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What you need to install Windows 10 on Mac
Boot Camp requires a Mac with an Intel processor.
- MacBook introduced in 2015 or later
- MacBook Air introduced in 2012 or later
- MacBook Pro introduced in 2012 or later
- Mac mini introduced in 2012 or later
The latest macOS updates, which can include updates to Boot Camp Assistant. You will use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows 10.
64GB or more free storage space on your Mac startup disk:
- Your Mac can have as little as 64GB of free storage space, but at least 128GB of free storage space provides the best experience. Automatic Windows updates require that much space or more.
- If you have an iMac Pro or Mac Pro with 128GB of memory (RAM) or more, your startup disk needs at least as much free storage space as your Mac has memory.2
An external USB flash drive with a storage capacity of 16GB or more, unless you're using a Mac that doesn't need a flash drive to install Windows.
A 64-bit version of Windows 10 Home or Windows 10 Pro on a disk image (ISO) or other installation media. If installing Windows on your Mac for the first time, this must be a full version of Windows, not an upgrade.
- If your copy of Windows came on a USB flash drive, or you have a Windows product key and no installation disc, download a Windows 10 disk image from Microsoft.
- If your copy of Windows came on a DVD, you might need to create a disk image of that DVD.
How to install Windows 10 on Mac
To install Windows, use Boot Camp Assistant, which is included with your Mac.
1. Check your Secure Boot setting
Learn how to check your Secure Boot setting. The default Secure Boot setting is Full Security. If you changed it to No Security, change it back to Full Security before installing Windows. After installing Windows, you can use any Secure Boot setting without affecting your ability to start up from Windows.
2. Use Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition
Open Boot Camp Assistant, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder. Follow the onscreen instructions.
- If you're asked to insert a USB drive, plug your USB flash drive into your Mac. Boot Camp Assistant will use it to create a bootable USB drive for Windows installation.
- When Boot Camp Assistant asks you to set the size of the Windows partition, remember the minimum storage-space requirements in the previous section. Set a partition size that meets your needs, because you can't change its size later.
3. Format the Windows (BOOTCAMP) partition
When Boot Camp Assistant finishes, your Mac restarts to the Windows installer. If the installer asks where to install Windows, select the BOOTCAMP partition and click Format. In most cases, the installer selects and formats the BOOTCAMP partition automatically.
4. Install Windows
Unplug any external devices that aren't necessary during installation. Then click Next and follow the onscreen instructions to begin installing Windows.
5. Use the Boot Camp installer in Windows
After Windows installation completes, your Mac starts up in Windows and opens a "Welcome to the Boot Camp installer" window. Follow the onscreen instructions to install Boot Camp and Windows support software (drivers). You will be asked to restart when done.
- If the Boot Camp installer never opens, open the Boot Camp installer manually and use it to complete Boot Camp installation.
- If you have an external display connected to a Thunderbolt 3 port on your Mac, the display will be blank (black, gray, or blue) for up to 2 minutes during installation.
How to switch between Windows and macOS
Restart, then press and hold the Option (or Alt) ⌥ key during startup to switch between Windows and macOS.
Learn more
If you have one of these Intel-based Mac models using OS X El Capitan or later, you don't need a USB flash drive to install Windows:
- MacBook introduced in 2015 or later
- MacBook Air introduced in 2017 or later3
- MacBook Pro introduced in 2015 or later3
To remove Windows from your Mac, use Boot Camp Assistant, not any other utility.
For more information about using Windows on your Mac, open Boot Camp Assistant and click the Open Boot Camp Help button.
1. If you're using an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) or iMac (27-inch, Late 2012) with a 3TB hard drive and macOS Mojave or later, learn about an alert you might see during installation.
2. For example, if your Mac has 128GB of memory, its startup disk must have at least 128GB of storage space available for Windows. To see how much memory your Mac has, choose Apple menu > About This Mac. To see how much storage space is available, click the Storage tab in the same window.
3. These Mac models were offered with 128GB hard drives as an option. Apple recommends 256GB or larger hard drives so that you can create a Boot Camp partition of at least 128GB.


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While government in Washington, D.C., remains divided and marked by long-term gridlock, governments in the states are much less divided. Of the 50 states, 37 now feature state governments where the governor and majorities in both legislative houses are controlled by one party-24 of those are controlled by Republicans. Extreme, anti-working family Republicans have repeatedly assaulted the rights of people in recent years and, by all accounts, the trend looks to expand in 2013. Working families are mobilized and fought back in 2012 and will continue to fight in 2013. The response to the "right to work" for less push in Michigan was so strong, that governors in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have since declared that they won't push for right to work in their states.
Here are some of the key issues that are likely to be fought in state legislative battles this year.
Budget Cuts (likely to be proposed in as many as 29 states): With most states facing balanced-budget requirements and weak revenues because of the struggling economy, the top targets for cuts are likely to be government programs, services and the state employees who deliver the services. Example: Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell (R) proposed a budget for this year that cut total spending by $800 million.
Health Care Reform (22 states): Obamacare has been a target of conservatives since 2010 and several states are attempting to weaken or stall the implementation of the law's provisions, which will make health care more expensive and less available to working families. Example: Florida Republicans, led by Gov. Rick Scott, failed to amend the state Constitution in November, but are still looking at ways to stall or stop Obamacare from being implemented in the state.
Immigration (16 states): While the AFL-CIO and President Obama press for comprehensive immigration reform at the national level, more and more states are likely to follow in the footsteps of Arizona and make it more difficult for hardworking immigrants to support their families. Example: North Carolina is seeking to copy Arizona's anti-immigrant laws, but they're unsure about how to proceed in the face of recent court rulings.
Paycheck Deception/Restrictions on Public Sector Payroll Deduction (20 states): These misleading proposals would prohibit any use of payroll-deducted dues for purposes deemed to be "political" by conservatives. Workers are already protected in every state from being forced to have their money support political activities, so these laws are little more than an attempt to weaken the voice of working families. Alternately, the total prohibition of payroll deduction for union dues would not only cripple unions, it would silence the voices of working families, as their key advocates would lose much of their funding and be forced to spend most of their time administratively dealing with contributions. Example: While California voters defeated paycheck deception for the third time in 14 years by voting down Prop. 32 in November, few believe that the proposals backers are done trying to get it passed.
Project Labor Agreements (19 states): Despite the evidence that PLAs clearly improve the working conditions, salaries and benefits of both union and non-union workers, prevent disruptive work stoppages and bring construction projects in on time and under budget, conservatives are trying to weaken or ban them as a way to increase profits for their allies in the construction business. Example: Conservatives in North Dakota are pushing to ban PLAs.
Prevailing Wage (22 states): As a way to placate the contractors who give to their campaigns, conservatives are looking to curtail prevailing wage laws, which would mean contractors could pay workers substandard wages. Example: In Michigan, the same Mackinac Center that championed the recently passed "right to work" for less law is pushing for repeal of all local prevailing wage laws.
Privatization (31 states): Evidence is clear that privatization of government services frequently increases costs and lowers the quality of services while it also shifts government funding to private interests and weakens accountability for the provision of those services. Example: While the November elections might stop the push to create privatized prisons in New Hampshire, Gov. Tom Corbett (R) of Pennsylvania is looking to privatize the state's lottery.
