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JaoSming wrote:.....i can use a wireless PS3 controller with this????
JaoSming wrote:I love it and can't wait to spend some freetime fully customizing it....I can use the damn thing as a wireless computer monitor?!?!!!
In direct comparison to the iPad 3, I like it more....faster, more customizable, etc. It runs the latest Android version is supposed to keep getting those updates.
It runs the latest Android version is supposed to keep getting those updates.
Until the newer one comes out.
JaoSming wrote:if you mean these? http://www.androidpolice.com/2012/11/19 ... t-release/ I havent noticed them but we are on 4.2.1 nowUntil the newer one comes out.
eh, happy thus far, especially knowing I can root it and customize more easily. better than updating my two iPod touches and having them turn into sluggish at best performance because of it
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He Loves Bees: An interview with Xbox's experimental storyteller
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Elan Lee, who recently rejoined Microsoft to work on an undisclosed project for the Xbox One, is considered by many to be a pioneer behind Alternate Reality Games (ARGs).
His credits include The Beast for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, widely regarded as the first high-profile ARG, and I Love Bees, a viral marketing campaign for Bungie's Halo 2. Now he's working at L.A.-based Xbox Entertainment Studios under Microsoft's digital entertainment boss Nancy Tellem. Here, Lee discusses the tough balancing act of transmedia storytelling, and how his new work is taking him beyond ARGs.
Gamasutra: First of all, Elan, congratulations on the new position. It must be very exciting for you.
Elan Lee: It is very exciting, thank you.
Tell us a bit about your new work, what you're able to say about it. Can we expect an 'I Love Bees v2.0'?
EL: [laughs] We've certainly come a long way from those original alternate reality games.
The new job is pretty exciting, in the sense that it is a continuation of the work that I've been doing over the last decade. My career has always been about creative storytelling -- what's the future of entertainment? How do we move beyond the confines of traditional gaming and traditional narrative? -- and this new job is probably the world's most exciting opportunity to do so when you think about the promise that the Xbox [family of consoles] holds. It's got more than 80 million people with these boxes in their homes and they look to it to provide storytelling, to provide entertainment every single day. So to be in a position where I am not only encouraged but given the resources to build the future of entertainment, that's just exactly where I want to be in the world.
Going off of what we saw at the Xbox One reveal in May and the further announcements at E3 in June, the technology is very promising. Microsoft's vision for entertainment is a very optimistic one. And you obviously see your line of work as fitting in with that.
EL: I was a lead game designer on the original Xbox. I've had one forever. When you start looking at what it can do today, and especially what the new hardware will be able to do, it's such an inlet for pretty incredible things. When you take those 80 million connected boxes and you add on top of that the fact that they've got controllers in their hands, and on top of that there's the Kinect camera looking at them -- and the next one will have facial recognition -- and on top of that voice recognition, and SmartGlass, friends lists, windows for social networking, you add all these things together you realize this platform has put itself into a position to completely redefine the nature of entertainment. All it needs now is for a very smart group of people to flip that switch.
In the history of storytelling there have been five or six big advancements that changed the way we tell stories and the way human beings communicate with each other. Things like the invention of Western theatre, the invention of the printing press, the invention of the motion picture camera. Every time one of these things is invented we, being humans, scramble about madly trying to figure out how best to use these to convey a complex idea, emotions, narratives.
We are, right now, right in the middle of another one of those huge events in the history of humanity's ability to tell stories -- and we don't even have a name for it. It's sort of the internet. It's sort of connected devices. It's sort of a lot of things. But we do understand that there's this new, always-on, always-connected method by which we interact with each other all day, every day. And to be in a place like Microsoft that has an advantage over the rest of the planet to use that power, those tools, to redefine what it means to tell stories, that's what gets me really excited. That's the work that I'm most excited about doing.
We've got this interest now in redefining what storytelling is and to convey these stories across hardware, across a network that's already established and has this audience. That puts Microsoft years ahead of anyone else out there. And the fact that they are this excited to use that advantage to tell really good stories and to hire a team that can tell those really good stories, that's just exactly where I want to be in the world.
Where to do you see Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) fitting in with other media such as music and television?
EL: ARGs are a tricky concept for me. As I was saying earlier, we've seen these huge steps forward with the evolution of storytelling. ARGs fall right into that evolutionary trail. From the time the first motion picture camera was built it took us 85 years to invent the sitcom. It takes a lot of wild experimentation and meandering about before we figure out how best to use a technology to tell stories. Same thing with the printing press. Same thing with the theatre. With the invention of the internet, I look at ARGs as one of those really exciting, interesting steps in the evolution of that storytelling but certainly not the finished form.
ARGs suffer, of course, from a very high barrier to entry. They ask only the most devoted audiences to leave their homes and answer a payphone in the middle of a hurricane, or go to a cemetery to participate in some crazy community event. And I've built some of the biggest and some of the most memorable of those, but it seems clear that ARGs were just a step along the path of defining what comes next.
I learned a ton by participating with those communities, playing with those communities, building incredible things with those communities. What I want to do now is harness that power. How do you build those giant communities? How do you get them excited? How do you get them motivated? And, now, how do you get them to an even larger audience? How do you make the barrier to entry even lower? I want to use everything I know and everything I've learned along the way to build something even bigger, something to reach a much larger audience.
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I do not object to waiters receiving tips, and the man, who gives one, is mostly benefited, because the waiter will give him more attention and pleasant service. The fact is, that writers of almost all the nations in the world have argued and written many articles on the subject, denouncing the custom of giving and receiving tips, but there will never be any change, for the reason, principally, that there is not enough clear money–profit–in the restaurant business to allow paying the waiters and other employees good living wages. The expenses are so enormous that the proprietor is obliged to hire men for the lowest possible wages, at which he can get them. If he were to pay his men fair wages…he would be obliged to charge much more, and have, altogether, a higher-priced bill of fare. Numbers of people would not then be able to patronize restaurants, who are in the habit of doing so now. This is the reason why the waiter receives tips, as his wages are generally not sufficient to pay his living expenses.
This reminds me of something I might have once read on Waiter Rant–the eponymous waiter, perhaps, reprinting a manifesto that an owner posted to an employee bulletin board, or some such.
But no matter how modern that attitude still is, about compensating waiters, this excerpt isn't a recent piece of writing. It's from a facsimile reprint of Harry Johnson's New and Improved (Illustrated) Bartenders' Manual and a Guide for Hotels and Restaurants. This facsimile (from New York's Mud Puddle Books) is a reprint of the 1900 edition. Yes, it's one-freaking-hundred-and-eight years old.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Oh, another interesting point. If you look back at the excerpt I quoted, you'll see an ellipses: "If he were to pay his men fair wages…he would be obliged to charge much more…". I did that because I didn't want to give up the game right away. But what's also interesting here is what the ellipses obscure. Here's the original text:
If he were to pay his men fair wages–from $12 to $15 a week–he would be obliged to charge much more…
It's still common for waiters and bartenders to start at $2.15 an hour, even in New York City. A 40-hour week would mean $86 a week. I'm no economist, and I don't know how exactly to calculate the rate of inflation, but I suspect that even $12 in 1900 wages would equal far more than $86 in 2008 wages.


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Quite expensive actually, $36 from Home depot, December 2012.
Was tight planting it into that dense area, nearly chopped through the bleeding hearts doing so.
Despite being threatened with vine this is really shooting out and establishing itself.
Seems ok except for the fact that a lot of the bark is missing. I have since painted over the exposed areas with bark repair. See what happens.


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Tap for HELP! categorizes everything across three pages, Emergency, On the Road and General.
The Emergency page covers police, fire, hospitals and animal hospital searches. The On The Road page takes care of gas station, taxi service, towing and repair shop searches. The General page covers dining, banking, pharmacy, and church locations.
Tap any of the search bars and Tap for Help! will generate a Bing Map that flags the location of the services you're searching for. Tap the flag and you'll pull up more detailed information on that location (address, phone number, directions, etc.).
