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CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, known for her critical reporting on the Obama administration, resigned on Monday, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations stemming from her dissatisfaction with the network, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO.
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At the same time, Attkisson's coverage of the Obama administration, which some CBS staffers characterized as agenda-driven, had led network executives to doubt the impartiality of her reporting. The bulk of Attkisson's work since 2009 has focused on the failures or perceived failures of the administration, including its troubled green-energy investments and the attack in Benghazi.
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With CBS in the rear-view mirror, Attkisson is also at work on a book — tentatively titled, "Stonewalled: One Reporter's Fight for Truth in Obama's Washington" — that addresses what she describes as the challenges of reporting critically on the administration. That book, which is being published by HarperCollins, a division of NewsCorp (and not by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS Corp.), was also said to be a source of frustration among some executives.
Feeling increasingly stymied and marginalized at the network, Attkisson began talking to CBS News President David Rhodes as early as last April about getting out of her contract. Those negotiations intensified in recent weeks, and her request was finally honored on Monday.
Reached by phone, Attkisson described her resignation as "amicable." In a statement released later, she said it has been "one of life's great privileges to work at CBS News and I'm sincerely grateful for the many opportunities I've had."
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Sonya McNair, senior vice president for communications for CBS News, said in a statement: "CBS News veteran Sharyl Attkisson is leaving the news division to pursue other endeavors. We appreciate her many contributions and we wish her well."
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I am Adam, no longer Prince of Eternia .
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Also, very large parachutes will be necessary to slow the craft; is there anything in the works for a booster module to help slow during decent?
The abort thrusters now being developed for uh... not-unmanned flights are envisioned to (at some point later) also serve for propulsive landing capability. See this video at about 1 minute mark. I'd think the parachutes would be pretty useless on Mars for such a big capsule (over 4 tons dry mass without propellant load) and propulsive landing would be the primary means of shedding the remaining velocity after entry. I'm not sure they'd deploy correctly in the first place, IIRC, they'd deploy at supersonic speeds on Mars and they deploy subsonically on Earth, after two drogues stabilize the capsule.
Aug 9 2011, 11:09 AM
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We are talking about Discovery category mission, right?
It should/must be cheap.
It's nice that many of you are suggesting minirovers and tumbleweeds rolling or jumping out of Red Dragon (RD), but why not just stick to that concept NASA Ames if thinking about.
RD will stay mostly in the standard shape or configuration as it will be that time for other unmanned missions in order to keep lander price low as much as possible.
Number of external moving tool(s)/instrument(s) would be very limited just to the sampling acquisition set -> 1 m drilling suite + camera(s) on the robotic arm sticking out of standard side hatch.
Then all other lab instruments (many and heavy) can do a lot of science by analysing samples inside of the RD capsule.
Of course meteo instruments and other cameras can be deployed through top hatch together with Ultraflex solar arrays and antena(s).
And perhaps some cheap seismometric penetrator(s) could be simply ejected during EDL phase as well.
Aug 9 2011, 12:51 PM
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Although I think this proposed proposal (how's that for redundancy?) would certainly win high marks in the "cool and awesome" category that would make it great for EPO, it has to compete against the other Discovery proposals in two areas: science return and risk.
Mounting cameras on the outside to just take some panoramic pictures certainly won't scientifically wow the review panel. Adding some seismic sensors and weather sensors might make it more interesting, but then basically you've made Red Dragon into a very heavy version of GEMS. Which brings me to:
Risk. GEMS apparently won high marks for being low-risk. Although I'm sure Elon Musk and SpaceX would argue that Red Dragon would not be high risk, I think it would be very hard to convince a risk averse NASA review panel of that fact. Any new technology is always viewed as riskier than proven technology. I think the Red Dragon team would really have to wow the review panel with some amazing science to overcome their risk.
Chris McKay and Elon Musk are smart guys though, so I'm sure they could pull it off if anybody could. I'd be rooting for it
Aug 9 2011, 12:57 PM
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...why not just stick to that concept NASA Ames if thinking about.
Possibly because, after experiencing Pathfinder and MER in comparison to Viking and Phoenix, we've learned to appreciate the dramatic returns a rover can deliver. It need not be a very large rover. I could easily envision a pneumatic "mortar" that rapidly pops several small rovers through the hatch which could explore the local region at least out to line-of-sight (hundreds of meters to kilometers, given a tall antenna), communicating with the dragon vehicle as with Pathfinder. Really not that difficult to do.
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For a Mars mission, there are two kinds of distance to be traversed. All the previous missions that moved beyond the immediate landing spot have been rovers that moved to various locations on the Martian surface. But a mission could also take samples vertically, by means of a drill.
So if a drill could be extended out of the main hatch, it might be able to extract cores at various depths to be analysed by the huge mass of lab instrumentation on board the Red Dragon. The mission would examine a smaller number of samples, but with far greater depth of analysis.
I am thinking along the lines of the NASA Ames proposal, which does seem to me to have the greatest scientific return using Red Dragon.
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It's not out of the question that the vehicle could hold in reserve enough fuel to hop to a different site as well.
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I had a wild idea, does anybody know if it is technically feasible?
Instead of extending a drill mechanism out of the main hatch, would it be possible to simply drill straight down right through the heat shield? This drill would, after all, be built to drill through solid rock, and I believe that the material that heat shields are made of is designed for heat resistance/ablation, not rock-like strength, in fact they are quite fragile as I understand it. Or alternatively, perhaps the shield could incorporate a small 'cap' directly below the base of the internal drill mechanism, that can be removed upon landing. (It might be simpler and less problematic to simply drill right through the heat shield, though.)
If the drill is not required to be physically extended out the main hatch by some kind of robot arm, the mass and volume saved by not including the required arm mechanism could be used for additional instrumentation, not to mention that it would be a lot easier to extract the drill cores to the interior of the Red Dragon.
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Drilling through the bottom is a possibility, as its a low density carbon material but I'm not sure about placing a hatch on the underside of the craft. At that point, you are adding a lot more cost in redesigning and testing for the capsule.
Another idea they could do, is land multiple capsules at various locations around the planet that have large, steerable, parabolic antennas, similar to that on Galileo/TDRS, that would be deployed out of the top. Could be useful as a second relay station in space, or maybe radio telescope investigations with more distance from the Sun, or possibly with some magic, interferometric observations between here and there.
Including a mortar loaded with something similar to MetNet impactors could also be interesting though, shooting them out in different directions during descent.
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It may be robust enough to survive a winter buried in CO2. Then a snow rover could just roll out the hatch.
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Delurking in this thread just long enough to say HOORAY that other folks are fans of the Tumbleweed rovers! We may get rolling yet!