Public Education (37 states): Education is one of the largest budget items that states deal with and it is a goldmine for private interests looking to profit off of public funding. Proposals that make money for private interests are growing and include charter schools, vouchers, online education and other initiatives that hurt both students and teachers. Example: Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) created a task force to craft a plan to implement school vouchers.
Public-Sector Benefits (31 states): More and more often, public-sector benefits, such as pensions, are falsely blamed for budget deficits that are caused by Republican policies and a bad economy. Rather than finding ways to increase revenue, a growing tactic is to break promises made to working families. Example: Activists in California are actively seeking to cut government employee pensions, saying that the "crisis" in pensions is a "tsunami."
Public-Sector Collective Bargaining (22 states): Government employees are an easy target for conservative lawmakers and the fewer rights those workers have, the easier it is for politicians to cut their benefits and pay, or fire them altogether. Example: The Illinois Senate passed a measure last week that would prevent some government employees from joining collective bargaining units and Gov. Pat Quinn (D) has expressed willingness to support the bill.
Public-Sector Layoffs (16 states): Rather than investing taxpayer money wisely or raising revenue, conservatives are choosing to lay off public-sector workers, one of the key reasons the jobs recovery is slow. Example: Despite evidence that previous layoffs haven't helped North Carolina's economy, more job cuts are being pushed for in 2013.
"Right to Work" for Less (15 states): Based entirely on the false premise that workers are forced to join unions, "right to work" laws do little but make it easier for employers to pay their workers less. Example: After "right to work" legislation was sneaked through by Gov. Rick Snyder (R) in a special session in Michigan last month, supporters of the anti-worker laws are looking for the next state where they could have success, which could be any number of states.
Tax Issues (17 states): Right-wing antitax ideology has led to a series of proposals such as the misnamed "taxpayer bill of rights" and requirements for supermajorities in order to raise tax rates that cripple state and local governments and increase the likelihood that public-sector workers will be fired, as they are blamed for budget crises that were caused not by workers, but by tax cuts without replacing revenue. Example: For the second year in a row, Pennsylvania Republicans are pushing a bill modeled after the taxpayer bill of rights.
Teacher Tenure (20 states): Proposals to eliminate teacher tenure are thinly veiled attempts to weaken the rights of educators and allow states to pay them less. Example: Missouri teachers are gearing up to fight legislative proposals that might weaken or eliminate tenure.
Unemployment Insurance (20 states): Despite the fact that unemployment insurance is paid for by employers as part of their compensation to workers, states are trying to weaken the system and make it harder for struggling families to collect the benefits they've earned. This allows them to redirect UI funds towardother purposes. Example: North Carolina Republicans introduced a bill that would cut benefits for jobless residents.
Voter Suppression (19 states): Despite the fact that there is little to no evidence that voter fraud is a significant problem in any state, conservatives are pushing laws that make it harder for law-abiding, registered voters to participate in the democratic process. They realize that the fewer working class people who vote, the more power resides in the hands of anti-worker conservatives. Example: West Virginia Republicans are attempting to require voters to show a photo ID at the polls.
Workers' Compensation (26 states): The all-out assault on the rights of working families goes as far as to threaten Workers' Compensation, which is already a compromise that allows employers to avoid lawsuits when their workers get hurt on the job. Example: Oklahoma Senate President Pro Tem Brian Bingman (R) recently said that "reforming" the workers' compensation system was one of his top priorities, which in all likelihood points to the reduction of benefits if he is successful.
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in the coming season. The Scot will strengthen the squad of drivers at Mercedes-Benz, as Daimler prepares to mark its 120th anniversary of competition in motor racing this year in fine style.
Di Resta previously competed in the world's most popular international touring car series for the brand with the three-pointed star from 2007 to 2010, securing six wins, six pole positions and seven fastest laps from 42 races. After clinching the DTM title at the season finale in Shanghai in 2010, Di Resta switched to Formula 1, where he contested 58 grands prix for Sahara Force India Mercedes (2011-2013), scoring 121 championship points.
Di Resta and Mercedes-Benz go back a long way - the Scot won the McLaren Mercedes Champions of the Future Kart series in 2000. He became a Mercedes-Benz junior four years later, moving up in 2005 to the Formula 3 Euro Series, which he won with the Mercedes-Benz Formula 3 engine in his second season, beating off competition from four-time Formula 1 world championship title holder, Sebastian Vettel.
Di Resta, along with fellow Mercedes-Benz driver Gary Paffett, is one of seven former DTM champions, who have so far confirmed their participation in the 2014 DTM season. During testing in Portimao, Di Resta will take to the wheel of a DTM Mercedes AMG C-Coupe to begin preparing for the DTM season opener in Hockenheim on the weekend of May 3-4, 2014.
"It feels really good to be back in the DTM and to see so many familiar faces again. The DTM is a fantastic racing series with three strong premium brands, a very competitive field and a very evenly matched bunch of drivers. I'm really looking forward to working with the whole Mercedes-Benz DTM team and being part of another championship challenge. Much has changed since my last DTM race in Shanghai in 2010 with new cars, a new set of rules and a third manufacturer, but what has not changed is my enormous appetite for success. Mercedes-Benz has given me a car that I can use to fight for wins and the title. However, I realise that it will not be easy. My competitors already have two years of experience with the new generation of vehicles, but, starting with today's first test, I'll be going flat out in order to be capable of winning at the Hockenheim season opener in early May," Paul Di Resta
Toto Wolff, Mercedes-Benz Motorsport added, "Paul Di Resta has been a member of the Mercedes-Benz family for many years, and we are delighted that he is returning to the fold this season to further strengthen our DTM squad. Paul has learned a lot during the past few years in Formula 1, and, together with Gary Paffett we now have two experienced drivers in our team, who have already won the DTM title with Mercedes-Benz and can put their knowledge to good use on the track, whilst passing on hints and tips to our Mercedes juniors."


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
sudo sumkdir -p /root/new-installer/lmcemastercd /root/new-installer/lmcemasterwget http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/raw-attachment/ticket/1015/lmceremaster.64.sh mv lmceremaster.64.sh lmceremaster.shchmod +x lmceremaster.sh
wget http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/raw-attachment/ticket/1015/splash.4.pngmv splash.4.png splash.png/root/new-installer/lmcemaster/lmceremaster.sh
Yeah... should have mentioned that... this may more than double the size of your install before it is all said and done. I have to copy most of it into its own file structure prior to squashing it, and then the squash is big, and the .iso is big.Make sure you have enough free space on your drive to hold it all.
Well... I would be curious as to whether or not the VM you created the iso from had one NIC or two. If it had one NIC, I would be curious if it would automagically work installing it on whatever with two NICs.
There are some changes just applied which may fix the intel chipset issue (of course you would have to create a new iso) which should be built shortly... just for your own knowledge.
I would be interested if you would try and boot live with your current LMCE system, to know if the nouveau driver worked (presuming you are using nvidia).
Other than that, it might be neat to have a distribution version you could upload someplace so others could test your snapshot on more equipment. Megaupload is gone now unfortunately but perhaps rapidshare or some other space you are aware of.
2 NicsIf your talking about the AV-Wizard sript in the other thread. Im going to add it too the next image I create. I can test that with my Work laptop. Geforce GT335M ?I'll see what I can find. Any suggestions anyone?Karel::EDIT:: The Personal Image is 3.4GB in size
Make sure you choose dist mode for whatever you upload. Size should be smaller that way as well. It is going to break the hell out of your current install, then when it is done making the image, it should fix itself before moving on.


