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Glenn Wofford
Mr. Glenn Wofford, age 71 of the Ophir Community, passed away March 30, 2010 at his home.
Survivors include his wife, Winnell Allen Wofford, Ophir Community; daughters and sons-in-law, Andrea W. Arnold, Chatsworth, Gail and Jimmy Fitts, Nelson, Tammy and Tim Stancil, Jasper, and Sandy and Terry Adams, Dawsonville; sons and daughter-in-law, Michael and Sue Johnson and Ricky Johnson, all of Ball Ground; brothers and sisters-in-law, Lester and Betty Wofford, retired Sheriff Billy Wofford and wife Donna and Paul and Jeanette Wofford, all of Jasper; sisters and brother-in-law, Vertie and Randall Moody, Clayton Community, and Lorene Watkins, Jasper. Seventeen grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Friday from the Chapel of Roper Funeral Home with the Revs. Terry Cowart and Troy Milford officiating. Interment followed in Sunrise Memorial Gardens with Marble Hill Masonic Lodge in charge of graveside rites.
Rev. Gene
The Rev. Gene W. Cornelison, age 75 of Ball Ground, died on Tuesday March 30, 2010 at Northside Hospital-Cherokee. He retired from Amicalola Electric Membership Corporation after 28 years. He was chairman of Round-Up AEMC, chairman of the Board of North Georgia Community Action, Board of Directors and president of Cherokee County Chamber of Commerce, board member of Upper Etowah River Alliance, chairman of the Board of Limestone Valley, Board of Directors of Cherokee County Water and Sewerage Corporation, Cherokee High School Vocational Electrical Teacher, Clayton Community Fire Department Volunteer and was present pastor of Pilgrim Baptist Church (Clayton Community).
He was preceded in death by his parents, E.H. and Lela Murphy Cornelison; brothers, Levi and Calvin Cornelison; and sister, Diane Cornelison.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Tippens Cornelison, Ball Ground; sons and daughters-in-law, Darrek and Carla Cornelison and Dony and Renee Cornelison, all of Ball Ground; daughters, Denise Owens, Acworth, and Debra McClure, Ball Ground; sister and brother-in-law, Brenda and Bobby Mullinax, Canton; and sister-in-law, Kathryn Cornelison, Ball Ground, Ten grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held Friday, April 2 at 2 p.m. from the Chapel of South Canton Funeral Home with the Revs. Billy Cantrell, Jerry Clayton and J.R. Smith officiating. Flowers were accepted or donations may be made to the Pilgrim Baptist Church (Clayton Community) 101 Stone Wood Trail, Ball Ground, Ga. 30107.
Freeman Padgett, Jr.
Mr. Freeman Padgett, Jr., age 76 of Jasper, passed away Saturday, April 3, 2010 at his home following a lengthy illness.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Freeman, Sr. and Ella Champion Padgett; brothers, Herman, Herbert, Garland, Houston, Preston, Henry, Floyd, Harold and Eston; sisters, Edith Padgett and Rosalee Johnston Howell.
Survivors include his wife, Reba G. Padgett, Jasper; son, Avery F. Padgett, Ranger; daughter, Karen West and David Godfrey, Talking Rock; grandson, Daniel West, Canton; granddaughter, Chesli Padgett, Concord, Ga.; sister, Ina Scheer, Newnan, Ga.; sister-in-law, Lori Padgett, Talking Rock; and extra special friends, Marilyn nd Wade Forrester, Tate. Several nieces and nephews also survive.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Wednesday from the Chapel of Roper Funeral Home with the Revs. Robert Allen and Moss Fountain officiating. Interment followed in Sunrise Memorial Gardens with Local Chapter #47 DAV in charge of military graveside rites. The family requests in lieu of flowers that contributions be made to either the American Alzheimer?s Association or the Parkinson Foundation.
Sharon Cody
Mrs. Sharon Cody, age 54 of Fairmount, Ga., passed late Thursday afternoon, April 1, 2010 at Piedmont Mountainside Hospital.
Survivors include her husband, Kenneth Cody, Fairmount; father, Jerry L. Gunn, Hogansville, Ga.; son, Keith Cody, Fairmount; daughter, Leanne Cody, Canton; and brothers, Blane Gunn, Hiawasee, Ga., Steve Gunn, Hampton, and Charles Gunn, Newnan.
The funeral service was held Saturday, April 3 at 3 p.m. from the Cagle of Cagle Funeral Home.
Thomas James
Mr. Thomas H. James of Jasper passed early Wednesday morning, March 31, 2010 at Grandview Health Care in Jasper.
Mr. James was a graduate of the University of Florida with a Business Administration degree. He was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity and a very, very avid ?Gator Fan? - ?Go Gators?. Mr. James was a life-long Christian and a member of Tate United Methodist Church. He was a Vietnam era veteran having served in the US Army in Korea during 1963-66.
Survivors include his wife, Becky James, Jasper; daughter, Melissa Toel, Jasper; and son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Erin James, Woodstock. Two grandchildren also survive.
A memorial service was held Saturday, April 3 at 11 a.m. from the Chapel of Cagle Funeral Home with the Rev. Jim Schlicht officiating. The family did accept flowers; however, they would prefer that memorials be made to The Lewy Bodies Dementia Association @ LBDA, 912 Killian Hill Rd., SW, Ste. 202C, Atlanta, Ga. 30047; 404-935-6444.
Helen Lanier
Helen Stancil Lanier, age 88 of Ball Ground, Ga., died on Friday April 2, 2010 at Embracing Arms Hospice.
Survivors include her daughters and sons-in-law, Carolyn Stancil Manous Voyles and James, Jasper, Kathy Stancil Whitehead and Clint and Jane Stancil McLendon, all of Ball Ground, Ga.; brother, Luther Mitchell, Jasper; and sister, Doris Mitchell Bradley, Tucker, Ga. Six grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren also survive. She was preceded in death by her sister, Lora Mae Mitchell.
The funeral service was held at 2 p.m. Monday, April 5 from the Chapel of Darby Huey Funeral Home with the Rev. Ken May officiating. Burial was in Cherokee Memorial Park. www.darbyfuneralhome.com
Thelma Pettigrew
Mrs. Thelma Pettigrew, age 92 of Jasper. Ga., spouse of the late William V. Pettigrew, passed away at her residence.
Survivors include her daughters and son-in-law, Gail and James Reid, Jasper, Jean Tierney, Mandeville, La., and Loretta Roberts, Woodstock. Eight grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren also survive.