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I'm new to UMSF, but a long-time advocate of robotic missions. The premise of this thread is not unlike the problem handed down to American engineers and scientists right after WWII: "Folks, we have a bunch of V-2s here. What kind of science can you do with something made for an entirely different use?" First steps were crude, but the variety of science eventually done was outstanding--for a war missile.
I'd modify some things in the uncrewed version of Dragon to make it more Mars-mission worthy: replace the heat shield with a Viking-class conic shield (physics and success of the design dictate using what works); cut away the heat shield for landing--no need to soft land that mass; remove the Earth-style parachutes from the lower bays and instead have an MSL-class parachute system in a new nose bay filling the formerly empty nose cone volume; remove the vestigial forward hatch and ISS docking system and use the space to store and unfold 6 round solar arrays for power akin to those on Beagle (the central platform would hold antennae and instruments like mastcams and lidar); replace the pressure vessel sides with ribs to reduce some weight without compromising the aeroshell; use the landing leg tubes to guide sampling drills on telescoping shafts to the surface; with the heat shield gone, open a trap door hinged on one side as a ramp to the surface for mobile exploration tools (moles, Pathfinder-class bots, or even tumbleweeds if you must); utilize the deployed sensor bay as a weather station and lower-level camera platform. And the remaining space (of which there is still plenty in that huge hull) could be for what I think is the most valuable primary payload: testing the various IRSU technologies for water and fuel production out of the atmosphere.
I recall, though, that the V-2 was replaced by cheaper, more efficient sounding rockets for all the science roles that it pioneered, and I suspect this modified Dragon, even if gifted on the science community, might quickly go the same route!
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I'm new to UMSF, but a long-time advocate of robotic missions. The premise of this thread is not unlike the problem handed down to American engineers and replace the heat shield with a Viking-class conic shield (physics and success of the design dictate using what works);
Why? What's to say that's the only design that works? Even circumlunar flight reentries were proven out by different capsule shapes, both Apollo and Zond (which Dragon is more similar to).
I don't think either replacing the hatch or modifying the pressurized hull structure would work. You're approaching a lander development program and not reusing the Dragon design so the whole point gets lost. That becomes a Dragon only by name, besides what's the point in reducing the mass if Falcon Heavy can launch more mass to Mars than any useful scientific payload you can put inside Red Dragon?
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...You're approaching a lander development program and not reusing the Dragon design so the whole point gets lost. That becomes a Dragon only by name, besides what's the point in reducing the mass if Falcon Heavy can launch more mass to Mars than any useful scientific payload you can put inside Red Dragon?
Granted, but once that mass gets to the vicinity of Mars, the devil is in getting it to the surface successfully. These were just changes I needed to envision for the EDL preliminaries in order to make the game work for me. I'm on the surface now, somehow, and in the payload mode. I'll still stick with the IRSU demonstration packages for initial payloads--methane generation first, then water purification. I'd still put station-keeping science (mastcam, weather sensors, and comms) on the top in place of the docking adapter.
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OfJust about anything is possible here, after all, most of this conversation is based on a capsule that hasn't been finally designed or built to do the job of going to and landing on Mars. All we have is an idea, a video (so I'm told), a graphic and thankfully a whole bunch of people here with some imagination and an interest in exploration.
No, it has been designed and built. Red Dragon is the existing Dragon
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And yet again, Jim, you argue against something I've not proposed. I didn't propose delivering PHX's instruments. I didn't propose driving a rover out of the door. Yet you decided to have an argument with me about such things.
I have made my point - and made it clearly. The issue is not how to deliver payloads previously sent to Mars with Dragon. It's what payloads could you send to Mars with Dragon. You continue to ignore that simple statement and start arguments over things I've not said or even inferred.
I am going to blow my wad on this. I am not talking about previous instruments but any type of one. Dragon is a bad platform. The ideas since your post demonstrate that it is. Most are non viable.
Ideas modifying the structure are non starters. It isn't a dragon the. Opening hatches, non starter again, the avionics are not designed for vacuum.
There is out of the box thinking and then there is off the reservation which most of the ideas are.
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As a result, Riley suffers pain in his legs and joints and requires medication and visits to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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[quote width="auto" align="none" border="#0066cc" color="#0066cc" title="Quoted by Tanya Townsend"]Riley is a very kind, loving boy, who loves to make others happy. Riley's face was amazing when we got to Discovery Cove. He had a huge smile all day. He loved every minute in the water, especially with Kaylee the dolphin, and even named his dolphin teddy after her. We can't thank Starlight enough –- it meant so much to us as a family and to forget about hospital was a huge weight lifted. The best thing of all was to see Riley wearing a huge smile and having fun.[/quote]
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Dave Matthews has set the record straight about the John Edwards wedding rumors that surfaced late last year.
In late 2009, the New York Times reported that Andrew Young, a former aide to the one-time Vice Presidential candidate, suggested in a book proposal that Edwards had promised his one-time mistress Rielle Hunter that he would marry her after his wife, who has cancer, died. And, according to the book proposal, the aide claimed he promised a rooftop New York wedding where the Dave Matthews Band would play.
So what does the Grammy nominee have to say about that?
"He didn't ask me," Dave told Access Hollywood on Thursday night.
But if he had, Dave said his answer would likely have been "no."
"I would make a fair bet that I would have said no to such an offer," Dave smiled.
"Or, I would have charged him some incredible amount of money," Dave added with a chuckle.
Edwards recently confirmed he is the father of Hunter's daughter, Quinn.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) would like to
recognize the efforts of the Physical Activity Guidelines Steering Committee
that oversaw the work of the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee
and the Physical Activity Guidelines writing group: Rear Admiral Penelope Slade
Royall, PT, MSW (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; Director,
Secretary's Prevention Priority); Captain Richard P. Troiano, PhD
(National Institutes of Health; Physical Activity Guidelines Coordinator and
Advisory Committee Executive Secretary); Melissa A. Johnson, MS
(President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; Physical Activity
Outreach Coordinator); Harold W. (Bill) Kohl III, PhD (Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC); Physical Activity Science Coordinator until
October 2007); and Janet E. Fulton, PhD (CDC; Physical Activity Science
Coordinator beginning October 2007).
The Department is grateful for the contributions of the HHS scientists
and staff who participated in the Physical Activity Guidelines writing group
that developed and created this document: David M. Buchner, MD, MPH (chair);
Jennifer Bishop, MPH; David R. Brown, PhD; Janet E. Fulton, PhD; Deborah A.
Galuska, PhD, MPH; Commander Julie Gilchrist, MD; Jack M. Guralnik, MD, PhD;
Jennifer M. Hootman, PhD, ATC; Melissa A. Johnson, MS; Harold W. (Bill) Kohl
III, PhD; Sarah M. Lee, PhD; Kathleen A. (Kay) Loughrey, MPH, MSM; Judith A.
