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Last week, we got a chance to look at the XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card and found that it was a very powerful card for gaming. At the conclusion of that article we stated that we couldn't show Quad-SLI numbers as NVIDIA had them under NDA. The gag order has finally lifted, so we can share with you our thoughts on Quad-SLI with a pair of XFX GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics cards and, of course, we also have a pair of ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics cards for some Quad-CrossFireX testing to go along with them.
Since we have already reviewed the Radeon HD 3870 X2 (here), the GeForce 9800 GX2 (here) and CrossFireX (here), we can move right on to the good stuff.
It's been nearly two years since NVIDIA has produced a dual PCB video card design and they feel they have a winner in the works with the GeForce 9 series. One of the reasons NVIDIA feels so strongly about the GeForce 9800 GX2 is because they have a whole new approach at how the video game frames are being rendered. The first generation Quad SLI technology seen on the GeForce 7950 GX2 back in 2006, used a hybrid mode of split frame rendering (SFR) and alternate frame rendering (AFR) to enable concurrent rendering on four GPUs. With the latest games utilizing complex shaders, inter-frame effects, and multi-pass rendering, SFR becomes less efficient.
The GeForce 9800 GX2 features a new video bridge and a re-architected driver to allow for four frames to be rendered concurrently, but there is a catch. The OS framework required to support four frames in-flight is only available in Windows Vista. With the new 4-way AFR technique, geometry, texture, and shader processing all benefit from GPU scaling. Just how much does it scale? We will get to that in a second!
To get Quad-SLI enabled, we just added a second card to the system and went to the NVIDIA control panel to set the SLI configuration. After a few flickers and flashes, the software enabled Quad-SLI and we were able to reboot the system and get testing.
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Arkansas earns CWS berth by beating Baylor
WACO, Texas (AP) — Jake Wise and Colby Suggs were at the bottom of the pile of Arkansas players in the middle of the infield and enjoying every second of it.
The Razorbacks are headed to the College World Series.
Wise, a sophomore catcher who had entered the game as a defensive replacement, had a two-out RBI single in the top of the 10th and Suggs threw the final two innings in Arkansas' 1-0 victory over Baylor in the deciding game of their super regional Monday night.
"You get so excited, and when you're on the bottom you can't breathe, but it's a feeling you've wanted to feel your entire life," Wise said. "I've waited 20 years to be in a dog pile, and that was probably the best feeling of my life."
When Suggs (7-0) struck out Dan Evatt to end the game with two runners on base, Wise charged toward his pitcher and they were quickly joined in celebration by the rest of their teammates.
"It's a great feeling to have everybody on top of you," Suggs said. "Everybody just celebrating and being so happy together as a team."
Suggs, the fifth Arkansas pitcher in the combined five-hitter, struck out two and walked two while allowing one hit over the last two innings. The hard-throwing sophomore has gotten all his victories pitching in relief.
It will be the seventh CWS appearance for the Razorbacks (44-20), who play Kent State on Saturday. Arkansas clinched the final available spot in Omaha, where it will join fellow SEC teams Florida and South Carolina.
"We feel very fortunate to get out of here with two wins and have a chance to continue our season," Arkansas coach Dave Van Horn said. "At this level, 1-0 in extra innings to go to Omaha, I don't know if it gets any better. I know baseball purists probably love this game. As a coach, it was very stressful. Thank goodness it's over."
Baylor (49-17) last went to the College World Series in 2005.
After failing to win a game in the SEC tournament, the Razorbacks swept through their regional at Houston.
Then after losing the opener of the best-of-three series in Waco on Saturday, Arkansas forced another game by scoring twice in the bottom of the ninth of Game 2 to win 5-4. The Razorbacks took advantage of an error while loading the bases before consecutive batters were hit by pitches with the bases loaded.
Brian Anderson led off the Arkansas 10th Monday against Dillon Newman (4-4) with a single to left, and moved up on a sacrifice bunt by Bo Bigham. Matt Vinson struck out before Wise, who entered the game in the eighth, grounded a ball into left field out of the reach of diving shortstop Steve DalPorto.
Baylor senior starter Tyler Bremer struck out eight and allowed three hits in nine innings, the longest outing of his career.
"It was awesome, it was fun. Yeah, we lost, but no one's going to take that away from me," Bremer said. "I'll remember that for the rest of my life. Whether I have a short pro career, a long pro career, I have something I can really, really be proud of in the game of baseball, and that was that game."
Baylor had two outs in the 10th before Big 12 Player of the Year Josh Ludy, who had 16 home runs, walked for the fourth consecutive time. Cleanup hitter Max Muncy, who grounded into a double play in the eighth, followed with a single to left before Evatt struck out to end the game.
It was the third time this season Baylor was shut out, the first time in three months.
After scoring three runs in the fifth inning of Game 2 to take a 4-3 lead, Baylor didn't score again over the final 14 innings in the series. The Bears had their leadoff batter on base six times Monday night, including the sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth innings.
Meanwhile, after a one-out double in the first, Bremer retired 16 consecutive batters and didn't throw more than 10 pitches in an inning until the sixth.
"I thought we pushed (Bremer) about as far as we could. I don't really question the decision to take him out," Bears coach Steve Smith said. "When you've gone that much, you've done your part. We needed to pick it up for him. And you know, Dillon wasn't bad. Seeing-eye groundball that gets through."
Razorbacks starter Randall Fant struck out five and allowed two hits over four innings. Trent Daniel, the fourth pitcher, had 1 1-3 hitless innings before giving way to Suggs.
Baylor had the bases loaded in the fourth against Fant before Lawton Langford struck out. The Bears had the bases loaded again in the fifth against reliever Nolan Sanburn after three walks before Muncy grounded out.


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Publications of Interest to Parents of Early Adolescents
Adderholdt-Elliot, Miriam and Goldberg, Jan. (1999). Perfectionism: What's Bad about Being Too Good (rev. ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing.
Bates Ames, Louise. (1989). Your Ten- to Fourteen-Year-Old. New York: Delacorte Press.
Benson, Peter, Galbraith, Judy and Espeland, Pamela. (1998). What Kids Need to Succeed: Proven, Practical Ways to Raise Good Kids (rev. ed.). Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Publishing.
Children Now. (2000). Talking with Kids about Violence. Available online at www.talkingwithkids.org/violence.html.
Eyre, Linda and Eyre, Richard. (1993). Teaching Your Children Values. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine. (1998). Sibling without Rivalry. New York: Avon Books.
Fenwick, Elizabeth and Smith, Tony. (1996). Adolescence: The Survival Guide for Parents and Teenagers. New York: DK Publishing.
Freeman, Carol Goldberg. (1996). Living with a Work in Progress: A Parents' Guide to Surviving Adolescence. Columbus, OH: National Middle School Association.
Giannetti, Carlene C. and Sagarese, Margaret. (1999). Parenting 911: How to Safeguard and Rescue Your 10- to 15-Year-Old from Substance Abuse, Depression, Sexual Encounters, Violence, Failure in School, Danger on the Internet & Other Risky Situations. New York: Broadway Books.
Giannetti, Carlene C. and Sagarese, Margaret. (1997). The Roller-Coaster Years: Raising Your Child Through the Maddening Yet Magical Middle School Years. New York: Broadway Books.
International Reading Association. (1999). Books Are Cool! Keeping Your Middle School Student Reading. Newark, DE.
International Reading Association. (1999). Parents, Teens and Reading: A Winning Combination. Newark, DE.
Koplewicz, Harold. (1996). It's Nobody's FaultNew Hope and Help for Difficult Children and Their Parents. New York: Time Books.
Lickona, Thomas. (1994). Raising Good Children. New York: Bantam.
McMahon, Tom. (1996). Teen TipsA Practical Guide for Parents with Kids 11 to 19. New York: Pocket Books.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and National Institutes of Health. (2002). Adventures in Parenting: How Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring and Modeling Can Help You Be a Successful Parent. Washington, DC. Available online at www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/parenting/
Rich, Dorothy. (1992). Megaskills: How Families Can Help Children Succeed in School and Beyond (rev. ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Schaefer, Charles E. and DiGeronimo, Theresa Foy. (1999). How to Talk to Teens about Really Important Things: Specific Questions and Answers and Useful Things to Say. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Seligman, Martin. (1991). Learned Optimism. New York: Pocket Books.
