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Granderson deal Yanks' splash in Indy
Center fielder acquired for Jackson, Kennedy and Coke
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
With the biggest move of the week now complete, the Yankees can begin to pencil in lineups that include Granderson, immediately installed as the club's everyday center fielder and featuring a powerful left-handed stroke that will soon take aim at Yankee Stadium's short right-field porch.
"I'm not going to be the standout guy," Granderson said. "I'm not going to be the guy that you're constantly worried about. But if you don't keep an eye on me, hopefully, I can go and sneak in and do some positive things for our team."
The Yankees had to give up something to get the affable 28-year-old, and that meant that general manager Brian Cashman had to send outfield prospect Austin Jackson and left-hander Phil Coke to Detroit while also shipping right-hander Ian Kennedy to Arizona.
In the other pieces of the deal, the D-backs acquired right-hander Edwin Jackson from the Tigers, and Detroit obtained right-hander Max Scherzer and left-hander Daniel Schlereth from Arizona.
Granderson hit .249 with 30 home runs, 71 RBIs and 20 stolen bases in 160 games for the Tigers in 2009, and the All-Star said that his versatility and willingness to hit anywhere in the lineup could help him adapt to whatever role the Yankees have in mind.
"We're excited about what he brings to the table -- his athleticism, his youth, his power and how it all relates to where we play," Cashman said. "His personality, how people gravitate to him -- they're all plusses."
Over the past five seasons, Granderson ranks third in the Majors with 56 triples, but it is his power that the Yankees might find most appealing. Granderson saw how the ball carries out of the new Stadium, and though he won't go up looking to pepper the seats, more dingers could be in his future.
"I've never been a guy who's gone up there trying to hit home runs," Granderson said. "I think it's one of those things that has evolved over my career, and hopefully, the same will hold true at Yankee Stadium -- going up and trying to drive the baseball, and if it gets out, it gets out."
| RHP Edwin Jackson (from DET)
RHP Ian Kennedy (from NYY)
| RHP Max Scherzer (from ARI)
OF Austin Jackson (from NYY)
LHP Phil Coke (from NYY)
LHP Daniel Schlereth (from ARI)
|OF Curtis Granderson (from DET)
New York's interest in Granderson was hatched in November, though the permutations of the deal have evolved. Originally, the Yankees balked at including Joba Chamberlain or Phil Hughes in the package, and left-handed reliever Michael Dunn was successfully yanked from discussions as well.
The Tigers may have needed to shed Granderson's contract, but Cashman said he felt it was a "good contract" for New York's budget. Granderson is scheduled to receive $5.5 million next season, $8.25 million in 2011 and $10 million in '12, with a club option for '13.
But the price in terms of prospects is still difficult for Cashman to swallow, and the veteran GM said he wrestled with the projections of what Jackson, Coke and Kennedy could eventually become at the Major League level.
"We're excited about what we're getting, and we're distraught about what we gave up at the same time," Cashman said "It's not like I'm doing handstands. It's a tough decision. You're trading the future for here and now."
Granderson said he is excited about the change and has a good idea of what sort of frenzy awaits him once he finally puts the pinstripes on.
Walking through a crowded Manhattan sidewalk with former teammate Marcus Thames, Granderson once saw the former Yankee recognized by a police officer, who not only pointed at the outfielder but recalled that he slugged a home run in his first big league at-bat, which came against Randy Johnson back at the original Yankee Stadium.
"It just amazed me," Granderson said. "This guy picked him out, not in uniform, and remembered that bit about him. That part is going to be probably the most interesting. People know it, they study it."
True to form, New York fans are already curious about one issue that hitting coach Kevin Long will tackle: Granderson's unimpressive splits against left-handed pitchers, who largely neutralized the dynamic outfielder this past season. Granderson hit all but two of his home runs off right-handers, batting just .183 in 180 at-bats against southpaws.
|"We're excited about what [Granderson] brings to the table -- his athleticism, his youth, his power and how it all relates to where we play. His personality, how people gravitate to him -- they're all pluses."
|-- Yankees GM Brian Cashman
"When it comes down to actual mechanical and mental changes that we have to make in the game, that's going to come over time, I think," Granderson said. "Having the chance to be around hitters that have proven to be consistent like [Derek] Jeter, [Mark] Teixeira, [Alex Rodriguez] ... hopefully, I can learn a lot."
The Yankees are also aware of an issue that popped up in September, when Granderson took some odd routes to fly balls. New York had three scouts pinned to Detroit, a potential playoff opponent, and said that the scouts are pleased with Granderson's defensive metrics and still happy with the deal.
With Granderson in center field, the Yankees can opt to shift Melky Cabrera to left field, with Nick Swisher set to return to right field. New York could also pursue either Johnny Damon or Hideki Matsui, though a return engagement for either player would be on the franchise's financial terms.
Cashman's trip to Indianapolis has been fulfilling, as the GM now believes he is closer to putting the finishing touches on his 2010 roster.
Also on Wednesday, the Yankees announced a new one-year, $11.75 million contract for left-hander Andy Pettitte, and on Monday, the Yankees traded right-handed reliever Brian Bruney to the Nationals in exchange for Washington's first-round selection in Thursday's Rule 5 Draft.
There is one additional item to figure out. Granderson wore No. 28 with the Tigers, the digits manager Joe Girardi is interested in wearing to represent the franchise's pursuit of a 28th World Series championship.
Showing an early grasp of Yankees history, Granderson said with a laugh that he also knew he couldn't switch to No. 2 (Jeter) or No. 8 (retired for Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra).
"It'll be interesting," Granderson said. "Of course, [Girardi's] the man. He's the one that makes everything go. He's going to definitely have first dibs on it, and if he chooses to take it, I've played in other numbers before. It's just a number on the back. Whatever you do on the field hopefully will stand out more."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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EA's online services for all games will be offline for approximately two hours tomorrow morning from 6am, the publisher has announced.
The downtime is to enable the publisher to roll out an "extensive upgrade to our game servers".
This means players will not be able to play online multiplayer, or log-in to their games during this time. Those currently logged-in may be affected as well.
For UK gamers, downtime from 6am to 8am shouldn't present too big a problem.

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text: Is this a property worthy of the Big screen? By itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry_(Robert_Reynolds) Will Sentry just get adsorbed into any Avengers movie franchise??? I am guessing The Sentry will be somehow absorbed with The Avengers...however I think a stand alone film would be pretty cool. ***I am just thinking out loud here so I don't know if there is already stuff set in motion***


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Members' Savings Up as CUs Keep Pace With Recovery
Credit union members are boosting their savings despite a number of factors that could easily affect their progress.
Member savings were up 3.2% year-to-date and 5% year over year, according to CUNA Mutual Group's September Credit Union Trends Report, which tracked data through July.
The growth comes in the face of seasonal drawdowns, pay cycle lows and deposit yields remaining at record lows, the report noted.
Current rates paid on deposit accounts were well below even last year's poor returns, wrote Dave Colby, CUNA Mutual chief economist, in the report.
It's difficult to grow deposits with this low rate of internal accumulation, Colby explained. Since the short end of the yield curve hasn't moved significantly, he said he expects credit unions' cost-of-funds to remain low well into 2015, barring any shocks which would trigger Fed discount rate increases.
"The good news is our outlook for the economic environment hasn't changed," Colby said. "The bad news is we continue to call for a weak economic expansion, which could be easily derailed by a wide and growing array of events, many outside of our control."
It's too early to tell the impact of the run-up in longer-term interest rates, but it won't improve growth, he added.
"Truly wild wildcards surround a very large number of scenarios (and) outcomes in the Middle East; almost all are negative," Colby said. "Downside risks abound and it's difficult to envision a creditable optimistic scenario."
Still, credit unions can take solace in the fact they've been "battle-hardened over the past six years of economic decline and malaise," Colby offered.
"It will take a significant event to throw the credit union system from its recovery stride," he said. "Be ever vigilant."