McDivitt, PhD; Denise G. Simons-Morton, MD, PhD; Ashley Wilder Smith, PhD, MPH;
Wilma M. Tilson, MPH; Captain Richard P. Troiano, PhD; Jane D. Wargo, MA;
Gordon B. Willis, PhD; and the scientific writer/editor, Anne Brown Rodgers.
The Department also gratefully acknowledges the work conducted by the
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Committee. Their extensive review of
the scientific literature on physical activity and health and their committee
deliberations are summarized in the Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory
Committee Report, 2008. The Committee's report provided the basis for
the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. The Advisory
Committee consisted of William L. Haskell, PhD (chair); Miriam E. Nelson, PhD
(vice-chair); Rod K. Dishman, PhD; Edward T. Howley, PhD; Wendy M. Kohrt, PhD;
William E. Kraus, MD; I-Min Lee, MBBS, ScD; Anne McTiernan, MD, PhD; Russell R.
Pate, PhD; Kenneth E. Powell, MD, MPH; Judith G. Regensteiner, PhD; James H.
Rimmer, PhD; and Antronette K. (Toni) Yancey, MD, MPH.
The Department also acknowledges the important role of those who
provided comments throughout the Physical Activity Guidelines development
process. Finally, the Department appreciates the contributions of numerous
other departmental scientists, staff, policy officials, and the external peer
reviewers who reviewed the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for
Americans and provided helpful suggestions.
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- (verb) be imminent or about to happen; "my impending departure"
impend (इम्पेन्ड) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)
- निकट होना, समीप आ जाना, आ जाना
impend Origin
- late 16th century: from Latin impendere, from in- 'towards, upon' + pendere 'hang'.
impend in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)
- Yet, it remains the loyal lieutenant as even greater failures and attendant dangers impend due to Washington's arrogance.
- Decline and disaster impend, but my thoughts don't linger there. It shouldn't surprise me if at this time next week I'm surrounded by family.
- Apple douses rumor of impending iMessage release for Android.
- One Last Chance to Stop China's Impending Debt Crisis.
- Don't panic about news of impending Fed rate hike.
Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of impend
- impending – jaada days pending nahi rahega ab… about to happen
Impending Pronunciation
UN warns of impending famine in Yemen as no way in for food aid


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Persistent block device naming
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This article describes how to use persistent names for your block devices. This has been made possible by the introduction of udev and has some advantages over bus-based naming. If your machine has more than one SATA, SCSI or IDE disk controller, the order in which their corresponding device nodes are added is random. This may result in device names like
/dev/sda and
/dev/sdb switching around randomly on each boot, culminating in an unbootable system, kernel panic, or a block device disappearing. Persistent naming solves these issues.
Persistent naming methods
There are four different schemes for persistent naming: by-label, by-uuid, by-id and by-path. The following sections describes what the different persistent naming methods are and how they are used.
Here is a good command for viewing all the information.
$ blkid -o list -c /dev/null
device fs_type label mount point UUID ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ /dev/sda1 ext2 /boot 7f4cef7e-7ee2-489a-b759-d52ba23b692c /dev/sda2 swap (not mounted) a807fff3-e89f-46d0-ab17-9b7ad3efa7b5 /dev/sda3 ext4 / 81917291-fd1a-4ffe-b95f-61c05cfba76f /dev/sda4 ext4 /home c4c23598-19fb-4562-892b-6fb18a09c7d3 /dev/sdb1 ext4 X2 /mnt/X1 4bf265f7-da17-4575-8758-acd40885617b /dev/sdc1 ext4 X1 /mnt/X2 4bf265f7-da17-4575-8758-acd40885617b /dev/sdd1 ext4 Y2 /mnt/Y2 8a976a06-3e56-476f-b73a-ea3cad41d915 /dev/sde1 ext4 Z2 /mnt/Z2 9d35eaae-983f-4eba-abc9-434ecd4da09c /dev/sdf1 ext4 Y1 /mnt/Y1 e2ec37a9-0689-46a8-a07b-0609ce2b7ea2 /dev/sdg1 ext4 Z1 /mnt/Z1 9fa239c1-720f-42e0-8aed-39cf53a743ed /dev/sdj1 ext4 RAPT (not mounted) a9ed7ecb-96ce-40fe-92fa-e07a532ed157 /dev/sdj2 swap <swap> 20826c74-eb6d-46f8-84d8-69b933a4bf3f
Almost every filesystem type can have a label. All your partitions that have one are listed in the
/dev/disk/by-label directory. This directory is created and destroyed dynamically, depending on whether you have partitions with labels attached.
$ ls -lF /dev/disk/by-label
total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 data -> ../../sdb2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 data2 -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 fat -> ../../sda6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 home -> ../../sda7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 root -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 swap -> ../../sda5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 windows -> ../../sdb1
The labels of your filesystems can be changed, but note that they have to be unambiguous to prevent any possible conflicts. Following are some methods for changing labels on common filesystems:
- swap
# mkswap -L <label> /dev/XXX
If your swap is mounted, run
swapoff /dev/XXX before and
swapon /dev/XXX after.
- ext2/3/4
# e2label /dev/XXX <label>
- btrfs
# btrfs filesystem label /dev/XXX <label>
- reiserfs
# reiserfstune -l <label> /dev/XXX
- jfs
# jfs_tune -L <label> /dev/XXX
- xfs
# xfs_admin -L <label> /dev/XXX
- fat/vfat
# dosfslabel /dev/XXX <label> # dosfstools package # mlabel -i /dev/XXX ::<label> # mtools package; converts label to uppercase
- ntfs (ntfsprogs package)
# ntfslabel /dev/XXX <label>
UUID is a mechanism to give each filesystem a unique identifier. It is designed so that collisions are unlikely. All GNU/Linux filesystems (including swap) support UUID. FAT and NTFS filesystems do not support UUID, but are still listed in
/dev/disk/by-uuid with a unique identifier:
$ ls -lF /dev/disk/by-uuid/
total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 2d781b26-0285-421a-b9d0-d4a0d3b55680 -> ../../sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 31f8eb0d-612b-4805-835e-0e6d8b8c5591 -> ../../sda7 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 3FC2-3DDB -> ../../sda6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 5090093f-e023-4a93-b2b6-8a9568dd23dc -> ../../sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 912c7844-5430-4eea-b55c-e23f8959a8ee -> ../../sda5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 B0DC1977DC193954 -> ../../sdb1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 10:27 bae98338-ec29-4beb-aacf-107e44599b2e -> ../../sdb2
As you can see, the FAT and NTFS partitions (fat and windows labels above) have shorter names, but are still listed. The advantage about using the UUID method is that it is less likely that you have name collisions than with labels. The disadvantage is that UUIDs lose any readability advantage.
by-id and by-path
by-id creates a unique name depending on the hardware serial number,
by-path depending on the shortest physical path (according to sysfs). Both contain strings to indicate which subsystem they belong to (i.e.