A Memorial Mass is scheduled for 11 a.m. Friday, April 9 at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church with Father Byrd officiating. An entombment is planned for a later date at Westlawn Cemetery in Gretna, La. The family requests no flowers, but donations to St. Vincent de Paul Society. Cagle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.


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I finally stopped praying, begging and pleading and said, "Fuck you God!" and it literally saved my life.
Growing up, I was subtly aware the way in which I observed the world was somehow off. Everything was just too loud or frightening or difficult. My daily life was filled with intangible despair and angst and the most mundane activities became an existential nightmare: Keirkegaard for kids. I was often too intimidated or lethargic to go outside, the thought of tomorrow was unnerving enough to deprive me of meaningful sleep, and what should have been good times were filled with internalized anguish that often brought me to tears. Looking back I can say that it felt like I was living in a dank subterranean realm looking up at the world, slowly being buried alive and dismembered while everyone else managed their lives and left me behind. But this was alright because I was praying to "God" and asking for "His" help and I knew eventually if I kept at it, I'd be saved.
Begging for help is a more apt description; day after day, year after year. I thought if I went to church I would be saved or at least not be punished more. I sought help from a truly compassionate, yet misguided priest and counselor who indicated I should seek solace in faith. Years went by and my symptoms ebbed and flowed. My high school years of debilitating apathy and fear were spent with very high doses self-medication (i.e., vodka for breakfast). My feigned attempt at college was met with truancy, very real suicide attempts and hospitalizations. And yet, I prayed.
At this point however, the cognitive dissonance was becoming all too apparent. So much of my life had been spent seeking help in this invisible being, yet to no avail and to the persistence of very tangible pain. Finally, after years of delusion, something clicked and I punched myself with some brutal honesty and the fear turned into anger. A subservient to this "God" is what I had been, begging and fearing for a life that was barely worth living. That night, the "Fuck you God!" night, shed my life of the false safety net that was actually enslaving me. It was perhaps the most liberating experience of my life. While still trepidatious, it gave me the kick in the ass necessary to save me. I sought professionals who based their conclusions on the rigors of scientific process. Meeting the criteria for multiple, severe mental illnesses and after years of fine-tuning management techniques, my life is virtually asymptomatic.
Even though it took me seven tumultuous years to finish my Bachelor's, I have worked four years professionally with success I never thought possible. I've even started a part-time Master's in Earth Science due to my unbounded love for anything scientific; a direct result of my deconversion and the inspiration instilled from the science-based doctors who helped save my life. When I think of the countless, cumulative, backbreaking hours spent in labs and pouring over data, hours that define entire lives that were only seeking the truth, truth that ultimately saved my life… I cry… I am so grateful. I am not of great mind and I'm not going to be known in the scientific community, but in some form, no matter how small, I'd like to contribute to the science that saved me.
I no longer direct my anger toward God because 1) I'm no longer angry and 2) there is no God. I am an atheist because in one sense it was my only choice, but it goes much deeper than that. I am an atheist because I am a truth seeker. I am an atheist because living a finite life allows me to create motivation, meaning and love – through the help of my amazing wife and family – in such a way that isn't constrained by a "safety net." At any rate, for old times' sake, "Fuck you God!"
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During 2010-12, noted AI researcher and long-time Humanity+ Board member Ben Goertzel conducted a series of textual interviews with researchers in various areas of cutting-edge science — artificial general intelligence, nanotechnology, life extension, neurotechnology, collective intelligence, mind uploading, body modification, neuro-spiritual transformation, and more. These interviews were published online in H+ Magazine, and are here gathered together in a single volume. The resulting series of dialogues treats a variety of social, futurological and scientific topics in a way that is accessible to the educated non-scientist, yet also deep and honest to the subtleties of the topics being discussed.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Industrial conglomerate United Technologies Corp. is buying aerospace manufacturer Goodrich Corp. in a deal valued at $18.4 billion, including the assumption of $1.9 billion in debt.
The deal had been rumored for days, sending Goodrich's shares soaring. The stock was up more than 11 percent to $122 in aftermarket trading after word of the deal broke late Wednesday. United Technologies said it will pay $127.50 a share in cash for Goodrich, which is based in Charlotte, N.C., and has 27,000 employees.
The total deal value amounts to a 16 percent premium over Goodrich's closing stock price Wednesday of $109.49. It's a 47 percent premium above the stock's price last Thursday, before word of a pending deal first leaked. Hartford, Conn.-based United Technologies said it expects to finance the deal through a combination of debt and by issuing stock.
The equity component of the deal is expected to be about 25 percent of the transaction, the company said. United Technologies owns Carrier heating and cooling, Otis elevator, jet engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney and other businesses. It said it anticipates that the combined companies will have annual sales of about $66 billion, as United Technologies strengthens its position in the aerospace and defense industries when it takes on Goodrich.
United Technology is forecasting 2011 revenue of $58 billion. Goodrich is expected to have 2011 revenue of around $8 billion. "Goodrich delivers on all of our acquisition criteria," Louis Chenevert, United Technologies' chairman and CEO, said in a statement.
Under the terms of the deal, United Technologies is forming an aerospace business unit that will be based in Charlotte and led by Goodrich Chairman, President and CEO Marshall Larsen. In a statement, Larsen said the deal delivers immediate cash value to Goodrich's shareholders at a premium that reflects the strength of its business.
Goodrich shares gained $12.51, or 11.4 percent, to $122 in aftermarket trading. They slipped $2.33, or 2.1 percent, during the regular trading session. United Technologies' shares fell 87 cents to $74 in aftermarket trading. The stock slipped $1.14 to end the regular session at $74.87.


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Encryption guru Phil Zimmermann's new security company, Silent Circle, has opened a UK office to support users of its high-end ultra-secure communications suite.
Opening a London office is a sign that the company is determined to go beyond being a supplier of software at arm's length, a problem in the past with many innovative but small US security startups.
Launched some weeks ago after a June beta, support is bound to be an issue for a security program that charges a monthly subscription fee of $20 (about £13) per month.
For that fee, users get encrypted secure voice, video, text (with email coming) through a dedicated (i.e non-shared) network of servers.
Advertised as the work of a variety of security notables, including the man behind Apple's whole disk encryption software and a Navy SEAL, its jewel in the crown is Zimmermann himself, a man who has worked in encryption as far back as the famous Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) crypto utility in the mid-1990s.
