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VICTORIA – One of the last exchanges in the B.C. legislature's fall session was over the state of the court system.
Drug dealers are walking free, NDP leader Adrian Dix reminded Public Safety Minister Shirley Bond in the final question period. Dix referred to a Prince George case this fall where a convicted cocaine dealer racked up more trafficking charges while he was on trial, and then was released because he couldn't be tried in a timely fashion.
The NDP was picking up on an unusually political speech last week by B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman. Speaking to the annual B.C. judges' conference in Las Vegas, Bauman warned that funding cuts have the B.C. court system "going over a cliff in slow motion."
The cuts are real. By next year, court service budgets are expected to be down 10 per cent since 2008, and staff down 15 per cent. The provincial court is down 17 judges from 2005. There aren't enough clerks. And the federal government is about to push through new sentencing guidelines that will add more inmates to B.C.'s overflowing prison system.
Bond, the overworked B.C. Liberal minister doing double duty as Attorney General, replied that some of the budget cuts are being reversed. More sheriffs have been trained, and 14 provincial court judges have been hired in the past two years.
(Meanwhile, provincial judges are suing the deficit-laden government, demanding a six-per-cent raise.)
Bond also pointed to long-term strategies being implemented to relieve the flood of court cases. It's this kind of systemic change that has the most potential for long-term reform of our archaic system.
Right now there are an estimated 2,000 cases in provincial court that are running long enough to risk being dismissed due to delays. It's not a crime wave; a quarter of all cases in provincial and B.C. Supreme Court are family disputes over kids and property.
The Family Law Act has been in the works for years, and it sailed through the legislature with NDP support. It encourages out-of-court settlements in family breakups, equalizes common-law rules with those for married couples and does away with the terms "custody" and "access" that suggest children are to be fought over as if they are property.
Bond also pointed to B.C.'s harsh new administrative penalties for drinking and driving, which have kept most routine impaired cases out of court.
Police have the authority to impound vehicles and impose heavy fines on the spot, when drivers fail a roadside breath test or even blow in the "warn" range of 0.05 to 0.08 per cent. Bond points proudly to a 40-per-cent decrease in alcohol-related vehicle deaths in the first year.
Of course this is being challenged as an infringement of the right to go to court and try various drunk-driving defences. A judge will soon decide if the hazards of impaired driving justify such an infringement.
Justice Bauman acknowledges that courts have to clean up procedures too. Set aside the baseless conspiracy theories around the Dave Basi-Bobby Virk saga, and you have two small-time crooks whose lawyers were allowed to spin the case out for seven years in a tangle of evidence disclosure demands.
As the legislature adjourned, Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson joined previous mayors, from Conservative Party member Sam Sullivan to Mike Harcourt, in calling for marijuana to be legalized and regulated.
Not on my watch, replied Prime Minister Stephen Harper. So instead, we're getting de facto legalization of crack cocaine.
Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com


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This Cassini narrow-angle camera image -- one of those acquired in the survey conducted by the Cassini imaging science team of the geyser basin at the south pole of Enceladus -- was taken as Cassini was looking across the moon's south pole. At the time, the spacecraft was essentially in the moon's equatorial plane. The image scale is 1280 feet (390 meters) per pixel and the sun-Enceladus-spacecraft, or phase, angle is 162.5 degrees.
The image was taken through the clear filter of the narrow angle camera on Nov. 30, 2010, 1.4 years after southern autumnal equinox. The shadow of the body of Enceladus on the lower portions of the jets is clearly seen.
In an annotated version of the image, the colored lines represent the projection of Enceladus' shadow on a plane normal to the branch of the Cairo fracture (yellow line), normal to the Baghdad fracture (blue line) and normal to the Damascus fracture (pink line).
Post-equinox images like this, clearly showing the different projected locations of the intersection between the shadow and the curtain of jets from each fracture, were useful for scientists in checking the triangulated positions of the geysers, as described in a paper by Porco, DiNino, and Nimmo, and published in the online version of the Astronomical Journal in July 2014: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/148/3/45.
A companion paper, by Nimmo et al. is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/148/3/46.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://www.nasa.gov/cassini. The Cassini imaging team homepage is at http://ciclops.org.

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For every dollar borrowed, it takes $2 to pay back with interest.