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Eat Insects To Mitigate Deforestation and Climate Change
A new 200-page-reportby the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urges human society to utilize an often-ignored, protein-rich, and ubiquitous food source: insects. While many in the industrialized west might turn up their noses at the idea of eating insects, already around 2 billion people worldwide eat over 1,900 species of insect, according to the FAO. Expanding insect-eating, the authors argue, may be one way to combat rising food needs, environmental degradation, and climate change.
"It is widely accepted that by 2050 the world will host 9 billion people. To accommodate this number, current food production will need to almost double. Land is scarce and expanding the area devoted to farming is rarely a viable or sustainable option. Oceans are overfished and climate change and related water shortages could have profound implications for food production," the report reads. "To meet the food and nutrition challenges of today—there are nearly 1 billion chronically hungry people worldwide—and tomorrow, what we eat and how we produce it needs to be re-evaluated."
Entomophagy, or insect-eating, may be one possible solution. Eating insects, farming insects, and turning insects into feed for livestock are three ways in which the largely-terrestrial arthropods could mitigate both growing food demand and environmental damage, according to the report. Currently, most insects are eaten directly from the wild or raised in small cottage industries, but the report urges research into scaling up insect farming for food.
"Insects are not harmful to eat, quite the contrary. They are nutritious, they have a lot of protein and are considered a delicacy in many countries," Eva Muller, the Director of FAO's Forest Economics, Policy and Products Division, said in a statement.
Indeed, the report argues that insects—rich in fats, iron, and zinc, as well as protein—could become a healthy replacement for more mainstream meats, such as beef, chicken, and fish. The environmental benefits are huge: insect-farming would likely produce far fewer greenhouse gas emissions than traditional livestock (for example only a few insect types produce methane). For example, pig farming produces 10-100 times more greenhouse gases per kilogram than raising mealworms.
Insects are also hugely efficient: on average insects require only 4.4 pounds (2 kilograms) of food to produce 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of meat, while cattle requires 17.6 pounds (8 kilograms) for the same amount of meat.
Perhaps most importantly insect farming would not require clearing of additional lands, which would undercut greenhouse gas emission due to deforestation, preserve threatened biodiversity, and decrease on-going land conflicts.
Continue Reading at Mongabay.com
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After surviving a winter of being hailed on and harassed by the seemingly schizophrenic weather Gods of the Pacific Northwest, it's finally about time to get outdoors. And what better way to celebrate the coming of sun (and very large full moons) than to go on an adventure of the wild kind.
An excursion that pushes you to your limits in a beautiful place is just what the doctor ordered for that bad case of cabin fever you've recently contracted — well, that and some serious Vitamin D.
Whether you're dashing through the dirt, whitewater rafting, hiking in the nude, target shooting or fishing in the middle of nowhere, you just can't go wrong with an outdoor adventure in Oregon's wide wilderness. Get out and stay out, while the warmth is here.


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Long Lost, Possibly Lickable Toad Found
The last time anyone saw a Sambas stream toad, also called the Bornean rainbow toad, was back in 1924 on the island of Borneo. Then last month, researchers from Sarawak Malaysia University found and photographed three of them living in trees in a remote forest on Borneo. How fascinating! And what an important discovery! But the most important question is, will licking one make you hallucinate?
In order for a toad to be able to fuck you up, it needs to have 5-MeO-DMT and/or bufotenin toxins on its skin. We have no idea if the Bornean rainbow toad has either of these toxins, but just take a look at that picture for a second. It's saying "lick me — I'm a rainbow toad, man." Any hallucinogenic toad specialists reading this? We need to know.
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I read with approval Jim Skvorc's March 26 letter about Bradley Manning's lonely campaign. We seem so mired in what we see immediately before us, e.g., the budget woes of the sequester, political rancor about gun control, wrangling about road closures, that we fail to see (and perhaps are not meant to see) the ongoing and destructive legacy of two immensely costly wars. These are wars which have bankrupted our society - financially and morally - and left so many dead and terribly injured.
There is a Federal Whistleblower Act which empowers federal employees to report abuses of power, and is part of a longstanding tradition of speaking the clear truth to power. We should be grateful for the single-handed courage of those like Bradley Manning who warn of a secretive military which employs stealthy, robotic killer drones, continues to waste resources in vain conflicts, and has little accountability for the continuing prosecution of foreign wars. Perhaps we all, as writer Chris Hedges says, are Bradley Manning, or should be.
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Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, IX
Summer Program
E-Vam Institute
The Legacy of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
June 22
Fri: 7.00-9.00pm
Shambhala NYC
118 W 22nd St,6th floor, New York, NY 10011
June 23-24
Sat and Sun: 10:00am-12pm & 3:00-5.00pm
E-Vam Manhattan
1455 Lexington Ave, 2B (@94th St), New York, NY 10128
Rinpoche will provide a comprehensive and detailed overview of the various stages of Mahamudra practice, from a fundamental understanding of emptiness and the nature of mind to realizing our natural state of being. Rinpoche will explain how the basic Mahamudra techniques of shamatha and vipashyana differ from the traditional Buddhist approach to these practices and address some of the difficulties that can arise on the path, particularly for westerners. Rinpoche will also explain the importance of key Mahamudra instructions: letting go of fixation and cultivating self-acceptance.
Mipham's Beacon of Certainty
July 6-7
Fri: 7.00-9.00pm; Sat and Sun: 10:00am-12pm & 3:00-5.00pm
E-Vam Chatham
171 Water Street, Chatham, NY 12037
Rinpoche will continue his teaching on Ju Mipham's seminal text the Beacon of Certainty. One of the most widely studied and popular works on the Dzogchen middle way view, the Beacon of Certainty it is broken into seven key points, each of which is a complete teaching in itself. This weekend program will cover point five: which of the two truths—absolute and relative truth—should be regarded as the most important?
Integral Buddhism
August 10-12
Fri: 7.00-9.00pm; Sat and Sun: 10:00am-12pm & 3:00-5.00pm
E-Vam Chatham
171 Water Street, Chatham, NY 12037
Traditional Buddhist practices include body, mind, arts, crafts, meditational practices; using senses and voice to stabilize and awaken the mind. We have very deep-seated and entrenched habits around how we see things. Buddhism teaches that the way to clarify our experiences is to not take everything we experience at face value. Many of our problems are produced by thinking about our experiences too much. When we do that, we may get a distorted version of whatever it is that we think has occurred. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche will offer teachings on the Buddhist philosophical and psychological perspective on dealing with our experiences in a more integrated way.
Integral Buddhism
August 25-26
Sat and Sun: 10:00am-12pm & 3:00-5.00pm
E-Vam Manhattan
1455 Lexington Ave 2B (@94th St), New York, NY 10128
The body and mind exist in intimate relationship and the importance of exercises such as meditation, yoga and pranayama—that help to marry mind and body—cannot be over-estimated. Learning to be in touch with our true nature requires dealing with psychological and physical issues so that we can increase the pliancy of both body and mind. We need to gain a greater understanding of ourselves in a variety of behaviors and circumstances and Rinpoche will present a number of exercises and tools for developing a more spacious and accommodating approach to both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche is the author of numerous books and articles and is the spiritual director of a number of flourishing centers on several continents. Rinpoche was born in Tibet and raised in Tibetan monasteries in India. Rinpoche studied under many great lamas, khenpos and geshes during this time. Rinpoche also has a degree in comparative philosophy from La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia. Rinpoche has been leading meditation retreats and Buddhist philosophical retreats and courses for over 25 years in the west. Rinpoche has the ability to explain complicated things in a way which is accessible to people of varying backgrounds and levels of understanding. Rinpoche is a very experienced teacher and lecturer on various topics related to Buddhism and comparative fields. Be sure to attend Rinpoche's teachings this summer.
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Susie Sampson and her "Tea Party Report" have a tagline: "Balancing the lame stream media by good southern reportin' on Tea Party values!"
Sampson is a big fan of Stephen Colbert. And her "coverage" of the national party conventions might have slipped by you. But it's absolutely worth looking back on for its revealing interview with Stephen Baldwin on whether same-sex marriage is mentioned in the Constitution and Victoria Jackson on why she's against adoption by gay couples — among talks with other wacky political fans.
She actually managed to fit in a few brief (and awkward) conversations with Newt Gingrich and John Kerry.
Watch a few of her "reports" on the following pages, starting with this one from the Democratic National Convention.


