some strawberry-lemonade Martini's and for desert was flour-less chocolate cake with home made whipped cream.
Flour-Less Chocolate Cake
4oz Chocolate
1 stick butter
3/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
~ Butter a 9inch cake pan and set aside
~ Set oven to 375°
~ Melt chocolate with butter either over a pan of simmering hot water or in the microwave (I vote for the second option)
~ Beat in sugar and add eggs
~ Whisk well
~ When mixture is well mixed, sift in cocoa powder
~ Whisk well
~ Pour mixture into buttered cake pan and bake for 25 minutes (check at 20)
~ Let cool and enjoy!
Thanks Victoria!!!


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More vaccine info: voters
But was the ballot question accurate?
Oak Park voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved an advisory referendum measure asking health care providers to disclose the list of ingredients in vaccines and provide more information for each injection.
But experts say the question posed on the ballot falsely suggests that vaccinations are dangerous and includes misleading and scientifically inaccurate information.
Moreover, the package inserts that list the ingredients and other information are already available to consumers who ask.
At issue is the mercury-based preservative thimerosol, which has been phased out of most vaccines except the influenza vaccine, though a thimerosal-free version is available. Some groups believe thimerosal is linked to autism, but the connection has been consistently refuted by scientific research.
The nonbinding referendum question included a phrase that asked whether Oak Park residents should be informed that vaccines containing the preservative thimerosol "may contain 3 1/2 times the daily toxic dose of mercury exposure for a 148-pound adult."
Oak Park resident Barbara Mullarkey, who spearheaded the drive to place the referendum measure on the ballot, said her motivation was to increase transparency and awareness about vaccine ingredients.
"It's freedom of information that people want," said Mullarkey, president and founder of the Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition.
But the mercury issue "is considerably more complex than the ballot initiative," said pediatrician Rodney Willoughby, a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases. The mercury amount referred to in the question is a different chemical form from the mercury formerly used in vaccines, he said.
"So this is apples and oranges and appears designed to inflame. The toxicity issues are theoretical and have been robustly rebutted," Willoughby said.
Mullarkey needed just 15 signatures from registered voters and the approval of a simple majority at the Oak Park Township annual meeting in March to get the initiative placed on the ballot.
Oak Park resident Edward Pont, a pediatrician and past president of the Illinois Academy of Pediatrics, was one voter who was surprised — and disheartened — when he saw the question on the ballot.
"The proponents did not, to my knowledge, contact anyone in the local Oak Park pediatrician community or consult any state medical society," Pont said. "To the extent this referendum discourages vaccination, our community's children — both vaccinated and unvaccinated — are at an increased risk of contracting diseases such as meningitis, whooping cough and measles."
Still, despite voter approval, there will be no actual enforcement or impact, said Margaret Provost-Fyfe, director of the Oak Park Department of Public Health.


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It's long been time for this site to get a facelift. Well, now it has one. I've not only changed some of the formatting and colors (yes, I'm fond of purples; it's my site, it will have lots of purple!), but also taken advantage of Blogger's new Pages feature, familiar to anybody who's used Wordpress. The pages are listed up there beneath the site header.
The About and Fiction pages are self-explanatory, but the Selections page probably needs a few words of introduction.
For a couple years now, I've wanted to put together a collection of the nonfiction I've written over the last seven years or so (since a piece of mine about George Saunders appeared in English Journal in May 2003), but I've struggled to come up with a book-length manuscript that is more than just a collection of miscellanea. I could easily put together a collection just of my writings on science fiction, or on film, or general book reviews, or extended essays on writers such as J.M. Coetzee ... but what most excites me is the idea of mixing all of those together and finding some of the connections, echoes, and reverberations.
Thus, the Selections page, which I'm giving the title I've always had for the nonfiction manuscript: Other Choices. One way to read this blog is chronologically. Another way is thematically. Another way is randomly. Each will produce a somewhat different experience, especially if the reader only encounters a few of the hundreds of thousands of words that have been posted here. If I believe in anything it is the power of a reader's creative choice, a reader's freedom and agency, and I try to exercise that in my readings of other people's texts, so I hope to encourage it in the readers of my own. What is invisible, what is unsaid may be as important as what is visible and enunciated. Choices, by definition, imply other choices.
The Selections page is not complete, and will probably never been finished, because I'm not sure what "finished" would be. I'm going to keep playing with what is there, creating various groups of my writings, editing the ones that are there. I hope eventually to put some of the posts together as a single page to encourage folks to read a few at once and find connections that way (and also to give myself some ability to edit and clarify the texts), but for now they're just links to the original posts.
I expect to continue fiddling not only with the Selections page, but also the colors and fonts for the whole site over the next few weeks as I try it out on different computers to see how it all looks. Please don't be alarmed...