"Unfortunately, the debt is a good way for today's politicians to pay for things on the backs of tomorrow's taxpayers," said Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
A new report from the California State Treasurer's Office shows that just a decade ago, bond debt was just over 3.5 percent of the state's general fund, costing every Californian about $800 a year to pay it off.
Next year, it's estimated to jump to nearly 9 percent and with every taxpayer three times more.
The big spike includes $42 billion in bond monies, half of it to transportation projects, which voters approved in 2006 before the Great Recession hit.
The Treasurer's Office has been warning state leaders debt could reach more than 10 percent of the general fund. Wall Street likes it generally around 5 percent.
"Every dollar you pay in principal and interest on bonds is $1 you can't spend on schools, public safety, environmental protection, social services, the whole gamut of critical services," said Tom Dresslar of the Treasurer's Office.
Gov. Jerry Brown actually slowed the bonding spending down when he took office.
Bond supporters point out, though, that California needs to invest in infrastructure to keep the economy vibrant.v
"It's understandable that people would be concerned," said Hilda Martinez of the California Alliance for Jobs. "What they need to remember is that not all debt is bad debt. There is some good debt that is necessary to keep our economy going and keep people employed."
However, the off-the-books debt indicate California is in bigger trouble. The State Budget Crisis Task Force points out there's more liability that doesn't get counted. That includes government retiree pension and healthcare costs and the billions more lawmakers raided from public schools and universities that will eventually have to be paid back.
The Brown administration says it's fully aware of the wall of debt. Internal budget borrowing is accounted for in the current state budget and newly enacted pension reform will eventually save the state $55 billion over 30 years.


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The Mystery of Marriage: 20th Anniversary Edition
Meditate on the Spiritual Significance of Marriage
In the 20th Anniversary Edition of this Gold Medallion Award winner, Mike Mason goes on a poetic search to understand the wondrous dynamics of committed love. In highly readable, first-person style, Mason's writing stimulates readers' thoughts and prayers and propels couples to deeper intimacy. "A marriage is not a joining of two worlds," says the author, "but an abandoning of two worlds in order that one new one might be formed." Rich chapters on "Otherness," "Vows," "Intimacy," "Sex," "Submission," and an all-new chapter on "Oneness" lift readers to view the eternal, spiritual nature of this faith-filled, "impossible," wild—yet wonderful—frontier.
"An outstanding achievement. Rarely has a book aroused in me so much enthusiasm as has the combination of wisdom, depth, dignity, and glow that I find in these chapters."
-J.I. Packer
"Absolutely exquisite. It reaches down deep into our innermost being, revealing, revitalizing, rewarding. A real classic."
-Gigi Graham Tchividjian
"A drop everything book. Mason deals with the stunning paradoxes of the mystery, the problems, and the glories of marriage. I don't need to read any other book on the subject."
-Elisabeth Elliot
Story Behind the Book
"Over the twenty years since its publication, many couples have told me that they've read my book aloud to each other. This always amazes me and gives me great joy. I'm also amazed that many single people have read it. Either way, my goal is for hearts to be warmed by the mystery of divine love. I want couples to enter into deeper intimacy by thinking together about the mystery of marriage—about how their love, besides being a gift of God, reflects the very love He has for Himself in the Trinity. For God is not a bachelor, and throughout the Bible marriage is a supreme picture of the nature of God's love and of His kingdom. I want people who read my book to feel so soaked in these wonderful, divine mysteries that it deepens their reverence for marriage and inspires them to greater love."
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So what makes a good wine bottle opener? First, here is what you should avoid:
- Openers that poke through the bottom of a cork.
- Openers that compromise the integrity of the cork, causing it to break and lead to pieces of cork in the wine.
- Openers that seem overly complicated to figure out and take more hands to use that a Swiss Army knife. Tools like these are meant to simplify a job, not complicate it even more.
It is pretty easy to judge if you have a proper opener, and if you don't it is time to invest in one. There are so many new and improved models on the market that will take the hassle out of opening that great bottle of wine in no time at all. This is why the team at Shopcookware.ie have gone far and wide to source only the very best openers from a variety of suppliers. The six basic types of openers are as follows:
- The mounted opener: Sturdy, durable and efficient; higher price.
- The rabbit-style opener: The most efficient of all the openers; moderately priced.
- The pump-style opener: Pulls cork by means of a vacuum, less chance of breakage; love/hate item.
- The twist-style opener: Effective and affordable; not as flashy.