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The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS), of which Team Prime Rib (TPR) is a member, has held the 'world record for largest prime known to mankind' N-I-N-E times. Five of them still stand! The next prime found would most certainly be eligible for a $100,000 USD cash award made available by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. See GIMPS' prize page for more details.
We are currently in second place in LL testing (17,226 CPU yrs behind curtisc and falling behind at a rate of over 500 CPU yrs per week) and first place in factoring (with a 2,113 CPU yrs lead) thanks to TheJudger, who moved on to processing double checks, after forcing us to ramp up in defense. We now need to find 1,400 more exponents with factors found to pass Net_Force who holds first in that category.
It's a status quo situation. We continue to modestly pull ahead of third and the rest of the pack, but are getting doubled in production by the first place team. Curtisc now makes our supertanker look like a tug. Curtisc has use of several labs at a university. We need some of the same kind of luvin'. Talk with your kid's schools. Talk with your libraries. Talk with your employer. It can be done.
The GIMPS project home page will tell you all about our project.
The Ars Technica Team Prime Rib home page will tell you a little about ourselves and how to join our great team!
The mersenneforum.org home page is a place where you can meet other GIMPS participants.
The Foodcourt is the common repository of DC knowledge here at Ars. Use it.
The Team Prime Rib page at the Food Court.
Also on mersenneforum.org you can find an introduction to GIMPS, which Heretic wrote...
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 1) : May 14, 2001 -> May 19, 2002, 111 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 2) : May 19, 2002 -> August 29, 2002, 38 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 3) : August 29, 2002 -> November 16, 2002, 31 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 4) : November 16, 2002 -> February 26, 2003, 28 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 5) : February 26, 2003 -> May 08, 2003, 18 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 6) : May 08, 2003 -> October 03, 2003, 28 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 7) : September 30, 2003 -> June 18, 2004, 52 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 8) : June 18, 2004 -> June 07, 2005, 31 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 9) : June 07, 2005 -> September 03 2005, 6 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 10) : September 04 2005 -> November 02 2005, 6 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 11) : November 02 2005 -> May 24 2006, 14 pages
Well I can't pass up the opportunity to be post number one on a new thread. And keeping with the nose to the grindstone theme, I just found out that the for the next couple of weeks at least I am going to be really busy. Busy enough that my assortment of clients will all actually be running 24/7 as they should. I might have to add a few more to the list.
The server of choice is going to be the IBM x460 with an add on MXE expansion enclosure. 8x3.0 GHZ Dual core Xeon's. Should be interesting indeed.
Crunch on
Pant. Drool.
My recommendation is not to forget to wet/oil your nose - or those sparks are gonna hurt.
Hey folks.
Need to get some info on Dual core and prime95. Just built an x460 4x3.0 GHz dual core Xeon. Dissabled HT and loaded Windows 2003 standard as a test platform. Verify 8x3.0 GHz cpu seen by Windows. I fire up 4xprime and see it happily crunching at .027 iter\sec. I fire up a fifth and it drops to .038 I fire up a sixth and it drops to .054. Yikes I says.
Am I right in assuming that this is a cache and or bus resource limit issue. If I run 1,2,3 or 4 CPU's it remains solid at .027 As soon as I hit the second core with prime it drops like a rock.
What if anything can be done?
It is the FSB issue, Intel CPUs are limited in that regard.
Are you actually running the LL test or are you running the automatic self-test before the first exponent?
You can try running 4 LL and 4 factoring tests. Factoring does not consume as much memory bandwidth.
Your hit shouldn't be that big. As Odessit said, first check if you are actually crunching or doing a torture test as the torture test tests FSB severely.
Second you need to make sure that the affinity is set for each client. You will find it in the advanced menu. Make sure each client has affinity set to a different CPU number.
Thanks guys. Running DC's on these machines. Haven't really played with the affinity thing before Garo. I will give that a shot and see how things go.
I managed to lose two exponents due to a reformatting error. Is there any way to re-download them and complete them, or do I just let them expire?
You are factoring these right?
Garo knows more about this then me I but I think it's a case of just reinstalling prime, join TPR again. Go to the work to do folder and enter "factor=exponent number,62"
The exponent numbers can be found in the member summary section of the Team Prime Rib site.
If there is a quicker way of doing this anyone please jump in.
Wow... I'm bringing online a few more boxes for OGR in the next few months, but it won't be very many. How much firepower do you guys need exactly?
Has anyone actually tried those links?
I found that the links for parts 1-7 use the old forum format (as url arguments rather than virtual directories) and no longer open the pages they are supposed to.
A bit of editing on them, however, gets them to work:
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 1) : May 14, 2001 -> May 19, 2002, 111 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 2) : May 19, 2002 -> August 29, 2002, 38 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 3) : August 29, 2002 -> November 16, 2002, 31 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 4) : November 16, 2002 -> February 26, 2003, 28 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 5) : February 26, 2003 -> May 08, 2003, 18 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 6) : May 08, 2003 -> October 03, 2003, 28 pages
Perpetual Team Prime Rib Thread (Part 7) : September 30, 2003 -> June 18, 2004, 52 pages
I think the above links work. It is the difference between:
Ben Bishop
p.s. the forum posting engine does horrible things to url's...
p.p.s. since the post was pointing to something on mersenneforum.org, hopefully someone can edit them there...
Unfortunately we need to double our LL output. So maybe 500 P4 3.2GHz.
I think I've got twenty or twenty-four cores faster than 2ghz running right now (at least ten dual core boxes, mostly P-D 830's) and I can theoretically forsee maybe a few more boxes-- maybe doubling that number in the next six months if a miracle happens...
... but... damn...
?They work for me, unless I'm missing something...
Is that all? My new employer could probably provide that without even blinking, but getting them to agree to it, however, would be a real challenge (they're a major hospital with several thousand 2ghz P4s doing nothing more than screen savers half the time -- such a waste. But it being a hospital means they're even more sensitive to any software that communicates periodically).
... But until I move a lot further up the food chain I'm not even going to ask about it (or do it, of course). I'm sure there are a number of us in similar (if not as extreme) situations; certainly my last job (which I left in January) had the potential for hundreds of reasonable machines.
All we need is someone who works at a university in charge of hundreds of modern computers with the power to place prime95 on them ... I guess we could ask curtisc if he'd be willing to join us?
That's really odd -- I tried them several times while I was posting that message, just to double-check, and it hung on them every time. And now it works.
Sigh. The forum hates me.
Depends on what you want to achieve... First place? - A miracle influx - curtisc really has the university onboard with him. A world record prime? Three of the last 4 prime finders averaged something like 5 WUs before they came up champs - go figure.
With all the tech types this website attracts, I surprised how few enjoy the math projects. So thanks for checking on us!
BTW, I don't know how many of you are following the DC Vault, but it would be nice if you could add Team Strawberry Jello's DIMES client to your PCs, and 3 RedLibrary clients to one of your PCs. DIMES needs a JRE installed and uses 20-30MB RAM. RLDLV needs about 15MB an instance. Neither needs much CPU, and bandwidth wouldn't be a problem with an always-on connection. There's a lot more, but these two added together have only about 1-2% impact on prime95.
Very true. I have 9 machines running Dimes and 3 running RLDLV with no slowing of my LL machines.
Some of the reports on the stats pages show:
Top Producers Report
Run Date : 31-May-2006 12:53 UTC (May 31 2006 08:53 EDT)
Last Primenet Report Date : 29-May-2006 04:00 UTC
while other reports on the stats pages show:
Member Output Summary
Run Date : 31-May-2006 12:59 UTC (May 31 2006 08:59 EDT)
Last Primenet Report Date : 31-May-2006 12:57 UTC
Don't all of the reports key off of the same Primenet Report?
There are different php scripts for different reports. For instance the factoring report is the one I initiate.
Well, and I will just say that it looks somehow strange to me (even though I know it's true --- , lol), that I've done 15.49 % from 5-10 March 2006 so far, but the estimated end is at the end of May 2007 (and slowly going further away)
Time to check in I suppose.
Been way too busy with the price of gold at recent levels. Poured some very heavy bars, such that one overloaded the scale and I had to hacksaw the end off in order to weigh it correctly. Very hot here and the rain is extreme - I have borgable machines but can't do it because the power isn't up long enough to do any unattended work. At least I don't have to go into the underground mine - that place looks like a nightmare of some russian gulag.
Wait a minute - the russians mined here before, in the soviet days. They had a gulag here and left me an old russian toxic waste dump to deal with.
I think I'm going to go crazy. I'm doing things unthinkable in modern mills and the broken down junk keeps breaking down over and over again, and the work of local mechanics leaves much to be desired - they make home-made pipe elbows and the welds look like bird shit. They were repairing a truck engine and left the block open, such that there was rain and rotting mangoes floating on the oil - some of this stuff has to be seen to be believed.
Africa is no place for sissies, that's for sure.
Hopefully you're getting lots of pics to share when back in civilization.
God almighty, that sounds a tad brutal. Be real interested in seeing some pics of that setup.
Wouldn't it be neat to show work complete as poker hands? I'd definately go with a straight instead of two pair.
You ramping up a bit there Garo?
garo_limbo1 2792 v19/v20 garo 05-Jun-06
garo_limbo2 2794 v19/v20 garo 05-Jun-06
garo_tosh 1694 v19/v20 garo 05-Jun-06
Heh! Just some temporary borgs. Will last a month and a half.I won't be able to catch you.
Temp? LOL
Disclaimer: the following is quoted from the previous thread, TPR 11.
Well we're now well and truly settled into our new "Grindstone" thread, so... what ideas? I'm thinking that we could perhaps put together a little marketing/recruiting push featuring this milestone to coincide with this event.
You should know that I'm currently on 9,627 years, but at pretty much any stage now I could "arrange" a fairly massive "dump" (>200 years ) which gives us the opportunity to time this event (to within a day or so) to happen when we want it for maximum impact. Whatever I do, this will happen within about 3 weeks, so we don't have long.
Only 72 more years
I would like to announce my intention to resign as factoring captain.
It's been a good run and you all have responded splendidly at need. There are presently no threats and, so far at least, not likely to be any unless The Judger decides to resume or someone else gives up the main-line LL testing in a big enough way. We're doubling up all our current competition, and they will take years to reach The Judger's worthy totals at current rates.
Now, someone will, in fact, come by and test us -- no one's lead is forever unchallenged. TheJudger showed how quickly, in fact, a serious threat could be mounted.
But, as long as we respond at need, I think we'll be "protected" in that Factoring is not the Main Show of GIMPS. Eventually, in other words, unless our opponent takes on number one in Factoring as an explicit, long term goal, then we'll eventually outlast our worthiest competitor, who will (we must hope) be seduced by the main quest -- actually finding a Mersenne.
Thanks to your worthy efforts, this has been a pretty easy job on the whole. When there isn't an active threat, which has been most of the time, it doesn't even take daily monitoring. But, as things stand, I'm consumed by alternate interests and would find it difficult to give the job full time attention when the next threat shows up. Better to have someone fresh at the ready.
Who's next?
Only 49 more years.
Assuming I don't make a dump....
Chance would be a fine thing
Dump away, I would love to see it.
One of those megasaur dumps.
Had a quick question. I have a couple of machines sitting idle that I cannot access the hard disk. Is there a on-the-fly flavor of Linux that could be run to harness their power?
Do you have a usb port you can plug a key into? A CD drive? Does the BIOS allow booting from the USB key?
Can you reboot the system? If yes, then try Knoppix: http://www.knoppix.org/
Or you can try running Linux inside a virtual machine like this distro: http://www.metropipe.net/pvpm.php
Yes there is a CD drive and a USB key. The problem with the USB key is that constant writes will kill the key. Or not?
BTW I got a rename request:
I'm not sure who to conctact about this, but here
goes. I added a computer and it's not showing up under
my member name. The new computer name is
'phatmattJONI' and my member name is 'phatmatt'.
Thanks for the help.
Boot a live CD in the CD drive. Save the Prime95 results to the USB key.
Or, put a minimal distro on the USB key (150MB) and use the key exclusively. You can run without swap no problem. The writes from a basic system won't wear out a key, just the swap.
A minimal system is going to use < 64MB RAM. Prime95/Mprime needs 20-30MB RAM.
If you need help setting it up let me know.
OK that is great. But I have two systems and one USB key. Both systems also have a floppy slot but the savefile will not fit in a floppy. The power supply is reliable and clean. Is it possible to run without writing the pq files?
PS: I had a dream last night where Xyzzy_yyy had shot up three people in a super market. And TV was reporting the name Xyzzy_yyy! Go figure I guess I shouldn't make too much of it because I had another dream in which my one month old daughter was driving a space ship.
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Yesterday, Telltale Games announced on their Twitter account that Episode 1 of The Walking Dead will be free for a limited time on Xbox 360 and iOS. A New Day — part one of the five-part season of The Walking Dead games — is free on Xbox 360 and iOS for a limited time. The rest of the season can be purchased for 400 Microsoft Points per episode ($5). On iOS, players can get the entire season for a discounted price of $15, but that's exclusive to iOS; there is no option for Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
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Originally published in 2007, but still good advice … We've been living in our condo for over ten years now, and are still happy with our choice!
1. Take a good look at the outer property. Are the building and grounds well-maintained? When we went to check out our townhouse, we saw gardeners cleaning up the grounds and caring for the trees and plants. The pool looked clean. And the neighbors' front doors looked neat as well. Contrast that to a friend's condo, where getting repairs done was like pulling teeth and the pool was practically unusable.
2. Ask for all of the homeowner's association (HOA) documents available. Are the fees accounted for? Is there a budget? Are the minutes detailed or sketchy, and do they involve legitimate issues or the meowing of a neighbor's cat at noon? It was reassuring to us to see that there were projected and actual budgets for the current and previous years. The amounts seemed reasonable, and there were funds set aside for future maintenance and repairs. Everything about the minutes indicated that the HOA was run by competent people who weren't wasting everyone's time and money.
3. Have a competent real estate agent and/or mortgage broker. I loved our real estate agent and have recommended him without reservation to friends. He knew the business well, was straightforward with us, and never once got pushy. When he told us the list price of a condo, he also always told us the HOA fee. If there had been anything fishy going on, I'm confident he would have caught on and alerted us to it.
4. Ask lots of questions. Our real estate agent and mortgage broker got used to hearing my voice a lot during the 30-day escrow period. I was always nice, of course, but I was persistent. I insisted on all of the HOA documents, and I remember there was some trouble getting all of them. Ask anything you can think of: what your exact monthly payment will be, the amount of the HOA fee, whether there will be a prepayment penalty, etc.
5. Read everything you sign. It's tempting to skip over all those
paragraphs pages of boilerplate, but it's important to read all of it. At least skim it for something out of the ordinary. And you should scrutinize anything that's not boilerplate, i.e., anything that needed to be filled in. Yes, the escrow office's document preparer will impatiently tap her nails on the table. Ignore her. In our case, I had run all of the mortgage numbers and talked extensively with our mortgage broker, so I knew what all of the numbers in the escrow documents should be. With the escrow worker sighing heavily as my husband and I diligently plowed through the paperwork, I noticed an incorrect loan amount. The escrow worker seemed so surprised to be told that there was an error, but she checked and sure enough, it was wrong. At least it took her less than a minute to print out a new copy of the page.
6. Get good insurance. As soon as we closed on our townhouse, we got an insurance policy that covers up to $50,000 in HOA assessments. HOAs can levy substantial assessments to cover repairs (I believe it was common after the 1994 Northridge earthquake), so we pay approximately $500 a year for a policy we hope we'll never need but will be very glad to have if we do. (Isn't that the case with all insurance, anyway?)
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What do Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox Arquette, Mary-Louise Parker and now Emmy Rossum all have in common? An affinity for Hollywood's dreadlocked heartbreaker, Counting Crows frontman Adam Duritz.
Rossum, the star of "The Phantom of The Opera," made headlines earlier this week with her divorce from music executive Justin Siegel, and the 23-year-old appears to be back to making more sweet music with 45-year-old "Mr. Jones" singer.
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According to People, Adam and Emmy have been spotted dining together in both LA And NYC. While at NYC's Dos Caminos, the duo was reportedly "extremely affectionate with each other," a source claimed. "They were sitting side by side, and kissing throughout dinner."
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Adam has been previsouly linked to "Weeds" star Mary-Louise Parker in the '90s, and they reportedly remain good friends. They attended the 2008 Tony Awards together.
Adam also cast his spell over two "Friends" star – and no, it's not Lisa Kudrow.
He first dated Courteney Cox Arquette after she appeared in the video for 1997's "A Long December." (See Adam and Courteney, HERE!)
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Adam then dated Jennifer Aniston, but the actor has claimed in multiple interviews that their relationship was not serious, People reported.
The rocker explained to the mag that life as a musician has been rough on all of his romances.
"[My love life] is a disaster. The road really screwed up a couple of things," he told People in January 2005 when asked about keeping his relationships alive while still pursuing his rock star dreams. "I really don't know. I haven't figured [love] all out yet."
But has he figured out his thing for ladies of the big (and small) screen?
[They] have a similar kind of lifestyle," he told British music magazine Q in June 1999, explaining that he "never got to date the cheerleaders" in high school. "Also they're often independent, driven and, very, very attractive. Being with certain people, even if it brings all this unwanted attention is… just worth all the weirdness in the world."
With Mary-Louise Parker's recent Emmy win, Courteney's successful return to scripted TV and Jennifer's huge big screen success all occurring after they dated the rocker – AccessHollywood.com couldn't help but wonder if Adam is the good luck charm to Hollywood's leading ladies. Is there award show fame in the future for Emmy?
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I am looking for someone who can give me help with London's geography, etc. Please only help me if you live there or know the area well. I have visited London, so I don't need that type of perspective. And maps can't help me either.
1.) What would be a logical part of London for my character to live in? She is newly graduated from Hogwarts, lives near the Ministry, is renting a small flat, and the location should be an economical (but safe/not scary) part of the city.
2.) What does this area of London look like? Could you describe it for me? What would her walk to work look like? (Details would be great-- you know how JKR describes the Thestrals eating trash from an overflowing rubbish bin near the visitor's entrance?)
3.) Now could you describe the scary parts of the city for me? What about the nasty sections of the tube? (There are vampires in my story. They live in the bad parts of town and in the underground.)
Well, you probably now have an idea what I am looking for. Feel free to toss in any other information about the London area you think might be useful. I should also add that this was during the Marauder era, directly after they left Hogwarts. I imagine the city has changed a bit since those days (the late 70's-early 80's) but anything helps.
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When Jill from Homemade by Jill posted her adorable Family Tree HERE, I knew I wanted to someday make something similar because I love hers. But this was for Dillon's parents and they have a more rustic style.
Dillon designed and made the frame for it, while I used my Silhouette machine for most of the rest. I did use Microsoft Word for all the names and shapes, just using the shapes available in that program and cutting them out with scissors. I tinted the backing for the names to match the heirloom white spray paint a little better.
I'm quite pleased with how it turned out. Though my preference in style leans closer to Jill's family tree, this will fit in nicely with Dillon's parents decor. They seemed to really like it. The best part is how easily more names can be added. It was quite time consuming, but I did most of the gluing while watching It's a Wonderful Life. Nothing like a great Christmas movie while making Christmas gifts!
I mod podged only the back of the leaves, tree shape, and names. Before cutting out the names after printing, I sprayed the cardstock a few times with clear acrylic spray paint. I also put a final few coats of clear acrylic spray paint and can do the same if needed after names are added (probably our little one on the way will be the last name added).
Tree shape was a free one found online HERE.
Leaves are the same ones Jill used, called 4 leaves, by Lori Whitlock (she has a few fall leaves, so just search a bit and you'll find it)
Shape of main names in blue and shape of other names were just available in Microsoft Word.