Seligman, Martin, Reivich, Karen, Jaycox, Lisa and Gilham, Jane. (1996). The Optimistic Child. New York: HarperPerennial Library.
Steinberg, Laurence. (1997). You and Your Adolescent: A Parent's Guide for Ages 10 to 20. New York: HarperCollins.
Tracy, Louise Felton. (1994). Grounded for Life? Stop Blowing Your Fuse and Start Communicating with Your Teenager. Seattle, WA: Parenting Press.
U.S. Department of Education. (1994). Growing Up Drug Free: A Parent's Guide to Prevention. Washington, DC. Available online at www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/parents_guide/.
U.S. Department of Education. (2002). Helping Your Child with Homework. Washington, DC. Available online at www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/Homework/.
Walsh, David A. (2001). Dr. Dave's Cyberhood: Making Media Choices that Create a Healthy Electronic Environment for Your Kids. New York: Simon & Schuster.


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The Honors College is dedicated to enriching the undergraduate academic experience for talented, motivated and well-prepared students. Honors membership is open to all qualified students, whatever their major. Upon joining the Honors College, students find that they are part of an exciting community of talented scholars pursuing academic and intellectual growth. The goal of the Honors College is to help these students build an excellent foundation that prepares them for studying at the graduate level, establishing a career, and meeting the demands of responsible citizenship.
Honors faculty and staff work to design, implement and support learning opportunities for students, both in and beyond the classroom. The primary benefit of honors membership is the right to enroll in honors classes, which are taught by faculty members with a strong commitment to undergraduate education. Honors classes offer a supportive environment in which students are encouraged to grow intellectually. The small enrollment of honors classes opens up opportunities for active participation in learning, including projects, presentations and class discussions. In addition, most honors classes can be substituted for non-honors classes in the University Core Curriculum. Honors students also enjoy priority registration each semester.
Many Honors students elect to participate in the undergraduate research track offered by the Honors College. Students may take courses to learn about research, develop their research projects, and write an Honors thesis, all under the guidance of a faculty mentor in their major. Students in the research track have opportunities to present their research at regional and national conferences, and may have their work published in the Honors College online journal of undergraduate research, The Eagle Feather, or other scholarly journals.
Honors members are invited to participate in many special programs sponsored by the college. These programs include opportunities to have lunch with a professor or dean, hear scholars discuss their work, take trips to local museums and enjoy free tickets to concerts and other cultural events. Honors students are also eligible to live in Honors Hall.
Honors College membership is open to every qualified student pursuing a baccalaureate degree at the University of North Texas, and membership is compatible with every undergraduate major and program. Honors is a flexible program that allows students to decide each semester on the combination of honors, non-honors and major classes that best suits their needs. Membership in the Honors College is secondary to membership in the college of the students major, and students in the Honors College can choose from several levels of participation and recognition.
Admission to the Honors College is competitive and requires a separate application. To be eligible, freshman students should have a combined math and verbal SAT score of at least 1200 (ACT 27) and be in the top ranks of their high school graduating class, as evidenced by class standing and grade point average. A writing sample and a copy of all relevant transcripts should be submitted with the Honors College application. Students who are awarded the UNT Meritorious Scholarship qualify automatically for admission, but must still submit the completed application. Students whose scores and class rank are slightly below these standards may still apply for membership by submitting a portfolio of materials demonstrating their readiness for honors work, such as a personal essay, a list of academic awards, writing samples and letters of recommendation.
Continuing UNT students or students transferring to UNT from other institutions of higher learning are eligible to enroll in the Honors College on the basis of their GPA from already completed college work. A cumulative GPA of at least 3.35 qualifies continuing UNT and transfer students for membership in the Honors College, provided at least one full-time semester of college work has already been completed. Students who will have 75 or more credits upon entering the Honors College are not eligible for membership.
Students transferring to UNT may apply up to 12 honors credits from another NCHC-member honors program or college toward the Honors Scholar or Distinguished Honors Scholar Award. For such courses to apply toward a UNT Honors College award, the grade earned must be B or better. The dean of the Honors College must approve all honors courses from other institutions to be applied toward a UNT Honors College award.
UNT students who join the Honors College after graduation from the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science may receive up to 12 honors credits for courses taken in TAMS toward the Honors Scholar or Distinguished Honors Scholar Award. For such courses to apply toward a UNT Honors College award, the grade earned must be a B or better. The dean of the Honors College must approve all TAMS courses to be applied toward a UNT Honors College award.
The Honors College Recognition Award requires 15 honors credits with a cumulative and Honors GPA of at least 3.00. The Honors College Recognition Award is open to freshman, continuing and transfer students. All credits for this award must be earned at UNT, and no more than one honors contract may be counted toward the Honors College Recognition Award. Students who complete the Honors College Recognition Award will receive the Honors College medallion and have the accomplishment noted on their UNT transcript.
The Honors Scholar Award requires completion of at least 24 honors credits, including a capstone thesis, project, course or approved substitute. The student must also maintain a cumulative and Honors GPA of at least 3.0. No more than two honors contracts may be counted toward the Honors Scholar Award. Students who complete the Honors Scholar Award receive the Honors College medallion and have the accomplishment noted on their UNT transcript.
The highest recognition available to students through the Honors College is the Distinguished Honors Scholar Award. For this award, the student must earn at least 27 honors credits, 3 of which must be an honors thesis or an honors thesis replacement, and must have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.5. No more than two honors contracts may be counted toward the Distinguished Honors Scholar Award. Students who complete the Distinguished Honors Scholar Award receive the Honors College medallion and have the accomplishment noted on their UNT transcript.
Any department or degree program at UNT may elect to participate in Departmental Honors. Students should contact the department, the degree program office or the Honors College to find out whether a particular department participates in Departmental Honors.
Students in good standing in the Honors College may pursue Departmental Honors in the department or program of their major. To graduate with Departmental Honors, a student must
1. successfully complete at least 30 Honors credits, including at least 12 Honors credits in the major department, or in a related department, with approval of the major department;
2. complete the Honors thesis (or an approved substitute) in the major department or program; and
3. have a cumulative GPA of at least 3.50.
Up to two successfully completed Honors contracts may be applied to Departmental Honors. Requirements for graduating with Departmental Honors are established by the Honors College, and details and additional information may be obtained from the Honors College.
Recordkeeping for Departmental Honors is handled by the Honors College. Students earning Departmental Honors will be recognized at commencement by the Honors College and the department or program in which Honors is earned.
Specific objectives have been adopted for honors courses, including the following.
1. Honors courses emphasize development of analytical and evaluative skills through readings from primary sources, journal articles and other supplementary materials.
2. Honors courses encourage students to engage in high-level thinking and learning through activities such as intensive discussion; writing in small, collaborative learning settings; and intensive research papers and projects.
3. Honors courses promote independent thinking by making students accountable for important aspects of their learning.
4. Honors courses place material in a conceptual context that illustrates its importance and relationship to other knowledge.
5. Honors courses provide enhanced opportunities for students to develop research skills and produce independent, original research or creative products as part of the course requirements.
6. Honors courses include innovative approaches to course content and teaching so that honors courses can serve as campuswide prototypes.
Honors classes at the 1000 and 2000 levels are reserved for members of the Honors College. Students who are not members of the Honors College but have junior status and a GPA of at least 3.5 may request enrollment in honors classes at the 3000 and 4000 levels if space is available after honors students register. The honors academic counselor can assist with enrollment.
1. English Composition and Rhetoric (6 hours): Honors Composition I: ENGL 1311, 3 hours; Honors Composition II: ENGL 1321, 3 hours.