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Press release
Less than 20% of those diagnosed with a brain tumour survive beyond five years
Patient reveals devastating cost of brain tumour diagnosis. New report from the Brain Tumour Research charity highlights punishing financial burden - Ben Lindon
A man living with an incurable brain tumour has welcomed a new report exposing the punishing financial burden of the disease.
Ben Lindon, 39, from Ledbury (formerly of Malvern), was diagnosed with a brain tumour at the age of 29 and underwent surgery and more than 100 cycles of chemotherapy. A recent deterioration in his condition means he had to move into sheltered housing and is relying on a wheelchair and a mobility scooter to get around while he undergoes rehabilitation.
Ben said: "Having a brain tumour has cost me tens of thousands in lost income over the years; it has been a huge struggle to provide for my family and I have had to totally give up my plans of buying a house. The impact has been enormous; having had an exciting career as a journalist I had to retrain as a tree surgeon and then had to pack that in as my seizures made me unfit to work. After that I worked part-time in HMV and then relied on benefits.
"My condition has deteriorated further lately and I haven't been able to work at all for more than a year. I continue to care for my two children but I now have to rely on another member of the family being with me or pay to have additional support."
The report Exposing the Financial Impact of Brain Tumours released by the Brain Tumour Research charity on Monday 15th October reveals the financial impact of a brain tumour diagnosis is double that for all cancers. Patients said they suffered a loss of independence and isolation which, combined with a dramatic decline in their earning potential, brought an impact almost as distressing as the disease itself.
The report, based on the experiences of 368 people will be fed into a formal inquiry into the hidden costs of a brain tumour being led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Brain Tumours for which Brain Tumour Research provides the secretariat. The report found:
- An average financial loss of £14,783 per household per year – more than double the £6,840 for all cancers
- Households face an annual rise in household bills of £1,000 and many also have to make expensive modifications to their homes
- Patients also have to find around £1,582 in travel costs for hospital visits
- Suffer a crippling £391 increase in travel insurance making a much-needed holiday a distant dream for many
Sue Farrington Smith, Chief Executive of Brain Tumour Research, said: "The financial penalties, the loss of independence and the consequential feelings of isolation compound the poor prognosis endured by brain tumour patients and this has got to stop."
The charity is calling on the Government to speed up access to better treatments by stimulating further increases in the national investment for research into brain tumours, offset the debilitating loss of income by providing additional benefits and fund easily accessible financial support for patients while they are receiving treatment.
For further information, please contact:
Liz Fussey at Brain Tumour Research on 07811 068357 firstname.lastname@example.com
Notes to Editors
Brain Tumour Research is the only national charity in the UK dedicated to raising funds for continuous and sustainable scientific research into brain tumours, and we are a leading voice calling for greater support and action for research into what scientists are calling the last battleground against cancer.
We are building a network of experts in sustainable research at dedicated Centres of Excellence whilst influencing the Government and larger cancer charities to invest more nationally.
We welcome recent funding announcements for research into brain tumours from the UK Government and Cancer Research UK – £65 million pledged over the next five years. However, this potential funding of £13 million a year comes with a catch – money will only be granted to quality research proposals and, due to the historic lack of investment, there may not be enough of these applications that qualify for grants from this pot.
We want research funding parity with breast cancer and leukaemia. We are calling for a £30-35 million investment every year for research into brain tumours in order to fund the basic research groundwork needed to accelerate the translation from laboratory discoveries into clinical trials and fast-track new therapies for this devastating disease.
The Brain Tumour Research charity is a powerful campaigning organisation and represents the voice of the brain tumour community across the UK. We helped establish and provide the ongoing Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Brain Tumours (APPGBT). We are supporting the crucial APPGBT 2018 Inquiry into the economic and social impacts of brain tumours and will publish their report in the autumn. We are also a key influencer in the development strategy for the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission.
Key statistics on brain tumours:
- Brain tumours are indiscriminate; they can affect anyone at any age
- Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer
- Historically, just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to brain tumours
- In the UK, 16,000 people each year are diagnosed with a brain tumour
- Brain tumours kill more children than leukaemia
- Brain tumours kill more men under 45 than prostate cancer
- Brain tumours kill more women under 35 than breast cancer
- Less than 20% of those diagnosed with a brain tumour survive beyond five years compared with an average of 50% across all cancers
Please quote Brain Tumour Research as the source when using this information. Additional facts and statistics are available from our website. We can also provide case studies and research expertise for the media.


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Lies And Videotape
New Internationalist 358 July 2003
Corporate crime / BRIBERY
Three years ago a candid-camera extravaganza in Peru gave the public a never-before glimpse of corruption in action – a prime time smoking-gun broadcast throughout the country which incriminated political and corporate élites. But the keepers of justice seem to have forgotten they weren't watching prime-time TV baddies, but reality TV. More than 1,000 videotapes – known as the Vladi videos – documented bribes, influence-peddling and corrupt dealings between Vladimiro Montesinos, former President Alberto Fujimori's chief advisor, and an assortment of politicians, media moguls, foreign embassy officials and corporate bosses.
Montesinos used a secret camera to film his shady transactions believing the videos would serve as a pact between thieves: if he went down, they would all go down. In late 2000 Fujimori's Government did come crashing down; the catalyst was one of Montesino's own leaked videos. Three years later Fujimori is self-exiled in Japan, suspected of stealing more than $180 million. Montesinos is on trial for close to 60 offences including drug-running, swindling an estimated $1 billion and directing a death squad. The corporate bad guys in this mutual love affair of reaping and plundering, however, remain at large.
Corruption in the corridors of South American business is nothing new. Transparency International's Global Corruption Report for 2003 warned that South America is 'one of the most – if not the most – corruption-plagued regions in the world.' In Colombia bribes are handed out in 50 per cent of state contracts and $2.6 billion (an amount that could pay off 60 per cent of the national debt) is lost to corruption each year. But rarely has such corruption been caught so dramatically on camera as in Peru.
Despite the glaring exposure, the big corporate fish, especially the exotic, foreign variety, have evaded capture. The most damning case implicates a major US transnational and US Government officials. A Vladi-video made public in January 2001 shows Montesinos in his spy headquarters, seated on a plush leather sofa and chatting amiably with a Peruvian judge. Montesinos tells the judge to cast the deciding vote in favor of a US company embroiled in a legal dispute with a French firm for shares of Peru's Yanacocha gold mine. The year was 1998 and the company, Newmont Mining Corporation, headquartered in Colorado, would later win the case and gain control of the multi-billion-dollar mine – a holding it refers to as the 'jewel' in its global mining empire.
Newmont's alleged boo-boo is more than just a slip of ethics. If proven, bribing or influencing foreign officials is a criminal offence for US corporations under the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Provisions of this law require companies to conduct internal investigations and report findings when allegations of bribery surface. To date, however, the company has not been penalised by either the Peruvian or US justice systems. Not even a public wrist-slapping.
In March 2002 Newmont held a swanky news conference at a five-star Lima hotel to celebrate a merger that made them the world's largest gold corporation. I took the opportunity to ask Newmont's CEO Wayne Murdy if the company had investigated the corruption scandal. Flush with the success of creating a global gold kingdom (and earning a cool $2.5 million per year, not including stock options or bonus), Murdy evaded the question. Visibly annoyed, he insisted the case had already been settled. 'We're satisfied that Newmont did not do anything improper in connection with that litigation.'