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The Fall: Book Two of the Strain Trilogy (Hardcover)
October 2010 Indie Next List
"This book, the second in the high-tech vampire trilogy that began with The Strain, picks up where the last one left off. New York City is lost as the vampire virus is spreading faster than hope can sustain. Even with the complicated help of The Ancients, things are going very, very badly for the human race. The Rogue Master vampire who unleashed this plague has a very specific agenda, and the literal time bombs within that plan are already ticking. The answers lie in a cursed silver-plated book, but getting it isn't easy, and understanding it may take too long. It's a thrill ride on every page -- dystopia at its vampiric best."
— Jackie Blem, Tattered Cover Bookstore, Denver, CO
From the authors of the instant New York Times bestseller The Strain comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world.
The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweatherhead of the Centers for Disease Control's teamleads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.
Ignited by the Master's horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for control. At the center of the conflict lies a book, an ancient text that contains the vampires' entire history . . . and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all. And it is between these warring forces that humanspowerless and vulnerablefind themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed. Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been transformed into a bloodcrazed creature of the night, and now she stalks the city looking for her chance to reclaim her Dear One: Zack, Eph's young son.
With the future of humankind in the balance, Eph and his team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet and joined by a crew of ragtag gangsters, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone has imagineda fate worse than annihilation.