-ide- for
by-path, and
-ata- for
by-id) and thus are not suitable for solving the problems mentioned in the beginning of this article. They will not be discussed any further here.
Individual device names
You can also create individual device names: udev#Setting static device names (for iscsi).
Using persistent naming
There are various applications that can be configured using persistent naming. Following are some examples of how to configure them.
To enable persistent naming in
/etc/fstab replace the device kernel name in the first column with the persistent name path as follows:
/dev/disk/by-label/home ... /dev/disk/by-uuid/31f8eb0d-612b-4805-835e-0e6d8b8c5591 [...]
or directly specify the persistent name type using a prefix:
LABEL=home ... UUID=1f8eb0d-612b-4805-835e-0e6d8b8c5591 [...]
Boot managers
To use persistent names in your boot manager, the following prerequisites must be met:
- You are using a mkinitcpio initial RAM disk image
- You have udev enabled in
In the above example,
/dev/sda1 is the root partition. In the GRUB2
grub.cfg file, the linux line looks like this:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet
Depending on which naming scheme you would prefer, change it to one of the following:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/root ro quiet
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/2d781b26-0285-421a-b9d0-d4a0d3b55680 ro quiet
If you are using LILO, then do not try this with the
root=... configuration option; it will not work. Use
append="root=..." or
addappend="root=..." instead. Read the LILO man page for more information on
append and
There is an alternative way to use the label embedded in the filesystem. For example if (as above) the filesystem in
/dev/sda1 is labeled
root, you would give this line to GRUB2:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=LABEL=root ro quiet


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Sony Unveils New SmartWatch and Phablet, and More
What's News: Sony unveils the SmartWatch 2 and its new smartphone, Xperia Z Ultra. Taliban militants attack Afghan presidential palace. S&P/Case-Shiller: Home prices see record jump in April. Joanne Po reports. Photo: Sony
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... so it's it wraps up a new smartphone ... in New smartwatch ... this is what's news at this hour I'm WS J live I'm Joann Co ... Sony unveiling a smartwatch tool a wrist watch like device that connects with most smartphones that run Google's Android operating system ... the smartwatch shoe ... allows the wearer to receive notifications on phone calls e mails in social media sites and also works as a remote control for the phone's music player ... Sony also debuting a new smartphone with a high definition six point four inch screen ... as it tries to revitalize its smartphone business to take on Apple and Samsung in the mobile market ... experience the ultras size stands out in the market for ... tablets those are smartphones with screens as large as tablets to devise measures six and a half millimeters thick and is waterproof ... and tell the one two quart needed attack on the Afghan presidential palace and official buildings in the heart of Kabul early Tuesday ... Tele by militants bluff their way past two checkpoints ... triggering a gunbattle that left eight attackers and three guards day ... journalists attending an official event of the presidential compound scrambled ... for cover the well planned daylight assault in a highly fortified zone of the capital ... underscores the taglines unwillingness to fight even after opening up political office in cutter ... to negotiate a peaceful end to the war in Afghanistan ... in U S home prices See a record jump in April the Essen P case Shiller index rose to a half percent the largest monthly growth on record and the fastest year over year growth in seven years ... low inventory and demand spurred by low interest rates continuing to support the gain in home prices ... bookie keep us anomaly business about Mr upbeat and what's news I'm WS J last ...


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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#129 - Hash arrays
Opened by Mike H (SharkD) - Wednesday, 09 June 2010, 23:46 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Saturday, 21 January 2017, 14:55 GMT
Currently, array items may only be referenced by their index number (an integer). It would be nice to also be able to assign string values as array indexes, as in other scripting languages.
How do you loop over such arrays ?
POV-SDL is not php, I do not feel the need of a foreach()... nor a ksort().
Nice seems a bit frivolous here.
It's easier to remember names than index numbers. If you have a group of related items (stored objects, variables, macros, etc.) then you can use the same naming scheme throughout. And, if you have more than one array you don't have to worry about the arrays being equal in length, or if they have had items added or removed to/from them: the index will always remain the same.
POV-Ray is not a scripting language in the sense of the ones that offer the feature you are talking about. You can declare special indices in advance, then they are easier to remember.
Er, what? That sounds bogus to me. "POV-Ray is not a thing that has that feature, therefore it is not a thing that has that feature." That is the point of "Feature Requests" isn't it, or am I retarded? Don't the POV-Ray docs themselves brag about how you're able to write a complete ray-tracer within POV-Ray using only SDL? And plenty of non-"scripting" languages support hash (associative) arrays. Or do C++ and C# not count?
what about simply declaring your "string" index with classical #declare.
Instead of
arr["Mike"] = foo;
You can already have
#declare Mike = 3;
arr[Mike] = foo;
Associative array in C++ are called maps, not arrays.
(unless you want only an #enum for povray ?
#enum { Mike, Thorsten, Jerome } ???
What if:
#declare Mike = 3; #declare Thorsten = 7; #declare Jerome = 32; #declare MyArray = array[3] #declare MyArray[Mike] = pigment{White} #declare MyArray[Thorsten] = pigment{Blue} #declare MyArray[Jerome] = pigment{Black}
Isn't going to work.
I can lead the horse to water, but I cannot make it drink.
Good practices would be for the last code to have instead:
#declare Mike = 3; #declare Thorsten = 7; #declare Jerome = 32; #declare Last_Entry = 33;// or even " = 1+max(Jerome,Thorsten,Mike); " #declare MyArray = array[Last_Entry] #declare MyArray[Mike] = pigment{White} #declare MyArray[Thorsten] = pigment{Blue} #declare MyArray[Jerome] = pigment{Black}
(and we might be missing a few semi-colons)
- Field changed: Status (New → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #198. Perhaps the new 'dictonary' feature completely satisfies the request? If so, please close out on github.


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Festo, inventor of sophisticated and elegant robotic birds, as well as robot jellyfish and penguins, has done it again. The company's latest robotic achievement is a dragonfly, the BionicOpter, which can independently move each of its wings to fly in any direction.
Introduced at the Hannover Trade Fair in Germany this week, the BionicOpter is one of many projects the company has pursued under the aegis of its Bionic Learning Network. The network's purpose is to use the energy-efficient principles already found in nature and adapt them to automation technology.
The robotic dragonfly can speed up or slow down quickly, or even fly backwards, because of its ability to independently move each of its four wings. It can also float like a glider while holding its wings steady. Since it doesn't need to generate forward thrust by tilting forward, the BionicOpter can also fly horizontally. It's extremely lightweight at 175 gm (6.17 oz). Its body, made of flexible polyamide and terpolymer, is 44 cm (17.3 inches) long, and houses an ARM microcontroller, eight servo motors for wing actuation, a brushless motor, two 7.6V lithium polymer batteries, 2.4 GHz wireless modules, and inertia, acceleration, and position sensors.