2. Mathematics (3 hours): MATH 1710 (special section), 4 hours; MATH 1720 (special section), 3 hours.
3. Natural Sciences (6 hours): BIOL 1711/1733 (special section), 4 hours; BIOL 1722/1744 (special section), 4 hours; CHEM 1412/1430, 4 hours;
CHEM 1422/1440, 4 hours; PHYS 1052 (special section), 3 hours; PHYS 1316, 3 hours.
4. U.S. History (6 hours): HIST 2675, 3 hours; HIST 2685, 3 hours.
5. Political Science (6 hours): PSCI 1041, 3 hours; PSCI 1051, 3 hours; PSCI 1085, 3 hours.
6. Visual and Performing Arts (3 hours): ART 1301, 3 hours; MUMH 1600 (special section), 3 hours; THEA 1340 (special section), 3 hours.
7. Humanities (3 hours): ENGL 2211, 3 hours; ENGL 2221, 3 hours.
8. Social and Behavioral Sciences (3 hours): ECON 1110 (special section), 3 hours; SOCI 1520 (special section), 3 hours.
9. Understanding the Human Community (6 hours): COMM 1440, 3 hours; HIST 1075, 3 hours; HIST 1085, 3 hours; MUET 3020 (special section), 3 hours; PHIL 2070 (special section), 3 hours; PSCI 3810 (special section), 3 hours; SOCI 2010 (special section), 3 hours.
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Iron Man 2 (US - BD)
Gabe keeps on keeping on with his catching up with this Marvel sequel...
After publically admit he is the mysterious super hero dubbed Iron Man, Stark Industries CEO Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) goes on a narcissistic binge, ignoring his developing health problems, and devolving into a drunken mess of dangerous behavior. Meanwhile Russian scientist Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), angry over the fact that his father never got credit for his work with the ARC reactor technology, plots revenge on Tony, and business rival Justin Hammer (Sam Rockwell) takes notice of the psychopathic genius' talents.
A real game of hook, line, and sinker has been set for modern superhero movies, assuming the first one is any good, that is. X-Men was a clearly rushed production, with a slapped together third act, which acted as a trailer for the glorious X-Men 2. Eventually we were all let down by a half decent/half terrible X-Men 3. We were then taught a similar lesson with the Spider-Man franchise. The first one was good, but clearly needed a bit of a special effects spit polish, and kind of felt like two movies crammed into one. Spider-Man 2 was terrific, and left room for both growth and scope. Then Spider-Man 3 crammed too much into a limited time frame, and audiences were left with another mix of good fun, and perfect garbage. Batman Begins never jells as one film, but the first half sets up the hero nicely, and the second half acts as a fine sampling of times to come. The Dark Knight occasionally threatens to buckle under the weight of its plot and characters, but is by most accounts the usually second film stand out. We'll have to see where that third movie goes. There has been a precedent set for improvement superhero movie sequels, arguably beginning with Super Man II, or for me personally, at least with Batman Returns. Even Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer was a step up on the first Fantastic Four, and Punisher Warzone, though otherwise unrelated to the previous film in the 'franchise' was quite a bit more entertaining.
The first Iron Man looked like the perfect candidate for the ultimate second film up-step. The origin story aspects worked unquestionably, and Robert Downey Jr. created a true original film character, but the direction seemed a little stifled, and the film ended with a bit of a thud. The perfect candidate status is magnified by the fan service post credit tease, letting the character and audience know that they were about to enter a much bigger world. Perhaps this means I went into Iron Man II with unfair expectations based on previous sequels, and the promise presented, but I was, non-the-less, disappointed. It isn't a X-Men III sized ball-dropper, but it's a little too much like Spider-Man 3, except the dizzying comedic heights aren't contrasted by bafflingly daft plot holes, they're replaced by too much plot, and not enough interesting story. The original trailer actually told almost the entire story in a much more efficient manner.
There's a lot going on here, and too much of it grows repetitive. The previous film opened up the door for the first celebrity super hero on film, and the opening act clearly gets this point across – Tony is in denial about his impending death, SHIELD is building up into something bigger, and both Ivan Vanko and Justin Hammer both want bloody revenge on Iron Man. There's really no need to dwell on any of the angst (we have Spider-Man 2 for that, but director John Faverau and Downey Jr. really like hammering home Tony Stark's attitude problems (an excess of alcoholism, narcissism followed by bouts with pouty angst), and spend a lot of film time on the subject. This faulty aspect of the film culminates with Rhodes putting the Mark 1 suit on and literally duking it out over the way his drunken behavior is dangerous to those around him. This scene isn't just unnecessary, but ends a really lame 'Chekov's gun' that will be called back to during the final boss fight, and gives an out of character excuse for Rhodes to hand the armour over to the army. Then everyone gets to feel guilty a little too long, and a subplot I thought I'd been dreaming about for years. I really thought I wanted a bigger universe expansion, but too much of Iron Man 2 feels like SHEILD, part ½, to be continued in Thor. Maybe the transition will grow less awkward as we approach The Avengers (I'm really looking forward to Joe Johnston's take on Captain America).
Lost among this non-necessity are two very interesting villains, and a pair stunningly affecting performances from the leading ladies. There wasn't a point in the entire film where I wasn't wondering what was going on with those characters. Mickey Rouke's presence is huge, and the shift in power between him and Sam Rockwell's perfectly pathetic anti-Tony Stark is one of the film's biggest and most satisfying surprises. I could honestly go for 30 solid more minutes with either character. I haven't been a fan either Gwyneth Paltrow or Scarlet Johansson over the years, but they both offer much needed heart to the high fives, explosions, and boughts of angst. Sure, the costume and cold stare does a lot for Johansson, but her brief stint of ass-whomping may be the film's best action sequence. Which brings us too the action. I had problems with the suit on suit stuff in the first film, and was thrilled when it was announced that Faverau was using Samurai Jack creator Gennady Tartakovsky for story board action support. There really was nowhere to go but up. Tartakovsky's influence is apparent in a single scene as far as I'm concerned, and I'll eat even a crumb like little oil in place of blood squirt, but otherwise the final act is just kind of noisy, a little bit visually confusing, and it all ends with a bit of a putter. When I say I really liked Rouke's performance, I meant it, and I liked the threat he posed, but in the end he turned out to be an even more ineffective Final Boss than Iron Monger.
Yet another 1080p transfer that, to no one's surprise, looks pretty close to utterly perfect. Director John Favreau takes some care to separate the various worlds the major characters embody. Starks world is lit up like Las Vegas, mostly at night, featuring high contrast blacks and whites, and gorgeous neon hues. Ivan's world is darker, less colourful, and features more subtle sickly greens. Hammer's world is bleached in fluorescents, and made to look melded from clear plastics. The one thing all these styles share in common is a nice sense of heightened detail, which occasionally leads to some minor jaggies and halos. Overall the final battle in the bio-dome (or whatever it is) features the most impressive contrast and details. On the SD DVD this section is a little muddy, and features some unfortunate digital blocking. The film grain works wonders to separate Ivan and Stark's worlds, and is never excessive beyond texture. Some of the backgrounds look a little blotchy, but I don't think there's any excesses of DNR jiggering. I hesitantly refer to this as reference level material.
Iron Man 2 comes fitted with a busy and boisterous DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack, featuring a few minor mix issues, all of which I noticed in the theater. Basically, crowd scenes have so volume consistency issues, and the post-production folley work is a little too high on the mix to not draw attention to itself. That's about all I have to complain about. The post credit re-introduction of Iron Man himself is a nice preview of things too come, featuring the blare of AC/DC's 'Shoot to Thrill' set nicely against some cool directional flying effects, fireworks, and a big, multi-channel crowd cheering. Later on, Whiplash attacks Stark on a race track, which leads to some incredible directional work, LFE rocking explosions, wicked electronic zaps, and a nice contrasting volume levels when needed. The climatic Drone and Whiplash battles are, of course, the real show-stopper, pulling just about every trick whimsical and noisy piece of aural artwork available. Relative B-lister John Debney's score, in collaboration with Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello, is similar to the original film's score, and not particularly surprising, but is usually mixed at the optimum level, especially during the big action moments.