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Jennifer Lawrence: Brewing Oscar Backlash
It's starting. Oooh, is it starting?
When Jennifer Lawrence appeared on the red carpet in red, a colour she'd worn at the Oscars before, people sighed on Twitter. When she tripped, like she did last year, people snarked, "Oh, here we go again".
It's begun.
When she did her interview with ABC and was asked about her dress, as she has been each and every time she has shown up at one of these things, and someone quite rightly said "Is it Dior?" she went "Ya think?"
And I rolled my eyes. I didn't want to, but I did. And then, when she came out onstage, nattering all "What are you looking at?", everyone else rolled their eyes. It does seem a little bit like America's Sweetheart is growing tired of her role, waving and smiling, and is finding slightly more abrasive ways to be a goofball. We said it last year – that as she was so buoyed up, she was going to have to come down at some point. But it took just about until now.
Will she be happy to pass the literal and figurative torch to Lupita Nyong'o for a while, or will she reinvent herself when the Mockingjay press tour comes around so we love her again?
Incidentally, I realized how fragmented the shots I've seen of her dress were. When I look at it in an actual proper shot, which is few and far between, I have to admit that it fits her like a dream and that she's wearing that haircut like little Cinderella birds came and cut it for her. I'm still charmed... but let's wait to see what a second act looks like. If she can still pull stuff like this:
...Then she'll transition just fine.
Oh, and we'll also pay attention to whether Nicholas Hoult is with her. He was there during the Oscar telecast and looked mildly terrified whenever the front row action came too close to them but the Vanity Fair pictures show her alone. Maybe he was inside getting into some In N Out while she changed into this mosaic dress thing. Maybe?
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2005 Dodge Power Wagon - Something DifferentPosted in Features on March 1, 2013
It's unusual to see a late model, heavily modified, fullsize Dodge truck on the trail. And it's even rarer when that truck is a Power Wagon.
This '05 Dodge Power Wagon belongs to Jason Smith of Foresthill, California, which is an area conveniently located approximately an hour's drive from the legendary, mega-tough Fordyce Trail in northern California. Ironically, we found Smith and his rig in another legendary wheeling area, Johnson Valley, California.
How he ended up with a built Power Wagon began with his desire to build something unusual. "My goal was to build something different than a Jeep from the start," he says. A few runs over Fordyce Trail was the catalyst to significantly rework the Power Wagon. "After wheeling there a few times I quickly realized I needed something really bombproof as to not break. I spent my first few trips on the trail broken and stranded while the vehicle was stock and lifted," Smith says.
Smith turned to the team at Predator Offroad in Auburn, California. He had an idea of what he wanted the truck to look like and he asked Predator to make it happen. Oh, and he wanted it to not break. The result of those requests is the truck you see here. It's built to be mega-functional and bulletproof and it's clearly something different.
One of the first things you probably notice about the Power Wagon is its stubby length. Since length can be hindrance on the trail, 20 inches was taken out of the frame in front of and behind the rear axle. The rig is tall, but to help protect the rig's rockers a pair of rock sliders were added and they're made from 2.5-inch-diameter, 0.188-inch-wall DOM tubing. The front bumper is made from 3⁄16-inch steel plate and it helps to protect the front of the rig. The bumper has cutouts for the factory tow hooks as well as a hawse fairlead for the Master Pull ½-inch-diameter synthetic winch rope that spools from the Power Wagon-spec Warn 12,000-pound winch. The cool half-doors are made from 2-inch-diameter, 0.120-inch-wall DOM tubing. They mount to the factory door hinge points and are equipped with latches. The custom bed structure was designed to be fat-free and it was made mostly from a combination of 2.375-inch-diameter, 0.188-inch-wall and 2-inch-diameter, 0.120-inch-wall DOM tubing. The bed surfaces are made from 1⁄8-inch-thick 6061 aluminum. At night Smith can light up the trail thanks to the OE headlights, a pair of 4-inch-diameter KC HiLites mounted behind the grille, a pair of rear-facing Rigid Industries rollbar-mounted LED lights, and six NAPA LED lights mounted underneath the truck in various directions. The rig rolls on a set of rockcrawl-ready 39x13.50R17 BFGoodrich Krawler T/A KX tires mounted on 8.5-inch-wide TrailReady beadlock wheels.
The stock AAM front axle is gone, replaced by a Predator Offroad-assembled axle that uses a stout Spidertrax Pro Series housing and Pro Series 60 knuckles with an ARB Air Locker and Sierra Gear & Axle-sourced 5.38 gears. Carrying the power to the wheels is a set of Spidertrax 300M chromoly axleshafts fitted with CTM U-joints and a pair of Dynatrac DynaLoc manual hubs. The brakes are Power Wagon-spec and the calipers are affixed using custom brackets. A PSC hydraulic-assist kit was installed to help point the big 39-inch tires. The rest of the steering system consists of a steering box from a Dodge 5500 truck, the stock Power Wagon pitman arm, and a custom drag link and tie rod made from 1.75-inch-diameter, 0.188-inch-wall tubing with chromoly spherical rod ends. The flexy four-link suspension system uses King coilovers, spherical rod-ended upper links made from 1.75-inch-diameter, 0.188-inch-wall tubing and spherical rod-ended lower links made from 2.375-inch-diameter, 0.191-inch-wall tubing. A 1.5-inch-diameter, 0.188-inch-wall track bar with spherical rod ends locates the axle laterally. A pair of Kartek Off Road limiting straps keeps the suspension from overextending.
At A Glance
Vehicle: 2005 Dodge Power Wagon
Owner: Jason Smith
Stomping grounds: Foresthill, California
Build time: 1 year
Engine: Chrysler 5.7L Hemi V-8, K&N cold air intake, 3.5-in-diameter exhaust w/Flowmaster muffler
Transmission: 5-45RFE 5-spd automatic
Transfer case(s): Advance Adapters Atlas 2
Low range ratio(s): 4.3:1
Crawl ratio(s): 69.4:1
Front axle/differential: Spidertrax Pro Series housing, Spidertrax axleshafts, Spidertrax Pro Series 60 knuckles, CTM U-joints, Dynatrac DynaLoc manual hubs/Sierra Gear & Axle 5.38 gears, ARB Air Locker
Rear axle/differential: GM 14-bolt, Sierra Gear & Axle chromoly axleshafts/Sierra Gear & Axle 5.38 gears, ARB Air Locker
Front: Four-link, King 2.5-in 16-in-travel internal-bypass remote-reservoir coilovers, track bar, Kartek Off Road limiting straps
Rear: Four-link, King 2.5-in 16-in-travel internal-bypass remote-reservoir coilovers, track bar, Kartek Off Road limiting straps
Steering: Dodge 5500 steering box, Power Wagon pitman arm, PSC hydraulic-assist ram, custom drag link and tie rod
Tires: 39x13.50R17 BFGoodrich Krawler T/A KX
Wheels: 17x8.5 TrailReady beadlock
Armor: Custom front bumper, custom rock sliders, T-case skidplate
Cool stuff: Shortened overall length, custom bed, lots of exterior lighting, front-mounted Warn 12,000-pound winch, rear-mounted Warn 8,000-pound winch, custom tube doors