Consequently, the specification sheet for Silent Circle shows an attention to technical detail that gives it a fighting chance of selling to an emerging class of power users for whom security is a must rather than an option.
Not long ago, the level of security offered by Silent Circle might have looked like a paranoid niche, but as communication has become global it has become obvious that many governments make strenuous efforts to keep citizens under surveillance.
Although the sector is often seen as being popular among criminals and those with something to hide, you only have to look at the the Middle East to grasp the company's belief that extreme security might now be life and death for some.
The service comprises Silent Phone (for iPhone and soon Android), Silent Text (which can erase traces of IM sessions at both ends), and Silent Eyes (encrypted VoIP and HD videoconferencing); when it arrives Silent Mail will secure email.
"Our London office is a key gateway location for the global community, which will enable us to better serve the private and secure communications needs of both individuals and corporations," said Silen Circle CEO and co-founder, Mike Janke.
Zimmermann's previous company sold a VoIP security program, Zfone, based around the ZRTP security protocol of his invention. This made it into some third-party security products as an embedded technology.


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The Hope College Pull tug-of-war, a 111-year tradition, will be held on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 3 p.m. on the banks of the Black River (near U.S. 31 and M-21).
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The Pull, first held in 1898, is an annual fall highlight at Hope. In the competition, freshman and sophomore teams, entrenched in shallow pits on opposite sides of the river, attempt to gain the most rope through their strength and stamina.
Each team has 18 students on the rope as "pullers" and another 18 acting as guides and morale boosters, or "moralers." The freshmen are coached by the junior class while the sophomores are instructed by the seniors. The coaching arrangement also leads to a rivalry between the even-year and odd-year classes.
This year's Pull will pit members of the Classes of 2011 (sophomores) and 2012 (freshmen) against one another. The Class of '11 won last year's Pull, held on Saturday, Sept. 29, the first time that the freshmen had won the event since 1996.
In 1977, the Pull set a record for length and uniqueness. The freshmen and sophomores tugged for three hours and 51 minutes before judges called a tie due to darkness. In contrast, the shortest Pull lasted two minutes and 40 seconds in 1956.
New rules were implemented in 1978, following the 1977 marathon, limiting the event's duration. The rules now allow the judges to determine the winning class by measuring the amount of rope pulled from the other team if one team has not claimed all of the rope within three hours.
Through the years, the sophomores and even-year classes have held the edge in the win-loss column. Since 1909, the sophomores have taken 61 contests to the freshman class's 30; the even-year/odd-year split for the same period is 53 to 38.
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Patrick Biancone has won stakes races at tracks on three different continents, but Del Mar is not on the list. Biancone, 60, is not averse to the idea of running females against males and did so, most notably, when All Along won the 1983 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in his native France, en route to Horse of the Year honors in both the U.S. and France.
So it shouldn't be all that surprising, and it wouldn't be inappropriate, if Biancone got his first stakes victory at the track in Wednesday's Grade I $300,000 Del Mar Futurity when he sends out the filly Switch to the Lead against 11 males in the traditional closing day feature which determines the meeting's 2-year-old champion.
The Sorrento was the major prep for last Saturday's $300,000 Del Mar Debutante, also won by Executiveprivilege, the 2-year-old filly counterpart to the Futurity and, therefore, an option for Switch to the Lead.
"She was not nominated to either race, so we had to pay (a $10,000 supplemental fee) to run," Biancone explained Monday morning. "And the colt race (Futurity) looks easier than the filly race. We hope we've made the right choice."
Switch to the Lead's performances suggested that she could be competitive in either event.
"She was supposed to run the week before, but she didn't make the race.," Biancone noted. "But she won the first time quite easily and the horse that was second to her (Scarlet Strike) won (Sunday), so it was a good race.
"So the second time (Sorrento) I had to run her back a little bit quickly. She had only 10 days to make the race but I wanted to give her two runs before we attack the Grade I."
Switch to the Lead was ridden by Yuichi Fukunaga in her first two starts. Biancone's French compatriot, Julien Leparoux, is coming in from his East Coast base to ride her in the Futurity.
"She ran all right (in the Sorrento)," Biancone said. "She was wide but finished well to get third. So she'll run (Wednesday) again and we'll see how good she is. These horses have run one time, maybe two times maximum and made a good impression. But we think she'll contend and we'll see what happens. It's a baby race, you know."
Considerable thought went into the Futurity decision.
"One reason was that, if you look at the numbers, and we're all looking at something to measure, she was maybe the fourth number (highest speed figure) in the filly race and second in the colt race.
"Of course, that's what happened before and we don't know what they're going to do on Wednesday. But she has trained very well and looks in good form. Cross fingers."
Know More, winner of the Grade II $150,000 Best Pal Stakes in his racing debut on August 5, was made the 5-2 morning line favorite in a field of 12 for Wednesday's Grade I $300,000 Del Mar Futurity by track oddsmaker Russ Hudak.
The Futurity, to be run for the 65th time, is a "Win and You're In" event for the $2 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile on November 3 at Santa Anita.
The field, from the rail out with jockeys and odds in parentheses:
Gabriel Charles (Joe Talamo, 6-1), Capo Bastone (John Velazquez, 3-1), Switch to the Lead (Julien Leparoux, 12-1), Yankee Rebel (Victor Espinoza, 20-1), Know More (Garrett Gomez, 5-2), Heir of Storm (Martin Garcia, 8-1), The Whole Deal (Alonso Quinonez, 30-1), Pure Loyalty (David Flores, 30-1), Caballo Del Ciello (Mike Smith, 12-1), Rolling Fog (Rafael Bejarano, 6-1), Scherer Magic (Corey Nakatani, 8-1), Ive Struck a Nerve (Jose Valdivia, Jr., 30-1).
One week apart, horses trained by Mike Mitchell established Del Mar records for the one mile distance on two different surfaces
On Sunday, August 26, 4-year-old gelding Obviously clocked 1:32.10 winning the Del Mar Mile on turf, clipping .11 of a second off the record set seven years earlier by three valleys. On Sunday, September 2, 3-year-old filly Potesta covered the Polytrack ground of the main course in 1:34.86, trimming eclipsing the 1:35.28 of Do It All in 2011.
Joe Talamo rode both horses. Both are owned by partners Anthony Fanticola and Joseph Scardino.
"Both of those horses are really special horses and they both like this Del Mar atmosphere and the track here," Phil D'Amato, Mitchell's assistant, said Sunday morning. "Joe (Talamo) would breeze Potesta in the mornings and he was in awe of the ease she showed getting over the surface. And it was the same with Obviously."