- The waiter-style opener/Wine key: Inexpensive, portable; requires 'manual labour'. Whichever wine opener you prefer, you can rest assured that Shopcookware.ie has the finest selection of products you will find anywhere on the web.
Le Creuset Wine Accessories
The Le Creuset Wine Accessory range saw the light of day in 1979, when Herbert Allen, a tool inventor for the oil industry in Texas, sat down and decided to develop a tool that would remove a cork from a bottle of wine without force, injury or embarrassment. The experiment was inspired by his wife's ire after having a particularly frustrating experience opening a bottle of wine, and went on to revolutionise the way we open, store and present wine.
The Le Creuset range of wine accessories includes the following products:
Lever Models: The Lever models are the perfect accessory for the modern wine connoisseur and take the headache out of opening older vintages that may have some cork disintegration, etc.
Cooling: The Cooler Sleeve allows you to cool your wine on the go and in style. The elastic sides and tapered top provides a snug fit; your wine cools in minutes and stays frosty for hours
Activ-ball Range: The Activ-ball range represents a new level of simplicity when it comes to opening your wine - all due to the inclusion of the unique, patented activ-ball technology. Now you can remove corks effortlessly and take the cork of the screw just as easily. All Activ-ball products come with a five year guarantee as well.
Screwpull Champagne Stopper: The champagne stopper is the perfect option for waiters/sommeliers/mere civilians who want to preserve unused champagne.
Le Creuset Foil cutters: A simple and clever innovation designed to remove the foil crown from a wine bottle. Le Creuset foil-cutters cut with a gentle squeeze and twist, neatly and cleanly. An indispensable tool for the wine lover!
Le Creuset wine stoppers: Le Creuset wine stoppers are great for preserving open bottles of wine. This product comes with three stoppers, as well as a comfortable easy grip handle and will allow you to keep wine for longer periods of time without the fear of oxidation.
The Le Creuset corkscrew range is a must for the wine connoisseur. Invest today and take the hassle out of opening, storing and preserving your wine.


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Bibi Jones, noted buddy of Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski, and star of such acclaimed flicks as The Crib and Babysitters 2, appeared on the Toucher and Rich Show today to tell her tales.
The most intriguing of these tales came when the hosts asked her which professional athletes she'd been with, and she replies that most of them were married. OK, then, who isn't married? "Dan Uggla." (Uggla was married, until recently.) Jones says she lands many baseball players because she's friends with an agent in Phoenix, and he uses her to seduce potential clients. That's nice. She also says she slept with Phoenix Coyotes enforcer Paul Bissonnette (@BizNasty2point0 of Twitter fame), although he denies it. "I did screw him," she says.
Jones also says that Gronk was OK with her wearing his jersey in the Twitter photo, because she has more followers than he does, and he wanted to gain social media cachet. (Also of note: Gronk brings his jersey with him on trips for times like these. Professional athletes are the best.)
This particular encounter has a sad ending, though, because Jones tells Toucher and Rich that the pair didn't swap numbers or vow to see each other again. Apparently they had to part company in the early evening because Gronkowski and his buddies were heading to a nightclub, and Jones is not 21. Awww. They grow up so quickly these days.
[CBS Boston, H/T Player Wives.]


text: Supreme Q170 micro-ATX for enterprises, with 5X Protection II for dependable stability, IntelR vPro business-grade technology, and DDR4 support. 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By Lee Hui Jing, EnCeA couple of months ago, one of my clients, an Investigating Officer from a Law Enforcement Agency, had requested me to extract some of the files from an image copy of a hard disk. The total number of files to be copied was 1,030. Sounds easy right? This job of a few clicks turned out to be a nightmare when I found out that I was short of 2 files in my destination folder. I had selected 1,030 files to be copied, but at the end, only 1,028 files were being copied. More surprisingly, I received output from the EnCase Copy operation; 'Status: Completed'. But where did the other 2 files go? Why had EnCase produced 'Status: Completed', when actually, 2 files were missing? Referring back to the image copy, I found out that most of the files had the same filename as each other.
It is very common for an analyst to face evidence files which have the same filename. This circumstance exists when:
1. There are 2 files with same name, but they are put in different folders.
2. There are 2 files with same name, but with different MAC times.
A procedure to be followed before analyzing a case is to recover all files and folders. When you use recover options, the deleted files will be recovered, and sometimes these deleted files have the same file name as the existing files, but with different MAC times.