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Sometimes everything just comes together.
It did this morning at community missions, down on the basement level of our building. I try to go down there every Wednesday morning to greet our homeless neighbors and make them feel welcome. I usually share a thought and say a prayer. I don't always know what my "thought" is going to be until it's time to speak, but this morning everything came together.
I was watching people come in from outside, shaking the rain off their caps and jackets. I knew that it wouldn't be long before they start to come in shivering from the cold. So when Brenda Andrews announced (confidently) that I was going to share a good word I began to tell them about David.
For four weeks now on Tuesday nights I have been telling the story of King David out at Westminster Canterbury, the elegant retirement community on Westbrook Road. This week I was talking about the end of David's life and how, when he was an old man, he just couldn't stay warm. "He would go to bed at night and shiver beneath his blankets," I said. "His bones would ache with the cold, his knees would knock together, and no matter how many covers they piled on top of him he couldn't get warm."
I could see people nodding their heads; they'd had nights like that, except they hadn't had a bed to sleep in and not nearly so many covers.
"You may have read in the Book of Ecclesiastes," I said: "'Two can stay warm under the same blanket, but how can one stay warm alone?'" (Ecc. 4:11).
I'm not sure they had read it, but I could see that it made sense to everyone in the room. "Yes, two can stay warm under the same blanket!" Some of them smiled at memories they would have been embarrassed to share.
"So David's advisors suggested that they find the prettiest girl in Israel and let her try to keep David warm at night. This idea pleased the king (Oh, did it?), and so they held a national beauty contest, going through every village from Dan to Beersheba looking for the prettiest girl in the land. They finally settled on Abishag the Shunnamite, and from that night on (although the Bible makes it clear that she had no "relations" with him), Abishag slept in David's bed and kept him warm."
I don't think most of the people at community missions had heard that story before, though it's right there in 1 Kings, chapter 1. They smiled at the image of the old king finally warm at night, and some of them must have wondered how they would stay warm when the winter winds begin to blow.
"The thing I love about David," I said, "is that he was so human, so real. He had been a great warrior—a giant killer!—but he got to be an old man who couldn't stay warm at night. He loved God and wanted to please him but he also made some terrible mistakes along the way and had to beg for God's forgiveness. Still, he was remembered as the greatest king who ever lived in Israel, and his story gives me hope."
"If God can use someone like David, he can use all of us, can't he?"
And they nodded, they really did.
"Of course he can!"


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Nicki Minaj, Mavado And DJ Khaled Film "Give It All To Me" Video In New York
Upon the recent release of their reggae collabo "Give It All to Me," Nicki Minaj and Mavado wasted no time in conjuring up the accompanying visuals. They were spotted in New York's La Marina's Restaurant and Beach Lounge with DJ Khaled and a crew of dancers who could surely teach "twerking" Miley a thing or two. Scroll down for Nicki's own behind-scenes-footage and flip through to see more pictures from the set.
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Why Ed O'Bannon is Our New Favorite LikenessPosted by rtmsf on July 22nd, 2009
It takes some doing to keep your name in the news some 14 years after winning a national title and some 12 years after 'retiring' from the NBA, but former NPOY and UCLA national champion Ed O'Bannon is doing his best this summer. First came the Washington Post article in June that showed how, instead of cashing mega-checks like his contemporaries KG, Stack and Sheed from the 1995 draft, Eddie O. is now selling cars in the hot Vegas desert; that was followed by media exposure of the Lil Wayne song "Cannon," where the lyric "listen close I got duct tape and rope, I'll leave you missin' like the (expletive) O'Bannons" was roundly ridiculed in the blogosphere. Perhaps striking while the iron is hot, O'Bannon today sued the NCAA and its brand manager, Collegiate Licensing Company, in a federal class action suit claiming that the two entities illegally use player likenesses and images to reap millions of dollars in profit while former players see nothing in return. Pete Thamel from the NYT writes:
A lawsuit that [O'Bannon's] lawyers filed on Tuesday could change that answer and affect other issues surrounding the use of the likenesses and images of former college football and basketball players. The lawsuit is for an undisclosed amount of money, but will bring into greater focus the N.C.A.A.'s $4 billion licensing industry. The lawsuit says that former athletes should be compensated by the N.C.A.A. for the use of their images and likenesses in such things as television advertisements, video games and apparel.
According to O'Bannon, he got the idea for this suit when a co-worker saw a UCLA game of his on ESPN Classic the night before. When the colleague asked whether he received residuals for the showing of that game, he said no. Whether or not this half-baked vignette is truly the reason behind the suit (it's not), the general feeling is that this could be a major, major problem for the NCAA. The fundamental question that a court will have to decide comes down to whether the existing NCAA policy that requires its student-athletes to sign away their rights to their likenesses in exchange as a condition for playing collegiate sports is legal. O'Bannon's argument is that such a policy is exploitative at its core, and Michael McCann from Sports Law Blog believes there could be merit to his argument.
The stakes of O'Bannon v. NCAA are enormous. If O'Bannon and former student-athletes prevail or receive a favorable settlement, the NCAA, along with its member conferences and schools, could be required to pay tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars in damages — particularly since damages are trebled under federal antitrust law.
Frankly, it's about effin' time. As Dan Wetzel poignantly notes in his article breaking the story today, the players are painted into a (legally unrepresented) corner at 17 or 18 years old when all they're really worried about is getting their eligibility to play college sports. We understand why the NCAA doesn't want its current players profiting off of their likenesses while an amateur, but why does the NCAA retain 100% of those rights for the rest of those players' lives? Why does Texas Western profit off of 1966 jerseys of #14 Bobby Joe Hill, but not the player (or the estate in Hill's case) some 40+ years later? Same thing with Jerry Rice's MVSU #88 jersey? Or, as O'Bannon stated in his complaint, why doesn't he see a dime for an EA Sports video game licensed by the NCAA that clearly shows his silky smooth left-handed collegiate "self" running around making shots and ripping down rebounds as a 1995 UCLA Bruin? It's absolutely ludicrous, and we'd really like to see the NCAA take it on the chin this time around.
Epilogue: guess who is making this happen as an 'unpaid consultant'… none other than the top NCAA gadfly himself, Sonny Vaccaro. Call him the Highlander Folk School and Ed O'Bannon the Rosa Parks of NCAA reform…