Tap for HELP! puts a decent amount of resources in an easy to use package. And sometimes when you're in an unfamiliar area, the easier it is to search for help the better. As the developer notes in the app description, Tap for HELP! isn't designed to replace 911, which should be used in the event of a real emergency. Instead, Tap for HELP! is for those non-emergency situations such as a flat tire, need to get some cash, need to find a pharmacy, hungry and not sure what is available in the area, etc. It's a nice app to have on your Windows Phone just in case.
Tap for HELP! is a free app for your Windows Phone 8 device and you can find it here at the Windows Phone Store.
UPDATE: Apparently Tap for HELP! isn't just for Windows Phone 8 devices. We've gotten comments that it is also available on Windows Phone 7.5 devices as well.


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Nov 27 2012
BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Mu-12, Nu-13, Izayoi trailer.Posted by Takoto in News
Nov 14 2012
Clear picture, screenshots of Izayoi from Famitsu online.Posted by Takoto in News
Nov 14 2012
New BlazBlue: ChronoPhantasma Character Revealed: Izayoi.Posted by Takoto in News
A new character- "Izayoi" has been revealed by Famitsu apparently for the arcade release of BlazBlue: ChronoPhantasma. It is a combination in terms of design, of Tsubaki Yayoi and her weapon Izayoi. Her drive is "Scarlet Justice" and she will have a completely different move-set to Tsubaki.
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BlazBlue Chrono Phantasma VideoPosted by BlazBlueAdmin in News
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BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma announced – new characters, sprite redrawsPosted by Takoto in News
BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma, a new game, has been announced via twitter and BlueFes2012. The game will feature three new characters; Bullet/Barret, Amane, and Azrael. Hazama is confirmed to have a new distortion and several characters will be receiving new moves, sprites will be redrawn (Noel Vermillion will be hat-less with a different weapon, for example).
No release date has been given yet, or even a vague idea of how far along the game is, apparently, but more details should be released in the coming weeks.
Apr 20 2012
Vote now to get BlazBlue D-Arts figures created!Posted by BlazBlueAdmin in News
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Arc System Works announces new game XBlaze! Potentially related to Blazblue?Posted by E in News
Here is a trailer presented with it:
Not much is known about it other than the fact it may relate to Blazblue as the trailer did show some familiar scenes and is being referred to as an "Adventure Project". With it supposedly coming out Winter 2012, it is more than likely being developed either for PS3, Xbox360 or both considering the previous recent Arc releases as well as more to come very soon.
To view the images that followed the announcement, check the link above to the original article.
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Mori wanting to make a Blazblue RPG?Posted by E in News
All I got to say is…
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BB:CSE US Limited EditionPosted by Takoto in News
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The personal gift audience is largely an American trend. Its origins are traced to our early American history when jewelers applied their skills by etching loved ones names or initials on one-of-a-kind silver trays, and jewelry.
Exactly what types of personalized items are buyers getting? Virtually anything can be customized, so the options are many. Some examples are Coffee cup, Bowl, Hats, smart phone holders, handbags and Picture Photo Puzzles.
As the nation grew westward, outfitters and weapon makers would regularly individualize their items, while wood artisans utilized their talents to produce distinctively embellished cases with family names or crests.
The very early personalized items constantly were manufactured to order. They were only available to people who could afford them. During that time, it was no more than a tiny portion of consumers who had the cash to buy them. Things stayed about the same till the late 1950s. Now, mass production started bringing pre-made customized gifts to ordinary people America.
All of a sudden, every local corner shop provided displays of affordable pens, key chains and necklaces promoting names like Linda, John, Dick, Donna, Mary and Dave.
You can still find today numerous of these cheap products in the market nowadays, the personalized products business has grown and progressed over the past forty years. Very likely the biggest development that has moved the market forward has been developments in systems.
Reduced costs for equipment suggests that it's now possible to have personalization machinery in decentralized spots as opposed to one major manufacturing plant. Furthermore, individualized gifts that before would take a long time to obtain can now be put together in a few days or even hours. Gifts that at one time had a long buying lead time, are now nearly impulse buys for today's overloaded customer.
Computer-driven innovation likewise has made virtually hundred of customized gift options in an assortment of price tag ranges easily available to the customer.
Who Normal Sells Individualized Items and Gifts in the AMERICAN Market?
Exactly what kind of companies sell customized gifts? Significant magazines, numerous ecommerce websites including some of the largest such as Amazon.com, high end outlet store, specialized boutiques, general dry-goods retail shops, drug store chains and countless little entrepreneurs.
Simply get a magazine and you will find robes for grownups and kids,great crystal, quilts, memento gifts for newborns, costly gifts to mark a graduation, wedding or anniversary, a range of clothing as well as furnishings. Visit a regional retailer and you will find stationery, jewelry, wall art, T-shirts, mugs and tableware, glasses, picture frames and a lot more.
Why are these gifts so appealing for a lot of sellers? Any seller will agree that an individualized gift suggests a bit more effort up-front, however in the long run fewer returns. Plus, these products typically lug a higher rate point– and for that reason profits– making these gifts extremely appealing.
Americans Love with Individualized Gifts
While you may find some customized gift items in other nations, you will not see the same large range of products that are found in the U.S. Why has the customized gift audience thrived right here at home?
It's easy to understand according to those who study buyers. Americans of all ages, love to display their names on an item since it makes them feel unique and unique.
And, American buyers are constantly looking for products with a somewhat different spin, and this, too, is achieved by acquiring a tailored product. Forecasters agree that the customized gift industry is with us for the long term and will continue steady growth as more products are introduced in reaction to customer demand.


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Survey Shows South Dakota's Homeless Population Decreases
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A state organization has found that the number of homeless people in South Dakota has decreased more than 25 percent from last year.
The South Dakota Housing for the Homeless Consortium performed a one-day survey in September to identify homeless families and individuals in the state. The survey found that 1,166 people are without a home. This is a 26 percent decline from last year when 1,452 identified as homeless. This year's number includes 336 children.
The survey found that the majority of the families and individuals without a home stay in emergency shelters, transitional housing or motels. The main reason for homelessness is unemployment and substance abuse issues.
The survey information will be used to create the state's 10-year plan to end homelessness, which is currently being created.
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Central Connecticut senior Katie Reid of the women's golf team was recognized by the Northeast Conference on Wednesday. Reid earned her first career NEC Co-Golfer of the Week award after winning the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational on Tuesday.
Reid claimed the tournament's individual championship after a sudden death playoff with teammate Albrianna Farnum, who finished second. Reid defeated Farnum on the second playoff hole to win her first career tournament. The pair finished 12 strokes over-par.
The senior totaled 228 strokes for the tournament writing in round scores of 79, 73, and 76 in the first, second, and third rounds of the tournament respectively. Her best round came in round two where she shot a season-lowe score of 73 to place her in second place individually after Monday's round. Reid then topped the leader board with her 76 in round three.
Head Coach Carly Ludwig said of Reid, "This is a great win for Katie as a senior captain on this team. It was definitely a great way to finish out her last regular season tournament."
The win was Reid's first of her career as a Blue Devil and her second top-ten finish of the season. She helped lead her team to their first tournament victory since the Blue Devils won the Mount St. Mary's Spring Invitational last season. Reid is averaging a score of 82.7 over 13 rounds in 2012-13.


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The bounce instocksin 2010, and the drop in bond pricesin the year's final months, means one sure thing: most investment portfolios need a review and re-adjustment.
That's because big moves in the market in 2010 have likely shifted the mix of assets in most portfolios, so they no longer reflect individual investment goals.
"Look at the positions that you've had big runs on," advises Carlo Panaccione, president of Navigation Group in Redwood Shores, California. "You don't want to have any individual position that's much over 5 percent of your portfolio."
Now also provides an opportunity for investors who missed the stock market rally to step off the sidelines.
"Start to see how you might average back into the market, with the goal of getting to a portfolio that's your proper risk level," says Panaccione.
Getting to the proper risk level, with the right mix of stocks, bonds and cash, is the key to investment success, financial advisers say, and the beginning of the year is as good a time as any to rebalance the assets in a so-called asset allocation framework, or for investors to create an asset allocation plan if they don't have one already.
"It'll be the key determinant for how your portfolio behaves," says Christine Benz, director of personal finance at Morningstar, the investment research firm in Chicago.