The head and body are actuated by four flexible muscles made of nitinol, a shape memory alloy (SMA) that expands when cooled and contracts when heated. An electrical current passing through these "muscles" makes them move the tail up and down and the head from side to side. Each of the BionicOpter's carbon fiber-framed wings are covered with a thin foil material, and total wingspan is 63 cm (24.8 inches). Direction and intensity of each wing can be individually adjusted: The direction of each wing's thrust is determined by its swiveling motions, and its amplitude controller regulates the intensity of that thrust.
Each wing's flapping frequency and twisting motions are also independently controlled, and data on wing position and twisting is recorded and evaluated while the dragonfly is in flight. Remote-controlled with a smartphone, the robot only needs its operator for steering and speed control. Software and electronics coordinate the robot's motions.
Before attempting the complexities of engineering the robot dragonfly, Festo developed its SmartBird, which can take off, and fly and land autonomously, rising by means of its flapping wings alone. Inspired by a herring gull, the robotic bird flies, glides, and sails. A complex flight control system in its torso and tail section, combined with its articulated torsional drive unit, lets SmartBird's wings twist at specific angles, as well as beat up and down to optimize airflow use without the requirement for additional devices to assist lift. The bird's wing position and torsion are monitored by ZigBee-based two-way radio communication, which conveys operating data such as battery charge and power consumption, as well as pilot input.
Although Festo's press release claims that the BionicOpter dragonfly robot is the first system that can perform all the flight maneuvers of a plane, a helicopter, and a glider, two of these abilities have previously been demonstrated in one machine by Japan's Ministry of Defense. The Japanese remote-controlled flying spherical robot can move in any direction, fly down narrow passageways or up and down stairways, and take off and land vertically anywhere, on surfaces of nearly any shape. Like a helicopter, it can hover for eight minutes continuously, but the orb also has wings that let it fly forward horizontally at up to 60 km/hour.
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Apple today hosted events in London and San Francisco in which Steve Jobs announced the next version of its popular iPad tablet- the Apple iPad 2. He also announced Apple iOS 4.3 - the next iteration of Apple's mobile operating system.
Steve Jobs returned from sick leave to present the Apple event in San Francisco today. He announced the Apple iPad 2 - a device with what Apple refers to as "a totally different design".The Apple iPad 2 will ship in the UK on 25 March, after first launching in the US on 11 March. Jobs said that 2011 would be the "year of the iPad 2".
See also: Apple iPad 2 review
Apple iPad 2: the details
Jobs said the Apple iPad 2 device will be dramatically faster, with a dual-core A5 processor, up to two times faster than the previous Apple iPad's CPU. He said Apple had gone all out on graphics performance, with up to nine times faster graphics. iPad 2 has the same battery life as the original iPad, according to Apple, and will run Apple iOS 4.3. Apple didn't mention how much RAM the iPad 2 contains, and the screen resolution is the same as the original iPad.
Apple iOS 4.3 will be a free download for all Apple iPad, Apple iPhone and third and fourth generation Apple iPod touch users, on 11 March.
Jobs described the iPad 2 - which will have front and rear cameras - as "the first dual core tablet to ship in volume." It will also have a built-in gyroscope, and is dramatically thinner than the original iPad. Indeed, it is thinner than the iPhone 4. With the two cameras users can now enjoy video conferencing via the iPad 2 as well as the Apple iPhone 4, using Facetime.
The iPad 2 is also significantly lighter than its predecessor, and comes from day one in white and black. Given all these improvements, it's impressive that Apple has brought the new iPad to market at the same price point as the original iPad: it's available in the same model lineu, too - 16GB, 32GB, 64GB models with or without 3G.
Apple iPad 2 will cost from £429. All the details of the UK launch of the Apple iPad 2 can be found on Apple.com. You can view the full specification for the Apple iPad 2 at www.apple.com/ipad/specs.
Describing the iPad 2, Jobs said: "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough. That it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing."
iOS 4.3 - sharing a 3G connection
According to Apple the new flavour of iOS runs JavaScript twice as fast as before. iTunes home sharing will let you get at all of your music, movies, TV shows that you store in iTunes on your computer, directly from your iOS device. You can wirelessly stream over home Wi-Fi to your iOS device. With an Apple iPhone 4 you can share your iPhone's 3G connection over Wi-Fi to other devices.
Apple also demonstrated iMovie - Apple's film-editing software application - and music editor Garage Band on an iPad 2. iPad GarageBand is compatible with the Mac version, and in this latest version allows you to strum your iPad like a guitar.
Jobs demonstrated an add-on HDMI-out accessory for the Apple iPad 2 with which users can present up to 1080p content direct from their iPad 2. He also showed off a thin, see-through case - the Smart Cover. Smart Covers are flexible and held in place by magnets. The case is made of polyurethane.
The success of the original iPad
Describing the Apple iPad at the event via a video message, Apple designer Jonathan Ive said: "I cannot think of a product that has defined a new category, and then redesigned in such a short time."
Indeed, Jobs opened the event by announcing that Apple has sold more than 100 million iBooks, and that with the addition of Random House, there are now more than 2500 book publishers using the iBookstore to sell e-books via Apple iPhone and iPad devices.
Jobs also revealed that Apple has now paid out more than $2bn to developers of apps for iOS devices, and shipped it's 100 millionth iPhone. He revealed that Apple sold more than 15 million iPads in 2010 alone - and the Apple iPad didn't launch until March of that year. This generated a staggering $9.5bn in revenue, and gained more than 90% market share. There are now 65,000 dedicated iPad apps on the Apple App store. Jobs attributed some of the iPad's success to the Apple Stores: "Without these stores, I don't think we would have been successful either."
Jobs on stage in San Francisco
Apple sent out press invites in February confirming that the new iPad 2 will be revealed on 2 March. The invite showed an Apple iOS calendar icon peeling away to reveal an iPad. Here's a picture of the live streaming of the event as it happened at the BBC in London:
The UK event at BBC Television Centre in London.
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Ever since Microsoft announced its Windows 8 platform, the industry has gone abuzz about the touchscreen capabilities of its new OS. Even now there is a huge consumer electronics show going on in Berlin, Germany called IFA 2012. All of the big industry names are rolling out Windows 8 devices faster than I can honestly wrap my mind around. I will say this Christmas season is going to be tough for the average consumer as there are so many variations of hybrid tablets coming out from all of these manufacturers. We in the tech industry are going to have our work cut out for us trying to muddle through all the specs and separating the good from the bad. So without further ado, here is a list of Windows 8 tablets that have recently been announced.