Obviously was bred in Ireland, a son of the Australian sire Choisir and the Irish mare Leala.
"I've never seen a horse built like Obviously," D'Amato said. "Real Australian pedigree, big-boned, big hind end and giant shoulder. He just looks the part of a good miler. We always thought he would be, and he has proven it down here at Del Mar."
Mitchell had options to send Potesta to bigger-money, graded stakes at East Coast tracks, but chose to keep her here instead for the ungraded, $100,000 Torrey Pines.
"I don't know how else to describe Potesta other than Zenyatta-like," D'Amato said. " She's got a long ways to go to be anywhere near Zenyatta (in accomplishment) but she has those qualities.
"Mike has done a masterful job of managing her. He had this race in mind from the get-go, and now she'll run in the Zenyatta (September 29 at Santa Anita) and then the Breeders' Cup Lady's Classic (November 2)."
The stakes victories in the Adoration and Torrey Pines Stakes on Sunday were the sixth and seventh for Joe Talamo in the last 10 racing days going back to August 19, and raised his stakes total for the meeting to 10. Rafael Bejarano , who has a 50-39 lead over Talamo in the jockey standings with 21 races to go, has 12 stakes victories, tying the record for a meeting set by Laffit Pincay, Jr., in 1976 and matched by Chris McCarron (1995), Gary Stevens (1997) and Corey Nakatani (1998).
The Bejarano and Talamo head-to-head stakes matchups for the rest of the meeting.
Monday: I'm Smokin Stakes – Bejarano, The Human Complaint, 4-1; Talamo, Life A Riley, 3-1. Oak Tree Juvenile Fillies – Bejarano, Allshewrote, 8-1, Talamo, Speedinthruthecity, 7-2. Yellow Ribbon Handicap – Bejarano, Byrony, 3-1; Talamo, Halo Dolly, 6-1.
Wednesday: CERF Stakes – Bejarano, Pink Lollipops, 3-1; Talamo, Candrea, 6-1. Oak Tree Juvenile Turf – Bejarano, Power Broker, 4-1; Talamo, Dry Summer, 6-1. Pirates Bounty – Bejarano, Sinai, 6-1; Talamo, Sequoia Warrior, 6-1. Del Mar Futurity, Bejarano, Rolling Fog, 6-1; Talamo, Gabriel Charles, 6-1.
The news, via Tweets from racing media, came late Sunday morning. Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert's father, Bill Baffert, Sr., had passed away in Arizona.
Hours earlier, Baffert was at ease and as usual in the grandstand on the backstretch watching and clocking his horses' morning workouts. With no horses entered Monday, Baffert said he planned to spend Labor Day at the beach with son Bode. If the youngest Baffert has been notable by his absence from the winner's circles following his dad's eight stakes wins at the meeting, that's because he'd rather be in the ocean, Bob said.
Baffert holds a 19-18 lead over Peter Miller and the suspended Doug O'Neill with John Sadler three back in the trainer standings.
Miller has five horses entered today and Sadler a herd of 12 scattered through nine races.
CLOSERS -- Hall of Fame trainer Ron McAnally scratched All Star Heart from Monday's Yellow Ribbon Handicap to honor owner Gerald Gibbs' desire to run the 5-year-old mare in a stakes in his native Canada later this month… Ship And Win bonus eligible horses on Monday's card include: Allshewrote: (6th, Jerry Hollendorfer, trainer) , Macho Dorado (8th, Mike Mitchell) , Vivo Per Lei* (9th, Tom Proctor). * Eligible for $1,000 travel stipend by not 25 percent purse bonus (stakes race).
Trakus Facts of the day for Sunday, September 2
In this rare, full field for a two-turn Polytrack race over 1 1/16 miles, both second place finisher Low Gear Power and third-placer Honour Family covered significant extra ground compared to winner Streets of Heaven. Low Gear Power went 28 feet more than Streets of Heaven while Honour Family went 47 feet more than the victor, which equates to approximately 3.2 and 5.5 lengths, respectively. Low Gear Power was beaten by just a length, signifying his Trakus-adjusted margin (TAM) was approximately 2.2 lengths better than the winner, while Honour Family's TAM was 3.25 lengths better than Streets of Heaven.


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House passes $50B Sandy aid bill
The House approved nearly $50.6 billion in long-sought emergency aid to help the victims of Hurricane Sandy on Tuesday night, after Northeast lawmakers successfully added tens of billions to bring the package more in line with the White House's initial request last month.
Thirty-eight Republicans joined 190 Democrats on the pivotal 228-192 vote, which effectively tripled the underlying $17 billion bill first recommended by the House Appropriations Committee leadership. Passage followed minutes later on a 241-180 roll call with the great majority of Republicans opposed but also powerless to stop the measure — or to cut the spending levels significantly.
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Together with flood insurance monies already approved by Congress, the total Sandy-related assistance would be close to $60.4 billion — a commitment that roughly replicates what the Senate had promised in its aid bill. That was allowed to die in the preceding Congress by Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Whether measured in dollars or emotions, Tuesday's win was huge then for the region still struggling to recover from the October superstorm. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, will be in a much stronger position now to press for quick Senate action on the new House product and despite some Democratic grumbling, it is expected to move quickly onto President Barack Obama's desk for his signature.
"The tradition of Congress being there and providing support for Americans during times of crisis, no matter where they live across this great country, lives on in today's vote in the House of Representatives," Christie and Cuomo said Tuesday night in a statement issued with Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy. "We anticipate smooth passage when this package moves back to the Senate for final approval and for this long-awaited relief to finally make its way to our residents."
"While the House bill is not quite as good as the Senate bill, it is certainly close enough," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). "We will be urging the Senate to speedily pass the House bill and send it to the president's desk."
Near-solid Democratic support in the House was pivotal to the whole strategy, together with Christie and his close ally, Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), working the phones and mining the Republican ranks for precious votes.
Winning on the first $17 billion was not hard: It passed 327 to 91 with 135 Republicans joining in support. But the whole debate posed something of an identity crisis for Republicans, given the huge cost and the fact that most of the money will be counted outside the appropriations caps set in the 2011 budget accords.
Conservatives mounted an attempt to offset the $17 billion by imposing a 1.63 percent across-the-board cut from current spending. But this failed 258 to 162 with 71 Republicans objecting, chiefly because of threatened cuts to the Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
"It is incumbent upon us to have the discussion about whether we have the money to do this and whether or not it's important enough to us to pay for it," said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) in a vain appeal. "Are we willing and able to do without anything so that these people can get this money this year?"