To devise an asset allocation plan, investors can either work with a financial adviser, find a tool on the web (consider BankRate's Asset Allocation Calculator among others), or search out mutual funds with target maturity dates to use as a guideline, Benz says. Most major fund companies, including Fidelity and Vanguard, have these funds, which allocate assets according to a future date.
For a 50-year-old, with 15 years until retirement, the asset allocation in the Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 fund offers this guideline: 76 percent of assets in stocks, and 26 percent in bonds.
Once an asset allocation plan is in place, it's important for investors to diligently stick with the right mix for their own individual circumstances, financial advisors say, and not go piling into asset classes that are supposedly headed higher, or abandoning others that seem too risky.
Diversify Stock Holdings
For stocks, Dan Yu, a director in EisnerAmper's personal wealth advisory group, recommends investors add international stocks, including emerging markets, as well as a mixture of small-cap and large-cap stocks, to their stock allocations, depending on how much risk the investor can shoulder.
That will depend, of course, on how many years an investors has left before retirement. A younger investor should have a higher percentage of emerging markets and small-cap stocks than an investor nearing retirement, he says.
"You reduce the more volatile asset classes as you get older," Yu says. "It's just common sense, as you get older, you get more defensive."
Investors with riskier investment appetites, can potentially enhance returns with bets on individual stock sectors in addition to a designated allocation to stocks. For instance, an investor who thinks financials have room to move higher in the first quarter, could allocate a small percentage of assets to this sector.
"You don't want to bet the house on it, but I doesn't mean you couldn't take a 3 percent to 5 percent position in something you believe in," Panaccione at Navigation Group says.
Most advisers recommend a portfolio tune-up once, maybe twice a year (if conditions are volatile), but David Hefty CEO of Hefty Wealth Partners in Auburn, Indiana, employs a "tactical asset allocation" strategy for his clients, which involves averaging out big gains and losses throughout the year by using technical analysis to forecast potential movements in asset classes.
In the fourth quarter, Hefty's trading systems signaled the fall in bond prices, so the firm sold, and as a result stemmed losses to 1 percent, he says.
For most investors, a conventional way for smoothing out gains and losses is "dollar cost averaging," the strategy of designating a set amount of money to be withdrawn from a checking account each month and allocated to specific investments, whether a 401(k), savings account or college savings plan, says Benz at Morningstar.
"The time you least feel like investing may be a tremendous time to put money into your investments," Benz says. "It puts in place something to override your emotional responses to the market, and it helps override greed too."
Too Late For Bonds?
What about bonds?
An asset allocation plan may help now for investors wary of bonds, who see interest rates, after an enormous and sometimes unexpected rally, heading higher, which will continue to send bond prices lower.
In fact, Hefty is telling his clients: "Don't consider bonds a safety net, but consider them an investment vehicle that has the opportunity to lose money."
While true, many pros say even in a rising rate environment, bonds have a place in investor portfolios. Investors that own individual bonds can stick with them to maturity, then recoup the principal and reinvest the proceeds in bonds with higher yields, say strategists.
A bond fund, however, can lose principal, but bond fund managers can also swap into higher yielding bonds, buffering the loss, Benz wrote in a November article for Morningstar.
Moreover, bonds will still be less volatile than stocks, Benz says. "I do think you have to keep some of those worries in perspective and understand swings you see in a high quality bond portfolio will be less than you have in stocks," she says in an interview.
Investors worried about bonds could consider floating-rate bank-loan funds, which invest in baskets of bank loans with rates that reset along with the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor, for their bond allocation. "That gives them the ability to stand tough in the face of rising interest rates," Benz says.
Another option are municipal securities, which make sense for investors in higher tax bracketsin particular. While some analysts believe muni bonds face potential default as states and cities struggle under debt loads, others believe the market has sold off quite a bit, creating opportunities. Investors can test whether muni bonds make economic sense for their own circumstances with a tax-equivalent yield bond calculatoron Morningstar's website.
Yu at EisnerAmper recommends munis for his clients, although he advises them to stay clear of bonds issued in high risk states like California, Florida, New York and New Jersey. He also recommends buying short maturities.
"I have bonds that mature in 2011, 2012, 2013, so every year I have an event that causes us to relook," Yu says.
The adviser prefers his high net-worth clients buy individual bonds, instead of mutual funds, to avoid concerns with price fluctuations should rates rise. To make buying individual bonds practical, however, an investor would need to have at least $2 million to $3 million to allocate to the sector, he says.
Investors with an asset allocation plan in place should make major changes in their mix of bonds, stocks and cash at most every five years. Otherwise, fine tune, but only if gains and losses have resulted in major changes of 3-to-5 percentage points, advisers say. If an investor's 10 percent allocation to large-capitalization stocks falls to 6 percent, Yu says, it's time buy more large caps.
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System Security Guard is a simple tool which checks the processes running on your PC for possible threats. If you've ever used System Explorer, then you'll be familiar with the program's core technology: essentially it just checks running processes and modules against its cloud-based database and alerts you to any potential problems.
Obviously this isn't the most sophisticated of malware detection systems. All the program can really do is compare files on your PC with files flagged as suspicious or dangerous on its own systems (and those ratings are community-based, so shouldn't be taken as always accurate). There's no extra behaviour monitoring, no checks on what a process is doing, and so no way System Security Guard can alert you to brand new, previously undiscovered dangers.
And there are no virus removal features within the program, either. So if it does highlight a possible threat, then you'll still need to figure out how to get rid of it yourself.
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System) is a Free Software monitoring application to watch systems and applications, that allows to know the status of any element of your systems, watch for your hardware, your software, your multilayer system and of course your Operating System.
After a long period of testing, Pandora FMS team has finished development for the 1.2 version that introduces great features from previous version.
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text: You should look at any of a variety of cluster management software packages. Some are free, some are commercial. Here is a short list that I can name off the top of my head: Rocks, Clustermatic, Oscar, Warewulf, Scyld and others. I'm a co-developer of Warewulf, a free one that has a fairly unique approach to the problem. You can find out more on it's website: http://warewulf-cluster.org/ The short version is that Warewulf builds a ramdisk image that it uses to network boot the nodes. The ramdisk is built from a Virtual Node File System (VNFS) that is maintained on the boot server. You can use pretty much any RPM based Linux distribution for the boot server and the VNFS. With this approach, the nodes get a fresh filesystem at boot time, without any worries about version or package creep. Adding or upgrading programs and changing the list of users is very easy. Good luck. On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:38:45 +0800, llwaeva at 21cn.com <llwaeva at 21cn.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I am running 8-node LAM/MPI parallel computing system. I found it's > trouble to maintain the user accounts and software distribution on all > the nodes. For example, whenever I install a new software , I have to > repeat the job 8 times! The most annoying thing is that the > configuration or managment of the user accounts over the network is a > heavy job. Someone suggests that I should utilize NFS and NIS. However, > in my case, it's difficult to have an additional computer as a server. > Would anyone please share your experience in maintaining the beowulf > cluster? > > Thanks in advance. -- Tim Mattox - tmattox at gmail.com - http://homepage.mac.com/tmattox/


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Which Way are Soybean Prices Headed?
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URBANA – Soybean prices reached a peak on Sept. 4, with November 2012 futures trading to $17.89 per bushel. The price of that contract declined to about $15.50 by the end of September and has been in a range of $14.86 to $15.74 since then. The price is currently in the lower half of that range, according to University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.
"The generally sideways pattern for soybean prices over the past month reflects conflicting fundamental factors," Good said. "The most supportive factor has clearly been the very strong export pace. U.S. exports will be restricted to some extent this year due to the smaller supply. The USDA forecast exports at 1.05 billion bushels in September when the crop was expected to total only 2.634 billion bushels. The export forecast was raised to 1.265 billion bushels last month when the production forecast was increased to 2.86 billion bushels. The latest forecast is 95 million bushels less than last year's exports and 236 million less than were exported during the 2010-11 marketing year," he said.
Through the first nine weeks of the current marketing year, the USDA reported cumulative export inspections of 370 million bushels, about 110 million bushels larger than cumulative inspections last year, according to Good. Exports to China accounted for about half of the year-over-year increase.