It is no surprise Murdy wasn't exactly trembling in his gold-laced boots. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is a paper tiger. Between 1977 and 2001 only 21 companies and 26 individuals were convicted for criminal violations. A 2002 declassified report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on US anti-corruption laws describes fines as 'moderate' with few prison sentences. However, companies are kept in line, the report goes on to reassure us, by speeches from Department of Justice officials, brochures and 'informal talks'. Are we to believe that stern moral talk, glossy flyers and pleas to 'be good' over a few scotches at the club (what else could 'informal talks' mean?) are deterring US companies from using bribes when multi-million dollar contracts are at stake?
International agreements like the OECD's anti-corruption convention – to which the US is a signatory – are no more than pledges of good faith. The World Bank's much-heralded fraud and corruption unit is no better. As a minority shareholder in the Yanacocha mine, the Bank's rules call for a thorough investigation into suspected corruption. Project Underground, a US-based nonprofit organization, filed a formal request with the Bank to demand an investigation but was told there was insufficient evidence.
'This case could not have been clearer,' says Diana Ruiz of Project Underground. 'If the Bank had any intention of weeding out institutional corruption it would at least have investigated,' she told me, adding that the Bank's proudly touted 'zero tolerance' for corruption is a 'sham'.
The Godfather tapes
'Tell him I'm going to help him with the voting,' says Montesinos to Kurlander's translator.
'I hope so,' replies Kurlander.
Only the ponderous refrain from The Godfather is missing during the next moment of high camp. The two men are discussing their 'friendships'.
Kurlander: 'I want a friend for life.'
Montesinos: 'That's right. Thanks for telling me what you've just told me, and you already have a friend.'
Instead of questioning the tape's authenticity, a Newmont spokesperson cryptically responded that the audio was 'old news'. The company has refused to confirm – or deny – Kurlander's identity on the tape. Newmont was luckier with Gamarra's second damaging item – copies of bank documents suggesting the Peruvian judges on the case received $930,000 in bribes from Newmont's Peruvian partner. The bank in question, Peru's Banco de Credito, issued a terse statement claiming the documents were false.
The great banking gods had spoken. Ronald Gamarra, the mortal prosecutor who dared challenge the mighty Kings of Gold, was removed from the case. No-one thought to question the close association of Banco de Credito's president, Dionisio Romero, with Newmont and its Peruvian partner. Romero had, after all, appeared in more than one Vladi-video.
An insider with Peru's Ministry of Justice suspects the case has been quietly shelved to the mouldy recesses of a distant filing cabinet: 'The problem is that there are more than 240 corruption investigations related to Montesinos involving over 1,300 people,' he explains sheepishly. Pressure from powerful corners must make it awfully easy to misplace files.
It's also easy to lump the blame on genuinely nasty, deposed rulers and let the bribe-givers who dangle the golden carrots get away. Latin American dictators and their cronies are easier targets than faceless corporations, especially mining firms without world-famous brands to maintain.
Growing public and international pressure is making the freewheeling lifestyles of Latin America's crooked former rulers slightly less cozy. Although Fujimori is protected from extradition by his Japanese hosts, thanks to a 2003 Interpol arrest warrant his new home has become a large, though posh, prison cell.
An even worse fate has befallen his spy chief Montesinos, who was caught in Venezuela and shipped to a maximum-security cell in Peru. Admittedly, Peru's judiciary has been treating the country's most dangerous man as though he were wanted on traffic violations rather than money-laundering, drug-running and illegal arms sales. Still he is being tried on nearly 60 charges in proceedings expected to last at least two years.
Carlos Menem, Argentina's former playboy president, is also acquainted with the joys of forced confinement. In 2001 he served six months in prison before being released, to the chagrin of many Argentines. Menem is accused of stealing more than $10 million during his presidency in illegal arms sales and bribes from privatizations, including a 1994 contract that IBM won with the state bank. The once-unbeatable gigolo dropped out of Argentina's presidential elections this year after polls showed he would suffer an overwhelming loss at the hands of an electorate tired of corruption.
Justice may not yet have the region's dictators in its iron jaws, but it is certainly breathing down their necks – an uncomfortable pursuit unthinkable a decade ago. Corporate criminals, however, are still getting away with the loot. In the minds of many foreign corporate officials in Latin America, corruption is just another bureaucratic step in doing business. It's time to challenge the refrain 'that's how things are done down there' and blow the whistle on the givers of bribes, not just the takers. If bribery is not choked off at the source, the next Fujimori or Menem now waiting in the wings will probably not get caught on film.
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Cathy Fisher
Cathy Fisher is the creator of StraightUpFood.com, a website offering free recipes and information on eating a whole-food, plant-based diet free of salt, oil, and sugar. She is also a cooking instructor, teaching classes at TrueNorth Health Center and the McDougall Program, both in Santa Rosa, CA. Cathy began eating a plant-based diet in 1999, and in 2016 published her first cookbook, Straight Up Food: Delicious and Easy Plant-based Cooking Without Salt, Oil or Sugar. Find her on Instagram and Facebook.see more from this author


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|DELGADO-LISTA, JAVIER - Universidad De Cordoba
|PEREZ-MARTINEZ, PABLO - Universidad De Cordoba
|PEREZ-JIMINEZ, FRANCISCO - Universidad De Cordoba
|GARCIA-RIOS, ANTONIO - Universidad De Cordoba
|FUENTES, FRANCISCO - Universidad De Cordoba
|MARIN, CARMEN - Universidad De Cordoba
|GOMEZ-LUNA, PURIFICACION - Universidad De Cordoba
|CAMARGO, ANTONIO - Universidad De Cordoba
|Parnell, Laurence
|ORDOVAS, JOSE - Tufts University
|LOPEZ-MIRANDA, JOSE - Universidad De Cordoba
Submitted to: Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 2/10/2010
Publication Date: 5/1/2010
Citation: Delgado-Lista, J., Perez-Martinez, P., Perez-Jiminez, F., Garcia-Rios, A., Fuentes, F., Marin, C., Gomez-Luna, P., Camargo, A., Parnell, L.D., Ordovas, J.M., Lopez-Miranda, J. 2010. ABCA1 gene variants regulate posprandial lipid metabolism in healthy men. Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. 30(5):1051-1057.
Interpretive Summary: Genetic variants of ABCA1, a member of a large family of conserved transmembrane proteins, have been linked to both altered progression of the atherosclerosis condition and differences in blood lipid (fat) levels after overnight fasting, particularly HDL ("good" cholesterol) and a component known as apolipoprotein A (APOA1). However, results from many studies have been inconsistent. In order to further characterize the effects of genetic variants of ABCA1 in fat biochemistry after meals in humans, we studied the influence of three genetic variants during the after-meal rise of blood lipid levels in 88 normal young men, who were challenged with a high-fat meal. For two of the genetic variants, both fasting and after-meal values of APOA1 were higher, and the after-meal blood lipid response was much lower in persons carrying the common version of the variants. These persons also showed higher APOA1/APOB ratio, a measure of blood lipid health. One of these genetic variants with the third variant showed additionally higher levels of HDL-cholesterol after overnight fast and lower after-meal levels of APOB, both aspects of a healthier blood lipid profile. Our work shows that persons harboring the less common versions of two specific variants of the ABCA1 gene have elevated after-meal responses of certain blood lipids than do the persons with two copies of the common version. This finding may further characterize the role of ABCA1 in lipid biochemistry and can identify persons at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, as a consequence of elevated levels of triglycerides during the after-meal period.