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The Aquaracer series was introduced as a professional dive watch, with all the features needed for the serious diver, including water resistance to a depth of 300m, a uni-directional rotating bezel, with its signature 6 studs for an easier grip, screw-in crown and a diving extension on the folding clasp.
The new Aquaracer Lady maintains these classic Aquaracer features, but with a focus on new luxurious materials and ultra-feminine finishes. Designed first as a men's watch, the Aquaracer Lady proves that beauty and strength can coexist in perfect harmony. Notice how the light plays with the newly designed bezel and its polished edges? Likewise the polished elements of the "H-Shaped" bracelet add a modern edge, while at the same time offering greater comfort.
But it's not just about comfort and sportiness, because the Aquaracer Lady range also includes models with 11 Top Wesselton Diamonds on the dial and a further 30 larger Diamonds on the bezel. It's new geometry allows for larger stones to be fitted, a dazzling and luxurious touch sure to be appreciated.
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Sand Lizards head track coach Shawn Walter said the team could have had more success throughout the season, but being a relatively small program comes with a few drawbacks — spring sports share athletes.
"We had a couple meets where we couldn't get everyone there because they were in baseball or soccer," he said. "We were able to get them all there for district, and we had a strong showing."
In the end, the Maumelle Hornets had the depth needed to best the Sand Lizards.
"Unfortunately we aren't very big, and a lot of our guys have to do several events," Walter said. "Maumelle had too much depth on us, so we wound up runner-up. When we went, we wanted to get as many kids as possible to go to state and we accomplished that."
Sand Lizards who qualified to compete at state include Phillip Ellison, Austin Steen, Chris Rhinehart, Tyler Cotton, Nick Hendrix, Dalton Craig, J.J. Dunn, Parker Witt, Anthony Hogg, Michael Dugan, Fernando Ayala, Hunter Tomlin, Breanna Hauff, Amber Alverson, Shelby Burns, Stephanie Traigle, Danielle Lorenz, Sarah Drewes, Shebly Burns and Faith Brown.
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BOONEVILLE — The Dardanelle Junior High Sand Lizards track team won the 4-4A District meet on Monday. The Junior Sand Lizards capped off season where they won meets at Danville, Booneville, Russellville, Paris, Dardanelle and were runners-up at Waldron, and now a district championship.
Walter said the team has had strong performances all year from Chris Kershner in the 100 and 200-meter sprints, and both the long and triple jump, Devin Doty in the 100 and 200-meter sprints and long jump, Phillip Ellison in the 400-meter dash and in Pole Vault, Jared Dawson in pole vault, Jose Castelano in the 1600-meter and 800-meter runs, Brandon Haney in the 110 and 300-meter hurdles and Caleb Hicks and Daniel Craig in shot put.
4A-4 high school District state qualifying results
4x800-meter relay: Phillip Ellison, Austin Steen, Chris Rhinehart, Tyler Cotton (9:05.61, second)
4x100-meter relay: Nick Hendrix, Dalton Craig, J.J. Dunn, Parker Witt (44.75, first)
4x400-meter relay: Parker Witt, Anthony Hogg, Austin Steen, Dalton Craig (3:37.19, first)
400-meter dash: Dalton Craig (51.48, first)
400-meter dash: Parker Witt (52.86, second)
110-meter hurdles: Michael Dugan (16.97, first)
300-meter hurdles: Michael Dugan (41.32, first)
Shotput: Fernando Ayala (44'11.5", first)
Discus: Hunter Tomlin (116' 9.5", second)
800-meter run: Breanna Hauff (2:40.57, first)
4x400-meter relay: Amber Alverson, Shelby Burns, Stephanie Traigle, Breanna Hauff (second place)
Shotput: Danielle Lorenz (35'3.5", second)
Shotput: Sarah Drewes (34'1.5", third)
400-meter dash: Shelby Burns (fifth)
400-meter dash: Stephanie Traigle (seventh)
400-meter dash: Amber Alverson (eighth)
1600-meter run: Faith Brown (seventh)
3200-meter run: Faith Brown (third)
High Jump: Shelby Burns and breanna Hauff tie for seventh.
4A-4 junior high District results
4x100-meter relay: Devin Doty, Daniel Craig, Chris Kerhner, Phillip Ellison (46.94, first place)
4x400-meter relay: Phillip Ellison, Michael Runuard, Daniel Craig, Chris Kershner (3:59, first place)
4x800-meter relay: Turner Partin, Jared Dawson, Nirvan Martinez, Jose Castelano (9:53.10 first place)
100-meter dash: Chris Kershner (11.44, first)
100-meter dash: Devin Doty (11.48, second)
200-meter dash: Chris Kershner (23.93, first)
200-meter dash: Devin Doty (24.8, third)
200-meter dash: Dakota Rowland (24.98, eighth)
400-meter dash: Phillip Ellison (55.04, first)
400-meter dash: Daniel Craig (57.45, fourth)
400-meter dash: Michael Renuard (59.9, fifth)
400-meter dash: Kyle Smith (1:01, eighth)
800-meter dash: Jose Castelano (2:19, first)
800-meter dash: Nirvan Martinez (2:22, third)
800-meter dash: Eric Johnson (2:27, sixth)
1600-meter dash: Jose Castelano (5:08, second)
1600-meter dash: John Brown (5:24, fourth)
1600-meter dash: Jose Perez (5:30, seventh)
110-meter hurdles: Brandon Haney (18.56, fourth)
300-meter hurdles: Devin Doty (43.98, first)
300-meter hurdles: Brandon Haney (46.32, third)
Pole vault: Phillip Ellison (10'0", first)
Pole vault: Jared Dawson (8'6, eighth)
Shot put: Caleb Hicks (44'6", second)
Discus: Caleb Hicks (119'0", fourth)
Discus: Lane More (104'6", seventh)


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Blatche apparently won't play, there's a bit of hope here.
Interested to see if Ed can have another big outing against them. Should be a good test against Reggie Evans.
This will be a really tough game. Wallace is not playing so that helps but Lopez/Hump will be a hard match up for the front court. Not entirely impressed by Brooklyn's back court but the team has been playing really well since they fired AJ.
Hopefully they recover after a bad game against Milwaukee.
I predict a W should be fired up after the Bucks game and losing to Nets twice already. Hopefully JV is back soon we are really going to need him in the next month.
Need big games from the bigs and the bench (mainly Lowry). Go Raps!
today is not going to be our day. book it. their defense will destroy our pass it around for 23.5 seconds offense. especially if calderon is playing extended minutes/lowry is not back to form.
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Starters Calderon, DeRozan, Fields, Davis & Gray
Amir is dressed and will play despite ankle injury :O
Hopefully the details of this candid chat end up on Grantland.com soon.Zach Lowe @ZachLowe_NBA
Press row for Nets-Raps. Had candid chat pre-game with Raps GM Bryan Colangelo on all things Toronto.
calderon having trouble getting around screens early
but he is lighting them up on O lol
AARON GRAY. that is all
13-4 run raptors, time out nets
the white whale tho. that was amazing!!
aaron grayyyyyyyyyyyy we need more of that with ur big body
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Carson, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Chivas USA announced Tuesday that the club has signed former Mexican national team forward Adolfo "Bofo" Bautista from San Luis, pending the arrival of his International Transfer Certificate. Per club and league policy, terms of the agreement were not be disclosed.
Bautista, 34, began his professional career with Estudiantes Tecos in 1998 but has enjoyed stints across the Mexican league with Morelia, Pachuca, Guadalajara, Chiapas and Queretaro.
"Bofo" made his debut with Mexico's national team in 2002 and has gone on to collect 38 caps and record 11 goals for El Tri.


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Perl's first entry covers high speed rail's prospects in North America.
Perl is director of the Urban Studies Program at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia; he has previously worked at the City University of New York, the University of Calgary, and Université Lumière in Lyon, France.
He has authored or co-authored four books, most recently Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil (2010). Anthony's research crosses disciplinary and national boundaries to explore the policy decisions that affect transportation, cities, and the environment.
Perl (pictured at left) also has published in scholarly journals such as Energy Policy, Transportation Research, Transportation Quarterly, World Transport Policy and Practice, and Scientific American. His work been awarded prizes for outstanding papers presented at the World Conference on Transport Research and the Canadian Transportation Research Forum.
Currently, Perl chairs the Rail Group of the Transportation Research Board, a division of the National Research Council. He also is a member of VIA Rail Canada's board of directors.
"As an academic who is passionate about connecting theory with practice in transportation, I am looking forward to sharing my ideas with the professional railroaders who make such important contributions to moving freight and passengers across North America every day," Perl said.