But is it possible that EnCase can fail to copy all the files under these circumstances? For those readers who are new to EnCase, you may ask, why do you need to copy the evidence file in the first place? Let me try to put it simply, in computer forensic methodology, after the analysis phase, we will present the findings to our clients. So usually what we do is to copy out the evidence files using EnCase so that our clients can access the files in their workstation, without looking at the whole hard disk image. So the real question now is how sure are you that the selected files are properly copied to your designated folder? Is it sufficient to rely on the EnCase notification window after the EnCase copying process has been executed?
Read more at http://www.forensicfocus.com/encase-file-copying-windows-short-file-names


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Pretty good post!
My only argument would about the timelines of the investing time horizons, I'm not sure that 6+ years is a 'long time' horizon. There have been periods in the past much longer than 6 years where the real rate of return for equities was near zero.
Personally I think the 'long term' investor should be thinking about 15 year+ or even 20 years +.


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I told you fell in love the this background stamp, Striped Pattern and you can see that I did, as well as the Butterfly and Flower clear set. My other stamps are Green with Envy because I'm using Striped Pattern.
I used the stamp in a vertical panel and have to say I love it. Just another way to use these stamps.
Hero Arts Butterfly and Flowers (CL750)
Hero Arts Flower and Butterfly Frame Cuts to match the above clear set
Hero Arts Striped Pattern (K5884)
Hero Arts Green Hills and Field Greens (the little cube sets) I have several sets.
Green Gems on the 2nd card
Green Gems on the 2nd card
Hope you have enjoyed our month of Hero Arts. I have had so much fun.
Arlene and the Die Cut Divas


text: Vaccination is an emotive business. The furore around the MMR vaccine and autism has shown that vaccination health scares can cause considerable damage: stop vaccinating, and epidemics are sure to follow. But how do scientists decide whether a vaccine and a vaccination strategy are effective and safe? We talk to Paddy Farrington, Professor of statistics at the Open University. You can also read the accompanying article.


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If you've ever taken a photo outside on a bright day, only to find part of the photo way too dark and part of it way too light, you've stumbled upon one of the problems inherent with digital photography—a single exposure can only contain a limited dynamic range.
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography creates an image that is not possible with a single shot. The effect is achieved by merging different photos of an identical frame taken with different exposures–dark underexposures, bright overexposures, and medium exposures—and using only the properly exposed parts of each photo. With HDR, you can keep the details of clouds on a sunny day while saving a shaded part of the scene in the foreground that may normally be underexposed.
Traditionally, HDR photography required expensive applications like Photoshop ($699) or Photomatix Pro ($99). Last year, the concept of HDR photos became more mainstream when Apple added it to the camera app in iOS 4.1. Now, users searching the Mac App Store store for HDR apps are met with a wide range of options, both in price and features.
I took a look at five apps to see how price, features, and results compared. For consistency, the same three raw files were used to test each app.
Light Compressor
Don't be fooled by the price tag on Tai Shimzu's Light Compressor. Available in the Mac App Store for $1, Light Compressor is a basic HDR app that yields solid results. With very simple controls, this app allows you to quickly drag three image files to the main window, and make tone mapping and curves adjustments to the combined image. The dynamic range of a photograph is much wider than what can be accurately displayed on a computer screen, and tone mapping—a core concept in HDR photography—reduces the overall range while maintaining as much of the contrast as possible. There are three sliders under the tone mapping controls that allow you to adjust strength, radius, and saturation. Below this, there is a familiar Photoshop-style curves adjustment tool, which allows for multiple adjustment points by clicking the plus sign at the top. Light Compressor's default tone mapping settings seems overly strong, but yields pleasing results when lowered slightly. The settings are not refreshed when you load a new set of images, so adjust accordingly.
Bottom Line: A good starting point for HDR on the Mac. It could end up being all you need.