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VIENNA – Diplomats say Iran has started changing some nuclear material that could be used for weapons into another form but in amounts too small to reduce concerns about its atomic program.
They say it is changing small amounts of 20-percent uranium into reactor fuel. That 20 percent material is only a technical step away from weapons-grade uranium.
Tehran last year converted close to 220 pounds of 20-percent uranium into reactor fuel before stopping.
The diplomats said Monday conversion had restarted but remains vastly outpaced by 20-percent production.
Experts estimate that Iran could have enough 20-percent uranium for one bomb by summer if further enriched.
The diplomats are close to the International Atomic Energy Agency. They demanded anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the issue.


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Sometimes I forget that my kids are not mini-adults, they are actually literally children. This has a few implications. First -- they like chocolate milk… a lot. Second -- they believe sleep is a punishment. Third -- they take everything very very literally.
Kids don't do sarcasm. I wouldn't say I'm a hugely sarcastic person but I do like to try to be funny and inside every jokester resides a healthy dose of sarcasm. It's sort of a cheap laugh-inducer and it comes out when I can't think of anything truly witty to say. I'll be honest. I'm sarcastic far too often.
I really have to keep myself in check though because if I use sarcasm with the kids it just confuses them. If they ask to stay up until midnight on a school night and I say, "Yeah. That's a great idea. Why don't you just stay up tonight and skip sleeping altogether?" they get really excited that they will get to stay up all night playing UNO. Then when I usher them off to bed, they are ticked and confused.
The side-effect of this is their practice of "tricking" me by telling bald-faced lies and then when I catch them in the untruth saying, "Tricked ya!" I think they're doing what they think I'm doing when I say something sarcastic and then later explain that I wasn't being serious.
So I keep sarcasm to a minimum with my kids. I try to eliminate it altogether when they're around and it would probably be great if I eliminated it completely from all my interactions. I think I'd find that people weren't annoyed with me nearly as often.
The kids' literal minds aren't just befuddled by sarcasm. They also try to dissect and understand common phrases or colloquialisms and end up with some strange ideas about the world. You can just see the little wheels in their heads spinning out of control when they hear things like "That car is a steaming pile of poo" or "If I hear that sound one more time, I think my brain is going to explode" or "It's gonna take me forever to mow this lawn."
No matter how hard I try to account for their literalism, there are always things that I miss. Mostly they just walk away scratching their heads or, with frequent use, they figure out what things mean but every once in a while one of them will call me on something that I had no idea was an issue.
Yesterday Magoo made his nightly journey down from bed to tell us he was hungry. I offered him the usual crust of bread and he declined.
"Nope. I'm just hungry for some milk."
"Okay. I'll get you a glass of milk. Go have a seat at the table."
He stood there eyeing me suspiciously.
"Are you really gonna get me a glass of milk?"
"Because you always say, 'I'm gonna get you a glass of milk,' and then you give us it in a plastic cup. Why do you always do that trick to us? You never give me a glass cup of milk but you always ask me if I want one. I don't really like that trick but you always do it."
Yes. APRIL FOOLS! I said, "Glass of milk when I really meant plastic." Best gag ever. All this time I've been "doing that trick to them" and I had no idea how diabolical I was being. In this house, word choice is everything… literally.
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Last week, I noticed that Lisa (from the Cutting Edge of Ordinary) recipe for Blueberry Sour Cream Waffles. I was intrigued by the recipe, so I decided that this would be our Sunday breakfast. After church, we stopped to pick up a few things at the market and I was really hungry-- like, feed me now! I rolled up my sleeves and dug in:
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If you have Diablo III.exe, Wow(-64).exe and Starcraft II.exe on your system, do this for fun:
strings *.exe | grep -i linux.
Guess how many hits you'll get from D3? Yes, zero. So D3 is highly unlikly.
SC2 does have a hit, so it does seem possible, but still unlikly. (I forgot on the top of my head what this string was)
Wow however, actually has the following:
as one of the strings. So even the 2013 builds still have this functionality and it is quite likely a Wow client internally still exists and is used to this day.
So if we are talking about minimal effort to port, then Wow stands a good chance.
And the 'why haven't they released this years ago' ... is kinda asking the obvious. They didn't want to. While to us it seems obvious, they could release an unsupported client, it will still require possible extra support questions and thus cost blizzard's support staff extra time and thus money they don't want to spend.


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Johanns named to Senate Appropriations Committee
Johanns named to Senate Appropriations Committee
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U.S. Sen. Mike Johanns has been named to the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, as well as those dealing with agriculture, banking and veterans.
The Nebraska Republican announced his new committee assignments on Thursday. Besides the government-spending panel, Johanns will serve on the Senate agriculture, banking and veterans' affairs committees.
In the process, Johanns gives up spots on the Indian Affairs Committee and Environment and Public Works Committee.
Johanns says his goals as a senator are "reining in spending, seeing a reform-minded farm bill signed into law and providing our military and veterans with the services they need."


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MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department says it is levying financial sanctions against a Mexican businessman who allegedly launders money for the Zetas drug cartel.
The department's Office of Foreign Assets Control says in a statement Tuesday that it is acting against Filemon Garcia Ayala under the U.S. Kingpin Act. A listing bars U.S. citizens from having business transactions with the person and allows authorities to freeze their assets in the United States.
The department says it is also acting against two of Garcia Ayala's companies in Zacatecas, Mexico, Prodira Casa de Cambio S.A. de C.V. and Trastreva S.A. de C.V. It has also blocked three of his companies in the United States.
It says Mexican authorities tried to arrest Garcia Ayala in June on money laundering charges, but he fled and remains a fugitive.