Disc one extras begin with director John Favreau's solo audio commentary. Favs is chock full of information, and most of it is genuinely interesting, and that stuff that isn't so interesting is shaded by the director's warmth. There's too much on-screen narration, and dwelling on subtext, but overall Favs treats the track intelligently, points out a couple of easy to miss Easter Eggs, and generally has fun at his own expense.
The 'SHIELD DATA' vault works with a pop up footage scan mode, along with 'The Vault' menu. From what I've gathered in my made rush to get this review out I've decided that there isn't anything in the pop-up mode missing from the Vault mode. These include 15 scenes from the film with short technical pop-ups of some of the bits that blow by quickly on screen, some in depth turn-arounds of some of the digital armour, and other general knowledge. A pretty disappointing showing. These are augmented by 21 text based personnel dossiers (including Steve Rogers, which is, of course, classified), Howard Stark's Lock-Box, a series of artifacts including the first issue of Captain America, Army records, personal photos, a technical notebook, Stark Expo catalogue covers, news articles, a 'Where's Waldo' shot of the Arctic (I can't find him), ARC reactor blueprints, a map of the cosmos (probably something to do with Thor), and Gamma Chair charts. Case Files finish up the section, including links to personnel dossiers, text based field reports, Declassified Visual Records (more commercial and news stuff that zips by in the background during the film), a link back to Howard Starks Lock Box and the Weapons and Technology stuff used during the pop-ups, and the pop-ups themselves. The stuff used to tease future films is pretty thin in actual content, more like direct pointing our of various Easter Eggs tossed over the entire film. The disc's only other extra is another PiP option utilizing storyboards, animatics, and other previsualization data.
Blu-ray disc number two continues with a whole slew of documentaries, including a 4-part 'Making of' Doc, 6 behind the scenes features, along with 8 deleted scenes and more. Unfortunately the disc I was sent appears to be a dud. I tried it on two players and got nothing out of it. I'm very disappointed, but figure the disc has been available for a long enough period of time that my opinions on the quality of these extras is moot anyway.
So I'll take my comparison back to Spider-Man 3 – as a whole Iron Man 2 is a let down, but it's not without a few outstanding performances, show-stoppingly oddball touches. More important, there's still places to go with the characters, but after they finish their little Avengers team-up (which I'm skeptical about to say the least), Fav's and Downey Jr. really need to get over 'keeping it real', and tear the roof off the one thing Tony Stark can't beat with science – magic. If they're too afraid of getting hokey I don't see any more challenges besides larger robots, which is being well covered by Michael Bay and other minions of Satan. The Blu-ray looks and sounds spectacular, and the extras are huge, or so I assume, since my second Blu-ray wouldn't work, and I was too late to ask for another one. I'm very sorry about my recent absence on the site, but my health is on the way up and I'm going to tear through this overdo stuff as quickly as possible.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray release.
Review by Gabriel Powers
iconoclast Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: United States Posts: 264
The fight at the race track is truly exhilarating, despite being painfully short. The drunk iron man war machine fight is pretty great too. I really like the film and I think it holds up nicely with first, both films have things I like over the other one, so I can't really say which I favor more. But they are both perfect examples of what summer movies should be, I'd rather see a million Iron Man movies than One transformers
matt86 Member Join Date: March 2008 Location: United States Posts: 868
I agree a lot with this review. Very honest too, i get sick of everyone acting like the original iron man was the movie to end them all. This was a disapointing sequel overall. I honestly looked around at my screening wondering what the hell they were thinking. I looked at others faces to wonder if they were on the same boat as me. Does hollywood think superheros moping the whole time is interesting? Tony was depressed half the movie. NOT something i care to see. I could go on, but i will just say that i also agree about the second punisher being beterr(3rd punisher technically) and also about fantastic 4 as well. Good review
Blake_R Member Join Date: November 2006 Location: United States Posts: 25
Good call on the environments framing each character. Didn't catch that, but it's super-true.
Krishna Jaipersad Member Join Date: October 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 166
Great review Gabe as always! I enjoyed this thoroughly & I agree it is a notch or two lower than the first, but this happens from time to time in the franchise business! I guess there were too many characters to keep track of & too much screen time that was a major problem for most! Who knows? Hoping that Iron Man 3 will surpass all expectations in 2013! Only the "Man" upstairs will know what Disney will do with it!!!!! Just a correction Gabe, Rhodes put on the Mark 2 suit, not the bulky Mark 1 suit!
Wilson Bros Reviewer Join Date: August 2004 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1,183
Nice review once again, Mr P. We agree that the motif of "Machina ex Deus" - or magic, anyway - takes away the things which drew most to the genre in the first place. There certainly is too much of this used of late, and would be nice to see Superheroes Vs Supernatural.
One of the best potential Marvel adaptations waiting in the wings is Doctor Strange, and there is no way in Hell they can quitely sideline magic when bringing that to the screen. Ironically, Robert Downey Jr would be an excellent choice for Stephen Strange.
BTW, it's a bit of a bummer that Iron Man 2 blows the continuity of the Avengers set-up by having Stark hit the bottle and generally go off the rails, as the series now has to be viewed in the following order to keep the timeline straight:
Iron Man (Stark meets Nick Fury and recuited to the Avengers program)
Iron Man 2 (Stark hits the bottle. Fury gives him the SHIELD 12-step treatment)
The Incredible Hulk (Stark's dried out and heads the recruitment drive)
One of the best potential Marvel adaptations waiting in the wings is Doctor Strange, and there is no way in Hell they can quitely sideline magic when bringing that to the screen. Ironically, Robert Downey Jr would be an excellent choice for Stephen Strange.
BTW, it's a bit of a bummer that Iron Man 2 blows the continuity of the Avengers set-up by having Stark hit the bottle and generally go off the rails, as the series now has to be viewed in the following order to keep the timeline straight:
Iron Man (Stark meets Nick Fury and recuited to the Avengers program)
Iron Man 2 (Stark hits the bottle. Fury gives him the SHIELD 12-step treatment)
The Incredible Hulk (Stark's dried out and heads the recruitment drive)
hogaburger Contributor Join Date: April 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,153
This needed more Scarlet Johansson fighting, and less CGI robots flying around. Wow, I really never thought I'd say that.
Pixarfan517 Member Join Date: August 2006 Location: United States Posts: 1,478
Stay cool about your health Gabe.
I actually didn't care that much for any of the "Spider-Man" sequels as much as I did with the first. "Iron Man 2," however, was a very satisfying and enjoyable little sequel, it wasn't as solid or as interesting as the first film. There was a lot of story trying to fit in with mostly of Tony Stark and his relationship with his father, which I thought was really good, but not necessary for a superhero story. Still, there was plenty of action and a nice solid plot, just not as solid as the first film - yet again!
I actually didn't care that much for any of the "Spider-Man" sequels as much as I did with the first. "Iron Man 2," however, was a very satisfying and enjoyable little sequel, it wasn't as solid or as interesting as the first film. There was a lot of story trying to fit in with mostly of Tony Stark and his relationship with his father, which I thought was really good, but not necessary for a superhero story. Still, there was plenty of action and a nice solid plot, just not as solid as the first film - yet again!
Dumb Dealer Member Join Date: October 2008 Location: Indonesia Posts: 227
I kinda agree with hogaburger that the movie needed more Scarlet actions but it still needed more MEMORABLE CGI robots/armoured battles. Even director like Michael Bay can make memorable actions scenes in Transformers (The opening US base raid, Barricade chase scene, Autobots arrival, Highway battle, & the city destruction, Yep I can still remember them all). Ironman needed more scenes like that to balance it with the character scenes. The sad thing is, after all that lack of action, The Ivan Vanko character still feels underdeveloped.