Tai Shimzu; $1
HDR Darkroom
Everimaging's HDR Darkroom easily combines multiple image files to create an HDR photo. The app's strength lies in the three tone mapping engines to adjust your image after the files are loaded—Local Tone Balancer, Local Tone Enhancer, and Fast Tone Compressor. After the selection is made, the slider controls in the Tone Mapping Parameters panel adjusts automatically. Local Tone Balancer can be used to balance highlights and shadow detail in small areas of the photo via the Strength and Local Lighting sliders. The Local Tone Enhancer engine is for targeting the shadow details specifically. The Fill Light slider is the key to this engine and will reduce the overall contrast of the image, and lighten some darker areas of the photo. This engine seemed to quickly wash out the overall image. The final engine is the Fast Tone Compressor, which apples a uniform adjustment to all areas of the photo and allows for the quickest adjustments of all the tone mapping engines. In some case this may be all that's needed, but there is more fine turning available with the other two engines. Each of the engines also allows for custom settings to be saved for quick future access. Overall, HDR Darkroom's user interface is relatively intuitive but could use a little more polish around the edges to make the workflow more clear.
Bottom Line: The UI could use some clean up, but good results are possible from this mid-priced app.
Everimaging Ltd; $80 ($10 on sale on the App Store as of 9/22/2011)
Hydra Express
If you're comfortable with iPhoto, you will feel at home in Creaceed's Hydra. From the app's icon to the user interface, Hydra feels very much like a native Mac app. Creaceed only produces products for OS X and iOS, and it show in the little details. When the app is launched, a window opens and prompts you to drag and drop the images you would like to use to create the HDR photo. These images then get displayed in a large preview window, where you can see your adjustments made.
The editing controls are simple and straightforward. Once you have selected the Merge pane on the Inspector window, a histogram appears with an exposure slider below it to set the overall exposure for the HDR image. The Tone Mapped editing pane has three tone-mapping methods: Compression, Local Adaption, and Perceptive (which seemed to yield the best results, to my eye). Each method offers a different slider for adjustments, and the changes can be seen in real time in the large preview window. When you're happy with the result, click the Render button and choose your preferred file output type. The completed image will be rendered and saved. Hydra allows you to set the preview quality in the app's preferences. Higher quality previews take longer to render. When I was editing, minor adjustments resulted in bigger visual changes than other apps. So take your time, move those sliders carefully, and you'll be pleased with the outcome.
Bottom Line: The nicest user interface of the bunch with a very familiar feel. Take your time with the controls and you'll get nice results.
Creaceed; $50
HDR Express
HDR Express uses a series of presets for tone map and style settings, giving it an iOS feel in certain areas. In HDR Express, the Tone Map presets are represented along the bottom of the main window by thumbnails that can be clicked on to make adjustments. Any preset can be adjusted on the right side of the window with slider controls that change brightness, highlights, shadows, black point, contrast, and saturation. Any custom changes that are made can be saved as presets. The tone map controls create the actual HDR characteristics of the image and, after those are adjusted, you can add more filters to the HDR photo. The Styles filters range from more standard Vivid and Black & White, to dramatic looks like Grunge and Retina Burn, which go way beyond adjusting the dynamic range of the image, to adding cartoonish and surreal effects. These styles are optional, customizable, and can be skipped if only tone mapping is desired. Overall, HDR Express is an app that uses HDR as a starting point for a more full featured image editor.
Bottom Line: On the high end of the price scale, but if you spend a lot of time taking HDR photos, this app produced some of the best results.
Unified Color Technologies; $100
Instead of relying on the the more common tone-mapping method to create HDR photos, Pangea Software's Bracketeer is a GUI for the open source application Enfuse, which needs to be run from the command line. Enfusing is similar in concept to tone-mapping, but aims to eliminate some of the surreal looks that are often associated with HDR photos. Bracketeer consists of three windows: Settings, Source Files, and Preview. Three or more files can be dragged to the Source Files window, and after the Settings window is adjusted, the results are shown in the Preview window. When the desired look is achieved, click the Enfuse It! button in the Preview window to create the final TIFF file. If working with the command line with the is not for you, Bracketeer provides a slightly more familiar interface. The settings in Bracketeer still mirror the open source features, and are not particularly layman-friendly. Instead of more common choices like strength and saturation, the Enfuse settings allow you to adjust the Mu and Sigma of the gaussiane exposure. This allows you to adjust the overall exposure, or simply modify it. Bracketeer is able to produce some very nice results, but is not the place to start for someone new to HDR photography.
Bottom Line: Solid results, but a not as user-friendly as many other apps.