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Registered voters will be able to exercise one of the most precious privileges our democracy grants us – the opportunity to determine who will represent us in our government – on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Voters will help choose our next U.S. senators, U.S. House representatives, S.C. governor and other statewide seats.
Locally, they will help choose school board members, a probate judge, the 6th Circuit solicitor and County Council members. See today's news pages for a list of the races on ballots in Lancaster County.
It's hard to believe summer is nearly over for local schoolchildren. While autumn doesn't officially arrive until next month, on Monday morning, about 12,000 Lancaster County students will say goodbye to the carefree days of summer and return to their classrooms.
This week, school administrators and teachers are making last-minute preparations for the 2014-15 school year. Their planning and preparation welcomed the students back at recent drop-ins and open houses.
Today we don our red, white and blue. We'll wave our flags, fire up the grills, parade down Main streets and country roads to cheering crowds.
We'll shoot fireworks, rally with family and friends and picnic anywhere we can place a blanket. And why not. We're celebrating our 238th birthday.
The United States of America is considered a teenager compared to other countries on Earth.
On Tuesday, June 10, registered voters across the state will be able to exercise one of the most precious privileges democracy grants us – the opportunity to determine who will represent them in their government.
Locally, we'll select a Republican candidate to face the lone Democrat in the 6th Circuit solicitor's race.
The list of hopefuls for the U.S. Senate race will be narrowed. So will the lieutenant governor, adjutant general, agriculture commissioner and state treasurer races.
The June 10 primary is just a few weeks away. Locally, we'll select a Republican candidate to face the lone Democrat in the Sixth Circuit solicitor's race.
The list of hopefuls for the U.S. Senate race will be narrowed. So will the lieutenant governor, adjutant general, agriculture commissioner, state treasurer and S.C. House District 53 races.
I have read that President Barack Obama is weak and that Obama's actions may put the United States in physical war against Russia because of his stance on Ukraine. I agree with the first point, but I hope the second point will not come true!
I am a Democrat who voted for Obama twice. It seems every day that goes by, I see how stupid the second vote was.
What Doris Starnes thought was an act of vandalism instead was a pack of determined coyotes.
Some type of prey, most likely a rabbit, sought refuge in a drain pipe buried well beneath the ground in Starnes' front yard.
Not ones to give up easy, the wild canines tore away the ground and destroyed about 80 feet of the drain pipe. The responding sheriff's deputy said it probably took hours for the persistent pack to do the damage. The fate of the prey is unknown.
Kitchen fires have become a hot issue and Lancaster County firefighters hope to cool down the subject.
Kitchen fires will be a top issue addressed during the 19th annual Lancaster County Fire Expo set, for Saturday, Oct. 12, in the University Place (Walmart Supercenter) parking lot on S.C. 9 Bypass West.
County firefighters, according to statistics, have responded to 78 structure fires that began in the kitchen area in 2012.
"The kitchen fires are an issue in Lancaster County," said Lancaster County Fire Marshal Stephen Blackwelder.
Veteran's Day and Memorial Day are two notable occasions we pause to honor those who have served and others who have made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our nation in the armed forces.
There are other days and other ways.
One is with the Lancaster County Veterans Affairs Office, which is looking for dedicated folks to serve as volunteer van drivers to take veterans to medical appointments in Columbia and Rock Hill.
It's almost showtime for the eighth annual Indian Land Fall Festival and fourth annual S.C. Championship Chili Cookoff.
Saturday's festival, promises to be a lot of fun for everyone from toddlers to teens and older folks, all for a good cause.
"This is the largest single event in Indian Land all year long," festival co-chair Tracy Little said said.
He's hoping the festival will draw more than 10,000 visitors.
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Heading into the NBA playoffs, it would have been easy to say that the Miami Heat and Oklahoma City Thunder would meet up in the NBA Finals. While that may still be true for Miami, Oklahoma City now faces elimination.
The Memphis Grizzlies have taken a surprising 3-1 lead over the Thunder in their second-round playoff series. The Grizzlies are playing very well as a team, but the Thunder seem to really be missing their injured star point guard, Russell Westbrook. Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol are putting up huge numbers and dominating on the glass.


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Planning for Library Excellence: Standards for Virginia Public Libraries
The Library of Virginia has promoted excellence in the development of public libraries since establishing Traveling Libraries in 1904. As noted in the Report of the State Librarian, 1903–1904, "Aside from the consideration of the possibilities of this system of library extension, it is the duty of the State to afford every possible educational opportunity to its citizens. An investment in literature, . . . such as the Library represents, without extending its resources to every section of the Commonwealth, is at least an unequal condition, and should be rectified at once." The enormous investment in staff, time, funding, creativity, and energy through many years has resulted in a statewide system of public libraries truly dedicated to serving the people of Virginia.
With the uncertain economic conditions present as this document is approved, libraries are more important than ever before. The "people's university" is now the people's source for job searching, access to government information only available online, and e-mail and Internet resources, as well as traditional library activities.
Planning for Library Excellence, 2009, would not have been possible without the body of work not only in building a strong library system, but also in providing practical standards to guide that development. The paragraphs below are quoted from the 1988 edition of PLE. Twenty years later, these words retain their impact.
Planning for Library Excellence seeks to improve the quality of library service available to each resident of the Commonwealth. This document's clearly voiced concerns underscore the dedication of Virginia librarians to this end. In the context of these recommended goals, these concerns include:
- A desire for practicality and achievability.
- A desire for the provision of incentives for improvement of library service.
- A desire for applicability to a variety of sizes and types of public libraries, not just the smallest or the largest.
- A desire for ease of use and comprehension.
- A concern for clout or impact.
- A desire to provide a rationale or justification for budget requests to governing bodies or funding agencies.
Planning for Library Excellence (PLE) is not a document intended only for the use by librarians. It is important that it be available to, and used by, boards of trustees, governing officials, members of funding agencies, and community support groups involved in planning at the local level and within the context of regional and state library service. The document provides information to help libraries plan and evaluate their services and meet the needs of their users in the most effective way their resources will allow. Even as planning is a dynamic process, Planning for Library Excellence is intended as a dynamic document, one which will spark debate and discussion, evaluation, and revision. Providing quality library service is an integrated process in which goals serve as an important tool in measuring a library's success in fulfilling its stated mission or role. The desired result of this process and of this document is excellence in the response of each public library in Virginia to the needs of its community of users.