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Yo, 9th Wonder, we got one
Never, never done (Rapsody)
And Radio Raheem DeVaughn
Church on the move
[Verse 1: Raheem DeVaughn]
My birthplace was the Bronx
Adidas with the fat shoelaces
Cazelles on the frames of our faces
Boom Bap, out the boom box
We've been building this 40 years strong
The game is for the taking this is history in the making
And let me make it clear (Ooh la la laa)
This ain't no bubble gum rap with 9th on the track
And Rapsody (Ooh la la laa)
[Hook: Raheem DeVaughn]
This is, this is (Hip Hop)
This is (Ooh la la laa)
The Real (x4)
[Verse 2: Rapsody]
I stay on my Ps and my Qs - Ss, Ts, Us
I'm always working, how you spell success in the stu
Some get they money, like to blaze in the coupe
Was raised to spend days practicing like the hoops
We the truth, none realer, too uncommon like Dilla, The Light
I shine, my rhymes come paired like the Williams
Two 22's, I'm a sister worth millions, lyrically
They all fear the flow like Big Williams
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Weren't impressed if the flows won't potato crisp
Rap back like the NATO, connect with gods
Cause my odds of being large weighed out like Chris
Yo, Biggie the goal, I'm really the mold
Of what you really want to be if you hadn't of sold
Your soul, I burn slow like fo'-fo's hitting
'95 spirit, in the days it was written
Cats stay trippin', but rip and I never stop
Got a little buzz now I bubble like a kettle pot
I know the devil watch and wanna touch me
But like metal box, I stay locked under this Hip Hop forever God
Reckless, necklace, flows all hang 'em
Real coming back, now these rappers all changing
Fearful careers, I don't cower, the new power
Duracell it never runs out for an hour
Keep destroying, smoke 'em like sour
Break 'em all down to rebuild 'em like towers
That's the Real
[Raheem DeVaughn]
This is, hip hop (Ooh la la la)
This is this is, hip hop
This is, hip hop (Ooh la la la)
This is this is, hip hop
This is, hip hop (Ooh la la la)
[Verse 3: Rapsody]
The modern day saints of our stories
New torch bearers, we the children like Corey
Gunz of the ones that ran Nation of Millions and watched Mike in Delores
Used to ride to Nore, now the people inquiry
About the 5'3" emcee with ovaries
Got a bite on the mic like the likes of ol' Lauryn
Hip-hop, score gotta settle it's the flip flop
Back to when cats rolled Lexus like wrist watch
Elbow out the door, bumpin' Nas 'til the speaks pop
Couldn't see me eye to eye, keep pumpin' your Reeboks
Rattle rear views, clear view, I don't fear you or you
You keep an ear to the streets, too, to hear true I been in the booth, yea killin' on the daily
Jamla representer another baby of the 80's
Katy Perry, I grew up on Mary
The flow varies cause I studied those old from the erry
Of the gold, why I shine like that find it scary
The game over, I kill wack emcees, all buried
It's the real
[Break: Raheem DeVaughn]
The game is for the taking this is history in the making
Let me make it clear (Ooh la la laa)
This ain't no bubble gum rap with 9th on the track
TDE, ladies and gentlemen Ab-Soul!
[Verse 4: Ab-Soul]
And while you niggas keep bangin' the same drum
I'm smokin' like I ain't got the same lungs
I had when I started, pardon my ignorant rants
I rap like I move keys but Apple S can't save 'em
There's only so much you can show 'em
They been reading his story so long, they think they know him
I'm sewing up the game, I need needle and thread
Some people lead sheep
Some people just need wool, the shit cuts deep
Rugby toughin' the feel, you be where the rugs be
In the house nigga, with the rest of the house niggas
Thug life, rolling, my homies are screaming "fuck life"
Showin' love at the same damn time
I'd say the future is looking bright contrary to CNN
Give me a mic and about three nights
I turn straw into gold like Rumpelstiltskin
Man I made a man cry vibing to Be A Man
Walking like an Egyptian, life ain't fair oh
Boy just got shipped and the judge don't care
I'll take my steak rare, maybe it will help me bare
With all the bloody consequences obvious in this here
So I guess I got the game figured out all wrong
I guess you never know what you got til it's gone
Til' every terrain on this plane experience sunshine
Two fingers up and fuck one time
So allow yourself to get caught up in the Rapsody
And the 9th Wonder of the world actually
Raheem DeVaughn
9th Wonder on the beat. Second single off of Rapsody's The Idea of Beautiful