David Blackwell Senior Member Join Date: February 2004 Location: United States Posts: 2,835
too bad your second disc was a dud.
horrorfan25 Member Join Date: November 2007 Location: United States Posts: 1,080
Did I just hear someone say they dislike Iron Man 2 as much as Spider man 3? Wow dude. Spider man 3 was like the world of destruction terrible. Iron Man 2 was good, even if it didn't live up to its predecessor.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 28th September 2010
Discs: 3
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French, Portuguese and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese
Extras: Director commentary, SHIELD Data Vault, PiP, Ultimate Iron Man: Four Part Documentary, 6 Behind the Scenes Featurettes, 8 Deleted Scenes, Trailers, DVD Copy, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Jon Favreau
Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Samuel L. Jackson
Genre: Action and Comedy
Length: 124 minutes
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Several projects have been moved to the git revision control system. While there exist tutorials out there for using git, one of git's features is that it allows people to use many different workflows, so many of those tutorials won't apply to git as it's used in X.Org projects. We might call what we usually do "shared central repository" mode.
Things which are within the scope of this document:
- Checking out code
- Committing code
- Resolving conflicts
Working on branches Things which are not within the scope of this document:
Using the index for selective committing First note about git: there are many commands. Each command exists as an argument to the git command (
git clone) and also as a hyphenated version to aid in tab-completion ("git-clone").
The next thing to understand is that when you check out code from a remote git repository, you end up with a full-fledged git repository yourself. When you diff, commit, etc. code, you are doing it against your local repository. Clone, pull, and push are used to move changes between repositories. Your local repository is stored in the .git directory at the top of the tree.
Checking out
If you have an anonymously-checked out repository which you now wish to use to push, you can edit
.git/remotes/origin and replace the contents of the
URL: line (change
git:// to
ssh://, and
anongit.freedesktop.org to
If your username at freedesktop.org is different from local, the refspec becomes
ssh://firstname.lastname@example.com/git/xorg/lib/libX11, or you can just add the following to
~/.ssh/config to tell ssh your default username for all of freedesktop.org:
Host *.freedesktop.org
User myusername
Viewing diffs
Now, you have a copy of the master branch of the tree. Go ahead and build it and whatever else. If you make some changes, you can see what files you would commit with
git status -a or get a diff of the local tree against the repository with
git status -a -v
-a flag means all local updates. The git system actually has this concept of an "index", managed using
git-update-index, which lets you selectively commit changes. However, because this adds to confusion, I will leave learning about the index up to you to do later.
Getting the latest upstream code
There are two ways to update your local repository. Which one to use depends on whether you have committed changes in the meantime.
No changes: pull
The command to update your local repository is:
git pull
It will pull down the latest repository information from the
origin remote file (which points at where you initially cloned the repository from), then merge. If the new changes don't conflict with anything locally, the merge will "fast-forward" your branch reference to the new head. If new changes do conflict, it will try to do an automatic merge using a couple of different schemes, and then automatically commits the merge if it's satisfied. If you notice that your pull resulted in a merge (in the output of pull), you might want to use
gitk to see if the merge did what you expected it to. If it isn't satisfied, then you have to resolve the conflict manually.
You've made changes: fetch and rebase
If you have committed local changes, then
git-pull will create a spurious "Merge" commit, which will pollute the change list when you later push upstream. To avoid this, do these two commands:
git fetch
git rebase origin
Instead of merging, this attempts to insert the changes you pull from the origin repository before your local changes, avoiding the merge message.
Dealing with conflicts
If you get a serious conflict that can't be merged automatically, git will leave familiar conflict markers in the files, and
git status should say that you've got unmerged files. Go edit them and fix your conflicts, and test. After you do so,
git status will still be noisy about unmerged files (since you haven't updated the index to say you've merged them), but you can still do
git commit -a
and commit your merge. It hands you a default log message for the merge, and it will retain the information on the parents of the commit you did, so that branch history is maintained.
Reverting commits
It may happen that you commit something you really didn't want to go into the repository. This is not referring to broken changes, but things like mis-merges or getting branches confused. If you haven't pushed the code upstream, then it's really easy to make it look like the commit didn't happen. To reset to the immediate previous revision, you would run:
git reset --hard HEAD^
Reverting code prior to commit
git doesn't have a revert command like svn. Instead, just run
git checkout -- <yourfile> to revert it to the last committed version. The
-- isn't necessary in most cases, but does provide extra insurance.
Committing code
If you're satisfied with your diff, you could commit it with:
git commit -a
The commit message should have a one-line summary ('Add support for FooBazzle 700'), and then a longer explanatory paragraph, separated by a blank line, e.g.:
Add support for FooBazzle 700
Add support for the FooBazzle 700, which is an interesting device in
that it does not actually exist. This is our first driver for an
entirely ficticious device, and as such, it performs no rendering.
Your subject line should include the subsystem name (for example, 'KDrive: Fix keymap memory leak', not just 'Fix leak'), unless it's entirely redundant.
After you enter your log message, it will quickly terminate. You've now committed your diff to your local repository. You could run:
to see your diff in the history now. Note that the
gitk output actually shows two branches: master and origin. The
master branch is the head of development in the local tree. The
origin branch is the last version from upstream.
Pushing your code upstream
Now that you've resolved the conflicts (if any) with others upstream, you're ready to push your changes. To do this, type
git push origin
This tells git to push every branch in a
Push: line in the
origin remote upstream (more on the Push: lines later). Unlike
git pull,
git push does require you to specify the remote and doesn't have a default.
Emailing your code upstream
If you do not have direct commit access or wish to get patch review, type:
git format-patch origin (assuming you're on master)
This will generate a few sequentially-numbered text files, one per patch (e.g.
0002-Fix-memory-leak.txt), in mbox format. These can be sent individually. If part of a series, use the
-n argument to
git format-patch, so their subjects will be '[PATCH 1/7] Add support for FooBazzle 700', and so on, and so forth.
Traditionally, a '[PATCH 0/7] FooBazzle-related enhancements' mail would be sent to the list first, giving a relatively long explanation of the patchset, as well as a very brief rundown of the individual patches. You should then edit your patches before you send them, to include an
In-Reply-To and
References header listing the
Message-Id of the 0th message, so it doesn't break threading.
Working on branches
Now you've learned how to check out HEAD code, diff, update, commit, and push code back upstream. The next thing to talk about is branching.
You can see what branch you're on using
git branch -- it should show
master initially. To switch branches in your current repository, do:
git checkout <branch>
If you've got local changes, there are flags to either throw out your local changes, or try to merge them across to the new branch. By default it will just refuse to change.
If you want to make a new branch, you can do:
git checkout -b <new-branch>
Now you've got a new branch. However, git checkout doesn't set up the branch: branch-origin mapping that we want. There's a rule in using git, which is: Never commit to the right side of a Pull line. This is referring to the contents of
.git/remotes/<remotename>. The
.git/remotes/origin (what you're using currently) file should currently have:
URL: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/whatever
Pull: master:origin
This means that the current remote master is mapped to the local origin. When working on a branch where you'll be committing code, add a few more lines:
Push: master:master
Pull: new-branch:new-branch-origin
Push: new-branch:new-branch
The first says "map the remote new-branch to new-branch-origin in the local repository". The second says "when pushing code, push from new-branch locally into new-branch remotely". If you haven't set any
Push: lines, then git implies a
master:master mapping for pushes. Once we add our new-branch push line, we also have to add
master:master if you intend to ever commit to master.
Now, you're set up for committing and pushing the branch. There's one more trick to know about. When you do
git pull, it is now pulling the remote branches into what they're mapped to locally. So, the latest new-branch upstream code is in new-branch-origin. To merge it to your local new-branch code, do:
git pull . new-branch-origin
This means "merge the new-branch-origin code into the current working directory". Like the other
git pull command we mentioned, it will by default commit the merge, unless it runs into conflicts which aren't automatically resolvable.
And, to push, you do it just like when you were working on master.
git push origin


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Q: What are common misconceptions about handling inhibited/degraded samples?
A: Inhibited samples are often confused with degraded samples (and vice versa), and although the two types of samples present difficulty to the analyst, they can often be distinguished after close examination of the quantification results, DNA profiles and a consideration of the sample's origin. The Quantifiler® Human DNA Quantification Kit contains an internal PCR control (IPC) that can serve as a useful indicator of potential inhibition.
Q: What information about the sample may assist in identifying challenging samples?