The title, Planning for Library Excellence, 2009, denotes the importance of continuous efforts. Planning and improving library service are constants in a world in which current information is as necessary to government and an informed citizenry as oxygen is to human survival. Planning tools are numerous and adjustable to library size. The Public Library Association, a division of the American Library Association, has published several planning guides including A Planning Process (1977), Planning and Role Setting for Public Libraries: A Manual of Options and Procedures (1987), Planning for Results: A Public Library Transformation Process (1998), and The New Planning for Results: A Streamlined Approach (2001). These materials, and others cited as resources, are available from the Library of Virginia.
These standards are part of a series of efforts to support Virginia's public libraries. In 1936 Assistant State Librarian Randolph Church published a Regional Library Plan in which he made a strong plea for a state grant-in-aid program. His plan included ten regions to serve the state. Although funding for state aid was not allocated, the General Assembly enacted the first comprehensive general library law and declared, "It the policy of the Commonwealth, as a part of its provision for public education, to promote the establishment and development of public library service throughout its various political subdivisions." This very important language remains in the Code of Virginia §42.1-46.
In 1942, William A. Wright, of Tappahannock, was the patron of the first state-aid bill to receive funding—$50,000. In the original state-aid formula, city libraries were eligible for grants up to $5,000 while county and regional libraries were eligible for grants up to $15,000. The state-aid program took its current form after changes to the formula and library laws in 1970. In January 1978, the State Library Board approved Recommended Minimum Standards for Virginia Public Libraries. The five-page document covered staffing, salaries and benefits, buildings, outlets, collections, reference service, staff development, children's services, adult services, programs, and cooperation. Two additional documents were later approved: Children's Service Suggested Guidelines and Young Adult Services Guidelines for Virginia.
In 1982, the Library Development Committee of the Virginia Library Association started to review the Recommended Minimum Standards. In 1986 their document was sent to the Library of Virginia Board for consideration. These standards, Planning for Library Excellence (the blue book), were adopted on November 7, 1987. Chapters included Administration and Planning, Resources, and Services. The preface by Peggy Forehand, Board Chairman, and Ella Gaines Yates, State Librarian, notes:
The guidelines do not set forth statistical standards that represent a hypothetical average Virginia public library. Rather they set goals on various levels to which every public library in the Commonwealth may aspire.
Unfortunately, the first edition of PLE did not contain many references to technology at a time when the impact of technology on libraries was becoming a driving force for change. By the mid-1990s the need for revision was obvious. In 1994 a committee of the Virginia Library Association (VLA) reviewing the formula for state aid to public libraries suggested that Planning for Library Excellence be revised. The Librarian of Virginia requested that VLA begin the process to revise the document, and a VLA committee was appointed to do so. In 1995 the Virginia Public Library Directors Association (VPLDA) asked for, and was granted, the responsibility for the revision.
In July 1999, the Virginia Public Library Directors Association requested that LVA assume responsibility for the revision of Planning for Library Excellence. Incorporating new tools from ALA such as Planning for Results and the ability to analyze statistics from public libraries, the second edition of PLE was more of a planning tool than a traditional standards document. Libraries could quickly determine whether they met a basic standard, but to use PLE correctly, they needed to analyze progress toward essential, aspiring, and excel guidelines depending on the planning profile for their library. Planning for Library Excellence was intended to be a dynamic document. In order for it to continue as an effective planning tool, it required periodic revision and adaptation to reflect changes in library trends and services and the availability of new data. The 1998 planning profiles were to be updated yearly. This did not happen for a number of reasons, thus limiting the usefulness of the document.
In 2004, LVA commissioned a long-range study to "assist in assuring that the Commonwealth's public libraries are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st century as valued community resources responsive to the rapid change in technology and society." The consulting firm of Himmel and Wilson was hired to conduct the study. In 2005, their study, "Inventing the Future of Public Library Service in Virginia", recommended that PLE be "reviewed, revised, and strengthened" because of the many changes in public libraries. Particularly noted were the need for better (updated) technology, a user-friendly format, a checklist, and a discussion on partnerships.
The H&W Task Force on Standards began work in April 2006. Members of the committee represented all types and sizes of public libraries. Using the new technologies, including a wiki, members were assigned sections to research and for which to draft standards. In June 2007, the Task Force substantially completed a working draft that was turned over to the LVA staff for standardization. Various drafts were shared with the public library community. At the Virginia Public Library Directors Association conference in April 2008, the directors requested testing of the standards. Test results were discussed at the September 2008 directors' meeting.
On November 17, 2008, the Public Library Development Committee of the Library of Virginia Board received the standards draft and approved its submission to the full board for consideration at the January meeting. According to the Library Board minutes of January 30, 2009, "Mr. Woodrum entered a motion on behalf of the Public Library Development Committee to approve the document Planning for Library Excellence: Standards for Virginia Public Libraries, subject to stylistic and formatting changes. The Board unanimously voted in favor of accepting the standards.
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The Belgium Naval & Robotics consortium, composed of Naval Group and ECA Group, won the contract to supply 12 minehunting vessels to the Belgian and Dutch navies. Equipped with around 100 drones, constituting approximately 10 drone systems (toolboxes), six ships are destined for the Belgian Navy, while the other six will be delivered to the Dutch Navy.The 10-year contract is worth nearly $2.3B. After a three-year design phase, Belgium Naval & Robotics will launch the production phase of the ships and drone systems with a first delivery expected in 2024.
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"With the conversion of SAJIR, we are the first shipping company worldwide to convert a container vessel of this size to natural gas propulsion." Richard von Berlepsch, Managing Director Fleet Management at Hapag-LloydIn its more than 170 years of existence, the Hamburg-based Hapag Lloyd has used all kinds of solid and liquid fuels to generate energy for the propulsion of its ships. And now the shipping company has announced that it intends to convert the propulsion system of its 15,000 TEU container vessel MV SAJIR to use natural gas (methane), a world-first.The contract for the conversion was signed with Hudong Hondhoa Shipbuilding (Group) Co, Ltd.
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A bulk cement carrier that ran aground off beaches of Al-Fazayah Beach, Salalah in Oman has been refloated in one piece and without no damage to the environment, said the company behind the salvage operation, Resolve Marine Group.The partially loaded vessel, RAYSUTT II, departed Port of Salalah in May of last year when the port was evacuated due to adverse weather conditions. The vessel lost headway and steerage and subsequently grounded on on May 26, 2018 on Al- Fazayah Beach, a unique vacation spot which is known for the nesting of endangered sea turtles.