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Arrested Development's 20 Most Meta Meta-Moments
From jumping the shark to <span>"Mr. Roboto." </span>
The unveiling of the fourth season of Arrested Development is less than a week away. It's easy to picture the first episode starting off with a wink at the show's long hiatus and cancellation, because that kind of self-knowing joke is what the show always did: Arrested Development was not afraid to acknowledge it was a TV series and its characters were actually just actors. So in anticipation of the upcoming season we looked back at the series' twenty most meta meta-moments. D'oh!
Throughout the Series
John F. Beard plays the local Fox news anchor on the show. In real life, Beard is the Fox evening anchor for the L.A. and Orange County affiliate, KTTV, meaning Arrested Development used the actual anchor the real-life Bluths would've had. Even stranger is during the first season, when the show aired at 9:30 on Sundays, the evening news would follow Arrested Development, so Beard would be seen reading the fake news then the real news only a few minutes later.
Season One, Episode Eleven
Jessie, the publicist, calls George Michael "Opie." Ron Howard, who played Opie on The Andy Griffith Show, comes in as the narrator: "Jessie had gone too far and she had best watch her mouth."
Season One, Episode Thirteen
Judge Ping says, "I'd like to remind you there are no cameras allowed in my courtroom," looking directly into the camera when he says "no cameras." The rest of the scene is shot from behind the door.
Season One, Episode Fifteen
Tobias asks the warden of his father-in-law's jail if he will lock up Tobias so he can do research for his role as "Frightened Inmate No. 2." Warden Gentiles is played by Inside the Actors Studio host James Lipton, and he approves the request. As Ron Howard narrates: "Fortunately, the new warden was an appreciator of the arts."
Season One, Episode Seventeen
Henry Winkler, as Barry Zuckerkorn, looks into the mirror and does the "no comb necessary" Fonzie pose (see above).
Season Two, Episode Eight
An annoyed Lucille Two (Liza Minnelli) hears Tobias start singing "New York, New York" and says, "Everybody thinks they're Frank Sinatra." This is a nod to the fact that while Minnelli first sang the song for the movie New York, New York, everyone associates it with Sinatra's later version.
Season Two, Episode Thirteen
The narrator explains that other than a competition, Motherboy is also the name of a heavy-metal band from the seventies, adding: "We're legally obligated to make the distinction." Which is a reference to the show being sued by the rap band Arrested Development.
Season Two, Episode Thirteen
Their Burger King product placement, which was so over the top, it could only have been more meta if Tobias said, "That would've been a great product placement, Carl":
Season Two, Episode Thirteen
Barry Zuckerkorn jumps over a shark on his way to Burger King, which is a reference to him jumping over a shark in Happy Days and its subsequent symbol as the moment when shows go wrong, which the Burger King product placement represented.
Season Two, Episode Fifteen
As Dr. Stein, Dan Castellaneta, best known as the voice behind Homer Simpson, says, "The operation went pretty smoothly. But once I got in there, the appendix wasn't so inflamed. D'oh!"
Season Three, Episode Two
Michael tells George Sr., "That's a wonderful performance, Dad. You're a regular Brad Garrett," a reference to Garrett beating Jeffrey Tambor for the previous year's Outstanding Supporting Actor Emmy.
Season Three, Episode Two
When confronted about meeting with Saddam Hussein, George Sr. makes the excuse, "I thought that was the guy who played the Soup Nazi." Ten episodes later, Larry Thomas, the actor who played the Soup Nazi on Seinfeld, plays a Saddam Hussein look-alike.
Season Three, Episode Three
Scott Baio, as the Bluths' new lawyer Bob Loblaw, tells them: "Look, this is not the first time I've been brought in to replace Barry Zuckerkorn. I think I can do for you everything he did. Plus, I skew younger. With juries and so forth." Which is a nod to Happy Days, where he was brought on as Chachi, to be a new teen idol as Henry Winkler got older.
Season Three, Episode Five
Larry Middleman, speaking on behalf of George Sr., tells Gob, "Another brilliant idea, Einstein." The actor who plays Larry Middleman is Bob Einstein.
Season Three, Episode Five
Bob Loblaw says, "This room or someone in it, might even be wired with a listening device." The camera cuts to each actor's face, and then to a wide shot, where we can see the boom mic.
Season Three, Episode Six
Buster gets his hook caught in the stair car's dashboard while dancing to Styx's "Mr. Roboto." This is alluding to Hale's role in the 1999 Volkswagen commercial in which he dances to that song.
Season Three, Episode Six
It's revealed that Charlize Theron's character (Rita) had a lot of plastic surgery. The show cuts to a "before" picture, which is Theron in the makeup she wore in Monster.
Season Three, Episode Nine
We learn that Andy Richter is one of five quintuplets, a reference to Richter's short-lived sitcom Quintuplets.
Season Three, Episode Eleven
Justine Bateman, Jason Bateman's real sister, guest stars as Nellie, a prostitute Michael thinks is his own long-lost sister. (The episode is titled "Family Ties," a nod to Justine's old sitcom.) The episode ends with Michael saying to her: "Marry me! That is weird on so many levels."
Season Three, Episode Twelve
Michael and Tobias are arguing because Tobias wants to bring the prosecution secret family files, as he thinks it's actually a CBS procedural called The Prosecution. When Michael asks why would they want the files, Tobias responds: "For set dressing, silly. Those Hollywood shows are so incredibly detailed." At that moment, Tobias opens a cabinet in the kitchen and we see a lone Starbucks cup.


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The Eagles promoted Akeem Jordan to starting weak-side linebacker in place of the struggling Brian Rolle, Andy Reid said today.
Rolle had a rough game Friday night against the Browns and did not put a stamp on the position through the preseason. Jordan, the long-time Eagle who has started at all three linebacker positions at some point in his career, gets another chance with the first team.
Reid said that Jamar Chaney was also in the mix for that spot, but the third-year linebacker has a slight hamstring strain and is still not 100 percent.
-- As expected, defensive tackle Mike Patterson won't be ready for the season opener and will be out an extended period of time. Reid said there was a chance he could miss the entire season. Patterson had brain surgery in January.
-- Reid said that it would be a struggle for wide receiver Riley Cooper (collarbone) and linebacker Casey Matthews (high ankle sprain) to be ready by the season opener on Sept. 9 at the Browns.
-- Defensive end Jason Babin (calf) is making progress and is still on target to return in time for the opener.
-- Reid said that King Dunlap was still his starting left tackle and won't play in the preseason finale against the New York Jets Thursday night, a sure sign that he will open the season as the starter ahead of Demetress Bell.
-- Reid said quarterback Michael Vick (bruised ribs) threw today during the morning walk-through and that he would be eligible to practice if this were a normal week.
-- Mike Kafka will have his broken left hand evaluated tomorrow. Reid sounded optimistic that the quarterback would be able to participate in Thursday's game.
-- Joselio Hanson is still the first team nickel cornerback ahead of rookie Brandon Boykin, Reid said. Hanson probably won't play against the Jets.
-- Colt Anderson (torn ACL) is making progress, but Reid said the safety wasn't completely healthy. Anderson is likely to start the season on the PUP list.