A: Careful consideration should be given to the totality of the information regarding a sample:
- What is its origin, if known? Whole blood sample, bone, buccal swab, black denim, etc.
- What type of substrate was it extracted from? Cotton tipped applicator, dyed fabric, leather, plant material, etc.
- What natural elements has this sample been exposed to? Heat, sunlight, moisture/humidity, etc.
- Does the sample contain possible inhibitors of DNA polymerase such as textile dyes, heme or humic acid?
Q: How do you tell the difference between inhibited and degraded samples?
A: The presence of inhibitors that co-extract with sample DNA may be detected using the Quantifiler® Human DNA Kit through an evaluation of the IPC results. Inhibited samples exhibit an IPC with a higher than expected Ct value or an IPC that does not produce a signal which crosses the threshold. Samples exhibiting potential inhibition may result in lower than expected quantification results requiring further sample clean-up or dilution in order to obtain accurate quantification. Neglecting to re-quantitate an inhibited sample after clean-up or dilution may result in off-scale data for smaller fragments when run on a Capillary Electrophoresis instrument. A degraded sample (with no inhibitors) would produce an expected and consistent IPC value. Quantification of degraded DNA may result in an overestimate of the amount of DNA present with preferential amplification of smaller amplicons relative to the larger amplicons. Addition of higher than normal amounts of input DNA may assist in recovery of information from the longer amplicons.
Q: How can extraction/purification methodology impact results from compromised samples?
A: The presence of PCR inhibitors that are co-extracted with sample DNA can result in allele dropout or imbalances in heterozygous loci. A number of techniques exist to overcome inhibition of amplification including:
- Use of extraction methods which effectively remove inhibitors from the sample
- Dilution of extracted DNA which consequently dilutes the inhibitor, thereby minimizing the effect
- Addition of BSA to the PCR reaction
Q: What indicators of degradation and/or inhibition should I look for in sample data?
A: In such samples, the ability to amplify the longer amplicons is diminished relative to the ability to amplify the shorter amplicons. Samples containing inhibitors may exhibit partial profiles similar to those generated from degraded samples, resulting in complete loss of all alleles or resulting in drop-out or imbalance at select loci. Until recently, the ability to recover information from degraded samples was limited. Technological improvements have been implemented in the AmpFℓSTR® MiniFiler™ PCR Amplification Kit that include moving the primers in closer to the locus repeat regions. This has allowed the generation of smaller amplicons, thus increasing the probability of obtaining a full profile from a degraded sample.
Q: What is the best strategy for recovering information from degraded and/or inhibited samples?
A: The MiniFiler™ PCR Amplification Kit has been demonstrated to yield the greatest amount of information from samples that have previously produced partial profiles or no profile at all using existing commercially available autosomal amplification kits. In the presence of PCR inhibitors, the MiniFiler™ Kit outperforms other commercially available multiplex kits with regard to recovery of genetic information. The MiniFiler™ Kit contains 8 autosomal markers and the sex-determining marker amelogenin. Use of a dual-amplification strategy using MiniFiler™ and Identifiler™ Kits is the best strategy for recovery of all 15 autosomal markers from compromised samples.


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Greenwich girls lacrosse team downs Ridgefield, advances to FCIAC semifinals
GREENWICH -- When the Greenwich and Ridgefield High School girls lacrosse teams met on May 1, the Tigers remained within striking distance of the Cardinals before scoring four unanswered goals in the final 10 minutes to pull out a one-goal win. Friday's FCIAC Tournament quarterfinal round game was headed in a similar direction, as Greenwich led the majority of the first 32 minutes of play, but couldn't pull away.
Then came the scoring barrage the Cardinals were hoping for.
Scoring five unanswered goals during a 2:21 span, third-seeded Greenwich seized a five-goal lead and never looked back, defeating sixth-seeded Ridgefield, 17-12, in the FCIAC quarterfinals at Cardinal Stadium.
Junior midfielder Carolyn Paletta scored a game-high four goals, while Emma Christie, Emily Johnson, Sophie Waine and Meghan Collins each had hat tricks for the Cardinals. Greenwich (14-3) advances to Monday's semifinals, where it will visit second-seeded rival New Canaan.
Besides it being postseason time, the Cardinals entered Friday's matchup with the Tigers with some extra motivation after suffering a 12-11 loss to Ridgefield two weeks ago -- which at the time was their first defeat of the season.
"Everyone was really upset that we lost to them last time, so we really wanted to come back and beat them," said GHS sophomore goalie Kylie Ginsberg, who helped her team maintain its lead, making 14 saves. "We are really excited to get back, play better against them than we did the last time and beat them."
Ridgefield (10-6) tied the score at 10-10 on senior Eliza Marcus' goal off a pass from Liana Mathias with 18:14 remaining in the second half. But then in a flash the game turned. Attack Meghan Collins goal at the 17:40 mark gave the Cards the lead for good at 11-10. Greenwich won the ensuing draw and Christie tallied in transition, then Paletta carried the ball down field off the draw and put a shot past Ridgefield goalie Erin Morrison, making it a 13-10 game.
Anne Dunster's free position goal, followed by Johnson's tally off a laser from the perimeter, capped Greenwich's pivotal 5-0 run.
"We came out and had about five draw controls in a row that really gave us momentum," said Johnson, a senior midfielder, who also helped out the team defensively Friday. "We came out today feeling we were the underdog because we lost to them last time and that's when we thrive. We had homefield advantage this time, which was key."
"The draw control in these games are key and they had the luck of the draw today," said Ridgefield assistant coach Colleen Sexton, who along with Samantha Blackwell coached the team Friday in head coach Michele Ralph's absence. "Greenwich is an unbelievably skilled team, so I'm very pleased with how our girls stuck with it against a great program like that."
Junior attack Shannon Walsh recorded a hat trick, while senior Shauna Norris and senior Carolyn Murray each scored twice for the Tigers, who trailed 9-8 at halftime after senior Eliza Marcus snuck a low shot past Ginsberg at the buzzer.
"It's been impressive to watch the growth of our program and it starts with these girls making a commitment," Sexton said. "We're looking forward to states and we feel we can continue to work well together."
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Scoring: G -- Carolyn Paletta 4 g; Emily Johnson 3 g, 1 a; Emma Christie 3 g, Meghan Collins 3 g, Anne Dunster 1 g; Sophie Waine 3 g, 1 a; R -- Shauna Norris 2 g; Carolyn Murray 2 g, 1 a; Shannon Walsh 3 g; Erica Ely 1 g;, 1 a Maggie Scalzo 1 g; Eliza Marcus 1 g, 1 a; Liana Mathias. 2 g. Goalies: G -- Kylie Ginsberg (14 saves); R -- Maddie Burns (3 saves); Erin Morrison (3 saves).