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I have a Dell Inseron 9300 XPS2 an have recently had a blue screen error. I was able to reboot an use the comutor. Dell ran a crash analysis tool an etermined Zone Alarm caused the crash an ha me remove it. Question - is this common? Should I try ZA Free again?
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I have this memory that it says somewhere that during the First War they suspected a traitor in the Order and it was one of the Marauders and that's why Remus wasn't chosen as Secret Keeper (?). I have a couple of questions on this:
A) Did I completely imagine this or is it real?
B) If real, did it necessarily have to be one of the Marauders, or just someone in the Order?
Mainly my question is if it would be plausible for the Marauders to trust Remus still if, say, the Longbottoms and Dumbledore got killed and they decided to find a new place to hide.
Would be helpful if, in your answer, you provided quotes. I love quotes. I just can't seem to find them. >.<


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The son of James Sr. and Sarah Beebe, he was born March 7, 1924, in Los Angeles, Calif. James was a United States Army combat veteran of World War II and served with the 275th Army Infantry Division, "L" Company. He also served with the 40th QM Company and 40th infantry Division in Japan during the Korean War. James worked in fuel distribution and owned the B and B Oil Company in Los Angeles. He was a charter member of the Chino, Calif., Kiwanis Club. He also was a member of the Russellville Kiwanis Club for 31 years.
Survivors include one daughter, Ruth Ellen Schmutz of Lake Elsnior, Calif.; and two sons, James L. Beebe, III of Camrillo, Calif., and James Allen Beebe of Russellville.
Memorial service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at Humphrey Chapel with military honors presented by the Rogers-Rye Post No. 2283. Reverend Gail Brooks will officiate.
Rosary will be conducted at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, 2013, at the Assumption Catholic Church in Atkins with a memorial mass to follow at 7.
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The Middle Class of Colleges Also Dead
Kids these days should be thankful to even get accepted into a community college, what with the parents of kids these days having so little money to donate to the endowments of Ivy League universities. Unfortunately for kids these days, community colleges these days are way more crappy than expensive colleges these days. Sucks to be poor these days!
The NYT reports on a new study indicating that just as everything else in American society has drastically split into separate and unequal categories of haves and have-nots, so have colleges. Surprise!
Between 1999 and 2009, private research universities that enroll about 1.1 million students increased their education-related spending per student by about $7,500, to almost $36,000. But in that same period, education-related spending stayed nearly flat, at slightly more than $10,000 per student, at the public community colleges that enroll 6.7 million students, according to a report, "Trends in College Spending," being released Wednesday.
Let's keep at it until a community college degree is both as necessary and as worthless for obtaining a job as a high school degree is, shall we? Keep those kids out of the workforce a couple more years. Marginally more jobs for the rest of us to fight over! Delayed opposite-of-gratification! USA!


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Chapel Hill, NC - "You ain't never going to understand until you've been through it."
Politicians from the president on down will hear this plaintive statement when they campaign in North Carolina this year. It will happen when they talk about jobs and their plans for economic recovery in towns that have lost the furniture factories or textile mills on which those towns were built.
North Carolinians who have only heard and read about the experiences in mill towns can get the feel of living through the times of factory closure by reading a powerful new novel being released this week.
"Goliath" is the title of the new book by Susan Woodring, who grew up in Greensboro and lives in the North Carolina foothills. Goliath is the name of the fictional mill town near Hickory where the action takes place.
The story opens when Vincent Bailey, 14, discovers a body along the railroad tracks near his family's home. The body belongs to Percy Harding, head of the Harding Furniture Factory, the town's sole industry. Vincent's shattering experience later plays an important part in the story.
In the meantime we meet a host of characters and follow their lives in intimate detail as they adjust to the loss of Percy Harding and the impending closure of the furniture factory.
"Goliath's" lead character is Percy's longtime secretary, Rosamond Rogers. Her emotional attachment to her boss bordered on love, and she had been deeply dependent on him. Her own husband, Hatley, had left years ago, leaving Rosamond and her daughter, Agnes, to take care of themselves.
After Percy's death Rosamond drifts into a relationship with a married former lover, an elderly teacher from a nearby town. But he soon returns to his wife. All the men in her life, she thinks, leave her. Her new boss, Percy's son, treats her distantly, reminding her every day of how dependent she had been on the interdependent partnership with Percy.
Daughter Agnes has returned to Goliath from a failed college experience and a failed brief marriage. Agnes gets a job in a convenience store and takes up with Ray Winston, the son of Rosamond's next-door neighbor, Clyde, a widower and the town's former police chief.
Ray is a county employee, but his calling is to be an evangelist. He goes door to door preaching the gospel. He is serious about his religion, but he loves Agnes almost as much as he loves the Lord. Religion and church play an important part in the town and in the story.
Similarly, Doris Betts, the popular North Carolina writer and teacher who died a few days ago, wove religion into her writing unapologetically. But, as North Carolina and the South become more like the rest of the country, our "Christ-Haunted" landscape has been fading from the fiction of many younger writers.
Clyde, who does not share his son's religious zeal, is protective of his neighbor, Rosamond. Initially, she deflects his interest, although it seems clear from the beginning that she needs a man like him rather than those who always leave her.
The novel is full of other quirky, "Anne Tyler-like" characters like the gossipy daughter of the town undertaker, the 96-year old baseball coach, the high school girl who leads a group of suicide note writers, the distraught husband who threatens to jump off the roof if his wife leaves him, and a host of others who gather at the town's drugstore, diner, bar, and church.Read this book for the factory-closing experience, for its unforgettable characters, or just to get to know the writing of Susan Woodring, who, with this book, joins the ranks of North Carolina's best writers.
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THREE topless feminists have lunged at Italy's Silvio Berlusconi as he arrived at a polling station in Milan to vote in the general election.
The young women had the slogan "Basta Berlusconi" ("Enough With Berlusconi") scrawled on their backs.
They were quickly detained by police and dragged away screaming in a chaotic scene as ordinary people also queued to vote at the school.
Police struggled to put their jackets and handcuffs on the women as they writhed in the snow.
The feminists broke through a line of journalists outside the polling station and jumped over some tables toward Mr Berlusconi but did not reach him.
The scandal-tainted Mr Berlusconi is leading a centre-right coalition in the election and polls indicate he will come second to the centre-left.