Technical Abstract: Objective: Genetic variants of ABCA1, a member of a large family of conserved transmembrane proteins, have been linked to altered atherosclerosis progression and fasting lipid concentration, mainly HDL and Apolipoprotein A, but results from different studies have been inconsistent. Methods and results: In order to further characterize the effects of ABCA1 variants in human postprandial lipid metabolism, we studied the influence of three SNPs [i27943 (rs2575875); i48168 (rs4149272); R219K (rs2230806)] in the postprandial lipemia of 88 normolipidemic young men, who were given a fatty meal. For i27943 and i48168 SNPs, fasting and postprandial values of APOA1 were higher, and postprandial lipemia was much lower in major allele homozygotes, for total triglycerides in plasma, and large-TRL triglycerides. These persons also showed higher APOA1/APOB ratio. Major allele homozygotes for i48168 and i19342 showed additionally higher fasting HDL and lower postprandial ApoB. Conclusions: Our work shows that carriers of the minor alleles for ABCA1 SNPs i27943 and i48168 have a higher postprandial response as compared to major allele homozygotes. This finding may further characterize the role of ABCA1 in lipid metabolism and can identify persons at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, as a consequence of elevated postprandial hypertriglyceridemia.


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Giants 5, Diamondbacks 3
Barry Zito made believers out of a pair of former teammates as he tries to build on the success he rediscovered last season.
Zito pitched three shutout innings, Brandon Crawford had three hits and the San Francisco Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Sunday.
''I felt a lot better than I did the last time,'' Zito said. ''My focus was better, my timing was better and I was making more pitches.''
The left-hander gave up two hits and struck out two - ex-teammates Cody Ross and Eric Chavez.
''He threw well and was spotting the ball well,'' Ross said. ''He's getting everything over for strikes. When I was there a couple of years ago he threw a lot of balls. It looks like he has confidence throwing strike one. That's the main thing, he's throwing strikes.''
Chavez, a left-handed hitter, noticed Zito's breaking ball had more snap to it than the last time he faced him.
''He looks good,'' Chavez said. ''He has late movement that I don't remember him having. It used to be more rolling and now he gets the late movement.''
Zito went 7-0 in his last 11 starts last year, and 9-0 over 14 starts including the postseason. The 2002 AL Cy Young Award winner recorded his first winning record in a Giants uniform, with his 15 victories the most since he won 16 games for Oakland in 2006.
''Last year I was tweaking my mechanics a little bit,'' Zito said. ''This year I am working on consistency with my delivery and getting my pitches working.''
John McDonald and Cliff Pennington each had two hits for the Diamondbacks, who have lost two in a row for the first time this spring. Adam Eaton, Willie Bloomquist and Jon Griffin drove in runs for Arizona.
Buster Posey drove in a run for the Giants. Francisco Peguero had two hits, including a double, and three RBIs.
Arizona starter Josh Collmenter gave up two runs and three hits in two innings.
After signing a $126 million, seven-year contract with the Giants before the 2007 season, Zito faced high expectations. He pitched at least 180 innings and made 32 starts or more in five of his first six years with San Francisco, but the results usually weren't good until the second half of last season.
Chavez knows Zito can pitch. He was a teammate with the A's when the zany lefty won 23 games in 2002. Chavez said Zito seems to be back on the right path.
''It's good to see him like this,'' Chavez said. ''He had a couple of rough years but he still stuck through it. He's been at the top and then he's been at the bottom and now he's back on top.''
NOTES: Diamondbacks 2B Aaron Hill (bruised right hip) was kept out of the lineup as a precaution. ''If we were in season, he'd be playing,'' manager Kirk Gibson said. ''That's how serious it is.'' ... Arizona outfield prospect A.J. Pollack had two hits. ... The Diamondbacks will keep a handful of players around who would otherwise have been sent to minor league camp because of the World Baseball Classic. ... Ross left the game after three innings saying he felt something in his calf and was told to take it easy. ... RHP Ryan Vogelsong will make one last start for the Giants before leaving for the WBC. He'll face the Chicago White Sox on Monday. ... The Diamondbacks send RHP Brandon McCarthy to the mound against Cincinnati on Monday.


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I think this pistol is based on the Webley pistol used by Paul Kersey in the movie Death Wish 3. Andrew nicholson 17:23, April 20, 2010 (UTC)
Its not webley,thats an AMT Automag.End of discussion.--Oreo Biskuit!!Eleven 17:26, April 20, 2010 (UTC)
Well Oreo Buscuit Eleven! I guess you're right. but have you seen death wish 3 with charles broson in, I was just saying that it looks like the webley he gets in the mail towards the middle of the film.Andrew nicholson 16:15, April 23, 2010 (UTC)
I havent seen the movie,but simply,it is an AutoMag,and the "end of discussion" means that i dont want to see a big damn arguement wherer of if its a Webley or an AutoMag.I have seen that shit on IMFDB,and its just painful.
Ok so first of all,the DW3 pistol was a Wildey,not a Webley.Second,Wildey has a bigass barrel,different grip and slide compared to AutoMag.--Oreo Biskuit!!Eleven 21:08, April 23, 2010 (UTC)
- You guys are all wrong! This is an AMC Auto Mag (NOT AMT AutoMag, not the same). Here's a comparison:
This is the AMC Auto Mag
Those are AMT Automag's
See the difference? I made the correct edits. When AMT made their pistols, they had to remove the space between Auto and Mag to prevent a lawsuit for copyright infringement. Tempest 13:15, 29 November 2010 (UTC)
I tried putting a picture of the pistol 44s real life model the AMT Automag but the picture took up half the page i tried to make it smaller but i had no idea how can someone help me out?--user:Gtajesus
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by Will Bunch, mediamatters.org
Some of the nation's top civil rights leaders are angrily accusing right-wing media star Glenn Beck of "hijacking" the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech by planning to rally his conservative forces at the same Lincoln Memorial site on the anniversary date of Aug. 28 -- and so they are planning a counter-rally and march of their own.
"Beck is hijacking the imagery and symbolism of August 28 and the Lincoln Memorial to promote an agenda of intolerance," said Marc H. Morial, the former New Orleans mayor who is now president and CEO of the National Urban League, one of the counter-rally organizers, said in a telephone interview.
The Morial-led Urban League is teaming with well-known activists such as the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network in planning a "mass rally" and march that will begin at a high school in Northeast Washington. Morial said that one of King's surviving children, Martin Luther King III, is also on board.Less than three miles away, the Fox News Channel host and former half-term Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin are headlining a heavily promoted rally called "Restoring Honor."
Morial said in the phone interview that civil rights leaders believe that "Beck is deliberately trying to poke a stick in our eye, or kick sand in our faces" by holding the rally on the 47th anniversary and at the spot of King's most famous speech, at a massive rally to lobby support for what would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that ended legal segregation in America.