Pangea Software ; $20
The Mac app store contains a wide and growing range of HDR apps for OS X. Choosing one depends not only on what your goals and level of interest in HDR photography are, but how much you'd like to spend. Light Compressor is a solid start for a small investment. HDR Darkroom isn't going to strain your wallet too much and will yield good results, but it is missing some of the polish of many Mac apps. Hydra has a great user interface, but takes a little more finessing. HDR Express is at the top end of the price spectrum and it yields results that match.
[Macworld contributor Beau Colburn lives in Brooklyn, NY and posts iPhone photos on his site Snap different.]
HDR Express
HDR Darkroom
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Senator Murkowski Applauds Release of Administration's Report on LNG Exports
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today made the following comment on the release by the Department of Energy of a study on the impacts of U.S. natural gas exports as liquefied natural gas (LNG).
"The administration should be commended for commissioning such a comprehensive and transparent review of the potential impacts of exporting natural gas," Murkowski said. "It's clear from the study that exporting LNG would be beneficial to the U.S. economy, and the greater the level of exports, the greater the benefit."
DOE is required to approve exports to countries with free trade agreements with the United States, but it can limit or block exports to non-FTA countries if it finds they are not in the public interest.
DOE put a hold on reviewing export license applications until two studies on LNG exports were finalized. The Energy Information Administration released the first one in January. Today's report is the second study.
Murkowski said that based on the findings of the most recent study, it may be time to revisit the approval process for exporting LNG to non-FTA countries.
"The conclusions in this report on the benefits to the economy should inform the DOE approval process regarding exports," Murkowski said. "This is a really good report and it really does provide guidance as we move forward."
Murkowski is the ranking Republican on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.


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College Station police identified the victim as 19-year-old Garrett Cole Luce of College Station.
Investigators say Luce was struck shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday. The pedestrian was dead at the scene.
Union Pacific spokeswoman Raquel Espinoza says engineers saw something on the tracks and blew the train's whistle. Espinoza says the crew didn't know a person was on the tracks until the train got closer.
An autopsy has been ordered.


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Hey everybody! Fighting games are back! And you know what that means, right? Semi-sequel "updates" to fighting games are also back! BlazBlue, King of Fighters, Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, and of course Street Fighter have all seen at least one retail-packaged upgrade since their respective launches (or relaunches), which have all had varying levels of critical and commercial success.
Never one to be left out, Mortal Kombat has thrown its ultimate hat into the Super Arcade Edition ring, with a retail repackaging of the latest Mortal Kombat release, now infused with all the game DLC, plus digital copies of some Mortal Kombat-themed media. It's a very different kind of package than what Capcom has provided for Street Fighter and Marvel Vs. Capcom fans, but that's Mortal Kombat for you: always content to walk down its own path.
But is Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition a path worth paying $60 for?
Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 [reviewed])
Developer: NetherRealm Studio
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Release: Feb 28, 2012 (NA) / March 2, 2012 (EU)
For those of you who haven't played the original relaunch of Mortal Kombat from 2011, here's our review. While my perspective isn't totally identical to the opinions expressed there (personally, I'm still put off by how nearly every character in Mortal Kombat is roughly the same size and has the same reach, type of normals, etc.), it's undeniably the most robust, well-crafted, fully realized expression of Mortal Kombat as a concept.
Sadly, this Komplete Edition doesn't quite follow suit. The quality of the game's additional content definitely meets the standards set by the original Mortal Kombat, but the amount of additional content here is far from robust.
On-disc, you get four additional characters (blind fighter Kenshi, lady ninja Skarlet, man ninja Rain, and Nightmare on Elm Street star Freddy Krueger). Other than Krueger, none of the these fighters do a lot to stand out, though they are all well-rounded and amply equipped combatants in their own right.
The Komplete Edition disc also delivers all the DLC "Klassic" character skins and fatalities that Warner Brothers put out a while back as the "Klassic Skin Pack." That package costs $4.99 to download. Similarly, each DLC fighter normally costs $4.99 apiece, or $14.99 for all four. That puts the total amount of DLC on the Komplete Edition disc to around $20. Not a bad deal, but it's not a deal that will mean a lot to those who bought the initial release of Mortal Kombat. It would still be cheaper for them to buy the DLC for $20 than to re-buy the game and its additional content on disc for $60.