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I need to write a recursive implementation of the retrieval operation for the array-based ADT list. The operation should have as parameters the array, an item, and the size of the array and return the position of the item. Since the array is being
passed as a parameter, this will be a private function in the class.
The function sould call itself with a smaller problem size.
This is the retrieval operation:
So far I came up with this....how does it look??Code:+retrieve ( in index:integer, out dataItem:ListItemType, out success:boolean)
I need the class and the private funtion, but not sure where how to add it in??Code:void List::insert (int index, ListItemType newItem, bool& success) { success = bool( (index >= 1) && (index <= size +1) && (size < MAX_LIST) ); if (success) { for (int pos = size; pos >= index; --pos) items [translate (index)] = newItem; ++size; } }
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Bartlett, Iwamura chemistry sparks Rays
Shortstop, second baseman form dynamic double-play combo
By Bill Chastain / MLB.com
Currently, the Rays have 46 double plays on their ledger, which is 10 more than their opponents.
"They've happened at the right time, no question," Rays manager Joe Maddon said.
A shotgun wedding put Bartlett and Iwamura together, Bartlett arriving from Minnesota in a trade and Iwamura moving from third to second to accommodate the arrival of rookie third baseman Evan Longoria. But the chemistry between the two has been just short of incredible.
"Honest, I did not expect Aki to be this accomplished this quick, I did not," Maddon said. "So that has really been pleasant to see, and again it goes back to Spring Training. He and J.B. were just hanging out together all the time. I think it's carried over into the season. They've made nothing but big double plays when they've mattered."
Iwamura returned to Japan in the offseason to work with a former coach on the position change, while Bartlett bought into his new partner and rolled with the punches. The low-key Bartlett, who stabilized the Rays' shortstop situation by bringing range and consistency to the position, said he hasn't been surprised by Iwamura's stellar play.
"I said from Day 1 that Aki was fine over there," Bartlett said. "I didn't see any flaws that first day. I knew from then on it wasn't going to be that hard to get to know him.
"You've got to give him a lot of credit. He's worked hard at it. A lot of guys who switch to the position are kind of like robots over there. ... He's done so many reps that everything is just coming natural to him. I said at third, he was probably one of the best [players] over there last year, so I didn't see any reason, with his athletic ability, that it was going to be hard for him."
While Iwamura did all the drills imaginable heading into the season, there have been other facets of playing the position that could not be simulated, leaving live-game action as the setting for Iwamura to make his bones.
"There are a lot of little nuances you can work on," Maddon said. "You can talk about it in advance, but it ends up being like a quarterback in football. You just have to see the target and not the rushing linemen. And a guy moving to second base who hasn't done this before, it's kind of upsetting because you can hear the guy coming at you, and he's done a great job."
Iwamura called every day a learning process.
"It could be the same thing at third, but avoiding hard slides at second is new, and every day there is something different -- a guy sliding a different way and I have to avoid that to make different throws from different angles," Iwamura said. "But I feel comfortable out there."
Rays pitchers, almost to the man, have expressed their confidence in the pair, while the rest of the club's defense has noticed the pair's work as well.
"They're turning it, man, at crucial times, too, being real quick," outfielder Carl Crawford said. "It looks good from the outfield. I just hope they can keep it up."
Bill Chastain is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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In an age of bloated egos and inflated confidences, there is Kylie Fitts, who never thought he'd be talented enough to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl.
For years, the Redlands (Calif.) East Valley standout watched the Army game and longed to play in it but doubted he'd make it.
Fitts underestimated himself.
The four-star standout was presented with his Army game jersey during a ceremony at his school Tuesday, realizing another of his goals.
It was a no-brainer to pick Fitts for the game, since dozens of programs offered him and he's rated as the seventh-best strong-side defensive end and No. 100 prospect in the 2013 class by Rivals.com.
"It's huge for me," Fitts said. "Growing up as a little kid I've always watched these games and I watched all these great players. It has always been a goal for me to play in this game. I never thought I would but after today, I'm just really excited and honored.
"It's going to be very exciting. It's going to be cool to compete against all these guys. I competed at the Rivals Challenge last summer and I enjoyed that a lot but I'm really looking forward to competing in this."
Fitts, who has been committed to USC since April, has dealt with a wrist injury for a few weeks but should be back in more than enough time to compete during the Army week in San Antonio.
The cast has been removed and his doctor said Fitts should be ready to go in about a month, a nice window of time to get ready for the all-star extravaganza.
"It's healing well," Fitts said. "I'm just trying to get my full range of motion back and I'm waiting for the swelling to go down. It should be four or five weeks for it to heal so I'll be ready for the Army game."
On the recruiting front, Fitts said there is really no news. He has never wavered in his commitment to the Trojans and that has not changed through this season even if USC is having a down year by its standards.
The Trojans have lost three games -- two of their past three -- and four-star safety Max Redfield from Mission Viejo, Calif., de-committed over the weekend.
But Fitts said he wants to reassure USC fans he's not considering any other options.
"I'm 100 percent to USC," Fitts said. "Nothing is going to change my mind. Even with these three losses, no way is that going to sway my decision at all.
"There are a lot of guys who are still loyal like Su'a Cravens and Eddie (Vanderdoes) and all of us are 100 percent behind USC and we have their back. These losses and Max Redfield de-committing, there are a lot of us who are still 100 percent to USC right now."
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If there wasn't a mainstream urge to create indie comics before, there will be now…
- The Webcomic Overlook reviewed Danielle Dark while mpd57 looked at Where Evils Darent. Pigs of the Industry looked at Doc Monster and I Am Legend covered Asylum Ink. Digital Strips returned to their pile of reviewed comics to see how the new ones have done over time.
- And yet another opinion on Robot 13 that echoes how I felt about reading it. Comic Vine covered The Anchor and Fictions reviewed Reasons WHy I'm Scared To Love You and Thorgal. Warren Peace reviewed Pluto and Optical Sloth told us about Jin & Jan, And Then One Day, a bunch of mini comics by Julia Wertz and Sausage Hand.
- A Nickel's Worth interviewed Paul Gilligan of Pooch Cafe. Question six was interesting but I found eleven to take the cake this time.
- The Webcomic List forums had this fun thread called Before and After which compared the first comics of a series and current comics. It was interesting to see how the art changed in ways over time that you might miss if you were a regular reader. There was also an Awesome Strips thread where posters showed off awesome strips. Inkstuds compiled a list of five cartoonists you should be reading.
- Journalista gave us, among other things, a couple of links about comic making. One was about making a four issue comic mini series and the other was Urasawa's process. What wonderful variety of approach there is to enjoy about comics!
- Paperless Comics had some good links to great stuff for you but I also liked the discussion about landing pages in the comments. And Webcomics.com more or less encourages us to not make our readers think if we can help it – which was echoed by Smashing Magazine's Cheeseburger Interface. I think the lesson is to make sure the thinking/processing our readers have to do is centered on the comic itself.
- Kez had some thoughts on BCC with some lessons learned. Last Resort also gave us ten good reasons to create guest strips.
- SMASH hit an exciting end to Season One. It's on my review list but you would be upset with me if I rudely kept this comic to myself. And another treasure you won't want to miss is Forty-Five. I'd like to get more in-depth with 45 a little later; it's a fun concept worth exploring.
- And Jason Thibault tweeted about an article that talks about the right way and wrong way to write. Change a few details and it could be all about your art, which is likely why Jason tweeted about it. It's inspirational.


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Letter from SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated August 27, 1877.
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Letter from SPENCER FULLERTON BAIRD to GEORGE PERKINS MARSH, dated August 27, 1877.
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International Exhibition, 1876. Board on Behalf of U.S. Executive Departments, National Museum: Smithsonian Institution, Halifax Nova Scotia. Aug. 27, 1877
Dear Mr Marsh.
I have just had from Washington, your letter, official & confidential, of the 1st of August, addressed to Prof. Henry. It is certainly a matter of not the least earthly consequence to us, that the Italian government does not choose to receive the privileges offered, of an exchange of publications, with so great an advantage on their part. They will certainly miss it; but that is their look out. Of course the few casual publications sent by her representative, will answer a certain purpose; but he does not get one half, or one-fourth of the important scientific publications of our government, especially those published by & for the Departments, not as Congressional orders.
I have been here a little over a week, in attendance upon the Joint Fishery Convention in session, to determine the value to the United States of the privileges of free fishing on the Dominion Shores, having Mary & Lucy with me, & enjoying the occasion very much. We are receiving -------------------------------- Page -------------------------------- a great deal of attention in the way of calls, invitations to dinner, etc., & I have with me the U.S. Steamer Speedwell, in the service of the Fish Commission, with which we hope to make some interesting scientific discoveries.
Sincerely Yours,S. F. BairdHon. George P. Marsh U.S. Minister, Rome, Italy.
Last Municipal Bulletin received. Much obliged for Lucy


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PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Way, way back before they were Oscar winners, back when they were honing their skills as members of The Groundlings comedy troupe, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash started writing together.
This was even before Rash's role as Dean Pelton on NBC's "Community" or Faxon's starring turn on the short-lived "Ben and Kate," and years before they joined director Alexander Payne to co-write 2011′s "The Descendants," the best-picture nominee that won the Academy Award for adapted screenplay.
Faxon and Rash were just starting out in Hollywood then when they penned their coming-of-age story "The Way, Way Back." Now, with Academy Awards on their shelves and decades of acting and writing experience behind them, the longtime collaborators are making their directorial debut with that nearly 10-year old screenplay.
"While the Oscar was this wonderful experience and we're so indebted to have been a part of 'The Descendants,' this felt like, well, this was also our baby, in the sense that it started everything," said the bald, bespectacled Rash, 42, in an interview earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival, where the independent movie premiered.
"'The Descendants' and the success that it had … provided the momentum for this to happen and for us to return to things that are important to us, such as 'The Way, Way Back,' the first script we ever wrote," the ebullient Faxon, 38, added. "It was invigorating in that it pushed us into directing it ourselves and bringing people that we love aboard."
Opening Friday, the film tells the story of a 14-year-old boy who finds solace (and his own self-worth) at a water park during a forced summer vacation with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend.
The tale, shot at an actual water park in Marshfield, Mass., was inspired by the writers' own summers spent at water parks as kids and some awkward moments they experienced growing up.
"We certainly pull a lot of stuff from our own lives," Faxon said. "We're not afraid to share our pains and our joys."
Rash and Faxon hand-picked their cast, writing heartfelt letters to their dream stars and inviting old friends to be part of the mix. The result is an ensemble that includes Toni Collette and Steve Carell as the mom and boyfriend, along with Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry and Amanda Peet. Sixteen-year-old Liam James of TV's "The Killing" plays the lead.
It wasn't just about finding the right people for the parts, Rash said, but assembling a cast that would be supportive of a pair of first-time directors.
"We knew this was going to be a new experience for us and we needed to have that comfort of the shelter of people who are there to do this together and know exactly what we're there to do: To do a small movie in a very quick amount of time," he said. "These were all just good-hearted, talented actors, and that made all the difference in the world."
Though Rash has years of experience directing Groundlings stage shows, the demands of filmmaking presented a whole new challenge — especially when he and Faxon, who both play bit parts in the film, were in the same scenes.
"The first take we did, the scene ended, and we're both on camera, and there's nobody to yell, 'Cut,'" Faxon recalled. "I didn't know what was happening."
Janney said the two often took a "good cop-bad cop" approach to directing.
"Nat might say, 'Allison, I think that take was brilliant.' Then Jim would come over and say, 'I think you can do better,'" she said. "But I worship them because they're so gifted and so funny. I would follow them into the ocean."
The two writers also had some fun directing each other, Rash said.
"And when I say fun, I mean it was horrible. And when I say horrible, I mean it was a disaster. And I'm still mad about it," he said.
The two have an easy chemistry when writing — though Faxon characterizes Rash as "the slightly more neurotic one" — and they brought that energy to their directorial debut.
But having acting pasts also created camaraderie and easy shorthand between the new directors and their cast.
"They wrote an amazing script and then let us infuse it with our own stuff, which was really fun," said Rudolph, who knew Faxon and Rash from their Groundlings days. "What's neat about the world of sketch comedy and improv that we came out of is that we learned to be part of a group, so they're the directors and they're in charge, but they understand how to work as a team."
"The Way, Way Back's" premiere at Sundance inspired a heated bidding war before it landed at Fox Searchlight for close to $10 million — an especially sweet ending to the film's long, long road to release.
Said Faxon: "Just getting in was so exciting."
AP Entertainment Writer Sandy Cohen is on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/APSandy.