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Maritime Administrator RADM Mark H. Buzby, USN (Ret.), announced TOTE Services, Inc. of Jacksonville Florida as the Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) for the newest class of training ship, the National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV).TOTE Services was selected by MARAD as the construction manager for selecting a shipyard and ensuring that commercial best practices are utilized to deliver the NSMV on time and on budget."The U.S. shipbuilding industry is vital to America's economic strength and security," said Administrator Buzby. "The selection of TOTE Services to work with a U.S.
12-meter Ship Aims to Be First to Cross Atlantic Without a Crew
Final preparations are underway for a 12-meter-long ship to set sail from Canada and attempt the world's first transatlantic crossing without a crew.The USV Maxlimer, an unmanned surface vessel, is bound for the south coast of England and will conduct deep sea surveys on the way, guided by a skipper in a control station in Britain.The voyage is expected to take about 35 days.The ship was built by Sea-Kit International, which develops vessels for the maritime and research industries, for the Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE, a competition to autonomously survey the sea bed.


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Albion boss Chris Hughton says the defeat to Middlesbrough this afternoon needs to be a springboard for his side to go again.
Brighton's 21-game unbeaten start to the Championship season was brought to an end with a 3-0 defeat to Boro and Hughton said: "We've been on such a good run but we caught Middlesbrough at the end of a week where we we've had two tough away games and we've been unable to manouver the team - certainly as much as what Middlesbrough have been able to do.
"They probably showed today why they are what they are - a team that everybody fancied last season and just missed out on promotion. They invested very well in the summer and have come back strong again. They showed that in the important areas of the pitch at both ends.
"Goals can change a game, they score early and it gives them the lift. We had a good spell in the second half where we put them under pressure but they defended very well.
"We've got to get back to the levels we've shown this season and in whichever way that is. There's different ways to win a football match and we've got to get back to that again.
"The response from the supporters at the end was excellent. They knew it had been a tough day for us and they knew that, generally, what they've seen this season they've liked. This has to be a springboard now to go again and we need to wrap up a few as Uwe (Hunemeier) has come off inujured as well, so we've certainly got a few on the injury list."
On the unbeaten run ending, Hughton said: "We've enjoyed it and I don't necessarily feel that it was a real pressure of it being there but we'll have to wait and see.
"We've not been in this position. Everything that the players have given us this season has been as much about being motivated, as they are, and staying in the top group of teams, as they are. It just so happens we came unstuck but we'll dust everyone down and make sure that we can go again."
Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka said: "I felt from the beginning of the game that we were fitter than them and rested more than them.
"This is the Championship, when you have the games that we've had this week and the games they've had this week, I could change a few players on Tuesday but they played three games with the same team except Dunk today.
"When the pitch is heavy and with three really demanding games, I said at the beginning we were fitter than them and when we score the early goal, it's always difficult to score a goal against us when we score first."
Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was at the match and Hughton said spoke to him after the game: "Jose came in to see me afterwards, which was very nice of him. I would imagine, predominantly, he was at the game due to his association with the Middlesbrough manager but he did come in to see us afterwards.
"He wished us all the best, he spoke about the run that we'd been on. He knows the Championship very well and I just wished him all the best and look forward to seeing him back in the game very soon."
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The Birmingham Genealogical Society meets the fourth Saturday of each month (excl. Nov. & Dec.) at the Downtown Birmingham Public Library. Guests are always welcome!
Next Meeting: Saturday, April 26th at 2pm; Board Meeting at 1pm
Meeting Room: Arrington Auditorium, 4th Floor, Linn-Henley Building
Speaker: Yvonne Crumpler, retired department head of the Southern History Department
Program Topic: American Land Records
Please join us as Yvonne Crumpler, former President of the Birmingham Genealogical Society and the Alabama Genealogical Society and former head of the Southern History Department of the Birmingham Public Library, will give us a presentation on American Land Records. Yvonne will provide a power point program discussing the history of land records with information on public land states and state land states, with a brief explanation of the different type land surveys. Please join us and bring a friend!


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Miles, the Cowboys' head coach from 2001-04 — the period in which a sizable chunk of the SI allegations were alleged to have occurred — used his current platform as LSU's coach to address the accusations leveled in the five-part piece. On the SEC coaches teleconference Wednesday, and after touching on the 12th anniversary of 9/11 as well as the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Miles vehemently defended his time in Stillwater,
From Jim Kleinpeter of the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
"I revered my time in Stillwater. The idea that someone would characterize the program that was run there as anything but right and correct… did we work hard? You betcha. Did we make tough decisions about starting lineups? You betcha. But every guy was encouraged to get his degree, stay the course and fight.
"I can tell you that people that were commenting on the state of the program weren't there long enough to figure it out. They heard me tell them attend class, do the right things and heard me routinely. I'm going to withhold further comment. I can tell you that staff, family and friends, anybody that sat in our meeting rooms, knew that this thing was done right. I want to withhold further comment to get my team ready to play against a quality Kent State. That's my push."
Miles left the Cowboys following the 2004 season to take the same job at LSU. In SI's most recent article, Terry Henley, an academic adviser for football since 2000, was quoted as saying that, in regards to Miles, "no, he didn't promote academics."


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IBM ThinkPad T61
- 1 Detect hardware by hwdetect
- 2 SATA and Linux
- 3 Wireless
- 4 Xorg
- 5 Graphics
- 6 Power Management
- 7 Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery
- 8 Fingerprint Reader
- 9 Sound
- 11 Built-in Camera
Detect hardware by hwdetect
hwdetect --modules # add these data into /etc/rc.conf
This step will save much work on following sections.
on my T61, here is the listing by hwdetect 0.9-1
MODULES=(ac battery bay button dock processor thermal video wmi cdrom \ agpgart intel-agp nvram firewire-core firewire-ohci i2c-i801 i2c-core \ evdev joydev pcspkr psmouse serio_raw compat_ioctl32 uvcvideo v4l1-compat \ videodev thinkpad_acpi pci_hotplug shpchp rtc-cmos rtc-core rtc-lib nvidia \ output crc-itu-t snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc \ snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore pata_acpi ata_generic \ scsi_mod ahci ata_piix e1000e mac80211 iwl4965 cfg80211 pcmcia_core \ rsrc_nonstatic yenta_socket usbcore ehci-hcd uhci-hcd firewire-core \ firewire-ohci ieee1394 ohci1394 sd_mod sr_mod)
SATA and Linux
If there are boot problems, try going from AHCI to compatibility in the BIOS. I don't really know what is going on here, but my computer works in compatibility, I haven't tried AHCI.