Good said that, as of October 25, the USDA reported unshipped export sales of 650 million bushels, 166 million bushels larger than unshipped sales a year earlier. Nearly 70 percent of the increase was to "unknown" destinations, much of which may be additional Chinese purchases. The large U.S. soybean export program to date reflects the continued growth in Chinese consumption and the unusually small soybean harvest in South America earlier this year.
"While the robust export pace has been the most supportive fundamental factor, the domestic crush during September was also a bit larger than expected," Good said. "The National Oilseed Processors Association reported that its members crushed 119.732 million bushels of soybeans during the month, 9.419 million more than the unusually small crush in September 2011. For the year, the USDA has forecast the crush to be 163 million bushels less than crushed last year. Like exports, the domestic crush this year will be limited by a smaller supply," he said.
Based on the October production forecast, the current pace of consumption of U.S. soybeans clearly cannot be maintained, Good said. "Prices have not increased in an attempt to slow the pace of consumption for at least two reasons. First, the market anticipates that the U.S. harvest was actually larger than the October forecast. If so, a higher rate of consumption can be supported. The USDA will release a new production forecast on Nov. 9 and a final estimate on Jan. 11, 2013. Second, the market anticipates a rebound in South American soybean production in 2013 that will provide ample supplies to support the increased pace of world consumption and to provide for exports of soybeans and soybean products to the United States if needed. The USDA currently forecasts 2013 South American production at a record 5.449 billion bushels, 1.212 billion larger than the 2012 harvest. That forecast will be updated monthly beginning on Nov. 9. The larger production expectation is reflected by the lower price of soybean futures for the last half of the 2012-13 U.S. marketing year," Good said.
Good continued saying, that beyond the current marketing year, the soybean market also anticipates a rebound in U.S. production in 2013. "If acreage is maintained at the 2012 level and the U.S average yield rebounds to a trend value near 43.8 bushels, the 2013 crop would be near 3.34 billion bushels, 478 million larger than the current forecast of the 2012 crop. This expectation is reflected by the much lower futures price for the 2013-14 marketing year," he said.
Good said that deferred soybean futures prices are lower than nearby prices in anticipation of larger South American and U.S. crops in 2013, but it should be noted that those prices are still higher than the average prices received for the 2010 and 2011 crops. "That is, there is some production risk reflected in the current price structure so that if current expectations materialize, even lower prices should be expected," Good said. "The immediate focus is on South American weather and production prospects there. For the month of October, much of the central and western portions of the production area in Brazil received less-than-average precipitation while much of Argentina was extremely wet. Not much can be said about 2013 U.S. production prospects at this point. While drought conditions have been alleviated in much of the eastern producing areas, dryness persists in portions of the western Corn Belt and much of the Central Plains," he said.
"With current unsettled weather conditions and large crops needed in both South America and the U.S. in 2013, the soybean market may be understating production risk. If so, modestly higher prices for the 2013 crop would be expected," he said.


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Like It Or Lup It! (ポッチャマがんばる!! Good Luck, Piplup!!) is the 7th episode of Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl.
The roar of the crowd and the excitement in the air as Dawn prepares to start off her contest debut. Just kidding. It's just Dawn practicing (and failing) at her appeal. Elsewhere, Team Rocket stole some berries that belonged to a Golduck, Wooper, Quagsire and Poliwag. Soon after this group finds Piplup and it agrees to solve the problem. Can this plucky Pokémon settle this dispute diplomatically?
Episode Plot
Dawn is in a Contest and presents Piplup. Piplup spins and uses Bubble Beam to make an dazzling sight. Suddenly, Piplup is very confused, as it spun too much and bashes to the ground. This was Dawn's imagination and Piplup is confused, while Ash and Brock tell it was not very impressive. Dawn does not give up and Piplup does the same, but gets confused and attacks everyone, then bashes to the ground once more. Meanwhile, Team Rocket is still depressed from hunger and begin to scout. They do see a bulk of fruit. Meowth goes to eat it, but Jessie stops him, as she sees footprints and thinks someone who gathered this would be very angry... but they steal the fruit, nonetheless.
A Golduck, Wooper, Quagsire and a Poliwag came with the fruit, but see only remains of the bulk they gathered. They are sad and angry about this. Team Rocket is getting the fruit into the submarine. A fruit is dropped from a basket and Meowth goes to grab it, but he falls on a plank and a different basket (that was on the plank) blasts off. Team Rocket searches and they hear something. They see three Ludicolo dancing in front of the berries that blasted off. Though their footprints do not match the ones they saw before, Meowth thinks the boss would like them as the ones who'd make his day cheerful. Suddenly, they see a Golduck arguing with them. Team Rocket thinks they could side with the Ludicolo, then run off with the berries. They disguise themselves as judges and Jessie intimidates Golduck, as there is no proof the berries are its own. So, they leave, but Golduck challenges them.
Jessie sends Seviper and James his Carnivine. Seviper uses Poison Tail on Golduck and Carnivine bites it. Golduck is defeated and Seviper uses Haze, so Wooper, Quagsire and Poliwag escape with it. Team Rocket turns to Ludicolo as "friends". The Ludicolo are very happy and spin them around, so they leave without any berries. The heroes have lunch and suddenly Piplup leaves. Piplup trains on its Bubblebeam, but gets spun too much. Piplup stands up and is pounded by Quagsire, Wooper and Poliwag, who ran over. Piplup is angry and suddenly they all leave. The heroes do not know what they are up to and they go to see what will happen. Team Rocket eats the berries they collected, though Jessie thinks the Pokémon will return.
Piplup comes to the Ludicolo and bargains with them. The Ludicolo are not interested and spray it with a Water Gun. Piplup becomes angry and attacks by pecking, but gets stopped. Piplup fails, but will still continue. Piplup attacks again, but misses and comes to the radar of Team Rocket's submarine. Jessie spins the radar and Piplup is thrown away. The heroes come and Jessie thinks this is a good opportunity. Team Rocket comes out of the submarine. Meowth translates that Piplup acts as a leader for the Wooper, Golduck, Quagsire and Poliwag. Piplup pecks the submarine, but with no effect. Pikachu uses Thunderbolt, but Team Rocket goes inside the submarine and are protected.
Two nets are released and all Pokémon (except Piplup) are caught. Piplup sees this and goes to free them and even peck the submarine, but with no effect. Meowth releases a mechanical Remoraid, who attacks Piplup. Piplup uses BubbleBeam to destroy them, but there are too many of them. Piplup is depressed, but Dawn reminds it promised to help the Pokémon, so it jumps and performs the combo - it spins and uses BubbleBeam and destroys them. Piplup performs the combo again to spin the submarine. The Pokémon are free and Team Rocket emerges from the submarine and Pikachu explodes the submarine with Thunderbolt. The berries are thrown away to Golduck and seeing this it makes peace with Ludicolo.
Team Rocket goes out of the lake and encounters the Water-type Pokémon, who blast them off with Water Gun. The berries are returned and the heroes leave them. Piplup performs the combo again and succeeds, so Dawn is now bound to go to enter her first Contest in Jubilife City.
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Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel "The Scream" set became the world's most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction when the hammer fell at Sotheby's for nearly $120 million to an anonymous bidder.
Wall Street has been known to amass valuable collections of art, both for corporate and private use. Some speculated that Wall Street collectors were among the frontrunners to purchase Munch's masterpiece.
CNBC's "Power Lunch" team assembled a gallery of the best known art collectors from the financial world—players who have both the passion and the wherewithal to buy, insure and house a work that is one of the most beloved and well-recognized images in the world.
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12 Ways To Look More Stylish At The Office
We recently asked for career advice from fashion editors at the world's top magazines, and one tip from Mary Kate Steinmiller, the Senior Fashion Market Editor at Teen Vogue, stuck in our head: "Be the editor-in-chief of your own role, in how hard you work, how professional you act, and how well you dress." Clearly qualities like a dogged work ethic and professionalism will get you far, but what you wear also makes a major impact on your success. Accordingly, we thought we'd round up inspirational ways to take your work ensembles to the next level. Are you ready to be the best dressed in the office? Click through for our transformative tips!