Beck claimed earlier this month on his radio show that one of his goals is to "reclaim the civil right movement," saying that it should be about individual liberties and not social justice or supporting undocumented immigration, which he called "modern day slavery." But as Beck's popularity has risen since launching his Fox News program the same week that Barack Obama became the nation's first African-American president -- angering many with attacks linking Obama to socialism or communism and also triggering outrage with his comment that the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people."
Sharpton couldn't be reached, but he was recently quoted telling the National Newspaper Publishers Association in New York that Beck is attempting to rewrite American history on King and civil rights, and that he's hoping for a large crowd to counteract the conservative talker.
"[W]e've been traveling all over this country because there is no way in the world that I am going to allow him to have more people there than us," Sharpton was quoted by Blackvoicenews.com. "I hope every black person in the country will help us to challenge this.Everybody's got to be in Washington. We can't let them hijack Dr. King's dream."
Morial said in the interview that Beck and some of the growing right-wing groups that support him, such as the Tea Party and the Beck-inspired 9.12 Project, want to take America back to a time before King's speech and the enactment of civil rights laws and to show a face of the nation that is not the multi-cultural country we've become in the 21st Century.
"His [Beck's] vision of America is a vision of America from yesterday and our vision is an America of tomorrow that builds on yesterday," Morial said. I asked Morial about the oft-repeated plea from Tea Party activists that "I want my country back" and he replied, "It's cold. It's not just their country -- it's our country."
According to the online report from NNPA convention in New York, the national NAACP is also on board with the Aug. 28 counter-rally and is also working with labor unions on a second march on Washington for Oct. 2. Morial said that activists want to encourage the federal government to do more in support of jobs as the national unemployment rate continues to hover near 10 percent, with jobless rates that are higher for blacks and other minorities, and also to improve public education.
The purpose of the Beck rally across town is somewhat vague. When it was first announced by Beck months ago, he suggested it would be a political rally as well as the launch of a book that he called "The Plan" that would be an 100-year blueprint for America -- but the nature of the Aug. 28 event radically changed after Beck teamed with a highly-rated charity, the Special Operations Warrior Fund, to help raise some of the $2 million he says is needed to stage a rally at the Lincoln Memorial (Beck says he is donating the first $1 million himself.)
Now, the "Restoring Honor" rally is billed is as "a non-political, non-partisan event will recognize our First Amendment rights and honor the service members who fight to protect those freedoms." Beck is hoping to defray $1 million of the rally costs through an aggressive campaign seeking $1 million through the Florida-based charity, which normally fund scholarships for children of soldiers killed or wounded in action. (Beck has said any donations above the $1 million will go to the scholarships.)
In addition to Palin, Beck has said the three-hour rally will include a mini-concert by country artist Jo Dee Messina and decorated veteran Marcus Luttrell.
One thing that Aug. 28 in the nation's capital will not feature, according to Morial, is any kind of direct confrontation between his group and the Beck rally. "There's no interest on our side in a confrontation," he said, "other than a confrontation of ideas."
Media Matters for America is a Web-based, not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.
Launched in May 2004, Media Matters for America put in place, for the first time, the means to systematically monitor a cross section of print, broadcast, cable, radio, and Internet media outlets for conservative misinformation — news or commentary that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda — every day, in real time.


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Monday, November 23, 2009
How To Search Within a Web Page on the iPhone
Since I just bought an iPhone, I am learning - and will be posting - some tricks and shortcuts for making it more useful.
The iPhone G3 is a great smart phone and mobile computing device. However, it has some real blind spots. For example, you cannot do a basic search within a web page for words or phrases.
Here is the hack/workaround:
1) Open up your Safari web browser
2) Bookmark a page (by tapping the button)
3) Go into bookmarks (by tapping the button)
4) Click "Edit"
5) Select your new bookmark
6) Change the name to "Search" or "Find"
7) Delete the address
8) Copy and paste the following into the address box:javascript:void%28s%3Dprompt%28%27Find%20text%3A%27%2C%27%27%29%29%3Bs%3D%27%28%27+s+%27%29%27%3Bx%3Dnew%20RegExp%28s%2C%27gi%27%29%3Brn%3DMath.floor%28Math.random%28%29*100%29%3Brid%3D%27z%27%20+%20rn%3Bb%20%3D%20document.body.innerHTML%3Bb%3Db.replace%28x%2C%27%3Cspan%20name%3D%27%20+%20rid%20+%20%27%20id%3D%27%20+%20rid%20+%20%27%20style%3D%5C%27color%3A%23000%3Bbackground-color%3Ayellow%3B%20font-weight%3Abold%3B%5C%27%3E%241%3C/span%3E%27%29%3Bvoid%28document.body.innerHTML%3Db%29%3Balert%28%27Found%20%27%20+%20document.getElementsByName%28rid%29.length%20+%20%27%20matches.%27%29%3Bwindow.scrollTo%280%2Cdocument.getElementsByName%28rid%29%5B0%5D.offsetTop%29%3B9) Save (by tapping Done)
Now surf as normal, and when you want to find something within a web page, choose bookmarks and select "Search" or "Find".
The following javascript dialog will pop up:
It works well.
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I've got to try this!ReplyDelete
Works great! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2009 at 7:42 AM
Very cool! Works like a charm! Is there any way you could write a script to trick websites into thinking an iPhone is not a mobile device? Some mobile sites are severely limited and don't provide a link to the full site. Thanks!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Thank you so much!!! Works like a charm!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 24, 2010 at 4:15 PM
I tried this right now on my iPhone 3gs!!!! This works perfectly!!!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks a lot for sharing this!!!!! :)
- AnonymousApril 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM
Simple yet clever - thanks!ReplyDelete
Great, thanks! Somehow I got the impression that this feature of searching within a webpage was going to added to iOS 4, but so far apparently not. This is a great workaround, at least in Safari (rather than say, within Mail or Notes). Any suggestion from Apple that it plans to incorporate a similar feature anytime soon?ReplyDelete
Thanks you @Thomas for sharing this info. iphone app developmentReplyDelete
Just use the opera mini app. It has this feature built inReplyDelete
You can search web pages on iOS 4.2 now using the same box where you can search google / yahoo / bing. Just type and scroll down and it's below the suggestions.ReplyDelete
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As it heads into the final episode of its first season Sunday, already renewed for Season 2, The Borgias has indeed done something new under the sun.
It's doubtful that a more lavishly produced, carefully written, and utterly foreign series has ever succeeded this well with American audiences. What is there to compare it to? Initially commissioned by Showtime as a replacement for The Tudors, The Borgias has outstripped it in just about every sense, including ratings. Particularly impressive when one considers that unlike The Tudors, the characters of The Borgias don't have a ready-made audience built up from scores of young-adult books.
Historically, The Borgias leaves The Tudors in its dust. According to executive producer James Flynn (who was also a producer of The Tudors), "All of the main characters existed, including Cardinal Orsini [a treacherous master of intrigue played Derek Jacobi, who is poisoned in the first episode], Savonarola [the fundamentalist fanatic played with scary intensity by Steven Birkoff], and, of course, all the Borgia family."
"We were very aware," Flynn told me via email, "of the backdrop of actual historical events from the outset, such as Pope Innocent's death, Rodrigo Borgia's election victory, and the French king's invasion of Italy with his terrifying modern cannon." The show's creator, Neil Jordan, adds that "Obviously, some dramatic license was taken throughout as we studied each character's journey."