HP Tablets
HP announced today, its lineup of hybrid PC and tablets. Pictured below, you can see what they look like.
The HP Envy x2 is a hybrid PC. It is basically a laptop and a tablet built into one. The 11.6 screen attaches seamlessly to a magnetic base on the keyboard. Slide it off and you have a tablet. The tablet weighs 1.5 pounds and runs on Windows 8. It has a front-facing HD webcam and an 8 megapixel camera on the back. HP expects to have the Envy x2 available around the holiday season and has yet to announce the price. HP also announced two ultrabooks, the HP Spectre XT TouchSmart Ultrabook, and the HP ENVY TouchSmart Ultrabook 4.
Samsung Tablets
The Samsung Ativ Tab seems to be getting a lot of attention and looking at the specs, probably rightly so. Pictured below, you can see it has a beautiful design. They put a Windows 8 button at the bottom of the screen so you can switch between Start screen mode and Desktop mode in Windows 8. It has built-in USB and HDMI ports so you can connect a mouse or printer without the hassle of special software. It also comes preloaded with Microsoft Office. Battery life seems to be incredible.
They claim 13 hours battery time watching movies. It has a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and 2GB of RAM. It also has a front facing 1.9 megapixel camera and a 5 megapixel rear camera with LED flash. Currently it is unknown when the tablet will be available or what the price point will be.
Dell Tablets
Dell announced today, its new lineup of tablets, touchscreens, and ultrabooks. The XPS 10, pictured below, is Dell's new 10 inch tablet running on the Window RT OS and ARM processors. If you're not familiar with that jargon, I will try to simplify it for you. The RT version of Windows 8 is basically a souped smartphone OS made for a tablet. You don't get the full blown desktop experience like you do with Windows 8 however, you do get a lot of apps. So it is more like an iPad than a desktop. The ARM processor is Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 processor, which is a mobile processor. This isn't a bad thing, because these mobile manufacturers have learned how to make these mobile processors powerful but easy on the battery life. The XPS 10 comes with a dockable keyboard. When docked it can get up to 20 hours battery life. They expect to release this tablet in late October.
Dell also announced a hybrid pc called the XPS Duo 12. Picture below, the ultrabook transforms into a tablet by rotating the screen and folding it down over the keyboard. The specs on this model are a little bit sketchy at this time. It too is expected to be available at the end of October.
Sony Tablets
Sony unveiled its new line of tablets at the IFA show in Berlin as well. Specs on this particular tablet are a little sketchy. It appears that it is intended to be a full blown laptop that transforms into a tablet. It comes with a stylus and the keyboard slides out instead of detaching like some of our previous contenders. The model they showed in Berlin sported an i7 processor and 8GB of RAM. That is some serious horsepower. They do plan to offer i5 and i3 processors as well. This is good because it is doubtful most consumers are going to want to spend the money for an i7.
ASUS Tablets
ASUS unveiled the ASUS Tablet 810 and the ASUS Tablet 600 to the world. The 810 model is the full Windows 8 tablet. Here are the specs listed on their website:
|11.6" Super IPS+ Panel with 1366×768 resolution,
Touch panel: 10 fingers multi-touch
|Operating System
|Windows® 8 Release Preview
|Next Generation Intel® Atom™ processor
|64GB eMMC
|802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0
|Wacom digitizer stylus
|Rear: 8MP Auto focus with LED Flash / Front: 2MP
|G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Gyroscope, E-compass, NFC ,GPS
The Tablet 600 is the RT version of their tablet. It too has a removable docking keyboard. Below are the specs per Asus' website:
|10.1" Super IPS+ Panel with 1366×768 resolution,
Touch panel: 10 fingers multi-touch
|Operating System
|Windows® RT
|NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 Quad-core
|Memory / Storage
|RAM: 2GB / Storage: 32GB eMMC
|802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0C
|Rear: 8MP Auto focus with LED Flash / Front: 2MP
|G-Sensor, Light Sensor, Gyroscope, E-compass, NFC ,GPS
Pictured below, you can see the ASUS Tablet 600.
As you can see, the selection is going to be pretty incredible this fall. The big question is how much are these things going to cost? Everyone seems to have their eyes on Microsoft as they are set to announce pricing for their Surface tablet in late October. I doubt we'll get any ideas about these other tablets until Microsoft announces their pricing. Keep checking back with us as I am sure this list will increase with time. We'll be sure to keep our eyes open for the latest and greatest as it comes out.


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The East Central University softball team split a key Great American Conference double-header with Arkansas-Monticello at Lady Tiger Field. The Lady Tigers (16-6, 4-2 GAC) earned a 1-0 decision in the opening game and then fell 2-6.
ECU was led at the plate by senior Shelby Simmons, who tallied five hits in the two games and added two RBIs. Sophomore Lauren Bancroft tallied four hits in the series, while freshman Jordynn VanPelt added two hits, including a game-winning home run.
Freshman Lacey Paulk picked up the win in the circle for the Lady Tigers, recording 13 strikeouts and moving her season record to 6-1. Senior Ali Manship suffered the loss and is now 8-2 on the season.
The Lady Tigers and the Cotton Blossoms (17-9, 5-1 GAC) will resume the series, Saturday, March 9 at 11 a.m. for the first game of a double-header.
Game 1 – ECU 1, UAM 0
The opening game of the series was a pitcher's duel, with only one run scored in the game. The Lady Tigers held UAM to just two hits and tallied seven of their own, but the lone run came from a solo home run in the second inning.
VanPelt was the second batter of the inning when she sent a shot over the left center fence to earn the game winning run. Both teams had chances through the rest of the game, but left runners stranded on base and ECU won 1-0.
Game 2 – UAM 6, ECU 2
The Cotton Blossoms wasted no time getting on the scoreboard in the second game, scoring a run in the first and second and two runs in the fourth and fifth innings for a 0-6 advantage.
The Lady Tigers earned a run in the fifth to cut the deficit to five (1-6). Sophomores Kayci Snider, Chelsea Patterson and Bancroft all singled to load the bases with one out. Simmons then sent a run across the plate with a single to third.
Bancroft and Simmons combined for a second run in the seventh to make the score 2-6. Bancroft singled to left center and Simmons sent her home with a triple to right center.


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Made of aircraft grade aluminum, TransRACK quickly installs without tools. Eight double lock clamps with stainless steel hardware holds the rack to the bed of the truck and Easy On cross-bar clamps make installing accessories fast and convenient. An 800-pound capacity and four movable load stops allows for carrying ladders, pipe, lumber or other long items.