Jessica Alba's neutral Nina Ricci coat and sweater was brightened by the addition of bubblegum pink heels and lips.
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Nothing says power player like a pinstripe, and as Karlie Kloss's Balmain trousers illustrate, the look works just as well for an after-hours event.
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Diane Kruger's understated Chloe Lace-Sleeve Blouse ($1395) and Chanel skirt were punched up by a printed Stella McCartney Frederica Coat ($1200).
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No need to always play it safe—add a little edge to your uniform. Jamie Chung worked the look with her BCBG Tess Striped Jacket ($398) and Paige Paloma Faux Leather Leggings ($249).
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Ban black for a day, and instead introduce an airy floral to your outfit, like Gisele Bundchen's Zara pants. Extra points for following Bundchen's lead with a bright sandal like her red Dolce & Gabbana heels.
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Dress up basics with a standout purse such as Laura Whitmore's work-ready Warehouse satchel.
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French blogger Jeanne Damas softened her navy suit with the addition of a lace camisole. Just make sure your top has a high enough neckline, as you don't want it to look like a negligee.
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?Get The Look: J. Crew Collection Embellished Poplin Shell ($170) in Navy
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For a sophisticated effect, limit your outfit to a duo-tone colour palette like Olivia Palermo's Tibi sweater and Hudson Leeloo Super Skinny Crop Jeans ($129).
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You can get away with shoes like Nikki Reed's Casadei heels if you balance them with office staples, like her Rebecca Minkoff Della Leather-Panel Pencil Skirt ($121).
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Taylor Schilling's striped Theory blazer not only creates visual interest, but also lends a professional air to her black jumpsuit.
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Will Stephanie Herseth Run For Senate In South Dakota
Reading political tea leaves is a fickle business. Nonetheless the game is played by many in order to predict an outcome. The constant need for news at any time of day or night allows an endless string of pundits to make their case for even the most mundane of issues.
However, the United States Senate race in South Dakota is one of those unique exceptions. The seat is currently held by Democrat Tim Johnson who will retire at the end of his current term.
Here are the facts that make this race an attention-grabber:
- The Democrats and Republicans are at such odds with each other in Washington that any advantage gained is counted as monumental.
- An office-holding Democrat in a predominately Republican state is galling to the elephant and delightful to the donkey.
- The previous election cycle was barely over when a candidate, Mike Rounds, announced his intention to run for the Senate seat.
- The unclear status of Tim Johnson's intentions at the time of Round's announcement did not derail the restarting of the campaign machine.
At this time, Rounds is the only one to make it official. But that has not stopped the Democrats from circulating the names of Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin who most recently served in the U. S. House of Representatives and the son of the current Senator, Brendan Johnson who is a U. S. Attorney for South Dakota.
The hierarchy within the Democratic party do not want a primary, saving all their ammo for the general election. Which would mean the clock is ticking for an announcement from either Herseth-Sandlin or Johnson the younger.
One pundit is staking his territory on a run for the Democratic Dame. Argus Leader Media publisher Randell Beck sees the recent buzz around the former Representative and boldly predicts "she's in."
Beck cites the entry written by reporter David Montgomery as one example. In the article, Stephanie admits that she is strongly considering a run and will announce her decision in the next couple of months.
Randell Beck Boldly Predicts A Stephanie For Senate Run
To back up Beck's claim, KDLT-TV secured an interview with the potential candidate as well.
Brendan Johnson's supporters have constructed a Facebook campaign to draft him for an election campaign, but if he wants to beat Ms. Herseth-Sandlin to the Senate show, he has a time frame in which to work.
Plus, there's always the potential Brendan Johnson for House 1-2 punch that Democrats could serve.


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|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Activision
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
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|Release: Oct. 19, 2010
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New to DJ Hero 2 are freestyle sections, which allow you to crossfade, scratch, and perform your own rhythms at will. Its a shame that there isnt a mode where you can just freestyle to your hearts content, but these sections can be quite lengthy and will keep you on your toes.
Naturally, being a rhythm game, the lower difficulties dont offer too much challenge, while the tougher tracks on hard or expert will throw some pretty ridiculous (and often alternating or simultaneous) combinations of crossfading, effects, scratching, and basic rhythms at you. Unlike Guitar Hero, you cant fail a set in DJ Heroyou just have to tough it out when you screw up, and the game wont reward you stars to unlock new arenas, tracks, costumes, and other goodies if youre not bringing youre A-game.
Of course, a music game is only as good as its track selection, which, though somewhat a matter of taste, varies quite a bit and is for the most part quite good. Basically, if youve been in a packed club on a Friday or Saturday night any time in the last year or two (assuming the DJ is any good) chances are youve heard a lot of these tracks. FreeStyleGames have done a great job picking and mixing together some great mash-ups, a lot of which skew more towards modern dance pop and hip-hop. If youre into it, the track selection is fantastic. Drake, Eminem, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, and B.o.B. (to name a few) are all featured here, though youll still find enough old-school hip-hop (Salt N Pepa and 2Pac, spring to mind) and requisites ranging from Jackson 5 to Daft Punk to keep most DJ fans happy.
If you were disappointed in the original DJ Heros lack of creative spinning freedom, theres not much thats going to change your mind with DJ Hero 2. But with the improvements to freestyling and a more spin-off competitive approach to multiplayer battles if you can get behind the Guitar Hero-style design of the game, DJ Hero will keep you busyand entertainedfor quite some time. And honestly, with a soundtrack as solid as this, its hard to complain too much.
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'Lockerbie: Case Closed accessed the 'secret contents' of the legal review into the case of Abdelbaset al Megrahi. Programme makers pored over the Scottish Criminal Case Review Commission's investigation to find fresh evidence – including the 'dramatic results' of new scientific tests that go against the original evidence. The documentary says the previously unseen information was not known to the commission and 'comprehensively undermines' the case against Megrahi. A total of 270 people were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, south-west Scotland, on December 21, 1988. Megrahi is the only man to have been convicted of the atrocity – Europe's worst terrorist attack. The Libyan was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001 but returned home in August 2009 after he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. At the time, doctors estimated Megrahi had three months to live but he is still alive. Earlier this month, members of the Justice For Megrahi group accused the government of an 'orchestrated desire' to keep details of the case under wraps. They also said politicians 'either have to be dishonest or ignorant' to allow the secrecy to continue. The programme will be shown at 8pm on Al Jazeera English. It includes an interview with Megrahi filmed in December. John Ashton, who was part of Megrahi's defence team, said: 'The wrong man was convicted.'
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by Tom Utescher
The Norwood Fontbonne Academy softball squad raised its record to 2-0 last Wednesday with its second straight "mercy rule" victory. The final score was actually 10-1 following five innings of play, but visiting Villa Maria called it a day thinking the gap had grown to 10 runs.
There wouldn't have been much point to continuing the contest anyway, as the Norwood Lady Bears put on another dominating performance after topping Wyncote's Ancillae Assumpta Academy in their season opener.
Aylssa Slovensky, a strong seventh-grade pitcher, rang up 10 strike-outs in the game while giving up just one hit and one base-on-balls. The Bears' batters churned out nine hits and waited out three walks, while in the field NFA committed two errors to Villa's five.
The other half of the NFA battery is eighth-grade catcher Alina Sokolski, and the other starting eighth-graders are second baseman Elena Christen, shortstop Kara Celano, third baseman Paige Divone, and outfielders Margaret Lynch and Michelle Nolan. The other starters are all sixth graders; first baseman Mary Kate Ciolko and outfielders Katherine Christen and Aydin McPhilemy.
After sending the visitors down in order at the top of the first inning last Wednesday, Norwood got started with a hit through the left side of the infield by Divone. She stole second and then scored on a throwing error that put Lynch on second base.
Lynch reached third on a passed ball and the batter, Celano, ended up with a walk and proceeded to steal second. Villa was able to strand the baserunners at second and third by chalking up three straight outs.
Each team went out one-two-three in the second inning, and after the visitors' first batter walked at the top of the third, Norwood retired the side with three outs in a row.