Give or take a lie or two—and surely no series about the Borgias would be complete without a few lies as florid as the family that inspired them—the show has done a remarkable job of staying within the context of the known historical record. This is more than can be said for most depictions of the Borgias over the last two centuries, from Donizetti's 1833 opera, Lucrezia Borgia, based on Victor Hugo's stage play, Raphael Sabatini's potboiler, The Life of Cesare Borgia (1912), and Henry King's 1949 film, Prince of Foxes, starring a sly Orson Welles as Cesare.
Rodrigo Borgia and his illegitimate children, Cesare, Juan, and Lucrezia, were at the center of a heady swirl of wealth and political power in Rome at the end of the 15th century. In 1492, Rodrigo bribed 17 of 22 cardinals to vote him into the papacy and became Pope Alexander IV. He placed his oldest son in a key position as a capo among the College of Cardinals, put his other son in charge of the papal armies, and used his beautiful daughter as a political bargaining chip. In the words of one historian, Alexander became, "The first great capitalist of the faith, the first pope to make all spiritual wares commodities in the worldly market place." Wealth, religion, and political power were, for the first time, wielded by one house, and in the wake of the family's rise to power, massive corruption, sexual scandal, and murder became as common traits of the Renaissance as literature, art and architecture.
The story of the Borgias is the story of Renaissance Italy, which is the story of how the modern world came into being. Banking and finance, political science, big religion, and even weapons of mass destruction—nearly all of what we have come to regard as aspects, good and bad, of the modern world—were born and nurtured in late 15th- and early 16th-century Italy. The Borgias assumes that if its audience isn't familiar with the historical background, it is intelligent enough to be curious.
The Borgias is one of the first television series to send viewers scrambling to websites to find its literary sources. Flynn informs me they were "Christopher Hibbert's hugely entertaining The Borgias and Their Enemies, Sarah Bradford's wonderful biographies of Cesare and Lucrezia Borgia, and Alexander Dumas' The Crimes of the Borgias, which preserved some of the juiciest gossip. And, of course, Machiavelli's The Prince."
I'd also give odds that Jordan dipped into A History of the Borgias (1901), a colorful collection of facts and nonsense by Frederick Baron Corvo, a.k.a. Frederick William Rolfe, the English writer and eccentric. "The Borgian era," reads the dust jacket to my father's old copy, "with all its excesses of lust and murder, its monstrous villainies, and strange benevolences, is here unfolded in a tapestry of unrestrained color and animation." And just think, we're only in the first season.
All three of the main characters—Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo/Alexander, French-Canadian Francois Arnaud as Cesare, and English actress Holliday Grainger as Lucrezia—are works in progress. Irons, gaunt, gray and handsome, looks nothing like the Alexander VI we see in period portraits; the Spaniard was a thick-set man with heavy nose and features. Irons was worried about this, but it was of no concern at all to Jordan, who told him, "No one's going to judge the authenticity of what you do by a 400-year-old painting." What was important, Jordan told Irons, was to convey the man's cunning intelligence and steely resolve.
If there's a dramatic weakness to the Borgias' story, it's that it can't be tragic in the classical sense because the characters have no souls left to lose.
After the opening episode, in which Alexander sometimes seems astonished by his own transition to power, Irons settles in to the part with a relish he hasn't displayed since his Oscar-winning performance as Claus Von Bulow in Reversal of Fortune.
Arnaud has the strong, firmly cut features and brooding eyes of the real Cesare. ("This Lord," wrote Machiavelli, "is truly splendid and magnificent.") His Cesare is at first reluctant to go about his father's business—I'd call him the Renaissance Michael Corleone. As the series moves along and his father transfers more power to his favorite son, Arnaud's face, at once rueful and sinister, seems to become darker.
The real revelation, though, is the mellifluously named Holliday Grainger. If there's a dramatic weakness to the Borgias' story, it's that it can't be tragic in the classical sense because the characters have no souls left to lose. But The Borgias does have one tragic figure in Lucrezia. Modern historians have freed Alexander's daughter from her popular but mistaken image as a poisoner and bedsheet diplomat. This was a woman to whom the normally acid-penned poet Ariosto wrote tributes. Grainger plays her with an engaging mixture of sweetness and street smarts, and what looks like a glittering box of candy turns out to have guts and brains. The lady, in the face of a near apocalyptic invasion by the French army, which threatens to depose her father and brothers, has scenes of genuine heroism.
Not surprisingly, Jordan, who directed the first two episodes, scripted the first seven, and prepared an outline for the final two, doesn't see his characters as monsters. "Rodrigo truly believed as pope that it was his sacred duty to strengthen the church. To me, that's what's most fascinating about these people—their piety was real."
The Borgias is a glittering red jewel in Jordan's amazing career. His name most quickly conjures up his popular hits such as Interview With the Vampire (1994) and The Crying Game (1992), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay. But his real depth as an artist has been revealed in an amazing number of great personal films—the haunting and playful The Company of Wolves (1984), a fairy tale co-written with the late Angela Carter; the extraordinary Mona Lisa (1986), with Bob Hoskins, a film whose multi-layered nuances are still being plumbed; his literary adaptations of Patrick McCabe's novel The Butcher Boy (1997) and Graham Green's The End of the Affair (1999); and even his epic of Irish history, Michael Collins (1996), which was uneven but laced with moments of terrible beauty. The lovely fable-like Ondine (2009) with Colin Farrell almost seems like a movie made to be discovered by a small audience and then passed from soul to soul. No one else makes movies like this.
And no one makes television like The Borgias. What extraordinary luck that Jordan's original intent, to make it into a feature-length screen epic, became a series for cable television, allowing for the scope of the story to be both deepened and expanded. With luck, The Borgias will be with us for the next few years.
Allen Barra writes about sports for The Wall Street Journal and The Village Voice. He also writes about books for Salon.com, Bookforum, and The Washington Post. His latest book is Yogi Berra, Eternal Yankee.


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Necropsy: A postmortem examination or autopsy.
Necropsies have been done for more than 2,000 years, but during most of this time they were rarely done, most often for legal purposes. The Roman physician Antistius performed one of the earliest necropsies on record. In 44 B.C., he examined Julius Caesar and documented 23 wounds, including a final fatal stab to the chest. In 1410, the Catholic Church itself ordered an autopsy on Pope Alexander V, to determine whether his successor had poisoned him. No evidence of this was found.
By the turn of the 20th century, prominent physicians such as Rudolf Virchow in Berlin, Karl Rokitansky in Vienna, and William Osler in Baltimore won popular support for the practice. They defended it as a tool of discovery, to identify the cause of tuberculosis, reveal how to treat appendicitis, and establish the existence of Alzheimer's disease. They showed that necropsies prevented errors and provided a means to confirm diagnoses. In the early 2oth century, the causes of most deaths were a mystery and that necropsies were a tool to provide families with a comprehensible explanation for a loved one's death. By the end of the Second World War, the necropsy was firmly established as a routine part of death in North America and Europe.


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What was I doing when I heard about...
Princess Diana's death - 31st August 1997
I was in the pub drinking after hours when the news of the accident came on the radio. I came back home with friends so that they could get a taxi, then I heard the national anthem in the morning from next door's radio and thought, "she's obviously snuffed it". When I left the house one of the neighbours had a picture of her and a candle burning in the window. It was my first inkling that the country was about to go completely mad.