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HDR is an interesting concept but most of what I've seen doesn't look real. You just can't get the same effect as Grad ND filters. I have to try using PS Elements. There's a processs, I forget the name, where you can combine two pictures and take the lower exposed and layer over the higher exposed or vice versa. THat might work better but I only tried it once with digital. Of course, I usually brackets my landscape film shots so it should work with film as well. Anyone compare this PS process vs. using scan Mult-exposure? What's the difference?My continuing communications saga with Epson has its next installment below. Their response is positive about Silverfast although they didn't provide details regarding its use with the V600. I'll ask them what they think about it with the V700 to flesh out its operation value with Epson scanners. They've been relatively open and helpful in their answers all along. I only wish I can talk to them on the phone.-----------------------------------------------------------Response (Jack D) 01/14/2011 07:14 AM Dear Alan,Thank you for contacting Epson regarding your Epson Perfection V600 Photo. Silverfast is a very sophisticated application and driver and is bundled with the V700. It includes many features that the Epson Scan driver does not. For what you want to achieve on the V600 it may be worth your while to get a trial version and test it. We have no test data on this driver and the V600 so we cannot comments on its performance.Thank you again for contacting Epson.Jack D] Customer (Alan Klein) 01/13/2011 08:40 PM I'm thinking of getting Silverfast scan software for my V600. I believe Silverfast comes standard with your V700. Silverfast claims that they increase the details and raising the Dmax in the shadow and very light areas in their MultiExposure scan where the second scan is done slower and they somehow combines the first regular scan. Is this true? It seems in conflict with what you said below. Here's their link. http://www.silverfast.com/highlights/multi-exposure/en.html thanks Alan
Dean Does the process you describe work in Elements 8? It sounds similar to what I tried but I don't recall "Blend If" slide and auto'align. Alan
Certainly I can experiment with Silverfast, Vuescan etc to see what I get. Frankly, I don't want to waste my time and energy trying to prove to myself that these programs are worth it. Especially since the results I'm getting with Epson's own software seems to be pretty good. So far I haven't seen any pictures posted by anyone on any site that really show any meaningful differences in results using other software. I'm not trying to be argumentative, but a lot of what I've read is verbal and does not present pictorial proof. I lot of it is just some allegiance to products that someone bought. I'm usually guilty of that too. Show us the proof.Additionally, I think it's important to hear how the Epson scanners work from the manufacturer. I have read so many differing opinions in this thread and on other web sites about what's going on in the scan process and software settings. I thought it's important to go to the source for clarifications. I thought others would like to know also. I realize it's like pulling teeth to get complete answers from Epson, which is why I call it a "saga", but we seem to be getting some clarifications, although many are not thorough. Epson seeems to be confirming that at least on their V600 that making setting changes using Epson's software except for ICE dust reduction does not change either the scan speed, the LED light output or the quantity of scans. Because these hardware changes do not occur during the scans, you cannot improve the scan itself. The Epson settings manipulate the results after the scan as an image editing program in much the same way as Photoshop will in post processing the scan file with the scan settings at neutral. Except for ICE, the image captured by the scan will not be different regardless of the Epson settings.However, in recent emails, Epson also says that using Silverfast can provide better scanning results at least with the V700 because they have done tests with it. I've asked Epson for additional details on their test results. I'll post these when they respond. Epson has not done similar Silverfast testing with their V600 which is the unit I use. So they could not comment but suggested trying Silverfast on my own. I've read Silverfast's web and they claim to increase the Dmax over the scanner's basic Dmax capability by double scans called Multi-exposure. I hope Epson will give us hints on how to best use Silverfast to improve scans as well as additional details on their Silverfast test results. And yes I understand that Epson and Silverfast and purveyors and advertisers have their products to protect. But I think we're all pretty smart enough to separate the hype from the reality in their answers.
Mark: I'm sorry that you are so upset because I do things differently then you. And I have put in the time to 4 and 5am on many many mornings over the last few months trying to learn and experiment and squeeze the best out of my V600 scanner. And I've posted all those pictures that I scanned identifying negatives from slides and 35mm from 120's, even identifying each and every shot by film brand so people can see what the scanner does and could make recommendations to me and to others and learn. I have yet to find anyone else who has spent the time posting as complete a record of their scans. And I do appreciate you taking the time to personally look at them and provide your advice on how I could do better. Now I'm exhausted. Now I want the manufacturer to be responsive and answer my questions to help get me to the next level. I deserve that information. I paid for their scanner. I've already written Epson and complained that I'm not getting complete information from their personnel. If you don't want to hear what they have to say, you can just not open this thread any more. If you do, I'm sure you'll have more to contribute and your experience would be welcomed by me and others. Your choice. Thanks. Alan.
But I think we're all pretty smart enough to separate the hype from the reality ... .
Well, Epson answered and didn't give much to bite into. They pretty much leave it up to the buyers of their equipment to figure out if Silverfast is worth it. No more email questions from me. I'm going out to shoot some pictures.Response (Jack D) 01/17/2011 08:17 AM Thank You for Contacting Epson Dear Alan,Thank you for contacting Epson regarding your Epson Perfection V600 Photo. According to users in the field, Silverfast gives you more control in how you set up and configure settings to achieve your desired scan. For users who want to have more options then SIlverfast is a good choice. For users who like a more simple user interface then Epson Scan is a fine choice. There's a wealth of information on this product starting with the vendor -- http://www.silverfast.com. Please visit the website for information. Free demo versions are available for download. We encourage you to try the product and see for yourself if you think it would meet your scanning requirements.Thank you again for contacting Epson.Jack D Customer (Alan Klein) 01/14/2011 02:40 PM Could you describe what advantages Silverfast gives you with the V700 over the Epson scan software. If the film shot that I'm scanning is exposed properly in the camera, will Silverfast provide any additional value and how over the Epson software? Tks Alan
AFairley, I agree. CCD technology has much improved since I purchased my Minolta 5400. It would be interesting to compare a slide scan from my Minolta to a photo of the slide taken with a full frame DSLR and macro lens. Unfortunately, I dont have such a camera.
Nice post, Tokengirl. My Coolscan IV will capture grain like that -- but the problem is that on a lot of slides the curvature of the slide exceeds the scanner's DOF, even setting the focus point to try to split the difference, and you can't stop down with a scanner. My Epson V700 will resolve grain too, but there is more smeariness to the image, in my opinion from the extra glass surfaces between the scanner lens and the slide.