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The Arc to host annual dinner, style show
So fashionable … The Arc of Greater Beaumont will host the 2011 Stars of the Arc Celebrity Style Show and Annual Dinner on Friday, April 29, at 6:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Beaumont Plaza. The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of six prestigious awards by emcees Kelli and Bob Phillips. Co-chairing this designer event will be Toye Babb and Sandy Drake. Beaumont Mayor Becky Ames will be honored with the Arc Excellence in Community Collaboration Award. This award is given by the Arc in appreciation of a regional professional who promotes community collaboration to improve quality of life for all Southeast Texans, including citizens living with special needs. The Arc of Lifetime Achievement for Advocacy Award will be presented to J. Coffy Pieternelle, a well-respected board-certified specialist in obstetrics and gynecology. This award is given in appreciation to a professional who has a distinguished career of advocacy and service to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Sara Leonard and Matthew Bloodsworth will receive the Arc Excellence in Leadership and Self-Advocacy Award. This award is given to honor Arc members who promote positive attitudes through exemplary leadership, service and volunteerism with the Arc of Greater Beaumont. The Arc of Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Cindy Bloodsworth. Kirksey's Sprint Printing will receive the Arc Business Partnership Award. Dinner tickets are priced at $50 and $75 and $25 for children 10 and under. For more information, call (409) 784-5556.
High honors … The packed MCM Eleganté Hotel Ballroom was the site of the CASA of Southeast Texas "Justice is Served" dinner in early April. Casa Board President Toni Mulvaney welcomed guest to the dinner honoring CASA's Volunteer Advocates. Jefferson County Judges traded in their black robes for black aprons to serve as the evening's celebrity waiters. The Justice Is Served Dinner special honoree was the Honorable Ronald L. Walker. A graduate of South Park, Walker subsequently played sports while earning a degree from Lamar. After a successful career in private practice, he was elected judge of the 58th District Court of Jefferson County. He was later appointed as chief justice of the Ninth Court of Appeals, where he authored in excess of 1,500 legal opinions. After a brief retirement, he returned to public service in 2007 as county judge of Jefferson County, retiring in December 2010. The recipient of CASA's 2011 Judge James Farris Volunteer of the Year Award is Marie Lewis. Carina Kirk received CASA's 2011 Child Advocate of the Year Award. CASA also presented 10-year Service Awards to volunteers Mike Conn and Ida Dodson, and recognized all of its 96 volunteers for their years of service. Celebrity judges who did an outstanding job as celebrity waiters were John Paul Davis, Lupe Flores, Donald Floyd, Alfred Gerson, Larry Gist, Hollis Horton, Charles Kreger, Steve McKeithen, James Mehaffy, Randy Shelton, Mickey Shuffield, Johns Stevens, Larry Thorne and Bob Wortham. Co-chairs Gay Scott and Gina Crenshaw were thrilled with the support and turn out of the many supporters of CASA.
Bunny brunch … The Beaumont Country Club welcomed more than 500 members and guests to its Gourmet Easter Buffet this past Sunday. As members arrived, they were greeted by the artistic creation of cake designer Ronnie Richardson. The 9-inch cake display featured a realistic bunny and a Faberge egg with the BCC logo. Golfers at the brunch scrambled for the edible golf clubs, balls and bags that sat on the top of a chocolate mousse cake. These cakes tasted as good as they looked. Diners included theTed Harp family, surrounded by his children and grandchildren. Buddy Low thoroughly enjoyed the brunch as the Easter bunny made his way around the room and greeted the likes of Judy and George Dishman and their family, Janie and Mark Steinhagen, along with Mary Jane and Bill Benning and their children. Also thrilled with the club's bountiful spread were Neri and Rudy Sotolongo, Virginia and Jim Austin, Martha and Foxworth, Mary Anne Howell, Kit Ohmstede, and the Lum Edwards and Martin Edwards family. Jay Proctor's grandchildren were elated as Sallye Keith did a creative magic trick pulling silver dollars from their ears. It was a gorgeous gourmet meal that guests will remember for a long time.
Candles and cakes … Belated b-day wishes to Jude Reese, Virginia Jordan and Sara Kirksey along with b-day toasts to Lauren Madding, Jan Morgan, Lauren Smith, Marianne Youngblood, Julie Weldy, Beau Procter, Rusty Hall, Susan Geyser, Guy Goodson, Hart Green, Shea Kent, Quin Oxford, Mitch Smith, Jonathan Miller, Carey Broussard, Aislinn and Hannah McMahan, and Scott Sherron.
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EDITORIAL: Probing the interference allegations
Right now, it's about answers.
Ever since last Thursday's story in the Globe and Mail raising questions about whether the Prime Minister's Office interfered in some way with the prosecution of Quebec engineering giant SNC-Lavalin, questions have swirled about what might have taken place.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed the Globe story was inaccurate — but the denial was couched in such careful legalese that it could be accurate even if interference had occurred. Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has been essentially gagged, unable to speak about what happened; as government's most senior lawyer, solicitor-client privilege means she can't talk, unless the government gives her permission to speak.
But at the heart of the mess is special rules for companies who get caught breaking the law — rules that let them admit guilt, but never have a conviction placed on their record.
Put it this way: if you were charged with a crime, the option wouldn't be available to you.
It's a recent addition to the Canadian justice system, tucked into the federal budget last May. The plan was to let corporations have special status under the law; effectively, admit crime, pay fines, but never actually be convicted, thereby allowing the company to go on bidding for federal work.
But at the heart of the mess is special rules for companies who get caught breaking the law — rules that let them admit guilt, but never have a conviction placed on their record.
As SaltWire Network columnist Russell Wangersky wrote at the time, "Why should a corporation be allowed to buy a get-out-of-jail-free card? If criminal acts can be dealt with by simply fessing up, cutting a cheque and promising that you'll do better, is there really any meaningful deterrence on the table? That's just making the commission of a crime into a business decision, balanced on the scale of profit and loss, rather than right and wrong."
But if the new rules stank, what's being alleged now is even worse. The question is whether or not senior officials in the government pressured Wilson-Raybould to let the giant Quebec company apply for a deferred prosecution agreement, instead of facing full prosecution — even though SNC-Lavalin was charged in 2015, before the new rules existed.
Politicians or political staff interfering with the administration of justice is a serious charge and should be fully investigated — full stop.
And until that's done, and those questions are answered, there's a clear ethical stain on the Trudeau government.
Another question that might be addressed? Just why it is that deferred prosecution agreements were included in, of all things, a budget bill, precisely when it turned out that SNC-Lavalin might be needing to avail of the opportunity?
In other words, could it be that the PMO not only pushed to get SNC-Lavalin a special deal, but also actually built a mechanism to create that special deal in the first place?
Something stinks.
And it's going to stink until there's more than careful denials.