In the bottom of that inning, a one-out rally began with a Divone single up the middle. After she stole second once more, Divone came all the way home on a well-executed bunt by Lynch. After she, too, stole second, Lynch scored the first of two runs on the next play, as Celano slammed a hit a few yards inside the left field line and made a full circuit around the bags as Villa took some time to relay the ball in from the outfield.
It was now 4-0 going into the top of the fourth, when Villa got a runner on second due to a Norwood throwing error, but couldn't move her ahead from there.
For the second time in a row, Norwood started off a big inning with an out, but the home side soon had Ciolko on first thanks to an infield error. She advanced to second on a steal and to third on a wild pitch, then she crossed the plate on a hard-hit single down the third base line by McPhilemy. An error on a ball batted by Divone put NFA Bears on first and second, setting up an RBI single for Lynch that made it 6-0.
A stolen base resulted in runners on second and third for the home team, and they both scored when Celano singled to left. After a ground-out and a walk, Villa made an errant throw after fielding a ball hit by Elena Christen, allowing her to reach first safely while a run scored. It was now 9-0 and one more NFA run would've ended the game right there, but Villa was able to tag out the next Norwood batter between first and second before the lead runner crossed the plate.
The visitors led off the fifth inning with their best hit of the day, a shot to left center by Shaelyn Hand. It was a legitimate triple, and when the Norwood throw to third sent the ball out of play, Hand ran home to break up the Bears' shutout.
In the home half, Nolan led off and reached second base on a walk and a steal, but the next two batters grounded out and struck out. When Divone put the ball in play and Villa's throw to first was dropped, Norwood's 10th run scored. Both teams became convinced that the score was 11-1 instead of 10-1, and the game was ended according to the 10-run mercy rule.


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"There's huge opportunity...in Africa," said Stephen Cashin, CEO of Pan-African Capital. The continent's intractable problems such as malaria and other public health crises, he said, do not need to be holding the continent back. because they can be addressed. The audience -- an eclectic group gathered at the Palomar in Washington, D.C. -- applauded in agreement. With participants from the Central African Republic, Kenya, and even the tiny island of Mauritius, the event brought together young entrepreneurs from across Africa to help promote growth on the continent.
Since mid-June, 62 young African business and social entrepreneurs have been networking and interacting with peers and mentors in the United States under the Innovation Summit and Mentoring Partnership with Young African Leaders implemented by the Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs in coordination with Meridian International. The two-day Innovation Summit at the Palomar kicked off the experience before the participants traveled to business internships across the country through the Mentoring Partnership.
The Innovation Summit and Mentoring Partnership programs fall under the President's Young African Leader Initiative, a U.S. government effort to engage talented African youths who have already brought significant prosperity and social change to their respective communities. Six of the world's ten fastest-growing economies over the past decade were in Sub-Saharan Africa. By forming mutually beneficial partnerships at this crucial time, the United States can help alleviate poverty and promote economic growth.
U.S. embassies throughout Africa selected the participants for their achievements and potential for promoting entrepreneurship on the African continent. One participant, Clarisse Karungi Iribagiza of Rwanda, is the CEO of HeHe Limited, a leading mobile applications company in East Africa. Another participant, Mr. Joajuim Llisses Catinda of Angola, leads KixiCredito, a micro-finance institution currently implementing a project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) that aims to increase access to financial services in remote areas.
On June 13, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke to the participants and called them ambassadors of their respective countries for the duration of their internship with business and not-for-profit mentors. The participants, many of whom have never visited the United States before, were encouraged to educate Americans about their home countries and the exciting new developments underway on the continent.
Before dispersing across the United States, the African youths engaged with speakers visiting from institutions such as the International Finance Corporation, the International Monetary Fund, and McKinsey & Company. They also heard from top U.S. government officials, including Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson and high-level representatives from Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum and USAID. One of the most useful aspects of the program, however, was the interactions among the peer contacts in the room.
These programs firmly support the first and fourth pillars of President Barack Obama's recently released U.S. Strategy Toward Sub-Saharan Africa: spurring economic growth and promoting opportunity and development. The Bureau of African Affairs is proudly providing entrepreneurs with the tools and contacts they need to make an impact and for the United States to form lasting relationships with the next generation of African leaders.
Lengi K. in the U.S.A. writes:
My vision ever since I was young was to reach out to others and offer help when needed. Today, I look back and I thank God for bringing me to the USA. I was born and raised in Congo, where turmoil is the essence of my upbringing. Pain, suffering, and poverty are the daily happenings. The American culture really opened my eyes and motivated me to help women and children in my country to overcome misery, violence, and rape which are accepted by the government.
I have always believed very strongly that hard work, perseverance, strong moral character, and also dreaming big, can help accomplish things you cannot imagine. Three years ago I started a serious project that's very close to my heart. I bought 200 acres of land in Mikonga, Congo to start an agricultural farm as well build an elementary school for girls called Lady of Grace. The main goal of the school is to provide a new meaning of life to the community; educate parents on women and children's rights as well as the importance of education and well-being. More must be done to protect girls from the countless acts of injustice they suffer;and provide them with an environment in which they will thrive.So far the project has stalled because of financial problems. I need financial support to complete this positive vision.
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Lawyers for the so-called NATO 3 got their first crack at cross-examining the first of two undercover Chicago police officers Thursday after Cook County prosecutors finished playing more than 50 undercover recordings that form the backbone of their case.
According to the recordings, one of the undercover cops first raised the idea of building Molotov cocktails to the three out-of-town men in the days before the NATO summit in May 2012.
The three -- Brian Church, 22, Jared Chase, 29, and Brent Betterly, 25 -- were arrested hours later after filling four beer bottles with gasoline on the wooden back porch of the Bridgeport neighborhood home where they were staying. It marks the first prosecution brought by Cook County prosecutors under the state's anti-terrorism law, enacted after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
In cross-examining Officer Nadia Chikko, defense attorneys questioned the surveillence tactics used by police in the months before the NATO summit and suggested to jurors that the defendants had been encouraged by police to build the explosives.
According to recordings played Thursday, the talk of explosives was first sparked when Chase dropped a Lemonhead candy into a beer he was drinking, creating a fizzing chemical reaction. Church and Betterly then discussed how to build an "acid bomb" that could eat through the clothes of police officers.
Chikko began to criticize a homemade "mortar" made by Church earlier, the recordings show.
The mortar – a length of PVC pipe that Church had since converted into a flagpole – was not even up to snuff with the metal pipe she purchased after researching the topic on Wikipedia, said Chikko, known to the men as Nadia or "Gloves."
"Dude, we got Molotovs – that's not wack," said the other undercover cop, Mehmet Uygun, who posed as "Mo."
"We can use vodka," Church said, suggesting a fuel for the explosives.
"You guys got anything? Should we make some? You got bottles?" Chikko asked.
"Let's do it," Chase said.
"Let's do it, c'mon," added Chikko, who testified Thursday that she no longer works undercover after her name and photo were plastered online after the men's arrests.
The group turned up four empty beer bottles in the Bridgeport home but no alcohol to use as a fuel. Talk then turned to using gasoline, but Church didn't want to pay for it or allow them to siphon gas from his car, according to the recordings..
Mehmet then told the group that he had a few dollars and would walk with Chase to a nearby gas station and purchase fuel. However, under cross-examination, Chikko testified Thursday that Mehmet did not buy the gasoline or give Chase money for the purchase.
According to the recordings, Betterly then gave instructions on assembling the explosives while Chase, wearing gloves, poured gas into the bottles and a bandana was cut into strips to use as wicks. Gasoline was spilled, but Chikko and Church continued to smoked on the other side of the porch.
"You ready to see a cop on fire?" Church asked Chikko, a statement highlighted by prosecutors in opening statements on Monday. Church later said he didn't believe in "pre-emptive strikes" and would only become violent if police instigated it.
Under questioning by Michael Deutsch, Church's lawyer, Chikko denied encouraging the three to build the explosives, saying, "I was going with the flow of the conversation."
"My job was to listen, report back and try to stop any criminal activity from happening," she said.
Through his questioning, Deutsch brought out that Chase hadn't attacked the Chase Tower, shot an arrow with a note attached into Mayor Emanuel's home or built a potato launcher as he had talked about.