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Court nixes Va. appeal in case of low IQ inmate
Feb. 25, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Virginia cannot reinstate the death sentence of a convicted killer who claims he is too mentally disabled to be executed, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
The justices did not comment in letting stand lower court rulings that threw out the sentence of death for Leon Winston, a northern Virginia man convicted in the shooting deaths of Anthony and Rhonda Robinson of Lynchburg in 2002. Rhonda Robinson, who was pregnant, was shot to death in front of her 4- and 8-year-old daughters.
The case now returns to state court for resentencing.
The lower court had concluded that Winston's lawyers did not try hard enough to show Winston was mentally disabled, and thus, ineligible to be executed under a 2002 Supreme Court ruling.
The state had argued Winston waited too late to produce evidence of his low IQ.
Caroline Gibson, a spokeswoman for the attorney general's office, said prosecutors were disappointed in the decision. Winston's attorney did not immediately return telephone and email messages seeking comment.
A panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sent Winston's case back to the federal district court in Roanoke in 2010 to examine claims that Winston had scored a 66 on an IQ test as a teenager, which would put him below the score of 70 that is Virginia's threshold for mental retardation. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2002 that executing the mentally retarded amounts to cruel and unusual punishment and is unconstitutional.
The federal court in 2011 said Winston could appeal his death sentence based on the new evidence. The state appealed, arguing that a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued after the appeals court ordered the review has severely limited the kinds of evidence that can be considered on appeal.
At issue was whether the claim of mental retardation was considered by the Supreme Court of Virginia. If so, then the new ruling barred the federal courts from considering new evidence on that claim.
At his trial, Winston's attorneys did not press the issue, even though an expert had described him as mildly retarded. The only three intelligence quotient test scores they had at the time put Winston slightly above 70.
The state argued that Winston's trial lawyers knew about the retardation claim but refused to press it because their mental health expert did not think they could prove it. In fact, the expert said he thought Winston, rather than being mentally retarded, suffered from an antisocial personality disorder, if not psychopathy.
Winston's attorneys did bring up the issue during his state appeals. They presented to the Virginia Supreme Court a cover page from a Fairfax County Public Schools special education form that indicated Winston had mild mental retardation, but his attorneys said the test scores and other data relied on to reach that determination could not be found. The test in which Winston scored the 66 wasn't found until his federal appeals were under way.
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BOSTON (AP) — A new automated system to detect debris on airport runways has been installed on a runway at Boston's Logan Airport, the first in the U.S. with the technology that officials said would help prevent costly damage to aircraft and potentially save lives.
Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration, airport owner Massachusetts Port Authority and developer Xsight Systems, an Israeli firm with U.S. headquarters in Boston, unveiled the $1.7 million FODetect system Friday. FO stands for foreign object.
The system was installed on one of the airport's busiest runways, officials said, and will enhance the existing practice of airport personnel manually checking for debris several times a day.
Small sensors mounted on runway light fixtures continually scan the runway for debris, which can include dislodged airplane parts, chunks of asphalt and other objects, said Christa Fornarotto, associate administrator of the FAA. Video cameras transmit the image to airport personnel that can identify the debris and determine if it warrants immediate removal.
"You can clearly visualize how great a safety improvement this is," said Fornarotto.
Runway debris can lead to damage totaling billions of dollars for airlines and airports each year and, in rare cases, serious accidents, officials said.
The deadliest accident on record linked to airplane debris occurred in Paris on July 25, 2000, when a metal strip that detached from a Continental Airlines plane fell on a runway at Charles de Gaulle airport and punctured the tire of an Air France Concorde. Bits of rubber from the tire punctured the Concorde's fuel tanks and caused the plane to crash shortly after takeoff, killing 113 people.
Fornarotto said she was not aware of any fatal accidents involving major airlines in the U.S. linked to runway debris.
Miami's airport has accepted a grant and could be the next major American airport to deploy the system, she said.
"We are very optimistic that other airports around the country will adopt this technology," said Alon Nitzan, president and chief executive of XSight.
The company has installed similar systems at Charles de Gaulle and at airports in Tel Aviv and Bangkok, Nitzan said.
In a demonstration staged for reporters, a piece of a lighting fixture that had been placed on the Boston runway was pinpointed by the censors and removed by an airport staffer.
Edward Freni, Logan's aviation director, noted that the airport would still be required under federal regulations to conduct manual checks in which vehicles slowly ride down runways and check for debris.
"What this system does is enhance that in real time," Freni said. "If something is detected in the system, we can respond immediately."


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Competition Can Be Murder
Intrigue, April 2004, 24.95, 292 pp. ISBN 1890768596 Married couple Charlie Parker and Drake Langston leaves sunny New Mexico for the mist and fog of Scotland to help get their friend Brian Swinney out of trouble. Britt won the lucrative contract transporting goods and people on his helicopters to the oil rigs but his is essentially a one man operation and he has to leave to see his very ill father in the hospital. Charlie and Drake will take o...
Honeymoons Can Be Murder
Intrigue, Feb 2001, 23.95, 268 pp. ISBN: 1890768308 Private investigator Charlie Parker has definitely had a tumultuous year as she almost was killed during her last case, had half her house burned down, and even married. Currently, Charlie and her spouse, helicopter pilot Drake are sleeping in her now cramped office quarters, RJP Investigators while repairs occur to their Albuquerque home. When Drake receives a job offer to operate heli-sk...


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Hey gang,
I have previosly had alot of success with the CyberGuard SnapGear range or routers; they seem to be reliable and easy to configure. I have joined a new company and they seem to favour Fortinet (Fortigate Products), which is a company i have actually never heard of.
Does anyone have any experience between the two and have any opinion on preference. I heard that the FG60 (Fortigate) uses SSL VPN but that was about it.
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