Margaret Thatcher's Resignation - 22nd November 1990
I was driving over the hills in the Peak District to the College I worked at in Buxton when the news came on the car radio. A huge shaft of sunlight broke through the clouds illuminating a bleak and beautiful landscape. The hills had never looked more ravishing.
Attack on the twin towers - 11 September 2001
I had a phone call from a friend whilst I was at work. A mutual friend of ours was flying from New York that morning and we were worried. In fact he left about an hour before the attack. After getting home I saw the TV pictures and with a growing sense of horror emailed a friend of mine in America as the only way to express some sort of solidarity. What then followed was a long struggle to make sense of it all. I was often wrong.
England's World Cup Semi Final against Germany - 4 July 1990
I was supposed to be going to a pub quiz but sat and watched it on a 14" screen with a friend before we eventually got to the quiz far too late. I had mixed feelings. If England won the Tories might win the next election. So I was saddened and relieved. Bloody stupid. The Tories did win the next election regardless.President Kennedy's Assassination - 22 November 1963
The house was full of police as we had just been burgled. The news came on the TV. I was eleven years old and rushed to tell my mother. I hesitated, was 'assassinated' the right word or 'murdered'? I played safe and chose 'murdered', everyone then talked of an assassination. It was my own small wound.
Who to tag? Well Shuggy is an obvious choice now he is off the anti-biotics, Tom Freeman might want to do something though the comic potential is limited, there is always John at Counago and Spaves who should treat the tag with contempt, and then Scribbles is a sucker for this sort of thing. Would George want to respond? Apologies to any of you who weren't born in 1963. And to Mikeovswinton, hurry up and start blogging, you would have been tagged instantly.


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Supreme Court directs Chhattisgarh government to bring Soni Sori to AIIMS for treatment
On 2nd May a bench of Supreme Court judges, Justices Altamas Kabir and Chalameshwar, directed the Chhattisgarh state to produce the Adivasi teacher, Soni Sori, in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences within one week. Reacting to descriptions of her continuing severe medical health problems in letters received from Soni Sori in Raipur jail and from her advocate who had met with her, the Supreme Court expressed deep concern about Soni Sori's medical condition and recommended that she be brought to AIIMS at the earliest for a thorough medical examinationand full treatment. The Director of AIIMS has also been directed to constitute a Medical Board comprising of Heads of Gynecology, Endocrinology and other departments who would examine Ms. Sori and treat her, and give their opinion on her condition to the Supreme Court by July 10th.
Ms. Soni Sori is the Superintendent of Jabeli ashram for tribal children in Dantewada. She had been arrested in Delhi on Oct 4 2011 for being a suspected Maoist sympathizer. Having faced police harassment for over a year while functioning in her government-appointed post, she was in Delhi at that time to file a complaint against the Chhattisgarh police and expose them in the media. Fearing torture at the hands of Chhattisgarh police after her arrest, she had appealed to the Delhi High Court to keep her in custody in Delhi and not send her to Chhattisgarh, but her plea was rejected. Subsequently, she was brutally tortured by the Chhattisgarh police while she was in their custody from 8-10 October 2011; torture that has since been corroborated by an independent medical examination conducted by NRS Hospital and Medical College in Kolkata.
The Supreme Court today made mention of the brutalization of Ms. Sori that was confirmed by the Kolkata Hospital which recovered three stones inserted deep inside the private parts of Ms. Soni, during the torture she was subjected to in her custodial interrogation. The Kolkata hosptal had recommended that she be brought back for further treatment and examination at the end of 15 days — but more than six months have passed since her examination in Kolkata in October 2011 and not only has she not been taken back for treatment, even the medicines prescribed by the Kolkata doctors are not being given to her. The letters read out in court today described her worsening medical condition where she complains of intermittent bleeding, anemia, vaginal discharges, prolapsed uterus, difficulty in standing and walking, variably high blood pressure, numbness in limbs etc. In these letters, it was also described how the Chhattisgarh jail authorities are withholding Ms. Soni's treatment despite court orders, and how Ms. Sori has to suffer their taunts for simply requesting medical treatment.
Taking note of all these, the Supreme Court expressed the need for urgent medical examination and treatment of Ms. Soni Sori at an independent institution. Since the counsel for Chhattisgarh state expressed reservations about treatment at NRS Hospital in Kolkata, the court directed that Ms. Sori should be immediately brought and examined at AIIMS.
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Has there ever been an athlete more consistently overconsidered, for such an extended period of time, as Drew Henson? The guy has been all potential, zero performance; he's Ryan Leaf, except he did it in two sports ... and he wasn't very good in college either.
In college, of course, people kept trying to bench Tom Brady for him. Then he made millions to play baseball for the Yankees, despite being horrible. Then he gave up on that, was drafted by the Texans, traded to the Cowboys ... and sucked again. As The Realests point out, the guy who replaced him at Michigan, the much maligned John Navarre, has a better NFL job right now than he does.
And now, for once and for all, Henson very well might be out of football. Cowboys coach Bill Parcells says he's seen enough; he announced that he won't be on the roster this year.
We're not very good at math, but Henson has now flopped out on huge contracts in two different sports with two of the most prestigious athletic franchises on Earth. Thanks for playing, Drew!
"How do you sleep at night, Drew Henson?"
"On top of a big pile of money with many beautiful ladies."
Henson Takes It In The Pooper Again [The Realests]


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Citrus Heights Culture
With the incorporation of the City of Citrus Heights, a call was sent and a number of talented, entrepreneurial employees chose to take a risk and join a new start-up city. Since our 1997 incorporation, these pioneers have worked hard to build an effective organization that is dramatically improving the community of Citrus Heights. In 2006, an employee-based Police Department was created and seasoned police veterans were hired with strong lateral talent, creativity, and a deep desire to service.
Stand Apart
The City Council and City Manager Ash Feeney work to ensure that the organization's mission statement - to provide "high-quality, economical, responsive services to our community" - is reflected in daily decisions. Our culture is described below.
- We take pride in being creative and using non-traditional approaches to providing municipal services.
- We are a fast-paced organization with an expectation for multi-tasking and breadth in responsibilities.
- Our employees consistently go the extra mile to provide a high level of customer service internally and externally - all with the goal of meeting our customer service core value to provide "service beyond expectations".
- The concept of "not in my job description" and "we've always done it this way" are not in our corporate vocabulary.
- Our work environment is customer-driven and demands that our employees use initiative and flexibility in identifying and meeting community needs and expectations.
- Our work environment is also team-oriented, fun, challenging, and full of growth opportunities, both in terms of depth and scope of experience.
- While we are driven to excel, we also encourage our employees to strike a balance and take time away from work to enjoy their personal lives and family.
We set high expectations for our employees and as an organization we recognize staff's efforts and accomplishments. If this culture sounds intriguing to you, then please look further and discover more about the City of Citrus Heights.


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You are the books you read,
the films you watch,
the music you listen to,
the people you meet,
the dreams you have,
the conversations you engage in.
You are what you take from these.
You are the sound of the ocean,
the breath of fresh air,
the brightest light
and the darkest corner.
You are a collective of every experience
you have ever had in your life.
You are every second of every single day.
So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence.
Let the words run through your veins
and let the colours fill your
- Jac Vanek