- NOTE In other distro's after installation you can make the switch, but in arch it won't be able to detect your root partition in AHCI mode. I am sure this can be solved by installing a package.
Intel 4965 WiFi
If you have the Intel 4965 NIC, simply install iwlwifi-4965-ucode, run depmod, and run "modprobe iwl4965" to activate. For wpa_supplicant, use the WEXT driver, not the deprecated ipw200.
The latest Kismet runs well on the iwl4965, but occasionally has problems changing the mode back to Managed from Monitor.
If you have the AR5212 802.11abg NIC all you need is madwifi. Install it, and the kernel module is ath_pci.
Hwd did not do the monitor widescreen (1280x800) properly, and it was instead doing 1024x768. In xorg.conf, here is the relevant section:
Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultColorDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" EndSubSection EndSection
For the framebuffer in /boot/grub/menu.lst, I just used vga=773 and it doesn't look too bad. It freaks out with the vga=871 or whatever number you need for widescreen.
The Nvidia driver has it's own way of doing resolution, but I didn't find any conflict between the xorg setting and nvidia setting, so it really doesn't matter. I think the nvidia trumps the xorg.conf, though.
Works great with the settings provided in the Pacman output
Driver works great, even with composite enabled.
When I have time
Don't have it, so cannot say.
- xf86-video-intel from testing should support the Intel video. I haven't tried it yet, but I'll report back when I do.
Power Management
Install acpi, acpid. Add acpid to the daemons list. Load module thinkpad_acpi. You might have to blacklist asus_acpi/toshiba_acpi, it doesn't hurt anyway. It should work, and is able to provide accurate information to such programs as Conky and GKrellm, as well as the Gnome battery monitor.
The regular way works fine.
Suspend/Resume technically worked out of the box for me, however resuming took about 2+ minutes, while my screen stayed off and my speaker beeped 2-3 times. Sometimes it hung up too. These changes seemed to have worked for me and where found here. Remember to remove the boot parameters acpi_sleep=s3_bios or acpi_sleep=s3_mode if you have them, they don't seem to be needed anymore and may cause the system to crash on resume.
T61p nvidia graphics and the proprietary driver
In /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-lenovo.fdi, change line 51 from:
<merge key="power_management.quirk.s3_bios" type="bool">true</merge> <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbemode_restore" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="power_management.quirk.s3_bios" type="bool">false</merge></math> <merge key="power_management.quirk.vbemode_restore" type="bool">true</merge>
For the T61 with 140M and proprietary driver:
The above should probably work here too but is currently untested. If there's still breakage, try making the same changes to line 46.
Thinkvantage Rescue and Recovery
The Rescue and Recovery partition can be /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2, not sure which this depends on
The following grub entry did work on my T61
title ThinkPad Rescue and Recovery rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
Fingerprint Reader
Install Thinkfinger
pacman -Sy thinkfinger
Update PAM configuration to accept thinkfinger as auth input. See Thinkfinger Configuration
The module is snd-hda-intel. It works, albeit with several unresolved quirks. The mute button works partially out of the box (it can mute but not unmute.) To unmute, press either the volume up or volume down buttons. However, one workaround is enabling the volume up/down buttons as Keyboard shortcuts in your Desktop environment.
--Edit: Since Kernel 2.6.25 the mute/unmute function works out of the box. Now it unmutes also!
Install the the Kernel(kernel26tp) from AUR and add it into your bootloader menu. Boot the new Kernel.
Install hdapsd and tp_smapi from AUR.
Load the Modules:
modprobe tp_smapi modprobe hdaps
Start the hdaps daemon:
hdapsd -d sda -s 15
Built-in Camera
Install the linux-uvc-svn on community, version 211-1 is workable


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Ahh the four seasons… Winter, Spring, Summer, and MRI Safety Planning.
What, you've only heard it referred to as 'Autumn' before? Well, that's not terribly surprising. We're so inundated with honorary days, weeks, and even months, that the season of MRI Safety Planning fails to get its fair share of media time. But here's why MRI Safety Planning season should be tops on your list right now.
First, while there is a growing awareness of MRI Safety Week, a single week doesn't really afford the time needed to plan for improvements to MRI safety. Real improvements come from refinements in operations and process, coupled with effective tools and training. That sort of interdisciplinary approach often requires more than a couple days to put together.
Second, MRI Safety Week falls in the middle of summer when budget-wrangling loses the attention-span battle to thoughts of barbecues and coco-butter suntan lotion. It is precisely now, when so many organizations are hammering out their financial priorities for next year's budget, that MRI safety planning should be in full-swing.
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When making your MRI safety plans, it's important to know what new criteria are going to be expected of your facility. Accrediting bodies are all looking at MRI safety in a new way, and this is starting with the Joint Commission's Environment of Care requirements, effective January of 2009.
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By reviewing your current MRI safety protocols against published best-practices, and soon-to-be accreditation standards, you can prioritize the areas for improvement in 2009. In many cases, no-cost operational changes will help you achieve your goals, but whether it's a new MRI-friendly infusion pump, improved signage, or the thrice-recommended ferromagnetic detector, you will probably need to have a few MRI safety line-items in next year's budget.
Please contact us if we can be of any assistance in helping you with your observances of MRI Safety Planning season.Tobias Gilk, President & MRI Safety Director Mednovus, Inc. email@example.com www.MEDNOVUS.com


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It's tough to make sense of Chrysler's forays into hybrids and other advanced fuel-saving vehicles. You could imagine the company playing to the strengths of its Dodge-badged vehicles—pickup trucks and minivans come to mind—by offering high-mpg hybrid versions. After all, there's pent-up demand for a hybrid minivan or pickup truck—segments that don't yet have gas-electric options. But those hybrids remain ideas at this stage.
The company dipped its toes into hybrid waters with the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen Hybrids and has dangled notions of electric vehicles—but for now, it looks like its only realistic green (or semi-green) play is diesel. That's where Jeep comes in.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee has been one of America's quintessential SUVs for more than a decade and a half. The diesel version offers 30 percent better fuel efficiency than its gasoline counterpart. But the combined city/highway EPA fuel economy rating hovers right around 20 mpg, and the vehicle doesn't pass stringent air quality standards of California, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
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