To further sweeten the deal, Warner Bros. has thrown in a couple of download codes. One is for the classic 1995 schlock film Mortal Kombat. The film is an interesting relic from a bygone day, and it makes a nice little bonus, but the fact that it's a download code is definitely a bummer. It would have been best if it were on a separate Blu-ray disc or at least on the Komplete Edition disc so you could easily bring it over to a friend's house. As it stands, you get a free download of a movie that most jerks can just easily torrent off the Internet. It's a nice bonus, but it's far from a luxury.
The same goes for the Mortal Kombat: Songs Inspired by the Warriors album code. With tracks by Skrillex and JFK, it's an interesting culture clash between a '90s-flavored videogame feel and modern cool-kid music, but it still feels a bit cheap to get this content in download form.
As a package, Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition pales in comparison to the value provided by Super Street Fighter IV or Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. Both of those titles cost $40, offered 10 or more additional characters, and had at least a couple of new modes to boot. If Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition were similarly priced, it would be a lot easier to appreciate its value. As it stands, this repackaging doesn't offer much to those who have already purchased Mortal Kombat other than a feeling of regret. Collections like this only work to train fighting game fans to never buy a new fighter when it's first released, and to instead wait for the "better" version of the game to come out less than a year later.
If you're looking to buy Mortal Kombat for $60 and you have to choose between the standard edition and the Komplete Edition, then the choice is clear. If you've already got the game, or are looking to grab it at a price that's more in line with current industry standards, you'd be better served by waiting for the Komplete Edition to drop to at least $40.
This is a superb game in a mildly disappointing new package.


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Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. "Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children," she explained. But it wasn't camp . . .
Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved—nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes. He loaned money to family and friends, gave generously to his church, and invested in his community—but his bank account couldn't keep up. Soon White began moving money from one account to another to avoid bouncing checks. His world fell apart when the FBI discovered his scheme and a judge sentenced him to serve eighteen months in a federal prison.
But it was no ordinary prison. The beautiful, isolated colony in Carville, Louisiana, was also home to the last people in the continental United States disfigured by leprosy. Hidden away for decades, this small circle of outcasts had forged a tenacious, clandestine community, a fortress to repel the cruelty of the outside world. It is here, in a place rich with history, where the Mississippi River briefly runs north, amid an unlikely mix of leprosy patients, nuns, and criminals, that White's strange and compelling journey begins. He finds a new best friend in Ella Bounds, an eighty-year-old African American double amputee who had contracted leprosy as a child. She and the other secret people, along with a wacky troop of inmates, help White rediscover the value of simplicity, friendship, and gratitude.
Funny and poignant, In the Sanctuary of Outcasts is an uplifting memoir that reminds us all what matters most.
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firehol is an easy to use but powerful iptables stateful firewall
for humans.
FireHOL uses an extremely simple but powerfull way to define firewall
rules which it turns into complete stateful iptables firewalls.
FireHOL is a generic firewall generator, meaning that you can design
any kind of local or routing stateful packet filtering firewalls with
You can run FireHOL with the 'helpme' argument, to get a configuration
file for the system run, which you can modify according to your needs.
You can find example config files in
/usr/doc/firehol-<ver>/examples. This directory contains examples from
a simple client machine, to a lan-wan gateway or an office server.
The default config file in the package contains only a note about
where to find config file examples (/usr/doc/firehol-<ver>/examples),
because it is empty it is not handled as a usual config file. If a
user has a real one, this "example" is simply deleted.
There is a get-iana.sh script to fetch reserved IPs from iana, It is
renamed to firehol-get-iana, and placed to /usr/sbin. You have to run
it at least once, to silence firehol startup warnings about missing
There is an adblock.sh script to fetch the IPs of popular add servers,
which can be blacklisted, see the file for the details. It is renamed to
firehol-adblock and it is in /usr/sbin.
In addition to the man pages there is a full html documentation in
For example this is a sample firewall for simple home machine with samba
and ssh:
>version 5
>interface any world
> policy reject
> server dns accept
> server dhcp accept
> server icmp accept
> server ssh accept
> server samba accept
> client all accept
This is a stripped down home server and router configuration (for a
sophisticated version of this file see /usr/doc/firehol)
>version 5
>interface eth0 home
> server "dns ftp samba squid dhcp http ssh icmp" accept
> client "samba icmp" accept
>interface ppp+ internet
> server "smtp http ftp" accept
> client allaccept
>router home2internet inface eth0 outface ppp+
> route all accept
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