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[...]4. Don't be seduced by the headlines that read, "entry-level lawyer salaries top $100,000." Your future salary as a lawyer is primarily dependent on the clients that you serve. According to the National Association for Law Placement, jobs and J.D.'s Employment and Salaries of New Law Graduates, Class of 1998 (hereafter Class of 1998 Report), the median starting salary for members of the Class of 1998 was $45,000 with salaries of $70,000 or more being the exception versus the rule. It may surprise many students to learn that $40,000 and $30,000 were the most frequently reported salaries in the Class of 1998 Report. Individuals who serve corporate clients earned more than individuals serving indigent persons (median salary of $60,000 versus median salary of $31,000); and the median salary for government positions was $36,000.5. If you are interested in pursuing a position in the private sector, you will most likely work for a law firm of 50 attorneys or less. More than 50% of the private sector entry-level positions for the Class of 1998 were in firms of .50 attorneys or less. Small law firms of 2-10 attorneys accounted for the largest percentage of the positions with more than 30% of all private sector positions. The median starting salaries for firms of this size is $37,000. For firms of 11-25 attorneys the median salary is $43,500, and for firms of 26-50 attorneys, $52,000. Hiring at law firms of 100+ attorneys has increased over the past few years with approximately one-third of the Class of 1998 obtaining positions with these firms. The starting salaries have increased as well with the median salary for firms of 101-250 attorneys at $62,000; 251-500 attorneys at $85,000 and firms of more than 500 attorneys at $90,000. One should not count on obtaining one of these positions. Hiring criteria for these firms are very strict and usually confined to the students in the top 10% - 20% of their class and to those who hold law review membership. In addition, we do not know how long the current hiring trend for the larger firms will continue. In the late 1980's/early 1990's the economy changedmany lawyers were laid offit could always happen again.6. From a financial standpoint plan to be in the middle of the class versus the top 10%. Be aware that the average law student graduates with more than $50,000 in debt. A recent article in the American Bar Association journal reported that the Nellie Mae Corporation found "lawyers who have been out of school between one and three years made an average of $37,200 in 1996 but had average educational related debt of $52,600." (June 1999) The monthly repayment amount on this debt would be more than $650.00 per month (at a 9% interest rate). This means that more than one-third of an individual's monthly income is going to this one item alone! Another way to look at this -- if you purchase a pizza every week at an average cost of $15.00 with loan money, that pizza will actually cost you $27.00 at the end of ten years. Do you really need that pizza every week?Often law students expect a large payoff in terms of salary when they graduate and feel entitled to treat themselves well during school. DO NOT DO THIS. The payoff is not immediate upon graduation and you may experience a lifestyle that is very different from what you imagined once you have graduated. Therefore, my advice is to "live like a law student while a student." This means borrowing as little money as you can to finance your legal education, limiting credit card and other debt, learning what it means to borrow $30,000, and being careful how you spend your money.http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~rcoas/prelaw/ifonlyfinal.pdf


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Every summer season, fans of Armin van Buuren hold their breath for two magical words to drop: Universal Religion. The compilation series, going strong since 2004, is a favourite amongst those into quality electronic dance music. This year, the fifth Chapter of the beloved series has landed, recorded live during Armin's sets in club Space on party-island Ibiza.
The Dutchman breathes music, and has been at it for more than 15 years. A lot has happened since the release of Universal Religion Chapter 4 in the summer of 2009. His fourth artist album 'Mirage' saw the light of day, along with the accompanying 'Armin Only – Mirage' world tour. The 10 year anniversary and 500th episode of his A State of Trance radio show was celebrated with 5 events across 5 different continents, divided over 5 weeks. All events were broadcast live, uniting millions of listeners, sharing their passion for music. Another exciting new happening in his musical career, is his residency in the world-famous club Space on Ibiza.
Armin van Buuren honours tradition and gives it a new spin at the same time. "Universal Religion: Chapter 5" presents two special live recordings from his gigs at Space. Let your senses be taken by exclusive tunes and remixes, feel the vibrant energy of the crowd and enjoy Armin's unrivalled mixing skills, as he introduces you to a new, musical Chapter. Not only does Universal Religion Chapter 5 indulge you with 2 brand new Armin van Buuren remixes, a new Gaia production and Armin's 'Brute' collab with Ferry Corsten, it also takes you in with the beats of BT, Shogun, Ashley Wallbridge, Paul Oakenfold, Alexander Popov, Daniel Kandi, Re:Locate vs Robert Nickson, Andy Moor, John O'Callaghan and many more.
The cover of this new Universal Religion Chapter was created by Dutch artist Joseph Klibansky. His art is known and shown in galleries all around the globe. Klibansky creates large-scale, idealistic digital paintings that are built up through hundreds of layers of photography enriched with acrylic paint. Armin asked Klibansky to create a special version of one of his artworks, for "Universal Religion: Chapter 5". For this collaboration, Klibansky created a dreamy image of infinite, hidden details, blending past and future, challenging your perception. This piece of art will also be shown in his 'New Urban Wonderland' exhibition. It complements the many effects that music can have on its listeners, and that's exactly what appeals Armin so much.
01. Ashley Wallbridge – Vision (Intro Edit)
02. BT & Adam K – Tomahawk
03. Gofman & Tsukerman – Darko
04. Shogun – Space Odyssey
05. Hannah – Falling Away (Armin van Buuren Remix)
06. Andy Moor feat. Sue McLaren – Fight The Fire (Stoneface & Terminal Remix)
07. Protoculture – Liquid Logic
08. Dennis Sheperd & Cold Blue feat. Ana Criado – Fallen Angel (Dennis Sheperd Club Mix)
09. Markus Schulz presents Dakota – Terrace 5 a.m.
10. Gaia – Stellar
11. Susana – Home (Daniel Kandi Retrofit Remix)
12. Mike Koglin vs Genix – Helion
13. Jorn van Deynhoven – Spotlight
14. Ferry Corsten feat. Armin van Buuren – Brute
01. Andrew Bayer – Counting The Points
02. Kid Alien – The Atmosphere (Klauss Goulart's & Mark Sixma Deep Universe Remix)
03. Space RockerZ & Tania Zygar – Puzzle Piece (Daniel Heatcliff's Farewell Remix)
04. Alexander Popov – Elegia
05. Emma Hewitt – Colours (Armin van Buuren Remix)
06. Gareth Emery & Ashley Wallbridge – Mansion
07. DNS Project – Exclusive (Bigroom Edit)
08. John O'Callaghan & Giuseppe Ottaviani – Ride The Wave (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
09. James Dymond – Gundam
10. Daniel Kandi – Saggitarius
11. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Sylvia Tosun – An Angels Love (Vocal Mix)
12. Paul Oakenfold – Full Moon Party
13. Re:Locate vs Robert Nickson – Resource
14. Orjan Nilsen – Viking
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The Office of Management and Budget recently released a list of 78 projects slated for transition to cloud over the next year. The most common application, according to a FierceGovernmentIT, is email, with 14 agencies deciding to choose a cloud version. A close second is website hosting, with 10 agencies. The move is expected to esult in over $5B in budget savings. Vivek Kundra discussed the transition last week during an appearance in front of the Senate Homeland Security Committee.
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Instead of a line-follower, I am trying to make it a, what's it called, photovore. I got the idea from David Cook and his XS Boost Chef's Salad Robot on his website, robotroom.com.
Mine, however, will run on batteries, and the antennas will just be little red lights. I plan on adding whiskers for object avoidance, a piezzo buzzer, and a tilt switch I salvaged from a toy.
I tried building this robot earlier, but I messed up somewhere and for the life of me could not get the thing to work (I think I burned out some of the electronics). So, in frustration, I salvaged all the components I had not destroyed, bought some new ones at Radio Shack, and rebuilt the robot. I have just now gotten to a point where I believe the robot will work. If all goes well, I might have this robot completed by the weekend.


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The Justice Department and Anheuser-Busch InBev have agreed to conditions that will allow the beer giant to expand its stake in Mexico's Grupo Modelo, according to court documents and company statements on Friday.
The department had filed a lawsuit Jan. 31 aimed at stopping AB InBev—the world's largest brewer, with some 200 brands—from buying the 50 percent of Modelo it does not already own for $20.1 billion.
The agreement looks like a victory for AB InBev, which knew early on that the Justice Department would balk at letting it expand its significant U.S. presence. AB InBev's goal in the deal is to increase the sales of Corona and other Modelo brands outside the U.S.
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The arrangement requires AB InBev to sell the Piedras Negras brewery in Mexico, which makes Corona and other Modelo brand beers for the U.S. market. It also requires the purchaser, Constellation Brands, to expand the brewery so that it can make at least 20 million hectoliters of beer by Dec. 31, 2016.
The other big winner is Constellation, which would become the third-largest U.S. beer producer after AB InBev and MillerCoors. Constellation has been a U.S. wine giant to this point.
AB InBev is the top U.S. beer seller, whose brands range from big names Budweiser and Stella Artois to craft-style beers such as Shock Top and Goose Island. The No. 2 player, MillerCoors, is a joint venture between SABMiller and Molson Coors.
(Read More: CNBC Beer Label Madness Champion Crowned)
The deal announced Friday is similar to the one AB InBev had offered in mid-February but adds Constellation as a defendant to the settlement with the department. That means that Constellation's pledges to the court to make the plant big enough to serve the U.S. market will be legally binding.