He also grilled Chikko about the tactics police used in the months leading up to the NATO summit, asking why officers recorded the names and license plates numbers of people who were engaged in lawful activities like a concert at an East Ukrainain Village record shop or at the Heartland Cafe in Rogers Park.
"Did you have any kind of suspicion at all that there was some kind of violent anarchists sitting at the Heartland Cafe?" Deutsch asked. "You think you have the right to eavesdrop on people having lunch at a restaurant?"
Chikko said violent anarchists were known to infiltrate peaceful gatherings and that police were sent to different locations, including coffee shops, to see if criminal activity was being discussed. She said police routinely check license plates to search for active warrants and that she had been "detailed to search for possible anarchist graffitti along Division Street.
In a lighter exchange, Deutsch asked why Chikko can be heard singing the phrase "I'mma start a riot" in the recordings, rap lyrics from the 2 Chainz hit "Riot."
"It's catchy and we just repeated it," Chikko said.
The trial was adjourned Thursday after Chikko said she didn't know what she was referring to in a recording when she asked Church to "wait until May 15." Deutsch asked that Chikko review the recordings Thursday night.
Judge Thaddeus Wilson, who is presiding over the trial, agreed.
"I thought she had it memorized," Wilson said after jurors left the courtroom. "Hopefully she'll have a better handle on it tomorrow."
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Fact Sheet
Peripheral Neuropathy
December 19, 2012
What Is Peripheral Neuropathy?Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a disease of the peripheral nerves. These are all the nerves except for the brain and spinal cord.
About 30% of people with HIV develop PN. Some PN is a breakdown of the nerve endings (axons) that send sensations to the brain. Sometimes, PN is damage to the coating of nerve fibers (myelin). This affects the transmission of pain signals to the brain.
PN can be a minor nuisance or a disabling weakness. It is usually a feeling of pins and needles, burning, stiffness, or numbness in the feet and toes. It can also be tickling sensations, unexplained pain, or sensations that seem more intense than normal. PN symptoms can come and go. Serious PN can cause difficulty walking or standing.
What Causes PN?PN can be caused by HIV infection of nerve cells, by drugs used to treat HIV or other health problems, or other factors. Risk factors for PN include higher HIV viral load, diabetes, age greater than 50, and heavy alcohol use. Other risk factors are the use of cocaine or amphetamines, cancer treatments, thyroid disease, or deficiency of vitamin B12 or vitamin E. A study in 2009 found that Hispanics may have a higher rate of PN. The researchers suggest followup studies.
Several HIV drugs can cause PN. The most important are the "d" drugs; ddI (didanosine, Videx), and d4T (stavudine, Zerit). Hydroxyurea, which is sometimes combined with antiretroviral drugs, increases the risk of PN.
Zidovudine (Retrovir), abacavir, non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs), and protease inhibitors do not appear to cause PN.
How Is PN Diagnosed?No laboratory testing is needed to diagnose PN. The signs and symptoms are enough. Special tests may be needed to find the cause of PN. These tests measure tiny electrical currents in nerves and muscles. The amount or speed of these electric signals drops with different types of PN. However, many patients with PN are not diagnosed correctly.
How Is It Treated?Talk to your health care provider about discontinuing any drugs that might be causing PN. Drug-induced PN normally goes away totally if the drugs are stopped when PN first appears. However, this can take as long as eight weeks. If you continue to take the drugs, the nerve damage might become permanent.
Non-Drug Treatments
Some simple things can reduce the pain of PN:
A recent study showed the benefit of smoking marijuana (see fact sheet 731) to relieve PN pain.
Drug Treatments
No drug has been approved to repair nerve damage. Some health care providers use drugs developed to treat seizures, such as gabapentin (Neurontin) or phenytoin (Dilantin). Antidepressants such as amitriptyline may also help. L-acetyl-carnitine (also called acetyl-l-carnitine or acetyl carnitine) has shown initial good results.
Treatments depend on how serious the symptoms of PN are.
Other drugs being used for PN include patches or creams for local treatment. These contain the anesthetic lidocaine, or capsaicin, the chemical that gives hot chili peppers their heat.
Nutrient Therapies
Nutrient therapies have been studied for PN caused by diabetes.
Magnets: A recent study found that socks containing magnets relieved diabetic neuropathy in most cases. However, they were less effective for foot pain due to other causes.
Other Resources
More information on PN is available from The Neuropathy Association at www.neuropathy.org and in the book Numb Toes and Aching Soles: Coping With Peripheral Neuropathy, by John A. Senneff.
The Bottom Line
Peripheral neuropathy is a disease of the nervous system. It causes strange sensations, especially in the feet, legs, and fingers, and can cause pain. The pain might be mild, or so severe that it prevents someone from walking.
Tell your health care provider immediately if you have any signs of PN. You will probably stop taking any drugs that can cause PN. If that doesn't take care of the problem, you may be tested to see what's causing the PN. There are different treatments for different causes of PN.
Drugs can be used to control the pain of PN, and several nutrient therapies might help repair nerve damage.
This article was provided by AIDS InfoNet. Visit AIDS InfoNet's website to find out more about their activities and publications.


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text: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb at phy.duke.edu> wrote: > > One last method (from back in the dark ages): > > "putting a tty-output printer on as a console printer" Better yet, set up the serial port as a console, then attach another machine via a serial line, and just have the 2nd machine log everything. Then you can use text tools to search through the resulting log file, rather than having to dig through the paper. Dig being the operative word. In the old days some of those crash events spewed garbage to the printer, and that resulted in a ream of nonsense on the floor, and more often than not, the paper mashed into an accordian behind a pinfeed jam. Regards, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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Twicker Tweat
Jim Baines 10/30/2009 4:09:48 AMHaunted House #1198452
Jack Gaskin 10/30/2009 4:31:51 AMWonderful capture ON BOTH....
Happy Shooting
Jack #8087868
Michelle Alton 10/30/2009 5:04:31 AMBetwixt???? You are kidding, aren't you?
These are wonderful....and truly icky!
(Would have loved to have shot them)! #8087965
Jane E. Kirn 10/30/2009 6:47:38 AMWhat great eyes! I would love to see them up close too! Great photo Jim. #8088164
Amy M. Wilson 10/30/2009 7:23:51 AMYikes, excellent but creepy capture... well done, Jim! #8088261
Bonnie C. Lackey 10/30/2009 7:36:25 AMI don't think I'll ring his bell...another great creature capture, Jim! #8088311
Kim Dietrich Elam 10/30/2009 10:23:02 AMWOW - great macro image and totally creepy! #8088772
Tammy M. Anderson 10/30/2009 12:47:22 PMHi Jim, Excellent macro images. Outstanding details. #8088991
Tammy Espino 10/31/2009 1:36:08 PMEEEEEEEEEK! Happy Halloween!! :) #8091608
Val Feldman 11/2/2009 7:34:08 AMJumper?? And you were THAT close??!! Bold and daring you are, Jim! A fantastic maco...Wonderful detail and color...but not knowing a whole lot about spider anatomy, what are the blue things?? #8096552
Jim Baines 11/4/2009 1:48:54 PMYeah, sometimes I put them in the refrigerator to slow them down. But I didn't have a fridge at Engineer Lake so I faked it! Oh, those little blue thangs are called chelicerae (pronounced kəˈlɪsəri) and are used to grasp food. Think of them as little blue jaws. They also contain venom glands that provide venom through the fangs and into your fang-er, or other body parts. Think of fangs as something that will make you yell, "Ouch" .. frequently accompanied by four-letter words we don't want to mention here. Aren't they cute?
Laura E. Swan 11/7/2009 1:31:21 PMSpooky-dookey man! This has me freaked! And you carry them in the house and put them in the fridge? OM GOSH! My knees are weak. This is just too awful for words.
My (dearly beloved) husband chases me around with spiders just to hear me scream bloody murder. Nice hey? He REALLY enjoys this apparently.
These are excellent macros, Jim! Good to visit your gallery today!