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"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
"Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day"
"QUILL, n. An implement of torture yielded by a goose and commonly wielded by an ass. This use of the quill is now obsolete, but its modern equivalent, the steel pen, is wielded by the same everlasting Presence."
"The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary."
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
"Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services"
"If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on."
"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."


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Ah, the Daily Mail. The champion of the law-abiding citizen, the sort of paper that would surely regard someone boasting about how they wilfully endangered people to be beyond the pale and worthy of condemnation. Well, you'd think that, but then you're not the Daily Mail executive who thought it would be a good idea to get James Martin (if you don't know who he is, he's celebrity cookery's version of Alan Titchmarsh) to write their motoring column for them in which he does just that.
Like most wannabe motoring writers, James likes to think he's the new Jeremy Clarkson. Of course, the Jeremy Clarkson he wants to replace isn't the real one, but the crass, boorish and thuggishly crude version of Clarkson that exists in many peoples' heads without any of the real one's talent, wit, irony and self-deprecation.
So, when James gets asked to review the electric Tesla Roadster, you can predict that his article will contain the usual digs at 'tree-huggers' (yes, he uses that exact term) and cyclists inbetween his attempts to actually review the car, but then he ends with a quite stunning…well, confession is probably the best word:
Twenty minutes into my test drive I pulled round a leafy bend, enjoying the birdsong – and spotted those damned Spider-Man cyclists. Knowing they wouldn't hear me coming, I stepped on the gas, waited until the split second before I overtook them, then gave them an almighty blast on the horn at the exact same time I passed them at speed.
The look of sheer terror as they tottered into the hedge was the best thing I've ever seen in my rear-view mirror. I think this could be the car for me.
Yes, a Daily Mail writer has just boasted about how he wilfully endangered other road users while out driving a car on behalf of the paper. Unfortunately, he doesn't say exactly where this took place, but if you know of any cyclists who were driven off the road by an arrogant idiot in a Tesla then they now know who did it and can inform the relevant police force. So maybe by printing this, the Mail has done something for law and order.
UPDATE: Obviously in order to demonstrate their commitment to free speech, the Mail have now removed all the comments from the article, most of which were from cyclists pointing out his stupidity.
(via Bradley Wiggins and Cycling Weekly on Twitter)


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Former acting SVC president Beckwith found dead from apparent self-inflicted gunshot
BENNINGTON - James Beckwith was found dead Wednesday of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, the same day federal authorities filed a complaint alleging he embezzled $440,000 while serving as acting president of Southern Vermont College.
The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont filed a civil forfeiture complaint on Wednesday seeking to forfeit assets in the name of James Beckwith, who began working as chief financial officer and chief operating officer for SVC in 2007.
Beckwith served one year as acting president beginning January 2012 while President Karen Gross took a leave of absence to work for the U.S. Department of Education.
According to the complaint and an accompanying affidavit prepared by the FBI, Beckwith embezzled $440,000 from the school between October 2012 and January 2013. Officials said he allegedly did so by fraudulently inducing college officials to issue three checks in the amount of $100,000, $160,000 and $180,000 to Merrill Lynch.
The affidavit states Beckwith told college officials the funds were to be used to settle legal claims arising from a failed dormitory project, however the three checks were actually deposited into a personal account Beckwith shared with his wife at Merrill Lynch.
According to the affidavit, Beckwith used the proceeds of the first two checks, totaling $260,000 to pay down the balances on mortgage and home equity loans on his personal residence in South Londonderry. The complaint alleges that Beckwith's residence, as well as the money in his Merrill Lynch account, are forfeitable as proceeds of mail fraud and as property involved in money laundering.
Federal officials said no charges have been filed and are only accusations.
The college began looking into the alleged embezzlement after a financial audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012 found "suspicious financial transactions involving purported vendor payments made by Beckwith," according to the affidavit.
Subsequent investigation into various college bank accounts then revealed the three checks totaling $440,000 that were deposited into Beckwith's personal account.
Beckwith resigned effective immediately from SVC Feb. 3 and the affidavit states the FBI was contacted Feb. 8 by legal counsel from the college.
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Discussion in 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' started by MrPointy, May 10, 2011.
I believe, I choose to believe.
I have all of Star Trek on DVD. I'm not ponying up again unless some sets are destroyed or something. That wasn't a small investment, even if I did get a lot of sets used. At 51 and looking at perhaps another period of extended unemployment, not even a blip on my radar, LOL!
I won't believe it until wither CBS or someone actually working on the project come forward and say its happening.
Not this viewer. Besides, if I just want to watch TNG in SD I already have the DVDs, so Paramount isn't going to make any more money off of me unless that add some value to a new product.
I have Casablanca, The Day the Earth Stood Still, King Kong, The Maltese Falcon, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre on Blu-ray. They're all B&W movies, and they all look much better on Blu-ray than DVD on a decent sized television. Even on my 25" computer monitor they look much better than on DVD.
I'm with you, BillJ. But as Dr. Phlox might say... "optimism"!
So without trawling this entire thread, would this mean a widescreen version? Please, please, please.
If they do it, it will most likely just be HD, not widescreen. There's no reason to screw up the picture.
^ TOS-R was not widescreen, so TNG-R probably will also not be.
Then again, the "Menage a Troi" footage that found its way into ENT's final episode was widescreen. How did they manage that? AFAIK, it wasn't cropped.
Mildly cropped, mildly stretched side-to-side and had the framing mildly widened (i.e. they used some elements on either side of the frame that were cropped for the original broadcast). There's an analysis here. It looks okay for those shots, as long as you don't compare them to the original, but I wouldn't want to see that done to every frame of footage in the series.
Original footage has a safe action area with an aspect ratio of 1.37:1, its televised at 1.33:1. They used that, then stretched it by 5.8%. Top and bottom was cropped.
I'm fairly certain it IS being worked on right now, but I am also fairly certain this poster doesn't know anything about it.
I wouldn't believe some random person either. But I have no reason to lie to you. I just heard the confirmation from someone at CBS-D last weekend and wanted to share my excitement with some like-minded individuals.
Well we'll see
If they screw this up with widescreen, my enthusiasm for this project goes from 110% to 0%. Widescreen does not magically make shows better, especially when it was not shot for that aspect ratio.
If people want to watch it in "widescreen" they can hit the crop button on their remote, instead of chopping off part of the picture permanently.
My enthusiasm would go from 20% to 80% if it is a well done widescreen conversion.
If it can be done well, it will be at the hands of professionals and not your television. The part of the picture that gets cropped is unlikely to have anything more interesting going on than the additional image on the sides has.
Sure, they may be able to do it without damaging it too much overall, but then there's also the possibility of cutting off parts off people's heads in close up, gaining crap on the sides that was never meant to be seen or was never spotted when filming for TV, and changing the intended framing of shots, but for what? So you don't have to see black bars on your TV?
It was filmed in 4:3, so that's how it is going to look artistically best. If was never framed with widescreen in mind, so it's always going to be a compromise. It's just a matter of how much it's compromised.
Even watch the few seconds in TATV (or look at the pic earlier). Half of the guy's head is chopped off, and people are crammed claustrophically into frame. The rest of the shot may be 80-90% fine, but why compromise 10-20% of the framing of the shot at all when you don't have to?
I don't mind them redoing space shots with CG, or adding entirely new effects, because these can be done from scratch, so no compromise has to be made to convert the show to HD, and I'm not too much of a purist overall, so no worry there, but over 178 episodes, there are going to be compromises if they crop the show to widescreen. And if the show has to be compromised 10% to do it, then I see no point to do it at all.
Now I know how people feel with TOS-R.
Here in the UK, CBS Action are currently screening TOS-R in 16:9 format. People, please trust me on this - it's friggin' horrible! Yes, it has been "intelligently" cropped so heads aren't cut off etc., and to be fair, a few shots actually work really well. But, overall, it feels extremely claustrophobic and destroys the superb work of the original cinematographers.
If TNG-R is similarly cropped for Blu-ray - I'm out.
But let's be honest. Can seasons three thru seven Riker afford to get any wider?
But look at it the other way: now "The Pegasus" Riker and TATV Riker will finally match.
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