The agreement means that the companies can close the transaction as soon as a court approves their settlement. InBev said in a statement that they expect that to be in June.


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I'm really excited to announce that I'm going to be joining Facebook to work on the infrastructure team. With all the growth Facebook has seen comes unique challenges in scaling systems. I'm looking forward to working on this.
Of course, this also means saying good bye to Google and reCAPTCHA. It's been over 3 years since we started working on the crazy idea of getting millions of people to digitize the world's books in their spare time. I'm looking forward to seeing reCAPTCHA continue to grow.


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Roles reversed before Wembley clash
One has lured a world star, a fellow Premier League club's international full-back and a coveted youngster. The other has been carefully balancing out finances and snapping up bargains while also trimming off talent.
Sunday's Community Shield arrives with roles almost reversed for Arsenal and Manchester City. Two years ago, Alexis Sanchez, Mathieu Debuchy and Calum Chambers would have been a good bet for Eastlands, but City's wings are being clipped for failure to meet UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations.
Arsene Wenger, long supportive of economic controls, is now in the position of strength he and his club's execs always promised. With the Emirates Stadium no longer a monetary burden, and sponsorship booty flooding in alongside TV cash, Wenger has recovered a taste for big deals. Following Mesut Ozil a year ago, Sanchez is the biggest transfer coup of any Premier League club in this window.
"We are less vulnerable, for sure," Wenger said this week. "In the last two years we have bought Ozil and Sanchez. Five years ago we would have lost Ozil and Sanchez."
Such deals are City's usual territory. Now, they must juggle and still wait to land Eliaquim Mangala, a commanding centre-half to partner with Vincent Kompany, something they lacked last season, with apologies to cult hero Martin Demichelis. They have been forced to get creative.
Wenger was public in raising eyebrows at Frank Lampard's loan deal from New York City, the American wing of the Abu Dhabi soccer empire, and its implications on FFP and the need for Englishmen to fill City's quota. The official line is that Lampard's wages will be paid by the English branch because his contract in the Big Apple does not begin until 2015. Though it is unlikely to happen at Wembley, Lampard in a different hue of blue will take some getting used to.
"I don't want to talk about what other managers say because I have a lot of problems here with Manchester City," Pellegrini said of Wenger's quibbles on Friday, as the Chilean admitted that "we have important restrictions from UEFA about the amount of players and amount of money that we can spend."
While they cut cloth accordingly, it helps City that they already possessed easily the strongest squad in England. The champions are not quite thrust back on the bread line -- Pellegrini and paymasters are pruning the thickest and most fertile privet around, while the addition of four players so far has the coach boasting "we have a stronger team than last season."
Bacary Sagna's defection is a reminder that City can still lavish bigger wages than Arsenal are prepared to. "We love him here," said Wenger when it was clear that Sagna might be for the off. Such ardour could not match the riches a Bosman transfer or the trophy chances of playing for the champions. Thomas Vermaelen's potential departure to Barcelona is another constant revived; Catalonia has been as regular a destination point for Wenger's players as Manchester. Arsenal may now be cash-rich, but they are still some way behind the game's biggest transfer players.
They have significant ground to make up on City, too. Arsenal were way behind last season. There were seven points between the clubs at the completion of the 2013-14 season, yet Arsenal's title challenge was over once they were destroyed 5-1 at Liverpool on Feb. 8. A feature of last season that cannot be revived is Arsenal's propensity to get thrashed by their purported peers; City and Chelsea walloped six past them, too.
Wenger's sights were forced to readjust on maintaining the minimum requirement of Champions League qualification. They did so at a canter, though their step quickened after losing 3-0 at Everton on April 6.
However, winning their final five matches took them beyond sight of the Toffees, whose hopes were ended by losing to City on the penultimate weekend. An imminent FA Cup final did not distract Arsenal from taking their habitual spot among the elite and eventually they also had their first silverware in nine years to celebrate.
- 50-50 Challenge: Arsenal vs. Man City
Sunday's game will surely not generate the Wembley nerves that almost slipped that prize to Hull City. Though Gunners fans' celebrations were understandably joyous, relief was the emotion that charged their party. Wenger stayed on and the next phase can begin, one in which the club must compete harder.
As happens every four years, the summer's World Cup festivities will cast a long shadow over the incoming season, and this event in particular. Neither team will be either full in strength or fitness levels. Should, say, Kompany feature, it will be his first action of preseason, with but a week to go until the Premier League season. Both City and Arsenal may find themselves paying for the price of their players' success in Brazil.
Arsenal have three World Cup winners in Ozil, Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski, none of whom is expected to feature at Wembley, because like City's Argentine contingent, they only returned to training at the beginning of the week. Fernandinho did not impress at all for Brazil, but his late return allows compatriot Fernando to make a bow in central midfield, the only new arrival expected to start for City at Wembley.
Wenger meanwhile, can show off Sanchez; Arsenal have enjoyed their summer. A second trophy, though a minor concern, might suggest the Gunners can compete as strongly as they are beginning to off the field.
John Brewin is a staff writer for ESPN FC. Follow him on Twitter @JohnBrewinESPN.
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Merit badge requirements
- 1. Do the following:
- a. Describe the safety precautions you should take when handling and caring for a horse.
- b. Explain and demonstrate how to approach and lead a horse safely from a stall, corral, or field and how to tie the horse securely.
- c. Demonstrate how to safely mount and ride a horse and how to safely dismount the horse after your ride.
- 2. Name 15 main parts of a horse.
- 3. Name four leading breeds of horses. Explain the special features for which each breed is known.
- 4. Show how to care for a Western and English saddle and bridle. Name10 parts of the saddle and bridle that you will use.
- 5. Show how to groom, pick out hooves, prepare a horse for a ride, and care for a horse after a ride.
- 6. Describe the symptoms of colic. Describe four other horse health problems.
- 7. Name three main conformation faults of the feet and legs, and explain how to detect them. Explain the difference between lameness and unsoundness.
- 8. Explain how to trim and shoe a horse's foot and how to make adjustments according to its conformation, the season of the year, and the riding conditions.
- 9. Demonstrate the correct way to feed a horse. Explain how you determined what and how much to feed the horse and why the amount and kind of feed will be changed according to activity level and the kind of horse it is.
- 10. Show how to saddle and bridle a horse.
- 11. On level ground, continuously do the following movements. Do them correctly, at ease, and in harmony with the horse:
- a. Mount the horse.
- b. Walk the horse in a straight line for 60 feet.
- c. Make a half circle of not more than 16 feet in radius.
- d. Trot or jog in a straight line for at least 60 feet.
- e. Make a half circle of not more than 30 feet in radius at a jog or trot.
- f. Halt straight.
- g. Back up straight four paces.
- h. Halt and dismount.
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Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Enforcement Division agents responded to a boating crash incident on Aug. 27 in the Amite River Diversion Canal area of Livingston Parish around 7 p.m.
The occupants of a civilian vessel advised LDWF agents patrolling the area of a boating crash incident that just occurred one mile up river. Agents immediately responded and were first on scene.
Upon arrival agents found that the 19-foot vessel had struck and was lodged under a pier. The five occupants of the vessel are listed below:
Jack Riffle, 41, operator; Elizabeth Riffle, 44, wife of Jack; 15 year old girl, daughter of the Riffles; 13-year-old boy, son of the Riffles; and Chico Garcia, 29. All involved are from Baton Rouge and found to have injuries ranging from moderate to very serious
Agents immediately summoned emergency medical responders and began removing debris in order to access and provide basic first-aid to the injured until the advanced medical responders were able to arrive. The cause of the incident is currently under investigation by LDWF.
Agents involved in the response were Sgt. Randy Lanoux, Sgt. Todd Lewis, Sgt. Ezekiel Talbert, Agent Terry Hicks and Agent Dale Wheat.
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Rex Brothers, a junior left-hander pitcher and an All-Atlantic Sun First Team performer for the Bisons this season, is expected to be drafted in the first round of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft which is scheduled to start June 9.
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