Amy M. Wilson 11/23/2009 6:26:21 AMBig congratulations on your fantastic Finalist, Jim! #8155030
Tammy M. Anderson 11/23/2009 6:44:45 AMCongratulations, Jim on this terrific finalist. #8155145
Stefania Barbier 11/23/2009 11:18:42 AMgorgeous finalist, congratulations!!!!! #8157014
Laura E. Swan 11/23/2009 11:44:17 AM#8157176
Nancy (Peaches) Harker 11/23/2009 11:47:47 AMRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN
Tammy Espino 11/23/2009 1:41:11 PMCongrats!!! :) #8157715
Patrick Rouzes 11/23/2009 5:03:34 PMCONGRATULATIONS on this amazing finalist, Jim! WTG! #8159373
Jeff Robinson 11/24/2009 4:16:06 AMExcellent Congrats Jim on your Finalist!! Jeff #8161936
Val Feldman 11/24/2009 6:39:20 AMCongratulations, Pardner...beautiful, finely detailed work on this blue multi-jawed beauty!! #8162603
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A Bold Jumper prepared its haunted house insie the barb of Brixner Crossed Lock Hook, two twisted wire strands with a four-point barb.
The barb points are cross locked betwixt the strands. Patent # 2,937,185 by Rudolf J. G. Brixner of Herrenhaus, Witzhave, Stomarn, Germany, 28 February 1961.
Engineer Lake
Fort Hood, Texas
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The Upper Figure in the Chart represents the Electronic Body of the "Mighty I AM Presence," which is the Individualized Focus of God, who creates the physical body.
The Circles of Color around the Electronic Body represent the Causal Body. This is the accumulated good of all previous embodiments, and is composed of all substance constructively used in previous lives. It is a Reservoir of energy constructively qualified, being the sum total of all previous Self-conscious effort toward Perfection.
The Rays of Light going forth from the "Presence" are the Divine Mind, or "Love in Action," continually pouring out Its Gifts of Perfection into the use of the human personality.
The lower figure represents the physical body, surrounded by the Violet Consuming Flame, held within the Pillar of Steely White Light pouring down from the "Presence." The White Light of the Pillar forms a Wall of Protection around the physical, emotional, and mental bodies, and acts as an insulation to all discord—all destructive creation of the outer world.
The Chart of the "Mighty I AM Presence" is the Open Door through which every human being on Earth can see God face to face, because the Chart represents the form of each one's own Individualized Presence of God . . . .
Try to feel that just as the Wave of Light pouring out through the Heart of the Electronic Body (the Upper Figure in the Chart) travels on and on in Cosmic Blessing to the whole Universe through Its every Heartbeat, just so should every wave of energy from our physical Hearts carry only the Blessing of Light, Harmony, Joy, and Perfection into all physical activities of this world. In that way, every time we look at the Chart, It helps us to remember what we owe to this physical world for what we use of its substance and energy, and why it is so absolutely necessary to maintain uninterrupted Harmony in all we do each day, especially in all we feel each day, until all the "Mighty I AM Presence" wants us to do and have floods forth through us in full accomplishment. Then Its Divine Plan of Perfection stands forth revealed in physical fulfillment. It is only when we do this in all our activities that our Happiness becomes permanent, and we enter into the Eternal Perfection which is our Birthright.
The "Electronic Body" and the Higher Mental Body of each one's Life Stream, is constantly pouring forth Radiation to all in this world—of Its Greater Perfection of Life, Its Purity, Its Love, Its Peace, Its Blessing of everything that is constructive.
If you understood how much your "Beloved I AM Presence," through the "Electronic Body" and the Higher Mental Body, is constantly pouring Light and Love and Perfection into this world, you would understand how quickly you could cooperate with It. The moment you make the Call to your "Presence," feel and see the Light Ray come down from the Heart of the "Presence," or the Heart of the Higher Mental Body, down into the physical body, into the brain structure, and then spread Its Radiance through your own Heart Flame, and through the Flames of the Seven Mighty Elohim in your forehead, and spread that Radiance into the physical body as Strength and Energy and Purity and Illumination. But if people shut It out, or won't keep the attention on that which is constructive, the outer self simply closes the door to the receiving of the Gift that is constantly flowing.
There is no instant, waking or sleeping, that your "Beloved Mighty I AM Presence" and Higher Mental Body is not pouring into the outer self Its Energy, Its Life, Its Light, Its Purity, Its Love, Its Blessing, Its Perfection. There is not an instant that that isn't flowing down from the Heart Flame of your "Mighty I AM Presence," the "Electronic Body," through the Higher Mental Body into the outer self. But if people won't listen, and they won't keep the attention there, they shut out the Light and the Flow of the Perfection for which they call.
Beloved Godfré, Chart Talk Booklet Five
The outer self, Precious Ones, is just a riot, may I say, of desires. This desire riots, stirs up the energy of the emotional body; and just about the time it begins to quiet down, there's another riot—and the outer self wants this and it wants that and it wants something else. And before you can get the first thing given to it, it starts a dozen other things it wants. That is why you have to take the energy of the emotional body in hand, and command it to be still and obey the Law of Purity and Peace and Harmony of the "Mighty I AM Presence." You have to definitely command that. It will never do it of its own free will. The outer self's energy is just like the ceaseless waves on the ocean. The energy swings one way, and then it swings back just like a wave on a large body of water; and unless you still that, how can you see the picture which the "Presence" is constantly pouring down to you of the Perfection you ought to be and ought to manifest in your world of affairs.
Your "Presence" is trying constantly to get through the outer self the Perfection of Its own Divine Plan fulfilled. It is trying always to guide the outer self, so it will only experience Perfection and Eternal Happiness; and the outer self, through its desires, is just stirring up and stirring up that energy all the time. Once in a while under those conditions, I send a very sharp Ray through the Flame in the forehead which comes under My Direction; and when I do, and I say "Peace, be still"—then that energy quiets and the mind receives clearly the picture of that which the "Presence" wishes to accomplish.
Now then, do not be surprised if you hear Me say within you from within the Flame in your forehead—when turmoil would strike, do not be surprised if you hear within yourselves, "Peace, be still." See My Effect in the room? (laughter—applause) Thank you, Precious Ones. And when I say that, I will draw from the Great Great Silence the Peace of the Love which is Mine, and which brings Purity into the outer self because of Its very great Power.
Elohim Arcturus, Chart Talk Booklet Five
Oh, you have no idea how much closer your "Presence" can come through the outer physical form when you reach your Heart's Love to It and say: "Will You give me Your Hand? Will You come into me and make me feel Your Feeling of Your Nearness, Your Feeling of Your Solution for this problem—and then come with me into the problem?" Why, My Dear Ones, your "Presence" will bring you surprises you little dream.
And when it comes to the Supply, your "Presence" has many, many channels of Supply that even those in the outer world never heard of. Do you remember a long, long time ago at the Shrine Auditorium, I think I told you several times to keep calling to your "Beloved I AM Presence" for Its Hidden Wealth from the Secret Places that It knows would never bring you discord—from the Secret Channels of Its own Supply, the Hidden Riches from the Secret Channels of Its own Supply. Thus you swing the Door open, Precious Ones, and allow many Avenues of Supply to be opened to you from Avenues that you do not even know exist tonight.
In doing this, after a few times, you will feel nearer and nearer to your "Presence." Now your Higher Mental Body abides, ordinarily, when you are harmonious, from twelve to fifteen feet above the physical body. But when you ask It to come closer and you hold the Harmony and pour It your Love, It will come closer. When you ask It to come into the condition, then as It comes into the condition, from the Inner Level, could you see It, It would be like a Sun of Light coming into the energy of the problem. And then there would come to the outer intellect—in this Greater Light which would enfold you, as well as the problem, will come the ideas of handling the problem in the most wonderful way, and by which in the solution of the problem, you would glorify that "Presence" with greater Love and greater Obedience. There would be greater Harmony out here; for every time you hold the Harmony and send the Love to your "Presence," you glorify It and you glorify the Universe around you.
Therefore, in the solving of your problems, in the release of your Supply, Precious Hearts, nothing will ever take the place of your Love to your "Presence" and your "Presence' " Love to you. It is that swing of the energy to your "Presence"; and then you ask the "Presence" to come into you and into the problem—It is the great Activity of Life that ever draws the Perfection from within the "Presence" into outer manifestation, and commands It to expand Its Happiness to all.