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I've seen some dumb characters in my time and this one is no different. Here is "how to draw Apple from Annoying Orange", step by step. What annoys me about this series is how it's all based on fruits. Writing out descriptions for fruit figures is pretty stupid because you are talking about how an apple's personality is. Anyways, Apple is what you call one of the whiners of the group. He doesn't really join in with Orange when Orange goes on his escapades, and Apple never wants to do anything too dangerous because he is afraid that he may get all bruised up and mussy. Now because Apple is like this, he is almost always the one that is left behind in the dust when things get exciting. So I guess you could say that Apple lives his life in fear and as a loner. Oh well, so be it I guess. Here's to drawing Apple from the show Annoying orange which airs on Cartoon Network, have fun !
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|System: X360, PS3, PC
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Obsidian Entertainment
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Bethesda Softworks
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Oct. 19, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
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|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
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Also, you can now have two AI partners at once, and you can give them orders via the new command wheel. We had mixed results with the command wheel; it gives you a great deal of control, but your companions still do stupid things now and then. Still, your partners are helpful during combat, and they provide some extra inventory slots.
Perhaps the most significant new elements, though, are the story and environment. The year is 2280 (just a few years after the events of Fallout 3), and the region looks like America looked in 1950s science fiction -- it has the aesthetics and music of the 1950s, but with futuristic technology and a little bit of a cowboy vibe. The two most important organizations are Caesars Legion (a slaver outfit) and the New California Republic (the closest thing the region has to a government), which are fighting over the Hoover Dam. As you set out to solve the mystery of your shooting, you become enmeshed in the Mojave Wastelands politics, and eventually, the decisions you make affect the future of the entire region. Various wacky details provide comic relief -- youll come across the Kings, a gang of Elvis-worshippers, for example.
The environment, meanwhile, is completely new. Primarily because it wasnt hit with a nuke, New Vegas is more colorful and lively than the Capital Wasteland was, which makes up for the fact that the graphics arent any better from a technical standpoint. The facial animations are still a little off, and we noticed some pop-in and framerate issues. Even if you dont feel like pursuing a mission, its always a great experience to travel from place to place, taking in the sights and sounds.
We do have a few complaints about New Vegas. We encountered some significant glitches, including everything from ridiculous physics errors to full-on crashes; we imagine these will be fixed with an update, so those who plan to play on a machine thats connected to the Internet might want to wait a bit before diving in. The enemy AI seems to have gotten worse, with your foes frequently moving in odd patterns and making themselves easy to kill. And overall, we wouldnt have minded a little bit more of a departure from the Fallout 3 formula. Even with all the aforementioned tweaks, New Vegas still feels a lot like an expansion pack.
But is that such a bad thing? Fallout 3 is one of the best games of this generation, and fans should be thrilled to see a new story told in a similar fashion. Were looking forward to spending more time in New Vegas, and checking out the DLC when it comes out.
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Interested in Language
Can we use an indefinite article referring it to the head-noun modified by a plural noun in the genitive case considering the latter as a descriptive attribute?e.g.
a soldiers' canteen, a girls' school, a three miles' walk, a fifteen minutes' break, etc. ?
Dear Moderator,
Could you recommend me a trustworthy grammar reference where I would find some information about the use of articles with countable nouns modified by nouns in the genetive case?
a two miles' distance
a three miles' walk
a fifteen minutes' break
Is there anything wrong in the following explanation of the constructions above?
1. The -'s genitive is possible with certain nouns denoting time, distance and measure.
2. It is possible to use plural nouns with the -'s genitive.
3. The noun in the genitive case may be used as a classifying (descriptive) attribute before a noun.
4. A noun modified with a classifying (descriptive) attribute should be used with an indefinite article
Dear 5jj,
Thank you indeed for your advising me the Grammar references. They are really useful. Having readQuirk et al (1985),A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, London: UOP, pages 321-331I found out a mistake in my explanation of indefinite articles in the phrasesa three days' absence, a two miles' distance, a three miles' walk,a fifteen minutes' break etc., for I claimed the genitive of those phrases to be a descriptive one, but it turned out to be a genitive of measure, thus not giving us a good reason forreferringan indefinite articleto the head-noun modified by a plural noun in the genitive case. But if it were a descriptive genitive, I believe things would be different.


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The crippling winter ice storm left many Missourians without power and caused significant damage to trees and power lines.
To help families and businesses recover from the disaster, President Bush ordered a major disaster declaration, which covers damage to private and public property from the recent severe winter ice storm.
As part of the declaration, federal disaster funds were made available to Missouri on Feb. 6 to supplement state and local response efforts
Following the President's action, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Director Joe M. Allbaugh also designated 33 counties eligible for aid to stricken residents and business owners. The assistance, to be coordinated by FEMA, can include grants to help pay for temporary housing, emergency home repairs and other serious disaster-related expenses. Low-interest loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration also will be available to cover residential and business losses not fully compensated by insurance.


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The popular notion about babies is that they are somehow marriage destroyers. Once a baby comes along, it's fights, fights, fights, and then even divorce or the sad realization that your "honeymoon" is over and now you will never go on dates and never have good sex again.
But it doesn't have to be that way.
For a few people, a child is actually a marriage BOOST. I know in my own marriage, the three-year period between our wedding and our pregnancy was wonderful. It was great fun. But it lacked the strong sense of unity and purpose that having our first child gave us. There is no doubt that our baby improved our marriage. Here are 8 ways a baby can make a marriage stronger:
Something for Just the Two of You: Early in a marriage, things are about your families of origin and your friends, etc. But a baby is you and your spouse. That's it. You (and your luuuuv) made that. That's solidifying.
Bonding: Remember those old men who can't live without each other because they were in the trenches in a war fought 40 years ago? That's you and your man now. Late nights. Mysterious cries. Yellow poops. It's all the stuff of lasting bonding love.
The Love: There is nothing like those first few days home with a new baby and just your spouse. The love. OMG. The love. You are falling in love with the baby, yes. But you are also falling in love with each other. Again and again. And again. It's amazing.
The Sex: Maybe it was just me, but the first year of sex after my daughter was born brought it to a WHOLE other level. I don't know what got knocked loose during labor, but it was awesome.
Loss of Inhibition: Your spouse has now seen you at your lowest, most base moment. My husband had watched me pop out a human being and he still thought I was sexy. That's love. So why would I ever worry about imagined love handles again?
New Skills: Did you ever know your husband was a diaper ninja? Did he ever know you could exist on three hours of sleep and still take out the garbage? Now you both do! One of the best ways to keep a marriage fresh is to constantly surprise one another and there is no better way than adding a baby to the mix.
Because Good Dads Are HOT: Ask any mom and she will tell you that there is nothing in the world that is sexier than a man who can be a dad. Nothing. I never saw my husband in that way before and it was like new eyes.
Laughter: For me, laughter is the best part of any marriage and a baby brings SO much more opportunity to laugh. They are, after all, totally hilarious. And all that laughter? It's like a marriage Band-Aid.
What ways did your marriage improve after baby?